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J. II. ESTILL,
Savannah. Ga.
tin Morning News
A WASH
rHK FLY-LEAF OF
roOUAPH ALBl'M.
. LADY’S PHO-
ry face that finds a place
ndsbip’s choice collection,
is steel, mid woe or weal,
•ver k'.iow deilection.
to v<>u be sweet and true.
more worth than creeds
tion. T. J. E.
Georgia Affairs.
v„ U ng and pretty female tramps have
Ytcnsivclv victimizing the merchants
■ii-ta of late. They represent them-
vi'-timn of the fire fiend in the
ami widows of Masons. The News
its readers against them, and hopes
^ thev have already done a good
ss j n that city, they will now let the
//thinks that the next census
!;u". a population of at least two
mil. and perhaps two thousand fiye
y(. r s i- getting well of measles.
Atlanta VUiniMjraph is responsible for
that marriages are so numerous iu
..(untv that the boys want to buy li-
in club, at reduced prices, but the
tirifin .vo/ feels happy because piant-
ve gone to work with more energy
ar than any other time siuce the war.
. ••Full barus and smokehouses make
fed in i pendent, and keeps them
being depressed in spirits, and they
! always got one eye skinned looking
ng the late cold spell a Covington
rreed to pay a negro fifty cents to cut
ads of wo d for him. The Eaterjirise
tat the aforesaid negro worked two
burnt up a load and a half of the
i warm hi> hands, ate five meals and
•fused to carry the remaining half load
!. >use unless he was paid ten cents
A few mure such contracts, and the
>f Uk fir-' part would be thrown into
Toecoa //■ rnUl thinks a brass band is
ireded to add to the attractions of its
d/r<Wfd > learns that the fanners of
eti .ii arc growing sick of guano, and
vest but little in that article this
It remarks, however, that “good
is a great fertilizer and will repay,
ide which its proprietor is afraid to
isc, is worthless. Stick to reliable
? U' fertilizers, but avoid all spurious
Our old worn out lands need aid,
nst give it, else expect a poor crop.
Athens Chronicle-. “We are saddened to
learn that, the youngest daughter of Mr.
Zeke Carr, while on her way to school
yesterday, dropped dead on the 6treet iu
front of the residence of Alderman Jacobs.
She was a bright, pretty girl, and was be
loved by all who knew her. She had not
been-at all sick, and was taken away with
out a moment’s warning. Verily, in the
midst of life we are in death.”
Atlanta Phonograph: “It strikes us that
the farmers of Georgia are wonderfully in
need of horses and mules. Every freight
train which arrives in this city from Chatta
nooga brings from one to five car loads.
Tuesday evening seven car loads came iu on
one train. Georgia, with lands adapted to
clover and all the grasses, should raise
every horse and mule needed to cultivate
her thousands of broad acres. If her neigh
bors just across the line in Tennessee, with
climate and soil similar to that of North
Georgia, can raise horses, mules and cattle
at, a profit, why can’t we do the same ? Not
North Georgia alone, but in nearly every
section of our State, except in the extreme
Southern portion, stock of all
kinds can be raised at compara
tively little expense if our farmers
could once be persuaded to embark in the
business. Thousands and tens of thousands
of dollars flow from Georgia to Tennessee
and Kentucky every year to pay for stock
which could just as well as not be raised
right here in our State. Middle and South
Gexrgia farmers say ours is not a stock coun
try; we who make cotton have little time to
look after stock; we haven’t the grasses,
coni, etc., to raise stock on. Just so. A
farmer who hasn’t time to do anything but
plant cotton scarcely has time to think about
big mules, sleek cattle and fat hogs. Geor
gia, to be a great and prosperous common
wealth, must manufacture and produce
■nearly every article for comfort, luxury or
(necessity. A reformation in this respect is
Tbadly needed.”
Augusta Chronicle : “There is consider
able inquiry at this time in the stock and
bond market. Yesterday sales of $40,000
Georgia Railroad G per cent, bonds were
made at par and interest. The Georgia
Railroad Bank has now only $50,000of these
bonds on hand and has advanced the rate to
103. Gas Light Company stock is strong
and firm, with an advancing tendency, 34
being freely bid. For Graniteville Factory
stock, ^ 107 was bid yesterday, and 112
asked.”
With good ferti
ilizers and favorable seasons
you may ex pec
t compensation for the out-
lay. Without,
you may always expect
I allure.
i LohjH'Hth ut wants to know
that if Goverm
>r Colquitt declines to enter
the next race
for Governor, how will Mr.
Hill nuke the
Murphy matter “an issue V”
A terrible ac<
•ideut occurred near Lump-
kin on Tuesday last. A negro man was at
work in a well for Mr. John Hightower,
three miles west of that town, when the
curbing of the well gave way, and killed
the workman instantly. When taken out
his hotly was terribly mangled. Great re
gret was felt over the accident, and the
funeral of the unfortunate man was largely
.Mrs. G. N. Dodd, of Lumpkin, has just
completed a bed quilt containing 1,550 dif-
Ilinei
few da\
happen
—got i
Thou:
.Vo, had i
:o. but n
i this wa
ered
advoe
•d she
tied i
dog
dressi n
the Ba
a vi or
“Mr. John M. Darsey,
nice drove of sheep a
w he has none. Aud it
A dog—a mean dog
one dark night and
it forty. Yet that dog
• sheep that they,too,
• “We have had occa-
o animadvert in pretty
he conduct of ill-mau-
ch. We have also de-
irdogs, and strenuously
iv. But our prejudices
inst the canine race that
justice. We take plea-
good conduct of dogs,
(>:i last Sunday after-
v. Mr. Boykin was ad-
•chool mass meeting in
a dog, evidently itn-
prieties of the occasion
fact that he was not a
took himself into the
elevation he quietly
lings below. We like
in euurch, even if it is
Oue
. E.
We die
usual,
than
Turn.
H
dav i
id Vi:
ished
?d 1
Rev. II. M. Turner,
leader and preacher of
:i, preached here during
inference of that church,
him, but learn that, as
l more politics than re-
1 his colored friends to
As a matter of course,
hem to refuse it provided
iot exercLe it m behalf of the
iy or its offshoot, the Inde-
These colored temperance and
eials are doing more to de-
■ colored people of the South
it her agency, aud they, iu our
liberally paid for their works,
i* we have learned, was the only
n her who left his mission and
'dities. The presiding Bishop
imself in such a way as to receive
of the com in unity/’
•irur: “James M. Rowe, Claude
d Coon Nunn are now on trial in
ouuly for the murder of Lam-
twdve months since. They are
separately, and Rowe was the
it commenced last Wednes-
g. and, as there are a very large
witnesses on both sides, will
ake all the week. Dabney,
X Brock are for the prosecution,
!. Head A: McBride for defense.”
(Bulloch county) News: “A
dark v, while hoeing cotton one
*» toe tinder a clod, and thinking
head, hit it and hurt himself,
ng with it & w bile lie got tired, sat
a stump and said* UVpll, jes pain
•u’t care a diug; you hurts
dU9 flifi.’ ”
prise : “A bob tailed pig
tat} 11 ^ Newton, got out of a box
rr.,7". ba ^ a £ e car c - the Covington accom-
near ¥ui!ow river railroad
Th
bare/o
After
bis fo<
VerseIf v
bel
mi yer i
En
train,
trae-'' U!,a * an(ie( l * n thc midjlg of the
e put on thsam for Convers. { ruv
'i lri ' '- r opened the valves of his engine
w wjb°uted to the fiscm&o, ‘put on more
wi, We must catch that hog : The repu-
ln,Vf 0 , f , the road is at stake.’ For four
rt.in IQ(ig "'as neck and neck. Little
nwnk aI °ng the road shouted, aud old
freely on the race. When the train
thrp h Conyers the bob-tail pig was only
ct: hundred yards ahead, and the condue-
to / 45 calling; ‘Get wood and water enough
Us t0 Atlanta, for we’ll catch that
_ V( -‘ h^ve to burst the uoilef,’ ”
w’as^ 11 ,i>un; “itfogenes, we believe ii
an j Atnt around with his lamp looking for
c j tv f 0Dcs?t man, hut a gentleman of this
(rtA t 0UIi(1 one in the person of an old col
t] Inari Hie other day. The aforesaid gen-
gg some silver change in his hand,
dronf 7 s ® w ^king along the street, and
era c u cou pl« of pieces, which the ne-
auti lowing, picked them up,
tahirn i Cned t0 tbe owner to giye them
old n use ^ ess to a( iJ that this hooeet
ding was rewarded with one of the
irhlte m J , m,l(ie a Kood friend out of the
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Florida Affairs.
