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The Telegnpli jriJestaHjg BoStri*, IMtll.'si.Wni MACOB —TbeKsnxfaetaro of beet ngaristobe tried in earnest at Northampton, Mm. A factory U to be baiU. end 4 10 teres of beeta pleated thUoeaoon. —Oowelio*Vandsrbilt, the namesake end fevorite greedeon of the le‘e Commodore, is Fraeidsat of thrtmag Mon’s ClwtoUan As» Senator I>*vta’ Speech, r Beatty David Dttvi*’ epeeeh of keif Ml hour** length in the Senate chamber last Tuesday was a fearful taking down o! the revolution-mongers. He illustrated the hollownese of theae revolutionary alarma by the fact that, while the politician* were sounding the alarm that our na tional existence ia in peril, the Secretary of the Treasary was celling the four per oent. bonds of the government at the rate of two hundred millions of dollars per day. The country had been at pesos societies of New York. ;:sSeM*neHawptcn WML J*r Wednesday! ' tor fourteen years, and all this sounding appointed to the Toeanoy on the oommitteee oa mUttsry a*sirs, mines snd mining and tranapertaltorito the seebosrd. —OoL Tho*. A. Booth president of the Pennsylvania railroad, writes from Fgjpt bat hie health hoe greatly improved, and thUhewUlbs home in Jane. —At the evening celebration of the 1,630th annlfecswyotthe dee&sction of Pompeii a bottle of wiantakenfram the runs, where it had Ida ainoe A. D. 70, is to bs opened. —A clergyman lately remarked to hie oon- gregation that, notwithstanding the bard timet and the general rednotion of wages, the wages of aln had not been redaoed one lota. _Ii la stated on shat appears to be relia ble authority that Jay Gould’s net profits for On ptat week in bis operations in Kansas Paeifio amounted to the astonishing figure of fil.50O.l0X —'The Seeret 8eif.ee baa discovered a re- counterfeit Cl tbe #9(1 United StntTfis note. All the intricate figures and curves, air the heads; the seal sad the fibre in the piper ose almost perfectly counterfei ted with'pen find fade. ~ _i util. girl in St. Louis, where a minis ter hod been Invited to dinner, woe privately plaoed on her food behavior. PindtagalnU in tbe eonversailoir at -the tea-table, she fol ded her hands and arid: <0 God. please pose the batter.’ —at the postal card. fsetory, Holyoke, Hstfi, designs are being made fora new two- cent mtemationsi card, and a double s'aed two^snt card for domes tic use. The former Will he ieeaed shoot July 1, and the letter next fall. —A sesolation wss adopted in the Honse ofiWednesday requesting the President to eonsider the expediency of entering into a contention with Franoe, for the negotiation ota treaty which shall secure a more equal Interchange of the prodnote and manufac tures of each oountry. —Tbs Paris Gazette dee Femmes gives a , list of French women who-have obtained the academic degrees. There are five doctors of medloine, three licentiates ct science, two bactselott of science and letters, six bache lors of science, sad twenty bachelors cf letters. These degree* have all been cor. ferred sluoe 1886. —an interesting lawsuit will soon bs tried in London—an action for #10,000 money lent by Hr. Pad wick to Mrs- Thittlewaite, a Iftdy well .known in fashionable society. Babpceuas have been served upon Hr. Glad stone, the Lake of Sutherland, Chief Baron Pollock, and oUrei prominent gentlemen. Biaanoxe Wear os thx Dzxboxt Tuxsxz, —Work on the Vanderbilt tunnel, at the Oiosse Isle crossing of the Canada Southern BaOroad, was begun on Tuesday last. Some seventy men with pioka and shovels, at 7 a. jc, began on the Canada aide of tbeeat, that ia to be forty feet in depth, wbiohwui lead to the entrance —Missouri is not a State where thetern- psranoe cause was supposed to be nuking very rapid progress, despite the fact that B, Grata Brown has become its prophet, but petitions against the manufacture-and rale of liquors hsvs barn pouring into tbs Login Mature in such numbers that the House baa passed a reeolation submitting to popular vote an amendment to the Constitution pro hibiting such manufacture and sale. There is no probability that such an amendment would be adopted, bat the foot that there is any considerable demand for it indicates an unexpected growth of tempersnoe sentiment. Go?. CcaTOrs courser ros a Sxxr a thx Sort*,—The oontest between Gov. Carlin and SethH locum,the Greenback Bepreaen totlre from the Twentieth P*nnsylvonis District, is brooming intensely snimtted. Senator Wallses ia a strong advocate of Cur- tin's claim to the seat occupied by Yocum. Copies of the Philadelphia Oomm:nwealtb, containing a Utter attack upon Curtin, were plaoed by a page upon thedeeks of all the —hem of the House this morning. Mr. Wallses sent another page through the House to gather up and destroy them. Copies of the paper mobed the Senators through the Post OSes. InnmB Asusssuyios of Enwi t Boom —There wss intents excitement st Chicago Wsdnsediy night over a daring and desperate attempt to sassesinste Edwin Booth, the great tragedian. He was playing upon the Stags Of McYioker’a Theatre, In one of his familiar parts, when a man who wasinihe gallery find two shots at him jut as the lost sosne was dosing. The audience, the members of the onheeba and the dramatic oompany were throws into the utmost ooa- fasion. Mr. Booth escaped all bans, and the wenlfi.ba murderer wu immediately arrested. Hr announced bis name u Mark Gray, and said that he was a dry goods eiark employ sd ia St. Lonis. He gave no reasons for Us aot. —It is rumored that ths ex-King of Spain, dmsfloo. Duka of Aosta, will many the youngest daughter of ieen Victoria, Bea trice. Booh a marriage is greatly desired in Italy, and while bo formal negotiations have bscn opened, different personages in London hava been sounded by an English friend of the Italian royal family. Ths Duke of Aosta is aBoman Catholic, a widower with children, and the greater part of hie revenues are derived from hie late wife’s properties, in Which hs hoe only a life inters it He U also snaehtba senior of the Prinoeee Beatrice. Owing to the fast failing health cf King Hnmbsrt, and the bad constitution of the Prises of Naples, which appears now more than It did during his infancy, it is, for poli tical reasons, desirable that Prince Amadeus should marry again. i pretty heavy trading of party sle- , says the Philadelphia Times, seems to hsvs taken place ia Sooth Carotins, where BOOh things have been brought os near to erfeeUon is eon be expected Bight on the bade of the announcement that the cases against a number cf Democrat* for alleged election fraud* had been pat over tffl fall comas the information that the Uts BfpubOoan State Treasurer, Gordoxo, has been released from the Colombia j ail, where he was held for malfeaaanoe ia affi:*. The bargain appears also to inerade a suspension' of bostillUes against Chamberlain, Smalls and other BepubUostu whi have been tinder more or less suspicion aloe* the Democrats cams Into oontrol of tbs State Government It wss s very smart piece of political work— but one net likely to h«lp along pub’io morals —that led to theosptnrs of slotcf Demo crats who-oouid be exchanged for the togas* that tbs Bepuulicsna had no other means cf recovering. Thts wipe* off the elate ready for a new stmt, m which the Dem aerate will have all the advantegee. Psons o* ion A SaWBIA. A H M, of Med!