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k&feig Cetegcapi? ttttit 3a«im«Ji & .lljexxjmgfte,
The Telegraph and Messenger
MACON GA., JANUARY 14. 1879
France Uxces Enow-—Telejraphio com-
moMciiion In *11 parts of Francs is interrup
ted by anow, especially in the midland depart
ments. Trains are blocked, and »U tidings
cf ssmo of thsm are lost.
_■Congressman-elect De la Matyr, of
Indiana, has left Washington for the Soclb,
on a in the interest of ths greenback
party. Ho will visit all the Southern Legis
latures and important points, and will endea
vor to work up a 8 mtlmint in favor of the
greenback cause.
~In Otoada when the snow doesn’t lie
three feet on the ground from the rat of
December to the middle of March, and the
ioe is less than two inches thick, and only a
dozen persons are frozen to death, the Cana
dians call Ha ‘mill winter.’—[Norristown
Herald.
—A Washington dispatch eaja it has tran
spired that the absence of wine at residences
of the oibinet officers on New Year’s Day
was in compliance with specitl request of
the President. Secretary Evarts, however,
had Wine for the diplomatic corps, tut, im
mediately after thtir departure, substituted
coffee for bia other visitors.
- The whole Northern Hemisphere seems
enveloped in a cold shroud this winter. The
snows in Great Britain havo been heavier
than in any winter in twenty years. The
weather is especially B'-voro in Scotland and
the snows phenomenal. Oat on the Pacific
coast they are oomplaiting of tho low tem
persture. Down South tho cold has been
severer than since 852
Ho more national bank notes cf a lets
denomination than five dollars can b3 fur
nished by the Treasury, lhe twaity second
section cf tfae law of JS51, relating to loans
and the currency, commands that ‘after
specie payments shall be resumed’ no euch
small notea ehall be sent cat for circulation.
No one in that year dreamed that greenbacks
would be reissued after payment, and the
purpose of the law was to secure a hard-
money currency for small sums, as against
banknotes.
—A‘Woman’s Church’ is about to bo or
ganized in New York. It ie to have no creed,
but its law of life will be, 'Then shall love
thy neighbor as thy self.’ Tne leaders in
ibis movement belong to tho Psychometric
Society, founded by Profoesor Bachanan.
Nobody will be excluded from the organ za-
tion on account of any previous condition of
mental servitude, or for anything else. It
will be the broadest sort of a church, exiept
n the matter cf sex. No masculine need
apply.
—Tho first official act of Mayo; Coo; er, of
New York, was the veto of tbs resolution of
the board of aldermen granting to certain
parties permission to use the streets, avenues
nod public places of the city for tho pnrposo
cf laying mains and pipes therein for the
transmission of hot water, hot air or steam,
n his opinion the Common Council has not
tho power to grant the privilege Intended to
bo oenferred by said resolution, and in this
view of the case bo is sustained .by the c pin
ion of the corporation counsel.
—From tho report cf the Pacific Mai!
Steamship Company, showing the fiuancia
condition of lhe company Decembe; 1,1818,
It ay peart that its liabilities exceed the cash
assets $1,871,911, against an excess cf 93,-
112,329 Aprii 80,1S78. Of this indebtedness
$l,4W,CC0ia owing to tho Panama Bailroad
Company. The cash assets do not include
no?the company amonntiog to over
1,000,CCO, part cf which itiebolioved ctn
be collected.
—It is charged that St. Louis doctors its
vital statistics in order to profit by the repn
talionof being tho healthiest city in the
world; that either the deaths are not all re
ported or the population is over-estimated.
These iojuriona suggestions do no: come
from its rival, Chicago, but from Baltimore’
nd a paper of that city eaye: ‘Several phy-
siolans who have been residents of St. Lonis
have smilel very audibly at the reports
from that city, which aro considered almost
worthless for purposes cf comparison, as
the figures are so low as to be ridiculous.’
The Chbech of toe Stoisoebs —The
Church of the Strangers, cf which the Bov.
Sr. Deems is pastor,says tho World, ceiebra-
ted.ita eleventhannivitiaiylsst Sunday. The
church began with thirty-two members, and
now baa five hundred and eixty members
The chu’ch building on Merotr street sea’s
over twelve hundred peopio, and thero is a
building containing chapel, infant school
room, parlor, study and a room for the Sis
ters of tho Btrangers. The congregation
depends upon subscriptions, and dosed the
year without any debt, and with some money
n the treaauiy.
New Yobe, Jan. 8.-Tho prominent banks
and bankers are all going wild over tho four
per oent. subscrip ions. Heretofore cne
young but very ably managed bank has
monopolized the hen's share of tho sales of Iind 6nb dued andin comfortable dwell-
the bonds, and at I east throo-fourths of thoao 1 inge, thero is no reason why somo of
^ * . — ”” *- their dreamo of earthly felicity should
Tho West or Che East.
Tho Charleston New* and Courier says
the “permanent interests of the South
lie with the East rather than with the Wert,
because there is a broader intelligence and
higher knowledge ia the Erst than in
the West.”
Perhaps! And sinoe political power
is so rapidly concentrating in the West
and leaving tho Atlanrio chores, the nat
ural suggestion of the situation to the
Northern Atlantio coast would be a de
fensive combination with the Booth.
More than a generation ago Mr. Calhoun
and other Southern statesmen foresaw
and predicted the situation whioh is to
day in rapid realizition, when the Eiat-
ern States would be left oat in the divi
sion of national honors and lefiaenoes,
and urged it as a reason why that seotion
should cultivate close and friendly rela
tions with the Southern States, and abate
its virulence on the slavery question.
Such suggestions, however, were thrown
away. The “broader knowledge and high
er Intelligence of the East” have never
ceased to find a favorite field for ^display
in a most offensive propagandism enforc
ed by Western combination altogether on
the South.
Anri the E*st can’t get out of this net-
Blaine and Edmunds, the two “Wise men
of the East,” are at present the great na
tional exponents of this sectional propa
gandism—striking substantially at the
intelligence and self-governing power of
the Southern States—seeking to array a
dominant national party to otnsh them
down. A party wnioh is to be ridden by
the man on horseback from the West, at
the certain expense of a turther and more
complete subordination of Eastern influ
ence and power.
