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Currency Debate in Congress,
noth Houses opened on currency meas-
J« v«sterJay, an.l so paved the way for
Z^d talk and a long session. In the
Late Mr. Bayard’s anti-legal tender
Solution came up, and was opposed in a
La speech by Senator Beck, of Kentucky.
As to the argument of unconstitutionality,
it may be conceded there is no specific
crant of such power in the constitution,
but there is a positive denial of the powsr
to Issue bills of credit to the States. The
irguiuent against the power must there-
f 0 ^ rest on the provision that all powers
not specifically granted, or necessarily ‘
ciJental to the granted powers, must
withheld.
;Ve should concede the unconstitution
ally in deference to tender consciences;
j,ut it is not needful that the Treasury
notes should be made by law a legal ten
der. They were in circulation many
years without any such provision and
were better than gold or silver. They
have existed as legal tenders many
years during the war and since, fortified
by low as legal tenders, and yet have
been as low as sixty per cent, worse than
gold or silver. These facts show the pow
erlessness of law to fix values and credit.
An acknowledgment of indebtedness by
the United States Government is more
tliau anything else we can get of a sure
and reliable value, and when we exchange
it for the bills of the Bubbletown and
Frogliollow banks, although redeemable
in specie on their face, we make a terribly
poor swap. Brethren don’t do it.
The Louisville & Nashville Bailroad
Combination.
The Louisville papers are pretty well
filled with the details of the late purchase
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York,
of a controlling share of the stock of the
gt. Louis, Nashville & Chattanooga road.
The scheme was fixed up with closed doors
in a Wall street office, and then the papers
were drawn and executed at the hotel
above named. Elsewhere will be found an
account of the whole transaction clipped
from a special to the Courier-Journal.
All accounts agree in saying that the fate
of the contract between the roads repre
seated by Messrs. C'ole, Brown and Wad-
ley still remains undecided. The general
drift, however, of all the intelligence re
ceived thus far on the subject does not
seem favorable to its consummation.
The Courier-Journal devotes over
column of editorial jubilation to what it
terms the “crowning stroke of the Great
Southern management.” In its exulta
tion, it pronounces the new combination
“master of the situation, ruler of the rail
way system of the South, extending its
paternal supervision from the Mississippi
river to the Atlautic ocean in one direc
tion, from the lakes of the Northwest to the
Gulf of Mexico in another, and including
or controlling, or soon to control, the fol
lowing lines:
Miles.
Louisville and Nashville 734
South and North Alabama 183
Mobile and Montgomery 179
Montgomery and Eufaula 81
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis 321
St. Louis and Southeastern 307
Owensboro and Nashville 121
Louisville, New Albany and Chicago 284
Cumberland and Ohio SI
Cecilia Branch 42
Western of Alabama 160
Central of Georgia 734
Western and Atlautic 138
Macon and Brunswick 197
Total 3,572
From the above it will he seen that our
contenporary, in his enthusiasm, ropes in
Governor Brown’s and Colonel Wadley’s
roads, and tlieir connections. But these
gentlemen, if the late contract is defeated,
will be still in control of the highways
they represent, and will have a voice in
the adjustment of all through schedules
of freights that seek Atlautic ports. Fail
ing to ratify the Cole-Brown arrange
ment, it would seem that the only way
Messrs. Standiford & Company can get
possession of the Central and Western and
Atlantic Railroads, will be by pursuing
their recent game of bnying up the stock
of those two great coiporations. At pres
ent, it is not even claimed that they con
trol more than seven shares of the nine
teen and over, belonging to the lessees of
the State Road. Perhaps, therefore,, the
Courier-Journal is somewhat premature
in its calculations.
It is difficult to conceive why the “Great
Southern” should refuse to ratify the
work of Messrs. Cole, Brown, and Wad-
ley, when the league they had effected
would accomplish far more for that great
enterprise than all the Gulf connections
that can possibly be effected. But from
present appearances it is probable that the
arrangement will be broken up.
What of the Lease of the Macon and
Brunswick Bailroad?
Simply nothing. T:: report that the
late lease was in the interest of the Louis
ville and Nashville Company, the same
that gobbled up Colonel Cole’s road, lacks
confirmation, and few give credence to
the story. If this, however, should prove
to be the fact, then that powerful combi
nation would either he forced to purchase
a controlling interest In the Western and
Atlantic read, and connect thus with the
proposed extension of the Macon and
Brunswick to Atlanta, or build the Wes
tern road from Atlanta to Decatur, Ala
bama. Either alternative would he satis
factory to the Brunswick people, and ben
efit Macon.
But we confess that our first love is for
the Knoxville extension and thence to
Cincinnati, as this is the only line which
Would open up a new and undeveloped
country, and afford substantial and
healthy competition. We trust, therefore,
that the lessees, whoever they m»y prove
to be, will keep aloof from entangling al
liances, and that they may be strong
enough to operate for themselves in the
direction above indicated. Macon is
more directly interested in the rente to
the West via Knoxville and Cincinnati,
tlian in any other railroad enterprise that
could possibly l»e started. It would indeed
be a grand consummation for all South
ern Georgia.
—A Galveston paper, having announced
the birth of twins to a Mrs. Archer, of
that city, another journal thinks her hus
band ralist, be the party referred to In the
quotation: “Insatiate Archer, would not
suffice.”
ANTIQUITY OF MASONBY.
Those Egyptian Emblems.
We append a copy of the letter of Com
mander Gorringe to the World describing
the Masonic emblems be discovered at the
foundation 'of the Obelisk of Alexandria
—(Cleopatra’s Needle) so-called. It will
•be remembered that Commander Gor
ringe is officially in charge of the expedi
tion for removing the Obelisk from Alex
andria to New York, and, in pursuance
of his mission, has taken the monolintli
down and is now preparing to transfer it
on ship-board:
Alexandria, January 17, 1880.
To the Editor of the World:
Immediately under- the pedestal of the
obelisk and in the east angle formed by
the steps I found a block of hewn syenite
granite, forty inches in the cube, repre
senting a perfect Masonic altar. Under
this and immediately below I found a
white marble slab, representing the apron,
extending across the foundation of polish
ed syenite granite, one hundred and two
inches long and fifty-one inches broad and
twenty-five and a half inches thick, the
upper half hewn into a perfect square. At
the same level and touching the short sec
tion of the square and in the west angle of
the foundation I found another block of
syenite granite markedly regular in form,
the surface of which represented rough
ashlar steps and the foundation of which
was composed of white granite. Besides
these four pieces I found other less no-
ticeabift and important but equally signifi
cant emblems.
