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TIIK TEXAS ANI) PACIFIC RAIL
ED AD.
Three hundred engineers, guards and
attendants in the employ of the Texas
jud 1 lidl'i,: ilailroad it et ally reached I'll
l’asodel Norte, on the Hio Orande. This
party had completed flit! survey and
general location of the line of the
main track, as far west as that place,
and would continue their labors to the
Pacific • )oean. This road is being push
ed westward from Shreveport with all
possible dispatch. It, will reach within
two hundred and fifty miles of F.l Paso
l»y October of this year, and that town
by May, 1874. 1 f this result is attained,
the Texas and Pacific lioad will be the
first railway to reach the borders of Mexi
co, and the Tivo HepnhUcx says it "will
be of great importance to Mexico, be
cause the same railway line which con
nects Durango and Chihuahua with the
centre of the Republic, will carry our
tropical produce to that already vast
and rapidly increasing population, north
of us, who inhabit that immense country
between the Mississippi and the Rocky
Mountains, and will afford our people
equal facilities for going by its connec
tions westward to California, or east
ward by St. Louis, Memphis or Vicks
burg to Philadelphia.” There is now a
railroad from Vera Cruz and the coast to
the City of Mexico. From tlieuce it
will lie extended to the Pacific, with
lateral branches to the frontier of the
United States. When these branches
are drained by a road loading to the
North, Loth countries will be benefitted
in a material degree. Railroads are in
dispensable to the peace, development
nnd progress of Mexico, and as the Tex
as Pacific Road will act as a stimulus to
tin- movement in our sister Republic, it
should be pushed to the line with alt
possible speed. By thus helping Mexi
co, we will help ourselves.
•• IMPORTANT BUSINESS DETAIN
ED 111 M."
Wlu'u the funeral services of the
late Chief Justice Chase took place iu
Now York city, on the 10th instant, a
dispatch was received from Washington
regretting that his Excellency, the Presi- j
dent, would find it impossible to attend,
ns important business detained him at
Washington. It now turns out that the
import ant business of State which pre
vented the President from being present |
among the mourners was the trial of a
Pair of young colts. The New York
Tino x, which is the personal organ of j
President Grant, in its issue of the 11th j
instant, contained the following from its
Washington telegraphic correspondence: j
The President was out on the road to
day exercising a pair of under three- ]
year-old colts, which he has just had
sent from his farm near St. Louis. One
is a dark hay and the other a beautiful.
dapple bay. Driven together, they show
superb style, speed, and action, and are
probably the finest pair of horses of their
ago ever brought to Washington. They
are colts of tho President's own raisiug,
and he was scarcely aware until he saw
them on the farm that such u new pos
session .Hid delight were iu store for,
him.
This explanation, though perhaps eu- ’
finely satifaetorv to the personal frienxls
and admirers of General Grant, does
not comport with that integrity, intelli
gence, ability and culture which should j
characterize the President of the United '
States in his private and official relations.
Our horse-junketing President deftly
fingers the ribbons behind a pair of j
three year old colts in Washington—
while the obsequies of the late Chief
Justice of a co-ordinate branch of the
Government are taking place in New
York. Important business prevented
him from paying the last tribute of re
fsj>ect to the remains at a man who iu
lxis day did more for tho success of the
party that elevated Grant to the Presi
dency than any other man in it—not
even excepting Seward, Greeley or Liu
eoln. Nero fiddled while Rome was
burning ; and General Grant drives fast
horses while the remains of the great
and shining lights of the Ruxlieal party
are being conveyed to the grave. If the
Republican party can stand this, the
people of the South must await the
coming of a reaction which will elevate
men of diguity ami character and ability
• the Preside nr.ial chair. It is true, "it!
; waK none of our funeral,” but still we j
j have our mrinion about the shabby sap- j
terfuge to which General Grant resorted j
in pleading important business. His 1
conduct was disgraeefnl to the high j
: office which he holds and an insult to
j the American people.
THE FIRST DISTRICT.
A recent accident will probably cause
I a prolongation of the contest J etween
j Messrs. Morgan Rawls and A. WNfloan
for the seat in Congress from the First
District of Georgia. The testimony ta
ken for Mr. Rawls in the counties es
Burke, Bcreven and Bullock, was left
temporarily with the Commissioner,
Mr. H. P. Brwer, at his house iu Effing
ham county, anti it was accidently
burned on last Monday night. This
misfortune will interfere materially with
Mr, Rawls’ defense, and he will be com
pelled to ask Congress for an extension
of time.
IHIHII IMMIGRANTS.
The Agricultural Department thinks ;
that much good has been accomplished ;
by the distribution of its yearly reports
in Europe —Congress having authorized
such action. One of the results claim-
: eil i.-, that a large immigration may soon
Ibe expected from Belfast. The Ameri
can Consul in that city lias written a
letter to the Department, in which he
states that thirty-three hundred of the
tiower of the youth of that region had
sailed for this country. The territory
around Belfast is inhabited by among
the most intelligent and industrious of
the Irish race, and such a people will be
a great acquisition to any locality where
they may settle. Whether the Agricul
tural reports bring them or not, we can
not say ; we are only glad that they are
coining, and hope that they may find
homes in the South, in Georgia.
TJIE AMERICAN DICTATOR.
The last phase which the Train case
has assumed is the most absurd. The
assinity of the proceedings are equalled
by nothing which lias ever transpired or
which ever will transpire in a court of
justice. Tt stands now as follows: Train
was indicted for sending obscene matter
through the mails, and the prosecution
attempted to prove that lie was crazy
nnd irresponsible. The defendant re
sisted, and after a long trial the jury
pronounced him perfectly sane. Under
this verdict the trial for the offense with
which he was charged commenced next
day, and this second intelligent jury has
found him insane, and directed him sent
to an asylum ! Tims, a prisoner has
been saved in spite of himself and a
sane man made insane despite the most
striking proofs of his sanity and the
verdict of a jury in his favor. Os course
the Dictator will not remain iu the mad
house, but will have a writ of habeas
corpus, another trial, another sensation,
and will be made supremely happy.
ANOTHER HI’ECIMEN JUDGE.
When the grand jury of the United
States Court in Charleston discovered
the other day that the subordinate offi
cers of the Court had been guilty of’
levying black mail and committing other
like offenses and so charged in tlieir
presentments, in accordance not only
with their right, but in obedience to
their duty, Judge Bryan declined to
allow them to be read and “referred
them back” to the jury for alteration.
The jury very properly refused to make
any change, preferring to make no pre
sentments at all rather than have them
dictated by the Court. We suppose that
this is another specimen Federal
Judge whom that immaculate jurist,
Mr. Justice Bradley, would prevent the
press from criticising. What with pack
ing the petit and muzzling the grand
juries, there will soon be but one (and
that, unfortunately, often the worst) part
of the Federal Court left—tlxe Judge.
But we must not complain of insult or
oppression, lest we incur the displeasure
of such thrifty Daniels as Judge Brad
ley. _
THE HERALD VS. 15ROWN.
