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Ct?£ dbjwgm llfatfcltf wih 3*mim?xl& i^saamsier n The Telegraph and Messenger MACON, GA..' APRIL 30, 187& Gbiit Sxcxssion to Rome.—A Paris dispatch to the RtraU tells ot the im pending secession to the Roman Catho lic church of three millions of members of the Church of England, headed by Bish ops, Priest?, and deacons. This, if true, •will make a great sensation in the reli gious world, and show a reactionary movement almost nnpaia’-lsled. We judge, however, that the extent of the defection ha3 been over-estimated. Death of Wm. Orton. Wm. Orton, the well known President of that gigantic corporation, the Western Union Telegraphic Company, died at seven o’clock Monday morning from the effect of a etroke of apoplexy, with which he was smitten at eleven o’clock the night before. So suddenly, and like vapor, has vanished from the earth one of its moat active, astute and energetio minds—a man of wonderful administra tive ability, and holding a position which his taxed it to the utmost for many years. It is possible that Mr. Orton was quite unconscious of any abuse of his system from over taxation, until the catastrophe came sudden as the collapse of a steam engine. But the human machine. cm not belong and persistently overstrained with impunity, and such sudden catas trophes as this should remind ns that moderation in labor is as essential to health as temperance in diet. GxmxraIj Bakxr’s Lxcturs. — To night onr citizens will enjoy the oppor tunity of testifying their appreciation of a gallant living Confederate, and it will be a fitting prelude to the solemnities of memorial day. In honoring the noble dead of the lost cause, they bnt discharge a sacred and patnotio doty which should never be neglected through all the cycles of advancing years. But 1st us nottor- • get also to weave chaplets for those who bared their bosoms in defense of our dearest rights, and faced the leaden temp est of death side by side with the heroes who fell on the stricken field. That distinguished citizen of a sister State, the “Eagle Orator” of Alabama, General Alpheus Baker, was one of these who fought and bled for Southern liberty. Moreover, he is a genial and knightly gentleman, a cultivated man of letters, and most eloquent speaker. Bis lecture, we learn, is a literary gem, full of sparkle, wit and pathos, and will strike a sympathetic chord in the heart of every true Southron. Come one then and hear him, ycung and old, and show that Macon does ap- predate real genius, and is not unmind ful also of the living as well as the dead soldiers of the Confederacy. Thx weather is very close, dry and warm. Yesterday the sky wa3 heavily overcast all day, the atmosphere still, and the temperature ranging between eighty- six and ninety. The twxnty cent pieces went up yesterday, the Senate having passed the House bill prohibiting their futther coinage, there will be small difference of opinion about this bill. The twenty cent pieces are needless and practically deceptive. They are easily paid out for a quarter, as there are comparatively so few of them that their existence is almost forgotten by the people at large. The Babe Azob, which tcok ont the Preedmen emigrants from Charleston according to the Nines and Courier, was an old slaver, and that paper see3 a poetical idea in her employment to transfer the emancipated slaves back to their native wilds. Just before she sailed the emi grants were extensively flreced by a pompous Sambo, who announced himself as an African prince, sold for cash a good many obligations redeemable in African gold dost, and he suddenly disappeared as the vessel slipped her anchor. As- cording to the Journal of Commerce the Azor took ont 260 emigrants—96 of eight years and under, and 164 adults. Of these 188 hail from South Carolina, one from Louisiana, 8 from Alabama, 54 from Georgia, 6 from North Carolina, and 3 from Florida. Personal Articles. We do not publish a newspaper for the purpose of ventilating the fancied griev* ances, personal or otherwise, of private individuals. Such communications inva riably stir up bad blood, are of no inter est whatever to the general reader, and lower the standard of journalism. If a man wants to maho an attack in print npon his enemy, 1st him pay the job prin ter for a poster or card with his name ap pended to it, and circulate it himself. It is too much to ask ot a newspaper to con vert its colamns into a public sewer for the flow of all the venom which will come to the snrfaoe in this belligerent world. Moreover, the principal in snch cases, if libel suits are instituted, escapes scot free and the innocent newspaper man is made to pay the penalty, if penalty there he at law, for any action that may be brought. We have nothing to do with the private qnarrela of men, and do not wish to be a party directly or indirectly to them. Besides, how mnoh more decorous and becoming to settle your differences face to face with an antagonist peaceably if possible, or by thedernier arbitrament of blows if needs be, in preference to fa tiguing the listless public with a recital sf your spleen and perhapa imaginary wrongs in a windy newspaper fight. Not even for money will the Tele- grafh andMxssxxgxb lend its columns and influence to magnify the petty brawls of private individuals. Though public newB carriers, wears not mischief makers or the convenient vehicle of the turbulent and quarrelsome. The Paris Exposition.