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iiiiranSSjlifl Established 1826. JIACOS: FRIDAY. JANUARY 30. 1880. DEAD ON THE TRACK. Strong Suspicion* of a Foul Murder. Sunday morning last, as the down pas senger train was nearing the 114 mile post, rounding a sharp curve, the engineer, Mr. L. N. Arden, and his fireman, discovered the body of a man lying on the road bed. The distance was so short that the train Could not bo stopped until It had passed Over ihe body. When the conductor and fireman came back to the body they found it shockingly mutilated, the clothing tom entirely from it, even the shoes and socks, and life extinct. Leaving the body in Charge of some of the section hands and the pay train, the train proceeded to Gor don, when Mr. William Stevens, Road- master of the Central Railroad, was noti fied, and lie dispatched a crank car to the scene of the accident. Arriving there the body was identified as Mr. J. C. Patter son, a resident of Gordon. A messenger was sent for the Coroner, and the body placed on a car and taken to Gordon. , ‘Upon inquiry it was ascertained that Mr. Patterson had gone to No. 17 J, Cen tral Railroad, where a shooting match was to be held Saturday, and there began drinking. He was known to have had on bis person Saturday afternoon over $100. When found, uothing was on his person but a little day-book and -a pack of Cards. Absence of the money aroused grave suspicions of murder. The report gained rapid circulation that the unfortunate man had been foully dealt with. Last evening in an interview with Mr. P. N. Elkins, tlie fireman on the. effgiue of the down day passenger which ran over the body, gave the following account of the occurrence: We were going along at a lively rate and when about a hundred and tit ty yards from the body, Mr. Arden' nnd my self discovered something on the track. When In about fifty yards of it, I saw it Was a man. We were too near it when we first saw it, to stop the train, although every eflort wna. made to do so. We were on’a iieavy rfdwn grade'of about fifty-two feet to the .mile. We ran over the body about seven or eiglit cars’ lengths when Wfl stopped. We had five cars—four coaches and a stock car. We stopped and Conduc tor Charlton and myself went hack. The flesh of the body was quivering and smoking some, but I did not notice whether it was Warm or not. It was frightfully mangled. The right arm and leg were cut off, th former was found in his coat sleeve, which was also severed. His other two limbs were frightfully mangled, and many bpuls cxlcndad-ooross his back. The rear portion of tlie skull was crushed and tom away. He was tbe worst looking corpse I ever saw. His person was entirely de nuded. Soon after wejstopped, two men came up from in front of the engine, enquiring who the dead man was, and we left them there- when we went oit * A bullet hole was found in the face of the dead man below tbe eye. Mr. Arden, tbe engineer, and myself, were be fore the Coroner’s jury. Dr. Jones, of Gordon, who also appeared, testified that tlie bole was made by a bullet, and that notbing about tlie engine could have pro duced it. There was but very little blood on tlie cross ties where the body was dragged, and the wounds on his person were not bleeding. From ail appearances it would seem that the unfortunate man was murdered and placed in the track. Suspicion points strongly to two men who were seen with deceassed on tlie evening before, and are reported to be the same who came up to tlie body just after the train stopped. The Central railroad furnished a coffin, and yesterday afternoon the remoins were interred in (Jordon. Chicken Main In Charleston. Last niglit Mr. Charles Brown, the well known chicken man, left on the Macon and Augusta road for Charleston, where, on Thursday, a chicken main will be fought between the fancy cocks of South Carolina and the celebrated Shawlnecks of Georgia. He took with him thirty- seven of- the most beautiful Shawlnecks ever seen In this State. Helms every Confidence in his chickens, and feels cer tain Georgia will come out victorious. The exact breed of the South Carolina fowls was not known. The main will last four days and will precede the Charles ton races, which follow directly after! The purses on each fight will be quite large. A large crowd left last evening on the same train to be present at the main. Lnp Year Party. Yesterday Macon’s social circles were somewhat agitated by the sending and jeception of little tinted missives convey ing invitations to a loap year party to ' take place this evening at' one of the ele- ' gant residences of this dty. The average society young man has been ever since tbe affair was agitated, in that delightful state of uncertainty which is supposed to exist with the ladies previous to receiying an Invitation to any entertainment. ■ J Yesterday the social lightning struck, as it were, and happiness or gloom succeeded. In tlie hurry of the moment and the noTelty of the situa tion, a variety of answers were returned to the invitations; one young man accepted “with the greatest pleasure,” another i ‘“with extreme happiness,” each drawing his draft on the adjective fund as large as the oifcUmstance3 would allow. One young gentleman insisted the pleasure “would be his in going with his fair pro tector not hers in taking lilm.” The note, however, which took tbe premium for ex pressive terseness and directness, read Miss Your invitation received. I tumble. Yours sincerely . And now it is a question as to whether the fair ■ reader of tlie missive “tumbles” to the ex T act meaning which he desired officially to convey. •, . ■ Attempted Suicide. Yesterday morning Dr. Blacksliear was summoned in haste to attend what was thought to be a dyingwoman by the name Of'Belle Bishop, who resides on Fifth street near the carslied. When he arriv ed he found that she,was suffering from audamnnfpoi^oning. Atropia.aml stom- • acli pumps, to'counteract the-effects of the poison, were resorted to, and after groat effort her life waj^aved. She had writ ten several letters to her friends stating What she intended to do, alleging as tlie reason that the man~shc loved had desert^ edher. ' - BY TELEGRAPH Boston, January 25.—Specials from Augusta say there is much dissatisfaction among the Fusiomsts, who assert that Garcelon traded with, the Republicans, and plotted with Chamberlain to deliver the State House to the Republicans. The State House officials, positive Fusionists, were to have captured the State House last night, but tbe precautions measures prevented it. The Governor bas been advisod by some of his friends to order the entire military force of the State to Augusta at once, to be ready to disperse the Fusionist Govern ment on Monday. Military advisers of the Governor be lieve the true policy is to end the dual Government at once. Boston, January 25.