H. n. Gorringe,
Lieutenant Commander U. S. N.
This discovery is eliciting considerable
discussion among the eminent disciples of
the craft and others in New York and
elsewhere. Grand Master Charles Roome,
of New York, says he has no doubt the
order can be traced back thousands of
years before the Christian era. Charles
T. McClenachan says that, although he
has never been able to trace the legend of
Hiram Abiff beyond the fourteenth cent
ury, he has no doubt that Masonic em
blems were in use among the Jewish Es-
senes a thousand years before Christ.
And Dr. Ewer, Elwood Thome, and John
W. Simons maintain an equal antiquity.
The next day tlie World interviews
General Husted on the subject, who does
not believe that the emblems discovered
have any connection with operative Ma
sonry as practiced at the present day; but
the discovery will stir up all the archaeol
ogists. He cannot trace Masonry a step
beyond the Crusades—about 400 years
ago; but these emblems may have been
the insignia of some ancient organization
with corresponding _ objects.
More History—The Big Boad’s Policy.
Special to the Courier Journal 1
New York, January 18.—The pur
chase by the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad Company of its line, the Nasli-
ville and Chattanooga railroad, is fully
confirmed to-day. A rapid advance in the
securities of both roads has recently indi
cated something of the sort. The negotia
tions which ivere begun several weeks ago
in the West were renewed in New York,
and completed at too late an hour Satur
day night for publication in detail. Louis
ville and Nashville stock was quoted at
90 Thursday morning, and 110 bid Satur
day ex-dividend of 3 per cent. Several
directors of the Louisville and Nashville
railroad are in town, and from them the
following history of the competition and
strategic manouvers of both these two
Southern lines has been obtained:
Eighteen months ago the roads were
fighting each other, and the stock of both
was very much depressed, Louisville and
Nashville selling as low in 1878 as $24 per
share. About a year ago the most vigorous
competition between the. two roads was
begun. Louisville and Nashville drew
FIRST BI.OOD
by purchasing the Kentucky or Southern
Division of the St. Louis and Southeast
ern Railroad, running from Nashville,
Tenn., to Evansville, Ind. The Nashville
and Chattanooga construed this acquisi
tion at once as a menace, and through its
Southern connection and friends in Geor
gia and elsewhere secured control of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad from
Chattanooga to Atlanta. The Western
and Atlantic Railroad was virtually
owned by the State of Georgia, and the
control had to be secured in a roundabout
way. The stock was registered to indi
viduals identified with the Nashville and
Chattanooga interests to evade the State
law forbidding any coiporation to hold a
majority of the stock. Next the Nashville
and Chattanooga Road bought the Ow
ensboro and Russellville Railroad in Ken
tucky, with a projected extension to
was In their hands if one of five laige
holders of the stock would sell out to
them, and at a conference held Thursday
night one of the stockholders of the J-fjlH-
viile and Nashville succeeded in convinc
ing a large holder of Nashville and Chat
tanooga stock that
THE ONLY POSSIBLE BUYER
for his property was the Louisville and
Nashville Road. This gentleman spoke to
his four associates on Friday, and gave
them the option of taking his stock. The
offer was not sufficiently tempting, and
the Louisville and Nashville bought con
ditionally that afternoon the stock owned
by Mr. Vernon K. Stevenson, President of
the Real Estate and Trust Company, 115
Broadway, and his son, Vernon K. Steve-
son, Jr., that of Thomas W. Evans and
his son, Donald L. Evans and C. Bald
win. These gentlemen owned the greater
part of the Nashville and Chattanooga
stock, and agreed to sell it to the Louis
ville and Nashville the next day, Satur
day. The price is kept secret, but it is ru
mored to have been 70. It is understood
that the terms involve the payment of
more than half In cash and the remainder
in Louisville and Nashville stock.
The Louisville and Nashville hoard
had been holding continuous ses
sions Thursday, Friday and Saturday
and at four p. in", adjourned to the Fifth
Avenue Hotel, where late that afternoon
the agreement was signed by the seller
above named, and by E. D. Stands
fonl, and H. Victor Newcomb, parties of
the second part. The contract puts the
Louisville and Nashville railroad into ab
solute control of the Louisville and Chat
tanooga road. The capital stock of the
latter is $6,000,000, so that the Louisville
and Nashville controls close upon $3,500,-
000, at a cost value of about $2,500,000.
This control of the capital 'Stock carries
with it the control of the leased roads and
branch roads of the Nashville and Cliatta-
THE mtDTDEBV FAIL
* J XJ f&'i
An Immensely Successful Iuucvis-
tion-A Keene of Bcsnt/ and Bril-
llnneTi~"- 1
The Volunteers’ Fair, of. which there
lias been so much said in the city for the
past two weeks, was opened last evening
at the armory of the company in Masonic
Hall, and the opening night was a grati
fying and encouraging success. The hall
was filled during the entire evening,
The clouds which came with the early
morning and which exhausted themselves
in a light rain during the day, had passed
away and the beautifully clear night in
vited all to go down to the hall and en
courage the gallant Volunteers and their
ever willing lady friends in their laudable
undertaking. During the day the hall
presented a busy scene, and the amount
of work done was simply wonderful.
The various tables grew like magic into
beauty, and to any one who visited the
hall in the earlier hours of the day and
returned at night the change wrought cer
tainly brought iomind thoughts of fairy
work.
On the right hand side, as the hall is
entered, is a platform surrounded by a
railing, on which is placed a very elegant
marble top bed-room set, a handsome easy
patent rocking chair, upholstered in the
latest style with the popular raw silk fab
ric, a Brussels carpet and a lady’s writing
desk, all to he disposed of by raffle.
Near the lower end of the hall, presided
over by Mr. T. W. Maugham, is a table
J Lunch will be served to-day to all who
may call after one o’clock,', and the fair
will open again-this afternoon at four
o’clock. Music by Kessler last evenlrg
■wasw-pleasant feature, and will be re
peated this evening.
