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“Biling a Canal.”
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discussing a project to keep
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FRIDAY MORNING, PEC. 19.1CT-
Txkk care of your health and your
wife; they nro the tiro butter halves that
innko a mnn of you.
Tax Italian immigration movement in
South Carolina (five promise of success.
A colony is to ho started at Spartanburg,
nn.l two nsoro colonies are to he started
this season.
The Now York correspondent of the
Chicago Times states that although there
are 10,000 unemployed artisans in that
city, the huiii1.it id not largely in oiCc33
of previous years at this season.
ally i
Tun State treasurer of Wise
porta that State », being praeti
id d. Id. Tile state ju-i.j.i r OH'.' t-.i ill
educational fund $2,233,900, and to oat-
sidcrH only $18,100, which latter sum it is
ready to pay on doniond.
8ou. of the Mississippi Oranges, in
order to induce white men to settle in
tliat State, have promised to furnish
.very white family coming to their re-
ijKvtive counties with forty acres of land,
runt fr.-o for five years.
ieajl.iNO is making preparations to
carry on tho Ashsnto. war with rodonhlod
vigor. Four additions! battalions of
crack regiments are under orders for em
barkation to tlm Gold coast. Sharp action
is the motto, as in Abyssinia.
Tux Herald, of Monday, says all tho
faro and other gambling dons in that city
wero closed on Sunday and Monday night,
as wero nl o the "day gamesan.l that
according to prevent indications “tho an
imal is dead and huriod " in that city.
Ilxun Wooblbn, a bookseller of Nurem
berg, at a rccont public mooting, spoke of
the Emperor of Germany and his Chan
cellor as “Herr Wilhelm llohemollorn
and his dragoon, Bismarck.” IIo is now
nerving out n term of shreo months in
prison.
"Tiibrb is one good thing about
babies,” says a lato traveler; “ they never
change. Wo have girls of tha period,
men of tho world, but the baby is tho
Mine self-possessed, fearless, laughing,
voracious little heathen in all agea and
in all countries.”
Monsieur Juan Francois Cu.mi.ss
Bakthoi.dt, tho new French Minister at
Washington, is the son of an Alsatian
Jew, a native of Hugenau, in Alsace, and
is about forty-five years of age. Ho was
a fierco Nodical in 18-18, hut was after
wards converted to Bonapartism and
gained much profit thereby.
IIaltiuork lias fifty oyster-packing
house*, employing a capital of $(>,000,000,
and shipping about. 20,000,000 of gallons
of oysters annually. In good times there
are not leas than 10,000 people employed
in the packing houses, hut to say that
there are 3,000 at work now would l>c
placing it nt the out side figure.
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Tiir nomination of Attorney General
Williams to be Chief Justice lias sharp
ens! tho wits of quite a number of peo
ple. Tho Now York Tribuno sayt : "One
of our hauling jurists was asked what ho
thought of the nomination of Mr. Wil
liams. no replied that ho hoped it would
bo confirmed, for if such a man was Gen.
Grant's first choice, what would his sec
ond bo ?”
Tub Pittsburg Post says: A prominent
business man and shrewd calculator esti
mates that whilst Tweed’s stealings in
New York amounted to ninety cents per
head for each tax-payer, those of Pitts
burg amounted to two dollars and silty
cents—nearly three times as much."
Pittsburg is governed by Ncpublicuus,
but no movement has been made to ar
rest and punish tho Tweeds there.
The Mennonites have decided upon
Minnesota as their future home, and
twenty families have already arrived at
Mountain Lake, on tho line of the SL
Paul and Tioux City Nail road, and pur
chased improved tracts of land at prices
ranging from $3 to $15. Russia, thinly
settled as it is, is sending thousands of
its most valuable inhabitants to the
United States. Near Yankton, in Dakota
Territory, there is already a colony of
130 families of German Lutherans from
the country bordering on the Black Sea.
Tho Lutherans greatly outnumber the
M ennonites, and are equally industrious
and law abiding.
tract the following facts copied from the
National Iutelligencer:
•- i’Ue annual report of the Secretary of
the Treasury was transmitted to Congr
yesterday, (January 2d.) The pree
.mount of the actual receipts into tl
Treasury during the first three quart
of the departed year, (1823) and the re
ceipts for the fourth quarter of the same
y ear are estimated at $4,270,000, rnakin
a total net revenue for the year of $20,
11 i.i Ci.'i; and, with tho balance which was
in the Treasury on the first day of that
y. .r, making a total amount of $2t,fisl
302.
Tho eepenJilura daring the three fi
quarters of the same year were $11,-12:
8 17, and the expenditures for the fourth
quarter of the same year, are estimat
at $3,601,559 making a total expenditure
during the last year of $15,317,407, and
tearing a balmee in the Treasury on th
first day of the month estimated at $0,
801,053’.”
