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MACON, GA. FBBBUAR1 19 1878.
of
A London paper estimates that dating
the Utter 200 days of 1877 human
Wood flowed »t a rate of forty gallons
hoar.
Tu Saltan has cent to Osman Pasha
nova prisoner in Russia, a precent
£6,000 of money, a contribution from
Mohammedans.
No Liquob in ti*b Camtix..—Yioe-
Pmsident Wheeler and Speaker Randall
are strictly enforcing the role prohibiting
the sale of liquor, including lager beer,
in the Capitol.
The total deficit in the German finances
is pnt down at 30,000,000 marks. Mill*
tary and naval expenditure is not merely
maintained bat inoreased. Hence the
xeoent loan.
Text pay their great surgeons veil in
England. Sir Henry Thompson’s income
Is said to amount to $150,000 per annum
on an average. He performs the opera
tion of lithotomy eighty or ninety times
a year, the fee for vhioh ranges from tvo
hundred to five hundred guineas.
Souk of the Western papers call Mr.
Kimball the ' ‘finengellst.” He has lifted
or helped to lift the debt of twenty-three
churohes of different denominations, the
aggregate amounting to $700,000. His
latest servioe was for the Jefferson Park
Presbyterian- Church, where he raised
921,400 in three hours.
Fob every veek lost in n strike & cer
tain number of veeka’ vork at higher
vagea strnok for is required in order to
avoid positive loss to the workmen. Thus
in the case of a strike of six months’ dnr-
etlonforan advance of ten per oent. in
wages, five yean Ubor at the higher rate
will be required in order to make up the
positive lose inourred in the atrike.
sahhath Exercises.
It was our privilege at 11 a. m., on
Sunday to hear a most excellent dig-
souise in the Pint Street Methodist
Church from the pastor, Rev. Walker
Lewie. His subject embraced among
other points a defence of the truth of
revelation.
In the absence of any notes, we shall
not attempt to follow the incisive and
eloquent speaker in his argument, and
stirring appeal to Christians as well as
the unoonverted to serve the Lord in the
beanty of holiness.
Mr. Levis is one of the rising men of
his church, and if spared, will take a
very high rank among Methodist divines.
His style is nervous and fluent, his
delivery good, his arguments well digest*
cd and logical, and there is a force and
originality about bis utterances which
challenge the attention and admiration
of the listener. Moreover, he is
as hold as a lion when in the discharge
of duty, as his fearless lecture to some
individuals who were disorderly during
the service, abnndantly testified.
At night, ve vere again charmed with
one of the best discourses overheard from
the pnlpit, in Vineville, by
BXV. GBOSOZ UCDCNKLL,
the able end beloved pastor of Mnlberry
street Methodist church.
He spoke from (he text, “Whatsoever
thy hand findeth to do, do with ell your
might.”
This sermon vas amcdel of simplicity,
piety and genuine eloquence, and calcu-
lated to interest and move the hearts of
the unconverted in a remarkable degree.
The numerous young people of that com-
munity vere deeply impressed, and ve
can but hope that the continued ministra
tions of this excellent man will be owned
of God, and made the instrument of muoh
good to this portion of Ids charge.
There vere cervices in all the other
churches also, and Bishop Beckwith
preaohed twice to crowded bouses, and
administered the solemn rite of confirma
tion to qnite a number in the tvo Episco
pal churches of the city—St. Paul’s and
Christ ehuroh.
The day was pleasant, and the attend
ance upon the sanotuary lirger than
ureal.
‘Woman Suffrage,
Senator ChxiatianoyV. platform on'wo-
m&n suffrage is a very good one. That
movement in Congress is a mere imper-
tinence and usurpation. The States
kave^full and constitutional jurisdiction
of the Babject, and let these agitators
be remitted to the State governments.
Let them appeal to the State Legisla
tures, if they will, for an act to take the
sense of the people on the subject.
A St. Louis paper notices the fact that
order for a lot of saddles has been re-
ved there from Cuba, with the prom-
of further extensive orders, it goods
d prices prove satisfactory. The house
debt received the order hes a repressi
ve among the delegation vhioh went
Havana byway of the Savannah steam-
Mria
Birds killed on the Western prairies
ud packed without freezing or
uy other artificial proocss of preserva-
ion,are sent to England by every steamer,
nd arrived In exoellent oonditios.
Rejecting Tains Donums.—The Hew
Fork Sun of Tuesday sayf:
All the depot ticket agents on the New
Jersey Central railroad have been instruc-
ed to reject trade dollars, except at a dis
count of eight per oent.
The New Jersey Central railroad will
probably reconsider that pieoe of stuffy
folly before long.
Wibtbt.—The weather on Tuesday
and Wednesday last was decidedly wintry.
The mercury, as we looked at it about
sunrise on Tuesday, indicated plus 24, but
st is probable others took a lower view of
it. During Wednesday morning there
were several slight falls of hail, and the
day was damp and raw—admirably adap
ted for colds and pneumonia.
.Public Distress.
The merchants of New York complain
grievously over their Bufferings from the
silver dollar. Donbtleas the pains are
agonizing—we must believe it since they
say so. As men of extremely sensitive
nerves and conscientious and exact in
their statements ot fact, we are obliged
to believe that the silver (not the iron)
enters into their souls and inflicts excru
ciating tortures. We of the South could
sympathize witt them, were it not that
we suffer not on asoount of silver, but the
Bek of it.
The Porte Snubs Great Britain
British diplomacy has suffered a se
vere snubbing in the refusal of the
Porte to permit the fleet to move up the
Dardanelles to the Bosphorus, for the pur
pose of looking after “British interests - ’
in that quarter. The Ports represents
that such a permit would be held by the
Russians as justification for occupying
the city by their own military forces.
The same point is represented by a
Berlin dispatch to the London How ot
Monday as having been strongly pnt by
Prince Gortechakoff in an official note to
the powers; but the accuracy of that
dispatch is challenged by the associated
prese. It Will bs noted, however, that a
Reuter telegram from St. Petersburg
represents the semi-official paper, the
“Agencie Suite” as taking exactly the same
view, and claiming that if it is necessary
for the protection of the Christian popula-
tion of Constantinople that the fleets of
the great powers should have access to
the waters of that city, it is quite as
necessary for the same object, that the
military forces of Russia should enter
the city.
