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daily mmm m wskub, umvi* 1 iXjj i.AR'j tar - .1 mi nnvcE' Wi" HIIUK per .mat! Monday',. xorpted — ,nur of Cherry nnd I TK\ dollars '■ i .uoutfe. TWO ihrr* cdi!,-, ; >r .. -bcrt- r mm grim awisiiiaia. i «u hiboiwii pjwm. vent Ion. B cooks county raised 4,531 bales of necessary and proper incident j The Peeple ClamoroB* IOT ThCH. cotton 172,894 bushel* of corn, 75,400 * CiTmi pti' • inv'rt." liar p- r aqtUUV ,1 ri«.ri.l:» lnull ri that « rsii*-’ rr i» iTI'htjruph tVJflrssciuittr m nday morning. m:c si. i-:" South Cnrolltm Conference. Thi; S..uth Carolina Conference al- jourtii'l its annual S'.,»ion f«r l*T:i Lmt ■week. Their statistical report allows i loon! rrahip of 38,0071 $1.12,303 value rf church property i $130,733 in contribu tions for religious purposes during the your ; $58,900 in cash and bonds for Wof- f»prd College, and $3s,0<»0 in property of the Spartanburg Female College. A lively debate occurred the last ilay on what should be dune with the Sontl - om Christian Advocate, now published by our neighbors, J, IV. llurko & Co. Two reports were antagonized— OT “' fur leaving the whole matter In the hands cf the General Cbnferonce, and the other, for removing the offieo of publication ba-k to South Carolina, which wero final ly both ref rr.nl t<> the Stato delegates t tho General Conference. If “leave well alone" l*e a good proverb tho Conference had batter leave their re it Is; and so long ns • is self-!.ii«tainlng at its pres- p let them bo happy, ftiaan t and conscientious paper— (ted in a tolerant -and charitablo and it.. valno to tlio denomination bounds of its Conferences cannot be over-oatinrnted. To andangar, by any eau m of action, tbc Con. entrat ion which now exists in support of the Advocate, would bo exceedingly ill-judged in our beat opinion. ouch i ent low able, dt conduct splril, t in thu Just whe Pennsylvania's New Coustl- tution. Tho friends of pure government aro equally surprised and delighted at the largo majority with which the new Con stitution of Pennsylvania has been af firmed. The traditional corruptionists undo their boat fight against it, hut the bulk of the people of all parties could not be controlled. Wearied out with fraud and (ho long reign of corruption, they determined upon tho issue of perpetu ation to put them down, by voting for a now fundamental law devised with apocial refereneo to tho cure of tho enor mous abuses which have disgraced Penn sylvania for many years. Tho ring made thoir strongest stand in Philadelphia, but wore ablo to poll only 27,914 votes out of h2,G92. The aggregato majority for tho new Constitution it is thought will be in tlio neighborhood of 150,000. E. J. Joliintlon's Jewelry Xliirt. Mr Jjhnston is ono of the oldest and most worthy citizens of Macon. For /•rfy-ons years lii.s lot has been cast among us, and ho lias enjoyed tlio privi- lego of seeing our fair city emerge from her swaddling clothes, and from a mere trailing post in tho wilderness, become opulent rentro of business and tho abode of a refined mid cultivated population. Growing with her growth,and strength cning with her strength, this enterprise ing gentleman lias cst iblishcd a perma nent nnd lucrative trade in this region of country, and enjoys nil enviable reputa tion for probity nnd fair dealing in all tho relations of life. So dnnger of get ting pasta nnd pinchbeck when ho sells an article for pure gold. And every statement he makes may be implicitly relied upon in reference to his wares and workmanship. Mr. Johnston at this time Is offering a very clioico ami tastily selected variety of Christmas goods in his line, which can not fail to please. Work-boxes, perfect gems of convenience and beaut j, writing desks, fnney silver nnd plated ware, ele gant jewelry, pocket cutlery, and a m al titude of Other beautiful objects appro priate as gift.-, at this season, ore to be roen in his handsome store on Mulls rry street. If you doubt tho fact call, nnd examine for yourselves, and then Ivy Uitmlly for the young folks at home. A ukm auk a tit. c family is that of the Heap 1 , of Hereford county, Maryland. There are now living four brothers of this family, whose names and ages are as fallows: William, aged S7 years and 1 month; Johu, aged 85 years and II months; Archibald, aged 79 years and 4 months ; an.l Elijah, aged 76 years and 5 months. They have a sister living in York county. Pa., whoso ago is S2 years and S months. Tho combined ago of the five is 111 years and 5 months. Their average ago is Ml years and 3 months. Neither of them have over had a law suit until now, the younger brother be ing engaged in a legal controversy aris ing out of the removal of a refractory ne gro from ono of his tenant houses. Their father, Archibald Heaps, w.is a soldier in the Revolutionary war. and throe of his sons shouldered their muskets in defence of “ freo trade