In this course, they are voluntarily and
no doubt intelligently tho active promot
ers of the rapidly culminating Western
monopoly of national power. Both are
dazed and misled by the faint chances of
a Presidential nomination, and the “in
telligence and higher knowledge of the
East” are insufficient to lift the mass of
those peopio out of tho sloughs of an old-
time stagnant f -u iticism up to a bread
and comprefcer: i.-. view of the political
situation at d i s urgent demands upon
them. Tiny wit do nothing but play
into the bands of an already dominant
Western supremacy. They will throw
all their ingenuity and influence into the
work of organizing another sectional
canvass against the South and inflicting
a few thousand more damaging strokes
on this already battered, shattered and
laminated section.
There are difficulties in tbe way of the
News and Courier’s programme. The
New England statesmen who really com
prehend the demands of the situation*
have their own personal ends to serve
The masses don’t understand it, or pre
fer tbe gratification cf oil grudges to
sclf-presoivation.
Possibly they may sect: to remedy this
blander hereafter, and the Atlantic States
be driven together by the sheer necessi
ties of self-defense, but present aspects
do not warrant any euch conclusion; and
it is not improbable that in a little time
tbe West alone may be sufficiently power
ful to defy all combined opposition. In
tho last ten years the advanco cf the
West towards supreme control of Federal
emoluments and power has been gigantic-
Seeking soaCIiern Homes.
Tho Newark (N. J.) Advertiser says there
is—and we are not sorry to seo it—an in
creasing travel to tho Southern States in
ssaroh of permanent homes. Some go
for the winter only, looking for health,
but many ethers are attracted by cheap
iands or a more salubrious climate, and
the hope of some day achieving an orange
grove and independence at the same time,
The Tribune states that two hundred
families have left New York and Brook-
lyn.this winter, most of them for Florida,
while the immigration from all parts o
the North to Texa3 continues large.
There are cheap and good lands at tho
South, abundance of them, and it is
easy for a atont worker to obtain a living
there from the soil. Labor also is cheap
and plentifnl. Tho one great drawback
is the malarial character of the country
daring the wet and hot seasons of the
year, increased by imprndenco in diet
and the opening of new lands to cultiva
tion. Those who go and cannot afford
to leave daring the sammer may as well
prepare themselves for an abundance of
qninine and a tassel with torpid livers.
When thoroagbly acclimated, with the
sold, amounting to scores of millions, havo
been throngh the shrewdness of the bank.
Though late-in the day other institutions
have opened thtir • yes—and ^probably a
do2sn competitors have entered the field
since the opening of the year—and establish
ed a government bond department in their
hanks or banking-houses for tka sale and
purchase of bonds. Eeveral new ones enter
ed the field to-day, and a lively competition
is promised.
Naw Yore’s New Oamtcla Failure —
After spending nine and a half millions of
dollars on a now capitol bunding at Albany,
says the New York Snn, New Yorkers have
jut discovered, to their sorrow, first, tha
the arohltoot forgot to make any provision
for carrying away the rainfall on the roof,
and second, that the Legislative chambers
are worthless so far as aoonstics are concern
ed. When tbe Benato met in ite now dum
ber on New Year’s day members found it
impossible to hear what was said at a distance
of over twenty feet from the speaker, and
the fear was expressed that they would
never be able to transact any baslaess there.
As is ofton the case where public bondings
are ereoted without careful supervision
everything seems to have been sacrificed to
show, and extravagance has even gene so fsr
in this ss to deface carved stone with paint.
It is possible that New Yorkers wlU get tirod
after a while of seeing their monoy tqaan-
dered ie this fashion
The Dat akd its Doxies.—This day,
Sunday, has its appropriate duties, which
Wo recognize, though secular journalists.
When it ones we are glad to oease our
endless round of duties, and devote one
dsy to restand to worship. And the
Christians of onr community, doubtless,
bail* the holy day which permits divorce
from the cares of business eld release
from secular troubles, and presides time
for rest, worship and solemn meditation.
On this day the Christian should be
found in his pew during fiivige service,
giving heed to the man of God, who pro
mulgates the doctrines that pertain to
holiness and salvation. In this,the early
portion of a new year, we shall be re
joiced to see and chronicle a full attend
ance in the churches and Sunday-schools
of our city. Let the children be got
ready in time and sent io tho school; let
the v< ung not forget their d«ty in this
' aB J let the adults hasten all
nciwary preparations, and wend their
way eo
r ly io tho house of God.
not be realized.
And yet, Mr. Advertiser, tbe bulk of
tbo Southern country would perhaps lose
by swapping with Jersey in chills and
fever. If nothing less than river bottom
or swamp lands will content the immi
grant, he should bring plenty of qninine.
But if be will make a judicious selsction,
he need not go far or amiss for a site
whsre be can labor out doors nearly 300
days in the year, and see as little malarial
fever as he would be likely to do in any
of the Middle States.
A Utilitarian Age.
People are always talking about “this
utilitarian ege,” and yet it appears to ns
more peopio aro intensely basy doing
nothing, fat great labor and expense,
than were ever heard of before in tbe his
tory of this mundane sphere: People
walking against time, under shelter,
round a ring—peopio eating against
time and tbe commandments—people
floating against time—peopio risking
their lives in all kinds of profitless expo
sure—and tc-day another alarls np to
see how long he can skate without stop
ping. Let this “utilitarian age” provide
for some profitable application of all this
wasted power and mnsole. A corporation
or county tread-mill—a plowing or booing
ground—or any other contrivance for use
fully testing tbo strength, agility or en-
daranoe of tbe people.
Free Spoecb.
Prince Bismarck is a very great and
a very wise man; but a law of polemics
commonly takes tho control of contro
versies ont of the hands of wisdom, and
both sides, nnder the impulses of antag
onism and repulsion, push each other in
to extremes. The King-killing mania
which has disclosed itself in Europe is
betraying tbe German Chancellor into
some very dangerous and ill-advised (X-
pedienta—among them that noticed in
the telegrams to-day—a scheme to sup
press free speeoh in Parliament. Much
dangerous preesnro is relieved by the
open vent holo of the month. It Bis
marck wants to test the danger of sup
pression let him require that the nozzles
of all the German tea kettleB shall be
stopped.
Short Cotton Becelpts tbe Cause
of tbe Temporary Decline m
Trade—Be ot Good Cbeer.
