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The Gainesville Eagle Published Every Fiidav Morning O IF 1 HT 1 I O E Upstairs iu Candler Hull Building, Northwest Corner of Public Square. The Official Organ ot Hall, Banks, Whit*, Towns, , n ’ Union * nd Dawson counties, and the city of Ctainoaville. H*b a largo general circulation in twelve other counties iu Northeast Georgia, and two counties In Western North Carolina SUBSCRIPTION. Onz Yk*b;..- s2,eo. Six Mouths SI,OO, Thbek Months s(c. ADVANCE, DDLIVIiIiEL) JJY OABRIDB OR PREPAID LX MAIL. papers are stopped at the expiration of the time paid for without further notice. Mail sub scribers will please observe the dates on their wrappers. Persons wishing the paper will have their orders dromptly attended to by reminiuing the amount for the time deslrod. ADVERTISING. SEVEN WORDS MAJLB A LINK. Ordinary advartisdnieais, per Nonpareil line, 10 o*Ht*. Legal Official Auction and Amusement aivartlso rnents and Special Notices, per. ITonpa r*tl Due, 15 cents. Beading aetices per line, Nonpareil typo 15 cents Leoal aetices, per line, Brevier type, 15 cents. A fifteen at mde on ad veitinements continued fer longer than one week. REMITTANCES Fer subscriptions or advertising can be made by Post Office order, Registered Letter or Express, at our risk. All letters should be addressd, J. E. KEDWINE, Gainesville, Ga. *jSjKfV KRAV IK I* j^oFiL" * rr " ciUCitoti MkIMTFrs Pbrhbvtebian Church—Eev. T. P. Cleveland. Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath-morning ami night, except the second Sabbath. Sunday School, at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday oveaiu, at 4 o’clock. MethodistChubcm—Rev. W. W. Wad .worth, Pas tor. Preaching every Sunday m< Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeti. £ Wedims day night. Baptist Chuboh Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at? a. m Prayer meeting Thursday evening at i o’clock. GAINESVILLE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION. J. B. Estes, President; Wm. W. Habersham, Secre tary. YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. W.L. Gordon, President ; F. M. Pickrell, Vice- President; Claud Estes, .Secretary. Servioo in on e • f the churches every Sabbath artornoou at thri •’•lock. Service for young men in the Methodist ehuroh evory Tuesday evening. Cottage praycr ueetings every Friday evening. FRATERNAL RECORD. FiiOWKBT Branch Lodge No. 79, I. O. O. TANARUS., meets every Monday night, Joel Laseteb, N. G. B. Ft Stbdham, Sec. Aluqhart Royal Anon Ciiaptba meets on the. Second and Fourth Tuesday evenings iu each month. S. S. BnADLKY, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P. Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.-. F.-. M.-., meets n the Firsts ml Third Tuosday evening in the month R. Palmouk, Sec’y. W. G. Hendebso.; ,W. iif. Aib-Lins Lodoe, No. 64 ,1. O. O. F., meet - •verr Friday evening. A. fa. O. Dorset, Sec. H. S. Bradley, N. G. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE. Owing to recent change of scUedulo on the Allan - ta and Oha-rlotto Air Line Railroad, the following Will be tho schedule from dato: Mall train No. 1, going east, leaves 7:17 p. m. Mail for this train closes at 7:00 “ Mail train No. 2, going east, 1eave5....8:35 a. in. No makl by this train. Mall train No. 1‘ going west, 1eave5....6:51 a. rn. Mail for this train closes at .. 9:30 p. m. Mall train No. 2, going west, 1eave5....!):05 p. m. Mail for this train closes at 7.30 “ Offloe hours from 7 a. m. to 5:30 p. m. General delivery open on Sundays from Byi to9d. Departure of mails from this office: Dahlonega and Gilmer county, daily. 8% rn Bkhlonega, via Wahoo and Ethel, Saturday.... 8.-? a. m Jefferson & Jackson county, Tuesday, Thnrn day and Saturday 7 a. m Cleveland, White, Union, Towns and Hayes- Vllle, N. 0., Tuesdays and Fridays. ...7 a. m Bawsonville and Dawson county,, Tuesday and Saturday 8 a. m. Homer, Banks county, Saturday 1 p. in Pleasant Grove, Forsyth count . Saturday..l p.m M. K. ARCHER, P.M. Atlanta and Charlotte AiK-LINK, Trains will run as follows on and ai .r §UNf) AY, NOVEMBER JO, lb7o, NIGHT MCaTiX* TB. v. IN . GOING EAST. liave Atlanta 3:15 p. m Arrive Gainesville 5:31 p. m. Leave Gainesville 5;315 p, ra. Arrive Charlotte 3:03 a. in. GOING WEST. Leave Charlotte 12:00 m dnt Arrive Gainesville 9:11 a. m. Leave Gainesville 9:12 a. m. Arrivo Atlanta 12:00 m. DAY P4J99E2NGIBI GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta (1:00 a. m. An’ive Gainesville 8:32 a. in. Leave Gaines villa 8:33 a. in Arrive Charlotte 6:22 p. m. GOING WEST. Leave Charlotte 10:20 a. m Arrive Gainesvi lie 8:11 p. m Leave Gainesvill o 8:15 p. m Arrivo Atlanta 10:30 p. ui Througli Freight Train. (Daily except Monday.) GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta 9:25 a.m.- Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p. m. • Leave Gainesville 1:35 p. m. Arrive Central 7:10 p.m. GOING WEST. Leave Central 1:40 a. in Arrive Gainesville 7:23 a ni. Leave Gainesville 7:22 u. m. Arrive Atlanta 11:20 p. in. Local Freight and Accommodation Train. (Daily except Sunday.)’ GOING EAST. Leave Atlanta 5:25 a.m. Arrive Gainesville 10:42 u. m. Leave Gainesville 11:00 a. m. Arrive Central 5:45 p. m. GOING WEST. Leave Central 4:37 a.m. Arrive Gainesville 1:28 p.m. Leave Gainesville 1:35 p. Arrive Atlanta 7:10 p.m. Close connection at Atlanta for all [ jls West, and at Charlotte for all points G. J. Foreacbe, General M-nmgr W. J. Houston, Gen. P. & T. A’gt. Northeastern Raihoui of Georgia, TIHVEjE TABLE. Taking effect Monday, November 11, 1878 | Ttrains 1 and 2 run daily except Sunday; 3 and 4on Wednesdays and Saturdays only. STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE. A. M. Athens 6 30 Center 655 65< Nioholson 712 717 Harmony Grove, 7 40; 745 Maysville . 