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ATLANTA WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. IVURCH 12. 1878.
The Atlanta Constitution
WEEKLY EDITION.
TKRMK OF WEEKLY.
Weekly, per ■
Clot* of ten. r
We fear Anderson will not get bis
prtr'ion until Mr. Hayes sends troops »o
Louisiana or installs Packard.
ondav for bills and resolutions, Mr. which the state i* cat ap into legist*"
Candler introduced a bill authorizing I tire districts, this is not probably an
the southern claims commission to interesting or practical question. We
Ex Got. Mohem, of Booth Carolina,
i* giving the public a refreshing insight
into the kn kins business.
Saw Small’s Paris letters and the 0 d
Si sketches will appear regularly in Tux
Weekly Constitution.
Wk want to state now before the
subject gets confused, that Atlanta
claims the honor of inaugurating the
dancing discussion.
Now that Brick Pomeroy has launch
ed a new party, it ia to be hoped he w ill
ge him a fresh wife and another news*
W«r- ___
FusfHrr Col receive* bushels of con
gratulations by mail and telegraph—all
because he made a remark about fraud
the other day.
On* republican journal says Haves’?
veto of the silver bill was a petition,
and another says it was a pantomime
We will find out after awhile wbatit
really was.
Mo? its, of South Carolina, says a man
named Bunn counted the vote of the
Ht .te for Hayes, and that he counted it
f'.indolently. This business ia getting
to be somewhat interesting.
It appears that the hour has come
when Colonel Pat Donan should join
the “ national” party. His presence
would* add hilarity to the occasion, if
nothing more.
The south wants the franking privi
lege restored, so that aome of her favor
ite congressmen can ship a circus ir.
this direction. Only in this manner
can the arts and sciences be main
tained.
W*
are receiving inquiries fr< m all
parts of the United States about the
gold mines in north Georgia. (
friends in the gold region will favor
hr keeping us posted about the mines,
purchases, etc.
The Thomanviile Times conclude?
that ** The Constitution is really him
trcmoliiau in its get-up,” and adds that
" it is the peer of any daily in the
eouth.” All of which goes to show
that our friend Triplett knows what
constitu Vb a truly great and good news.
P*P«-
** In sums not less than fifty dollars!”
A poor devil who has lees than fifty
dollars cannot get any gold from the
g vernrnent under the resumption act
The bill was not intended to help thin
kind of men; it was devised in the in
teri-iit o! the fPly-thousand-dollar
bloods.
A correspondent of the Henry County
Weekly boasts that Tine Weekly Con
stitution has sixty subscribers at
Biooks’s H ation. This is realty some
thing to boast of,but it is simple justice
to Hay that Brooks’s Station in this re
spect has no advantage over hundred?
of other vill get* in Georgia, South
Carolina and Alabama.
A MINT J.V ATLANTA.
In view of the fact that congress wil
undoubtedly pass a bill to increase tie
coinage f tcilities of the government, tin
home committee on coinage, weight
and measures,of which Mr. Stephens!
chaiiman and to which the subject o
establishing branch mints has been re
(erred, has decided to ask the house foi
pennisaion to send a sub committee or
a tour of inspection of the location-
Miggested for new mints. Che
sub-committee selected for tliir
purpose consists of Messrs
l>w*gh»,of New York, Brewer, of Mich
igan Knapp, of Illinois, Clark, of Mis.
eouri, amt Muldrow, of Mississippi
They will start in April, beginning st
Char otle ami visiting the variom
cities from which petitions have, or may
l>e received for' the establishment o'
branch mints. There is no lack of at-
piring towns. The list includes nearly
every ambitious western city. Quin
cv, in Illinois, is especially urgent in
demandirg a mint.
The truth is, our people have been
strangely careless in this matter. I-
there is a city in the land that should
have a new mint, it i?
Atlanta; because the Georgia
gold belt which i? naturally centered in
Atlanta, will soon l»e one of the great
est gold- producing sect ions of iheconn
rv. Owing to the hnildingof railroad
Bihlowega is no longer a feasible poitv,
•or tl.ii lo-ation of a mint; Atlanta i.>
ummsiukahly the right point, and Mi
Stephens can certainly give our ad van
tinges due weight before his own com
ruittce. To lei him do this, however,
the council, the chamber of cotmuem
and the people of Atlanta generally
must act promptly. We are entitled
by virtue of a prospective if not a
present production ol gold to one of
the new minus *ud nothing but out
own snpineness, or that of the Georgia
delegation will prevent us from secu
mg « ne.
\\ o have in fact neglected too Iona
the advantages that are legitimately
ours in connection with the Oeorgi?
gold U It. It is high time that a mining
board was organized in Atlanta, ami
further Mens taken to make the city the
center of all the gold*mining activitie?
i i the Ht*U». Tlua subject should be
cimfullyand promptly considered by
our citizens. As to the mint not a day
lid be I
TORT ANTOVS MINORS.
There are rumors, cautious yet very
distinct, from Washington which, ii
true, are well calculated to startle the
co.ntrv. They portend an important
po itnal event, something entirely new
to our history; and one pauses to catch
the sound as he does to assure himself
of the distant rumbling of a tornado ir
the natural world. The great actor in
this probable drama—it is said to have
vers*epped the bounds of mere poesi
uilitv—is Mr. Hayes, the de facto pres*
idem of the United S:a*«L Although
politician, he is said by those wh
-now him best to be an honest man—
that while his virtue is not sublime
enough to protest against wrong in
other*, he would not himself knowingly
violate the principles of truth and
honor, su.h a contingency being
dear to his own mind. When the re
sult of the late presidential elec
tion was announced, Mr. Have?
rusted to the aasurancee of hi*
friends that he had been fairly elected.
The party friends, distinguished gentle
men, sent as commissioners to the
states in dispute—Louisiana and Flor
ida *fter weeks of investigation re
porud to him that the votes of those
states had been rightfully counted for
him and against his opponent, notwith
standing the earnest protest fromd em
erratic quarters. In other words the
conspirators and agents of bis party
convinced him that he had been legally
chosen president, and there is nothing
more natural than for a man to trust
his friends, especially when their
united testimony forms a great destiny
for himself. Subsequently, as the
quarrel between ti e two political par-
ues over the electoral vote grew apace,
and the electoral commission was
proposed as an umpire by the dem
ocratic aide, Mr. Hayes utter*
ed not an objection. He was
ready to abide the action of congress, to
whom the const!tntion gave the count-
ng of the votes, whether it was for or
against him. finch, at least, is the un
derstanding of the country as to his po.
ailioB daring those trying time?; he
personally took no part in the business,
but left everything to his friends. If
there was fraud it was theirs, not his.
Under euch circum-tances, Mr. H yes
was declared the president elect, and
finally inaugurated as the chief magis
trate of the nation. But other great
crimes, as well as murder, will out. In
the course of a few months circum
stances have transpired and develop
ments been made that lift the curtain
which has hid awav from the public
eye the real.character of the agencies
by which the votes of Louisiana and
Florida were made to appear as having
been given against his opponent
and for himself. The conepra-
tors themselves—the men
•lid this dark deed—have fallen
out with the beneficiary of their great
wr rig, and among themeelvrs. All
the facta and details of the monstrous
iniquity are being brought to light, and
by the acton themselves. They have,
to u<*e a legal phrase, turned state'
idence, and developed the whole plot
in all its hideous deformity; and
cool, calculating viliany, it stands with
out a parallel in history. I is now es
tablished beyond dispute, even by Mr.
Hayes himself, that he was never elec
ted president of the United States, and
that the count in his favor was the
basest of frauds, and a grievous wrong
ani outrage upon the American peop'.i
And just here comes in the ominous
whisperings from Washington.
It is said that Mr. Hayes has been
startled by these secret developments,
that he is investigating them (ally, and
with a view to regulate his
own conduct by the result. If
it should appear to his satifaction— and
he can not longer resist the conviction
—that his elec ion was fraudulent and
that he occupies a position to which
the people really elected his opponent,
it is said to lie his intention to res gn it
at once;, and recommend the immediate
inauguration of Mr. Tilden. And such
are also said to be the views of the act*
ing vice president, Mr. Wheeler. It is
furthermore reported that such a course
on the part of these high functionaries
will meet with no serious opposition
from the republican member** ol con
gress. The hone A men among them
are not only suffering under a sense of
the wrong they have helped to put
upon the country, but they see in its
open repudiation, in the face of recent
developments, the only hope of saving
their party from utter destruction, and
its memory from universal contempt..
We trust these rumors are true, both
on Mr. Hayes’s account, and for the
sake of troth and the fair fame of our
country. For him it would he the
wisest and moat uohtic act of his life.
His ease of minti and reputation as a
public man depend upon it. It would
give him a far higher place in history
than the wrongful possession of the
presidential office possibly can, if, in
deed. it did not touch that responsive
cord in the American heart which never
ceases to vibrate in contemplating a
great and virtnous act, and make him
a lawful president, by common consent,
after the expiration of the present
term. Politically opposed to the ma
jority of his countrymen, and without
the confidence of his own parry, shonld
he refuse to retire, he will find his
oath way strewn with anything but
roses. On the other hand, a personal
sacrifice at the command ol honor and
doty will prove an oblation whose
light will illumine his futnre career,
and the pages ui»on which his history
shall be recorded. He has little to lo-e
and everything to gain by so praise
worthy an act. Bad and selfish men
will dissuade, but there is not a man in
the Union whose friendship and good
opinion are worth having who woold
not approve anti aopLiul.
grant a rehearing in the claim of Ben
jamin P. Rogers; Mr. fimilb, a bill for
the relief of Henry Gee; Mr. Felton,*
bill for the relief of Robert A- Johnson,
and Mr. Stephens, a bill for the relief
of the representatives of J. G. Gilmer,
and others; also, a bill for the relief of
J. C. McBuraey, and a bill to secure
the u»e of certain eecret torpedoes for
the defense of harbors Mr. Stephens
put through the home the bill granting
pensions of $8 a month to all surviving
officers, and enlisted and drafted men,
without regard to color, including mili
tia and volunteers, of the military and
naval service of the United State?, who
’served for 14 days in the war with
Great Britain of 1812, or who were in
any engagement, and were honorably
discharged, and to the sut viving widows
of such officers and enlisted and draft
id men. Toe loss or lack of a certifi
cate of discharge will not deprive the
applicant under this act from its bene
fit?, provided other proof can be mi.de
of tervice. This bit also places on the
peneion rolls any widow of a revolu
tionary soldier who served fourteen
days or was in any engagement, and it
justly, after long delay, restores to the
pension rolls all soldiers heretofore
receiving pensions, who fought in the
war against Great Britain cf 1812, or in
any of the Indian wars, but who by an
ac. of congress were dropped from the
pension rolls for taking up arms against
the government, “or in any manner
encouraging the rebels.” It also pro
vides for the widows of such soldiers
whose names had not been placed on
rolls as provided in the bill, putting
in a claim for the pension for
which their husbands had been cutoff.
