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THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Jimpsey A Hunter, recently convicted of the
murder of Thoma3 Alexander, in Brooks coun
ty, and sentenced to bq hung on the 27th inst.,
escaped last Saturday from the officers who
were bringing him to the Savannah j ail for safe
keeping. ne picked the lock of his handenif
with a fork furnished him to eat breakfast at
Jessup, and jumped from the train as it wa3
crossing the covered Altamaha bridge.
Six of the most respectable and intelligent
citizens of Scriven county were arraigned Sat
urday morning, at Savannah, before U. S. Com
missioner Stone, on the charge of preventing a
lot of negroes from voting the Radical ticket at
the late election. After a fall investigation all
were discharged, there being no evidence ad
duced against them, and the United States had
to pay the oo9ts of the suit. In the case of one
of them the charge was that he had, as Inspec
tor of the.cloction, refns6d to receive the votes
of negroes who had not paid their poll tax.
The official vote of Sumter county shows a
Bijority of 734 for Tift for Congress, 1137 for
Black, dem., for the Senate, and 737 for Brady
and Glover, dems., for the House.
We quote as follows from the Montgomery
Advertiser of Tuesday:
New Methodist Cuubch.—The building com
mittee have secured an eligible site, and are ac
tively engaged in the preliminary steps neces
sary to the erection of a handsome church edi
fice.
I loo and Hominy.—Judge B. H. Zellner, of
this county, has killed fifty porkers this season,
the average weight being two hundred and fifty
pounds. The Judge not only raises his own
. hogs, but what is quite as much to the purpose,
grows the com to fatten them with.
IUcical IUscaixtx.—The tickets and list of
voters were burned, ia the ordinary’s office the
night after the election. The presumption is
that the Radicals destroyed the papers to frus
trate the prosecution of four or five hundred
illegal voters.
Burned.—A negro woman was fatally burned
in Bemesville last Friday.
Sad Accident.—A lad named. Jones, aged ten
years, who was living at Mr. Mays’ place near
Forsytb, was caught in the gin on the 17th or
18th ult., and had his neck broke. It most have
Leon a sad sight to his father who was present
and witnessed the accident.
Incendiarism.—Amost diabolical attempt was
made to destroy the Masonio Hall one night
last night. The match was applied to a lot of
combustible matter, but fortunately the fire was
discovered before any damage resulted to the
building.
Says the Griffin Star, of Tuesday:
Almost a Serious Difficult?.—On Saturday
hat a difficulty occurred upon the streets of
Gnffin, that caused much excitement. The
pnneipai actors were Sheriff Doyal and Shade
Brown, the former assisted by his son, and the
latter by his father. Some blow3 passed and
several shots were fired. Nobody was danger
ously injured. It grew out of a difference of
opinion about dividing the reward money to be
paid for the arrest of the negro cut-throat, Tra
vis. The matter will undergo legal investiga
tion this week.
Mr. W. H. Scott, an old citizen of Baldwin
county, palled up stakes aDd left for Texas,with
his family last Wednesday.
Columbus boasts an “educated pig” which
mounts a barrel or climbs a post for a grain of
com. We can show whole droves over here
which will do the same thing.
Mrs. L. E. Hges, a most estimable lady, died
at Columbus last Sunday.
Says the Sun of Tuesday:
Hiring Freshmen. — One of the favorite
modes thus far i3 for planters to make contracts
which provide that the farmer shall furnish
land, stock and utensils, givo the negro one-
half the crop, and the freedman to agree to
share half the current expenses of the planta
tion. It is reported that this plan ha3 been
generally adopted. The number of freedmen
in the city was much less yesterday than last
week.
Capt. A. J. White, President of the Macon
and Western Railroad was in luck last Monday.
Several of the employees of the road presented
him with a beautiful minute repeater gold
watcb, ornamented with diamonds and pearls.
It strikes the hours, quarters, and minutes. A
fine chain and locket accompanied it. The cost
was $625.
Charley Cooper, a white boy, shot and killed
a black, ditto, named Braddock, in Atlanta, on
Sunday. The negro was abont to hit him with
a rock. •* > -
Tho O’Neals who killed Dr. Anthony at Jones
boro, lately, escaped from the jail there a night
or two since.
A “prominent citizen” of Atlanta called at
the Executive Mansion up there, on New Year’s
and was so overoome byiho gorgeonsness of the
servant who received the cards of the callers on
a waiter, or—something dse, that he laid his hat
on the waiter and stumbled in ■
Col. James Watt Harris has associated him
self with S. H. Smith, of the Cartersville Ex
press, in tho publication of that paper. We
have heard the CoL preach, and pray, and make
slump speeches. If he can run a newspaper as
well as he does these three, he’ll make a hit.
Anyhow, we welcome him into the gang.
There was quite a gathering of M. O.’s elect,
at Atlanta, Tuesday. Gen. Young and Messrs.
Tift, Speer, and Bethnne were among the nnm-
b«r. After certificates, we presume.
The Atlanta San tells this:
The young folks had a good time yesterday.
Many calls were made. A modest yonng friend
of ours roplied to a charming Miss, who was af»
hr him about not marrying, “That he was
ready to enter that happy state whenever he
, could find a young lady who had friends enough
to support them both handsomely.” Korrect!
The Israelites of Atlanta intend building a
Synagogue of the most approved architecture.
They have purchased a lot al a cost of $2,250.
Invincible Politeness.
About a year ago, through the active instru
mentality of a carpet-bag Congressman bailing
from Mississippi and Old Mother Howard, the
Military Academy at West Point was brought
into blessed harmony with “advanced radical
ism,” and the nicely scented yonng sprigs of
Northern aristocracy there quartered, were ad
mitted into full fellowship with a young planta
tion negro rejoicing in the name of Henry
Smith, and in all the glory and fragrance of
Afrioa.
