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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 4.
“ ( ARRET-BAGGERH AND THEIR
FUTURE.”
We publish this morning a significant
article on the “Carpet-Baggers and their
Future,” from the New York Timex,
which is the recognized organ of Presi
dent Grant. If the Administration should
adopt and adhere to the policy indicated
in tiiis article, the South will soon have
an end of the corrupt rule of the carpet
baggers. General Giant can afford to
be just, and even generous, toward the
South. A policy of peace, reconcilia
tion and justice ori his part, during the
next four years, will bring to the South
good government and substantial pros
perity. It is time thut the war and its
devastating effects should he succeeded
by an era of true amity and real mate
rial advancement. President Grant lias
it, now in his power to serve the South
and conciliate the Southern people.—
Now is the opportunity.
SPAIN’S POLICY TOWARDS CUBA.
Continually the telegraph announces
new revolts in Spain. This proud old
Kingdom, which once swayed the desti
nies of the world, and made even the
British lion tremble for the dominion of
the seas, seems to he in a chronic state
of revolution, and unable to preserve
tranquility at, home or establish peace
and security in her possessions abroad.
As in her ancient colonial possession,
Mexico, pronunciurnentos, revolts and
the rule of the bayonet are the great
political characteristics of the Spanish
Kingdom. At the same time, revolu
tion, rebellion, and devastating and
bloody war prevail in the fertile Island
of Cuba, so long the stay and prop of
the waning fortunes of the Spanish
Kingdom. This Kingdom proper is al
most bankrupt—her credits hawked
about in European money centres, and her
revenues assigned and her rirfh mines
mortgaged to replenish the ever-recur
ring deficiencies of her financial budget.
From this overwhelming burthen of debt
Culm per s< has not been exempted; but
so fertile lias been her soil and so valua
ble her productions, that even under the
rigorous exactions of Spanish military
rule she has nourished. Now, however,
under a system of confiscation, and the
pledge as security of the “embargoed’,
estates, a scheme has been inaugurated
which promises, at no distant day, to
destroy the future progress and prosper
ity of an island which heretofore has
played so important a part in the com
merce of the New World. Only lately a
royal decree Y>f King Amadeus, dated
August !), 1872, has been promulgated,
officially, by the Captain-General of
Culm, having such a design.
Tiiis decree creates a Junta or com
mittee of fifteen persons, who are
charged with the collection of the means
of liquidating the Spanish war debt for
tin* defense of the island And of admin
istering the embargoed estates of in
surgents and disaffected subjects. The
administration of embargoed property
is done away with and the Junta estab
lished in its place, but with powers
much more extensive. It is well known
in what a shaky condition the Spanish
Rank of Havana lms been placed by the
virtually compulsory loans for wav pur
poses and by its forcibly extended cir
culation. This circulation has reached
the amount of sixty millions, and is al
ready at nearly twenty per cent, dis
count. and there are not a few who be
lieve that its pretended specie reserve
is a fiction, and that if the bank were
to close to-day the notes would be sub
sequently worthless, though they bear
the Government guaranty. But this de
cree is designed to sustain its waning
fortunes. It first authorizes the Treas
ury t >f Cuba to issue sixty millions of
bonds, bearing eight per cent, interest,
thirty millions of which shall he issued
,m January 1. 1873, with seventeen
years to run. These bonds are to be
placed on the market simultaneously at
Madrid, Paris, London and Havana.
It is apparent that the Spanish King
desires to enlist European sympathy by
interest to retain his power of a posses
sion that is fast slipping from beyond
his control. It is equally plain that
.under this policy the rich commerce of
the United States and Cuba will be
hopelessly destroyed by the continuance
of Spanish rule marked by such policy.
Now we are greatly mistaken if the in
genuity of Brother Jonathan is not equal
to the discovery of a well grounded
plea for interference to arrest this
loss. This wo take to be the tendency
of Northern public opinion; and we shall
lie surprised if Northern interests suf
fev a year to elapse before decided ac
tion. The people of the South may as
wvll look at this matter squarely in the
face, and prepare for it. The aequire
musit of Cuba is a “ manifest destiny”
which cannot be ignored.
BILL A 111’ vs. A. 11. S.
The mere act of transferring from the
K nne ( '■uui u rciaJ to the columns of the
Chronicle' .v Sentinel a piquant edito
rial. bearing' the head-line, " Alexander
11. Stephens -the Atlanta Sun," seems
to disturb greatly the genial philosopher
of Liberty Hall, and makes the editor
of the Atlanta A <n terribly irate, and
use strong words -very strong words.
The terse, sharp, incisive essay which
Mr. “Arp” displays in the editorial
columns of his sprightly journal for the
benefit of his readers, although con
ceived in a despair of ever pleasing the
immaculate guardian of the principles of
the people of Georgia, aiul although ut
tered with a sad, but prayerful trust
that he, Bill Arp. the editor of the Rome
Coiiitut rcial, in common with the people
of Georgia—in common with the people
«of the whole South— might be aide to
.do something to please the great but
•phlegmatic High Priest of Principle be
fore he dies, provokes the wrath of
the sage of Liberty Hall. Stung
if by a nettle, A. 11. S. turns fiercely, ;
, u> * only upon Bill Arp. the eccentric of- j
fend sr, but upon our unfortunate selves, !
who \vith “insolent audacity,” dared,
to repul dish, “without comment or dis
sent ” A. T s lamentation ; and indeed |
upon the w hole people of the South; to !
chasten, con or demolisa for error, i
or unpardonal , L'“ si n.
As to Arp, pAier unfortunate genius, i
H. S. essays birch him of anticipated ,
glory; and, by ids skill in dialectics,
conveys the impre ssicn that his touch
ing but stinging eilitonal only “ pur
ports,” as appearing *“ tlj e columns of
the Chronicle and Se to be his
creation. A reader might well infer
that Aqi’s chef eTouvre con
cocted "in the sanctum of t.he ( hkoxicle.
A. H. S. honors us over-much by the
insinuation. The terae, piqitant leader
is beyond the range of our abilities.
Nothing but the genius of rhll Arp
could have ever made sorrowful words
so painfully immortal. But an insinua
tion is not sufficient. The Chronicle
must stand ns God-father, if not God
-1 father “ endorser”—or “ gi/asi en
| dorser.” Still, the Chronicle is honor
|ed over-much ; hut the maker is so
j strong and the risk so small, we accept
the liability just as Tristum Shandy ac
cepted the moral obligation—to see
where the thing will lead to. We might
avoid even tiiis responsibility by pre
senting as a shield the plea so lately
pleaded by A. 11. 8. to escape the shafts
of the Sun’s Atlanta contemporary, the
Atlanta Constitution. But it would be
a pity to spoil such a pretty fight for
want of a quasi endorsement. So let it
stand. When Bill Arp’s genius is un
horsed in the tournament, we will sur
render our estate —as quasi endorser.
A. H. 8. charges us as “quasi en
dorser” with the design and desire to
weaken anil destroy his (our A. H. S.’s)
influence with the honest masses of the
people of the State. A. H. 8. is mis
taken. We repel the charge. We have
no such design. We have no such de
sire. That influence was weakened in
those sore and grevious days of the Con
federacy, when the Vice-President for
sook Richmond. It was lost when Lee
capitulated for want of soldiers. The
immortal Lee called for men. The
soldiers in the field did double duty on
half rations and in forced marches. A
law provided for sending every available
man to the field. Mr. Stephens stayed
away from the Capitol, remaining at
Liberty Hall, and remained silent, or
denounced privately if not publicly the
only means of salvation, falling back to
the line of State Rights. The honest
masses recoiled at the significance of
his silence, or with grief pondered his
denunciation. Then and there warm
hearted men and sympathy failed, and
the cold phlegm of obdurate principle
shocked the honest masses —the hus
bands ami the sons and the brothers and
the fathers who admitted secession to be
“rightful,” and who had chosen Mr.
