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VijitliT c--l' *■? . • ni .W?-' ; l iii im 1 Sfrawcttat $9 Wfcj&sumgfcK* Ctltgrapll g§ -ftteswgrc MACOtf, FEBRUARY . -860. —»A New Orleans athlete, .In order to convince "his sweetheart of his great strength, twisted her arm. in such a way . that it bad to be amputated. Boston, January 81.—Storm on Mt, Washington.—A dispatch from Mount Washington says the severest'storm of the winter raged there last night, the wind ■blowing one hundred and thirty-two miles an hour. —General Gary replies to Colonel Haskell in an interview with a correspon dent of the Charleston News and Courier, denying Haskell’s allegations, and pro nouncing him an intruder in a controver sy with which he lias do business. —Richard Wagner, the composer, has arrived with his famiiy at Naples. His health is announced to be improving. He intends remaining at Naples till the mid dle of May, when he will return to Bay reuth. Old inhabitants say that there was a. mild, open winter like this in 1848, and also in 1822,-and that they were followed by a mild spring, making the fruit season extraordinarily early and abundant. The great fear in regard to this weather is that it is merely a postponement of winter un til March, when all the buds will be nip ped and the fruit destroyed. —There is a great agitation in New York over the excessive cost of pilotage, the charges for piloting a steamer over San dy Hook bar being more than the pay of a good captain for a year. The charges are compulsory, and the New York IVi- bune states that the owner of one of the Havana lines, although he never employs pilots, preferring to trust Ills captains, has to pay pilotage at the rate of $2,800 for a five days’ voynge, while the pay of a cap tain Is only $2,400 a year. The plea of tho pilots Is that It is necessary to make charges compulsory in order to sustain the service. 1 • —A Washington ktter of Monday, says: “ There was a meeting to-night at Senator Don Cameron’s house, which was attend ed by a number of tho leading Republican politicians of Pennsylvania. The object was to have Mr. Cameron agree upon some plan by which the Pennsylvania delega tion to the Chicago Convention should act as a unit.' Mr, Cameron wants the dele gation to go solid for Grant. It has been discovered that the Blaine feeling is so strong that this is Impossible. So the in ference to-night was at the request, of the Blaine men, with the object of having Mr. Cameron to agree to Blaine as a second choice with the delegation,* should Grant be out of the question. No conclusion was reached.” —The Lynchburg Virginian Is urgign the merchants of that place to embark their capital in the construction of iron and steel fttruaccs, and hot allow all the valuable ores of Virginia to be gobbled op by the large corporations of Pennsyl vania. It is uiged that all the material for Bessemer steel or iron is more accessible to Lynchburg, and can be delivered there at less cost than at Pittsburg or Philadelphia, and that one such steel works as the Beth lehem or the Edgar Thompson would be worth more to Lynchburg than all her to bacco factories together. There can be ho doubt that the large Pennsylvania corpo rations have stolen a march upon the Vir ginians, and that the boom in iron has so advanced the price of ore beds that a much larger capital will now be required than would have sufficed a year ago. The currency question, says the Raleigh Observer, will settle itself if left alone. Much specie was sent South and West last fall to pay for cotton and wheat. It is still in the South ‘ and West. It is said $165,000,000 of money of all sorts were sentout into the qountiy from New York. During the spring and summer the bulk of-tills .'Will haveto go back to New York. The cost of transporting spe cie is so much greater'than the expense of sending greeilbacks or paper money, that the latter will, invariably be sent. The result is whatever specie has been scatter- ^(Jtfcrough tho Sojitli and West will re main and be in the hands of the people. The paper money will go to the New York banks. Two seasons like the last will’ bring about a very general distribu tion of specie throughout the country, and when this Is done the currency question will be robbed of all its difficulties. -Senator-elect GarSeld has written a letter to one of his constituents, in wlricli expressed the opinion that the Repub licans of Ohio ought to present the name of Secretary Sherman to the National Convention as their choice for the Presi dency, and give him their united and cor dial'support. Mr. Garfield says Mr. Sher man has earned this recognition at the bauds of the Ohio Republicans by twenty- five years of conspicuous public service, and that ho moreover “ deserves the spe cial recognition of the Nation for the great service he has renderel in making the re sumption law a success, and placing the national finances on a better basis.” Mr. Garfield, In his letter, calls attention to the fact that Ohio is a close State, the ma jority at the recent election less than one percent, of the voting population, ren dering it vitally Important qiat the party should be cordially and effectively united on the nominee to cirry the State. The Nashville American says the latest thing in quinine is a' petition sent to all the druggists in the United States lor their signatures. It is prepared by the quinine makers of Philadelphia. Ask. yenr drug gist If he received it, and then if he signed it: By the way ho answers yon can tell whether he did or not. If he says “ No,”! hesitatingly as if be would like to know : whether you know Jhat Jie before an swering, or if he'says it indignantly as if yon had done him a personal injury, hei signed it. Then ask Trim what interest he had In making you; pay doable price for quinine, when it does ;npt fncreasebbj profit at all. This outrageoussqheme tore- store a great monopoly will fail. Congress will not dare to take a step backward ori quinine, although’ It be demanded by all the horde- of prcseriptionists:. Nothing has ever thrown them into greater con; sternation than that singly ,bpe*k:iri their ranks, They didn’t thjnk it could be done. It was the one tariff victory the South has gained since the war,! Jim McKenzie had such good luck with the qnininer bill that he bad better take charge of the subject of salt, but we' don’t know exactly how Jeemes will atafid on salt In view of the works In Kentucky. On this subject of tho tariff it U necessary to move kinder sigzag to flank the various interests. It is impossible to bag them all at once. A Corner ox Corx.