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Cdegrnjjjj nnh Jfitssragtr MACON, FEBUUARY 13,1880 THE GEORGIA PEESS. TnE Savannah Hibernians will have no parade this year. Tjiere are now between sixty-five and seventy pupils in attendance at Mercer High School, Pcnfield, Georgia, and a good prospect of an increase. " The Columbus military companies are thinking of disbanding. Mu. A. T. Way and Mrs. S. A. Norris, of Darien, are married. Miss Beck Wheeler, of Columbus, • fell dead in that city last Friday. Judge Hillyer, of Atlanta, is fond of bird shooting He recently took a hunt at Oconee station on the Georgia road. Bek Walker, of Greene county, killed four wild turkeys, aggregating forty-three pounds, at one shot last week. The Bainbridge Fair begins on the 6th of May next. A premium list will soon be out. It has been decided to hold the fair but one day. There will possibly be a reconsideration in favor,of two days. Mr. D. Rosser Adams, of Eatonton, married Miss Mamie E. Tufts, of Jones county, last week. So much small grain has’never been seen before in Oglethorpe county. The editor of the Meriwether Vindica tor has a boxwoodtree which grew from a sprig plucked near the grave of Washing ton at Mount Yemen, and whenever he be gins to make a hard statement he goes into the yard and looks at it and then makes it all the same. Darien Gazette: General A. R. Law- ton, of Savannah, is growing immensely popular in Southern Georgia, and it would not surprise us to see him in the Guber natorial chair in less than twelve months. General P. M. B. Young, of Carters- ville, has taken up his residence in Wash ington, D. C., for the winter. TnE Middle Georgia Military and Ag ricultural College has adopted a uniform. It is similar to the one used by the Dah- lonega college, viz: Confederate gray— short sack coat, and black stripe on the pantaloons. Jksup Sentinel: The rain last week has put the Pliinholloway in good rafting order, and the timber men are busy run ning their timber out to where they can raft it up and start for Darien. Timber is still bringing very remunerative prices. The Augusta lawyers are very much disgusted with the establishment of the new district court of Macon. Tiie Brunswick Appeal contains the following in regard to the beaching of the well known steamer David Clark last week, mention of which has already been made: “The steamer, David Clark, bound southward, attempted to pass through St. Andrews Sound in a thick fog, late Satur day evening last, and missing her reckon ing, passed through the buoy and struck the weather shore opposite little Cumber land. She stuck fast on the sand-pit, and made a bed from which two powerful steam tugs failed to dislodge her. At one o’clock yesterday, the steam tug Athlete towed the David Clark up the harbor and made her fast at the dock. She was . drived off the sand-pit by the offshore S ale Monday night, and, after a most per- ous adventure and terrible struggle to save herself, lodged on the spur of the north breaker about day yesterday morn ing. She thumped heavily for two hours, when the Athlete rescued her uninjured.” Barnesville Gazette: “The cry of fire Saturday night created a genuine panic for a few minutes, and every hurry ing passerby was plied with eager ques tions from almost every door. The hour being early and so few having retired the . rush to front gates was almost instanta neous, and divers were the questions and confusing the conjectures heard on every Bide. Those few who were so unfortunate as to have begun the task of disrobing for the night left off just where they were and joined the eager throng without fear or compunction. One colored female was seen hurrying toward the scene of destruc tion waving her striped stockings in the air in quite a tragic manner—perhaps we should explain that the stockings were iu her hands. After all the excitement and the desperate state of mind into which some of our citizens had worked them selves during the uncertainty of the oc casion, there was evident a feeling of con siderable disgust mingled with their relief when it was "known that only a little, un occupied pole house was inflames instead of our handsome hotel building, as many at first declared.” Floating Bar-room.—Chronicle and CountitulionalM: We have just learned that the floating bar-room which has been anchored in the Savannah river some time, and of which mention was made a few days since, has been seized. The parties who had apparently been carrying on a sort of illicit'whisky business were pursu ed from the Carolina side by revenue of ficials, and finding that the still-hunters were even more vigorous on this side of the river, concluded to take middle g round and anchored off an island in the avannah near the Elbert county side. A fe.w days since Mr R. Wink Taylor, deputy revenue official, procured a small boat, and leaving the Elbert county side, pad dled over toward the gin gondola to recon noitre around the premises. Approaching the boat as if to take a drink, he was in formed by one of the keepers that his pat ronage a as not desirable. He continued, however, to approach the barge, when one of the keepers drew his pistol and threat ened to light. Mr. Taylor’s position was now a little criitcal; but throwing aside his bluff tactics, boldly proclaimed that he hail come to seize the boat and would do so. He left the boat, entered the room and made a formal capture of the affair, which is said to have been a well regulated and fully supplied bar. Mr. Taylor’s bold ness and enterprise were strikingly pre sented, and his capture is highly com mended in Elbert county, we learn. The Columbus Enquirer'. People of this enlightened age may probably think there is no more of the old time conjurers, etc., and that such things have been van ished from the civilized part of the earth, but this is a mistake. There are such practices among some ne groes in the very heart of tliis city, and probably elsewhere, for aught we know. Overhearing a negro ask his employer for twenty-five cents, and the employer wish ing to know for what purpose he wanted it, attracted the attention of the