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American Vxi.ce of Foreios Monet.
After the first of January the valae of
foreign moneys in this aoantry wxD be
obangt-J as follows : The British pound
storting will bo iaereaeed from $ vWto
$i 8C.i'4; the Fraflbh, Swua and Belgian
francs from IR.OG to 19.03, with a similar
increase on tho Greek drachma and Span
ish peseta. The portngeao milrei. will
be decreased in valuation from $1 12 to
$! ns i7.
A Sraxisn-AatBiCAX LioisLirtcr.—
In the territoriiil Legislature of New
Meii -n there arc only seven Americans,
and t'a* committee on Indian Affairs are (
composed entirely of Mexicans. The
speech 's are made in Spanish, and all
j r ■.]ings in both houses aro conducted
through the medium of that language.
The bills are drawn np in English and
translated into Spanish. The clerks of
th" legislature act as interpreters.
“ I’u.statws Maxxifi.”—The West-
ern prints say one object of abolishing
slavery wa< to improve the manners of
Con gr.-i , but the country is terribly dis-
aj pointed with the result of the experi
ment. It did not like the “ plantation
manners ” of the SoutherJ members, and
now the only decently behaved Radical
members are the darkies who have been
trar.-f.'rred .from tho plantation to Con
gress, with the benefit of only veiy im
perfect teaching in plantation manners.
ha* been exiled from
er j’ain of pitch nnd
i rime of marrying a
Chi
woman.
r IRK-CKXCKEI-i u
villo on Chriatmai
was enforced to tho i
of.quiet people.
Tub Rothschilds, 1
are worth about ono 1
dollars, as a firm,
individual fortunes.
o tabooe. 1 in Louis
an! tho orJiuanco
intense satisfaction
elvo in numl-er,
u.-and millions of
including their
"ruriinKMT Gbant has refused to ac-
oeptdho resignation of General Sickles.”
The first dosirable thing ho was ever
known to refuso.—Poston Putt.
The Uerald's Washington agent tele
graphs that a bill has been framed and
is to 1.0 introduced after the recess,
abolishing tho office of Chief Justice. It
is said to liave the support of Conklin;
Morton and others of the leading legal
minds in tho Senate. It is contended
that the presiding or chief of the justices
should be selected by tho voice of the
body, if at all, and that his compeers
would ho best ablo to nmko a selection
which would ho satisfactory and cred
itable. * ftUTniil *h
“Dimrsa tho session of Congress,” says
a Washington newspaper, “some of the
members will recciro daily.” Tho an
nouncement seems unnecessary.
Mas. York, of Michigan, and Mrs.
IinrL„ nth, of Iowa, havo both been li-
conned to preach tho Gospel in the North
ern Methodist Episcopal Church.
In Baltimore tho police allowed no
blowing of tin trumpets in tho streets on
Christmas. This was certainly carrying
tho causo of quiet and order too far.
Tua Tallahassee Radical ticket, with
Cluirles II. Edwards for Mayor, II. Sntton
for Marshal, and Samuel Quailo for Clerk,
has been elected by n largely increased
majority over last year.
Juixjk Nelson, of New York, recently
deceased, was on tho bench forty-nino
yean—serving in three courts. His ser
vice as judge, in point of time, was with
out parallel in this country or in England.
Quite a number of young men in this
city are attending a night school where
Lift in is taught. At least wo judge so,
os wo saw a crowd tho other evening who
had got as faros "hi c.”—Pearim Emitus
It is reported that tho Greek Govern
ment have at length mado definite ar
rangements for cutting a canal tlirough
tho Isthmus of Corintii, It is to have a
minimum depth of 27 feet, nnd a width
of 39 feet at tho bottom.
The New York World, describing
Wednesday’s fog in that city, says: "At
half-past 9 a. m., tho fog in the streets
was so denso that a person could not rec
ognize an intimato acquaintance at a dis-
Itance of more than twenty feet. People
standing on tho Btreet corners wishing to
take a car, heard the cars rolling by nnd
tho bells jingling, but saw nothing. It
was necessary to go out into the middle
of the street and stand close to tho track,
and then risk hailing tho wrong car.”
Tim argument against life insurance,
be. a use of its alleged contravention of
tho will of Providence, was happily put
by tho colored sister who thus accounted
for a hail storm in mid-summer: "I can
jes tell ycr what is do reason for all dis
ycro wind and hail what do good Lord
pour out onto us sinners. It all comes
of dut ice marehecn what do white folks
hah started in dis yere town. It's agin
nater; makin' of freozin’ cold ico here in
do month of July; and do good Lord is
punishin’ us for tryin' to bo smarter dan
He is. He don't make ico in do sum
mer, and when poor, sinful man gets to
goin' agin do Lord, den He’s sartin to
punish ’em wid hail, and wind and rain,
and tarafyin' fears. Bress dc Lord !”