805 810 Gillsville 828 830 Lula 8 TRAIN 3Si O. ' STATIONS. ARRIVE. LEAVE. A. M. Lula ‘>l ‘i-3 Gillsville 10 10 10 12 Maysville. 10 29 10 3 ± Harmony Grove 10 54 11 00 Nicholson H2O 11 23 Center 11 38 11 40 Athens 12 00 train no. STATIONS. 1 ARRIVE LEAVE. I P. M. Athens 340 Center 403 405 Nicholson . 420 428 Harmony Grove 146 451 Maysville 511 515 Gillsville 533 500 Hula b 00 TKAIN NO. i ' STATIONS ARRIVE. LEAVE. P. SI. Lula 7 45 Gillsville ®4O J 2 Maysville 829 831 Harmony Grove 851 900 Nicholson 20 923 Center 938 940 Athens 10 00 Trains will wait thirty minutes at Lula for delayed passenger trains on the Air-Line JAMES M. EDWARDS, Supt. The Gainesville Eagle. VOL. X I!. Georgia, White County. Whereas, Benjamin F Nix, administrator of the estate of Jonas Nix, deceased, has filed iu my office his petition stating thut be has fully discharged all his duties as such administrator, and pray.-: that an order b* pa—.ed discharging him from his said trust: Therefore, all persons concerned are hereby required to sh cause, if any, against the pi anting of said discharge, at the regular term of the court of Ordinary to M held is. and for said county on the first Monday in March next. V itness iny hand and official signature, this November 18, 1878, ISAAC OAKES, nov29-td Ordinary. Georgia, White Oounty. William Morris, guardian of Mary Craven, having applied to the Ordinary of said coun ty for a discharge from nis guardianship of Mory Craven’s person and property; tlii* is thetefore to cite all persons concerned to show cause, by filing objections in my office, why the said William Morris should not be dismissed [from his guardianship of Mary Craven, and receive letters of dismission from bis said trust, on or before the first Monday i April xt. at tne regular term of the court of f ary oi said county. Given un h t my T .a;■.: , ud official signature, this December 11, 1878, dec2o-ul ISAAC OAKES, Ordinary. Georgia, White County: W: 3 i Cathey, administrator of W C Nix, repr :sents to the coart, iu his pe tition, duly filed and entered on record, that he has fully administered W C Nix’s estate: This is, therefore, to cite ail persons con cerned, and creditors, to show cause, if they can, why said administrator should not be discharged from his administration and receive letters of dismission on tho first Monday in April, 1879. dec2l)-td ISAAC OAKES, Ordinary, - COl -TV. " Georgia, Rabun County. Rabun Superior Court, Oct. Term, 1878 By virtue of an order of tho Honorable Gio. D. Rice, Judge of the Superior courts of the Western Judicial circuit, and of the statutes in such cases made and provided, notice is hereby given that the Superior court oi Rabun county at the present term wav by mo adjourned i > the April term, 1879, of said court. Parties, jurors and v'itu*' will duo lit nice thereof and gov.-ru thorn solves accordingly. October 28, 1878. W. M. IIUNNICUTT, novls 4t C. S. O. Esecutev’s Sale. Georgia, Towns Counts’. By virtue of and in accordance with the last will and testament of Bird Kerlee, late of said county, deceased, 1 will offer for sale at public outcry, before the courthouse . ounty, on the first Tuesday ia February next with in the legal hours of .sale, all the land be longing to said Bird Kerlee at the time of hie death, not otherwise bequeathed con sisting of the following lots of land, to-wit: lot nos. 125, 128, 124, 163, all of said lots iu the 17th ti on, aid lands lie on the -treat mineral belt in said county, i v, 1! v, head . nd well improved. ns of : oue-foufih mainder in one and two s ears with note and approved security with interest from date. lyj ii nt is made. This Decomb r 20, 1878. ROBERT S. KERLEE, dec27-30d Executor. DA i j T:>\ . OOLN TY. Georgia, Rabun County. Martha J -1 MoCoutmll wife of. yboioas Ni McOounttl of said county has applied to me for exemption and settiug apart of a home stead out of the real nd personal property of tho saidTN McOoi'ueU and I. will pass upon the same at my oftico in Clayton on the 22nd day of J. . , ivy no: t . c li o’clock am. This D J. 87. GREEN, dec27 30d Ordinary. Georgia, Dawson County, rnbor 20, 1878. Pollard KB; v, !',dministr.vor of the. estate o’ Henry Talley, dee-'a ,ad. has filed in my office his petition si ding that he has fully such adminis trator and prays that an order be passed 1 1 ■ - ■ ■ There f>r ' all p oi are required to of said the court the first Monday in April 1879. H, B. SMITH, dec2 7-30.1 Ordinary. Georgia, Dawson County. Ordinary’s Office.-—Whereas Jacob Padget administrator of Nancy Densmore, de c ised, has file : i i- ffi ee hi. pi titioa staling that he has fully discharged all the duties as sm h administrator and prays that an order be passed discharging him from his said trust. Therefore all persons concerned arc required to show cause against the granting of s. id discharge at the regular term of the court of ordinary for said count ; on the first Monday iu April 1879. This December 20, 1878. H, B. SMITH, ordinary. Georgia, Dawson County. Richard L Green administrator with the will annexed of um estate :■! Josiah Diibcck deceased applies for leave to sell the land of said estate. ’Therefore all persons concerned are hereby notili -d tha the leave pvavud for will bo granted the applicant on tho first Monday in February 1879, unless good cans .... >e then shown, dec 20-1878. H. B. SMITH, Ordinary. Ap-sig is ee 7 s Sale. Georgia, Towns County. Will bo sold before the court house door in Hiwassee, Towns county, Georgia