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MACON, GA., SEPTEMBER 24 *878.
Hew Yoek contributions for tbe yel-
low fever sufferers, op to lest Saturday
night, amounted to $237,791-19.
And now Cordoza, late State Treasurer
of South Carolina, in accordance with the
latest civil service reform principle, is
appointed to a $1,200 clerkship in the
Treasury Department. The Adminis
tration is no donbt calling all the rogues
in public office with a view to their des
truction at one fell swoop.
Juggernaut is said to be in a bad way
sinoe the imprisonment of the hereditary
protector of sacred affairs. The late Car
Festival was a complete failure. It to in
contemplation to hand over the great
god to the tender mercies of the Court of
Wards, though Juggernant can hardly
be said to be still in his minority. .
Qusin' Victoria has been paying a
visit to one of her royal sisters, therhon-
arch of a Gypsy tribe. Qaeen Reynolds
—for this is the title of the Gypsy poten
tate received her angust visitor with
becoming state and dignity. She sat on
a platform, clad in pnrple and white lace,
and tended by two dusky handmaidens.
There were, moreover, two Roman noble
men (eneak thieves probably in private
life,) gorgeous, in redcoats. The real
Queen behaved with duo humility.
The Emperor William is steadily re
covering his health. Before leaving
Teplitz he was able to use his hands
freely. When he was about to depart
from that place he sent for some soldiers
who were undergoing treatment in the
military hospital, and addressed them as
follows: "I hope the care you are going
hrough will do yon as much good as
mine has done me. What I especially
deplore, is to have been wounded notin
ace of tho enemy, bat bj one of my snb-
ecls, in my own country.”
A COMFORTABLE .TRAVELING PiETT.—
Last month a Turk, Fein Pasha, Gover
nor of Banjaluka, with twelve wives, chil-
dren and a guard of eunuchs, arrived in
Vienna, and took lodgings at the Hotel
Daniel. Three wives were put in a room,
with a guard of two ennucb3 at eaoh
door. It took a whole day to complete
the registration of the party at police
headquarters. The most of the wives
were real beauties, wearing their raven
black hair closely oat and dyeing their
finger-nails. Under Austrian law these
ladies were entitled to their personal
freedom, and the uerman reporter naive
ly says. “If they only knew it.” Each
eunuch carried a gnn on one arm and a
baby on the other.
Tire Cotton Situation in Montgcme-
BY.-The Advertiser says,the weekly cotton
statement for Montgomery shows that
cotton has opened much earlier than last
year. Receipts for tho week just closed
were 3788 against 1803 bales this week
last year. The receipts sinco Sept. 1st
to date are 5886 against 2496 same time
astyear. This does not indicate that
tho crop this year is larger than last year,
bnt that the season is a little more for
ward. The worms in the. last few weeks
have inflicted great damage on all the
prairie cotton, and it is safe to estimate
a reduction of 20 per cent, from that land
as compared with last year. The upland
crops are better, but their increase will
not make np for the loss in the black
lands.
Vesuvius Threatening.—Vesuvius is
once more in trouble, and an overflow
of lava east of the observatory is regarded
as probable. People whose homes are on
theeidesorat the foot of this uneasy
vent of subterranean fires will not, per
haps, agreo with the outside world In
opinions on this subject, bnt the world
will recognize that it was high time the
mountain bestirred itself, under pain of
losing its repntatlon for regularity.
Sinco the beginning of the present cenlu-
ry it his averaged about one eruption in
three years. If the interval has at any
time reached fonr Jrears the equilibrium
has been restored by a reduction to two
years on some other bccasion. Between
1822 and 1828 there occurred the unussal
Upee of six years, which may have been
compensated for by the earthqnake which
hook Algiers neatly to pieces in the
year 1828. That did not leave enough
subterranean force on hand to supply
Vesuvius with her regular eruption due
in the same year. Her last disturbance
was in March, 1876, and the time now,
therefore verges toward the regular
period; bo we hope£the eruption may
come on, if the alternative is to he an
earthquake.—-{AT. T. Herald.
A Sensible "WosCiN.—The er-Empress
Eugenie, npon being asked .recently by a
reporter of the Vienna Sonn-und Fieriags
Courier if she did not hope to see the
Prince Imperial, her sen, on the throne
of Franoe, exclaimed: “His destinies
are in tho hands of God, who directs the
will of nations. 'Who can foretell what
the future basin store for ns f”
Mcbile’b comtb ibutions to the yellow
fever sufferers, up to the do30 of last
week, amounted to the handsome earn of
$10,676. One hundred and two curses
and eight or ten doctors have also been
sent to relieve suffering humanity.
Gab Gone Up!—According to the New
York Sun, Edison has just invented a
mode e! lighting by eleotricity, which
will furnish illuminating power equal to
a thousand feet of gas, at a edit of fif
teen seat*. It will also cock the dinner,
heat the house and drive a sewing ma
chine or two at a cost altogether incon
siderable compared with present expense,
and so before long we shall bo running
by electricity all round. Tho process
will be made public so soon as tho pro
tection sf the patent laws has been se
cured. .. . .
SWITH’S WORM Oil,.
Prepared by B B LTNDON, Athens, Ga.
Amiss, Gi< December 8,1877.
A te w nights Since I gave my ton one dote of
Worpi Qii, and the next day he pined sixteen
Jb*aawonni. At the tame time I gave one dote
to my liMt gfrb four years old, and the pasted
eighty six worms, from four to fifteen inchea
long. . W P PHILLIPS.
Athens, G a. Tebruary Si, 187A .
Ejs: Vy child, five years old, had symptoms of
worms* 1 triad ealomel end ctber Worm Medi
ates bat laded to expel any worms. Seeing Mr
^Bain’s ceriMoate.1 got a vial of your Worm Oil
and first dose brought forly worms, and the sec*
osd dose ft Vo any were paiaed I did sot count
them. 8 H ADAMS.
Hunt,Sajikin A Lamar, Wholesale Ageati. ‘
junfi..,6m
Baby shows arc the fashion now, hut as
long as mothers continue to nurse their
little ones with laudanum or other opi
ates, they cannot expect their Babies to
look bright. If your Baby needs medi
cine get a good Utd kqpMfem <mo such as
Dr. Ball’s Bafcf
Batler or no Baxter.
