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Established 1826.
MACON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1879.
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Volume LIV—NO 4
BY TELEURAPH.
pocial toTe'csrapUand Messenger-]
Tallahassee, Janaary 19.—A destruc
tive firo occurred this evening at 1:20
o’clock, completely consuming the Epis
copal Church in this city, the parsonage
and one email building oconpied as a
school bouse. The fire originated in the
Church from the stove pipe. The wind
was very high from the northwest, and
bat for the nnparalelled efforts of citizens,
many valuable residences would have
been destroyed. The loss is from $7,000
to $10,000 r
LjUisville, January 19.—A dispatch
to tbs Journal states that the whols busi
ness portion ., of Allenville, Ky., was
burned yesterday.
"Pimwxoura, N. H.J January 19.—The
break in the direot cable, whioh ocourred
oh the 4:b instants has been looated in
water from twenty tp twenty-five fath
oms deep, about six mSfOt from Tqrbay.
Arrangements are progressing to repair
Cincinnam, O., January- 19.—The
Pullman car on train No. 4, Ohio and
Mississippi Eailway. duo here this morn
ing, was thrown from the' truck by a
broken rail near a .gravel pit, seven-
teen miles from here* . J. E* Nathan?, of
New York, bad his shoulder dislocated,
and Mask 8berry, another New Yorker,
sustained a simple frjctnre of the right
leg. No others Injured. ,
Lssdon, January 19.'—The North Wales
Miners’ Association has resolved to vote
seven pounds to 'every member of the
Union who deaireaio emigrate to America
and fourteen pounds to emigrants to Aus
tralia ■ ■ ... ,
Notices wero posted on Saturday by
the iron ship building yards and foun
dries in Liverpoolaaathe district around
of a reduction in wages of 71 per cent,
after the 31st of January. It is thought
the men will strike.
At a meeting of the great Northern
Eailway. employes, held in London tc-
day(Suudai), the men pledged them
selves to oppose any reduction in wages
The decision of the directors of the road
nill.be announced on Tuesday.
Berlin, January 19.—The North Ger
man Gaeelte denies the eecta.ioual re-
pcr.s relative to Germany’s intended ac
tion towards the Samrau Islanders; stat
ing Ihat Germany will merely keep a
aaflL-itUt naval force in the neighborhood
to retain possession of the two small
porta on the Island of Upola, which she
seized,and will hell as a pledge until
Samoa grants Germany her treaty rights.
Ateins, January 19—Mukhtnr.Psshaf
has decided oo Jamna as tbs, meeting
pta«oef.lhe froaiwr commission. Toe
Greek d«ieg*tr» will bo instructed ta in
sist on the -j- bsion ot Jsnin.'^o
Qpsrnstsxn, Jivuusry : 2(1—British
Stfeutftor Ooetoiuitom f^Blptleaua Ds-
cem»er 30ittf jt L’.vemcol, w> nt ssbore
In Wnitscay iasids this bsroo* last night
While entering without her propeller,
which she had lost. The crew were saved.
A southern gale is blowing.
L indjn, J-innary 20—Six notion mills
at Preston, ronning 183,144 epindlss,
hive givsa no ice of *a reduction in wages
of five to ten per cent.
Edinburgh, January 20.—The trial of
the directors of ttao City ot Glasgow Bank
is proceeding to-day. Th-, prisoners are
charged with fraud, theft and embezzle
meat, Tha oourt room is densely crowd
ed.
Tienova, Janmry 20.—The assembly
of Bulgarian notables, which was to have
inst at this place on the IS h last., to
elect a Priace, has been postponed to the
25th or 27:b. The deputies now here
think that Prince Alexander of Bitieu-
btug, will be elected a3 the ruler of Bul
garia.
Cincinnati, .ternary 23—Tne Execn-
tivo Board of Union Am-irioan Hebrew
Congregations convened here yesterday.
Fifteen congregations have j uned the
Union in the last six months. It was re-
solved that the board of delegates on
civil and religions rights be instraoted to
take nto consideration the feasibility of
active co-operation with sister societies
In Earope for ibe purpose of encouraging
agriculture among the Jews, and the set
tlement in th-.s country of eooh as are
willing to devote themselves to that pur
suit on lands in the West and Sontb.
The report Of the Secretary of the
Board of Gsvsroors was read. The next
meeting will ba bell in New York, July
7tb, 1879.
Washington, January 23.—In the Sati
ate Messrs. Conk ling and E -man present
ed a preamble and resolution of tne New
York Legislature, opposing the passage
of the bill to re-organize the army, or at
least of that portion of the bill relating to
the ordnance department, United States
arsenals and ordnance stores. The reso
lution was laid on the table, the bill hav
ing been reported to the Senate.
The House ii occupied in a reference
of bills introduced under the call of
States.
The Democratic Senators heldacaucus
this morning to consider what coarse to
pursue on tho reeolatiou of Senator Ed
munds. now pending in the Senate, in re
lation to tho enforcement of the 13:b,
14th and 15th amendments, and to pro-
te. t all citizens in tho exercise of all
rights secured by laws passed for that
purpose, etc.
Tno Democratic Senators agreed upon
a eubuitnts for the above named reso
lution, to be offered when it shall be tak
en up for consideration in the Senate,
While in this substitute they admit the
13th, 14th and 15th amendments to tho
constitution to be of binding force ard
validity, they regard Senator E Inlands’,
resolution as proposing legislative action
in conflict with the decisions of tho Su
preme Court of the United States, par
ticularly in the Crnickshank case,regard
ing these amendments; and they quote
from the dicta of Court to sn9tain the
groand which will be taken in the substi
tute, that the United States have no citi
zens distinctively their own; that the
Constitntion does not confer the right to
vote on any one, bat simply confers the
privilege of freedom from any discrimi
nation on account of race, color or pre
vious condition, end that the regulation
of the suffrage brlongs exclusively to the
several States.
The meeting of the Senate Privileges
and.Eleotion Committee,which was called
for the purpose of acting on the Corbm-
Butler contest to-day, did noc take place
—there being less than a quotnm pres
ent. None of the Democratic members
of the Committee were present on account
of the party caacns on Edtnuads’ resolu
tion.
Philadelphia, January 20.—A firo at
tho woolen mills of John Brown & Sons,
on Eighth and Tasker streets, destroyed
evtrytbing inside the mill?, leaving only
the bare nails. The loss on the building
and maahiuery is a quarter of a million,
which is covered by insurance.
Baltimore, January 20.—In the United
8-aton Circuit Conrt to-day, Judge Bond
nresiding, William Eobioson, a judge of
the election in the Fifteenth ward at the
late congressional eleotion, pleaded gnilly
to an indictment charging him with bav-
ng arosulted and biedered a Deputy
United States Marshal while in the dis
charge of his duty. Bobinson was sen
tenced to pay a fine of a hundred dollars *
and to four months’ imprisonment in the
oity jail.
