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Tlio ticor^in 1’cnitcnliary. j
\\, iiave n the annual report of j
J'.lin T. Brown, prin tij al kcopvr of this j
iu-.titnti.in, from which wo b-am that the '
entire number of . .nvict.uGl t,of whom .
505 are negro oral ■- and HI uo^pi female .
Sf* white male*, and only one white fe- j
iikiIo. Of the total number, 39 are son-
ten- ,-J for life- The average age of tin-
Convict* is 29 years. The crimes repre
sented range from murder to riat, there
being 00 ca*ca of tbo former to five of the
l itter. There are 20C burglar?., 126 con-
ricted of larceny, 7ft of assault to murder,
01 manslaughter, 40 rapes, IS robbery,
and I.7 arson. There are only nine horse
thieves, nin.- perjurers, eiglit forgers and
five Kullox. Chatham is most largely
repi,* ,-ute 1 of all t'.ie countie with Gt
coiivi- ; i, Fulton next with Is, then Hi hs
mini 1 with 36, then Bibb with 34, and
then II iston with 20. The other coiin-
ties range from one to fourteen.
A Chance for Glory.
I! -:i.ling over Uie proceeding* of the
I, Ig.-.l.itn re the thought Is uggested that
the l...ly has very little to do. It is true
there are bills in .juito a lufficient num-
ber, but they are nearly all of the class
whi h had better be loft unonactcd.
There i i n-ally little or nothing before
either House, and evidently no great top
ics are “on the mind” of either House,
llow ehe.iply, therefore, could the Legis
lature earn immortal los, if in the course
of the next dx days it would pass the
appropriation bill ■ and two or three more
which are necessary, and then adjourn
in* t/.V after a fortnight’s session !
status of the So-Called Civil Rights
Kill,
The New York Times say* it is now the
Intent of the Hou e Committee on the Ju-
di. iary to consider the civil rights bill,
with the pending amendments with the
txpectaUonof reporting tie-hill back next
week, Severn! members of the commit
tee express the opinion tleat the hill will
lie reported with the word ‘'schools” and
"collegestricken out.
TTxmiooessfdl Attemi-i to Rsponi-
ATE Town BoNM.—We learn from Bos
ton. Mass., under date of January 3 (says
the Wall Street Journal), that the Su
premo Court of the United States has
given a decision in favor of Oeorge O.
Morey, of Boston, confirming the validity
of $40,000 of Illinois registered town
bonds issued in aid of the Illinois Grand
Trunk railroad. The town attempted to
avoid paying interest on the bonds, al
leging that they were illegally issued.
u.l 1 ’ inv.'utarlty precedent to the issue,
llot even fraud on the part of the agents
of the town, can vitiate the bonds in the
k hands of an innocent holder. The court
applies the same rules to these bonds as
are applied to commercial paper.
Wooden shoes are highly recommended
by the agricultural some ties and govern
ment; of Europe, as it is shown that
many disease* resulting in impaired con-
■ :i tut ions and even in the loss of life have
r. iilte.l from wearing leather shoes in
wot weather. A practical workaiau from
Franco has been called recently to Ger
many to supeiintend their manufacture.
They are light and easy to xrear, and
provided with a small cushion within the
upper side to obviate any pressure on
that part of the foot. They are of a neat,
pleasant appearance, bliekened or var
nished, largo enough to accommodate
comfortable stocking-, and provided with
leather straps. Their prices range from
tit to 36 oents.and a very few pairs would
last a lifetime.
Prussia and i he Pore.—A Berlin cor
respondent of the London News states
that those who look on Prussia as the
champion of Protestantism grapling with
tho Catholic Church are mistaken. The
issue in Prussia is not between Protest-
Lsm and Catholicism, hot tho policy of
Bismarck is equally hostile to the pre
tensions of High Church Protestants and
Catholics, though not directly hostile io
Christianity as administered by any
church disunited from State. It is not a
theological quarrel which is now raging
in Prussia; it is not a secular quarrel
waged by the State with a favorable eye
for Protestantism ; and it is not a quar
rel from which Protestantism ean hope
to win any substantial advantage.
Jcdvik Peters, of Maine, who served
•ereral years .n Congress, and refused to
take the luck pay hist spring, recently
remarked that it was a mistake to sup
pose that members sacrificed their pri
vate business by going to Congress. He
was an active lawyer when he went to
Congress, and ho ought to know, for he
was pretty constant in his attendance at
the sessions. He says there is a good
deal of delusion, also, about the expense
of living in Washington.
SvMNEii has always entertained such
an antipathy to the late Chief Justice
T sney that he has defeated regularly the
proposition to place his bust in the Su
preme Court chamber. On Friday, dur
ing his absence from his seat, a bill was
brought forward and passed making pro
vision for a bust of Chief Justice Taney,
and also one for Chief Justice Chase,
which will undoubtedly pass the House.
Hampden Biuret Colleok, Ya A
convention of the friends of Hampden
Sidney College at Richmond, Va., last
week resolved to raise 300,000 for its
endowment by voluntary contributions.
A committee of ten gentlemen were ap
pointed to devise the means and “to take
such steps as may tend to the triumphant
celebration of the approaching centen
nial anniversary of the college.’*
Thanks.—Senator C. C. Kibbee, of the
Hawkinsville district, will accept our
thanks for copies of the Governor’s mes
sage, Treasurer Jones’ report, and the re-
»crt of the Principal keeper of the peui-
tejrtuuj.
Gentlemen, l*lea»e Itettre.
