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The Gainesville Eagle Published Every F.iclav Morning O 'IP Fi o F] l I-stairs iii Camikr ilall liuililing, Nortliwi.Bt Corxn-r of public Bqtiftrc, 'J i;i! Official Oiyau ol Hall, Baukii, V/iiit-, Towns, tvibnu, Union ai-l Dawaon eouutn s, and tlio city of GatucKville. il . a large (j-n-ral c real at ton in twolvc Other <;o ntins in T'ortherat (tcon.i.-., and two counties in Wee torn North Carolina. SUBSCRIPTION. (<nk Yn.iai...., |2,<o. nx Mosibp SI,OO. I’UKEK iroxni- 50c. lit ADVANCE, liSLXVKiIED lfx CAIHUXIt Oit DKEPAID BT y.r.lL. All papers arc >' ■ ped V.t the expiration of the time paid ior without further notice. Mail Bub ecribors %ili pieaao observe tiie dates on their wrapper-. Persons wit Mw th- paper will have their orders dromptly xU'ttß'J to by rOmmitiing the amount for the time *i>TFJITI*ING. ajtVKSt WOililS MAKE A I.INK. Ordinary adver Jawnet t, per Nonpareil line, 10 cents. Legal Auction and Amusement advertise au t Special Koticer, per Nonpa rall line, ]; cer.ia. Reading notices pot-lmft. Nonpareil type 15 cents Local lichees, per lia*. Brouor typo, 15cents. A discount ecu’.do on adveuisoaionts continuid for longer than one week. RhMirr ALOES For subscriptions or aff.ait: mg can be made by Post Office order, Regi-*- 1 1 Letter or I'xpross, at our risk. Ail lettorn should ba addressd, i. K. UKU'.VIML, Gainesville, Ga. M>-. .-Wi—ii.i.w -..—. .. t <;i:nkra Bs J>ipX;TOHY. juxiioi Lity. Kon.Geiuge O. iUcc, Judgeß. C.Welfcorn Circuit. A. L. Mitcneii/Bohe: .or, Athens, Ga. . ,> ' S COUNTY OFFICERS. -I. B. M.. Vt inburn, Ordinary; John L. Gaines, (abend; J. 1. Imckoti, Deputy Sheriff; J. J. Mayiw’ Clerk Hnperfcj flour.; W S. Pickrell, Deputy Cler.' Superior tionrt : V. ft. Ciark, Tax Collector ; *J R. H. Luck, Tax Receiver; Gideon liarrison. Sur veyor ; Edward Lowry, Coroner; R. C. Young, Treasurer. CHOIR ill DIRECTORY. PBMBTOttUAtt onuaeff -Rev. T. I>. Cleveland, Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath —morning and night, except the second Sabbath, bu day School, at 9 a. m. l-rayer mooting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock. MktiumhstCHtmdnfffeev. W. \V. Wadsworth, Pas tor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at i* a. m. Prayer meeting Wednes day night. Baptist Chobcu Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sumlay morning and night. Sunday School at;) a. 11l Prayer njc< ting Thursday evoning at 4 o’clock. GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. B. Estes, President; Wm.W. Habersham, Libra rian. YOUNG MEN’S 05UU3TIAN ASSOCIATION. A. M. Jackson, President; It. C. Maddox, Vico President; W. B. Clements, Secretary. Regular services every Sabbath evening at one •f the Churches. Cottage prayer mooting i every Tuesday night in “Old Town,” and Friday night near the depot FRATERNAL RECORD. Floweky Branch Lodok No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS., moots every Monday night, Join Lasktkb, N. G. is. F. Studham, Sec. Alleuhanv Rofai.AP.cn Cuaptea meets on tlie Secaiut and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each menth. )i. S. BhaDDKV, Soc’y. A. W. CiLmVELT,. H. P. •AINESVH.I.B L0B(?1K, No. Slid Ad. F.*. 11.*., ■mots sn the First a ml Third Tuesday evening in the uientb R. Palmoob, Sec’y. R. E Queen, W. M. Aif.-i.iNK Lo dos, No. 64 ,J. O. O. ,F., meets every Friday evening. O. A. Linux, Sec. W. I. Habbieon, N. G. GAINLSYILLE POST OFFICE. Owing to recent change of scliodulo on the Atlan ta and Charlotte Air Lino Railroad, tho following will be the schedule from da to: Mad train No. 1,-going cast, leaves 7:47 p. m. Mail for this train closes ar 7:0(1 “ Mail train No. 2, going east, leaves... .8:35 a. m. No mail by this train. Mall train No. 1* going wost, 1eave5....6:51 a. m. Mail for til's train closes at 9:30 p. m. Mail train Ns. *2, g, log west, 10.vc5... .9:05 p. m. Mail for this train closes at 7.30 “ Office hoars from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p m. General delivery opou oft Sundays from BVf to9>i. Departure of mails from this office: Dahlouega and Gilmer county-, daily Blf ?. m Dahlouega \la '.Yahoo and El.b-1. Saturday,.. 8 „a, m Jefferson A Jackson county, Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday 7 a. m Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Haycs ville, N. 0., Tuesdays and Fridays 7 m Dawsonvillo and Dawson county,, Tuesday and Saturday i.,.,8 a. m. Homer, Banks county, Saturday ~ ..1 p. m Pleasant Grove, Forsyth county, Saturday. .1 p.m M. R. ARCHER, P.M. Q'TZr 7 '?'?** ... ...... At! anta aud Charlotte A* ii- £. SN K, Trains will run as follows on and after SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1878. N IGHT MA.I Xu r .E'i* AI .V. GOING FAST. Leave Atlanta 3:15 p. in. Arrive Gainesville 5:31 p. m. Leave Gainesville.. 6:3a p. in. Arrive Charlotte 3:03 a. in. GOUT 3 WIS3T. Leave Chari itfce 12:00 radat Arrive Gainesville 0:41 a. in. Leave Gainesville 9:42 a. m. Arrive Atlanta .12:00 m. .n: pamA id;: o vz !.. r s 9 . GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta 0:00 a. m. Arrive Gainesville 8:32 a. in. Leave Gaiuesville 8:33 a. m. Arrive Charlotte ... 0:22 p. m. GOING WEST. Leave Charlotte 10:20 a. in Arrive Gainesville 8:14 p. ni Leave Gainesville 8:15 p. m Arrive Atlanta 10:30 p. m Through Freight Train. (Daily except Sunday.) GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta 9:25 a. in. ‘ Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p. to.' Leave Gainesville 1:35 p, ra.