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The antiquity of the dentist’s art is
shown by the fact that mummies have
been foun.l in Egypt with teeth filled
with goW-_ t
Kemper’s ascertained majority for
Governor of Virginia, is 26,795, with
Buchanan and Warwick counties to he
heard fron, which, it is thought, will
nearly tie.
Steel bars have been advocated in
place of bells for churches and similar
' p Ur po- • ■*. TJy;y produce a pure, distinct
and melodious "sound, and are said to be
cheaper, lighter, and not so liable to crack
as bells. ^
Forest and Prairie Fires.—A terri
ble fire is raging in the forests between
Arkansas and White rivers, and others
are sweeping large scopes of country on
the Central Branch, and Atchison, Tope
ka and Santa Fa railroads.
• So 1 tii Carolina paid for public print
ing lust year $331,915 66, and left an un
settled balance on the same account of
$118,055. The Legislature may not
know how to read, but they certainly
hold the art of printing in high estima
tion.
The Shreveport Times of the llth inst.
announces that the Texas and Pacific
Railroad Company has relieved Tom
Scott’s Credit Mobilier Construction
Company from further labor in building
the road, and has assumed the work it
self.
Uncle James, walking with niece Mary,
aged four, points to the moon, on whose
disc the dark spots show quite plainly,
and says: “There is a man in the moon,
Burning brush.” The infantile realist
put? up her little nose and snuffs, saying:
“Ye* ; I ’mell the ’moke!”
Want to Fight.—The Nashville nig
gers held a war meeting on Thursday to
express their views. They want the Cuba
darkies liberated and offer to enlist to
whip out the Cuban loyalists. That’s
right f We advise them to go fifty thou
sand strong to effect these objects.
The whole number of new buildings in
the burned district of Boston is three
hundred and sixty-five—about sixty-six
per cent, of the five hundred and fifty-six
that covered it before the fire, and they
eost about $15,000,000, or & million and a
half more than the valuation of their pre
decessors^
The artificial butter machine which
makes butter out of beef Buet, now in
operation in San Francisco, can produce
six tons of batter a day. By adding a
few handsful of hair and dead flies to this
new product according to taste, the pur-
ohaser has an article very much like the
ordinary grocery article.
Wx. M. Tweed has been found guilty
of the charges preferred against him.
There ore two hundred and four counts
in the indictment, and now comes Mr.
Tremain, of counsel for the prosecution,
and demands that he shall be sentenced
on each count. The “Boss” has the pros
pect of a pretty long imprisonment be
fore him, if he should only live to serve
out the term or terms.
Government Suspended Specie Pay
ments.—According to a special Wash
ington telegram in the Cincinnati Times,
Secretary Richardson announces that the
public debt will be largely increased this
month, and, the premium on gold having
advanced, the Treasury has discontinued
"the payment of silver in sums of five
dollars. Fortunately the suspension will
not increase the scarcity of silver change
MADRID ON FIRE.
War with Spain.
There is, as usual in important news,
a big hiatus in our day dispatches, which
may possibly be supplied by later tele
grams before we go to press. Evidently,
however, the American legation at Mad
rid has been mobbed and Sickles scared
by a yelling crowd of ■ Spaniards. Spain
is in flames. The chance of war is now
as good as the chance of rain when it
thunders and lightens—or as the chance
for meat when the ham is in the pot and
the pot boiling. There is a big old row
looming np in the immediate future (so
it appear* to us), and all the truly loyal
mn bo happy without further notice.
The panic has gone, and greenbacks will
soon flood the country somewhere about
knee deep. Every truly loyal fellow will
have a sack full before Christmas, and
Cuba will hum in the course of sixty
days. We think we'see the red breeches
“a gitting up and gitting” in a hurry.
Now is the time for the niggers who
fought so terribly in the rebellion.
But to he serious—the news of to-day
opens a strong prospect of wax and we
don’t much doubt it is coming. A war
with Spain, in her present crippled con
dition is not so terrible a matter, but the
conquest of Cuba opens up a- political
vista to the American Republic involv-
ing we know not what. Good bye to all
the traditions of the old government. A
new and strange page .is revealed in our
national history.
Important News from Madrid.
Under the head of “Important News
from Madrid” the Courier-Journal gives
a Washington special of the 18th embrac
ing very little news from Madrid, hut a
good deal more Washington speculation
and gossip. Says that dispatch:
The cable dispatch from Madrid to
day, in reference to the position of the
Spanish Cabinet, is regarded as of great
importance, and as putting a more serious
aspect on the situation than has been
heretofore presented. The Spanish Cab
inet it is said are unanimously in favor
of a satisfactory and honorable settlement
of the Virginius difficulty but regard the
maintenance of the integrity of Spanish
territory as essential.
The construction put upon this an
nouncement is that the Spanish Govern
ment is not disposed to pursue a straight
forward course, but designs to resort to
the devious and tortuous ways of diplo
matic procrastination. By such action
the settlement of the difficulty may be
delayed for months, and finally the whole
thing fritter #away in meaningless
phrases. By this time our Government
and people would probably get disgusted
with the matter, or be too much absorbed,
in some new excitement to. do any thing
more about it.
It is the opinion in diplomatic circles
that, however well disposed Senor Cas-
telar may be towards the United States,
he wT ■ ’~om his administration to
ce. \ ’H by any appearance of
con ■ Many of those who have
hereto “ore b‘.*u of the impression that
the difficulty was susceptible of an ami
cable settlement are now coming to the
conclusion that we shall either have to
pocket” the insult put upon us, or resort
speedily to extreme measures This was
for Congress to decide, and it may be
that, following the example • of Great
Britain in such cases, it will go to war
first and conduct the diplomatic corres
pondence afterwards. There is author
ity for the statement that neither the
President nor the Secretary of State are
at all satisfied with the attitude of the
Castelar administration; and if Congress
does authorize the institution of the most
vigorous measures, it will meet with the
approval.pf the President.
A Lexington dispatch to the same pa
per says Congressman Beck thinks the
administration is merely filibustering to
divert public attention from the financial
condition of the country. Others are ap
prehensive that there is more than fili
bustering at the bottom of the movement.
