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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, NOVEMBER 26187V
Last Week** Cotton Figures.
The Financial and Commercial Chronicle of
last Saturday gives the total cotton receipts of
-the seven days ending last Friday night, 15th,
g| 110,610 bales against 133,705 bales last
week, 120,465 bales the previous week, and
113,148 bales three weeks ainoe, making the
total reoeipts since the let of September, 1872,
887,588 bales against 666,608 bales for the
same period of 1871, showing an increase sinoe
September 1st this year of 220,980 bales. The
New York market during the week was fluctua
ting and unsettled with a nett decline of a
quarter up to Monday, whioh was recovered
on Tuesday, "Wednesday, and Thursday, under
the stimulus of the light reoeipts, and closed
flail on Friday night with the advance barely
maintained. Tho Boston fire—th? increased
estimates of the iheoming crop—the heavy
movements of specie to Europe and apprehen
sion of a general monetary stringency were the
ideal bears of the week.
The interior port operations for the week
were, reoeipts 35,471, against 82.944 the cor
responding week last year. Shipments 80,458,
against 30,185, and stocks on hand 64,231,
against 63,606. There have been killing frosts
everywhere. The mercury averaged sixty-one
at Charleston, sixty-three at Macon, sixty at
Columbus, fifty-nine at Savannah, fifty-five at
Selma and sixty-foor at Montgomery.
The visible supply table foots np 1,903.166,
against 1,839,021 bales last year—showing an
inorease of 64,145 bales.
The Chronicle does not look for any substan
tial increase or reduction in the consumption of
cotton as a consequence of the Boston fire.
Supporting Wrant.
We entirely agree with the Memphis Register
in its ideas nponthis subject Someof itsS ate
ootemporaries since the election have been
squinting that way, and so have some others
farther South. It says:
“Wo see no reason for supporting Grant
whioh was not equally apparent on the first day
of November. If his administration was worthy
of condemnation then, how is it worthy of ap
probation now ? What has it done since? what
new thing under the ecu has turned up to make
that saintly to-day which was devilish yester
day ? The voice of the people is not so the
voioe of God that Truth should not still remain
omnipotent and public justice sure. There will
be, and ought to be, and forever shuuld be, two
parties—an administration and an anti-admin
istration party—in this country. It is, and will
forever be, indispensable to the preservation of
the true liberty of the people. One party will
rule, and the other watch and guard Republican
Institutions, so long as they continue to be main
tained on the American soil. When there is no
longer an anti-administration party in the United
States there will be a oomplete consolidation, a
union of the parse and the Bword, despotism—
and liborty will find its grave."
This is sound, sensible and patriotio talk.
Let the administration give ns some tangible
evidences of a change of heart before we re
verse all our well-settled and often-expressed
oonvictions. The new administration will be
entitled to, and should, of course, have a fair
trial. If it gives the country, and especially
the South, what has been so often promised
bnt never performed, viz: a wise and impar
tial rule, recognizing all the States and the peo
ple thereof as equals, with equal rights, and the
Constitution end laws as the rnle of its action
everywhere, and upon all occasions—then it will
deserve our approbation, and shall certainly re-
eeive it.
But there is no sense in going off half-cock
ed—falling down and worshipping those who
have been folly fried, and found wanting—eat
ing onr words and acknowledging onrselves
knaves or fools, just because they have won the
fight, end have their hands full of pap and
plunder. That is neither wise npr manly, and
Stamps those who Ara gnilty nf it with a brand
of fickleness, servility, and Tenality utterly un
worthy any people who make the slightest pre
tensions to manhood and self-respect.
Pleasantry at the t'xpense of tlie
Professions.
In a reoent article, the writer took oocasion to
animadvert upon the officials and personel of
the courts, not even sparing the Judge upon the
bench. Of course this was understood by all
as a licensed liberty—and, by-the-by, the only
one we possess, in view of the awful power and
tremendous dignity of the parties under re
view.
In the same spirit the doctors catch it, and
their pill boxes and nostrums are ridiculed,
their bills, “aslong as your arm,” objected to,
the absurd nomenclature and jaw-breaking jar
gon of the profession exposed, and the whole
race of “saw-bones” denominated Men De
stroyers. Yet, with a singular spirit of con
tradiction, let Uncle Sam pnt his heavy paw
upon you, or some trumped np claim be pre
ferred against your property, and, presto ! the
lawyer, and the cutest one, too, at that, is the
best friend yon have in the world; or get thrown,
from your horse, and receive a contusion or
broken limb, or have a darling wife or child
stricken with disease, and what musio so sweat
then as the sound of the doctor’s wheels. I
Hear, then, the conclusion of the whole mat-1
ter: These knights of the gown and scalpel are
all necessary evils, and mnst be tolerated. The
only advice applicable in the premises is to live
soberly, honeBt, and peaceable, if yon wonld
keepontof the meshes of the law. And if you
hope to hold saw-bones at bay, be temperate,
cleanly in your habits, and offer no vio
lence to hygienio rules. Alas for poor, frail
humanity, we can’t yet afford to give np the
lawyers and doctors.
New Serials and Illu*xbated Pafebs.—
From Messrs. Pendleton & Roes whose attrac
tive book and news emporium is rapidly grow
ing in pnblio estimation, we have reoeived
copies of the London Times and "Weekly Tele
graphic, superbly illustrated, and well filled
with scientific and instructive reading. Also
the grand premium Christmas number of
Demorest, which is indeed one of the most
elegant and complete repertories of fashion
published in this oounlry. In the present nnm-
ber, aside from the magnificent fashion plates,
patterns, eto., is a charming variety of enter-
taing miscellaneous reading adapted to the
season, whioh cannot fail to please. Messrs.
Pendleton & Ross have other valuable and
readable books whioh they offer to the public
at low rates.
Struggling pob Political Coktbol. ”—When
the Northern papers advise the Southern whites
to “oeaso straggling for the political control,”
it is tantamount to advice to cease to vote—be
cause every vote is an attempt to exercise poli
tical control- Very possibly, however, the
Bouthern States may take' the advlce -so far as
to cease to sustain any particular Presidential
candidate by the popular vote. The faot being
preity dear that the popular support by the
Southern people of any particular Presidential
candidate is prejudicial to his prospects in the
North, the idea is very current that hereafter it
will be better for the Southern people to ran
electoral tickets unpledged to any candidate.