—A Desmolnes dispatch states that David Dawes & Co., have forty-three agents in Iowa buying Last Week’s Cotton Figures. /. AJ\ ESTIMATE OP . —EUROPEAN CONSUMPTION—AN IM PORTANT ERROR DISCOVERED. The New York Chronicle of Saturday last reports the receipts of tlie seven days ending the night before at 137,191 bales, against 167,097 for the corresponding week of last year. Total receipts of the current cotton year to that date 3,751,301 bales, against 3,269,740 for the corres ponding period of the year 1878-9—show ing an increase of481,561 bales. The Cotton Exchange statement of last Friday was as follows: Receipts of the week 134,591, against 170,596. Total to date 3,761,793, against 3,220,158—showing an increase of 541,635 bides. The Chronicle's interior port table shows receipts for the week 64,603 hales, against CS,339 for the same week last, year. Shipments 60,802, against 65,989 last year. Stocks 368,880, against 220,935 at same date last year. . Thq Chronicle?* visible, supply table showed last Friday night 2,473,732 bales of cotton in sight, against 2,354,320 at same date last year, 2,5S2,643 at same date in 1878, and 2,907,446 in 1877 at same date. These figures show an increase of 119,462 bales on the visible supply of last year at same date, and a decrease o’f 10S,S61 on the visible supply of 1838, : and of 483,664 bales on the visible of 1877 at same dates. Cotton was quoted in.Liverpool last Friday at 7 1-16 for middling upland. At same date last year the quotation was 5f, in 1878, at same date, it was 6 3-16, and in 1877, at same date, it was CJ. Tho Chronicle's weather telegrams of last Wednesday indicate a distressing con dition of drought In Texas—the ground at most points being too hard far the plow and small grain crops and stock suffering. The winter drought now prevailing in Texas is the worst ever known. As far east as Selina either no rain or very little fellduriugtbe week. Montgom ery and Selma had light rains. In Ala bama the highest range of the mercury was 70 and the average about 50. In Madison, Florida, the highest .was 84 and the average 58. In Columbus and Macon the highest was 71 and average 47 and 52. In Augusta the highest was : 72 and the average 50. In Savannah the bigliest was 72 and the average 50. The Chronicle's table of receipts from plantations, shows that up to the 31st, the total receipts compared as follows 1879-80, 4,105,880; 1876-79, 3,485,022; 1877-78,2,345,758. V The Chronicle, premising that it is in position to state quite closely the Overland receipts of January, and to bring down the crop movement to first instant, puts tho figures at 4,713,000 bales against 3,858,740 last crop year. Aftertlie first of February of last year there- were received from plantations, 1,114,791 bales. Should equal receipts come to hand this year, they would make the crop of 1879-80 about 5,827,791 hales. Our presumption is, however, that fair prices have brought the crop forward with tuiusual rapidity,and that receipts will hereafter drop off rapidly Tho drop probably began with the last cotton week and was, as we have seen above, almost thirty thousand bales fo the week. From an article in the Chronicle upon Thomas Ellison’s annual cotton circular, recently published, we collate the follow ing facts in relation to COTTON CONSUMPTION. Mr. Ellison has discovered that, in con sequence of an under-estimate of the av erage weight of bales, the European con sumption of cotton has been considerably in excess of previous estimates. The bales have been steadily Increasing in weight for which no allowance has been made, so that even in the vexed year of 1879, when the mills were so disturbed by strikes and short time and panics, more cotton was consumed in Europe than ever before. The actual rate of consumption was 108,723 bales of 400 pounds each per week, against 104,19S in 1878—105,705 in 1877 and 107,014 in 1870, which were the heaviest years known in tho history of cotton manufacture. The Chronicle, therefore,, proceeds to argue, with its usual caution, from these facts and from the general trade situation, that the rate of consnmption in Europe this year cannot be less than 110,000 bales of 400 pounds each per week, which would necessitate a European supply of 5,720,000 bales. Salutatory, Having purchased the interest of Mr. the incoming crop ■ |A. W. Reese in the TrueoBArn and A Veteran Railroader Speaks—He Thinks the Cancelling of the Cen tral Railroad Contract a Fortu nate Circumstance. One of the most sagacious and experi enced railroad men. in the State,, is of the opinion that nothing could have been more wise and timely than the abrogation of, the contract entered i uto between Mr, Hadley anil Messrs,, Cole anil Brown. Had the original prograipme been car ried out, all would have been well. Col onel Colo is more than half a. Georgian, and Iris friendship for Governor Brown and the absence of other antagonizing connections would have assured to the triple railroad alliance a most magnificent future. But our friend is of the opinion that had the “contract” been renewed with Startdlford and the Louisville and Nashville road,the railway system of Geor gia would have been sacrificed to that grasp ing monopoly. Having several gnlfoutlets, and entire control of the coast from Fensa- cola to New Orleans, anil* moreover having expended large sums to secure this royalty, they would, as -soon as the op portunity was afforded, ’proceed to turn back the cotton tidal wave seeking the Atlantic from Macon, Atlanta and every other station on the Central, via Chatta nooga to New Orleans, Mobilp, Feusaco- Ia - or wherever the steamslup ■ lines. about| to be established might be; ordered 'tol ‘receive their fleecy cargoes. U'mjUM railroads of the State would be reducodto the position of mere local highways, and, Savannah and oitr other seaportjswouty dwindle and decline under the baleful management of this powerful monopoly. We give these views just as received; ant] will say, at least, that they are highly sug gestive, and show what mfglit. fce,t|iij so quel under certain contingencies .if .Gov emor Brown and tlid' Central had signet a\vay their rights and franchises. P i-i • ' Fire Plugs. ■'r The Central railroad is arranging a sej ries of water plugs from near the Georgit mills along Fifth street toward 1 the rail road bridge. The plugs are now beihf putin. They will he'supplied from tin tank of the road, located in tl» yard-o; the company’s shops. This arrangement is made tor the protection of the road, which owns a large amount of improvei d real estate in this part of the city. It will XJtJHJEdSSWZii&ZB P~'e of«** otaougo to thi, section .1 ;nger, disposed *cff-on account of his ill health and other engagements, I have been admitted into She firm of Messrs. iClisby & Jones with <fiiE proprietary and 'editorial rights and-privileges. The “Geor gia Press” column and the local page will hereafter be in my charge. • ’Feelingkeen ly sensible of the many kindnesses which 1 hare been extended to me during my so journ in Macon, whereby the duties of the position I have lmd the honor to hold for the past two years and a half have been i materially lessened, I beg a continuance of the same. ' My best endeavors will be used to prove myself worthy of them. It will always be tho pleasure of my associates and myself to do all incur power for the advancement of the material prosperity of Macon, Southern andSouth- , western Georgia, and we will endeavor to make the Telegraph in the future,.