All of the Georgia delegation voted for
the bill except Messrs. Cook and Fel
ton, who were necessarily absent. Mr.
Bell presented t«e petition of 66 citi
zens of Rabun county for a post-route
from the head of Tennessee to Burton’s
in Georgia; Mr. Cannier, the petition!
of the Atlanta Medical and Snrgic.il
Journal and the Barnesvilie Gezrtte,
ff r the abolition of duty on type, and
Mr. Smith, similar petitions trom the
publishers of the Cuthbert Messenger
and finnan K’porter.
have little hope that the demo
crats can on that account carry
either legislature, although they may
l?ct Mr. McKean and the rest of the
sta’e ticket. The republican platform
is an out-and-out Hayes and hard
money platform, and there are great
possibilities in tbt dissensions that pre
vail in the republican camp. Governor
Prescott’s vote last year was 40,200, and
Mr. March’s, the democratic candidate,
less than 37,000. In 1875 the demo
cratic vote leached 30,000. If the v. t
of 1875 can be regained Mr. McKean,
will be the next governor of the state.
PR A. CR IX RCRuPR.
GKOROIA IN CONGRESS.
Mr. Bel! presented on the 27th nl
tirao, papers relating to the establish
ment of a post-route between Toccoa
and Clayton, by way of Tallulah Falls;
Mr. Candler, papers relating to the
claim of Benjamin I*. Rogers; and Mr.
Stephens, papers relating to the claim
ol William II. DeUroat.
On the 28-b ulL .Senator Hill obtain
ed unanimous con ent to introduce a
bill for the relief of the legal represen
tatives of J. G. Gilmer, and others
When Mr. Hill’s name was called on
the passage of the silver bill over the
veto, he attempted to make an expla
nation. We give the full record on
this point:
*Mr. Hill, (when hit name was called 1 I d >
not know the rule? of me wu*te; but 1 shou .
like to r-ik ibe indulgence of ibe senate for a
moment. If 1 can do w.
Mr. Hamlin I object to discussion.
The Pnsldent pro tempore. In require*
unanimous consent to Indulge in (L ba'.e duOuv
Ibe call of the roil. Objection is made.
Mr. Hill. I role "
fio did General Gordon.
The bill to provide fo.
ttie holding of a r pedal term of the
circuit court at Scranton, Mhwisrippi,
on account of tlie lumber 1 roubles, w; *
I>aiweil by a vote of 29 to 15. (icner.i
Gordon voted yea, ami Mr. I lilt wh.-
paired with Mr. Garland. If preset:
be would have voted yea. In toe boas*
Messrs. Blount, Candler, liartridgeami
Stephens were willing that a gay lieuten
ant ol the army should accept a dec »-
ration from the sultan, but Messrs
Bell, Harris and fimitb were unwilling
Messrs. Cc ok anil Felton were prevent* d
by sickness from voting on this momen
loua issue. Tne yeas bad it. Whe.
the veto of the silver bill came ap, Mr
Blount explained that Messrs. Cookai c.
Felton were n«ce»aarhy absent, but
both of these g< utleuien came into the
hall just in lime to vote against the
veto. The entile Georgia delegation were
present. Mr. Stephens’ management
of the matter wa» superb. He permit
ted no debate, but through his effort*
any remarks on this cutjcct that *
member may desire to baud down u
posterity are allowed to appear in the
Record. Sunset Cjx got iu his lime
speech at this stage of the proceedings.
The Record for Friday last contain
Mr. Bell's brief speech on the siivo
bill. We can not refrain from giving
one compact par*graph :
One of iu* RMom urged by lb? president ia
support of .he Teio. coovtitaus, iu my jads
mem. ibe »trou£r«i reason In favor of me ja*?-
as* Of U»e bill. Ii u alleged in ihc message u.*;
Oliver is worth W p.-r cent. ie«a lhan gold. Tin-
bill make* |1 JWO.W.000 ol ibe public debt that
was payab.c by law before its p sssge iu gu*d
now payable in >Lv«r, worth, according to ta<
•tatcmeiil ol ibe executive, ten cent’on the do.
*ar lea* than gold, ir.ua rasing fits) iUi.uO t.
(be people bj reducing the debt to that extent
This ie no injmii.ee to the bondholders mho
purchased them at 9<klO.OU\ao it*? map the!
;ace value. The debt, public and private, of th
coanujr is estimated at #7,lJU > 0cJ COO Under
the operation of the resumption act us will t*
converted into a gold debt on the first day oi
January. 1879 U nder the operation ol this bi
ll Will be payab.c in a coin worth Ii) per cent
•«m than gold, thereby saving to the people oi
this country *750 00U,uW.
The bill ior toe relief of John F. An
drews, postmaster at Washington, Ga.,
waa passed. It direct* the recretary oi
toe treasury :o place to the credit o!
the fund for toe postoffice department,
out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated,on money order
account, the sum of $130; and direct
toe auditor of the treasury for the pobt-
office department to place the like sum
to the endit of John F. Andrews, in hb
ccount as postmaster at Washington,
Ga., it being the amount of surplus
money order iunds mailed by *aiw
postmaster, July 24, 1877, for deposit
with the poauncster at Atlanta, Ga.;
the money having been burned and
destroyed with toe railroad cars on the
Georgia railroad on the same day while
en route to Atlanta.
When the states were called last
ATLANTA AS A COTTON MARKET.
A close observer of the markets, and
of the planting interest, since the era of
free labor began, must have observed
the gradual increase in the production
of cotton in that section of the state
which lies above what waa formerly
known as the black belt. This change
was brought about, by the use of fertil
izers; and the small farmers now plant
more cotton than they did under the
old system. The change in the territory
planted lias created new markets, the
most prominent among them Lairg
Atlanta, which in 1876 7 handled onl
89.1*66 hales of cotton. Even this
was a large inc ease over any
previous year. The yellow fever
prevailed that eeason on the oast
fuel that indmed many at a distance,
and even some of our own people, to
think that the epidemic in Savannah
hail diverted many thousand bales to
Atlanta that would otherwise have
found a market elsewhere. Bit 1877
was a remarkably healthy year on the
seaboard, and yet the receipts of 1877-8
already amount to 03,802 bales, and
cotton continues to pour in by wngon
and by rail. Capitalists and farmers
are surprised; and the question now
attracting the attentions of our capital
ists is this: How shall we provide for
the laige and steadily increasing re
ccipts ? A firm of Alaleuna street mer
chants has recently purchased a large
cotton warehouse on Pryor street, whic.
will be enlarged and ready for use
for the new crop; but the necessity of
a first-class cotton compress and atili
further increased f tcilities for atorag:
|is imperatives We are iu formed tin
a joint stock company, with ample
capital, is being formed to erect a first-
class com pres?, and more room on some
one of the railroad tracks. This will
b? ready for business on a large scale
by September. The two compresses
already here Lave done well, but are
too limited in their capacity to meei
the growing demands cf the trade.
Thus, it will be observed, Atlanta qui
etly moves along, incre sing her cot
ton receipts and her facilities for hand
ling the staple, and furnish
ing the planters with sop
plies and goods of every deEcription.
Our budnesH men are equal to every
•ieinmd upon their tact, energy and
capital; and whenever a reaa *nab c
profit is insight, the needful amount oi
capital is always forthcoming. It seem;
to us that, no other enterprise is so in
viting to capital as the one in contem
plation in relit ion to the hand ting an
storage ot our rapidly inerei.s ng re
ceipts of cotton.
T UK Nh II’ HA UPS mi: A KLhVlTOS.
The first state election of the yeir
occurs day after to-morrow in the Gran
ite state. The canvass has not been a
lively one, and very little speaking ha*
occurred. The central committees
have, however, been working with a
will, and a reasonably full vote may be
expected. The democratic candidate
for governor is Frank A. McKean, of
Nashua, a manufseturtrand one of the
most popular men in the state. Hi.
opponent is Gov. Fre-cott, who expects
a re-election. The latter is the most
skillful politician in Bill Chamber’.-
state. The greenback party has
a ticket in the field headed
by Samuel Flint, and we believe
the prohibitiouists have one also. Xei.
tlier of the two latter tickets are ol
much account, except in the
throwing the election of state officer?
fnto the legislature ; for in New Hamp
shire a majority of the popular vote i;
required to elect.
i *st year Gov. Prescott received 360u
m?j «rity, the republicans had four iu
of five counsellors, eight out of tweivr
senators, and a majority of the houst
of representatives aggregating sixty
These figures will be materially re
duced. Gov. Present will not receivt-
a clear majority of all the votes cast;
but the legislative districts are &.»
shamefully gerrymandered Um it i?
vervdmbtiul whether the victory car
be carried any further. With a tie vote
tor governor, the republicans generally
have forty majority in the leg stature
A complete democratic victory . there
fore barely within the range o. posai
bilities.