Those wero the halcyon days of the
Republic, when patriotism, economy, an-
fidelity to the public interest wero tho
rule, nnd not, as now, the exception. The
country was then prosperous and happy.
< >ne .section had not trampled under foot
the rights of another, and then taken up
arms to conquer and enslave it. The
Constitution was an active, vital coin
pact, binding upon at), and administered
in its integrity and entirety. The mem
hers of the National Congress met for
tho transaction of the public businc
and to legislate for the good of tho peo
ple—not to organize corrupt ring* to <le
pleto the treasury, and then divide the
plunder with them; nor to appropriate
double pay to themselves; nor to ov
dough the will of majorities by seatin
minority candidates; nor to destroy th
Constitution by arbitrary amendment
contrary to its spirit and genius; nor to
whitewash fraud and give a premium to
villainy; nor to degrade tho white man
and olevato tho African Blave.
But alas, ohl things have passed away,
and all have become new. Tho land
marks of the pnro and happy days of our
forefathers have been obliterated
the Government in the hands of a cor
rupt and fanatical faction, is fast driftin
into central despotism.
Perhaps no better idea of the wasteful
eilrnvnganeo of the present period can
bo presented, than a comparison of tlie
navy of 1824 with that now in existence.
At that period, with a total expendi
ture for all purposes of bat fifteen mil
lions per annum, our navy comprise-
seventeen frigates and first-class vessels
in commission. One steam galliot and
eight Hmall schooners also in commission
for the suppression of piracy, twelve
ships of tho lino in ordinary—twenty-one
armed vessels on tho lakos, besides eleven
gallics, fourteen gunboats in a state of
decay, and ten frignt03 and ships of tlie
lino on tho stocks, Tho entiro appro
prialions per annum for tho navy, did not
amount to more than Mr. Robeson will
spend, fo get in readiness a few squadrons
of ships, in apprehension of ft war with
the efToto and degenorale Spaniards.
Bnt wisdom and integrity ruled the
councils of the nation at that period, and
thioves and defaulters stood no chanco
before judge or jury. Now, oven (he
President does not 'scorn to receive
splendid dwelling and private purse ns the
guerdon of his favors, and the lato second
officer of tho Government stands charged,
if not convicted, of complicity in the
Credit Mohilier iniquity. A Beast But
ler, tho insultor of helpless women and a
robber of pantries and cupboards, is tho
acknowledged leader of his party in one
branch of tho National Legislature, and
oven tho sacred amine of tho Supreme
Court, it is affirmed, has been made a
matter of bargain and sale, and will luuig
pendant from ignoble shoulders.
But wo forbear to run she parallel any
further between the United States of to
day and tho samo government fifty years
ago. Tho contrast is too painful and
humiliating. Wo can only cry out
against tho corruption which is rifo in
high placos, nnd from tho depths of our
own oppressed condition exclaim retnrn,
“O Lord, how long!”
Nancy.—Under this rather unroman
tle title, Messrs. Appleton A Co., New
York, publish Kh.vta Broughton's last
novel, which Messrs, llrowu & Co., with
their usual prompt courtesy, have laid
upon our table. A glance through it
shows many marks of the same fascina
ting pen that made "Good liye, Sweet
heart,” "Bed na a Rose is She,” ‘'Coiueth
up as a Blower,” etc., so popular on both
sides tho Atlantic. Some hypercriti
cal folk rather sneer at Miss Broughton
u3 a “sensational” writer, but she cer
tainly knows how to interest the novel
reading public. At constructing a plot
and unfolding it in the most appetizing
stylo, she has few superiors. That much
can hardly bo gainsaid.
A Most Gratifying ltesult.
The unanimous voto by our City Coun
cil of tho appropriation necessary to
secure tho location of the Catholic Col
lege nt Macon, is indeed a most gratifying
fact, and we are sure tho results that will
come from tlmt action will prove equally
satisfactory. It would have been a
grievous disappointment to public expec
tation had any other conclusion been
reached, and we congratulate Council
upon the prompt and hearty manner in
which they met and solved the question.
We have, by tlieir action, secured an in
stitution that ij destined, in our judg
ment, to grow to tho noblest proportions,
and promote, in tho largest degree, the
educational interests of tho city. With
in twelve mouths we will begin to see tho
beneficent fruits of this decision, and to
congratulate ourselves that with such a
trilling outlay we have accomplished so
much that cannot fail to advance our
educational and material interests.
stsarn pipes, running it? entire length
and kept full of steam by --tn: ■ nary boil
ers at regular intervals along side of the
canal. A good many of them scorn to |
consider this proposition a feasible one,
and I-vriiap-i it might be so if they could
fall on any plan to first utilise the steam j
for the purposes of prepellin r tho boats.