They call to mind that all the truly loyal
people of the country are flat broke by
this cursed panic. They have lost the
Tlie War with Spain*
The character of the telegrams from
Washington and the North shows that a
great war flurry has seized the politicians
and the people; or, to state it better, the
politicians see that the people are clam
orous for war, and are bent, in their own
interest, on inflaming the passion and
pushing matters to extremities.
A war with, Spain is the -easiest thing
possible to obtain at this time. It is
quite true that Spain is .not in a very
good condition to prosecute a foreign
war, but the. chaotic state- of her home
politics furnishes the prerise reason why
she can’t keep out of a war in this case.
The Castellar Government is in the hands
of the Madrid mob, and the mob are in
flamed to madness over the suspicion that
the American Government -has designs
on Cuba. In a phrenzyof resentment
over this suspicion, it seems they under
took to mob Sickles two or three nights
ago, and would have done it but for the
prompt intervention of an armed police.
The Castellar administration, hanging
on to power as they do merely by their
eyelids, are forced in self-preservation to
avoid, in treating with our Government,
everything which looks like concession or
compromise, and hence have bristled up
like porcupines. The Madrid telegrams
say that Castellar and Sickles have had
high words and angry times in their
diplomatic interviews. Sickles, himself,
is a man without character and conduct,
and would he wholly unfit to represent
the Amerian Government at such a
time if its desire or purpose were to
make for peace. But as we infer that
Grant’s administration is not, at best,
very desirous of a conciliatory attitude
in Spair, Sickles, no doubt, answers the
purpose very well at this time,
And as it is in Spain, so is it in Cuba.
Havana is also in the hands of a mob,
and will do anything violent, foolish and
ridiculous which this Government may
need to justify derisive measures. In
short, we never saw a prettier chanoe for
a fight, and it must be a piece of rare
good luck which keeps the countries at
peace. The press telegrams say the ad
ministration has been getting ready for
war for some time, and their preparations
are none too speedy or complete.
Some doubts are expressed whether the
Southern boys will pitch into this
and fight under the Stars and Stripes for
the conquest of Cuba. That depends a
good deal on circumstances. If the ad
ministration of Grant should go heavily
for negro enlistments-in their Cuba army
it* is quite possible that the Southern
soldiers would permit them to try their
luck mainly with African troops from
this part of the moral vineyard. But if
they want the young white men of the
South, we are disposed to think there
will be no lack.
in Georgia.
„ ~ Tl——\cent of all the pickings and stealings
K.vo*v,u* Provision Market.-^ ^ dustriousl y eoIleoted during the “rebel-
.lion,”- and must have some more.'' Hence
the cause of humanity and the honor of
the old flag imperiously demani a very
extensive row with Spain.
Press iuul Herald, of Thursday, quotes
corn sacked and delivered at GOc. Oats
42 J to 45. Wheat §1 to §1 50. Bye 75
to 85c. Potatoes are worth 50 to 60 cents
a bushel, and $2 to $3 per barrel. Beef
on the hoof 1J to 3 cents. Hogs 3 J to 4
sent?. Pork packing bad commenced
there, and several hundred carcasses were
on the hooks. Business was improving,
and the Press and Herald says the finan
cial condition of East Tennessee is very
hopefnL
Revival op Business.—The New
York papers report quite a revival of
•very branch of business on Saturday
last. There was an improvement in
prices of produce of all kinds, the im
portant article of cotton included, and in
groceries. There was a better demand
for tobacco, and among the metals there
was a better feeling. There was also a
rise in geld, which is not a bad sign.
Hour was fifteen to twenty-five cents
per barrel better. Wheat three to four
cents better. Sugars were advanced a
fnu-ti >d by the Cuban excitement. In
short there was decidedly more life in
trade and for better faith in the near
future. x
Mr. Henry Clint, a merchant and
ship-owner; of Liverpool, who is passing
through the bankrupt court, married in
1868, and before marriage made a settle-
menton his intended wife whichis unique,
and rather interesting just at this time
to Mr. Clintfscreditors. He conveyed to
her “all future real and personal estate
which the- said Henry Clint shall at any
time daring the intended coverture be
possessed of or entitled to, or shall other
wise acqpire.” Under this deed Mr. Clint
could never become possessed of money
or real estate for his own use, and yet ha.
continues to tarry on business in Kis own
name, to-all appearances a man of wealth
and substance-. This was certainly un
fair and fraudulent in equity, though it
appears that the conveyance is strictly
within-the-Taw.
Wart-hen's- Five Bales to the Acre.
The curiosity of the newspaper press is
•■cited about Mr. ,T. C. Wartben’s fire
hales ef cotton to the acre—reported by
the Smdezsville Herald. Is it possible
Bo prodnoe foe merchantable bales of cot
ton on an awe of sandy land moderately
Manured ? Was the acre accurately
measured?—the product kept separate
and accurately- packed and weighed?
Were these five honest bales of 450 or
500 pouadtf each? That cropping beats
•very thing on record, and the public
•annul hear too much about it. Wo have
Are the Planets Inhabited?
Professor Proctor, the famous English
astronomer, treats largely upon the
probabilities of other worlds being in
habited, the conclusion being that of the
inner planets, Mercury, Venus, the Earth
and Mars, our planet only was in condi
tion to be inhabited by beings like
dwellers upon the earth. Mercury and
Venus must he too hot, and Mare too
cold. Of the other planets, their condi
tion was not probably such as to permit
of habitation by beings like the dwellers
upon our earth. On some of the sat-
elites of Jupiter and Saturn there might
possibly be conditions of light and heat
suitable for beings organized like man
kind. The lecturer thinks that possibly
all other worlds were, like ours, formed
by the Creator with the design of being
inhabited at some period. Oar world,
which has been in existence millions of
years, has been inhabited but a very
short period, comparatively, and it was
possible that in time it would be worn,
or wasted, or frozen out, so as to be no
longer habitable. So other worlds, not
habitable now, might undergo changes
as the ages go by which would make
them so.
The Cotton Picking-.
Colaparchee, Ga., Nov. 21, 1873.
' Editors Telegraph and Messenger: You
ask "ye farmers is it true that the bulk
of the cotton crop has been gathered ?”
For Monroe connty I answer. Tea.
