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MACON, NOVEMBcB 11. 1877.
Til LI GEORGIA PRESS
Cefauu’iua Inquirer:
UUM-R<cr TUB LATE EdXCTIJN A?
Gov*rn< r Santa was spproechmg Pau-
dor* ; s box (cat’ll the Dime, becan<e it
coaisiiUi.au tot bat “delarive hope," all
other ev:.f. bjiug j ist on ibe nutsido),
Toni O'oTir, a o .-lured man well known in
this oily, *■>•! who ntver failed to vote a
democratic tinker, se;z>d him (th9 Gov
ernor) by b i arm, showed him a good
ticket ml made h i way through tho
■crowd w:-a hia', saying: "Gat oat of (he
way, bj>f, I’ve got a big fl-b; when 1
take thioi np its either a white man nr
Governor." We did not learn whether
or njt he voted for Milledgeville or At
lanta.
Angara News:
AN RLE S LDISR AND MINISTER CP
Cttui t — j many friend?, of Bar. Mr.
Evan.*, of ?!l heuominaiions, and e-peo
tally the Methodist?, of Acgusta, will be
rcjcJ.-el to torn that this gentleman baa
beenre-.ume.i to Sr. John’s Chtiroh for
the ensuing year. The Gainesville Geor
gian soy-’ of ilr. Evans:
Pew tuvn have risen as rapidly in the
ministry r.s this distinguished eon of
Georgia. H i if, at tbia time, about for*
tj-fottr years of ago. Ha bfgun life &3 a
(lawyer, end rose rapidly in his chosen
profession, I.i I860 he was a member of
tb i Georgi i Senate. At the breaking out
of the t»jr be euteredtho Southern army,
and, sriwUhstanding hi* age, rose rap
idly entii he was maae a Brigadier Gen
eral. H;s record as a soldier is well
■known I-tcu 'bout the country.
Dating ti:e war he became convinced
that it i> as his duty to enter tho sacred
■calling, ..i, t resolved that, when the war
should on, 5 , to do so, but revealed bis de
termination to no cno but his wife. As
hood, therefore, as tka war was ended he
made ana^gemants to enter tte ranks of
the Motkodist mioisry. He immediately
took rack among the most prominc-nt
members of the Conference, and has filled
sonio of the most important appoint
ments in t:.e Conference—Athens, Trini
ty, of Ati.iuts, and St. John’s, of Augusta.
Mr. E .us has few superiors in this
data a.- a pulpit orato-. lie seams to
have draw ia tho sweet, childlike spirit
of the Gospel, ond it pervades ail o£ his
prea -hing, and under bis ministry many
inr.i been brought to the cross of the
b o i a Redeemer.
i.s Aagusta tha weather is so cold, and
the average darkey so badly off, that ho
has taken to stealing the hitching posts
Cor borics for foeh Tho News calls for
either more police or a enpply of elee-
■’nosynary weed.
■Columbus Times:
dsour to Vote Foue Balls op Cot
ton.—A suffrage stinger yesterday went
t> the polls to deposit his ballot, but in
stead of putting in a straight ticket as
ho intended, he handod in a carefully
folded receipt for four bales cf cotton
The msnsgers were attracted by the red
lines on w.at they supposed to be a tick
et ae«l oiled the voter’s attention to it.
©ndscovoriner his mistake, that receipt
went into his pork it ia a trice, and he
his been congratulating himself donbt-
’ieas *war rince that it did not get into
.the box.
CuLUMLCshas $132,183 91 cf expenses
and indebtedness to provide for the pres
ent year, and wants tho bonds and intei-
est liter on falling-duo, amounting to
Ml.000. funded.
A. w.,ter in tho Times wants tho bonds
of the city to be scaled ia order to keep
up the public schools. How is that?
Should they ‘ rob Peter to pay Paul ?’’
Mobs thanks to the Barnesville Ga ■
idle for additional -compliments. How
very kind 1
A Just Complaint.—Tho Gazette has!
'the following:
There is considerable complaint against
the manner in which property within
the oorporate limits of Barnesville is
assessed. We confess that there seems
to be some just ground of complaint. In
some instances, a house and lot is valued
<«t mesti'y doable the amount that the
owners will take in cash.
Wx learn irom the Dawson Journal
that the cost of running tho Terrell
county farm this year, after crediting
crops, was $940 37. An expensive lux
ury.
.Tb? Calhoun editor of fbo Journal
vote were successfal in bringing to the
city a large number cf ths inutelligent
r eidents of the Ogeechee district, and
tsey remaiEed gathered about the polls
the entire day.
Many of tbem, however, had not regie
tered, and consequently were unable to
depost their ballots, but they contented
themselves by lingering around the
court house and wagging their tongues.
We cro reliably informed that on
Tuetday night Atlanta ticket?, with de
posits of fire dollars were left at some
of t to drinking saloons, the proprietors
of which were requested t> hand the
same to tbeir easterners and furnish
them drinks free to that amount. There
is no denying that considerable money
was expended in the interests of Atlanta
in this and other way?, but outside of the
negroes and Radical?, the number who
voted for Atlaata was comparatively
small. While tbe friends of Milledge-
ville wero not flush with funds, and no
attempt was made to uso money, they
were very vigilant, and did good service.
Old Chatham has maintained her repu
tation, and turns in a handsome majority
for the new constitution and Miiledgc-
ville as the permanent capital.
Senious Accident to an Apprentice
op the News.—About half past eight
o’clock yesterday morning, George Blake,
aged about thirteen yean, an apprentice
in the binding department of the News
office, met witn a very serious accident
and miraculous escape from being crashed
to death. He got on the elevator, on the
basement floor, with a box of wood and
kindling for tbe job room, whichis located
on the third floor, and, pulling the rope,
the elevator was sst in motion and
started rapidly up. The first two floors
were passed in safety, and on nearing tbe
third floor, upon which he desired to
stop, it is supposed that, beir-g unaccus
tomed to the use of the elevator, ho be
came confussd or frightened, and got tbe
ropo caught in some way,and was carried
up to ward the fourth or last floor, when he
stooped to extricate the rope, and his bead
and upper portion of his body was caught
betw. en the bed of the elevator and the
jamb of the floor, and terribly crushed.
His cries attracted the attention of Mr.
Estiil, who was up stairs, and the hands
who were in the job rooms, and wbo,
rushing to the door of the elevator on the
fourth floor end opening it, weie shocked
to discover the youth bleeding profusely
from the head and face, and j immed be
tween the platform and the frame work.
He was immediately extricated, and a
phjsician was eent for. Dr. Chatters
arrived in a few minute?, and after an
examination pronounced the injuries
quite scriou?. Thu left eyo was nearly
forced out of tbe socket, his nose broken
and his cheek laid open, exposing the
teeth. Tho most serious injury, however,
is supposed to ba internal, as the position
in which ho was found showed that he
was caught in the jitnb on tbe side. His
wounds were drersed, and he was placed
on a mattress in a spring wagon and con
veyed to the home of his mother on In
dian street. Slracge to say, no bones
were broken, and with good care and
medical attention he may bo brought
through Eafely, though it is surprising
nnder the circumstances that he was not
instantly killed.
