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MACON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13, 1874.
Number 7,078.
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FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1874
Tho Street Railway Decision
We |if« below, copied from the Attanl
CenstUulion, tho fall text of tho dccUian
rendered by the Supreme Coart on Tuc-
diy, in the cnee entitled i Green J. Ulskc
tl el, n. Mayor end Council of tho City
o! Macon et el. Injunction from Bibb
1. ' An art of the legisUturo authorizing
e taunicipa! corporation to anbscribe for
Htdc in railroad*, and to ltaue bonds to
pay for the name, doe* not authorize it to
eoBtribate to a railroad, by endorsing its
bonds, and upon tho complaint of a tax*
payer or citizen of tbo corporation, a
Oeortof equity will enjoin each endorse
ment.
2. Neither the Act of 1871, amending
the charter of tho city of Macon, nor the
Art of 1874, regulating tho meaner in
vWA municipal corporations shall issue
bond*, authorizes tho issue of any bonds,
which said city or said corporations have
not a (pedal legislative authority to is-
me. independent of nucb Acts.
3. The endorsement of the bonds of a
rtrwt railroad in a city, by the city au
thorities, is not within the ordinary ad-
miniatiative powers of tho corporation,
and requires a special legislative grant.
Judgment reversed,
Poe, Hall A Lofton, for plaintiffs in
error.
Lanier A Anderson, Ilill A Harris, for
dtfmdanta.
This settles the question, and wo hope
to hear no more of it. Tho highest judi
cial tribunal of tho State pronounces
neh project, as "not within the or
dinary administrative powers of the cor
poration," and wo aro glad It has done no.
“|TI»o Sunny South.”
W, are in receipt of tho first number of
this new weekly, tho publication of which
st Atlanta baa just been commenced by
Mr. John H. Seals. It is a very honil-
umo sheet—one of the most attractive in
general appearanoo we have over seen.
It will be devoted to literature, romance,
seienot, education, temperance and
Scuthern progress, and will also be illus
trated. The ladies’ department will bo
antler thejehargo of Mrs. Mary Bryant.as-
listed by Mrs. J. R. Sneed, and tho do-
tnettio department under that of Mrs. A.
1'. Hill, author of the famous and almost
inrslnsble "Cook Bcok." It would
Msm that with such assistance Mr. Seals
should make hit venture entirely auecoss-
fid. That it will bo with tbo patronago
oor people ought to give it wo hare no
donht. Wo heartily wish this for it, and
trot soon to soe it «o firmly ostaintsnea
is to place its future beyond peradven-
tun.
Wi clipped two items headed rasped-
tiisly,"Off for Chicago,” and the “Lamar
Bequest to Aged and Afflicted Negroes/’
from the Savannah Sun a day or two
taw, but by some means the proper
edit was not given, and they appeared
si if found in the Adrertieer. Wo make
this correction in justice to the Sun.
Tsoo Caust wot Sst w* Djd xr.—A
table of Representatives elect from Nor
thern, Eastern and Western States foot*
np 97 Democrats and 89 Republicans. It
will be teen, therefore, that tho Radicals
losttheir majority in tho so-called loyal
States, and cannot charge it to tho " rob-
Tlic Slacks emancipated.
From another point in Alabama we
hear that the negroes aro very uneasy
about the late Democratic triumph from
the apprehension that they are to be re
manded back into slavery. The Eufaula
Timm of the 11th instant says:
The poor negroes have been terribly
deceived by their white leaders, and
thousands of them actually believe that
they are going back to slavery. In due
time they will learn that a Democratic
white man'* government will result in
great advantage to them.
And in another article, the Times sug
gest* that the planters in the different
beats of the county call mass meetings
of the blacks and giro them barbecues
and verbal assurances that these appre
hensions aro all groundless, and that tho
Democracy desire harmony and tho best
understanding between tho races.
Wo trust tho negroes of tho South will
no'- bo long in learning that the recent
Democratic triumph in tho South and
tbo country was tho beginning o? bett
and happier days for them and for ns alL
It struck, (as we bopo,) a fatal blow at
the elements of discord and tbo busy
fomentors of suspicion and strife between
the races. It taught tho acalawag and
carpet-lrngger the vanity of their hopes
of permanently holding tho white race in
practical subservience to their nefarious
domination, through the instrumentality
of the blacks ; and it restored once more
to tlio direction of public affairs, tho na-
tural 'guardiaas of society and public or
der.
No class of people are really more in-
terevted in publie tranquility than those
who draw their daily subsistence fiom
tho labor of their hands. It is a ques
tion of daily bread and meat to them,
and they most respond in personal in
convenience and suffering to whatever
impairs the capacity and disposition of
enterprise and capital to furnish employ
ment and wages. The wholo labor class
of the country is now suffering moro or
lots from financial and political disorders,
which ditconrago business operations.
Tho cap'taint submits to loss in his
income, bnt tho workman and bis family
suffer from scanty supplies of tho neces
saries and comforts of life; and more
than all from a harrowing anxiety for
the future. It is enough to drive a man
to desperation to see his lovod depend
ents at home stinted in food, fuel and
clothing and in danger of distress war
rant, and want of shelter; and yet this
is the lot of thousands now.
Society is to a great extent a unit in
its interests. Tho rich can not bo assail
od withoutevil to the poor—andthosuffer-
ingnnd idleness of tho poor are an im.
men^o loss and menace to tho rich. The la
bor of tbo people is tho great source of
wealth, and when, in times of public dis
order like these, labor is to a great extent
unemployed, the general loss of wealth is
torn Me.
Tho operations of tho Radical party in
tho Southern States had for their great
end the fomenting of distrust, and ill
feeling in tho minds of the blacks against
tho Southern whites. To what extent
they succeeded in their mischievous
work is seen in tho existence of this
groundless suspicion that, so soon os tho
whites resume control of affairs, they
THE GEORGIA EKESS.
Tins, was a party by tho name of Pe
tal. There was another usually men-
itaed as Hen. Butler. Both of these
fsitiss were dreadfully opposed to tho
proas. And now, presenting thoso gen
tlemen In the singular number, and quot
ing from Hans Broitmonn.
- Vhrro i»h dot but? now ?"
—K 'Chester Democrat.
Tux Tribune says “tbo President is re
ported an being in high glee over the
station of Mr. Stephens in Georgia and
Mr. Chamberlain in South Carolina, both |
cq the third-term platform.” How a
man who had no opposition could fail of
on election wo hardly nee, but it strikes
ns them is very littlo occasion for "high
gta” over such a performance.
Tsoys, Jeitkrson for President in
1994, Marcus Morton for Governor in
1839, and Win. Gaston in 1874 are the
only Democrats that over carried the
State of Massachusetts. It is curious to
note that tho gap in each case was exact
ly 33 years. Tho Nashville Union and
American therefore predicts for the bene fit
.! ii:v th :t ;!. ■ old !> iy State >>i
Sf»in go Democratic Anno Domini 1900.