A modern philosopher thinks it a mis
take to supposo women have stronger at
tachments than men. A man is often
attached to an old hat; but ho asks,
"Who over heard of ft woman being at
tached to on old bonnet F”
Tiik Baltimore Sun says Mrs. John
Owens writes to a friend in that city, that
though Mr. Owens buffered intensely for
several days from tho effects of his fall at
Newark, New Jersey, he is now able to
sit up, nn l will in a few days, be able to
take tho journey home.
EianTT-uioHT young ladies in Min
nesota h ivc handed together and agreed
not to marry any man who uses tobacco
in any form. The same number of men
have banded together and ogrcod not to
marry any female who use* paste, enamel,
false hair, lmstlos and corsets.
fimuuNos in Politics.—Under tho
head of "political rumblings," the Chica
go Tribune chronicles many recent events
as tho result of the indopandent Liberal
movement. That had a good deal of
wind in it we all know, and nothing pro
duces "rumbling” like wind in tho sto-
Joiins Hopkins, tho great merchant
prince and capitalist of Baltimore, who
died last Monday morning, as wo learn
from tho Son, was born in Anne Arundel
county, Maryland, May 19, 1795. Ho
leaves on estate believed to exceed in
value eight millions of dollars, about five
millions of which aro devoted in equal
parts to two great public benefactions—
the Johns Hopkins University, to be es
tablished on his cstato at Clifton, about
a mile from the city, and the Johns Hop
kins Hospital. Both will have larger en
dowments than any similar institutions
in America. Hopkins was a bachelor, bnt
left a Bister und seven nephews and
nieces, all of whom ho provided for pre
vious to his death. In religion, Mir. Hop
kins was a member of tho Society of
Friends.
Weather Wise.—The Now York Herald
of tho 24th, wo see, is much exalted with
a sense of its own meteorological erudi
tion. It can beat old Probs, and give
him two in the game. It seems from the
Herald that "a great fork ■ of the Polar
current" had “pierced the storm vortex”
through and through and let out all the
fog and vapor, and tho deduction of a
bright and pleasant Christmas was inev
itable. See how our vaticinations, says
tho Herald, always come true. And so
the lioys and girls did see it, without be
ing a whit the better. At least tuo great
fork did not got through ikit side of the
“storm vortex;” in “consekens o’ vict”
it rained like all possessed. But tho
Herald ought to he a good weather indica
tor—it has had long practice in telling
how the wind blows.
An Excellent I dea
lt has been suggested to Gen. Eaton,
CocttBiraioncr of Education, that an effort
to connect industrial eihiMtiotMb in A
small way, with the public sohool^woiffB
prove advantageous. Tfcc plan proposed
is for the several teachers to encourage
the pupils to exhibit some mechanical or
useful article, or piece of needlework of
their own make at stated intervals, in the
presence of then parents and tho super
intendent of the school. The merits of
each article, and the name of the young
manufacturer or inventor, to be announced
and explained by the teachers.
The Commissioner, in response, replies
that lie “heartily approves of tho plan,
which ho considers to be a practical de
velopment and application of the under
lying idea of the Kindergarten system,
which has shown that to be allowed to
make something themselves is a delight
to the youngest children, and that by a
wise direction of their instinct they can
be taught many useful lessons.” The
Commissioner also thinks that these exhi
bitions would greatly increase the inter
est of parents in the education of timr
children, and add to tho utility and efS-
caey of the schools.
The se suggestions appear to u3 eminent
ly wise nnd feasible. The grand ideaof the
free school system should be to elevate and
instruct the pupil. In our public schools
many of those in attendance have sprung
from the very dregs of society. At home,
they sec nothing but squalor and filth,
coupled too often with drunkenness, pro
fanity and crime! A few months school
ing only, supplemented by no special good
influences or efforts for the improvement
of their condition, simply returns these
unfortunates to.the obscurity and wretch
edness from which they have but partial
ly emerged.
But these little exhibitions of childish
ingenuity and industry, may serve to
arouse latent energies and hidden pow
ers, even in the minds of the most de
graded pupils, and teach them they were
created for better things than merely to
follow in the beaten path of their ignorant
parents. Many a genius might thus be
brought to light, while thrift, and a gen
erous emulation to excel in domestic avo
cations and the mechanic arts would tend
vastly to elevate the children, and prove
on incalculable benefit to the succeeding
generation. The experiment, at least,
could be productive of no harm, and
might induce greater interest in the
schools themselves.
few more vigorous strokes at the feet of
clay of the Radical image, which has so
long been elevated on the pedestal of na-
tiusal authority, will bring it lumbering
tqTtho earth, we trust, to rise no more.