Stephens as the second officer in the
Confederacy, and braved the hail of
bullets in the field, or offered their
lives for the “Lost Cause,”of which Mr.
Stephens is an historian. Still, we would
not detract one iota from the principles
of A. H. 8. or their influence with the
honest masses. As significant of princi
ple, we would that A. H. 8. —Alexander
Salvator Hominum —inscribed as a
magic monogram upon the labarum of
Democratic faith, may become as potent
and renowned in the history of Demo
cratic liberty as I. H. S. is in the history
of religious liberty, et In Hoc Signo
Vinces.
A. H. S. affirms that if there is any
one truth established, it is that seces
sion was not resorted to in pursuance of
his teaching, advice or counsel, but that
lie admitted its rightfnlness. Mr. Arp
should admit the plea. Mr. Stephens
is only a compiler and commentator.
But surely A. H. S. will not deny that
he became a living exponent and univer
sal example, which taught and endorsed,
and diffused the principle of secession,
not as a peaceable “remedy,” but as an
active force when he became Vice-Presi
dent of the Southern Confederacy, and
in this he taught—philosophy teaching
by example.
A. 11. 8. declares most solemnly that
if the people follow the load of Bill Arp
and his Greeleyite crew, or a reconcilia
tion Greeleyite, he will not bojv the knee to
Baal in the worship of a false political
god,if for no other reason than because of
that scriptural injunction, thou slialt not
follow the multitude to do evil. Who
is to decide which is the true god iu
politics—A. 11. 8., Bill Arp, or the
multitude? It is written also in the
same good book that in a multitude
of counselors there is wisdom. The
Chronicle and Bill Arp, having prefer
od the wisdom of the multitude for
peace and reconciliation, this gives
sore displeasure to the sage of Liberty
Hall. This is the height of our offend
ing. Again, when Cicero’s fate stared
historical A. H. 8. in the face, he pro
nounced an unctions encomium upon
General Grant, the conqueror. Is the
encomium to be repeated upon Demo
cratic principles, or seek we for another?
Again, A. H. 8. seems to be greatly
alarmed, lest Southern Democracy
should beoom ■ Radicalised under the
lead of Bill Arp and other Greeleyites.
We honestly believe that Arp will not
lead the Democracy to the bottomless
pit of a “ final resting place.”
Tile wheels of the Democratic chariot
had become soothed, like Chief Justice
i Marshall’s gig. That venerable and
reverend jurist journeying to Court found
I his progress stopped by an intervening
| sapling, locking his judicial gig through
its spokes. Progress was impossible.
In despair he sought the generous
advice of an old darkey upon the way
side, who frankly said: “Test back a
little, old master, and we’ll draw that
sapling out, aud you kin go to Court as
fast as you please.” The Democratic
party was scotched by a seeesh sapling.
There was no progress. Honest old
Horace Greeley offered himself to draw
the secesli sapling out, if the Demo
cratic party would just back a little, for
peace and reconciliation. Mr. Greeley,
it is true, is without the reward for his
labor; but he has drawn the seeesh sap
ling out. So that Mr. Democratic Ste-
phens can go to the Senatorial Court
just as fast as lie pleases, if he is “fully j
satisfied that a majority of the people
interested in tiie matter desire him to
do so.” And the Democratic party is
no more in danger of being Radicalised j
than before benevolent old Horace came
to the rescue of the party, as he came
to the rescue of Jefferson Davis with an
acceptable bail bond. Peace and recon
ciliation have been successful, although
H. G. has been defeated: and the Ad
ministration and its organs so interpret
the late election. We have gained this
much: Peace and prosperity for the
South: but we have iucurred the lasting
wrath of the political philosopher who
presides over the destiuies of Liberty
Hall.
Thus much on account, from the
Chronicle and Sentinel as a quasi en-
I dorser.
GO M UST, YOUNG MAN !
The life of Richard C. M. McCormick,
a third time elected Delegate to Congress I
from the silver bearing territory of Ari
zona, furnishes a useful lessou to anibi
tious young men about to go West.
Born in New York in 1*12: a Wall street
operator in 1830; a newspaper corres
pondent in Europe and Asia, aud aj
spectator at Sebastopol, in 1834-’55: the
author of a book in 1860; Republican
editor «jd war correspondent in 1861
and 1862; Secretary of Arizona in 1563;
Governor in 1866; iu 1868 elected Dele
gate; re-elected in 1870, and again in
1872, this last time without opposition.
Young man, before you go West
graduate in Wall street, make a tonr
| around the world, see war and study
‘ polities as a Republican editor.
The cafs on the Air-Line Railroad
crossed over the Broad river bridge on
the sth instant, and are running to
Cherokee Creek ou this side, where
a trestle is being built. It is thought
that the train will reach Limestone
Springs by the first of next month.
A writer in the Sumter News com
plains of the “utter want of accommo
dation,'’ “the enormously high rates of
freight," Ac., on .the W., C. A A. R. R.,
as seriously impairing the interests of
Sumter, and urges the construction of a
new road direct to Charleston.
THE GKOROIA ELECTION.
From the Secretary of State the At
lanta Constitution learns that the official
returns from all the counties but two—
Harralson and Rabun—are in.
The vote stands thus :
Greeley 75,896
Grant 62,485
Greelev’s majority 13,411
O’Conor 8,999
The whole vote polled is 142,370. The
whole vote polled in 1868 at the Presi
dent’s election was as follows :
Seymour 102,822
Grant 57,134
159,956
Seymour’s majority 45,588
It will thus be seen that the Demo
cratic vote fell off 22,927. The Radical
vote increased 5,351, which was due to
successful fraud.
At Governor Smith’s election the vote
stood :
Smith 103,076
Walker 41,45*3
144,528
Smith’s majority 61,624
We thus have 142,370 against 144,528
a month ago, as the vote of the State,
showing a decrease of 2,158, which the
two unreported counties will change
some.
The aggregate vote differs very little
at the two elections, but the particulars
differ widely. Smith got the largest
Democratic vote ever polled in Georgia
—larger than Seymour’s vote. The Dem
ocratic vote in iB7O was 96,685 out of
166,505. The Radical vote then was
69,822. The Radical vote for Grant in
November was 62,485 against 41,452 for
Walker in October, or an increase of
21,032. Add this to the large stay-at
home Democratic element, and the large
falling oft' of Greeley’s majority below
Smith’s is accounted for without any
implication of Democratic unfairness in
Smith’s election.
The official Congressional vote is as
follows :
FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Rawls 8,319
Sloan 6,979
Rawls’ official majority 1,340
SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Whiteley 9,616
Wright 9,530
Whiteley’s official majority 86
THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Cook 6,145
Brown 4,455
Cook’s official majority 1,630
FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Harris 10,319
Bethune 8,466
Harris’ official majority 1,853
FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Freeman 10,910
Glenn 10,631
Freeman’s official majority 279
SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Blount 9,993
Anderson • 6,196
Blount’s official majority 3,797
«
SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Young 7,915
Dever 4,331
EIOIITH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Wright 9,097
Clayton 6,230
Dußose 1,293
Wright’s official maj. over Clay
ton 2,467
Wright’s majority over both.... 2,174
NINTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
Bell 7,257
Darnell 4,318
Bell’s official majority 1,938
Counties not heard from —Haralson, in
the Seventh, and Rabun, in the Ninth
Districts.
[From the New York Times.]
“Carpet-Baggers” amt Tlielr Future, j
The antics which Gov. Warmotli, of
Louisiana, is jnst now practicing, may
be regarded as one of tlie last convulsive I
kicks of carpet-bagging in the South.
