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«j jiat* bod twenty thousand prisoners
psas through my hands/' said the keeper
of Canterbury (Eng.) jail, "since I hare
been keeper of this jail, but, though I
bare inquired, I hare not found one tee
totaler among them.”
A. yTT.wi.mtxs chap kissed his girl
about forty times right straight along,
Ond when he stopped the tears came into
her eyes and she said in a sad tone of
roice: "Ah! John, I fear you hare
ci paired to lore me.” "No I haven't,” re
plied John, "hut I must breathe.”
A Detboit citizen who met an eld ac
quaintance on the street asked why he
wore a weed on his hat. "For my poor
•wife who haa passed OTer the river,” was
t&e melancholy reply. "Well, can’t she
anna back—aren’t the ferryboats run
ning P” was the surprised query. The
roan had to explain.
Sock has bee* the increase of busi
ness by the change of guage on the
Bichmond and Atlanta Air-Line railroad;
thff. it has been found necessary to im
mediately add one hundred freight cars
to the rolling stock. The Tredegar
yfdrkt, at Richmond, Va., is now filHng
all order for forty of these cars.
Bt the laws of Wisconsin every woman
of the age of twenty-one years and up
ward may be elected to the office of di
rector, treasurer and clerk of school dis
trict*; director and secretary of town
boards, under the township system of
sohool government; member of a board
of education in cities, and county super
intendent of schools.
1 ‘ ny’* 1
Sirs the San Antonio Herald: Here
after we shall publish a list of the names
of those who go-a-fishing on the Lord’s
day and fail to send U3 a string of trout.
Perch and suckero have too many bones
ip them to allow U3 to forget that the
moral element of our population look to
the press to eradicate this growing dese
cration of the Sabbath.
Thx property of “Boss Tweed,” lately
attached in New York, includes the mag
nificent stables of the great ring-master,
fitted np with walnut trimmings and el
egantly furnished. Tweed had private
rooms above hi3 horses, where he met
T|ig friendB to concoct plans for plunder
ing the city, and drink deliciously flavor
ed punch from a huge silver bowl.
The Woman's Journal puts an argu
ment in this shape: “In the town of
Concord one-fifth of all the taxes is paid
by women. The town has voted to ex
pend 110,000 upon this celebration. In
other words, the men of Concord have
taken from the women of Concord $2,000
without their consent, and have spent it
ik celebrating the principle "that taxa
tion without representation is tyranny.’ ”
During a single day last week eight
and a half tons of fine silver bar3 were
shipped to Philadelphia from the new
Assay Office. The quantity stated in
tons sounds enormons, but when the
value is given at only $300,000, the fact
seems scarcely worthy of remark. A ton
of standard gold is worth $542,000, bnt of
silver the trifling sum of $35,000. It is
surmised that the design is to use this
silver in the redemption of the ten cent
fractional currency, 03 the first step to
ward speeie payment when the condition
of the Federal treasury warrants.
Steps are being taken by several of the
States and Kingdoms of Europe to effect
an extensive substitution of gold for sil
ver in current use as a circulating me
dium. There has been recently issued in
Germany 1,114,000,000 marks in gold
coin, and a still greater amount is to bo
put in circulation. A mark is equivalent
to about 24 cents. Belgium is putting
out gold coin at the rate of 40,000,000
franc annually. In Holland $130,000,000
gold coin is needed, and France imported
last year 431,004,000 francs’ worth of gold
more than she exported. Of course such
movements will materially affect the rela
tive market Taluo of gold and silver in
the markets of the world.
Under the head of “The Presidential
Gewgaw” the Springfield (Uass.) Eepub-
lican shows up the folly of the ambition
for the presidency which prevails in so
many ardent brains. It suggests that
the field of our past history is a good one
for profitable reflection on this subject.
The popular race-horse stands an even
chance for immortality with most of the
occupants hitherto of the executive chair.
"It would movo the soul of any man to
go amoung the bones of its dead politi
cians and see how very dead they are.
But one shudders to think how many
Presidents we shall lay away and forget
in the next thousand years, and how it
will tax the brain of the poor school boy
of the future to commit the list to mem
ory. We are making them at the rate of
about one in four years, which is much
faster than wo produce great men.”
The “Cold Snap” in Maryland.
The Baltimore Sun, of Tuesday, says
"the cold snap of the past three or four
days has done considerable damage to
early fruit and vegetables in this State.
Governor Bowie reports that at his
place in Prince George’s county the fro3t
of Saturday night killed all the early
strawberries, and what is worse in a com
mercial point of view, destroyed the
young tobacco plants. In tho county
around Baltimore os well as in tho sub
urbs and in the city, the buds of apricot
trees which are in bloom wero destroyed.
Ico was formed half an inch thick in tho
city, even in protected places, Sanday
night, and serious damage must have
beendono to early fruit and vegetables
everywhere throughout Maryland.
Numerous orders were received yester
day by Baltimore houses from Maryland
and Virginia truckers for beans, peas,
otc., for replanting, to replace the crops
nipped by the recent cold spell. There
was a considerable advance in tho prices
for early vegetables here in consequence
of the unfavorable reports. Seven hnn-
dren boxes of green peas received on the
Charleston steamer were nearly all frost
bitten on the vessel and sold at one-third
the market price.
At tho coming Memorial Celebration
ntHacon, Ga., Mr. Washington Dessau
is to deliver the address. We trust the
occasion will m no other sense prove a
Dessau-derly one.—Veto Fork Commercial
Advertiser.
"Shoothim on the spot,” must be the
unanimous verdict of all who read this
execrable pun;
Tlie^JTortliern Winter.
/A dispatch from Geneva, N. Y., from
A nurseryman in that plaoe, says that as
the result of the earth-freeze of last win
ter, which was four to six feet deep, their
choicest fruit tree*, pears, plums, cher
ries, etc., have been killed, and that is
the case with the trade generally in that
section. Gentlemen, we will not say "go
West;’’ for there it will be worse still;
but oome South to a latitude where your
investments will he secure against such
fatal mischances.
A country where the earth freezes solid
sir feet deep ix really not adapted to
comfortable habitation. One who has
not witnessed the effect of such freezes
scarcely imagine them. It is often
difficult to protect a large class of food
supplies from destruction by freezing.
Fowls and all kinds of domestic animals
suffer intensely from the cold, and are
often badly frost-bitten, while it requires
much expensive precaution and high
feeding to keep them in passable condi
tion.