For some days past the Atlanta Herald
lias been “pitching into” ex-Governor
Joseph E. Brown, and at last the latter
has replied. Upon the principle of fair
play, we give the substance of this reply
just as we published the substance of
the Herabl'x charges : Governor Brown
denies (1) that he ever received any
profit, individually, in the purchase of
iron from the Scofield Rolling Mill,
and substantiates the statement by let
ters from the Treasurer and the General
Book-Keeper of the company ; (2) that
he ever had any conversation with Mr.
Scofield in which he intimated that un
less the latter purchased coal from Gov.
Brown’s mine, the road would not pur
chase iron from the rolling mill, but says
he only temporarily ceased purchasing
from it on account of 1 1 s' inferior quality
of the rails furnished ; (3) that he ever
attempted to force Mr. Scofield to pur
chase his coal by refusing or neglecting
t<* furnish him cars for the Sewanee
mines. In reference to the misunder
standing, or rather rupture betweenjhim
self and General Mcßae, t lie Superin
tendent, Governor Brown declines to
; make any statement upon the ground
| that it is a matter which concerns only
: the lessees of the Western and Atlantic
i Railroad, and with which the public has
; nothing whatever to do. As the Direc
; tors of the road met in Atlanta yester
day, it is probable that they will discuss
and take action upon the matter.
In the meantime the controversy be
tween Governor Brow n and the Herakl
has assumed a personal character,
caused by an intimation in the former's
card that the latter had attempted to
block-moil him. Mr. Abrams and Col.
Alston both publish cards denouncing the
ex-Governor in strong terms, and here
the matter rx'sts for the present.
Tit E VAC ANT CHIEF J USTICESII IP.
Who shall succeed Mr. Chase? is a
question which agitates the newspapers
as much just now as if they expected
Gen. Grant to consult them in refer
ence to tilling the vacant position. The
last name is suggested by the Savan
nah Adrertm r, and while, as we have
before stated, we have uo reason for
believing that the President will make
( of the important office anything but
: a reward for party fealty or personal
, friendship, still it is with pleasure we
| endorse the nomination thus made by
i our contemporary :
The South has uo representative on
the Supreme Bench. It may be as justly
said that she has no frmnd on that
bench, for the reasou that political con
siderations have ilirected ami controlled
all of the more recent appointments.
Yet within the next few years questions
of the most vital importance to every
interest of the South, individual anil
collective, will have to be adjudicated
by the Supreme Court. Wherefore it
seems a matter not only of wisdom, Luit
of the simplest justice, that the South
should have a representative on the
bench of the Court. And if the Presi
dent is determined to do the fair thing
iu the premises, we beg leave to suggest
for the vacant place Wo. Hope Hull,
Esq., of the Augusta bar. Mr. Hull is
in the full vigor of physical and in
tellectual manhood. He is a ripe anil
finished lawyer, the peer of any man on
the bench of the Supreme Court, and is
withal a gentleman of the highest
character and intellige ice. Eschewing
politics, he has devoted his life to a
jealous mistress, the law, and has won
I the highest honors of the profession at
| the bar. More :he has no lant of re
i bellion fr> which it is necessary that
he should be shriven. His convictions
Were strongly and firmly opposed to the
war, but during the struggle he was not
offensive in the promulgation of his
opinions. Nor was he blatant of loyalty
or aggressive iu action after its unhappy
clove. He enjoys the respect and con
fidence to a high degree of the people of
Georgia, and would worthily and ably
fill the robes of the Chief Justice.
RUSSIA AND THE KHAN.
We are growing a little tired of the
' dispatches which the efficient Londou
newsmongers publish concerning the war
in Khiva. On one day the world is in
formed that Russia has captured Khiva,
and the Khan ; or the next Khiva turns
up all right, and the Russians i
catch the Khan. Like Twain’s WesCm ■
; experience, the thing is growing l lo _ i
i uotonous. If the Khan can’t be caught,>l
I let them stop telegraphing that he can. j
KING CHOLERA.
There seems to be little doubt that
the cholera has made its appearance in
New Orleans, and one case, with a fatal
termination, has been reported in Cin
cinnati. The Western cities are urged
to prepure for its approach. Our South
ern towns will also do well to heed the
•warning, and see to it that their streets !
and alleys and seweri are thoroughly
cleansed. A little caution may save
many lives.
ATLANTA’S DANGER. ’
The war between ex-Gov. Brown and the
Herald promises to be to Atlanta the
direful spring of woes unnumbered. If
the circle of combatants continues to
enlarge for a month in the same ratio in |
which it has extended during the past
few days, the chances are that the entire
fighting population of the town will be
arrayed under the two hostile banners.
It is to be hoped, however, that such
will not he the case, and that either the
Governors’ Convention, tho Atlantic and
Great Western Canal, the free excursion
through the State or some other pacific
agency, will allay the angry passions of
the opposing forces, and bring peace to
the Gate City once more.
DURKLL.
The last exploit of Jndge Darell, of
New Orleans, in attempting to force the
N ;w Orleans, Jackson and Great North
ern Railroad Company into bankruptcy
on a suit for some $250, is likely to re
sult disastrously to that notorious indi
vidual, who is believed to have realized
enormous spoils from tho estates of citi
zens which have fallen into his clutches.
The road is under the control of Henry
S. McComb, whose dealings with the
late Oaken Ames have made his name
familiar to the American public, and he
proposes to make it exceedingly lively
for the Judge who, with President
Grant's assistance, has succeeded in
overthrowing the legal government of
Louisiana. The New Orleans Herald
says that Mr. McComb has retained
Gen. B. F. Butler and Hon. Jeremiah 8.
Blacksts his counsel.. There is a pros
pect of a fight which may expose to the
public view the manner in which the ad
ministration of the bankrupt law in New
Orleans has been made the cover for a
long series of successful and stupen
dous villainies.
THE AUSTRIAN PANIC AND AME It- I
IUA.
When the financial panic in Vienna
was announced, great alarm was felt lest
it should affect America. Nor was this
fear ill-founded. Generally such com
mercial convulsions as that which para
lyzed the business of Austria and her
capital are felt in all the markets of the
world; and here, where we were still suf
fering from an unusual stringency in
financial matters, the most disastrous
results might well have been expected.
But as the panic has ended, and we did
not suffer from its effects, the caust? of
our escape is attracting attention and
comment. The most plausible theory
which we have seen advanced on the
subject is that offered by the New York
Financial Chronicle. The Chronicle
thinks that a year or two ixgo America
would have suffered, and very quickly,
because at that time an enormous amount
of United States bonds was held by
Austrian capitalists. But during the
recent speculative mania which has pre
vailed in Germany and Austria, and
which was the prime cause of the crash,
these bonds were sold, principally to
England, and the proceeds invested in
fancy stocks. When the panic came it
did not extend, apparently, beyond Ger
many. Tlie bonds thrown upon the
market were promptly taken up, and
tlie trouble which threatened to become
general reniaineJ local.
THE STATE’S CREDIT.
