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latft Week’s Cotton 'Figures.
Saturday’s New York Chronicle reports
the receipts of the seven days ending Jan
uary 2 at 154,300 bales, Against 143,155
daring tlie corresponding week of the cot
ton year 1S7&-8. Total receipts from
-A project is reported of a railway to 0«t of last September to that date 3,ICO,-
be carried across Paris, partly under- 855 bales, against 2,710,201 for the tor-
ground, and partly on the elevated responding period of the previousicotton
•* j - year—showing ait increase of 447,504
MACON, JANUARY , 1880.;
principle, connecting all the railway
termini. The plans have' been laid be
fore M. Grevy, who expresses great inter
est in the scheme.
—The Cuban authorities are making ar
rangements to give 'General Grant a fit
ting reception. Captain-General Blanco,
being absent from Havana, has instruc
ted the acljxtant to tender General Grant
the hospitalities of the palace, where
apartments are being prepared for him.
—Rat id Growth.—Wilmington, Del
aware, had a population of 13,000 in 1850,
and now the Gazette claims a population
for that thriving city of fully 45,000. The
area of the city has been increased in the
same time from 2,500 to 4,600 acres. Over
three thousand houses have been built
during the last ten years.
—De Lesseps readies Panama to find
that if it weren’t for the mountains there
would be no need of a canal at Panama.
Canal digging -under water would be a
little superfluous. Tlie circumstances of
tho water was not mentioned in the dis
patches, but it was there to receive De
Lesseps all the same and demonstrate tlie
absurdity of bis Panama canal.
—Hon. W. H. English, of Indianapolis,
Indiana, one of the most prominent Demo
crats of that region, says th it the immi
gration of freedmen to Indiana will help
his party, as not enough colored voters
" will go there to have their aggregate vote
count much, and the movement has al
ready excited the. jealousy of the poorer
classes of white laborers and will trnns-
, fer many of their votes to the Democrats.
—At a performance of the cantata of
“Esther,” at Dallas, Texas, Ahasuerus
was advised by somebody in the au
dience not to “cut it too fat.” The per-
sonator of the great Assyrian went to the
footlights and said: “This is a religious
show, and you’ll have to be decent. I’m
Ahasuerus just now, but after the show
I’m Sam Turner; and if any dufTcr would
liko to cut it fat then, I’ll give him a
mighty lively welcome.”
—Distress is Kansas.—Tlie Kansas
City Times is in receipt of letters from
Gove and Sheridan counties, Kansas, stat
ing that great and general distress pre
vails in that region Of the State. Owing
to tho arrival of many of the settlers in
the spring and summer of this year,"hnd
the drought in the early part of the sea
son, a number of the people are in very
destitute circumstances and must have
aid or starve.
—At a recent meeting of the Scottish
Food Reform Society, the company, to the
number of twenty, sat down to a repist,
consisting of six courses—lenti and barley
soup, haricot-bean pies, haricot-bean
omelets with sauce, homony pudding,
pearl mea'. pudding, and tapioca and ap
ples. The cost of the whole, exclusive of
cooking, came to S£d. perTiead.
—A Blast Against Grant.—The
Hon. Jacob Bomberger, a wealthy Ger
man banker, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
and a very liberal contributor to the Re
publican campaign fund, is quoted as say
ing: “If Grant is nominated for Presi
dent I know of one thousand German
Republicans in this county alone who will
vote for his opponent, because of their
belief that Grant’s election to a third term
of the Presidency is the first step toward
an American monarchy.”
—Since the clergymen’s agitation
against the “mixed marriage” system of
the Onieda Community twenty weddings
have taken place there. These, with
twenty-five couples who had become
members after wedlock, make forty-five
married couples. The population of the
community Is 299, 57 of whom are chil
dren under ten, and 2C young people un
der twenty. One member is over ninety
years of age; 5 over eighty; 20 over seven
ty; 57 over sixty; 97 over fifty; 143 over
forty; 191 over thirty, and 21C over twenty.
. —Reorganization op the Army.—
During the recess a bill has been prepared
and agreed upon by the sub-committee of
the House Committee on military affairs,
General Joseph E. Johnston, chairman,
which contemplates the reoiganization.of
the army upon the basis of 25,000 enlisted
men, as recommended by General Sher
man. It is 'understood that the bill pro
poses to do away with the regimental or
ganization of five regiments of artilleiy
and makes the artillery corps have a chief
with the rank of Brigadier General. It
also provides for the redaction of several
staff corps.
—Southern Claims.—The ninth gen
eral report of the Southern claims com'
missioners shows that since their last re
port they have decided 2,200 claims, of
which only 553 have been allowed,
•mounting in all to $241,611. The aggre
gate sum of the claims disallowed was
$8,098,400. Since the oiganization of the
commission the total number of claims
presented have been 22,29S, of which
6,702 have yet to be reported upon. Of
this number no evidence whatever has
been filed on the part of the claimants,
as required by act of Congress, with the
exception of 250 cases. All of these 250
cases the commissioners say they will de
cide upon and be able to report to Con
gress by the 10th of March next, at wMfch
date the term of the commission expires.
—An Immense Steamship op Steel.
Manager Dale of the Inman Steamship
Line, received on Wednesday a copy of
the specifications lor the new steamship
City of Rome, for which a contract lias
been awarded to the Barrow Shipbuilding
Company, and which is intended to be
the finest and the largest ocean steam;
ship afloat, excepting the. Great Eastern.
She Is ' to be of 8,300 tons measurment,
and to be constructed of steel upon the
cellular or double bottom system, with
two longitudinal bulkheads through the
boiler and engine spaces, and eleven
transverse bulkheads. The dimensions
are-to be 546 feet in length on the keel,
600 feet - long over all, 62 feet beam and
381 feet dentil from the main deck. She
will have four iron masts, three funnels,
three pairs of inverted direct-acting com
pound engines, eight, boilers and forty-
eigbt furnaces, with an estimated speed of
184 knots an hour, having a power of 8,-
500 horses. The saloon and staterooms
are to be luxuriously finished. There wlil
be accommodations for 300 saloon and
over a thousand steerage passengers.
—After tlie recent floods in the Tiber at
Rome, an unusual number of fish were
caught in the river, and were devoured by
tlie famished poor of the city at a cost of
two cents per pound. The floods of the
Tiber always yield such a benefit to the
bales.
The Cotton Exchange report for the
same week was as follows: Receipts 157,-
200, against 139,172 last year. Totals—
3,183,569, against 2,674,216—showing an
increase of 509,353 bales.