—The atten tion of all who contemplate visiting the exposition to be opened in Paris about the middle of May, is requested to the facilities offered by the Anohor Line of Steamships, Bailing direct to London or Glasgow, making close sonnectiona with all routes to the continent. The ships are new, of tbe most approved model, and contain all the latest devices for tbe safety and oomfoit of passengers, and are officered by the mo3t skillful and experi enced navigatorr. The passenger aocom- -aodaticns are unsurpasie *, btiog fi-st- *■18 in every particular, and the cuisine onduotedon the meat scientific ana eral scale. An advertisement in aiofher column gives particulars ns to rotes of passage, etc, Dr. Battle’s Discourse. The terrible fire whioh, at a late hour the preceding night, laid Inrnina that fa vorite andfamous hostle, Brown’s Hotel, and the entire block upon whioh it stood, sent dismay and consternation to every heart, and in conseqnenoe the attendance npon the several churches was smaller than usual. Still, a goodly number as sembled in the Presbyterian honse of wor ship, and listened with delight to the able sermon of Rev. A. J. Battle, D.D. As usual, the Doctor was peculiarly felicitous both in his theme and the manner of treating it. We took no notes, and shall merely announce the text and speak pen- era 11 v of his effort. The subject of the discourse was drawn from the lSth chapter of 1st Corinthians, 14tb, 17th, 18th and 20th verses: “And if Christ be not risen, then is onr preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sin. Then they also whioh are fallen asleep la Christ are perished. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and beoame the first frnits of them that slept" The speaker opened with a beautiful comparison of nature at this season with the resurrection and rehabilitation of the body in the spirit world. The expanding buds and blushing flow ers, the emerald robe which has banished the gray of winter from the forests, the springing vegetation and flourishing crops, the sweet voices of the feathered songsters in the trees, the hum of the newly awakened insect throng all con spire to typify and illustrate the resur rection ot the body from the dull sleep of the grave. The Doctor then proceeded in an ana lytical and logical manner to divide and expatiate upon his subject in all its bear ings, with great force and dearness. Some of the most salient points we re 1 member and are tempted to reproduce; but it might tend to mar the symmetry of the whole in the estimation of thOBO who listened to thia noble pulpit exposi tion of one of the eublimest truths of the gospel of salvation, and we forbear. The resurrection I Is it not the key stone to the ai. ii which supports that house of *’m..ij mansions” prepared for the redeemed nud regenerated in the ce lestial city ? To doubt it, is to subside to the level of the brate creation, who Bim ply live and die. Bat thanks be to God there is a bright er, higher destiny for the eoals of the saints made perfect through the blood and mediation of the Savior of mankind. Dr. Battle’s disconrse was not only able and excellent, but carried peace and comfort to the souls of believers, and many returned thanks to him for his words of cheer and consolation. How fortunate that the head of a great institution of learning should also be an humble servant of the living God, and true exemplar of the precepts and teach inga of the blessed Redeemer. Tbe Fall River Defalcations. It seems from the Fall River dispatch es, that Hatheway and Chace, the de faulting agents or managers of two man ufacturing companies in that city, are together in default probably not much short of a million dollars. Hatheway’s account yesterday is reported short a quarter of a million, and Chaco’s defalca tion a week ago was summed up as certain to the amount of $519,000, with gloomy anticipations that farther exam ination would disclose a good deal more. Snob disclosures as these show that onr Eastern brethren are not slways the keen men of business they are reputed to be, and they are alio melonoholy illnstralioas of the demoralizing effect of flash and fluctuating finanoisl times. Men lose their heads in flash times under the stim ulus of pecuniary greed and impatience of slow acquisitions. They see or they fanoy ail around them making a pile, and learn to despise Bmall savings. Then when a pecuniary pinch sets ia they find themselves chained to the car of Satan and most plunge into the most desperate dishonesty, in the vain hope to cover their traoks. These Fall River defalcations are among the greatest of this evil time; and they suggest the idea that there would be less need of pinching the wages of operatives, if the general management of these vast concerns were more closely attended to. It u not improbable that a good many of them have been saving at the spigot and losing at the bung- hole. Tbe Diplomats, Do not report progress to the press, and if they are making any, the steady prep arations for war do not appear to war rant such a conclusion. One of the tele grams undertakes to Bay that the pourpar lers between Austria and Russia, are go ing on with great good humor; but it is scarcely to be doubted that Britain is pourparleying or palavering Austria on her own account at the same time. It is land vs. money—Germany being the on ly, but very silent and watchful, obsta cle to a free acceptance of the best bid. It is impossible ’ that Germany can be quite patient over this extraneous dicta tion in the affairs of Southern Europe; but she is very cautions and reticent. Sooner or liter, however, the pot will be upset. According to the telegrams to-day Great Britain holds the whip and reins in the matter of a Turkish alliance, or in enforcing Turkish neutrality; bat one does not readily see how, with Taikey as a neutral, and under special treaty re lations with both England and Russia, either ean presume to demand of her stipulations as to their status, in hostile array against each other, upon her soil— particularly as, in all probability, tho war may open with toe destruction of Con stantinople. Monet bt the BubHel.