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I. DWDTELL, Proprietor.
7oinesday Horning, Feb. 13,1873
PorE Pius IX is said to be improving,
Ind it is predicted that he will soon be
Ihle to walk on crutches.
A London' dispatch says Roumania in-
sts on having the Dobrudja. Well,lei
ler have it. We are willing, so far a-
re know. ■
The Kentucky House of Represents
Ives passed a bill last week establishiut
i-hipping post. We hardly think th
fenate will concur.
SENATOR BECK’S SPEECH.
The London papers assert that Rus
lian soldiers have entered Constanti
sople, and it is thought this is done ii
accordance with the terms of the armis-
Englisii bondholders ha - e signifin
Iheir willingness to accept the proposi
Son offered by the Virginia Legisla
ture—that is four per cent, bonds in
pelt of thoso now held.
Gov. Vance, of North Carolina, it is
aid, has so far failed to recognize Mr.
Ilayeu ns President. He invariably ad
dresses him and speaks of him as Mister
Ind not as President Hayes.
The advance of the Greek army has
been stopped by order of the Govern
lent at Athens, on assurance of tht-
Icpresentatives of foreign Governments
[hat'the Hellenic provinces in Turkey
vould be protected.
uov. Smith has appointed Hon.
Francis Fontainof Columbus; and Col
John A. Speer of LaGrange, honorary
lommissioners to represent Georgia ai
(he Paris Exposition. It is under
ltocd they will accept.
Mb. Him, and Mr. Blaine stand upon
Ihc same platform, in favor of what the)
term an “honest dollar.” Past differen
pcs are forgotten in their zeal to uphohi
Ihc honor of the nation at the expense oi
111 e rights of the people.
The New York Herald insinuates
I lbat there are only about six real news
paper wits in the country. He ought
o know that there are about six thou-
and of us, with a reserve force about a
liundred thousand strong.
I Austria is disposed to have something
|o say in the final conditions of peaia
Between Russia and Turkey. She doe-
lot want Russia to come too near herself.
Ind will object to any very cousiderabl-
erritorial aggrandizement on the part oi
Russia.
It seems that away up in New
Ifork Mr. Conkiing’s people are send
ing him petitions to be laid before tin
penate favoring the remonitizatii n ol
lilver. About sixty send in their pro
le 5 '- calling thousands who differ with
mem half knave and half idiot.
There is a strong anti-Russian feel
ng manifested by the populace o
London. But we do not entertain se
lions fears of a war between England
Ind Russia. It is pretty generally
lonceded that these fellows that make
j hi g fuss before the fight begins are
pot of much force in the day of battle.
The speech of Senator Beck, of Ken
tucky, on the Matthews resolution
is worthy ot perusal, and we would
publish it but for its great length. Sen
ator Beck handles the subject in a man
ner that shows careful study and pains
taking. In advocating the passage of
be resolution he took occasion to re
view the manner in which the act de
monetizing silver was passed in beth
Houses. In the House it was passed
without reading, upon the assurance cf
Mr. Hooper, of Massachusetts, who
had the bill in charge “that it made no
changes in the existing law.” In the
Senate it was put through by Senator
John Sherman, now Secretary of the
Treasury, on his assertion that “it had
massed the Senate two years ago, on full
lebate.” The members of both houses
who would have opposed the passage
if the bill with the clause in it demon
-tizing silver were quieted with these
false assertions, and were led to believe
hat the bill was intended only to regu
late the coinage of money by the mints.
It will be remembered that President
Grant, in a message sent to Congress,
•tome time afterward, perhaps a year or
uore, used language that showed plain
iy that he was not aware that silver
uad been “counted out.” And ex-Gov-
*rnor Hendricks, a man who has been
constantly in public life and certainlv
would not like to confess ignorance up
>n a matter so important, says in a re
cent letter, that some months after the
passage of the bill, he was not aware
that there was any doubt that the word
coin included silver dollars as well as
gold dollars.
The putting of so important a bill
upon its passage without reading, the
replies of the friends of the bill to
proper questions as to its contents and
scope, the haste with which it was ban
ned, and the ignorance of President
Grant as to its import, although he
signed it, go to prove that it was an act
>f wanton fraud, and that it was legis
ation favorble to a limited number of
people, and so obnoxious to the general
public that its success would be itn
perilled by an honest publication of its
full bearing and effect. Honesty and
justice require that an iniquitous act so
fraudulently put upon our statute
book should be expunged by common
onsent, and that the names of the
prominent actors in the vile business
hould be held up to public scorn.
SILVKH IRONY.
The Cap.tersville Express calls the
Courier a modest old maid because it
k-ant3 the financial question discussed i
l moderate way. Weal ways gave Will-
ligltam credit for perspicacity,and he has
Blown his right to claim it by discover
ing our modesty. We do not profess to
tnow it all—our modesty will not allow
The municipality of Rome has voted
[20.000 towaros the erection of a statue
> the late King, Victor Emanuel, and
ither cities and private citizens are sub-
eribing liberally. The Italian parlia-
aent, it is thought, will unanimously
bass a bill to pay his debts, amounting to
|bout SO,000,000. It’s a big thing to die
King.
The Bondholder accepts an act to
ay his interest in coin, and then anoth-
r to demonetize silver and make the
ayment in gold, and thereby increase
he value of gold, but when effort is made
o restore the law to what it was when his
lornls were issued, he objects and calls it
lie act of a pickpocket. Surely the
cckct nerve is very sensitive.