So. far os a third term is concerned, we
think Sen- Grant begins to see tho hand
writing on the wall.
A Carious 014 taw Resurrected.
The Washington correspondent of tho
Cincinnati Commercial writes that attona
i inn has recently been ndtod to the fact
that in 1759 a law was passed by Con
gress directing that th* Secretary of tho
Treasury should appear before either
house of Congress requiring him to do
so, to explain any recommendation which
he may have to make, and to answer
with regard to any matter that might
have boen referred to him by such
House. The law was passed at the in
stance of Alexander Hamilton, when he
was Secretary of the Treasury, and but
for the active opposition of Thomas Jef
ferson, then Secretary of State, it would
have applied as well to all other mem
bers of the .Cabinet. A resolution, it is
asserted, will be introduced in the House
immediately upon the reassembling of
Congress, requiring Secretary Richard
son to appear, in accordance with this
ancient statute, and give his views,
which are supposed to be particularly
valuable, on the various financial ques
tions connected with his department, of
interest ju3t at present. If he is so
called, it will be the first instance in the
history of the government in which a
Cabinet official ha3 had such a require
ment to meet.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
8®si;ETABT of War ’Belknap only paid
tho parson who married him the other
day to a charming widow—his first wife’s
sister—$(>0 in gold for tying the knot. It
strikes tts that Belknap didn’t do the
handsome thing by the parson. Common
folks do a great deal better than that.
If Belknap wasn't a Cabinet officer, we
should bo tempted to say he was stingy.
Death or B. F. Evans.—The Charles
ton News and Courier announces the
death of Mr. B. F. Evans, of the firm of
Walker, Evans A Cogswell, publishers
and booksellers of that city. Mr. Lrans
died at the early ago of 42—in tho full
careor of active and successful trade. He
was a widely known and valuable agent
of the Confederate Government during
the war in his department of business.
Thx Concord (N. H.) Patriot says th'
late death of ox-Senator John P. Hale, of
that State, brings to light n fact often
hinted at pretty broadly before, but in
which ns lady's name has ever been given
in print till now, to our knowledge. Tho
fact is that it was a daughter of Mr.
Hale who was engaged to Wilkes Booth,
the man who shot President Lincoln. In
Booth's diaiy, which was taken from his
body, there was a picture of this lady.
Africans and the Suave Trade.—Sir
Samuel Baker, in his recent lecture be
fore the Royal Geographical Society of
London, illustrated the feelings of the
native Africans about the ‘'horrors of the
slave trade,” by this anecdote: "After a
long lecture upon the iniquity of buying
and selling children, a certain chief re
plied : "It is true it is horrible ; have you
got a son ?’’ “No," I replied, "I have
not, unfortunately.” “Well,” he said, "I
liave, but he is very thin now. If he
were to go with you ho would grow fat.
He is a dear boy, and I will sell him to
you for a slave.”
Where is WiirrET?—Tho Hon. John
II. Wimpey, “member elect frosi tho
Pth district of Georgia,” os ho used to
write it, ought to corns to the front and
see that an old acquaintance gets justice.
The New York papers repeat that Robert
Wogan was recently arretted in that city
for getting up a bogus express company,
whereby several firms were taken in and
done for very nicely. We insist that
Wimpey ought to hurry to New York and
tell tho court and jury when Wogan’s
case comes up how Wogan swindled him
when he, tho said Wimpey, had those
memorable dealings with Wogan a few
years ago—how he (Wimpey) set that
trap for Wogan, and how he (Wimpey),
instead of Wogan, was caught therein.
Now is the time for Wiinpey to establish
his claim to the title of the great North
American counterfeit detective, and at
the same time get even with the wicked
Wogan.
A Kansas paper gives the following
report of a Judge's sentence, lately passed
on a criminal: "Bnunley, you infamous
scoundrel! You’re an unredeemed vil
lain ! You hain’t a single redeeming trait
in your character. Your wife and family
wish we had sent you to the penitentiary.
This is the fifth time I’ve had you before
me, and you have put me to more trouble
than your neck is worth. I’ve exhorted
and prayed over you long enough, you
scoundrel! Just go home and take one
glimpse at your family, and be off in
short order! Don’t let’s evsr hear of you
again ! The grand jury have found two
other indictments against you, but I’ll
discharge you on your own recognizance,
uud if I ketch you in this neck of woods
to-morrow morning at daylight, I'll sock
you right square in jail and hump you off
to Jeffersonville in less than no time, you
infamous scoundrel! If ever I ketch you
crossing your finger at man. woman or
child—white man or nigger—ril sock
you right square into the jug! Stand up.
you scoundrel, while I pi
you!”