—Oa the Union- town express on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, which left PittBbarg Thursday morning, were two mtn who had a large quantity of counterfeit half dollars wicn them. Two of the spurious coins were found on the newsboy on the train. The men apparently became frightened then, and when near Coulterville threw nearly a bushel of money from the train. La borers ob their way to work came across the heaps, and they emptied their dinner buckets and filled them with what they supposed was good money. The coun terfeiters escaped. The silly ttory thr.t Senator Gordon a few months ago carried a pistol with the intention of letting daylight through Roicoe Ccnkling is exploded. General Gordon says he never carries a “weapon* - of any kind, and that even during the war he was unencumbered with a revol ver. It ia said that out of the appointments in the Senior cliss of the Wesleyan Fe male College, five are held by graduates of the public schools in Bibb county. McLIN AND DENNIS. Confessions of tbe Returning: Boards. It is an old saying that the strength of a chain is only that of the weakest link. It was a very long and tangled chain of fraud which resulted in cheating the people of the United States out of their duly elected Chief Magistrate, and put ting in his place a man who had been re jected by their voteB for that office. There were links of every kind in that chain—many very ‘'stalwart” link?, and others of no other strength than that of a rank and skank-like villainy. Of the latter class wars the paid hire lings of the Reluming Board—the Mo Lins and Dennises, who, destitute even of that honor said to be sometimes found among thieves, are ready to bite the hand that has f6d them so soon as it becomes empty. These and all others like them will be printing their confessions all along for the remainder of Hayes’ term, nntil the fraud expires by limitation. McLIn and Dennis acknowledge the ballot-box stuffings, in virtue of which Florida was claimed for Hayes, although the bogus votes fell largely short of giving him a majority, and the good offioes of the Ee- away enough legal votes for Tilden to turning Board had to be invoked to throw sink the soaies against him. American manhood will revolt in in tense disgust from the spectacle of a great national usurpation effected through the instrumentality of such dirty crea tures. Bnt xeslly they were no more than the puppets through whom the so- called statesmen of the Radical party perfected the frauds which they had de liberately planned. No body at this late day can be so childish as to exonerate a single leading politician in the Republi can party from more or less responsible countenance of, and participation in, this atrocious fraud. There was not one of them who did not know that Hayes had been defeated—and not one of them who did not resolve that, whether defeated or not, he ahould be forced into the Presidential chair if need ful, by military power. Of all tbe lead ers and representatives of tho party, not more than two or three balked at a fell resolution, which struck a death blow at honest election—the freedom sf the bal lot and the rights and liberties of the people. It is not to be doubted, now that the work of exposure haB beguu, that every man prominent in that dark piece of treachery will be dragged foxthto public scrutiny and scorn. The radicals expect to disgrace Hayes because he impersonates the fraud and usurpation; but Hayes would not have dreamed of so gigantic a crime had it not been almost forced npon him by the Re publican leaders, John Sherman, Mor ton, Zack Chandler, C&meron, Edmunds and the like, were the real engineers and perpetrators of this foul wrong on free and honest gevemmant, and the public liberties. Let the work of exposure go on. It seems the handiwork of divine provi dence that nearly all the politicians fore most in planning and executing this great orime, Bhould now be so eager to pnnish Hayes as to be almost indifferent to their own exposure. It is one of those oases of crime in which the vast number of the participants is htld to redace personal accountability to an almost imperceptible minimum. Bnt that is not the law nor the morals of tbe case. A thousand men may commit a murder and eaoh one be as guilty as though done by his sole act. Stuffed Mulx3 and Steasi Dummies.— For a year past the city of Milwaukee has been in a state of turmoil, oaused by the introduction of steam motors on the street railway lines. Now peace reigns supreme. An inventive genins of that town lately oonceived the happy idea of ilaoing a staffed male in front of each ‘dummy.” The experiment was a bril liant sueoess. This straw mule moves along sedately in front cf the motor, and the pranoing steeds of the Cream Oily are no longer tempted to take fright and run away as It pnffs along. XariffAgonlefi. I The Taxiffitss in Pennsylvania are mak ing lively demonstrations against the Wood bill; bnt are oettainly foolish In so doing. The passage of that bill will aim ply delay a retain to an honest and con stitutional system of taxation. Its pro tective features axe qnite as marked, and are more efficient for the pnrpose of pro* teetirn. because the reductions it makes are, t • * large extent, on axtiolea whioh enter into the consumption of Amer- loan manufacturers. The existing tariff is so complicated and incoherent, being the outgrowth of a condition of civil war, and embodied in so many etatntea and treasury rulings and decisions, that it most necessarily be superseded before long; and delay is obliged to tell with in creasing weight against the iniquitous system of speculative and class taxation. If the men who insist on increasing their personal gains by wielding the tax- ing power so as to increase the prices of what they have to sell, could take unin telligent view of their own interests, they would accept the Wood bill, rather than wait and get a worse one, measured by their ideas of the proper nses of taxation. From Cbntenmied Hxadquartxrs.—I find Dr. Ball’s Cough Syrup excellent, having a ready sale and rendering more satisfaction than any Cough Syrup I have ever soli.”