Pope Pius IX. died a few minutes
efore 5 o’clock on the evening of the
th inst. He was nearly eighty-six
ears of age, and had ruled as Pope for
aorejshan thirty-one years. We pre-
umef there will be a good deal of anx-
ty and excitement in the Catholic
rorld until his successor is chosen and
rmly seated in the chair. It will be
arc! to find in the Church a better man
j fill the position.
If Mb. Christiancy’s bill to put 431
rains of standard silver in a dollar
hould become a law, it would likely
appen again that silver would be
:orth more than gold, and then the
old dollar would have to be increased
i weight, until by the fluctuation of
alues caused by the varying demands
f commerce, the gold dollar would
gain be the better one, and some other
| lr. Christiancy would ask for more
* lver in his dollar.
In the Fourth Congressional District
California Mr. Pacheco, Republican,
as given a certificate of election in the
11 of 1876, hia apparent majority over
r. Wigginton, Democrat, being the
-hole amount of one. Mr. Wigginton
ntested his right to the seat, and the
ouse pi Representatives have unseated
r. Pacheeo, and seated Mr. Wiggin-
D ‘ T k<Sjvidence was clear that hun-
'eds of illegal votes were cast for
checo. So at last we have got back
th* gofi old times when 8 beats 7,
We give below au extract from an ex
hange whose ideas are all golden. The
attempt at making fun of and killing off'
argument and reasoning that none of the
pponents of the silver bill have ever at
tempted to meet by argument and rea-
-on is apparent in the article. But as it
it written in clever, agreeable stylo we
publish it with the remark, that we ap
prehend no serious overloading of any
me with silver, even when it becomes a
egal tender. We will risk our judg
lueut on Mr. Stephens, who is without
luubt, the weakest man, physically, in
Congress, walking off with his share:
The awful statement has got out that,
vheu the silver bill becomes a law, the
reasury department will dispose of a few
ons of the white metal in the payment
f the quarterly salaries of the members
of Congress. To do this would require
in aggregate of nearly thirty-seven thuu-
and pounds of diver, and each member
would receive about a hundred pounds,
ft would he a magnificent sight to see
•he great statesmen of America strug
gling under a hundred pound load of
diver every three months, when it is no!
orohable that one iu ten of them could
• houlder a ninety-six pound sack of flour.
Mr. Bland, who is a small man in a good
many ways, would look ridiculous enough
-rying to get away with such a load, aud
hen when he had finally got it housed—
if he ever did—it would be a sad thing
for him to rea'ize that his twelve hundred
and fifty dollars roally represented but
about eleven hundred dollars of such
money as is good in all parts of the
world. Still we are persuaded that the
Bland bill will revive at least some
drooping industries. Many poor men at
the capital will find employment with
wheelbarrows aud carts transporting the
salaries of Congress to suitable store
rooms which will have to be erected for
that purpose, and this in turn will afford
work for honest mechanics. A thing of
this kind is far-reaching in its beneficent
effect.
COOSA RIVER IMPROVEMENT.
We publish the report of Col. D. S.
Printup made upon the subject of the
improvement of the navigation of the
Coosa River. This repott is made in
accordance with instructions of the
mass meeting held at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, some few months ago. To
Col. Printup.was assigned the duty of
giving the facts connected with the
Coosa River, and, as will be seen by
reading his interesting paper, he has
well and faithfully discharged the
trust reposed in him.
I he Jury in the case against Ander
son, one of the Louisiana Returning
Board, returned a verdict of guilty, and
recommended the "prisoner to the mercy
of the court. What mercy could a man
expect, or what-mercy could the cour
extend to a man who deliberately and
wilfully falsifies the returns of an elec
tion where the rights and liberties of the
people of the United Slates are involved?
Washington special to Courier Jour
nal, Feb. 6: Judge Thurman’s speech
, p . .... _ been true to the R-publican party. You
the question: Why do they mk our
the best that has been made in the dts-
ion. It was not long, but was con
cise, well condensed, clear and logical
and a fair, appeal, without passion ot
rhetoric, to the reason of the body an<
to public opinion', One by one, with
out a superfluous word Jor epithet, he
took up the. objecti ons to the bill, tested
them by the rules of common sense
and human experience, and demon
strated absolutely that they were th
merest chimeras in the world. Judge
Thurman insisted that to resume sped
payments it was necessary to enlarge
the present specie basis. He did not
diminish the effect of his-sober and
sensible statement by extravagant
prophesies of the blessings to follow
this bill, but he stripped the objections
to it of all their force, showed that the
policy contended fir was the one under
which the States had flourished for
eighty years-, and that France was now
prosperous, while her gold-standard
rivals, England and Germany, were
suffering and depressed. Judge Thur
man has been slow to speak ou the bill
but his opinions have never been con
cealed. He is equally emphatic against
forced resumption, and, after gi’ing
that measure a most careful study, ip
ready to vote to repeal the act of Janu
ary, 1875.
The discovery of forgeries perpetrat
ed by Alderman H. S. Moss, of Louis
ville, has produced a genuine sensa
tion throughout the city. The Courier-
Journal siiyB Mr. Moss’ excellent repu
tation as a business man, his official
standing as a member of the Board ot
Aldermen, his supposed prudence and
economy, gave him the confidence ol
our citizens, and the proof of ’he crime,
quite irrefutable, has shocked all win
sustained business or social relations
with him. Such forgeries of business
paper could not long be conceal d. and
why Mr. Moss deliberately exposed
himself to shame and humiliation, with
his reputation for integrity, is one ot
things which can only be explained by
the assumption that desperate financin'
straits, engendered by illegitimat
speculations, brought about the deter
mination to risk the usual consequences
of such crimes. It is a very distress
ingly sad fall, made sadder, too, by the
fact that Mr. Moss is so seriously ill
that it is possible that he will not sur
vive hi3 dishonor, which is a privilege
accorded to lew in his situation. It is
to the honor of Louisville business men
that such lapses in our community are
of exceedingly rare occurrence.