The Regeneration of Philadelphia
from the Reign of Ballot-Slingers
and Roughs.
A valued correspondent sends us a copy
of the Philadelphia Press containing the
rousing addresses of Forney, of “ dead
ducks” memory, and CoL McClure, upon
tho announcement of tho result of the
voto in the city upon the new Constitu
tion. Our friend, in a private note, also
declares that the infamous political ring
which has ruled Philadelphia so long, and
made her elections notorious, all over the
world, for ballot-stuffing nnd fraud on the
most stupendous scale, is now utterly
broken up, and ero long “tho leaders
will be sent to jail.” Wo fear ho is too
sanguine oh this head; but for once, it
docs seem, that the good men and true,
of all organizations, havo risen in their
might, and uttered the mandate so far
and po farther, to tho billowy waves of
corruption which threatened to sweep
away every landmark of law and justice,
in the City of Brotherly Love.
CoL Forney, with lii3 usual sagacity,
teems to have consulted tho political
Old Probs,” and, scenting the storm,
put his bark beforo the wind and ran
with it. He talks magnificently well, as
the following sample paragraphs of his
peech will show:
After this remarkable day’s proceed
ings it is proper that tho people of Phil
adelphia, the independent voters, should
thank Gad that, by the exercise of a free
and intelligent ballot, they havo de
clared themselves in favor of the new
constitution. [Cheers.j And I am her
before you in no spirit of revenge, while
overwhelmed with the magnitude of this
astounding triumph. Nor are you here
to rejoice over any portion of our fellow-
citizens, bnt as Republicans and Demo
crats to rejoice at the resnlt of the first
fair election that has taken place in Phil
adelphia for years. [Applause/] In
looking over the resuit I am about to
proclaim to you we must bear in mind
the remarkable influences arrayed
against the people. The desperation of
the opposition, and their effort to hold
the vast prizes they had at stake, con
trasted well with the dignity, decorum
and almost unanimity of a people with
out offices, without money, simply striv
ing to relieve themselves from burdens
that had become insufferable. [Cheers.]
And now, in bidding good-bye to the
regime which has so long controlled this
groat city, let U3 at the same time wel
come in tho new men. Let us welcome
in the new Republicans; let us welcome
in tho days of better administration, the
days of purer legislatures, the days of in
corruptible City Councils, the days of
competent and intelligent chief magis
trates, the days of well-paved streets, the
days of reduced taxation, the days of
strict responsibility in all the depart
ments of the govcminomt. [Prolonged
applause.]
Honor for the manner in which you
Republicans have thrown off the shackles
of a dominant despotism [applause]; and
honor to tho Democratic party for the
^dignity and intelligence of its support.
Ail election without a riot, save in one or
two instances. (I may be permitted at
this moment to interject parenthetically,
saying that Reading just flashes us the
news of “2,500 for the new Constitution.”)
[Cheers.] A period has now arrived when
wo may take our own affairs into our own
hands—when under the aegis of on inde
pendent press, with a free, pure ballot,
peaceful elections, and intelligent public
discussions of all great questions, we may
say to tho nations of the earth who shall
come here to celebrate the Centennial
of American Independence tliat wc pre
sent to them not only a magnificent city,
affluent in all its great material produc
tions, but by the splendor of its local ad
ministration, a city with Councils and
local officers who will welcome the learned
and curious strangers who may come
here to study our institutions. [Cheers.'
Wc give also a single brief extract from
CoL McClure’s address:
I have no rude huzzas to fling in the
face of a defeated foe. Those who have
fallen in the struggle have invited the
contest by a persistent disregard of the
popular will, and, I am pained to say, by
glaring abases of authority. To them
this admonition comes with the omnipo
tence of the sovereign mandate, and they
have but to accept its purpose and obey
its peremptory requirements. It is spe
cific in its lessons, both in city and State;
it will be oontent with nothing less than
a pure ballot in Philadelphia.
Wonder if old Simon Cameron, who so
bitterly denounced the new constitution,
and went to Harrisburg on the eve of tho
election to fight it, will bend or break
before the storm ?
The adoption of the Pennsylvania Con
stitution by a majority so overwhelming,
the arraignment of Gen. Howard for his
peculations, the refusal so far to confirm
the appointment of the new Chief Jus
tice, and the modification at least in the
House, of the salary grab, show that a
Grant’s Chief Justice.