—A, B. Maloney, M. D., Fif teenth and Carpenters treet,Philadelphia, Pa. - A Big Fact with an Imnorfanl Lesson. An illustration ot the importance of opening tbe Mississippi river to sea-’oing vessel-’, is furnished in a statement that eemes from Davenport, Iowa. The Ga- sette, ot that city, announces that a lead ing produce firm has just sold 10,000 bushels of wheat tor direct shipment from Davenport, via St. Louis, to Liver pool, and eays: “The 10,000 onsheJB are robe loaded in a barge, towedtoSt. Louis, where it will be put with a tow of 5 barges, aid so be taken to Ne w Orleans and trans ferred to an ocean vessel bound for Liver pool. What is the freight rate from Davenport and Liverpool? Why just forty oenta a hundred pounds—or twenty four oenta a bushel—the same rate of grain by railroad from Davenport to New York city. Though, now and then, wheat will be taken from this city to New York by rail for thirty-five cools per hundred pounds. But think of heat conveyed from this otty to Liverpool for only fire cents more than the railrate to New York harbor ? Who oan estimate the value of the Mississippi route to toe sea apd Europe, to Iowa and the Northwest, with that facility-of trans portation and that tariff to Liverpool? Why, wfc’ll have New York prices right here at homo for wheat and corn, with such a state of things, before long, pro vided tbe railroads leading to tho Missis sippi give a rsasonble rate to the great river.” Tbe Rallying: of the Cl&ng. Already, in response to the call upon the sens of old Liberty, wherever scat tered abroad, to contribute their mite for the preservation of the venerable ceme tery of Midway ohnrcb, Dr. G. Troup Maxwell, a gallant Confederate officer in the war, and his son, George, have eaoh transmitted to the writer five dol. lars to be applied to that sacred fund- The Doctor, who belongs to the military staff of the Governor of Delaware, and Btands in the very front rank of his pro fession in the entire Union, writes as fol lows: "I have watched with anxious solici tude the discussion in regard to the pro* posed sale of dear old Midway Church to the negroes, or to a society for their use. And the paragraph in the Txlxgraph, just read, which announces that the parties immediately concerned, under the leader ship of that venerable man and most ex cellent citizen, Mr. T. Q, Cossets, hare determined to retain the title to that his toric, spot and its sacred surroundings, has relieved my heait of a load of dis tressing apprehension. “Although cot a native of Liberty county, it was the home, foe generations, of my maternal ancestors, the Bakers, and some of the sweetest and tenderest incidents of the brightest and happiest portions of my own life are included in the years that I called that grand old county my home. I claim the privilege* therefore, of contributing to execute tbe pious suggestion of your article, and, ac cordingly, enclose tho sum indicated by yon, with affectionate regards.” Then follows a note from his son, also forwarding five dollars. TVe trust that this may prove a labor of love to all who ever drew breath in old St. Johns Parish, the homo of Lyman Hall, General James Screven, General Molntosb, Senator Elliott, General Dan iel Stewart, Dr. Daniel Baker, Dr. Charles Coioock Jones, the Professors LeConte, Hon. John B. Mallard, Rev. D. L. Buttolph, Rev. Josiah S. Law, Hon. William Law, Hon. W. B. Fleming, Rev. I. S. K. Arson, D.D., James Bradwell, Dr. J. M. B. Harden, Vice Chancellor Patrick Mel), and hundreds of others who could be named, alike celebrated for their orth and U3eful career. Let ns jealously preset ve and ever keep in remembrance the tomb3 of the sainted dead who sleep in old Midway. Oldeb Than the Poet Laureate — Says the Funny South: “More than a centnryago General Henry E. Jackson, ot Savannah, the soldier, scholar and honored^ son ot Georgia, then a gifted yonng poet, thus sang the praises ot Tocoos, or the “Beautiful,” eto. Under this presentation ot facts, the General is certainly a wonderfully pre served gentleman. And indeed and verily, barring those snowy looks, ha looks plumper, handsomer and younger than when the writer was aoenstomed to greet him on tbe benob, or ai his father’s home in old Liberty, more than thirty years ago. Bet tho truth is, that “intelligent com positor” lost his reckoning, as is oft his wont, and added nearly three quarters ot a century to tbe life of the active jurist and poet of our sister city, who is at this hour as graceful and trenchant with tongue and pen, as ever in the haloyon days of the past. Not to make ‘ Tnuob ado about nothing,” it was only a typographical error in the columns of our smiling literary luminary, tbe ever welcome Sunny South. Sharon’s seven story palace hotel, in France, is tbe biggest kind of elephant on the hands of the proprietor. Every month at least 112,000 interest is due on mort-‘ ffipSfg,, gsge account, and the running ezpenses ' of theinstitntion are scaroely met by tbe receipts. It is well kept, but too big. “Muhammad” is The Nation’s way of writing the name of the great oriental prophet. Of course the reliable pres3 still sticks to “Mohammed,” “Mahomet,” etc., and the learned insist on spelling the name each in his own way, the point being to have it sufficiently oriental. An Egyptian mummy at Columbus, Ohio, is said to he the remains of a wo* man who died when she was 284 years old. The information concerning her age is said to have been deciphered from her tomb, and it proves two things: First, that the Bible records of the dura tion of human life are true; second, that the age of an Egyptian woman was not kept secret after her death. Again Resurrected and Em balmed with the Team ot a Orateful country* Once more do we sorrowfully search the arohivea of the war, and bring forth to view that treasured scroll, upon which is inscribed the immortal names of the Confederate dead who sleep in onr midst. We reproduce them not only from old newspaper files, but from all authentic sources, and have added quite a number to the original Hat. It is meet and fitting that on the day when thousands slytll assemble to conse-: orate the first stone in that noble pile, which we trust will lift its head forever to tell of their gallant deeds, that the noble dramatis persona should pas3 in sad re view once more before ns. We see their gory forms in long, pro cession, embracing the epauletted leader and private soldier, the beardless youth and gray haired sire, the strong and mid dle-aged, the wan and weary,[whole heca tombs, indeed, who went down amid the craeh of battle and with