For several weeks there has beon a
constant falling off in the receipts of
cotton. On Thursday the arrivals footed
up 149 bales, against 899 tales for the
game data last year, when the crop was
exceptionally light in Southwest Georgia.
Yet every one knows that throughout
that region the increase in the magnitude
of the present crop is at least one third
over that of the last. What then is the
cause of this great decline in receipts?
Evidently, we answer, because of the
distressingly low prices and the better
condition of the farming community.
Happily, tbe planter last year, admon
ished by bitter experience, bad redaced
his expenses greatly, and by the aid of
magnificent provision and fruit crops is
comparatively independent. Mach meat
has been raised in Georgia also, end the
propitions weather for killing and saving
hogs and the unprecedented cheapness
of Western pork, really make the situa
tion of onr agriculturists more ohesrful
and promising than at any period since
the war.
We are sorry, however, to note the dis
position to hold back from market the im
mense supply of the fiascy staple which
still remains piled np in balk in the gin-
house, or stored under sover on the plan
tation. The increasing financial troubles
in the manufacturing centres of our prin
cipal customer, England, the reports of
continued labor strikes, bank failures
and commercial depression at home and
abroad, certainly afford no favorable out
look for the future of the present crop of
cotton, nnless a great and docided change
takes place in tho industrial condition of
the whole civilized world. In that event,
•ven if cotton went up, so would bacon,
iron, coal, flour and every other article of
necessity or luxury. So that in reality it is
quite doubtful whether an advance of a cent
Or two in onr ohief staple; would very
materially add to to tbs resources of our
cotton producers. Bat, in lhe meantime,
as we have remarked on enother ooea.
sion, the bnainses of the oonntry is suf
fering dreadfully at present from lhe
holding back of the cotton orop, and
many merchants will be nnabla lo meet
their liabilities if tho stagnation in trade
continues. Tho writer has beard veteran
planters say that the safest coarse to be
pursued by the farmer is to sell bis cotton
at tha nearest market eb soon as it can bs
ginned and packed. Cotton buyers are
everywhere, and eagerly watching each
other’s operations, eo that the prioe is
quite uniform all over tho conntry,
with the expenses added on for the
cavcral localities. As an illustration of
this, the writsr once heard his father,
who was a Sea Island planter, say that
his factor in Savannah on one occasion
refused fifty cents per pound for a lot of
long staple cotton—he was then tendered
forty-five for it and again declined. Af
terwards other offers were made with
further reductions, until at length in the
month of July ensuing, the owner him
self went to Savannah, and,to use his own
language, begged a sale of the lot of forty
bales at eightasn cants per pound. This
cared him of the policy ef holding cotton
for higher prices. It is a risky specula
tion which the experience of the great
bulk of farmers ta3 demonstrated to
be unprofitable to themselves, whilst
at the same time upsetting all tbs
calculations of the mercantile community,
and disturbing the legitimate opeiations
of trade. Cotton is tbe great medium of
exchange at the South in what is known
as the business season of tbe year, and
of conr83 as soon as it ceases to move by
being retained on the plantation, there
is a corresponding collapse in trade cir
cles. Query. Has the farmer the slight
est guaranty that prices will advance in
the spring? And if not, wkat becomes
of the interest on the value of the cotton
bales which have been allowed to remain
perdue, (e say nothing of the loss of
prestige, and the dissatisfaction occasion,
ed to expectant and patient creditors,
who have been kept waiting for their
money.
Again, therefore, we counsel our farm
ers, all things being equal, to sell their
cotton in tbe most convenient market aB
fast as it can be gathered, ginned and
taled. _
Capitol Building-.
THE OLD TIMES AND THE NEW.
Tne oocasion of the opening of the
new, gorgeous, balf-fiaished and
wretohedly-planHsd capitol of tbe State
of New York, in Albany, on tbe 8th in
stant, has drawn forth a mingled ohoras
of felicitous sighs and groans /rota tbo
presB of the Empire Stats. Tho Sun has
these amoDg other remarks:
Yesterday the Senato and Assembly of
this Stato met for the first time in the
new capitol. In tbe evening the citizens
of Alb'-’’, gave a reception in its hells to
a gro:; u-rong of visitor*. It was a
grand affair, we dare say.
The old capitol is soon to be removed.
The original cost of the edifice that has
served tbe State throngh seventy event
ful years, was $110,688 42.
The State has already expended $10, -
000,000 on the new edifioe, and it is little
more than half finished. Its patrons are
disputing over tbe question whether its
completion will cost $6,000,000 more or
$8,000,000. We think the larger sum has
the best cf tbs argument, bat we will
average the difference and oall it $7,000,-
000. This makes a total of $17,000,000
for construction purposes.*
Da Witt Clinton, Martin Van Buren,
Chancellor Kent, Chief Jnatice Spencer,
their compeers, and their anocsssors of
the next generation, were ratisfiad to leg
islate and adjudicate for the State in a
building that cost $110,000. The pres
ent race of statesmen that role ns from
Albany require for their accommodation
an edifice that will cost just one hundred
and fifty-five times as much as that which
was found amply sufficient far their pred
ecessors through alobg and memorable
period-
This is, perhaps, a strained illustra
tion of the drift of the times—but the
drift lies, with cataract speed, in that di
rection, in all pnblio and private expen
diture. Tho State of Now York will pay
a million and a half annual rent in in
terest for the accommodation of her leg
islators and government officers. Ad
ding expendilnres to keep np the mag
nificence, and the cost will be two mil
lions annually. What a harden to im
pose for mere show! What a monument
of foolish waste and extravagance! What
a warning td States whioh havo capitol*
to build! What a shocking example
What an ill-advised and perpetual admo
nition to waste tne pnblio revenues I
Polygamy Proscribed.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has emphatically declared in the case Oi
Reynolds, the muchly married man who
made the issue, that religion* freedom
“was not inteaded to prohibit legislation
in respect to marriage.” It is a traves-
tie upon religion for a sensual brute call
ing himself a man to break down and
trample nnder foot that law of Jehovah
whioh creates the sexes equal in number,
obvionsly designing that one woman
should be the helpmeet, and only ono,
for each man. When it is otherwise, tbe
gentle sex degenerates into more slaves
and playthings for their masculine lords,
and every,principle of right, virtue and
propriety is violated.