A distinguished jurist and member of
Congre33 says of this man, whose little
ness has made him famous: "Williams
was a good fellow; a very good fellow,
but resembled necessity in the particular
of knowing no law.”
But per contra, tho Portland Orego
nian, toe most influential paper in that
State, says, with the charges of corrup
tion hanging over him, and complicity
with a ring of infamous character^, who
have perpetrated a long series of out
rages, he is an unfit nnd dangerous man
to hold the position of Chief Justice of
the United States, and his confirmation
by the Senate would be apositivo calamity,
and a menace to civil liberty throughout
the country. Latterly, also, it has trans
pired that Mr. Williams charged the Gov
ernment $1,GOO for tho carriage hire of
his family in one season.
Verily wo have a model President and
Cabinet, who know, at least, how to take
care of number one, even if the grab
comes from the people’s crib.
Strange Effect of a London Fog
upon Cattle.
The London correspondent of the New
York World, under date of Wednesday,
the 11th inst., tho third day of the extra
ordinary fog that enveloped the city,
mentions, among other disasters, the
great mortality it had caused among the
cattle on exhibition at the annual show
of tho Smithfield Club. On Monday, two
days before, there was not a single case
of sickness among tho large number that
appeared before tho judges, but by
Wednesday at least a third’ had disap
peared from tho stalls. The explanation
of this singular fact is that tho lonj
continuation of the fog had so vitiated
tho air as to poison them outright.
Twenty-five died in twenty-four hours,
and ninety-three had to be removed dur
ing the same time. None of them, no
matter how big and hardy, seemed proof
against the attack of this strange enemy,
which seemed to single out cows, hulls
and oxen for distinction, leaving sheep
and hogs unharmed—the latter not ap
pearing at all affected.
A Touching Incident.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: A
handsome little boy, standing beside his
grandmother in Milledgcvilie, saw a lady
visitor in tears.
"Mamma,” asked the little boy, after
the visitor had left the room, “what mode
the poor lady cry ?”
“Because, my dear, she owes debts and
has no money to pay them," replied the
mother.
"Mamma, may l give the lady the half
dollar Aunt Mary sent to me for Christ
mas ?”
The mother’s assent being given, the
child carried the half dollar, all of his
treasure, and gave it to the distressed
lady to pay her debts. Tears sprang to
tho lady’s eyes as she refused the money;
but the little boy was firm, put the money
on the lady's work basket, and joyfully re
turned to his mother. Faying: "Mamma,
I gave the money. Now the poor lady
canpay her debts."
The gift was small; but what a great
example was that noble little boy’s 1 Lit
tle A lick deserves a monument bn earth
when wealthy oppressors of the poor shall
be forgotten dust; and if he shall pre
serve the greatness of his soul to the end
of life, how exalted will be his station in
the better land, as compared with that of
heartless money worshippers of to-day
who despise and oppress tho poor ?
M. F. T.
Beecher and his Church have at length
been excommunicated by the Brooklyn
Congregational Churches. 1 A letter,
signed by the Rev. Drs. Stores and Bud-
dington and the members of the select
committees, and addressed to Plymouth
Church, was read before the Church of
the Puritans and tho Clinton Avenue
Churches Friday night. The language
is courteous and affectionate, but the
writers say that as Plymouth has elected
to violate-Congregational usage, and re
fused to take admonition or meet in con
ference to talk tho thing over, they must
withdraw from fellowship with her.
Henceforth, therefore, Plymouth is an
independent sect, like the Free Religion
ists and Reformed Episcopalians; that is
if Brother Beecher does not see the error
of his ways and recant his contumacy.
Bnt he is given to independent thinking.
It is estimated that the namber of
railroad ties in present use in the United
States is 150,000,000. A cut of 200 ties
to the acre is above rather than under
the average, and it therefore has required
the product of 750,000 acres of well tim
bered laoid to furnish the supply. Rail
road ties last about five years; conse
quently 30,000,000 ties ore used annually
for repairs, taking the timber from 150,-
000 acres. The manufacture of rollmg
stock disposes of the entire yield of 350,-
000 acres, and a full supply of 500,000
acres more every year. It appears, then
that our railroads ire stripping the coun
try at the sate of 1,000,000 acres per an
num, and their demands are rapidly in
creasing.
Gsawt wHl make a personal issue with
the Senate in its rejection of Williams.
Now lot us sea whether that body wfll
bow to the will of the people or of the
President.—Courier-Journal.
That fight is decided before it is begun.