—The Herald's Augusta special says the Fusionist Gov ernor Smith, to-night issued a proclama tion to the people of. the. State, defining his views of the situation and Ms inten tion as to the future. The document is as follows: To the Citizens of Maine : My attention has been called to the re peated assembling of armed oodles of men and military companies at tlie Capi tol of the State, causing unnecessary ex citement and disturbing the peace, and I deem it due to my fellow-citizens to ad vise those of the fact that this display of force is without any just couse, and serves to keep up excitement and divert atten tion from the revolutionary proceedings by wMch a party caucus undertook to or ganize a State government. Iha% r e already publicly declared and now repeat that the political party and friends with whom I act have at no time contemplated a resort to force to secure their rights. No force has been organized —none ba.s been called for; nor have we hail any here at any time. We rely upon Washington, January 20.—The Sen- the constitution and laws of the State, and the honest judgment of the people for this vindication of our cause. Tlie police sachusette. as Minister..to.Great.Britain; force, authorized t»y. Governor Garcelon. JaW tr.-I .jiuiriuTip'diana, as Minister to it.iIax ohawM (bn PiuqIq ' T Poiroliitli nf Wiaonnsin and placed under .charge of the Sapcrln- tendent .of Public Buildings for alio ure^ tection of the public property | islature against any resistant'which had islature against any resist# bi-eB^hrea^ened in excited public assent' blies, was discharged almost immediately ^fter*=tte l.egisla«n> had assembled and organized. Since tliat time all tbe forces, both police and military, have been under control of the Republican organization without the presence of any force to oppose them, and without any just grounds for imposing upon the credulity of the people. The lawful government of the State has been excluded from the State house through military usurpation. The State house is at the present time filled with armed men. A Gatling gun covers tlie entrance and tlie State is subject to an expense of thousands of dollars daily, for the purpose of main taining this military show. It is proper that our people should consider these mat ters, and whether or not they Are willing to countenance and support such high handed outrages upon their liberties. Are theyready.and willing to yield their rights as freemen, and became slaves' to forces which are tbits burdening them with taxa tion, and undermining and destroying their free institutions. I have no fear but that the honest and intelligent sentiment of our citizens will discountenance this military usurpation and uphold the legal government in its efforts for peace and or der and to promote the welfare of the State. JosEpn L. Smith, Governor. Nkw York, January 25.—Tlie exami nation began yesterday in the Supreme Court at chambers into the truth of al leged cruelty and abuse of children >by Mr. and Mrs. Cordley, managers of the Shepherd’s F fid. Great public.interest is shown in the examination. The testimony of the father ofa funner inmate and a lit tle girl sustained the charges. That of a teacher stated that some children came there diseased, wretched and hungry. Atlanta, January 25—Two men who were engaged without license in enticing the negroes of Morgan county, Ga., to go to Mississippi were arrested to-day and fined one hundred and fifty dollars, and costs under a stringent State law against such practices. Paris, January 25.—In the Chamber of Deputies to-day, wMle discussing the bill relating to public meetings, Louis Blanc insisted that the right of meetings and forming associations be absolutely as free as in tbe United States and England. Newark, N. J., January 26.—The factory of the Western Electric Light Company was damaged by fire, this morn ing, to the amount of ten thousand dol lars. Many machines and patterns were destroyed. The snpposed origin of the' fire was an overheated flue. The loss is fully covered by insurance. , Washington, January 26.—In the House Mr. Clarke, of Missouri, presented the credentials ol J. F. Phillips as Repre sentative elect from the Seventh Congres sional District of Missouri. The oath of office (ironclad) was administered to that gentleman, though Garfield, of Ohio, called attention to the fact that his certifi cate of election was signed by the Secrete; ry of the State, and not by the Governor of Missouri. The Speaker tlrcirproeeeded to call the States for bills. 1 In the Senate Mr. Bayard announced Ms intention to speak upon 1ns resolution to-morrow. On motion of Mr. Ferry, Wednesday of this week was set apart for.the delivery of eulogies upon the life and character of the late Senator Chandler. After the presentation and reference of a number of petitions and me morials, the President laid before tlie 'Senate a communication from tlie Secretary of the Navy, in answer to a Senate resolution, stating that, in Ms judgment, the interests of tbe country and the naval service do not require that the Pensacola Navy Yard be put in. a state of efficiency, and transmitting an estimate of $616,000 as the cost of such repairs, $86,-' 700 of that amount being necessary for tjie rebuilding of two marine barracks de stroyed during the war. . „ J Bills were introduced and referred, as follows: By Mr. Coke—authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to pay taxes accrued and to accrue on lands belonging to the Eastern band of North Carolina Cherokees, from tlie fund belonging to such band, remain ing to its credit on the books of tbe Indian Department. . , By Mr. Gordon—to repay the State of Georgia $27,175 advanced by said State for the defense of her frontier against In dians from 1795 to 1818, . . ■ v - By Mr. Butler—to authorize tbe Secre tary of War to adjust and settle the ac counts between tbe State of South Caro lina and the United States government. Mr. Teller called np the bill for the re lief of Gibbs & Co., Charleston,; South Carolina, and it w.is passed.; It authorizes the payment to them of $4,577, being a balance due them on account of money deposited by them with the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Carpenter called up the bill to pro vide for the pi-.nisMng of persons who steal horse*, mules, or other property from Indians. After considerable discussion, it, was recommitted to the Judiciary Com- mitte, and tlie Senate adjourned,' ■ London January 26.