The General A -euibly ha been in |
-essi< n more than one sixth of i*. conr-ti-
tutioreil duration, an 1 sofar has failed to
map oat any salient pro jrr.Tnci,-for a >
ii.,n. Aside from the sale or other disf O- |
-it’on of tii” Macon ar.d llrnn wi. k Hoad,
which Governor Smith i, abundantly ca
pable of managing, and the px at- of
the .i ual appropri ition bill-:: if the con
vention, r-ally "is a dead cock in tho
pit,” theft l* doas- ItJ
i understood that the latt * measure j
will fail on account of tie- expense it will
entail. If such b th • case, we hope our
law--'’,vers will show they :n sincere, Ly
laying the axe t - the root of their own r
oipc-nditir-'. The world is already too!
n.-.ieli governed, and the constitution
does r.ot a‘!i: : , that the General Assem
bly continue in ion the full pe
ri-1 ot forty ilos/t. Pleare juts joint
re , .lotion then submitting the qncstion ]
of a convention, and the removal of the j
Capitol to a special vote of the people at |
the fail elections^ and r. turn to the j
bo om of your conatitnentXi
A few day* might be allowed for those |
who wish to change their names, estab
lish forriei, practice law or medicine j
under ag.-, etc., but tell them to “hnrry
up the cakes,” by naming nn early day
for ailjournmcnt.
And liere we would earnestly enjoin
upon you to “stand not upon the order
of your going ” in view of that frightful
“ bulge ” In the walls of the ricketty
Of/Ora House. Horror of horror*! Sup-
po. c thi3 carpet-bag swindle should sud
denly subside under the thunder* of
some stentorian son of Georgia, who*o
pont-np feeling* in view of Radical in-
faiuca, could not lie toned down to tho
prudent whispers necessary'to prevent
dangerous reverberations ?
The Richmond catastrophe would he
nothing to such a calamity. Remember,
therefore, that an “ounce of prevention
is hotter than a pound of cure.” Go home
to your wives and sweethearts, gentle
men, and let well enough alone. The
unfortunate Code ha3 already been tink
ered and hammered entirely out .of its
original shape, so that it* authors would
hardly recognize it. Let tho poor thing
alone for one year and 3ce how it will
work in practice.
If you were rich enough to pay the
debt* of the people and lift the millstone
of taxation from their heads, we should
say hold on, and spout Buncombe to your
heart’s content. But tho remedy for ex
isting ills does not lie in legislation. The
people must work out their own salvation
by abjuring the credit system, raising an
abundance of provisions, and cultivating
habits of the severest economy and in
dustry until these calamities bo overpast.
In the meantime, every dollar that can
lie saved by a prudent administration of
public affaire is so much pure gain.
Again we .-.ay look the situation square
ly in the face, and after transacting all
necessary public business with the least
delay possible, return to your homos in
continently, Acting thus, it will he safe
to predict that a grateful constituency
will return every present member to Iris
seat. Besides, tho example would ho
wortli millions to other State3.
THE GEORGIA PRESS. I
A. T. Rzir> A Co., of Bainbridge, have j
..-•i en ie>h Liabilities $20,000, and as-
^ re- :ted sufficient to pay out. i
■ :ville Patriot report* a case
is in that place laat Sunday |
that several car load* of ne- |
t ■vet-k for. the Arkansas ' a- j
Uses ol' tlie Supreme Court.
The New York Herald of last Sunday,
at that time “hot on the Conklingiay”
and confident that the Senator’s nomi
nation must and would certainly follow
Cushing’s withdrawal—the Herald, we
«v. WHO rriirtrUB *1—► l 1 **—* eu=>s'i*on
the ca-e, and showing that the Supreme
Court, like an old piston, needed new
packing. Says that paper:
The present political status of the Su
premo Court was not before generally
known, but is now. among Republicans,
a subject of considerable comment. Tho
fact that three of the Judges were avow
edly Democratic in their tendencies and
another somewhat doubtful, and, there
fore, not.to be relied upon should the
emergenoy arise of passing upon the con
stitutionality of certain laws enacted for
political purposes, had a startling effect.
It was such an unexpected danger that it
took everybody aback.
All tho members of tho Court except
the senior, had been appointed cither in
Lincoln or Grant's administration, and at
the time of entering upon their judicial
duties were known to be staunch Repub
licans, and yet these very men, in spite
of their antecedents, could not now bo
entirely trusted. Politicians, discussing
this new development, said that its old
time traditions made the Supremo Court
a conservative body., and that new mem
bers gradually gave way to these influ
ences, and thus their judgment was
warped, against innovations or tho enact
ment of laws different in their workings
and nature from those of past legislation;
that putting a Republican upon the
bench, unless he was very strong in his
political faith, in but a little time con
verted him into a conservative.
If already four of tho Bench had be
come such it was of vital importance to
the party that the new Chief Justice
should be a staunch Republican, in whom
could l>e placed the most implicit confi
dence tlmt he would not yield to the con
servative infiuenceof theposition. Should
a man of doubtful political record be ap
pointed lie might at any moment, by uni
ting with the four who are considered op
ponents or unreliable in some of the de
cisions, render null and void some of the
most important of the laws passed by the
strength and for the benefit of the Re
publican party.”
That, wo have no doubt is a true report
of the talk in political circles over the ex
pected appointment of Conkling, and the
necessity for it in forthcoming contests
before the court between law and radi
oed isui. In such a contest Conkliug could
be depended on, at least while radicalism
held the reins in Washington. But how
will it be with Waite ? Will he forfeit
his reputation as a lawyer and his good
conscience as an official interpreter of the
Constitution for the benefit of the Radi
cal party ?
The history of the existing Bench gives
no great assurance that he will. True
it lias at times, since the war, sadly cow-
ored under the lash of party dictation,
but tlie occasion was extraordinary—not
likely to occur again—and notwithstand
ing the stress and terrorism, we see the
complaint made that four original Re
publican Justices have turned Democrats,
or, in other words, are believed to hold
themselves under the control of law in
stead of tho Radical party. This is a
dangerous condition of things. The party
has no use for such Judges, and views
them with the greatest dread and suspi
cion. It wants a court to uphold tho
party, and not the Constitution, and with
commendable candor it don’t scruple to
say so.
