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Telegraph and Messenger,
MACON, DECEMBER 17 »87V
Direct Importations.
We trust onr rei.dere will a'tentively peruse
the very interesting article on the ontside of
this issue, detailing the prooeediDgs of the late
meeting, in Savannah, of the Direot Trade and
Immigration Committee, appointed by the Gen
eral Assembly to consider these important ques
tions.
Other difitingniahed gentlemen were invited
to be present, and after an informal discussion,
a committee of cine ns from Savannah were ap
pointed to collect statistics from estimates and
submit suggestions for the information of the
adjourned meeting of the committee, which was
appointed for December 26th.
We notice that one of our worthy citizens,
Eev. William McKay, an Englishman by birth
and education, and a gentleman of intelligence
and cultivated intellect, was among the number
of those invited to sit as a consulting member
of the Board. Should this preliminary action
remit (as we earnestly hope it may) in some
definite plan for the establishment of a line of
steamships acr 'as the Atlantic, and the encour
agement of immigration to Georgia, from the
better class of laborers in Scotland, Germany
and Sweden, no more efficient agent could be
found to send abroad to make the necessary ne
gotiations than Mr. McKay. He has the confi
de: ce of onr people, and is extensively acquaint
ed in the old country.
We learn that onr wide-ywako and enterpris
ing Mayor has determined to invite the Legis
lative Committee to hold its adjourned session
in onr own city. These questions are of vital
Inteieat to the entire State, and ell should lend
their aid aud conntenanoe to the movement now
on foot. With the introduction of an abnndant
supply of Irtelligent white laborers, many of
whom weu’d soon become land.holders and
producers on their own aoconnt, the country
would bo permanently benefitted and enriohed,
and at the same time the effect of this compe
tition upon the negroes would prove in the
highest degree salutary.
So also, by the direot importation of our goods
and merchandise from the manufactories of
Earope, transhipmentatNewTork will be saved,
and our own commerce receive an impetus which
will tell mo-t favorably upon the‘seaports of
the State. Let ns have direot trade with the
marts of Earope at the earliest day practicable.
He lives in Kansas this time, and his name ia
B D Jordan. He is addicted to the use of
tobacco, but is young yet, and aB he grows older
he will quit that pernicious habit. He is 111
years old, voted for Washington, does all his
own farm work, saws and splits the usual num-
her of cords of wood per day, and does all the
other ridiculous things which form the ordinary
pastime of the men living who voted for Wash-
ton.
Ttt» Supreme Goub» or Virginia has reoently
decided that an executor who paid over to the
Confederate authorities under the confiscation
acts of that government a legacy left by a North
ern testator cannot now be compelled to pay
the amount of the legacy to the legatee. The
Conrt says of the executor that “ he wisely de
clined a contest with a government which the
whole naval and military power of the United
States could not subdue under four years,” and
having yielded to the duress of a de facto gov
ernment is absolved from being now held re
sponsible for the legacy which it was not in its
power to hold.
Gossip About the Tribune —New York tele
grams of Saturday to the Western Press say
that $10,000 per share were offered that day
for Mr. Greeley’s stock in the Tribune. He
owns twelve shares, if onr memory is not at
fault. Next Saturday the live stook and a barn
fall of agricultural implements sent to Mr.
Greeley by inventors will be sold on the Ghap-
paqna farm. A report is afloat that Harper A
Brothers are discussing a project for purchasing
the Tribune and making George Wm. Curtis
editor-in-chief, and it is understood that they
are ready to offer $1,000,000 for the establish
ment as it now stands. The last sale of stock
in the Tribune was on an estimated valne of
$1,100,000, and shares are still held at that
figure.
A Life Insurance Sensation.—The Northern
insurance companies are just now kicking np a
tremendon-, bobbery over the action of the Mu
tual Life, of New York oity, in reduoing its rates
of premium. The Mutual is one of the oldest, if
not the oldest company in the country, and very
Strong on its pins, the latter reason being given
by its managers, among others, in defense of its
action. The protesting companies say that this
action is unsafe for itself and nnjust to rival and
less firmly established oompanies. As to the safe,
ty of the policy we shonld think the Mntnal peo
ple ought to be allowed to jndge of that for
themselves, and we hardly see the injustice to
other companies of the Mntnal’s offering to do
business on lower terms than they, provided the
Mntnal can afford it with safety and justice to
its present policy holders. It is a grave
question, however, and will receive the serioos
consideration of the life insuring public.
The Hobse Malady.—The effect of the horse
disease is being very grievously felt in the oity,
the merchants being unable to handle the
freights that are ooming to them. The railroad
depots are overflowing with freights, and the
railroad authorities are clamoring for its remov
al. This the merchants are unable to do, be
cause of the lack of dray force -the horses and
mnles being nearly all sick. Now that bad
weather is setting in, it will be dangerons to
work these animals for at least two cr three
weeks. Experience has taught that the ani
mals require the most careful treatment at the
time they are convalescent, and even when they
are supposed to be well it is dangerons to use
them until they shall have passed beyond the
danger of relapse.
The orippled oondition of trade has pnt bust
ness men of all classes to considering what
means may be adopted to relieve the pressure.
Bailroad men are pressing the removal of
freights, whioh, with the present facilities, is
simply impossible. The question then is, what
can be done to give even partial relief 7
After a oonsnltation with the officers of the
roed, and the owners of the drays, Mayor Hnff
has resolved to issue a proclamation, inviting
the people in the surroneding country to bring
their teams in and pnt them to work removing
freights. Parties having oxen or mnles unaf
fected by the disease are invited to bring them
into the oity. The license ordinance is sus
pended in their favor, and they will be permit-
ted to use their teams for draying purposes,
free from all corporation expenses.
This action on the part of the Mayor is timely
and proper. Something most be done, and
nothing seams so practicable as the coarse the
Mayor has adopted. He will be ihdorsed in
his oouree by all business men, and every right
thinking man in the oity. Toe oonntry people,
it ia hoped, will give the matter favorable and
immediate consideration. By bringing their
teams in they oan make good wages, besides
contributing to the business of the eity, in
whioh the oonntry people are closely interested.
An English oonple were lately registered at _
Chicago hotel. The husband stands eight feet
high and weighs four hundred and thirty-five
pounds, and his wife ia two inohea shorter.
The Parvenne Versus the Aneleutt*
If old blood, and nations which have waxed
and waned for a half soora of centuries, and
have each their chapter in the annals of every
past generation to the remotest antiquity, are
respectable, not less so are the more vigorous
offshoots of modem times. In the former,
habits and customs beoome stereotyped, tradi
tions take the place of fasts, the rust and
ernst of ages encase and dim all material ob
jects, and even the mind dogged with the
weight of years seems to move at slower pace.
There Is a disposition to rest upon the glories
and achievements of the far distant past, and
undervalue modern men, modem innovations
and modem progress.
