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The Georgia 'W'eeklv Telegraph and. Journal & Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, NOVEMBER 245 1*72
Britanla Rales the Waves—America
.and her Prospects*
The sta'istlcal bureau ol Brussels gives thd
following shipping data:
The whole number of vessels in the mercan
tile mar'u.e of the world amounts to 61,0G2,
with an aggregate tonnage of 18,214,545. The
proport on of sailing vesse’s is 56,727, with a
tonnage of 14,664,873. The steamers number
4,835, with tonnage of 680,670. Since 1870
there has been a decrease of 3,688 in the a?gre-
pa'e of vossris, and 621,395 in tonnage. Of the
wor’d’s marine, England owns 21,720 vessels,
of whioh 2,538 are steamers, while the United
States can boast of but 7,092 sailing ships and
420 .team vessels This shows, moat conclu
sively, that the “wooden walls” of “Merrie”
England still render her impregnable against the
world, and she has a jnst right to be styled
“mistress of the seas.” How pitifnl the claims
of Brother Jonathan when contrasted with
those of John Bull, despite the buncomb and
twaddle of the stars and stripes “fl mating tri
umphant over land and sea.” The faot is, un
der the blighting influence of Radical rule, our
docks and sbip-jards have well nigh rotted
down. But few new keels have been laid, while
very many remain decaying upon the stocks,
monuments of the suicidal policy of the dom ? -
nant party.
The condition of the navy, too, is even more
deplorable. The “old pots” and turreted
monsters, yolept monitors, unable to live at
6ea, and drawing too much water to operate
near shore, are gradually rusting out, or quietly
settling to the bottom at their moorings. The
number of vessels, and the amount of their
tonnage and guns in commission, have also
greatly diminished.
Despite the exile and personal efforts of
Peter the Great, the stupendous marine arma
ments of Louis Napoleon, the struggles in that
direction of the German Kaiser, and the blatant
preten-iions of the United States, proud Albion
still remains master of the situation, and her
diminutive sea girt Isle does the carrying trade
of the world. Her sturdy seamen, huge ships
of the line, and swift war steamers, make her
also the most formidable power on the seas in
the universe.
We read of the wooden walls of Athens, and
the wisdom of a Pericles, bnt what parallel in
the anna’s of nations oan be found to England’s
condition; nnd wbat greater illustration can be
had of the magical effects of commerce upon
the prosperity of a people f The wealth of
Great Britain is almost fabulous. Her railroad
system is the most expensive and perfect in
Christendom. Four millions of dollars worth
of gnano has been imported and spre :d upon
her fl. Ids within the past nine months, and no
where on earth does the soil teem with greater
fertility. The air is thick.with the smoke of
her fnrnaces and factories. In short, this won
derful Island, hardly greater in extent than one
of onr Steles, resembles a vast bee-hive in the
thrift and industry of its inhabitants.
Here, too, while nominally under royal sway,
the largest liberty to the subject is enjoyed,
and mi£na charts, and the right of habeas cor
pus, are not the mere playthings of a despotio
rnler, who is the creature of B ack a-d Red Re
publicanism, and the true exponent of manhood
suffrage, versus the worth, intelligeios end
conservatism of at least a large portion of the
country.
Can any one wonder, then, with the above
facts before the mind’s eye, that the FourtB of
July is no loDger regarded with the love and
veneration of former days? That the govern
ment of onr “ Old Mother” is felt to be more
free ard desirable than onr own ? That diain
tegra'ion and anarchy threaten these United
States, or the inauguration of an imperial dy
nasty ? In fine, that genuine republicanism has
about played out, and the reign of the mob and
fonrrierism, spiritualism, c« ntralism, and negro
ism, are in a fair way to be folly inaugurated ?
Would to neaven it were otherwise. But what
can we do at present, save accept the situation,
and drift with t{ie t.do ? A benignant Provi
dence may save ns from impending rain. Bat
the ways of God are inscrutable, and we can’t
s e how or by what means. All we can do is to
art well onr own parts, and hope on—aye, hope
even against hope.
The Mode of Presidential Elections;
The World, of Tuesday, clamors loudly for an
amendment of the Constitution of'the United
States, reforming the mode of el< cling the
President. It can be accomplished, (the World
thinks,) In the next three years, and this is a
favorable time to act" upon it, because our
President "will be shortly serving out his last
term, as established by precedent, and will have
no personal reason for opposing tbe amend
ment
Hie World wants the cumbrous and useless
machinery of electoral colleges dispensed with,
and a direot vote of the people of the States
taken on a cerlain day for President and Vice
President of 'the United States to serve for one
term only.
It strikes ns the logio of this change wonia
halt, unless it went a good deal farther and dis-
The French Sage.
M. Thiers, the President of the French Re
public, contributed • thousand francs to the
Boston fire. It is pleasant thus to note that per
sonal and national troubles have not, as is usu
al, rendered hard and selfish the heart of this
great statesmen and author. And now, 1f the
old veteran oan only escape assassination and
die in his bed after keeping Franoe.quiet for a
year or two longer, he will doubtless be canon
ised, and deservedly so. Bat his is no bed of
roses, and those who know his meroorial conn
try men best believe that his success in admin
istering pnblio affairs, isowing asmuohto their
exhaustion sb any other cause, and that reaction
inseparable from long-oontinned soenes of ex
citement and superlative horror.
The reckless, blood-stained popnlaoe had need
to pause and take breath before plnnging again
into the vortex of revolution. That the politi-
oenFea with all State machinery in the election, . . ,
L that there would be no frSonal majorities cal chaldron is now retiring and Mastering,
and minorities of Stales left in the count. To resdy to break forth withoat a‘
do this, returns of every precinct or county monition into vio.ent ebnlhtiona,
‘ ‘ canvas- disputed
sing board at Washington, and there should be Another sedative has been the preseaoe of
only one grand agaregate of the popular vote Prussian garrisons, and ths o^whelmingpo w-
of the continent—the candidates in receipt of « of her puissant conqueror. Yet, no one wjU
a majority or plurality of which should be de- ^ny that M. Thiers has ruled with consummate
\ prudence and wisdom. Tne reouperative pow-
C Since it is proposed to make the Presidential I era, too, of La Bel France have been most
election a purely popular election, it would be wonderful
absurd to count the vote by States and declare In the face of ruined cities and a desolated
the result by States, leaving thirty-seven mi- country, she has developed resources, and
norities and thirty-seven majorities which raised sums of fabulous magnitude, for the
should not be oomputed in the grand aggregate liquidation of the rapid y ® nc0 “ ® *
result It might very well happen, under this
process, as under the present one, that candi-
ments ef her fearful war debt To say, how
ever, that her government is settled and will be
permanently Republican, is to come wide of
the mark. There are too many of the ancient
noblesse in existenoe for that, and too many es
tates who had secured a majority of the States
would be in a minority of the popular vote.
