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To Advertisers. ^ SQVAH3 is ten measured lines of Nonpareil of meM.JKsrauNjiWS. < :a nt advertisements and special notices j, |l(1 ^uare for each insertion. ‘ * advertising, first insertion, $1 00 per each subsequent insortion (if inserted v \ 75 ceiit-i per square. or reading matter notices, 20 cents per an 7foreach insertion. • : -nvjnts ! nserted every other day, twice or V 7ice. a xeck, charged $1 00 per square for t&ch insertion. So contract rates allowed except by specicu ^.vnw/il. Libera! discounts made to large ad- ferti^ 1 ^' Adverii wtcu fir?* 1 pab'i* , L ra ts will nave a favorable place inserted, but no promise of continuous - n a particular place can be given, w§ - « must have equal opportunities. Affa rs in Georgia. If > i.ut r Norwood intends to be a candi date for re-election, as we presume he does, 1, ought to employ a private secretary with 1 literary turn. It is quite the thing now-a- <lay». , . , The C luuibus Times thinks “the fine t 1 Hester, in regard to the State Lottery, “falls flat.” So. But we think v. - can assure the Senator that if he ne ver lall.- any flatter than he did when he attacked the Lottery, ho will stand erect for many a long day. The charity that fur nishes au excuse for gambiiDg and demor alization among tlio ignorant and supersti- t j uUS wj look upon as utterly unworthy; and those who have watched the mob of idle and hall-starved negroes “playing policy” a t the different branches of the Georgia State Lottery wiil agree with us that the concern is not only demoralize g, hut is a itive nuisance. A stranger visitiDg Augusta refused an invitatiou to go up the canal. The next morning his battercakes were frozen stiff and there w as a very sick fly in his butter. This should be a waruing. It will be observed by our special tele hat tli. H<*n. 1‘otty IYagreen and pc grams of the House t Hou. 1’! with the have prolonged the session ) Wednesday. Is it possible, .that you are not yet through j that I. tor. W Hire bra T. Jt-flV with yo Time ami tin foi ble the city all wi Twenty-o in to see the net each par tic ul; awav ou a livt has letnarked iu the newspa- iggar, of hanniu, is a horse- i, i-uppote ho is. Doesn’t it is to eliminate the hots, or to a w nd-gall V And didn’t the late M>n drench his own colts? Get out r “virtual statistics.” lways brings about its revenges, average Augusta man will soon exquisite pleasure of throwing the 1 of tiis evergreens over the palings neighbors cow—that abomina- tliat lias been waudering around Mr. John M. Meriwether c read the fashio of our noble Senators failed -sity of taxing dogs unless canine was caught gnawing beep. O for a Touchstone in the General Assembly to twist some of the nienibi 1''line-spun logic into cords to hang them with. Thouiasville had an amateur fox-chase the other day. ox, of Madison, is dead, unity has a cow that doesn’t 1 magazines. She attacked a young umn m the rear the other day be cause he had ou a red cravat. Marion county is troubled with the whoop ing cough. Min. Eastman, wife cf Win. Pitt Eastman, died at Eastman on the loth, aged sixty-two years. When the Atlanta police learned that it wasn’t Wiley Redding after all, they all came up like little men and said they would have identified him sooner, only they knew it wasn’t him. There’s nothing like being acquainted. The mining operations in Lumpkin county continue profitable and promising. Mr. C. D. Leonard, of Eatonton, began to make preparations for rebuilding his store house the day after the fire, and will have it ready for occupation in thirty days. Charles D. is one of the energetic ones. The corn-crib of Mr. J. C. Reid, of Put nam couuty, was burned recently, together with four huudred busels of corn and seven or eight ricks of fodder. A colored forger has been laid away in the Troup couuty jail to get mellow. Decatur couuty is moving energetically for a Fai The German population of Baiubridge is rapidly thinning out by removal. The Brunswick Appeal says that during the year 1875 there was 37,963,038 feet of timb-. and -,181,086 feet of lumber shipped tj for i,-n ports from the port of Darien, and 7 ; 1 feet of lumber and 1,359,440 Let of timber shipped coastwise, making the grand total of timber and lumber ship ments fnuu the port for the year 50,306,290 feet. Corn-planting has begun in Southern Georgia, ■ 'ii peas are blooming in Bainbridge. !’■ aih and plum treeB are in bloom in North Georgia. Dahl me; shortly. Mr. John II. Janies is a little more enter prising than ti.r rest of the gubernatorial aspiru.rs. He has engaged a poet by the name t Games, aud Gaines, look you, is a kard 1.. " handle wheu it comes to sling- 1IJ " rL; What could be finer or portray uls- ltLhuess of the poet in deeper col- /' than the billowing? “Jt is no selfish sor- -d l«’ve, that inspires the popular voice, di ut the name of John H. James, be- -tut-e i- the people’s choice.” Like the ■ - sings because lie cannot help the fallowing will show : “Then a Li unite, until each man the Luiis, and make the hills and u ‘g, hurrah 1 hurrah ! for John H. H any of the other candidates things of this sort, we can fur- 11 with the address of several jour- hopts to have a brass band but siu ( let tin- truth | alleys James' Oish lb, Qtymai Two taentv LaG, ‘Tumi.; vided 1 before I tqualh and Du, The ( the cot tester t Colui ' poets. Lalil-mega sportsmen have killed • Ni -1 turkeys within three weeks. b of Banks,’ for Governor, pro- s not get elected President ulJ 'L In that case, we are about Gi\itlt-il between Baker, of Bartow, Igar, of Fannin.” ‘tubus Enquirer says that during :i week ending Friday night the Railroad of Alabama brought to ' u route for Savannah and New 1.G74 bale, ^ fr ‘'tu Mont, 1’ nit and other stations; by j! 0 Vicksburg, 0 from New Orleans, 0 rath Railroad. The total , U ' ‘ :u 'Veruent by this route, since Sep- bi, ’ 1S bales—4,485 from Mo- Stlm <i ’^ 6 fr0m Mont gGmery, 11,037 from fru m West Point, Opelika, etc.; j. ‘ ■i\ lcU80urg)95 f rom »; ew Orleana, ■ • rtU aud South Railroad. The total ut laat season was 32,830. Daring cotton—813 from Mobile, itgoinery, 128 from Selma, 274 ^he Mobile and Girard Railroad fctrn.. • tale/ oi t through, against 3,968 that a . '' aton Southerner and Appeal says time a - U ^ c °pper ore was found some of tbe' ^ mCating rock y foundation &ly 2ed | at J oouibsboro. Specimens an- Bhovtd r Mr. O. Bower, Purer Ut ' 0n ^ & ^ouht that the ore was w °ndtr, f 1 16 vem was small and the ii . w a . Ja ' V ’ aQd t,Jen f° r fifotten. Last 0D Jud -.w' 01 "’ ^ au Kkter, the overseer il °kiLg a boon’s plantation near by, in Came t0 a miDe metfJ 8U P" Te L ut th 6 Cu ^P er t a “d a connection of the ttifcng of or fr< m ke took speci- *** uow beim r fcl *’ ii , ilig ^veral pounds, which b “ualyzed. the naval station r6SOluti< Of the vessels home abandn^J “ ‘ ■n the Mediterranean^ 2 and South Atlantic almost entirely ' T1 7 S .lL^“PP-nt y as" mercantile interests are protected as it is. badly enoujj Cyclops. I J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1876. ESTABLISHED 1850. The Irwinton Southerner says that Mr. Jasper Parker, of Wilkinson county, turned gray in a single night. About six years ago a violent cyclone struck his plantation and almost entirely destroyed it. It was in the spring and his land was prepared for the crop when the tornado came, and lie looked upon himsolf as a ruined man with a family to support. So groat was his distress that in a night white spots of gray hair appeared upon his hair and beard, where they novr remain. He was then thirty years old. He is a living witness of the truth of such re- markable changes. The Cartersvilie Express says the Tails' poosa copper mine, now one of the wonders of Georgia’s mineral wealth, is loca’cd i_ Haralson county, about four miles from where Puik, Paulding aud Haralson coun ties corner. It is diroctly on the Dallas and Buchanan road-eight miles from the first and twelve from the latter town, and twelve miles from Bockmart. The land is stil the property of Mr. Thomas G. WaJdrop, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Haralson. Brunswick Appeal: This week we exam ined some of the specimens of leather tan- - ned and finished by Mr. D. A. Moore, from five to eight days, aud must sav that it baa every appearance of being as* good leather as any that ever remained in the vats for six monthB. Mr. M. inlorms us that