London, January 20.—A dispatch from
Condahar, dated January 10th, says Ma
jor St. John, of the British army, was
fired npon in the streets by a fanatical
native, bat was unharmed. The man
was arrested. A lieutenant of tho Boyal
Artillery was severely, and two other
persons belonging to the British force in
Candahar, slightly stabbed by a religions
zealot, who will be hanged to-morrow.
Bath, Me., January 20.—Captain Geo.
Prince, an old resident of B»th, has been
arrested on the charge of obtaining large
amounts of money from the Pension Of
fice on fictitious names, which, it is al
leged, bas been going on for rear?.
Cincinnati, Jinn-> 20 —a dispatch
from Elizabetntown. Ky., says:
The revenue raiders under Captain
Adair returned last night, bringing sev
eral moonshiners of the most dangerous
character. Tney werecaptured on Otter
Creek, Came couniyvand had long defied
the authorities. The /officers; attacked
theur etili-loouso tJarnrJay night, c<p:ur-
Theso parries have long besn the«terror
of the country, and boldly defle^-the offi
cers. : ?
Eichmokd, Va., January 20,—John S.
Lacy, of New Kent county; Was mur
dered Friday nigbt, near Turustali’s sta
tion, on the Richmond and York Biver
Railroad. Two negroes and a boy were
arrested The boy stated that the negroes
committed tho crime, which they after
wards confessed. An unsuccessful at
tempt was made last night to lynch the
negroc3, who are in custody a; Talleys-
ville. The indications are that another
attempt will be mado to-night.
A fireman nxmed Williams, on tho
Chesapeake and Oaio Bsilroad, while oil
ing bis engine, toil and was. ran over by
the whole train.
New York, January 20.—fldatthew T.
Brennan, a well-known 'politician, is
dead. He bad filled several .important
municipal offices.*'' .-5
PiTrsBCEO, Jan. 20.—Nicholia Jacoby,
who was shot in tho street while accom
panying bis wife home on ; Thursday
morning, died yesterday. He mado a dy
ing declaration in which he stated that
F.aak Small, a former lover of bis wife,
was the murderer.
Haem-bubo, January 23’.—The Gover
nor will issuo tc-day warrants for the ex
ecution of A. B. Sayres, of Philadelphia,
and Hezekiah Shafer, of Franklin county,
wife murderers. The executions wilt take
plaoe sixty days hence. The Governor
has also signed a commutation of the
death sentence of Blaisms.. P.srorius to
be acquired under the Constitution
secured through the laws of the United
States, except such as the Government
of the United States has authority to
grant or secure.
Resolved, That the Constitution of tho
United States has not conferred the right
of suffrage upon any one, and that the
United States have no voters of their
own creation in States, bnt the fifteenth
amendment ef the Constitntion has in
vested citizens of the United States with
u new constitutional right, which is ex
emption from discrimination in the exer
cise of the elective franchise on account
of race, color or previous condition of Ser
vitude, and it is within the jurisdiction
of the Government-of the United Slates,
which Congress may exert 3 by' appro
priate legislatioh to PjMvan| ..the
denial or abridgment tff tf'tAittrw the
right of a citizen to y<ki, whoajsach''de
nial or abridgment r ttf'w"«!SuUt 6f
race or oolor or 'pfeVlidi sfohuitlon ^of
servitude of the voter? * ’
Resolctet, That when Such i. 0 „ „
denied or abridged &#<«»' obndueiHtffV 1
ing fonr met). Tney found two- stHWin wfcota net MWtSHog-b; IMB
operation and destroyed the material.' an«V ia'ibbdtstroe To the-lawe’-ef a State,
imprisonment for life. E J begun.’ S«yer«dprwinot;inspe(jtors te$ti-»
Washington, January 20.—Mr. Cock- fied to the eltijrfit-toajind ^qrgerrbf bef-
reli introduced a bril.to provide for a uni- locates of elesticm male by thistt, «** INgafF , or *^1
form national, auroeney; to ' YxiniiLLZs,'The-fjaier- 1 ir ° 3 “i -x ,
notes of tho national baaka.Ajii'd ifrpjjoZ '. and lobhios'qfitbe Hiiieo w«rad4a's*lv ' laying or roiling, a vote? or being oin-
bitiit their incorporation and t&slr
of note,; to utilize silver and silver coin,
and proviae for tho re issue of coin and
bullion certificates; to provide for the
redemption or payment of tne bonds of
the Unit'd States, and issue of bonds
bearing lower rates of ini-,rast; ’nnd to
piovide for the expansion and contraction
of the paper currency to meet the busi
ness interests of the country. The bill
ass tabled at the request of Mr. Cock
rell, who desires to speak in favor of the
measure.
Mr. Moreau presented a series of resolu
tions expressive of the views of the Dem
ocratic Senators upon the constitutional
amendments, as agreed upon in the cau
cus this morning, which were laid on the
table for the present.
The Senate resumed consideration of
the bill to amend the patent laws.
The resolatlon referring to the qaes-
tioa of the electoral frauds will be re
ported to-morrow. Ita reading was called
for to-day. It reoites that certain alleged
telegrams in cipher have been published,
indicating that s. ompts were mado af.er
the presidential tluoUon of 1876, to in
fluence by money or other fraudulent
methods the vote of electors, or the ac
tion of canvassing officers in Florida,
Sooth Carolina, and Oregon. It, there
fore, directs tbe Committee on the inves
ligation of the election frauds to inqaire
■nto the same, and into any other matter
connected with such election, whioh in its
judgment may be proper, with power to
-end for persons and papers, and to re-
pirt at any time, also appropriating
$10,000 for the purpoja of defraying ex
penses.
Tho Ho-13 passed the bul providing for
a set lament of tbe outstanding claims
against the District of Colombia. Mr.
Springer introduced a bill to seonre to the
people cf every State equal and just rep
resentation.- He presented, in connec
tion with tbe bill, a statement showing
lhat under it there would have been
elected at the last November eleotion
from tbe South 34 Espnbliosns instead of
6, or a Espnblican gain of 23, while tho
Democrats would have realized a like
gain in the North ; that the general re
sult would be the same, bat that tha Re
publican minorities at tbe Booth and the
Democratio minorities at the North wonid
bave been equally represented In Con
gress, and that the fonr millions of the
eolored population could control tbe elso*
tion of 22 members in the following
Slates.- Alabama 3, Arkansas 1, Georgia
3, Louisiana 2, Mississippi 2, North Car
olina 8, South Carolina 2, Tennessee 2,
Texas 2 and Virginia 2.
Washington, D. C. t January 20.—
Tbe financial bill introduced in the
Senate by Cockrell provides, among
other things, for the retirement and can
cellation of alt outstanding legal tenders
and National banknotes, and the issue iu
tbeir places of Treasury notes redeema
ble in coin at the pleasnre of the United
States, and receivable in payment of all
Government dues and demands, except
each obligations as aro expressly payable
in coin by statute. It is also proposed
to make these new notes interchangeable
ith standard silver dollars, and to re
quire the Secretary of the Treasury to pay
out silver dollars in redemption cf Gov
ernment bonds in the exerciso of his
rigbtfal option, for tbe benefit of tbe
people.
