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I ate Antnrnu.
Steadfast still in bis place.
Antonin elands eadly alone, brown of tbo hand and
the face-
lbe eickle across his arm is epottod with maty red,
And the crow a of poppies is tom that circled about
his head.
Slowly he lifts bis look;
AU is change around—a stain of clay in the brook;
Tbs sombre fields are all reaped, and bare of the
harvest sheaves:
In orchards the last apples drop with sudden fall
through the leaves.
Tl;e gardens are listless with cold;
Hi» clustering lichens creep out in crowds on the
deep black mould;
The lingering flowers droop faint as their faded
petals fall;
And the mortar crumbles away in patches from off
the wall.
The days are eilent and still;
Through the thick air comes slow the shepherd's call
from tbo hilt
Giayclou ‘-skies lower and gloom all over the coun-
tiy and town,
Ercep’t for a streak of rod where the evening sun
goes down.
The r.ights are bitter and black;
With mists for the riverside and mire for tbo mea
dow track.
The eerecchowl hoots in the woods, the eqnirrel
drtMnsio his lair;
And the brambles and fem grow white to its touch
of the fiosty air.
Autumn nigh swooning stands;
Be watches with cloudy eyes the saddened change
on the hurls;
Till at last, without farewell—none knows if by
night or dsy—
Be lots fall his basket and hook, and suddenly
passt s away.
Autumn is gone indeed!
Well, we n.u-t all go soon—loaf and flower and
o, d—
After the it, no ( 0 grow, the time to gaitie. •*.,*-♦ hi;
Happy arc all they whose eyes are open both timed
to see.
Quicken the pnlses of Life.
Languidly throbbing, O Lord, with the burdens of
sorrow and strife;
Help it to profit by change, as its seasons swiftly
run,
And reap it full ripened at last when the ripening
time is done.
It. K.
Indictment of Congressman
Bnller for Forgery.
It will be remembered that daring last sum
mer there wbs considerable commotion and
comment over the alleged charge, that a Con
gressman R. R. Butler, from Tennessee, had
forged certain checks issued in payment of pen
sions to s«rue of the residents of bis district, and
of which he was the custodian. Since that time
the authorities have been busily engaged in pre
paring the testimony in the case, and to-day
the Grand Jnry of the criminal court of this
district brought in two indictments, tho first
charging It. R. Bailor, of Tennessee, with hav
ing foTgcd the name of Berthemy Farmer, wid
ow of a Union soldier belonging to the Thir
teenth Tennessee cavalry, upon a check drawn
by C. Dewey, President of the Raleigh National
Bank, in favor of said widow, for the sum of
$173, being the arrears of pension to the 4th
day of September, I860. The check bears date
Octotober 25, 1869, and was never seen by
Mrs. Fanner, but was purchased by O. H. Bel-
vin, pension agent for North Carolina, and sent
by him, on October 16, I860, to Mr. Butler, in
Washington, by his |Bu'Jer'«) ins tni.s: ions. The
check was negotiated by Butler at the bank of
Jay, Cooke & Oo., October 29, 1869. The in-
diotment contains six counts—the first charging
Batter with having forged the endorsement with
intent to defraud Mrs. Farmer; the second,
with intent to defraud Jay Cooko & Co ; the
third, with intent to defraud tho United States.
The uther three charge bith with having uttered
the check, with the forged endorsement thereon,
with inteat to defraud, as specified in tho first
three counts. The second indictment con
tains a similar nnmber of count*, and is
tho same in every particular, except that
tho name of Rebecca J. Mtddron is alleged to
have been forged. On the filing of the indie',
ruont a bench warrant was promptly issued for
tho arrest of Butler, and he will be arrested to
morrow morning by the United States MarshaL
The arrest of two members of Congress on crim
inal charges this week are some of the sensa
tions of Washington.—Herald.
“Let ns n»e Peace.”
Napoleon III and President Grant are fa mens
for saying as nearly as possible the same tiling.
The former said, twenty years ago, ‘•Tbo
Empire is peace,” and forthwith plunged into
the Crimnan war, the Cochin (China) war, the
Chinese war, the Italian war, the Mexican war,
and last, though certainly not least, tho Prus
sian war. General Grant, on accepting the
Presidency, said, * 'Let ns have peace,” and has
kept just about as faiihfnlly tho implied prom
ise of an inexpensive peace establishment, such
as existed before the war. We have before us
tho expenditures for tho War Department dur
ing five years of actual peace under a Demo
cratic Government and the famous year of "Let
us have peace" expenditure under General
Grant. Hero they are: —
1856 :. $16,948,196 89
1857 19,261,774 16
1358 ;..... 25,484,951 09
1859... .. 23,243,822 38
1360 -. 16,409,769 10
Total in five years $101,348,511 G2
Assuming the .average population during the
above five years to have been .85,000,000, the
annual cost per capita for (ho war establishment
would have been a fraction lees than fifty-eight
conts.
Daring the year of grace 1870, under the
"Let us /hice pe-ree” administration, tho expen
diture for tho War Department was $57,655,-
675 40, which, divided by the present population
of 40,000,000, gives an annual cost per oapita of
over $1 44.— World.
EmrjBATioH raoM England.—Mr. Edward
Reed writes from London on December 2; “Im
mediately after the Alabama question is set
tled, and peace and kindly feelings are insured,
thcro will be snch an exodus of the bone and
fiiru-w of England to oar country as will aston
ish even the most sanguine of us."
Rsv. Da. Stone, of San Francisco, has been
visiting all the haunts of the demi-monde in
that city, nnder the gnidanoe of the police, in
order to get material for a sermon on the so
cial evil.—Sr.
“ Go on now—go on now!’
MACON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER
TUo Canada War.