With propitious weather for cotton
picking, the first day of December will
witness nine-tenths of our cotton fields
abandoned to stock.
The unusual sight of grain sowing win
again greet us as a result of the blight
ing panic. Ew Taylor. ”
The New York Tribune has assumed
the role of old “Old Probs.” In the mat
ter of the Cuban question. It takes it
for granted—
1. That our Government has demanded
full reparation for the outrage committed
against onr national dignity.
2. That Spain cannot exert suffirient
authority in the Antilles to satisfy our
just demands.
3. That in default of the action of the
Spanish Government the President, un
der authority of Congress, will take the
necessary measures to vindicate our own
rights in the matter.
4. That as a result of this, Cuba will
cease to be a Spanish possession, and will,
in aU probability, become a part of the
United States.”
We shall see.
How to Get Up a Sensation.—The
Chicago papers report that as one of the
preparations for the Cuban meeting in
slwa-ys thought a ton acre field ci Itirated
as Thoroughly n« a cabbage o* onion J ^ew York, the following dispatch
patch, and fertilized to the last degree, j g^t to that city:
was tiro w*y to make cotton in these New York, November 15,1878.
piping times of free lobor, but never ex-j Governor Hcndbices: Please send
peeled to produce fifty hales oa that ton the Executive Committee a stunning dis-
acre field. Can it he don>? Has it boon 1 h to r ^ d .. Mo “' la y
. Jj _. , . • ma.i8-meet:ng on the Cuban atrocities,
•one i J re bales tq the acre to a g\pn- . J. H. Van Allen,
ms out ion crop. A M. T. McMahon.
The Iron-Masters Groan.
The American Iron and Steel Associa
tion held a meeting in Philadelphia jast
Thursday and sat in sackcloth and ashes:
The Secretary submitted a statistical
report embracing a general review of the
iron trade. It states that the present fi
nancial crisis has deranged the whole
business and the prices of iron have de
clined, reaching, in some lines, far below
the cost of production. At the begin-
ninn of November fully one-third of the
furnaces were idle, and by the end of the
month one-half of the furnaces will be
blown out. The rail mills are bare of or
ders, and the stock of pig iron is accumu
lating with no sales at any price. Thou
sands of iron-workers are out of work,
and those net employed have accepted a
reduction of 15 per cent, in wages. Un
der theso circumstances, sayB the report,
it is proper to consider whether it is wise
to encourage the importation of foreign
iron, twice repeated by Congress in re
ducing the duties within four years. An
increase of duly on pig iron from $6.30
to $9 per ton, and proportionately on
other classes would be a wise measure of
relief by Congres*. It is better to have a
reduced revenue than cold and hunger in
the homes of American workingmen.
The iron masters will never rest con
tent until they ha?e' excluded all foreign
iron and then they will find that they
have only shut up their own shops and
mines. The people can use their dear
iron only to a very limited extent, and
hence the country is now making and
sailing wooden ships, while more advanc
ed nations are using iron ships almost ex
clusively; and the supply of timber in
America is becoming scaroe while that of
iron is inexhaustible. The polity of the
" iron masters” looks only to keeping np
an exorbitant price for iron, and, is
therefore not only exceedingly prejudicial
to the people, but also even to their own
trade in any enlightened view of conduct
ing it.
Their study should be to cheapen pro
duction, and increase consumption;
whereas all their efforts lie in the direc
tion of keeping np prioes by arbitrary
tariffs, imposed at the expense of the
national revenue, and operating fatally
to the consumption of iron in all uses to
which it is possible to apply other mate
rials—such as the manufacture of ships,
bridges and houses. The demand for
iron at low prices is almost illimitable;
but for iron at high prioes is compara
tively light. Every American interest
demands cheap iron, but these “masters”
presume deliberately to ash Coagrees for
legislation to make iron costly, evsn at a
loss to the revenue. Could there be a
more forcible illustration of the iniquity
of this class legislation?
The Old Game to be Repeated.
A clerical Boanerges with sky rockety
proclivities named- Talmage, of Brook
lyn,' has got the war bit between hk
teeth, and is fairly running away with it.
2na sermon the other day he said that
all persons who didn't hurrah and swing
their hats in the air at the sight of soldiers
marching to make war on Spain would he
, “traitors.” The reverwd Talmage was
I a “war dog”—a regular “bloodhound of
Sion,” during the late civil war, and
knows how effective thst cry of “traitor”
was in forcing men to join in the cry for
blood, during those .nil days, against
their judgment and oonvictions, and he
is preparing to put the pressure on again.
Every man who won’t “foam.” for war
against Spain is to be mobbed until he
does.
Fatal Pam Fioht Jack Lewis and
J. U. Rodgers fought last week in La
Salle county, Illinois, to determine who
was' the best man in the county and for
$100 a side. At the 87th round Lewis
failed to come to time and speedily there
after went to eternity, dying of concuss-
ion of the brain.
Editorial Correspondence,
Savannah, November 22,1873.
CONCLUSION or THE TAIN.
Last night we telegraphed the result of
the races, which show about the slowest
time on record, and the award of a prize
to the Johnston Light Infantry in the
drill contest. We are glad to chronicle
that despite tint dull times, severe weather
.and paucity of the exhibition, under the
skillful management of Mr. Estill, who
seems to have had the laboring oar, the
affair will prove a financial success. This
is certainly more than can he said of the
first fair of the Association, though inau
gurated under far more favorable aus
pices. The exhibition closes to-day.
savannah manufactures.
The paper mill recently erected here
for the manufacture of rice straw into
paper is just commencing operations.
They will have abundant raw material at
their doors, and with the low wages for
labor now ruling, must do a good busi*
388.
The Arkwright Cotton Factory is in
full blast, and turns out an admirable ar
ticle of yarns and thread of every grade.
The city would be the better off for many
more such institutions to afford profita
ble employment to its redundant popu
lation.
EXTENSION Or THE ATLANTIC AND GULP
RAILROAD.
CoL Screven, whoretumed from Europe
a few days since, by no means despairs of
procuring the loan of $5,000,000 for the
completion of his road to Pollard. He is
also confident of his ability to demon
strate to the satisfaction of the citizens
of Savannah the paramount value and
importance of the proposed extension.
