Newspaper Page Text
Tiie Greorgiet "W~eeJkly Te^e^t^tgtA ffiird Journal & HVIessenger.
Telegraph and Messenger
MACON, DECEMBER 10187V
. The Fence QneaUon*
The Atlanta Plant ation, for Deoember, prints
a valuable article on the Fence Question, from
the pen of Rev. O. W. Howard. Mr. Howard,
in October last, addressed oertain inquiries to
the Presidents of the several railways in Geo-
S :a upon the amount of their losses under the, board of directors have declared a dividend or
head of stock killed. The answers disclose the $5 00 per share from the earnings of the road
for the past year, payable “as soon as the seen
rides in which the earnings of the past year
fact, that the annual reclamations from these
roads, by owners of stock running at large,
aggregate to about seventy thousand dollars I
To this amount is to be added losses from
accidents to the trains in running over them
nnd the injuries sustained by passengers and
train officers and hards. Under the first item,
(he Georgia Hoad alone paid, for the year end
ing with last April, $11,278 80; and one oold,
s'orniy, dark night, hst winter, had a train
wrecked, and some of the passengers hurt—one
«.f them fatally—by running over the working
s'eers of a neighboring farmer, (so-called,) who
had rewarded his cattle for a day’s labor by
•urning them out doors on suoh a night to
brouse on tbs little dead and withered herbage
they oould find on a December night. Thus,
instead of being punished for cruelty to his cat
tle, and for jeoparding humsn lives on an ex
press train, he got an exorbitant price for his
steers, the railway pocketed a heavy loss and
the passengers accepted their danger and suffer
ings without remonstranoe.
Mr. Howard sums up his long and able article
as follows:
The evil effects of the present fenoe law may
be thus summed up:
1. It causeB a hazard of human life upon our
railroads.
2. It impedes business, by impeding the speed
of railroad trains.
8. It imposes a tax of more than $100,000
annually upon the railroads, and through them
upon the people of Georgia, who, in the end,
pay it.
4. It causes a large area of land in the older
counties to be thrown out, to grow up in briers
and useless bushes. In those oounties there is
not timber enough to re-fence the plantations,
and where there is, the negroeB will not split
the rails.
5. It thus greatly diminishes the taxableprop-
eity of the State, inasmuch as thousands of
acres of land now useless would be brought into
profitable cultivation, if it were not for the ne
cessity of re-fencing them.
6. The fence tax which the land-holder pays
is ten-fold the amount of all the other taxes paid
by him.
7. The moral effect of the present fenoe law
is bad, as it promotes animosities and litigation
among neighbors from the necessarily imperfect
way in whioh it is carried ont. A lawful fenoe
is of rare occurrence in the older oounties.
8. The repeal of the fenoe law would liberate
an incredible amount of life and energy among
farmers from the depression caused by their in
ability to work their own lands, from want of
fenoing material.
9. While the number of our live stock might
be diminished by the repeal of the fence law,
(though that is problematical) its character and
value would be improved. It is almost impos
sible to improve live stock where inferior male
cattle, hogs or Bheep, run at large. A trifling
animal may be turned ont to live or die as it
may happen; but it is only a valuable animal
of its kind that the farmer would take the pains
to keep in an inclosed pasture.
10. One of the most rapid, and at the same
time economical methods of improving land, is
to allow its natural growth to fall upon it and
dtcay. Under the existing fenoe law, when a
piece of ground is turned out it becomes the
grazing ground for the neighborhood. Every
valuable plant is eaten out; the grasses are
killed and it beoomes occupied by useless
bushes, which impoverish rather than enrich
the soil. This grszing is a legalized theft upon
the property of the land-holder.
11. The existing fence law is unconstitutional,
as it embarrasses the property-bolder in the
peaceable use of his own property.
These eleven points are capable of abundant
argument and illustration. They are presented
in this explicit form to be amplified by others.
The writer does not pretend to offer a law
whioh shall fully meet the emergency. The sub
ject is not without its difficulties. No law can
be framed which will not bear hardly upon some
person. But we certainly have legal minds who
can devise some means by whion the present
intolerable burden may be lightened.
The fence law, so far as it relates to the rail
roads, we are informed by Major Screven, was
made the subject of a printed report to the Leg
islature in 1869. A bill passed the last Legis
lature granting oertain privileges to several
counties, whioh was the beginning of legisla
tion in the right direction, but which is said to
be defective in its details and limited in its
scope. The writer, thus far, has been unable
to proonre a oopy of either the report or the bill.
As the proprietors of The Plantation are within
easy reaoh of these documents, they would do
good by the publication of both of them.
Practioally, this fencing in the stock and
turning ont the crops is found to work well. In
large portions of the European continent, this
is the practice. In fact, it would be impossible
to fence in the crops. A fenoe law like our own
would depopulate a large portion of Europe, as
it must before long depopulate the older por
tions of Georgia.
As this is a subjeot of common importance to
the railroads and to the land-holders, and as
these are the two commanding interests of the
State, the writer ventures, respectfully, to sug
gest a conference between the authorities of
the State Agricultural Society and the railroads.
Such a conference might result in the framing
of a bill whioh would be acceptable to the Legis
lature and relieve the people from the burdens
of the present fenoe law.
O. W. Howard.
“ The Best Bargain Offered Fit.”—The
owner of the Lee county plantation, which,
with corn, stock, eto., was offered for sale afew
dtys ago under this head, having made suoh
other arrangements for the next year as will
withdraw the property from market, at least for
that time, begs those who have written him
concerning it to take this announcement as an
answer to their letters.
Hopson Pofson Watsok Johnson is the poet
Laureate of the State of Tennessee. He was
crowned by the royal bard—Sambard. He sings
principally of ooal, iron, the Duoktown copper
mines, lard, pork, “sarsidgea” and suoh like.
His verses are sot to the chune of the Baoken-
sack Traveler, and sung by the Legislature when
not in session, or sitting with dosed doors.
Art Invention to Melt Snow or Baxlboads.—
A oitizen of Bedford oounty, Va., has invented
a machine, the object of which is to melt the
snow and ice on a railroad track as the train
runs, by means of a flame of sufficient intensi
ty to produoe the result instantaneously. The
invention is just in time, if effective.
Thb Pall Mall Gazette of London oritioised
one of Dr. Hepworth Dixon’s works in a way he
did not like, and he sued that paper for libel.
The suit has just been tried and the jury awarded
the Dootor one farthing as the damages inflioted
upon his reputation. There was great cry there
for so little wool.
Kentucky and Tennessee are muoh infested
with ghosts, witches and hobgoblins dire. This
is a sign of prosperity. When a people let their
minds run on such things it shows they have
leisure. If judgments and levies are after them
they have no time for spiritual foes.
Thx offioial report of the oensus of Great Bri
tain and Ireland, taken in 1871, has just been
published. The report of our census taken in
1870 has also just been published; yet we
about the English being a slow-going people.
Equality Ball.—The Courier-Journal says
the approaching Inauguration Ball will be sig
nalized by a general admixture of oolors. John
F. Cook, an African officeholder, being on the
committee of invitation.
Th* new Wall-street brokers’ anthem is quite
g”od in Us lint four lines:
r p IHK (JEOBCHA PBB8S.
The Columbus city treasurer reports a balance
on hand and in bank of $9,714 60.
Ur. J. B. GuiU, of Oglethorpe oounty, ia a
happy man this week. He killed a fourteen
month old pig last Tuesday, that netted him
five hundred and twenty-three pounds of meat.
Eighteen shares of Central railway stook,
including dividend, were sold at Savannah, on
Tuesday, at $95 75 to $96 50 per share. The
board of directors have declared a dividend of
have been absorbed can be disposed of at fair
rates.
