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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 20.
A TKIANOULAR FIGHT.
About this time, ways the almanac,
look out for a acrub race in Atlanta.
A few days since the Democrats nomi
nated Mr. Hammock for the Mayoralty,
but one candidate has never suited the
enterprising people of that go-ahead
city. In the Atlanta papers of yester
day two independent candidates were
announced Judge D. F. Hammond and
T. Btobo Farrow—and a lively triangu
lar fight may be expected.
HORACE GKEELKY RESUMES THE
EDIT<>R 1A LCIIARGE OFTHETRI
HUNK.
The Philosopher of the White Hat, if
not of the White House, displays the
character of his philosophy in the
promptness with which he resumes the
arduous labors of his profession. In
the New York Tribune, of the 7th inst.,
we find the following characteristic card:
The undersigned resumes the editor
ship of the Tribune,, which he relin
quished on embarking in another line of
business six months ago. Henceforth
it shall be his endeavor to make this a
thoroughly independent journal, treat
ing all parties and political movements
with judicial fairness and candor, but
courting the favor and deprecating the
wrath of no one.
If lie can hereafter say anything that
will tend to heartily unite the whole
American people on the broad platform
of Universal Amnesty and Impartial Suf
frage, lie will gladly do so. For the
present, however, he can best commend
that consummation by silence and for
bearance. The victors in our late strug
gle can hardly fail to take the whole sub
ject of Southern rights and wrongs into
early and earnest consideration, and to
them, for the present, he remits it.
Since he will aiever again be a candi
date for any office, and is not in full ac
cord with either of the great parties
which have hitherto divided the coun
try, he will be able, anil will endeavor,
to give wider and steadier regard to the
progress of science, industry, and the
useful arts, than a partisan journal can
do; and he will not be provoked to in
dulgence in those bitter personalities
which are the recognized bane of jour
nalism. Sustained by a generous|publie,
lie will do his best to make the Tribune
u power in the broader field it now con
templates, as, when human freedom was
imperiled, it was in the arena of politi
cal partisanship.
Respectfully, Horace G rebury.
New York, November 6, 1872.
We were not of those earlier advocates
for the nomination of Mr. Greeley. We
confess now, as wc have done before, to
the influence of an embittered, life-long
prejudice. But when the Convention ut
Baltimore recoiled before the power of
President Giant's military prestige and
political position, and accepted the Lib
eral offer of coalition, to give peace to
the country on the broad platform of
universal amnesty and impartial suf
frage, we did not hesitate to yield full
and earnest support to the nominees of
the party Horace Greeley and Gratz
Brown. Mr. Greeley became to us the
exponent of peace, and the ballot a pro-
test against the ungenerous, impolitic,
faithless ami cruel policy which had been
inaugurated, and more or less enforced,
against our own section—the South—by
the Administration. Nor has the contest
been fruitless, although the Liberal can
didates have met with overwhelming de
feat. “No power behind the throne”
will now exist “stronger than the throne
itself.” No pretext for harsh policy to
wards the South longer remains. What
ever of support has been given for the
peace platform has been given by the
South to one who has been universally
esteemed as the guide and prime minister
of the power behind the throne—a life
long antagonist. We may, therefore,
conclude fairly that Gen. Grant, stronger
than all powers and combinations and
coalitions, is free for the future to shape
Southern policy without let or hin
drance. “The consideration of the
whole subject of Southern rights and
wrongs" is remitted to him and his sup
porters. This much, at least, then has
been effected. All parties are commit
ted to the policy of peace and reconcilia
tion, however else they may be divided
in political opinion, and for this much
the South is indebted to Horace Gree
ley. For this Mr. Greeley, with exalted
rectitude and inflexible honesty, tells ns
lie resumed that potent instrument for
good and evil—the editorial pen. For
this he will continue to labor; but now
a consummation best to be attained “by
silence and forbearance.”
Alt hough defeated as a candidate inthe
political contest, Horace Greeley is not
without never fading laurels, gathered in
the campaign and awarded by foe as
well as by friend. His personal bearing
throughout the excitement of the cam
paign has been unexceptionable—earn
est, honest and full of dignity. His
political harangues are models of ex
.vllence and the lofty magnanimity and
true patriotism with which lie has
espoused the cause of peace and recon
ciliation for the good of the country,
and his zealous defense of the South
.against wrong and oppression, have made
him troops of friends out of ancient
enemies. Those constitute a wreath
grivitly to he envied, gained outside as a
political leader and orator, to be carried
within to adorn the sanctum of the edi
tor upon resuming the labor of life.
TUK BOSTON CONFLAGRATION.
Little more than twelve months ago
we heard of the destruction of Chicago
by fire, and now the telegraph Hashes ;
over the country the intelligence that j
Boston is in ashes. The history of the
world does not contain an example of
two such conflagrations in so short a
spwee of time. Both cities were among
t he largest ami most flourishing places {
on the' American continent —of about :
the same area ami population, though
widely d.'®ering in other respects.
Chicago was the young giant of the
West built up - within a few decades by
the marvellous enterprise and well
directed energy of the men who made it
their home. It grew’ op in a day, and
perished in a night. On the other
hand. Boston was the metropolis of the
East—founded hundreds 01 years ago,
its prosperity been the result of a
slow but steady and healthy growth.
It had. too. a distinctive reputation of its
ova, as a literary centre, and its society
was mainly composed of cultivated men,
most of whom had made their mark in
the world of letters. But, however dif
ferent in age, manners and society,
they both have been destroyed by the
same means-and the flames have swept
away in a few short hours their accumu-
lations of wealth and labor.
At the present xvriting it is of course
impossible to state the actual loss sus
taiued. The panic naturally created by
the conflagration and the interruption
of direct telegraphic communication, as
well as the fact that the flames have not
yet been entirely subdued, have prevent
.ed the transmission of reliable data.
Enough is known, however, to convince
us that despite the exaggerations of the
accounts, the loss has been fearfully
large. The burnt and burning area com
prises the largest portion of the business
part of the city. From the accounts re
ceived it appears that the first alarm
was given on Saturday night, about half
past seven o’clock—the flames originat
ing in the engine room of a granite whole
sale dry goods house, situated on the
corner of Summer and Kingston streets.
The flames, following the elevator, were
first seen upon the roof, and rapidly
communicated with the buildings in
the vicinity—all of them four stories
high and made of granite. Despite their
solid character, they yielded with al
most unexampled rapidity to the vio
lence of the fiery assault, and in half an
hour one-quarter of the city was burn
ing. During the whole of Saturday
night, and all of Sunday morning, the
flames raged with resistless force and
fury. They were then cheeked until
nightfall, but on yesterday the dispatch
es state that they again broke out, and
destroyed a large additional amount of
property. The finest portion of the city
has been destroyed, and thousands of
people reduced from affluence to beg
gary. What was saved from the fire
was stolen by the thieves, who congre
gate at such calamities. The suffering
has, of course, been already great,
though the first affects have as yet only
been experienced.
The dispatches received on Sunday
Htated that the losses amounted at that
time to twp hundred millions of dollars.
This must have been a great exaggera
tion, and though much property lias
been destroyed since that time, the
figures are still too high. The loss at
Chicago was only one hundred millions,
and that at Boston cannot be any more,
if indeed so much. The taxable value
of the property in 1870 was $612,000,-
000, and it may safely be assumed
that not more than one-sixth of
it has been destroyed. The popula
tion is 250,000. The banking capital
(National Banks) amounted to $48,000,-
000, besides a large amount invested in
Savings Banks—which had deposits of
more than one hundred millions. As far
as can be gathered from the accounts,
besides the dwellings destroyed the
principal damage to the mercantile in
terests of the city seems to have been
sustained by the boot, shoe, leather and
dry goods business. Boston was the
great distributing point of the New
England leather, cotton and woolen
manufactories, and immense stocks of
these goods have been destroyed and
the trade completely paralyzed.
