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MACON, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORfNG,
NU3IBER G,792
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The TxutoRATH a *i* Messkvgkk represent*
thiM of the oldat nno|*[en to this Portion of
Gwrpa. and or many years has furnished th«
•arlieot orva lo that lance M'l'pe of Georgia, Ah*
oass and Florida trading at thia point. It
0jnl« Hi way to almost erwy intelligent house
hold and place of tmaineaa in that auction. At an
adrortiaimr medium In that ran** of country it
haa no equal.
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SUNDAY MORNING, DEC. 7.187*.
Thi following bit cf new* to European
oj>er»-goer» is found in the foreign papers:
"It U repotted from New York that Mine.
NiUoon-Rousaud is in an interesting situ
ation.” :
Hazing among the girls at Vos*ar is
barbarous. Thej oompel the neophyte
to drink a punch-bowl of lemonade, and
hug and then kiss her until she screams
for mercy.
T«« New York World boldly pro
claims : *‘No Protectionist is a Democrat.
No Salary-Grabber is a Democmt. Con
gressmen do not make parties. The
people moke thorn.**
Tkk Washington correspondent of tho
Chicago Times says x "The opinion is not
▼ery strong that Mr. Williams will bo
confirmed. Tho Senate rejected the noxn-
; ination of cx-Attomcy General Hoar for
! far better reasons.”
A tovuo lady says that a gentleman
>ught never to fool discouraged when
i the " roomentoo. question — in negatirod
bj the objoct of hU choice, - for in life,
1 os in grammar, wo always decline before
I wo conjugate.”
Got, Nora, of Ohio, defeated for re-
election, baa biod off to Woahinton, and n
movement ia on foot to aocuro bia np-
> pointment aa miniator to Japan, if Jmlgo
llinglinm'ii nomination is rojected, aa itia
■ thought it may be.
Th« Cunanl atramahip Abyssinia,
which arrived in Now York on Thursday
hut, brought $12,000,000 of United States
aiz per rent, called bond, from Europe,
on the way to tho Treoanry Department,
at Washington, for cancellation.
Tuc Washington corroipondont of the
t. Louis Republican, remarking upon
i wonderful celerity with which tho
aerican people accommodate them
es to circumstances, says: "Within
hears after Williams’ nomination was
uaanceil there were plenty of people
jsv ready to maintain that ho is a great
iad learned jurist.”
Taz Hon. Ellis II Roberta, of New
tTork, is reported as declaring in the
publican caucus in Washington, on
i night of tho 1st intt., that "tho in-
|rsase of salary law was admitted to bo
Pm crowning mistake of tho last Con-
mu, and it would bo little enough for
|s Congress to provide against possible
(petition of such legislative mistakes.”
' Tan newspapers of Pennsylvania stand
I SM in favor of tho now Constitution and
IS against it. Tho leading men of tho
It kite, outside of Philadelphia, ore nearly
Unanimous for tho now Constitution. It
only tho corrupt Republican ring in
Philadelphia that oppose tho instrument
with anything liko formidable strength.
They are making a desperate offort to de
feat it.
A Hurricank.—Knorvilic. East Ten
nessee, had a young hurricane early
Thursday morning, which blew down ono
of the walls of tho 2nd Mothodist Episco
pal church and modo rags, splinters and
Utters of signs and awnings; an empty
box car was also blown upon tho main
tract of tho railroad from a siding, and
was run into by a froight train with dam
age to both.
Knoxville is still on tho mod hunt after
outlaws and captured ono moro in Bar
bours v ill o, Ky., tho other day.
8tkalino m Starving.—The darkest
si tie of hard times was disclosed in a
Philadelphia court-room lost week when
it man wits arraignoiT on a charge of theft.
He pleaded tho necessities of liis family
and his wont of employment. Two offi
cers who went to liishouso found his wife
and five children in the most abject des
titution. There was not a morsel of food
in the house, and tho wife and her little
ones were weak from absolute starvation.
Tho wife states that her husband was a
good mechanic, a man of orderly habits
and that, if he had committed a crime, it
was to save hia family. They had been
married seven years, and during that
time her husband had been uniformly
kind, and had never done anything to
throw a shade of suspicion upon his in
tegrity. llo was held to bail.
Tux SrrxRSATURAL.—'The Now York
papers, reporting tho Ville da Havre
catastrophe, say that a French gentle
man living in Brooklyn, who had a wife
tnd daughter oil board the ill-fated ship,
land lost th*» former, stated that he had
[been forewarned of the misfortune, for
rhite sitting in his house, thinking of the
^ ^absent ones, ho bod distinctly seen a helio
trope in a vaso of flowers moved without
any visible cau»e, shsrtly after the time
the collision occurred.
On Tuesday hut a young officer of the
Now York police. Burns, while escorting
two negro prisoners to the lock up, who,
with others, had been engaged in a row
in ft negro drinking saloon, was assaulted
by one of his captives and struck on the
back of the head with a round etono which
the prisoner hod been iu the habit of car
rying in his 'pocket. The officers skull
was fractured, anil ho died as soon as he
reached his own door. He had a young
wife ami child, and the former was found
in terrible distress, claiming to have been
forewarned of tho trouble, by hearing
throe distinct blows near her bed, at the
precise t
* tho fatal blow
vere inflicted
upon her husband's head.**
Thk following explanation is given of
tha origin of the word “filibuster. ” The
river Yly, in Holland, is said to have fur
nished the name ttfbooi in English—in
Spanish, fidoU—to a sort of small fast
sailing vessel of about one hundred tons
burdeu.which in the seventeenth century
were held in high estimation, on account
of their fast sailing qualities. The buc
caneers of the West Indies, who began
their depredations on Spanish commerce
-boats, as they acquired the
leans of a more formidable outfit selec
t'd these craft as best suited to their pur-
llenoe they became known in
Preach as jiWust*rs, and in Spanish os
r *. on appellation gradually exten-
those languages to any kind of
pirate*. By a still more extended moan
ag in the United States this term has
ume to be applied to designate any mil- j
fitorr enterprise set on foot and prosecuted
[against the government of any State or
where no war exists, by mere
ventures seeking to overthrow such
eminent, and destroy the domestic
itutioas of its people for the enrich-
it of th* adventurers themselves
Assumption of State Debts.
One Morey, of the Radical delegation
from Louisiana, introduced into the
House of Representatives last Thursday
& bill to strengthen •* the credit of the
reconstructed States and to afford them
financial relief.** This bill provides for
the iK&ue of United States bonds in ex
change for State bond* on the basis of
the exchange of a United States four per
cent, bond for a State seven per cent,
bond. The amount <5f the State bonds to
be taken in exchange to l>e equal to the
amount of bonds issued by each State
prior to December 31st, 1873, provided
the amount doe* not exceed ten per cent,
of th** a**« «*sed value of the property of
the State for tho year 1873. In case the
debt of any Sta*-- .-x.•.—*!■> that amount it
shall first be reduced within that amount.
At the end of five years from the issue of
the bonds by the United Stales, the
States shall begin to pay eight per cent,
per annum of the amount of the bonds
issued for such State indobtodedness by
the United States, and shall so continue
to do until the amount received shall re
imburse the United State* for money
paid on account of such State, to be ap
plies!, first, to pay the current interest;
second, to pay tho back interest; third,
to provide a winking fund for the redemp
tion of tho bond*. The President is to
appoint five commissioners to carry out
the provisions of the bill, and the State
are to adopt constitutional amendments
accepting all the provisions of the bill,
and declaring that no increase of the
debt of the State shall be made, without
the consent of Congress, until the bonds
shall be entirely paid.
Morey, no doubt, will have a powerful
lobby influence behind him in backing
this bill. All the bankrupt an i swindling
speculators on tho “faith” of the negro
State*, anxious to exchange their bogus
and fraudulent bonds for United States
paper, will be constantly on hand with
every device to push this bill “for
strengthening the credit** of States in
tho condition of most of tho (so-called)
“reconstructed.”
But the greatest misfortune, in tills con
noction, which can happen to States gov
erned by negroes either as tho mere cat’s
paw of unscrupulous white political spec
ulators, or aa thieves on their own ac
count, would be the strengthening of the
credit of these States. Then there would
be a new lease to the work of plunder
and devastation. The only hope, if there
be any, for the tax-payers, lies in tho fact
that the time has come, or is rapidly
coming, when tbeso States can borrow
nothing—when their obligations ore all
utterly worthless and they must per forco
run on what revenue they can collect.