The Democrats of Biohmond county beld
their nominating convention on Tuesday and
selected the following tioket for oonnty offioers:
For Ordinary, A. H. McLaws; for County
Treasurer, W. M. Dunbar; for Tax Oolleotor,
Dr. J. T. Barton; for Tax Beoeiver, B. J. Wil
son ; for Clerk of Superior Court, D. D. Mac-
Murphy.
Augusta very nearly had a first-class fire on
Tuesday afternoon. Three buildings in tbe
rear of the City Hotel bnilding on BroBd street
were burned. The total loss was abont $9000,
on which there was little if any insurance. The
local papers say there would have been terrible
damage had it not been for the extraordinary
exertions of the firemen.
The “gay gamboliers” of Augusta were raid
ed upon by the Grand Jnry on Monday, and
several indictments were the resalt. Tbe faro
and short cards market is quoted as very
panicky.
Mrs. Hoyt, widow of (he late Bev. Nathan
Hoyt, for more than thirty years pastor of the
Presbyterian Church at Athena, died at Borne
last Saturday.
Ellis & Harrison, real estate dealers of Colum
bus, sold nearly $40,000 worth of property last
Tuesday. Among the property sold were the
A. C. Fiewellen river plantation in Stewart
oounty—about 2,200 acres—for $20,500, and
385 acres of the Woolfolk Bend plantation, be
low Columbus, for $8,250—over $21 peraore.
The terms were cash.
The Son has the following:
Successful Hunting.—A party of eight gen
tlemen left Columbus twenty days ago for a
hunting expedition in Florida. They left the
boat at Bioo’b Bluff. Tbe party killed and se
cured five bears, fifteen deer, ten ducks, eighty-
five squirrels, one crane, one alligator, and
oaugbt 505 pounds of ca'fish and bream, one
possum and five parroquets. Deer are repre
sented to be very plentiful in that region. Tbe
party bad a pleasant time and met with no ac
cidents.
Tbe Lumpkin Independent has tbe following:
Good Chopping.—Old Uncle Jeff Fort, an old
negro whose hair is perfectly white, and who is,
we judge, at least seventy years old, has made
this year, without any assistance whatever,
seven bales of fine cotton from twelve actes of
old land (to wbioh was applied one thousand
pounds of guano) seventy-five bushels of corn
from five acres, one hundred gallons of syrnp
from less than one-half acre, one hundred and
fifty bnahels potatoes from one and a half acres.
He will net over $200 for himself, and culti
vated bis crops without any supervision or di
rection from any one. He never goes to polit
ical meetings or eIections,and all who know him
have tbe utmost confidence in his honor and in
tegrity.
There were sixty-three deaths in Atlanta da
ring the month of November, of wbioh thirty-
eight were negroes and twenty-five whites. Of
tbe thirty-eight negroes, twenty-eight were un
der ten years of age.
The Atlanta Herald of yesterday says:
Appointment of a Commission.—His Excel
lency, Governor Smith, appointed, yesterday,
Mr. George W. Adams, of Forsyth, Mr. B. B.
Gunby, of Columbus, and Mr. John D. Gray,
Commissioners to rigidly examine the construc
tion and condition of the first section of twenty
miles of tbe North and South Railroad, begin
ning at Columbus and going toward Hamilton.
They are to proceed to Columbus and commence
tbeir examination on next Monday in company
with the President of tbe road, Mr. W. A
Dugald, and sb soon as time to forthwith report
to the Governor whether tbe company have
complied with law, so as to entitle them to State
aid.
A Strike.—We hear that a “ strike ” is highly
probable with the bands at the State Boad shop.
A number of hands were ordered to be dis
missed, but superintendent 8herman, instead of
doing this, has thought proper, we understand,
to cut down the wages of the men to three-
quarter time, thus plaoing superior workmen
on the same basis with those who ere inferior.
On aooount of this unfairness, the strike either
has or will likely occur unless corrected.
The Constitution of yesterday says the votes
cast in tbe municipal eleotion the day before
bad not been counted ont when it went to press,
but enough was known to warrant the announce
ment that the regnlar Democratic ticket had
been eleoted by a handsome majority.
The Bame paper, same date, says:
Thx Electoral Vote of Gxobgia.—The Geor
gia elector.) split their vote. General Benning,
Washington Poe and Col. Hudson voted for
Greeley for Preaident. Gen. Wofford, OoL
Hartridge, Mr. Ely, Col. Paoe, Col. Dorsey, and
Major Graham for B. Gratz Brown for Presi
dent. OoL Turner and Dr. Casey voted for ex-
Governor O. J. Jenkins for President. Gen.
Benning, Mr. Poe, Col. Hudson. Dr. Casey and
Col. Turner for Gratz Brown for Vice President
Col Hariridge, Ooi. Paoe, Col. Dorsey, Mr. Ely
and Major Graham voted for Gen. Colquitt for
Vice President Gen. Wofford voted for Gen.
N. P. Banks of Massachusetts, for Vice Presi
dent.
Appointment* oftforafe. Georgia Con-
Jr Bvf fereace. \
What Congress Will Do.
A dispatch in the World says the leading Con
gressmen are impressed with tbe oonviotion
that the present session will be one of tbe dull
est on record. Tbe leading topics which are up
permost in the minds of all who have arrived
relate to the postal telegraph scheme and civil
servioe reform. On the latter subjeot several
of the most distinguished members, suoh as
Morton, Wilson, Logan, Windom, of the Sen
ate ; and Dawes, Garfield and Schofield, of tbe
House, had a long and serious consultation with
the President last Saturday, and to tbe con
flicting views which were offered the President
simply had the reply to make that so long as
the law imposed upon him the oivii servioe
rules and regulations he felt oompeUed to stand
by and enforoe them. Those who are opposed
to this reform nse, as a main argument with the
President, that in tbe absenoe of other issues
its adoption will cause a dissension in tbe Re
publican patty far more serions than any wbioh
baa yet threatened its organization. It is fore
shadowed that tbe war upon the new system
will come by a bill to repealSenator Trnmbull’s
amendment to one of the general appropriation
bills, wbioh is tbe only law for this reform that
Congress has enaoted.
A carefal canvass of tbe members already
here indicates that the sentiment in favor of
this refotm has largely increased sinoe last win
ter. Members are beginning to find ont that
tbe new regulations relieve them of an immense
amount of importunity from tbeir offioe-aeeking
constituents. Some of the members still ad
here to tbe opinion that tbe new system is not
popular with the people, and assert that the last
eleotion was a dear and positive verdiot against
On the postal telegraphio scheme Congress
men, so far as a decided opinion is oonoerned,
are tally as much at sea as one year ago. The
points in tbe report of the Postmaster General
on this subjeot, and whioh look to an absolute
ownership by the Government of a telegraphio
system, have been largely disetused today.
The Chairman of the Committee on Ways and
Means (Mr. Dawes) does not think the oonntry
is yet prepared or ready for this scheme. He
does not know but that he would give his sup
port to some snob intermediate plan aa would
contemplate Government ownership of the tel
egraph, bat to be operated through the agency
of a private oompany, ao as to prevent a Urge
increase of Government offioe-holders.
It is bnt a fair statement to aay that bat few
members really have any practical ideas on this
snbjeot. Those who have paid it any attention,
snob ss Pslmer, Farnsworth, Hnbbard, Gar
field, and Dawes, differ very widely, both oh
main points and details. The attention whioh
the House Appropriations Committee baa al
ready paid the subjeot baa not resulted in any
thing tangible.