inquisi tive reporter, in search of a bit of news. The negro said he wished the money to have the “ amel of his ear pulled up.” Inquiring what he meant by this, the re porter was told by one who had several times witnessed the operation, that it was performed as described below: By “amel,” he meant what we generally call plate. There are certain classes of negroes in every community, who prey upon the ig norance of others, called “doctors,” who treat certain diseases. When the patient enters the sanctuary, he is placed in a Bitting position in a chair; the “doctor” takes a bunch of hair from the top of the head in his hand, and having a firm grip on it pulls with all his might and main until the scalp “pops” and separates from the skull; he then ties the bunch of hair very tightly with a strong piece of twine around the patient’s neck to keep the scalp from going back to the skull. The String is k :pt tied and the scalp raised in this position for two weeks. After the allotted time has expired, the patient is declared well. Price only twenty-five cents. Phantom hops are growing popular in Savannah. Mi:. E. H. Barnes, of Albany, was run over by t mule and knocked senseless. He made a nSVrow escape from death, Tm: Auiericus Republican says not a single si: iJ lias been served the people of that place this season. But few have reached Macon. I- . The Eagle and Phefiix Mills convert into yarns and cloth about 130,000 bales of cotton annually. Some Columbus negroes had a bloody row on the outskirts of that city, in which pistols were freely used, last Saturday night. Several are m a critical condition. Rome can certainly justly claim to be tbe banner newspaper town of Georgia. It revels in three—two dailies and one tri weekly. Rev. J. S. Lamar, of Augusta, has in vented an electric motor which, it is said promises to prove a success, is to super sede steam, and is destined to place the inventor’s name alongside that of Edison and the other great scientists who have figured in the world. He is now in New York looking after his invention. It seems that several lines of railway between Rome and Chattanooga are be- ng contemplated. The Rome Courier, however, suggests _that one line will he enough to do the business between the two cities at present. Among the industries of St. Simon’s Island is the production of olive oil. The article there manufactured is pro nounced by judges equal, if not superior, to the finest made in France or Spain, and where it is not too wet the soil on all portions of that and adjoining islands is admirably adapted to the culture of the olive. The St. Simon’s correspondent of the Brunswick “Advertiser says: There are trees on this island that have borne continuously for the last fifty years. This fruit has never been known to suffer from frost in this locality, except during the famous cold spell of 1835. Brunswick Advertiser: “We are pleased to announce that Dr. J. S. Law rence, the contractor for dredging out our harbor, has been here this week prepara tory to commencing work. The probabil ities are that he will begin operations in a few days. Meanwhile we are looking confidently to our immediate Congress man, John C. Nichols, Esq., for other and bigger appropriations; looking not only to the'putting of our harbor in perfect order, straightening our wharf front, etc., but also the building of a custom house, post- office, etc. Uncle Sam’s money could be spent in no more laudable manner than those above named. We believe Colonel Nicholls will leave no stone unturned to accomplish these ends. According to the St. Simon’s “D otter” of the Brunswick Advertiser “the largest tig tree in Georgia is on Captain King’s place, near the grounds of his splendid residence, so famous far and near in the ;ood old ante-bellum days as ‘Retreat.’ [t is thirty feet high, has a stem ten feet high to tbe first branch, and sixteen incit es in diameter. In one year thirty bush els of figs have been gathered from it.” Tiie last number of the Bainbridge Democrat contains a history of the Deca tur Guards by Captain J. H. Martin, of Hawkinsville. From it we extract the following: Some of the battles engaged in were York Town, Garnett’s Farm, Cbickamauga, Gettysburg, Sliarpsbuig, Spottsylvania Court House, Petersburg, Manassas, Fort Harrison, Fort Sheppard, Fort Gilmer, Phillip’s House, Malvern Hill, Fassel’s Mills, Knoxville, Wilderness, Fredericks burg, Manassas Gap, Thoroughfare Gap, Lookout Mountain, New Market Heights, Cold Harbor, Charles City Road, Will iamsburg Road, Bethesda Church X Roads. The Oglethorpe Echo is evidently dis gusted at the location of its own town, and wonders why in the world that particular site was selected by the founders of the place. It declares that a worse location could not have been found in the county, and says: “While there are seven roads leading from the place, with the exception of the one to Crawford, they are almost impassable in winter on account of the steep hills by which we are surrounded. These have proved the greatest drawback to the commercial importance of the town. We have creeks at our doors on three sides, and the fords are in bad order. If Lexington had been located midway to the present town of Crawford it would to day rival Athens.”