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MACON, JANUARY 2d, 1S».
_A Ann in Wcstpliilla, Connecticut, a ! legal tender quality of United Stales
Short time ago, brought to perfection a ! Treasury notes. As an abstract proposi-
bew necdleinaking machine, by means of tion few of our readers, we imagine, will
Wlncli 100,000 needles can can be stamped ; care whether the law making those 1 reas-
&nd bored in a day of ten hours. unr notes a legal tender continues in force
—Great anxiety is felt in New Jersey in or not. If they are made receivable in
payment of all public dues, and the Treas
ury is required to maintain a coin reserve
ofonc-third the sunt total in circulation,
there is no rational doubt that they will
always stand higher in the public estima
tion tliangold-oriihqr.
lhe real' point’' underlying this attack
on the paper circulation of the govern
ment is concealed, and upon its solution
hangs tlie future of all the honest young
men of tlie country—the men wlio hope to
better their condition by personal industry
and enterprise. With them it involves a
question of a permanent, safe and reliable
currency, or a succession of financial tor
nadoes and collapses which every ten to
fifteen years will whelm them in ruinous
insolvency, in spite of all their best exer
tions to the contrary.
. Luck - only can save a man harmless
through such financial storms as have
harassed the country for the pas^cen
tury, and will always conic—are always
'bound to come from that rotten practice
and principle of building up avast credit
fabric on a vast credit fabric—that is to
feay, a general system of business credits,
founded on a wild system of local bank
credits, consisting of an issue of due bills
at the rate of three or nine dollars in bills
for one of money in hand; and this is the
real proposition at tlie bottom of this agi
tation, if not a worse one.
Senator Bayard,who reported these reso
lutions yesterday,in his speech on the Ma
con fair ground, even advocated banking
on real estate. And yet lie stands in the
North as par excellence a hard money
man—a peculiar devotee of ‘-honest
money,” But any financial system pro
posing to multiply the real money in the
countiy by the figure-three, and then mak
ing the product a basis ofgeneral trade, in
which there is another and larger multi
plication, can only pave the way for col
lapse and ruin. Common sense can give
no other verdict.
In 1834-5, just pending the great finan
cial hurricane of 1S3C-7, it was found of
ficially that the local banks had in circu
lation on an average seven and a liaif dol
lars in paper for every specie dollar in
their vaults, and the business credits on
this vast inflation were doubtless at a far
greater proportional extension. It was an
enormous fabric of credit, resting, as we
believe, more than twenty dollars of
credit to one of money, and truth to tell
we believe it was more than twice that
amount.
The whole trade of the country was a
bladder—a soap-bubble, which collapsed
at the touch of a straw, and everybody was
ruined who had not Ins money in specie,
tied up in a napkin and buried away.
Everybody was ruined who held real
property as an available asset against
debt, for liis property sunk tenfold and
his debt increased at the same rate.
Are the people going to try this insanity
again ? There is great danger of it—for
the millions interested iu the prospective
profits ofissuingathousandortwouiillions
of so-called specie-paying currency, and
buying and selling it are among the most
astute and audacious of American citizens
and will make themselves heard and felt;
while the great mass knows little and
cares less about the matter.
What the safety of the people demands
is that nothing circulating as money,
whether metal or paper, shall be left to
the devices of private speculators. The
; wiper has far greater need of the stamp
and authority of the government than the
metal. The idle talk about the danger
of trusting Congress, when, in the next
breath, it is proposed to trust ten
thousand banks and forty thousand hank
officers, and the protest against the lack
of elasticity in a government currency, Is
the delusive talk of those bent on consum
mating a dreadful public mischief for their
own advantage. Never again In the his
tory of America, probably, will another
chance occur of saving it from the reign
of printed rags and putting it on a sound
financial basis.
The business of this country must be
done mainly with paper money. Metal is
too bulky, cumbersome and inconvenient.
And now the great question is, who should
furnish this paper. Shall it be done ac
cording to common-sense, law and consti
tution, by the Government of the country,
which shall be made responsible for Its
safety and solvency,or shall it b- furnished
by forty or sixty or a hundred thousand lo
cal bank officers, so many of whom are
daily showing now that they are unsafe
even as depositories? Let the people
speak while speaking can save them from
a piebald, ragged, rotten, speculative cur
rency, not good, at best, a hundred miles
from the place of issue. If the people do
not speak up quickly and firmly and 16ud-
ly, they will be gone, and under the name
of “hard money" the country will soon
he rcoccupicd with a local bank currency,
which will explode two or three times in
> telegrams to-day, that the'currency que
tion is fairljj opened in. Washington, on I | _ _
the reportsTirom tlu$5enate Finance Con*- afGedlffa has*been'eng^ed to edit'an j Springer, in company with Hon.' i By the courtesy of Colonel J. H. Estill,
Tnittee on the proposition to within aw the Agricural Department in tlie-TELEGRAPn ; s * ™ : C # ^ innan .p rcenljac ^ of the Savannah Morning News, we are
regard to the ice crop, Tlie ice-houses
are all empty and it is feared there will he
©o crop this winter. J i • t f
—Mr. Spurgeon is still at Mentone, and
is very much better, the sunny weather
taking, as he says, the rheumatism out of
him. “Surely,” he adds, “I have the best
Of people, to deal so lovingly with their.
J>oor cripple of a minister.”
—Mr. Alvan G’lark, of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, is making a twenty-nine-
inch reflecting glass for the Yale College
telescope. This will be tlie largest glass
Of the kind in America.
—Colorado has uncommonly large ava
lanches this winter, and one of them cov
ered a house with so much snow that the
men inside were ten hours digging their
way out
—The friends of cx-Representatiyc
Wilson, of Iowa, say that if they can be
assured of his nomination as Viee-Presi,
dent, delegates will be elected from Iotva
to the Chicago convention pledged to vote
for Blaine and Wilson.
—The Republicans at Columbns, Ohio,
regard the unanimous nomination of
General Garfield for United Stales Sena
tor as conclusive evidence of the predomi
nance of the Sherman sentiment in the
State.
—The pastor of a Roman Catholic
Church at Greencastlc, Indiana, publicly
reproved and discharged bis clioir because
they had perpetrated a fraud in the raf
fling of a piano at a fair.
—A sacrificial service by Ira Stewart,
a religious fanatic at Castle Grove, Iowa,
was interrupted just in time to save his
little daughter, whom lie was about to
slay on an altar.
—Mayor Prince, of Boston, in his re
cent message, says that city lias bought
over a hundred acres of laud for a park
for about $450,000, and has spent $125,000
in filling, but is so near the legal limit of
her indebtedness that no further debt can
be incurred on this account. There are
Other park schemes which ought to be
pushed, Mayor Prince thinks, and he pro
poses to sell needless real estate belong
ing to the city valued at $1,000,000 and
devote the proceeds to parks.