The last hour of Victor Emanuel’s
life was filled with peculiarly distress
ing scenes. The Princess Marguerifa
was wild with grief, and had to be
taken forcibly away from the couch
The King in a feeble voice said to her:
Why do you weep, my child; don’t
you know that sootier or later all must
die ?” A little later, as the members of
his civil and military household passed
before him to bid him farewell, he saw
the strong men convulsed with sobs,
and said with much dignity, “Don’i
cry. Kings as well as other people are
mortal I” Shortly before the King
breathed his last the physicians endeav
ored to prevent his wish to be seated in
chair. They advised him to remain
in bed, but he said, “I beg you, my
friends, let me die in my own fashion!”
And they concluded that they would.
To Prince Humbert he said (this version
of his words has been authorized:)
Hold firm and good, and love with
equal love country, liberty and reli
gion.”
At a recent spelling reform confer
ence in London, Prof. Gladstone stated
that it was found on comparing the
progress made in education by English
children with the progress made by
children in some continental countries,
where spelling was more simple, that
the foreign children learned to read and
spell with striking rapidity. If, for
instance, the English language had a
spelling as simple as the Italian, there
would be a saving in the school life of
every English child of 1,000 hours.
There is talk in Madrid of the re
moval of Martmez Campos, Captain-Gen-
ral of" Cuba, for failing to put down the
Cuban rebellion. Campos was sent out
with a large force, after quelling the
Carlist movement in Spain, and was
expected to end the rebellion in Cuba in
a very short time. But it seems he is
about to fail. For eight or nine years
this war has been going on, and there
seems to be about as much life as ever in
the Cuban rebellion.
Some of our Congressmen want uni
ted action with the Latin nations upon
the money question. We favor an ex
tension of the Monroe doctrine to this
matter also. No interference by Euro
pean nations in our monetary affairs.
The revolutionary war freed ns from
England, and we would remain free in
deed, a ’ a the only way to do that is to
handle our own purse-strings.
The New York Herald says “Sena
tor Hill, ot Georgia, has fastened a
name on the Bland bill which will be
very likely to stick to it—‘the pick-
picket bill.’” Very likely it will in the
bitter language, of the checkmated
bondholders, but in the “sweet by and
by,” if notin the near future, Mr. Hill
will regret having used such an ex
pression.
A New York observer points to the
fact that during 1877 the total arrivals
in this country from China and Japan
were 9,906. and the departures were 7,-
852, leaving 2,054 Americans, Japanese,
Chinamen, Englishmen and Frenchmen
of the aforesaid, arrivals in this country.
As more than 2,054 Chinamen died in
the United States last year, there is very
good evidence that Mongolian immigra
tion cannot be very extensi ve.
Hard
Sen»e from
Sources.
Colored
The Visitor is the name of a newspa
per published and edited at Lexington,
Ky., by colored men. In a recent num
ber of the Visitor appears this very sen
sible talk to the colored people of Ken
tucky
We have been offered peace—shall we
iccept? Yes! We have bad extended
•o us the right-hand of fellowship, and
why not gra-p it, by the Democracy, to
whom we have been as hitter as we have
favor? Barely not for political sake, for
.hey have now and have had. and' will
contin je to have for ages to come, power
over this commonwealth. Tuen, why ?
Because they have looked on long enough
and seen us robbed; our rights trampled
in the Just, and they wish, in the good
ness of their heart, to take us up and do
for us that which our loved (?) brother
has not done for us.”
The Knoxville Tribum says the Ad
vance is another paper, published and
edited by a colored man at Montgomery,
Alabama. Copying the above extract
from the editorial columns of the Visi
tor, the editor of the Advance—who, by
the way formerly lived in Knoxville—
gives to it his “unqualified approval,’
and says: “We commend the argument
to the thoughtful consideration of our
colored readers. The same peace offered
by the Democracy of the blue gran re
gions has been extended to the colored
people of Alabama, and, while many
continue to hold nut aud vote the Repub
lican ticket, thousands of others come
■ut baldly and say that they never will
again be the blind dopes of that party.”
It will require some time yet for the
colored people generally to realize the
wisdom of such advice as this, bnt the
day will come when they will do it Ex
perience is the best of teachers.
The Nashville American says it is
uard for people to understand in this
country what is meant in foreign par
lance by a vote of confidence in
Government, it has been so many yi
since we had any confidence in oi
Senator Gordon has been permitted
to name a pupil for West Point, over
he heads, it is said, of several Repub
lican Congressmen. The average fig
.tuhlican patriot now demands to be
conciliated.
I.GOnCIl GL-HrsES.
The population of Columbus is ten
thousand.
Cedartown has a Reading Club and
L brary Association. £
Much interest is awakening in StMRh-
west Georgia in fruit culture.
Thos. CouneSjpT of Murray, county
lied last week of heart disease!'
Wheat looks promising in Whitfield
aud adjoining counties, says the Qilizen
Col. if. S. Grisham, brother of Mrs
Jus. E. Brown,dint.in Atlanta on the 7th
Carrollton few nt&neS for
that appearance in Macon, where they
pass freely in current commercial
transactions, albeit the banka refuse to
receive them.
