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CriBgrnplj auft Jtastngtr MACON, JANUARY 13, 18SO. —“Your daughter fell from a boat, ■while drunk, and was drowned,” was the sad but true dispatch telegraphed to a clergyman at Omaha. —A woman with a red petticoat, walk ing on the Boston and Maine railroad track, was so much like a danger signal that a distant engineer stopped his train. —A Rochester widow, long after re ceiving aid from the Overseer of the poor, was found to own the house in which she lived and $1,500 in a hank. —The First National Bank of New York is Secretary Sherman’s favorite in stitution. It has a capital ol $500,000 and the official report shows that it cleared $1,200,000 last year. It would seem that the bank didn’t lose anything by its liberal deposits from the Treasury. —A man had a tooth extracted by a Chicago dentist and expressed regret for the loss. A girl whose jaws were over crowded with teeth entered the office to have two of them taken out. The den- Haine Allairs. Maine telegrams from Boston and Port land represent one side scared and the other frightened in the Maine controversy. The Republican? were preparing to bring the Legislative organization before the Supreme Court of the State on application for a writ of injunction restraining the Treasurer from paying the mileage and per diem of members. There was only one Republican member in either House yesterday. In the House, Swann, one of the bribed members, who had been bought out as set favored Port Royal. I have always con-1 An Extraordinary Mandate. tended for a port .in my own State-Sa- A special dispatch to the St. Loui: vannah or Brunswick. The matter lias ~ , been open all the time, and one or two W° he ' democrat states that Cardinal advances have been made. A short time ' McCloskey has issued a decree that paro- ago Mr. Wadley invited Colonel Cole and ! cliial schools shall be established as soon Cole had never been to Savannah and P re a ^ e concludes Ins ukase as follows, agreed to go. A carful examination of Now, it is our will and command that where there is a Catholic school in the the harbor, facilities, and of the foreign trade already built up there convinced : parish, parents and guardians in such him that it was what we wanted, and ne- j places must send their children or wards gotiations were opened and closed in the ] who are under nine years of age to such contract announced.” • | Catholic school, and we hereby direct “What was the necessity for the consoli- ! that this obligation be enforced under pain dation of these lines?” * of refusal of absolution in the sacrament Simply that we ‘ felt that the South j of penance. This decree will take effect forth in his affidavit of the day before, rose j ought to compete with the Northern lines on the first day of January, 1SS0. to a question of privilege, to set on foot a ( for the export trade. There are four) There is great excitement among the legislative investigation. He gave the Wv Yor™ Ce£ i ^^^PoP^a^onof L °uisville,in conse- tral, the Erie, the Pennsylvania Central j fiuenceofthisspiritualpror.unciamento, as and the Baltimore and Ohio. Each of; no less than seven thousand Catholic cliil- name of the party from whom he received the thousand dollars as Wallace R. White, a Republican lawyer of the town of Win throp. Rich developments were expected in the investigation. The Republicans held a long conference in Senator Blaine’s house on Thursday night, and the telegrams represent the ex citement and uneasiness increasing on both sides. The Portland telegram says that Blaine had a fit on Wednesday night, and physicians were with him five hours. This is the second attack of the same cerebral character which the Senator has tist suggested the experiment of trans-, ferring one of these sound teeth to the va-j ^ md “ the *** one in 18T7 > resulting cancy in the man’s mouth, and the opera-: from the combined excitements of the tion was performed with success, the ! Peking presidential nomination and the tooth growing fast and firm in ten days, j Credit ^obilier charges against him. The -It is a notable fact that prospective ! Senator should 001131111 the re P<*eof pri- Govemor Davis, of Maine, who is to be I vate . ,ife ' He ls in a dan S erous "V saved, if saved at all, by upsetting the ! P^y sica “y* false counting of the Returning Board, M for tbe Mame busraess notbln S S°° d was one of the committee of the Maine h ,ike, y « row outofit > unless !t ma y be Senate that counted out Senator Madi- * anotlier demonstration that sharp practice gan, Democrat, exactly in the fashion j ls »U urlous a11 rorad - Tire Republicans, adopted and imitated by Governor Garce-! in tbe P ride 01 strength, have put in the Ion to countout Davis now. How evil I form of law a machil19 for Paging the chickens come home to roost! —The Democratic State committee of Ohio has concluded not to have any con vention for the election of delegates to the National Convention. The commit tee will name the four delegates at large —it will come handier—and allow the Maine Legislature of Democrats, should they happen to step in. The Fusionists have availed themselves of it to purge out Republicans. It is claimed, we doubt not truly, that every decision of the canvass ing board rejecting a Republican this year, is sustained by ample precedent in the re- Congressional districts to name their own J ection of Democrats heretofore. But a legal quibble or informality does not touch the root of the matter—which delegates in their own way. This will avoid a quarrel and make it unlikely that anybody will have a solid delegation from ; is > tbe representative rights of the man that State. i who has received the greater number of -The New York Herald says Europe ! ,e S al votes - There 13 rarel >' a canvass in pays annually eight hundred millions of wUch «'is point is in any serious doubt; dollars for the rare luxury of being pre- and no man should accept a position to pared lor war. It systematically accepts ! wbich he bas 110t ** en elected, and no the waste of war as the most effective 0011 lend itself t0 a defeat of tbe method of avoiding that waste. It acts ' P°P ular will > under an y P retence witbout upon a system which, taking together the dis S race - A11 sucb sharp practice will re years of any one generation of men, coil on the heads of its authors at last, makes the comparison of burdens as be- 360 in tbe Gt °be-Democrat, (Rep.,) tween constant peace and au occasional of tbe ^ tb histant, the following para- war to be in favor of war. It makes : S ra P b: peace the more costly of the two. In : Very appropriately, the first bill intro- , duced in the Ohio Legislature on the oc- thirty years a peace such as Europe now casion of its assembling