—The Grain Glut Accommodated.
—Chicago, Illinois, January 13.—
Over 1,000,000 bushels of grain (almost
exclusively of corn) is now afloat in the
harbor here for shipment to Buffalo in the
spring. Elevator room has thus been
made so tL-u the storage capacity is now
in the aggregate about IS,000,000 bushels,
including the new grain storehouses which
have been discovered since the glut began
to alarm shippers. There is now room for
all the grain that is likely to come.
—A woman at Nyack, New York, sub
dued an adopted girl by whipping her
With thorns and then bathing her back
with vinegar and salt; leaving her all
night on her feet, tied to a bedpost: rub
bing red pepper in her mouth, and vari
ous other tortures. One day she told the
child to go up stairs and undress, prepar
atory to being whipped until the blood
ran down her legs. There was no reason
to donbt the promise, and tlie girl there
fore jumped out of the second story, fled
naked to the woods, and froze nearly to
death before she was discovered.
—Ice Moving in the Hudson.—A
Poughkeepsie New York dispatch of Jan
uary 12, says the extraordinary thaw
which commenced two weeks ago has had
a most dislieartenning effect upon all who
are interested in ice-cutting upon the Hud
son, and hundreds of families who de
pend upon that industry are suffering for
trait of work. Last year at this time 10,-
000 m®n, 2,000 boys, S00 horses and 100
steam engines were at work on the Hud-
Soh cutting ice, and 1,000,000 cakes of
ice were being housed daily, the pay-roll
amounting to $20,000 a day for thirty
days. At this time, however, all this la
bor and capital is idle, and the season is
far behind and the outlook is gloomy. Ice
fit to be housed should be at least nine
indies thick; a faint attempt to cut seven-
inch ice thus far has failed.
—The readjusters In the Virginia Legis
lature are, apparently, afraid to take hold
of tlie subject of State finances, and this
hesitation is already causing some dissat
isfaction among their supporters through
out the State. Tlie readjusters rashly
‘ promised the people, In the event of their
success at the polls, speedy relief from
fin&udal evils. The State owed a large
public debt, arid the treasury was empty
In this condition of affairs the people,
like an individual long suffering from
some chrouic disease, were ready to try
any quack doctor who would guarantee a
cure. The Legislature lias frittered away
more than a month in dividing up the
spoils of office, but there is no sign of re
lief for the suffering people. Tlie im
pression seems to be growing among all
classes that the readjusters care more for
office than for tlie interests of the State.
The party, like a quack doctor, lias-ob
tained Its fee, and Is ready to admit, in a
whining tone, that the case is really in-
curnbia.
—SNOW Storm Noktii.—The snow
which surprised the people, Tuesday
morning, began in New York soon after
midnight and continued until nearly noon.
About eight inches of snow fell, hut a brisk
westerly wind drifted it about, and in many
places In the streets it wa: fully a foot in
depth. East of the Allegbanies the storm
was not so severe as west, tlie heaviest
snowfall being in Maine, where about a
foot fell. At other points it was from
six to eight inches deep. At the south
but little snow fell, but a heavy fall of
rain and sleet Is reported. The storm is
now passing off the coast of Cape nattc-
ras,. followed by rapidly clearing and cold
er weather. The snow has caused much
inconvenience and delay to travel aid
business in the city. The teams on all
street car lines were doubled soon after
daylight, but frequent blockades occurred
and the cars were often thrown off the
track by drifted snow. The St. Louis ex
press on the Pennsylvania road was two
ours late. The storm was veiy severe
ng the sound. - -i -A- *
Terpsichore an.—Prof Roy West, in
addition to Ills regular school, devotes a
portion of every Saturday, to a select
class of female pupils. No males are ad
mitted. The Professor is master of his
art, and those parents who wish their
daughters to cultivate the graces, would
do Well to avail themselves of this Satur
day class
weeks ago tnai uenerai minimi ai. i— „ ,.
Browne, the accomplished Professor of nebeckport, was then initiated into tlie Way Lombl
Agriculture and History in theUnlversity wily way of getting $1,000 from the agent; ; Savannah.
' ' i, has been engaged*! edit an ; Springer, in company with Hon. 1 "■- *
Department in tlie-TEL-EOBAPn j "• ^ove, chairman of the Greenback
, vn iipcsi-vcpi' Sickness and other i &tate Committee, counted the money ,, ,, .
^SSiSSprevent that the agent had enabled to give to our readers many of
— - - * -• nai<i Mr rjnvrt a on. wliom liavc a personal interest in the en-
Bradstreet’a Weekly.
We had occasion to complain, in a re-
! The Third Term.
' The Washington correspondent of. the !
Our Agricultural Department, j s ai n was quickly m^e, aiuji publication a Map Showing the Route and all I
wtX ^ QH ttot m Gener!a wIu^m! I Ken- the Connections Of the Great Rail- j «<= — j wasnmgio* correspondent of the I Our long telegranis toTday ni'ako It
- ago _ 1’ .“T - nowu™-, — .HuJ.i «... way Combinations from St. Louis to cent issue, that Macon and all the j Herald of Wednesday sends that paper think, - y lnake «we
The Maine Imbroglio.
the Professor from beginning his .duties
until the present time. Yesterday, how
ever, lie. entered upon tlie work, and the
reader will find another excellent article
from his pen In this morning’s issue.
Hereafter, General Browne will furnish
regularly, once a week, a column of agri-
cuitnral original, and' selected matter,
which will appear; in all of the editions
of the Telegraph. The kno^n ahijity
of this gentleman, and his superior oppor
tunities lor information as the head of the
Agricultural Department in our State
University, will make this a new and pe
culiarly interesting feature in the Tele
graph for 1880. .
Needs Light.
From a neighbor, wlio runs one of tlie
largest foundries and ■ machine shops in
the South, we have received a copy of
Bradst reel's Journal, which purports .to
be a business publication, giving accurate,
statistical details of the trade and
financial condition of every State
in tlie Union. But, , if the report
from Georgia is to , he regarded as a
criterion, then this pompous journal had
better shut up shop and retire.
Atlanta and Savannah are the only cit
ies mentioned at all, while Augusta, ’Co
lumbus, Macon, Rome, Athens, Amerleus
and other important places are not even
casually alluded to.
Atlanta is permitted to speak through
one of its own mouthpieces,, who, . as
might be expected, lays on the laudation
ad nauseam.
Savannah fares worse. Her trade, de
spite the well known activity which lias
prevailed In our chief seaport, and the
large receipts of cotton,is declared “not to
be perhaps as heavy in amount as the pre
vious year’s business.”