The Chronicle’s interior port table
shows receipts of last week 65,223 bales,
against 47,140 the corresponding week of
the previous cotton year. Shipments 74,-
200, against 59,787. Stocks 355,943, against
281,034.
The Chronicle's visible supply table
showed on Friday night last 2,414,635
bales of cotton in sight, against 2,368,903
* at same date last year—2,410,967 at same
date in 1878, and 2,829,274 at same date
in 1S77. These figures show an increase
of 45,732 hales on the visible supply of
last year—a decrease of 2,332 bales on the
visible supply of 1878, and a decrease Of
414,639 bales on the visible supply of 1877
at same dates.
Cotton, last Friday, at Liverpool, was
quoted at 6| for middling upland. In
1879, at same date, the quotation was
6 7-10—in 1878, at same date, it was 6£
and in 1877, at same date, 6J.
Very cold weather was noted in Texas
for the week ending last Friday. There
was ice at all points for two niglits, and
some rain. The rainfall in the entire
month of December was, in Galveston
2.01—lnlndionola only 0.73—in Corsicana
1.12—in Dallas only 0.55, anil in Erenham
1.25. Truly, Texas is a dry country.
In New Orleans the rainfall in Decem
ber was 2.90. In Columbus, Mississippi,
7.02. In Little Rock, Arkansas, 3.37. In
Mobile 3.88. In Montgomery 7,42. In
Columbus, Georgia, 7.82. In Augusta
4.12.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Maine.
• The Maine brethren, by last accounts
at midday, had shed no blood, and tlie
general tone of advices was not warlike.
There was a report from Boston that the
Republicans would capture tbe Senate by
putting five of tbe Fusion cer
tificate holders under arrest; but we 'trust
and beliove that tlie niglrt telegrams will
disclose the fact that tbe difficuhiesare
a fair way of solution without violence or
injustice to anybody.
Beyond doubt, a great deal of practice
which has been estahlislied in the United
8tates during the days of civil war will
have to be abandoned. Modes of pro
cedure founded in contempt of the minor
ity, when they come by force of law to be
applied to the Republicans cannot he
submitted to—for no Republican will sub
mit for a moment to the injustice and in
tolerance which he designed and formula
ted in law for tlie chronic condition of the
Democrats, who, in his opinion, are en
titled to no rights, and liardly to life it
self.
Therefore, all these one-side usages and
provisions of law must be abandoned and
amended, if public peace is to be main
tained. The laws passed for counting out
Democrats in Maine will never be sub
mitted to if the count devolves on Demo
crats. Nothing in the world but a thor
ough sacrifice of their rights and all jus
tice and equity by the Democrats, in the
Presidential election of 1870, saved tl»e
country from civil war in 1877. The land
would have run red with fraternal blood
if the Democracy had insisted on law and
justice. They bought peace by the sacrifice
of justice, and had to do it, or devote it to
internecine slaughter.
At Long Range. ■
A friend sends us a copy of the London
Telegraph, of 20th December, with a caus
tic editorial upon the United States, sug
gested by Mr. Bright’s panegyric upon
tills government and country, in his Rock
dale speech delivered two days before,
with the suggestion of a return fire. Tru
ly our shot, however well meant, would
fall short, and besides the spleen is meant
for Bright instead of America, and one
may well leave the case in the hands of
the great liberal statesman. And truth
to say, wo are a crude people—full of
faults and imperfections—the greatest of
all which are, probably, our vanity and
lack of a true self knowledge. We are
like an overgrown hoy—full of faults^—
but we hope getting better with years.
We can safely say, however, that no coun
try on record since the world begun, has
done so much in so short a time.
poor.
Cotton touched seven pence again yes
terday in Liverpool.
A Railway Combination.—Reports
were current in Macon yesterday that
Colonel Cole,. Ex-Governor Brown and
the Central Railroad have agreed upon a
programme of co-operation in Savannah,
by which the latter city -will be- the sea
board terminus of the new Sf. Louis
route, and the State and Central roads in
corporated in the regular line of commun
ication. It was said that the business of
the ex-Governor and his companions in
their trip' to Savannah was not to see
General Grant, but to investigate ques
tions concernixg the capacity of the river
and central wharves to accommodate the
expected trade with the Northwest. The
investigation resulting satisfactorily, it is
said that an arrangement has been per
fected between the parties. Whether
there is any foundation for these rumors
we are unable to say.
The Anti-Third Term Republi
cans in Pennsylvania are either iu tho
sulks or furious over the plan of elect ing
delegates to the June National Conven
tion in February. They charge that it
means nothing else than taking a snap
movement on the people. That the Grant
men are resolved to have as little of thd
“sober second thought” in thq Radical
nomination as possible.
General Grant laid down the bloody
shirt' in ‘Fcmandlua, and said no man
would do more than himself to unite the
people. We desire to hold him to that
proposition. Let him dish a line to Conk-
ling, Cameron, Logan, Chandler and the
rest of his fuglemen, suggesting that they
strike some other note than abuse of the
Southern people.,
Cotton rose to 7 1-16 in Liverpool yes
terday, and February and March futures
were quoted at 7 5-32. Fourteen thous
and sales of spots, and Manchester advices
hetteri ^ 1 ” r
Parched' and swollen lips indicate
worms. Shriner’s Indian Vermifuge will
destroy and eject these detestable crea
tures from the Intestines, thus restoring
the child to health and beauty.
Pulaski House, Savannah,
•January 7,1SS0.
a ride with the stockholders.
Your correspondent was au insignificant
unit in the vast crowd, which, until the
eleventh hour, continued to avail them
selves of the privilege that has come to be
a “vested right,” to travel free to andfrom
Savannah, twice* year if the possessor of
a solitary share of Central Railroad
“script” The liberty is extended to the
immediate family of the stockholderalso,
and it is -astonishing how the households
of some of these capitalists grow -like
Shakespear'smen “in Buckram,” when
ever December and January afford the
opportunity of a free excursion -to the
mercantile metropolis of Georgia.
We fear that the
“cousins and the sisters and the
aunts”
under* latitudinarian construction which
tbe good-natured officials'do not often
combat, are all roped in by some of the
aforesaid stockholders and travel;at ihe
expense of the much abused Mr. Wadley.
But it helps Savannah, results in immense
enjoyment to thousands, disarms opposi
tion, nnd so is unquestionably “winked
at.”
But it is amazing what
stupendous dividends
some of these stockholders derive from
the road, which not a few disgruntled peo
ple, would, if they could, anathematize
out of existence.
