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(fitltppjj nub JESfssmgtr MACON’, FEBRUARY 10 -880. % —The Kentucky Republican State Con vention, to appoint delegates to the Na tional Republican Convention, will be held in Louisville, April 14th. —The revenue from Yew York canals in 1S79 was $C7,39S less than 1SC8. This is ascribed to the late opening last spring. This year ought to compensate. —In front of some furnished apart ments in Paris are the words: “English taken in here,” and a notice inashop win dow runs, “ English spiked within.” —Rome, Georgia, according to the Chat tanooga Times, will this year handle 85,000 bales of cotton. This will require the circulation during the buying seasons of $5,570,000, on which Rome eught to realize at least $40,000 clear profit. Suicide with a Cannon.—Charles Decker, a prominent merchant of New ark, N. J., committed suicide by blowing his brains out with a cannon, constructed from a large hollow piece of iron, which he filled with iron slugs, placed under his chair and fired off. Tilden’s Wedding.—Tilden’s secre tary telegraphing a denial of the soft im peachment of his pending marriage to Miss Ranek, of Lewisburg, says it is as true as nine-tenths of the statments about him, but in reality he has no knowledge of the personal existence of such a lady as Miss Ranek. —An attempt was recently made in of Dundee to ascertain where the bodies victims of the Tay bridge disaster were lying. A lady was taken out in a yacht and mesmerized. She pointed out a place where a body was lying deeply imbedded in the sand,and when grapnels were used, the collar of an overcoat was brought up. The clairvoyant afterwards declared that twenty bodies lay underneath the girders. —Young Stephen A. Douglas, son of the old man, announced himself as a Stal wart Republican and a Grant man at Mattoon, Illinois, last week. He says Grant is elected the force bill will be brought to bear upon the Southern people with terrible toughness, and yet he says “The people of the South want Grant The young Stephen has not the luminous brains of his departed father. —A subject often mooted in English so ciety is what will become of Baroness Burdett-Coutts’s fortune, which she can never leave just as she pleases. Her only brother, Sir Robert Burdett, is an eccen tric and economical old bachelor, with fortune in land of $150,000 a year, and probably as much more in money. Some of the family, however, are by no means rich. —The London Times publishes the fol lowing record from a Bishop’s work-book for 1679, with the remark that the work described is by no means exceptionally heavy: Sermons, 80; clergy ordained, 60 churches consecrated, 4; churchyards con secrated, 2; churches opened, 23; confir mations held, 63; candidates confirmed 7,211; speeches at public meetings, 46; in terviews, 474; letters received, 6,744; let ters answered with his own hand, 4,529. The Democratic National Com mittee.—Frederick D. Prince, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has sent notices to its members inviting them to meet at Willard’s hotel in Wash ington, on Monday the 23d instant, to se lect a place and time for the meeting of the Democratic National Convention. The latter part of June or first of July will probably be the time chosen for holding the Convention. Gold Excitement in Colorado.— A special telegram about the twenty thou sand dollar gold mine says there is great excitement in Denver over the new dis covery of gold near the mouth of the canon of the Platte, a mile from the South Park railroad and only twenty miles west of Denver. The vein of mineral was struck In the Dolly Varden at a depth of twenty feet. Last Friday a specimen was brought to Denver and an assay obtained Saturday, the assay giving the value of the ore at $21,199 per ton, $20,176 of it being gold, The Sultan has ten servants whose spe cial duty it Is to unfold the carpets for him when he is going to pray, ten to take care of his pipes and cigarettes, two to dress his royal hair and twenty to at tend to his most noble clean shirts. There are a multitude of other attendants about the palace; indeed, it^is stated that about eight hundred families and about four thousand persons live at His Majesty’s expense. He is an extravagant house keeper ; the annual expenditures of the palace are mentioned as nearly $14, 000,000. Prosecutions in Utah.—A new grand jury was unpansled last Monday, and is composed mostly of Mormons. Judge Hunter directed their attention especially to the law against bigamy, but as there is Do accessible record of bigamous mar riages, it is not probablo that this grand juiy Will be able to find any evidence. Thos. Heniger, a wealthy Mormon, aged about sixty, was arrested in Ogden, to-day, for bigamy, and will be taken to Salt Lake to-morrow for trial. He was indicted in November last, but had kept out of sight until now. London, February 8—An experimental test of the question as to the cause of the explosion of the thirty-eight ton turrett gun, on board the British iron-clad Thun derer, in the Sea of Marmora, January 2, 18S0, by which several officers and sea men were killed, was made to-day, at the proof butts in the Government marshes adjoining the royal arsenal at Woolwich. The theory was that the disaster resulted from the double loading of the gun, and according to this theory, a sister gun, which was brought home for the purpose of experiment, was to-day loaded and fired with a double charge of eighty and one hundred and ten pounds of pow der, one six hundred pound common shell and one seven hundred pound palliser projectile. The gun bnftt, as its fellow did on board the Thunderer, justifying the opinion of the committee of investiga tion as to the cause of the disaster. The muzzle of the projectiles were buried in the sand at the proof butts. The remain der of the gun, with the exception of the base, was blown into atoms. —Kossuth has made such arrangements for the publication of his memoirs as to rescue him from poverty and place him in affluence. Immunity to Isthmus Transit.