Now, as there is scarcely a feeble pre
tense of ability on the part of the Turks
to prevent the Russian occupation of the
city at any moment, it seems pretty
clear that if the allied powers go np to
the city they will have to do it against
the resolute prohibition of the Tarkf.
The British Cabinet, upon the receipt
of the Turkish refusal of permission to
ascend the Dardanelles was hastily con
vened yesterday, and sent renewed and
more nrgent applications for the permit,
bat they are not going to get it in oar
opinion. The Turk is too wise to run
the hazard of having his capital the
foensof a grand collision between the
ponderous enginery of destruction and
mnxder by land and sea. Probably no
such collision might take place; but in a
grand game of “moral force” or Intimi
dation, such as Groat Britain seeks to set
on foot around Constantinople, there is
always danger that it may be poshed too
far, and result in viclsnoe. Hence, as
mortifying as this unexpected frnstration
will be to tin P uish Government, it will
probably bav- w pocket the affront, and
aooept a dccR.va and persistent refusal
by the Porte to pnt itself under English
championship of Tarkish integrity.
Very warlike talk is reported from St.
Petersburg, and no doubt the feeling in
diplomatic 03 well as popular circles is
one of intense hostility to England. Bat
this rebuff from Tarkey will go far to re
store good nature on the continent. It
will cause a laugh and a shrug all round.
What will the Beaconsfield ministry do?
Will it force the passage of the-Dardan-
el les? Will it lead off in a violation of its
own treaty guaranties, under plea of a
necessary step to maintain them? We
snail see.
A National Scandal.
The speotacle of such a conscienceless
party vagabond as W. E. Chandler, de
nouncing the occupant of the Presidential
chair of treason and breach of trust, is no
donbta very celling cn9 to that portion
of the so called Republican party cliim-
ing self-respect or pariiotism.
Chandler’s bitter re7iltngs can have
but one practical meaning to every can
did man in America. The offense ho
charges on Hayes is that he talked at the
depth of crime and degradation indica
ted to him by the Chandlers and their
fellow plotters. They marked out, not
alone the practical usurpation of the
Presidency, bnt the continued and per
sistent usurpation of the governments of
Louisians, Florida and South Carolina.
They provided that Haye3 shouli carry
on these bayonet governments, after (he
manner of Grant, without even an hon
est foothold on Federal authority. Hayes
balked at it. His conscience fell short
of his undertaking. His hardihood was
unequal to it. He knew he had enough
to do as President to stand on the false
and fabricated certificates of rotten re
turning boards, withoat carrying on his
shoulders three wretched administrations
of notorious thieves spawned by the same
fraudulent process.
It is for this that Chandler denounces
Hayes as a traitor to his party and holds
him up to its indignation. It was ex
pected that he wonld make a fail, com-
plots and consistent atrooity of the job,
bnt he balked in the middle of it. That
is not only an unpardonable crime to snch
a man as Chandler; bat it is incomprehen
sible. He can’t understand how any man
ahonld balk in a great drama of public
robbery and leave a dime behind for the
victims.
And we suppose the line of adhesion
in the party to Hayes or to the stalwarts
is substantially the line of morals in the
organization. It tea ragged and uncer
tain edge, but still is a division. On
neitheraideishigh ground or high mor
ale; bat politicians with some scruples,
though tardy and reluctant, are better
than politicians with nous at all.
Chandler fiereely demands that the
party shel', at onoa and foreTer, cat loose
from Hayes as the only ohanoe for salva
tion. It is certain that Chandler’s party
wonld be in danger from the smallest
sample. No min can serve it faithfully
who will balk or hesitate at any crime
against the pnhlio liberties or property.
No man of higher moral grade than
Chandler ought to betrastodjln that com
munion.
Bat Mr. Hayes is a far different man.
He is as honest a man as oould possibly
be concerned with so great a crime. He
baa yielded to an overwhelming—a gorge,
ous temptation; bnt we believe be is deeir
ous of administering the government with
substantial justice to the people. Let the
stalwarts and bulldozers cat loose from
and denottnoe the administration; the
better elaas of the people will Etind by It,
so long as it adheres to the usages of
honest and oonalitntlonel government.
The Widow Blebs.
Olive Logan writes from London that
the Hicks-Lords oaae excites interest in
many fashionable oirolea in that otty. She
says that no American woman ever had a
greater social success in England than did
Mrs. Hicks, adding: “Who that ones at
tended her 6 o’clock teas at Olaridge’s
Hotel last season can ever forget the dense
mob of ariatoeratio personages which
packed itself into her drawing-rooms in a
crush which the old simile, ’sardines in a
box,’ is inadeqoate to express the tight
ness of?” Olive well remembers being
entranced by the sight of Mrs. Hicks sur
rounded by admirers, among whom were
simaltaneouriy the Duke and Doohess of
Roxbnrghe, the Bail of Fowls, Lord Len
nox, the Earl of Qaitunes* and Minister
Boker. The Duchess of Albans washer
intimate friend. One of her drees** is
described as “a rich claret-aolored velvet,
with sleeves of antique laoe, and her
splendid diamond ootnb nearly six inches
high, and a large bouquet de corsage— a
spray of roeebnds and leaves—all com
posed of the precious stones.”
Death of Mr. Dean Dunwody.
Wo are deeply pained to record the
death of Mr. Dean M. Dnnwody, of Mc
Intosh county, which occurred a few days
since at his residence near Darien.
Mr. Dunwody has been in failing health
for the peat year, and reoently his condi
tion has been snch as to give serious
alarm to his devoted family and rela
tives.
A few days ainoe death came as a re
lief to his sufferings. He was fifty-two
years of sge.
He was one of the leading men of his
section, known safe gentleman high toned
and honorable in every respect and ful
filling the obligations and duties of this
lifelwith great fidelity.
By his many generous traits of charac
ter he won the esteem of his fellow man
and was greatly beloved by all who knew
him.
Mr. Dnnwcdy was the son of Mr. James
Dnnwody, of McIntosh county, and be.
longing to an old and highly respected
family, he fully exemplified its past his
tory in a life of quiet usefulness.
He was before the war one of the larg
est rice planters on the coast. The war,
however, caused him to remove his fami
ly to'the interior portion of the State, and
for several years he was a successful plan-
ter in this county on tbe Tcbesofkee
creek.