- cal Faculty, havol University,-Quebec, state*: -1 Kr^tounaCold®'* Lkbtg's Lmuid Bxtnetof Beet and Tonic turigwaior parrictUarto uaetul in sdvanosd stages ot Conaumptlon, weakness. Dyspepsia and aD Nervous affliction*. In preg nant women it a— boon retained while every other article of toed was rejected. I can recom mend it a* convenient, palatable and t**y cf di gestion- Sold by Jno Ingalls, Macon., aprttlw KLBCTB1C ‘ JBBLTS. A sure core for nervous debility, premature decay, exhaustion, etc. The only reliable cure. Circular* mailed free. Address J K iiKEVES M Chatham fit, MY. isbUdsodawtm cMg Celegcsp!? JaucnHl & 3W»si5»ng*t» of trampets wo* a wretched and mir- ehievioaa anachronism. The sought to be repealed by the army appro priation bill was a war measure and should have been repealed long ago. He had no doubt it would have been re pealed during Hr. Lincoln’s second term, hod he lived to serve it out. Judge Davis said hawse one of Hr. Lincoln's confidential friends, that be had better opportunities of studying his ohsr eater nod knowing his aantlments than almost anybody else, and he is confi dent that If Hr. Lincoln hid lived passions of the war would have been qui eted and extinguished many years ago, instead of surviving to this Iste period. A law allowing ths presenoe of Federal troops st the polls would never hsvs been passed, nor even proposed in time of pesos. It wss never intended or expec ted by the Congress that ensoted nor by the President that signed it that it would eanllnue In force after the greet exigency qhiph called for it bad passed. Hsd President Llnooln been spared his mag nanimous sentiments of “msllos toward none and obarity for slF’ would have made him the earliest and most earnest of paelfleatem between the two estranged sections of our common oountry. These verydeolded declarations from Judge Davis stove a hols in the Bepub- lioan thunder bottles. They gave the oountry the jodgaent of a calm, patriotic end nnprejudioed mind upon the subject. Judge Da vis, if not oomplstely unbiassed inclines to side with the Bepablicane. He oommon-y -ntes and is classed with that side, an i y*t here, on an issue whiob they proposed to push to tbe extent of defecting ths appropriation bills, he does not hesitate to declare that their ooodnot is wholly wrong and indefensible. Drought m Texas. The Dallas Herald says the drought in that State covers all that portion of Texas lying upon a line of Denison and San Antonio, including every county west of it, and an average of two tiers east. In portions of this territory people are haul ing water for drinking purposes from three to six miles, and the cattle depend upon the larger streams, all of which are lower than can be remembered. On many plantations the wheat is not more then one foot high, and is heading out. Farmers are holding back for rain before planting cotton, as it would be labor lost to sow seed. Fears are enter tained of a famine in corn and oats, and hence the prioe of tbe old crop of corn is advancing, with nearly every one hold, tag on to all they have. So far oar vege tables are nearly a total failure. The Dallas market at no time this spring has shown scarcely any at all. The supply is getting less and less every day. At the hour of writing, the high and dry winds which have prevailed for three weeks, are still blowing, with no moist- nre or hnmidity in the air, end not a cloud to be seen in the heavens. Ths situation is bad enough. It was never worse, and has not been so bad in the memories of thirty years as it is now. All hope of wheat is about abandoned. There is time enough, however, to make a cotton end com crop if we can get rain- , Thx Chihxsb Quxstiok Loowho Up.— The Vicksburg Herald, one of the leading papers in Mississippi, in a recent article commenting upon the negro exodns, plainly declares that if it continues "it will reopen the Chinese immigration question with tenfold force. California may not want the Chinese, bat if the Sonth is robbed of her labor she will, aud what is more, she will have them." Oar readers may call to mind that since the war a very successful experiment has been made with Coolie labor in the val ley of tbe Hississippi. The Asiaatice know all about the culture of rice and subsist mainly upon it. The climate of their own country also resembles that of the region now being stampeded and they cenld be employed to the mataal advan tage of all interested. We have no dispo sition to dispense with the domestic labor hich Providence baa bestowed upon the Sonth; indeed wo prefer it to any other. Bat it is pleasant to know and it wonld be well for onr freedmen to realise the fact that other help can ba fonnd to an* ply tbeir places if they allow themselves to bo duped by designing men and re solve to seek their fortunes in the frigid regions of tbe North. Stick to thx Pboobucub ox Ecoxoht. We are folly aware of the foot, and deeply regret It, that the compensation of onr police snd oity effioials is very mod erate, indeed, it may be said, almost in adequate to defray tbeir actual and neoes- eary carrest expenses. Hence, when the oity osn afford it, one of the first things that should be done in order to aasnre an efioient'goverDment, is to offer sufficient salaries to seonre tbe very best offiolel help. Bat at present almost every ouejj living upon a diminished inooma and short rations, and the recently oh seen officers and police knew precisely what they had to expeot. We sabmit that just st Ibis critical emergency, when eitisens and crunoU arc anxiously oonsuiting to gether to sec what osn be done to meet the pressing and maturing demands upon the treasury, and redaotion is the watoh- woxd and order of the day, the time is not opportune to carry into effeet even the- very reasonable proposition before oonncil, to increase tbe salaries of all