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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, JANUARY 4, 1870.
nig* fob Reconstruction.—Young men who
ffapj honest Pomp or Ceesar to the Daily Tele
graph office to bay a whistle or a jewsharp,
bead reconstruction. They are in error. And
those unrighteous scamps who misdirect the
tmwearyAfrican up two flights of stairs, among
the compositors, to examine the printers’ stock
of tobaoco, jacknives, tin buckets, store shirts,
Addles, drums, psalm books, Turkey red, snuff,
powder and shot, and so on, should consider
their ways. They are not the ways that Moses
trod, by considerable; nor the king’s highway
of holiness, either. We call upon them to re
pent. See the recent act of the City Council
*of Macon against street dramming.
Tes Alaska ftp—.—The wonder-mon
gers of Alaska are now engaged with the fishe-
riee. According to their tales, the whole ocean,
from the Tongasin the South to Behring’s Straits
in the West, so swarms with fish that they al
most impede navigation. One company, em
ploying twenty men, fished at Gzersky this year
from March to October. They had nets wholly
unsuitable for the catch, and so they put up only
one thousand barrels of salmon. Four men at
Casson last year “put up,” in splendid order,
seven hundred barrels of salmon, and then had
to stop because they had no more barrels. Along
came a sea captain, and taking the seines, ho
loaded two boats to the guards with salmon in
fifteen minutes.
An Improved Cotton Chopper.—Tho Colum
bus Inquirer says Mr. Corcoran, of Girard, has
just invented an improved machine for chop
ping cotton which he is satisfied will work like
a charm. The choppers are attached to an or
dinary set of cart wheels, and so arranged as to
thin out twelve feet of rows at every turn of the
wheels. Two rows can bo chopped at a time,
and it is estimated that an ordinary horso
hitched to the revolving machine con chop out
twenty acres daily. The animal walks in tho
water furrow and the machine carries rows on
right and left. The contrivance is very ingeni
ous, and if perfected will provo a great labor-
saver.
The South Carolina Bonos.—A new piece of
rascality on the part of the South Carolina
Legislature (says the New York World) has
come to light. A year ago the bills of the State
Bank, then selling at twenty cents on the dol
lar, were bought up by tho Radical ring which
controlled the Legislature, one of them from
Ohio owning as much as two hundred thousand
dollars. An act was passed to fund these bills
at their face, ana interest stipulated in lawful
money. This was a good speculation for the
party, but recently the Legislature have pro
vided that the interest on these bonds shall be
paid in gold instead of lawful money, thus
causing the bonds to go up to seventy-five.
Commebce op Savannah.—There were, says
the Republican, in tho port of Savannah on Fri
day last, four steamships, with a tonnage of
4,435; thirty ships, of which fifteen were under
foreign colors, with an aggregate tonnage of
-30,053; nineteen barks, of which nine were for
eign, with an aggregate tonnage of 11,G77; ten
brigs, of which two were foreign, with an aggre
gate tonnage of 2,24G; twenty-six schooners,with
an aggregate tonnago of G,530. Total eighty-
nine vessels, 54,950 tons.
Tho above will afford some idea of the busi
ness appearance of our wharves and tho general
prosperity and progress of our city.
Rkpoets from the engineering parties now lo
cating the Faoifio Division of the Memphis-El
Faso Railroad are of the most favorable charac
ter, showing grades of not exceeding eighty feet
to the mile ia crossing the Sierra Nevada Moon-
tains. Tho work of grading has boon com
menced at the crossing of the Colorado nt the
mouth of tho Gila River at Fort Yuma, where
the river passes between two bluffs full sixty
feet above high water, and forming the natural
abutments for a bridge of four hundred feet
Bpan. The work is also advancing rapidly in
Arkansas, Texas, Arizona, and California.
Invalids in East Florida.—The Savannah
News says it is wonderful to witness the amount
of travel to this State. Every steamer and train
from the North brings hundreds of persons, all
bound for somo point in Florida. People seek
ing pleasure, consumptives and those sneezing
with catarrh, some on cratches, and others with
a “Saratoga,” old and young, nurses and chil
dren, are all journeying toward what they call
this “promise land.” The Lizzie Baker yester
day was literally packed with human freight as
she left our wharf for Jacksonville.
Railway Accident.—The Chronicle and Sen
tinel of Wednesday was informed by passengers
on the South Garolinia Railroad that on Friday
evening an accident occurred at Aiken, South
Carolina, by which a colored man was mortally
wounded. As the train was moving off tho in
jured man endeavored to jump from tho plat
form. He fell on the track, nnder the cars, and
while endeavoring to crawl out was ran over.—
TTia left arm and leg were completely severed
from the body, and no hope was entertained for
his life.
Mutual Repugnance.—The New York papers
and preachers are down heavily upon the
prophet Brigham Young, and Brigham Young
is down upon the Now York papers and preach
ers. Each party is very severo upon the do
mestic habits and morals of the other, and it is
donbtful which would get the better in the
fight At least it would be doubtful, but as the
New Yorkers will work through Congress, they
may get the advantage of Young.
Mace says Drake, of Missouri, is, by ail odds,
the most intolerable nuisance ever inflicted on a
deliberative body. The Senate had hardly been
rapped to order when he commenced bobbing
np and down like a two-penny jaok-in-tbe-box
to introduce a bill to abolish the Supreme Court
And as if this wasn't enough, ho threatened the
Senate with the pestilence of a speech on the
subject at some near fntnre time.
The Elberton (Ga.) Gazette says that a gen
tleman of that county has invented a machine
which will make any sort of calculation in addi
tion, multiplication, division and substraction.
All that is nessary for the operator to do, is to
set the machine to the required rule, turn a
crank, and grind out resultsJ
The Findlay Works.—"VVe are glad to read
from an advertisement in this number that tho
extensive works of the late Robert Findlay are
now in operation, in charge of his sons. There
is scarcely any kind of machine or foundry
work which thU establishment has not tho ca
pacity to do.
The Now York Journal of Commerce, speak
ing of the President, says: “He has so readily
dropped into the subordinate position which
Congress has assigned him v that it would bo too
much to expect him to do otherwise than to
humbly obey their commands.”
“ Marriage in High Lite.”—Under this head
the Atlanta Constitution announces the mar
riage, last Thursday night, of S. K. Johnson,
Superintendent of the Georgia Railroad, and
Miss Sophia Carter, of Augusta. Now we know
Vrhat a “ marriage in high life” means.
