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Cfjromcle and Remind.
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 11
FRENCH SPOLIATION CLAIMS.
The heirs of the old New York mer
chants who are interested in prosecuting
their claims against the Government of
the United States for French indemnity
held a meeting in New York, on the 30th
nit., at the office of Nathan L. and
George Griswold, No. 71 South street,
New York, for the purpose of taking
measures for bringing their claims ef
fectively before Congress. Similar
meetings have been held in New Eng
land and in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
The subject of French spoliation claims
comes before this Congress, being as
signed, if we remember correctly, to be
considered on the 20th inst. A petition
to Congress, signed by the varions
claimants, or their heirs, will be pre
sented. There are quite a number of
citizens of the Carolinas and Georgia
who are interested in these claims. A
private letter from a prominent citizen
of New Jersey requests that the Chp.ont
(t.t. AVD Srvtiset, will extend the notice
of this movement of the Northern
claimants, with the request that if there
be any who are not represented or who
have failed to unite in the petition, that
they will forward immediately authori
zation, either to the general agent at
Washington, or to the Messrs. Gris
wold, New York, to subscribe their
names to the petition from New York, or
from any other of the places named,
giving their address in full, the estate
through which they claim, their post
office, county and State.
nORACE GREELEY.
In our last issue we published a
brief telegram conveying the unexpect
ed intelligence of the death of Horace
Greeley. .As the leader of American
journalism, as one of the representative
men of his age, Mr. Greeley deserves a
more extended notice at our hands than
the space of a daily journal will admit,
and we can only essay to give our read
ers a faint outline of his life and charac
ter.
Horace Greeley was horn on the 3d
of February, 1811, in the township of
Amherst, Hillsborough county, New
Hampshire, and was the son of a small
farmer. He came of a sturdy Scotch-
Irish stock—-whose nigged virtues,
strong sense and unyielding integrity he
inherited with their blood. His parents
were poor and in debt, and the boy’s
struggles with poverty commenced with
liis tenderest years. He early learned
the frugality, the rigid economy, and
the familiarity with privations which so
thoroughly prepared him for his battles
with the world. In 1826 he determined
to become a printer, and apprenticed
himself to the Northern Spectator, a
paper published at East Poultney, Ver
mont. In 1831 he obtained employment
• on the Erie Gazette, but in the middle
of the-same year went to New York city,
where he obtained work in the compos
ing room of a book publisher. In 1833
himself and F. V. Story commenced
the publication of the Morning Post, a
two cent daily, which lived only a
month. After several other unsuccess
ful adventures (none of which dismayed
his intrepid spirit), he began in 1831
the publication of the Weekly New
Yorker, which took well with the pub
lic, and in a short time attained what
was then considered a large circulation,
though it failed to remunerate its own
ers, and went down in 1811, when it was
merged ill the We< kly Tribune. In 1838,
at the solicitation of Thurlow Weed and
other great Whig leaders, Mr. Greeley
took charge of the Albany Jeffersonian,
a campaign paper published in the in
terest of that party. It was on this
paper that he lirst made his mark as a
political writer, and his reputation as a
party editor dates from his connection
with the Jeffersonian. The paper
proved popular and effective and through
its influence the Whigs carried the State,
though they were defeated elsewhere.
In 1810 came on tho famous campaign of
Gen. Harrison for the Presidency, and
the Whigs again asked the aid of Mr.
Greeley's pen. He took control of the
Log Cabin campaign paper, and dis
played during the fight all the wonder
ful ability and zeal which characterized
tho man. The success of the paper
would be deemed astonishing even in
this day of great journalistic enter
prises—-the weekly issues mounting up
to eighty thousand copies, and its pub
lication continuing for more than a year
after the party lind won its great victory.
In the month of April, 1811—nearly
thirty-two years ago, Mr. Greeley em
barked in an enterprise which was des
tined to prove a success far beyond his
most sanguine expectations and by
means of which his own name and fame
were to live for ages. On the 10th of
that month The Tribune, a political
penny daily, made its first appearance
in the field of journalism. In spite of
tho poverty of its proprietor, in spite of
the crowded field which he had entered,
in spite of the savage and dishonor
able warfare of newspaper rival?,
the’ new paper, managed ably, in
dependently and fearlessly—giving the
latest news in the most attractive form—
proved a success from the start and
steadily increased in popularity and
prosperity. From that time to the day
of his death the history of the Tribune
has been the history of its editor. The
paper though independent has never
been or a trimmer. It has
never hesitated to espouse the cause
which its editor believed had right on its
side—no matter how few its friends, or
how numerous and powerful its enemies
—and having taken a stand or assumed j
a position it never failed to maintain it :
with dignity, fearlessness and ability, j
That the Tribune and Mr. Greeley were j
often wrong there can be no dcubt; j
neither ean it be doubted that they were :
always sincere and conscientious in the ,
advocacy of party or of principle. From ;
its first appearance to the dissolution of j
the party the Tribune, though treating j
party questions in an independent man-1
nor, gave its powerful support to the
Whigs and their leader, Henry Clay.
For Clay Mr. Greeley fenl the warmest i
admiration ami he labored long and
earnestly, but ineffectually, to secure the ,
elevation of the great Kentuckian to the
Presidency. In 1852, when Pierce de
feated Gen. Scott, Mr. Greeley non-,
sidered the Whig party dissolved and j
acted with it no longer. His convictions
concerning slavery, strong even in his j
boyhood, had deepened with his riper
Tears until he became one of the earliest
and most deadly enemies of the system
casting almost his first vote while in
Congress against its introduction into
toe territory acquired (mm Mexico. For
vears he waged against it afierce. an un
relenting, at times, a bitter warfare;
and earned for himself and his
journal the hearty hatred of every
Southern man—a grand jury in '
Virginia even going so far as to
indict a man who attempted to get up
n club of subscribers for the TYlbunt .
In the great contest of 1860 he took a ;
most conspicuous part as a member of
the Republican party—defeating by his .
opposition the aspirations of Mr.
Seward, and abstaining the nomination j
of Mr. Lincoln by the Chicago Couven- j
tion. He gave to the nominee his hearty
support, and regarded election as
the first step toward the object which he j
so much desired—the abolition of slavery, j
Os his coarse from the commence-!
ment of the war to the day of hi® death
it is hardly necessary to speak in detail,
familiar as it is to all our readers. Of
ten differing widely with the adminis
tration as to the manner in which the
■wa r should be conducted, and never,
hesit ating to put his convictions in type, !
he yet supported the Northern side with
all his zeOi and energy—his paper serv
ing to keep an ve alu * animate the spirit
of the Northern people at times when
the Confederate rietonU? were j
ous and nnbroken and the & . nooesß of !
our cause seemed almost certain. AikJ* T 1
the surrender he also differed with his f
party at times, but sustained its general
policy with his acenstomed vigor. In
the campaign of 1868, the Tribune and
Mr. Greeley earnestly advocated the
election of General Grant, mid contri
buted more than any other man or
jtinrnal toward bringing al*>ut that re
sult -the circulation of the Tribune
during the Summer reaching tho as
tounding number of two Unndretl and
fi>rty thousand copies. In the last year
of Grant’s first term Mr. Greeley began
to denounce the abuses which had crept
into the Republican party and com
menced, along with such able and
brilliant leaders us Scburz, Sumner,
Trumbull, Fenton and Banks, a re
form movement which took shape iu the
Cincinnati Convention and his nomina
tion as a Presidential candidate and cul
minated iu liis crushing defeat a month
ago. Now that Horace Greeley/ is
no more, and the judges of his actions
and character are no longer blinded by
passion and prejudice, we may expect
that he will receive a more impartial
verdict and more even handed justice
than has hitherto been'accorded. While
not such a character as history will term
great, he was in many respects a most re
markable man. As an editor, he was
one of the roost and vigorous writers
that have made their mark in American
journalism, and was without a peer as
the conductor of a daily political paper.
His editorials were vigorous, pungent
and to the point, often very personal,
but certainly never prosy. He used no
euphemisms in controversy, but de
nounced a falsehood or a falsifier in the
plainest and bluntest of Anglo-Saxon.
His words went home and the plainest
man who read could understand. But
perhaps the great secret of the success
which attended all his efforts in journal
ism is to be fouud in the earnest
ness and sincerity which pervade his
writings. The logic was not always con
vincing and the reasoning might be er
roneous, but the language was that of a
man who believed every word he wrote.
He made his paper the journal for the
masses and in the masses he always
found his staunchest and most loyal
friends. He also possessed another
quality which enters so largely into the
composition of a great journalist—inde
pendence. He might act with a party
but lie acted as he thought best, and
would not brook the crack of the party
lash. When in liis judgment his party
and its leaders were wrong, he did not
hesitate to say so and to fearlessly pro
claim liis convictions; and when he
thought his opponents right he never
denied them the meed of praise. The
prosperity of the Tribune attests how
well his ability and independence were
appreciated.
