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T. K. WYNNE, W. 8. DEWOLF,
JOHN H. MABTIN, JOHN H. STKWAHT.
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MANUFACTURINE.
Extract Irons a Npcrcta Urllvcred by
Hon. R. J. Roses, before the llemo
rratlr Nominallint Convention.
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THE FUTURE OF COLUMBUS DEPENDENT
ON THE SUCCESS OF ITS MANUFAC
TURING INTEREST.
In tho time that I have to devote to
this question, making it part of a polit
ical speech that has perhaps already
wearied your patience, I do not propose
to make an exhaustive argument, nor
vouch for the literal accuracy of my
statements. I can only hope to approx
imate to the main diets that underlie
the subject.
It will not lie within the scope of my
remarks to trace tho causes which have
contributed to the deeline of Columbus,
and forced many of her most valued cit
izens to abaudon their cherished homo
and seek in new spheres more prolitable
employment for their energy and in
dustry.
I will not, until I have fully examined
the subject, say how much, if any, of
the present stagnation of her trade is
due to uqjust discriminations of rail
roads ; this will be a matter for legisla
tive inquiry; but I do say that 1 will
use all constitutional means to secure to
Columbus an equalization of freights.
I shall go to the Legislature with but
one purpose—to maintain tho right, to
correct abo-es, and to relieve against
unjust legislation, regardless of whom it
hurts or whom it helps ; and I will see
to it, that while I advocate the rights of
others, I will maintain my own unim
paired.
The manufacturing interest is impor
tant for good or evil, not only to Colum
bus hut to the whole State.
It is a question which, as a candidate
for the Legislature, I have felt i) my
duty to examine, and test the truth of
former convictions. I have done so.
My conclusions are that the future, not
only of Columbus but of the whole State,
depends largely upon the successful de
velopment of its manufacturing power.
I will now state, in reference to Co
lumbus, tho reasons upon which my
judgment is founded ; and these reasons,
in a greater or less degree, (controlled
by local circumstances.) are applicable
to tho whole State.
My data are taken from the cotton
receipts of Columbus, Sept. 1, 1875, to
Sept. 1, 1870—51,000 bales.
And from the tax returns of city sales
for the same period.
The value of cotton from September,
1875,* to September, 1870, is estimated
at SOO per bale-
The rate of profits on manufacturing
is based upon the Eagle and Phenix
Factory, varying from 9] at its greatest
depression, to 25 per cent, at its highest
point. With this data I assume 15 per
cent, as the natural profit on manufac
turing, when business is neither unnatu
rally depressed nor unnaturally excited.
From these premises 1 reach tho fol
lowing conclusions :
Ist. That every bale of cotton brought
to Columbus, and not manufactured, has
a purchasing capacity to the extent oj
the value, SOO per bale, of which about
S2B would be expended in Columbus, if
there were no factories.
3d. That every bale not manufactured,
but sold, leaves a profit to the city of
about $5.
3d. That every bale manufactured is
increased in value times, which gives
it a purchasing capacity of $l5O per
bale; that from $1 30 to $l4O is expend
ed in Columbus.
4th. That every bale manufactured in
Columbus leaves a profit of $30.75 per
bale.
sth. That a city receiving 51,000 bales
cotton, and manufacturing none, does
about the same trade in merchandise
that a city would do which received and
manufactured 10,000 bales; and that the
profits in favor of the manufacturing
town arc about $120,000 per annum in
excess of the town that docs not manu
facture.
Bth. That Columbus ought, in ten
years, to manufacture 50,000 bales of
cotton; which at present prices, SSO per
hale, will create a business of about
eleven millions, with an annual profit of
about two millions.
I arrive at these results as follows:
The totftl nnies of Columbus from
September 1, 187 i, to Septem
ber Ist, 1876, sre about *1,'.1115,000
Exclusive of manutactured goods 045,000
Total 12,850,000
Sales exclusive of factories 1,005,000
Groceries, $1,054,000, profits 10 per
cent 103,400
Dry goods, $450,000,15 do 67,600
Foundries, hardware, shoes, and sun
dries, etc.. $461,000, 20 do 90,200
Net profit iulondliug 51,000 bales cot
ton $1 per bale 51,000
Total $314,100
SACKS OSXaiED BIT KAKCVACXEIBSa 10,000 BALES.
Manufactured goods sold in Coiambus. $945,000
balance shipped abroad 556,000.
Other goods sold in Columbus, the de
mand for which and the purchasing
power of which can be traced exclu
sively to the factories *450,000
$1,396,000
Capital employed about 2,000,000.
Coat of 10,000 bales cotton 600,000
Dividend on capital 15 per cent *300,000
Fay rolls $250,000, added to findings
and other expenses, makes 600,000
Total amount goods manufacturer 1,560,000
Out of the items marked thus (*) the
wages are $350,000. This being all con
sumed ih feeding and clothing, &c., per
sons employed in the factories, must be
spent here or wherever the operatives
trade. Then I assume that out of the
dividends and balance of expenditures,
at least $200,000 are spent here. This
makes up the $450,000 of sales credited
to the manufacturing town; and as with
out the manufactories, neither the de
mand nor the purchasing power would
manufactories, and would make the ac
count stand thus:
The town without mnu£c 906,000
would sell *450,000
Lew this *
Deduct frtm*!rpro4t. ‘mouutiug to >14.100
$167,000 profits 01j>400,u00..