We can bnt admire much that is connected
with those men and peoples, whose maroh adown
the highway of nations is marked by milestones
and monuments, hoary with age, and moss
grown, and ornmbling under the inroads of re
morseless time. Itte natural and commenda
ble, too, to be prond of one’s blood and family,
and to take pleasure in traoing your lineage
far back into the “times of old.” Especially
so, should the modern representative happen to
be no degenerate scion of worthy sires. But all
these things have their limit and may be carried
to a preposterous extent. Nay, there is even an
argument to be had on the other side of the
question. And just as the seeds of plants and
vegetables, and animals, too, when bred in,
and in, will deterioate and almost ran out, so it
is claimed that a new admixture of blood is
needful, and new colonies from the old hire
must swarm out, or the old will subside in de
cay and rain.
As in most propositions when fully stated,
there is a juste milium whioh gives the true ver
sion of the matter. Henoe, it is neither true
that because a nation is old, it most be in a state
of decadenoe, nor does it follow that those of
more reoent origin are neoesaarlly more vigor
ous and flourishing. England affords a bright
example of great antiquity oombined with com
mendable progress in all the essentials that con
fer power, and grandenr upon a nation. On the
other hand, Spain, Portugal, Ireland-and Italy,
sleep upon their lees, and drag their slow
length along in the weary path trodden by their
ancestors sinoe “time was young," and with
bnt the feeblest evidences of moral or mental
improvement.
So of modern nations; Mexico, Pern and
other Sonth Amerioan countries exhibit bnt lit
tle of the vigor of the newly engrafted soion,
and of the first named, unless within the past
year, it may be doubted if she has not drifted
down stre'-m, and is poorer and worse off than
ever before. Brazil, Canada, the United States,
and remote Australia, on the oontrary, have out
stripped in their growth and progress the old
countries of Earope.
Oar own nation, thanks to the Impetus re
ceived from free institutions, and a wise and
jn-t administration of the Government daring
a large portion of its history, still presents a
grand speotacle to the world, despite the mis
rule, oppression, and partial legislation which
has degraded and defaoed her statute books.
True, this is more apparent in that seotion
which baa grown rioh upon the misfortunes and
calamities of the Sonth—misfortunes and ca
lamities whioh had their origin and onlmination
in a long catalogue of wrongs infiioted, whioh,
at length, growing intolerable, oonld only be
deoided by the arbitrament of the sword. But
even here, certainly in Georgia, there is mani
fested a recuperative energy, a cheerful spirit,
and oommendable industry, which must chal
lenge the admiration even of onr nnnatnral op
pressors. This is mainly the result of the vast
internal resources of the Empire State of the
Sonth, and the fact that the white raoe have
been united Id her borders. The same eannot
be said of onr efflioted sisters, the Carolines,
Mississippi and Louisiana.
Bnt onr object in penning this article, was to
institute a comparison between the growth and
restoration of Paris and Chicago, both devasta
ted by fire. The one was the seoond city in
Earope, and the prond capital of the most re
fined people in the world. Petted and orna
mented in turn by each reigning sovereign, she
became opulent and great, and her palaces and
public edifices were the admiration of Earope.
Indeed, Paris was aptly styled the heart of
Franoe, and the eentre of fashion and the fine
arts in all Christendom. Bnt rntbless war, and
infernal etrife, swept her broad boulevards with
the besom of destruction, and she was subjected
to an ordeal of blood and fire, the world has
seldom witnessed.
Her modern staterin America, was also visit
ed with a whirlwind of flame, which in a single
day, well nigh wiped ont of existence her splen
did structures and crowded thoroughfare s.
Bnt now see the difference between the old
and the new, between Europe and America.
Chieago has risen from her ashes more glorions
than ever, like a creation of Aladdin’s lamp,
while renowned and anoient Paris still exhibits
wide wastes of rains, and her population is
thousands less than at the period of her disas
ter. Business in the former has revived, and
attained to even vaster dimensions than ever
before. In the latter, tbe affrighted people
have not even yet all returned to their city,
and the process of recovery is painfully alow.
The one exhibits the energy and strength of a
giant, the other shows the signs of decrepitude
and advancing years. The streets of the one
are alive with artisans, tradesmen and bustle ;
those of the other, amid mnoh of anoient splen
dor, present terrible soenes of mendioanoy,
squalor and misery.
In short, these cities are, to some extent, the
type and reflex of the oondition of things in
their respective countries, and prove that age
does not always indicate superiority. We are
not ashamed, then, of the the term parvenue,
as applied to Amerioa and Americans. Success
is the standard by which merit shonld be meas
ured, and in this respect we can challenge com
parison with the world.
Lo! The Poor Cabpw-Baooeb —He seems
to be catching it hot all aronnd. Tbe New York
Commercial Advertiser, one of tbe most trooly
loyl journals that ever bowled itself hoarse in
praises of the parly of ‘“great moral ideas” and
its works, hits him this lick:
Tbe Senatorial “situation” in Sonth Carolina
is mnch “mixed. ” An abnndanoe of candidates
makes confusion of counsel. There are Patter
son, of Pennsylvania, and Scott, of Ohio, and
Bainey, of Snllivan street, and Elliott, of ton-
sorial art notoriety, and Jones, of Illinois, and
Smith of Connecticut, and Bobinson, of Cali
fornia, each ambitions to represent Sonth Caro
lina in the American House of Lords. We have
no desire to meddle here, because it’s a beanti
fnl fight as it stands, bnt it does seem that if
gome Sonth Carolinian coaid be indneed to ran,
competitors from tbe other States (we don’t
know whether the Territories are represented or
not) might see the propriety of retiring.
The Erection Supebvisor Swindle.—The re
turns as received at Washington of the varionB
United States marshals of the number of super
visors of election, and deputy marshals em
ployed by them for the reoent Presidential and
Congressional election foots np mnoh larger
than at the election of 1870, which was the first
held under the laws authorizing enoh appoint
ments. The sum to be taken from tbe Treasury
to pay tbe parties so employed, will probably
ran np into the millions. It does not appear
that in the vast majority of the eleotion dis
tricts of the country there was any call what
ever upon them for any aerviee.
A Brahma rooster, named “Colossus,” died of
apoplexy in Connecticut, a few days since. He
weighed over sixteen pounds, doubtless tbe
largest ebantioieer in Amerioa, and was valued
at abont $100 by bis owner.
Another Triumph of “ Moral Idea***
In Sonth Carolina.
The telegram printed yesterday morning with
referenoe to the eleotion of John J. Patterson,
a Pennsylvania oarpet-bagger, by the negroes of
the South Carolina Legislature aa United States
Senator, and his subsequent arrest and con
finement in jail, is a striking oommentary upon
the beauties. of Badioal reconstruction and
“ great moral ideas.”
Patterson’s principal antagonist w&3 one El
liott, a big, black, insolent Afrioan from Boston,
who now assumes to represent the Edg* field dis
trict in Congress, and<•he fight wasstated to be on
the line of his oolor against Patterson’s money.
Elliott considered he had a dead thing on ao-
oount of the oomplexion of the Legislature, a
large majority of whiob were negroes, and pnt
on airs accordingly He concluded that with
such a bund defeat was impossible, bat the man
aud brother Beems to have been nnable to re
sist the potent forces of unlimited whisky,
cigars and greenbacks, and to have gone back
on bradder Elliott. “Blood iB thicker than
water” as a general rale perhaps, but when pit
ted against whisky and a fat pocket-book it is
just no where. Those sort of arguments are
irresistible, not only with the trooly loyl black
man at the Booth, bnt also his pale faced ally
at the North—as is shown elsewhere.