There are seventy-seven banka in the
State. Of these eleven am national
banks; thirty-five are State banks and
thirtyrpne are private banking houses.
Seventeen of the State banks have not
reported their condition to the Govern
or in accordance with his proclama
tion. / i
The circus men who are marching
through Georgia have contested the right
of th% Comptroller General to exact the
tax of two Hundred do’lars a day on their
exhibition, both circus and menagerie.
They claim that they must be allowed to
show by the payment ef the menagerie
tax only, as they do not charge for ad
mission to the circus, bat only to “see
the elephant” and things. The Comp
troller General, however,, doesn’t see the
elephant in that light, and says that the
tax ordinance reads for “every exhibi-
tion,” meaning of course whether it is a
pay exhibition or a free one. - To this
decision the circus men demur, and the
matter has gone before the Attorney Gen
eral for bis decision of the question of
construction.
Washington Correspondence.
There are, it seems, eighteen States
which are deprived df the inestimable
privilege of sending one or two of their
favorite political sons to represent them
at the Paris Exposition. This is a very
great injustice, and Congress, it is to be
hoped, will remedy it by passing the
resolutidn row before the Senate. The
American exhibit will nqt be complete
without eighteen politicians from those
States.'':':" .--.G
The people of Massachusetts are be-
ginniuoto’debate the question of call
ing a constitutional convention to se
cure biennial instead .of annual session?
of the Legislature. They find that an
nual sessions are productive of .a great
deal of ttoneOetfeiry expense and '-a -aud everything on the table’away,
laws.'' ”- r
-,-i —- «i< <r* ;
Senor Mantilla, the Spanish Minister
at Washington, has a salary' of ?23,000
from the Spanish Government, besides
an-immense estate, but he has the
handsomest wife in* Washington, and
pay's month %%
ments.
Rome, and is ba?ing it graded and irn
proved.
Ocouee county is out of debt, with
about ten thousand dollars in her
treasury,
Dalton is looking up. Bills for sever
al new buildings are in the hands of the
mechanics.
The title of Dr. A. Means’ work will
be “A Cluster of Poems for the Hand
ud Heart.’’
An interest of one-third in the Kim
ball House, Atlanta, is to be sold at trua-
tee’s sale on the 13th inst.
Two vessels were cleared from St
Simons last week with cargoes in ag
gregate of 480,666 feet of timber.
Washington Fire Company No. 1, of
Augusta, will celebrate their S4th an
niversary on the 22d, by a grand ball
Hall conaty held a mass meeting on
the 5tn inst., and resolved in favor of
the silver dollar and against resump
tion.
Rev. Otis Glazebrook, recently of
Baltimore, is about to assume the rec
torship of Christ Church, P. E., at
Macon,
The Fanners’ Club of Polk county
are determined to have a fair this fall
Go ahead, gentlemen, you are on the
right road.
The Terrell county Agricultural and
Horticultural Society will give a fair
at the fair grounds in Dawson on the
4th of next May.
Mr. Wiley Carter, one of the olden'
citizens of Oglethorpe county, died on
the 22nd of January at the anvanced age
of eighty-seven years.
Prof. B. M. Zdtler, Superintendent of
public schools in Maon, had his left leg
fractured by a fall from the sidewalk in
Atlanta, Wednesday night.
Carrollton has received about a thous
and more bales of cotton this season than
last, showing that the place is rising as a
cotton mart and improving in condition.
Fonr thousand dollars worth of calen
dar clocks were sold in Dougherty eonn-
ty last year, twenty-six dollars being
made on each clock above what it cost to
manufacture it.
On Saturday Mrs. Epeie Johnson, of
DeKalb county, was at breakfast, had
just finished, and was standing by the
table, when throwing her hands to her
head, she fell dead.
Milledgeville presented Col. Jones, of
the Telegraph and Messenger, a hand
some silver set, on last Tuesday, in ac
knowledgment of his services in favor of
Milledgeville for the capitol.
’ A thief entered Jndge Alexander’s
residence in Thomasville, and, finding
the dining table set, just took the table
cloth by the four' corners and carried it
storm of last Thursday night
was very destructive in Laurens-county.
Houses and 'fences were biown down.
One negro Kad hia leg* broken, and an
other was so severely injured that he
will die.
The Mexican dollon which have been
run out of Atlanta have suddenly made
Washington, Feb. 6,1878.
- -The unexpectedly large vote of the
House in favor of taxing the wealthy
jn proportion to their means has
aroused their newspaper and other or
gans to attribute to those voting in
favor, all sorts of communistic and Red
Republican sympathies. The measure
lacked only a few votes to the necessa
ry two-thirds, and though it is not
thought it can succeed this session, the
growing demand for some snch legisla
tion indicated by the vote, leads onr
millionaires to apprehend that they
may soon be called to account for their
itewardship.
Mr. Schurz Has seemed to make a
good many enemies, first and last, since
coming into office. This, of coarse, is
nothing against him, provided he has
been guided in his official slaughters
hy sense of justice and the good of the
.•ublic service; but there’s the rub, and
he testimony of such men as late Rep
resentative Seely, Gens. Sherman and
Sheridan, and scores of others equally
responsible, in behalf of some of his
beheaded victims, has had the effect to
liscredit his often very summary metli-
>ds of treatment of those who have
fallen under his displeasnre.