‘ Arrive Central 7:10 p.m.* GOING WEST. Leave Central 1:40,-,. ra Arrive Gainesville 7:23 a. m. Leave Gainesville 7:22 a. m. Arrive Atlanta 11:20 p. in. Local Freight ana Accommodation Train, (Daily except Sunday.) GOING EAST. Leave Atlaula 5:25 a. m. Arrive Gainesville 10:42 a. m. Leave Gainesville 11:00 a. m. Arrive Central .. 5:15 p. m. GOING WEST. Leave Central 4:37 a. m. Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p.m. Leave Gainesville 1:35 p. ra. Arrive Atlanta 7:10 n. m Close connect'.ni at Atlanta for all points West, and at Charlotte for all points East. G. J. Foueacke, General Muiager W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt. Northeastern II ail road of Georgia, T'Xivr .H; TXA.BIXEL Taking eflect Monday, June 10, 1878. All trains run daily except Sunday. TIiAIW NO. 1. STATIONS. jAIIBIVE. lUEAVE. Nicb.tem ??!•”? Harmony Grove, 7 f 8 0 Gillsville 8 ' io 850 Lula ;••• 15 rll \ KIN NO. STATIONS. AIUiIVE. LEAVE. Lula i “2 Gill* villa 'if l ®J® Mavsville .° Harmony Grove <> M 6JO Nicholson L l g Athens.. ' The Gainesville Eagle 3 VOL. XII An Axiom of Toombs. General Robert Toombe is a great man, great in his ideas, bir- knowl edge and speech. He knows a sham when ho sees it and is apt to lot oth ere know it. He addressed the as sembled wisdom known as the ge-n.r al assembly the other day and he throw them among other things a solid chunk u the fi.ua oca. “There never was a government on the face of the earth that coma make money’' said tho distinguished gentleman, “there never war, a government on earth that- could make a fig-leaf to cover ilio nakedness of cur mother Evo. They could draw money from the treasury and appropriate it to their own use, but .hay can’t make a dollar of money." Nothing cau be plainer than this and the quicker it.,is universally ac knowledged, tiie Hett-er win it b for the finances of this coun ry. Tho United States cau neither rnak-s a dollar in money or an oak treo grow in the forest. They can stamp gold and silver so that people may know tho intrinsic value ol tk dollars coined but they cau do no more. They can make any words, signs or figures they choose upon paper but that paper is only a form of credit and good only so far as it is supposed to lie redeemable. How mueh of it can safely be ilostsd is a question of practical experience but every dollar of it should be redeemable in gold and silver. Every other doctrine looking to an issue of irredeemable paper money to be kept in circulation by law is more of a fraud, if the thing can be possible than the ad ministration of Returning Board Hayes. A Good Bill. A bill has been introduced into the general assembly which certainly ought to become a law. It provides ,hat every voter at al! elections shall cast his ballot in the militia or elec tion district in which he and at no other place la old times before the reconstruc tion deviltries were practiced .upon us, when it made no particular dif ference where a man voted eo long as ne exercised the r ghfc for tho same office or measure lie could at home, and when there was little if ®nv at tempt at illegal voting the then exist ing cou&kiiation and laws yoro ad sufficient; but now with a vast lum ber of negroes entitled to suffrage, who know little of and care nothing for illegal voting or its consequences, there is great uee ssity for a change. K <’ gniziug this, our present con stitution lot bids a citizen of Georgia bring an eket-or for any purpose un til ho has resided six months in a county. Let. the u moral assembly carry ou. this idea still farther and compel ev' r man to veto in his own district and if possible fix it so that not moreH-a.* ;hroe hundred voters shall have ;l- rqdd to vote at one prccicc-. lo b 1 veur. every voter will bo personals.? i-. -w: to some one of the manage: sof the election or the active cauv&SM-rs on either side. Oor.scqasntly there caa be no ' iionizii irul h< votes illegally wfi-t-t u. bm g caught, will have to be old in the business and experience ’ in the art. Some of Lie Stiff o papers are find ing fault, with ihe new law requiring notices i f .; rivate and special bills to b-- viublihli'd i: tbs of -g ;■ is filing the legal adverti:ff. a They should not allow their feelings to car. 7 away t’neir judgment. 7'T. ; revision was inserted in the preen.t constitution so that localities to bo affected by private bills sbi uld not have a decree taken agT.ius.t th* m by dtifiult In other words that no private bill should be passed without an oppor tunity was filler U ! to those opposed to appear be fori, the legislature and present their objections. But it was necessary that people should know precisely in what newspapers to look for such notices. Uis obvi ous to us that the natural plco far the insertion of any such noticss af i< ding any county, is the newspaper to which tho public look for all legal advertisements in that conntv. Springer of Illinois wants to drop Connecticut,New Yrk and Now J*. r sey, arid roly for success in 18S0 upon the South, Ohio, Indiana,lllinois, and Oregon, casting 191) electoral votes. Auybody familiar with federal poli tics will readily see the absurdity oi any such plan. I? it is the best the democratic party can off er the con test of ISBO is already decided. The Ohio idea, you count green backers and democrats together, may oe a most br’liii save Oaio i loci u CJiiimcticnt, New York and Nt-w Jen y quicker than a cat can wink h r eye. Samuel 2 Tildeu id .hn Kelly should his. and be friends. Nobody has made r>vtbing cut cf the fight but Roscoe C likb'-g Hill, t!i Hon 1) n has col -.