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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1872)
Chronicle aitb jSentintl. WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 4 COTTON MOVEMENTS LAST WEEK. The New York Financial Chronicle gives the following figures in showing the receipts, exports, Ac., of cotton dur ing the week ending the 22d instant: The total receipts reached 118,565 bales against 110,610 bales last week, 188,705 bales the previous week and 120,465 bales three weeks since, making the total receipts since the first of Sep tember; 1872, 1,006,946 bales against 770,274 bales for the same period of 1871, showing an increase since Septem ber 1 this year of 236,672 bales. 'Die exports reached a total of 77,409 bales, of which 41,824 were to Great Britain, 10,230 to France, and 25,355 to rest of the Continent, while the stocks at the close of the week were 370,923 bales. Compared with the correspond ing week of last season, there was an increase in the exports of 24,981 bales, while the stocks were 20,110 bales more than they were at the same period a year ago. There have been no shipments from Bombay to Great Britain the past week and none to the Continent, while the receipts at Bombay, during the same time, have been 3,000 bales. Compared with last year there is a decrease this year in the week’s shipments to Great Britain of 2,000 bales, and the total movement since January 1 shows a decrease in shipments of 182,000 bales over the corresponding period of 1871. The stocks in sight indicated an in crease of 20,344 bales compared with the same date of 1871. The interior stocks increased 9,269 bales during the week, being 441 bales less than at the same period last year. The interior re ceipts were 1,750 bales less than for the same week in 1871. THE ALABAMA MUDDLE. The evident purpose of the Radical Rump Legislature in session at Mont gomery, in persisting to be the legal law-making power of Alabama, in de fiance of all [constitutional restraint, is nothing less than to provoke, if possible, a collision with the members of the regularly organized Legislature at the Capitol, as a pretext for invoking Federal interference in behalf of the fallen fortunes of a hungry and disap pointed horde of carpet-baggers, whose occupations are lost, unless this illegal and presumptuous Rump is upheld by bayonet power. The leaders of the Rump have em ployed every agency within their control to intimidate and embarrass Conserva tive members, invoking the unparalleled arrest of chosen law-makers by Federal authority, while on their way to the {State capital to take their seats under certificates of election as’meinbers of the Legislature. In this they overreached themselves and rendered their infamous scheme so perfectly transparent that the National Administration was constrained to positively refuse the request of mili tary interference in their behalf. It is now given out that D. P. Lewis, counted in as Governor, by the Legisla ture at the Capitol, without issue against the unblushing Radical frauds by which his majority was secured, lias elected to stand by the Rump organization and to dispense with tho Legislature from which he holds his commission. While this purpose of Gov. Lewis will doubt less astonish many of our Alabama friends, who, with a child-like faith, re lied upon liis liberality and good faith in the settlement of the pending issues, we discover nothing more in it than Radi calism seeking its true level. The situation in oursistsr State seems to be approaching a crisis, in which our Conservative friends will have need of all the courage, sagacity and firm adherence to constitutional right which they can command, in order to foil the revolu tionary designs of the Rump Legisla ture and its sympathizing Executive. May they have a happy issue from their present complications. THE SAVANNAH PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The annual report of the public schools of Savannah and Chatham coun ty shows that three substantial brick buildings have been erected during the past year, as additions, respectively, to the public school house, tho Massie school house and tho cathedral school house, affording six commodious schools, permanently appropriated to the purposes of free public education. During the past year ending July, 1872, the average attendancoof scholars was 1,950 out of 2,513 enrolled, at a cost per pupil of sl7 90. The preceding year the number enrolled was 2,438, the average daily attendance 1,915, and the cost per scholar us sl6 25. Tho average number to eaeli teacher was less than the preceding year, being about fifty against fifty-seven. It is claimed that fifty is too large an average for one pre ceptor, but this at present cannot be avoided. Since this report schools for the colored children have been established and teachers elected. These schools will bo opened early in the ensuing month. No aid during the last two years has been received from the Pea bodv Fund. The receipts from all sources reached §49, 551 18 —embracing balance on hand, §570 63; city appropriation, $86,000; county appropriation, $12,000; and in terest on school fund, §977 55. The ex penditures footed up $46,634 87—leaving a balance, July 15, of $2,919 31. The total number of teachers employ ed in the schools during the past year, including the Superintendent, the teachers of modern languages, two in structors of “full” gymnastics and three teachers in the county schools, was 48, of which 41 are regular class teachers in the city schools. The schools have been blessed during the year with remarkable health. Oat of a total of 2,400 children and youths in the city schools, only eight have been removed by death. The county schools do not compare favorably with the city schools, because of sparseness of population, irregular attendance, bad condition of the build ings nud antique furniture. To secure permanent teachers for the county schools, the Superintendent suggests that a stipulated salary be given the teachers of the country schools instead of making the amount of compensation dependent upon the number of scholars. We have been thus particular in com piling the above items in regard to the model pnblic schools of our sister city, in view of the fact that the public schools of Augusta and Richmond county are to be reorganised in January, and every thing relating to the cost and operation of a well digested system of public schools should claim the attention of at least those of our citizens who have been chosen to inaugurate this great and too long neglected work. The course of study pursued in the Savannah schools remains as revised by a committee of the Board two years ago. Geography, reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic, English grammar and his tory—branches which form the basis of practical education —are pursued until the High School grade is reached. More success, it is stated, hits been achieved in arithmetic than ill any other branch, it having been made the test study in examination for admission into schools and for promotion to higher grades. The teaching of other branches has been attended with the usual success. In the High Schools the studies are Latin, Greek, physical geography, rheto ric, English literature, natural philoso phy, chemistry, algebra, geometry, French and German, with a review of the important branches of the Grammar School. They are represented to be in a flourishing condition. Raleigh, N. C., November 29. — The fourth ballot for United States Senator stood, Vance, 74 ; Poole, 75; Merrimon, 22. There is no prospect of a settle ment. KALCLC. New York must have a pet, and a New York pet must l>e a pet that will create a sensation. Little “All Right,” the cop per colored Japanese, served his day and generation as a New York pet. But now New York yearns for a pet more decided in color and characteristics, and the en terprise of the New York Herald satis fies New York yearnings for the time be ing by importing a real live African, which the lferald deseril>es as “An Amoozin’ Little Cuss,” rejoicing in the euphonious name of Kalnlu, and hailing from that part of Ham’s continent which is south of Tanganyika, and known a« Cazambe’s country. This “amoozin’ little cuss” is one of the trophies of the immortal Henry M. Stanley, who re turns to America after finding the great African traveler, Livingstone, loaded with honors and testimonials, not the least of which is a gold snuff box ex quisitely adorned with brilliants and hearing the royal imprimatur of Britain’s Queen: V. R. New York has been made familiar with Kalulu through the intervention of the daily and the il lustrated press. Kalula has had his picture taken in his national costume— “a state of semi-nudity”—and his adopted dress, “the dress of a page of the XlXth century,” wholly described in the word “buttons.” The Herald thinks that Kalnln, who is eleven years of age, must have neglected his early education, because “he is very honest;” but as he is to become