The event produced a sensation. A dozen
reporters hung upon the foot-steps of the illus
trious “colored cadet,” and doled out his pert
answers to a thousand questions in column after
column of the Snn, Herald, Ledger, etc. It must
ever be a sourco of pride to the happy South,
of the colored persuasion, that the fashion of
“interviewing,” so-called, took its rise with a
scion of their family, and first heralded to the
world the wit and wisdom of “Henry Smith,
colored,” before it undertook to chroniole the
less profound conclusions of Bntler, Sumner,
Bismarck, Napoleon and King William. Thus
is it reserved to the negro to set the fashions
and lead the grand Radical column of progress
and glory. r,
Smith, however, had scarcely warmed his
cheer and bunk “in de cadmy,” before he be
gan to give manifest tokens of tho absenco of
the overseer and the presence of a “ sassy nig
ger.” He refosod to do the modicum of “duty’
required of him. He was at no pnin3 to con
ceal his contempt for “da white trash” set over
him, and “deoder white trash” who rejoiced
in the honor of being his comrades. He not only
insisted on drinking first at the spring, bnt ho
“smash de gourd” over the head of a white
cadet and '‘cuss’’ him with all that colloquial
energy and grace for which tho colored brother
is so often eminent.
Moreover, tho learned professors, after a care
ful review of the matter through the spectacles
of evidence, universal philanthropy and the law,
were brought to the painful conclusion that
“Cadet Smith” did not always restrict his dis
course within tho dear boundaries of fact. Ca
det Smith was therefore arrayed upon sundry
charges of “insubordination, turbulence and an
truthfulness,” which, in a white cadet, would
have sent him to Coventry at once; bat, with
that tender regard for tho superior claims of the
negro, were, in Smith's case, adjudged to merit
an hour's extra “duty.”
So jastico was appeased for a season; bat
now Cadet Smith has broken ont again. He has
again been “lying plenty,” and we hear to onr
sorrow that Cadet Smith is again to be tried
for “untruthfulness,” and may perhaps bo sen
tenced to go without sugar in his coffee for a
week. All Radicalism is, of coarse, bound to
applaud the extraordinary forbearance which
ha3 been displayed towards this impudent and
worthless negro, and that extreme delicacy
which words an arraignment for falsehood un
der the term of • ‘untruthfulness;” but we think
all honest men will bo disposed to insist that
equal justice ought to be done in the Military
Academy at West Point, and that, if-plantation
negroes are to be introduced there, thoy should
at least be required to be decent, and conform
to tho laws enacted for white oadets.
Sball tbe Legislature Meet in Jan
uary ?
We herewith append a communication on this
subject addressed to one of the editors of this
paper in the form of a private fetter, and not in*
tended for publication. The writer—who is one
of the most distinguished jurists in the State,
and withal a man of singular prudence and sa
gacity—makes out such a strong case against
the foolish project of assembling the Legisla
ture in January, that we have concluded to let
our readers have the benefit of. his argument.
He says: .[■.
I am very glad to see that the Telegraph and
Messeoeb is against the meeting of the Legis
lature in January. A more foolish and danger
ous project never was started. The Constitu
tion of 1868 provides that the Legislature shall
meet annually on the second Wednesday in
January, or on such other day as the General
Assembly may provide. From this clause 1 in
fer that the day of meeting (provided it is a day
which will secure an annual session) is entirely
under legislative control. The Legislature could
change the time of meeting to the first of July
in each year, or any other day in each year.
The Constitution for a wise purpose is impera
tive on one point—an annual session, leaving
the mode of securing this object to the Gene
ral Assembly. Now, does tho act passed in
October, 1870, carry ont this provision of the
Constitution ? This act declares that after the
passage of the same the Legislature shall meet
annually on the first Wednesday in November
of each year, beginning with November, 1871.
Farther, that there shall be annual meeting of
the Legislature until November, 1871. There
can be no question abont tho first clause of the
act being constitutional. Isthelatter clause vio
lative of tho Constitution? If it postponed
the session of the Legislature beyond 1871 it
would certainly be. It does not do so. It merely
postpones the meeting until the latter part of
the year, and secures a meeting of the Legisla
ture in 1871. So I'conclude, however rascally
the motive of its conduct, the last General As
sembly did not in ono act violate the Constitu
tion. Even if it was a doubtful question, I am
of the opinion that tho legislature should not
meet. YVe have had enough of doubtful legis
lative bodies. Let us start right. 'Bullock will
certainljr not recognize a body meeting in Jan
uary—will contend it is not a lawful meeting—
will refuse the members the use of the Capitol
—will call in the aid of Terry—Grant will back
them to the utmost. The old cry of “Rebel
lion,” “Civil War,” etc., will at once be raised,
and the Radicals will have another “reconstruc
tion.” Down wo will go, perhaps not to rise
again. Thou oar own members, fresh from the
turmoil and strife of an election, will bo ready
to do many foolish things. We really need the
time between now and November to consider
and devise' proper legislation. I am almost cer
tain that a meeting now wonld be attended
with division on the questions of relief, home
steads, etc. The light of ‘ tho pa9t will be
much better to steer by than the glimmering
of the future. A great, object with us should
be to secure tho State for the Presidential elec
tion and have its vote so that it can be counted,
and yet some of our great lawyers are rushing
into schemes to defeat this object. I conld say
more but it is unnecessary. By all moans kill
tho movement dead.
Tlie January Session Nonsense.