- nded not to ' his morgxg-; ou Roscoe Coukling’s sea' in the Sen ate. Hill may nut :<rve as long as Mr. Cos: kliug. G UNESTILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 22, 1878. Doubling Cape Horn About midnight, when the star board watch to which I belonged waa below, !ho boatswain’s whistle was hor rd, followed by tbo shrill cry, for “All hands take in sail? Jump, men, end savo ship ?” Springing from our hammocks, we found the frigate leaning over so steeply that it was with difficulty we could climb the ladders leading to the upper deck. Here the scene was awful. The main deck guns had sev eral days previously been run in and housed, and the port holes closed; but the Ice carronades on the quar ter-deck aud forecastle plunged through the sea, which undulated over them in milk-white billows of foam. With every lurch to leeward the yard-arm ends seemed to dip in the sop, while forward the spray dashed over the bows in cataracts and drenched the mom who were on the foreyard. By this time the deck was alive with tffhVbole- rrongth of the ship’s company, 500 me?\ officers and ail, mostly clinging to the weather bul wr>.rks. The occasional phosphores cence of the yeasty sea cast a glare upon their uplifted faces, as a night fire in a populous city lights up the panic-stricken crowd, In a sudden gale, or when a large quantity of sail is suddenly to be furled, it is customary for the First Lieutenant to take the trumpet from whoever then hap;, us to bo officer of the deck. But Mad Jack, the Second Lieutenant, had the trumpet that watch, nor did tho Firs! Lieu tenant now seek to wrest it from his hands. Every eye was upon him, as if we had chosen him from among us all to decide this battle with the ele ments by single combat with the Spirit of the Cape—for Mad Jack was tho saving genius of the ship, and so proved himself that night. I owe this right hand that is this mo ment flying over my sheet, and all my present being, to Mad Jack. The ship’s bows were now butting, battering, ramming and thundering over and upon the head seas, and with a terrible wallowing sound our whole hull was rolling in the trough of the foam. The gale came athwart the deck, and every one seemed bursting with its wild breath. Al! the quartermasters and several of the forcasfcie men were swarming around the double wheel on the quarter deck, some jumping up and down with their hands upon the spokes; for the whole helm and galvanized keel were fiercely feverish with the life imparted to them by the temp 0. It, blew a hurricane. Tho spray flew over the ship in floods. The gi gantic masts seemed about to snap under the world-wide strain of the three entire topsails. 1 Clew down ! clew and; wrt!-” choated Mad Jack, husky with excitement, and in a frenzy beating his trumpet against one of the shrouds; but ow ing to the slant of the ship, the thing could not be done. It was obvious that before many minutes some thing must go—either sails, rigging or sticks; perhaps the hull itself, and all hands. Presently a. voice from the top ex claimed that there was a rent in the main topsail, and instantly we heard a report like two or three muskets discharged together; the vast sail was rent tip and down. This saved the mainmast, for the yard was now clewed down with comparative ease, and the topmen laid out to stow the shattered canvas. Soon the two re maining topsails were also clewed down aud c’o :e-reefed. Above all the roar of the tempest and the shouts of the crew was heard the dismal lolling of the ship’s bel! (almost as large as that of a village church.) which the violent rolling of the ship was occasioning. Imagina tion can not conceive the terror of such a sound in the night tempest at sea. “Stop that ghost l” roared Mad Jack; “away, one of you. and wrench off the clapper.” But no sooner was this ghost gagged than a still more appalling sound was heard—the rolling too and fro of the heavy allot, which on the gun-deck had broken loose from the gun-racks, and converted that part of the ship into an immense bow in g alley. Some hands were sect down to secure them, but it was as much as their lives wre worth. Sevi.r-.il were maimed, aud the. mid shipmen who were ordered to see the duty performed reported it im possible until the storm abated. The most terrific job of all was to furl the mainsail, which at the com mencement of the squalls had been clew hi up, coaxed aud quieted as much as possible with the bunt-lines aud slab lines. Mad Jack waited some time for a lull ore ho gave an order so perilous to bo executed; for to far* this enormous sail in such a gale required at least fifty men on the yard, whose weight, superadued to the weight of the ponderous stick itself, etili further jeopardized their lives But there was uc- prospect of a cessation of the gale, and the order was at last given. At this time a hurricane of slant ing sleet and hail was descending upon us; the rigging was coated with a thin glare of ice, formed within the hour. “Aloft, main-yard men, and ail you maintop, an 1 furl the mainsail!’ cried Mad Jack. I das bed down my hat, slipped out of my quilted jacket in an instant, kicked the shoes from my feet, and, v, itbac.’owd of others, sprang for ike jigging. Above the bulwarks (which m a frigate are so high as to afford much protection to those on deck) the gate was terrib’e. The sheer force of the wind flattened us to tl rigging as wo • ascended, and ('very hand seemed congealed to the icy" shroud by which we held. “Up, up, my brave hearties!'* shouted Mad Jack; aud up we got, some way or other, ail of us, aud groped our way out on the yard arms •‘Hold on, every mother’s son ! ’ cried an old quarter gunner at my tide; he was bawiing at the top of his compass; but, in thi gale, h-* seemed to be whispering, aud I only heard him from his being right to windward of me. But his hint was unnecessary. I dug my nails into the jack-stays, and swore that noth ing but death should part me aud them, until I was able to turn around and look to wiudward. As yet this was impossible; I could scarcely hear the man to Howard at our elbow; the wmd seemed to snatch the words, from bis mouth and fly away with them to the South Pole. All this time the sail itself was fly ing about, sometimes catching over our head, and threatening to tear us from the yard in spite of all our hug ging. For about three-quarters of an hour we thus hung, suspended over the rampant billows, which curled their very crests under the feet of some four or five of us cling ing to the lee yard-arm, as if to float us from our place. Presently the word passed along the yard frouq windward t iat we were ordered to come dcTwn And leave the saifto blow since it could not be furled. A midshipman, it seemed, had been seat up by an officer of the deck to give the order, as no trumpet could bs heard where we were. Those on tho weather yard-arm managed to crawl upon the spar and scramble down tho ripgiDg; but with us, on the extreme leeward side, this feat was out of the question; it was, lit erally, like * climbing a precpice to get to the windward, in order to reach the shrouds; besides, the en tire yard was now incased in ice, and our hands and feet were eo numb that we dared not trust our lives to them. Nevertheless, by assisting each other, we contrived to throw ourselves prostrate along the yard, and embrace it with our arms and legs. In this position, the stun’ sail booms greatly assisted in securing our hold. Strange as it may appear, Ido not suppose that, at this moment, the slightest sensation of fear was felt by one man on that yard. We c ung to it with might and main; but this was instinct. The truth is, that in ciicumstances like these, the sense of fear is annihilated in the unutterable sights that li!l all the eye, and the sounds that fill the ear. You be come identified with the tempest; your insignificance is lost in the riot of the stormy universe around. Be low us our noble frigate seemed thrice its real length—a vast black wedge, opposing its widest end to the com bined fury of the sea and wind. At length the first fury of the gale began to abate, aud we at once fell to pounding our hands, as a prelimi nary operation to going to work, for a gang cf men had now ascended to help secure what was left of the sail. We somehow packed it away at last, and came down. About noon the next day the gala so moderated that we shook two reefs out of the topsai’s, set new courses and stood due east, with the wind astern. Natural History. “Is this a pig ?” “Yes, this is a pig.” “What is a hog ?” “A hog spits all over the floor of a street car; he also wants the ptarnp clerk at the post-office to wait on him first. That’s the way you can tell a hog from a pig.” “Does a pig root with his feet ?” “No—he roots with his nose A pig’s nose is called a snout. A cheer fui-minded pig will turn over more ground in search of one small potato than the average boy, would dig up in hunting for a gold watch.” “What gait does the pig take ?” “He likes an open gate the best.’ “More so about some things. A dog most always jumps over a fence, straining his muscles and running the risk o? breaking his back, while a pig dives under it and runs no risk. A pig can tell a hill of potatoes from a hill of cucumbers, but a dog can’t. You lead a dog, but the pig will lead you ’’ “Can a pig see iu the night ?” “He can see by night as well as by day. In driving one out of the gar den he won’t appear to see the hole he camß in at, but he does see it all the time.” “Why is it- that two pigs eating at a trough six feet long, w ill still crowd each other?” “We will answer that when you explain why it is that every one in the crowd around a fallen horse wants to boss the job of getting the animal up.” “Do pigs have eyebrows?” “Yes, until old enough to root; then they wear ’em off against fence rails.” “Are there pigs of lead ?’’ “Yes; bu* you can’t find any one who ever led a pig ” “What food do pigs prefer?” “Well, quail on toast is their first choice, but when they can’t get it they wi ; l take up with grass, frozen potatoes, moldy corn or apple-cores. He never goes hungry because tk. hired girl happens to grind the pep per with the coffee.” “The cackling of geese, you said once, saved Roma. Did the grunt ing of pigs ever save any thing ?” ‘ Not that we know of, but a pig’s h els have often sav and his bacon.” “Do pigs ever attack children ? ’ “Once in a great while. If a pig had gone into politics and got beaten, and other pigs were shoving him around aud calling him an idiot and so forth, he might be tempted to b:te a small boy who was sticking ker nels of corn oa a cist-irou cob to deceive him and break off his teitk.” “Can pigs climb ?” “Yes. Let four or five dogs get after one sma‘l pig and he’ll climb for all he’s worth. He may not go up a tree, but it will be because he hasn’t time to stop.”