. Savannah News: We learn through a gentleman from Bryan county of a ter rible and brutal crime committed near Jenks’ bridge, in that county, on Monday afternoon last. He was passing the place shortly after the murder and learned some of the particulars, but not the names of the victims. Near the bridge lives a colored man with his wife and child, hard-working, inoffensive people. On Monday the man left his home to go to work in the neigh borhood, his wife and child, a girl, three or four years old, remaining at home. During his absence honse was visited by a negro tramp, and liis wife was assaulted and Killed. The suppostion is that there were two or more negroes with him, hut there is nothing definitely known, and the nature of the crime is a mystery, as there was nothing to show that robbery wa3 the object. On the husband’s return in the evening, when he entered his house, the revolting spectacle of his wife’s body lying in tbe fire place, blackened and ebarred, presented itself. An examina tion showed that she had been struck on the head with a heavy blunt instrument, a hammer it is thought, which blow must have produced instant death. The villain or villains, to make their brutal work doub ly sure, nearly severed the body in twain with a knife and then threw the bleeding and mangled remains in the burning em bers in the fireplace. The child was mis sing, hut after a diligent search the dead body was found in an old well on the premises, where it had been thrown by the murderers. The agonizing cries of the afflicted negro attracted the attenticn of the neighbors, and the news of the fearful crime quickly spread. Squads were or ganized and search was made in every di rection for the perpetrators of the butche ry. Several parties were arrested on sus picion and every effort will be made to clear up the mystery surrounding this crime, which our informant'states has cre ated a profound sensation throughout that section of the country, which has heretofore been free from serious dis orders. Yesterday morning, some workmen while engaged in excavating the lot at the corner of Pryor and Line streets, came across the frame of a human being. De cayed pieces of blankets that were seen around the bones gave evidence of the fact that the body had been buried in a blanket. An old watch, and a pair of shoes that at one time covered the feet of the deceased, were about all the effects that were dug up. Learning that Mrs. Mary C. Munaay, who residedjust oppo site tiie lot, knew when the body had been buried, we called upon her for the-purpose of finding out if there were any interesting facts in relation to the bnrial. “I can not remember the exact day,” commenced Mrs. Munday, but it was on the same day that the soldiers were fighting so hard on Peachtree creek. I was living here then, and on that day saw some Confederate soldiers digging"a hole on the lot. I sent my little boy once to see what they were going to put in the hole. He soon returned with little tears in his eyes, and said “mama, those men are going to bury a poor soldier.” Upon his return I went over to the lot and asked the men to put off the burial for a few moments, and then EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. ! stopping places. Indeed, they could go nowhers amiss, for absolutely the whole Cuthbebt, Georgia, February 10th, 1880. When the writer entered the car shed city kept OPEN HOUSE. The writer is no delegate, and therefore was “unassigned. Before he had landed yesterday morning, the spacious shelter I fifteen minutes, however, he was billed ™ a"* «■>«.£4 ’£«- numerous other passengers, bound for the dered, and could not decide where to go. convention, and all other points in South- Judge Clark, Colonel Hood, Captain Mat- west Georgia and Florida. *°x, Colonel Dews, Colonel Fielder, Dr. . & . .. , , „ I Poweil, Ed. McDonald, Jim Wooten, and A moment s inspection showed all the we know not how many more threw open seats “double bunked” with occupants, their doors to him. At last the question and nothing in prospect but a I was settled according to propinquity, and stand up ride f° he avoided the dilemma by announce . .. . , , v, , , ing that he must sojourn nearest his base to Ins journey’s end. But a happy thought 0 f operations, and this happened to he the made him enter the baggage car, and po-1 charming abode of Mr! James Wooten, litelj ask to be accommodated with a Thither, then, we hied, and those ac- m „ , , ... . „ . J quainted with that gentleman and his ex- The Good Book has something to this ce] 1(!at wif0) will re | lize that tlie tired ed _ effect, that if a man wishes to make I j tor jj ad g^ck clover and would fare friends be must show lmnsclf friendly. equaby ^ we]1 ^ f bb fellow trav _ And this was verified in the present m-| e i etg stance, the obliging baggage master re- ' the convention cemng us cordially, and tendering the was in session at Powelrs HalI and in a s °uest trunk as a seat. few minutes we were listening to its de- AftertvardsanethercarMTispnton, and Liberations. Near three hundred dele- the deponent transferred himself thither. g ates are j n attendance from everv section the delegates . of the State, and a more imposing body of were nearly aU embrowned fanners in men ^ not be gathere / in any coun- mrddlc life, or more advanced years. I try. This year, gray beards predominate, rhey were a ragged looking set, with I though there is quite a sprinkling also, of gnzzly beards, slouched hats and shaggy young, vigorous and intelligent looking eye brows, yet there was no mistaking the fann | re . fa W e think the convention g honest and intelligent countenances of more represent a tive, too, in its character these hardy husbandmen and sons of toil. tlian lis i al . Xhat ’ is h moro strictly And if conventionalisms were at a dis- confine t0 tlie agricultural guild, and count, kind words and genuine bonhomie tbere are fewer 0 f tbe other professions more than made up the difference. present as delegates. In short, I The proceedings had been opened with we pell nr love I prayer by Rev. Mr. Cook, followed by an with the bluff fanners, and their society I address of welcome from Mr. Arthur was keenly enjoyed, aloeit there was a Hood, Jr. This is spoken of very highly, faint smell of guano about their garments that ycung gentleman acquitting himself slightly similar perhaps to the odor of most handsomely. Only once did he trip Esau when he was wont to come in when addressing t he Convention as “gen- from the field and minister to his sire, I tlemen of the jury.” Older men than he Isaac of old. I have done the same, but We cannot help There were only two ladles in view, l felicitating the community that the body who resembled a couple of daisies spring- in session is not one of those chilling and ing from a bed of nettles. Not that they I Horror inspiring assemblages, yclept a were so pretty, hut then they possessed Court of Justice. No. There are no bai- the charm of rarity, and there is that lifls, with