and stilors' rights'* in 1312. l.irrixcoi r yon Jastaby is out with a rich show of illustrations and table of contents. Chapter 7 of the New Hype rion and tho Trianon Palaces are illus trated artich-s. The Princess of Thule is concluded. Tlio Wife's Revenge—Ja- ]»anoso Fox-myths—Chester Hording— The White Doo—Monte Carlo—My Christ mas Ball—The Three Marriages—are all lively papers. This numl>er may be had at the bookstnvs. J. H. Lippineott A Co., 715 and 717 Market street, Phila delphia. W* copy by request a communication of Rev. Jesse Campbell, published in the Christian Index, in reference to certain statements made in Mr. Sparks’ popular work entitled “Memories of Fifty Years.” As a matter of justice, of course, the re ply of that gentleman is also submitted. Both are worthy men and we regret the acerbity manifested in the controversy. Draw it more mildly, gentlemen, “a soft answer turneth away wrath.” CoRVTITlTIoyAL COXVCWTIOX I.V KzN- tccxt. A bill calling a convention to roviso the Constitution of Kentucky passed tho Legislature of that Stato last Wednesday—in tlio Senate by 23 to 11 the House by 53 to 39. It of h movement for a convention to reviae the ''mstitution of Georgia that, with every other important question, it should also embrace th# locality of the seat of gov. mment. That is right and proper. Tim people should have an opportunity to enunciate their opinions and prefer ences on this point, and for this reason we would vastly prefer to have a vote on that .ingle point, disconnected with any other. We complain of the present State Convection on tills point: that it located tins Capital arbitrarily without any refer ee, e t, the public will, and cornered the people on tho question by compelling th, Ill either to take Atlanta as the capi tal, or to reject the Constitution itself and prolong the epoch of military gov- emment. We would not have any such injus tice and unfairness repeated in the adop tion of a new Constitution—nor would we have any man in favor of continuing At lanta as the sent of Government, driven from the support of a convention and an improved Constitution, by the reflec tion tliat the advocacy of oither commit ted himself against Atlanta as tlie scat of Government. What we want, and what the people want, U a fair decision or this question on its own merits, inde pendently of any other collateral question. This ought to be had very easily. One way to reach it would be by providing that the voter, when he casts his ballot for delegates to the Convention, should signify on that ballot his preference of locality for tho seat of government, with the understanding that the choieo should control the dociiion of the Convention. Another way would be to submit this sin gle and separate point to the voters with tho question of adopting the amended Con.titution, first providing in that in strument for carrying the fiat of the peo- pls into effect. It is highly desirable to deal with this question with such trans parent fairness as tosoeure perfect acqui escence in its final settlement, whatever that may be. But a fair location of the seat of gov ernment is only one and by no means the most important object to be secured by a new Constitution. Beyond all compari son with any other object is that ono of securing the State and people against bankruptcy and exorbitant taxation, by limiting and restraining the powers of the Legislature, and of county and city cor|»or:itions to create bonded or floating debts, and to tax the property holders. Tho solvency of Georgia and of every political corporation thereof now hangs on tho singlo frail thread of the ability of tho tax-payers to maintain a numerical majority in oach ono of them. We have now a party composed almost altogether of property holder* and tax-payers, and another in opposition to it, composed quite as exclusively of voters who pay littla or no tar. The security of the tax- paying party, as matters stand, now rests wholly upon tho question of success at tho polls—a point which rests on many contingencies, chiefly tliat singlo one of their eontiuuod union and co-operation. Xo man can reasonably doubt that if tho tax-payers were defeated in tho elec tion cf Governor and Legislature oven once, tliat tho whole burden of seven or eight millions bogns bonds would be im posed on them, and any further amount of debt which tho cupidity and entire ir responsibility of the non-tax-pr-jers might impose. So of counties and cities—the condi tion becomes frightfully perilous in | every one, when politicians who contrib ute little or nothing to the revenue may tax, appropriate and spend as they will. Wo want the protection of fundamental law restraining this power—limiting taxa tion and expenditure and restraining the power to issue bonds—in the real inter ests of all classes, and for the permanent security of tax-paying citizens. And we may well apprehend rueful