A Child Accidentally Shoots Its
operated under one comprehensive
cohesive system. The identity of the
dent line is ended. The line to the sea of
Nashville and Chattanooga as an indepen-
KINO COLE,
stretching from St. Louis to Savannah,
has disappeared in magnificent oblivion.
The Directors of the Louisville and Nash
ville said to-day that the magnitude of
the transaction is unprecedented. The
Louisrille and Nashville Railroad obtains
an uninterrupted line from St. Louis to
Atlanta without a competition, and con
trols every avenue and outlet into Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia,
from Cincinnati on the Ohio, to Memphis
on the Mississippi, with connections, and
practically an unbroken line from the
fresh water lakes at Chicago to tide water
at Pensacola, and running east and west
from St. Louis to Savannah. Railroad
men say that it is impossible to estimate
the extent of territory dominated by this
vast system. Great cities and towns
which are now competitive points between
the two companies, come under control of
the Louisville and Nashville, and then-
trade will henceforth be dicta
ted and controlled by that wealthy
corporation. It is known that
the Nashville and Chattanooga re
cently acquired the lease of Colonel Wad-
ley’s road, the Georgia Central, and it is
said that Colonel Cole was actuated in
making the lease by his knowledge of a
secret contract and alliance entered into
by the Georgia Central and the Louisville
and Nashville. This agreement involved
the transfer of all business of the Louis
ville and Nashville at Montgomery; vice
versa by the Geoigia Central. The Nash
ville and Chattanooga vainly sought to
break the alliance, and its oniy alternative
was to lease the Georgia Central. This
agreement was to have been ratified at
Nashville on Saturday by the board of di
rectors and stockholders of the Nashville
and Chattanooga, but King Cole was no
tified by telegraph to hold off the ratifica
tion meeting, as the Louisville and Nash
ville had stepped in and secured the ma
jority of his stock. It will be optional with
the Louisville and Nashville to carry out
Mr. Cole’s plans. The grand scheme cf
a north acd south line across the conti
nent seems to be completed.
The Census.
,, . _ The supervisors of the census have all
Brunswick Masquerade.
We learn that on last Tuesday evening
one of the most elegant masquerades that
has over taken place in Brunswick came
off. It wa3 very finely arranged that no
obj^tionablo parties could gain entrance to
the hall. About eighty maskers engaged
in the dancing and with numbers of hand
some costumes the scene was quite gay.
It has boon a long time since such a pleas
ant evening was spent.
and Nashville Railroad. The Louisville
and Nashville people were hit hard by this
last purchase,and began to fear for the value
of their property, when they were apprised
a few days afterward that the Nash
ville and Chattanooga road had acquired
the northern division of the St. Louis and
Southestem from Evansville, Indiana, to
St. Louis. This tended to cut off the use
fulness of the Southern division of the
same road, previously acquired by the
Louisville and Nashville. The Nashville
and Chattanooga further proposes to ex
tend this latest acquisition from Evans
ville to Owensboro, making connection
there with the Russellville and Owensbo
ro railroad, and thus to force Louisville
and Nashville to seek a fresh outlet to St.
Louis. The purchases were in progress
about four months ago. About that time,
irrespective of the general boom in the
stock market, there was a rapid and spe
cial advance in the stock of the Louisville
and Nashville and Nashville and Chatta-.
nooga roads. The former was then qno-
ted at 05 and the latter at 45. It is now
surmised that since it appeared that no
further competitive points could he cov
ered for the moment, the stockholders and
directors of both roads began to buy the
stock of each other’s roads to endeavor to
obtain control.
the competitive war
was removed to Georgia. The Louisville
and Nashville bought the Western road
bed and franchises of the Georgia West
ern, intending with the assistance of the
people of Atlanta to complete the road in
ninety days from Atlanta to Decatur or
Birmingham, Alabama. The strategic
value of the acquisition can easily be
measured by the extent of the railroad
system south of the Ohio river. With
this road the Louisville and Nashville
would have been able to furnish a quicker
transportation than its rival. Other con
templated combinations were in progress
at the close of November, and at that time
the Nashville and Chattanooga besought
the aid of Eastern capitalists, and secured
especially, as has since transpired, the for
midable assistance of Mr. William H.
Vanderbilt. In the early part of Decem
ber a truce was called between the two
lines, and negotiations were secretly set
on foot by the Louisville and Nashville
to purchase a majority of its rival’s stock.
In the meantime the rival corporation
proposed a consolidation through Judge
Baxter, each company to receive share
and share alike in the new enterprise.
The proposition was rejected. The nego
tiations were prolonged at Louisville
without success, and two weeks ago were
transferred to New York. Conferences
have been held daily ever since at the of
fices of the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road at 52 Wall street. Mr. G. M. Fogg,
attorney and director of the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad, represented the in
terest of the road, and Mr. H. Victor New
comb the other. Pending these confer
ences Nashville and Chattanooga was
“bulled” by the directors who desired
consolidation until the stock was quoted
at 96. Mr. Fogg urged Mr. Newcomb to
conclude a consolidation, quoting the
price of the stock as a reason for it. The
Louisville and Nashville stock was per
mitted to remain quiet under 90. About
the middle of last week negotiations were
spoken of. In the meantime the Louis
ville and Nashville people had all along
been buying Nashville and Chattanooga
stock, and had secured sufficient to war
rant them in believing that the control
The State fair.
The State Agricultural Society meets
soon in Cuthbert, and if Macon wishes to
retain the State Fair this year, measures
should be taken at once looking towards
that end. The Augusta papers are full
of fair talk, and it is thought a deter
mined effort will be made in that quaiter
to secure the fair. Macon is eminently
the place. All sections have a better op
portunity of attending the exhibitions
here than in any other place in the
State. The success of the last two fairs
show conclusively that our city is able to
get up and sustain the State Fair. The
matter should be looked after at once, and
the fair should be retained by all means.
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noogarailroad, which will hereafter be , , . , ... , .
operated under one comprehensive and an< * beautiful arrangement. Among
the articles upon it is a canary bird in a
beautiful cage, donated to the fair, ex
quisite flowers, also donated by Mrs.
Theo. W. Ellis;’abox and basket of choice
flowers from tho elegant garden of Mrs.
H. Felton, and from Mrs. Dr. Cook, of
Marsballville, sent up especially for the
fair, a china and a tin water set, a beauti
fully iced cake and many fancy articles.