— Detroit Free Press. Ac the late term of the State Cir cuit court at Columbia, S. C , ex-Gov. Daniel H. Chamberlain, Hiram H. Kimpston, Charles P. Leslie, Nihs G. Parker and J. L. Neagle were in dicted for conspiracy to defraud the State. Germany and the Vatican. A good deal of light is thrown by a recent publication on the nego tiations which for some months have been periling between Bismarck aud the Vatican. A letter written in August by the Pope to his Sec retary of State was giveu to the worli in October, and this document, with the statements which it has drawn from the other side, will as sist us to discern the attitude of the two powers and to gauge the proba bility of a final compromiso. Soon after the accession of Leo XIII signs were not wanting that the policy of the Vat’can would un dergo a chauge. The first authentic utterance of the naw Pontiff, deliv ered in Consistory, was noteworthy, as we pc iuted out at the time, not only for its p sitive averments, tut for its discreet reticence. It was evi dent that the" new Pope would not be an instrument in tho hands of Cardinal Secretaries, but that his pwn will would dictate the manage ment of affairs. Especially the con duct of the difficult relations with Germany and Italy was apparently reserved to his individual judgment. In a word, the new Pope had a for eign policy, and we are now able to determine with tolerable precision wbat that policy is. Nor have wo any need to insist on the importance not only to the Roman Church, but to all nations which include Catholic elements iu their populations, of le rning the temper, spirit, and pur poses which animate and control the Pontiff’s mind. From the tone of the first speech pronounced in Consistory, we in ferred that the new Pope would pres ently evince a willingness to come to terms with Germany. Until pacific relations were brought about between the Catholic subjects of the Kaiser and the civil law, it was vain to hope for the moral and diplomatic support of the German empire in the vital disputes which might at any time arise between the Vatican and Italy. The more resolute and implacable might be the attitude which the Pontiff should hold himself con strained to take in the affairs of the Peninsula, the more necessary was it to waive impracticable conditions, #,nd favor conciliatory movements in dealing with a Protestant sover eign beyond tbe Alps. In a word, there would seem to be as much wis dom as Z9al in the present policy of the Vatican. Tbe Pope declines to challenge tbe whole world at once, and means, by dieting to conclude an armistice with Germany, to have bis hands free to pursue the most vigorous anti-Italian tactics. Oa the other hand, in the present political condition of the empire, there are reasons why Bismarck should yield something in orde r iq compass an understanding with the Papacy. In the Reichstag, Herr Windhorst controls about a hundred members, and when we consider the recent drift of the Chancellor’s Gov ernment toward centralization and repression, there can be no doubt that the Ultramontanists are his nafc ural allies. Could he have gained their cordial support in the recant debate upon the Socialist bill, that measure would not have lost so many of its arbitrary feature?, or have been subjected to the troublesome restrictions imposed by Liberal coad jutors. How then did it happen, with such a favorable state of things on both sides, that the negotiations begun between Bismarck and Mon signor Masella at Kiesingen have so far had no tangible result? It now appears that Bismarck was disposed to make substantial concessions and to materially modify the ecclesiasti cal laws. But this the Crown Prince refused to do, unless the binding au thority of the statutes was first overt ly recognized by the priests. There upon the Pope indited the letter to Cardinal Nma, first published some weeks ago, in which the German em pire is referred to in the most suave and respectful tono, Instead of pre dicting like his predecessor the speedy ruin of that State, the new Pope offers to confirm the loyally of its Catholic subjects, and blandly hopes for the removal of existing difficulties. It is Eaid that a copy of this letter was sent ia August to Berlin, but the Crown Prince per sisted in rejecting ail propositions while the law of the land was ig nored by the Catholic clergy. There was some reason to believ* that the missive had never met the eye of the Emperor and Empress; at all events, the recent publication of it has called forth from tho Kaiser a prompt and very friendly reply. Prince Bis marck has been instructed to assure his holiness of the earnest desire of the German court to come to terms. The sole condition now prescribed is that nominees for livings shall be merely proposed to the secular au horities as a mark of submission to the law, it being understood and agreed lhat induction into office shall follow as a matter of cour-ie. It is hard to seo how the concessions of a self-respecting government could go any further, and there have been many times in the history of the Papacy when Catheiic sovereigns, shielding themselves behind prag matic sanctions, have granted a greit deal less. Whether a durable compromise between the conflicting claims of the Papacy aud the civil power iu Ger many can be arranged on this basis stili remains uncertain; but it is said that Leo XIII. might consent to sub scribe to the above-named formality if the Cardinals could be persuaded to approve. Possibly the new mem bers of the college, to be created during the present month, may be open to argument upon the subject: but their older colleagues, who were mostly chosen by PioNono, are like ly to show themselves intractable.