Indeed, not a few influential persons say,
so far as the interests and prosperity of
their oily is concerned, since the opening
of the new outlet to Port Royal, the de
velopment of the Gulf rood is of more
consequence than any other single fine
of communication with the interior. Al
ready large quantities of cotton are re
ceived by the Port Royal road, and the
idea is gaining ground that the enter
prise so far .from injuring Savannah will
prove to be decidedly beneficial.
An old merchant remarked that capital
would never concentrate at Port Royal,
when a few miles of railroad from Screv
en's Ferry to that point would divert the
business to Savannah. This is certainly
estimating very lightly the advantages of
deep water, and an excellent site for the
foundation of a new city. But we give
these on dits for what they are worth,
without any endorsement of our own.
The Legislature would not entertain
for an instant, at this juncture, the propo
sition to donate funds for the building or
extension of any railroad. On the con
trary, it would gladly, if practicable,
crayfish out of all its “State Aid” obliga
tions. For some years, at least from
present appearances, the old roads need
fear no rivalry from the multitude of new
projects which were aRso actively press
ed & short time since. Nor do wo know
of any portion of the State which is suf
fering materially for lack of transporta
tion facilities. It is pleasant to have a
railroad running by your door, but can
every one enjoy that privilege? is the
question.
COTTON RECEIPTS AND TRADE.
The staple continues to pour into the
city at the rate of over.3,000 bales per
diem, and for some time so small has
been the margin for' profit on New
York quotations that the sales and for
eign shipments have been very heavy
here. Of course this has tended to make
money easier, but trade continues exceed
ingly dull. Some dry goods merchants,
however, are advertising goods bought
since the reduction in New York at 20
per cent, below their neighbors, and a
general break down in prices must follow.
This, many think, will give an impetus
to business and bring into circulation
again the hoarded money of the country.
We shall see. Bat in the meantime oar
merchants must lose thousands by this
depreciation in the value of their stocks.
Thus are we made to feel the failures
and financial troubles of our Northern
friends. New York is the great financial
heart of the nation, and every pulsation
is felt to the remotest confines of the
country.
THE WAR FEVER
is warmer here, probably, than in other
portions of the State, bat we don’t think
it has reached the
VOLUNTESRINO
point yet, or ever wilL No one wants to
embark in a crusade to release more ne
groes, and create additional Black States
to b« ruled by thieving carpet-baggers.
A HERALD CORRESPONDENT,
however, en route for Key West, was
like a raging panther, breathing fire and
vengeance against the Dons. He in
tended to go to Cedar Koys by rail, and
hiring a fishing smack, proceed thence to
his destination. Hereportedotheragents
of this wide-awake newspaper distributed
through the squadron ordered to Cuban
waters, in the capacity of captains, clerks,
etc. In the opinion of this astute Bohe
mian, war was a foregone oonlusion, and
the gem of the Antilles as good as ours
already. Perhaps he is right.
H. H. J.
Portraits wf Tww Railroad Blag Law
yers, Father and Son.
Prom an Anti-Railroad Monopoly Speech of Mr.
Hdgerton, at Sacramento, Cal.J
I have contemplated this attack of
Robert Robinson in utter amusement, un
til one of the moat distinguished citizens
of the State informed me of the lying
propensities of his earlier days, and that
they so predominated in him that the
bqys nicknamed him "Lying Bob." It
ought to be revived. His talent for lying,
like that of Ovid Bolns, is encyclopcedi-
cal, and, like German criticisms, has many
sides. He differs from Bolns, however,
in that, according to the humorist, the
latter lied from pure nobleness of soul
and comprehensiveness of mind, whereas
Robinson lies from a natural depravity
and a fecundity of resources which may
well provoke the envy of the devil him
self. His son Edward, sensible of the
outrage committed by the father, subse
quently published a card in an evening
pap< r here evidently designed to make
reparation. But he managed to preserve
the ear-marks of the meanness of the
breed, and inserted the sting of his la
ther's publication in the tail of hia own.
I bear no malice or ill will even toward
Edward. He both putties and amuses
me. As an ethnological problem he baf
fles the science of a Campar or a Darwin.
In my incredulous moods I doubt if the
solution of his existence can be found in
any .extant theory of race, and I opine he
descended from nobody and was cast in a
brass foundry. [Long and uproarious
laughter and applause.] But upon ma
ture reflection and from certain idio*yn-
cracies common to himself and “Lying
Bob,” I am forced to the conclusion that
he is the son of his father, the only dif
ference being that Ed. inherits all the old
man’s meanness without a particle of his
The ceremonies at the laying of the debts due—because he thinks the price
~ ■*— •< *• =*“»«« «“»*•*, £ 3S
Savannah on Wednesday, are sa’d by the . and > low caa the latter grant additional
papers of that city to have been of the , credits or accommodations in this state of
most imposing character, and drew the affairs? The planter is immediately in-
I forested in sustainin'? the merchant
largest crowd that has ever been assem- ™“h e bound in honor
the planter refuses to part with any por- both to insurance men and poliey holders,
tion of his crop—even enough to pay his The case was that of Messrs. Simontora,
bled in Savannah since the war.
Jesse Martin, one of the negroes
charged with the murder of young John
son, at Smithville, Lee county, some time
to pay him; for if the merchants now
doing business were forced to suspend be
cause they could not realize _ upon their
accounts, assuredly it would bo a hard
i matter for planters to get aeeomnioda
since, was tried at Leesburg last week . tiong from ot ] ier3 may have before
and found guilty. The judge sentenced j them the sad example and warning of
him to be hung on the 9th of January,
but his counsel moved for a new trial,
upon which motion argument will he
heard at the next session of the court.
Says the Rome Commercial:
The Prior’s Station Murder.—In
addition to the particular given in our
their predecessors. Honesty and interest
combine in calling for a settlement of
the indebtedness of the year, where it is
possible to make the settlement, even
though cotton is not commanding the
price anticipated when the accounts were
commenced.
Mr. Larkin Butler, the oldest man
last issue of the killing of Miss Bush and j j n Troup county, died last week in his
wounding of Capt. Clements by the de3
perado Donohue, at Prior’s Station on
Monday last, we learn that a man by the
name of Hall was implicated in the af
fair, having loaned Donohue the gun and
urged him on. Hall made hi3 escape
with Donohue, but was
sheriff’s posse. He refused to be arrest
ed, and was killed while resisting the offi
cers of the law.