-as in the past, the true representative of the sentiments and views of its constituents. Respectfully, J, H. Jones. SOIL TESTS OF FERTILIZERS AND SUPPLEMENTAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA FOR 1879. Dr. T. H. Henderson certainly deserves the thanks of every agriculturist in Geor gia for his very able and exhaustive sta tistical reports of the crops for the . past year, and tlie many practical andadmira- blc suggestions he lias made for tlie benefit of our farmers. His papers show an amazing degree of care and patient .indus try in their preparation, conjoined with no little knowledge of agricultural sci ence. / ; ‘ ’ ’ ‘ The-“Soil Tests” include the particu lars of over two hundred experiments made by representative men in all parts of the State, with almost every commercial fertilizer known to the trade. Each of these is recorded with exactness and care, in accordance with a prescribed form fur nished by Commissioner Henderson. They afford a mass of instructive infor- mation impossible to be obtained in any other manner. Indeed, the farmer has only to study .tiiese, experiments which cover every grade and variety of soil, to become fully posted as to the comparative value of the various fertilizing compounds,’ tl k. a*. - W— il. .... I'a.l ihnii.- a iTjaltnlljlilw How to apply them jmd their; adaptability to his own land. Among the experiments, that; of Gene ral W. X. Browne, Professor of Agricul ture in. the University, of Georgia, was made upon a very elaborate scale, and is worthy of especial mention- . Tlie land, bat recently a' worn out ‘old field, its texture a stiff red clay, was first effectii- ally broken by tlie nse of Brinley’s "Uni versal plow,” "Lester’s sub-soiler” and double shovel. A crop of pea vines had also been previously turned under to the depth of thirteen inches in November. Before bedding, the ground was fertilized witli various compounds at the rate of two hundred pounds per acre,and tlie seed deposited on the tenth of April. The commercial fertilizers employed were twenty-two in number, embracing many of the most ’popular brands, and a compost formed of 750 pounds of green cotton seed, 750 pounds stabli manure, and 500 pounds Patapsco Acid Phospliate. The latter was applied at tlie rate of twenty bushels per acre. ,At certain intervals, a given number of rows of the natural soil also were left, and cultivated without any artificial help. As tlie cotton matured and opened, each picking was weighed and kept separate. The result showed a yield of 1008.50 pounds of seed cotton as the minimum product per acre of the fertilized areas, while the maximum reached i070.40 pounds. The latter was manured with Etiwan crop food: The experiments in wheat were only tour in number, and the fertilizers used at the rate of 200 pounds per acre, were the Patapsco gnano, the yield from which was 20J bushels; Soluble Pacific guano, yield 17§ bushels; stable manure, 70 bushels in quantity, yield 17 bushels: cotton seed, 60 bushels applied, yield 16J bushels. '« The wheat was sown ; in drills on the 9th of October. Professoi^ Browne says: “My observation as to the’use of fertiliz ers convinces me tlial no faxmer in Geor gia can. afford to do without-'/ them; pro vided be protects Iiimself against fraud by purchasing only the qtyuidard brands, duly tested and approved by the / tag - Oi the Department of Agriculture/ ’ I. be lieve that the . maximfljn quanUty th^ can be profitably applied is 200 pounds per acre.”' ’ l ” lf Kit*. ,v.im. cm •’ . -i ! oini ill. !. ;;; -I THE SUPPLEMENT ARERPOBT of Dr. Henderson, is a rilost valuable sta tistical publication. It contains nutrietous tables giving!the total yield of the leading crops in Georgia, compared to the total yield Of the same in 1878 > y Rnd the actual yield-per aero in! 1879. Tlbe tables Em brace separately, North. Georgia, Middle Georgia,‘Sqiith Goorgia,East Georgia and Southeast Georgia.,' Then follows a mete orological /table, also, for each of the above - divisions! Of . the .State, giving the ‘maximum, minimum’ and mean temperature, every mpiitb, the rain fall of each month, the latest spring frost and the first killlngfrost for each month. It is^needless to reiflrirk Jhow veiy nsefiit these data will be hereafter-for instituting comparisons With the past and present of agriculture in Geoigia, and to. measure the future material progress of our. noble State. Tho supplement also contains excellent 1 observations upon the condition arid status ofall the principal crops-fhnt Are grown In the commODwealto, with appropriate 1 ! suggestions conceH^S' j ( .Jj i Wet rust the exceediji® usefulness, .qfj these reports of tho yeiy- able and efficient Commissioner of Agriculture, Will suffice to kill off the oppositions jbergatomjfolWt most Important of all the btirtorii ; o£ ;lfte Sfatb.' • -j.-/i i; •:« i^inndJ three million bushels in the crib. I tlie city. Wants of the Soil,—qarefui ojfs^r- vation pf the growth of crqpa jwljl enable tlie farmer to ascertain the wants of .hb sbij, while by the application 1 “of i-'fow general principles lie, 't&Ujtto'tlb general improvement, oftlajjflGs.! '.’ff with a good sun exposure, his crops wear a pale green, he may Safely infer d lacfioi nitrogen;If th e straW^is ! soft ai;d tjpc .weak to bear the Jhpftdv him that his soil is deficient.In. available potash ; if lie lias a good growth Of straw and a light yield of. gralp’.'b.b'^lll fln^'oj tlie application of phosphates,, that tlie yield of grain will 'bo hugely increased, though while growii^^yptopltnay'.rtod appear to be benefited' . 1 a , .. 