The Wall street allies of Messrs. Henry
Clews and Company seem to have at
last diseovei-ed the futility of their ef
forts to injure or destroy the credit of
Georgia, amt there are indications t hat
they xrre becoming tired of a war which
has been entirely barren of results. The
firmness of the Legislature and the pa
triotism of our people have deprived them
of all hope of success. The last quota
tion of Georgia bouds, as published in
the Financial Chronicle, is the most
favorable which we have seen since the
Bond Ring commenced its assaults.
Georgia bonds are quoted as " strong
ami higher on an improved demand.”
’ r he editor of the Chronicle, in noticing
I this fact, ascribes it, in part, to the de
mand for these bouds which has come
from parties iu Georgia, who thus show
to the world the confidence which they \
have iu the " soundness of their own se-1
curities.” If the credit of the State was |
at all injured, which we doubt, it has j
been fully restored by the issuance and
successful negotiation of the Nutting
bonds. Our people have shown their
faith in the soundness of their own se- (
curities, and they have become inde
pendent of Wall street cliques and rings.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA.
An examination of the recent catalogue
of the State University—a copy of which
we have received—shows a state of pros
perity and of progress iu educational
development that is very flattering. An
old alumnus of tlie University, who used
to receive a badly printed pamphlet of
some twelve pages, would fail to recog
nize this handsomely printed catalogue
of sixty-eight pages from J. W. Burke
A Cos., Macon, filled with interesting
matter relative to the various courses of
education, as being the exponent of the
same institution. In fact, old Franklin
College has been transformed into a
University. The stiff, unyielding, iron
bound curriculum has given way to the
more expansive and plastic University
system—a system better adapted to the
varied educational necessities of the
present generation, giving more scope
for that science-training which the age
demands.
The University, as now organized, em
braces three departments —the academic
department, the State college depart
ment and the law department. Various
I scientific and literary courses of study
j are presented to students, upon the com
j pletion of which they are awarded
! suitable degrees.
I The total number of students in at-
UGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 28, 1873.
tendance is 312, of whom 151 are in the
State College and 16 in the Law School.
Os the total number, 291 are from Geoi
gia. This fact shows that our State
University is receiving’ St it should, the
warm support of our owtrvpeople, and.
we earnestly hope it may receive that
: attention and fostering care from our
State Legislature that may be necessary
: to make it the pride and honor of the j
great Commonwealth of Georgia.
The city of Athens With commendable j
liberality has donated $25,900 to the
State College.
A CURIOUS STORY.
The fate of States seem to hang upon I
a very slender thread in Washington— j
in confirmation whereof a very curious
story, related bv a •correspondent of the
New York World, in connection with |
the mission of General I)ick Taylor last j
Winter, is being freely eircßlated, and
Horn the authority on which it rests is :
received with mneh credence. It will
be remembered that General Taylor had
several inter views with Ike President on
Louisiana matters-, and tjiat he expressed
himself as encouraged by the result.
The statement now made in that General
Taylor’s account of the situation was,
by the President’s request, repeated be
fore the Cabinet; that it produced such
an impression that it was determined
that the Government had no alternative
hut to recognize MeEnery; that the
President prepared a message to Con
gress announcing this fact; that Senator
Morton hearing of it immediately went
to the White House and protested
against any such action, and as the re
sult of his persuasion tho President
changed his message and determined to
adhere to Kellogg. The ex’idence in
favor Os this statement is such that it
would seem as if some official notice
must he taken of it.
THE ATLANTIC AND GREAT WEST
ERN CANAL. *
The Convention in session at Atlauta,
iu the interest of. the construction of a
canal from the Mississippi river to the
Atlantic ocean, will have its influence
on Congress. If the people of the West
are united upon this work, and demand
it as a necessity for the protection of
their interests, favorable legislation will
be had from Congress. The people of
the South must necessarily be benefitted
by works of internal improvement, not
only directly but incidentally, from their
iuception to their completion, to say
uothing of the benefits to accrue in the
future. Millions are appropriated year
ly by the General Government iu works
of a public character in the Northern,
Eastern and Western States. The South
should now come in for its share of the
general appropriations, and whether the
money be expended in the
of canals, the erection of public build
ings, or the improvement of our rivers,
our people will be benefitted by the
expenditure of the money distrib
uted throughout this section. In
this view, we take it for granted that
the members of Congress from the
South will work harmonious’y and ef
fectively witli the Western members to
secure such legislation as will prove mu
tually beneficial to the South and West.
With tho South and West united ill
Congress upon works of internal im
provement, ample ajiprqpriations can be
secured from year to year. Hereto
fore, we have received but crumbA
from the public fund. But now we ask
and demand our full share of the public
money to be expended in works of a
national character, such as public build
ings and for the general development
of our section. And if our members of
Congress will attend more to the
practical and material interests of our
people, they can at least receive a fair
amount of the public funds for the South.
With tlie South and the West united,
the Atlantic and Great Western Canal
will be an assured success, at least so
for as its construction. The people of
the great and growing West recognize it
as a necessity of the immediate present.
Tt will give them cheap transportation
for their agricultural products, which
will find a ready and profitable market
in the South Atlantic States. But
whether or not the canal fulfills the
mission of its projectors, we of the
South have everything to gain and noth
ing to lose by its becoming a pet scheme
of President Grant and the Forty-third
Congress.
The Convention at Atlanta is com
posed of representative men—many of
whom fill the highest offices within the
gift of tlxe people in their respective
States. The delegates will visit tlie city of
Augusta next Manday. The importance
of the Convention, its objects, and the
prominence of the men composing it,
imperatively require from our people a
generous hospitality. The municipal
authorities and the members of the Ex
change should take such action to-day
as may be necessary to secure the
proper recejition and entertainment of
the Atlantic and Great Western Canal
excursionists.
The Ixvioi.abi i.ity of Postal Cards.
Tlie Post Office Department, according j
to a Washington dispatch, holds that !
postal cards are to be regarded precisely j
as sealed letters. No post office official
has any more right to inspect what is
written on a postal card than he has to
break the seal of a letter for the pur
pose of acquainting himself with its
contents. After the delivery of a postal j
card, if left at public places, hotels, j
boarding houses, &c., there is no means '
of preventing dishonorable persons from
peeping at its contents if so disposed,
unless it should be placed directly in
the hand of the person for whom in
tended. When the post office authori
ties discover that postal cards are put to
improper use, they will decline to de
liver, just as is done in case of letters.
•‘That Bundle of Coupons”—Letter
from Mr. Conley.
Editon Chronicle & Sentinel:
I notice in your paper of the 16th
iust. a letter from Governor Bollock in
reference to a “bundle of coupons”
found in the Executive office at Atlanta.
In corroboration of the statement made
by Governor Bullock, I ask space in your
paper for the following facts in refer
ence to said “bundle of coupons
Whilst I occupied the Executive chair,
I requested the financial agents of the
State in New York to send me an ac
count current of their transactions for
the State. They furnished the state
ment at once, and in transmitting the
account they sent to the Executive of
fice a large number of coupons which
they had paid for the State. These paid
coupons, together with the account,
were sent to the Treasurer of the State,
where they properly belonged. Dr.