Owing to a change in the tonstitu*
t on of the state, this is the last elec*
uou that will be held in Mar h. They
are to be held hereafter in November
and the legislative sessions ar« to be bt
enniah The first election an ier the
constitutional amendment w.»: occur
next November, when still another leg
islature is to be chosen. The one that
is to be chosen on Tuesday meets in
Jane. Senator Wadleigh’s term ex
pires on the fourth day of nex.
March; which legislature, therefore,
should choose his successor? It is be
lieved that each will claim that right,
and if one should be demociiticand
the other republican, a nice mudd.e
would ensue. Senator Wadleigh takes
the position toat the legislature
to be chosen in November is the
only one that can elect his successor
but good law y rs say otherw;sf . Owing,
however, to the infamous manner in 4
Tux Constitution’s prediction of last
Sunday that to-day would find ali
E trope full of visions of peace instead
of war, has been fully verified. No one
expects that another ho3iile gun will
be fired for many years to come over
the eastern question. There are many
difficulties to be removed and conliic
ting interests to be harmonised, and
there will therefore be many rumors of
war before peace will be fully attained
but that such a result will be reached
without a n sort to arms is now almost
certain.
The twenty-nine articles of the new
Russo-Turkish treaty dispersed a cloud
of rumors and a multitude of fears.
It was these articles that led the civil
ized world during the past week to
confidently expect peace instead of
war, that made war impossible between
England and Russia or between Turkey
and Russia. This treaty is, it is true,
but a preliminary treaty, but it sub
stantially settles all material questions
at stake.
It would be tedious to enumerate the
provisions of the treaty. It leaves
nothing oi Turkey in Europe except
small territory on the sea of Mamora,
composed of *.he metropolitan vilayet
of Constantinople and a portion of the
vilayet of Ederneh. Bulgaria, Servia
an i Montenegro are each to be en
larged, the two last named with liiu-
mania to be absolutely free and the
first practically so. To make the de
struction of Turkish power still surer,
ali the fortresses of the quadrilateral
are to be razed and the Turkish troops
withdrawn. Russian troops will take
their places, at least for a considerable
period. Armenia up to the Songanli
mountains, including Batoum, Kars,
Ardahan and Bayazid, is to be ceded to
Russia, and so is the Dobrudscha
which Koumania is to take in ex
change for Bessarabia. No men*
tion is made of Greece, or Crete,
or the Egyptian tribute, or of the
Turkish iron clads—not even of the
straits, except that their navigation
declared free for merchant vessels dur
ing peat e or war. The w ar indemnity
to be paid the conqueror is 1,410,000.-
000 roubles, which is about equal to
$1,125,000 000. Of this, however, 1,
100,000.000 roubles is to be paid by
the cession o. territory in Ar
menia, leaving 310.000.000 roubles
($246,100,000) to be paid
money. N j guarantee of the payment
of this sum is contained in the treaty,
which simply states that Russia and
Turkey shall subsequently agree about
its payment.
This treaty leaves England nothing
to base a declaration of war upon. The
freedom of the straits, the Egyptian
tribute and the iron clads are left in
tact; Austria is invited to occupy B09
nia and Herzegovina, and England
will, perhaps, be permitted to seize
Mitylene, an island with good harbors
only forty miles from the Dardanelles,
in the Grecian archij»e!ogo, as a naval
rendezvous in connection with Gibral
ter. If France did not stand m the way,
England would doubtless acquire A1
exiudria and the protectorate ot Egypt
-a consumption devoutly to be wished*.
•Such a settlement of the questions in
volved would indeed be a happy one.
All the Christians of Turkey relieved
of the Mussulman yoke, and England
made secure in the possession of the
•Suez canal and enabled to extend the
advantage., of civilixition over all Af
rica. If the Berlin congress would sane
tion such a programme no one would
be able to say that this war had been
fruitl as one.
Since the signing of the treaty consid
erable progress has been made towards
an assembling of the great congress,
which is to speak, whether potentially
or not, the sentiment of Europe. It
already known that the congress will
meet in Berlin, and perhaps this
morning's latest dispatches will give
the date of the first meeting. If the
three great chancellors of Europe at
lend it, it will life incited a memora
ble hotly. Its place in history will of
cour e lie an important oue, n*» matter
what it may do or omit to do. Eng
innd seems mere afraid o! action ad
verse to her interests than Knssia her
self, now that the . latter power has
cured a treaty with Turkey that she
can stand by. England and France
both desire to limit the scope of
tiie congress. Speculations as to the
action of this body are tireless; but we
venture tbe predictions that Russia 1
settlement with the sultan will not be
materially disturbed, and that no ac
tion will be had to justify the armed
interference of either Austria or En<
gland. Russia's encroachments here
after will doubtless be of a commercial
nature; for the utter extinction of
Moslem power is as certain in the long,
run as if it were provided for in a‘
treaty that had been ratified by all the
powers that signed the treaty of Paris.
prevent oar ever having to pay ft 5S !or ion
We Can't flad Him
Albany, Ga., March 5th.
Editors Constitution: Who if
Bo. ton Gre?" the poet ? When; doe# he live? L
there any published c.Unction of ci* work ?
E. de. M.
We can find no record of Boston Grey ia any
print. He (or she) wrote two pceas called ‘ In
tioepcction" and “Retrospection/' and waa a
pretty regular contr.butor to A pple on’s Journal.
By addressing those publishers you may lea n
somethr. g of him. No volume ot his works has
been published.
Back to ■■ Old Trie*
Cabtersvillz, Ga-, March olh.
Editors Cons ituiion: Was cre
mation practiced in o.dea lanes, ani If so. by
lations. B M.
ai practice very generally in the ea-lier
ages in Europe. It ia mentioned in the Bible and
common in Gre -ce, Rome at,d the e*
countries. It his usually giv n away tj civiliza
tion. Sane of our Indians prset ced it.
TIIE NEW AUGOXAITS.
Two Beal Sweet UlrM
Madison, Ga, Much 5th.
Editors Constitution : # e respect
’iy elicit your advice upon tbe following: 1st.
S>u. po.- e a y- ung g ntlemaa has beeu engaged to
a youug lady for a year a d ha- offered her mi
engageme-rt ring, what should she conduct*? 2d.
ABE WE ON THE EDGE OF A NEW
**INBV SION ?*>
Jl Talk with Dr. Little on Gold-Let
ters from tbe Aorinwest-rh* Ad-
wan taxes or Ueorslu UsicJ Dlxclus*
—A* luaportaot Interview.
Some time ago we published in The
Constoutios on interview w.tb Dr. Geo Little,
the state geologist, relative to ibe gold bearing
reeion of northeast Georgia.
This iuterview was n. published in scores oi
northern paters, and h: s excited a wonderful
interest inroughom the wnole country. The
spirit cf inquiry extends
!F£OX MAINE TO CALIFORNIA
Dr Lit ue has oc-en deluged witn letters, ask
ing for information on all sorts of points We
*■"' * w, ~* ceipts
•s' ac a
” Raven, Park, Ilf.’Riston”*
s, El:z Lett low a. K>\, and N«w
e from bankers, minei
Is th- re any harm in kissing a gentlezuan'when
grl is engage • ti him? 3d. When a lady has a
gentlemaq caller, should she follow him to the
hal- door wh- n he leaves? 4th. When a gentle-
is an en.oaemem to go out with a lady,
— should make the “move” to go first? 5th.
Which can go to sleep first, a person in love or
ie with the toothache? Bose and Violet.
1st. Either that he is too poor to support her,
■ too stingy to live with. ad. The kiss ng may
be Indulged in sparingly. As the wedding day
draws near the allowance tray be inert ase-1 with*
cut harm 3d. No. Ia otdisoxy coses you will
not be expected 10 escort him to the door; never
If you bave otuer company iu lh» parlor. 4th.
The gentleman. 5th. We never had th* tooth
ache.
Atlanta. Ga., March 7.1874
Editors Constitution: Isbvdropho-
ba the most dangerous disease th* meybe con-
rscad from dogs by human beings? G. II. M.
No. Prof. Bewcrof the scitn ific school of
Yale college says there is another disease which
dogs dissemina e, much more to be drended tnsn
hydrophobia, more insidious and causing f ur
deaths to where hydro; kooia causA^pnc. of eight
person bitun by a m*u dog.but onepffrsond es of
hydrophobia. A worm ia generated In doge which
Prof. Brewer ca ls “the bladder worm.” The
eggs of th e worm are d pitited up)h grass by
dogs, and are swallowed by sheep as they feed.
In the s'.cep's stomach they hatch, fl l the fl *h
a d so pass into the stomach and ilesh of
The result is some king l:ke, but more ftfal than
the tricku^eof kogs. If tke worm goes t
brain incurable insanity results; if it Temains in
the lower organ-, distress and death. Over five
hundred deaths a jesr iu Euglacd f om
c use; on ; dc-tb cut of every five deaths per
annum iu Iceland, of all disetses, results tn
she passing of *\hc bladder worm” from deg to
man iu mutton. In the United States the
talityis not so frequent from this cause; but
Prof Br wer has on record several authenticated
case of it. “The bladder worm” perish- g utter y
if swallowed by any vn'mol except the rheep.
To tbe latter it is very destructive, and causes
many of tbe diseases omo-jg them. There arc
two other worms wh-. se egg are .-hed by dogs,
which produce disease among sheep, but do no!
pass to man In mutton.
Bfwt Hie Best, Bat Good Enough.
Editors Constitution : Is the dia
mond the most precious of ail gemt ? R. U.
No. The ruby it the most precious, a fault
less ruby, exceeding one karat in weight, is
worth considerably more than a diamond. A
diamond weighing three karats will not bring
more than five hundred dollars #nj where; ,
ruby of the nme weight will tell readily fur
fifteen hundred dollars,
*hal Did Ton AmU It lor?
Marietta, March 8.1878.
Editors Constitution: Will you
L'l me w<;at are the her Idle arms of
Barcelona, Spain ? a. V.
They are four bars gules—or red—with St.
George’s cron argent silver. These were the
t earings of the old counts, and are said to hav*
been assumed by Wilfred El Veloao-se called
because he had hair on the soles of his feet
After a battle with the Normans he drew his
b'oody fingers over his shield—a truly soldier
like blszon.
