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"Education and the Ballot.
Jime« S. Pike, "late minister of the
United States at the Hague,” a native
or the State at Hains, ami long a corres-
pondrad of thb New York Tribune, has
nil. ivr » oxsrt.-r | published a book entitled •'The Prostrata
I State -South Carolina unJcr Negro Gor-
■' -li»r per aiuare 1 crnnu . nt ." It is. in the main, a republi-
' cation of certain letters written for the
Tribune in the State of South Carolina,
rsoiui r*pr..v r.1, j n the earljr months of the expiring year.
, n . -. 1,1.1 ,.! _ uWt . 0 [ which have been reprinted in
'- r: •• ‘ 1 (olainns. The Leak Is the dolefol
l ii'.i " ' it I rtory ■ ■! a governm. nt and people
1M I, u,r i.t h. • I trampled down by Afsiean heels into the
mi acrtiAs r.r, mire of ruin and made the sport of stupid
r._- ,s Mr; it j brutal ignorance and unbridled dis-
honesty, a ,
-w . to rr> U'j would not notice the work now,
i I'lcflriiph (v-ttflc.wniflcr however, but for a certain concession ia
j j ( remarkable as emanating from one of
U ; DNESKAY MORNING. DEC. SI. i-v ! the orliool of politicians which hails from
[ Hew England. Negro suffrage in its I
original inception was, no doubt, the off
spring of an inappcasable hatred of the
-■ utliern whites. It was born of malice
au l revenge, and engineered in the inter
cut of what New England considered “a
jiiit retribution”—that of putting the
" tlaveocranf* under the heels of their late
slaves. And this fell passion, biosting
on self-indulgence, is now at length car
ried to the extremity of attempting by
statute to enforce social intermixture of
the races—to bring down the “lordly
slaveoerat” and bis race from their
iKuctod purity of blood and respectability
of lineage, to that repulsive, inane, de
graded and villainous hybridism under
which the Castilian conqueror of so-called
Spanish-America has found a resultant
in a race of copper colored rogues, of
whom it has been appropriately said by
a Northern author that the men are all
thieves and the women all harlots.
In aid of this ultimate measure of re
venge, (for not even a New England Rad
ical can get beyond that) it ia scarcely
credible that they have succeeded in al
tering the fundamental law of the United
States, so as to enable the Federal Gov
ernment to pack the passengers in steam
boats, stages and cars—the guests at ho
tels—the auditories in theatres—the pu
pils in schools, etc., etc., but as difficult
of belief as such a proposition would have
keen a few years ago, it is nevertheless
true. A great scheme of fundamental
law, instituted by the fathers for the har
monious co-operation of sovereign and
independent States in securing among
themselves and defending from external
violence the rights and institutions of
republican government, has been prosti
tuted and bastardized to this end of forcing
an intermixture of races in the South
True, it will bo said the same result is
worked out in the victor States: but the
saying lias no practical forco. The negro
population in thoso States is too incon
siderable to feel the operation of the civil
rights bill. The plea, therefore, is the
same practical lie which tho protection
ists set up in behalf of the equal opera
tion of thoir system of so-called indus
trial bounties. Its abstract truth only
makes it a more transparent and dishon
est lio.
Now we do not suppose that all the
Tax Kentucky lottery establishments
in Now York have been broken up l>y
the police of that city.
Til* bonk balanje of the national
grange is between $ 10,000 and flOfXXX j
and a permanent investment^' J 40,000
ia to bo made in United State* registered
bonds.
■•Pxuixr,” the Washington newagath-
ewr for tho Boston Journal, says Mr.
Stephens "is actively in training, or fan-
eies himself so, for the Presidential
sweepstakes in 1876,”
It is reported thnt a Green Bay (Wis.)
dentist" becumo emotionally insane while
repairing a front tooth for a pretty wo
man, and kissed her. She told her hus
band, and ho wont around tho next day
and borrowod $300 of tho dentist.
Til* Cincinnati Commercial's Wash
ington correspondent under dato of Fri
day, telegraphs that Senator Carpenter
■aid that day that Wil iiams would not bo
conffrmod, the opposition to him being so
strong thnt all hopo of overcoming it bad
been abandoned.
Ik Mr. Williams had os much delicacy
of foeling ns an average canal horse, ho
would request the President to withdraw
his nomination ns Chief Justice of tho
Supremo Court.—Chicago Tribune.
If Grant had had half that much "del
icacy of feeling,” tho nomination would
Sever havo keon rr.nde.
Tuc Cincinnati Commercial's Wash
ington ugont telegraphs that Bur teed
will at onco resign the judgeship of the
Fodoral district court in Alabama in or
der to oscapo impeachment. Ho lias
lately fallen out with his follow corrup
tionists in that Stato, and they havo
sworn to havo his scalp.