We publish elsewhere a hasty private letter to
ono of the e di tors from one of the clearest j ndicial
minds in the State; and indeed the lawyers tell
03 there is no respectable question of law in
volved in tho case. The grant of power in the
Constitution to the Legislature to change the
time of session is ample and beyond sensible
dispute, and whatever wo may think of the ob
ject .for which it wa3 exercised in this case,
there can bo no qnestion of the competency
of the Legislature to have made the change.
But if there were reasonable doubt about the
law, a session on tho second Wednesday in Jan
uary would bo impracticable under the circum
stances. It is but six uajo off; and that day
passed without a session, there is no other con
stitutional or legal day till next November or
the January following.
YYo are satisfied that all this talk and non
sense comes with the smallest possible sanction
of Democratic opinion in the Stato, and amounts
to nothing worthy of serious consideration.
When November shall roll round, we doubt not
all minds will bo calm, and rooogaise tho pro
priety of moving with great circumspection,
firmness and patriotism—of acting in tho solid
interests of harmony, public justice apd the
common weal—instead of pursuing the empty
phantoms of party spite and retaliation. We
have great confidence that the men we have
placed in tho Legislature will honor themselves
and illustrate this old Commonwealth by a policy
characterized by “Wisdom—Justice—Modera
tion”—the motto chosen by our wise ancestry
and plaoed upon tho seal of Georgia, to convey
down to the latest posterity their ideas of a wise
statesmanship, and a sound publio and parly
policy. ,
The Southern Eorrr.—They used to slander
East Tennessee by a story told on old John
Macbrier, an honest Cameronian, living about
Strawberry Plains. Macbrier wagered five hun
dred dollars against the product of a forty aero
corn-field, that not a soul besides himself, liv
ing within a radius of forty miles, could describe
tho difference between the Constitution of the
United Slates and the Multiplication Table.—
Man, they said, wonld have won the bet bnt for
tho trickery of Brownlow who was appointed
umpire. Brownlow ruled that the distinction
was but a piece of mere Scotch metaphysics,
and did not really amount to “a difference."
Bnt, however ill-grounded East Tennessee
may be in the humanities, she is handsomely
up in the tnrkies, chiokens, geese, ducks, beef,
pork, sausage meat, lard, flour, hay, and grain,
and Middle Georgia wonld have been thin in
the ribs this winter bnt for the fatness of East
Tennessee. Wo shall say nothing to the dis
credit of East Tennessee. We will omit even
to malediot the thriftlessnos3 which must sub
sist on tho produots of other people. Let ns
bless Heaven that something to eat is raised
somewhere.
A Big Tmnp Sale.—We advertise for sale in
the Weekly, on the 1st Tuesday in February, at
Augusta, forty thousand acres of land in Clinch
and Coffee oounties. The sale will bo made by
Charlie B. Day, Auctioneer, and is one of the
heaviest land sales which has taken place in
Georgia for a long time.
“Mbs. Clabk Elwell, or Bay City, threw
triplets the other day” is a way they have of An
nouncing births in Michigan.
Northeast Georgia.—A correspondent at
Blairsville, Union county, writes the Constitu
tion that Captain Joseph Rad, Democrat, was
elected to the Legislature from that county by
40 votes. In Fannin, Franklin, Democrat, was
elected to the Legislature, and Jarvis, (Demo
crat,) beat Darnell (red hot Radical; 07 votes
for the State Senate. In Towns, Killian, (Dem
ocrat,) beat Crane, (Radical,) 47 votes for the
Legislature. Gilmer county went Democratic,
os did Rabnn by a sonnding majority. (Rabnn
always does, by-tho-by. It’s a way she has
always had.) In White county James F. West,
(Democrat,) was elected to the Legislature.
Price, for Congress, carried all these counties.
Apolooetio.—The Courier-Journal apologizes
in thi3 handsome stylo to that bibulous patriot,
Zack Chandler: “We said the other day that
Zack Chandler wa3 one of Detroit’s Senatorial
sucklings; to which the Free Press replies: “He
never did anything of the kind; he was brought
up on tho bottle.” We withdraw the remark.
We were not aware that he was brought up on
tho bottle. YVe knew, though, that he had been
on tho bottle ever since he was brought up.”
errrSAS Toombs,—Ws «uu that this dis
tinguished Georgian was in town yesterday.
He is here on legal business. His health is rep
resented as very good, and like every other true
son of onr good old Mother, ho is jubilant over
the late signal victory achieved by Right over
Wrong. He emphatically opposes the meeting
of the Legislature in January, as proposed by a
few correspondents and nowspapers throughout
the State.
Doffing Thetti Fine Feathebs.—The gor
geous raiment heretofore worn by the high
church priests of St. Albans, St. Sacrament and
other ritualistic sanctuaries in New York City,
ha3 been laid aside under pressure from the
Bishop of that Diocese, Dr. Potter. The whole
matter will likely bo thoroughly discussed in
the next general convention of the Church, and
some definite oonclnsion, for or against these
innovations, reached.
Midway High School.—This institution will
be ra-opened on Tuesday, the 10th inst., under
the direction of Prof. R. C. Smith, Principal,
assisted by Prof. Lane, and Mr. W. D. Seymour.
Boo advertisement. Tho low price of board and
tuition is also another inducement, i— these
stringent times. We can confidently commend
Prof. Smith and his school to publio patronage.
Midway is an excellent location for a school and
the Board of instruction cannot be excelled in
Georgia.
The Methodist Recorder talks tins bit of sense
about pet names for adnlt womsn: “We con
sider it a sickly sentimentalism, if not sacrili-
gious brass, to ignore the name sealed by the
baptismal covenant How it wonld point a verse
of Scripture to have it put in modern style,
thus: ‘Now, a certain man was siok, named
Lazaros, of Bethany, the town of Mollie and
her sister Mattie.’ ”
Macon and Westebn Railroad.—We publish
in this edition the Report of the President of
the Macon and Western Railroad, which makes
an exhibit which must necessarily satisfy the
owners of that property. This Road has always
run with whole shoes. From our earliest recol-
ection of it, it has been oondacted with uncom
mon tact, energy and fidelity.