The truth is, Mr., Bradstreet shoots very
wide ef the mark, and should endeavor to
get Ins information from more reliable'
sources.
Perhaps, too, if he would address a line
to some one of tlie hundred wholesale and
retail merchants who illustrate Macon’s
commercial importance, the eyes of tins
New York journalist would bo Opened,
and-he would discover that tlie Empire
State of tlie South contains other commer
cial cities of no mean reputation, outside
of Atlanta and Savannah.
Macon, for instance, In proportion toher
population, is without a peer in the mag
nitude of its wholesale and. retail busi
ness. Augusta aud Columbns also are
great and opulent manufacturing centres,
and tlie commerce and trade of Georgia
are distributed through a score oi flour
ishing towns located upon her numerous
railroad thoroughfares. We should be
glad tojiave Mr. Bradstreet come South
and see for himself the troth of these
statements.
paid Mr. Gove $1,005, the money being
mostly in bills trancing from$l to $207 terprisc, a very complete and elaborate
There can be no mistake 3S to this being,
a genuine transaction, as the greatest care -1
was taken to track the .agent and it. can
and,will bo established beyond question
that the trade was made atrthe Instigation
of James G. Blaiuo. J
every generation, leaving universal wreck will walk • liim out. Depositions
behind. from certain towns—sworn testimony—
We say everything is false in principle
which calls a bank due bill money. ’ Tlie
absolute money of a country is its gold
and silver. But although this is true,
there is no doubt the United States treas
ury notes, issued on the public faith and
pledge and secured with a reasonable re
serve for redemption, will always* furnish
a reliable and permanent currency. *
—Grant’s Stkesoui in the West:—
The Indianapolis Journal, up to Friday
last, had interviewed 5,338 Republicans,
scattered over half the counties of the
State of Indiana. Of this number, 1,882
declared themselves for Blaine, 1,000 for
Grant, 1,352 for Sherman, eighty-seven
for Hayes, seventy-one for Washburne,
thirty-seven for Garfield, twelve for
Thompson, eighteen for Colfax, sixteen
for Harrison, eleven for Bristow, seven
teen for Coukling. six for Fremont, ten for
Edmunds, seven for W. T. Sherman,
three for Ramsey, three for Logan, two for
Hawley, three for Wheeler, one for Doiig-
lass, one for Oglesby, one for Booth,and
108 for the nominee without expressing
any preference. ■ : 1
—Tlie Baptist Missionary Magazine
quotes a remark lately made at a mission
ary meeting, that “heathenism Is not re
building her decaying altars, and offsets it
with the statement of Rev. Mr. Jameson,
that “in repairing and beautifying just one
pagoda here in Bassein, Burmah, there is
being spent more than twice as much
money as our Missionary Union expend-
ed last year upon our whole work in tlie
Bassein district-” This pagoda, which Is
117 feet high, octagonal," and of solid ma-
soury, was entirely regilded*
Defused. >
We have received a venomous attack
uj>on Governor Colquitt, which betrays
the animus of i \ indietive enemy.
There are two reasons why this commu
nication sliould.be consigned to the waste
basket;
1st. Because it is anonymous. Stabs in
tlie dark should never. >s countenanced,
aud a brave, man always shows liis
hand.
2d. Because much that is stated by the
Governor’s enemy is manifestly untrue,
and our mission is to uphold the right in
every instance, and discountenance what
is known to be unjust and wrong. . And
this is said from no partisan standpoint.
We have already declared that the Tel
egraph does not assume the right of
naming Who shall be the next Governor
of Georgia. That is the prerogative el
the people, first in primary assembly, and
then in a fairly constituted convention,
representing all the estates of tlie com
monwealth. The only stipulation insisted
upon is that he shall be a capable and
honest Democrat. Whatever then may
be our personal preferences in the premi
ses, as impartial journalists, reprcsen ng
fbr aught we know a hundred meritorious
aspirants for the Executive Chair, we shall
leave the de.cision to the people, where it
properly belongs, and support their nom
inee with all tlie ability and zeal we
possess.
The Maine Embrosrlio-
When tlie history of Governor Garce-
lon’s late attempt under the Constitution
of the State to prevent the seating of cer
tain Republican members of the Legisla
ture, on the ground of fraud and irregular
ities, comes to be written, great will be
the villany and corruption chargeable to
Blaine aud his followers.
The following from the Boston Globe
tells a sad tale of depravity and wicked-
noss:
Oral testimony, sustained by affidavits,
such as was known to the Governor ani
Council, will be laid before the Legisla
ture and the public, which will prove, in
disputably, that in a fair election, the Re
publicans* could not have got votes enough
to carry a single county, arid that they
succeed in electing the bulk of their rep
resentatives by purchasing votes, by in
timidation and by illegal .voting, The.
bulk of this wickedness was transacted in
tin cities,but there also extended through
out the country districts a systematic plan
to defeat the popular voice. Mr. Springer’s
investigations showed that six per cent., or
12,000 voters, were either driven from the
polls by threats of discharge from employ
ment or by the use of money. ; Notwith
standing this fact, the aggregate vote was
heavier than ever before, which shows, in
itself, illegal voting on a large scale. No
where is 4 charged, even in a single in
stance, that tlie opposition cast an illegal
vote or hindered free choice. The inves
tigation before the Legislature will show
such evidence of fraud as to unseat from
ten to fifteen of the Republican members
now seated, for, while the Governor and
Council could not {hire cognizance s>f
these frauds, the Legislature 1 Can ; fri«
will sift the matter to / the bottom. Eu
gene Hale will be ’one of, .the mem
bers who will he unseated, evidence
having been already developed which
will be brought out, which will startle the
country. It will be clearly set forth that
a systematic pressure was brought to bear
upon voters by employers, and through
the influence of a social or business ostra
cism. In a single town twelve per cent,
of the voters were prevented from voting
as they desired, through fear of loss of
employment. Agents of the Republican.
State Committee rode about, and gave,
fair warriing to laborers that they must
either vote as directed by their employers
or refrain from voting altogether. From
15t),to 175 votes were in this way lost to
the opposition in one town. These facts,
said Mr. Springer, have been obtained by a
Canvassing Committee of tlie oppo
sition, whose membery went to “each
individual, who had stayed away
from the polls; One F ipnblican
employer in tills manner, controlled votes
enough to seat two Republican Represen
tatives in the county o£ Cumberland, aud
three of his men, who dared to vote as
they saw fit, were discharged the morning
after tlib election. In Port land Mr. Spring
er himself witnessed the purchase of votes
by Republican fuglemen, and he believed
it would be shown that hundreds of votes
were purokas/d in that city. An organiz
ation cf leading Greeribackers weni to
Augusta Mohday to compare notes, and as
soon a3 the members el get began to arrive
it was ascertained that efforts had been
made to buy enough of these to break the
quorum, in this way to carry out tlie pro
gramme which had previously failed only-
through the courage of the .Governor and
Council. We d-termined, said Mr. Spring
er, to ferrit out the agents -yto were do
ing Blaine’s dirty work,'and as a large
. The Republicans will he ebie jo.make
uo capital out of flie “martra ’ heat” which'
they fancy they had discovered in Maine.