Mrs. Maugham is assisted by Miss Jennie
Villapigue, Miss Clara Nutting, Miss Fan
nie Grier, Miss Florine Dunlap, Miss
Mary Bonner, and Mrs. Maugham’s three
young daughters Misses Fannie, Lizzie
and Ida. The large sales attested the
popularity of the table.
To the left, in the centre of the lower
portion of the hall, was the fruit and
flower table. The arrangement here was
exquisite. Pyramids of luscious fruits,
artistically built, rose at either end, and
in the centre, interspread in beautiful
profusion, were exquisite collections of
choice and fragrant flowers. One of the
handsomest things on this table i3 a satin
damask table cloth.
In front of the table is a very handsome
aquarium, in which a number of gold fish
disport themselves With the aquarium
is a globe also containing gold fish. Both
will be raffled during the fair, the highest
throw taking the former, and the lowest,
the latter. This table during the evening
was splendidly patronized. It wa3 in
tlic charge of Mrs. J. E. Wells, Jr., assis
ted by Miss Viola Rodgers, Miss Annie
Powers, Miss Fannie Hunter and Miss
Alice Hunter.
Next comes the Domestic Venture table,
presided over by Mis. Judge T. J. Sim
mons, Mrs. J. W. Lockett, Mrs. Lee Ellis,
Mrs. Judge T. G. Holt, and Mrs. Dr.
Price. This is one of the most attractive
tables in the hall. It has been admirably
gotten up. The articles upon it consists
of an endless variety of household goods,
and all arc to be disposed of by chances.
Twenty-five or fifty cents entitles any
one to draw a ticket and whatever the
ticket calls for is promptly delivered. All
the goods having been donated, the pack
ages corresponding to the tickets represent
the full value of their cost, and many far
in excess thereof.
Last evening, for fifty cents-Mr. John
G. Deitz drew a ham; *Mr. Joe Bond, a
ham; Mr. C. L. Bartlett, fifty pounds of
lard; Mr. W. W. Wrigley, a can of lard;
and Sir. S. B. Price, a ham. Among the
undisposed of articles are barrels of flour,
champagne, etc.
Opposite the door is the “Old Volun
teers table,” three in one. On the one upon
the right is a case containing a very
elegant dinner set, ornamented with moss
rosebuds, and numbering one hundred
and sixty-four pieces. The cential table
contains among many other articles of ex
quisite fancy work, a handsome silver
tea set, silver coffee urn, elegant cakes,
beautiful and costly toilet set, a bronze
card receiver stand, a heavy gold headed
cane lor the most popular young gentle
man, and a truly fine officer’s sword for
the most popular commissioned officer of
the Battalion, both to be awarded by
voting. The table on the left supports
another case containing a beautiful French
china tea set complete. The table is
under the charge of Mrs. D. B. Wood
ruff, assisted by Mrs. Felix Corput, Misses
Fannie and Annie Johnston, Miss Lillie
Barker, Miss Georgia Stevens, Miss Ellie
Setley, Miss Annie Qoge and Miss Addie
Hoge.
In the upper right hand comer of the
hall a shooting gallery was in active oper
ation, under the management of Mrs. Vil-
lapique.
Under the musicgallery, most tastefully
and beautifully arranged, was a cigar
stand, presided over by Mrs. J. P. Flan
ders, Mrs. J. H. Dobbs, Mrs. A. T. NewJ
son, Mrs. Hayne Ellis, Miss Rebecca
Isaacs, and Misses Wood. <
The overhanging music. galleiy formed
a beautiful alcove and decked with gar
lands, ornamented with pictures and
graced by the fair ladies in charge, the
cigar stand could not and did not yield
the palm of popularity to any other table
in the house.
In the reception rooms in the rear was
the restaurant. Here the most tempting
viands were served in unexampled style.
Never has this department been better
managed. It is presided over by Mrs. D.
M. Flanders, Mrs. A. G. Butts, Mrs. H.
C. Sailors, Mrs. D. Flanders, Mrs. Henry
Freeman, assisted by Misses Nettie Dun
lap, Cora Nutting, Susie Edwards, Dovie
Powell, Leila Cook, Carrie Butts and
Mrs. H. M. Brown.
Acknowledgments are made by the la
dies in the restaurant to the following la
dies: Mrs. W. H. Ross, for ham; Mrs.
J. F. Hanson, cake and bread; Mrs. Ward,
turkey; Mrs. J. L. Cook, milk; Mrs. A.
Mix, cake and cream cakes; Mrs. D.
Flanders, cream; Mrs. H. S. Glover, cake;
Mrs. J. P. Flanders, birds and cake; Mrs.
George Payne, cake and salad; Mrs. M.
Fort, tongue; Mrs. Raoul, ham; Mrs.
Captain Carnes, biscuit and turkey, sand
wiches and gelatine; Mis. Robert Collins,
turkeys; Sirs. C. A. Sindall, salad,
The appearance of the hall is gorgeous.
The fair will be a great success, and the
Volunteers deserve it.
This evening the art gallery will be
Accidentally
Mother.
The Opelika Leader of January the 21st,
says a serious, if-not fatal accident, hap
pened on last Tuesday night, about nine
o’clock. Mrs. Johnson, the estimable
wife of Mr. Green S. Johnson, who had
recently moved to our city from Fredonia,
Alabama, while in her room surronnded
by her children, one of them took a pistol
from the mantle. The pistol went ofl’ in
the hands of the child, and the ball pierced
the left side of the mother, producing
what is thought at this writing a mortal
wound. Mr. Johnson is traveling for a
Louisville house, and his whereabouts is
not now known. Drs. McCoy and Shep
herd were called in to see Mrs. Johnson,
but as yet are unable to give an opinion.
She is in a stupor, but whether from tho
shock, or from hemorrhage, the physicians
could not determine. ■
BY TELEGRAPH
Augusta, Me., January 22.—The Fu
sion Governor denies that he ever issued
an order calling out the trorp3. ~ He tie- w
dares the report a Republican invention the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad,
Notice is given by the light house board
that after January 31st, a white light, iU
luminating the horizon with a flash every
thirty seconds, will be shown at Laurel
Point, Albemarle Sound, North Carolina.