The large number of protests Bent
Mr Lf Due, Commissioner of Agricul-
ure, against the contemplated removal
>f Mr. Dodge, quite generally regarded
is the most valuable man in the Bu
reau to the country’s agricultural in
terests, induced that gentleman to fore-
io his purpose to “bounce” Mr. Dodge.
Indeed, if Mr. Le Due’s ability to take
a bint is not very limited, be muri have
become convinced that the public
would submit to bis own retirement
with a wonderful degree of resignation
should bis consent to rem dn be made
contingent on Mr. Dodge’s withdrawal.
All the information we are likely to
-get relative to th* loss of the Metropolis
is already at hand, unless an investiga
tion is had. And it now seems the
notion that in providing a superinten
dent politics should have been esebew-
eed. It strikes reflecting people that
working up soldiers’ claims for lionnty
and arrears of pay for a few yean in
the Second Auditor’s office, was not the
best preparatory school for such a re
sponsible position, and that the inspec
tion of the life-saving stations through
a spy-glass from the deck of a Govern
ment steamer during a warm weather
junketing tour up and down the coast,
was hardly the best method of posting
ones self as to the practical workings
and needs of the institution.
Knox.
■ Vi i in 111 m*wr
game played at his expense as it bad
been on other victims before, and on the
Turk since. No, indeed. We think
here, both “Blue and Grey,” that we nn
derstand him too well to waste sympathy
now that he has been beaten at his own
game of duplicity and doable dealing-
I hope I may not be accused of disre
garding the “Monroe doctrine” because,
en passant, I have paused to record som»-
thing animating residents and visitors
the seat of Government towards the
fain of onr trans-Atlantis neighbors.
The selfishness inherent in ordinary
man is, we are forced t» believe, more
less prevalent among members of Con
gress. This view seems confirmed by
careful analysis of the vote had the other
day on the proposition to tax incomes,
and by the tone taken by the disctM'ons
relating to another attempt in the same
direction and which it is believed will
succeed.. There appears no way of class
ifying those voting in favor and those
against, except by the standard of their
worldly possessions, the fortunate in this
respect generally voting nay, the impe
cunious, aye; at least, this is the method
generally adopted here in forecasting the
next vote.
Mr. Blaine had the Senate floor and
galleries full to hear his silver speech
Thursday. One would have gathered
from his speech that he is in favor of
monetization. In short,bis bill proposes
silver dollar of 425 grains with unlimit
ed coinage and legal tender; all profits
to go the Government; and that silver
dollars assayed and stamped, may be de
posited with the Ass’t Treasurer at New
York, for which coin certificates >n the
same denomination as U. S. notes may
be issued, but not for a less sum than $10,
and redeemable on demand in coin
bullion.
Enough of the trustees of Grace M.
E, Church of this city objected to the
burial from it of an unfortunate
young lady who died from mal-practice
to prevent the funeral services bein
held there; and the friends of this vic
tim of a heartless wretch, who ruined
and then seemed to have been privy
her death, were forced to forego public
services, or only such as could be hel
at the resideuc9 of the mother, lest the
righteous souls of the trustees be shocked
and the moral atmosphere of their Church
be contaminated by contact with the the
remains of this victim of a deliberate
murder. Their course is severely com
mented on by church aud world’s |ieo-
ple alike, and they will likely bs made
to feel that they have not increased the
esteem ia which they are - held by their
neighbors, nor fooled anybody as to the
practical piety prompting their contempt
ible refusal to allow Christian bnriil
one of their kind. Knox.
Washington, Feb. 9,1878.
. The number in this community whose
“bowels of compassion” are moved to any
great extent towards John Ball in bis
humiliating dilemna, are very few. The
course pursued during the war just closed
has been characteristic of the Tory ele
ment in England. Its representatives
never lost an opportunity to denounce
the barbarous rule of the Tnrk in his
Christian dependencies; but really en
couraged her to continue them by the
moral support accorded her. She prob
ably hoped, indirectly, to cripple Russia
by stimulating the Turk to resist the de
mands of the Russian to the bitter end,
thus provoking intervention. Lord Bea-
consfield has been careful to keep the
Turk directly in his front to stop the
Russian bullets before reaching his own
precious carcass. It is remembered how
the Southern slaveholder was denounced
by this Tory party for his crime and
complicity with the slave trade that the
British navy was trying to suppress
bow the Federal Government was de
clared equally guilty for its failnre to
r ree the slave by force; how anti-slavery
i-ocieties were formed all over England
to protest against our crime in tbe inter
ests of civilization and to make us odi
ous in the estimation of the world; how
John Bull poked his meddlesome nose
everywhere in matters exclusively onr
own; how he fairly oppressed ns with
his offensive suggestions and advice, and
how he strove for years, quite successful
ly too, to foment sectional hatred among
onr people. The moment the rebellion
was fairly inaugurated his admiration for
the Southerner knew no bounds; his
manner towards him was what it has
since been towards tbe deluded Turk; he
was petted, familiarly upped on the shoul
der and the evidence of early recognition
thrust in his face, enco-iraging him to
believe that it was only a question of a
very short time: slave-holding became a
virtue for which the oppressed Sonth
was being persecuted by the growling
Yankee Government; the cotton famine
was urged as a reason of interference.
This same bragging, blustering, hypo
critical pretender eagerly bent himself
to tbe scheme to draw the lines of our
limits Southward and prudently sneaked
home when he saw the collapse of the
Confederacy at hand, leaving poor Max-
riflitn to suffer from the confidence
A Cyclone.