For four or five months of the year the
people live in a state of hibernation, and
handicraft requiring ont-door exposure is
either wholly suspended or greatly inter
rupted. The mechanical results of snch
solid and deep freezes are very damaging.
Nothing can resist their force. The
ground in tho first instance is greatly
contracted by the frost so as to break into
deep fissures with frequent noises as loud
as the explosion of heavy cannon, and
cracks are left around the rocks or a solid
stone wall, into which the hand can be in
serted. Tho frozen earth becomes so im
pacted and solid that littlo or no impres
sion cun be made on it even with the pick
axe, and it is a common custom to prao-
termit the burying of the dead on this
account till spring time.
When the Spring thaw comes, then
comes trouble in earnest. The hardest
McAdamized roads ore then tossed np
from the depths of tho lowest frost, and
the force of this upheaval is nearly
as irresistible as the the contraction.
All superstructures not having a founda
tion below the frost line are thrown
awry—-out of plumb and level. Walls
and fences are all askew. Bailway
tracks are terribly discomposed. The
highways take the appearance of deeply
ploughed earth, and with the spring rains
are softened into quagmires, which will
bed a wagon to tho oxle-treo.
Bnt true it is that the people of the
most sterile regions and coldest climates
of the earth are a3 much attached to
their homes as any others. Born to
theso ills and knowing by experience no
better country, they desire no other.
Hardship and comfort are practically
only comparative tcrm3, and what comes
as a matter of courso we almost cease to
regard as an evil. It is on evil, though,
to livo in any country where if a man
happens to be lost or belated he is in
great danger of freezing to death, and
where life itself is a perpetual fight
against cold.
The “ Enfostment ” Acts.
A special telegram from Washington
to the New York Sun reiterates tho state
ment made the other day by tho Evening
Post, that the Supremo Bench, by a de
cisive majority, will sustain Judge Brad
ley’s decision in tho Louisiana case, and
affirm the unconstitutionality of tho en
forcement acts and declare them void;
bnt the decision will not be rendered un
til the Fall Term.
While every friend of Constitutional
government will rejoice in the prospect
that this kind of Federal usurpation will
soon be set aside, we repeat our great re
gret at the delay in announcing tho de
cision, which it seems to U3 will work
much inconvenience and harm. That
delay gives the Federal Government one
moro chance to raid the Southern States
in election times, and keeps alive the
vexatious prosecutions under tho civil
rights bill, which, if not by the express
judgment of the court, will by necessary
and inevitable implication sot aside tho
civil rights bill also. The decision of
Judge Bradley in the court below is fatal
to that whole class of legislation, wherein
the Federal Government undertakes to
exercise police jurisdiction OTer the citi
zens of the States, and will make it all a
dead letter, if it bo sustained by tbe Su
premo Court. The whole batch of Con
stitutional amendments forced upon the
country by the Radicals will therefore
practically die out with this decision and
cease to bo thought of as matters of
grievance or danger. Unless tho State
governments, by some legal action under
take to deny the political and civil rights
of the negro, there will be no further
issue at law on the subject.
Cbeap Trains.
St. Louis, say3 the Democrat of that city,
baa a population much greater than that
of Boston; yet the Eastern railroad of
Massachusetts runs “cheap trains” to
and from Boston, taking passengers for
five cento each, whether they travel one
mile or eleven. The object of this expe
riment was to bnild up suburban towns
and villages, and hence secure a large and
permanent increase of local traffic. It
was presumed at tbe outset that these
trains would be run at a loss, and for a
short time they were. But tho enormous
increase of travel within a single year
made these trains nearly pay expenses
directly, while, if the increase of other
traffic thereby caused could be estimated,
it is probable that tbe result would be a
handsome balance in favor of the compa
ny, oven on the first year’s business.
This increase was very remarkable
The cheap trains began to run November
4,1872, and during that month had only
3,067 passengers. In December the
number doubled. In May it had more
than doubled again. In August 22,957
persons wero transported to and from
Boston, only two trains being run on this
plan—one into tho city early in tho
morning, and another back at night. The
morning train averaged 400 passengers,
and the evening train 300. For eleven
miles, thm would average §2 22 per train
mile in the morning, and $1 77 per train
mile in tho evening, and the average cost
of passenger service on that road was
only $1 33 per train mile. It is fair to
say, however, that this traffic was greater
in tho summer than in the succeeding
winter, and fell to 15,900 passengers in
the month of November, 1873—and aver
age of only $15 a trip, and about $1 45
per train mile. It should also be admit
ted that these trains, being composed of
a large number of cars, and stopping at
many local stations, were more costly to
run per mile than tbe ordinary passen
ger trains,
Thx Savannah Advertiser states that
•MV Jacob "Waterman, clerk for Messrs.
Weisbein A Co., dry goods merchants of
that city, has been missing since Mon
day. Between $500 and $700 are also
non erf. He is supposed to have gone
North.
Thx Chronicle and Sentinel has theso
items:
Burned to Death.—A shocking acci
dent occurred near McBean last Friday
night. A colored man named Oscar
Bream shut np his house, a small shanty,
and taking his wife with him, went visit
ing in the neighborhood, leaving their
two children, one aged eight. and the
other eleven years, in the building. Dur
ing their absence the house caught fire
and was consumed. Both children were
burned to death, and their bones were
afterwards found among the ashes.
Fibb Nxab Clarksville.—We regret
to learn that the residence of Mr. Robert
W. Roberson, formerly of this city, lo
cated in Habersham county, four miles
from Clarksville, was destroyed by fire
last Saturday about half-past four o’clock.
The fire commenced in toe attic, and bad
attained snch headway before it was dis
covered that nothing could be done to
arrest it* progress. The building was
burned to the ground in thirty minute*.
The piano, silver, books and some fur
niture, provisions and clothing, were
saved. Mrs. Mary Roberson, Miss Lizzie
Walton and Mr. William Carmichael lost
nearly their clothing, which was in
the upper part of the house where the
fire first caught. Total loss is between
$3,000 and $4,000. Insurance, $2,000.
Mr. Roberson had only -been in his new
home about two weeks. X
Thx Constitutionalist, of Wednesday,
announces that Messrs. Jas. G. Bailie, F.
Cogin and Geo. T. Jackson are now tbe
owners of that paper—they having pur
chased its franchise, good will and outfit
Also that Mr. Jas. B. Randall will remain
as editor in chief and that Mr. H- C.