—Terrible distress London, January 20. — Right Hon. John Bright, in a speech at Birmingham on Saturday, .suggested that Parliament should appoint a new Mission to go to Dublin with power to sell farmsof land lords to'tenants who are willing to buy them, and to advance three-fourths of the purchase money therefor. The principal and interest to be repaid in thirty-live years. Such a measure, Mr. Bright said, he believed would "meet the wants and satisfy the desires of the! Irish people. Washington, January 26.—The Pres ident sent to the Senate the name of Benjamin Conleyvto be postmaster of At lanta, Georgia. ' ■ ‘ Washington, January 26.—In the House bills were introduced and rgferred as follows: : & h,;.-) By Mr. Manning, of Mississippi—To' re organize the United States. -Supremp Court. .’It provides for an increase in .the number of Justices to twenty-one, who shall be divided into tliree divisions, to bo presided over by tlie Cliief Justice and two assistant Chief Justices, to be appoin ted by tlie President from among the As sociate Justices. By Mr. W r amer, of OMo—To relieve the Supreme Court, to establish a Supe rior Court, and to abolish the Court of Claims. / By Mr. Richardson, of Soutli Carolina— For a settlement of the account for arms between the St ate of South Carolina and the United States. TJie Rouse tlidn proceeded to finish the vote interrupted last Monday, upon Mr. Kelly’s motion to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution declaring the negotia tion by the President of the Commercial treaty, fixing the rate of duties, as an in fraction of the Constitution, and an inva sion of ‘the hightest prerogatives of the House. The motion was carried, and the resolution adopted by 175 to, 62. Ad journed, ate to-day confirmed the following nomi nations : Jnmejs Russell Lowell, of Mas- Russla; Lucioi Fairjloth, of Wisconsin, as Minister to'Spain; Phiilip'H. Moigan, of Louisiana,, as Minister to Mexico; Phil lip S. Wales, of Pennsylvania, as Chief of tlie Bureau of Medicine and Surgeon Gen eral of the Xavv, witli-tln: relative rank of Commodore;' Also, tjje nominations of the following postmasters:':Robert" G. Staples, of Portsmouth, Virginia; David S. Johnston at Madison, Georgia, and W. A. Billings at Victoria, Texas. Washington, January 20.—The Pres ident sent to the' Senate to-day the nomi nation of Benjamin Conley to he Post master at Atlanta, Ga. The first sub-committee of the House Committee on Elections considered to day tbe contested case of Haralson vs. Shelly, from Alabama, and instructed tlie clerk to notify Mr. Haralson that they will report Thursday to the full Committee, dismissing bis appeal unless cause is shown in tlie meantime why such action should not be taken. The case of Bisbee vs. Hull, from Florida, will be considered on Wednesday. Boston, Januaix'26.—The Heralds Augusta special says tlie Fusion Senate met to-day with only seven members and took recess at 4 p. m. It is now thought that after bearing what the Supreme Court lias to say to the Fusion statement and question, Governor Davis will issue his proclamation calling on the Fusion government to disperse and will enforce it by arrests. It is thought Wednesday will be tlie last day of tbe dual govern ment. : New York, January 20.—A fire broke out this morning in the extensive shoe shop connected with the Kings county penitentiary, at Flatbush, Long Isiand. There were 425 prisoners and 360 outside hands in the building at the time, hut by cool and careful management all were gotten out safely. The building was en tirely destroyed. The Bay State Shoe Company had $250,000 worth of machin ery and stock in the building, which is al most a total loss. The building itself cost one hundred thousand dollars ten years ago. . ’ New York, January 26.—A Quebec special says since the recent heavy snow storm, dangerous avalanches have been falling at intervals from the cliffs beneath the citadel into the city. In one case three children were overwhelmed by a mass of falling snow but were dug out alive. The houses for a distance of two miles along one street are threatened with dauger of being. swept away, and the greatest consternation prevails among their inmates. New York, January 26.—An Omaha special says the telephone was successful ly worked on Sunday from St. Louis to the Union Pacific Transfer, .on the cast side of the Missouri river, a distance of four hundred and ten miles. Ordinary conversation was carried unwitli the ut most ease. This is said to he the longest distance over which the telephone has ever been successfully operated. Bangor, Me., January 26.—The cMef justice has summoned the judges of the Supreme Court to assemble here this eve ning to determine whether any and what action shall be taken upon the questions submitted by the Fusionists. As the court has twice gone over tlie whole ground of the controversy the session will probably be brief. 4 * New Haven, January 26.—Rev. Mr. Hayden was admitted to bail to-day in the sum of $5,000 and released. Washington, January 26.—Before tbe exodus committee to-day, Warren Fear ing, clerk in one of the executive depart ments and secretary of tlie Emigrant Aid Society, testified to receiving letters from relatives in North Carolina reporting that colored men there are poorly paid for la bor and are discontented. He had read letters in an Indiana paper from negroes, saying they were delighted with their new homes there. Charles N. Utay, (slightly colored), ed itor of the WasMngton Argus, a paper da- voted to the interests of the colored race, and principal of Howard University School, testified that he is a native of North Carolina and graduate of Oberlin college and of Howard University, visits North Carolina every year, and has care fully studied the condition of her people. lie was one of the founders of the Emi grant Aid Society, and drew np its consti tution. Its object was to aid the :colorcd people fleeing from the oppression, such as those who were then accumulated at St. Lords, hound for Kansas. At one of the first.,meetings, however, a Mr. Menden- shali.'spoke, suggesting the advisability of. diverting the emigrants from Kansas and sending about five thousand into In diana, as that was a doubtful State in tlie coming election. No one but Otay ob jected at that time. “I felt,” he says, “that wo bad been used Ion" enough as tools. Tbe fidelity of the colored people to the Republican party bad been rewarded by the with drawal of its protection from outrage. Therefore he opposed longer tbe use o his people by-any political party, and