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..$4 00 FOR THE WEEKLY. ‘Three months 50 FOR THE TRI-WEEKLY. . One rear .. . rt(V [ Six monih6 - \ I Three Months 1 00 1 If not paid strictly in advance, the pr.ce ol Irna Weekly Cockier will be $2 50 a year, and |the Tri-Webrly $5 00. To clubs of five or more, one copy will be fur tiahed Free. The hopes of millions now hang upon fcronin, of Oregon. Fortunately he has l splendid nose upon which to hang any ^hiag. t a r Grant speaks of gagging the press Fit would be better for him to gag the I whisky jug, though not so well for the | country, as his life wouid be prolonged I thereby. ^ _ In reference to his forbidding celebration of Washington s birthday at Columbia an exchange speaks of Grant as a stubborn mule. This se verity on the mule is totally uncalled for. The goddess of fortune who, for some been by terms coquetting ^he great political parties ivored both not a little. Bea ys he will not co-operate with party in the next Congress. . ,r ant forbids the celebration of ^Washington's birth-day by the milita ry of Columbia. Future Presidents till never act so unkindly towards ■ rant, as to forbid the celebration of is birth-day—there will be no necessi ty for doing so. The following is the concluding par agraph of Don Piatts’editorial written tjust after the Florida decision : There is no use in asserting that ili'lien Louisiana is reached it will be Bound too offensive for this national re- {turning board of rogues to swallow. As- i yell expect chastity in a brothel, hones jy in a den of thieves, or shame from a Biharlntan. The tribunal from which HiarfieM cau emerge with his mean,- i speak face aglow with triumph, to tele graph Hayes that fraud has won, or ; Morton cau hobble out as if decay was “jjrithout pain, is no place to which the ; Jnonest people can appeal for their WON PIATT ON GRANT, THE REPUB- [ % 1,1 CAN PARTY, AND THE COMMISSION. He ir» to be Arrested for Seditious Writing. S* We give most, if not all, our edito- ..Bal space, this morning, to the splen didly written extract below, which ap- . peared in Don Piatt’s Washington Cap itol last Sunday. It is an extremely ^forcible indictment, and may take its place side by side with the “Letters of Junius.” It is said that Grant has de termined upon the prosecution of Pi nt for libel and seditious writing; but ne verdict of ail honest men will be at verily “truth is mighty and will ievail." The sickening apprehension felt by people, to which we referred Iasi feek, that tl-e Supreme Court woul-i found as rotte u as the other powers our unhappy Government, has been Hdized. The swift decay that in the last ten years has made our self-govern ment a sham and a mockery, and in the Executive and Legislative branches iGgfiame us before the woil has been Silently working its way mrough the -jjjuUciarv until now, in its first trial, it offend- ^ith its stench the nostrils ot all honest citi. *ns. UP'fie appeal made to the Judges of the Supreme Court from the people, ' sorely distressed and perplexed, was to save them from the wick d conspiracy *of men uiey had repudiated at tiie polls. Tuey saw their faithless agents for years robbing the Treasury of their hard- earned taxes. They saw theli highest officials indicted for the meai.- .est crimes. They saw a President coarse, brutal and ignorant, anc! np- . minting sycophantic pimps to the highest positions. They saw him the associate of roughs and ihe commis sioner of thieves. They saw carpet baggers, sustained by bayonets, manip ulating the polls, that ignorance and IBculity might tyrannise over the South. They saw rings organized in the lobby control their Congress. They saw huge monopolies created by their government eating out their substance. They saw themselves reduced to want, frade paralyzed, and labor without em ployment. and they made a desperate effort to right their wrongs through the ballot. jflWith a subsidized press against «rah, with an army of hungry office holders that—counting those of the General Government with those of the States—made a horde of Treasury-eat ers greater than any standing army in Europe ; with all the accumulated cap ital in tiie hands of monopolies ar rayed on the side of their oppressors, they: made one despairing effort, and came up from the polls with a majority of 0 jer half a million in their behalf. And! of what aviffl ? Through a dis honest Ileturning Board, made up of -““Snals who have escaped conviction ' punishment under the protecting bf a corrupt Government, enough fare thrown out to render all their I vain, and saddle upon them the Irruption and the old horde for ger term of years, perhaps for- We have not the patience to argue whatlhe people, in their broad com mon sense, will not consider—the fine- SUUjllegai technicalities under which thea^aged scoundrels seek to hide their shame. Tbeir real brief is to be found in the utterance of one of tbeir Com mission, James A. Gartield, who said, boastingly, “You’ll have to grin and bear it. We hold the cirds and intend to play them.” Poor political gambler ! The stakes for which he plays arc the rights of 40,000,000 of people, the peace and prosperity of the only republic known to humanity. For all that free- . do'm holds most dear, these hands, stained with plunder, gamble as the soldiers of Pilate severed in derision the garment of the Crucified Christ. As weTsaia a week since: “This is not law, it is revolution ;” and if the peo ple tamely submit, we may bid a long farewell to Constitutional Government. Fraud no longer vitiates. A corrupt administration has only by its bayo- nets to bold a State usurpation long enoughiin power for a corrupt return ing board to do its vile task, and the work 1st one. If a man thus returned to power cau ride in safetv from the Executive Mansion to the Capitol to be inaugurated, we are fitted tor tne slavery that will follow the inaugura tion. M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR. “WISDOM, JUSTICE .AN3> MODERATION.” TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM. VOLUME XXXI. ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 1877. NEW SERIES--NO. 26 LIEl'T. M’lSTIRE’S BLOOD. FOUR GEORGIANS SUSPECTED OF HAVISO HELVED TO SHED IT AR RESTED IS THIS CITY. Committed to Jail to Await Farther De velopments. We clip the following from the Nash ville American of the 20th inst: Col. Ed. S. Wheat, UuitedS'.Hies Mo -iial tor the Middle in.-tricc oi T.uce received l a, ioln.wiug dispaicues Sunday and yesterday: Chattanooga, Feb. 18.—E. S. Wheat, United States Marshal, Nashville: Ar rest a party of three young men, one old man, a woman and children, who are on the train that left here at 12 M. to-day. They are from Gilmer county, Ga., and have tickets to Fort Worth, Texas. Meet them when the train arrives, or they will connect and go right on. I have telegraphed te Atlanta for their names and will send them on their arrival. The men participated in the murder of Lieut. Mclntire, a few days since. This is sent at the request of Maj. Cochran, Com mandant of this post. The information arrived too late for their arrest before the train left here. Arrest and detain them, and telegraph me or Maj. Cochran. Don’t fail. Atlanta, Ga., February 19.—United Stater Marshal, Nashville: Warrants for the Holts, tor illicit distilling, from the Chattanooga Commissioner, are on the way to Nashville. Can you send the prisoners to CLmtanocga under these warrants from here? These men killed Lieut. McIntyre, and must be held at ail hazards. Chattanooga, Feb. 19.—Edward S. Wheat, U. S. Marshal, Nashville: Hold the men. I.will be up on to-day’s train with all the necessary papers. L. L. Sample. Shortly before the arrival of the Chattanooga train, Sunday night, Uni ted States Marshal Wheat, accompa nied by Detective Larry Ryan, ap peared at the depot, and when the par ties arrived took them into custody and thence to jail, to which they were billowed by quite a crowd of people. Tiie prisoners were accompanied by two women, five children, and three iquirrel rifles. They wore seed)- cloth ing, and appeared to be both poor and norant. They gave tbeir names as James Holt, William Holt, John F. Holt, and William R. Holt. They said hat though they lived ten or twelve miles from the point at which Lieut. McIntyre was murdered, and bad heard of the affair, they did not par ticipate in it, and were innocent of the charge. They also stated that they had inane up their minds sometime pre vious to go to Texas, and upon getting ihe money they needed, had set off for that State. Letters found on their per sons seemed to corroborate this story, l'hey rode all the way to Cht -.unooga i wagon, a distance of about one hundred and forty miles, when - hey :ould have reacheu the railroad will.! , ihirty miles of their homes. Ot: reach- ■g Chattanooga, they stopped with vo old women outside the town, sei.i ;ie man in to purchase a ticket, wen; into town and took tiie train lor Nash ville. It is stated, however, that the two old ■men with whom they sto, ,-ed say .- men acknowledged their complici ty in the murder. L. L. Sample arrived here last night. Should he receive the proper papers by mail this morning, he will leave with the prisoners for Atlanta t-o-nignt. Politicc.1 Items. ceive and Dearer, Massachusetts Re publicans in the House, voted against the Louisiana decision. The New York San has discovered that Judge Bradley’s son is a clerk in At torney General Taft’s office, and thinks that explains it. All kings claim to be such by the grace- of God; hut when Rutherford 11. Haves is inaugurated as Prc • ent it will be by the grace of fraud —A’. 1". Sun. The Graphic says that Matt Carpenter did a very cruel thing in treating ti e Re publican members of the c-or.:nii.-siou with their own opinions, fried in his rhet oric. This is the sort of people who make Presidents: J. Madison Wells. Zich Chandler. Kenner, Rumssller. ", E do. a Cameron & Son j ibbers. W. P. Kellieg. Marcus Stearns. O. F. M r; n. D. H Chamberlain. Eliza P.nicatnn. And this is the kind of President they make: r. b hajes. —Xcw Yorl: World. “ Do you understand the nature of an oath ?” a juryman was asked in a court room yesterday. “Of course I do,” was the indignant reply. “ Do you mistake me for a member of the Electoral Com- There is a divinity that shapes our end, rough Hewitt as we may. An appropriate spectacle at Ilayes’ in augural ball would be John Sherman waltzing with Eliza Pinkston.— Courier- Journal. “If Justice is to be slaughtered in her own temple, if the laws are to be immolated by tbeir sworn priests, it fraud is to be sanctioned and solemniz ed as an instrumentality for electing a president of the United States, then farewell to the futuro hopes of this country.”—Matt. Carpenter before th Tribunal. The party which cheats is lost. The party which steals'a State is lost. The party which does not look into evidence: is lost. The party which makes a presi dent by fraud is lost. The party of Kellogg, Packard and Wells is lost. And the party of a Bradley, a Morton and a Garfield is not yet saved.—Xt 1 or/.- Express. “ It.,” Washington correspondent of the Telegraph i0 Messenger, thus writes “Among the objectors to the Hayes electoral return from Louisiana before the Commission yesterday was Mr. Jenks, of Pennsylvania, a Democratic member of the House. While Howe was singing the song of the bloody shirt and the woes of that negro strumpet and murderess, Eliza Pinkston, Ban croft, the historian, who was among the audience in the court room, fell fast asleep, and Jenks spying him • penned on a card and handed around the fol- lnwing: “ History sleeps while Fiction speaks,” and the universal verdict was that Jenks hnd rung the bell. Cas3anave-Kenner-Green : Three litlle niggers sitting on s board 8ee-eswed the nation bj tneiqcbeekj frond. Ran Tucker choked one, then there was two. Two little niggers lying like fhn, Dudley Field crushed another, then there was one. One little nigger trifling with the figures, Levi Mulsh wiped him oat, mud then there wasn’t any niggers. There w an old bruiser -nil d Wells Who t-anef.