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•vi. • : • . J l> cXifiTzynuZ ailt & MESSENGER. CL138T| JONES A REESE, Fbofbutoks* Th» FiMitT Jousmal.—N* we—Politics— Lit* ratc rb—A»bioui,tub*—Do* ssti: GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING Established 1826. MACON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27. 1880. Volume LY—NO' A BY TELEGRAPH Boston, January 16.—A special last night from Augusta reports that Governor Smith says some members of his party are yet disposed to make trouble, but that he himself is only desirous of withdrawing as gracefully as possible under the circum stances. The dispatch further says lead ing Fusionists in Augusta admit that their cause is wrecked. A dispatch from Augusta says Hon. John C. Talbot, Speaker of the Fusion House, during an interview this evening, declared the unchanged pnrpose of the Fusion Legislature to assemble at the State house Monday afternoon, when the report of the committee on the future course of the Legislature will be present ed. This committee is not in session here but its members has gone home, af ter having each been instructed to prepare an individual statement of what appears to him the proper policy to pursue. Talbot states that some of the Commit teemen arc in favor of asking for a recog nition by Congress. He further says that nothing would better suit the Fusion Leg islature than to be refused to use the Leg ist ive hall. In such event no resistance would be offered, but that the Legislature would quietly disperse and abide by the decision of events. St Lons, January 18.—The Mississip pi River Commission is in session, and will probably remian through next week. Nothing has been done so far except to interchange views regarding what reports shall lxs made to Congress. There are now three triangulations—one topograpical— three ol>servation and one boring party in the field and at work. These parties comprise a total working force of two hundred men, of whom about twenty are assistant engineers. New York, January 18.—There every prospect of a long and hitter litiga tion over the will of the late Frank Les lie, who bequeathed to his wife the most of his estate including the trades mark “ Frank Leslie.” His eldest son will con test the giving away of this name on the grounds that he had been baptized by it and that his father’s name was Ilenry Carter. It is possible that the charge of undue influence on the part of Mrs. Leslie will lie one of the objections to probating- the will. St. Louis, January IS.—While the steamer Carrier was crossing the river here last night, James McDonough, the pilot, fell dead at the wheel. It is supposed he died of heart disease. Ayki:, Massachusetts, January 18.— Maria '/. Crew, wife of a farmer living near here, was outraged and brutally murdered yesterday. The murderer is supposed to be a tramp seen in the vicini ty the same day. New York, January 18.—The Receiver of the Grocers’ Bank reports a surplus ol $50,610 assets over liabilities. The ex penses ot winding up the affairs of the hank, amounting to about $100,000, are not including in libabilities—so there will not be sufficient funds to pay depositors in full. Cincinnati, January 18.—A dispatch from Leavenworth, Kansas, says the late city clerk, Fred M. Spalding, who lias been on trial during the last week and found guilty of embezzlement in office, was on Saturday sentenced to State prison for four years and six months. Savannah, January IS.—The annual races of the Savannah Jockey Club, over the Tenbroeck course, will begin on Tues day next. A large number of well known horses are here, and the prospect of a suc cessful meeting is good. The weather is fine. Paris, January 18.—At a meeting of members of the left to-day, it was pro posed to form a single group which should constitute in Itself a government. A ma jority meeting will beheld on Friday next to discuss the proposition. The condit.ou of M. Jules Favrc, who is ill at Versailles, is worse. Boston, January 19.—An Auguste spe cial says; “All is quiet about the State house this moruing. Major F. E. Nye has charge of the building. The force of police is apparently largely Increased, and guards are placed outside of the outer doors. None of the passes issued last week are recognized to-day; but author ized persons are granted new ones by Ma jor Nyo and others of his staff. It is ex pected that there will be a quiet session of the Republican Legislature. The Fusion- ist Governor, Smith, is expected hourly to demand admission to the executive cham ber. Washington, January 19.—The Pres ident sent the following nominations ta the Senate to-day: James Russell Lowell, of Massachusetts, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to England. John W. Foster, of Indiana, to Russia. Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin to Spain. Philip H. Morgan, of Louisiana, to Mexico. . .j Lewis Richmond, of Rhode Island, United States Consul at Belfast. Ilenry W. Leonard, of New Jersey at Campeachy. ' • Eli H. Murry, of Kentucky, to be Gov ernor of Utah Territory. Stephen R. Simonson, Assistant Ap praiser at New York. Robert M. Kelly, Pension Agent at Louisville, Kentucky. In the House immediately after the reading of the Journal, the Speaker pro ceeded to call on the States for bills, un der which call Mr. Baily, of New York, introduced a bill relating to an Inter- Oceauic Canal, which was referred. It requests the President to invite the co-operation of Governments of the prin cipal maritime nations of Europo, in the selection of a route of Isthmus' ship tran sit, which shall be found to serve most largely the general interests of maritime nations, and to communicate to such Gov ernments the desire of this Government to come to an understanding relative to the neutrality of such inte-oceanic tran sit. Vance, of North Carolina.—To repeal the duty on salt. Cobb, of Indiana.—For the distribution of the unappropriated moneys of the Ge neva award.' Townshend, of Illinois.—Proposing a constitutional amendment in regard to the election of President and Vice Presi dent, providing for their election by a majority of the votes of the people and for the abolition of the Electoral College. In the Senate Mr. Ferry introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution that suffrage shall not be restricted on account of sex or any other reason that does not apply to all citizens of the United States. Referred to the Judiciary Committee. Fredericksburg, Va., January 19.— Reports hy steamer from the Lower Rap pahannock confirm the killing of two cit izens of Lancaster county, Virginia, by non-resident dredgers, since which the hostilities of the oystermen have ceased. London, January 19.