Stevenson, formerly of this city, succeeds
Capt. Geo. Adam, as business manager.
Wb learn from the Atlanta Herald that
Gov. Smith ha3 authorised Gen. A. B.
Lawton, of Savannah, to negotiate a loan
of $250,000 for tho State.
Wx quote as follows from the same
paper:
Stabbing Affray.—An unfortunate
stabbing affair occurred about 10 30
o’clock last night, on Forsyth street,
near the railroad crossing, between John
Bard, son of Postmaster Sam’l Bard,
and William Spencer, son of ex-Mayor
Spencer, in which Bard cut Spencer very
seriously in tho side, near the region of
the spine. Mr. Spencer was carried to
Dr. Miller’s residence, where the wound
was examined, and not thought to bo
dangerous. Bard was arrested and car
ried to toe station honso.
Thx Sin of Political Trading.—Wo
print elsewhere a very strong and pointed
interview with Mr. Hill, in which he
makes some very grievious charges. Wo
happen to know, as far as any human
evidence this sido of actual knowledge
/-an inform us, that Mr. Hill may sub
stantiate some very ugly charges of pro
posed buying and selling. Only one of
these charges need be mentioned just
now. He can prove by tbe best of wit
nesses, that offers wero mado to his
friends in Gainesville, that if he would
withdraw his name from tho Congre3
sional race, that Bell’s friends, many of
them being presenc, and assenting whpn
the offer was mode, would support him
for the next term of tho United States
Senate, bringing tbe solid Ninth district
to his support, and that if he persisted
in vanning for Congress they would op
pose him for the Senate. The names of
the men who made this offer (and there
are enough of them to give it tho force
of an authorized proposition) Mr. Hill
will tell the people on the stump. He
will give the names of bis witnesses and
the circumstances under which tho va
rious offers were made.
Aiter the Club Men—What thx
Grand Jdry Has Done.—Never since
the day that the city was flooded with
postal cards endeavoring to connect
many of our best and purest citizens
with intrigues and liasons, has the social
system of Atlanta been in such a fer
ment. " What the Grand Jury did last
week," is tho all-absorbing topic of con
versation. Upon inquiry as to what they
did, we find that tho Grand Jury has
found nearly one hundred true bills for
gaming. Many of our best citizens are
among the number reported. Private
club rooms have been entered and tho
members indicted. Imitating other largo
cities, Atlanta has lately established sev
eral social male clubs. The purposes of
theso club3 are for recreation and enjoy
ment. They have fitted up elegant,
comfortable club-rooms where tho mem
bers meet at night to smoke, lounge,
gossip, play cards, chess, draughts, etc.
These club rooms are very private. Ev
ery member bos a key, and no ono is
allowed in the rooms except a member of
the club or some gentleman who is
vouched for by tho members admitting
him. Hundreds of our best and wealth
iesb citizens belong to these clubs. Ac
cording, to our information there are
four of’ these clubs in tho city, and
they are all composed exclusively of
gentlemen. When it hocame public that
the secresy of the club-rooms had been
invaded and that true bills had been
found against club-men, many surmises
were made as to how these unforbiding
secrets became public; some thought
tho officers of the courts were responsible
for the true bills, os they were interested
in every case by virtue of their costs.
Many laid the charges of having publicity
given to the matter at the doors of tho
sporting men of the city; others thought
the veil of secresy had been drawn from
in front of the club-room door by some
disaffected member wbo came to grief at
one of toe night school sessions of tho
club; but further developments proved
that, as in many other cases, a lady was
at the bettom of all tbe mischief, and
that toe Grand Jury bad their attention
called to toe club-rooms by a communi
cation, in n lady bandwriting, addressed
to that body. After it became generally
known that these true bills had been
found, tho next question wa3, “what dis
position will bo mado of the cases?”
Tho general impression was that the in
dicted parties would keep tho matter
quiet by paying a nominal fine and tbe
costs to compromise tho cases, but one
after another of tho gentlemen fretted
"under the yoke of oppression that
was placed on their shoulders by tho
officers of thf» courts,” as they termed
it, and declared their intention of pay
ing no more “hush money.” Ono of
them remarked, “I will go to trial and
when on the stand more as a justification
of my character than a hope of having
my fine reduced, I will give the names of
those with whom I havo played to show
that my association in what they call vice
was (with gentlemen. I will go oven
farther and tell who decoyed me in my
first’gambling saloon.” This, as might
naturally be expected created an immense
stir, and redoubled efforts were mado to
hush the matter up; and as an evidence
of the feeling the matter produced, the
foreman of too grand jury, wbo is an in
surance agent, bad about $35,000 worth of
business taken out of bis bands in one
day, and it is positively asserted by
friends, to club-men, that over $60,000
more worth of business will be taken
out of his hands as soon as the matter has
blown over. One of our leading citzens
remarked yesterday, if toe following card
was posted all over too city, too men
whose names wero on tho card would bo
ruined forever.
The Louvre purchased, for a sum of
4,000 francs, five splendid specimens of
Persian faience at therecont Sechan sale.
The Cluny and Sevre3 museums likewise
made some valuable acquisitions of the
same beautiful ware.
This is the Grand Jury that :
found true bill against toe mem- :
bersof the private clubs of Atlanta. :
*
The next rumor is that Solicitors of
toe two courts—city and county—had
met tbe clnb men and agreed to use
their influence to carry the cases before
the City Courts instead of before Judge
Hopkins, and that they likewise agreed
not to charge tbe tried parties any costs.
To-day we hear that Judge Hopkins has
refused to transfer tbe cases to the City
Courts.
Wx find the following letter in the At
lanta Constitutions
Thohasvtllx, Feb. 17,1875.
Hon. John Jones, Treasurer of the State of
Georgia,
Dear Sir—The Forty-third Congress
of the United States at toe close of its
last session, passed a law which was ap
proved by the President, raising tbe sal
aries of toe President, Judges of tbe Su
preme Court and members of Congress,
with an allowance of $5,000 to each mem
ber of that Congress over and above the
then salary, subject to a deduction of the
mileage and other extras allowed the
members; the letter, however, of the
law being properly denominated “back
pay.” As a member of that Congress, I
voted against the measure. Owing to
the latter provision of the law and the
late term of the session when tho bill be
came a law, the officer authorized to set
tle with the members was not prepared
to do so when the Congress expired on
the 4th of March, 1873. In common
with other members I left with that offi
cer an authority to forward tho amount
when ascertained what might appear to
be due. Several weeks thereafter I re
ceived three thousand nine hundred and
thirty dollars and eighty sent* ($3,930 80).