times if we fail, while we can, to provide such con stitutional securities. Our whole politi cal fabric is rotten without thorn. The Cotton Crop, The receipts for the week ending last Friday night were 200,139 bales, against 116,203 for the corresponding week of ’ ,. bushels of oats, 35^00 Lusbels of poU-j Jeur xhe receipts lot the cotton thahZof rtudjtocr free *hS is ! P’-ff-*’ 0 ^ r “ P ’ 3 °- 00 ° i ««« U P ^ £ ^“ t dsEy becoming more uppMent. A smer- ! *° uods of su ^ tlu£ , . _ j L521.560 to same date last year-show- nt of great expense did influ• j SpI ( ^- Thc ^CO- . ^ oq.433 bales in excess for the incom- ' stitntionaiist pithily remarks that "the j ing Truly of all marvels the prog ress of the cotton crop is one of the live- tried to keep pace with Here is another short spirit manifested in playing dirty and enoe writes to this paper as follows: " Seldom a week passes without an ap- - rfidkHM triok(1 upon ‘the officers of the | .T" ~ TT ™~ phration by some parent to have his pn r n cla-1 Ar apile3 is the same that fought j lieat - ' Vl ,° 'u»ed for an hour once, twice, , , n the war stote afterward and hroke | it, but failed, week to take mum, or bay or three times a week to take muiic, , eTp _, the South.” ! crop bound to he a long one—a short ia’ r grJdlcJ'Uke 1 oars'to 1 Wujtis county had a rousing meeting } crop of upwards of four million bales in comply with su-h requests, without ma- * last week in favor of exiling a convention all probability, and yet a ahoit crop nn- terially affecting the progress of entire j to amand the State Constitution. Gen- classes. Many children from the middle [ enl Toom}tJ maJe 0 strong speech, and t>ml noorer I’lajisos ire ucbuTW from lie _ , . .. schools by the all day regulations, and I tbc Senator and Representatives were m- there is a seeming selfishness on the part j strarted tj vote for a call for the Con- of those who are rich enough to biro help , vention. and dispense with the service of their ■ The collision on the Georgia railroad children in the multiplied duties of the . r . household and farm.*' SU -“‘ Mountam, on Friday, will cost Tlio South Carolina University. The Charleston News and Courier, re ferring to the late message of that un speakably infamous creature, Moses, the so called Governor of South Carolina, in which allusion is made to the " flourish ing” condition of the above institution, says: And wliat is tho condition of the insti tution which is said to be so “ flourish - ing?” It has wins students, and tho an nual appropriation is $30,000; so that The Nine cost more than $3000 each. Formerly, at this season, every room in tho buildings was crowded. This bare, plain statement is the most eloquent denunciation of the crime that lias ruined this once flourishing school, that could be delivered. The negroes and their loathsome carpet-bag and scallawag allies have done the deed purely for the purpose of insulting and degrading the whites. They found the college full, prosperous and useful. They have driven off the white scholars by attempting to force them into social communication with those against whose presence every high and honorable instinct of race, of culture, and of nature itself, revolted. We believo it is the deliberate purpose of the Radical party by their so called civil rights legislation to destroy every school, college, and university at the South, that can be reached by this legis lation, and as they will assuredly perfect the scheme at the present session of Con gress. the fate of the South Carolina col lege will soon be the fate of all State in stitutions. We may as well look the matter squarely in the face, and prepare for the worst- The public school system of Georgia and all other States at the South is also doomed if this bill passes, and we have not the shadow of a doubt as to that consummation. The children of the South are to be doomed to igno rance in order that radical hate mar be gratified- It will prove a two edged sword, however, in Georgia. White men rule here, and when the question is nar rowed down to social equality with ne groes in the public schools for their chil dren, or no public school*, and no educa tion at their expense for negroes at all, they will not hesitate one moment how to act. When the civil rights hill is forced upon them, farewell to education at the expense of the State. The negroes who are now clamoring for their “rights” will find out in this State, at least, how sharp that sword is. Th* Bio Cottov Rz.-iifts.