For instance, there sits in front of the
writer-a complacent looking Individual
with his wife and three flashily dressed
-daughters, all traveling upon
one blessed share of stock.
Now let us descend to -‘facts and fig
ures,” and calculate what that worthy
makes upon a venture, perhaps of seventy-
five dollars, 'for his one share of Central
railroad scrip. Placing tlje'fare for one
person to and -from Savannah at $15, he
receives-for the round trip precisely* for
the three girls, himself and wife,
seventy-five dollars,
or-ouc hundred per cent, on his invest
ment. But these “well-to-do” people al
ways have an eye “to business,” and if so
fortunate-as to possess “kith or kin” in. or
about Savannah, where they can board
free, invariably make both trips. This
addsanotlier one hundred per cent, to his
investment of $75. Finally, with the air
of-a millionaire, he struts up to the coun
ter of the company’s bank and demands
of Cashier Davenport,
•“.THAT ARE DIVIDEND OF MINE, 1
And is paid $2.50 on his one share for the
past six months. The oid-chap, with i
chuckle, then counts his gains as follows
Debit—To paid for one share C.R.
R. stock, . . . . .$75.00
Credit—By two rides and return
-from Macon to Savannah, at
S7.50, each way, for five persons 150.00
Add two semi-annual dividends on
one share, at 2£ per cent. . . 5.00
Total, . . . .1
Deduct cost of Railroad share, .
Net profit on one year’s investment
of $75.00, $S0.00
Now Mr. Sherman’s pet Bank is the
only institution in America that can beat
that investment. Yet, this is no over
drawn statement, and shows that corpora-
tions.as well as individuals,are sometimes
-made to «bleed” despite themselves, and
yet legitimately, and so to speak, “accord
ing to Hoyle.” It would ruin the com
pany if this privilege was withdrawn, and
the attendance at the annual business
meetings would dwindle down to nothing.
No wonder then that a
SWEET LITTLE SEVENTEEN YEAR-OLD
DAMSEL.
Exclaimed with charming naivete: “ Oh,
papa always brings me to Savannah when
the stockholders meet, and I have so much
fun. One thing I am determined upon—
when 1 marry, my husband shall bay a
sliare-of Central Railroad stock so that we
can continue to go twice a year to that de
lightful place, Savannah.” "
OUR FELLOW PASSENGERS
occupied nine cars crowded to repletion,
not a tenth of whom could get a sleeping
berth if so disposed. But to judge from
the shouts and laughter, the songs and
aueedotes, the jokes and incessant flow of
conversation, sleep had been unanimously
voted a bore from the very outset. It is
quite certain that the God Somnus gave a
wide berth to that “merrie” company.
Nobody wanted to sleep, nobody could
sleep, with-a bevy of joyous girls from an
up country town singing the “Old Folks
at Home,” “Uncle Ned;” the “Sweet By
and By,” and talking faster than five hun
dred telepliones could respond in reply.
The truth is, to the writer their talk was
GOOD AS A FLAY- '
For if anyone wishes to study female
character let him get within ear shot of a
half dozen bright insouciant girls, and,
unobserved, listen to their chat, provided
all do not speak at once, and thus repro
duce, on a small scale, tbe scene which
transpired at the building of 11 le Tower-of
Babel. These pretty girls did not go
quite to that extent, however, and, occa
sionally we were able to eateli the thread
tolerably well of their discourse. But
this deponent is no eaves dropper, and not
even the thumb screws of the Inquisition
could make him “peach” on tbe dear
creatures. But we intend to tell what
two elderly matrons who did not sympa
thize a bit with their young sisters re
marked. Quoth one : “What is to be
come of this country f When tee were
jirls our fathers and mothers would never
liave permitted us to carry on so.”
But then we live in a progressive age
when the ladies vote, wear men’s clothes,
and are doctors and lawyers. Why not
let tlie*girls enjoy their innocent frolic, al
beit they sometimes did “let out a lit
tle.” They were not a whit the worse
than the average young ladies of our
Seminaries.
The writer is not such s:i ogre as to
wish to cramp tho spirits or even restrain
the romping of tlie young. Let them
romp while they can. Tlie march of life
will sober their pace quite soon enough,
and long and weary will many of its sta
ges prove.
REMEDY FOR INSOMNOLENCY.
At length, tired nature could hold out no
longer, and for a brief season there was si
lence in the car. A few passengers, and
some of the girls, went to sleep. But ere
a - half hour had elapsed, up sprang one of
the yoimg ladies and exclaimed, “I can’t
sleep because I haven’t said my prayers.”
This we suppose she proceeded to do, and,
lulled by a quiet conscience, sank to rest
again. Another smaller girl was in the
same predicament, and began her evening
orison as follows:
And now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to take;
(Oh no, no, not take, hut keep;)
If I should die before I wake,
1 pray tlie Lord my soul to keep or take
don’t know which. Oh my, I am so
sleepy. And off she dropped into tho
arras of Morpheus.
Asbort time of silence again inter
vened, aud then all the girls came to the
perpendicular once more and sang until
the mild rays of Venus, the morning star,
paled before the advent of the King of
OH. ' ,f 'I
It was a very safe run that we madi
BUT TWELVE HOURS ELAPSED
ere the spires and towers of the city of
Oglethorpe were sighted. Then came the
usual shaking of hands and leave taking,
and many compagnons du voyage parted,
perhaps never to meet oqearth again. M ; t I
THE PULASKI HOUSE.
After some delay, in consequence of
the crowd, the writer and those with him
succeeded in procuring excellent accom
modations in the stately Pulaski' 'House,
whose fame is historical.. . -j r ’,- . ;
But if this time-honored structure enjoys
the prestige of antiquity, it can, uRder its
recent lessees, the Messrs. - Goddsell
Brothers, lay claim also to everything
that is excellent and desirable In .rite most
modem establishment. . ‘ •
The proprietors have been accustomed
to metropolitan tastes at Cozzen’s Hotel
near West Point, and never,.in-its most
palmy days was the Ojd Pulaski better
kept. Good waiters, the best of fare,
clean beds, and the 'gentlemanly courtesy
of the proprietors, leave nothing unsup
plied that the most fastidious taste could
j desire. As a necessary consequence, we
Bad among those-Stopping here, such men
as ex*Governor Brown, Colonel Cole,
rMr. Virgil Powers, President Wadley and
family, and many other celebrities. The
old Pulaski fora half century has been
the rallying point and trysting place for
hundreds of the best people, both North
and South. We congratulate the .proprie
tors that General Grant and his travelling
reUnue did ‘not put up with them.