The employes of Lent’s circus, which
recently disbanded at Atlanta, have at
tached all the property of the concern
on account of non-payment of wages.
Hon. B. H. Hill represents the proprie
tor, Mr. Lent.
' The Constitutionalist reports Hon. H.
V. Johnson as quite sick in Augusta, on
Wednesday.
The Columbus Enquirer regrets to
learn the death of Mr. TT-nry Henes, for-
ninety-fifth year.
His name is T. J. Denmark, and during
the forty-Sve years he has been fanning,
he has never bought a pound of meat nor
made his escape j 0 f CO rn. He lives in Lowndes
overtaken by the . a .
was a well-
He died
>ei*ion in the
j “The good time coming” is almost
here. _ It is reported in England that a
French firm has discovered a method of-
making artificial sugar from materials so
j cheap that it can be sold at a farthing a
pound.
Vnujnrius Victihb Become Catholics.
Havana, November 19.—The commanding
General of this department haa received
a communication from theRoman Catholic
Archbishop, saying: “A great jubilee
fills our hearts, when we announce to your
excellency that among the criminals -of
the Virginius crew, twenty freely and
spontaneously asked to become Catholics,
divine Providenoe having seen fit to crown
the efforts of onr worthy priests, through
their means contributing this brilliant
trinmph to onr holy religion. . The . pris
oners were turned over to their spiritual
advisers (Puetro en Capilla) at eight in
the morning and shot at four in the a »
tssnoon, giving our priests only eight | must remain inert, and oil who arede
horns’ time to convert the twenty.” 1 pendent upon its activity inuat suffer. If
merly of that city, where
known barber for mar 3
at Montgomery, on Tu
yellow fever.
COMMENTING upon t u e
Malone case by the Fe' -ral Supreme
Court sustaining fie eon ^tutionality of
the Georgia jury law, - '■■■ O iwson Jour
nal says:
We admire the lawy v -r'-o is willing
to exert himself in hi • t’* cause, hut
regret that a Geor.j-1 ..t*.,rn-'v.should get
his consent to try and force e result con
trary to his own !.o;wt -nnvictions and
at variance with th-- opinion* of the pa
triots of the count :y.
The Colurohu* S n rvorts quite a re
spectable fall of “now *t Troy, Ala., on
Tuesday night.
The Dawson Journal say3 some of the
negroes of that burg, during the storm
Sunday night raised the planks and crept
under their houses. We know a good
many white folks up here who would have
done the same thing if the planks had
been as handy to raise.
The Journal tells of a stalk of sugar
cane seven feet long, and with twenty-one
mature joints. We don’t believe it, and
if it is not sent to tljis office we never will.
No man can force such a whopper down
our throat but in one way.
A correspondent of the CartereviUe
Standard having intimated that the State
Road lessees will, at the next session of
the Legislature, return the road to the
State under the lease act, the Atlanta
Constitution says the lessees have taken
no actipn in the matter, though willing to
surrender the road to the State.
The Columbus Sun is credited with the
following items:
The Railroad to Chattahoochee.—
The first through train from Jacksonville,
Florida, over the Jaek*onv'11e. P^nnsacola
and Mobile road reached Chattahoochee
last Saturday. Hereafter the train will
run on three days in the week—Satur
days, Sqndays and Wednesdays. Trains
connect closely with the boat*.
Columbus Manufacturing Stock at
Auction.—Twenty-one share.* of this
stock were sold yesterday by Ellis & Har
rison for W. N. Hawks, at eighty dollars
per share of one hundred dollars. Con
sidering the tightness in financial mat
ters, the price is re -arded as very good.
The Talbotton Standard estimates the
damage done in that town by the storm
Sunday night, at ten thousand dollars. A
negro church was levelled to the ground,
and some tbin'h the court-house is ruined.
Of the blow at Cartersvillo the Stand
ard says:
The front wall of Mr. T. W. Baxter’s
new warehouse was blown down entirely
to the foundation; the parapets of two
store* on West Main street and of Col.
Harris’ residence were blown off; some
trees were uprooted; numerous fences
were turned upside down; a chimney
forced from Gilrenth & Howard’s ware
house ; several roofs injured, and much
other minor damage done. Since writing
the above we learn that Judge Wiklo’s
barn, two miles in the country, was blown
down; much of the zinc torn from the
roof of Captain Bob. Stiles’ elegant new
residence, and also a building on his
plantation, occupied by one of his ten
ants, was utterly demolished—chimneys
and alh Wonderful to relate, the fami.y
numbered eleven persons, and all in the
house, and not one of them was injured
in the least. The roof of Mr. J. A. Ter
rell’s dwelling, in the suburbs of town,
was lifted from the building and scattered
over tha premises.
The ‘“Georgia Zouaves,” of Atlanta,
are also "foaming.” They have tendered
their services to Grant for “Cuban deliv
erance.” They won’t have many imita
tors in Georgia. We have heard of no
other companies “foaming” i» moke more
Radical voters,
Lectures on Life Insurance.—Under
this head the Chronicle and Sentinel has
the following:
• It is announced by the Columbus pa
pers that Gen. JohnB. Gordon, United
States Senator fromGeorgia, is to deliver
a lecture in that city shortly on “life in
surance.” We regret that General Gor
don has authorized any such announce
ment. We regret that a man occupying
the highest position within the gift of the
people of-his Stato^and next to the high
est im the United States, should think
proper to appear before his countrymen
as a lecturer upon a business in which he
is deeply interested as the President of a
Life Insurance Company. Such action
does not seem to us to be either very dig
nified-or very becoming in an United
States Senator. Onr regard for General
Gordon is so high and so sincere that we
can not avoid remonstrating, when we
hear of his doing that which can only re
sult in injury to himself. Our notions in
the South on this subject are so old fash
ioned that the people will not feel grati
fied at seeing their Senator in such a role.