Mot m New Device
Covington, March 8.
Editors Constitution : Is tbe art of
short-muni writing a modern invention?
8. W. T.
Na It waa preci iced by the most ancient na
tion*. it perhaps was earlier lhan the hiero
glyphics of the Egyptian*. Cicero and S
us*d it First treatise concerning it was pub
lished in A. D. 1412.
The Emperor lint, the fsar Next
Atlanta, March 8
Editors Constitution: Wliat is the
true meaning of the tUie “Czar ol Ituaria r*
0.8.
It means the “Great King of all the Knralan
tribes”—the original Bnsrians as a race The
tltl .“Emperor of Rur ,ia,*’ comprehends more—
that is, all countries cf every race ruled ov
the czar
represent coloni-
. »pply lor information on every possible
subject, and the most of them expres
termination ot shortly visiting the
pen-on Dr. Litr "
A SON OF SIN.
The Murderer Johnson Photograph
ed—Him t haures far loniinuin iou—
Alleged Insanity.
A day or two since, a strauge fcene
was • nactei in the county ja’l in this city.
Mr. J. B. Scamtt, (he popular photographer,
went down to take tbe picture of Guv Johnson,
TUB FLOYD COUNIT MCKDEBEB
who was to be hung on next Friday.
Mr Johnson insisted that Capt. Whit Anderson
fend Mr Jch'i Wise should have their pc
t*»eu with him. Consequent y 'he thre».„
Either Mr Scarr-tt pla*e 1 his instrument is tbe
centre o'the m in ha 1 ><nJ thus recur,d a very
p>o 1 light. Ue succeeded iu taking acaphai
pic ure. Job :son hasa be ver bat set loos ]y o
hiv head and ca-ecnlng sharply forward -nd
one tide. He has a dtooiu e, half hmnorou-
look ab ut like » young fellow on his fir>t drunk,
ill. face is «huffy, full about the eyes ai d super
p:rt, orn- im-nleo with a slight mustache, ai d
we. re a satisfied smile. It is not such a picture >■«
1 o ed slayer in
hie Ir ends t » save him, by s: ow:n
he ha-« a homicidal mania or
P- OimtIUHT INSANE.
An attempt is now being made to get c
. - e t r to j, ave a b an j
into his *anit>
te tirnouy iu the care
a d the bill cf exceptions on which the
case was first carried 10 the »uprem - court,
in the governor's band* Besides this there
peUtioi s from several counties in North Georgia,
and affidavits, going tu show that the prisoner
is insane. These affidavits came pri:cp-l!y
from (he relatives of John«on, who swear *“**
insanity is hereditary in his f-unily.oa his 1
er’s side. It is shown that several ot her rels*
lives are insane, or rather w ;ak-miuded, though
the trouble has not taken
a homicidal turn with a? y
They seem to be simply weak-m.nd.d and
vicious in
mother of
is Insane She”goes
snail way Mrs. Johnson
UNCLE REMUS ON EDUCATION.
As Uncle Remus came up White
hal. street yesterday, he me: a little colored boy
c&rrvlng a *Ut2 and a number of books. Some
words passed between them, but their exact
purport Will probably never be known. They
wvre unpleasant, for the attention of a wan- er
in* policeman waa called to the matter by hoar-
irg the old maa bawl out:
“Don’t you come foolin’ longer me, nigger
Youer flippin’ yo* sure at de wrong co:or
Y ju’k’n go roun' here an* sacs dete while people,
Au’mvjbe dey’U sun’ it, bat w*?n you come
a sllcgiu yo* jaw at a man Wat wux grey
de fahmin’ days giu out, you better go an’ git
yo’ hide greaz.-d.”
••What’* the matter old man V’ asked a sym-
p.»tbz:ug policeman.
“Nothin’, buev 'oep’io I ain’t gwinter hav’ no
cigg-r chillun a hoopin’ ap’ a hollerin'st me
w Yu I’m gwue ’lone de streets.”
“Oh, well—school-children—yon know how
they are.”
-“Dai’s Wat make 1 aav Wat I dux. Dey bet.
ter be home picken np chips. Wat a
gwiueit r i'arn outen book* ? I kin take a bar 1
iuv; an' fl nx mo’ sense inter a nigger in 0
miunit dan all de sch ol houses betwixt dls
de cute nv Midgigio. Don’t talk, honey! Wid
onebarTsuvel km fa'rly lit* de vail er ig-
nncce ”
••Then yon don’t believe ia education ?"
“Hits de ruination er dls country Look at
my cal. De ole 'ornau sent ’er ter school las
year an’now we daorent hardly ax 'er fer ter
carry de waa kin’ borne. She dona got beymnt 'e 1
biznesa I ’aint larct nothin in book?, 'en jRt I
km count all de money X gita No use a talkin'
bo-a Put a epelim book in a nigger's hand’
en right den ea dar' yon lo, zre a plow 1
done had de epe'aoce tza it."
neVi*r been rignt in his hi a 1 she says that his
patfeion has ' *- “
somebody
kill himself,
right arm. At another time, while in one ol
his “spells.” hs cut off one of hin flugera.
haefuqueutlj threa’ened the lives of blsfami-y.
ONCE DFCLaKED INSANE
Joh son was ouc-; declared to be in: a-ie by a
Bartow cTuuty jury, of which Dr. I'Lomss H
Baker was the Lead. He wasc-hargtd with hav
ing commute-1 a rape, and his relatives request
'* *■ ’ e trit-u on a writ of lunacy. Tbl<
ANSWERS TO COMMMAPONDMMIM.
Editors Conititutios : I have Lear 1
l> e w ho have seen “Dundreai3" before, ».j , uai
them cat near.y tuthA-f cf the pay out.
hvl to pay
Your informant was right. Over one thud of
the p ay was •-cul” The troure hod to catch
the half Dost tan train for Memphis. Of coorta
it wi* what the talent*! Dundreary woa.d call
* a regalar iraad.” Ths only remedy agalast
mch ispora.tion* it to join our “anu-bigh-price
He eecaped
d shorilj
; cum.- for which ti
there
k jr
: is about
IN OPPOSITION TO THE TESTIMONY
S lug to *how hU i-.>sanity, the governor has a
ge numucr of affl lavits, diciariug that he i«
sane and khrewd, and know» right from wrong
One of, these affidavits is from the physiciai:
who attended nim when he receive-! the wound
from which his alleged insanity is dated. He
testifies that tbe wound did net
not have affected his brain. Another
is from his brother in-law, who swear
examining the papers, and will hardly come 1
a cone.c «:un before Mond »y.
General Bcff.rd and Judge J. A. Kirby seei_
to be in charge of the petition for a commuta
tion of sentence They are doing all th*t can
be done, honorably ani legitimately. 10 carry
their point Johnson is in tolerably good
health, and is quietly awaiting the result of the
deliberations oi the governor. This is oi course
hi* only hope The expedient* of the 1 .w have
been exhausted, and if the governor does
interfere he most die.
A BRIMS ZONE MILL.
Mow Ofsrgla ton Flank Beecher if
ana Wants to.
Dr. Geo. Little, the state geologist,
informs ns of a very important discovery lately
made in Georgia.
Dr. Pratt, of Marie tre, a distinguished chem-
st, hoe discovered s method
OP MAKING PCRX BEIM.STONE
e*. whicn con be found
Georgia The process i* exceeditfly simple and
Terr chean. The brimstone can be produced in
about one-third of the cost of the
A Bt
mber.tiv 1« mra *J! ^ crunch tot Ox'ryU.
fine quality,
brimstone which we now get.
This country ho* reried principally upon Sicily
for her supply of brimstone, ft is taken from
region there, where it is dtpoauep
in enormous beds. It is dag ap in great block*.
oik otct i, j zst os if he were walk-
.6, Dr. Pratt’s method brimstone can be pro
duced much cheaper lhan it can be brought from
Sicily. A patent has been obtained and works
wiL soon be established. If the process is »n^
Ofcwfui, and Dr. Liule has great confidence in :L
'• will uiilree and mato —’—- *-—■■
zostTalnekas produc
3 practical chemist.
other words, if he taoceeds in proving that”there
‘ new proceff!*, make one
. ----- speedily discovered that it
1 ul-i be ImpjSfeibie t j an*wer these letters t-ep-
•atc.y, sad a*: has coQs*q iently prepared & or-
liar mat gives a ceueral answer to all inquiry
A ZEAL RUSH AHEAD.
Said Dr Little: •* 1 ieel Certain that we are
about to see a flood of capital poured into his
section very good. There 1« no doubt about i
half-way, we?hall tec that wjoIo section filled
rith furnaces and'm ils.
•J suppose you a:i 1 adhere to your statement
d in north Georgia t
■the best o -lot that is offer
there is iu California
I do. But yon unut remember that this is
.. «.. — ^ ^ nux north Geo _
the quaiiti.y ofgoiu
table 10 miLcrs rt is
the facility with which tha ore is iniucd. It is
the ca-se with wliicn it can bo sent to mi rkel
It is the cm -pness of labor. It is tne nearness
of limber aud water courses. It in tbe’ heal h-
fulnefes of ihediuiateauu the fsciiiiy with which
prov.sions m»y be procured, iu oil tnete poiiui
Georgia excels.
'* pbluL A toa of ore lu the lLack
Hius ot
Georgia.
the richness is not worm
of
dangerous,
gold might exist at the norm po
being of aay practical value. Tue
**'*” bat
PKECiOUi METAL
[> believe that
wirin
are scientist!
GREAT MASSES
are 10 be iouud at the ceuire ol
what account Is it, how«
w^essible r
by fehoi
. it is cl’
cities. And, betrer 1
Every part of it is civilized, aud <
and reliable hack lima
> the surface,«aad is easily reached by t.
the best iu the world, and
resort for invalids. The water
courses that pour dowu the hills give the bta»;
po=srbic power. It is nectwuy to trauspor
only a chori Uistaoce, white ia ( alifomia it it
freqa-.-utly carried fifty and oue hundred mil.s.