Polygamy means the utter dethrone
ment and degradation of woman. It is
just and proper, therefore, that it should
be visited with the severest penalties.
Bat the question obtains how, in a polyg
amous country like that of the Nor moss,
where society, and like as not the major
ity of the jury and counsel on both sides
in every legal case, have more or liss a
kalf dozen wives, can the United Slates
law be enforced? It is simply imposiible
nnless u change of venue is ordered and
tho parties .are all transported to old set
tlements of tfae (Jnicn for trial. This
could hardly be done in the case of every
lecherous Mormon, where there are thou
sands of that ilk who are not content to
worship at a single wifely shrine, but
mast par excellence set apaharemal*
Turk. Wo only wish this iniquity could
be smoked out and utterly eradicated, but
the way is not plain to do it. Bat at
least it is well for tbe highest tribunal of
tbe land to denonnee and condemn thiB
greatest of crimes against society, and
the mothers, wives and sweethearts of a
virtuous people.
Battle Stories.
The recurrence of the anniversary of
the Battle of New Orleans has given rise,
this year, to an unusual nnmber of rem
iniscences of that great event, the most
ot which we take to be familiar to our
readers. A North Carolina contempora
ry, the Wilmington Review, narrates sev
eral—among them the accession of La-
title and his Baratarians, ana General
Jackson’s impressment of the cotton
claimant—tho last as follows:
On tho morning of the eighth, just be
fore the commencement of the lighting,
as General Jackson was surveying tbs
line of battle, a wealthy French merchant
of New Orleans drove np to the line and
requested an inteaview with tho General.
On reaching hiB presence Jackson de
manded of the Frenchman the object of
his visit.
“I oome,” said he, “to demand of yon
tbe return to the olty of my cotton whioh
yon have taken to make yonr breast*
works.”
“Ah,” said ’Old Hickory,’ “can yon
point ont the particular bales that is yonr
property ?’’
“Oai, Monsieur, certsinement, zit is
my ootton and zat is my cotton point
ing to many bales in the near vioinity.
“Well,” said Old Hiokory, “if that is
your property you have just come in timo
to protect and defend it,” end calling to
a corporal ho ordered him to bring a spare
musket, and giving it to the Frenohman,
ho told him to stand and defend bis prop
erty. At the same time ho gave the cor
poral an order to shoot the fellow down
if he attempted to ran. There is nodonbt
bat that the Frenohman was glad that his
ootton was there to scieen him from the
British bullets.
Now, as an illustration of a different
spirit—tbe volunteer spirit of the volun
teer State, wo will tell a story which has
never been in print. It is a story nar
rated to ns years ego by Governor
Bichard K. Call, of Florida, at that time
a youthful captain in tbo army, and a
member of Jackson’s staff. Call occupied
a position behind tbe breastworks in a
crowd of eager and excited volunteers,
who were intent only on getting a shot at
he enemy. His chief coacsrn was that
the Sager and tumultuous throng in the
rear, in the impetuosity of the fusilade,
would hurt more of onr own men in front
of them than of theonemy. Consequently
he did little but push continually through
the crowd impressing caution and delib*
eration upon everybody.
While at this business, he came across
across a hugo Tennessee fiat-boat
man, clad in homespun, with
broad-brimmed drab felt hat on his head,
and the viBor thrown back, his arms
folded, and without gun or aooontroment,
calmly surveying the red tide of battle.
“My friend,” says Cali, “why are you
hero without a gun ?”
“The fact is. General,” replied tho
Tennessean, “I’ve just come down tho
river in a flat boat £ tried mity hard to
borry a gun, bnt couldn’t find any. So
I thought I’d jist come down 'yero and
somebody mought git killed and then I’d
take his gnn and take a hand in the set
tlement of this hy’ar question.”
That was a clear offset to the impressed
Frenchman.
Fie* in Cincinnati.—The noon tele
grams of yesterday bring the news of a
serions conflagration in progress in Cin
cinnati. Two large establishments had
been destroyed np to the time of onr ad
vices, the losses amounting in tho ag
gregate to $200,000. The thermometer
at that time of day, which must have
been fa; into tho forenoon, stood at zero.
The difficulties of the fire department in
managing th-ir apparatus may well be
imagined. At latest accounts the fire
was only supposed to be under con’iol.
Oar night telegrams wo hope will bring
tho news of a speedy suppression of the
fiamee after onr first reports.
The Oat Chop.—AdvioeB from South
west Georgia, and other portions of the
8tate, convey the intelligence that the
late severe freezes have injured very se
riously, in many instances killing out
right, the growing orop of oats. It will
be found, we think, when the weather
moderates, however, and the spireB begin
to shoot np again, that the damage will
not be as great as is apprehended. Fall
oats stool, or “tiller” ont immensely
when the Btand Is thin, and the writer
has seen fair yields where the orop was
thought to be well nigh destroyed. Bnt
there is still ample time to raise a fall
orop of oats, and they can even be sown
with good results as late as Marob.
It is impossible to overestimate tbe
value of this grain, particularly in South
ern Georgia. It seems peculiarly adap
ted to the soil, and sinoe tbe discovery of
the non-rusting varieties, seldom fails to
yield a generous return for the labor and
expense of cultivation. The farmer,
with bis pld fields and spare ground laid
down in oats, commencing to eow as early
as September, need never fear having to
draw upon tho granaries of the West for
bread or atook food.
With a very slight expenditure of troa
ble, enough oats can be harveaed to f-:ed
every plow animal the entire year round.
Then, after the crop has been taken off,
field peas may be planted to great advan
tage, which will ensure fat hogs and
abnndanoe of milk and batter, or the
land can be allowed to come np in crab
or orow-foot grass, which, when cat at
the right stage and properly oured, are
equal to the beet of Northern hay.
We bspe onr planters, therefore, will
not be discouraged, even if they have in
part lost their oats from the odd, bnt go
to work and re-sow their fields with this
admix able grain and forage crop.
Query ? Can curing a cough with D.S
Bull’s Cough Syrup be called bullying a
cough? I
Mercer University ,
The numeions friends of this excellent
and time-honored institution will be de
lighted to learn that its prospects are
very flattering, and a new era of prosper
ity and usefulness seems about to be in
augurated. At this writing the nnmber
of matiionlates is about one hundred and
twenty-five, and there are aocenionB of
’tndents almost every day.