• We suppose Patteraon’s incarceration was in
stigated by Elliott and his friends in their rage
and disappointment at the result, bnt it will
amonnt to nothing, of coarse. If he had money
enongh to bay a seat in the Senate, he has more
than enongh to nnlock any jail door in Sonth
Carolina, and walk out when he pleases. A man
with snoh a pocket-book cannot be spared from
tbe counsels of tbe impecunionB, iniquitous
mob of barbarians and brigands who rale tbe
roost over in that nnbappy land. They go to
the Legislatnre to sell their votes and plunder
the tax payers, and such a man as Patterson is
just the sort of purchaser they are hunting for.
There will oertainly be other jobg to be pat
throngh before they go home, and Patterson
will doubtless have a band in all of them. To
keep him in jail, then, or frighten him out of
the 8tate, would only result to tbeir pecuniary
disadvantage. We make sore, therefore, that
Patterson will not only come ont of this little
difficulty with flying oolora, bnt that the very
gang who had him arrested will; in less than
a week, be humbly begging him to buy them at
his own figure.
As to Patterson’s reception at Washington
there can bb no question, even if bribery should
be proved upon him. His fallow conntrj m»n,
Cameron, has entered tbe Senate more than
onoe bearing the same blushing honors thick
npon his noble brow, and there are others of
that goodly band wbo champion the Adminis
tration and howl death and destruction to rebels
and traitors, who wear similar chaplets. Pat
terson will be welcomed with open arms by
them, and his election be heralded all over the
country as another triumph of “loyalty” and
the Grant Administration. It would be a funny
sight to see him tbrnsl forth as unworthy to sit
beside Cameron, Clayton ft Co., when he brings
with him such credentials of devotion to tbe
party of “great moral ideas.” Besides, if every
loyl man who bays votes is to be cast into jail
therefor, who would be safe at Washington, and
what would become of the “fruits of the war 7”
Every Rose has Its Thorn.
It was tbe pleasure of tbe writer to be prev
ent at the Baptist Chnrch on Tuesday night,
with a large and brilliant assemblage of the elite
of onr city, drawn thither to witness tbe nnp-
tials of one of Maoon’s fairest and most lovely
daughters, with tbe husband of her choice.
The speotaole presented was both grave and
joyous. Not a few young hearts beat high with
hope and pleasurable anticipations of a similar
experience, ere summer flowers shall blush and
bloom again. Witbont, snow flakes and the
wintry blast robed nature with a dreary garni
ture, while within, all tbe bravery of fashion
shone, the hnm of merry voices reached the
ear, and jewels flashed and glittered in tbe gas
light. Soon the beauteous bride, Miss Mary
Battle, leaning on the arm of heraffiaDced. and
attended by a bright coterie of friends of both
sexes, entered tbe chnrch and passed down the
aisle to the altar Hers a semi-circle was
formed, and tbe officiating clergyman, Dr. Mc
Intosh, when the pealing organ bad ceased, with
solemn aud stately bearing, proceeded with tbe
marriage ceremony, whioh was singularly touch
ing aud appropriate. Not a heart present but
felt that this was no empty formula; no con
ventional usage, bnt a holy sacrament, ordained
by Jehovah himself, and whioh might not be
set aside by man, nntil hoary age and the grave
shall snnder tbe wedded pair.
And now the gentle bride realizes amid her
happiness, that childhood’s home and the en
dearments of beloved kindred mnst be surren
dered, and hereafter her life and identity
merged into that of tbe man to whom she
has plighted her faith. Happily for her, bis
heart is noble and true, and no clonda dim the
horizon of her hopes. Bnt still, sadness creepB
in, aud with the rainbow and sunshine the fall
ing drops come likewise. It is a sweet melange;
a curious oommingling of grief with exstatio j >y.
The honored parents too, are not unmoved
spectators of this thrilling scene. A quasi sense
of bereavement oppresses their hearts, whioh
neither reason, hope nor facts can dispel. Some
thing more than a shadow has interposed be
tween them and their loved one, and hence-
forth hers mnst be a divided heart, while her
person and being belong to another. Call not
this feeling selfishness, for it is the ontbirth of
parental love and tenderness, and callous must
be that person who does not experience it.
So we peroeive, though marriage be a season
of joy and festivity, ai.d ail goes merrily, and
the whole earth is painted coleur du rose to the
“loved and wedded,” sadness also enters the
charmed circle, and tears have their place, too,
in tbe picture. Thus, as in nature, every rose has
its thorn, so there is no perfeot happiness or
enjoyment in this life.
After the marriage a brilliant and happy party
thronged the rooms of the bride’s father, Dr.
Battle, and amid enlivening conversation, the
delights of mosio, and a feast of good things,
the hours sped rapidly on.
And now we take leave of the happy young
couple, and invoke God’s benison upon them to
the latest stage in life’s jonrney.
A Step in the Dark—A Columbus Man’s
Mistake.—The Knoxville Press and Herald of
Tuesday morning, says:
Yesterday morning, shortly after 8 o’clook,
Mr. W. L. Williams, of Columbus, Georgia,
took a step whioh nigh proved a fatal one to
him. Mr. William* was a passenger on the
westward bound tram on tbe East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia Bailroad which left
Knoxville, Tennessee, at 11:30 o’clock on Sun
day night last. He occupied a sleeping car
berth and slept very soundly until after pa«a-
ing Obatata and nearing Cleveland. Awak
ening, though still drowsy and oonfuRed, be
left his berth and walked to the rear of the
oar, whioh was the laBt one on the train. It 1b
supposed that he intended opening the door of
the ware (--closer, but instead, he opened the
door in ibe rear of ihe oar and, stepping ont m
the darkness, became still more confused, and
turning, m an endeavor to oolleot his senses,
stepped off the train, whioh was running at tha
time abont twenty miles an hour. Mr. Will
iams’ absenoe was discovered immediately, and
■he train, neanng Cleveland, a party was sent
back in search of him. He was found lying on
■ he track and insensible. Being conveyed to
Cleveland and receiving medical attendance, it
was found that he had unstained no serioos ex
ternal braises, bnt that bis system had been se
verely ebooked by tbe fall, and it was feared
that he was injured internally. He improved
somewhat yesterday, and last night though’ he
would be able lo proceed on his joniney to-day.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
They have oonolnded not to, and Atlanta
breathes easy onoe more. A Board of Arbi
tration stepped in and settled it satisfactorily.
We mean Messrs. Clarke of the Constitution,
and Abrams, of the Herald. Now let ns have
peace in that portion of the vineyard at least
for a week.
We clip these items from the Savannah News:
Sugar from New Orleans.—Large ship
ments of sugar and molasses from New Orleans
are being made throngh this eity to tbe North.
It wonld seem from this that better time and
better tbroega rates can be obtained tban by
any other routes. The able management of the
Central Bailroad has mnoh to do with the open
ing np of this throngh trade.