Bsxb and Ale Unconstitutional—Judge
Lord, in a liquor case in Lowell, Mass., ruled
hat the prbviaions of the'law authorizing cities
and towns to approveof the sale of ale and beer
within their limits is unconstitutional and void,
and that such a vote would be no defenoe to a
complaint for suoh »1q,
What Is “ The Government V*
The Washington dispatchsa a day or two sinoe
speakingof the forthcoming President’s mes
sage, remark:
It is safe to say that it will be more liberal in
its tone, especially towards the South, than his
former messages—the reoent vote in thbt aeo-
tion being indicative of a hotter feeling than
heretofore toward the general government,
while the press is more moderate in its utter
ances, not taking into sooount the popular ma
jority of the entire country.
What then is “the government” of this coun
try? Evidently the Radicals, ever since the
war, have assumed and acted upon the assump
tion, that “the government” is the Radical par
ty, and they have practically held that whoso
ever opposes any of the doctrines or measures
of that parly is guilty of, at least, moral treason
against “the government,” and sbonld be pun
ished to the extent of some abridgement of his
political and personal rights; or by a revolu
tionary interference with bis State administra
tion, or by some kind of personal or political
repression from the Federal Government, to
mark “the government’s - ’ sense of his disloyalty.
Bnt since the last eleotion a new key note has
been struck, and Grant (not the Radical party)
has beoome“the Government j" and what is
more, Forney tells us it is an absolute govern
ment—it is an imperial government It can
poll down and dispose of States and statesmen
at pleasure, without law, appeal or redress,
The other day Oameron, Hartranft & Co.
found out this change in “the government” to
their great disoontent They went to Wash*
ington to demand of Grant the appointment of
one of their creatures to offioe; but Grant snub
bed them, and they hurried ontof thepresenoe,
swearing bitter vengeance, and declaring that
Grant would be impeached before two years
were out
So we see that there may be a fight between
these two “ governments” as understood by the
Radicals, and we must await the result of it,
before we can fully determine whether we may
not be punished for failure in allegiance to the
Radical party, or in allegiance to Grant. In a
word, it is not yet fully settled, whether the
rending! party is “the government” or Grant
is “the government.” Some say one and some
kay the other.
But Grant most evidently holds that he and
he alone is “ the governmentfor he says sub
stantially that the Sonth has shown “ a better
feeling than heretofore towards the general
government" by votiDg for him. The point ought
to be settled at once, so that we may not inad
vertently commit high treason by opposing “the
government,” either in the Radical party or in
Grant, whichever may be decided to be “ the
government.”
Let the reader observe in t v ese straws the
rapid drift of the country from popular to per
sonal government or absolutism. A few years
ago, the man who, like Forney, last week,
shonld have proclaimed Imperialism in the per
son of the President, would have been sconted
out of society. The Government of the United
States is the States and people of the States,
acting through their constituted and constitu
tional authorities and organisms. These legiti
mate sources of authority having been struck
out of political existence, the quarrel is now for
the succession. Under Johnson the succession
was in Congress, and Congress was the Radical
caucus. Now comes the question, whether Con
gress has not been deposed by the President—
and thereby hangs a fight "We shall see what
comes of it
Presbyterian Synod of Georgia,
This ecclesiastical body met in Albany on the
13'.h inst to hold its annual session. Over sixty
ministers and elders were present to take part
in its deliberations. Among these the Revs.
Dr. J. S. Wilson, of Atlanta; Dr. Irvine, of
Augusta; Dr. Jaodbs, of Tallahassee, Fla.; Dr.
Wills, of Oglethorpe University; O. W. Lane,
D. Frazer, A. W. Clisby, J. H. Wall, Messrs.
Gresham, Waddell, and others, were prominent.
The Rev. Dr. J. R. Wilson, of Columbia, S. O.,
was present to repr«s«nt the internet* of tho
Theological Seminary at that city. The Rev.
A. W. Clisby, of Tfaomasville, the retiring Mod
erator, preached the opening sermon—a power
ful discourse on the importance and responsi
bility of the ministerial office and work.
Rev. Jan. S acy, of Newnan, was eleoted Mod
erator. Important matters were nnder the con
sideration of the Synod with reference to edu
cation. The repoits from the Oglethorpe Uni
versity at Atlanta were very unsatisfactory, and
steps were taken fora suspension of itsexercises.
An important proposition was introduced by
Rev. C. W. Lane, of Milledgeville, to appoint a
committee to report at the next meeting of the
Synod on the practicability of establishing an
institution of the character of the celobrated
Rngby School in England, under Presbjterian
influence, though after its first appointment by
Synod, its control to be free from interference
by any ecclesiastical body. After considerable
discussion the committee was appointed. The
reports from the several presbyteries were, on
tho whole, satisfactory, though the resonroes of
the church are being considerably diminished by
the depressed condition of the oouniry.
The proceedings were marked by great ear
nestness and good feeling. Sermons were
preached by Dr. J. B. Wilson, Dr. Irvine, Rov. J.
Ltftwicb, Dr. Wills and ethers, and large
congregations were in attendance.
The hospitality of the good people of Albany,
which is proverbial, was lavished on their
guests, for which, and their uniform kindness,
they will be held in long remembrance.
Newnan, Ga., was selected as the place of
next meeting.
Executive Tyranny In Alabama.
We trust the efforts of the Administration to
thwart the wishes of a sovereign State in the
choice of a United States Senator, will be sig
nally defeated by parliamentary tactics. Our
press dispatohes of yesterday state that Messrs.
Morgan, Kimbro and McNiel, Conservatives,
were arrested by a United States marshal, while
en route to the oapital to take their seats in the
Legislature. They were refused bail and held
as prisoners. As before stated in this paper,
the sole object of the arrests was-the eleotion
of a Radioal Senator, by the abstraction of the
votes of these gentlemen.
Now let the Democrats of Alabama show
their grit, by promptly retiring, and leaving the
Legislature without a quorum, every time a
motion to go into an election is made. They
can oontinne to do this, until the cases of the
arrested parties (donbttessall bogus) have been
decided, or their suooeasors elected. At ail
events, let the people’s representatives resist
such Federal interference by every means with
in their reach.