Nevertheless a Judge on the Supreme
Bench for life, with nothing more to ask
or hope for, may very naturally turn
Democrat in that way. ne ceases to l>e
under bond* as a slave of the party, and
in most ease* will prefer to follow his own
convictions of truth and duty. Le t tin-
country rejoice’that it is so.
Db. O. P. Tomcsr, newsdealer at Amer
icas, has for sale the Daily TkleuEAPh
AND MeSSXNOEB. tf
T: - Barn
of meningit
night. Also
gro.:-5 left l.v
rial ground;.
Big Corn Chop.—The Rome Courier
ays ifi W. B. Evans, on the old Ilarde-
on Camp place, on the Coosa river, four-
t.-cn miles liolow Borne, raised the past
year, < n i-ne acre, eighty buslie* of com,
and on eight and a half acres five hun
dred and fifty bushels. This was done on
land that lun. been planted twenty-eight
gticcessiwr- years in corn, and withont ma
rl ra of any kind whatever.
wdir. S. Focche, has taken cliarge
f ti.,i political department of the
Eon;a Commercial. “ Bill Arp” will
continue his connection with the paper
i- an occasional contributor.
The military parade at Savannah on
iron-lay, General Lee’s birthday, wa3 a
most imposing demonstration. All the
military companies were out with full
ranks, and were reviewed by General
Johnston.
.Letters for Marshal A Harris, Fort
Valley, and Mrs. J. T. Murphy, and Miss
Amanda Stephens, Bamesvillc, are held
for postage in the Savannah office.
The Federal steamer, Gettysburg,
•stopped at Savannah for coal, on Monday.
She had on board fifty-three recruits for
the Key West fleet.
How Firm a Foundation.—Under this
bead the Camilla Enterprise lias the fol
lowing :
A few day* since a merchant of Camilla
sold to a farmer living in this county, a
pair of shoes, number sevens, for his son,
one pair of eights, and one of nines, for
hi3 two daughters, one pair of tens for
himielf, and one pair of elevens for hi3
wife. He wanted a pair of number twelves
for liis wife, but was unable to find them
in this market; therefore was compelled
to make elevens answer. These shoes
only differed in size as. they were all sold
out of the same box.
By tho way, if the Enterprise will sat
isfy us that the very neat outside of its
last issuo is a home product, wo shall bo
glad to offer our congratulations.
I Capt. J. M. Ponder lia3 boon elected
Intendant, nnd Messrs. E. M. Amos, J.
D. Proctor, "VY, L. Smith and H. H. Cab-
aniss, "Wardens, of Forsyth.
Mr. R. Paruajt, Jr., tax collector of
Putnam county, died last week; An elec
tion to fill the vacancy will bo held on
the 10th of February.
Major Papot, proprietor of the Pulaski
House, Savannah, who broke one of his
legs by a fall some weeks since, had an
other fall on Sunday and broke the same
leg a second time.
I The deaths of Mr. Alexander Erwin,
of Habersham, and of Major Joshua
Taylor, of Thomas county, both promi-
| nent citizens of their respective counties,
j are announced. Mr. Green D. Sims, an
old and prominent citizen of Stewart
county, died last Monday, ne had
just finished dinner and was in the act
of rising from tho table, when ho fell
back and died almost instantly.
Dr. Greene writes tho Union and Re
corder that there lias not been a now
case of small-pox in the Lunatic Asylum
for twenty-four.days, and all those sick
I from that disease are about well.
Three Federal deserters from the bar
racks near Atlanta, were captured by tho
police of that city on Monday night.
Ex'-Jhdqe AYsi. Ezzard, of the Supe
rior Court, has been jus
tice of the peace for one of tho Atlanta
districts.
, Tiie Atlanta papers deny the report
that Colonel B. Y. Sage is about to retire
from tho office of Superintemleut of the
Air Line railway.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says fifty-
eight shares of tho Augusta Street Rail
road Company, on which only $18 50
have been paid in, were sold at Augusta
on Monday for $101 GO per share.
Wn find the following in the same pa
per:
Augusta and IIartwele Railroad.—
Tho Board of Directors met yesterday in
this city. We learn that a proposition of
Grant, Alexander & Co., in relation to the
first twenty miles of this road, was dis
cussed. From all that we can learn there
is a disposition to re-let by public propo
sals. There is, however, great pressure
to accept tho proposition of Grant, Alex
ander & Co., which is said to be a liberal
one. We notice among the attendants.
Col. F. E. Harrison, of Anderson county,
South Carolina, who promises $200,000 if
tho road is run by Wallialla. The people
of that section prefer Augusta, but like
the people of Elbert, are determined if
they can’t get to Augusta, they can go to
the Air Line. We learn that the ques
tion will be presented to the people in a
tangible form in a short time, and thaf a
mass meeting of the citizens will be called
to consider what the city will do.
(.'reswell and Clnyton Exchange Com
pliments.
The Bnltimorc Sun’s Washington cor
respondent telegraphs that a lively inter
view took place on Saturday between
Crcswell, Grant’s P. M. G„ and Clayton,
carpet bag Senator so-called from Arkan
sas. It t'ocrna that tho carpet-bagger
requested the establishment of a free
letter delivery at Little Roct. The Post
master General informed him that the
law forbid compliance with his request,
as Little Rock did not possess the requi
site number of inhabitants. Mr. Clay
ton evidently regarded the law as a very
slight obstacle, and insisted. The Post
master General continued to decline, un
til finally Mr. Clayton became so persist
ent that Mr. Creswell told him, with
much heat, that he would not violate the
law for him or any one else. Clayton
then, with equal heat, told the Postmas
ter General that he would see him in an
unmentionable place before he. would vote
a cent for his department. Before the
| interview ended both gentlemen became
very much excited, and gesticulated
wildly at each other, and tho Arkansas
traveler finally withdrew completely de
moralized.