It is true these sable rulers have no
personal interest, so far os tax-paying
goes, to restrain their tax levies, but
time will teach them that tax extortion
cannot, profitably to themselves, bo car
ried too far. And timo will consign all
their floating obligations of debt to the
gulf of oblivion, as so much utterly waste
and hopeless paper.
Morey's bill provides that there shall
bo no addition to State indebtedness,
but what will that provision amount to
practically in restraining these ignorant
and reckless negro legislatures. Im
mense floating debts would soon bo piled
up again on the strength of the strength
ened credit, and tho tax-payers bo
plunged as deeply as over into the sea of
financial troubles.
Thero is no othor hope for tho whites,
but in’tho total inability of ihefco govern
ments to float a dollar of debt in any
shape—roducing them to a rigid cash
system, so that theJStato cannot obtain a
pound of flour, or a stick of wood, or a
negro Legislature without the ready cosh.
And to this solution it must come, do
r hat tho U. S. Government may to rem
edy tho miserable botch of reconstruc
tion, which reposes the governing power
in tho hands of people who oro alike des
titute of knowledge and financial and
moral responsibility. The governments
are but a burlesque on tho Republican
system, and must of necessity go to ruin
from their own inherent viciousness.
tAgency, though it be even tear, which
will throw into circulation five hundred
or a thousand millions of dollars, must
act directly and advantageously to this
section of the country.
It matters not to us that this expan
sion will cheapen the price of money and
make a dollar worth less than at present
as a purchasing medium. The effect
will be to raise the price of gold and cot
ton, increase the value of real estate,
quicken trade, and stimulate production
of every kind. This will afford the oppor
tunity of those who are involved, to real
ize on their property, at war prices, and
get square again with the world.
So it is an ill wind that blows good to
no one, and once free from the thraldom
of debt, let cash be the watchword for-
ever more. Ly^
I* It Peace or War I—Drops of Com*
fort In Anj Event.
War has not inaptly boon termed tho
Pandora'* box which lets loose every evil
incident to our fallen condition. It ia tho
consummation of all wrong*—the hand
maid of despotism—tho parent of hydra-
headed vice—the nursery of corruption—
tho destruction of the Sabbxth—the dire
ful cause of unutterable woe and misery
to bereaved widows, sisters and parents.
There is no curse to the land like nnto
it. And however just the quarrel, how
ever necessary the arbitrament of arms,
tho consequences are none tho loss disas
trous, even to tho Victor.
For these reasons, we deprecate tho
conflict which begins to appear probable,
if not inevitable with Spain and Cuba.
Not thnt tho blood-thirsty "volunteers”
should escape punishment for their
atrocities to unarmed prisoners.
Tho lex (ulionis, might justify us in the
speediest and most summary reprisals
for tho massacre of tho crew of tho Vir-
ginius.
Bat will tho contest end at that point ?
Not so. The subjugation and annexa
tion of Cuba must follow, with tho long
train of evils nnd complications which
will ensue. Indeed, it may reasonably
he feared that tho acquisition of that
island will be tho entering wedgo for the
disintegration of tho American Union.
With tho tendency to despotism and
centralization in tho Federal Government
already too observable, the vast extension
of Executive patronage and prerogative,
growing out of this conquest, must hasten
tho period when free people will be
driven to assert their freedom and inalien
able rights once moro. Or the Republic,
so-called—or Empire, more properly—
like those of ancient times, will fall to
pieces by its own weight.
But the TzLxe.Rxrit has already treated
of the evils of annexation, and we now pro
pose to show that if this ill-starred war is
to bo thrust upon us, the South far the
present at least will bo no great sufferer.
It is a fact beyond question that owing
to the emancipation of our slaves, the
failure of Confederate currency and se
curities, tfce oppression of the Federal
Government, and the terrible bnrden of
taxation, the Gulf States have been re
duced almost to a hopeless state of debt
and vassalage to capital.
Who Is the Real Author of the Flan
for the Construction of the Atlao
tic and Great Western Canal ?
We havo received a private letter from
one of Georgia’s most trusty and illustri
ous sons, taking exceptions to the state
ment that Dr. Tomlinson Fort was the
originator of the great scheme for the
union of the Atlantic and Mississippi
waters. The writer ascribes the honor to
the great Troup, a man elanim el renera
6£Ze, while he disclaims any intention of
plucking a single laurel from the brow
of the worthy gentleman (now deceased)
who is credited with the authorship of
that enterprise. Himself a contemporary
of Governor Troop, and connected with
the State government as Assistant Secre
tary of the Senate, every opportunity was
afforded him to become posted in the
premises
This gentleman asserts that in the fall
of 182-1, a bill was passed by the Legisla
ture creating a "Board of Public Works.'
The canal engineer appointed by the
Governor, was a Scotchman named Ham
ilton Fulton. Gov. Troup, ex-officio, Hon.
Wilson Lnmpkin. Major Joel Crawford
and James Hamilton Conper, Esq., were
members of this board.
"A survey, (we quote the language of
our informant,) "was made by Fulton to
determine the practicability and expense
of the proposed canal. After this Mr-
Fnlton was pat to making surveys for
railroads. This I well remember from
the astonishing recommendation of scran
inclined planes with stationary power, for
the short road from MiUedgeville to Ma
con."
-The idea of connecting by canal the
East and West, spontaneously occurred
to hundreds at tho same time, after Do
Witt Clinton’s success in New York.'
The writer goes on to remark that proper
research among the archives of the State,
would confirm Governor Troup’s claim to
bo regarded as tho founder of the great
project, which has brought together in
council the Executives of distant States,
and attracted so much attention generally.
In accordance with this suggestion, we
have hunted up and examined thi? files of
the Georgia Messenger, published No
vember 17,1824.
In the issue of that date. Gov. Troup,
in his message to tho General Assembly,
makes tho following remarks: “As soon
aa it was ascertained that Congress had
passed on act authorizing tho President
to procure tho necessary surveys, plans
and estimates, for roads and canals, etc.,
I addressed a letter to the President, re
questing that Georgia should be admit
ted to a participation of any benefits or
Oil vantages which might result to the
Union from this act, and called his atten
tion particularly to the importance of con
necting the waters of tho Savannah with
those of tho Tennessee, and the waters
of tho St. Marys with those of the
Suwance/ His answer, given through
the Secretary of War, is, that tho Con
gress had derived its power to pass the
act from the provisions of the Constitu
tion. which authorize it to regulate com
merce between the different States, and
which confide to it the defence of the
country; and that no operations would
bo attempted under it which would be
confined exclusively to the limits and jn-
risdietionof anyparticnlar State. Taking
this for granted, so far from op
posing obstacles to its execution, I
thought it my duty to interpose our claim
for that proportion of any good resulting
from it, which might rightfully belong to
Georgia.”
This passage of history settles the
qncstion effectually and finally. And if
the great work of marrying tho waters of
the Atlantic to the broad Mississippi ho
ever completed, to that glorious patriot
who boldly proclaimed in the face of Fed
eral bayonets when the rights of Georgia
were assailed " the argument is exhaust
ed—let ns stand by onr arms, ” will the
honor be due.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Pinchback.
A Washington letter writer, in onr last,
spokeof a sharp littlegamegoing onn ndcr
the lead of Butler to seat Pinchback in
the House in order to get rid of him in
the Senate—he having, according to the
Radical reconstructed government of
Louisiana, a valid claim to a seat in both.
Tho Picayune indulges in a short bio
graphical notice of Pinchback in which
there are some very interesting memo
randa- Tho first one (which is sufficient)
is taken from the records of the "work-
house penitentiary,” New Orleans, as fol
lows :
"Mat 28,1SA2.—Pinckney Pinchback,
24 years old. 5 feet 0 inches high, black
hair; occupation a laborer, intemperate
habits; and under bead of remarks
classed "smart,” committed under a con
viction before Provost Judge J. M. Bell
for larceny, and sentenced to the Peniten
tiary for two years.”
J. R. West, Pinchback’s colleague in
the Senate, from Louisiana, said in a
speech delivered before a Radical conven
tion of Louisiana, on the 10th day of last
month, " There is no man in Louisiana
that I would offer a more cordial welcome
to than Senator Pinchback.” West may
be right in respect to himself and some
other fellow members of the United
States Senate. They may naturally fee!
awkward in the presence of respectabl-
Thi Stax say3 Mr. D. W. Patterson, of
Griffin, suspended business on Wednes
day. His liabilities are estimated at
$60,000 and his assets at nearly that
amount. The Star says "too mnch cred
it” is the cause.