It will greatly interest tho public to
know that I.ioutonnnt Colonel Fred Grant
has returned from a most arduous cam
paign against Chicago whisky nnd bil
liards, under command of "Piegan” Sheri
dan, nnd that ho will spend tho winter nt
Washington in tlio difficult and perilous
role of a mustering and disbursing officer.
” I North Georgia Agricultural
College.
The first annual catalogue of this in
stitution ha* been received, and aff ords
the most cheering evidence of ; .t» pros
perity and wide-spread usefulness.
Already two hundred pupils of both
sexes haTe been matriculated, anl the
means of a liberal education so long de
barred to that remote region of the State,
are now within the reach of all.
The catalogue contains an interesting
sketch of the origin and history of this
college, and its present connection and
identification with the University of
Georgia. Provision has been made for
the annual transfer of thirty of its stu
dents to the halls of the parent founda
tion, and the trustees of the latter guaran
tee an appropriation of $2,300 annually for
its support. This sum, it is expected, will
be increased, and tho managers of the
[ Peabody fund, who donated $300 the past
year, also promise additional help in the
future.
The North Georgia College, therefore,
bids fair, ere long, to prove a most valua
ble auxiliary to our State University.
President Lewis has labored diligently in
the discharge of his duties, and to him in
no little degree may be attributed the
success of this young seat of learning.
He is assisted by Professors H. Perry,
E. D. Walker, Jun. and B- P. Gail Hard.
The latter is a son of Kev. S. 3. Gailliard.
of Griiiin, and a young man of fine at
tainments and great moral worth. Two
other instructors are engaged in the pri
mary department. CoL Lewis has thrown
open his extensive library to the use of
tho pupils, but a fund should be
raised, either by legislative appropriation
or private subscription, for the purchase
of a college library, aparatus, etc.
At certain seasons of the year, lectures
will be delivered to the students, by va
rious members of the faculty at Athens,
thus adding to the interest and impor
tance of the exercises of the college. It
is designed also gradually to combine
agricultural pursuits and fruit culture,
with tho regular curriculum of college
duty.
This institution supplies a great wont
to Northeastern Georgia, and will prove a
priceless blessing to tho hardy mountain
eers of that section.
Til* Trihuno's Philadelphia corres.
pondent writes discouragingly of tho
worth of Jay Cooke & Co.’s assets. Ho
■ay* a prominent lawyer, who is attorney
for a number of claimants, stated lio did
not beliove tho establishment would pay
ten cents on tho dollar, and men who
talked of twonty-fivo cents on the dollar
are considered absurdly sanguine.
ftldUT FOR Oncb.—It is telegraphed
from Washington that in an interview
with an agent of Dutch capitalists who
is in this country looking after their in
terests in various American railways,
Grant has pronounced himself squarely
against building any more railroad* with
Government aid, saying that tho roads
should not be bnilt hereafter till the peo
ple are able and willing to pay for them.
Tv* leading Radical newspaper of Ore
gon mildly alludes to that eminent Re
publican statesman. Senator Jlipple-
Mit'hell, as <( a man whose history is
summed up in tho few words, seducer,
wife-beater, deserter of wife anil children,
embexxler of moneys collected for his
clients, keeper of a mistress whom ho
posses off ill society ns his wife, bigamist
for over seven years, and United States
Senator under a false name."
Too Lidkral Propositions.—As usual,
at this season of tho year, the TxLEORAru
is somewhat abashed by the liberality of
advertising projxwitions which come to
it from periodicals outside the Stato.
Publications which are furnished to sub
scriber* at two to four dollars per annum,
with a reckless liberality which must bo
ruinous if persisted in, propose to ex
change with the TxLXoiiAPH if we will
only throw in a hundred dollars’ worth of
advertising to boot. Wo can’t bo party
to such a trade. We could not, in con
science, allow people to ruin themselves
in this fashion. Gentlemen, reflect on
tho stringency of tho times—think upon
what is due your wives nnd children, and
don’t waste any more postage stamps on
those extravagant propositions. Wo can
not take- your publications on. thoso
terms. Tho Golden Rule forbids it. And
when those prodigal offers are supple
mented with that beautiful “five-dollar
chromo,” "The Blind Flower Girl,"
"Tho Orphan's Pet,” or " Lucy and tho
Raven”—the thing becomes too affet ling.
Please rostrain yourselves.
More than one year ago Horace Por
ter, Grant's private secretary. Major in
the Ordnance Corps and breTCt Brigadier
General, resigned all these positions and
their emoluments to accept the \ ;co-
Presidescy of tho Pullman Oar Company.