Tho Washington correspondent of tho New
Orleans Time3 says:
There never was such folly embodied in a
State paper a3 that which relates to the Cana
dian fisheries. What are the facts? I am as-
snred by an honorable Senator here, and I
Know that what he tells me is the truth—that
after the installment of Secretary Fish, tho
Canadian Government, on invitation, sent n
commission to Washington, not to propose a re
vival of the old reciprocity treaty, for new com
mercial complications mado that impracticable,
but to _ negotiate certain commercial relations
in the interests of both countries. This com
mission proposed in writing,- and the paper is
Brill on file in the State Department, to enlarge
their c-nals, so as to cjrry, without hindrance,
the lake tonnage, and give ns tho free naviga
tion of their waters, together with the same
right to their fisheries that they enjoyed, if we,
in return, would! moderate our duties on certain
articles, such as coal, salt, lumber and cereals,
that are as oppressive to us ns .they are embar
rassing to the Canadas.
This was followed up by urgent entreaty from
the entire West and South.
The response made by the President, through
Secretary Fish—and I speak from the records,
and tell you that which I know—was, that while
these commercial relations might be for the
benefit of the two countries, there were certain
political reasons that had to be considered. The
President was advised that a growing feeling in
favor of annexation in the Canadian provinces
depended on their beiDg kept out in the cold.
And as annexation was desirable, no such com
mercial relations is those proposed could be en
tertained.
In vain did the Congressional delegations
urge upon this booted and spurred Executive,
that feelings of kindness necessary to annexa
tion could not be cultivated through acts of un-
kindness ; that onr experience at the South had
taught that violence and abuse only widened
the breach unhappily existing. In this these
wise Representatives and Senators were second
ed by Secretaries Cox and Belknap, but without
result
The President tried his coercive measures,
and the result is an appeal, through bis mes
sage, for power, that if granted, would undoubt
edly fetch on a war.
The navigation of the St Lawrence depends
upon canals that belong exclusively to the prov
inces; while the fishing grounds being theirs,
they have (he right to use all means necessary
to their protection, as much so as to the solid
rocks about Quebec.
The annexation that could not be accomplished
through such wise moasures, is openly sp.ketrof
as to be the result of .conquest. Yon see how
adroitly Butler fingers the skull of his’excellency.
This is a military government, with warlike
tastes and proclivities, and as General Grant
came in on laurels won from the Sontb, be hopes
to be continued on laurels won from England.
We are in a sweet condition for a war. It
would call for more space than my letter is en
titled to, for me to dwell on the hard times,
heavy taxation, a vitiated currency, and a de
moralized service, that so illy fits us for a fight.
But in addition an eminent Republican, some
what out of favor just now, said to a circle of
friends the other night:
“Idoubt whether Grant would renew his
laurels in a war with England. We have no
coast defence worthy the name; no fleet that
carries an available gun, and there would be
some difference hetween defending ourselves
agairsi tu«> well-trained soldieis of England and
crushing oat the decimated and weary ranks of
Lee’s army with overwhelming numbers.
GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING
YOL.LHy—NO 26-
The Death of Airs. Slidell—Interest
ing Reminiscence.
The cable announces the death of Mrs. John
Slidell, at Brighton, England. All who knew
this elegant and accomplished lady will sincere
ly regret her death. Mrs. Slidell was born in
New Orleans, of French parents, and was as
thoronghly French in her education and man
ners &3 though she had baeu born and raised in
Paris. The Philadelphia Ago, in announcing
her death, remarks:
She was much younger than her husband, ap
pearing more like his daughter than his wife,
and was affianced to him, according to French
usage, without beiegevt-n intimately acquainted
with him, and married him when she was very
young, the third time she had ever seen him.—
But she was a true wife and mother, and her
household was characterized not only by ele
gance and refinement, but by every' mark of
domestic happiness and pecca. Mr. Slidell’s
house in Washington—called by some the “se
cond White Honse”—was the centre and foens
of tbo most refined society of the capital, dar
ing Bachsnan's administration, and guests were
woloomtd with a heartiness and treated with a
hospitality unusual in what is called fashionable
society. The family was a mo3t agreeable one,
the two daughters, Mathilda and Rose, who
where then aged, respectively, about fourteen
and sixteen, and who were as unpretending and
modest as though they were not the highly edu
cated and admired daughters of a millionaire,
contributing greatly to its a tractions.
Mrs. Slidell was a lady of rare social accom
plishments, and was most entertaining in con
versation. Her faculty for making her guests
feel at homo and happy in her house and pres
ence was remarkable, and enabled her, petite as
she was, to outshine her rival, political as well
ns social, the more magnificent Mrs. Douglas,
who, though an exceedingly well-bred lady*And
well schooled in the art of entertaining, lacked
the sparkle end genuine bon hommie of the vi
vacious and thoronghly accomplished little
French womin. Do what Mrs. Douglas would,
Mrs. Slidel would draw the elite of Washing
ton ar.d the country to to the “second white
house,” and both these ladies, by the way, as
pired to the mistresship of the first white
honse. Now, however, Mrs. Douglas has be
come Mrs. Williams, the wife of an army offi
ce*, „rwi Mrs. Slidell has passed away from
earth, leaving a host of admiring friends in
both hemispheres to mourn her early death, xox
she was in tho prime of life and womshond.
Her sister, Mrs. Beauregard, died daring the
Tlte Bowen Bigamy.
Bowen, it appears, was married to Miss Ta-
bitha Parks, on the 31st of January, I860, in
Wakulla connty, Florida, ar.d lived with her
some j ears. Subsequently a change came over
the scene of domestic bliss, end on the 4th of
February last, Mrs. Bowen, then residing in
Louisville, filed a petition for divorce, which is
still pending, charging her husband with adul
tery. In August last, he visited her in Louis
ville, it is stated. On the 12th of that month
the records of on Indiana court show, it is sta
ted, that a pttition was filed in the name of Ta-
bitha Bowen against the B[on. C. C., and sn an
swer was filed on the same day, and in thirteen
days afterwards the decree was made; but as
Mr. Bowen was married to Mrs. Petigru King
on the 31st of August, it would appear that the
marriage took place prior to the decree of di
vorce.