52£tr : tfis a ss i p>— - — - ■*- ££■
seventeen by the defeated candidates, by very caballing and plotting for the restoration of im-
large majorities, so that the latter should re- P enal authority,
ceive a much larger popular vote than the for- Besides, the traditions of the country, and
mer and still fail of an election. It is manifest «8of pomp and pagentry, and that unrest
that any scheme to make the Presidential a and fickleness so characteristic of Frenchmen,
purely popular election, as respects the people all point to an early return to “chi«d m-
of the country cn mam, must provide for a | stations. It requires the one man power and
central canvass of all the votes, irrespective of I » over-mastering grasp of the rems of gov
State linei—and this is the idea of the Consol- ernment, to rale and control this volaUle peo-
., . 'eta* pie. ^ enC0 > with recuperated means and ener-
Nothing more strongly illustrates the original 8 le3 > we ma y lot * for a renewal of
plan of this government, and how far the poll- disturbances in this unhappy oomntoy.jrid*
tioians are abandoning it, than the modus oper- may culminate m a d<y, by ~®»*^«***
andi of the Presidential election laid down by tat, m the overthrow of
tbe Constitution. It was never designed to be Let ns hope, however that the flJriouBold
purely popular eleotion-i. e„ popular as re- who has so long been a prominent actor
spects the people at large of the territory In the political drama of his nation, may be
comprising the United Slates. It was to be an permitted to sink to the grave in peace. Few
election by the Stales and people of the States, men have fi ' Ied a larg ® r or °“ ora 6
States/ Hence each State, as a political | space in the annuls of the past half century.
community, reserved to itself two Presidential
Electors representing its individual sovereignty,
as a body politio, jnst as tbe Senators in the
United States Senate were formerly understood
to do. They gave tbe vote and assent of the
State Government to tbe proposed incnmbt noy
of any particular candidate for the Chief Mag
istracy of thih Confederation. The smallest
States, in this particular, counted as much in or in pr0 portion of the whole
the selection as the largest and most popn’ons. | tQ thfl amoaot cf insTiri npe ?-that is, will
Next, a number of electors were assigned to
each State, in the ratio of their popnlation, and
these electors were to be elected by eich State
for itself alone, and however overwhelming the
majority it received in one State, no benefit of
the surplusage could possibly be transferred to
anothtr. It was to be, as between the States,
an independent proceeding, as much so as if any
other S-ates or nations of the earth were en
gaggd contemporaneously in electing rulers.
jind this election, let ns remember, wa3 not a
direct choice of Chief Magistrate, bnt only of
members of a Sia'e conclave or college, who
were to make the choice for the State and peo
ple of the State Probably in the original
theory it was believed that the different elector
al colleges would correspond or commnnicate
with eaoh other, after their election, ard agree
together upon some fit- and proper men for
President and Vioe President, and there was no
preconception that this responsibility would be
forestalled and wrested out of their hands, first
by Congressional caucuses and then by nat-onal
conventions. !
Wlint the “ Colored People of the South”
Need for tbe Next Pour Tears.
At a recent meeting of the Northern Metho
dist General Missionary Committee in New
York Oily, Bi*hop Jones of that Church de
livered himself on the above subject, as fol
lows:
The colored people of the Sonth need the
Uetho’i-t Church, President Grant and Al
mighty God to help them along for four years
more. After that he believed they would help
themelves.
The modesty, humility, and reverence of this
Paritan prelate and his church i strikingly but
characteristically illustrated in this utterance.
The (Northern) Methodist Church and President
Grant be evidently considers the man and broth,
er’s right and left bowers upon whioh he muse,
for the most part, rely for the next fonr years,bnt
if they fail, why, then, “Almighty God" may
be able to do something for him. They must
look fir-t to the Church and Grant for support,
and then to Providence, though from the Bish
op’s order of naming the three sonroes of as
sist inoe, he does not seem have near as much
faith in the latter as the former.
This may be the popular estimate of the rel
ative importance of the three powers named
among the members of that meek ard lowly
and loving organization, bnt in this land of
moral barbarism and spiritual darkness, and
among those robe’s and recalcitrants known as
Southern Methodists, wo are happy to know
that the reverse is emphatically the case. O!
course, such a heresy is the result of a lack of
those benefioent and civilizing influences so
abundant in that section and ehnrch; bnt then
it is more in accordance with the teaohings of
a certain old fathioned book known as the Bi
ble. The re union of the Northern and South
ern Methodist Churches, if ever aooomplished,
most, it seems to us, and if we know anght of
the spiritual temper and thought of the latter,
etrt-iinly be preceded by a thorough settlement
of other questions than those now generally
supposed to aland in the way of snch a consum
mation. •
Vick’s Illustrated Floral and Seed Cata
log ce bob 1873 is just received, and is one of
the most beautiful pamphlets ever issued from
the press. Mr. James Vick, of Rochester,
seedsman and florist, is a fortunate man, who
many years ago abandoned the editor’s chair
and printing offioe, under the impulsion of
inborn taete and passion for flowers and fruits.
Following his native bent, he has beoome
man of vast wealth, and is probably at the head
of tbe trade in America. His publications,
whioh appear quarterly, are imbellished with
an engraving of almost every frmt, flower and
vegetable, whioh he cultivates and trades in,
with brief and clear directions for their culture.
The reader may have them all sent to his ad
dress by remitting a twenty five oent shin-
plaster to Mr. Viok’s address as above.
HxNvnswHxszA,'ia the caption a New York
Herald reporter, gives to'a chapter on the dis
ease that lately appeared among the chickens,
ducks, turkeys, ete., of that seetion.