But then if the canal were kept open,
the lake-: and the river which collect and
receive tho freights at either enl would
be closed, so that very little benefit would
result from the operation. On the whole,
the preposition seem.; about as chimer
ical as that other one to dissolve the
snow and ice obstructions at exposed
points on the Great Union Pacific Bail-
road with stationary burning glasses. It
is hard to fight again, t Nature, and the
result of such batltle is seldom doubtful.
The sensible way 13 to build both rail
ways and canals in more southern lati
tudes, where they can be utilized all the
year around.
Will some statistician furnish the peo
ple with a just estimate of the animal
loss by tho closing of the great Erie
canal route during the five cold-weather
months? Will ha also give us the
figures showing the annual cost of keep-
; the Union Pacific railway open, and
the annual loss by detention of trains by
snow ? Both, we aie inclined to believe,
will be found to amount to hand
dividends from those gigantic invest
ments, and leave tho remaining seven
months to operate exclusively on expense
account.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
SqciBSUL banters are liaving flush
time in Stewart cottcty. One Nimrod
i focal eleven up one tree, ami killed eight
j of me number with a ride. They help
out short m,at ration -, very acceptably.
Ttn: Lumpkin Independent reports the
burning of two store houses at Florence
last Wednesday week, and the loss of a
considerable quantity of goods belonging
to >f r;. J. A A. Strauss, and Sigis
mund Stern. Incendiary.
W.ui Vessels off Tybze—Oxf.
Roni;son's Tors nr Great Danger.—
The Savannah News of Wednesday says
We learned yesterday morning early
Senator Mitchell.
Tho Portland Oregon News of the 2Sth
ult., stales that the ITippIe-Mitchell com
plication has found its .way into the
courts of that State, on a plea filed by de
fendants on a suit to which Mitchell is
party, to the effect that there lias been
misjoinder by the parties-plaintifT, and
that there is no such man ns J. H. Mitch
ell—that he is a mere myth and non-ex
istent. And yet Oregon is represented
by Mitchell in the Senate of the United
States; and J. H. Mitchell who must
probably be ignored by the Polk county
Circuit Court in Oregon, wield3 tho sov-
reignty of tho State in Hie Nation
Senate. Wo believe nobody denies that
Mitchell’s list name is Hippie—under
which family cognomen ho was born
baptised and married in Pennsylvania,
and subsequently, forsaking bis wife, fled
to the Pacific shores, entered into legal
practice—was married again (his wife
surviving) and elected to the United
States Senate under the name of Mitchell.
Tho Senate is judge of what is duo its
own reputation and character; but as a
point of law, is a man legally incompetent
in Oregon, entitled to represent her in tho
Senate of the United States ?
Morton on “State Rights.
In the debate last Tuesday in the Sen
ate on Morton’s resolution admitting that
mulatto convict, Pinchback, as Senator
from Louisiana, the mover of the resolu
tion expressed himself as follows on State
Bights. He said:
Tho Supreme Court of Louisiana was
composed of men of the highest ability,
and there could l>e no question as to tlie
" igality of that tribunal. Tlie decision of
State tribunal upon any question of tho
laws of a State was final, and from such
decision there is no appeal. The United
States is Iiound by such decision. He did
not bolieve in the doctrine of State sov
ereignty, but did believe in the doctrine
of State rights, lie believed tlie State
had rights which were sacred and invio
late, nnd Congress had no right to en
croach upon them. If the States liave
not the right to pass upon their own laws,
then there is an end to State government,
Coming from one who has done so much
to degrade and destroy tho rights of the
States, this strike us rather curious. But
perhaps Morion meant Northern “State
rights.” only. If Morton has ever failed
to encourage and assist every encroach
ment upon the rights of the Southern
States that his party deemed necessary to
Kadicalize tho South, and put the whites
mider the heels of tho negroes, we should
like some body to tell 113 when it was.
that 1 wo war v<_- sels had arrived off Ty-
bee Lite on Monday night, and upon in
wstigation ascertained they were the
1’owliattan and the iron clod Monitor,
and that they would remain there until
they could coaL During the afternoon
several of the officers came up to the city,
and we had an interview with some of
them last evening, and gleaned the fol
lowing information: The Manhattan is
single turretted monitor, carrying two fif
teen inch guns. She left Philadelphia
on the 22d of November, but struck
heavy sea and liad to return for repairs
She started again with her convoy, the
Powhattan, and stopped at Norfolk, whe
they remained several days. Left Nor
folk on the 11th inst, (Aid had good
weather down to Hatteras, when a severe
gale came on. which increased in violence
and continued for thirty-six hours, durin
which time tho monitor was several
times in danger of going to the bottom,
but finally weathered the storm and came
through safely, hut being short of coal
ran into Savannah harbor. The officers
are satisfied; from their recent experience,
that if a monitor is properly fitted out
and prepared at the navy yard, it can
stand any kind ot weather.