Atlanta Tribune:
The vote of Bibb conn-'y will be chsl-
Ienged, no matter which way the Capital
goes, for irregularities.
Of catrse, This was oic fpot white
bnUdczing bo&l&a't go dowh.
Brtm-wiok Advertiser:
Hun. J. Arnow, of St. Marys, his bsed
Length of keel, 213 feel; length over all,
255 feet; 40 feet beam, and 26 feet deep
in tbs hold; she has two decks, and is 30
feet deep in tbe forward hatch, and ia
registered at 1.735 tons, and has a capac
ity of holding 5.000 baleB or cottor. She
is built or white oak and yellow pine, and
is provided with patent windlass and
pumps and all tbe modern improvements
for the safety and comfort of her officers
and crew. Her cabins are cf bard wood
highly polished, and with gilt and silver
trimmiBgs,c»rpeted with Brussels both in
forward and aft cabin. She has also
bath rooms, chatrooms, and allaccommc-
datioms belonging to first class vessels
and is finished handsomely in every re
spect. The Nesmith wai built by Mr.
A. Hathorn at Bsth, Maino, and this is
her initial trip. Her deck ii large and
admirably adapted for -ths pleating
amusement of tripping the "light fantas
tic toe.’’ This week she goes on berth
to lotd for Liverpool Her Captain is an
old Savannah trader, having sailed to
and from oar port cinco 1843, his last
trip being as Captain of the Asia. Ha
has also commanded other well known
ship?, but no finer specimen of naval ni-
chitecturo than the Nesmith. Merer?.
Richardson & Barnard are her agents in
this city.
uayF:
We are glad to note that many farm
ers throughout this section are prepar
ing their ground and planting for »
£awo«i'<£Of wheat daring tho ensuing
year, fit is always a pleasure to ns to
advocate anything that will tend to the
interest of our farming friend?, and wo
trust that they are encouraged by tho re-
. suit of their last..year’s experience.
Buena ,VistaJbgm-
Z.D. Lunchford,
of the lower part of this county, was last
week sadly grieved by the death of his
two only children, from diptberia. His
daughter died on Wednesday night and
his son on Sunday night.
Thomasville Oranges.—The Times
cays:
Mr. F. H. Remington gathered hi9
crop of oranges on Saturday last. Ha
had only one tree, but be got eight hun
dred good sweet oranges, besides those
that his family had gathered and eaten
prorious to this time, making at least a
thousand borne by the one tree. This
is cnly tbe third year tbat this tree has
been in bearing, and it speaks well for
the honesty of oar citizens that none of
theta were stolen, as the tree is in his
yard in town, and ripe oranges look very
tempting.
Tho Elitor of the Times was very
happy on Thanksgiving day. Hear
him:
Thanksgiving day was not very nsnoh
■observed in this piaes, bat the editor of
thU; .paper being invited sronnd to par
take of a regular old fashioned thanks
giviiV dinner, felt very like he wonld
tike to-lceep thanksgiving every day In
the ytar under the same circumstance?.
For awhile wo forgot all about MiUedgc
billo or Atlanta, new constitution or old
and we coaid scarcely believe tbat eneb
* thing as bard times ever existed. Bat
■alas;! nil such things must have an ecd,
and wo were soon foroed to remember
onr position by the cry of “copy.”
Bale oe the B. & A. B. B.—This mat-
ter c»mes onoa more to tbe fore in tbe
Albany News as follows
Again ibe news reaches ns that the B.
A A. B B. has been sold, papers all sign
ed and tbe property turned over to tbe
parchat-fn. We have made this an
ounoement before, and we mast ask of
our rfla-iers to remember (pat we say it is
-street rumor and that weo&nnot vouch
for the ttnibfalncsa of the report.
It is said tots statement of facts comes
throe eh theoffioein Brunswick—ltd tbat
tbe officials report an advenes moreaeat
in January. We will see wbat we will
see, It w* wait long enough—and the
pool don’t gobble ns up.
Bad.—Mr. and Mrs. Hitch, of Atlanta,
who were on a visit to Albany, lost two
Wautital little children last Tuesday.
They died within twenty-four hours of
«ach other.
The News:
Getting Beadt fob 1878.—Already
many of our planters are refencing, clear
ing np and making general preparations
for the next year. Labor seems to be
pieattfo); aod very Jew changes will be
made in hands. Moat of the colored peo
ple seem well satisfied with their present
arrangement, and have tired of moving
around. Wo predict good and earnest
work for 1878; and can only hope for
bountiful harvests and a nch reward for
all oonceroed.
Atlanta Tactics nr Savannah.—
Morning News:
The efforts that had bean exerted by
the friends of Atlanta to secure the negro
appointed by Gov. Colquitt Judge of the
oauLiy court of Camden.
Savasnah News:
Important Decree —As will l>e ob
served by the proceedings of the United
S:at3» Circuit Court a final decree was
rendered yesterday by Judge Woods in
the case of II. N. Gourdin et a 1 ., assignees
cf Eetchum £ Hartridge, bankrupts,
complainants, and the Savannah Bank
and Trust Company, defendant?.
On the 9 th of April last, a decree for
account in this caro was rendered by the
United States District Conrt, on the
ground that the banc was a preferred
creditor. It was appealed to the Circuit
Court, and, as will be seen by the final
decree, which we give in fall below, the
decision of tho District Court was re
versed:
Bobert N. Gourdin and Lonis G. Yonng,
assignees of tho bankrupt estate of
Ketchnm and Hartridge, complainante,
and the Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany and others, defendants. In the
Fifth Circnit Conrt of the United States
for the Southern District of Georgia.
The above stated cause came on to be
heard on the original and amended bill
and demnrrer to the same, and upon the
cross bill and answer to the original and
amended bill and cros3 bill and proofs,
whereupon it is ordered, adjudged and
decreed tbat the demurrer to the original
bill ba, and is hereby overruled, and that
the demnrrer co the amendment to the
bill be *" u d is hereby sustained; and it is
farther ordered, adjudged and decreed
that as to the various transactions in
said original bill mentioned, that ia say
the notes of $30,000, $15,000, $13,000
- said Savannah Bank and
and $l,0ol, etc., t time when
Trust Company at the same . ■
the same were entered into had not tv.
ponable cause to suppose Ketchnm and mau *
Hartridge to be insolvent or coritemplai-
ing insolvency, and that said several
transactions are not void under the bank
rupt laws of the United States, and it is
fnrther ordered, adjunged and decreed
that said Savannah Bank and Trust Com
pany has a valid lien npon all the prop
erty cf said Ketchom and Hartridgs al
leged in said bill to be in its hands for
the general balance of its account, due to
it by sain Ketchnm and Hartridge, tbat
there was due to tho said Savannah Bank
and Trust Company on the 13th day of
January, 1874, the sum of $26,757 12,
and tbat the said Savannah Bank and
Trust Company on that day had m hand,
subject to its lien, in cash $20,08113,
leaving a iAlance, after setting off said
cash, due said Savannah Bank and Trust
Company of $6,675 99, which balance is
decreed to be a lien upon the land de
scribed in said bill as Chippewa planta
tion, and lots numbers 4 and 5 Forsyth
ward, in the city of Savannah, and npon
the choscs in action in said bill and an
swer mentioned, and tbat said balance of
$6 675 99 draw interest from January 13,
1874, and that said land and choses in
ucuon be disposed of nnder an arrange
ment to be made between said Savannah
Bank and Trnst Company and said com
plainants, and a report thereof made to
this court at the next term thereof, at
which term a final decree shall be made
up, and that as to the defendants,Brown,
Brothers and Company, W. Camming
and Company, and the Central Bailroad
and Banking Company, tho bill be dis
missed. W.B. Wood?, Judge.