Warmoth is a very interesting and lively
representative of his class. He is young,
full of energy and resource, courageous,
of popular address, a clever speaker, a
fast liver, an unbridled speculator, and
as unscrupulous politician, in the
meanest and lowest sense of the term, as
any American State has ever been cursed
with. Anything that abuse of power
and betrayal of trust are equal to, Wav
moth may be counted on to accomplish,
if bis interest lies that way. The His
tory of the fertile State which he literal
ly rules, has, for the term of his Gover
norship, been a humiliating story of
fraud and violence in the places where
justice and the preservation of order
should alone be regarded. His last bold
attempt to alter tlie election returns, by
recasting the election board, is intended
to obtain some place in which be can be
secure from the reverses that have else
where overtaken bis kind, and which he
can plainly see are in store in tlie imme
diate future for himself.
Whatever may be the date at which
the overthrow of the corrupt and dis
graceful domination of Warmoth may
take placo in Louisiana, it is certain ]
that recent public events have made the
downfall of his class throughout the j
South only a question of time, and of
no very extended time at that. Let no j
enthusiastic Democrat lay the flattering
unction to his soul that such an event
would cut short the career of Republi
cans and of immigrants from the North
alone. Though the earliest, and some J
of the worst, corruptionists in the South
were Republicans, that was owing to
the peculiar constitution of the voting
population, which made it impossible
for Southern Democrats to make much
headway, and gave the offices in the
main to’ professed Republicans, most of
whom, of white complexion, were North
ern bom. The bad habit of shooting
Southern men avowing Republican prin
ciples had prevailed too long to allow
of any different state of things. But
the Republican corruptionists from the
North found ready and skillful partners
in the South, and in some of the black
est chapters of the recent humiliating
history of the Southern States, the
names' of native Democrats occur with
unpleasant frequency.
Democrat or Republican, however, it
is a matter for sincere rejoicing that the
end of their rule, where it has not al
ready been reached, is approaching.
The causes are various. The Amnesty
act was, peiliaps, the* chief, as it was
among the first. This restored to politi
cal activity in the South the great body
of men who were aequaiuied intimately
with public affairs, aud who had the
character aud capacity to deal with
them. The next blow to the ruleof the
corruptionists was the nomination of
Greeley at Baltimore. That divided
them. Many of them, like Warjpoth,
thought they saw a “revolution, and
went over to the Fusion movement. It
divided the Democrats, also, and
brought some of the shrewedest and
most capable of them into active co
operation with the better Republicans,
and, what is most important, established
political sympathy between them and
the negroes. It can no longer be said
that negroes are all one side, and the
Southern whites on the other
Another beneficent effect of Mr. Gree
ley’s nomination and defeat is, that it is
now perfectly clear that whatever wild
hopes the Southerners may have enter
tained of modifying the resnlts of the
war, bv unfriendly legislation or un-1
friendly administration, must be aban- j
doned. The influence of this fact will
extend in the South to all, even to those
who had been unconscious of entertain
ing any such hopes, but whose spirit
has been one of ill-concealed discontent :
and even animosity toward the National
Government. Probably one result will
be that Southern men will not be very
prominent in national politics during i
the next few years. Another result, j
equally probable, and flowing from the .
former, will be that Southern men will :
take all the more earnestly to their
home affairs, as affording rewards
for their legitimate ambition, and a
field for active and efficient work. Cer
tainly, the field is ample. The South
needs efficient and economical State
Governments and she can only get them
from the hands of her own citizens. —
She needs a carefully-developed system
of schools, adapted to her peculiar popu
lation; she requires cheap, simple, and
effective Court*, especially for minor
causes and for criminal procedure; she
needs, and needs absolutely, a vigorous
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 4, IS7*2.
enforcement of the laws for the protec
tion of person and property; and she
needs a judicious, prudent, but patient
and eontinnal effort to improve her ma
terial resources in all legitimate ways.
These are no easy tasks. To perform
them well will bring labor enough to
tax any generation of active public men;
but it will bring solid satisfaction, and
well-earned reputation also, to those
who bear their part in it.
THE ARREST OF JAY GOULD.
He is Charged YVith Appropriating
Nine Millions of Erie’s Money.
The affidavit of President Watson, of
the Erie Railway, avers that the company
has cause of action against Jay Gould
for more than the sum of $9,726,541 26,
to which interest is to be added; that
such cause of action arises from the
fraudulent detention, embezzlement
and misapplication of the moneys and
property of the said company; that
Gould,' while acting as President and
Treasurer of said corporation, lias beeu
guilty of fraud in incurring the obliga
tions for which this action is brought;
that at the same time Gould was copart
ner with Henry N. Smith, Henry H.
Martin and James B. Bach, under the
firm name of Smith, Gould, Martin &
Cos., bankers and brokers, and the agents
and brokers of the Erie Company; and
that all the moneys claimed as having
been at any time to the credit of the
said Erie Company on the books of said
firm were received for said railway com
pany during, the time Gould was its
President and Treasurer; that at various
times from the 3d of August, 1868, to
the 9th of November, 1869, the said Erie
Company created and issued 407,347
shares of the par Value of $40,734,700,
increasing the capital stock, exclusive of
preferred stock, to $75,000,000; that
Gould, by the devices above set forth,
fraudulently misapplied the money of the
Erie Company, and was thereby guilty
of fraud upon the said company to the
extent of $3,941,858, for which further
sum with interest this action is in part
brought. That Gould, having been in
the early part of 1869 engaged in specu
lation in shares of the Reading Railroad,
and having lost $359,012, as appears by
the books of said firm, on May 17tli, or
dered the said loss charged to the Erie
Railway Company, and on the 31st of
December, 1869, transferred to his own
account the further sum of $168,803 69,
then to the credit of the Erie Company
on the books of said firm, which said
Gould fraudulently embezzled and mis
applied.
Gould is also charged with fraudu
lently misapplying $13,580 of the com
pany’s money in January, 1869, to cover
his losses in speculation in New York
Central stock; also withdrawing from
the moneys of the Erie Company in Au
gust, 1809, the sum of $61,000, which
was paid to James Fisk, Jr., who Gould
knew had no legal claim for said sum or
any portion thereof; also with paying
out of the funds of Erie’s23,ss4 75 with-/
out authority or warrant, to secure his
own re-election as director in October,
1866. Also with, on the 28th of Decem
ber, 1870, further increasing the capital
stock of Erie by $2,000,000; on the 13th
of January, 1871, further increasing the
same by $1,000,000, at the rate of $22
per share, or thereabouts; and misap
plying the whole proceeds, to the extent
of' $660,000.
Henry N. Smith, in his affidavit, says
he has read the affidavit of Peter W.
Watson, President of the Erie Railway
Company, plaintiff; that the facts
therein stated touching tlie organization,
existence and business of the firm of
Smith, Gould, Martin & Cos. are true,
and the deponent was a member of the
said firm as therein stated. This de
ponent further says that the books of
account of said firm were intended to be,
and, as he believes, were accurately
kept, and that the results of said ac
counts, as stated in the affidavit of said
Watson, are in all respects accurate.
Deponent further says that the accounts
in tlie books of Smith, Gould, Martin &
Cos., embracing the transactions in
question, were kept under tlie orders
and supervision of Jay Gould, and the
various transfers of account referred to
in the affidavit of said Watson were made
by the direction of said Gould.
The New York Herald says, in its
monetary article:
The arrest of Jay Gould to-day at tlie
suit of the Erie Railway Company is the
direct result of the corner in Erie got up
a short time ago, by which Smith and
Gould, who were then working in uni
son, were heavily squeezed. But these
gentlemen vowed to bo revenged upon
the Drew clique, and proceeded to lay
their wires, but sudden disagreement
ended their plans, and opened ft bitter
quarrel between them, and waj to the
knife was declared. In his anger, Smith
is said to have remarked to one of his
friends; “ I’ll make (hat little monkey
(meaning Gonhl) grind an) organ yet for
his living.” He further said he would
ruin him in a week. In the meantime
Gould, by skillful manipulations, man
aged to get both Smith and Drew short
on Northwestern, and then run up the
stock as was done to-day to 290. It is
said that Smith, finding himself short,
asked Gould to let him have fifty thou
sand shares of that stock, threatening to
bring the present suit against him in GB.se
of his refusal. Gould, however, would
not accede to the demand, and hence the
suit and present arrest. As Gould left his
| office this afternoon to give bail at the
j sheriff’s office, he gave orders to his
brokers not to sell a share of stock at
any price. Travers & Duncan, who be
came sureties ou tlie order of arrest, are
said to be short ou Northwestern to a
; considerable amount,
Henry M. Smith is said to bo short
forty thousand shares, and Daniel Drew
i ten thousand shares of Northwest com
| moil.