Good Faith Indispensable.—The Co
lumbus Sun has some remarks under .the
above head that deserve to be read and
re-read, and above all, taken earnestly to
heart by such of onr planter friends as
come within their scope. The Sun says:
Some of our merchants complain that
.planters who owe them are neither set
tling by money at the time specified, nor
delivering to them cotton in. liquidation,
Aveta though they offer to take it at more
than* current prices. This is not only
actffig in hod faith, bat it must be dama
ging to both parties.’ The first business
duty of every man i* to pay his debts.
In a pressure like the present, one man’s
payment must help another to pay, and
thus the. whole commercial machinery
will he set in' mot'on, just a* one cog
wheel acts upon another. But.if no one
-tarts tho motion, the whole muelr.nary
county. Somehow, too, the panic doesn’t
seem to worry him to any great extent.
Griffin has received 8,261 bales of
cotton since the first of September.
The Columbus Enquirer contradicts its
statement of the death, last Tuesday, in
Montgomery of yellow fever of Mr. Louis
Henes, which statement was printed in
this column yesterday. He is eaid to be
recovering.
According to the count of the Colum
bus Sun, thirty-five gin-houses in ^Geor
gia, and twenty-one in Alabama have
been burned since the first of September.
The Columbus Sun says those who
were so furious and eager to go to Cuba
night, of the other day have concluded to stay at
home. Several young lawyers were unan
imous at one time, but they are not so
much now, since those cowardly, detesta
ble mixed Spaniards on on the island have
commenced shooting people.
Farming in Nothbast Georgia.—The
Gainesville Eagle says the "experience of
this year will prove that Northeast Geor
gia is what ita friends have always claimed
for it, the best farming country in the
State. There is plenty of grain now in
the counties of Hall, Habersham, Banks,
Franklin, Jackson, White and Gwinnett,
to do the people of tho3e counties two
years, and still as much cotton has been
raised to the number of acres planted, a3
in any part of Middle Georgia.”
Tho Eagle adds that a farmer in White
county made 100 bushels of com on one
acre, this year.
W. E. Glanton’s grist mill in Troup
county, was burned last week. Loss
$5,000. Incendiary.
Farmers Suspending. —The Griffin
Star says :
The popular disease is spreading into
the rural district. Several large planters
in this connty have had their stock levied
on, crib* nailed up, and cotton seized by
the sheriff for debts due their factors.
Other cases will follow soon.
In Pulaski county, the Hawkinsville
Dispatch says that from the 4th to the
18th instant, thirty-six liens had been
foreclosed in the County Court, and many
liens and mortgages for much larger
sums, in the Superior Court.
Mr. Ktllis Sparks, a well-known citi
zen of Pike county, died on Thursday.
A farmer from Turin, Coweta county,
told the editor of,the Griffin Star the
other day, “that prior to the war, his dis
trict was prosperous and wealthy, with
only one store in the neighborhood to
supply the wants of the people? now it
was poverty-stricken and bankrupt; and
yet there were thirty-fire stores doing
business where the one formerly lived."
Capt. Samuel Henly died at Hayne-
ville, Houston county, last Saturday from
a congestial chilL During the war he
commanded a company in the 63d Ten
nessee regiment.
Struck by Lightning.—The Hawkins-
ville Dispatch has the following: ■
We learn from Dr. Fleetwood, who has
just reached here from Jacksonville, Tel
fair county, that he left Mr. Joseph Wil
cox in a dying state on Monday evening'
from the effects of a stroke of lightning
received on Sunday night while in bed
asleep. His wife and sister. Miss Re
becca Wilcox, were sleeping in an adjoin
ing room and were awakened by the ter
rific storm and loud peals of thunder.
His sister arose and called him, but he
made no response, whereupon she called
his brother-in-law, a little son of Mr.
John Hamilton, to arouse her brother.
He was shaken violently, h-1 gave no
signs of life- Becoming alarmed, Miss
Wilcox procured a light and entered
his room to ascertain the matter. She
was horror-stricken to behold her brother
apparently in the agonies of death. The
lightning passed down the chimney and
shivered the fire-board, and passed to
the bed near by. The hair on the fore
head was singed, and tho electric current
passed to the left shoulder, then under
it, thence across the left lung, down the
abdomen to the right leg, from which it
burned tho hair in a streak to the foot.
The body was considerably bruised. The
left lung became filled with phlegm, as
if affected by pneumonia. Mr. Wilcox
was alive at a late hour on Monday even
ing, but there seemed no possible hope
for recovery. He was speechless and un
conscious, and had not moved a musde
save an occasional drawing up of the
right foot.
The Washington Gazette notes the
burning, on yesterday week, of the dwell
ing house of Capt. John F. Jackson, tear
Centreville, in that county. Almost the
entire contents were destroyed, and the
fomily narrowly escaped with their lives.
The I033 sustained was very heavy, and
no insurance.
The Gazette also records the burning
of Dickens’ steam mill and cotton gin in
that place on Friday evening, together
with one hundred bushels of com and
three bales of cotton. No insurance. A
bos of matches in the cotton did the mis
chief.
We clip the following from the Atlanta
Constitution, of yesterday:
Horrible Accident.—About 2 o’clock
yesterday afternoon as Mr. Owen Lynch,
general book-keeper of the Western and
Atlantio railroad, was returning to his
office, he was run over by an engine and
so horribly mangl d that he died within
forty-five minutes afterwards. Mr. Lynch
was walking down the track of the Ma
con and Western railroad, and when near
where two tracks diverge, attempted to
cross from one track to the other; his at
tention being diverted by a switch engine
going down the track of the State road,
he paid no attention to the engine of the
Macon and Western railroad, coming rap
idly from his rear. The engine knocked
him down, and three wheels ran over
him, crushing his right leg at the knee,
mangling the flesh and crushing his left
leg above the knee. The engineer stopp
ed as soon as possible. The accident oc
curred about Broad street bridge. A
litter was obtained and Mr. Lynch, at
tended by a large concourse of friends,
carried to hia residence, comer of Hunter
and Butler streets. He lived only a few
minutes after reaching home. Mr.
Lynch was between 57 and 58 years of
and had been book-keeper of the
Jones & Hatcher, vs. the London, Liver
pool and Globe Insurance Company. This
action was brought by the plaintiffs to
recover a policy of about three thousand
dollars on a stock of goods destroyed by-
fire. After paying the premium and
taking out the insurance the plaintiffs
removed their goods into another store.