Libor is cheap and easily procurable. In fact.
‘ t cheap working for gold ap-
The greatest advantage, huw« vex, is in the
f id that the most of the ore ia north Georgia
partially aecomposed, aud ia worked with giti
laciiiiy. Wnere you would have to blastU
quartz in Califoru s, you ciu worn it w:ta a pic
or even a shovel. Culm queutly ore that i* much
poorer than the California ore can be miued
at a profit, while there it would involve a Ion.
v rich
—a. rich as any ore to »>e found anywhere.-’
A NEED OK AVAILABLE CAUTaL
“Oue of the most positive needs,” said Dr
Little’, “ iu this section, is that of money, our
bituks have plenty of money, but they have
none that they will leud ou raining pronerty or
miuing stocks. InCa llomU this is different
There, if a man has any m.iiiug property or
any quantity of ore, he cau get advanc-s ou it
any up to its value. It is as good ollanral
JITE CULTURE.
C.vrrraponUence Betwien Oov*-runr
CYlquItt and Hr Viaterta«nM« on
tli« nbj* et—Nometbtng lor Ueorils
I'armrs.
Wajhington Univevsity,
Louis, Mo , March 5 1878
Hon Alfred H. CehjuiU, Cover/.or qf Vu StaU
of Gwtyia :
Dear mb,—My interest in the indus
trial welfare of the country induces me to ad-
dn st you upon a subject oi great economic
moment.
Personal investigations in India have fully
convinced me that jute cau
be naturahz.d in the Uulied
States. The conditions of so'l aud climate in
cur southern states and iu California are suited
to the growth of this plant The commercial
importance ol jute is now immense. The cul
ture of this staple now adds ecores rf millioos
auuuAlly to tire productive wealth of India.
Amid all the vast and diversified prodoctioi*
of that fruiitul land, only cotton, opium and
rice exceed jute iu mercautile value Ia 1674,
besides all the domestic consumption of jute.
700 cOO.OOO pounds were exported to foreign
couutn-.s. The United Kingdom now annually
manufactures more than SCO 000,Ou) pounds of
thi* fiber.
Tbe ra-.-ga of its uses is broad. It uow enters
into the manufacture of almost every kind of
fabric from the cosrecst gunny clcth to the
finest satin. It is claimed that the culture of
jure is less exhaustive to the laud and
profitable to the cultivator than that of sugar-
cane or cotton. The plant grows with rank
luxuriance. Sometimes the yield per
3 500 pounds.
The cheapness of native jute for bags and
baling wonld facili ate the movtment of
crops anti the revival of our domestic commerce.
The fertility of our soil, the icouomy of
agricultural machineiy, our skilled labor aud
scientific supervision, and our superior chemi
cal an! mechanical processes ol treatment, will
assuredly enable Americans aucce sfully
compete with the ru ie manual industry of Iu-
iC cul'lvaiiou and manufacture of this
important staple.
Planters, ch- uvs's and inventors may profit*
fcly direct their utteutiou to this new source of
per. anal and public wollb. Improvemi
methods of cultivation in precesaes of steeping
tha plant, and in mechanical facilities
for removing the bark would opeu to in
geniousmiuds utitrouden paths to opulence
Perhapi the middle states also arc adapted to
the growth of jute. Even lu the case of failure,
the experiments would involve no serious loss
white, iu the event of success, the new industry
Wv uid enrich the uadou. But, in order to avo
possible loss, the tests iu the central star
should be made on a small scale. Tue expel
eueeof the pr > ent season will determiuc
what extent jute culture in the United State*
cau profitably be carried.
Jute seed and practical instructions with re
gard to the time of planting and the prepara
tion of the fiber for the market, can be obtained
Irani the agricultural commissioner at Wash
lugtou But the time for active work haa
rived, aud planters who are purposing to
during the present season, the adaption of
American soil to jute culture should make im
mediate application to the coinmis;loner for
FILLED WITH DEVILS.
Be larders Hm Family of Eight nod
then Seta Ft re lottie Hoose-A € bll*
lias Narrative off Blood
iu the b -uks es real«
lie has spent probably hall of the amcuut 1
SluO ou this NNc need a b-mk here that
will advance money ou such properties,
might be well to establish ' *
adersland that there Is a
„ ..^a xed In Ne
1 million dollars t
New York with a cap
invest ia miuiug
lands and to aid new mills. I*, is probable that
this bank will establish an agency here If so,
it wilt doubles* h.-lpour industries wry much.
TUE t Kl'lCIAL ClBCULAU.
The following is uie circular sent out by Dr.
Little:
GEOLOGICAL SURVl
ATLANT
Dear Sin: In au*wer 1
the :ollow ug data:
The gold regi n of Georgia is almost c
;i«, nud on th^ soutli by t; e e.ree of the “)• w-
landa.” along .* Inc joining Ctl<in.bus, Macon
aud Augusta. It extends into A.abama ou the
v ed, a ad no North C.-roli - and South Caro
lina on the north ar .l ca t. No all of this 1 rg<
sret is actua y gjld be ring; but the b».rr 1
s cemparati
the larger ?h rj of t:»<
lh r north- ru and m
p obably.
conse quent partly upon the
working where the g'adc-
v »tecj:cr, and partlv upon ihe fact th-
flatter por ion V ‘ “
and, th. refore.
Tnis 1*, i> oue
greater facilitie
red up
ted less attenriou.
is Dciivved '.hit the routhern portion lucluds
rich, and peruape as numerous, m ms as 1
northern. , , ^
The gold occurs under three distinct ccn<
tio* s: Fir t. as rand, (‘d tst”) or pebb!
(“nuvgc's,”) •forming integral p rtious of t
deposits of sa d a a gravel al ug th. » reau
which sometimes exb nd as hUh as 100 fee
more above the pre-ent stream levels. Secon uy
as grain*, strings or uressr s forming integ-r
portiocsofe *
some'hues 1
greater or le*
thickness, I
i of the
rt. cr _he
, particle o quartz.
Much the 1 rger part of the g--Id thus far mi -
ed in G« rgia has been obtained from tne Btrcam
deposits above men'.ioued—mostly bvthe rim
pies’, and rudest methods of was ing, in s nice-*,
rocker* and toms, and bu: aliitle by hydraulic
washing. The riche t portions of thedpo its
have, oico^r e, been 1 oked for; aLd prob b y
the larger part of them has b en minel over
though so roughly that the pile- of tal ngs wil
in (-early every in-tance, pay th t costs of rehand
l ug. A few prints, h w;ver, «loth- minor
now average, by this m tliod of mining, mo*
than or Uuary wag-.s 75 cent-* per d-»- to i h
batid. Sluceth's is the o-ly kind of miuinj
\Vr.vV cau be pro^evut d without more or lessiu
vertrnent of cayit I. it is a-, once evident tha
th r- is nu iudmvment foi
hau • s aud shovels.
Of the auriferous scl
Is iu most cases profi al:
tKunos portions, alxi
dra'inge. si c ■ these pi
pose 1 and disiuiegrut
economic-lily hand or).
i ldoubtl «
. . allowing
this sort has yet fa
be f
JejKh”
capital beyond their
above mentioned, ii
• work only th up
he level or natu a
al’ue are sod com
- to be read ly aud
e p rtioua of th
ud rich enough
> attempt of
. h masses
been worked, at three or four pla es, t>y siui- i:ig
md hydraulicing, after ruuni g ca: a's at higi.
large exp use. There r.re larg
for th’ '' * * ’ ’
ite exp:
hat put, _
capital to-k cure such ground aud br 1 git int
paying conci ion; but 1 rge returns van e calcu
la ed on wit 1 considerable c r ai ty. Where the
schist* thus wasued ou* carry muc 1 quartz, the
gravel from the washings c m, in most cases, be
profit bly crushed in s amp mills. Since
wnole cos-, of tx ndli: g sue » diamvvrated
does not necessarily exceed fifi% cen.» p-r
even ve y low graie ore* can be profit
worked.
The gold bearin'* quartz w ini are qu te t
ereus, aud mitiy o* ' - -
_ tJ wa tr levri; but, with
ba-dly au excep ion they have been deserted ui
soon as y-.e w' ter became at*,; troublesome—
partly because of the incr ased trouble and ex
pe-.so, p«r 1 • because the pre-s-crv- of und.co ; •
p sed ou phides int rfe ed with the s.viug of thi
gold A few of th’ 1 '
•ell up am-mg -he
li- Vary in thickness from a
thonsan.l-
ew inches to lei
, on any bu: tin
tal; but good pr*.
from ca-efui and lnullig-
Large amounts of moiey Lave bfen lost i:
i^orku gat tjh . Georgia -nd Laro.ua mines, part
0 _Jem K of
active in the s.ate.
Ube,
nd th. rc
:«i a bid name Ii
t, hencefo th. the in-
len w ho are e- ncerned
•-t of the mines now
uined only by othe.s
sell; bu* the enrire
of tbe same cbr.racter.
Tae s ale ha- no lar.d
area is owned by private parties. It Is therefore
accessary for them nr to first my or lea-. ’
proper y *- -
cuporUnte,
: mined mto. ibices wil
The
■ for..
»-riy
of purcha er, ind im-ginationof sehcr. in
partreuiar loc^Uons, em 1: lot-,*vnth well p oved
— C h »p |mo per acre. Larg
e gold belt, and
gooiv
id bed. .
y 1 cated. The ag cultural
_ taper
f 10, if cleared and fei
meets, land-* nave bee. held aid sold
Und- r special c
oid at re
of th -K
iliio ^tak-
inevi table
’ and a.l 0
which g od rcanagement
v Geologist.
m* h** ^ fuffenag from
In leiaing a e-.ine, the roy Ity is commonly
eaurn tel a one tenth of th- gross putcsJi. b
s in aome nataoc #, i cr &. ei to one eighth,
ievenone sixth, an-i inoth.rs red.c d to o
twentisth.
