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!%*>■ Sr&ljegjc&pfy Hassgtutl « 3Jfe«3famg£K, ttppji anil jitorngtr MACON, FEBRUARY If .880. —A Bradford (Pa.) family were made very sick, one almost to death, by eating poisoned cheese. —Parisian fire screens are made of frosted glass engraved with designs of monograms, birds, butterflies and other oddities, and mounted in gilt bamboo frames. —They call it a romantic marriage in Michigan when a couple of the neighbors get the bride’s father into a back room and sit on him to prevent his interrupting and breaking up the wedding. —The lion. Mrs. Ronald Campbell, whose husband was killed in the engage ment on the hill of Eambula, will ac company Empress Eugenie in her pilgrim age to Zululand. —There came very near being a panic in a Chicago theatre a few nights ago. A man arose between acts and said, “Come, Colonel, lets go out and take something, and half the male audience in the par- quette got up and said they would. —A young man was recently released from prison in London, where he had been confined for contempt of court for eloping with a ward in chancery and marrying her. —Edgefield and Nashville each having voted by a majority for annexation under an act of the General Assembly, Edgefield is now annexed to and becomes a part and parcel of the city of Nashville, and in law and is in fact subject to all the laws, rules and regulations thereof. —Queen Victoria is the owner of a sil ver gilt casket in which are lockets con taining locks of hair of thirteen officers who fell at lsandula. Each locket is en graved with an “In memoriam,” and the name of the officer together with the date of his death. The souvenir was ordered by the Queen. —A hill for the restoration of capital punishment is before the Wisconsin Leg islature, and a Janesville merchant, to test public sentiment on the subject, made a canvass among his customers who were electors. Out of sixty-nine the sum of one day's vote, thirty-seven favored and thirty-two opposed the bill. —The Canghnawaga Indians, who live opposite Lacliine, on the beautiful Lake St. Francis, have a reservation of 36,000 acres, which, under the treaty, no white man is allowed to occupy. Canadian squatters haved pre-empted about 16,000 acres of this land, and their expulsion is demanded. —Miss Rogers, a cousin of Richard Cobden, was the prodigy in the last exam inations at Oxford University, England. She outstripped all the other students, male and female, in Greek and Latin. Her knowledge in other branches is quite as wonderful. After passing her exami nation she was at once appointed lecturer in Somerville hall, one of the Oxford buildings for women students. —A Sacramento undertaker’s con science accused him of being glad when he heard of a death, and he became con vinced that even the'probability of an epi demic caused pleasurable emotion. He, therefore,committed suicide, leaving a let ter in which he said that he could no lon ger remain in a business, the profits of which were closely connected with human misery. —The oldest turpentine fields north of N ewburn, North Carolina, are well nigh abandoned, the industry having been largely diverted to the more productive pine forests of South Georgia. There are, however, immense tracts of virgin pine forests in the southern belt of North Caro lina which will supply Wilmington with naval stores fora century to come. —A musician named Bruno, was killed a fortnight ago by an electric shock receiv ed from the apparatus for producing the electric light at the Holte Theatre, Aston, Birmingham. A single powerful battery supplies all the lights at the theatre and its adjoining grounds, and the wires con veying the current pass over the orchestra. Mr. Bruno placed his hand on the wire and received the full shock of the electric current. He was rendered unconscious by the shock, and died in a short time. —The latest case of absent-mindedness comes from Tennessee. A young gentle man of Memphis, loves a girl who lives in the country, up the railroad. Wishing to see her he hired a horse and buggy and drove out to her house, hitch ing the horse at the door. After a while he came out, happy, serene and delighted, walked down to the railway station, got a ticket and rode back to Memphis, leaving his horse hitched near the country gate. —The Sedalia (Mo.) Democrat reports that a party of gentlemen have discovered a mound near Nob Noster, in that State, which contains the skeletons of pigmies, . with skulls no larger than a man’s fist, and the jaws provided with a full set of teeth, showing them to be the remains of grown persons. —fhe National Quarterly Beview for Proercw of the Country—Interesting a vast crater or volcano, and may at any fitntiatioa. t,me be blown U P- Reports have reached ,, _ _ _ Dtawauwfc us that two new craters have burst open, Mr. R. B. Porter, a well known and re- an( j t j lat g re an Q smoke are issuing from liable statistician of Chicago, has recently them and can clearly be seen at Laudat.” been preparing comparative tables under • — ■ instruction from the Census Bureau, of the Tho Lease end Sale of the Macon January, lias an article entitled “A South erner’s Estimate of the Life and Charac ter of Stephen A. Douglas,” by Hon. J. D. Waddell, of Marietta. It is an article of rare merit, scholarly and able. It is a production that will reflect credit upon Southern literature. Colonel Waddell is a graceful, forcible and eloquent writer. —Lady Thornton carries out her Brit ish ideas in Washington. A correspond ent of the Syracuse Journal says that the English woman very emphatically de clares that her guests shall not by her consent, be criticised through the press. Whoever attempts to describe what this or that lady wore at the British Legation, has gained such information without the consent of the hostess; and, having once offended in this particular, need not ex pect to he again invited. CURIOSITIES OF THE TELEPHONE.