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DAILY TELEGRAPH MO MESSENGER. i* !• .r»j»h LuiMuig. corner *4 Cherry ml , . ■ ! . --t. S-.lwrrift'--a TEN DOLL.Utt j FIVK DOLLARS! . an r-utha. TWO : I \IDim..l KIFTY CENTS for thru* months. .1 ONH DOLLAR "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.