After the law was passed, and before I
left toe authority to forward the money,
considered the question of receiv
ing this money carefully, and I did
not doubt my legal right to draw
and use tho money. Looking to
the history of Georgia since toe
war, especially tbe history of reconstruc
tion, I could not see that there was any
moral obligation resting on me to leave
the fund in the Federal treasury, for I
could but believe and feel that the
Federal government was responsible for
all losses incurred by the State, arising
out of the maladministration of the 8tate
government by Governor Bullock and
bis associates. Looking to the fact that
the casting of this fund upon me in oppo
sition to my vote, was one of the inci
dents of the office which I was then fill
ing, I felt that it might be possible that
the moral right of the people of Georgia
to this fund was better than my own. _ I
determined to draw the money and dis
pose of it as I now do. But before the
fund reached me the clamor against those
who received, os well as those who voted
for, the “back pay” became so great
that I determined to hold it until the
clamor should subside. Now, that the
clamor has subsided, I do with it as I
originally intended, and enclose to you
the $3,930 80, to be deposited in the
State treasury and disposed of *3 the law
making power may direct. I have but
one regret about this matter, and that is
that I did not have tbe authority at the
time, by tbe sanction of a law, to draw
from tbe Federal treasury enough money
to pay the entire debt of the State of
Georgia. Eespectfully,
A. T. McIntyre.
The proprietor of tho Columbus En
quirer Sun stere that paper for sale “ow
ing to business connections formed in
tho North that require his presence there
for the greater part of the year."
The same paper reports the sale of tho
'John King Steam Factory” last Tues
day for $18,010 to Major B. J. Moses,
who, it is understood, acted as agent for
Mr. J. Rhodes Brown. Tho "property
consists of about a half an acre lot, a two
story brick building for machinery,
wooden office and packing room; one
steam engine and boiler (forty horse), 22
self-etripping cards, 1,900 Whitten spin
dles, and necessary accompaniments to
make all sizes of yarns from No. 5 to 20,"
and can make 1,100 pounds of yarn per
day.
The Columbus Times ha3 a special from
Montgomery stating that Bill Seats, who
killed Iris brother at Hamilton, .Harris
county, about ono year ago, is in that city
'dead broke,” and wants the sheriff to
come after him
Wb get the following from tho same
paper:
Death of Col. R. S. Hardaway.—
Yesterday, (Tuesday) afternoon Col. B,
S. Hardaway, an old and well known citi
zen, died in Linwood, at too residence of
Mr. C. E. Johnston. Col. Hardaway was
78 years of age. He was born in Vir
ginia, but has lived in Columbus for moro
than thirty years past. Prior to his resi
dence here he lived in Alabama, and wa3
a member of both branches of the State
Legislature. Ho was the first President
of tho Mobile and Girard railroad, and
filled many positions of honor and re
sponsibility. Ho was a consistent mem
ber of toeMethodiBt Church, and was es
teemed by all who knew him, as a Chris
tian gentleman.
From tho Athens Watchman: Tho
Southern Mutual Insurance Company
will soon erect a handsome and spacious
building. It’s business has largely in
creased—too assets amounting, at pres
ent, to over $500,000.
Athens will soon have a new factory
for toe production of jeans, satinets, etc.,
and also to do a general wool carding
business.
The Watchman tears tho lato cold snap
has destroyed all, or nearly all of the
plums, peaches, pears, apples and cher
ries in that section, to say nothing of
strawberries, raspberries and other small
fruits.
The Athens Georgian i3 informed that
there aro at least five hundred beavers on
two plantations in that county. It also
states that the total taxable property of
Athens on the 13th instant aggregates
$1,586,038 of which $89,525 i3 owned by
negroes. Real estate improvements with
in tho past year are valued at more than
$50,000.
The Fort Valley Mirror says Mr. Watt3,
tho young lawyer who killed Dr. Ogle-
tree at Knoxville a few days since, has
been discharged from custody after a
preliminary examination by a board of
magistrates.
The same paper says Joel R. Oriffin
has been down to "Savannah endeavor
ing to hatch up true bills against John
M. Walden, George Muttart, Charley
Byington. Joo and Doc Hall, A. L. Mil
ler, and W. E. Collier, of this place, and
J. B. Walton, of Byron, E. J. Thomas,
of York, W. H. Norwood and J. W. Mann,
of Perry. A number of persons, princi
pally managers of election for Congress
last October, havo been before the grand
jury at Savannah, and from evidence
elicited from these witnesses, not a single
true bill wa3 found against any of tho
parties said to havo violated tho enforce
ment law.”
We learn from the Brunswick Adver
tiser that Capt. George IL Hazlehurst is
now “loading a vessel at our wharf with
cross-ties for the Erie railroad, Now
York. Wo learn ho has a contract for
supplying 20,000 per month.”
TnEpmctico of placing down boards
in toe mud i3 revived this spring. It is
a good idea. Tho board always warp3
downward in the centre, leaving the ends
sticking np about six inches above tho
walk. The hastening pedestrian comes
along in toe dark and picks up one end
of the board on his instep and shoves it
along some six feet, the other leg all the
while trying to get a foothold and con
trol itself. Then the board swings off
and catches him on the shin of that leg,
and after an almost herculean effort to
recover himself he goes down with dread
ful force, striking on his elbow with one
arm and shoving the other in the mud
half way to hi3 shoulder. If the owner
of the premises should be killed by
lightning in the first thunder-storm, that
man would cheerfnlly lose a day’s work
to attend the funeral.—Danbury News.
Tbe European War Cloud.
From the Nashville Union.J
That the German empire should seek
to absorb the Netherlands for the sake
of obtaining outlets to toe sea and har
bors is which to perfect her new and
costly navy, would be quite comprehen
sible. Bnt that Germany should fear
little Belgium, or be compelled to ask
her active aid in the work of self-protec
tion, appears absurd. And yet the latter
is the attitude voluntarily assumed by
the Berlin government, and its inherent
absurdity is the very element that alarms
other nations. Another diplomatic note
has been forwarded to Brussels, announc
ing that Germany is about to enact new
laws for tbe better protection of foreign
countries against the intrigues of Ger
man subjects, and asking Belgium to
imitate the example by enacting similar
laws to restrain those within her domin
ion. Bismarck writes suavely: " The Bel
gian government is best aware of the par
liamentary difficulties in tho way of com
pliance, but it must at the same time be
convinced that the first thing to be done
is to reconsider tho necessity of affording
some redress, whereas the examination of
difficulties is of secondary importance.”