The Fernandina Express believes that a
Press Association will undoubtedly be of
benefit to thc papers of the State, and if
some of the older journalists will take the
matter in hand it feels assured that it will
not be difficult to assemble a convention at
Gainesville, or any other point.
After having recently made so many nar
row escapes from a conflagration, the Ex
press is of the opinion that it may not be
amiss to suggest the organization of a fire
company in Fernandina.
The Gainesville Times learns from Mr.
Ned E. Farrell, of Waldo, that the American
Agriculturist, published in New York, ex
pects to send one of its staff South to attend
th® State Fair. It thiuks this will do much
towards making known abroad the agricul
tural capacity of Florida.
The Marianna Courier 6ays: “ Farmers
generally have begun their usual work.-
Labor is plentiful, but demanding more
wages than the farmer can pay at low rates
of cotton. We presume there will be no
difficulty in procuring what is needed.”
The East Florida Banner says that the
crime committed in Hernando county is
soiling the reputation of the whole State,
and as the State has certainly a remedy,
she should apply it effectually and at once.
The old city gates of St. Augustine are be
ing repaired iu accordance with the resolu
tion of the City Council. “We are glad to
sec,” says the Press, “that our City Fathers
arc alive to the importance of preserving at
least oue of the old landmarks of former
generations.”
And now it is being claimed that the late
freeze, so far from injuring the oranges, has
only tended to make the fruit better aud
sweeter.
Messrs. Wright and Johns, convicted and
sentenced to oue year each in the Albany,
New York, penitentiary for making a false
certificate of election in Brevard county,
aud confined in the Duval county jail, made
their escape on last Saturday evening about
six o’clock. A reward of five hundred dol
lars has been offered for their recapture.
The time for holding the Orange county
fair is rapidty approaching, and the indica
tions are that it will be largely attended.
Baltimore Gazette: “The State of Florida,
under Democratic rule, is slowly rising from
the depths of debt and poverty. Governor
Drew, in his recent message to the Legisla
ture, congratulates his people upon their
exemption from epidemic and civil strife,
and reminds them of the blessings which
have come to them in the shape of decreased
taxes, abundant harvests and increased
educational advantages The floating debt
of the State Is only $65,572 81, aud the total
bonded debt is $1,284,200. The bonded
debt has been decreased $21,400 within the
past two years. The State has a lot of un
adjusted claims against the General Govern
ment, and is in a better financial condition
than any of the Southern States.”
Palatka Herald: “The grand effort to
establish the orange tree as* a commercial
fruit bearer in Florida is now meeting a re
ward of success. It is now an accomplished
fact that the orange fruit is a leading crop
of East Florida, identical with the pros
perity of this State as a support to rich and
poor. In reference to this fruit the skepti
cal ones predicted that the demand would
not meet the supply, but in this the reverse
has been the case, for, on an increased sup
ply, the demand at five dollars per box for
shipping continues unabated. That Florida
will now become a vast fruit growing State
there is no doubt. We are glad to find the
Northerners so partial to our fruit, for it
gives them an opportunity to reciprocate
the immense patronage of the South in the
purchase of their products, such as hay,
grain aud store goods.”
A Crystal Lake correspondent, writing to
the Palatka Herald under date of January
20th, says: “The cold wave which has
passed over the eastern half of the United
States, as ‘old probs’ terms it, behaved it
self when it reached our peninsula, and
comparatively little damage done. Irish
potatoes, and some few young seedlings
were killed; so we get off much better than
we expected. The earthquake shook things
quite lively—rocked the houses until the
people ran out of them, then others out of
their beds, and the darkies in the settle
ment imagined tht day of judgment had
come.”
„ Wonderful changes in the climate and
productions of the earth are being predicted.
Prof. Andrew M. Blake, A. M., LL. D.,
astronomer for the State of Ohio, and “ ouo "
rary member of the Royal Astronomical and
Geographical Societies of Paris, Berlin and
St. Petersburg, has written a letter to the
Commissioner of Agriculture at Tallahas
see, Florida, under date of Canton, Ohio,
December 26, 1878, as follows: “In mak
ing the astronomical mathemati
cal calculations, and knowing the
change that has taken place in the inclina
tion of the earth to the sun—the inclination
of the axis of the earth to the sun have
come to the conclusion that Ohio is on the
equator, that we ere in the torrid zone and
that Florida is in the temperate zone.
Florida will now raise corn, wheat, rye,
oats, barley, potatoes and aDples, and we
will raise sugar cane, cotton, oranges and
tobacco. Piease send me the average of
the thermometer for December in 3 our city;
ain inclined to think you will experience
considerable co’d this winter, it would
take me too long to tell how this occurred,
but It was on the 11th da y ol October,
iS77. Superior conjunction when the great
planets fc cre coincident.”
Fernandina Atirror: "The practice cf set
ting lires in the woods aud nDCUlUrated
fields ever,- year, for the purposei of getting
rid of the dead grass, is one that should be
•stopped. It is ruinous to the soil, asld * J 1 ?®
the damage done to improvemcnts anil the
instruction of the young growth of timber.
If tlit portions of the Slate that are more
thickly settled could be relieved from those
annual burnings, the soil will soon be
gin to show an increased !ei nMy,
and the young timber will soon become large
enough to yield fuel, if nothing else. 'Ve
consider this matter of a great deal of im
portance to our State, ana should be glad
to see the agricultural societies take it in
hand They can urge new measures on the
i egis’totsre, if the laws are not sufficiently
explicit already they can bnn ® ^Imitv b ind
before the people of every community, and
thus produce good results. Thjf i? a na-
ter of too much importance to tV sgThml
turrets of the State to be any longer neg
lected.”
Sumter Advance: ‘‘Some timee.ncethe
orangc-s.on the principal groves on the lake
region were purchased by some of tb ® “fL
em on the St John’s river. The gathering
had commenced, but, unfortunately,
yesterday the expert left to superintend toe
work pronounced the fruit frosted, and quit
the gathering. On his arrival in our town
some fruit grower, anxious to learn how to
detect the injury, put on exhibition several
lots of fruit from different groves, all of
which was pronounced injared. The party
then, to try the gem’s skill in his art, pro
duced a lot of fruit that had been gathered
and housed before the freeze, and he at once
pronounced them frosted. So you see how
it is}’oureelf.”
Pensacola Advance: * ‘A white woman of
the city attempted self-destruction yester
day about 2 o’clock p. ra. by drinking*lauda
num. The attention of the neighbors was
attractedbj’ the cries of the children, and
on visiting the lmuse discovered that the
deadly draught had been swallowed and the
almost unconscious victim was rapidly sink
ing into a stage of stupor. Remedies were
immediately applied, and Drs. Hargis and
Fordham being sent for, reached the house
60on after, and also ministered to the unfor
tunate, and at 6 p. m. last evening she was
gradually returning to consciousness. The
onl}’ reason given for this attempt at suicide
is furnished by the woman herself in her in
coherent utterings as she was made to walk
the floor back and forth: ‘O, let me lay
down and die; I cannot bear my troubles.’
The had design of this act having been
thwarted, and it being a matter of no public
interest, we yield to entreaties of a friend,
and withhold the name from print.”
The Stytc Fair Bulletin says: “Waldo in
the past three years has made a surprising
growth. From an unimportant and almost
obscure way station in the piuey woods, and
where few attractions existed except the
croaking of the frogs and noise of the mos
quito. Within a short time large and com
modious hotels have been opened, streets
graded, a considerable drainage done, and
the town presents the most attractive ap
pearance of any town in this part of
Florida.”
AMERICAN OFFICERS IN EGYPT.
What General Colston, of Virginia,
an Ex-Oilicerol'tlie Egyptian Army,
Sayw.
New York Herald, 2ist.