Relief fob Mbs. Meade.—A large number of
the wealthy citizens of Philadelphia assembled
on Tuesday at the Continental Hotel in that
city, in pursuance of a private call. A sub
scription was opened for a testimonial to be
given' to Mrs. General Meade, the deceased
having left no property. Thirty thousand dol
lars were raised, and it is proposed to increase
that amount to $100,000. In furtherance of
this object it is aunounoed that there will be a
memorial meeting held at the Academy of Mu-
sio of Philadelphia on Monday next.
Wx understand that tho Rev. O. W. Lane, of
Milledgeville, has accepted the eall of the Pres
byterian Ohnrch at Athena, Ga, and will enter
upon his work there with the new year. W*'
congratulate the church and community on this
event, more especially from the Reverend gen
tleman’s known influence with the young. We
trust the oonneotion will be long and prosperous.
Iox in Mobile.—Ioe formed in Mobile last
Saturday night.
Ad Flee from the Poat.
The Nevf*York Evening Post gives the South
this advice:
“For the suffering, misled Sonth, the way is
olear; it is to abandon the hopeless struggle for
political control, and to devote its energies to
the industrial, and social development of its on-
rivalled resources' and of its redeemed and
spirited people. Never was a grander oppor
tunity opened to any country, and it will be
its own fault if it does not reoognize labor as
the law of universal life and progress. It has
been made miserable through an industrial
system founded in wrong, but it oan redeem
the past and lift itself to hitherto unreaohed
heights of prosperity throngh an industrial
system founded in right Its working classes,
degraded as they have been, yet contain ele
ments of unusual strength, whioh need only to
be generously guided and applied, to attain the
richest rewards of freer civilization.”
The “suffering, misled South” will naturally
oonaider all advioe kindly given and kindly
meant; bnt let the Peat review the condition of
those reconstructed States where the struggle
for political control on the part of the whites
has been hopeless. In Sonth Carolina, far more
than all the savings of all the industrial efforts
of whites and blackB together, since the war,
has been -squandered in a never-ending and
ever-bewildering maze of political knavery, and
no efforts of the people can redeem the for
tunes of that unhappy State, as we reluotantly
but honestly believe. She is hopelessly involv
ed in rain by the wretched and unprincipled
party to whioh the Post counsels the “suffering
and misled Sonth ” to yield an unquestioning
submission, and unless her prospeots brighten
very mnob, so far from attaining “the riohest
rewards of a free civilization,” South Carolina
must ultimately sink into ntter insolvency and
barbarism nnder its sway.
And are affairs any better in Arkansas or
Louisiana ? Both States are moving swiftly
down the road to rain. Both have spent, in
Radical politios, probably five or ten times as
tnuoh as they have made since the war. And
of the other reconstructed States, which have
been nnder the control of the party to whiob
the Post counsels ns to abandon all opposition,
the same remark, modified in some degree, will
apply with equal foroo. Georgia is in the best
oondition of any of them, for the simple reason
that she has always maintained a more or less
effective opposition. But to what a heritage of
debt have a few years of Radical administration
remitted the people of Georgia! It is proba
bly far beyond the nett savings, by all their la
bor, sinoe the war. Twenty years of hard labor
by the people will not extricate them from the
miry abyss of debt into whioh they have been
sunk by the abominations of Radicalism.
Badioalism, whatever it may mean in New
York, in the Sonth means bad government-
government without honesty, sense, responsi
bility, reason or justice. Government which
thrives only on publio disorder and the suffering
and oppression of the taxpayers. The Post
gives its counsel without knowledge, or without
reflection. There is not an honest Radical in
the North, who, if he came South and dwelt
here long enough to understand the situation,
would not soon see that the only hope of esoape
from ntter insolvency and pnblio disorder lies
in the defeat of the Radioal party in these
States; and that we must not only keep np the
“straggle for political control” here, bnt wher
ever it is “Jiopdess," there everything good is
hopeless, and every evil which can afflict a com
monwealth absolutely certain.
A King Can.Do No Wrong.
Lord Bason once remarked that in the reign
of a certain English King, “justice was well
administered in his time, save when the King
was a party.” A contemporary says:
“The same influence, substantially, has grown
up within the last ten or twelve years among ns,
till it now completely masters the Judiciary.—
When the Supreme Court tried to assert the
supremacy of the Constitution against a Radical
majority in Congress, it promptly snatched
away the oases from the jurisdiction of the
Court. This volume of reports contains the
final dental of the right of any State Court to
give relief to its citizens when they are im
prisoned by any officer of the United StateR
This is the decision in Turble’s case, page 397.
The Court must not intervene at all when it ap
pears, from the application for or the return to
a writ of habeas corpus, that the prisoner is held
by an officer of the United States. To bis great
honor, Chief Justice Chase emphatically dis
sented from this decision. It hardly need be
shown what a wide door it opens to oppression.
Any Federal official may arrest and immnre a
citizen in prison and the State Court can give
no relief by habeas corpus.”
We have had a practical and most painful il
lustration of this onslaught upon the dearest
liberties of the people, in our own good oily, in
the forcible arrest and inoaroeration without
hearing or bail, of a worthy State offioer in the
discharge of his daty, and again in the summary
seizare of the Alabama Legislators.
Any malignant and ignorant negro on the
street oan be indnoed for a paltry consideration,
to make affidavit incriminating the best citizens
in the land for violations of the Enforcement
Act, or some other monstrous Congressional
iniquity, and, sadden as the fiat of fate, or the
ukase of a despot, he is seized, dragged to
prison and held at pleasure, without the privil
ege of bail or hearing before any of the tribu
nals of the State.
And yet this is free government ? On this
question, at least, Mr. Forney, yonr head is level;
though alas, you fawn and oringe where indig
nant opposition and remonstrance is the duty
of every patriot. ___
Look at Home.—The New York Sun of Thurs
day excoriates the ten reconstructed States for
not supporting Greeley better, and tells us what
the Northern and Western Statesmen and jour
nalists are going to say, when, hereafter, we
oomplain of the carpet-baggers and the negroes.