garments rolled in blood. Others, not less brave, appear stark and stiff m the hospitals where, too, with equal devotion they had yielded their lives a holicaust for liberty. A few short years ago, instinct with life and hope and courage, they moved among us. our noble sons, sires, brothers, husbands and lovers,animating all hearts with their enthusiasm, and illustrating their land and race by deeds of the moat exalted heroism. But alas they have all passed away— their faces and loved forms no more glad- | den us in life—and sadder still the cause and flag for whioh they fought and died perished with them. Tho list melan choly duty we hope to commence to morrow—that o! erecting an imperish able monument to their memory. To-day let us read this long list and recall the name of every hero anew, ere we enclose it in the solid marble, there to remain until the resurrection trump shall sound tho grand reveille of the universe. NAMES OF CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS RUBIED IN ROSE HILL CEMETERT. VACON, GA. Albert G Batts. Jr, Massonberg’s Battery, 1S0J Edward J Grannie, 1st Lieut Macon Volunteers P H Edwards,Co B, 2J Kentucky Cavalry, John Meeks, Co B,9th Kentucky Cavalry. J M WiUerson, Co A, 4th Kentucky. Ja» Collier, Co F. 6th Kentucky. WH Hayden Co G. fith Kentucky. G F Gibson, Co D. 6th Kentucky. M Reese. Co D,9th Kentucky. Chas D Sparks, son ol Colonel W H Sparks. 1863. Names. Co. Regiment. Bate of death. LOTait I 8th Cooled JWSwiney Dec IS Erasmus Cutlum, Capt F 8th Tenn Nov 16 W H Bird JFMcGraw Tho a Copeland JH Yates Willie C Bess BobtHBee H F Downs W B Humbers M Kaugh Tho: Alderman Thos Ohara O H 8tewart Jas F Hewston Jus Smith J W Shaw 8 Daniel Jas Baley Jai A Hobbs J G Hammonds S Miles G W Deerson W H Ross J DOirilvy.Capt JM Davie Wm Vickery W Lester E A Davis Allen Baines J W Rodgers Jno llcDoe Solomon Sagers Ben} Uadish J Bradford F &eedy Geo Bcutz J H Groover J Lovett N A Lawson J W Belt ALK F B Banks Jks Smith J L Johnson J J Saunders E J Bardweli A S2d Miss Dec 7 D Otb Ga Doc 11 A 1st Ga Beg Deo 6 from Romo May 21 B 1st Ga Regulars U 60th Ala Doc 11 G —Ala B 2d Tenn 29th Ga A 12th Ga Dec 16 Dec 28 Dec 80 Deo 28 1st Fla Newman's bat Jan 4 £ 3d Tenn L lit Ga K 61st Ga G Finley's bat D 66th Ga A 10th 8 C F 7th Fla 4th K 4th Ala D 29th Ga K 60th Ga Macon Ga H 45th Tenn E 28th Ala K 25th Ga A 38th Tenn K (3d Gj A S7th Ala D 17th Ala O 63d Ala F 47th Ga E 29th Ga L 10th 8 0 i 62d Ga . B 8th Confed Cav Jan 16 Jan 16 Jan 31 FebS 3 tar 25 Star 7 Apr 19 May 4 May 15 May 22 May si May 24 May 24 May 26 May 21 May £6 The jollt Robeson’s figures aro turn ing out badly under the investigations of the House committee on expenditures in the navy department. The World says a partial report for the guidance of the committee on appropriations will compel the latter to recommend a large appropriation to Congress to provide for indebtedness illegally incurred by ex- Seeretary Robeson. The committee on expenditures in the navy department finds that the indebtedness incurred by Robeson in violation of law is $7,083,- 503 25, as follows: Bureau of Construction and Repairs $3,539,798 23. Bureau of Steam engineer ing 3,163,915 42, Bureau of Provisions and Clothing 473,471 30. This indebtedness was incurred not withstanding the fact that from 1869 to 1877 inclusive there was appropriated for the navy department alone $161,- 889,713 90, for whioh then ia nothing whatever in the navy beyond a lot of rotten and worthless ships to show. In the put foor year $20,000,000 have been expended in what are termed “open pur chases”—that Is, purchases mode with, out advertising for bids and awarding contracts to lowest bidders. The Peace Negotiations become fainter daily to all appearances, and nothing is so marked as British prepara tions for war. Some of the London let ter writers report prominent British pol- iticiaas as expressing the opinion that a fight with Russia ia inevitable, sooner or later, and no more favorable time for it ia likely to oocnr than just now. Thx “agony columns” of the Tatklsh newspapers axe filled with advertise ments for lost relations, giving painful evidence of tbe dispersion of families of the Mussulman population which his taken place in the districts ravaged by war. Gortsoharovf is in his eighty-sooond year—heating Lord Palmerston, who died in harness at eighty. AG Smith Jas Andrews B Woodford Marion Motley G J Morns Name unknown M it Carter Beuj Lewis R F Yarbrough J W Sullivan Wm Wray MV Nichols T J Roberts J H Hill HOKytJ Rufus Dean Joshua Harrold A M Brewtom JABl-ck JW Elliott WG Smith, corporal J Batchelor W T Belcher D J Hanney J Cr Thomas JA Weaver Wm Crenshaw Henry Davis B WReek J Roberts WT Bailey JY Hunter Green J Brantley 0 A Breland Robt Lewis W Thomas WL Shaver W W Sewell J T Phipps J Martin JR Rustic DBBeed J Powell B L Pillard Thos Anderson John Asken O A Friday M Collier T A Motes Jesso U Wueeler W 0 Rouse D W Mallhemjy W J Grimes M V Boyds ton AJ Bush Joel Battle CO Otar David Lester J KP Smallwood KU Morgan Wm Stevens J F Vickers Alien Daughtry Robt Jacobs A McKorkle VattHamdl WmG Albright John Combs RH Edwards U A Phillips Henry Crosby Amos Rollins A J Teague GF Crone 18 Watson It Jones WJ Gordon KB Hill Jos Watson J B Hooper JM Beach W M Murray ▲ L Hmith R Braden, Bergt Ju Burr, Col F J Folk Josiah Crawley Newton L Moore 8 Bell ew J Anderron J A Maden H W Magee J W AshUeld WmCox SutnT Hall, musician H Patton BDSpyker R A Kelley E Cowart JFGray J M Barrontlno 8 Horton FMLjcohburger R L Davis WB Jones J V Miles W Martin T J Richards J A Stratton W 8 Vcuthan 0 Water* J Bueyards, corporal Barnabas Taylor Moaci Whitton JM Bennett, Sgt Mr jor T Abar, Sergt J A Hewer R F Smith J Johnson B Upchurch M G Ariugton M King C 6th Gs H 40th Ala E 31st Miss A 40th Ga K 35th Miss B 33d Ala G 16lh80. 