In this Indiana oase the petitioner charges
the husband with cruel treatment and a failure
to provide for ter support. It is further al
leged that Mrs. Bowen (No. I) asserts that Bow
en employed the counsel.
OS BOTH BIDES
in this (Indiana) cape, that she did not eign or
swear to the petitition, and, further, that the
decree in this case was passed on testimony ta
ken prior to the filing of the bilL
So mnoh for the allegations on that Bide
On behalf of Mr. Bowen it is alleged that this
whole charge of bigamy is the work of politi
cal malice, and comes from interested motives.
It is asserted, in his behalf, that the records of
the Indiana Court will show that he was legally
divorce!
- before his marriage
with Mrs. S. Petigru King, and that the docu
ments lo prove the fact are on- the way to this
oily. It is also alleged that ho was not legally
married to his first wife.
Report of the President and Super
intendent of the Central Railroad
and Ranking Company.
From the Savannah Fews.
Omen of O.-R. R. & Banking Co. of Ga.,)
Savannah, Ga., December 1, 1870. j
To the Stockholders : In" the last Annnal Re
port the Board informed you as to tho “terms
and' conditions” upou which the Southwestern
Railroad had been loased by this company. Up
to the date of that report it was deemed best
to keep tho accounts of the two roads entirely
separate, but from the 1st of December, 18G9,
tho accounts have been blended. Wo have,
however, as far a3 practicable, endeavored to
separate the two, so as to give a tolerably cor
rect idea of the earnings and expenses of each,
which may be stated as follows, viz:
Central Railroad earnings for the
year ending 80th ult ..,.$2,308,284 38
Central Railroad Bank earnings
for the year ending 30th ult,’.. 132,029 16
Southwestern Railroad earnings
for the year ending 30th ult.... 1,324,179 60
Total earnings of both Roads and
Bank $3,764,493 14
From this deduct;
Central Railroad Ex
penses, all kinds.$1,535,544 73
Central Railroad
Bank expenses of
all kinds 29,797 51
Southwestern Rai 1 * * -
road expenses of
"all kinds 906,107 47
2,465,449 71
Leaving net $1,229,043 43
Of this sum there
has been expended
and appropriated the ■
following amounts;
Interest on Central
Railroad Bonds...$ *05,160 00
Interest on South
western Railroad
Bonds 48,370 00
Dividend Central
Railroad in June. 233,340 00
Government (ax on
same 11,G67 00
Dividend Soulhwes-
tern Railroad in
June 157,912 00
Government tax on
same 8,205 £9
Dividend Central
Railroad this day. 233,340 00
Government tax on
same 5,833 50
Dividend Southwes
tern Railroad this
day 157,952 00
Goxernment tax on
same 5,858 05
Rent A. & S. Rail
road 73,000 00
Rent E. B. Railroad * 14,000 00
Bank in Liquidation 5,858 05
Right of way and
new depot in oity
of Macon 34,027 59
Appropriated for
new r t ils 250,000 00
1,292,770 23
Leaving a balance of $ 6,273 20
after paying for all expenditures an acoonnt of
tho two Roads and Bank. These expenditures
are large, bnt it has been the policy of the
Board to improvo your property, and with that
view tho work that has been of a thorough and
substantial character.
Under the lease of the Southwestern Railroad
it became, to all intents and purposes, an inte
gral part of yonr Road, and under tho usual
plan for working long lines of railway, would
be managed under two divisions, bnt in this
case it is thought best to retain the two General
Superintendents, one especially for the Central
and the other for the Southwestern Road, and
thus, to some extent, leave tho management as
before the lease. This, however, conid not be
done in reference to the accounts, embracing
the Earnings and Expenses of the two Road*,
which necessarily centers at and emanates from
the principal office at Savannah. This brief
explanation is made in order that you may un
derstand why it is that there are Reports from
two Gen’l Superintendents. The only difference
being that, in addition to tbo general condition
of the Road and rolling stock, the Superinten
dent of the Central makes a report of tbo earn
ings and expenses of the two Roads, while the
Superintendent of the Southwestern Road con
fines bis report to the physical condition of the
work under his charge. In tho practical work
ing each is expected lo see that onr patrons are
properly served, and that their subordinates
perform their respective duties. This plan, to
some extent, reqnires a separate accountability
from tho subordinates of the two roads In
other words, while all are accountable to and
governed by instructions from the principal
office in all matters having reference in any way
to accounts and the payments of money, each
Superintendent retains his prerogative in all
other respects over his subordinates.
