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ESTABLISHED nr 1843. 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