The health of the yonng men is perfect,
and a better grown, more orderly and
manly set of inoipient statesmen, orators,
doctors, divines and intelligent agricul
turists cannot be found In all this broad
tend. Of Mercer, it may be txnthfolly
averred that while the discipline ia firm,
and every youth is requited to attend the
church of his ohoioe, and no toleration to
vloe in any form ia allowed, yet the Fao-
nlty are kind and attentive to those en
trusted to their charge, and every student
is tenderly oared for and watobed over in
seasons of aioknesa and sorrow. Indeed,
every mansion in would be thrown
open for the reception of any ill student
sent here by bia parents to ba odnoated,
and confided to the hospitalities of onr
people.
The course of study, too, is exception
ally thorough, and an able Faculty, sec
ond to none in tbe South, using every
modern text book and appliance of the
sohools, leave no stone untamed for the
improvement of the young men
Wherein this whole country is the deep
and scholarly Brantley, the modest bnt
erudite Sanford whose mathematical
woiks aro standards, the able linguist
Steed, and the accomplished and learned
Willett not known? These names are
household words.
Then we hare that excellent, model
gentleman, B=v. A. J. Battle, D.D., at
the helm, whose manners are so conrtly
that he never fails to make friends, while
his administration is firm, bnt ever gentle
and juat. We know of no one more em
inently qualified for the important posi
tion he occupies, and trust that he may
long be spared to illustrate the founda
tion whose interests he bat so deeply at
heart.
Mercer University is an ornament and
blessing, not only to Macon, but to the
State and tho entire Ssntb. It possesses
the most beautiful college edifice in Geor
gia, built upon a lofty and commanding
site, pcrfeotly healthy, and which is uni
versally admired by the etrangers who
visit the oity. The inatitntion is well
endswed, and under the special patron
age of the most powerful dsnomination
ia tbo State, the Baptists, ought, and
donbtlsss will, constantly grow in num
bers and influence, and has a grand pros
pect in the future. It is proper to state,
however, that in no sense whatever is the
conduct of the university sectarian. It
numbers among tho matriculates stu
dents of all denominations, and no relig
ions bias of any kind is attempted. At
the same time, piety and good morals are
assiduously inculcated, and the parent
who sends his son here may rest assured
that, sc far as the management of the in
stilu'ixn goes, he will be subjected to
none but good and wholesome influences.
And now, in conclusion, we would make
an earnest appeal to those of our citizens
who havo sons to educate to send them to
Mercer. The people of Southern and
South wist Georgia, also, should rally to
ite support, for nowhere else are the ad
vantages greater, or can a better educa
tion be secured.
Dentistry—Dr. W. W. Ford.—There
i3 no art or pnrsnit that has conferred
greater benefit upon mankind than den
tal surgery. It may be truly said also,
that no profession has made greater
strides towards absolute perfection.
Damo Nature has been effectually sap-
planted by the ingenuity and skill of
man. In former days, to be toothless
meant old nge, physical decay, and tbe
loss of much that contributes to human
enjoyment, such as the pleasures of the
table. It was impossible to eat an apple,
or even ordinary food, unless duly pre
pared os though for an infant, and more
over, ofttimes even the visage of the
young was marred by the Ios3 of that great
ornament to the human face, good teoth.
At first the attempts to supplement
that loss were rude and bnoRling, indeed,
even ludicrous. But now artificial toetb
can be mode of such exceeding beauty,
and, at the same time, are so preferable
to deoayod molars and ngly snags, that
we have actually known individuals, long
before their natural sets bad worn ont, to
submit to tbs pains of wholesale extrac
tion for the oomfort and satisfaction of
an even, pretty array of artificial substi
tutes.
The misery and discomfort, too, attend
ing tbe palling of a tooth, haB been al
most done away, by Bnporior skill and
the jndioious use of sn anmstjietio. For
all this tbe people have cause to bless
their dentistB and be thankful.
These remarks are suggested in oon»
seqnsnoe of recently witnessing some of
tbe skilfnl performances of Dr. W. W.
Ford, in giving relief to several of his suf
fering patients. We have never seen any
one more ekilfal in the extraction of
teeth, while bis perfect knowledge of tbe
nerves and anatomy of the month render
him competent to give the beat advice to
those afflicted with diseased gams, ab
scesses, or decayed teeth.
His plate work, too, ia very beautiful,
and tbe Doctor is supplied with every
modern implement and appliance of hia
art. Verily, this dental solenoe is one of
the happiest developments of tbe present
•*e.'
Txe Arlington Estate.—A dispstoh
says that the anit of General G. W. C,
Lee to reoover the Ailington property
which was appropriated by the Federal
Government, will commenoe at Alexan
dria on the 21st of the present month.
The fact that tho estate of the great
and magnanimous General Lee who, when
the opportnnlty was afforded to ravage
the conntry of the enemy, held his half
famished soldiers in obeok and protected
he private property of his foes, has been
remorselessly confiscated, will be an eter
nal blot upon the esontoheop of the Uni
ted StateB government. Why single ont
so goed and great a man for pnblio ven
geance, when every Confederate citizen
and soldier was equally gnilty, if indeed
it wan n crime to resist oppression, and
strike for freedom and equal rights where
both, were guaranteed under the Consti
tution of onr fathers.
The whole oonntry will watoh the pro
gress of this trial with the deepest Inter
est. Lst us see now whether the coartB
will have the netvo to administer justice
to the family of the grandest general and
one of the best and pnreBt men that any
age has ever produced.
*HE contested MUNICIPAL
—- -ELECTION.
Argument or Counsel—Refusal or
Judge Simmons to Grant the Writ
or Prohibition—Proceeding with the
Canvass.
Yetterdey morning at 9 o’clock, lu re
sponse to the notice served on the coun
sel for Mr. Collins and tbe contesting al
dermen, they appeared before Judge
Simmons to show cause why a writ of
prohibition should not isane against them
to prevent tho continuing of the canvass
of the ballots.
The proceedings were opened by the
reading by one of the counsel for Mr.
Huff the petition seeking the writ. It
was a lengthy and complete review of the
facts of the case and the main ground on
which the writ was sought was that the
affidavit by which admission was gained
to the ballot box was insufficient in law.