... OTIE GRANT FIASCO.
The third, term aspirant met with hut a
sorry reception here. Aside from the
semi-official civilities extended to him by
the United States functionaries and a few
West Pointers and ex-Confederates, who,
we -suppose, thought It was chivalrous
■on their part, the only boom he received
came from the negroes. Sambo and
Cuffe&almost tore the arm of their pseudo
deliverer from its socket,and bored him not
a little by their enthusiastic demonstra
tions. . .
Oncold dame with upturned eyes and
lips like slices of bedf liver, fairly “slopped
over”-and was completely overcome with
emotion. “Tank Farer, my massa Grant,”
she exclaimed iu the sea coast negro ver
nacular, “1 liab lib Tor to see you. Qui,
oh, Sabiour.” There was no toadyism on
the,part of the whites, but on the contrary
we were told that* formal motion was
made in the City Council to give General
Grant the freedom of the city, and a pub
lic reception, and it was voted dovm.
FEARED ASSASSINATION.
It is stated by those who claim to he re
liably posted, tliat'all the uncertainty of
President Grant’s movements iu his
Southern trip was deliberately planned at
the residence of a noted journalist in
Philadelphia, whose guest he was. Hence
4 was given out. that the General would
travel South by no less than three routes,
and eveiy piogramme was upset at last
by his Third Term Excellency starting
one day ahead of the music. It was
feared, as many think he seeks to enact
the role of the Czar, that he would come
to grief by shot gun or
INFERNAL MACHINE
at tbe “Rebel South.” But a kitten wa
never in less danger.
THE RAILROAD KINGS FORM A COALI
I TION.
Doubtless your readers perused, and
were startled by the special telegram sent
by the writer to the Telegraph, an
nouncing the combination formed by
Messrs. E. W. Cole, J. E. Brown and Col
onel Wm, Wadley. That dispatch was ab
solutely and literally true.
A short history of this, the most gigan
tic and momentous railroad movement
ever made at the South, may not prove
uninteresting to the public.
Iniprimis, it was all bosh that Colonel
Cole aud Governor Brown came to Savan
nah to
GREET GENERAL GRANT.
It is said that they are not Grant men
and we know that neither of them even
called upon him. But in any event, they
would have made the visit all the same, if
that astute President seeker had been
hunting elephants with his brother, the
King of Siam, instead of bumming
through the South to rally his negro co
horts. The facts are that Mr. Wadley
proposed a consultation with these gen
tlemen at the stockholders’ meeting in
Savannah, as they had previously been
MORE OR LESS AT LOGGERHEADS
upon various railway matters, and pro
vided them with a special car to move by
day only, in consideration of the state of
Governor Brown’s health. We have it
from an indisputable source that Gover
nor Brown and Colonel Cole own a con
trolling interest in the Western and At
lantic railroad, divers changes having ta
ken place in the ownership of the shares of
the several lessees.
Our readers should be informed also
that the
FAR-SEEING COLONEL COLE,
who is the President of the Nashville,
Chattanooga aud St. Louis railroad, has
recently purchased the road from St.
Louis to Evansville, and has now 1,500
hands at.work upon the connection be-
Evansville and Nashville, distant 154
miles. This will be laid down with steel
rails and be completed the present year,
and then tbeN. C. &.St. L. road will own
or control, an unbroken line from St. Louis
to Atlanta, Georgia. But this was not
enough. That powerful -organization
needed an
OCEAN OUTLET,
and were resolved to have it.
Three routes suggested themselves.
One, a connection with Port Royal,-which
has always been the -pet of Colonel Cole,
via the Georgia Railroad.
Second, tke proposed consolidation
which lias just been effected with Mr.
Wadley and'the Central Railroad, and
Third, the lease -and extensions of the
Macon and Brunswick road.
But Mr. Cole preferred combining with
the “Central,” -as wharves, shipping and
every convenience was at hand in Savan
nah, and these would have to he provided
at a heavy outlay of time and capital.
Hence the .arrangement which lias been
made with Mr. Wadley-
So far as we can ascertain,
THE TERMS AGREED UPON
are as follows :
Colonel Cole, representing the Nash
ville, Chattanooga and St. Louis road, ob
ligates himself to take charge of and con
trol the Central Railroad and all its
branches, assuming eveiy responsibility,
and meeting all the contracts for lease,
rent and other liabilities which may ac
crue to the said Central Railroad. The
Presidents, Superintendents, and all other
officials of the Central, and Western and
Atlantic Railroads remain as they were,
and will be charged as heretofore with
the operation of their respective roads,
receiving the same salaries. Mr. Wadley
and his Board of Directors will continue
to manage tlie Central .Railroad Bank in
Savannah. But Colonel Cole reserves to
himself the right to regulate alL
FREIGHT SCHEDULES AND PASSENGER
FARES, ,
retains absolute control over the entire
business of all the loads, and may inter
pose his veto upon any and every step
alien by his subalterns.
Governor Joseph E. Brown will act as
general supervisor for the consolidated
company in the State of Georgia. The
whole number of miles embraced by tins
combination,
EXCEEDS TWO THOUSAND.
The writer had a long and pleasant
conversation with Colonel Cole, who is
the impersonation of frankness and ur-
baifity, and is at liberty to make, ex cathe-
dfa the following statement:
First. The Colonel intends to wage 110
war against the Macon aud Brunswick,
the Macon and Augusta, and the Georgia
Railroads. ’• On the contrary, he will ex
tend to them tlie same freight rates and
privileges that are enjoyed by the South
western or any other branch ol the Cen
tral Railroad.
Second. It will be his fixed purpose to
reduce all local freights as fast as possible,
which the tremendous through business
from the West will enable him to do very
soon.
Third. He will impose no discrimina
tions upon any town ' or community, but
every interest and every locality wilI .be
treated alike impartially.
Fourth. He will in no way disturb the
existing schedule of Macon freights, save
to make them, if practicable, more favora
ble to our merchants.
Fifth. He will seek to conciliate the
good will of every human being residing
on or near his roads, by every act of kind
ness and accommodation within the com
pass of bis ability. :
Sixth. His settled determination is to
antagonize with no interest or section, but
rather to build tip existing towns and vil
lages and encourage new enterprises of a
like character.
Cole’s pronounced partiality for Port; GBANT ON TH"Kj THTUT) TEEM.