Jhe^capitai need d rill vary, with the lofcti j
dozen kcali-
50 per
Gxoitoa Ltttle,
Office Nos. 4 and 12 Capitol
Elxbiy Hit lew of Cot too la a Blase.
Yesterday as tbe down freight train
oa the Macon and Western raiaoad wes neaiing
Milner, It was discovered that th. fitt care
loaded with cotton were in fi .mea. Toe train
was awiiched to the side track and the two car*
nacoup.ed Jr m the train. Erery effort to put
out the fir*, proved fruitless and the two care
with eighty baits of cotton were consumed.
The rice track upon which the hazing car*
were awl'ched, was also burned. It Is thought
that the fire originated from a spark fr -m tne
engine paULog the train. Tl j cod'.u was -hipped
fiota this city and was to partie* in
Savannah J
An industry fraught with such possibilities of
national wealth deserves encouragement by
legislative bounties.
It is hoped that your excellency will further
the success of this undertaking by cffiriai
recommendation?, and that the legislature and
state board ol agriculture will actively aid
enterprise whose prosperity would so eff ectually
promote the material interests of tue nation.
Very respectfully yours,
SYLVEsTEB WaTKB(10U?E.
State <
Georgia, Executive Department,
Atlanta, Ga., March 8,181K.
Mr. Sylvester Waterhouse, Washington Uni
versity, 8t Louis Mo— D;jat Sir: I have
cel ved your letter of the 5:b, in regard to -tim-
ulating the cultivation of jute in this country
You certainly furnish very strong reasons why
we should experiment in the culture of thi,
plant If it can be successfully cultivated in
routhern climate and soil it will make a valnabi
addition to our productive industries. There is
encouragemeut in tke fact that 'rials ou a hi
ited rcalc have been made in several souths
states, including Georgia, in growing jute, and
they have been reasonably successful.
It would furnish a very strung inducement
for the southern farmers to experiment with
this plant if it is true, as alleged, that the jute
drives off tbe cottou caterpillar. Such a
would be invaluable.
I have no doubt from tests alrendy made there
is enough promis; of favorable results
justify the planters of Georgia aud
th; s.-uth in Riving tbe matter a full trial. It
would be difficult to calculate the ben ell if th<
jute plant can be c.nssed amoug tbe staple pre
dicts of the south. I remain very truly, etc.,
Alfred 11 CoLqurrr.
Murder las n Toledo liitgulo.
Toledo, O., March 7.—A woman, who
lias been known by the name of Jessie
Stockton, was shot and killed to-night
in a bapnio kept by one John B rleu,
on St. Clair street, in this city, by Lonit;
Attenbaugh. Attenbaugh went to Bo
Ian's place to-night auu tried to per
suade the womau, who he claims wa^.
liis wife, to leave the place. She re
fused to do so, giving as a reason
that he dia not provide for
her, and that she intended to
and
LOOK OUT FOR HERSELF.
After some further conversation, At
tenbaugh drew a revolver and shot her
through the left breast, the ball passing
through the heart. She fell dead, and
the murderer fled down the street, bu?
was captured a short distance down the
street and lodged in the Central station,
where he now is. Attenbaugh state*
that he married the woman, who is If
or 20 years of age, in Indianap olis, las
fall. Her maiden name was Mattie
Haynes. _
VANHERUir ASA VOODOO.
and *iff«nit VI
imujr—Lf Riiimwi
New York, March 7.—Dr. Bennett
a witness in the Vanderbilt will case,
testified that the Commodore told him
he had a vision, in which he saw a road
sha ed like a horse shots aud this road
was death.
THE COMM)DORK AS A CL4IUV YANT.
He saw several of hig ai quaintances
walk along ani drop off, but some
would come back to the edge. He said
that he was then walking along .thr
edge, and did not know whether he
would drop off He also told witness
he was a clairvoyant, and believed in
curing by
SENDING A LOCK OF HAIR.
Counsel offered to prove by witness
that Mrs. Vanderbilt said “The old
man must die, I can't stand this hel
any longer.” But it was excluded.
A GAY CROWD.
The commodore once sat np to read
a newspaper and witness suggested to
him that he was then well enough to
see his children, but he got into a ftiri
oils rage, and s«id : “No! damn them
they are all bastards except Bill.”
Commodore—tlHfltu.
New York, March 1.—There waa s
break to-day in the dullness of the
Vanderbilt will contest proceedings,
when counsel endeavored to introduce
testimony showing the peculiar rela
tions which existed between tbe com
modore and the women brokers, Wood
hull, Chitlin & Co. Tne surrogate ruled
it out as not pertinent, and cou sel was
ob'iged to introduce the testimony de
sired under offers to prove. John J.
Ogden waa the witness. The World
says:
Mr. L -rd offered to prove that wit
ness had gone with Mbs Ciaflin to the
office of Commodore Vanderbilt, and
there heaid aconversation between the
commodore and Mies Clafln on the sub
ject of the Weekly, and the subject of
marriage also; that on one occasion
Mias Clatiia asked the commodore
whether he had not agreed to marry
her, and that he said he should have
done so if it h<id not been for the fam
By.
Mr. Clinton—O! courre we object to
all this.
The Surrrgate —I don’t see how this
can be evidence of an unsound mind
It rather goes to the correctness of taste.
I will exclude it, however. I propose
to keep all the rmut out of toia case
that I can, legally. If this evidence
were permissible, it might be permitS:-
b!e for those parties to be called upon
to prove that their v^e wa on social ques
tions were |-eriec:iy correct, irom
which calamity this court will claim to
te excused.
Mr. Lord - I alsT offer to prove that
upon one occasion t* mmodore Van
derbilt showed Miss Ciaflin a certificate
of stock with his likeness up >n it, and
told her that numerous ladies bought
the stock for the purpose oi obtaining
his likeness, w ich, he said, was a very
fine one. I offer to prove this witness
heard Miss CLfiin &sk the commodore
(this was «fter hts marriage; if he had
not been going to take care of her and
make her a queen when he died, and
he replied that he should. And ou an
other occasion that Mies Ciaflin asked
the commodore: “Did you not promise
to a>j*rry me before yen married your
wife ?’’ and Commodore Vanderbilt re-
pi ied : “Certainly 1 did. Iinterdedto
have done so, but the family otl.erw
a (ranged it.”
All this was exclude-^
ing the dead and praving to “Gott im
himrael” to forgive the crime. More
probably he emptied the bottle of
whisky. Finally the fleeting hours ad
monished him thAt it was lime to be
completing his work; the fires were
lighted, and then, etuj ’fied by liqror,
possibly gashed aud weakened by loss
of blood, he lay down to wake u x with
his loved ones in eternity.
St Louis Special to Chicago Time?.
Dr. Wheeler a veterinary surgeon, of
St. Louie, returned home to-night from
a visit 10 Monroe county Illinois, bring
ing news of a most shocking tragedy in
the vicinity of Fisk Landing. He stop
ped on Thursday night at the house of
Mr. C vanangh, a farmer with whom
he waa acquainted. About four o’clcck
his host rapped at his door, calling to
him in an agitated voice to get up as
quick as possible. He complied, and
on going out found Cavanaugh looking
in the direction of a bright light a quar
ter of a mile away, “That,” said the
farmer excitedly, as his friend from the
city joined him, “ is the farm-house of
my poor friend Kaiser. We must go
and see what we can do.” Dr. Wheel *
er’s narative continues: We hurried
across the fields in the direction of the
light, aud were the first to arrived at
tbe burning structure.
NONE OF THE FAMILY COULD BE SEEN,
aud the flames had gained such a hold
that it was utterly useless to try and
enter. They shouted for the former,
and threw sticks and clubs against the
door, but the only response was the
crackling of the flames as they found
their way upward toward the roof.
Other neighbors came b urrying up,each
fresh accession asking anxiously:
“Where's the old man ?" “Where are
the bovs?” “What does this mean ?”
It was a mystery that no one attempt-
ted to answer. A score cf farmers
gathered about the building and pre
vented the fire from spreading to the
out buildings. When it was possible,
they caught hold of portions of the
burning structure, the slapboards, aud
pieces of the roof, and dragged them
away, that the fUuiea might find as lit
tle food as possible, for the earnest de
sire was to get inside aud
SOLVE THE M1STERY
of the non-appearance of the familv.
That consisted of old Moritz Kaiser and
wife and six children. The house was
substantially built, occupying ground
space eighteen by tweuty feet, with a
kiichen addition, aud having an upper
half story. By dint of hard exeitious
the farmers succeeded iu checking tbe
flames, aud shortly after daybreak tbe
Lrame work, smoking ami burning
slowly, stood out desolately iu tire
morning light, and it waa made possi
ble to enter and search. An hour
later
right corpses lay in a row
in the front yard, aud Monroe county
had furnished a sensation without a
parallel. Kaiser and his whole family
had perished, but not by the flames.
The entrance to the house was in the
center of the front, facing the road to
Waterloo, fifteen miles to the north
east. The entire story was one large
room. To the r : ght, on entering, whs
situated, the bed on which slept the
mother and youngest children; in a
cot on the left was where the old
man slept himself. The boys’ bed-*
were up stairs, and access to the upper
story was gained by a ti-.ght of steps
which went up from the further left
hand corner 01 the m&iu living room.
The portion of the burning building
.fillf FAMINE IN CHINA.
A Wofnl Picture ol »l»rry and Su
ANXIOUS AUSTRIA.
first examined was the right hand
uer where had been the bed in which
the mother and the two little children
slept. Tne lower half of the bed had
been almost entirely burned, but over
the upper part
THE TIMBER HAD LODGED
and the flames had been fought away
by the farmers. Under the debris
could be seen forms, and when tbe
ruins had been cleared off a sight met
the eye which appalled the stoutest
heart Mrs. Kaiser lay with little Tom
my, aged three, beside her, and Ellen,
the baby, two months old, ou litr
breast. They lay on their backs, with
the upper portions of the body aul
faces well Preserved, but the limit,
roasted and twisted out of all huma:
resemblance. The pillows were
DRENCHED IN BLOOD,
which, having become? heated by fire
sent up a sickening odor. Mrs. K.tist r
had two deep wounds, one on eac *
side of tbe head and each penetratin '
into the brain, and sufficient to cau»
death. Tue heads of the little boy ami
baby were crashed in and the brains
exposed. The positions of the clotho
indicated that they had been killed,
and the bodies arranged in the bod b* -
lore the flames had been started to de
stroy the evidence of the terrible crinu.