—A Washington dispatch to the Herald makes the following statement concerning the THE GREAT IRON WHEEL A Collapse Imminent—The Great Iron Ring. The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser says that last snmmer, when the demand for iron became active, a ring of Eastern capitalists entered the market and bought laigely. In this way the product of scores of furnaces was taken on specula tive account, and instead of being promptly consumed by the trade, as was supposed, this iron is now stored at favorable points for distribution. This demand, in addi tion to the increased inquiry from legiti mate sources, had the natural effect of ad vancing the price of pig. As has been frequently pointed out in these columns the rates have already been advanced over a'hundred per cent. High prices in this country caused dealers to look else where, and the British iron trade once more became active in consequence of large orders from this side. This condition of affairs, the Advertiser proceeds to say, is very unfortunate, as the market will soon be overstocked from Europe, and a large reserve of iron still remains in the hands of the ring, which they cannot long hold; and all this while the regular product of American furnaces would be entirely ample to meet a health ful demand in this country. Possibly the new tariff movement in Congress to come to the relief of this “distressed infant manufacturewith a hundred per cent, advance in the duty on foreign steel rails, may help the patriotic ring to maintain their gobble; but the probabilities, as things stand, are that the speculation will burst, and will perhaps burst thousands of honest dealers in iron who are now buy. ing and holding on to stocks of iron goods under the delusion that prices will be maintained or even advanced. But as this period of hifaluting com menced with iron, so the collapse will be gin with iron—begin, we imagine, in the next four to six months, and the pressure run through the whole trade and merchan dise fabric, just as the ground swell begin ning with iron, slowly lifted up everythin; from a cambric needle to butter and cheese. At any rate, it is well to bear in mind the great possibility of such a result, and maintain a perfect readiness to stand from under and dodge when the bricks begin to tumble. Such ridiculous advan ces as, for example, from two to eight dollars per keg ou cut nails, are too silly and extortionate to be maintained. Trade is now pretty much where it was before the panic of 1873, ou a diminished curren cy—full crops and an impoverished peo ple. The wise man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself. Meanwhile, let Congress turn its back on the speculators who seek to use that body in the interests of robbery and ex tortion on the people. The capitalists hold the money and manipulate the cor ners, but the number of the swindled ex ceeds hugely the number of the swindlers. The victims can outvote these operatois ten to one, aud so soon as they get an in telligent idea of how they are operated upon, will be likely to do it. This gov ernment cannot be long carried on in the sole Interests of capital and speculation. It was once a government for the people, for the democracy, and it must become that again. The greatest good of the greatest number and the injury of none is its foundation principle. Warlike Preparations in Europe. The talk of the European press, the vaticinations of correspondents, the sud den strengthening of their militaiy arma ments by Russia, Austria and Germany, after so much discouse about a general disarmament—the actual movement of troops by Russia to her frontiers, and by Austria to strengthen her fortifications at certain points, are everywhere raising ap prehensions of another great military out break on the continent. To us, who look coolly across the wa ters, at the exhausted exchequers and strained credit of all these powers—par ticularly of Austria and Russia—at the oppressed and over-taxed condition of their people—at the mutterings of universal pop ular discontent which pervade them—it would seem that only one more war is need ed to push calamities beyond endurance and bring on a collapse—a revolt or other prostration. But when was war ever waged under the suggestions of prudence or reason? The spirit ot evil asserts it self always at the most inopportune times. With us the chief question of interest will be the effect of another grand mili tary convulsion in Europe on American trade and merchandise, and this must de pend on the ramifications of the struggle, should it begin. Whether England and France keep out of it, will France seize the opportunity of a collision between Germany and Russia to regain her lost territorial boundaries, and will England be held to the duty of restraining France from entering the struggle for that pur pose? These are some of the questions which suggest themselves in the prospect of another war. An Early Adjournment of Congreu not Probable. The National Legislature has mapped out such au immense amount of work for the present session, that even with the most assiduous industry, it would require twelve mouths to exhaustthe docket if they attempt to go through with it. The Senate has over twelve hundred bills to digest and pass upon, and the House four thousand. And still the num ber increases daily at a fearful rate. One-tenth of the above number of in choate statutes ought to suffice to govern the universe. But then, America is a big country, and every Solon wishes to “make his mark” by adding {one more to the pon derous laws of the Republic, whether it proves in practice a dead letter or not. Sensational Rumor. A report was circulated last night that the reputed lessees of the Macon and Brunswick railroad are now in Atlanta for the purpose of asking the Governor to place them in possession of the road for one-twelfth of the amount ($196,000) for which the lease was bid off on the 13th ultimo. We do not credit this statement, as it conflicts materially with other advices of more reliable nature, which are printed elsewhere. —Leo XIII. has put an end to the sto ries that hare so widely circulated in re ference to the Pope’s imprisonment in the Vatican. He has been repeatedly seen driving in the garb of a simple priest through the suburbs of Rome, and even through the “ Corso.” Not only has he not been molested in any way, but he has been Ihe recipient of unmistakable marks The Fruits of the Independent Seces sion. Our old friend Willingham, in his zeal for the new fangled independent doctrine which Parson Felton has* inaugurated in the Seventh District, seems to have drifted More of the Macon and Brunswiok Lease. It is said by a gentleman who alaims to be well posted, that the lessees of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad will not leave Atlanta until they have paid all the clean away from his old Democratic moor-.money called for by the late act, And ings. We have, a warm peigonal regard completed the purchase of the road from for the editor of the^ree Press, and re- ; the Governor. This will probably be gret most sincerely his persistent abuse of done forthwith. No serious modifica tions of the terms are to be asked, and the extension will be carried on in good faith Rumor has it that Colonel Geergc Hazle- hurst will be the President of the new or ganization, and Colonel A.'