under this new process, which is a patched secret, be can turn out his entire stock of hides once every thirty days, therein it re quires six months under the old process to get out good leather. An earnest effort is being made to organize a stock company for the purpose of purchasing the right, and the establishing of a tannery on an ex tensive scale. We hope the effort may suc ceed, and that we may soon be privileged to announce the permanent establishment of a tannery as one of the institutions of our city. Make this a success, gentlemen, and the establishment of a boot and shoe factory will be an easy matter. Sparta Times and Planter: The Senate has at last done a good thing in the passage of a bill wiping out this gigantic gambliug monopoly. It baa always been a disgrace to Georgia. It was gotten np ostensibly to raise funds for the benefit of Confederate widows aud orphans. It has doubtless made as many orphans—so far as dependence on charity is concerned—as it has ever school ed. Tho idea of a concern being beneficial with a school for tho education of orphans iu one room, and a school for educating gamblers in the other—preposterous. Tho writer began the first open newspaper war- 1 are on this concern about two years ago, and has rejoiced to see tho leaven working, until the Senate wipes it out by a vote of 27 to 7. All honor to the noble Senator, Hes ter, for possessing the courage to take the bull by the horns, aud make a manly fight for morality! The Eatonton Messenger gives tho follow ing particular* of the recent fire in that town: The burning commenced a little after eight, and before eleven o’clock five stores wero iu rums, besides great quantities of goods consumed and damaged. Mr. ltes- pess saved all his goods except a few in tho rear building. Mr. Leonard and Cline & Quinn, on the upper side of the fire, had their goods greatly iujured by moving from the stores, which were iu imminent dan ger, though fortunately for that upper street, the wind blew from the build ings. The losses aud insurance, as best we learn, are as follows: Cline A Quinn, damaged goods, $2,000; insured, $9,000 ou stock. G. W. Brown’s store house, valued at $2,000, aud insured for $1,000 in Columbus Home Company. L. Goodman A Co.’s goods, loss not known; insured for $4,000 iu the Liverpool and London aud Globe In surance Company. iS. R. Lawrence’s store house, worth $1,500; no insurance. W. H. Hearn’s stock of goods, $2,000; insured, $1,500 in Columbus Company. J. Q. Adams’s goods, books aud store house ; loss $4,000; no in;-uraiice. C. D. Leonard’s store house, loss $1,500; no insurance. Martin A Co., loss $4,500; insured in Athens Mutual $3,500 in stock. W. R. Respess, loss etoro house, valued at $4,800; no insurance. Walker A Respess, loss iu lost and damiged goods. $8,000; insured in Athens Company $G,000. It is the opiuion ol a great number of eitizens that the work is that of au in cendiary, aud suspicion rests upon gome who are interested largely in insurance. We will not, however, do any injustice to speak hero openly until the matter is investigated. Dynamite in a Patent Opfice.—A pretty rich story comes from Vienna to the following effect: In the midst of the excitement consequent upon the Bremer- haven disaster the clerks in the Depart ment of the Minister of Commerce, cor responding to our patent office, suddenly came upon four boxes which had Ia n unnoticed since 1874, the letters and specifications accompanying them not having been reached. The boxes were marked dynamite, and contained, as was subsequently learned, samples of that explosive, for which a pateDt was asked. The clerks were of course in a state of emotion, and the boxes were sent to the nearest police station, with a^request that they be thrown into the Danube, which request was complied with. A police agent on the ojiftosite bank, how’ever, witnessed the operation, and feeling sus picious, fished for the boxes, finding two and carrying them to the Commissary of Police. When the word “dynamite” was found every one but the Commissary took a sudden departure. The Commissary, evidently a cool hand, investigated the affair, sent to the Department of Com merce for information, and soon got all the facts. The two missing boxes could not be found, and as they may be washed ashore somewhere on the river banks, warning has been sent to all the people living below Vienna. The Escape of Dockbay.—Mr. Fred erick A. Dockray, whose escape from a Spanish dungeon Aid arrival in New lork has been reported, may be set down as a lucky individual. Formerly a revenue officer in Florida, he went to Cuba, boldly entered the insurgent lines, and, after remaining there several months, had the audacity to return to Santiago de Cuba,where he was arrested and tried, and sentenced to death for enacting the role of a spy. Through the interposition of our State Department his sentence was finally commuted to imprisonment for life, and he was thereupon sent to Spain. How he escaped seems to be a mystery. A slight reference is made to Mr. Dockray in the late report of the Commissioners of the Freedmen’s Sav ings and Trust Company. Under the beading, “Loans at tho Jacksonville Branch, Jacksonville, Florida,” appears the name of F. A. Dockray, charged with having borrowed from the bank $6,513 34. No portion of the debt has ever been paid, and the commissioners add tho re mark opposite the loan, “ Reported worthless.”—Baltimore Sun. in TUftM —TO— THE MOUSING NEWS. FROM THE STATE CAPITAL. THE MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAILROAD BONDS. Reorganizing die State University. akorisium; the state lottery. [Special Telegram to the Morning News.] Two Days’ Proceedings of 1he General Assembly. Bills Read, Lost and Passed. Prolongation of the Session to Wednes> day. [Special Telegram to the Morning News.] Atlanta, February 18, 1876. in the senate. The following bills were passed : To incorporate the Bibb Maunfacturing Company. To incorporate the Atlantic and Mexican Gulf Canal Company. To incorporate the Fulton Manufacturing Company. To incorporate the Gold Mountain Manu factunng Company. To reduce and regulate the fees of tax re ceivers and collectors. It allows three per cent, in Richmond, Fulton, Chatham and Bibb counties. To amend the laws relating to the deaf and dumb asylum at Cave Spring. IN THE HOUSE. The following bills were passed : To define the duties and abilities of re ceivers appointed for railroads to create liens. To amend tho act to designate the holi days to be observed in this State. To prohibit the sale of liquor within two miles of the female academy in Fort Valley, and Sunuyside, Spaulding county. To prevent the killing of wild turkeys and partridges in Greene county. To provide for the payment of insolvent costs to officers in Clarke county. To make it penal to harbor escaped con victs. To reduce the compensation of the Col lector, Receiver and Treasurer of Butts county. To appropriate money to pay the expenses incurred by the counties in the late insur rectionary districts. It excludes paymen to the military. To fix the manner in which judgments of foreclosures shall be taken in mortgages given to loan aud building associations. To prescribe the compensation of Tax Collector aud Receiver iu Bibb county. To authorize the Mayor aud Council of Rome to settle their bonded indebtedness. To amend the laws of liquidation. For the relief of Grubb aud others, se curities for Wimberly, Tax Collector of Burke county. To provide for tho sale of the North and South Railroad. Tv protect Ordinaries when the adminis tration of estates is vested iu Clerks of tho Superior Courts. To amend section 2527 of the Code, as to the returns of administrators. To abolish the City Court of Augusta. To amend the charter of the Presbyterian Church of Augusta. To amend the act to amend section 4441 of the Code, as far as relates to Richmond and other counties. To relieve building and loan associations from the taxes of last year. To provide for registration bonds. To amend the act creating a board of commissioners of Bibb county. To prescribe the manner in which injunc tions shall be granted. The bill to compel municipal authorities to levy a tax for the payment of principal and interest on bonds when due was lost. The bill for the relief of Boorman, John ston & Co. was lost. MACON AND.BBUNSWICK BAILBOAD BONDS. A bill to provide for the issue of new bonds, and retire th6 