Daring bis residence here he made
many warm friends in Macon, to whom
the announcement of his death will bring
unfeigned sadnesa.
The ravages of the late war shattered
the fortunes of his house, and he return
ed to the coast to the home of his pros
perity to beginhnetr, in common with
hte countrymen, the battle of life.
Here he has residsd ever since, faith
fully executing every delegated trust,
honored and esteemed by all, and here
he fell from devotion to those whom be
loved.
He leaves a noble wife, a daughter of
the lamented Governor McDonald, and a
large family and many relatives through,
ont the State, some of whom reside in
onr city.
We tender to them onr sincere sym
patbies In this hoar of affliction.
The Temporal Power.—The Amen
can Press, in commenting on the death
of the late Pope Pius, points, in the lan
guage ot the New York Sun, as “the
most remarkable fact in this long, labo
rious, and devoted life that while the de>
ceased Pontiff leaves the Church shorn
of her territories and her temporal power,
he yet leaves her with a firmer hold than
ever upon the minds and hearts sf the
almost countless myriads who bslong to
her communion. She is less an earthly
kingdom, but none the less powerful as
a church.”
No doubt the loss of the temporal pow
er has been, in point of fact, a subatan
tial gain to the spiritual prestige of the
Holy See. The monarchy did not add to
the dignity of the Pontiff, but detracted
from it.
War like News.
Tuesday’s foreign telegrams are threat
ening. It will be seen that all the British
arsenate and dockyards are under special
strain with the hurry of military and
naval preparation—‘hat the fleet is to sail
np to the Bosphorus, if needful, witbont
the permission of Ttuksy, and so Great
Britain in her exoeaaive zeal for the sanc
tity of the guarantees of the last treaty of
Paris, is the first to break them.
It will be seen that the St. Peters
burg correspondents of the London pa
pers assert positively that orders have
been sent the Grand Daks to take pos
session of Constantinople, and tli9 time
has arrived, aocording to the London
press, when it is the duty of the British
government to defend ite “interests.”
The London Times, however, thinks
that a mere “demonstrative occupation”
like that of the Germans in Paris in 1870,
might not call for actual hostilities.
Perhaps the gravest indication of danger
in the dispatches tc-dey is the remark
attributed to Emperor William, of Ger
many, that “the situation is indeed seri
ous, but I nevertheless still hops that
the maintenance of peace is possible.”
That it is a little more than possible
in the opinion of the English financial
and mercantile world, is evident from the
undisturbed condition of the markets.
They not only show no panic, bnt it will
be seen that consols advanced In London
yestcr ay.
And, indeed, it wonld seem strange
that Europe should burst into a flame of
war pending a grand diplomatic Congress,
called to settle the very points in dis
pute. The belligerent aspect of affairs
is doubtless the ontgrowth of a bull
dozing spirit in British counsel?, which
very naturally incenses Russia. Great
Britain is sensitive over her loss of pres
tige in European politics, and this pushes
her into the assumption of a very aggres
sive attitude; bnt we still hops she will
stop short of war.
Chronicle's Cotton Figures.
The New York Chronicle reports the
reseipts at all the ports for the seven
days ending last Friday night, 8th in
stant, at 187,138 bales, against 140,006
for the corresponding days of last year-
showing a decreased business for the
first time for many weeks. Total re-
oeipts of the cotton year to that date,
3,244,879 hales, against 3,287,204 to the
same time last year, and indicating a net
decrease of 32,325 bales.
The interior ports on the same days
received 58,066 bales, against 51,755
tke corresponding week of last year.
Shipped, 61,852 bales, against 54,729,
and showed as stock on hand 240,708,
against 178,266 at the same date last
year.
The Chronicle's visible supply table
showed on Friday night last 2,692,941
bales of cotton in sight, against 2,971,446
at same date lost year—8,032,335 the year
before, and 2,856,283 in 1875. These
figures show a decrease of 278,605 on the
supply of 1877—339,394 on the supply of
1876, and 163,342 on the supply of 1875.
Middling upland in the Liverpool
market last Friday was quoted at 61—
at same date last year, 61—in 1876, 6 7-16,
and in 1875 71 @ 7}.
The . New York market was dull and
fluctuating, during the week, with; a
slight average decline, resnlting from
apprehensions of a general European
war. •«
Tbe War Prospect*.
The status between England and Rus
sia becomes increasingly menacing from
da/ to day. In the House of Commons
on Tuesday night, replying to a question
about the nature of the orders given to
Admiral Hornby, in command of the
British fleet in Besika Bay, it was official
ly declared that the orders were clear and
distinct* and sent on the government’s
responsibility; but could not no divulged
consistently with pnblie interests. The
Press association, however, declares it is
understood that-the Admiral was In
structed to force a passage of the Darda
nelles, it necessary, with his whole fleet.
There are conflicting reports as to the
attitude of the Porte on this step. A
semi-official telegram from Constantino,
pie by way of Athens undertakes to say
that the Porte will fire upon the fleet, if
it attempts to force the passage; but.it
seems more probable that the Turks will
submit in silence to what they cannot
prevent.
The British iron-clads can force their
way into the Bosphorus and when there
can destroy the city. The inflammable
materials of which it is in great part
composed, as well as the crowded and
compact manner in which it te built,
would render its complete destruction by
so heavy a bombardment an easy and
speedy thing.
The Czar has notified the British gov
ernment that the entry of its fleet into
the Boephoros will be the signal for the
entry of the Russian troops into Constan-
tinople. The reports that the latter are
already there seem to bs groundless. A
Berlin dispatch to the London Times of
yesterday gives currency to a statement
that torpedoes are being placed in the
Bosphorus—bnt that will hardly be cred
ited, because it wonld ultimate in open
ing the fire of the fleet upon the city, and
co commence a destruction of property
and life. We take it for granted that
both Russia and Great Britzin will be re
luctant to adopt any measures which shall
culminate in or seriously endanger so ter
rible a catastrophe.
This is onr main hope for a peaceful
arrangement of the questions in iesne.
The British fleet can inflict no serious
injury upon the Russians at Constantino
ple, with whomsicne they have a quarrel.