Attractions at the Fair.—We have already
mentioned that a number of parties bad writ-
tea to the Secretary of the Fair Association in
referenoe to introducing amusements and novel
ties on tbe ground. We learn inquiries of this
character continue to be made, and among the
last is a proposition from a gentleman in Stock-
ton, Clinch county, if a suitable piaoe on the
ground can be procured, to exhibit the three
children (now grown) of a poor family residing
in that section, known aa the Alligator Children,
on aocount of their external resemblance to that
amphibious oreatnro Tbe firat child has a scaly
skin aud when lying down her actions are very
similar to those of an alligator. The other two
are not so distinctly mark* d, yet are similar in
appoaranoe and aotions to their sister. They
walk with difficulty; their nsnal style of loco-
motionjs crawling, but when ereot they walk
upon the tips of their toes Tbeir natural po
sition is a recumbent one, and in that are tbey
only at ease. Tbe parents of these singular
children are very destitute, but to tbeir oredit,
be it aaid, refused an offer of $10,000 from a
showman to take them North for exhibition.
A negro brakesman, on the State road named
Adam Brown, was instantly killc d on Monday
night by falling from a train of ears rnnniDg at
fnll speed—the whole train passing over hiB
body.
A Mrs. Wilson, of Atlanta, was seriously, if
not fatally, burned last Sunday morning by the
explosion of some kerosene oil with whioh she
was kindliDg a fire.
Last Snnday was a very nnlncky day for fe
male obnreh-goera at Atlanta, jndging from the
following from the Herald, of yesterday:
A Charter of Mishaps —A young lady, re
ligiously inclined, attended St. Panl’s Cbnrch
Sunday morning She was particularly devout
and attentive daring tbe services, exoept occa
sionally when she wonld ca t ber eyes over her
shonld- r and look down towards the seat. When
tbe sermon was over and tbe congregation dis
missed she staited borne. She bad not gone far
down the aisle, before something dropped on
tbe floor, whioh proved to be a morass. It was
not, as one might suppose, a low, swampy pieee
of ground, nor yet was it newspapers. The
material was flour sacks. Some one attempted
to piok it np, bnt was frightened off by seeing
two live mice run out of the sack. The ques
tion ia, “What iB it 7” Another: As a lady was
walking on Davis street, the same day, she
walked ont of her underskirt. With a
good deal of coolness, she picked the artiole np,
and rolling it under her shawl, passed on her
way.
Judge Hopkins and Solicitor Glenn, of the
Fnlton Circuit, and others of the same fraterni
ty, are going on a “jamboree” to Cuba on the
20tb inst.
Mr. A. H. Sneed, for many years ogent of
the Southern Express Company at Forsyth, has
resigned that position on account of ill-health.
Mr. J W. Moran snooeeds him.
The Democrats of Monroe county have nomi
nated the following tioket for county officers:
Ordinary, Bev. E Dumas; Clerk of Superior
Court, Eobt. M. Williams; Sheriff, 0. M, Mo-
Cane; Treasurer, H T. Harper; Tax Collector,
H G. Gibson; Tax Beoeiver, W. M. Williams;
We quote the following from the Monroe Ad
vertiser of yesterday:
The Milner Sale.—The sale of lots at Milner
on Friday last, by Capt. A J. White, was well
attended and spiritedly conducted. Twenty-8>x
lota, from one to four acres eaob, were sold,
bringing an average of eighty dollars per aote.
Several new building* will soon be erected by
some of tbe purchasers.
Cotton Bubned —On Saturday night last, the
cotton in a box car attached to tbe down freight
tram, on the MAW. railroad, took fire from a
spark, and abont twenty bales, with the car,
were consumed.
Another Burning.—We regret to learn that
the gin house and fixtures of Mr. James Wil
liams, of Jasper, was burued on Thursday last.
Beyond tbe facts that a considerable quantity
of cotton and cotton seed were lost, and that
one freedman wbo bad sold enough of bis crop
to pay his debts, lost six bales be was holding
for a better market, we have not learned any
particulars.
Municipal—The election on Saturday last,
for municipal officers, passed off quietly. But
little interest was manifested, aud the poll was
very light. Tbe following gentlemen were
elected: Capt. T. B Cabaniss, Mayor; Dr. J.
8. Lawton, Capt. J M. Ponder, Dr. K. F
Wrigbt and Oapt. S. D Mobley, Oonncilmen.
In Jail.—Bill, a desperate negro from tbe
vicinity ot Smarr’s Station, was lodged in jail
on Friday last for attempting to kill Mr. Gt orge
Davis, and a negro. Bill stole a pair of shoes
from a negro comrade, with whioh he was try
ing to eso.ipe, when Mr. D attempted to arrest
him. In the scuffle the latter wasseriouBly cut
in the back. A negro came to the aid of Mr.
Davis and was cut in the hand by the ruffian. At
this stage of affairs a third negro knocked Bill
down with a club, when be was secured and
brought to town. Bill was arrested about two
weeks ago, for threatening to shoot hiB wife,
bnt managed to get off.
The Bainbridge, Gathbert and Columbus
railway will be sold at auction on the first Tues
day in February. The track is nearly graded
from B.tinbridge to Cnthbert. Five per cent of
the parohase money will be required on day of
sale.
Shippers bought 2 712 bales of cotton last
week at Colnmbns, and street operators at least
300. The average prioe was abont $85 per bale.
The Colnmbns Enquirer has these items:
8alx of the Goiter Plow Works.—On
Thursday last, D P. Ellis 6o:d the above mills
and appnrtenanoeR, situated on the Southwest
ern Bailroad, in Muscogee county, 15 miles from
Colnmbns. The steam engines, faotory and op
erative buildings, and abont 20 acres of land,
were sold for $3 500—Asa lijnoh being the
purchaser. The machinery, we hear, brought
less than half its original cost.
A Prisoner Shot ry the Sheriff —Saturday
morning while Sheriff Bradford was carrying a
number of colored prisoners to the Court-house,
Edward Timothy, a noted burglar, made an at
tempt to escape, and in doing so was shot by
the sheriff at a dtstauoe of twenty or thirty
yards. Tbe ball took effeot in the back a little
8bove tbe right hip, andranged in the direotion
of the kidneys. He was conveyed to the guard
room, and Dr. Crdzey called in to render medi
cal attention. The vt onnd is considered serious
and may prove fatal.
We find this statement in the Savannah
Mirror, of Monday afternoon.
Foreign and Coastwise Exports for the
Month of November.—The exports of cotton
oosMtwise for the month ending December 1st,
was 85,141 bales, 217 of which were Sea Is'and.
Lumber exports for the same period 1,003,000
feet, and 821 casks of noe. The exports foreign
for the same period amounts to 68 390 bales of
upland, weighing 81 822 662 pounds, valne
$6,878 867; 137 bales Sea Island, weighing 43,-
917 ponnda, valne $25 362; 685 000 feet of
lnmber, valued at $14 012; 88,348 oak staves,
valued at $5 627 Total va ne, including other
shipments, $5 929.668, of whioh over three-
fonrths were in foreign bottoms.