tipstaffs, thank heaven, here, something about women, je ne sais quoi and tlie slieriffis made to keep a respecta- which always challenges the admiration ble distance. Some how there is a don- and respect of the well-bred of the other jon like feeling connected with the sex. The writer, however, was quite ret- court house, which it is impossible to icent on this occasion, as somehow or oth- shake off. 4. That all the newspapers in the State i credit, and, I tremblingly add, more dis friendly to our welfare aud willing to as sist in the • work, are requested most re spectfully to publish these resolutions and make common cause with us. On mstioa of Mr. Biack, of Screven, the following gentlemen were appointed a committee to investigate and report upon the Clement Attachment at the next meet ing of the Convention, to-wit: C. T. Zachery, of Henry county; E. Heysen, of Morgan; C. W. Sproul, of Rome, and —, Searcy, of Talbot. Dr. J. P. Stevens then' proceeded, agreeably to the programme, to deliver a lecture on the subject of “Food for live stock and the best methods of utilizing it.” We close these notes for the mail, while t'qe Doctor is still on the 1 floor reading a most admirable and practical paper. Cuthbert is doing her whole part by the Convention, and the delegates all express themselves highly delighted with their en tertainment. H. H. J. er he always has a predilection for sweet seventeen, with the honey-dew on her lip and the | sunlight in her “ ceil.” Of babies, sad j to relate, there were none, The response to Mr. Hood was made by that inimitable wit and orator, DIL DAVID E. BUTLER, in one of the happiest efforts of Iris life. Next came the opening address by the President, Colonel Thomas Hardeman, Jr. This was an admirable and cininent- and this made him inconsolable. There j ]y practical effort, replete with wisesug- is no presence complete, no company sym- I gestions and the best advice. As it forms metrical, indeed no dispensing with tlie a part of this report, further comment is traditional “blessed baby/ The little unnecessary. It will furnish a rich treat elf with its prattle and winsome ways, to our readers. stirs the innermost chambers of the soul, After roll call, Prof. Win. M. Browne humanizes and softens the most obdurate made at deeply interesting report of his heart, brings back the gentle influences of experiments on the agricultural farm of childhood and even casts a pleasing glam- I jjje University, which is under Iris charge, our o’er advancing years. God help the I with many of tlie best varieties of com- man that does not love a baby. mercial fertilizers, cotton seed, composts the grangers | and stable manure. He also treated of were represented by their head centre in | tbe comparative value of turning under Georgia, President T. J. Smith. That Sre en crops, such as pea vines, etc., when highly intelligent gentleman told us (*4y j n a succulent condition. He fa- many interesting tilings relating to the | vo £?“ “* e latter, present status of the fraternity. On the I The Professor discussed the utility of night previous, the annual convention I . . topping cotton, which was held in Macon, became so en-1 insure increased production. So far as tliused that it actually protracted its scs- I h*s experiments determined, it was found sion until daylight. ; They deliberated *hat the topping operation hastened the with closed doors so that the proceedings maturity of the fruit already formed, hut have not transpired. It is known, how-1 * n fbe end the stalks not thus : treated ever, that there was twenty-seven dele- continued to bear and eventually yielded gates present and a paper published in the most. Columbus, Mississippi, was selected as If possible, our readers shall have the their future organ. Politics and internal | benefit of this practical and highly useful dissensions have wrought sad ravages in I address also at some future day. tlie ranks of the order in Georgia, and not I Aft er ®n interesting discussion on the a titheof the organizations remain intact. 1 report of Generall Browne the Conven- Another reason for this decadence is the 1 tion adjourned until the next morning, by prevalent idea that the Granges have ae-1 invitation, to witness the complished their mission in great part, by I parade op the cuthbert fire or- cheapening the cost of agricultural rmple- j , ganization, _ ments, introducing the general cultivation I aI }^ a fire test of a new chemical engine, of rust-proof oats, encouraging a diversity Tlie streets were literally jammed with a of crops and inducing the farmers to raise I vas t concourse of people, covering almost their own supplies and practice ecorr-15® entirepopulation oft:lie city, and hun- omy> dreds of visitors Irom abroad. The ladies, It is a curious fact that where the I f°°> enlivened the scene by their gentle co-operative system I presence, and the Albany hand, with was established, the granges still exist and strains of inspiring music, lent increased flourish. animation to the occasion. f he proces- It strikes us that the contemplated r e- I si° n >, headed by the gallaut firemen, vival of the order will prove most oppor- I marched to a vacant space not far distant tupe if it can only be made to check the ground swell for a big cotton crop this year, which seems inevitable under the where tlie “test” was to he made, Here, an unoccupied, isolated building had been purchased for the experiment, speed the Grangers then say we, if they will keep the planters from going into debt and hold them steadfast to the new programme of raisin" provisions in abnn-1 dance, under which they have hut just be- stimulus of present inflated prices. God This, after beingthorouglily saturated with - - 1 -- - 1 kerosene oil, was fired in a dozen places by a committee of delegates, and soon the roof and interior presented a brilliant sheet of flames. _ Then chief engineer, James Allison, Esq., gan to emeige'from* the "slough "of despond I gave the word and the firemen commenced into' which they recklessly plunged after | operaUons, 1 he windows were broken up the war. The next annual Grange Con- } vlt b a ?