They are going to tell us:
“Gentlemen, you had a fair chance to deliver
yourselves from what you call the most degrad
ing bondage by giving the electoral votes of
yonr States to Dr. Greeley. But you preferred
that nine aud perhaps ten of your sixteen States
should support Gen. Grant, giving to him a
large preponderance of the popular vote of your
section of the Union. No Federal bayonets
beleaguered your polls. A few sealy supervis
ors and a handful of sneaking marshals simply
looked on, without power to make even an ar
rest. Either yonr vaunted chivalry and pluck
have been all whipped out of you, or you are
more fond of the rale of your former slaves
than you would fain make ns believe. Gentle
men of the reconslracted States, yon have de
liberately made your bed for the ooming four
years. Lie down in it it you please; but pray
jet ns have no more winoing and hear no more
wailing from yon.”
We rather like that—we do! We like to be
taunted foi giving Greeley all the eleotoral votes
he got, by people who failed to give him a sin
gle one. We like to be told by tho Northern
States that we had a “fair ohanoe for aelf-de-
liverance” by electing Greeley, when had we
given him every vote in the South, the North
would still have beaten him.
Eafanls Item*.
Mr. J. U. Macon, proprietor of the Daily
Times, offers that paper with the job offioe at
tached, for sale on sooount of ill-health. He
has been unable for three months to give any
attention to the business, and therefore feels
it neoesaary to abandon it.
The Times -says there are now bnt two re
tail drinking and billiard saloons in Eafauls,
and doubts whether any other town of the same
population in the United States can make h
similar showing. It also rebukes, and very
properly, too, one “Judge” Kells of that
place—a Radical, of course—for making a
speeoh to the negroes last Saturday night “of
the most inflammatory oharaoter, and calcula
ted to do more mischief than any ever heard
in this city.”
Some fellow employed in the Atlanta slander
mill, haring telegraphed to the New York Times
that Gov; Smith had caused the indictment of
a number of United States Deputy Marshals,
in that aity, in the Superior Court, for oanying
concealed weapons on the day of the Freaiden
tial eleotion, the Atlanta Herald naila the lie as
follows:
Amove infamous lie never went over the wires.
We are authorized to give the statement a fall
and emphatio denial Indeed, no report of any
violation of law has been made to the Governor,
and he knows absolutely nothing about the al
leged indictments and arrests.
Muscogee Superior Court costs over $90 per
day, and yet the maohine is ran “as economi
cally as possible,” the Sun says.
Tobe Wells, npin Spalding county, is the last
unfortunate who has fed his arm to a ootton
gin.
The Monroe Advertiser learnB that a number
“of enterprising gentlemen in Mooroe county
are actively taking the necessary preliminary
steps to organizes banking company in Forsyth,
of sufficient pecuniary strength to answer the
d-m->nas of local trade and business men, es
pecially in the wants of the planting interest.
The Advertiser has these items:
Found Dead.—Mr. George Dunsmore, of
Monroe county, was found dead in his bed last
Friday momiDg. His health had been wretch
ed for several months. Mr. D. was a member
of a Tennessee regiment of the Confederate
service during the war, and settled in Monroe
county after hostilities closed. We have not
learned the locality in Tennessee where he en
listed.
Narrow Escapes.—On Friday morning last
the dwelling houses of Messrs. O. A. King and
W. M- Rudolph narrowly escaped destruction
by fire—the danger originating in defective
fines. The barking of a yard dog called the at
tention of Mr. King’s family to the danger of
the premises.
The horse disease has made its appearance in
Atlanta and Savannah, according to the Herald
and News. The Herald says it ia spreading in
the affected localities in Atlanta with “great
rapidity.” The News says there are an unusual
number of sick horses in Savannah, thongh it
has not beard of any fatal oases. Both the
street sar and the police stables have been at
tacked.
“Ogeechee” writes as follows from Atlanta to
the Savannah News:
Hon. Alexandeb H. Stephens.—In my last
letter it was suggested that Mr. Stephens’name
bad been mentioned in oonneotion with the
United States Senate probably without author
ity, but reoent information leads me to believe
that that be would not be averse to bolding a
seat in that onoe angust body. It is said, in
deed, that he may visit Atlanta daring the ap
proaching session of the Legislature, if his
health will permit, and address the members
and the people generally upon the politioal top
ics of the day. What effect such a demonstra
tion would have upon the election of Senator it
is impossible to say, though I can see in it noth
ing to change the opinion expressed in a former
letter, that the contest will ultimately be be
tween Gordon, Benning, Johnson and Hill, with
the chauoes decidedly in favor of one of the two
first named. Gen. Colquitt has declined in fa
vor of his friend and neighbor, Gen. Gordon;
otherwise he would almost certainly be eleoted.
The same correspondent sayB General G. J.
Wright, late Democratic candidate for Congress
in the Second Drstriot, has filed his application
with Gov. Smith for the certificate of eleotion,
and notified Whitely of his intention to contest
his right to the same. “By the returns as made
out and now in the office of the Seoretary of
State, it appears that Whitely was eleoted by a
very small majority—loss than 50—when in fact
Gen. Wright oontends many of these returns
and votes are fraudulent, illegal, void. He says
the polls were opened at “Jones’ Store,” in
Dongherty, where no preoinct bad ever been
established, and not at the precinct regularly
established by law for the district; and that
Whitely reoeived at said place 203 more votes
than be did. He contends also that at a precinot
in Thomas connty, called Duncansville, 220 ma
jority was given to Whitely, and that the elec
tion was held by two managers, neither of whom
was an officer or freeholder.
A time and plaoe will be agreed upon by
Gen. Wright and Mr. Whitely, where testimony
wiil be taken by suitable persons and sent up
to the Governor, who, after examining the
same, will issue the certificate of election to the
one in his judgment entitled to it. The present
ooctest, therefore, is before tbe Governor for
the certificate of eleotion. If his deoision
shonlfSHbe in favor of Gen. Wright, Mr. Whitely
will of course proseouie the claim to the seat
before, the House itself. The certificate will
seat the person holding it; and throw the bur
den of oonduoting the contest upon his oppo
nent.”
The Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Railway
will be finished to the river between Georgia
and South Carolina by Christmas, and to Char
lotee, N- O., by Maroh. It is thought this route
will divert muoh travel from the State Road,
and thus diminish the revenue of the lessees of
that road.
The Rome Commercial says:
Large Sales of Ibon —Since the first of the
month tbe .32'na Iron Company have sold 400
tons to Ady, Hnll & Co., Cincinnati; 200 tons
to Noble, Bros. & Co , Rome ; 100 tons to Rome
H. W. Co., Rome; 100 tons to Geo. 8. Moore,
Louisville; yielding the sum of $40,000 net.