^. Lane, Gen eral Superintendent. Governor Colquitt has returned from Washington, and there is nothing now in the wav of a speedy settlement of the whole matter. We give these statements for what they are worth. the chivalric Gordon. But the sparring of the Senator and the Independent mem ber from the Seventh, which may have in duced this opposition, has nothing to do with the following unjust fling against our immediate Representative Colonel Blount, which we copy from the Free Press: THE SPAT BETWEEN COOK AND BLOUNT, Mr. Cook is a member of the committee on post-offices and post roads. Mr. Blount is acting chairman on the committee ot appropriations, and the people in Wash ington and In Georgia have been much in terested to see how pleased he is with himself and his position. Cook, as we see from the Record, brought in a bill making all the roads over which the mail travels, post roads. Mr. Blount fought it. Mr. Blount acquired some notoriety by getting Macon a free delivery system, aud he having made as much political capital out of it as the post-office would give him, was ready to fight the bill that helped the poor country people and thus show to Congress that he held the purse-strings by virtue of his accidental promotion to a leading place on the appropriation com mittee General Cook, gallant old soldier, was not to be silenced by a pop-gun, and he just charged right over the salient that Blount had planned. All the Georgiaus helped Cook, but Mr. Hammond, who voted with Blount. Cook carried the day in gallant style; and we are glad of it. That Colonel Blount and General Cook are in perfect rapport with each other, we have good reason to believe and know. That they should have differed upon a minor matter which did not involve prin ciple or party relations, but shows that they are both conscientious and true men. We venture the assertion that no power on earth could induce General Cook to wrong his worthy colleague, and we know that Colonel Blount is incapable of saying ot doing aught to the prejudice of the gallant Cook. So the effort of the Free Press to get up a “spat” between them will amount to nothin; Death of Colonel MaxwelL We learn from the Tallahassee Flori dian, that Colonel William McWhir Max well departed this life at Fernandina on the 31st ultimo, aged seventy-three years. His remains were taken by his sons, Cap tain D. E. Maxwell and Clarence Max well, to Tallahassee, and interred there, from the residence of his brother, Captain D. B. Maxwell. The writer, in his early youth, was a friend aud near neighbor of Colonel Max well, who, like Nimrod, was “a mighty hunter before the Lord.” Never have we seen a man more genial or hospitable. : Colonel Maxwell married the daughter of Colonel Joseph Law, of Liberty county, and in 1840 removed to Leon county,Flori da, and engaged in agricultural pursuits. The Floridian says the deceased, on the death of his father, Colonel John Maxwell, in 1855, became, as it were, the head of the family, which outstripped in number any other family of any name in this section, and was loved and revered, not only by his immediate relations, but by his neighbors and a wide circle of ac quaintances and friends. He was warm hearted and hospitable, kind to his depen dents and charitable in his disposition. He was elected to the State Legislature from Leon county in 1848, and served with acceptability and usefulness. After the war, in which many of his family served on the Confederate side, he moved to Fernandina and was subsequent ly appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court for Nassau county, which office he filled at the time of his death, and where he made friends who, with those in his im mediate section who had known him so long and well, will regret his death and sincerely sympathize with his surviving relatives. The deceased wa3 an elder brother of Col. George Troup Maxwell, who commanded a regiment of cavalry from Florida during the war, and i3 now a distinguished prac titioner of medicine in Newcastle, Dela ware, and a member of the Governor’s military staff. All who knew Colonel W. M. Maxwell loved and respected him. Peace to his ashes. The Reagan Bill. A petition is being widely circulated at the North, and will be sent to every Con gressional district in the United States, asking for the passage of the bill intro duced by Mr. Reagan, of Texas, for an inter-State railroad law, to prohibit un just discriminations in freights. The pe tition reads as follows: To the Senate and House of Represent atives, in Congress assembled: The under signed, citizens of the United States, most respectfully beg to direct the attention of your honorable bodies to the feeling of distrust aud alarm which prevails througl out our country at the rapidly growing power of railroad corporations, which is greatly intensified by their policy of con solidating, under the control of a few in dividuals, all of the principal competing roads from the Atlantic to the Pacific sea board, thus forming gigantic aud power ful organizations, possessing the ability to control absolutely the industrial and com mercial interests of our country and the value of its products. They exercise and abuse their power by discriminating un justly between individuals and localities, building up and destroying at will, and, to use the words of a United States Senate committee, “recognize no responsibility but to their stockholders and no principle of action but personal and corporate ag grandizement.” Realizing the urgent need of action by your honorable bodies, in whom the Supreme Court of the United States has decided all needed power is constitutionally vested, your petitioners most respectfully and earnestly ask for the early passage of the bill commonly known as the Reagan bill, for the regula tion of inter-State commerce, and to pro hibit unjust discriminations by common carriers; also, tbat such further and sup plemental legislation be enacted as will protect the constitutional rights of Amer ican citizens. relation of ti e French Government to the j of respect trom all the persons who have J^essejn Panama Scheme: 1 happened to recognize him. Inflated Prices—The Remedy. In one year, according to the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, the price of nails has gone up from $1.90 to $5.00 per hun dred pounds, and in Philadelphia pig iron has advanced 150 per cent. Even com mon cast scrap iron, which last year could hardly be given away, now commands $30 per ton. The rise in provisions and all manner of merchandise also, has been well nigh unprecedented. Comers and speculation have doubtless bad much to do with this, and it is possible that ere many months the tide will set very stron; ly in the opposite direction. Then woe to the luckless merchant who bought heav ily on credit at extravagant prices, and is forced tosell out even at a loss. It is just iu such flush times as these that prudent men hug the shore closely and stick as near as possible to the cash system. Our fanners, too, should snuff the dan ger In season, and plant largely in oats, highland rice, wheat, sugar cane, chufas, and everything that will feed man and beast. Then, if cotton keeps up, they will be masters of the situation. Other wise, the increased price of com, meat, iron and supplies of every kind,will more than eat up the margin gained on the ad vance in cotton. And again, who can guarantee immunity from caterpillar, gales, early and late frosts, and the other casualties to which the cotton plant is so liable ? But with full bams and