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AND GEORGIA JOTJR3STA.L <te MESSENGER OLISBY, REID & REESE, Proprietors. The Family Jouenal—News—Politic?—Literature—Agriculture—Domestic Affairs. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING ESTABLISHED 1826; MACON, TUESDAY, JANUARY. U, 1871. Y0LLSY-KeSS8 c;eor^‘^ Teles™!* 1 * Bonding, Macon T*ieKWpb = cd Messenger, one year $10 00 g ix months—••••••••••••••—^ ge^AYcekly Telegraph and Messenger, i year. Six months. 4 00 2 00 soo in advance, and paper stopped r Aeo the wonoy runs out, unless renewed. rBBISa ABBAKGEilEKTS WITH J. W. BUCKS & ° p ' co.’s pubij cations. n ,ji v Telegraph & Messenger and Farm and Home ■•••”• Wprt'v Telegraph and Messenger and ' Farm and Homo 4 00 RjmiAVeekly Telegraph and Messenger • and Farm and Hoxne.i. 5 00 <r»nthem Christian Advocate with YYcekly 5 00 Burke’s Weekly 4 00 This arrangement ia where remittances are made direct to the office of publication. The consolidated Telegraph and Messenger represents a largo circulation, pervading Mid dle Southern and Southwestern Georgia and Eastern Alabama and Middle Florida. Adver tisements at reasonable rates. In the Weekly at ono dollar per square of three-quarters of an inch, each publication. Remittances should he made by express, or by mail in money or ders, or registered letters. 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. vSAr*' \. 'b''.. y ^ it' 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. - * "W* If you travel Seat, West, North or Sooth, take a package of Simmons' Liver Regulate. Prepared only by J.H. 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