be tween the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in February, 1879, the following property belonging to the estate of John 2.1 From an, bnukr.tyt. to-vit: The ne-half undivided half interest in two town iois, sii x xt3, lying and being in tho town of Hi. wassee, iu the county of Towns, in said Suite of Georgia, being designated in tho plan of said town by numbers forty-seven [No 47] and forty- Hit [No 48] each with a lront of iiiiy fc-1 and running back two buudi’ and feet. rjA’.d p*. -.perty sold aa the property of said bankrupt, Tr the purpose of distribution among the creditors of said bankrupt. Terms .' . ) mary . Georgia, Banks County. Ordinary’s --flice, Jan. 6, 1879. V. hereas, 3 M Oliver applies to me for otters ot guardianship of the person and property of Malissa Smith, minor daughter of EM Smith, deceased. These are there fore to require all perrons concerned to file in my office, on or before the first Monday in February next, their bjactions, if any they have tc said app ii ent, oth rwi a letters of guardianship wdl be granted the applicant. T. F. HILL, janlo-td Ordinary. Georgia, Banks County. 100, Jan. 6, 28 79. Wherea . G :> W S vail, administrator of Wi m Sai , and 1, makes a ica tion to this court ; v discharge from said . i;-ii all pet c .m '• to show cause, if any they . . ,v . id Ge •• W Bavall should not be discharged :.s administrator of the es ; : ,ie of Wiidani Saval , dec’d, at the May term, 2879, ot said court. T. F. HILL, jar 10.3 m Ordinary. United States Internal Revenue Deputy Collector’s Office, 2d Dist. la.. Gainesville, Ga., Jan, 9, 1879, Ten days after drt 1 will sell before the court house door in the ciiy of Gainesville, Hail county, Georg!:, wi.hia the usual hours of sale: One copper still, c i> and worm, one axe, an i one double-barreled shot-gun, as the prop rty of James McNeal and others. Seized by rue lor vi ilatiou of internal revenue laws; no t am having beau filed nor bond given, as required bv law. jaulo-3t W. T. B. WILSON, Dep. Cob GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 7. 1879. A great deal of noise was made by a few members of the legislature at the recent session in reference to changing the system of disposing of the convicts of the State, and urg ing the return to the old way of con fining them in' the penitentiary. This was insisted on because it was said that the convicts were badly treated by the lessees. Now while we are as much opposed to these unfor tunates being harshly and inhumanly treated as any one can be, yet we believe that this can be effectually prevented without resorting to the method suggested. If the lessees are made to give bond and are close ly watched they can easily be kept from using the convicts badly. Ifc would never do to change the pres ent system for two good reasons. One is, that instead of the convicts be ing a source of revenue to the State they would become an enormous ex pense, and the other is that the lea ses were made to last for twenty years and the State should stand by them in good faith. Of the Prince of Wales and Dr. Lyon Playfair it is told that they were once standing near a cauldron containing lead, which was boiling at white heat. ‘-'Has your Royal Highness any faith in science? ’’ said the Doctor. ‘"Certainly,” replied the Prince. “Will you, then, place your hand in the boiling metal and ladle out a portion of it ? ’ “Do you tell me to do this?’ asked the Prince. “I do,’’ replied the Doctor. The Prince then ladled out some of the boiling lead with this hand, without sustain ing any injury. It is a well known scieutilie fact that the human hand may be placed uninjured in. lead boiling at ivhite heat, being protected from any harm by the moisture of the skin. Should the lead be at a perceptibly lower temperature, the exlect need not be described. After this, let no one underrate the courage of the Prince of Wales. The funeral of Hon. Julian Hart ridge took place in the capitol at Washington and was attended by the President and his Cabinet, the Su preme court, and the senate and house of representatives. Rev. Dr. \V. P. Harrison delivered a fine eulogy ou the character of the deceased. Tho,delegation, appointed to accompany the remains to Savan nah were Senators, Gordon, Booth, and Beek, and representatives Cook of Georgia; Frye of Maine, Cox of New York; Cabell of Virginia; Stone of Iowa; Davidson of Florida and Hanna of Indiana. The deceased congressman was cna of the leading spirits among his confreres and his death was deeply and sincerely re gretted. Congressman Acklen yesterday nan the cheek to ask the house to appoint a committee to investigate his morals and report thereon—a tiling which the house declined to do. It would cost (p 20,000 to send a com mittee to New Orleans for the pur pose of whitewashing Acklen, and the game is not worth the candle. Besides, it would establish an unde sirable censorship over the private conduct of members, few of whom could stand ibis sort of thing. It is cheaper and safer to let Acklen go unvindicated.— Chicago Tribune. e have arrived at an era which endeavors to overthrow princes, in tee fallacious hope of arriving at a better state of things. As far as con cerns me, I can, according to all hu man probability, expect to live but a short time longer. I commend my Lie to Providence; and the crimi nal tendencies of the age will not prevent me from accomplishing my duties as a sovereign, as I have always heretofore done.” —Emperor William . Ifc is thought that Justice Ward Hunt, of the U. S. Supreme court will not go on the bench again, even if ho recovers from his present ill ness. It is like)y he will retire on a pension and Attorney General De vens or Stanley Matthews will take his place. Judge Yv. 0. Howard Las severed his connection with the Forest News ; as one of tha ousiness managers, and Robert S. Howard, Esq., has sole control of it, as manager and edi tor. Somebody advertises “Good men wanted.” So many “good men” have gone wrong recently that ifc seems almost worth while to try the other kind.