It may safely be assumed that nine
tenths of the property burnt was insured,
hut will the insurance companies be
able to meet their losses? The great
tire in Chicago drove many of
them into bankruptcy twelve months
ago. Many strained every nerve and
managed to keep above water, con
soling themselves with the belief
that Chicago fires only came ouiie
in a century. On its lieelH now comes
the'Boston conflagration. Stunned then,
will they not fall before the force of
this last blow ? The telegraph already
brings news of tlieir succumbing. Massa
chusetts and the city of Boston have
ninety-eight home insurance companies,
the risks taken by which amounted, in
1871, to nearly $1,000,000,000. There
will be anew element of loss and suf
fering. Thousands who lost nothing by
the flames will be engulphed in the ruin
of insurance companies in which they
were interested. What will be the
future results of this great disaster re
mains to be seen. Besides the many
thousands of homeless and destitute
Bostonians, will not the effects of the
conflagration be keenly felt by others ?
Will this country, young, vigorous and
prosperous as it is, be able to stand two
such fires within a year as those of Bos
ton and Chicago ? Will it not cause at
least a stringency in the money market
which will be felt from New York
to San Francisco, if it does not produce
a great financial crash and panic ?
Let us, in conclusion, say a few words
of the fire from a Southern stand-point, j
For twenty years Boston has overflowed
with bitterness towards the South. En- ,
riched liy our money, she has been our i
persistent and deadly enemy. There j
the doctrines of abolitionism were first
taught. Boston produced the agitators
and the agitators the armies which de
stroyed Southern liberties and desola
ted homes. Since the surren
der her enmity to us has not ceased.
Every measure of humiliation and des
potism has been warmly advocated by
the press and people of Boston. She
has never abandoned for an instant the
policy of hate. Now that city is desola
ted and in ashes. Yet the South does
not exalt over her downfall. The sor
rows of her people have washed away
all bitterness of feeling, and we “ shake
hands with them across the fiery chasm.”
From no part of the country will there
he more genuine expressions of sym
pathy than from the territory south of
the Potomac. We have forgotten her
faults. We remember nothing but her
misfortunes.
NEW YORK TRIBUNE'S CONCLU
SIONS AS TO THE GENERAL RE
SI LT OF OUR LATE PRESIDEN
TIAL ELECTION.
I. The objections to General Grant’s
rule originally urged by Senators Sum
ner. Sohurz, Trumbull, &c., were forcible
aud well grounded. Many of the most
respectable of the journals which, on
either side of the Atlantic, vigorously
urged the President’s re-election, now
iusist that the abuses thus proclaimed
must be acknowledged and corrected ;
some of them demand, in addition to the
relorms specifically promised at Phila
delphia, others still more radical and
thorough.
11. But, where thousands admitted
that the criticisms aforesaid were just,
far fewer were ready to accept the only
alternative presented. They say they
would have supported Adams, or Davis,
or Trumbull ; but not Greeley. Hence
thi> vote is quite light, even in States
and districts where the contest was
spirited.
111. The great mass of our people feel
no sympathy for those they still regard
as rebels. On the contrary, they hold
that these have been treated more len
iently than they deserve. The majority
will tolerate, not approve, the gift of
office to a Longstreet, an Akermau, a
Settle who has been baptised into the
Republican church; but they are uot
willing that any others shall bold office
where they can prevent it.
IV. Whichever party carries in Octo
ber two of the three central States—
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana—is mo
| rally certain to choose the President in
November. There has been no excep
tion to this rule, save in 1824, when
Jackson carried Pennsylvania aud In
diana, and had a plurality of the Elec
tors chosen, but Adams was elected by
the House. '
Y. These two States having gone for
Grant in October, uot only was the con
test virtually given up in the North, but
thousands of the so-called rebels went
over to Grant, believing this their short
est way to perfect reconstruction —that
is, to secure for themselves a practical
equality of rights with other citizens.
Thus General Kershaw, of South Caro
lina, at one time urged his fellow rebels
to run no ticket against Graut, as this
would enable them to appeal with effect
ter Federal sympathy as against their
rue&lly State rulers.
VI. The Republicans Lave won a
perilous triumph. John Randolph said
that one was the best possible majority.
When the old Republican party had
chosen Mr. Monroe President with only
cfne Elector dissenting, it dissolved and
ran four candidates at the next election.
VII. Though the Democratic party
broke into fragments, not one of these
has distinctly proposed a return to the
anti-negro policy of other days. On the
contrary, the Bourbons, who urged
all manner of objections to Greeley,
said nothing of his devotion to equal
rights regardless of color. We may
fairly conclude that there will be no
further formidable, systematic opposi
tion to impartial suffrage.
VIII. There is little or no complaint
from any quarter of violence or ter
rorism at the polls. Blacks and whites
swarmed around a thousand polls, strug
gling zealously, but scarcely a blow was
struck and no serious riot occurred. It
is thus settled that whites and blacks
may vote together without a breach of
the peace—“rebel” and “nigger” treat
ing each other with forbearance and con
sideration.
THE PRAYER OF THE VICE-PRESI
DENT ELECT.
A recent speech of Wilson, Senator
from Massachusetts, now Vice-President
elect, closed with the following perora
tion :
Let us correct our errors, and have
four years of administration that shall
rebuke our enemies, and bring down
the blessings of our Heavenly Father.
If Vice-President Wilson can accom
plish a correction of the errors commit
ted, he will call forth the oil of joy from
many, and the “rebuke” which is “ac
companied by the blessings of our
Heavenly Father ” will bring to his side
many earnest advocates for the highest
political preferment —at least so long as
the blessings continue to come. But we
are as sceptical as an unbelieving
Thomas about the correction of errors
and the blessing invoked. That the re
buke will eoine, we do not doubt; but
we fear it will be without the pious ac
companiments.
THE BOSTON FIRE AND SOME OF
ITS CONSEQUENCES.
The character of the telegraphic dis
patches indicate tlint the influence of
the great fire of Boston will not seriously
affect trade, either financially or com
merci dly. We iufer from the tenor of
these dispatches that the loss will be
greatly distributed and generally be
borne by those who can afford to suffer
serious loss and not be crushed. The
greatest suffering seems to be anticipated
rather than realized iu the number of
those whose daily avocations, now sus
pended, furnished daily resources for
living, and particularly among the class
of sewing women, ten thousand of whom
are reported as having been thrown out
of employment. Avery marked conse
quence seems to be already anticipated
in the great metropolis of the country—
namely, the deflection from Boston, and
necessarily the increased concentration
iu New York, of the woolen, paper, and
shoe and leather trades, temporarily at
least—not to be reclaimed except by ex
traordinary exertions. Nearly all the
great manufacturing interests of New
England possessed depots in Boston for
the storage of their daily accumulating
stocks. For these immediate anil ade
quate provision will undoubtedly be
made in the city of New York, which,
in all probability, as a general rule, will
become permanent.
The first estimate of the loss still
stands uueontradicted two hundred
millions. This we take to be exagge
rated at least by oue-lialf, which would
give 100,000,000 as the approximate loss.