The paper was supported by Mr. Hoff’s
affidavit and ^exhibits. Tho reply of
Judge T. G. Holt was read, and was di
vided into eleven answers. The paper
was well drawn.
Some of tbe grounds incladed in Judge
Holt’s rejoinder to the petition were
that he had jurisdiction to receive evi
dence, but that in sitting in this capacity
his action was only ministerial, and not
subject to a writ of prohibition; that to
grant it would be to deprive many of their
rights; that other snfficient remedies are
open to incumbents at law.
Ssreral personal explanations were
made and argument was commenced.
Judge CIiffordAnderson spoke first for Mr.
Huff and his side. His argument was
clear and well arranged. The opening of
the ballot-box he argned and ths display
of tbe votes was dangerous. He spoke
eloquently and at length on that point.
Mr. N. E. Harris followed in a very
able and emphatic style, and was follow
ed by Mr. Dassan in an ingenious and for
cible speeoh. Captain John C. Kuthor-
ford ably concluded tho argument for
the petitioners.
Jadge Bimmons promptly decided that he
had, no authority to grant tho writ of
prohibition. This removed the bar and
allowed the canvass of the votes to pro
ceed, the general affidavit of snspicion
being deemed sufficient to allow the in
spection to be oentinned.
About two o’clock the counsel on both
sides, together with the candidates for
Mayor, several Aldermen and the clerks,
proceeded to the county court room, and
locking ont tho Raze of reporters, pro
ceeded to count out the ballots.
The case was resumed at the three
hundred and fiftieth ballot, and tho connt
was not concluded until about 7 o’clock.
The votes showed mere scratching than
on tbe previous day and many ballots
had no name for treasurer on them. Six
hundred and forty-two ballots were
counted ont, the entire veto of tho second
ward.
The Great Retail House of Messrs.
WixtUuumn Bro.
Those who go shopping during this
oold weather ought to know where the
most pleasant places to visit are located.
There can bs bat few, however, who are
not aware that the large and beautiful
store of 8. Waxelbanm & Bro., heated
by five registers, is one of the pleasantest
plaoes to shop, or transaot business in the
city. Besides, there yon can find a very
large variety ot goods, and st ptioes
which will induce the most economical to
purchase. And you will have gentle
men to wait on you who have had years
of experience in the retail bnsiuese, and
who will assist you iu selecting the bee
goods, and sell them at tho lowest prices.
A description of this beantifnl store,
which, for beanty and completeness, is
the peer of any in the Btate, is unneoes
sary, as there are but few of our readers
who have sot visited it.
Arranged on tbe left as you enter are
the most fashionable and leading styles of
dress goods, oonBisting of Amerioan fab
rics at from' eight to twenty-five cent-
and the finest Frenoh and English goods
at from fifty cents to fire dollars ptr
yard.
Adjoining these is the Blaok Goods De
partment, which contains the moBt stand
ard and desirable brands of tho leading
mannfaotories.
They buy Alpacas and Brilliantinea in
solid cases, so their prices ore always
lower than those of retail hooses, who
purchase io smaller quantities, can sell
them.
Black Cachmeres they buy in the tame
way, so if yon want any of the above
goods now is tho time to get them.
On the opposite side are sll kinds of
notions, of the very best etyles, and in
endless variety. They keep the very
best description of tapes, braids, Ham
burg edgings, etc. Their idea is to offer
to the public only the choicest and beBt
selected goods, and to sell them for the
least money possible.
The next department is the most im
portant one in the house, it is that cf
silks, satins and velvets.
The stock of these goods amounts to
over $15,000. It contains all tho nsw
and fashionable colors and a full assort
ment of the most celebrated Lyons man
ufacturers of black silks. We were
shown a beautiful piece of cashimero silk,
black, (warranted pure silk) at $2, whicb
we are snre does not retail in New York
at as low a price. Some of tbe most
elegant fringe and velvets, shaded to
match the beautiful colored silks, are
shown in connection with tho above aim
ed goods. Without leaving this counter
your dress will bo nicely matched with
velvet or satin, fringe or buttons, saving
yon the unpleasant task of going to
diffeient stores to get a braid or a
spool of silk or soma of ths nsoesaary
trimmings whioh are indispensable to
tho baanty and fiaish of a handsome suit.
Tne effaot of many expensive costnmes
is often destroyed by hav.ng to me some
But fow errors were foued, and both
sides seemed disappointed that develop
ments were not more promising. The 8hBdoUurt Coes not hanaonins with tho
477iU bailot was missing. In lieu, how- ' ROodsj . Thte house endeavors to avoid
ever, there wero two 478’s. The count
revealed no gross errors for any side. Mr.
Hoff’s majority was reduosd from 85 to
81. Tho vote of Mr. 0. J. Williamson
andj. M. Jones remained unchanged.
In is chimed that the error of the four
ballots was simply clerical.
At tbo conclusion of the count the box
and ballots wero again locked np in tho
vault in the old stand of Messrs. Cub-
bedge, Hazlehnrst & Co.
What will next bo done, whether the
other boxes will ba similarly investigated
cannot now be stated.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Annual Election of Officers.
To-mrrow, at 8 o’clock p. m., at the Oity
Hall, the annual election by tho Fire De
partment of a ohief, two assistants
and a secretary and treasurer will take
place. Tho firemen havo been looking
over the field for suitable men to fill tho
positions during tho coming year. Mr.
Machold, the present chief, has positively
declined a re-election. He baB made a
very good officer, and has been earnest
and conscientions in the discharge of hia
duties. Mr. Maobold has been identified
with the hlacoa Fire Department sinoe
1854, and daring that period bos often
filled impoitant oompany offices. In re
ward for these almost lifelong services
he was eleoted Ohief of the Department.
Having risen to this position, the highest
the Department can bestow, he is willing
to step down and out and make room for
others.
The First Assistant Chief, Mr. J. A.
Bohr, has moved from tbe city to Mem
phis. Mr. Keel, the Second Assistant,
will probably bo a candidate for re-elec
tion.
Among tho name9 prominently ang.
gested for the office of Chief is that of
Captain T. L. Massenbnrg. He it
gentleman of fine disciplinary qualifica
tions and would make a sterling Chief,
He is very strongly urged by his friends.