outstanding bonds of the Macon and Brunswick and North and South Railroads, comes up to-morrow. It has passed the Senate, and is known as the funding bill. If passed, over two million six hundred thousand dollars in new bonds wiil be issued to retire and pay accrued in terest on the old bonds. It will meet with vigorous opposition. THE STATE BOAD LEASE. The joiat committee appointed to iuvesti gate the alleged bribery of the Legislature of 1872, to secure the indorsement on the lease of tho Western and Atlantic Railroad, will report to-morrow. There is no evidence that money was used by the lease company on members of the Legislature. An Act Aimed at Roman Catholics Now Offensive to Protestants. —A bill has passed the lower house of tho Rhode Importer : “We nominate 1>ilaljd LegiM i atIire taxing all church prop erty except the buildings. It was passed under the impulse of a speech by one of the members, in which he warned his fel low legislators that the Roman Catholic Church was buying valuable property in the State and that the supreme Pontiff would eventually obtain control of the little commonwealth unless they prompt ly checked him by heavy assessments. Now, that tho bill has passed the House, all sects are joining in a leud protest against it, and the Providence Journal, which favored the measure a year ago, publishes long leaders against it. Sena tor Anthony, the editor of the Journal, ia a candidate for re-election this spring. —N. Y. Sun. Bald Mountain.—A person just from Bald Mountain reports that ou Sunday last there was a renewal of the "rumbling which was heard in the mountain about eighteen months ago. The rumbling noise was very distinctly heard and crea ted considerable apprehension in the minds of the people living in the imme diate vicinity of the mountain. It ib said that the religion which Old Baldy shook into the people up there J ear fore last has about all oozed out, and that they have pretty generally returned to cussing.—Barnwell (S. C.)Senlirul, Irth. ■Do you think a social glass of wine ever allowable?" In our climate, and among our people, so much inclined to the vice of intoxication, we think social drinking in every form an evil and a pro lific source of evils.—[ifr- Beeehar m the Christian Union.'] Drop m and s “ “ e to-morrow afternoon. The lug is Med, and not with water either.—[ifr. Beecher to Iff Moulton. Atlanta, February 19. IN THE SENATE. The following bill were reconsidered and passed: To amend section 4127 of the Code relative tj jury fees. To amend the act to regulate tUe weigh ing of corn, rice and other produce. HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD BEADING. To regulate the sale of poisons. Lost. To pay the claim of Ragland and Wynne. Passed as amended. To incorporate the Provident Savings and Loan Association of Savannah. Passed. To regulate the issuing of canal bonds by the Ctty of Augusta. Loit. To amend the jury laws as far as relates to Richmond county. Passed. To reorganize the government of the Uni versity of Georgia. Tassed as amended. IN THE HOUSE. The following bills were passed: To require the Mayor of Augusta to per form the duties of Recorder, and fix hiB compensation therefor. To provide for the dissolution aud reor- anizing of grand juries. To authorize tho Judges of the Superior Courts to strike certain criminal cases from their dockets. To appropriate money for the use of the Lunatic Asylum. To authorize the payment of certain past due coupons. To amend the charter of Columbus so as to abolish tho office of Deputy Marshal. To amend the eharter of the VernOn Shell Road Company. To incorporate the Augusta Insurance Company. To tlx tho term of office of Richmond County Solicitor. To allow married women to become guar dians for minor children by former hus band. To regulate the granting of new trials in criminal cases in county courts. MISCELLANEOUS. A bill, to encourage emigration in this State, was lost. The Governor has signed au act to require county officers -to make returns to grind juries. To amend the act creating a County Court for Marion county. A resolution was adopted by tho House to prolong the session to Wednesday night next. ATLANTA JOURNALISM. Atlanta, February 19. MACON AND BRUNSWICK BAILBOAD BOND BILL. General Lawton left for Washington at noon to-day, to attend the meeting of the National Democratic Executive Committee. Before leaving he made an able speech in favor of funding the Macon and Brunswick Railroad recognized bonds, as did also Col. Black, of Augusta, and Turnbull, of Banks. TEE STATE UNIVERSITY. The Senate passed the House bill reor ganizing the University of Georgia, with an amendment giving the appointment of the trustees to the present Board and the Judges of the Supreme Court. Yeas 23, nays 7. Colonel Lester made a splendid speech favor of the bill. Howell gave notice to re consider on Monday. THE STATE LOTTERY. Hester’s bill abolishing the State Lottery will be ably advocated in the House by prominent debaters. GALES ON THE ENGLISH COAST. London, February 19.—Heavy weather prevailed in the English channel during yes terday and last night and the barometer fell to ^e lowest point during the winter. The channel ports were full of refugeed vessels. The bark Blandma, from New Orleans for Leith, arrived at Falmouth, having lost two of her crew overboard during the voyage. To-day’s weather report says a depression passed across Scotland and the North Sea last night and lies over the west coast of Norway. The barometer is now rising on the west coast of Great Britain. There have been general raias throughout the country and local floods in the west of England. BAILBOAD MATTERS. New York, Februaty 19.—Suit has been commenced against tfco Syracuse, Birming- FATAL FALL. Death of Mr. Thomas C. Bracewell. [Special Telegrem to the Morning News.] Thomasville, February 20. Mr. T. C. Bracewell, formerly connected with the city press of Savannah as reporter, traveling agent, correspondent, etc., fell down a flight of stairs last night and died this morning from his injuries. THE BABCOCK TRIAL. Sharp Criticism of Grant’s Testimony. BEECHER’S ADVISORY COUNCIL. The “Courier” to Succeed the “ Her ald.” [Special Telegram to the Morning \ews.l Atlanta, February 20. The Atlanta Morning Courier, under the editorial control of Messrs. Alston A Grady, and the staff of the late Herald, will be pub- liahed on Tuesday morning. POIJTICAL. AFFAIRS I* SPAIN. The Carlists Retreating' toward Tolosa Heavy Storms on the British Coast. COL. BBOADHEAD ON OEN. OBANT’s DEPOSITION IN THE BABCOCK CASE. St. Louis, February 19.—Taking up the revocation order of the President, Colonel Broadliead said the President had declared that Babcock did not influence bim in the revocation of the order transferring Super visors, but that did not prove that Babcock had not worked elsewhere to that end. The testimony shows he went to Douglass, who had the power to revoke the order. It shows, hv warning that gentlemen of the disastrous effect which this order would have on liis prospects for preferment, he tried to induce action on liis part. It shows that Joyce, on receiving information that the order had been reduced to a tem porary arrangement, telegraphed to Bab cock to “push things,” and they were pushed. Tho explanation which the Presi dent and Supervisor Tutton gave for the revocation of that order were not at all ade quate to the act. [Sensation.] They ex plained that because the Supervisors all over the country had learned of tho order some days before, they had timo to straighten up affairs if anything was wrong, and therefore the whole scheme would bo defeated. But such is not at all the case. The order was suggested origin nally by the President himself, aud he claims the credit of it. It was intended not to discover frauds already committed, but to secure future benefits. It was held that the distillers bad gotten into such rules with the old Supervisors that new ones would readily catch them napping. The Colonel repeated that the reasons given by the President and Mr. Tutton are not at all sufficient, as they amount to really no reasons at all. There were other and more powerful influences brought to bear, and the exigencies of the case seemed to be such that the President stepped dowu from his high position to interfere with the du ties of one of the department officers. The order was revoKed, too, by telegragb, which of itself was a strange proceeding, aud questionable in law. This suspension was made the day after Joyce telegraphed Babcock to push things against the weaken ing enemy. This portion of the speech created a profound sensation. WASHINGTON NOTES. Washington, February 19.