1 . -i oiu v -t il J Murrain kills thousands of milk cows. Foutz’s Horse and Cattle Powders will cure them, and if used during u inter and spring will surely prevent the disease. An Interesting Fish Story. From the fifth annual report of Prof. Spencer F, ; . Baird, United. States Fish CommissfoBer, ‘ we ■ collect some state ments recocting the little fish variously called. Ale3yives,Menhaden, Mossbunkers, jiardliesul, Pogies—a fisli about a foot to fifteen inches in length, which swarms on our Atlantic cp^t from Maine to Indian river, in Florida, and form annually an immense value in the catch for their oil ■and the manure left in the residuum after pressing out the oil, which constitutes what is commonly caned fish guano, and, -applied in its crude condition to oursandy. soil, shows the best results of any fcought fertilizer of the same commercial value we have ever seen. The young of this fish is also sold fon food,jiut up in tin cans, with cotton seed oil, and called American sardines.' On the Northern coasts they (appear late in the spring, but below Cape Hat- teras they do not leave the coast in tho winter. They feed upon the sedimfent which is found at the bottom of stiil and shallow waters in protected bays, and their fecundity is -marvellous. The port says that six or seven bandied mil lions of these fisb are taken jiunually by the fishermen, while as -food to other fisli—bluefish, whales, shanks, sword-fish, dqgfish, mackerel—the number destroyed is incalculable. The Professor estimates that, in all, overthree thousand millions are destroy ed annually on, the Atlantic coast, and form the food of many of the other fish consumed on the table, besides those ta ken by laiger fishes of prey. The bone whale will swim under a school of them, and rising take in a hogshead full of thpm at a single gulp. . The shark will take hundred at a meal. A great swann of blue fisb will dash in among them, and cover the surface of the ocean with their blood, oil and debris, ..besides 'what swallowed. These fish subsist arid multiply upo: food otherwise useless and inaccessible, and yet it is estimated that the manure produced from their carcasses is equal in value to sixty million pounds of Peruvian guano, worth two millions .^f ^pllars; and besides that, the product; in oil is greater than that from all the whales captured in America. 'i .The catching and reduction p? the fish to oil and guano is, of course,.a very large and profitable business, but it is not pur sued to any extent below the Jersey coast. It is singular tliat, on all that immense stretch of seaboard from Delaware to tho State of Tamaulapas in Mexico—three or four thousand miles—though the waters all swarm with fish of immense value for oil and manure—the annual catch from which should ho worth a hundred-fold mofethrih all the guano bought and con- campalgn, and whose pursuit of L ie was perfect in its generalship and energy, told me where to find Lee. I remember that Sheridan was impatient when I met him, anxious and suspicious abowt the whole business; feared there migte be a plan to '■-i escape; that he had Lee at his. feet, and ' wanted to end the business by going in and forcing an absolute surrender by cap ture. In fact, he bad his troops ready for such an assault when Lee’s white flag came within his line. MEETING OF THE CHIEFTAINS, i “I went up to the house where Lee was waiting. I found him in a line, new, splendid uniform, which only recalled my anxiety as to my own clothes while on my way to' meet him. I expressed my regret surned in,our agriculture, hardly a ton is used. We are poor economists. The {toast Defenses and Navy. A scream of alarm comes from the poli ticians . about the . coast defenses of the United States. They are all utterly wortliless. Modem guns Will heat them all to powder in a very short time. How can they stand against these 500 pound conical balls? The condition of the country is- frightful, lamentable. And It becomes .worse tlmn that, when we con sider tlie six or eight thousand miles of American seaboard, and wliat it would cost to defend it with proper forts, sliot- proof against the heaviest modem gun nery. The last dollar in the last Ameri can pocket would fail before tlie under taking was complete, and when all should be built, the country would be defense less in less than a generation afterward. It is a wise forecast Of the ex tent of the job which stimulates the jobbers to commit the country to the un dertaking, There are not only millions, tut hrindreds of millions in it, and when all'is done, such send banks as tlie Con federates used to throw up are for better defenses than the best forts. The Navy, too, is in a shocking fix, and lias never, been in any other condition for the past fifteen years; tor the more it costs, the more Worthless it becomes, ac cording to the testimony of experts, a sin gle one of these ironcladgaulbursters from England or France would blow the whole American Navy out of water, and there fore, they should be very civil and keep close at home for fear something bad might happen to them. “Vessels large may venture more, but little ships should keep near shore.” «, it This simultaneous scare abont coast arid'^naval defenses, means' something. Rightly managed, what will it be wortii to Secretaries and: contractors under the in coming Grant administration, should it incoine. But let the bretliren^ome to fig ures. Let them make a moderate estimate of the cost of tlieir defenses and ships, and the annual, cost of manning and equipping them, ajid j no damage that a foreign enemy could possibly do us with out them would amount to balf as much; The country would make a fortune by funding all nayal, and. coast defense ap propriations at four~per cent, interest at an insurance capital, and then assuming tlie risk of loss and damage by a foreign enemy. ., ;uj.., ,-p What General Grant Says of the Surrender at Appomattox, and of General Robert 35. Lee. 7 J. R. Young, who accompanied General Grant in his recent circumnavigation of the globe, plays ‘tlie' tole of Boswell, though not half so WteB, in his late pub lication entitled ^Around the World with General'’Grant.” Iri a late number of the Philadelphia Times, we find an ex tended extract from 'tlie book, hi which the author puts the following Words into liis chief’s motitb concerning the last act j ih the'drdma, when the curtaih 1 fell and 'fheUttiteilerady was nrffriore: * 1 1 Yid'' See, the 1 war Was an enortnoits strain upon the country. Rich as we were I do pot now. sen lio.w .we, jqould have pn- .duiediit another year,.even from a finan-i ml point of view. j “So with these views I wrote Lee, and' opdned!>'tlie : correspondence with whichi the,world is familiar. Leo does not ap-, pear ..well, in that correspondence, pot! not nearly so'well as he did in our subso-, quent interviews, where bis whole bear-! stfkkior court. - On Trial for hi» Lifo. Yesterday the plan of having two courts In progress was inaugurated at the Court House, Judge Simmons presiding in the Superior Court room and Judge C. F. Crisp, of the Western circuit, in the Judge’s room, engaged on the equity docket. Macon is toe second place in the State' in Which this plan has been practiced. It was found to work well in Atlanta where Judge Simmons assisted Judge Hillyer for a number of days. It expe- that I was compelled to meet him in so : ,jj tes business and proves a means of sav- unceremonious a manner, and he replied I. _ . f .. . . . . that the onlv suit he had avallable was i in S much expense to the county by doing that the only suit he had available was one which had been sent him by some ad- j twice as much on the dockets, mirere in Baltimore, and which he then wore for tlie first time. We spoke of old friends in the army. I remembered hav ing seen Lee in Mexico. He was so much higher in rank than myself at the time that I supposed he had no recollec tion