During the past ten years a number of
American officers have been engaged in
the service of the Khedive of Egypt,
where they have held various positions
on the staff, and on the 30th of last
June their services were dispensed with,
as the Khedive came to the conclusion
that it was necessary to retrench the
general expenditure of the government,
and commenced operations by an imme
diate reduction of the army. The tirst
batch of officers from the United States
went to Egypt in 18G9, aud since then
they arrived in that country by twos and
threes until at oue time the Khe
dive had about fifty American offi
cers in his service. General It. E. Col
ston, of Virginia, who served with Lee,
Jackson and Beauregard during the re
bellion, joined the Khedive’s service in
1873, and has recently returned to this
city after five or six years’ active service
in Egypt. A reporter of the Herald call
ed yesterday upon the General at his ho
tel and had a talk, during which he said:
“There have been about fifty American
officers on the staff since 1868. I was,
like most of the officers, a Colonel on the
general stall. My services were gener
ally devoted to explorations. General
Stone slill retains thc nominal position of
Chief of the General Staff. 1 call it a
nominal position, as there is at present
no staff.”
“How did you manage to give your or
ders to the troops V”
“Being on staff duty, we gave our or
ders'to the Arabian officers, graduates of
the Military College. These orders were
given in French.”
“Were the lives of many of the Ameri
can officers lost during the campaign?
“A few died from natural causes,
think the death roll contains the names
of Gen. Reynolds, Col. Reynolds, Major
Hunt, Major Campbell, Major Paris, Ma
jor Lawson, Capt. Irguins and Major
Losclie, who died at Suakin about eight
months ago. Col. Jennifer, formerly of
the Khedive service, died in Baltimore
shortly after his return to this country,
and Col. Rhett, of South Carolina, an
other ex-Egyptian officer, died recently
in Paris.”
A Mormon Woman’s Defense of Po
lygamy.
Editor Washington Star: We are in
debted to “Miss Brown” for expressing,
with candor, opinions widely held among
women concerning us and our peculiar
institutions. Words we can answer.
Insults of look, movement, gesture,
which fashionable ladies and Christian
women regard as the proper treatment
for women of our faith, we must bear iu
silent wonder. For these who scorn
even to ask us a’question read the Psalms
of David, the pol3 r gamist, and the Prov
erbs of Solomon, the champion polyga
mist, with pious reverence, and claim to
be followers of the meek and lowly
Jesus who kindly talked with the women
of Samaria and spake words of tender
ness to the unhappy woman whom men
would have stoned to d ath. “Miss
Brown,” therefore, who inquires con
cerning us, however rudely, shall be re
spectfully answered.
We did not come to our own capitol
to ask for the whole, or a half, or even a
small fraction of one of the “dear fel
lows” whom Gentile women “at least
believe to be wholly their own.” We in
terfere fur less with the happiness of our
sister® in the United States than they in
terfere with each other when they are
smiling in each othei’s faces and covertly
stealing all that makes life dear and
sweet. We do not regard selfish appro
priation of a man, or mean jealousy of
other women as cardinal virtues. We
do not regard the life of an old maid or
a nun as more pure and chaste, more in
accordance with divine law than ours.
We believe it is the heaven-born right of
every woman to be a wife and a mother,
to love a good man. and to be beloved.
We came here to defend our rights and
the rights of our children, which have
been most cruelly sacrificed by politi
cians acting in the name of religion and
morality.
But Miss Brown talks familiarly of
“the countries where polygamy is at
home,” where “woman sinks into a
bundle of low vices of which (the women,
or the vices?) a full hundred are not
worth one of her free Old Maid Brigade.”
We have waded through her somewhat
ambiguous statement to the conclusion
that Miss Brown has never talked five
minutes with a live Mormon woman.
Doubtless she has seen, or can easily
find enough Gentile women “sunk into
a bundle of low vices,” within this very
District, to occupy the attention of her
“free Old Maid Brigade” the rest of their
natural lives. We find Washington
papers teeming with child-murders and
kindred crimes which should stir the
hearts of Gentile women far more than
the Mountain Meadow massacre or any
other remote religious bloodshed in time3
past.
We have not come- here to do mis
sionary work, but while we are defend
ing ourselves we demand that those who
assume to attempt to civflixe us should
show us a higher civilization.
Zina Young Williams.
Thc New' Y'ork Tribune has arrived at
the conclusion that thc people of the
South arc rapidly sinking “to the level
of the African tribes.” This is really
distressing, but the Tribune should not
be distressed over the allegation, for the
Africanization of the Southern States is
its avowed policy and desire. We don’t
know what that journal would do if
Senator Windom should really succeed
iu putting through his bill to transfer
that process to the Northern States.—
Courier-Journal. •
A new word of French extraction has
been added to the great fainil}' of the
English language—“Vicereine.” The
London Graphic has published the
portraits of the Marquis of Lome aud
Princess Louise as those of “the Viceroy
and Vicereine of Canada.” It has been
cordially accepted, like “the telegram.”
A GOOD ACCOUNT.
“To sum it up, six Jong years of bed-rid
den sickness and suffering, costing $2uu pet-
year, total, $1,200—all of which was stopped
by three bottles of Hop Bitters, taken by my
wife, who has done her own housework for
a year since without the loss of a day, and 1
want everybody to know it for their benefit.
“John Weeks, Butler, N. Y.”
jan20-M,W&F&wim
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Adverse Decision to the United States
in the Arlington Case.
CONFERENCE IN REGARD TO THE
VIRGINIA STATE DEBT.
THE CIPHER TELEGRAM IN
VESTIGATION.
TO I NOR TOATTERS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, January 28.—The legisla
tive appropriation bill has been reported to
the House and referred to the committee of
the whole. The House has now under con
sideration the bill to restrict the immigra
tion of Chinese.
Bill to restrict the immigration of Chi
nese passed—yeas 155, nays 72—after which
the House, iu committee of the whole, dis
cussed the post office appropriation bill,
and without final action the committee rose.
The session for to-night on the levee bill
was abandoned and postponed till this day
-week.
The sub-committee of the House Ju
diciary Committee, consisting of Lyude of
Wisconsin, Frye of Maine, and Forney of
Alabama, began investigating charges of
malfeasance against Davenport. The in
quiry will take broad grouuds.
Iu the Senate, Mr. Davis, of Illinois, pre
sented a memorial signed by 3,190 persons,
representing sixteen States, praying for the
establishment of a bureau to collect statis
tics in regard to, aud to have special charge
of, labor interests, and the appointment of
a special commission to inquire to what ex
tent machinery has taken the place of man
ual labor in general production and manu
facture. Referred to the Committeeon Edu
cation and Labor.
The Finance Committee of the Senate, by
a vote of five against four, decided to recom
mend the reduction of the tax on tobacco
from the present rate of 24 cents per pound
to 20 cents. It was also decided to add to
the House bill a provision to admit free of
customs duty all licorice paste tud licorice
rolls, these articles being imported almost
wholly for use in the manufacture of plu_
tobacco. The committee took no action to
day iu regard to the tax on cigars and ciga
rettes and snuff.
The Senat e again considered the bill to pay
Warren Mitchell for cotton taken from him at
Savannah, which, after considerable discus
sion, was defeated by the rejection of a mo
tion to proceed to the third reading of the
•bill. The Senate then agreed to take up
Edmunds’ resolution, after which it ad
journed.
A DECISION RENDERED IN THE ARLINGTON
CASE.
Alexandria, January 28.—In the Arling
ton case to-day Judge Hughes read a long
decision. The court decides to grant the
instructions asked for by the plaintiff and
to refuse the instructions on the same points
of law prayed for by the defendants. He
holds that the Supreme Court had, in two
contested cases, settled the principle that
owners of land subjected to direct taxation
of Congress under the acts of 1862-3 had the
right to pay the tax at any time before the
tax sale through a friend or agent as well as
iu person, aud that the tender of payment
or practice of the commissioners in refusing
the payment of the tax by a friend or agent
prevented forfeiture and invalidated the ta:
sale made after such a tender or after the
adoption of such a practice. The Judge
considered with elaboration and distinction
the point sought to be set up by the defend
ant’s counsel between such a sale made to
a private purchaser and one made to the
Uuited States, and held that although the Su
preme Court had not passed judgment upon
any case of sale made to the United States
under the circumstances described, yet
there was no principle of law, and no
provision of the acts of 1862-’63, that would
justify such a distinction and give the
United States such title of a purchaser
under a sale which would be viod, if made
to a private purchaser. He therefore re
fused the instructious asked for by the de
fendants.