thriving stock, the farmer is impregnable, even if he does not handle any great amount of cash. The fact is notorious that more homesteading was done, and the cases of bankruptcy were far more frequent when cotton ruled at twenty cents per pound,than when the price descended to eight cents. The cause of this was the neglect of pro vision crops, and the mania for cotton growing, owing to the inflated price. When the ignisfatuus of the cotton delu sion di appeared, however, and it was found that the cost of production almost equalled the value of the snowy fleece,the fanner, per force, began to diversify his crops, raised more provisions, put out fruit trees and vineyards, turned his attention to stock, and soon was enabled to be come comparatively independent. In the light of this experience, we can but hope, on the principle that a burnt child dreads fire, that our worthy fanners will still continue to make provision crops their main stay, so that the cotton prod uct can come in as an extra and untram meled money supply. Fennel tea is the simple remedy to quiet the baby, and this innocent ariicleis embodied in Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrap, which puts the baby to sleep without the evil use of opiates. Price 25 cents. Pennsylvania Declares for Grant The Republican Convention which met at Harrisburg on the 4th inst., under the manipulation of Cameron pronounced de cidedly for Grant in preference to Blaine. No other names were submitted to the Convention. From the Nashville Ameri can we copy a portion of the proceedings as follows: The following was then Introduced by Mr. Kerr: Resolved, that the delegates elected to the Republican National Convention from this State are hereby instructed to sup port for the Presidential nomination Gen eral U. S. Grant, and to vote as a unit on all questions that may come before the convention. Mr. Stone, of Crawford, oflered the fol lowing amendment: Resolved, that while we pledge our selves to support the Republican party, we see no good reason for abandoning the position taken by the party in our own and other States in 1876, of opposition to a third Presidential term, and we hereby indorse and reaffirm the resolution adopted by our State Convention, held in this city in 1876, upon this question. Senator Kerr argued in favor of the res olution, and traced the course of the Dem ocratic party as it appeared to the Repub licans. He thought General Grant was the proper and only man who should get the nomination,aud concluded his remarks with an appeal to all to support him. General Albright replied to Senator Kerr’s remarks. He believed General Grant was sincere in all his undertakings, and had done great service, both civil and military, but he did not think that he wa3 the only man who could lead the Republi can party to victory. He did not believe there was any danger to the country in a third term, but he believed that Wash- bume, Sherman or Blaine could carry the suffrage of the people. He did not believe in instructing the delegates to Chicago for any man. The resolution was further opposed by Mr. Koontz; Mr. Darlington, of Chester; Mr. Harvey, of Clinton, and Mr. Wolf, of Union, while Mr, Moreland., of Allegha ny, and Mr. Bingham, of Philadelphia, fa vored it. The speeches of the anti-Grant people were all from a Blaine point of view, and no other names beside Grant and Blaine were mentioned at all, except in tbe remarks’of General Albright. Mr. Stone, after arguing strongly in fa vor of his amendment to the resolution of instruction, finally withdrew it, and Mr. Strong, of Tigoa, offered another one, to wit: To strike out the uame U. S. Grant and insert that of James G. Blaine. On a vote by yeas and nays, Mr. Strong’s amendment was lost, 95 to 154. Several of the Blaine people voted against it, on the ground that it was not proper to instruct the delegation for anyone. The question then recurred on the orig inal resolution, or rather that part of it which instructed the Chicago delegates to vote for Grant. The yeas and nays were ordered, and showed a vote of 133 in fa vor of and 113 against that portion of the resolution. The second portion of the resolution instructing the delegation to vote as a unit, was then adopted by a vie a voce vote. From the above, it will be seen that Cameron succeeded virtually in capturing the Convention, albeit a strong minority was implacably opposed to Graut. This cannot be considered, however, as a very big boom for the third term candidate. Mr. Cameron, the chairman of the Republican Executive Committe is, par excellence, the champion and manager of the Grant interests. If he could do no better in tho State which proverbially sneezes when he takes snuff, the chances of his favorite are di minishing and growing “beautifully less.” All along it has been affirmed that ex- President Grant was no candidate, and could only be induced to run again by the almost unanimous verdict of his party. But on all sides we hear of the most outspoken opposition to his nomina tion in the Republican ranks, aud both Blaine and Sherman are developing con siderable strength. It is safe, therefore, to assert that if the candidacy of Grant is made to depend upon a united Republi can support in the Chicago convention, he will infallably be left out. Several States —Wisconsin among them—have already chosen delegates opposed to him. —Mr. Oliver Dalrymple, the great Min nesota farmer, intends to cultivate 30,000 acres of wheat this year. He will have twenty steam threshers in operation with one hundred and thirty-five reaping ma chines. Last year he employed six hun dred laborers, and this year will increase the number to seven hundred. An Indian maiden has been driven out by her tribe, in Oregon, because she mar ried a Chinaman. A San Francisco China man has lost the respect of his country men "by marrying a negro woman. A Vir ginia mob whipped a negro for marrying a white woman. Why the Ditty on Steel Rails-.Should A Colored Senator on the Colored How the Few are Getting Rich at he Reduced From $28 to $10 per Ton. T Mr. Poor, the able editor of the Ball way Manual, has made a speech be the congressional committee of Ways Race. B»li : moreSan. B. K. Bruce, (colored), United States Senator from Mississippi, delivered an ad dress last night at the Presbyterian colored church, Madison street, on the “Progress Means, which fairly bristles with salient^ml Future of the Colored Race in Ameri- facts, and shows up the iniquity of the **•” Senator Bruce came ou from Wash- UHI.n. ste el,A,„a liow it serves to enrich a favored few at the cost of the whole.countrx. He said steel rails can now be manufactured by the Besse mer process as cheaply as iron rails. Their value in an economic view is fourfold greater. T^ieir manufacture by this pro cess began in this country iu 1866. The rate of duly then equalled 45 per cent, ad valorem. In 187Q the domestic establish ments .petitioned for a largely increased specific rate of duty. The steel-makers