Tho Massachusetts Democratic State
Convention opened session in Worcester
yesterday morning with a coup by tho
Butler men, who got pesressios of the
hall and attempted an organization on
their own hook. This seems, however,
to have proved abortive.
The morning telegrams say that the
Butler men are meeting with a very de
termined oppoeition. Wo shall, however,
probably know a great deal more about
the matter, through onr night telegrams,
before going to press.
We have no idea that the Demooralio
party of Massachusetts oan be carried
over to tho support of Butler, even should
majority of the convention support
him. The best, if not the largest, part of
it will bolt—particularly if, as is now an
nounced, the miserable blackguard Kear
ney is going to stamp the State for him.
The reepeotable Democrats of the Bay
State, if they are to Tote for a Badioal,
will prefer to snpport a more respectable
man than Bntier, and would hang their
heads in shame to be found in oegnpany
with Kearney.
sueep BaialDpr.
We are glad to read the following in
the Albany News:
“The industry of sheep raising is stead
ily on the advance in onr section. Toe
people, especially of Worth, Berrien,
Calbonn, Colquitt and Mitoheil, are bay
ing np all the sheep they can, and are
constantly improving breeds by import
ing fine backs.”
An experienced Northern farmer, after
making himself tolerably familiar with
the Georgia agricultural situation, said to
ns, in snbstanoe, a year or two ago, that
the key to wealth-prodaoieg agriculture
inGeorgia is sheep growing. With sheep
yon oan enrioh your soil without spending
a cent for commercial fertilizers.
With sheep yon can make the pro*
duct of your ootton lands and make
money in the process. Sheep will give
yon two fibre crops in the year—one to
market in snmmer and the other in win
ter. Sheep growing will introduce far
greater economy :,! system in all your
farmingoper.it i. «. Sheep will work yon
out of debt and keep you on a cash basis,
by heavy markeiubie crops twice a year.
Sheep will add vastly to tho luxury of
your tables and to the economies of life.
The farmer who will add sheep growing
to his industries and attend to it properly
will grow rich.
.Prof. J. P. Btelle on Yellow
Fever—Something: New.
At a mass meeting of the citizens of
Citronelle, Alabama, last week, called to
oonsult as to the beBt means of guarding
against the introduction of yellow fever.
Prof. J. P. Stelle made an address full of
striking and original suggestions. He
took the ground that mere sanative pre
cautions, while always to be recommend
ed, were by no means a sure protection
from the inroads of that dire disease.
Thus, after its appearance in New Or
leans the present season there was ample
time for the cities situated above on the
several rivers, to cleanse their sewers, re
move all offal from the streets and alleys,
and use all the most approved disinfect
ants in the premises. To show that they
did this he says:
I hive it from first-class authorities
that every cityabo7e New Orleans im
proved that time to goed advantage, and
ttiat Memphis especially, where the fever
is now raging with each deadly effect,
was in as favorable a sanitary condition
&b energy and an ample expenditure of
means could work np. 0
Then, again, this charge of neglecting
to clean np the streets, and so on, could
not be made to apply to tho many coun
try townB and villages (some of them
mere scattering settlements) that have
been completely depopulated by the
scourge; hence we mast look to some
other oause for its unosual virulence, as
exhibited at every locality where it has
obtained a footing since its first appear
ance in New Oileans, on the 12th of July
lost.
The Professor then goes on to say that
yellow fever is not only indigenous in
the West Indies, bnt exists there nil the
year round. Moreover, that it never
prevails in the United States, except in
exteptionally hot summers, when, so to
speak, the temperatnre and climate of
the tropics havo been transferred to
this latitude.
In corroboration of this remark, hear
what he says:
All of yon know that the season through
which we are now passing has been a
most remarkable one in many particulars.
At the North they had no winter, to to
apeak, and a portion of their past sum
mer was characterized by the highest
temperature experienced for many years.
This hss, doubtless, been caused by some
planetary or other infringement upon the
established laws of nature, which has
moved the natural lines of climate near
1000 miles north of their legitimate range.
As a result the usual climate of the Gulf
States has been carried into Missouri, Illi
nois, Indiana, Ohio and so on, while a
tropical climate has been brought into
tho States bordering upon or lying near
the Gulf of Mexico. In other words the
Gnlf States, so far as climate is concern
ed, lie precisely in the position usually
occupied by the West Indies, and hence
have npon them all the conditions entire
ly favorable to the spread and perpetua
tion of yellow fever, that tho West IndieB
have. w
Now, if this change in the lines of cli
mate had carried its acclimated people
with it nothing beyond the nsnal order of
things would have occured, bat not so.
It dropped a strange climate upon an nn<
acclimated people, virtually placing ns in
exactly the same position we should have
occupied, so fax as related to the fever,
had we last spring all pulled up etakes
and moved lo Cuba.
We quote once more from the same
learned authority:
While this may be accepted as a new
theory I can assure you that it is baeed
upon no new thing. I have been mak
ing a careful examination of the records,
and the resnlt establishes the fact that
in every year of the past when we were
scourged with yellow fever of a type un
usually sarere identically the aame cli
matic conditions existed that exist now.
There was a semi-tropical winter at the
North, followed by a semi-tropical sum
mer, and, consequently, although it may
scarcely have beennotieed by the inhab
itants, a regular tropical summer at the
8onth. I find that this was undoubtedly
the condition of affairs in 2793, in 1798,
in 1819, in 1839, in 1847 and in 1853.
In some of tne years first named the
fever went far above what we .un
derstand to be the line intervening
between the Sonth and the .North.
In 1793 there wero 4,041 deaths
from it in the city of Philadelphis;
in 1738 it cut off 3,500 is the .same
>lace, 2,080 in New; Yark, and 200 in
Beaton. Of coarse it co'uld not have
done this in any ordinary season, bnt the
climate changes ef these particular yearn
had carried these cities, far fftuth,seto
speak, and I do not doubt for a moment
that the same natural conditions which
enabled the yellow fever to make itself
so much at home up there in those early
years exist to an equal degree of perfec
tion to-day; and that, should our North
ern friends permit it to secure a footing
among them, it would spread its banner
iothebreeae, and inarch through their
ranks with a sweep as irresistible as ever
characterized it at any point down South
in any ordinary season, -
These are certainly not only novel bnt
very striking positions, and will donb t
less be dnly considered and commented
upon by the savans and medical experts
of the country. •
A Strong Appeal in Behalf of
the state Agricultural Fair.