The President addressed a letter to G ;n-
eral Porter regretting his resignation
and expressing a hope that his future
would be prosperous, and had the same
published in all the organs of the Ad
ministration. Since then the country
lias been resting calmly in the belief
thut Horace Porter was reaping his re
ward os a private citizen. Much indig
nation at present exists, however, among
the Ordnance Corps in consequence of it
having leaked out that Porter's resigna
tion has been held over and never ac
cepted by tho President or officially an
nounced, as it should have been long
ago, thus blocking the way of merito
rious officers to deserved promotion. It
is claimed that this favoritism on the
part of the Commandi-r-in-Chief is shown
for his late aide-de-camp in order to al
low tho latter an opening back to the
army should his civil venture prove dis
astrous. Tho question lias been raised,
and remains unanswered, Is General
Porter drawing pay from the Govern-
Nortnem masses feel the insatiable and
inveterate hatred of the Southern whites
of which these laws are the fit expression.
Oh no! But thoao who do not feel it
quiet their consciences with certain fus-
i ian about the great results to be achieved
by education and the ballot. The negro
was degraded by slavery, but under the
inspirations of tho ballot and education
lie is to mount up on wings os tho eagle,
and in a few years grow to the dimen
sions of a sage in Governmcntand a saint
in society. Education is to make him the
white man’s peer if not examplar.
A year or two ago Mr. Pike, no doubt,
helped to swell this anthem to the regen
erating power! of education and tho bal
lot. But lio lia-i learned a little sinco
then. He now says that he has “little
frith in the benefit of compulsorily edu
cating a race which has to be taught not
to lie—not to steal—not to be unchaste.”
Says ho:
“To educate them properly is to revo
lutionize their wholo moral nature. Tho
ground work of that education which will
make them fit rulers of a republic will
not even have been laid, whan they shall
be taught reading and writing. It is the
reading and writing negroes of the South
Carolina Legislature who lead ia if* mostin-
famous venalities and corruptions. This
sort of education merely lends a cutting
edge to their moral obtuseness."
Exactly so. Education, in the common
acceptation of tho word, is no moral pan
acea.
And os to tho wonderfully regenerating
and elevating influences of the ballot on
the negro, what has it wrought f In
every Southern State little more than a
flood of perjury, bribery and sorruption,
in combatting which it is to be feared
that the whites themselves may become
hopelessly demoralized. Every poll opened
since tho negroes have become voters has
been such a farce of perjury and repeat
ing os to put the popular ballot almost
below contempt, while every influence on
the negro before and after his rote is
polled is ouc of unmingled demoraliza
tion.
So, education and tho ballot being
alike powerless to make good oitixena of
the freedmen, Mr. Pike is brought to the
lame conclusion that the only possible
remedy lies in white immigration. In
other words, he and his party having
poisoned the fountain of good govern-
u:, nt—the ballot—the on]y thing left is
to pour in a greater bulk of wholesome
water, which may dilute the poison to
such a degree as not to be an absolutely
fat.J draught to the Commonwealth!
Now, that remedy is itself admission of
fatal blunder ! Why pollute the fountain
at all ? Why outrage every sound maxim
of free government in making bad voters
in order to take the desperate chance of
overruling the mischief by s preponder
ating force of better ones ?
Swiftly Verified.
Just as we predicted less than two
weeks ago, the Yirgiaius has “aoddent-
ally” gone to the bottom. So much for a
proper appreciation of the character of
those who now control the Government.
The coal barge trick was eminently char
acteristic of them, and this one is no less
so. Now let the "foomers” get on their
hind logs and howl with joy over the
“special” providence that has shut off all
prospect of the “perfidious" Spaniards
ever getting bock the Virginias, even
though legal investigation should have
proved her their lawful price.
This is a very “smart" trick, but we
have heard of smarter. Not, however,
by any people who had the least regard
Why Hot?
Colonel E. C. Boudinot, a Cherokee In
dian, has just delivered a lecture at
Cooper Institute before tho American
Geographical Society, in which he claimed
for his people the rights of citizens of
the United States.