® s > ladders placed upon the bum- vention will be held in Tliomasville. la S *£*?**». a fireman, carrying the noz- SERIOVS FALLING OFF IN FARSI LABOR. ° f the- hose, mounted ***? . r0 ° f ’ ® ntl the Tlie writer was surprised to learn from 1 struggle with the fire fiend Degan m ear- Colonel Smith, Colonel Mobley, of Ham- Gallantly dul they make tlie fight, ilton, and other reliable planters onboard, I rushing inside, tearing down walls anil that it is safe to assert that the field labor of Georgia will be reduced fully TEN PER CENT, the present year. This is not exactly due to any actual exodus that has taken place (though quite a number of colored emi grants have left Georgia iu the past year) ceiling, knocking ofl shingles from the roof, and ever squirting with powerful effect the c.iemical prepared for the engine upon the hissing flames. Some of the men went where suffocation seemed inevitable; but they stood up bravely to the work, 1 and in a brief Space of time what had fut rather to the unrest aud uneasiness J 05 * appeared to be a living mass of flame caused by the movement elsewhere. The J'’as transformed into a smouldering ruin, continued railroad agitation also has had But ? rc t . 1 > a(1 been quenched, and the some agency in the matter. Tlie talk of severe test of the „ the immediate extension of the Macon I, champion chemical engine, no. - and Brunswick Railroad, for instance, I had resulted in a splendid triumph, keeps many hands from making new con- This engine is charged on the ground tracts, in the hope that they will find em- and very rapidly,with a preparation of car- ployment at big wages in the grading of bomc acid and soda, and acts hke the pipe the contemplated road bed. Tnen again, a soda water fount, scattering the gas- every year witnesses the retirement of a *9 l . IS mixture from the nozzle of a s ection considerable number of well to do labor- of hose upon the fire. The gas set at lib ers from service, who have saved cnougli I seems to smother the flames with in to purchase land aud set up for them- finitely greater eflect than water, and the selves. The women, too, are becoming I bolder °f tlie hose can fight Ins way step more and more disinclined to the perform- by step, outing the fire as he proceeds, ancc of field work, and it is notorious that lie marches into the Tery centre of the young colored people who graduate the burning structure, from college a, id the schools are utterly Cuthbert boasts of one of the best fire opposed to manual labor. organizations in the btate. It embraces These facts should be seriously looked l ess than tl® 613 engines, one hook and in the face, and the proper steps be taken I lndder apparatus, and three full compa re season to supply all labor deficienciei n, “*_ t T,3 ° ,°. Iue Captain Alhson, has no by European immigration. superior n his department in the State, A good sign and the display to-day was re a high dc" . „ , .. . . .... , gree creditable and imposing. Ail along the route to Cuthbert, large experience meeting. areas of land have been laid down ml e, oats, and the stands were excellent. The , .A 1 . 8 ?’ m ‘ ,V ie Convention again a^sem, plows are beginning to i move, too. I bled retonnally, Colonel Livingston in the and if our fanners will but resolve to plant cIiair » antl held what was termed an ex- even more com than usual the current year, penence meeting. Mr. Canmchael, that then indeed, at present prices of cotton, sensible and venerable wag from^ewton, will they reap a golden harvest next fall: brought down the bouse repeatedly with But draw it as you will, thrift and pros/ L one ofthe holiest of his characteristic perity can never follow rotton growing to harangues. It formed a queer melange - J - - nrOYision t of good things, preposterous nonsense and * i I tlia hmoilaol TimrtAr VrAPP IvuIt aaamAili the broadest humor. Every body seemed, however, td enjoy his talk. Quite a num ber of agricultural topics were discussed, arid much important information elicited in this off-hand debate upon questions of real practical intererest to the farmer. J ; "Wednesday, February 11. second day’s proceedings. The Convention reassembled this morn ing, and was addressed in an exceedingly the neglect of stock and the crops. THE FRUIT UNHURT. From no less authority than that of S. H. Rumph, Esq., the noted nursery man and clever gentleman, we are enabled to communicate the pleasing tidings that up to the present moment the entire frail crop of Georgia is. safe. The late spell of cola will also set back the budding of the blooms for some days, and the prospect for a full yield is all that could be I ing, desired. Indeed, Mr. R. thinks that able manner by State Commisioner of Ag- tlie paucity of the crop last year will I ricuitureJ. T. Henderson, Esq. His theme result in over-production, and he intends was “The advantages of, and necissity for to begin to thin out the blooms even he- the Department of Agriculture.” The fore the embryo fruit appears. I arguments of tbe Commissioner were lit- at smithville I erSly unanswerable, and carried conyic- Jhe delegates enjoyed a capital dinner at tion to all within the sound of bis voice, the bands of Messrs. Johnson & McAfee, Then followed an animated discussion and the former,to the astonishment of our 1 upen the same subject by several mem- vis a vis, a newly arrived Yankee, threrir I bers. Dr. David E. Butler offered and in gratis, a liberal supply of his own do- supported with a most felicitous speech licious scuppemong wine. When the the following resolutions, which were ain reached Dawson, it was boarded by adopted with only one dissenting voice: ^in James Allison and Colonel Dews, | Resolved, It is the sense of this conven- I would tiy and get r. box of some kind to • committee from Cuthbert, and long be-1 tion that the Agricultural Department of • • — > tbe delegates reached their destina- Georgia, as a part of tbe State govem- tbey had each been assigned to com- I ment, is essential to the advancement of . table quarters and knew exactly where the great fanning, mining and mineral logo. Soon tlie sweet strains of a band interests of the land owners and taxpay- of music and the slowing pace of the cars era. announced onrapproach to Cutlibert. At| 2. The Geological Bureau, nowsus- put the remains in. They could not wa ! and, wrapping tlie b ly of the unkno Confederate soldier! a blanket, lowero tlie remains into tbe hole and covered them over. The men who buried the sol dier said they found the body in a build ing, and, from appearances, tlie man must have been dead about two days. Mrs. Monday says that she was never able to find out who the soldier was. She the depot an animated scene was presen ted. At least A THOUSAND persons, embracing nearly all of the mer- says lie bad no papers or letters upon his i chants and best citizens of the place,had as- person by which he could be indentified. 