-rr-d *►" eh- - i„ ells. Au-1 oes-.De r Vs -lime SI. . ole Washington Correspondence. Ihe Sev*n-Bight Decision — *300,000 Babeocked — No Certainty of Either Ilayes or TUdeir Being the Winning Horse—Butler*-* Interrogative Ears—-The Weldom-Paekard Affair. liut waen this J* Ma-J.s n Walls In the bauds of i>. Dudley Field felly He g«t sick and confessed, And in bad grammar expressed: “I ain't fit for no place exeept hell," (He’ll go there, too, if he lives till he dies.) — Washington Capital.. General NewB Items. The Rothschild have only $3,400,000,- 000 in hard cash, and complain of “bard times.” There are 100 deaths a week in Lon don from small pox. A piece of Gobelin tapestry has just been sold in Paris for 820,000. , Incidents of the great Moody and Sankey revival in Boston: “Dear Charlie: Will meet you at the appointed place and time. “Hattie.” “Dear Hattie: I will be there, sure. “Charlie.” Then Charlie sends the following message to his wife: “Don’t wait dinner for me. I attend the prayer-meeting again to-day. Little do you realize, Sarah, what a work the Lord is doing for me. It might be said that they have a “holt” on the murderers of McIntyre, since there are four men of the name of Holt under arrest charged with that crime. A farmer of Massachusetts reports 3,560 eggs from 21 white Leghorn pul lets in nine months. Not that be loved dogs less, but that he loved sheep more, caused him to ‘•thus” himself: Ninety-nine out of a hundred people make a great mistake when they ent off a dog’s tail, in throw ing away the wrong end. “Young man, do you ever drink?” asked a mild-looking man, accosting Jones. “ Well, tbank you, as it’s a cold morning I don’t mind,” replied Jones, removing bis quid of tobacco. “Don’t do it any more,” rejoined the mild man, “or you will eventually be cursed. Good morning!” An old Comstocker, being reproached by his prospective mother-in-law that be was too old for her daughter, that he was even bald-headed : “Madam, mv baldness is no indication of age; it runs in the family. In fact, Madam,” said he, in a sudden gush of confidence I was born bald-headed.” The year 1S16 was the most remark* able year on record. According to the Savannah News, sixty years ago oc curred ‘the year without a summer.’ Frost occurred in every month of the year 1816. Ice formed half an inch May, snow fell to the depth of ten inches in Vermont, seven in Maine in the interior of New York, and also m Massachusetts in June; ice was Republican camp yesterday, just belore formed of the thickness ot common interrogation points and evidently docf a deal of thinking. It is understood that when he comes in with the next House he will take an independent position, if he does so and can ptlljJ*under banner fifteen or twenty members he will of course hold the balance of jmwer, the next House being so closely divided po litically. Quite an excitement was raised iu the window glass throughout New England, New York, and some parts of Pennsyl vania, on the 5tli of July. Indian corn was so frozen that the greater part was cut down and dried for fodder in August, and farmers supplied from the corn produced in 1S15 the seed for the spring of 1816. The last and most important case brought before the Mayor, at Tenne- curn, was that of an assault and bat tery, with intent to kick. A Kind Offer : Tl. Inllow thy fortune” a termagant erica, Whose extravagance oaused ailibeovil; ‘Tk;»t were some consolation,” tho husband re P‘**s. ..... '•Kor my fo tun»* has gone to tue aovil “Arc tlirs- g-tiuir.e s-.usages?” asked he of the butcher. “Ya,” said the butcher, “dey ish genuine.” “Made of dog and cat. and till that?” observed the man. “Xein! Nein ! dey ish net!” indignantly replied the butcher; I makes no dog’s and cat’s meat in mine sausages.” “Well, then,” said the man, walking off, “I don’t want them; I’m after the genuine article.” The butcher was annoyed at losing the cus tomer, and gazing wistfully after him, reproachfully muttered, “Ya, ya—it is somedimes better uff I toldt de truth.” Personal Items. Shellabarger talks like lightning jerked by thunder. Ex-Senator Matt Carpenter made an eloquent peroration and took several drinks. Chicago Times: “Wells isn’t a vassal t he’s a pier, and a mighty rotten one a that.” Moody has received a note asking him to offer up prayers for “a young married wife.” Chicago Times: “Bradly’s the man in stead of Ferry, and that’s about the on ly difference.” Boston Advertiser: “Little Wheat, the Sioux chief lias reap-peared. He has not been threshed yet.” Boston Globe: Blink’s dog, most wonderful to tell, Has music in his soul, For every night the quadruped Performs a barky role. The Grand Duke Al.-xis gave a grand entertainment to ab ut three hundred citizens and officers of the United States navy and army, Tuesday afternoon, on board the Russian frigate Svetlana, at Norfolk, Va. The first fruit in South Carolina of the action of the Electoral Commison on Friday was the violent attack upon Representative Hamilton,of Beaufort,in Charleston on Saturday. There could be no mistake. The black vagabonds who cursed at Mr. Hamilton were ve hement in the declaration that, as Hayes was to be President, they intended to kill any Republican who recognized Hampton.—Charleston Xeies and Cou rier. Dancing by telegraph is something new and novel, but yet the same has been done, During the progress of a ball at Chicago the other night, waltzes and quadrilles were played in Milwau kee, eighty-five miles distant, and be- in t transmitted instantaneously over the Wires to Chicago the same were tripped lightly by the merry dancers. Washington, D. C., Feb. 17,1877. At last, after alt the-e weary weeks <»! hopes and fears and anxious wailing, ri.