tbe oity officials. It would throw a wet blan ket-upon-pending movements and nego tiations. At present let ne grapple. with the difficulties that are in Bight end not add a qtraw to make them more onerous. For these reasons only, and we are quite sure they represent ths views Of a very large majority of tbe people we trust ojuu- otl will table the proposition which, on motion of Alderman Carp at, lies over for future action. XHJKHKX1* AS DOLLAB. " What lathe difference between tbe Mexican dollar and Tabler’s BuckeyePileOiotmentf One does what it promite* and ths other Soae’ni. The Mexican dollar says,* I am one hundred cent*;** but when you come to inveU it you And it is only tigntj-flve. Tabler’s Buckeye File Ointment says -I will cure jou of piles, and upon trial it is found to do eo in ever} cate. It makes cut one promise—1« cure piles; and dess e without failure. Prion M cents a bottle. For iris by Boland A Ball,drnarist. dMiwffi Eraptiffn i» NewXorit. Now Tork City boiled over ta& Thnrs- dey night on what is called the Afrioan Exodus. A mass meeting war held at Cooper Institute, the temper of whiob whxbbas, the eolored people sre leav ing Grtwartyffi—■ atnlare seek ing new haunts is the West: whereas their innocent fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, wives, end other relatives and friends hava been stricken down in oold blood and their lifeless flesh been left as food for tbe Sonthern turkey buzzard: whereas a tree has been -made by-brntal men a perpendicular delivery bed for an innoeent pregnant wife and a mother to die on; whereae the eolored people have toiled without being compensated and have been mercilessly robbed; whereas extreme extortion has been the policy of those who hava furnished them with the needs of life; where its ednoation has been denied them j whereas they have not been permitted to worship God in peaoe; whereas they have relied on the federal arm at Washington, and it under the oon trol of professed friends, and fonnd no protection and have been made to live a life of peril; and whereas tbe colored ref ugees bave horror stricken fears as to the state of things which will be trae of tbe South, should the federal arm after 1880 be under the oontrol of those who bave affiliated with their oppressors; We approve-of their movement to Bnoh anew home in the West and resolve to do all in onr power to assist them and do call upon every man, woman and ehild to extent to them a helping hand. This arraignment, jut so far as a sweeping ohsrge of this nature canid be, ia sheer falsehood, and we doubt not the negro immigrants will themselves praoti- cally oonfesr it such in doe time, by re turning to the Sonth, which they have been deeeived and betrayed into aban doning. So far as we have observed very few of them have given countenance to these charges of ernelty and fraud against the Sonthern people. Certain it it that all of property they have so far aconmnlated has come from the pookets of the Sonthern people, and they would have had much more could they have been protected against sneh frauds as the Freedmen’a Bank, in which millions of their hard earnings were wrecked by those claiming to ba their es pecial friends in the North. If Northern men of capital are sincere in these tile- gations that the Sonthern negroes, as a role, are awtadled out of their wages by the Sonthern whites, why do they not at least purge themselves of the frandby restoring tbe squandered deposits of the Freedmans’bank? There is no idle guess work or vapid assertion about that swin dle. It is a solemn and historical truth. Two millions ot this wage-money, earned nnder the extortions which they impnte to the Southern whites, have been stolen and misappropriated, and yot not a man of them comes forward with a proposition to refund or make the los3 good. They haven’t in their hearts to tender a dollar to the negro, except in connection with a flood of abase of the whites—which shows that their boasted interest in the negro has little other or better foundation than dislike of the whites Now, it wonld be absurd to say that the whole system of labor baB been violently revolutionised in the South without in stances of wrong and injustice, as it wonld be to say that the industrial sys tem of the North has been carried on far the esmo time without wrong and idjan. lice. Unfortunately, there is nolaok of wrong and injustice anywhere. But the world has only to contemplate the fact that within little more than a decade millions of slaves have beoome free, paid laborers—have supported themselves— have earned a vast surplus which is now represented by taxablo property—have made reputable progress in eduoatiott— and have turned out from three te four thousand millions worth of cotton, be sides other crops, to be brought to the concession,' however unwillingly, that, on the whole, substantial justice, personal seenrity and fair dealing must have at tended the process. This is bound to be the verdict of impartial history, however much an inflamed sectional animosity may pervert the judgment of the present hoar. How Stand ths Colomd Oitubkh or Giobgia?—We have bsenst some pains toenqnire, and learn from all sonioes, that never einoe the war has there exis ted a better feelicg betwoen the whites and blacks of tbisoommonwealih. On ev ery aids wa hear of the best understand ing between employer and employe, snd both «re prospering. Ths disposition to mot Loose and change farms every year has uoated very much, and the freedmen are beconifng attached to tbeir homeB, and not tufreqnently bny parcels of land, and settle down for themselves. In onr cities, also, the number of idle eolored people has sensibly diminished, and they are fast learning the salutary lesson that all most work to livo The tax books of the State show, too, that onr colored cit izens are steadily increasing in wealth, as they are in ednoation and intelligence. All that is needed to aasnre their fu ture welfare is to remove the baleful in fluence of interested carpet-baggers and politicians. Every freedman that ae< quires property learns in dne time thst his lot is essentially cast in with that of his white brethren, and both alike require good and wise lawa for their mutual gov ernment and protection. Hence, if left alone, they will beoome identified with the political complexion, aa well aa the interests ot thecommanity in which they dwell. Nothing wonld please ns better than to see onr eolored friends appoint a deputation from among themselves to go to Louisiana and prove te their people there, that they are misguided and