The Nathan Murder.—The New York Sun
of the 31st, announces that the perpetrator of
the Nathan murder has been discovered and is
in prison, though for another offence. As this
discovery is made and detailed in five v lumns
by “George, the Count Joannes,” some further
evidence will be needed to sustain it.
It is said that Donn Piatt and George Alfred
Townsend have purchased the Waihington Sun
day Herald for six thousand dollars.
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Canada Annexation arid trie Irre
pressible Bntler.
The Wdrld of last Friday, in some Canada
correspondence, developes a grand movement
for the annexation of Canada right away. First
oometh a secret circular signed in cipher, which
has been sent to all prominent annexationists
in Canada, intended to develop a plan of oper
ations upon the people of tho Dominion. This
bears date December 23d, 1870, and seems to
have been suggested by a letter marked “confi
dential,” frpm Ben Butler, in which he says
everything in the United Slates is ripe for an
nexation, and ono party, if not both, will make
the projeot a plank in their platformi England
only desires a decent pretext to get rid of Can
ada', and the way to start tho ball',, will be for
one of the provinces to vote for it at once, and all
then do it in detail. Butler asks confidential
correspondence on tho subject. The World’s
correspondent represents opinion in Canada
much clouded, and that the experiment will
probably be first tried on Nova Scotia. The
terms the annexationists suggest, are the pay
ment to each Province of the difff rence between
its debt and the national debt, which wonld
amount, in all, to about one hundred and fifty
millions. . ,
Emphatic.
An Atlanta correspondent of the Chronicle
and Sentinel having insinuated in a recent let
ter to that paper, that the Atlanta Constitution
was seeking, by soft words, to infiaence Bullock
to withdraw his suit for $25,000 for libel and
slander against that paper, and having asserted
that H. I. Kimball held a mortgage for $10,000
on the Constitution, its proprietors rejoin as
below: We always rejoice over such prompt
dealing with anonymon3 slanderers. This one
seems an apt hand at the dirty business. The
Constitution quotes tho extract containing the
slanders, and says:
A paper’s usefulness like &n_ individual's,
ceases when its independence, integrity and
courage are assailed. We, therefore, ever re
pel falsehood and slander instantaneously; let
them come in what form they may. Every in
sinuation and statement in the above extract re
ferring to the Constitution are falsehoods.
The Constitution has nevei said that it does
not think the Governor has hurt his reputation
seriously. We denounce to-day, as we have
done, his administration a3 criminal, extrava
gant and indefensible. We have called upon
him to do better, not for any personal consid
eration, but for the good of the State. We defy •
Governor Bullock’s libel suit, and shall utter no
word to mitigate its venom.
We do not owe Mr. Kimball a dollar, nor has
ho a mortgage on the Constitution.
Good.—Tho “Year Book of the Unitarian
Churches for 1871,” officially announces as tho
result of wide spread and earnest controversy
in the Unitarian Church, that *‘it adheres un
swervingly to Christianity.” Christianity ought
to feel under great obligations, This, act of
recognition on tho part of the Unitarian Church,
puts us in mind of a story told on old Senator
Phelps, of Vermont. Some lady persuaded him
to attend the Unitarian Church in Washington,
and afterwards asked hoc: ho liked it. “Excel
lently, madam,” said the Senator, “nothing can
be more pleasant than to see so many nice* gen
teel and weH-dressed people assembled to ex
change congratulations with God Almighty.”
Macon, Ga., Jan. 4, 1870.
Mr. G. G. Grady—"Dear Sib : With much
pleasure and thankfulness I acknowledge the re-
ciepts from yon of the sum of sixty-two dallars and
twelve cents ($02 12), the same being one half
of tho proceeds of the sale of tickets for your
circus performance this afternoon for the bene
fit of the Bibb County Orphan Home Society.
Thanking you for your kind generousity in
behalf of onr poor orphan children to-day, and
for your extended kindnoss in offering a repeti
tion of your entertaining performances for their
benefit on to-morrow afternoon,
I remain, your friend and well wisher, _ -
A. L. Maxwell, President
B. O. O. H.S.
Gone Back on Him-.—What should be done
with that old sinner, Greeley, for thus going
back on Bullock ? Says tho o. s. aforesaid:
A year hence, Gov. Bullock’s term expires;
and we shall thereafter hope for Republican
harmony and triumph. So many gTeat men,
each determined to have his own way, are too
many for a single State. Had Amos T. Aker-
man been chosen Governor in 1868 we believe
the State wonld have gone Republican in 1870.
“For ways that are dark and tricks that are
vain,” to say nothing oflanguage not “child-like
and bland,” these Northern Radicals beat the
world when they fall foul of their henohmen
who oro squatting in the South.
The Messrs. Asbury, of Cave Spring, recently
bought from the Cashing herdof Massachusetts,
four of the famous Jersey cows.
Tho Romo Commercial learns that Mr.' Gabe
Wright, with all his family and his mother-in-
law, Mrs. Lawrence—all well known in that
placo—wore recently drowned while crossing
the Mississippi river.
The Commercial 8 lys:
The Water Wobks Contracted Fob.—We
rejoice to learn that the oontraots for the water
works has been let ont to responsible parties
wnw „v*iah them to a prompt completion.