when he saw the exodus was to be used politically, he withdrew from the society. Others, though holding the same viows, remained in it. He wanted emigrants to go to Kansas, where they were invited, and could get homesteads. ‘By answers from prominent North Carolina colored liiento whom lie hud written, he learned a halMurrog the rest of they Par. Some were promised suits of clothes. These men registered the names of those con senting to go, charging them from twenty- five cents to tliree dollars each. Tlie first emigrants being few in number, were Well received and immediately employed. These wrote back to their friends advising them . to come, and hence, sajd the wit ness, it is easy to understand the great ex odus from North Carolina. Witness gave a favorable account of tlie actual condition of the colored people in North Carolina, and said tRe exodus therefrom wag uncalled fonanCvdisaster- ousto the. emigrants. The Committee adjourned until Friday. i-%. " “ . Washington,January 26.—A$111 'was introduced in the Hbuse' tb^day by Mr. Springer, to amend the United States election laws. It provides, timf super visors of an election, where called for by the citizens, shall be appointed hy^he cir cuit courts, upon the ,-recpnuy*f Congressional candidates of -"the cipal. parties,* Mid that sj marshals shall be similarly recommendation of the caudidates three principal parties. - It repeals laws authorising United .States oi, - arrest without warranty persons’ for viola ting any United States: elect ion .'law, and prohibits interference by the supervtedfc or marshals with judges or lnSpectoiY of elections. . Washington, January iff.—Frank Hs Miller of Augusta, Georgia, wa» admitted to practice in the United States 1 Supreme Court to-dav, on . motion. „of Hon.' & H. Hill. ... The following decisions were rendered in Southern cases: E. J. and Mary B. Phelps vs J. A. C. Scliradcr cl al., from the Southern Dis trict of Mississippi. Judgment affirmed with costs. E. T. & J. M.. Worthington, administra tors, vs. Martha W. Mason, from the Eas* tern District of Arkansas. Judgment.of- fao*d,,.... ' if . - '' The Bank of America ys»-M3rjdjStf7sl»a- A. D. Banlavfroiir the Southern hi rict of Mississippi. Judgment affirmed. - ’ V Counsel to-day began the reirgupier.t of the case of the State of South Caroima, ex ret., Douglas' & Jackson vs- Peter Ct Gallliard.»>auty trcastmnv^ "T r The House Committee on Way3 nfid Means will to-morrow begin hearing upoh the sugar question. Puh-adelthia, January 26.—Collec tor of Internal Revenue Ashworth, acting under instructions from Washington, to day seized the property of the Philadel phia and Reading railroad' in this city'to satisfy claims of the government amount*' ingin the aggregate to a half million o^ dollars. These claims' are : for unpaid taxes upon the notes of the company paid: out to its employes and circulated as scrip,' which, under the'government’s construc tion of the law, arc liable to taxation. Columbia, S. C., Janury 26 The Su preme Court has decided the, tax levy act passed by the last Legislature . to be in valid; and refused the Attorney General’s petition for a mandamus to compel tho Comptroller General ,to proceed with, the collection, of . the tax. ' There will- be an extra session of the ‘Legislature in Feb-' ■ i ->f- .. i. prevails in Adrianople. Fifteen persons * that three men, Perry, Williams and Tay- were found d?ad from hunger in one day. : lor had gone among tin: nm.-t ignorant ne- M. Fousiner, a high functionary of {lie ■ groes and told them the government want- war ministry of France for tweuty'rftve ed them.'to go to'Indiana alidyvould give years, on being summoned to produce iLj . them a dollar and a half daily, during the accounts, blew out bis brains. winter and two dollars to’two dollars and AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT: EDITED BY General Wm. M. BROWNE, ProfdSsor of History and Agriculture in the University of Georgia. The Compost Heap. There is nothing more worthy of the farmer’s careful attention at this time than, the compost heap. By the proper and timely use of the materials which he possesses upon his farm—cotton seed and lot manure—and by the purchase from tlie manufactrfer of other ingredients which are n<5F’ , dbstly, he can make Upon his own place a pile of manure containing all 'the elements of plant food. It is well known that the moat expensive ingredient of all bbugbt fertilizers is ammonia. This is furnished in abundance in our cotton seed. JEveiy bale of cotton'that we make fil'rliishes seed enough to yield eighty PqundsOCthis valuable constituent of rua- nure, besides a small amount of potash and phosphoric acid.' If we'would com post this seed ricfw ia the proportion say oCfoO pourids’coiton setd, 750 pounds ma- nure and. 500 .-pournjs acid phosphate, we 1,-have a^- cqrn planting time a tqn of first-class inanure at a veiy small outlay. Nothing indeed but the cost of the acid phosphate (about 14c per pound) and of the labor of mixing. The sooner tbe com pound Is,made tbe better it will be. The process is simple and rapid. First make a layer of cotton seed from six to eight inches thick, then a layer.of stable ma nure, then sprinkle the acid phos phate, then another layer of cotton ^seed, and so on, until-the pile is complete, when the whole should either be covered with a thick layer of earth or a copious sprinkling of gypsum, to retain the arnmo- The cotton seed contains phosphoric acid, but hot iu snffioant quantity. The deficiency is supplied by the addition of the acid phosphate. The per centage of available. phosphoric acid in the-acid phosphates of commerce varies. Tne' greater the percentage, of course the more valuable. Tliat prepared at the Georgia Chemical Wojrks, of Augusta, by recent analysis, was fouiiji to contain 13.70 of available phosphoric add. •• •’ Some farmers,'.to save; trouble and time, mix the cottou seed and the acifi phosphate in the soil, believing ruary. - f . Dublin, January 26 -Messrs. Daritt and Brennan, indicted for sedition; en tered their appearance in the Court of the Queen’s Bench to-day. It ig now thought that the government intends to proceed in the prosecution of all the sedi tion cases. New Orleans, January 26. — The steamer Charmer, with 2,100 bales of cotton, has been totally destroyed by fire fifteen miles above tlie mouth oi Red riv er. Eight lives were lost—two chamber maids, two cooks, two cabin boys, one fireman and one deck hand. Tbe boat was valued at $130,000. No further par ticulars are at hand. Washington, January 20.