pur suing a most suicidal coarse by deserting (hat fair and teeming land for the frigid regions of the far Northwest. • They might whisper in their ears also the well remembered foot that-under the old regime the Yankees gensrally-were tbe most exacting matters. So will it prove In all probability, with tbeir now land lords and tbe sharp frontiersmen of the West, who are also seeking fibeir for tunes in that remote region. We ahonld like toseethe'eUggestuHfnctWd upon. - - -- •*•' ■ - s - I • <* - - n y* ■ lllTB'S WfilMBlL’ Prepared bj K 9 LTV DOM, Athena Go. Amnn, Ga. December 8,1877. Major Smith's Society Declare. As has been already well stated in our local columns,tksxHfnstet tide gentleman was,in every eenea, most admirable. "Bill Arp" lost ne laurels by bis visitto pn the tejfctrary, addedSa flowerjjjjEpe tiara whiBi encircles his brow. With the Bingle ex ception that in the remote portions of the crowded house, for lack of a more sonorous voice, and never having been trained- te publjo- speaking, portions of thb leefurt could nSt be heard ivlth per fect distinctness, the great humorLt carried everything before him. A breathless attention was bestowed upon every word that escaped his lipe, broken only by applause and an occasional ory of "louder," from the audience. Hajor Smith, by hia searching exposure, and Inimitable delineations of moiety in all its reputable phases, has given fresh evidenoe of his profound knowledge of human nature. Still, Abe purity of hie thoughts and their perfect freedom from all that could possibly impinge upon propriety or offend the most ssnsitive ear, show that his in vestigations have never been extended into the infamous haunts of crime and sin. He chats pleasantly cf the incidents constantly occurring in one’s every day experience, ever and anon, atriktag, we venture to aay, a chord in the heart of each one of the delighted auditor*. There was no escaping from Bill Arp. His keen shafts penetrated between the joints of the harness and transfixed every .one—now cansing unbidden tears to dim the eye when contrasting the glories of the past with the wretched realities of the present or awakening a amile when soma droll, but hardly acknowledged truism was pro nounced. Never did a production abound with a greater variety of salient thonghts, which were constantly pointed and Illustrated by the moat apposite incidents and anec dote a. Many of these bore the ear marks - of his own personal experience. Toe temp tation Is vary strong to enter Into partic ulars and dagneneotypo some-of the riohest of those deliverances, bat it would be like stealing the thunder of the genisl humorist, and as ha may wish to. charm other andisneee with tbeir future ren dition, it wonld also be unkind. Nor oonld it be poeaibie to do him justice. The style of Hajor Smith, is pleasant and easy, without any attempt at fulsome display. Still, when the subject war rants, bis utterances are both graphic and touching. Hacon honored the Me* mortal Association and its distinguished representative by the magnificent audl ence which greeted the latter. Long may the love of brave deeds ba cherished and the memory ot the fallen Confedei- ates live in onr hearts. Afewnighteriaae I gave-my eswene dose of Worm Oil, snS lb* nsxt dsjh*. passed sixteen large worms. At the same time I saveone dese to my little (lit. loux years old. and she pasasd eighty-six worms, tram lour to fifteen Inch** lone.. JT F PHILLIPS. • Aim G A. February a. 187*. Bra: My child, fire years old, had symptom* of warms: I tided calomel snd oOber Worm Medi- aassbntttilsdto txpelaar worms. Seeing Mr Bain’s aorttfieata,Iaot a rial of year Worm Oil and first dose brov hi forty Wbrais, and tbs sec ond doss io many wwere passed I did not count them. % BH ADAMS . Hunk Bonkin * Iomor, whob and ret. agts. •nn& dm _ ffiUBBB. ISN’T XT. Bow fast all smeken am learning that Duse’s Durham” Smoking Tobacco is tha best ok your dealer fur it, mod take no ether. mil ecdfiwly SIN GULAK EXPLOSION. The Frost of Canaan C Co.’s it ore House Blown onr. Yesterday morning at u quarter past three o’clock au explosion broke tbo slum bers of a targe number of the people In the central portion of the oity. The jar accompanying the noise, jostling the casements.andjeven shaking the buildings caused some consternation and brought np suggestions of earthquakes. The cause of the noise was soon dis covered to be that a can of powder had exploded in the front portion of the store of Messrs. W. F, Cannon & Co., on Third atreet, Completely demolishing the front doors which were of glass, and the large, heavy French plate glass window panes and firing the store. The alarm was given and tho com panies tamed out. No. 3, however, reached tho scene before ths alarm, and the other companies were tamed back. The fire was soon extinguished with buckets of water, and by tho removal of the burning goods. The investigations yesterday morning showed the extent of the damage, and also some onrion3 foots connected with tho explosion. The ex plosion occurred in the comer of the store st the front. Tho casement with its largo plates ot glass wss completely ruined, being torn ont. The heavy cast iron hinges of the doors were broken like wafers, the doors falling inwardly, whilo fragments of the thick glass were driven half way across Third street. A stack of goodB, however, in each window, re mained intact, showing no signs of the explosion, except in being blackened. A koroseno lamp which was standing on a desk on tbe front side of the counter, was fonnd over behind tho counter, ex tinguished, bat unbroken. Up stairs the havoo in window panes was fearfnL Nearly every glass was broken, the oross bars of the casement, in some instances, were blown ont and defaced. The back windows down stairs aud a heavy aide door were also broken. The ceiling np stairs was Battled some half inch or more. Tbe damage to the stock is trifling, bat that to the building will amount to several hundred dollars. It is owned by Mr. O. Douglass of Sa vannah. The cause of the explosion cannot be made ont, but it was undoubtedly acci dental. In the can the proprietors of the establishment say there coaid not have been more than seven pounds of powder. The top of the can was fonnd blown off, and was securely closed, showing that no fire reached it through the ordinary ori fice. The only theory at all probable ia thst the rata must have set fire to some cotton yarn near by whioh heated the can until an explosion took place. The explosion is one of the moat smgu tar that has occurred in the city for some time.ud caused considerable excitement at the time and machoomment yesterday. Bat for the police force and the prompt assistance of the firemen, especially Hr. E. Isaacs, Mr. Pntzel, Mr. C. Mschold and Hr.