a New York “voter,” this defect will be readily over come before matnrity by a residence in Gotham. This sprightly “little amoo zin’ cuss” talks fluently in his own tongue—for example: “Trigo, Kalulu !” " w “Kassawatch Kazumtoodle,” said the “amoozin’ little cuss,” looking up. “Maragaroo, sana, Sana,” pointing to a picture of the Livingstone statue. “Lifinston !” replied the boy, beam ing with intelligence. KALULU’s RELIGIOUSNESS. “Rolevioprayo arabman!” A devotional look overcast the dusky features of the untutored lad, and he forthwith proceeded to imitate the pray ing of tho Arabs at sunset with a per fection of mimicry. Stretching out his arms he prayed to Allah, and then rub bed his face, after which he knelt down gravely and reverently, touching his head to the ground thrice ; then lie rub bed his face with his hands, as in deep thought, only dropping them to grasp his knees, as though a certain bounding insect was perched therein. Poor little chap ! He had seen this process so of ten repented that he evidently thought the flea-disturbing motion a part of the Mohammedan ceremony. KALULU’s SONO. “Tifololderolol, Kalulu.” The boy at once proved how the musical instinct of the children of Africa was strong within him. He rocked his body, rolled his eyes and burst forth in a Kasawihili song as follows : Sliutti doanbodamee. Shuffi doanbodamee. Ibel ongtocnmanejee. In reply to further questions in his native tongue, a faint idea of which will be gained from the above; says the Herald, he stated that he was at present in a country called L >ndon. His parents were poor but respectable and engaged IN THE WHITEWASHING BUSINESS. This was performed, however, on the souls of the Kaaawahili, and not on their houses, his dad being a medicine man. The reverend gentlemen of the colored persuasion will please take a note of this. He finds it very hard to see the difference between slaves and freemen yet. In Africa people were owned by other people, and here, so far as he looked into politics and business, he found it much the same thing. This boy has evidently a great deal to learn from the bird of freedom. The colored boys at the hotel lie called pagans, and his white admirers he admitted to be brothers. At this stage of the proceed ings lie remembered some chestnuts in his pockets, and all further efforts to draw out this interesting little African lion had ns much effect as attempting to interview the lion at Central Park when polishing a bone. THE ORLEANS POLICY. Desirous of ascertaining what the Or leans Princes think of the present po litical situation of France, particularly as it was asserted that the Count de Paris was about issuing a manifesto in response to the Count de Chambord’s last, a special correspondent of the Times visited Chantilly, three weeks ago, resolved to “interview” the Count de Paris, who was on a visit to one of his ujicles there. The Count’s absence on a shooting party prevented the hoped-for interview, but, on his return to Paris, the correspondent met a very intimate friend of the Orleans Princes in the railway car, from whom he obtain ed various items of information, which he has retailed in the London paper. The Count de Chambord, the childless grandson of Charles X., who was de posed by the revolution of 1830, is the last of the Bourbon line, and claims to be hereditary monarch of France, with the title of Henri V., and that the Count de Paris is the eldest sou of King Louis Philippe’s eldest son (the Duke of Orleans, killed by accident in 1840), and claims to be King of France in suc cession to the Count de Chambord. The revelations of the Orleans adhe rent may be summed up thus : The Court de Faris has no manifesto to pub lish. The traditions of his family lead him to favor a liberal and constitutional government. lie does not feel it his mission either to proclaim the Republic or to throw impediments in its way. He and his family prefer the tricolor to the white tlag, under which the Due de Chartres, his only brother, is now serv ing. He considers the Count deCham bord to be the legitimate head of the family. He hopes to succeed to the Crown by the right of succession, after the last of the Bourbons has passed away. He waits until he is called upon to till a great position, and desires to serve his country, whether as monarch or citizen. He would not accept the title of President, “ for as long as the Count de Chambord lives, the Count de Paris is heir of a King, and not a pretender to the Presidency;” but there is no reason 1 why his uncle, the Duke d’Aumale, ac- ■ eepting the laws of the Republic, might not accept its Presidency if offered to him—a very unlucky contingency.— 1 In conclusion, the Orleans adherent declared that no Prince governs in a more absolute manner than M. Thiers, who “does not say, ‘Aprcs moi le deluge.’ He knows that history would show him no mercy if he were influenced by no other ambition than to prolong his authority for a few years, and to leave afterwards France reduced to chaos. He looks around him, he ob serves, he listens, and the day when he shall have found the man who after him will be able to govern prance under the form of a wise and conservative Repub lic. to close for ever the era of revolu tions, on that day he will be the first to point out the man to the country. He has himself said that he will never be jealous of bis heir. But he is seeking, and as yet he has not found.” Sifting the chaff from the wheat, the revelations of the “interviewed” Orleanist declared that the chief of the Orleans line ac knowledges the claim of the last Bour bon to the sovereignty of France, and hopes to get the Crown, not by popular election, but on the old principle of right divine hereditary succession. Registration hj Columbus. —The regis try list of Columbns closed on Saturday, The following is the total poll: Whites, 840; colored, 425; total, 1,265. The poll of 1871 stood as follows; Whites, 932; colored, 503; total, 1,435. This shows a falling off of 1 per cent on the white, and 1 1 per cent, on the colored vote. Os 2,551 bales of cotton sold in Colum bus last week, 2,400 were to fill orders received from Boston for Eastern mills. death of Horace gref.let. Oitr telegraphic dispatches this morn ing convey the sad intelligence of the death of Horace Greeley, the recognized head of American jonrnalism, whose genius and ability have earned for him an immortality of fame throughout the length and breadth of America, and the \ results at whose political labors are stamped indelibly upon the history of his country. Worn by the arduous and exacting dnties of his profession, assiduously fol lowed for nearly forty years, crushed by a peculiarly sad domestic affliction in the evening of his life, and mortified by political defeat, the veteran philoso pher quietly passed to his reward yes terday evening, amid circumstances which will awaken the kindliest sympa thies of the people of all sections. Sir. Greeley was born in Amherst, New Hampshire, February 3, 1811, and consequently lacked but two months and a few days of completing his sixty second year. Neither time nor data at present serve us in paying appropriate tribute to the life and labors of this truly great and generous man, in whose character and achievements the prin ciples of true manhood and Christian philanthropy have bail such marked illustration. At another time we shall take occasion to speak more fully of our appreciation of his many conspicuous virtues. REVOLUTION IN ARKANSAS. Iu Arkansas, affairs are anything but serene. Indeed, 'there are great appre hensions that a bloody revolution is imminent. Both Liberal and Radical leaders talk of pressing their claims to control of the State Government to the decisive arbitrament of sword and bayo net. The issue, as we understand it, consists in the fact, as summanized in the Courier-Journal, that Brooks, the Liberal candidate, received a majority of from one thousand to fifteen hundred votes, and is legally elected Governor. But the Radicals, by a number of frauds practiced in various parts of the State, have overcome this vote and have de clared Baxter elected by a majority of about seven hundred. The Brooks par ty are justly outraged at this shameless and flagrant procedure, and after show ing very conclusively that the Radical managers conducted the election in a high-handed manner, erasing the names of voters, polling illegal votes, and throwing out entire precincts in their counts, they have opeuly declared that they will inaugurate Brooks, if need be, “at the point of the bayonet.” At a large meeting held the other day iu Little Rock, speeches were made by the Liberals, and, judging from the tone and temper of the orators, it seems pretty well settled that they will not yield without a very violent struggle. Mr. Brooks himself was present, and, in a passionate speech, declared that, so far as the rights of the people were con cerned, he was ready to install the offi cers elected by them. He was ready to do that without ashing