did not ask for a permanent increase, but for “exceptional..protection just now.” Their prayer was granted. Their capacity then equalled 100,000 tons annually; now it is 800,000. In 1875 only 1,712 miles of railroad were constructed against 7,379 in 1871. With the revival of business the country is again entering upon the con struction of railroads on an enormous scale. In 1879, 4,446 miles of line were constructed. In 1SS0 at least 7,000 would be constructed could the necessary amount of rails be had. There will be required the present year, for renewals and exten sions of old roads, at least 1,000,000 tons for new roads, 600,000 tons. All should, be of steel. The domestic steel rail mills can supply, say, 800,000 tons. But to im port foreign rails a sum iu duty must be paid greater than their first cost. Not a foreign steel rail was imported in 1876, 1873 or in 1878. The question therefore, is: Shall foreign markets be opened to us by a reduction of the present duty, or shall the construction of several thousand miles of road be postponed till the necessary amount of rails can be sup plied by the American makers? And fur ther,shall renewals continue to be made of iron instead of steel? Mr. Poor claim ed tbat the great friends of American in dustry were railroads, and that to throttle them for the benefit of other and insig nificant industries would be suicidal. As an illustration of the friendship whieli the steel makers had for American industries, Mr. Poor remarked that for several years past the Vulcan steel rail mill, of St. Louis, had been paid by other establish- mentsto be idle, in order to keep up the price of American rails. Think of imposing a higher tax upon imported steel rails than it actually costs abroad to manufacture them? Aud see the sinister course of some of the owners of steel rail mills in this country who, de spite the almost prohibitory tariff enacted for their protection, yet to realize even greater profits, are offering bribes to di minisli home production aud enhance the price of American rails. Is it not high time that such reprehen sible practices should be rebuked, and an article, so important to the success of our railroad system and the safety of human life, be made cheaper by the reduction of tbe tariff to $10, as proposed? So, we think, will be the verdict of the peo ple, and Congress ought to give heed to It. Sherman’s Libel Case. A Washington dispatch says: Mr. H. V. Boynton’s charges against General W. T. Sherman, of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, were referred from the War Department to General Sherman to-day. It is understood that he proposes to take no notice ofthe specifica tions. It is reported that General Sher man is ofthe opinion that unless charges of the character of those made by Boynton are approved by a commissioned officer of the army, they do not properly come with in tbe province of a court martial. Sher man may be willing to avail himself of such au excuse to avoid meeting Boyn ton’s accusations. In point of fact, how ever, the counter signature of a commis sioned officer is not necessary upon charges preferred by a civilian. The Judge Advocate General has clearly de fined the law in such cases. He holds that charges made by a civilian against an army officer may be tried by court martial, the Judge Advocate ofthe cou:t, as a mat ter of form, countersigning the charges. It is a good thing to have a brother in high places when a man is iu trouble. There is no danger that the General of the army will come to grief so long as the Secretary of the Treasury holds office. If Mr. Boyn ton had received the same affront from a private citizen, his redress at the hands ofthe law would be sure and speedy. Wbv the Irish are so Poor? Mr. Parnell, the eloquent advocate of oppressed Ireland, delivered a deeply in teresting address on Monday last, iu the ball ofthe House of Representatives, at the evening session of that body. The following extract tells the story as to the cause of the poverty of his unfortunate countrymen: “Now we have been told by the land lord party, as their defense of this system, that the true cause of Irish poverty and discontent is the crowded state of that country, and I admit to the fullest extent that there are portions af Ireland, which are too crowded. The barren lands of the west of Ireland, whither the people were driven from the fertile lands after the famine, are too crowded, but the fertile portions of Ireland maintain scarcely any jopnlation at all, aud remain as vast mnting grounds for the pleasure of the landlord class. Before, then, we talk of emigration as the cure for all the ills of Ireland, I should like to sec the rich plains of Meath, Kildare, Limerick aud Tipper ary, instead of being the desert wastes they are to-day, supporting the teeming and prosperous population that they are so capable of maintaining. You may drive at the present moment for ten or twenty miles through tliese great and rich counties without meeting a human being or seeing a single house, and it is a remarkable testimony to the horrible way in which tha land system lias been administered in Ireland that tbs fertile country has proved the destruction of the population, instead of being their support. Only on the poor lands have our people been allowed to settle, and there they are crowded in numbers far too jreatforthe soil to support. I should like to see the next emigration from the West to the East, instead of from the East to the West—from the barren hills of Connemara back to the fertile plains of Meath, and when the resources of my country have been fully taken advantage of and fully developed, when the agricul tural prosperity of Ireland has been se cured, then, if we have any surplus popu lation, we shall cheerfully give it to this great country. Then our emigrants will go willingly and as free men, not shovel ed out by a forced emigration, a disgrace to the country they came from, aud to hu manity in general. [Applause.] Ancient Butter. * It is frequently charged that some of our boarding-house keepers placejupon their ta bles butter of such age that it proclaims its longevity by an^odor which “smells rank to heaven,” as Shakespeare would rnt it. And a discovery of ancient butter las been revealed near Lancaster, Penn sylvania, that altogether eclipses any ever used by boarding or any other house in Baltimore or suburbs. Thirty-four years ago a large crock of butter was suspended by a rope into the welt on what was then the farm of Abram S. Mylin, but which is now within the suburbs of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This old custom was a good one for keeping the butter fresh, but this particular lot was destined never to be eaten, for the rope broke, and for over one-tliird of a century it has rested secure ly in the bottom of tbe well. A few days since the well was cleansed and the butter again brought to light. It was found to be as white as snow and a3 hard as ada mant. It will be kept