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CONKLING’S NOMINATION. The nomination of ex-Senator Roscoe Conktjxg, to be Associate Jnatice of the Uni ted States Supreme Coart. was no less a surprise to the people of the whole country than it was to citizens of Washington. Sena- j tor Hoab, in declaring his own indignation at the nomination, but expressed the senti ments of a large majority of the American people, without regard to party. It is some thing unusual for a Senator to object to a nomination made by the head of his party, especially when that party is Republican. As a rule, the Republicans have stood by all nominations of the Execuftve since they have had control ot the Administration, and objection, therefore, coming from such an extreme party man, and especially when expressed in such very strong language, shows that there must be something radi cally wrong about the nominee. Senator Hoab conceded Conkling’s great ability, and there is no man in the United States who does not, but he contended that he used his powers for bad purposes, and he did not believe him to be honest. These are very harsh terms, but the Massachusetts Senator evidently had good reasons for using them. He is experienced in parliamentary usage: has been for many years in public life, and certainly would not have spoken in such a decided manner, in reference to the ap pointment of a Stalwart Republican, by the j Stalwart President, unless he considered that the occasion demanded it. Senator Hoab was the party associate of Cobbling in the Senate for a long time, and therefore is supposed to have full knowledge of his character. With such knowledge, the accu- ■ nation he make. 4 is a very damaging and sweeping one, and should make Senators of both parties ponder deeply before they vote to confirm the nomination. If the , charge made by Mr. Hoab had been j preferred by a Democrat it might have ; been said by Republicans that it was on ac count of partisan prejudices; but it comes from an extreme Republican, who lives and has his political being within the fold of the dominant parly. Mr. Conkling has been nominated to one of the most impor tant positions in the Republic. It is not a mere place of political trust, but an office which should be filled by none but men of the purest private and official character. It is well known that Mr. Conkling is, at least, not free from suspicion. The Spbague scandal should alone be sufficient to dis qualify him from holding such an exalted position as that of Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The country is fa miliar with the details of that scandal, of the contempt which Mr, Conkling exhib ited for the opinion of his countrymen in that matter, and of the breaking up of Gov. Si’Kague's family, leading to a final divorce. That such a man should occupy a seat on the Supreme Bench—the highest tribunal in the land—is an open defiance of public opinion. As Mr. Hoab bo emphatically de clared, it would be a disgrace to the judicial ermine and a reflection npon the people of the United States. The standard of the Supreme Court should be maintained, no matter what else may lose proper dignity. Mr. Conkling was rejected by his party in his own State, last Summer. That he should be deemed competent for Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, when, his party declared that ho was not fit to rep resent New York in the United States Sen ate, is a proposition not easily understood. He resigned from the Senate under the ex pectation that ho would be promptly re turned; but those whom he expected to vin dicate him by a very emphatic vote asked him to stay at home. Taking it all in all, Mr. Conkling's career has hardly been one to fit him for so responsible a position as Associate Justice-a place where he will be called to sit in judgment upon important causes. If the people of his own State, his party associates, are afraid to trust him, it is scarcely to be expected that the people of the United Slates can have any more confi dence in him. Mr. Arthur has suflered his personal friendship tor the ex-Senator to get the better of his judgment, an error which the Semite should promptly rectify by rejecting the nomination. CURRENT t'OMMKST, New York Demoerata. (Montgomery Advertiser.) For the County Democracy of New York city to have assembled for the purpose of denounc ing John Kelly, and turning him over to the Re publicans, does not prove John any more a knave, anil argues themselves next door to fools. Tammany made its offer —control of the Committee on Cities. The Democrats infused. The Republicans agreed. Tammany voted with the latter. ’ That was a fair and square transac tion. Tammany is for sale. The most that can lie asked of it is to give alljpurchasers a fair chance. A Wise Decree. ■ (San Francisco Call.) A dispatch from Yokohama says the Emperor of Japan has issued a decree to the army, for bidding it to meddle in politics. Just what Japanese polities are is not generally under stood in this country, but doubtless they are disturbing to the ruling authorities, who often have a wholesome dread of the people. Many *of our citizens think it would be a good thing if a decree could be enforced against the med ling in politics of the police officers and paid members of the tire departments of American cities. They would be then much more effi cient in their respective spheres. The Stock Flurry. (N. Y. Times.) Nothing baa happened or is likely to happen to causa anv great decline in the value of dividend-paving or interest-paying securities. Thev mav go lower on the market than they noware.’ They may, this year more than an other, abate their power to earn a revenue. But there is nothing in the business of the country, or of the sound corporations of the country, that makes it likely that the value of ordinarily good secnritieM in to bo HubHtauhally diminish ed. Ou the contrary, it is likely, for some time to come, to increase, and it would be very un fortunate lif any’ considerable number of the holders of such securities, who have paid tor what thev hold, should sacrifice them under the influence of such a tlnrry as is just now passing over the Stock Exchange. The present condition of the street must attract more or less outside capital, though it may be that a still lower point will be reached before such capital will come in freely. Mason's Treatment. (Chicago Inter Ocean.) The treatment of Sergeant Mason by the ar my offious at Washington arouses the indigna tion ami merits the condemnation of the entire country. There are very few men who, placed as Mason was, would not have done exactly ae be did, and there aro equally few who did not regret that Ins bullet missed its mark. His act was the result of an impulse inspired by the uoauimous sentiment oi the country, and he should not lx> severelv punished. To confine him iu a cell where the rats are so thick be caunot sleep, aud where the rain beats iu upou him, is an ctT.mse greater than he oummitted, eepeciallv as long as Guiteau is furnished so manv comforts. Let lam exchange places with Guiteau and uo one will complain, but the oflV cer who keeps him iu the cell as described should la' court martialed and dismissed from the service as not tit to be intrusted with the lives and bodies ot his fellow-men. The t'onvlrt System in Georgia. (Providence Press.) The Augusta Chboxtcijs is most ablv attack ing the convict system of that State. The con victs are leased at say, twenty dollars a head is-r year, to certain parties, with the right to eiib-let. Thev are placed, in the words of the t'HKONici f, in the hands ot cruel and irrespon sible men; they are whipped without mercy and with entire impunity; thev are chained together without regard to their offenses, sex or color. A vei v hr: es expel ieuce of the working of the sys tem indueed Gen. Gordon to repudiate it, and relieve himself of the obligations he had in curred by participating in it. It is to the honor of the CnaoNi i i: that it so plainly, as well as empbatv aUv, deals with the subject.. It is pos sible, p. that*, to defend the initiation of the sys tem at the time it was entered upon, all circum stnncee and expectations considered, but there can be but one opinion as to the moral neces ettv of exterauuaaug it as soon as possible. Ap parently the sublect bas got into politics, but the State of Georgia ought not to wait for an overthrow of a system "conceived in iniquity bv a pane partiv created by its abuses; nor will it, it it is worthy of the sound ssnse. hu mane feeling aud the indisputably good judg ment exhibited by the Chkoniclk. A Tahiag MlaUtsr. (New York Letter.) It astonishing that Mr. Blaine should be ..tnniah.'d— he says he is tilled with "aatonish “ZT an 1 regret," and we take him at hie word TZt Hurlbut’s performance in putting _ Peruvian raj»’™* <i m 11,8 P«ehet for safe keep *,. unfit Kmenea. ll capitalists can be found to take it Tb^asuab ‘ hlu >-' thing is that Minister HurlbuthtatiS pw all the Peruvian guano beds in his pocket Ut. >re t hft time He is a taking man and belongs io a taking family— According to the division .<< the Supreme Court. luTtook bribe* *rf cotton speculators in Louisiana when in command there as ireneral. According to the report « a ommissi.iu which .nveetigaied hi* eooduct in 18ou, he was guiltv of a serie* of " heinous offensre. of which granting permits to his brother-in-tew for which the tattor bad takeu nve thousand dol lars in bribes, was one ct the least: and the committee adrwed Ute unprieofemest, which lie doubtless deserved; but be managed in some wav to escape un whipped of justice, there seems to have been hardly a misdemeanor or crane of the smaller sort which tin* fellow was not guilty of, except dining with a trund and wearing away bis boat * trousers. The Stork Panic. (Philadelphia Tunes.. The depression which has attended operations in the stock market for a long ume culminated vesterdav in a panic of some magnitude among the holders ot long stocks, and in the general fright a good deal of valuable property was thrown a wav, along with «uA of less intrinsic worth. It is of little use to attempt to eheek a herd of bulls which has started on a wild stam pede with the Wind in the rear, but imrestment holders should rememi> r that railroad a.eun ties are just as valuable today as they were a week or a month ago, and not to part with their propertv under the uifiuenoe of a fear which has been fostered by those who are to profit by it. Various stocks* have been ‘•raided,” one after another, until anch a feeling ol alarm has been created among those who carry stocks «n margins that laid* bv the bear* u> no longer necewsarv. While frightened holders are throwing their storks away or are leeuig them on account of eahaitsted ciargin*. those sbo have caused the alarm are .pnetly picking them nil. When ttiev have all bean gathered in prices will boom again and the same stocks will be once more unloaded at high figures, upon gullible speculators ; and so the game wUI go on forever. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. 