They claim that before the removal, they
verbally notified the agent of the com
pany of their intention to remove, and re
ceived his verbal assent thereto. This
consent, however, was not entered in
writing on the policy as required by one
of the laws of the company. Upon a
demurrer filed by the defendants Judge
Hopkins dismissed the declaration, hold
ing that tho act of removal cancelled the
old and required an entirely new contract
of insurance. The case will, we are in
formed, he carried to the Supreme Court
and an effort made to reverse this ruling.
It is but just to the company to state
that the allegation of the plaintiffs of
having verbally notified the company’s
agent - of their intention to remove and
received his verbal consent, ia disputed
by them. Otherwise they might not have
contested the case.
We are glad to see that none of our
State exchanges, particularly of the week
ly persuasion, are “foaming” over the
shooting of the Virginius filibusters. The
question of meat and bread seems to he
engaging the attention of the people, to
the exclusion of all others. They have
neither tho time nor the heart to bother
themselves with the troubles of outsiders,
while their o *m affairs are so terribly out
of joint. Consequently they are not
“foaming.”
The Augusta Constitutionalist announ
ces the death of Mr. William Shear, a
former well-known and valuable citizen
of that city, bnt does not give either the
date or place of his death.
The Folly of Expansion—-Under this
head the Constitutionalist has tha fol
lowing:
A valued friend and a shrewd business
man sends us the following illustration
of what he conceives to be the absurdity
of trying to save the commercial comma
nity by expanding the national currency:
The idea of making the currency more
efficient by increasing its volume is quite
as absurd as it would be for a cloth dealer
to think of facilitating his operations by
multiplying his yard sticks. Two or four
yard sticks in one man’s hands would
measure ni> more cloth than one. Nor
would the process he expedited, though
the Government should enact that each
yard measured by four sticks should he
called four yards and should pass current
for four.- In the last case the merchant
would indeed have a greater number of
yards, nominally, hut no more cloth than
before. He would in no way be benefited,
unless he had old debts to pay in yards,
which he could discharge in the ne w_ meas
ure, one beiny equal to four. In this way
he would save three-quarters of his cloth
and become rich at the cost et his credi
tors.
A. H. Stephens for War.
Augusta. November 21.—Hon. A. Hi
Stevens leaves for Wasbinrr f on to-mor
row. He says, “I am 1 medi
ately, if not sooner.” Hi move
ment to take Cuba would ?:•>. •-* a good
feeling between the North an-i South.
We will not pretend to say what inci
dental benefits tu.* may reap from
a war with Spain, but wo do know that
war is a very had field to produce any
good crop whatever. T.ie following west
ern press telegrams illustrate one particu
lar and most undesirable harvest which
North and South alike arj bound to reap
from another war:
Bad Showing of the Revenues.
Revenues still continue to fall off, and
the rallying from the effect of the panic
has not been as rapid as was hoped and
expected. For the quarter ending Sep
tember 30th the revenues exceeded ex
penditures by six million dollars. During
the month of October the revenues fell off
three millions, and for this month the
decrease will be even much greater than
this, probably five millions. Since the
first of October expenditures have ex
ceeded receipts, andtheratioof this excess
is increasing eachday. At the same time
the estimates of receipts from customs
and from the Internal revenue will he
less by several millions than last year,
while the estimates from the departments
will exceed those of last year bnt ten mil-
lions. ■■
Financial Aspect of a War.—These
facts are regarded at the Treasury as
having a very pointed bearing upon the
question of war with Spain, since even if
the country remains at peace the annual
expenditures must he cut down or taxa
tion increased to meet current expenses,
and in case of war the burden of taxa
tion, in view of the present financial con
dition of the country, must at onoe be
come oppressive.
Now certain figures in the New York
World, a few days ago, illustrated the
awful burden on industry under which
this country is already laboring from
Federal taxation. According to the
World's figures, the taxes, just prior to
the war, amounted to six per cent., and a
fraction on the industrial income of the
country, but they are now over 27 per
cent-; and that paper expressed the
opinion that no country in the world
could long sustain such a burden, and
that it must he regarded as the real un
derlying cause of the panic and prostra
tion of industrial enterprise.
'A war with Spain will be a very ex
pensive war and add largely to the pub-
.e debt, and of course to the taxation
nder which the people already groan.
What PresMaat Woolsey, of Yale Col
lege, Thinks About It.
President Woolsey, one of the most em
uent authorities in the United States on
international law, has been interviewed
on the subject of the capture of the Vir
ginius, and the following report
made of his remarks:
Upon being asked whether he thought
that there was any cause for tbe United
States to declare war against Spain, he
said, emphatically, no. If he understood
the matter, there was not the slightest
ground for war; and he then went oa to
say that he was, to some extent, ignorant
of the true situation, or at least knew
only what had been published in the
public press about it. Assuming that
this was in the main true,' the Spanish
authorities have done what they had, ac
cording to the law of nations a perfect
right to do in capturing the Virginius.
If the capture was made in accordance
with Spanish laws; if the men were tried
and executed in accordance with Spanish
laws, and if the Virginius, though sailing
under the United States flag, was never
theless endeavoring to render aid to the
insurgent*—was, in short, engaged in
traffic prohibited by the law of nation*—
then the United States Government can
not make the transaction any ground for
war, or in fact of complaint.
Good and True.—We are glad to see
that good old family newspaper, tbe New
York Observer, has come out boldly in
opposition to the foolish practice of bait
ing subscribers with cheap pictures. It
declares the premium business demoral
izing, and repudiates it altogether. It
will not be long before every paper that
Fraads, Rascalities and
the Western and AtlantiTfon 1 H I
During Bullock ini
Sore
been Brought. D4T ® !
Editors Telegraph and Messenger, t. |
ing the time of Bullock and Blow'
management of the Westemand AhJ?
railroad, all know that there was *
deal of rascality and stealing
—for besides all the incomes of th 1
being used, while the road was eoJ?
ly “run down” m cars and emrf Jr!
read, etc., and almost everyth!^ fcT*
to a stop, etc.-since the transLtfif
road to the lessees, the State has
of her treasury about $500,000 on «L° 5t
of tire indebtedness of said road
under Bollock and Blodgetts* ^
ment.