We publish below one of those ringing
and soul-stirring appeals to the people of
Macon and Bibb county, which Colonel
Hardeman knows so well how to indite.
His words ase opportune and timely, and
should be heeded by all.
Our people ought to be aware that
mnehof the responsibility for the success
of the coming fair devolves npon them.
From Atlanta and Upper Georgia we
have very little to expect. They have
deliberately seceded and inaugurated
their own exposition, fixed just one week
in advance of the regular State Exhibi
tion, so that it is impossible to anticipate
anything like a general attendance from
that populous portion of tho common
wealth.
But happily the resources of Middle
and Southern Georgia aro mere than suf
ficient to equip aad fall/ stock a halt
dezen expositions equal to any that have
ever challenged the admiration of the
country.
Colonel Hardeman welt remarks that
“Bibb county within herself can make
a creditable fair.” And the same may
be said of Hancock, Baldwin, Washing
ton, Dongherty, Monroe, Talbot, Musoo-
gee, Sumter, Bandolph, Thomas, Brooks,
Chatham, Richmond and other counties
that might be named, which are expeoted
to unite con amore in making the State
Fair what it was designed to be and
should be, the true exponent not of any
particular section, bnt of the combined
wealth, industries and resources of our
noble commonwealth.
Hence the necessity, now that we are
to a certain extent, deprived of the as*
sistance of the upper region of the State,
that all Middle and Southern Georgia
should rally to the support of our worthy
State Agricultural Society, and its an
nual exposition, which has made the Em
pire State of the South famous through
out the Union.
Let every connty auxiliary eociety,
therefore, and the eturdy farmers, hor-
ticuturalists fruit growere,mechanics,mer
chants, skilled experts and all others who
take a pride in our great State, come up
to the Fair, on the 28th of October, laden
with the products of their industry, that
Georgia may, indeed, be grandly illus
trated through the resources which God
and nature, supplemented by patient toil
and genius, have created. But let us lis
ten to the appeal of the noble President
of the Society:
To the Citizens of Macon and Bibb Coun
ty:—In a few weeks the Georgia State
Agricultural Sooietjr will hold in yonr
oity their annual Fair, the success of
which will depend largely upon your ef
forts. Last year their fair was held in
Atlanta, and nobly did her enterprising
and liberal oitlzsns respond to my appeal
to them, as I now appeal to you, to make
the fair one worthy of their oily. They
gave me a generous, a willing snpport,
and the thousands who visited Atlanta
daring the week of the fair repaid them
for their liberality and their efforts. Will
'our citizens be less enterprising ? Will
they, by their exhibits from garden and
farm, from factory and workshop, from
forge and foundry, from dairy and or
chard, from storebonse and home, honor
themselves and their ;city, and show
the. citizens of Georgia how much
energy and enterprise snd skill is
among her sons, and how ranch
taste and cnltnre and refinement obarao
terizss ber daughters. Bibb oennty with
in herself oan make a creditable fair, and
if she will do ber duty, with other exhib
itors from other sections, she will have a
fair of which we may be jnsJy proud*
Farmer*, mechanics, merchants, gar
deners, will you net exert yourself in this
matter? Ladies of Maoon—so favorably
known for your worth and exoeltenoe—
will yen not determine at once that the
ladies’ department shall be worthy of
your wide-apread reputation? The Sooiety
will do all it can to merit nooeas. We
only ask of yon a cordial oo-operation.
hope my appeal will not be in vain,
know it will not be, nnless I am mistaken
in the character of this people.- Up, then,
and to doty, from now until fair week,
and yon will have an exposition in your
oity creditable alike to your city and
State. T. Hardeman,
Pres. Ga. Slate Ag. Sooiety.
Tax Fourth Dibtbiot. — Yesterday
the Fourth District were to make another
trial at nominating a candidate for Con.
gresB at N s wnan. Tha impression i» that
tho ch.aces of success are meager. The
Democratic District Conventions gener
ally this year seam possessed by an in
harmonious spirit. Eofauli has one,
which, by latest accounts on Monday
night, adjourned till Tuesday after 659
unsuccessful ballotings! There is
good chance now for brethren to culti
vate unity, which, as the old hymn as.
sores ns, is
“Like the precious eintment which,
Down Aaron’s beard did flow;
Down Aaron’s beard it downward went,
His garment skirts unto.”
There is a good deal of that moral
grease wanted just how.
An Old Hero’s Opinion.
A gentleman ofthla oily who has re
cently returned from one of iho Virginia
Springe, tells of meeting with General
Early, there, and aevetal conversations
with the old hero; Among other inqui
ries made by him of onr friend, was a
apeoial one in regard to General Phil.
Cook, of Vrhom he spoke in this high
est terms and with many expressions of
•peoial admiration and regard. He was
delighted to hear of General Cpok’s xe-
nomination, and emphatio In the opinion
that he richly deserved all the honors the
people oooll give him. General Cook
was one of the old patriot's brigade com
manders daring the late eivil war, and
very dose to bis heart and confidence in
all the stirring soenes through which they
passed. Judging from General Early's
conversation, he would, if a oitlzan of the
Third distriot, bo quite as zsalons in sc
ouring the largest majority itoooldglve
for bis old friend and oomrade as be
was in whipping tbe enemy wherever he
found them, wbioh is stating the case very
strongly.
Barnaul’s Fat Woman.
No circus is now considered complete
nnleia it has an enormously fat woman
in a side tent. A* Barnum has the
"greatest allow on earth,” ho of course
has the fattest woman. Yet of the thou
sands of curious people who annually
visit this monstrosity, few ever reflect
that her obesity is a disease. Until very
recently there was no known .remedy for
this abnormal condition. Allan’s Anti-
Fat has proved more efficacious than
even the moat sanguine hopes ef its dis-
oevorer had anticipateJ. By its use even
Barnuaa’s fat woman could be reduced to
graceful and oven delicate, proportions.
Sold by druggists. seplOd w swlt
Bntier lam In Maaaachnsetts.