Germany here talks like one who has
been hurt by her little neighbor, and is
entitled to "redress.” If the present
liberal constitution which makes Bel
gium a neutral territory where all politi
cal sinners find refuge, does not permit
the enactment of the laws demanded,
BismarSfc’s logic i3 that the constitution
must be altered to suit his purposes. All
this in the name of peace! An impartial
observer would be disposed to think that
if the promised German law be so framed
as t: protect foreign countries against
the intrigues of one German subject,
namely, Bismarck, the peace of Europe
would be amply assured. But we forget
—Bismarck, being a prince, may not
consider himself a subject, and the world
recalls the proberb, "Put not your trust
in princes.”
Monday’s issue of the National Gasette,
published at Berlin, states that Austria
and Russia will support Germany in her
demand on Belgium. This is of courso
premature; Russia might do so for her
own gain, bnt Austria will not eat dirt
till driven. Nevertheless, the situation
is sufficiently alarming to have occupied
toe attention of both houses of the Brit
ish Parliament Monday night. In the
Commons Premier Disraeli stated that so
long ago as January, 1870, Bismarck had
suggested that England should join Prus
sia in a strong remonstrance to Belgium
against the conspiracies of Ultramontane
and Jesuit refugees to mar the peace of
Germany. We hare no reason to doubt
Disraeli’s statement, but if Bismarck?*
Belgian bugaboo be of such long stand
ing he ought to get over his scare by this
time. All the plots of Ultramontanea
and JesuitB in January, 1870, did not pre
vent the Catholic soldiers of Bavaria and
other southern States from doing their
full duty at Weissembourg, Gravelott and
many a bloody field in July of the same
year. Earl Granville followed Disraeli
with the expression of hope that Bismarck
would not press Belgium to go beyond
the limits of her constitution.
In the House of Lords Earl Bussell
asked whether the Prueso-Belgian cor
respondence bad been terminated, and
whether toe peace of Europe was endan
gered. Lord Derby replied that, while
he had the assurance of the German Em
bassador that this second note was con
ceived in a very friendly spirit, yet it
“would be premature to express an opin
ion on the merits of the question, os
England had not been formally applied
to.” This would indicate that England
proposes to let Bismarck do his own
thinking until such time as he may come
to her for advice. After sued: avowal, Der
by’s assurance that “tbe British Govern
ment values the independence of Belgium
and the peace of Europe, but is happy to
think neither is in danger,” amounts to
little. Tbe simple situation is that Bis
marck can precipitate a general war
whenever ho pleasQS, and whether it be
near or distant he will pick his own time.
Jack Frost’s'Work at Charles
ton.
The News and Courier of Tuesday says :
The lato cold weather culminated on
Saturday and Sunday nights last in tho
occurrence of a killing frost, in thi3
vicinity, which has seriously damaged
and in somo spots completely killed the
promising crop of sea island cotton and
vegetables in this neighborhood. Gn
Saturday a high westerly wind prevailed
all day and continued during the night,
tho prevalence of tho wind apparently
lessening the action of the frost, for on
Sunday vegetation did not generally
look to be seriously hurt, although its
appearanco in localities was then bad;
but on Sunday evening the wind having
calmed down, tho frosty action during
Sunday night and Monday morning pro
duced a withering effect on cotton and
vegetables, while planters and truckera
who looked at their fields at sunrise on
Monday wero quite saddened by toe
damaging change which had taken place.
On Charleston Neck tho vegetables
have sustained a large percentage of
injury, perhaps slightly varying in
localities, but generally heavy; toe
potatoo crop suffering to the extent
of one-fourth, snap bean3 one-half, green
peo3 one-half, toa|§toes a large propor
tion of the crop, while cucumbers and
other tender vegetables are nearly a com
plete loss. In St. Andrew’s Parish, Christ
Church and James Island tho injury haa
been equally severe, and the loss to farm
ers will, it is feared, bo very serious, as
they planted largely; but while the pres
ent look of the vegetable crop is so very
unpromising, it is to be hoped that a few
days of genial weather will rather im
prove tho present dismal outlook, and
that toe final result will be better than
is now expected. The sea island cotton,
which had made a fair start, has been, it
is reported, entire cut down, ice having
been noticed on the extreme eastern limit
of James Island, near the seashore, which
prohabahly indicates the killing of the
present stand as far down a3 Savannah.
The quantity of good seed to be had is
scarce, and planters of the long staple
will find it difficult, even where they have
the means to procure sufficient seed, un
less at great expense, to replant entirely.
—»
Mr. Willis Carpenter, of Evansville,
Ind., has decided upon a step which will
placo him among toe great philanthro
pists of tho world. Ho announces that
ho will give $1,000,000 to found a free
college for poor students, clothing, tui
tion and food to be furnished for nothing.
Provision is mado for the support of a.
faculty of instructors, and tho whole fund
is to bo placed in toe hands of ten trus
tees, five of whom shall be residents of
Indiana and iivo of adjoining States.
Mr. Carpenter has not quite completed
his plan, bnt bo hopes to witness the be
ginning of tho enterprise before bis death.
Tho institution will be open to the poor
alone, and will not bo connected with any
religious sect. Mr. Carpenter is seventy-
two years of age, wa3 born in Vermont,
and began life as a peddler, traveling
over the New England States and -New
York with a pack on hi3 shoulder. His
children have already had their shore of
his estate, and thero still remains enough
to carry his project to success.
The silverware of the great Palace
Hotel at Son Franoisco cost $60,000, and
among its features is qnite a novelty in
toe shape of silver tea cadies, with four
compartments for a3 many different
kinds of tea, which will be set before the
guests at toe table, with scalding water
at hand, that they may help themselves
to the leaf and make their tea after the
Chinese fashion.
Iiettor From Houston County.