A fight there would be destructive alone
to the Turks, whose integrity and safety
they are proposing to guaranty. To
reach the Russians they must enter the
Black Sea; bnt this is generally too shal
low for the jnoet of their heavy vessels,
and they could, at best, effect little
there more than the destruction of
soma comparatively unimportant Rus
sian ports. They have no military foroe
adequate to any serious impression on
the Russian army. The situation, as it
stands, is wholly unfavorable to tbe ic-
fliotion of any damsging blow no
Russian power. The materials for that
purpose must yet be gathered and organ
ized by combination between Great
Britainhnd her ally or allies, if she oan
secure more than one; and these consid
erations wonld seem naturally to enter
seriously into the qnestion of the proba
bility of nltimate war. t
Doubtless, there is a growing convic
tion of the probability of a war more or
Ies3 general; and tho tempers of the prin
cipal parties are daily becoming more in
flamed; but eo long as tho scheme for a
continental conference is still open and
pending, it seem3 to U3 most reasonable
to conclude that the parties will take the
sober, second thought and avoid the hor
rors and calamities of war. A few days
will decide whether Great Britain is bent
on violent proceedings at Constantinople.
TJbe Keturning 1 Board Issue.
If the Hayes’ visiting committee and
administration desire to make a distinct
appeel to the people of the United Slates
on lbs issue of endorsing the frands of tbe
Louisiana Returning Board, we have no
idea there will be any backwardness
shown by the Amerioan Democracy in ac
commodating them. It is no action of
that party whieh has brought tbe crimes
of this Returning Board to the arbitra
ment of law. It belongs to the people of
every State to administer justice accord
ing to their own views of whst Is due
themselves and the publio, withoat ex
ternal interference or dictation from any
source. Bnt if Sherman and Hayes
want to get a distinot judgment of the
American people on that atrocious swin
dle through the instrumentality of the
Louisiana Returning Board, there te no
doubt they can be accommodated.
Thb number of Chinamen wto arrived
at Ban Francisco in January was only
228, while 882 returned to their native
lend.
Tim old maxim, “Be obaate and
yon’it be happy,” is oontradioted point
blank by a Black Hills man, who was re
cently chased ten miles by a party of red
skins.
New York oh th* War Situation.—
_ late New York letter says: “The stir
ring dispatches from London this morn
ing have been the leading themes to-day
in every circle, bnt principally among the
bankers, brokers, merchants and ethers,
whose business interests are likely to be
somehow affected by tho participation
of England Inithe war. That she will
now participate in it but few intelligent
observers of events are now disposed to
qnestion, yet, so long as the faot iteelf is
not absolutely certain, all the markets
must remain as they are to-day, more or
less feverish. The unanimous voting of
tbe supplementary estimates by the
House of Commons accepted as a sign
that publio opinion is no longer to be di
vided, and that henoeforth the Govern*
ment will be supported by the oonntry
in whatever steps it may resolve npon for
the maintenance of 'British interests,^
whatever that phrase may mean. The
first effect here te to keep gold steady,
stiffen the Btook market, and pnt np the
priees of breadstnffs.”
The trade dollar contains, in gold, 9G
oenta’ worth of silver. Four quarters ooa-
min 86 cents worth. But these four quar
ters, containing 10 cents’worth of silver
less than tbe trade dollar, are a legal ten
der for all private debts up to a certain
amount, while tbe trade dollar, because
it does not bear the Government stamp,
is not a legal tender for anything, and
will not even buy postage stamps, wbioh
oan be paid fox by the quarters intrinsi
cally worth lOoents less! Does not this
show that remonetization wonld lift the
old silver dollar to pai?. If 86-oent
quarters are worth 96 cents, what is a 96«
oent dollar worth?—New York Graphic.
Monjzaxi, the Polish actress of noble
birtb, te at present a lioness ot Washing
ton sooiety." The other day ahe went call
ing with Mis. Eugene Hale,and this week,
Mrs. Magruder, daughter of ex-Beoretary
of the Treasury Richardson, gives a recep
tion in her honor.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
[LETTER HO. 14.]
Stxahxb Bah Jacinto,
January 24tb, 1878.
Our mission to Cuba ended, and as
much of Havana and the interior of the
Island viewed from every possible stand
point by the aid cf interpreters, native
citizens, railway, cabs, and cicerones, af
ter a handsome lunch at the San Carlos,
the writer and his yonng Frincetonian
friend bade adieu to this Isle of wondere,
and once more trod the decks of the
STAUNCH BAH JACINTO.
Soon all the Macon delegation put in
an appearance, Bara Messrs. C. Rogers
D. B. Jones and B, C. Smith, who were so
fortunate as to be able to rejuain over
until the next trip of the vessel.
Punctually, at 4 p. m., the
TO, HXAVX, BO,
of the sailors was heard, as they worked
at the capstan and hove up the ponder
ous anchor, which being made fast, the
huge piston .rods began to ply up and
down and the splashing paddle wheels to
move, the obedient craft gracefully
yielding to the Helmsman and turning its
prow ssaward.
Tho still harbor was alive with vessels
of every description, bearing the flags of
all nations, and
BUB BOATS
flocked around the ship liden _with
oranges, lemons, bananas, guava jelly,
sweetmeats, and other commodities,
which they offered with expressive cries
and gestures to the departing passengers.
Many supplied themselves at the elev
enth tour with these luxuries, in the
hope that they would withstand the voy
age and be enjoyed by their families in
the far distant United States. But the
■greater part of their purchases, we regret
to say,
- WXBZ CAST OVaHBOABD
In a decayed condition, ere the shores and
flag of the “best government the world
ever' saw” were descried. And, sad to
relate, even after they had survived the
dangers of the deep and arrived at tho
poit of Savannati,
UNCLE SAM’S OFFICIALS
made a raid upon them, remorselessly
collecting an almost prohibitory tax upon
the trifles which had been brought over,
not for aals, but the personal use af the
passengers. It was a cruel set, and we
cannot believe in consonance at least,
with the spirit of the law, which means
simply to prevent the importation, free
of daty, of goods designed for barter or
sale.
The writer, however, was so fortuaate
as to
STEAL A MARCH
npon these rapacious revenue men, by
landing at St. Augustine, where the cus
tom house officers, though vigilant and
striot, yet did not disturb tho private
baggage of gentlemen which contained
nothing save their own personal stores
and property.
But we muet not anticipate.