Needless Concern.
The New York Tribune and other Radical
prints are protesting that the Southern States
should be acoorded.one representative on the
Supreme Bench, and the nomination of Hoar,
of Massachusetts, to succeed Wayne, of Geor
gia, was rightfully rejected by the Senate, be
cause tha appointment would have completed
the exclusion of the Southern States, and seo-
tionalized the Court.
This concern Is quite groundless. The South
would far prefer to see that Bench exclusively
occupied by Northern men, than to see any such
bastard son of the Sonth put on the Bench in
her name as the President would be likely to
nominate, or the Senate approve. The so-call
ed representatives of the South in Congress are
impostures and eyesores even to the Radicals
themselves. They may, if they please, put just
such a representative of the Sonth upon the
Supreme Bench; but let them do it upon their
own responsibility, and not upon ours.
The Senate wants no such representative upon
that bench as she could now get. A representa
tive man from the Sonth would sit alone—the
solitary champion of the supremacy of the Con
stitution, and not of Congress. To a true rep
resentative of the Sonth the clear constitutional
rights of the humblest citizen would override
the boldest act of Executive or Congressional
usurpation.
The representative of the South would consid
er himself a member of the co-ordinate branch
of the federal government—supreme and inde
pendent within his constitutional sphere—and
bound by the most solemn obligation to defend
it at. all hazards from lawless usurpation, de
signed to paralyze the energy of the Court for
the protection of the public and private liberties
of the people.
A true representative of the Sonth would tear
off his ermine' and put his foot upon it, before
bo would delay justice in order to invite an un
scrupulous Congress to curtail his jurisdiction
by bogus and unconstitutional statutes so as to
forestall and prevent a conflict with tyranny and
usurpation.
In a word, a true son of the South would be
the fearless champion of law and liberty, but
not that counterfeit, bogus liberty which seeks
its professed end over the prostrate and ruined
muniments of civil freedom. What Radical
would accept such a representative of the South
as that ? Of what use could such a representa
tive be on such a bench, except to show that
the race of honest, fearless nnd independent
judges was not quite extinct, and to sting his
associates with a sense of conscious degrada
tion.
A Grand Catastrophe Threatened.
According to an eminent scientist contribut
ing to the Now York World-of the 2Gth, we are
threatened with a universal catastrophe, which
will require more than the powers of a supreme
Congress, outside the Constitution, to repair by
any process of reconstruction. This catas
trophe is neither more nor less than the np-
setment of the great globe itself, which will
topple the waters of the seas over the dryland,
giving all the inhabitants such a dreadful cold
bath as will finally extinguish their taste for
water, and everything else, for all time to come.
In a word, a catastrophe as complete as Noah’s
deluge is coming—but not immediately—no.
The article begins with this statement:
Tho world is to be overwhelmed by water six
thousand two hundred years from now; at least
so says an eminent mathematician, Mr. Adhemar.
The centre of gravity, which once coincided
with the centre of sphericity of our globe, has
now arrived at a point which is three hundred
and eighty-two leagues from the centre of sphe
ricity, and this distance is rapidly increasing,
and not many years hence—years are but sec
onds on the dial of eternity—will arrive atsnoh
a position that the earth will topple over and
the waters accumulated in the north will rash
upon and utterly overwhelm the other portions
of the enrth. In proof of this many facts of a
religious and scientific nature are urged which
must bring conviction to every rational mind.
Then follows an accnmnlntion of scientific
testimony, proving the gradual loss of its equi
librium by tins doomed world, and the conse
quent increasing refrigeration of the Northern
latitntes by which tho polar regions are steadily
becoming heavier with vast aggregations of ice,
until, as the writer says, tho time will come
when the centre of gravity of the globe has
reached a point so far north that the earth will
suddenly turn and the north pole will face the
sun. This will necessarily occasion a sudden
redistribution of the oceans, and then an im
mense wave will rush to the north and over
whelm the earth. It repeats this process every
ten or eleven thousand years. Noah’s flood
took placo, according to tho modern Hebrew
text of the Scriptures, in the year 2340 before
the Christian era, bnt, according to the Samari
tan text, the Septuagint, and Josephus, took
place 2926 years B. C., and came from the
south.
We must invoke Captain Silas Bent to come
once more to our relief with bis consoling theo
ry of the circulation of the seas—the grand pro
vision of nature for tho equalization of temper
ature, and to prevent these very accumulations
of polar ice which he himself says, if not coun
teracted, would result in tho very catastrophe
predicted by the savant of the World.
Consequently, tho Gulf stream in the Atlantic
and the Enro-Siwo and other ocean currents in
the Pacific are moving all the time, steady and
strong, to the poles, carrying in that direction
vast and incalculable contributions of water
which has been warmed by tho torrid rays of the
tropical sun; while actual experiment has dem
onstrated that these streams rest upon vastcoun-
ter-currents from the polar regions, as cold as
ice itself. These grand currents of tho ocean
not only prevent undue and dangerous accumu
lations of ice at the North Pole, but they even
maintain an opon Polar Sea in that vast solitude
of tho Frost King—a sea which Dr. Kane saw
with his own eyes and describes in thrilling lan
guage in his report of the Grinnell-Franklin Ex
pedition.
Following these great currents of the sea (in
stead of hogging tho land inside of them), Capt.
Kent stoutly maintains the practicability of
using this open Polar Sea as a shorter route to
the Eastern world and vice versa, for all tho
purposes of commerce; and there has been a
good deal of talk of late about fitting np an ex
pedition to test the soundness of this theory,
On the whole, we shall maintain our com
posure and put Capt. Bent against the New
York World, Arago, Agassiz and M. Adhemar,
until we get more light on the subject. If the
world is going to be again destroyed by a flood,
it will be done within a shorter time than six
thousand years. At the rate the Radicals are
pushing ahead in wickedness, it may be well
doubted whether such a divine purpose would
bo postponed so long.
GEORGIA.
Extensive Emigration West—Character of
the Emigrants—Why They go and What
They Expect—The Tear’s Work of the
Planters—Prospects for the Coming Tear
—Plantation Hands.
Correspondence of the Neve York Times.J
Atlanta, Ga., Monday, Dee. 20, 1869.