The lost isfonnd. Sinoe Bonlly’s disap
pearance from the West Point News, we havn’t
heard a word from him, bnt the last news is
that he has “riz” at Hamilton, Harris oonnty,
where ho will soon start tbe Hamilton Visitor.
“Horfeepezoodelnm” is what the Savannah Ad
vertiser calls it. It adds that all the horses and
males in one stable in that city—fifteen in num
ber-arc down with it and that four instances
of sudden attack occurred in the streets on
Monday.
The News has this concerning the disease in
that city:
The Hobse Malady—Important Action of
the Cotton Mebchantn.—It ia an undeniable
faot that the horse malady prevails to consider
able extent in our city at present, and although
the disease appears to be exceedingly mild,
the disastrous effeots of the withdrawal from
service (temporarily though it be) of so many
horses, ia apparent. Bay street yesterday pre
sented quite a oontrast to its usual appearance
during the week. The disease seems to be
pretty general, and is oonfined to no particular
iooality. We find it in the livery stables, in the
Fire Department, the city service, the Po
lice Department, the draymen stables, and
among the fanoy 8took of private citizens.
The mules have not escaped the contagion,
and numberless teams are laid np. Notwith
standing this, however, we are reliably in
formed that thus far no great inoonYenienoe has
been ocoasioned and no delay has occurred in
the transportation of merchandise. The dray
men ar&jet able to fulfill all their contracts for
tbe removal of cotton, although working with
only about a third of their usual number of
teams. _ The horses of steamers 1, 3 and 4, of
the Fire Department, are slightly siok. Those
of steamer No 2 and of the trnok are in good
condition at present. The fine horses of the
Express Company have also fallen victims to
tbe prevdffug disease, and the large wagons are
now drawn by male teams. The majority of
tbe fine horses of the Savannah Sabre Club are
also laid op with the epizootie. Sonth Broad
street yesterday noon presented quite a novel
Eoene. Scores of blauketted horses were being
gently exeroised in the warm sun, by grooms,
and every now and then a hollow cough and
barely perceptible shiver indicated their ail
ment. Many horses blauketted from head to
foot, ware seen upon the streets during thoir
acouatomed duty. - The Owners of these ani
mals, however,- .run a great risk in thus
keeping them at work. The moat , essential
remedy for the disease is rest. Beveral negro
wagoners yesterday doubled their prioe for haul
ing, and gleefully chuckled that their bony riba
were not “tuck wid tbe epizoolio yet.”
ACTION OF THE COTTON KERCH ANTS.
A very large meeting of the ootton merchants
of the oity was held yesterday at one o’clock at
the Ootton Exohange, to take into consideration
the transportation of freight, from thei various
steamboat landings and railroad;depots-during
the prevalence of the malady. The Central
Railroad authorities volunteered to pnt in ser
viceable order the railroad traok, and make the
neoesaary oonnections at West Broad and East
Broad street* with the Central and Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad depot*. This trill occasion an
outlay estimated at between $600 and $700,
Locomotives and platform caiawill.be used, and
the cotton and merchandise will be transported
under the superintendence of the boas draymen,
who have the oontraots. as heretofore. The
work of laying the'track trill be commenced, to
day. ~ .
Rev. Dr. H. H. Tucker has returned from
Europe and is expected in Atlanta soon, as wo
learn from the Constitution.
Mr. J. A. Wright, formerly of the firm of
Glenn, Wright & Carr, of Atlanta, died at Little
Rock, Ark, on Monday night.
There was a wood famine in Augusta on Mon
day. At 11 a. m., that day, theCfcroniole Bays
not a stick wbb to be had for love or money.
Letters for Oapt. A. J. White,- Messrs. Virgil
Powers and Z. B. Wheeler, all of Maoon, are
held for postage in the Savannah office,
Dr. .Charles H. Baas, second assistant physi
cian of the State Lunatic Asylum, died last
week.
The Constitution says the oondition of the
horses afflicted by the prevailing epidemio in
that oity is without material change. “We
hear of a number of new cases, but no deaths.
The Express Company has several horses down
with it. The company has resolved not to use
their horses at night, but to cait over their
goods to the trains. The disease hare ia in its
mild foim. It is reported to be at Jonesboro
and vicinity.”
The same paper has thus item:
Terrible Accident at Oxford—Two Men
Killed.—On Monday, while some workmen
were engaged in tearing down the chapel at Em
ory College in Oxford, the wall fell inside in
stead of outside. Two men were buried in the
debris. One was a young man 17 years old
whose name we did not learn, and the other a
negro man. The remains of the two men were
horribiy mntilated and mangled.
The Fort Valley Mirror Bays Mr. Waterman
has sold the Ferry Journal to Mr. Ed. Martin,
and will remove to LaGrange, where he baa
bonght a half interest in the Reporter.
The Griffin News says:
One night last week, the barn of Mr. Fred
Oargile, of Butts connty, was burned together
with his entire crop of fodder and corn, and a
bale of ootton that was lying nnder it. As there
was no honse near the barn, it is thought to be
the work of an inoendtary. The next ia the
bnrning of the residence of Mr. Felix Walthal,
near Worthville, in the same connty. He lost
all of his furniture, the wearing apparel of
himself and family, beds and bed clothing,
and several hundred dollirs in money arising
from the sale of the present year’s crop of oot
ton. This oconrred on Friday night, and was
caused, it is thought, by burning soot falling
on the house.
The Covington Enterprise prints the follow
ing:
A Remarkable Premonition.—On Sunday
night, the 12th inst., Mr. Henry Maddox dream
ed that his father, Mr. John Maddox, was dead.
The old gentleman lived some three miles from
him, between the Yellow and Sonth rivers, in
the southern part of Newton oonnty, and had
been suffering from paralysis for several monthB.
The dream rendered Henry so uneasy that he
went to see his father on Monday, whom he
found about as he usually had been for some
weeks. After spending some time with the old
man, the son started to leave, bnt his mother
called to him that his father was worse, and he
returned only in time to find him breathing his
last.
Dentistry a Science.
We remember, in the earlier days of dental
chirurgery, many contended that the new pro
fession had no claim to soientifio merit—that it
was mere mechanical skill, somewhat after the
order of a higher grade of joinery, and the
rnde instruments then in vogne, such as the
murderous hawk-bill, and the clumsy imitations
of nature’s ivory, gave, indeed, some color to
the assertion.