TERRIFIC TORNADO IX SICILY.
The Town of Pala/.zolo Swept Away—
-1,000 Families Utterly Homeless-
Great Loss of Life and Property.
New York, November 20.—The Lon
don Times, of the Bth, has the follow
ing account of a hurricane in Sicily,
which destroyed the town of Palazzolo:
There has been no instance of such a
calamity within the
MEMORY of living man.
No earthquake ever caused so much
destruction. There are houses ruined,
houses fallen to the very ground, walls
cleft from end to end, walls hanging out
wards as if to rest on adjoining houses.
There are roofs wholly swept away,
sunken vaults, balcouies'toru from their
places, windows aud shutters either en
tirely carried off or hanging loose from
the walls, lamp posts forced from their
sockets, uprooted trees. Along the
northeast side of the town
NOT A SINGLE HOUSE REMAINS
In which the whole roof and windows
do not require thorough repair. The
streets are a mass of fragments and rub
bish. The incidents of the disaster are
so strange as to be almost incredible.
There was a store with twenty-five hec
tolitres of wheat, of which
NOT A TRACE
Is anywhere to be seen. The books of
the Excise aud of the Sand Registry
offices have vanished, and only their
torn leaves have been found here aud
there at great distances. In one house
all tfie copper kitchen utensils were
blown through the roof. In another,
benches and heavy chests flew through
the window. The iron bars gs pne bal
cony are to be seen curled up one way,
those of another twisted up another way.
There is the pillar of a palace which has
been moved forward one foot without
breaking, and stands isolated, all in one
piece. There is the wall of another
palace which has fallen back more than
three feet without a crack. There is a
beam of one house which has thrust it
self into another house. There is half a
bedstead, the other half of which flies
NO ONE KNOWS WHERE.
All the tiles of one bijilding are huddled
together in one spot ou the roof, crushed
and broken up as small as if they had
been pounded. The rafters of another
building are all bare. The tiles have
flown no one can see where. In a stable
on the bare ground men are
LAYING THE BODIES #
One by one as tljey are being dug out.
Most of them are in their night dresses,
having been crushed as they were quiet
ly sleeping. Their features and forms
are so disfigured that one cannot look at
them without shuddering. Their nos
trils, ears and mouths are etopped up
with earth. The white dust lias every
where pierced tlirough the skin. Here
is the body of a man holding close to
his heart a child, probably his own.—
The skulls of both are shattered. There
are two young men
IN EACH OTHER’S ARMS,
Probably brothers. The chests and
backs of both are crushed. Near them
is another youth covered with blood.—
He was clerk in a Government office.
He has his eyeg-’iass still stuck in his
right eye. He was probably reading or
writing when he was struck. There are
some mangled past recognition; others
that seem unhurt and look
AS IF THEY WERE SLEF.FINO.
Without exaggeration, one-thiriU of the
town is dismantled and more than a
thousand families literally without a
home. About a thousand more have
only oue little corner of what was once
their house to shelter them. The dead
are thirty-two; seriously hurt, about
half a score.
[From the Baltimore Gazette.]
French Spoliation Claims.
Everybody has heard of the French
spoliation claims, but very few know
how they originated. A pamphlet issued
by Mr. Causten, of Washington, fur
nishes the desired information. To under
stand how the claims arose, it is neces
sary to premise that, by our treaty of
alliance with France iu 1778, we agreed,
in consideration of tlie aid extended by
France to the colonies then engaged iu
the war for independence, to guarantee
forever to France the possession of her
colonies in America. Wlieq, however,
the French revolution broke out, and,
to stem the career of conquest entered
upon by France, an armed coalition of
the European sovereigns was formed
against her, our Government was placed
in a serious dilemma. It had either to
make common cause with France, in de
fense of her American possessions, or
repudiate the treaty stipulation by which
we engaged to protect them from inva
sion or conquest. To unite with France
in a w r ar against the combined Powers
of Europe, weak as we were from the
struggle through which we had but re
cently passed, and bnrthened with the
debt we had incurred iu maintaining it,
would have jeopardised our newly ac
quired independence, and wrought for
us, in any event, such grievous injury
that we should have found it difficult to
recover from. Asa means of relief, re
peated appeals were made to France,
and money offered to release us from
this perpetual and most onerous treaty
obligation. France insisted on keep
ing us bound by the conditions of
the compact. These we were in no
condition to fulfill, and, finally, Wash
ington cut the Gordian knot by issuing
a proclamation of neutrality. The sale
of French prizes in our ports, and the
departure of privateers from them, car
rying French commissions, were subse
quently prohibited. In consequence of
this repudiation of the latter and spirit
of our treaty with France, the letter re
taliated, by arming and sending out,
from Ban Domingo alone, eighty-seven
cruisers to prey upon the commerce of
United States. The aggregate result of
these predatory incursions was tlie cap
ture, between the years 1792 and 1801,
of more than fifteen hundred American
vessels, entailing a loss upon our citi
zens of from eight to thirteen millions
of dollars. Not one of these captures
was legally made, as our commercial
treaty with France establishes, and as
the French Government ultimately ac
knowledged. After many and tedious
negotiations on tlie subject, and when
we were on tlie very verge of war with
France, in consequence of these out
rages, a treaty was agreed upon where
by our Government consented to relin
quish these claims against France, ami,
as an equivalent, France released the
United States from the perpetual obliga
tion to protect and defend the French
dependencies in America against any
and all belligerents.
By thus setting off the claims of
American citizens against the treaty
obligations due by the United States to
France, our Government became bound,
in honor, to indemnify the claimants.
This it has failed to do ; although “ be
tween the years 1827 and 184(1 twenty
two reports of committees, ali in favor
of the claimants, were made in tlie two
Houses of Congress, each by a bill, and
each bill for a compromise sum of five
millions.of dollars.” The bill passed
both Houses on two different occasions,
and was vetoed, in the first instance, by
President Polk, ou the ground of “inex
pediency,” and, in the second, by Presi
dent Pierce, who subsequently acknowl
edged “he had made a mistake.” We
pass over the more recent efforts to get
both Houses to act upon the hill, stating
merely as a matter of interest that, al
though those efforts were baffled, the
justice of the claims was acknowledged,
and that an agreement was reached at
the last session of Congress whereby it
was understood that the bill should be
taken up for consideration iu the House
of Representatives on the second Wed
nesday of December next, and in the
Senalp on.the same day. Mr. Causten,
therefore, notifies claimants who failed
to present tlielr memorials to Congress
at the last session, to prepare them
forthwith. A confident belief is express
ed that these claims will be recognized,
and indemnity allowed, before the ses
sion closes.
A 'P&ijfing Machine.
From the American we learn that
there is now in Baltimore a very curious
piece of mechanism, which imitates not
only the various sounds of the human
voice, hut combines them into words
and sentences. It lias been exhibited
to members of the press by the inven
tor, Pro lessor Fabers Erben, at liis
rooms in Barnum’s Hotel, who explain?
ed the walkings of the contrivance.—
Talking machines have been invented at
various times, but this is the only one
that has combined such great range pf
utterance with such perfect articulation.