We extract as follows from “Ogeeohee’s”
letter of the 27tb inst., to the Savannah News :
Foster Biodqett.—An effort has been made
recently by the sureties of Foster Blodgett, to
indnoe the Governor to grant him a safe oon-
dnot to Atlanta and explain his • cconnts as Su
perintendent and Treasurer of the State Bail-
road. The reader may remember that execu
tions were issued against Blodgett and his sure
ties from the Comptroller General’s offioe, as
fellows, to-wlt: Foster Blodgett, as Superin
tendent Western and Atlantic Bailroed, and H.
I. Kimball, John Bice, H .0 Hoyt, L. Scho
field and Yarney Gasktll, sureties, for $20,000;
Foster Blodgett, as Treasurer, and W. P.
Rhodes, Ephraim Tweedy, William Gibson,
J. P. Poole, H. O. Hoyt, George P Barnett,
M J. Hinton and fames.Ma'niesoD, as sure
ties, for $25,519 44 To each of tfceee sums
shonld be added twenty per oe&t damages for
default. The jf, fas. have been levied npon the
property of the sureties, and the same will be
sold by the sheriff in January. The oases were
carried to the Supreme Court by the sureties,
and eaoh one was debided against them. The
sureties, while admitting a small balance against
him, claim that the amount for whioh executions
have issued are incorrect, aud that if be werb
present he conld explain the discrepancy. They
applied to the Governor for a safe conduct for
Blodgett to Atlanta and make the necessary ex
planations, adding that tbe anthorities of the
State oannot desire bis sureties to pay more than
is justly due. Tbey say that Blodgett has grown
prematurely old, and is a mere “ruckle of
bones.” to use the language of Dr. Livingstone,
and that he desires to return and retide within
the State, and when d< ad to have hiB body re
pose in hi* native soiL They even bint that, if
permuted to come back unmolested, he may
make important disclo urea, but what those diB-
cloinres are, they carefully refrain from telling.
There are several indiotments pending here
against. Blodgett. Daring bis brief administra
tion, Acting Governor Conley granted him a
fall and unconditional pardon, as the reader
will recollect, for all his past offenoes, known
and nnknown, and there ere some legal gentle
men who believe this pardon will stand the test
of jndioial decision. Theie are other offences,
however, under what is known as the Felony
Act, passed last December, whioh were not
complete at tbe dBte of the perdon, and which
oannot be made complete and indictable nntil
demand is made by the Treasurer of tbe State
for public property and moneys alleged to be in
Blodgett’s possession, and a refusal by him to
deliver the same. If Blodgett shonld be per
mitted to retnrn, the Treasurer could not
in good faith make the necessary demand
npon him daring the continuance of tbe
eafe conduct; and possibly thereby bangs a
tale. For these and other r< asons, it is said,
the Governor decidt d not to give the 6afe con-
duot. He considers Blodgett one of the great
est of the late scalawag and carpet bag offend
ers, and any arrangement by whioh he might be
enabled to come and go at will wonld, to that
extent, be a fraud npon jnstioe. It is under
stood that neither Governor Scott nor the newly-
elected Governor of South Carolina will surren
der bis body npon the requisition of the Execu
tive of thiR State, bnt still the latter seems to
see in this no reason why so great a culprit
should be permitted to have tbe freedom of the
State, either in bis own interest or in the inter
est of his sureties.
The taxable property of Georgia in 1871 was
$210.602 211. This year in ia $226 6C3.2C3,
showing an increase of $16,061,052. The taxes
tbe present year for general purposes will reach
abont $60u.000 Ti e specific taxes will amonnt
to abom $100,000, end the tax for pnblio schools
will be abont the same.
Among tbe letters held for postage in tbe Sa
vannah office, we observe one for John W.
Bnrke, of this oity, and one for Sarah Green,
of Milledgeville.
Tbe municipal eleotion at Milledgeville last
Saturday resulted in the ohoioe of Dr J. W.
Herty as Mayor, and Messrs. E. Trice, George
Holder, E. G. Lewis, W. T. Conn, and Henry
Temples, as Aldermen. In one ward there was
a tie between Lueins Lamar and Joseph Slatey.
Bev. A A. Porter, D. D„ formerly editor cf
the Southern Presbyterian, published at Colom
bia, S. O., and well known in that State and
Georgia, died at Galveston on Saturday, as we
learn from the Savannah Advertiser.
H. M. Tamer, the notorious parson and poli
tician, delivered a eulogy on Horace Greeley at
Savannah, last Snnday. Tamer said Greeley
had done more for the negro race than any man
living or dead. And yet he and^all his sort
wanted to murder every negro who even talked
of voting for him at the last eleotion.
The cars on the Augusta street railway have
commenced running agaiD,bat only at intervals
of one hoar.
The Atlanta Constitution says:
Don’t Emigrate.—We regret to see the daily
notices of large parties emigrating from Geor
gia to tbe WeBt. Bishop Pierce in a man whose
judgment is esteemed sound by all. In a reoent
letter be says:
“The soil cf Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska
iB generally and wonderfully rich. The oorn
crop this year is a feast to the eye. To a man
who is aoonstomt d to small fields with seven
feet rows and three or four in the drill, and
twenty bushels to the acre—a crop to brag on—
an area that tbe eye oannot compass waving in
the wind like a cane brake, and bearirg an hun
dred bunhels on every acre is a sight that cheers.
No wonder that the contrast stirs the spirit of
emigration. And yet very few improve their
condition by moving from the Atlantio States
to these fertile regions. There is an unsolved
problem in this—that on the poor lands of Geor
gia the people do as well financially as those
who till the rioh lands of the great West. As to
climate, productions, comforts, oommeroial re
lation the year ronnd, the advantage ia with the
East. I travel and see and wonder and admire,
bnt always return, well satisfied that he who
fixes the bounds of onr habitation gave me a
home in Middle Georgia.” Slay at home.
Among the relics to be plaoed on exhibition
at the Seamen’s Fair soon to be held at Savan
nah, will be the Confederate flags which flew at
the masthead of the steamer Fingal which ran
the blockade in December, 1861, and came into
Savannah loaded with arms and war material.
We find these items in the Colambns Enqui
rer of yesterday.
Col. W. P. Bamsey Killed.—Passengers on
tbe North and Sonth Bailroad, this morning,
report that Col. W. P. Bamsey, a young lawyer
and planter in Harris oounty, was shot and
killed Monday night, in Hamilton, by a Mr.
Swinston, ot Swanson, or Swmsford, a carpen
ter, who has lately returned from Texas. Wa
have not been able to gather particulars. We
bear, however, that the two, with Mr. Seats,
were in a private room. Some words ensued
when CoL Bamsey fired. Seats then ran from
the room. Three shots were fired by Swanson
at Bamsey. One ball entered in his month, one
his left breast aud another his bowels. Bamsey
died at onoe. He was hardly 28 years of ege,
and will be remembered as one of the delegates
to the Straight-ont Convention at Louisville.
Inspection of North and South Bailroad —
At 10 o’clock yesterday Commissioners Geo. W.