The 'House committee on Commerce
heard arguments to-day by Mr. Foster, of
Charles R. Johnson, of Griffin, has re
ceive the appointment for the fourth dis
trict. Mr. Johnson is a young lawyer of
Griffin of great promise. He is the son of
Mr. Dan Johnson, who held the appoint
ment of postmaster of Griffin for several
years after the war. The appointment
will give satisfaction. The district em
braces the counties of Butts, Baldwin,
Bibb, Campbell, Carroll, Clayton, Coweta,
Crawford, Douglas, Fayette, Harris,
Heard, Henry, Jasper, Jones, Meriwether,
Monroe, Newton, Pike, Putnam, Spald
ing, Talbot, Troup, Twiggs, Upson and
Wilkinson.
The Brunswick Road.
There was a rumor circulated about the
streets yesterday that the company which
had bought the lease of the Macon and
Brunswick road at the recent sale, had
perfected their arrangements and would
commence the work of building the exten
sion to Atlanta about the middle of Feb
ruary. It was impossible to trace the ru
mor to any reliable source, but some cre
dence seemed to be given it.
The route mapped out was a direct ex
tension without touching the Geoigia
road, and the rails were to he of steel. In
best informed circles the rumor was
deemed somewhat premature.
The First Baptist Church. "
Yesterday the report gained wide cir
culation that Messrs. B. L. Willingham
& Son had bought the First Baptist
Church property and were intending to
commence at once, on the site, the erec
tion of an opera house. The report
traveled rapidly and soon found anchor
age in reportorial ears. Somehow or other
with each repetition of the report were ex
pressions of surprise. With note hooks
and pencils, two conscientious reporters
set about ascertaining the truth of the
rumor and entered the popular warehouse
of the firm. The senior was out but Mr.
Calder Willingham, who was engaged in
making out a bill of sale of a thousand
bales of cotton, more or less, courteously
received the representatives of the press,
and from him was learned that the re
port was strictly not so. The Board of
Deacons had recently considered the ques
tion of selling the church, and it was con
cluded that if a good price could be ob
tained, and an eligible site found, they
would be open to negotiations, especially
as some repairs were needed on the pre
sent edifice, and if a more eligible location
was selected, the money to be devoted to
these repairs would be saved to go toward
the erection of a new house of worship.
No idea of purchasing the property for the
purpose named above, however, had been
contemplated by them.
General Joseph's. Johnston has < * ene ‘ 1 under * e ***'« Ge ! n f a |
contributed $100 to tho Irish Relief I-Armstrong, and will be one of the richest
Fund. I and rarest ever seen in Macon.
A Coast Connection.
If there he anything meritorious in the
leading idea of the Cole combination—a
shorter and cheaper seaboard connection
with the Western produce markets than
now exists—the Louisville connection
with Gulf ports has little or nothing prac
tical in it. Tho Golf does not furnish
accessible and convenient ports to any
point, unless it may to a few of the West
Indies. A scheme to run steamships from
Mobile to South America will not out-last
more than two trips. If Roach cannot
run his ships from Philadelphia, the at
tempt to run them from Mobile Is prepos
terous. A port on the Atlantic seaboard,
in easy and convenient calling distance of
coast liners from New York, Boston and
Philadelphia, might open the conditions
of profitable trade with South America
and the Carribeau seas. We say, then,
that if Cole’s idea was well studied and
practicable, a South Atlantic connection
with the West is necessary, and is ho
wise met by the Louisville arrangement,
The South not Solid.
The alleged solidity of the South is t
myth, as proved by tho researches of cer
tain correspondents of the New York
Herald. One of them shows that the
whole country lying between the Allegha-
nies and Blue Ridge comprising the Page
and Shenandoah Valleys and several coun
ties, is honeycombed with immense cav
erns, abounding in apartments of enor
mous size and sparkling in the light with
all formsof cluystalization. One of these
apartments—the diamond chamber—is
described as a perfect circle—400 feet in
diameter, and with a floor as level as the
floor of a ball-room. How can old Vir
ginia be said to be solid with so many
holes in her. And there are about as
many in Kentucky and Tennessee, while
Florida is merely a crust ready to be bro
ken through anywhere you dig a well. Wej
are afraid this crust is not thick enough
to sustain that big canal they threaten to
dig between Cedar Keys and St. Marys.
The charge that these States are solid is
entirely groundless. They are all hollow
and cavernous
The Steamship City of Savannah Col
lides with a Schooner in Hew York
Harbor.
From a passenger of tho “City of Savan
nah,” who came by her last trip arrivin.
in Savannah on Tuesday, we learn that
after the ship had backed out from her
pier in New York and proceeded a short
distance, she came in contact with a laige
schooner loaded with cotton with such
damaging force as to cause the latter to
sink soou after. The Savannah escaped
without material injury, losing her fore
top mast and some spars only.
It appears that, from some cause, tho
ship became unmanageable, and did not
obey the helm. Every effort was made to
avoid the collision by reversing the en
gines, etc., but without effect. After a
detention of an hour or two, the vessel pro
ceeded on her voyage.
1 Before the passengers landed, they
passed resolutions completely exonerating
the commander, Captain F. G. Mallory,
from any blame in the premises.
That officer has been unfortunate of
late, a somewhat similar accident having
befallen him several weeks ago, resulting
in a considerable loss to the company. In
view of these facts, at a late meeting of
the Ocean Steamship Board, the Captain
was relieved from duty. Captain Mallory
is an old and excellent commander and
seaman, and also a perfect gentleman. He
lias the sympathies of a large circle of
friends, who hope ere long he will be on
duty again.
“ Law Triumphant in Maine.”
This Is the way the St. Louis Globe-
Democrat puts it, and gays;
If there is anything especially aggravat
ing to a Democrat, it" is the opinion of a
Supreme Court which happens to be ex
actly the opposite cf his own. Democrats
always have opinions about grave consti
tutional questions, formed without the in
convenient but rather necessary prelimina
ry investigations, and when the same ques
tions undergo a severe judicial examina
tion, the courts generally reverse the Dem
ocrats.
But our respected contemporary, in the
intense bathos of deliverance, ignores the
fact that the Maine Junta, yclept a Su
preme Court, is nothing more than an un
principled, Radical, partisan body. The
decision they made was no decision, be
cause not carried before them according
to the ruling of the Constitution, and in
terms of the law. It was a bogus appeal
and a bogus decision. Nothing more nor
less.