AUGUSTA DISTICT—CALEB W XXT. P. X.
Augusta, St. Johns, W. Watkin Hicks; D.
W. Calhoun,-Sup.; St James,’J. E. Evans;
Asbury, T. A. Seals; Biohmond Circuit, B. F.
Fariss; Appling, D.-Kelsey; Belair Mission,
to be supplied by E P. Bonner; Thompson,
Wiley T. Hamilton; Warrenton, W. F. Smith;
Factory Mission, to be supplied by J. E. Rorie,
Sparta, J. M. Lowery; Hanoook, Felix P.
Brown, J. Purvis, one to~be supplied; Oraw-
fordville, A. C. The mss; Milledgeville, A.
Jarrell ; Baldwin, W. R. Branham, Jr.
ATHXNS DI8TIOT— XU.STAOE W. SPEER, P. X.
Athens , J. Lewis, Jr., P. A. Hean, Supernu
merary ; Oconee Station. M. W. Arnold; Fac
tory Mission, supplied by E D. Stone; Wat-
kinsville, J. W. Knight—one to be supplied
Madison, W. P. Pledger; Morgan, Clement O.
Carey; Greensboro, A. Gray; White Plains,
J. L. Pieroe ; LexingtoD, W R Foote; Winter-
ville, O. A Oonnoway; .Washington, A T.
Mann; Broad River, A G. Worley; Little
River, T. H. Gibson; Estonton, W. P. Love-
joy ; Putnam, W. W. Oalin, S. A Mitchell.
ELBXBTON DISTRICT— G. Wr YARBOROUGH, P, X.
Elberton, F. G. Hughes; Bethlehem, J. M.
Parker; Elbert, W. A Fariss; Linoolton; Levi
P. Neese: Jefferson, John B. Parker; Mul
berry, J. H. Masbburn; Oaroesville and Frank
lin Springe mission, Marion H Eakes; Homer,
B. W. Williams; Hartwell, W. T. Norman;
Clarksville, W. Parka Smith; Clayton Mission,
Eli Smith; Toogalo and.Cnrrihee Mission, J..
EL Masbburn, Jr.; Danielsville and Madison
Mission, B * Sanders; Air-Line Mission, to be
supplied by E. L. Stephens.
BOHX DISTBIOT—THOMAS F. PIEBCE, P. ]
Rome, W. M. Crumley ; Rome Circuit, J. 8
Embry; Forestville, W. P. Rivers; Ca^eSprihf
and Cedar Town, W Fisk Glenn; "Van Wert.
S. P. Jones; -Oarrolton and Bowdon, W. O.
Dunlap; Villa Rica, Sanford Leak; Haralson
Mission, J P. Howell; Marietta, G G. Smith;
Aowortb, W. A. Simmons; Roswell, G. M.
Robinson; Powder Springs, E K. Aiken; Dal
las, Heydon O. Christian; Sandtowo, to be sup
plied by W. D. Payne; Cartersvilie and Bran
don, L. J. Davies, J. T. Norris (sup.;) Bartow,
B. EL Jones, B. A. Seale (sup.;) Marietta Fe
male College, W. A Bugera; Sunday-school
Agent, W. F. Cook.
DAHLONXGA DISTBIOT—W. A. DODGE, P. X.
Dahlonega, W. F. Quillian; Dawsonville, J.
B Pate; Camming, B. J. Johnson; Alpharet
ta, W. D Heath ; Cherokee, to be Rnpplied by
B. T. Thomas; Cleveland, W. L. Underwood
Blairs villa Mission, R. M. Hughes; Gainesville
Station, J. H. Baxter; Hall Circuit, D. L. An
derson; Long Swamp Mountain Mission, sup
plied by J. N. Sullivan; Lawrenceville, W. A
Florence, B. P. Martin; Morganton Mission,
John W. Barker; Ellijay Mission, F. F. Rey
nolds. —- -
DALTON DISTBIOT—B. W. BIGHAJI, P X.
Dalton, F. A Kimbell; Dalton Circuit, P. G.
Reynolds; Bingold, D. J Weems; Book
Spring, J. L. Lupo; Spring Flsoe, N. EL Pal
mer; Murray Mission, to be supplied by S.
Brice; Calhoun, J. H. Bobeson; Tilton
and Besaoa, T. J. Robinson; Kingston. J.
A Reynolds; Canton, R. E. Lead better; Jas
per, J. M. Harden; Subligna, S. D. Evans;
Summerville, J. N. Meyers; LaFayette, A
Odom; MoLemere’s Cove, J. B McFarland.
LACHANCE DISTBIOT—H J. ADAMS, P. E.
LaGrange, W. J. Scott; West Point, D. D.
Cox; Newnan, A. M. Thigpen; Troup, B. J.
Harwell; Long Cane, H. J. Ellis; Wbitesville,
J. T. Lowe: Greenville and Trinity, J. S. Bry
ant ; Chalybeate Springs, L. Bash; Grantville,
T. S. L Harwell; Hogansville, J. M. Bowden,
Senoia, B F. Jones; one to be supplied by W.
B. Stillwell; Palmetto and Jones’ Chapel, T.
H Timmons; Fairborn; J. Chambers; Heard
Mission, James Jones; one to be supplied by
Thomas Turner; LaGrange Female College,
W. J. Colter; Missionary to China, Young J.
Allen.
ATLANTA DISTBIOT—W. H. POTTXB, P. X.
Atlanta 1st Oburob, W. P. Harrison, O. J.
Oliver and J. Boring, supernnmaxies; Atlanta,
Trinity, O. A. Evans; McDonough Street Mis
sion, to be supplied; Atlanta, Evan’s Chapel
and Taylor’s Hill Mission, J. M Dickey; Atlanta,
Payne’s Chapel and Peachtree street Mission,
P. M. Bybnr; St Paul’s, G. H. Pattillo; Edge-
wood and St John’s Mission, W. H. La Prade;
Atlanta Circuit, John W. Yarborough; Deoatnr,
F. B Davies; Conyers and Hayne’s Creek Mis
sion, W. J. Wardlaw, A Means, supemnmary;
Norcross, G. E. Gardner; Covington and Mt
Pleasant, W. W. Wadsworth; Newton, J. EL
Harris; Sardis and Mt. Dabor, B. E. L. Tim
mons; Oxford and 8ocial Circle. W.’R. Branham,
Sr ; Montioello, E. G. Moriah; Oomu’gee Mis
sion, supplied by W. D. Cook; Newbern, M.
F. Malsby; Monroe, A. W. Bowland; Forest,
supplied by A G. Dempsey; Agent Orphans’
Home, W. F. Cook; Agent American Bible
Society, W. A. Parks; Sunday School Secreta
ry, A G. Haygood; Emory College, M. Callo
way, Prof.
OBIFFIN DISTBIOT—J. LEWIS, SB., P. E.
Griffiu, J. W. Heidt; Upson, W. H. Graham;
Zebulon, W. G. Hanson; Pike, Isaao G. Parks;
Thomaston, W. F. Lewis; Bartlesville, Salem,
W. T. Caldwell; County Line, W. W. Lumpkin;
McDonough, J. B. Mayson; Jonesboro, J. W.
Stipe; Fayetteville, D. Nolan; Cnlloden, O. A.
Mitobeli; Clinton, J. Carr; Jones’ Mission, J.
T. Richardson; Jackson, B. R Johnson; Pleas
ant Hill, to be supplied by J. M. Bolton; For
syth, D. J. My rick ; Forsyth Circuit, J. J. Sin
gleton ; West Ocmnlgee Mission, J. B. Smith.
TBAN8FEBBKD.