1 From a Staff Washington, D. C., February 21. —We are having dreadfully wet weather. It has ' been raining for three days and nights. There is a promise of sunshine to-day, bnt it m.iy not be honored outside of the Hazen Department. Many Southern Congressmen are getting alarmed at this atmospheric j pressure, and another season of drouth is expected, in cons, quence, next Summer. If these fears be realized there will be ruin and desola ion in many quarters. Possibly the years of plenty are to be followed by years of scarcity. At any rate the signs are all in that direction, and the wise man is he who provides in time against the probable emergency. In the day of commercial dis aster the money changers and men of fixed incomes profit; but wholesale misfortune descends upon the masses. By some per versity of nature or kindness of Heaven, we may have abundance of moisture next Sum mer; but the present outlook for anything: of the kind is not consoling. In front of all the grass plots, the other day, I noticed thousands of earth-worms dead npon the pavement. A scientific gen tleman expressed surprise at this phenom enon and said there must have been some disturbance in the soil to drive them forth in such colonies. I asked a negro boy about il, and he replied as follows : “The warm rain coaxed them out. Then they crawled over to the sidewalk, got lost, and not bring able to find their way home again, died.” Other people regard it as the pre sage of disease. There are regular stands in the Capitol building for the sale of lunches. Being of an investigating turn of mind, I discovered that these regular caterers charge about 5Q per cent, more than the poor old women who huddle up in some odd corner and ex pose their gastronomic wares for public purchase. According to a liberal calcula tion, the high-toned dealers, if liberally patronized, during a Congressional session, i ought to grow rich rapidly. Among the curious tolks who hang around the Senate Reception Room, a New i England female lawyer is conspicuous. She is a stout, muscular woman, a (font 30 years old, with short-cropped hair and a masculine countenance. I have no doubt that she makes a good lawyer, as there is such an approximation to the male sex in her strong-minded nature. I had hardly completed the above sen tence, when a man of venerable aspect, ■ long bearded and mystical, approached me with a paper coveied with curious chiro grapby, purporting to show that George Washington was the suspect of Bible pro phecy. 1 dare sav the impending birthday of the Father of His Country has inspired numerous cranks to make all manner of droll horoscopes of the career of the man who sleeps at Mt. Vernon. In Baltimore, there is a newspaper editor who weekly writes a column of astronomical jargon to prove that mankind must be, individually, just what the planets form them at their nativity. Either, in such a case, care’should be taken te have children gifted with lucky conjunctions of the solar system, or else theology should devise a new sliding scale of crime. lam inclined to think, however, that this astrology is clever charlatanry, the successful guess work being purely acci dental. The lucky hits are remembered; the numerous failures forgotten. Coming from the Capitol, recently, I saw President Arthur for the first time since last Spring. He has changed much, being perceptibly older and greyer. High-living and the anxieties of his station are begin iug to tell upon him. He has the apoplec tic look and lymphatic coarseness that sooner or later must overtake the grosser “club men” in this part of the world. He is re ported to have went copiously when the Jubilee Singers saog their hymns at the White House, on Saturday; but as the< singers aforesaid are preambulating the land professionally, in search of ducats at Concert Halls, the parading of Executive tears has the cunning look of an advertising dodge. Nothing is sacred from the advance agent of a minstrel troupe. A tremendous eflbrt will be made to build a new navy. Somebody will make a lot of money out of the sale of old vessels and the building of new ones. Perhaps by the time the United States can boast of an iron clad flotilla, Grt'at Britain will revolutionize naval construction, just as she did her com mercial marine. From a wooden material she went to iron and from iron to steel. But the Republicans are not stingy with Govern ment lunds, and that is one reason why, with a proper curb upon Mr. Robeson, we may have a respectable addition to the navy. I atu inclined io believe too that Augusta will get her public building this time, un less Democratic parsimony shall prove an obstacle for the second time. In spito pt the invitation Gen. Mahone has curtly received to leave Richmond and make at least a show of earning his salary at Washington, he continues to absent himself from Senatorial duties. He evidently be lieves in caucus dictation in Virginia, though assuming a virtuous horror of it at the Federal Capital. His independent atti tude is rather damaged by Auditor Massey’s assumption of the same role. Some of your readers may remember Dr. George R. Ghiselin, who tarried at Augusta a few years ago. Col. Beverly Tucker says he met the Doctor at Los Angeles, Califor nia, last January. Ghiselin, according to this authority, js buying mines, but nobody has ever heard of his selfing them. He is one of the most remarkable persons I ever encountered. Few men have an eqipl i scholarship to his, and, as a dinner ta ble companion, he can hold his own with Jack Wharton and Tom Ochiltree. He has, in some inexplicable way, visited every country under the sun and engaged in more schemes to extract the impossible than any individual since Col. Sellers. A sublime Bohemian, fie often tumbles from a dizzy height ot speculation, but seldom fails to fall upon his feet. He fiM shaken the tree of the knowledge of good and evjl with a tan fool pole, ami offered the apples at the most generous diffiount. A gentle man once spoke to me oluiin thus: “Gbjs elm is his own Eleusw. The riddle of t|je Sphinx is a simple sum in addition com pared to the secret of his singula? career. I thiuk he is a poor mnn; but if he were to come to to-morrow and extend an invi tation for a trip to Europe on a steam yacht, without cost to tuysejf, 1 am satisfied that, at the tune anpointe’, exp-di i »:» wo il I ’ sail ami the programme bo pitied cut to I the letter. How he could manage wb an I adventure, I cannot toll; but he would con trive it all the wino." I hope the poctor ■ will sell the mines that Beverly Thicker re- : porta him to have purchased. It is (riven as a positive fact than siren ( LeDncw.au Commissioner of Agriculture he j sent to Italy for wreuroni seed. This com- ■ petes in absurdity with some of Mark ’ Twain's yarns about Hovano Greeley's sg J riculturai absurdities. Ben Holloday Still haunts Washington in pursuit of bis mammoth claim. I understand : that the sum oi $100,600 was once voted ; him, bnt he declined it on the ground that it would not cover bis lawyers’ feee. He is married, for the second time, to a young and beautiful lady. His first wife was very de- 3 vout aud very ambitious. She succeeded ; in marrving her daughters to foirigiX noble men ; bnt, I believe, these Alliances vere> not happy ones. They died early to woman hood. Mr. Holloday is now an old man, ! but full of vigor. He must have been very; handsome, but. in his case now, “Alcibi-i ades has turned to Plato.” ; Virginia lost a great journalist when Mr. i Chamberlayne died last week. He was an extraordinary niwstw of the English tongue. I As if to show the irowy sf fate, I am told i that while he was making a a.apd repnta- i tion in Virginia a less gitted brother i# Bal- I timore gxra.s a precarious living by seme; hnniDie occupation* The conjunction jf Blaine and Y oorhees ! as a Democratic Pre sided, yal ticket is non- | sense, gome of the opinions ri JJr. Blaine , are rather gjpphatic and the reverse of £?m- I piimentary. bno man says: “If I were in at bad scrape Blaine would be just the fellow to get We out. If I were mx. ).u a scrape, he would be just the fellow to get me into one.” A promimmt Democrat, who h«s I had dealings with th* Maine politician, puis* it thus: “It I owed the peril 10,000 rascals and liaudj-d him Jim Blaine In payment of the debt, I should regard Satan as a bjrd creditor ia cas- he the proposition.' t The A<rtio»ksf \K»j««lica* appears to think that, in spite of a general ux;te«4to£. Shep herd really did catch eouie political gallop ers. and that he is, in some awkward way, another exam pie of Oakes Ames. There js such hunger and thirst for money, in these i days, that even some good mtn may be trapped before they i.aow it in most ques tionable schemes of plnai;?. The bill for the retirement of general Grant, with <.V three-fourths pay to toto army, is being pressed, and if Mr. Logan , can get it squarely before the Senate for, final action, it will pass. ilr. Vest made ' one of his eloquent speeches agaoato it; but lam inclined to think that the Missouri Senator has shown oratorical ability ’ tnan good judgment. He gave General Logan an opportunity of making %ti afective reply, aud potting ' the Democratic. anj , especially the iSootiiern, .Senators nt a dis advantage. In my opinion, ilr ' est on'y succeeded in making votes for the meas- I ure. Many Democrats, I stispect.. wjll . not allow themselves to be placed in even • : the shadow of a false position. If the j ' rich North shooses to pension Grant, let ' their Congressmen dp so. Senator Lamar gained his unanimous re-election to the i Senate by- not opposing this »iU. Ex-Ccn federates in Congress may protest syer so ■ emph .ncuilv that they hay® no sectional prejudice in the matter, but i. will be hard ' for them to convince the East and West us ( J that (act. The Democrats can not consist- ! : euily favor Fitr-Janc porter's retirement and antagonize Grant s pa»wi?.n. Mr. Vest ■is not Asatejeadar. Me has a kuarimf pun- ! ishing bis adversaries with their own is-, cords but this Usaraatimes only a JBalakla -Iva charge. “It is .splendid, but it is not war'" No nw in the Senate is mare oap i tivating ora.Uiies.lly; but there is often wisdom in silence J® dealing with' I certain elements at Mib South, we must respect some of their prejudices ■if we wish their co-operation. If Grant, as i Logan states, desires this retirement for i military services, as the last honor his 1 country can bestow upon tai®, it cannot ' serve the South to stand in the wa#. If , this exhibit greed on his part so ho it. j . Relation will come and punishment too. j The beet way to keep him to the front as a I disturbing political factor is to show South-, ; ern hoetiiitv. Conservative Democrats are i of this way of tbinkang, and they will, unless ■ i I ‘Ay- grossly mistaken, sc vote or refrain , i from casting a hostile ballot. j The Apportionment bill passed the Sen- I I ste tmanimopaly, after a] short discussion, j CHRONICLE AND CONSTITUTIONALIST, AUGUSTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH I, 188 S which I shall briefly analyze at another time. As I close this letter to catch the mail, a most unprofitable discussion is now pro gressing about the arrears of pensions. I have never heard so much useless gabble from grave Iwislators npon a simple resolu tion, which wcnld never have been sprung upon the Senate or the country if Mr. Beck bail not let his tongue go eff inopportunely and at half cock, two weeks ago. At the last moment, it has been laid on the table; and so ends a case of much ado about noth ing. . J. R R- Washington, February 25.—The nomina tion of Roscoe Conkling for the Supreme Bench caused a genuine sensation. The first programme was for Secretary Folger to become the successor of Ward Hunt, and thus leave the Treasury portfolio for Mr. Conkling’s acceptance. The pulse of the country Was felt upon this subject, and the response was not assuring. Besides, it did not commend itself to Mr. Arthur, who saw the disadvantage of having in his Cabinet a man of such positive and overshadowing ability. Such proximity would have been dangerous to friendship and diplomatic concord. The half-breed organs would have howled atthenew Mephistopheles and sneer ed at his dwarfed master. Everybody knows how Garfi.