Oroir to bx Msul'id.—The Hsrall of
Moodsy insists that Mr. Tilden, the
Dsroocratio Gowrnor-eieci, who, it seems,
in a bachelor, ahoald anticipate hi* in
auguration by being married, and that
Bow in his opportunity. That is so.
Tilden should be married. It is true
I hers i* nothing in tho Democratic plat
form on the subject, ana Democrats go in
for tho largest psnoasl libertv, yet the
country looks to him for a good example
and he shoald be anxious to share hit
triumphs with a wife.
Souk of the New York theatrical man-
agsrs are throwing off the restraints of
the law respecting those enactments pro
hibiting the performance of dramatic
amusement* on Sunday. Max BbskoscA
leads tho Tan, and has already obtained a
temporary injunction against the public
authorities to prevent their interference
in the Sunday concerts given by the op
era troupe under his direction. On hist
Sunday *'La Trovita” was given at
Gran l’Opera House. " ltarbe Blue” at
the Sta.lt (G rmaii) Theatre, and Buffalo
Bill and hu Indian allies made tho walls
of the old Bowsry ’1’hesire ring ,
hunliu n sor.gs and war whoops.
■e icsaoguiaed fore-tor
cro- for the S.ivar.ua.:
Oca friend of t
who does the hue
-Veir*, aavs -
When Col. Clisby, of the Macon Tc. -
yrupk, heard of the overwheloming suc-
. oh* of the Democrats, he simply laid
down his garden rake, and said that when
stall crop hod been gathered the land
about! be mulched with s steam harrow,
and sown broadcast with Southdown tur
nips. If there is one among our numer
ous readers who dons not d_scover the
moral of the Colonel's parable, we will
refund biro his money .ml .end him a
chron.o besides.
Harris is wrong. The Colonel got news
of the "overwhelming success" while
busily superintending the underdraininc
sf a swamp, and he could not but reflect
that the Democrats were putting the
country through n similar prooesa, which
would “dry up” many a slough and many
a dasnagogue, and eventually give the
country firm good ground to stand
ppoa.
will re-enslavo tho bhu.n».
therefore, to bo as plain to tho negro as
is to tho whites, that so far os the
Radicals made trouble between the
whites and negroes, they injured both
races by interfering with business and
employment; but they injured tho
negroes more than tho whites, because
they wore less ablo to suffer loss.
Whatever disarms tbo Radicals for the
work of mischief and discord makes times
better and both class03 of tho pcoplo hap
pier. Therefore, let the negroes remem
ber that tho defeat of tho Radicals was
the best political ovont which could pos
sibly happen to their race in the South.
Had these Radicals carried tho elections
this fall, they would baTO passed tho civil
rights bill—enforced it with bayonots—
prosecutions—fineB—forfeitures and im
prisonments, which could not have failed
of producing a worse state of feeling be
tween tho races than has ever yet oxisted.
But as tho negroes must after all depend
mainly upon tho Southern whites for
work snd wages, it is clear that they too
would all have suffered from tho public
disorder as much as or more than tho
whitca themselves, and it was certainly a
merciful dispensation of divino Providence
which estopped this threatened trouble
and disorder, by so moving tbo minds of
tho people of tho United States that tho
Radicals were wholly prostrated in tho
elections and disarmed of their power for
mischief.
Tho blacks, therefore, instead of deplor
ing this rSsult should be bappy and
thankful for it. Instead of believing
that it will enslave, they should see that
it has really emancipated them from a
slavish subservience to tho Radicals, who
for ten years have been successfully de
luding and misleading them to their own
great hurt and tho immense damage of
all the Southern people —white and
black.
Tho Blood-Hound, Merrill.
The New York World, of a recent date,
publishes a letter from one of its Louis:
.,y» eoiTO-qiondents, the statements of
fact which come straight from the bps of
Merrill’s fellow-officers—though not fel
low-officers in the was disgraceful ser-
j thank* to the little honor and
honesty the country can still be proud
of, as npn s. uted by most of the officer;'
of the regular army. This letter reviews
the whole career of Merrill from the time
he was court-martialed at M est Point on
an indictment charging him with lyin:
and includes the history of his disgrace
ful conduct in South Carolina, where he
extorted twenty thousand dollars from
tho people for his political services. It
tells how, when he anticipated an order
sending his regiment to the IVestem
plains to fight the Indians, ho secured a
surgeon’s certificate of his physical ina
bility for active campaign duty, how he
carried that certificate for six months be
fore it Locarno necessary to use it, and
how ho kept up his active campaign
against the gray-haired men, the women
and children of South Carolina all the
time, ar. 1 how he finally transferred the
base of his operations to oppressed
Tax Now York correspondent of the
Philadelphia Ledger says that ex-Governor
Seymour arrived in town from Utica
Saturday morning. Later in the day he
had an interview with the Governor
elect, Mr. Tilden. The gossips attribute
political significance to the fact, but to
what end, precisely, does not appear.
There am good reasons, however, for
staling that the litter is very aaxious to
give such expressions to conservative
1 vi, ws ,-a ihe national finances in his in-
I augural as will leave tho Western Demo-
: cr.. -y in no doubt as to how New York
st..nds or. l intend, t,* stand in the
approaching Presidential campaign on
tfc .t question. To that end it i* quite
Thz Mayor of Savannah has proclaimed
the 19th inst.—the day recommended by
Got. Smith—03 the proper occasion for
prayer and thanksgiving by tho people
of that city. O. A. P. will certainly hold
a big hand that day.
Tux Synod of Georgia and Florida is
now in session at Savannah. The open
ing sermon was preachod Tuesday night
by Rot. W J. McCormick, of Florida.
Tux Savannah Advertiser predicted,
several days since, a second fruit crop S3
the result of the recent summmerish
weather, and a second crop of peach
blooms and strawberries has vindicated
its reputation as a prophet.
Tux Advertiser says it heard a charm
ing young lady remark last Tuesday:
I am a Protestant by birth and educa
tion, and Protestants may stigmatise my
language and, sentiments as heresy, but
when I eec a minister’s wife strugg ling
with half a dozen children, aged from
ten years down, with a nurse, and half of
them crying at the] same time, I must
confess that I am in favor of clerical
celibacy.
That“ dunning young lady " hit the
nail squarely on tbo head.
W* quote as follows from 'the same
paper:
Tin Wrrx or a Sivsxxss Cmxxrr in
Luck.—Some twenty years since John
Fagin, a former resident of this city, left
New York, since which time, and until
within a recent period his whereabouts
was unknown by his family, and, if we
are correctly informed, not until his
death occurred in Buenos Ayres. His
children, two sons, Thomas and Henry,
died since his departure, tho former in a
Federal prison, and the latter in this city.