Thx Savannah News says a William
son county nuui who was threatened with
a t each of promise suit, “has taken the
homestead,” which leads us to enquire,
not only where is "Williamson” county,
but also if our auburn-haired friend of
th. Nowe has not been taking too much
Chi ritmas ? "O. A. P.” plays the deuce,
wit.: a fillew’s geographical knowledge
sc:u< tiui's.
XiLK Atlanta hound train on the Air-
Lie ■ roA-1 ran off the track near Seneca
city, on Friday, but nobody was hurt, and
the train damaged very slightly. Mis-
ptu cd switch.
Tie lioa cub, "Prince,” which was left
at J- n-nan by the Great Eastern Circus,
die 1 last Tuesday of a tumor in the
throat.
Caredll county is in a fever of excite
ment over tho supposed digging up of
a box containing $40,000 in gold, wbicb
wrm.-: said to have been buried in that
county at the beginning of the late war
bj t-xo young men from Virginia, who
brought out and sold a lot of negroes for
their uncle in that State. It is said they
reti. ned home and reported to the old
gentleman that they had been robbed,
and that both died during the trar. One
of them, however, as tho story goes, com
municated tho secret to a hospital stow- 1
ard in Richmond, and the diggers are
tSought to have como in possession of
the information through this means. No- <
body has seen any gold, but an indubita
ble hole "about threo feet deep with a
flat stone at the bottom of it” has been
foui 1 and looked at by almost every man
in the county.
Mu. J. N. Sewell, of Coweta county,
writes his name high up on the roll of
successful small farmers this year. With
one mule and twenty days labor of
another, he made 5,123 pounds of lint
cotton, 450 bushels of corn, and a perfect
" galore ” of potatoes, peas, melons, etc.
Recorder Hammond, of Atlanta, cele
brated Christmas by opening tho sta-
tion-liousc and letting all his birds out.
Duxino the Christmas “festivities” in
Atlanta, a little boy named Tabor had a
huge “popper” to explodo in one of his
hands, tearing it almost to pieces. The
> thumb was torn off, only hanging to the
hand by the integuments, and burning
the right side of his face badly, scorching
his eyebrows and lashes off, and injuring
his eye to such an extent that it is feared
he will lose the use of it.
Another incident of tho day is thus
reported in ono of the Atlanta papers:
About 12 o’clock in the day, two highly
respectable citizens who were coming
down Peters street, stopped opposite the
blacksmith shop of F. M. Morris and
commenced a conversation with an old
negro acquaintance. Wliilo they were
there conversing, two negroes, Winfield
Holden and Edward Hurt, came up to
the party in a very intrusive sort of man
ner, and asked the gentlemen what they
were doing there, following the inquiry
with gross insults. The gentlemen were
not disposed to havo a street fight with
such rabble, and advised them to leave
and attend to their business, and turned
to resumo their conversation. As soon as
their backs were turned ono of the ne
groes struck one of them on the head
with a stick or rock, inflicting a wound
that caused the blood to flow freely.
This, of course, opened tho battle, but
beforo tho gentlemen were on their
guard, tho other ono received a severe
blow between the shoulders. Tho ne
groes, seeing they would be resisted,
commenced a prudent retreat. Other ne
groes, who saw the assault, captured tho
negroes and promised to turn them over
to the police. With this understanding
the gentlemen left. Before they had
walked any distance they were overtaken
and attacked by a regular mob of negroes
apparently under the influence of liquor.
The negroes, Holden and Hurt, who com
menced the fight, seemed to be the lead
ers of tho mob. One of the negroes got
considerably worsted by the two gentle,
men, who seemed determined to give him
his desert, though they were attacked on
all sides by from eighteen to twenty ne
groes. Policeman Thomas Jones hap
pened to appear about this time, and see
ing the lives of the white gentlemen
were in danger, deputized a committee of
citizens to protect them and control the
mob. The leaders. Hurt and Holden,
were arrested and brought before Justice
Butts yesterday, who, after hearing a
portion of tho testimony, committed them
to jail until it was Judge Hopkins’ pleas
ure to try them.
A Union Point correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution, writes as follows
concerning an original plan adopted by
tho different congregations of that place
to raise money for missionary purposes:
The congregations aid each other to
build tbeir churches, and from missionary
corn, grown by teachers and pupils of the
Sabbath-school funds are raised to send
tho gospel abroad. A novel practice fins
been 'adopted by this people highly in
structive in more than one respect. The
small sum of sixteen grains of corn is
distributed to each teacher and pupil,
who wishes to become a contributor to
tho cause, to bo planted nnd cultivated
by the same, the product being sold on
every Christmas anniversary to the high
est bidder, and then divided equally be
tween the churches represented. One
might well say after the scene last night
that no good causo should fail for want
of money. Fifty-seven dollars were real
ized from the sales, which added to the
amounts realized in past years, makes a
handsome contribution to this groat char
ity from ono Sabbath-schooL
Referring to ono of the changes in
the State Constitution, n^med by Gen.