—A corres pondent of the New Orleans Times argues that, owing to more navigable rivers and the opening of new routes, a much larger proportion of the crop has gone forward this year than ever before, and the fret of the excessive receipts shows that the crop is pretty mach gathered. He insists on a crop of 3,310,000 boles. Wo h/xve already more than once, ven tilated the evils of measuring the work of education by the day, as you would the hours of labor demanded from tho brawn and muscle of a sturdy hireling. The two cases are not apposite, but as diverse and distinct as tho poles. The inchoate mind of the child is capa ble of just to much tension and application to study, and no more. Attempt to crowd cn additional exercises, and the pupil grows listless, loses interest, ami becomes dull and mulish. Indeed, by such a pro cess the work of education not only halts, but is positively retarded. Like the trite figure of the luUg bent bow, all elasticity departs, and us the arrow when aped falls short of its mark, so the over worked mind of the youth refuses to re spond to the whip and spur of the teach er, after a certain length of time. Hence, wa trust that are long a new system will be inaugurated in all of our schools and seminaries, particularly those for girls, which shall utterly abolish the present habit of imposing tasks, and prescribing hours of study, which consume almost every moment of the day, and a consid erable portion of the night also. It is a fruitless effort to cram the pupil with knowledge ad nauseam at the expense of his health and vivacity, both of mind and body. The result, too, of all this hurry and diversity of mental pursuits, is the absence of th°ruujhncss in female educa tion especially. Wo hare seen some girls who hod graduated in first class seminaries, unable to pen a grammatical letter. Yet they had been “put through” algebra, geometry, Latin, French, rhet oric, chemistry, philosophy and other ab struse studies, and at the age of teeetUcen liod their sheepskins, with the indorapg ment of learned faculties that they were proficient in them all. Now, as far as the writer is con cerned, he would prefer much to see his daughter mistress of the three Rs, " reading, ’rithmetic and ’riting," than the possessor of a smattering only of the entire alphabet of education. The first would make of her a practical and sen sible woman—tho last, soon forgotten, would leave her without eren tho ele ments of a good education. But if the above argument in favor of diminished hours of study, and single ses sions, he applicable to high priced insti tutions of learning, how much more is it so to our free schools- These are neces sarily graded, and a school is composed of a tingle clast. If the hours of study there fore, are broken into for music lesssons (which assuredly should not be neglected,) or becauso sick and needy parents mart have the assistance of their children for a portion of the day, is it not evident that tho progress of tho entire school is inter rupted and retarded? Aside, then, from the increased mental vigor which the blending of physical la bor with study inspires, and the benefits of ample recreation to the young pupil, it does seem that the imperious necessi ties of parents in straightened circum stances, who cannot ditpnue with the ser vices of their children for the entiro day, ought to be respected, and tho hours of Rcliool curtailed and limited to a single session. Let it be remembered that the prime object of tho free school is to confer tho blessings of education upon the laboring classes, nnd the poor of the laud. Their convenience and welfare, therefore, should be zealously cared for in all the details of tho system. The affluent can employ private tutors, or send their children to any institution of learning in tho coun try. Our first duty is to the poor and illiterate. The Salary Bill As it passed the House on Wednesday in the shipe of a substitute offered by Mr. Hurlbut, of Illinois, for tho bill re ported by the committee, provides that the compensation of members of Con gress shall be at the rate of $G,000 per annum and actual traveling expenses, with addition of $2,000 for Speaker, mak ing his salary $3,000, and making the salary of the Vice President $8,000. Other salaries are untouched. It also repeals nil inconsistent laws, and pro vides for covering into the treasury of all sums returned as the proceeds of the back pay. The Toto on its adoption was 133 to 130. The Georgia members voted as follows: For the substitute, Messrs. Bell, Cook, Freeman, Rawls and Yonng. Against it, Messrs. Harris and Blount. The names of Messrs. Stephens and Whitely do not appear in the list of yeas and nays. The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial explains the vote as follows: The issue was a plain one, and closely defined, those voting aye favoring a sal ary of $6,000 for Congressmen, with $8,- 000 each for the Vice President and Speaker. This was substantially an in- j crease of $500 over the amount at which < the House had fixed the salary by its in- j struetions to the committee, and it is court, but have never made an appliea- worth noting that nearly nil of the new j tion nor paid the fee required by law. members who came here virtuous and The order, as wiH be seen, goes on to fierce