as a relic. It is too old to eat, but it surely is one of the most peculiar relics in existence. ick Douglass, was met by a delegation at the depot and escorted to the church, which was well filled, a number of those present being white. He gave a history of the introduction of the African race in to America, and sketched its course up to the present day. He referred to the pres ence of five milliv>ns of blacks and a quar ter ofa million of a yellow race, Chinese, among the dominant white race, and sail i this was the only place where such a com mingling of elements existed. The Chi nese here have no political rights, but the blacks, for ten years, have been an ele ment, exciting the interests of both political parties, and to day they constitute the most hopeful and healthy mind of the nation. Sprurq; more from the nation than the individua i State, the colored people are truer to the nation and Union of the States than to the States. The prognostications of evil about the freedman considering law to be license have failed,' aud the fairest vote for white and colored interest has been where the blacks have had control. The race furnishes not more than a fair pro portion of criminals and paupers, while instances of success in all the professions, and as merchants, planters, etc., are many. Poverty not only restricts their success in artisan work, but trades’ uuions keep them out. The race has become thor oughly Americanized, and has even adopted the great American characteris tic of emigration. The color race is not African save in color; in all other respects it is American, and it possesses the same claims as do those people who have lost their nationality aud taken American naturalization. Marshal Frederick Douglass followed Senator Bruce, and made a short and hu morous address. He spoke of the honors on the honored broad brow of the three- story headed black Senator from Missis sippi. When lie heard of Mr. Bruce’s election to the United States Senate he trembled. He had heard speeches in the House of Lords and the House of Commons and elsewhere by great men, and he regarded the United States Senate as head and shoulders above any deliber ative body in the world, and for this rea son he trembled when Mr. Bruce was elected, thinking the race might not have a proper representative. All his fears had, however, been dissipated long since. No man can say tbat Bruce has done single foolish thing in the United States Senate. Mr. Douglass spoke against the exodus of the colored people from the Southern States, saying they should not leave a sec tion where they have a monopoly of labor, where their wants are few and food plen tiful, to go where the landholders do their own work, and where the colored people are in such minority that they cannot hope to have a governing voice in elec tions. Later in the evening the visitors, with a number of friends, were entertain ed at Dr. Brown’s, No. 141 West Biddle street. Messrs. Bruce and Douglass are Dr. Brown’s guests, and will return to Washington to-day. Female Stock Exchange. A New York special says: Much com ment was caused to-day iu the highest so cial circles in this city in consequence of a circular purporting to emanate from a pri vate Stock Exchange for the exclusive use of ladies which has recently been opened by Mrs. M. E. Favor, at her residence, No. 40 West Twenty-fourth street. The cir culars were addressed to prominent ladies, many of them wives of gentlemen well known in finance and other professions, and set forth that the exchange was under the immediate management of a lady of standing who had long and successful ex perience in stock speculation and did busi ness in Wall street, through widely known houses of bankers and brokers of large capital and unquestionable solidity. The Exchange was opened a week ago at tbe gent solicitation of ladies of large and . lependent means, who had speculated in Wall street for years, and often met with loss because their facilities for infor mation were not equal to those of men. She was simply the salaried manager of the concern. Ladies of the highest stand ing, married and unmarried, some with fortunes in their own right, and others the wives of prominent lawyers, doctors and even brokers, dropped in during busi ness hours, and gave orders to buy or sell, according to the state of the market. The transactions were conducted on strictly business principles, and no customers are admitted only on introduction or when guaranteed by parties with whom they were acquainted. They took no orders for less than one hundred shares, and con sequently poor womencould not speculate through them if they would. Mrs-. Favre declined to give the names of the ladies interested in the concern, or those of its customers, but said that specu lation in stocks was very common with women of fortune. She attributes unfa vorable criticisms to tbe jealousy of down town brokers, who find a large and profit able set of customers giving their orders elsewhere. This is a new phase in female progress, and one of rery questionable propriety. The next move will be regular female gambling. -The capitol at Albany, New York,has cost thus far $10,000,000, and it is iu an unfinished condition. The Comptroller, in his report, says it will cost millions more. The original estimate of cost was $4,500,000. The building of State-houses is an expensive business, unless watched and undertaken by honest men. Unhappy Memphis. One hundred cases of scarlet fever are reported in Memphis. It does seem that the fates have conspired against this de-‘ voted city, and yet so commanding is her commercial and geographical location that the trade of the place was never brisker, aud the people rush along in quest of the almighty dollar, .regardless of death in any form or shape. The unprecedented mild winter beto kens a gloomy prospect for next summer, as there has been no weather sufficiently severe to destroy the germs ofthe dreaded fever. We would mildly suggest that it would bo well if “all hands and the cook” would suspend the money making busi ness for awhile, until the disease can be exorcised by digging, draining, the re moval of iufected building, repaving the streets, burning all suspected clothing, aud, in short, making a complete lustra tion ofthe entire city. Tiie results sought are worth the outlay. M5HHI The Simmons Fiasco. We do sincerely trust, for the honor of the State, that this hybrid individual, who is neither fish, flesh nor fowl in politics, but a malignant “secesh” hating, so-called Independent, may be rejected by the Sen ate. Really, such a man is not worth fighting over, aqd albeit, we sustain Gen eral Gordon and Colonel Hammond in their opposition to him, yet the “game is not worth the candle,” and it is a matter of regret that his case should have given the least cause for personal misunderstanding between any of the Georgia members. —M. Say, the Frenchman of leisure, who, on pleasure bent, started around the world in a private yacht