For detailed statements and exact informa
tion respecting the condition and all operaliions
connected with your own and leased roads, for
the past year, you are respectfully referred to
the annexed reports of the General. Superin
tendents and the heads of Departments under
them. In thi3 connection the Board wish to
call spy oial attention to the question of using
steel instead of iron rails for fnture renewals
This question has been referred toby onr Road
Master in bis last two reports, and, as will be
seen, has recently been carefully examined by
Mr. Rogers and Mr. Powers in connection with
Mr. Scattergood. The result of this examina
tion, as stated by them, is clearly in favor of
the use of steel rails on our main line between
Savannah and Macon, and probably on the
Southwestern Road between Macon and Fort
Valley. The Board will, therefore, act upon
these recommendations, as far as the available
means of the Company will admit, in giving or
ders for rails in future. Upon all other points
the Board feel that it is quite unnecessary to
one* u>j ••marks in explanation of the reports
referred to
The Cashier of the Bank, by his balance sheet
and report, shows a very satisfactory result in
that department of your sorvice, bnt we are yet
in want of a much larger cash capital to enable
the Company to enlarge its sphere of usefulness
to the community, and at the same time increase
the business of the Road. Snch a capital the
Board have sought to provide, by the sale of
securities held by the Company, but the scarcity
of money daring the past year has prevented
any considerable sale, whioh could not be made
except at prices which were regarded as entirely
too low, and hence it is that we remain in but
little- better condition, in this respect, than at
the beginning of the year. Should the financial
condition of the country become more favorable
for the Bale of undoubted securities, the Board
can but reiterate the recommendation made in
the lost report upon this subject. Having had
applications from various points in the interior
of the State for Branches of the Bank, the Board
have established three agencies. One at Mac-on,
one at Colnmbus, and one at Albany. The two
last’have not yet commenced business, bnt the
one at Macon has been in operation since early
in October, and it promises to be of very con
siderable advantage in the transaction of our
business. The Agent, Gen. W. S. Holt, from
his long connection with the Southwestern road,
understands, folly all matters connected with
our road operations, which, with his experience
as a bank officer in past yeara, fits him, in an
eminent degree, for the position he occupies,
and with the aid of Mr. J. T. Boifenillet, as his
Cashier, the Board feel confident that your in
terest will be protected. Dr. J. F. Bozeman has
been appointed agent at Columbus, and Captain
J. W. Armstrong at Albany, both gentlemen of
experience and sterling ohameter.
Having in view the necessity for a connec
tion with the water at Savannah, to facilitate
the import and export of articles by sea, the
Board have for gome time had unde/ consider
ation the inopt feasible plan to accomp’ith so
desirable an object. Recently finding that the
property known as tho Vale Royal plantation,
containing about 270 acres of land, was for sale,
the Board authorized its purchase, provided it
could be had at a stipulated price. Negotia
tions were therefore commenced for its pur
chase, and it is now your property, at a cost of
$S2,000, a little more than it was expected we
should have lo pay, but in view of the advan
tages to the Company by owning the property,
it was deemed best to make the purchase. The
possession of this property gives the Company
not only a way to carry our track to the water,
but a most eligible site for a ship canal, or ba
sin, up to the main line of your road. The
construction of such a basin would nearly double
the river front, and thus greatly enlarge the
capacity of our port. Such a work would cost
a large sum of money, but it is believed to be
only a question of time when orir commerce will
require its construction, and tvhen that time
copies it will pay to mak- the investment. At
present, it is only proposed to carry our track
to the river, and make some necessary improve
ments for the accommodation of vessels, not
involving any very considerable outlay of
money.
The negotiations referred to in the last report
as then pending, in reference to onr interest in
the Montgomery and West Point and Western
railroads of Alabama, resulted in the Georgia
Railroad Company taking one-half of onr in
terest and of the interest of tho Southwestern
road in the two roads of Alabaua, and also as
suming an equal liability with our line on ac
count of these roads. Therefore the line via
Augusta now has an equal property interest,
and equal privileges with ns f«r all business
from Montgomery and beyond. In these nego
tiations the Board has been governed by tho
most liberal views towards a competing line,
asking only just and fair dealing for a business
that wo have at all times been willing should be
open to both upon an equal ownership with us
by the other line.
Acting upon a suggestion in the report of De
cember, I860, the Board, in connection with
the Directors of the Southwestern Railroad
Company, by a committee for that purpose,
made a contract with Messrs. Strothers & Son.,
of Philadelphia, for a monument, in accordance
with a design that had been approved by the
two Boards, to tho memory of the late Richard
R. Cuyler. The completion of this monument
has been delayed much longer thin was expect
ed when the contract was made, bnt the Board
are now happy to report that it is completed and
erected as contemplated in “Lamel Grove.” It
is executed from red Aberdeen gxmite, with the
simple inscription on one side, “The Central
and Southwestern Railroad Companies in mem
ory of Richard R. Cuyler,” anden the opposite,
“A tribute to distinguished ability and unro-
mitted faithfulness in tho admfairation of great
trust.”
The Board again take pleasuie in bearing tes
timony to the zeal and fidelity with which the
officers and employes have discharged their du
ties. Respectfully submitted,
Wm. M. Wadiey, President.
Report of Superintendent.
SUPERINTENDENTS OFFICE, CENTRAL R. R.,)
Savannah, December 1, 1870. f
Wm. M. Wadley, Esq., President:
Sir—In making my report for the fiscal year
ending on the 30th nltimo, it now becomes my
dnty not only to embrace tho earnings and ex
penditures of the Central, but also of tho South
western Railroad, which has been leased to this
company, which may bo stated as follows:
Central Railroad earnings $2,308,284 38
Southwestern “ “ 1,324,179 60
3,632,463 98
Central Railroad ex
penditures. .,..$1,535,544 73
Southwestern Railroad
expenditures 906,10747—$2,441,652 20
Leaving a balance of $1,190,851 78
The expenditures are heavy, bnt are easily
accounted for when you take into consideration
tho quantity of rails purchased, necessary to
replace those too much worn for further use, as
well as the purchase of six new engines, and a
very considerable addition to our stock of cars,
all of which was necessary to keep our stock up
to the standard required.
A detailed statement of the earnings will be
found in tables A, B and O.
In tables D and E is shown the nnmber of
bales of cotton and their destination.
Tho amount of fertilizers, (guano, salt and
lime), transported from Savannah, Macon and
Augusta is shown in tables G, H and I—tho in
crease from Savannah over the previous year,
is, guano, 14,636,914; salt, 20,078, and lime,
91,907 pound®.
From the other two points, Macon and Augus
ta, wo mako no comparison, as onr previous re
ports do not show the quantity shipped from
these points. It can soaroely bo expected that
so much will bo transported the present year
unless prices are very mnch reduced* as it is
believed that planters cannot afford so heavy an
expense, with cotton at present low prices.
A recent examination of the road shows the
permanent way in good condition; still there is
mnch to be done—considerable portions require
now rails.