We find this Atlanta item in the Gaines
ville Eagle:
Mr. Forlow, of Heard county, a few
days ago, had three hundred and fifty
dollars in currency, and a five hundred
dollar cheek, taken from him by a gang
of negroes and B. M. and Tutt Clower,
sons of Mrs. Clower, who keeps a board
ing house on Decatur street, Atlanta, Gs.
We know a big doctor whe lost his pocket-
book at Mrs. Clower's a year or two ago.
The same piper is of opinion that if
Gov. Smith "never performs an act more
&t variance with the feelings of the peo
ple of Georgia than his refusing to com
mute the punishment of, or pardon Milton
Malone, he could be Governor of the com
monwealth for the remainder of his days.
A few more "judicial murders," such as
Malone’s was, will satisfy persons who
persist in carrying pistols about them,
that in Georgia they must be careful how
they shoot.”
The LaGrango Heporternote3 as a very
strange fact that all the cattle that ore
ever killed by railway trains are of the
finest imported stock. Ordinary cattle
are never killed on railroads:
The Reporter says the "colored troops”
of LaGrango have been greatly disturbed
of late by this Cuban business: Gen
eral G. T. Anderson, of Atlanta, better
known as " Old Tige,” was in town, and
some of "the boys” introduced him to
two or three negroes as a general whom
Grant had sent ont to raise a brigade of
colored troops. This created considera
ble excitement in the minds of some of
that class, especially when Gen. Ander
son told them to be ready next Saturday,
as he had the names of all the Grant vo
ters and would require them to start
to Cuba at once. They protested that
they didn’t vote for Grant; that they
had never shot a gun or a pistol, and
didn't know how to shoot even a pop
gun.
A sea gull was killed at Columbus on
Friday. The theory is that it came up
the river on the tail end of the late blow
at Apalachicola.
The Sun thinks Columbus will receive
about 53,000 bales of cotton this year,
against 53,000 last year. The figures
show a decrease of 3,527 hales as com
pared with same date last year. The
stock on hand, however, is 10,657 bales,
against 8,525 same date last year.
The present Grand Jury of Muscogee
county is on a furious rampage. They
aro crusading especially against fornica
tion. /
The gin-house of Mr. Asa Brown,'of
Jefferson county, which was burned last
week, makes the fifty-second in Georgia
since September 30th.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says tho
last report of the Secretary and Treasu
rers of the 'Wilmington and Weldon, and
Columbia and Augusta railroads show
$1,462,701.85 gross earnings last year,
against $896,245.28 expenses, leaving
$565,456.57 as net earnings.
Mb. J. Edgab Thomson*, President of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, who thirty
ycara ago was the Chief Engineer of tho
Georgia Railroad, is in Atlanta, which
oily he laid ont and named.
Four cases of small-pox aro reported in
tho fourth ward, Atlanta, and the Board
of Health have been called together to
.discuss the situation.
Frame Dumont, a member of Duprez
& Benedict’s Minstrels, was fined $750
and costs in Fulton County Superior
Court, for capturing a pocket-book and
$400 from a man named Camp, at At
lanta, a few days since. If he can’t raise
the money, he goes on the board of public
works for eight months.
The Atlanta Constitution is informed
that the Georgia railroad directors will
declare tho regular semi-annual dividend
next Tuesday.
Shot and powder have taken an up
ward turn in tho Columbus market, on
account of large flocks of wild pigeons in
tho eastern port of the county.
The Champion Fool.—The Savannah
News tells the following:
Yesterday afternoon, about four
o’clock, Pierco Glenn and Tom Finney,
colored idlers, wil^i a party of friends
Return’s or Whits-:.—Co'
bales; rice, 350 bushels; oats,
bushels ; corn, 35,027 bushels ; swe^*.
tatoes. 31,505 bushels; sugar-cane .}sf.
11,090 gallons; sugar, 12,035 po% :
sheep, 10.99S head; hogs, 10,463 ;
horses and mules, 371 head; catth 0,-
04S.
Retcr.N*- or Freedmen*.—The igd-
men return eight bales cotton, 167 -
els oats; 1,075 bushels corn; 1,110 4-
els sweet potatoes, 394 gallons sjg;
480 pounds sugar 69 head of sheepil4
hogs, eight horses and mules, 3S hq of
cattle.
And also the following from the tv-
kinsville Dispatch, which paper pubhfs
the above statements t
Twelve Hundred Bushels or fxar
Potatoes.—Hon. Reason and W us;
Poulk, of Irwin connty, made this;
each, 1200 bushels of sweet potaN on
ten acres of land, being an avera of
120 bushels to the acre. Sweet p^-o*
are selling from sixty to sever.Tflve
cents per bushel in tins market, 0 in
the spring they find ready sale at -*en-
ty-five cents to one dollar.
In “ consekens of vich” Irwin tnty
snaps her fingers at " the panic.” low
many other counties in Georgia c in
dulge in that luxury?
A Monument to tho Fallen Mical
Heroes of Memphis
We have been handed by Dr!. H.
Hall, of this city, a circular addresd to
the "Medical Profession at Largeby a
committee of Memphis physicians peal
ing for contributions from the i&bers
of that profession all over the corny, to
build a suitable monument to thoven
physicians who died at their postering
the recent yellow fever scourj that
swept over that city. The list coriles
the following names: Williams, F:man,
Crone, Hatch, Kennon, Blount d Mi
nor. We second the appeal witUl our
heart. Surely such dovetion artieroic
self-sacrifice as they exhibited serves
perpetual commemoration, and i trust
the enterprise will be speedilyrd en
tirely successful. Remittances my be
made to Richard H. Taylor, ID., 44
North Court street; F. L. SiiM. D.,
115| Beale street, or B. W. Mi'ell, M.
D., 275 Main street, Memphis, nn.
; B\ TEL EGR A PH. Financial and Commercial
A TERRIBLE WAR EIRE.
jewelry belonging to Mr. Walker and
wife, besides several other articles. They
also carried away Mr. Walker's double
barrel shot gun. The whole loss is about
$700. f
Savannah cotton exports for Thursdiy
footed up G.565 bales of upland cottm,
rained at $4,353,043 47, and 48 bale! of
sea island cotton, valued at $5,57112
The Savannah News says that on
Thursday Ordinary Ferril], of that coun
ty, granted an application "for honestead
exemption and personalty agaia=t rent”
—the first case of the kind on record-
The Eights of the Pbess.—The La
Grange Reporter desires to call the at
tention of the press of Georgia
the fact is patent that our people are i P U ^'C cnaracter personal worth and ^ f 0 l] 0w ing matter : Within
crushed to the earth with this load of j ln the Un ’ U ' J States ’ b - v a sin S le the last three months, two or three
debt, anl every week witnesses the fore- iUustrat ion, he might best do it by con- well bsn men
closure of hundreds of liens, given to toastingtimSenatonowwife fteSwata
procure the neee>sarios of life. Real es
tate*
and railroad securities sell at a lower price
people, and desire to stock the Senatorial
True, the fail- chamber with vulgar rogues to keep
ure of crops and their own blind devo- | themselves in countenance. But still, if
Uon to cotton alone, have had some Pinchback and all the other thieves and
agenev in producing this sad condition j larceners were ousted, it would need no
of affairs, together with unwise and am- ; immaculate virtue to stand unawed and
provident State legislation. : ’^abashed in the presence of the Senate.
Bat it matters little from what cause, | U 0110 n0eded *° dedine of
. , , x. _ __ A.y,;_4_. _ , pers hare written eloquent obituaries
cure the neee>saries of life. Keai es- ° w •’ thirty ^ * over them. But these men. with a per-
?. too, has depreciated fearful!v, bonds loot 0X1 tni3 P ictare—t ~ en on t^at. j ver sitj as provoking as it is inexplicable,
, -t, i, , * * * I • still live. Now when a newspaper in
[ railroad so-'unties sell at a lower price , ^a.^_j- . Uf*,*
than ever before, credit is about played Fifty Thousand Majority and a Clean £££ anj . manii . should
out, and homesteads and bankruptcy no- 1 Sweep—Fact npyour larpet-oags. (he. For him to live, is a dangerous in
fringement on the liberty of the press.
xnkruptcy
tices are now the order of the day to an
extent moat alarmin'*.