THE FAMOUS CITHER TELEGRAMS.
Washington, January 28.—Gen. Brady,
Second Assistant Postmaster General, was
before the Potter Committee to-day, aud
was examined relative to the package of
papers given him for safe keeping by Bul
lock. Brady suspected the contents, and
opened the package and had copies made of
them. He then gave a portion of the origi
nals to W. E. Chandler, and sent another
portion anonymously to Whitelaw Reid, of
the Tribune. The balance of them was
given to Chandler and Hiscock.
THE VIRGINIA STATE DEBT.
New York, January 28.—Hugh McCol
lough, the President of the Funding Asso
ciation of the United States (limited), Chas.
M. Fry, President of the Bank of New York,
Samuel G. Ward, representing Baring Bros.,
leave for Richmond to-day to attend the
legislative conference for the funding of the
Virginia State debt.
GREAT DISTRESS IN ENGLAND—THE WORK
OF AN INCENDIARY.
London, January 28.—Seven thousand
miners are idle in the county of Durham.
The distress there has not been equalled
since the great strike in 1844.
The Mount Sion Convent in Waterford,
Ireland, was burned by an incendiary.
ARRIVAL OF A SHIPWRECKED CREW.
London, January 2S.—The United States
storeship Supply has arrived at Madeira,
bringing the crew of the British bark Dia
dem, which was abandoned after having
collided with the Supply. The Supply is
not injured.
A FAILURE.
Allentown, Pa., January 28.—M. J.
Kramer, for many years the largest dry
goods merchant here, had his store closed
b}’ the Sheriff. Indebtedness fifteen thou
sand dollars.
SERIOUS ILLNESS OF CARDINAL ANTONUCCI.
Ancona, January 28.—Cardinal Antonio
Antonucci, Archbishop of Ancona, is at the
point of death.
A GENERAL THAW.
London, January 28.—A general thaw
ha3 set in here and in France.
EVENING TELEGRAMS
THE GREAT RUSSIAN PLAGUE.
Extensive Immigration to the United
States Anticipated.
ADDITIONAL REGARDING THE CIPHER
TELEGRAM INVESTIGATION.
TI1E CONFERENCE IN REGARD TO
VIRGINIA'S STATE DEBT.
Election of a Secretary of the Na
tional Cotton Exchange.
ITIIscellaiieouM News,
THE POTTER INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE—
CABINET MEETING.
Washington, January 28.—At the
Potter Committee to-day, General Brady,
Second Assistant Postmaster General,
said he handed part of the dispatches giv**n
him by Evans, to W. E. Ghanaler, and sent
part anonymously to the Tribune. Witness
visited Florida during the Presidential elec
tion to see a fair count. Was asked to go
by President Grant. Knew Morton, a special
agent of the post office, was here working for
the Republicans, aud did not see any im
propriety in it.
W. E.*Chandler testified that he received
the dispatches from Brady, and dep sited
part on General Butler’s table without But
ler’s knowledge; no particular reason for
such mystery. He and Butler understood
each other. Witness was always in faver
of the investigation of the cipher dis
patches, aud believed it would enhance the
credit of the Republicans. The committee
adjourned until to-morrow, when Judge
South wood and Tyner are to be called.
The Cabinet to-day again discussed the
Indian question. Mr. Schurz presented
confirmatory information of Sitting bull’s
recros6ing the Canadian line. A plan to
meet the situation is agreed upon, the de
tails of w bich arc to be arranged by Messrs.
Schurz and McCrary.
The Cabinet also discussed the new pen
sion bill with reference to the construction
to be placed on certain sections. The Ob
scure portions were referred to the Attor
ney General for an opinion,
ELECTION OF \ SECRETARY OF THE NATIONAL
COTTON EXCHANGE.
New Orleans, January 28.—By a vote of
the Executive Council, including members
al. Galveston, St. Louis, Savaunah, Charles
ton, Nashville, Cincinnati, New York and
New Orleans, Henry G. Hester, of New
Orleans, was elected Secretary of the Na
tional Cotton Exchange of America, vice
S, H. Buck resigned.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., January 28.—Indica
tions for Wednesday:
In the South Atlantic States, warm south
west winds, shifting to colder northwest or
northeast in the northern portiou, partly
cloudy weather, and in the northern portion
risiDg barometer and local rains.
In the Middle States, cooler, partly cloudy
weather, with light rain near the coast,
westerly winds becoming variable, and
slowly rising barometer.
In the Gulf States, easterly winds, light
rains with slight changes in barometer, and
a slight fall in temperature in the eastern
portions.
STRIKE TERMINATED—TROUBLE FEARED.
Cincinnati, January 28.—Advices from
Ashland, Kentuck}-, state that the prolonged
strike of the Norton Irou Works miners
terminated yesterday, the miners resuming
work. A large number of turbulent miners
gathered at the works, threatening trouble
and declaring that the men resuming work
violated the rules of the union, which re
quired concessions from the mine owners.
Following this excitement came a strike
among the employes at Princess’ furnace
mine, a few miles distant, the iniDers de
manding an advance of five cents per ton.
Several hundred men are thrown out of
employment. Great excitement prevails,
aud bloodshed is feared.
EXTENSIVE EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED
STATES—VARIOUS ITEMS.
New York, Jauuary 28.—The Secretary
of the Emigration Commission says the
European correspondents of the steamship
companies report an increasingly large
number of prepaid passage tickets. He
anticipated that of operatives alone 20,000
will arrive on our shores w'ithin the next
few months.
The New York Life Saving Society was
organized yesterday,with Franklin Edson, of
the Stock Exchange, President; Braytou
Jones, of the Cotton Exchange, Vice Presi
dent. Paul Boynton is one of the directors.
DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS.
Washington, January 28.—The Demo
cratic Senators held a caucus to consider
the amendment reported yesterdaj' by Ed
munds as a substitute for the House joint
resolution, proposing au amendment to the
Constitution prohibiting the payment of
claims of disloyal persons for property in
jured or destroyed in the late war, etc. The
Senators discussed the question iu its na
tional as well as sectional aspect. No con
clusion was reached. Many believe that
there is no probability of passing the sub
stitute through both houses during the pres
ent session.
THE PLAGUE IN RUSSIA.
St. Petersburg, January 28.—The Golox
states that the plague has appeared at a ham
let thirty-four miles from Witlinnka. There
is considerable alarm iu Moscow by the
news that a number of recruits for the Im
perial Guard arrived in that city on the 13th
inst. from the infected district. The recruits
were met b}' doctors, and were disinfected
and isolated, and their clothing was burned.
THE VIRGINIA STATE DEBT.
Richmond, Ya., Januar3'28.—The Gen
eral Assembly decided to-day that thc con
ference with the creditors of the State,
which will take place on the 30th instant,
shall be conducted by the Committees on
Finance of both houses, acting jointly, with
authority to arrange the details of the con
ference.
NOMINATIONS.
Washington, January 2S.—The following
nominations have been made : Postmasters
—Paul Strobach at Montgomery, Ala.: Jno.
H. Clendenning at Fort Smith, Ark. Henry
Page, of Arkansas, agent for the Indians at
the South Ute agency, Colorado.
THREATENED RESIGNATION OF MAC.MAHON.
Paris, January 28.—At to-day’s meeting
of the Cabinet MacMahon declared he would
not yield with regard to the military com
mand; she would rather resign.
THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT.
Berlin, January 28.—Au Imperial decree
has been issued summoning thc German
Parliament to meet on the Pith of February.
MOVEMENTS OF GEN. SHERMAN.
Rome, Ga., January 28.—Geu. Sherman,
with Gen. Wm. Warner, passed through
here en route for the Tecumseh Irou Works.
OlK ATLANTA LETTER.
NEGRO COLONIZATION.
A Radical
Scheme to Control
Negro Vote.
Louisville (Ky.) Age.
Senator Windom has offered a resolu
tion in the Senate looking to the coloni
zation of the colored people of the South
in such States as may desire to receive
them, or in territory set apart for their
use by the United States. Senator Wiu-
dom proposes this scheme as a “peaceful
adjustment of all questions relating to
suffrage,” a means for “the effective en
forcement of constitutional and natural
rights,” and “elimina ion of sectionalism
from politics.” It might be added that
•the accomplishment of such a scheme
would also reduce in Congress the repre
sentative strength of the Southern States.