— With a single telephone held, say to the right ear, the transmitted voice appears to come from a distance to. the right; while with a telephone held to the left ear, it seems to arive from the left of the list ener. With a telephone to each ear, if one ear be less sensitive than the other, or if the telephone he held further from that ear, the voice apparently shifts to the side of the other ear; and if both ears hear alike and both instruments are equally near their respective'ears, the voice apparently proceeds from in front of the observer. Marietta Journal: On last Saturday evening, at a turkey shooting match, a few miles below Powder Springs, in this county, Mr. Thomas Entrican accidental ly dropped his gun on the ground, the hammer struck a rock, .and the gun was discharged, shooting three men. Mr. Wade Mozley had his left ankle shattered fearfully, and amputation will be neces sary it i’s thought. Mr. Alec Gresham and a Mr. Holbrook received painful flesh Wounds. wealth and taxation of the United States, They show the progress made by the coun try, but demonstrate that the advance of the West has been much more rapid than that of any other portion of the country. The ta bles show the change in population during the past nineteen years. In 1860 that of the nine Eastern States, including New York and Pennsylvania, was 10,594,300; of the Western States, Ohio 'not included, 6,752,368, and that of the thirteen South ern States, 10,259,016. At the close of 1S79, the populations of the same territory were, respectively, 14,403,000; 14,655,000 and 14,295,000. These estimates are not official, and will have to be verified, but it is not likely they are very wide of the truth. When we come to the the tables of ag ricultural products from 1870 to 1878, in clusive, we get on firmer ground, because there are positive data to go upon. The only section upon which Mr. Porter ap pears to be ill-informed is the Southern, According to his tables the Eastern States raised, in 1870,90,829,000 bushels of com and 24,000,000 bushels ot wheat. In 1878 the same States raised 104,998,200 bush els of com and 47,000,000 bushels^ of wheat. The Southern States in 1870 produced 343,613,000 bushels of com and 33,000,- 000 bushels of wheat. In 1878, 314,729,- 600 bushels of com and 40,000,000 bush els of wheat—which is a falling off in nine years of 30,000,000 bushels of com and an increase of 7,000,000 bushels of wheat. The Western States, in 1870, produced 659,813,000 bushels of com and 168,000,- 000 bushels of wheat, In 1878,963,490.- 950 bushels of com and 332,000,000 bush els of wheat. The manufacturing interests of the country, also, show a large increase throughout the country, the Eastern States, however,making the best showing. Pig iron, says the statician, can be pro duced more cheaply at the South, be cause of the low cost of labor and the raw material. He might have added that the ore is of better quality than elsewhere in the Union, and in some places its quality is pronounced equal to the best Sweedish productions. The statician fails to recog nize the fact that the plainer cotton fab rics are also manufactured cheaper than anywhere else, and with slightly deeper investigation would have found a health ful revival in operations of the cotton mills, not only of Georgia, but of all other States in the cotton belt. Mr. Porter,while evidently showing pa tience and care in his researches, presents tables which are essentialy defective. In the consideration of the cereal crops only com and wheat are considered,manifestly doing injustice to the South with her va ried products of this kind and consequent sources of revenue. The tables conclude with the prediction that the West will, for the next decade at least, wield the dominant influence in the politics of the country and that the sceptre so long held in the East will have to follow the west ward star of prosperity and pass into the keeping of the sturdy yeomanry of the West. For Ireland’s Sake. The Richmond Irish Relief Society have taken the proper course in regard to the funds sent by that society to the suf ferers in Ireland—that they shall be dis tributed without regard to creed. This is the only true manner in which the re lief funds should be sent, and in so send ing the benevolent desires of the donors are more completely carried out than in any other way. The responses to calls from the Emerald Isle are liberal from all parts of the countiy, and the sums being daily placed to the credit of those having the distribution in charge speak loudly for the strong ties existing between Old Ireland and this republic. The Irish have the sympathy of the world, and now that her people are in distress, gladly docs this sympathy take tangible shape and form in a generous charity, manifest ed all over this countiy. The its Franco-German War and Cost. The cast of the Franco-German war has at last been footed up by skilled sta- ticians and experts, and is found to amount to 13,939,000,600 francs, or re duced to dollars and cents in round num bers to two billion, seven hundred and eighty-seven million, eight hundred thou sand dollars. This does not include the damage to the material interest of the country, by the stagnation of manufac tures, nor its loss In the young life of its yeomanry, who yielded up their lives to their country, nor, indeed, a thousand incidental losses indirectly entailed by the war. War in all instances is a very ex pensive luxury, and France to-day fully realizes the fact. Curious Effects of a Eruption. Dominican The St. Thomas, West India, Tidende learns that on Sunday, January 4, at about 9 a. m., a heavy fall of rain commenced in Dominica, which lasted for several hours. About two horns after the rain began to fall a heavy cloud suddenly spread over the entire town, causing al most total darknesss, and for about a quarter of an hour there was a perfect deluge of rain and ashes. The Roseau river became much swollen, flooding a greater portion of the town, carrying away cattle and houses. The cause of this disaster is a volcanic eruption at the Boiling lake, the lands in the vicinity of which have keen covered with lava. This Lake is some thirty miles from the town of Roseau. The River Point Mulatrc has been filled up and its course turned, by which several estates have been flooded. It is fortunate that there was such a heavy fall of rain at the time or the entire town of Roseau might have been destroyed by fire. Rather curious it is, however, that there was not the slightest oscilla tion of the earth which would have led one to suppose that an eruption had oc curred. A private letter from Roseau says: “At 11 a. m., on the 4th fcstant the whole place was darkened by a heavy storm of sand, mixed with sulphur, antimony and iron. In a short time it was thick on the ground and housetops and the gutters round the eaves of the house were choked with it. Fortunately it rained heavily all the time, otherwise we should have been blinded or suffocated with the sand and sulphur. The air being charged with an timony many persons felt a great nausea. Women fainted and went into hysterics. The Roseau riveroverflowed its banks and carried away cattle, sheep and a house be longing to Mr. Davis. The storm was ac companied with lightning and thunder, and I expected every moment to feel an earthquake and perhaps he swallowed up. It took myself and four others from 7 a. m. to 1 p. m. to clear up my garden, bration, ard Brunswick Railroad Finally Off Despite the cheering tidings of a con trary nature, so recently published, we are forced to announce that, at the eleventh hour, all the efforts of Messrs, Couper, Hazlehurst and Lane proved abortive, and midnight having been reached on the 12th instant without a fi nal settlement, the whole affair lapsed by default, and netther lease nor sale was effected. The following facts may be re ceived as perfectly reliable, coming, as