BOUNDING THB BOBO CASTLE,
with it3 frowning armament and almost
impregnable ramparts, in an instant we
had emerged from our land locked har
bor and were “rocked in the cradle of
the deep.”
Not that this poetical quotation was
exactly correct, as there was really no
"rocking” about “ourn,” but downright
heaving and pitching, worse than tho
“BLANKBT TOS3ING”
recorded in the chronicles ot the Knight
of La Mancha.
No sooner had the ship struck “blue
water” again, than a vicious and obstrep
erous head-wind w&3 on hand, which
wrought up into a frenzy the
STOAT, CUBKENT OF THE GULF STREAM
enc brought about a war of elements, the
ga!« striving to counteract the impetus
of to is ocean river, while the resultant of
these opposing forces was a
VILLAINOUS “CHOPPING SEA,”
which nauseated the strongest stomachs,
sent tbe passengers to bed incontinently,
and verified the hyperbolical assertion
that tho “waves ran mountain high.”
Certaii ly they broke over the lofty prow
of tbe good ship, and went high enough
to level everybody save that
OLD MAN OF war’s MAN,
Captain Carnes, who walked the deck as
perenely bs when tramping at the bead of
his crack corps, the Macon Volunteers.
This deponent, under the crucial sur
roundings of that venomous tempest, is
willing to 8 wear that the billows rose as
high as (he
U1KALAVA MOUNTAINS,
or even for aught ho could say in opposi
tion, to the altitude of those protuber
ances scientists are went to charge to the
credit of the moon. Nor could he deny
open oath that they did not swell even to
loftier heights than those, and descend to
more dismal depths than the bottom of
the sea. Not to draw it too fine, Dr. H.,
the Piincetonian and himself were
HOBS DU COMBAT
in a very tittle time, and let the ship and
gale have it all their own way, in their
wretchedness perfectly indifferent to the
result. There we lay for about 24 hours,
the Doctor and his patients on the same
level of misery, the former not a whit the
better off for all his medical lore and
wilb’ng to listen to any hygienic advice,
whether from allopathic or homeopathic
sources.
Alas, how seasickness does take the
Btareh ont of mortals and reduce all
mankind to one common plane of “don't
care,” “I wish I was dead,” ''let me
alone” wretchedness.
Bnt the longest day comes to an end,
and the
FIERCEST GALE
also ceases, when it has “cracked its
cheeks” and can blow no longer. So the
trio of friends, when the waves went
down, recalled all their rash talk, and
clothed in their right minds went npon
deok again, feeling slightly ashamed of
the Waterloo victory the old sea dog,
Neptune, had won at their expense.
After this, the skies were propitious,
and making the circuit of the -
GREAT BAHAMA BANKS
during the gale, for fear of leaving the
ship’s bones upon some shoaly spot, we
struck into the Gulf Stream, and taking
advantage of the four mile current, sped
rapidly on our oourse, passing Salt Key
and many other lonely and uninhabitable
islets of the sea.
Nothing of note oocurred on the pas
sage to Nassau, save that the
NAUTILI AFFBAB1D IN LABGZR FLHBX3
than ever before, and huge sharks dis
played their murderous forms within
harpooning distance of the ship, while
one of a school of flying fiah had the te
merity to leave its element and pay ns a
visit on board. He was a fine fellow,
near a foot in length, with
WINGS AS LARGE AS A NIGHT HAWK’S,
and quits flexible and bird-like, save in
tbe lack of feathers.
Tbe writer made a laudable effort to
capture this unique denizen of the^ sea
for your pnbtio library, bnt failed igno-
miniouely.
Approaching the sailor who was *m-
nitty the little interloper, he inquired
“what price he was willing to take for it,”
“If you have a ten dollar bill to pay
for it,” was the reply, “the fish is yonrs.”
Bnt, alas, he was dealing with a poor
editor, who, tike the rest of hi* guild,
toils and toil*, and barns the midnight
lamp for his readers and the benefit of
the country, and yet ofttimes finds it
difficult to make both ends meet, and if
he didn’t show bis bristles when assault
ed by hinny hammer fault-finders, wonld
be wiped ont of existence. So be failed
to pay that X for the flying fish, and the
library lost the prize.
ABZIVAL AT NASSAU.
Punctual to the schedule time, the San
Jacinto sighted the coral shores of New
Providence on Friday morning, January
25th.
Here the ship remained about ten hours
to eoal and take , in freight, and we had
the opportunity once more to go on
shore and oomplete the exploration of this
fairy isls,
It was gladly embraced, and tho unan
imous verdict ot the crowd was that it
would be impossible to tell the half con
cerning the transcendent beauties, deb-
dons climate, limpid and brilliontly.hued
waters, manifold curiosities, tropical pro
duction?, hospitable inhabitants, excel
lent hotel, courteous Governor, and tha
numberless objects of_ interest which de
light and charm the visitor at every step.
We will give only one or two additional
items to what has already been spread
before the reader in the columns of the
Telegraph and Messenger. One of
these is some mention of the
SP0NG1 FISHERIES.
This useful marine production is found
attached to the coral rooks at the bottom
of the shallow waters which surround tbe
Bahama group of islands, and is plucked
and bronghtto the surface by the skillfull
divers employed for that purpose.
When taken ashore, the sponges are
spread ont to dry in the aun, and exhale
the fishy odor whioh clings to them. They
are then carefully escorted for the trade.
We saw
SEVERAL ACRES OF THESE.SPONGER .
from two to three feet in depth, under
going the drying and airing prooess, pre
vious to being exported. The sponge
business is probably the most Important
branch of commeroe, unless it be the
shipments of logwood, vhioh Nassau oan
boast of.
ANOTHER NASSAU LION
la the famous silk cotton tree, : whioh
stands in the grounds adjacent to the
Parliament House and Post-offise. This
monster must measure one hundred feet- in
circumference at the base. The trunk is
divided, as it were, into huge walls.from
two to three feet in thickness, and extend
ing to the lower limbs, between whioh
there are odd reoeseea and cavernous
spaoes singularly unique in appearanoe.
The limbs shoot out laterally, {and cover
an immense area. This tree dates back
for centuries, and it is impossible to ascer
tain its age.
With the description of a
NASSAU BEAUTY,
we cloBe onr notes npon this peerless gem
of tbe sea.