of me. But. he said he remember ed me very well. We talked of old times and exchanged inquiries about friends. Lee then broached the subject of our meeting. I told him my terms and Lee, listening attentively, liked me to write them down. I took out my ‘mani fold’ brder hook' and wrote them down. General Lee put on bis glasses and read them over. The conditions gave the offi cers their side arms, private horses and personal baggage. I said to Lee that 1 hoped and believedthiswould be the close of the war. That it was most important that the men sbonld go home and go to work, and the government would not throw any obstacles in the way. Lee an swered that it would have a most happy effect and accepted the terms. I banded over my penciled memorandum to an aid to put into ink, and we resumed our con versation about old times and friends in the armies. COURTESIES BETWEEN THE OPPOSING .: ! • HEROES. “Various officers came in—Longstreet, Gordon, Pickett, from the South; Sheri dan, Ord and others from our side. Some were old friends—Longstreet and myself for instance—and we had a general talk. Lqe no doubt expected me to ask for bis sword, but I did not want his sword. It would only,” said the General, smiling, “have gone to the Patent Office fo be worshiped by the Washington 1 Rebels. There was a pause, when General Lee said that most of the animals in his cav alry and artillery were owned by the privates, and he would like to know un der the terms, whether they would be re garded as private property or the property of the government. Isaid that under the terms of surrender they belonged to the government. -General Lee read the letter and said that was so.' I then said to the General that I believed and hoped this was tlie last battle of the war; that I saw the wiscom of these men getting home and to work as soon as possible, and that I would give orders to allow any soldier or officer claiming a horse or a mule to take it, General Lee showed some emotion at this —a feeluig which I also shared—and said it would have a most happy effect. The interview ended and I gave orders for rationing his troops. The next day I met Lee on horseback and we bad a long talk. In that conversation I urged upon Lee the wisdom of ending the war by the surren der of the other armies. I asked him to use his influence with the people of the South—an influence that was supreme- to bring the war to an end. General Lee said that his campaign in Virginia was the last organized resistance which tlie South was capable of making—that might have to march a good deal and en counter isolated commands here and there; bn there was no longer any army which could make stand. I told Lee that this fact only made his responsibility greater, and any further war would be a crime. I asked him to go among the Southern peo ple and use his influence to have all men under arms surrender on the same terms S ven to tlie Army of Northern Viiginia, e replied that be could not do so without consultation with President Davis. I was sorry. I saw that the Confederacy bad gone beyond the reach of President Davis, and that there was nothing that could be done except what Lee could do to benefit the Southern people. I was anxious to get them home and have our armies go to tlieir homes and fields. But Lee would not move without Davis, and, as a matter of fact, at that time, or soon after, Davis was a fugitive in tlie woods. GRANT’S OPINION OF LEE, “Leo was of a slow, conservative, cau tious nature, without imagination or hu mor, always the same, with grave digni ty. I n’ver could see in his achievements what justifies his reputation. The illu sion that nothing hut heavy odds beat liim will not stand the ultimate light of history. I know it is not true. Lee was a good deal of a headquarters general—a desk general, from wliat I can bear and trom what his officers say. He was almost too old for active service—the best ser vice in the field. At the time of tlie sur- iender he was 58 or 59 and I was 43. “His officers used to say that lie posed himself, that he was retiring and exclu-. sive, and that his headquarters were diffi cult of access. I remember when tlie com missioners came through our lines to treat, just before tlie surrender, that one of them remarked on the great difference between our headquarters and Lee’s. I always kept open house at headquarters, so far as the army was concerned. “My anxiety,” said the General, “for some time before Richmond fell was lest Lee sbould’ abandon it. My pursuit of Lee was hazardous. I was iu a position of extreme difficulty. You see, I was marching away from my supplies, while Lee was falling back on his supplies., If Lee bad continued liis flight another day I sbould have bad to abandon the pursuit, fall back to'Danville, build tlie railroad and feed my. army. So far as i supplies were concerned, I was almost at my last gasp widen the sunrender took place.” The slander perpetrated by General Grant upon his'illustrious antagonist who bad so often {foiled liis . movements and hurled ,back ini dismay and Confusion the Yankee legions; live times superior in numbers, is simply contemptible and ridiculous. So will not the historian say when chronicling the bloody encounters and unparalleled achievements of General Lee in Ids numerous repulses of the enemy in their several “on to! Richmond” cam paigns. Ori the contraiy, the Confederate chieftain will stand forth, prominently among the great captains of qvery age. And if modesty, worth and self abnega- tiori arc taken into account, few, if any, will bo adjudged Ills peer. General Grant will earn no laurels by this attempt to disparage the immortal Lee who sleepsiliis last sleep, and Is well nigli worshipped by 'eyejytrup Southron. 'V .- Yesterday in the Superior Court the old colored man, Abe Morrison, was on trial for the murder of his wife, Caroline Mor rison, in November last. The case was fully noted at the time. The old couple lived near the Junction, and one morning shortly after his wife had left the house, he followed. She was found a few moments later, on Bassett’s Hill, fearfully heaten. She died in two or three weeks of her wounds. The old man fled, and was caught not long since at No. 141 on the Macon and Brunswick road, by Bailiff’s Pridgeon and Moore. He subsequently confessed to tlie com mission of the deed, but claimed that his intention was to give his wife a severe- heating, but not to hill her. Yesterday the evidence in the case showed that the old man had made threats the night be fore against the life of his wife. Evidence was also produced to show that the wo man died in consequence of the blows from the old man’s stick. No evidence was produced by the de fense,the prisoner simply making his state ment. In it he admitted that he had done the work, but claimed that he was punishing his wife because of general neg lect of his comfort and other more serious