they do, from the lips of one of the prin cipal participants in the negotiations, who was present to the very close of the last conference. Every requisite had been duly taken to perfect the purchase and comply with the very letter of the law. All the money and bonds called for were forthcoming, the titles, transfer papers, stock scrip, blanks, etc., had been provided, and even the seal of the new Company had arrived from New York, to be attached to the fi nal settlements. Indeed, the matter was considered finally arranged. At this crit ical moment, a dispatch from Mr. Wilson, one of the company in New York, threw a bomb shell into the camp of the negoti ators. It was to the effect that unless Governor Colquitt would, on the part of the State, sign a warranty title to the road and] its appurtenances against all claims of every nature whatsoever, (of course including the $600,000 second mortgage bonds) that gentleman would withdraw from the proposed purchase This was a most serious hitch just when the affair was about to be consummated, Governor Colquitt called in Judge Bleck ley and Hon. Martin J. Crawford to act for the State, in concert with Attorney General Ely, and the deliberations were protracted until the last moment allowed by the law. Finally, a little before the clock sounded the witching hour of twelve, a message from the Governor and his counsel announced that the executive had no authority to make the stipulated guar anty. That was a matter requiring leg islative action, and therefore the Governor could not consistently assume the respon sibility of such a proceeding. As a necessary consequence, the sale went by default, not having been perfect ed within the prescribed thirty days, and it was made practically null and void by the surrender of all binding papers in the hands of those to whom the property was knocked off at auction. Some say the Governor ought to have played the part of General Jackson, and given the required warrantee title. But one must be placed in his position before being able to decide in the premi ses. A slrict construction of the law is al ways the safest course to be pursued. There is a terrible impeachment mama abroad just now,too,and doubtless theGov- ernor’s enemies would not have been slow to attack him had he assumed to act for the State in this important transaction. We wish, however, that he could have seen his way plainly to do so, and do not be lieve that there is any reasonable doubt that the next General Assembly would have sustained him. Of this thing, however, we are assured even by one of the defeated lessees: Gov ernor Colquitt earnestly desired the con summation of the lease or purchase, and sought, by every means which he consid ered lawful, to accomplish it. No one will regret it more than he. The result is a sad blow to Southern Georgia and and Brunswick’s prospects. The whole ground will now have to be gone over de novo with all the uncertain ties of future legislation super-added. There is one course, however, open to the Governor, which some of our best citizens earnestly desire him to pursue. It is to call the Legislature together in extra session to pass such enabling act as may be deemed necessary in the premises, and for that specific purpose only. Sev eral of our prominent citizens, among then Hon. A. O. Bacon, Colonel Whittle and Colonel C. J. Harris supposing that the time of the lease would not expire un til the night of the thirteenth, telegraphed yesterday to the Governor, advising him to give the desired guarantee, and assur ing him of the support of the people if he did so. But the deliberations had already closed. There is another view of this transaction entertained by some of the best legal minds, which is deserving of considera tion. They hold that the sale did not necessarily lapse at the expiration of the thirty days in this particular instance, be cause the lessees had literally complied with the law in its every requirement. The first instalment had been duly paid, and the bargain clinched, and they were ready to turn over all the necessary bonds and every dollar of the cash demanded to perfect the purchase. The laches, therefore, was on the part of the State. Of .course the Common wealth, just as any private individual, was expected to warrant and defend the title it gave to the sale of this public property, and the failure to comply throws the blame upon its accredited representatives. It is held with seeming justice, therefore, that if the difficulties in the way can be removed, and the Governor properly as sured that he may with safety give the requisite guaranty—indeed, that the spirit of the act contemplated that he should do so—the thread of the negotiations could be taken up again, and the affair, if the parties are still agreed, prosecuted to a successful termination. We throw out these suggestions in the earnest hope that something may yet be done to retrieve the situation, and give to the people of Brunswick, Macon, Jones, Jasper, Newton, and all tho region from the Georgia Railroad to the ocean, the commercial facilities they so much need, and which the General Assembly enac ted, should be conferred upon them. The people will await the issue with the deep est interest. Yorktown.—A Washington dispatch says: A committee of members of tho Virginia Legislature, and others were here ttHlay, in conference with members of Congress with reference to the Yorktown celebra tion. It is understood that‘the Virginia Legislature will pass a bill appropriating $10,000 to help defray the expenses of the celebration, and it is proposed that each of the thirteen original States make an appro priation of $10,000. This would make THEBKOKEX LEASE. The Much Talked of Central Bail* road Combination with the Louia- j How nUIppencd. ville and Nashville Railroad. j Last evening Hr. J. M. Couper, of The Constitution of recent date, gave a Brunswick, passed through the city, re- startling account of the practical lease of turning home from Atlanta, and at the Remains to b«aBene. the Central railroad to the Louisville and Nashville for five years, the contract in- eluding the Georgia road and embracing sundry Tennessee lines. So far as we are 'able to ascertain, this announcement was premature and lacks confirmation. On the contrary, we have it direct from a Central Railroad direc tor just from Atlanta, that no such ar rangement has been consummated. As nearly as could be -gathered the facts are as follows: A treaty has been entered into between the Louisville and Nashville and the Central and GeorgiaRail- roads, by which the Louisville and N ash- ville may regulate all through freights from their lino to Savannah, Fort Royal and Charleston, and also tier Montgomery and the Central, with the understanding that it will pro rate with each of these roads according to distance, and giving preference to the shortest route. Ameri- cus will be the dividing line, as it is about