The following, reported by Morgan in
tbe Senate, are tbe fall resolutions
agreed npon by the Demooratio canons:
Resolved, As the judgment of the Sen
ate, that the 13lb, 14th and 15th amend
ments to tbe constitntion of the United
States are as valid and binding as any
other part of the constitntion; that tho
people of the United States have a com
mon interest in the enforcement of the
whole constitution in every State and the
territories of the United States, and that
it is alike right and the duty of the
United States, so far as the power bas
been delegated to them, to enforce said
amendments, and to protect every oitizen
in the exercise pf all rights thereby se
cured.
Resolved, Tbsfc the government of tho
United States and the governments of
the several States are distinct and each
ban citizens of its own who owe it aliegi
anco and whoso rights within its juris
diction it might protect; that the govern
ment of the United States is one of dele
gated powers elone; its authority is de
fined and limited by the constitution;
all powero not granted to it by that
instrument nor prohibited by it to
jurisdiction to pwuiihwooh conduct is m
motrt of tho United Btatea. -The lifted
Sixtus Supreme GoERt, J. D« TaiW.e, vs.
Robert Smalls, suit tp recover possession
of the laud in Ba»ufo« soldi tSi. taxes
daring the war by.the United States Dis
trict Conaniasipner Court; : |i atfHhl? 'the
judgment ot iojrar .tribunal b^Iioii
that the not of Gopgrosa under'which
loud sold i3.notnnpensti£utjon41r thsl
tar erlj cjr!iiioatti*-*ro themselves pro-
sumpivo eyjd*noe of tOB’^efitcf 1
oedent facts essential-} kk their ‘V&ti?
dhy and that tfcey can bo overthrown only
by showing, that'tfce property which they
convey woe not subjeat to tax ; that tbe
taxes npon it haA hieu paid .previous to
sale; and that it bwdbcea redeemed in
■the present case. No evidenoe is offend
sufficient to rebut the presumptive regu
larity and validity of the tax sale certifi
cates, and the judgment of the Circuit
Conrt is therefore affirmed. Justice
Strong delivered tho opinion, Justice
Field disssnUng. It iq stated that this deci
sion will quiet tbe titles to more than
2,000 pieoes of property in South Caro,
lina. ; j; . •
jAcxsppsmy^ January 20.—
Liautenap'-Govarnor Hull gave bond in
the sum <-£ $3,000 |£jippear from day to
day at the United States Circuit Court.
Tne cass will probably ba tried 'this
**>.0 j . 14 ^
In ths United. States Circuit Conrt the
case of tbe CauvAseing Board of Brevard
county,charged with making false return^
.in the. istejoongcessional. election, was
ex ireets
Ifrom tha j-qhajges .ot/J/jdge j Margin J.
Crawford; and Judge Qiiiburne Snead <ak-
1ng veryWtAngTgfcutftTsgainstfrsiU’lT.lehi
crowded. Iff is .'seated that the Eight
bave resolvL-oto abstain from voting and
the Left Centre is disposed to support
tne Cabinet. The Republican (Joion and
Extreme Left will probably vote against
the ministry. The Espublicun Left has
prepared two orders of the dsy. -Ose, ex
pressing confidence in the ministry, to be
brought forward, if the declarations of
M. Dafaure are satisfactory, and the
other, eipie smg a want of confidence,
should the ministerial a atement appear
insufficient. These orders ate entrusted
to Jules Ferry. The feeling among the
Republican majority is a wish to support
the ministry if tbe declaration is buffi,
cien.. All the ministers breakfasted to.
day with M. Duf.-ure. It is aseeited
that M. Dafaure is disposed to admit the
justice of the demands of the Republicans
relative to the changes in the magisterial
and administrative staff.
Gsneva, January 20—Owing to the
severity of the weather, the forests of the
Bernese J era ere infested with droves of
wild boars, which sometimes are eo nu
merous as to defy attack. Farms are
frequently attacked by wolves, and hun
dreds of chamois have descended into the
valleys in 6earch of food.
London, January 20.—Tne Berlin cor
respondent of the Manchester Guardian
says Prince Bismarck has written, and
cansod to be published, a letter appealing
to tbe agricultural community of Germa
ny to afford him their united and vigor
ous support in h» work of fiscal reform.
He refers to new duties to be levied upon
imported corn and cattle, and eipreosts
the opinion that such taxi tion has be
come an unavoidable necessity.
Bristol, January 20.—Steamer Sida-
nian, from New York, encountered very
heavy weather on her voyage. Shu lost
her boats, had her bulwarks stove in and
jettisoned part of her oargo.
Breslau, January 20.—The polios havo
prohibited the collection of contributions
of money solicited by tbe Socialist lead
ers, and bave arrested a man for solicit
ing in violation of tho prohibition.
Versailles, January 20.—Daring the
suspension of the sitting of the Chamber
of Deputies, the Government effected a
compromise with tha Loft, thus securing
majority for the Ministry. In conse
quence of tbe compromise, Jules Ferry
offered his motion expressing confidence
in the Government, which was adopted
by a vote of 223 to 121.
London, January 22.—Divergenoo be
tween the offioia! and private intelligence
respecting the extent of tho plagno in
Astraohsn continues, tbe former assert
ing that tbe epldsmio is diminishing and
tbe latter that it is inoreaaing. 120,000
pounds of fish and large quantities of
other provisions bars been burnt at tbe
town of Tsaritzin on the river Volga to
prevent tbe spreed of tbe contagion.
Berlin, January 20.—The Socialist or
gan Freihit published in London by Jo
hann West lias been finally and absolute
ly forbidden admission into Germany.
The Berlin Posl says Prince Bismsrk a
preparing to submit to the federal coun
cil, a law fur the regulation of railway ta
riffs.
Washington, January 20.—In the ex
ecutive se3Eion of the Senate thl3 after
noon, Mr. Edmunds delivered a spoeeb
in advocacy of a resolution submitted by
him, which provides for terminating so
much of the treaty of Washington as re
lates to the fisheries by giving tbe notioe
required by its provisions. The resolu
tion was referred to the Foreign Relations
Committee. According to the present
appearances it will be adopted by the
Senate without opposition, and the Presi
dent will promptly thereafter give the
required notice to Great Britain.
Indianapolis, January 20. — The
Demooratio oaucas to-night nominated
t>. W. Voorhees tot Senator for the long
term; for the ihoitterm Geo. W. Julian
and Mr. Voorbeea were pat in nomina
tion. Julian xeoeived fifty Totes and
Voorhees sixty-seven—seventy-five bateg
neoeesary to elect. The Republicans
nominated General Ben Harrison for tbe
long term and Hon. Godlove S. Orth for
the short term.