charges. The evidence was concluded yeslerday. The argument will be opened this morn ing. The State is represented by the So licitor General, and the prisoner by Mr- H. A. Dunwody and Mr. J. L. Hardeman. In Judge Crisp’s Court, some matters in equity, which were submitted without jury, were heard and determined. A Canal War. As to tlie'possibility of war with any European power over the Darien Canal, which some of the Northern papers are discoursing about, the Herald of Satur day says: The news from Washington which we print to-day, corroborates the opinion which every intelligent publicist should liave formed as to the improbability of France committing herself to a guarantee of. the project of M. de Lesseps. The State Department authorizes the state ment that the French Minister at Wash ington has communicated to Secretary Evarts, under instructions from his gov ernment, the assurance that it has no par ticipation in the movements of M. de Lesseps in the Isthmus, and that it regards his projected canal as a private enterprise in which the French government has no concern. We have never had any doubt that this would be found to he the real position of the government of France, and we are glad that an official communica tion has put an early extinguisher on the crazy rant of buncombe politicians and that class of interested patriots who ?adto think here will be wars And £ shall sutler be. uticura Dr. James Cokrie, dentist in Balti more, writes: “I have used Dr. Bull’s 'Cough Syrup personally, and Hz my family for two or three years, arul ani prepared tp say 1 that there is nothiug>.ta compare with as a remedy for coughs, colds, etc.” n- ., Aueast /idcer,t(sfr‘: , It is. A flips* r$- maikable fact,that out.tlie large lnem- mm lid toeeS nto 1 at a poinfrwltoinj ‘ lttes ■' nCaT Sheridan’s headqUa'rtehi. 1 bail'toiide.quite a distance through a muddy country. I remember now §&6& iW a ori, 4 concerned about niy r jaratice.' I' had ax Old; out my sword, and without anyidtatingdiriiing mark of rank except might think I meant to show him studied discourtesy by .30 coming—at least B thought so. But I bad no other clothes within reach, as Lee’s letters found me away from my base of supplies. I kept on riding until I metSlieridan. Tlie Gen eral, who was one of the lwroeg of the - Important Bnslncsas Change, d I We are Inforined tHhtthe widely knoWri ‘fim ofAlefx. Frotoihjgliaih'&Uo!, 12 Wiflh Street New York, liaVe retired from busi ness, and are' Ariccecded by' 'the' firin' jgfj John' A. Dodge jS.Co:,' Sit sable lpfcatlqii. _ -—JHed'reSiUBftri. those who kbow him/ intimately to be; a gentkiriari' of sterllngintegrfdy.'jThe new linn w'ill,<jariy put all. the 'contracts“arid discharge, all the '.joblfeatlonk rir Alek. Ffothingham & Co. " Coririspondehce re lating to tlie business should hereafter be addressed to John A. Dodge & Co., 12 Wall street, New York. THE FLOYD KMXES. Services at St. Barnabas. The services at St. Barnabas Chapel on Sunday morning, at which time Rev. T. A. Griffith, Chaplain of the Floyd Rifles, preached a special sermon to the compa ny, were unusually interesting. The company assembled at the armory shortly after ten o’clock, in full uniform, and un der the command of Captain J. L. Harde man, marched to tlie cliapel. Here front seats were assigned, and the services were opened. After the reading of the Episco pal service and the singing of several ap propriate hymns, Mr. Griffiths delivered a well conceived, well timed and highly inr teresting discourse. The words of the text were found in Joel, 3rd chapter, 9th and 10th verses, in the words: Prepare for war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshears into swords and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say I am strong. And Exodus, 17th chapter and ICth verse, because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. No synopsis of the discourse will be at tempted, as it would necessarily be mea gre, and inar tlie symmetry of the sermon. The duties of the Christian soldier were fully described, and all urged to join the army of Christians. Life was a ceaseless battle, and those who enlisted under the banner of the cross could neither rest or look back. The sermon was heard with much pleasure not only by the members of tlie company, but by the full congrega tion. At the conclusion of the services the command broke ranks aud retired. This is the first time a special sermon has been delivered to any of the companies of the city in some time. We hope, however, to hear several others. Carried Back. The colored man, Henry Wood, alias George Walker, wlio was arrested by of ficer Fennell, on last Friday, on the suspi cion of having murdered a man in Taylor county, bas been carried back to Craw ford county by a bailin’ sent up for the purpose of getting him. It seems that nearly two weeks ago, the prisoner, two others and the deceased, Gus McKinney, were playing a game of cards in Taylor county, near the line of Crawford. A dispute at length arose and the dead man, wlip was a stranger, was assaulted, and in the melee which followed, was hit in the head with a rock, from which blow he afterwards died. The prisoner claimed that another man threw tlie rock,although the dead man stated he was the person who ” —’le fatal missile. He was taken keeping to the jail of Cra&ford to await an investigation. ’ threw 1 the 1 for' safe 1 countv, i 'j • A Heavy Rain, With a mercury about forty, set in Sun day night, aborit ton o’clock, aud a pro fuse and pretty constant outpouring has followed 1 up to Monday night, with a promise-of continuance. The Child Sacrifice. Tlie man Freeman, of Pocasett village, Barnstable county, Massachusetts, who, under a craze, sacrificed bis little child after the manner of Abraham, has been sent to the Lunatic Asylum. ■In 1878 the price of a very handsome ly furnished abode in a leading West End quarter of London was fifteen guineas a week for the season. In 1877 twenty-five ineas a week was easily obtainable, and 1870 thirty guineas. This year one can be bad for eight guineas a week, and even that price few are yet let. A Good Sign. ri Rov. : H.. M. Turner, D.D., LL. D. (coll), preached in the Cotton Avenue Methodist phurch'on Sabbath morning. The speaker .was formerly a noted Radi cal; and very obnoxious to the whites. But the most hypercritical listener could have found rib fault'with any of his utter ances on, this occasion. ,T1ig sermon was a nervous and perfectly orthordox exposi tion of’a passage in. Holy Writ. Not a word of politics, ^o. rape autagonisms Or anything else .pf-aa offensive nature es- 1 raped bis lips. This much we will say for good.time is.co'miiig when all past differ-; encesrof- every- description between toe blaAk -and -'-white races will exist no .lorige^.'';!.