It requires little argument to show the im
practicability of such an undertaking.
California is’ now experiencing the effect
of having thrust upon her an element of
population,distinguished from her people
by “race, color and previous condition
of servitude,” and it is not likely that
any other State will invite similar expe
rience. However much Northern com
munities may desire the elevation of the
colored people, they do not want them
elevated in their own midst. And this
is very natural. The introduction of
such an element, in any considerable
numbers, would inevitably produce an
effect iu the labor question that would
increase the agitation and disturbance in
regard to labor that now keeps most of
the Northern States in constant
apprehension of trouble. The South is
accustomed to the negro, and is fast
settling down to his new social, civil and
political condition. To the North he
would be a foreigner, and. whatever liis
rights in the abstract might be, he would
bear a relation to the white community
not uulike that between the Chinese im
migrants and the Californians. He would
meet the active opposition of the labor
ing classes, and a cool indifference from
others that would make him sigh for the
patronizing interest taken in his welfare
iu the South. But the colored people
will never be invited to settle in the
Northern communities, so the alterna
tive of Senator Windom’s resolution
would be at once presented.
The colonization of the colored people
in territory set apart for their use would
be but a repetition of the similar effort
made to send them to Liberia, and would
be the establishment of a color line
beyond the tan*y of the most extreme
white liner. Indeed it might, in time,
present merely a somewhat advanced
phase of the Indian question. African
blood has not furnished any evidence of
its strength to develop civilization, and
when left to itself it has given signs of- a
tendency to lapse into barbarism. Con
tact with the white race has been,
thus far, the only successful
agency for the enlightenment of the
negro. A stranger entering a suburban
colored settlement, or a colored village,
North or South, at once perceives that he
is among a distinct people, whose habits,
customs, superstitious, and beliefs, are
different from those of the white people
near them. To colonize them would be
to foster these differences, and to develop
in our country a separate people. Si-
sides this, there would be presented the
almost insurmountable difficulties of
such colonization. The whole colored
>eople would become in fact, what they
liave been in fancy, the wards of the na
tion. “Forty acres and a mule” would
be an altogether insufficient allotment,
und no provision government could
make would be adequate for so dependent
and thriftless a people,starting out in their
new life with the idea that they were to
be maintained out of the public purse.
It would never come to this, however,
for the coloreu people could not be
forced to go; most of them would pre
fer remaining among familiar scenes and
associations, and many of those who
went voluntarily would soon want to re
turn. The negro iu America has to
work pul liis destiny where he is.
i urowing him upon his own icsources
in a strange country has already proved a
cruel experiment, and experiment has
proved that so long as he is maintained
he will make no effort in his own be
half. His new condition must eventu
ally assimilate him to things about him,
but his progress in assimilation is
gradual, and until the process is com
pleted he cannot be entirely free from
distinctions that place him somewhat at
disadvantage.
Weather-Texas Lnilsraiita-No One
Killed-.TOiuor Topics- Long ai:<l
Short Ternis-^SherniaiiN Ride to
the Sea” Religion* Paragraph*
Final Paragraph*.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Xeics.
Atlanta, January 27.—The weather has
been very mild indeed, but to day it is
lowering aud preparing to rain.
The elegant Woodruff sleeping cars ar
rived here on Saturday, which Col. Lucas
is to add to his Southern lines.
Georgians are dailj' returning from Texas,
aud give gloomy accounts of their experi
ence in the “Lone Star State.” Still hun
dreds of families are emigrating there to
“see how it is themselves.” South Georgia
ought to send an agent up here to persuade
these people to go to that part of our State
instead of Texas.
NO ONE KILLED.
Your correspondent made an examina
tion of the ground where Tom Johnson and
Tom Thrash had their little political fight
Saturday night, ■and discovered that the
pistol was dropped or thrown ou the pave
ment, which caused its discharge. Police
man Haynes, who was shot in the hand by
the bullet, is getting along quite well, and
will probably save his finger. As fifty per
sons were in the range of this shot, it is a
matter of surprise that no one was killed.
Thrash is a relative of oue of the defeated
candidates for Deputy Sheriff (C. W. Wells),
and recently had a fight with Sam. W.
Small (“Old Si”) about the matter. He
seems inclined to Thrash some of his politi
cal opponents. Atlanta, however, has less
fighting and shooting than any city of its
size in America.
LONG AND SHORT TERMS.
The Augusta Evening Xeics publishes the
statement of the editor of some Post, I do
not know which, that there is no “short
term” in the election of United States Sena
tors.
This is quite an error, if the answer is con
sidered a full aud final oue. No State elects
two Senators at the same time, hence in or
der to secure this arrangement the first elec
tion must be for both a “short terra” and a
“long term.” The “short term” being for
four years and the “long term” for six
years.
Of course, after this, the elections are all
for long terms. In case of the death of a
Senator, as suggested in the iW reply, the
election is held to fill a vacancy, and not in
any sense to fill a “short term.” I think the
Post is wrong in deciding that there is no
“official foundation” for the “short term"
expression. Every new State admitted to
to the Union, in electing its first Senators,
lias an “official foundation” for a “short
term” and a “long term” election.
“SHERMAN’S RIDE TO THE SEA.”
Atlanta is somewhat stirred up in regard
to Gen. Sherman's proposed visit this week.
He will tarry here a da}' or two aud then
ride ou to the sea, again visiting Savannah.
The Constitution is mistaken in the belief
that Sherman took Atlauta. He was a good
man}' miles off at that time. Gen. Henry
W. Slocum commanded the troops which
took the city. He visited Atlauta some
eight or ten months ago, and now Gen.
Sherman, iu the proper order, comes along
on a visit.
It is a singular fact that Gen. Sherman
had a long correspondence with the then
Mayor Calhoun, and during his present
visit he will find the son of Mayor Calhoun
filling that office. Sherman left a city of
ruins, but he will find few traces here now
of his awful work of destruction. Of his
final departure, November 16, 1864, Gen.
Sherman, in his “Memoirs,” says: “Behind
us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins,
the black smoke rising high in air, and
hanging like a pall over the ruined city. * *
I have never seen the place since.” He will
find Atlanta an exceedingly healthy “ruined
city.”
RELIGIOUS PARAGRAPHS.
The Morning News has several times,
of late, referred to Rev. J. E. Roy, D. D.,
“colored,” of Atlanta. This is too highly-
colored, as Rev. Dr. Roy is a scholarly and
esteemed divine, of Chicago, who is at
present in charge of mission work in the
South. He preached in the Central Presby
terian Church (late Rev. Dr. Leftwich’s
pulpit) yesterday, and has made many
friends among the Southern people of At
lanta.
The Rev. Thomas Gallaudet, D. Director
of the Deaf Mutes Church in New York,
held a service at St. Phillip’s Church iu this
city last night, assisted by Prof. Job
Turner, a deaf mute. The service was at
tended by a number of deaf mutes, and was
quite arnovel thing to our people. Rev. Dr.
Gallaudet has been preaching to deaf mutes
by the sign language for a great many years,
and his humane efforts have been crowned
with remarkable success. He is an earnest,
heavenly-minded philanthropist, whose
labors of love commend themselves to all
Christian hearts.
minor TOPICS.
General Sherman will visit General Wil
lard Warner at his mines in Alabama before
coming to Atlanta. Thence to Savannah
and Florida.
Few people in this part of the country feel
like attending M;rdi Gras in New Orleans
this season. It does not seem proper to
them to so soon turn the house of mourning
into a house of feasting.
The attacks upon Mr. Logan D. Dameron
seem to have failed in their purpose. Both
he and Rev\ Dr. McAnally have been re
tained as publisher and editor of the St.
Louis Christian Advocate for another term.
Mr. Dameron is also in charge of the Pub
lishing House in that city. Bishop Pierce
and Rev. Dr. J. O. A. Clark were among
Mr. Darncron’s firmest supporters in the last
General Conference.
It is easy to be mistaken sometimes. In
the light Saturday night, Thrash said John
son drew a pistol and tired at him, while
Johnson as positively asserted that Thrash
drew a pistol and fired at hjra Daylight,
however, has revealed the fact that neither
party fired a pistol, but some person dropped
one, aud the fall caused it to fire off.