Royal. But the Tennessee railroad mag-1 -
nate after visiting Savannah this week. He Favors a Six Years’Term and
Colonel Cole enjoys the soubriquet of
the. ! ..... • .
RAILROAD PACIFICATOR,
and we doubt not will carry out in good
faith all the above - promises which have
been made in advance.
Under the terms of too consolidation,
bcsides haviiig all their present and matur-
ring obligations paid on demand, the
stockholders of tho Central Railroad are
guaranteed , p per cent, dividends for the
first seven years, and then
SEVEN PER CENT.' RVEIS AFTER.
Colonel 1 Cole will also add another, aud
perhaps tuo ocean ships to the ocean steam
fleet, whose present organization will not
be interfered with. Governor Brown has
sought for several years to bring about
this grand consummation, but could not
make any headway, because of Colonel
for the first time, and taking a careful
survey of her harbor and depth of water
(19 feet), gave squarely in, and the con
solidation was made with the hearty con
currence of Mr. Wadley and his Board of
Directors.
Already the stock of the Central
HAS TOUCHED 85,
and many assert that it will reach par in
a twelve month.
The pooling arrangement, as at present
constructed, and ably “managed by our
fellow citizen, Mr. Yirgil Powers, remains
ust as it is.
• ELEVATORS FOR GRAIN
will he constructed speedily on tlie
wharves of the' company in Savannah,
and slips and docks excavated to facili
tate the loadlngand unloading of ves els
Already we hear of merchants who intend
to embark in the European produce busi
ness, and it is not too much to say that
the shipments from the West to the old
country by this line, in two years, will be
enormous. ‘ '
MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAILROAD
We conclude this lengthy epistle by ur
ging our fellow citizens not to relax their
efforts to procure the lease and extension
of this artery of commerce which is of so
much importance to Macon and Southern
Georgia. With another Hue pertneatihgthe
great West inthe direction of Knoxville and
Cincinnati, the .prosperity of our beautiful
city and Georgia’s -other seaport which
is so admirably situated, will be assured
beyond peradventure. We trust this great
“ consolidation,” the particulars of which
have been so fully given, will but stimu
late the people and the enlightened capi
talists of the country to develop {^Bruns
wick likewise in the same way.
H. H. J.
Democratic "Financial Platform.
We see the following telegram in an ex
change, evidently not original with it, but
decidedly interesting:
Washington, January 2.—There have
been several conferences here during the
recess between prominent Democratic
Senators and members, for the puipose of
effecting a compromise on the financial
question. As to the result of the confer
ences, a plan has at last been agreed upon
which will he proposed when Congress
reassembles, as a basis for a compromise
between the hard and soft money Demo
crats.
The plan proposes the adopt ion of a se
ries of resolutions which shall declare,
first, that gold and silver are the only con
stitutional currency of tlie country; second,
that all paper money required for the pur
poses of trade and commerce shall lie is
sued by the Government of the United
States, and shall be in the nature oftreas-
ury notes, which shall not be a legal tern
der unless expressly stipulated in the con
tract, and shall be receivable for all dues
to the United States and redeemable in coin
(gold and silver) at the office of
the assistant treasury in New
York, or over the counters of the
treasury department in this city, and that
this paper shall be of a uniform character,
and the denomination to be fixed by law;
third, that the Government shall always
keep a coin reserve equal to 334 per cent, of
the outstanding paper currency for the pur
pose of redemption; fourth,that the changes
proposed in relation to the currency shall
not go into effect until after 18S0. It is be
lieved that the hard money Democrats will
agree to this compromise because it propo
ses to issue the hardest kindof hard money,
and it is believed further that the soft
money Democrats will acquiesce in the
compromise because it proposes to do
away with the national banks and nation
al bank notes, and gives to the Govern
ment tlie exclusive right to emit bil.s of
credit. 1 '
That platform would suit us very well,
and, carried into effeet, would save the
country from a periodical collapse of a local
bank paper system, say once in about every
ten to fifteen years. As to the exclusive
right of the Federal Government “to emit
bills of credit,” it is not in the power of
human language to confer it more strong
ly than it is already conferred by the Con
stitution of the United States, which de
clares, in Art. 1, Sec. 10, “No State shall
* emit bills of credit!” It would give
the country a paper currency more valu
able than gold in its convenience and re
liability; fortlie provision making it re
ceivable for all public dues, to say nothing
about a specie reserve for redemption,
would always keep it at par and uniform
value all over the United States and civ
ilization. Besides this, it would float
seven or eight hundred millions of the
public debt without expense, and so add
thirty millions to the public revenue. But.
on the other hand, what can be proposed
to satisfy the speculative classes for the
immense profits foregone in a local bank
currency of that amount!
The Seine Overflow.
Paris, January 3.—The drift ice in the
Seine has become so heavy as to cause
great damage, and much alarm is felt.
The works opposite tlie Invilides have
been carried away, and the river is full of
wreckage. Several bridges have been
rendered unsafe, and travel over them is
stopped. The bridges in use, mainly
structures of stone, are completely choked
up by the extra traffic thus forced upon
them, and to make matters worse the
crowds increase every moment. The
scene along the quays, this afternoon, was
most exciting. Thousands of people
watched the rushing torrent and the huge
masses of ice flung with terrific force
against the bridges. At Pont de la Con
corde, the depth of water is six metres,
and the river is still rising. Where, on
Christmas day, vast crowds crossed on
solid ice, the current is running at the rate
of seven miles an hour. The devastation
promises to be far greater than that which
occurred in January, 1871, when the wa
ter rose so high that steamboats could not
pass under tho bridges, and the streets of
the lower part of the city were covered to
the depth of several feet.
Mr. Edmunds on Current Topics.
Senator Edmunds, in conversation, cx-
ircsscs the opinion that the situation in
Maine is grave, but he does not anticipate
that there will be any rioting or disturb
ances of sufficient magnitude to call for
federal interference. As the case stands
now, he thinks it would be premature to
express an opinion as to its legal aspects,
more particularly as it is possible it may
come before the Senate. In regard to the
Presidential outlook he thinks tlie Repub
licans will elect their candidate, but
thiuks it difficult to predict who the nom
inee will be. As General Grant is now a
private citizen he. considers the idea of a
third term as a mythical question, aud
very different from what it was four years
ago. If the people wish General Grant
he has as much right to the office as any
man. In regard to tho mention of his
name for the Supremo Court Judgeship, in
case of the retirement of Justice Hunt,
Mr. Edmunds declines to have anything to
say.
The Alabama Senator.