minstrel leave, and lie was ready also to take conse quences. “If you say install,” said he, “I say install. We have reached a crisis, or soon will, when it will be de cided whether we are to have a govern ment of law or be at the mercy of a gang of outlaws. I feel satisfied that ! it is incumbent on the people to meet I this issue like meu who dare maintain | their manhood. There is no parallel to I the outrages committed at this election. The people should see that he is in stalled. A man lawfully elected should take and hold the office." This plucky speech was received with enthusiastic applause. Resolutions were adopted calling a mass convention to be held in Little Rock upon the assembling of the Legislature, and, judging from the suggestive hints that were dropped, the delegates will come armed and equipped ready to decide the question upon the old English system of wager of battle. Everything goes to show that they really mean business. The Radicals appear, too, equally resolute and inflexible. So fur as words are concerned they are also as sanguin ary as their opponents. The Republican, a Baxter organ, on the morning follow ing the meeting alluded to, said: The Senate is the only tribunal which can decide, by a count, who is elected, and by that determination Mr. Brooks and his friends shall stand, or, in his own language, we will make this State a “ howling wilderness from the Missouri border to the Red river. ” He and his friends may get up just as many meet ings as they choose, for the purpose of revolution ; but they will find that such a man as General Fagan will no more draw Ms sword in a war for the inau guration of Brooks, than he would have drawn it in days gone by, becauso a planter had refused to invite a negro dealer to his table. Iu fact, we are told his eyes are already opened to their scheme, and that he declines to lead where Brooks is to follow. What Mcßae, Caball and Dockery will do, we know not and care less. All that wo ask of the riffraff is that they they place their leaders to the front, and with in hospitable hands we will welcome them to bloody graves. To the decision of the proper tribunal we will submit with out a murmur ; but to the inauguration of Brooks by rebellion and violence, we never shall. We know, Brooks knows, and the people of this State know, that Brooks has not received a majority of the legal votes of this State for the posi tion to which he aspires, and he who attempts to place him there in the face of these facts had better commence now to make his peace witli his God. It appears from this that the Brooks party must either acquiesce in the situa tion or “take up arms against a sea of troubles.” Both branches of the Legis- i lature are Radical, and the count of the vote will likely smack of the political bias of the counters. The Courts can’t be appealed to with any hope of success. They are as Radical as Baxter or the Legislature. There is, therefore, no other tribunal for the Liberals to appeal to but the god of battles; and unless milder counsels than those which have been hitherto accepted with such en thusiasm prevail, or unless the Federal Government interferes, it is likely that the muddle will end in anarchy and bloodshed. Suicide in Savannah. —About half past 9 o'clock, Wednesday morning, Mr. John Shea, a well-known Irish laborer, of Savannah, after locking himself in a room at his residence, shot himself with a Colt's revolver, the wound proving fatal during the afternoon. Mr. Shea had. for the past two weeks, been suffer ing terribly from cramps in liis limbs and stomach, which at times affected bis mind. His sufferings were of such a nature that he could scarcely sleep at all or lie upon a bed. During the early examination of his wound, the sufferer was seized with the most violent con vulsions, lasting several minutes, but upon a relaxation of the muscles he seemed perfectly rational, and, in reply to an inquiry of the Doctor’s, addressed to someone in the room, said : “ I did fire two shots, the first you will find in the floor. I tried to kill myself, but did not know what I was doing.” Subse quently a priest was called, and the physicians having rendered all the as sistance requisite at the time, retired and left the wounded man and the con fessor together. The result of this in terview convinced the priest that the act was occasioned by temporary in- ( sanity, and not from a desire or inten tion on the part of Mr. Shea to take his life. Babyta Mine in North Carolina.— In Gaston county, N. C., a mine of this metal, located within three miles of the Air Line Railroad, is now in process of being worked by Mr. Colburn, of Bos ton. The existence of the mine has been known for thirty years, but it has not been worked to any extent. Baryta has long been known in England, where it has been used to detect sulphuric add. It is largely used in this conntry as an adulterant, especially of white paint. When the tram road to the Air Line shall be completed, the working of the mine in Gaston wiH begin on a large scale, ; Swindled Italian Emigrants—Mrs. C.vkleton Belt Makes Them an Offer. --The steamship Holland, recently ax - ri veil in New York, from Havre, brought so.nc 300 Italian emigrants, who have been made the victims of gross imposi tion by shipping agents, and now find themselves in a strange country without employment, and dependent for food upon the Commissioners of Emigration until employment can be obtained for them. Their condition is represented fas pitiable in the extreme, and they are , clamorous to be sent back to Italy. They were induced by some shipping agents to take passage to America, and leave their small holdings, farms, &c., iu the i hands of tlie shippers, until they would • refund the money given them with their passage at a rate of 15 per cent., and if not paid in one year they were to forfeit any claim they had after. They were told that they could earn $4 per day in New York, and in this way they were induced to leave their native land. The sufferers are chiefly Neapolitans and other denizens of Southern Italy. Mrs. Carleton Belt, residing at the Coleman House, called on the Com missioners to make inquiries about the immigrants. Her object was to get them to go to the Shenandoah Valley and settle on farms. She, as an induce ment, offered to have them conveyed at half rates and then let them have the farms for two years free, after which they could pay a sum to be agreed upon. On making inquiries, however, she learned that the Italian immigrants were not an agricultural people; in fact they were a rather dangerous class of men, all of whom carried daggers and knives, and she withdrew her offer at once. Advance in Insurance Rates. —The New York Bulletin publishes a schedule of insurance rates adopted by the New York Board of Underwriters. The new rates are without rebate to the assured, and subject to a brokerage of not more than five per cent., audarenow in opera tion, as follows: First Class—Brick, stone or iron build ings, roof of tile, slate or metal, iron shutters to all window's, parapet walls not less than five feet in height, coped with stone, and metal or stone cornices or gutters, to be fastened in stone or brick, witli metal fastenings, and being in height not over sixty feet above the basement, 45 to 50 cents. Second Class—Brick, stone, or iron buildings, varying in any one particular from the first class, and being in height not over sixty feet above the basement, 60 to 65 cents. Third Class—Brick, stone or iron buildings, varying in any particular from the second class, and being in height not over sixty feet above basement, 70 to 80 cents.. Buildings of either class exceeding sixty feet in height charge, five cents for for every additional ten feet and frac tions of ten feet. Skylights—Buildings of either class having skylight openings through one or mere floors to be charged au addi tional 10c. A Mansard roof constructed entirely of iron or other metal, filled iu and covered with slate or metal, having walls through the roof and coped, no wood whatever being used in its construction, may be permitted without charge, ex cept for height above basement floor. Mansard roof varying from the above in any particular (subject always to charge as above for height of building), charged additional 50c. Storage stores (as per page 29.—First class, 70c to 80c; second-class, 80c to 90c; third-class, 90c to $1; fourth-class, $1 to SI 10. Tobacco warehouses—Same classifi cation as for storage stores. Provision warehouse (page 80).—First class, 60c to 65c; second-class, 70c to 80c; third-class, 80c to 90c; fourth-class, 90c to sl. A Direct Yote for President.