Grant Thinks the Radical Party “Over
weighted,” and Is “Tired «f this
Nonsense.”
A Washington special to the Herald of
Sunday fays that perhaps the most sig
nificant -pooch the President has ever
made of a political nature was addressed
Saturday evening to some prominent Re
publicans who called upon him at the
White House. The President said : “I
begin to think that it is time for the Re-
publican party to unload. There has been
too much dead weight carried by it. The
success of our arms during the rebellion,
the confidence that the Republican party
was strong enough to bold up any bur
den, have imposed all the disaffection in
the Gulf States on the administration. I
am tired of this nonsense. Let Louisiana
take care of herself, as Texas will have to
do. I don't want any quarrel about Mis
sissippi State matters to be referred to
me. This nursing of monstrosities has
nearly exhausted the ii/e of the party. I
am done with them, and they will have
to take care of themselves.”
Last Week’s Cotton Figures.
The New York Financial and Commer
cial Chronicle report* the cotton receipts |
of the seven days ending Last Friday j
night, 16th instant,' ct 151.2S4 bales, j
against 112,255 la*t week. 170,215 bale*
the previous week and 2M.72G bales three
wc„-ks since, making the rotal receipts
since the first of September, 1873, 2,200,- .
132 bales, against 2,003,523 bales for the J
came period of 1372-73, showing an in
crease since September 1,1-73, of 202.007
bales.
The interior port receipts for the same
time were 30,423 bales, against 32,202 the j
corresponding days of last year; the ship
ments were 32,761, against 27,035, and
the stocks were 135,517, against S7.520. j
The Chronicle’s visible supply table
foots up 2,71S,S03 bale3, against 2,3i7,-13S ;
last year and 2,203,032 tho year before, !
showing an excess of -101,305 over last
year’s supply, and -132,871 over the sup- j
ply of 1S71. The quotations for middling j
uplands in the Liverpool market com
pared as follows: 1873, 8J; 1872, 0j;
1871,10J.
Upon the New York mark'd for the
week, the Chronicle says
The market the past week has been
almost entirely under the influence of the
changing quotations at Liverpool and of
our own crop movements, and prices have
fluctuated, both here and at Liverpool,
according as the daily receipts at the
Southern ports have given promise "of a
large or a small total at tho end of the
week. General opinion here appeal* now
to have settled down to a crop of four
million hales and upwards, and yet con
fidence in this estimate is not so absolute
or so universal as to free themarketfrom
the influence of these daily receipts.
Saturday’s total was lcs3 than fifteen
thousand bales, against nearly twenty-
five thousand bales for tho same day of
the previous week, and hence, notwith
standing the sales here were small, prices
advanced Jc. Monday the figures for the
two days came in, and showed a further
falling off of about two thousand bales
from the previous week, but tho total
was very much larger than a year ago;
consequently, although at first there was
an advance of (c, it was subsequently
lost. Tuesday’s figures were in excess
of the previous week, so the market be
came easier, though the quotations were
not changed. Since then the indications
have been that the total for the week
was to be largo, so the tendency of the
market has been downwards, though
there was a temporary rise of Jc. in the
better grades on Wednesday, duo to a
special demand for them. Prices were
off Jc. on Thursday, and again Jc. to-day,
closing to-night at the same price as lost
Friday for low middlings and grades
above, but Jc. off for tho lower grade*.
Americas vs. Isdian Cotton.—Iu an
editorial comparing the relative positions
of American and East Indian cotton, the
Chronicle says:
It is true that during tho war famine
Surat cotton of a high grade was used by
itself for spinning yarns as fine as No. 30
in England, and that tho difference in
spinning value between American and
Surat cotton of equal grade was thus
reckoned as low as 12 to 15 per cent. But
tested by the market prices during the
last year tho difference lias risen to 40 or
GO per cent. The difference is so sensibly
felt by tho mill operatives that tho Trades
Unions in England now practically forbid
the substitution of Surat for American
cotton, wiiatever tho difference in price,
for any but the coarsest fabrics. It required
a decline of fair Egyptian to a price
4(5 jd. below that of middling Orleans
to force tho largo substitution of
long staples for American in 1871-2, when
the American crop was short, though the
former had previously been 1(5 Jd. the
dearer. Except for very low or very high,
counts of yam the common American
staple has preference, and, as shown, at
gradually increasing differences of prioo
in ito favor. Sucli is the superiority, in
Inherent qualities, duo to the climate in
which it is grown, for nine-tenths of tho
world wants in textile fabrics, that it
commands the situation. When produced
at a price low enough—of course then for
tho time in exenaa—it will drive other
sorts out of use by making their produc
tion unprofitable; but at no difference in
price can they drive out American or ma
terially displace it in tho world’s con
sumption.
It is a mistake to suppose that even
the poorly paid ryot labor of India, pro
ducing 40 or 50 pounds of cotton to the
acre, worth in Europe, including all ex
penses to • put it there, only $5 GO for tho
50 pounds, can compete with-the Ameri
can grower, getting by liis own labor 400
pounds per acre, worth relatively in Eu
rope the sum of $72; or to suppose the
culture of cotton in Egypt can be mate
rially extended beyond it* present amount
without serious detriment to its people
by loss of cereals, or that tho Egyptian
culture would not be much shortened
should low prices prevail for two or three
years in succession. Should American
cotton fall to the prices of 1855 and 1SG0
(or 10 to 12 per cent, higher, as all other
commodities are throughout the world),
the com and sugar of Egypt, and the
rice, jute and indigo of India would pay
better than cotton.