equi-distant from Nashville, viaMontgom- ery, and via Atlanta. That is, the charges for freight to that point will be the same by either route. Beyond Americus the pro rate according to distance is contin ued. No discriminations of any sort whatever will he made agaiust connect ing roads. This agreement in no wise disturbs the present management of the contracting roads, each retaining its existing organi zation and officers, and controlling local fares. In other words, it is simply a qua si pooling arrangement, which it is asser ted will inure equally to the Benefit of all parties interested. We give the above as related to us, but vouch for nothing, when the combination of to-day is dissolved to-morrow, and all the railroads seem to be lying around loose, and gravitating in this or that di rection, according to the behests only of that mighty motor, capital, One thing is certain, however. The Central railroad people must think they have made a good thing of it as their stock was held firmly yesterday at ninety-three. We will keep our readers posted when ever anything ^reliable actually trans pires. Alas, and A-Lack-a-Day 1 Our esteemed cotemporary, the Sea port Appeal, publishes the following ju bilant extra: GLORIOUS NEWS! THE LEASE AND SALE PERFECTED, The hi. <fc B. Transferred to purchasers. GEO. H. HAZLEHURST, R. T. WILSON, . J. LANE, AND C. M. MCGHEE THE MEN WHO DID IT. Atlanta, Feb. 12, I860.—The lease and purchase of the Macon and Bruns wick railroad were perfected yesterday evening, and the road was transferred to the lessees and purchasers. R.T. Wilson, C. M. McGhee, George H. Hazlehurst, A. J. Lane and associates are the purchasers. R. T. Wilson is President of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, and Memphis and Charleston railroads, and McGhee is his General Superintendent. It is understood that Hazelhurst will be President, and that the extension will be built from Macon to Atlanta at once. The company is a strong one, and the friends of Brunswick may rest assured the road will be built, that good connec tions with Western systems will be effect ed, and that the day of discrimination against her has passed. The morning papers contain further particulars. Your friends here send greeting and congratulations. H. Note.—The Kennesaw route is Presi dent Wilson’s route, and Joseph E. Brown is its prophet.—[Editor. Now, is it not too bad that all this good news should afterwards have dissolved into thin air? How true the apothegm, “there is many a slip twixt cup and lip.” Can’t Brother Styles help us resurrect this pet enterprise of Southern and Mid dle Georgia? By the rood let us “never give up the ship.” The Effect of a Good Example. Since the New York Herald led off with its magnificent subscription to the starving poor cf Ireland, the good people oi Goth am have come to the front with $44,29S.46 more in the short space of eight days. What the sum total will amount to, cannot now be ascertained. But it will certainly reach a princely sum. How many thou sands of sufferers will be made glad by Mr. Bennett’s royal bounty 1 Nor will he bethe loscrbyitintheend. VictoriaRegia gave $2,500 to her perishing subjects, out of a revenue of millions. Citizen Bennett $100,0001 Protection to Innocent Purchasers of Patented Goods. Our readers will remember that, during the sessions of the late State Agricultural Convention, Col. T. J. Smith introduced resolution, which was unanimously adopted, to memorialize Congress to add an amendment to the. patent laws for the protection of unsuspecting parties who purchase goods that are patented from those not authorized to sell them. The following from the Herald of yes terday shows that the matter is already under advisement by the National Legis lature : The bill for the protection of purchasers of patented articles which passed the House on Monday should become a law as soon as possible. It provides that when buyers of patented articles are sued for purchasing from persons not author ized by the owners of the patent to make or sell the same, and judgments for small amounts are rendered, the persons bring ing suit shall pay all or part of the costs. Nothing but such a law—unless it be a properly handled shot gun—will dispose of the numerous sharpers that have played into each other’s hands so successfully, that many people, particularly farmers, are afraid to rarchase patented articles of any kind, So citizen who is not a special student of Patent office records can be expected to know anything about infringements or how to guard himself against them; therefore the power which makes the right of a patentee absolute should defend honest purchasers. A better method of defense could hardly be devised than the hill that is now awaiting further action, for the profits of sharp practice would be brought down to nothing if the wily prosecutors were compelled to pay the costs. The Latest Corset. London Correspondence of the New York Timet. By the way, as a privileged person, I was on* day this week, in a famous store, shown the latest corset from Paris. It was a most elaborately made pair of stays made to exaggerate a narrow waist by the addition of artificial hips and an artificial bust. “English ladies will wear this a great deal during the coming season,” said the artist who presided over my pri vate view of the new invention, “but my Paris correspondent tells me they expect to send more of them to America than to England.” The truth is the United States is quicker to adopt the French $130,000, of which $30,000would be ample - . . ... . . to defray the current expenses of the cele- fashions than England; and in contradrs- . 3 an .i f i 1(i remainder, $100,000,1 tinction to this bad sign of the further g**™* «?% ’iWXK - styi^?i2S±gS! SZgS&SEi JdVSSsSlSiS structure uSl.y of the e.eut couW then; sociew of the bahy-trarst, and loose robes. ! nary weather. We seem to be living on . be reared. lortneyea laaya. 