ThismevesitaSofita.:,,
T*e £7ng W " *h>9s,oC
rvHe^t taeDd “. 0U 300,000
„ o? 3S!oM ssles of
merchandise other thsn umnuisc- , 0 _ 6QO
tores
$367,500
-he sales of the two towns are nearly
equally divided —$1,395,000 against sl,-
||p m. Profits-f3(i7,s(K)> ? amst $240,-
THE DAILY TIMES.
To raise 50,000 boles cotton with $!!,-
000,000, allowing four bales to the hand,
it will take 12,500 laborers, who would
have to support a population of 50,000;
whilst 5,000 laborers would increase its
value $4,500,000 and only have to sup
port a population of 20,000. Hence the
difference between tho profits of agri
culture and tho profits of manufacturing.
******
It is admitted that in the cost of cot
ton alone wo have an advantage of ten
dollars per bale. Our seasons are more
open; nature never stops for a moment
tho spindle and tho loom; nor does it,
with its ice-bound rivers, confront labor
with haggard want by enforcing idle
ness. For this reason our labor is 25
per cent, cheaper than it is North.
Lumber, bricks, and other building
material, are scarcely half of Northern
prices.
The difference in mechanical labor
employed in erecting factories will more
than cover the additional cost of trans
porting machinery.
The demand is tho same hero for man
ufactured goods as it is at tho North.
The world is our customer as it is theirs.
Old England is moving her machinery
to the East Indies to get it in near
neighborhood to East India cotton. New
England must do the same to the cotton
of the South ; she can not use her old
machinery and comi>eto with the South
using new machinery, with its natural
advantages superadded.
The time lias come when tho cost of
transporting tiio raw material, the frozen
rivers and climatic disadvantages of tho
Now England States proves as hard a
taskmaster to them as Pharaoh did to tho
Children of Israel, self-interest will be tho
great chieftain which will lead them to
the Soutli as the promised land.
All we want is a few years of peace, and
the exodus will commence.
Northern manufacturers who own l ast
properties contiguous to their fabrics, tile
value of which is dependent on the loca
tion of factories in their midst, will strug
gle against the change, but capital that is
not bound to a particular locality by those
collateral interests, will sock investment
at the Soutli, and the Northern manufac
turer will be compelled either to change
his location or adopt his machinery to
now styles of goods that require luss cot
ton in their manufacture.
Columbus will feel its llrst impulse,
owing to great natural advantages, and
to the further fact that it is the spot
where, since tho war, tho profitableness of
manufacturing lias been practioally illus
trated.
Look at the Eagle & Phenix No. 1 and 2,
tho Muscogee Mills, the Columbus Facto
ry, Clegg's Factory, brown's Spinning
Mill, Hines' Hugging Factory, the Colum
bus Foundry, Porters Foundry arid tiiat
Leviathan Eagle A Phenix No. 3, now
rearing its gigantic head in deflnnco of
the panic ami tho commercial storm
which Is leveling all industries and
sweeping away tho profits and capital of
northern factories.
Those evidences of success give assu
rance to capital, that Columbus possesses
not only one, but combines all tiie ele
ments necessary to successful manufac
turing.
The last proposition which I wish to
touch upon is this:
THAT IN TEN YEARS COLUMBUS OUGHT. TO
MANUFACTURE 50,000 BALES.
(live us a government that will simply
let us alone, cease misrepresenting us, lot
tiie North understand, as the South does,
that our laws are well administered, that
there is no conflict of races at present or
probable in tiie future, tlmt there is no
incendiary torch now lighted, that capi
tal is as safe here as it is anywhere in tho
United States, that tiie only enemy it lias
is a hostile party which I trust will soon
bo overthrown or induced to change its
policy,and Northern capital will do what,
Southern capital has already done—it will
seek investment in manufactures, which
have been exempliiiied as offering tiie
most prolitable investment coupled with
safely, that can be found anywhere in tho
Union.
Underthese circumstances.is it unrea
sonblo to expect in the next ten years to
seo ten millionsemployed in manufactur
ing in and about Columbus?
Ought wo not to move fourtimoa as
fast in the next decade as we have moved
in tiie last?
In the last ten years manufacturing was
still an experiment to be tested. It was
confined to Southern capital and tiie expe
rience of Southern men. It had been pre
coded by innumerable faiiureslin our very
midst, and tho previous experience was,
that patriotism and ignorance invested Its
capital in (manufactures, and sunk its in
vestment, leaving cupidity and intelli
gence to fall heirs to the wreck, and profit
by tho errors of its proprietors.
The Southern people were impoverished,
just emerging from a four years’ war,
with fortunes ruined and energies destroy
ed ; and yet in ten years they liavo invest
ed two millions.