—A direct vote for President and Vice-Presi dent of the nation is favored by the Cin cinnati Commercial. That journal re marks : “ One of the inconveniences of the electoral system is, that it is impos sible for the voter to distinguish between the candidates for the Presidency and the Vice-Presidency. For example, there were thousands of voters who, had the vote been direct, would have voted for Horace Greeley for President, and Henry Wilson for Vice-President; and possibly there were some Democrats who voted for Grant who would have prefer red to vote for Gratz Brown for Vice- President. Under the electoral system there is no option. The national con vention names the candidates, and the electors who stand for those candidates, and are chosen by the people of a State, have no alternative but to cast their votes for them when they meet at the State Capitol.” Alleged Plot of Laura Fair to Poison Her Judge and Prosecutor.— A sensation has befell caused in San Francisco, by the publication of the particulars of an alleged plot of Laura D. Fair and the restaurant waiter, Frank, to poison Judge Dwinelle and the coun sel for the people, Alex. Campbell. The plot was formed before the second trial, and was revealed by Frank. He said that Mrs. Fair tried to induce him to put poison into a decanter iu Dwinelle’s house, or a milk can at the door. About the same time a woman went to his house disguised and told his wife not to leave the can out. The matter was con cealed from the public and investigated by Chief Crowdy and the police. Judge Dwinelle and all the counsel in the case seem to have thought the waiter insane. Mrs. Fair remains in the city. Washington and Lee. —The annual report of the Washington and Lee Uni versity, located at Lexington, Virginia, shows this institution has twelve schools in operation, and is increasing the num ber as rapidly as its funds will admit. It has received within the last year near ly SIOO,OOO in bequests and donations, $70,000 cash from the late R. H. Bryley, of New Orleans, and $20,000 in Alexan dria city bonds from W. W. Corcoran, Esq., of Washington City, making its cash capital more than $300,000, and its aggregate capital, including real estate, libraries und apparatus, more than half a million dollars. The institution is free from debt. Still Under Political Disabilities. —From telegraphic report of the temper of President Grant in respect to amnes ty. it does not appear that he is very en thusiastic in recommending this meas ure to Congress. The number still un der disabilities is from three hundred to five hundred at the outside. The most prominent names of those still under disabilities are ex-President Davis, Judge John A. Campbell, Gen. J. C. Breckin ridge, Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, Hon. S. R. Mallory, C. C. Clay, Jr., Hon. James Chestnut, and Generals Johnston, Beau regard, Cooper, Hardee, Hood, Bragg, and Preston, of Kentucky. Recommendations of the Comptrol ler of the Currency.— The Comptroller of the Currency will recommend in his report the repeal of section 6 of the act approved July 12, 1870, requiring the circulation to be withdrawn to the amount of $25,000,000 in States having an excess and its redistribution in States having a deficiency. He will recom mend the continuance of the present system of reserves without alteration. I Interest on the Virginia State ! Debt.— The Richmond Whig states that from calculations just made by the disbursing officers of the State govera | ment, it is ascertained that with the sur plus now in the treasury, and the amount that can be realized from taxa tion at fifty cents on a dollar, four per cent, interest on the public debt can scarcely be paid next year. A Railroad Bankrupt. —The East Alabama and Cincinnati Railroad has gone into bankruptcy, and the President, J. L. Pennington, appointed receiver. A LIFE FOR A LIFE. Execution of Ben Bacon on Friday— Attempt to Delay the Execution—A Failure—'The March to the Gallows— Larne Crowd iu Attendance—The Fa tal Scaffold The Last Words of the Doomed—His Composure—The Trap Sprung—Blood for Blood—A Life For a Life. Before and since the war many homi cides have been committed in this coun ty, and bnt few convictions have follow ed. In most cases there have been ex tenuating circumstances which have parted the neck and the rope. In otiier cases Executive ojemency (so-called),has intervened, and in others the “law’s de lay” has aided the escape of the criminal from justice. At last, however, there was a crime committed for which there was no extenuation, where the Executive could not and would not interfere, and where the murder was followed by a rapid trial, a prompt conviction, and a speedy execution. THE CRIME. Our city readers are all familiar with the circumstances of the killing, which may be recapitulated in brief as follows : On Wednesday—the 30th of October— Mr. James H. Martin—a man more than seventy years of age, and a respected and esteemed citizen—left his home near Bel-Air and came to Augusta for the purpose of selling a bale of cotton. He came alone in a two horse wagon. After selling the cotton he was met by a negro man, who called himself Henry Johnson, and who hired himself to Mr. Martin as a wood cutter—the latler agreeing to pay eight dollars per month as wages. A contract was hastily drawn up in an up-town grocery store, and the two men left town together iu the wagon, Mr. Martin driving and the negro sitting be hind him in the vehicle. In this man ner they proceeded until a lonely place in the road, a short distance this side of Bel-Air, was reached. Here Johnson knocked the old man senseless with a wagon standard; robbed him; mounted one of the horses and returned rapidly to Augusta. When he reached the manufactory of the Augusta Ice Company—situated near South Boundary street—he dismounted and turned the animal loose. He then came into the city, remained a few min utes and crossed the Savannah river to Hamburg. Late that evening Mr. Mar tin was found dying in his wagon. He was carried to his home and information of the crime was brought to the city that night. A description of the negro was given by parties who had seen him with Mr. Martin, and the police recog nized him as a somewhat notorious case, named Ben Bacon alias Ben Mclntosh. The next day he came into the city, was seen ob Centre street by a detective and was arrested and placed iu jail. The killing was done while tho Supe rior Court was in session, and a speedy indictment and arraignment followed. A motion for a continuance was over ruled, and the accused put on trial a short time after the death of his victim. The evidence was positive and circum stantial, strong enough to have liuug a dozen men, and the jury could haye re turned but one verdict—that of “guilty.” The day after tlio verdict sentence of death was pronounced, and the day of execution was fixed for Friday, the twenty-ninth of November. IN JAIL, Since the night of his arrest, the pris oner—Henry Johnson alias Ben Bacon. alias Ben Mclntosh—has been confined in the city jail. From the day of his conviction ho looked upon death as cer tain, and was not buoyed up by that hope to which criminals generally so pertinaciously cling. No idea of re spite or pardon seemed to enter his mind, and he submitted calmly to what ho believed to be the inevitable. PREPARING TO PERISH. He soon began his preparations for the journey which the law compelled him to take. Colored ministers and white visited, prayed with and adminis tered to him spiritual consolation. The Sisters of Mercy and tho Catholic Priests passed many hours in liis cell, wrestling with the evit spirit which had instigated the foul murder. Two weeks ago he confessed his crime to the jailer and to the reporters of the press, who interviewed him. This confession was as follows : I met Mr. Martin on Broad street, above Augusta Hotel, on the morning of October 30th ; he was with his wagon ; I asked him if he wanted to hire a boy to work for him, and he said yes ; he asked me if I would go with him, and what 1 could do ; I told him I could plow or hoe, or do any other work ; lie then said I must go home with him ; we went first to Roberts, Morris A Shivers, and threw off the bale of cotton which he had on liis wagon ; we then went to McDermott’s store, above the Planters’ ; he asked the store keeper to draw up a line (contract) for me to work with him, which I signed ; wo then started out of town, and stopped at the mill and got a sack of corn ; afterwards we went out in the country ; it was then the afternoon ; about a mile from town I made an excuse to go into a thicket, so as to dodge him and get back to town ; I did this because while on the road I heard Mr. Martin, and a man whom he met, talk of a colored man who had been at Martin’s, and whom the Ku-Klux had been after ; but Martin followed me in the thicket and waited ; he told me to get back in the wagon, which I did; after we got a long ways up the road, the old devil got in me, and 1 took the standard out of the wagon and struck the poor old man in the head; he was driving, and I was standing in the wagon behind him; lie fell over on the side of the wagon, and then fell in the road; I hit him but once; I saw a pocket-book hanging ont of his pocket, which I took; I then took the horse out of the wagon and rode to town; I turned the horse