Augusta, GA-,'Feb. 8.—About7 o’clock
last evening this city was visited by
shower of hail, followed by a rain
storm accompanied by thunder and
lightning,and a rambling and tremor of
earthquake. This was followed, a little
after 1 o’clock by a cyclone, which
struck the city on the southwest near
Center steet and demolished many
house*. The lower market-house waslifted
and smashed into atoms* Several brick
and wooden building are wholly or
partially destroyed. The cyclone trav
eled from the southwest to the notbeast.
and covered a space about 300 yards
wide. Some casualties are reported.
The Columbia railroad depot is a total
wreck, and some damage was done to
Cental railroud depot. Many private
residences were injured. Charles < Dives
and wife(colored) were found dead in
the rains of their bonse. The track of
tornado blazed as if on fire.
The loss is $50,000. Reports are rife
of damage in tbe neighboring country
south of Augusta.
Severe Fight with Distillers-
re strongly fortified at Campbell
n’s distillery, and threatened death
Nashville, Feb. 9.—A letter from
revenue parties now raiding in Jacksou
county give-i the details of a desperate
encounter with some distillers. The lat
ter were
Morgan’s distillery,
all assailants. On tbe approach
the revenue party, Morgan fired from the
port boles, when the revenue offi -ers re
turned tbe fire, shattering Morgan’s rifle.
Morgan fired again with another rifi
and the fight became genaral. M-irgan
finally called out that he would surrt-n
der, and threw open the door, when it
was found that be was wounded in both
arms. Tbe revenue officers then des
troyed the distillery. Tne party after
ward raided Macon county and destroyed
three illicit distilleries.
The Tariff Bill.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The Commit
tee of Ways and M-ana were in sea-ion
to-day from half-past t-n until three
o’clock, and have thus far passed upni.
schedule “A” of the tinff bill relating
to cotton and cotton goods, and sebed
nle “B” relating to earths and earthen
ware. No amendments have been
made te tbe original bill except of a
verbal character. The highest nega
tive votes were two. Mr. Wood, the
chairman, anticipates that the bill will
be passed substantially as he prepared
it
English Failures and Strikes.
London, Feb. 9.—It is reported that
a considerable failure has occurred in
tbe grain trade. It is understood that
the firm in trouble is Mkyne Bros., of
Belfast
Tbe employees of the Oldham mills
have been given notice that tbe mills will
be dosed on the 21st of February, in
consequence of tbe weavers’ notice that
they intend to leave work on account o''
a redaction of five per cent ia their
wages.
Washington News.
Washington, Feb. 9.—In the Ilouee,
the session was devoted to the delivery
of written essays, chiefly for and against
silver remonetization.
Reports from all parts of the world
show regretful demonstrations fox; His
Holiness, and sacred observances for
tbe repose of his soul.
Canadian advices represent Sitting
Boll as being on Canadian soil, and
say that he is lame from a wound.
New York. Feb. 8.—Three thonsand
1 leople, suffering for food in Hoboken.
‘ Phe war news created considerable ex
citement on Produce Exchange yester
day morning, and there was, for a
while, considerable activity in bread-
etuffij, which advanced in price. The
market, however. cloeed more, or less
unsettled, except for spot, which re
mained firm at an advance.
Programme of the State Agri-
cnltural Sjciety.
To fee HcM »«* * nerea-. Febnuu) 12tb,
. *3 fe amt 11th.
nj! L .
FIRET DAT—T UESDAY. FEB. 12.
1. Address of welconje on the part of
citiz-ns of Americus.
2 Response by
3. Openiuz address of the President.
4. Gardening in Georgia as a source*of
profit and pleasure to the Planter—
Mr. S. I. Gustin, Macon.
5. Farm Management—what; it should
be, compared with' what 1 it is—Cap
tain J. N. Montgomery, of Madison
county.
Discu-eion. isxsT in lohs'T
6. Bees and Honey—Major S. M. H.
Bvrd, Polk county.
Diseus-non.
7. The Peculiar Advantages of South
western Goorgia as a farming Section,
and the inducements which it offers
to settlers.
Experience meeting at night;
second day—Wednesday, Feb, 13.
8. Burning the woods annually as a
sauitary measure, aud a means of de
stroying insect life and preserving
timber—Prof John W, Glenn, of
Jackson cuuntjr.
Discussion.
9. The importance of good common
roads—Prof. S. P. Sanford, of Mer
cer University, Macon.
Discussion
10. Have fertilizers on cotton paid—all
things considered ? - ; -
Affirmative—J. R. Respass, Schley
county.
Negative—R. T. McMullen, Monroe
couuiy.
Di-cussion.
11. Forage crops—the kinds which
thrive best in different sections of
tbe State and their importance in
farm economy—Dr. Wm. B. Jones,
of Burke couuty.
Discussion.
12 The edge tools which cat farmers’
fingers—Mr. Samuel Barnett, .Wash
ington.
Discussion.
Experience meeting at night
THIRD DAY—THURSDAY, FEB. 14.
13 Communsense farming, or bow to
make the farm pay—Mr. A. I. Leet,
of Catoosa county.
Discoa-ion.
14. Gins, gin-houses and ginning—Mr.
C A. Alexander, of Wilkes county.
Discussion.
15 Report of Executive Committee.
16 Report of special committees.
17. Selection of next place of meeting.
18. Closing proceedings.
The convention will assemble at 9
o’clock in the morning, aud adjourn at
1,-for dinner, will reassemble at 2:30 in
i he afiera- on and adjourn at 5:30 p. M.