Mr. G. B. Turpin is also being spoken of
for the position ofFrst Assistant, and
Mr. Keel as Second Assistant by the
friends of both gentlemen.
Another tioket suggested is one beaded
by Mr. T. C. Hendrix, snpported by Mr.
Lonis Vannncki as first and Mr. Keel
second assistant. All are gentlemen
with large experience in the fire depart
ment and would make good officers for the
city. The gathering to-morrow evening
ot the firemen of our city will be larger
than nsnal and the interest will ba great
at the election.
A Bad Death.
Yesterday at 4 o’clock m tbe afternoon
Mr. William Davies Tinsley died at the
family residence on Johnson street, af
ter a lingering illness. Had (be deceas
ed lived until to day, be wonld have been
forty-three years ot sge. Far the post
four years his health baa been gradually
failing, antil yesterday bis sufferings
were ended by death. The remains will
be conveyed to Milledgeville thiB morn
ing by the Central Brilroad, end interred
In the family burying ground at that
plaoe. The funeral services will taka
piaoe this afternoon in Millsdgevillo. Mr.
Tinsley was a gallant soldier doting the
war. We deeply sympathize with his
family in this distressing hoar.
Western Peace Cause Killed.—West
ern dispatches say that ths peaoh trees iff
that seotion were muoh injured by the
late severe freezes, and there is little
chance for a.peach orop next summer.
The West’s lose may, however, prove the
South’s gain in the peaoh trade. Other
fznit trees axe reported uninjured, and the
winter grain crops were nnseathed.
goods.
that, end to accomplish tboir purpose had
fringe and buttons made to match their
goods and then bonght satins acd velvets
to correspond.
The next department 53 devoted to
house furnishing goods end fimaeis and
blankets of all sizss and qualities. We
wero shown one {air extra sizs at §18,
whioh had a very warm and ocmfortable
appearance.
On the opposite eids is as pretty an as
sortment of Hose, of all descriptions, as
we ever looked at, varying in price from
ten cents to $7.00 per pair. Connected
with this department is a complete stock
of ladies’ and children’s vests of the best
styles, all at seemingly very low prices.
The Cloak room is a novel and import
ant feature of this mammoth establish
ment. It is a nice, cosy, carpeted room,
where ladies can fit themselves with a
Cloak or Dolman most satisfactorily.
Their business iaoondaoied in tho most
honorable manner and customers wbo
have once patronized them seldom go
elsewhere.
All parcels are delivered free and
promptly, every pains beiag taken to
please their patrons. The adjoining store
is devoted to oarpeiB and clothing of
wbioh we will speak in the future.
Tlie Southern Railway and steam
snip Pool.
This immense combination, of which
onr estimable fellow-oitizsn, Virgil Fow
ors, Esq., is general agent, will hold a
session in Atlanta at the Markham House,
commencing to-morrow morning. The
meeting will be an important one, as tbe
investigation of the faithful compliance
on ths part of eaoh road in the combina
tion will take place, A new tariff of
charges will ba presented for tbe consid
eration and adoption of the meeting.
GOOD RESULTS
Are always pleasant to contemplate, as
evecy dyspeptic sufferer who uses Par
ker’s Ginger Tonic will attest. To ob
tain from this remedy the most gratify,
ing relief when distressed with Headache,
Low Spirits, Nervon-ness, Wakefulnea?,
Palpitation of the Heart, Liver Disorders,
Costivenesp, Pain in tha Stomacb, Heart
burn, Cramps, etc., is a pleasant expe
rience that surprises no less than it com
forts. Another remark* ble feature of this
remedy is its powerful specific action err
ths skin and mucous surfaces of tho
throat and lungs by which it unfailingly
cures the worst cases of Cough, Cold and
Sore Throat. It cures in a wonderfully
short time, removes all soreness from the
longs, and protects the feeble from Con-
bumptioo. Boy a $1.00 bottle from your
'irnggist Boland B. Hall, or a sample bot
tle at 15 cte.. ana test its merits.
jao. 8, 3mos.
The Cypher Telegrams.—Tha Potter
Committee has adopted a resolution to
Investigate the oypher telegrams along
with the other matters connected with the
recent Presidential campaign.
To accomplish this investigation an ad-
ditional appropriation is deemed neces
sary, and ths resoladoo passed embod
ies a request to the House ot Representa
tives to that effect. The investigation of
these, telegrams will, in all-probability,
open the oonteat with ths telegraph com
pany as to obtaining -tha original tele
grams and ocher information, and the
power of the general government over
corporations poaaibiy be pnt to the test.
Whan the investigation ia over and
Mr l’iiden vindicated, we hops he will be
allowed to roit m psaoe for awhile. ,It is
bad enough to usurp his offiae and pnt
another man in hit se at to draw bis sala
ary, without endeavoring to traduoe bis
character.
WHAT ABE THE PROFITS ?
This is tbe absorbing point that is of
interest in every business transaction.
By tbe combination system of operating
in stocks, Messrs. Lawrence & Co., Bank
ers, N. Y., unite tbe orders of thousands
of patrons, in various sum*, into one im
mense amount, and operate them as a
mighty whole, thus obtaining all the ad
vantages of the largest capitalism and
beBt skill. Profits are distribute! pro
rata among shareholders every month.
In this way large gains are secured in
short periods, acd capital from $10 or
$15 to $50,000 can be use with equal pro
portionate success. $20 will make $100
ia 30 days. $160 will pay $1,500 profit,
or 10 per cent, on the stock, and so on,
according to the market. D. Stokes, of
Troy, made $315.75 on an investment of
$50. Many customers are doing better.
Tho new ciroular has “two unerring rules
for success,” and fall details so that any
ono can operate profitably. Stocks and
bonds wanted. Government bonds sup
plied. Apply to Lawrence & Co., Bank
ers, 67 Exchange Place, New York.
Never Without Pistols.—At ^sxa*
hitebie, Texas, it it pathetically related
that during a dancing frolic a pistol car
ried by one of the young gentlemen went
off accidentally and killed his betrothed.
At church, wedding or funeral Texas
never go-s unarmed; but then they
should respect the law and carry the pis
tols and kuives outside their belts, in a
piitlic and cautoinary manner.
THE TONIC TINGE OF IODINE.