1HAH&AO
Insurance Policies—The recent great fires
are bringing up again all the old questions. A
correspondent of tbe New York Journal of Com
merce inquires “if a firm has insurance on its
stock for $50,000 and the stook is worth $100,-
000, and their stook is damaged by fire to tbe
extent of $50,000, how muoh insurance can they
collect ? Do the companies pay the whole dam
the firm receive $50,000 or only $25,000 ?” In
reply tbe Journal states that no matter how
much the stock is worth, if the insurance is for
$50,000 under a plain ordinary polioy, the un
derwriter must pay any lo38 which ooours up to
that amount. But if the polioy contains what
is known as “the average clause” (whioh reads,
“It is understood and agreed that claims under
this polioy shall only be for snch proportion of
the whole loss as the amount of this allowance
bears to the whole value of the property insur
ed,”) then the loss falls pro rata on the under
writer and the owner. If the stock is in
snred half its value, with this clause inserted,
the underwriter pays half the loss. If insured
one-fourth the value, then he pays one-fonrth
the loss. But if this clause is omitted then the
owner can oolleot his entire loss if enough has
been insured in solvent companies.
The Chicago Times has this incident of the
hippophalgia: “Recently a weil dressed gentle
man arrived by train at tbe Miohigan Southern
Railroad depot. One solitary express wagon,
t,Wo kn<rc that fho friers of the Constitution Jpjj an epjzootfod «»imai attached, was in
«#ere so determined to diveat tne wnoie process ] waitl The gentleman had a trunk, such as
of a Presidential election from all Federal in
fluence, and to make it tbe unbiassed and nn-
controlled act of the States alone, that they pro
vided that no man bolding an office under the
Federal Government could be a Presidential
elector. What a striking commentary is this
fact on the unconstitutional laws and still more
abhorent practices of the Federal Government,
a<med to make, the Presidential election the
mere registry of the partisan decrees of the
Federal capital. \
The framers of the Federal Constitution,
wfcbn they had digested and adopted this elabo-
rate\cheme for the recurring elections of Pres -
persons of affiience usually take with them
wben they go abroad. He demanded of Jehu
what amount of lucre would be necessary to se
cure tbe transportation of the trunk to the
Northwestern depot. Throe dollars was the
price, and not a cent less would the mercenary
wretch take for the trifling service. Our trav
•ler had been abroad before, and his maternal
ancestors evidently knewtba' he had gone forth.
An idea struck him with gentle foroe. After
offering two dollars fox the service, and being
unwilling to submit to an extortion, he walked
np Like street a few blocks, and purchased
wheelbarrow for $1 50. Into this vehicle he
idiiu, We more satisfied with it than with any placed hig tnmkj an a pro pelled it to the place
other part of the instrument. Hamilton, as
referred to in die World, said it was the only
part of tbe Constitution which had escaped the
oensnre and received the approval of the oppo
nents of that instrument. And yet, says the
World, the scheme has wholly broken down in
practioe.
And 80/has every other part of the Oonstitu-
of his re- embarcation, thereby saviDg $150
and having a serviceable wheelbarrow on hand.
The affair was witnessed by several prominent
railroad offioials.”
templates the 1
ture of the Stef
tory of only
Government
A Word on Municipal Affair*.
Tbe senior of the .Telegraph is not * voter
in the municipal elections, and yet, in respeot
to the general Interests of the city, and of the
Democratic party, he thinks it not unwise to
address a few words to the citizens on tbe pend
ing oanvass for Mayor. The situation is a
peculiar one. Mr. Huff, the incumbent, like
every bold, aggressive man, has very deoided
friends and equally warm opponents, who we
now respectively pressing and opposing his re-
election. It is nniveiaally conceded that to the
discharge of his official duties, daring the past
two years, he has brought great personal ener
gy and devotion, and, although some differ
ence of opinion is manifested on this point,
yet it is a faot that upon his last exhibit of the
financial management and condition of the city,
some one hundred and twenty of onr leading
business firms representing, in themselveB and
connections, we dare say, about five hundred
voters, addressed him a communication through
the pnblio prints, asking him to beoome a can
didate for re-eleotion and impliedly pledging
him their support without reserve. It is not to
be supposed that one of these signers will
tom their backs on this, their own volantary
tender, under any circumstances! 8o far a3
they were oonoerned it was a nomination whioh
bonnd them, and wab-so pronounoed and
treated by this paper at the time.
Now, on the other hand, onr old friend, ex-
Mayor Stephen Collins, is pressed for a nomi
nation by a Democratic oity convention—a good
man—a strong man—a man whom we all re
spect and love; and to complete the view of the
situation, it iB beyond doubt that the colored
people will ooneentrate, almost to a man, in fa
vor of Mr. Huff.
Now, with this genual view of the field, we
appeal to Mr. Huff’s Demoeratio opponents to
tell ns what oan be gained by the nomination
of Mr. Collins ? He most oertainly be defeat
ed, and most of the friends of Mr. Huff would
be as sorry to see him snbjeated to popular de
feat ai any man they, know of. Bnt there is
not the ghost of a chance for him in the exist
ing conditions; whereas, in an open field he
would be a very hard man to beat for any of
fioe. Then, on the other hand, wbat iB to be
lost, by snoh an ill-timed and ill-conditioned
oanvass? We answer, Demooratio harmony—
the harmony of the tax-payers and whites of
the oity, whioh is more precious to ns than any
thing else connected with politics. Herein is
onr only hope and chance for sonnd pnblio
economy—pnblio order maintained in an agree
able manner—and preservation from all those
evils and abuses whioh inevitably flow from in
competent and improper pnblio officers and
agents. What a misfortune it will be if our
intelligent and patriotic whites get themselves
enlisted into an aotive and excited canvass
against each other, and go outdrummingamong
the colored population for a balance of power
to defeat eaoh other, and settle their quarrels
by such intervention! Can anybody think of
snoh a thing without shame f
And should it come to pass, will it not be
the Trojan horse which, in time, will surrender
every interest of this populous and wealthy
county of Bibb into the bands of a compaot
black majority, wielded without regard to any
substantial interest of the county ? We know
that the most sagacious and reapeoted among onr
leading men oonsider that we are in an impor
tant crisis, and would view such an event as
pregnant with disaster to all the best interests
of this county.