recently, but was driven into the Chesepeake by a storm, concludes that his yacht is too small for the undertaking, and so has or dered a two hundred thousand dollar ship from a Baltimore firm. the Expense ofthe Many—The In iquitous Tariff; Accounts from every section of the iron producing districts of the Union, agree in reporting unexampled activity in mining, smelting and the manufacture of iron goods. The rise in the price of the crude material has been most remarkable. Pittsburg iron manufacturer is quoted as saying that “furnace owners who are mining their own ores or hare old con tracts at $7 or $8 a ton are making a hun dred per cent, upon their output. The cost of smelting when bituminous coal or coke is used does not exceed $14 or $15 per ton, and as the price of pig metal is now from $40 to $45, you will see tbat the margin of profit is enormeus. New con tracts for ore average about $12, and men who pay this and also pay the highest price for coke are still getting rich as fast as they ought to desire.” From the above it will be seen that the astounding profit of 300 per cent, is real ized in some instances by the manufactur ers of pig iron. And yet these iron mas ters are crying out lustily against the pro posed modification of the duty on steel rails from $28 to $10 per ton. In other words, the railroad builders and other consumers must be forced, no lens volens, to takqtheir iron at a price ru inous to the buyers, and at au immense sacrifice also of the public interests. No wonder that the poor miners are dissatis fied, aud think they should share the pros perity of their employers by an increase of wages. The fact is becoming more apparent daily, that the abatement of the present monstrous high protective tariff is des tined to become a strong and salient issue in the pending Presidential canvass. The people are sick of it. And when the sturdy farmer sees how dearly he is made to pay for the very imple ments by which he makes his bread, sim ply to fatten aud aggrandize a favored class, he will think twice before casting his ballot with, the Republican party. Surely,in this enlightened age,the palpable injustice of such discriminations, and their baleful effect upon the general industries of the countiy, should be patent to all. Repeal, then, should be the watchword of the suffering masses. Help for Ireland. The magnificent donation of the New York Herald to the starving multitudes in the Emerald Isle, seems to have struck a sympathetic chord in the hearts of all Gotham. Following suit, hundreds are pouring iu their contributions, and several columns of the last Herald are filled with notices of donations varying from fifty to hundreds of dollars. The subscription of the Herald has given a boomto the whole movement, and money aud provisions continue to flow iu apace. A plan has been set ou foot to organize ward commit tees with a view to soliciting aid from ev ery family in New York. It is calcula ted that if this is faithfully carried out, not less than one million of dollars will be raised for the Irish sufferers. How pleasant it is to chronicle such deeds of philanthropy and unselfish chari ty. Verily, the “wide, wide world” is not quite so bad as it is represented to be. A Suggestive Comparison. Our excellent contemporary, the Acras. ta Chronicle and Constitutionalist com menting recently upon the fact that the vigilant representative of the sixth Con gressional District, Colonel James H Biount, had secured the passage of an act establishing a Circuit and United States A District Court at Macon, asks “why it fa that our honored Representative should permit the interests of the people of this section to be ignored ?” And again: While other cities and sections of Gcor gia have come in for a liberal share of a£ propnations for internal irnprovemanm from the Federal Government* and this section have not bcenom^iw fortunate. If any monev haTb^n propnated for Government buildings ^ Augusta, or for the improvement of nav igation on the Savannah river, we have faded to realize its benefits. Every citv in Georgia and eveiy district has fared better in those respects than our own. It is a matter of great pride to have so dis tinguished and able a Representative in Congress as Hon. Alex. H. Stephens. We are proud of the honor and glory which so great a distinction confers. Our people would like in this particular age, however, to have an occasional appropriation for some such needed work of internal im provement. While Savannah, Atlanta and Macon; and some little rivers in up per Georgia, have received the aid of the Government, Augusta and our beautiful yellow Savannah have been neglected. IV e admire the halo which our honored Representatives shed upon our district, hut we want an appropriation, also. We can assure our brother that it will ever be a labor of love to co-operate with him in the good work of securing for his beautiful city that consideration from the Geueral Government, which is due to her commercial enterprise and importance Augusta is certainly, on account of her direct communication with the sea, both by river and rail, equally, if not more en titled to a custom-house and post-office building than Atlanta. If appropriations also are needed to improve the navigation of the broad Savannah above the city cf the same name, they should be granted by all means. That river is the bounda ry line of two States, and nature has made it a most valuable artery of com merce, if properly cleared out and devel oped. In the matter, however, of the lo cation of the Court in question, just as in the proposition to transfer the State Fair to our sister city, centrality of position and the convenience of the people of the commonwealth were the controlling fac tors in the premises. The fair is a State exposition, and, therefore, should be made as accessible as possible to a ma jority of the inhabitants of the State. If, however, the annual exposition of the Agricultural Society should be removed thither, most heartily would we aid in the work of making it a success. But it is not reasonable or right to practically ignore the convenience of all Northwest ern and Southwestern Georgia merely as a matter of profit to a frontier city. On the same principle Rome, Dahlonegc. Brunswick or Cuthbert have equal claims to the fair. With regard to Mr. Stephens’ want of industry in behalf of his constituents, we have nothing to say. That is a family matter. The Railroad Situation. Not even a rumor reached our ears yes terday concerning the pending settlement ofthe lessees ofthe Macon and Brunswick railroad with Governor Colquitt. They have until Friday next, to arrange matters, and perfect either the lease or purchase, but the fact that the parties are all in At lanta, has kept the public on tiptoe to learn tbe result. Some assert there is a hitch iu the affair. But there is no ground whatever for such an opinion. On the contrary it is positively affirmed by those who seem to know, that the money required