Angier, the Treasurer, returned the
: coupons to the Exeentive office, refusing
! to recognize their legality, Ac. .whereupon
I directed my Secretary to seal them up
in a package, label them and deposit
them in the safe in the Executive Depart
ment, where they were subsequently
found, “ while engaged in overhauling
office papers recently.” These were the
only coupons in the office when I left
the Executive chair, and they were there
because the Treasurer refused to receive
them and no other disposition could be
made of them. These are the facts about
the “bundle of coupons which had been
paid but which Bullock had never can
celled or destroyed. ”
Benj. Conley.
Hannibal Crosson has been showing
the Camilla Enterprise man stalks of
cotton with squares and forms on them.
GEORGIA FINANCES.
| A Letter From Gov. Srniitfi -A Staife
meat of the Igdyotedness of the State.
Executive Departs lint, i
State of Georgia, :•
Atlanta, Ga., May ■
Hon. V. A. Nutting,
Dear Siß —Your
particular statement of •uJthe
State has been received", catses
unnecessary to be specially month led
have conspired to delay the pieparaiion
of the desired statement until the pres
ent time. Great care has been taken in
preparing this exhibit, to have the same
set forth correctly the entire debt of ihe
State.
The bonded debt of the State, con
tracted prior to the commencement of
Governor Bullock’s administration, as
will appear more particularly and at
large by reference to the tabular state
ment hereinafter given, is 34,988,500.
Governor Bullock issued $3,000,000 of
gold bouds under authority of the act of
September 15, 1870. Os these S39O,(XK)
have been returned to the Treasury and
cancelled, and $102,000 have been de
clared void by legislative act, approved
August 23, 1872. The balance of this
series, amounting to $2,598,000, are re
cognized as legal obligations of the
State, and constitute a part of our'pub
lic debt.
By an act of the Legislature, passed
at tile session of 1872, a l l s orit.y was
given to i=sue Oo,oou seven per cent. .
twenty-year currency bonds, for the re
demption of our six per cent, bonds,
falling due in the Summer of 1872. The
account of the agent of tlie State in New
York, showing the amount of these bonds |
disposed of before the order issued with
drawing them from market, lias not J
yet been fully rendered. It may be ap
proximately stated, however, at $280,000.
The amount of our past duo bonds that j
fell due iu the Summer of 1872, still
outstanding, may be stated at $420,000.
From this statement it will appear that
of the $700,000 currency bonds issued as
above stated, to redeem our old bonds
falling due in tlie’Summer of 1872, only
$280,000 have been disposed of, anil no
more than this amount of the said issue
should be stated as a part of the debt of ;
the State. The unredeemed portion Os
our bonds, which matured in the Sum
mer of 1872, and amounting, as first
stated, to $420,000, still form a part of
the public debt. I have been thus par
ticular because in tlie reports of the
Treasurer and Comptroller General, made
to the Legislature at its last session, the
whole amount of said currency bonds
was included in the statement of our j
bonded debt. The six per cent, bonds, i
in exchange for which these were of
fered, were not embraced in either of
said statements. This inaccuracy was
not very material at the time these re
ports were submitted, but has become
so since on account of the provisions of
the act requiring the unnegotiated bal
ance of said currency bonds to be with
drawn from the market.
The foregoing statement embraces the
whole of the bonded debt of the State,
admitted to be legal and binding, and
is particularly set forth in the following
table :
WHEN ISSUED. WHEN DUE. AMOUNT
1842 and 1843.... 1873 $ 137,001)
1844 and 1848.... 1874 251,500
1858 1878 100,000
1859 1879 200,000
1860 1880 200,000
1861 1881 100,000
1866 1886 3,600,000
1866 1886 " 134,500
1867 1887 265,500
1870 1890 2,598,000
In previous years. 1872 420,000
1872 1892 280,000
Total bonded debt $8,286,500
To the total bonded debt of the State
should be added the amount due from
the State to Russell Sage, *>f New York I
—say $375,000, exclusive of an amount
of interest which has not yet been as
certained. There should also be added
past due interest upon the gold londs
issued by Governor Bullock in 1870. I
have no means of.'ascertaining'] o vctly
the amount of this last' iteVn ; {but ; mix !
certain that it does not exceed to this
date $375,000. Adding these items, it
will appear that the debt of the State,
exclusive of tlxe net lloatiiig debt, ami
our accruing interest account, may be {
stated as follows :
Total bonded debt $8,286,500 J
Due Russell Sage 375,000 !
Arrearages of Interest 375,000
Total $9,036,500
The floating debt of the State, consist
ing principally of claims against the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, is not
large ; probably not exceeding $50,000
at this time, and ample provision lias
been made for the payment of tlie sanTe.
For this reason it is not included in the
foregoing statement of the public debt.
The whole amount of bonds of railroad
companies, claimed by the holders of the
same, to have been endorsed by the State
is $7,033,400. From this should be de
ducted tiie amount declared void by sev
eral acts of the Legislature, viz : $3,-
875,000 —leaving a balance of endorse
ments recognized as valid of $3,158,400,
from which, in my opinion, the State
will never suffer any considerable loss.
The property owned by the State,
other than the public buildings, is—
-Ist. The Western and Atlantic
Railroad, valued at $7,000,000
2d. Ten thousand shares of
stock in the Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad of the nomi
nal value of 4,000,000
3d. One hundred and eighty
eight shares of stock in the
Georgia Railroad and Bank
ing Company 18,800
Making an aggregate of. . . .$8,048,800
The taxable property of the State, ex
clusive of railroads, of banking, exp-ess
and insurance companies, as returned
by the owners thereof to the tax re
ceivers, amounts to $226/663,263. Plac
ing the increase for the present year at
the same ratio as that for the past four
years makes the present value of the
taxable property of the State, S2:AS,
663,263. The receipts from this source,
at the low rate of four and one-half j
tenths of one per cent., would be sl,-
073,984: 67. The estimated receipts j
from railroads, banking, express anti i
insurance companies will be $30,000 ; j
one-half rental of the Western anil At
luatic Railroad, $150,000 ; receipts from ]
convict labor will be, say, $20,000.
TABULAR STATEMENT.
From general taxation $1,073,984 67 I
Special tax on railroads, etc. 30,000 00 j
Half rental W. AA.R. R. 150,000 00
Convict labor 20,000 00
Miscellaneous sources 5,000 00
Total $1,278,984 67 |
From the above estimate it appears |
that, without imposiug too high a rate j
of taxation, we may safely calculate up- i
on receiving into tlie Treasury from the j
ordinary sources of revenue $1,278,-
984 67.
The usual and probable disbursements, :
including the legislative pay roll with- ;
! out under-estimating the same, (may be
stated at $600,000. Deducting this
i amount from the receipts in the Treasu-
I ry, as above estimated, will leave a bal
i ance to be applied to the payment of in
terest of $678,984 67. The average rate
, of interest upon our public debt, taking
into the account the eight per cent, rate
| upon the new bouds, now being placed
| upon the market, may be stated at seven
per cent. At this rate the annual inter
i est upou our bonded debt is $632,555.
According to tlie above statement, after
j paying all the ordinary expenses of the
: government, and the annual interest up
on an entire bonded debt, a balance of
: $46,429 67 will remain in the Treasury
j of the State.