The Butler coup on the Bay State
Democracy was a success. The Batler-
Kearney Democrats took possession of
the convention hsll in Worcester at four
o’clock in the morning, and held it against
all comers. Generally speaking, they
were of a class acoustomed to the use of
tho shillelab, and when the mayor of the
oity was importuned to dislodge them,
that functionary remarked, with equal
prudence and sagacity, that it could not
bs done without bloodshed.
Bat this was not all. The Butler men
had not only secured that hsll, bnt it wib
found, on inquiry, that they had rented
all others in the town; and, therefore,
the Democracy, finding no reBt for the
soles of their feet, (or for that other part
of the person which occupies seats in a
political or other conventions) adjourned
to meet in Fanenil Hall, Boston, on the
25th of September instant—j cut a week
from this expulsive operation. Thus did
Bailor display that part of his dnal or
ganization, (os deficed by Blaine,) in
virtns of which he sympathizes with the
Fox.
The Bntier men in foil possession then
went on and nominated Butler by accla
mation, reaffirmed adherence to Demo
cratic principles “as ennneiated by Jef
ferson, Madison and Jackson,” and
nominated the rest of their State ticket.
In these proceedings they displayed
the smartness of Bailer himself, and it
is due in fairness to admit that they out
shone in tactics the regular organization.
On Thursday of the week before, tbe
Executive Committee of the Democratic
State Central Committee met in Boston
and voted and published the following:
Voted, in the opinion of the Executive
Committee of the Democratic State Com
mittee, under the call for the State Con
vention, no person, known by his acts or
declared opinions to bs in favor of nom
inating, through the Demociatio Conven
tion, as a candidate for Governor or for
any State officer, a person who is not a
recognized member of the Democratic
party, is entitled to sit or vote in the
Democratic State Convention.
Godfrey Morse, Secretary.
This, it will be seen, was a direct at
tempt to exclade the Bailer men, in ad
vance, from the Stato Convention. On
general principles it seem3 to be defen
sible, bnt the Bntier men had a right to
complain that those principles had not
heretofore controlled tho Bay State Dem
ocracy. In 1876 they had nominated
Charles Francis Adams, who did not call
himself a Democrat; and they had en
dorsed Greeley, in 1872, who did not class
himself as a Democrat. Consequently
there was some show of reason in thus
meeting an attempt to rale them oat by
a revival of usages which had not al
ways governed the party, with a more
downright and successful attempt to Bhnt
oat the anti-Batler men. There wsb a
wise adaptation of their tactics to their
condition. They hold the hickory sticks
and knew better than any Anti-Butler
men how to use them.
Bat, after all, the triumph of Batler is
more apparent than real. We fancy this
strategy will not gain him a veto which
he would not have had without it. There
was a class oi so-called National Labor
Greenbackers who would have gone for
him any how, and could they have also
secured for him a regular and orderly
Democratic nomination, that would havo
brought him votes be could not other
wise have gained. But these violent
and dishonorable tactics will thoroughly
outrage and disgust the intelligent De
mocracy of Massachusetts, and enlist
them in an uncomprcmising war against
the Batler movement. They are of a piece
and harmonious with the Kearney pro
gramme, which outlaws every man who
owns an honest penny or means to earn
one; and they are a practical illustration
of the nature of the reform Batler iB lite-
ly to introduce. They are the initiation,
probably, of a regular knockdown and
dragout campaign.
The practical result of these move
ments will probably be that tbe decent
Demooraoy of the State will ca operate lu
the most effective manner to defeat Bat
ler. This oan bast be done by tanning a
good nominee of their own, and thus de
feating an eleotion by the people and
throwing it into tbe Legislature. In Mrs
■aohuaetts, as in the other New England
States, a majority of all the votes cast is
neoeBsary to elect. It is not at all proba
ble that Butler oan reoeive suoh a majori
ty. Failing In this, he will be defeated
in the Legislature, and that will wind np
his pcl'-tioal career.
Austria sick.
Austria is thoroughly sick of her por
tion of the spoils of Turkey. The occu-
pation of Bosnia has proved a slow,
unprofitable and bloody business, and
there were reports by way of Constanti
nople yesterday that tho Anstrian troops
had suffered defeat. It is, however, ad
mitted on all sides that the projected
acquisition of Bosnia has stirred up dan
gerous and disquieting race questions at
home, which are likely to engender se«
rious trouble. We aro not sorry to see
Austria punished for her venal and time
serving oonrse in the late war.
Mxaoza’s Prospect of a Good Open-
xno.—We had the pleasure yesterday of
a call from the able , and indefatigable
President of Mercer University, Bsv. A.
J. Battle, D. D. Tho doctor has just
returned from an extensive tour through
Northern Georgia, and reports the pros
pects of the noble institution, over
which he presides so acceptably, to be
highly flattering. There will bs large
accessions of students from that region,
with the promise of many more in the
future. And why not ? Nowhere can
there be found an abler faculty,* better
moral influences, or a more healthy loca
tion than that of Maoon. It is also cen
trally situated, easy of access from All
points and well endowed. Surely noth
ing is wanting to make of this literary
foundation all that ita moat sanguino
friends coull desiro. Every citizen of
Macon ought to take a personal interest
incite welfare and advancement.
Forty-First Annual Session ot
Wesleyan Female College.
This Institution, which is jnstlythe
pride of Maoon, enjoys the enviable rep
utation of being the oldest regular col
lege foundation for. the eduoation of fe
males in the world. It is nottoomnch
to add also, that it is probably without a
superior in all the essentials that consti
tute a first class educational establish
ment. The cnrricnlum of study is ex
ceedingly fall, covering all the sciences
taught in male schools, while nothing is
Isft undone in the'ornamental depart
ments. The Faculty ia composed of ex
perienced, able and popular educators
who spare no pains to advance the men
tal cnltuxe of the yonng ladies entrusted
to their care. President Bass, too, has
proven eminently qualified for the
delicate and responsible dnties of his
position, and devotes himself with whole
hearted zeal to the best interests of the
college.
Old Wesleyan may well be proud of
the hundreds of her graduates who have
cairied light, and joy and refinement
throughout the commonwealth, and to
the remotest borders of the South.
The college is at present in a very
prosperous condition and bids fair to open
with largely increased numbers.