The mac-who-never-dosee-thc-office
door-aftci-him has returned to the city,
and commenced his nefarious nomadica.
It is said that there are one hnndred
men engaged in drumming on the streets
of Atlanta for local retail trade. They
represent principally the dry goods and
clothing houses, and always work on ccm.
mission.
That is sufficient to break up any reg
ular business that depends upon its mei-
itsjfor a living.
Davaoes Bic,vebxd.—Tno cate of
Augustus Ehmke vs. the City of Savan
nah, for damages based upon the allega
tion that on the night of the 25th of Jan
uary, 1873, Captain Christian Ehmke, of
the brig Toltigenr, whilst returning to
his vesiel, was precipitated from tbe
bluff near the foot of Houston street, to
the pavement below and killed, resulted
in a verdict of $2,716 80 and costs.
A New Ship in Savannah Waters
Tho News taye: We had the pleasure yes
terday of visiting the new ship James
Nesmith, which arived at this port on
Monday last. The esurtaous and genial
Captain Hammond escorted us through
tbe vessel, and expressed a willingness to
receive the visits of say of our citizens
who would like to inspect his handsome
ship.
The following are her dimensiona, via
The Gainesville Eagle talks about tbe
eias of commission by the Teleoeafh
and Me!8engxb during tho capital car
vase. Well! Wo must be bad eff, in
deed, if Brother Styles is competent to
talk morals to ui. Wonder if the North
Georgia Conference made a special esse
of him.
Tnc same paper says: The Governor’s
impressions ara against signing the bonds
ot the Northeastern Bailroad Company;
but tbe subject is stilt under considera
tion, and we sincerely hope his objections
may be removed.
The Eagle: His Excellency, Governor
Colquitt, spent four days with tho Con
ference, and was one of the most active
and (fficicst workers in the body. We
had the honor to entertain him, and
therefore ample opportunity to estimate
his valuable cervices to the .Conference.
He was elected a lay delegate to tho gen
eral Conference.
Governor Colquitt pardoned two fe
males on the chaingang during his reosnt
visit to Gainesville. Wa only wish our
kind-hearted Gove; nor would perform
the same merciful act here. Is is sad to
see tho poor creatures unsexed and work
ing with male criminals.
Marietta is selested as ths place for
the bolding of tho next meeting of the
North Georgia Conference.
No member cf the North Goorgia Con-
fezenoo has died daring the year just
past.
ManiErrA Journal:
From every part of tho connlry comes
the cheering nows that tho farmers re
planting largely of wheat.
Henry C-U.ntt Weekly.
The prettiest girl in McDonough wears
No. 1 slippers, and averages one nickel
per day for chewing gam.
Thanks to the Atlanta TViJimr for (t
t-u:asaot paramph. We carry no mkllco
against auybot^, and only stand on the
defensive.
True —Enquirer-Sum
_ Only One Mors—Our municipal elec
tion occurs tc-morrow. After that we
will have a long rest of a year before we
will be called to ballot again. Wo trust
none r.ill bo so thankless as to dio and
cr-a!e a vacancy. Voting has become a
nuisance and a bore. There is too much
of it. The Senator and tho Legislators
take their seats next November. After
^he worry of Saturday wo are to bo let
alone until November comes when Con
gressmen must be chosen.
Fnou tho same:
He Wanted All He Paid Fon.—A
country man that came to th<* city a few
days ago, and bad been riding hard for
hours, needed eemstning for tbe “inner
man.’’ Going into a restaurant be, to
illustrate bis hunger, called for dinner
for fonr men. The meals were served
and alter satisfying his appetite, he was
called on to settle, when, to his amaze
ment, the charge was four dollars. “Well,
ain’t that pretty steep for dinner?" He
was informed that he would have to pay
tor four aa they only served according to
his order, when he ejaculated, “Weil, if
I have to pay for them, d—n if I don’t
eat ’em.” Sore enough he did and was
not eick therefrom, either. A noted man
remarked that be wouldn’t board that
fellow for less than one hundred dollars
per month. He must have stopped at
“Oaid’a Spring” on hia way to the city.
The New United States Marshal —
Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
We had the pleasure yesterday of
meeting Colonel Owen P. Fitzsimmons,
tho recently appointed United States
Marshal for Georgia. After congratulat
ing Colonel Fitzsimmons, the reporter
converse^ with him in regard to his ap
pointment, his residence and other mat
ters pertaining to the MarshaDhip.
B porter: Who wero most prominent
in Washington in your behalf, Colonel?
Col. Firzsimmons: Mr. Stephens was
•-!- instrumental in securing theap-
He is a p ow er Washing-
stead of 1868, and they cast no votss for
Senator and Representatives.
That is the story almost everywhere.
The Hawkineville Dispatch has this to
say of tbe election in Pulaski county:
It is gratifying to know tbat ths white
people of Palaski have not been divided
upon tbe elsstion
A strange feature cf the contest is tha
fact that the colored people turned out
very largely and evinced a strong desire
asd determination to vote for Atlanta,
agairs' the persuasions and efforts of the
white people. It is perhaps no exagga-
alion to cry that not forty white men
could be found ia Pulaski county who ea-
poased tho cause of Atlanta.
Lsying aside ail quostiots of State
pride, economy and sjntiwent in this
capital issue, those few white men should
have voted with the large majority for
tha sike of harmony and unity.
Bntlbo battle ia over. Victory ot da-
feat is tbe result—sees know not wbio£.
Let ut stand by our work atd abide tbe
deoision.
There was no qnestion of politics in
volved in this content, but the poor osl-
ored man—ignorant upon all things—was
duped, and made to believe tbat it was to
bis interest to vote against the wishes of
bis white neighbor and his employer.
Let ub remember these who did yield to
common reasoning and vote our ticket*.
In other word?, never go back on a friend
—white or blaok—even if it be necessary
to punish an angrattfal one.
Woods can’t bo put down on any vege
table question. Hear him
We regret to offer a back seat to
Montgomery county on the Bweet potato
question, but she must fall bsck to tbe
rear and let Irwin county come to tbe
front. N&z Henderson, Jr., cent us last
week a yam weighing eleven pounds, be
ing ahead of Montgomery’s best potato
by t wo pounds. It looks like a river
bottom pumpkin, and reminds us that
Irwin county is "some punkins” on a
fafer vine.