The searchers then turnid to
TUB OLD farmer's BED,
but it was empty. The fire had disar
ranged it but slightly, and it wa-
plainly evident that it had not been
occupied at all that night. ’Toward the
rear of the house the tlsmes had done
their work more effectually. Then
the heat had been the greatest, and
nothing met the eyes of the searchers
but a pile of smoking timbers; bu!
trom underneath came the choking,
nauseating smell of burning flesh. Fif
teen minutes were consumed iu re
moving tbe rubbish, and tbe bodies of
OLD KAISER AND HIS FOUR SONS
were reached. Tire boys lay in a row,
their heads to the rear wall of the
room and their feet toward the center
They lay upon iheir backs, and their
!imbs, although roasted, were stretched
out and composed, showing that the
fire had come after death. Trie bodv
of the old man lay between the boyV
and the bed of his wife and babies. I?
was twisted and disturbed, showing
toat living nerves and muscie had
writhed before the blaze. The con
suming element had g me too far, how
evar, to tell whether he had inflicted
upon himself any injury before he lay
down to die.
T1IK SKULLS OF THE BJY8.
had all been crushed. From inspec
tion of the wounds it seemed as if they
had been inflicted with a mattock or
grub-hoe.
After tbe bodies were carried out a
messenger waa dispatched for coroner
Hilton, fifteen miles away, but before
be ani ved the neighbors had settled
upon
THE CORRECT THEORY.
Moritz Kaiser was fifty years of age,
a Switzer by birth. Mrs. Ellen Kaiser
was twenty-five years of age, born ami
raised iu Monroe count}*. 8he married
Kaiser when she w c s only fifteen, aud
fmd: brought him six children. The
four boys were aged ten, nine, seven
and five years. Tha farm was small
aud Kaiser was oid. The farm wa?
leased, and he found it imponible to
make both ends me t. He had been
behind with his rent, and on the firs'
of March he was to give up the premi
ses. This preyed on tue old man’s mind
continually. A voucher man, with a
grown-up family like' his, might have
been braver. Kaiser fell into great de
spondency. He went about the sur
rounding country looking for another
farm, but the only one he could fiud
within his means was a place with an
old log-house upon it “Oh Christ !*’
he said to a neighbor, “I cau’t take my
my wife and little ones into a log-houp.e
What have I come to ? Would to God
I had never been born.” Thursday
night he made his appearance at the
shore at Fisk Landing, acting like a
man.
POSSESSED WITH SOME HORKIBLS MANIA
He called lor whisky and swallowed
three drams of the villainous stuff
which ia to be found at MissisRipp
landings. Then he bad a bottle filled,
which he put in his c at. His talk
during all the day was of his family a ad
of his troubles. “I am no better than
a beggar,” he would cry, “to take my
fami.y into such an old hole.” “I’d
rather be dead than to do it.” The
people tried to comfort him, but he
raved on and would listen to nothing.
A horrible plan wri foimed inhisd.s-
ordered mind. Finally, about half past
nine o’clock, he plungal out into the
darkness, crying: “I’d better be dead
We’d ail better be deai than come to
this. My God 1 My God!” That was
the last seen of Kaiser, alive. From
that time—half past, nine o’clock, it
must have been six hours before the
tire was started. How he spent these
boars will never be known. He did
not go to bed. Probably he
KILLED HIS WIFE AND BABIES
in their first heavy sleep, and composed
their bodies iu tne bed. Then he called
down bis boys, and as they reached the
bottom of the staire the mattock de
scended upon each head, and the father
stood surrounded by the bloody evi
dence of his purpose. It most have
been two or three hours after that be -
fore he started the fire. A-. a husband
and father, Kaiser
1<«R.
From the San Fraud co ChrorJcle.
A gentleman in Shanghai writes to a
friend in this city as follows: Tne great
question which at present agitates the
Fiowery Kingdom is the famine at the
North.’ For four years pasta part of
four of China’s northern provinces lias
yielded either a small crop, or none ai
all. O’te year ago the suffe ring was
s mething dreadful among these poor
people, who were worse off than slaves.
At that time about $70,000 was raided
by the foreign commumiitsat the open
ports aud forwarded to disbursing
agents, who made good use of the
money. This year the famine is still
worse* Over a country that embraces
a population of some fifteen millions of
people, absolute destitution prevails.
People are actually eating each other.
Babies are cut up and sold by tbe
pound. There seems to be no reme
dy; the Chinese authorities are doing
something, but it is only a drop in ti e
bucket. Tiie foreign c immunity have
elected canvansing committees, aud the
subscriptions will be up.in the thou*>
sands; how much,*it is impossible to
say. From last year’s experience, it is
estimat’d that a lift cun be saved for
about $150, yo that all that can be done
will save only a few out oi the mil iou?.
Iu the Central Provinces there is an
abnndai.eeof rice; tiiis is being ship
ped lo the suffering district, but it takes
a month to reach them. It c> sis neui-
ly three times the price of the rice to
carry it to its destination—no railroads,
no canals, not even a carriage road.
Within the past tiiteen years the Chi
nese government have spent money
enough on fortifications, ships, im
proved arms and ammunition to have
built a road from Shanghai to Pekin,
with branches leadiug through the
famine districts. The ships are useles*
so are tiie fortification*'; they both serv
only for au excuse to pay fat salaries to
lazy officials. The arms and smmun
tion are stored away, rusting so as 1
be worthless, and China's millions ar
starving. Chinese officials do not want
to change the order of things. Wh
should they? The merchants and
trauesmen desire it, but they have very
little to say in t lie matter. If I am
rightly iu formed, with all their gov
eminent workshops and arsenals, there
has never been an agricultural tool or
implement made; guns, torpedo©.’,
ships, elc., seem to be their end aud
aim. The official class grow richer and
richer each year, and the lower classes
poorer and poorer. No wonder tha*.
such numbers aie willing to go to the
Pacific coast, where in a few years they
can earn a life competence and lie dowu
und die in their own lend with the
millions taken from the poor laboring
clashes in our own country. What kind
of people is it who regard with cr*ol
nonchalance their neighbors devouring
their own children ? Were you to ask
them to explain their strange apathy
they would no doubt give tne regular
Chinese shake of the bead and aay
“Me no sabe.”
A Woman Tarred and Fealtiered.
K mini Auvcrtisjr.
Some time ago a poor frail waif of
humanity drifted into Canton, P.:., ‘
tha person of a young woman. £
has lived around nobody knows how
sleeping at night, it is Baid, over th©
boilers in a mill in order tokeep warm
A few nights ago from twenty to thirty
young bloods of the town assembled
together, and at nigh£ seiz 'd her,
stripped her naked, anu proceeded t
treat her in an cutrageous manner, tar
nng and feathering her, burning he
flesh, and finally thrusting her into tin
street in a cold night without a part i
cle of c'othiog. Several hoirs after
she made her way to a ifogra’a h-mie,
where the poor cr.ta-ure, more dead
than alive, w;i8 kiiuby treat
ed, showing ihit in spit*
of his black skin be had a whiter hear
than the others. One of the young mer
has. turned state’s evidence, and has
disclosed the names of the perpetrators
of the act, and lo! they were the hi:
ones—the “I am holier than thou ’
tfome of the leadiug cit izens of the town
have, in the uarna of outraged human
ity, take up the case, and will prosecute
it to the bitet end.
A ILBIID t>F WITNESSES.
For nearly a quarter of a century Dr.
Sage’s Catarrh Remedy has been sc
knowleged by tbe people as a positive
cure for all catarrhal aff ciions. Itsgrea:
popularity with phys-ciaus and patient-
together with its constantly increasing
salt*, attest, in arguments stronger lhan
words, its healing power. If ilit-re be
General or nervous debility and impov
erished blood, Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med
ical Discovery should be used in con
nection whh the Catarrh Remedy. The
following named parties are among the
thousands who have been cured of
catarrh by the use of Dr. Sage’s Catarrh
R meat:
A F Downs, New Geneva, Pa; I) J
Brown, St Joseph, Mo; E C Lewis, Ru •
land, V*; Levi {springt-r, Nellie Lake.
Ohio; Ci>as Norcrop. N Tth Chesteifield
Me; ivlil’.on Jones, tScnba.N Y, J E Mil
ler, Bridger Station, Wyo; J C Merri-
niau, L’gansport, Inti; M M Post, Lo-
gfm?port, Ind; J VV Bailey, Tremor.t.