Night sessions will commence at a
quarter past 7 o’clock.
Thus Hardehae, Jr., Pres’t.
Malcolm Johnson, Sec’y.
Death in His Favorite Rohe.
The mortuary statistics of the whole
civilized world show that about one-
fifth o' all mankind die of consump-
*ion alone, and the number of deaths
due to coosumption bears a greater
ratio to the whole number than that of
any other three diseases together. More
over. investigation proves that this
ratio is steadily increasing. Its in
creasing prevalence has led to the pop
ular belief that consumption is incura
ble. Every year hundreds of these
sufferers seek, in the snnny retreats of
Florida or the dry atmosphere of Culo-
ridn, fur health—and find only a grave.
The influence cf the atmosphere—the
oulv remedial agent that either Florida
or Colorado can afford the consump
tive—is at best ouly palliative. The
cure of consumption depends upon two
essential conditions: 1st, the arrest of
the abnormal breaking down of the
tissues, which prevents emaciation;
21, ihe restoration of healthy nntritioD,
in order to stop the formation of tuber
culous mat.er. Fulfill these conditions
and consumption is as curable as fever.
To fulfill these conditions tbe required
remedy must increase the appetite,
favor tbe assimilation of food, and en
rich the blood, thus retarding the de
velopment of tubercles. To accom
plish this, a morn powerful alterative
than Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Dis
covery h-.s never been discovered. At
the same time it soothes the irritation
of the nervous system produced by
violent coughing, which in its turn so
aften leads to more serious results. The
use of “expectorants” in consumption
is absolutely suicidal. For while re
moving the tubercles already formed,
hey produce yet mure serious results
by inflaming and destroying the sound
and healthy 'issues. Consumption re
quires a remedy that will soothe while
it relieves; harsh medicines but add
fuel to the 11 tine that already threatens
'« consume the sysiem. The Golden
Medical Discovery fulfills these condi
tions, and has been pronounced the
best remedy yet discovered to allay and
arrest consumption.
AIoim on the f; C ean.
Philadelphia Tima.
The rescue of the lad Ad i u „
ker who was Otrried to ^ **
inst. in the schooner T b :i: ,, "
broke her mooring^ JSKfcJ*
a ‘- V n ' ,d d , nf ir d “Ut. bus already
been reported A Times rep ,, r „ r
terdav seemed the billowing sint oont
of Parkers adventurous trio H„
sold
t IWV. r he fl, S P8r * d her “““rings
I thought I would run her ashore t.ht
yhp struck tne wharf and sheered off
lino the stream. 1 then threw over a
mall kedge anchor, which dragged to
he fiist Rnoy anff there 'part-d the
cable. Noticing she was f«»t being
drivenpn the bar, I hoisted sail to keep
“ OT °F-1 eThe surfboat pur out to help
me, bnt tamed huck. Meanwhile I
tried to haul her close to the wind, af
ter clearing the bar, in the hope of re
ceiving assistance, which did not cmne
I now found myself fast being driven
to sea, and did not think the schooner
would be able to stand the terrible
wares which struck her. The rigging
was poor, sails torn, and the prospect
of hex weathering the gale not very
promising. On W-ifi,eed»y night a
heavy sea broke over the v.ssel and
rolled me over tbe wheel. The rigging
and deck were covered with ice, au,| jt
was with difficulty I kept myself from
freezing. On Thursday I suppose I
was near tbe Gult Sireara. There was
aliont a foot and a half of water in the
hold, and a heavy sea rolling The
pamps gave onr, and I was forced lo
bail her out with « bucket. Ahou* 4
o’clock on Thursday afternoon the
wind sprang up fresh from the t-ou’h-
east. I was hailed by a bark, which
cleared the scho-mer by only ten fi-et.
The Bchooner s lights went out, and I
took down ths starboard light, relit it
and hung the signal light in the main
rigging on the port side. On Friday
morning I sighted land Beach Haven,
and, after beating nocut all day, head
ed np abreast ot Aheecom Light. The
sea was very rough, and failing t> bring
the vessel into the ii.l.f, and a* the w«.
ter was up to the cabin Amir. I beached
heron Little Brigantine Snoals, wlnre
I was taken nff, after having le-en
without sleep for :our days and three
nights.”
Hayes i>.fimt
Home-made Superphosphates.
Plucking Geese-
C*»nntry Q«nU«ai«n :
It is said that all created living be
ings have some use in this world, and
seems to be a part of the goose not
only to fe. d man, but to leak- for hin
pillow of down on which toroi wh- n
weary, mi l to -soothe the aching brow
Let me a-k how all this can he done, it
the goose is not allowid to fulfil hi
des tiny ? Why is it that his life is pro
mged so far beyond the generality • f
feathered bipeds? If his feathers atv
nit to be plucked only at death, wh)
they pluck their own feathers one-
i two muu.hs through the summer, at
which time they are ripe for the har
vest ? If the fe*there are tried too soon
they will be bloody on the ends, and
will come hard, aod plucking will be
Gainful. Not so when ripe, and this te
evidently a design of Pr •videuca. Now
let u* look at the value of a goose. One
will yield one p>-uod of feathers per
annum, if iducked in the right time
without injury to thepatse. Most peo
ple pluck four times a year, but that is
once too much. Three pluckings give
ample time for the goose -to get well
feathered for winter. In 100 years the
goos- will yield her master one dundred
pounds of feathers, worth at least $50.