-ld was galled by insinua tions of Blaine’s domination, and how he was driven almost to desperation by open charges to that effect. Nor need it be repeated that just such artful and insidious attacks made Gniteau possible and his pistol deadly. Arthur is not sensitive j like Garfield, but he does not care to pursue his predecessor’s mistakes of policy, so far as his Cabinet officers are concerned. He J owed Mr. Conkling a great debt, but he did not choose to repay it in away detrimental to himself, nor would the ex-Senator exact such liquidation. Appointing Mr. Conk ling to the Supreme Bench subjects the President to criticism; but it comes from sources—like the New York Tribune manage ment—that are naturally hostile and per haps not worth appeasing. There may be another breach in the Republican wall; but Democrats need not bewail that. Rather should they have the sense to utilize it. It is so rare to see a public man true \ to friendship that I cannot blame Mr. Arthur on that score, and the ma jority of men who are disposed to be fair will not complain. It is most likely that Mr. Conkling would have re mained iu retirement, if he could have done so with philosophy. But no such intellec tual giant, who has made such an imposing figure in public life, for so great a period, could tamely submit to ba simply Roscoe I Conkling, attomey-at-law. No man who once had Washington and the Capitol for an arena co.ild long consent to split legal hairs in New York Courts, where he was over matched by so many advocates without Na tional reputation, and whose acumen, in one narrow branch or another, more than i offset his varied and splendid talents and attainments in many fields of learning. He found out late in the day, bnt not too late for retrieval, that he had blundered in re signing his seat in the Senate ; that but tor his headlong and passionate unreason, fate had in store for him the op portunity he craved ; that he had given triumph to mediocrity ; that the only sure hold he had upon the world came from the possession of patronage and place; that his abdication of authority left him naked to his enemies and the treachery of pretended friends; and that be must remain in the Valley of Humiliation, in spite of his mental capacity, unless there should be some way opened to a return to Washing ton and high station. Unless all signs fail, these considerations have moved him to accept at the hands of Arthur a place in ferior to one he had declined at the hands of Grant. But the Conkling of ten years ago, in the supremacy of his manhood and the pomp of power, is not the Conkling of to-day. He had not at that time any occa sion to ask favors of the mightiest. Rnlers of men were glad to seek favors of him. He towered in the Senate and the Republic as Saul above his brethren. Now, he is shorn of everything but a dazzling oratorical reputation, which is often a curse to its possessor, especially when allied to a lack of moral principle and common sense. No individual of such prominence and in tellectuality has ever#in our recent history, so suddenly collapsed by an act of child ish’folly; and few persons, however gifted, could survive a downfall so tremendous and absurd. But for Guiteau’s bullet, which made Arthur and Mahone potential, Mr. Conkling would have remained a legal pensioner of Jay Gould, and never become the prospective or actual wearer of supreme judicial ermine. His good-luck, however, had not» deserted him utterly, and in the lottery of assassination .he is apt to draw one of the capital prizes. Well, be it so. That is not a Democratic funeral, and no man in our party need lament the re appearance of another “boss” who will not add to the harmony of the Republican organization. Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, is reported to be indignant at this nomination, and to have character ized it as unfit and indecent. But I doubt very much if his hostility can prevent con- Qrmation. The country would like to know in what respect, politically, Mr. Conkling has been a more conspicuous sinner than Mr. Hoar. Both men have been narrow partisans, and, in that respect, the South at least need not make a comparison be tween them. If Mr. Conkling be pecuni arily dishonest, there bas not yet been proof of it produced. There have been whispers against his private life; but very few eminent men in Washington have es caped slapder or suspicion. His intellect cannot bp disparaged. Even Mr. Hoar says his montal capacity is the fullest since Webster left the world. Batween Mr. Conkling and Mr. Hoar, as abettors of the crimes of the Republican party, there is no special difference, except that the one gave greater eloquence to a bad cause and the other greater purity ot life. Some law yers a-mert that Mr. Conkling is not learned 1 in their profession, and therefore not fit for a seat upon the Supreme Bench. Bnt Judge David fcayjs, wfio has forgotten more law than most meu ever knew, says Mr. Conkling is ths best equipped man, every way intellectually, that this country has ever produced. My own humble opinion is that while this high estimate is relatively correct, it should be qualified with the statement that Mr. Conkling has not one spark of what I call genius. The imagina tive, the creative faculty, is not developed lin him. Nearly every talent is in his ' possession, but that diviner gift of geping is absent. He will not live |as ’ a statesman, a law-maker, a sage ior a philanthropist. He can fancifully ! dopjet the known in aft ,qr scipppe or litera < tpre: but nqt, so save hjs life, could fie dip l-cover awytljing original in the wfioje realm |of the invisible He fia§ a |ufty and incom parable method oi advocating or assaulting the propositions of others, but l;e is pot the proclaimer of any new gospel, aud his match stops at the seashore where the vast ocean ■ of Myfi'ery spreads its illimitable treasures, and upon yhose mighty bosom no ship trom the hand of Kospoe Conkling has ever sailed. But, for all this, I see no reason why he should not be competent sq sit be : side Joseph Bradley, for example. TheSu- I preme .Coprt ijarsball or Taney pre ; sided over uiighf regent tfie intrusion of ‘ Roscoe (Conkling as be emerges fyow the blaek whirlpool of New York poijtics; but the majority of those Judges, appoint ; ed for political epfis apd subservient to | tbcti) with the eight to seven record ipdel- I ibiy branded upon their judicial brows, ! need not blush too deeply when Justice ' Conkling, with the stride of weakened j majesty, or roosting much lower than : formerly, takes his place in the solemn pro cession, or upon the bench. Not a tew of , the best and purest in the land have long ‘i ago Ufit reverence for the Supreme Court, > and, I take it, shpt the infusion of the Conk ling element wiit not add the disparage ment. Mr. Arthur’s friend way P ro ye no worse a Judge than some of his new Lrethxgp. , to the effect it may have upon his politi- I cal fultuo. there can be nothing but con jecture. kl maj paralyze his prospect. It may be the entering >edgc to other high I stations. lam inclined to think Qrant . apd Conkling have about abandoned hopes of the presidency, and only cling to such authority m wfll maintain their dignity, rescue them from the common herd of mon grebs out of business, and keep pu their affinity with the Central Head at V’ashiag ton. Me'inwu-L. they will drift with just such tides as fortune smy send, but ever alert to grasp such prizes as opportunity may present. An ambitious man never eyases zo aspiye until he is dead, an, i Grant j and ConkVng aje vet in the land of the living, wiiiie Garytld js jj his grave and Guiteau, who made history with QU£ feloni ous or insane stroke, sells autograph, jp a dungeon cell, and vauntingly boasts that bpi for him the Republican party would I base a wreck and the men who have i won the chtat prizes drifting helpless and forlorn. Ex-Senator who gel; the Berlin Mission instead of the Interior pepaitmeat .is a raii.e; remarkable person. He is some- ’ where between fiftv and sixty years old, > tall and shapely, wi£h whjt« hair and beard. I • His face is the’ most youthful part of him, j being *• pipk and smooth as that of a baby. ‘ Into the political world of California he carried, years ago, fifee sneygy of a live Tan- ; kee. I remember him as a Senator who al- . most incessantly debated with everybody > i about can be believed, some of his transactions were the reverse of honest. He took pains to educate his sons and daughters go that they could take care of themselves; and , they are self-supporting in various profes fessions. His appointment to Berlin is ecuivglent to honorable banishment and I eleganj diplomatic leisure, since the chief duty of an a%hsSgador to Germany is intro ducing some Ame> icans .to the Emperor and giving others information to t*ie jieet ' places to purchase gloves and pottery. Jta-'. W. W. Hicks, who is half stump speaker and hgl/ pulpit orator, has un doubtedly made a here. He at- tracts quite a crowd qyery Sunday U hjs ] tabemacJe. Many people go to hear him because cf his eloquence. One gentleman excused ;'or attendance on the ground that it was betieg Uzag play-acting to Vr- Bjcks preach- AS the atres are closed uh Ssnday, Doctor draws a mighty throng. I have not baud , that the lecture he is said to have adapted i from (Lincoln t? Lee has been utilized for Qarfiald. He kn'qwp to please the multitude with emotional qntory, and a great people in Washington only agk to be diverted, wiyhont spe i cially .caring who the person is that fur nishes the entertainment. My reeollecticij j of him is that much of bis success is due | to a kind of magnetic method rather than to I any special excellence in literary com- position. He has the trick of phrase end articulation. After seeing thousands go into ecstasy over Joe Emmett, I am not sur prised that other thousands run after Hicks. The collapse of the Richmond and Dan ville stock bubble excited much talk here, but as the speculators in this part of the country had not been inveigled into the pitfall, there were no cries of the wounded to speak of. About ten days ago, I met a North Carolina friend who had two hun dred shares, bought at ninety. He was waiting for a rise to five hundred ! The worst feature of these operations is the reported distrust excited in England for all kinds of American investment. The Goulds, Keenes and Sages may be getting richer and richer, but at what a fearful cost to the masses who rush into their tempting and fatal embrace I J. R. R. WALTON COVNTY. A Grewing Town—A Carlon. “Stock Ex change"—Grain Crop, &e. (Correspondent Chronicle and Constitutionalist.) Monboe, February 24.