A dispatch of the tod instant to the
World says:
Messrs. L. P. Walker, T. L. Pugh and
'. W. Lawler arc prominently urged on
Governor Cobb by iheir friends to succeed
the late Senator Houston. General Wal
ker was Secretary of War during tlie Con
federacy, and he is a conspicuous lawyer
in North Alabama. Mr. Pugh was a Con
gressman in the ante-bellum days, and re
sides in Euiaula. Mr. Lawler Is a large
ilanter and commission merchant of Mo-
>ile. Either of them would make a good
Senator, and I believe they are all sound
on the great questions of finance and of
constitutional law.
Sleep and plenty of it must be had
the baby, and if its rest lie broken or pre
vented by attacks of colic, stomach or
bowel disorders give at once Dr. Bull’s
Baby Syrup, which will relieve the pain,
induce refreshing slumber and consequent
health.
Ineligibility te Ee-Election.
rrorn Imuu. ‘Aiouuoth- World with Grant.”
“At the same time, I think,” said Gen
eral Grant, continuing the conversation,
“that we should revise our electoral laws
and prevent the renewal of such a crisis.
I have thought a good deal over this sub
ject of the duration of the Presidential
office. I always read with interest the
discussions arising out of it. These dis
cussions have done good, and our people
with their great common sense, will come
to a solution. My own mind is
not clear as to which would be the
best plan. The one term idea has many
arguments in its favor. Perhaps one term
Without a re-election, for six or seven
years would be as good as any other. The
argument against a second term that a
President is tempted to use his patronage
to re-elect himself is not sound. The mo
ment a President used his office for such a
purpose, he would fail. It would he the
suicide of his administration. It would
offend the people and array against him
public men, most of whom are dreaming
of the succession for themselves,and would
resent a policy they deemed to be an in
vasion of their own rights. There is noth
ing in that argument. Patronage does
not strengthen a President. When you
take up the question of second or third
terms, and propose permanent ineligibility
afterwards, you are encountered with
the argument that in free government a
people have a right to elect whomso
ever they please, and that because a man
has served the country well, he should not
at the end of his term be in tlie position
of an officer cashiered from the army.
What you want to avoid, it seems tome,
is not re-elections, but frequent elections.
I think the best plan, one that would go
further to satisfy ail opinions, would be
one term for six or seven years and ineligi
bility to re-election. Practically this
would settle the question. Eligibility af
ter an intervening term would not be of
much value, for, in our country, most of
the men who served one term would be
past tlieage for election by the time an
other hadIntervened. The Swiss plan of
short terms would not do for a country as
large and new as ours. It is well enough
for a small, ancient, populous and highly
developed Republic.”
Keep it in the house and it will save you
many an anxious moment during the
changes of season and weather; we refer
to Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup.
Republican Opposition to Grant.
A Sun, Washington, dispatch of Monday
says an independent Republican move
ment fertile puipose of defeating General
Grant’s nomination has been started, and
the details of the movement,and tlie names
of the gentlemen engaged therein will be
made public in a few days. The object
of the new organization Is to centralize in
one mass all of the Republican opposition
to Grant in the country. John Sherman
is really at the head of the movemenr, and
he hopes to be the chief beneficiary. The
principal idea at this time is to have it
known throughout the country that cer
tain Republicans of prominence will not
support Grant in the event of his nomina
tion fora third term. So far, George
William Curtis and ex-Senator Henderson
of Missouri are the only ones who have
made that announcement publicly. Mu
rat Halstead, of the Cincinnati Commer
cial, Sherman’s organ, is enlisted in the
movement against Grant. It is expected
that Blaine’s adherents will help in the
anti-Grdnt undertaking, and tlie Maine
chieftain will endeavor to draw to his
support every anti-Grant Republican that
Sherman cannot capture.
General Henderson has been and is ac
tive in this movement as a friend of Sher
man.
Interesting Historical Reminiscence.; country and his race. The contra „«■
V7-, T^SEl Ga /> Jan , ua 7 1SS0- 1825 ^ween him and Governor Troon
Editors Telegraph and Messenger! was warm in the extreme and chares
You requested me when here last to write made against each of them that were foim
out and send you the inaugural address ded more j n j )ass i on an j tlie excitement nf
dehvered by Governor Troup, in Novem- the occasion than in the truth of the clia-.
ges made. Such things are too often tlie
result of uncontrolled and uncontrollable
passions and which all good men should
. But eno «Sh of all this. I sat down to
give you the inaugural asked for by you
as remembered by me. For all the bal
ance you will forgive me, for such was and
is my admiration of that great and eood
man, Governor Troup, that I never know
when to stop when I begin totalk or write
about him. I hope all are well and happv
with yon and tliat you have liad a merry
Christmas and now have a happy New
Year. Very truly yours, etc.,
Eli Warren.
When your child has been attacked with
diarrhoea, colic or stomach disorders, do
not delay the use of Dr. Bull’s Baby Syiup
one instant.
Exceedingly unpleasant report,says the
Philadelphia Times, come from the West
in relation to the colored people who, du
ring the last summer, left their homes in
the old States to try their fortunes in the
new. Those who traveled no farther than
Indiana, are said to be suffering for the
want of food, and the Kansas immigrants
who, by a trick of speech, were called
‘refugees,” are straggling hack to the
plantations, sick of the cold charity of the
men by whom they were misled. This
“exodus” movement was suggested and
promoted by schemers aud michief-
makers in the North. Every little discon
tent among negro laborers was tanned into
a flame. Tlie most extreme pa>ns were
taken to cut the thread that kept the negro
where his capacity made him equal to. his
labor. Aud now, when the deluded
creatures most need care, they must suffer
the penalty of their own ignorance and
the culpable officiousness of busybodies,
who, long since, have slipped out of sight.
An Awkward Business.—Philadel
phia is scandalized over the bills coming
in for the “reception of Grant.” It was
understood that the expenses of that gor
geous business were to he borne by the
voluntaiy contributions of the wealthy
friends of tlie illustrious chief, but they
are not forthcoming. Bills come pouring
in copiously—among them $350 for music
at three private dinners given by illustri
ous friends of the illustrious—$15,000
for gloves, for it seems all the illustrious
friends of the illustrious were gloveless.
And then the Continental Hotel furnishes
a hill of $400 for entertaining twenty-four
illustrious friends of the illustrious—in
cluding the Camerons, Patterson-, Robeson
aud others—showing that they were out
of pocket money as well as gloves; aud
how many other hotel and dry goods bills
are coming the puzzled auditor would
like to know. This canvassing for the
Presidency at the public expense is gor
geous, but unsatisfactory to the tax pay
ers. *
The Hood Fund.