« matter is sealed. Another .-ta e has he. stolen from the riglu, Louisiana is to be counted for Hayes, an'd fraud has tri umphed for die time. The Electoral Commission has decided by a stria party vote to receive no evidence against the Returning Board, and the Kellogg cer tificates, steeped as they are in frauds and perjuries, branded with the Congressional Committees, and made shameful' by usurpation, are to make'Mr. Hayes, Pres ident. Practically the.contest is over. The keep this thing up!” Democracy was unfortunate in its choice >’Who’s DeSoto ? of a tribunal, and has lost; but it is bet ter far to have fallen in an honorable con test, than to have won by the fraud? that will place Rutherford B. Hayes in the White House. A committee appointed by Congress has this week found General Babcock, Secretary to the President, gnilly _ __ of a misappropriation of the gov- imposed on!” , , , . , , Er-vp that vour vnnnr ernment monies under his control to the amount of 8300,000. An official expert appointed to examine into his ac counts and vouchers has made a report that leaves no doubt of Babcock’s guilt, but still his conviction uiqler existing cir cumstances is a matter of great uncertain ty. It is far from being right or justice that rules this country now. After the caSe of Louisiana shall have been disposed, of twenty-four States will still remain to be counted, while there are left but twelve days before the 4th of March iu which to count them. Should A Non Seqnitur. fZ~, — Because be Cleaned oat m School Teacher she Built Great Expectations on Him: ' *- From tho Detroit Free Preee.J At half past 11 o’clock yesterday fore- noon a span of halt starved horses, at tached to a covered wagon, halted at the edrl^stone on Gratiot street, and the dri- -’-T bought some oats at a feed store and iuti’ii 'lu-ui belore the nuiiuals, while he aud fiis wife proceeded to make a cold lunc-ii. They had a stove in the wagon, and were moving themselves and a few articles of value to some other clime. At noon three or four journeymen black smiths, working in a shop near the wag on, came out and began poking fun at the oldrwoman, who was the only one in sight in tiie vehicle. She kept her temper tor a r. idle, but when a snow hall struck her on the ear she called out: “If you want DeSoto to come down thjoe. and bre&k a few heads, you’d better ^toorgia Legislature. , *«* Day'* Proceeding. SEN. VTE. '<? arrived the which was DeSoto? Show us the man whj discovered the Mississippi river!” yelled the men. DeSoto got down over the end board. He looked to be about forty years old, and it was plain that be had fight in him. He leaned on one of the wheels, and chewed crackers and looked the crowd in the eyes, while his wifa stock her head out and remarked: “ We don’t want to pick a fight, but we and saw him under there,and fairness govern, the mere counting of ithat he was a. licked man. ‘ Is that your youngest «hild ?” called out ont> of the journeymen. V ~ ’’'“Be keerful!” she replied. “He’s the man who has made ; the wilderness Howl, and you’d better move on!” Seeing fun ahead, some - one in the hack ground tossed up an old tin pan, which came down fair and square on De Soto’s head. He spit lout.iiis cracker, nulled off his big comforter, and the wife leaned out of the wagon and said: . “ Wade rightjnto the erqwd, hubby!” He waded. One ef the-' "journeymen met him at the curb-stone; and^jti about a 'minute the'man who had made tffejvilder- ness howl had crawled under hS“wagon ipr safety. The woman jumped jelown ’-= J J — i '-‘ i “”fied these votes need consume but a few hours, but as matters are going now it is ex treme')’ unceitain that Hayes or Tilden either will be inaugurated as President of the United States next month. When the fraudulent certificate of a fraudulent body is good enough evidence for the highest court in the country, it is folly tp predict six hours ahead of date. General Butler has been in town for a week, and although he don’t say much regarding the political situation he keeps his ears banged around, one eye closing upper lip was as big as an apple < “What’s the matter?” she she peered at him between the. the hied wheeL “Licked 1” he softly replied. She felt that some.explanation manded, and turning to'the ; crqwd'8aid: “ I’d have bet our hull Outfit on iqpi, but I own up that he is walloped. You s- e, we lived up in the woods, aud becau?i he cleaned out a schoqL 4 master he kinder thought he . would stand up 'to anything sroaller’n" g tne political situation oe «WR hurricane. Get into th? wagon, 1 hohb) elevated to the heighth of high; and let me rub yon with camphire.” * the decision of the con-mission, by the ad mission of Mr. Puruian, a Republican member from Florida, and a candidate at the last election, that Tilden truly and lawfully carried that. State. It will be remembered that General Barlow, Attor ney-General of New York under shoot- them-on-the-spot Dix’s administration, and who was seat by Zrek Chandler to watch the same count, has deela. the same conviction. However alt this amounts to nothing, and the fraudulent returns were, as you already know, ele vated by the Supreme Court of the United States to the dignity of law. You have probably been informed before this o the recent shooting of Gov. Packard, of Louisiana. A great deal of mystery still attaches to the affair but it now appears that he was realiy wounded, although but slight ly, and it does not appear to have been a put up job of the Packard gaog to make political capital, as was at first supposed. The Repubicans are endeavoring to turn the affair to account politically, and a wild story has been telegraphed here, of an organization