The so-called Republican Legislature
is a travesty upon law and justice, and
should command not a whit more of au
thority and respect than the farcical assem
blage of the Fusionists. We have, hut
little sympathy witlf either, though as
usual the bulk of the rascality attaches to
the Radicals.
At present anarchy reigns in Maine and
there is really no government either de
facto or de jure. Both factions are afraid,
and a more pusiliauimous condition of
affairs cannot well be imagined. The
tom toms and gasconade of the Chinese,
are put to the blush by the bloodless
noise and fuss of these Down Easters.
Really the Maine situation is both fa
tiguing and ridiculous. Query.—What
will Congress do if saddled with this ele
phant? Why not, with due regard to il
lustrious precedent, remand the whole
matter to the Supreme Court of the
United States, and let it fizzle gracefully
out under the action of that 8 to 7 judi
catory? That is the last analysis Of
Radical government.
Grant in Pennsylvania.—J. W. F.,
the telegraphic correspondent of the New
York Sun at Philadelphia, says that the
majority of the forty-six delegates to the
State Republican Convention selected in
that city are anti-Grant, and that James
McManes, who leads the delegation, told
Don Cameron, when he rushed over there
from Washington last Saturday to find
out what was the matter, that “Grant is
not in the fight, and his name will not be
brought before the convention.” Is that
true?
to throw discredit upon it. That they do
not propose to resort to arms, although
substantial offers of arms and ammunition
have been made from outside the State.
Representative Frank Hill, of the Fu
sion House, says the State Treasurer,
Charles A. 'White, will within forty-eight
hours commence paying out money to Fu
sion members in need of funds. Whitt
will not give up the office of Treasurer,.
to which he was re-elected by the Fusion
ists, to the Republican Treasurer, Hol
brook, who was elected yesterday. Treasj
urer White’s bondsmen are strong Fusion
ists, and it is said will back him up in
paying the Fusionists. The commissions
of Governor Smith’s staff bear the seal of
I the State.
Panama, January 13.—Early in De
cember last the Canca Valley was visited
by a very hiavy rain. The water rose
until it was many yards above the highest
freshet mark designated by memory or
tradition. The inhabitants along its
course were driven from their homes. The
river rose until over three miles wide, and
went raging through the valley, carrying
all before it. Several small villages were
destroyed and some lives lost. When the
stream subsided everything had been de
stroyed in the way of small crops and
movables of all sorts—cattle, goats and
horses all gone. The cocoa farmers visit
ed their haciendas in boats, trying to gath
er the crop which had been left on the
frees. • They had to go armed in order to
protect themselves against the immense
snakes which gathered in the trees, and
which had hean driven down the valley
by force of the waters. The loss is esti
mated at a million dollars.
Washington, January 22.—The House,
after transacting some miscellaneous busi
ness, resumed consideration of tlie bank
reserve bill, the pending question being on
seconding the demand for the previous
question, and it Was6econded by 100to4S.
The main question was then ordered,
and an hour’s debate commenced on the
bill.
On motion of Mr. Cameron, of Pennsyl
vania, the Senate resolved, by yeas 31,
nays 21, that when the Senate adjourns to
day, it will be to meet on Monday next.
The Bayard resolution was taken up,
and Dr. Coke proceeded to speak upon it.
In the Senate Mr. Teller offered a reso
lution calling on the Secretary of the In
terior to inform the Senate whether any
member of the Board of Indian Commis
sioners had become interested in Indian
contracts. Adopted.
At the conclusion of the debate the
House proceeded to vote on the bill and
pending amendments.
Washington, January 22.—In the
Senate, Mr. Call introduced a hill author
izing the State of Florida to incorporate
the Agricultural College and seminary
fund donated by Cougress, with the com
mon school fund of the State* Re
ferred.
Mr. Coke, speaking against the Bayard
resolution, said there was not a line of
legislation to show that greenbacks were
originally regarded as a temporary loan.
On the contrary, the original intention o
the series has been to keep as large an
amount afloat as could be kept at par.
They were the most popular money the
jicople ever had. The people were satis
fied with them, and he favored letting
well enough alone. If the legal tender
quality were withdrawn from greenbacks,
they would have to bo called in
and destroyed. This was a move
ment in the interest of the na
tional hanks and bondholders, who
wished to enhance the value of the gold.
The policy of those who favored it was to
oppress the people in the interest of those
who were already rich. The demand for
this measure comes not from the produc
ers or laborers, but from those who live
on the labors of others. The cry of “hard
money” was, he said, delusive. We would
not have hard money under the operation
of this resolution. The national bank
notes would take the place-of silver, and
greenbacks of gold, should gold leave the
country, and we would have little gold in
the hank vaults, and a flood of bank notes
in circulation. In conclusion, he said:
“All who favor the unshackled influence,
of the people in this government; all who
favor hard money; all who disapprove
dangerous monopolies; all who believe
in equal rights for all, as opposed to class
legislation, should oppose this resolution.”
Then Senate then adjourned till Mon
day.
In the House speeches Were made
against the pending bill (Buckner’s bank
reserve bill) by Gillette, of Iowa; Weaver,
of Iowa; Wlutthome, of Tennesse, and
Keiffer, of Ohio. The House then, by a
vote of 158 to 78, refused to order the
third reading and engrossing of the bill,
thus virtually killing it.
After the usual debate upon the revis
ion of tho rules, in course of which Cox,
of New York, made a humorous speech.
The Senate amendments to the House
hill providing for United States Circuit
and District Courts at Macon, Georgia,
were concurred in, and the House ad
journed. '
Boston, January 22.—The Herald's
Augusta special says the Republican State
government is still vigilant, keeping guards
at the State house and troops at the arm
ories. The Fusion Legislature met to-day
with undiminished numbers, but trans
acted no business. Its members arc dis
cussing a proposed removal to Portland or
Biddeford. Fuisionist Representative
Staples took his seat in the Republican
House this morning, and says others will
follow his example.
Augusta, January 22.—In the Fusion
Senate to-day a motion was made to pro
ceed to business. Mr. Atwell opposed
the motion, saying: “Let us go into the
State House or let us go home.” Messrs.
Strickland and Ellis also opposed the
motion to proceed to business. Pending
action a recess was taken till four p. m.