Such a loss, although grievous, could
be borne by Boston more easily than
perhaps by any other city in the Union—
New York alone excepted. The increase
of taxable property in the State of Mas
sachusetts in 1871 exceeded eighty mil
lions, and in the city of Boston upwards
of twenty-eight millions—the whole value
of taxable property iu Boston being
$612,663,550 ; the total taxable property
jof the State being $1,497,351,686. It
i will be seen, therefore, Massachusetts
I coming forward in aid other capital, and
I chief commercial emporium, is abund
i antly able to bear up under so great
loss and exceedingly great destruction
< of property, and the ease with which
! Boston may command capital to recupe
: rate her disastrous loss.
GREELEY TAKING COMFORT.
The following article, from the New
York Tribune, boars the impress of Mr.
Greeley’s pen:
There has been no time, until‘now,
within the last twelve years, when the
Tribune was not supposed to keep, for
the be'nefit of the idle and incapable, a
sort of Federal employment agency, es
tablished to get places under Govern
ment for those who were indisposed to
work for their living. Any mail who had
ever voled the Republican ticket believed j
that it was the duty and the privilege of
the editor of this' paper to get him a \
place in the Custom House. Every red- j
nosed politician who had cheated at the j
caucus and fought at the polls looked to
the editor of the Tribune to secure his
appointment as gauger, or as army chap
lain, or as minister to France. Every
campaign orator came upon us after the I
battle was over for a recommendation as j
Secretary of the Treasury or the loan of |
half a dollar. If one of our party had I
an interest pending at Washington, the .
editor of the Tribune was telegraphed in :
frantic haste to come to the Capitol,
save this bill, crush that one, promote
one project or stop another. He was to
be Everybody’s Friend, with nothing to
do but t'o take care of other folks busi
ness, sign papers, write letters, and ask
favors for them, and to get no thanks j
for it eitlny. Four-fifths of these people
were sent away without wliat they
wanted, ouly to become straightway
abusive enemies; it was the worry of
life to try to gratify oue demand in
a dozen for the other fifth.
The man with two wooden legs con
gratulated himself that he could never
be troubled with cold feet. It is a
source of profound satisfaction to us
that office-seekers will keep aloof from a
defeated candidate, who has not in
fluence enough at Washington or Albany
to get a sweeper appointed under the ber
geant-at-Aruis, or a deputy-sub-assistant
temporary clerk into the pcstepot section
of the folding room. At last we shall l>e
let alone to mind our own affairs and
manage our own newspaper, without be
ing called aside every hour to help lazy
people whom we don’t know and to
spend our strength iu efforts that only
benefit people who don’t Reserve assist
ance. At last we shall keep oijr office
clear of blatherskites and political beg
gars, and go about our daily work with
the satisfaction of knowing that not the
most credulous of place hunters will
suspect us of having any credit with the
appointing powers. That is one of the
results of Tuesday’s election, for which
we own ourselves profoundly grateful.
THE GERMAN HOLDERS OF GEOR j
GIA BONDS.
The New York Journal of Commerce j
publishes the following extract from the
American New*, of Frankfort, of the
date of October 18tli:
At the last meeting of the Georgia
Committee the resolution was adopted
to send Mr. W. W. Murphy to Georgia
for the purpose of securing the rights of
the German bondholders, and to make
them parties to the suit which is now
pending in Court there. The commit
tee is iu correspondence with some of
the leading bankers in New York, and
they all advised the German bondhold
ers to be represented at the next term of
the Court iu Atlanta, which will be held
about the middle of November next.
Distinguished counsel have been retain
ed, and we earnestly hope that, even if
| the State of Georgia should insist on
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1872.
the repudiation, yet the road itself will
fetch enough to pay the bondholders.
We have yet to learn that the State of
Georgia has ever “repudiated,” in the
popular acceptation of the term repu
diate. The Legislature of the State
has, after careful and patient examina
tion, declared certain bonds, purporting
to be issued in the name and by virtue
of the Constitution and laws of the
State, by a fugitive Governor, fraudu
lent and void. The holders of these
bonds do well, therefore, to look to “the
road” (we presume the Brunswick and
Albany) as the security for the money
obtained from them as the purchase
money of these bonds. What sort of
German Mr. W. W. Murphy is, who is
to look after the interests of those
Frankfort bondholders, does not ap
pear. His name would indicate a pure
Milesian origin; and this leads to the
conjecture that the Irish' are mixed up
in the matter some way, whether the
followers of Father Tom or adherents of
Frosede. The next thing to be expected
is that Bpalpec-n will issue an Irish ad
dress to the American nation in behalf
of German bondholders, upon the infa
mous conduct of Rufus Bullock, of New
York, Governor for the time being of
the State of Georgia, and Henry Clews,
his financial agent, and the unreason
ableness of the people of Georgia in not
offering to secure the aforesaid Germans
from suffering as the victims of imposi
tion. There is no telling. The Mur :
phys are a powerful race, and their kin
endless; but we are incredible as to their
power to make bad good, even for a
German friend.
HORSE DISEASE.
Surgeon McEachrau.
In our issue of the 10th instant we
copied from a Savannah cotemporary
an epitome of Surgeon MoEacliran’s
treatment of the horse epidemic. A
friend lias called at our office and placed
in our hands a letter from Snrgeon
McEachrau, as also copies of his letters
which appeared in the Montreal papers
when the disease first broke out iu
Canada. These letters we subjoin in
full, as we believe they will render good
service to the public. Our friend re
ports Dr. McEachrau as a gentleman of
high professional attainments and excel
lent moral character;
Montreal, November 6, 1872.
Dear Sir —l have just received your
favor of the 2d inst., and hasten to reply,
feeling it both a duty and a privilege to
do so.
I regret very much not being able, for
want of time, to write you another let
ter, as I have had a great deal of experi
ence, both here and in New York, since
they were published. However, I have no
doubt if they are published in your pa
pers they will be of service in suggest
ing the nature of the treatment which
we found successful. I tried to find
copies of the “ Witness," but could uot
do so. I had cut out the two enclosed
for preservation. 1 will feel obliged if
you would favor me by sending me a
copy of the paper in which they appear.
You may assure the public that it is
not by any means a fatal disease. With
good nursing and rest from labor, their
need not be one death iu 400 cases.
Young stock at pasture will suffer but
little, and if the weather is mild will be
as well in the fields.
So long as they feed well they ought
to be regularly exercised, the amount of
exercise to be regulated by the strength
of the patient. Above all things they
must avoid all quack compounds, irri
tant vapors, impure air, cold draughts,
or wet, and under or over feeding—give
sufficient nourishment to sustain them
well, but in an easily digested form.
Nursing will have more to do with
the recovery than medicine.
Thanking you for the interest you are
taking on the behalf of our poor dumb
friends, and hoping these notes may be
of some use to those who may read
them. * * * * *
Yours, most sincerely,
[Signed] D. McEachran.
EPIZOOTIC INFLUENZA.
To the Editor of the Witness:
Sir —Seeing that the epidemic among
horses is rapidly spreading, and even
now prevails to such an extent that it is
impossible they can all have proper pro
fessional attention, I have felt it my
duty to the public to offer the following
hints as to the management of the
disease:
It is indicated by dullness more or
less, the pulse is quick and weak, ex
tremities cold, the breathing quick, a
very deep hacking cough, the lining
membrane of the eyes and nose of a
yellowish tinge, the throat is swollen
and sore internally; consequently he
swallows with great difficulty, and in
many cases refuses food. There is in
most cases a discharge of adhesive
brownish yellow matter from both
nostrils, "and in many it is coughed up
in lumps from the throat. Weakuess is
one of the earliest and most prominent
symptoms. Iu most of the stables they
have taken it almost simultaneously.