To Sonth Georgia Conference, G. Jefferson
Pearce, George B. Keamer, H. H. Parks, J. V.
M. Morris, J. P. Wardlaw, G. W. Hardaway,
B. H. Sasnett, Miller H. White; to St. Lonis
Conference, B. K. Thrower; to Alabama Con
ference, E P. Biroh; to Little Book, Arkansas,
Conference, 8. N. Burns; to Los Angelos Con
ference, A. M. Campbell; to Western Confer
ence, Thomas B. Pieroe; to Louisiana Confer
ence, J. G. Worley.
The following visiting oommitteea were ap
pointed by Bishop Marvin: Emory College, A
G Haygood, W. F. Cook, J. W. Heidt; Wes
leyan Female College, G. H. Pattillo, A. J.
Jarrell, D. J. Myrick; LaGrange Female Col
lege, B. F. Jones, A. M. Tbigpin, J. M. Dickey,
H. B. Harris, J. B. Hnnniont; Marietta Female
College, Thomas F. Pierce, H. J. Adams, J. B.
Mayson.
Bibb Connly General Presentments.
A copy of the General Presentments of the
Grand Jnry of this oounty will be found in this
edition. Tbe body was composed of very in
telligent gentlemen. Their presentments strong
ly insist on tbe necessity of commencing at
onoe upon tbe new JaiL They suggest an
amendment of the Boad Law, whioh will
empower the Grand Jnry to elect one commis
sioner from each militia district, reduoing the
commission to nine, with the Ordinary asex-
officio President.
One novel recommendation they make, which,
however, has been proposed by at least one
other Grand Jnry in the State, and is actually
be praotioally abated by law, it will be better to
pat them under lioense-tax, and to that extent
under legal recognition and controL A great
deal has been said on this proposition pro and
con, and we don’t propose to argue it here.—
The legal difficulty whioh suggests itself to our
minds is thiB: The laws of the State sternly
prohibit and pnnieh adultery, fornication and
gambling. How, then, can oonnty or municipal
authorities oonnivee at or indireotiy sanction
these practices by lioense ?
Opening of Congress—Scene* at the
cnpltol.
Tbe Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Sun, under date of Monday writes as
follows:
Tbe usual oommotion consequent upon the
opening of a new session of Congress was early
visible abont the National Capitol this morn
ing. The weather bad very much moderated,
the sun shone brightly, and the visitors and cit
izens were out in large numbers. The galleries
and floors of both booses were well filled with
the oariooB crowds long before noon, tbe ladies,
aa is generally the case, being largely in the
majority. '
The Senate chamber seemd to be more the
pointof attraction thantbac of the House. Fifty
six Senators were in their seats some minutes
before the hour of opening, most of the absen
tees being Democrats. Neither of the Maryland
Senators were present, bat both are expected
to-morrow. Messrs. Sumner and Sohnrz, the
latter of whom only arrived this morning, en
tered the ohamber arm-in-arm, and at onoe
attracted considerable observation. Mr. Wilson
was the first to apeak to them, and was imme
diately followed by several others. It was no
ticeable, however, that none of the Senators
who displayed so muoh bitterness against them
last session, spoke to them, with the exoepdon
of Ur. Morton.
. - ^Foreign Ilei „
PBXPAXXD FOB THX TELEGBAPH AND MESSENGER
The German Minister of War is said to have
officially notified the Government'of the United
States that ths policy lately adopted in Germany
to check emigration, was not dictated by on
friendly feelings towards the American people.
The Berlin Cabinet looks upon the situation in
Europe as ver^serious, and is anxious to retain
the German population at home-to keep up the
strength and efficiency of the army. It fears
that a revolution in Prance may lead to a pow
erful coalition against Germany, including
France, Austria, Russia, and possibly England
whioh does not feel very friendly toward the
German Empire sinoe Uie San Jnan boundary
decision. . si^ll . . „ , , (.
The Prussian Government has taken another
step against the Clerical power by introdnoiDg
in tbe Diet the Ecclesiastical Bigbts Bill, pro
hibiting the olergy, under heavy penalties, f, om
issuing decrees of excommunication against
Prussian subjects. The Lower Honse has again
passed the Counties’ Reform Bill by an over
whelming majority; and, as the Honse of Lords
has been reformed by tbe creation of twenty-
five new peers entirely devoted to the Govern
ment, the measure, beyond adoubt, will be rati
fled by the Upper Ohamber.
The Bishop of Ermeland has addressed along
letter to the Prussian Minister of Instruction,
protesting against tbe suspension of his State
pay. He pleads that he has not violated anyof
tbe laws of the Kingdom of Prussia, and that
the sentences dg.excommunioi.tion prononnoed
upon Dr. Wollman and Dr Michaelis have Dot
iDjnred in any respeota tbe oivii position and
characters of tte exoommnnicated. In regard
to his own treatment by the State, the Bmhop
asks for the text of the law whioh authorizes
the Government to deprive him of his pay with
ont even giving him tbe opporinnity of plead
mg his cause before tbe tribunals of tbe oonn-
try. He claims that tbe payment of the Bishops
was fixed by an international agreement be
tween Prussia and the Pope, and that the State
is bound to oarry ont its bargain. The property
of the bishoprio of Ermeland was, by royal de-
oree, in the year 1822, incorporated with the
property of tbe State, tbe latter guaranteeing
that half the proceeds should go to the former
owners. The aotnal amount to be paid annually
was afterwards fixed, in 1860, by royal decree,
after further negotiations with Borne. The
Bishop therefore demands his salary as a oon
stitutional right, and announces his intention
of proceeding against tbe Government for its
restoration, b afore the oivii coarts.
Alluding to tbe grave situation in France,
Prince Bismarok is said to have expressed him
self that “Prussia sees, without displeasure, a
Republic established in Franoe, believing that
any attempt to restore a monaroby would be the
signal for civil war. At tbe same time, if the
Radicals came into power, Prussia would change
her attitude, refuse to aocept tbe instalments of
the indemnity before becoming dne, and pro
long the oooapation of French territory.”
It ia a popular wish in Denmark to have the
boundary between Germany slightly changed,
and this question has given rise again to bitter
leading artioles directed against tbe latter coun
try in tbe Danish press. J edging by an article,
attributed to the President of the Norwegian
Parliament, these efforts of Denmark to reoover
the Danish portion of North SleBwiek do not
meet with much sympathy in tbe other oounties
of the Scandinavian peninsula. The writer of
tbe artiole, after a short review of the relations
between Germany and Denmark comes to tbe
following conclusion: “If we ask ourselves
whether our national mission leads us to Franoe
or to Germany—to the slaves or the Germans—
the answer cannot tie doubtful. Our national
development irresistibly leads ns to the people
whose blood and religion are the same as onrs,
from whioh we received tbe first principles of
onr faith and wbioh is related to ns, both by
raoe and by modes of thought. If this bo so,
Denmark’s altitude towards Germany shonld be
different from what it is. The language which
Germany now hears from Denmark is the
laDgnage of hatred, and Germany naturally un
derstands and resents it.”
In the comae of pulling down the old Mint
buildings, in Oftwgite, Edinburgh, there has
been discovered in the orevice of the wall a
specimen of tbe medal struck by Gregory the
XIII., to commemorate tbe mas-acre of St.
Bartholomew. It is somewhat larger than an
English half crown, and bears on the obverse
side tbe effigy of the Pope, with the legend,
“Gregonns XIIL, Font, Man. Au. I," and on
the reverse with the legend, “ Vgonottorum
Stragas,” (slaughter or the Huguenots,) “ 1672,”
a representation of the massaore, in which is
seen the figure of a winged and helmeted angel
with a cross in one hand and a sword in the
other, engaged in tbe work of destruction.