on Monday was possesses would cost twenty-four thou- ; one for the apportionment of the State sand millions of dollars. into Congressional districts. It re-enacts —Mr Tildes on the TirnmTmr i - !theo,d apportionment as it stood before ALR. iiLDENONTirE iniRD 1erm>- . the Dem0( . ratic gerrymander, and will The Sun says Mr. Tilden does not hesi- give the Republicans the clear majority tate always. He has very positive comnc- in the-.Congressional delegation to which tions about the danger of a third term, j tbe y are f airiy entitled. He spoke like a patriot when he said:! TheTJemocratic gerrymander, so called, “It is the duty of every sincere lover of supplanted a “Republican gerrymander” Republican institutions to do his utmost' so enormous as to be without defense or to -prevent the re-election of General Grant. For my part,” he continued, “I will do everythingl can to secure the elec tion of the man who may be agreed upon by the opponents of the third term con spiracy as the best candidate to unite the conservative elements of all parties. If a apology. It left the Ohio Democrats, when in a majority in the State, with four to six representatives in Congress out of twenty. If the Democrats in redistrict ing the State were guilty of similar injustice they only paved the way for the proceed ing now threatened, which, in due time, third term can be conferred upon Grant, a! win be followed by a reversal of perhaps fourth and fifth will be. In short, Grant’s the same character. Absolute justice and installment in the White House in 1881 means the empire.” —Mb. Wood’s Low Interest Pro ject.—A Washington special says Fer nando Wood has made a visit to New York, and is impressed with the opinion that the tlnee-and-a-half per cent govern ment bonds may be sold at par. He has equality of rights and dealings is the only true, righteous and sensible foundation for party action. Honesty is the best policy n politics as in trade. More'of the Great Railroad Consolr dation. Colonel Cole went from Savannah to revised the bill introduced by him before * Augusta, and was there interviewed by a the recess, providing for refunding of the ! representative of the Chronicle and Con- outstanding debt into bonds of this char- J etitulionalist, and reiterated all that he acter, and will reintroduce it at the ear-1 said 1o one ol> ed itors of this paper, liest opportunity. Mr. Wood will oppose and wbicb been duly published, the passage of any law to increase the! Among other things he remarked that funding operations of the government that railroad combinations are sometimes con- does not reduce the rate of interest. There der ? n , ed a® monopolies, bu ? be was satis - , . „ ,, lied that he would convince everybody are some persons who believe that Mr. j along thc n ne of his route that they are Wood is encouraged in his scheme by hoi- [ a blessing instead of a curse. With the ders of large blocks of four-per-cents, as j increase of Uirough business that would these lines pierces the West, and it is un der the control of one man. He says “do” and everything moves. The trade that they do is enormous. They have virtu ally unlocked the West and made valua ble exports of com that years ago was used as fuel for the lack of a market. The South has never had any greai line to the ocean. It is true we have had continu ous lines from the West to the ocean, but they have always been under a half dozen diflerent managements, usually antago nistic or jealous of each other. The work lias been insufficient and uncertain. We have here a line that is virtually under one control from St. Louis to Savannah, while the same line has its steamships to ply the ocean. “You tliink, then, that you can com pete with the northern lines ?” “Why can’t we ? We have a line that is 300 miles shorter from St. Louis (which is the great center of the west) to our port than New York Central is to its port. And then, pro-rating the water line from Sa vannah to New York at three miles of water for one of rail, we have a line that is seventy miles shorter from St. Louis to NewYork than the Pennsylvania Central. Our roads, when laid with steel rails, cost about $1S,000 a mile, while the northern cost average in some places $24,000 a mile. We thus have less capital invested, and less to pay dividends on. Then our line is open all the year around, while many of the northern lines are blocked with ice and snow many times during the year. We have eveiy advantage, it seems to me, except experience, and that we will get veiy rapidly. The trouble is that there has been a general impression that “tbe South” cannot do these things. The only reason is that we have never before had a line to do it with. We propose to do it now. Governor Brown and Colonel Cole are of the opinion that the new combination will help Atlanta and Macon, as contrary to past railway experiences at the South, the volume of through freights will be so vast and remunerative, that the Compa ny can afford to reduce local freights and fares to the lowest possible figure, for the benefit of the towns and cities situated along the line of route. No discrimina tions of any kind will be permitted. If all the promises made are redeem ed in good faith, we can see no reason why the whole State will not be better off than ever before, while our chief seaport will be greatly benefited. One effect al ready, has been to put over a half million of dollars into the pockets of the stock holders of the Central Railroad, many of whom are helpless orphans and widows. dren are pupils of the public schools. Our Catholic friends here, say, that some cause which does not transpire must have in duced this extraordinary decree. Happily, in Macon there is no disagreement what ever in the premises. The Catholic chil dren are provided with a school of their own, but very many of them attend the other public schools. Such controversies and discriminations are greatly to be dep recated in tliis republican country. What breaks the heart of the average countryman is that distressing anxiety to prevent a ruinous inflation of non-legal- tender trreenbacks, in order to fill the vacuum with the bills of “specie paying local banks.” If the proposition was to bring his old specie paying bank bill re serves into circulation again, he might find some consolation. What with the stores of these old bills left on hand, and the remains of the Confederate currency, there is still a large amount of paper once used for circulation, remaining on hand, which the hand of resurrection might re vive to the great convenience of holders. But so long as they remain mute though eloquent, witnesses of loss and failure, the countryman dreads a repetition of such experiments. He sees a thousand dangers of inflation