Comments Jrom Abroad on the Late
Lease- '
H. TV. G., the correspondent of thd Con
stitution, thus discourses upon the sub
j«*: bv J J, l .
THE PEOBABLEfROUTE TO BE SELECTED.
Of course tlie matter of the first impor
tance is the route by which the new line
will be run.: There is no determination
made as yet, but Colonel Hazleburst says
that he lias surveyed both routes towards
Atlanta and much prefers tho ridge route
to the valley route. This route will carry
the road to Monticello, in Jasper county.
From this point there are two routes to
Atlanta—one by McDonough direct to
Atlanta, and the other to Covington via
the Georgia railroad.- By the"McDon
ough route the distance to Atlanta wil*
be about twenty miles less than by
tlie Macon and Western road (thirteen to
be exact, I think,) arid by Covington tlie
distance will be about six miles less than
by the Macon and Western road. My
opinion is that the Covington route will
be adopted. It will be much chcaped than
any other route, and will compete in eve
ry sense with the Macon and Western road
aud will have the advantage of running it
some di- apcs from the Macon and West
ern roa.’. f,.. that it may have the benefit
of an undivided local traffic. The aver
age distance between the two routes will
lie about twenty-flglit miles. If tlie Geor
gia road does not make all tlie tariff neces-
sary to tlie new read a new line can be
built from Covington to Atlanta and about
eight miles saved by avoiding tlie horse
shoe bend at Stone Mountain. Tins would
give the.road considerable advantage iu
distance over the old one.
Tlie main reason though,in my opinion,
for the Covington route, is that t tie pro
jectors of the new route hope to push
their line tlirough Rabun Gap in the di-
.'-etionof the old Maeon and Knoxville
uroy aud get a through line that would
be almost an air line from MaeontoKnox-
viUe where it would work its way to the
(’iu .-iimati Southern aud the Louisville aud
Nashville systems. This route would
Ci css the Air Line at Flowery Branch and
slip t..rough Iiabun Gap. it is a darling
project of tlie Macon and Brunswick peo
ple. and will be carried out if there is any
possibility of doing it.
AN ESTIMATE OF THE MACON AND
BRUNSWICK ROAD.
Colonel Hazlihnrst, who built the Ma
con and Brunswick road, says it cost $4,-
000,000, and could net be built for very
much less at present. He thinks it will pay
$00,000 a year net profits, which would be
about C per cent, on tlie price that must be
paid for it, $1,125,000. Dr. Flewellen,
who knows more about'it than almost any
one else, says that with an outlay of $200,-
000 it could me made to pay probably
S75,000 per annum. It paid $52,000 net
profit last year, and did not have a fair
chance, as it had to pay great sums forth:
rental of cars. I- hear indirectly that Gen
oral McRea says the business can be push
ed up so as to pay $10,000 a month profits,
in which event it will be a small bonanza.
Of course these estimates are based on tkc
business of the road as it stands. What
it would be when extended 100 miles
further no one can surmise. It would be
through business that it must then look to
to support its whole line. It will cost
about $1,000,000 to build the extension.
ABOUT THE SUPPOSED NEW COMPANY.
The new company is composed, accord
ing to rumor, of Mr. TV. C. Wheeler, and
no old friend of Brunswick, now in Lon
don, Mr. C'baancey Vibbard who with
Colonel Schalter, was once engineer of
the New York Central, and who was at
tracted to Brunswick many years ago,
Mr. Charles Vibbard and Mr. Nathaniel
Green. The two first named gentlemen
have been interested in Brunswick affairs
for a long time, and have the greatest con
fidence iu the “come-out” of that city. It
may be settled, therefore, that if they do
compose the Company Brunswick’s inter
ests are in good bands. Mr. Vibbard was
here during the legislative session looking
after the bill. It is said that they will at
once proceed to make.great improvements
at Brunswick and will.start trans-Atlantic
steamers. I saw a dispatch from TV. G.
Wheeler, in which he ordered his friends
to bid to the full value of the road, and
«tated he had telegraphed $500,000 credit
totliem at Morton, Bliss & Co.’s, New
York.
A Butter War.—A very fierce con
troversy has broken out in New York in
the case of Butter vs. Oleomargarine. Tlie
“National Association for the Prevention
if Adulteration of Butter” is convulsed
with it; and some readers might go into
agonies, but for a certain fact developed
in the debate or' directly after it, by Mr.
■IL K. Tlmrbcr, the gigantic grocer, wlio
after the meeting circulated a printed
statement that oleomargarine was a
product of the farm, as much as beef or
butter; that in reality it-was butter made
from milk and cream, enriched by tlie nat
ural margarine oil, and was as pure aid
wholesome as that produced by the ordi
nary. method; tha(/ .ordinary butter had
been forced by a speculative movement to
a point tliat restricted consumption, and
was now experiencing a reaction.
The statement, was also made in thaiueet-
ing substantially that tlie. olemargariuo
'Could not bq distinguished from real but
ter by taste or smell, while if sold for
half price.. All these facts being true are
calculated to relieve public anxiety.
If tlie oleobotlieriiia leeks, smells end
tastes like, butter, Js;perfectly, pure and
wholesome, and capjut bo. distinguished
frorii butter except bv thermal test, why,
thfen, if a inan.sh i ulct happen ,to oat seme
of it by mistak . ;io., fatal consequences
would result. ...
Blaixk Will back, says tin- Coyj-irr-
JoinMal, 'to Wasbinglou with (lie worst
record heli.i*ev-i-'su ’ceeded iu making for
himself, and vulnerable at every point.
His frantic and puffy or«to;y will avail
hint ririthing. -I n every Republican Slifia
law and order prevails,” say the Republi
can orgaiti. Il >\v beautifully Maine il
lustrates tli’ai proposition!
. It is painful fo reflect' that if Nature
carries on ilie rest of this winter as sib; has
done the llret iralfbf it, there will be very
little ice-tYr tie* next season.
Mil. Or -at»«tonfe»8 accomplishments
were a-re-clutim to the Scotch people.