— Boston■ Transcript. — Gen. Bob Toombs has one virtue — he don’t chew tobacco. —Augusta ■ News. No, but he can chew up mere cigars and smoke less than any man we know. Georgia is said to have twenty thousand colored democratic voters —New York Bun. Yes, and she’ll have three times as many iu 1880. Gov. Colquitt has ordered an elec tor February 10th to fill the unex pired fi:-rm of lion. Julian Hartridge, in the-Tdfch congress. Confluent Prayer The prayer made to-day is instant ly heard, and will never be forgotten. The prayer made yesterday was in stantly heard and is not now, and will never be, forgotten. The same may be said of the prayer that was offere i a year ago, or ten, or twen ty, or fifty, or any other number of years ago. Separated they are in our minds by intervening time, bat they are synchronous with God. With Him there are no intervals. Thus the prayers of a life-time are virtually confluent; iu the mind of God they all exist together, and con stitute one undivided whole, as the drops in a stream, and as a reser voir into which many streams have emptied themselves. Thus, it is not so much a man’s prayers, that are heard in heaven; it is rather his prayer, for his life is his prayer, and fie has but one. This saint of four score about to die, has enough of mental power left, to be able to lift his heart to God; perhaps unable to formulate distinct petitions, but able undefinediy to recognise his need, and also the readiness of God to bless. That is prayer, and is bat the continuation of the first prayer of faith that his early lips ever uttered. Thousands upon thousands of his prayers, as he called them, he has forgotten; of many of them ha was scarcely conscious, for they were unuttered, and being the habit of his life, were as unnoticed as his pulse-beats. But God hss not for gotten one word of all those that were uttered ; and as to those that were not uttered in syllables loud enough to resound through all space. Iu His ears the sound of them has not died away. The first prayerful breath, and also the last, and every such breath of a Christian’s life, ring iu His ears to eternity. With every one of them He is pleased, and His nature. If He will never forget them,neither did they take Him by surprise when they were offered. A thousand years are with Him as one day, and one day is as a thousand years. The term one day does not mean a period of twenty-four hours; it means a point of time which, iike a mathematical point, has no extension; and the term a thousand years, simply means indefinite—eter nal duration past and present. Hence in ail eternity past as well as in all eternity to come, the prayers, rather let us say the prayer, of one of his saints, was and will be, rather let us say is a Divine joy. With God, there is no distinction of tense, and hence when pleased with prayer, the pleasure reaches backward aud for ward to eternity, and prevades the whole Divine existence. Having of fered Him now, or ever, one prayer of faith in his own appointed way, du*t is, through the mediation of Jesus Christ, His Sou, how perfectly sure we may be of the unending blessing of the Infinite! But more. Suppose a pious father to have died many years ago, full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, invok tho blessing of God on his children. God beared that prayer. Heard? Hears ! Perhaps two score years have elapsed with us; but there has been no lapse with Him. That prayer made long forgotten years ago, is as fresh as when it trembled on the lips of the dying saint. At this moment we may enjoy heavenly mercies in answer to prayers long since made by those whose bones have gone to dust; prayers long since made as to God. The dying ejaculation of a mother ior her new-born babe, may bring blessing on the head of her son a century later —a century with us; but God has no centuries. We know not what a heritage we have derived from the prayers of our ancestors. Fifty five years ago, a man of God, Henry Holcombe by name, took his little grandson in his arms, a boy of four, with whom he was parting as he supposed for years, but as the re suit proved the parting waß for life, and Laving caressed the lad, he gave him back to his mother’s arms, ex claiming with moistened 6yes, “God bless the child!” He never spoke to his daughter and grandson again. But the writer has always had an abiding faith, that his grandfather’s, “Godbless the child!” was a draft in his favor, for unspeakable riches, which was accepted, and will be for ever honored by the Almighty. In his darkest hours, and when at times he has felt cast-down aud almost des troyed, he has held fast to this ac cepted draft on the Treasury of Heaven, with a firm conviction that God bad not forgotten it, and would not forget it, and would be sura in His own time, and in His own way, to “bless the child.” Of blessed memory be tho holy man ! He being dead, yet prayeth! But why stop with our parents, and proximate ancestors? A thousand y ears ago, one of God’s elect may have prayed for his posterity. It is just as if he had done it to-day—were doing it now. Blessings come unex pectedly, in strange ways, and at strange times, unconnected with oth er events —sporadic and unaccounta ble. The nexus between cause and effect is unseen by us, and if seen, would seem attenuated to nothing ness; but ten or twenty centuries ago, God heard what he nears now in all its freshness and firstness, the prayer of one whose prayer He has promised to answer; His set time has come and the inexorable laws of his moral nature execute His will iu ben efaction. In prayer life we are contempora ries with the patriarchs, and with all of God’s elect from the beginning.