I had no idea of the extent of the emigration
from the northern part of this State, from Sonth
and North Carolina, and from a portion of Vir
ginia, to Arkansas, Texas and Missouri, which
is now taking place every day, until I came
here and saw it. Train after train, each day of
each week, comes in loaded with able-bodied
yoemen accompanied by their families, and car
rying with them the most movable of their
honsehold effects, all of whom are going West
to buy cheap lands and establish new homes.—
I suppose that the average number of these
emigrants, who come through this city daily, is
not less than two hundred and fifty. It is often
much greater. On last Friday morning the
train from Augusta, due here at 7 A. h., did not
arrive until noon in consequence of the extra
ordinary length of the train and the weight of
A Section Master and a Negro Killed,
Thomas Collins, an Irishman employed as sec
tion master on the Montgomery and West Point
Railroad, was killed Saturday morning at Short
er’s Depot, 28 miles from Montgomery, by a
negro. The negro was fussily drank. Collins
threatened to put him out, when the freedman
fired through the partition and killed him. The
two were occupying adjoining rooms in a way-
side shanty. The remains of Collins were
brought to this city and interred Saturday. On
the same day, near the depot, a negro was
killed by a white man.—Columbus Sun.
Hoke Defalcation.— 1 The Merchant’s Exchange
Bank of New York was reported on Tuesday to
be minos through one of its officials to the ex
tent of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
the emigrants’ luggage.
WHY THE PEOPLE EMIGRATE.
I have recently conversed with a number of
these “outwandereis," as the Germans call
them. They are mostly of the class which is
usually designated as “poor white folks,” who
owned little worn-out farms and just made
enough from year to year to keep body and soul
together. Unwilling to descend to a competi
tion with the negroes as laborers where they
are known, nnable to purchase more land and
the appliances to work it, and finding that every
year they were becoming poorer, they deter
mined to soil out what little they own in the
country, where they were “bom and raised,”
and go where they can buy good land cheap and
make something to support their families.—
Many of them are lamentably ignorant of the
country whither they are going, and trust blind-
Iy to luck in the selection of their new homes.
Their journey will exhaust a large portion of
their means. They have no friends or kindred
where they propose to migrate, and acknowl
edge that if they do not succeed in their venture
they will be unable to return. But they seem
satisfied that anything is better than remaining
at home, and they ran all the risks, with cheer
ful reliance that they will “better themselves
anyhow.” Somo few who have relations in
Texas or Arkansas, have made their purchases
and know exactly what they are going to do, or
think they do.
THE year’s WORE OP THE PLANTERS.
During the past week I have met some of the
most extensive planters in Georgia, who are now
actively engaged in winding up their year’s op
erations, paying their laborers, engaging their
hands for the coming year, purchasing fertil
izers, etc., and making {heir arrangements for
1870. They all represent the negroes as per
fectly contented, having received ample com
pensation for their twelve months’ work, satis
fied with their employers and anxious to rear
range to make another crop. The average
wages earned this year by a full hand, after
paying for his food, clothing, etc., has been
from a bale to a bale and a half of cotton, or
from $100 to $150 in cash, where he has been
working for a share in the crop, and about $100
in clear money where he has worked for month
ly wages. These sums, it must be understood,
are over and above all expenses for food and
clothing, house rent, fuel, etc., and if those who
earn them would only save their money and act
providently,- it is easy to see how, in a very few
years they could purchase farms of their own,
and become thoroughly independent
HOW THE NEGROES - MONEY GOES. i
Not long ago I saw a negro who had just been
paid off by bis employer, spend $40 for a mu
sical box, and I saw another purchase a huge
netted chignon for $10. During this week,
when the plantation hands generally will be
paid off, the village storekeepers in the vicinity
of the plantations will carry off every cent the
laborers receive. The storekeepers, especially
those of the Hebrew race, watch for the advent
of the proprietor with his satchel full of green
backs, and when they learn that the hands have
been paid, and have been allowed to take the
wagons and go to town, they send out runners
four or five miles out of town to meet the wag
ons and allure the negroes to their stores, and
in return for gaudy dresses, hoop-skirts, feath
ered hats, resplendent shawls, gift candy, jewel
ry, banjos, etc., become possessed of all the
money. I know of one store which last Christ
mas week sold over $10,000 worth of goods to
the negroes alone. «
THE PLANTING PROSPECTS.
Thus for, as I have already stated, the indi
cations are that the good, just and kind employ
ers will have no difficulty in obtaining their la
boring force for the coming year, that is, re
engaging that which they had in 18G9. It would
be hardly possible for anybody to increase his
force very much or extend his planting opera
tions on account of the scarcity of hands, and
the absence of any means to supply the deficien
cy. The town negroes would rather starve in
and about the cities and towns than live com
fortably on a plantation, and the “up country”
hands, though they do not and cannot earn as
much os those on the rich lands of Southern
Georgia, cannot be induced to go there, from a
belief, (not ill-founded, by tho way,) that the
climate is not healthy, and that smaller pay
with health is preferable to riches with chills,
fever and long doctor’s bills. It is very diffi
cult to form any opinion yet concerning the
planting prospects of 18G9; but so far as
I have been well able to judge I should say
that the planters will make an effort to plant
about the same area in cotton this a3 they did
last year, plant about the same amount of com,
and sow much more extensively of oats and
small grain, so as to leave the com for bread
and feed the stock principally with oats. From
the present state of the market for fertilizers,
the activity of the manufacturers of those odor
ous compounds, and the rapidity with which
theyincrease, multiply and replenish the earth,”
it is to be snpposod that as great efforts will be
made in this direction to “raise a big crop” as
were made this year. I have already seen eight
different bottlefuls of gray looking stuff as pun-
gently malodorous as ammonia can make them,
which are severally said to be infinitely “tho
best manure for cotton which has ever been in
vented.”
THE PLANTER’S DEBTS.
Immense sums were spent this year on these
mixtures. In most cases they were purchased
on time—that is, paid for by a draft on tho
planter’s factor. This year, owing to the high
price of cotton, even though the crop was short,
these drafts were met with very creditable
punctuality. I have heard of very few cases
where the drawers failed to pay or asked for a
renewal. Bnt had tho crop proved an utter
failure, or had the price of cotton declined con
siderably, and the planter been unable to meet
his liabilities, the factors would have been lia
ble, and would have been compelled as accept
ors to pay the “guano dealers” or break. And
so also with the venders of all other sorts of
planters’ snyplies. The planter gives his note
to the merchant, indorsedby the factor, and if the
former fails, the latter is made to pay. The fac
tors therefore think the risk is unevenly divided,
and that the provision dealer and the fertilizer
manufacturer should to some extent share it with
them, so that the consequences of a failure of a
crop may not fall exclusively upon one class.