In public life Mr. Greeley made many
mistakes, and plainly showed how little
suited he was for the arena of American
politics. The very qualities which
made him a great journalist made him
a poor politician. His boldness and liis
independence were a double-edged sword,
which cut friends as well as enemies.
In a party ("at least in America) there
must be organization as perfect and
discipline as strict as iu an army. Mr.
Greeley was not a man to brook this
kind of service. He was an irregular,
who went with liis colors when his con
science approved the direction in which
they were moving, and who deserted
them when it did not. He never hesi
tated to brave party wrath, and be it
remembered to his credit that he never
permitted interest to silence the voice of
duty. His splendid talents and great
services often placed him within easy
grasp of the highest preferments, yet
each opportunity was missed, and each
chance thrown knowingly away by some
Conscience-guided act. His most mag
nanimous act cost him most dearly. In
1866 the Republican Legislature of New
York had determined to elect him to the
Senate. Jefferson Davis, the ex-Presi
dent of a government which he had
fought with such bitterness during its
whole existence, languished iu prison.
To rescue him was to give up the Senate;
yet he did not hesitate. He went upon
Mr. Davis’ bond, and another and more
pliable man was elected Senator. This
incident is illustrative of the man’s char
acter. A man of great intellect ; with
strong convictions, strong prejudices,
perhaps ; fierce in battle; magnanimous
in victory; unsubdued by defeat; often
wrong, yet always honest.
CABINET MAKING.
The Louisville Courier-Journal, after
doing and saying anything and every
thing “to beat Grant,” now proposes to
construct a Cabinet for him. It has
culled out the timber with great judg
ment and care, and after duly dressing
up, proceeds to joint it together as fol
lows :
SECRETARY OF STATE,
Charles Francis Adams, who voted for
Grant because he himself was not the
nominee of the Liberals ; who is a good
representive patrician, and will give the
administration what it needs, first of all,
respectability ; who has brains, charac
ter, and culture, and who lias three sons,
Jack, Charles Francis, Jr., and Henry.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,
Eliliuß. Wasliburne, who is a representa
tive man of the great West, and the
President's great friend ; who was the
watch-dog of the Treasury, and who is
especially fitted to run the much-abused
female department of the Treasury with
satisfaction to himself and the ladies.
SECRETARY OF WAR,
General John M. Harlan, who is the
recognized leader of the Republican
party in the South ; who is one of the
few Republican leaders at the South
having social position and popularity.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY,
John W. Forney. He is, to begin with,
qualified, and he wants, and has long
wanted a place in the Cabinet. Then
Forney is an liouest man.
SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR.
Frederick Douglass. There must be a
black man iu the Cabinet. Black men
sit in Congress. They sit iu State Legis
latures. They have sat in the Senate.
They have been Lieutenant-Governors.
If the President would retain the colored
vote he must signally recognize the
claims and services of the race. The
dinner question might be embarrassing,
but that might be left to settle itself.
The appointment of Mr. Douglass would
appease Mr. Sumner.
COST MASTER-GENERAL,
Richard Smith, who knows more about
the practical opperation of the mail ser
vice and is better qualified to handle
contracts than any man in the country.
A TTORNEY-G EN EK A 1.,
Ben Hill, of Georgia. He is the best
lawyer iu the South, a fair man, not
identified with reactionary politics, a
good representative of the moderate and
intelligent Confederate element.
Emotional Insanity. —Au important
bill has been introduced into the Indiana
Legislature to protect society against
the danger ensuing from aettiug at
liberty persons who may have been ac
quitted of murder, manslaughter, rob
bery, arson, rape, burglary or larceny,
upon the ground of insanity. When
ever any person shall be prosecuted for
any murder, manslaughter, robbery,
arson, rape, burgalry, assault, or assault
and battery with intent to commit any ,
felony, or any other felony, and the plea
of insanity shall be set up in defense, it
shall be tbe duty of the Court or jury j
trying the defendant to find specifically
whether such defendant was or was not
insane when the alleged offense was
committed, and whether such insanity
was impulsive, homicidal or moral, or
not, and in case the Court or jury shall
find the defendant to have been insane
when the offense was committed, he or
she shall be found not guilty thereof.
Any person acquitted in any of the cases
heretofore mentioned, shall be com-,
mittad to some secure and strong ward
of the hospital for the insane for the
term of two years, and as much longer
as may be necessary to complete the,
cure of such defendant, but such defen- j
dant shall be kept wholly separate and
apart fro® all other patients in such :
hospital. When any such person shall 1
be acquitted of any charge of mnrder,
manslaughter, robbery, or rape, by
reason of the impn!? iv e. homicidal or
moral insanity of such person, then .” nc b
°on, upon his or her acquittal, shall I
(he securely confined in inch strong
ward in said hospital for the insane
during his or her natural life.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
More in accordance with custom than
because the document bears any tidings
of special interest to the majority of our
readers, we give place, this morning, to
the full text of President Grant's recent
annual message.
So far from being a revelation or in
dication of tlie future policy of the Ail
ministration, except in so far as it is iu
unison with the recommendations of
heads of departments touching matters
specially confided to their judgment
and affecting only the every-day conduct
of their respective departments, we dis
cover in it little more than a skillfully
wrought mask to disguise the shape of
the President’s intentions as to change,
if any different attitude is to be assumed
by him.
We fail to discover in this message
any bold and manly avowals of reform
from which the South can extract hope
that the incoming Administration of
President Grant will be any more gener
ous to this section, or any more nation
al and less partisan than has marked his
first term. Indeed, there appears to be
almost positive assurance that, under
the provisions of a partisan Congress to
meet local disorders charged as existing
in the South two years ago, and which
the mailed hand of the Federal Govern
ment has long since rectified in its own
imperial maimer, malicious and vexa
tions arrest, and prosecution of citizens
upon frivolous pretexts ' are still to be
continued.
It may be that the President is hus
banding all the generosity which he can
command to electrify the new Congress,
when that body shall assemble, bv some
startling suggestion of common justice
to this section. If so, we can well afford
to wait. If not, we shall never die with
mortification in liaving’failed to form a
just estimate of his character —we shall
not be greatly disappointed, as we have
long since learned that it is not the part
of wisdom to put all our trust in the
magnanimity of power.
The document is clear and compact,
and as an unpretending business-like
photograph of the prominent features of
the Government during the past year, is
entitled to recognition as of superior
merit to previous State papers emanating
from the Chief Executive.
THE ELECTORAL VOTE OF GEOR
GIA.
The Georgia Electors split their vote.
The Atlanta Constitution reports that
General Benuing, Washington Poe and
Colonel Hudson voted for Greeley for
President.
General Wofford, Colonel Ilartridge,
Mr. Ely, Colonel Pace, Colonel Dorsey,
and Major Graham, B. Gratz Brown for
President.
Colonel Turner and Dr. Casey voted
for ex-Governor C. J. Jenkins for Presi
dent.
General Denning, Mr. Poe, Colonel
Hudson, Dr. Casey and Colonel Turner
voted for Gratz Brown for Vice-Presi
dent.
Colonel Hartridge, Colonel Pace, Col.
Dorsey, Mr. Ely and Major Graham
voted for General Colquitt for Vice-
President.
General Wofford voted for General N.
P. Banks, of Massachusetts, for Vice-
President.
BANK RIVALRY.
A phase of bank rivalry is developing
which seems to indicate a tightening of
the screws upon labor and trade inter
ests. From the report of tho Comptrol
ler of the Currency it appears that sav
ings banks are outbidding tlie national
banks in the interest paid for money on
deposit.
Pushing this rivalry to an exciting
contest, in which prudential considera
tions may be subordinated to a mere
ambition to control the money supply,
is dangerous to the equilibrium of the
financial and commercial interests of
the country. The higher price an insti
tution pays for' the use of money the
higher the price it must charge those
who borrow from it. There is a rate be
low which banks cannot descend. They
must be indemnified against, loss from
insolvency and expenses, and, above
these, receive the compensation that
custom fixes as reasonable. If they come
down so low as to deprive them of this
remuneration, they imperil themselves.
If they overcharge, they oppress the
community ; if they fail, they thereby
cause panic and pressure. But we sup
pose in time the consequences of this er
ror of overbidding will correct itself.
We extract the following from the
Controller’s report :
The" official reports of the savings
banks in NewEngland show the deposits
at the close of the year 1871 to have
been $312,333,479, or more than three
times the amount of the aggregate de
posits in the national banks. The de
posits in the savings banks of the State
of New Yark at the same date were
$267,905,866, a sum also considerably in
excess of the deposits of the national
banks in that State. A large portion of
these are not properly savings deposits.