The farmers of Pulaski have contract
ed with tne manufacturers of tbe Geor
gia State Grange Fertilizer for 250 tons
of tbeir compound. The price agreed
upon was forty dollars and twenty-five
cents per ton, cash, delivered in Hawk-
inaville, or four hundred and twenty-sev
en poands of low mid lling cotton deliv
ered ia Hawtrinsvillo by the 15th day of
October, 1878—tho farmer to pay no
freighter drayage upon the gaanc.
Colonel T. J. Shith.—Sandersville
Herald:
Our enterprising countymaa waa ap
pointed on the first of September
Inspector of Fertilizers and Kerosene
Oil, with office at Augusta. The duties
ot his office frequently call ktm to Charles
ton and Port Royal, to make inspections
in bulk ond thus expedite transporta
tion.
Aa master of tha Slato Grango as well
as psissnally so largely engaged m agri
cultural intere-ts, no better selection we
presume could havo been made for tbia
important post. The planters in the
State are to be congratulated in having
this important precautionary measure of
tho inspection of fertilizers intrusted to
one so competent and so reliable.
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Tlie iSiectiou.
COUNTIES.
pointment. He is a r"’ *
ton, and is thought a great deal or uj tv
crybody. General Gordon worked hard
in'tho Senate for my confirmation.
Reporter: Yonr appointmont seems to
give general satisfaction, does it not ?
Col. Fitzsimmons: I have heard noth
ing to the contrary. Both white and
colored citizers, much to my gratifica
tion, have congratulated me since my
return from Washington,
Beporter: Do yon think you will have
any trouble in enforoing the law t
Col. Fitzsimmon: None whatever. I
am satisfied tbat I will never have any
oooasioa to use troops. I intend to ex
ecute the laws impartially, without regard
to party, raoe, color, or previous condi
tion of servitude. I feel assured that
there will be fewer violations of United
Stales laws and a more ready obedianoo
to tbe offioers who aro charged with their
execnlion. The Preeident has demon
strated that he it Chief Magistrate of all
the people of the Union, and I think that
the Southern people ought to show that
He receives their hearty approval. I am
satisfied that all the people cf tho State
will snatain me in enforoing the laws. It
is but natnralthat they should assist a
man raised among tbem and whom they
know, more than they wonld a stran
ger.
Reporter: Where will yon reside, Col
Fitzsimmons ?
Gol. FitzsimmouH t I shall live In At
lanta ; one of tbe United States Courts
meets there.
Col. Fttziimmons reoeivod congratula
tions on cvety band yaaterday. The
President conid not have appointed
man more acceptable to tbe people of tbe
8tate and one wbo at tbe same time will
enforce tbe laws in every ease.
How Fisk a Foundation.—The per.
severance of the saints was thus illur-
trated by an old woman of tbe African
persuasion in Lexington, Georgia. “Old
Bbody” fell under grave suspicion of har
ing stolen tbe fatted tmkey. and her of
fense was lightly passed over in consid
eration of her advanced years and emi
nent abilities aa a cook. She was, more,
over, a shouting professor and conspicu
ous in tho amen corner. Shortly after
wards she was bailed by her former mat
ter as she hobbled out of hi* gate on her
way to “meetiaV* “Halloo, Bhody, you
going to church still, you old hypocrite."
“Lor*, Mars Swep, you think Igwine to
give up my religion for one ole tnrkey
gobulei?"
Fon the first time since tbe war, Glynn
county has elected a Democratic member
of the Legislature. Janies Blue, colored,
has represented that county sinoe 1868
and was the oldest member et the last
House. He sustained, at the bands of
Mr. T. W. Lint!-, ’Vis first defeat last
Wednesday.
THxLaGrang* Reporter a»y*i
Tbe negroes voted solidly for Atlanta,
against ratification, and for tbe honw-
Apnli'iK
Buker
Bibb
Bartow
Burke
Baldwin...............
Brooks ..........
Berrien
Clark
Chatham
Crmjjb'-lt
Crawlorti
Csbb
CUy -
Clayton
Columbia
Clinch
Catoosa
COlIee
Dougherty.—
Decatur...—
Dtfdge
Dooly ——....
Early -
Fu ton
Floyd
Green
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Dr. Wllbar'a fed Liver ®U and Lime.
Invalid* need ro longer dread totakethmt
great specific for Consumption, Asthma, and
threatening Couehl—Cod Liwlr Oil. As prepar
ed br Dr Wilbor.il is robbed of thB nauseating
taste, and also embodies a preparation bf the
Phosphate of Lime, giving nature the vsijr arti
cle required to aid the healing qualities ot tha
oil. and to recreate where disease has destroyed.
This article »ko fonts a remarkable tonie, and
will cause weak and debilitated peraona to be
come strong ano robust. It is for sale by all re-
rpectsblo druggists throughout the country, and
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for convenience of instant me on the first ap
pearance ot Coughs or irritation of the Lungs
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South Carolina Printing Bills.—
Although there was a waste of univer
sal fraud in all the expenditures of tbe
carpet-baggers, it was particularly evi
dent in the printing bills. By way of con
trast the following dispatch from Co
lumbia ia suggestive:
It will be remembered that one of these
Legislatures appropriated $250,000 for
tbe single item of publio printing. At
the last session the Democrats reduced
this spprepriation to $10,000, which was
juBtly considered a great Baring, and it
was tbonght “bottom” had been reached.
The Committee on Publio Printing for
this year, however, have ascertained to
their amazement and gratification that
at least $4,000 of this appropriation re
mains uncalled for in the treasury, with
all the bills on this account paid. It is
now proposed that this work shall here
after be paid for as executed and the
bills presented, whereby a further saving
will be effected.
8ekatob Sharon eannot understand
why there should be aaoh a fuss kicked
np about his absence from his seat. He
bought and paid for it with hie own mon
ey, and baa a right to do with hia own
properly what be will—N. T. IForW.
Thousands of the most prominent and
intelligent peraona '.throughont the land
have testified to the true merits of Dr.
Ball’s Cough Syrup. We advise suffer
ers to use it.
The Pope.—Tbe noon telegrams yer-
terday reported the Pope very low—hia
hand* and arms swelling and respiration
difficult but hia mind stiil clear. It
was believed that his career was rapidly
drawing to a cloee.
Patterson and Conover have “baokl
slid’’ and are now restored to fall Bedict-
eoBsmunior. Kellogg rejoioes that he
ae'ver Tell from graor.