To add to the gravitv of the situation,
storms and pestilence and financial con
vulsions have swept over the land with
the bessom of destruction,;.!:,! while money
is appallingly scarce, creditors are clam
orous and importunate. Woe to the luck
less wight who has a note to meet in b*nk>
with no other reliance than the accounts,
and promises to pay, of those indebted to
him. His name is in great danger of be
ing added to the mighty host of the "pro
tested.” Hence, at this juncture, any con-
The Mobile Register, of Thursday after
noon, prints the following telegram :
Waco, Texas, December 3.—The Lone
Star State is entirely lovely and the RaJ- pros must die
ical goose hangs high. The Straightout Cause and Effect.—The HawkirsviUe
Democratic ticket has swept the State Dispatch claims Irwin a3 the banner
from end to end like a }>rairie fire. There I county. Every dollar of the State and
is fiftt thousand democbatic majoeitt, j county tax for 1S73 has been collected,
and every official elected in the State, except three dollars poll tax on three ne-
from Governor to constable, is a Demo- | groes who have moved out of th'
era!; Alabama. since it was levied. This
Tlic New Sllb-Harinr Torpci Boat-
Iron Clads anil Stone Fort’Plnycd
Out.”
An Annapolis correspondent tho New
York Sun has lately witnessed e opera
tions of a new sub-marino toido boat,
the invention of Capt. Penn Cry, which
is destined, if the correspondc’s state
ments bo true, to work a totabvolution
in naval warfare. The boat flcscribed
as "a floating body” which ipcrfectly
capable of destroying tho strgest iron
clad that ever floated, witlpnustaining
the slightest injury itself. Is not only
sea-worthy in tho heaviest Ether, but
can navigate tho ocean oithen tho sur
face or underneath at thelensure of
those on bo.'val. By a very mple pro
cess this torpedo boat is cdy made to
sink below tho surface bjotting the
water into tanks by meansf an injec
tion valve. It can be hanrd with the
greatest ease and facility, rising itself
at any depth and rising agi to tho sur
face at the mere pleasure: caprice of
those confined within its closure. Its
success in this respect hajeen well es
tablished during the pas six years in
probably over a hundred scent3 with
out the least accident.
Of how the monster is mapulated, the
correspondent gives the allowing ac
count:
It can bo made to rise ad sink again
in mid-ocean, if noccssarjas safely and
expeditiously as in the soother waters
of a river. Thero is ncpluiiging, and
the descent is said to he iperceptible to
those inside, Accommoations are pro
vided for ten men, but :orew of fifteen
or even twenty persons 1® find ample
room to move about dthout in any
way interfering with coh other in the
discharge of their du-- If the crew
should neglect to keeper to her proper
poise when under watt the boat null ra
pidly rise to the surfa* again of its own
volition- A hydrom<or placed in the
cupola, directly und’ the eye of the
pilot, registers the nrther of feet she is
under water from alve. Ho regulates
her position to suit ini self, and issues
his orders according 1 - Poore, wholesome
fresh air i3 at all tics furnished in the
greatest abundance The secret for pu
rifying tho air—ar we are assured by
those who know to process that it i3
pure and wholesom—'the manner of ope
rating the boat, ad placing the torpe
does in position atho end of tho booms
and firing them, 9) purposely and prop
erly withheld fro*.the public. Tho’tor-
pedo boom is ru iu and outboard by a
very simple piec*of mechanism, exclud
ing all water frci coming into tho boat.
The hull of a® of these boats will
weigh about fit ton tons, and is made of
wrought and ert iron. Tho boat can bo
propelled ten Dots an hour at a depth of
twelve or fift® foot. The frame is her
metically seotd, cemented, and double riv
eted togetliG while the tubes are fastened
at each secon by means of clamps. This
arrangemet of hull, togother with tho
hollow top* throughout her frame,
makes he,ut all times a perfect self
acting lifeboat, either on the surface of
the wateror fifty fathoms under, in any
kind of wather or boisterous sea.
Three eet Jaelow the hull i3 a movable
plat fora for a diver to work upon while
adjustiif torpedoes for blowing up liar-
bar obAuotions.
SOMES OF ENOBMOUS SIZE,
too lag® to take on board, can readily bo
lashed to this platform to be used for
any pecial purpose required. After they
have been once securely lodged in posi-
tionigainst or under the scarp wall of a
fort, the diver, clad in his helmet and
arjor, attaches a telegraph wire to them
an/ returns to the inside of tho boat
a-Ain through the well-hole in tho bot-
tin. The boat then backs off to a safe
distance, the diver meanwhile unreels the
iber end of the wire from a spool which
k fastened to his armor in front of his
jreastplate and attaches it to a. steel
magnet battery, which is located in the
pilot cnpola. When the boat has gained
sufficient stemway to be beyond the
reach of any falling missiles from the
fort, it becomes the pilot or commander’s
duty to send the spark from this battery
npon its mission of destruction. The
platform is only intended to be used for
harbor and river service, and will not be
carried by sea-going torpedo boats
STONE F0BTBESSE3 DOOMED.
Now, when it is taken into considera
tion that every cubic foot of water acts
as a fulcrum on these torpedoes like so
much solid iron, some idea of the im
mense force and power of their explosion
under the surface may be imagined. No
stone fortress whose cover front could be
reached from the water could withstand
the shock of an explosion of a monster
torpedo of this description, charged with
dualine, fulminate of mercury, nitro-gly-
cerine, or even when filled with ordinary
gunpowder. It is quite probable that
the very first torpedo of proportionate
size would send it toppling to the bot
tom, a mass of rains. Five or six of these
submarine boots acting in concert, there
is no good or valid reason to doubt could,
if occasion required, start an earthquake
under that venerable pile, the Rock of
Gibralter, while the destruction of an
iron-oiad fleet, drawn up in battle array,
would be the work of only a few mo
ments, eras fast as one vessel after an-
inuueuieui. uu txits aiucaij u*. iut,-3=. i , ’ ,, , , , 3 , , . .,
We hope the Press Association next week I other could be reached and struck by the
will petition the Legislature to pass a I mystenons htrie water sprite so carefully
law tl.at a man announced dead by the hidden .:
were congregated in the vicinity of tho
toll-gate, on Thunderboltroad, eloquently
discussing tho game law. Pierce Glenn
had a double-barrel shot-gun, one barrel
of which ho had just loaded, and was in
the act of putting tho charge in the oth
er, when Tom, who, it would seem, is an
eccentric kind of a cuss, remarked to
Fierce that he would bet ho could shoot
him (Pierce) in the hand from tho loaded
barrel whilst ho (Pierce) was charging
tho other. Pierce being a brave rooster,
promptly accept** 1 the bet, and contin
ued to ram in the charge, whilst Tom
stooped down and pulled tho trigger of
the loaded barrel. There was a report,
an Ethiopean war whoop, the gun flew in
one direction and Fierce was seen spin
ning around on one leg, waving a gory
hand. On examination it was discovered
that the charge had struck tho dusky
fool, plump in the right hand, tearing
away two fingers and mangling the mem
ber in a horrible manner.
Tile German paper published at Sa
vannah says a number of German immi
grants passed through that city, on their
way to Screven county, last week. Mr.
L. F. Ploiffer, who owns a largo tract of
land in that neighborhood, persuaded
his brother-in-law, Mr. George N. Friese,
to sell out his estate near Aschaffenhurg,
Bavaria, in order to meet him in Georgia.
Besides the family, consisting of six
hearty, promising children, a number of
young men have joined the party.
John Killen, negro, was hung at
Hawkinsville last Friday for murder.
He confessed to two murders before he
was executed.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch says on
Monday night, tho house of Mr. Samuel
■Walker, in Irwin county, near Irwinsville,
was entered and robbed by some thief or
thieves, of two trunks containing $390 in
specie. $100 in currency, notes amounting
to $155, and all the fine clothing and
Georgia have
: been announced dead, and the newspa-
DAY DISPATCHES.
Coal for the Navy.
New Yobe, December 6.—The Brook
lyn navy-yard officials report that the
Government has purchased seven thou
sand tons of coaL The schooner A. W.
Smith took a portion of it to Key West.
The Virginias.
A Washington special says that Secre
tary Fish has officially refused to comply
with the Spanish Cabinet’s request that
the Yirgmius be delivered to a neutral
power.
Work In the Navy Tarda.
The work on the store ship supply
is pushed. Provisions are coming into
the Navy Yard. It is hoped that the
torpedo boat Alarm will be ready in a
month.
The sloop-of-war Macedonian is fitting
at Norfolk for a store ship.
Tcxaa Election.
Galveston, December 6.—In forty-
four counties the Democrats have 15,000
majority, and claim 40,000 majority in
the entire Estate.
The Pennsylvania Strikes.
Pons ville,December 0.—Some freight
train men and a few passenger train men
have joined the coal train men in the
strike.