As the factors charge their customers two and a
half per cent, for the acceptance, have the cus
tody and sale of the cotton, together with com
missions, etc., itmay be that the other merchants
may decline to run a risk which can only inure
to the benefit of the factors, and who are gene
rally right well paid for what they do. A move
ment is on foot to induce merchants and cotton
factors to agree upon some plan “to divide the
risk,” bnt unless the factors agree to divide their
profits also, it is very donbtful whether the mer
chants will make any concessions.
THE NEXT STATE FAIR.
It is said to be settled that the next State Fair
will be held here, not in Macon. Hotels of
mammoth proportions are to be bnilt. A fair
ground of unrivaled beauty and commodious
ness is to be laid out This city is to offer the
richest inducements to exhibitors, and the State
Agricultural Society is to be munificently en
dowed. Macon did well, wonderfully well this
year, and was as liberal, as hospitable and un
selfish as could be expected. The Fair much
exceeded expectations in size, and hence the in-
sufficenoy of the arrangements.
RAILROAD MATTERS.
The recent completion of the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad (it will be regularly open
for travel in a few days) is causing a consider
able movemsBt from Middle Georgia towards
Brunswick, which is expected to be a “big
place” in a very short time. It is growing very
rapidly. Real estate is appreciating very much,
and many men of business, of brains and
means, are going to settle there. The Railroad
Company had a hard fight against heavy odds;
but they have won the victory, and are entitled
to.ali the glory. Quondam.
For several months this year the carriage
manufactures of New Haven sold over five hun
dred carriages per month.
BT TELEaRAPH.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, December 30.—A proclamation by
the President is preparing, forbidding expeditions
into Prince Rupert’s Land.
The Merchants’ Exchange Bank of New York loses
but $50,000 by Oakley’s defalcation.
The atory is reiterated that the President will re
fer the alleged irregularities in the Texas election
to Congress.
A circular from the Comptroller’s office suggests,
as a matter of safety, the refusal of all fifties and
hundreds of the First National Bank of Jorsey
City.
Revenue to-day $673,000.
Mr. Boutwell returns on Saturday.
Customs for the week ending 24tb, nearly two
millions.
FROM ALABAMA.
Montgomery, December SO.—A case involving
State and Federal jurisdiction has arisen here. The
State law levies a tax upon the Southern Express
Company. The Company applied to Jndge Busteed,
of the United States Court, for an injunction, which
was granted. The State Auditor has issued a circu
lar to the Tax Collectors, ordering them to collect
the tax in spite of the injunction. Tho case prom
ises to he one of great interest to the State and
Company. Both have eminent counsel to fight it
through the Courts.
FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, December 80.—Charles Doherty and
David Childress, fought a prize fight this morning,
for a purse of $109. After eleven rounds the fight
was awarded to Drhcrly on account of a foul blow.
Signor Borra’s Plan for tlie Introduc
tion of European Immigration into
Georgia.
Signor Joseph Borra, in connection with the
Italian Consul in New York, and his brother in
Italy, is engaged in conducting Italian immigra
tion, and desires to inform tho people of the
South who are interested in the matter, that
whenever the necessary arrangements for their
reception shall be perfected, he will bring over
a large number of agriculturists.
Signor Borra was himself an extensive planter
in Virginia for the ten years preceding the war,
and may be presumed to be familiar with the
wants of tho South.
He has already engaged a company of French
hatters, and proposes to establish a hat manufac
tory, either in Savannah or some interior city—
Savannah is preferred, if the necessary lands
can be secured for tho estt.blishment of the
houses and workshops, on terms that will render
it possible for him to undertake die project.
To enable him to undertake the introduction
of immigrants on an extensive scale, it is abso
lutely necessary that he have a plantation or
island, of from five to ten thousand acres in ex
tent, near the city and easily accessible there
from, to bo used as a lauding place and depot
for the immigrants, and where they can be as
sured a means of making a living until such
time as employment with planters shall be
found for them.
The Committee of the Atlantic Convention,
having the subject of immigration in charge,
are invited to confer with Signor Borra, and
aid him in securing the end desired. He pro
poses as follows to that Oommittee :
1st. That they procure an Island upon the
salts for an immigrant landing place and depot,
and sell the same to him upon the following
terms:
Payment for it to be made in three equal in
stalments : the first payable in 1871, the second
in 1874, and the third and last in 1875.
2d. That they furnish to the colony from
twenty-five to fifty moles; stock and agricultural
implements sufficient to work the land to advan
tage, and provisions sufficient to last one year.
All these things to be paid for at the end of the
first year.
3d. That said committee furnish immediate
ly from ten to fifty acres of land upon the river
for the establishment of a hat factory, tannery,
dyeing works and other manufactories requiring
fresh water; to bo paid for at snch time as shall
be agreed upon.
It is expected that the colony so established
will remain a grand centre, into which European
labor will be gathered, and from which it may
be diffnsed throughout the State.
By this plan the immigrants will be assured a
means of livelihood until employment can be
obtained for them, and planters nnd capitalists
will always have a reliable stock of labor to draw
npon, as thoy may require it.
It is believed that the plan proposed will be
found very beneficial to the State at largo, and
all persons feeling an interest in the matter are
cordially invited to confer with Signor Borra nnd
compare views with him. In particular, he de
sires to meet the Convention Committee before
referred to, for an interchange of views, and will
be pleased to receive any suggestions or recom
mendations that their wisdom may offer.
I gazed on each chubby, plump, sick little elf.
And groaned, when he said so, in spite of myself;
But a wink of his eye, when he physicked our Fred,
Soon gave mo to know I had nothing to dread;
He didn’t prescribe, but went straightway to work
And closed all the rest—gave his trowsers a jerk,
And adding directions while blowing his noao,
He bnttoned his coat, from his chair he arose,
Then jumped in his gig, gave old Jalap a whistle,
And Jalap jumped off as if pricked by a thistle;
And the doctor exclaimed, ere he drove out of sight,
“They’ll be well to-morrow; good night, Jones,
good night.”
Meeting of the Georgia Rental Society
This Society held its annual meeting yester
day, in the Hall of the Georgia Historical Soci
ety. The following are the officers :
President—Dr. W. H. Burr, of Madison.
Recording Secretary—Dr. A. O. Ford, of At
lanta.