In view of these facts, the strength of
the position of American cotton as com
pared with other descriptions of cotton is
too evident .to admit of dispute. Its
price will certainly be largely influenced,
as it always has been, by the extent of
tho supply of other descriptions; but the
entire production is all needed, and finds
a ready market at relatively increasing
rates.
dicated above. The Supreme Court have I
de-.ided that the Law doe* not attempt to
re-nil*te commerce between the States,
but is only a police regulation such as a
State may always enact- The court go
further and intimate that, even if it wore
a‘regulation of commerce, tho law would
be valid until superseded lty legislation
by Congress.
Gov. Davis, of Minnesota, di; cusses the
transportation question in his inaugural
me-age. Ho names the Milwaukee and
St. Paul and the Chicago and Northwest
ern roads as having attempted to control
the value of product* and to limit their
market. They have also disregarded the
law of 1871, which prescribed rates and
forbade discrinations. He docs not hesi
tate to say that tho ultimate remedy for
such transgressione* may bo found to bo
the confiscation of the roads by the State.
Meanwhile a constitutional amendment
should be adopted providing that com
panies benefitted by State legislation
should thereby become subject to State
control.
ALABAMA AND CHATTANOOGA RR.
IMPERISHABLE FRAGRANCE
MURRAY
&
LANMAM'S
CBI.BBBATBD
FLORIDA WATER!
Tho richest, most lasting, rot most delicate of a
jkerfumes, for use on the
ILVXDlvERCniEF,
• At the TOILET,
And in the BATH.
As there are imitations and counterfeits, alwavs
ask for the Florida Water, which lias .on the bottle,
on the label, and on the pamphlet, the names of
MURRAY & LAN3IAX, without which none is
genuine.
For sale by all perfumers,druggists, and dealers
in fancy goods. julySeodCm
JOHNSON & SMITH,
Some Very Intcrestlns Facts, Figures
anti Deductions.
AMES H. BLOUNT. ISAAC HARDEMAN.
JOIIN L. HARDEMAN.
BLOUNT, HARDEMAN & HARDEMAN
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MAC OX, fl.t.
Office, Cherry street, over S. T. Walker’s.
amtlO tf *
A Well Managed and Profita
ble Conrecn.
Despite the past season of unprece
dented calamity to the manufacturing
interest, bringing collapse and ruin upon
some of the most properous and powerful
establishments of the North, the Roswell
Factory of Cobb county, Georgia, has con
tinued to do an excellent business, and
pay fair dividends.
For the past six month* the net earn
ings overall expenses, were slightly more
than five per cent, nnd another dividend
is confidently expected in May.
Gen. A. J. Hansell is the efficient and
upright president of tho company, and his
report of its condition and prospects, is
eminently satisfactory.
It is cheering to note from this instance,
that Southern cotton manufactories, prop
erly conducted nre even safer investments
than those at the North.
And why should not this be true? Here,
the most magnificent water power can be
bought for a mere song, the raw material
lies at our very doors, and land and Labor
are cheap. All that is needed is a little
capital at the outset, and proper energy
and industry afterwards. We trust'the
success of the Roswell'factory, un$er
such financial difficulties and the univer
sal panic and. prostration of business
which liave prevailed, will lead to the es
tablishment of many other similar enter
prises in our favored Commonwealth.
The Western Transportation
Question.
The railroad law of Iowa has been sus
tained by the United State* Supreme
Court as far as to lie declared not in con
flict with the federal power of regulating
commerce between the States. This law
requires the railroads to fix their tariff*
every September, make them public by
posting at the station*, and to adhere to
them honestly. A suit brought against
the Chicago and Northwestern road for
violation of these provisions, and decided
against it, was carried by the company
through the State Court* to the United
States Supreme Court on the ground inf
Wo have received (say* tho Chatta
nooga Times) from Major L. J. Fleming,
Superintendent A. &i C. RR., a copy of
the report of the receivers of tho Ala
bama and Chattanooga railroad, just
made to tho United States Court at Mo
bile, in which his own report is included.
From this report we learn that the earn
ings from November 1, 1872, to Novem
ber 1, 1873, were $232,5S3 06, while the
expenses were $1,0S3,S52 00. Major
Fleming says whilo this excess of expense
over receipts was partly duo to expendi
tures for construction, “ yet tho figures
show that the earnings cannot be relied
upon either to place tho work in proper
condition or to keep it in operation for
any great length of time. This very
small business is due in some measure to
the want of confidence in tho safety of
the road, and the doubt as to how long
it will be run.”
Maj. Fleming states that to complete
the road as a first class road, with capac
ity to perform a business equal to the
average earnings of Southern roads, will
require about'$l,500,000. In the course
of some interesting speculations as to the
value of the A. & C. R. R. as a railroad,
Maj. Fleming says that “the averago
earnings of Southern railroads are about
$4 35 to each inhabitant, whilo tho re
spective amounts for the New England
States is 10 G3, Middle Slates $14 56,
Western States $0 73, and Pacific States
$10 16. This difference may bo explained
by the greater value of tho Southern pro
ductions and the sparseness of tho popu
lation. One person making cotton pro
duces one ton per annum valued at $375,
for which tho railroad receives for a given
distance about $10, and the same for tho
return supplies. The value of tho pro
duct in mining coal is about $600, weight
300 tons, from which the carrier will re
ceive for the same distance $120 and the
return supplies will be quite equal to
that required for tho laborer in cotton.”
“Tho averago gross earnings of Soutli-
icm roads is $4,350per mile; of which ono-
tliird is from passengers, and tho other
two-thirds from freight.
“At tho charges generally mado in tho
South, a completed well built railway,
earning $4,000 per mile per annum, can
carry a capital of $12,000por mile. With
less earnings, the expenses bear an in
creasing, and with larger earning a de
creasing proportion, lxvaim ALo co*t fur
many OT the items is not affected by the
volume of business,
Maj. Fleming states it as a “safe em
pirical rule, where tho population exceeds
ten to tho square mile, a railroad will
carry $1,000 of interest bearing capital
per mile of road to eaeli inhabitant per
square mile.” Maj. Fleming estimates
tho present population along tho lino of
road as only sufficient to give it earnings
of $2,538 per mile per annum, or only
half tho averago of Southern roads.