—The Commit tee on Appropriations hopo to reach a re duction of seven millions In executive and legislative printing aDd eDgraviug. The bureau will not resume till an appropriation is made. Dyer telegraphs Pierrepont from St. Louis that he is satisfied he judged Sherman too harshly. Tho frontier members of Congress seem unanimously lo favor the transfer of the In dian Bureau from the Interior to the War Department. Colonel George B. McCarter tendered his resignation as Chief of the Bureau of En graving and Printing, and it hi s been ac cepted. Colonel McCarter has several times asked to be relieved, but remained in office at the earnest solicitation ot the Secretary of the Treasury :itd tho President. The committee from tho Treasury appointed by the Secretary to examine the affairs t f the bureau have completed their work and re- S ort the accounts in all respects correct. [r. Jewell, present Assistant Chief, will be assigned charge of the bureau. Internal .revenue receipts to-day, $287,660; for the month to date, $5,691,063; for the fiscal year to date, $72,709,213. Customs receipts to-day, $519,093; for the month to date, $8,904,727; for the fiscal year to date, $95,778,573. The “ Dispatch” will tow a monitor from Port Royal to Key West or Pensacola. The Committee on Appropriations had a consult ition to-day with the Secretary at the Treasury Department. The House was iu session for debate only. Kelly made bis legal tender speech. the cablists. Madrid, February 19.—The Alfonsist Generals Quesada, Lomar and Marioues were at Vergara yesterday, awaiting the arrival of King Alfonso. San Sebastian, February 19.—The royal ists have occupied the forts at Arratzain and Meldezorrotz. London, February 19.—The Times pub lishes a private letter from a Carlist General who fought in the recent engagement at Elguda, in which he says the battle lasted all day. We lost our position, which was au important one. being the key to tho coun try leading to Azpeitia. The Al- fonsists numbered eight or nine times our forces, but we would have de feated them nevertheless if our ammunition had U'.t become exhausted. For hours some of our iuen had no cartridges. I can not say where wo shall be able to establish our lines. My own opinion is that the enemy will reach Arepitiri, and perhaps we shall have to struggle to keep him out of Tolosa. King Carlos went to Tulosa last night. The letter is dated the 14th Hendaye, February 19.—Tno Carlists claim a great victory in repulsing the Alfou- sist attack on Estella and Santa Barbaria along the whole line, inflicting great losses and taking 1,000 prisoners. It is asserted that tho Carlists have reoccupied Zarous and the coast. THE PLYMOUTH COUNCIL. Brooklyn, February 19.—It is thought that the members of the council are much more favorably impressed with the appear ance of things generally than they expected to be, and it is more than probable, in con clusion, will commend the action of Ply mouth Cburch in dropping the name of Mrs. Moulton from the roll. But little can be learned iu regard to ihe work of the com mittees on the different questions embodied in letter missive, but are all ready, or nearly so, to report their conclusion. On Monday next it is thought that the committee, who have under consideration rule No. 7, will recommend therein the use of the words : Withdrawal of the watch, care and fellow ship of the church.” a colored patriot. Richmond, February 19.—R. D. Ruffin, a colored member of the House of Delegates from Diuwiddie county, was expelled to-day for improper conduct in abstracting money from the pay-book of the Sergeant-at-Arms*. His guilt was established beyond a doubt, as the missing money was traced to him and he confessed by giving an order against his per diem for the amount. The money he took was that of another colored member, which was iu the pay-book near his own. * LAND 3LIDE. New York, February 19.—The recent gale and rains loosened the bluff - and palisadi s on the King and Morgan estate, overhang ing the Erie Railroad oil and coal docks. ham and New York Railroad, for half a mil lion dollars, claimed ;for Internal Revenue tax. The bondholders of the New Orleans, Mo bile aud Texas Railroad Company met here to-day aDd reorganized into a new company named the New Orleans and Texas Railroad Company. They will meet next Friday to complete organization and elect officers/ winslow’s family. London, February 19.—Mrs. Winslow, son and sister are here’. They have only about one hundred dollars and seem in great trouble. The United States Consul at Rotterdam took from Mrs. Wiuslow one thousand dol lar* in money and four thousand dollars in United States bonds. Mrs. Winslow sup poses this money to be hers. FROM LONDON. London, February 19.—The statement yesterday that Addleshaw & Warburten, of Manchester, had failed, is incorrect. It was Messrs. Edward Wilson & Co., manufactur ing chemists, who failed, with liabilities estimated at $500,000, and the error arose from the announcement of the fact coming through Addleshaw «t Warburten, who are solicitors. acquitted. New York, February 19.—Michael Furaell, who killed O’Baldwin, the Irish giant, was acquitted. The Judge commenced by say ing that a small man shut up in a room with a stalwart giant, who was about to strike him, was justified in using a pistol under the circumstances. A BRUTE. New York, February 19.—James Gillespie, aged four years, died to-day from injuries received by being placed on a hot stove by bis father, Robert Gillespie, who has been ar rested. Ho said the child bad committed some offense. NO COMPROMISE. ""London, February 19.—The Times's cor respondent telegraphs from Nuovo that he met the insurgent chiefs at Sultorina. They are unanimously determined to refuse all compromise with the Porte aud will fight for tho complete freedom of their country. THE SONORA REVOLUTION. San Francisco, Ftbruary 19.—In a battle between the Sonora revolutionists aud the State troops, near Alamos, the troops were routed. Tne insurgents have concentrated five hundred cavalry near Conicari. Washington’s birthday. New York, February 19.—A detachment of ten men from the Old Guard sailed this afternoou ou the steamer Champion lor Charleston, to participate iu the celebration of Washington’s birthday. THE STRATH CLYDE DISASTER. London, February 19.—At the inquest the Captain of the S*trath Clyde complained that the Franconia never attempted to as sist his people. Not even a rope was thrown to save the drowning. THE CARNIVAL. Naples, February 19.—Victor Emanuel is here and will remain during the carnival. Americans are arriving from all points to witness the carnival. CORRECTING AN EDITOR. Paris, February 19.— M. Lenoir is the re sponsible editor of the llepublic Francaise, and will undergo the sentence of the Cor rectional Court. FROM RANGOON. Rangoon, February 19.—Fifteen-were con victed of treason and recent conspiracy. The chief was sentenced to twenty-one years transportation. DEAD. Paris, February 19.—Adolph Theodore Brongniart, the botanist, is dead. Henri Joseph Guillaume Paton,the French litterateur and academician, is dead. BABCOCK. St. Louis, February 19.—Tho closing ar guments were commenced and will close probably on Monday night. The court room was crowded. ice houses burned. Athens, N. Y., February 19.—Eight of the Knickerbocker Ice Company’s houses were burned with 40,000 tons of *ice. Loss $325,000. ASHORE. London, February 19.—The ship Turkis- tan is ashore at Port Madoc. The crew lauded. The Captain and mates remained aboard. no female roosters. St. Petersburg, February 19.—An official ukase has been issued forbidding women exercising the functions of barrister. custom house swindle. Pittsbubo, Pa., February 19.—Au inves tigation in the Custom House shows a two dollar swindle on each consignment. SUNK BY ICE. Poughkeepsie, February 19.—Three canal boats, with four hundred tons of coal have been sunk by ice. THE BLUE DANUBE. Vienna, February 19.—The Danube is fl joding, ana the outlying suburbs are in undated. BIDDING FOR THE CONVENTION. St. Louis, February 19.—A large delega tion has gone to Washington to secure the Democratic Convention. MAX MULLER. London, February 19.