—The Duke de Gramont is dead. Ha was the French Minister of Foreign Affairs at the out break of the Franco-German war, of which he was the principal instigator. Washington, January 19.—In the Senate, after the presentation of numer ous petitions and memorials, Mr. Thur man, from the, Judiciary Coipmittec, re ported, with amendment, the House bill to provide for United States Circuit and District Courts at Macon, Georgia. The bill was placed on the calendar.. Bills were introduced anil referred as follows: By Mr. Fena, a joint resolution proposing to amend the constitution so as North Carolina—H. D. Rolertson, first to extend the franchise to all dlizens, re- district: Joseph H. Cardwell, second: gardless of sex. Walder Meares, third, Samuel Patterson By Mr. Pratt, a resolution requesting fourth, the President to communicate with foreign South Carol ina—Cadjvallader J. Pride, nations upon the subject of an inter-oceanic firs! district; Hemy Hammond, second: canal, with a view to a mutual understan- JosepliL. Breeden, third, ding as to the route, neutrality, etc. " i Tennessee—Henry R. Gibson, first dis- By Morgan, a bill granting certain pub- trict; William W. Goodpasture, second; lie lands in Alabama in aid of the Warrior Francis M. Paul, third; Thomas H Paine and Tennessee River Railroad Company, fourth; William M. Smith, fifth. On motion of Mr. Morrill, his resolu- Texas—Geoige W. Van Vleck, first tion, instructing the Finance Committee district; Perry M. Graham, second; Wil- to inquire into the practicability of refund- son H. Andrews, third; James H. Lor- ing any part of the public debt at less bette, fourth; Edward H. Callaway, fifth; than four per cent, interest, was taken Francis A. Vaughn, sixth, from the table and referred to that com- - Virginia—Lemuel C. Bristow, fi st dis- mittee. triet, Robert Bolling, second; J. Grattan The morning hour having expired, the Cabell, third; Stuart F. Lindsey, fourth; Senate took up the special order for the Rufus A. Ayres, fifth, day, which was the bill to prevent cruelty Washington, January 19.—The fol- to animals in transportation. After a lowing nominations were sent to the Sen- somewhat extended debate, in which Mr. ate to-day: William J. Phillips to he Davis of Illinois, McPherson, Davis of United States Marshal for Texas, D. S. West Virginia, Thurman and others par- Johnson, Postmaster at Madison, Georgia, ticipated, the bill went over till to-mor- and William B. Greene, Postmaster at row. . Huntsville, Alabama. The Chairman appointed Senator Price New York, January 19.—It cannot he to replace Senator Houston on the Com- ascertained definitely whether the Louis- mittee of Privileges and Elections, Claims ville and Nashville Railroad Company and Post-offices and Post Roads. , will ratify the lease of the Georgia Central The Senate then adjourned. j Railroad. Washington, January 19.—By Mr. : Omaha, January 19.—James B. Bugos’ .Tucker, of Virginia—For the erection of large pork packing establishment was a monument to General Daniel Morgan. bnsned last night. Loss $263,000. One By Mr. Bland, ot Missouri—Repealing hundred men are thrown out of employ- the laws restricting the sale of tobacco by ment. producers thereof. j Augusta, Me., January 19.—Governor By Mr. Weils, of Missouri—Incorpora- Joseph L. Smith, accompanied by about ting the Inter-Oceanic Transit Company, fifty members of the Fusion Legislature, It makes J. B. Eads and his associates a demanded entrance at the capitol at four body corporate, authorizing them to ac- o’clock this afternoon, hut was refused, quire the right of way by negotiation or Governor Smith was informed that if lie treaty, pledges the co-operation of the would put his request in writing it would United States, provides for the detail of be presented to the commander, two ships of war to assist in making sur- ‘ The Senate and House then proceeded veys, and appropriate two hundred thon- to transact business on the sidew.ilk, and sand dollars for the expenses of such sur-' finally adjourned to meet at Union Hall veys. , at ten o’clock to-morrow morning. The Speaker laid before the House the invitation of the McGill Association to the members of the House, to be present at the delivery of an address by Charles L. Parnell, on the second of February, upon the present sufferings in Ireland. Upon motion of Mr. Cox, of New York, it was decided to offer Mr. Parnell the use of the Hall of the House. Mr. Cox, of New York, presented a me- NewYork, January 19.—The stock market was irregular to-day, hut the fluc tuations, except in few instances, were confined in comparatively narrow limits. The Louisville and Nashville stock rose to 121, against 105} at the close on Satur day, and reacted to 111}. The Nashville and Chattanooga and St. Louis declined from 95 to 80 .and closed at S3J. The Houston and Texas rose four per cent, to mortal of the members of the Bulle- 6S, but reached two per cent, at the close, tin Club, of New York, relative to cur- In the remainder of the list there was a rency. decline of } and 1§ per cent, in the early Mr. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, moved to dealings. This was followed by an ad- suspend the rules and adopt the resolu- vance of 2} per cent., but the improve- tion to the effect that the negotiations hy ment which was general, was lost at the the Executive Department of the Govern- close. ment of the commercial treaty with for- ! Boston, January 19.—The Journal's eign countries, fiving the rates of duty on Augusta special says: Governor Davis foreign commodities entering the United telegraphed this morning to all the mili- States, would be an infraction of the Con- tary companies of the State to test their stitution, and an invasion of one of the feeling. The purport of the order was highest prerogatives of the House. Be- that the commanding officers of the com- fore the conclusion of the vote on this pro- panies report at headquarters every mom- position, the floor was claimed for busi- ing, and if at any time the telegraph wires ness of the District of Columbia, and Kel- were cut, to start with their companies to ly’s resolution went over. j Augusta by rail. After the passage of the bill appropria- 1 Washington, January 19.—The House ting $140,000 for the construction of a Committee on Indian Affairs resumed to- bridge across the Potomac at George- day the investigation of the causes of the ton, the House adjourned. recent Ute outbreak. General C. B. Fisk, Richmond, Va., January 19.