Tub Griffin News says a squad of Yarn
kee soldiers arrived there on Tuesday
night, from a raid on tho distilleries of
Heard, Talbot and Meriwether counties.
They brought two prisoners—Messrs,
Brown and Lovell, of tho last named
county.
The Fort Valley Mirror tells this stoiy
on a Houston county Grand Jury:
Jury Unmanageable.—A gentleman
who was at Perry list Monday, informs U3
that Judge Hill had his usual placid tem
per seriously disturbed by the antics of
the Grand Jurymen, when the circns
pageant paraded the streets. It is said
ho gave positive orders to the sheriff to
put them all in their room and lock them
up, and if any of them should show an
unruly disposition to put on the ball and
chain. Well, when a major portion of
the procession had passed up the street,
the steam piano began to pour forth upon
the air its melodious strains, when all of
a sudden a rumbling noise was heard in
the room, like a bar-room free fight
window panes were smashed into atoms
wliile making their escape, and in less
time than it takes to write it, this august
body was marching single file in tlie eir-
cus procession
The same paper reports large num
bers of negroes preparing to leave that
section for Arkansas. One man will carry
off one hundred before Christmas.
The Mirror also has tho followin
count of a fratricide near Montezuma, on
Wednesday of last week:
Mr. Lem. Causey returned home from
Montezuma on Wednesday ^yening,
beastly intoxicated. He made every at
tempt to run the family from home,
abusing his mother and sister and threat
ening to do violence to his brother and
the negroes on the place. IBs younger
brother (we could not ascertain his name)
vainly endeavored to quiet him, but with
out any success. Ho drew his knife and
attempted to cut the young man, when
ho shot him, killing him nlmost instantly. >»
Atlanta Items.—The Constitution, or
yesterday, reports two marriages in that
city on Wednesday—Mr. Jas. C. Wright,
of Oxford, to Miss Ella Collier; and Mr.
n. B. Harris, Jr., of Greenville, to Miss
Lulu Neal Harper, daughter of tho late
Colonel Boliert Harper, of Covington.
Also that the tar collectors are makin
Hvely returns just now to tho Comptrol
ler General’s office, and that tho price of
marriage licenses will be reduced oae-
half on tho 21th inst.
From the East Across ths American
Continent to Europe.—The opening of
a now trans-continental route of ship
ment is announced from Bichmond. A
cargo of tea from San Francisco, which
came to Bichmond by the Chesapeake
and Ohio railroad, resentIv, was shipped
to New York and thence to Glasgow.
This is the first shipment of the kind by
that route, it is said, and the event is
announced with much pleasure in Rich
mond. From various Western cities
through bills of lading are signed to dif
ferent European ports, tlie goods to go by
this route. This is the fifth through rail
way opened between the West and the
seaboard, there being already in opera
tion the Pennsylvania, Baltimore and
Otio, Erie, and New York Central routes.
The more vividly Tweed’s disgrace is
painted the more sympathy is excited for
him. Punishing the rich and those in
high places isan excellent tiling in theory
ami a line thing to clamor for, but it is
not so easilyroduced to practice. Every
body. apparently, wanted Tweed punish
ed. and rejoiced when he was convicted
and sentenced. But now—well, if a vote
on his acquittal should be taken by the
American people to-day, Mr. Tweed, we
arc pained to admit, would escape.—
Doadmry Ilexes.
Doubtless the conviction of Tweed was
legal and just; but practically, as it re
spects him, his sentence was’unjust, be
cause it amounts to death. No reasona
ble man looks for any other result of it
than death within a few months. This
may be a result for which the law is not
responsible, and which should not have
been considered in imposing the sentence;
but nevertheless it will have its effect in
producing the reactionary feeling alluded
by the Danbury News.
Besides this consideration, sensible
men fool tint the penalty contains in it
no measure of redress to the plundered
people and city of New York. Now if it
wore possible for Tweed to commute his
sentence and buy out his imprisonment
at some rate per year, approximating the
measure of his stealings and his real or
supposed ability to make restitution—if
it were at the rate of one, two or three
hundred thousand dollars for each year
of the sentence, that would have a smack
of public redress in it, and of relief to
the hardened tax payers. It would be
the commutation of his imprisonment to
a fine, and it seems to us the Legislature
of the State of New York would subseire
the cause of justice and tho public wel
fare, by specially authorizing such com
mutation in this case—leaving Tweed
and family to avail themselves of it, if
they think proper to do so.