The Authors’ Publishing Company, of
New York, have sent me a copy of “Wild
Flowers,” an elegant little volume of
poems, by Major Charles W. Hubner, of
Atlanta, whose familiar and pleasant face
adorns the title page. Several line German
translations are also added, although the
poems of Major Hubner are themselves suf-
ficiently attract!v’e. The daily drudgery of
editorial life has nqt been able to quench or
mar the poetic genius of this versatile
writer, and it is safe to predict yet greater
honors in thc future.
LETTER FROM TALLAHASSEE.
Dull Week iu the Legislature Uol.
Wilk. ( all, the New Senator—The
L ulled State* Court at Jacksonville
- President of tbe Senate Pro Tcm.
— Lieutenant Governor Hull—The
Burnlns of the Episcopal Church -
The Fair a Financial Success-In
teresting Exhibition—Fine Racing.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Xeics.
Tallahassee, Fla., January 27.—But
little has been accomplished by the Legisla
ture during the past week. The struggle
for United States Senator was decided on
Tuesday, the excitement of which, followed
by the opening of the Middle Florida Fair,
appeared to have a somewhat demoralizing
effect upon our law-makers. In the mean
time, however, considerable work has been
done in the various committees, and the
members will now settle down to the steady
work of the session.
Col. Wilk Call, the new Senator, is a na
tive of Kentucky, but removed to this State
with his parents in early childhood. He is
a gentleman of fine personal appearance,
possessed of winning, popular manners, ami
a great favorite of the masses. No man has
rendered more valuable aud effective ser
vice to his party than Col. Call, and during
all the campaigns of the last twenty years
he has stumped the State, from Pensacola to
Key West. His stern and uncompromising
hostility to Radicalism has brought down
upon him the utmost ire of the leaders of
that party, and there is no man in Florida
whom they hate and fear more than the in
dividual of whom I am speaking. Col Call
is about fifty years of age, a lawyer by pro
fession, of great political experience, a flu
ent, graceful and persuasive speaker. *id
worthy and well qualified in every resp- ct io
fill the important and honorable office
to which he has been called.
His speech of acceptance displayed
broad and comprehensive views of
statesmanship and a full realization of the
obligations due the country and the people
of his State. His family have been in
timately connected with the history of
Florida, ex-Govemor Call having been an
uncle and ex-Governor Walker a cousin of
the Senator elect. In 1S67, ■Col. Call and
Judge Marvin, then Provisional Governor
of Florida, were elected to the United
States Senate, the former drawing the long
aud the latter the short term, but were
never permitted to take their seats in that
body in consequence of the subsequent pas
sage of the act of reconstruction. Col.
Call served creditably iu the Confederate
army aud lost his only brother, Major G. W.
Call of the second Florida Infantry, oue of
the most gifted and able men of that dai’
on the bloody field of Seven Pines. In his
colleague, lion. C. W. Jones will find
meet and powerful coadjutor, aud Florida
will have in the Upper House of Congress,
Representatives who would confer honor and
distinction upon any of the older common
wealths.
It is rumored that a resolution will be of
fered for the appointment of a committee to
investigate the management of the t'nited
States Court at Jacksonville and the con
duct of some of its officers, with a view of
presenting a memorial for the consideration
of Congress. The question of thc appoint
ment of Presidential electors by the Legis-
chicken and turkey, showing the character
isties of each fowl.
The track is half a mile iu length, and
some exciting races were had during the
week. The average daily attendance was
e'ght hundred, aud the financial success
was such as to insure a repetition of the
fair next winter.
My acknowledgments are tendered to
Captain Houston and other officers of the
association for kindly courtesies.
W. H. B.
FROM MIDDLE FLORIDA.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
The Bangs Troupe did not make a finan
cial success here. Mr. Keene was univer
sally conceded to be the real star of the
company.
A resolution passed the Senate to have
the marble slab—“Kimball’s Opera House”
—removed from the front of the c^pitoj, yet
tl.at significant sign remains in place.
Yesterday was a lovely summer day, and
our streets were filled with carriages and
pedestrians. Unlike Savannah, however,
Atlanta has no winter drives or walks of an
attractive character.
The Rev. J. W. Heidt, formerly of Sa
vannah, is becoming quite popular at Trini
ty Methodist Church, ever v/h^h ue & set
tled the present year, lie ts one of the
ablest anu most industrious ministers in
this Conference, and occupies no position
that he does not fill with marked success.
You will hear of Rev. Dr. Heidt iu due
time, and through a creditable source.
The Governor having, in couipiiance with
the requirement of Uie~cofistithrIon. ordered
an election for a member of Congress for
the First district, to fill the existing vacancy
in our Georgia delegation, the geueral fee
ing here is in favor of Cob Wffiiani! Tb''~
sou for that position, as Vl
ur uiairw' more entitIed to it Newspa
pers and editors are constantly asked to “do
something” for the party. Would it not be
well for tne party' to occasionally “do some
thing” for editors and newspapers, more
especialty those that serve the part}' early
and late, and in season aud out of season,
and frequently at considerable pecuniary
loss and personal effort. “Turn about”
ought to be fair play in matters of this na-
t^e* Chatham.
subterranean forest of oaks has been
discovered in Germany in a valley
watered by the river Fulda. Dr. Macsta,
a government geologist, who made the wares
discovery during an official exploration,
pronounces the trees to be of enormous
size, and to date back in their origin to a
remote period. They are entirely buried
beneath the surface of the valley, but
several hundred of the outermost trunks
that border on the banks of the Fulda
have been laid bare by the gradually en
croaching current of the stream. The
wood has acquired a deep black color,
and has become exceedingly hard. It is
believed that it will make excellent
material for sculpture. One trunk that
was found in the bed of the river has
been removed to Berlin to be placed in
the national geological museum. Whether
these trees are of a species now in exist
ence or of one that is extinct has not
been determined.
lature is also eliciting some attention.
Whether it will result in an}- definite action
remains to be determined.
General W. D. Barnes, of Marianna, who
has been elected President of the Senate
pro tem., during the absence of Lieutenant
Governor Hull, presides with case and dig-
nit}*, and makes an excellent officer, lie
is well versed iu parliamentary usages, and
the business of the body which he controls
progresses smoothly, aud with few inter
ruptions.
The friends of Governor Hull are fully
assured of his entire innocence of tbe
charges preferred against him, aud await his
trial with the confident conviction that his
character will be fully aud triumphantly
vindicated.
The destruction of the Episcopal church
in this city was a grievous blow to the con
gregation. It was, 1 believe, the first edifice
erected in this State by that denomination,
aud around its sacred walls clung a thou
sand time-hallowed associations. Vigorous
efforts are being made to replace the struc
ture, and it is hoped that ere long the site of
the ruins will be occupied by a new and
handsome place of worship.
I had no opportunity of visiting the fair
until Saturday, the last day of the exhibi
tion. The grounds are situated about a
mile from the capitol, and are admirably
adapted for the purpose. The lower room
of the main building was devoted to the dis
play of agricultural products, which was
not as varied and extensive as I expected.
At the door of entrance stood a live oak
post, planted in the earth fifty years ago,
and as sound aud perfect as when first
hewed. Some splendid stalk* of the
famous Raineses cotton, literally covered
with their wealth of thickly clustered
bolls, were objects of much atten
tion, as were also a few bales of the
great Southern staple, of superior staple
and quality. There were also specimens of
corn weighing sixty pounds to the bushel,
and the usual variety of 1 other cereals. A
mammotfi turnip, weighing sixteen pounds,
was good, evidence of what Leon could do
iu that line, aud Mr. Lively, of this city,
showed twelve of there roots, whose com
bined weight reached oue hundred and
three pounds. Capt. Houston, President of
the association, paraded a quantity* ci huge
sweet potatoes, any oqc o» which would
have furnished a square’ meal for a hungry
family.
In the same room was a collection of cu
riosities, many of which were objects of
great interest as being connected with the
early Spanish occupation of Florida. Among
these was an incomplete suit of armor, worn
perhaps by one of the cavaliers who trav
ersed the State in ye olden time and found
death in the place of thc fabulous fountain
of youth. There, was ajso an anoiaut axe
and a pair of cumbrous shackles, with the
butt of a caunon of the sixteenth century,
exhumed from the ruins of Fort St. Louis,
iu this vicinity. A large Indian pot, plough
ed up in Madison county and said to be of
unusual dimensions, with a petrified -uman
foot obtained in Wakullg, were also among
these relics. Mr. ubilbrick, who gathered
this collection, Is also a taxidermist cf no
mean skill, and several evidences of his taste
graced the apartment.