In December, 1871, so well convinced I
was “public opinion,” that some of th
rascals and thieves concerned nvlu? I
exposed and be made to “disgor™°«.
ill-gotten gains, if informers or »
along the line of the road, who h
something of their transactions, were rT I
mitted to prosecute them, that th* I
lature in 1871 were literally
pass an act in relation to the matte I
Butin my oumion, either ignorance J
great oversight or knavery prevail
forming the act. The
caption of it, viz: ° 8Us|
“An act to provide a remedj
money or property stolen or nnlavf^l
or fraudulently converted or detail
from the State on the Western and A‘ I
lantic railway, may be recovered, andf,Cl
other purposes.” I
From the above high-sounding tit!* !tl
would seem that these men with "shin I
?w>Perty “nnlavfnhjl
or fraudulently detuned from the ShtT : .|
“would catch blood and thunder"CC'4 f
under its operations. ~ l
But reader, how do you think tliml
prendre for catching these “smartnel
cals —these fellows that were banded to-1
gether to rob,and who did rob, the Statel
Instead of allowing the usual compenaJ
tion of one-half in case of recoTerj tokI
formers who might fhmJL- proper to‘tol
these “forty thieves” or more,® tereP
specific sum being named, so that one
might know what he wonll get in cut oj
recovery, the first section of the act oihj
provides that an informer shall he sllovel
“such compensation for himself and lj
counsel, and no more, as the conrt nni
think equitable and just, and to be
out of the recovery, and not othetvi*,
under order of the court.”
This is great encouragement indetij
for * man to risk being wayla ; d and ekj
or have his bam burnt out, etc., U
“robbers” are not too goal to do
things towards those who would
them to justice. .
But the- cream (for these menwial
“stolen property,” or property nnh».
fully or fraudulently obtained from I
State) in the above recited act,iso
tanned in the following ninth section,
it is in full, viz:
“Section 9.- If any informer si
bring any suit under this act, upon
defendant 'ling his or her afdarit
the clerk’s office, swearing that he
she honestly believes that he or she'
a legal and feono fide title to said p
erty, it shall he the duty of theinfc
era, upon notice of the filing of said
davit, and "-ithin ten days after said no
tice, to give good bond and securitri
payable to the defendants, which bo
shall he filed in the clerk’s office, for
costs and damages which may be a
curred or sustained by the defendant i
consequence of the bringing such cas
and on failure of said informer to ‘
said bond aforesaid, it shall he the
of the court, on motion, to dimin
case; and if, at any time, da]
ing the pendency of
the security on the said bond ih
become insufficient to secure the iaaii
against said costs or damages, it shall
the duty of the court to require tbf
former to give other security, and on 1
ure to do so the ease shall be dimw
and it shall be the duty of the juiriiuj
case under this act, if they find rcr
defendant, to enquire whether or not
chum or information upon which sail
was brought was false or. unions
and if it shall so appear, it ehal'
their duty to find the amount of
damages, and the defendant slaM ■
permitted to enter up judgment against
informer and his securities on said
for the amount so found, whi:h plf
shall be lawful and valid to aUn
and purposes, and may be leued
the property of the informer or his
rities, or both as other judgment*
Now, look at and scan this 9th r
closely, and see its effect
If any one atteu.pts to have the
apparent rascally conduct of »
cer, or officer of the Western and a-
railroad, or other employe who m
on said road, notwithstanding the
existing general laws of this State •*
ample protection, where any one
prosecuted maliciously or upon a.-
formation,” or "without foundation,
yet this 9th section of the act 01
requires the prosecutor,
these cases to give bond to the
wrong-doer, conditioned that in ewe
failure of recovery, to pay h*»
officer, or railroad man, any,da^J«,
fairly supposed “wong-doer
from him, including any **b
yer’s fee, and other extrsvag&n
or “damages” the said State ojg
railroad employe may claim, . ^
or otherwise, to have P«A
"procured” to pay, m case of*
- *• the informer, and
umphing” over
of the law.'
Who made State officers or St^ 1
officers or employes on tbe , % ^
Atlantic railroad better than
clerks, agents and other me ,
who do business for other m A
nse other men’s money, t ^
should be protected by a 8 P®®‘ i 80S «dw
Iieingprosecuted uponstie ?
or gcause, while all others^, I
the operations of our p,ene ere Bjl|
There is no fun many mfo I
ing lawyers totrvto
having stolen money,
half of the recovery. Ham^ A
cals to contend against- ^j-
“stolen” or “fraudulently obt^
State’s money or property
would not hesitate to ® * thmr scl *i
that would help them out
nor would they *****
do it In most cases.^'j^
stands a fair chance to 1» uj
though a justone, and M
court oosts. attorneys ^aitl
etc., etc. To then
failure, to also pay J us , i on ter”
t re “thief’ or the “fraudulen^
to pnt upon him.
a suppression of a“J ^ b lie 0®^
into the misconduct of P
parson* who rob the Sto
1871,1 learn,
side of two or three
gated by the late Judge ^ EKb*
I learn that this £lM
tion in it, b*a
I hope, therefore, the m-k ^
to assemble, will
9th section, and pass
any one to prosecute fr°®|
the law. heretofcre^^^ 1
«U5 ‘Ifarh
ought to have been tj ^gabb „
protect from molestation or
officers, or others, ^
era and AtUBbc railroad^
money or property ^ 1 ve r^
fully or fraudulently t ^ J
Kd the same from the*,j
But, I will say ®° t i he**^
of the passage of this a* • BefS r
iniquitous 9th secb on - *
at it until a few day*
Thb Washington Eep '^e‘'
the moderate views eU*®**^ q*
ident Johnson on the .-J
“will be a surprise .to the j
_ , is worth having will t*ke the same stand
- 0p .Ayes* faiiilp wmmwnai$8w yevis
He was universally esteemed. ,, , • ^ \T ,
Important Decision to iNScniwc*. the - ha .port lnnuiy tfiat can he enj *>ed,
Mej*.—Judge Hopkins made a rnling" ftn d we caa recommend the New
yesterday in an insurance caw, which we . York Objtj.Tei at such a paper. S. I.
give briefly, on account of its importance, 1 Prime A Cto* »7 Rvk Row, New York.