In the next ten years, If we can only
have a Government, I won’t say favorable,
but not hostile to us, we will move for
ward with the capital of tho world open to
us, witli the success of tiie industry devel
oped, with an advantage of $500,000 a year
in tho manufacture of 50,000 bales of cot
bin. This is proven to a demonstration in
the raw material alone. We have besides,
other advantages, to which I have refer
red ; ami witli this predicate, I say it is
reasonable to assert that wo will move
four times faster in the next ten years
than we have done in tiie last.
If we do that, wo will manufacture 50,-
000 bales of cotton.
This will give us a trade in manufac
tured goods of about, $7,000,000
In sales to operatives and emsloyues
of Factories directly and incidental
ly connected with them of about .... 2,500,000
Ami if our other trade; drawn from
cotton Bales, does not increase an it
must of necessity, we will have our
present, 1,500,000
$11,000,000
Making an aggregate trade of eleven
millions against our present $2,850,000.
With that amount of manufactures
trade will increase from numerous sources,
which cannot be defined.
A homo purchaser of 50,000 bales will
make Columbus a cotton centre, and <>ur
receipts would probably bo doubled.
We would increase our general trade,
for wo would become a bettor grocery
and dry goods market; our hardware and
shoe stocks would bo larger.
Manufactures in great variety would
spring up; each'new enterprise wouid but
bo the forerunner of one still newer. Our
industries would bo di versified; commerce
would Ire vivified, nnd the active future of
Columbus will leave no trace of the
“Sleepy Hollow” it would have been had
the roaring of its waters never been ac
companied with the music: of the “spindle
and the loom.”
A few more facts in this connection. To
manufacture ten thousand bales of cotton
now employ 1,000 to 1,200 hundred people,
and supports a manufacturing population
of 3,500 to 4,000
Fifty thousand bales would require five
or six thousand operatives, and would
support a population of 15,000 to 20,000.
Fifty thousand spindles now consume
103)00 bales.
One hundred and fifty thousand will
consume 50,000 bales. Wo have water
power enough to turn 150,000 spindles be
tween the City Mills and the lower facto
ry now building.
Between the lower factory and tlio Co
lumbus factory we have water power
enough to consume 170,000 hales, and to
support a manufacturing population of
about 80,000.
To employ it all, we would only have
to do a little more than one-third the bast
iness of Fall River, at which 1,250,000 spin
fllcs are at work. The first one of which
at mufjßgßßgVSßr im&m
over *0 years,
An .nV,?i, 3 ' Ibles which I have
made will Sim ...
ruaui, •"ijlA irgr. part of the
advantanges i- fibroin manufacturing
is represented byahvd*
It ip therefore the interns.. .
to keen at home as much of this-ominous
nossibfe, and to do this we must et/tt as
age small manufacturers; this requlrw
aid and encouragement, arjlgghj
dreds of skilled men who have no capital
to buUd factories „ , to let.”
At the North they have power to .
Wa must have it here, 'Ve must nave
cheaD*houses and not drive our operatives
to drive their small trade
with them, utilize your commons, Keep
the fee and make leases at low rates,
either to factories or to skilled mechanics.
Let the city erect a building with a num
ber of rooms, give it steam power, rent
the power and the room in small
titie6. as Clegg hires his room and his
newer and you will give an impulse to a
class c’f industry that will keep all of its
COLUMBUS, GA., FBI DAY MOKNING, OCTOBER 13, 1876.
profits at home. From suoh small bogln-
Ings, gome of the largest manufacturing
capital has been acquired In tho northern
cities. Fall River and Lowell have both
felt its Inlluenoe. and Philadelphia, a oity
that covers a larger area, and housos
more poople comfortably than any other
in tho United States owes much of Its
prosperity to this system of rentals.
To my agricultural friends it is only ne
cessary to any that you cannot advance
thu manufacturing interest of Columbus
without its beneficial influence being at
once extended to eveiy acre of land with
in the trading limits of Columbus. It will
Increase the value of every ncro of land,
because it will increase the profits of every
man who cultivates the land. It gives
an increasing market for a diversified
crop that peculiarly depend on population
for consumption, it givies you an active
and advantageous market for your great
staple, and will stop that exodus of labor
which seeks tho West for the same rea
son that manufacturers seek the South.
Tho West can raise cotton cheaper than
we can, but cotton raised at the placo of
manufacture is worth more to tiie factory
by the difference of freights than cotton
raised at a distance.
Lot Georgia become a groat manufac
turing State, and she will become a
greater agricultural State. Your waste
lands will be takeu up, because popula
tion will flow in and not out.
Manufacturing North and Soutli will
be very different in its effects on popula
tion. At the North manufacturing towns
arc purely manufacturing towns, they
have no business that does not flow from
manufacturing, and no population tlmt
is not wholly dependent upon it. At the
North they "exhibit pictures of massive
lortunesand extreme poverty side by side.
At tbe South it will be different, agricul
ture and manufactures will combine to
build your cities, and here it is only a
question of whether wo shall more than
double our wealth by adding manufac
tures and agriculture and letting our city
reap the benefit of the commerce that flows
from both.