—With good crops Monroe promises to be a place-of commer cial importance in the near future. Since the completion of the branch railway to So cial Circle—where it makes close connection with the Georgia trunk line, thus affording easy and rapid access to the markets of the woild—the town shows considerable im provement. It is almost ready to put on city airs. Among other improvements are a pretentious brick hotel, containing tyenty three rooms, crowned by a Mansard roof, a block of wooden buildings for stores and an extensive warehouse and depot. It is also the home of Hon. H. D. McDaniel, the possible next Governor of Georgia, whose eminent services to the State and fitness for the high position are generally acknowl edged. Court has been in session here since Mon day, Judge A. S. Erwin on the bench, and A. L. Mitchell, Esq., the Solicitor, repre senting the State. No cases of public inter est have been adjudicated by the tribunal, yet it is but just hereto remark that any Circuit would have cause to be proud of two such officials, whose names carry with them the assurance of justice. The town has this week been the rendez vous for the usual semi-annual gathering of horse traders tronj various sections of North Georgia. They are a motley set, that should be seen to be appreciated, and their live stock is in keeping with its owners. Some of the creatures they offer for sale or ex change are the merest apologies for that noblest of animals—the horse - many of them, for all practical purposes, are worth less. But the view presented in the space set apart as the “Stock Exchange” would rejoics the heart of the humorous author of the "Georgia Scenes.” Horses and mules ot all sizes, ages, colors, conditions and infirmities are assembled there. They would excite pity, but that on a close in spection one discovers that such has been the cruel treatment given by their masters that the animals themselves are more of wild beasts in appearance aud conduct than domesticated servants of man. They look at you defiantly out of one eye, kick vicious ly with a poor lame leg or snap with jaws devoid of teeth, and yet the jockeys spur and whip them into gaits which must strain every fibre of their starved and weakened bodies. It is no unusual experience for the owner of one of these dilapidated quad rupeds to ride into town in the morning and before noon complete three or four “trades." finding himself possesssd of the same animal and from twenty-five cents to ten dollars additional. ' This experience is sometimes reversed, and at midday is found minus horse, saddle, bridle and whatever amount he may have brought with him. I have seen a squad ron of these mounted men start out from the town to attend a race a few miles distant, a trial of speed in which ping con tends with plug. On a mce between horses, which are scarcely worth in sound currency more than a few dollars each —horses, bridles, saddles, coats, hats, knives, &3., as dilapidated as the racers themselves— change hands. Every one bets what he has. The winner takes the wager without a word. There is honor among gambling horse jockeys as well as among thieves. A bet is a bet—and the crowd -ragamuffin in appearance, dissolute in habits, scamps and sharpers as they may be - compel the payment of the wager. They have bicker ings amongst themselves and utter oaths which must seem to a God-fearing man em phatic enough to break the realms of space into fragments. They come as the locust and as suddenly disappear. Their abiding places, when no Court brings together a crowd, seems a profound mystery. I am pleased to report a larger area sowed in gr sin this season than ever before. Green fields can be seen in every direction from the car windows. The fields look promis ing, and when their wealth of griin is gar nered the county of Walton will bid de fiance to the wolf which has haunted the homes of its inhabitants. In conversation to-day with successful merchant, he told me that he had at length discovered a great mistake made by himself, and that was the requirement of the farmer to cultivate so nuny acres in cotton bsfore promising to furnish him supplies. He stated that he was determined hereafter to uso all his influence to induce his custom ers to sow the cereals, giving as his reason that if they did to he could dispose of other goods to them upon which more piofit was made. I insert this hero in the hope that it may catch the eye of other commercial men and induce them to adopt the same method. M. TIIE qt’KEV OF THE TURF. Retired Frr m the Trotting Track to Speed on the Road. (New York Sun,) Mr. William H. Vanderbilt sat in his lofty library, in the most comfortable part of ins $3,000,000 mansion, yesterday, with a pile of morning newspapers at his elbow. He appeared to be in a contented frame of mind, and the lines of his massive lace re laxed into a pleasant smile. A brief dis patch had formed a picture in his brain more stirring and life-like than any bound in costly boohs or suspended in golden frames. The dispatch read that Mand S. was about to leave Cincinnati for New York, to trot in double harness with William H. and Lysander. Iu fancy he held the lines over his peerless mare and mate in a brush that left all rival teams behind. “Yes,” he said, in reply to an inquiry. “Maud will be brought to New York, and I will drive her on the road in double and single harness. There is no need for the mare to trot against her own time on the track. She is eight years old, and retires with a record of one second faster than that of any other trotter. The chances are that it will be years before her record is beaten. Then it will be time enough to put her to another test." Although Mr. Vanderbilt did not inti mate that it was his ambition to have the fastest team on the road, prominent horse men said laM evening that there is no doubt but that is the motive which brings Mand to New York. Mr. Vanderbilt groused great interest in donble-team trotting, four years ago, when he drove his famous nair, Lady Mac and Stflall Hopes, in 2:23. This interest has spread until now every city and town of importance in the country has its rival trotting teams. Among the latest move ments in this direction was the purchase of Cling-tone for twenty thousand dollars by Mr. Wm. J. Gordon, of Cleveland, to match his fast trotter, William H. For about fouy years no amateur or pro fessional reinsman was known publicly to have beaten the 2:23 of Small Hopes and Lady Mac, although many attempted the feat.’ Last September, however, Mr. John Shepard, of Boston, drove his team, Mill Roy and Blondine, over Beicon Park, a mile to his road wagon in 2:22. Mr. Shep ard paid SIO,OOO for Mill Bay, to drive him with Bl'.ndine. This performance stirred up the owners of fast teams in New York, and they at once set their trotters at work to eclipse the Bos ton record. Mr. T. C. Eastman drove Oapt, Jack and Glendale, in 2:24; Mr. Foster De wey’s team. Boston and William H., were sent for 2:23, and Dan Mace drove Mr. Vanderbilt’s William H. with Lysander, in 2:20, on two occasions; and Mr. Frank Work's team, Dick Swiveller and Eiward, headed all the ottiers fey troftjng a mH® ' n Fleetwood Park, to a top road wagon, in 2:19, September 27, 1881. As the owner of Maud S. has announced her retirement from the trotting track, a brief record of her unparalleled perform ances, some of which may have escaped the memory of the general reader, will ba of in terest. f and S. first shot into the trotting firma ment with dazzling light as a four-year old early in the Fall of at Lexington, Ey. The conditions were qot over favorable for i of speed. The track was a little cup py sud there was considerably wind. Mand came-on the track half an hour before noor. There were about one hundred horsemen present, many of whom hell watches. The ! who timed_her in the judges’ stand were General <f. t-. Dr. L Herr, Colonel H- stiadei and Colonel Ferguson. William W. Blair, who has driv en the mare in all her great victories, held the lines. After jogging Maud around the track twice, he nodded lor the word. Going at her work like an old campaigner, without ! a skip cr break, the filly trotted to the quar ter pole in 33)4 SoSOf-dt, passed the half mile in 1 minute 6 seconds, sett the three i quarter pole behind in 1 ’minute 41 sec ■ ends, and flashed under the wire in 2:l7J£. A spectator of the trot at the time wrote : I “The Lord only knows how fast she will go in the time to come.” Maud was kept in the shade after this un til ihe season of 1&80, when she astonished the world by her wonderful performances in the grand* circuit from Chicago to Hart ford in connection with the king of the , turf, §t. Julien. After dividing honors with the horse in sotting the records down to 2:ll 3 4. the mate became a little ofik at Springfield, and her rival closed the season at Hartford with the record of 2:111^ —half a second ahead of Maud. Her most brilliant performances took place last season while St. Julien was under tfie weather. She trotted at Pittsburg in 2:lofc. ana at Rochester, August 11, made the unrivalled record of 2:16)4. M Chica go she trotted the fastest second heat, 2:1117. and the fastest third heat, 2:11. At Balmont Park she trotted the fastest three consecutive heats on tecoid, 2,12, 2:13)£, 2:12)£. Maud is a beautiful chestnut, without white. She is fifteen hands three inches hiah. She was sired by Harold, dam Miss bIsmII, by pijpt, fr- sl > e was on ,he great Alexander farm in Henupiky, Mortaary. There fta*e -been ieatfca the past week, twn yhitee and six colored—one col ored mH® adult apoplexy, one of con sumption, one of puenmcnia, and one of angina pectoris; one white male child of meningitis, one of pneumonia, and two col ored male children of pneumonia. THE HYPERION CURLS. ROSCOE COSKLI!• O CJMES TO THE PR(RT AGA«M. The President Nominates Him As Awo olate dusciee of The Supreme Court of The United Slates— -Mr. Hoar Opposes His Nomination, aid Declares That H« Is Not Honest. (By Telegraph to the Chronicle.) SENATE. Washington, February 24.—An effort was made to get up the bill pensioning Mrs. Garfield, but the morion was rejected, and the calendar was proceeded with. The Eresident to-day sent to the Senate the following nominations: Roscoe Conk ling, to be Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, and A. A. Sargent, to be Minister to Germany. Also, Walter H. Johnson, to te Collector of Internal Reve nue of the Second District of Georgia, and Harry T. Griscom, to be Postmaster at Chat tanooga, Tenn. Mr. Bayard offered the following: Whebeas, Publication has been widely made by the public press of the United States of certain alleged commercial con tracts between certain companies and co partnerships of individuals relative to the exports of guano and nitrates from Peru, in which mediation by the Government ot the United States between the Governments of Peru, Bolivia and Chile is declared to be the condition for the effectuation and con tinuance of eaid contracts; therefore, be it Resolved, That the Committee on Foreign Relations be and is hereby instructed to inquire whether any promise or stipulation, by which intervention by the United States in controversies existing between Chile and Peru, or Chile and Bolivia, has been ex pressly or impliedly given by any person or persons officially connected with the Gov ernment of the United States, or whether tne Government ot the United States has been in any way exerted, promised or in timated in connection with or in relation to said contracts by anyone officially connect ed with the Goverameut of the United States; and whether any one officially con nected with the Government of the United States is interested, directly or indirectly, with any such alleged contracts in which the mediation, as aforesaid, of the United States is recited to b« a condition; and that said committee have power to send for per sons and papers, ananake a report of their proceedings in the jUmises to the Senate, at the earliest possible day. Referred to the Foreign Relations Committee. After the morning hour Mr. Allison, who, as a member of the Appropriatidns Commit tee in charge of the Immediate Deficiency bill, was awarded the floor, yielded tempo rarily to Mr. Van Wyck, who addressed the Senale upon the necessity for an investiga tion of the alleged frauds in the township survey qdtestion. The subject was disposed of by reference to the Committee on Public Lands of resolutions directing an investi gation on the subject by that committee. The Senate then took up the Im mediate Deficiency Appropriation bill, and the amendments of the Senate Com mittee were read and agreed to. Additional items for the subsistence and education of the Indian tribes are inserted; also, one of $30,000 to expedite the construction of ex hibition cases in the new building for the National Museum; of $60,000 for the nec essary expenses of the Garfield and Burn side funerals. The bill was finally passed without objection. After some contention between Messrs. Bayard and Miller, of Cali fornia, upon their claims to priority of con sideration for the Tariff Commission and Chinese bills, the motion by Mr. Miller to take up the Chinese bill prevailed—yeas, 35; nays, 16. The measure was laid over as unfinished business. The Senate then, at 4 o’clock, went into executive session, and, at 4:45, adjourned until Monday. HOUSE. A number of bills were introduced and referred. Mr. Belmont introduced a resolution call ing for information relative to the Peruvian correspondence. Mr. Kasson offered, as a substitute, the following resolution : Whereas, It is alleged, in connection with the Chili-Peruvian correspondence re cently and officially published on the call of the two Houses of Congress, that one or more Minister Plenipotentiaries of the Unit ed States were either personally interested or improperly connected with business transactions, in which the intervention of this Government was requested or expected; and whereas, it is alleged that certain pa pers in relation to the same subject have been improperly lost or removed from the files of the State Department, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Committee on Foreign Affairs be instructed to inquire into said allegations, and ascertain the facts relating thereto, and report the same, with such re commendations as they may deem proper; and they shall have power to send for per sons and papers. Mr. Belmont accepted the substitute, upou a statement by Mr. Kasson that it was intended to cover all the ground covered by hie resolution, and the substitute was thereupon adopted without division. Several private bills wore reported from the co umittees and rrfarred to the private calendar, i.mong them one for the relief of Myra Clark Gaines. The House then, at 1:45, went irto com mittee of the whole on the private calendar. At 4:3Jthe committee rose, and, after pass ing a number cf bills of a private nature, adjourned. HOUSE. Washington, February 25.