In the Italian Chamber of Deputies the Min
ister, President Venosta, defended the foreign
polioy of- tbe Government He said that the
relations of Italy with all powers were very
friendly, and denounced the party of reaction
as aiming at the destruction of Italian nnity.
Italy, he continued, faithfully to liberty, fol
lowed the ways of peaoe. Liberty and peace
were essential to her, that the civilizing mission
of the dynasty might be established.
Fournier, the Frenoh ambassador at the Holy
See, in a recent private interview with Cardinal
Antonelli is said to have characterized the fre
quent publication of epeohes by the Pope
against the Italian Government as ill-advised,
and trying its forbearance to thentmost.
There bave several sharply contested skir
mishes taken place between the Insurgents and
Boyal troops in Spain. Though the former
have been routed with great loss, they are al
ways successful in forming new bands, thus
rendering the victories won by the Government
troops frnitless triumphs, there are symptoms
that the insurrection is spreading to other parts
of the conntry, and the Government has adopt
ed extraordinary measures of precaution.
The crisis in Franoe oontinaes, and it is d ffi-
onlt to foresee how it will end. Shonld tbe
Thiers Government be overthrown, France will
probably beoome a prey to anarohy and oivii
war. Mods, de Mazade, commenting on MonB.
Jules Simon’s educational reforms in the “Be-
vne des Deux Mondes,” draws a gloomy piotnre
of the Btate of ednoation in France generally.
He remarks, a, “ decadence ” in tbe whole sys
tem of study and instruction.” The evil, he
says, is not of reoent date, but is dne to causes
which reaoh far back in tbe past The fact is,
that little by little, under many influences, the
very capacity for work seems to have been
weakened; and there has gradually grown up a
young generation, impatient and easily wearied,
baving only vague and superficial knowledge,
and which has lost, with habits of discipline,
all taste for severe study. Everything is for
show; there is an outside varnish of education,
a semblance of oulture, a tasting of everything
along with the dislike of what gives force to
oharaoter, viz.: method and aoonraoy. Let ns
oonfess it: for a long time instrnotion has been
radioed, like everything else, with a oertain
General Preseatnentoof Grand Jury
•f BiMa Connty. ^ w ^
Fall Term, Deoember 4,1872,
The Grand Jury for the present term of the
Superior Court of Bibb oonnty. make the follow
ing presentments, to whioh they oall die atten
tion of the Court and citizens of the oonnty:
Through onr committee we find the pnblio
buildings of the oonnty to beta good condition,
with the exception of the Oonnty Hospital,
where some slight repairs are needed. We find
our oounty without a jail, and, in view of the
great need for suoh an institution, and tbe
nearness of the time when we -will be entirely
without a place of safe-keeping for prisoners,
we urge upon the'proper authorities and oitizens
of the oounty the imperative necessity of imme
diately having one built. Ample time having
elapsed to enable the Commissioners for build
ing a Court-house and jail,- and draining tbe
swamp, to complete a statement, of their re
ceipts and disbursements, we deem it due to
pnblie that a comprehensive report be made of
the same and published in the city papers.
From Frof. Williams, President of tbe Board
of Education, we leant that the pnblio schools
under tbe management of the present Board of
Ednoation, are in a healthy condition.
There being some dissatisfaction at the man :
ner in which the pnblio roads were worked,' we
appointed a speoial and competent oommittee
to make personal examination and report con
cerning the same. From their report, we be
lieve great discontent exists in some of tbe
districts; and we reoommend that the law be
so altered as to do away with tbe present exist
ing Board of Commissioners (whioh Board is so
large as to be unwieldy) and empower tbe Grand
Jnry to eleot a Board of nine Commissioners,
one from each militia district—from whioh num
ber a quorum can be assembled, with the Ordi
nary aa ohaiimtn, whioh oommittee shall have
obarga of all the roads in the oounty, as well as
all ferries and bridges in the oounty. We also
recommend that this Board bave power to eleot
a Superintendent of Roads and Bridges, whose
especial duty it shall be to guard tbe interest of
the county, and see that all contractors com
ply with the stipulations of their contracts;
and that this Superintendent receive snch a
salary aa thiB Board may deem proper. Messrs.
G. J. Blake and Bobt. Hamlin have been eleoted
members of the present Buard, vice D. E. Blount
and B. Hicks, resigned.
This jury baving been obarged by his Honor
Jndge Cole, that it was onr dnty to to make dili
gent inquiry, as to tbe existence of bouses of
ill-fame, and gambling homes, and to report
them in our general presentments—are foroed
to tbe oonolnsion, that by any form of prosecu
tion, it is beyond onr power to really and ma
terially abate these evils. And from the avoid
ance of the same dnty, in proceeding Grand
Juries, it seems that they arrived, at the same
oonolnsion. ...
But from respect to his Honor’s charge, we
deem it dne, that thiB matter shonld not passed
by without some notice. Therefore we would sug
gest to tbe proper authorities, that as the sys
tem of licensing suoh establishments has been
tried in some oities of this oonntry, it might be
well to test it in Macon, where snob action does
not conflict with tbe laws of the State,
and we recommend this to the consideration
of tbe Mayor and Oonnoil of the city of Macon.
Now, in conclusion of onr labors, we beg to
return to his Honor, Judge C. B. Gole, our
warmest thanks for bis invariably oonrteous and
considerate demeanor toward ns, while in the
discharge of onr dnty as Grand Jurors. And
in taking leave of him we deBire to express onr
best wiabeB for bis welfare and happiness. Our
thanks are dne and hereby tendered to the So
licitor General, Ooi. E. W. Crocker, for his
diligent and unremitting attention. It is onr
sad dnty to announce to the oonrt, the decease
of onr bailiff, Mr. J. B. Clark, after a brief
illness, and to pay our tribute to bb kind atten
tion to ns, and discharge of his duties np to tbe
time of his last illness.
We respectfully ask that these presentments be
spread npon tbe minntes of the Conrt and pub
lished in the Macon Txlxgbafh and Mxssxnoxb.
George R. Barker, Foremen.
Ben 0. Smith,
B. B Lewis, •
W. W. Leman,
H. Burr Brown,
Chas. H. Rogers,
Arthur 0- BoarJman,
J. D. Hoip,
E O. Sherwood,
James Fitzpatrick,
J. Monroe Ogden,
B. W. Gnbbeage,
G J. Blake,
A. Reynolds,
G. 0. Norris,
J. W. Grier,
J. P. Simpson,
J. W. Edwards,
H. Abel,
J. M. Cox,
Charles 8. Findlay.
BY TELEGRAPH.
| j faapiailoaal.
Washington, Deoember 5 —The House pastel
a bill to admit building Material in Boston tree
and then took np thb bill fox the ten sloops at
war. / wC'
Mr. Sumner asked, on aooount of ill health,
to be excused from servioe on any oommittee.
Mr.' Bice tried to call np his resolution asking
the President-why troops have been or are to be
aent to Arkansas, bnt Mr/Edmucds objected.
' Mr. Pomeroy introdneed a bill to prohibit the
Ml^or mimuf^e^^portattonof- tatort- favre-cd'mmltt^/exoiM”‘t^r i ,‘^,? f
oating liquors in the Distriot of Columbia or in hendon in Paris, where flehtin* ;I ** *PS*.
the Territories . tot ‘
It is ordered by the Conrt that the above pre
sentments be published as requested.
E. W. Ceocbxb, Solicitor General.
This certifies that the above is trne extraot
from tbe minntes of said Court.
A. B. Boss, Deputy Clerk.
Not a Sound Sleep In Fifteen Years.