for reform, voted in favor of this : state that person* are not excluded from increase. Those rating “no” favored the j attending to their own cases, but when bill of the committee as amended, which i the petitions are filed by such attorneys provided that Congressional salaries : as are not members of the court it will be should be reduced to $5,500 a year, with so announced when the cases are called, actual traveling expenses; that the sak- j Xm! -Atlantic Oil and Guano Compa- ries of Caometofficers,the VioePresident, „ . . f ,, tlT% * ,, and the Speaker should be reduced to W. manufacturers of . the Eurek * what they were before the increase: that j fertilizer, had a field day in the Federal the President's salary should also be re- Circuit Court at Savannah on Thursday. the company between six and eight thou sand dollars. Both engines were badly wrecked and one baggage master had his left ankle badly crushed. Tax Dunning wing of the Atlanta dar keys resolved as follows on Friday night: That we. the Republican citizens of At lanta, do hereby express our approval of James L. Donning, Postmaster of this city.'” We heartily endorse him as a true hearted Repulbiean.a faithful and efficient public servant, and an honest man. We deprecate any action on the part of the President of the United States or the Congress thereof, which may tend to the removal of Mr. Dunning from his post mastership. os we are confident that the government will not obtain as hqnoat or efficient a man among those from whom it would select in case of Mr- Punning’* removal. Tin Comptroller General is reported as saying that the tax collectors are pay ing up more promptly this, than last year. Of the $71,000 due from Chatham —the largest tax-payer—something over $40,000 has been paid in. Irwin was the first, and Hancock the second county, tliat settlod up in full, - / John Walk so, the negro who mur dered Mr. David George at a corn-shuck ing in. Henry county, on the 4th of No vember, was arrested near Norcross on Friday. From all accounts, this was one of the foulest murders over committed in Georgia. The jury in the Penn Bedell case, charged with the murder of policeman Has berry, of Atlanta, la it year, hod not brought in a verdict up to twelve o’clock Friday night, though they haTO been out nearly two days. y Lemuel B. Anderson, who ran against Col. Blount fo* Congress in this district last year, has been appointed postmaster at Covington. His reward was some tiino in vo&ohlag bim. The Covington Enterprise says appear ances indicate a fine stand of wheat in that section. Also, that bosses and mules are cheaper in that county than they have bnen for many years. There muit be some of the meanest folks in Pulaski county outside the South Carolina Legislature. A churoh noa r Hawkinsville was robbed of bible, two tables, and a desk last week, and on last night week a negro near Cochran was waylaid and stripped of his shirt, coa^ pants, one bottle whisky, one pound of cheese, and $2 85 in money. And “ hit a rainin’ ” too. x/ Mrs. Martha Sullivan, a widow lady living in Dooly county, died very sud denly of heart disease in Hawkinsville last Monday. Small Farming in Pulaski Counts’.— The Hawkinsville Dispatch reports the following results in this line : J. W. Mal lory, an Irishman living near Cochran, "cultivated this year, with one mule, about twenty-five acres, one-half in cotton and the other in corn. His two boys, aged eight and eleven years, helped him in the farm. He used* fifteen hundred pounds of Eureka guaAa. and made five bags of cotton and two hundred bushels of corn.” And a negro “made this yoar with one horse ten and a half bales of cotton, av eraging over 600 pounds, 214 bushels of corn, 75 bushels of potatoes, and five stacks of fodder averaging about 800 pounds to the stock. He cultivated about thirty acres in cotton and the same amount in corn, and used $70 worth of guano on liis cotton. His family did the hoeing. He began the crop without a dollar on hand. He botight a horse on credit for $180, and this amount, with what provisions and guano ho used, left him a debt of $425 to settle after gath ering his crops and paying his rents, which, we believe, was one-half of the crop—Mr. Anderson having furnished the land and ono-half of tho horse feed. This freedman will lack about fifty dollars of paying out, bat will have his horse and plenty of corn and fodder to run him next year.” Jm Cooper, negro, will bo hung for the murder of John Morgan, ditto, at Au gusta, on the 13th of February. The - Washington Gazette tells how they fight in that town now-a-days, as follows: Two gentlemen, one residing in Wash ington and the other about nine or ten miles in the country, got into a little dis pute on Wednesday last. One called the other a liar and the other called him another, when one hit the other and then the other hit him and then they both hit one another. Then one of them fell down and then the bystanders separated them, and got one inside of a house and then the other one went around town all the afternoon looking for him. Neither one having anything especial to do on the day aforesaid, and there being no prospect of a war with Spain concluded to bleed a little at home and so they bled. Look Out, Countrt Lawyers.