His only daughter married G.W. Pardue,
for many years a resident of this city,
where he pursued the occupation of a
shoemaker. Upon the demise of Fagin,
tho Hon. Alexander H. Stephens became
his cxccntor, when be instituted inquiries
as to the living members of Fsgin’s fam
ily, by letter addressed to Captain John
McMahon, of this city. It having been
ascertained that the wife of Parduo was
the only living relative, he was no littlo
astonished when a letter was handed, and
subsequently read to him in his shop on
Monday lost, while busily engaged in
pounding away on tho soft side of a piece
of sole leather, notifying him of tho good
fortune of his wife. Mr. Pardue is not
positively informed as to the amount of
tho estate, hut thinks it is something less
than forty thousand dollars. Tho letter
of tho Hon. A. II. Stephens notified the
heir that tho first instalment of $3,000
would fall due yesterday, and by appear-
ing at his home in urawfordsville, that
amount could be drawn.
Br tho by,” remarks tho Savannah
-Vcim, “ what in tho deuce has become of
Samuel Gove, lato of said county, de
ceased?”
Tub News announces tho marriage in
Savannah, on Tuesday, of Miss Mary T.
Wayno, daughter of Gen. H. C. Wayne,
and Lieut. R. H. Patterson of the Feder
al army.
How two negroes robbed a Eailor is
thus told by tho News :
The steward of tho bark Hope, lying
at tho wharf foot of Price street, left the
vessel on Monday afternoon and came up
into the city to make some purchases. He
accomplished his mission, and with his
packages, containing clothing and other
articles, on his arm, started on his return
to his vessel about nino o’clock. He hod
reached tho bluff nearly opposite Haber
sham street, and was just about descend
ing tho stairwry to the river front, when
he was stonnod by two negroes, one of
whom drew a pistol anu —
in his face, commanded him to halt and
deliver bis money or receive the contents
of tho aforesaid weapon in his corpus.
Tho other negro waltzed around him with
the evident intention of laying him out
with a heavy stick if ho showed resist
ance. The situation was unpleasant, to
say the least. A black villain in front of
him, with a cocked pistol, and another
at his back with a knotted stick, suspend
ed like tho sword of Damocles over his
head, there was nothing else to do hut
surrender. Tho steward delivered over
his purse, containing four dollars, togeth
er with the articles purchased, glad to es-
capo with his life.
| Tux Atlanta News says Mr. David Hol
lis, of Douglass county, shot and killed a
man named Franklin last week. The
latter had previously knocked Hollis down
and stabbed him three times.
Tub New* has the following detailed
statement of the troubles of the Air-Line
railroad, notice of which has already ap
peared in this column:
For some time past there lias been
marked dissatisfaction with tho manner
in which tho affairs of tho Air-Line rail
road have been managed. This impor
tant line, whose success is due solely to
tho energy of tho people of Atlanta, has
not been a financial success thus far, al
though its business has continued to in
crease steadily, and is now earning, it is
said, an income of from sixty to seventy
thousand dollars per month, or as much as
its rolling capacity will permit. The real
causes of the complaint have been num
erous. It is charged by the stockholders
that the cost of constructing the road has
been far more than it should have been.
However, they are willing to let the
question of extravagance rest, but they
desire an explanation of how the eight or
ten millions of dollars have been spent.
For the past three years there has not
been an election for directors. 'When
ever a vacancy occurred in the board, it
has been filled by appointment. There
has not been any financial report submit
ted to the Stockholders. President Bu
ford, of tho road, has had the disburse
ment of the money, but the only allusion
made by him to finances, in his last ad
dress to the stockholders, was that the
road had "necessarily accumulated a
large interest account.” While this ir
responsible management has continued,
the affairs of the road have been steadily
-Toing from bad to worse. For four
months past its employees have been un
paid, but where the money has gone to,
received from freight and passen-
r-ers, nobody knows. It is not
charged that there has been any
dishonesty or corruption, but persons
experienced in railroad matters assert
that the road can be operated at an ex
pense of not exceeding $30,000 per month,
whereas, from its present condition, it is
evident that $60,000 are insufficient. One
of the great causes of trouble has been
the number of high salaried officials in
the employ of the road. The President
receives some $3000 per annum, but does
not visit the road more than two or three
times each year. Then there are two or
three managers who endeavor to operate
it their own different way, and between
them all the large sums of money re
ceived prove inadequate to pay the ordi-
rarv expenses, much .ess to provide for
the pavment of tho interest on the bond
ed debt, which now amounts to about
$4,230,000, bearing eight per cent, per
annum interest. Not one dollar of the
interest on thi* debt has ever been paid,
lad this default has resulted in the pres
ent between the bondholders
and the stockholders. Concerning the
bonds issued on that part of the road in
Georgia there are serious doubts of their
legality, and this question is to be set
tled in the courts. What precipitated
the trouble was the action of the board
of directors about a year ago, when
they elected a gentleman named Wei-
ford to the position of managing direc
tor. How Mr. Wolford came to be con
cerned in the road is briefly told. He
was «.U there from New York as agent for
Mr. Dickson, the contractor for the road.
Dickson subsequently sold out his con
tract to the Southern Security compaDT
at a profit of some two or three hundred
thousand dollars, and Welford was re
tained as the agent of the company.
After he had finished the contract^ Wel
ford was appointed one of the directors,
and about one year ago, on the demand
of tho bondholders, he was made
managing director of the road, al
though it 13 alleged that he does
not own a share of stock in it. His
career is said to have been disastrous,
and to have been marked by irregulari
ties. For instance, it is asserted that he
Danville railroad three or four days be- l A National Convention of De-
fore a called meeting, and this stock was
voted in defiance of the constitution of
the road. With three or four heads,
there has been neither economy nor good
management, and latterly there has been
a disposition manifested by tho bond
holders, whom Welford represents, to
take entire possession- Tho first-mort-
£ ge bonds of the road provide that, in
fault of payment of either principal or
interest, the bondholder shall have power
to foreclose their mortgage and assume
oversight without further legal proceed
ing. The stockholders also were already
much dissatisfied, were not disposed to
permit this, and thus have their stock
destroyed. The friends of Atlanta, (this
city owning some $300,000 in stock) re
presenting $300,000 of stock held
here, demurred to a procedure which
rendered solveless the stock for which
they had paid one hundred cents on the
dollar. They immediately prepared to
fight the matter or force a compromise
with the bondholders. Fortunately for
them, there were executions against the
road in existence antedating the first
mortgage bonds. These executions had
never been paid, end after duo advertizc-
ment the road was sold on the last sales
day in ever county in Georgia, from and
including Fulton to Habersham counties,
where tho solo was stopped by an in
junction. The road was bought ia by
Herrs. Russell and others, who immedi
ately made a deed of tho whole to Mr.
Gamer, and that gentleman is now the
absolute owner. Of course, it is not be
lieved that he intends to held possession
of it as his own permanently. Tho gene
ral impeession is thnt ho is acting for the
city of Atlanta and the stockholders, and
that as soon os a compromise can be
made he will transfer all he now own3 to
the company. Ho ha3 been put in po.3
session by tho sheriffs of tho several
counties, and it is his possessory right
that was tho subject of litigation yester
day. On the 30th inst., tho road will
also bo up before tho United States Court
at Savannah on a motion to throw it into
bankruptcy.