Philadelphia. December 6.—The car
pet weavers have struck against a fire
per cent, reduction of wages. There is a
partial strike on the Reading railroad
against a ten per cent, reduction.
A Fire.
Fobt Gaubt, December G.—The Par
liament buildings are burned. Tho
records are saved.
Bombardment or Cartagena.
Madrid, December 6.—The bombard
ment of Cartagena continues. The de
fenders are reported to be in good spirits.
They made a sortie yesterday.
Spanish Sqnadron Left Cartagena.
London, December 6.—The govern
ment squadron has not been seen off Car
tagena for a week. The insurgents, in
the absence of the fleet, have procured
fresh supplies daily, and captured several
provision boats.
i OFFICE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER,>
December rt—EvssiSG. 1S73. )
Cotton.
The market to-.iay was unchlTWed. There was
j a fair demand for the higher grades at yesterday’*
prices. We quote:
Good ordimury... is l §131
Low middling ISf
Middling 14
The mueet below good ordinary is not quota
ble. as there is no demand ^or low grades.
The receipts to-day were 454 bides, of which SI 5
came by rail and 151) by wagon. Tho shipments
were 577 bales: sales 4S3.
DAILY STATEMENT.
Stock on Irnnd Sept. 1.1S7S 1.399
Received to-day 4C4 *
Received previously... - 39.474—39.938
• 41*77
Skipped to-day - 577
Shipped previously 30,425—31.002
Stock on hand this evening 1
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT.
Received since Sept. 1,1873 3
I Received to same time last year 3
Difference in favor of this year
LATEST MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH
Financial.
New York—Noon—Gold opened at 9J. Stocks
active and strong. Money. 7. Gold 9|. Kxdiange.
long 81; short 9b Governments strong. State
bonds quiet but held at highi r figures.
Bvetuiu?—Money easy at 6a7. Gold firm nt 9la
Si. Sterling firm at 8$. Governments strong
nnd considerable doing. State bonds quiet aud
higher-
Bank Statement: Loans increased $4,000,000.
Specie increased SI.275.ooo. Legal tenders ii
created 52^175.000. Deposits decreased $875,000.
Th • hunks hold SU. 125.000.
Midnight—sis 17fc 62s 11; ftls 12J; G5s IS; new
161: 67s 16{; 68s ■»•>!; new 5S 91; 10-40S 10.
Tennessees 7*’: * , w 75J; Virginias 51; new 4C
consols 49; def d 10; L o ; sianas 33; new 40; levee
6s 50; 8s 58; Alabama 8 <VS; 5s 35; Georgia 6
65; 7s S5; No*>h Carolina* °t; new 14; special
tax 10; South CttTviinaa 22; n>w »J; April aud
October ltt.
New Orleans—Gold i{a9>. Currency lali
premium for certified dwu.*. Exchange, New
York sight 1*1 discount for currency: k premium
for certified checks. Setrlmg, bank drafts 171.
London—Noon—Consols 012. Erie 38*. Frees
il*.
Paris—Rentes 5SfS2|c.
The Atlantic Wreck.—Halifax, De
cember* 3.—Another quantity of goods has
been recovered from the Atlantic wreck j
and brought to the city. Previous to the i
late gale one of the divers operating on
the wreck saw under a gangway the body :
of a man, evidently an officer of the ship, ;
ounty i a woman and a little girl. The diver in- .
certainlv a i tended sending them up, but when he 1
, , . ....... . i . , . . .. , , ; went down next time after the storm 1
In thirty days the woods will be full of ■ splendid showing, but easily understood tona o{ - uon {aUen on tho
carpet-buggers hunting their way back to when we read this extract from the tax j bodies. Operations on the wreck will be
the land of "civilisation.” Hallelujah! j receiver’s books; | suspended during the winter.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Tho Origin of the Neutral Power
Proposition.
Washington, December G.—It has
transpired that tho proposition for a
change of tho protocol delivering the
Virginias to a neutral power did not come
through Spain to our Government, but
was merely an unofficial suggestion from
Cuban officials to Admiral Polo, a3 a
measure in tho interest of quiet on the
island. This statement is made upon tho
highest authority, and our Government
takes no notice of the indirect suggestion,
as they only treat with Spain. They have
no diplomatic relations with Cuba beyond
consular regulations.
Committco Work,
Washington, December 6.—Tho Star
considers the constitution of tho Banking
and Currency Committee as favorable to
inflation. The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee holds its first meeting on
Tuesday.
The Privileges and Elections Commit
tee will hoar argument on tho Louisiana
case next Wednesday.
Synopsis Weather Statement.
Office Chief Signal Officer, ^
Washington, December G. )
Probabilities: For the Now England
States clear and partly cloudy weather
will prevail during the greater portion
of the day, with low temperature and
light variable winds, but the cloudiness
will increase during Sunday night with
threatening weather 5 for tho Middle
States and lower lakes increasing press
ure, with partly cloudy weather, followed
by diminishing pressure and slightly ris
ing temperature and possibly light rain
in the west portion of these districts; for
tho upper lakes and thence south to Ten
nessee and westward to the Missouri val
ley, less pressure, rising temperature,
light to brisk winds, areas of rain and
snow; for the South Atlantic and Gulf
States slightly rising temperature, north
east to southeast winds and possibly
rain. Reports have not been received
from tho Southwest, the upper Missouri
valley and tho Pacific coast.
The Naval Stores Trade,
New York, December 6.—The com
mittee on naval stores of the Produce Ex
change, met a committee of the dealers
in naval stores, on the subject of the
rules regulating the trade. It is pro
posed to amend those rules and probably
some new one3 may be adopted.
Failure.
Cornwall & Co., cotton brokers, failed
to-day. It is not believed to be a very
bad failure, or that any serious embar
rassments will result from it.
The California Senatorial Sitnntion,
San Fbancisco, December 6.—QJhe In
dependents are still confident of cdecting
Governor Booth to the Senato. Tho
Democrats, however, will make a : straight
fight, with probable concentration on
Judge Hager, anti-railroad, for the long
term.
A Nice State of Affairs,
Boston, December 6.—We have a case
of murder after an attempt at ravish
ment, and a bogus doctor has been held
in. $15,000 for murder by attempted
abortion.
War Material Moving to Pensacola,.
St. Lours, December G.—The war ma
terial which lias been stored here since
the close of the war is going to Pensa
cola. The shipments includo hundred
pound parrots and mortars.
New French Minister to Washington.
Paris, December G.—The appointment
of M. Bartholdi, Secretary of the legation
at St. Petersburg, as French Minister
at Washington to succeed Marquis de
Noailles, i3 announced to-day in the Jour
nal Officiate.
MIDMIGHT DISPATCHES.
Naval Matters.
New York, December 6.—A barge
loaded with 200 ton3 of coal sunk in front
of the gates through which the Spanish
vessel Arapiles wa3 to pass. This will
detain her a few day3.
The Colorado sails to-night for Cuba.
Monday visitors will be excluded from the
Navy Yards. Visitors smuggled rum to
the workmen. The Eoanoake is receiving
coal and will be ready for sea in a few
days.
New York Items,
Seventy-nine thousand dollars have
been appropriated to the hospitals and
other asylumns, to shelter and feed the
poor.
It is officially announced -that canal
navigation has closed for the season.
The Cuban Junta have no knowledge
of a Cuban expedition fitting out.
Bishop Cummins publishes a card say
ing it was Mcllwain, not Potter,-who
said ritualism must be put down now or
it would be too late.
Naval Movements.
The Colorado steamed out to-day. She
will receive her ammunition and go to
sea early Monday.
A number of boiler makers have been
detached from the navy yard to goto
Key West for repairing purposes.
The pressure for workmen prevents
the raising of the snnken vessel, which
prevents the departure of the Arapiles.
The engines of the Florida and Roan
oke will be tried to-morrow.
There is great bustle in preparation on
the Minnesota, Dictator and Saratora.
There is a notice at the gates solicit
ing recruits.
Becoming More Gniet.
Key West, December G—Havana dates
to the 5th state that the city is quiet—
the people being more reconciled to the
surrender of the Virginias. Represen
tative Casina Espanol, in Spain, tele
graphs Chief Casina to quietly deliver
the Virginius, and Spain will afterward
claim $100,000,000. The volunteers favor
a proposition to send the Virginiu3 to
Spain and deliver her thence.
The Bozalne Trial.
Versailles, December G.— Pounest,
concluding his argument in the Bazaine
trial, claimed, first, the Marshal’s degra
dation, then his execution.
Cotton.