In making the foregoing statement I
l have equally avoided an over-estimate
i of the amount of revenue which will
! probably be received into the Treasury,
and an under-estimate of the probable
amount of expenditures. The ability of
: the State to meet all just demands upon
: its Treasury cannot be doubted ; and
! there is every reason to believe that, :
after the temporary pressure now upon
us shall have been relieved, all such de- j
mands will be met with promptness.
The Legislature, at its late session, '
authorized and directed $1,200,000 of |
eight per cent, bonds of the State to be j
issued and negotiated for the purpose
! of paying past due interest ami for the
redemption of past due bonds, and such j
other bonds as may fall due within the ,
next three years.
The act provides that the interest on
these bonds shall be payable in the city
of New York, semi-annually, on the first
i day of April and the first day of October, :
iin each year. The further provisions of
! the act' necessary to lie noticed are,
| that the bonds are to be made payable
j in the city of New Y'ork, on the first day ,
j of April of each successive year, as fol
i lows : SIOO,OOO on the first day of April, i
! 1875, and SIOOJXXk-trrfi the first dsy>of
: April of each succeeding year, until the
j whole issue of bonds authorized by the
1 act shall be paid. The “Governor is au
| thorized nftd directed to increase the per
: oen‘::gt» on the taxes to be collected in
r|>' year 3874, and in every succeeding
tj Jar, unti, the whole of the bonds issued
' finder the act shall he paid, so that the
to be collected in these years shall,
e%?"'TrAhe amennt otherwise authorial
to'be collected by the sum of onej/Gh
dred thousand dollars; and htv% in
structed byl the act to this
sum of fiOU,OOO annually pay
ment of,the tyonds issued n..<Wthe act. j
The act pledges t'qe faitt of the State
that these restrictions to the Governor
shall not be ‘ repealed nud that this
SIOO,OOO shall bo 'Manually levied, col
le ted and applVtl to the payment of the
bonds authorized by the act until the
whole amount shall ho paid. The act
further declares that there bonds shall
be exempted from State, county and
municipal taxation.
Tho bonds authorized by the act have
been prepared, and are now being of
fered for sale to the people of the State.
It should be borne in mind that these
bonds are not intended to increase the
amount of the debt of the State, hut
are required to be so disposed of as to
extinguish past due interest and redeem
past due bonds, and other bonds falling
due within the next three years. The
annually accruing interest upon these
bar.:!., will be pa.' promptly as the same j
becomes due. The faith of the State is
pledged to raise by taxation SIOO,OOO each
year, to he applied to the payment of the
principal, until the whole issue shall ba
redeemed. Their exemption from taxa
tion; the high rate of interest they bear;
the ability of tho State to meet the ac
cruing interest promptly, anti the pro
visions made for the redemption of the
bonds, unite to make these securities
not only a safe, but iu every respect the
tlie best investment ever offered to the
people of Georgia. An opportunity is
now offered to* trustees for an invest
ment of the bonds in their hands which
will be at once safe and highly remu
nerative, and capitalists of all classes
will find it to their advantage to invest
in these securities. The rapidity with
which they are being disposed of renders
it quite certain that within a short time
the whole of them will he placed at par,
and afford most gratifying evidence of
the confidence reposed by the people in
the faith of their State.
I, am, dear sir, most respt’y yours,
James. M. Smith.
THE CITY BY THE SEA.
Splendid Truck Farms The Regatta
a Failure—Gordon’s Speech at La
thers’ Reception—Tlie News and
Courier—A Straight Flush.
Charleston, S. 0., May 18, 1873.
Fear Chronicle and Sentinel:
The month of May, so far, has been a
very pleasant period atmospherically.
The weather has been delicious, and
grateful showers, after the long drouth,
have made the splendid truck farms
bloom with their ricli crops. The
raising of early vegetables around this
city, coupled with tlie prodigious de
velopment of the phosphate deposit,
may he said to have given new life to
Charleston. I learn, too, that her past
year’s trade has been better than at any
time before or since the war. Money is
“ tight” here, as it seems to be every
where ; but no great depression exists
and the merchants are as confident of a
bright destiny for the City by tlie Sea
as the people of Atlanta used to be of
their abiding place.
It is computed that fully 40,000
Northern people passed though Charles
ton, this season, en route to Florida, or
on the way home. The Charleston
Hotel, the Pavilion and the different
boarding houses were crowded, and, at
times, accommodation was impossible.
The Mills House was closed and the
main harvest was gathered by the
“Charleston.”
The regatta, which took place early in
the month, was, I think, a failure. On
the first day the river was too rough for
the cockle shell craft in which rowing is
tlone now-a-days. The second day was
more favorable, but not much interest
was taken in the races. It was different
in old times, when tho rich sea island
planters of Georgia and South Carolina
contended with big plantation boats
manned by negro oarsmen,
During Gen. Gordon’s sojourn here
he was the recipient of much attention.
Col. Richard Lathers gave him a splen
did reception at his superb residence on
the Battery. At that reception a speech
was drawn from Gordon, which was ore
of the most apt, graceful and eloquent
impromptu efforts I ever heard. It is
to be regretted that the report of this
speech fell so far short of the original.
One brilliant point especially was omit
ted.
As published, Gordon is made to
dwell emphatically upou the necessity
of the Southern people looking after
their material interests and letting ab
stract propositions alone. lie said all
this, but qualified it in a way that
seemed to miss the reporter. Advising
the South to look keenly to her business
interests, he trusted, too, that she
would, at the same time, preserve the
spiritual character which made her so
distinct and individual. I am glad to sup
ply the defect of the reported speech,
even in this dry, brief way.
Our friends, liiordan and Dawson, are
now the veritable newspaper cocks of
the walk in this region. They paralyzed
the Mercury; they have gobbled up the
Courier ; and now, in an incomparable
establishment, with an unrivalled sub
scription list, they have the serenity of
Christians who hold four kings and an
ace. They have worked hard and won
bravely. Long may they flourish !
P. Q.
RECORD OF CRIME.
Tales of Twilight from the Scene of
the Kansas Horror.
Leavenworth, Kan., May 11.—As
tide passes and new light is thrown upon
the murderous deeds of the Bender
family of fiends the horror deepens and
the crimes committed by these monsters
assume even a darker hue. New facts
are almost daily developed which show
that these people were not alone in tlie
section of the State in which they live in
their plots against the lives of way
farers. Ali'eady twelve arrests have
been made of people living in the
neighborhood, and who, there is good
reason to believe, were the accomplices
of the murderers in disposing of the
horses and vehicles of the victims. Itis
thought that there are, other bodies, in
addition to those that have been found,
concealed in the orchard, only one part
of which lias been explored." It is the
purpose of the county authorities to
continue the search. On Sunday two
special trains were run Ui the scene of
the murders. One went from Inde
pendence and tlie other from Coffeyville.
They brought down fully 1,000 "sight
seers, who went about, peering into the
holes whence the bodies had been taken,
and on their return carried away with
them pieces of the wretched shanty
which has resourded with the moans
and groans of so many murdered me j.