At rimes they listened sodutently that not
a sound was, made l>y tlia assi niblej thou
sands, and the next msinent rent tho air
with their thiindcrous-^r^rdaL-.n or burst
into.’IlioSek'yfroftriii's fcT.tid dw-splifting
epehinatious peculiar ro-t&pjkii irions Scot.
Tv lieu they, fleslred to ,'cueer they rose in a
"body, and every nian who er.niud a walk
ing Stick put his • hat on it arid waved it.
Onc fecHo old man perpetually getting
Hp ini the middle of the Dalkeith meeting
to go through this ceremony on his own
At West Calder, Mr. Samuel
number'of our members had been j Wanl, who was ' present, says that arc-
tempted and openly approached, it was ! spectable clergyman seated himself on the
suggested, that, some reliable, discreet j very edge of the platform with his legs
man should put himself in the way of dangling loosely from it, and opening his
receiving money, in order to folly expose"’ m'outli, showed a shining row of teeth,
the plot. ■*! - which he kept exposed to the public gaze
"Hon. B. Swan was the first man to of- for two hours,' while die drank in the
far himself to Blaine’s agent, and a bar- stream of flowing eloquence.
map illustrating the entire railway system
of all that portion of the United States
east of her Western Territories and the
Indian reservations. The drawings and
lines of the several "roads are strictly accu
rate, -and show at a glance the supreme
importance of the great trunk thorough-:
fare which has recently been .consumma
ted by the union of the Central and its
branches, with, the Western and Atlantic,
and Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Railroads. • •: ; .
Tlie broad, black line on tlie map rep
resents the consolidated road proper,while
the “Cincinnati Southern,” the “Air Line,”
the “Georgia,” the Old “Atlantic and Gulf,
“Memphis and Chattaiiooga,” the “West
roiat,” ths (wo lines to ‘.‘Montgomery,”
in short, the' entire net work of railway
connections are carefully and plainly de
lineated, . .
If lhe reader will examine for a mo
ment Macon’s situation on this railway
chart, it will he at once apparent to lflm
that she ' occupies the most salient and
commanding position of any other city
south of Nashville. : Nature has made her
the distributing point for a vast area' of
country which is tapped aud permeated
by the Briarean aims of iron wh* ill she
extends in every direction.
Hence, the iinmenseyolumc aud impor
tance of her wholesale trade, which equals
if it does not surpass that of any city in
Georgia. Situated just on the borders of
the primary and secondary geological for
mations, the halfway-house (as it were)
between the grain producing region and
the rich alluvials of the “black belt;”
with com, wheat; rye, fruit, wool and
other domestic products pouring into her
lap on the one side, and the fleecy staple
which clothes,and regulates the exchanges
of the universe, on tlie other, to say noth
ing of the syrup, sugar, rice ami wine of
tho low country, which find a market
here, what city in the South lias better
natural advantages or is more greatly
blessed?
And this grand combination is certain
to add immensely to our general prosperi
ty. A flood of commerce from the West
will pass into, and through our city to the
ocean. In its transit will be left hundreds
of passengers and permanent settlers to
enrich and strengthen the community,
and a vast amount of produce and mer
chandise which will be sought after by
our interior to .rns and markets. It is in
this way that New York, Buffalo, Chica
go,-Cincinnati, Louisville, and many
thriving cities ou tliejseveral railway lines,
liavc been built up and continue to flour
isli.
The South has never had a tlirough
line from the West to tide water, and
hence, her merchants when sending orders
for provisions and other merchandise have
been compelled to submit to the exoibi-
taut fares and local rates of a half-dozen
roads, each wholly dependent upon its
local patronage for support. But the
Cole, Brown and Wadley coalition will
put a stop to ail this. The aim of tliat
organization is, by the gains arising from
tlie vast volume of its through freights, to
reduoo local fares to a minimum rate,
thus greatly benefiting the people wlio re
side upon ilieir line of road.
This policy will bring hundreds of bales
of cotton to-Macon, which is legitimately
the market town for a scope of country
extending to the Gulf of Mexico and the
Alabama line. Hitherto, cheap throui
freights and local discriminations ha
diverted from our city thousands of bales
which would otherwise have sought a
market here. But Colonel Colo declares
that all these discriminations shall be
abolished, and the tariff of freiglits will
be graduated as nearly as possible accord
ing to a scale of distances from either ter
minus of his line.
We can but hope aud believe, therefore,
that the late consolidation of three impor
tant- lines, which traverse over 2,000 miles
of territory under one intelligent head,
will greatly inure to tlie benefit and
prosperity of all the cities of Georgia and
tho people at large.
Caleb Cushing’s Prophecy.
The New York Il’orld of Wednesday
has the following in an editorial ou the
third term:
General Butler not long ago, in an eu
logy on the late Mr. Cushing, alluded to a
remark made by that singularly ablpman
in 1SCI, which was couched in something
like these wordM “I would give a great
deal to know the name of the subaltern in
tlie Northern army to-day who will even
tually rise to the command of the armies
of the Union and become President of the
United States when the War is ended, and
maintain hipiself in thati office just as long
as he pleases to hold it!” General Butler
represents himself as having expressed
some surprise at the intimation conveyed
in the concluding part of this remark,
whereupon Mr.' Cushing said to him: “Do
you think tliat the teaching of all history
aud thodendemics of all human ambition
are to be-reversed for the especial benefit
of the United States?”
At that time, General Grant was un
known. After seeking a military position
in vain, he obtained permission of the
Governor of Illinois to raise a volunteer
company, aud subsequently went into the
war at its head. Cushing’s prophecy was
based on general facts and principles, and
although Grant failed to verify it on the
first occasion, he has taken the one, and
is plainly reaching for a second chance
with all his strength. The Empire and a
personal dynastic government is tlierefore
the suggestion of history, experience and
observation and not of mere party preju
dice. •
towns of Georgia had been ignored by tills
business journal, save Atlanta and Savan
nah, in its statement of the financial con
dition of our Commonwealth. The agent
of Mr. Bradstreet, however, at this place,
lias since assured 113 that in the issue re
ferred to there was no room for notices of
other towns and cities in this State. As a
proof of this, he handed us the following
very just remarks upon Macon’s trade and
'condition; which were published in a later
number of that journal:
Macon.—Business has been quite brisk
here for the past two weeks. Northern
and Western drummers declare that they
never have seen suph activity for years.
A Western traveler told the writer that
the merchants of Macon were nearly all
afi'ering to discount their time drafts—a
circumstance tending to show that they
are in a healthy condition. The rise in
cotton has enabled farmers to meet their
paper, and many notes were paid before
maturity. Real estate in Macon has ad
vanced from 10 to 20 per cent., and
many new houses are in the course of
erection. We have had very few failures
among our merchants, and less than
any year since 1873. On the 1st of
January, I860, a free mail delivery will be
established in our city. There is now a
hill pending in Congress, to establish ano
ther circuit court in Georgia, to bo held at
Macon. Tlie cotton receipts are not up to
last year for this place. It was selling,
December 24th, at ll£c. There is.little
disposition among the farmers to hold at
tlie present prices, and most of tho Crop
is sold as soon as brought to market:- .