—Arthur of New York, was the first witness exarn- Jordan, a married negro who had induced ined. He charged the Indians with mis a respectable white girl, the daughter of management and inattentions to the Nathan Corder, to' elope with him, but wants, claims and rights due the Utes, and had been caught and lodged in tlio county said the outbreak was the result, jail at Warrenton, was tliis morning taken Augusta, Maine, January 19.—The from jail by a masked party and hanged State Treasurer to-day issued orders in- on a tree iu a neighboring cemetery. structing his subordinates in his office not Augusta, Ga., January 19.—The fail- to honor any demand for the payment of ureof the Nashville and Chattanooga l'money from the Treasury, emanating railroad directors to confirm the contract rom or issued by the authority of either Aade with the Central railroad directors, of fhe bodies now claiming to be the Leg- lias caused a decline in the stock of the Mature of the State, until further advised latter from 92 to 84 cents. , by him. ..... Colonel E. W. Cole, president of the ' Boston, January 19.—A special to the Nashville and Chattanooga road, con- Herald from Augusta gives full particu- tracted on the part of his company to pay ^ ars of the attempt of Governor Smith the Central railroad stockholders six per and the Fusion Legislature to enter the cent, per annum for the first seven years, State house tliis afternoon at oi45. Mr. and afterwards seven per cent, in peipetu- Lawson, president of the Fusion Senate, ity. Colonel Cole’s board of directors and Mr. Talbot, Speaker of the Fusion not only failed to confirm his contract, House, appeared with the secretary and but sold out the controlling interest in clurk of these bodies and demanded ad- their road to the Louisville and Nash- mission. On being refused by the Mayor, ville road. This is the news received they asked for entrance as members of here. It causes great excitement iu rail- 2* Legislature only to have it again de road circles nied them. A few minutes later Governor New Yoke, January 19.—The Stock Smith came up and attempted to pass Exchange markets opened to-day with without asking any. questions. He was great excitement on account of the an- stopped by officers, when he said: “I aouncement respecting the Louisville and demand admittance as Governor.” His Nashville and .Nashville and Chattanooga authority was not reegomzed and he was railroad companies. Unnaturally the ta™*fbacR. * * , . market soon became feverish, experience ' At tliis time about2,000peoplebad gath- teaching that a boom of the kind that has cred. A Representative supposed to be Mr. recently been seen in the stocks of these Knowles, of Bradford, began a speech in two compnnips unsettles the general list. Much he denounced the authorities in the It appears that on Saturday evening the strongest terms for refusing to admit him. Louisville and Nashville company, be- Presently Mr. Talbot, Speaker of the Fu- tween which and the Nashville and Chat-. *«n House, mounted the fence around tanooga company there has been a bitter the State house yard and said, “since we rivalry, privately bought from some of the no ^ permitted by a usurping and lllc- large iAdividual holders of Nashville and p , government to enter the Tegis alive Chattanooga stock, enough of it to give flails, it becomes my duty to call the the Louisville and Nashville a majority of House together here on the nearest possi- its present stock. Report says the price . ole spot. Gentlemen of the House, you paid was 70 per cent, although there is will please come to order.” The reading no authorized statement of the price. On the journal was dispensed with, and on Saturday last Louisville and Nashville motion ofMr. Plaisted, of Lincoln, the stock closed at 105}, alter selling that House adjourned to meet at Union Hall day at OS and the day before at 91. The to-morrow. . ling price tliis morning was 118. > Mr. Lawson, President of the Fusion re was then an advance to M, which Senate, climbed upon the fence at another has sincADeen followed with a change in place and called the Senate to o«ler. prices up and down by decline to 113.* Mr- Plaid’s House itao ution was The Nashville and Chattanooga stock adopted in concurrence, and the Senate closed on Saturday at 83|, after selling on also adjourned. The members of the Fu- thatday at 92} to 05}. The opening sion Legislature then started down the price this morning was 95. There was street, followed by the crowd. An mdig- then a break to S3; recovery to 00 and a »ation meeting was organized in front of decline to 82. The general Stock Market the Augusta House, and speeches were has been feverish, but with few exceptions made by leading Fusionists. Great ex fluctuations have been limited. I citement prevails. Boston, January 10—The Herald’s Wasuington, January 19.-Bids for Augusta dispatch says: Gallagher, the the transportation of the mads mthe Republican Nominee for Adjutant Gene- Southern division, embracing the States ral was requested by the caucus commit- ot Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, tee to iesign the nomination in favor of Mississippi, ^ Alabama, Georgia, Florida, General George L. Beal, it being thought ^ orth Ca , r 2*l n ’} an< J S° ut fl Carolina, w ill by leadingRtpublicans that Beal's greater A° opened V ednesday moriun,.. age and military experience made him Brunswick. TIic Bond and Its Ofli- the fitter man for the office in the present • c * n .W crisis. Gallagher declined to withdraw,' Jack Plane, the well known correspon- whereupon on motion of Eugene Hale dent oT the Savannah Yeies, concludes tbecaucus reconsidered the vote by which one of Ins interesting lettere to that paper ™mZtef Bo^hoS'f the SS “ S °oSn as I came off the steamer I met MatiTmefat haff^tTeven and with MajorIL C. Day. He was in.the. the oath of best humor of any man I had met m a office to the Councillors elect: Robie, fortnight. He hail heard from Macon and r.mnWii -uni TT!ntlf»v TTenrvB Cleaves, was pleased, and he had a right to he. o^PoMaiffi^'i^^narLiiiwusiy eiectod'At- Takfi.g everything into consi^ration it .i.JTi’Jrv.i.oi-ai and General Heal of Port- was best that Mr. Yibbaitl became the torney General and General J^al.otiort^ purdla3er . ne , ias been identified with n’m^fiv^votes to four for Gallagher, the interests of Brunswick for many years, ing ninety-five o Biddeford a,| d he will do his utmost in her behalf, Infontrv recciv- and that is a great deal. I was told hy a says *1“ to re £dv to go Macon gentleman that when the Gover- f ***** ^moment’s notim K nor came to the security part of the con- t0 A i^„o a r^i tract Mr. Vibbard remarked that he did men voluntoere J . excitement not expect to ask any one here to go on allowed. This