CorrespondingSecretary—Dr. J. P. H. Brown,
of Augusta.
Tho attendance was not so large as could have
been desired, bnt from the interest felt at this
meeting it was plainly evident that the Society
would prove most successful. Wo noticed the
following Dentists present on yesterday: Dr.
H. A. Lorrance, of Athens; Dr. E. M. Allen,
of Marietta; Dr. F. G. Clark, of Savannah ;
Dr. E. Parsons, of Savannah; Dr. W. Johnson,
of Savannah; Dr. Poston, of Savannah; Dr.
Royal, of Savannah'; Dr. C. A. Harley, of Or
angeburg, S. O.; and Dr. Samuel Hope, of At
lanta. All of the officers were present.
Tho records of tie last meeting, which was
held in Atlanta, were then read and approved,
after which the question on the adoption of the
Constitution and By-laws was considered. Dr.
Brown, of Auguste, stated that tho committee
to whom this subject was referred had carefully
examined the different constitutions of kindred
societies in other States, and from them based
their report, which he here presented.
After the report was read Dr. Parsons, of
Savannah, made some very appropriate re
marks, in which ho said there was no reason
why should Georgia not have as flourishing a
Society as there is in the country. In conclu
sion, he presented to the Society some records
of the old Dental Society of Georgia.
Dr. Clark, of Savannah, then made a motion
that the articles of tho Constitution be taken up
separately for adoption.
The Constitution and By-Laws were discussed
at length, and finally adopted. Among the
prominent features of the same was the article
on the membership of tho Society. It finally
resulted that there should be three classes, viz:
active, correspondent, and honorary. The first
will be composed of regular practicing dentists
of the State of Georgia. The second, reg
ular practicing dentists ont of the State, and
the third class, those persons of the profession
who have been regular practicing dentists.
Another fcaturd of tho Constitution is that a
person shall have been actively employed in
his profession for five years before ho can be
come a member of the Sooiety. According to
the Constitution no dentist belonging to the So
ciety shall reserve a student for a less period
than two years.
In the afternoon, carriages were provided,
and the gentlemen present enjoyed a fine ride
to Thunderbolt, and also around onr beautiful
city. All expressed themselves delighted with
their ride, and each one passed flattering re
marks upon the growth and prosperity of Sa
vannah.
At half past 7 o’clock p. m. , the members re
convened when an election for officers for the
ensuing year took place, with the following re
sult:
President—Dr. F. Y. Clark, of Savannah.
Vice Presidents—Dr. E. M. Allen, of Mariet
ta ; Dr. H. A. Lorrance, Of Athens.
CorrespondingSecretary—Dr. J. P. IL Brown,
of Augusta.
Recording Secretary—Dr. A. O. Ford, of At
lanta.
Treasurer—Dr. W. Johnson, of Savannah.
The evening session was more fully attended
than in the morning, and it was only regretted
that other portions of the State was not repre
sented at the meeting. The members of the so
ciety from our own city did their utmost to make
the visit of their brother dentists, who reside
elsewhere, most pleasant and agreeable.
To-day the members of the society who are in
the city, will take an excursion down the river
by invitation of the city authorities. Distin
guished guests will acconjpany them, and a full
report of their trip will be given in the News.
—Savannah News.
The Night After Christmas.
Twas the night after Christmas,'when all through
the house, •'«&* ' j
Every soul was in bed, and as still as a mouse;
Those stockings, so lately St. Nicholas’ care,
Were emptied of all that was eatable there;
The darlings had duly been tucked in their beds,
With very fall stomachs and pain in their heads.
I was dozing away in my new cotton cap,
And Fancy was rather far gone in a nap,
When out in the nursery arose snch a clatter,
I sprang from my Bleep', crying, “ What is the mat
ter?” c
I flew to each bedside, still half in a doze,
Tore open tho curtains and threw off the clothes,
While the light of the taper served clearly to show
The piteous plight of th090 objects below;
But what to the fond father’s eyes should appear
But the little pale face of each sick little dear;
For each pet had crammed herself full as a tick—
I knew in a moment they felt like old Nick.
Their pulses were rapid, their breathings the same;
What their stomachs rejected Fll mention by name,
Now turkey, now stuffing, plum pudding of course;
And custards, and crullers, and cranberry sauce,
Before outraged nature, all went to the wall;
Yes—lolly pops, flapdoodle, dinner and all;
Like pellets, that urchins from pop guns let fly,
Went figs, nuts and raisins, jam. jelly and pie,
Till each error of diet was brought to my view—
To the shame of mamma, and of Santa'Claua, too.
I turned from the sight, to my bed-room stepped
back,
And brought out a phial marked “Pulv. Ipecac,”
When my Nancy exclaimed, for their sufferings
shocked her,
1 Don’t yon think you had better, love, run for the
doctor?”
* ran—and was scarcely back under my roof.
When I heard the sharp clatter of old Jalap’s hoof;
I might say that I had hardly turned myself round,
When the doctor came into the room with a bound.
Ho was covered with mud fromhis head to his foot,
And tho suit he had on was his very worst suit •
He had hardly had time to put that on his back,
And he looked like a Falstaff half muddled with
sack;
His eyes, how they twinkled! Had the doctor got
merry?
His cheeks looked like port, and his breath smelt of
sheny;
He hadn’t been shaved for a fortnight or so,
And his short chin wasn’t as white as the snow.
Butt**Bgecting their tongues in despite of their
And drawing his watch from his waistcoat beneath,
He felt of each pulse, saying, “ Each little belly
Must get rid”—herethey laughed—“of the rest of
that jelly.”
Bloody Affray in Rearing.
The Constitutionalist reports the following
bloody occurrence at Dearing, on the Georgia
Railroad, in Columbia, on Monday afternoon
last:
About half-past two o’clock Monday afternoon,
at tho store of A. N. Hodo, connected with which
was his brother, Dyer Hodo, and J. B. Lambert,
a difficulty, the cause of winch was not stated,
arose between Lambert and Ellis Adams. The
latter drew his knife, which was followed by the
former also drawing his knife nnd warning
Adams not to approach him. At this juncture
Adams drew his pistol, when Lambert walked
into tho store and gathered a gun, one barrel of
which was said to have been loaded with small
shot. As Lambert was returning with the gun,
he was intercepted by A. N. Hodo, who induced
him to give up the gun. In the meantime the
report of a pistol was heard outside, and Dyer
Hodo, a one-legged man, clerk in the store of
his brother, exclaimed that he was shot. With
this, A. N. Hodo stepped to the door with tho
gun, before which Ellis andKinchen Adams was
standing, when Ellis Adams fired npon him with
out effect. Hodo then fired his gun,with what ef
fect is not known, when another shot was fired
by one or the other of the Adams brothers, tho
ball taking effect just above the left nipple of
Hodo, when he fell and expired instantly.