The Tredager Iron Wonra, ui 0 -.
the contract for furnishing the piping at $18,-
000. Messrs. John W. Noble & Co. get the con
tract for famishing and patting up the engine,
the engine house, the reservoir and the tower
at a cost of $49,000. The city reserves to itself
the task of laying the pipes, which can be done
at a moderate cost. The contractors take the
bonds of the city at ninety cents in the dollar.
The Cincinnati Commercial pays the follow
ing compliment to the efforts of Gen. Grant to
reform the civil service:
A Missouri Collector of Internal Revenue
wrote to one of his deputies, a few weeks since,
a letter containing this sentence:
“As an offioer you have been honest, worthy
and true; as a business man yon have exceeded
my most sanguine expectations.”
The unsophisticated reader infers that the
officer upon whom this praise was lavished was
about to be promoted! Quite the contrary. Wt
quote from the letter dismissing the honest,
worthy and truo business-like deputy. The dep
uty had been guilty of disagreeing with the
President of the United States about the inter
nal politics of the State of Missouri. *
Governor Holden’s Impeacment Conceded.
—Several members of the North Carolina Leg
islature who arrived here to-day state that Gov
ernor Holden concedes his impeaohment, and
that it is doubtful whether he will attempt any
defence or that he will have any eminent coun
sel to conduct the case for him. It was propos
ed to secure the services of some prominent
conservative lawyer to defend Governor Hol
den, bnt the Democratic journals of that State
intimate that no member of the bar of any re
spectability wonld dare to do so.
[ Washington Dispatch.
MACON AND WESTERN RAILROAD.
President's and Directors’ Report.
; Macon, Ga., December 1st, 1870.
lo the Stockholders :
By reference to the Treasurer’s Reports, (Nos.
1 and 2,) the Earning3 and Expenditures for the
past year, dosing yesterday, the 30th of Novem
ber, are as follows:
- ■- TABLE NO. 1—EARNINGS.
From Freights $476,986 95
From Passengers 205,675 14
From Mails 7,725 00
From Car Rent 2,497 78
Total from all sources. ...$692,534 87
The expenditures for the same time are:
Per Table No. 2 $419,087 54.
Revenue Tax 20,744 88
General Taxes 114 70
Insurance. 624 44
Deductions 739 76
$441,311 82
Net earnings $251,273 55
Add Balance per last Report 185,665 62
$436,939 17
Deduct for mat. on hand.$45,318 70
Deduct for interest and
disoonnt onbonds, ,
etc., asperTableNo. 3. 12,559 49
$ 57,878 19
Ont of whioh has been paid Dividends as fol
lows :
No. 49, January, 1870, on $2,000,-
000 00 $100,000 00
No. 50, July, 1870, on $2,500,-
000 00 125,000 00
$225,000 00
$154,060 93
From which will be paid a Dividend in Janu
ary next.
Table No. 4 will exhibit the comparative
statement of the earnings of 1869 and 1870, and
Table No. 5 the earnings of the years 1868,
I860 and 1870. You will perceive that the bu
siness and the net income of tbe road have
gradually increased, as"shown by the compari
son of these three years, a3 follows: 18G9 over
18G8, $99,199 38, and 1870 over 1869, $109,-
851 09. *
Tho expenditures have also increased 1869
over 1808, $27,617 80, and 1870 over I860, $79,-
538 83; the latter of which is accounted for by
reference to Table No. 6.
The Company, by an Act of the Legislature,
increased the capital stock from $1,500,000 00
to $2,500,000 00, giving each stockholder at the
time his proportionate part. Tho first increase
was made in May, I860, of $500,000 00 and the
other in January, 1870, of $500,000 00.
The increased earnings, although the capital
stock has thus been increased, have been suffi
cient to pay the semi-annual dividends of 6 per
cent., showing by Dividend No. 49 at the rate
of 13J per cent., and No. 50 at the rate of 16j
per cent, per annum on the original capital of
$1,500,000 00,
With these results, a portion of the stock
holders, who have recently purchased the stock
of the Company, complain that the management
of its business is unsuccessful, and not equal to
“other well managed Southern Railroads.”
It is to be supposed, in making an effort
to show this fact, that the figures and estimates
by the dissatisfied parties have been made in
ignorance of the condition of the road
and the history of the Company at the
closo of and since the late war. At that time,
this road was very badly destroyed; for thirty-
five miles rails taken up, and nearly nine miles
of which were taken away and the balance
burned, bent and twisted, and wholly unfit for
use in their then condition. The superstruc
ture burned and destroyed, the balance of the
road bed rotten and unsafe, oars worn out, and
the buildings of every description—the wood
sheds, operatives’ houses and depots—for fifty
miles below and at Atlanta were burned and
destroyed: All of these have been replaced
with first-class buildings and superstructure
from the earnings of the road annually, and not
ono cent of debt created for this purpose.
lYith thus simply referring to this charge, we
submit whether there is evidence of bad man
agement.
Tho Treasurer’s Report will, show fully the
financial condition of the Company.
In the last-Annual Report of the Board of
Directors you.were irifn-rmoH -Ihafr-fchag hail fga-
nted a debt on the company, by subscribing for
$150,000 00 to the stock of the Savannah,
Griffin and North Alabama Railroad Company.
This subscription has been paid this year by
the sale of the company’s bonds for $159,000 00
(authorized to be issued for said purpose) in
the cities of New York and Macon—a portion
of them at par and the balance at a discount, as
shown in Table No. 3.
The disoonnt upon the bonds was paid from
the earning of tho company, and no larger debt
created than the amount of stock received from
the Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Rail
road.
MOTIVE POWER.
For the condition of this department, I refer
yon to the report of the master machinist, B.
Pope Freeman, and the Tables, Nos. 7 and 8,
accompanying his report.
ROLLTNa STOCK AND DEPOT BUILDINGS.