Various exaggerated reports have found
their way into the newspapers as to the
amount of the Ilood fund thus far raised,
some statements placing it as high as
$100,000 or nearly ten times the actual
stun. The Chairman of the Relief Asso-
ciaton at New Orleans, reports it officially
at ouly $10,963, of which $10,500 have
been , invested in United States bonds.
Much more, however, will have to be col
lected in order to provide for the nuture
and education of ten children.
—Robert Burns’s Masonic apron and
the mallet and minute-book of the Lodge
of St. Andrew, Dumfries, of which the
poet was an affiliated member, have just
been sold in Edinburgh. The minute-
hook hears his signature to the by-laws.
The relics are to be presented to the
Grand Lodge of Scotland by the Grand
Master, Sir Michael R. S. Stewart, who
purchased them for about $100.
The Quarterly Review of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South
fob January, was received yesterday.
The contents are—Methodist Episcopacy;
Development of Monotheism among the
Greeks; studies in Shakespeare; the con
flict; Bible revision; the problem of
Life — tlie book of Ecclesiastes;
Spencer’s first Principles; Provi
dential uses of pain; social life of our
forefathers; Literary notices; notes and
queries. A lively number,' as we judge.
her, 1825, which I promised, and I now
do.
When both branches of the Legislature
met in the House of Representatives, he
soon entered that chamber, accompanied
by many, if not all the members of Con
gress from this State, several of tlie Judg
es of the Superior Court, and other dis
tinguished gentlemen, and ascended the
steps of the Speaker’s chair, and took liis
seat between tlie President of the Senate
and Speaker of the House of Representa
tives, and so soon as tlie cheering caused
by his presence liad subsided, he arose in
that giand, dignified and imposing manner
peculiar to himself, hut perfectly natural
with him, and spoke as follows:
“Fellow Citizens of the Senate and
of the House of Bepresentatives—
Once more, and probably for the
last time I present myself before
you to take the oath of office. Pos
sessing as I do no very great confi
dence in my own ability for the public
service, I have not habitually or pertina
ciously sought the public favor. It has
been extended to me freely, frequently
and in a manner of abundant Madness,
far transcending my merits and deserts.
The late election of the people approba
tory of former one by their Representa
tives, has inspired the hope that the acts
of my administration have not been alto
gether censurable, and that the errors
wMch have accompanied it having been
of the head, not of the heart—have on that
account met with a kind and an indul
gent judgment
“To husband the resources of the State,
to economize the public ^expenditures, to
create a fund for internal improvements,
and for the education of the poor, are
equally your duties, fellow citizens, as
mine, and by an ardent co-operation in
patriotic efforts, I doubt not we shall meet
our reward in the prosperity anil in the
happiness of tlie people. Let us cease our
strifes, let our divisions have an end, and
let our motto be—“God and our coun
try.
Governor Troup then turned to the
President of the Senate aud said to him—
“Mr. President, I am ready to take the
oath of office,” which was then admin
istered to him, and he retired from the
House of Representatives amid great ap
plause, somewhat subdued though, I have
no doubt, by the last sentence or para
graph of the address. This grand little
speech was what he had called “taking
the oath of office.”
Governor Troup was elected Governor
in 1823 by the Legislature, and between
then and the election of 1825 the constitu
tion was so altered as to give the election
of Governor directly to the people in 1825,
and Governor Troup was the first Govern
or elected by the people of Georgia. He
was opposed by Governor Clark, and it
was the warmest contest that ever has ta
ken place in Georgia for that office, and
Governor Troup’s majority was less than
a thousand votes. In that contest Gov
ernor Troup had no more ardent a sup
porter than I was. He and I lived in the
same county, and I knew him well, and
he had no greater admirer than I was I
am sure, unless they were the Rev. Jesse
Mercer, the founder of the college in your
city hearing his name, and the Rev. Mr.
Duffel, I believe his name was, of the
Methodist Church, said to be a Scotch
man, of much zeal and ardent tempera
ment. It was said of him that, in one of
his public religious services, while Gov
ernor Troup was Governor and very sick
he prayed that his life might be spared
and he restored to health; “that he might
fight the Devil and the Clark party, and
be a terror to, and, by the help of God
put down and destroy all evil doers. 1 '
did not go quite that far in my support of
him, nor do I suppose Mr. Duffel did it,
and many other such things were said of
Mr. Duffel and Mr. Mercer at the time;
but I certainly went far enough ‘ in his
support, and so didThose two gentlemen,
but not so far, I am sure, as they were
represented logo, and, on account of my
ardent support of him, the inaugural ad
dress referred to was, I suppose, so im
pressed on my mind that I have never for
gotten it, and doubt not I have repeated
it hundreds of times, and have written it
out and sent it to several persons, and re
cently to a gentleman in Montgomery,
Alabama, at his request. I took a position
at the inauguration where I could see and
hear all that was said and done. Harden’s
life of Troup contains what purports to be
his inaugural of1825; but I do not think it
is correct, but that the one I give is, I think,
correct—word for word. When I got
home from Milledgerille I got on a store
piazza and repeated it to the “boys,” and
Lave never seen a day or an hour since,
when well or awake, when I could not re
peat it. I am satisfied that the address
was extemporaneous. The evening before
its delivery a newspaper man called on
Governor Troup, and asked him for a
copy of his inaugural to be delivered
next day to send to his paper for pub
lication, and Governor Troup said, “I
Lave no address to make. I have not
put pen to paper about it. I liave been
informed by a committee of the Legisla
ture that I liave been elected to the office
of Governor and have promised to take
the oath of office to-morrow at noon; but
I have no address to make, and cannot,
therefore, furnish you a copy for publi
cation.
Then we had no stenographers—no
short hand writers—and I have no doubt
but the address in Harden’s life of Gover
nor Troup was written out by some one
from a memory less impressed with it
than mine was, ami Governor Troup was
not the man to be approached to fix up a
thing of that sort for the public eye.