from the revival of local banks to one of an over-issue of Treasury notes, and ten thousand dangers of loss from insolvency on the money of local banks to one of loss from insolvency in the national treasury notes. All these alarms for the people— and all these passionate appeals for hard money which squint towards a revival of a speculative currency owned by private cor porations are snakes in the grass. • The Great Unwritten law. The supervising architects of the move ment for the nomination of General Grant for a third term, says the Philadelphia Times, are popularly believed to be Ros- coe Conkling, Senator from New York, and J. Donald Cameron, Senator from Pennsylvania. The Republicans of these States are expected to give the movement an impetus which will send it over smaller States in a ground-swell defying opposi tion. In view of this fact, it is interest ing to recall what the Republicans of the States of Conkling and Cameron thought of the third term idea a year or two ago, On the 8th of September, 1875, the Re publicans of New York, assembled in con vention at Saratoga, unanimously Resolved, That tee declare our unalter able opposition to the election of any Presidentfor a third term. The Republicans of Pennsylvania were as explicit but not so laconic when, in the State convention of 1S75-6, they also Resolved, That vie declare a firm and unqualified adherence to the unwritten law of the Republic, which wisely, and under the sanction of the most venerable examples, limits the Presidential service of any citixen to two terms ; and we, the Republicans of Pennsylvania, in recogni tion of this law, are unalterably opposed to the election to the Presidency of any personfor a third tern. Hard Times Still in England. A correspondent of the Manchester Ex aminer (English) says it is reliably stated that in nineteen districts extending from Ashton to Blackburn and Burnley, there are 259,718 looms, and of these only 200,- 838 work on full time, and 23,924 have stopped. This shows a deficiency of 52,- S79 looms either stopped or working on short time or without employment—besides all the winders, beamers, warpers, etc. attendant upon their working. The reaction on this side of the water and geqeral revival in every branch of in dustry, does not seem thus far to have been shared to any great extent in Great Britain. As a consequence emigration has materially increased and'failures con tinue to be announced almost daily. The poor in Europe are suffering terribly also from the severe cold and scarcity of food, We trust the benevolently disposed in America will open their hearts for the re lief of these unfortunates. Considerable sums have already been raised for that purpose, and the good work still goes on, a favorable consideration of it would give this class of bonds a vigorous boost. —Garcelon, of Maine, is seventy-two years of age, and is thus further described by one who knows and admires him: “All his life he has been the recipient of high honors in his profession, and looked up to as a man of deep erudition in matters sur gical. He is thoroughly honest, a capital physician, and exceedingly kind-hearted, and has hosts of friends all over the State. He is noted for his integrity, and when he is Snce satisfied of the right he will not be swerved from his purpose. He is too old a man to do anything that would make a blot upon such an upright life. Men hardly live so long in the world as he without their grosser nature cropping out, if such exists iu them; and Garcelon has always been a man of uprightness and integrity.” —Inexorably Polygamous.—The Mormons held a three days’ meeting in their new tabernacle in Salt Lake City, beginning last Saturday and terminating on the 5th. They all renewed their pledges to the plural wife system. Before the close of the services Apostle President Taylor attacked the enemies of polygamy, severely censuring the nation for opposi result from the combination, he would be enabled to reduce the local freight tariffs, thereby beuefitting the people. He in tended to make thc combination popular. Short lines were obliged to make their local tariffs high on account of the want of sufficient through business, but with long lines it was different. Governor Brown, who had managed the Western and Atlantic Railroad with great ability and eminent success, and to the complete satisfaction of the lessees and the people, the road being very popular, while heartily approving the combination, would not permit any discrimination to be made against any connecting lines, even if he (Colonel Cole) would allow such a thing, which he most emphatically would not. The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway would stand on the same footing with regard to the Western and Atlantic Railroad as the Georgia Railroad or any other connection. All would be treated with equal fairness. Governor Brown, who was a Georgian, and natural ly solicitous for the welfare of Georgia, had asked him for two years to go to a Georgia port, and this he was very glad to do. He (Colonel Cole) had assured General Alexander, president of the Georgia rail road, with whom he had conversed a short time previously, that he desired to work in harmony with and act with complete fair ness to all competing lines. He was going to Chattanooga Thursday, to meet the president of the Cincinnati Southern rail way and expected to give him tbe same as- tion to the choice institution of Mormon- surance. Although the Western and At- ism, which, he maintained, was a divine lantic was necessarily a link in the line institution, saying the Lord had told him frnm St T -'" ,!a H wnulrl slmw so and made Imn become a polygamist. Now he wanted to see whether Heaven or Uncle Sam was going to prevail; for his part he was going to stick to the Lord. He insisted that polygamy was the true exer cise of the Latter Day faith, and defied the United States to abolish it. He avercd that no nation on earth could pre vent it, nor all the nations combined. The •tabernacle was crowded. He called for an expression from the audience, which em braced five thousand people at least, ask ing them to raise their right hands before God if they sympathized with him in his defiance of governmental interference. The enthusiasm was intense. All hands but one went up. Mothers even lifted jaloft the hands of their children. Apostle Joseph T. Smith followed, speaking in the same strain and exhibiting the same defi ant attitude. The whole affair now sim mers down to the question. Shall Presi dent Hayes and Congress submit to this impudent bluff’, or shall they advance with civilization and sweep off this foul blot of barbarism from domain of the United : tales. i —Colonel W. T. Thompson, the veteran editor of the Savannah