Adams, B. M. Ganby and John D. Gray, to
gether with some twenty- five or thirty of our
prominent citizens, including the Mayor of the
oity and several Aldermen, were ran ont on a
speoial train to the terminus of the North and
Sonth Boad, for the purpose of inspecting and
reporting npon the first twenty miles just com
pleted. The gentleman with whom we con
versed was deligh'ed with tbe to id and thinks
there will not be tbe least difficulty in the way
of its being aooepted and endorsed. The Com
missioners returned abont dark in a hand-oar,
they having chosen that method for making the
inspection complete.
Grant, Alexander A Co paid the State $10,-
000 hire for the convicts a few days ago. They
have abont five hundred and fifty convicts em
ployed at present, and there is not one of them
on the sick list.
The Presbyterians of Colnmbcs have made
arrangements to pay off a debt of $10,000 hang
ing over ihatohnroh. They propose to purchase
oity bonds and exchange them with the holders
for tbe bonds given by the ohnrob.
The Colnmbns Son sbjb tbe Savannah and
Memphis railway has given the oontraot to
bnild the bridge over the Tallapoosa river to tbe
Baltimore Bridge Company. It is to be com
pleted by April 1st, at first ooet, with ten per
cent, added. The trains now ran within a mile
and a half of the river. The road made $4,000
last month. The traok has been.graded to the
river, and eleven and a half mileB on the other
side are under oontraot, and the work is pro
gressing. It will not be many months before
connection is made with tbe Selma, Borne and
Dalton Bailroad, at Cbildersbnrg.
There were three houses robbed at Savannah
on Saturday night. In one of them property to
the valne of $300 was carried off.
The Borne Conner says:
A Remarkable Family —There is now living
near Cassandria, Walker county, of this State,
a Mrs Elizabeth Hardin, who boasts of more
descendants tban any one we know of in these
parts She is only 74 years of sge, is in fall
health, and does a deal of work in attending to
domestio affairs. She has ninety grand chil
dren, sixty-three great grand ohildten and one
great great grand obild. Our informant failed
to give ns the number of her ohildrea, bnt be
side these she has 154 desoendantc.
The Augusta Constitutionalist furnishes the
following with reference to the reoent duel near
that dty ? . between two Sonth Carolina editors:
From what we conld learn,' it' appears that
shortly after the Boston fire an artiole appeared
in the Orangeburg Times, a Democratic jcumti
edited by Mr. J. S Heyward, in regard to that
evt nt. Tbe next is-ne of the News (Republi
can) of the same piaoe, edited by Mr.
Browning, contained an artiole in the natare of
a reply to that in the Times, and embodying,
we understand, some expressions which Mr.
Heyward, the editor of the limes, considered
persot ally offensive, and he, therefore, ohs!-
leged Mr. Browning, the editor of the News,
the author of the offensive artiole in question.
The challenge was accepted by Browning, and
Sand Bor Ferry designated as the piaoe of meet
ing. Mr. Browning being the challenged party
and aoeordiDg to the dnolfng code entitled to
the ohoioe of weapons, selected Bemington five
i-hooters. As soon as all the particulars of the
affair were properly arranged the principals,
their seconds and a surgeon—the latter being,
we learn, Dr. Legare—set ont for AngnBta
They reached here Sunday morning. The
meeting had been arrapged to take piaoe Sun
day morning at 11 o’cl -ok, but from some cause
was postponed to Monday morning. The affair
was kept very qniet, and bnt few people in tbe
city knew that a duel was on the tapis. Yester
day morning abont 11 o’clock, the necessary ve
hicles were procured and the principals, their
seoonds, and surgeons left the city for the
Ferry, followed by a small party of gentlemen
who had heard of the diffionlty. Arrived at the
Ferry the carriages stopped, the principals, sec
onds and surgeons got ont, and tbe neoessaty
preparations for the duel at onoe commenced.
The ground seleoted was directly on the road
leading from tbe oity to the Ferry, and but a
very short distance from the river. The road
at this point slants somewhat, bnt soaroely
enongh to be perceptible. The lowest part of
the incline is next to the Ferry. Tbe distance,
ten paces, was measured off by the seoonds and
the weapons loaded. Mr. Heyward won the
ohoioe of position, and selected that farthest
from the river. When he fist stepped from the
carriage he wore an overooat, bnt as soon as the
matter of positions were settled he took this off
and banded it to a friend. He then quietly
stepped to his allotted position, where he re
mained standing, until his pistol was handed to
him by bis second. Mr. Browning was smoking
aoigar when he reached the ground, and kept it
in his mouth nntil the time came for him to take
his position. Both parties appeared to be cool
and oollected. Two gentlemen of this oity en
deavored to effect a settlement of the diffionlty
between Messrs Heyward and Browning, with
out their having a resort to arms. Bat their ef.
forts proved of no avail. Abont bal F -past twelve
o’clock, the principals being intheir proper po
sitions, the pistols—Bemington five-Bbooters—
were plaoed in their hands by their respective
seconds. The seoond of Mr. Browning then
said: “ Gentlemen, are yon ready 7” to whioh
the response was made by each: “Beady.”
The same seoond then called ont: “Fire! One,
Two, Three." Both gentlemen fired. Mr. Hey
ward remained perfectly stationary after firing,
while Mr. Browning stepped forward slightly.
Neither was wounded. The question was then
asked by Mr. Browning’s seoond of Mr. Hey
ward’s, “Are you satisfied 7” To this the latter
replied, after consultation with his principal,
“No,” thus necessitating a seoond fire.—
The weapons were again placed in the
hands of the principals, the question “Are
you ready?” again asked, and the response,
“Beady,” again made, The words “Fire!
One, Two, Three,” were pronounced as before.
The principals fired almost simultaneously. As
on the first fire, however, neither was wonnded.
The question being asked as before by Mr.
Browning’sBecond, “Areyon satisfied?” Mr.
Heyward’s seoond, after consultation with bis
principal ai d a friend of the latter’s, a citizen
of Augusta, who, with a praiseworthy desire to
prevent bloodshed, had suooessfully prevailed
upon Mr. Heyward to desist from carrying the
duel any farther, replied in the affirmative The
principals then stepped forward a few paces and
sainted each other ceremoniously, after whioh
all parties returned to the city. The under
standing was, we were informed, that Heyward
aud Browning were not to speak to or hold any
intercourse whatever with eaoh other in the fu
ture.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
Dally Review or tbe Market. -
OFFIOE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER,!
December 11—Evening, 1872. f
Cotton.—The warehousemen find great diSculty
in handling the cotton that is ooming in, owiig to
the scarci'y of draying facilities, which is due to the
prevalence of the horae disease. The receipts of
cotton have also been materially diminished from
the same cause.
The market to-day was active with a good de
mand. We note no change from yesterday’s quo
tations, which are as follows:
Clean red 16%
Ordinaiy 16‘<@16%
Good ordinary 16%@I7
Low middlings 17%
Middlings 18
The receipts to-day were 426 bales; shipments
324; saleB3i3.
MAOON OOTTON STATEMENT.