— New York Sun. The Columbia Register says the new legislature will send Governor Hampton to the United States sen ate, in place of John J. Patterson. If so, Lieutenant-Governor William D. Simpson will become Governor for the next two years. The Future Battle Sharp contests are had and victo ries won iu advance of the main bat tle. Such victories are apt to inspire a confidence in the victors that begets carelessness, which leads to final defeat. The habits of ’.he shrewd operator in Wall street, who looks under the surface excitement for the true situation, are carried into the editorials of the Tribune, where may be found notes of warning to its party leaders and followers not to lot temporary success blind the judg ment or relax untiring vigilance. That journal is pleased to say: “An illusion likely to do great harm is one about the real strength shown by the republicans in the late elect ods The result does not prove that the country is safe from the money tink ers and financial luaatics. In fact, it proves just the reverse. The repub lican party was able to beat the demo crats and graenbackers separated. The next question it will have to face is whether it cau beat them united.’’ The warning shows a correct ap preciation of the political situation as it actually is, and the position the republicans occupy in regard to it. A single reference will illustrate the case very clearly. Michigan has in the present coagress eight members, every one of whom was elected by a decided majority vote. She will have in the next oongress nine members, not one of whom was elected by a majority, but by a minority, vote. They were elected because those who wanted currency reform acted sepa rately and not together. Had they acted iu unison not one republican candidate for congress would have been elected. There is hardly a State in which an election has beeu held tbi3 year, and in which the re publican party was successful, that it was not in an actual minority, and was victorious only because those who had a great common object in view, instead of being united, sepa rated, and ran two tickets instead of one. The question of the future is, Wiii the two parties who seDarated this year be united in 1880? They can not b3 defeated if united—sin cerely, honesty united. The contest of 1880 will, we have no question, be one of the fiercest in the party history of the country, and in which but two parties will participate—the demo cratic and republican. A third party could oniy throw its votes away. To which will the national greenbackers incline, and finally attach themselves? That is the important question.— Cin. Enq. Efficient Lightning Conductors At the recent meeting of the Brit ish Association, Ander son, of the Society of Telegraphic Engineers, read a paper on lightning eOuduoL-Vo, which contained some advice as to the prevention of casual ties in thunder-storms. “First of all,” he said, “it is desirable that public accommondation should be made by local and other authorities, to place lightning conductors on all exposed or high lying buildings, whether public or private, as well as those standing near the woods and on moist ground. It might be well worth the trifling expense to place simple conductors also against trees m parks, under which there are benches, are where persons are likely to gather . during a than - er-storm, they forming a prolific source of fatal accidents. Above all, no church, chapel, school, prison, or other large public, building, ought to be without one or more lightning conductors. But if it is necessary to multiply greatly lightning conductors, it is equally so that they should be planned, erected, and also periodi cally tested by competent persons, with scientific as well as practical knowledge of the work. The testing should take place at regular inter vais, perhaps b°bt in the spring, be fore the advent of the summer thun der-storms, and it should likewise bo made whenever a building has been undergoing repairs which may have damaged the conductor. A well or ganized system of inspection of light ning conductors would be most inex pensive. The galvanometer used for the purpose has been latterly much improved in Germany, and email portable instruments, of the size of a diminutive carpet-bag, are now made, which leave nothing to be desired in the shape both of effectiveness and durability. Already such a system of inspection and testing of conduc tors exists in Paris and several other French towns.” God Bless th.B North! God bless the North for sustaining us iu our great trial! Her contribu tions saved lives and our city. Now it behooves us to prove our gratitude by providing against a return of the heart-breaking, life-destroying poison aud provide againt