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Jktia Co. of death D 9th Ark Sept 28 1 32dTeun Sept 24 P 33th Tenn Sept S3 B 6A 6 Texas Sept 88 Bellamys BaBept 22 B lstGa St Li Sept 29 PruddensBa Sept 29 I 24th Ala Sept29 B 1st Confed SeptM H 64th Va Sept 28 E 29tb MiiS Sept 27 K 63d Ala Sept 87 B 34th Ala Sept 87 K 20th Ala 8ept;2l I 19th Teun Sept 27 K 40th Mis# Sept 26 E 51th Ala Sept 20 6th Ga Res Sept 21 3d Bn Go 8ept25 B 2d Ga Sept 26 G 3d Ga Sept 26 12 Miis Cav Sept 25 H 16th SO Sept 26 39th Ala Sept 23 H 29th Miss Sept 24 E 60th Ala Sept 23 A 164th Tenn Sept 23 C 25th Texas Sept 28 I 11th Ga Mil Sipt22 E CthGa Sept 21 E 3d Miss Sept 21 U 17 th Ala Sept 21 E 6th Texas Sept 21 A 5th Ga Res Sept 21 G 85 th Hiss Sept 22 B 65th Tenn 6epc2u G 10thGaMU Sept21 D 3 A 5 Miss Sept 20 B 63d Ga Sept20 U 39th Ga Sept 20 B 29th Tenn Sept 2j Conscript Sept 20 ? 4th La Sept 19 5th Ga Res Sept 20 H 2d Ark Sept 18 E 24th Ala 8eptlS O 11 Ga Mil 8«pt 18 K 2d GaMU SeptlO H i Miss Cav Sept 18 I 3d Miss 8eptll P Sith Ga Bee’s Ba K SOthAla C 68thNC B 8th Ga K 23th Ala I 28th Ala 7thGaMU Kept 17 E loth GaMU Sept 16 iE 19th La Sept 17 I 64th Va Sept it B 34th Ala Bept 17 B 15th Texas Sept 17 K 6*1 Ga Sept 17 F l&SMoCa Bept 16 E £4th Texas Sbpt 16 H 30th Miss Sept 16 F 68th N C E 5th Ky G 41st Miss H 4th Ga K 18th Tenn H 18th Ala G 31st Misa A 29th Miss 3d Miss B 12thGaMU 8*>tl4 D 24 h Miss Sept 14 B 26th Ga B 24th Ga Names W Byers J L Gibbs Thos h Littlejohn Louis Corturier Harrell J E Browne Geo O Greene Jas J Reynolds Starling MPuedley Jas B Blakely Peter Avant Wm Roe Jas Morris Edward J Watley Irby E Cooper W J Robertson A H Ferguson Daniel 8»nderson D H Hibfield Jackion Kelley AH Andrews John Wilson Wm Fiddy Smith ThosO Heidelberg WH Scott AMoGrath WH Scott Jacob HStromon J H Smith E Dooley W J Bsyliss L T Newton L James HHGidon Wm B Hamas • AsaHMcBoo W G Andrews Jas M Harris J N Jackson Wm Luck HartinB WUburn Chas P AlversoD Jas M Speriks J A Kirkpatrick Jas HaU M Yeung Jas L Gregory Miller A Young Jas R Canon David W Tanner Robt Wilson M8hort Wm Auglin Holliday Harrell A A Radford WO Edward* R Harrolion John J Johnson PeterADomingus DGrogg Jas Goodwin Thos Simmons WmP Cheek W A Hays J J Webb A P Partin A.Bright Henry R Tucker J FI tom MBronli Jacob W Hutchinson H J Simmons Robt A Weathwall • H J Butler Victor Ryan Martin cooper Wm Houuell Wm Adams J F Culpepper Calvin Land (1A Wilson J A Robertson RC Graves James PeweU WLahoy M Hart field W Johnson David Hudson Jas D Boner Jahet Robertson Askar FMeekiU J S Wilson W E Camp Andrew J Still J J Crosby Wedey Welch T J Abernathy B Weoton W M Driscoll John U Harris GW Simmons RM Wade Arch L Payne Jaa A Brandon PH Carter W A Ryolda Samuel O Patton Jas S Stewart JM Allen Robt Benyman F W Gamer John W Janes Jas R Marks Wm Sanford Sept 18 SeptlO SeptlO Bept18 Sept 17 Sept 17 Septl? Bept 16 Sept 16 Sept 16 Sept 16 Sept 16 Sspt IS Sept 15 Bept 14 Kept 14 Sect 14 Sept 14 Sept 13 S«ptl3 sept 18 Kept 13 Sept 18 D 6th Miss B 2d Mi-s C 37th Ga G 67th Ain H 15*87Tenn Sspt 13 Starford’aBy sept 11 11thGaMU Bept 13 D 12th GaMU Septl! I 4th Fla BoptlS Perry’s Flat Ba Sept 13 B 24th BO Sept is H 24th,Mias Sept 18 V 29th Ala Get 10 K 9th Texas Oet 11 A 8th Fla Ott 11 Baxter’s By Octl! P 12thGaMU Sept 11 A 46th Ala Oct 12 35th Miss Oct 13 Macon Ara’al Oct 13 B 66th Ga Get 9 F SSd Tenn Oct 20 lstGa Res Dec 17 2d GaStLi Decl6 4th Tenn Cav Deo 14 12th Ga Mil Deo 14 7th Ga Deals 63d Ga - Deo 14 Slit La Dec 11 6th Ga Res DeclQ ■ Conscript Dee 0^ I 5thG.iftev Dec 7 H 15s4 Ho Decs 1 5th Ga Mil Dec a G 6th Ga Res Decs Jackson S King JL Saunders WmJ Barfield, Lieut Arnold Newell Sol R Taylor Jacob N Ammons JohnO Craig Andrew Smith Nathan Angel RA Clinton JasGGray DC Dabbs Jnc J> Cooper, Lieut Jas Wellsoier Louis Roberts John D Mock Wm E Slack Gibbard Gumby Thos D Austin D H Hancock WB Nelson WRCom M Russell Jas Welch WJ Martin, Sergt Joel Baton SUasP Smith T M Chandler WmHajs John Flaneghan Patrick Barnes Chas Fogharty JT Ellis Henry Jones Edward Thomas Pat Donald W England Jas H Morris John Benson Wm J Bryant Joseph K Morgan Anderson D Hubbard E McClure, Lieut HEI Downing A 8 Jared Wm Brown S Hatnmou. Sergt W W Me Mil Stephen Thompion Jas L Goodman Richard H J WDuke John O Smith, Sergt JohnHarria 8 J Massey Harris Floyd WMElliion JM Coffee John Smith Ben] F Betleay J A Reeves DF Dalton R T McGinnis J WHudgus 8 MJones Sergt J J Cnrney John B Watts John F Vicks Wf Mitchell Eoddin A Gibbs LW Gibbs J J Robertson SLD.ckey J T HcGrady Wm Sixton G W Street Harry Arnold A J Campbell J C Huckaby Amos Jones Simon Gallogheo Jonathan B Craig Jas Johnson 3 Adams Edward Frank David Tumblin Moore Lee JMHardage J J Armstrong Jas Barber John Chaffin Armand DUlerv James Hendricks John Connor Marion Brazil Lewis Coman, Sergt J W Thompson WC Caldwell, Sergt Steward Cash James Grace Ba scorn Snelton SydneyS Roberts J JB Hollinsworth Jas A Cooper Gray J Gray con J 8 N Scarborough Jas J Bslthnep Wm A Weatherspoon Joahua Grant M Murphy Dan McCarthy Tho* Barnes Wm Sexton, Sergt Wm Bargirnet Henry C Sewell Chas H Taylor Henry McCarthy Thos uwen, Corpl Wm GriiBBley Lott Bradshaw John H«W«U AD Sessions D 18th Tenn I 82 Miss ' D 17th Texas E 67th Ala A 38thAla Oct 2 Oct2 Oct 3 Oct 3 Oct 3 B 6th A 7 Tenn Oct 3 E 44th Miss Oct 3 Dardens By Oct 3 G 9th Ky Oct 4 G Garrison Grd Oct 3 Baxter’s By Oet 5 B 2-th Miss Oct 5 G 7th Mias Oct 4 C 10th Texas Oct 6 Miller's regt A 7th Miss Sep 29 Oonacnpt “ “ I lstGa D 66th Ala E 64th Ga D 2d Hiss O 3d Tenn H 22dAla I 24thSC O 1st La D 10th Tenn G 49th Ga I 34th Ala H 29 th Ala K 7th La A 4th Tenn Sep 29 Sep 30 Sep 29 Octl Octl Deo 3 Feb 23 Feb 24 Marl Mar 21 Mar 18 Harlg Mar 25 Apr 9 Apr 15 Apr 21 P 11th Tenn G 6th Ga Res Feb 6 G 37th Ga Feb 5 I 6 th Texas Feb 2 K 26thTann FebS H 43d Ga Feb 30 I 2d Ala Apr 8 6th Ga Cav Jan 16 D 37 th Tenn Oct 4 GibjonsBy I 1st Ark B 4th Ga Cav K 23th Tenn K 69th Ga H 29th Ala E 37th Miss D 64th Ga E 46th Ga H 31st Ala I 39th Ga Oct4 Oct 5 Oct 4 Oct 6 Oct 8 Oct 7 Oct 7 Oct 8 Oct 8 Oct 9 Oct 18 Oct 14 Oct 25 Oct 15 Oct 14 Oct IS Oct IS Sep 23 Jan 16 Jan 11 Doc 26 Dec 24 Oct 29 Oct 29 Oct 28 'mL 6th Ga Cav Oct 18 F 66th Ga Oct 17 H 65th Ga Oct 17 K 11th Tenn Oct 17 Baxter’s By Oct 16 F 60th Ala Oct 15 G 33dAla Oct 17 O 3d Miss By Octl7 G 20th Miss ‘ H 9 th Miu E 34th Ga H 34th Miss 1 24th Miss G 29 th Ga B SdTenn O Sd Ala Cav H 