1 carshed, just before the leaving of the train on the Macon and Brunswick road, was interviewed by a representative of this paper. Mr. Couper stated that the refu sal of the Governor to give a warrantee deed to the road caused his com pany no little surprise. It had come up to every legal requirement of the lease act. The funds were all in hand to the amount of a quarter of a million of dollars, the amount required by the act, They were required by the Governor to strengthen their bond, and did so by plac ing, through their hankers in New York, securities to the amount of four hundred thousand dollars, in such position as,to be a cash security to the State. Tho only demand they made was warrantee deed. This was insisted on. The Governor took the matter under ad visement. The time steadily passed away and up tc-nearly twelve o’clock the lessees waited patiently for a reply. The Governor finally announced that after consultation with legal advisers, he did not think under provisions of the act, he could give the required guaranty bond. The company, therefore, thinking that there was too much at stake, in a trans action of this magnitude,to risk the taking possession of a road over which was suspended a claim for six hundred thous and dollars worth of bonds, and they ac cordingly withdrew from the transaction, Mr. Conper assures us that his com pany has acted in the purest good faith throughout. The failure of the lease was entirely unlooked for, and almost up to the last moment a consummation was an ticipated. The company, through Mr. George H. Hazlehurst, had ordered ten thousand tons of steel rails, and he doubts whether the contract can be easily cancelled. The intention of the company was, among other things, to give Atlanta a railroad from Gunter’s Landing, by completing the Georgia Western. Con nections would also have been made by the East Tennessee, Virginia and Geor gia railroads, and the Memphis and Charleston railroads with the West, The company was composed of nine per sons, their aggregated wealth amounting to little less than twenty million dollars. As to the future course to be taken. Mr. Couper could give no information, Yesterday the news produced a profound impression in the city. There seemed a general feeling of disappointment over the failure of the lease. The opinion was freely expressed that the Governor, if suf ficient assurance could be given by the company which has just declined the lease, that if the proper guarantee were given they would re-assume the contract, he should call the Legislature together. A telegram suggesting such a course sign ed by some of the most prominent gentle men of the city, was sent to the Governor yesterday. Central stock, which had de clined the day before, yesterday took a booming upward tendency and went to ninety-six, at which figure it closed in good request. TRAMPS. TbeCMylnlMtedbya Gang-. Reports now reach us daily of the ex ploits of tramps in the city, and it seems as if there was a regularly organized gang now operating in the corporation A few nights since a lady was knocked down by a tramp in her own house, and on the same night attempts were made to enter several other houses. On Thursday night no little excite ment was occasioned on Magnolia street by the attempt of tramps to gain entrance to one of the residences on that street. About ten o’clock Mrs. L. B, Pike was attracted by a noise at the back door of her residence, and leaving her bed-room, went there, discovering that there were several men on the back pi azza. She was told to open the door or she would be killed. She did not reply, but went to the front of the house and cried loudly for help. Several gentlemen in the neighbor hood rushed to the rescue, but the tramps had made good their retreat. Several persons heard footsteps as they ran off into the darkness. Mrs. Pike with two small children was unprotected, all the male members of the familyjbeing absent. She was unable to say whether they were white or black. It is thought that the tramps have several women accomplices who go around the city »and dis cover the places where mere are gentlemen, examine the fast enings of tho doors, or in other ways prepare the way for the operations of the masculine members of the gang after niglit-fall. The attempts which have come under notice so far have been made in the early hours of the night. The po licemen have been notified, and are keep ing lively watch on suspicious looking parties about the city. In th* meantime, a loaded revolver or a reliable shot gun on the premises, would be a decided re-as surance and an agreeable protector, Harried. The Columbus Times speaks as follows of the marriage of Mr. Peyton E. Moore, Jr., of Macon, which occurred in that city day before yesterday : At the residence of the ' bride’s father, Colonel E.M. Hogan, yesterday morning at three o clock, Mr. Peyton E. Moore, Jr., formerly of Athens, but now mail agent between Macon and Columbus, and Miss Susie E. Hogan, of this city, were united in marriage, Rev. A. H. Campbell, pastor of the First Baptist Church, per- i brining the ceremony. Only a few friends and relatives were present to wit ness the impressive and solemn ceremony. Mr. Moore is a most estimable and es teemed young gentleman, and we con gratulate him that he has won the heart and hand of one of our charming young ladies, who will make him a treasure as a wife. May all that is good and success ful attend them in all their journey through life. —A hill for the restoration of capital punishment is before the Wisconsin Leg islature, and a Janesville merchant, to test public sentiment on the subject, made canvass among his customers who were electors. Out of sixty-nine, the sum of one day’s vote, thirty-seven favored and thirty-two opposed the bill. —A vineyard proprietor of the Haute Garonne was recently engaged in testing his wine, and, coming to a large vat of the last vintage, was shocked at what he described as its “fantastic -flavor.” He accordingly allowed it to run off into other vessels, and proceeded to examine the bottom of the receptacle, when, to his horror, he discovered the body of one of his own workmen, who had mysteriously disappeared last October. The comfort ing piece of intelligence is added that the authorities have forbidden the sale of the I wine and it will he turned into brandy. The Defeated Lease auk,Sale—What ent throughout, he receives it in that spir- -n , . " it by which every honorable man should • be actuated unde: like circumstances. It is proper to say to General Gordon that while Mr. Stephens accepts his apology and the withdrawal of the words he re grets having uttered in the spirit in which they were made, yet he cannot admit the correctness of the version of what occurred on the occasion referred to as set forth in General Gordon’s letter. He cannot ad mit that there was any such provocation as General Gordon assumes in apparent justification of the words which he regrets and withdraws. Mr. Stephens does not admit there was any provocation on his. part at all, certainly none was intended. In further response to General Gordon’s letter, Mr. Stephens takes the occasion to add that nothing was further from his at tention in anything he said or did on the occasion he referred to, by tone or action to wonnd the feelings of General Gordon, or to be in anv way, by manner or other wise, in the least degree discourteous to him. As to the remarks of General Gor don in relation to what seems to have been an extreme sensitiveness O i Li* part at that time on account of what had been reported to him about Mr. Stephens having done him a great injury in private conversation, and about his having sent to Mr. Stephens a mutual friend to correct erroneous impressions under which Mr. Stephens seems to be laboring, it is proper to state here briefly that Mr. Stephens was not aware at all of any such sensitiveness or cause of such on the