1 semhled with carriages and other vehicles to Tlie city was then occupied by the Con federate army, and the men who buried the soldier returned to the field of bat tle as soon a3 they had completed the rude burial ceremonies. welcome their expected guests. In a trice, pended from lack of tbe necessary appro- j priation by tbe last general assembly, is a great misfortune which this convention | and the constituents it represents, deeply deplore. 8. The members of this convention will I use all lawful means and efforts with the every one was made to feel perfectly at people to secure the success of those can- home, and almost as rapidly as this is didates who will restore the Geological pencilled, the several members of the con- Bureau to its usefulness and place it on a vention were whirled away to tlieir various permanent basts. - : u 1 COLONEL HABDEJIAN’S ADDBESS. “Watchman, tell us of the night, Wliat its signs of promise are.” . This anxious inquiry should be made of every sentinel on the watebtowerof tlie agricultural interest of our State. "What! of the long night of financial em barrassment, of impoverishment of es tates, of labor derangement, of specula tive farming, of supply dependence, of agricultural disasters f “Does tbe morn ing seem to dawn,” or is it yet night, and night without a star? Has the past year furnished no evidence of returning pros perity, no proof of material progress and advancement? These are vital questions, because they lay hold of the very founda tions of your industry and connect them selves with its vitality and existence. Has your outlay exceeded your income ? If so, retrogression and disaster must fol low; if it has, where has it been expend ed? For luxuries that could have been dispensed with—tliis were criminal folly. For the purchase of cereals, that your fields should have furnished? This is a depleting system, that will end in bankruptcy. For credit supplies? These will consume and destroy like’the “pestilence that walketh abroad in dark-, ness and wasteth at noonday.” The crops in many places have been short, yet prices have been remunerative, labor was reasonable and provisions exceptionally low, and if nothing has been saved, it should suggest the inquiry, what of my farming system ? Is it dependent or self- supporting? If dependent, how can I remedy the evil, if not self-sustaining, where is the leakage, and what will check it ? A searching examination of the farm management and home economy would be advantageous to our agricultural inter ests, for it would throw some light upon a subject too little regarded by many—of re ceipts and disbursements. With all the emphasis of my nature, have I endeavor ed to impress upon the planters of Geor gia the fact that no business can prosper* that does not realize in its pursuit an inter est greater than that expended in prose cuting it. A constant leakage will finally exhaust the cistern, and credit farming is the crevice through which the waters of your industry are wasted, and the great reservoir of your interest is losing its sup ply. A false economy inaugurated it, bad laws enCoilraged it—unwise ones were resorted to to support and sustain it, and thus fostered ' by legislation, tbp system has gone on; until credit is as much au el ement of farming as sowing the seed and pitching the crop. Estimate tlie value of your land, stock and fann utensils—allow for them a rea sonable interest; add to this interest tlie price of labor, the cost of supplies, and the incidental expenses of the farm. Sub tract tbe sum total from tbe amount real ized from the sale and consumption of your farm products, and tell me what in terest you have received from the invest ment We answer a small one, and yet to secure this small investment, you Lave subjected yourselves, unnecessarily, to tlie necessity of paying “some ten, some thirty, yea. an hundredfold” more than you received. Is this a successful business transaction—a profitable financial invest ment? Your daily experience negatives the question, and to remedy tlie evils of your own financial policy and check your wrongs, sumptuary laws are resorted to by our Legislature, to furnish you a basis of credit, that your own industry should control and regulate. For one, I seriously apprehend—however good the intention of the Jaw—the practical workings will be to force credit farmers to pay larger inter est than ever before. Money will be with- drawn.or so applied as not to benefit labor Necessities are great, .and supplies will be furnished at exorbitant and ruinous prices. These are but apprehensions of mine, based upon a knowledge of the disposition of man to speculate upon necessity. I sincerely trust tbe future history of trade may prove 'them groundless. These exorbitant demands paralize the industry of the country, and disconrage and demoralize labor, for they impose obligations that cannot always be filled, and burdens too onerous to bear. Excess of expenditures over receipts is a necessary consequence, and this excess necessitates other loans, and thus it goes on in this tread mill rou tine until the resources are exhausted, and bankruptcy and rain are the planters por tion. Such a system is doomed to disas ter, for.it lives by shifts arid promises, on mortgage securities and lien accommoda tions, half fed and half supported, until paralysis strikes a vital