— Abraham’s prayers are not of the past: they are simultaneous with ours; and so are Isaac’s and Jacob’s. The offering of Abel lies on the altar at this moment; the blood is warm, and so is the prayer that goes with it; the heart of the victim still quiv ers, and Abel’s still swells with devo tion, aud the affections of the Eternal whose name is Love, respond. All is of the present. The first altar was never cast down; ifc stands to-day; its corner stone was laid on God’s* eternal purpose. Enoch has passed from earth, bufc the blessing which his prayer brought down, remains with us to this day. Elijah and Eli sha are still the benefactors of our race. The prayers of David, the son of Jesse, are not ended. Isaiih and Jeremiah and Ezekiel and Daniel— the beloved of God, are still ours, as if freshly made. All the prophets j from Moses,all the saints from Adam, the Apostles, the martyrs, the wom en, the children, millions of the ob scure, but whose humble cry is migh ty in heaven—all these are praying now! O, glorious meeting of prayers! O,great ocean,fed by myriad streams, pouring forever forth from devout hearts of all ages! We are invited to mingle our prayers with these! O Lord God Almighty, thou God of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom alone prayer is possible, how wonder ful are thy ways! The prayers of Je sus Christ himself are mingled with, those of his saints; His prayers are always heard, are heard now, and ours may flow iu with His into iho infinite depths of the bosom of God! Oh, the privilege! Oh, the glory! Shout ye angels at the wonders of grace! But what is said of the past applies as well to the future. All the prayers that will be made until the end of time, are as if they had been mad 9 already, or rather, as if they were one with ours. If the saints are all one, even as their father in heaven is one, so also their prayers are one; from the first prayer that ever was breathed, to the last that ever shall stir a zephyr; yea, from the first un uttered aspiration to the last, all are one, and Christ will carry them ail to God. If those who have gone before ua have left us a priceless heritage, it is ours to add to it and bequeath ifc to coming generations. We pray not for ourselves alone, bufc for our chil dren aud our children’s children for ever; not for our friends and neigh bors, but for the world and all that dwell therein; not for the world as it is, but as it will be henceforth, until the trump of the archangel shall wake the dead. Blessed be the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob. Blessed be the God of our fathers. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and blessed be He whose blood has bought for us the privilege of prayer. —Christian In dex. The National Senate. Your correspondent, after the last senator had left the chamber, went there, and for a while gazed upon its loneliness. It looked to him as desolate as the White Sulphur in January, or a Virginia county court house the day after the circus. Sil ver-haired Captain Bassett, whom neither a democratic nor republic?. senate will ever remove from iris post as one of the doorkeepers, gazed upon the vacant seats, as Marius did on the ruins of Carthage, and recall ed the fact that where Web-ster, Win throp, Silas Wright and Lewis Cass once sat, pigmies now burlesque tho exalted position of senator. Your correspondent, from his standpoint, only thought of them as they are, and made no disparaging compari sons. He recalled Blaine as the most unscrupulous bufc the most brilliant and unlucky demagogue this genera tion has produced; Conkliug as a senator, with the head of A.poilo and the walk—well, I won’t describe it; Dawes and Hoar, who were never more like aged spinsters than when Blaine took them at a disadvantage ia presenting the statute of Mr. King to congress, and inflicted upon them cruel and unusual punishment; Plumb, of Kansas, whose record, by contrast, makes that of a credit mobilier statesman look immaculate ; Ingalls, of the same state, who is for all the world like a leanglecfcurer on biology, or the man who plays the big fiddle in burlesque opera; Davis, of Illinois, one of Dixon H. Lewis when at light weight, and who is as honest as he is good Ma tured; Edmunds, whose Darwinian face would entitle him to be chief justice in the gorilla country, bufc whose admirers say resembles the apostle Paul; Teller, of Colorado, who, if the senate were a pack of cards, would be a tray of spades when clubs are trumps, and yet whom the republicans were forced in their extremity to put at the head of the Blaine committee; Thurman, the best specimen of an American state - man in either body, who does aot ; hesitate to take part in any debate, i and who is always ready to answer j successfully the prepared speeches of the radical leaders; Eaton, as an hon est bourbon who refuses to learn any thing under the new dispensation; McCreary, in apuearance and oratory like the late big-hearted and accom plished Judge Brockenborough; Bay ard, as the polished, incorruptible and accomplished senator; Lamar, who adds to oratory and culture a a broad statesmanship; Ransom, who is as powerful in debate as he was brave in