New York—Noon—Cotton, sales 587; uplands
151; Orleans 161; market weak.
Futures opened as follows: January 15 7-16;
February lS^ulS 13-16 March 1C 3-16; April 16 7-
lGalGt.
Evening—Cotton, net receipts 363; gross 2598;
tales 5S7; uplands 15|; Orleans 151; market weak.
Futures closed steady; sales 15.800, as follows:
December 15 15 5-32al5 3-16; January 15 13-32a
15 7-16; February 15 25-32al5 13-16; March 16*a
16 5-16; April 16 15-S2alGi.
The market for spot cotton during the week
was inactive aud unsettled. Receipts were large,
and only a moderate export demand, prices hav
ing ruled too high to admit of the execution of ot-
dres for the other side. The result was a decline
of 2 since the opening of tho week. For forward
delivery; the market has fluctuated and prices
closed with a heavy decline.
Total sales of the week included 136,993 tales,
of which 122,330 were for future delivery and 14,143
for immediate delivery, as follows; export 3V57;
spinning 9758; speculation US; in transit 810.
Included were 1892 to arrive.
Baltimore—Cotton, net receipts —; gross
787; exports coastwise 161; to Great Britaiu —;
sales 495; to spinners —; stock 15,602: middlincs
15i; low middlings 15; strict good ordinary 14i;
market dull and lower.
New Orleans—Cotton, net receipts 9139; gross
9828; exports coastwise 2380; to Great Britain —;
continent 3535; sales 2300; stock 153.010; middlincs
16$; low middlings 15$; strict nood ordinary 14$;
market irregular and easier.
Wilmington—Cotton, net receipts S21; exports
to Great Britain —; coastwise -452; sales —; stock
2612; middlings 15; market nominal.
Acgcsta—Cotton, net receipts 1729; sales 1411;
middlings 14$; market quiet.
Savannah—Cotton, net receipts 5212; exports
to Continent 2245; coastwiso —; to Groat Britain
—; sales 20CO; stock 105,327; middlings 14b mar
ket quiet.
Charleston—Cotton.net receipts 2714; exports
to Great Britain 5780; coastwise 706; to France
S75; sales 1000; stock 51,466; middlings 14f; low
middlings 14$; strict good ordinary 14; market
Death of Hon. VVIUIs A. Jones. /
In the pride of his manhood, iu the bloom and
vigor of liis strength, while yet his “eye was not
dimmed, nor hi> natural force abated.” tho Hon.
Willis A. Jones has been called from this tran
sitory life to “ the scene of awful and inconceiva
ble majesty tliat lies beyond*the vale of vision.”
When the *ood. the true, the noble, the generous
and the loving die, the words and thoughts oT the
mind give but a tame and feeble expression to the
feelings of the heart. The lips that move not, the
eye that is lustreless and dim, the cheeks that are
faded and wan. and the form majestic and com
manding that lies pulselecs and still before us,
are char 1 idled and embalmed in affections too sa
cred to be sketched by pen or pencil.
It is with these feelings that the writer assumes
the solemn and melancholy duty of paying a tri
bute to the memory of the deceased.
Willis A. Jones, the third child of Mr. John
Jones was born near Greenville, in Meriwether
county. Georgia, August 17, 1SS0. His sprightly
mind, positive character, affable disposition, and
great energy ami resolution, gave him promi
nence and influence in childhood, which “grew
with his growth” nnd rendered his liio eminently
useful in after years. At home ha was the ac
knowledged ami unenvied favorite of the circle-
no other brother or sister competed with him ir
the affection of his brothers and sisters—no othci
child occupied or deemed himself deserving to oc
cupy so high a place in tho love and confidence o!
his parents.
Tho deceased completed his oducation at
Brnwnwood Institute (then under tho sujxjrv
ion of the Rev. Otis Smith) in tho year ISIS. ]
soon after married, and in 1S56 moved to L
county and on gaged pi farming, which has bttn
liis occupation ever since, and hut few havo sui
coedou as well, or been guided by so tin)rough
knowledge of tfcobusiness.orby so sound and pra
t ical an application of that knowledge. l(o has held
numerous positions of tmst, honor and responsi
bility in tho county, and in 1861 and 1862 ho rep
resented tho county with distinction in tho Leg
islature. As a legislator, ho was always prompt to
roll-call, fully alive to tho interests of his constit
uents, and active in the discharge of every duty;
his official conduct in this position gave entire
satisfaction, and he was not re-elected only be
came ho refused to be a candidate.
Since tho war he has been living a quiet and re
tired life, devoting his attention to his private in
terest, his church duties, and to deeds of useful
ness and acts of kindness. While engaged in tho
interest of his county as a grand juror at tho No
vember Term, 1873, of tho Superior Court, he con
tracted a cold, which was increased by two nights
of slocpless watching around the sick bod of a dy
ing friend, and resulted in a congestive chill,
which terminated fatally at 6$ o’clock p. m.
Thursday, November 27,1S78.
There was so much in tho life of .fudge Jones
to call forth feelings of love, to rivet attention and
attract admiration; ho so nearly filled |tlio meas
ure of a perfect man, that I am at a loss, whether
in this brief sketch to give moro prominence to
his character as an isolated man, or as a member
of society, as a Christian, or as the head of a fam
ily.
As a man, he was brave and yet forbearing, just
and yet generous, Scrupulously honest in his deal
ings, and prompt in tho discharge of every duty.
As a member of society, he was indeed a model
man. Such was tho confidence of his fellow citi
zens in his sound judgment, his practical business
qualities, and his honesty and integrity, that few
arbitrations were proposed and few controversies
adjusted without recourso to law, in which IkjIIi
imrtles were not willing to trust implicity tho in
vestigation and decision of Judge Jones unaided
and aionc. To tho sick he ministered with tho
-kindest and lendercst sympathy. Ho relieved tho
nocissities of tho noody, consoled the bereaved
andafllicted, admonished and advised the young
and unwary, and minglod ever with tho gloomy
shacows of this fleeting lifo tho warmth and sun-
shin* of his genial nature.. ^
Bu$ who Hint has knpwn him around the do-
most c hearthstone can realize that a magnet so
ftttnutive, that a charm so jiotentlas his prcsonco
is no longer there ? Never, not in a single in
stance, has he passed tho throslihold returning
homo without bringing kind words and cheerful
smiles to his family. Tho doors of liis hospitable,
happy home were closed against tho troubles and
CSSIRABLE
MILL PROPERTY!
FOU SALE.
rnHK *iid property i** known a. the “GERMA-
I XU SAW Mll-I. company of geor-
GIA.” is situated on Cobb's creek,two miles from
the Alta malm river, ami eighteen miles from
Reedsv die, the county seat of Tatnall county,
5,000 Acres of Well-Timbered Pine
Bands,
000acresdwwl hod. well adapted to themlti-
ration of cotton, corn, «*its. rye. etc.
The improvement*comprise one Saw and one
■cular
Grist Mill (water power), with all tho
machinery, including on© Gang nnd o
Saw; a narrow-gang© Railroad, two miles long,
with locomotive nnd lumber cars complete, con
necting tho mill direct with the river; 26 Mules :
8 Timber Wagons, Harness and Chains, in good
order; Horses, Oxen and other stock; also,»
COMMODIOUS DWELLING,
Comfortably furnished; large Stables; Carriage
Houses; Blacksmith and Wheelwright Shops ;
sos, recently built, for white and
*s; n suhstantml Camp for cutters ;
turning out 25,000
ml the
colored lntarci
ami a Stock 1Y_
The Mill has acapacitv fi
feet Te-sawn Lumber per dn..
. Tho Machinery and Buildings are ne’
situation one of the healthiest m the Su
The Water Power fur driving the Mill is ample
at all seasons of the year, and is secured to name
by act of inoorjiorntion.
Terms moderate.
For further particulars apply to
, GERMANIA SAW MILL iX>. OF GA
Ps O. Box 1.366. Now York City.
Or to GEO. A. BURT. General Agent/
Lock Box $21, Savannah, Ga.
doeS In
The Magnificent Estate
Montpelier Springs,
NEAR MAOON, GA.
FOR SALE
ENTIRE, OR IN SEPARATE FARMS.
ful and desirable estate, comprising the build
ings and grounds of Montpelier Institute, and a
domain of 840 acres of land, forming the adjacent
farms and plantations, with valuable improve
ments.
The property is situated in Monroo county, Ga.,
about 16 miles west of tho city of Macon, and
seven iriles from the Macon and Western railroad.
Montpelier is noted for its salubrity of climate.