The Bender den is admirably situated
for the purpose to which the fiends put
it. It is in the northwest corner of La
j bette county, and is so placed that it
I commands a full view of tlie approaches
i to it for a distance of half a mile in all
directions. Woe, then, to the single
! traveler who was seen from its doorways
i or its window.* approaching, for then
| was the hammer placed in position and
the knife sharpened to a finer edge
against his coming. Parties of two or
three might escape, but the solitary
1 stranger was doomed. The house is
nothing but a mere shanty, twenty-four
feet long and sixteen feet wide. The
roof is painted, and not a sign of lath,
plaster, or white >tash is to be seen. The
interior is one long room, and while the
Benders occupied it, it was divided off
into two apartments by a white cotton
cloth which hung across the whole
length of it. In the front room was a
small co.unter, and across this oounter
the Benders made a pretense of selling
groceries. On the other side of the
curtain was a table, a stove, three chairs,
and a miserable sort of a bed. In the
floor, near the cloth partition, in this
rear room, was a trap-door. Over
this trap-door was placed the chair of
the victim who stopped at the den for
food or refreshments. He was so ar
ranged that, in leaning hack the impres
sion of his head and back was made in
the yeilding cloth. The watchful vil
lains—the two male Benders—on the
other side of the curtain, holding the
heavy sledge-hammer in their hands,
waited until the guest’s form was thus
; outlined. Then with one terrible blow
I the victim’s skull would be crushed in,
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latcd, as among the
with tins death liol jthai <•.|
three mouths ago a poor
wav on foot to Independenc'-,
teen milt's distant, stopped at
raid asked its in matt s for food
She lay ou the rude bed for a w iHH
dropped into an uneasy
deuly she was awakened by a tap
shoulder. Blie opened her eyes
saw before her the old hag of the, plaWB
the wife of the elder Beoder, wlu points
ed to the table ou which lay a glittering
array of knives and pistols, and said
sardonically, “Look there at yonr sup
per; it is ready!” The poor woman,
seized with moral fear, yet managed to
dissemble her true feelings. Making an
excuse to leave the house, her fright
being intensified by the flight of the
T>e I dame pissing her* fiuplhr over the
keen edges of tlio knives, she passed
into the yard. Once out she staggered
away in darkness, and so escaped; but,
looking Lack at intervals, sire could see
the door opening and shutting as the
intended murderers came to it, expect
ing her return.
THE BAPTISTS.
Tlie Itecent Convention at Mobile—A
Most Interesting Occasion— Business
Transacted—Foreign ami Domestic
Missions Theological Education—
Sunday School Work—Figures aud
Facts.
Mobile, An., May 14. —Onr conven
tion met on Thursday, the Btli, and ad
journed on Monday afternoon, the 12th.
With about two hundred gentlemen and
ladies I ventured upon an excursion
down the bay, on Tuesday, the 13th. I
managed to conceal my qualmishness
from the crowd, but ou reaching my
room was forced to take my lied, where
I remained for nearly twenty-four hours,
hence the lateness of this fulfillment of
my promise to send you a few dots. But
“ better late than never.” I hope some
one else has communicated with yo i,
for I feel by no means capable of writing
an interesting letter. Excuse me, there
fore, if I give your readers a few bold
facts only.
The Southern Baptist Convention is
an annual gathering which represents
the brain, liberality and pious energy
of about eight hundred thousand white
Baptists in the South. The total of the
denomination in the Southern States ex
ceeds one million.
The subjects which engage the con
sideration of this convention, each year,
are foreign and domestic missions, the
ological education, and tho Sunday
School work. Elaborate reports are
presented by the different boards of the
convention, at eaoli session, exhibiting
the work performed and the progress
made during the past year, and all the
servants of the convention (so to speak)
are held to a strict accountability.
Heretofore there have been three great
boards of committees appointed annual
ly by the convention, viz : The foreign
mission board, the domestic and In
dian mission board, and the Sunday
School board ; but at its late session,
the convention consolidated the two lat
ter, and hereafter, unless the contrary
be determined upon, they will exist as
one, and be known as the domestic and
Indian mission and Sunday School
board.
The Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary is not, properly speaking, an
institution of the convention, but re
ceives a due its attention.
This seminary is located at Greenville,
South Carolina, but an effort lias been
made of late to remove it to Louisville,
Kentucky, and one of the ablest
speeches during the late convention iti
this city, wan made by Kev. Jas. P.
Boyce, I). 1) , President of the Seminary,
or at least so acting, in favor of the
removal, and with a view to obtaining
the endorsement of the convention to
that project. His end was fully ac
complished, and the convention heartily
endorsed the movement. Louisville has
been selected as the future location,
conditioned on the raising of a fund of
$300,000 in Kentucky, tho subscrip
tions to be conditioned on $200,000
more being received outside that State;
at the same time the denomination in
Kentucky proposes to raise $200,000
outside of Louisville, provided SIOO,OOO
is raised in that city. The convention,
in committee of the whole, Dr. I. T.
Tichnor in the chair, finally agreed to
recommend for adoption the following
resolutions, moved by Dr. Boyce :
Resolved. That this convention cor
dially approve the action of tlie board of
trustees in locating the Southern Baptist
Theological Seminary at Louisville, Ky.,
when a sufficient endowment, of at least
five hundred thousand dollars, shall be
raised.
Resolved, That the Baptists of tho
other Southern States are earnestly re
commended to contribute liberally to
raise tlie amount of two hundred thou
sand dollars for its permanent endow
ment.
Resolved, That the convention re
commend to the board to raise tlie mo
ney outside of Kentucky upon the con
dition that if the sum of three hundred
thousand dollars shall not be raised in
Kentucky, the board shall have the
right to use the amount thus contributed
outside of Kentucky for a location at
Greeneville, or at some atlier place
chosen by the board; said location to
be approved by the convention.
The committee rose and reported to
the convention the above resolutions,
which were almost unanimously adopted.
The report on foreign missions was
read by Dr. H. A. Trippan, of Rich
mond, Virginia, and gave a very inter
es ing and encouraging account of the
work, it appearing that more than $50,-
000 had been raised and uring the past year
for the purpose of foreign missions.
Reports were also made concerning
the African and Italian missions. The
financial portion of the report showed
$28,760 72 received for foreign missions
generally, and $23,263 10 for the chapel
at Rome; of the latter, $1,240 fill collect
ed in England and Scotland, $1,834 74
credited to Massachusetts, and $1,437 to
New York, though comprising collec
tions in the adjoining States, beside spe
cific sums from many other States of the
North.
Tlie foreign mission work embraces
operations in China, Africa and Italy—
the last mentioned being undertaken
only recently, but so far producti re of
very favorable results.