war; Merrimon, his collea gue, who knows enough law to be on the supreme bench of the United States, and who never speaks with out speaking well and to the point; Butler, who is worthy of the honored name he bears, who is cool when others are excited, and who is not only a strong debater, bufc can be as eloquent as Demosthenes when he pleases; Gordon who is the soul of gallantry and honor, and whose sen atorial career has shown that he is as successful a etatesman as he was gal lant as a general; Voorhees, who is the most brilliant orator in eifciier body, and who never fails to come to the aid of the South when his servi ces are needed; Randolph, whose political faith is as fixed as the cree i of a conyenanter, and who never speaks without giving the senate ac curate information and a strong pre sentation of his side of the question; Hill, of Georgia, who is one of the most brilliant men in either body— who is often immense and who at other times makes striking failures. The forty-fifth congress has been a heavy loser by the death of its members, there having been nine to die within a year. Promised Revival of Sodom and Gomorrah The Scientific American says: “It is reported that French capitalists have secured a grant for a railway line from Jaffa to the interior of Palestine, which will open up the Jordan valley and the whole region north of the Suez canal. In certain contingencies this road might be come of great military usefulness, but it appears further that the pro ductive resources of the country are considerable, and, what is more sur prising, that the Dead So i itself can bo turned to commercial account. Chief of these at present are the stores of natural combustibles for which that region is noted, “Hitherto tho main obstacle to the development of steam traffic in tU-:-' Levant has been the loiH absence of combustible material. Not only Egypt, but the shores of Syria and the Red Sea are completely stripped of wood, and the coal imported from the west commands a price ranging from ten to twenty-four dollars a ton. Now the masses of asphalt continual ly thrown up by the Dead Sea attest the presence of vast subterranean layers of fossil vegetable matter, and these signs were not long overlooked by the enterprising men attracted to Suez by the opening of the canal and the movement of commerce in that direction. Recently numerous sound ings have been made between Jaffa and the Dead Sea, which, so far, have not disclosed, any deposits of coal proper, bur, on the other hand, have laid bare inexhaustible beds of lignite. “Of * itself this store of lignite is likely to prove an inestimable gain to tho industries and commerce of the Levant; but we should add that the juxtaposition of asphalt in groat quantities furnishes the elements of a mixture of lignite and asphaltum in the form of bricks, which is equal in heating capacity to tho richest bi tuminous coal, while its cost on the ground is only two dollars and fifty cents a ton. It is known that simi lar bricks, made up of coal dust and bituminous debris from gas works, are much sought after by French railways, since, beside?? their heating power, they greatly facilitate stow age, owing to their regular shape. Of course the bitumen of lower Palestine haw been known from im memorial times, and was used to im part solidity to the structures of un baked clay in Assy- ia and Egypt; but it may be sail! that the discovery of the subterranean combustible'has lifted once for all the curse which has so long rested upon Sodom anti Gomorrah, and will transform the wasted shore a of the Dead Sea into a foe as o i id a m jazin< hi wealth.” Duelling in France. The recent grotesque duel between Gambetta and Fourtoa has brought to mind other queer duels fought by Frenchmen, some of which are re hearsed in the Paris journals One of the queerest was fongkfc between Cazales and Barnave. In the assem bly the former, iu eloquent speech, called the left “brigands.” The lat ter replied that ho could take no no tice of a collective insult, but if ifc were personally applied he would feel bound to notice it. Of course Cazales gratified Barnave; but the in a tier was arranged by common friends. The next morning, how ever, Cazales called with Saint Si mon upon Barnave, saying: “I am , aid n _ expected as much, was the laconic reply. “When, where aud how?” “At the Bois, iu an hour, wi h pis tols.” Cazales insisted that his an tagonist should fire first. Barnave , mentioned by Cazales had not been intentional. They threw dice, at which Cazales : id he had no luck. Barnave won; lived at thirteen paces and missed. Twice Cazales’ pistol missed fire. “Pardon me for keep ing you waiting,” fie said, and his adversary rejoined, “I am here to wait.” When ho h.d missed his man the third time his second, Chas. de Lambeth, wanted the affair stopped, but B infc Simon was unwilling. Meanwhile the combatants were walking- about arm-in-arm, talking pleasantly together. “I should be very sorry to kill you,’’ remarked Cazales; “but you are greatly ia my way iu the assembly. Let me disa ble you from debating for the pres ent.” “You are more generous than I am,” responded Barnave, “in wish iug to let me off easily. You are the main support of your party; my party would hardly feel my loss.” Again Barnave won tha toss, and his adversary fell, shot iu the forehead, with the words, “This is what I came here for.” hi’., cocked hat had, how ever, broken the force of the bullet; the surgeon soon pronounced the wound not serious, which Cazales corroborated, adding: “And 10, the ass opened his mouth and spake.” He went home in Lambeth’s carri age, pre ffered as . ml ... than Saint Simon’s and iu a few weeks the combatants dined togei-h er, and spoke of their duel as ado lightful little reel -.