augments the excitement his but produced $5,000,000 of Uni- MtortWnSjSSS of ccraa, »pmi- I»to«sucyov« Ihc con™»ion of sors: ... _ _ . .. r The Macon and Brunswick Railroadlias Alabama—William H. Moore, first a is- j )een admirably managed by Colonel Ad- trict; Samuel Thompson, second district, ams an d his coadjutors, and I feel under Frederick G. Bronberg, third district, S p ec j a j obligations to them, and shall re- Sidney Kirtland, fourth district. ■ gi-gj most sincerely if, in the new arrange- Pistrict of Florida—Hamson Reed. • ment, any of them should be left out. As Georgia—Thomas J. Summons, first ms- conductors, Captain Thomas, Dick Har- trict; William H. McWhorter, second, r i 3j T 0in Collins, L. R. Jeter, and Dick William Clifton, tliird; Charles R. jonn- j 0 j inSj j, aTe fieen most attentive to my. son, fourtli; William A; Harns fifth. wants, and they are all accomplished men Louisiana—Edward F. Parker, first dis- ^ t jj eir pi aces> ,i hope to meet them of- trict; Benjamin C. White, second; a. w. t j their old capacity in days to come. TrivJ, Mrt! Hyde A. Kennedy, ^ J*, M Buchan, first speak in praise of the. great medicinal a-^Mivn i^n H«dv second; John A. worth of Foutz’s Horse and Cattle Pow- Lynch ’ third He dy> ' ’de'rs. They speak from experience. THE GEORGIA PRESS. Aldant Is prosperous. It has nc debt, taxes are low, a balance is. in the treasury and her trade is constantly increasing. Teii re ix county is out of debt ani the price of realty constantly increasing. The Milledgeville Recorder is taking up a new factory for that city.: i. r The tug Samuel Winpenny ran .bto and sank the sloop Fleet in the Savamah river a night or two since. The sloop lies with her mast above water in dangerous proximity to the channel. Mb. A. E. Sholes will soon begin the preparation of a Savannah city directory. Mb. J. J. McGowan has been appoint ed by the Savannah Jasper Monument Association to visit other cities to solicit contributions. The Leesbuig correspondent, “X,” of the Ainerious Recorder, should join hands with the editor of the Dalton Citizen. He has a very bad case of the snakes Miss Robbie Gbebn and Mr. J. N. Carter, of Lee county, are married. The arguments in the trial of R. U. Palmer, for the murder of Colonel Salis bury, of Columbus, editor of the Enquirer- Sun, wero-concluded in Seale, Alabama, on Saturday nigiit, and the case giyen to thejuiy. No verdict had been rendered up to two o’clock Sunday morning. B6th Columbus papers publish the evidence in full. *•'•*' The Randolph county society has resolved upon a fair. No county is more able to supply the material of a first-class county exhibition. Rev. T. R. English has resigned the pastorate of the Cullibert Presbyterian church Dr. W. B. Tackett, of Cuthbert, has gone on a prospective tour to Texas. Colonel W. P. Pbice is at the North for the purpose of purchasing iron for the first ten miles of the Dahlonega railroad, Augusta has called a public meeting to take action looking toward the relief of the Irish sufferers. Another new store room has been re cently built on tlitf north side of Tennilie, making three business houses that have been built in that place during the past year. Oglethorpe’s Ordinary made over $200 last year hy selling marriage li censes. There are about one hundred students in the Atlanta Baptist Seminary, Tiie merchants of Covington • have formed a Board of Trade. The foundation" of the* new Roman Catholic Church at Columbus has been completed. When finished, the structure will be one of the finest in that city. The Rome Tribune says that half a dozen cotton 'factories should be set to humming along the banks of the Euto- wab. The Gazette says: “Last Friday the bar rooms that night closed their doors, and since then Elberton, for the first time in her history, has been without her gro cery, The Warrenton Clipper states that a Miss Margoe, of Laurens county, was re cently offered six hundred dollars by an old fanner living near her if she would marry him. She refused, but on his in creasing the bid to one thousand dollars, accepted him. The Clipper facetiously remarks that this is the same old story, “Money makes the Margoe.” Matt. O’Brien, of Columbus, certain ly deserves promotion to a Georgia Colo nelcy, for he himself hath written an opera, and christened it “Opera Struck,’ ’in which he effectually demolislies the “ Grandfather’s Clock,” murders “ Little Buttercup,” and extinguishes in a neat but effectual manner the existence of “ Baby Mine” and beyond the hope of re surrection. It is a first class tragic pro duction. Dr. Robert Maxwell Young, father of General P. M. B. Y'oung, died at his home in Cartersville on Tuesday after noon last in the eighty-second year of his age From the Walton County Vidette we learn that a three-year-old negro diild was burned to deatli on the plantation of Mr. DeKalb Reynolds, near Social Circle, one: day last week. Its mother had left it in the house with a larger child while she went out for a bucket of water. Upon returning she heard the child’s screams, and rushing in threw the buckei of water on it, extinguishing the flames, but the child died soon afteward. Says the Rome Courier: The winter so far has been wonderfully warm in this section of the country. Yesterday and the. day before were fair winter days for this latitude, liut-still there has been no time since Christmas cool enough to save pork. We regret to learn that considerable meat killed December 20th and before that time has spoiled. Says the Walton county Vidette: “While two negro men were riding past the residence of Dr. Dacus, near this place, on Saturday evening last, upon a very sleepy looking old mule, the doctor’s large yard dog ran out and seized the mule by the tail. Without breaking his ;ait at all, the mule let fly his| off hind eg, and killed the dog as dead as Hector. Moral—Never fool round the business end of a mule. The present warm weather, says the Crawfordsville Democrat, has caused many to turn over the tables of memory to find a parallel for the present warm season. Among others, our good old friend, Mr. T. Hollan, of this county, says the only two winters as warm within Ids knowledge were the winters of 1818 and 1828. During the winter of 1818 the weather was remarkably mild, and in 182S there was only one frost, and that not very severe—there was no ice during the whole season. Peopltf could not cure their meat, and were compelled to haul much of it off and throw it away. 9 Says the Dawson Journal: “Hardy Williams, colored, who murdered Mack R. Edwards in this place a few weeks since, and made his escape, and for whom, the county offered a reward