—The nottse committee on public lands heard argu ments this morniu" on Representative Conner’s bills for’ the establishment of titles in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Two more arguments are to bo made to-morrow, after which the committee will probably report the bill with some amendments. Havana, January '- 20.—Repeated shocks of an earthquake have occurred during the past week in the Vuelto Abajo district and have been particularly heavy at San Christobal. The public buildings of the latter place are in ruins and seven teen members of the civil guard have been Injured by falling walls. The insurgent chiefs Carilio andSerafin Sanchez have been defeated in Circo Villas district with the loss of four killed and number wounded. Among the latter is Lieutenant Colonel Vidal Fich. Augusta, Me., January 26.—Both Houses of the Fusion Legislature reas sembled at four o’clock, but adjourned until to-morrow without transacting any business. The Fusionists are in better spirits to-day. Tho most, of their men have returned and will remain until an answer -is received from the Supreme : Court. Augusta, Me., January 20—Both branches of tlie'cegittaf Legislature to-day passed resolutlonsproviding for a Consti tutional amendment for electing the Gov ernor by a plurality instead of a majority vote. The Senate appointed a committee on the investigation of the enlistment and enrollment of men, and on the loss of the State seal. A Suggestion to tlie teen. this' mode'r.as iic jefSajrtWj more troublesome .*nd - slower mode of composting. My opinion is that' this is a mistake, and fir this reason. If the mixture be maderin the soil, owing to the freer access of oxygen, slow decay is more likely to take place than putreiaction, and a consequent loss of nitrogen. But in tlie compost heap the cotton seed from mois- sore sprout, aiid-the young plants, from, contact with the acid and from the lieaC and from wgpt of oxygen and light, die, and then become subject to putrefaction: The nitrogen uniting with tlie hydrogen ~ rms ammonia, which is seized by tbe i^ktorie 'retained. Trie -Writai: bas made personal-, --f dils-matter apd has become satfefled that the compost heap, made above ground, in the manner indicated, six-weeks .or two months before using, is much more effect ive than mixing the green cotton seed and the acid phosphate in the soil. ' •' 1 ■ Staeoa Tolnn- Editors Telegraph and Messenger:— While tho Volunteers are .holding their fair, it seems to me that a suggestion would not he inappropriate, directing the mind of the company to the establishment of a permanent fund for the corps. What they need is a building of their owu, where they can meet and. drill, and enter tain and perform all the other offices which, to a corps of noble soldiery, most rightfully belong, I am iniormed that military organiza tions in other cities have armories belong ing to them, and in order to recqive a permanent support from their investment, they have had stores or markets constme- ted'on the lower stories^ and by the. rents received from these, they have a good In come to support their companies. If this Company of Volunteers will start in their Fair a subscription list for sums to be given to the execution of such a purpose, Ldo not doubt.that tjiey .will be surprised at the amount which will lie accredited. Let' them but start with enough tefbuy a lot, sav $2,000 or $3,000, and the Test can. he* borrowed on easy terms. After consultation with gentle men' skilled In such matters, I am free to say that $10,000 would cover the total cost, of such an establishment. Not only this, but I will say further that I have learnei. that the overplus needed can be obtained on loan for a very low rate of interest, the fact being that the credit of the Macon Volunteers is quoted in market as the very best security the times afford. There are many gentlemen here who^ will contribute handsomely to this laudable, permanent enterprise. They would give ten times the amount for such an object and realization, that they would now give for temporary tibcs. Ever}’ oracle must have its temple; why should-not the Volunteers hefe a local habitation and a name ? Honorary. Member. January 26,1880. , u m i — Volume LY- -NO 5 The Modern Negro Trade. THE RAILROAD COMBINATION. The “horrors of the middle passage,” v Wo . . over which the world has been eloquent for many years, and the domestic trade m ~ . . _ , . “flesh and blood” have given place,at last, Messre ; Standrfora and New comb, af to a new and improved speculation in thd ter completing thefr^.tic hew York negro as freight. The ambition to secure of tL ® St : ^ uls ’ ‘ heavy returns from a negro passenger Chattefiooga Road/ haye |d lengU, re- traffic was alleged to be a prime incentive “ ^ l, - T ‘^svdie. to the negro emigration from Mississippi A Couner-Jouma: reporterriort no tune and Louisiana to Kansas last spring, and m f Dr ; paid, railway agents were h4 in 7!f l ?° fatigued to talk bq^he those States securing passengers at certain ^ im-nnf inn ‘ , President Newcomb 4r-: ° A ] - . ' lf ij* _ v J . Reporter—How about the report that According to.testimony before the Sejn- the Goiihl'syndicate controls the Louis- ate committee on the emigration from ville and Nashville Road? North Carolina to Indiana, the same - Mb. Newcomb—There is no. truth state of facts exists in North Carolina. 1 w ^»J- ev er in it. ‘ . , ! Reporter—You have . heard the- ab- Agents of the Baltimore and Ohio road surd ralnor a fo ut t h e Pennsyfrania Rail- were. very active in securing this travel, road leasing the Louisville andN&sh- They canvassed the field themselves and ville? * . ., secured active • ami influential colored U - not tie . ■at Idea that it will be done. agents to fanj tho flames and secure pas sengers, paying tlie latter one dollar per head for emigrants secured. ' " * •• Flaming hand bills'were also circulated promising the negroes plenty of work in Indiana at $1.50 per day and fine suits] o new clothes gratis at the end of the joilr- ney, BEPonTER—Is there any possibility that the lease/if the Central Georgia rail road will be consummated? Mr. Newcomb—YVe requested Colonel Cole to hold this and all such matters iu abeyance until we bad a conference with' him, not being sufficiently advised to reach a definite conclusion. Reporter—Will the great coup detat- be 'sb injurious to Nashville as the press One of. these agents, a witness beft re j of that city represents ? Is there any the Senate Committee, proved himsiilf ground for their unreasonable fear? a “fellow of infinite jest.” He show- MB.NEWCOMB-Nonewhatever. Nash- edlthat the traffic was a double-ender. It ^ ^i-gely benefited. .Of course T: . “ , ... it is to the interest of the Louisville and sailed both ways, and cut both ways like Nashville to build up every town on its a douhle-eflged razor. For, while promo- route. Nashville will have even greater ting the flight from the old North State advantages than she has heretofore en- . - - „! joyed. The Louisville and Nashville has with all his powers, he was fully conli- g one muc ji to aid and build up Nashville, THE FENCE QUESTION, ri j It has been estimated by competent persons that the first cost of the fences of the United States amounts to thirteen, hundred millions of dollars, ($1,300,000,- 000,) which,-as they need renewing once in every teiiyears, makes the annual cost $130,000,000. Add to this immense sum the annual cost of repairs,' and we find that the fanners of the United States pay an-annual tax of at least $175,000,000 to protect their crops against injury from stoidc. It is wonderful that the agricultural community have submitted so patiently all this time to so grievously burdensome ‘a tax, for wliicb, as it seems to us, no val id excuse, founded in reason, justice or necessity, can be. offered. Practically, the existing fence laws re quire the crop-raisers to keep up thousands of miles of “lawful fence” at an annual cost of fully one dollar for every acre of cultivated land, to protect themselves against the depredations of a few cattle and hogs, the aggregate value of which, in our country,does not amount to a tenth of the expense of one year’s repair of the fences. , . • . Let us see how this works. Fanner A raises cotton, com, wheat, oats, rye, po tatoes, etc. With two or three hundred yards of good fence, he 'encloses his cattle and protects his crops against them. 1 Farmer B, on the adjoiningplace, raises! stock. His farm is as large as that of. Farmer^; but all his land, with the ex ception of a few .-patches, is ope,n r while: all Farmer A’s land is enclosed. A’s; crops, which cannot possibly cross the: boundary line of his land, which can do; no injury whatever to B’s stock, which have no horns, snouts or hoofs, must by law be closely confined by a fence “five feet high, with or without bding staked and ridered, and from the ground to the height of tliree feet the rails shall not be more'than four inches apart,’.’while B’s voracious steers, hooking cows, rooting hogs and hungry mules, which will and do stray beyond the limits of his fkrm, seeking what they may devour, are free to roam at large, without B being required to build or keep a single panel of fence. A is taxed thou sands oti dollars for his harmless crops, while B need not pay one cent for his mis- chevious stock. If A’s fence be four feet seven add a half indies high, or if to the height of tlil-ee feet the rails are four anil a half indies apart, and B’s steers, cowp, hogs and mules destroy all A’s crop., the Jaw says tliat B “ shall not be liable to an swer” to A “for the trespass,” and if A “ shall kill or injure” afrV of B’s stock “jn any manuer, he shall-'* be liable in three times tbe damage.” •;■ ..... [ Whenevenany conflict arises between A’s com or wheat, and B’s 'stock, the corn' or wheat is treated as the trespasser,:if A’s fence lacks half an inch ’ of the meas urement anil arrangement; prescribed by tbe&ncelaw. .>>..-.1' i Now, in those sections of the State where crop raisers are in the -majority, and stock raisers are the minority,quils law Is obviously unjust and oppressive. The question is, shall. the crops or. the stock be restrained ? Shall all the culti vated and productive land be regarded as a common, unless it is enclosed by a “law ful fence,” or shall stock owners be com pelled to enclose their cattle, and be held responsible for whatever injury they do? .' ; v It would certainly seem to be more just to require B to enclose - his stock, which he can do at the cost of a few dollars, than to require A, at a cost of a thousand dollars, to keep his crops out of the way of B’s steers, cows, hogs and mules. There are parts of Georgia where the cultivated lands are small compared with that used for grazing purposes. It would be unjust to insist there that stock should be fenced fair But, in strictly agricultural sections, _the [ present ‘ftmee law” 1» a grievous fence tax which‘caunot be justi fied. An extensive fanner, a jorge pro- diw*iMarge tax-pfQferk obliged, bjrthl* Healthy milk cows arc profitable. They law, to expcudjtiiougauds of dollars antrn- eat less and yield more milk than poor, ally M> pro;ectjus crops perhaps against unhealthy cattle. They can be kept u*. tteidepredatiqu of the bogs ofan African good condition by using Jfcutz’s Horse ' * ' ~ liwwin dent tliat he was securing every emigrant for a return trip, as soon' as the poor fellow had discovered ‘the deception prac? ticed in— J -■‘pwv; roar TEW iie- groes would resist the seduction of a rail-, way trip, and was equally sure when, he got to Indiana and found no work and ev erything covered with snow and ice, he would be far more : anxious to get back than he was to go. He had secured at Aie time of giving his testimony, some Y63 tickets. ' . ].-• There was another witness, a pompons Emigrant Aid Society man from Wash ington, employed, as' he said, by United States Marshal Dudley, of Indiana, who had operated extensively. • The circulars and handbills distributed were printed at Green Castle, Indiana, and the * efficient agents in North Carolina were Perry and Williams, whose career was out short^ou account of an indictment for forging school certificates, so. that they w ere- oblige? to some of -their cmi- , The* Indiana Republican brethren pro test vehemently that, there is no party nigger in this wood pile, and so iar as the evidence lias gone, it suggests little else than filthy mammon, very filthy mam mon.' For, according to the Nashville American, the projectors of this emigra tion are able to put a dead negro to al most as profitable account as a living one. The American of Sunday says: : This shipment of bodies of colored per sons from Kansas and Indiana to medical colleges is about to break up the home bu siness of native resurrectionists. The price, tbo,' has fallen from fifty to twenty- five dollars: The medical: colleges can get all they want now from tht new source of supply at reduced rates. And here is another picturesque item from the same paper: One of our young medical students was shocked the other evening to recognize an old family seivant at the dissecting table. The old man had gone to Kansas alive, and returned in a barrel. . So it seems that whether dead or alive the poor negro emigrant will be used to profit. They skin him financially in