“The conclusion is, therefore, that tho
A. & C. B. R. will yield no return upon
the investment, until completed and
equipped as a first-class railroad, and a
sufficient lime thereafter has elapsed to
develop its mineral wealth, and confidence
is restored in its permanent operation.”
From this by no moans flattering re
port, it would seem that tho bond holder*
of tho A. & C. B. R, are in a bad fix, to say
nothing of the State of Alabama. Ac
cording to Maj. Fleming’s tegument, a
road with gro*3 receipts of S4,000 per
mile can cany an interest bearing capital
of $18,000 per mile, but with less earn
ings, the expenses bear an increasing pro
portion, so that tho A. & C. R. B., with
earnings of $2,53S per mile conld only
carry about $8,000 per mile, and the value
of tho road in good order, to parties
wishing to run it as a legitimate busi
ness enterprise, would be only $2,370,000.
But to put the road in good order requires
$1,500,000, which must be deducted from
this, leaving $S70,000 as the price which
intelligent capitalists would now bo wil
ling to give for tho road. This is, per
haps, enough to pay the Receiver's cer
tificates, which have been sold or hypoth
ecated, and the costs of the court, but
tho State of Alabama, and tho bond
holders do not get a smell.
If affairs are a3 bad as Major Fleming
represents them, and his argument i3 no
less cogent than his facts, it seems to us
tho court had bettor sell the elephant be
fore it is eaten up by court costs, and
even the holders of Receivers’ certificates
areleft out in tho cold also.
According to the report, the excess of
expenses for tho year ending November
1st, 1873, was $831,267 91. The gross
earnings for November and December
1883, were $4-1,413 00, expenditures $41,-
9S3 23, a net gain of §2,401 75, which re
duces the former excess o(expenditures
to $819,806 19. Deducting this from the
value of the road according to Major Flem
ing’s line of argument,leaves $29,993 81 to
pay court costs, and redeem a few more
Receivers’ certificates, if anybody is will
ing to take them at 90 cents, after read
ing this report!
Dissolution of Copartnership.
npIIE law firm of Hines A Hobbs, at Albany,
A Gn., is hereby dissolved by mutual consent.
Either member will sign the firm name in liqui-
dati 'ii or M*:tlii’.ient. The law business now
pending in Court will be attended to and wound
up by tlie said Hines, and also by the new firm of
"Warren & Hobbs, successors to Hines & Hobbs.
R. K. HINES,
janS 2w RICH. HOURS.
Albany, Ga.. Peceml»er 31.1S73.
A Religions Spectacle—Grand Union
Communion,
Possibly one of the results of tho late
evangelical alliance meeting was demon
strated in the coronation of the week of
prayer in Brooklyn,New York, by a grand
union communion of Baptists. Presbyte
rians, Congregationalists, Methodists and
Reformed Dutch, which took place Sun
day afternoon in the Reformed church in
that city. The New York Herald says:
It was a sublime spectacle, and as Dr.
Porter, at whose suggestion and in whoso
church it was held, remarked, never was
such a table spread on this continent.
Two thousand people of different, and
sometimes of warring denomination, sit
ting together in one place and at one
time at the table of their common Lord
and Saviour, and commemorating IBs
dying love and their own faith in Him
and their union one with another, is a
sight seldom witnessed. Sunday-school
banners mingled with the Christmas
evergreens around the wall* and galler
ies of the edifice, and over and at the
back of thepnlpit were inscribed in ever
green letters the- texts which tell of the
peace and good will which the birth of
the Saviour brought to the world. Be
neath the pulpit sat ministers and dea
cons from the churches participating and
others. The services and communion
were ail highly * interesting. Such a
scene, the Rev. Mr. Smith thought,
should make Toplady and Wesley sliake
hands in the skies, as his followers shook
hands here in spirit, if not in the flesh,as
they sang their hymns of hope and trust
in Jc-sus. The occasion was one of deep
solemnity, and not easily forgotten.
LAW COPARTNERSHIP.
WARREN & HOBBS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
ALBANY, GA.
TTriLL practice resubirly in the State Courts
\ ▼ of Lee, Dougherty,"Worth, Mitchell, Raker,
Decatur and Calhoun counties, and in the United
States Circuit Court, Savannah. Elsewhere in
the State by special agreement.
L. P. D. WARREN,
RICH. HOURS.
Albagy, Gn., January 1,1S74.janS Cm
LAW PARTNERSHIP.
n. p. LYON. | JAMES JACKSON.
LYON & JACKSON,
ATTOUNEY8 AT LAW,
JIACON. GEORGIA,
W ILL practice in the Courts of the State and
or tho United Stales for Georgia.
dcc!7 tf
Law Copartnership.
Nisbet, Bacon & Hines.
They will practice in the Superior Courts of tho
Macon Circuit and ot the counties of Sumter,
Ibuidolnh and Dougherty, in tho Supreme Court
of tlio Slate, and in the Federal Courts for the
District of Georgia.
JAMES T. N1SBET,
A. O. BACON.
decl7tf IL K. IIINKS.
SAMUEL V. IEVIX.
TIIOMA3 B. QBESHAM
IRVIN &• GRESHAM,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MACON, GAi
W ILL practice in the Superior Courts of the
Macon Circuit, in the Supreme Court of
Georgia and in the United States Courts for the
Southern District of Georgia.
Office: No. tH) Mulberry street, Boardmnn’s
Clock—up the second flight of steps from the
corner—nnd nearly opposite the Court-house
dec 11-3m
HERBERT FIELDER.