So far as Columbus and the county of
Muscoggee is concerned, the proposition
is self evident to my mind, that unless
manufacturers grow up, or the direction
of cotton is turned back from the railroads
to the river, our farmers and our mer
chants are without u futnre. Year by
year your lands will decrease in value,
the area planted will be less and less, your
agricultural population will move away,
and then your city and its real estate, al
ready overburdened with taxes, will lose
all value because it will have lost all
trade.
Our future can never brighten unless
the Republican party is overthrown, or
changes its policy toward us. We are
held up as lawless and violent as a people
urging a conflict of races, where tiie torcli
ol incendiarism is already ablaze to de
stroy capital tlmt may be brought here
with its accumulated earnings, where the
life of the capitalist himself is unsafe,
these falsehoods are impressed upon the
Northern mind by tho machinery of the
Republican party and they are believed at
the North. We know- them to ho false,
we know that capital is as safe here as it
is anywhere, and to this knowledge you
may attribute the large investments mafic
by Southern men, and the success of
manufacturing as developed at tiie South,
but capital is timid, and had Southern
minds like Northern minds been alarmed,
not the first dollar of these maguificient
investments would have been mode. Our
people are suffering from slander and mis
representation, power seeks to maintain
itself careless of the means; we must
buckle on our armor and work out our
own salvation.
It is unnecessary to appeal to (Georgians
in the pending political contest. There
are two parties, one has already sum
moned the military and opposes to our
bleeding hearts, “Fixed bayonets.”
Tbe other holds out the Olive branch,
offers us peace and fraternity, and bids us
abide in the House of our Fathers, with
none to make us afraid.
The choic is easy. Fight under tiie ban
ner ot Democracy. If defeat comes, it will
be but another sacrifice made io the eter
nal principles of justice. i am not confi
dent of results, but 1 know where duty leads
us; our place is in the Democratic column.
I shall be there ! Let us at least carry the
State by an overwhelming majority, so that
Colquitt may have s'rength to inaugurate
reform if there is room for reform. His
administration must scrutinise closely the
whole question of taxation and expenditure
and see if it is not possible to reduce the
burdens of taxation below the enormous
amount now drawn from an impoverished
people.
Is it not strange that you farmerswho de
sire a countryman to represent the agri
cultural interest should seem to be opposed
to the Agricultural Bureau on the score of
economy' Why, gentlemen, you expend
$13,000 for this department, which is all
you get back of $700,000 paid by the agri
cultural interest in the shape of taxes. That
bureau gives you these facts, (besides saving
you millions). Before the war we had
over six hundred millions of capital, and
raised seven hundred thousand bales ol cot
ton, while the Government was supported
by a tax of $475,000. Now it has about
270 millions of capita], raises less than
500,000 bales of cotton, and is subjected to
a tax of $1,1)00,000, of which agriculture
pays half, or nearly so. Here are statistics
gathered from that department on which to
start your investigations. Without it you
wouiden at sea. I believe it to be the most
importabt department to agriculture inau
gurated since the war, and with my present
views I shall give it an earnest support.
You want to know if I am in favor ot a
Constitutional Convention'! 1 reply to you
that I am—-it is the great necessity lor
thorough and absolute reform, and I shall
support it, unless otherwise instructed by a
vote of the people, 1 pledge myßelf to
make a searching inquiry into the expend
itures of the Government, and find out
whence arises this enormous increase of
taxation. And wherever expenses can be
retrenched, I will advocate retrenchment.
The State has lost $174,000 by twice pay
ing that many bonds. It is said that if the
Governor and Comptroller General had
done their duty under the plain letter of the
law, this mistake could not have happened.
I wilt investigate this, and if the fault rests
upon either of these departments instead of
the Treasurer, I will see that the depart
ment in which the negligence originated
shall bear the burden of the wrong. I de
clined to answer any questions before the
nomination, because in this canvass I have
thrown my personal character in the bal
ance, and thank God the result shows in
this flattering endorsement of the people
that 1 have not been found wanting.
In conclusion, fellow-citizens. I can only
say that I will endeavor by my course in
the Legislature to satisfy you that I de
serve your confidence.
Note. —The factory now building will add
20,000 spindles to the 30,000 now in opera
tion.
The sum of $314.45 in “condemned
money” wum tniaon nt tllo gates of
the Centennial Exhibition up to
Sept. Ist, Three-fourths of the pieces
of silver had been mutilated; the re
mainder were counterfeits. The
largest amount of counterfeit money
received on one occasion, $16.50, was
on New Yorkday, The stile-keepers,
Yryn whose salaries this loss is de
work, 1 * have really done excellent
000,000 pm although 3,005,000 or 4,-
their hands, oi>ave passed through
been found worttnfew hundred have
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THKYELLfW FEVER.
Ke|M>rt* train Niivunnnli
Tho progress of tho yellow fevor,
says tho Mommy Nows of Wednes
day,indicated by tho mortuary report
for tho twonty-four hours oudlng at
G o’clock r. m., yesterday, -shows a
slight decrease from tho day previous,
the total interments from ail causes
of death being niueteon, of which
thirteen were declared to bo yellow
fever eases.