New York, November 24,1877.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I am
always glad when business matters of any
kind bring me to New York; for in no
other place, it seems to me, do business
and pleasure so delightfully combine as
here. Especially is this true at this sea
son. New York is at its best now. Hot
weather is quite gone, and cold weather
is not fairly come. The city rejoices un
der the favorable climatic conditions that
for a few weeks it enjoys in the brief,
golden days of autumn. The icy gusts,
the driving sleet and the slosh that a
little while later will make out-door «x
periencerough and unenviable are stayed
for the prerent, and everybody seems
striving to enjoy to the topmost tha few
remaining days of grace. Tho whole
town is in a good humor, frera bootblack
to “bloated bondholder," from apple-wo
man to Madame Gold lace; or, to imitate
the geographical rhetoric of the admin
iatrative orators, from the noble ourront
of tbe Etst river to the sail-coveied and
spra- -whitened waters of the North, and
from the unique surroundings of Castle
Garden, wherethe emigrant first breathes
in the sscred but saline air of libel ty, to
the gay avenues and boulevards
er Central Park, where the beau monde
rides and drives at the full speed suita
ble to these rapid times. The actively,
the large-spirited enterprise, tha vis viva
tbat one sees and feels on every side are
positively enspiriting. The man that
can walk along Broadway in delicious
weather, jostling at every step against a
living line of human nature, ana seeing
and hearing the splendid confusion and
tbe roaring commercial music of this
greatest business thoroughfare of the
world, without feeling his blood tingle
and his spirits quicken, could “travel
also from Dan to Beersheba.andcry ‘’tis
all barren.’ ’’ For myself, I know noth
ing more enjoyable than, after walking
down to tbe City Hall and taking in all
the pedestrian pleasure?, to mount, in
Democratic fashion, to a lofty seat beside
the driver of one of the rumbling stages
that help to crowd the street, and ride
in triumph through tho thickest of the
crush.
A few well directed remarks taking
the aide ot labor as against capital, and
flavored with a little communistic sent!'
meat, will speedily convert Jehu iuto an
entertaining companion; and, what time
we are not watching the busy and some
times exciting scenes through which we
paes, he will deliver to “yer honor” in
choice Hibernian tho old, old story
of the workingman’s wrong?, and
demonstrate the impossibility of keeping
a family on two dollars a day, which
thing, however, you find he manages to
do and have an alcoholic breath m the
bargain. After a ride of moro than two
miles, Jehuputayououtatl/mon Square,
and, if you have nothing to do, you*ram
ble about for an hour looking in the gor
geous shop windows and observing, with
in tbe limits of becoming gallantry, the
many handsome and stylisn looking ladies
that throng tho half dozen mammoth es
tablishments in the neighoorhood—Stew
art’s, Tiffany’s, Lord and Taylor’s, etc.
A woman “shopping” is a study at once
charming and instructive. 8he never
tires, bub freshens as tho hours move on.
Gracefully she glides amid piles of goods
anu WS3 of finery, captufiiig a sample
here and pricing an article thero, think
ing, indeed, that to the agile salesman it
is “no trouble to show goods,” imagining
to herself What a handsome figure she
would cut in this elegant suit, but how
ill-becoming it would be to her neighbor,
Mrs. Blank. It is pleasant to watoh her
gentle movements in tho happy business
of shopping, but it is passing delightful
to wait on them. A lady friend, return
ing witn me from Goupil’e Gallery, one
afternoon, stopped “for a few minutes” at
Arnold’s and Constable’s to get
some little thing. I waited for her
near the door, and after walking myself
down, sat for an hour nnd seventeen
minutes on a revolving stool trying to be
cheerful before she returned, remarking
lhat she was "all ready, now,” as lightly
as if she had been juit three minutes.
I could only trust myself to say, with a
smile that was not all a smile, that I
was too.
Active preparation are making for the
Christmas holidays, which are no where
more handsomely observed nor more
thoroughly enjoyed than here. The
stores are fairly ablaze with holiday at
tractions for all sorts and conditiona of
people. It Is tbe great business season
with the retailers, Bemarkable enter
prise, skill and good taste are shown by
the publishing houses in the holiday
books. Some of these in their charming
combination of appearance and matter
are almost irresistibly tempting. Noth
ing is so apt to empty one’s pocket as a
visit to Scribner’s, or Appleton’s or Carle-
ton’s. Everybody can fiad just wbat he
wishes at the pnea ho can afford to pay.
It is pleasant to see a large trade in
books going on, for money is seldom or
never more wisely spent. It is, too, a
kind of barometer of society’s condition.
If I were collecting tbe social statistics
of a people I should set down tbe annual
consumption of books and the character
of the books as important data,
The latest matter of note in the world
of fashion is the marriage, on Wednes
day, of Miss Fiorenoa Vanderbilt, grand
daughter of the commodore, and Mr.
Frombley, of Boston. The ceremony
took place at St. Bartholomew’s church,
and tho oocasion drew together a large
assembly of msny of the best known peo
ple of New York. I saw somewhere tbe
oompnUtion by some arithmetical snob
of the number of millions represented,
bat I do not reaall it. Your lady readers
may be interested in a description of the
bride’s dress, and, being myself, unequal
to the task, 1 append that of the World's
Jenkins, as being the shortest at hand
“The bride’s drese was of white satin,
made np with a conrt train, over three
yards and a half long of white brocade.
Tbe front had three festooned aprons of
laoe, the soolloped edges of whlob were
manufactured In ronna point, tbe design
in point de Venice, then Ailed in with
point applique, alt representing baskets
filled with roses and banging vines. The
veil, of round point, was made to match,
and it is said to have been of the finest
laee ever sent ont to this country. The
bottom of the dress In front was shirred
satin, with boqosta of orange blossom*
between. The train was oat ia deep
points, with five fine satin plissts, set in
nnder tha points. An elegant pearl trim
ming, with pendents of loose hanging
pearl*, headed the laoe. The sleeves were
of lace clasped with the pearl passemente
rie.'’
The tremendous responsibility of mar
rying a woman vailed in all that solemn
and costly millinery is enongh to shake
the atouteet nerves, and fill a man with
awe in contemplation of the "efftta civ-
il z »f ion of the East.”
It is given ont that tbe splendid build
ing on the corner of Fomth avenn* and
Thirty-ssoond street, known as the “Wo
men’s Hotel,” and founded by tbe
late Alexinler T. Stewirt as a bom-fia-
txoc to the working wam*n of N?w York,
will soon be opened It is 200 feet
square and seven stories high. The
hotel is bnilt abont an interior square, so
that light and ventilation are lnrniahed
to the oentral room?. This interior
square is beantifnlly laid ont in mo*eio
Work, and handsomely adorned-with flow
ers and with a very large afid elaborate
fountain. The building is fireproof, be
ing composed almost entirely of stone,
brick and Iron. Tbe only wood used is
the doors, window* and parts of tbe floor
ing- A notion of tbe substantiality of
the main walls may be had from the eir-
enmstance that at the top they are three
feet in thickness. Ths inner walls are
two feet thick. The meant of ingraes and
egress are perfeot. Besides the many
ample stairways there are five great ele
vators running from the basement to the
roof. Two large tanks on the root, oom-
mnoicating by pipage with every part of
tbe building, have each a capacity of
13,000 gallons.