The machine is a complete system of
tubes, levers, keys and modifying ap
pliances, a great many manipulations
being sometimes necessary to produce
the desired sound. It is thus des
cribed :
The machine is constructed in imita
tion of the human organs of speech, all
the mechanical appliances being adjust
ed so as to produce the effect of the dif
ferent muscles used in articulation.
The largest portion of the apparatus
is a bellows, which performs the same
function as the lungs in the human
body. This feeds a variety of tubes
through which the sound escapes, which
are managed by fourteen levers, each
representing a vowel or consonant, and
extending out to a sort of key board, by
the manipulation of which the various
; combinations of sound are produced.-
Here sits the performer, tlje Professor’s
i wife, who manages the macliiipj with
: great dexterity. The sensitiveness of
; her ear is jenjarljable, inasmuch as she
makes tbs machine speak in languages
foreign to her, when slio necessarily
I must imitate each word from reooffec
tiou of the sound. The many combina
| tions sometimes necessary to express a
I single word demands skill and rapidity
on her part.
Leading from the bellows is a w ind
pipe for the conduction of the air, aud
an India rubber larynx, with vocal
cords, modeled after those of a human
being, opening and closing in the same
manuer. The sound escapes from an
imitation of the human mouth, the up
per jaw being of wood, with a lip of
leather,and the lower jaw of india rubber.
The mouth has a palate of hard rubber
and a tongue of flexible rubber. There
is alsq a for the escape of the
air when the mouth is closed, in imita
tion of the vent which in the human or
ganism is afforded by the nostrils.
Fourteen sounds are all that are used
by the machine for the production of
speech. All the other sounds are pro
duced out of these fourteen by combina
tion or by modifying their action either
by separating the vocal chords or bring-
ing them together.
The Professor made the machine ut
ter sibilant, guttural, laughing and
other articulate sounds. It then ntter
ers many different names and short sen
tences. ' Its articulation is somewhat
slow, bnt is very distinct and audible.
It speaks German excellently, the harsh,
gutteral sound being initated exactly ;
its English has a German accent now
and then, showing the nativity of the in
ventor. When it speaffs prenc-h a mask
is attached, having apparatus by means
of which tht; usual sound of the French
tongue is imitated. This pia.sk is a
rather ghastly simulacrum of a human
face. The eyes move and the mouth
works, and the words pour out, but the
immovability of the features and the ab
sence of expression creates a wierd and
uncanny feeling in the spectator.
The Professor says that the machine
can sing as well as talk, its voice having
a compass of two octaves, bnt as the ar
rangement was not in order he was un
able to give an example of its perform
ance. The Professor has many testimo
nials from scientific men in every civil
i ized country, and from many European
i courts.
ENGLISH RAILWAYS.
A Financial Review of the System for
the Last Twenty Years.
[From the l’all Mali Gazette.]
There are no exponents of the devel
opment of the country’s wealth in re
cent times more striking than oflr rail
way statistics. For twenty years we
have been sinking from £11,900,000 to
£15,000,000 of hard easii annually in
the railways of the United Kingdom.
The figures for these years, 1852-1871,
arebefore us. In 1852 tlie whole capital
raised upon Shares, debentures and
loans by tlie various companies amount
ed in actual money to £264,166,000,
By 1871 this sum had increased to £552,-
i680,000. From the savings of nineteen
years upwards of £288,500,000 had there
fore been invested in these undertakings.
In the earlier year we had 7,336 miles of
permanent way. By 1871 the total length
was 15,376 miles. The cost per mile of
railroad in 1851 was £33,283 ; but land,
wages and commodities generally rose
in value between that time and the
present, and railway construction be
came more costly. l'n 1871 the average
cost of the lines then open was £35,944
a mile, or £2,661 more than in 1851.
Some account, too, should be taken in
this comparison of the circumstance
that latterly the lines have been more,
driven into towns than formerly, and*
thus a greater proportionate cost has
accrued. Li 1851 the total receipts which
tlie companies gathered from all sources
were £15,710,000; nineteen years of en
terprise more than trebled the sum, the
receipts in 1871 amounting to £48,89?,-
000. The receipts per mile in the earlier
year were £2,1i1; in the latter £3,063,
exclusive of miscellaneous receipts in
1871 -an increase of £922, or forty
three per cent, on the average mile. The
number of passengers conveyed in 1851
is put down at 89,102,000. But here tlie
figures are of the most irregular and in
determinate value. They simply repre
sent journeys. The man, for example,
v*ho travels from Westminster to Victo
ria counts for one, just as he who travels
from London to Edinburg counts for
one. Bearing this in mind, we may col
late the passengers in 1851 with those in
1871—namely, with 375,220,000. Hence
more than four-fold the number are con
veyed now who were carried twenty
years ago. Season ticket holders are
not reckoned in these figures. Tlie re
ceipts per train mile in 1851 were ss. 2d.;
in 1871 they were ss. 3d. Last year the
gross receipts from passenger traffic
were £20,622,000; from goods traffic,
£26,485,000; from miscellaneous sources,
£1,785,000; making a total of £48,892,-
000. From this, forty-seven per cent ,
or £23,153,000, had to be taken for
working expenses, leaving the net re-*
ceipts at £25,740,000. This may be
called half a million sterling a week—
the net earnings of tlie railways of the
United Kingdom. The not receipts in
the year were equal to £4 13s. per cent,
ou the paid-up capital.
Retcrnino Funeral Procession At
tacked r.Y Riotous Negroes. —ln Savan
nah, on Sunday afternoon, a most vil
lainous outrage was perpetrated by a
large crowd of riotous negroes. The
News gives the following particulars :
The Cleburne Hose Company had
been out to tlie Catholic Cemetery to pay
the last tribute to a deceased comrade,
Win. J. Kelly, and were returning from
the funeral in procession with the Hiber
nian Brass Band. They were proceed
ing quietly down Reynolds street, tlie
baud playing at the time, when sudden
ly they were startled by a veil from a
horde of negroes who had congregated
in the vicinity, which was followed by a
shower of stones and missiles. The
negroes continued to rush at them,
throwing stones indiscriminately, and
cursing and yelling in the most outra
geous manner. The company was so
surprised at the attack that for a mo
ment they stopped almost involuntarily,
but quickly recovering, they dashed
after the black scoundrels and put them
to flight, The men were called to ranks
by the President, Mv. Wm. Gibbons,
and the line moved on. After reaching
East Broad street the negroes renewed
the attack from a distance for a few
minutes and then hastily disappeared.
Several persons ou tlie sidewalk wore
struck with rocks. When the attack
was first made a little white boy, about
seven of age, who was following the pro?
cession, was struck oil the head by a
rock, causing an ugly cut. One or two
members of the band were also struck
with stones.
The South Carolina Presbyterians
and the Colored Population. The
Synod of South Carolina, at its session
in Columbia, recently, had under con
sideration the duty and responsibility of
tlfp church ip connection with the
colored population —a subject which
developed much interest, and the dis
cussion of which resulted in the adop
tion of the following resolutions, intro
duced by Dr. .T. B. Adger:
Resolved, That this Synod is glad to
lioaj' of any willingness among the colored
people within opr bounds to instruc
tion from our ministers, and that all our
ministers and members of our church
are hereby encouraged to engage earn
estly in every proper way in the good
work of promoting the knowledge of the
Gospel amongst this people.
Resolved, That iq the judgment of
this Synod, the way is clear, the General
Assembly concurring, for our ministers
to assist this people iu organizing them
selves into Presbyterian Churches, sepa
rate from our Presbyteries, with the un
derstanding that they may look to us for
religious instruction, so far as we can
furnish it, until God, in His providence,
shall raise up competent ministers of
their own to lead them in the right way.
Resqlved, That this Synod, while ex
pressing o"'n opinion in this form,
are sensible of the desirableness of har
mony of opinion and action in our whole
church, and would, therefore, overture
the General Assembly, at its next meet
ing, to rpeQMider the plan it recom
mended in 186 U.