News, was the re cipient of a handsome gold headed cane, ^Wednesday night at midnight, from the compositors. It was a fitting occasion, too, as it was the thirtieth anniversary of bis editorship of that journal. “Speaking of coughing,” says Mrs. Partington, “some will cough till their fa<*e gets black and blue and never think >f buying a bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Jyrup.” from St. Louis to Savannah, it would show tho same fairness to all connections with out discrimination in favor of any. Colonel Cole believes that the line will be an eminent success, and that it will be a very popular institution. WHAT GOVERNOR BROWN HAS TO SAY ON THE SUBJECT. The Governor upon arriving at Atlanta and being asked by a reporter of the Con stitution who were the leasing parties, re plied as follows: “There has been no lease made. There is some doubt as to whether there could be any lease, and in order to be perfectly safe, a contract was entered into by which the Central company passed its property into the control of the Nashville, Chatta nooga and St. Louis railway. The com pany agreed tarun the road, manage it and turn over the earnings to the Central company to pay its dividend debts, etc., with. It is not a lease, bnt simply a trans fer of the management of the road.” - “Who were the contracting parties?” “The Central railroad company and the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway. Of course tiffs trade was made dependent on the concurrence of the Western and Atlantic company. Colonel Cole and myself were able to give this concurrence, as we own a controlling amount of the stock in the lease. It can be said, however, that our directors agree with our views.” A MATTER THAT HAS BEEN LONG CON SIDERED. “How came the contract to be made?” “Colonel Cole and myself have been looking for a line from the West to the ocean for several years. He has always and doing, A Specimen Brick of Radical Impu* dence. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat is re sponsible for the following precious mor- ceah respecting the Garcelon muddle: We suspect some waggery in the tele graphic dispatch announcing the refusal of one of the Democrats who have been counted into the Legislature by Governor Garcelon, to claim his seat. Either the Press Agent was made the victim of a joke, or the declining member is a wag, who hopes to immortalize himself by do ing what no Democrat ever dreamed of doing before. To suppose that he declines in good faith because he knows that he was not elected, would imply the he has a conscience; but if he had such a precious possession he would not be a Democrat. We prefer to wait until further returns are received before believing this story. Talk of conscience, after the display of that ethereal element by the eight Repub lican members of the High Commission, which ruled Tilden out and counted Hayes in? or the exhibition of the same intangi ble but potent influence by the bogus President himself, when he rewarded the villains in Florida, Loui liana and South Carolina, who falsified the election re turns and gave him the electoral votes of these States? Alas, for the consistency of such twaddle. A Hew Thing Under the Sun. France has actually begap to establish agricultural schools for girls. One of the chief is near Rouen, which is said to have begun with a capital of one franc by a Sis ter of Charity and two little discharged prisoner girls, and to be now worth $165,- 000. This establishment has 300 girls from six to eighteen. The farm, entirely cultivated by them, is over 400 acres in extent. Twenty-five Sisters form the staff of teachers. More than one med al of the French Agricultural So ciety has been awarded to this es tablishment at Dametel, and the pu pils are in great demand all over Normandy on account of their skill. They go out as stewards, gardeners, farm man agers, daily women and laundresses, Each girl has on leaving an outfit and a small sum of money, earned in spare hours. If they want a home they canal ways return to Dametel, which they are taught to regard as home. Similar institutions in this country would prove a blessing and means of em ployment and support to the thousands of females, who, though willing to work, can find nothing to do. The Time is Short. We trust the friends of the Macon and Brunswick Road will spare no pains to procure its lease and extension under the late law, next Tuesday. They must be prepared, if possible, to combat success fully every attempt of the two roads which, until their recent consolidation, were both eager to secure the prize, to defeat the lease, should this be their line of action. We do not know that any such effort will be made, however, as Colonel Cole stated that he had no further interest in the matter, and would offer no opposition to the project. On the contrary, he declared that the Macon and Brunswick Railroad should have every right and privilege ex tended to it that was granted to the South western or any of the other branches of the Central. But still, there may be adverse influ ences at work, and forewarned it is well to be forearmed. There are no new de velopments on the subject, and Messrs. Paine* Co. seem painfully reticent. Will they not come to the scratch is the anxious inquiry? We hope so, if they have the ability to make good their promises. The Cincinnati Southern is the only other chance that remains so far as we are advised, unless the capitalists of Ma con and Southern Georgia make a supreme effort and come to the rescue. Tbe time The Spirits in Convention. A large convention of spiritualists was held on the fourth of January at Water- bury, Vermont. The exercises embraced speeches by Mrs. Fannie Smith, of Bran don, and Mrs. Wood, of Burlington, an impromptu song by Mrs. Manchester, of Randolph, impromptu poems by Miss Jennie Hagan, of Royal ton, and a seance in which Mrs. Wilson pretended to read character and foretell future events. It will be seen that the feminine element predominated largely in the above pro gramme. Mercy! what a caterwauling must there have been when all of these sisters mingled their unearthly voices to gether. The South is to be congratulated that none of this blasphemous mummery is tolerated in our midst. Such nonsense is pretty much confined to that fanatical abode of the “isms” New England. Colonel Cole’s Ten Strike. So far as we can learn, very little oppo sition is manifested in this city to the great railroad coalition which has just been formed. The feeling is, that it will be a change for the better and can in no event injure Macon. Indeed, lower freights and larger receipts of cotton the ,next season, are regarded among the probable results. Atlanta is said to be greatly disgruntled, as she will