Mr. Smith, the Fusion Governor, told a
reporter to-day that under the present
circumstances he should not deem it ad
visable to go on, but “if we had posses
sion of the State House, the Republicans
would not get in without bloodshed.”
Liverpool, January 22.—The Princess
Louise, Marchioness of Lome, embarked
for Halifax to-day in the steamship Sar-
matian.
London, January 22<—The latest re
port places the number of deaths by the
collipry explosion at seventy.
New York, January 22.—Commander
Homer C. Blake, U. S. N., died here yes
terday.
Petersburg, Va., January 22.—A
large valuable cotton gin, owned by Cojo-
nel William H. Spratley, in Greenville
county, wa3 destroyed by fire yesterday,
together with the machinery and a large
quantity of cotton stored in the build
ing.
Boston, January 22.—The Heralds
Augusta special says that Republican au
thorities at. the State house are growing
impatient over the unexpected prolonga
tion of the Fusionist government. A mem
ber pf Governor Davis’ txiuncil said to-day
that the Fusionists would not much lon
ger be allowed to play Legislature. It is
intended to arrest Fusionlst Secretary
Sawyer in case he issues any documents
purporting to come from the Secretary of
State. When Governor Davis is ready to
deal with the Fusionists he will do so res
olutely.
The Republican legislators are taking
measures to arrest the whole batch of Fu-
sionist officials on the charge of treason.
Augusta, Me., January 22.—The Re
publican Judiciary Committee reported
to the House tp-day a bill providing that
whoever shall remove from tlie office of
the Secretary of State, the State seal, who
soever shall abstract books, accounts,
election returns, etc., or having them in
possession, shall refuse to return them,
shall be punished by fine and imprison
ment, the penalties to vary according to
the extent of the offense from one year’s
imprisonment and $500 line, to "three
year’s imprisonment and $5,000 fine. The
bill was recommitted'to the Judiciary
Committee.
aud E. P. Alexander, President of the
Georgia State Railroad, in opposition to
the Reagan interstate commerce bill.
The House Committee on Education
and Labor heard arguments this morning
on the proposed distribution of money
arising from unclaimed pay and bounties
of colored soldiers. Tlie committee are
in favor of devoting this money to the ed
ucation of colored people, but have not
yet decided upon any plan of distribution
though it is understood they are in ’ favor
of the plan suggested in the bill introduced
in the Senate by Senator Bruce, of Mis
sissippi.
London, January 22.—The corpses of
fifty victims ef the explosion in the Lycett
colliery, at Newcastle-under-Tyne, yester
day morning, have now been recovered.
Of the twelve, persons who were got out
of the mine alive yesterday five have died
and the others are dying.
Rerun, January 22.—A bill ha3 beeu
introduced in the Bundsrath, providing
for an increase of the German army by
thirteen new regiments, thirty-two field
batteries and a battalion of pioneers.
The increase will require an additional
annual outlay of seventeen million marks.
London, January 22.—A dispatch from
Cabul to the Standard says: “Matters
here are very unsettled. An outbreak is
possible at any time, and almost certain
to occur as soon as the snow melts.
Mahommed Jan is very popular among
the Afghans, who will willingly follow
him again when called upon. They do
not admit their defeat, but say they were
only dispersed because they had no can
non with which to dislodge the British
from Sbirpur.
The next time, they say, they will have
cannon. Mahommed Jan is actively pre
paring, for another rising. The Kohistanes
are quiet but can’t be relied on to remain
so when disturbances recommence. The
excitement at Logar continues. The Brit
ish position at Shipur has been strength
ened, but is too extensive to be held by a
part of the garrison, should any troops be
sent out for offensive operations. The un
certainty as to whether the British intend
to hold or abandon the country works
to their disadvantage.
Charleston, S. C., January 22.—A
fire broke out early this morning in the
car shed of the South Carolina Railroad
in this city, destroying twelve passenger
coaches and twenty-seven baggage and
freight cars, together with the car shed.
The loss is estimated at thirty thousand
dollars. The shed was insured for five
thousand dollars.
Savannah, Ga., January 22.—The
second day’s meeting of the Savannah
Jockey Club was a grand success. The
weather was splendid, and the attendance
large. In the first race for the Bonaven-
turc stakes, for three, year olds, mile
heats, four entries, two started, Mamie
Fields and Lucky Hit. Mamie Fields
won In two straight heats. Lucky Hit
was distanced, second. Time, 1.48J and
1:46. • '
Tlie second race, a mile dash, four
started—Hattie F, Aaron, Buckshot and
Shortfellow. It was a beautiful race and
was won by Hattie F, with Aaron, a good
second and Buckshot third. Time 1:48.
The third race, mile heals, was between
Vagrant and Iiawk, the former winning
in two straight heats. Time 1:48 and 1:53.
The Chime Hippodrome races prove a
great attraction. The meeting will close
Saturday.
Havana, January 22.—General Grant
and party arrived here on the steamer
Admiral this morning. They were re
ceived by General Arias, civil governor of
the province, and conducted to the Palace
where they will remain duringtheir stay
here. After making a trip to Hayti, and
perhaps to other islands, General Grant
will sail for Vera Cruz about February,
12.
New York, January 22—-The Joint
Executive Committee of trunk lines
made some changes to-day in the cotton
rates from Western river ports, as follows:
St. Louis to New York 47 cents per one
hundred pounds; Cairo, 47 cents; Evans
ville, 45: Louisville, 43; Ciuciunati, 40;
cotton received from steamer from East
St. Louis, 49 cents; from Cairo, 49; from
Evansville, 47; from Louisville and Jef
fersonville, 45; from Cincinnati, 44.
New York, January 22.—Bids for 250,-
000 shares of New York Central stock, re
cently purchased from Vanderbilt, were
opened to-day by the syndicate commit
tee. Two hundred thousand shares have
been disposed of in London and New
York at prices ranging from 131 to 135.
■Washington, January 22 It has
beeu decided to appoint ex-Governor
Pinchback, of Louisiana, as naval officer
at New Orleans in the place of Colonel
James Lewis. The. friends of the latter
are decidedly opposed to this change, and
it is likely that a fight will be made in
the Senate on Pinchback’s confirmation.
A PRONUNCIAME NT0.
Another Greeley Nominee.
The New York Sun Washington cor
respondent of the 19th, pronounces in
favor of the nomination of somebody not
a Democrat, as the only possible chance
for killing off Grant and the stalwarts.