Bat soon the care of teeth began to be aspe
cialty, and to engross the stady of the greatest
intellects. Their oondition was found to be
intimately associated with the health of indi
viduals, and oftimes to be the cause of deep-
seated and fatal diaeaaea. Then man's inventive
genius was pnt to work, and a multitude of the
most delioate and highly tempered dental tools
were constructed; suction and the physioal sci
ences were called into requisition; chemistry lent
its assistance in tho formation of almalgams and
substances for artificial teeth, hard as the flinty
rock; subtle fluids were compounded, whioh
banished pain or destroyed a protruding nerve.
The closest imitations of the human gums, both
as to color and appearanoe, were fabricated,
and gradually art so completely rivaled the nat
ural organs of the month that numberless cases
are on reoord where persons having irregular
teeth have actually had them extracted, and
their places supplied with sets more uniform
And beautiful. In this respeot, at least, old
age laughs to soorn the boasted advantages of
youth, and defies the inroads of time.
Tbe amount of hard servioe whioh tbeBe sets
of man’s devising will render, and the inex
pressible joy and comfort they convey to thou
sands, are too well known to be dwelt upon.
Besides all this, if judioions pains be taken
with the teeth of yonng persons, the progress
of decay can be arrested, and those of natural
formation preserved in their full strength and
beauty for a long period of years.
These thoughts were suggested by a reoent
visit to the model rooms of Dr. W. W. Ford, of
this city. Nothing more elegant or recherche
can be seen in the State. And we may add the
superior of the dootor himself, in the art of
alleviating human suffering, and as an opera
tor and moulder of the most beautiful and
durable plate-work, oan hardly be found any
where. The writer saw him perform a most
difficult operation upon a child, and was struck
with his great ooolneaa, gentleness, and com
mand over his little patient. Snch men are
benefactors to aooiety, and we take pleasure in
rendering jnstioe to their merits. No one will
say now that dental surgery ia not a soienoe.
Terrible Incident of the Boston Fire.—A
terrible inoident of the Boston fire took plaoe
at the famishing store of Hickman, on Wash
ington street, where the walls had been wrapt
in a deadly embraoe by the flames, and had
become weak and tottering throngh the intense
heat. At length they fell, and three men were
buried up to the shoulders among the heavy
fragments of briok and stone. The terrible
physioal agony of their cries of anguish which
they suffered filled the frightened crowd with
horror, bnt at first no one advanoed to their
auocor. After a few momenta two or three men
oroased the street to where a portion of the wall
was still overhanging the spot where the poor
victims were begging and shrieking for help,
and tried by "the utmost exertion of main
strength to pull and wrenoh them ent of the
horrible vioe, bnt these efforts only made great
er their sufferings, and the bricks and debris
were still falling at every moment The men
relinquished the perilous and fruitless risk and
retreated from the dangerous spot, and shortly
afterwards, in frightful paroxysms of pain and
with cries that will ring in the ears of many of
the spectators to their dying day, the crashed
masses of humanity gave up the breath of life,
and were a moment afterwards buried by
another crashing fall of the wall.
Stewart’s Oity—New Yorker* can’t make
out what A. T. Stewart means to do with hia
new oity at Hempstead Plains, L. L-" A hundred
elegant house*, oooting $15,000 or more apieoe,
are going np, boulevards are being laid oat and
railroads planned, but to every one who wants
to make a porohase Stewart returns the Inva
riable reply, “I have nothing to sell.” Apropoe
of this, rumor says that his great building in
New York, now nearly completed, whioh was to
be * home for sewing girls, is in fact, going to
be * mammoth hotel.
; - Election Arrest* In New Orleans.
New Orleans, November 19 —An injunction
has been issued restraining Longstreet, Lynch,
Herron and Jacobs from aoting aa members of
the eleotion returning board, and upon the affi
davit of Gov." Warmonth the same parties were
arrested for a violation of the State eleetiSn
laws and bailed in $10,000.
Collision at Sea.
New York, November 19 —Schooners Belle
B. Hull from Virginia, acd John K. Myers,
hence for Richmond, collided near Bainegat,
and the Myers sunk. The orew were saved.
The Hull’s forward works were badly damaged.
The Myers had one hundred and twenty-five
tons of railroad iron on board.
Counterfeit Union Paeiflo Railroad Bonds are
circulating. A broad street firm paid them upon
presentation.
The stone warehouse of Woodraff & Robin
son, of Brooklyn, is burned, and grain destroyed
to the value of $400,000. The total loss, in
cluding the buildiog is $800,000.
A Kicking Negro.
Pottsville, Pa., November 19 —Buck Shultz,
a colored desperado, was arrested for oausing
tbe death of Mrs. Slater, by kioke.
The malady is spreading throughout the coal
region.
Great Fire In St. Louis
St. Louis, November 19.—John J. Poe &
Go’s pork-packing house was burned. Loss
roughly stated at $100,000 upon produota.
Another Fire In Boston.
Boton, November 19 —A fire in State street
—loss $100,000 to $200,000. It is thought to
have been caused by wares brought from the
burned district.
St. Louts not In Flames.
New York. November 19 - -The report cur
rent here, and whioh may have been telegraphed
elsewhere, that St. Louis is in flames, ia untrue.
Vote or Maine.
Auqu-ta, Me., November 19 —Grant’s major!
ty is <oer 31,000. The vote ia the smallest since
1820.
Female Col'ege Burned.
Jacksonville. III., November 18—A college
belonging to the Methodist Church was burned—
loss $50,000. Insurance $35,000. Sixty girls
escaped with their wardrobes. Thisiathe second
time the college has be:n burned within nine
years.
Memphis, November 19.—The malady is here
in a mild form.
French Polities—tbe Division on Gambetta
Paris, November 19.—In the National As
sembly a motion was made censuring Gambetta
for his inflammatory speeches and complaining
of the laxity of Govemmtnt in dealing with the
increasingly audacious Radicals. Thiers de
fended the Government, and intimated he might
appeal to the country. He admitted Gambetta’e
speeches were offensive, but claimed the Gov
ernment was not responsible. Thiers pnt it to
vote. Result—yeas 267, nays 117. Half the
Deputies abstained from voting.
Thiers wants Another Vote of Confidence.