In my last report I referred to tho use of steel
rails as being tried on many of the Northern
roads; from what information I can gather
from those who have had an opportunity of
testing their durability, I think the use of steel
instead of iron rails cannot be too highly recom
mended, and in order to demonstrate this fact,
I append a statement, showing the comparative
cost, estimating the life of iron rails to be seven
years and that of steel 21 or 28 years.
The life of a steel rail being twenty-one years
and of an iron rail seven years, the following
will be the comparative cost of steel and iron
rails at the end of 21 years:
Cost of 1 ton of Steel Rails $105 00
Compound Interest for 21 years at 7
V oent 329 75
$422 75
Copt of 1 ton Iron Rails 68 00
Compound Interest for 21 years at 7
? cent 214 55
Cost re-rolling or renewal twice at $50
?ton 100 00
(;oni[iunj infAmat on 1st re-roIliDgfor
14. years at 7 V cent ; 73 93
Compound Inierest on 2d re-rolling
for 7 years at 7 per cent... ’ 30 28
Cost of 1 ton Iron Rails at end of 21
years 490 75
Cost of 1 ton Steel Rails at end of 21
years 434 75
Saving in 2t years by using Steel
Rails $36 00
Present saving per ton by using Steel
Rails 13 52
Or, it is as cheap to bay steel rails at a cost
of $105 per ton, as to buy iron rails at a cost
of $54 48 per ton.
If the life of a steel rail is 28 years, and that
of an iron rail is 7 years, then the comparative
cost of steel and iron at the end of 28 j ears
will he:
Cost of 1 ton of Steel Rails $105 00
Compound Interest for 28 years at 7
per cent 593 12
$698 12
Cost of I ton Iron Rails $ CS 00
Compound Interest for 28 years at 7
per cent 384 12
Cost of re-rolling or renewal three
times.... 150 00
Compound interest on 1st re-rolling
21 years... 137 02
Compound interest on 2d re-rolling 14
years 78 92
Compound Interest on 3d re-rolling
7 years.. 80 28
- ■' -• V $868 34
Saving per ton in 28 years by using
Steel Bails............. .v... — $170 22
Present saving per ton by using Steel
Bails.....;..-....... 25 60
- Or, it is as oheap to buy steel rails at a cost
of $105 per ton os to buy iron rails at a cost of
$42 40 per ton.
The report of tho Road Master ehows that 34i
miles of new rails, with fish bar fastenings',
have been laid during the year just closed; it
was expected that more would have been pat
down, but from various causes, we have fallen
short of that expectation; we still have in the
yard of new rails sufficient to lay abont 91 miles,
which, with those that have been laid'daring
the year, will eqnal 44 miles. 'His report also
shows tho decrease of stringer track, which we
shall continne to reduce,-as we are able to re
place it with new and heavy rails. The erection
of warehouses along the lines has progressed
daring the year as rapidly as could be done with
economy, and the demands for more pressing
work. •
The wood and water stations mentioned as
being erected at Nos. 4, 6, Millen and No. 14.
main lino, and MoBsan on the Aagasta branch,
will expedite the movement of trains very ma
terially. It is intended that similar structures
shall be erected at every alternate station along
the line.
The report of the Master of Maohinery shows
the condition of onr engines at this time, which
will compare favorably with any previous year.
He recommends the purchase of three new en
gines within the ensuing year, which will be
necessary in order to keep np our motive power
to its present capacity.
The report of the Master Car Builder shows
the nnmber of carB specially set apart as due to
the service of Central Bailrad proper. In order
to supply the means of transporting produce
which we expeoted to get by our connections
west, we contracted with the Dawson Manufac
turing Company for an additional supply of
box cars, and had bnilt at our own shops a nnm
ber of open cars—the expected want of these
additions to our rolling stock has not been felt,
owing to the delay of the completion of the'
bridge over the Alabama river, bnt now that
connection is made to Selma and Yioksburg, it
is believed that they will soon he brought into
requisition.
The Auditor’s Report shows tho total expend
itures of all kinds, involving numerous accounts
and calculations necessary to insure correctness,
which renders that office one of very considera
ble labsr.
The Book-keeper’s report and balance sheet
shows the financial condition of the Company,
apart from the Bank. All transactions involving
receipts or income, from whatever souroe are
inspected by him, and ail moneys on acoonnt of
this and connecting Roads are received by him
and deposited in Bank. He also countersigns
all checks for the payment of money. It will,
therefore, be readily seen, that his position is
one of great labor and responsibility.
In consequence of tho extensive operations of
our road, resulting from the lease of the South
western road, and increase of business, after
consultation with you Ideomed best toemploya
purchasing agent, and Mr. Henry Yongo, a man
of tried integrity and large experience, was se
lected to fill that position.
I cannot close this report withont commend
ing the cheerfulness and fidelity with which the
employes of this Company have performed their
duties; had these been performed in their own
interest, they could scarcely have been more
zealous. Respectfully submitted,
William Rogers,
General Superintendent.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Poultry and game in Savannah sell at very
modest figures. We quote from the Advertiser:
Turkeys, 'clean or unpicked, from $3@7;
geese, clean or unpicked, $2 25@4 75; ducks,
$1 75 per pair; fowls, $1@1 60 per pair; doves,
25 cents per pair; partridges, 20 cents apiece;
woodcocks, 75 cents per pair; eggs 45 cents per
dozen.