It gives us pleasure thus to make the
amende honorable for any unintentional
injustice which has been done to Mr.
Bradstreet.
A dwarf donkey’s love of beer is
soiifpe of revenue to an Indianapolis sa
loon keeper. This little beast stands or
iies by the stove ready to trot up to the
bar and drink as often as invited. He
usually gets pretty drunk before the
night’s dissipation is over, and In the
morning, probably in consequence of a
headache, bites and kicks at everybody
who comes near.
'—The “Herald” having solemnly as
sured its readers month after month on
the authority of a Chinease Viceroy that
Gcnaral Grant could not and would not
seek the Republican nomination for the
Presidency, now declares that “there is no
•louht that General Grant is iu “the field
as a. candidate and wants tho nomi
nation.” Really, what will the Chinese
Viceroy say? Did not the World long
ago point out to its esteemed contemporary
“TItc Clicaiiest Article In tlie World.”
This is what a grateful gentleman said
who was cured of a bad kidney disease by
the use of the Safe Kidney and Liver Cure,
after lie had offered ill vain $1,000 to any
doctor who would rid him of it. It is the
cheapest article in the world to alLatfficted
with kidney aud liver diseases.
jantt 2w. _ i
Tho Death of Frank Leslie.
This great journalist, who may be said
to he the founder of illustrated newspa
pers aud magazines in America, as has
been announced, died a few days ago at
his resilience 611 Fifth Avenue, New
York, in his fifty-ninth year. .
Ha was horn in Ipswich, England, and
originally bore the name of Carter. His
father, Joseph Carter, was a glove maker,
and trained his son to tlie same trade.
Mr. Leslie followed that occupation in
London for three years until the age of
twenty, when he was discharged by liis
uncle, in whose appointment he was, for
marrying against the wishes of his family.
He then abandoned that avocation and
became a sketchcr in tlie London Illustra-
fed Neics until 1S4S, when he came to
this country. In 1850 he was connected
with Gleason's Pictorial in Boston, and
afterwards worked for several New York
firms. He became a printer, also, and
did not begin the publishing business on
his own account until 1853.
The following particulars of the career
and the immediate cause of the death of
j this noted pictorial journalist, we gather
from the New York Sun:
j |He greatly advanced illustrated journal
ism by making a study of all new sugges
tions for improvement and finally became
the head of a very large establishment on
the comer of Elm aud Pearl streets. He
failed in 1S77, while publishing thirteen
illustrated journals, and made an assign
ment of all liis property to Mr. Isaac TV.
England, to be managed, until the close
of 1SS0, for tlie benefit of his creditors,who
were principally paper dealers, and liber
ally disposed toward him. His debts
were $410,000 and - his assets, real and
prospective, $500,000. Notwithstanding
Mr. England’s assigneeship, Mr. Leslie re
mained practical managerof the business,
which was removed after the failure to 23
Park Place. The establishment ^now is
sues periodically Frank Leslie’s Illustrated
‘Newspaper, Illustrated Zeitung, Chimney
Corner, Boys’ and Girls’ Weekly, Illus
trated Times, Sunday Magazine, Popular
Monthly, Lady’s Magazine and Gazette
of Fashion, Pleasant Hours, Chatterbox
and Budget, all headed with the prefix of
“Frank Leslie.”
Mr. Leslie won upon his arrival here
the medal of the American Institute for
wood engraving, aud in 1807 was appoin
ted a Commissioner in the Department of
Fine Arts to the Paris Exposition of that
year. He was presented with a prize
medal by Louis Napoleon, and, in 1S7C,
was State Commissioner for New York to
the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.
Mr. Leslie was a member of the Manhat
tan, Lotos and Jockey Clubs, and as a
Mason belonged to tlie Holland Lodge.
Ilis illustrated papers greatly aided Mr.
Bergli’s efforts in ameliorating the condi
tion of animals. His country residence
near Saratoga has a wide reputation in
that section of countiy for taste in archi
tecture and beauty of grounds.
The deceased, while in London, always
used professionally the name of Frank
Leslie, and continued to do so on arrivic
here. Twenty years ago lie adopted it
permanently through an act of the Legis
lature. At that time, in I860, he was di-
vorced from his first wife, and six years
ago married Mrs. Squire, whose maiden
name was Miss Miriam Follen. She was
many years younger than he and survives
him, together . with his sons, Henry and
Alfred Leslie. Scipio died about a year
ago.
Mr. Leslie attended to business at his
residence during the respites of his illness,
up to Friday last, and was dressed yester
day morning and moving about the house.
His sufferings had been caused by the
pressure of a tumor in his throat on the
windpipe and oesophagus,which prevent
ed free breathing, and at last suffocation
onsued. He was unconscious for two
hours before death, and was attended at
the time by bis wife, bis son Alfred, Dr.
Strew, his family physician, and several
friends. He told the Rev. Dr. Bellows, a
few days ago, tliat. he was not a professing
Christian, but could conscientiously say
that he had never done to any mau that
which he would not have done to him.
The time of the funeral is not definitely
settled, but it will probably take place
from Dr. Chapin’s church on Tuesday.
The interment is to be in TVoodlawn
Cemetery.
the following
"Who Made the Quorum in the Maine
House of Eepresentatives?.
It seems tliat the,following. was the de
cision of the Supreme Court of Maine;
“The rule applicable to such cases is
similar to that which applies to our House
of Representatives. The, whole number
of Representatives established by law is
151. A majority (that is seventy-six
members) constitutes a quorum to do
business. If there is actually that num
ber present, and a majority of them (that
is thirty-nine members) vote in the affir
mative, a valid law can thereby he enact
ed or other business transacted. If less
than seventy-six members are present,
then no business can be done except to
adjourn or compel the attendance of ab
sent members.”
TVlien the House met and the roll was
called, to the dismay of Blaine and the
consternation of the Republicans, Mr.
Eugene Hale answered to his name, thus
completing the tale of seventy-six mem
bers and constituting a legal quorum. The
Senate also is properly organized, but tlie
Major General of the Militia Chamberlain
refuses to acknowledge the authority oi
hat General Grant has been a Presiden
tial candidate from tlie moment when Mr. I the acting Governor. From all appearan-
Hayes entered the White House in March j ces the Fusionists having control now oi
1877, and that in all human probability both branches of the Legislature will be
he has already made it impossible for the ’ able to hold their own; But the State
Republican party to nominate anybody I is on the very verge of anarchy and blood-
buthixosclf in 1880? abed.