The report on domestic missions was
read by Dr. M. T. Sumner, of Marion,
Alabama. The current work of the year
has been performed by 59 missionaries
in the domestic and 22 in the Indian
field, besides the work in the latter de
partment supported by the Georgia,
Flint river and Eehoboth Association ;
while the State conventions aud general
associations incorpoatiug their work
with that of the board, as far as heard
from, report tjo missionaries, making 1.01
in all. The missions among the Creeks
arid Chocktaws are prosperous. The
financial condition of the work is favor
able, considering the oirmimstanoes of
the times. A debt of $13,505 14 on the
Indian department has been reduced to
some $7,500, and the receipts are 82,000
in excess of last year. The summary
gives 81 missionaries employed ; 1,121
baptisms, besides 1,125 resulting from
the mission work; 7,700 members in fel
lowship.
The report of the Sunday School
board was read by Rev. S. Boykin, of
your city, which showed receipts from
Kind Words, 311,426 82; contributions
from the States, $1,851 31, which, with
royalty on books, etc., makes up the
sum of 5id,449 15; cash balance in the
treasury, 360 90; liabilities, $6,515 48;
assets, 87,287 68. It gave the total
number of Baptist Sunday Schools in
the South at 4,535, the number of offi
cers and teachers at 26,630, the number
of scholars at 210,000, the number of
scholars baptized during the year at
3,277. The total amount of contribu
tions to the Sunday School work is esti
mated at $30,500. It was thought that
these statistical figures were, in fact, be
low the reality. The Sunday School
work seems to be exciting very general
interest throughout the whole denomi
nation. A plan for Sunday School or
ganization in States was adopted, and
it was resolved to coutiqne uninterrupt
edly the publication of Kind Words,
the Sunday School paper of the conven
tion, and of the Sunday School hooks
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1 1" |,|v 'dent.
Ids position with!
a general spirit of brotherly love and
harmony prevailed. The hospitality <d
tho city was fitly termed mayniflenit ,
and I am very sure that the delegates
felt it to be so. Not the least act of
kindness shown them was a very pleas
ant ride in the steamer Annie, down tin
bay', on Tuesday, over the memory of
which I still feel inclined to weep Slight
ly—hine Him lachrf/imr.
The next session of the convention
was appointed to meet with the church
at Jefferson, Texas.
I will conclude with the narration of
an interesting incident : During a brief
relaxation of business on Friday, Bov.
Dr. Johnson, of Baltimore, announced
to the convention that a telegram was
just received from Kev. If. F. Buckner,
the devoted missionary in the Creek Na
tion, remarking that it might be espe
cially interesting to the President of the
convention. Having excited euridsitv
to a high pitch, he read : “To the
Southern Baptist Convention, greeting
—Pray for Indian missions. Twin boys
born; names, Helm and Boyce. ” The
boisterous sensation with which this
dispatch was received will lie better ap
preciated in connection with the lac
that during Dr. Buckner’s attendance
upon the last meeting of the convention,
held at Raleigh, North Carolina, a -be
loved son of his died, and the news was
received by him at .St. Louis, oil his
journey homeward to the Indian Terri
tory.
THE CROPS IN GEORGIA,
Crops in Houston look pretty well.
In Washington and Jefferson counties
both corn and cotton are prospering—
stands never better. With good seasons,
corn ample for abundant supply.
The Dawson Journal says it will take
about GOD bales of cotton of the next
crop to pay for the guano that has been
bought aud used in that county.
The Cutlibert Appeal is informed
that several planters in Randolph coun
ty are plowing up their cotton where
bad stands only were had, and where tin
recent rains killed it out entirely,and are
planting corn instead.
The Macon Teleyntph says stands of
cotton and com are excellent through
out Southwest Georgia. Tho former, it
is true, is small anil backward, but has
ample time to recover, and on the whole
the present outlook to the farmer is de
cidedly favorable.
The Indian Spring A’c/to is informed
by a friend that the crops of wheat,
corn and cotton between Indian Spring
and Monticello are in fine condition.—
Wheat rather better than usual. We
hear the same pleasant things o.i the
read to Forsyth, Gridin and Covington.
The Albany Nc\ w reports corn as
promising an abundant yield. The cot
ton crop is'not quite so promising as it
was previous to the. recent heavy rains.
The ground lias been so seriously washed
as to affect most seriously the general
stand, and in many instances replanting
has become peoesary.
The Marietta Journal says tho crop
reports from North Georgia’ on tho rail
road line, as far as Chattanooga, concur
in stating the fruit crop as almost en
tirely destroyed, the wheat muoh injured
and unpromising, andootton as very un
likely to prove remunerative, owing to
the floods and cold.
The Covington Enterprise says wheat
in that county is very thin, and has be
gun to head out very low. Tho prospect
in this section now is that a small crop
only will be made. Corn is up and lias
a healthy appearance. Os course at as
early a day as this it is impossible to
judge or ascertain what the prospect will
be for a fair yield. Cotton looks bolter
since the late rain, and many good
stands can be seen ou the farms in our
county,
TELEGRAPHIC ABSORPTION.
Proposed Control ol' tlio Pacific and
Atlantic by the Western Union.
[From the New York Tribune. |
For some time past the officials of the
Western Union Telegraph Company have
been considering the advisability of se
curing the control of the lines of the
Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph, with n
view to increasing their present facilities
and preventing unprofitable competition.
Matters, however, had nut appeared fa
vorable to a union of interests until tho
election at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on
Tuesday, of a ne.v Board of Directors
favorable to a harmonious arrangement,
between tlie two companies. A commit
tee of conference with tlio Western
Union Company has been appointed by
the new directors, and it meeting of tlie
representatives of both companies will
probably be held at unfairly date, tooou
sider the subject of transferring the
control of tlie Pacific and Atlantic to the
Western Union- It is understood that
the basis of tho proposed arrangement
is to be the transfer of a portion of the
shares held in reserve by the Western
Union for a controlling number (if shares
in the Pacific and Atlantic at a rote to
be agreed upon Urn Western Union
shares being worth much more than the
Pacific and Atlantic.
The capital stock of the latter com
pany is $2,000,000, ft lias a line from
New York to Philadelphia arid Baltimore.
From each of thcao points lines run west
to Pittsburgh, thence to (Jolnmbus,
Ohio. From Columbus a line runs to
Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville, Mem
phis and New Orleans, and another west
to Indianapolis and Bt. Louis. Another
line runs from Oolumhiis to Chicago.
From Ht. Louis a line extends up the
Mississippi river to St. Paul, connecting
at Dubuque with a line to Chicago.
With tlie erection of the Western
Union Telegraph building will be in
troduced new and improved modes of
local telegraph communication. Presi
dent Orton for some time past has lx : n
considering the subject of tho obstruc
tion to telegraphing caused by the dis
arrangement o| ice miraeroifs wires
above the surface of the ground and the
bekt means of overcoming the sumo. He
therefore instructed tho oflioials of the
Western Union Telegraph Company who
went abroad cm a tour of inspection and
conference with engineers and electrici
ans to study the pneumatic system of
communication and the working of the
telegraph wires underground. Upon the
presentation of the report of those gen
tlemen and the completion of the new
building, experiments will be made un
derground ard a system of pneumatic
tubes be established. It is expected that
this will obviate much of the trouble
which now arises fi-cun tho disarrange
ment of wires by Jauiis and from other
causes, while by the latter arrangement
messages from the numerous sub
stations in the city, now requiring as
much for transmission to the main office
on Broadway as from the latter place to
Chicago, will be placed in boxes and
d'spatohed instantaneously to the gen
eral office.