part, and dissolu tions iollows the fatal stroke. The year of toil is ended, the crop is all sold, obli gations are not met, and foreclosures fol low. The draft mule is returned, and my countryman, he is an object of study for astern. Planters of Georgia, remember 1873 and its disastrous financial history— of homestead appeals and bankrupt estates —and be warned in time to avert tbe dan ger that threatens your industry. Keep within sight of the harhor, and venture not out in frail barks where the tempests are sleeping and the angry billows await the breaking of their troubled slumbers. These warnings should come in thunder tones from this society. The signal of danger should be raised, and throughout tbe length and breadth ofthe State the fiery warning should be seen and known by all men. Increased acreage and larg er crops are inviting fields ior specula tion, but unless they are encouraged and supported by increased means, they are the ignes fatuui of avaricious desire that will lead you into tbe swamps of poverty and tlie marshes of despair. In stead of increasing your acreage, direct your energies and your surplus capital to increased production of those already in cultivation, and if you have profited by the teachings of agricultural science, your acres will increase in productive ness as they grow old in years. Small acreage and heavy production, without exhausting the soil, is at last the analysis of successful agriculture. How forcibly are these illustrated in tbe agriculture of Flanders and England, where the culti vation of the soil has reached a state of productiveness unsurpassed by any. por tion ofthe globe. This high state of cul tivation is attributable to an application of the principles of science to agricultural pursuits and a judicious and liberal use of fertilizing material In the cultivation of their crops. JSo great indeed is the use of manures that one writer upon agricul ture of England affirms that the value of animal manures, applied to crops in Eng land forty years ago surpassed in value the whole amount of her foreign com merce. Increased productiveness—not increased acreage—should be the desire of the Georgia farmer—for believe me ten bales of cotton from ten acres of ground is more profitable than ten bales from thirty acres, and this can be reached by skillful culture. Plant less, but plant under tbe rales of an intelligent agriculture, concen trate all your energies and resources in perfecting a higher state of cultivation and production, and you ; will realize more .satisfactory results than by expansson, which in these times of uncertain labor and financial embarassments is an aggra vation of tlie evils you complain of rather than a cure. I speak plainly fori have no desire'to mislead you by fulsome flattery and delusive laudations. I cannot, as Phacion said to Antipater, be your friend and flatterer too,but “as you know me all, a plain, blunt man.” I will speak tbe truth, for my greatest ambition while oc- cupyingthe high and honorable position to which you have elevated me is to advance the agricultural industry of tlie State and to arouse the farmers of Georgia to a proper appreciation of tlieir relation to society and government. They have not realized iu its fullness, the " individual responsibility of every member of a representative government and from their inattention to affairs Of State, in which they are so deeply interested, from their seeming indifference to and negli gence of their own necessities and rights, have sprang many of the embarrassments that now surround them. They have con fided too much to others, what they should have done themselves. Who more in terested in good government, in whole some laws, in the security of property and persons, in the diffusion of knowledge and In the growth of virtue and morality’, than the tillers of the soil ? • Are they not the owners of that soil, and drawing their support and independence from it? Should they not give tone and character to their government? Who is more interested in a powerful agency in improving and beau tifying the homes of Georgia; it has en couraged those influences and assisted in multiplying those agencies which are making their sons more intelligent arid giving them higher and broader views of their duties and responsibilities; it has fraternized the farmers of different sec tions of the State, and in these ways, has been instrumental in advancing the ma terial prosperity of the people and giviDg character and wealth to the common wealth. Sustain it with a generous sup port, and with it, its faithful co-workers, the agricultural press of Geoigia, for which 1 make an appeal to-day—for they are exercising a healthy influence over the fortunes and destiny of the State. Your success should be a source of con gratulation and joy. Under your teaching and influence the signs of returning prosperity are everywhere visible in tbe State of Geoigia. Confidence is being restored and everything will be well, if the feverish excitement caused by the present price of your great staple, does not mislead the planters into ex travagance and unwarranted expansion. I sincerely trust that wise counsels will pre vail and that the year Just commencing will, under the providence of God, be one of general prosperity and thrift; that our agriculturists will be blest in storehouse aud barn; that the educational interest of the State, now so closely and widely connected and identified with your pro fession ; and your industry will be en larged and appreciated; that society will be blessed with peaceful relations and a higher elevation; and the old State, the home of our childhood and the grave of our fathers, restored to her former pros perity, will continue her march of pro gress in the full enjoyment of the bless ings of peace, in the conscious realization of plenty and tbe unrestricted possession of civil liberty and constitutions! govern ment. BY TELEGRAPH State Agricultural Convention- Large Attendance—Opening Ad dresses. . Special to tbe Telegraph and Messenger.! Cuthbebt, February 10,1880. The State Agricultural Convention met in this place this morning at ten o’clock. Three hundred delegates were present and the prospects are tor the fullest meeting held by tlie Society in years. The address of welcome was delivered by Mr. Arthur Hood, Jr. It was very fine, doing the young orator much credit. Response was made by Colonel D. E. Butler, of Madison, and was a most happy effort. Colonel Hardeman delivered the opening address, which was timely and excellent. The delegates are domiciled at the residences of the citizens of the place, and the hospitality of the city is unbounded. To-morrow the proceedings will be of a highly interesting nature. H. H. J. A dispatch from Dublin at 12 o’clock last night says one woman and seven men were killed and thirteen workmen and firemen seriously injured by tbe burning of the Theatre Royal yesterday. Every thing in the building was consumed, in cluding the large and costly wardrobe. 