- Tick Menard, much damage and a serious fire would have taken place. WeunfieA by ■ Trap. On Friday, while Mr. George F. Payne was practicing shooting at glass balls thrown from a trap, on a range near the river, while bending over the trap, the spring got loose and struck him over the eye, inflicting a severe wound in the forehead. Hr. Payne will be confined to his residenes for several days. ' ‘ JJIMOUAIi BAY. * ■ ( <* F fikssmfi In Hies*—The i ■attalisa-firatlss -The crowd, imories A OABD, Tool] wh* art suffering from the errors and indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness, early decay,loss of manhood, etc. I will send a recipe that will cure yon, F&BE OF OHAbGB. This neat remedy was discovered by a missionary in South America. Bend a sell-addressed envelope .to tha Bev Joseph T Turnon. Station D.New York! deell odlj Every mother in the land should know the value of Dr. Boll’s Baby Syrap, and never bs without it. It is free from opiate*. Pries 25 cents a bottle. to the decorating-thegravea of the Confederal* soldiers, who laid down their lives a aae- rifioe xo principle, was perforated with that faithful and patriotic fervor which Aould^nsyqp Jae allowed to" lessen or languish. The beautiful custom of decking tho ao d which wraps the clay of fallen braves is on* whoso seafamaat will always live, and be handed down as a duty to posterity "pleasant snd mourn ful to the souL” The obseevano* ia Macon yesterday was fall of .interest, and elicited more general enthusiasm among all classes of our community than any other event of the year. Alan early hour in this day, some of the loading business houses clos ed their doors, and by four o’oioek hardly a store wsb open, and the tide of humani ty flowed from the oity toward th* hal lowed grounds of the cemetery. The flashing uniforms, the danoinc plumes and the sounds ot the drums told ot more than usual activity among the military, and at a few momenta before f o’clock, the Second Georgia Battalion, formed in front of the Lanier House in a long and handsome line, under the com mand of Lieutenant Colonel C. M. “Wiley The Haoon Votanteers occupied, theright of the oolumn, and under the. command .of Captain W. W. Carnes, presented an extremely handsome appearance. Their white plumes danoed in the sun light and were fit emblems of ths chival ry and record of the gallant old corps. Next in line oame the Haoon Guards with their old familiar look, and every tine soldier of the Battalion welcomed their reappearance in the ranks ot the corps with feelings of genuine pleasure. They looked excellently and were com manded by Lieutenant L. P. Aekew. In the centre of the line were the Floyd Rifles, another gallant company, whoae history is blended with the annals of tbe commonwealth and whose remembered deeds are recorded in indelible characters They bore the colors and were command eaby Captain John L. Hardeman. The Hitohel Light Guards, with their uniforms ot emerald, stood next in line and presented an appearanoo whioh was mnoh admired. The company is dally beoomlng more popular and never wott more compliments than yesterday. The company was commanded by Lieutenant D. G. Sheehan. The left was occupied by that gallant yonog company, the Macon Cadets, un der the command of Captain T. L. Ross Their handsome uniforms never looked better, the men more soldierly. They oompleted the line and in the march brought np the rear of the pageant in gallant Btylo, The entire military display surpassed the expectations of all and showed that the military spirit has not passed away. The column was marched to the cema- tery by Colonel Wiley. Here, at the gate, a platform had been erected and the crowd pressed closely around to hear the orator of the day, Rev. G. G. Smith, of MiUedgeville. After a prayer by Rev. Dr. Key the orator was introduced by Colonel H, H. Jones in a short speech full ot patriotic sentiments and fire and whioh waslondly applauded. Rev, Mr. Smith rose and ejxike as fol lows: Ladies and Gentlemen: I must return my thanks to the Ladies Memorial Asso ciation for the invitation they have so kindly extended to me to unite with the people of my old home in the serf ioes of to-day. I have been invited more than once to fill the place I now occupy, and while I have always complied and al ways felt it a sad pleasure, whether in Virginia or Georgia, to do what I could to add interest to the occasion, this is the first time I have been in the pres ence of those honored dead who, while living, were bound to me by ties of sacred friendship. But here, in this cemetery, where my ancestors are bnried, where the wife of my youth lies sleeping, where my brave young soldier brother lies, and where Ross and Smith, Sher wood and Waterman, and many other friends of my brightest days are bnried, the office I hold is invested with more thin usual tenderness. Fourteen years ago oar flag went down. The feeble hand, brave still, but palsied, could no longer hold it aloft- It had been unfurled not hastily, nor angrily, bat sadly, reluctantly. It bad, our antago nists and the whole world being judges, floated grandly for four long years, and now it waveB over a host of gallant dead and over a feeble few of living heroes. With it went down ths hopes of Bli the faith of many, the manhood of a few; bat with it went not down the grateful love of the brave women of the Sonth, and when the anniversary day dawned which told of their loss, when, aa yet, no moanmental abaft was raised, they, as by one impulse, gathered the beau tiful flowers of our flower-clad land and sadly repaired to the graves where the heroeB slept and laid the gar- lands upon them. I know not when, I not how, ths beautifal thought was born, bat from every part of ths land this thought was ruling—even those who had conquered, stood by in respectful rever ence, and no voice was heard to condemn this beautiful show of a deep and touch ing grief. Since then, yearly the same work has been done. iFrom the shores of the Chesapeake to tbe banka of the Rio Grande this sacred day is observed. "Qni boiw?" said somewhat donbtingly to me, a trae man, a thoughful states man and a grand Southerner, as we turned sadly away from a scene like this. What good, he seemed to think can come of continuing this memorial. We are conquered—shall we not strive to forget it? We are brothers of those with whom we fought —shall w# not forgive and forget? Is it wise to eoounentorate tho deeds of blood? Shall not tbe waves ot friendly oblivion be permitted to sweep over this ssd past snd buy it from ths sight of met.? Wbat good, I said—perhaps has tily but earnestly—mnoh Rood—I said it hastily; I say it now calmly and thought fully—mnoh good, bnt wbat gooc? No good, if this day serves to keep alive the feelings of bitter hostility the war engendered; if it serves to feed the fires of bitter hate between onr children and those of the North ; if itdelays for a oeoond of time tbe full fruition of broth erly love, I oonld not, *■ a man; I oonld still lees aa a patriot, and 1 oonld net at all as a Christian, join in any service which divides manor embit ters them Against each other. If this day does this let this day peas ever unob served. 