I refer you to the report of the master car
penter, James A. Knight, for the condition of
the rolling stook and the buildings on the line
of road.
ROAD REPAIRS.
The repairs of this department have placed
the road in good condition for the winter’s
business. There has been 402 tons of new rails,
with the “fish bar joint,” laid on tho road and,
as usual, connectedly together; the badly dam
aged portion of the rails taken up and re-rolled,
and the better portion of them replaced in the
road where a more damaged rail was found..
There have been placed in the road the past
year 34,818 new cross-ties, leaving now on hand
paid for on the line of road 13,864.
WOOD AND WAXES STATIONS
Are all complete and in good order; there be
ing a full supply of water and about 6,000 cords
of wood on the line of road, paid for.
NEW ROADS.
twenty years fromthe Central R°ailroa<l fer^notS
inal rent of $50 per annum. This road has not been
operated for several years and was unfit for use.
The repairs of the road will cost near $15,000
to make it safe. It being near 17 miles long,
and oosting this company, only the repairs for
20 years, the nominal rent will certainly not be
a tax on this road, bnt, it is believed, will oper
ate profitably.
The Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama
railroad has been completed to Newman, and is
a first-class road, and is now being operated by
this Company temporarily. In a few days this
company will hire that road an engine and pas
senger car, and it will then be operated by that
company, and will, without doubt, be able to
pay to the stockholders a small dividend.
This company hold a mortgage upon that
road and all its property, to secure an endorse
ment of $105,8G4 95 payable five, seven and
ten months from the 26th November last.
DEFALCATIONS.
In December last,a defalcation in the agenoy
at Atlanta was discovered, and $11,000 had
been abstracted by, it is believed, R B. Camp
bell, the confidential dork and bookkeeper of
the agent, as the agent had been sick for sever
al months.
The party supposed to have made the ab
straction had been in the office for four years
and was regarded as an upright man, and the
absence of the agent by sickness was no cause
of apprehension as to the business of the agen
oy being oondacted properly by his conflden-
tial clerk. This amount taken from the compa
ny has been arranged to be paid by the sgeht
and his friends, except $2500 which has been
charged to profit and loss.
.This would seem to be enough for one year;
but, daring the past summer, W. YVaddy, a
bookkeeper in the treasurer's office at Maoon
was caught making false entries in recording f
the daily reports of conductors and abstracting
daily small sums of money. He confessed his
guilt, and returned to the company $1660 in
money, and secured by deed to property in
Griffin said to be worth $1500.
The exact amount he had abstracted cannot.
be ascertained, os he had been at intervals
stealing, through~the conductors’ reports, for
Beveral years.
No man bad appeared to be less liable to sus
picion than himself, and all were astonished
when he was detected and by bis unhesitating
confessions of his guilt.
The operations of the road have been con
ducted with remarkable safety. We have not t
had an accident of any note, and’ but one car
damaged on the road during the year. Con- 1
stant uniform exemption from accident has at
tended all our operations on the. line of road.
Much of this exemption from damages and dis
asters is owing to the good deportment of the
engineers, and conductors on the road, and it is
pleasant to sav that all the departments have
been managed with marked attention to the in
terest of the company.
The hand of death has again been laid upon
one of the directors, who for many years gave
counsel in the management of the business of
this company. Mr. Edward Padelford is dead,
and we mourn the loss of so just and good a
man.
Respectfully submitted for the Board of Di
rectors. A. J. WHITE, President.
Representative* Elected.
* Appling Sellers, den.
Bullock— - ~ , dem. *
Bryan—O. EL Baker, dem. .Jt&iiaj---
Berrien—
COOKS AT THE HUB.
IIow Boston Domestics Apply for Em
ployment* .....
Communication in Boston Advertiser.)
An. incident so amusing, suggestive, and;
withal, so instructive, occurred to a friend a
few days since, that I have begged her permis
sion to transcribe it for tbe benefit of the pub
lic generally, and particularly for such persons
as are obliged to employ ladies to assist them
in their domestic affairs. My friend, whom we
will call Mrs. Wilson, had applied at one of
those forlorn of ail places, an intelligence offioe,
and patiently awaited “returns.” A ring at the
lower door announced the arrival (not at the
lower door—certainly not!) and my friend
walked into her parlor and beheld tho “lady”
looking for all the world like a monk in a cowl
and gown, enveloped, as she was, from top to
toe in a black water-proof. There and then the
following conversation took place:
Mrs. Wilson, (daringly taking the initiative.)
“Have yon been accustomed to cooking?”
Tho Lady—‘Yes,” (patronizingly.) “How
many have you in your family?”
Mrs. W.—“Eight.”
The Lady—“How many children have you ?”
Mrs. W., (somewhat surprised)—“Three.”
The Lady—“Ho wold is your youngest child?”
Mrs. W., (annoyed, but somewhat awed)—
“Eleven years.”
The Lady—“How many girls do you keep ?”
Mrs. W., (depreciatingly)—“Two and a seam
stress.”
The Lady—* ‘How old is your second girl ?” ;
Mrs. W.—(apologetically) “I really do not
know.”
The Lady—“Can’t yon form some idea of
her age?”
Mrs. YV.—“None.
The Lady—“YVhat conveniences have you
in-your kitohen ?”
Mrs. W.—“All that are necessary.” (She
might have added that any want should be at
onco supplied, but by this timo sho became, so
confused that sho found it quite difficult to de
termine in her own mind whether shewas hiring
or being hired.)
The Lady—“Have yon a good store-closet
connected with your kitchen?”
Mrs. W.—“We have.”