The principles of treatment will con
sist, in the first place, of thoroughly
ventilating and cleaning the stables,
aud sprinkling the floor with carbolic
acid powder (much better than solu
tion). Keep the animals warmly clothed,
but keep the stable cool, without
draughts; give them no dry food, es
pecially oats; linseed tea, oatmeal gruel,
boiled oats, bran mash, carrots, apples
and bread, will be found the best nour
ishing articles to’ offer them. They
should he encouraged to drink as much
linseed tea as possible, and if they re
fuse all food they must be drenched
with either the tea or oatmeal gruel.
In this disease mild stimulants and
vegetable tonics should be given early,
of which cinchona bark and gentian are
the best.
I have found that the sulphite of j
soda in half ounce doses given three j
times a day, with gruel, has marked es- j
feet both in preventing and modifying |
the attacks. The throat should be
mildly blistered, and, if the lungs be- j
come affected, the sides of the. chest j
also. It is of the greatest importance '
that they be kept from wet or cold; the j
owner will study his own interests by j
keeping them from work, especially in :
cold, damp weather. So long as they ;
continue to feed well and the weather is
fine, they may be worked moderately, i
with blankets under the harness.
These remarks refer merely to the {
disease generally; each case presents its
own peculiar specialities, and requires
special prescription, of which the j
qualified practitioner is best able to;
judge; but as it is next to impossible to j
visit and prescrible for all the cases at:
present, I hope the aboye remarks may \
not only be of use to the public, but of
service iu relieving the profession.
Yours, truly, D- McF.acuran,
Consulting Veterinary Surgeon to Cpun- !
cil of Agriculture, P. q>.
ANOTHER LETTER FROM MR. M’eACHBAN. j
To (he Editor of the Witness :
Sir—Seeing that the prevailing dis- i
ease among horses still continues to
spread, not only’ in the city but in the '
surrounding country, I will feel obliged
if you will insert the subjoined direc- j
tions for the guidance of grooms and i
others engaged in nursing them :
Keep them in the stalls ; keep the
stable warm, 60 to 80 deg.; clothe the
body and bandage the legs ; give' them
whatever they will eat.
When the ears and legs become cold,
with the pulse weak and the breathing
quick, rub the sides well with amrno
niacal liniment, and give two. fluid
ounces of ammonia of nitrous ether, in
a bottle of gruel, four times a day ; give
also a quart of good old beer three times
| during the twenty-four hours, with as
I much gruel or linseed tea as can be
j drenched into them, if they don’t drink
i it.
On no account let them get chilled,
i either by being taken out, or the doors
being left open ; but see also that the
stable is kept perfectly clean, all ma
; nure immediately removed, and the
floors well dusted with carbolic powder.
And may I add to the owners—ls yon
! wish to save the lives of your horses,
i do not force the poor staggering ani-
I mals to work. Even if they do not
I drop dead on the streets, as many have
j done, and supposing even they do not
die from the disease, the injury done to
the lungs and system generally will
render them almost worthless for the
future. Old horses more especially
seem to suffer from the congested condi
tion of the lungs and weakened circula
tion, and require all care possible.
See, too, that your groom has suffi
cient assistance and is promptly pro
vided with what is ordered for his sick
case, and that he carefully carries out
the instructions given him by the prac
titioner in attendance.
In closing, I nmst say that I have in
most instances been very much struck
by the humane feelings which are
evinced by the grooms and drivers. Iu
many cases they have positively refused
to drive the poor suffering creatures,
even when threatened by tlieir em
ployer with dismissal. Many of them
have nursed night and day, and seem
always pleased to lie told of improvement.
I hope the owners will he as considerate
as the men seem to be, and I have no
doubt the mortality will not be great.
Yours, truly,
D. McEachran,
V. S. to Council of Agriculture, P. Q.
Wilkes County Fair.
Washington, Ga., Nov. 7, 1872.
Editors Chronicle A Sentinel:
I had the pleasure of a brief visit to
the Fair Grounds of the Wilkes County
Agricultural Association to-day, and re
gret that circumstances prevented me
from getting an amount of information
that would be of much public interest.
The crowd in attendance was unusually
large—in fact, too much so to make
things altogether pleasant and agreeable.
The crowning attraction of the occasion
to some was the number of young ladies
that filled the halls and thronged every
place connected with their department.
Whatever old AVilkes may lack in other
respects, she may certaiply boast of her
handsome daughters.
The ladies’ department of the exhibi
tion was highly creditable to their taste,
skill and industry. The amount and va
riety of needle and fancy work, samples
from the dairy and kitchen, comprising
articles too tedions to mention, evinced
the work of hands guided by the high
est type of cultivation and refinement.
In the floral hall I noticed a lady’s
hat, dressed by Mrs. Barber, of Wash
ington, with the inside of a squash, that
evinced skill and ingenuity in the milli
nery art that made it an object of won
der and admiration. There were other
fancy specimens from the same hands
that were truly fascinating.
I observed in this department a file of
the Virginia Gazette, a paper published
in the year 1770. It contained but few
editorials, numerons advertisements of
lands for sale on the next Court day, a
few extracts of general news from British
papers, the latest news from Boston—
about tiw> months past—with occasional
anecdotes, which for manner and style,
would seem to one of this day simply
ridiculous. These relies of the eventful
past are the property of Mrs. Jno. AV.
Mattox, of AA 7 ilkes, to whose veneration
for the departed we are indebted.
The horticultural department was very
good, considering the drouth that pre
vailed in this county through the Fall
months. The field products were varied
aud abundant, and showed wisdom and
economy, in many respects, worthy of
imitation. The fine specimens of luiy
presented should certainly encoitrage
others in the cultivation of this very
cheap and important species of proven
der, for which the soil of Middle Geor
gia is so wonderfully adapted.
The department of agricultural imple
ments was well supplied. I noticed a
plow recently patented by Mr. J. C.
Williamson, of this county, and took the
premium in Augusta, that is rapidly
growing in public lavor. It is so con
structed that a shovel, sweep, turn
plow or subsoiler may bo attached
and worked with equal facility.
Let ns patronise home inventions. Up
pon the whole, the Wilkes County Fair
is a very good one, an improvement
they say upon last year; a gay and mer
ry time for the young people, who flock
thither from all tire town and county
round about.
Oapt. AVingfielil, the courteous gentle
man, aud active and efficient officer of the
Association, will except my thanks for a
free ticket to the Fair. Traveler.
The Greensboro Fair.
Greensboro, November 8, 1872.
Editors Chronicle A Sentinel:
The Greensboro Fair Grounds are lo
cated on the northwest commons of the
town, only a few hundred yards from tlie
depot—a very convenient and acceptable
arrangement for visitors who have no
conveyance. The site selected is favor
able for the purpose, and with a little
more improvement will be admirably
adapted to the object.
I believe the exhibition just closing
up is considered by impartial minds a
grand success; in some respects superior
to anything I have seen. The fire-works
and balloon ascensions were a success—
scientific feats of sublimity and gran
deur such as we rarely witness. These
were to many new features in the pro
gramme of a Fair, and did much to en
hance the attractions of the occasion.
The rerial vessels, beautifully adorned
with many colors, soaring far away in
the Heavens, that rang with the cheers
of a thousand lips, was truly exciting.
The building erected for floral and
agricultural products is of one story,
and sufficiently large for ordinary pur
poses. The ladies’ department was pretty
full, and their dairy and culinary work,
together with pickled, preserved aud
canned fruits, of every variety the cli
mate and soil affords, was of superior
quality.
The cotton and woolen manufactures,
counterpanes, quilts, and many articles
for household convenience and comfort,
too tedious to mention, reflected great
credit upon the ladies.