Surely this class of our population who
are civilized and dwell in villages, culti
vate tho soil, own property, pay taxes
and are amenable to the courts, are
fully equal in every point of view to the
ignorant and besotted millions of ne
groes, to whom tho franchise privilege
has been extended. That they sbonld
bo denied tliis right, proves the
hollowness of Radical pretensions to
philanthropy and sincerity. Both races
are clearly excluded from the ballot-box
by the Constitution of our fathers, hut
tho elevation of the negro gratified the
hate of a fanatical party, and was a
soured at the same time of the deepest
humiliation to their Southern brethren,
Hence tho crusade which was preached
in favor of the blackamoor, and his in
vestiture with functions nnd responsi
bilities which nro utterly and ludicrously
at variance with his origin, education,
and capacity for self-government. The
permanence and desirableness of free in
stitutions in thia country, have been
weakened and vitiated, just in proportion
to the strength of the negro vote. In
thoso districts where that element is in
tho ascendancy, and the prestigo and in
fiucncc of the whites are felt no longer,
wholesale theft, anarchy, and bankruptcy
afflict the inhabitants. Yet in the face
of these facts, the odious amendments to
tho Constitution are insisted on by the
dominant faction, and negro supremacy
and usurpation encouraged and upheld
by the President and national Congress.
The intense and superlative bathos of
such action cannot be better exemplified,
than in the continued denial to another
and superior race, of those very immuni
ties which have been thrust upon tbe ne
gro, from selfish and malignant motives.
The Cherokee nation is to-day incom
parably in advance of Liberia, Sierra
Leone, San Domingo, Jamaica, or any
other country exclusively ruled and oc
cupied by the children of Ham. They
number many devout preachers and edu
cated men. Last summer tho writer saw
an Indian sitting on the same platform
with one of our own most popular and
cherished divines, and both proclaimed
and expounded the same gospel to sinners.
Now, we are no advocate of either negro
or Indian franchises. But if the ballot
bo accorded to tho former, a fortiori it
should be extended also to the red man,
who is the original owner of the soil, and
ceteris paribus vastly superior to the thick
skulled and obtuse African.
What will Anna Dickinson, Abby Kelly
and Massachusetts philanthropy say to
this doctrine ?
for their reputation, or eared a farthing
ment while giving his services to the for the good opinion of the civilxed world.
Pullman Company, from which corpora- It would have reflected great credit upon
tion ho is alleged to be receiving ten [ Captain Jack, whom these same folks
thousand a year ? 1 hung for a trick not entirely dissimilar.
Sinking All Bound.
The telegrams to-day announce that
the Virginius on her way North, in tow
of the Ossipeo, sank nine miles off the
Cape Fear River bar, in eight fathoms of
water. But that is not all The same
telegrams raise r strong presumption
that the sinking was no matter of acci
dent. They state that the officers on the
Ossipee had “ strict orders not to com
municate with anybody in relation to
the circumstances attending the foun
dering of the Virginius.” Very strange
orders, indeed, if it were a mere acci
dent, or if it might hare been prevented
with reasonable care and labor. The
ship was leaking when she left the coast
of Florida, but there were plenty on
board of her and the Ossipee to have
kept her afloat had it been desirable.
The inference is reasonable that the
Government was quite willing to cover
np this trophy of a ridiculous diplomacy.
She was gravitating to the bottom, and
they were quite willing to let her go.
This affair, on the heels of the sunken
flat which so opportunely and so acci
dentally imprisoned the Spanish iron
clad Axapiles in the dry dock at Brook
lyn, and which flat so long and success
fully defied the power of the United
States to raise her, illustrate a kind of
wooden pumpkin-seed diplomacy, which
looks little and nasty to a man of honora
ble instincts. It is a kind of sharpness
appropriate enough, perhaps, in the tra
ditional swap cf jack-knives, but as en
tering into the international dealings of
a great power—weil, they dispose a man
to blush for such low-lived meanness.
THE GEORGIA PBES8.
A Bclloch county planter writes the
Savannah News that a German on his
place made, this jear, with one mule,
sixteen bales of cottcn weighing five hun-
j dred pounds each, and three hundred and
! fifteen bushels of corn. "We don't despair
i of hearing of some mule that has gone at
least ten better than that. This one
mule business is getting rather monoton
ous.
Tin thousand one hundred and twenty-
six bale* of cotton, valued at $757,332,
wore shipped from Savannah on Satur
day to foreign ports.
As oxs of tho grand newspaper lottery
drawings of Atlanta will come off to
night, we will soon mourn the absence of
many thrilling paragraphs that have
made the editorial columns of the paper
in question so intensely interesting for
some weeks past. It is very sod, but we
suppose there is no help for it.
The Atlanta Constitution of yesterday
6ayai
The colored population had a shooting
match on Saturday at Thomas ville, a small
settlement on the McDonough road, some
five miles from Atlanta. We leom that
they became noisy and turbulent daring
the day and that a white man by the
name of James Harper attempted to part
two colored men engaged ia fighting.
In endeavoring to separate the com
batants, one of them named Reed inflicted
a severe cut on Mr. Harper’s right leg.