In a leoture delivered at tbe Tabernaole, New
York City, last Sunday, the Bev. Mr. Talmage,
a warm personal friend of Mr. Greeley’s, said
Mr. Greeley told me ten days before hia nom
ination at Cincinnati that he had not had a sound
sleep in fifteen years! Brethren of literary
toil, we had better slow np—pat down brakes.
Yon who are going with the express train at 60
miles an hour had better take the accommoda
tion at 85 miles an hoar. It is this night work
that is killing onr literary men. The brass
heads of the ooffin lid are made oat of gaslight.
People will be found to BAy that disappointment
has oauBed bis death. The lecturer did not be
lieve it, unless, indeed, that it was the last straw
that broke the back of the oamel. A man with
bis great cerebral development and philosophi
cal intelleot could not succumb to a reverse of
fortune."
The inference is that too much work is bad,
and the reverend gentleman took oocasion to
remonstrate with hia brethren of the literary
world on their exoeaaive labor. The money
that a man makes ont of midnight toil ia paid
for his taneral expenses. The devil goes into
the artiRta’ studio and the rooms of editors, and
tempts them to increased labor. Then, when
their health is broken down there is satanio con
gratulation. In all editorial rooms let the warn
ing come from the fate of Kirk White, Henry J.
Raymond and Horace Greeley. The death of
the last-named is a national oalamity.
The Washington Capital, of this morning,
prints some tables which, it says, bave been
compiled with great oare from the original re
cords in the Treasury Department. From them,
it appears that the local ooet of lighting the gas
jets in the dome of the Capital and Honse of
Representatives by electricity during five years
has been $17,111 19. The average oostfor one
year was $3,422 24. Tbe average cost of light
ing eaoh burner eaoh time daring five years,
was six oents and four hundredths. The aver
age oost per night for five years was $107 62.
It should be lemembered that this does not in
clude tbe ooat of gas, but simply that of light
ing tbe jets.— Washington dispatch to Tribune
of 2d.
Compared with the oost to the tax-payers of
the oonntry of the gas generators under the
dome, the above expenditure may well be oon-
the notioe of a high minded statistician like
Donn Piatt
in foroe in the city of St. Lonis. They pro-Jjraotloed, like everything else, with a oertain sidered a mere bagatelle, and entirely beneath
pose, as bagnios and gambling houses cannoP abandon, allowance for all defects, taking 1
■ as little trouble as possible, sacrificing the com
pleteness of publio ednoation, of real instrno-
tion, at one time to mere fancies, and another
to professed innovations whioh were ohimerioal
when they were not dangerous.
What the Saints have done for South
Carolina In Four Years.
The Tribune’s Columbia correspondent under
date of November 19th, writes that the new State
Government—Heaven save the mark—would go
into office the next week, and that the “old offi
cials, who have done their best to rain the State
sinoe they oame into power in 1868, will retire
with their gains. They are all rioh, and most
of them will probably go baok to tbeir old homes
in the North. They came with little or no other
property beside their soantily-fiiled oarpet-bags
and they will return with diamonds and fine
array, with money, stocks and bonds, with
horses and carriages, and some with large in
vestments in real estate. They fonnd the State
with a debt of abont five millions, but with
property in railroad stook and mortgages almost
sufficient to pay her liabilities; they leave be
hind them as tbe fruit of their lew years of
administration a debt of nearly twenty millions,
and they have stripped the State of almost
everything she possessed exoept her publio
buildings and the lands npon wbioh they stand.”
And yet, in the face of this shameful reoord
of wholesale robbery and aoonndrelism, there
are fonnd natives not only in that bnt other
Southern States, whose palms are itching to
shake the filthy paws of these rogues, hoping
perchance some of the swag may stick to their
own from the contact—men whose regret, now,
seems to be not that this robbery and rain has
been aooomplished, bnt that they were afraid
to make oommon cause with the robbers and
share in it when it was being consummated.
Slandkbous.—The “ Small Talk ’’ man of the
Louisville Courier Journal perpetrates the fol
lowing npon some of the women of that oity.
We don’t know any down this way who are quite
that bad, but some of them don’t miss it a mile.
“ Small Talk ” says:
Some women are perfect rhinoceroses bo far
as newspaper news ia oonoerned. Mrs. Spright
ly, last Saturday morning, called on two intelli
gent female acquaintances, and among the first
things she said to the two was, “ Mr. Greeley
is dead.” The Two—“Who?” Mrs. 8.—“Mr.
Greeiey; I heard the boys orying it on the
Btreets as I oame along.” The Two—“ Who ia
Mr. Greeley?” Mrs. 8.—“Why, don’t you
know—Mr. Greeley, the editor of the New York
Tribune—be was one of tbe candidates for
President.” The Two—“No; did he ran for
President?" Mrs. S.—“Yes; Gen-Grant was
tbe other candidate—don’t yon know?” The
Two—“Was he? Well, who got eleoted?’*
Mrs. 8.—“Why, Grant.”
Eyebt Flavob as RepaxMNTiD.—With great
care, by a process entirely bis own, Dr. Price is
enabled to extract from eaoh of the true select
fruits and aromatioe, all of its oharaoteriatio flavor,
and place in the market a elaaa of Flavorings of
rare excellence. Every fl.vor aa represented, of
great strength and perfect parity.
For any flavor that may be wanted for flavoring
Joe cream, jellies, custards, pastry, etc, we r«com
mend Dr. Frioe’a Special Flauoringe, and feel sore
tha like hia oelebrated Cream Baking Powder, will
give perfect satisfaction. There ia no imposition
in these articles. _
A Western village tailor recently made them
blush like the red, red rose by this advertise
ment: “Wanted—Two or three steady girls, to
put on pants,”
Morrill, of Vermont, called np a bill on the
endowment of national colleges and Bpoke on
it.
■urine Disaster.
New York, Deoember 5 —Schooner L March-
ison, from Wilmington hither, is ashore at
Bocks way. > leans**n a’vrfM >
The fireelpy Fund.
Ben Wood, of the News, subscribed $1,000
' to the Greeley Press Fund. Other subscriptions
are reported, including $100 from John Mollaly.
Tbe Record states tbat the Government agent
for. the investigation of Oonsnlar aoeourits in
Europe was one of the heaviest loosers by the
failure of Bowles Bros., of Paris.
Old Sonth Char eh.
Boston, Deoember 5.—-The Legislature has
leased the Old South Church for.postoffioe pur
pose*-- .... ? , 7 .„
A Bogus Ruhr.
San Franoisoo, December 5—Tbe famous
so-oatled ruby, valued at a quarter million,
proves to be soft garnet, worth a hundred dol
lars fa - • •
The Qrfat CaUfMmla Diamond Swindle.
Salt Lake, December 5 —Fall advices of the
diamond swindles show that the Californians
lost two millions and Uie New Yorkers three
quartern of a million.,
Bishop or ■amaehaeetts.
Boston, December 5 —Bev. Dr. Haight, of
New York, has Men eleoted bishop of the Pro
testant Episcopal Ohnrch for the Dioeeae of
Massachusetts, vice Bishop Etstbura deceased.
Texas electoral College.
Jefferson Cm, Deoember 5 —The Electoral
College voted for Gratz Brown, 8; David Da
vis, L
Om Works Explosion.
London, Deoember 5.—The Newbnryport gas
works exploded. Seven were instantly killed
and many injured.
Short of Coal
Halifax, Deoember 5.—The steamship North
Amerioa pnt into Sydney, O. B., short of ooaL
Congressional.