loose at the Ice House; before leaving I pulled Martin in the wagon and put his head on the sack; when I got to town I bought a blanket on Broad street with some of the money; I then w ent to Ham burg; I came over to Augusta the next evening to return a basket which I had borrowed from a colored woman, where I got some provisions; 1 was on Centre street, and had sent the basket into the woman’s house by a boy, and was stand ing talking, when a detective came up and I walked down the street with him to the Market; he asked me to pay his way into the circus, but I told him I didn’t have the money; just then a policeman came up and arrested me ; he asked the detective if he knew me, and the latter said yes ; when I struck Mar tin I didn’t strike to kill him, but to get away from him; after I hit him I saw his pocket-book and took it and his horse ; when I hired myself to him I did it thinking he would get drunk and then I could rob him ; I didn’t intend to kill him. My real name is Ben Bacon; I came from Liberty county, where I be longed to Edward J. Denegall ; I left there about three months ago ; I worked first on the Port Royal Railroad and then on the boat; I was out of work at the time I saw Martin; I think I am about twenty-two years old ; I have a wife and two small'children in Liberty, county, near Wrightsboro—one of them is at the breast; 1 think I will have to die for my crime ; I have at last got re ligion; I only wish I had gotten it sooner, and then I would have been saved all j this trouble ; I never touched Mr. Mar-' tin with a knife. A few days ago he was baptized by Father O’Hara, received the sacrament and was admitted into the holy Catholic Church. THE EVE OF DEATH. Yesterday was the time appointed for carrying out the sentemce of the law. Thursday night Father O’Hara re mained with him all night in his cell. To him the prisoner unbosomed himself and laid bare the secrets and the crimes of his whole life. The seal of the con fessional will prevent these crimes from ever being known, but some of them, there is bnt little doubt, were dark and bloody. At twelve o’clock he lay down, fell asleep almost immediately and slumbered soundly until six o’clock yes- j terday morning, when he was aroused. A little later he took his bath and was dressed in anew suit of clothes. During his toilet he betrayed no trepidation in ternal or external and seemed perfectly calm and collected. A little after nine o’clock the reporters, the physician, Dr. Eugene Foster, and a few others who were allowed admittance gathered around the fire in the Jailer’s office to await the arrival of the Sheriff. AN ATTEMPT FOR A RESPITE. After waiting about an hour a report came that an effort was being made to prevent the execution of the sentence, which, upon investigation, was found to be correct. J. C. C. Black, Esq.—one of the counsel for the prisoner—believ ing it his duty to use nil legitimate means to save his client's life, prepared a motion for anew fri:d and a motion in arrest of judgment, which he served yes terday morning upon Solicitor-General Jackson. ’Tlie motion in arrest of judg ment was made upon two grounds: (1.) That Judge Twiggs, who passed sentence upon the prisoner and condemned him to be hung upon tlie South Commons,had no right to designate the place, the law re quiring the place to lie fixed by tlie In ferior Court or its successor. (2.) That the day appointed for the execution was prior to the adjournment of the term of the Court at which he had been convict ed. The Solicitor-General contended that the motions could not act as a snpercedeus unless by an order from the Judge of the Superior Court, and as the Judge was in Burke county, it was too late to apply for the order. The Solicitor and the Sheriff decided that the sentence must be carried out, and the preparations proceeded. LEAVING THE JAIL. About lialf-past ten Sheriff Sibley and his bailiffs arrived at tlie jail, and the prisoner was brought from his cell down to the ball of the building. He was dressed in a neat suit of black, white shirt and black hat. He still seemed outwardly calm, though fully realizing all the horror of his situation. In his •lands he held tightly clasped an ebony cross, with a figure of our Saviour upon it. On one side of him was Father O’Hara, and on the other Veryßeverend Father Hamilton, Vicar-General of Georgia—botli wearing their priestly robes. Heads were uncovered, and tlie High Sheriff of the county read to the prisoner, in a slow and impressive mari ner, a certified copy of the sentence of the Court. Bacon then took leave of several of those present, his arms were pinioned, still clasping the crucifix, and he was taken out of the jail and through the yard INTO THE STREET. Here a strange spectacle was presented. From Elbert to Centre streets was packed a dense mass of humanity, awaiting the arrival of the prisoner. Three-fourths of the crowd consisted of colored people, and a large per ceutage of these were women. Before 9 o’clock sa'all groups of women were collected around the corners, singing hymns. A few minutes prior to the arrival of the prisoner the police force, under arms and in full uniform, halted in front of the jail and formed a hollow square. They were a splendid looking body of men, and their military appearance, the precision and the promptness of their movements, elicited general admiration. Within the four lines of the square was a wagon drawn by two mules, and con taining the prisoner’s coffin. Imme diately behind the wagon Bacon took his place—a priest being on each side. Immediately behind him were three bailiffs, behind these. came two little golden haired children and their mother, who had managed to got in the square in some way and about whom no one seemed to know anything. Mr. P. M. Carroll, one of the prisoner’s counsel, tlio reporters for the city papers and the correspondent of the New York Herald, brought up the rear. Before leaving the jail the troops loaded their guns and bayonets were fixed. In this order the procession took up its line of march to the scaffold— keeping the crowd back and clearing tine way in front and rear and on either flank. The line of march was from the jail up Wat kins to Centre and out Centre street to the South Commons. UNDER THE GALLOWS. As the square passed beyond Pen wick street there could be seen a few hundred yards off', outlined against the wintery sky, a dark framework—pendent from which seemed to hang a slender cord or thread. This- was the gallows upon which there was to be offered tlie terrible atonement of blood. All the morning a heavy gale had blown, the piercing keenness and the icy coldness of which had penetrated every one, but this spectacle still farther chilled the blood and sent another shudder through every frame. A walk of a few minutes brought the crowd to the foot of the gallows—which had been erected upon tlie Commons at a point near South Boundary. The soldiers enclosed the structure, so as to keep tlie crowd about thirty yards distant, and no one was al lowed to enter except with the permis sion of the Sheriff. When they reached the stairs leading up to the scaffold the prisoner, Fathers Hamilton and O’Hara, fell upon their knees on the first step, and the Fathers read the service of their church, and prayed for the safety of the soul which now trembled upon the brink of eternity. Here, as he knelt with uncovered head, it was noticed that the hair of the doomed man had turned perfectly gray. When the change had taken place no one seemed'to know, but the fact was patent. The face and features were those of a man of twenty-two or twenty-three, while his hair belonged to a man of fifty-five or sixty. The agony of the last few days, even though externally he seemed un moved, must have done the work. At this point, too, the observer could no tice that the near approach of death, which no one human can contemplate unmoved, was beginning to have its ef fect. The eyes were closed, the lips pressed together, and the countenance livid. Long 'prayed the priests and the penitent, while the oftic-rs and bystand ers listened with uncovered heads. THE GALLOWS Was a plain structure of wood, neatly and substantially put together, and on the best principles foi accomplishing the purpose for which it was intended— the speedy death of the prisoner. The platform—six feet from the ground— was composed of two large doors, hinged from beneath, and opening in the cen tre. These doors were supported by two stout uprights, near the bottom of each of which was a hole through which passed a rope. The noose, formed of the best Manilla rope, depended from a beam, and was fastened securely to an iron pin upon the side. The rope was arranged so as to give a fall or drop of more than five feet. THE CONFESSION. When the prayers had ended the prisoner, accompanied by the priests, the sheriff and two bailiffs, ascended the scaffold. Here the ankles of the prisoner were also pinioned together and the noose fixed around his neck. Father O’Hara then