Mr. Harper drew his knife and cut his
assailant in several places, inflicting such
wounds os to result in his death next day.
Harper Has fled, assigning to his family
as the reason that although acting in self
defense, as there was no other white
person on the ground, he didn’t like to go
before a jury with negro testimony.
The Savannah News having heard that
a Griffin editor refuses to live in Georgia
if a new constitution is made, “trusts
this fact*will nerve thoso who favor a
convention to renewed exertions." Cer
tainly no stronger argument in favor of
the convention could be presented.
“Wahoo” Brad let, tho famous states
man of the Ogeechee, is out in a review
of Attorney General William’s opinion of
the status of the Yirginius. It knocks
William’s argument into a cocked hat.
Of course, he stands no sort of chance,
now, for confirmation as Chief Justice.
The local of the Savannah News lifts
up his voice in tuneful exultation over
two oranges that measure each four inches
in diameter, and came from Putnam
county, Florida.
Dinscr Importation of Phosphates.
The Savannah News says the British
steamer Border Chieftain, Capt. George
Bailey, of 2,200 tons burthen, consigned
to Messrs. Qctavus Cohen & Co., ar
rived at Tybee on Saturday afternoon
from New Costlo on the Tyne. The Bor
der Chieftain has a full cargo, consisting
of 430 tons of the Langdale fertilizer, for
Mr. McKay, of Macon, and 650 tons of
coal.
Toe Rome Commercial says "a scanda
lous house of 31-fame” is in full blast on
the main street of that town, and hints
at a vigilance committee os the county
and city officials cannot abate the nuis
ance.
Tns same paper has the following:
Almost an Accident.—Some inhuman
scoundrel or scoundrels placed a number
of cross-ties on the Romo railroad track
Friday night. They were discovered by
Mr. Harbin, the engineer, while the train
was under full speed and loo late to
check up. . Fortunately the ties wero
caught up by tho engine ami when the
train stopped wero taken off by the en
gineer. No damage done.
Bisliop Cummins’ New Church
and Its Prospects.
The consecration of ■ Rev. Mr. Cheney,
in Christ Church, Chicago, as Bishop of
the Reformed Episcopal Church, by Bish
op Cummins, attracted an immense as
sembly. The crowd was so great that
every available niche of standing room
was filled, and many wero unable to get
admission at all. Two thousand people
remained to partake of the communion,
and $2,000were contributedfor the support
of ministers who have relinquished their
parishes.
Bishop Cummins says, that already
seven clergymen havo joined hi3 new or
ganization, and he has letters from twenty
or twenty-five more who ore ready to
unite with him os soon as he ia prepared
to assign them fields of labor. He is
also in receipt of congratulatory letters
from prominent clergymen in England
aud Ireland, and an eminent divine of the
English Church in Canada, with his con
gregation, is ready to go into the new
movement.
A “Peculiarly Perplexing" Pre
dicament.
The World says it is rumored that the
Senate’s shame-faced election of Carpen
ter to its Presidency pro tern, was has
tened if not precipitated by the threat of
Mr. Wilson to take tho reins of office him
self in case tho Wisconsin puritan was
rejected. The caucus, in fact, found itself
in a similar fix to that which old Thur-
low so ludicrously described himself as
being in when having to make an ap
pointment to a high legal situation. “I
hesitated long,” said the caustic old
Chancellor, "between the intemperance
of A and the corruption of B, but finally
preferred the former. Not, however, that
there is not a damned deal of corruption
in A’s intemperance.”
East Week’s Cotton Figures
The Chronicle reports the receipts of
the Severn day* ending Friday night 26th
inst rat, at 214,726 bales against 196,925
bale* last week, 172,910 bale* the pre-
vio i* week and 170,064 bales three weeks
since, making the total receipts sinco the
firrt of September, 1873, 1,733,723 bales
against 1,630,587 bales for the same pe-
riod of 1S72, showing an increase since
September 1. 1873, of 103,136 boles.
1 -c interior port receipts for the same
time were 53,616 bales, against 25,730 the
corresponding week last year. The ship
ments were 39.243 againsc 23,993 last
year and, tho stocks foot up 132,
sga : iist 38,027.
The Chronicle’s table of visible supply
she i 2.402.4S1 bales against 2,327,949
in 1872 and 2,330,437 in 1871. The
prices of middling uplands in Liverpool
compare as follows; 1873,81; 1872, 101
1871, 91, and 10J. It will be seen that
the increase in visible supply amounts
74,532 bales as compared with 1872 and
72.(HI os compared with 1871.