Disastrous Fire on Edisto Island.-
The store and gin house of Mr. Jolm
Wright, situated on Edisto Island, about
one mile from the Edisto wharf, were
destroyed by fire at oue o’clock on last
Wednesday. The tire originated iu the
moteing room, and was caused by an at
tempt to light a pipe made by a colored
woman employed therein. The room
was filled with a dense mass of floating
lint, which ignited from a match the wo
man had struck. The progress of the
flames was so rapid that the gin-house
liamls barely escaped with their lives.
Several were severely hnfne.j. One <jol
ojpd xjraiqan every particle of cloth
ing burnt off of her, and her condition
was such that she was not expected to
live. The giu house contained ion Mc-
Carthy gins, a corn mill and bolting mu
chine, grain fans, elevators, and other
machinery, as well as about twenty-four
bales of sea island cotton and two thou
sand bushels of sea island cotton seed,
ad of which were completely destroyed.
The gin-liouse and engine attached to
the gin house wire also destroyed. The
store contained a large stoek of dry
goods, groceries, Ac., ali of which, ex
cepting about oue hundred and fifty dol
lars’ worth of dry goods, were lost;
There was no insurance. The loss is es
timated at between thirty-five and (fifty
thousand dollars.- -Chari' Con \<u ...
A Classical Dispute. —“Kickero,” or
“ Sisero,” is tfie issue in Chiilieothe, Q.
Prof. Dowd, the principal of one of the
public schools, required his pupils to
say “ Kickero;” whereupon divers of the
parents rebelled, and demanded that the
children should be allowed to say
“Sisero.” The professor was inexor
able, and the “ Siseronians,” by the
pulling of wires, secured his dismissal,
against the protest of a largo pari of the
community. K&w, with high clamor,
the brave" “ Kickeronians” rush to the
rescue, declaring that they will put out
the present school board, and put in an
other that shall defer to Dowd, and
cling to “ Kickero.” We trust that this
highly classical contest will pof end so
tragically as that of the geologists and
antiquarians did iu Calaveras county,
though when the alternative is “ Kick,”
or “ Sis,” the aspect is certainly threat
ening. “ Sometimes,” says Mr. Yellow
plush (we slightly improve his spelling!,
“ I got cias.es and sometimes kix.” Such
uncertain fate as this seems to impend
over the poor children of Ohillicothe.
Froudb's Gesticulations. They’ve
got Fronde down to a pretty fine point
in New York. A statistical student says
that in the first twenty-five minutes of
his lecture Thursday night, he put his
hands in his pockets twenty-one times,
and lifted his coat-tail thirty-five times,
by actual count.
REPORT ON’ THE l . S. CURRENCY.
Bank Issues - Interest—Charters—
Usury, Ac.
The United States Comptroller’s re
port to Congress comments upon the un
equal distribution of the $100,000,000
first authorized, and the distribution of
$54,000,000 subsequently authorized, and
the amount apportioned to each State.
$42,000,000 of this have been issued, and
the remainder assigned to banks either
. in process of organization or applying to
do so. No further applications can he
considered, and itis probable that the
wh01e5354,000,000 of banknotes so au
thorized will be issued previous to the
meeting of the 43dCongress. After this
issue tlie law provides for a redistribu
tion of $25,000,000 by transferring that
amount from Nexv York and New Eng
land to the West and South. The Comp
troller considers this impracticable, and
recommends its repeal, and the issue of
$5,000,000 of circulation annually for
the next five years to States which have
not their proportion.
The amount of taxation, State and Na
tional, paid by national banks during
the last four years is given witli great
care. This table will show that tlie ratio
of dividends to the capital of the na
tional banks in the aggregate, without
deducting bad debts, is 10 per ceut., and
U-i. dividends to the capital and surplus
Jess than Hi per cent. A comparison of
> tiie’dividends of the national banks with
142 English banks, representing $340,-
000,000, is also given.
The law in reference to reserve is dis
cussed, and statistics showing the ratio
of reserve to circulation and deposits of
national banks in the different States
and cities of the Union, for four years,
are given and reference made to the
Chicago and Boston fires as confirma
tion of the wisdom of the law in re
quiring a sufficient reserve and the ac
cumulation of a large surplus fund,
The Comptroller is opposed to any
change of law in reference to the amount
of reserve required, but suggests that it
may be for the advantage of tlie banks
to hold a larger proportion of reserve in
their own hands, instead of placing it on
deposit in city banks, where it is largely
used for speculative purposes. A num
ber of applications have been made to
tlie Comptroller to commence proceed
ings for forfeit of tlie charters of certain
banks on account of usurious transac
tions. Tlie law provides as a penalty for
usury a forfeiture of twice the amount
of interest, and Congress is requested to
interpret the law, and state whether or
not it intended to forfeit the charter of
the bank in addition to the imposition
of tlie penalty referred to. A statement
of broken national banks, amount of
dividends paid, and an estimate of pro
bable dividends given, shows that tlie
national banks, exclusive of four banks
which were depositories of public
money, will pay to their creditors in tlie
aggregate dividends amounting to 86 per
cent. Four of the banks which have
failed during the past year have paid
dividends iu full to their creditors, and
two dividends of 70 and 50 per cent.,
with two other dividends yet to be dis
tributed.
Locking up of greenbacks in New
York city is referred to, and the amount
of coin, gold, Treasury notes, and
checks payable in specie ‘ ’ 1 1 y the
New York city banks for iuur years past
given separately, and amendments to
the act withholding interest, and im
posing penalty upon bunks whose capital
lias been impaired, and who refuse to
go into liquidation; to prevent t[io circu
lation of sUfiiplfisters in the Southern
States, and authorizing banks to organ
ize without circulation under the pres
ent law by deposit of SIO,OOO in United
States bonds, instead of one-third of
their capital, as now required and sug
gested.
important amendments proposed.
The organization of banks without cir
culation, upon a deposit of SIO,OOO in
United States bonds instead of one-third
of capital; a penalty on the withholding
of interest from banks whose capital is
impaired, and who refuse to go into li
quidation, under section 42 of tlie act;
to prevent the circulation of sliinplasters
by railroads and other corporations in
tlie South; defining more fully the duties
of tlie Comptroller and the receiver in
the final closing of insolvent banks; per
mitting banks to loan 10 per cent,, both
on capital and surplus,
Epizooty. —The damp and foggy weath
er of yesterday seemed to have a most
injurious effect upon tlie epizooty, or
rather upon tlie animals. A large num
ber of new cases were reported, and the
indications are that nothing in the shape
of horse or mule flesh will escape the
infection. Broad street was almost de
serted by the drays, as a great many gs
the dray flqyseq gfc qfl’ duty and the
whole available force was employed on
Reynolds street moving cotton. We
have also to report that several deaths
have occurred, most of them caused by
improper treatment or by working the
horse before lie had entirely recovered,
thus cspiKiqijf q pqlqpse. 'l'ho large per
centage of the sick horses and mules are
doing well ami those first attacked are
rapidly convalescing.
One of the most serious inconveniences
arising from the epidemic is the scarcity
of work horses. It is tfififcult to get
transportation for merchandize, wood or
anything else. Fortunately our un
exampled railroad facilities —tracks run
ning to nearly all the warehouses—allow
all the cotton which comes here or is
sent away to be delivered and shipped
without much delqy.
The disease does not seem to be con
finding itself to horses apd mules. An
ancient William Qoat, confined iq tl(e
pqlioe stable tfl prevent the malady
attaching the horses, lias a fine case of
the epizooty himself. Even human be
ings do not eaeapo, and two or three
gentlemen who are sick are said to have
every symptom of the disease.
Mr. Robert Banner has given the fol
lowing letter to the public :
Springfield, Mash . QA. all, 1872.
