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DAILY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER. si ft >* -r. FIN E IM>» LARS t ih»i.i.au v i a fii tn ce: . l>. *1 1 \ i: i«*r ‘i TEN DOLLARS »ix months. TWO I S I three u.ontl. . »nth f .r a short r one <1 liar f 1 it. Miration. Happy Days—Now and Then- Fifty Years Ago. ( Fi. i:i our old fih-s of January 2stli, - oualy exui.trti. hunditi un i l\ccniy-Jodr, we ex- j ESe “Biling a Canal.” ic of the New York prints are a discussing a project to keep .rail open this winter by in can. Ttte Tiuoun Urn* of (he eldo GwetK ami or >td (radios at tin bold and pi fttek it [hffi'Rt llGU - • (tin. A* an A country it ITAJPflcwicuiicr 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. ■ ■». <>■ . ■ ... ■ . 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.