She oan be seen in the dining-room of
the Yiotoria Hotel. Lst the reader im
agine a yonng lady tlightly petite in form,
bnt plump and sprightly, and dressed in
the extreme 61 the fashion, with a train
ever so many yards in length. She is
not pretty, bnt wonld hava a pleasant
face if those Instrons dark eyes bad not
been marred in their effect by the
LUDIOUCUS ARTIFICIAL COLOR CF HER
HAIR.
Let U3 attempt to describe her head-
gear:
Conceive of a luxuriant suit of raven
looks dyed a horrid yellow oolor, and
wound around the head tnrban-fashion,
sooa almost to hide the forehead, without
the relief of a single friz, and with only a
diminutive ringlet not larger than a half
dollar on.eaoh temple.
We can think of no better illustration of
the head-fnrnitnre of this belie than tha
handkerchief whioh, in slavery days, was
wrapped about the wooly pates of onr
nurses and elderly house-servant-. Still,
her figure was good and her faoa engaging.
Bnt who could endure that artificul sor
rel-colored head with its preposterous
wrappings ?
8T. AUGUSTINE ONCE MORE.
After a favorable passage from Nas
sau to tho bar of this ancient port, the
only saliont incident occurring bein? the
rising of a
HUGE OBAMFU3
lotae surface within a few feet of the-
ship, which continued in eight for a mile,
ever and anon spurting np clouds of spray
tike a veritable whale, a pilot boarded
us and we were again in correspondence
with home and country.
It was tne expectation of the Captain
and all on board that we would be able to
breakfast in St. Augustine, and resame
the voyage to Savannah by the same
tide and with the delay of an hour or two
only, but He who holdeth the winds in
the hollow of His hand and orders all
things decreed otherwise.
A strong wind almost equal to a gale
sprang np off shore, blowing out the wa
ter from the bar and rendering tbe pas.
sage np the tortuous channel extremely
difficult and dangerous. It was 2 o’clock
p. m. before the ship reached her wharf,
and once
SHE STRUCK
within seventy-five yards of the angry
breakers but. Providentially did not
stick. This necessitated a delay of 24
hours in St. Augustine, as the pilot
wonld not venture to take the ship in
Buck weather across the bar at night.
Here your correspondent and his young
friend “J. B. W." left the San Jacinto
after a comfortable night at the St. An.
guetine Hotel, and started on Monday
morning for Jacksonville via Tocoi and
steamer Sappho on the St. Johns river.
The trip over the tittle railroad to the
river, 13 miles, cost two dollars; and in
the swamps on the way we noticed
thousands of soar oranges growing
wild.
It was 1:30 p. m. when we landed in
JACKSONVILLE,
Florida’s most thriving and beautiful
city, and we astonished the crowd by
the warm embrace and hearty kiss be
stowed upon a beloved brother. But
what cared the writer for their smiles?
“Blood te thicker than water.”
This flourishing city is in the doldrums
at present from the scarcity of Northern
and Western visitors, and tbe proprietors
of several palatial hotels mourn over va
cant rooms and long vistas of empty
tables. This is due in part to malicious
reports from abroad that yellow fever
actually prevails in the city. Nothing
could bs more cruel or false. The place
is perfectly healthy, and the weather
balmy and salubrious.
Pausing but a tingle day, we “took np
onr carriages” again and spsd on to Ma
con, stopping, however, for a brief sea
son again in Savannah.
And now, in the last paragraph of
this, the
LAST LETTER,
describing the adventures by “flood and
field” of the writer in his Nassau and
Cuban exeuitien, be would embrace the
opportunity toreoommend all' visitors to
Florida to go by the
CUMBERLAND ROUTE.
The time is shorter, the danger less, the
scenery mors interesting and diversified,
and last, but not least, the whole dis.
tance to or from Macon may be accom
plished in daylight, mud the roads, steam
er, eto., are in the best condition, with
agreeable and accommodating officials
to attend to every want of the passen
ger. -
And now, reader, if you are not quite
exhausted by the long and continued
fire of "editorial correspondence,” tho
author of so many missives, written un
der every possible disadvantage, certainly
is, and therefore “throws up the sponge”
and subsides incontinently. Farewell.
E . H. J.
Tbe Moffet Beil Punch constitu
tional.
Nxw Yobh, February 8.—A Richmond
(Va.) special sayi: “The Supreme Court
of Appeals to-day decided that the Moffet
liquor law and the bell punch system is
constitutional. This greatly strengthens
the hands of the debt payers, for the
law in the light of five months’ expe
rience will bring the State f600,000 per
annum. Governor Holliday has a letter
from the English bondholders offering to
compromise on the 4 percent, bill just
passed by the Senate.”
A Miscreant Drowned.—One of the
survivors of tbs Metropolis ssya be saw
the tine east by tbe life-saving crew over
the vessel before she was a wreck by means
of the mortar, deliberately out with a
knife by e man who was afterwards drown
ed. This sot was evidently done to pre
vent any one else from trying to get
ashore on the line before himself.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington City, Feb. 6,1878.
injustice to gen, cook.
I regret to see that the Atlanta Consti
tution, in iti comments on the vote injthe
House -on Stanley Matthews’ silver reso
lutions, has dune Gen. Cook great injus
tice. Of course that paper will set him
right when ite attention has been called
to tbe matter. It report] the Georgia
delegation as voting solidly for those res
olutions, with the exception of General
Cook, who, it adds, does not appear
either to have bean paired or announced
ae absent on acoonnt of sickness.
If tha readers of the Constitu
tion had read the Record print
ed the day after the vote was taken,
they would have seen that Gen. Cook’s
absence was owing to sickness, and that
the fact was announced by bis colleague,
Mr. Blount. It might also bare inferred
from the General’s previous votes on this
question, that he is heartily in favor of
all measures that have been presented in
the House favoring the remonetization
of silver, and except In this instance, has
never failed to so put himself on record.
On the day the Matthews resolutions
passed the House he was and had been
confined to bis room by a severe cold,
accompanied by a fever, and some threat
ening indications of pneumonia. I hope
onr friends of the Constitution will note
this correction, and give its readers the
benefit thereof.
mb. bayard’s
speech on that current bore, the silver
qnestion, in tbe Senate yesterday, was
veiyable. Also very lengthy—which
seems to be the fashion over there.