—Mr. Reed, of Maine, from the Committee ou Rules, reported a resolution for the appoint ment of a select committee of nine, to which be referred all petitions, bills /ind resolutions asking for extension of suffrage to women and removal of their legal disa bilities. Mr. Hsuk, of Tennessee, raised the point of order that under the rules the resolution must lie over one day. The Speaker over ruled the point of order, aud the resolution was adopted by 115 to 85 -almost a party vote. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, from the Com mittee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, reported a bill to authorize the coinage of silver dollars, and fractions thereof, of full standard value, on the metri) system. Re ferred to the committee of t‘ie whole. Mr. Money, of Mississippi, from the Cemmittee on Post Offices aud Post Roads, reported a bill to provide for ocaau mail service between the United States and for eign ports. Printed and recommitted. The House then went into committee on the Post Office Appropriation bill. The amendment was adopted that there shall be no more official stamps printed, but that all correspondence on official businesi shall be transmitted in penalty euielopes. Con siderable discussion ensued over the motion to strike out of the clause appropriating half a million dollars tor necessary and special facilities on trunk lines the words “on trunk lines,” so as to leave it in the discretion of the Postmaster-General to secure special facilities on any lino. The amendment was rejected without division. Tho committee arose and reported a bill to the House, with amendment, authorizing the Postmaster-General, in case of sub-let ting of mail contracts, to declare the original contract forfeited, and to enter into con tract with such contractor. Agreed to— -112 to 69. The bill then passed. The House, at 5:15, adjourned. SENATE. Washington, February 28.—Mr. Windom, of Minnesota, from Committee on Foriegn Relations, reported an original resolution, instructing that committee to inquire into all the circumstances concerning the alleged loss of letters from the Department of State, alleging that the action of diplomatic Repre sentatives of the United States at the Re publics of France and Peru in being person ally concerned in contracts, &c. The sub ject went oyer ope day under the rules, The Post Office Appropriation bill was received from the House and referred to tie Committee on Appropriations. Upon the close of the morning hour the Chinese bill came up as unfinished business, Mr. Miller, of California, jp charge of the bill, temporarily yielded the fiqor to Mr. ferry, of Michigan, upon the urgent appeal of the latter to allow tho Honse Post Route bill to be considered. Mr. Ferry said that immediate action on the bill was necessary, in order that new routes might be included in the Spring let tings. The Post Houte bill was then pro ceeded with, ppd the amendments of the Senate Committee read and agreed to. (No appropriation ig in tfie bill.) The sections, as amended, were adopted, and the bill passed. The House resolution tendering thanks to Hon. J. G. Blaine for the appropriate ad dress delivered by him in the Garfield mem orial exercises, was, on n;ot;on of Mr. Sher njan, takeq frorq the President’s fafel® nod concurred in. The Senate insisted upon its amendments to the Immediate Deficiency Appropriation bill, and Messrs. Allison, Plumb and Beck were appointed conferees. The Senate then, at 2:20, took up the Chinese immi gration bill to carry into effect the treaty by suspending the earning of Chinese laborers for twenty yeaxs after sixty days succeeding the passage of the acf. Mr. Miller, of Cali fornia, who introduced and reported the bill, proceeded directly to a discussion of the merits of the measure, leaving the amendments for future consideration. Dur ing Mr. Millsris speech the habitues of the galleries were astonished by the appearance in the diplomatic gallery of four members of the Chinese Legation. The strangers had been sight-seeing in the Capitol, and their visjt was not prearranged for. Upon being apprised of the subject under dis cussion, they immediately retired. Mr. Miller concluded at 4:05, after speaking for one hoot and forty minutes. The bill was informally laid aside to permit action on the House bill to furnish impressions of the card of invitation to the Garfield memorial services, which was pasaad. The Senate, at 4:15, went into executive session, and at 4:25 adjournefl. ‘ T ’ ’ ' HQUSti- Washington, February 38.—Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana, introduced a joint resolution for the appointment of a committee of six teen members - seven from the Senate and nine from the House—to attend the celebra tion of the two hundredth annivereary of the discovery of the moath cf the Mississip pi river by Bal|e. tebs Or leans oa tfte Sth of ~ to the Committee on Bules. He also pre sented a memorial of the Governor and Leg islature of Louisiaim on the subject and it received a similar rfferencfu Mr. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, report ed a bill repealing the discriminating du ties on tea and coffee products of the pos sessions of Motherland. Passed. On motion of Mr. Jlesgan, of Texts, the Senate bill appropriating SIOO,OOO for con tinuing the improvement of the Galveston harbor, was taken from the Sneaker’s table and passed. Mr. Hiscock, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations, reported back the Im mediate Deficiency bill, with Senate amend ments, recommending concurrence in some : and non-concurrence in others of those amendments. The report was agreed to. Mr. Collins, of Indiana, Chairman of the Committee on Elections, submitted a report of that committee on the contested election case of Campbell vs. Cannon, ac companied by a resolution declaring that neither contestant nor contestee is en titled to a seat on the floor. He also sub mitted a minority report, declaring Camp bell entitled to the seat; while Mr. Moulton, of Illinois, submitted a further resolution, signed by Messrs. Athenton and Davis, of Illinois; Moulton and Jones, of Texas, de claring that Cannon was the duly elected Delegate to Congress. The reports were laid $n the table for future action. The Honse, at 1:40, went into committee of the whole, Mr. McCook, of New York, in the chair, on the Military Aoademv Appropria tion bill. It appropriates $318,857. Speaking to a formal amendment, Mr. At kins, of Tennessc, entered upon a personal explanation regarding the attack npon him self and several other members in the columns of the New York Times. Every other member named also relieved their minds on the subject. After considerable time had been thus consumed, Mr. Black burn called attention to the bill under con sideration, and on his motion the amend ment was adopted, appropriating SIO,OOO for astronomical instruments to equip the new observatory at the Academy. The committee then rose and reported the bill to the House, when it was passed. Mr. Robinson, of New York (by request), introduced a bill to organize the National Labor League Railway Company of Ameri ca, for the purpose of constructing, opera ting and maintaining a railway from the Atlantic seaboard to Chicago, St. Louis and Council Bluffs. It provides that for the purpose of “establishing equal rights iu commerce among States and for the pur pose of securing railway highway under such civil control as to prevent combina tions against the public good, a commission under the name of the National Board of Inter-State Transportation.” In the list of names appear the following: Francis B, Thnrber, Thos. Kinsella, A. B. Mullett, J. B Eeclesine, J. Pope Hodnutt, Nicholas Muller and Wm. H. Grace, who. with their colleagues, are authorized to carry out the purposes of this act by determining upon the terminal points of the road to be constructed, and to issue capital stock to the extent of $40,- 000,000. It further provides that when the road shall have been constructed to Council Bluffs it may be continued to San Francisco, and in aid of its construction grants to it every alternate section of unoc cupied public land through which it may pass for fifty miles on each side of the track. In order to relieve the wants of labor, de pressed by a contraction of the currency, a workman employed in building the railroad shall be paid bv the Government $1 a day, and the remainder of his wages in certifi cates of indebtedness receivable in 365 C bonds. The bill was referred. The Speaker announced Messrs. Hiscock, Robeson and Cox as the House conferees on the immedi ate Deficiency bill. Adjourned. WASHINGTON NEWS. Washington, February 28.—The Senate confirmed Jamas R. Jolley, Collector of Customs for the District of Teehe, Louisi ana; Christopher J> Terrell, Postmaster at Terrell, Texas. The Comptroller of tho Currency has au thorized the First National Bank of Colum bus, Mississippi, to commence business with a capital of SBO,OOO. Ths decrease of tho public debt, for the month of Februirv, will be about $9,000,- 000, being about $2,000,0:10 less than the average decrease since June last. The fall ing off is due to heavy payments made during February—one item of which was about $9,000,000 on account of psnsions. In the Senate executive session, to-day, the nominations of Conkling and Sargent were reported favorably from the commit tees. and were placed on the calendar under the rule which requires all reported nomina tions to lie over until the' next executive session. No request was male for a suspen sion of the rules, and nothing was said about the nominations beyond tho formal report from the committee. The Secretary of War telegraphed to Governor McEnery, of Louisiana, to day, as follows: “Under the resolution of Congress it is my duty to distribute subsistence stores to persons rendered destitute by the Mis sissippi floods. I have no advices from Louisiana that aid is needed. If such aid is needed please telegraph me information as to the localities, and number of persons io Louisiana made destitute. I suggest that you designate and appoint one or more commissioners to confer with army officers who will be designated, such commission ers to be fully authorized to receipt for and make detailed distribution of subsistence stores.” The grand jury to-day indicted Samuel G. Cabell, John N. Minnix and Charles H. Dickson for conspiracy to defraud the Gov ernment of the United States by means of fraudulent bids for 3,109 post routes, located in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Ten nessee, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi, and corruptly combining to obtain contracts for sale by means of bogus sureties—Cabell being the principal and Minnix and Dick son bondsmen. They further indict Min nix and Dickson for perjury in falsely swearing that each owned 275 acres of un improved coal land in Morgan county, Ken tucky, valued at nm ■' IMPORTANT RAILROAD DECISIONS. The following deci lions iu railroad cases have just been rendered iu the Supreme Court of Georgia, and will be read with the interest their importance merits : Mrs. Bertha Wolff vs. Central Railroad and Banking Co. Case from Bibb. Speer, J.