‘Uezle Both,” the "Confederate Spy,”
lectured at Atlanta—as wc learn from the
Constitution—on Tuesday night to about
ono hundred persons, and that paper says
she "spent tho first twenty minutes of
her lecture on a city editor (Abrams, we
suppose.) Her denunciations of him
were put in all possible forms. She states
that the report that she had been engaged
to him, was a worse slander than his
avowal that she had died in a lunatic
asylum. Sho summed up all-by saying
that she coaid givo him a pistol and take
the smallest stick and chase him out of
town.”
Wxlonra from the Chronicle and Senti
nel that everything was quiet at Union
Point on Tuesday. Sis of the negro ring
leaders of tho riot ore in jail at Greens-
boro. Tho citizens guarded the town
Monday night, but no farther disturb
ance occurred.
The Chronicle says tho ginhouse on tho
plantation of Dr. Howard H. Smith at
Oak Grove, Screven county, was entirely
destroyed by fire on Wednesday, tho 4th
inst., together with two gins, eight bales
of cotton, one hundred bushels of cotton
seed, and two rolls of bagging and ties.
Lou about $3000. The fire is supposed
to have been the work of an incendiaiy.
We find tho following items in tho
Athens M’afcliman of Wednesdays
Bold Eobbebt.—Mr. S. G. Smith, of
Forsyth county, who is engaged in selling
wagons, was robbed in broad .lay-light,
on the public highway, near Mitchell’s
bridge, about four miles from this city.
He describes tho highwaymen as a well-
dressed young man, apparently about 25
yeara of ago. and a mau of perhaps 43, in
ordinary garb. Tho money taken from
wards n.K.‘t,a!2 < l c . r i t » nd - to a P'
The shooting affair on Thursday night
has been greatly magnified. A show of
some sort was in full blast opposito the
College campus, on Lumpkin street.
Stones were thrown from tho campus into
tho crowd around or near the pavilion.
Pistol shots were returned. The police
made a rush for tho campus, and the par
ties there concealed precipitately fled.
Tho negroes around the pavilion skedad
dled when pistol balls whistled through
tho air. This is all and nothing more.
Another Bequest to the South
ern Methodist Church.
Tho last issue of ths Nashville Chris
tian Advocate says Mr. Jos. T. Calvin,
late of Hamburgh, Iowa, who died last
August, after providing for hi3 -wife, his
brothers, and sisters, and making hand
some contributions to tho American Bi
ble and Tract Societies, and bequests to
other interests, made the following be
quests to A. H. Bedford, agent of the
Southern Methodist Publishing House>
for the purposes herein specified:
Ten thousand dollars for tho use and
benefit of tho Board of Missions of the
M. E. Church South.
Five thousand dollars for the use and
benefit of tho Sunday School Union of tho
M. E. Church South, of which the Rev.
A. G. Haygood, D. D„ is Secretary.
Fifteen thousand dollars for the use
and benefit of the Publishing House of
tho M. E. Church South, loosed in Nash
ville, Tenn.
Ten thousand dollars for the use of the
widows and orphans of traveling preach
ers who have died, or may die, in the
itinerant work.
To this last bequest is to be added the
residue of Mr. Calvin’s estate (supposed
to be about $15,000), after paying the
several bequests.
The amount bequeathed to the widows
and orphans i3 to bo invested as a per
manent fund, tho interest only to. be
used.
The Sag Harbor (N, Y.) Express of the
6th instant gives an account of a melan
choly and heartrending family affliction
to the family of Orville B. Ackerly, of
Riverhead, deputy clerk of Suffolk coun
ty, New York. On the 19th day of Oc
tober he lost his daughter Ruth, a young
girl of six years, by diptheria; on Octo
ber 23th he lost his infant daughter, Isa
bel Grifflng, aged two years, and on the
27th his wife, lone Downs Ackerly, aged
twenty-seven years, and the still further
fact that the last member of his family.
Faith, aged eight years, died on the 2d
instant, all of the same disease, thus
sweeping his entire family, consisting of
a wife and three children, away in the
short space of fifteen days.
A special to the Courier-Journal from
Washington, dated November 10, says
the Republican leaders are so greatly con
cerned at the future prospects of their
oarty that there i3 serious talk of hold
ing a council of war at this city in order
to agree upon some policy which will
give them a chance for the future. It is
stated that Speaker Blaine favors this
policy. One of the ideas of the proposed
caucus is to get the President into it, and
thus to obtain nn influence over him,
which, owing to his obstinacy, cannot at
present be exerted. In case of such con
ference, an endeavor will be made to ex
tract from the President a public declara
tion against a third term candidacy.
Civil Eights Bill.—The Baltimore
Bun says it is believed that Butler will
vigorously press his civil rights bill in
Congress this winter, and some Republi
cans are confident that before the Demo
crats assume control of tho House of
Representatives it will become a law.
Butler may be willing to sacrifice a good
deal in the sacred cause of personal spite,
but we doubt if he can bring the Radical
party up to the point of suicide by pass
ing that bill.
feated Candidates.
New York Herald.]
Our proposition that a national conven
tion of defeated Republican candidates
shall be held has been received with such
hearty approval that there is no doubt
that it will be formally adopted. Sornt
persons have supposed that this sugges
tion was ironical and Satanic in spirit;
but we beg to say that it was nothing of
tho kind. We advise the holding of such
a convention with absolute sincerity and
with the serious conviction that it is a
solemn duty the Republican party has to
discharge for itself and the country.
Tho convention would be a perfect suc
cess, notwithstanding the fact that every
member of it is an utter failure, for it
must be remembered that although a
man may be defeated for Governor,
Senator, Representative or Legisla
tor, his usefulness may not only
survive that defeat, but may actually be
increased. There is a dignity in private
life which is’often far above the dazzling
honors of mere political success, and no
spectacle is nobler than that of men bear
ing adversity with magnanimity, and
finding, perchance, consolation in the
sight of each other’s distresses. There
is do more touching picture in the Bible
than that of Job sitting among ashes and
bewailing bis boils. Solomon in his
glory may bo admired, bnt we love Job.
It may not be irreverent either to the
patriarch or to the Republican candidates
if we say that their conditions have a
certain likeness. Yet Job had no com
panions in his misfortunes, and was de
prived of that soothing consciousness
which the Republicans possess. Forty or
fifty Jobs sitting on the samo ash heap
and each afflicted with an equal number
of boils would havo refreshed him in his
misery; but'even that privilege, alo3!
was refused to tho aged man.
Yet there are considerations connected
with such a convention which seem to us
to be superior to oven the comfort of ite
members. Pleasing as it would doubt
less be for General Butler to condole
with Mr. Sypher, or for Senator Carpen
ter to sympathize with Senator Chandler,
we do not urge the convention simply as
a method of relieving their personal suf
fering. High above the alleviation ef
sersonol grief stands the interest of tho
Jepnblican party. It is that interest
which wo believe the convention would
serve. It is plain that nothing can be
expected for tho relief of tho Republican
party from the next House of Representa
tives. The reason for this, as all these
gentlemen must admit, is that the next
House will have a Democratic majority.