the Savings Bank, speculate on his devious passage through life, and finally use him to profit as bones and soap-grease. It is impossible to say with certainty that the trade in negroes lias materially improved since tlte horrors of the middle passage. and Cattle Powders spring. dim: and it always has been and will continue to be tiie policyof the road t&fiBHffirfig ?Jaco&!r I lfy our system. Reporter—Is ira fect that theiouis- ville and Nashville has secured possession of the Illinois division of the St. Louis and' Southern? : Mb/ Newcomb—Certainly; that divis ion is included in the system of tbe Nash ville ami Chattanooga, and is at present operated by that road under lease Until the bondholders can make a satisfactory -• • BEPORTSHrrlt.is said that the Louis-' vijle .and Nashville will run. a line of steamers between-Pensacola and Havana. Isittrue? -j -;V ' Mb. Newcomb—Yes, either with Pen sacola or with Mol lie. The contract has been signed and this may be regarded as au established fact, Reporter—How soon will the line bn In operation? . ‘Mu. Newcomb—Steamers have already been built. We hope to make the {rip no later than the 15th of March. A fast train will leave New York City at four o’clock Wrery-Saturday afternoon, placing passen gers and mail on board the Reamers in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday. We hope; t* make the trip from New York to Ha vana in tliree days and a half, thus avoid ing a long sea voyage by way of New York, which usually takes five days. This also was published on the 24th in stant. On the same day “H. W. G.” dis patches to the Constitution as follows: THE LEASE OF THE GEOBGIA CENTRAL, The first point is that the lease ' of the Central road of Georgia will not be con firmed.. This, I think may be taken as an accepted fact. It will be remembered that when in Atlanta, Mr. DeFuniak ex pressed surprise at tlie suggestion that it was desirable to have a line from Atlanta to the sea.- He bad little opinion of the idea of through trade—of imports and ex ports—thought it more important to build up the trade of the country through which the road went, than to look across the seas. He said to me tliis evening: “ I had rather have the trade of Atlanta alone than $11 the export and import trade such a line would do.” And thus he held if such a trade was built up, there would be no trouble with three roads reach ing three ports from ; Atlanta, in getting the freights sent seaward from the Gate City at as low rates as if the oompany owned its own liue to salt water. This view, it appears, the compa ny shares fully with Mr. DeFuniak, and there is no chance of the Central lease be ing confirmed. Two or more roads com peting at Atlanta for their freight is all that the Louisville and Nashville people want. They have this already. Why then make an alliance that may prove burdensome? Besides all this, tbe lease of the Central was made by Colonel Cole only because.fte controlled tbe Western and Atlantic railroad. But tbe Louisville and Nasville people do not control it. To lease the Central without the concurrence of this commanding road would be insan ity. The hope that the lease of the Cen tral will be confirmed may, therefore, be pat aside. *n • r Here are two opinions on the subject of the confirmation of the Central Railroad ‘‘contract,” which keep up the perpetual see saw which has been going on for the past ten days. Nothing anthoritive can be stated concerning the matter, but the outlook appears to be rather discouraging to the Cole-Brown-Wadley combination. Everything is at sea also concerning the building of-the Western railroad con nection from Atlanta to Delator, Ala bama, .though “H. W. G.” says Mr. De Fuuiak informs him that the survey will be continued with a view to getting esti mates as to tbe cost of the road to Gads den or Guntersville. Nothing new has transpired concerning the operations of the lessees of the Macon an<LBrunswick Railroad. Indeed there seems tube a temporary lull in railroad circles. r<v An Earthquake. Cuba celebrated the visit of General Grant with a genuine earthquake, the first ever experienced in the West India Islands. . Havana dipatches of January 23d an nounce several severe earthquake shocks during tbe previous night, and up to lour o’clock in the morning. The duration of the shocks was about three seconds. Ac counts from Vueia Abajo state that an Last Week’s Cotton Figures, The New York Chronicle reports the cotton, receipts of the seven days ending; last Friday, night at 108,280 bales, against 148,648'for the corresponding week of last ypar. Total since 1st of last September; 3,014,110, against 3,102,643 for the corres ponding period of the previous cotton year—showing an increase of : 511,467' bales. v " r " j The lhtorior cotton port business of the same days was as follows: Receipts 77,- 880, against 64,000 forthe same week of last year.' Shipments 72,198, against 78,- 660 "last year;' Stocks 358,074, against 218,585 at same date last year. The Chronicles visible supply table showed last Friday 2,429,928 bales of coli ton In sight, against 2,284,032 bales at same date last • year—2,572,213 bales a|t same date in 1878, and 2,853,980 at same date in 1877. These figures show an in crease oft the visible supply of last year of 145,896'bailed dmd a decrease- of 142,285 baies on tlie-supply of 1878, and 424,022 bales on the visible supply of1877 at same dates. i*»l -to . Middling upland ruled at seven pence in LlverpooHlast Friday.. It was'.quoted at 5’ 5-16 the previous year at same date; In IffTS at that date the quotation was 0$, and 1877 at same date the quotation was 615-13. - -v, . The Chronicle's weather telegrams of last' Friday report continued drought in Texas and warm; weather. Orange and other-fruit trees-were blossoming in tie region of Gabrffitou. At alt points in the State it is too dry for the'plow, and young wheat is suffering. There have been fight rains in Louisiana and in Mississippi with veiy;warm weather. Also in Ten- earthquake was felt severely there, and nessee/- At Memphis cotton is coming in : much damage was done to buildings, es- with remarkable freedom. Heavier rains ; pecially at San Cristobal. The shocks are noted in. Alabama. At Mobile 1.16, were oscillating from east to west. It is during the week. At Montgomery0.87. 