1 bave not now, I never bad, a feeling of hate toward my Northern kin dred. Born on Sonthern soil, with my ancestors for fire generations born on Sonthern soil, with no other kindred north of the Potomac. I osn bnt love and honor a people eo trae and so noble as those against whom I so sternly fought from Fart Sumter to BentonvUta. Bat had hatred ever had a place in my heart when from New England's hamlets and the prairie villages of the Northwest, from Boston end Chioago, from Maine and Minnesota there came in onr hour of deep grief, when the peetilAce swept at noon-day, raeh’aniversal sympathy, such generous aid, that feeling mnstknve per ished forever. I observe thia day, bnt not for hate. Nor do I think the greet politioa principles which lay at the Aew eonteat, so certainly true, io valfsUe. |n- . titled tosnak immortality that for ttasir soke I would commemorate the day they were overthrown. Government is an experiment; government is a develop ment. What is wise for to-day may not be wise tor to-morrow. While I believed end still believe that Jefferson end not Hamilton, Patriok Henry, end not Luther Martin, John C. Calhoun, and not Daniel Webster, were wieest,that the true ssfoty of Amerioa was in confederation, not in nationality, I aocept the logic of event*!, and henee the surrender of those views which the voice of the majority hat condemned. I hold that he is not wish who,' like Charles I, or Louis XVI refase* to surrender anything until sur render is too late. I am no Beurbon and never intend to be. The England of Alfred was not the England of Henry the 8tb. The England of Henry not tbe England of Wil Iiam,Frtaoe of Orange, The England of George the 1st not the Eng land of Victoria. If change mast come, let it come, and 1st us adapt ourselves to change. . Nor wonld I join in this memorial merely to show my respect for courage and fighting akill. There ta something about a willingness to fight which has ta it a moral force not always seen. There is something in the skill of ihe strategist, which whatever be his objeffi, car bnt excite onr admiration; bnt a people are not always great because they can fight, and can fight well. Tbe bull dog of the nng ia not so admirable aa the brave storm breaster of the St. Bernard, Aristotle the philosopher was greater than his great pupil, Alexander; Cicero, than Cm set; Wesley than Marl borough, and Las Casas than Pizirro. Hy comrades ware brave in battle. The world looked on with hushed breath as it saw them in the bloody charge. ML comrades were noble in In their patient endurance of the hard ships or the hardest campaigns- Tbe world gazed with wild astonishment upon them ss they so {nobly bore. My countrymen evinced a skill la war only equalled by their ©outage and their endurance. Lee and Jackson, Johnson and Gordon ssd their oompeera bave gained their plaees in history, and will keep them forever. No longer will hon est men dare to speak of the Sonthern man as an ease loving braggart. Hs has shown, from the humblest private to the highest general, what was in him, and while I join with the world in my feeling of admiration for him sa a soldier, not for this do I remember this day. Then why ? I answer, became this day commemo rates one of tbe grandest moral triumphs history records. A nation’s strength is not in its bayonet*, nor its glory in its gold, nor its protection in its Iawe. It lies behind all these, in tbe morel sense of tbe nation itself. Where man has never learned tbe lesson, tan 0 ht him by tbe great Tosoher, that he lives not for him self, nor to himself, he has never learned how to make his country great. This contest, and asauob I wonld not forget it, was the grand triumph of duty over self. It has been Mid that we had no actual wrongs to redress. Ibis we abtli not deny. If we bad revenge might have whetted onr sabre*. We might haTe rest ed at onoe, and have left fntnre gen erations to bave righted their own. It was certain we had no ambitions to gratify. We were not ten millions. We were misunder stood, and, aa such, condemned by the world. We were ta equal alliance with twenty millions ot rich and prosperous people, and we rnled in Congress and in the executive ehair. Tnen why did we dare the perils of war? Because we saw, or thought we saw, that those polit ical principles which were the only se curity of onr children, were about to be trampled upon and destroyed; because we saw, or thought we saw, onr social tabrio about to bebroksn to pieces—not immediately, not ta our life time—but in dsystooome; and became we thought that we must strike then, or onr children could not strike at all. We were not ignorant of the odds against ns. We weie not left long in doubt ae to the oharaeterof the struggle. There was comparative prosperity on the one band—comparative exemption from all immediate and personal injuries. There was on the other certainly want, and blood and fire, and, perhaps, defeat and rain. To secure the one and avoid the other it was only needful to be un true to the trust reposed in- ns by our fathers and sell the birthright of onr children. Admit that wo wero mistaken in the evil effects which we thought would result from the overthrow of theee protective principles, and the chain in the social system of our States—the fact yet stands, that seeing it as we did, we must hava been traitors to a sacred trust, criminally selfish, shamefully coward, if we had not, regardless of all peril, thrown ourselves in the breaoh. "Did you not know," said a distinguished Northern clergyman tome, "that yon would be con quered.” "We bad no right to know it, sir," I said, "till we had done all we could." The heroism then displayed in so firmly standing against such fearful odds, with su:h motives has never