IV; H B Avres, LaPorte, Ind; Jessie M
Seurs, Ft. Branch, lud; L William*, Can
ton, Mi; W A Thayer, Onargn; 111; S B
Nichols, Jr, Galveston. Tex.u; June
Reinert, Stonesville. Pa; S A' Lusk,
oicFarland, Wie; Johnson William.-,
Helmick,OMr. Mrs M A Cur rev, Tren
ton, Tenn; J G Joslin. Keene, N H; A J
Casper, Table K ok, W V.; Louis A;,
tiers, Gay sport, Qhio; C H Chase. Elk
hart, Ind; Mrs Henry Haight,San Frau
cisco, Ca ; Mrs E M Gal i us Ha, Lhw
renceviile, N Y; W J Graham, Adel,
lows; A O Smitn, Newnan, G ; Ghas E
Rice, Baltimore, Md; Jesse a! Seart,
Carlisle, In*:; Dan’i BMiller, Ft Wayne,
In*’; Mrs Minnie Arnaise, 2SW Delaney
Strtet, New York; II W Had, Hauling* ,
Mid ; Win F Maision, Lowell, Ma i; i
W R harts, Maricopa, Ariz; Charles * s
Delaney, Harrisburg, P.; M C Cole,
Lowell, Mast; Mrs C J Kp.irten, Caro
den, Ala; Chaa F Kay, Fudericktowi),
Oak ; Mra Lucy Hunter, Farmington,
III; Capt E J .Spaulding, Cauip Stam-
baagh, Wyo; I W Tracy, Steamboat
Rock, low?; Mrs Lydia Waire,Shushan,
N Y; J M Peek, Junction Ciiy, Mont;
Henry Ebe, Rantas, Ca!; L P Cuming«
Kan too i, II 1 ; S E Jones, Charleston
Four Corners, N Y;Geo F Hall. Pueb-
lf; Wm E Bmrie, Sterling, Pa; II H
Eoon, 948 Penn Street, Pittsburgh, IV;
J R Jeckman, Samuel’s Depot, K ;
Henry Zobrist, Geneva, N Y; Miss Hat
tie Parrott, Montgomery, Oak ; L Led-
brook, Chatham, 111; S B McCoy, Nath*
port, Obit; W W Warner, North Jark-
son, Mid ; Miss Maiy A Winne, Da
rien, WkjJohn Z;ii»!er,Carlisle Spring j,
P.; James Tompkins, S. Cloud, Mint;
Enoch Du a r, Pawnee City, Nd ; Joseph
T Miller, Xenia, Ohio; SB Nichols, G d-
veston, Tex; H L Land. Upper Al on.
lh; John Davis, Prescott, Arlz; Mr:
Nancy Graham, Forest Cove, Ore,.
mar 9— d«fc* It
AGITATION IN AUSTRIA.
tor.D'E, ilaich 9.—A correspondent
at. Vienna sftjs that it is believed that
Count Audrassy has abandoned bis
original iutention to secure a vote of
credit by the delegation. The cabinet
question project will encounter strong
opposition. Tne maj uitv of the Hun
garian delegates think that the credit is
intended to be used for the occupation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which
they cor aider only justifiable in the
event that Servia and Montenegro rai-=e
pretention to those provinces. Austria’s
Pol ah subjects are violently opp s d to
occupation, but favor a credit for or»-
posii g Russia and S. t via. The Croa
tian pariies are also agitating their re
spective wishes and sympathies. The •
agitation is probably fomented from
without for the purpose of creating in
ternal difficulties of government at a
moment when grave decisions may
have to be taken. Many well-informed
people believe tiie occupation scheme
must be abandoned, which opinion
seems to be substantiated by the fact
that the war office has not yet concen-
t- atod troops on any points of Turkish
territory.
T Li.KG R A ruIC COM MUSIC ATION.
The government has taken measures
to establish direct tekgraghic commu
nication with Besika Bay by way of
Alexandria. It is raid that Russia aud
Persia are negotiating for an exchange
of the district of Bayazid for certain
Persian territory on the Caspian sea.
THE ENGLISH SQUADRON.
A dispatch, dated Malta, this even-
g, says the channel squadron i t still
theie, awaiting ordeis. The troopship
Euphrates, homeward .bound with
1.06S soldiers, and the dcrapis, outward
bound with twenty-nine officers, have
been detained since March 6. Four
smaller men-of-war have gone Ur the
Dardanelles and one to Crete.
ARMISTICE IN CRETE.
An Athens diep tch says that by tbe
advice of foreign cantoris, the Cretan
insurgents have accepted the armistice
offered by the Turks. Thessalain ad-
ices state that the insurgents hold all
of tha province except the towns.
REORGAN1Z Vl I >N OF BULGARIA.
A dispatch irom Vienna says that it
is believed iu welt-informed circles
that the reorganization of Bulgaria will
be entrusted to muie moderate politic
ians than Prince Tcherdaakv, thus re
moving all suspicion of Russification or
a lengthened stay of the Russians.
ANDRASSY SATISFIES THE IMPOSITION.
A dispatch from IV-sth says that the
Peather Correspondence states that
Count Andrassy was present at an in
formal meeting of the Hungarian dele
gation at Vienna on Thursday. Ex
planations were given which satisfied
the delegates almost without exception.
It was declared that occupation of Bos
nia was altogether out of the question.
The vote of credit was only required to
provide against the contingency of
mobilizatiou. A majority of the meet
irg supported the view that the lemand
for the vote of credit be referred to the
foreign affairs sub committee. They
were convinced that it would pass
without difficulty.
OCCUPYING BESSARABIA.
Vienna, March 9.—The Political Cor
respondence publishes, under reserve,
the following from Bucharest: It is
said the Russians, on March 6,occupied
the Bessarabian towns of Ismail, Cabal
and Bolgrad. The Roumanian govern
ment at present keeps this secret,but a
cabinet council is said to have been
held under the presidency of Prince
Charles to frame a protest.
THE TURKHH REPRE- ENTATIVE.
Constantinople, March 9.-It is
stated that Safet Pasha will represent
Turkey at the congress.
AU TRIA AND RUfSIA.
L ndos, March 9.—A special to the
Berlin National Z titling from Vienna
says: Russia suddenly seems to object
to Austrian occupation of Bosnia und
Herzegovina, and is preparing to assist
the ffiiirks to lesist it. This sensational
news causes much comurant, but it ev
idently requires confirmation.
SCOPE OF THE CONGRESS.
A Vieriua correspondent confirms
the re pore that Count Audrassy yester
day told the Hungarian delegation that
the government had no intent ion to an
nex or occupy Bosnia and Herzegovina
and that the powers haJ now accepted
the proposal for tbe congress at Berlin.
Fiance, however, has also expressed a
wish that the congress he confined to
the eastern question. This wish arises
from fear that the congress may claim
a right to sanction all recent territorial
changes. There is little doubt that
France will receive reassurances.
Prince Aureperg said, m the Reichstag,
to-day, that every question but the
eastern question would be excluded
from the scope of the comjecs. Eng
land, allhough accep ing ibe congress,
seems averse to the introduction of
questions not directly raised by the war
Mich as the Greek question, the final
settlement of which is not yet impera
tive.
DATE OK THE MEETING.
All other powers being ready to ac
cept any da!e of meeting, the only
question is, will Ruasia accept that pro
posed towards the end of the month ?
Russia's answer is ex;»ecled immedi
ately, and when it arrives the date will
he fixed. The Berlin government will
issue formal invitations.
SULEIMAN PAN 11A DROWNED.
Col gne, March 9.—A letter to the
Cologne Gazette says that Suleiman
Pasha has been drowned. His papers
proved that he was contemplating a
conspiracy for the overthrow of the
sultan.
ANDRASSY’s EXPLANATION.
London, March 9.—A Vienna dis
patch says that Count Andrassy’s state
ment to the delegation will be to ihe
t ff<ict, that peace can only be brought
about by an understanding between ail
the powers. Austria cannot look to
•n t * jal P° w . er for a settlement. She
will defend the interests ot Europe and
her own interests, if necessary, alone.
D is expected the vote will pass the
Hungarian delegation, but the former
Null NntkprndlaiK
New York, March 7.-S, W. L-jw
& Co., produce dealers, have assigned.
Their liabilities are $75,000.
ANOTHER.
John R. Halsey, trading tinder the
firm name of Wm. Halsey A Co , im
porters of dye stuffs, has suspended.
His liabilities are S150 000.
I»f*th or Judge Ana Brlaun
Norfolk, Va., March 7.—Judge Ara
B’iggs died suddenly, this morning,
aged 68. lie has been a member ot
congress for several terms, United
States senator and Uni td Staten dis
trict judge for the district of North
Carolina, under President Pierce’s ad
ministration.
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Cleveland, O., March 7.—A fire at
Spartanburg, Peon., this morniug des
troyed every business house in the
place, including the Masonic lodire,
postoffice and depot. The loss is $50,*
000. The fire was incendiary.
with difficulty.
THE ALGEAN COAST.
London, March 9.—A special from
v lenna to the Times says the extru
sion of Bulgaria along the Negean H ea
caused graat com motion al Athena
since if carried and it would termi
nate the Greek aaporationH in conriec-
ion with Thrace, Constantinople aud
the D irdanelie.
Even should the strip from K »va?a to
Makri only be included in Bulgaria,
thiH would interrupt the coaat, line,
f?assessed of which they have long re
garded as a rightful inheritance, the
**‘jqority of inhabitants being Greek.
lord LYONS.
It ia rumored in the London clubs
and political circles, but it cannot be
eaitf on how good grounds, that Lord
Lyons :s likely to succeed Lord Derby
secretary of stale for the foreign de
partment iu case affairs between Eng
land and Russia again become threaten
ing. It is even regarded as not urriike-
1 kely that tbe change may be marte
before the meeting of congress,in which
case K gland would be rcp*»
resented by her foreign minister.
flrnwjr Snow Storm.
Cheyenne. March 9. -A storm com-
itri:ceu a? 11 o’clock thirf morning, on
the 8 h inst, continuing without abate
ment till noon to-dav. The wind
reached a velocity of 50 to 60 miles an
hour,and the snow is drifting iu banks
10 to 15 feet high in this city. It ex
tended from Bitter creek on the west
to Julesburg on the east. A great num
ber of cu's are level full of snow, and
all trains on the Union Pacific, Denver
V»Cific and Colorado Central are either
side-tracked or snowed in.
bfUHU.d
New Orleans, March 7.-The pro-
peuer Hope was run down by the
steamboat Texas. Paul St. Pierre, his
v ife and two children, who were in the
c**bia of the p*.tpeUer were drowned.
ReamrpUUw Im it otuall Way.
New Oi leans, Marcb 8.—John J.
Adam, A Co. nave compromised w tU
their cretin*,.s and resumed.
Ia Anderson to be Fnrdoned?
NewJOkleans, March 8. -Gov. Nich
ols has called an extra session of the
1 g.siature.
tailed.
Watertown, N. Y., Mi rub 8.—D, v .
Rice grocer, has failed.
$2 ,000.