Savings banks in some portions of New
England, New York, and Pennsylvania,
as well as other States, have recently
become formidable competitors of the
national banks by offering much larger
rates of interest for deposits than is
usual in well managed banks.
THE NORTH CAROLINA SENATOR.
, The election of Judge Merriinon as
United States Senator from North Caro
lina for six years from the 4tli of March
next, over Governor Vance, the nominee
of the Conservative-Democratic caucus,
furnished the Radicals occasion for re
joicing next in intensity to that which
would have been inspired by the triumph
of their own great high priest of political
iniquity, John Pool. Not, perhaps, by
reason of any specific understanding had
by them with Judge Merrimon, that he
would make sacrifice of liis previous po
litical affiliations and convictions for
the sake of the glittering prize which he
coveted, but from the fact that by liis
consent to oppose the regular nominee
of his party he has weakened the Demo
cratic majority of the Legislature, by
forming a coalition which bodes no good
for the people of that State, struggling
to extricate themselves from the toils of ,
the Radical serpent.
Upon the authority of a correspon
dent of the Wilmington Journal, we
learn that Judge Merrimon has declar
ed that while lie feels very grateful, per
sonally, for tlie confidence aud respect
his political opponents have manifested
for him, his political status and party
relations remain unchanged, and that
his political integrity was iu no wise
compromised, lie gives assurance that
he had no communication whatever, di
rect or indirect, iu person or through
others, with the Radical party or any
members thereof, in relation to the Sena
torial contest, that could affect his party
relations; that if lie considered his elec- 1
tion compromised his political princi
ples, he would not accept the position.
When the members of the Republican !
party voted for him, they did so know
ing his past record, and that he was still
a Conservative.
While all this may be true, it is no
less true that Judge Merrimon is only
fiesh and blood, and that it is a rare
sight to see a man repudiating by ac
tion the main agency by which he is
elevated to political power and distinc
tion, or by which he is enabled to pos
sess himself of any cherished object of
ambition. The obligation entailed is
not discharged by a simple waft of
thanks—the Radical party being par
ticularly chary of bestowing its honors
where only such empty compliments are
to be won.
Here is the estimate which Pool places
upon the result of the Senatorial con
test, as expressed in a telegram to an
official at Washington :
“Raleigh, December 3. —We have de
feated the Democratic Legislature by
electing Merrimon. It breaks up the
power of the Democrats and brings a
valuable and controlling element in the
State over to the Administration. Our
-*« are rejoicing over the victory. ”
The Georgia United Slates Senator
ship.
Editors Chronicle and Sentinel:
Your Legislature is upon the eve of
the election of a United States Senator
to succeed the Hon. Joshua Hill, the
present incumbent. This is a subject
of deeper and wider spread magnitude
than is usually attached to such events.
It is not an eveut which is alone to affect
the State of Georgia. Nor arc its re
sults to stop with the present. These
will reach for weal or for woe fax into
the future of our country. There lias
never been, perhaps, a period of time,
since the adoption of the Constitution
of 1787, w hen there was so great need of
statesmen in our Federal Legislature as
now. Georgia, as well ns many of her
sister States, can boast of able men aud
brave, but she ean claim but few states
men, and these few, we are pained to
say are, by the action, or rather inaction
of the people, retired to private life.
Where are your Johnson, your Stephens,
your Toombs, and others, whose names
are the synonims for all that is great or
noble in statesmanship ? Alas ! for our
country, their great intellects, their
statesmanlike ability and their experi
auce in national affairs, are shamefully
permitted to wither and die in almost
solitary seclusion ! Is the fault theirs ?
Or rather is it not the fault of the people
of Georgia ? You admire their genius
and love their noble characters. They
were the pride and boast of Georgia iu
the past, and why not be in the future ?
Georgia, yea the country, needs their
services. Will you again dedicate them
to your country ?
We are upon the eve of momentous
events, and if guided by wise councils
they will result in good to ourselves at
home, our neighbors abroad, aud to the
general good of mankind. Great ques
tions of national policy are to be dis
cussed aud adjusted in our Federal Legis
lature within the next few years. We
are just merging from the dark valley
and shadow of our digressions; from the
honored laud-marks of our fathers, and
our path being still beset by breakers
and quicksands, we need the guidance
of our ablest pilots to guide the ship of
State back to the haven of constitutional
security, and national peace aud pros
perity. Will you avail yourselves of
these experienced pilots? or will you
continue to trust the helm in the hands
of inexperienced men ? With the former
you are almost certain to reach the de
sired haven, but with the latter you
have but one chance in ten of being
rescued from the waves of misrule
and centralism that are now rolling
mountain high and threatening to engulf
all that is yet dear to us as American
citizens Constitututional Liberty !
There is no time for faltering. It is the
time for action—earnest and judicious
action ! The Anglo-American institu
tions of our fathers must be saved the
possible and approximating degrading
mongrelism that is to-day threatening
to engulpli them. To save them, we
need statesmen in the halls of Congress.
To secure these, we must look to the
Legislatures of the several States of the
Union. And to Georgia, perhaps, more
than to all others, must we now look to
secure a man in the Senate of the United
States whose powers of intellect will
enable him to grapple with the mag
nitude of the questions involved, and
whose logic and sublime oratory will
enable him to carry conviction to the
minds and hearts of the deluded masses
of our countrymen, who are madly rush
ing on to their own aud our country’s
ruin !
As we need calm yet firm statesman
ship, I would select from the many noble
names presented to your Legislature for
its suffrage, for the honors of United
States Senator, those of ex-Gov. H. V.
Johnson and Hon. Alexander H. Ste
phens. Either of these noble sons of
Georgia would be, in the fntureas in the
past, an honor to the State and a tower
of strength in the councils of the na
tion. Few are their equals aud none
tlieir superiors. Only think of Alexan
der H. Stephens in the Senate of the
United States! Were he there, and it
were known that he was to address the
• Senate and upon the ques
tions of the tariff, the currency, tlie in
tegrity of our public debt, the preser
vation of the public lands for actual set
tlement, the sovereignty of the States
and their right to local self-government,
our American commerce, or tlie thousand
and one other questions of public inter
est, and our Capitol building would not.
be large enough to hold the people that
would Hock to hear liis clarion voice and
the irresistible powers of his eloquence.
Besides, there is no man living whose
influence for weal to our country, iu this
the hour of its greatest need, surpasses
that of Alexander 11. Stephens.
Then, legislators of Georgia, lay aside
every individual preference and look
alone to the present and future of our
whole country, and in the selection of
your Senator have an eye single to the
selection of the right man for the right
place. You may confer honors upon
men, but remember there are only a few
men that can confer honors upon their
conn try. Metropolitan.
Washington, D, C., November, 1872.
Democratic Meeting in Oglethorpe.
Lexington, Ga., December 3, 1872.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel :
At a meeting of the Democratic party
of Oglethorpe county, held to-day in the
Court House, George F. Platt, Presi
dent of the Democratic Club of said
county, presided, and J. T. Olive acted
as Secretary.
Upon the recommendation of a com
mittee of one from each Militia District
of the county, appointed to select can
didates for County Commissioners, the
following gentlemen were nominated :
B. H. Barnett, James Young, George F.
Platt, Middleton W. Johnson and Joseph
McWhorter.
The following resolutions were then
offered and unanimously adopted:
Itesolved, by the Democratic party of
Oglethorpe county, That we earnestly
recommend our members elect to the
House of Representatives, and our Sen
ator, Col. Robert Hester, to vote for
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens for the
United States Senate, if liis name should
come before the General Assembly as a
candidate for that office; believing that
he, of all men in Georgia, is best suited
to represent the people of this State in
that high position, and having the full
est confidence that if he be elected he
will faithfully and ably discharge the
duties imposed upon him.
Resolved, further, That we most re
spectfully submit liis name to the Gen
eral Assembly as a proper man for their
suffrages in the election to be had by
that body for United States Senator from
Georgia.
It was then moved and carried that a
copy of the proceedings of this meeting
be forwarded to the Atlanta Sun and
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel, with
a request that they publish the same.
G. F. Platt, President.
J. T. Olive, Secretary.
Letter from Columbia.
Columbia, S. C., Dec. 4, 1872.
Editors Chronicle A Sentinel:
[ find Columbia a pleasant and thriv
ing city. I dropped in at the Legisla
: '.lire this morning, and was gratified to
I hear that the good work of reform was
going on. Tlie Speaker of tlie House,
j S. J. Lee, is a colored man of ability,
and seems to be entirely at home in the
Chair. He is apparently about twenty
eight years of age. and is a thorough
, parliamentarian. The general features
| of the present Legislature warrant know
| ing ones in saying that it is a great im
provement on the old body.