Wo shall say nothing against the general ab
stract propriety -of conventions to nominate
candidates; bnt consider the peculiar circum
stances of this case. Here is a very large pro
portion of the party so committed in all honor
to Mayor Huff that they could not honorably
go into convention to rapport a nominee other
than Mr. Hnff i Do yoa say they had no right,
as Democrats, to commit themselves in advance ?
Consider that Mr. Huff was originally brought
out in the same way—by general suggestion and
support, and no Domoorat or Conservative took
exception to it. it is no time novo to apply the
machinery of a convention, whtn it is indis
putable that a convention, so far from promot
ing 7iarmony, mnstbe the most tff-olive engine
or discord, and, so far from Insuring success,
must inevitably bring defeat. If it is impor
tant to introduce conventions into onr mnnioi
pal politics, let ns adjourn them to a time when
the whole party is fooilyptc to abide by the re
sult, whatever that may be. Bat Mr. Hnff,
though a Democrat, wg^ brought ont as an in
dependent candidate the first time, and we un
derstand him to ocoupythe same position now
in appealing to the people for a general endorse
ment of his administration.
We venture this mnoh in the interests of har
mony among political friends—in the interests
of the pnblio well-being-slid safety, whioh may
be fatally imperilled if we go into an opposition
canvass whioh will array us in antagonism to
eaoh other. Don’t do It, we brg yon. We do
not propose to bring the Teleobaph prominent
ly into municipal elections; bnt in a crisis like
ly to involve serious po’itical trouble and
danger, it is proper to express oar views with
perfeot frankness.
The Horse Disease—Action or Bibb
County Agricultural Club
At a meeting of the AgricnHual Society of
tion, which distinctly indicates this Federal I this county, held at the Oity Hall on Saturday,
Government as fl government by and of the in view of the reported presenoo in onr city of
States and the people of the States—which con- the dreaded epizootio, the following committee
ral Government as the area- wa s appointed to investigate the charaoter of
Governments and the reposi- the disease, ascertain the appropriate remedies,
legated powers. The Federal the means of prevention, (if any) and every-
deatroying the States, and thing else conneoted with the diagnosis and
launching into a'ksareer of absolutism and oon- treatment of this strange visitation,
solidation whioh is not only fatal to liberty, bnt The following Individuals compose the oom-
muat, in time, prove fatal to all good, regular, I mittee, who will report to a subsequent meet-
and equal government of any kind whatever, fag of the olnb: Messrs. B. D. Lnmsden, W.
With our vast and growing extension of territory F. Anderson, John Marr, Samuel Porter and
and popnlation, government must be maintain- Jerry Hollis.
edeither by maintaining the States as effioient, This action is timely and very proper, and
responsible and lobally independent organize- the information thus proonred will prove very
tionp, or we must abandon that theory and pro-1 valuable to the elty and oommunity.
tence, and oome down at once to autooraoy ana m '
absolutism. ' Weediko Them Out.—The Washington cor-
* W* are/therefore, not in favor of amending respondent of the Baltimore Sun, under date of
the Constitution to adapt it to political abuses, Wednesday, telegraphs that the Revenue Bu-
bnt of reforming political abuses aocording to ream had, that day, issued a circular to assessors
the true tneory of the Government as our fath- | throughout the country, directing them to re
duce the number of assistant assessors to tbe
com 1“ts SSS.££.“ i
hnntod wSlmLon tb« line of lb. Hortb.ru »» ®*J*
Paoiflo Railroad isolated and in great danger of to the Government of neary $-, p y
death by starvation, as supply trains on the way made. m .
were snowed up and could not reach them. The Washutgtok axd Umtxesity—The
There is a melancholy commentary pn the Waahington an a Lee University, at LexingtoD,
absurd pretensions that this hyperborean rente y ir gj n j 8j baa twelve eohools in operation, and is
runs through a really milder oUmate than the I inore asing the number as rapidly as its funds
Union Paoiflo. Both routes are wholly unrelia- ^ adinit It hM roceived, within the last
ble In winter. The Southern route alone oan be ye#r> ^ $100,000 in bequests anddonations—
depended on. A telegram in the Western papers i70 ooo oash from the late R. H. Bryley, of
gives this carious illustration of the effects of I 0rleaM> and $20,000 Alexandria oity
cold weather In the West. It aeema the buffs- bonag yf Corcoran, Esq., of Washing-
loes have better sense thra the engineers: y dty> m ^n ng it* cash capital more than
Dispatches from the end of the Atchison, To- *300 000, and its aggregate capital including
peka and Santa F© Railroad, on tho western I , , i.ntfjnnoa lihvAriM and annaratna
line of the State, say that the buffaloes are to ™ al ® state * buildings, libraries and apparatus,
thick that trains cannot be run with safety, more than half a million dollars. The Institu-
They roam along tbe track in hundreds of I tion is free from debt,
thousands, making their way south. j «»» ■ ■ ■
The storm at Duluth was terrible. It washed Staxtoh Is leotnring on the “ Coming
away the breakwater and destroyed a good deal airl.” The St Louis Times wants to know,
of shipping.
That muscular idiot, Sergeant Bates, is
tramping over England with the American flag
in his hands. What a pity that bipeds are ex
empted from the. ravages of the epizootio.—
Courier Journal.
yon know, how does she know what it will be.
Another paper suggests that if she expects
snoh an addition she had better be at home
making np a supply of small clothes rather
than be traveling over . the 00untry bragging
abont her expectations.
ntliA
The Cotton Receipts.
Bears and Bulls are wajohing the weekly re
ceipts of American ootton just now with intense
eagerness. There was a sudden drap week be
fore last which puzzled them, bnt was ascribed
to mere temporary causes.' Heavy receipts last
week would have set all right again, bnt they
did not oome. The telegraph, on Friday, re
ported them at 111,985, hot a correction oame
yesterday putting them at 119,085—7,100 bales
more. The lesson of weekly receipts for this
month is, however, instructive. It is as fol
lows: week ending 22d, 119,085; week ending
15ib, 110,610; week ending 8th, 188,705; week
ending 1st, 120,465. These figures indicate
that the tide has turned, and is now probably
on the ebb.
. 1 sM
Hubbah fob the Mules.—The Memphis re
port of the horse malady, Whioh is now univer
sal there, states that mules Ete unaffected by it
We think, in other points South, the mules
have in great part escaped, while those at
tacked Lave bad the disordt*Very lightly. We
trust, therefore, that however this nnluoky mal
ady may rage among the horses, the laboring
beast of the plantation will t»a little affected by
it,-and farm work go on uninterruptedly.