by the law has been rais ed and will be duly forthcoming. The delay, to say the least, however, is provok- ingly tantalizing. Matters relating to the Central railroad are equally quiet. Mr. Wadley doubtless knows what he is about, and will be care ful what alliances and combinations he forms hereafter. The roads of Georgia are all doing a satisfactory business, and everything looks bright in the future. A Remarkable; Core. Our readers have doubtless read the card and certificates of Dr. A. N. Moses, who has earned a justly deserved reputa tion for the cure of cancers and the most obstinate cases of stammering. The wri ter, having witnessed his success in Atlan ta in both of these specialties, was in duced to recommend him to Mrs. Mary Low, now residing in this city, who had a bright little boy five years of age, afflic ted with a serious impediment in his speech from his earliest infancy. She was induced to take him to Dr. Moses, and in five days a perfect cure apparently has been effected. The child now pronounces with entire distinctness the longest and most complex words and sentences, and without the slightest hesitation. Those who have stammering friends, or are themselves afflicted with this annoying aud troublesome infirmity, would do well to consult the Doctor at his rooms at the Lanier House. He will guarantee a cure in every instance. He is a fool. We mean the man, who lets his baby cry all night in the arms of its mother, and does not sleep a wink, when Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup will quiet the baby by relieving its pain; a bottle costing only twenty-five cents. —Henry Moet, convicted of the murder of liis wife and her paramour, at Taghka- nick, near Hudson N. Y., has been sen tenced to be banged March 19. After sen tence, the prisoner coolly asked the court that he be hanged in public, and that he be allowed to speak one hour and a half. Macon’s Trade. Business may be said to have been fair ly active yesterday. The streets were crowded with wagons and country visi tors, and the stores, retail and wholesale, did not lack for customers. All was life and animation, 'and the stranger could not have been otherwise than favorably Impressed with the trade aud prospects of our city. Everybody seemed to have their hands full, and there were no idlers. The wholesale merchants are crowded with orders, and the wonder is, where do so many goods go to? Drays and wagons are' kept incessantly on the move, too, and the drivers are happy. Verily, our beau tiful central city seems to be on the up grade, decidedly. Long may she prosper! Bight.—The agitation for the reduc tion of the paper tax and the tax on paper makers’chemicals is daily increasing. The newspapers all over the country are join ing in the demand, and we predict the pro tectionists will he badly beaten. The present tariff must be razeed in these and —Yesterday the' anniversary of the many other particulars. The country has death of Pius IX. was to be observed at j-had enough of protection quackery and * ;he Vatican by a splendid ceremonial. | swindling. The Grant “Slauehter House.” Under the above heading, the Philadel phia Times thus discourses upon the late doings ofthe Harrisburg Republican Con vention : The action of the Republican State Convention yesterday was correctly fore shadowed in our full special reports cf the night previous. Senator Cameron ruled what may by courtesy be called the deliberations ot the body, but was con fronted by an opposition more formidable in numbers and more earnest In purpose than has been common in his battles of the last ten years, There have been live ly skirmishes against him now and then when a convention was on hand, and sometimes they threatened to precipitate a serious engagement; but the uniform re sult has been the submission of the mi nority and its dispersion as an organized element of discord. The battle of yester day, however, developed not only a most determined lot of protestants, but they made au exceptional record by strength ening themselves and their cause as re pulse after repulse had been suffered. On the first direct test of strength for the temporary chairman of the conven tion, the opposition scored ninety-two votes, or nearly two-fifths of the delegates. The second test, on the adoption of Mr. Stewart’s amendment to Mr. Cessna’s res olution, swelled the opposition to a round hundred. Then Cameron made a gain on the next trial, when ninety-five sup ported Mr. Strong’s amendment substitu ting the name of Blaine for that of Grant. Under ordinary circumstances a minority thus thrice defeated, aud its strength ap parently declining, would have lost its ad hesiveness and pluck and surrendered the field to the majority, but when it came to a direct show of hands in favor of or against Grant, the opposition was increased to one hundred and thirteen, leaving Cameron and Grant but the narrow ma jority of twenty out of two hundred and forty-six votes. This result astounded both sides, and left the vanquished more proud of their defeat than were the vic tors of their triumph. There are none so blind as not to sec that the endorsement of Grant by the Pennsylvania Convention is tho veriest mockery of the public sentiment that should have been honestly voiced by that body. And it is not merely a fraud, and a falsehood ou its face, but it is a cruel sac rifice of Grant before the world. To as sume that the meagre twenty majority given for Grant as tile choice of the Re publicans of this State for the Presidency, can be accepted either at home or abroad as anything else than a decisive Grant de feat, must be the result of either ignorance or madness. It is a costly and empty vic tory for Cameron, but it crucifies Grant and makes it impossible for him ever to receive the vote ofthe State at Chicago. —“Such a victory is a defeat,” says an- antl-Grant Republican paper of the pro ceedings of the Pennsylvania Convention, It is possible, and yet it goes out to the world that Pennsylvania is for Grant with her twenty-nine votes, or, as they are doubled in the convention, fifty-eight votes. —Count Rochambeau has signified hi3 intention of coming over to take part in the Yorktown centennial observance. The United States Government will send invi tations to the French Government and to the French societies in New York to join in the national ceremonies. At least one French vessel and one French regiment will be at Yorktown to help the celebra tion out. ■At Crugawn, Mayo, Ireland, when a process server, aided by one hundred po lice, attempted last month to serve notice of ejectment, his progress was arrested by three hundred women, armed with heavy sticks. The women were remonstrated' with, but all arguments failed. At length the police forced their way through, with fixed bayonets, several of the women re ceived thrusts, and reached the house where the process was to be served. Here again a crowd of women opposed and. several were wounded; tbe process was however served.