Where, then, can relief for the party be
found? Clearly only in tho convention
of defeated candidates. In the first
place it would be an easily organized
body; tho expense and trouble of elect
ing delegates would not exist, tho dele
gates having been already chosen, and
a non-certificate of election to the office
for which he ran would entitle any
man to a seat. Thu3 nil tho bother
about credentials would be avoided. A
simple sum in subtraction would bo all
that Governor Dix, for instance, would
have to do to obtain nnchallanged admis
sion. In the second placo it would be
composed of leaders of the Republican
party, representative men, possessed of
national influence. True, it may be said
that they led the party to defeat, that
they represent ruin, and that their influ
ence was exerted to restore to power the
Democratic party; but this would be on
ly the tannt of their opponents, not of
their friends. Doe3 any one imagine that
Job cared what the Ti3hbites said about
his boils ? No, it was not what was said,
but the boils that hurt him. We trust
these gentlemen can forgivo a sneer, and
will not shrink from holding this solemn
convention, because it might, to superfi
cial minds, seem nn absurd mockery of
their splendid meetings in the past. In
tho third place, no persons are as compe
tent to explain tho defeat of tho Re
publican party as its candidates. They are
experts in the matter, and wliat they
would say would be pertinent and practi-
to have a leg amputatecT,~ wbihtrVd
a man with both legs ? Certainly we
should ask of ono who had undergone
tho operation. So with these candidates.
Tho President gives one explanation, tho
Vico President another, Mr. Bristow
another, Mr. Kellogg another, and so on,
till we are puzzled to decide why the Re
publican party wa3 beaten. Was it the
panic, the third term or tho civil rights
bill? Thesoaro questions the conven
tion might debate, and in so doing dis
cover tho reason for its own existence. It
must bo conceded that not ono of tho del
egates would admit it to bo his own fault
that ho was defeated, but surely none of
thorn aro beyond conviction. Mr. Dawes
might explain to General Butler the
causes of liis unpopularity, and General
Butler might do tho same service to Mr.
Dawes. Thus the convention would be
03 improving as a Shaker meeting, where
every member points out tho sins of hi3
companions.
Unless this convention of defeated
candidates is held there is no hope for
the Republican party. We say this
frankly and with no other motives than
those of kindness. Tho only objection
that seem3 to have any force is based
upon its enormous size. They say that
there i3 no building in America large
enough to bold the vast concourse from
all parts of tho Union. But not only
the balk of the convention bnt the size
of its members is to be considered, and
many of them aro much smaller men
than they appeared to be during the can
vass. The Senate chamber and the
House of Representatives at Washington
will not hold them, we know. It is im
possible for them to get into those build
ings. Yet outside of the legislative holl3
and other public edifices there is certain
ly room enough. Let them occupy it.
In any case the convention must bo held,
and if it is, we predict that the Democ
racy will be petrified to find the Repub
lican party still so large, and will only be
able to explain tho recent victory on the
theory that the defeated Republican can
didates did not vote.
BY TELEGRAPH.
DAY DISPATCHES.
The Fugitive Priest Gndeman.
New Yoek, November 12.—Rev. J.
Howard, minister of Hamilton Park
Reformed Church, Jersey City, a few
days ago married a couple whom he sup
posed to have been the Catholic priest
Father Gndeman, who left Philadelphia
last week with $50,000 belonging to his
parishioners, and a young lady organist.
The man represented that he was a phy
sician from St. Louis, but when Mr. Suy-
dam was about to make out the marriage
certificate, he said his name was Gudc-
msn.
Collision in Hampton Roads.
Foetbsss Mo.vp.ox, November 12.—
Last night about 9 o'clock, as the steam
er Old Dominion, from Norfolk for New
York, was passing out she was run into
by a schooner coming into the roads.
The schooner struck her amidships, dis
abling b«r starboard wheel and damag
ing her upper works. The schooner,
whoso name is unknown, sunk in ten
minutes. All hands saved.
Indian Fight.
Caizp Supplt, Indian Teeeitobt,
November 12. — Twenty-eight soldiers,
under Capt. Fairmont, fought a hundred
Indians armed with breech-loaders and
occupying higher ground. The soldiers
retreated under cover of night. One man
and ten horses were killed, and four men
and two horses wounded. Fifteen Indians
and a large number of ponies were killed,
The Federals have gone in force to pun
ish tho Indians.
Selge of Iran Abandoned.
London, November 12.—It is reported
that Don Carlo3 has abandoned the siege
of Irun, retreating to Navarre. Tho
London Times’ correspondent telegraphs
that the garrison of Irun, in their sortie,
burned houses and fine buildings belong
ing to Carlists, or which afforded them
shelter. The havoc thus created wasim-
mense. All the country round was in
flames.
The Turk Bristles Up.
Constatinople, November 12.—Orders
have been issued by tho Porte to concen
trate Turkish troops near the Servian
and Montenegrin frontiers, and that tho
governors of Javina and the princesi
in Albania have been ordered to organize
tho Hohomedan inhabitants of the prov-
Tho New Congress and the Money
Question — Investigation of the
Navy-Yard Political Frauds.
Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]
A HARD KONEV CONGBESS.
■Washington, November 9.—An analy
sis of the membership of the next House
sb0W3 that on the currency question it
will be much sounder than the present
House. Many of the prominent Repub
lican inflationists of the present House
have been defeated. General Butler, the
solitary representative from New England
in favor of rag money, is left at home.
In New York the only representative
elected, who is in favor of expanding the
currency, is Richard Schell, and he did
not show his hand until after tho election.
The majority of the Pennsylvania dele
gation in the present House favor more
paper issues, but in the next House not
more than one-fourth of the members
from that State will be on that ride. In
the "West large gains have been made to
the hard money side. In tbo South it is
probable that there ha3 not been much
change, but on the whole it is very safe
to assume that tho hard-money party
will have a decisive majority in the next
House.
NAVT TAED FEAUD3.
Among other investigations which may
be expected to be instituted by the next
House will be an inquiry into the man
agement of the navy yard3 in connection
with political contests. Evidence of an
overwhelming character, it is stated, will
be produced to show that the Portsmouth
(Ya.) navy yard hss for several years
past been manipulated entirely in the
interest of Mr. Platt, of Vermont, who
has been sitting in Congress as one of the
representatives of Virginia since that
State was reconstructed. The most
gigantic and unheard of corruption will,
however, be shown to have prevailed in
the Charlestown (Mass.) navy yard,
where thousands of men were put on the
pay-rolls, and the only duty performed
by them was to go to the polls and vote
for Mr. Gooch, the administration candi
date for Congress. Gen. Banks, who de
feated Mr. Gooch by such a large majori
ty, will hare all the facts for presentation
when he takes his seat.
Iran was heavy. When they retreated
they sneceeeed in carrying off their guns.
It is believed they will return to Esfolla.
The government has received intelligence
that General Laserna has entered Irun.
The English Turf.
London, November 12.—The race for
the Liverpool Cup, the chief event of the
Liverpool autumn meeting, which com
menced on Tuesday last, took place to
day, and was won by Louise Victoria,
Thunder taking the second place, and
Pageant the third. Twenty-ono horses
started.