taxing the benev olence of our brethren. From the feverish demand which suddenly sprung up for calomel and castor-oil, there was but one conclusion—that many of our sitizem had been suffer ing from constipation bince 1868. Now, may not our city have been in the same condition? It needs a dose of something very strong and clean sing, aud we submit that our citizens can not commence too early the preparation of the pn seriptiou. We can better afford to bury politics than good citizens. Memphis is elastic, and has been blessed geographically and climatically, and it looks like paganism to not show ourselves grateful by protection. There is a remedy. What is it? Don't sit down, but stand up and think. Scattering lime, carbolic acid, wearing asafetida amulets, buckling ou maguetic belts, swallowing quinine, whisky toddies, sugar-coated piils, castor-oil cocktails and calomel punches, may do for a small circle of mutual acquaintances, but is a failure when applied to a large population. Lock the stable now while the horse is caged, be cause this horse tramples the life out of bodies, happiness out of homes, and fearfully bruises the soul. Piace Memphis in a safe condition. — Mem phis Appeal. News in General. Mai dog shot in Macon last week Congress meets next Monday week Augusta wants the next State Fair. Louiee Pomeroy was in C arleston last week. Richmond county has a poultry association. They have aa eleven pouud potato in Augusta. # Is Hendricks a hard or .-oft money man ? or which ? Mr. Hayes says next Thursday will be thanksgiving day. Senator Thurman says he has en tirely recovered his health. Georgia is said to 1 ave furnished the best yellow fever nurses. A commercial convention will meet in New Orleans December 3. Returning, Board Hayes is about deciding to join the stalwarts. Memphis has entirely resumed business in all its departments. Only ten candidates for the sol cit orship of the Oemulgee circuit. The Georgia railroad will soon build a grain elevator m Augusta. It is said Russia has ordered the construction of several new ironclads. Pearson’s mill in Tatuall county was burned last week. Loss $3,000. Memphis wants an elevator for the prompt handling of river freights. Nat Hammond’s native county, Monroe, gave him a majority of 882. The colored people’s fair at La Grange last week was highly success ful. Judge Erskine has goDe to Savan nah to hold the United States circuit court. Our Superior court circuits are hereafter to be numbered, not named. Only three feet of water in tho channel of the Ocmulgee ri/er at Macon. The First Baptist Church of Au gusta is having a most interesting revival. Only one county in South Carolina, Beaufort, went republican at the last election. Col. Forney’s new paper, The Prog ress, appeared in Philadelp ia No vember 14. Henry Wattersoo thinks Captain Jenks, not Agnes, wrote that letter to Ben Hill. General Featherstone, of Missis sippi. has entirely gotten over the yellow fever. Milton Saylor will not contest th* election of Butterworth in the firs Ohio district. Rev. “Adirondack” Murray, by the recent bursting of his gun, lost three fingers. The plans for Augusta’s new union depot have been made. It will have five tracks within it. Col. R. A. Alston, member from Dekalb, wants the Moffett liquor reg ister tried in Georgia. The American Pharmacentic.il as sociation meets in Atlanta he las Tuesday in this mouth. Col. John W. R. Pope, associate e iitor of Speights’ Spartanburg Daily has retired from that paper. An old ring printing suit in New York city for $2,000,010 was com promised the other day for S4O 000. Fine bananas have been this year raised in Liberty cq®ty, equal to any imported from Ben Butler doesn’t like the Massa chusetts democrats who voted for the republican, Talbot, for Governor. Vessels ia Charleston were pre vented from going to sea the latter part of last week by a strong easterly gale. Tho greenbackers were going to sweep Michigan clean. They did— of the only democrat we had in con gress. Gov. Hampton’s broken leg is somewhat better. Meanwhile Lieu tenant-Governor Simpson, is acting Governor. W. M. Mitchell, treasurer of SpaldiDg t ounty, has copyrighted a system of keeping accounts for coun ty officers. Ben Butler siys he will show the republican papers that he is the live liest corpse at a funeral they have ever heard of. The Chicago Inter-Ocean, the most malignant radical paper in the West, vociferously applauds the election of Felton and Speer. The defeated candidates for city offices in New Orleans hive served notice of contest upon their success ful democratic opponents. Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, con gressman-elect from the Richmond district, has declared himself unal terably in favor of hard money. Adolph Muller was scalded to death last week by falling into a vat of boiling cream of tartar, in Smith’s Salaratus Works, in J'-rsey city. The United States government wili pay the amount of the Halifax fish ing award, $5,500,000, to the Biitish government, one week from to- dav The Philadelphia Chronicle says: “The circuses have all gone into win ter quarters, but as congress will soon be in session, they will not be missed.” George Johnston, the Atlanta bill poster, was carried before the lie corder’s court the other day, on th< charge of posting obscene litera'un -—the llmz show bills. Recordo Milledg • want to see the bills, and discharged Johnston. The Marquis of Lorre-, Canada’s new G vernor Genera', with his wife, Queen Victoria’s daughter, and their suites, sailed from L verpooi Novem ber 14. Senator Vorbees, in an interview, states that one < f his first acts uj on the reassembling of congress will he a movement to make the trade dollar legal tender. Fires last week in Bradford, Pa., ind Atlantic City, N. J. L *saes be tween SIOO,OOO and $200,000 by tho former and between $40,000 and SSO - by the latter. Gen. C. C Augur has accepted the trusteeship of the fund for the family )f Lieutenant Banner, of the 18th United States Infantry, who died at Vicksburg of yellow fever. It is wonderful hew, since the elec tion, the “independent and manly’ journals have taken to the Republi can sid a . It is much easier to lloat with the current, you know. The following county judges have been confirmed by the senate: R B. Frippe, of Bartow; T. G. Holt, of B bb; Win. M. Weaver, of Greene, and W F. Eve, of R chmond The B-ooklyn Bridge is short of m'ln-v. Judge Barrett of New York •ity recently refused to mandamus the city c >m droller to pay another mi lion dollars to the directors. The municipal election in Augusta th-* first Weduesday in next month, will determine whether the lower market-house, last winter destroyed by the cycioae, shall be rebuilt. Woodlawn Cemetery, near Cincin nati, wis robbed last week of four bodies which had been buried less than a week. The bodies wero re covered, but the robbers escaped. The aggregate yellow fever sub scriptions of cities aud committees, exclusive of private, religious or so ciety subscriptions, amounted to $(.!,- 325,(!00. New York citv sent $395,- 000. Rev. J O. A. Clark, Presiding El der of the M. E. Church South, ar rived last week in New York from England, where he had been in the interest of the Wesleyan Monument al church. NO 46 D Pike Hill is the greenback can didate, regularly nominated, for mayor of Atlanta. As tbe “organized democrats’’ have no organization, Col. Hill would appear to have the inside track. The Howard association of New Orleans claims that there were in that city during the epidemic fully forty thousand cases of yellow fever, and of that number le3s than four thousand died. A hard-money Maine democrat reoorted last week at Washington that Ladd and Murch, the two green backers from that State, are demo crats, aud certain to go into the dem ocratic caucus. The vote of New Hampshire for Governor is as follows; Head, repub lican, 38,085; McKean, democrat, 31,- 083; Brown, greenbacker, 0,385; prohibitory and scattering, 129. Head’s majority, 488. Forged railroad tickets from Bos ton to St Louis by way of the Erie and Atlantic aud Great Western Roads tmvM been discovered in New York, aud it is thought that they have been placed elsewhere. There are now 1,239 convicts in the Georgia penitentiary, or leased from that institution. Bibb contrib utes 118, the greatest number. There are fourteen camps for convicts iu and ffereut portions of the State. Hoc Fredrick O. Prince, Secretary oi the dt m icratic national committee nas eeii nominated for Mayor of Boston by b.otii the Butler and Abbott wings of the democracy. He stands a lair chance tor election next month. The U vm- commission appointed oy tire gowrument is ready to report, it iccomm nds a system of national quarantine, and is convinced that tho i ii.L is nut, in the atmosphere m any part of the United States, and iiiat in Aew Orleans it was caused by im portation. Tbe oid Bacon mansion iu Edge field was burned ou November 13. It was built eighty years ago by the eminent lawyer, Edmund Bacon, (“Nad Brace,” or the “Georgia Scenes,”) aud belonged, when burnt, to James T. Bacon, of thu Edgefield Advertiser. Dr. Da La Matyr the greenback rep re entative from the seventh Indiana district, who holds tho baiauoj of power in his congressional delegation nas no ehoico oat ween a hard money democrat and hard money republican but he inclines to Hendricks over every body else. Robert Bridge Jr., oi Paterson N. J. lately attempting to walk over tbe trestle work and bridge, on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, over the Passaic liver, was blown twenty feet into the river, which was sixty feet deep. He es caped with severe bruises Numerous prominent citizens of Amencu3 have issued a call for a meeting of all persons interested to cake action upon tile propriety of connecting Auiencm by rail witn the Bruoswicx, Albany and Eufaula Railroad, which his lately passed into the hands of an English company. Ex Governor Houston, ex con gressmen James L. Pugh and Paul Bradlord, ex-confederate secretary of war Leroy P Walker, are candidates tor the United States senate from Alabama, to succeed George E. Spencer, republican. The voting in the legislature began last Tuesday. Ex-United Slates senator Kelly, of Oregon, has been appoiut. and by Gov. Thayer a Judge of the Supreme court of that State. Kelly and Thayer both appeared before Gov. Grover aud maintained he had the powi r and it was his duty to issue a certificate to Cronin, the Tildeu elec tor. The Albany Advertiser learns that on Thurday morning a desperate as sault was made by a negro man named Rufus Alien, alias Campbell m t ie employ of Mr. W. H. Bennett’, at one of the English company’s olaces, in Dougherty county, on Mr D. W. Kitchens, one of the nv’s agents. 4 luo sutibo. i.l toe f.j Slinwo .