Repudiation nt Sour* Oabolxxa. — The
Charleston papers tell u» that .the eo-caUed
“South Carolina Ring,” ^arranging the Tax
Levy have ruled ont the six millions of “new
conversion bonds” whioh thq_last Legislature
attempted to saddle on the State as part of the
legitimate debt. The very ring whioh leaned
these bonds has repudiated them, and probably,
scorched the fingers of their dohfederatea out
side the State. .
Coincidences.—A woman writing to the Mis
souri Republican calls attention to the faot that
the burning of Ohioego and the Miohigan fires
occurred on the sixth anniversary of the burn
ing of the Shenandoah Valley by Sheridan with
troops mostly composed of Miohigan and Illi
nois regiments. The Boston Ire began on the
10th of November. On the 10th of November
General Sherman issued his order to bnraRome
and Atlanta.
“ Happy is tbe oountry that haf) no history,
as the schoolboy said on being flogged tbe third
time for not knowing who was Henry the Sixth’s
wife.
The gin-house of Means. Forrester-ft Dun
can, in Lee oonnty, was burned last week, to
gether with three gins, three bales of ootton,
and about one thonsand bushels of ootton seed.
No insurance.
Mr. Wm. Compton, of Sumter oonnty, was
thrown from a mule one day last week, and one
of his thighs badly broken. * •
We clip tbeee items from the Columbus Sun,
of Thursday:
Fbom Bainbbido* to Pollaxd—Railroad
men tell us that President Screven is now very
sanguine about the extension of the Atlantio
and Gulf Railroad from Bainbridge to Pollard,
Ala., and thinks it can be done before a great
while. This road will wonderfully advanoe
Savannah, and will belp Columbus. ?. g
Cubious Route yob Cotton.—It would seem
natural that, through ootton for New York, from
river plantations between Columbus and Eu-
fanla, would be carried by boat to either > of
these two places and thenoe sent to 8avannah,
to be shipped there via steamship. The Cen
tral Railroad controls the lines to both points,
and besides owns the river boats. It appears
strange that any co ton oonld be allowed to be
conveyed by'any other ronte. We are told,
however, that from one plantation a boat car
ried 176 hales to Bainbridge last week, there to
be for warded by the Atlantio and Gulf Railroad
to Savannah. This plantation is one of the
largest producing ones betwen here and Enfau-
la. The gentleman who gave na the informa
tion also states that all the cotton it has made
in several years has been forwarded in the same
manner. The gentleman in charge alleges the
rate is cheaper to New York via Bainbridge
than via Colambns or Eafanls. We do not
know whether or not this is correct, bnt pre
sume the owner knows his business. Very
foolish, if he does not
Floub and Gbist Mill Bubned —The flour
ing and grist mill, in Opelika, owned by Mr.
Wm. Green, was burned Tuesday night. We
bear no other partionlars, and do not know
whether there is any insurance. Mr. Green is
nephew of OoL R L Mott, and for some
time was miller in the Palace Mills, in this oity,
in whioh position, by industry and economy, he
amassed several thonsand dollars. It is feared
his loss is heavy. The building burned was a
two-story wooden atznotnie, formerly used aa a
machine shop.
The Hawkinsville folks are fearful that the
end of the world Is drawing nigh. An old gen-
tleman called on a merohant of that place on
Wednesday, and settled a debt of $3 that had
been dae thirty years—with interest from date.
The disease has not, however, become ohronic
either there or anywhere else, to our knowledge.
We olip this item from the Hawkinsville Dis
patch:
Off fob Libebta — Ou Friday morning last
between thirty and forty negto men, women
and children left Pulaski county for Savannah,
where they will embark on the ship Wanderer
now getting ready to sail for Liberia. Most of
these colored people lived in Hawkinsville and
immediate vicinity.- They are promised free
passage to Liberia, and after arrival they are to
receive lands from the Liberian Government and
rations for six months. Ma y others were an-
xions to go, bnt thought best to remain here (ill
a bearing coaid be bad from those now going.
Two or three men ran away and left their wives
and families, and one or two women served
their hosbands in like manner. Old Joe Bnrch,
the shoemaker, lost his better-half, and George
Bawl’s wife is left a grass widow.
Of the progress of the horse disease at Sa
vannah the Advertiser, of yesterday, says
The Hobse Disease.—There is more cause
for alarm in the matter of the horse disease
than ever. Six fatal cases were reported yes
terday, and probably double that numher will
oconr to-day. The symptoms in the fatal cases
were indicative of meningitis, the spine and
hips beiDg affected We believe that tbe worst
cases n-'W to be found r>re those of animals that
have been worked and neglected after tbe first
appearance of the attaok. There were a num
ber ofdray horses in use yesterday that should
have been kept ont of harness.
“Old Jim,” a noted Savannah horse, tbe
property of Mr. S. W. Wright, died on Thurs
day of the prevailing epidemic, aged 29 years.
He bad been in oonatant service for over twen
ty-one years.
The new. scheme for transporting freight to
and from the Central Railroad depot and the
wharves at Savannah, went into operation on
Wednesday, and the News says the arrange
ments have been fully completed to insure
promptness and rapidity in doiivery of goods.
The track on West Broad street, from Bay
btreet to the Nioholson pavement, has been al
tered to admit of the passage of the oar whee’s.
A large fore® of workmen was engaged dnrit g
the morning in laying a track from the paved
patt of the street connecting with the Street
Railroad track to the cotton y ird of the Central
Railroad. The cross ties are laid upon the
wooden pavement, commencing ne.r the oorner
of William street, and the rails, furnished by
the Centra JKailroed Company, are placed upon
them and properly fastened. In order to avoid
against accidents of running off, the new track
is given a large curve and rnns close up to the
sidewalk a portion of the way and then direot
to the yard. x
Florida syrup is ooming into market very
freely at Columbus. The best article com
mands eighty cents, but the ruling prioe is fifty
cents por gallon.