no longer be to the same extent the distributing point that she was previously. It is even hinted that an attempt will be made to eqjoin the contract or lease, on constitutional grounds. But no im portance is attached to the movement, which the best lawyers consider to be un tenable. German Opposition to the Third Term The German opposition to the third term movement is assuming a very deter mined and formidable character. From Missouri to Pennsylvania this population are presenting a united and uncompro mising front against -it, as essentially anti-republican in its "true meaning. There is no important city in that whole scope of country in which very menacing demonstrations are not visible, and unless some important change in opinion and feeling can be brought about, the stalwarts will be confronted next month, when it is proposed to select a majority of the Nor thern and Western delegates to the Chi cago convention, with the alternative of taking the back-track or hazarding a can vass with thc German element arrayed in opposition to their nominee. This ele ment favors Washbume, principally. Meanwhile, the Grant men are display ing their usual indomitable pluck. At present they have no thought of backing down. They insist, as the key note of their policy, on pressing the election of Northern and Western delegates next month, three months before the session of the convention, so as to take advantage of the Grant boom in its highest altitude, and to make Grant’s nomination demon strably certain as early as possible. They are sanguine that so soon as a majority of Grant delegates have been irrevocably se cured, work of acquiescence in the inevita ble will go on rapidly and the public mind speedily become reconciled to the idea. On the other hand, this needless and extraordinary precipitation in the selec tion of delegates, is giving great dissatis faction to the anti-third term element and movements looking to a revolt arc in pro gress in several States. The Macon and Brunswick Railroad lease. An ominous quiet prevails on this ques tion which is so vitally important to the city of Macon and Southern Georgia. The big “contract,” lease, consolidation, coalition, or call it what you please, of Colonel Cole, with the roads represented by Governor Brown and Colonel Wad- ley, seems to have taken the wind out of the sails of the Brunswick enterprise. Doubtless it is to the.in terest of the new organization now known as the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad, to kill off the propos ed lease or sale, albeit they assert and we believe axe sincere, that no invidious dis criminations of any kind will be made against it. But they will of course be bidders no longer for the lease, and this in itself casts a wet blanket over the con cern. All that we could gather yesterday on the subject was the fact that Mr. Stanton had written that he would certainly be here on Monday to prosecute his claim, or perhaps make a fresh bid if necessary. Nothing lias been heard from the Cin cinnati Southern, or the committee ap pointed by the late convention to solicit subscriptions. If Mr. Stanton or any other reliable party will lease the road and extend it to Covington, Macon and Brunswick would be blind indeed, if they did not realize the fact that this was their supreme “opportu nity.” Now that the Western and Atlan tic gateway from the West has been closed,the necessity is greater than ever for thc opening up of the new route via Knox ville and Cincinnati, and to this consum mation should our people bend their every energy. Think of Macon being permeated by two of the grandest thoroughfares in the Union, each transporting many millions worth of produce annually. One astute citizen declares that the effect from the impetus given to every branch of business would be to double our population in a short time. Then, too, we should have in reality that healthy competition between the two lines, which is so much to be de sired. We can but hope that the late railroad consolidation will hasten the day when the Cincinnati connection will be an ac complished fact. Interesting Reminiscences of the ( How They Dislike Their Own Medi- -Big Speculations-ti* Buffalo Dr. Bullie (JamesHolmes,M. D.) irra- J One of the Maine 11 Republican papers Wlf esTa^m^e^ diates two columns of the last number of. lugubriously exclaims • si n ooo noo t? ,, e’ 000 ’ 000 ’ Ja y Gould the Darien Timber Gazette, one of the | “Never before in our history has an Utc., ms^rc'pJtTe ’ 000 ’ 000 ’^ newsiest weekln*«i in tli* Ktnfn witTi * armed man neen seen w tliin newsiest weeklies in thc State, with 1 armed man been seen within the walls of ; j”'”’ Jear ’ sounds P rett y charming sketches of St. Simons and i that buildin Sj devoted by our fathers to . “ th< -J ^ bcld what they Cumberland Mauds, in the blessed days lic sc A„ da i that at the very portals 5f a them greatly, and they doubtless took fuU of old, when the sea coast .of Georgia was | building thus consecrated armed senti- " - * ss.ooktull inhabited by some of the noblest families nels should be pacing, and that passwords, that ever gave tone to the societv of any inspections and signals are requisite to ad- T> , r VT . . , * • mission withm its walls. Free laws can country. Mr. P. M. Nightengale, Thomas U0 (; fce enacted under the pressure of Bryan, Colonel Dubignon, General: armed forces, and it is a cruel mockery Charles Floyd, Caatain Bourke, Roswell for the Legislature of Maine to assemble with such surroundings.” King, Mr. John Couper and his accom plished son, James Hamilton Couper, Dr. Wm. McWhir and others, were among the dramatis personae who figured in the so cial events and picturesque descriptions which are so naively portrayed in this letter of the Doctor. The writer is familiar with the leafy coverts, palmetto savannas, and bosky dells ofthose lovely island retreats which were the abode of a hospitality that knew no limit. Alas! every one of the gentlement above named, together with Thomas Spalding, Dr Troup, James Dunwody, Mr. Brails- ford, Colonel McIntosh, Colonel Joseph Law, Colonel William Maxwell, Senator John Elliot, Thomas Clay, the McAllis ters, and scores of others who might be mentioned have been gathered to their fathers, and the war has scattered their descendents from the Atlantic to the Pa cific Ocean. But their memories are still fondly cherished,aud to “Dr. Bullie’s” more than any other single person, is the country in debted for resurrecting half-foigotten facts, fading traditions and many a stir ring tale ofthose days. He has indeed been the literary “Old Mortality” who has freshened and beauti fied eveiy incident, sounded the praises of the worthy departed, rescued their graves from oblivion, and then embalmed his lucubrations in*print to endure forever. It is sad to reflect that the chronicler of these interesting “reminiscences” is himself now in the “sere and autumn leaf of life.’ Soon his delightful talk of the past and of those who were the peers of any in the land, will be heard no longer, and our friend, and our father’s friend, must take his departure to that “bourne from whence no traveler returns.” May be live to complete thc biographies, and reproduce all the sayings and adventures of the noble generation that has passed away. To this the waggish Courier-Journal responds: True enough ; butTiow these very fel lows shouted with joy when Federal sol diers clanged their sabres and bayonets in the State Houses of Louisiana and South Carolina In 1S76. They declared that such soldierly absolution was the only way in which to treat Democrats and they applauded the Republican Adminis tration, ‘which committed the crime against public liberty. Perhaps the mili tarism of Garcelon will make them a little decent, although it seems impossible for a Republican to understand what a Repub lican form of government is or to be to a slight degree tolerant of the views of other people. A Good Orange Crop. It is said that the orange crop in Flori da the present season will exceed by twenty per cent, that of last year. Those who affect to know, predict that there will be a still further increase of twenty-five per cent, the ensuing year. But there is no limit to the consumption of this deli cious fruit,and the oranges of America are far sweeter and superior to those grown in Spain and the East. In the Name of Liberty. The tyrannies committed in the name of liberty, have become proverbial and tlireaten to grow fast. The New York Tribune furnishes an illustration thus: The State of Massachusetts prohibits any person from working more than ten hours per diem in a cotton mill, but it makes the corporation permitting such person so to labor the guilty party, and in flicts a fine'for the offense. It said that some of the cotton mills in Fall River sys tematically ignore the law, and average more hours to the day than the law al lows. So the State policemen have been set to watch their operations clandes tinely. One of these officers looked through a window every day for a week, and saw a woman who, in the course of the week, workedslxty-four hours and nine min utes, instead of sixty hours, the limit fixed by law. The corporation was duly com plained of, and the woman herself was summoned as a witness. She proved to be an unwilling one. She had no griev ance—she had worked no more hours than she desired to work, and declared on oath that she had never been hired by any officer of the mill tQ work more than sixty hours a week. But the law was imperative, and the respondent corpora tion was fined $30 and costs. Thus Massachusetts will not permit her freemen and freewomen to control their own time. A poor woman wishing to in crease her earnings is not permitted to do She is watched by a detective sixty- four hours and nine minutes (be particu lar about the minutes), in the course of one week, “through a window,” to see that she does not exceed the sixty hours of labor which she is permitted by law to do, and the idle detective is able to pock- tbirty dollars for this piece of espionage out of her employers. But take the aver age housewives and domestic servants in Massachusetts, and no doubt they labor more than ninety hours in the week. Why should the Bay State permit this ? Why interfere in the case of cotton and woolen mills alone, if interference is right? , Giving Up the Cental System. The members of the New York Produce Exchange voted on Wednesday last to postpone indefinitely the adoption of the cental system, the ballot standiug 771 in favor of postponement and 168 against it. At the last “call” of the grain trade a mo tion was made that no dealings should be made in centals; this was approved by one combined shout. Mr. Clapp pro posed “three cheers for the downfall of the cental system,” and they were given heartily. There was great rejoicing among the members. This is a practical demonstration of the unwisdom of interference with the stand ard weights, measures and currency of a country under the fallacious idsa of con sulting public utility and convenience. True, a common world currency, weight and measurement would better subserve the convenience of foreign interchange; but these interchanges are trifling in num ber compared with those of a domestic character, and they are made by men so familiar with the whole work of inter-con- version that they suffer no serious em barrassment from it. On the other hand, to compel the great body of the people to discard all the standards to which they have been accustomed for a life time, and puzzle their brains with foreign weights, measurements and coinage is a stupen dous infliction. Down With Protection.” A year ago it was gravely asserted that the price of quinine would be enhanced by the removal of the duties upon the cinchona bark, from which it is manufac tured. The big Philadelphia house, which pretty much enjoyed a monopoly of the business, even threatened to] withdraw from the trade when the repeal measure was introduced. But it thought better of the matter afterwards, even though the tax upon the consumer, amounting to near a million dollars which was levied for the benefit of the manufacturer, had been removed. As an inevitable result the drug now sells but for $2.60 an ounce, against $3.70 at the date of the removal of the duty. If thc axe of reform could be laid to the root of many other articles of prime necessity, upon which very high duties are imposed by the present tariff for pro tection, the people would be correspond ingly better off. It is palpably wrong to build up or favor one class at the cost of the entire community. A fair direct tax, is by far the most equitable method of raising tho necessary revenue for the support of the govern ment. But the public would require to be educated to that belief, and our aver age politician or statesmen has not nerve enough to attempt the task. A Roland for an Oliver. We print the following without com ment: Atlanta, Ga.. January 8,1880. Editors Telegraph and Messenger:— As a friend, I am happy to congratulate Macon and her people that she is no longer “ Wadley’s Cross Roads,” and think the cross roads ore now transferred, and that Atlanta will henceforth be known as Cole’s and Brown’s cross roads, and will be one of their way stations. Respectfully, . Cross Roads. A Miner’s Strike in Virginia. The Kanawha coal mines in West Vir ginia are now threatened with troubles similar to those in Pennsylvania a few years ago. Two trains on the Chesa peake and Ohio Railroad were seized on the Sth and 9th instants, and forced to convey forces of rioters to points where force and terrorism were necessary to stop work by non-strikers. RALSTON U ALL. —The population of our globe, estima ted at about thirteen hundred millions, is ruled by twelve emperors, twenty-five kings, forty-seven princes, seventeen sul tans, twelve khans, six grand dukes, six dukes, one vice-king, one nisam, one radia, I one imam, one. bey, and twenty-eight J 3 P ec!al le « er ^ 01 tbanks and indorsation of presidents, besides a large number or Grant on the Legal Tender.