read to the specta tors the following written statement: Augusta Jail, November 28,1872. I, Ben Bacon, son of Singleton Mcln tosh and Posey Mclntosh, the former dead the latter living in Savannah; born in Liberty county; about 22 years of age; accuse myself of inflicting the blow which caused the death of Mr. Martin with a wagon standard, and only one blow; primary object, robbery; did not intend to murder; what I said about Ku-Klux false; of this crime I feel most heartily sorry, and repent of it from the very depth of nw heart, and willingly give up my life to make reparation for that act as far as lies in my power. For every sin and crime committed in my past life, I akso am heartily sorry—and I die embracing all the truths of the Catholic Church. And now I say to each and every one here present, when temptations and evil suggestions enter your minds, have the fear of God in your hearts, have re course to and by that means I expel and subdue these suggestions of the evil one. Fathers and mothers, teach your children what is right ; teach them to avoid what is evil, and endeavor to have them always ready to meet that God who is to judge them, as well as me, who am so shortly to appear before Him. I give thanks to God who has given me the golden opportunity of doing penance for my sins, and teaching me the truth. That you and I may meet with a favor able judgment, I beg from the depths of my soul, and for this object I solicit your prayers. Farewell. EXPIATION. After this had been read, the prisoner made a few remarks. But, though his tones were firm and loud and faltered not, the words and sentences were inco herent and disjoined, aud not easily un derstood. Prayers for forgiveness and warnings against evil were the substance. When lie fiuished, the black cap was drawn over his head and face, the offi cers aud priests descended, the rope fastened to the props was attached to the wagon, the mules were driven off, the props fell, the trap doors Hew open, and the body fell with great force—the shock breaking the neck bone. There was a few convulsive movements of the feet and the hands, aud the heart did not stop beating for about thirteen minutes, but all consciousness must have been lost in a few seconds after the trap was sprung, At the expiration of thirty minutes the physician pronounced the man perfectly dead, and the body was cut down and lowered into the cof fin. Blood for blood had been given, a life for a life had been taken. In less than four weeks from the date of the killing the murderer had expiated his crime with his life. After being cut down the body was placed in a coffin and buried in the ceme tery for the colored people. In closing this account we cannot re frain from tendering onr thanks to Mr. C. 11. Sibley, Sheriff of the county, aud Mr. T. C. Bridges, Jailer, for courtesies rendered. The arrangements for the execution were admirable in every particular, and could not have been carried out in a better manner. _ The prisoner suffered as little pain as it was possible to inflict, and there were none of those shocking exhibitions (the re sult always of bad management and carelessness) which have been so fre quent in other sections of the country during tlie past few years. Dr. Eve on Hanging. —Dr. Paul F. Eve, of Nashville, has written a pamph let, a copy of which we have received from the author, to prove that hanging is not only unpleasant but positively in human as a means of death. The Doc tor contends that it is an exceedingly difficult matter to dislocate the human neck, and that this event rarely happens in ordinary hangings, the victim dying gradually of strangulation. What is worse, the consciousness of the criminal is not suspended by the fall, and lie suf fers terribly during the period—from seventeen to twenty-seven minutes—he is engaged in shuttling off his mortal coil. Indeed, the Doctor thinks that, with the exception of crucifixion, hang ing is the most painful of all deaths. Dr. Eve is doubtless right in many of his deductions. When the job is bungled, as it is three times out of five, hanging is horrible, inhuman and disgusting. The object beiug simply to kill the prisoner and get him out of tlie way, it would seem that science ought to pro vide some simpler, quicker and more humane method than that of choking him to death. Dr. Eve suggests as a substitute for the halter a modification of the Spanish garotte, fitted with a spring so constructed as to drive a knife into tlie neck, severing the spinal chord and producing instantaneous death.— This would be a decided improvement on the halter, but a powerful galvanic battery, producing a painless death with the swiftness of a lightning stroke, would be better still. The Macon Democracy Enthusiastic for Huff.—On Tuesday night there was an unusually large and enthusiastic Democratic meeting m Macon, the City Hall being packed with men represent ing every department of business. The nominations of Aldermen in the respec tive wards were, ratified, upon which a resolution was adopted to tlie effect that in view of the fact that a large num ber of the merchants aud business men of the city had recommended W. A. Huff' for re-election to the office of May or, it would bo unnecessary and unwise to make a nomination for said office. According to the Telegraph, tliis reso lution was received with the wildest en thusiasm, cheer after cheer expressing the favor with which it was entertained by the audience, and when tlie motion to adopt it was formally put, the vast audience rose almost as one man, and shouted a long and loud affirmation. To make the matter more binding, a division vote was taken, when a myriad of right-hands were elevated amid hur rahs for Huff, less than a score voting in the negative. Stamps on Accepted Sight Drafts. —The Journal of Commerce gives some information of local interest. It says : “ A commission merchant in this city writes us that some of the city banks insist that where a sight draft is made upon him, mid he accepts it, making it payable at a bank, a two-cent stamp is required to cover the latter corporation, as they th'uk such an acceptance con verts the draft into a bank check. He wishes to know if there is any method to satisfy these banks that such a stamp is not needed. We answer that we have already published Boutwell’s own offifeial decision on this point, made many years ago, when ho was Commis sioner of Internal Revenue. It is on page 317 of his official acts. He there decides that if a promise is made pay able at a bank, and a check is given for it, that cheek must be stamped ; but if the paper thus payable at a bank is simply paid and charged to the payer’s account, without a check being used, ‘ then a stamp is not required.’ There can be no higher authority than this.” Proclamation of Elf.ctions. —His Ex cellency Governor Smith, on Tuesday, issued his proclamation declaring as duly elected the following Representa tives of Georgia, from the respective Congressional Districts, in the Forty third Congress, to-wit: Morgan Rawls, 1 Richard H. Whitelcy, Philip Cook, Henry R. Harris, James C. Freeman, James H. Blount, P. M. B. Young, A. R. Wright and H. P. Bell. lie also issned a proclamation declar ing the election of the following Electors for President and Vice-President, and requiring them to attend at the Capitol on the first Monday in December, to cast the vote of the State on the follow ing Wednesday, to-wit: Wm. T. Wof ford, Henry L. Benning, Julian Hart ridge, Washington Poe, 11.• G. Turner, R. N. Ely, Win. 1. Hudson, James M. Pace, Henry R. Casey, Jasper N. Dor sey and E. D. Graham. President Grant on Civil Rights.— A Washington dispatch states that in reply to a delegation of negroes from Philadelphia, who asked the President on Tuesday to recommend anew civil rights bill like Sumner’s, the President replied as follows: “ Gentlemen of the League—ln your desire to obtain all the rights of citizens I fully sympathize.