Toombs in his late at Washing
ton, as most desirable to effect, and
which wa3 to give a Senator to each
eounty in the State, the Columbus Sun
remarks as follows:
This is one of tho changes to which we
are most decidedly opposed. It would
add one hundred members to the Senate
and make that body almost as unwieldy
as the House ■ greatly increase the cost
of each session of the Legislature; and,
we believe, tend to lower the character
of the Senate in point of ability and in
dependence of local cliques. It is appa
rent that a wire-working demagogue can
more easily control a nomination or se
cure on election in one county than in
three. Local fetdings or influences, over
riding considerations of the public good,
can more easily carry astray five hundred
or a thousand voters than three or four
thousand. The present Senate of forty-
four members is a much more efficient
and snorting body than the Houso at one
hundred and seventy-five ; and the latter
body, composed of representatives of
small constituencies, and being peculiarly
the popular representative body, is com
petent to secure attention to all local
wants. The great State of New
York, with its population of over
four millions, has a Senate con
sisting of only 33 members; Ala
bama, very nearly as populous as Geor
gia, has only 33; and surely Georgia
ought to be content with forty-four, es
pecially as the members of its lower
house represent smaller constituencies
than those of either New York or Ala
bama. But we object to General Toombs’
proposition for another and more weighty
reason. It would increase, instead of di
minish, the inequalities of popular
representation in the Senate. To give
Coffee comity, with its 1,650 people, as
large a representation in the Senate as
Chatham, with its 41,000—to give Charl
ton, Echols, Glasscock, Johnson and
Pierce, with populations ranging from
1,800 to 3,000, as many Senators as Ful
ton, Richmond, Bibb and Houston, with
populations counting from 20,000 to
33,000 each—does not seem to us to be a
reform in the right direction. There is
nothing democratic in it, unless democ
racy means a representation of corpora
tions inateafl of popular numbers.
JOHNSON & SMITH,
WHOLESALE
We hara a and Ttfidd stock of GROCERIES and LIQUORS in store,
I which we offer tk low prices. We will continue to seR to
PROMPT CUSTOMERS
On 30 days, bnt those of our friends who have not paid up their accounts within
that time must 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 us to require hereafter tho very best security from those who wish to buy
on 30 days.
JOHNSON k SMITH,
MASONIC TEMPLE, MULBERRY STREET,
dec3tf ’ Macon, Georgia.
CLOTHING
North British & Mercantile
INSURANCE COMPANY
OP LONDON AND EDINBURGH
CAPITAL—BOLD
Insures Stores, Merchandise. Dwellings. p„
tune and all other property at
LOWEST RATES!
-P4.*a
STONEWALL
FERTILIZER.
For salo by
TURPIN & OGDEN,
SOLE AGENTS, MACON, GA.
oct7tf
J. J. ABRAMS,
JUSTICE OP THE PEACE
—AND—
NOTARY PUBLIC.
100 CAiSSIMERE SUITS AT $8.50.
X., B. ENDUES, CONSTABLE,
CHATHAM COUNTY.
Office No. C Bull street, SAVANNAH. GA
P. O. Box, 307.
Special attention eiven to the collection of chimj
Warrants issued and promptly served. OlHctJ
hours 7 A. M. to 7 p. it. Tinv'2 Gm
300 BLACK 8ATTINET COATS, from $3 to $5.
250 pairs BLACK SATTINET PANTS, from $2 to $3.
100 BLACK SATTINET SUITS at $5 to J6.
150 JEANS PANTS at $1.
100 JEANS PANTS at $1 25.
60 OVERCOATS at $5, worth $6 50.
Tho above is surplus stock from our wholesalo apartment,
that we must hove tho cash for them.
Tho prices arc so low
A suit of the above or a good suit of Boys’ Clothes, will m ako a sensible Christ
mas present.
WINSHIP & CALLAWAY.
dec24tf
COTTON STATES
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
MACON,
ORGANIZED
In 1889,
The only Company haviBg first-class securities worth $100,000 tie]
ftkte of Georgia for security of Policy.
GEORGIA.
Under Laws of
State of Georgia.
with tho Comptroller of tha
HOWARD HOUSE.
BROAD STREET.
Nearly opposite Montgomery and Eufnula Rail
road Depot.