—Un der this head, the Savannah Advertiser lias the following By reference to the proceedings in the United States Court, which we publish this morning, it will be seen that in fu ture no attorneys will be recognized in the United States Courts except those regularly admitted to practice in these courts. The order was passed by his Honor Judge Erakine in open court yes terday, because it appears that a great many cases, particularly petitions in bankruptcy, are filed with the clerk by country attorneys not members of the court. Although they may have been in the profession and in regular practice long enough to become members of the doubtedly when measured by what the product would have been with propitious seasons. It is not worth while to talk any more about the scarcity of labor and the limited cotton-producing capacity of tho Southern States. Let ns make up our minds that tho next good cotton crop will be a gluttonous one, and fail to pay for its production. It is time for prudent planters to realise tho necessity of such Taried cropping os will put them, as far as is possiblo, out of the markets as purchasers. No longer will wise men trust to purchasing food supp'.iea with cotton. — m * ♦- The Model Farmer. The Selma Times of Sunday says : We mot a Dallas county planter yes terday, whose plantation is in the ex treme eastern portion of the county, who informed us that he hod at this time thirty-seven fine fat hogs to kill so soon as thu weather 1 js favorable. Ho raised these hogs on his place, and has not fed them os much as fifteen bushels of corn. He raised them on potatoes, turnips, peare, etc., all of which he also raised in abundance. He has now on hand fifteen hams of meat of last year's killing, and has raised this year corn enough to make another crop. Furthermore, he made plenty of oats, and has one hundred and fifty bushels of rust-proof seed-oats for sale. He has already commenced opera tions for another year, and has *t this time seventy-five acres of eats and wheat growing finely. Our friend only raised fifteen hales of ootton this year, but he ha3 plenty of meat, oorn, fodder, oats, peas, potatoes and turnips at home for white and black, and his stock, until the next crop is made. And, better than all, he does not owe one dollar to hi3 commission mer chant for advances. He ha3 paid out and is untrammelled and unembarrassed. This is the sort of farming to redeem this country and make the owners of the soil not only independent, but the richest agriculturists in the United states. And why can't others do as our friend has done ? Think of it, thirty-seven hogs ready for killing and not fifteen bushels of com used in raising them ? There are many who say that hogs can't be raised here because they will be stolen, but that’s too thin. Let one-fifth the atten tion be paid to them that is given to cot ton, and it will be found that they con he raised. There are no mortgages on the land of this planting gentleman, and if you want at any time to find him go to his plantation. He lives at home and at tends to his business. JOHNSON & SMITH, WHOLESALE North British & Mercantile INSURANCE COMPANY. OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH Gov. Allen of Ohio.—Farmer Allen has about thirty thousand dollars’ worth of cattle, which he is now shipping to Baltimore, preparatory to closing busi ness on his farm for the next two years, The old gentleman looks hale and hearty, and really seems to grow fat over the ex citement consequent upon his election He still adheres to his determination not to appoint any one to office until after his inauguration. His mail is a huge one, but os most of it is from patriots who are anxious to serve their State, it does rot bother him much. All his letters are opened and read to him by his son-in- law, Dr. Scott, and answered by him when an answer is necessary. Morton and the Peesidenct.—Some days ago I had a conversation with one of Senator Morton’s confidential friends, who said as follows: “Morton wonld not like to know that I have said what I will say to you. His health will not permit him to run for tho Presidency, and it is just sufficient to enable him to fulfill his less exacting Senatorial duties. If he had his health he might make the cam paign ; but it is my opinion that the two men who are to make the contest in 1876 are yet in the stable, to be developed in the course of events.”—Gath in the Chica go Tribune. The Healthiest in the Union.