The Advertiser says:
A large tract of land containing 277 aores and
having a river front of 366 feet, hits recently
been purchased by the Directors of the Central
Railroad, at a cost of $82,000. The possession
of this property gives the company not only a
way to carry their track to the river, but a most
eligible site for a ship canal or basin up to-the
main lino of the road. At present, however, it
is only contemplated to lay a track from a point
wbero the Augnsta Road crosses the Central
Railroad track to the river, to a point just west
of the old mill site, to put up a substantial
wharf along the entire front of the lot recently
purchased, and to make snch other improve
ments as are necessary for the accommodation
of vessels. Doubtless in a short time whari
sheds and cotton warehouses will be erected by
tho company at this point, and as a necessary
conseqnenoe of the great revolution in the
mode of making through shipments of cotton,
presses will also have to be erected there. The
cotton will then be rolled from the cars, if so
desired, directly into the cotton presses, and
thence on shipboard with no drayage and no
middlemen.
A train left Savannah, yesterday morning, to
run through to Vicksburg—800 miles. It will
return loaded with cotton.
Messrs. S. P. Myrick, of Baldwin, E. Tweedy,
of Richmond, and William Phillips, of Cobb
connty, have been appointed Trustees of .the
State Lunatio Asylum until 1st Monday in De
cember 1872. .
A Convention of representatives of the rail
roads constituting the through line from New
York to New Orleans, via Montgomery, Atlanta,
and Augnsta will he held in the latter city on the
4th of Janaary, to perfect a through, schedule
over that route.
It took three policemen and five revolver
shots to kill a mangy eur that somebody said
was ‘.'mad,” in Augusta, Monday.
A youth named Haley was aoeidently killed
at Augnsta, on Monday, by the discharge of a
gun in the hands of James Shields.
Ordination or Catholic Priests. .
The Herald reports the ordination of ovef
forty Catholic priests at Troy, on the 17th. The
ceremonials were imposing:
The candidates for sub-deacon, deaeon and
priesthood advanced and formed a solid square
m tne cot>*». nf tti e church. Presently tbo
master of ceremonies oriea ™.- jggA vo ; ce
"Prosternani se omnes," or “let all prostrati'
themselves.” No sooner were the solemn words
pronounced than the postulants fell forward to
the ground with such a simultaneous movement
that it appeared as if they were seized by the
same sadden impulse. Then was witnessed
A MOST THBHiLtNO SPECTACLE.
There lay at fullleogth, withtheirfaces down
ward, withont a movement, as if life had sud
denly departed from the entire number, a band
of young men who, by this most solemn of acts,
PLEDGED THXia LIVES
to the service of their God. There they lay
avowing their own nothingness in the sight of
the Lord, peifect examples of humiliation. It
was a sight never to be forgotten by. those who
were present. It wasno wonder that theladies
buried their face3 in their handkerchiefs, for it
was a spectacle to move even .
THE COLD, ADAMANTINE BEAST
of sinful man.
Gossip About the Tribune and Tunes
The New York correspondent of the Buffalo
Courier gossips as follows concerning the stock
holders, value, eto., of the Tapes and Tribune
newspapers: '■>
There are rumors current in newspaper cir*
cles that one of the largest stockholders of the
Tribuna has indulged in ’ouftlBo operations to
snoh an extent as to have compelled the hypo
thecation and probable sale of his stock. Al
though the par value of the stock is only $1,000
per share, the market value is $%000; and if the
hypothecated stock'should be sold,'it will pro
bably bring more than that sum, and it might
pass into the hands of a Demoorat. I am inform
ed, on what ought to be good authority, that of
the 100 shares into which the establishment is
divided the present ownership is as follows:
Mr. Sinolair, (publisher), 21; Dr. Ayer, of
Lowell, 1G; estate of Mr. Clarke, (formerly fi
nancial editor), 13; Mr. Greeley, 9; Mrs. Gree
ley, 5; Mr. Ripley, (literary editor), 5; Bayard
Taylor, 5; Mr. Booker, (foreman), 5; estate of
A. D. Richardson, 5; Solon Robinson, 2; Mr.
Fitzpataick, (pressman), 2; Mr. O’Ronrke, (en
gineer), 2; Mr. Rankle, (husband of Mrs. Cal
houn), 2; Theodore Tilton, 1; Oliver Johnson,
1; J. F. Cleveland, 1.
It is said also that the stock in the New York
Daily Times belonging to James B. Taylor is
soon to be sold at executor's sale. Like the Tri
bune, the Times is stocked at 100 shares of $100
each, the market value being now at leaBt
$8,000. The ownership of the Times is vested
in fewer hands than that cf the Tribnne, being,
it is understood, as follows: Estate of Henry J.
Raymond, 34 shares; George Jones (publisher
and manager), 29; E. B. Morgan, (Cayuga coun
ty), 15; estate of Jame3 B. Taylor, 13; A. V.
Stout, 8, John Bonner, 4.
The Northwest Passage.—The Honolulu Ga
zette of November 9tb, says that the whalers
were then coming into port, with good catches,
and adds that “daring the past season some of
the ships cruising in the Arctic, got so near the
supposed situation of the Pole that their longi
tude was scarcely worth working up. Wo pre
dict that a whaler will be the first to discover
and go through the long sought North-west pas
sage. the search for which has cost the world so
much money and so many valuable lives.
The San Francisco Bnlletin says:
A late number of the Commercial Advertiser,
of Honolulu, relates the fact that one of the
whale ships in that harbor recently captured' a
whale, in the Arctic seas, which had in its car
cass a harpoon. This harpoon was known to
belong to a ship which was at that time cruis
ing in the northern seas, on the other side of
tho continent. The whalehad evidently passed
from one open sea to the other by way of the
Pole. He must have found open water, for
even a whale must come up at short intervals to
blow. It is certain that the Polar Sea is navi
gable for whales, from one side, of the continent
to the other. Bat, while it does not follow that
ships conid follow the same track, the faot cited
is one of considerable interest. Shipmasters
may be able to navigate the Polar Sea when
they know as mnch about navigation in high
latitndes as this whale with a harpoon sticking
in his back.