Selva, Ala.; January 20.—United
S'ete3 Marshal Turner is in jail here
for contempt in refusing to obey the or
der to return to the city oourt the ballot
boxes and ballots of tbe November elec
tion, which were required for evidence
beforo tho Selma Grand Jury. Judge
Bruce has issued a writ of habeas corpus
for the release of Turner.
THE GEORGIA PttESS.
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Savannah Municipal Election—We
learn from the Nines that the nominating
oommittee reported to the Democratic
Executive Committee, Messrs. R. D.
Wilksr, John Cunningham and A. P.
Wetter,the followlngtioket for Mayor and
Aliarmeh: ; i j
Major—John F. Wheaton.
Alderman—W. B. Mell, Daniel O’Coa
nor, J. R. Hamlet, E- A. Weil, Henry
Biuo, George C. Freeman, L. H. DoMont-
mollin, F. Grimbill, D. G. Parse, Win.
Hone, William Duncan, Tboeaa* Ballan-
tyno. •> •. '' i *. ott di Lri % }
The committee having discharged its 1
dnt^; ^ben adjourned. Subsequently, a
miss .ineating; irrespective of party*; met
&>’<&&£. •»!» io St; Andrevr4 Half
the Greenback' clement 'largely predomi
Bating.- T fe
.. This meeting Dominated'Yor Mayor E
C. Anderson, and for Aldermen? ■
•> Tncs. H. Harden, James Hunter, John
Nesbit, E. A. Well, D. G. Paisa, John
Sehwwx,"M; J. Doyio, N. O. Tilton, Wo.
Duncan, Henry Blun, 0. M. Cunning
ham, M.’Lavin.
Before adjourning, after an'erciting
session, the meeting, amid maoh'con’ii-
eion, adopted Mr. W. G. Charltoh’ia^eso-
Ictions endorsing Judge Wm. B.-Fleming
to fill the vacancy in Congress:
A Portrait of Miss Louiib'Kino.—
News: Mr. Nathan Piat3hek;:Seoreta-
ry of the Louiso King As=os:ntiua, ,S. P.
C. A., yesterday received by express from
Augn-ita a mnxjmfioout por'rait o( the la
mented MiBs Loaise King, the founder of
tjbe noble ^oeisty. The po.trait ia< pre
sented ’the" Savannah Alssooiatjcm-rby
Judge King and' wgiy fnavi takSEfei
the only photograph of fhe .iSpceased tl
could be found.
The last sensation ia Atlaut^is'the
heartless attempt at the murdpr oPu mu
latto child B6versl weeks eld, wbieh wss
deposited ia a sewer and left to jicrish.
Jja.pla|utiva: cries, sttraotieg the notice
of a passing xgthtleizl&n, it was rescued;
eovered &jfh find; and' so ocldflSatfiP
could WO&78, longer?
Tho litile waif 3»*a -properly oared for by
a kind oolWeO'tiatein.- * s ' J r3 , JJ 4***
iators in provisions. They are deter
mined to live at home. That is the levor
whioh will elevate South Georgia. And
it is the only lever whioh can do it.
Athens Chronicle. The time for the
delivery of the State College L-otures
will soon have arrived. We earnestly
hope that these instructive exercises will
not, like last year, he done away with.
Scarcity of Labor.—The Columbus In
quirer Sun reports that tho farmers of
Hauis, who were in town yesterday,
complain of soaroity cf labor iu their
respective neighborhood?, and say they
experience great diffisuity in proonring
field hands at any price. Many farms
bave bnt one band end bave failed in
•11 efforts to increase the number. Could
iDOt Colambas send up a delegation ?
Oolumbu3 h<a received up to date 67,»
190 bales of autton, showing sn excess of
8.703 bales over last year.
Mexican Dollars.—Coluvbdi limes.
The Mexican dollar will only pass in Co-
Iambus at 75 cenl3. In Naw Orleans they
are quoted at 82 and 84 cents. They are
warsh about the same ia New York. We
see but few of them sfioat since their
oiroulating vaiuo has become reduated to
75 osnls. Thay are held up for trans
portation to other dime?, wo suppose.
Tne trade dollar of the United States
coinage is quoted in New Orierns at 93
and 95 cents. Here they pass at about SO
or 85 cert?.
A Crowing Youth.—Sumter Republi
can : Mr. Cross, one of the employes at
the.shoe factory of J. H. Black & Co., iu
the western portion of this county, has
a pair of twin children aged about three
year?, one of whom has a peculiar fond
ness for chickens. So much attached ia
he to this branch of natural history, that
he spends most of Lis time with them.
A few nights since his father, returning
home, QBked where Logan wa3; tho other
replied that he W3S in the chicken bouse,
His father went out and found him in the
house astride cue of tha roosts. “What
are you doing here ?” wa3 th8 inquiry.
“Tin gone to roost, and gwine to crow
before diy in the morning.”
In Augusta, $12,000 of Georgia Rai
lroad 6 per cent, bonds sold last week at
93 and 98 j. An excellent sale.
; Augusta, the Chronicle and Constitu
ilonalist says, or falling off in her cotton
lrscaipt3 giadually. d -
AuausTA wants the next State Fair, if
shacanlgLt.it. t .C
cjrped in sdoh a transaction, is also pan-
Wbable by imprisonment? in tbe peq
tentiory from one :to four years, am
law on this .species of orima thould c ba
rigidly enfottad. Judge Crawford arid
that a citizan who would sell his vote .fas
Unfit to exercise* tbe elective franchise,
and the proper eonrse v-as to convict him
ot it, punish him for it, and forever debar
him from tbe exeroise of a right ha contd
not, or did no:, respect. The talk of buy
ing nod selling this great right was the
theme predominant in every eleotion.
Tbe law against it Bhould be repealed or
enforced, and as 1 >ng as it was law tbe
grand juries should look 'to its enforce
ment. E.o also obarged that nnyone who
voted and had not paid his taxes agreea
bly to law was an illegal voter, and all
snob should bsindioted.
Judge Smekd i3 equrlly emphatic.^ He
quoted the published accounts of the
election, and "impressad upon tbe grand
jurors the supreme duty resting upon
(hem to guard the purity ef the ballot
bor. He delivered one of the most mas
terly charges upon the subject that we
have ever known, and is 'terribly m earn
est’—to use tho phrase of Carlyle—in his
pursuit after the iniquities which subvert
the popular will. Ho has instructei tbe
grand j ary to go to the bottom of the
matter and make the pursuit and punish
ment ot illegal voting so sure that here
after the expression made at the ballot
wilt be the reflex of the sentiments
and wishes of those who vote honestly
and who are honestly entitled to ehape
tho affairs of government.”
It ia understood that Judge Hillyer
will follow in the same direction.
The Atlanta tost contains an interest
ing account ot the recent installation of
Rev. Dr. L3ftwitcb as pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church in Baltimore which
has had but three pastors in nearly a
century.