The truth is, I thought, and yet think,
Governor Troup was the grandest man 1.
ever saw. If he were now alive and
walMng the streets of Macon, all that
might see him would stop and gaze at
him until he got out of sight, and would
say: “There goes a man—a wonderful
man.”-
Before he was elected Governor he had
been a member of each branch of Con
gress and was chairman, I think, of the
War Committee of the war of 1812 and
afterwards a Senator from tlie State and
hence his allusions in his address
to the public favor that had
been extended him, etc., etc. His last
term of service as Governor expired No
vember 1827. I entered the Legislature
that year from Laurens county, where he
lived, and in 1828, if I mistake not, he
was elected to the United States Sonate
again, and I was in the Legislature that
yoar too, and a few days before I left
liome to meet the Legislature, he came to
see me and told me that he had been
urged to be a candidate for the United
States Senate, but he could not do it, and
told me to tell Mr. Monroe,our then Sena-
tor,and Colonel Kellams, my colleague in
the House,, and for us all to tell our
friends that he could not be a candidate,
and that they must not insist upon it, and
•we did as we were requested byhim, and
yet he was elected by a large majority. I
wrote him what had been done. He never
replied to my letter. When I got home
he came to see me and told me the reason
why he had not answered my letter was
that he had been considering and was con
sidering the question as to whether he
should accept the position or not; that he
was tired of public life, never had much
taste for it, and wanted to live in retire
ment. He was urged to take the
wsition and he did- so, but
leld tlie place but about two years and
resigned. I do not think there ever lived
a purer or more unselfish patriot than he
was. The occurrences here referred to
and given, took place a long time ago,
over fifty-four years since. In some
things my memory may he at fault, hut I
do not think, it is much so, and certainly
as I think not as to his inaugural address.
Ho served tho public for the public good
and the reward most desirable with him
for his public services was, as he express
ed it in the inaugural referred to, “the
prosperity and the happiness of the peo
ple,” the promotion aud tho securing of
these is what he sought to accomplish in
Ms public life.
Governor Clark was a candidate for
the State Senate in 1827 in Baldwiu
county, and was defeated by John Wil
liams. He soon after moved to Florida, I
believe, where be lived a few years and
died. I doubt not lie was an honest mau
(uticura
THE GRE AT SEEN CUKE,
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SALTBHEUM.
liiia a Butilen from the aufftringt
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mbssbs W xxKs & PoTTiK-QeLtlemea: Please
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jtnr Cnticura.
For the past eight or nine yean I have bean
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For months 1 would bo helpless—my very lif«
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I hare used eveiythirg in tho shape of medi
cine, both externaland intanal, but with no ef
fect.
My hands were in a terrible coidit’on. tho
backs of th m being all raw, and I thought I
would try Cnticmt
1 tried it; and lo I it was as if a miracle had
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I rrtsume there are hundreds, if not thou
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wouid earnestly advise him to give Cuticura a
trul.
Tours, very thankfully.
A. D. BAKER. Ticket Agent C. S. 5. R.
Detroit Junction, Detroit, Afich., Jan. SO, ’79.
Tetter or Salt Rheum
on the hand* Cored. A Gratrfu[Oltter.~
Messrs Wrsks A Poniia—Gentlemen! Hav
ing been troubled for many years with the Tet
ter or Salt Rheum, and spent many a hard-earn
ed dollar. I was given a trial of your Cuticura,
and, thank God, my hands are well. I never bad
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Ten may put this in the paper and wo’coao,
and may it do some other poor sufferer the eama
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having lived here almost filte-'n years and kept
boarders for a living, ard sometimes mv heart
waa ww, thinking 1 would have to give up alio-
setber with my sore hands, and having a small
family to take c»re of; but ob, thank God, my
hands rre well, so I again return thanks.
Yours respectfully.
EUZIBBTH BUCKLEY.
Littleton. N. H.. May 31, lt.78.
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4 Votter, Chemist and Drurgists. StO Washington
street. Boston, and are for sale by ail druggists.
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—These be hard lines from the Wash
ington Capital, but they arc true: “There
are thousands upon thousands of ill-con
ditioned, unpatriotic people among us
who secretly long for the privileges and
glafe of monarchy, and would gladly put
under foot the republic if they could.
These are made up of dishonest men, who
have stolen large sums, and fear a reckon
ing from a free people; partisans, who
hare come to regard their party as the
government, and resent an attempt to dis
place them as treason to the State; and
poor snobs, such as we saw at the Cincin
nati banquet, who bumped their empty
skulls upon the floor in the presence of a
man whom hut a few years since these
same snobs denounced as not only imbe
cile but corrupt.” These are the people
who are everywhere throwing up their
hats for Grant for a third term.
—Some Pithy and Pointed Opin
ions by Congressman Cox.—“What
do you tMnk of all this parade over Gene
ral Grant?” said a Post reporter to “Sun
set” the other day.
“There is nothing wonderfnl about it,”
replied Mr. Cox. “Our politics are
whimsical, and may bo here to-day and
gone to-morrow. Even Pinafore itself
must subside into the limbo ef departed
melodies.”
“Do you tMnk he will again be a candi
date for the Presidency?”
“I cannot give you all my reasons, but
my impression is that the Republican par
ty will not nominate Mm. If they do I
don’t believe the people jwill elect him.
The Democratic party will run a man
who lia3 the virtues of civilism against
Mm if he be nominated. If he be not
nominated, we will run Hancock most
probably,as againstBlaine orsome one who
will lift tlie sanguinary nocturnal garment.
But much depends on what Governor
Seymour may do. All that I have said is
based upon the idea that he will never ac
cept. That has been my impression from
a personal knowledge of Ms wishes. But
some revelations from recent interviews
indicate that he might be constrained to
accept. If so, nothing can stand in the
way of his success.”.
—The liquidators of the City of Glas
gow Bank have wrought wonders. In a
single year they have paid out to creditors
$45,809,000, in round numbers, or about
13s. 4d. per pound. The balance due is
about $19,200,000, wMch is soon to be re
duced by the payment of another divi
dend of Is’ 8d. per pound, after wMch the
process of liquidation will be slow. No
doubt is entertained that every creditor
will be paid in full, The outstanding as
sets of the bank at the date of tlie report
were £2,829,771 0s. 3d., and the land
property held in New Zealand, if allowed
time to fructify, will in a few years realize
far more than its present market value.
But, besides the proper assets of the bank
still to be realized, there are sums due by
contributories raising the value and as
sets of tbe bank to upward of £4,300,000,
or nearly half a million in excess of the
liabilities. The liquidators are already
engaged in a series of litigations which
wit! employ the law courts for many
years, and the remaining dividends will
be paid slowly and in small amounts. But
of the ultimate issue there is no doubt.
Every creditor, as in the case of the Wes
tern Bank, will be paid 20 shillings in
the pound, and there will probably be con-
siberable sums reftmded to those share-
and a patriot who sincerely loved his J holders who have met the calls iu full.