Stock on band Sept. 1,1872—bales. 412
Received to-day 42S
Received previously 88,481- 38,907
S9 3*9
Shipped to-day 324
Shipped previously 27.231—27,561
Family
Keg ' J® * 10V"
OOFFEK—Bio..7.7’ f 1»
Java.... ■*"*' i* ®
CHEESE—Beet cream.... **’"* 38 ® S{
New York State * 1#
MOLASSES * «, 11
gv! *
White extra O....7....... iT&f 14
, New Orleans sugar (hhda). ?? B
Yeiiowo..........t:.;;; %
Demarsra Ilk
. Porto Bloo . ** «]}£
MACKEBEL—No 1 kits........ 2 25
“a bbis uoo 8
“2 kits @! *50JC
“3 bbis—Large 12
“A kite 1 bo f ? S
WHITE FISH—Half bbl iou @1?0
CANDLES—Beet star (foil w*t) 21 <a ‘ 5?
paraphfite...;...;.....::: ■ • «
SOAP-.....; , Lf J
BUTIEB--Choice Tennessee... m 8
Tennessee No. 2.
Goshen No 2..;.. S8 a
Country » f ?
EGGS-Perdos..; M I 40
OHIOKENS-Perdoz jm f
SALT-Yirginiapersack. 210 M
Liverpool. L 6 £
NAILS—...V. Ran
OSNABTJBGS—No 1 .7.7.7- 651 ® 7 25
No 2 * V
Milledgeville No.2
Waynmanville Sheeting... }*,
Houston Sheeting “W
£gSrae£-.-~::i: 8*t f
High Shoal Stripes....,;; 15 % «
Montour Shirting—V... . ®
Georgia unwashed wooL 1
Georgia washed wool....
4-4 MACON SHEETING."
*fj Sbirtihg ”
Ball Thread
Knitting Yarn Sx
FEATHERS..... 75 « Z
BEESWAX .7.7.7. » « 5
HIDES-Diy flint 15 ® »
Green 7 I 5S
SWRET POTATOE8 1 00 Z 1 m
WHISKY Common Bye 1 05 a 1 in
DRIED PEACHES ... 10 @ $
Market reports of Fancy and Family Grocer;.,
by Greer, Lake A Co., Nos. 62 Cherry, and 64 Thirf
streets, Macon, Ga.
Choice Family Flour, with s
steady demand ..$10 00 ® u m
Sugar cured and pig hams 20 0 m
37 • •
Am o*. isl u. iDd Brown N. O.
8og*r..i 12 (a 15
Best Young Hyson and Black
Teas .' 125 a 17s
Old Government Java Coffee.... 23 • J*
White & Little Green Rio Coffee 22 0 S
Choice Beef and Buffalo Tongues 75 r> 125
Cod Fish in jot-
Potatoes and Onious 8 50 is S 00
Florida Oranges 3 00 @ 4 m
French Lemons..'. soo 0mm
New Layer Bkiains 3 50 @ SSO
New Currants and Prunes 15 0 oq
Almonds, Peocans, Walnuts and
Filberts 14 a %
Finest and best Champagnes... 28 00 QMoo
Old Family Bye Whisky.... 2 50 ® 6 00
French Brandy, for medical use. 8 50 @ 15 00
Domestic and Imported Segars . 20 00 0150 00
Virginia and North Carolina To
bacco 48 0 125
Georgia Cane Syrup.. 60 @ 65
Diamond drip (White) Syrup.... 125 @ lyv
Dried Peaches 8 a 10
Dried Apples 5
Market*—Morning Report
New Yore, Deoember U Cotton quiet; m!m
1853 bales; up'ancU >f)%. Orleans 20>£.
Flour doll. Wheat steady. Com firm. Toft
du'l; mess 13 00@13 25. Lard ateady, etumW
&IK
Turpentine firm at 59@60. Borin dull atSSS
for strained- Freights firm-
Stocks strodg Gold steady at 12% Money fan
at 7. Exchange, long 8Jf; short 10K Government!
dull but quiet State bonds very fi-m.
Liverpool, Deoember 11, noon.—Cotton opened
firm: uplands 10; Orleans 10K<S10t£
London, Deoember 11—Console 9l%@91%. Set
5s88Jfj.
Paris, Deoember 11.—Rentes 631 50c.
(tsrKels—Rveu.iu ttepu -
New York, Deoember 11.—Cotton irregular: sales
4617; uplands 19%; Orleans 20%; net rectipte 6018;
g -oss 4816.
Sales ot futnres to-day wen 17 2 0 bales. 11 fol
lows: Deoember 18 15-16 19%- January 9
February 19%(®19 7-16; March 19%<@!9 U-16 Apr]
19% May 20%#‘2o 5 16; June 20%@2'i 9 16.
Flour aotive; common to for extea 71IVS915;
good to choice 9 20®12 00 ' h sky a tbade firmw
at 95(o 9 >%. Wheat very dull and nomtntilr 101
lower; winter red western 193(3)175 Com a shade
firmer and quiet. Bice steads. Pork dull at 1300
(«.13 25 Lard firm at 7% @ 8%.
Turpentine firm. Bosiudnl Tallow qtiti at8#
@8% Freights to Live pool quiet and firm.
Gold !2%@12%. Money active at 7 to a frtc-
tlon oommistion Exchange ver« strong at 8ft.
Goven nnnts steady. States, Tennessee* very
strong; other 8tates dull.
Governments, 1831s 17%; 62s 13%: 64* 13%; ft
13% rew 16%; 67s 16%: 68e 16%: new 6e V"
10-408 9% ,
State bonds—Tennessses 82% new 82%. Yirgma
6s 47: new 50; consol* 65% deferred 15^; &£•
isiana 6s 50; new 60; Levee 6s. 60; 8s 60; Alii**
8a 80; 5e 57: Georgia 6* 70. 7s 86; North Cardan
34%; new 20; special tax 13 South Ctrdns |
50: new 24: April and Ootober 25%.
Baltimore, Deoember 11 Cotton market £®
middling* 19%; net receipts 1257; gross 7(8 u!*
25; exports oosetwiee 175 ooatinent —; uO:et
Britain—; stock 9097.
Flour steady and firm. Wheat vety firm; «■*
choice and amber 2 05. Oorn firm; white aud yel
low 60 Oats, southern 46<®50. ProrisiJM quiet
and nominal. Whisky 95% , ,
Cincinnatl December 11.—Hour seti re ana |
high-r at 7 60@7 75 P ovision* etrorger Port
firmer at 12 CO Lard hi her; steam held »t7¥@
7%; kettle 7%. Bacon, shoulders 5; clear rib tide* j
8%: dear 8%- 8% WhUky firm at 83
Louisville, December 11.—Flour firm auaUD-
Oora qniet Provision* active and strong Fort
19 45
Stook on hand thiB evening.
11,758
The money and general market we quote as fol
lows:
EXCHANGE OH NEW YORK.
Buying % die
S riling par
EXCHANGE ON SAVANNAH.
baying % off.
Selling par.
UNITED STATES CURRENCY—LOANS.
Per month 1%@2 per cen>
GOLD AND SILVER.
Buying rates for Gold $1 11
Selling 1 13
Buying rates for Silver 1 05
Selling 1 07
STATE BONDS.