Gen. Longstreet keeps the Piedmont
the present season; J. G. Trammell, Now
Holland, and W. B. Whitmore, the Rich
mond House, at Gainesville. Swiss emi
grants are arriving daily at Toceoa and
alt. Airy.
States are reserved to States respsetivo Cotton hitched
ly, or to the people, and that no right fan * Liverpool yesterday.
upward a little in
True.—Thomasville Enterprise: Oa
Thursday last good country bacon sold
for five cents per pound, lard for seven
and syrup for twenty cents per gallon
While these prices to a certain degree
attest tho scarcity of money, they in a
much greater degree indicate the abund
ance of home-made supplies. Provisions
must be had, regardless of the volume of
money in a country, and the prices for
the same are therefore almost entiroly
governed by tbe laws of supply and de
mand. While low prices for provisions
are not directly or immediately advan
tageous to tbe producer, they are emi
nently so to the consumer, and no people
oan long feel the effects of bard'times
when supplies are abundant and cheap.
We are pleased to learn from the
Thcmasvillo Times that the farmers are
now all agreed that the oat crop has been
injured very little if any by the late se
vere cold. The orop is reported to be
very large, and faraors, k sensible
fellows, still keep on sowing.
A Grange Down Upon an; Ad
vance in Guano.—Thomasville 7imes,
We learn throngh Mr. Varnedoe, Master:
that a resolatlon was unanimously adop
ted by Boston Grange at tbeir meeting on
Wednesday not to pay more for guano
this year than they did last. Tbe Grang
ers are a large and Influential body of
agricnltnraUsts,and their action and its re-
anlU will bo watched with keen interest
by others who are contemplating invest
ing in aromatic compounds;
Thimisvzlle is beginning to move in
the matter of a Slate Agricultural College
in her midst. A oommittee bas been ap
pointed to endeavor to obtain from tbe
owners of tho fair grounds that property,
as a site for tho new oollege. Doubtless,
in that event, another fairground would
be seleoted.
Hurbah for Thomas.—The Times
says: Farmers are settling down to their
year’s work with an energy and a deter
mination whioh bodes no good to spoon-
j. 1
tAi Gdox.’Head.—Birly county Hews
We mat one headed farmer, Mr. R.
A. Lewis, this week. Hu said he had
been knocking away a*, cot ton ali his life,
aDd has'alwAye been behind/ I^iat year
he uxade as fine a crop as he-Over expects
to make, but owing ,to the low.price
cotton, it has taken it all to. pay lor sup-
phee. Now, however, he has plenty to
eat, of his owa making, and he feeis so
-.well about it that he has resolved to try,
with all bis might, to keep in that whole
some condition, if possible.
A Wonderful Case.—McDuffie Jow
nah ‘‘Last Saturday Mr. Jam-? V- Reese,
of Wrightsboro, brought t8 Thomson one
of the most remarkable monstrosities we
have ever seen. It is a calf, about one
month old, well grown and apparently
strong and healthy for an animal so
young. But the head is the curiosity.
The upper jaw is split, or latner divided
in the shape of a horse shoe nearly up to
tbe eyes, the side forming a kind of fork,
and extending on each side end far below
lha under jaw. To each prong of this
fork there is a single hut natural and
well-developed nostril. There is no bone
in the middle of this fork, but instead'
there is a ball or hump of soft muscles,
covered with long hair, beyond which the
lower jawextende several inches, expos
ing the teeth and a considerable portion of
the tongne. The eyes are set squarely
m the side of the head, and can scarcely
be seen by one standing immediately in
front of the animal. Having no upper
jaw, the calf, of course,is unable to chew
food, but subsists entirely on milk
us
fed from a bottle, of . which it is very
fond and drinks heartily. It is utterly
impossible to describe thU animal. It
must bo seen before one can receive a
correct impression of its monstrous de
formity. It does not resemble anything
we ever saw or dreamed of, and if wa
were to meet it in the road, we would
certiicly. make double-quick timo to the
rear. . If Mr, Rsese can succeed in rais
ing this animal to maturity, and we see
no reason why ha may not, some show
man or agent for a museum will gladly
pay an enormous price for it.
Beeien County News: Small grain
orops in Brooks county are up and doing
well. Farm laborers are making but few
ohanges, and the farmers ars well ad
vanced with their work.
The Darien Gazette announoss the
deuh of Mr. Wm. McDonald, a citizen of
McIntosh county, and lineal descendant
of the old Sootoh settlers. He was highly
respected and a eaooessfal farmer..
A Sad Accident.—Darien Gazette:
Oa tiaturday list a little three year old
boy, son of Mr. John Marohmont, of this
oouuty, mot a sudden death. The child
had been playing in an old ohioken honso
and was lathe act of coming ont throngh
small apertnro in tho bmlding, to return
to bis parents, when an old door that was
leaning against the bnilding suddenly
fell, striking tho ohild aoross the neck,
killing It almost instantly. It was oer-
tainly a sad and sudden death. Wo
deeply sympathize with the bereaved pa
rents in the loss of their little boy.
Contested Election—Borrien County
Hews: We learn through a private source
that Mr. B. F. Sumcrliu will, on Monday
next, at Douglas, in Coffeo county, con
test Mr. John Tucker’s election to the
office of Tax Receiver ot that county. Mr.
Tucker’s majority was only one vote.
cotton required to pay for a ten of ter
tilizsrs.
The reduced price of cotton makes this
necessary if the manufacturers of these
fertilizers are to get evea nearly as much
for their stuff as they did last year. This.
I should think, is within the comprehen
sion of any farmer who has figured out
the difference this year between bis an
ticipated 10 cents a pound on cotton and
his realized 7 j and 8 cents.
It may be trnly said that tho reduced
price of cotton makes the farmer leBs able
to pay for these fertilizers. Grant it, but
is that the fault of the “guano ring”
manufacturers of fertilizers P It ia ad
mitted that even at preaentlow prices
bale of cotton will buy as much provision
or clothing as ever, a3 all-other things aro
proportionately reduced in price, and, as
before said, I think the same will be
found to apply to fertilizers when bought
for money.
The manufacturers have a price at
which they oan afford to sell, and if our
farmers elect to pay for it in cotton they
must expect to give enough cotton to
make the price, putting the cotton at a
figure that may reasonably be looked for,
judging from the pa3t season.
The “guano ring” did not bring about
the low price of cotton and can hardly
be responsible for it. They cay they can
afford to take such a price only for their
staff. It is simply a question with the
farmer as to whether he caa afford to pay
the price. If the use of any fertilizer
will produce an mcreass of prodaotion
that will leave the farmer a profit on the
outlay the question can be decided by
any sohool boy who can figure, and all
the “denunciations” of “guano rings”
that could be gotten up will not alter
the result.