Th • mercury during the week averaged
38 at Memphis; 50 at Galveston; 51
Vick burg; 50 at Selma; 52 at Mont
gomciy; 49 at Mobile; 4S at Macon and
47 at Columbus. Cotton came forward
so fa,t os to glut all interior depots. The
Chronido has the following upon
Receipts and Crop.—Some of our
readers appear to wonder why, with the
very large receipts now coming in, there
Are to many who still insist upon a small
Crop. The reason, however, is this, that
the weekly arrivals this year ore not bo
lievf l to be a fair indication of the final
result. If they were, no one could resist
the conclusion that the actual yield is
much larger than any estimate hitherto
mode. It may, therefore, serve a useful
purpose to bring together tho facts affect
ing the present movement.
First—Our own views of the crop we
gave last week in a statement prepared
from returns which were made up for us
before the weekly receipts had become
nearly so large. "Wo see no reason to
change in the least what we then said.
Those who are believers in a smaller
crop ore basing their estimates upon the
fact that on much of the old black lands
the crop this season is almost a failure
This is in many cases true, but a change
in cultivation has boon going on of la to
years, and emphatically so this year
the upper or northern portions of the
cotton States .have largely increased the
land under cotton, and some of them
with a prodigal use of fertilizers; they
have hod fine weather during most of
the past summer and fall, and the yield
is therefore large; hence our large crop
this year, which would otherwise have
been a small one.
Second—"With a yield, then of the size
our figures indicated (even were all other
things equal), pretty large receipts now
should be expected, for the amount mar
keted up to December 1st was much less
than at the same time a year ago. At
present this discrepancy has been over
come, and the receipts are now in favor
of this year; but the weekly totals may
still continue large, the conditions for
marketing (except the one of price) being
all favorable. For instance, if our frionds
will look at last year’s Chronicle, they
will find that at this time not only the
horse disease but cold and storms and low
rivers were keeping back cotton, while
this year fine weather, water in the rivers
considerably higher and railroad connec
tions more complete, have all operated
in favor of a freo movement.
Third—There is another consideration
which is also having considerable influ
ence in forcing forward the crop, and that
is the close money market—so close that
the planter has been able to relieve him
self only with cotton, while his factor
who hos.mado advances has been in much
the same condition, and therefore unusu
ally urgent. The only circumstance op
erating against free receipts is price, and
we expect to see before long that this will
exert such an influence as to make the
weekly total less than the crop will war
rant, and then crop estimates will proba
bly fall again; but wo hope our readers
will not.be misled by an unnaturally re
strained movement any more than by an
unnaturally free one.
CLOTHING
JUST RECEIVED!
100
BUCKETS LARD.
50 hall bbla. LAUD.
25 tierces LARD.
J car load BULK SIDES.
1 car load BULK SHOULDERS.
10 cask* BULK HAMS.
100 kegs (10 gals.) S. H. MOLASSES.
50 bids. GEORGIA CANE SYRUP. At
JAQUES & JOHNSON'S.
dec28tf
IN BANKRUPTCY.
In the matter ol Lewis Linch—Bankrupt.
B Y virtue oI an order of the District Court of
the Uuited States for the Southern District
of Georgia, notice is hereby given that tho second
general meeting of creditors of said bankrupt
will be held at my oJHce, in tho city of Macon, en
Saturday, tho 10th day of January. 1874, at 10
o’clock A. M. ROBERT A. NISBET,
dec28 sunAwedtt Assignee.
Milwaukee is called the Cream City,
from the color of the bricks with which
most of her hoaxes are built.
Cotton Estimates and Pros
pects.
He have, says the New York Bulletin
now three distinct estimates of the cotton
crop from sources which ore entitled to
respect. They are os follows:
Bales.
New Orleans Cotton Exchange 5.582.000
Agricultural Bureau at Washington 3,7(10.000
New York Financial Chronicle 4,005.000
Average of the three S.98ASSJ
—or about 43,000 boles below the actual
crop of last year. Still, minimum esti
mates of the crop are pertinaciously ad
hered to, and the receipts at the ports,
which, according to the figures of the
Cotton Exchange, have been 552,000
bales, are regarded with much compla
cency by the "bulls,” who ascribe the
decline to the financial stringency
which attends the close of tbe year,
the dull accounts from abroad, the de
dine in gold and exchange—all combin
ing to produce a material reaction after
a considerable advance had taken place.
And it must be admitted that the “bears”
proceed with much caution. They by no
means feel sms of the future. They feel
that the possibilities of Washington
finanoes are very great, and are uncertain
as to what the opening of the new year
may develop respecting the revival of
trade. It is announced that the Sprague
mills will soon resume work, and the
latest indications from Manchester are
iavoi able to their continued running on
fulltime. English spinners took 127,143
bales of American cotton in November,
and the sales of goods were in excess of
the estimates. Our market opens this
week a little depieased, but with a fair
general demand. The holiday week is
likely to be a quiet one in speculative
business, but merchandise will undoubt
edly be held with mnch confidence until
after New Tear’ when the nature and
extent of the demand will be carefully
scrutinized.