This locality is entirely free from fevers of every
kind; pleurisy, pneumonia and other prevailing
diseases are almost unknown here. The weather
inter is moderate and pleasant, and in sum-
never oppressively warm.the thermometrical
J« seldom exceeding 85 degrees. Besides nu
merous unfailing springs of purest water, then* is
on tho premises a fine Chalybeate spring, cele
brated for its sanative properties. And the sur
rounding country can in nowhere be surpassed
for the attractions of its picturesque scenerv.
Tho property, unless sold as a whole, wUl bo di
vided into tke following separate farms, each ono
containing suitable proportions of artUe land and
woodland, and being well watered by unfailing
iySower
****Mobile—Cotton, net receipts 2093; exports
coastwise 561; Great Britain —; sales 800; stock
36^15; middlings lSal&i; low middlings 14$; strict
good ordinary 14; market quiet.
Boston—Cotton, net receipts 88; grass 590;
exports to Great Britain —; sales 200; stock 5600;
Xni Noi"FOLK^-C< 1 )ttom net*receipts 2762; exjiorts j l^rplexities of bis farm. His homo was an earthly
coastwiso 750; to Great Britain —; sales 470;} Eden—tho flowers of affection and tho swcot
pl r:t r ,Mj on
2818; Stock 42,425; low middling 14$al4$; market 115 cultivated soil; but the serpent (Doath) has
dulfand lowsr. J entered.'and—oh! can it bo so? all wo knew and
esssrs^st’tsss^ Ua roW -
sales 1500; stock 52,077; good ordinary 14$; ordinary} Pulseless und silently waiting the rcsurrcc-
12$; market weak. j tion of the just.
Joxra was formany ycarsa consent
:6>;low)middlings lib strict good ordinary 15k I and zealous member ot tlio Eajitist Church, hold-
market quiet. ing a portion of tho time tho hjgh and responsible
LlJ-EEPOOL-Noon-Cotton sales 10.000 talc position of doncou. Hews, earnest and porsist-
SSffMMS? <5&n l| in 1- efforts to rnaito tho Church her
arrive cheaper. . garments unspotted from the world. Ho neithor
Uplands, not below good ordinary,^shipped possessed nor desired to possess any of tho Phar-
cemocr and January, 8 5-16; same January !
February, 8f.
Later—Uplands, not below' good ordinary, di
livered February and March, 8 4-16.
p. it.—Uplands, not below good ordinary, shq
ped December. 8|: shipped November and D«
comber 8$; Orleans, not below 7ood
shipped December and January, 8$.
Produce.
New York—Noon—Flour firmer and active;
mess 15 25. Lard firmer; steam 8J. Turpentine
steady at 40. Rosin steady at 2 CO for strained.
Groceries firm. Freights quiet.
Evening—Flour, southern dull and drooping;
common to fair extra 6 90a7 76; good to choice
extra 7 9tall 00. Whisky dull at 93. Wheat dull
and stronger and in buyers’ favor. Corn la2
better; demand good ahd supply moderate. Cof
fee J higher and excited; 6ood and prime Rio 24a
24$. Rice unchanged. Por^ quiet ar.d firm. Lard
firmer at 8$. Navals qoiet. Freights unchanged.
Cincinnati—Floor firm at 5 90a7 10. Com
quiet; old ear 50a51: new ear 45a46; shelled 50.
Fork strong ntl4 50aal475: generally held at 15 00.
Lard, kettle steady at 8$a8|; steam strong at 7$.
with sales; held at 7}. Bacon quiet; shoulders 6$
af.J; clear rib 7$a7|; clear sides 7|3; all new. Whis
ky steady at 88.
St. Loris—Flour quiet: superfine 4 00a4 50
Com firmer; No. 2 mixed 45a46 on track; old 48 '
elevator. Whisky higlierat 88. Pork steady; lit
mess 13 OOalS 50. Bacon, nothing doing. Lard
firm.
New Orleans—Flour, double extra 5 50a5 50;
treble extra C 50a7 50; family 8 00a9 50; market
quiet. Com, supply light; mixed 75; white 76;
old white 78. Oats in fair demand at 43a55; sup
ply good. Bran dull at 100. Hay quiec; prime
24 00; choice 26 00. Pork easier, mess 14 50. Dry
salted meats, none in first hands; shoulders nom
inally G$. Bacon dull; shoulders 6f; dear rib 8;
clear sides 8a8$; hams, choice, in demand; old 10a
10$; new 13al4. Lard dull; tierce 8$a8|; keg 9a9$.
Sugar dull and drooping; inferior 4a5, common 5$
o5j; fair to fully fair Gaa7$; prime to choice 7JaS$.
Molasses in good demand; inferior 25; common 35
aS6; fair 48a50; prime to choice 55a55. Whisky
quiet; Louisiana 94; Cindnnatil 02. Coffee 22a23$.
Com meal firm at 3 28.
Wilmington—Spirits turpentino and rosin, nc
sates. Cnule turpentine sternly; hard 2 00; yel
low dip and virgin 2 90. Tar firm at 2 40.
Liverpool—Noon—Brcadstuffs quiet. Pork
75s.
Evening—Bacon, short ribs 40s.
Marino News.
New York—-Arrived. America, Algeria.
Aerived out. Cuba, Wisconsin.
Savannah—Arrived, Mayflower, Vanguard,
New Wabena, Ophelia, Mogul, Green. Sailed,
Huntsville, San Jacinto. Wyoming, America.
Charleston—Sailed, Titian, L. D. Davis. Ar
rived Mercidita.
, isaical sanctimony of tho Puritans. His was tho
* "lively hope" of tho Christian, his were the
forting promises of tho Word, his labor wi
“ tho milk and honey that aro beyond this wilder
ness,” and
" Ho pitched his moving tent each night
A day’s march nearer home.”
Whilo tho writer would tender to the bereaved
amily his earnest sympathy in this their deep af-
liction, ho trusts they will draw consolation from
he well grounded confidence they havo that tho
usband and father is gono to breathe a purer air
pd look upon a brighter sky, and that his voico
blended with the music of the blood-washed
•ng where
No sighs shall minglo the songs
That warble from im mortar tongues.”
FfeflDD.
Is composed of Herbal and Mucilaginous pro
—' ’ * have a specific effect upon the Ful-
ducts, which hav
monary organs, penetrating
It detaches from the Bronchial
the irritating matter which
f them.
Wind Tubes
cumulates, and
sists them to threw it off, mitigates tha pain,
sists the progress of
WANTED.
lamination and removes
the constriction of the chest
The Properties of this Elegrant
Preparation are Demulcent. Nutritive, Bal
sarnie. Healing and Soothing. It braces the ner
yous system, produces refreshing deep, and re
lieves gloom and depression of spirits. It is very
pleasant to take, causes no nausea, and strength
ens the lungs to resist attacks in the future.
YOU NEED NOT 60 TO FLORIDA
TO CURE YOUR COUGH
If vou use this remedy, you can remain at home
and enjoy its comforts, a privilege of vast impor
tance to the sufferer from pulmonarv disease.
Avoid Consumption. This disease is very
insidious in its approach, and its first advance
should lie promptly guarded a*rain*t. The timely
use of the Exx^ectorant will prevent much pain
and suffering. . „
I»r. Tutt’s Expectorant In a Specific
for Croup. No mother should ever be without
a bottle of it. It is very pleasant, and children
take it readily. , , _ , „
It is the most valuable Lung Balsam everoffered
to sufferers from diseases of the throat or chest.
Price 5100 a bottle, or six for 53 00. Sold by all
Druggists. Office 48 Cortlandt street. New York.
nov2G eodiwtf
amts H. BLOUNT. ISAAC HARDEMAN.
JOHN L. HARDEMAN.
BLOUNT, HARDEMAN & HARDEMAN
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
XACON, GA.
Office. Cherry street, over S. T. Walker’s.
auglO tf .
E. B. POTTEB, M. D.
HOMCEOPATHIBT
O FFICE Wood’s Block, Second street, third
door below Johnston jewelry establishment.
1Uii| K nr« Tinier Hou>~-julvl5 tf
G EORGIA, BIBB COUNTY.-All persons In
debted to the estate of William H.Stripling,
late of said county, deceased, are required to
make immediate payment to theunders.gned.and
tho>»: having claims to rentier them in terms of
the law. THOMAS R. STRIPLING,
dec® 46d Administrator.
G EORG LA CRAWFORD COUNTY.—James
M. Rimrnona has applied for exemption of
personalty, and I will j»ass upon the same at 10
o’clock a.’m., at my office, on December 15,1873.