Scribner for January.
The January number of Scribner is
here full soon, and lustrous with picto
rial embellishment. The Great Air Line
to the Moon is a lively description of a
voyage made to that planet in a hollow
cliauiher in tho apex of tho bolt from a
great cannon. A vas't amount of illus
trations become necessary for such a
voyage as lliat. The Ilaunted House 13
illustrated poem. No. lof Glimpses
of Texas is a lively paper upon San An
tonio and its surroundings, profusely il
lustrated. The sixth and seventh eliap-
rs of Katherine Earle are given. Bret
Hnrto contributes a Monte Flat Pastoral,
and there are numerous other promising
papers. Scribner can be had at the
bookstores and of tlie publishers, Scrib
ner A Co., New York, at $4 a year.
Inviolability of the Malls.
Commenting upon a resolution lately
introduced into the nouse of representa
tives to inquire "whether any Custom
house officer or detectives have been al
lowed to examine eorrepondenco passing
through the New York or Boston Post-
office, and whether any such officials have
opened or otherwise tampered with such
correspondence for tlie purpose of ascer
taining whether the revenue laws have
boon violated or for any other purpose,"
tlie New York Sun remarks as follows:
During the war thousands—perhaps
millions—of letters were opened and read
under tho pretence that information im
portant to the Government might thus be
obtained. It all amounted to little or
nothing, so far as this purpose was con
cerned. Since the war the custom of
opening and riding private letters has
been kept up. The thefts by employees
in the office are numerous, and the hazard
of any valuable enclosure in a letter es
caping detection and appropriation by
them it sufficiently great. But that is
not all. Government detectives come
in next. Then follow tlie seekers
after evidence against those suspected
of circulating objectionable matter.
The result is that so far as regards se
crecy the most confidential letters might
just about as well be written on postal
cards, or printed in the newspapers, as
sent in a sealed letter now-a-days. Talk
about the sanctity of a seal! That is
something which belonged to the past!
Your letters are opened now with almost
as much freedom as a newspaper is un
folded. Confidence and secrecy are
things sneered at under existing laws
and the present administration of the
Post-office Department.
This is putting it rather strongly, but
hardly more so. we judge, than the facts
warrant. A great many persons down
South have held this opinion some time,
but what they think or say is a matter
of small concern to the officials thrust
upon them. The latter have only to rep
resent it at Washington as “rebel” or
Democratic slander, and there it ends.
It is said that the people who went
down on the Yille du Havre were worth
twenty millions of dollars.
North Georgia Conference Notes.—
Cartersville was selected as the place for
the next meeting of Conference, and a
resolution adopted discountenancing
fairs, tableaux and theatrical perform
ances to raise money for Sunday schools,
as demoralizing in their effects. The
trustees of Emory College asked an en
dowment of $500,000, and stated in tlieir
communication that there are five hun
dred and eighteen graduates of Emory
College, seventy traveling preachers,
forty local preachers, ono hundred and
five professors and teachers, one hundred
nnd twenty beneficiaries and eiglity-nine
preachers’ sons educated. Church sta
tistics show the following;
White members, 47,090; increase this
1,219; infants baptized, 11,179;
Adults baptized, 2,800; to support pas
tors, $73,130; missions, $7,298; Snnday
schools, $1,321.
The Tress Convention atColusibus.—
Tho Sun says :
At tho informal meeting held last after
noon—a quorum still lieiug lacking—the
following resolutions were unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That the President of this
association be and ho is hereby requested
to instruct the Treasurer, Mr. C. H, C.
Willingham, to pay over, at once, all
funds in ht hands belonging to the asso
ciation, tc. tlie Secretary, J. R. Christian,
to bo by him disbursed in the payment of
bills due to himself and B. L. Rogers,
Chairman of tlie National Press Conven
tion Committee.
Resolved. That the committees ap
pointed at the annual meeting, held in
Aniericus and Atlanta, in May List, he
and are hereby requested to consider the
subjects referred to them, and report at
the annual meeting in May next.
Besolved, That the President be and he
is hereby requested to make publication,
as authorized, in resolution relating to
advertising agents found on page 23 of
the proceedings of last May.
Resolved, That the President and Sec
retary of this Association are hereby re
quested to collect, at once, tho annual
dues of the members, and appropriate
the same to the payment of claims against
the Association.
Besolved, That the Coinmitteoon “Na
tional Press Convention” be and are
hereby requested to push forward tho ob
ject contemplated, and call a convention
at such time and place, (not later than
the 15th of July, 1871) as they may deem
expedient.