I trust that the people of South Caro
lina may be relieved of those heavy
burthens of taxation which have been
bearing so heavily upon her in the past.
New Yorker.
A Heartrending Calamity. Near
Graham’s, on the South Carolina Rail
road, on the '29th ult., a sad calamity
resulted iu the death of the wife and
daughter of Mr. R. Hamilton Martin.
While the young lady, sixteen years of
age, was preparing dinner in a cook
room attached to the dwelling, her cloth
ing caught fire; she ran in the adjoining
room to her mother, who vainly tried
to extinguish the flames by throwing her
on the bed and covering her with the
bedding. Her agony was so violent that
she rushed from her mother, leaving her
and the bed-clothes on fire, and ran into
the yard and around the house until she
fell from exhaustion and pain. In the
meantime the mother was on fire and
burning with fearful rapidity. Mr.
Sheldon Hadwin, living with Mr. Mar
tin, being on the premises near by, hear
ing their screams, ran to their assistance,
and beheld a most heartrending scene.
The girl was lying in the yard with
every article of clothing burnt off of
her, and she herself burnt to a perfect
crisp ; the mother still in the house,
shut up in a room, with clothes and bed
ding still burning. Mr. Hadwin ran to
their relief with a vessel of water, but
too late. The two Drs. Faust were im
mediately sent for, who did all in their
power to"relieve their sufferings, but at
ten o’clock, p. m. death relieved the >
mother, and at one a. m. the daughter
passed from life to eternity.
Dr. Wm. S. Reynolds, second son of ■
Rev. Prof. J. L. Reynolds, of the South !
Carolina University, died in New York !
last Sunday. He ‘was only twenty-two
years old, and filled the position of As- j
sistant Surgeon in Bellevue Hospital
INAUGURATION.
Last Meeting of the Old Council—Com- j
plimentary Resolutions to Mayor |
Estes -His Response Inauguration 1
of the Newly Elected Mayor aud
Members of Council—Mayor Estes’
Inaugural Address.
The City Council met Thursday, at
twelve o’clock, in the Council Chandler,
for the purpose of inaugurating the new
ly elected Mayor and Members of Coun
cil. The Council Chamber was well
filled with spectators, who came down to
witness the ceremony.
There were present, Mayor Estes,
Councilmen Lewis, Evans, Pournelle,
Philip, Bryson,' Doris, Walsh.
The minutes of the last meeting wore
read, and, on motion of Mr. Philip, ap
proved.
Mr. Walsh requested his Honor the
Mayor to retire, and Mr. Philip was
called to the Chair.
Mr. Walsh offered the following reso
lutions, which were unanimously adopt
ed :
Whereas, The term of service for
which the present Mayor and Council
were elected is about to expire, we deem
it a fitting moment and a pleasant duty
to express our sentiments toward the
former official; therefore, be it
Resolved, That this Council tenders
its grateful acknowledgements to the
Hon. Charles Estes for the faithful and
efficient manner in which he has dis
charged the arduous and important
duties of his office, as well as for the
uniform courtesy, kindness and impar
tiality which lie’has always displayed as
the presiding officer of this body.
Resolved, That liis administration has
been singularly able and efficient, espe
cially in the ’ skillful and economical
management of the city finances that
we congratulate our fellow-citizens upon
his re-election to office ; that we do
pledge ourselves to second him in the
great work of internal improvement now
going on, and promise him our support
in all that tends to the good of our be
loved city.
Resolved, That a copy of these reso
lutions be to Mayor Estes,
and that the same be published iu the
city papers.
On motion of Mr. Walsh, the Chair
appointed a committee of four, consist
ing of Messrs. Walsh, Evans, Bryson
and Lewis, to wait upon the Mayor and
escort him into the room.
The Clerk then read the resolutions.
The Mayor returned liis thanks in a
few brief but appropriate remarks, as
follows:
Gentlemen— l thank you for tlie com
plimentary manner in which you have
been pleased to speak of our past offi
cial relations and my own official con
duct. I can only repeat what I said on
a previous like occasion, that I have
tried, to the best of my poor ability, to
discharge my duty. If I have erred, as
no doubt I have in some instances, I
know you will, one and all, attribute it
to the head and not to the heart. And
now, iu bidding you adieu at the close
of this official term, I wish each one of
you all the happiness and good that is
possible for man to attain.
The Clerk of Council read the official
returns of the late election as certified
by the managers.
Messrs. Geo. 11. Sibley and James F.
Thompson were sworn in as Members of
Council from tlie First Ward, by the
Mayor, Mr. Meyer from that Ward be
ing absent.
Messrs. J K. Evans and J. B. Pour
nelle were sworn in from the Second
Ward, Mr. Barrett being absent.
Messrs. Alex. Philip and J. O. Matli
ewaon were sworn in from the Third
Ward, Mr. Bennett being absent.
Messrs. T. W. Carwile and E. D.
Wingard were sworn in from the Fourth
Ward, Mr. Young being absent.
Mr. Philip then took the Chair and
administered tlio oath of office to llic
Mayor elect, Hon. Charles Estes.
Upon taking liis seat, Mayor Estes de
livered his inaugural address,as follows;
Gentlemen of the City Council :
Our fellow-citizens have confided to
us for tlie current year an important and
sacred trust. For this repetition of
public confidence, I return my most sin
cere thanks.
Were it not for the very deep interest
I feel iu the one great work now in pro
gress, I should have much preferred to
have retired from office.
Distrusting greatly my own abilities,
but relying on your joint wisdom and
harmonious support of all measures for
the good of the city, I trust our manage
ment of the city government may meet
the approval of our fellow-citizens.
We can only expect this by a careful
and energetic attention to the details of
all the varied interests of the city.
It is an easy thing to say yes, or to
attach one's name to a contract or vouch
er. It is quite another, when a friend
urges you to do that which your judg
ment does not approve, to say no,
and thereby protect the interest of our
fellow-citizens.
In my address to Council one year
ago, I stated it would be gratifying if
our finances should be so managed that
the thirty thousand dollars of bonds
maturing during the year could be paid
out of current receipts. lam happy to
state that this was done.
In January last the contract for en
larging the Augusta Canal was let. The
work so far has progressed as well and
satisfactorily as any similar work of
like magnitude within our knowledge.
Up to December Ist, the total
amount paid on the enlarge
ment—for woik done and en
gineering—is $113,648
Paid for right of way 6,851
For Powder Mills tract 16,525
Total $137,024
By going over the line of work, an ap
proximate estimate can be made of what
j proportion of the whole work is aecom
j plished, and about what it will cost to
i complete it.
I have thought it hardly possible that
any engineer could come within $50,000
of the cost of the enlargement when
completed; but from the work done, and
what appears to me there is yet to be
done, I do not think it will vary in any
event more than that amount from the
original estimate, and at estimated
prices. (The contract prices exceed the
estimate prices about 61 per cent.) It is
the opinion of the engineer, recently ex
pressed, that it will not reach that
amount.
Os thedamages awarded, there isabout
one thousand dollars yet uncalled for,
and there is several claims yet to be ap
praised. The owners have either not
appointed appraisers, or for some cause
they have been unable to act. It is
proper to state that the city retains fif
teen per cent, on the estimates of the
amount of work done, and also hold a
bond with good surety, for one hundred
thousand dollars, for performance of the
contract.
Tlie extraordinary expenses since
January Ist have been:
For canal enlargement,engineer-
I ing damages and real estate
| (Powder Mills) $137,024
| Note at two years, given in 1870,
for dredge boat 5,300
Pro rata assessment on Fair As
sociation Stock 2,500 !
Note of Fair Association for
which ($15,000) bonds were
' loaned in 1870 10,500 :
I Bouds paid 26,000
Total $181,324 j
The extra resources to pay this
amount consisted of amount received i
on note for M. & A. R. R. stock, $105,-
000; bonds issued by Council in 1869,
89,000: aud bills payable, $15,000; in
j all, $129,000. Therefore, $52,324 were
paid out of current receipts. Six thous
and five hundred dollars of past due
| bonds have not been presented for pay
: ment. The fnnds are in the hands of
j the City Treasurer to meet them.
, For the ensuing fiscal year, the rates
| of taxation will probably have to under
i go some changes, owing to the antici
pated action of the Legislature in regard
to the tax on sale of agricultural pro
ducts, and also the resistance of the city
; banks (with one exception) to the pay
l ment of the rate assessed on bank shares.
This, however, I hope you will be able '
to so adjust as to give general satisfac-!
tion to our already heavily burdened
tax payers.
With pleasure I again refer to the City j
Police. To officers and men I return my
thanks for the courteous, prompt and
efilcient manner in which all my orders
have been executed.
Our Fire Department, in point of effi
ciency, is not excelled in the country.