Paris, November 19.—The probable conse-
quence of the sac all majority and large absten
tion from voting yesterday is, that Thiers will
demand a seoond vote of confidence.
Washington Items.
Washington, November 19 —Jay Cooke, H.
O. FahnBtock and George H. D. Cooke had a
loDg consultation with Boutwell to-day.
Phillips, the new Solicitor General, arrives
to-morrow.
The report of Major McFarland, engineer, in
charge of the servioe for a canal route to con
nect the Tennessee river with the Atlantic
Ocean, at or near Savannah, Ga., will be trans
mitted to Congress along with the report
of the Secretary of War. The report is ex
haustive, and fatty establishes the feasibility
of the project.
The Collector of the First Georgia District
is ordered to make a new investigation of the
case against the Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company, of Augusta.
Alabama Legislature.
Montgomery, November 19.—Four other
Conservatives have arrived and enrolled their
names at the oapital, and one Republican, mak
ing 50, whioh is one less than a quorum. Iu
the Senate, nineteen Senators were present,
two less than a quorum. The three Conserva
tives of Marengo, who were arrested by the
United States deputy marshal, and taken to
Mobile, give bond in that city, and will arrive
here to-night, and be in that* seats to morrow.
this will give the Conservative branch whioh
meets in the Legislative rooms, at the capital,
a quorum of each house. The Republicans
met at the United States Court room and eleoted
officers, having enrolled members from various
counties without certificates. No new develop
ments to-day; but to-morrow will probably
forecast the result.
- Belcased on Ball.
Mobile, November 19.—The Conservative
delegation from Marengo oonnty who were ar
rested by United States Marshal White, on their
way to Montgomery, upon the plea of viola
tion of the Enforcement Act, arrived here this
momiDg, and was carried before United States
Commissioner Gillette, who released them upon
giving bond in the snm of three thousand dol
lars each for their appearance at tlje next term
of the United States Coart. . They leave for
Montgomery to-day. /
Extra Session of tbe K nssachnsetls Legisla
ture.
Boston, November 19.—An extra session of
the Legislature convened to day. The message
from the Governor ho; es that the Legisiatnre
will confine itself to matters growing out of the
reoent calamity, and suggests as topics for
consideration tbe proposed loan of the credit
of this oity to parties wishing to rebuild, tbe re-
ohsrting of insurance companies, the amend
ment of the Betterment Act, and the building
laws.
Prlie Concert Swindler Arrested.
New Yobk, November 19.—Geo. Wood the
alleged prize cqooert swindler has been ar
rested. . ,
Confiscation Of Steamship Columbia.
The steamship Colombia, of the Havana
line has been confiscated by tbe United States
District Court on charge of smuggling oigars.
Stokes’ trial oommences on the Becond day of
the Deeember term of the Oyer and Terminer
Court.
lanra Fair Determined to Lecture.
San Fbancisoo, November 19.—Muoh publio
indignation ia expressed at the proposition of
Mrs. Fair to lecture on Thursday night, but she
declares she will go on at all hazards. Appre
hending a disturbance, she wants the aid of the
police, and visited the Mayor with referenoe
to anoh protection.
Tbe Brooklyn Fire Losses.
New Yobk, November 19.—Losses by the
Brooklyn fire will not exceed $500,000.
Foreign News Items.
Madrid, November 19.—King Amadeus con
tinues to improve.
London, November 19 —The dismissal of
eighty members of the polioe for insubordina
tion yesterday caused dissatisfaction among
their fellows, who made strong manifestations
Two hundred more were suspended this after
noon. Insubordination has now spread through
out the entire foroe, and fears of their suspen
sion are entertained. There is great excite
ment in the city over the prospeot of the streets
being left unguarded. At eleven o’clock this
morning not a policeman was seen on the
Strand.
Tkler* Agitated.
- Paris, November 19.—Thiers is agitated over
yeeterday’s proceedings. He passed a sleepless
night, and declares his intention to resign un
less the resolution of confidence receives a fall
vote and a larger majority. Delegations of the
Left and Bight have sent reassnring delegations
to Thiers. A Cabinet meeting was held to
night, but nothing deoiaive transpired. Hope
ia entertained that the crisis will' pass, leaving
affairs statu quo.
Convention of Carriage Builder*.
New York. November 20 —A convention of
oarriage builders is in session'in this oity, and
nearly every 8tate ia represented. It appointed
an executive committee to oonaider the best
means of adjusting the interests common to
employer and employee.
Heavy Judgment. -
Little Rook, November 20.—W. B Green-
lay obtained a judgment in the Federal Court
to-day against the.-Memphis and Little Book
Railroad for $150,000, for work done on the
road.
U Another Heavy Judgment. ::
New York, November 20.—Memra. Lamb &
Eastman, on yesterday, obtained a verdiot
against the Camden and Amboy Railroad for
$114,235, with interest, for the loss of 1S7 bales
of ootton burned on the dock of said Company
in 1864.
Tbe Arison* Hoard From.
Tho Pacific Mail Steamship Company an-
nounces that a dispatch has just been reoeived
by them, stating that tho steamship Arizona
wa* spoken on the 14th inat™,. „ ^
on the ooaat of Mexioo! wmZl
The Arizona was m to^ nf !L pl ' to »
bound for San Francisco"
been transferred to the
r __ .®*ttloa Hews
Louisville,' November 20 -ttw •
nearly 7,000 majority f OT -Ow5f Bta *»
gets 2,200 votes. The G’C?*
Ib entirely Democratic. ^ 08 * 1
California Cleetloa
. San .Francisco, November 20
jonty is over 11,000. ‘ M —
Otiifj
Jsa-
via*
One hundred and tvnni...
have been sent to England
_ • Mreln WllUanubor^ 7,
New York, November 20 sm,
malt honse at William 4 tv>
50,000 bushels of md “ S *
Senator Blair Sleb
Bt. Louis, November'20 Renm * x,
a alight paralysis in his rightlid^ S - * 1*3
atoians say his arm will soon beZd Tb ®
oourse shall be puranedf 8 ‘ 1 dl8cn w viat
has been elMted’ohie’f of ^e"~
Downing deceased. 6 Cherok ^,!^
Y°ek, November 20 ,
vian, Zadiao, San Salvador, Urtlf 1 ^
Washington Watters *"
Washington, November 20-TfL- .
lObg I
noon, relative to the oondition of tbl8 . af!a '
country. He speaks inZmao/
new President of that republic ! , ° ,
of his intelligence and desire to^DWaml^S
strengthen the friendship now exiS h2 SEi
his own country and the United States 8 b * e6a
lhere seems to be no obstacle in ths ,
concluding a new Convention extendingthe tL°!
for disposing of the lemainiDe claim.
the United States and Mexican mixeiiCnm
sion, which, by limitation. willexpZuS:
present convention in Febrnarv 00x7 d •
stated that the Mexican President is anrtotLl
such extension and will appoint anTd.T•
good faith to carry ont the design ofthfcop
mission, in place of Mr. Gmzman he iv
action the proceedings were some
interrupted. Preliminary step? fi
taken for a new convention. oetn
The Alabama Legislature.