THE POST-GRADUATE COURSE
is a new feature which will be introduced
for the first time on the first of Octo
ber. This is designed to supersede the
necessity of sending onr daughters abroad
to what are termed * ‘finishing school V’
after they have completed their regular
collegiate studies. The exercises will
embrace lectures upon' the fine arts with
illustrations from the best masters, de
livered by that model of rhetorical grace
and elocution, ex-Cbancillor A. A. Lips-
combe, LL. D. Tho writer has enjoyed
the pleasure of hearing tho Doctor in this
his favorite field of literature, and can
simply promise a rich treat,and continued
mental feast from day to day, to those
who are privileged to attend his lectures.
In addition to the above, lesions in
French, painting, music, etc., will he
given to those who desire to perfect
themselves in these ornamental branches,
and with the most commendable liberal
ity the Trustees have also extended the
advantages of the Post-Graduate course
to other ladies net graduates of Wesleyan
College, who wish thus to supplement
their educations.
We would , advise all who possibly can,
to join this now riiss if for no other rea
son than to listea to the charming and
instructive lectures of Dr. Lipacomhe.
A Valuable Georgia Guide Book.—
We acknowledge the xeoeption, aooom
panied by a private note from the author,
J. F. Derry, Esq., of Augusta, of a very
handsomely printed and arranged volume
of Eome two hundred pages, from the
press of J. B. Lippinoott & Co.
This book contains an excellent epito
me of the history and statistics of the
cities, towns, population, scenery and
resources of Georgia. It is compiled
with great care, and written in fa
pie, sent and agreeable style. The
historical portion, while necessarily suc
cinct and greatly abbreviated, yet covers
a surprisingly large number of the most
sslieut facts oonneoted with the settle
ment, progress, and political events of
the Sl-te.
The came, and date of accession of eaoh
governor is givea.the white and black pop-
nlatiou of tbe several counties, sketches of
tbe principal cities with cats of their pnb-
lie, and most handsome buildings, monu
ments, chinches, etc., au account of the
religious denominations, the educational
system of t :o State, the mines, battles,vbI-
leys, falls, mountains, minerals, faotories,
waterpower, cemeteries, Institutions of
learning, e:c. All are there graphically
depicted as it were ia s nut-sheli.
The work presents a very attractive
appearance, and should have a place in
the study or sitting room of every Geor
gian. Asa hand-book and manual for
the tourist and immigrant, also, it will
be Simply invaluable, while it is not too
psnderona to be transported even in an
ordinary valise or satchel.
Mr. Derry has supplied an important
want of tho community by the publics-
tion of his little manual, and we trust it
will prove a pecuniary success to him.
The Atlanta Greenbackers.
Special to the Telegraph and MessengerJ
Atlanta, Sept. 18.—A large Greenback
mass meeting was held to-night and is
now (10:45 p. m.) in session. There is
some enthusiasm, and the attendance is
very numerous. Hon. George T. Fry,
Horn D. P. Hill, Colonel Benben Arnold
and Hen* A. W. Holcombe, of Milton
county, are spoken of as the possible
nominees of the party for Congress.
Mr. Holcombe is said to be ahead.
Cabolynh.
Later.—Colonel Benben Arnold was
nominated by the Greenbackers for Con
gressional honors.
Colonel Arnold is a prominent lawyer
of this city, and will aoospt the nomina
tion. Caboltnn.
A New Use for Cork.
Tbe new cork floor covering—Linole
um—has ingratiated itself so rapidly into
public favor that it ia superseding all ap
pliances heretofore employed for a like
surpoeo. Its most remarkable feature ia
its "extraordinary durability;*’ in this
respect no other floor covering ban com
pare with it. It is equally desirable for
dining rooms, halls, churches, and every
variety of building. Kept by all first-
class carpet dealers. The only genuine
article has “Linoleum” on the back'.fo
every square yard. sepl8 It
A little five year old daughter of one
of our prominent business men, in offer
ing np her evening prayers recently, ut
tered the following: "God, bices mama,
blesB papa, and make him bny me a dog
—a great big one, that'll whip the devil
out of all of them.—Bndfori Brsese.
Gen. AlfheU3 Baker.—We confesos
the sincerest regret that this distinguish
ed patriot, soldier and orator, under the
inexorable operation of the two-thirds
rule, has been defeated for the nomica'
tion to Congress in oar sister State of
Alabama.
Surely a nobler and more representa
tive man could not have been found at
the South. But we trust the General, in
no wise disheartened, will gird up his
loins and continue his good work ia be
half of the Demooraoy aud the right. It
is not always that the greatest, most de
serving and purest men receive their just
deserts.
Witness the career of Calhoun, Clay,
Webster^ Crawford and others. But that
twe-thirds rule is an extinguisher of
genius and merit, aad the opportunity of
small men,
Tax Mormons declare that their num
bers are Bteadily increasing, and that
reports to the contrary are circulated by
their enemies. It is now more than
thirty-four years since their founder,
Joseph Smith, was aesassinated, with his
brother Byram, while in jail at Carthage,
HL It was then generally predicted
that the sect would go to piccei; but it is
twenty times stronger, ita adherents say,
than it was on the day of “the martyrdom
of the Prophet.” The Mormons proba
bly number at the present time 250,0*0—
they claim about 400,000—one-half of
whom are in Utah and the remainder
scattered over Burope. The majority of
them come from Great Britain, and
many from Sweden,the dootrine of polyg
amy never having been attractive to the
American mind. Joseph Smith himself
seem3 not to have been a polygamist, in
the Usual sense of the word. His wife Em
ma always maintained that he never had
or wanted to have any other wife than her
self. She and four sons, after the death
of Smith, founded a monogamio Mormon
community, and called it the Josephitew,
but it has never flourished.—[N. T. Times.
Personal.
Henry M. Stanley, the justly famous
explorer of Africa, was weighed a few
days Binco at the World’s Exposition in
Paris upon a Fairbanks’ standard ecuio.
His weight was found to he 163J pounds,
or 32 pounds more than when he left the
Dark Continent. Tho three years of ex
posure and suffering he has experienced
are manifest in his appearance. He is
very gray,' and haB a wan and almost
haggard look, bnt ia now rapidly recover
ing lys usual health aad Tiger,
The Chattanooga Humors.
The city was all day yesterday full of
ramors and reports regarding the exist
ence of the yellow fever in Chattanooga,
Tennessee.
The reports spread and were widely
and currently believed by many.