—Max Muller, be ing relieved of the duty of lecturing, will remain at Oxford. HOMAN AMBASSADOR. Rome, February 19.—Gen. Meuabra is ap pointed Ambassador to London. BANK CLOSED. Cozmovia, N. Y., February 19.—The Coz- movia Bank is closed. OUR ATLANTA LETTER. Treatment of Colored Members—Southern Life Insurance Company—Bills from Second, Third* Fifth, Sixth. Seventh. Eighth and Twentieth Districts—Ap pling, Pierce, Lowndes, Jefferson, Wil. kinson, Colquitt, Berrien, Wore, Echols, Screven and Washington County Billi Time of Adjournment. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News.] Atlanta. February 19, 1876. One of the most popular pages in the House is George Moore, of Cobb county, to whom your corraspondent is under obligations for many kind attentions. This is a speech-making day, and the negro and white galleries are crowded. Of elegant ladies there are a large number in the gallery set apart for the “beauty and chivalry” of the State. Gen. Lawton has just delivered an able and unanswerable argument in favor of the funding of the recognized bonds of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. He was followed in an eloquent manner on the same line of argument by Black, of Richmond, and Turnbull, of Banks. TREATMENT OF COLORED MEMBERS. In my report of the two colored members I neglected to say that Blue, of Glynn, is a member of the Committee on Election and Bacon, of Liberty, on the Committee on Penitentiary. If any person thinks the colored people are deprived cf their rights in this State, that person should have been here on Thursday, when Blue spoke on the convict lessee bill. The members of the House treated him with the greatest courtesy, and his earnest ap peal for a more humane treatment convicts was heartily applauded by the House and the crowded galleries, and the passage of the bill was largely due to his unanswerable arguments. These colored members conduct themselves properly and are always treated with due respect. SOUTHERN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. The telegraph has made me say that Gen. Gordon “satisfied” me about the above company. It should have been “assured” me that the press and people had misjudged the conduct of himself aud Gen. Colquitt in the management of the affairs of this unfortunate corpora tiou. In my recent letter I gave your readers a true statement of the feeling and views of leading and responsible men in this city, and from all parts of the State, in regard to the Affairs of the Southern Life Insurance Company; but as Gen. Gordon, whom i hold in the highest esteem as an honorable gentle man aud a true patriot, denies the cor rectness of their views, I have given you by telegraph his statement of the matter. In doing so, however, I do not admit that I gave anything but a correct report of public opinion on the subject and still assert that nothing but a fm and clear exposition of the conduct and affairs of the Georgia branch ef the com pany can satisfy the policy holders and the people generally that the business of the organization has been economically and properly conducted. As such an ex position is promised, it is but just to the gentlemen named that public censure should be suspended until they have been heard in their own defense. At ten o’clock this morning a large piece of cliff, covering three hundred yards, gave way, and rolling down the hill covered up five hundred feet of the river road and rail road track. The slide carried with it a num ber of large bowlders weighing several tons. The noise wm heard all I0MIC1DE NEAR JACKSONVILLE. One 9Iore Unfortunate Gone to Ilia Grave. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News.] Jacksonville, February 18, 1876. At about eight o’clock last night a mulatto negro named Albert Barton de livered himself to the authorities, stating that he had slaughtered one of his own race called Charles Bush, two miles from this city. There were no witnesses of the affair between Barton aud Bush, and hence all information concerning the homicide must of necessity be gleaned from the admissions of the prisoner. I questioned him at the county jail this morning and succeeded in drawing out the following confessions, which are given for what they are worth. Barton said : “I have not been on friendly terms with deceased for some time. AVe had several quarrels aud almost came to blow-s on account of some business in which I thought he chealed me. Then I had a law suit against Bush, and after a while we fixed up a peace, agreeing that neither of us would trouble the other or go on each other's place. Last night I caught him in my yard with a saw, and asked him if he had any right there, when he tried to cut me over the head with the saw. I knocked him down to protect myself, and then kicked him to death, but I didn’t mean to kill him, I didn’t,” said the murderer, with tears in his eyes. I visited the scene of the homicide subsequently, and discovered that the body had been removed into the house, though by whose order could not be ascertained. This is contrary to law and may interpose insuperable diffi culties in the conduct of Barton’s prose cution. The condition of Bush does not seem to corroborate Barton’s statement, for his body is horribly bruised and bears about the head several wounds that could only have been inflicted by a knife or other insurt£ent. A jury of inquest will be held to-morrow at 10 a. m. Adbianus. BILLS FBOM SECOND DISTRICT. The Hon. H. W. Mattox, of McIntosh station, Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, the Senator from the Second District, composed of the counties of Liberty, McIntosh and Tatnall. He is a working member of the Committee on Petitions, on Public Bulidings, on Military and on State Library. The following are the titles of Senator Mattox’s bills: A Bill to compensate Clerks of the Supe rior Court and Sheriffs in Liberty county. Read Januarv 25th, and pas-ed January 28th. A Bill to amend an act, entitled “ An act to amend an act to prescribe the mode of granting license to sell spirituous liquors in Burke, Jefferson and Washington counties.” Read January 28th, and passed February 2d. BILLS FBOM THIRD DISTRICT. The counties of Appling, Pierce and Wayne compose the Third District, of which Hon. Daniel G. Hoops, of Scriven, A. <fc G. R. Ii., is the Senator. He is au efficient member of the Committee on Manufactures, on Agriculture, on State Library, and on Journals, but has intro duced only two bills the present session A Bill to alter and change the lines be tween tho counties of Appling aud Wayne. Bead January 17th and passed January 18th. A Bill requiring Tax Receivers of Appling, Wayne and Pierce counties to furnish tax payers with certificates of returns. Read January 17th, referred to Judiciary Com mittee, and passed January 19th. BILLS FROM FIFTH DISTRICT. The Hon. E. W. Newborn, of Hoiner- ville, is the Senator from the Fifth Dis trict, which is composed of the counties of Clinch, Coffee and Ware. He is an efficient member of the Committee on New Counties and County Lines,on Manu- factures, and Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and on Petitions, and has introduced the following bills: A Bill to change the line between the counties of Ware aud > linch so as to iuclude Obadiah, Clinch and lands in Clinch county. Read January 24th and passed January 31st. A Bill to change the line between the counties of Coffee vnd Clinch so as to in close the lands and residence of Micajah Vickers in the county of Coffee. Read Jan uary 24te and passed as amended February 4th. SENATOR FROM THE SIXTH DISTRICT. The counties of Echols, Berrien and Lowndes, which form the Sixth District, are represented in the Senate by the Hon. J. D. Knight, of Milltown, who is a member of the Committee on Public Buildings, on Journals, on New Counties and County Lines. He has, however, in troduced but one bill, of which the fol lowing is the title: A Bill to repeal an Act to create a County Court in each couuty of Georgia, except certain couutieH, Ac., so far as same relates to Lowndes county. Read February 2d and passed February 8th. A Veteran Colored Democrat in Luck. The Clerk of the House has appointed as Messenger an old colored man, named Elias Polk, who came to Washington with James K. Polk, of Tennessee, as a body servant, when Mr. Polk was first elected a memWf of Congress. He has remained in the Polk family till now, and * *— ta ■'—** *’— ” ^ * BILLS FROM