IN BANKRUPTCY.
In the matter of Nathaniel L.Walker—Bankrupt
T>Y rirtueof an order of the District Court of
O the United States for the Southern District
of Georgia, notice ia hereby given that the second
general meeting of the creditors of said bankrupt
will be held at my office, in the city of Macon, on
Saturday, tbe 10th davof Januarv. 1874. at 12
o'clock X. ROBERT A-'NISBET.
dec2S suiiiwedlt Assignee.
15 BANKRUPTCY.
In tho matter of John Z, Maddox—Bankrupt.
B Y virtue of an order of the District Court of
tbe United States for the Southern District
of Georgia, notice is hereby given that the second
general meeting of creditors of tho said bankrupt
will be held at my office, in the city of Macon, on
Saturday, the 10th day of January, 1S74, at 8
o’clock P. M. ROBERT A. 2tlSBET,
decS8 sunAwed4t Assitmee.
100 CASSIMERE SUITS AT $8.50.
300 BLACK 8ATTINET COAT8, from $3 to $5.
250 pairs BLACK SATTINET PANTS, from $2 to $3.
100 BLACK SATTINET SUITS at $5 to $6.
150 JEANS PANTS at |1.
100 JEANS PANTS at $1 25.
50 OVERCOATS at $5, worth $6 50.
Tho above i* surplus stock from our wholesale apartment. Tho prices are so low
that wo must have the cash for them.
A suit of the above or a good suit of Boys’ Clothe3, will make a sensible Christ
mas present.
WINSHIP & CALLAWAY.
JOHNSON & SMITH,
WHOLESALE
We havo a large and varied stock ef GROCERIES and LIQUORS in store,
which wo offer at low prices. "We-will continue to sell to *
PROMPT CUSTOMERS
On 30 days, but thoso of our friends who hare not paid up their accounts within
that time must not expect us to accommodate them with further credit. We desire
to approximate as nearly to cash as tho condition of trade will admit, and necessity
compels us to require hereafter tho very be3t security from thoso who wish to buy
on 30 days.
JOHNSON & SMITH,
MASONIC TEMPLE, MULBERRY STREET,
dec3tf Macon, Georgia.
D iediont and Arlington Li Ins. Co.,
OF VIRGINIA.
Home Office, Richmond, Va. Branch Office, 92 Mulberry st., Macon, Ga.
ASSETS OVER $2,000,000
POLICIES ISSUED, OVER 20,000
ANNUAL INCOME $1,500,000
Mortli British & Mercantile
INSURANCE COMPANY.
OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH.
CAPITAL—BOLD
$10,000,00
Insures Stores, Merehandis.-. OtnUn Fur-i
ture and all other property at
LOWEST RATES!
sapid Cm
L C. PLANT A SON. Agent*.
Macon, Ga.
STONEWALL
titer
FERTILIZER.
For sale by
TURPIN & OGDEN,
SOLE AGENTS. MACON. GA.
J. J. ABRAMS,
JUSTICE OP THE PEACE
—AND—
NOTARY PUBLIC.
Iu B. ENDUES, CONSTABLE,
CHATHAM COUNTY.
Office No. a Bull street, BAV.tN *AH. L I
P. O. Box, 367.
Special attention given to the collection of claim*
Ware ‘
Howard house.
BROAD STREET,
Nearly opposite Montgomery anil Eufaula Rail
road Depot.
E UP AULA. ALABAMA.
J. Yf. HOWARD, . . PcorniETOES.
Only a short walk to and from the Southwest,
era Railroad. Seventy-live cents saved in omni
bus fare. sentS 6m
PLAN MUTUAL.
ALL CASH.
Policies Issued, when Desired, on the STOCK PLAN AND KATES, or any
other that is Legitimate.
This is the only Southern company that has, and docs, regularly pass the investi
gation of all Northern and Western State Departments, thus securing every evi
dence of security and good management that any company in our country can boast of.
It retains within the State of Georgia all moneys collected in the State, and makes
> investments, which are doubtful, for policy sake.
It is secure, economically managed, and in the hands of well-known Southern
gentlemen.
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
THE FOUR LEADING
PIANOS
Now manufactured are the
Knabe,
Hallett, Davis & Co.,
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
l hand.
Every* purchaser puaranteodagood instrument.
Largest piano trade in tho South and lowest
prices.
Every one thinking of buying a piano is invited
write us for terms and prices.