"Washington, December 5.—Heusx—Bills
were introdneed to incorporate a banking aseo
oiation, with a capital of a hundred millions,
under the style of the Governors and Man
agers’ Exchequer of tbe United States; and
giving Meade’s widow a pension of $2,000.
The ten sloops war bill was resumed. Archer,
a member of the naval oommittee, advocated
the bill as a matter of necessity, the navy of the
United States being now in a rotten and ruin
ous condition. He admitted that there was
nothing to be feared from the great powers,
bnt the people whom it was desired to im
press with the greatness of this country were
the semi-civilized nations of tha world. It was
for that object more than any other that these
vessels were ieqnired.
The Honse then prooeeded to vote on the bill
and amendments.
Hale’s amendment, requiring half the num
ber to be built in private shipyards, was agreed
to by yeas 77, nays 65.
An amendment offered by Banks to modify
the provision in regard to gnns, so aa to make
it read not exceeding ten gnns, was agreed to.
Garfield’s amendment, requiring plans and
estimates to be reported to Congress and an ap
propriation made before the work is com
menced, was also agreed to.
Cox’s amendment, rednoing the number of
vessels to be oonstraoted from ten to aix, was
also agreed to by yeas 104. nays 67.
Tbe bill, as thus amended, was then passed.
A motion to adjonn; to Monday was made
and defeated.
Senate—Cameron gave notice that be wonld
call np at an early day tbe bill in relation to
French spoliation claims.
Committee Matters.
Carpenter sncceeds Fenton, Edmunds suc
ceeds Trumbull and Hamlin succeeds Bice in
the chairmanship of committees. Only one
minority representative is allowed on tbe prin
cipal committees. Bayard remains on Finanoe,
Fenton retiring. Tbnrman is chairman of Pri
vate Land Claims, the only oommittee over
which a Democrat presides. Sohnrz remains
on the Foreign Relations Committee, Casseriy
giving way for a plaoe on the Paoifio Railroads
oommittee.
Nominations.
Ward Hunt, Justice of the Supreme Court,
and J. L Orr, of South Carolina, Minister to
Russia.
Improvement of Navigation.
Col. Frobel, Commissioner of Georgia, for
the improvement of tbe navigation of the Ohio
river and its tributaries, is here and will inter
view the President on Saturday. Tha Commis
sioners from twenty other States are daily ex
pected and a formal meeting will be held at an
early day.
Tbe Alabama Matter.
Committees are in this oity from the two
Legislatures claiming legality in Alabama, for
the purpose of representing to the authorities
of the General Government their respective
claims to its favorable consideration. The com
mittee appointed by Governor Lewis, consist
ing of Messrs. W. EL Smith, B. M. Reynolds
and B. W. Norris, to lay before tbe President
and Congress a memorial and joint resolution,
to-day addressed a note to the President, npon
the subject of an interview with him in re-
sponoe to whioh the President replied that he
wonld prefer tbat they shonld first oonfer with
the Attorney General, and, in oonBeqnenoe, they
will to-morrow have a conference with Judge
Williams. A oommittee, representing the Capi
tol Legislature, will make a statement of their
oase on Saturday.
While the Attorney General will give fall at
tention to every matter presented by the com
mittees, he will not render any opinion, or take
any other aotion therein, and the fixed deter
mination of tbe Government is not to interfere
in the condition of political affairs in Alabama,
nnless something shonld arise under the Consti
tution of the United States, whioh shall render
necessary the intervention of Federal authority.
War moth Proclaims.
New Orleans, Deoember 6 —Gov. Warmoth
baa issued a proclamation narrating the resalts
of tbe eleotion. The proclamation doses:
“Now, therefore, I, H. Clay Warmoth, Gov
ernor of the State of Louisiana, do issue this my
proclamation, making known the result of said
election, aforesaid, and command ail offioers
and persons within the State of Louisiana to
take notioe and respect tbe same.
[Signed] H. O. Warmoth ”
The extra session of the Legislature meets
Tuesday.
Front Montgomery.
Montgomery, Deoember 5.—The Capitol
body balloted for a Senator without result, and
adjourned till to morrow, owing to the death of
a member eleot who bad not taken his seat with
tbat body, bnt with the Court-house body.
The Court-house body did nothing but meet
and adjourn, one of its members, Bennett,
having died during the night. This makes two
deaths sinoe the meeting of the Legislature.
Senator Bpenoer left this morning for Wash
ington.
A Code of Signals Recommended.
New York, Deoember 5—At a meeting of
the Ohamber of Gommeroe to-day, it was
resolved that the Ohamber respectfully ask the
Secretary of the Treasury to reoommend the
adoption, in the mercantile marine of the Uni
ted States, of a commercial oode of signals as
now in use by the navy of this oonntry sad
all other commercial nations.
A Big Babble Bant.
San Franoisoo, Cal., Deoember 5.—The
Colorado diamond fields aro certainly bogus.
It was a great swindle. The grand jury has the
matter in oharge.
. - A Decline In Iron.
Pittsburg, Deoember 5 —A meeting of the
Western Iron Assoeiation rednoed tbe prioe of
iron $12 per ton, and nails fifty oents per keg.
The reoent deoline in pig iron aoeoonts for the
decline.
Honors to Greeley.
Albany, N. Y-, December 5 —The Commis
sion to amend tbe Constitution adopted, on
motion of Erastns Brooks, resolutions tit eulogy
and regret for Greeley.
Steamer Sank.
CnonmAn, Deoember 5.—The Grey Eagle,
of the Louisville and Henderson line, baa been
sunk. Value, $65,000. She waa indued in
Louisville for $40,000.
^ French PMittm.
The committee, as formed
00 T , - t8 £ f . 19 dn P n «® fronrae^if^b
Left, representing 888 votes. Wh*®*" 0 ®the
Government will take, under the e£L n,8 ‘
is, at this time, unknown.
m J*® Empire *g^« Ib g,
New York, Deoember 5.—TheW^>u.
from London 5th, says the vote in theV^
Aasembly to-day, on the formation
f “vre committee, excited the liveli«
msion in Paris, where fighting is
The greatest exeitemeat prevail/ .?^ 4
hurst. Marshal MacMahon controls . ChU * 1 '
but will act only in obedience to to theVH
bly, and not to Thiers. 106
German reoeenpantion is oertain if
oocors, “
..ssss.rsr’is’pS 1 "«• ■»«.»*
The Friend of the BoyaStek.
London, Deoember '6.—-Hans
derson, the weD known Dsffish3 **•
isvia seriously ill. He is how
The steamship Maine, whioh hL
Southampton, reporta having sookn^
without steam, and npon being^ed ifdJ* 0 *
qtured any assistance, answered “no.'' 6 **
The New Peers Heated.
Berlin, Deoember 5.—Neariv alt «
elected peers took their smh in the £***
Honse to-day. m “« %«■
lit xou to dull, despondent, drowsy, deb®,
tod, have frequent headaches, mouth taetee b»&
poor appetite, and tongue coated, jouare
from torpid liver or “ biliousneas.” Nothing
cure yon ao speedily and permanently u
Prioe’a Golden Medical Discovery. ‘
Sudden Changes in the WxvrmtB are product;*,
of Throat Diseases, Coughs and Cold*. There i*
no mors effectual relief to be found, than in them
of "Brown's Bronchial Troches.”
Wjxboh’s Con Liter Oil and t.tot - Ptnom,
who have been taking Cod Liver Oil will be r i Mct j
to learn that Dr. Wilbor has succeeded, fromdiree. ’
tions of severe! professional gentlemen, in oomtin.
ing tbe pure oil and lime in ouch a mannerthstitta
pleasant to the taste, and its effects In lung cob-
plaints are truly wonderful. Very
whose cases were pronounced hopeleee, and who
bad taken the "dear oil for a long time without
marked effect, have been entirely cured by usm
the preparation. Be sure and get the genuine
Manufactured only by A B. Wilbor, fogg
Court at, Boston. 8old by all druggists.