-.cion. . A Boston Medium, who was ma terializing some spirits and banging around among a Pittsburg audience the other night, -.va : seized by a skep tical bufc mus cular young m in, who held on till tin-, lights were brought. : aud the fine art of materializing was exposed for the hundreth time. Nevertheless, enough people who delight to be humbugged can Ln got together anywhere m the United States to make tha business of the materializing medium very profitable. Ifc is said that black-eyed ladies are most apt to be passionate and jealous, B ue-eyed, affectionate and confiding Gray-ay. and | philosophical, literary, resolute, cold I hearted. Hazel-eyed, quick temper ed and fickle. Whab kind of. eye: ' have you got? Placed at P ar. New York; January 3—Tho pro. ■ event of resumption was celebrated at 10 o’clock by a salute of the navy yard, and as the ihyna sounded, the American flag was Aims' to tho breeze from all the governm-. -it buil dings. At the sub-treasury the men who presented gold ciriifica .. s answer* : the clerics question, “Gold or green back v?” with “Greenbacks are good enough for me,’’ or “Give me bilk ; what do I want with gold'?' 5 On* German said, Bills, bills; do you. want me to lug coin around?” The clerk said two hours ait., r he hr. 1 b. gun paying gold out, “Nobody \v ants it. We have received enormous quantities of gold certificate. • every one of the messengers do ami dec! either notes of larger denomiaa tions or clearing-house evGfieu There was little division of o; lu ion on the subject of gold as ■- work ing medium of exchange at par, and several bankers iuw eu that ih treasury gold balances would im; la tely increase in ead ol One national bank sent SIOO,OOO it gold to the sub-treasury. Some of the men about the gold-room, most of whose business lives have been identified with the traffic,looked w ~y much discouraged. The scene w,i almost laughable as the men wh< had entertained the hope that tiler might be a small speculative, or a f lest a loan market after to-day, sat and gazed at the word “par,” which stood on the black-1 in the larg est letters that . hat t lit!Til eouv of information could hold. Rev-fix Mersereau sao behind ;i desk vine he has occupied for fourteen years in the gold exchange and gold room jointly, but his day’s work \v sum med up in the line, “Gold, 10 a. m., 100, flat,” fir nothing bad been ad ded to it. There was not a sale an 1 not a question. At twenty minutes to 12 o’clock he said: “I have or ders from the governing committee to shut up the shop, and here gov-.” He dictated to a reporter: “Gold flat at par and no sales.” Then be thumped the yellow ivory keys of his ' pulled a sliding over them, shut hie desk, and, as he slipped the key in his pocket, added: “There, you’v; seen the end of it. Nobody wants gold, and those who want to sell it can get cash at il- s banks or tr. .*. *.■ ry,’’ A Fiddle Against a Carpet-Bag. Robert L. Taylor, congressman elect of a Tennessee district, not : and won his election, but also a bride. The fair creature who-a he wooed be fore he won the caucus registered an oath that tniiesK he .v. :;x ofix tion auo would none of him. It w a, discouraging out look, foi Ta.yloi was nominated by the democrats in a district famishing usually a ILoubii can majority of 2,500. He was a mere boy,, while his opponent was a skilled politician who had carpet bagged into the country. Besides, Tayloy had but $5 for a camp fund—ljj of the latter spring eim ributed i - election. His opponent was not popular, and Taylor, whoi 1 acterized as a “beardless boy that fid dles,” won some republican support. His cause was taken up wiki so muon warmth that ho was not under the necessity of drawing upon ids ah vlv pile. He talked and Addle i his way through the district, the violin figur ing as an incident of the strife !>• cause of the opponent’s gratuiton sneer at the musical accomplishment - of the young man. In opening hi campaign Taylor approached ILx speaker’s stand with a violin in one hand and a carpet-bag in toe other, saying that the serious charge had ben made against him that no was a fiddler. Laying fiddle and carpet bag side by side he iv .■ ! bis audi ence to choose. The boys took the music, the opposition majority was overcome, a victory of fifteen hun dred was achieved for Taylor, •! x soon as he received his certificate he secured his b> ide, o niece of Govern or Vance, of N. rth Carolina.—Chica go Times. Polygamy Proscribe;!. The Supreme court of the Unit*. ,1 States has emphahicftVy declared ia the case of Reynolds, the muchly married mau who mads the issue, that religious freedom “was not in tended to prohibit legislation ia re spect to marriage.” It is a travt sfcie upon religion for a sensual brute calling him ma t to and trample under foot that law ol Jehovah which creates the sex* equal in number, obviously de signing that one woman should be the help meet, and only one, for each man. When it is otherwise, the gentle sox degenerates into mere slaves and playthings for their masculine lords, and every principle of right virtue and propriety is violated. Polygamy means the utter de thronement and degradation of wo man. It is just and proper, there fore, that it should be visited with the severest pan allies. But the ques tion obtains how, iu a country like that of the Mormons, where society, and like as not the majority of the jury and and counsel on both sides in every legal case, hove more or less a half dozen wives, can the United States law La enforce !? It is