part of General Gordon. It is true, a gentleman who stands in a friendly position to both Mr. Stephens and General Gordon, did call upon Mr. Stephens sometime ago and sta ted General Gordon had requested him to come and make some explanations which he thought would disabuse Mr. Stephens’ mind of impressions existing on it in rela tion to his conduct. Mr. Stephens said promptly in reply, as soon as the object of his mission was stated, “tell General Gor don that I do feel that I have been badly treated by him, and if he has any expla nations to make to come in person and make them himself. I want no interme diate. We can talk over all these matters ourselves, and in this way come to a bet ter mutual understanding.” General Gordon did not act in accord ance with the request, but Mr. Stephens was in no irritated mood with him be cause of that or anything else, and there fore had not the slightest intention of be ing in the least discourteous to him before a committee of his associate Senators in anything he said. Mr. Stephens did not know what General Gordon wished to explain through a mutual friend, or what Mr. Stephens had been reported to him as having said about him, and therefore does not knew even now what portion of his re marks before the committee was considered by him as such “insinuations” as produced the great excitements which he admits. Mr. Stephens was entirely unconscious at the time of what had occasioned it. We hope the end of this unfortunate controversy has been reached. By its notoriety the pigmy, Simmons, has been magnified into a most unseemly impor tance. Now let the Senate sit down up on that illiterate secession hater, and con sign him again to the oblivion of the past Shakespeare’s Wisdom. Shakespeare, wisest of men, over two hundred years ago, detailed almost every experience of the human heart, and al most every phase of human life, and in one place he even seems to have prophsied that remedy of remedies, the Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. 2w The failure of the Governor to ratify the sale of the Macon | * Brunswick railroad, however conscidsiy&us may have been his motives, has created intense dis appointment throughout^ Middle and Southern Georgia. Marry able lawyers believe that the lease or sale Act and em phatic deliverances of the General Assem bly, were tantamount to a guaranty of title should the provisions of the law be duly carried out. They say, in no event did the Governor assume any personal re sponsibility, even if his action, (which is not probable) when received by the next Legislature should fail to be sustained. So far as any liability for the $600,000 is concerned, the matter has been solemnly pronounced upon in the negative by the highest authority known to the find on two separate occasions. A strong effort will be made, therefore, to induce the Governor to reconsider his late action and sign the warrantee title to the road, which is all that the purchasers called for. Should he decline finally to do this, un less consenting to call an extra session of the General Assembly, there will be no other alternative left his Excellency but to proceed at once to appoint the five rail road commissioners, as directed by the law, and defer farther action in the .prem ises until the meeting of the next Legisla ture. No one seems to thiuk that Messrs. Bullock & Kimball havo a shadow of right to claim the lease as the next high est bidders on the 13th ultimo. According to the terms laid down in advance by the Governor, the legality of the several bids were to be strictiy scrutinized, and, in the event that the road had been knocked off to any party who should, upon investiga tion, be found ineligible under the terms of the laW, then, and only then, should the next highest bidder be allowed to come in. But in the instance under review, no objection of any kind whatever was made to the successful bidder, and after due de liberation the transaction was approved and the bargain ratified, by the prompt payment of the ten thousand dollars ad vance money required under the act. This made the lease perfectly legal. And if it failed afterwards for any non-fullfilment of the proposed terms, then the whole matter necessarily fell through, and the Governor could only proceed as instructed, to appoint five commissioners to take charge of the road, etc. Able lawyers assert, as the lessees came to time in every particular before the ex piration of the thirty days, and there was no default on their part, that the Govern or has still a perfect right to re-consider his action, if he deems proper, and ap pend his signature to the warrantee title, which was demanded. It could not be supposed that any company, making a purchase involving an outlay of millions, would be content with any other than a perfect title to the property in question. A New Bankrupt Act. The Judiciary Committee ot the Na tional House of Representatives, are taking steps to perfect another bankrupt law. It seems to be generally conceded that some such measure is needed for the protection of the victims of misfortune who have relentless creditors. But up to this time every statute of the kind has served but to cloak the villainy of thousands, while the instances are few and far between where any real benefit has been derived from such legislation, As a general rule the honest debtor can always make terms with his creditors. It is the dishonest who ought to be made to suffer, that seek relief from a bankrupt law that enables them to pay their debts with the sweep of the pen, and then start business full-banded again. We do not believe the people of the South desire any such law. MARDI-GRAS IN NEW ORLEANS The Spat Between Senator Gordon and Hon. A. H. Stephens. The unpleasantness growing out of the Simmons matter between General Gor don and Mr. Stephens has been amicably adjusted. Our gallant Senator, on the 7th instant, addressed the following mag nanimous note to Georgia’s Great Com moner : Hon. A. H. Stephens—Dear Sir hope you will receive this letter in the spirit which prompted me to write it. I deeply regret that I allowed myself, un der any extremity of provocation, to use toward you the harsh and angry words I uttered in the controversy yesterday be fore the census sub-committee. But it had been reported to me that for some time past you had done me grave injus' tice in private conversations, and I had sent to you a mutual friend to correct the wholly erroneous impression under which you seemed to be laboring. Therefore, when you repeated the same^insinuations before a sub-committee of my associates iu the Senate, I, of course, felt the wrong still more keenly. Then, when you ad ded the statement that you had heard that I favored ex-Marshal Smyth for the office of supervisor in the first census dis trict of Georgia, in the face of the fact that I had just a moment before, in an swer to a question from the committee, stated