Worked out to it3 proper conclusion it
is as simple a question as that of a farm'
er’s calculating by results whether it will
pay him to worry his teams and wear out
his implements in properly preparing his
land for planting. The result of tho out
lay is the only teat, and when it is de
monstrated that oommercial fertilizers
will not pay all farmers will stop using
them.
The real source of all thi3 complaint
about tbe price of fertilizers is tho ever
lasting credit system upon which most
of our farmers work tbeir- orops.
A farmer must use his fertilizer before
he caa make his crop?. Is it reasonable
to ask a manufacturer of feitilizsrs to
supply him with the fertilizer at lowest
cash prizes nine months in advance of
the crop and charge nothing for interest
and cost of collection, to say nothing of
risk of loss of principal invested ? Does
the farmer’s merohant do this for him?
Now, if we could, as a people, get rid of
Urn credit system we would be batter,
thriftier, and owe each other more of
gool will and less of other matter not so
soothing. And if Plain farmer and our
“Baker"’ farmer, and a great many other
farmers, will stick to the example of the
few who will not buy oa credit, or in ad
vance of what they can sec in hand, they
will have little causa to complain about
tbe number of pounds ot cotton the
guatto seller demands ftom then,
a: Let them go to any guano seller with
Money in hand,' and if ha-wont eell as
cheap or cheaper than ever, they may
then cli'tn that an advance ia price has
been made. Tho writer is neither a buy
er nor a seller of fertilizers, and with no
personal interest in tho matter,
simply views it from a point of common
sense and * Justice.
Macon, Ga., January 16th, 1879.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: In
your paper of this date you published a
communication signed “Bake;,” in which
the writer undertakes, in a mild way, to
overhaul you for taking sides with the
guano dealers in your remarks on a com
munication from Plain Farmer somo timo
since.
I think any unprejudiced man who can
understand plain English will say, after
examining your editorial comments
above referred to, that you did not take
Bided or show any injustice towards the
farmers. Your own remarks on that
point are sufficiently explanatory of your
positior, however, and I lave nothing
more to say in your defense.
Baker Eays that Plain Farmer did not
touch npon the merits or demerits of the
fertilizers, but denounced the action ot
tho convention in advancing the price. As
Baker claims this as tho only point of
attack in Plain Farmer’s latter, and as
he join3 in said denunciation we’ll look
to this point first and then traco the
trouble back to its real origin. Has tbo
price bsen advanced on commercial fer
tilizers? I thick it will be found a; a
fact that nearly any fertilizer sold in this
State can bo bought cheaper for cash now
than ever before. The convention men
tioned by Plain Farmer and Baker trade
an inorease in the number of pounds of
TlieMlll«3Inrpby Affair.
Wo continue to give the sentiment of
the Stats Press on the Hill-Murphy
quarrel:
Thomasvillo Times. I
We fear that if this breach is allowed to
widen and deepen—as it surely will if not
checked—the woret results will follow.
Why not Governor Colquitt select a true
and trusted friend, Mr. Hilt another and
they two a third, and let them say
whether Mr. Hill has shown himself the
Govornor’s friend in a true sense and
whether or not it is the dnty of the Gov
ernor to n3e his influence to purge his
administration of a subordinate, against
whom charges exist similar to those pre
ferred against Murphy?
The people of Geotgia who have labor
ed to built up the Democratic party, pro
test against Mr. Hill and Governor Col
quitt pursuing a course, which must in
evitably result in a split, if there is a pos
sibility of an honorable adjustment be
tween them. We believe and hope some
thing will yet ba done to avert tbo threat
ened danger.
THE PARTY 80LID.
Greensboro Homs Journil.J
We presume there is bat one opinion
among the people of Georgia in regard to
the practioes whioh Mr. Hill so emphati
cally condemns, and we hope that no one
will deem theaolion of the Legislature
personal sbonld it carry out the
recommendation of the able reports of
tbe Committeo of Investigation now be
fore that body. The idea that the Demo-
cralio people of Georgia oan ba divided
npon Ibis personal qaestion is simply ri
diculous.
Borne Courier.)
The Loaisiville Courier Journal says..
“Senator Ban Hill is said to have lost
one hundred and ninety thousand dollars
in tbe last three yeara by his planting in
terests, and he has also lost the esteem of
the people of Georgia by his ill-advised
attaoks npon Governor Colquitt.”
We fnliy agree with the Courier Journal
in what it says about Mr. Hill’s Iojs ot es
teem of the peoplocf Georgia; bnt we
don’t know where Ben got hi3 hundred
and ninety thousand to lose in tbe last
three years by bis planting interests. We
don’t believe he lost it; but if be did be
must bave got]hi3 money outside of the
State of Georgia.
mb. hill’s mistake.
Carroll County Timai.J
Mr. Hill seems determined to agitate
this thing to the bitter end, bnt we think
before it winds up he will find ont he
has mads a groat mistake in trying to
break down the Governor and the Demo
cratio party of the State on account of
the action of a clerk in the Treasury De
partment, no more gnilly of “illegal and
corrupt” practices than he is himself.
Early Couaty News.1
Now,although we have felt and believed
that Mr. Hill has been unnecessarily fussy
about this affair, and that, despite all be
has said to tbo contrary, he has ungenet-
oualy and causelessly as tailed Governor
Colquitt, we hope the Legislature will
probe the matter to the very bottom, let
who will suffer by it. Georgia can’t
afford to foster Radicalism in her midst
in its worst form—that of official corrup
tion. Mr. Hill has thrown down the
gauntlet, and it must be taken up.
Either he or soma one else most ba put
to shame. Hill strenuously objects to
being pu' upon trial himaelf, but the
Legislature miy think he, as well as
Murphy,'has transcended his privileges.
Princess Louise entertained the Sunday
school children of Ottawa at Ridesu Hall
on Tuesday nigbt. H3r Royal Highness
and tha ladios of tho vioe-regal household
torvedup aalaaiiiug supper to the litilo
ones, the rognlar servants beiDg dispensed
with. If the Pricasss keeps on getting
demooratio in this wsy we’ll have to oall
her Mrs. Lores, or Lou, or something
like that.
Singular Ending of n Divorce
Case.
Atchison (Kan.) Patriot.) —
On the 27th day of li9t month there
was tried in our Distriot Court tho di
vorce suit of Robinson versus Robinson.
Mrs. Caroline Robinson sued for a di
vorce from her husband, James Robinson;
and for $800 alimony, and judgment, wo
believe, was rendered accordingly. The
oase was of considerable interest and
quite a large number of witnesses wore
examined on both sides. Friday, tho
27th, after the conclusion of tbe C3se,
tne parties to the suit and the witnesses
loft for their homes in the country. At
Musootab. and before reaching her home,
M'ss Martha Gentry, a material witness
for Mrs. Robinson, died. On the 1st
instant, Mrs. Robinson died, and wo as
certain that nearly every witness in her
behalf, some eight or ten in number, ere
siok, and net expected to recover. Far
ther, the defendant, Mr. Bobinson, is eon-
fined to his bed and not expeotsd to live,
while of his witnesses quite a number aro
sick, with the ohanoes of recovery in
some of their cases very doubtful. It
appears that in the journey home, the
weather being very severe, these parties
oontraoted bad colds, whioh were follow*
ed by pneumonia.