Mr. RoyNCu, - JJtUVr Sir: In the
Spring of 18(58 a disease broke out
among my cavalry horses at Fort Sum
ner, New Mexico, that appears to me
identical with that now raging among
horses in our cities, and in a veyy (yw
days became an epidemic.
At first it Gened all 'treatment, ami
the great majority of horses attacked by
it' died. On exaupning the tlpnqtq
the’ dead horses, J foqqd the lining
membrane of the jayyn\ Highly inflamed
and thickened, and a black mucous pus
filling it, causing suffocation. I order
ed nil horses, on the first appearance of
the disease, to be thoroughly rubbed
between the lower jaws and along the
larynx down the neck with spirits of
turpentine, causing a very vaW'-
nal irritation en l
T uwrify’hirie thus treated and
in a very few days entirely broke the dis
temper ami cheeked the epidemic.
I do not doubt that thousands of
horses, where this epidemic prevails, can
be saved by adopting this treat »y-qt. i;
acts more quickly y .* cpunteV.-irritaiit
than yuy ptfic-r ibniedy X know,' ain’t re
lieves the (e¥ei- 6i the membrane.'of the
larynx in a very ‘ few hours,
spirits of turpentine is njwqys at hand,
aud can l)« igcgoi readily applied than
any other counter-irritant. It should he
thoroughly rubbed iu through the hair
to the skin, for a distance of some twelve
or fifteen inches under the jaws and
down the neck of the horse, immediate
ly over the larynx. The remedy i<* se
vere and makes the ' : Vi u , ij.oie tor'sevoral
weeks, oauneff grdat suffering to the
horse. Tbit ‘it acts promptly and ef
fectively, and in my judgment it will be
found the best, and perliaps the only
cure for this fatal malady causing such
suffering and loss among horses through
out the country. My h,y*> of horses in
duces ire t„ arteiress-yon and to ask you
to give this communication such place
in your paper as to reach the public in
the most prompt and general wav, ynd
stay one of the greatest misfortune, s n,ow
threatening all
ing by thousands the noblest animals
created for the service of man.
Very truly, yours,
B, a, Roberts,
Effeyet Brigadier General U. S. Army.
The result of a post mortem examina
tion of a horse that died of the “epizoo”
at Atlanta, on Saturday, is recorded as
follows in the Herald:
Intense inflammation of the mucous
or lining membrane of the larynx and
trachea, or wind pipe; the inflamma
tion extending itself to the bronchi or
small air tubes, and the substance of
the lung itself. The greatest iuflamma-
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fion of the lung was iu the immediate
vicinity of the small nil* tubes. From
appearances, it is evident that the in
flammation commenced in tile larynx,
or the entrance of the wind pi|ie, tunl
extending itself along the same mem
brane the whole extent of the air tubes,
and to the lung tissue iu the immediate
vicinity of the first great distribution
of these tubes. The inflammation of
the lung, or pneumonia, was in this case
evidently nil extension of tlie inflamma
tion from tlie air tubes, differing from
ordinary pneumonia or lung fever.
Epizooty. —There is still a steady in
crease in the number of cases of epizooty
in tlie city, and the indications now arc
that few horses will escape. Every
liorso in the police stables lias been at
tacked, and one of them has a serious
case. A great many of the dray horses
liavo it, and have been retired from ac
tive service—still there are enough in
harness, in connection with our railroad
facilities, to do the business of the mer
chants. The cotton men got even by
bringing in steam power, as will he seen,
from an article in another column. The
disease here lias not been confined to
the horses, but has also attacked the
mules—among others those procured by
the Southern Express Company to take
tlie place of their horses. Most of the
animals which take the malady stop
work and receive immediate and careful
attention from their owners and drivers,
and some of them are even now rapidly
convalescing, notwithstanding the severe
and protracted cold spell of tlie past two
weeks. Under the influence of the mild
weather, which commenced yesterday,
rapid improvement may be expected.
In the last number of the Spirit of the
Times, the following receipt of tlie
treatment of the disease appears. It
lias been used with satisfactory results
by a well known owner of fancy stock
in that city, who suggested that wo pub
lish the same for the benefit of others :
Influenza is characterized by extreme
prostration and debility. During the
febrile stage of the disease the patient
should be kept quiet; good nursing, and
warm clothing, with the greatest atten
tion to feeding, are necessary. Tlie ap
petite, if capricious, must be tempted
with grass, carrots, brau mash, boiled
linseed, skim milk, oat meal gruel, or
anything else he will take. If tonics
are required, iodide of iron in doses of a
drachm, with half an ounce each of pow
dered gentian and ginger, mixed with
feed twice a day; or a stimulant may be
administered—such as carbonate of am
monia, one and a half drachms; cam
phor, one drachms; and ginger, four
drachms; syrup to form a ball.—
In cases, however, which aro pro
gressing favorably, nature had better
be left to herself and tonics should
only be resorted to when the
symptoms really indicate the need
of them. Asa rule, if the animal can
ho induced to feed, wo may hopejfor the
best; as the strength returns, a little led
exercise may be given. The discharge
of purulent matter from the noso iu tlie
early stage is a good sign and indicates
that the disease is becoming milder.
Favorable progress is also marked by
the urine being discharged more fre
quently and in greater quantities, and
by the fcoees becoming soft instead of
being voided in pellets. A slight ten
dency to “stock” iu the legs is also a
favorable sign. It, is one of nature’s
means of giving relief and often prevents
the occurrence of mischief in important
internal organs. But in thelatter stages
it is asymptom of tlie inability of nature
any longer to continue the conflict with
the disease. If the attack q( this junc
ture does not take q favorable turn,, the
sumptoms will probably become more
intense. The membrane of the nose
may become mulberry red, and in very bad
eases the discharge may he tinged with
streaks of blood. The nose, the legs,
the sheath and under the belly become
more or less swollen; indeed, a general
tendency to cp derna exists. The animal
may wander unconsciously round his box
and look at his sides and paw occasion
ally with his fore feet, asi though in
acute pain. Even spontaneous diarrhoea
is to ho dreaded, ami far more the su
perpurgation which is likely to result
from cathartics or sedatives given to an
animal in this malady. The disease of
ten assumes an intermittent form, and
the patient alternately gains strength
for a time and relapses. Even if the
animal survives, chronic cough, defec
tive respiration, rheumatism, <W paraly
sis are often after-veaultu of such ex
treme deyglomgenta of influenza. When
tlm patient ia recovering from a severe
attack of influenza we must not expect
any great and rapid amendment. The
change will be gradual. We must tax
our patience aud be satisfied to look on
and seek to aid nature iu the gradual
restoration of the system- 0- After a
bad ease there wfifi bo during convales
cence frequent changes, slight acces
sions of fever, the appetite will often
slowly return and will be capricious in
character. It is always a good sign to
see the horse lying down aud comforta
ble in that position, especially if the
breathing is not accelerated by it. At
tacks of infi,quu*a are often complicated
by various other deinngements, which
will receive attention at our earliest con
venience.
I’robarlk Meeting of the New Con
gress in December,— \ Washington
dispatch to Cm Ne.w York Herald , on
the 30th, syys there is every probability
that the law of 18(57, requiring each now
Congress to meet for organization on
the 4th day of March instead of the first
Monday iq liecembev, will have to be re
enacted. Jt was yejiealed last session by
a majority of three votes in the House,
through the persistency of Mr. Dawes
and the aid of the Democratic mombers.
The coming- session contains but fifty
five working days, of which the first
half would be fully required by the Ap
propriations Ocununioe if the estimates
\ym*i now ready so that tho bills could
lie fully prepared iu advance of the
meeting. But there will he unavoid
able delay in this particular,, amt the
days of bjoioie the holiday
ad’on.qmeqt vU fcft wasted ns before.