Tlie convention also pa.- ,ed the usual
resolutions of thanks to tho citizens of
Columbus, and others to whom it was in
debted for courtesies, and resolved to
meet in Macon on the second Wednesday
in May, and that the President invite the
press of ALibama, Tennessee, South Caro
lina, Florida and other States to he pres
ent. The proceedings wound up with a
hall and banquet at the Rankin House.
Washington Marsh, a negro man em
ployed at the yard of the South Carolina
railroad at Augusta, was crushed to death
on Wednesday by a train while coupling
some ears that were being shifted. He
was thrown under the wheels and drag
ged about twenty yanls.
Nor True.— Under this head the
Chronicle and Sentinel remarks as follows
with as much force as truth:
The Cincinnati Gazette, a Radical pa
per of the most malignant type, tafct s ad
vantage of Mr. Stephens’ unfortunate
speech on the salary grab to slander the
! whole South. It declares that Mr. Ste
phens stood up for tlie grab “like a true
Southerner,” and that now the Southern
people “go for plundering the Govern
ment.” Mr. Stephens did not stand up
for the grab like a true Southerner. His
utterances on that iniquitious measure
by no means represent the opinions of
his immediate constituents, of Georgia,
or of the South. The Southern press and
people have denounced the act earnestly
aud vigorously. In Georgia, especially,
has the feeling against it been strong
and bitter, and had the elections taken
place after instead of before the passage
of the bill, not one of the men who aided
with his vote the accomplishment of the
outrage would have ever returned to liis
seat. As a matter of fact, however, inos
of the old members had been defeated
for a second term, and, therefore, risked
nothing when they endorsed the retro
active feature of the garb. Mr. Ste
phens’ speech, so far from meeting the
approval of tlie South, has been con
dernned in tho strongest terms, and with
wonderful unanimity by the people of his
section. Ho could liave done nothin:
which would afford more pleasure to his
enomies, and his warmest friends can hut
regret that he lias lent the influence of
his great name and his splendid abilities
toward sustaining a measure of more than
doubtful propriety. The South lias not
become a nation of public plunderers, as
the Gazette asserts, no matter how d
moralizing the corruption prevailing
North and West may be. Tho great mass
of tho Southern people are as noble in
their impulses—as honest—as they ever
were. They look with scorn and loathing
upon a mean, a dishonorable act, and
thoy take no pains to conceal their feel
togs.
The Automatic TelcgrapU.
The New York World relates tho fol
lowing test of the automatic telegraph
between New York and Washington:
Postmaster-General Creswell, having
been taken ta task for the complimentary
expression in his report concerning the
automatic telegraph, lastoveningresolved
to make good allheliadsaid, and arranged
with the company for the transmission
of the President’s message from Washing
ton to this city. Accordingly, accompa
nied by Messrs. Ramsdell and Garfield,
be took a station in the company’s office
to Washington, while Postmaster James
represented him at this terminus. Some
preliminary messages of greeting and
arrangements were first sent, then, at
irecisely four minutes beforo 10, the
. ?resident’s message was announced to be
coming, and a loud whiz filled theoffice as a
wheel began to revolve, turning off “take'
after “take” of tlie document. Tho whiz
continued, broken only by short intermis
sions to supply new tape, until eighteen
minutes and thirty seconds beyond tho
hour, when it stopped as suddenly as it
had begun, and the President’s messa^
of 12,000 words was in the office in the
form of 23 bundles of narrow paper,
hung up on as many hooks. Tho time
occupied to transmission was twenty-two
minutes and a half, and this with a sin
gle wire.' The number of words a minute
sent was about 500. Tho message was
then retransmitted to Washington in
about the same time it had taken to
come, and then Postmaster James had.
good-night” to the Postmaster General,
and Puck’s promise to girdle tho earth in
forty minutes had been put to shame,
The automatic system of telegraphing
lias beforo this been discussed in these
columns, so that further description is
unnecessary. The superintendent of the
company claims that its one wire will do
the work of twenty-five ordinary wires,
and telegraphing be rendered propor
tionately cheaper.
JOHNSON & SMITH,
WHOLESALE
TVc Want More Cotton!
16 Cents for Cotton
We are still taking Cotton ns payment for
CARRIAGES,
BUGGIES.
AND
We offer all classes of work at our lowest cash
figure (which bears “Panic” on its face),aud
will take Middling
Cotton at Sixteen Cents.
Remember we have the Largest stock in Geor
gia, consisting of 300 vehicles of all kinds. So
bring on your cotton receipts.
COLLINS & LITTLE,
70 and 72 Second street,
rst Macon, Ga.
E. B. POTTER, M. D.
HOMCEOPATHIST
O FFICE Wood's Block, Second street, third
door below Johnston jewelry establishment.
Residence Lanier House. iulylS tf
North British & Mercantile
insurance Company.
OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH.