that I had urged the appointment of both Mr. Albert Howell and of our mutual friend, Colonel Mark Johnson, and, failing with both these, had done all I could to secure the appointment of Mr. Griffin, who - is also a Democrat—I say, when in the presence of these facts, you repeated to the committee that you had been told that I was endeavoring to se cure Mr. Smith’s appointment, I felt a sense of wrong and of outrage which compelled me to ask for the name of your informant. The charge by your informer was so false, so malicious, so directly in conflict with what I had just stated to the commtttee, and therefore so inconsistent with my character for truth, political and social integrity, so absolutely without foundation or even the shadow of an ex cuse, that upon your refusal to give me the reason of your informant, my indigea- tion.was so great that I used to you lan guage which, in view of your age and our long established friendship, I deeply regret. I allude to the words that “I would hold you responsible for the false hood until you divulged the name of the traducer 1” Of course I meant by this only that I would consider that you were re sponsible for the false charge, unless you would give me the author. These words, I repeat, I deeply regret, and, although still suffering under a sense of the wrong you have done me and still repeating the utter falsehood of your informer’s statement, I wish to recall the words which seemed to imply that I re garded you as responsible for the false hood. Very respectfully your-s, J. B. Gordon, To this Mr. Stephens replies at length, speaking in the third person. We extract as follows: Mr. Stephens acknowledges the receipt of General Gordon’s letter of the 7th inst. It was handed to him late Sunday even ing by a special messenger, and Mr. Steph ens has had no time to give it that atten tion which it deserves until last night and this morning. He wishes to say now that he duly appreciates the motives by which he is assured it was prompted, and without any comment upon the tone, feel ing and excitement in it, quite appar- The Boss Racket—Its History in New Orleans—The Present "Floats”— An Immense Theatre. St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, La., February 12,1880. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Per haps no celebration on the American con tinent is comparable to Mardi-Gras in this city. Whether it be the feeling of desperate longing to supply the appetite with the forbidden meats upon this the last day on which they (the Catholics) can eat meats that they thus indulge in great glee, or a strong desire to enjoy ex tensive merriment, meeting old friends, etc., is a matter which may be referred to to the “Mistick Krewe,” or some other power. It is nevertheless a fact that the people of New Orleans, in some way, have formed a brilliant conception of the old Roman Saturnalia, and, by intermix ing modern ideas, Lave succeded in giving an entertainment of high degree, which far exceeds the ancient awkwardness. ITS ORIGIN IN NEIV ORLEANS. It will be remembered that this city has a large Catholic population, hence the conformance to this established feast of their church in Europe. Hardi Gras or Fat Tuesday is also called Shrove Tues day, the last Tuesday before Ash Wednes day, which is the beginning of Lent. It is a movable feast, being governed by Luca phases. In 1856, on Mardi Gras day. something was said here about a proces sion that night, and the famous “Mistick Krewe of Comus” appeared in procession. This is the original body of Masqueraders in New Orleans. From 1856 to 1872, up on each Mardi Gras day, scattering mas queraders were to be seen all over the city, but there was really no organized body nor a systematic celebration. Early in tbe year 1872, Mr. Arm strong, of tbe New Orleans Times, wrote an article on tlie subject of a combined demonstration. This valuable suggestion from his gifted pen attracted large atten tion, and responses were suddenly made by leading merchants, bankers, etc., Mr. Charlie Howard, President of the Louisi ana State Lottery, heading the subscrip tion list with $100. By the day of Mardi Gras, in 1S72, sufficient funds were gath ered to give an impromptu celebration, with a Rex. The Grand Duke Alexis was here at the time, and his presence gave the affair some impetus. This occasion marked the first celebra tion of consequence of the day in New Orleans. I am told that it was tbe most interesting ever held, as it was really a general gala-day, all parties and ranks taking part. It comprised an unrestricted display and a universal participation, and the city was alive with the sound of horns and clatter of horsemen, while the mas queraders were energetic in their efforts to represent merriment. Each year im provements have been made, and from the original procession of hacks, drays, cavalcades, societies, etc., has come .a gaudy— pantomime on wheels; or a ^tableau. • representing the mysteries of enjoyment, beyond the capa bilities of an outsider. The “Royal Guards” were'organized at this time, and were out in their scarlet uniforms. The ‘Knights of Mourns” is an order of recent origin, but of importance to the day. As to the participants and the masqueraders, little is known. There is, of course, au organization, having rales, officers, etc.; but a modest mau wont risk his counte nance by asking questions of a royal Mo ral m the Carnival of the Fat Tuesday in New Orleans. It is, however, safe to assert that mer- drants, hankers and leading citizens com- irise the principal organization. A meeti ng is held each April, when are made for the next elected, etc. THE CAENItAL JUST ENDED, is said by knowing ones, to be the larges and most elegant ever given hero. Be: sides a population of over two hundred thousand who reside in New Orleans, there were estimated forty thousand visi tors. Trains consisting of only sleeping cars, ordinary passenger trains, freights, steamers, both ocean and river, came to the city literally packed with visitors. The weather was clear and cool, and all things seemed to conspire to the success of this, the leading street parade of the world. Canal street, the principal thorouglifare of New Orleans, was impas sible because of tbe assembled crowds to witness the procession, and yet all had a good view. Banners and flags being un furled from nearly every window. Hand somely dressed and beautiful ladies waved their fans and kerchiefs to the merry makers. Bands of music made the air melodious, while the eye rested upon the beautiful pageantry. On Monday after noon the King arrived, and was formally received by the. officials. and five volunteer companies of this Statn. acted as body guard, while four superior brass bands discoursed martial airs. The city officials and the King’s Royal Guards made up the balance. On Tuesday morn! ing the great Mardi Gras begun, and hv eight o clock the streets were crowded * To minutely