of assassins of which Weldon is a member but the entire mat ter has no foundation in truth. Regretting that eight i3 not seven, yours, Gorge. Reminiscence of Gen. Jackson. The venerable Gen. William O. Butler, one of the heroes of the war of 1812 and of the Mexican war, and the Democratic candidate for vice-Preaident on the ticket with Gen. Cass, now lives Carrolton, Ky. He said of Gen. Jackson, to a writer in the Cincinnati Commercial, a short time ago, that he was little read in books. “Indeed,” said the Geheral, “ I do not re member seeing any books at his house but the Bible and hymn-book, and probably a copy of Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim Progress,” but he was an indefatigable reader of newspapers, and was thoroughly posted in current events, and especially in poli tics. While possessed of little technical learning, his common sense was boundless. He had an intuitive knowledge of men, and influence over them that was unlim ited. My brotner Tom, (the mayor), who was an aid to the General, had some words with him about a requisition for arms, and coolness ensued. Some time after battle a grand ball was given the General, at which Mrs. Jackson, who had just reached the city, was present. My brother was there, of course, and sudden ly encountered the General, with Mrs. Jackson leaning on his arm. After salu tations. the General said, in his irresistible way, ‘Tom, you are still in a huff.’ The latter shook his head negatively. ‘Well, I think jou are, and I won’t believe dif ferently until you kiss Mrs. Jackson,’ which Tom gallantry and promptly did, in the presence of the whole assembly. I knew Mrs. Jackson well, continued the General, “and she was one of the best women I ever knew. Certainly a kinder- hearted creature never lived. The Gen eral was devoted to her. It was interest ing to observe him when she was in his company. His eyes were constantly upon her, and he seemed to anticipate her every wish.” He crawled in without a word, and the smell of camphor and the tearing in- of an old shirt into- bandages convinced the crowd a that the show was over. Bancer's Daughter. A Immense Fortune Goes to Religious and « hantabie Institutions. New York Sun Feb. 19. The will of Mary M. Dancer was of fered for probate yesterday afternoon »t the Surrogate’s Court of New York county. Miss Dancer was the only daughter of Matthias M. Dancer, said to have been- the most fortunate gam bler iu New York. Dancer was reared as a blacksmith, but left the anvil to enter the lists with professional gam blers as a dealer of faro. He won money rapidly, and hoarded his win nings. YVhen he had accumulated enough funds be left the Bowery for Broadway, and for twenty-five yt-ar- wes connected with various gambling- houses ou that thoroughfare. A large part of bis wealth was acquired in a faro-bank, which, by reason of its di minutive size, was known as the “Coon Box.” Th? most noted of his resorts was No 676 Broadway. He was one of the chief stockholders iu a faro-bank at No. 8 Barclay street, which is be lieved to h>-ve taken in $1,500,000 dur- i g the war. H<- frequently earned on his person between 850,000 and 8100- 000. Mr. Dancer died in August, last ye?r, leaving half of his property to his wife, and half to his daughter, Miss Mary Ann Dancer. In November the widow followed her husband to the grave, leav ing all her share to the daughter, who thus came into possession of all the father’s estate, valued at about 8500,000. Mis3 Dancer was a sincere Christian, a Methodist by faith, but not fanatical or demonstrative. She occasionally at tended the Presbyterian church. She would not marry, preferring to remain a companion and comforter to her aged parents. Her death on the 11th of February was somewhat unexpected. She is said to have been a young lady of rare beauty of character, of devo tional bent of mind, and almost a reli gious recluse. During her life she gave much to charities, and by her will leaves 8335,000 to thirty-one religious, benevolent and charitable societies, after disposing of 8185,000 to relatives and friends. Marvellous Cotton. A New and Prolific Variety Said to Be Dis covered in Egypt. London, February '18.—Giacomo Russia, the Austrian consular agent at Alexandria, has found a new cotton plant, which is wonderfully prolific. He says that about two years ago he accidentally came across the new plant on the property of a Copt in the Mena- tia district, who collected the seed and sold it in his neighborhood at twelve fold the price obtained for the ordinary kind. The plant has a long stem, and being without branches much space is sayed. It bears an average of fifty pods on each bush, while the usnal yield of the plant is about thirty. It yields from 375 to 675 pounds per fed- den, thus doubling the crop. A small er quantity of seed suffices, but the great drawback in Egypt is that it re quires much more water, which neces sitates the alternating of the crops with grain and vegetables. On the sea is lands of the Atlantic coast, or along the Lower Mississippi, it would prove wonderfully prolific. Men are busily engaged in fitting up the late Baroness De Pontalba’s man sion for Barrn Gustave de Rothschild; he paid 8900,000 for it; she spent $1,- 000,000 on it; he doesn’t think it sump tuous enough for him. The hour of 11 having special order was taken up, c a bill to provide for a mode Oi K°” ern ‘ ment for the deaf and dumb asj um ' The committee recommended its p. sage with an amendment which pro- P<k>«> to strike out tue nuiu>- of S. A Echols and insert that of T. A. Smith of Bartow county as a member of the board of trustees. The minority re port of the committee favored the con tinuance of Mr. Echols upon the board. Mr. Perry, chairman of the commit tee, read a number of letters from pa rents stating that their children had been miserably neglected and allowed toauffer