Ills Name was Abel.
From the Viniuia City Enterprise.]
Recently an excited individual, with
his hat standing on two hairs nnd his
eyes projecting from his head like the
horns of a snail, r ished into the office of
Coroner Holmes. The Coroner is by pro
fession a dentist, and his first thought,
as he glanced at the man, was that he
was well nigh distracted with toothache.
He was soon undeceived, however, as the
frenzied individual cried out as soon as
he could catch his breath after running
up the stairs, "Been a man murdered?”
“A man murdered ?’ cried the Coroner;
“How ? Where ?”
“ In a garding, I believe; with a club
or a rock.”
** How long ago ?” cried tho coroner,
seizing his hat and cane.
“ Been done a good while ago, and no
police or constable hasn’t never done no
thing about it. Never been no coroner
set on his body nor nothin’ of tho kind;
no verdict—”
“ What’s the dead man’s name ? Who
was he V’ cried the coroner.
" HU namo was Abel.”
“Abel? Abel who?”
“Don't know. Never heard nothing
but his first name.”
" Well, what is the namo of tlie man
who killed him ? Do they know ? Any
ono suspected ?”
“Well, I’ve heard that n fellow named
Cain put out his light. Cain was tho
brother of Abel, and—”
Coroner smells a mice, and flourishing
his cane, cries:
“You git down them stairs, my fino fel
low. Git, and don’t show yourself hero
again.”
With a loud guffaw the fellow went
down stairs threo steps at a time, the
doctor calling after him, "How daro you
triflo with an officer in this way, sir.”
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Bisnor or Hatti.—Tho fact has been an
nounced by telegraph of tho consecration
at New York, on Sunday, of Rt. Rev.
James Theodore Holly, D. D. p colored
bishop of Hayti, Protestant Episcopal
Church. Bishop Holly is by birth a Ma
rylander, but when a child ho was carried
to the North. He received Eomo educa
tion and turned his attention to litera
ture, aud entered the ministry. H e was
paster of a congregation in New Haven
until a few years ago, when ho went with
colony to Hayti. His mission work
there was successful. Ho acquired tho
French language, which be found exceed
ingly useful in tho prosecution of his
work. Ho has as co-laborer3 in Hayti sir
presbyters and three deacons, all natives.
Bishop Holly is about five feet eight
inches high, with a head whose largest
development is evidently veneration. Tho
face i9 strongly marked; tho forehead re
treats somewhat; tho eyes are large and
bright. The nose is long and straight,
and tho mouth large. A closely-trimmed
mustacho and chin tuft finish a face in
which eood nature predominates. His
color is jot black, and his hair is short and
curly.
The Hoaxer Not Desd Yet.—Tho
New York Herald of Monday amused
itself and made it3 readers wonder what
was the matter by printing a (whole page
full of an absurd story about an imagina
ry escapo of wild animals from Central
Park menagerie, and of bloody scenes in
It was rather a savago and somewhat
pointless hoax, but wo suppose things aro
dull in New York jnst now. Sensations,
however of a romantic description havo
como to bo about as dull a speculation as
oven a New York journal could invest id.
Detroit Free Press: “Chicago is mad
because sho hasn't had a case like
Detroit, where a man was living with
four wives.” We can’t see why they
should want a Chicago man to live with
four wives, when it is only now and then,
and with the utmost difficulty, they can
get him to livo with one.
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probable he is seeking the counsel of
G' V. Seymour and other recognized repre- I forced the book-keeper to enter np some
sentatiTS* of th« party. 1800 shares of stock to the Richmond and
It has Hkltzd at Last.—Your *t-
that be j tempt to base » great, enduring party on
the hate and wrath necessarily engend
ered by & great civil war, is as though
you should plant a colony on an icebnrg
which na-t somehow drifted into a tropi
cal ocean.—Horace Greeley in 1866-
Tax Herald says the winter carnival at
Washington will’this time not be as gay
and brilliant among the ruling powers as
they had intended it should be before
their eyes were drawn to the handwriting
on the wall.
Marshal Bazaine ia near Liege, to
await there the arrival of his mother-in-
law from Mexico, and then proceed to
Santander, to reside a private individual,
holding aloof from politics.
NIGHT DISJPATCHJES.
The A. G. Decides'Again.
Washington, November, 12—Tho At
torney General decides States have no
right to sell arm3 issued to tho militia by
the United States.
Gen, Spinner’s Report.
_ Spinner, in his report, complains of the
circulation in tho South of currency is
sued by municipalities and corporations,
and arguc3 that a law stringent enough
to prohibit such issues should bo enacted.
He also complains of the failure of many
national banks to pay their duty as re
quired by law, which results in a heavy
loss to the treasury. He thinks that tho
banks should be made to bear the los3 of
tho theft of their unsigned notes.
Tho Georgia and Florida Synod.
Savannah, November 12.—Tho synod
of Georgia and 1 lorida i3 in session here,
with a largo attendance. Robt. Irvine,
D. D., of Augusta, was elected moderator.
A proposition to revive or sell Oglethorpe
college, at Atlanta, is under considera
tion. The next session is to bo held at
Cuthbort, Georgia.
Orphan Asylum Darned.
BALTiaroEE, November 12.—Tho He
brew orphan asylum, near Calverton
road, in Baltimore county, about ono and
a half miles from tho city limits, with li
brary, furniture, etc., wa3 totally de
stroyed by firo this morning. All tho in-
pwteajjere saved. Tho loss is about
$12,000 in tho Royal London. Tho bal
ance is distributed in homo companies.
Tennessee Election Rotnrns.
Knoxville, Tenn., November 12.—
Returns from tho counties of East Ten-
nesec show that the Democratic candi
date for Governor carried East Tennessee
by about 2,000 majority.
Udderzeek.
Westchester, November 12.—Udder-
zook made no confession.
Farther News from Iran.
Paeib, November 12.—Tho following
dispatch from Bayonno to-day confirms
the report received last night from Hen-
dage of the defeat of tho Carli3ts before
Irun: “Tho Carlist3, under command of
Don Carlos, havo been defeated before
Irun, and compelled to raise the seige of
that town. Carlo3 and his troop3 re
treated into tho mountains. Tho final
engagement between the Republicans
and Carlists was of a sanguinary charac
ter. Two hundred Republicans were
wounded. General Loina occupies Oyar-
seun. General Lozcma has entered Lor-
cambur.
Naughty Students.
Pams, November 12.—Tho students of
medicine having persisted in creating a
disturbance whenever Professor Choif-
fard attempted to lecture, all lectures
have been suspended for a month.
Cold Weather In England.
London, November 12.—There is snow
in the southern counties, and the weather
is unusually cold.
Synopsis Weather Statement.
Office Chief Signal Officer, )
Washington. November 13,1874. )
Probabilities: For the South Atlantic
and Gulf States, cool weather will con
tinue with areas of rain, northeast winds
and rising barometer; for New England
and the middle States, partly cloudy and
cool weather with north or west winds
and rising barometer; for the lake re
gion, Tennessee and the Ohio valley, con
tinued cold and partly cloudy weather,
northeast to northwest winds and high
barometer with area3 of snow in the first
named district.