4thGamU G 7th Ga D 49th Tenn I 16th Ark D 15th Texas E 5th Ga Res Garrison Grd Oct £9 G 66th Ga Oct 27 I 5th Ga Res Oct 27 C SdTenn Oct27 H 54th Ga Oct £7 F 18th Ala Oct 25 £ 6 th Confed Oct 25 E 15th Texas Oct 24 F 1st Ark Oct £5 G 14th Tenn Oct 24 Haskins By Oct 25 G l.’th Ala Oct 23 F 7th Ga mil Oct 24 1 2d Ga St Line Oct 22 Garrison Grd Oct 23 Oct 22 C 28th Tenn Oct 21 Washgn Art Oct 22 E 58thNO Oct22 B 4th Ga Res Oct 19 Oct 19 A 30th La Oct 19 K 5th GaRes Decl H 5th Ga mil Nov 24 30th Ga batl Nov 22 G 6thGaRes Nov22 I 5th Ga Res Nov 23 A 4th Ten bat Nov 20 B Confed Res Nor 9 D 31st Miss Nov 13 A SSd Ala Nov 11 A 6thGaRes Nov 11 F 7th Tenn Nov 10 A 44th Miss Nov 9 C 60thNC Nov9 GarrisonGrdDecG 4th La Nov 5 H 6thGaRes Nov4 O 8th Miss Nov 5 K 5th Ga Ros Nov 4 B 8 th Ga bat Nov 3 Richards By Nov S B 6th Mm Nov 2 I 10th Mss ■ I 5thGaRes E 8th Ky 1 5th GaRes I 6th Ga Nov 2 Nov2 Oct 31 Oct S3 Jan 19 i^oing over again the same groove with the steel point, -by setting tbe cylinder again at tho slatting point, that Is bv going over the same ground, the inden tations in tbe tin-foil cause the teem, brane again to vibrate, precisely as *t fiist, thus reproducing the sound oriel nally made. The same sound wave you aret made is returned to yon in whatever shape you made it, Your wprde, for ampie, are prewved in the tin-foil, and will come back upon the application of the instrument yearn after you are dead e n po e Smt e ” Bam0 S “How many times?” “As long as the tin-foil lasts.” The committee room where it was on exhibition was orowdtd, and Oox of York, did the talking to the iastrmrenL He said something about Senator Beok who was present, and presently his words came baok in a faint but dear and dis tinct voice, exactly reproduced. It re minded me yery much of the trioks of the ventrUoquist, especially when the voioe is made to sound as ooming from way down in a deep well or cellar n also a ting “Undo Ned,” exaotly reprodnn. ing tbe noticeably baritone voioe of the operator, and only stopped when the tin foil was out. SHE ADJOURNMENT QUZ8TION Is now out of the way, yet, of course, you understand the proposition to go home on June 10th in the interest of the anti- tarriff men who are opDosed to any change in the present plundering system whereby the country suffers in order that the pockets of New England and Penn sylvania manufacturers and monopolists may continue to be gorged. The repr e . sentativee of these people nine tenths of whom are Badical members in both Houses feel satisfied that if they can force an early adjournment the Wood bill will certainly fail of becoming a law. With- them are found a few Democrats who rep- resent monopolies and industries that are either too weak to stand alone, or too rich and selfish to ba willing to aid in &!„ lariating the general misery by loosening their hold on the public pocket. The Democrats were actually beaten in the House on the motion to refer the Senate resolution to the Ways and Means com mittee. This too by the aid of Demo cratic Protectionists who voted solidly with tbe Radicals. I fear the bill will cot be come a law, but if not, it will be because there are a great many statesmen here who are much more solicitous about their “deestricta” and their standing and chances therein, than they are about the conntiy and its welfare. THX XNCCMK TAX looms up again, the Ways and Means Committee having voted yesterday to start it July 1st, 1879. What the Sen ate will do with it remains to be seen. It will not worry the South much, so wo need not fret our gizzards about it. The howl over it will come from the same class who clamor for protection against tbe products of “European pauper labor.” The only interest in the matter to the South will be the scandalous evasion of it by our Northern brethren whom we are exhorted to believe are so much our superiors in all the Christian graces. That will be so sad. KLTZA PINKSTON and Wm. E. Chandler are beginning to be talked of and pitied considerably of late. I understand desperate efforts will soon be made to provide for them. They are about the only persons promii nently connected with the Presidentia- steal and tbe delivery of the goeds who have not been taken care of. It occurs to me that John Sherman could at least provide for Eliza in his department as a special personal friend. Or she might be charged,to tbe crippled Union sol- diers’ roll, so to speak. Let the press speak out tor Eliza. A. W. E. It Is nobody’s business but her own, but then a Cincinnati Gazette says Mrs. A. T. Stewart is to marry again, her second venture being the Episcopal clergyman who has in charge the nnfinished Cathe dral at Oarden City. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Washington Citt, April 20tb, 1878. THAT CONXIlING TAWP Which the World published the other day, stirred this village to its muddy depths, and whether correct or not, made what the lat9 Horace Greeley used to call “mighty interesting reading.” In ten minutes after the World reached the Capitol there was not a copy to be had for love or money, and down town at the news dopots tlia rush cleaned out the stock in even less time. I tried all around for a copy as early as half-past three, hut without avail, and finally had to borrow one. It was all tbe talk that night everywhere, and the aweetest nxta of the season to the “stalwarts.” I saw Garfield devouring it in the clerk’s office a short time after the World was filed* and though I watehed carefully, I failed to see any marked signs of displeasure or even dissent on his unpleasant face. He seemed rather to enjoy it, or at least to be wonderfully resigned. The ‘’stal warts” were on a broad grin. Such smiles, and chuckles, and heavenly com placency you can scarcely imagine. Mr. Hayes had any sympathizers, much less defenders, they kept their faces as well as their tongues under marvellous control. It was given out night before last that Conkling would rise to a personal explan ation yesterday, but the Star said in tne afternoon that his friends had nrged him to take no notice of it, and bo he was si lent. It ssems