The weather has moderated con
siderably.
Tho pleasing intelligence is con
veyed to us by telegraph that tbe
epidemic is considered at an end in
Brunswick by l)r. Bruns, owing, we
presume, to tbe want of material
upon which to feed.
Tho following are theilgures which
indicate tho mortality for the week
ending 6 o’clock yesterday afternoon :
Yellow Other
Date. lever. diseases. Total.
October 4. .... 17 7 24
October 6 18 9 27
October 6 19 to 29
October 7 13 9 22
October 8 8 3 u
October 9 15 7 22
October 10.. 13 l9
108 51 154
lii answer to numerous inquiries
tho AVtes states that Col. W. T.
Thompson is still confined to his
room, hut is slowly recovering from
his illness.
The following is the mortuary re
port for the day euding October 10;
Laurel Grove Cemetery Whites—
Harriet D. Alden, aged 64, years, 9 months
and 4 days; John J. Wald, aged 40; Goo.
DeJ. Thompson, aged 26; Ida If. Stokes,
aged 5 years and 5 months; yellow favor;
Infant Ray, aged 1 month, inanition.
Colored Rebecca Munroo. aged 16; Al
fred Murrel, aged 12, yellow fever; Jlnfant
BoifouUet, aged 8 days, lockjaw; Sarah
Blake, agod 24, child bod.
Whites, 5; colored, 4; total, 9 (yellow fo
vor.fi.)
Cathedral Cemetery.— Whites -Pat
rick Roddy, aged 56; John Powers, aged
16; Sister Mary Blandina, aged 18; Infant
of A. B. Paeettl, aged 4 days; Mary Ann
Lee, aged 15; Margaret Gertrude Van
Nowton, aged 6 years, 5 months, 5 days;
yellow lover; Frank Dowd, aged 65, hem
orrhage; Infant of John Fahy, aged 20
days, spasms.
Colored—Eugene. R. Campboll, aged 9
years, bronchitis.
Whites, 8; colored, 1; total, 9; (yellow
fever, 0).
EVERGREEN BONA VENTURE CEMETERY.
Whites—Cassio Theme, aged 7 years,
yellow fever.
White, 1; colored, 0; total, 1; (yellow
fever, 1).
RECAPITULATION.
Laurel Grove Cemetery—Whites, 5; col
ored, 4; total, 9 (yellow fever ).
Cathedral Cemetery—Whites, 8; color
ed 1; total, 9 (yellow fevor 6).
Bonaventure Comotory—Whltos, 1; col
ored o; total 1 (yellow fever 1).
Grand total, 19. Yellow fever 13.
UEORGIA CROPS.
Report of the Agricultural Department,
Atlanta, Ga., Oot. 12.—The feport
of tho Georgia State Commissioner
of Agriculture for September shows
corn crops 34 per cent., better than
last year; cotton 15 hotter; sugur
cane 33, ground peas 4, and sweet
potatoes 11 [better. Turnip crop al
most a failure,on account of drought-
Very little small grain sown on ac
count of drought; hut it is not too
late to save yet in this climate.
Cotton picking much further ad
vanced than last, year. It isestimated
that the bulk of tho crop will be
gathered by the Ist of November.
So far it is nearly all gathered in un
usually good condition.
Hogs have been unusually exempt
from cholera this year, and those for
slaughter ttiis fall 7 per ceut. greater
iu number and bettor in quality.
Tho stock ofjhogs is generally im
proving.
All forage orops are saved in ex
traordinary fine condition, and neur
ly a full supply made.
Tho season has been remarkably
favorable for gathering matured
crops, hut very unfavorable for crops
not matured, and for saving small
grain.
The Markets,
A press of other matter compelled
us to leave out the details of our mar
ket reports to-day, and content our
selves with a summary. As the re
ports to be received to-day will give
the weekly statements, aud as we
notice any changes In the omitted
reports, nothing will be lost.
The cotton markets in the .South
were reported steady or llrm, and
New Orleans strong, with good re
ceipts. United States consolidated
net receipts for the day, 114,756; ex
ports 21,800. Futures in Liverpool
closed l-10d. eheaperithan the day’s
highest prices. February and March
delivery 5 31-23d.
Wheat and flour were firmer and
more active [in tho New York and
Western markets.
Rio Janeiro and Santos advices to
the 11th report coffee very animated
and advancing.
Gold in New York opened at o, and
closed steady at Bj.
TRHKIBI.F. EXPLOSION IX PITTS.
Hl'Kli.
Many I-tve* Lol.
Pittsburg, Pa., Out. 12.—At 8:05
this morning a terrible explosion oc
curred at Znr &Co’s. mills, corner
13th and Etna streets, attended by
great loss of life. The Boiler in the
main building exploded, and that
building and more than half of the
rolling mill were demolished. A
large number of employees were at
work and it is impossible to tell how
many were hurried in the ruins.