MIDNIGHT DISPATCHES.
Railroad Dignitaries in Council.
Raltimobe, November 12.—A con
ference of prominent railroad officials was
held in this city to-day. Among those
present were President John W. Garrett,
and Vice President King, of the Balti
more and Ohio railroad; Commodore
Vanderbilt and son, Wm. H. Vanderbilt;
President and Vice President of the
New York Central; President Jewitt and
Vice President Blanchard, of the Erie;
President Scott and Vice President Ca3-
sett, of the Pennsylvania Central; Presi
dent C. W. Chapin, of the Boston and
Albany railroad; and General Freight
Agent J. H. Butler, of the New York
Central.
,The proposal to the Baltimore and Ohio
rood to become a party to the Saratoga
contract was declined; but that road, in
conjunction with the others, agreed to
abolish all commissions on tickets, and
drawbacks on freights. It has been indi
cated that the Baltimore and Ohio would
pursue, as heretofore, a conservative pol
icy regarding transportation, and co-ope
rate with the other lines in all legitimate
measures of economy.
It wa3 urged by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad management that the first step
in the direction of a complete reform was :
to abolish fast freight line3, now in use
on the northern trunk line3, viz: Penn- j
sylvania, Erie, and New York Central, i
It wa3 claimed that under this system,
independent organizations are enabled to j
clear large profits, which, by right, be- !
long to railroad companies, and which, if |
obtained by the latter, would enable them :
to maintain always reasonable tariffs.
The officials of the trunk lines named
expressed themselves desirous of the
abolishment of fast freight lines, bnt
said condition of affairs at present would
not justify it.
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General Jno B Gordon, U S Senator.
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Rev David Wills, D. D., President Oglethorpe
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Gen WSHolt, President S W R R Co.
Hon C B Cole. Judge Superior Court, Ga.
C A Nutting, Esn, President City Bank, Macon,
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Hiram Warner, Chief Justice of Georgia.
SevJ W Burke. Macon, Ga.
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PETITION POE CHAKTEE
POE THE
Macon Harmonic Society
GEORGIA, BIBB COUNTY.
To tiie Honorable the Superior Court op
Bibb County :
Your petitioners—G. E. Sussdorff, W. W.
Carnes, C. C. Guilford, V. Czurda, A. M. Whit
ney, Arthur L. Wood, Davies Tinsley, J. Monroe
Ogden. T. D. Tinsley and E. F. Best—citizens of
said county and State, together with their asso
ciates, respectfully apply for a charter, incorpo
rating them, and their successors, a body politic
and corporate, under tho name and stye of
•THE MACON HARMONIC SOCIETY,”
With power, by this name, to sue and be sued,
to have and to use a common seal, and to pur
chase, with any surplus funds arising from ad
mission fees, of members, or other source of reve
nue, such real estate, or other property, as they
mav desire, and to hold the samo by their Board
of Directors, and their successors in office, m
trustees, for tho benefit of raid Society, which
property shall not bo divided among tho mem
bers of the corporation, but ihall descend to
their successors, until tho dissolution of the
aine. _
• Also, with power to frame and adopt such By-
Laws and amendments thereto for tho govern
ment of tho Society, as hereinafter expressed.
First—Tho object of tho Society is to encour
age and advance the musical skill of its members,
to afford them recreation, and to promote the
musical taste of the community.
Second—Tho Society shall consist of two classes
of membership—Active and Associate Members—
whoso duties and privileges shall be set forth in
the By-Laws to bo hereafter enacted.
Third—Tho government of the Society shall bo
vested in twelve directors, who shall from their
number elect a President and a Vice President.
These twelve officers shall together constitute a
Board of Management, denominated “The Board
of Directors of tho Macon Harmonic Society.”
These Directors shall bo elected on the third
Thursday in November of each year, by tho ac
tive and associate members. Both active and as-
j«x;L'tte members shall be eligible to a seat in the
Board, but not more than half tho Board shall be
associate member?. . ,
Fourth—Tho Hoard of Directors shall have
power to elect new members, a Musical Director,
a Secretary and Treasurer, a Librarian, and such
other officers as may bo neoeasary to carryout
.tho objects of tbo Society, and to pass all By-
Laws and amendments thereto for tho govern
ment of the Society.
Filth—Your petioners state that ono thousand
dollars have been paid into tho treasury of said
Society; that their office and placo of business is
to be m the city of Macon, and that they desire
to be incorporated for the term of twenty year*.
Wherefore your petitioners pray that an order
may be granted, incorporating them as aforesaid
in terms of the law. B. F. BEST,
Solicitors for Petitioners.
Filed in office October 18,1874.
JNO. D. ROSS,
ortl6 ltawlm D. Clerk Superior Court.
OFFICE OF RECEIVER
Klacon & Brunswick R.R
Macon, Ga„ October C, 1874.
In accordance with an order issued from the
Executive Department of this State, published
herewith, will be sold on tho first Tuesday in
December next, between tho hours of ten o’clock
A. xr. and four o’clock r. m., at tho depot of tho
Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company, in the
city of Macon, Bibb coun f y, Georgia, at publie
outcry, to tho highest bidder, tho Macon and
Brunswick Railroad, extending from tho city of
Macon to Brunswick in Glynn county, Georgia—
a distance of ono hundred nnd eighty-six miles,
with the branch road extending from Cochran to
Hawkinsville, a distance of ten miles, nnd about
five miles of side track on the main lino of tbe
road, and nbont two miles of extensions in tho
said city of Brunswick, together with the fran
chises, equipments and other property of said
company, consisting of its road-bed, superstruc
ture, right of way. motive power, rolling stock,
depots, freight and section houses, macliino
shops, carpenter shops, grounds, furniture, ma
chinery, tools and materials connected therewith.
Alto, the following property of said company,
to-wit: Tracts or parcels of land Nos. 1, 3 and 4
in District Twenty, and Nos. 124,120,127,144,
145,146.151,155,15;’. and 157 in District Twenty-
one, and all lying and being in Pulaski county.
Georgia, and containing each two hundred and
two and a half (202i) acres.
Also, a certain tract or parcel of land in tho
city of Brunswick, known as tho wharf property
of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company.
Also, one-half (undivided) of lots Nos. 3 and 4
of block 87 in tho city of Macon, known in the lo
cality os the Guard-house property.
Also, city lots Nos, 1,2 and a portion of No. 3
in square No. 55 in tho city of Macon.
Also, a tract or parcel of land in said city of
Macon, there known as “Camp Oglethorpe,”
containing ten acres, more or less.
Also, city lots Nos. 1 nnd 7, in block No. 7, in
Southwest Macon.
Also, city lot No. 3 in square No. 13 in said city
of Macon, with tho buildings thereon.
Also, tract or parcel of land No. 217, in District
Throe, Wayno county, Georgia, and four hundred
and forty shares of stock in tho Southern and
Atlantic Telegraph Company, certificate 10C9.
The foregoing property will bo offered for cash.
E.A.FLEWELLEN.