The third term movement causes moire
and more uneasiness among the Republi
cans here. They confess in private con
versation that the scheme to renominate
the ex-President may succeed; but that is
precisely what alarms them; because the
general and growing conviction among
the slirewdest Republicans in both houses
is that he cannot be elected, “I would
not mind his nomination,” said a promi
nent Republican Representative to your
correspondent yesterday, “though I do not
like the violation of the example of Wash
ington and the fathers of the republic, but
I am more and more convinced that we
cannot elect him.”"
“Yet you. believe he will be nomi
nated ?” asked your correspondent,
“I fear so,” he replied. “The men who
are;at work for kimi, have possession of all
our machinery iu Pennsylvania, New
York and some other States; they are
shrewd and determined, and are taking
their measures, with great skill. They
care little for the popular sentiment of the
party; what they mean is to control the
delegations in some of the greater States,
and so far as I can see they will be able to
do it. It is this which alarms me, If the
Republican voters were fairly asked, arid
if they answered that they wanted to give
the ex-President a third term, I would be
content, for if the party with reasonable
unanimity wanted to do this thing, I think
we could cariy- it. But the people are not
being polled on the subject by the third
term leaders, and these aim to control the
convention by the use of the party ma
chinery independent of the people’s
wishes or spontaneous action. That is al
ways dangerous; anil where the leaders
run counter to such a sentiment or preju
dice as that against a third term of the
Presidency, it may, and I fear will, be
fatal to the party. It will end in a revolt
against the leaders who control the ma
chinery.”
This Republican, it will be observed
would not seriously object to the third
term policy if he believed it could suc
ceed, and that is the state of mind of a
good many, though by no means of all of
liis fellows here. These gentlemen are
alarmed because, as several of them have
told your correspondent, very many of
their people are strongly and even vehe
mently opposed to the third- term policy.
“I was amazed when I was at home
during the holidays,” said a prominent
Republican to-day, “to see how the oppo
sition to the third term had increased in
my district. Several very important men
took the trouble to come to me from some
distance to speak about the matter, to
urge that it would never do to commit the
party to this fatal policy and tell me the
sentiment of their people, which has
grown more hostile since it has become
apparent to them that the ex-President
seeks a new lease of power and office.”
The developments of the Republican
sentiment in regard to candidates made by
Pennsylvania and Western journals has
been watched here, aud has increased the
alarm and disinclination of Republican
Congressmen toward the third term ex
periment. One of them to-day took out
of his pocket a number of newspaper cut
tings which he had preserved, on this
question. “Look here,” said he, “here
are sixty-six Republican oigans in Penn
sylvania and out of them only twenty-two
arc for a third tenn. Look again at this
return in tlie Indianapolis Journal. Of
5,388 Republican voters only 1,600 are for
a third term. I have more of such things
at home. They all show the weakness of
this movement among the people. I hope
our leaders will go slew in this matter,
tell you it is dangerous, for say what you
will, if our Republican voters once get it
into their heads that they are being made
the tools of a set of politicians and take
alarm about their objects they will sweep
the party from power for four years as the
best way ot clearing out the mischief-
making elements. Our Republican peo
ple are thoughtful people who cannot be
led by the nose. They do not, as is evi
dent, like this third term policy. They
do not like to see the ex-President Iambi
tious for another term. They do not like
the men who are conspicuous in the third
tenn movement, and, while they may let
them do their will in convention; I fear
they will not ratify it at the polls. It is a
crazy thing to attempt it.”
There are here a certain number of
Republicans who are utterly opposed to
the third tenn policy or principle as 'set
ting a dangerous example, and fostering
unscrupulous ambition in public riten.
But a greater number oppose the policy
on the ground of inexpediency. They are
convinced that the people are not behind
this movement, to use the words of one of
them, and that it is too risky for adoption
Yet the veiy general impression is that
the third term men will push theirschcme
over the heads of the people, and that
they will carry the delegations of Pennsyl
vania and New York.
—The Ilanocer Spectator has run up
the Blaine flag, aud, in doing so, says it
gives expression to the feelings of nine-
tenths of the Republican voters of York
county and Southern Pennsylvania.
COJIMONWEAI.TII K2STKIBCTIOX
COMPANY.
Sixteenth Popular Drawing; at Mo-
caulcy’s Theatre, Eouisville, Ky., on
Saturday, January 31st.
Always prompt and regular—always
“fair and square,” and with constantly in
creasing sales, this popular Company will
hold its sixteenth drawing on 31st inst.
$112,400 as usual will be distributed.
Tickets, $2; halves, $1. Send by money
or bank draft in letter, or by express;
don’t send by registered letter or postal
order. Address R. M. Boardman, or T.
J. Commerford, Courier-Journal Builds
ing, Louisville, Ky., or either person at
163 Broadway, N. Y.
The weapon that slew President Lin
coln is thus described:
The pistol is an old-fashioned English
derringer, the whole length of which is not
over four inches. It is a muzzle-loader,
and the barrel is not over an inch and a
half in length, and has seven deep rifles.
It is highly finished, tlie mounting being
genuine silver and the lock and stock
finely engraved. In truth a most inno
cent looking weapon, but, as is well
known, a most powerful instrument. Mr.
Wing lias been offered $100 for it, but
3ays he would not part with it under any
consideration.
What a Noted Republican Says
op the Maine Muddle.—The New
York Evening Post (Republican) de
clares : “ If it shall hereafter appear that
the Republican leaders have been using
corrupt means to counteract tlie rascality
of the Democratic-Greenback leaders,
honest men will quickly lose all interest
in the'situation, except as an impartial
example of political depravity, and the
Maine ‘issue? in the next National elec
tion will be as dead as the questions under
lying the war of 1S12 or the repeal of the
MLsouii Compromise. ‘Individual poli
ticians’ on one side have been concerned
in the count swindle. If * individual pol
iticians’ on the other side have been con
cerned in bribeiy, the disgrace will be
pretty eyenly divided.”
lYhy McCullough Became an Actc':-.