The contributions of stock were un
usually large for a county fair, and some
as line as can be found in Middle Geor
gia. The poultry department was a par
ticular attraction, and the beautiful
Italian and Brahma fowls, especially the
latter, were the finest I ever saw. In
fact, the fair in every respect was a good
one, and a credit to those sturdy and
public spirited citizens, Dr. Poullian,
Jones, Doster, Sanders, Peek, Parks,
Griffin, Veq.sy, Harris, Carlton and many
others, of whom Greene or any other
county might well be proud. The very
best order and decorum prevailed,
though the grounds were covered over
by two or three thousand people. I was
pleased to observe the absence of those
clap-trap and swindling machines so
demoralizing to sueli associations.
Traveppr.
What Fobnf.y Says About Greeley.
—The Philadelphia, Press of Thursday,
pays Horace Greeley a high and just
compliment upon his return to his edi
torial duties. It says:
To-day Horace Greeley, the greatest
editor that America lias ever produced,
comes back to his old place at the head
of the Tribune. We warmly welcome
him 'on his return to journalism.
Like all else that he lias written or
spoken, his card, published iu to-day’s
edition of bis paper, has the strength
aud ring which evpr accompanies the
words of a true main “Courting the
favor and deprecating the wrath of no
one” has been Horace Greeley's life-long
motto. When he has arrived, after long
and careful thought, at any conclusion
on matters of governmental or party
policy, he has never feared to put that
conclusion into liis own strong, terse
language, and give it to the world, ready
and willing to abide by and take the full
consequences of his utterance, no matter
what those consequences might be. He
is in a word, a true and honest man.
Under his rule the Tribune rose to its
present high position —under his rule it
will continue to rise, aud will ever be
the exponent of views which, although
possibly not in accordance with those of
a majority of his fellow-countrymen, will
at least be honest, able and pure, the
result of patient investigation and pro
found conviction.
Mav his success as a journalist be as
great "in time to come as it has been in
the time that is past; may he long con
tinue to give utterance to those “sabre
cuts of Saxon speech” which have won
for him fame and honor, and may he
stand for many, many years at the head
of the list of the editors of America.
An Efizooty Among the Deer. —A
gentleman who has just returned from a
deer hunt on the frontier, brings news of
an epidemic prevailing among these ani
mals which threatens to seriously affect
the supply of venison. He says that
herds were frequently seen in which
there would be dozens scarcely able to
travel, and that large numbers of dead
and dying deer were found in the woods.
The disease seems to resemble in its
symptoms the horse disease, which is
now creating so much trouble in the
East,— St. Paul Press.
ALMOST A MEETING.
Macon aud Augusta Railroad Again—
No Quorum— Another Adjournment—
The President’s Report.
For some time past the stockholders
of the Macon and Augusta Railroad have
been endeavoring to hold a meeting,
but without success. The last attempt
was made yesterday afternoon. By a
notice published in the newspapers, the
stockholders were summoned to meet in
this city on Tuesday, the 12tli instant,
at half-past three o’clock in the after
noon. AVhen that hour arrived, two
newspaper reporters and three stock
holders assembled in that labyrinth of
brick and mortar known as the Georgia
Railroad Bank. In a room on the right
two gentlemen were lidding an exciting
caucus, aud iu a room on the left four
gentlemen were holding a caucus equally
as interesting.
In about an hour the meeting com
menced, only a few persons being pres
ent.
The President—Geo. H. Hazlehurst—
called the meeting to order.
He appointed Messrs. Moore, Estes
and Carrington a committee on proxies.
They examined the different proxies and
certificates of stock, and reported nine
thousand three hundred and seventy
shares represented—four hundred and
seventy-five shares less than a quorum.
Mr. Heard asked if any important
business was to be transacted.
The President said they could do
slothing without a quorum.
Mr. Heard moved to adjourn until the
fourth AVednesday in January. Adopted.
Mr. Mathewson said though they
could take no action, they might hear
the report of the President for informa
tion.
Mr. Hazlehurst submitted a report, as
follows:
Augusta, October 7th, 1872.
To the Stockholders of the Macon and
Augusta Railroad:
Gentlemen —The annual report of
operations of the company is herewith
respectfully submitted;
Statement of the Auditor of the Geor
gia Railroad gives the following exhibit
of earnings and expenditures for the
past twelve months, ending September
30tli, 1872; also, comparative statement
with the previous year:
From October Ist, 1871, to Septem
ber 30th. 1872. gross earnings
passengers, freights, express and
mail £110.537 19
Total expenses—ordinary and extra
ordinary 110,300 03
Deficiency 5.833 14
From October Ist. 1870. to Septem
30th, 1871, gross earnings—pas
sengers, freights, mails and ex
press 78,619 41
Total expenses—ordinary and extra
ordinary 139,808 71-
Deiiciency $ 01,249 30
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT.
Gross Total Net, or
Dates. Earnings. Expenses. Deficiency.
October Ist, 1870,
to October Ist,
1871 $78,619 41 $139,8(58 71 $61,249 30
October Ist, 1871,
to October Ist,
1872 110,537 19 116,300 33 5,823 14
Deficiency.. 31,917 78 23,508 38 55,420 lfl
Being an increase of $31,918 22 in
earnings, and a decrease in expenditures
of $23,508 38—555,426 16; a gain of 75
per cent, over business of the previous
year. It must be borne in mind that
having no outfit of our own, either of
cars or engines, that the road has been
operated altogether by the Georgia Road,
and being considered by that company
as but an extension of their line to Ma
con, the rates of freight have been made
conformable to that idea, being pro rata,
or divided according to distances. In
addition, the competition with the Cen
tral Road at Milledgeville and Macon
necessitates very low through rates,
which, being pro rated, give but a small
return.
In view, therefore, of these facts, the
above exhibit is highlygratifying, show
ing that even at these low rates the road
has met, during the past year, its ex
penditures for operating, maintaining
and improving its condition, and in
creased its earnings $31,918 22 over pre
vious year.
We may reasonably hope that this im
provement wili continue. The cotton and
corn crops along tire line being much bet
ter than that of tlip past year, the country
more prosperous, and the people availing
themselves more and more, as in the
history of other Idee enterprises, of the
advantages of the road.
Our business is derived solely from
local earnings.
The recent lease and amalgamation of
the Macon and Western liailroad by the
Central Road has enabled the latter
company to close still more firmly the
door to all communication with us to
Middle and Southwest Georgia. One
main object of the road is thus defeated,
it is believed, but temporarily, expe
rience having proved that this exclusive
policy but provokes the building of
rival lines; still, the present effect on
our business is very apparent.
We had every reason to believe that
our line, offering as it does a saving of
41 miles, or a gain of oyer two hours in
time, between Montgomery and Au
gusta would have been recognized as a
iink in the grand through passenger line
between those points. But in this we
have been doomed to disappointment.
The time is not far distant, however,
when this advantage will be appreciated.
A great improvement in our business
will be effected by running regular
trains between Augusta and Macon on a
faster schedule than at present, and
without transfer ftt Oamntb \ strong
appeal will be made to the managers of
the Georgia Railroad to this end. The
present speed of trains on the Macon
and Augusta Road is twenty miles per
hour, the eighty miles being made in
four hours, which speed, extended over
the forty-seven miles from Carnak to
Augusta, would give six hours and
twenty minutes for the run between
Macon and Augusta, which gmy con
sumes eight and a quarter hours—a gain
of two hours
f Note. — Since the date of this report
the suggestion lias been acted on anil
agreed to by the Georgia Railroad, the
change of schedule giving great satis
tion to the traveling public. |
The schedules pud frequent
changes of cars on the roads north of
Augusta, leading to New York, have com
pletely driven off' the through travel
from Macon, Southwestern Georgia and
Montgomery, to the Upper or East Ten
nessee route, so that the through travel
is unimportant to us now; but with the
advantage of a short run, with pleasant
trains and convenient hours, we snrely
should monopolize the local Augusta
and Macon travel.