Seeing his friend and business associate thus
shot down, Lambert immediately left the store
and preceded to the house of Mr. James Har
ris, whore he procured a gun and returned to
the scene of conflict. As he advanced upon the
brothers Adams, they were each firing, a shot by
one of them wounding him in the lip. Lambert
continued to advance, when the brothers be
coming separated, he followed Ellis Adams,
whom he fired upon a few hundred yards from
the store, and it is supposed shot him down, as
a party who went in the direction a few minutes
after the discharge of his gun, found Adams
wounded and stretched upon the ground, in an
apparently dying condition. In the excitement
of the occasion, Adams was left in the condi
tion in which he was found. A short time after,
he was visited again, when it was found that
some unknown person, to hasten the work of
death, had plunged a dagger several tiroes
into his throat, and that he was quite dead. His
body was then taken up and sent to his resi
dence, about a mile from Dearing, no inquest
having been held.
The whereabouts of Kinchen Adams have not
yet been developed, and it is presumed that he
has left the neighborhood.
The young man, A. N. Hodo, who met such a
tragio death, is represented as having been of
excellent character, and moat highly esteemed
for his sobriety and kindred virtues, which had
endeared him to a large circle of friends both in
Columbia county and this city.
No arrests are reported. The wound of Lam
bert is not regarded serious.
Dyer Hodo was severely wounded in the side,
and while his injuries are not regarded as nec
essarily fatal, he is lying in quite a critical con
dition.
Capture of a Wonderful Seven-feet
Bird.
from the Stanford (Ny.~) Despatch.]
Mr. James Pepples, living two and a half
miles from Stanford, on the Dudderar’s mill
road, is surrounded by a party of neighboring
boys who are fond of the sport of night hunt
ing. Over a week ago these boys were engaged
in their favorite pastime, and, while absorbed
in the excitement of a fox-chase, were suddenly
startled by what they called an unearthly scream
from some of the tree tops. Some declared it
was a panther, some a catamount, and others
believed the voico that of a female in distress.
They agreed to approach as near tho spot
whence the screams came as possible, and took
up tho line of march toward tho place.
At each step tho screams were repeated, to
the amazement of tho boys, and, if the truth
must be told, there was a perceptible tremor in
each one’s voice, and daylight would have ex
hibited very pale faces. Guided still nearer by
the strange noise, thoy directly heard the clank
of chains, irons qnd padlocks. This was too
much for youthful temerity to endure. They
wore brave boys, but demoniac yells from tho
tree-tops, accompanied by rattling music of the
devil at the dreary hour of midnight, when
ghosts, hobgoblins and blue devils stalk abroad,
were fraught with too mnch impending danger
to bo relished even by stouter hearts and stronger
nerves. They retreated, and reported to the
neighbors, tho strange and wonderful sounds
which had greeted their ears.
Mr. Pepples laughed at the alarm of the boys,
bnt was still on the lookout for strange sights.
On last Saturday his curiosity was somewhat re
lieved by seeing a monster bird, something like
the condor of Sin bad the sailor, alight on his
barn. It gave a few of the screams which had
so disturbed the boys, and Mr. P. was satisfied
he had found tho ghost. He took down his
rifle, and without precaution to put in a silver
bullet, drew a bead on the bird, and it
fell. On approaching it ho found that only
one wing had been broken, which he amputated.
Now come the secret of the chains. One foot
had hanging to it a steel trap weighing about
four pounds, which bad been evidently set for
varmint. It had been there ferr some time, as
the flesh had rotted off, the trap only hanging
by a leader. On measurement the bird seemed
to bo seven feet from tip to tip. It was of a
black color, and both similiar and dissimilar, in
many respects, to an eagle. Its feet and the
feathers of its legs, which hang about six inches
in length, were those of an eagle, but the jet-
black color indicated another species. At last
accounts it was doing well, and eating raw flesh
with a voracious appetite.
Sows French restaurants offer meals st a fab
ulously low price. For instance, a bowl of soup,
a plate of meat and vegetables^dessert, haK a
bottle of wine, and bread ad libitum, all for
about 15 cents. How the keepers of these eat
ing houses make them pay is a mystery which
those who patronize them do not care about
solving. It appeals that there ace a class of
men who get their living by going round to tha
swell mansions and buying up the leavings.
These gentlemen are called “jewelers,” and the
leavings go by the general name of “jewels”—
a piece of fowl being a “pearl,” a plate of game
a “diamond,”, beef. a “juby,” and so on. If
Pintos gives a banquet*to-night, the “jeweler”
comes down to-morrow morning, and carts off
the leavings from his lordship’s plate to some
cheap restaurant, where they are speedily trans
formed into most tempting-looking dishes with
high-sounding names. The richest “jeweler”
is he who possesses the monopoly of the Tuil-
leries, from whence, it is said, a van load of
odds and ends is packed every day.
CHBtsntas
the heater deaeatvteMMrfdir
lobe in the Christa. 1
SchooU. Whlledll were good, yet.thos^^W
fire* were of amearthly nature,in which
expected; more of sensual ejoyntent w h T’~
one (at Second Baptist- Church) was a Ji'?
soul and spirit; the soufcin the very to^
“The Little Penitent,” being mado to feel
depths of sin, and then with joy receive ft,'
news of a dying Savior’s pardoning l 0T( Y
with a tableaux-like scene, in which the Ijj
tent kneeled and implored forgiveness, at?
which *11 eang the pretty little song, *
The New York World’s Advice.