Montgomery, November 20.—Th 9
lives, who hold their sessions at the S'
have a quorum, ana have folly organizedK
Houses. The Governor replied Se cLtf-
tee informing him that they wererertv f 0 Z
mess, that he would send his memZ
k°s* to ^committee from the other
body, the Governor, after an elaborate argument
concludes: Abstaining from further mtf.vW-
rag reasons, for my conclusions, permit me to
say that my official oath, fidelity to the consti
tution and laws forbid my recognition of any
body as the General Assembly of Alabama oth-
er than that whioh organizes under the ferns of
the Constitution and the laws, and in the Capi
tol of the State. The body which constituted
you the committee I do not recognize as the
General Assembly, and therefore have no offi
cial communication to transmit to it”
The Tote In South Carolina,
Columbia, November 20.—The total vole vaj
95,000. Grant’s majority is 40,000.
The Horse Malady In Savannah.
Savannah, November 20.—Sergeant Robert
E. Carr, of the first regiment of ardllery, *b
shot a soldier last July, was acquitted todijin
the United States Court.
Tho Fair of tho Agricultural and Mechsnicsl
Association of Georgia, whioh was to have been
held in this city on the 2d of December, has
been postponed to Deoember 30th, owing to the
horse disease. A large nnmber of horses are
affected and preparations are completed to nm
locomotives on the street railroad to tranepoU
cotton and merchandise.
Another Fire in Boston.
Boston, November 20.—A fire burst out it
Rand & Avery’s printing honse at the foot o!
Washington street to dai. A general alarm vas
Bounded.
Later —The fire is oonfined to the printing
house.
Affairs in Gotham. •
New York, November 20.—Judge Fancher
granted an application to-day for the children
of Ring, the mnrdeier of O'Neill, to be tjivn
to the custody of their mother. The father
made no objection.
The official report of the Health Department,
after inspecting alt (he markets in the city, and
nnmerons wholesale poultry establishments, aay
that they fonnd no disease; fnrthermcre, fowls
were never in better condition than now. The
President of the Board has been authorized bj
the Fire Commissioners to arrange for tbe con
struction of a stationery pumping engine ini
tower near the distributing reservoir, to aug
ment pressure aud hence the volume of va.‘>t
in the lower part of the city.
Stanley arrived by the Cnba and was escor
ted up the bay by delegations from the Geo>
graphical Society, and the Herald Club.
Scannel and King will be tried in December.
Ex- Mayor Katbfieisb, of Brooklyn, has filed
his answer to the complaint of Mrs. Wade, in
whioh she seeks one hundred thousand dollars
damage for a breach of promise of marriage.
The reply attacks the plaintiff’s character and
promises prooffs of the allegations upon trial.
Message of tbe Governor of North Carolina
Raleigh, November 20.—The Governor’s
Messege was read in the House of Bepreaecta-
tives tc-day. It is very voluminous and is de
voted principally to our Federal relations, and
believes the State Government sbonld be in
full accord with the Federal Administration. It
advises careful consideration of the question of
State debt and opposes in toto repudiation and
favors issuing a new class of bonds; declares
the present legislative apportionment of the
State unfair; urgently advocates measures in
viting immigration into the State; congratu
lates the people npon the greatly improved con
dition of the State since his last message.
The returns of the August election hare
been opened in the House, bnt the resnlt vas
not declared. ,
The Legisiatnre will go aotively to work, sna
the session will be short.
The election for United State3 States Sena.or
occurs next Tuesday to fill the place to bemwe
vaoant by John Fool next March.
A Mew National Bank for Atlanta.
Washington, November 20 —The State S* -
tional Bank of Atlanta, Ga., was to-day author
ized by the Comptroller of Cnrrenoy to own*
mence business with a capital of $100,000.
Tbe Louisiana Secretary of Sixie.
New Orleans, November 20.—The Stb V
triot Court decides that Herron ie the a
Seoretary of State. The case will probamy
go to the Supreme Court.
Untilt mil Pfitfldi
Madrid, November 20.—The lower branch of
the Cortes has passed the mortgage bans o
French Politic**
Paris, November 20.—The °cmmittee »P*
pointed by the French Assembly to “ ra ” ^
ply to President Thiers’ message, by a v .
nine to six, elected Dnke PaEqoier D Au
its President This aotion is regarded as
favorable to the Government
Tbit tk« Roman’s are Doing-
Rome, November 20.—The Prefect of po
in this oity has issued an order , for ] ) , “Lfheld
assembling of a meeting advertised to .
here on the 4th instant, in forthennoe
the prinoipal of nniyenal suffrage, bec» „
baa reason to believe that the meeting “ M
called in the interest of the oppos't '® ^
present form" of government in Borne,
reported that a seoond ecclesiastical P
of the Reman Catholic ohurch is to be »
listed in England with Liverpool as “
poiitqn ^
The Deoember Galaxy will oontain
instalment of. * new serial atory by
W. De Forest, the author of “Overlap ,
Beaumont,” eto. Colonel De Forest to
by the beat critics to be the most origtn" 1 '^^
erful and ’dramatic of our Amerio* 11
writers, and hia stories enjoy the
distinction of pleasing all classes of
His new aerial, whioh ia called‘‘The .
Affair,” will deal with a new them* *»“
duoe characters near to the thoughts an ^ ^
rienoea of our people. Tho many ad®*"^
Mrs. Edwards’ novels will be glad to
in the January number of the Galaxy *
of “Ought We to Visit Her ?” “Steven
Yoeman,” and “Archie Lovell,” will be g* ^
now aerial whioh will be printed fro* 0
raneedMSS.