\\\‘!' . •“ .The present month of February is re markable in Baring five Sundays—a cir cumstance which, will not occur again till the year 1,920. The child bom on Sun day; 29th of February ,1880, must wait forty yfeats'Ypf its next birthday, and all the living who see that Sunday, must spend it well for they will never see another on earth. DEFAULTED STATE BONDS. Tennessee Threatened With a $25,- - 000,000 Law Sait A Washington special to tlie Cincinnati Commercial says representatives here of the Southern States which have repudia ted their debts, are watching with much anxiety the bill now pending in the Su preme Court, which New Hampshire has filed against Louisiana. If this can be made to stick, aud an injunction granted prohibiting Louisiana officials from pay ing ont money in tlie Treasury for any other purpose, it will be a signal for a fire all along the line. Local sentiment and sympathy here are altogether with New Hamshire in this fight, and the hope is general that she will make her defaulting sister come up to the scratch and liqui date her obligations. Laige quantities of Louisiana bonds are held here, which gives tlie greater zest to this unique law suit. The dishonored obligations of Ten nessee, amounting to nearly $25,000,000, are scattered all through the Northern States, and if this suit against Louisiana holds water, Tennessee will next be brought up for settlement. All required of holders of these bonds will be to trans fer them to tlieir respective States, and let suit be brought after the manner of New Hampshire against Louisiana. 'A gentle man in this city holding quite a quantity of Tennessee bonds, says be will give one halfofthemtogetthe other half collec ted. The Emigrant’s Return. Tlie Chattanooga Times says Mr. George R. Denton passed through the city yester day cn route for his home in Upper East Tennessee. Mr. Denton is on his return from Texas, and relates a sad story of liis misfortunes. He left his home in East Tennessee a few years ago, to try liis fortunes in the West. His wife and three children ac companied him. He was then in easy circumstances. His children were lively, rosy-cheeked aud healthy, and his wife was in the enjoyment of a healthy and vigorous womanhood. They left their home with bright visions for the future; with every prospect of success and happi ness. He engaged in farming in Texas, and for a while it seemed as if all their expectations of prosperity would be real ized ; but soon the deadly ague laid its deadly hand upon Iris little girls, and one by one they were buried. He was almost distracted with grief and began neglecting his business. But Iris cup of bitterness still was not full. His wife died a few weeks after his last child was buried. Af ter this came business reverses, and from all he bad scarcely sufficient left to bring him to bis native home This is the story as he related it to us. He seems almost heartbroken; bis for tune is shattered, and he is a perfect physical wreck. He is now going home, he says, to die. A perfect exhibition of what is sometimes in the alluring prospects of a Western life. Trying to Clap on the Quinine Breaks Again. The Philadelphia quinine monopolists die hard. They are making a desperate attempt to have the duty on cinchona re established by the present Congress. A Philadelphia paper, the Press, i3 lending them its influence for that purpose. But the game will not succeed. The fact is patent that the price of this inval uable drug in warm latitudes and malarial districts, has declined sensibly within the past year, and is destined to go even low- The revenue raised upon the tax on quinine bas been appropriately styled “blood money.” It was wrung out of the pittances ofttimes of the poor, who are forced to work in exposed situations or starve, and to whom this specific against fever is an indispensable necessity. We trust our Southern members, Inde pendents and all, will be a unit at least up on this question. Hacon the Best Market for South west Georgia. We had the pleasure of meeting last evening Messrs. W. Minor and Joseph Eichbaum, two of Montezuma’s enter prising merchants. They are both staunch friends and old subscribers of the Telegraph, and declare that they can make their purchases of groceries, dry goods and hardware on better terms in Macon, freight taken into ‘consideration, than in New York, Baltimore, Chicago, Louisville or any other Northern or West ern city. And this is nothing but the simple truth. Time and. again have our principal wholesale dealers offered to du- licatc any bona fide bill boiight at the forth, freight off. Macon sbould be tlie market town for all of Middle, Southern and Southwestern Geoigia, and when the railroad commissioners "adjust the sched ules so that there can he no further dit» criminations, our city will almost double its cotton receipts, and a new era of pros perity will be inaugurated. “So mote it be.” •" The Galley Slave. We learn from Manager Ford, that early in March, the Galley Slave, the latest and most successful of Bartley Campbell’s dramas, will be presented in Macon. The play is now running its third month at Niblo’s Garden in New York, and. has been presented all through the East arid the West. It has never yet been produced in the South, but from its assured success in the North, it will no doubt be well received when it is brought out/ Some handsome panel lithographs of some of the characters of the drama will be on exhibition at Burr Brown’s to day after eleven o’clock. DBS J r.R W. K. MOL3K1 fj,f DENTISTS, . . No SI Bilberry Street, Xaoon, G& T wth extracted without D»in, beautiful aetn of Tselh Inserted, Abscessed Teeth end Diseased Sams cared. Dealers-in all kinds ot Dental Materials 'nd Instruments. Oonstently on hand a lsrtcu *nd From the Hon. Wm. Taylor, State Senator of Maszachusetts. Mssms. WJ1E9 * Poiisa: Gentlemen—Ter raj thut lam cratr hit. la only a poor expression cl my feeunar, but it is tt-e ‘est word 1 can use for 1 can feel it *n or cry sense of the uord. I haw beraaswat sufferer with .'kin dijenea fer the ls.t t-else l ears. My brad and hp-e baine cor- < red with soret, I could not rest with tho bum. inc hfat and itchier of Ibe parts affected, and was ecuBned to my ho 'ae for weeks at a time. My disease baa been cal lot Eczema, of a molt ac. rotated tjpe. by many pbjsicians, but I doubt- if ever lnlly underst od try any of them. It was more likea combination of .ereral skin humors. I have spent much mouey seekinc a core, and m 18671 wen to Europe, a.d consulted someot the beat ph> aieians in London. I received tempora ry iclef only, for in the ioriegit would break cat aguin as bud a. ever. When I rams back to Boston. I was till hy many fr ends t) at Dr. — (whose reputation lor the cure of those diseases v as of tu highest order) cou'd cure me. I wait* ei on toe docter; he prescribed for me. I follow ed ilia ad- ice for six months, and I cun safety s*y. without any improvement. I tr.ed other physicians, and among them Dr. —of Bast Boston, and Dr.