There are eighty-three UilU on the
House docket which are special
(gdiae qqd most eomo up, and all the
important legislation arising from the
Treaty of Washington lias to bo consid
ered iu committee and passed through
each House. Nearly all the old Re
publican members who are yevjofected to
the new Congress w i e> writing to the
CQiqmitt'??, ViVm whoare already in Wash
mgiou urging the necessity of a session
of the new Congress immediately upon
tho expiration of the old, and the latter
concur in the view's of their <<«o syond
ents.
Convention at Rome,— The
ltoiqe Board of Trade, at a meeting held
last weeki rwHslvod that the convention
for pressing forward the
opening of the Coosa, Etowah and
Oostenaula rivers and tho great >South
ern Canal, he held in Rome on the 4tli
of Decembr next. Judge Underwood,
Major C. H.
D, Cokhv-M wad Thomas J. Ferry were
appointed a committee of invitation.
Judge Underwood, Major C. 11. Smith
and J. M. Elliott were appointed q com
mittee to prepare statiand make a
report to the convention.
Honorable Police Distinction,— The
police authorities of Savannah have or
dered that a member of the force iu the
service o( the X’o* 6st City for three years
be honored with a badge of honor,
consisting of a gold laoe stripe on the
left sleeve below the elbow—another
stripe to be added for every successive
or preceding period of the same dura
tion. Several of the members of the
force have mounted two aud three of
these honorable badges.
Erie Sues Drew. —A suit has been
instituted by the Erie Railway Company
against Daniel Drew to recover $5,000,-
000 alleged to have been embezzled by
him while treasurer of the company in
1868, by the sale of 50,000 shares of
watered stock.
Further Particulars op the Mil-
T.F.IHIKVII.LE FIUE.—A YoUNG MAN Burn
kd'to Dkath. —From the Macon Telc
<;ragh we get the following additional
particulars of tho disastrous hie at Mil
lodgeville on Friday morning:
The lire broke out in a cellar under
the Macon store of O, E. Besore, who
lost a stock of goods valued at $9,000,
upon which thero was no insuranee.
Tliere being scarcely any means of de
fense against fire, the flames hud their
own way, and swept everything within
their reach.
The Milledgeville Hotel, a lino tin
story brick building, Newell’s Hall and
seven stores wero totally burned, caus
ing a loss of SIOO,OOO, about one-fourth
of which was couvered by insurance.
During tho progress of the fire a
young man munod Corey, who was en
gaged in buaines in one of the stores that
were burned, was in the building en
deavoring to save some of his offocts,
when a keg of powder exploded with
terrific force, burying him in tho wreck of
the burning building. His charred re
mains were taken from the ruins Friday.
Ed. Compton and several otlierß wore
badly hurt at the same time, though no
more lives wero lost.
The fire is supposed to have been the
work of an incendiary.
Injunction Made Absolute,— ln the
case of F. L. Cardozo vts. Niles G. Par
ker, State Treasurer of South Carolina,
after a hearing on Thursday, Judge
Melton issued his final order, making
absolute the injunction previously laid
upon tho State Treasurer and his co
defendants, the County Treasurers, en
joining them, until further order, from
paying out of tho proceeds of tho tax
authorized to bo levied by tho Joint
Resolution of the General Assembly, ap
proved March 13th, 1872, or any part
thereof for any purpose whatever, ex
cept for payment of tho appropriation
contained in the general appropriation
act for tho fiscal year last past, approved
March 13th, 1872, until those appropria
tions have been fully paid and satisfied.
The operation of tho injunction upon
County Treasurers is excepted in regard
to the disbursement of county taxes.
All other taxes are required to bo paid
into the State Treasury.
Another injunction has been applied
for, and the caso was to bo heard by-
Judge Melton yesterday. Tho order in
this latter case, if granted ns applied
for by tho plaintiff, of which there was
thought to be no doubt, will go much
further than the one above mentioned.
The one attempts merely to prevent the
misappropriation of the taxes after they
are collected; tho other one contem
plates no collection of any taxes what
ever until the new Legislature shall
meet and, fix, and it is said, reduce the
amount.
Auousta Antiquities. —Our older citi
zens are no doubt well aware that the
first United States Arsenal erected here
was built on what was afterwards tho
site of tho celebrated Confederate
Powder Works. Tho Arsenal was
finished in tho year 1819, but some
years afterwards anew Arsenal was
built on the Sand Hills, and tho old one
was intended for a powder manufactory.
When tho war came on, Col. Rains estab
lished in its stead tho Confederate
Powder Works. The property was pur
chased by tho city at the Government
sale two or three weeks ago, and yester
day,while tho laborers on the Canal were
making some excavations, tho corner
stone of the old Arsenal was resurrected.
It was almost completely covered with
mortar, but was restored and the in
scription on it made legible. The stone
was of tho soft quality which was for
merly used in this city a great deal, and
of which tlioro is so much in the City
Hall building. The inscription is:
1819.
J. Walter Phillips, Liontwwmt of
Ordinance, Superintendent.
Some days ago, on the same tract of
land, the workmen, while digging seven
feet below tho surface, fohnd two
genuine Indian tomahawks, which had
probably been there for morn than one
hundred years. The tomahawks are of
stone and were, no doubt, considered
quite “nobby” when the young braves,
their owners, first sported them, though
hardly the thing to carry into a free fight
in the present day.
Hard on Telfair County. —A curious
and melancholy stoi-y illustrative of
great public disappointment in Telfair
county, Ga., and tho trials of political
life, is going the rounds of the Northern
press. Strange to say, Telfair county,
Ga., has never enjoyed a circus. Some
body procured a number of old bills and
posted them at Jaeksonville, announcing
that the circus would be exhibited on a
certain Friday. A great crowd of men,
wornon, and children gathered, all wild
with joy and expectation, but no circus
appeared. After hope deferred had
made a great many hearts sick, a little,
hoy rushed into tho town crying tliat
ho had soon the clown crossing tho
river-. And who should tho clown turn
out to be but Gon. Cook, coming to
make a political speech t The crowd
melted sadly away, aud the General had
but a hard time of it.
The Girls of the Atlanta High
School Visit Mr. Stephens.-— ln At
lanta, on Friday afternoon, tho pupils
of tho Atlanta Female High School, with
their teachers. Misses Taylor, Hay good,
Clayton aud Latimer, under the lead of
Mr. Bernard Mallon, the Superinteuil
ant, visited Mr. Stephens in a body at
the Kimball House, to tender him their
respects.
Mr. Stephens was escorted from hi*
room to tho jmrlor of tho Kimball
House by a number of gentlemen who
were visiting him, where lie was intro
duced to the young, ladies by Col. I. W.
Avery. Ab address of welcome and con
gratulation was read in helmlf of tho
school girls by a young daughter of
Gen. Gartrell, to which Mr. Stephens
made eloquent response, while standing
leaning upon his crutch and supported
by Col. Johnson. U» is reported to
have seemed deeply touched by tho
delicate tribute paid him.
A New Phase of the Xiwzoonu —
Micßosoorio Discoveries —Tiie Colum
bia (S. C.) Carollni reports that a
number of micr««<je,pie examinations
have been made. iu. that city of the nasal
discharge from horses affected with tho
prevalent disease. In eight eases ont of
eleven animalculro were discovered.
They are little cigar shaped concerns,
and about the color of a strong Havana
cigar. From the observations so fur, it
appears that the organized bodies am
found in the first stages of the disease-,
when the discharge is thin; afterwards,
when the discharge is thick, no animal
culm can be found. One physician sug
gests that the animal culm penetrated the
mucus membrane of the horse, and thus
it is after several days none are to ho
discovered. Perliaps to tlioir subse
quent pranks may lie attributed tho
dropsy, which is appearing at the North
as the sccoudaiy stage of the disease.
Two Negro Prisoners Killed. —On
Saturday last, three negro prisoners are
reported to have attempted to escape
from jail in Opelika, Ala. The jailer
fired upon them, killing two of the fugi
tives aud wounding the third.