'supposed that there has been a heavy Florida reports one day’s rain, and says j earthquake somewhere in Central Ameri- iabor prices are about the same as last ca. At Sandiego de Cuba no disturbance year. In Georgia, Macon had rain on two ' was felt. n who <loq* not. contribute one cent winter and- ' to tbe taxable wealth of the State, and who tries to evade Lis poll-tax, days and Columbus one, with a fall ot 0.45. Savannah had only 0.10. Augusta had 0.54, and Charleston 0.04. The Chronicle's table of receipts from plantations shows 3,964,833 sinoe the first day of last September, against 3,315,876 in the same period of the last cotton year, and 3,184,086 in the same period of the cotton year 1877-78. These figures show 1 T he ’* no , 3 , t reliabl# destroying •itntiraaoofatv^mb.iM „ P i«- tation receipts of last year, and 780,7*7 on cents a bottle. Try it. Every bottle the previous cotton year. guaranteed to give satisfaction. The nation will bs glad to learn that not even an earthquake was able to disturb the ! equanimity or night’s rest of the third term aspirant for Presidential anri perhaps im perial honors. In Havana the ex-Ameri can President has been received at the palace like a veritable sprig of royalty. —The venerable Bishop Patne, of the .M. E. Church South, is reported as very feeble and suffering intensely. —Now mind tbe old political adage, gen tlemen! “As goes Maine, so goes the Un ion,” says the Chicago Tribune. Just so. They both go to unscrupulously partisan Supreme Courts. - —The Desdsmotui in a Springfield per formance of “Otbeilo” coolly rose on one elbow, turned over her pillow, thumped It two or three times, turned under one cor- ndP, and composed herself to die comfor- ubiy. ;7: ; ■■■ —Cold Weather in Ireland.— London, January 23 —The distress in Ireland is intensifying under the influence of a hard frost and biting cold, which, during the last four days, has succeeded the mild weather, which prevailed rince Christmas.' , ' r " * —Warring on Dr. Talmage.—New York, January 23;—The complaint of twenty-two Presbyters, who dissented from the decision of the Presbytery in re fusing an investigation to Rev. Dr. Van Dyke, Dr. Walls and others in regard to the allegation of moral rottenness as charged by Rev. Dr. Talmage, has been completed, signed by complainants and sent to tbe Moderator. •From statistics just published it ap pears that there ape about 75,000 houses to - ' Paris, exclusive of public buildings. Their total value is estimated at twenty-three milUons sterling. The superficies of the capital is put down at 20,000 acres. There are 600,060 yards of sewers. The popula tion numbers 1,000,000, or 100 int, ; —A Gigantic Enterprise.—Work ou the NorthlRiver tunnel,' YeW Yoric, is be ing pushed vigorously, and some progress is made towards tlie bed of the river. The engineer says ' he is prepared to expend $10,000,000 on the work, and while many opinions exist as to the policy adopted by him’of working with compressed air, yet - there is.a general opinion that the enter prise will be a success. —A showman from the United- States purchased a circus that was bn a tour in Mexico, and'substituted the stars and k stripes for the Mexican flag that had been flying from the-tent pole. This was in Chihuahua, where the hatred of this * country is intense. * A’ mob undertook : to haul down the new flag, but the mana ger and his perform*#* drove them off. That night a regiment of local soldiery demolished the whole show, and the com pany were compelled to fly fdr their lives. ! —Some peasants of Gaza while rum-: : ifaai&tfig'in a sandhlll at Tell el Ajoul dis covered lying on Its back a splendid mar ble Statue of Jupiter. They sold it to a : merchant for a trifle, but the Turkish Governor repaid him the money, took pos session of the hill, and is trying to sell the * stattie, for which the Prussian Consul has made a hid. it is not yet wholly unearth- J ed, but M. de Reinach pronounces it to be of tlie best Alexandrian age, the face and hair being admirably chiseled, and it may, perhaps, be a copy of Phidias’s Jupi- pwlMfUiP!" . —A Big Public Tabk.—The House of Representatives committee , on pubHc lands have agreed to report favorably the passage of the bill introduced by Mr. Converse, authorizing the President to se lect from the public laud of the United States in the State of. California the tracts of land which are growing either thf “Red wood” or “Big Trees,” or both of said timbers, as he may deem proper, not ex ceeding in the aggregate two townships of land, to be' set apart and dedicated as public parks for the benefit and enjoyment of the people; said parks .to be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior. —OrrosiTiox ~o Grant in Ohio.— Tbe Cincinnati Gaielle bas been sending emissaries around tbe State of Ohio rak ing up facts to tell against tbe boom. It has bad a thousand old reliable Republi cans interviewed, and presents tids horrid array of their preferences: Sherman 570 Bristow 5 Blaine. . ... . .220 Dennison. .... 1 Grant 128 Stanley. ..... 1 Washbmn. Edmunds. . . 4 Garfield. . .;19 Nominee. . ... 24 flajtim, ..J. ,.. 24. , - * Tlie Gazette goes further. It uses thta insulting language: j" ' ./- ***'■ “Many sound Republicans declare their determination to liolt tbe ticket if Grant should be nominated!” 1 “Count Me 6ut.”—The New Yjftk Herald publishes several letters purport ing to have .beeii read at a banquet of jurymen at Delmonico's, in that city, Wednesday evening. The letter a* tribntod to Hon. S. J. Tilden, whether genuine or not is too goo good to be lost. It Is as fol- kpSi' : yST 1 0i “If I only knew how to get there with out Incurring any danger or committing myself to iny policy, even bf assuruaae, I would go to your dinner. I am more fa miliar with a campaign than champagne. I also prefer a Duke to a Count. So count me out.” *ul To 8L.I Hon. Willllam M-. Evarts wrote a funny letter, in which he expressed the opinion that the jurymen “would find the pan- dects of Justinian infinitely poorer than the stewpandecta of Delmonicb.” —Earthquake at Havana.—Ha vana, January 23.—Severe shocks of earthquake were felt In this dty last night at 11 o’clock, and again at 5:30 tiffs'morn ing. Earthquakes had never belbre been experienced here, and many persons were frightened and passed the night In tbe pub lic squares. No person was injured, and there was no damage to property. Tho duration of the shocks was about • three seconds. The barometer was very low at 6 last evening. To-day at noon the baront- eter registered 30, and tbe thermometer 70. Accounts from Vaelta Abajo indicate that the earthquake was severely felt there, and much damage was dono to buildings, especially at San CriktobaLj The shocks were oscillating from East to i West. It is supposed thkt there has i ’ heavy earthquake' soinqwS America. At Santiagode tjahance was foil. j ‘-It K.5tited tlVa?f J Dr. J.'&M'eFcntJiji Metfad vhcrqin la Cub* -jfr’jflr ^