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES FREE.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Until times are better, we shall soli pianos at
wholesale prices for cash or on short time.
We guarantee first-rate Pianos for $235. $275.
fcBX) and $300. Superior Pianos, $325. $350 and $375.
The very' best Pianos, $-i00, £*10, $450, $475, $500,
$550 and $000. Pianos never havo been sold so
cheap before. These prices are only for the pres
ent, Do not let the chance go by.
Piano? delivered, freight naid, to cash buyers in
the South. Pianos sola on long time.
COTTON FOB PIANOS.
We will, take cotton at Savannah market price,
delivered at any point on the rail road, in exchange
for Pianos or Organs, at cash prices.
LUDDEN A BATES.
nov9tf Savannah. Ga.
W. W. WOODRUFF,
M
CARRIAGE REPOSITORY,
V c O TV, Gr A.
IK BANKRUPTCY.
In the matter of Wilkins Linch—Bankrupt.
B Y virtue of an order qf the District Court of
the United States for the Southern District
of Georgia, notice is hereby given that the second
general meeting of the creditors of said bankrupt
will be held at my office, in the city of Macon, on
Friday, tbe 9th day of January, 1874. at 4 o’clock
r. K. ROIfERT A. NISBET,
dec£8 snnAwed It Assignee.
Bar and Restaurant.
OPEN ALL NIGHT.
J. VALENTINO,
H AVING refitted his entire premises, ia now
prepared to furnish his friends and patrons
with everything pertaining to a first-class restau
rant, which will De served in tho very best style.
He will always have on hand
FRESH FISH, OYSTERS, SAME, ETC.
Strangers visiting Macon should give him a call.
I will open on the 1st of October, at No. 66
Cherry street, next door to my present restaurant, a
Ladies’ Eating Saloon.
CHRISTMAS IS COMING
BUT OUR GOODS HAVE ALREADY COME.
hat is a more acceptable present than a handsome Chamber Suit of Furniture ?
These we have from $50 to $500. An elegant assortment of
adies' Desks, Fancy Chairs, Brackets & Wall Pockets
and
CHII/DREisTS CHAIRS
Of all kinds. Come and look at them.
THOMAS WOOD,
-13 2tawtf Next to Lanier House.
«gp7tf
L. J. vnuuui*. JOBS VLaHTOBT.
Is. J. QUU.MAHTm Sc CO.,
COTTON FACTOBS
General Commission Merchants,
Bay Street, Sgvannali, Ga*
A GENTS tor Bradley i Super-Phosphate of
Lime, Jewell's Mills Yams and Domestics,
etc* Bagging, Rope and Iron Ties always on hand.
Usaal torililies extended to easterners,
auel dwIawCm
LOW FOR CASH.
A LL of the stork, Um and othenriae, ct the
Geoni* Mill*, rontixtinr of Floor. Flour
Sack*. HonM, Mules, Hon, Wirons. Buggies,
HaroM*. Tools, lion Safee, Office Furniture, etc,
MILO 9. FREEMAN,
deeZltf Receiver.
BURKE & COBB,
FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE AGENTS,
68 Second Street. Macon, Georgia.
Home Insurance Company, of New York.
CASH CAPITAXj, $2,500,000 00
CASH ASSETS 4.406,573 75
BURKE k COBB, Agent*.
Every style of Carriages, Buggies or Wagons fur
nished at the lowest possible price at
this Repository.
The Woodruff Concord Buggy,
Celebrated for light draft and durability, is
the leadin&Buggy, and a specialty.
The Whitewater and Woodruff
Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Co.,
OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
CASH CAPITAL $200,000 00
CASH A8SETS 342,009 04
BURKE & COBB, Agent*.
And other Western Wagons, at low prices. *
Descriptive Circular* furnished to th-vse vh°
will write for them.
All work warranted. om»’ tt __
Equitable Fire Insurance Company,
OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE.
CASH CAPITAL $200,000 00
CASH ASSETS 244.444 25
BURKE A COBB. Agonts.
Cotton States Life Insurance Company,
OF MACON. GEORGIA. . ™
ASSETS. NEARLY $600,000 00
sep27 2aw4m*
BURKE & COBB, Agents,
METROPOLITAN
ossa
IRON & BRASS WORKS,
i^ati street, from 8th to Itli,
RICHMOND, - - - VA.
WM. E. TAKNEB & CO,,
□MINEERS, MACHINISTS AND FOUNDERS.
EvnufFA OF ALL KINDS.
Bend tar Circular.
H. B. BBOWN,
jonHU A ** Bt ’
; mull,reed Mr. .VheTes, but also
i {Be pu* -
.ntrol labor.