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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,