There are 502 gnssta rooms in the
honae, 115 doable roome 30x15, and 387
single rooeaa, half the r’z i of the doable
one*. AlltheeeareTarnished Inelegant
style. It ia estimated that about 13,000
yard* of tbe best oerpetiog have bees j
used in coveting the floor*.
lure iaof the handsomest and most com
fortable kind. Every room is supplied
with' the moat modern conveniences
The d ning room wJl Beat a x hundred
persons. Tne Frcnoh cook, Edwards, cf
(he Grand Ucion at Saratoga, has been
permanently engsged as chief of the oui-
tint.
The hotel will accommodate at least
1,000 guests. Then are several largo
reception rooms and a magnificent par
lor. In each of these ia a piano. Here
also are a library anl a ' reading room,
which are to'csntaiu the choicest litera
ture. Nothing is wanting to makerts -
dsnee in the establishment comfortable
and pleasant'. Indeed, no more elegant
surroundings ara to bo had anywhere,
Tha rats per week for board and lodging
will be not more than $5 for each guest
occupying a single room. If it shell be
found that the current expenses of tne
hotel under the most careful manage
ment, can be met by a lers rat9, such
rale will l« filed-
It is not expected to lealizs any return
on the $2,000.0C0 expended on (he build
ing. That amount Mr. Stewart set
apart to put his plan for the benefit of
self-supporting women into operation.
The whole schomo is a mign'fiscnt bene
faction to a clasi, without being charily
to the individual. Its excellence and ae
rial usefulness lies in this—that it helps
handsomely thoas who are trj i.ig to help
themselves. Eveiy guest must pay
the charge for t board promptly;
but she lives for $5 per week m a sty le
that, nnder other circumstances, would
be entirely beyond her means. This no
ble gift to the working women brings
within their reach tbs refinements and
something of the luxuries of life, of
which they stand so deeply in need,
without taking away tbeir self-depend
ence or inflicting the sung of chanty on
them. It is not to he a charitable insti
tution, but a hotel conducted on the
strictest business principles in tbe inter
est of a class for whom society does too
little. It certainly promises well. The
formal opening will tako place, it is said,
about the first of January.
I had intended to say something about
the recent reception given to Mr. Story,
the artist, ond to speak of other matters
“about town,’' but this letter is lorg
enough. - - - - J. B. W.
'Tennessee.
The Tennfs3?e Legislature met in
called session last ‘Wednesday to consider
tho proposition cf the Syndicate to scale
their publio debt at the rate of sixty
cents on the dollar. Governor Porter, in
his message, very strongly advocates the
compromise. He claims that there is no
doubt about the validity of tbe debt, and
that the State is abundantly able to meet
it on the terms proposed. On this latter
point, he remarks:
There is to my mind no question as to
the ability of the State to meet tbe inter
est on the debt, if adjusted upoa the
terms offered by its creditors. The pres
ent assessed value of tbe property of the
State is $236,030,000, and is an unusu
ally liberal one to the tsx payer. Ten
nessee contributes to tho maikets of the
world, with her cottou, grain and tobacco
as largely, and is as rich in soil, minerals
and productions as any Slato in the Un
ion. The value of the principal crops
raised in Tennessee during the year
1876, amounted to $47.126310, not lesi
than one-third of which was surplus. The
productions of tbe State of Kentucky for
the samo period was $2 637,560 less.
Tennessee produced seventeen mil
lions more than Virginia, three
millions more than Georgia, more
than Maryland and South Carolina
combined, more than Alabama and Flori
da, and seventeen millions moro than
North Carolina, while tho difference in
population is in favor of Kentacky and
Georgia, and Marvland and South Caro
lina combined. The productions of the
State for the year 1877, amount to over
$52,000,000, with an increased surplus of
cotton, wheat and tobacco, and the value
of farm products is greater per capita in
Tennessee than it is in any of the States
named, and greatar, according to tbe last
census report, than it is in the rich States
of New York, Pennsylvania and Missouri.
There are other productions of the State,
cattle, mules, horses, aheep, bacon, fruit,
marble, iron, from which large revenues
are derived, with an increasing area and
capacity for production.
Uaef al and Useless Husbands,
The average husband is conceded by
all intelligent wives to be utterly useless
when at heme. He may be accute and
skillful at his business, and he may be
an affectionate husband and father, bat
where there is anything to be done in
the house in the way of repairing furni
ture or improvising cheap substitutes for
bedsteads or mop-handles, he is of lees
value than his own little boy, who often
hels his mother. While this is undoubt
edly true of most men, there is occasion
ally found one whose chief delight con
sists in constantly practicing as an >ma-
teur cabinet-maker, plumber or
carpenter. He often prowls about the
house, seeking articles upon which he
can use a little glue and varnish, and de
vising planB for filling up the corner
of the dining room witn a few trian
gular shelves, and for putting a
wooden mantlepiccein the ball bedroom.
The sound of his saw and hammer are
heard often, and he goes to bad at late
hoars, with more paint adhering to his
fingers than his wife regards as strictly
necessary. It is a curious illustration of
the perversity of tho female sex that a
husband with a fondness for doing little
ustful things is held among wives to be
even more undesirable than the kind of
husband who is perfectly nselcs3. He is
oharged not only with a fiendish fondness
for late hammering, bat is constantly
upbraided because he "makes so many
chips.” In vain does he explain that
planing a board necessarily results in
chips, and that sawdust is the inevitable
oonsequenoe of using a saw. He is told
that he ought t# be ashamed of himself,
and that no decent man would think of
making chips all OTer the floor. These
things, however, never dishearten a hus
band of an active disposition, who cannot
possibly find enjoyment in sitting at
home and doing nothing at all; to him
the little domeatio jobs are a relaxation,
especially when the nature of his daily
routine business is of another kind; and
we earnestly implore wives who happen
to have such husbands to be indulgent
towards them, as they are really of more
value to them and their children than
those who, when at home, do nothing but
fit! their room* with tobacco smoke.
A i’tum far Bismarck.
The little Kingdom of Bslgium, says
the Charleston News and Courier, is just
now in a very curious condition. A prop
osition is nnder consideration by her Par
liament which involves conaequenoes of
great importance not only to tbe King
dom but also to the rest of Europe.
Lite (.vants leave little doubt in any
mind tbat the dry or (mail Siafts is virtu
ally past. Not a few of their number have
disappeared very reoently; and of tha re
mainder it is cot likely tbat more than one
or two will be able to maintain existence
in Europe reach longer. Perhaps tbe moat
important of them all Is the Kingdom of
Belgium, and she ia auroly marked—not
tor destruction, nor even for absorption
in an absolute sense, but for a process of
change which, if it oaa be managed, will
entirely ilter her relatioEa with the rest
of Europe. Germany has proposed to
Belgium to guarantee her independence
upon condition tbat the Belgian Gov
ernment shall adopt the German mili
tary system, and enter into a oloas armed
alliance with the German Empire. In
other words, Belgium is to become, for
all. defensive* purposes, an outpost of
Germany, retaining her power of local
selt-goretnment, but actually exchang
ing her present condition aa a neutral
State for that of a satellite ot her mighty
neighbor. ■
The advantage* of this plan to Bel
gium are obvious enough. At pretest
the “neutrality“ ot Belgium amount*
The furni-1 only to tb* preservation of a onavnnient
fighting-ground tor the Great Powers,
and especially for Francs and Germany.