CAPITAL—SOLO
$10,000,000
Insures Store* Merchandise, Dwellings. Fumi.
tore end all other property at
LOWEST RATES!
We have a large and varied stock of GROCERIES and LIQUORS in store
which we offer at low prices. We will continue to sell to
PROMPT CUSTOMERS
On 30 days, but those of our friends who have not paid up their accounts within
that time mnst not expect ns to accommodate them with further credit. We desire
to approximate as nearly to cash as the condition of trade will admit, and necessity
compels ns to require hereafter the very best security from those who wish to buy
on 30 days.
JOHNSON & SMITn,
MASONIC TEMPLE, MULBERRY STREET,
dec3tf' Maeon, Georgia.
calc Cm
L C. PLANT A SON. Agents.
Macon.
STONEWALL
WfflSHIP & CALLAWAY.
CLOTHING
A T WHOLES Al/E.
WE have opened a wholesale apartment over our retail store, and invite the
Georgia, Alabama and Florida merchants who bny in this market to give us a call.
We will sell them on as good terms and at as low prices as they can buy them in
New York.
Our stock is the largest that lias ever been brought to this State. The
RETAIL DEPARTMENT
FERTILIZER.
For sale by
TURPIN & OGDEN,
SOLE AGENTS, MACON. GA.
CANNED GOODS!
CHOICE GOODS IN TIN AND GLASS.
Is filled with everything that is choice and stylish for a gentleman’s outfit,
and see the
Virginia All Wool Cassimere Suits,
Good as the Scotch, for $15 per suit, worth $25.
Call
FRUIT JELLIES, FRUITS.
PICpLBSL SALMON,
LOBSTERS, OYSTERS,etc.
Just received direct from ono of the most relia
ble packing establishments in the country, and
for sale at low prices.
oct21tf B. H. W RIG LEY & CO.
HOWARD HOUSE.
BROAD STREET.
Ndirljr opposite Montgomery and Euftnd* Rail
road Depot.
EUPAULA, ALABAMA.
J. W. HOWARD, • • pRCPuiEroim.
Only a abort walk to and from tho Southwest*
era Railroad. Seventy-live cents saved in omni
bus f.am. tfc-nt.3
THE FOUR LEADING
PIANOS
Now manufactured arc tlir
Enabc,
Hailett, Davis & Co.,
Haines Bros,,
And Southern Gem,
And tho best and
Cheapest Place to Buy One
Is at
LUDDEN & BATES’
octlStf
60 SECOND STREET, MACON, GA.
Bar and Restaurant.
OPEN ALL NIGHT.
J. VALENTINO,
H AVING refitted liis entire premises, is now
prepared to furnish his friends and patrons
with everything pertaining to n first-class restau
rant. which will be served in the very best styli
, He will always have on hand
FRESH FISH, OYSTERS, CAME, ETC.
Strangers visiting Macon should givo him a call.
I will open on the 1st of October, at No. GO
Cherry street, next door to my present restaurant, a
Ladies’ Eating Saloon.
MAYOR’S NOTICE
Ordinance Against Fire Works.
QECTI9N SOI." It sliall not be lawful for any
O person to lire a gun, pistol, or any other fire
arms, within SOU yards of any house, except in
cases of military parade; nor shall any person
bum rockets, crackers, or any kind of fire works,
within the limits of the city. Any person so of
fending shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $20.
Clebk’s Opfice, Citt Councii* >
Macon, Ga., December S, 1873. S
I, John A. McManus, Clerk of said City Coun
cil, do hereby certify that the above Ordinance is
a true extract from the minutes of Council.
J. A. McMANUS. Clerk c. c.
Mayor’s Office, Macon, Ga., Dec. S, 1873.
The attention of citizens and property holders
is hereby called to this Ordinance as certified to
above, which is now in force, and which must be
respected during the Christmas holidays. The
public interest demands the rigid enforcement of
our city laws.
dec-t lm VTm A. HUFF, Alayor.
NOTICE.
s now ready for those in
ig wild lands in other
counties to come forward and pay their taxes.
The time it very short. C. T. WARD,
nov23 SOd Ordinary.
BTJ R K E & CO BB,
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE A RENTS,
68 Second Street,, Macon, Georgia.
Home Insurance Company, of New York.
CASH CAPITAL, $2,500,000 00
CASH ASSETS 4.408,573 75
BURKE & COBB, Agents.
Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Co.,
OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
CASH CAPITAL $260,000 00
CASH ASSETS 342,099 01
BURKE & COBB, Agents.
Equitable Eire Insurance Company,
OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.
CASn CAPITAL $200,000 00
CASH ASSETS 244,1-14 25
BURKE A COBB, Agents.
SAVANNAH, GA.