Great excitement prevails. The buil
ding caught fire, aud tho flames have
not yet been extinguished. So far 10
dead bodies have been taken from
tho xuiuM.
BEGONE) DIBFA.TCH,
Pittsburg, Oct. 12.— At the time of
the explosion 150 men and boys were
working. The building was literally
torn to pieces; the roof falling back
rested on the rail machine, enabliug
the men to crawl out before the
wreck was in flatnes.
A partial list of the killed : Thos.
Murphy, fireman; Andrew Sullivan,
fireman; Frst'ffk Cupps, Peter Ken
drick, John and Joseph Anderson,
idlers; two brothers named McCaf
hean au unknown man whose
has not bo. wn o jf aP( i w i loao body
list of woundev. n^jjje( j an j a ] on g
INDIANA.
A SPLENDID DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.
Indianapolis, Oct. 12.—Flvo hun
dred and sixty-three townships and
wards, in 82 counties, give a net Dem
ocratic majority of 258. The same
places in 1872 gave a not Republican
majority of 1,456.
Official and semi-official roturns
from 28 Democratic and 27 Republi
can counties give Harrison, Rep., for
Governor, 5,002 majority. In tho re
maining 23 Democratic counties and
fourteen Republican .counties, Hon
drlcks received in 1872, 5,971 majori
ty. Harrison’s gain iu tho counties
heard from over the vote of 1872, is
547.
Retnrns from 070 townships aud
wards in 83 counties, which givo a
net Democratic majority of 2,423.
Tho same places in 1872 gave a net
Republican majority of 230.
GOV. HENDRICKS —A SETTLER.
New York, Oct. 12.—The following
lias been roooived at. Democratic
headquarters:
Indianapolis, Oct. 12.—Majorities
of from 5,000 to 10,000 for the entire
ticket.
[Signed] T. A. Hendricks.
•
The Latest Election News,
INDIANA DEMOCRATIC, AND OHIO RE
PUBLICAN.
Columbus, 0., Oct. 13.—The Repub
lican State Committee to-night re
ceived their returns and now esti
mate Barnes’ majority at 0,700 in tho
152 counties reported. The balance
of tho State ticket will reach 9,000.
The Republicans] gain five Con
gressmen.
Indianapolis, Oct. 12.— Nine hun
dred and forty returns from 896 town
ships and wards in 85 counties gave
a net Democrat majority of 1,344.
Same places in 1872, gave net Demo
cratic majority 1,335. The counties
from which nothing has been heard,
gave Hendricks n majority of 3,130
last election. Hurrah for Tilden and
Hendricks.
THE INDIAN SITUATION.
Kill Eagle interviewed.
St. Louis, Oct. 10.—Tbe steamboat
John M. Chambers, Captain Labarge,
which left St, Louis with military supplies
for the Yellowstone Jast August, arrived
iiere from tho Upper Missouri last night,
being the first arrival. Captain Labarge
had an interview with Kill Eagle, one of
Sitting Bull’s chief warriors, at Standing
Rock. Kill Eagle claimed that General
Custer could have escaped had he seen fit
to abandon his men; that the Indians,
who always loved the long-haired warrior,
would have permitted him to escape. II
intimated that General Reno could have
prevented the light had lie been fleeter of
foot. He says Sitting Bull was not in the
fight, but iu the council; but Capt La
berge denies the report that Sitting Bull
has white blood in his veins ; that he is a
full-blooded Indian, insignificant in figure,
and a cripple, hut witli a fine bead. He
considers Sitting Bull the most famous
chief of the day ; says the army officers
indorse his opinion. He further states
that Sitting Bull is in camp at the head
waters of the Little Missouri, with the
main body of the hostile Sioux. As soon
as they received word that the campaign
against them had been abandoned they
decided to remain on American soil and
not claim British protection. Friendly
Indians will supply them with provisions,
and they will make a raid into the Black
Hills country close to their camp when
their provisions give out.
WEST VIRGINIA.
TEN TO FIFTEEN THOUSAND,
New York, Oct. 12.— The following
dispatch was received at the Demo
cratic Headquarters to-day:
Wheelinu. W. Va., Oct. 12.— You
may rely on 10,000 majority in tho
State, with a good prospect of 15,000.
[Signed] Alex. Campbell.
COLLISION A T ICEVILj.i;.
Two Men Killed.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 12.—The freight
train on the Western & Atlantic road
ran into the passenger train at Ico
ville. Two men were killed. The
Coroner’s jury that soon assembled
censured the conductorand engineer.
Careless officials should be forced to
leave the railroads.
Gov. Chamberlain and the Rifle
Clubs.—A correspondent sends the
Augusta Chronicle the following in
reference to the Governor’s recent
proclamation :
The Rock Hill Rifle Club, in obe
dieuco to Governor Chamberlain’s
manifesto, have forwarded to him
their arms, consisting of an hun
dred year old flint-lock gun, an old
rusty sabre, and antiquated pistol,
mounted in reverse, and have re
solved themselves into a base ball
club, only asking of tho great Gov
ernor that when elected to return
them their arms aud allow them to
be again a rifle club. They are also
forwarding to his Excellency a most
precious piece of artillery—being
nothing loss than a fire-lock—the in
vention of a negro Democrat, made
of solid wood, with a brass muzzle
and depository for matches, to be
tired when his Excellenty wants to
light his cigar. The donation of
arms from Williston will largely ex
cbed any yet made in gun barrels and
old sabres, accompanied by a bomb
and a fan, with the solemn inscrip
tion to “keep cool.”