offifty dollars, was arrested in Atlanta on last Monday by a Mr. Kendrick. A telegram, stating that Hardy had been arrested and giving a correct description of him, was received by the Ordinary, who, to be sure that the right man had been arrested, telegraphed for a full description of Hardy’s right hand. This was given favorably, and Sheriff Christie left for Atlanta, on the first train. - J Gainesville Eagle: “We learn that,; homicide was committed at Coosa mines,’ in Union county, on Monday evening of last week. The facts, as we obtained them, arc as follows: It is stated that a misunderstanding had existed for some tiinebitween Arthur Owenhy and Wil- lian Townsend. ~ ' * * mines, when Owenby, accompanied by his son and’a son-inrlaw by the., name of Teague, approached the cabin and called. Townsend out.' As soon as Townsend- gbt into the yard be was struck "by Owen- by, and about the same time- the two young men commenced on him with their knives, and before assistance could Ire ren dered by those in tlje cabin, or the parties separated, Townsend was horribly stabbed in several places, so much so that he died soon after. : Wljen our informant l^ft the county the parties had not been arrested but were being rigorously pursued.”' The gallery ijods amioy the refined people of Colutnbus by cracking peanuts and talking loudly in the gallery of the theatre of that place. Nothing could be more inappropriate than the cracking of peanut as*Julla is askibg Clifford to speak to her, or just as Othello picks up the patent itage pillow to assist the Coroner to eama livelihood. It disturbs the at tention the peanut might otherwise de vote tc the show. J - ’ ■ . ; • A Qfstion Answered Mr. Editor. Reading Roman history, I findthe elder Tarqum spoken of. Gan you tell me in what (bnoinination he was an elder, and where he Was bom? Enquirer. He vas not an elder in any denomina tion—inless he was a Mormon elder. There used to he doubt about the place of his nativity; but it has been said that he emigrated from North Carolina over two thousand years ago under the name of Quin, and the hoys in Rome nicknamed him Tarquin because he hailed from Tar nver. Evidently, however, of Irish pa rentage, and they were poor and supposed to he honest. “A Cotton Thief Bagged.—Savannah News: Yesterday morning, about half past six o’dock, Policeman Mulligan cap tured a trooper named John Brown, who had a large.bag o£cotton iu his possession. It was evident that John had been raid ing upon the warehouse of Mr. F. A. Gar den, comer Lincoln and Bay. John was cantered up to the barracks and had an examination before the Mayor, when ho was fined (50,.in lieu of which he will be entered for service in the chain gang for thirty days. Cutting Affray on Cotton Avenue, j L(St eveuing about seven o’clock a cut ting affray occurred on ,Cotton Avenue, It seems that Mr. J. T. Austin and Mr. Hunter, a butcher at Mr. C. C. Smith’s,- had a difficulty about something, and the two men had a heated quarrel near Mr. J. J. Lynch’s store on the avenue. • They went into the store and were about to fight, when Mr. Lynch ordered them out. On the sidewalk they came together.. Mr. Austin used his knife freely about Mr. Hunter’s head and neck, in flicting several, wounds and-causing the blood to flow so profusely that the woun ded man was literally bathed in blood about the head and neck Hunter was carried to his residence and medical aid summoned. His condition, thought at first to be dangerous, was at last accounts much better, and he was resting easily. Mr. Hunter was first arrested by Lieu tenant Wood but was afterward released and Mr. Austin arrested in Lynch’s store, He made no attempt to escape. General Bee’s Birthday. Yesterday the anniversary of the birth of General Robert E. Lee, the greatest of all the Southern chieftains, was observep in Macon by a parade of several ol the volunteer military companies of the city. The Macon Volunteers made a fine dis play and under the command of Captain Carnes, paraded the streets for some time. The gallant old corps and handsome sol dierly appearance were complimented on all sides. The Floyd Rifles, one of the best of Ma con’s companies, under Captain J. L, Hardeman, was also out and repaired to the park and engaged in a target practice. The championship of the company was the priza and it was won by Mr. Frank Wilder, Mr. William Wilder making-the second, score, and Mr. d. M.’ Walker earn ed the title to the leather medal; Exciting Ran*way .. Yesterday - afternoon an exciting runa way toqkjilace at the corner of Mulberry and Second streets. Ab6ht half past four in the afternoon, a horse attached to the dray of Tom Johnson, colored, taking fright at the drum corps of the Macon Volunteers and the noise it waj making, dashed up Mulberry street toward Second and collided with the spring wagon of Mif. B. D. Lumsden which happened to .be passing. The dray was without a driver, the horse had open work and succeeded in breaking one of the hack spribgs of the wagon and overturning the dray, demol ishing the right hind wheel ana breaking the shafts and otherwise injuring the run ning gear of the vehicle. The damaged dray remained whcre.it had been wrecked the balance of the afternoon a warning to easily frightened horses and incautious drivers. „ . j - Fatal Explosion. A day or two since an old, unexploded shell, left probably when Stoneman was captured, was found near Griswoldville, on the place of Mr. Balkcom, bjt aparty of little darkies. It was taken from them by their father and hidden, as he thought,in a safe place. It was, however, bn last Sat urday discovered once more by' the little negroes, who took it to : an open place and commenced beating upon it charge exploded with a terrible no„-., killing one of the little darkies: instantly, and dangerously wounding the other two, literally scalping one of them along the whole front of his skull. One of the two survivors is not expected to live. The shell had been lying exposed about fifteen years. Major T. A. Burke. The Savannah News pays the following tribute to Major. T. A. Burke, of Athens, whose death has been already noted in this paper: A telegram from Athens brought the sad news of the death of Major Thomas A. Burke in that city yesterday, after an ill ness of about two months. The deceased as anative of-Charleston, but for many years "was a resident of tiffs city, where he married a wife, Miss Falligaut, who sur vives him. He was at.one time insistent editor of this paper, aqd during the war he was on Mtffor j General' Taliaferro’s Burke, and from- there removed to Athens, wliere he opened a book store, conducting that , business