The movement in the New York Legisla
ture to elect presidential electors by dis
tricts is the inspiration of Senator Conk-
ling, and is suggested by the fact that it
the only possible method of defeating
solid vote of that State for the Demo
cratic candidate. The three last New
York State elections have steadily shown
the Republicans in a minority. In 1876,
Tilden beat all opposing candidates by a
majority of 30,769 votes. The election
for Judge of the Court of Appeals, in
1878, showed a Republican minority in
the total vote of 40,472, and the election
in 1879 showed Cornell in a minority of
59,512. The people cannot be safely
trusted in a fight over the third term. It
must be submitted to the Republican
Congressional gerrymander, under which,
although tlie two Republican electors at
laige may be whipped out of sight, the
State will yet return nineteen out of the
thirty-five electors.
The correspondent then quotes the
prophesy of O’Conor as follows:
“I am constrained to regard it as abso
lutely impossible that anyone called a
Democrat should prevail in the next pres
idential election.”
It being impossible to make up to the
Democrats the loss of the thirty-five elec
toral votes of New York, the only possi
ble chance against a third term, in his
judgment, will be to bring forward some
man whose political position will concili
ate the entire opposition of the country to
the third term movement. The people,
he says, dislike Grantism, but they detest
Bourbonism. Therefore, the Democrats
and the softs must unite on a ticket, just
as they did for Greeley, and so sweep the
country, just as they did in 1872!
The wisdom of that idea is more appa
rent in theory than in practice. A plan
of battle founded on the idea that the en
emy is too strong to be whipped by any
thing but a piece of luck—a special provi
dence, or a grand scheme to divide and
cripple him Is not worth the powder. It is
lost before a gun is fired. A trade in which
ninety-nine men sell out in order to take
the chance of pleasing the hundredth, is
not an invigorating bargain.
The Sun correspondent says:
Of course the Republican Legislature,
with a majority of two thirds in tlie Sen
ate and more than three fifths in the
Washington, January 22.—The Presi-! House, will do whatever their leaders
dent has withdrawn the nominations of! may order. Discipline and dictation
the following census supervisors: Samuel j have made them obedient instrument of
Thompson, Second Alabama district, and ‘ arrogant authority. A few of them at first
Henry Hammond, Second South Carolina ; may be inclined to resist, hut their scrup-
district. ..i, * les will yield to the expectation^ reward
or to menaces of proscription. Yonreow-
ardly politician dreads most of all things
to be caught in a minority of bolters and
malcontents, which would throw him out
of the regular line.
' Behind this movement the figure of the
Strong man for a third term looms up at
full length. He carfhot carry New Yark
if the people are allowed to vote their
true sentiments, and therefore it is pro
posed to jockey them out of nearly two-
thirds of the electors of the State by trans
ferring the choice to gerrymandering dis
tricts. It is essentially a Grant scheme.
This is one of the results' oF'the Great
Fraud by which the Presidency was stolen
and the consummation of which Mr.
Conkling was morally pledged to prevent
when he fled to Baltimore the day that
the electoral vote of Louisiana, with falsa
and forged certificates, was counted.
The Democratic managers, who in their
little short-sighted way have been electing
a President on paper and telling the world
that New York was the pivotal State, and
that this or that man could cany it, and
therefore no other candidate must he
considered but one in that category, find
themselves in a demoralized condition by
this flank march on their chief work.
With the factions fighting each other like
Kilkenny cats, they were in a had way
enough before Conkling played this can!.
But now they are shocked and paralyzed
with fear.
Tilden, Seymour, Church, Hancock,
Bayard, McClellan, English, Parker, Ran-’
dolph and other aspirants whose hopes
were founded on the theory of carrying
New York, all go by the board at one fell
swoop'if the bill to choose electors by
Congressional districts should become a
law, as it surely will do. Their capital,
like the ghost of Bauquo, will then vanish
into thin air.
The Panama Canal.—Somebody re
vives to-day, in the telegrams the story of
the furious storm and overflow near Pana
ma, evidently to show that, had de Les-
seps’canal existed, it would necessarily
have been destroyed, and if located In
such a situation its existence will always
hang on the contingency that no more
such floods visit that locality. It wilt
need special insurance.
I>ae Postage.
The Post-office Department has issued
orders forbidding the reception of mutil
ated fractional currency at the post-offices
of the country. This prohibition includes
all coins which have holes in them, and
extends to all letter carriers. Persons,
therefore, who receive letters on which
there is postage due can expect the car
riers to refuse such coins when tendered. •
If they receive such money, the depart
ment will not take it from them, and they
are chaiged up with it. This is a small
matter to tlie public, hut of some impor
tance to the carriers.
LIN Ed TO AFLIBT.
A white formel card and engraved invitation.
To come to your wedding at nocn ot to-itay.
Have made me choose yin for an apt dedication.
Of Lines to a Flirt In her bridal array.
There lien now before me a golden-rod flower.
And close by my hand iaa little kid glo-e,
They’re aerved to recall the sunsbini and shower
Of days when, ale*, l was deeply in love.
O (course, ot that summer you’ve k-pt not a to*
ken. w .
Forgotten by yon are the months and the
year. ? -
Forgotten the lover whose heart then was bro
ken.
Forgotten the offer, tlie sigh and the teer.
The old rustic chair in the croon grove of maple*
The lawns and the cirviLg and shrab-htddea
The skira t&at were hlne aa the bluest at Maple*,
The wind with the perfume of newly mown
hay.
The charming old novels we xesd throat htc-
gethor,
The hundreds of poems with love in each verse.
The tales of romance that were light sc a feather,
With plumed cavaliers, swinging ladders, and
worse.
The suuc little phaeton and stont little pony.
The white corded reins in your little gloved
hand.
The duct in clouds when you whipped “Kcoc-
roni,”
And laughingly pointed to Btrephon’c fair
The quick stolen kist. the piazza’s dark angle.
The pressing of bands as we’d meet unaware*.
The tar distant signal you gave with Tour bangle
When wishing to meet me alone on are stain.
What nor seme, ’twai nothing, ’iwas simple flira
tation;
And Cupid has flown to the heavens above.
And made the gods laugh at a man’s desolation
Produced by a flirt with a flower and glove.
—N. Y. Bun.
45 Years Befot-e.tbe Public.
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