— That you should have what other citi zens have, I know; and I wish that every man in the United States would stand in all respects alike. It must come. A ticket on a railroad or other conveyance should entitle you to all that it does other men; I wish it to be so. I think, gentlemen, your very earnest recommen dation, however, belongs more properly to the next administration. All citizens undoubtedly in all respects should be equal. Gentlemen, I thank you for the compliment you have paid me.” The members of the delegation then shook hands with the President and retired. Dry Pressed Bricks. —In St. Louis, according to the Republican, they make the best and handsomest bricks in the world, out of clay just as it is dug from the river side. It is thrown first into a rolling mill and crushed, and thence passes to a hydraulic press, where the clay is forced into the mole by enormous pressure, at the rate of 140 bricks a minute. The brick is then piled up to dry a little, and then burned. These bricks Lave withstood a pressure of nine ty tons on a single brick without injury. GEORGIA ITEMS. The Thomson fire company have pur chased a hand fire engine in Macon. There were 5,258 bales of cotton cleared from Savannah on Wednesday forforeign ports. Capt. W. N. Freeman, Chief Marshal of Amerieus, lias resigned, for the pur pose of removing to Texas. There are twenty candidates for mem bership in the North Georgia Methodist Conference, now sitting in Atlanta. A pair of mules ran away with a wagon near Milledgevillo last week, kill ing Mr. .las. W. lvev, who was driving them. Capt. ,T. 11. Cody is announced as a candidate for Mayor of Columbus. This makes about tlie fourth citizen of Co lumbus. Dr. M. E. Stacy, of Ilinesville, accord ing to the Gazette, has invented a rice cleaner and beater, and will shortly se cure a patenUherefor. The trial of Milton Malone for the murder of Franklin I’. Philips iu Atlan ta, last August, is progressing before Fulton Superior Court. Mr. A\. I’. Hutchinson is about to commence the publication of a weekly paper 114 Greenville, Meriwether county, to be called the Vindicator. Rev. Dr. W. P. Harrison, of Atlanta, lias accepted an invitation to deliver a course of lectures in Columbus for tlie benefit of the Eibrary Association of that city, commencing next Monday evening. The grand jury of Floyd county re commended tlie establishment of a City Court for Itome; that, jail fees be re duced to forty cents per diem; and that the per diem of jurors bo reduced to $1 per day. The hotel and Newell Hall, recently burned at Milledgevillo, are to be im mediately rebuilt. The walls of the hotel have been examined by an archi tect aud pronounced strong, and there will be 110 delay in commencing tlie work. The Saudersville and Tennille Bail road, according to the Georgian, is about to meet its death from the lack of encouragement from the Central Rail road Company. Surely the people of Saudersville can manage to build three miles of railroad, even if Hercules don’t help them. The sheriff of Clayton county has lodged in the jail in Atlanta a negro villian who outraged a little girl twelve years of age on Monday last. The lit tle girl was tlie daughter of a deceased Confederate soldier, and her mother was lying sick and helpless within reach of the cries of her child. W. W. Murphy, whilom a citizen of the United States, but now a resident in Frankfort-on-the-Main, tlie agent of foreign holders of Georgia bonds, is in Atlanta. He visits the State in the in terest of the holders of that class of bonds which was condemned by tlie Legislature as illegal, and improperly endorsed by tlie late fugitive Governor. Four prisoners confined in the jail at Starkville, and sentenced to the peniten tiary, succeeded in removing a part of the partition of tlie upper wall of the jail, through which they passed into a hall and through the hall to freedom.— One of the prisoners was a white man, who had been sentenced to the peniten tiary for fifteen years for horse stealing. 111 Spalding Superior Court, on Wed nesday, in the ease of the State vs. Martha Brown, colored, who was in dieted for murder, the defendant plead guilty to manslaughter and was sen tenced to one year’s imprisonment in the penitentiary; and in the ease of Eliek Harris, charged with murder, lie also plead guilty to manslaughter ami was sentenced to three years in the chain gang. Mr. W. S. Brown gave bond in the sum of $6,000 for his appearance at the next Superior Court. DEATH OP HORACE GREELEY. The Veteran Journalist and Philoso pher Sinks (Quietly to Rest. New York, November 28. —The Tri bune, this morning, says: “Wo are deep ly pained to say that in t lie last tliirty ty-six hours Mr. Greeley’s condition liiis greatly changed for the worst. Through yesterday lie remained nearly all the time unconscious. In a counsel of some of the most eminent physicians of the city, only otie was without hope, but all regarded the case as critical and alarm ing-” The World says : “There seems to be good reasons for believing that quieting assurances of Mr. Greeley’s friends as to the state of his mental health are not borne out by exact facts. We are in formed upon good authority, that, with-, in the past two days Mr. Greeley lias been examined by two experts, one' the head of a well-known asylum, and that, tlieir verdict as to his condition is very unfavorable. It is Raid that the form of mental alienation manifested by Mr. Greeley is self-reproach and agony of mind at what he deems the great mistake of his Presidential candidature. He is in danger, it is asserted, of melancholia, the most incurable form of lunacy. One of the physicians thought tiiat, perhaps by quiet and attention lie might recover hie mental health, but the Principal of the Asylum, to which we have referred, does not think that there is more than one chanco'in ten of Mr. Greeley’s com plote recovery. There is, however, a chance. Persons intimate with Mr. Greeley know how intense are his per sonal feelings. The death of his wife, sleeplessness consequent upon his watch by her death-bed, followed by the ex citement over the unfortunate result of the election, have, it is feared by those best able to judge, proven too severe a strain upon his bodily and mental health. ” The Herald also announces unfavor able tarns of his illness, and says: “it pains us to say that the great journalist is very low and sinking rapidly.” New York, November 2!), noon.—Mr. Greeley’s death is expected momentari ly, both bv bis relatives and the doctors attending him. Yesterday false reports were current in many quarters that his disease had terminated fatally, and numbers besieged the Tribune office to ascertain the true state of affairs. Mr. Greeley is at Tarritown, hut his where abouts there are exempt from the pub lic and many of his friends. Yesterday evening at a medical consultation it was said that it was doubtful if lie could live more than a few days. Dr. W. I). Ham mond, one of the physicians, said, “I doubt if lie will live forty-eight hours longer, and I should not be surprised to hear of his death to-night. While J was at his bedside,” added the Doctor, “Mr. Weed, an old friend of Mr. Greeley, came up, and wishing to test Mr. Gree ley, I said, ‘Mr. Greeley, do you know Mr. Weed ?’ Mr. Greeley stared vacant ly, and answered that he had never met him in his life before, and said further, I never heard the name of Weed be fore.’ ” The Doctor described Mr. Gree ley as talking incoherently all the time, and being quite obstinate, lie don’t know his own daughter. Between 8 and 10 o’clock last night his condition was less favorable than that during the day. The Doctor did not anticipate any important change within twelve hours. In the African Methodist Church, yesterday, the announcement of Mr. Greeley’s condition by the Presiding Elder greatly affected the congregation present. His condition Ims everywhere awaken ed a feeling of sympathy, and though it is feared that he cannot recover, many are unwilling to surrender the hope that he may yet be spared. New York, November 20. —Later.— Mr. Greeley failed very much during the night. He is apparently sinking rapidly. He was sleeping quietly this morning. New York, November 20. Three o’clock, p. in.—Mr. Greeley has been entirely nnconcious since 8 o’clock.— His pulse at his wrist is imperceptible. He appears to suffer very little. Washington, November 20.—A dis patch has been received here announc ing the death of Mr. Greeley at fi:3othis evening. He was conscious at the time, I and passed peacefully away. Partial Report of the Mexican Com missioners.—The Commissioners to in vestigate the outrages on the Rio Grande border have completed their re- I port, which is very long. They spent two hours with the President on the subject yesterday, when he asked for many explanations, taking a deep in terest in it. The Commissioners con fined their investigations to a distance of 000 miles from the month of the Rio Grande to Rio Grande City, and estimate the Americans,included within that limit, have,by Mexican raids, suffered to the ex tent of 5530,000,000, to say nothing of the murders committed by Mexicans. They think that if they had continued their investigations as fur as El Paso, it would have been discovered the total losses, including those caused by Indian raids, would have increased the sum total to $5100,000,000. They urge pro tection to the people on the border by an increase of cavalry, otherwise a pre datory war will result. The appropria tion for the commission is exhausted, but anew one will be made to continue the commission in the prosecution of further investigations. There is no doubt the President will urge upon Con gress prompt legislation in the premises. Fresh Arrivals of Hinall Pox, New York, November 28.