THE SEVENTH DISTRICT. The Hon. James McDonald, of Mc Donald, Thomas county, is the Senator from the Seventh District, which com prises Brooks, Colquitt and Thomas counties. He is a member of the Com mittee on Finance, on Public Buildings, on Institution for the Blind, and on State Library. The following are the titles of his bills : A Bill to protect the raisiiig of sheep against the destruction of the same by dogs, and for other purposes. Read January 29th, referred to Committee on Agriculture Feb ruary 2d. A Bill to relieve J. M. Livingston and Matthew Tucker from all liability incurred by them by the forfeiture in Colquitt Supe rior Court of the appearance bond of J. A. and W. H. Carmichael. Read January 18th, and passed January 21st. APPLING COUNTY BELLS. This county is represented in the House by the Hon. Paul Carter, of Baxley, who is a member of the Committee on Geo logical Bureau. He has introduced three bills, the titles of which are: A Bill to change the line between the counties of Appling and Wayne. Read January 17th, referied to Committee on County Lines and New Counties, aud passed January 31st. A Bill to amend the Act creating a Board of Commissioners for the county of Ap pling. Read January 17th, referred to Judiciary Committee, and passed February 2d. A Bill to amend an Act for the relief of maimed and indigent soldiers. Read Jan uary 24»b, and referred to Judiciary Com mittee February 4th. PIERCE COUNTY BILLS. The Hon. James S. Bennett, of Black- shear, represents Pierce county, and is a member of the Committee on Lunatic Asylum. He has introduced four bills: A Bill to change the line between the coun ties of Pierce and Ware. Read January 15th, referred to Committee cn County Lines and New Counties, and passed Janu ary 25th. A Bill to repeal an Act conferring civil and criminal jurisdiction on the Mayor of Biackshear. Read January 15th, referred to Judiciary Committee; and lost February A Bill to provide for submission to voters in Biackshear of the question of “prohibi tion” or “no prohibition,” to sale of whisky. Read January 24th, and committed to Judici ary Committee February 4tb. A Bill to be entitled “An Act to repeal an Act to create a Board of Commissioners for Tierce county.” Read January 31st, and re ferred to Judiciary Committee February 7th. SENATOR FROM THE EIGHTH DISTRICT. Decatur, Miller and Mitchell counties, which compose the Eighth District, are represented in the Senate by the Hon. B. F. Brimberry, of Camilla, who is a mem ber of the Committee on Privileges and Election, on Manufactures and Engross ing, and on Journals. He was elected by the Radicals, and still claims to be a Re publican ; yet the members of the Senate accord to him an entire absence of par tisan spirit in his actions in that body. He is an efficient committeeman and a good debater, but has introduced only one bill and a resolution: A Bill to be entitled “An Act to exempt certain persons from road duty in this State.” Passed. A resolution asking for information from the Governor as to the deficiency of the late State Treasurer. Adopted. “SMITH, OF LOWNDES.” Lowndes county has a most popular Representative in the Hon. W. H. Smith, of Valdosta. Although he has intro duced no bill and made no speeoh, yet he is a good working member and performs service on two committees—that on Cor porations and on the Military. The re port that he is a candidate for Governor, and therefore does not wish to commit himself on the questions before the House, is unfounded. He always votes fearlessly and conscientiously, and is a general favorite with the entire member ship of the House. BILLS FROM THE TWENTIETH DISTRICT. This district, composed of Baldwin, Hancock and Washington counties, is ably and faithfully represented by Col. J. N. Gilmore, of Sandersville, who is Chairman on Committee on Petitions, an efficient member of the Judiciary, Fi nance and Education Committees, three of the most important committees of the Senate, and of the committee of the Lunatic Asylum. He has introduced eleven bills, the titles of which are given below, and made several excellent speeches: A Bill to provide and prescribe the fee for the physician who makes a post mortem ex amination in inquest of dead bodies in this State. Lost. A Bill to authorize the Judge of tho County Court of Hancock county to issue aud negotiate bonds for the purpose of rais ing money for the purpose of buildiDg court house. Passed as amended. A Bill to amend the several acts incorpo rating the city of bandei sville, and to en large the duties of the Mayor thereof. Read the second time February 7th and re ferred to tho Judiciary Committee. A Bill to be entitled “An Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue for the county of Washington, and for other purposes.” Passed as amended. A Bill to provide for the sale of property exempt and set apart as homestead bv vir tue of law, or under the constitution of 1868. Lost. A Bill to be entitled “An Act to] prevent the sale of liquor near Pleasant Spnn; Church in Washington county.” Passed. A Bill to be entitled] “An Act to provide a penalty for escapes from the chain gang.” etc. Passed. A Bill to be entitled “An Act to amend the charter of tho city of Sandersville and for other purposes.” Passed as amended. A Bill to bejentitled “An Act to change the time of holding the Superior Court of the county of Washington and for other pur poses.” Passed. A Bill to ta entitled “An Act to alter and amend section 39G1 of the Code of 1873.” Lost, afterwards reconsidered, and finally passed. A Bill to be entitled “An Act to authorize the Treasurer of Washington county to pay the wife of Haywood Brookin for certain extra sorvices, and for other purposes.” Passed. county officers of the county of Washington Read‘January 19th, referred to Finance Committee, and subsequently recommitted to Judiciary Committee. A Bill for the relief of the members of the Washington Rifles, of Washington county. Read January 24th, and referred to Military Committee, and February 11th recommitted to Judiciary Committee, and passed. A Bill to amend the Act incorporating the town of Tennille. Read January 31st, re ferred to Committee on Corporations, and lost February 18th. THE TIME OF ADJOURNMENT. To-day (Saturday) thj members are getting anxious about the time of ad-» journment. They don’t relish the idea of remaining here until Wednesday next, if they can possibly get through before. It is doubtful, however, if the business of the House can be finished up before that time, which is now settled upon as the day of adjournment. The House calendar shows that seven hundred and three bills have been introduced, while the calendar of the Senate has recorded two hundred and forty-two bills. A large share of these bills are yet to be acted upon, and, with the best efforts of both branches, it is thought au adjournment cannot be reached before Wednesday next. "Chatham. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. Tlie Amazonian Deluge—Notes of Florida —The Grasshopper Senator — Army blatters—Uelebrities—Odds and Ends, Etc. BILLS FBOM JEFFERSON COUNTY. Jefferson county has two Representa tives in the House. The Hon. Robert P. Little, of Louisville, is a member of the Committee on Agriculture, but, like Smith, of Lowndes,” he has not both ered the House with a bill or useless speeches. On yesterday, however, he spoke most effectually and ably in favor of the bill to aid the counties which in curred the expense of putting down the negro insurrection. The other Representative from Jeffer son county is the Hon. Henry L. Battle, of Bethany, who is a member of the Committee on the Lunatic Asylum and on Education. He has introduced two bills, having the following titles : A Bill to incorporate the town of Wadley, in the county of Jefferson. Read January 13th, referred to Committee on Corpora tions, and passed January 25th. A Bill for tli6 relief of G. W. Grubbs, se curity on bond of It. Columbus Wimberly, etc. Read February 9th, referred to Com mittee on Finance, and passed as amended February 17th. BILLS FROM WILKINSON COUNTY. Wilkinson county has a faithful Repre sentative in the Hon. J. B. D«ggan, of Toomsboro, who is a member of the Military Committee, and has introduced the following bills: A Bill to fix compensation of Tax Collec tor and Tax Receiver and other officers of the county of Wilkinson. Read January 13, referred to Finance Committee, and passed, by