The German argument is a very simple
one. In effect the Bmperor aaya to the
Kingdom: You are a little State, and it
behooves yon to consider wbat your
unans of pr<serving your independence
arc likely to be. The next European war
will probably decide that question for
you. for in that war yon will most proba
bly disappear. You lie between two
powerful and unfriendly States, both
armed to the teeth, and one of whom ia
bent upon revenge, while the other
is fully determined to prevent or
anticipate the blow. If the struggle
oomes, where will the battle-field be?
Where, but m your “neutral territory ?'*
The French will try to strike through
you; the Germ.\ns must meet them half
way. And, which ever aide oonquers,
what will be the condition of Belgium
“when the war is over?" Such is the
problem with which Belgian statesmen
have to deal, and the aolntion which Ger
many offers seems to ba the only practi
cal one. With Belgium as a loyal deter
sive outpost, the German Empire might
be regarded as secure, and her protection
to Bdigium would, therefore, be ample
and complete. The proposition involves
“a real, substantial, absolute guarantee
of independence”—an independence more
complete than Belgium can possibly hope
to maintain by any other method.
Whether the Belgian Parliament will
accept the German terms and yield to
these proposals, in which persuasion and
menace are so ingeniously blended, re
mains to bs seen. That theCatholio sen
timent of the country will revolt against
a Prussian protectorate may be regarded
as certain; but Belgium is not all Cath
olic, and the question with her now it
not one of preference but of practicabil
ity. Sooner or later, we aro inclined to
think, that tbo German party must pre
vail. If it doos. the shifting kaleidoscope
of European politics will have displayed
in this now more one of the mo3t impor
tant rearrangements of tho last fifty
year?.
EDITOBIiL CORBE8P0.1 DEKCE.
Washinotch City,
Beocmber 6,1877.
dost their edge.
I mean the doings and sayings cl our
Congressional Solon* sines the battle
royal in the Senate last week. There
was a derided simmer in political matters,
and I aee no signs ot the pot being on the
boil again until after the holidays. Tba
truth is, tha Christmas craze is begin
ning to pcssisa the members, and when
a man, be he Congressman or what not,
get* notions of turkey, mince pie, egg
nog, and fireworks in his head—business
may go hung for aught he cares. Both
Houses are just killing timo now, until
the holiday recess, which will probably
be three weeks. Inaucha condition of
affairs political items and gossip are nec
essarily scarce, and consequently small
excuse exist sfor long letter* from Wash*
ington.
A Summersault.
The Now York Herald of the 3d per
forms a magnificent feat cf ground and
lofty tumbling. It exhausts a column
and a half of leading editorial in the most
extravagant laudations of the course and
character of Senator Conkling, and tho
wonderful political sagacity he has die-
played in his bold defiance of, and open
opposition to, Hayes, and then turn? to
tho latter the back of its hand and the
sole of hi3 fool. Reflecting upon the sol
emn fact that the Herald fer months past
has been running on a precisely opposite
schedule, the question arises, what new
political schema is m the wind? Is
Hayes to be brought to repentance ? Is
he tj be bulldozed into submission to the
stalwarts ?
EnrxfioB William has forbidden Pat
ti’s appearanco at Beilin kscance a very
high price of admission was proposed.
Tha people of Milan wiilirgly paid $10
a seat to hear her.
Mr David CIsrk, 870 West S9th St., New York,
sprained his wrist badly while working. Batter
ed fearfully a week; applied Giles’Liniment Io
dide of Ammonia three times, and cured wriit.
THE KOUmURK POLICY.
Keep the Cotton Unlfl Europe
Hhs to Send lor If—The causes
of Depression—Gambling at
the Expense of the Prodncer—
The Effect.
Extract from Easton’s Cction Circular.!
With a position for cotton stronger
than I have known for twenty-nine years,
(except during the war) may ba asked
why is cotton lower than last year ? The
meat important depressing influence ia
the number of people who have lately
gone into the business of offering every
night to Earope, from every South
ern port, cotton at cheaper prices
than can bo done in any legiti
mate way. These peoplo calculate
that the necessities of the planter? will
oompel large deliveries and lower prioes.
and enable them to eover the aeoepted
offers with a oummission. This system
interferes with all regular besiness, and,
from the number of offers, it gives a false
impression to tbe European spinner abont
tbe actual state of the orop. As Earope
isabnyer of onr ootton, of ooursa the
feeling there is generally bearish, and, if
they have tbe help of people on this aid9,
it has a powerful itfluenao.
The policy ia New York appears to
have beer, for the past two years, in the
asme direction. Instead of offering ad
vances to planters and others to omrry
ootton until a fair price can be obtained,
every effort is made to depress prioes, in
order to secure, at low rates, 200,000 to
250.000 bales, against which oontraots
are then sold for some future month.
Then, by sending ont notices of delivery
when unexpected, or withholding them
when looked for, these parties control the
market at tbeir pleasure.
The effect of this policy is disastrous
to all legitimate bRsmeas in New York.
Spinners and exporters find that, on a
stock of 250,000 bales, nothing oan be
bought, are obliged to make arrange
ments to boy in the Southern interior
points.
Hew oan this state of things be reme
died?
It seems too bad, that, with snoh a
strong position and everything in onr
hands, a comparatively few men should
be allowed to keep prioes down and per
mit Earope to get her supply at a low
rale, when by some combination we could
oompel her to pay a? a fair prioe. Say
with a orop of 4 500,000 bales, of which
1,500.00 are reqaired in this country, wo
have thiee million for export. These
3,000,000 wa want to sell, and Earope
mast have them or atop her mills.
The question is, shall we endeavor to
let Earope have these cottons aa low as
possible, or shall we, as any merchants
would, try to gst tha beat attainable
prices t
If Eugland or France prodaced an ar
ticle of whioh they had almost a monop
oly, that we must have or atop our mills,
I don't think we would see them fighting
among themselves to sae how low they
could sell tbat article to ua.
When we consider that lo. per pound
on tho three millions exported is $13,500.-
000. and 2s. is $27,000.00% it becomes a
subject of great importance to all the
country; because we eannot benefit the
planters of the 8outh without also in
creasing the prosperity of the whole
country. Myiaeeisto have the bank
offioers consider well this subject. It
there ia any thing safer than an advance
to merchants on their notes, backed by
cotton at these prioes, with a fair margin,
I don’t know what it is. Let the mer
chants make fair advances to the planters,
on their crops, to be held until fair
prices can be obtained. Let the banks
help the merchants in this.
Lat tbe cotton oome forward from the
plantations to some interior to wn or port,
there to ba held where it can be well in
sured.
Keep the cotton in this country until
Europe has to tend over here for it at a
fair price.
If this policy i< adopted we would
soon have an end to the cable of
fers to Eoiope, and business would
be brought back to its legitimate chan
nel?.