The Now York World counsels Georgia as
follows:
Now, do the Conservatives of Georgia want to
know how to pull the teeth out of this last act
remanding their commonwealth to military
rale ? Let less than a quorum of the Legislature
convene on the 10th proximo. Let that less than
a quorum adjourn over from day to day, as they
would have power to do, and as they shonld do,
until January 16th, the regular time for the ses
sion to begin nnder the laws of the State. Then
let the Conservative members—who are in a
majority, even counting in the old negro mem
bers—proceed to reseat those latter, in accord
ance with the reoent decision of the Supreme
Court of the State declaring the original expul
sion of the black brigade unconstitutional. The
strongest requirement of the last law will then
have been met, but under State auspices and in
concurrence with what has long been the inten
tion of the Legislature itself; not nnder ramp
duress, as the bill contemplates. Such a course,
too, while saving the pride of the State, will so
favorably affect the returning legislators them
selves as very possibly to win them over to
the impeachment, conviction, and deposition
of Bullock at the proper season—a result
which that carpet-bagger too prematurely
thought he had rendered ont of the question by
Congressional tinkering in his behalf.
Impracticable, and would win nothing could
it be followed.
A New Labor Movement South.
TheN. Y. World, of the 2Gth,has the following:
An important labor movement is at present on
trial in the South, which, if as successful as it
promises, will render the planters practically in
dependent of colored labor. The unsatisfactory
character of the negro workers has already com
pelled the Southern farmers to devise numerous
expedients by which this labor can be supple
mented or dispensed with. The latest of these
is an attempt to employ the laborers of the
WeBt in the Southern cotton and sugar fields.
The harvest iD the West is over about the time
the cotton picking begins, and long before the
time of cane-cutting. Therefore, by importing
during the fall and winter to the South, the la
borers who had garnered the crops of Illinois,
Minnesota, Iowa, eta, employment is furnished
at a time when it is scarce in the West, and
most valuable assistance is obtained in the
South. Thousands of workmen have for this
purpose been transferred this season from Illi
nois to Louisiana, and elsewhere in the South.
The railroad and steamboat companies make
reasonable reductions, the passage from Chicago
to New Orleans, costing bnt $12. One advan;
tage which seems certain, is that, by the trans
lation of these workers, the attention of an ex
cellent class of immigrants will be called to the
rioh South. Now, the suggestion which this
scheme makes in its very statement, is: Why
cannot the laborers, of our Eastern cities be
translated in the same way, during the winter,
to the Sonth.
The Lynchburg Virginian is informed that
within the last few weeks, lands to the amount
of a million and a half of dollars have been sold
to Northern capitalists along the line of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. It is the pur
pose of these gentlemen to build at least three
large iron furnaces, one of which is to be located
at Clifton Forge—the point at which it is pro
posed to intercept the great trunk line road.
Good Cotton Seed.—Mr. W. S. Brantley ad
vertises some cotton seed from his own crop of
a valuable variety.' We saw samples of his
cotton and can recommend the seed with con
fidence.
Distress in New York.—Tho Star says there
is great distress among tho cigar makers of that
city. Other trades and business are suffering
in like proportion, owing to the unsettled condi
tion of the gold market. Wholesale clothing
firms, whoso employes are numbered by tens
of thousands, have almost entirely closed man
ufacturing goods for future sales. Tho same i3
true of carpenters, bricklayers, laborers, coop
ers, and others. Thousands of workmen are
obliged to leave the city in quest of work in
other localities.
Negroes and Whisky.—The Sun says it has
been a noticeable fact daring the present holi
days that the negroes have indulged in whisky
to a greater extent than usual. Whether this
was the result of the damp weather, a plethora
of money, or exultation at the condition of
Georgia, we do not pretend to decide.
Brick Pomeroy offers a reward of $500 for
the name of the St. Lonis Republican’s New
York correspondent who wrote a few days ago
that Pomeroy’s Democrat was about suspending,
and that tho printers had not been paid for two
weeks.
A petition is circulating in Cincinnati asking
the Board of Education to pay female teachers
as much as males.
Filibustering on a Grand Scale.—The New
York Sun, of the 28th, says an annexation league
has been formed on a grand scale which con
templates the acquisition of the whole conti
nent, and is to begin with a heavy armed expe
dition for the assistance of the lied River rebels.
Four bodies of men have already been started.
Since writing the foregoing we see by press
telegrams that a proclamation is to bo issued
forbidding this expedition.
Meeting of.the Stockholders of the Gum
Swamp Navigation Company.—Macon, Dec. 28.—
At a meeting of the stockholders of the “Gam
Swamp Navigation Company,” agreeable to the char
ter granted them by the State, there were one hun
dred and seventy-seven shares represented.
The meeting was organized by electing a full
Board of Directors as specified in the charter. On
the votes being counted tho following named gen
tlemen wero declared elected, to servo during tho
fiscal year ending, 28th December, 1870; Stephen
Collins, Norman McDuffie, W. T. McArthur, Perry
Browning and W. W. Collins.
It was resolved by the Board to elect tho Presi
dent and Treasurer by acclamation. Mr. S. Collins
being then nominated by N. McDuffie, and the nom
ination having roceived a second, when put to the
house ho was unanimously elected. W. W. Collins
was then nominated for Treasurer, and elected.
On motion, the By-Laws and Begulations for the
management of the Company, as drawn by Mr. S.
Collins, wero unanimously adopted.
Upon several calls by the stockholders tho Presi
dent, in a brief maimer, explained the object of the
Company, its progress, advancement, etc. He re
ported that contracts had been made for the clear
ing of Sugar Creek, one of tho tributaries of Gum
Swamp, and that tho same had been completed for
a space of eleven, miles, and paid for. Also, that
contracts had been closed with Mr. P. Browning for
the cleaning out of the main ran, and from reports
from tho works, they were progressing rapidly. The
advantages to the people of Georgia by opening
and clearing out these streams are great, as it will
throw into market the moat valuablo timber land
in the State.
On motion, the Board adjourned subject to tho
call of ■ the President.
W. W. Collins, Treasurer.
Receipts of Cotton.—Our warehousemen
the great bulk of ■ the staple hag already k
eeived.. It is thought we will not get over
more bales, making the grand total receipts
point 75,000 bales. A conviction has pr
among a large number of planters that price,
rale higher after December, and, not being n
for money they have held on to a large per cc
of their crop. We hope their expectations t,
realized, hut there is no telling anything abc-
future of that or anything else.
The New Central Depot. — The engineers and
architects are now drawing the plans and specifica
tions, surveying and marking out the grounds for
the new Central Depot, on the old Court-house lot
and adjacent grounds. All the private houses lying
between the old track and Bridge street, with the
exception of the residence of Dr. Klinkscales, have
been purchased, paid for, and the houses partially
demolished. The work of demolition will embrace
about all of them. Orders have been received to
go forward as rapidly as possible. All freight is
now delivered and received at a temporary depot
below tho old Court-house.