in their bodily condition. He also stated that serious neglect had been discovered in the management of the in stitution. The expenses of the institu tion TzssswiejTO to have been terribly extravagant, while the children had fared badly. Mr. Wilson favored the proposed amendment and gave the reasons actu ating the majority of the committee in favoring it. Mr. Furman spoke iu opposition to the amendment and passed severe strictures upon the present management of the asy lum and declaring that a crying necessity existed for immediate and thorough re form. The oid board f>as been so negli- gent that their action demands the severest cenaqre and condemnation. Mr. Gamble favored the amendment and opposed action on ex-parte evidence. Mr. Gamble then read the majority report of the board of visitors made to Governor Smith. Mr. Gamble offered an additional amendment inserting the names of Sam uel Hawkins and William Moore. Mr. Harrison opposed the amendment. Mr. Cody called the previous question. The amendment proposed by the com mittee striking out the Dame of Mr. Echols was lost 10 yea3 and 30 nays. Mr. Gamble’s amendment was lo3t. The report of the committee was then agreed to and the bill passed. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Dalton. Passed, The convention bill being the regular order, the further consideration was pre sumed. Mr. Fort moved to indefinitely post pone the bill and the Senate amendment. Mr. Candler opposed the motion in an earnest and able manner. Mr. Fort favored the motion to post pone. Mr. Robson moved the previous ques- ion, which was sus ained. The motion to indefinitely postpone -as lost by yeas 34, nays 116. "‘Mr. Sheffield, of Miller, moved to lay -a -table. Lost. - ■•= The amendment was concurred in by tliefollowing'vote: Yeas 131, nays 15. Thirty-Sixth Day’s Proceedings. SENATE. The following bills were read the third time and passed: To establish normal department of North Georgia Agricultural college. The bill to authorize to loan of the net proceeds of lease of convicts to the Marietta and North Georgia railroad was passed ton ibiril reading. Mr. McDaniel offered a resolution prohibiting the treasurer from paying any interest on coupons of past due Ponds of the State, d ie January 1,1871. The resolution was taken up on motion aud passed. HOUSE. The House was called to order at 9 A. iyl. by Speaker Bacon. The Senate amendment to the House bill to regulate the fees of treasurer ot Bartow county by adding “provided it does not reduce the commission of the preseDt treasurer” was concurred iu. House resolutions were-then taken up lor final action. Recommending Perry’s magistrate’s dockets. Indefinitely postponed. Relative to W. D. Elam’s manuscript index of Supreme Court deuisions. Tabled. Requesting our Senators and repre sentatives in congress to urge the repeal of the bankrupt law. Agreed to. Mr. Stewart, of Spalding, offered a resolution authorizing Governor Col quitt to prosecute to a final conclusion the cases against Bullock and Jones at as small a cost as exigencies of the cases demand. Referred to judiciary committee. IN FAVOR OF IMMIGRATION. Mr. Richardson offered the follow ing : Whereas, The best means for recov ering the fortunes and restoring pros perity to the State of Georgia is to in crease the number and efficiency of those engaged in our industries, and pro mote the social relation of marriages, which is fundamental, and vigorously to maintain the doctrine of home pro duction ; and Whereas, The State has already since the late war appropriated §10.000 to se cure immigration, and 87,1 IS of which has been expended, resulting in the importation of only one German fe male to compete with unmarried women in the State for a husband; and Whereas, The stringency of the times, the scarcity of provisions, together with the extravagance of a fashionable es tablishment, has set at naught the Crea tor’s ancient institution of marriage as commanded, and which is left in great neglect; therefore Resolved, Instead of appropriating any sum in gold, for the purpose of in creasing the population of the State by importing foreigners and to promote the objects set forth in the above pre amble, his excellency the Governor be and he is hereby authorized in his dis cretion whenever there shall be any surplus money in the treasur or any balance on hand appropriated to immi gration not drawn by agents to offer the same in sums of 825 each, as premiums ou male children tomanor born, whose fathers will give bonds that said boys shall be raised in Georgia and educated in some honest industry. That to fur ther this object the fee on marriage li cense be remitted, and that all minis ters of the the gospel and other persons authorized discharge their duties when called upon before the altar of hymen, without fee or rewbrd (except it be a namesake) to the end that all our women may have husbands and all our old bachslors may be aided in getting wives, and that both may be blessed in a normal condition with a numerous posterity; and our good old State be saved the trouble and expense of ship ping foreigners to increase our popula tion at the rate of $7,118 per head. Mr. Whittle moved that 3000 copies of the bill be printed at the expense of the gentleman from Whitfield for the use of the House. After some-remarks the resolutions were ruled out A Georgia Constitution By Georgians. A CouTentlo.v or the People ot* Georgia Called—FnU Text of the Convention Bill. The following » ! s the full text of the convention bill as finally passed by both branches of the Jegislature: A BILL, To be entitled “An act to provide for the holding of a convention of the people of Georgia for the purpose of revising the constitution of said State.” Section 1. Be it enacted by the Sen ate and House of Represetatives and it is hereby _hy authority of the same, that immediately alter it» P -«- sage of this bill, bis excellency, the Govomor be, and is hereby authorized and required to issue his proclamation, ordering an election to be held in each and every county in this State, on the second Tuesday in June 1877, for dele gates to a convention of the people of Georgia to convene at the Capitol in the city of Atlanta on the second Wednesday in July, 1877, for the pur pose of revising the constitution of said State. Provided, nevertheless that at the election of delegates provided for by the act, the voters may have written or printed on their ballots the word “Con vention” or the words “no Convention.” And if a majority of those voting on the question of holding or not holding a convention shall vote for holding a convention, the Governor shall by proclamation so declare and order del egates so elected to assemble according to the provisions of this act, and if a majority of those voting on the ques tion of holding said convention shall be opposed to said convention, it shall be the duty of the Governor by procla mation so to declare and order that the delegates so elected do not assemble and the convention shall not be held. Sec. 2. Be it farther enacted by tfie authority aforesaid, that said election shall be held and conducted by the laws of the State, in the same manner and at the same places as elections for members of the general assembly are now held in the State; and the returns of said election shall be in the same manner forwarded to the Governor, who shall issue certificates of election to such persons, chosen as delegates to said convention receiving the highest number of votes. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted oy the authority aforesaid, That representation in said convention shall be based upon population, in the ratio of one delegate to eyery six thousand inhabitants; and to this end each Senatorial district in the State as the districts are now ar ranged shall constitute an election dis trict from which delegates to said con vention shall be chosen as follows, to- wit: From the 1st district, eight delegates. From the 2-i district, three delegates. From the 3d district, two delegates. From the 4th district, two delegates. From the 5th district, two delegates. From the 6th district, two delegates. From the 7th district, four de egates. From the 8th district, four delegates. From the 9th district, three delegates. From the 10th district, four delegates. From the 11th district, four delegates. From the 12th district, four deleg ties. From the 13th district, six delegates. From the 14th district, four delegates. From the 15th district, one delegate. From the 16th district, three dele gates. From the 17th district, five delegates. From the 18th district, seven dele- att-s. From the 19tb distrist, five delegates. From the 20th district, six delegates. From the 21st district, five delegates. From the 22nd district, eight dele gates. From the 23rd district, six delegates. From the 24th district, five delegates. From the 25th district, Bix delegates. From the 26th district, four delegates. From the 27th district, six delegates. From the 2Sth district, five delegates. From the 29th district, five delegates. From the 30th district, four dele gates. From the 31st district, three dele tes. From the 32nd district, two dele gates. From the 33rd district, four dele gates. From the 34th district, five delegates. From the 35th district, nine dele gates. From the 36th district, six delegates. From the 37th district, six delegates. From the 38th district, three dele gates. From the 39th district, four delegates From the 40 th district, two delegates-' From the 41stdistrict, three delegates. From the 42nd district, seven dele gates. From the 43rd district^even delegates. From the 44th district,three delegates. Sec. Be it further enacted by the au thority aforesaid, that in said election any person shall be entitled to vote who is entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly under the present constitution and laws of this State; and and that any person who is entitled to vote at this election shall be eligible as a delegate of said constitutional con vention. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the constitu tional convention adopted by the afore said convention shall be submitted to the people of Georgia for ratification or rejection, and that every person entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly under the present constiution and laws of this State shall be entitled to ratify or reject said submitted con- stitution. CONTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISING One square one month—.... One square three i One square six rntmUir ' One square twelve manSZZ One-fourth column one month, One-lourth column three monl One-fourth column fix monthly One-fourth column twelve months. One-half column one month JwkH 00 } uma three month*;.*.. une-balf column fix months......... One-half column twelve month*...™ One column one month. column three months.^. *** One column six mnnHi g ._ riiii me column twelve month*.!?.”!... .7..^ m IoT sr Tri-Weekly. When published in both pe; err, l^r cent, additional upon table rates. 5 4 00 s«« U 00 20 00 16 00 20 00 St CO 60 00 20 CO 32 00 80 00 104 00 St 00 00 00 104 00 180 00 A Horror of the Sea, Thirty-two Days Without *'ood—Only One survivor Out or* Crew of Fcurteee- Drlnktng the blood and Eating tie Hearts of Their Dead Shipmate.. Boston, Feb. 21.—AJetterreceived from Capt. James, of the schooner L. E Mc Donald, dated Goree, west coast of Ainca, Jan. 24, says that on his outward passage from Boston he fell in with th- wreck of the British bark Maria, Capt. Grayson, having on board two survi vors of a crew of fourteen u en, tho others having perished from exposure i 111 ^ femme. The wreck was discovered in lat. 38 deg. 23 min., long 32 deg. 20 nun., with masts gone and full of water. Ihe two men were taken on board the schooner, but one died within four hours.. From the sole survivor it was ascertained that the bark was bound trom Doboy, Ga, to Belfast, Ireland, aQ “ “} a t she sprung a leak in a galo and filled with water, so it was impos sible to save previsions or fresh water. The lamber with which the -r? r?’ •.-> - laden, prevented her from sinking ' the weight of masts turned the ves- on her beauT'ends, until the mask oroxe wsraj-, —.La — :— Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is, hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of said convention if held, and his excellency, the Govern or is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the treasmy for the same. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be and the same are hereby, repealed. tiie men regained the deck, Having no food or water, they soon began to die of starvation, and as soon as one died, the rest subsisted upon the dead body, and so on until only two were left. The snrvivor, Jas. McLaughlin, belongs to Belfast, Ireland, and says that only small portions of the bodies could be eaten. No one was killed, but the mo ment one died the survivors cut the throat of the deceased and drank the blood, and divided the heart and brains. It was thirty two days from the time of the disaster until the wreck was sighted, and during all that time the crew bad not a drop of water or other food than the bodies of their dead shipmates. Fortunes and Misfortunes of New York Gamblers. New York Correspondence of the Boiton Jour- nal.] Chamberlin, the great gambler, has failed, and failed badly. His debts are astounding—8100,000 for meat, 810,000 for liquors, 86,000 for clothes. Tne fact is Chamberlin’s business, as the colored people sing, is “sometimes up and some times down.” One Dight bis bank loaded down with gold; the next night he could not buy a box of cigars. Yet the glitter, glare and glow of the institution, the fine furniture, the clink of the gold, the sumptuous tables free as a hydrant—do Jheir work on the unwary as really as if gambling was a paying business. There are men in New York, however, who fol low gambling as a trade—have done so for years, and have made money by it. Not one in 10,000 conld imitate them. These men'live in fine style in fashiona ble New York. Their houses are ele gantly famished and tables sumptuously supplied. Their business is unknown, and they pass for brokers. Their families move in good society, and occupy a high-priced pew in a fashionable church. These men act on a rigid rule, from which they never depart. They do not drink, they smoke sparingly, keep their heads clear, and have command over their nerves. They play every night. They play while they win, if it is until day light. They limit their losses. They can lose $50, 5100, 8300 and not feel it. Blow high or blow low, they never go be yond this. They believe iD luck, and when the luck is against them they retire. Oat of the thousands of gamblers, not ten have made money over me “green cloth.” The Prodigal Inheritors ot vast wealth arc provt. bially spendthrifts. The golden ore is dug from the mine, refined, and coined, by the labor of other hands and the sweat of other brows. Like children playing with an expensive toy, they can form no just estimate of its value. When the donor weighed it, he cast in to the balance so many days of unrern- iting and fatiguing toil, so many anxi ous and sleepless nights, so much self- denial, and so much care. But the inheritor into his balance throws only —pleaure. The one, values it by what it cost him; the other, for what it will purchase. Like the prodigal in the Scripture parable, he thoughtlessly ex pends it to gratify the caprice and crav ings of his nature. Then comes the last scene—the misery, the remorse, and the long and wearisome journey back to the home of frugal industry. But there are other prodigals. On her fa vorites our bounteous parent, Nature, has lavished her richest treasure— health. But the prodigal values it lightly, for it cost him naught, and recklessly squanders it in riotous living. Present pleasure obscures future want Soon the curtain rises on the last scene. We see him hepless, im poverished,—the rich treasures of body and mind all lost,—in misery and dcs- . pair. Remorseful Concience holds up to him the mirror of memory. In bis own reckless folly he perceives the cause of his present pain. He re selves to return. The journey is long and tedious, but if he perseverirgly follows the right road, he will at 1 ngth see the haven of his hopes in the ■ I istance, and Nature, seeing her invalid child afar off, will come out to meet 1 .in. and re ceive him back with love and nivihing. To find the right road homeward, the suffering prodigal should read “The People’s Common Sense Medical Advi ser.” Therein it is completely mapped out, its landmarks a'.i indicated and its milestones all numbered. Read it. Price $1.50 (postage prepaid). Ad dress the author and publisher, R. V. Pierce, M. D-, Buffalo, N. Y. Consumption Cured- An old physician,retired from active iractice, having had placed in his bands jy an East India'Missionary the for mula of a simple Vegetable Remedy, for the speedy and permanent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma, and all Throat and Lung At- fections, also a Positive and Radical Cure for Nervous Debility and ail Nervous Complaints, after having th riughly tested its wonderful c lowers in thousands of cases, te:’ iis duty to make it known to his suf fering fellows. Actuated by this motive, and a conscientious desire to relieve human suffering, he will send (free oj charge) to all who desire it, this recipe, with fall directions for preparing and successfully using. Sent by return mail by addressing with stamp, naming this paper. Dr. W. C. Stevens, Monroe Block, Syracuse, N. Y. marl,wlv