simply impossible unices a change ox venue is ordered and ; in parties are all transported i,u old set tlements of tho Union for Inal. This could hardly be Ime iu the case oi every lecherous Mormon, whore there are thousands of taut ilk who are not content to worship at a single wifely le, bub a harem like a Turk. We only wish this iniquity coui 1 be . moked out ul tarly eradicated, but the way is not plain to do it. But at least it is well for the highest tribunal of the land to denounce and condemn this great est of Crimea against society, and tin mothers, wives and sweethearts of s virtuous people. —Macon Telegraph & Messenger. Dr. F- A. Beall, a well known drag gist of Augusta, is dead. News.in General. Mr. Hartridge was insured in the “New York Life’’ for ten thousand dollars. Columbus will soon have new houses in place of those recently burned Mr. H. W. J. Hnr . is now on the staff of the Sunday Phonograph, pub lished in Atlanta. Old citizens of Ocmmbos say the late Arctic s *ll is the severest over felt in that latitude.. Macon is still enjoying a lively strug k* between the contestants for the mavorality of that city. Dr. Bright Miller, aged 68, and an ■ i citizen t of Stewart county, died h.sfc week in Lumokiu, Ga. Jmlg .W. Montgomery, ex-Jus tice of fu9 Supreme court, will soon become a citizen of Atlanta. Mr Zichariah Felton and Miss L hi v, two w t eiLzens of Bukov county, died lash week. Besik at fever has been raging in New York, and as many as 180 de tths arc recorded in one week. Miss Jeuness, of Pembroke, N. H. is the right kind of an anut. Christ ve two i $25,- 000 apiece. Dr. Barlow, a big hearted, liberal gentleman and an old citizen of Americas has recently died, to tho great sorrow of ail who know him. Gov. Robinson's recent message to the. Now York 'legislature shows that State in a belter financial con dition than it has enjoyed for years. Tho Savannah News come to us clad in mourning for the loss of its follow citizen., onr distinguished rep rex illative in too lower branch of congress from the First District of Georgia. Dab!-, nega is , nag to re-erect her agricultural college, ana Professor Beck he- gone north after a now set a: arat n . Tinf aiming of the old budding nped the exercises of tho college only one day. AUant” ’n Mortality.—The Constitu tion dates -..‘tat the numb sr of inter ments in Atlanta for 1878 was eight huudi :d an nineto-'.u, of whom there were 377 powers, 322 of whom wore negroes and 55 whites. The following are the new county officers of Gwumett county: clerk, Havgood; sheriff, Wheeler; tax col k'ct.uy Garner; tax receiver, Cham : ?r, King; Coroner, Pe ter,-; surveyor, Suddeth. Novel Bifid .i Present —Columbus Tim is: '■ /■: wei jat a funny wedding t’n ;of her nigh- The groom was a prominent member of u neighboring I very ex. bio, and the only bri dal present was a young mule. State T;ex ur ■ Renfros -as been in New Y-hxc : i has made a con v fi ; bin American bank note con.. •iu ■;-*■* . . .do new 4 per cent. cn..iu3 It is : nought they will be i xdy to be issued by the Ist of February. Congre,- sm-in Gustave Schleicher of the 6th Texas district died iu Washington on Friday last, three days after Hon. Julian Hartridge’s death. He is said to said to have h : : a splendid man and a faithful representative. A preacher-lawyer, Rev. Joan G. : on the S. G. AN. A. R. R. and B. F. McCol ium, Esq., of Hampton, had a diffi culty at the former place last week, in Widen Cue first gentleman was badly used up. “Why does lightning bo rarely ice?” Prof. Worfcmau as.red the now boy in the class in na | >hy. “Why,” said the new boy, “it never needs to.” Ac iil 3r. little singular that nobody had thought of that reason before. A Chinaman in. California, whose If a aount, was s-xioirfiy hurt by falling from a wagon ifiiera was some doubt of his aver get ling better, and at length o >e of nio dieods wrote to the insur ance company, "Charlee naif dead, liken half money.” This is a story of what happened not ag fine :• in tli Pi oe Tree Stato. Anew Baptist conve.- wished very much to be baptised by one minister • went to the first an 1 asked him if it could be done. “Yes,” he replied, “I could to it, but I don’t take in wash ing.” The ofivr any an Irishman was pa Gog • grave yard, where be saw two men, friends of a countryman ) V :ju-j and 1. -Th y were seek in for a burial lot. “Who’s deal?” fin asked. “John O'Leary,” was the reply. “When did ho die?” “Yesterday.” “Weil, bedad he had a foiae day for it.’’ Recently Prof Simon Newcomb, of t n N tval Observatory, attended a wedding. Aider the ceremony ho ad vanced, with others, to pay uis re spects to Ike bri i ■). 11-. xaook hands x h the bride and groom, but never - I A iafk( and: “Why Ji n't. you say something to the bride?” “Why, responded the scien tist, “I did not' Lii:il; I had any new facts to impart.” There were over fifty women, rep res. ni g almost every class of socie ty, at tho Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday, charged with druu- L.-nxc-es or disorderly conduct. The apology, in every case, was “Ladies’ Day: we were making cal*3.” “Ladies’ would re peat; “I am gi M ;i t imoa only once a year, for such exhibitions a.-, this are by no m- :-is entertaining,”— N. Y. Tribune, 4 Lh. . “Ju Gt or Prawu ~ has a horse, ‘Bob L ie,” whhih twice every day drives his cow along Main street to the Big Skiing Be inch, to water, and returns with L r as \,i omptiy and cirefully as a man or boy could do the same service All that is utseas sary is to put a br.dlo on Bob Lee ■ when he starts, if the cow shows a iiipcvidon to turn mom the ain route, he soon turns her back.” NO. 3.