been paralleled in history. The men so villified as the leaders of a great rebellion, criminally ambitious, struck not for themselves, bnt against them selves. They surrendered positions lof tier than any they oonld hope to reach. They pat property and life at stake in a desperate hazard. What had they to gain, what to secure, that they did not have? The blow wonld fall—they knew that but not on themselves, and to save others, ventured, and lost ail. Bat there wero those who went into this oontest because the States to-whicb they owed all allegiance said go. They felt that there was no higher vole?, save the voice of Heaven, than the voice of the people speaking through the proper channel?. They did not feel op pression—they did not apprehend danger. They wero oontent at home,but the State ■poke eagerly and bade them them go and they calmly obeyed. There was one who went forth with tbe. bright gleam of oonfidenoa in bie eye. *Oar cause was just; we would con quer.” With a smile be met his hard- ahips, with a cheer ho sashed into com bat, and as he fell he waved his comrades on, and died feeling assured the viotory wonld be wor. I honor him. There was another, like the brave, se rene, the wise, great-hearted Lee, who knew th* peril, knew the fearful odds against him, bnt wbo beard tho voioa he had been taught to revenues, the voice of Ms State, and obeyed it oolrnly, though hopelessly, to tbe end. His not to make reply— His bat ta do and dio. “Onwardaod right onward," I honor him more. Then there was another who heard nothing, saw nothing, thought of noth ing, save that hie people nsd spoken, they said duty celled him, their voice was hls'and he went to do hie beat. Ba* cause they said so he left his home, kiss ing tbe wife and little ones; tearing him self from the mother’s embraoe. Because they said so, he boro all the trials and faeedallthe perils of a soldier’s life. I honor him most of all. Had my countrymen hike the old Roman soldier sought to lay the world at the feet of the eternal oity; had they, like the revolu tionists of France, sprang like uncaged tigers at the throats of their oppressors, Hod they like the oonseripfe of Germany and Franoe, fought merely (o gratify the ambition ot Bismarck or of Napoleon, I could not have felt aa I do to-day; hat they did not. They went forth because daty bade them go. There was never mutiny for lack of pay, there wee never sack of city, there was never cowardice. I saw them when they went out, full 'of hope and jay; I saw them as they march, ed through sleet and enow and rata; bivouacked with them around the camp fire; I prayed with them dying on the battle field; I saw them wasting away in hospitals ; X saw them an they knelt unobserved ia the dark recesses of the woods \o pray to ths God they had been taught to love end worship ;' I saw them stiff sad cold on the battle field as the star’s pate gleam floated over them ; I saw them conquer ors; I saw them oonquered; I loved them—honored them—and I aay let all honor be paid to theee gallant dead. Let Italy give her marble, let skillful haedd shape it into beauteous form, let loving hands uprear it, and let the white shafts stand as silent monitor: in every city of onr land. Let the poet tone his harp, let the orator with silver tongue tell the story of these live*; and, above all, let the gentle maidens and matrons of the Sonth bring forth their garlands snd adorn these graves. I wonld be unjust, I should do dis* hsnor to the very principle* I have striven to honor, if I failed to tee in those who rallied to the star-spangled flag the Mme spirit which I so highly applauded. For the miserable hireling of other lands, who, bought by America’s gold, fought for he knew not what, I have no words to express my oon tempt. For the American bounty jumper, who, seeking only to _get his pay and take his Ume to rob ths helpleee; the halter would have been a better tribute than the pension. Bat for the trae Amerioen (and there wero many such) who left his granite hills, his Pennsylva nia valleys, his Western prairies, to givs his life .for a Union he idol usd, I hav° only words of honor, snd I should gladly join with those wno decorated his grave. Go then, fair sisters, I say go, and lay your garlands on those graves, and if perchance some one who wore the blue sleeps near by, lay (tyonr garland on his tomb, and it maybe thst some little vine- let on sneh grave may take root, and reaching toward the sky they may brsee each other and shed a common fra grance on the graves of those who loved daty more than life. At the conclusion of this well-timed and admirable address, the benediction was pronounced by Rev. R. F. Jackson, Jr., Chaplain of the battalion, who offi ciated ta full uniform. 4fter the benediction, CoL Jonee an nounced that any lady or ladies desiring Confederate graves to take under their special charge, could have the same as signed to them by application-to Sexton Olay. From the stand' the living stream swept down the avenues of the cemetery to the portion of Rose Hill Cemetery where ia situated the Confederate buying ground, and strewed flowers over the graves of every dead soldier. Some of the floral offerings wero quite elaborate, while others were simple offerings of the spring time, bnt each graTe had its flower, and each flower its hero. Several shafts of green wrought by the faithful fingers of tbe Lidies of the Memorial Association rose among the graves. The appearance of the graves elicited praise from all. Every mound had re ceived attention, and the whole bnrying ground was cleaned np, while aronnd a large number of the graves copings of bnck had been placed, adding immensely to the appearanoe, and preserving the mounds from obliteration. .Mr. J. J. Clay, the Sexton, deserves the thanks of ths entire community for his efforts in this direction, and many words of praise were bestowed upon his energy and per severance. When all the flowers had been placed in position the Battalion fired by compa nies a volley over the last resting places of the dead. The soldiers were then marched back to the city and a dress parade took place in front of the Lanier Honse. At its conclusion tho companies were dismissed and the Macon Volunteers and the Floyd Rifles executed several evolu tions and fired several volleys over the base of the Confederate' monument at the the intersection of Mulberry and Second street. The first company fired two tail volleys, and the second by platoone. The crowd at the cemetery was esti mated at least several thousand, and thronged the grounds. Just at the con clusion of the firing over the graves, a cloud overspread the sky and a few drop3 of rain dispersed the crowd. Throughout the Sonth the day was suitably observed. Here the memorial exercises were very interesting and served to strengthen the reminiscences •t the past, and over the fresh beauty of flowers crowning the lowlv mounds, each patriotic heait fonnd a fitting place to re new the vow of devotion to keep fresh and unfading the memory of the Con federate dead. SoQdaj KAY KAY * CKLBBBaTIov. Fresranuae fjr tks n.,. The various school* will meet at th rovpeotivc churches at halt p*, t ' ei 7* o’clock promptly. March thencs b g* ond street, where the procession riil L formed, with the right resting on s 9C0 J street near the intersection of ilolbs * The following will baths order of^ marsh: ltc L. The Heicer Band. .