— Charleston may fairly claim to he the healthiest city in the United States. The population is about fifty thousand, ▼iz: twenty-four thousand whites and twenty-six thousand blacks. Last week the mortality, us shown by tho return of the City Register, was three whites and fifteen blacks. Wliat other city than Charleston, with a white population of twenty-four thousand, can show only three deaths a woek ?—News and Courier. FACTS FOR PARENTS Guardians to Consider. G AINESVILLE, one of the healthiest and pleasantest towns in Georyia, has just com pleted a line Brick College Buildin?. and placed it under the charge of GeodC. Looney. He has a faculty of the best teachers, male and female, in the State. His system of teaeiiingdoes not crowd facts and theories into the mind to the neglect of reason and common sense. His pupils can enjoy their political and religious views without any attempt on the port ot teachers or students to bias or ridicule them. He will guarantee to each boarder bringing him 3175 in advance, board, lodging, iuel, washing and tuition in highest classes, for ten scholastic months. Lower clssses cost less. Board 310 to 31S persnonth. Tuition SS0 to 350 per year. Music 350-. Modem Languages, Painting and Drawing, each 350 per year. Calisthenics. Book-keeping (single and double entry), practical out-door exercises in higher Mathematics, with instruments, without extra charge to pupils. Students are kept under strict discipline, both ill and out oi school. Drunkards, gamblers and rowdies not received. Young ladies constantly encouraged not to dress fine to come to school The spring term of twenty-four weeks begins January 5th, 1874. dec!7 lm duced after the present term, and that members of this Congress who were mem bers of the Forty-second or any preceding Congress should have all the book pay which they had ever received deducted from their present salaries in monthly installments. Those who defended the back pay voted aye with all who were opposed to any reduction, and many of the new members, whose minds had ap parently undergone a change after a sep aration from their constituent* of a few weeks. Political lines were lost sight of in the struggle, but more Democrats voted for the Hurlbut increase in propor tion to the size ot the party in the House than Republicans. Carpet-baggers in variably voted for the increase and aU the Southern Representatives, with one or two exceptions, did so. They brought several suits against form ers in Screven county, who had used that fertilizer and objected to paying for it, on the ground that it was worthless, and that they raised better crops without, than with it. The company, on the other hand, introduced witnesses from the same section who swore they had ti?el it with beneficial results. The Jury found for the company in every case, with full in terest from the date when the debt was due. A chiropodist announces on his busi ness cards that he has “removed corns from several of the crowned heads of Eu rope.” Common people have them on their feet. There’s the difference. HB X. BLOTST. ISAAC HARDEMAN. JOHN L. HARDEMAN. BLOUHT, HARDEMAN & HARDEMAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MACON, GA. Office, Cherry street, over S. T. Walker's. auclO tf QE&BKBT »I ELDER. I DUS L. FIELDER H. & I. L. FIELDER, Attorneys at Law, CITHBEBT, GEORGIA, ‘TTJ'ILL Rive prompt attention to all business ▼ V confided to them, in the counties of Ran dolph, Stewart, Quitman, Clay, Early, Calhoun and Terrell, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the District and Circuit Courts of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia. •eptlT-tf We have % large and Taried 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 thoso of our frisnds who have not paid up their aocounts within that time must not expect us to acoommodate thorn with further credit. We desire to approximate as nearly to cash as the condition of trade will admit, and necessity compels us to require hereafter the very best security from those who wish to buy on 30 days. JOHNSON & SMITH, MASONIC TEMPLE, MULBERRY STREET, dec3tf Macon, Georgia. WINSH1P & CALLAWAY. CLOTHING AT WHOLESALE. CAPITAL—BOLD *10,000,00 Insures Stores. Merchandise. Dwellinn Fu ture and all other property at ’ ^ urni LOWEST RATES! I. C. PLANT 4 SON. Agontv. Macon. Ga. STONEWALL fertilizer. For sale by octTtf TURPIN & OGDEN, SOLE AGENTS. MACON. GA J. J. ABRAMS, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE —AND— NOTARY PUBLIC. WE have opened a wholesale apartment over our retail store, and invite the Georgia, Alabama and Florida merchants who buy in this market to give us a call. We null 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 Is filled with everything that i3 choice and stylish for and see the a gentleman's outfit. Call L. B. ENDRES, CONSTABLE, CHATHAM COUNTY. Office Xo. C Bull street, SAVANNAH. GA P. O. Box, SS7. Speeial attention given to tlie collection of claims Warrants issued