Witness my hand officially, this December 2,
1873. James j. ray.
dec4 2t Ordiiuiry.
AUCTION!
GJENEItAL
Cotmission and Storage!
Cherry Street, Macon, Ga.
C ONwxMENTS of goods, wares and mcr-
c'fKse solicited, to bo sold at public or pri
vate salt
ode-.kinds received on storage at usual
rates.
Ire
Hon
Hon
Hon
Bank,]
Men »bedgc, Hazlcburst & Co., Bankers,
| Burko & Co., Macon.
U>«»s AST Coleman, Macon.
»n A Smith, 3Iacon.
ur, Tinsley & Co., Macon,
Lake A Co., Macon,
rts, Macon.
MILO S. FREEMAN.
TI C E!
sion to
.ulT. Mayor, Macon. Ga.
utting. President City Bank, Macon.
E Jones, President Central Georgia
springs and stre
1st. Montpelier, including the buildings and
grounds of the Institute, with a farm of about 812
acres of land, of wtrich nearly one-half is cleared.
Tho Institute buildings consist of a main edifice,
designed for lodgings for pupils and teachers, with
separate buildings for a general study hall; reci
tation, music nnd lecture rooms, chapel and other
conveniences forn perfectly organised oollogiato
institution. The extensive pleasurv grounds of
the Institute consist of shady groves of venerable
and stately oaks, interspersed with beautiful
lawns, embellished with evergreens, shrubs and
flowers, and affording to students unrivalled op
portunities for exercise and recreation.
Tho lands of Montpelier consist cf excellent ar
able and pasture lands, with valuable woodlands,
containing oak, hickory,chestnut, and other forest
trees. Tho soil is rich and fertile, ami admirably
adapted for cotton, coni, wheat and other cereals,
with clover niul various grasses; also, for all tho
products of tho garden, the orchard, and tho vine
yard.
Tho improvements connected with tho fann and
plantation consist of a smoke-house, carriage-
house, barn, stable, cow haw, corn-house, jaml-
try-liousc, tool-house, etc., all substantially built,
and in perfect repair.
2d. A fann called Glenwood, containing 160
acres of land, about 80 acres cleared. Tho iim
provements on this placo consist of a substantial
and fcommodious farm-house, with an excellent
gin-liouso and cotton press, and other outbuild
ings. Tho land on this farm is exceedingly fertile,
producing ono halo of cotton or moro to an acre,
without tho use of any fertilizer.
3d. A farm called Woodstock, containing 125
acres; about 25 acres cleared, and the remainder
in valuable woodland. Tho iin nrovemen ts consist
of a newly erected farm cottage, with servant’s
house and other outbuildings. The location of
this farm is a very desirable one, tho house being
situated in a ltcautiful oak grove on tlio Forsyth
road, and overlooking a fine extent of country.
4th. A tract of land containing one-half lot, 101
acres, about CO acres cleared. This placo is with
out improvements and situated on the op|jositu
side of the road from Woodstock, to which it may
form a convenient appendngc.
5th. A tract of land containing about 80 acres,
with about 40 acres cleared, and tho remainder in
beautiful woodland. No improvements, but tho
grounds afford several eligiblo sites for a resi
dence on tho Macon and Thomaston road.
6th. A tract of land, containing about 75 acres,
and ataut 40 acres cleared. Tho location effers a
desirable site for a dwelling.
The proposed sale of the Montpelier estate offers
special inducements to personsof taste and means
desiring to |Hisses* valuablem d elegant |.n>j*erty,
in a location combining almost unequalled natu
ral advantages. Tho diversified features of tho
landscape, consisting of gentle hills and slopes,
alternate groves and lawns, and numerous unfail
ing springs and water brooks, render Montpelier
susceptible of improvements unsurpassed any
where North or South, in varied use and beauty,
as well as in admirable adaptations for a colh-giato
institution, a summer watering place, or a first-
class country residence.
Unless tho estate is sold entire any two or more
of the above farms which conveniently adjoin
each other will be sold to suit purchasers. Bricks
and lumber for building purposes can bo supplied
at moderate cost on tho premises to purchasers
of unimproved tracts of land.
Terms of sale: For the whole estate, or Mont
pelier Institute and the farm attached, one-third
cash and the balance in five years, in equal an
nual instalments, with interest at ten jierccnt.
from tho time of sale. For any one or more of tho
other farms, onc-half in cash, and tho balance in
two years, in equal annual instalments, with in
terest at ten per cent, from tho time of sale. •
For further particulars respecting the atavo
proj>erty, apply personally on tnc premises, or by
otter, to tlio
REV. JOHN T. PRYSE,
dcc3eod3t Montpelier, near Macon. Ga.
property in Griffin con-
Dissolution of Copartnership.
T HE copartnership heretofore existing between
the undersigned is this day dissolved by mu
tual consent. Mr. 1IENRY J. PETER is author
ized to close up the business. _r»
November 29,1S73.
Drug Stock and Fixtures
For Sale.
The store occupiwl by 0^?®®A*'f
for rent, poMewior. to t» *i y enon {to 1
January. In tho meantime the Start, urn ^ = t
, and Pumitureof said late firm arc off pQIt,
For further I*artic\, (ul-lrcsj me at Griffin, wholesale and retail at placed
CASH. Tho accounts due said1 firm
in the hands of an attorney for roll^t on,
promptly arranged. ? he . unde „ r lir.‘[(Tiv 1 iaiK.s-
nined tocloaeup the business asrapiiU} «» I,
ng Houses,
ce, onfl Two
nimproTed Lots,
good and WELL IM-
f property.
G. M. LAWTON.
x-x*s
premium Ellery
I )Y reference to the published premiim 1st it
y will be seen that Puirh y\s awadedfi of
th*-10 premfau
E. ESPENNERj
XJp hoist ere?
Cherry ht.. Next Door to Isaacs Hout.
X TPHOLSTERING in all its branches dotict
) short notice, and done well. Either new wq
or repairing promptly attended to.
Satisfaction guaranteed in all cases.
DR. W. W. FORD
DENTIST, !
H ASren
to No
Rogers’, ne:
ived his office from Mulberry* stjet
106 Cherrv street, over Major J|R
t t’oor to Mr. Beggs’. octl 2 SI
DENNISON’S
jPATENT SHIPPING TAk
Over Two Hundred Millions
been used within the past ten yds
without complaint of loss by TagU
coming detached. They are raor®
liable for marking Cotton Bales than any
i. All Express Companies use them.
any Tail
. South
JOHN INGALLS,
DRUGGIST and PHARMACEUTIST
DEALER 15
PURE MEDICINES
And special agent for Caswell, Hazard A Co.*s
STANDARD PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS
COD
nov2Stf
And stricly pure
LIVER Oil-!
mined to close up me ouwk» he has
stole, and hopes that those agjjfjgnoe n
accounts will be prepared to settle p
novSfttf n ~ •—
MAYOR’S NOTICE
Ordinance Against Tire Works.
SECTION* SOI. It .hall »*bs_S
fe person to fire ?i run ^, ^ m
nor itall sny !*■*?
iy kind of fire works.
Any person so of-
within300 yards
cases of military parade;
burn rockets, crackers,or
within the limits of the city. Any pc.
fending shall be fined in a sum not > *
Clekk’s Orrica. Cirt»>" c 3 ; L '}
Macon, Ga.. Becem^ Q^y Coun-
I, John A. McManus, Clerk of o r jj,‘ ia ncc ia
cil, do hereby certify that the aboy^Council,
a true extract from the Clerk C. C.
Maroa’s Omo,
The attention of citizens and jw ^hied to
is hereby called to this Ordinance ; - ^ nmsl i*.
above, which i. now m t«cc. gSTh*.
respected during the Ch r ls *_™*, enforcement ot
public interest demands the ngw
our city laws. HUPP. Mayor.
deci lm “ -
DRS. J. P. &■ W. R. HOLMES,
DENTISTS,
SUCCESSORS OP DR. G. W. EMERSON,
84 Mulberry Street, Macon, Ca.
Reference*: Dr G W Emerson ; Rev Dr f M
Kennedy. Rev J W Burke. Mr R H Hutchings.
Mr R W Bonner, M* con; Cspt P T Pitts. Curt R
T Rom. Dr Sum Per»ley, Mr Robert Barron. K< v
Jou Curr, Clinton; Murk W Johnwm, Burrmghu
A Wing. Atlanta; Dr HolUngllKjad, Port VullrJ i
Dr J„ Knapp. Qrkaw. . n0V T**