describe the procession is not only beyond tbe capacity ofthewrf ter, but impossible because of spaeel First came the King of the carnival; the King in his chariot drawn by twelve horses—his handsomely costumed guards* besides advance guards, etc. Next a “float ’ on which stood a white ox, dec orated in ribbons and wreaths—the “6o>vf gras, and then followed twenty floats representing the four elements—earth, air water and fire. In design and delicate conception of subjects the artists, inure paring the floats and the costumes, dis played talent of no inferior grade. Then followed the “Phunny Phorty Phellows ” with their inimitable burlesques—the “Cotton Jammers Benevolent Society” and the “Products of America,” “Rum and Tobacco Excelled.” And next came an indescribable mixture of general nuisances. Bands and military were prominent in the procession. The pro cession was about one mile long and took about a half hour to pass any one point. At night the streets were filled early, and the Orleans Club and Pickwick Club rooms were brilliant. Fire-works, brass bands and crowds, about twenty mount ed policemen came dashing down the street (Canal street), and the crowd di vided like the waters of the Red Sea, and then the night begun. Great lights were lit, all colors of lights were seen, and the procession begun. First, the Mystick Krew of Comus, with their fifteen floats, representing the Aztec people and their conquest of Cortez. Next, the Knights of Momus, with seventeen floats—subject, “A dream of fair women.” These floats or cars, both in the Mystick Krew of Co mus and Knights of Momus, are elegant and grand. After the procession came the tableaux, at the opera house, of the Knights of Momus, which were surpass ingly splendid—an extensive historical representation. TheM. K. of C. gave their tableaux, in design and execution excellent. After the tableaux the balls were in order, and tlie various parties divided to attend the different balls. The invitations to the balls of the two orders cost nearly six thousand dollars, and were made in Paris. The whole Mardi Gras cost about fifty thousand dollars. THE LARGEST THEATRICAL AUDIENCE ever assembled in New Orleans was that of the Grand Opera House on Monday night, 9th instant. Nearly twenty-five hundred people were seated. Mr. T. A. Hall, who is well known at the South for his excellence as a gentleman and supe rior capacity as a theatrical manager, well sustained his reputation by having the Emma Abbott English Opeia Troupe to play here during the season of Mardi Gras. It is the first time they have ap peared in America, and they are already receiving high plaudits lor their talent. Mrs. Partington Says _ will cure general dilapidation, costive habits and all comic diseases. They saved Isaac from a severe extract of tripod fever. They are the ne plus unum of medicines.— Boston Globe. 2w hen preparations carnival, officers —Grant ought to be able to pick up a great mauy points iu Ctesarism from Diaz whose guest he will he in a few days. The history of Mexiceisthe recognized text book and standard authority on dicta torship. —The ex-Empress Eugenie has ordered of the sculptor Boehm a marble group of life size representing the Prince Imperial 1 lying dead on the ground, partly wrapped In his cloak, while an angel is crowning him. —The comparative force of gunpowder and dynamite was discussed by two miners at Tunka, California. They agreed, as a test, to explode certain quantities of the substances under two planks, the friend of gunpowder to stand on the dynamite plank and the friend of dynamite on the other. The test was made in the presence of an interested crowd of spectators. It resulted in a broken leg for the man who was lifted ten feet into the air by the dy namite, and uncounted bruises for the one whom the gunpowder threw against the trunk of a tree. AFire in the Rear.—Washington, February 11.—There is some talk here among Liberal Republicans, who are ap prehensive that Grant will be nominated at Chicago, of holding a mass convention there to nominate some man whom they might have reason to believe could be en dorsed by the regular Democratic Conven tion which would he held shortly' after ward. Just how much weight may be given to this proposition cannot now be said, inasmuch as it has only been broach ed among certain Liberal Republicans in Congress within the past few days. —What does Don Cameron mean when in urging the claims of Grant as a strong, man to the Presidency, he says: “The people of this country are tired of the un certainties of its government? Is it the uncertainties attending elections that trou ble Don?”—Cincinnati Commercial. To this the Courier-Journal responds:' That can not trouble any Republican leader who understands the facilities in the hands of the party for defrauding a majority out of the legal result of their vote. Mr. Cameron’s remark only ex presses the dominant desire of the Repub lican party fora kind of government which will do away with the expense and farce of holding Presidential elec tions. —Our army is composed of 2,187 of fleers and 24,262 enlisted men. At West Point Academy there are 24 musicians, 8 professors and 212 cadets. There are 388 retired officer. The active or com batant force of the army numbers 20,566 men, 11 generals and 1,559 officers, or one officer for every fourteen men. It would appear that there is entirely too much of ficers in our army. Tecumseh Sherman wants more officers and more men. He would like 200,000 but he will die with out being gratified. Sherman is more of a Mexican than Grant. He would “pro nounce” for himself in a minute if he had 200,000 men under him. At present there is not war material enough in the govern ment’s hands to fully equip 50,000 men. —Courier-Joumal. A Royal Author.—King CeteWayo has dictated the history of the Zulu nation and the Zulu war to Captain Poole, of the English army, and it has been published in Macmillan's Magazine. It appeared that the King when dictating the story, occasionally divested himself of nearly all his clothing to give his ideas fair play, which would tend to show that the excen- tricities of genius are not confined to civi lization. So long as he was narrating questions of foreign policy or domestic finance he remained calm, hat when he came to the story of a battle he worked himself into frenzy,.and on one occasion seized Captain Poole’s sword and hacked the furniture of the room-in illustrating the incidents of the fight. It is needless to say that after that tima all weapons were carefully removed. “ Facts are Stubborn Things. And few facts are more stubborn and difficult to overcome than the various skin diseases caused by impurities of tlie blood. But Warer’s- Safe Bitters or Safe Tonic, A long and purifies the blood and removes the sores handsome procession, in which two com- and eruptions which disfigure ami annoy- panics of the regular United States army 2w.