-l. The term “goods” in sec tion 2084 of the Code does not include bag gage accompanying the passenger. 2. When two or more railroads are asso ciated together, and form a continuous line for the transportation of passengers and baggage, each having the right to sell through tickets with coupons over said line, and thus bargaining for transportation over the whole lino, and .receiving the price of the tickets, the same to be divided between them, said railroads are severally liable on such contracts for transportation, and it may be that they are jointly so. 3. Hence it follows that where a passen- ger, traveling with baggage on a through ticket from New Y'ork to Macon, found, on her arrival at Macon, that her trunk had been opened and valuables taken there from, and brought suit for the loss against the Central Railroad and Banking Company, a judgment of non-suit was improper, it being shown that said company was one of those contracting to carry her, and the valuables were suitable for her condition and circumstances in life. Judgment re versed. Georgia Railroad and Banking Company vs. Gunn & Rsaves. Complaint—from Clark. Jackson, C. J.—l. A charge of the Court that a bill of lading, general in its nature and applicable to all manner of freight, was not such an express contract as to take the case without the provision in seotion 2068 of the Code, was not erroneous. 2. The last railroad company which re ceives goods “as in good order,’ is that one of connecting roads liable for loss of dam age, and this is true whether it be expressly mentioned in the bill of lading or not, for if it be not mentioned the fact that it took the goods to transport them, and thereby acknowledge them to he in good order, would fix the liability cm such company, Judgement affirmed. GEORGIA’S NEW DEAL. Longtreet, Atkina & Co. Jubllant—Andy Clarke Bonnced Farrow Rqdta.nt Wade on The Ra.'gcd Edge—The Au gusta Pqat Office—The Rrunawlcti CoL ■ ectorehlp—Bryant, et al., Dlagnated— Tile Old Gang Routed, (Savannah News Special.) Washington, February 24. President Arthur to-day cut the string holding the axe which has been over Andy for some time. He nominated W. H. Johnson to be Internal Revennp Collector at Atlanta. Longstreet and Ytkins are jubilant over the President’s action. Farrow, who has for years had a fight with Andy Clarke, is wild with joy. Nothing in the case of Collector Wade was done to-day. It can, however, be stated that he wjll also haye to go. In speaking about W a <jc, Secretary Folger to day said a decision in his case “was still in the clouds." There are other Georgia matters which have been determined on. Mr. Holden, who is a neighbor of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, and who was the first candidate : for the place, will be made postmaster at | Augusta. Mr. Sciedel, who is Mr. Stephens’ Private Secretary, will be appointed Collect- j qr at Customs al Brunswick. While the Clarke-Bryant crowd thought that they might not be fully able to con vince the Administration thfit they com posed the Republican party in Georgia, they were not at all prepared for the drop that they have been given. That the old crowd must go is plainer now than when the President gave similar information to Pledger. A SumTt Dog. A gentleman of this city has a bull dog which, until a few days since, never dis played any particular degree of sagacity. Among those for whom the animal felt an attachment was a colored man who had petted her on several occasions. One day last week, “Vic’s” owner went to iftaiket early in the morning s.n<J v,as’ followed by the dtg. Jnsfcad'of'stopping, however, “Yic tptted over to Sabneiker A My er s, walked into a crowd of colored men, and, picking out her friend from among the number, quietly dropped a brown paper parcel in his lap. The man opened the parcel, and to his astonishment found sev eral sandwiches in it. The parcel had ueen put up by one of the children of the dog's owner to take tq eifiaoi; aid Was stolen by “lip,” evifioaliy, as the sequel showed for. the man to whom she gave it. “You may not believe it, but it is true.” F<re At MndUoa.’’”’ A destructive fire occurred at Madison Monday night. The warehouse of Mr. Griggs and Mr. Few’s store, were both burned. A large quantity of cotton was consumed. There was very little insurance on the property. SOUNDS FROM HOME.. WHAT IS GOING ON IN GEORGIA AND HER VICINITY. The State and the South—Excerpte From Our Exchangee and Private Advices to the Chronicle and Constitutionalist. (Winnsboro (S. C.) News and Herald.) We are informed that the wheat and oats crop throughout the county are looking fine. (Columbia (8. C.) Register.) Mr. Charles Jen kens Kyall, of Hamilton, Canada, thinks of going into the cotton business in this city. He says the cotton trade will begin to look up just as soon as work begins on the canal. (Greenville (Ga.) Vindicator.) See prospectus of the old Chronicle and Constitutionalist, of Augusta. Mr. Ran dall, one of the editors and Washington correspondent, is certainly one ot the most polished writers on the Georgia press. His letters are well worth the price of the paper. (Yorkville (8. O') Enquirer.) For the week ending Monday, 159 tons of fertilizers were received by the Chester and Lenoir Kailroad at this place. The total receipts to date are 837 tons. The in dications are that the demand for fertilizers this season will be equal to any previous year. (Edgefield (8. C.) Chronicle.) The residence of Mr. L. Creps. near Wards, wus_ burned on Saturday night, the 11th inst., aud on Sunday night, the 12th inst., the barn of Mr. V. M. G.over, near Hamburg, was destroyed by fire. Both are supposed to have been the work of incen diaries. (Covington Enterprise.) Emory College now numbers one hun dred aud forty-two scholars.—Sweet pota toes will not be near so scarce this Spring as they were last. —The second election in DeKalb county went f>r fence by a large majority.—Covington is gradually increas ing in population. (LaGrange Reporter.) A groat many farmers are preparing to reap the benefits of the Stock law by re moving fences and preparing pastures for their stock and cultivating land which was not enclosed. —A colored woman was burned to death Thursday morning. She was taken with a fit and fell into the fire. (Newman Herald.) There is a movement on foot to organize a Lodge of Knights of Honor in Newman.— About seventy-five negro men passed through Newman last Saturday, under the control of Messrs. Farrell and Stanley. They were from North Carolina and were going to work on the Georgia Pacific Rail road. (Charleston News and'.Courier.) Extensive forest fires are raging all through the eastern and northern portions of Charleston county. The city was filled with smoke last night from a huge fire that was raging in Christ Church parish, north and east of Remsley’s Point, and fears were entertained that sorious damage may have resulted. (Sumter (S. C.)' Spirit of the Times.) The first train on the Central ran through on Wednesday, the 22dinst. (Washington’s birthday). The days when twenty miles of sand and swamp had to be crossed in the old style to reach the county seat of Claren don, are at an end, and we are within thirty minutes of the beautiful town of Manning. (Rome Courier.) The friends and acquaintance of Tom Mc- Kenzie will be surprised and shocked to learn that he is a defaulter to the East Ten nessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad to the amount of five hundred and fifty dollars. He has been the railroad agent and tele graph operator at Csve Spring for over a year, and up to the last few weeks had the entire confi lence of the railroad officials. (Dalton Citizen.) Cotton will be more generally cultivated in Catoosa county this year than heretofore. It is estimated she will produce 3,000 bales. Only a few years ago a bale of cotton was a curiosity in this county.—We made a short trip up the Western and Atlantic Railroad last Saturday, and found that but little work had yet been done on the farms along the line, owing to the bad seasons. The water courses were still up. (Chester (8. 0.) Bulletin.) President A, E. Hutchinson, of the Rock Hill Factory, thinks plenty of Northern capital could be secured for a factory in Chester. He says Northern capitalists have clamored for stock in the Rock Hill Factory and wanted the company to increase the stock, but the limit has been exhausted and they had to be turned oft' He is pleased with steam as a motor and claims that it is as cheap, if not cheaper, and more practical than water. (Rockhill (8. C.) Register.) Farmers from several sections of the county tell us that the oats and wheat crops are exceedingly promising.—The continued wet weather is now becoming a very serious matter with the farmeis. The time has come when farm work should be com menced, but so far the continued rains prevented anything in this direction. Lit tle work of any kind has so far been done since the first of the year, the roads being in such condition as to prevent the usual hauling incident to the Winter season. (The News and Advertiser.) Albany, February 26 —The white hat of Col. Primus Jones was floating about town yesterday.—Friday last the bridge of the Savannah, Florida and Western Railway across the Flint caught fire from sparks from a switching freight engine. The fire had acquired considerable start, when it was fortunately discovered aud put out.—Judge Wright and ('apt, “Tete” Smith returned from the Supreme Court yesterday. They were kept too busy in the Court room to ascertain which one of the ninety and nine candidates for Governor would be inaug urated. (The Times.) Chattanooga, February 26. —About three million brick were laid in this city last year. -D. H. F. Griscom has been appoint ed postmaster. —We’ learn that General Powell has made a proposition to purchase the Lookout Rolling Mill, with a view of greatly enlarging it, improving its capacity and adding new departments.—Consider able satisfaction wife expressed on the streets yesterday over the probability of the Chattanooga and Rome Railroad being built.—A number of students, who graduat ed from the Dental Colleges at Nashville, passed through the city yesterday on their return home. - (Abbeville (3. C.) Medium.) Last Sabbath two mad dogs entered a church daring preaching near town and created some excitement and alarm among the worshippers. The dogs were killed be fore any damage was done.—The most in teresting case decided at our recent Court was that of W. W. Mars against the Virginia Home Insurance Company for $2,100 in surance on a' store house burnt down. E. G. Graydot, Esq., made a logical and learn ed argument before the jury, which was so effective that a verdict was rendered against the company for $2,265, which was the de mand in full, with interest added. (Dawson Journal.) Our farmers are as cheerful and sanguine as if they had a million each. Their in domitable energy aud pluck must succeed. —While we heard flattering reports from every section of the State concerning the oat crop while in Augusta, we saw none which compare favorably with the oat crop in this section. —We are gratified to be able to State that there are now 21Q pupils in attendance upon the South Georgia Male and Female College iu our city. The new structure that is being built for the musical department is rapidly assuming shape. It will contain eight large’ rooms, and will be a two story building. (Greenville (8. C.) News.), A meeting of the stockholders and Direc tor.; of the Ruguepot Mills was held yes terday, at whjch the plan of the buildings was discussed. The general outlines >4 the form of contract to be given out was also decided upon. The contract will probably be awarded by Saturday.