This, in a great measure, is no doubt
owing to the high grade of character !
running throughout the entire depart- 1
ment. It deserves and should have the
fostering care of onr citizens and of the
City Council.
Trusting to an Allwise Providence to 1
guide and direct ns in our official con
duct, I pronounce Council organized.
Mr. Philip moved that the rules gov
erning the old Council govern the de
liberations of the new body. Adopted.
Mr. Philip moved that the Mayor ap
point the Standing Committees at his
leisure. Adopted.
The Mayor stated that he had appoint- j
ed the Committees and would publish
the appointments next morning.
On motion, the Council adjourned.
NORTH GEORGIA. CONFERENCE.
Appointments for 1873.
Augusta district—Caleb w. key, r. e.
Augusta— St. John's —W. Watkins
Hicks; D. W. Calhoun, Sup.
Augusta—St. James’—,T. E. Evans.
“ Asbnry—T. A. Seals.
Richmond Circuit—B. F. Fariss.
Appling—D. Kelsey,
Bel Air Mission—To he supplied by E. |
P. Bonner.
Thomson—Wiley T. Hamilton.
Warrenton—W. F. Smith.
Factoiv Mission—To be supplied by I
•T. E. ltorie.
Sparta—J. M. Lowry.
Hancock—Felix P. Brown, ,T. Purvis |
—one to be supplied.
Craw ford vi lie—A. C. Thomas.
Milledgeville—A. J. JerrelL
Baldwin—W. R. Branham, Jr.
ATHENS DISTRICT- EUSTACE W. SPEER, P. E.
Athens—J. Lewis, Jr., P. A. Heard,
Sup.
Oconee Station—M. W. Arnold.
Factory Mission—Supplied by E. D.
Stone.
Watkinsville—J. W. Kuiglit—one to
be supplied.
Madison—W. P. Pledger.
Morgan—Clement C. Cary.
Greensboro—A. Gray.
White Plains—J. L. Pierce.
Lexington—W. R. Foote.
Winterville—C. A. Connoway.
Washington—A. T. Mann.
Broad River—A. G. Werley.
Little River—T. H. Gibson.
Eatonton—W. F. Lovejry.
Putnam—W. W. Oslin, S. A. Mitchell.
ELBE ETON DISTRICT —O. W. YARBOROUGH,
P. E.
Elberton—F. G. Hughes.
Bethlehem—J. M. Parker.
Elbert—W. A. Fariss.
Lincolnton—Levi P. Neese.
Jefferson—John R. Parker.
Mulberry—J. H. Mashburu.
Carnesvule and Franklin Spring Mis
sion—Marion H. Eakes.
Homer —B. W. Williams.
Hartwell—W. T. Norman.
Clarksville—W. Parks Smith.
Clayton Mission—Eli Smith.
Toogalo and Currihee Mission—J. H.
Mashburu, Jr.
Danielsville and Madison Mission—
B. Sanders.
Air Line Mission—To be supplied by
E. L. Stephens.
ROME DISTRICT—THOMAS F. PIERCE, P. K.
Rome—W. M. Crumley.
Rome Circuit—J. S. Embry.
Forestville—W. P. Rivers.
Cave Spring and Cedar Town—W.
Fisk Glenn.
Van Wert—S. P. Jones.
Carrollton and Bowden—W. C. Dun
lap.
Villa Rica—Sanford Leak.
Haralson Mission—J. P. Howell.
Marietta—G. G. Smith.
Aeworth—W. A. Simmons.
Roswell—G. M. Robinson.
Powder Springs—E. K. Aiken.
Dallas—Heyden C. Christian.
Sandtown—To be supplied by W. D.
Payne.
Cartersville and Brandon—L. J. Da
vies, J. T. Norris Sup.
Bartow—R. H. Jones, E. A. Seale,
Sup.
Marietta Female College—W. A.
Rogers.
Sunday School Agent—W. F. Cook.
DAHLONEGA DISTRICT —W. A. DODGE, P. E.
Dahlonega—W. F. Quillian.
Dawsonviile—J. R. Pate.
Gumming—B. J. Johnson.
Alpharetta—W. D. Heath.
Cherokee—To be supplied by B. T.
Thomas.
Cleveland—M. L. Underwood.
Blainsvillo Mission—R. M. Hughes,
Gainesville Station—J. H. Baxter.
Hall Circuit—D. L. Anderson.
Long Swamp Mountain Mission—Sup
plied by J. N. Sullivan.
Lawrenceville—W. A. Florence, R. P.
Martin.
Morgnuton Mission -John W. Barker.
Elijah Mission—F. F. Reynolds.
DALTON DISTRICT- U. W. BIGIIAJT, P. E.
Dalton—F. A. Kimbell.
Dalton Circuit—P. G. Reynolds.
Ringgold—D. J. Weems.
Rock Spring—J. L. Lupo.
Spring Place—N. 11. Palmer.
Murray Mission—To lie supplied by
S. Brice.
Calhoun—J. 11. Robeson.
Tilton and Resaca—T. J. Robinson.
Kingston—J. A. Reynolds.
Canton—B. E. Ledbetter.
Jasper—J. M. Hardin.
Subligua—S. D. Evans.
Summerville—J. N. Meyers.
LaFayette—A. Odom.
McLemore’s Cove—J. B. McFarland.
LAGRANGE DISTRICT —H. J. ADAMS, P. E.
LaGrange—W. J. Scott.
West Point—D. D. Cox.
Newnan—A. M. Thigpen.
Troup—R. J. Harwell,
j Long Cane—H. J. Ellis.
Wliitesville—J. T. Lowe,
j Greenville ami Trinity—J. S. Bryant.
Chalybeate Springs—E. Rush,
i Grautville—T. S. L. Harwell.
Hogausville—J. M. Bowden.
Senoia—E. F. Jones—one to be sup
plied by W. K. Stilwell.
Palmetto and Jones’ Chapel—T. 11.
Timmons.
Faii-bnrn—J. Chambers.
Heard Mission—James Jones—one to
be supplied by Thomas Turner.
LaGrange Female College —W. J.
Cotter.
Missionary to China—Young J. Allen.
ATLANTA DISTRICT—W. 11. POTTER, P. E.
Atlanta Ist Church—W. P. Harrison,
C. J. Oliver and J. Boring, supernu
meraries.
j Atlanta, Trinity—C. A. Evans.
McDonough Street Mission—To be
supplied.
Atlanta—Evans’ Chapel and Taylor’s
Hill Mission—J. M. Dickey.
; Atlanta—Payne’s Chapel and Peaeh
! tree Street Mission—P. M. Ryburn.
St. Paul’s—G. 11. Pattillo.
Edgewood and St. John’s Mission--W.
! H. LaPrade
Atlanta Circuit—John W. Yarborough.
Decatur—F. B. Davies.
[ Conyers and Hayne’s Creek Mission—
W. J. Wardlaw, A. Means, supernu
mary.
j Norcross—G. E. Gardner.
Covington and Mt. Pleasant—W. IV.
I Wadsworth.
Newton—J, 11. Harris.
I Sardis and Mt. Tabor—B. E. L. Tim
i mons.
Oxford and Social Circle—W. R. Bran
ham, Sr.
Montieello—E. G. Murrah.
Ocmulgee Mission—Supplied by W.
D. Cook.
Newbern—M. F. Malsby.
Monroe—A. W. Rowland.
Forest—Supplied by A. G. Dempsy.
Agent Orphans’ Home—W. F. Cook.
Agent American Bible Society—W. A.
Parka.
Sunday School Secretary—A. G. Hay
go >d.
Emory College—M. Calloway, Prof.
GRIFFIN DISTRICT —I. LEWIS, SR., P. E.
Griffin—.T. W. Heidt.
Upson—W. H. Graham.
Zelmlon—W. G. Hanson.
Pike—lsaac G. Parks.
Thomaston—W. F. Lewis.
Baruesville, Salem—W. T. Caldwell.
County Line —W. W. Lampkin.
McDonough—J. R. Mayson.
.Tonesboro —J. W. Stipe.
Fayetteville—D. Nolan.
Cuiloedn—-C. A. Mitchell.
Clinton—J. Carr.
.Tones’ Mission—J. T. Richardson.
Jackson—R. R. Johnson.
Pleasant Hill—To be supplied by J.
M. Bolton.
Forsyth—D. J. Myrick.
Forsyth Circuit—T. J. Singleton.
West Ocmulgee Mission—J. R. Smith.
Transferred to South Georgia Confer
ence—G. Jefferson Pearce, George R.
Kramer, 11. H. Parks, J. V. M. Morris,
•T. I’. Wanllaw, G. W. Hardaway, B. H.
Sasuett, Miller 11. White.