hard to ssttle the ques tion whether or net be ohattered as rep resented, bnt the opinion seems crystal- iziug that he did, at least, to a oertain ex tent; He sketched and the correspond ent fillsd up the outlines. That is about the size of it, I judge. Thera oan be scarcely* doubt as to the genuineness of his utterances in regard to Mr. Hayes and his tea party. It is an open secret that Oonkling thinks as meanly of the present White Honse eooupsnt and his special friends as he ia represented, and, in tbe executive sessions of the Senate, he is credited with having been consistent and frequent in his expression thereof. In regard to hie utterances concerning hie brother Senators, and especially Messrs, Gordon and Lamar, I see in the Post this morning what soerns to negative teat assumption, though I take no great stock In it. X think Conkling is quite oapabie of speaking behind one’s baok what he would not dare to utter ftoe to faos. All men ot his enormous egotism and vanity are very apt not only to tbiofe, but talk depreciation when it seems safe, especially if they have had a quarrel, and outwardly adjusted it, though inwardly cherishing malice. But enough of tbe ^turkey oock and hiB gobble. Doubtless you will have had, ere this, a heroic dose of it. THX PHONOGRAPH and its inventor, that wonderful man Edison, were the sensations at the Capi tal to-day, where X saw and heard its startling performances. I shall not at tempt to describe it fully or technically, but 1st the inventor do that in the Post as follows: “Here the phonograph, you see, is a thin disc or diaphragm of iron, beneath which is this fine steel point, whioh mores up and down by the vibrations of the disc. Beneath this is' the revolting cylinder, on whioh is this spiral groove. Oa the axis of the cylinder is a screw, the distance between the threads being the same as the distance between the grooves on the cylinder. The cylinder is covered with a sheet of tin-foil—you will see it operate by and by—and when the cylinder ia revolved the steel point press es the tin-foil into the spiral groove. If now the diaphragm be made to vibrate by the voice the steel point makes a se ries of indentations in the tin-foil grooves, corresponding to the sounds uttered. On Foreign News. London, April 24.—The Standard an* nounoes that twelve Russian engineer officers, who were reoently at Home, have started tor the Suez Canal and Per sian Gulf. It is announced that tbe German Am bassador will visit the Marquis of Salis bury at the Hatfield Honse to-day. The Standard’s Vienna correspondent hears that Easais, fearing that the Turks will permit the English to oocupy the forts on the Bosphorus in the event of war, has asked Germany to gaarantee a line of demarcation during the negotia tions. Pxinoe Bismarck is considering the request. A letter from Bucharest reports that the Russians have unsuccessfully at tempted to destroy a powder factory at Bucharest. Twelve persons were trilled. The report is not credited. Tho Bt. Petersburg correspondent of the Times telegraphs the following: Tbe report that P/inoe Bismarok intends t9 abandon all farther attempts at concilia tion is not believed in well informed oir- olee; bnt little confidence is plaoedin the nltimatesnooessof the negotiations. The Journal de St. Petersburg is also despondent abont the resnlt of tne nego tiations. Tho Agence Russe confirms the report of the retnrn of Grand Duke Nicholas. A St. Petersburg dispatch to the Daily News says the suggestion for a prelimi nary conference - has been adopted in principle and an agreement seems assur ed in regard to the time requirt d tor the withdrawal of the Russian army and British fleet to Adrianople and Besika Bay respectively. The English cabinet, however, is raising ether difficulties in connection with the passage of the Dar danelles and the submission of the entire treaty of San Stefano to the congress. The conviction gains ground that it is determined on war. Though the principle of the withdraw al of the Russians and English from the vicinity of Coostantiropla has been accepted, the knotty point as to the dis tance to whioh tbe forces shall retire con tinues to be discussed, and t-e difficulties in the way of snoh a solution are so great that many foreign critics believe an ar rangement is hopeless, while the Pall Mall Gazette and other English journals characterize the proposal as a B lamarck ian joke. The Times, however, believes that the principle being accepted, an ad justment of details ought not to be im possible. The Times also says it is informed that Prince Bismarck is still making efforts independently of thoae relating to the retirement of the Russian troops and British Bhips from near Conetentinople,to find a basis for a meeting of Oon ress. • Const anti worn*, April 24.—Grind Duke Nioholas has informed the Porte that the Greek offioera and men will at tend divine eervioe et Constantinople on Sunday. The Grand Duke requests that a number of Greek churches in the Capi tal may be avail tble, so tbit the soldiers oan ba distributed among them, From Washington. Washington, Apiil 24 —-In the Senate, Morrill, of Vermont, from the Committee on Finance, reported advtrotly on tbe Sen ate bill to enoonrage and protect shipping interests, and to revive American com merce. He stated that tbe bill should have originated in the Honse of Repre sentatives, and, therefore, moved ttat the committee be discharged trom its further consideration. It was so ordered. Enstia, of Louisiana, introduced a bill to provide for ocean mall steamship ser- vioe between the United Ststes and Bra zil, whioh was referred to the Committee od Commerce. —- The confessions of MoLin and Denntt are generally regarded as trnthfni, and •ooordmg, in the main, with the evidence famished by General Finley, in his 0*n- test withBesbee for a seat from the eeo- ond Florida district- . The Committee on Gcmmeroe, of tne House, have agreed to report a bill est Jb- lisbing a light-home at G»l*eston. Mr. Wood has oountedl ncsss on his Tariff bill and sees a majority of twenty* five on his side.