The Lady—“I suppose yon do not have rich
cake or pastry made. The higtieat families now
aro giving them up entirely. They make no
such pies or cakes, bnt cook more meat and
vegetables, and this hard ginger-bread that you
can chop with yonr teeth. Well, do yon think
wo shall suit each other ?”
Daring the delivery of this speech, my friend
had time to collect her frightened senses, bnt
unwilling to disturb the placidjelf-complacency
of her visitor, she merely relied in answer to
this query: “No, I think you are qualified to
fill a higher position.”
• “YYell,” said tho lady blandly, “I suppose I
am,” and they parted.
This being a verbatim report of an actual oc
currence in our very city, it becomes a serious
question, “who are the mistresses?”
A Tribune Special—Tbe Legislature
Largely Democratic—The Radical
Defeat Acknowledged.
New York, December 30.—The Tribune’s
Atlanta, Ga., speoial telegraphs that returns
enough have been received to warrant him in
saying that three Republican Congressmen are
elected to the 42d Congress from the 2d, 3d
and 4th districts ; tho contests have been very
close. The seat of the Democrat elected from
the 5th district will be contested by his Repub
lican opponent, owing to the fact that his disa
bilities have not been removed, and fraud and
intimidation practiced at the polls. In fact it
conld be hardly called an election; colored
voters being driven from the polls each day in
large numbers; at least a thousand were thus j tenden, dem.
Brooks—J. H. Hunter, dem.
Baker—H. A. Tartar, dem.
T * A- Hammond, dam.
chSSSSs^^ Turaer ’ (negro) FoUock >
Baldwin—Peter O’Neal, (negrtc)
_ Burke- —Murphy, dem., —Cox, dem.,—
Bemen, dem.
Banks Wofford, dam.
de® artow —W. Wofford, dem., J. W. Gray,
(J e^ ath * m—SusseU » <*«“»•> Heidt, dun., Kelly, -
Camden—Henry E. Hillyer, rack
Chariton— ■, dem. ■ v
Colquitt—Isaac Carlton, dem*
Coffee— . ' " ‘ !■
Clinch—H. A. Mattox, dem.
Chattahoochee—D. O. Cody, dem.
B. Johnson, dem.
Calhoun—
Coweta—H. J. Sargeant, rad., S. Smith, no-
«*£
r. Clayton—W. N. McConnell, ind. dem.
Carroll—J. S. Pentaoost, dem.
Campbell—J. Goodman, dem. <
Crawford Rutherford, dem.
Columbia—Sim. Lampkin, dem., G. P. Sto
vall, dem. .
Clarke-Davis, negro, B. Richardson, negro.
Cobb—W. P, Anderson, D., W. A. Amh—ip,
dem.
Cherokee—J. B. Richards, dem.
Chattooga—C. O. Oleghorn, dem. tag#***
Catoosa—W. H. Payne, dem.
Dade—E. D. Graham, dem.
DeKolb—W. L. Goldsmith, dem.
Decatur—J. D. Williams, rad., Adam Bruton,
negro.
Dawson—John Palmer, dem.
Effingham—Morgan Rawls, dem.
Emanuel , dem.
Echols—R. YV. Phillips, dem.
Early—B. Chauncy, dem.
Elbert—E. P. Edwards, dem. - - >
Fannin—W. Franklin, dem.
Fayette—W. Whatley, ind. dem.
Forsyth—J. L.'Hughes, dem.
Floyd—M. Balknger, dem., H. A. GartreD,
dem.
Fulton—Dr. J. S. Wilson, dem., CoL E. F.
Hoge, dem., Harry Jackson, dem. '
Franklin—A. YV. Brawner, dem.
Glynn—James Blue, negro. . ", . -j
Glasscock—YV. G. Brady, dem.
Green—R. L. McWhorter, rad., Abe Colby,
negro.
Gilmer—N. L. Cooper, dem.
Gwinnett—YV. E. Simmons, dem., G. JEL
Jones, dem.
Gordon—J. O. Fain, dem.
Harris—J. W. Murphy, dem., O. F. PattQIo,
dem. " -
Heard—Britton Simms, dem.
Houston—JoelR. Griffin, rad., Ormond, ne
gro, Asbury Simmons, negro.
Henry—Bryan, dem.
Hancock—G. F. PiorceT 1 Jr., dem., F. JL
Bntts, dem.
Hart——J. W. Jones, dem. / — * ■' ^ * r -
Hall—L. A. Simmons, dem,
Habersham—G. F. McMillan, dem.
Haralspn— r -’- J -VT ~ -- -'*•}
Irwin— it.-r.r-y.:£)- j-. ; i ‘Pal
Jones— - 1 * n . ; n..- -■ . _ . . . H
Jasper—A. J. Watters, dem.
Jefferson—W. P. Johnson, dem., Abraham
Beasley, dem.
Jacojon—Hancock, dem.
Johnson— . .•
Liberty—J. W. Farmer, dem.
Lawrons—Col. C. S, Guyton, dem.
Lincoln—11. I, dem.
Lumpkin—H. YV. Riley, dem.
- Lowndes—A. Converse, rack
Lee—G. F. Page, dem., H. B. Lipsey, dem.
McIntosh—T. G. Campbell, Jr., negro.
Montgomery , dem.
Miller—J. A. Bash, dem.
Mitchell—L. A. McOollins, dem.
Macon—L. L. Jones, rad., Wesley Oliver, rad. •
Marion—T. W. Harvey, dem.
Muscogee—J. M. Smith, dem., J. F. Pou,
dem. - . Jv’ta.
Meriwether—Hall, rad., Moreland, rad.
Monroe—G. H. Clower, negro, J. Brown, no-
gro.
Morgan—Mundy Floyd, negro, Abram Dukes,
negro.
Milton—J. M. Howell, derir.
Madison—I. J. Meadows, dem.