-Mr. O. C. Folger, United States Commissioner at Easley, died on Tuesday of pneumonia. Mr. Fulger, who is a native of this State, has held sever al positions under the Federal Government, having been the first postmaster at Easley. He wqs also |a United States guager for a number of years, which position he resigned to become comngissioner, (Meriwether Vindicitqr.) Last Monday Wilson McGehee, a colored ‘ 16 year old yo.uth of the Third district, whjle hearing off some lumber,stepped over the circular saw while it was in motion. The teeth, catching the boy, cut off his left foot at the instep and the knee cap of the left leg, besides inflicting other fearful and frightful cuts. The wounded boy’was alive at last accounts, but oartainly will not sur vive his injuries—A negro woman named Vic Simpson had her brains shot out at Hood last Saturday night by a dyuffkeu man named Robert Garner, }t is claimed that Garner thought tfc,e gun was not load ed, and' that he was pointing the gun at Vic in eport. The last Legislature enacted a law to meet just such cases, and we tape 1 such sport will be effectually squelched by the law. I (Columbia Enquirer-Sun.) Yesterday afternoon Edmund Taylor, a negro boy about twelve years of age, was ! arraigned before Justice Ridenhour under i the charge of arson. The evidence went to , show that on Tuesday night Edmunds at- I tempted to sei to a tenement house i belonoing to. Mr. Patrick Foran and occu ’ pied by Eenyon pnncan, colored. C‘pe or (' two witnesses swore that they him with a chunk of fire in hie hand, touching it to the building, and, U),at' he was frightened away by then?. It was also In evidence that kerosene oh had been poured on the side of the house. The Judge bound Edmund over to the Superior Court, fixing his bond at >3O, which he succeeded in giving. (Athens Watchman. \ Within the past few days we have discov ered a strong current of determination in our city to build a railroad to Jug Tavern, . ana we feel no donbt but work will begin j thereon next Summer.—The ioai»viila and Nashville, through th« Georgia Railroad, I will greatly rednse the rates on Western freights to Athena. It seems that the Cin i cyiuati Southern has been cutting, and has j got the rival line on her metal.— Ms. Jbobert Chapple, who runs a fart£ on the outskirts of Athens, is not only one of our best citi zens, but! most progressive planters. On four acres of potatoes he made one thou j uana bushels, and from one and three-quar ters acres planted in ground peas he gathri ered one hundred and twenty-five bushels, that he sold at $2 50 per bushel, besides fattening thirty hogs from the crop. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. (By Telegraph to the Chronicle.) London, February 22. —The bark Nortlf ern Queen, from "Wilmington, N. C., for Granton, is ashore off Cuxhaven, and has been abandoned in a sinking condition. Her crew were saved. New York, Febiuary 22.—Thomas Kane's cotton storage warehouse, at Thirteenth avenue and Bank street, was gutted by fire last night, four thousand bales of cotton be ing nearly all destroyed. Liss, about $75,- 000 on the cotton and $5,000 on the build ing. Cincinnati, February 22.—The river has fallen nearly two feet from the highest mark, and is still falling rapidly. The weather is clear aud cold. Advices trom up the river show that the water is still rising, and it may rise again Here; but cold weather gives promise that the worst is over. Lancaster, Pa., Febimry 22.—While a party of youug men were firing a salute this afternoon, in honor of the Democratic vic tory in this city, yesterday, the cannon ex ploded, instantly’killing Frank A. Herzog and dangerously injuring Peter Rocherichs. The latter’s right leg was torn off and he is not expected to live. Both are married men. Washington, February 22.—The Signal Corps station at Chincoteague, Va., reports the sloop Dauntless ashore on Fox Shoals, at 8, p m , yesterday. The master, Sewell Collins, aud James Kyler were washed off and lost. The bodies have not yet been re covered. Howard Slaid was iu the rigging all night, and waded ashore at low water. The sloop is breaking up. Pottstown, Pa., February 22.—Frank Kirkpatrick, of South Coventry, Chester county, aged 21 years, while beastly intox icated and being" hauled home in a wagon from a public sale, Monday, had his neck broken. His comrades were drunk -and they pitched him into the rear of a vehicle, paying no more attention to him until they arrived at his home, when they found him dead. New Orleans, February 22.—Two months ago Delia McGraw eloped with and married Victor Eloi Cruel. The treatment by her husband drove the wife to seek employment as a nurse, and yesterday, while passing down Magazine street with her employer’s child, she encountered her husband who, after exchanging a few words with her, plunged a dirk into her breast, killing her. The murderer was arrested and imprisson ed. San Francisco, February 22.—A dispatch from Guaymas to the Tucson Star says the steamer Newburn picked up part of the 1 craw of a wrecked British bark off the coast of Lower California. They were famishing and about to resort to cannibalism. The party consisted of the captain’s wife and two children and two seamen. One child and one seaman died immediately. The mother gave birth to a healthy infant two days afterwards. Lyncuburg, Va., February 22.—A fire at Liberty, Va., originated in the general merchandise establishment of O. P. Bell, a brick building in the centre of the town, on the main street. A high wind prevail ing, it spread rapidly. The office of the Star caught, and the flames were communi cated to several houses belonging to the Hoffman estate, tothe property of Mrs. J. O. Herslen, and that of Mrs. Wm. L. Holt, all of which were destroyed. The building occupied by the Bank of Bedford barely escaped. The Mayor of Lynchburg was telegraphed to for assistance, and a hook and ladder company, sent by a special train, rendered help in checking the pro gress of tho fire, which was gotten under central about seven o’clock, after raging three hours and destroying almost the en tire block. The loss is estimated between twenty-five and thirty thousand dollars— partially insured. Chester, Pa., February 22.—The cor oner’s jury investigating the cause of the explosion of Jackson’s fireworks factory rendered a verdict censaring the aity au thorities for permitting such a dangerous business to be carried on in a populous lo cality; also, for not enforcing the ordinance in reference to powder and other explosive materials within its limits. The jury further find that Prof. Sami. Jackson is high ly censurable for maintaining in the midst of a populated district au establishment attended with all the danger of a fireworks manufactory, and that. Chas. Van Horn, in assuring the Chief of the Fira Department that there was no further d inger after tho [ second explosion, thus leading him and other members of the fire department into further danger, is also highly censurable; and in view of the above the jury recom mend that the (coroner hold said Samuel Jackson and Chas. Van Horn for appearance at the next term of the Court. Jackson and Van Horn will be arrested immediately. The Delaware County Court meets at Media on the first Monday in March. Francis Oakes, another one of the victims of the ex plosion, died to-day, making 18 in all. London, February 24.—A St. Petersburg dispatch says: “At the Nihilist trial, yes terday, all the piisonars pleaded guilty ex cept Morosoff and Arontsehik, who pleaded an alibi." Danv.lle, Va., February 24.—The Hust ings Court of Pittsylvania county yesterday sentenced Dock Wright to bo hung on the 31st of March. All efforts to procure a com mutation of the sentense failed. Cincinnati, February 24.—The Enquirer has a report from Lexington, Ky., to the effect that its reporter, having been confined a week in jail with George Ellis, obtained from him a statement that his former con fession, charging the murder of Fanny Gib bons on Wm. Neal and Ellis Craft, was un true, and that it was made under duress and under the belief that Craft had con fessed - he being so informed by the person to whom his first confession was made. The other Cincinnati papers have no confirma tion of this matter, and tho Enquirer's re port says the indications are that Ellis has still further revelations to make. Cincinnati, February 24.—John Maj er Hicks, colored, was hanged at Covington, Ky., to-day. The execution was the second one ever had in Kenton county, and was the first guasi private execution in the State of Kentucky. Father Lambert came to the front, and addressing the three hundred spectators admitted, said: “Mr. Hicks will say nothing. I speak for him. He takes his death as the punishment for his sin.” The black cap was then adjusted, Hicks all the while weeping profusely and exclaim ing, “God is good; oh. Lord, have mercy.” The drop fell at 10:15, aud the body was cut down at 10:44. There was no struggle. He was hung for tho murder of Henry Mur ray Williams, at Ludlow, Ky., December 15, 1880. There were no witnesses to the erffne. The utterance of Father Lambert on the scaffold was his only confession. Galveston, February 27.—A special from LaGrange says that the jail there was I broken open on Friday night, and one J. M. Harrison was killed by Deputy Sheriff Rankin. One prisoner escaped. Vicksburg, Miss., February 26.—The steamboat Bertie Claiborn was burned to the water's edge to-day, at Whiting Lake Land ing, Steele’s bayou. Hey cargo, consisting of 166 bales of cotton and 300 sacks cotton seed, was totally destroyed. The loss is $15,000. The insurance is not known. One negro man and three children wore drowned. New York, February 27. - George Harry Wall, the lawyer who was shot W Sunday in New Utrecht, New York made an ante mortem. statement tb,is morning before Judge Church, of Hamilton, implicating his wife, who wss thereupon arrested and committed to ths Town Hall to await the result of his injuries, which, it is believed, will prove fatal. Mobile, February 27.—Zedac/s jewelry store was entered by burglars Bunday ni£ht. Tiiey were evidently professionals. One safe was forced open aud gold jewelry, worth about $3,000, taken. Another safe, which contained about $50,000 worth of ; diamonds, resisted all efforts of the burg lars, who decamped, leaving a kit of tools. The police have made one arrest and think they are on the track of the rest of tffo i gang. St. Louis, February 26. spacial from Gattsville, Texas, say? that 0 few days ago a mob in the western part of the county took a young man named Dering, under ar- ! rest on suspicion of horse stealing, front an ; officer aud lynched bitn,. Yesterday, one hundred armed men from (he nejghbor hoo.l of the victim's same into town an<| demanded tW kho parties engaged in the lyqebias I*9 afre»ted, Os they would ta|*e ita law iu their bauds. The sheriff then arrested Bob Leverett and his two sons, aud is now after several more of thft lyncliing mcb. Washington, February 2’), —A Norfolk special says : “The Radies of a white wo man named Rosa Stark and of her two in- , fants, were found in the woods, near yicaa ant Hill, Northampton county, N- C., day before yesterday. The jnqueut developed the following facts : Cm the night of Mon- Hay, the 30tfl iwst., the woman gave birth to an infant. which she killed at once,, vn Tuesday morning she went to t<j& poods to bury it, and while th&TO »save birth to another child. Thja, also, she kiU*,u, and prostrated Ijy the exposure died herself. The horrible affair has caused great excite meut- No one has been implicated save the woman, whose object appears to have been to conceal her shame.”' Peteesbubc. February 26.