From the Knoxville Tribune, of the
17th, we leam from a special to that pa
per that on the 16th the oity was pro
nounced free from yellow fever by its
correspondent. The telegram, however,
is based on individual conclusions.
In yesterday’s Constitution we find the
following os the same snbject, and lay it
befora our readers.
CHATTANOOGA.
Passengers who arrived in this city by
the late train last night report that the
yellow fever has taken a certain hold
npon that city, and that a great panio
exists among the inhabitants. It is said
that on Monday five cases developed, and
the lowest estimate for yesterday that we
heard was thirteen new cases and three
deaths.
The same authorities report that the
trains leaving the city are crowded with
persons fleeing from the faee of tho pes
tilence, and that every house on Lookout
Mountain is filled with the refugees. The
fever, if any there really is, is reported
among residents of the city, and not con
fined to any particular locality.
AN EXPLANATION.
Special Dispatch to the Constitution!
Chattanooga, Tinn., September 17—
10:5 a. u.—There ia some yellow fever
exoitement here. Tbe Board of Health,
after some investigation by a committee,
pronounced all oases here to be pernioions
fever, except one, which is of doubtful
obaxsoter. This case is now improving.
There is considerable bilious fever in the
town, bnt the death rate is lower than
usual at this time of the year. The Beard
of Health unanimously resolved that no
danger need be apprehended of a yellow
fever epldemio at this time.
All pbysloians of the city were present
at tbe meeting and endorsed thiB action
of the Board. Rumors of fever have
caused a most cartons and needless psnio
among tho citizens, whose minds are
wrought np to a high pitoh of exoitement
by reading tbe aooounts of the fever at
other stricken localities. I have investi
gated with muoh care, and am sure there
is no fever here.
J. E. McGowan,
Editor Times.
From passengers and others on the
evening train from Atlanta the reports
of the rapid departure of the citizens of
Chattanooga were confirmed, and the in
habitants are flying on every train.
In response to our telegraphio inquiry
we received, at eleven o’clock last night,
the following reply from a very reliable
source, which ccnfirms the dread tidings
that the fever had taken hold upon tho
little city in the embraces of the Tennes
see :
Atlanta, September 18,1878.
There is yellow fever in Chattanooga
and no mistake. Reports are vague and
unreliable. Some say sixty cases aro in
the city. There are probably only twelve
or fifteen.
(Signed], Caboltnn.
This places the matter beyond doubt.
The questions now are: Will the fever
become epidemio, and if so, what danger
are we in?
It behooves onr Board of Health to
take every sanitary precaution immedi
ately for the public safety in ease of a
southward extension of the dreaded pes
tilence.
A Voice from Telfair.
Editors Telegraph and Messengers Ia
your issue of the 8th inst. there appeared
a short correction by “Pulaski” in refer
ence to the vote of Telfair county in the
nominating convention of the Third Dis
trict, held in your oity last week. “Pu
laski” is correct. The Kibbee delegatee
from Telfair voted nay upon the motion
to table the resolutions offered by Col.
Denton, of Coffee. They also voted nay
upon the motion to table a substitute
and amendments offered by' Colonels
Hodge and Thomas of Palaski. And I
am satisfied that the Cook delegates
from Telfair did not vote at all, and I
'think the entire vote of Telfair should
have been recorded in the negative upon
those motions to table resolutions, etc. I
would have made this correction earlier
but for the fact that a gentleman out of
the county premised to do so immediately
after we saw your issue of the 6th inst.
Respectfully, etc., C. C. Smith.
McVill*, Ga., September 11,1873.
This does sot alter the aspect of the
case as it stood before. The gentlemen,
we doubt not, voted as they say, bnt we
do not think the vote was so recorded.
We think we certainly would have ob
served it if it had been so recorded.
There is one thing certain, however,
we certainly wonll not intentionally
wrong or misrepresent any connty, east
or west of the river, We dont suppose,
either, that any convention was ever
supplied with better secretaries.
City council Meeting.
On Tuesday evening at the meeting of
the City Council a disgraceful scene oc
curred.
The resolution for the investigation
of Treasurer Williamson’s books came up,
Alderman Hall spoke of the effort at
this time to investigate the. books as a
persecution, and spoke at some lengbth.
Alderman Singleton characterized Al
derman Halls’s remarks as ungentleman-
ly, when the lie was given by Alderman
Hall.
The Treasurer, who was near the Mayor’s
desk, rose and used very insnltlng lan
guage toward Alderman Singleton, and
was ejected from the room.
Explanations followed, in whioh Mr. S.
withdrew his remarks and Mr. H. accept
ed tho withdrawal and the difficulty was
amioabiy adjusted.
Subsequently Mr. Williamson returned
into tbe chamber and was again forced to
retire. We hope the like msy not again
ocour.
The matter has now come to this that
Settled wrltb tbe City.
It will be seen by the Council proceed
ings that Captain O. F. Adams, our Chief
of Police, has settled with tho city so-
carding to the terms of the law, and'
placed himself square with the oity.
Mr. Adams claims that he could have
settled his account with the city at any
time, but that a settlement has never
been demanded of him, and as the work
of collecting the fi. fas. has never been
eompleted, he was waiting to dose them
out as nearly as possiblo before making a
settlement.
He now has in hi3 hands executions for
about $3,000 for taxes and licenses for
which Treasurer Williamson and City
Clerk Ross has liia receipt. The amounts
of fl. fas. in his hands have never exceeded
the amount of bis bond, which is unques
tioned. HU friends are gratified at the
showing, and have all along had perfect
confidence in Mr. Adam’s ability to make
a clean showing.
Bridge Down.
On Taesday afternoon thg Lridge over
the Eoheoodee oreek, between Bibb and,
Houston oounltes, fell in and beoame a
general wreck. Some cattle were being
driven pver the stractare when the tim
bers gate way and the whole thing went
tumbling into the water below.
This is the old bridge tfhlch was to be
fixed up until tbe squabble j n whioh the
commissioners of the two counties are en
gaged oan be settled. Now it is out of tbe
way, end the new Iron bridge Is perohed
upon its isolated piers—a thing of bean
ty, bnt by no means e joy to anybody.
It is hoped that it will be plaoed in
passable condition, and that immediately- contributed by E. Prices’Sons, worth
rark Appropriation.