— The Bark Columbia arrived at quarantine last night from Bremen, 52 days, with 22 men, women and children ill with small pox. Five deaths occurred from the disease during her voyage. The schooner Elizabeth Magee, ar rived from Boston, also with small pox. tmi: FbmrAH crisis. A Serious Condition of Affairs Report-* eii The Danner Averted Speech of Tillers to the Assembly. Washington, November 29. Ver sailles dispatches at nine o’clock last night report the rejection of Dufoure’s resolutions, and a serious condition of affairs. Versailles, November 29, evening,— After a long and exciting debate this af ternoon, tin' Assembly, by 370 to 334, approved the resolution proposed by Minister Dnfeure. Before the close of the debate Thiers eloquently addressed the House for an hour and a half. He acknowledged the Assembly’s sovereign constituent, pow ers. He condemned (he Socialist, doc trine, and impressively affirmed his be lief in God. He declared that lie re mained faithful to tlie compacts of Bor deaux, and claimed to belong to no party. He admitted lie was in favor of the Constitution, but added that the monarchy is impossible. We have a Republic. Let ns make it, conservative. He denied any share in the political opinions of (lie Left, aud closed with tlie declaration that the duty of the Government was firmness, moderation, and impartiality towards all parties. The Manufacture of Gas from Coal Creek Coal. —A Knoxville ex change, of the 22d instant, says; Yesterday, we had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Levy, of the Gas Light Company of Columbia, S. 0. Hereto fore the Gas Light Company at Colum bia lias been using anthracite coal, brought all the way from Phila delphia, Pa , and laid down in Co lumbia for the enormous price of $lO 50 per ton of 2,240 pounds, or 37t cents per bushel of 80 pounds. Believing that our semi-bituminous coal could bo obtained at a less price and be of greater advantage in the manufacture of gas than the anthracite, Mr. Levy de termined to satisfy himself by a personal observation. He inspected the gas manufacture of Chattannooga, but con cluded the gas was of poor quality. Coining to Knoxville, he made an ex amination of our gas and satisfied him self that 110 better gas could be made anywhere. Going over to Coal creek, he made a contract with Messrs. MeEwen, Wiley A Cos., miners of Coal creek coal, for a supply of coal at a very low price. Arrangements were made to ship thir teen ear loads at once in the ears be longing to the Coal Company, the ears to be taken through to Columbia, (8. O. Mr. Levy is satisfied that the coal is su perior to the anthracite for gaH and for fuel, and can lie laid down in Columbia at a much smaller cost than (lie Phila delphia coal. Destructive Fire in Nashville. -Tll Nashville, Tennessee, about, luilf-past 11 o’clock, Saturday night, afire broke out in the mammoth livery and sale stable of Messrs, Pilcher A Wright,, which was surrounded by seven other stables, to which the flames were imme diately communicated, and in twenty minutes it was apprehended that the entire neighborhood would be reduced to ashes. The fire was, however, got under control, one the stables, a brick one, occupied by J. B. Parrish, having escaped with but little injury. One of the greatest losses by the lire was the burning of some forty-live or fifty horses and two yoke of oxen in the stables of Pilcher A Wright. Tho horses in tho other stables were dragged out with considerable difficult,v. In ad dition to t lie loss of horses, Pilelier A Wright also suffered heavily in the loss of feed, harness, aud in fact everything they had in their stables. Mr. Parrish fortunately emu Lied bis stables before they caught, and succeed ed in saving his horses, oxen, harness, feed, etc. In addition to tho heavy loss of stock, feed, Ac., tho buildings burn ed were all large, and it will cost a eon sidernble amount to replace them. The stables were mostly owned by Matt, Par rish, B. J. Grooines, W:n. Dews anil Pilelier A Wright—three being used by Parrish. Tub Milleikikville Fire—Young Man Burned to Death—A Lady Dibs From Fright.—A correspondent of the Macon Telegraph writes ; We hear that the Milledgeville Hotel building was insured to the amount of about slo,ooo—worth, by cost, about $90,000, and Newell A Hall only to the amount of $3,000. Messrs. Windsor and Thomas saved most of tlieir goods from ( he flames. Tlie other parties lost large ly with but little insurance, and their losses nro heavy. But tho most melancholy story of all remains to be told. A young gentleman of this city, Mr. Jas. F. Covey, heroi cally endeavoring to stay the progress of the Haines in tlie hotel building, was caught in tliu flames and perished. We saw, an hour ago, his charred remains which had just been recovered. The story iH current that one of the strangers; who arrived last, evening on the Augus ta train perished also, but it is contra dicted. And un excellent lady of onr city, Mrs. Daggett, subject to heart, dis ease, was found dead at her residence thiß morning—having evidently perished there on* beholding the sublime but ter rible scene. She was a large owner of stock in the hotel. During the fire, four churches were successively on fire —the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopalian; but by prompt and heroic exertions they wore saved. Matrimonial Defiance of the Err zootv. - This we copy from the Louis ville Commercial, 21st instant, about a novel bridal chariot : Epizootic times do not arrest the bright shafts of the rosy god, or drape the marriage altar in mourning. Horse or no horse, men will marry and women will marry until the end of time, and Mr. D. B. Grahle, a well known druggist, corner of Jackson and Walnut streets’ exhibited his freedom from epizootic bondage by marrying a young lady at. Jeffersontown on Tuesday night. Now,, Jeffersontown is twelve'miles from tile, city, ami everybody knows that Mr. Gruble might have cried, ‘My kingdom for a horse’ till lie was hoarse without tangible results, Mr. <li able, aware of the insuperable difficulty, and failing to obtain even oxen, hired nine colored men to pull him out to the residence of his future wife. This novel hymeneal turn-out made good time to Jefferson town ; the wedding came oil' most bril liantly, and tlie happy pair returned triumphantly to the city, drawn by the sturdy nine, and exulting in 'their, triumph over ‘epizoo.’ ” A Good Road. —A recent trip o,i Port Royal Railroad has convinced us that it is the best built road in '„he ,State and one of the best in the fabutli. We rolle over it at the rate of thirty miles an hour in a common box ear. The road is smooth; the iron usqd is fifty six pounds to the yard, with fish plate's. The ties are good and placed near to gether. The ballasting is of sund, well tramped down. The tressel work, water ways and bridges are well and carefully constructed. It lias scarcely any curves, and the grades are easy. All along the. line of the road are large and convenient, depots. The life infused into this coun try by tint rand is really wonderful. We saw more signs of energy and im provement in the three hours' run from Yemussee than in going from Charleston Greenville. We cannot doubt but tin,', the local freight will sustain the ro« ,| Running ni it has out in the woods u'.Jy’ its receipts have reached $12,004 month from freights. When tlui R j H finished, we are sure that this v.-jp |„, the favorite line from Northern Georgia to Savannah and Charleston* Ih uufort Republican. ,u May, 18d, Miss Sarah Richards, of Greene county, was murdered in her house and the building burned. Her charred and disfigured remains were found among the ruins, but no clue could be obtained. A few days ago a negro woman brought a watch to a jeweller in Greensboro for repair, which he at once identified as the property of the murdered In ly. The Herald says the possession of the watch has been traced to Wiley Baugh, a freedinan, who alleges he obtained it from George Cope lan, also a freedman, who denied it. They have each been held to bail in u bond of one hundred dollars, which is. simply a mockery of justice. Pacing Hokhkh. —In Barbary pacing horses are held in such high estimation that the method of making a spirited trotter shackle like a hiyvt in a chop sea is reduced to science. To make them rock easily, a ring of lead covered with leather is put round each hoof; a cord from each weight ascends and is fastened to the saddle, front and rear; next, a strap runs lioriaontally from the fore t< , the bind foot on botii sides. Beir.g rather short, it is impossible to mak'a a long step. Restraint compels the 'Ani mal to practice anew gait to progress at. all. As soon as a habit is established of going ahead thus tethered, the desirable arable is fully and permanently accom plished. A Perfect Scoundrel Turned Ur in Texas.-— That Yankee HCorindvel and im poster, S. Adams Lee, notwithstanding Ids exposure in nuinhors of him Southern newspapers, has made his appearance in Texas, and was recently elected to a pro fessorship in a female college in Paris) Lamar county. He is still claiming to. he a nephew of Gen. Fj. E. Lee, anil *e peats his stolen lecture on “God in the- Ocean,” and stating that ho lo&f his leg in the Merrimac, in the Hampton Road*, fight,