up to last year, when he met with reverses and retired. He was Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Georgia, andjwas about forty-sexjgri years of age. The deceased was a cultivated and amiable gentleman,- exemplary in all the relations of life, and commanded the friendship and esteem of all who knew him. In his death the State loses an energetic and patriotic citizen, one whose loss will be felt. Despairing of the Republic. Evil auguries for the future of the coun try are again becoming common, and this time from the Northern States. Many good Republican brethren are sick at heart over the possibility of a good deal more Grant administration—hut a good many more of them are still sicker over the mode of imposing it—hy sharp practice—by mere cunning and trickery—by stealing a march on the brethreh themselves and stocking the nominating convention three months ahead of time—so as to make sure work. Is there to he no honesty, candor and fairness in politics? Are the brethren to swindle their own party? And as for swindling the people, the scheme to change the mode of electing electors in New York to meet the case by special leg islation is a sample of what they are. ready to do in that line. Some laugh at such corruption and trickery, but others say such things are not to be laughed at. They are stains which most commonly find a lustration in public disorder and ruin—the blood of men and tears of women and children. "When parties and public men lose all scruple, all regard for law, honor and patriotic deal ing, the government in their hands, be comes a scoff, and the temptation to vio lent methods finds nothing better than fear to restrain them. A rotten and cancerous condition of the body politic can only be cured by the knife. Nothing is worse than the low trickery, the petty, dishonest scheming which is now taking National affairs in charge with the transparent idea of substituting a government of mere force for the cheerful assent and co-opera tion which alone are secured by clear, hon orable and patriotic methods. But let no man despair. Reflection will show that the great obstacle to the recov ery of moral health in American politics, proceeds not so much from general demor alization, as from the distrusts and preju dices growing out of the war. The passion for a strong government—the talk about imperialism—finds its principal solution and fbrce’iri.distrust of thb Southern peo ple. The average Northern man finds it impossible to repose confidence in our de sire for a quiet and prosperous country, and hence waives his objections to the abandonment of peaceful and tolerart methods, and is ready to believe that tol eration is incompatible with order. Time and experience arc still needed. Grantism, during eight years of its un scrupulous rule, wasted the public money and disordered all it touched. This it may do again—who can tell ? But, mean while, sectional prejudice will weaken, and personal and intolerant government become more odious. Let no man be lieve there will ever be a time in which imperialism will be popular, i» itself, with the great body of the American people. It may be tolerated for a time in ill- grounded fear of possibly greater evils; but the time is sure to come when the American voter will reclaim all Ins hered itary and constitutional freedom. He is not going to give up the right of self-gov- eriimeut; and especially at a time when the progress to political amelioration is universal, America excepted, is he going to surrender to a side-striped and bob- tailed military aristocracy. The country- will come out at last, and the Great Re public will not sink permanently into a roost of party cormorants. The Sale of a Controlling Interest in the St. lonis, Nashville and Chat* tanpoga Railroad to the Louisville and Nashville Company. T9e print elsewl ere from the Nashville American of the 18th instant, a full ac count of the sale by Y. K. Stevenson and several o.f the New York stockholders and directors, of a controlling. portion of the stock of Colonel Cole’s road the St. Louis, Nashville and Chattanooga, to the Louis ville and Nashville Railroad company. This was a piece of shaip practice, anil seems to have been done without the knowledge or consent of President Cole. The amount of stock sold foots up $3,800,- 000, aud ninety-five cents per hundred was the price Jiald. Colonel Cole is represented lo be much depressed but striving to view the matter philosophically. The effect of this intelligence has been to cause a decline in Central railroad stock in this market to seventy-five and no purchasers, while it is reported to be still lower in other places. As we write, a painful degree of uncertainty ex ists concerning all the reported transac tions. The most that is definitely known is that the Louisville and Nashville Rail road has actually made the purchase which has beeu announced, and Colonel Cole has been flanked hy his oym trusted associates and coadjutors.' Rumors and ondits are numerous, aud just now we rived from this heavy outlay ? Should the Louisville and Nashville company decide to ratify the lease, as.it is held maybe done, then the Cole, Brown and Wadlev consolidation woultt~. he more powerful than ever, for {t would be strengthened by the accession of that road, which other^ wise might have been a dangerous rival. There are other rumors afloat concerning ttiq affair which we withhold for the pres eat, because improbable and inconsistent with known facts. Should the Cole-<Brown. contract fill through, it wfll prove a great disappoint ment to our Savannah frieuds, but docs not in the least interfere with the former status of the Central-railroad. That com pany has been on rising ground for many months, and with the promised abolish ment of local discriminations in freights, which is the only grievance complained of hy the people, will continue to prosper. The writer heard one heavy capitalist Say yesterday, that if the stock receded to wtat it stood at before the “consolida tion,” he would come into the market and buy largely for investment. A few days, or perhaps hours, will serve to solve all existing doubts as to the real state of af fairs. As stated we only give on dits and vouch for nothing. Since writing the above we have seen a telegram from Virgil Powers, .Esq., now in New York, to one of our citizens, which confirms the purchase made by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and adds: “I do not know how this transac tion may affect fhe late contract between Colonel Cole and Messrs. Brown and Wadley.” - - How Would the Failure of the. Cole, Brown and Wadley Consolidation Affect the Lease