substitute, January 24. A Bill to prescribe the manner of collect ing costs in civil cases m this State. Read January 17, referred to Judiciary Com mittee,* and indefinitely postponed Feb ruary 5. A Bill to appropriate money for the use and improvement of the Georgia State Lunatic Asylum. Read February 5, and referred to the Judiciary Committee. COLQUITT, BERRIEN AND WARE COUNTIES. Colquitt county is represented in the House by the Hon. J. B. Norman, of Moultrie, who is a member of the Com mittee on Geological Bureau, on En rolling, and on Auditing. He has in troduced no bills. The Hon. J. L. Matthews, of Nash ville, represents the county of Berrien, and has introduced the following bill: A Bill to be entitled “Au Act to abolish the Board of Commissioners of Berrien county.” Read January 17tn, referred to Judiciary Committee, and passed February 2d. Ware county is represented by Hon. W. H. Miller, of Waresboro, who is a member of the Committee on Public Printing. The following; are the titles of the bills introduced by him in the House: A Bill to be entitled “An Act incorporating the town of Waycross, in the couuty of Ware.” Read January 19th, referred to Com mittee on Corporation, and passed Feb ruary 8th. A Bill to be entitled “An Act to exempt from taxation all persons wbo have lost an arm or a leg.” Read January 19th, referred to Finance Committee, and lost February 10th. SCREVEN AND ECHOLS COUNTIES. Screven county is represented in the House by Hon. V. H. Burns, of Sylvania, who is a member of the Committee on Corporations and on Deaf and Dumb Asylum. He has introduced but two bills: A Bill to amend the laws imrelation to the jurisdiction of the County Jnage of Screven county. Read January 25th, referred to Judiciary, and passed February 8th. A Bill to authorize the Treasurer of Screven county to pay certain orders granted officers of Superior Court of Screven county. Read January 26th, referred to Finance Committee, and passed February 8th. Hon. Jr T. Padgett, of Statonville, is the Representative from Echols county, and is a member of the Committee on Journals. He has introduced three bills, as follows: A Bill to change the time of bolding the Superior Court of the county of Echols. Read February 7th and referred to Judicia ry Committee February 14th. A Bill to amend an Act incorporating Stat onville in Echols county. Read February 2d and referred to Committee on Corporations February 11th. A Bill to be entitled “An Act to abolish the Board of Commissioners of Echols county.” Read January 19th, and withdrawn February 4th. WASHINGTON COUNTY BILLS. Captain Wm. Worthen, of Worthen’s Store, is the Representative in the House of Washington county. He is a member of the Committee on Banks, and on Im migration. and has introduced the follow ing bills: Washington, D. C., February 18. THE AMAZONIAN DELUGE. The closing of the Printing and En graving Bureau of the Treasury has thrown upon the world several hundred widows and virgins of all ages and com plexions, who have the Capitol now in a state of seige. They are after their in fluence. The rotunda presents the ap pearance of being taken possession of by a national crusaders convention. The preponderance of tomahawk noses is awe inspiring. The unlucky member or Sen ator who puts his nose outside the legis lative door has to stand an assault. The doorkeepers are worn down, and look haggard from rushing around with cards and notes. Women are everywhere, and the hearts of the solons are touched by tender or pathetic appeals. Where, where, is Spinner now ? The cry is for Spinner, tho friend of the government female. Tbe hosts are marshaled accord ing to the divisions they formerly be longed to. There are examiners, press- ers, wetters, etc., all in line, determined to do or die, and they are determined to make Congress come to time on an appro priation. FROM KANSL A phumix has arisen from the ashes of Ossawattomie to rejoice the gay Granger in the person of the long Ingalls, of Kan sas. No financial projects trouble the massive brain that works unceasingly be hind the goggles, but the great pest which now checks the course of empire has called his glowing talents into play. “ Death to insecks” is his motto, and the particular “insect” is the grasshopper, known to the Agricultural Department Gil Haven and other authorities as the “locust.” When Ingalls arises in his might and goes for the locust, Mississippi resolutions are pocketed, Pinchback retires in disgust, and Cameron goes off for a nip or a nap. But the locusts and the loafers in the galleries have to stand it. As he points his long finger around, the timid Spencer crouches ; it looks so much like a Smith & Wesson, and Spencer is shaky lest it might go off. Ing. proved to the satisfaction of the Senate that unless something is done soon, the scourge of the West will be here, whetting his nip pers on the White House portals and gnawing the nose off the Goddess of Liberty. A CUBAN GATHERING. The friends of Cuba met a few even ings ago, and speeches were made by Rodrigues, Aguerra, and others. The necessity of raising funds to prosecute the war was the principal topic, and Blu- menberg, late of Cedar Keys, who is here awaiting an appointment at Key West, desired to be authorized to solicit sub scriptions. It is very probable that they will succeed in rigging out a canal boat, and go for Cuba by the inland route. FLORIDA NOTES. Colonel Coker, of Marianna, was here for a few days, taking a view of the capital, with a view to purchasing it, if it could be got cheap enough,[and taking it to Marianna. A party from Mosquito Inlet, headed by W. T. Pearson, have been here about some coast matters. The Republican, the administration or gan, had a garbled review of the Finley- Walls contested election case, written by a youth who expects an appointment in Florida soon. The report of L. D. Ball, Surveyor General of Florida, recommends an ap. propriation of *15,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1877. He pronounces the act of 1866, reserving the public lands to actual settlers, as unwise and injurious, and recommends the modification of the law so as to permit the acquisition of the public lands by settlers by homestead entry, purchase and location by scrip or warrants. Senator Jones has been sustaining an effort to this effect made in the Senate. The act of Congress reserved these lands for the benefit of the freedmen, but they have not availed themselves of its opport uni ties. ODDS AND ENDS. The excitement about the Black Hills is offset by the discovery of rich deposits of ore in Alaska. The rush will not com mence until the spring, and then pocket stoves and train oil will be in demand. Orville Grant drives a fast team, not withstanding poor Babby’s troubles. The Indian ring are troubled about the appointment of Ross, of the Cherokee na tion, as agent for the united nations in the Indian territorv. The Indian, E. C. Boudinot, of Arkan sas, is clerk of the Committee on Private Land Claims. The Navy Department has issued an order pitching into the practice of cruelly treating men on board of ships in com mission. The Committee on Appropriations has cut down the fortification bill to $315,000. It is expected that the river and harbor bill will be closely trimmed. The revivalists, Hammond and Bently, are making the town howl. They have very large meetings, and have got jubi* lees on foot in all the colored churches. The waiters in the hotels sing nothing now but “Hold the Fort,” and their morals are improving, so said. It is not well to tempt them with jewelry or cash laying around however. CUTTING DOWN. The Military Committee has under con sideration a bill to reduce the salaries of army officers. The pay, they consider, is too much for peace times, and the amount of brain demanded. Sherman takes in •* 13,500 per annum salary, .