—From infor mation, received here, it is supposed that a foul murder was committed in Southamp ton county, last Friday night, the victim being Samuel Hili, a quack doctor. When found Hill was in his night clothes, lying in a ditch near his house. There was a bullet bole in the bock of bis neck, another in his ' back and an abrasion of the skin on the ; forehead, as if caused by the blow of a heavy cudgel. The house in which Hill lived was found burned to tha ground. Some days previous to the murder a colored patient, for whom Hill had prescribed, died. It was charged that he had been poisoned by Hill, and the supposition now is that the ' doctor was murdered by the dead man’s ’ friends. Galveston, February 28.—A case of smallpox appeared on Market street, be tween 25th and 26th streets. The patient ,is a variety actor, from Dallas. The house ’is quarantined, and all other inmates re moved. Wilmington, N. 0., February 28.—In formation ia received here that Capt. David R. Mqnchison, President of the Carolina Central Railroad, and leading merchant of this city, died in New York at 1 o’ clock this morning. „„ . . ~ , Joliet, February 28. —A freight car loaded with brick was thrown into a ditch eight miles from here yesterday. Eight tramps were secreted in the car at the time, two of whom were killed, and the others so badly injured that their lives are despaired of. The names of the unfortu nates are not known. A CHAPTER FROM WALL STREET. The Young Men and the Professionals Who Put Up Margin—The Turn «f the Wheel and the Twist of a Figure. New York, Febtuary 27.—The brokers say that the number ot young men who are carrying their dollars to Wail street has decreased perceptibly in the city the last year, but that the out-of-town custom, es pecially in the West, is increasing, for the development of Gould’s plans there under the eyes of many speculators give them confidence in bis i-tocks, and there are strong buyers. The tape-pullers, to the casual observer, seem to bo middle-aged men, and singularly enough there is a large proportion of professional men among them. The lawyers lead tho list, and hag gard end nervous and quick tempered they stand about the ticker watching the wheel of fortune go round and round. In one office there stands a portly, well-fed man, with his hands under the tail of a cutaway coat, a silk hat poised on the back of his head and a cigar stuck between his teeth. He is rocking to and fro upon his heels, and he seems to believe that he is on the high road to fortune. “Who is he?” is asked of a shiiking, modest man of middle age, who once moved with a broadside in the street, aud has since taken his trip up in a balloon so high that he says he has not got done falling yet. “He’s a Methodist preacher, who made a hit in New York. Elevated some time ago at the first clip, and having gained about $30,000, is now going in heavy. He thinks that Gould will be send ing for him soon to learn how to speculate. He has given up preaching and has taken to smoking, buying straddles and to lunching at Dolmoacio’s." v “How long do you give him ?” “He will tangle himself up before the Ist of May, and Re will then settle down here for a year, with morning and evening prayers, that he may get back his money and go back to lead his little flock in green pastures by the still waters." "Is it true that young men in New York are turning their backs on Wall street:'” “Yes, they prefer poker, for thev have a chance to deal once in a while. Here the cards are stocked, and somebody else is the dealer all the time. There are about 10,000 sign posts up around here warning people to quicken their steps and get out of the range of the miasma as soon as thev approach Wail street. It needs a clear vision to see them, and they are a blessing to a man with good eyesight. The young man who cometh here groweth np like the grass and flouriseth like a grew, bay tree lor a time. Then he is out down and walketh away on his uppers. When Trin ity chimes out three o’clock one day, a fair-faced woman in rich attire drives up iu a coupe and he steps in and they roll up Broadway, laughing at the cold, cold world. Another day he gets a note from his broker, and he borrows a quarter to get something to steady his nerves. If he can scrape up $5 he tries his luck at faro, and in a short time he is looking over the list of men wanted in the Y. M. U. A. hall. I saw among the soldiers, in the spectacle of ‘Michael Strogoff,’ a few days ago, a man who, like our friend the preacher, felt two years ago that he would soon give Jay Gould some points.” — m foreign notes, Parliamentary Dots From England—Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal Party—Par nell Deeper tn Kllmainham—General Foreign Notes. —— (By Cable to the Chronicle.) London, February 28.- la consequence of answers received to a circular proposing short time, the Lancashire cotton manu facturers, at a meeting at Manchester to day, unanimously resolved to close their mills for a fortnight before the 12th of April, the closing days to be optional with the masters. London, February 28.—The report, on the 25th instant, that the British brigTren mor, from Charleaton for Bremen, ashore at Cowes, had been floated, was erroneous. The bark Canada, from Darien for Berwick, is ashore at the latter port. The' crew is. saved. London, February 28.—A dispatch from St. Petersburg, byway of Berlin, says: “Ten of tho Nihilist prisoners, including one woman, who have been on trial for some days past on various charges, have been sentenced to death. The remainder of the tweity-ono prisoners were sentenced to various terms of penal servitude.” Paris, February 28.—The Government has resolved to modify the laws relating to the expulsion of foreigners so that every foreigner who has been convicted of crime in his native country may be expelled im mediately without any formality. Oases of' those not convicted must be submitted to a council of Ministars. London, February 28.—1 t is stated that Parnell has just finished a week's solitary confinement in consequence of a warder charging him with trying to bribe him to “muggle a letter out of prison. Parnell de nied the charge. London, February 28.—The London cor respondent of the Manchester Guardian says: “The meeting of the Liberals at Glad stone’s residence, yesterday, produced an excellent effect on the party. The Conserva tives are discouraged, and there is no con cealment of their desire that the House of Lords now abandon its attitude and give assurance that the inquiry will not interfere with the judicial operation of the Land cct. Lord Cairns, Chairman of the Lord’s Com-, mittee, is understood to be using all efforts in favor of moderation. The good effect of the meeting is confirmed from other sources. An analysis of division in the House ot Commons, last evening, on the motion to postpone the orders of the day, shows that the Government was supported by all sec tions of the party, from Messrs. Cowen, Collings and Gourley, who previously fre quently voted with the extreme Irish sec tion, to the Whigs, such os Lord Edward Cavendish and Fitzmaurice, Goshen, Grey, Guest anti Kingscot, Marquis of Stafford, Sir Edward Watkin and Mr. 'Walter. Thir teen Home Rulersalso supported the Govern ment, including Colthurst, Fay, Gabbett, Mitchell, Henry, Shaw, O’Conner, Rawer and Smyth. In the House of Commons, this afternoon, Sir Henry James, Attorney- General, moved a resolution declaring void the election of Michael Davitt, who was returned to fill the vacancy for Meath caused by the resignation of A. M. Sullivan. Joseph Cowen (Radical) member for Newcastle-on-Tyna. moved an address to the Queen, praying in view of the arrest, rearrest and subsequent return of Davitt to Parliament, that free pardon be granted to him. The Speaker ruled this motion out of order. Sir Henry James pointed out that the Government would not move for a new writ, but would allow time for Egan to claim his seat. The resolution of Sir Henry James was carried by a vote of 208 to 20. CROMWELL'S HEAD. The Protector's Cranium As It Is Preserv ed To-Day. (From the Dublin Times.) It is not generally known that the em balmed head of (JRver Cromwell is extant. Some few years since, at any rate, it was said to be in the possession of Mr. Horace Wilkinson, of Seven Oaks, Kent. It was then in good preservation, and its phreno logical aspect presented several striking pe culiarities. Thus, the length, from the forehead io the back of the head, is quite extraordinary—far greater than in ordinary men. The-forehead, or frontal portion, is low, but very broad; the orbits of the eyes are vary large, the cheek bones and tho bridge of the nose are high, and the lower jawbone, which is ordinarily curved, is short, straight and fotming a right angle, with its point of insertion. The head is one. indicating a brain (which is but the instru ment of the mind) of groat activity and great capacity, corresponding with tho re mark of Cromwell's secretary, who said that “it was at onso a shop and a storehouse.” From its bnbag embalmed, such flesh as remains on it is of the consistency of hard brown leather. The eyebrows meet in the middle, and between them was a small wart, now worn away—one of those which Cromwell, when sitting for bis portrait, or dered the painter on no account to omit representing, as his duty was not to fhttei in any way, but paint what he saw exactly. In life his complexion was fresh, and ot the hue known as “salmon colored.” The hair, which was of a fairish or reddish tinge, has mostly bean cut off, and the. beard is now stained brown by tho embp.'nn ing fluid and drawn under the ohin, where, when tha head was exposed on the, top of Westminster Hall, it was tied to the spear-head which hail been rwn through and mounted on it, Several teeth remain and the eyijlidH, but the, brain was removed during *.kq embalming process. SENATOR. BROWN’S DEMOCBACY. What the Georgia Senator Says of Run ning With Blaine. Washington, February 25.—The atten tion of Senator Brown, of Georgia, was di rected to published statements that a possi ble Presidential ticket of Blaine and Brown would come up in the next cam paign. “Some time ago,” said the Senator, "I wrote a letter, in which I said that I would! vote for the next Democratic nominee fev Governor of Georgia, and for the next Dem ocratic Presidential nominees. Mr. Blaine* could hardly be a Democratic nominee for President; and, upon what I have an nounced as my intention, I could neither be on the same ticket with him nor vote for him. I stand by what I have already de clared as my intention. There is no neces sity whatever, ia .»y opinion, for going outside the Democratic party for candi dates. The party should be of itself alone.” In reply to a question as to the Ribera! movement in Georgia, Mr. Brown said that he never thought it could accomplish any thing, and that it was further crippled by the fact that the Republicans of the State are diligently fighting each other in fac tions over tjie offices. Beautiful Ever-Bloamlng Roses. AU lovers of choice flowers should send to the Dingee & Conard Co., West Grove, Pa., for some of their lovely roses. These roses are certain to bloom, and are the finest in the world. They are sent safely by mail postpaid to all post offices in the United States. This company is perfectly reliable, and noted for liberal dealing. They give away in premiums and extras more roses than most establishments grow. Send for their New Guide, a complete treatise on the rose (70 pages, elegantly illustrated), free. See advertisement in this paper. i—^-4—ii Sunday school teacher—Who was the strongest man? Boy—Jonah; because the whale couldn’t hold him after he got him down.