of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad ? The above is a very pertinent question which was in everybody’s mouth yester day. We answer, it would stimulate the lessees of the M. &B. R. R. to renewed efforts, not only to make the extension to Atlanta,, via Covington, hut build on to Knoxville, and thence witliour delay, us ing all the lines already in operation, to Cincinnati. The State Road would become more than ever the “neck of the bottle,” as it is probable that a quietus would be given to the Western Road from Atlanta to Deca tur, Alabama, as the Nashville aud Louis ville Railroad, we learn, have the way all clear to the Gulf, and will make their tide water connection either at Mobile or Pensacola, provided they do not assume and ratify the Cole-Brown amalgamation aud go to Savannah. Falling to do the latter, then Mr. Wadley may be forced to build the Carrollton extension to Chatta nooga and the Macon and Brunswick, if it aspires to he a trunk line and trol through freights, will be pelled to go on to Knoxville and Cincinnati. This is the through line in which above all others Macon is most in terested, as it would open up a new and profitable route to the West, and afford thereby competition with other roads. But looking at the question in every possible light, we do not see how Macon can be injured by the failure or success of any of the railroad schemes which are on the tapis. Outs is a geographical position and railroad centre which cannot possibly he flanked. All that we ask is fair play and the removal of unjust freight discrimina tions. Nothing more. with an axe to break it open, when r the canYouch for nothing,- save.that General nliornn nvnlrwlml rrifli o furrililn (iMik* •SI**?'t^V: • staff, serving at Savannah and Cjigrlestgn, On the night named j and in North Carolina.. , , After the,close of Townsend and two or throe other persons J the late war 'he ; flpgaged in busirfessm were in a cabin or shanty at j the Coosa Macon with Jiis brother, the Rev. John W. "•/'V" ' ; ’[ »:• 'tuif jiartge tynmPl ; .i- u . ! ■ " -* ««dr.- h^t,: , ;i w , W. S. Holt received a dispatch on : Satur day night fromW. C. Morrill, Esq,, of Atlanta, as follows; “I have just received telegram from New York to the effect that the Louisville and Nashville Rail road Company have bought out Colonel Cole’s road.” Many are disposed to believe this gives the coup de grace to the late “consolidation.”' But, on the contrary, the best Informed capitalists and railroad men think that the very opposite effect may poasibiy re sult from the introduction of this new factorthis stage of .the proceedings. They argue that, if the prospects of the late contract or,, combination entered into between Messrs. Cole, Brown and Wad ley were: considered so flattering, and the" consequences sufficient to justify thq expenditure of :over 'three millions of dol- Isrs to frustrate it, now that. its rfvaPis Colonel Cole Sold out By Stevenson and Some of bis Own Directors— Possible Failure of the Cole, Brown and .Wadley Consolidation of the St. Louis, Nashville and Chatta nooga and the. Central, Western and Atlantic Railroads. The Nashville American of Sunday, the 18th instant, says: Had a thunderbolt dropped from the sky and shivered our unpaid-for Capitol to atoms, it could not have created more astonishment and dismay than the reports which became generally circulated about noon yesterday, tothe effect that the man agement of the Louisville and Nashville and Great Southern people had purchased a sufficient amount of stock to obtain con trol of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis. The news spread with great ra pidity, the excitement increasing in its wake until if became decidedly feverish. At first the report was not generally be lieved, but the facts soon begaa to leak out little by little through dispatches sent to bankers and brokers. What gave more credence to the rumors than most any thing else was that some of the. most pro minent directors, one from Nashville and several in New York, had not come to at tend. a meeting of the Board of Directors which had been called for yesterday to ap prove the contract made with the Georgia Central and ether contracts whtqh had been entered into aud which needed the approval of the Board to make them complete. r In response to a business telegram sent by 1’resident Cole to a Nashville director now in New York, and who was in all probability interested in the change of stock which had already occurred, the fol lowing was received; i “ Certain changes have been made hy which you wjll have to consult other par ties hereafter.” :: This dispatch was not obtained from President Cole, but was a matter of gen eral report about the Maxwell House and said to be authentic. A reporter of the American called on President Cole at the Chattanooga depot at six p. m., and desired to know whether he had received any telegram from New York giving a definite idea as to whether the stock had changed hands. He said that up to that time he had received no telegram concerning what had occurred. The reporter met him later at his resi dence, when he. made in subtauce the fol lowing statement: “I have received reliable information from New York tnat important changes have taken place in the stock of my com pany. What the changes are or the effect thereof I do not know. I knew nothing of it until late this evening, and was greatly surprised, and am now without de tails of the transaction.. I trust that no interest of Tennessee, my native State, nor of Nashville,nor any connection of our line, will suffer by any changes that have taken or may take place.” '’ President Cole appeared to be very much depressed, hut said he had learned all through life to take things as philosoph ically as possible and to hope for the best. The news, when first received by the management, was an electric shock. It was especially unexpected hy President Cole, who had not looked forward to such a result. Having accomplished all that master of the situation, may it not seek to avail itself of the supreme advantages de- was possible or 'desirable*’ to do for his —-— - •-ell re>tt .li- ; — : •t'-wlun: ’ t. It ’Kill K.