Byron, Ga., April 22, 1875
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: After
a week or ten days of the most beautiful
weather imaginable, barring, if you
please, the unseasonable oold of Satur
day and Sanday lost, we have again a
good ram. The farmers wore beginning
to feel the need of a shower, too, to
loosen the red, stiff sod for the plow, and
put all their lands in a condition to bring
np cotton seed rapidly to a stand. Those
who had a stand previously to the 17th
inst. will, I fear, have to plant over, fori
do not think that cotton is any moro able
to stand cold than the leaves of the for
est, and on Sunday last I saw plenty of
them that had been killed by frost that
and the previous morning, especially
those of the persimmon, and certain va
rieties of the oak.
Thus, yon see, even the wisest beads
sometimes make mistakes ; for, notwith
standing the fact that, some time ago, I
noticed—casually, of course—the pres
ence in this country of those winged
insects whose advent into a section, ac
cording to the testimony of certain ob
servant parties in editorial chairs, betoken
the opening of spring. Here we have
frost and ice, and a little farther north
snow in large quantities. Others have
likewise noted the signal failure of the
sign.
I ca
can afford to pin my faith to that of
the parties aforesaid in matters political,
but they evidently did not gave this bug
theory a sufficient test but left it to oth
ers to prove, and it has fallen through,
lamentably, and to my discomfiture. Ac
customed as I have been always to regard
anything emanating directly from the
Bonrce in question almost as “law and
gospel,” I lent a listening ear to this
story, and also harkened unto the bnzzing
wingsof thi3 third adventist and was
convinced that spring had at last made
its appearance. I had certain vegetables
tender of cold, and other “truck,” such
as watermelons, etc., to plant, which
should not be planted as long as there is
much prospect of further oold, and cred
ulous, as I confess myself to be, when I
noticed this herald of worm sun and
genial weather, my doubts vanished, my
fears were overcome, and the seed of the
melons, etc., committed to the ground
immediately. What is the result ? Just
as they have come up nicely along comes
a frost and nips them in the bad. Pos
sessed of patience, however, and a furth
er stock of seed, I can only "try it on”
again; bnt adieu to tbe vauHer theory.
I haven’t lost faith in all the signs,
thougb, and among them, that one of the
famous astrouomei, Herschel, which says
that the nigher the moon’s changes oc
cur to midnight, the more probability of
the succeeding days being fair, and vice
versa as to noon. I have observed this
now for several years, and find that, gen
erally speaking, it is correct, and the
least subject to the proposition: “All
signs fail in dry weather.”
I hear some complaints in the country
about bad stauds of corn, the ground
having packed upon it after planting,
from repeated rains. I suspect, too,
some planted when the ground was too
wet, and it rotted in the ground, as my
potatoes did. " Misery loves company,”
it is said, and I have plenty of company
in this instance—single parties in the
neighborhood having lost several barrels
in th8 same manner.
Small grain continues to look well.
If half of tho guano delivered hero has
been put under com to eke ont the pro
vision crop, farewell to hard times. - If
all on cotton, then farewell to something
else, or else some mighty nice swearing
in Perry. The ratio of the amount
shipped here this sea: on, as compared
to the last, is os sir to one. As this is
the case in nearly all other places to
some extent, returns from which I have
noticed, I can’t understand the fact, if
fact it is, that le3s has entered the port
of Savannah than usual. I hope it is so,
though, and that Houston may be fortu
nate in having invested so largely in the
“plaguey stuff.” Very respectfully, etc.,
Prattler.
Alamance or Concord.
Baltimore Gazette. 1
There was celebrated yesterday at
Concord, Massachusetts, the centennial
of tho battle of Concord, which, a3
Northern historians have told us, and
Northern journalists are now repeating,
was the first armed resistance made by
any of tho people of the American colo
nies to British troops. This, however, is
a mistake. As the culminating point of
tho disaffection that had long been mani
festing itself in all the colonies by reason
of the right claimed by the mother
country to tax them, the event is alto
gether worthy of commemoration. But
it was not tho first armed resistance to
British authority. Nor was the Declara
tion of Independence at Philadelphia on
the 4th of July, 1776—the centennial of
which i3 also to be celebrated—tho first
declaration of the kind that had been
drawn up and promulgated. Tho first
blood shed in a conflict between tho Col
onists and the King’s troops was at tho
battle of Alamance, in North Carolina, on
the 16th of May, 1771. On the 24th of
April of that year. Governor Tryon
marched from the town of Newbern with
about three hundred men and a small
train of artillery. One the 3d and 4th of
May he was strengthened by detach
ments which met him on the way, and
by a troop of light horse, until the
force under his command exceeded a
thousand men. On the 15th of May
ho approached the camp of the Regula
tors at Alamance Creek, in the county
of that name. The story of that battle
is well worth repeating. When Tryon
had reached tho vicinity of Alamance
Creek the Regulators sent a message to
him demanding a redress o! their griev
ances, and giving him four hours to re
ply. They complained of exorbitant
fees exacted by officers of tho Crown, and
particularly on deeds and attestations of
sales of landed property. Until these
fees were reduced, the poll tax of two
dollars abolished, and official embezzle
ment prevented and punished, they de
clared they would pay no taxes. They
insisted on their right to enjoy the privi
leges and liberties of their ancestors un
der the Constitution framed by them, and
their determination to maintain it onit3
ancient foundation, so that it might stand
firm and unshaken. He promised to send
an answer by noon the following day. In
the meanwhile, he sent out two persons
—Ashe and Walker—to find out the posi
tion occupied by the Regulators. They
were captured by the latter, tied to. trees,
severely whipped, and held as prisoners.
When the messenger, promised by Tryon,
reached the camp of tho Regulators, in
stead of making any concessions to them,
he demanded their submission, and gave
them one hour to consider. Their answer
was “Go back to Billy Tryon and say wo
defy him:”
On the return of the messengers the
army marched to within three hundred
yards of the Regulators’ camp, and there
halted. The Regulators advanced also,
in order of battle, to a short reach of the
road, whero they halted, waving their
hats os a challenge to their opponents.