We heard it intimated yesterday, that the entire
freight bueiness of the Central and Southwestern
would bo eventually concentrated at that point. It
is far more convenient than the old depots. If
there is any intention of changing tho passenger
depot, it ia kept a profound secret.
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-o ***“ AUUfi HOCg
\rhon I Read that 8weet Story of Old.”
e spirit is soared aloft and feels itself u
a — AXJWAO UBGaI L
tering into that beautiful world above as‘l
trophe of Heaven" is so entrancinglv rex'
The exercises throughout were most intaw
soul-stirring, and the children looking 7
beautiful; no disappointed conn tenant-'
Christmas trees when they do not get surtJ
*“ they wanted.
Master Robert Stroberg, a tiny little U
much with his child-like and humorous s r *
A matter of fact recitation between s.-?
about money, closing by presenting their,
tlia audience for the real greenbacks to si ‘
chasing a new library for their school, gar .
Ihe wholo was a success. The conductor
berg, after the benediction, was as blithe,
young man, seeming repaid for his labor,
pastor. Rev. Mr. Boykin, was so delighted
thought they might have such heart-felt enii
frequently. And so does the writer, to whot
also a d, ,
On the Streets. — Under tho rays of
spring-like Bun the streets were dried of nm
terday, and once more brought forth a thr
people. We noticed many ladies in their hat
turnouts. Speaking of these, the uninitia;
be interested in the statement that one of «.
ern phaetons cost $700 or $800, with liors
harness $300 more—making from $1000 to
There are horses and carriages in Macon ufc.
$3000, however, but there are not many of
It costs a gentleman $500 to ride out ini
buggy. We don't object—for what is
having money without enjoying it ?
Wo noticed few people from the connttyij
They are busy hiring hands and ® aking prej»
for next year’s crop. Henco customers i
class wero f6w in our stores, and mcrclnr,
complaining of stagnation in business. Ts
days will Boon bo over, when all things w£;
baric to their old channels.
The Winter -It has been predicted of
well as any other winter back indefinite!;,
would be a “hard one.” These predictions t
ally at fault, and, so far, especially this t
the weather has been mild and very agree:
the exception of a few cold rains. It woull
many such days as yesterday to maker;
sprout out. • ->
Our Senior Editor says the winters of ti
are gradually growing colder. That as ft
can forest trees are cut away the winds of ti
are given a freer sweep into our country,
quite perceptible in the orange groves Son
whioli are now often blighted by frost.
:
The New Bask.—We are glad to knor
Bank is about to be started here. There i
of room for it. We are told it will have as
$200,000. That is a round sum of moor
million could find employment at a livinr
interest. Ihe capital in tho Banks throne
United States is not near enough to sup;'
mand8 of commerce. We need fifteen a
times as much as wo have to develop tlie
tural and mineral and manufacturing ins
Georgia.
Hiring Hands toe 1870—It is romarkei
one-tenth the number of field hands are «
the streets this Christmas as were any fore
the war. They are far less roving, They J
ting more settled, and finding out the
changes from one plantation to another
pay. Thousands of them are becoming luil
upon a small scale—that is, proprietors«'
each head of a family two or three acres of
upon which they have erected a house, fe
and are cultivating gardens, raising pouli
eta All such have no sort of disposition!
and hunt other places. By this wise p
planters are obtaining leases upon which
future calculations, are attaching the fj
their possessions. This is the plan worl
for a thousand years in England. It is isj
here, but will eventually take that coarse.
The prices paid for hands are $150 f:
one-men; $120 for number two, $90 far|
and in that proportion for half grorn
contracts npon shares, one-third of thoerrj
to tho freedmen.
In this connection it may be remarked
general rule, men who deal justly with i
little trouble obtaining a full supply,
ble hand in Georgia is in requisition. Yi
obtained without the least difficulty free
men who will comply faithfully with all tie]
tions
Second Baptist Church.—The CiiristeiJ
tion of the Sabbath School of this chord ]
on Tuesday night. A large audience toil
to enjoy the songs, speeches, dialogues.: f
and scenery gotten np for the occasion. -1
together it was a complete success, and th|
siou was vety Sue..
Where all did well, distinctions migl
invidious; and yet, one may bs excused fi
some things were more pleasing than otha
instance: The address to Heaven, by Miss I
while she kneeled beneath a beautiful star-l
canopy, with folded hands and face turncl
towards the throne on high, and with sweet i
emphasis described the bliss of tlie “bentf
She spoke with such holy enthusiasm
like one who, gazing upon the happy oocel
tlie upper sanctuary, had caught inspwtf
the heavenly vision.
Tho “Penitent,” acted by the little
berg, was touching and beautiful. Eveiy I
tlie scene and every sentiment from tii£> 14*'
ed the sympathy of the audienco. 12
The two speeches by Master Robert' n
quickened tbe spirit of merriment, and f® 16
pleasing variety to the exercises of tbe evt £
Many other speeches and dialogues Cl i-
tho congregation. Indeed, the wholo exhil- ; as
well conoeived, and the performance high g
itable to the conductor, teachers and schola 14
singing, under the guidance of Mr. O. J. £ P*
was very good, and creditable to his tact in
ing the yonng. We understand that the
School of the Second Baptist Church is fc ’k
isbing condition, and one of the most int M
in the city. It numbers nearly one hundre f 1
and teachers, who attend school with come \
regularity. _ a
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Anthracitk Coal.—The scarcity of ffi
and North Georgia coal has brought a greY
the Anthracite into this market. It costs: , ^
dollars per ton, bnt dealers claim that it
twice as long as the bituminous, and is
cheaper. Most people prefer tho other at
lars. In this matter, the railroads bring a’
third the amount we want. Many hoc.
knocked out their grates and gone back t :
fashioned wood fires. We are promised b
plies in future—that is, when more coal
instructed. In this, as well as in other
our railroads are not keeping pace with thi
of the country.
The Mule Market.—Drovers say tlia:
mand for mules ia far lighter this year i
While this ia a fact, the supply is greater >
equally as high. ,We visited the mart of
A Ballard yesterday and obtained the folic
tations: Inferior, or third class, $159:
$200 to $225; first, $250 to $275 per bead
ticed some splendid specimens of r IwltaL
at this yard. The proprietors were comp. .
trade b ding dull, btii wero eonfi^ 611 ^
boaiccw the two Months.
Louisville bow claim a population
_*and a wonderful growth in the P Mt
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