-Jts ! ili TCW) i’i*- company in the organization of a magnifi cent system of Southern railways,-he had hoped to effioy a season of rest. By some, however, it had been feared for several days past that the continued stay of Vice President H. Victor Newcomb, the finan cial agent of the Louisville and Nashville and Great Southern, and other prominent officials in New York, meant mischief. President Cole, by liis able management and strategy, had so completely cornered the Louisville and Nas&viRe and Great Southern- railroad that its managers found themselves either forced to build the Georgia Western at a cost of several mil lions,-or cover in the Nashville, Chatta nooga and St. Louis railway stock. As the amount of stock required to be pur chased was about $4,000,000, it was cheap er to purchase a controlling interest even at par than to build the Georgia Western. The uhkindliest cut of all was the man ner in which President Cole’s leading di rectors treated him. Thqy utterly ig nored him in the transaction. V. K. Ste venson was criticised with especial severi ty. It is generally thought that be ar ranged the “sell out,” ana that the profit lie has realized must be' at least five hun dred thousand dollars. G. M. Fogg, who— is also a director and attorney lor the Nashville, Chattanooga & St- Louis rail way, left here very hurriedly a few days ago for New York, and is supposed to have gone over to the new comblnation either by sale-of stock or the purchase of stock in the Louisville and Nashville qnd Great Southern. Some of .the smaller stockholders fear that in the change of the management of the Louisville and Nash ville and Great Soutern people may pam- icr their own stock, pay dividends upon t/and bear the Chattanooga stock until low enough for a few capitalists to scoop it in—in fact, that the whales will swal low up all the little Jonahs. A very important feature enters into the no.w arrangement. Everybody wants to know what is to become of the South ern Express Company, and whether the Union Express Company will take'preced ence. Thirty-five hundred miles is an immense territory to lose. It is reported that the Adams Express Company, which is laigcly interested in the Southern Ex press Company, has been buying Louis ville and Nashville and Great Southern stock ever since the two concerns qu^j- reled. ' Before the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway changed hands, Presi dent Cole had charge of $15,000,000 of property, 3,500 miles of road, and $1,500,- i XX) worth of steamships. Nothing definite could be ascertained as to whether the contract with the Geor gia Central would likely pass under the control of the Louisville & Nashville man agement, under the change of stock in the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis rail way, the agreement having been made Svitli the latter, and not with the former. The contract was not approved by the di. rectors of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railway before it changed bauds. The capital stock of the Nash ville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railway is ... . . $6,848,S99 25 Less amount held by the Company ’ 273,604 32 $6,575,29493 Total liabilities, $15,063,652.99, fully covered by assets; number of foile3 of road 498}. Whether the new regime will extend the branches contemplated by President Cole, and build the Owensboro and Nash ville road, is now a question for future development. ’• When President Cole took control pf the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, eleven years, ago, its stock was selling at fifteen and twenty cents. He subsequently capitalized and gave the stockholders three shares for one. The stock has been selling lately at ninety-five cents, which is a realization of nearly 2,000 per cent, within that period. Among the rumors circulated last night was one that Jay Gould and Yanderbilt have purchased a majority of the stock In the Louisville and Nashville and Great Southern Railroad* Louisville and Nashville stock; advanced in New York, yesterday, from Q8 to 108, reacting at the close to 104}. A special to the American says: Lou- isyiule, January 17.—President Standi- ford and Vice President Newcomb tele graphed to the Courier-Journal to-night: “The Louisville and Nashvlllahas secur ed control of the Nashville and Chatta nooga, and all lines owned, leased or op- erated by that company, by the; purchase of a majority of the stock. The conserva tive policy heretofore observed in connec tion with all other roads, aud the mainte nance of fair and equitable tariffs will be Ijeoatiuaed.: All sections reached by our system may rely upon equal and exact justice and the observance of the laws of trade and advantage which every locality is justly entitled to- received by the rights of its geographical location.” • n To the Associated Press.] ‘ Louisville, January 17.—The Louis ville and Nashville road has-secured con trol of the i Nashville' and; Chattanooga road, and all lines owned,: leased or ope rated by that compahv r fry .‘a purchase of the majority of its capital stock; The Tsy Bridge Disaster. The New York Sun says English ac counts prove conclusively that the Tay bridge disaster was due to the action of the wind, and that the bridge was not knocked down by the train running off tha track. It is also certain that the destroyed section of the bridge fell with the train on it, and not before ihe train reached it. The train was moving at the speed of only three miles an hour when it was last observed from the shore. It is 1 impossible, therefore, that it could have jumped the track with sufficient force to cause any se- lyioat. damage to the bridge. ,The engine and carriages were, found. between the fourth and fifth piers of the Overthrown section, showing that up to - that point the bridge was standing when the train en tered upon it. . * •, It follows, therefore, that had the struc ture been left to battle alond with the ;a!e it might have resisted it successfully, ids open lattice trusses allowed the wind, furious as it was, to pass throngh freely aud exert its force unsuccessfully. But the additional surface presented by the train, by offering an additional resistance, gave the wind an advantage, it previously did not have. It. was like-spreading a sail on the skeleton and of a windmill. A gust a little more violent than its pre decessors took the broad, flat side of the train, and toppled bridge and all over to gether. The fall of the span at which the ireak began carried with it.the spans on both sides, and thus made the long gap now visible. Falling. The price of wheat by last advices has fallen eight cents per bushel at New Al bany, near Louisville, and prices appear to be at a stand, if not lower, in all the markets. We trust the great “comer” will come to grief, and that when the mil lions of bushels of the staff of life are turned loose, the people will have cheap bread once more. With com in excess hundreds of millions of bushels, and an unprecedented wheat crop, which there are not elevators and warehouses suffi cient to contain, how can it he other wise ? '*•'1 A' 1 to lolinhmi tA