High Spibit.—A special dispatch to the New
York Commercial Advertiser tells howSecretary
Fish flopped his tail with great spirit into the
face of a saucy nigger as follows, to-wit:
Washington, December 16.—There is much
gossip here with regard to severe snubs admin
istered to the Haytien Minister by Secretary
Fish. The former wrote the latter a letter, pro
testing against the President referring, in his
message, to San Domingo as the Island of San
Domingo, as it infringed- on a proper recogni
tion of Hayti.
Mr. Fish returned the letter with a message
that it was highly impertinent, ns no represen
tative of a foreign country had a right to offi
cially criticise or interfere with messages of the
Chief Magistrate of the United States to his own
people.
When the country detects so much blood in
tbo gills of Secretary Fish, as all this comes to,
the country will think herself great and safe.
That negro must have blushed till he was fairly
ashy. One is glad to see snch evidence of a
high national spirit displayed by the Admin
istration in a safe direction. The Empire
of Hayti is not likely to call the country to ao-
connt for it.
Mr. Lorenzo Day, of Chickasaw connty,
Miss., having married Miss Martha Week, a lo
cal poet comments:
“ A Day is made, a Week is lost,
But time should not complain—
There’ll soon be little days enough
To make the week again.”
A Canadian lady having caught a trouble
some rat in a trap, determined upon having
some sport with it. She took the trap into the
sitting room, called in a terrier, opened the trap,
jumped upon a chair, and the fan commenced.
Tho rat first whipped the dog, and then made
way with a tame raccoon, whioh the lady called
to her assistance, then fought a second dog and
a broom for an honr and fifteen minutes, and
finally escaped through the window.
Free Trade.—Speaking of revenue reform,
the New York Herald gives a hint that is full of
danger to the Republican bops of holding fast
its control over any of the Southern States. It
is a hint that, once started in the negroe’s wool,
will be apt to keep orawiing there for an indef
inite period:
The Southern States are ripe for such an issue.
Teach Coffee and Sambo that he is taxed on his
sugar and coffee and tobacco; that he pays the
Government, as well as his baker and grocer,
for every breakfast he eats, while iron masters
and growers of wool are protected into the real
ization of immense fortunes, and there will be
revolution in the untutored mind which no Re
publican can check. The negroe owes the Re
publicans gratitude—a slender and shortlived
virtue. Let the Democrats offer him a cheaper
breakfast, and the work will be done.
Impeachment of TIoltien.
The following are' the articles of impeach
ment nnder which Holden will be tried by the
Senate of North Carolina, Chief Justice Fear-
son, of the Supreme Court, presiding over the
Senate as a Court of Impeachment:
That William W. Holden, Governor of North
Carolina, unmindful of his oath of office, did,
in July last,, organize, arm and equip a military
force not recognized by and in snbveraion of-
the Constitution of the State of North Carolina;
which military force, so unlawfully organized,
was not kept under subordination to, and gov
erned by, the oivil power, bnt was, by the or
der of the said Willium W. Holden, Governor
as aforesaid, made paramount to, and subver
sive of, the oivil authority.
That the said William W. Holden, Governor
as aforesaid, did, ia tho mouths of July and
August last, withont lawful warrant and author,
ity, and in defiance and subversion of the Con-'
stitution, arrest and imprison many of the
peaceable and law-abiding citizens of the State,
depriving them of their liberties and privileges,
and certain of said citizens so unlawfully arrest
ed and imprisoned, did cause to be subjected to
cruel and nnusnal punishment.
That the said Wm. W. Holden, Governor afi
aforesaid, denied to’citizens unlawful/ restrain
ed of their liberty by his authority, all remedy to
inquire into the lawfulness therereof, and in de
fiance of the Constitution, the laws and the pro
cess of the courts, he suspended the privileges •
of tho writ of habeas corpus, claiming that lie'
was governed by a supreme law whereby he
could deny the privileges of the said writ when
in his opinion tho safety of the State required
it. In view of tho matter herein set forth, com
bining historical facts with statements contained
in public documents and the records of tfie Po
lio Departments and the Courts, the undersign
ed, members of the Committee, who are a ma
jority thereof, are of the opinion that Wm. W.
Holden, Governor of the State of North Caro
lina, beimpeached of high orimes and misde
meanors.
Destructive Fire in Tliomasville—In*
cemliurism at lFork.
Special to the Savannah JfeiesiJ
Thomasville, December 18.—A very destruc
tive fire broke out here-this morning, between
two and three o’clock, by which a considerable
amount of property was destroyed. It was first
discovered in the store of Remington,McKinnen
& Go., from which it very rapidly spread to the
adjoining buildings.
• The following ia a list of those who have suf
fered any loss, together with the estimated
damage and the amount of insurance:
Remington, McKinnon & Co., loss about
thirty thousand dollars; insured in the Under
writers’ Agency, New York, for twenty thousand.
Nothing saved.
E. Remington & Son, loss two houses burned,
valued at fifteen thousand dollars; insured for
three thousand in the Home Icsuronce Company
of New York.
W. M. Smith, doaler in buggies and wagons,
loss abont six hundred dollars; insured in the
ffikna Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn.,
for twenty-five hundred dollars. Most of the
goods were saved.
A. Ham sister, dealer in confectionery, lose
about six thousand dollars; insured for three
thousand in the Underwriters’ Agency of New
York, and the Home Insurance Company of
New Haven.
J. P. Arnold, loss one honse valued at twenty-
five thousand doll ns; insured for one thousand
in the Georgia Home Insurance Company of
Columbus.
H. Wolf & Brother, loss about thirty thousand
dollars in building and stock. The stook was in
sured for fifteen thousand dollars in the Under
writers’ Agency of New York, Liverpool, Lon
don and Globe Insurance Company, the .Etna
of Hartford, and the Hartford Insurance Com
pany. The building was insured for three thou
sand dollars in the Southern Mutual Insuranoe
Company. Some of the goods were saved.