Receiver Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
Executive Department, *)
State op Georgia, I-
Atlanta, September SO, 1874.J
Whereas, by virtuo of tho authority given in
tho second section of an act entitled “An act to
extend tho aid of the State to tho completion of
the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, and for
other purposes,” approved December 3,1800, an
order was issued from this department on the 2d
day of July. 1873, seizing and taking possession
of ail tho property of said railroad company, and
“•lacing tho samo in tho hands of nn agent for tho
Jtate, to bo held, managed, and the earnings ap
plied in accordancc witii tho provisions of said
second section of said act; and.
Whereas, among other provisions of said sec
ond section of said act, it is expressly provided
that, after the seizure of all tho property of said
company as aforesaid, tho Governor " shall sell
the said road and its equipments, and other
property belonging to said company, in such
manner and at such time as in his judgment may
best subservo tbo interest of all concernedand
having become satisfied that it will be for tho
best interest of the State and nil concerned that
all tho property of tho company seized under
said order bo sold at an early day, it is, therefore,
Ordered, that all of the property seized fa
aforesaid now in tho possession of Edward A.
Flewellen, Superintendent of Public Works and
Receiver of tho property of tho Macon nnd
■I 1.1 id Company under said order,
bo sold to tho highest bidder, at public outcry, at
the depot of tho Macon and Brunswick Railroad
Company, in tho city of Macon, between tho
hours of ten o’clock a. il and four o’clock P. M.,
on tho first Tuesday in December next, and tho
right i9 hereby reserved to tho State to bid for
tho aarao at said sale to tho extent of ono million
five hundred thousand dollars; It is further
Ordered, that tho said Edward A. Flowellcn,
as Receiver aforesaid, make out an advertise
ment under this order, setting forth with requi
site particularity all the property to bo soldo
such public
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aforesaid, and publish tlio samo ie
nwtfYusamVkie. «*•*»•»* in th*
Given under my hand and tho seal of tho Ex
ecutive Department, at tho Capitol, in Atlanta,
tho day and year above written.
JAMES M. SMITH. Governor.
By the Governor.
J. W. Warren, Secretary Excct’vo Dep’t.
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. S. SMITH
DEALER IN
DRY GOODS and GROCERIES
—AND
PURE WINES &, LIQUORS
Fourth St., opposite M. & B. R. R. Depot.
NO ONE OWES ME A CENT AND
51Y DILLS ARE PROMPTLY
SETTLEDl
fTHIEREFORE I respectfully call tho at ten-
. . tion of housekeepers, and others who buy
at retail to the above two facts, which enablo mo
to sell at wholesale prices.
oct20 sattf J. S. SMITH.
FOR RENT.
Good Water, Fare Air, So Mosquitoes,
Near Scbool and Chnrch.
rpHAT desirable place formerly occupied by It.
A F. Ousley, opposite Pio Nono College, will
bo rented very low. It has been put in good re
pair. Tho house has eight rooms, with servants’
house, and stable. Apply to
GEO. W. BURR.
Real Estate Agent,
*-ltaw4w 88 Mulberry street.
A WORD TO TEE WISE
Y.‘e respectfully ask the attention of our friend*
and the publie generally to the fact that we keep
the
Largest and Most Complete
Book and Stationery
Important to Planters.
Macon, Ga., August 1, i£74.
rpO meet tbe demands of the times, wc detcr-
X mined, early in the Spring, to attempt a re
duction in the rates ©f Storage and Commission on
Cotton, and now announce tho following change :
OLD RATES, | PRESENT RATES.
Commission... II per ct. J Commission... pcrct.
Storage.. 50c per b. | Storage 25c per b.
Thankful for the liberality of our friends in tbo
past, we must look to them for increased patron
age to enable us to adhere to the low rates wo
have inaugurated.
Mr. J. w. Stubbs, a prominent Granger and
planter of this county, will be our weigher tho
present season.
Advances made on cotton in store at lowest cur
rent rates. We guarantee our beet efforts for tlio
interests of all who favor us with business.
Resj>ectfully,
CAMPBELL & JONES,
Warehouse and Commission Merchants.
wcpSltf Macon, (la.
Establishment south of the Potomac.
II you want any kind of
EELIGIOUS,
MISCELLANEOUS,
LAW, SCHOOL,
MEDICAL BOOKS,
LETXEE,
FOOLSCAP,
LEGAL CAP,
or XOTE PAPER,
STATIOXEE’S GOODS,1 MUSIC BOOKS,
SHEET MUSIC,
Pianos, Organs, Flutes, Violins,
Ateordeons, or any thing usually called for in a
Bcok or Music Store, send your orders to us.
We will guarantee satisfaction in every respect
to retail or wholesale buyers. Terms Cash, or to
approved customers, thirty days. Address,
RAILROAD TICKET OFFICE
THROUGH TICKETS TO ALL PRINCIPAL POINTS
“YrORTH, South, East and West by all routes.
XY Fare the same as at depot. Before pur
chasing your ticket call and select your route.
No trouble to explain routes and connections.
Agents for the National Line of Steamers from
New York to Liverpool, London, Hamburg,
Paris, etc. l’or tickets and rates, applv to
BROWN A CO.,
Booksellers, Macon. Ga.
If you want any information about Rates,
Routes, Distances, or Time to any point, call on
or address BROWN A CO..
Booksellers and Genet al R. It. Ticket Agents,
Macon, Ga.
Orders for Carnages received.
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F O It
SALE OR RENT
... .ounty, containing 4<50 acres—200 of
cleared—vineyard, orchard, gin-house
it ton gin, he rse-power, etc.
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commissioners have taken measures to
exclude unraccinated children from the
schools under their direction.
The Carlkt Defeat*
Madrid, November 12.—The loss of
the Carlists in the engagements near
(Nearly opposite Unic
MACON,
Hotel,
i Depot,)
OA.
Board - S3 Per Day*
nov8 eodSt* T. H. HARRIS, Manager.
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BURK hi Si
MACON, GA.
CO„
Big Sale of Live Stock,
I WILL tell, at Feagin A Smith’s stable, at
public outcry, on Saturday, the 29th instant,
a large lot of mules, mares, colts and Berkshire
hogs, good breeders, from Kentucky,
no?12 Stawtd ROBERT JONES.
DANCING ACADEMY.
Huff’s Hall, Macon, Ga,
L ESSONS for Gentlemen—Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, 7$ o’clock p. m., commencing
Thursday, 5tli November.
Lessons for Ladies and Children—Friday, 3 o’
clock p. m., and Saturday, 10 o’clock a. m. and 3
o’clock p. m., commencing Saturday, a. m., 7th
November.
TEX515—{PAYABLE WHEN THE PUPIL ENTERS THE
CLASS) :
Each Pupil, per month. (12 Lessons,) 810 00
Single Lesson or Private lessons, (each,)... -
Pupils may enter the Class at any time. No
deduction made for lessons lost by pupils, except
in cases of sickness. Respectfully,
r.ovl St fTEft. T. L. ROBISOV,
ACCLIMATED
gold FISH
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