Chemists gsy the wonderful restoring aud
recreating power of Cod Liver Oil i * to bs traced
to tho subtie secretionof Iodine, wnich they find
in it. Whatever the nnnciplo may do. tha fact
is indisputable, that this product is the only
known nutrient of the digestive and nervous
system that under the administration oi other
remedies seemed to be hopelesaly debilitated.
Yet no one likes to take it. Now. howei er. it
has, iu Scott's Emulsion, been so divested ot all
its ur pleasant qualities, by ics union with the
Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda, as to become
ono of tbe most agreeable, as well as nourishing
remedies, ever offered to the Consumptive,
Scrofulous or debilitated patient. Physicians
universally admit its superiority over any combi
nation they have used. fans lw
Personal,
Mr. J. H. Davenport of Americas, waB
visiting Maoon yesterday.
Mr. Lonis Wellhouse, of Atlanta, is in
the city.
Hi33 Mamie Adams, of Americas, is
with Mrs. Boland B. Hall.
We are pleased to see Mr. S. B. Prioe
again well enough to ba ont on the
streets yesterday on his orntohea. His
limb whioh was broken just after the State
Fair, has almost recovered and bis lo-
oomotion will not bs very materially Bf-
feoted.
We direct especial attention to the law
card of Mr. J. W. Nisbet, which appears
this morning. Mr. Nisbet is a young
man of fine parts and we hope for him a
very large nnmber of clients and the beBt
■access at the bar.
Governor A. H. Colquitt was in th<
city yesterday, stopping at the Brown
Honse. He was on his way to Southwest
Georgia to look after his planting inter
ests.
Mr. Henry Watterson will make a trip
through the South, and will probably bo
in Maoon about tbe 21st. No engage-
eat has beon made with bim to looture
for the Library, although negotiations
■re going on between the Board and Mr.
Henry C. Underwood, Esq., his agent.
We regret that a typographical error
should have occurred in the name of Mr.
F. K. Hager, the gentleman to whom
Mrs. Banse Wright was married.
Colonel and Mrs. J. A. Billups, of
Madison, are in the eity, at Mr. T. B.
Gresham’s.
The Beeches Pews.—In the annual
Mfaef pawa in Beecher’s Church last
Tnesday night the total amount of the
Bremiams was $27,978, which, with the
rentals, $12,743, makes a total of $40,721;
Ah inorease of between $4,000 and $5,000
over last year. ThiB, says the Herald, in
dieates that amount of improvement in
the financial situation.
Chi» Jacxso**bB*sj SWfiJST. NAVY TO-
BAGtvft ouvlSdawly
For upwards oi thirty years Mrs ttinsbw’a
Soothing 8/rnp has been used for children. It
prevent acidity of the stomach, relieves wind
colic, regulate* the bowels, cures dysentery and
Diarrhoea, whether arising from teething cr oth
er causes. Au old and well-tried remedy. 25
cents a bottle.
OF aNTEBEST tothe public.
Public speakers are often annoyed, and even
seriously afflicted with an affection of the throat,
which greatly hinders their efforts to entertain
and instruct their hearers. A alight cold adds to
theuifflculty.and sometimes resultsdiiaslrously
unless efficient means bo used tc prevent. Every
ouo knows the healing virtues of honey and tar,
which are found inafi their strength and purity
in the greatest Cough Medicine -ver prepared.
A certain cure for Coughs, Colds and all diseases
of tho Throat and Lungs is found in Coussens*
Compound Honey ot Tar, which, together with
the golden treasure of the bee, contains the resin
ous balm yielded by the pine, combined with
other materials as simple and efficient. Remem
ber Coussens’ Compound Honey of Tar will cure
your cough Price EO cents a bottle. For sale
oy Boland B Hall. declS
Gulden Wedding.
Yesterday, in the Rutland District, at
the residence of Mr. Riohard Barfield,
the golden wedding of himself and lady,
Mrs. Epsy Barnett Barfield, was cele
brated. Wo are indebted to them for an
invitation to be present at tbe recaption
held from 2 to 5 o’clock. Tha invitations
were in keeping with tho occasion, and
printed in golden letters. To the aged
oouple who have thus far, band in band
for fiity years, trod the journey of life, wo
extend our best hopes fsr many more years
of happiness, and that this, their golden
wedding, may begin a golden era oi their
existence.
United States commissioner’s Court
Yesterday, beforo Mr. M. B. Freeman
United States Commissioner, Dawaey
Glower, colored, of Jones county, w&a
tried for the offense of raising a one dollar
note to a ten.
The job was rather clumsily executed.
The case was opened and some evidence
taken. Tfae accused alleges that the bill
which was the subject matter of the ac
tion was tamed when it came into his
possession, and that he obtained it from
a colored boy by tha name of Eugene
Gordon.
The Government was represented by
Colonel Henry P. Farrow, United States
District Attorney. The caso was contin
ued until next Thursday.
WHY HESITATE?
We have no heiitancy in recommending Cous
sens’ Compound Honey of Tar ss an unfailing
remedy for Coughs aud Colds, as we can give tha
most substantial and weighty eridence as to its
virtues. It has cared thousands, and its increas
ing populari ty Is abund ant prool that it i s appre
ciated in a vigorous clime where Coughs, Colds
anddiseaseaofthe Throat and Lungs abound.
If you wish to obtain speedy relief from these
affections remember that Coussens’ Compound
Honey of Tar is tho best remedy in ths world,
and is only 50 cents a bottle. For sale by Bo-
nnd B Hall.' decl2
Ysllow Fever Contributions —The
report of the Howard Association of Mem
phis shows that $400,412.54 were receiv
ed in donations from all sources. Of this
amount New York gave $56,804.16; H-
licois $62,3*7.60; Pennsylvania $17,-
770.33; Georgia $11,415.34; Cal.fornia
$29,047,30; Ohio $26,029.72; Texts $11,-
400.30. Georgia was the heaviest con
tributing Southern State
Yellow Fever.—To ameliorate tho
dreadful effects of Yellow Fever take
Simmons’ Liver Regulator. Let it be
given in large dosss, that it may have an
immediate effect upon the liver, and re-
move the accumulating bile It so aets
upon the liver, stomach and blood as to
prevent the attack of this terrible dis
ease. janMw.
The ice on the flats about New York
harbor is said to have been fatal to ft
rest manv oysters.