The average Senatorial mind cannot un
burden itself on many matters in leas
than two honrs and a half, and some of
them spoil three and a half. The great
Conkling, now, can, on some occasions,
disembowel an ordinary qnestion in
something less than one hun
dred and twenty minntes, but then,
he is not an Average Statesman, much
less Senator.
All this wind work will .not, how
ever, demolish the dollar of the Daddioe.
So the current of popular judgment runs,
according to my best knowledge] and in
formation. By the way, (isn’t it rather
singular and startling, toe, that Ameri
can bonds should b a coming back from
Europe in snch quantities just now?
Nearly six millions were sent back from
England by last week’s steamers, to be
sold. Evidently John Ball wants to
change his investment, not liking the
looks of matters financial, on this side.
We may as well prepare to zee many
millions more of our bonds sent back,
when this Bilver legislation and other
kindred measures shall have been crys-
talized into law..
more taxes.
Look out for another, though this one
will not cut so deeply south a? north of
the Potomac. On Monday only four
votes were needed in the House to sus
pend the rules and pass a resolution in
structing the Ways and Means Commit
tee to report a bill reviving the income
tax. Tne Ridicab generally sat down on
the resolution, which cams from an Ohio
Democrat, end the Democrats generally
favored it. Georgia was solid for it, ex
cept Mr. Harris, who was absent on ac
count of sickne83 in his family. It teams
pretty well settled that the committee
will report such a bill by a vote of six to
five. It will, as formerly, make honest
men sweat and the other sort laugh, and
result in a grand carnival of perjury and
fraud, especially towards the rising sun,
where incomes are plu3 instead of minus,
as is generally tbe case down in Dixie.
The South oan stand it better than any
other section. In fact, I don’t know any
other country in the world where such a
law wiil be practically nearer a dead let
ter.
JUnGE BBADLEV’S
decision in the case of the Returning
Board scoundrels down in Orleans, who
fear justice in the State court, was a reg
ular “stunner” to the faithful. Tiroy
have not quite recovered their breath
yet, and swear “Aliunde Joe” haB gone
back on them. Joe is “sly, sir, devilish
sly,” and hasn’t noted the ohange in the
political current without learning a great
deal. He seem3 to find as much and as
sound law for refusing to aid Wells and
his fellow villains, as he did to cheat old
man Tildcn out of his winnings last win
ter. Tne last move on the board for
Wells & Co., seems to be to ask Judge
Woods’ help, and if an Ohio Congress
man who knows Woods’ intimately is
not greatly mistaken, ho may pull them
out of the mire. My ides, however, is
that Woods’ vision has been as much
cleared by the events of tbe past year as
Bradley’s.
BOMB “sweet thing?” in feminise rig.
Mrs. Hayes’ last reception, Saturday
afternoon, was the event of tbe week
from a dress and bonnet standpoint, and
a lady friend of mine gave the benefit of
ber observations, at length, and with all
that delightful enthusiasm whioh char
acterizes the dear creatures when the
theme is dress and tbe audience dumb.
First, of coarse, she tackled Mrs. Hayes,
who she said, wore a ruby colored silk dress
combined with velvet of the same color,
open at the neok,and finished with a wide
white znoh—whatever that is. Madame
Youshida, the wife of the Japanese Minis
ter, wore a princesse dress of white oanton
crepe oovered with rich hand embroidery,
high waist, whioh was open in front and
filled with a white crepe lisse niching.
A vine of embroidery bordered the neok,
and ran down the long sleeves, and a
wreath terminating in abonqnet of oolored
embroidery was worked on the front and
back of the dress. [My lady declared
that this dress was the perfec
tion of (logout simplicity, and ot
course I agreed with her. Another rav
ishing costume was described as just from
England, and .especially calculated to
moke all the other women staro and sneer
bnt all the same long for one just like it.
“Of course,” she said, “a New York girl
owned it.” (This with a snap in her
eye3 and the faintest suspicion of vinegar
in her voice). It consisted of a black
silk train richly trimmed, with a swallow
tailed coat—a literal, regulation claw
hammer. The back was exactly that of
a dress coat, the front a short
jacket, buttoning In two places
over a crimeon silk vett, cut
away just like a: man’s waistcoat, to
show a black silk scirf just snch as men
wear, with a gold crescent and pin in
front and a linen collar after the latest
masculine pattern. This costume was
the success of the occasion, and the
rest of the women went home to dream
about, and lzy plans to oapture Che just
like it. Another drees, or rather the
wearer’s ornaments, excited my lady’s en
thusiasm. They were a necklace and
ear-rings of tiger’s claws inlaid with gold
and set in gold of Uhiaeee workmanship.
The necklace was linked with gold
medallions. The daws were crescent
shaped, nearly translucent, and of a milky
tint.
Mach more did my lady favor me with
but this ie about all I remember, just
now.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Another leak in John Sherman’s till.
Eighteen hundred dollars have disap
peared and the Treasurer says he hasn’t
seen in it ainoe 1876.
The "Night Lodging Houee" people re
port having oared for 1,141 persona dur
ing the month of January, cnly thirty-
two of whom were women and Children.
The rest were able bodied men, and all,
except about three hundred common la
borers, registering themselves ae skilled
artisan* of various kinds. Of printers
there were aixty odd.
“Silver Bill” Bland, of Missouri, made
his appearance yesterday in the House,
for the first time since the recess. He
has been very ill at home, and looks
like ha had had a sharp tussle with death
and the doctors. The derk ot the House*
Mr. Adams, has also been very tick ainoe
Saturday, and at one time it wae feared
he wonld not recover. He is better,
however, to-day, eo the half hundred
standing candidates for his position mnat
gnn and bear it a tittle longer.
Clearing the House floor of everybody
lj.ut members and ex-members is working
tike a dose ot salts, and some of the 8o-
lons are very sick of the job already
They have gotten rid of the lobby, propl
er, but there are forty-eight ex-members
registered and present, nearly every
day, and they all have one or more doses
of tire acid to administer to members.
They all have to swear they are not ini
terestod in any pending legislation before
getting in, but I guess a coach and six
could be easily driven through this oath,
it a skilful! driver handled the rein?.
Professor Baird, fish commissioner,
under date of yesterday, writes Gen.