A huge wax plant and night blooming oe
reus were from the residence of Mrs. A.
Hopkins.
It is to be regretted that the planters of
Leon and the surrounding counties did not
pay more attention to their especial depart
ment. This is a splendid section of the
State, rich in all the elements of agricultu
ral wealth, adapted to an infinite variety of
productions, and capable of making a most
creditab’.o display in this branch ol indus
try. The next fair, however, wfjl atone for
the present deficiency, and there will be an
exhibition cJ agricultural products that will
full v- satisfy visitors.
The upper story was appropriated to the
handiwork of the ladies, and here were con
gregated a thousand and one proofs of the
refined taste and patient toll of f ^enrier
sex. No man, unless h« be a man milliner,
can describe the u-.any beautiful and elabo
rate objects that strewed the tables in great
profusion, and I am only able to mention a
few of special merit.
An elegant crochet quilt was the work of
Mrs. Whitfield, who had spent the leisure
hours of several years in its manufacture.
Mrs. Lamb had a* very pretty edk log-cabin
quilt on exhibition, and several simi-
la» quilts and handsome pieces of
embroidery were shown by Mrs, W»-
throp. Several beautiful em*- .,*”;
VX&lTZ?" *-« Production of
Mrs. Hopkins. _ re were also choice ot-
lOUionf an( i vases by Mrs. Burroughs, af-
Kiians by Mrs. Papy, delicate hair work by
Miss Fanny Perkins, a most natural cluster
of feather flowers from Miss De Cottes of
Jacksonville, a case of filmy lace from the
Sisters of St. Joseph, a pyramid of natural
flowers from Mrs. Ptarce, and numerous
other pretty things which my space does
not allow me to mention.
Mr. Gibson, of ;Gad<?den, bad a tempting
display of one hundred and fifteen varieties
of preserves, pickles, jellies anti sauces,
and Mrs. Scott, of the same county, eighty-
two specimens of her culinary attainments.
Mrs. Whitaker, of Leon, was not far be
hind the above ladles in the extent and
quality of the same articles.
Furchgott, Benedict & Co., of Jackson
ville, brought up a choice assortment of
dry goods, curtains, carpets and other
wares, and Messrs. Lively <fc Spiller, of
Tallahassee, furnished handsome show cases
of perfumery and groceries.
There were 6ome exquisite sets of scale
jewelry. By the way, it is claimed that this
art originated in Tallahassee, the first work
having been done by Miss ParkhiJl. Miss
Long had on exhibition two cases of bright
cocoons. The cotton factory here displayed
some excellent thread and batting. The
finest oranges were from Wakulla.
The show of live 6tock was uot larae, but
embraced several fine animals. Mr. 'A.
Hopkins took the premium for the best pair
of Florida raised horses, and for a drove of
ten promising colts; Mr. W. L. Robinson
for the best pair of matched horses. There
were some valuable Angora goats, and good
displays of sheep, hogs, and the different
breeds of horned cattle. A number of
coops of Improved poultry attracted atten
tion, among them some noble turkeys, and
a cross obtained from the Guinea, barnyard
The Fair at Tallahassee — Jlany
Visitors from Other Points Attend
—The Hotel Accommodations—
Railroad, steamboat and Wagon
War—Northern Visitors.
Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Tallahassee, January 25.—The first fair
of the Middle Florida Agricultural and Me
chanical Association was held this week,
commencing on Tuesday. The grounds are
about a mile and a half from the City Hotel.
The attendance was quite large. Iu addi
tion to the members aud those attendant at
the session of the Legislature, the trains
brought many visitors from the eastern por
tion of the State, including many Northern
visitors. Special excursiontrains also brought
numerous passengers from the adjacent
towns of Quincy and Monticello. The
managers of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and
Mobile Railroad had liberally reduced fares
and rates ou articles shipped for exhibition.
It became apparent at once that the
ladies bad accomplished the most
in making a display by entering
^necimens of their skill, which was not
e nfined to needlework, but artificial flowers
made of wax, feathers, etc., beautiful de
signs on perforated board and canvass,
drawings, paintings, etc., not to forget thc
preserves and pickles, contributed by ladies
of Tallahassee and from Gadsden county.
A specimen of silk-worm cocoons, raised by
a ten-year-old daughter of a Leon county
planter, was placed In a position to escape
the observation of many. The agricultural
display was rather meagre. The time of
holding the fair was too late in the season
to give a fair showing of the productions of
Middle Florida. Some mammoth sweet
potatoes were exhibited, also some
samples of corn, oats, peas and millet,
all giving an idea of what can be
produced in this section of Flor
ida. The tropical fruit display was
small, but the specimens were of good
quality. This department was in charge of
Mr. Bradford, a practical planter of Leon
county. He gave much valuable in forma-'
tion to visitors. Some samples of syrup
were entered by him. His land, with the
aid of a little cotton seed fertilizers, yielded
about a dozen barrels to the acre. This
gentleman had foreseen the present low
price of cotton aud contrived to meet it by
reduciug the cost of production two cents
per pound. Gov. Drew sent a few samples
of sugar clarified by a new process intro
duced on his plantation at Ellaville. Mr.
Edward Gamble placed on exhibition a
sample of orchard grass, which he
states he has successfully intro
duced ou his place, and cows
feeding on the pasturage have
increased their yield five to seven quarts of
milk daily. The poultry aud stock display
made up somewhat for the scant agricultu
ral exhibit. A three-year-old stallion of
Mr. G. W. Lyons, of Monticello, elicited
much admiration. He had named it “Oplei-
ka.” The same gentleman had also brought
a magnificent pair of carriage horses from
the same stock as the famous “Guldamith
Maid.” The prominent attractive feature
of the fair was the trotting and racing p 7ery
afternoon. Tallahasseans can dismay m0 re
fine turnouts than any other -' lly q T towu In
Florida, and the-comparisons with those
from elsewhere ^' ore certainly favorable to
them. The track was iu a peculiarly favor
able location.
The kinduess of the railroad managers iu
putting on day excursion trains enabled
many of the visitors to return home at night.
Had no such arrangements been made rnoit
of them would have been deterred from at
tending ou account of not finding places to
stay. The City Hotel was already full of
State officials, besides a number of Northern
sojourners boarding permanently there. Mr.
Slusser, however, contrived to stowaway
quite comfortably a goodly number
of people. He has this winter the
services of Mr. Munroe, of the Hoffman
House, as room clerk, whose experience
proved of value. Even the culinary depart
ment was taxed to its utmost to supply the
table. But the earnest efforts of Mr. J. B.
Collins, the steward, made every oue dis
posed to bear patiently annoyances that
were inevitable. His thoughtfulness in an
ticipating the wants of invalids is spoken of
by those boarding there. The City Hotel
lacks some of the modern contrivances, but
by exerting themselves to make it a pleasant
home, the proprietor has won a popularity
for it this season that cannot fail to be a
great advantage to himself and to Tallahas
see. As the bill for the few days’ sojourn
beneath its roof was paid, this is no dead
head compliment.
Quincy, January 27.—The success of the
People’s line of steamboats on the Chatta
hoochee, Apalachicola and Flint rivers has
brought on a war with the Central line. The
latter has induced some prominent mer
chants of this town to establish a wagon
route to Hutchinson’s ferry, sixteen miles
distant, over a good level road, in considera
tion of which a warehouse is established
there, and freights hue shipped to and from
Quincy at -uoh law rates that on through
hills of lading there is a saving of over two
dollars on a bale of cotton to New York, and
on other freights in proportion. From
points on the rivers the Central line Is
dairying freights at figures that might
as well be ciphers for the remuneration that
they bring into its coffers. Of course to
have their freight shipped for mere nothing
is too great a temptation for many »o with
stand, consequently that line handles a great
deal. T wo fine, new boats have been put on
this season, fitted up in elegant style. There
a T e m *oy people along the river, however,
who patronize the People’s line, paying re
munerative charges. They understand that
the exceedingly low rates of the Central
line are established merely to drive off the
People's line.
Mr. John P. Jordan now keeps a good ho
tel at the J., P. M. R. R. terminus, which
has become quite popular with travelers.