The Eufaula Times publishes the fol
lowing from the President of the ex
ploded Peoples’ Bank:
A Card.—I am sensibly aware of the
unenviable attitude that I now sustain to
this community, and to the financial and
commercial world, and the knowledge of
this fact cannot fail to be otherwise than
mortifying and humiliating to me. In
my efforts to sustain the Peoples' Bank
and weather the storm which has so
rudely assailed it, I have doubtless com
plicated many wrongs, in my strenuous
exertions and almost ceaseless labors to
finally accomplish the right, and—at
last, 1 have failed. I might stop just
here, for failure i3 the “Omega,” the
“Finis” to reputation—because,measured
by the world’s standard, “success is the
test of merit,” and success alone.
In my circular announcing tbe suspen
sion of tho “People’s Bank,” I asked that
I might be spared tho ordeal of personal
explanations to any and every oue, and as
the affairs of the institution will, I pre
sume, undergo an official examination at
once. I again, for obvious reasons, make
the same request. I might enlarge and
elaborate npon this very nopleasant sub
ject, but at present I prefer not to do so.
If, when a thorough and an impattial
examination has been completed, I am
not, to some extent, exonerated, I shall
oertainly not seek my justification in an/
through tbe pnblio prims, nor do I now
ask fur's verdict of tbe people in advance
of HI tho facts, bnt I do ask tbeir cnarity,
and if this is denied me, I ask their
silence. I would not indulge in senti
ment, nor do I ask for sympathy, well
knowing that without solicitation many
wilt give me their warmest sympathies,
while others would as persistently deny
them even though they were solioited
□pan bended knees and with tbe bowed
head of supplication.
Lite with me, has been a busy whirl of
action, and in the multiplicity of it3 acts
and engagements, I have done bat little
eood, while upon tbe other hand I am
conscious that I have made many grave
mistakes acd committed many uninten
tional wrongs, but I will assert-without
fear of successful contradiction, that no
humau being in ths struggles incident
to friil, suffering humanity has ever ap
pealed in vain for whatever of aid or as
sistance that I could render, and it mat.
tered not whether the appeal came from
tbe lit-tle ' blue fingered,” tarfooted chi.d
of poverty, or the “bearded mer,” bowed
down with the weight of his own errors
and miscxlculatioLS. I do not refer to
this simple duty bcastingly, but merely
to mention th* fact and couple it with this
simple nquest. Do not judge and con
demn me until all of my acts and motives
together with tbe circumstances by which
havo been surrounded, shall havo been
placed understanding^ before the public
and csprcially before those directly inter
ested. A. A. Walkbb.
—It is reported lh»t the winter oat crop in
East Tennessee has been b&d’y damaged, if
not entirely destroyed, by the late cold
weather.
—Accor line to a report presented to tha
float meeting of the Centennial Commission
at Fhiiodelphia lost Wednesday the grots
receipts of the exhibition were $11,16 l,6U 55,
and the expenses to date. $10,997.983 59,
loaving a coshbtianosof $163,630-90; $8,834,-
>03 was taken at the gate.
—Nine tenths of tho thousand million dol
lars which Franco borrowod of English
barkers in order to pay Germany are now
held in the shape of national bonds by
Frenchmen at home. As fast os the foreig
ners would sell, the bends were bought np
on the Paris market, and thus, though Franco
still owes that vast sum, oho ones itia balk
only to her own people.
—Two friends, ja3t mxrried, were disease*
ing rapturously, as they oongratulatod esch
other on tbe msrits and charms of their
spouses Said one: ‘My .wife has the love
liest head of hair I over saw, even on tho
hair renovator labels. When oho lets her
hair down the ends fall to the floor.* 'That's
nothing,’ repliod the cither, ‘when my wife
lets her hxir down it all falls to the floor.*
The Standard Dollar.—A Washington
dispatch in the New York Snn of Balurday
qaj a the Treasury Department appears de
termined to give the silver dollar every
possible chance to got into circulation Next
week an order will be made announcing
that checks on New York will be exchanged
at any point, and without oost of transporta
tion, for silver dollars. It is now necessary
for any one purchasing silver dollars te send
greenbacks to Washington. The propcaed
use of currenoy checks gill be a more rapid
way of securing the same end.
Bauhxobe Habbor Closed bx Ice —The
Gazette says, for the first time in years the
harbor of Baltimore is firmly closed with loe,
and business between this port and the ont-
eido world is fairly at an end. so for as water
communication is oonoemed Oar bay stea
mers and the vessels of the; European liaea
aro firmly locked at tbeir wharves. This is
a great calamity. Our estenrive ice-boat
system is a completa failure We eon build
boats that will oat and - cruch tbeir way
through ioa, but. eo long as 4bere is no cur
rent to carry the broken ios away, no power
can prevent a gerge. A moderate thaw Trill
be very earnestly prayed for by cur business
men and tjie community at large.
—The rumor that two men hedboen burn
ed alive by revengeful onemiea, in Nebraska,
is verifiod by Iator investigation. The oiigin
of tho tronblo was a quarrel between tho
occupants of neighboring ranches A fight
ensued, in which Mitcbjli aud Eotohua*
killed Olive. A Sheriff arrested the two
homicides iu an adjoining connty, but their
conviotion of any crime was improbable, as
thov bad acted in self defence Olive’s
brother offered $1,000 reward for the return
of the prisoners to tbeospnty ia which they
lived, and the Bheiiff ao:epted tho effer.
Olive’s object was to get them In his power.
Uo and tbe Sheriff, with the victims securely
bound, started ostensibly for a plaoe called
Plain Creek. A cm or coal oil was taken
along. Oa (he following day the charred
bodies of Mitchril and Ketcbum were found
where they hod boon tied to stake i and tor
tured The oil hod baea smeared over them
and then ignited Olive is under arrest, bnt
the Sheriff escaped.
Thl Swiss Snow? -The tnow fi’Is throu
ghout Bwitzsrland jaat beforo Christmas
were almost unprecedented. In Freiburg it
has snowed, says a lccil journal, aria 'the
year of the grea Enow,’ ilii Ia Lanianne
no 8U?h snow has been known since 1829.
n the Bhone Valley all the trains wero slop
ed. In Geneva no fewer than 670 laborers
Were employed in'detBicg tho streets and
public place?. The saloon steamship Hel
vetia, on ths T,also of Ztig. which cairieB so
many tourists fmm all natism to the Bigi-
Artli Mountain Railway ia summer, was sunk
by them.re weight'of tho enonscus mass of
sno * whioh foil upon it. The blin ’ing enow
storm on tbe Lake cf Geaev» stopped the
steamboat treffio, aticr tho Cygno had been
driven upm a saDd bank near Yilleceuve.