Cook that he will, at an early day, stock
the Oomnlgee at Hawkinsville, and the
Flint at Montezuma and Reynolds, with
shad. A. W. B.
Decision a of the Supreme court
of Georgia, Delivered at the
January Term, 1878.
Abridged from th* Constitution by N. S. Harris'
Bsq., of the Macon Btr.
Western Railroad Company, of Ala«
bamavs. Thornton & Aoee. Certiorari,
from Muscogee.
Bleckley, J.—-A garnishment to the
Western; Railroad Comoany, of Alabama,
a corporation of that Slate, and nerved on
its local agent at Columbus, Georgia, did
not bind the Company as to the trank of
a passenger whioh was, at the time of the
service, en route with the passenger in the
State of Alabama, on the way over the
Company’* road,' from Columbus, Geor
gia, to West Point, Georgia. As the truck
was not in reaoh of prooeee issued by this
State, when tha garnishment was Betved,
that it waa subsequently brought by the
Company into tbe State, at West Point, in
the doe performance of its contract with
the p*8aenger, wonld not render the gar
nishment effective; more especially, as
Colnmbna and West Point are in differ
ent oounties, and as it was not made to
appear that the local agent at Columbus
had any power or authority to control the
custody or disposition of the trunk at
West Point
Judgment reversed.
Orma vs. King'and Meyer. Motion,
from Camden.
Bleckley, J.—1. An affidavit under
section 4072 of the code, to eject intru
ders, should be suffio: -ntly certain in the
description of the laad to suable the
sheriff to identify the premises. The
want of such certainty .is the causa for
setting aside the judgment, after trial
on connter affidavit, and after verdiot and
judgment m faYor of the plaintiff.
2. Judgment was properly set aside cn
motion, where the ouiy description was
“The following tract or parcel ot land to
wit: fifty acres of what is known as El
liot’s Bluff, a survey of land situated on
the south aide of Crooked river, in Cam
den county, Georgia.”
.Judgment affirmed.
Morris et al. vs. Tinker. Ejectment,
from McIntosh.
Bleckley, J.—1. Under section 888
of the code, the sheriff has no authority
to levy a tix execution, when the princi
pal amount does not oxceed fifty debars
A levy by an officer who bas no authority
is the game as eo levy. A sale without a
legal levy is the same as no sale.
2. When title papers are void, and, on
the facts, not even relevant as color of
title, they shoald be rejected oe evidence.
3. When the premises in dispute is a
mill site, having a steam siw mill there
on, the mesne profits may embrace the
rent of the mill and of the s'.te as one es
tablishment. The whole may be treated
as reality, for the purpcs3 of estimating
tho plaintiff’s damages.
4. The jury may decline to reduci
mesne profits, on account of improve
ments, where the evidence satisfies them
that tne improvements are not lasting,
bat must perish before tbe plaintiff can-
reap benefit therefrom.
Judgment affirmed.
Western Railroad Company of Ala
bama vs. Thomas & Prescott. Certiorari,
from Muscogee.
Bleckley, J.—That tho agent of a
railroad company obstructed an officer
in lerying an attachment npon goods
loaded upon one of the trains of the com
pany, and that be removed tbe goods out
of the State, by running out the tram,
will not furnish a cause of action against
the company, at the instance of the plain
tiff in attachment—16 Go. 141; and see
20 i&. 598.
Judgment reversed.
Jackson, J., concurred dubitanta, and
said that were the question an open one,
he should unhesitatingly dissent.
Dart, trustee, vs. Mayhew & Oo. Mo
tion to set aside a judgment of foreclos
ure of lien, from Glynn.
Jackson, J.—Creditors furnishing mo
ney to saw-mills have no lien thereon,
under the acts of 1868 and 1873, and the
code section 19S5; and the judgment
foreclosing the same should have been
vacated and set aside on proper motion
made therefor.
' Judgment reversed.
Smith vs. Newtcn. Complaint, from
Floyd.
Warner. C. J.—If parties who are ani
juris will not take care of themselves m
making their contrasts, in the absence of
either moral or legal fraud, as the jury
have found Ly their verdict in: this case,
they have no right to expect that the
courts will take care of them.
Judgment affirmed.
Jackson, J., concurred.
Smith vs. Printup, l Brothers & Go.
Complaint, from Floyd.
Warner, C. J.—A party sued as one
of the drawers of a bill of exchange may
also be Bued in another action as accep
tor of the same bil 1 , and a plea that
judgment has been obtained for the
amount of the hill in the first suit, with
out more, is not a goed plea in bar to the
second suit.
Judgment affirmed.
Afmee.
Aimes possesses & wardrobe so exqui
site in-every detail, and so tasteful, with
out becoming “loud,” that many promi
nent sooiety ladies, both in New York
and foreign cities, attended her perfonn-
noes simply to see the dresses, which
are being copied by modistes aa closely as
possible for weddings, balls, etc. She
has an entirely new outfit—different cos
tumes for each opera—recently purchased
in Paris at an expense of nearly f40,000.
This of course does not include her jewels
—one necklace alone, compojed of dia
monds larger than peas, and solitaire ear
rings to match—:03ting a fortune. Be
sides dresses ot richest texture and lace*
of fabulous fineness, all the accessories
are perfection itself, from cobweb hand
kerchiefs to costliest shoes and slippers
of silk or satin to match every costume,
and dozens of pairs of French silk hose
in all the rare tints—embroidered, lace-
trimmed, or embellished with flowers and
butterflies, costing from {36 to $75 a pair
—and gloves with buttons innumerable,
extending above the elbow. She changes
throughout several times each evening,
two maids being in attendance in her
waiting room. Aimee is an educated wo
man, with a voice of superior excellence,
seldom heard in opera bouffe. She is a
rare linguist, singing in six different
languages as perfectly as in her mother
tongue, and is even more charming in
private life than she appears upon tho
boards.
Senator B&uoa bos received from the
Mississippi Lagislalnra a certified ceps
of resolutions passed by that body, ®P*
proving his vote on the Matthews resolu
tion and bia attitude toward the Bland
silver bill. In the same resolutions, La*
max’s opposition to the stiver legislation
wm eondemad. These resolutions were
introduced by an ex-Oonfederate,
were so unexpected that Brace is over
whelmed with gratification. The Legie
iatnre has passed resolutions ins treating
both Bruoe and Lamar to vote lor th®