and promptly served. Ollicv hours 7 a. a. to 7 p. u. nor2 6m HOWARD Hi -USE. BROAD STREET, Nearly opposite Montgomery and Eufauta Rail road Depot. EUFAULA, ALABAMA J. W. HOWARD. - - Pkoi-hibtoiul. Only a short walk to and from tlio Southwest* «m Railroad. Seventy-five cents saved in omni- bua fare •cuts dm Virginia All Wool Cassimere Suits, Good as the Scotch, for $15 per suit, worth $25. SO SECOND STREET, MACON, GA. THE FOUR LEADING PIANOS Now manufactured are the Knabe, Hallett, Davis & Oo., Haines Bros., And Southern Gem. And the best and Cheapest Place to Buy One Is at LUDDEN & BATES’ MUSIC HOUSE SAVANNAH, GA. From 25 to 50 different prices and styles always on hand. Every purchaser guaranteedni?ood instrument. Largest piano trade iu tho South and lowest prices. Every one thinking of buying a piano is invited to write us for terms and prices. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES FREE. OOTTON STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. MACON, - - - - - GEORGIA. ORGANIZED In 1869, Under Laws of State of Georgia. The only Company having fir*t-cla»8 securities worth 3100.000 deposited with the Comptroller of th9 State of Georgia for security of Policy Holders. GUARANTEED CAPITAL, ASSETS, JANUARY 1, 1873, $600,000 00 $542,202 28 ITS PRINCIPAL FEATURES ARE: Absolute Security, Economical Management, and Liber ality to the Insured. Policies Issued on all Approved Forms—No Fancy Schemes. SPECIAL NOTICE Until times are better, we shall sell pianos at wholesale prices for cash or on short time. We guarantee first-rate Pianos for $205, $275, $290 and $300. Superior Pianos. $325, $350 and $375. The very best Pianos, $-100, $140, $450, $475, $500, $550 and $000. Pianos never have been sold so cheap before. These prices are only for the pres ent. Do not let tho chance go by. Pianos delivered, freight paid, 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 exchange for Pianos or Organs, at cash prices. LUDDEN A BATES, nov9tf Savannah. Ga. W. W. WOODRUFF, CARRIAGE REPOSITORY, M \ <J f > TV, O A.. Every style of Carriages. Buggies or Wagons fur nished at the lowest possible price at this Repository. MUT POLICIES ISSUED ON TnE XT -A. I, 3P X.i -A. 3ST SAMUIL D. IIYIX. THOMAS B. ORESHAM IRVIN & GRESHAM, ATTORNEYS AT.LAW, 3IACON, GA. TTTILL practice in the Superior Courts of the If Macon Circuit, in the Supreme Court of Georgia and in the United States Courts for the Southern District of Georgia. Office, after the 25th December, will be in Boordman*s block, up stairs, rooms lately occu pied by Assessor Internal Revenue, and until that time either may lie consulted, when in town, at the office of T. B\ Gresham. decll 3m POE, HALL & LOFTON, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, MACON, GA. Office, on Third street, over City Bank, norltf fjlKin A. RANSOM. DARIUS W. GEER. W. A. RANSOM & 00., Manufacturers and Jobbers of BOOTS AND SHOES, 1» AND 140 GRAND BT, NEW YORK. Represented by R. W. Hogan, of Georgia. nrt-Odly At the lowest mutual rates. ,nd Dividend* declared when policies are two years old and applied at the end of the third year as follow,: To reduction of premium when all cash is paid; to reduction of Loon, when loan is given, or to increase of insurance when desired. POLICIES ISSUED UPON THE STOCK OR NON-PARTICIPATING PLAN, At as low rate, and upon as favorable terms as can be used with safety. IT IS A HOME COMPANY Making all its investment* in the South and therefore aiding in the development of its industries It is managed with economy, and great care given in tho selection of risks. Good, Beliable Solicitors will Find this an Easy Company to Work The Woodruff Concord Buggy* Celebrated for light draft and durability, it tlie leading.Buggy, and a specialty. General Agent, or t > Superintendent ot Agencies. OFFICERS: WM. B. JOHNSTON President WM. 8. HOLT .Vice President GEO. 8. OBEAR 8ecnr».-y JOHN W. BURKE General A$mt JAMES MERCER GREEN Medical Examiner A. W. MAGILL. Superintendent of Age a ies. DIRECTORS—MACON; WM. B. JOHNSTON. PETER SOLOMON. VIRGIL POWERS. DAVID FLANDERS. JOHN W. BURKE. WILLIAM A HOLT. HENRY L. JEWETT, A. L. MAXWELL. R. W. CCBBEDGE. E. J. JOHNSTON, JOHN /. GRESHAM, C. A NUTTING, GEO. a OBEAR, JOHN T. BOIFEUILLET, _ JOHN S. BAXTER. L. N. WHITTLE. WM. H. KOSR SAVAOTTAH: A R. LAWTON ANDREW LOW. AUGUSTA: JOHN P. KING,. J06IAH SIBLEY. ATLANTA: _ RICHARD PETBS& —..V. R. TOMMBY. T. J. SMITH WILLIAM JOHNSON — G. T. MEMMINGKR.„ C. P. HAMMET... fehrtaunly MontieeUo .. Charlotte N. 0 .Charlerton, S. C J,.. Greenville, 8. C The Whitewater and Woodruff Wagons. And other Western Wagons, at Descriptive Circulars furnished .o uow will write for them. tf All work warranted. —J--— METROPOLITAN IKON & BRASS WORKS Canal Street, firom 6th to ,th, RICHMOND, - * ' VA ‘ WM. E. TANNEE & CO., EMUIEERS, MACHINISTS AND FOUNDERS. ENGINES OF ALL KINDS. Bend tor Circular. H. R. BROWN, <i((SL Janldlj