A letter from Lrzsme * ays: ’We have each
a gigantic fall of enow here as never hss
be n eeen so early wiihia thb memory of
.any living parson. It is three feet deop in
the streets.’ - • ,
A Strange Case of Yellow Fever —
The New Orleans doctors have just had
remarkable case of yellow fever, whioh
seems to upset tho idea that the germs cf
tho plague are killed by the frosts, a
well as many of the theories of tho dots
tors themselve?. Nellie, the five year
old daughter of S. E. Cary, of the Cres
cent city, left Chicago December 18, when
the thermometer was two degrees below
zero, to return to the home from which
she had been absent since last spring.
The house at New Orleans Lad been
cleaned, kalsomined and fresooed when
the family left it seven months ago, end
not a oase of yellow fever invaded it dar
ing the sanmer, bat, in five days after
her arrival, Nellie was taken violently
sick with the fever, end soon had the
dreaded black vomit, with sli tbe other
asnal symptoms. This ease happened in
house whioh had been snbjeoted to a
greater cold than the 32 degrees above
zero, at whioh temperaiure yellow fever
poison has been snppcaed to be destroyed
and in a room where tbe thermometer
marked only 41 degrees when tbe child
was takon siok, though the doctors have
alwajB taught that at least sixty degrees
are required to develop tho fever. The
ease is more eocentrio, indeed, than atiy
of the many eccentricities of the sum
mer’s epidemic, and it seem3 to shatter
what few theories mtvive that trial.
Gov H mpton—Gen. Kilby 8mith visited
Gov Hampt' n on Friday Iasi, the Governor,
on that da«, according to the News and Cou
rier, for tt-e first time was able ti movo
about his room without aerial anco, and, with
the aid of hit cratches alone, reached his
buggy* standing at some little distance from
the door He drove about six miles into the
country, making -two calls on his route and
returned home refreshed and in no wise
fatigued by his fide- He h jpes to be able to
visit Columbia during next week, and will
very pi obably be qnite i treng enough to do
so tie also speaks qnite con dcntlyofhU
intended visit to Charleston on tbe 22d, and
even contemplates a trip to Flo iia in the
inter.m Col. Falmer his tenth ra-l a special
cor for his use on tho road, and it is propos
ed that he shall spend a few d:y: on the St.
John’s River, and return by way of Charles
ton.
—Two years ago The World c'rcnicled the
romantic marriage of Miss Kldepa Elden, a
young acd pretty graduate nr the High
febool at Blddtfcrd. Me , 'alnd'-Mr. Andrew
J Packard, a wealthy residetr of Youngs
town, O , aud a member ofthe Democratic
State 'ommittee. Mr. Dacha-d f.und a
scrap cf newspaper while travelling in th9
cars, in which was an extract from Mils
Elden s fa say on leaving school entitled:
‘After Graduation—What?’liked ths style
and manner of thought cf the writer, made
her acquaintance by letter acd' married her-
The Youngstown News of the 6 -h contains
the following announcement: ‘Another Dem
ocratic victory. It ia a boy, acd ‘a registered
at the residence of Mr. A J. Paokatd. on
Wood street ’ After Graduation—Wbat?
Edmunds’ Resolutions.
Tho Democratio Senators cancnssed
yesterday to settle their action upon Ed
munds’ Constitutional Amendment reso
lutions. As a matter of course, (see tel
egrams,) they took the gronnd that these
amendment?, being a par*, of the Goneti-
intion, should be enforced, bnt enforced
by the State authorities. That to the
States belonged the regnlalion and con
trol ot the suffrage and polios jurisdic
tion; and these points have been substan
tially affirmed by the Supreme Conrt in'
tbi3 very oonnectioc.
No doubt Senator Edmunds expected
them to take this gronnd. He mast have
known that they could take no other; but
he expects to organizs the next national
campaign in opposition to it, and in de
fence, substantially, of a supreme and om*
nipotent centralism, with nnqueitiocable
aud illimitable powers, over the States
and the citizens of the States. That is
the platform ot the “man on horseback,”
whom they are going to pnt in tbe field-
one hand bearing Federal thunderbolts
for their party foes, and in the ether
plenty of money fer the party friends—
tbe purse and sword.
We doubt not that the next canvass
will be fought on fundamental princi
ples, and determine whether the govern*
ment shall bs held to its plain Constitu
tional limitations, or run “outside tho
Constitution,” as Grant & Co. did it afore
time.
In London last Friday, a fight occurred
beforo a bank, find a crowd collected, few
knowing why. At last a rumor got afloat
that thero was a run on the bank, and
then a heavy ran followed sure enough
upon the failh of tbe rumor.
They point out at Watertown, Now
Yoik, a house completely buried by the
snow, end tbe railroad found its cars in
the same condition. O, tbe bright—the
beautiful snow.
The Obangx Thfus Safe.—It is now
ascertained beyond peraefventure that the
severe cold of the past month acd the
snow, which even went as far south as
below Jacksonville,' have wrought no
serious damage to the orange groves of onr
sister S ate. Indeed, we bad no appre
hensions on the subject The cold spell
which destroyed the orange trees in 1835
was experienced in tho < aily spring, after
a period of soft, open weather, which had
caused tho tap to start up from the roots
and the bi audit s to begin to pnt cn a new
growth. The writer wa3 then residing on
the sea coast,and his f athei’s trees were all
killed down to the roots at that time, as
were those also in St. Augustine, on
Amel a Island, and in other portions of
Eist Florida.
Since that date the weather bas been
as cold repeatedly: in the dead of winter,
when the sap was down, without inflict
ing the least injury.
THo Winter and Its Break-up.
After a few days of enstomary Southern
winter weather, the wind on Sunday aet
again from tbe great Northern snow ex
panse, and Monday morning showed a
delicate temperature of 25. The brethren
then proceeded to put on their overroatf.
Tbo heavy stores of snow tnd icb which
cur Northern friends have been iujing up
sicoe Christmas, will probably last them
a long time ; and give us a backward
•pr-ng. Certainly every timo a Norther
or Northwester sweeps over that vast and
froz-ju expanse and reaches these lower
l*ti:ndes, we may reasonably expect a
frost; and not until the Northern land*
scsoe h*g been largely relieved of enow
will the yomg growth of our eaily spring
be sfife.
Also, any one inclined to borrow trou
ble and be uifcappy over it, may Had a
fair chacce iu the anticipation of consid
erable fuai, when the great Northern
thaw fcegimr. The situation holds ont a
rather vivid prospect of mountain tor
rents—»wcllca rifert—terrible ico-gorges
—versa overflows—acd Mississippi cre-
va-ei-e, wbi-;h it will be w»ll for the ex-
pored to (ret ready for in time. A rough
winter will be likely to give us & rough
SlERff.