Transferred to St. Louis Conference
B. K. Thrower.
Transferred to Alabama Conference—
E. P. Birch.
Transferred to Little Rock, Arkansas,
Conference—S. N. Burns.
Transferred to Los Anglos Conference
—A. M. Campbell.
Transferred to Western Conference
I —Thomas R. Pierce.
Transferred to Louisiana Conference
—J. G. Worley.
The following visiting committees
were appointmented by Bishop Marvin :
, Emorv College—A. G. Haygood, W.
j F. Cook, J. W. Heidt.
Western Female College—G. H. Pat
| tillo, A. J. Jerrell, D. J. Myrick.
I LaGrange Female College —R. F.
.Tones, A. M. Thigpen, J. M. Dickey, 11.
i R. Karris, J. B. Hunnicut.
Marietta Female College—Thomas F.
Pierce, H. J. Adams, J. R. Mayson.
The nest Conference will be held at
j Newnan.
Democratic Triumph in Atlanta.—
| The entire Democratic municipal ticket
was elected in. Atlanta on Wednesday,
, with Hon. C. C. Hammock for Mayor.
! The vote for Mayor stood, Hammock,
2,133; F. Stobo Farrow (independent),
1,337 —majority for Hammock, 796.
We congratulate the Atlantese upon the
triumphant victory of their regular
ticket. It was a deserved rebuke to in
dependent combinations to break the
discipline of the party, and Atlanta
Democrats cannot do better than to re
peat the dose whenever occasion offers.
It is a healthful purge, and will work off
the enervating influences of ill-matched j
coalitions.
OPR COTTON SPINNERS.
Striking Advantages of the Southern
Mills Some Hard Pacts for the t’on
stderatiou of Capitalists.
The following communication appears
in the New York Journal of Commerce
of Thursday :
Aiken, S. C., November, 1872.
To the thlitor of the Journal of Com
merce :
It is astonishing that the success of
the few cotton factories at the South
since the war has not induced capitalists
from abroad to increase the number.
From the reports of the President, of
the Uranitville Mills (five miles distant
front Aiken) for the years 18(i8, 1869 and
1870, I collate the following liguies, and
1 learn that the report for the past year
was still more favorable.
The machinery of this mill at the ex
piration of the war consisted of 9,120
spindles and 337 looms, worn out, and
its capital was injudiciously increased
from #409,000 to §710,500. Yet, not
withstanding this great disparity be
tween capital and spindles, the exhibit
develops the fact that it has renewed the
greater part of its machinery, increasing
its spindles to 24,000 and its looms to
570, and the productive capacity from
60,000 to 175,000 yards per week, be
sides new houses for operatives and
other improvements, and all this with
out stopping dividends or assessing the
stockholders. In 1867 the company was
owing #156,000, most of it bearing in
terest at 12 per cent., while in 1871 the
surplus was #187,000.
In the year ending March 1, 1871,
3,080,123 pounds of cotton was con
sumed at an average cost of 17-13 cents
per pound, producing : Yards,
8.444.076 4 4 sheeting.
2.722.080 7-8 shirting.
1,221,419 7-8 drilling.
1.567.300 3-4 sheeting.
8.954.875,'at an average of 8.02 cents per yard.
Total gross profits for the year #207,436 06
Less expenses #45.554 S3
Dividends paid 57,320 00
Carried to surplus fund #104,561 71
balance to credit of surplus fund
last year 83,069 77
Total #187,631 48
At a meeting of the stockholders in
the Spring of 1872, the President pro
posed to double the capacity of the mill
in three years, and yet pay a dividend of
ten per cent, per annum.
Can any Northern , factory make a
bettor exhibit ? The cotton mills of
Augusta and Columbus, Georgia, are
doing proportionately well.
The Augusta mills, with a capital
stock of #600,000, had in 1870 #400,000
as a surplus fund and-commercial capi
tal, after paying quarterly dividends of
five per cent., or twenty per cent, per
annum.
It has been practically demonstrated
that cotton can be spun into yarns at the
South for live cents per pound cheaper
than it can be spun in Old or New Eng
land; consequently a properly conducted
mill could make five cents on each
pound of yarn more than Northern fac
tories, which are and have been enrich
ing their stockholders, amTpeopling with
teeming thousands the rooky hills of the
East.
I would call particular attention to the
following extract from a report made by
Colonel J. B. Palmer, President of the
Saluda Cotton Mills, in 1869 :
“ I support these positions by the
following statement of actual cost of
manufacturing at the Saluda Mills, as
shown by our books.
•• It must be recollected that we have
employed, in the manufacture of No. 20
yarns, only 4,000 spindles (Jenks ring
travelers). Os course a greater number
of spindles, or the production of yarns
of a lower number, would insure a less
cost per pound :
Labor —Superiuteuileiit. 37c ; circling,
56c; spinning, 76c; reefing, 75c $ 2 41
Repairs—Labor and materials 22
Packing, binding, &c—Labor and mate
rials 58
General expenses—Watch, 13c; hauling,
32c; findings. 20c: oil. 15c; salaries, file;
miscellaneous, 56c 2 00
Total # 5 24
Add—Loss by waste, 450 pounds cotton,
costing, #9O. unking but 400 pounds
yarn # 2 50
Ton per cent, for wear and tear of nia
' chinery, charged to production, per
pound 1 26
Total cost of manufacturing $ 9 00
Cost of cotton 20 00
Freight and insurance to New York or
Philadelphia 80
' Cost per 100 pounds of Southern yarn,
No. 20. delivered in New York'. #29 80
The very lowest estimates I have seen of
the cost of manufacturing at the North
places like expenses of manufacturing
at, per 100 pounds #lO 42
Lohs by waste —Cotton at 21c in Co
lumbia would be 22ic in New York; 450
pounds would cost #lOl 25. making 400
pounds yarns 281
Ten per cent, for wear and tear of ma
chinery 1 26
#l4 31
Add cost of cotton 22 50
Cost of No. 20 yarns made North #36 81
Showing a difference in favor of the
South of 7 01
Deduct commission, cartage, Ac 2 01
And we have a net profit of 5c P lb.
to the Southern manufacturer, provided he
sells at the cost of Northern production."
A manufacturer of cotton yarns from
Manchester, England, after looking at
onr books, told me that wo manufactur
ed cheaper than they did by about the
difference in value of our currency and
gold—that is to say, 4J cents per pound.
Among the advantages enjoyed by the
South over the North in manufacturing
cotton may be enumerated the follow
ing : ' •
1. Here the raw material is produced,
and by working it here various expenses
incidental to its transportation could be
saved—such as profits made by those
who invest capital, time and labor in
moving it from place to place; insurance
during transportation; loss by samplings
and stealages from the bales.
2. Experts claim that in our warm
Southern clime cotton works to better
advantage, some estimating this advan
tage as high as ten per cent.
3. Reclamation on fahe-packed and
damaged cotton is direct and easy.
4. Freights on manufactured goods
are less in proportion than on bulky and
hazardous bales of cotton. Yarns can
be delivered in New York from this j
vicinity for 60 to 80 cents per cwt.
5. Abundant supply of operative
labor at low rates nud consequent ex
emption from strikes. Northern super
intendents of Southern mills admit the
superiority of our hands (whites), and
the ease with which they are controlled.
The average wages paid at the Saluda
Mills are §142 82 per annum.
6. The mildness of the climate enables
the operatives to enjoy a larger propor
tion of comforts on a given amount of
wages. In cold climates a larger pro
portion of carbonaceous food is re
quisite, which costs more than farinace
ous food, nor do the houses for opera
tives require to be so expensive as in
colder regions. Lumber of the best
kinds cost only §l2 or §ls per thousand.
The short Winters require less fuel
Land is cheap, and each household can
have its garden, cow and pigs.
7. There is a home demand for the
goods— the larger country stores keep
supplies of yarn for sale as regularly as
8 - By purchasing seed cotton from the
planters and ginning it at the mill tiie
cotton is in abetter condition for work
ing than after it has been compressed
into bales, and the expense of packing
the cotton, bagging, ties and handling
would be saved, as well as the expense
of running it through the picker. Tiie
wastage cotton undergoes in different
ways lias been estimated from one-tentli
to one-eighth of the bale.
The Langley Mills, ten miles from
Aiken, were exempted by art net of the
Legislature from taxation for a term of
years and as there is a disposition to
encourage manufactures, a line immuni
ty would be granted to other companies.
‘ The remarkable healthfuluess of this
sand-hill region is noted fur and wide.
For years Aiken lias been not only n re
sort for Northern invalids in Winter, but
also a retreat for the citizens of the
Southern coast regions in Summer. Sit
uated among the pines in the heart of
the “cotton region," and in close prox-
imity to Augusta, the largest interior
cotton mart, and connected by raiLwith
Charleston, one of the best of the South
ern seaports, this neighborhood is a fa
vorable point for the location of facto
ries. The pre-eminent success of the
Augusta, Graniteville and Langley mills
warrants the opinion that other mills
would prove successful.