Governor Tryon now sent a magistrate
and an officer with a proclamation
commanding the insurgents to disperse
within one hour, but they refused to lis
ten to him, crying out, “Battle, battle 1”
On the return of the magistrate, the
Governor, understanding that tho Regu
lators proposed to put Ashe and Walker
in front of their lines, sent a message
that as he should keep the prisoners ho
had taken in a place of safety, he hoped
the same care would be takeu of those
gentlemen. To this they returned no di
rect answer, but offered to surrender the
two prisoners if the Governor would sur
render those he had taken, seven in num
ber. The proposition of so unequal an
exchange, implying a concession on the
part of tho Governor, was at first reject
ed ; but afterward, at tho solicitation of
bis men, who wero apprehensive, of the
treatment these two persons might re
ceive, he agreed to the proposed
exchange. The enemy being tardy
m their compliance, and the army
complaining of the extreme heat of the
sun and manifesting great impatience to
advance, it was thought advisable to lead
them on. They marched in profound si
lence till the lines of both parties met,
almost breast to breast. The Governor
forbade his men to fire until he ordered
them. The troops in the first rank were
almost mixed with those of the vanguard
of the enemy stationed a little before the
main body, and wbo now began to retire
upon it, shouting defiance and daring
their opponents to advance. The army
kept on till within twenty-five yards of
them, and then halted. The Regulators
continued to call on the Governor to or
der his men to fire; several of them ad
vancing toward the artillery, opening
their breasts and defying them to begin.
As Tryon still hesitated, they fell bock
slowly to a fine defensive position, leav
ing the Governor and his troops open to
their fire, whilst most of them were se
cure from his. Another parley ensued.
An adjutant was sent forward to say that
if they did not directly lay down their
arms they should be fired on. That or
der the Governor then gave, but it was
not immediately obeyed; whereupon,
rising in his stirrups and turning to his
men, he called out: “Fire on them, or on
me.” The action now began, and almost
instantly became general.
The insurgents, pursuing the Indian
mode of fighting, did considerable injury
to the King’s troops, who would nave
been defeated, but for the exoellent ser
vice done by the artillery, which the
Regulators, being poorly armed, were
unable to capture. Nevertheless, with
the odds against them, they fought des
perately for more than an hour, and did
not take to flight until all their arnmuni-
was expended.
The loss of the Regulators in this well-
fought battle has been variously estimat
ed ; some writers asserting that they left
three hundred on the field, whilst they
make tho loss of the British very nearly
as great. Bnt the actual numbers en
gaged most likely were greatly exagger
ated. The probability seems to be that
the killed and wounded on both sides did
not exceed three hundred men. It has
been customary to speak of these Regu
lators as lawless desperadoes, and that
there were some wild and reckless spirits
in their ra-iks we see no reason to doubt.
But even Bancroft, in a private letter to
a friend, as knowledges that their com
plaints were well foanded. True never
theless to his Northern sympathies, and
consistent as usual in his disparage
ment of everything relating to the South,
he does not g ; ve them credit for being
the first to shed their blood in defense of
their rights and liberties. He exults
over Concord and Lexington, and only
refers to the bloody battle of Alamance
as “the connecting link between resist
ance to the Stamp act, and the move
ment of 1775.”
It is our duty to do honor to these
men. Disdaining to live under a tyran
nical government, many of those who sur
vived the battle of Alamance crossed the
mountains into Tennessee, opened new
settlements there, and on the 4th of Oc
tober, 1780, formed port of the gallant
band that fought and conquered the
brave and skillful British officer Fer
guson at the memorable battle of King’s
Mountain.
proprietor. Dr. W. Q c - „
caUed intef examine tte 1gSf*
pronounoed the death ascauL^C
What is It P—A genthm,
county sent ns a small tk.
with the above inquhy
■£?£ ■““H 0 * trf the
Letter to Mayor Hair.
From the Barnwell Sentinel.]
Barnwell, C. IL, April 12th.
To the Hon. W. A. Huff, Mayor of Maeon,
Sir—The shortness and directness of
routes by railroads address themselves
to every well-balanced mind. Your very
beautiful and popular! town is growing
daily in importance and character; your
leading men ore before the country as
practical and progressive citizens, and a
suggestion is only necessary to attract
notice to insure its consideration. Your
minds are made up to develop your town
by connections in every way you can.
Tom to the map of your State and this,
and you will see the angular route your-
traveling patrons take in leaving your
city for the North. You go to Millen in
your State on the railroad, from Augusta
to Savannah, and then go west to Augus
ta forty miles, thence by way of Colum
bia or Charleston, whereas by going right
North from Millen. crossing the Savannah
river in twenty miles of Barnwell village,
in this State, to which there is a graded
road to Blackville of eight and a, half
miles, entirely straight, which will cut
off seventy-five miles, and by carrying
a railroad from Blackville, in a straight
line fifty miles to Kingsville, you will
save at least seventy miles more, which
will be a saving of a' hundred and forty
miles to Kingsville from Macon.
Please examine the route. I appeal to
your public spirited citizens, to aid us in
forwarding this admirable, economical
and air line routo as a gratuity to the
worn-out traveler, who is either sickjor
in haste. This lino will pass over the
Edisto river high up, where it is above
swamps, marshes and navigation,
through a healthy and well watered
country in tho county of Orangeburg,
when it will cross tho Congaree river
either post, above or below tho crossing
of tho South Carolina Railroad at Fort
Mott. A charter has already been
granted by South Carolina to the road
from Blackville by Barnwell village to
the Savannah river opposite Millen, bnt
since the war it has made no progress,
and the people have been engaged in
completing tho Fort Royal Road from
the ocean to Augusta. This is now fin
ished, and we want our fellow-citizens of
Georgia to unite with us in completing
this direct routo to tho North for you,
and to your city for us.
The South Carolina and the Fort Royal
railroad run parallel to each other
through this county, and this route from
Macon, via Millen, to Kingsville, on the
north side of the Congaree river, thirty
miles below Columbia, tho capital of our
State, will cros3 both these roads through
Barnwell village, saving time and dis
tance ns will bring us closer together in
our business relations and social inter
course. The means for building this
road lie at the North; there i3 a plethora
of money in that section quietly awaiting
investment. It can be obtained with tho
endorsement of proper franchises.
Let ns awaken to the undertaking, and
perform the labor with cheerfulness and
spirit.
Much has been done in our mountain
regions in both States. A time has come
to do something for our middle sections.
Tho concentration of vast investments
for particular towns ought to cease, and
other unimproved regions should enjoy
their share of the public wealth. Other
lands should have value added to them
by giving them railroad connections.
We respectfully invite your attention
to these points, and solicit your co-oper
ation in the gped work. Our Barnwell
Sentinel, the only paper published here,
will publish this article, and gladly give
to the public any response from Macon,
or Millen, or any whero on the line.