*» * Mulberry Street Methodist * flnhnnl pink ribbon. £l % #. South Macon Bapf, 6t ^ School—green ribbon. S I 4. First Presbyterian Sunday ScW.i blue ribbon. ^cooU 5. Seooad Presbyterian Sunday School blue ribbon. J»cnool- 6. Ytaeville Sanday School—ml ribbon. 7- First Baptist Sunday i m ribbon.- 4 na 8. First Street Methcdiit School—red ribbon. On reaching the Park ths school, be seated in the order ‘‘i their march i* front oi the grand stand, after which the folloviho order will be observed by ths marshal the day. Hr. Campbell T. King; 01 Prayer, by Rsv. George G. N. Mis- Donril; song. Anniversary Hymn; tag the floral design. Ia forming the floral design the sehoo’s will be called in the reversed order o! the procession, the lest Id the line of nur.s being th* first called. a When a olsss ia colled os many iepte . ssBtatives) of Ihe o ss*|ss there ate bou quets to be oontribnted by tbe dug will marsh up promptly to the grand slaud take poriuoo, when one or more ot their Dumber will recite a text of Scripture, t short versa ot dislogus may be need st option. Then all will deposit their bouquet* »n3 resume tbeir seats, aud so on until each designated class of the school, and each school ia turn shall have been colled. The banner class will b» tin first csfiri In each cohool, which ia addition to the de positing of bouquets and recital ot scrip- tore text, will carry up the banner oi the school to be planted in the grand stand. The schools will be celled as follows. First Street Methodist. Song—“Cline Close to the Rock.” First Baptist. Song—"tWre Much- tag te Zion.” Vineville, Second Presbyterian, First Presbyterian. Song—"Brightly Gleams Onr Banner.”- South Macon BaptLt, Mulberry Street Methodist. Bong—"Peace on Earth." Daring the singing of (his sang, the floral design will be raised to its place. Address by Rev. A. J. Battle, D. D., Song—Parting Hymn. BenedieUon by Rev. A. W. Ciisby. K. F. Bubdxh, G. B. Dktbi, J. C. Whixlxe, Committee. Kay Day Preparations. The following ladies from the PreBby. terian Church, are requested to serve on ths Table Committee on May-Day: Mrs. Clifford Anderson, Mrs. Robert Nisoet, Mrs. James Boon, Mrs. Pigman, Mrs. D. D. Craig, Mrs. Theodore Ellis, Mrs. Poe, Mrs. David Walker, Mrs. Geo. T. Rogers, Sr., Mrs. White, Mrs. T. H. Henderson, Mrs. Roland B. Hall, Mrs, O. J. Williamson, Mrs. Robert Collins, Mrs. C. B. Wright, Mrs. P. H. Wright, Mrs. T. G. Holt, Mre. Ban, Mrs. G. B. Detlre, Mrs. B. T. Hunter, Mrs. E. E. Brown, Mrs. Wat- kins, Mrs. Qusckenbosb, of Griswoldville, Mr?. Hills man, Mrs. J.S. Cargill, Mrs.W.A- Huff,,Mrs. Milo d. Freeman, Mrs. Lmck. Mrs. Hugh McLsan, Mrs. John H. Powers. The following gentlemen are reques ted to serve: Mr. Charles E. Campbell, Mr. T. H. Henderson, Dr. A. P. Col lins, Mr. S. C. Hoge. Mr. C. E. Arm strong, Mr. Frank Rogers, Mr. Wingfield Nisbst, Mr. T. B. Gresham, Mr. John T. Boifeuillet, Jr., Mr. Ed Poe, Mr. Geo. Beggs, Mr. EUhn McLean, Mr. J. H. Jones, Mr. J. E. Weed, Mr. L. Merkel, Mr. Charles Freeman, Mr. Hugh Me Lean, Mr. E. M. Davis, Mr. H. B. Da ria, Mr, Walter T. Johnston, Mr. Ben C. Smith. These ladies and gentlemen are requested to meet at the lecture room ot the church on Monday afternoon, the 28th instant, at five o’clock. If I Were Teu. Wa have reoeived from the antbor, Hiss Annie Rivers Hoaely, of thia oity, a copy or a song whioh aha has jast com posed and written. The words are quite pretty and the mnate still prettier, both being a charming combination of poetry and music, whioh will ba popular with thsmurie lovers ot onr city sod else where, Hies Hosely is the author of several attraotive songs, which have been muoh admired, and quite a number of her short poema have been pnniiehedin tbe TiLBSHurH and Hxeixuasa end other jonraals. We wish "If I were you," and its accomplished composer, mnoh snooeas- The f»ijNMMsoittts tteiel, On Broodwv, New York, now under'the pops tar management of Hr. Uriah Welch, has fares, weU-raotilatod Yoem*. exoeUent beds and perfect accommodations. An elevator connects directly wish th* ladies’ entrance. The table and otten • donee throughout is acknowledged as barn* m>- ’ No extra charge for tret-etas* WADLKT BURNED. Extensive Conflasratlon on tbe Cen trat Railroad. Night before last a fire broke out in tbe kitchen of the residence of Mr. Henman in Wadley, on the Central railrood, which rapidly extended to his residence, and thence to hit store. Efforts at checking its progress proved unavailing and suc cessively the establishments of J. R. Murphy, McLond, J. F. Toole’s store and dwelling, and the Cottage Ho tel were totally consnmed, Tha looses is estimated at twelve thousand dollars and is almost covered by insurance. Every store ta the place has been burned except Messrs, Murphy, Bidding field & Co.’a and a small drug store. Wesleyan Sophomore Readers. Oa Friday evening the Faculty of the Wesleyan Female College awarded tho places in the Sophomore Class of tho in stitution and the following young ladies will take part in the Sophomore exhibi tion daring commencement: Mis* Mary Lou Bacon, Macon; Mies Emma Davis, Albany; Miss Kate Drane, Mies Claude Freeman, Hiss Clara Harris, Miss Mary Ellen Johnston, Miss Annie Maesenburg, of Macon; Mias Belle Pe terson, ot Alabama; Miss Lee Redding and Miss Annie Snider, of Macon. The class is a charming one and the reader selected will give an attractive txhibi tion. Elevated Railroads, Lines of Stages, Places of Amusement, Depots and Steam ers—all these radiate from, or are situ ated in, the immediate neighborhood of the Grand Central Hots), on Broadway. New York, whioh is now kept on both plans, the American $2.50 or $3.00, and the Earopean plan $1 per day and up wards. 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