From 25 to so different prices and styles always
on hand.
Every purchaser guaranteed a good instrument.
Largest piano trade in the South and lowest
prices.
Every one thinking of baying a piano is invited
to write ns for terms and prices.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES FREE.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Until times are better, we sliall sell pianos at
wholesale prices for cash or on short time.
Wo guarantee first-rate Pianos for $2(15, $275,
6290 and $300. Superior Pianos, $525, $550 and $575.
Tho very best Piano*, $400, $410, $150, $175, $500.
$550 and $000. Pianos never have been sold so
cheap before. These prices are only for tho pres
ent. Do not let the chance go by.
Piano.** delivered, freight pnid, to cash buyers in
the South. Pianos sold on long time.
COTTON FOR PIANOS.
We will take cotton at Savannah market price,
delivered at any point on the railroad,in exeliange
for Pianos or Organs, at cash prices.
LUDDBN & BATES,
novfitf Savannah. Ga.
W. W. WOODRUFF,
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY,
A i. . • t : « > TV. < i A .
Cotton States Life Insurance Company,
OF MACON, GEORGIA.
ASSETS, NEARLY $G00,000 00
sep27 2a\'.' tm* BURKE & COBB, Agents,
Piedmont and Arlington Li Ins. Co,
OF
Home Office, Richmond, Vo.
ASSETS OVER
POLICIES ISSUED, OVER....
ANNUAL INCOME
PI.A1V MUTUAL.
Policies Issued, ivlieu Desired, on the STOCK PLAN AND BATES, or any
other that Is Legitimate.
VIRGINIA.
, Branch Office, 92 Mulberry stv, Macon, Gn.
$2,000,000
20.000
$1,500,000
ALL CASH.
Every style of Carriages, Buggies or Wagons fur
nished at tho lowest possible price at
this Repository.
For Sale.
FERTILE FARM, situated one and a half
J3L miles south of the town of Cuthbert, Ran
dolph county, nnd containing four hundred and
fifty acres, of which about two huudred and fifty
are cleared and under cultivation.
On the premise* are a gin house and excellent
E 'n, one double log dwelling, and a sufiicicucyof
f Hirers’ houses, a fine well of water and a good mill
seat. There is timber and fuel sufficient on the
place also to realise more than double the pur
chase money. This property will l>e sold cu ac
commodating term*, or exchanged for city im
provements. Apply at thi* office^ or to
THOS. POWELL,
ocUStf Cuthbert, Georgia-
NOTICE.
BORGIA. BIBB COUNTY—
vT OaniN'ARY’d Office, November 15,1S73.
I have in my office the Standard Weights und
Measures for Bibb county. All persona emnnred
in selling by weight* and measures are hereby
notified that by the 15th day of January, ls74. 1
wUl be ready to test and mark the weights and
measures of all vendors in this county, as required
by law. Given under iny hand officially,
novis eothhn 0. T. WARD, Ordinary.
SAMUEL HALL.
POE, HALL & LOFTON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MACOX. OA.
Third $trvet, over City Bank.
This is tho only Southern company that has, and Joes, regularly pass the investi
gation of all Northern anil Western State Departments, tliu3 securing every evi
dence of security and goo.1 management that any company in our country can boast of.
It telains within the State of Georgia all moneys collected to the State, and makes
no investments, which are doubtful, for policy sake.
It is secure, economically managed, and in the liands of well-known Southern
entlemen.
I refer to any business man in the city of Macon, or the State of Georgia, who
knows me, as to my character for honesty and integrity, and accept the decision.
T. STANLEY BECKWITH, General Agt.
Honest and Reliable Agents “Wanted. dec5eod3m
CHRISTMA . IS COMING
BUT OUR GOODS HATE ALREADY COME.
What is a more acceptable present than a handsome Chamber Suit of Furniture ?
These we have from $50 to $500. An elegant assortment of
Ladies’ Desks, Fancy Chairs, Brackets & Wall Pockets
-AND-
CHILDRETST’S CHAIRS
Of all kinds. Come and look at them.
The Woodruff Concord Buggy,
GckMted for light draft and durability, U
the leadin&Buggy, and a spec ialty.
The Whitewater and Woodruff
Wagons,
And oilier Western Wagons, at low prices.
Descriptive Circulars fumixlunl to th>so who
will write for them. J ,..
All work warranted. oct-o if
METROPOLITAN
dec!3 2tawtf
THOMAS WOOD,
Next to Lanier House.
IRON & BRASS WORKS,
Canal Street, from Otli to 7'h,
RICHMOND, - - - VA.
WM. E. TANNEE & 00.,
engineers, machinists and founders.
ENGINES OF ALL KINDS.
Send for Circular.
janUly
H. E. BROWN,
Agent.