—A Washington special says: An interesting fact in regard to Grant’s record on the legal tender question has recently trans pired. The first decision of the United States Supreme Court on the legal tender cases was to the effect that the issue of legal tender paper was unconstitutional far as related to the payment of past contracts. From this decision Justice Miller dissented, upholding in the ex- tremest and fullest form the constitution ality of legal tender notes. President Grant thereupon wrote to Justice Miller a chief, rflM tribes. Of,he republic* • Cardinal McClosky’s Edict. The Boston Advertiser intimates that Catholic people can be refused absolution for simply obeying the laws of the land, the next step will be to refuse the sacra ment to those who pay the school tax. It affirms also that the Cardinal’s position is untenable, canonically, theologically and legally, and should his diocese appeal to the higher authorities of the chinch the “decree” would not be sustained. In reply to the Advertiser the Courier- Journal pointedly remarks; Bishop McCloskey simply proposes that the earlier years of the child shall be passed in church schools. After nine years of age they are at liberty to attend other schools. If the Roman Catholic author ities choose to go to the expense of keep- up parochial schools and giving the children an elementary education, then they are at perfect liberty to do so. The Lutherans in this country hare their own parochial schools in preference to public schools and the arrangement is Cuming into favor among other denominations of Christians. If Bishop McCloskey is “striking a blow at the public school sys tem in this country,” as many newspapers assert, a good many other churches are doing the same thing. There is no law in this country preventing parochial schools, and when there exists such a law we will hare come under a despotic government. The public schools were established for the benefit of the people, but we cannot sec why any should be forced to attend them. IfCatliolicsgoto the expense of establishing their own schools while sub mitting to the taxation ordered to support the public school system, outsiders have nothing to do with the rulings of their church enforcing attendance upon these Lady Challoner Last Evening;. The farewell performance of Miss Herndon was given last evening at Ral ston Hall, when the English drama of “Lady Challoner, or Maud’s Peril,” was presented to the largest Saturday evening audience that has assembled in the Hall in two years. The audience was a re markably good one, and composed of the best of our theatre goers, showing conclu sively that Macon knows how and when to recognize talent. The play presented is one of the most strongly wrought no.w on the stage and full of thrilling passages. The climaxes are worked up with consummate skill. The requirements made of those filling the leading roles are very great, hut were fully met last evening. The story is one which finds exemplification in every day life sometimes. An absent lover, “Gerald Gwynn,” is reported dead and “Maud,” the heroine, marries “Sir Ralph Challoner.” ‘Gerald Gwynn” returns and urges the flight of the young wife. She refuses “Sir Ralph” becomes jealous of “Gerald” and attempts his assassination through another, but is himself wounded and rob bed by the assassin who flees. “Gerald” appears on the scene and is accused of the attempted murder by “Sir Ralph.” At last the mists which cloud the scene are cleared away, “Lady Challoner’s” honor i3 vindicated, and “Sir Ralph,” dying ac quits his enemy of wronging him and gives his benediction to the lovers of ear- lieryears. In some of the scenes the greatest scope is given for intense emotional acting. As Lady Challoner last evening, Miss Herndon displayed rare ability. Her stags presence at times is grand and is striking throughout. Her acting is par ticularly graceful and pauses and posi tions statuesque in their grace. In the sleep-walking scene Miss Herndon’s act ing was truly artistic, and in this scene she simply carried her audience away. Tho waking on the stage was very natu ral. She was honored with several calls before the curtain. The -‘Sir Ralph” of Mr. Leonard Outram was a very finished piece of act ing and could not fail of many admirers. Mr. Abbott as “Gerald Gwynn,” sus tained the role with great ability. It is no easy role, but in his hands, was well done. The other characters, Miss ]Sefton (Miss Darcy) especially, were well up to the requirements. The dressing of the play was excellent- Miss Herndon’s engagement has afforded much pleasure. We are pleased to note that Macon may have the pleasure of seeing her again later in the season. Securities in Columria.—The fol lowing securities were sold at auction in Columbia on Monday last: Certificate Canal slock South Carolina, No. 403, for $477.50, sold for $S.70. Six shares Charlotte, Columbia and Au gusta railroad stock, par value $000, sold for $16.25 per share. Two Blue Ridge railroad bonds, $2,000, sold for 5 cents on the dollar. Twenty-six coupons from same, par value $840,2 cents on the dollar. Ltitle Bonanza warrants, par $23,512.50 sold for $320 for the lot. Revenue Bond scrip, par $18,000, sold for $95 for the lot. Commercial Bank notes, par $10,780, sold for $70 for the lot. School claims against Kershaw county, par $377.50, sold for 27 per cent. Twenty-three hundred and forty dol lars bills Bank of Camden; sold for 1 per cent. Twenty shares stock Fanners’ Fertilizer Company, par $2,000, and seventeen shares Wando Mining Manufacturing Company, par $1,700, sold for $165 for the lot. —A bridegroom was belated at Roches ter, hnd the time appointed for the wed ding was over before he arrived in the city. In order not to miss the train on which the pair were to start on their hon eymoon tour, the bride and her friends met him at the station, and the ceremony was performed hurriedly on the platform. advantage of the advance. —The voice of the auctioneer was again heard in Plymouth Church last Monday night at the annual renting of the pews and aisle chairs. The storm diminished the usual attendance, the church not being more than one-half filled. Those who were present