The “ep ; zoo” is spreading at Augusta, as we
learn frontThe Chronicle. That paper says:
There are no longer any who refuse to be
lieve that the dreaded horse disease—with the
many dreadful names—has a*, last reached this
city. If there are any snch soeptioal ones their
doubts oan be very easily removed by a visit to
a few of the pnblio and private stables in Au
gusta. The disease seems to have first made its
appearance, or rather its presenoe was first dis
covered here, a few days ago. Since that time
it seems to have spread with great rapidity, and
the indications are that a very large percentage
of the horses will be attaoked before Sunday
night In one stable, we learn, that no oases
were known to be there Tuesday night, while
yesterday morning more than twenty of the an
imals were shown to be affeoted. As yet no
fatal canes have occurred, and we do not believe
any will oocur. It was reported laBt night that
the horses of the street railroad company had
already began to suffer severely, and that the
number of ears now running on the line wonld
probably be rednoed this morning.
Mr. A. E. Sturgis, of MoDuffie oonnty, plant
ed, this year, thiity acres in corn, and ten in
ootton. A hail storm on the 17th of May ruined
both crops, but be replanted on the 20:h of the
same month, and from the thirty aores in oorn
has gathered 560 bushels. From the ten aores
in ootton he gets eleven baleB, each weighing
500 pounds. The McDaffie Journal thinks this
1b good oropping, “ whioh the same ” we, also,
are “free to maintain.”
Mr. Stephens, in response to an invitation
from numerous citizens of Atlanta, will make
them a speech on Wednesday night, December
8d.
. The Constitution says an eminent pbysioian
of Augusta contemplates building an inebriate
asylum at some point on the Georgia railway at
an early day.
We find the following in the Savannah News
of Friday: •
Sudden Discharge oy the Gband Jury—The
WlTNE-BEB IN THE KUXLUX OASES PERMITTED TO
Bxtubn Home.—Upon the opening of the Uni
ted States Oburt yesterday morning, Distriot
Attorney Farrow oalied the attention of the’
Court to the fact that the law requires the
grand Jury of the United States Conrt to consist
of not less than sixteen members, and the pres
ent jury bad been reduced, by various causes,
below the minimum, and made a few more
tonohirigly eloquent remarks npon the subject
in his nsnal gashing style. Whereupon tbe fol
lowing order was taken in regard to the afore
said grand jury: .It appearing to the Court that
by sioknete and other causes, the grand jury
has been reduced below the minimum fixed by
law, it is therefore, npon motion of the District
Attorney, ordered that the grand jurors be, and,
they are hereby discharged for the term. In
consequence of this aotion, Colonel Wm. Mo-
Kinley, of Milledgeville, counsel for the gen
tlemen from Baldwin county, who ere here
by invitation of the Federal authorities,
moved, on their behalf and that of the others,
that bis olients be dismissed. The Court
announced that he would hear the mo
tion. at four o’clock. On the reassembling
, of the court at 4 o’dook, Judge Woods statec
that another motion had the precedence, and
that he would leave the arrangements in regard
to the witnesses to be determined between their
lawyers and the Distriot Attorney. A consul
tation took place immediately between the par
ties, and an arrangement effected whereby the
witnessee who are all nuder bond were permit
ted to return home on the understanding that
they are to respond instanter to «uy jtelegraphio
summons from the District Attorney. Several
of them left on the Central Railroad last night,
and the remainder will get off this morning.
Although the-grand jury has been in session for
nearly two weeks, and have examined a number
of witnesses,'we are officially informed that the
only true bill returned was that against Robert
E. Carr, the Fort Pulaski soldier, charged with
murder, and an aooount of whose acquittal was
given in yesterday’s News. We endeavored to
ascertain whether another grand jury would be
empanelled for this term, but oonld obtain no
satisfactory information. The impression, how
ever, is that another jury will not be drawn un
til next term. We only give this as a report,
and not authentio.
Col. Wm. Choioe and Capt. Harrison Watters,
both of Rome, collided on Bridge street in that
elassio oity last Friday, and the Colonel was se
riously cut in the head.
The Calhoun Times reports the, following:
Distressing Casualty.—Lewis Holsenbaok,
a promising young man, about twenty-one years
of age, accidentally shot himself fatally last
Thuisday morning. He had started on a deer
hunt—was about entering tbe “drive," when he
Btepped upon a large log, awaiting the develop
ments of the ehase, lowering his gun and rest
ing his left hand on the muzzle. The gun
slipped, the hammers oame in contact with the
log, and both barrels of the gun were discharg
ed with fatal result. His hand was awfully
mangled; two or three back-shot entered near
his chin, breaking the bone,'and as death en
sued so quickly, must have penetrated the brain.
A Bainbridge darkey fell from a high soaffold
one day last week, but as he had his skull split
open last snmmer with a spade, and got well
contrary to the advioe of all the doctors, of
course snoh a trifle as this fall didn’t hart him.
credit
aeon, of
name as a i^ n
Washington county farmers report an unus
ually large supply of pork hogs and plenty of
com to fatten them, in that oonnty.
The following from the Quitman Banner is
worthy the special attention of the (perhaps)
Arkansas emigrants:
Good Pay, Good Wobk —Mr. Henry Sturgen,
of this oonnty, informs naihat a negro man on
his plantation (the “Hunter place”) with two
mnles, raised the present year, twenty-six bales
of ootton and one hnndred bushels of com, be
sides cultivating a large garden for his own use.
The negro had no assistance other than mem
bers of bis own family. He received for bis
servioes one-half tbe ootton and oorn—netting
him upwards of $1,000. This is a fine income
from a “two-horse farm.” <
The “epizoo” is still spreading both at Atlan
ta and Augusta. In the latte? place two deathB
are reported by the local papers.
The Columbus Sun says:
Promoted.—The friends of Mr. 8. B Spen
cer, of this oity, late assistant civil engineer on
the Savannah and Memphis Railroad, will be
glad to learn of his intention to leave on D.o.
1st the New Jersey Southern, ^kere he is now
employed, for a highly responsible position on
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. He is to
have obarge of transportation on the Strasburg
and Hagerstown branches. .'
The British bark, Oswingo, arrived at Savan
nah from Cardiff, Wales, on Thursday, with
4 517 bars of iron for the Central railway.
A negro was sent to the penitentiary for one
year at Gnthbert Superior Court last week, for
illegal voting—he swore he had paid his poll-tax
when ths books proved the contrary. If all of
this color who amused themrelves the same way
at the last two elections in this State were served
in a similar manner, Grant, Alexander & Co.
wonld soon command a large army.