• Murray—S. E. Fields, dem.
Newton—J. M. Summers, dem., J. B. Davis,
dem.
Oglethorpe—W. W. Davenport; dem.. J. F.
Smith, dem. .
Pierce—D. E. Kuoles, dem.
Pulaski-J. A. Hendley, Dem., J. E. Booth,
dem.
Pike—J. H. Baker, dem.
Putnam—Abram Turner, negro.- - - f~. %•’
Pickens—John M. Aired, rad.
Polk—M. H. Bunn, dem.
Paulding—Robert Trammel, dem.
Quitman—J. H. Gaerry, dem.
Randolph— S. A. McNeill, dem., B. F. Grit-
prevented from voting. The Legislature just
elected will be largely Democratic, but this
Legislature does not, acoording to Republican
opinion in this State, elect United States Sena
tors, that question having already been decided
by the last Legislature. The new Legislature
does not meet until. November next. The Re
publicans here are not ready to believe that
Congress will refuse the admission of their Sen
ator, whose term commences on the 4th of
March next: Should Congress admit the Sena
tors elected by the last Legislature, thus ending
the vexed qnestion, it would give the Republi
can party a strong foothold at least, in Georgia,
on which to rally from their late defeat.
Stunner's Course on San Domingo
Endorsed.
Mr. Sumner is in daily receipt of letters and
papers indorsing his aotion on San Domingo.
A majority of the papers are from the West
Among the letters are notes approving his
speech, from William Lloyd- Garrison, Gerritt
Smith, Longfellow and others. All of them, the
Senator says, emphatically disapprove of the
annexation project in toto. Gerrit Smith, as
wen as uuiba, ifeum «k> b .i—m.,
can tropics are the natural home of the negro
and mixed races, and that our duty is to protect
and not occupv those regions. Mr. Sumner has
no intention of retracing what he has said.
[ Washington Dispatch to Western Press.
A counts than in England happened to be
traveling in a railway train, accompanied by
his wife, when a collision occurred. His wife
received a severe contusion between the eyes,
for whioh the jury awarded JC50 damages. Some
time after the following was elicited from the
plaintiff, in a moment of unguarded conviviali
ty : “Well, you see t’ collision happened t' onld
woman and I war all feet; but when I got o’ t’
carriage I saw a lot fellows in a terrible state.
One sings out, ‘Eh, lad, I’ve gettin’ my head cut
open; I’ll ha’ twenty peowned for this.’ ‘Twen
ty peowned,’ cried soother; Tse gettin’ my
shoulder out, and I’ll have forty for it’ When
I heard this,” continued the olever business
man, “ I jumped at’t onld woman straight out,
and drnv my head right between her eyes, and
we’re gettin’ fifty peownd for it.”
An American circus company, with a twenty-
six horse ohariot, made a public parade in Flor
ence, Italy, a few weeks ago, when the streets
were thronged as for a holiday, and, as the ab
rupt angle of some narrow, ancient passage was
skillfully turned, the crowd gave their applause
as heartily as if to some successful hero return
ing from a fight.
A speaker at a recent Sunday School Conven
tion at Vincennes, Indiana, related how a cruel
parent forbade his daughter to go to ehafch,
and how he took every bit of her clothing and
locked it np in a trunk: but she went, never
theless. -
Richmond—J. B. Camming, dem., C.
dem., W. A. Clarke, dem.
Rabun—— : v$;‘‘
Scriven—J. O. Dell, dem.
Sumter—Wright Brady, Sr., dem., Sterling
Glover, dem.
Stewart—J. Mansfield, rad.
Schley , dem.
Spalding—D. A. Johnson, rad.
Tattnall—Brewton, dem.
Telfair —, dem.
Thomas—Jasper Battle, negro, A. T. AtWw-
son, negro.
Terrell—J. R. Jonee, dem. •
Taylor—W. G. Bateman, dem.
Talbot—YVoodall, dem., P. A. Morris, inde
pendent dem.
Troup—W. H. Clarke, dem., W. W. Cato, dent
Twiggs—E. S. Griffin, rad.
Taliaferro—S. J. Flynt, dem.
Towns irv--'’
Wayne—No election.
Ware
Worth—R. B. Jenkins, dem.
Wilcox > dem.
Webster—A. O. Bell, rad.
Wilkinson—O. H. Hooks, rad.
Washington—J. VV. Itanfraa. dem..
Taylor, dem.
Warren—O. L. Cloud, dem., T. J. Barksdale;
dem
Wilkes—S. W. Wynn, dem., H. T.
dem.
Walton— O. L. Bowie, dem.
White
Walker—J. Y. Wood, dem.
Whitfield—0. J. Emerson, dem.
Henry
The Pkxsidknt Sued.—Suit baa been entered!
in the Coart of this District, against President
Grant, Chief Jostioe Chase, Mayor Emory tad
others, in their capaoity as Trustees of tho
Metropolitan Church, this city, to secure
payment for materials used in tho construc
tion of the building. This is the first time
the name of a President has appeared as party
to a civil suit on the docket of thin Court—
Washington Dispatch Western Press.
Ax one of the Wellsburg, Ohio, churches, on
Thanksgiving Day, somebody quietly dropped
a $100 greenback into the money-bag. The ms-
known donor has the satisfaction at hearing
his home paper say that the gift is either a mis
take or conscience money.
Gin. Robert Andxbson, the hero at Fcr5
Sumter, is living with his family in Ye
daughtex lsabella is a regnant belle, 3
to have met her fate in an Italian <
ton Post. - *
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If you travel Seat, West, North or Sooth,
take a package of Simmons' Liver Regulate.
Prepared only by J.H. Zeilia* Oo.,Maooo,0*.
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