1DU3 L. FIELDER
E. & I. L. FIELDER,
Attorneys at Law,
W 1 ^
CCTIIBEUT, GEORGIA,
hi, Kive prompt att*ntiun to all business
■omidcil to them, in the counties of Ran
dolph, Stewart, Quitman, Clay. Early, Calhoun
and Terrell, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and
the District and Circuit Courts or the United
States for the Southern District of Georgia.
septl7-tf
TOE, IIALL & LOFTON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MACON, GA.
Office, on Third street, over City Bank,
novltf
Gift Enterprise
The only Reliable Gift Distribution in the country
$75,000
IN VALUABLE GIFTS
To be Distributed in
L. D. SINE’S
. 165th Regular Monthly
GIFT ENTERPRISE!
To bo drawn Monday, February 23d, 1SJ4.
TWO GRAND CAPITALS OF
$5,000 each in GKEENBACKS l
Two Prizks op $1000 ")
Firs Puns op $500 each In [- (-rj’ppnl'tn nVa !
Tn Phizes op $100 J UL UBUUctuia *
1 Horse and Bugsy, with Silver-mounted Har
ness, worth 6000.
each.
Five Gold. American Huntii g Watches, worth
$125 each.
Ten Ladies Gold Hunting Watches, worth $100
each.
1,000 Gold and Silver Lever Hunting Watches
(in all) worth from $20 to SS00 each.
Gold Chain*, Silverware, Jevelrv, etc., etc.
Number cf Gilts 7/500. Tickets limited to
75.000.
Agents Wanted to sell TICKKTS to
w hom liberal Premiums will
lie paid.
Sinste Tickets $t; Six Tickets $3; Twelve Tick
ets $10; Twenty-live Tickets $20.
Circulars conlainins a full list of prizes, a de
scription of the manner of drawing, and other in
formation in reference to the Distribution, will be
sent to any one ordering them. All letters must
be'addreased to
Main (Mire, b, D. SINE. Box EG,
101W. Fifth Street. Cinciunati, O.
deeds dAw7w
S 300.000
Missouri State Lottery!
I.esallzeil by .State Authority nnd
Drawn tit Public at St. Louis.
Grand Single Number Scheme
£50,000 NU3IHERS.
CLASS A, TO BE DRAWN JAN. SI, 1$7L
5,880 PRIZES, AM0UNTIN6 TO $300,009.
1 prizo of 000
1 prize of 13,450
1 prize of 10,000
1 prize of 7,500
4 prizes of fs.ooo
4 prizes of g,5oo
20 prizes of 1,000
20 prizes of 500
rizes of 250
5.000 prizes of...,...? 100
0 prizes of 1,000
9 prizes of 500
0 prizes of....
I* i»riz**s of....
3*i prizes of.*.
36 prizes of.".,
ISO prize s of....,
,000 prizes of.
250
• prizes
Tickets $10. Half Tickets $5.^ Quarters $2.50.
Our lotteries are chartered hv the State, are al
ways drawn at the time named, and all drawing!)
an- under the supervision of sworn commissioners.
The official drawing will 1** published in tin* St.
Louis papers, and a copy of drawing.sent to pur
chasers of tickets.
We will draw a similar scheme the last day of
every month during the year 1674.
K* niit at our risk, by Postoffice Money Orders,
Registered Letter, Draft or Express. Send for a
circular. Address
MURRAY, MILLER A CO..
Postoffiee Box 2,446. *>t. Louis*, Mo.
WHOLESALE
We have a large and varied took of GROCERIES and LIQUORS in store,
which we offer at low prices. We will continue to sell to
PROMPT CUSTOMERS
On 30 days, but those of onr friend; who have not paid up their account-, within
that time must not expert ns to accommodate them with further credit. \Ve desire
to approximate as nearly to cash as tho condition of trade will admit, nnd necessity
compels us to require hereafter the very best security from those who wish to buy
on 30 days.
dee3tf
JOHNSON & SMITH,
MASONIC TEMI LE, MULBERRY STREET,
Maeon, Georgia.
WING & SOLOMON
Offer to the public a largo and newly selected block of
FINE JEWELRY!
STERLING SILVER AND PLATED-WARE.
And embracing many new and novel styles, just out
They are sole agents for the celebrated
L. & M. PERFECTED SPECTACLES i
TIIE BEST IN USE.
Their Work Department is complete. New Work and Badges made to order. To line watch
work and repairing,special attention is given—and guarantee their work—at moderate charges.
oct!2lf
FIRST NATIONAL BANK of MACON
TRANSACTS A CENTRAL BANKING BUSINESS.
numerous:
I. 0. PLANT, D. FLANDERS.
II. L. JEWETT, W. B. D1NSMORE
n. B. PLANT, D. S. LITTLE.
G. H. IIAZLEUL’RST.
I. C. PLANT. President.
V. W. Wrioixy. Cashier. mxlO-tilnovl*
iSr
o
tel
M
%
&
I. 0. PLANT & SON, !
Bankers ancl Brokers, ;
^nkin
nisli the Strolls Ch.-mical Suits of Aimnoni*.
Nitre, l’otash. etc., which we Kuarantee to be I'liK:
and reliable. These, when mix.il with whati,
saved at home, make a better manure tiein you
i can buy- for two or three times the money,
i Formula No. 1 makes 2,0iK) pounds fertilizer to
‘ be useil on ten acres for cotton or fifteen acres for
corn. Price $25 50, delivered iu deisdat Macon,
cash,
I Formula No. 2. with cotton seed, makes 3.000
; pounds fertilizer, to be used on ten acres for c.t-
, touor fifteen acres foroorn. Price $ir. 50, Mitered
■m depot at Macon, cash.