The City Counoil, we are glad to see,
has at length taken the proper vi9w of
matters, and appropriated a thousand
dollars and the work of the ohsin-gang,
for twenty or more days, to fitting up tbe
Park for the approaching State Fair, ac
cording to Contract with the State Agri
cultural Society. The money thus ex
pended will be ratnrned to tbe city ten
fold, and U in coapMano»,too, of a sol
emn oontract. The woTk wM? be com.
menoed immediately, and in a very short
while the grounds will be in the very best
order. This wan the only remaining un
fulfilled condition ia the why of the suc
cess of the Fair.
Postal Cbnnskft.
After the 1st of October thbre will be
an important change in tbe postal regu
lations of the country by wbioh packages
of the thard class of mail matter may be
registered and sent through the mails
with as great, safety as registered letters
are now transmitted.
The change will prove of great con
venience to the pqblie.
the public demand an investigation of
the Treasurer’s books. It ia now due to
Mr. Williamson us well as to the people
whom he serves. If his accounts are all
right, as his friends are confident they
are, investigation cannot affect him, and
if they are not, the sooner the investiga
tion is made the better.
We think Mr. Williamson will be able
to make all things plain.
Tbe Beam of Health,
The Board of Health me*- yesterday
afternoon, to take action with reference
to the many reports current regarding
the extension of the epidemic ^o Chatta
nooga. The Board adjourned until this
afternoon, at five o’clock, when all the
physicians of the city are invited and
urged to bo present and engage in the
meeting.
Tbe Concert To-nlgbt.
This evening, commencing at 8 o’clock,
the splendid concert for the benefit of the
yellow fever sufferers, will begin.
The programme has been carefully ar
ranged, and a musical treat ha3 been pre
pared whioh will be tiuly enjoyed by onr
people. We hope the hall will be packed,
and not a vacant seat remain nnoconpied.
The ladies in charge have gone to great
tronble in their labor of love for the suf
ferers of the West, and we hope their
efforts will meet with the appreciation
they deserve.
The concert will undoubtedly be one
of the xiehest musical entertainments
which has occurred in Macon in a long
while.
GRAND GIFT DRAWING.
After the ooneert this evening a grand
gift drawing wilt take plaoe. This draw
ing is not connected with the ooneert,
and will take plsoe after the mnsioal en
tertain^ Y*”price of tioketa
ia fifty~c&^%utf-iHU'^ft&Separato from
the oonoeit tickets, wbioh are also fifty
oents. The drawing will be oonduoted Is
the fairest manner by gentlemen well
known in the community. They. have
been very energatio in getting np the en
terprise, and we hope it will be a great
IQOOeBS*
The following is tbe schedule of the
prices and the manner of drawing as
officially announced by the committee in
charge.
Drawing will take plaoe immediately
after tho close of the concert.
1st prize, an elegant marble top side
board, contributed by W. & E. P. Taylor,
worth $40.
2d prize, a fine crayon portrait of Gov
ernor Troup (in large gold frame), con
tributed by J. A. Pugh, worth f 35.
3i prize, one case of beautiful shell
work, contributed by Mias S. D. Edwards,
worth $30.
4th prize, One silver card atsnd, by
Wing & Solomon, worth $15.
5 th prize, a collection of fancy articles,
contributed by Wing & Solomon, worth
$10.
6th prize, one ton of hard coal, con
tributed by A. L. Butts, worth $3.
7th prize, ten bushels sweet potatoes,
‘contributed by B. A. Ross, worth $7.
8th prise. Ten bushels of sweet pota
toes, contributed by A. O. Bacon, worth
$7.00.
9th prize. One barrel of best Savan
nah grits, contributed by Jaques & John
son, worth $6.00
. 10th prize. Onegold headed cane, con
tributedby J. H. Birch, worth $5.00.
11th prise. Fire bushels of extra seed
oats, contributed by JaeperF. Greer,
worth $5 00.
12th prize. One sack of 1 finest flour.
Another Yoluuteer front Geot-*,.
Dr. W. H. Carswell, of Am*L’
Georgia, passod through Maoon last nij^
sn route r or Memphis Where he wifi £!
der his professional services to th e
low fever sufferers of the afflicted citr '
Dr. C. is one of the onost proabL
and skillful physicians of America* a B ,
16 “ n J t !V Unfeigned re * rcfc that the’eiti
«as of that place resign him to the S'
der mercies oi tho epidemic. Ho clr*'
with him the best wishes of every fc^ !
to Georgia for hi, welfare and saferet^
May the guardians of the brave ward
the pestilence from him. d *
$4,00.
13th prize. One large map of Georgia,
contributed^ by Captain A, G. Butts,
worth $l&w.'
There will be three hundred tickets
with coupons attached, at fifty cents
easb) numbered from one to three hun
dred. The holder of each ticket will
furnish the special door keeper, appoint
ed by the managers, with the coupon or
duplieate thereof, which will be deposited
to a sealed box, and as Boon as the Con
cert closes, the contents of Baid box will
be transferred to the wheel, when a little
boy selected from the audience,-after
being blindfolded, will draw from the
wheel a single ticket, the number of
which will be called by the managers.
The first ticket called will obtain the
first prize, and so on until the prizes are
exhausted. T. L. Massenbug,
A. P. Whittle,
H. J. Peter,
John P. Fort,
A. A. Menard,
J. H. Hertz,
~ Managers.
The managers will go around this
morning for the purposes of disposing of
tickets. They will also he on sale at the
hook stores and many other stores. This
will afford all an opportunity of aiding the
. f5Y8< sufferers and many of obtaining
Prizes.
Purify and enrich the blood ana . »
will not be trouble tuaS: , a . nd
Dr. Bull’s Blood £ ln dl »e&ses.
a never friuKi^ 6 “ * C0 * a *
SewiTItenisL
New Yore, Septsmher is tu ,
S. Braden, of IndianapoHTSJ* 0 b ? y *
off all the honors of the English
ship Worcester, arrived
He has a gold medal and other prizes
presented to him by the Qaeen. btK
refused the cadeUhip in the English
navy, which belonged to him, becaufe he
would not renounce his allegiance to th!