Could the entire crop of cotton be con
verted into yarns at the Soutli and ship
ped abroad in that form, it would add j
§100,000,000 annually to the wealth of
this portion of the United States. For
eign mills would adapt their machinery
to working up the yarns instead of the
raw cotton. If but one-quarter of the
crop could be thus converted it would
be a great blessing to this country, and
enable numbers of women and children
who are now dependent on others to
support themselves. Nekia.
Upon the recommendation of members
of the Legislature from Barnwell and
Aiken counties, Governor Scott has par
doned William Simmonft, 0. L. W.
Smith, Peter Allen and Sflmuel Jenkins,
convicted of manslaughter at the May
term last, and sentenced to twenty years
in the penitentiary.
The gin house of Mr. J. E. Caldwell,
near Calhoun’s Mills, in Abbeville coun
ty was destroyed by fire on Friday even
ing last. Eight bales of cotton, belong
ing to other parties, and about 1,000
bushels of com were destroyed, together
with a blacksmith shop belonging to
Dr. Benson. My Caldwells loss is esti
mated at 81,000. Fire accidental.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
A Presbyterian Chjnvh has been or
ganized in the thriving village at Fort
Valley.
Mrs. Sarah A. Barnes, wife of Mr.
Win. J. Barnes, of Sandersville, died on
Monday last.
John Teeling, son of Mr. Henry Teel
ing, of Milledgeville, died -on the 29th
UK, aged 20 years.
The horse disease has broken out at
Sandersville, and is rapidly spreadingto
the surrounding country.
In the two mouths of its operations
the North and South Railroad lias
brought 435 bales of cotton to Columbus.
James Morris, Esq., an old eitizen of
Jackson county, nged 72, died suddenly
at his residence, on Sunday night, No
vember 24th.
Sixteen thousand tickets to old John
Robinson’s circus were sold in Macon on
Monday, and it was not a good day for
saw-dust either.
There is said to be a lady in Mitchell
county, Mrs. Millina Faircloth, who is
116 years of age, and sprightly enough
to knit socks yet.
There are one hundred and twenty
seven students in the State Agricultural
College at Athens. Their average age
is eighteen years and nine months.
The corn crib of Mr. Henry Burr, in
Waynesboro, with a quantity of corn
and fodder, was burned on Sunday night.
Supposed to have been incendiary.
The citizens of Sandersville ha ve taken
the initiative step for the erection of a
new academy building and the estab
lishment of a high school of the iirst.
grade.
An unknown man, armed with a bottle
of whisky, was run over and killed by a
passenger train on the Atlanta and West
Point Railroad, near Grautville,on Tues
day night.
Young Mr. Wells, shot one day last
week, near Griffin, by Colonel Walker,
of Henry county, died on Monday morn
ing. The prosecution against Colonel
Walker has been dropped.
The Arkwright cotton factory in Sa
vannah is expected to be completed in
sixty days. All the machinery has ar
rived. The mill will give employment
to forty or fifty girls at tho start.
The Columbus City Council have
passed a resolution giving to a colored
lire company, when organized with not
less than forty men, the best hand en
gine in the city and furnishing quarters.
Dr. Kennedy, editor of the Southern
Christian Advocate, stated in North
Georgia Conference last week, that that
paper had obtained 3,000 new subscri
bers within the last twelve months and
that it had netted #15,000.
The Rev. M. 11. Henderson, D. D.,
for some seventeen years Rector of Em
manuel Church, in Athens, Ga., one of
the oldest and most valued Episcopal
clergymen in Georgia, died at his resi
dence in Athens, Monday morning.
A wooden building in Milledgeville,
near the tobacco factory of Mr. J. P.
Sweany, was burned last Friday. A
considerable amount of tobacco stored in
the building was destroyed. Loss es
timated at #2,500, and fire supposed to
• have been incendiary.
In the Atlanta Sun “A. 11. S.” urged
that the Electoral vote of the State for
President should bo east for Hon. Clias.
R. Buckalew, of Pennsylvania. The
Electors, it seems, did not consult the
Sun on Wednesday morning, to find out
what ought to be done.
Rents are said to be declining in Sa
vannah, a redaction of fifteen to twenty
per cent, being made in many instances
by landlords who have failed to let their
houses at previous high rates. It would
he a great benefit to Augusta if a similar
epidemic should break out here.
The local of the Macon Citizen boasts
of a narrow escape from death of himself
and Mr. Strickland, agent of John Rob
inson’s show, a day or two ago, by the
falling limb of a tree in the Park. He
has made up his mind to seek anew
and safer place to take his Bourbon
hereafter.
In Jackson county Superior Court,
last tveek, two negroes, Stephen Dun
son and Kinney Burns, convicted of
rape, were sentenced to bo hung on the
10th of January. Crawford Norwood,
accused of the same crime, and who is
said to have confessed his guilt, had his
ease postponed on account of absence of
a material witness.
The Colnmlms City Council Commit
tee on Schools recommend that #B,OOO
j he appropriated to white public schools
and #1,500 for colored for the year.
I Three hundred pupil* in the latter
| taught by a male and three female
- teachers. Peabody fund gives two dol-
J lars per scholar. Over 700 in the white
| schools, taught by two males and eleven
females.
In Savannah, the other day, whilst
workmen were engaged in digging on
the site of the Arkwright cotton factory,
they unearthed a skull, several bones
and a piece of coffin, and nlso two cop
per cents, much worn by rust and cor
roded, which had doubtless been used
I as weights upon the eyes of one of the
bodies there buried. One boro date of
the year 1796, the other 1771.
From “Ogeechee’s” last Atlanta letter
to the Savannah News, we make these ex
tracts: The water in the wells in many
parts of the city is rapidly deteriorating,
and unless a proper system of drainage is
adopted, will soon become unfit for use.
The present sewers, such us they are,
are so near the surface of the ground that
one is almost stifled at certain points on
the busiest streets by most villainous
odors. There is not water enough to
carry off the offal, and the clay founda
tion is too thick and hard to absorb it.
There is reason to fear, therefore, unless
the sewerage is improved, that Atlanta,
instead of being the healthiest, may, at
no distant day, become one of the least
salubrious cities in the State.
, i XIIR GREELEY I’REBH FUND.
1 His Daughters Unwilling lo Accept the
Proposed Testimonial.
I New York, December 6.—The Tri
bune editorially states that the daugh
ters of the late Mr. Greeley are unwill-
I ing, under any circumstances, that the
I plan of a subscription for their benefit
should be adhered to, hut will not ob
ject to any testimonial to the memory of
their father. It is proposed to build a
printers’ monument to Mr. Greeley.
Greeley’s Death and Election Bets.
—The following communication, taken
from the New York Herald, will he iff
interest to parties who had bets on the
recent election :
The death of Mr. Greeley gives rise to
a question of the liability of hia backers
for their bets on the election. A rule
of the turf is, where there is no chance
to win there can be no loss. Bets on
Mr. Greeley are in that category. The
different States have cast a vote for an
electoral college. These electors met
in the Capitols of the respective States
on the first Wednesday in December fol
lowing the general election and cast
their votes in conformity to their idea of
the wishes of the constituency electing
them. An observance of the will of the
constituency is not a legal obligation,
hut is complied with as a moral duty.
Now Mr. Greeley being dead, lie cannot
be voted for, and his hackers would
have no chance to win, and, technically,
bets on him are considered as oil,
though the moral obligation to pay still
holds. If the turf regulation Holds
good in the betting circle, this will prove
a nut for them to crack. One gentle
man who has just paid §17,000 in bets on
the election, said this morning that he
would telegraph George Wilkes in
Europe immediately on the subject.
Reducing Bones. —ln the discussion
of wheat culture, at the lute Agricultural
Convention at Newport, N. H., Mr.
Pattee, of Warner, gave a formula for
; reducing bones, as follows: “Place
them in ft large kettle, mixed with ashes
j and about one peck of lime to a barrel
}of bones. Cover with water and boil,
j In twenty-four hours nil the bones, with
: the exception, perhaps, of the hard shin
bone, will become so much softed us to
Ibe easily pulverized by hand. They
will not be in particles of bone, lint in a
; pasty condition, and in excellent form to
mix witli muck, loam or ashes. By
boiling the shin bones ten or twelve
hours longer, they will also become soft.
This is an easy and cheap method of re
ducing bones. If the farmer will set
aside a cask for the reception of bones
in some convenient place, and throw all
that are found on the farm into it, es
pecially if one or two dead horses come
into liia possession, he will he liicfely to
find a valuable collection at the end of
the year, which would prove a valuable I
adjunct to the manure heap.