We have thought but proper to offer
these explanations, that the stockholders
may understand the difficulties under
which we labor, and also be assured that
tl;e prospects for the future of the road
are based on sound reasons for antici
pated improvement.
Jt affords m e great pleasure to state
that the roadway is in fine condition.
The effects of the excessively wet Win
ter have been repaired by heavy ditch
ing, a large number of new cross-ties
have been placed in the track, the trestle
work renewed almost entirely and the
heavv fill of the Ivey branch culvert
completed. The filling of the long piling
through the Ocmulgee swamp, near
Macon, has been commenced, and its
speedy completion will still further add
to the improved condition of the road.
The trains have run with entire immu
nity from accidents of any moment, and
the* fast schedule named above attests
the superior condition of the track.
Our obligation*, are especially due to
Mr. P. W. Printap, Road Master of the
Georgia Road, who has ever manifested
a deep interest in our road, endeavor
ing, by close attention and tl;e employ
ment of all means witfiiii his control, to
place our track in safe order and condi
tion. All officers and employees of the
Georgia Road seem to entertain like
wishes for our success.
The balance sheet of the Treasurer,
Dr. J. A. S. Milligan, hereto attached,
gives the financial condition of the com
pany.
Very respectfully, gentlemen, your
obedient servant,
Geo. H. Hazelhubst,
President.
The meeting then adjourned.
The Horae Disease,
Cincinnati, November 12.—The horse
disease is increasing hourly. It is
feared to-morrow that all work and
pleasure horses in the city will be dis
abled.
ARREST OF THE ELECTION MANA
GERS AT SAVANNA H.
New- Section of tlie Enforcement Act.
In Savannah, on Saturday evening,
after dark, Magistrates J. McPherson
Berrien, S. .Elsinger, J. M. Marsh, C.
O. Lamotte, Levi S. Hart, and free
holders Christopher C. Casey (Alderman
| of Savannah), John R. Hamlet, M. T.
Qninan, Dr. L. A. Falligant, and J. G.
Watts, were arrested by the United
l States Deputy Marshals, upon a war
rant issued by United Spates Commis
sioner A. AA 7 . Stone, upon the affidavit
of one Lewis J. Moody, colored Magis
trate of the Ogeechee District, alleg
ing that they refused to perfom duties
required of them by the laws of the
State of Georgia in regard to the elec
tion for Representatives in the Forty
third Congress of the United States,
held on the sth of November, 1872, iu
the Southern District of Georgia, and
county of Chatham, they being mana
gers of said election, and did make a
fraudulent and false certificate as to the
result of said election, and did refuse
to make a return of said election, as re
quired by law, to the best of his knowl
'edge and belief, contrary to the laws of
the United States.
From the Republican, we learn that
notwithstanding these gentlemen were
at their usual avocations all day in the
city, no effort was made to arrest them
until the unusual hour named above,
when they were carried through the
darkness and drizzling rain of the
night to the office of Commissioner
Stone. Their bonds were fixed at $2,500
each, when Alderman Casey tendered
his bondsman, who qualified and signed
the document. The amount of $3 30,
demanded as costs, was promptly paid
by the principal.
In the other cases, when the boudsmen
were tendered for justification, Commis
sioner Stone placed himself upon the
law, informed the gentlemen respective
ly that his official duty only required
him to receive one penal bond per day,
aud that unless eacli prisoner promptly
handed over the sum of $8 30 as costs
on each warrant, a commitment would
he gratuitously furnished in each ease,
and the citizens would ho allowed to
consider the matter amidst the unbroken
retirement of prison-life iu Chatham
county jail until Monday, and the suc
cessive arrival of the subsequent days
in number equal to that of the prisoners
themselves. This novel and interesting
legal proposition touching the escape
from imprisonment of each of the gen
tlemen arrested at so strange, incon
venient and unnecessary an hour of the
night, presented the well known and
popular (judicially speaking) subject of
costs iu a light at once new, brilliant aud
strong under the focus of tlie law of
“ our country, rightor wrong.” But the
officer of the law, and the law itself
were equally stern and inexorable, and
the $8 30 costs demanded for taking each
bond had to he paid or each man “gaze
through the prison bars.” Lodging for
single gentlemen in jail was thought to
he worth more than $9 30; and each citi
zen handed the Commissioner his $8 30
of the needful; and the bonds of $2,500
apiece were signed and the prisoners re
leased.
Magistrate Belissario, who lives at
Thunderbolt, and Dr. B. F, Sheftall
(Coroner of Chatham county), and Magis
trate Isaac Russell—the latter two living
in the city, and absent from their homes
when the officers called last evening—are
yet to be arrested.
The managers were arrested under a
newly developed section of the enforce
ment act (whoso untold beauties and i
surpassing wonders it has never enterod j
into the heart of any man to conceive,
nor has ear ever heard nor eye ever seen
them); and, as an interesting paragraph,
pertinent to the transactions we have
described above, we submit it to the
readers of the Republican:
COPY OF SECTION 22 OF ACT OF THE CON
GRESS, APPROVED If AY tfIST, 1870.
“ Awl he it further enacted, That any
officer of any election, at which any
Representative or Delegate in the Con
gress of the United States shall be voted
for, whether such officer of election be
appointed or created by or under any
law or authority of the United States, or
by or under any State, territorial, dis
trict or municipal law or authority,
who shall neglect or refuse to perform
any duty in regard to such election re
quired of him by any law of the United
States, or of any State or territory
thereof; or violate any duty so imposed,
or knowingly do any act thereby unau
thorized, with intent to affect any such
election, or the result thereof ; qr frau
dulently make, any false oert(fieUtc of
the result of such election in regard to
such Representative or Delegate ; or
withhold, conceal, or destroy any certifi
cate of record so required by law, re
specting, concerning or pertaining to
the election of any such Representative
or Delegate ; or neglect or refuse to
make and return the same, as so re
quired by laiv ; or aid, counsel, nrqfiure
or advise any voter., person, of (oeer
to do any qef sty this dr any <if the pro
ceeding sections made a crime; or
omit to do any duty, the omission of
which is by this or any of said sec
tions made a crime, or attempt to do so,
shall be deemed guilty of a crime and
shall be liable to prosecution and pun
ishment therefor, as provided in the
nineteenth section of this act for per
sons guilty of any of ffye (g'irqf.S, fhef'Cin
specified.”
Tlie nineteenth section fixes the pun
ishment to be a fine not exceeding SSOO,
and imprisonment not exceeding three
years, or both, in the discretion of the
Court, and payment of costs of prqsocu:
tion.
Brutal Outrage by a Negro. —The
Macon Telegraph if- Me,Monger gives
this account of a shocking outrage:
“On Tuesday last a negro scoundrel
named Jim O. Pry, sometimes known as
Jim Wilson, attempted a most brutal
outrage on the persqn of a little white
girl, thirteen years of age, who was on
her way to school. The affair took place
in Rutland district, in this county, and
about seven miles from Macon. He
treated the helpless little girl with the
most shameful violepep, even thrusting
sticks dPWU throat tq prevent her
screaming- The wretch was arrested
and taken before a Justice of the Peace,
and committed fur trial; but Wednes
day morning, by some wonderful care
lessness, he was permitted to escape from
the officers who had him in charge, and
is now at large. A reward of S2OO is of
fered for his arrest.