The Nashville American says,
with much truth and point: Nation
al taxes do not go down. Yet, all the
West is a great railroad cemetery.
All the East is a tomb of sunken for
tunes, the rich dragging down the
poor. The national debt is $2,000,-
000,000. The municipal debt is $1,900,-
000,000. The railroad debt $4,000,000,-
000. Our total indebtedness is ten
billions. Our interest charges are
$600,000,000, ortwo-thirds of tho total
aggregate of our foreign trade. Yet
taxes do not go down, and Govern
ment expenditures are as extrava
ant as ever.
TAILORING.
Tho FALL FASHION PLATES dis
play many handsomo STYLES, which I
am now making up to ordor. Merchants
doaling in CLOTHS and CABSIMEREB
are now oponlng a handsomo lino of theso
goods. Offering tho best exertions, I ex
poot to please even the most fastidious In
execution and In promptness.
CUTTING and REPAIRING will reocive
strict attention.
0. 11. Jones.
NOTICE TO N( USURIIIEHK.
Thoso of our subscribers who will move
their residence or placo of busi
ness, will please notify us in time, that
wo may liavo their papers properly deliv
ered. sep2otf
Fresh (■units
Gilt Edge Buttor,
Choice Cream Cheese,
Irish Potatoes, Onions, Cabbages and
Apples.
A full supply of Canned Goods to ar
rive—all fresh.
auglS tf G. W. Brown.
Saddles, Harness and Trunks, cheap for
cash. Mr. W. R. Kent is with me, and
would bo glad to servo his friends,
nets eod3t Mark A. Bradford.
HUN. 11. XV. HILLIARD'S APPOINT.
lIKNTS.
lion. Henry IV. Hilliard will address the
pooplo on the political issues of tho day,
at tho following places;
Hamilton, Tuesday, October 10
Buena Vista, Tuesday, October 17
Hon. Henry R. Harris is invited to be
present at thoso appointments, and others
to bo hereafter published. [eel7-eodifcw
HINES DOZIER,
Attorney at Ixaw-
Hamilton, (>u.
WILL practice in the Chattahoochee Cir
or anywhere else.
Mr. G. A. B. Dozier will be found in my oftice
on and after October let, 1875, and will assist in
all collections and office work entrusted.
ho]>2s ly
CAREY J. THORNTON Wm, F. WILLIAMS.
Thornton & Williams,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
AND
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
OFFICE UPSTAIRS OVER THE STORE OF
C. E. HOOHBTRASBER, Broad street.
Will practice in the counties of Harris, Talbot,
Taylor, Marion, Chattahoochee and Stewart, and
iu tho Supreme Court of the State, District aud
Circuit Courts of the United States; also iu the
counties of Lee and Russell, Ala.
Will also give special attention to the purchase
and sale of Real Estate, Examination of Titles
and Conveyancing. Also, to Renting and Collec
tion of Rents. uov!4 tf
KAM‘L B. HATCHER. B. H. GOKTCHIUB.
HATCHER & GOETCHIUS
Attorney* and Counsellor* at Law.
Practice iu State and Fedoral Courts.
Office— 67 Broad sheet, over Wittich A Kin
el's Jewelry Store. [sepl ly
*HAS ON HAND
Two Horse Plantation Wagons,
y^isro
BUGGIES— Both Side and End Springs,
FOR SALE CHEAP.
REDUCTION IN BOARD.
Rankin
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 8,1876.
From this date and until further notice
the rates of board at this House will be
$2, $2.50, and $3 per day, according to lo
cation and size of room. Single meals 50c.
Mrs, F. M. Gra,y.
octa dSWfcw Proprietress.
$6 0,000 ! $6 0,000 !!
DRYGOODS! DRYGOODS!! DRYGOODS!!!
$60,000 WORTH
OF
Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Boots and Shoes
AT COST.
Having determined to retire from the dry
GOODS BUSINESS, Wo offer our Entire Stock, of DBT J?®?®
.Ac., at C< )ST mid LESS THAN COST. Our Stock is one.of the moat oo
plftte in tho City, and comprises a fall line of all goods usua y
First Claps
Dry Goods Store.
The public a in: invited to examine ouit stock as
and we aaimre them that they can buy of us GOOD GOODS at Prices th
action.
We are new receiving a Large Supply of FRESH GOODS, which we will also sell AT COST,
amine our stock before buying. _____ * r r
rfr- AS WE MEAN BUSINESS, CASH IS REQUIRED FOR ALL
GOODS SOLD. _ _
JNO. MoGOUGH & CO.