Neptune Fire Company, No. 1, was on hand
and worked nobly. Their efforts did much to
arrest the destructive element.
The Vigilant Fire Company, composed of
colored men, was also present and worked ener
getically.
The members deserve much oredit for their
active zeal, as it was chiefly owing to their
strenuous exertions that the flames were finally
arrested. The citizens generally, appreciated
their efforts.
Messrs. Sheffield & Cook, estimated loss on
store and Btock ten thousands dollars; insured in
the Georgia Home Insurance Company of. Col-
umbos for six thousand.
The office of the Southern Express Company
was also burned, bnt nothing was lost except
some “old horse” freight.
The fire will prove a most disastrous blow to
the business and commercial interests of Thomas
ville.
Fire Statistics of New York. — Fire Mar
shal McSpedon, of New York, reports 856 fires
in that city daring the past year. The follow
ing were the principal causes: Carelessness in
the use of candles, matches, pipes, cigars, etc.,
206; kerosene, 116; children playing with fire
and matches, 80; liquid gas, gasoline, 'etc., 41;
spontaneous combustion, 24; incendiaries, 44.
The total loss by fire in 1870 was $2,754,803;
in 1869, $3,416,402; in 1868,' $4,057,376; da-
crease in 1870 was $2,754,803; in’ 1869, $3,-
416,402; in 1868, $4,057,376; decrease in 1870
from 1863, $1,302,573; from 1869, $561,599.
Of the 28 persons arrested during the year for
arson, three were convicted.
General Grant is a stockholder to the amount
of $12,000 in the iron works at Lawton, Mich.
New York Commercial Advertiser (Bad.)
And of course Grant howls for “protection"
—especially on iron—in harmonious ohorus with
the tariff robbers and monopolists who lead the
Radical party. We regret that the Advertiser
does not give the name of the min who present
ed Grant with this stook, and the office he re
ceived therefor.
Fashion Notes.
Business Panto in Philadelphia.—Fourteen
firms principally jobbers and commission bouses
in the shoe trade suspended daring the fortnight
White pearl~coIovfawn" and~grey silks a ^rS«»®W» °°™±
are b11 considered “en regie” for wed-' heinng are said to be sure to be oheap this
ding dresses. • ‘ j winter. Prices must eome down, as the fish-
Deep mourning veils should always, be one .eneii have been very successful, and millions 0T6
The Norristown, (Fa.,) Register has a sub
scriber 81 years old, who has taken that paper
JH The bishop, the clergy and the j fifty-seven yeais, and another 87 years of age,
congregation fell upon their knees and bowed a subscriber since 1801.
their heads while the choir intoned tho Litany j ^ Sacramento paper says that wild geese are
of the Saints, invoking the intercession of the go plenty in California that they give as much
blesr.c-d in heaven in behalf of the postulants ; annoyance to railroad men as grasshoppers ia
who had taken npon their shoulders so heavy a 1 summer
burden. This;occnpied about fifteen minutes,.! K Bpeo5a i tra!n 6 f thirteen freight cars lately
conveyed from Liverpool to London seventy-
four tons of Mexican silver dollars, worth near-
stained mother-of-pearl, iu perpendicular bands, posed in Connecticut to do away with the "two.
The colors most popular are Solferino, garnet, State capital system and have but one, which
Bismarck and emerald green.—Sun. ^1 probably be Hartford. The next thing to
be done is to build a respectable State capitol,
and the order to arise was then given.
Statistics of Life.—The yearly mortality of t j y ,£500 000 sterling.
the globe is said to be 33,333,333. This is at j ' ■
the rate of 91,544 per day, 373 per hour and 424 The New German Empire.—The revived Ger-
per minute. One fourth o'f the population die mao empire enters history with an area of 204,-
at or before tbs age of seven years; one-half at' 776 square miles; and the -population, which
or before seventeen years. Among 19,000 per- was 38,521,700 in 1867 may now be safely reck-
sans, one' arrives at -the age of one hundred oned at 40,000,009. Its area is thus moip than,
years; opo in 500 attains the age of ninety, and four-fifths of the State of Texaa, and its popula-
one in 100 lives to the eg-? of sixty,
exchange.
So says an tion a little grea’er. than that of the whole
United States.
the present concern being only fit for a 00 on try
court-house in some one-horse Western Terri
tory.
Fos Schutlbb Colfax, Jr.—The Senators of
the 41st Congress have on exhibition at Tiffany’s
a tray, plate, milk-bowl, bread-bowl, napkin-ring
knife and fork, all of silver, to present to tha
smiling youth as a Christmas gift. This will
enable. Master Colfax to eat his pap in style,
just as all good little boys ought to do, but
many are not able.
The first coin made in the Philadelphia mint
was the copper cent in 1798. The first silver
dollar was made in 1798, and the first gold eagle
in 1795.
The corner stone of the new capitol building
at Albany, N. Y., weighs twenty-eight tons,
' -i
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and a half yards long, with a hem half a vard’v . ,. . J . .
deep. Material, black Italian crape. y l UlD 8 *»■«* to martet -
Chatelaine pins, formed by a Roman gold i , «*- : , ,
gauntlet and stained ivory hand, are among the marne .^ wo “ a “ 8 property law ia
new ornaments shown by jewelers. England has gone into effect. A woman’s eam-
A black velvet collarette, mounted with the ! “S 3 a ? e ^Mer her own; a policy of msn-
fora iady s fuff dress, street or carnage «w-1 an ^. mM ^ge debts. These obvious deficiencies .
Beautiful brooches, ear-rings, necklaces «md jurisprndenoe have bemi tong met
bracelets of clear and opaque amber, exquisitely I*. 010 laW3 lnlW York and b ? ** ff 4 * * * * Na *-'
carved, are becoming very fashionable. poxeon.
A new style of lorgnette is made_ of white and One Capital fob Connecticut.—It is pro-