Georgia 7 per cent. Bonds, old 85
Georgia 7 per cent. Bonds, new 85
Georgia 6 per cent. Bonds, old 70
CITT SECURITIES.
Oity of Macon Bonds, endorsed by B. B. ... 92
Oity of Macon Bonds 80
City of Savannah Bonds, old 81@84
Oity of Savannah Bonds, new 80@83
RAILROAD SECURITIES.
Georgia Bailroad 7 per cent. Bonds 93
Georgia Railroad Stock 99
Central Railroad 7 per cent. Bonds 96 @97
Central Railroad Stock 100(2)101
Southwestern Bailroad Bonds 90@ 91
Southwestern Bailroad Stock ' 89@90
Macon A Brunswick B. B. 1st mort. Bonds... 70
Macon A Brunswick B. E.2d mort. Bonds. Nominal
Macon Sc, Brunswick Bailroad Stock Nominal
Macon Sc Western Bailroad Bonds 93
Maoon Sc Western Bailroad Stock 99@100
Macon Sc Augusta Bailroad 1st mort. Bonds. 88
Macon Sc Augusta Bailroad 1st mortgage Bonds
endorsed 69@90
Maoon <1; Augusta B. B. Construction Bonds. 80
Macon Sc Augusta Bailroad Stock 22
Western Railroad 8 per oent. Bonds, endorsed
by Central Bailroad and Georgia Bailroad. 91
Mobile Sc Girard Bailroad Bonds, endorsed by
Central Bailroad 87%
Montgomery ft Eufanla 8 per cent gold en
dorse bonds 87(390
Mississippi ft Tennessee Bailroad let mortgage
Bonds 80
Sonth Carolina Railroad Stock 80(533
Atlanta ft West Point R. B. 8 per cent Bonds 1 00
Atlantio ft Gnlf Bailroad. consolidated mort
gage Bonds 77
Atlantio ft Gnlf Bailroad Bonds, endorsed by
Oity of Savannah 77
Atlantio ft Gnlf Bailroad Coupon Bonds 50
Atlantio ft Gulf Bailroad Stock 16
HEATS.
BACON—Clear rib rides (smoked) 11%@ 12
Shoulders 7%<j) 8
8uear-cnred hams 18 @ 20
PORK—Pickled rumps 14 00
Pickled mess 18 00
Pickled trimmings 10 00 @ 11 00
WHITE MEATS-OB Sides.... 8%<9 9
Shoulders 6%@ 7
Bellies 11
SRAM AND HAT.
OORN 88 « 95
MEAL 1 00 @ 1 10
GBITS 1 85
OATS 60 @ 65
FIELD PEAS none
HAY-Weetera 1 90@ 2 00
Tennessee Timothy 1 75
B4GOINO AND*IRON TIE*.
BAGGING—Bengal 16 @ 17
Lyon 17 ® 18
Borneo... 18 @19
Gunny 16
Dundee ^17 @ 18
Patched 15%
TIES—Goochs
Arrow 9%
Eureka
FLOUB—Low superfine per bbl 6 00 (® 6 50
Standard superfine. 7 00 @ 7 50
Extra 850® 900
Choice extra 960
OT. LUU1Q, A/tfCClU'ft3r II-XIUU'V —
Corn dull; No 2 mixed 3-J at Eat St Low «
track. Pork dull; order lo s 12 25 B»con. no
Lard in good demand for futures: 6aJea°f P",
steam et 7 for December, mostly for Hamit*-
St Joseph Whisky firm at 88 .
New Orleans. December 11.— r otton
demand and firm; low midd ings 18%®l f ft>
dlinga 19%® 19%; net receipts 5120. groes
exports to Great Britain —; to continent»
coastwise —i sales to day 2000; last evening ^ ■
stock 154,013 „
Flour firm; treble 7 12@8 75; famJy 95P<™£:
Corn higher; white 70: mixed — Otts 9 a ‘ e, * t „V^
46. Hay firmer; prime at 26 00; ctioiw stss
P rk dull; mes- IS 75. Bacon scarce; ahon.dav^
dear nb sides 9: dear side# 10%: hams,
gar-cured 16@18. Lard steady; tierce
keg 9%<§>9%. Sugar quiet: in’enor
togood oummon 6%@7%: fair tofobjJ»W«
8%- urime 969% Md-sses aot.ve aui
common 40; prime 52(a'55- Whiakj 92|97
scarce end firmer at 16 (9 „ -51/.
Sterling 21%. Bight %@% dbtoount.
Wilmington , December 11 Hpirtte of JrovPPTjj 1
dull at 65. Rosin quiet at 325 * ^[, ft '^ !n uD!
for extra pale; 4 50 fer pale , Crnd 1 f. O*
steady at 8 20 for hard; 6 20 for yellow dip
viTRin. Tar steady at 4 00. receipts M
Cortot quiet; middling* i9 yj.
exports coastwise 128;middmgl
\tt8Usta. Deoember 11 —Do™ 1
18%; net receipts lSC8; sdeeUlL t
H avannah, December 11 m .*r -
first; good ordinary 17%<®17K-1 r
middlings 18%@18%: net receipt- 1 S ^
Great Britain ; continent 1881. co«
sales 1638; etook 66,925 „ -w** firm;
Charleston. Deoember 11—orim*#
dlinas 18%: low middlings -—> 1( « ; Great I
—; net reStipta 9495; exports . «**•
Britain —; sales 1500; stock »7 3S»- tet fats
Mobile. Deoember 11 rjljl? 2 g. otiMf I
good ordinary 17%; low n**®"g* J 1 * ’ I
18%; net reoeipte 1419; exports I
sales 2500; stock 43 970 oiJclis?
Boston, DeoembM 11 —^Ootton riook I
20; net receipts 265; gross *91, 8 I
Nohiolx, December n I
dlinge 18; net reoeiptf- 2440; exports I
sales 200; stook 10.670
Philadelphia,Deoember U-Ontton
m ddlings 19%. rvtton * SI
Memphis, Deoember 11—Oct*°nin ul s»,i
middlings 19%; reoeipts 176*i ^ .
stock 82,290. <WmiW*i6|
Galveston, Deoember 11-0°*'“"^ *
ordinaiy 16%; net reoeipts
Britain 850; coastwise i0<: sales [
Liverpool,Deoember It, evening--*^ 1
fit Bread I tuffs steady. Oommon ro^f lU
Unpaid Interest on Stats -Is & |
Court Degree.—Raleigh,
case of Swasey and others »g p„bliop?j|
Carolina Bailroad Company * 1 ^
mer, a decree was made »c-dej J dlh0 iba»*|
States Circuit Court, ordering ^ reo^l
of $256,000, now in bond*, ^1
to the holders of Norih Ojuro
to the North Caroline B» ,lr0 * d „poo ‘JjJj
80 per oent of the 00 “ D ^“ mm i 4 rioD I
bonds, proved before the Co J
ed by theoourt. —««ntly oaog® 1 ‘
An ingen ins negro was »perad
ing np green hart* f .fins* 11 '
in a Virginia bank, by mean* «
on th® cud oi its