The State Road.— ln the NytW \ork
Bulletin we ftfld the following interest
ing Information : “ The lessees of the
Georgia State Road estimate their loss
of business from the completion of the
South and North Road to Montgomery,
and the consequent diversion of the
whole Western hlWUesa of Alabama
from the qld route oyer the State Road,
at $300,000 per annum. A strong effort
will be made to make np for this loss by
extending their connection# The lease
shares do not rate as high as formerly.
The lessees held a meeting a few days
ago to devise ways and means to raise
the sum of $300,000 to pay the present
outstanding indebtedness of the com
pany, and to complete their outfit, etc.”
Supreme Court Decisions. The
State Supreme Coart has just adjourn'
ed, but Messrs. W. A. Hemphill & Cos.,
of the Atlanta Constitution, have already
published the decisions delivered dur
ing the last term. The price of the
book is one dollar, and it can be obtain
ed from the publisher;.
NEW SERIES—YOL. XXV—NO. 47.
THE BUHRENOY MYSTERY EX
PLAIN ED.
Lecture of Dr. AV. P. Harrison.
[From the Atlanta Sim, Kth.|
Dr. AA’. P. Harrison, Pastor of the
M. E. Church, South, and an eminent
divine, delivered in this city, last even
ing, a most entertaining lecture on Spir
itualism.
He sought, first, to disprove the pos
sibility of communication with disem
bodied spirits, and next to account for
all apparent spiritual manifestations by
physical, vital, mundane forces.
He treated in tlieir order respective
ly rapping, table tipping, tricks of leger
demain, verbal and written communica
tions, and physical phenomena of all
kinds, such as have astonished the pub
lic mind recently at the Surrency house
in South Georgia.
He sought to demonstrate the ab
surdity of communication with spirit
rappings, by reference to the London
Ghost of tlio last century, in which,
through the medium of a little girl, n
deceased woman, sister of a deceased
wife, declared that her sister had been
poisoned by her husband, and demanded
and predicted that he would be hanged
for the crime. The delusion, for such
it was, excited all England, aud elicited
the personal attention of old Dr. Samuel
Johnson. After a time it was demand
ed that the little girl, the sole medium
of communication with the dead, he
conveyed to a room in a distant part of
the city, placed in bed under care of
strangers, wholly removed from the in
fluence of the persecutors of the alleged
poisoner, and that she would there call
up the spirit of the indignant woman.
This demand was refused, and the eon
sequence was the parties were arrested,
convicted and punished.
Passing over the tricks of legerde
main, wo pass to the Doctor’s refuta
tion of the claim that disembodied
spirits held communication with the liv
ing through automatic living mediums,
who, unconscious of what they did,
would write at the dictation of the
spirit of tlie departed which lie lmd sum
moned. The Doctor stated that he
would here submit a test, aud if there
was any man who could give a demon
stration, simple as it was, he would be
come his convert.
The medium professed to write alone
at tlie dictation of the spirit, wholly un
conscious of what lie wrote. Then if
that spirit would eall up the spirit of
Virgil or Mahomet, and record iu the
Latin or Arabic languages what they
might direct, he would acknowledge the
truth of their theory. AVliy was it that
all mediums held communication with
Virgil, Mahomet, David or Dl'mos
theues in English, French or German,
and never in Latin, Arabic, Hebrew or
Greek —the languages, and the only lan
guages, which those ancient heroes
spoke ? Ilml these spirits learned Eng
lish in death ? Did they all prefer to
communicate in English ? Is it sup
posable that they nre familiar with the
English tongue, when they died 3,600
years before the language was spoken'?
If the medium he a mere automaton lie
can write Hebrew, Arabic and Greek as
easily, AVliy has he never done so,
though repeatedly solicited to do so ?
AVliy is it that in a groat majority of in
stances, though the medium communi
cate with the most finished scholars,
who were models in tlieir day, he spells
badly and murders the English lan
guage; uses terms and phraseology such
as were never used by the spirits when
alive? Is it probable that they have
forgotten their language, or is it possi
ble that they have, in spirit, deteriorated
into the use of tlie common vernacular
of the vulgar ?
The Doctor then proceeded to explain
the physical phenomena, such as are
accredited to have occurred, such as the
sudden and iucxplieihly removal of ob
jects without any visible force, such as
the tumbling of household articles, and
the flight of red hot bricks, such as
have occurred at the Surrency house iu
South Georgia. Illustrative of these
phenomena,he told the story of a French
waiting woman who one day, upon un
dertaking 1° pick a plate from the table,
was surprised to see it slide from her
reach and break to pieces on the floor,
and when she approached the table,
bewildered at the incident, she was
dumbfounded to see the entire set of
plates and dishes fly off the tattle and
break into a thousand fragments on the
floor. The phenomena became more
and more miraculous, that it was impos
sible for the poor girl to sot down or lie
down, unless the chair or bedstead were
held firmly by five or six persons. The
fact attracted the attention of an emi
nent French naturalist, who, upon ex
amining the girl, found her surcharged
so highly with electricity that H*> supe
rior force, when she approached any
movable article of furniture, was such
as tq drive it away. The girl was placed
under treatment of a physician, and
soon recovered from the disorder which
invited such a tremendous charge of
the eleotrio oummt. Doubtless such
was the explanation of the Surrency
mystery.
The Doctor said that during u period
of six months he was himself affected in
a similar manner. One evening, after
writing all day, lie took hold of a glass
lamp chimney, and tlio moment he
tonclied it it burst into a thousand frag
ments. Had he been unfamiliar with
the cause, lie would probably have be
come instantly excitnd, and thereby in
creased th@ force, and probably every
thing in reach would have fled from his
approach.
He referred to a celebrated Austrian
naturalist who had made myriad experi
ments on mesmerism and magnetism,
who advanced a theory that there was a
vital force in man exclusive of electricity
and magnetism, which wgs controlled by
the will of tfio mind, and which caused
us to perform at times physical acts of
which we were entirely unconscious.
And here was the explanation of table
tipping. He himself had made the ex
periment, and by the superior control of
the will, united with the imagination,
the vital force conveyed an invisible
fluid from the brain to the muscles,
and articles of ordinary weight could
be moved qr lifted h.V this powerful
eff'qrf of the brain- Any one could
make the experiment for himself. Take
a cloth or other article between the fin
gers, and by a powerful and concen
trated effort of the brain to move it to
one si(]c, dr in n circle, it would move,
though perhaps unconsciously, to you,
and would move, though the bauds were
fixed in a vice. There was a vital force
iq tlm brain which of itself could move
substances, so close is the relation be
tween mind and matter.
Speaker of the House.
Editors Chronicle <t- Sentind •
I have seen scveyid atH'drs in the
newspapers of tho State urging the claims
of several gentlemen for the Speakership
of the House of Representatives. With
out wishing or intending to say anything
against the aspirants far tfia position
who have beeg mnyyiuask | simply de
sire to presold name of a gentleman
whom J thifik best qualified fur the
office, and whose election will give gen
eral satisfaction to the people of the
State. 1 allude to Hon. Geo. I’. I’ierce,
Jr., of theeountyof Hancock. This is
Mr. Pierce’s second term in the House.
He was in the last Legislature, and one
of the ablest members of that body. He
served upon the most important stand
ing and special committee* —those on
the State- Road f.c-sisc and the Judiciary
—and Wb'H'red the State much valuable
service by his splendid intellect and
well directed labors. Often during the
session he was called to the Chair by
Speaker Gumming, and made a most
admirable presiding officer. Thoroughly
versed in parliamentary law, ho is the
very man W the place, and I hope to
see him elected. Richmond.