P. A. W. Snyder, who came to Gadsden
county a few weeks ago from Missouri with
three teams and his household goods, and
who came very near beiDg drowned in cross*
ing tho Apalachicola river by the sinking of
the ferryboat, has purchased a saw mill,
which will be in operation shortly, on the J.,
P. M- Railroad, a few miles from Quincy.
A few visitors stop here, generally going
to the Stockton House. Mr. Blandy, of the
celebrated Zanesville (Ohio) engine works,
made a short visit here. His family are
now at the City Hotel, Tallahassee. The
oldest son, the invalid- member, was just
able to sit up on his arrival; now he can
Walk four miles. Mr. Partridge, who has
rivaled Bayard Taylorin his travels, passed
two months here. ’ Mr. Olmstead, of Hart
ford, Conn., passed a number of weeks at
the Magnolia. This gentleman ia a mem
ber of a firm extensively engaged in tobacco
manufacture, who have engaged much of
the tobacco crop of Gadsden county to be
cultivated the coming season. Numerou
other Northern people are expected this
winter, p
B.FME1A&C0.
13? BROUGHTON STREET,
BETWEEN BULL AND WHITAKER 8TS.
GKEAT REDUCTIONS!
CLOSING OUT SALE
WINTER GOODS!
I 7B0M this date we will offer our winter stock
at extraordinary reductions, without re
gard to cost. We would call special attention
to the following changes in prices of our
Fine Dress Goods
Black Silk Warp HENRIETTA CLOTHS, for
merly $2 50 per yard, now $1 87J4.
Black Silk Warp HENRIETTA CLOTHS, for
merly $2 per yard, now $137*
Black Silk Warp HENRIETTA CLOTHS, for
merly $1 65 j»er yard, now $1 25.
Blaek HENRIETTA CLOTHS, formerly $1 25
per yard, now 87\Os.
Black AUSTRALIAN CREPE, formerly 50c. per
yard, now 35c.
Black AUSTRALIAN CREPE, formerly 65c. per
yard, now 40c.
Black ENGLISH CASHMERE, formerly 45c. per
yard, now 33c.
Black ENGLISH CASHMERE, formerly 55c.
per yard, now 40c.
Colored ENGLISH CASHMERE, formerly 55c.
per yard, now 40c.
Colored ENGLISH TAFFETAS, formerly 50c.,
now 30c.
Colored FRENCH CASHMERES, formerly from
90c. to $1 25 per yard, now from 65c. to 75c.
Brown FRENCH CASHMERES (onepiece only),
very fine, 42 inches wide, formerly $1 25 per
yard, now S7^c.
Black All Wool SaTEEN.formerly 65c., now 40c.
Black All Wool SATEEN,formerly 75c., now 50c.
Black BAZITS CLOTH, formerly 75c., now 55c.
Fine Black BRILL!ANTLNE, formerly $1 per
yard, now 75c.
Tailliard s Rich Black DRESS SILKS, warranted
pure, formerly $2 50 peryard, now $2.
Tailliard's Black DRESS SILKS, formerly $2 25
per yard, now $1 85.
Handsome Lyons Black SILKS, formerly $1 50.
now $1 25.
4-4 All Wool Medicated SHAKER FLANNEL,
formerly 7?c., now 60c.
I 4 White All Wool SHAKER FLANNEL, extra
heavy, formerly 75c., now 60c.
FINE HOSIERY.
Ladies’ Extra Long Colored BALBRIQQAN
HOSE, silk clocked, formerly 85c. per pair,
now 50c.
Children's Extra Long, Extra Heavy FRENCH
HOSE, 8^ inch, formerly 70c. per pair, now
50c., smaller sizes of same at lower prices.
Children’s Fine Colored BALBRIUGAN HOSE,
various sizes, at prices much UDder vjflue.
Gentlemen’s Heavy MERINO UNDERVESTS at
greatly reduced prices.
KID GLOVES.
Alexandre’s 3-button KIDS, black and colored
Jouvin’s and Empress 3 button KIDS, black
and colored.
3-button KID GLOVES, evening shades, at 50c.
Ladies’ CLOAKS, BLANKETS and HEAVY
CAS8IMERES at a great sacrifice,
janfi-tf B. F. IVcKENNA 6c CO.
GRAY & O’BRIEN.
ANOTHER CONSIGNMENT OF
Ladies' and Misses’ CMs.
500 CLOAKS!
T>ERLIN BEAVERS and BASQUE CLOTHS,
at 50 per cent, off cost of manufacture.
BEAVER CLOAKS $10. $12 and $15, former
price $15 $20 and $25. These goods have got
to be sold. No reasonable offer refused.
100 pairs 10-4. 11-4 and 12-4 BLANKETS, just
received, at a great reduction in price.
20 pieces BLACK CACHEMIRE, jusf received,
75c., former price $1 15.
Our entire stock of DRESS GOODS. Afl
Wool,-Black and Colored, reduced about 334^c.
Our entire stock of other styles of DRESS
GOODS are marked down 25 per cent., in order
to close this season's purchase.
Ladies' MERINO VESTS, very nice goods, 50c.
Gents’ MERINO VESTS, 50c., 75c., $1, excep
tional value.
Boys’ and Misses’
35c. to $1.
VESTS, full line, from
200 dozen DAMASK and HUCK TOWELS,
from $1 per dozen to $12.
The best and largest LINEN HUCKABACK
TOWEL in this city for 25c.
5 piecesPonson’s and Tilliard BLACK SILKS,
very heavy, and not usually offered in this
market.
GRAY & O’BRIEN.
jan20 -tf
(frits, cal, feed, &c.
Grits, Ml, Feed,
BRAN,
Corn, Oats, Hay!
How a Princess "W alks, Slip? and
Talks.—Two covered sleighs, brought
expressly from Buffalo, were provided,
and the party at once crossed over the
river by the new suspension bridge, tbe
Princess Louise thus paying her first visit
to the soil of the L'niled States. The
feat of crossing the frontier was very
quietly accomplished, though quite a
crowd of people witnessed it. When
Her Royal Highness passed for the first
lime under the stars and stripes, which
were Hosting magnificently in the breeze,
she became enthusiastic and actually
cheered the emblem. Thc party proceed
ed up Falls street to Buffalo and down
Buffalo to the village of Niagara Falls,
and thence into full view of the Niagara
river. From thence they went to Goat
Island. At the stairway of Luna Island
the vice regal party alighted and descend
ed the icy steps. The steps were quite
slippery, but the whole party were pro
vided with stout walking sticks and suc
ceeded very nicely in getting to the roof.
On returning the Princess slipped, and
but for the prompt assistance rendered
by His Excellency she would have fallen.
Again entering the sleiglis the party went
to Horse-slioe Falls. Here creepers were
placed upon the heels of the ladies ot thc
party and they descended to the cataract.
None of the party spoke for some time.
The Princess was thc first to speak. She
exclaimed enthusiastically: “Oh, isn’t it
just glorious!”—Niagara dispatch in New
Tork Herald.
Hon. A. II. Stephens is said to be the
best whist player now in Congress. He
wrote the article on that game in “John
son’s Encyclopaedia.”
O UR mill being refitted and now in full
operation, we are prepared to fill orders
for the above in any size lots.
Orders left at A. C. HARMON & CO.’S, 31
Whitaker street, will receive prompt attention.
Mill, A. and G. R. It. Depot.
Depot, 31 Whitaker street.
SAUSSY & HARMON.
jan9-d&wtf
SEEK OATS, Bit ]», CORN!
A CHOICE LOT OF HEAVY WHITE SEED
OATS IN STORE.
Bran, Mixed Feed Oats,
Bulk and sacked.
White and Mixed Corn
In depot, on wharf and to arrive. For sale by
jan24-tf
JR. L. MERCER,
Congress and Jefferson sts.
§tV! Hoots.
NEW BOOKS.
FRANKLIN SQUARE LIBRARY.
DIARY FOR 1879.
GRIER’S ALMANAC FOR 187a
Also, a few TOYS and GAMES left, which
we are selling very low.
QliAAITOCK & POlRfflLE,
133 BROUGHTON STREET,
jan!7-tf
WRAPPING PAPER.
F )R SALE, OLD NEWSPAPERS, suitable
for wrapping paper, at Fifty Cents per
hundred. Apply to
octattf HORNING NEWS OFFICE,