United States. M
St. Louis, September 18.—The con
cert for the fever sufferers netted eight
thousand two hundred and fifty dollar-
Washington, September 18. — The
Signal Office has toe following report
from Life Saving Station No. 3, North
Carolina: “A bark in distrees, with her
mirzen mast and mam royal and top gal
lont sails carried away, and thereto?
her sails set, is toying to reach Cape
Henry. She pissed north at 7:30 o’clock
this morntogwith light westerly winds ■
Asbubt Park, N. J., September 18.~
At a meeting of the Boqrd of Control o(
Coal Producers yesterday, it was agreed
to continue the present Association nntil
April 1st. The quota for October was
fixed at12,000.000 tons. President Gowin
thinks there will probably be an advance
in the prices of coal, but this Association
does not make the prices.
Cincinnati, September 18.—A ehoot-
ing affray growing out of a legal dispute,
occurred between Dick Evans and Lem
and John Offutt, at Georgetown, Ken-
tucky, on Monday. Fifteen shots were
fired, and resulted in critically wounding
Evans and Lem Offutt.
Cincinnati, September 18.—A special.
dispatch states that in the lnmber camp
of Wells & Go., near Elmore, Michigan,
an epidemio has been raging for a week
past whioh Dr. Levaly pronounoes black
jaundice or yellow fever. Thomas Ma
guire was taken. None of the oitizens ot
Elmore would reoeive him into their resi
dences and he was plaoed under a tree in
a drenching rain and soon after died from
what the doctor says was clearly yellow
fever. The remains were plaoed in a box
and buried under the tree where he died.
San Francisco, September 18L—John
K. Mortimer, formally a prominent ac
tor, committed sniotde last evening at a
low boarding house by caking strychnine.
Of late dissipation had reduced him to
penury and vagabondage.
Baltimore, September 18.—In the
South Carolina railroad oate the Court de
cided in favor of the complainants, .for
the appointment of a reoeiver. Judge
Bond suggested that parties be named by
tho counsel from whioh a reoeiver oonld
be appointed. Richard Lathers, of New
York, was named by complainant’s coun
sel. Respondent’s oounsel named first
William MoGratb, present president of
the road, when the Judge said no offloer
of the road would bs appointed receiver.
Respondent’s counsel then named Bent
ley D. Hasel), of New York, and if there
was suy objection to him they would
name John H., Fisher, of New York, who
was receiver of the Atlanta and Charlotte
road. The judge said be would announce
the appointment hereafter. The headiog
ot the appointment of a receiver of the
Greenville and Colombia road, a fesder
of the South Carolina road, was postponed
to the regular Deoember term of the
Gomt at Colombia, S. C.
Memphis, September 18.—There were
ninety-six deaths yesterday aud two hun
dred and five new oases. AmoDg them
are Jesse W. Page, an aotive Howard,
whose case is oritioal, snd A. D. Long-
staff, now oat of danger. Tho fever is
spreading in the EubnrbB, and a laige
number are dying at points several iriles
from the oity.
Jackson, Mise., September 18.—The
last installment ef ten thousand rations,-
issued by order of the Secretary of War,
for tha fever sufferers has arrived. The
armies Of idle negroes banging about the
town, instead of seeking the ootton fields
that now invite them, are not oanBidered
by the Howards as fever sufferers.
New Orleans, September 18.—To day
there weie sixty-eight deaths and two
hundred and fiity-two new cases. Of the
latter one hundred and fifty-three oc
curred prior to the 15th instant.
. Worcester, September 18—The Mas
sachusetts Republican State Convention
met to-dsy. Governor Clafiin was cho
sen permanent chairman. An informal
ballot for Governor stood: Talbot, 851;
Long, 266.
A resolution demanding that unneces
sary and incompetent officers to the Bos
ton Custom House be discharged and
their place filled with honest, God fear*
ing citizens, was referred to the Commit
tee on Resolutions. The Committee cn
the informal vote for Governor was re*
ported. The whole number of votes wa3
1,124. Thomas Talbot, 851; John D.
Long, 266; Benjamin F.Butler, 2; Henry
L. Pierce, 2; Charles Devens, 2; Frank
W. Bird, 1. When the name of Butler
was read as receiving two votes, it was
received with hisses and laughter.
The informal ballot was mads fqrmai,
and Talbot was declared the nominee.
IBaltimobe, September 18.—The Grand
Jbodge to-day discussed the ohange of title
•greed on yesterday, bat the minutes
were not altered. Tbe lodge was ad
dressed by a member of the order resid
ing in the Indian territory, favoring the
admission of olvilized. Indians into the
fraternity. Several reports or standing
committees were made. The lodge rejec
ted the resolution to hold tho next meet
ing at Jacksonville.
Mxuehis, September 18.—Apparently
theie ia no deorease in the number of new
oases to-day, although the death list is
lighter, only 38 being reported np to noon,
making 91 for the past twenty four hours.
Among the dead are two volunteer physi
cian?, Dts. John B. Hicks and J. S. Bonk,
a ion of Rsv. L. JU Sohuyler, Episcopal
minister from New Jersey, Mrs. Margaret
R. E. Brooks, mother of W. 9. Brooks of
the Appeal. Among the new esses are
Theodore Holst, the undertaker. Tbe
supply of coffins is very low.
Saratoga, September 18.—The Unita
rian Conference was organized this morn
ing, E R. Hoar, president. Rev. James
Freemen Clark read his essay on "Tho
New Theory,” which he summed up as a
sseking for the living truth; for the
truth which will feed the soul and make
God, eternity, duty and heaven as real
and solid as the outward universe.
Canton, Miss., September 18.—Nevr
cases 10; deaths 11, Dr. A. H. Cage is
dead.
Salim, Oregon, September 18.—In#
two houses met to joint session to-day
and elected J. H. Slater to the United
States Senate for six years from March
4th next.
Philadelphia, September IS.—Sab-
■oriptions to-day reached $39,000; total
$95,000. _ - _
Milwaukee, September 18.—P. V.
Dens ter was nominated by the Democrats
of the First district.
Pittsfield, Mass., September.—Mrs.
Samuel Hooper’s summer residence, in
Lencr. was robbed on Monday night of
plate valued at $2,000. The next night
Mrs. Charles Astir Bristedo a residenco
was broken into, but the thieves were
frightened off.
Naw Yore, September IS.—The va
rious relief committees here are P r0 8«*®‘
ing with the collection and distribution
of moneys and supplies to the fever suf
ferers. Bepori*«« beingoonetant^rt-
oeived of the continuation of tho gooa
work throughout country.