Harmless as Suxkui Dew -let in the highest
degree disinfecaat and presemtwe,
keeps the teeth always healthy and (potion, udtfct
gums ruddy and free from canker.
FINANCIAL AND COIAKMM
Dally Be view or the Market.
OFFICE TELEGRAPH AND MEU8EKGE&I
December 7—Evening, 1871 /
CoTroN.—The market waa probably a ehaie cm.
ier to-day, though we note no change from yeebt.
day’s quotations.
Clean red 16)(
Ordinary
Good ordinaty.
Low middlings 17V
Middlings 18
Tbe reoeipts to-day were light, being only 881
bales; shipments 298; sales 314.
KAOOH OOTTON STATEMENT.
Stock on hand Sept. 1,1872—bales.. -fil
Received to-day S81
Beoeived previously........ 87,147—87,528
vjm
Shipped id-day.,., 293
Shipped previously 26,293-25,!%
Stock on hand this evening..
11,9(1
Haurikets—Morning Report.
New Fork, Deoember 7.—Cotton quiet; salee
2617 bales; uplands Orleans 20K-
Flour dull. "Wheat quiet. Com steady. Fork
dull; mess 14 00. Lard quiet; steam 7Jfqe.
Turpentine dull at 6l#6l34. Boom dull it
3 90@4 00 for strained. Fr> ights quiet.
Stocks steady. Gold steady at 13 Money tight
at Exchange, long 8$(; short 10 Goiant-
mente auli bat steady State bonds dull bnt eteidy.
Liverpool, Deoember 6, noon.—Cotton opened
quiet; uplands 10; Orleans 10)f@10&
Lateu—Cotton dosed dull; uplands 10; Orleui
sales 10,000 bales, speculation index-
port 2000
Sales of upland* for February 9h(.
Breadstuff's quiet. Pork; new 74s.
London, Deoember 7—Oon sols 9IJ£. New 5» 89.
flarBeis—Kvenug Report
New Yore, Deoember 7.—Cotton quiet; uta
1726; uplands 19%; Orleans 20%; net reoeipts 115%
gross 7657. j
Salee of futures to-day were 6,800 bales, ss fol
lows: December 18% ?18 15-16; January 18^3
18 15-16; Febrnary 19%: March 19 15 16@1%
April 19 9 16@19%; May 19%; June 20%.
During the week cotton hae improved Sals
reached -14,600 bales, of which 94,750 were fataier,
19,859 spot and to arrive; 9617 export; 6322 spin
ner*; 422 speculators: 3468 m transit.
Flour, Southern dull and on Changed; common to
fair extea 7 10<®9 95; good to choice 9 20$12 06.
Wheat held firm with moderate transaction- Corn
shade firmer and very quiet Pork 13 80@13 UK-
Lard weak 7%@8 Navals dull. Grocorias quet
but steady- Freights quiet but firm.
Money easier at 7 for gold. Exobange nominal
Gold 18%@:S%. Governments eff %; closed quiet.
State bonds dull but eteddy.
The Bank Statement shows: Loans increased
a 1,875.003: specie increase $259,000; legal tenders
decrease 8750,000; deposits increase $3,125,««.
Governments, 1831s 17%; 62s 13%; 64s 13%- ®*
13%; new 16; 67a 17; 68a 16%; new 5a 10%;
10-40s 9%.
State bonds—Tenneeeeea 77%; new 78%:
6s 46; new 52; console 66%; deferred 16;
isiana 6s 67; new 50; Levee 6s, 50; 8s 60; Alabama
8s 80; 5s 67; Georgia 6e 70; 7a 88; North CarohM*
34%; new 20; special tax 14%. Booth Carolina* Sr,
new 23%; April and October 25. . .
Baltimore, Deoember 7 Cotton* market ON,
middlings 19%; net reoeipts —; gross 9g5: Ml*
34; exports coastwise 45 continent—; stools 7440-
Flour quiet and unchanged; Howard Street «•
perfine 6 25@6 50 Wheat firm; white 125ii*W-
Corn firm and In good demand. Oats firmer; soaui-
em 46@t8. Provisions very quiet Pork,
15 60 Bacon, phonlders 6%@6% Lard very»
Whisky 93%@94. _ , „ ,
St. Louis. Deoember 7.—Flour_dnll; onlyM*
demand; winter superfine 4 26®5 00. O*® *5
business small; No. 2 mixed 28 at Eaat St-I/
on track; in waiehouse —. Pork nominaly U M
12 501 fiaoon quiet clear rib sides and clear
sold in round lots at 7 for March. Lara acoae
7 on spot and future Whisky firm at 92 .
LouiBYimt, December7—Flour
extra family 7 65. Com qoiefc “ jg 50.
Pork in Improved qemand; *“•&,'ThioSv dioice
Lard steady; tieroe 7%; kegs 8/3%; “to qV(a7%.
leaf a;.d prime steam 7%; order lots "Wfl'n
Whisky firm at 88 r mu M
New Orleans. December 7.—Cotton m
easier; demand fair; good ordinary) ijgmta
middlings 18%; middling* to
2502; gross 3602; exports to Greu BriWR
continent 4869 ooaetwiae 198g; sales to j
last evening 6500; stock 151,935 „ 10 jj.
Flour dud; trelle 7 25@8 75; tumij 909"%
Corn firm; white 65; yellow 62. v °* u on 00.-
Hay scares; prime 25 00; choice ** ” 5^
P -rk dull; mess 18 25. Jtaoon iw
dear nb sides 8%; dear eidea 10;
gar-cured 15%®17. Lard steady; tieroe SK^j
keg 9%@t0. Sugar dull;
oommon 6@7%; fair to good
9%. Molasses dull; centrifugal
prune to chaise 60@56- Whisky dull at via
Coffee firm a* 15318% „ ,
Sterling 21%. Sight
WmnwoToa, Deoember7.—8ptataofwrp« ,1 J g
quiet at 65. Rosin dull at 9 20 to
lor extra pale; 450 far pale. Oruda toJP« ^
quiet at 8 20 for hard; 620 for yellow
virgin Tar steady at 4 00.
Cotton steady; middlings 18%; net tows’"
exports coastwise 2141; salee 97; stock
Augusta, Deoember 7.-Cotton quiet;
18; net reoeipts 1264: sales864; atoek-'r;,
Savannah, Deoember 7.—Ootton
dull; good ordinary 17%®17%; k>w aggEw*
middlings 18%: net reoeipts 4 ,79; export:
Britain 1750; oontinent —; coastwise
1144; stock 79,SOS
Charleston. Deoember
dlixus 18%: low middlings 18%; good
netreosipts 1905; exports a.astwne 918,
Britain —< sales 300; stook 36,000. . . gnj;
Mobile, Deoember 1 J?
good ordinary 17%; tow mMtog*
18%; net reoeipts 2601; exports 00*
sales 500; stook 88,070 n «t raowP 4 * l00;
Boston, Deoember 7 —00**°°,
gross 850; sales 400; stook 405ft .toady 4 0 ® 3 ,
“Galveston, DeoMBberT-aottoo^^^tut
ordinary 16%; net reoeipto W,**-®**’ 0 '"
Britain 2M; sales 975; eiook <V M 0n ola*« d
Liverpool, Deoember 7, evening.
unchanged. ,— _noaaol«
London, Deoember 7, watting-
New 6* 89.