*600 for forage and £3,600 for fuel and quarter*; total £17,700. Sheridan gets £11,000 pay and £600 for horses, and down through the three Major Generals and six Brigadiers, to the lowest second lieutenant, they all get good living salaries. The committee is not after the small fish, however, bui are determined to reduce the larger ones, and the retired list will also receive an overhauling. The register shows 2,468 officers, including 300 retired, and 27,939 enlisted men, includ ing 450 signal service men. This makes an average of one officer to about ll£ men. The retired list includes Generals Harney, Hunter, Joe Holt, Brice (retired after the Hodges defalcation), Hooker, Heintzelman, T. M. Sherman, Robinson, Dan. Sickles, Carroll, KicketU, Wood, Carroll, Paul, Crawford, McIntosh, John son, Sweeney (the Fenian), etc., quite a list of Generals, while Colonels and oth- The Great Mischief of Grant’s Ai ministration. We, for our part, see far more dan J to the government in popular familiarit with or indifference to the evils whirl General Grant s administration has foil tered than in the possibility of the elerl tion of any man for three terms. I must not be forgotten, in estimating if m criticising his political career, that 1 is the very fact of his strong claim J popular gratitude which has made h two terms so demoralizing, and it is most always by men with claims on poi ular gratitude that the seeds of politic ruin are sown. If he had not been successful General in dart days, he won] have become odious before 1372- bu with the halo of the war about him, n{ only have a terrible number of fault been forgiven him, but thev come to it the appearance of faults, and to ti on that of virtue. No ordinary Prt dent could, for instance, have been lowed to give a government like this Mussulman favor, by appointiug hi) public functionaries through persoi caprice. When President Grant " began to make extraordinary, and, „ seemed, scandalous selections for pi] in the civil service, his friends man, _ tained that we must not reproach hinv that he was a simple minded mar, w] H was necessarily in this matter in tl bands of the Senators and Itepresenta. tives, but he speedily dissolved thf x theory by appointing Simmons, of Boa 4 tar to defiance of the liepristntat.v of :he District, and McDonald, of St Louis, in defiance of the whole State de f egation. In short, he has administerea. the government neither on the old Ameri can “Spoils" system, nor on the nei ■ “civil service reform” system, hut c? the Sultanic or Turkish system, whic* says: “I like Mustapha; put the Vizier’ robes on him, and give anybody who say he is a thief one hundred blows with ‘ stick.”—The Nation. Janauhclit‘k’s Troubles* Madame Janauschek has been having hard time of it in Australia. It appear that she made a contract for a six weeki engagement at Sydney, at the theatre c which James Allison is manager. Sh. played twice, when she took a terribl cold and became ill: With her usu! spirit she insisted on playing, until sh fainted on the stage. Then she w» forced to take to her bed. Then Alliso; sued for three thousand dollars damages and a drunken agent whom they had dig. charged also sued them for a like amount Allison’s suit was brought against he manager, Pillot, as the Madame’s husban (which he doesn’t happen to be), by mistake. It now became necessary fc Pillot to put up cash security, but it hap, pened, unfortunately, that they had no; taken any large sum from this country What she made in America in tbe las tour she had invested in bonds aud de; posited here. So it became necessary t- put up some of her magnificent jewel as collaterals, which she did, in order t keep Pillot out of prison. The arres was in October, and the trial was set fo November. They went to Melbourne and did poorly there, and when Pillot r&i turned to Sydney he was horrified to fine that Allison had procured a continuanc^ of the case to this month, and had the^ left for the United States. As it wai necessary now for tho Madame to go t» Europe, and as the only bail they could give was one of cash or jewels, Pilloj concluded, in order to save the $3,000, t<b surrender himself to the sheriff. Thi^ he did, after arranging for the Madame’if departure for London. She wiil probabN reach London at the end of this nioutr and will then go direct to her villa a, Darmstadt. In the meantime Pillot relj mains a prisoner at Sydney until the da^i$ set for his trial. j t m A Runaway Wife and a Dead Childi On Friday last a man named Moon fol-^ lowed his runaway wife from Hancock tc Walton, Delaware county, New Yorkj and failing to induce her to return, took their child, sixteen months old, from hs» arms, as he said, to kiss it good-bye. Ht’, ran away with it and fell down an em bankment a distance of twenty feet. He- arose and threw the child into the Dela ware river. He says the child was killeq by the fall, aud he threw it into the rivei not knowing what else to do with it. was arrested. gotitfs. S TATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham County.- To all whom it may concern: Whereaa] Joshua Barke will apply at the Court of Ortii-* nary for Letters of Administration de bonis noijf ijj on the estate of ElUibetb Burke, late of i county, deceased: These are, therefore, to cite ami admonish all whom it may concern, to be ai d appear beforo said court to make objection (if any they haveX ou or before the FIRST MONDAY IN MARCH NEXT, otherwise raid letters will be granted. Y\ ituess my official signature this 29th day of January, 1S76. JOHN O. FERKILL, J jan31-M,4t Ordinary C. C. Lj S TATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham County) To all whom it may concern: Wherei William Pollard will apply at the Court of Ordi nary for Letters of Administration on the Entat of Fanny Ro:s, late of ^aid county, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all whom it may concern to be and appear before said Court, to make objection (if any the} have), on or before the FIRbT MONDAY IN MARCH NEXT, otherwise said letters wiil be granted. Witness my official signature, this 29th day oi .Tannary, 187(1, JOHN O. FEKRILL, jan31-M,4t Ordinary G C. LEGAL NOTICE. S TATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham County.- Notice is hereby given to ail persons cou<:ern-|l ed, that I have made application to the Honorable^ i| the Court of Ordinary of s*i<l county tor au order 1 H to be granted on the r IRsT MONDAY OF 1 HE tl MARCH TERM ( - ‘>76) thereof, being the sixth day of the month, authorizing the sale of the, remainder of the real estate belonging to the es tate ot Mary E. Arnold, deceased, for the benefltj of her heirs and creditors. _ Savannah, January 26. 1S76. GEO. L. APPLE! ON, Executor of Will of Mary E. Arnold, deceased.^ jan31-M4t ______ S TATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham County. To all whom it may concern: W In-reas, William J. Harty will apply at the Court of Ordi nary for Letters of Administration on thee.-'ato of Mary A. Bradley, late of eaid county and btate, deceased. , , , . These are, therefore, to cite and admoni.-n an whom it may concern, to be and appear before said court to make objection (if any they hayeL-j on or before the FIPST MONDAY IN MARCH |j NEXT, otherwise said letters will be granted. s i- >HA1, Ullianiat som ..-..v,.. , nTT I ■■ r t H Witness my official signature this 12th aaj M r February, ls76. JOHN O. FKKKILL, ( feb!4-M4t ordinary l-C. ^ LEGAL NOTICE. OTATE OF GEOKUIA, Evvisoni* Colnt^. o All persons interested are hereby nonlied that one month alter date application toll be made to the Honorable Conrt of Ordinary ot raid county tor leave to sell the real estate of the hetm ,, ot David E Gnaiiu, deceased, late of Bald county, -t This Jannary Kth, 1SJS. jan31-M4t Guardian. s LEGAL NOTICE. TATE OF GEORGIA, ErraraHaatiNiraJ^*! All persons interested are hereby noaSea that one month after date application w t il made to the Honorable Court of Ordinary of said county for leave to sell the whole of the real estate of Anderson P. Longstreet, deceased, la of said county. This jan31-M4t Administrator^ NOTICE. SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA, SS. 8 At Augusta, this the Kth .day Of Jut MW, 1S7C. The undersigned hereby gtv<» nottr - h appointment as Assignee of L f of Mid Diatrict, who has been adjuJerd a bans || r °fe t b“-‘lUt 1 “ ta OT '” "‘‘ISitoEL ROSENTHAL. _ nni'THERN' DISTRICT OF GEORGL4, S.S.— i§«.-^e Ug nnd^r,!“med b yie|^VM^«^ g?*ffirS&fiSraiS5f« Georgia, who has id J I>] -£ tr j C t upon his own the District Court of petition. feb!4-M,3t JOHN H. PhKKI-NS, Assignee, Ac., Lawtonvtlle, Ga. ^nrlaimrd freight. Notice lo Consignees. f'KVFKIL SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE.| GENERAL sc kankino Co. of Ga , >- (.ssraan R. February 14,.lSTS.^ K, for toe beneflt of whom it may concern and to. sh^ e 4'.‘io,^i*?S» e‘“ e i drain pipes; S. T. ly, 1 package files; J. i; P. T. Flynn, 1 box; hu:pmau, * e “yonge, 3 barrels miners me; bags peanuts; J. ■».