A Youth Accidentally Kills His
Brother. —On the 30th ultimo, two sons
of Mr. Thaxton, who lives near Double
Cabins, in Spalding county, took a load
ed pistol from the house, unknown
to their parents, and carried it to tho
plantation. While examining the weapon
it was accidentally discharged, the ball
entering the head of the younger brother,
who was abont ten years old, just above
the eye, and resulting in his death on
the 4tli instant. The older brother is
about 15 years of age, and is said to be
very much affected by the accident, so
much so that he has scarcely eat any
thing since it happened.
The French heel has gone completely
out of fashion.
Tedeoraphio Profits.— The Wester*
Union Telegraph Company ha5527,311,-
GOO of stock. On the 30 of June, 1872, it
had 02,032 miles of line with 137,199
miles of wire and 031 offices. It em
ployed 8,347 operators, • who last year
sent 12,444,495 dispatches, or an increase
of 1,778,422 over the year before. The
gross receipts were £8,437,005 and ex
penses $5,600,803, leaving net profit
92,770,232. The business increased over
, the previous year, $810,040 in gross ro
' ceipts, $502,075 in expenses and $257,570
in not profits.
For six years its net profits have been
$17,110,004, or nearly three millions a
year. Os this amount $1,850,870 was
giveu in dividends, and $10,301,412
spout on new lines.
Education of Manufacturf-un,
Technical education is receiving special
attention just now in France. One inci
dent connected therewith is the found
ing, at Rouen, of an “Upper School of
Industry,” organized on the widest
basis, and specially intended for tin'
instruction of persons who are to be
placed at the head of manufacturing es
tablishments. The school will not only
give that general knowledge necessary
for the management of any industrial
work, but also the special instruction
required in all the chief departments of
national industry—such as spinning,
weaving, dyeing, the chemical arts,
machine-making, Are. A similar institu
tion is much needed in this country,
and no doubt would be liberally sup
ported.
If laboring" through mountains is of
any interest to the public, it must lie
highly gratifying to know that work in
the Hoosac Tunnel is still progressing,
with improving prospects of making a
hole through a mountain of that name
during the current century. The pro
gress made in September was 310 foot.
The total length of the tunnel now
opened is 20,809 feet, leaving 4,220 feet
to bo tunneled. There is a central shaft
from which workmen excavate toward
the east and west, while from the out
side parties arc working from both
directions toward the centre. The rock
remaining to bo bored is in two separate
parts. Between the east end and the
central shaft only 009 feet remain, and
at the present rate of work this will be
penetrated in less than six months, when
but little more tlmn 3,000 feet will have
to be cut through to finish tho under
taking.
Street Travel, nv Steam.— The use of
dummy engines on street railroads lias
generally been discouraged as impracti
cable by railroad men. Tho interfer
ence with travel by the horse disease in
New York has, however, made it neces
sary to find a substitute for tho equine
power lost to city transportation. One
of the dummy engines brought out for n
test recently is that of E. Remington <V
Son, Illion, New York. It is described
as almost exactly similar in appearance
to the ordinary Stephenson street ear.
Tho motive power is a Baxter engine of
twenty-five horse power, with an up
right tubular boiler of a nominal power
of eight horses, and a capacity of work
ing up to twenty liorso power without
draught. The engine is direct-acting,
tho same as a locomotive. Hard coal is
used, without smoke,’and two hundred
pounds suffice to get steam and run
twelve hours. Tho firing and stoking
are intended to bo done at each end of
the road. The engine and tho machine
ry are all at one cud of the ear, taking
up no greater space than is occupied by
ono platform. The ear may be run for
ward or backward equally well.
Treatment of the Horse Epidemic.—
The disoaso now prevailing not only in
Northern cities, but in cities immediate
ly around us, is attracting much anxious
attention, and is the topic of every
tongue. Tire iliseaso originated in To
ronto and spread throughout most of
the towns and cities in Canada and
thence to the United States. As all that
pertains to this subject now is read with
interest, wo give tho opinion and expe
rience of Mr. McEuchran, a veterinary
surgeon of Montreal, who treated 3,000
cases during three wocks, as summarized
by the Savannah News :
His views of tho disoaso arc that it
depends on fungi or spores in tho air,
which, being inhaled, all'oct the mucous
membrane lining the nostrils, tranches,
bronchial tubes and air cells, producing
congestion, with thickening and in
creased secretion.
The debility, which is an early and
predominant symptom, Ire attributes to
the condition of the membrane lining
the bronchial tuboH ami air cells, pre
venting the oxygenation of the blood,
tire impure blood poisoning the system.
Tire treatment which he lias found so
successful in his practice is thorough *
cleanliness, rn-oper ventilation, and tho
use of carbolic acid as a disinfectant.
Feed them on linseed tea, oat meal,
gruel,|carrots, apples, boiled oats, in fact,
anything they may fancy, except dry
oats. The hay should be dampened anil
well shaken. If they continue to feed,
ho reoommonds them to he exercised in
clothing, slowly, but on no condition to
be trotted, at least till after all febrilo
symptoms have left them.
He says in most cases it, presented a
peculiar intermittent character, the ani
mal being subject to chills, shivering
tits, with blowing- In those cases ho
recommends tjpnuto bo warmly clothed,
legs rubbed and bandaged, and give two
ounces of liquor ammonia acetate, with
half an once of spirits of nitrous ether,
every two hours till perspi ration sets in
or the fit passes off, the throat and sides
to be well iTlbbed with ammonia lini
ment. Cold water is to be given fre
quently, not allowing the animal to
drink what ho will, but merely a n,onth
ful uv two at a time.
As soon as tlrey are strong enough,
give them exercise in the open air, if
the weather is favorable, during tho
heat of the day.
Ho does nut consider it a fatal dis
ease; in fact, if the horses are kept from
Yifo-rk and properly treated, there need
not be any deaths, unless it be nmong
very old or broken down horses.
Wo also give the following recipe
which wo find in tire Turf, Field and
Finn, furnished by a correspondent iu
Buffalo, which lias been tried with suc
cess and pronounced a quick and speedy
mode of treating the epidemic :
1. Feed warm bran mashes twice a
day, and take tho liquor of boiled flax
seed to mix with the mash.
2. Twaounces of spirits of nitre, mix
ed with lukewarm water, one applica
tion daily.
3. A little pure whisky daily, to stim
ulate, say a half pint.
4. Liniment for external application
on throat -one-third hartshorn, one pint
sweet oil,
5. Sponge the nostrils with a solution
of salt and hot vinegar; also, wash the
mouth with a solution of the same.
Blanket thoroughly ami a little exercise
daily. Wet tire hay with vinegar.
Inhuf.ction or the Military Arm op
the Government. —The Inspectors Gen
eral of. the army have decided upon a
thorough examination find inspection of
tire military organisation of the Govern
ment in the various sections of the coun
try, and will commence their labors at
onee. Gen. Shrivel- is to inspect the
Department of Texas. Gen. Hardee
goes to New Orleans to inspect the mili
tary establishments on the Gulf, and
Gen. Hackett will examine the posts and
depots in the other Southern States.
Colonel Davis wili inspect the Depart
ment of the Missouri, the general charge
of tlieinspection service resting with Gen.
Marcy, the senior officer, who will re
main in Washington in direct communi
cation with the General of the Army,
members of whoso staff’ these inspectors
now are under tho recent act of Congress.