were there evidently for business, as shown in the promptitude in bidding. The total amount realized was $39,080, being a deficiency on the sale of last year of $1,641. —San Francisco shivered with the cold during the holiday week. Since 1840 such “phenomenal weather” has not been known in California. Fears are express ed that the much vaunted climate of the State is gradually undergoing a Radical change for the colder. Some recompense is found in the improved sanitary condi tion of San Francisco, where during the first week of the “cold snap” the death rate decreased nearly a half. —A Boston paper is responsible for the following alarming intelligence: Mr. P. S. Gilmore says: “I mean that “Colum bia” shall become a national hymn. If heaven spares my life, I shall go to Wash ington, place a large chorus in the gallery of the House of Bepresentatives, ask the President and Mrs. Hayes, together with the Cabinet, to be present, and, with a magnificent orchestra, I shall, then and there, produce “Columbia” in a manner that I am sure will induce Congress itself to place the national seal upon the compo sition.” —A New York letter says there have been several unusually large operations in real estate during the week, aggregating not far from $250,000. The property thus changing hands consists chiefly of unim proved lots in the vicinity of the Harlem River, and the purchasers are wealthy people, who intend to build elegant resi dences in that quarter in the course of the spring. The extension of the elevated rail road to the Harlem River, it is said, has added at least 25 per cent, to the value of these lots. Other large purchases are in contemplation, and some of these will probably be consummated in the course of the ensuing week.” —The pastor of one of the London churches is notorious for his nervousness. On a recent evening, having given out a hymn, he forgot to make an announce ment uutil the organ was pealing its loud est. “Oh, stop! stop! stop!” he cried, to the great surprise of the congregation. The organist pulled up very short. Then, with perspiration on his brow, the parson turned to the congregation and began: “During the singing of this collection the hymn will be devoted to the purpose of’ —— Then he saw his mistake. It was too late to mend it. He looked round in horror and paused, forgot what he was going to say, made a tremendous attempt to recover his memory, and, failing, cried with piteous plaintiveness: “The purpose of—what—what—I told you this morn ing.” The whole congregation burst into a loud laugh which no effort could re strain, and the remainder of the services was nothing more than a “merry noise.” —The Anti-Grant Fleet About to Sail.—A Washington dispatch to the New York World, says the anti-Grant element in the Republican party is be ginning to talk very bitterly. Halstead, Schurz & Co., intend to have a third-term resolution offered at the outset of the Na tional Convention, and are arranging for a bolt if it is not adopted. Meanwhile the Grant men are coolly loading their guns and preparing to take the State conventions seriatim as they occur. —Political.—Judge S. M. Dorr, one of the most prominent Republicans in Vermont, has written a long letter to the Rutland Herald, opposing the nomination of Grant: 1. Because of the bad prece dent set by a third term. 2. Because Grant’s administration was marked by corruption and serious administrative mis takes. 3. Because he thinks that the “spratchers” hold the balance of power in this State, and will vote almost to a man against Grant. Judge Dorr thinks that Senator Edmunds is the most eligible Re publican candidate. —It is beginning to be suspected at Washington that an effort will be made to packthe Chicago Convention with a lot of people instructed to make as much noise in behalf of Grant as possible. Chairman Cameron’s appointment of a sub-commit tee has aroused some, feeling on this point, and Mr. James P. Root, of Chicago, who expected to be on the sub-committee himself, has entered a protest in pretty strong language. The business will be arranged in the distribution of the tickets of admission, over which there is always more or less difficulty. It would not be an entirely novel sight to see the galleries of a national convention packed for the pur pose of running a candidate through on s tidal wave of popular sentiment made to order. —Editor Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commercial, who is visiting Secretary Sherman in Washington, told an inter viewer the other day that liis evening and morning prayer is that Grant will not be nominated. “But will you support him if he is?” he was asked. “That is yet an open question,” said Mr. Halstead. “I should hate to most awfully; and I am afraid that if the Democrats should nomi nate a man I like I would be liable to op pose Mr. Grant’s election. But I am afraid they won’t nominate a good man, and I would then be in the fix of the nig ger I read about. He went to a camp meeting, and the preacher said that there were two roads, one leading to hell and the other to damnation. “Lo’d a massy,” cried the darkey, “this nigger ’ll hab to take to de woods.” —A Washington letter says a pronoun ced Radical Republican, who has been spending a few weeks and the holidays at Cleveland, Ohio, has returned to this city with some very decided notions as to the feeling of the Buckeyes over Grant and the third term. 'He found that, since the recent open announcement of Grant’s wil lingness to ran again if he could receive the nomination, the quiet, determined op position to a third term in Ohio was de cidedly apparent and fatal to Grant’s can didacy in that State. Not only have all of the German papers of Ohio openly served notice that they will not support the issue of a third term, hut the natives- themselves, when canvassed on the streets of the city, are in a marked majority against Grant. The choice of the opposi tion is about evenly divided between Blaine and Sherman in the city, and over whelmingly in Blaine's favor in the conn- Fraud'and Suicide.—There was an parochial foundations. It is purely an 1 exposure in the New York Stock Ex- s try surrounding. He says that Grant’s is Tort To simceed, they must be up ! nineteen are round on American soil, leav- Si^dTb^B^T S^p lave I ecclesiastical affair, though we cannot en- j change yesterday-a heavy default of the nominatiou would give the State of Ohio OUVVV..U, ** F._ - - — - - - -• •» • . ^ 1. - .A *'* ° lj aL S-J 1? 1- I anil We rnrioMn i 0T6X tflC QPQIfly faU» mircwcu OlC ivunu uu 100111111", UT, DUIl S 13UIJV OyTUp glftTO j ’ » j ° * * i ing only nine for the rest of the world. | magical relief; said our neighbor. [ dorse the wisdom of such a course. * Secretary and his suicide.