The following account of how Mr. John
McCullough became an actor will bo read
with interest;’
Mr. John McCullough gives an enter
taining account of his first leaning toward
tho d;^ma. It was in a Philadelphia
shop-as related in the Macs of that city
—that the boy John began his working
life as apprentice in chair making. In
the same shop ras an intelligent old me
chanic named Burke, whoso busy life had
been brightened by much hard reading,
and he was continually reading Shake
speare, much to the hoy’s delight. Burke’s
favorite amusement when slightly enli
vened by the wine cup, was to murder
young McCullough with a paint brush,
and then recite with exceeding great ef
fort over him, Mark Antony’s speech over
the dead Ciosar. “I became perfectly en
raptured with the man,” says tlie actor,
“and made such apatient, accommodating
corpse for him that he finally made me a
present of a copy of Shakespeare. From
that day the doom of the chair-making
business, so far as I was concerned, was
sealed forever.
very easy to forecast the result in
Maine An appeal to the Supreme Court
of the State by the Republican Legisla-
tors, brought such a response as they de
sired. At first there was strong resent
ment and inflammation among the Fusion
ists, hut the long debate in the House re
sulted in the 'appointment of a committee
to propose another set of queries to the
same court, placing a fair and full state
ment of the whole matter before the court.
This, of course, will be responded to as
the propounded , do not desire, and we
take it for granted that the Fusion Gov
ernment will then dissolve and disperse.
It is worse th&n; a Seten by eight count j
for it stands only on one Radical le^
And so we consider Maine as good as set-'
tied, although it may not be so.
i •The Supreme Court >
According to Bildad, the Shuliite, who
writes from Washington to the Richmond
State, tho refusal to advance the legal
tender cases on the Supreme Court docket
grows out of this particular state of facts:
Justices Waite, Swayne, Strong and Miller
hold to all the modem doctrines on legal
tender paper, civil rights and bayonet
elections. Justices Clifford, Field, Brad
ley and Harlan hold the other way, and
the balance of power, is in the hands of
Justice Hunt, who is disabled by sickness.
The Court, therefore, can’t pronounce till
jt can get a new member in place of Hunt.
If Hunt will i only step aside and make
room for Edmii.'.ls, of Vermont, every
thing will be lovely. Nothing in the
world which the Republicans have legis
lated or can legislate will then fail of be
ing constitutional to the last degree.
West Foint. the Headquarters of the
Martinets.
We have seen a copy of the general or
der issued by the command of Major Gen
eral Schofield to the cadets at West Point,
January 2d ? 1SS0, as a punishment for the
display of fireworks with which they sur
reptitiously ushered in the new year. Af
ter assigning eight additional officers to
the Department of Tactics, so as to keep
tlie lads drilling and parading in all their
spare time, the second section of the order
reads asfollows:
Hereafter no cadet will visit the hotel
nor any officers’ quarters, nor any other
private residence on the post, nor enter,
any enclosure thereon, without permis- •
sion from the Superintendent. No such
permission nor any leave of absence or
other privilege or indulgence of any kind
whatever will he applied, for by any cadet
now iu the . corps, until he has fully exon
erated himself from any participation in,
or responsibility for, the riotous aud mu
tinous proceedings on the night of Decem
ber 31st.
All offieeis on duty at West Foint are
required to report any violation of the pro
visions of this paragraph which may come
to their knowledge.
This is an ingenious but cruel device to
bring to light the offenders by jHinisbing
innocent and guilty alike, until the former
have exculpated themselves from a crime
of which no one is formally able to accuse
them. It is forcing them, by implication
at least, to “ poach ” on their comrades in
order to be relieved of the above restrict
tions and extra duty. We opine the dril
ling and punishment will be indefinitely
continued it no belter method can be ar
rived at to detect the guilty ones.
The rules and regulations at West Foint
arc exceedingly strict and even arbitraiy
in some cases. Thus, if on a holiday oc
casion, a fond mother sends a box of good
things to her absent son, it is ordered to
the mess-room. The boys manage to flank
the authorities, however, by having their
presents from home directed to some per
son residing outside of tlie" post, from
whom they manage to procure them. Ver
ily that “ School of the Soldiers ” at West
Foint, subjects the cadet to severer duty
than he will ever be called upon to under
go afterwards even in the most arduous
campaign. No wonder that so few are
able to graduate.
The Negro Emigrants to Indiana.
The Alexandria (Va.) Gazette, of
Wednesday last, says: There was at the
depot of the Alexandria and Washington
Railroad, this morning, a young colored
woinau trying to make her way back to
North Carolina. She stated that she had
been induced to leave a pleasant home, in
her native State, and go to Indiana. Ar
riving at Indianapolis, she was stationed
in a church, packed with emigrants of
her own color, from her own section,
where she was compelled to remain two
or three, weeks, receiving on only one
meal a day, and that a veiy poor one.
In reply to an inquiry as to how the-
emigrants were treated, she said that they '
were treated like dogs, and if the people-
wete disposed to treat them otherwise,
they were not in a condition to do so; for
they had as much as they could do to
take care of themselves. Tho emigrants-
cannot procure wo: k, and are dying from*
cold and starvation. She is loud in her
condemnation of,the men wlio influenced,
her to sell all skebadanu leave her home,
and said that if she ever got back she
would remain and die there, where she
had always been treated with kindness,
by the white people.,; -
The Pope’s newspaper.
The first publication of Pope Leo’s
newspaper, the Avrora, appears to' have
been delayed by incidents that were fore-
sliadowed in late correspondence from-
Rome. Tlie editors have been appointed
and all other preparations niade; hut the
Osservulore Jlomano, the Voce Bella
Verila and other journals that have spo
ken with a more or less authoritative
voice for the Vatican Lave claimed indem
nity, because this new comer is to displace
them from the position of Papal <
and there is some hitch in . deter
what is to be paid them.
The date of tlie appearance of the Auro
ra was originally fixed for January 2d,
and it was afterwards transferred to Jan
uary 16th, when the - paper may be issued
if tlie difficulties alluded to are cleared
out of the way. A journal enjoying the
direct sanction of tho Vatican, and super
intended by the Pope, will be a curiosity,
aiul its tone will be eagerly studied in po
litical as well as church circles. His Ho
liness is represented as having been so
dissatisfied with tho nominal organs that
he decided upon taking this remarkable
step. Tlie editors whom he has selected
are to be rather of the conservative school;
and their, choice is supposed to be another
indication that the present occupant of the
Pontificate is desirous of substituting mu
tually pleasant relations with Germany
France and Italy, instead of maintaining
the defiant attitude of his predecessors tro
ard those governments.
The Dalton CUizen is responsible for •
the following:
A brother editor who has evidently
been lectured by a lad)' subscriber, writes,
as follows: A lady writes us an indignant
note in which, with true rustic innocence,
•he expresses a belief that editors never
go to heaven. We thought even countiy
people knew that journalists never went
anywhere. They don’t get the chance.
They just sit up nights thinking how to
do good, until the tops of their heads wear
boles through their hair.
No wonder
•uch doses as =
Bull’s Baby Syrup is the pleasantest qqd
safest remedy too wq Ser infante.
a Baby protests against
people will give it. Dr.