Mr. Stephens was oalied upon on FridajKjby
many leading citizens of Atlanta, and In the af
ternoon by the employees of the Sun offioe, of
whioh that event paper says:
This was the first meeting he has had with
them. To eaoh one he had a kindly greeting,
and when at last the apprentice boy, technically
known as the “Devil,’’ came up, Mr. Stephens
took him by the hand, saying, “And last of all
came SataD.”
The d- ath of Mrs. J. F. Nutting, sister-in-law
of Mr. O. A. Nutting, of this city, ia «>poxt©aix»
tho Atlanta papers of Friday.
The Newnan Herald makes this good point:
Georgia’s Credit.—In New York, the com
mercial centra of Apierica, right underlie nose
*nd in the teeth of Henry Clews ft Co., Geor
gia bonds are going up, up, and are to-day,
worth more than any other Southern security
in the market. We gather from the New York
Herald, of the 15 h. Read:
The following wore the olosing quotations—
Georgia, sixes, 70@S0; do. sevens, 87@90; Ala-
bama°flves, 58@60; do. eights, 82@S5 Geor
gia 7 per oent. bonds 87<®90, Alabama 8 per
cost, bonds 82(5)85 Loysl Alabama 85 for
her eight per oent. Rebel Georgia 90 for her
seven per cent, bonds. Honest Alabama gets
5 cents less on the dollar, and pays 1 per oent.
more, indeed, than repudiating Georgia.
A Cobb county woman—nobler term than
lady always, and especially in her case—made
this year, upon five aores of land, four heavy
bales of cotton. She did all the work herself
from preparing the ground to gathering the
crop, and attended to all her domestic duties,
besides.
The Warrenton Clipper says:
The Sheriff of Glascock oonnty, under in
struction from Judge Twiggs, arrested David
W. Armour, Edwin E. Stubbs, Jasper N.
Stubbs, Thomas P. Riley and George W. Gum
ming, citizens of Washington county on Thurs
day, 14 h inst., on an affidavit oharging them
with the murder of Ruben Armonr, of Glascook
oonnty, and brought them to this plaoe where
they remained until Sunday morttjpg, when
they were transferred to Sandersville, Washing
ton county for a hearing before Judge Twiggs.
There are conflicting rumors as to whokilled Mr.
Ruben Armour; one aooount charges it npon a
Mr. Barge and some negroes^ and another
charging it upon David W. Armour and those
arrested with him.
The Savannah News of Friday Bays:
The Central Railroad Office—Oolortel
William Wadley, the able President, and Mr. W.
Rogers, the energetio Superintendent of the
Central Railroad Company, are giving their
time and services in a vigorous prosecution of
the work in behalf of tbe oommeroial interests
of the oity, and it oan be safely asserted that
there will be no delay in the transportation of
ootton. In the matter of throughfreights, there
is every faoility for a rapid and prompt delivery,
as steamers and other vessels oan discharge that
portion of their cargoes at either the Central or
the Atlantio and Gnlf Railroad wharves.
The West Point News says the people of
Randolph oonnty, Ala., eleeted a Radical to rep
resent them fa the present Legislature, and that
he passed through West Point last Monday, with
two large doth wallets filled with biscuit, hog-
liver and roasted potatoes enough, he said, to
last him till “ the Legislator busted.” Ex-Gov.
Wm. Smith was aoeompanying him, evidently
for the purpose of showing him the way to the
Oapilal of Alabama. The last seen of them, they
were going to the depot, Gov. 8mith in tbe lead,
and the verdant Legislator swinging to the flaps
of his ooat-tail, begging not to let the “kars
bite him.” They say just after he got aboard
the brain the whistle blew, and it required four
men to keep him in the car.
Inauguration of Gen. Grant.—It is add that
the seoond inauguration of General Grant will
be made the oocasion of a grand review in tbe
Oity of Washington of representatives of the
uniformed militia of all the States. The Fifth
Maryland Regiment of Baltimore, two compa
nies from Riobmond, six regiments from New
York, and several Pennsylvania companies are
among the military whioh will be present; bnt
it is expeoted that not only tbe Atlantio ooaat,
bnt tbe West, and even the Paoiflo slope will
have military ooth panics on the ground at the
grand review of that occasion.
The New York Tribune of the 20th says of
Mr. Greeley: “He has been seriously unwell
sinoe his wife’s death, from nervous prostra
tion, and resulting mainly from the revere
strain upon his nervous system, through want
of rest ami sleep during the last month of Ler
illness. Nothing but his remarkable strength
of constitution has enabled him to give atten
tion to bis recent duties, bat it may be safely
trusted to restore him speedily to his usual
vigorous health.”
r«,t e»f Be « for '
sedatives of the next General Assess
And no one more worthy, more able or LI
likely, as its presiding officer, to reflect
upon that body than the Hon. A O. B,
Bibb. I therefore anggest his name 1
didate for Speaker of the next House
His servioes in the last Legislature were in-
distinguished, and I hope too well appreciate
for anything 1 may urge in his behalf t 0 ^
crease his well won reputation. Knowing ^
do, the charaoter he has acquired in his leri
lative capacity, and the ability and fa.thfd
ness, with which he discharged every dntr * "
volving upon him, and the firmness and Lu
ness with whioh he met every difficulty he
necessarily bring into our 8tate eounoils
weight of character. I therefore unhesimS
urge his claims to the position. In concern
with these he possesses * quickness of ner
oeption, a .decision of oharaoter, and that
oourtesy and good- nature whioh eminenM*
and peculiarly fit him to preside. J
Besides, the intellectual oharaoter of A fl
Bacon entitles him to the "highest rank.
reasoner and debater he Btood almost witivfn?
a peer in the last Legislature. In fact '
more than one oocasion he exhibited a sl’rtnVth
and oogency of argument and a recheraf*
law and literature whioh entitle him to mo?
among the first debaters in the State He a i
possesses high and lofty views of the
and obligation of any trust reposed him
such was his intense devotion to its fnlflaiWi
that he will be long remembered by his asa^
oiatea. His knowledge of parliamentary hvi
too, is profound. While truth and justice will
be the pole stars regulating his decisions, and
so comprehensive is his mind and so luminous
his views that he seems to grasp iniuitiyely eyerv
mooted point, however complicated it may be J
His acknowledged gallantry of spirit, his dis!
dam of all narrow, selfish and dishonorable con-
duot, his clear perceptions of right and wrong
his readiness at all times to subserve the pnblio
weal, even at the sacrifice of self, endear him
to all who know him, and oertainly commend
his olaimB to favorable consideration.