—of city proper, but all to no purpose. They did me no good; their rem- fdiea weieao in.fleitual that as no time did I feel that a cure won!l result from them. 11 aveswallow*d firs huncr d arsen : c pills, 5 20 grain, and taken bottle »fter bottle cf i ter- nal remedic » besides altbe externa! applica tions I have used, bat tbe effect was the same. I beoame satisfied that I could not be cured, but mixkt be kept fr.m getting worse. Now, about three months ago, Ur. Meehan, a gentleman well known to Bo-ton people, called toy a.tentiou to ycur Cuticura, and promised woede- ful results i> I would only m ks a trial. He told me of his own experi- n o with it, and so pan ever ed on me that 1 went with him to a drag ■ tore and bright two large boxes cf Cuticnra, and tome Cuticura Soap, and comireaced to use it acoordine to directions. Thera was so much, humor lodged within tbe skin, that astoonaal commenced tbe use cf Cuticura tt came to the surface and festered, until vast Qumtiiie* had come out and greatly iut-n-ified my sufferings, fer about two weeks. But I dii not mind thU. as 1 felt that I was going to g t nd of the humor- when 1 saw it oomir g to the enrface in such large- quantuiis. after tbe first two or three weeks* use of thi remedy, I we* xrea ly encouraged by a gradual .’es-enir g of ti. lofiammation of a num* ber of pwnful sores. I careful'y, faithfully and. cheerfully followed the directions to the Utter, feeling each w*ek nearer a cure, until at tbe pre sent mom*nt. after three months use of Cuticura and twelve years cf as constant suffering as was ererendund, 1 can lay that I am cu*ed, and pronounce my case the most r m&rkab'e on rec ord. 1 have been so elaVd with my ruccosa that I have Bt opted men on the street who were af- lilcied, ace told them toaetthe Cnt : cur& audit would cure them. Tbiiis why I am ro grateful to you, fir I believe it to be the best and greatest discovery ol tbe age. and that it will cure all who are sufirring with these diseases. I may add that I tuck lo internal medic ne bat the Cuticu ra Btsolvcnt. WILLIAM TAYLOR. Boston, August 22,1878 Cuticura Remedies. Cuticura Resolvent is the most powerful Blood Purifier and Liver Stimulant ever compounded. Cuticura is tbe great exterrd remedy for aD Hum ora cf the Scalp aud 8«in. Ulcers, and Old Sore*. Cuticura Soap is an elegant toilet and medici nal assistant to Cuticura for allexte:nal affec tions. Prepared by Weeks A Potter, Chemists and Drugging. S6o Warhicgton street. Bo-ton, Mast, and lor sale by all Druggists and Dealers. Price of Cutu-nsa. small boxes, to cents: large boxes, containing two and one half times the quant ty of small, si- Peso! vent, s> per bottle. Cuticu ra Soar, 25 ants per cake; by mail, SO centst three cake*. 75 cents. ©01-UiV$» Hundreds ot little nerves and muscles respond to iMinic awfigirMBistho Electrical action of WAttlC B5£ UE87iB3 thc S e wonderful Plasters, r/JctcRS the moment they area** *A5I tn - p!nu. They instantly an* nihilste Pain, Strengthen Weak and Painful Parts, Draw Poisons from the Blood, Prevent Fe ver and Ague, Liver and Kidney Complaints, lull CUTICUKA REMEDIES can be bad at ELLIS’ DRUG STORE, Triangu lar block. nov22 AK & (MS FROM FACTORY DirettMni Every Man hi 8 own Agent. LUDDEN & BATES’ Brand INTRODUCTION SALE Hunt-nil* a until Nov. 1, 1880. unly sale of the kind ever sucj-enfully carried cut in Ameri ca. Five Tint II a mid Sii0rrb Instruments at Factory rates for introduction and advertise ment Don’t miss this chaccs to oin this Gigan- t : cClubcf 5iG0 purchasers, and s-cure an in strument at w holer ale rater SEW PLAN FOF SELLING, No Atcbtsl No Commissions! instrument* shipped fiom Factory direct to purchasers, and all middle-men’s profits saved. Every man hit own agent, and entitled to ag'nt'i rates. The only house Jou'h ceiling on this n<w o’an. Boy- irgfromusis practically buying frun the man ufacturer-. and ourpnera are as low at manu facturers ev. r give. See these special offers: PIANOS. <!I97 1 Oar. Rese- 9i«D wood, carved legs Ca’alcgue prlco 5521. $155 ** on,. Rose Carnd legs. 8erceni>nr >th Ca*. price 5660 !M'9K®ci. Sqja*c Grand. Extra larg> size and msguifl- oently ornamented cine Catalogue p»lce st.fOO ORGANS 9 Stem*.Hand- tfcST •ome walnut cate, with gold orn-mention. IS ai*|t«.Tbne^| wood, Urge six- **ta of reeds, large size, el Undid top Etag* era rase oi rich design. IS wrupa.Thrce QSCL jets reeds, superb 4irror Top French Wal nut. Bur! inlaid and gold irnament-d nup. Dr.' Turner, and; can but hope that the ^ _____ sU mar* dAw Beal Estate in the South.—The New Orleans Times says: The vast influx of money into the South is producing a very marked effect on the value of country property. Commission merchants have lunhto cany a heavy burden in the shape of lands, taken to secure debts. Such property has for a long time been unsala ble, but now finds ready purchasers. Prices are still comparatively low, but the improvement in the general feeling is very marked. All guaranteed lnitrumonts trom reliable ma kes. Sud trader six years guarantee. Shipcet direct from factory, or from Savannah.if pre- f :r:ed. Fcr #10 extra on a piano or g4on*n organ, wo assume freight to any railroad depot or steamer landing Sooth. 8ent on 15 days test trial, we p-y the Ire ght both ways if notsatis- f-.c'. '-y. Ord<*r sni test in jour ownh-'me. 8e- verest tests of competent musicians invited.Pur- ebasera’ <h ice from Ten Leading Maker* and Two hundred different styles. Special rate* ta teacher*, schools, churcbet and pastor*. Fend for Introduction Sale Circular giving full infor mation. Address LUDDEN & BATES, SAVANNAH. GA, WHOLESALE OMAN AND PIANO DEALERS, dec27-d!tawAwly A OARER. To all wbe are Buffering from the error* and indiscretion* of youth, nervous weakness, early decay,loss of manhood, etc. I will aend a recipe that will rare yoa. PR IB OF OHABGI. The great remedy was discovered by a missionary in South America. Send a aelf-addreaaed tnveope to the Rev. Josmk T Inman, Station D,New Tort. . »aodlde Woes of Ireland. The New York Herald of yesterday comes'out with an appalling statement in relation to the' destitution in Ireland, and prints a moving appeal for help which it backs by a personal subscription of the munificent sum of one hundred thou sand .dollars 1‘ This will arouse the- people to come to the rescue with larger contributions. See the HerahTs address- among the telegrams. Every mother-in-law should recom mend Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup for her grand-children and thus keep peace in the family. The steamship Falcon, of the Baltimore and Charleston line, which collided with a British ship and sunk, four or five months ago, has been raised, and was bid off at United States marshal’s sale in Bal timore, a few days ago, for $3,800. Ladies’ and cbiidisn’a boot* and abo** can not ran over if Lyon’s Patent fl*d 8 tiff scare ] axe med. LbWre