1 • t•- >la v 1 ;ii
J. B. WILHELM. “ HKKBINOTON.
Wilhelm & Herrington,
House, Sign, and Ornamental
PAINTERS.
WE are now prepared to do all kinds of Painting on
the shortest notice, most modern style, and at the
Lowest Price.
Kalsomining, Wall Tinting, Gilding, Graining
ami (<lazing. Wall Papering a Specialty.
rv LEAVE YOUR ORDERS AT JNO. HOGAN’S ICE HOUSE,
AND THEY WILL BE PROMPTLY ANSWERED.
CENTENNIAL STORES
W. -A.. SWIFT,
PKoPKicrroH.
f JMHESE NEW STORES ARE NOW OPEN AND FILLED WITH A
| FULL AND COMPLETE BTOCK OF
Groceries#Domestic Dry Goods,
Which will be sold at the Loweit Cosh Kates.
|>ACON, TLOUB, and FINE LIQUORS A SPECIALTY. BAGGING for .Hie at 10c.; TIES ay*.
Mr. T. J. HUNT (formerly of Harr ia) and Mr. SOULE REDD, of Columbus, will give their pe
ciul attention to this department.
THE NEW CENTENNIAL WAGON YARD,
JUST COMPLETED, 1. Io connected with the e.tabli.hment, No expense haa boon .pared
to make it attractive both iu comfort and security for the traveling public. Mr ELIJAH
MULLINS, of Harris, baa charge, anil will do all in hla power for the comfort of 1U patrons ’ Irepeot
fully auk from those vlaiting the city to a trial of the NEW WAGON YARD, and solicit the patron
age of the trailing community to my atock of GROCERIES.
W. A. SWIFT, Proprietor.
I. JOSEPH.
Wholesale Grocer
AND LIQUOR DEALER,
I VOKIt RANKIN HOUSE, - . COLUMBUS, GA.
I IIEG TO INFORM THE PUBLIC THAT I HAVE BOUGHT A VERT HEAVY STOCK OF
GBOCEHIES and I.IQCOHH, which I offer to the trade CHEAP
MrCONSULT MY TERMS BEFORE ORDERING ELSEWHERE.
FARMERS' SUPPLIES a Specialty.
I. JOSEPH.
Hats! Hats! Hats!
IHAYE OPENED AX THE OLD STAND OF ACEE & MURDOCH
A FULL AND COMPLETE STOCK OF
HATS, UMBRELLAS, WALKINC GANES, &e.,
AND AM PREPARED to suit m Styles and Quality the taste of ibe most Fastidious, and in nrico
the Pocket of the most Economical. v
Xjoghuajntd wuxom?.
OctH-dli)..' -A. -
o. oALHOunsr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Geneva, Ga.
WILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS OP
the Chattahoochee Circuit.
Hpeci&l attention given to Collections. He is
Corresponding Agent for the Geueaal Collecting
Agencies of New York snd Bavanuah. Therefore
biß facilities for pursuing that branch of the pro.
ession ie unsurpassed by any lawyer in the
Htate. <x?t2l if
R. .1. MOSES,
Attorney at Law.
OFFICE orr Georgia Home Innirance Com.
pan y.
Offiwi hour* from Ini October to Ist June, Hto
4. M. eeplD ly
Joseph P. Pou,
Attorney A Counsellor at Law,
OFFICE -west side Broad street over atote ol
W. H. Roberts k Cos. Practices in State and
Federal Courts. Advice and services tendered to
Administrators, Executors, Guardians, Ac. Spe
cialty made of Conveyancing, Examining Titles,
Ac., in Georgia, or anywhere in the United
States. All bubinxs* promptly attended to.
feb7 dtf
THORNTON & GRIMES,
Attorney* at Law.
OFFICE over Abell k Co.'s, corner of Broad j
and St. Clair streets, olmnbua, Ga.
jnlfi ly
NO. 181
■* 4—~ 1 m '
PEABODY & BRANNON,
Attorneys at Law,
Have moved their Office to corner of Broad and
Randolph streets, over Store of R. S. Crane,
Octi-dlm
Thomas J. Chappell,
Attorney at Law.
OFFICE OVER 119 BROAD STREET,
Columbus, Ga.
mrohU tf
LIONEL C. LEVY, Jr.,
Attorney on* Counsellor t Uir.
OomffilMioQer of Boede N. Y. eud other State..
Office oyer Georgle tow Bulk.
\ ESTATES.— Hpeciel Attention to keeping eeen
\ rete Accounts, youchere. Ac., end mAlong n
-\ nuel return, for GuerdUn., Adminl,trtor ;
\ end Emeu tor,. MpW-ly
REMOVAL.
IHAVE MOVED MV OFFICE TO THE ROOM
in the Tear o! the Chattahoocbeo National
Bank. All parties indebted lo the City Mills will
please call immediately and settle.
Hep'iO.tt R. L. MOTT.
j. D. It am bo. W. W Macsall.
RAMBO & MACKALL,
j Attorney* at I-aw,
Office in Burros’ Building, Columbus, fln.
to hi eodAwly