Believing, therefore, that if he is elected
Speaker he will preside over our delibeiations
and debates with firmness, impartiality, decis
ion and dignity, I respectfully ask the members
eleot to consider well his claims.
' Demoobitcs.
The Bells of St. Michael’s.
Mrs. Petigru Carson, the'daughter of tbe late
distinguished James L. Petigru, of Bonth Car
olina, contributes to Appleton’s Journal an in
teresting account of old 8t. Michael’s church in
Charleston and the chime of bells that once
sounded in its steeple a carillon as sweet ag
floats from the spire of Antwerp Cathedral
Tuese bells were conneoted with tbe revolution
but, havfag escaped the perils of the Beige of
Charleston by-the British in 1780, they were
destroyed neatly a century later by a mischance
of the war of secession. But we mui-t let ifn
Carson tell the story of their fate at Sumter:
“Time went on, and Charleston, behind her
defences of sand, resisted all the efforts to car.
ry her. Daring the five hundred (516) days of
bombardment, (a year end a half) all the lower
part of the town bad to bs abandoned. Houses
and churches were scattered, tbe cannon balls
tore up the very graveyards, and the bones of
the dead were scattered Yet the spire of St.
Michael’s was untouched. Perhaps the cst-
nonier tried to spare it—perhaps good angels
guarded it. But what neither the malice of the
enemy nor the spite of fortune did, the people
themselves effected. For the bells were taken
down and sent to Columbia, to be cast into can
non. General Beauregard, perhaps shocked at
the desecration, pronounced 'hem unfit for the
purpose, and the fate which kept everything of
value in tbe State heaped up at Columbia for
safe keeping, detained the bells there also.
Then Sherman’s srmy passed through, leavieg
its track of lightning. A party of half-drunkea
soldiers, out for a lark and for plunde-, were
acooated by a negro, who offered to show them
the bellB that had rung in secession. ‘Never,’
said the men, ‘shall they play that tune again,’
and they smashed them in a hundred pieces.
“ Sad was the return to the desolsted homes
and the meeting in the dumb church, to which
no miracle might now restore the voice of ths
chimes they loved.
“ But they were men of pluck still, and as
soon as they had shaken themselveB and provi
ded for the first pressing needs, they resolved
to tax themselves to the utmost to get anew
chime.
“ Scarcely had the rector bread; and the ves
try and congregation were all very poor; but
they wrote to O. B. Prioleau, of London, to en
quire tbe coat of a new set. This gentleman
had lived so long in Eogland as to have become
almost an Englishman, with a fair English wife
and bluff, handsome English children; bnt hie
heart stirred at the xeooUeotioc of the - dear old
voices that had called him in childhood, and he
undertook the task with a loving zeal that
brought abent the most surprising results.—
There was no reoord at Charleston of where tbe
bells came from. But Mr. Prioleau searched
the directory for the oldest founders of the
city, and went from one to the other, until at
Meares ft Co., White Chapel, London, a firm
whioh has been in existence three hundred
years, he found, by patient examination, the
record of bells cast for St. Michael’s Church,
Charleston, South Carolina, 1759. The propor
tions of the metal, and sizes of tbe bells,
were all entered, on the books ; and tho pres
ent Meares engaged to torn out a new set,
which, when hung, should make the Charles
tonians themselves think they heard their
veritable old bells. Bnt Mr. Prioleau was not
content with this; he wrote baok to have alltha
fragments that could be found sent ont, and this
was done. Meanwhile, Meares found still in
their service an old man of 76, who had been
apprenticed under the very foreman who, more
than 100 years before, had east those bells; and
he, stimulated by Prioleau’s generosity, never
rested till he brought to light the very original
moulds for the castings. Into tbena the new
metal was melted with careful distribution of
the broken fragments, ao as to make the illusion
a reality. All that was wanting to make up tne
oast Mr. Proileau added, and the reward of ms
perseveranoe and generosity, was to send to tbe
vestry these new bells, whioh are the very old
ones still. Again did the congregation, with
tears and thanksgiving, reoeive the bells from
this, their fifth voyage across the Atlantio, and
hung them up in St. Miohael’s steeple.
“May they never again be removed by tne
rough hand of war, or ever sound augrt bnt
pesos on earth and good-will toward men.
Milledgeville Letter.
Milledgeville, November 22d, 1872.
This morning abont three o.’olock the large
and elegant Milledgeville Hotel .was discovered
to be on fire in the dry goods store of Herman,
recently of your oity, occupying one of the
rooms on the first floor of the great baildmg.
The wind was blowing a perfeot gak 1
flames soon got control of the entire « •
Mr. Trioe, the lessee of the
allot his individual effects;
the hotel furniture was saved.
tended to Newell’s Hall, and that large
fag is also in rains. - By great erertio ^
part of our firemen and (flowing
spread of the fire was prevented. Th
business houses are sufferers: to “ . dK .
building, Herman, dry goods; M»- J?
millinery ; J. R. Daniel, grooenes; B.
drygoods; G. W. Haas, groceries. —*•
In Newell’s Hall, Messrs. Windsor 4
dry goods; and Merer*. Thomas *
^wfhreffit the MilledgeviUegotel buildteg
was insured to tbe amount of about V . 4
worth, by oost, about $90,000, and
Hall only to tba amount of •3,000.
Windsor and Thomas saved most of tnwr
from the flames. The other parries l«t~^
with bnt little insurance, and their
he Btrt'the most taelanoholy story of aU»“^'
to be told. A young genUemanoflrt* w
Mr. Jss. F. Covey, heroically
stay the.program of the flames in 4
building, was caught in flames ana
We saw, an hour ago, his charred
had just been recovered. The «ory “ . ^
that one of the atrangers who wrivto lt
steaaawasSBs*
fag evidently perished there « behoM^
sublime bnt terrible seeae. Sh Jrs,
owner of stock in tbe bote!.
four churohes were euooeesijeiy gpjjooP*'
Baptist, Methodist, Pirehrteriw ««
lian; but by prompt and heroic exen ^ ^
were saved.
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