I am, respectfully, your fellow-citizen,
J. D. Allen.
Eufaula Matters.
The Times, of Wednesday, has the fol
lowing :
Death of the Ci ty Marshal—On
Monday morning last, about daylight,
Turner D. Patterson, City Marshal of
Eufaula, was found dead upon the ground
at tho northeast corner of Gilbert Wil
liams’ house, nearly opposite the Mont
gomery and Eufaula railroad depot, on
lower Broad street.
Marshal Patterson had somo business
with Gilbert Williams, who is a colored
man, and had, doubtless, gone to his
house early that morning, so as to see
him before he went out to tho farm he
and the Marshal were cultivating, and
as the Marshal turned the corner of the
house as if to approach the back door, he
fell to the ground a corpse, where his
body was found in a few minutes after
by a daughter of Gilbert Williams. The
body was found lying upon its face and
was soon after removed to the “Our
House,” on tho corner of Broad and Or
ange streets, of which deceased was the
like those of a dove. Tha vl;*^
ever, are quite different -rC 8,1 ^
feathers ore a dusky black rJ} e S
but the underside is a bnVu 05 ^
maroon, something like that" !«,
There are also bright
specks on the wings, which 2*! *
beautiful. We do not know
is a distinct species of the
or a cross between a red b;J?
with the dove. It look* lii^ti, 0 ®,^
Will some one skilled in
tell ns what it is ? ***(
The Chops.—The late cold
the cotton that was up and
com in this sections serious
On much of the low lands repknfc
have to be done. Accounts
lower oountiee in this State uTJ*
Florida, say the farmers
ping ontf’ ootton, and have
in a flourishing condition. ^ *
A Hugs Fish.—In seining da «
da Bend on Saturday last, the fl.fi;
caught a sturgeon which was estS
to weigh over 200 pounds. Th7w
alone weighed 40 pounds. It ».
large the fishermen could not/
lently bring it to the city, and the?5
brought the evidence of the {fat 2
they hod caught a ‘whale.’ * **
From the Eufaula News of Fridat.
take the following:
Cotton Receipts.—Tho totil cos.
receipts at this point since SepteoW
1874, np to Satwday last,
Same dates 1873-74, SUtt-«2
an increase of 6,660 this'season. -
Will be Continued.—The
in the Baptist and Methodist S3
will be continued througout the pas,
week. The Interest in these meetup
unabated, as is evinced daily by tho
crowds that present themself* ^
prayer.
BiPTlsrsra.—The ordinance of baptia
was administered to twelve person r
the First Baptist Church on Suer
night last—making a total of thirty^
within the past week. Surely oui>*
pie have great cause to be thankful^
the ingathering of so many precious sci
into the fold of Christ.
Difficulty In the County ODUM
Quite a number of rumors were ak
yesterday, regarding some trouble ilii
bad occurred in the county chain-pt-
which is now working in the ‘Wairkri
trict, somo ten or twelve miles fronfi
city. We were unable to gather tit a
act particulars of tbe affair, furthers
that one of the prisoners revolted all
shot and killed by the guard,
much of the many rumors we thru J
correct.
We saw Mr. Hardy, overseer oil
gang, during the day; hut as be hits
been with the gang since Friday ero(
be could not give any positive infix
tion. He bad ascertained that one cis
men had been killed, but did not 1
under wbat circumstances. Wewillp:
ably be able to get the whole afhirb
fore our next issue.
Mortuary.
Mr. H. A. Harman, City Sertctk
tbe week ending yesterday, maia fc
following report of interments:
White, adults
White, children Ml
Colored, adults 1
Colored, children 2-3 j
Total ?
These reports of the city sexton
best testimony that can be offered db
healthfulness of tho city. The nmisl
of interments for the week jotcbM
above an average. There are fewch-
of the size of Macon, that can nab i[
good a showing in this respect.
Tall ttye.
A young lady of Monroe county s
us a sample of rye grown by Hr. Hi
Floyd, a thrifty young farmer cf'hj
county, which is a very fine sami’-i j
this cereal. Tbe stalks sent n3 are s
feet long, and wo aro assured that cl
wero cut a foot above tho ground, nil
tho lyo eight feet high, which is —*|
cellent stand for any country.
Strawberries.
Dr. O. C. Collins announces tthrf'J
ing that ho will deliver strawbex^-!
ring the season at 20 cents a quit J j
finer berries come to this mark! J \
those raised fey him.
The Nelson trophy was sold in
the other day in the collection of s
and other objects belonging to
Mr. W. Joy, of Cheam. The
chiefly made np of the eighty-fou fl
eas which were in Nelson’s purse t-j
time be was mortally wounded at
gar. The guineas are soldered t'.>
in the form of a pyramid, and*! ®
angle there is a small figure in
supporting it, the whole being a I
cenotaph about twelve inches hip- I
a sarcophagus beneath the pyrat'-''. I
base bearing the inscription
the event. The trophy was pu % , I
a bid of ninety guineas, and ^ -'l
.£123.
Sure enough 1 Why should 1
manufacturers send goods to **
phia, when it is the Pennsjlw^..,
which has shaped tho laws of
prohibit tho introduction of
goods ? Why is it that _Fors-’. T 1
do not try a dose of their own
If their protective policy is ^ j
Centennial Euposition should
nothing but articles of Americas -
facture.—Cincinnati Commerce -
•«»«——r—v“ f i-i;-rf|
The reading matter in the'J'
Herald has been reduced to tw .jl
proportions of late. The
editorial page and many odi- _ ^,j.|
limns have been surrendered to pi
tisement of the sale of lands wr ^-1
pay the exorbitant taxes
been imposed upon their o*® 0
negro and carpet-bag
frightfully misgoverned State- j.-
sissippi tho advantages of W*
fully realized.
A farmer dropped inOBO^jgj
his rent, putting on a longi
pond with the times. 9»iS
house he told the landlord tc* ^
ing so bad, he could not ' * :i ; f
at all, and dashed a bundle ( ^jjt-
the table. “There,” said he,
I can pay.” The money
and counted by Mr. —
who said, “Why, this is tm«
you owe 1” “Dang’oe, gj ve ,;«I sf \
said the farmer, “I’m das ,.>
took it out of the wrongpoe^
Bishop Cummins formally
Reformed Episcopal church
last week, to be called the
the Redeemer.” Delegates ^ |
to the general oouncil oi * , r0 nth-
which meets in Chicago next®