EUFAULA. ALABAMA.
J. V. HOWARD, - • raopaizrOBS.
Only a short walk to and from tho Southwest*
cm Railroad. Seventy-live cents saved in ooud*
bus fare. acntSGai
THE FOUR LEADING
PIANOS
Now manufactured arc tho
Knabe,
Hallett, Davis & Go.,
Haines Bros.,
And Southern Gem.
And tho best and
Cheapest Place to Buy One
Is at
LUDDEN & BATES’
MUSIC HOUSE
SAVANNAH, GA.
From 23 to 50 different prices and styles always
on hand.
Every purchaser fruarantccdagood instrument.
Largest piano trade in the South and lowest
prioes.
Every one thinking of buying a piano is invited
to write us for terms and prices.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES FREE.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Until times are better, we shall sell pianos at
wholesale prices for cash or on short time.
\V'e guarantee first-rate Pianos for $2G5, $275,
$290 and $300. Superior Pianos, $325, $350 and $375.
The very l>est Pianos, $-100, $440, $-450, $475, $500,
$550 and $000. Pianos never havo been sold so
cheap befbre. These prices are only for the pres
ent, Do not let the chance go by.
Piano? delivered, freight paid, to cash buyers in
the South. Pianos sold on long time.
COTTON FOR PIANOS.
Wo will take cotton at Savannah market price,
delivered at any point on tho railroad, in exchange
for Pianos or Organs, at cash prices.
LUDDEN & BATES,
nov9(f Savannah. (>&.
W. W. WOODRUFF,
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY,
M A CON, G A*
GUAEANTKKD CAPITAL,
ASSETS, JANUARY 1, 1873,
$600,000 OO
- $642,202 28
ITS PRINCIPAL FEATURES ARE:
Absolute Security, Economical Management, and Liber
ality to the Insured.
Policies Issued on all Approved Forms—No Fancy Schemes.
Every style of Carriages, Buggies or Wagons fur
nished at the lowest possible price at
this Repository-
Is/L UT T
POLICIES ISSUED ON THE
UAL DP X*
-A. 3ST -
At the lowest mutual rates, and Dividends declared when policies are two years old and applied at
the end of the third year as follows: To reduction of premium when all cash is paid; to reduction of
Loans when loan is given, er to increase of Insurance when desired.
POLICIES ISSUED UPON THE
STOCK OS If ON-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 investments in the South and therefore ruling in the development of its industries
It is managed with economy, and great care given in the selection of risks.
Good, Reliable Solicitors will Find this an Easy Company to Work.
To such a liberal inducement will be offered upon application to the Secretary at the Home Office, the
General Agent, or to the Superintendent ot Agencies.
OFFICERS:
WM. B. JOHNSTON Preakient
WM. 8. HOLT ........ . .Vice Preai-lent
W?#** tuu5jra — :r.:::::..:”:::.:::jrediSExaS 3 3r
A. W. MAGHiU Superintendent of Ages tea.
The Woodruff Concord Buggy,
Celebrated for light draft and durability, is
the leading Buggy, and a si>ecialty.
The Whitewater and Woodruff
Wagons.
And other Western Warous. at lowgru*^
lescriptive Circulars furnished to those
Descriptive
will write for them,
All work warranted
DHUSCTOHS -MACOM
WM. B. JOHNSTON. WILLIAM 8. HOlff.
PETER SOLOMON, HENRY L. JEWETT,
VIRGIL POWERS. A. L. MAXWELL/
DAVID FLANDERS, R. W. CUBBEDGE,
JOHN W. BURKE. B. J. JOHNSTON/
l n. whittle,
. „ v SAVAHJTAH:
A. R. LAWTON,
“ AUGUSTA :
JOHN P. KING JONAH 8IBLET.
ATLANTA:
RICHABJDFKTBBR R. TOWMBY.
T. J. SMITH Mmtioaflo
WILLIAM JOHNSON 7. N. C
O. T. MEMMINGBB **** Charleston, 8. 0
«*»..» GreenrBle. & O
tehft—nly
JOHN J. GRESHAM.
C. A. NUTTING,
GBO. 8. OBEAR,
JOHN T. BOIFEUIILET,
JOHN 8. BAXTER,
WM. H. ROBB.
ANDREW LOW.
METROPOLITAN
IRON & BRASS WORKS,
Canal Street, from 8th to l Sth,
RICHMOND, - - * VA ‘
WM. E. TANNEB & CO.,
EMHE03, MACHINISTS AMD FOUNDERS.
EKGETES OF ALL. KINDS*
Band far Circular. rmT
H. R. BROWN,
JanUW *«*■*'