G. G. were to keep his goose 100
years, and then plnck and eat it, I
think he would fi-'d poor compensa-
tsnn, and bis family would he com
pelted to sleep on straw or bosks.
Albant, N. Y.. Feb. 9.—A bill has
been introduced in the Assembly mak
ing tbe use of language to any assemb
lage of people numbering twenty-five
or more, which is intended to incite
riot or criminal violence against person
or property, a felony pur.ishanle by
imprisonment in the 6tate prison or
enmity jail not exceeding two: years, or
by fine not exceeding $5,000, or both.
New York. Feb. 9.—Cardinal Mo-
Cloeky, unaccompanied, sailed for Ea-
rope in tbe ateamer City of New York,
to take part ' in" the Romab Conclave.
A large Dumber of clergy, Bisbbp Mc-
Munery. of Albany,.BishnD Waddena,
of Ogdenshurg aa.1,. Vicar-General
Quinn assembled to see hint off and
bid him adieu. • *n-ai-wJUii « h -. ,
Farmer’s Advocate.
I place side by side two old flour bar
rels, in one of which 1 put whatever
bones come to hand. Iu the uihtr 1 put
a bucketful of wood aehts from tbe
bouse stoves, moisten them well and ,-cat-
ter a few bojes ou the top. The process
is repeated as the bones aud tbe a-bes are
produced and at the end ot the yiar
some five or six barrels are the result.
Tbe mixture should be kept well moist
ened, without beiug wet enough in alb w
drainage, and iu ab--ui eigtrteeu unitohs
tbe small b„ues will hav_ di-appeared
altogether, and the large ones will have
become soft enough to be easily crushed
itb tbe shovel while raizing tbe com
post. Tbe result is a manure--which is
far too powerful to ise wiihnu* mixing
it with at least ten times its hoik of muck,
or come fertilizing earth and which can
then be applied with excellent iff ci, es-
leciully to turLip land I am ot npin-
m that it is al.ao-t. : f u.u, quite as val
uable as maav of the pure ha-, d slqier-
pbosphates, ami the plan is worth adopt
ing, if it were onlv o get rid of dauger
ous a-hes and um-igbtl, hones.
Liburian Craze.
That “phantom shin” that is to sail
from Charleston to Liberia with a car
go of aawrted ra-groe. has not yet ar
rived at that p- rt. Its delayed arrival
is causing the tax-payers some alarm.
Up country negroes are r. pidly accu
mulating in tne city. The „rnv,.l. fa
b.iiid his" week made the total of these
would-he emtgroois 375! gathered from
North and South Carolina, Georgia mid
Alabama. What is to he dm e ni'h
them is the q-ie-liiin that now perplexes
the Chsirie-imi authorities. The emi
grants are U'terly helpless, having al
ready spent all iheir money, and will
soon be dependent on charity for sup
port. The authorities are unable to
send them home, and the tnx-payets
unwilling to support them. The Li
beria exmlus scheme is likely to de
velop negro traitipt-m in the South.
Patagonia’s Lone Railroad.
The first iulimation that the world
has had of there Leiriga railroad in far
•iff Patsgouia, is 'he n-ws that the only
train on the road has suffered a bad
smash-up, and business has suspended
until re(iaire can be made. Think of
the happintsjnf running on a road
which has only one train on it! No
flagging; no wild-catting; no torpedoe,
on the track; no worrying about the
schedule or the right of the nwd. When
the boys want to stop and w;t.-m awhile,
pr gather a few dozen hnzlenuts along
the road, they need not worry lest No.
0004 comes along and tri-s to ebmb
up on thetr caboose And then what
a soft thing tbe train dispatcher must
have. He just Baunters out to t-41 the
boys to pull oat as s '>on as they get
through dinner, and g aw back to his
little game of pcdni fnt'tbe drinks with
the master of trans sirtarion.
There seems to be a law of periodici
ty governing tbe recurrence of
winters. The must notnhle mild wint
ers for the last sightv vesr- have oceit
in the decades of1798' 1S08 ISIS. 1S2»-
1838,1848,1858.1868 aod 1878,
The currency value alone nfthv ®
jecta in gold found by Dr- Scldt rin
in.his ansha dogical reeea'Chv " a M
site of ancient Hellenic citits an» u , ,
to $25,000.
Washington Special o Cincinnati Gas-tie.
There is excellent authority lor the
statement that ihe President, alter due
consuhatiou and deliberation, has dtci-
dedto defy iVtils, Auden-on, Bill Chan
dler and the whole gang to do their worst,
or rather to quietly refuse to take any
notice of the clamor. Of course, the p. s-
sibility of their telling all they kLow
about the theft of the electoral vote cf
Louisiana, aud the connivance of high
K-publican officials therewith, has been
considered. It they turn State’s evidence
the President’s policy will he to simply
plant himself ou the Electoral Commis
sion—to assert, through bis fronds that
the legality of his title rests upon Con
gress and (he Commission which it crea
ted ; that he had nothing to do with the
voting in Louisiana, or with the count
ing of the votes of that or any other of
tbe disputed States; and that, therefore,
bis title wonld remain intact and perfect,
even if the m-mbers of the Returning
Board should all swear that the vote of
Louisiana was fraudulently returmd for
btm. This would not conflict with tbe
position which be held and tbe opinions
which he bad expressed ever since bis in
auguration His friends assert that be
bos always studiously avoided claiming
that he had tbe popular vote of the peo
ple really, but has always held that he
was a sort of military necegMty, who had
been installed in office, however, under
the highest possible sanction of law.
Ma.TOTk8jri.lAlt