Death on the Rail.— Mr. F. Siles,
the express messenger on the Cheraw
and Darlington (S. C.) Railroad, was
thrown from a train on that road last
Saturday afternoon, and so seriously in
jured that death rosulted on Monday,
The cause of Mr. Siles’ fall is somewhat
obscure. When the train left Society
Hill on the afternoon of the accident he
was known to have been on board, but
when the train reached Cheraw, thirteen
miles above, he was missing. A party
was immediately despatched down the
road on a hand-car to hunt f<g him.
Attracted by his groans, the party found
him at the bottom of a thirty-foot
trestle-work in Cedar Creek gulley,
about ojne mile north of Society Hill.
He was unable to give any account of
the maun,er in which he had fallen from
the car. He leaves a youug wife aud
«ne child.
soi i'll CAitoi.i n \ iti
The Columbia Motel was
Tuesday to Win. Garman for #66,1
Tlio new Court House building in
Abbeville is rapidly upproachiug com
pletion,
•John J. Barre, son of Mr. Mathews
Barre, of Newberry, was recently assas
sinated in Florida.
Mrs. Lod Hill, eldest daughter of the
late Col. Nathan L. Griffin, of Edgefield,
died on the 2d inst., near Ninety-Six.
Work on the Catholic Church on Sul
livan’s Island, discontinued at the death
of Rev. Father Bermingliam, lias been
resumed.
Excursion tickets to the Masonic cele
bration next week at Charleston will be
issued by the Greenville and Columbia
Railroad.
The gold watch which constituted the
first prize of the Marion Fire Company’s
• lift Concert was drawn by Mr. W. A.
Gibson, a Charleston druggist.
Henry Spnrniek, Esq., has been elect
ed messenger to carry the electoral vote
of SouthjjCarolina to Washington. The
vote was polled for Grant and Wilson.
Barnwell village is improving. Several
buildings have been erected within the
last few mouths, and other more de
cided improvements are in contempla
tion.
One hundred thousand dollars Co
lumbia city bonds, new issue, were sold
on Monday, at public outcry, to Charles
M. Wilder—#2o,ooo at 55).,‘ami #BO,OOO
at 58.
Mr. Michael Ilaokett, an old and es
teemed citizen of Abbeville, died of a
congestive chill on Saturday night last,
at the advanced age of about seventy
years.
An incendiary lire destroyed the Sand
Dam Academy in Lexington county,
Sunday before last, together with nearly
all the hooks belonging to the teacher
and pupils.
The house burned on Mr. Baskins’
place, near Lowndesville, Abbeville
county, was built in 1792, and bad stood
for nearly a century the storms of war
and weatiter.
A little four-year old daughter of
County Treasurer Phifer, of Newberry,
was burned so severely on Saturday as
to cause her death on Sunday Inst. Her
clothes accidently caught lire.
An attempt to set fire to the store of
Vance, Moseley ,V Cos., at Hodge's De
pot, was made on Saturday night. The
tire was khidled under the house, lmt
was discovered in time to prevent it.
Charleston boasts a parallel of tlm
Surreney mystery—live lire coals hop
ping over the floor of theaffiicted house,
covering dragged off the beds, chunks
of coal flying around, medicine bottles
and hair brushes waltzing to the unties
of animated crockery, with a few bricks
to fill up the chinks of this mysterious
story.
Mrs. M. A. Wright, so favorably re
membered by the traveler as the presid
ing genius of that pleasant resort in Co
lumbia, the Nickerson House, has form
ally given up possession id' the building
to Rev. S. B. Jones, of the Methodist
Church, who will open the institution as
a Female College in January. After be
ing used for seven years since the war
for hotel purposes, the building is again
to be devoted to the object of its erec
tion.
Mr. James Allen, of Charleston, has
achived a mechanical triumph in the
creation of an artificial bird. A basket,
of artificial foilage and flowers hangs
suspended from the ceiling by gilt
chains, and hovering over the topmost,
stem iN seen a strikingly life-like bird of
gay plumage. A touch at one of tlie
sprays which surround the edges of the
basket causes the feathered automaton
to begin singing in a most natural and
bird-like manner, while the motions of
the head, throat, hill and tail are im
itated so perfectly that the spectator
finds it hard to believe that a real bird
is not before him. The price of this
unique Christmas gilt, is two hundred
and fifty dollars.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Sumner Asks to bo Excused from
Committee Service Edmumls Ob
jects to Grant Being Asked About
Sending Troops tn Arkansas Nation
at College Hill Under Discussion
Free Building Material for Boston
French Spoliation Bill.
Washington, December s.—ln the
Senate, Sunnier asked, on account of
ill health, lobe excused from service on
any committee.
Rice tried to call up Ins resolution
asking the President why troops have
been or are to to be sent to Arkan
sas, but Edmunds objected.
Pomeroy introduced a bill to prohibit
the sale, manufacture or importation of
intoxicating liquors in the District of
Columbia, or in the Territories.
Morrill, of Vermont, called up the hill
on the endowment of National Colleges.
The House passed the bill to admit
building material into Boston free, u r id
then took up the hill for the ten sic,ops
of war.
Washington, December s.—Tn the
Senate, Cameron gave notice that lie
would call up at an early day the bill in
relation to the French spoliation claims.
Senate adjourned.
Washinuton, December 5, evening.
Carpenter succeeds Fenton, Edwards
succeeds Trumbull, and Hamlin sue
coeds Rice in chairmanships of commit
tees.
Only one minority representative is
allowed on the principal committees.
Bayard remains on the Finance Com
mittee, Fenton retiring.
Thurman is chairman of the Private
Land Claims, the only committee over
which a Democrat presides.
Sohurz remains on the Foreign Rela
tions Committee, Casssrly giving way
for a place on the Pacific Railroads.
In the House, hills were introduced to
incorporate a Banking Association with
a capital of $100,(10(1.01)0, under the style
of the Governors’ and Managers’ Ex
chequer of the United States; and giving
General Meade’s widow a pension of
$2,000.
The ten sloops of war vessels hill vas
resumed.
Archer, a member of the Naval Com
mittee, advocated the hill as a matter of
necessity, the navy of the United States
being now in a rotten and ruinous con
dition. He admitted that there was
nothing to be feared from the great,
powers, hut the people whom it was.
desired to impress with the greatness of
this country were the semi civilized na
tions of the world. It was for that ob
ject more than any other that those ves
sels were required.
The House then proceeded to vote on
the hill and amendments.
Hale’s amendment, requiring half the
number to be built in private ship yards,
was agreed to by yeas 77 to nays 55.
An amendment, offered by Banks, to
modify the provision in regard to guns,
so as to make it read, “not exceeding
ten guns,” was agreed to.
Garfield’s amendment, requiring plans
and estimates to be reported to Con
gress, and uu appropriation to be made
befqre the work is commenced, wus also
agreed to.
Cox’s amendment, reducing the num
ber of vessels to he constructed from
ten to six was also agreed to, by yeas
104 to nays 67.
The hill as thus amended was then
passed.
A motion to adjourn'to Monday was
mode and defeated.
TIIE ALABAMA MUDDLE,
Committees of the Rival Legislatures
in Washington The President and
Congress Appealed To The General
Onveriiineiil Averse to Interference.
Wash ington, December s.— Commit-,
tecs mo in this city from the two Leg
islatures claiming legality in Alabama,
for the purpose of representing t<» the
authorities of the General Government
their respective claims to its favorable
consideration. Thu committed appoint
ed by Governor Lewis, consisting <>f
Messrs. W. H. Smith, It. M„ Reynolds
I and R. W. Norris, to lay before the
| President and Congress n memorial and
joint resolution, to-day addressed a note
to the President upon the subject of an
interview with him, in response to
which the President replied he would
prefer they should first confer witli the
Attorney General, and, in consequence,
they will to-morrow have a conference
with Judge Williams,
A committee representing the Capitol
Legislature will make a statement of
their case on Saturday. While the
Attorney General will give full attention
to every matter presented by this com
mitter, lie will not render ar.y opinion
or take any other action 'therein, us
the fixed determination of the Govern
ment is not to interfere ir. the condition
of political affairs in Alabama unless
something should arise under the Con
stitution of the United States which
shall rendov necessary the intervention
of the Federal authority.
Another Overflow in Italy.
TnniN, December 6.—The waters of
the river Arno, as veil as the Po, have
overflowed their banks. Many bridges
crossing those two streams have been
swept away and destroyed, and the com
munes are inundated, causing great de
struction to property.
Another Railroad Horror,
Miflkn, Pa., December 6. The
second section. Western bound Cincin
nati traiu ran. into the rear of the first
section, the second telescoping two Pull
mau cars. Five-dead bodies have been
removed from the wreck. No South
erners are in the list.