We bam also for sale in quantities to suit, flu
1 best quality of fertilizing chemicals at the lowest
liriccs—Ammonia,Nitre, Dissolved Bose*. Potash,
COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO i Land Plaster, etc. Planteraare cautioned aqaiast
cbO lyr j numoreus “compounds” that will no doubt be
1 offered them as substitutes for our preparation.
w. P. Loodaix. j Do not buy except from us or some of our author*
Cashier, ized agents. Send for circular giving all parlieu-
MACON, GA.
Buy and Sell Exchange. Gold, Silver, Stocks and j
Bonds. j
Deposits Received J
Un Wlilcli Interest will l>c Allowed, j
as AORUrn upon.
PAYABLE ON CA.LL.
Advances ntndc on Cotton and Pro
duce In Store.
C. A. Nuttixo.
President.
CITY BANK
1 lars.
HUNT. RANKIN A LAMAR.
82 and 81 Cherry street.
MACON, GEORGIA.
Capital UOO.OOO Dollars.
niKECTOlt.S :
WM. B. JOHNSTON.
JOHN J. GRESHAM,
july-22 (fin
! Burrs Corax v, Ga, Decemlier 3,1873.
j I rued yours by the side of two liieli-prieed
1 manure--, and it did better than either.
B. F. WARD.
Artemisin-? 70 tons this year, Fprefer yours even
at the same price of the exis-nsivo uranutre.
JL. 51. HOUSER, Houston county.
Yours produced as well or better than others at
less than half the cost.
W H ROBINSON, Macon
S. G. Boss, President R. F. Lawton, Cashier. |
EXCHANGE BANK OF MACON, i
year. U A HAMILTON. Jones county.
Ofllce In Muir’s New Building;.
. Yours is as Rood as the expensive kinds 1 used
this year; some think 1 letter.
J H MeCAY, Talbot county
BUYS AND SELLS EXCHANGE, I
,, , > , * } Tour fertilizer, on two
Makes Advances on Stocks, Ronds, Cotton m to lie ms tri<xl as any othf
and I .shall use it alone here*ft
J M SPIN LIN. 1
Receives Deposits,:
ars’ trial, li.w proven
fertilizer I . >. riwed f
Store. Also on Shipments of Cotton.
ounly.
Planters 7 Bank,
FORT VALLEY, GA.
R ECEIVES Deposits, discounts Paper, buys .and
soils Kxelmncv; al.?o, Gold mul Silver. ’
Collections made at all accessible friftftM.
Interest paid on Deposits when made for a
specified time.
\Vm. J.A3DKRS03, Pres’t. W. E. Brown,Cash’r
DIRECTORS
Wm. J. Anderson, Col. Hujrh L. Dennnrd
Col. Wm. I’VltoM, Dr. W. A Mathews,
Dr. Id L. II- TTollinshrsi del St f
It lias proved to f>e just ns good, and In aom
rdspects superior, to the. most extensive manures
L desire to use it extensively next vear.
HENRY J WILLIAMSON, Griffin,Qa.
ic expensive
It is as good a?
I sliall use it altogethe
J W PERRY, M D, Cla\
t that I used,
county, Ga.
EARLY ROSE.
EARLY GOODRICH.
PINK EYES.
Just received, and for sale low, by
Seymour, Tinsley & Co.
jqiedf
L. J, GUILMaKTIX, JOHX FLANNSRT.
L. J. GUILMABTIN & CO.,
COTTON FACTORS
—A5D—
General Commission Merchants,
Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
A GENTS for Bradley’* Super-Phosphate ol
Lime, Jewell’s Mills Yarns and Domestics,
etc* Baggimr, Rope and Iron Ties always on hand.
Usual facilities extended to customers,
augl dw£sw6m
I used a ton of the “Homo-Mndr” by two of tlio
; expensive guanox, hik 1 find no difference, in the
• yield. 1 can heartily recommend it :is a cheap
and paying fertilizer—shall use it exclusively next
year. J NO 11 BUTLER, Monr.»e county.
IURXE3VILLE, GA., October 8, 1873.
I used your comiiound a*am this year, and am
; so well pleased with it that I don’t think i shall
ever uso any other kind. Where I used .'ion j>cuiula
: j>er acre I will make i'.OOO jkmhhIn of v-.-d tvtton
• to the acre. I used it on turnips this year; they
are tlie finest I ever saw. I think the farmers
; will lx: satisfied, after this year’s trial, that it is
1 tho best in use. Yours resi**clfuilv.
J i’ McLEAN.
Spalduto County, Qa-. October 16.1873.
I used your “lldme-Mtule Fertilizer” this vear
on cotton and corn, in the same quantities with
1 one of the high-pricked manures, and the advan
tage is decidedly with the “Home-Made.” I hava
decided to use it exclusively next war.
EDMaRD M DORSEY.
Scsxysidb, Ga.. Octolxr 28,1S7S.
Afti-r s fa'r test by the side of three hiirh-prireA
and standard commercial manures, it is | lain
that the “Home Made” isos* good us any, and t
can conscientiously i-omiuend it to the fa run rs a*
tlie best and chea]x*st they can u*e.
J O A MILLER.
Marshalville, Ga., October 21,1S7S.
Dr. P. R. llolt:
I Dear Sir—1 used Ibis season thirty-six tons of
your “Home-Made Fertilizer,” and am so well
phased with it that 1 shall use it almost or quite
exclusively next year. I applied it at the rate of
7S to 150 IKiUluls i>er acre with satisfactory results.
: Yours truly. W H FELTON.
Tkrre:. Covjcty, Ga., October 20,1873.
; I used this year the Home-Made Fertilizer of
: Hunt, Rankin*& Lamar.on coni and cotton. The
! fertilizer was manipulated with tou earth. My
! land Ls light Rnd sandy. We applied it in a field
j on cotton alternately with the Sea Fowl, equal
‘ quantities of each, and could never discover anv
; difference in the two. We used it on corn and
n...i «lia decidedly the best. AVhcrO