Nothing in the above mast be con
strued into the idea that planters should
hold book tbeir crops. As they have
already delivered against their contracts
for guano in November, io they should
promptly fulfill their engagements to
country storekeepers, merchants, hands
and others. Any other course would be
contrary to commercial honor and integri
ty, and wonld block tba wheels of com
merce.
The New York Daily Bulletin of the 5th
instant baa extended reports from the
West, showing that the winter wheat
crop in that section goes into -winter
quartern la flee sonditior.
EOS THE HELtXE OE XACOlf, GEORGIA.
This ia tho title of a bill which was re
ported yesterday from the House Commit
tee on Claims, read twice, committed to
the committee ot the whole House, and
ordered to be priited. It is aB follow?:
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Bepresentativis of the United States
of America in Congress assembled, That
the Secretary of the Treasury be, and
hereby ia, authorized and directed to pay,
out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, to tha order of
the mayor of the city of Macon, Georgia,
for the use of said city, the sum of four
thousand one hundred and seventy-right
dollars and ninety-seven cent?; tho same
being the amount of internal revenue
tax collected from said city, contrary to
law, upon its issue of city bonds, between
tho year eighteen hundred and eixtj-
soven and the year eighteen hundred and
seventy-three.”
I heps before the eesrion clones to be
able to report tho final passage of the
bill by both Houses and its sisnaturo by
the President. Mr. Blount will prsh it
with hiB usual energy.
THE NEW DEMOCRATIC DAILY
made its appearance this morning. It
is called the Washington Pesf, amt i3 pub
lished by a company whereof Messrs.
Cockerell and Hutchins, as aforemen
tioned, ara the bowers, with A. C. Bu
ell as principal leader writer, I send
herewith a copy and you ran judge for
yourself of its general make up and qual
ity. I may not know anything about
such matters here, but if a Georgia daily
spiced twenty-six columns of reading
matter with only two of advertiaments,
thero would not be any great rush of cap
ital to invest m its stock. Perhaps it
will do better, and make a success. I
hope so, sincerely, but my Jaith is weak.
The Democrats need a paper here, and
Mr. Corcoran tried to give U3 one, bnt
even he grew tired of footing a bill of
$800 or $900 every Saturday night.
There must be a strong infusion of gov
ernment pap In the circnlation of Wash
ington papers to keep it healthy, and
oven that doesn’t always save the pa
tient. Witness that vilej eheet, the Re.
publican, which is living on acrats thrown
it by the Radical soreheads, and whoso
fine building is to be sold in Jannaiy by
W. E. Chandler, the chap who went to
Florida in Hayes’ interest to steal that
State’s electoral vote, and E. H Billiot,
the job-covered Radical Senator lean
New Hampshire. They are heavy cred
itors and are tired of waiting for their
monoy.
The Evening Star is tha only paper in
my knowledge of such matters, running'
back at least twenty years, that has not
only “stood the racket,” but actually
made money. It i3 now own j d by three
men, one of them being G?orga W.
Adame, Washington correspondent cf
the World, and pajs snug dividends. It
hasn’t any politics to hurt, hat a note
for news and much capacity for “boiling
dowr.” Ia that sign it has conquered,
and the day i3 coming when all newspa
per victories will have to be won on the
same line.
THE message
has furnished staple for general talk, all
along the line this week, and the verdict
is rather favorable. The extreme Left
growl and damn, bnt the moss of that
party approve and will stand by Mr.
Hayes’deliverances. As an indorsement
of the Sintharn policy of the Democratic
party, oar people of course are aslUfled
with bis utterances on that qnestion.
Tha Southern and Western member?,
however, aro rather disposed to profanity
on the silver and resumption features, bat
then the Esstia happy and solid on tbit,
so the balanoe is pretty well preserved. I
don’t think the greenbaekers here or any
where else, feel aa stiff as they did.
Somehow there is a limpness about them
that seems to betoken a “soekdolager”
under the belt. Two things are now
certain: Tbe resumption ao: wid not be
repealed, and theBland silver bill will die
the death in the Senate. If they do
manage to slip through there Mr. Hsyei
will neatlv strangle them.
Another thing ia Hayes’ message is
especially savory to tbe East and the ex
tremists everywhere. It is his ideas on
general education b; CongreHstonal leg
islation and National aid. Fanatics ev
erywhere, and especially these whose fin«
gexs still itoh to renew ihtir vengeful
dutch ou the Seuthern throat see in this
soheue another method of interfering
with domestic affairs, and will all snpport
it. This infernal crew, under the scope
of some such scheme as this, hope to get
their dirty fingers again in onr pookets
and rob us tor tbe benefit or the negroes.
But I suppose Hayes thought he ought to
throw them a sop to take the bitter lasts
of the bon’fcein policy out of their mouths
One feature of the meaasge is most re
freshing m compared wi h what Pas char-
aotenzsd snob documents tot the psst
eight years. It doesn’t bin against the
English grammar. Let us hope that
went out with Grant and bis g*ng.
Whether, however, tho message will add
any recruits to the Hayea parly In
Senate or House remaira to be seen
That parly in the former body now con
stats of Conover, Patterson, Davis and
Stanley Matthew?. Of its strength »
the latter I am not informed,
MISCELLANEOUS.
Senator Ransom has reappeared in ths
Senate after his late attack, looking rath
er pale and jaded. He has fallen heir
to Morton’s chair, and has for hta neigh
bor neresa the main stale my lord Ror-
coe.
Another down-pour of rain all day yes
terday and railway folks looking solemn
and steaming np lively. All the bridge*
displaced by the late flood have not y$t
been repaired on some the Southern
routes. This morning, however, ths sun
shines again, and the railroaders have
joined the G. T.’a. ...
Hon. W. E. Smith, of the Aliwny d«-
triot, has been oonfised to bis bed
two or three days past, but is n°t m
sick, and expects to be out again tc- *
row.. The rest of tha delegation are oe
duty and in good health. I
of them will go home for the holid»jrs-
The Radicals in tha Senate have come
do vn from tbeir fcigb horse m the in -
ter of Democratic representation on tn
committees. They have given ua to
representatives on committees ct nin
and five on committees of eleven, excep
on Privilege* and Elections, where mos
of their deviltry is concocted. They so
aolutely refuse to increase Dsmocrati
representation on that committee. B
we oan stand it two years more. The
we will arrange that and all other mat
ters over there to suit oursslve?. .
The Kellogg-Gaxy oonoert. last nigh-
was one of the most auocessful ever given
in this city. Eighteen hnndred dollars
were netted. , . . .
Mis* Cary’s voice i* grand, but to m
untutored ear and taste there is a eon
tralto in Macon that naturally need no
fear oompartaon with it. And what pr»c
tice and Maiduons culture £»s done to
the one, I am persauded may surely o
done for the other. I wonder if the neg
lect of soch things comes within tno
scope of the bible lesson of the bunea
talents? A w - B
Fiance. —Thero* was * prospect ye*-
terday noon of tho formation of a Kef**
lio i minis'17. through the cffrrte of *
Dufavro. ahatisoBOOuragiog.
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