The Atlanta says tlie fol
lowing is an authentic statement of the
yield of two acres of cottou in 1872,
raised on the plantation of Judge Sim
eon Smith, of DeKalb coiinty, for which
he was awarded the premium at the
county fair: Acre No. 1, 2,155 pounds of
seed cotton, or 718 J pounds lint cotton.
Acre No. 2, 2,033 pounds seed cotton, or
6781 pounds bni cotton. On the two
acres, 4,188 pounds seed cotton, or 1,396
pounds lint cotton. This is equivalent
to over 2f halea of 900 pounds each, or
three bales of 450 pounds on the two
acres. A bale and u half to the acre will
do very well for old DeKalb.
oi ,i special committee <T
port to tin- uc\l Assembly.
I’he <■< > inllli Miconsists of lii^HHH|
Adams, of New York; J. T.
Schenectady; 0. H. Foote, of St, LduisJ
Lewis Ohappin, of Rochester, N. Y • 11
Veimillye, of New York city J.’ K.
Moorehead, of Pittsburg.
Dr. Niocolls reported ou the overtures
from tlie different Presbyteries on va
rious subjects, among which was the
overture from the Presbytery of Balti
n o e, asking the Assembly to affirm tho
doctrine of the church as'to civil mag
istrates, tho relation of Church aud
State, and an overturn from tho Pros
bytery of Austin, Toxhs, suggesting
some notion designed to conciliate the
Southern church, . and if possible
piepare the way to reunion at an early
day.
These overtures are considered to
gether, and we recommend the adoption,
ot a solemn declaration, in substance as
follows:
Ist. In view of the reunion of the two
branches of the Presbyterian Church in
the North, neither of which named are
responsible for the conduct of the other,
all action before reunion touching the
Southern Assembly or the Old School
S) nod of Missouri is now null and void.
2d. The Assembly expresses •confi
dence in the soundness of the doctrine
mi 1 Christian character of these breth
ren, and hopes more intimate oommuni
uation will tend to remove the barriers
that time has established between us
and them.
«sd. With regard to civil magistrates
and the relation of Church and State,
the committee set forth the declaration
contained in the “confession of faith”
and form forty-five of tiro government of
the churcji.
4th. They recommend the appoint
meat iff the two co amittees to confer
with similar committees from tho Gen
eral Assembly of the Church South and
tho Old School Synod of Missouri,
whcili report and recommendations were
unanimously adopted.
Baltimore, May 21.—The Board of
Missions reports that tho receipts were
a trifle under tlio expenditures. They
were over half a million of dollars, leav
ing tlie Board in debt] $30,000. Tlio
total debt of tlio Board is $120,000.
THE MISSIONS.
Meeting of llns Baptist Mission Society
Receipts and Expenditures — The
Women sSociety—Hitting With Closed
Doors,
Albany, May 21.—Tho Baptist anni
versary meeting continued its session to
day at the Missionary Union.
Resolution:; were adopted to increase
the force in India by sending out ten
new missionaries. Collections are to be
taken up in all the churches to meet tin -
expenses for that purpose; also, for pay
ing the present deficiency of $42,000.
A proposition to modify the constitu
tion of the Missionary Union, as to tlie
term of membership, was reported
against, and the report agreed to.
The report of tlio Home Mission was
read, giving muoli satisfaction. Tlie
receipts in 1863, for missionary work,
were $32,000; for 1873, $104,612.
The woman’s Baptist Missionary So
ciety met with closed doors, not even
their husbands being admitted. It was
learned, however, that their receipts for
the year are $20,158. The special ob
ject of tlie Society is the Christian ele
vation of women of foreign lands.
MUTINY.
A Vessel Scuttled and Sunk.
San Fhancisco, May 20.—There ar
rived to-day the Nebraska from New
Zealand with tlio crow of the British
slop Alsager, which was scuttled and
sunk at sea. All hands escaped in tho
boats. Three of the crew were brought
m irons to Auckland for trial.
Khiva Not Captured.
London, May 20. —A Reuter telegram
says there is no truth in tlio report of
the capture of Khiva. There is much
uneasiness at St. Petersburg on account
of the lack of news from the Kliiva ex
pedition. Two expeditions have been
detained by snow. Tlie rendezvous
was several hundred miles distant from,
tlio halt, which occurred a mouth after
the time specified fur the concentration
of the troops.
Fa.-Ac Affray in Wilkes County,
The Washington Gazette,, of Friday
says :
On Monday morning last a difficulty
occurred on the plantation of Mr Jus
Hutton, ten miles from..Miis place, ixd
tween Mr. Kit Bryant, an old man of 70
years, assisted by two grown sons, and
young Sutton (Jim), in which Sutton in
flicted two severe, but we think rot
fatal wounds q.i one of the sons with u
pistol, and with the same pistol shot
dead tho old man. We are not yet in
possession of all the particulars con
cerning this unhappy affair, but from
what wo can gather, must conclude that
young Button was acting on the defen
sive. Immediately after the occurrence
Hutton came in and surrendered to the
authorities and was admitted to bail in
the sum of 81,000, to appear next Sat
urday, at which time a commitment trial
will be had. This tragedy, wo under
stand, was the result of a misunder
standing about a negro, or interference
with-a negro on the plantation of Button.
A Monument to the Late John It.
Thompson.—The friends of the late Jno."
K. I hompson in Virginia are making ar
rangements to erect a suitable monu
ment at the grave of one whose memory
the sons of that State so tenderly cherish.
He sleeps in the cemetery of Hollywood
a pleasant spot on the banks of the
James, where the murmur of thnUol le
river is perpetually heard a*its currents
rush over the rapids that sounds its
rocky islands, lho cemejery is named
fr .°™ “ VCI 7 largtf and fine specimens
of the holly tree which grow among the
more common lands of forest trees.
A ItEf.JC Foil THE GgoROTA IIISTOBIOAn
Society.—Col. O. P. Cooper, who will
bo remembered as having visited Au
gusta with the ./Etna Eire Company, of
•Jacksonville, Fla., has in liis possession
a sword worn by his grandfather, who
came toGeorgia with Oglethorpe. This
/elic of past ages Mr. Cooper intends
forwarding to Mr. R. W. Russell, to
be presented by him on behalf of the
Savaenah Fire Department to the Geor
gia Historical Society.
Univebsity of Gkokuia—l’ußiiic De
hate. A public debate will corno oIT
before the Demosthenian Society of tho
Georgia University, on Friday evening,
30tli iust. Question —“Do Warlike
Revolutions Advance Civilization ?” De
baters—affirmative, It. A. Young, Eaton
too; E. L. Brinson, Burke county; L.
Warren, Amerious. Negative, W. E.
Johnston, Ringgold; J. H. Hoskiuson.
Rome; P. A. Stovall, Augusta.
University of Viroinia. —We are in
receipt of tho catalogue of students in
the University of Virginia, forty-ninth
session of 1872-’73. The totul number
of ntudents is given at 342.