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Y., February 10.—A fire broke out this morning about 4:30 o’clock in the county clerk’s ollioc in the city hall building, and is still, at 10:30, burning. The entire interior of the building is con sumed, leaving only the massive marble walls standing. When the dome fell in seven men were crushed, one of whom, named Keeler, a member of steamer No. 6 ’ bas since died, and two or three othere are expectid to die. No estimate of the loss at this time is possible, though it will exceed $100,000. The judgment records, chattel mortgages and records of the pro ceedings of supervisors are destroyed. The records of deeds and mortgages on real estate, portraits of ex-Govemors and books and papers of the surrogate office have the planters of Geoigia manifest a deep concern in the affairs of the government under which they have so many interests and rights to bo estab lished and maintained. As in State, so in the general government. No interest is more affected than yours by unwise rev enue laws and unjust measures of finance and currency. The prosperity of the t i — —j aie saved. Both Houses of tbe Legisla- working classes depend lately upon j ture adopted a resolution directing the these, for we have too recently realized trustees of the old capital to provide ac- the fact, that currency contraction and commodations in that building for the unwise financial legislation, paralized la- holding ofthe courts whose rooms in the bor, destroyed values, cnppled industries, and brought disaster and bankruptcy up on that great class, tie laborers of the country, who of all others should receive the protecting care of government. Aye, to-day whilel address you, for want of ^ protection, the labor of the country le mercy of heartless capital, and day after day—the earnings of toil—the price of labor is played for and regulated for months in advance by Wall street gamblers and sporting capitalists. Tell me not it is legitimate trade—justifiable commercial operations. Analyze it as you will, and you will discover "at last it is but governmental protection to capital, to elevate or destroy labor at will.. It is a growing evil, a National immorality, that only the strong arm of the general government can check and destroy. I hold it the duty of the government to protect that upon which her commercial prosper- the veteuary scientist. The eyes, (which ity depends. States are powerless. Geor- orn Gollnil llin vrJmlmvo aP Hwi cahI\ na ' rrin lioa fol-ort oil iriitiotiro etnn lmf it ma aro called the windows of tlie soul) as they sluggishly open and shut, reveal the light of liis history, that his subsistence and existence have been on the elements of faith, viz: “the substance of, things hoped tor, the evidence of things not seen.” His ears are at half mast, in hon or of the memory of the lost pastures of Kentucky. His mane and tail evidence his utter disregard for Washing ton's farewell address, for they have entered into entangling alliances. His body politic reminds you of charity, for it is “not puffed up.” His frame work is a corduroy wall, upon which is written in unmistakable characters, mene, tekel, upharsin, and his whole physiognomy suggests that he *wUl never be the cause of a violation of that com mandment, which forbids the coveting “of thy neighbor’s ox, nor ids ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's.” There is a remedy for this evil, a preventive for this mortification, and I do not hesitate to state my opinion, (worthless though it may he) unless this remedy Is applied and the evil checked, wide-spread ruin and disaster will befall the agriculturalists of Georgia. The remedy is, restrict your fanning operations to your ability to carry them on, independent of foreign help; abandon this universal credit and mort gage system, which, like a cormorant, is feeding upon your vitals and consuming your hard earnings, or your epitaph may correspond with one written on a ; rely upon the products of your own toil and your own fields fo? your support and not upon . the dear bought supplies o the mefdiant, and your receipts will soon be in excess of ex penditures; your coffers will begin to swell, your interest to prosper, your man hood will be elevated and the homes of your wives and your children will bo brightened with the sunlight of content ment and the blessings of plenty. These suggestions have forced themselves upon me from the present situation of some ofthe agriculturists of Geoigia. Cotton has reached that point in value that it is tempting the avarice and blinding the udgment of many of our farmers, and their whole desire now is expansion. If it were upon a healthy basis, it would be well and an omen of prosperity—and I thank God there are many such—but ex pansion upon a basis of high interest and mortgage credit is ruin—irretrievable ruin. Did you not prosper last year? —and the late fall saved many. How can you ex pect to expand this, when to run your fann Will cost you from twenty-five to thirty-three per cent, more than it did then? Remember that labor is dearer, provisions and stock have materially ad vanced, all the tools and implements nec essary to carry on your fanning operations have" doubled in value, gia has taken an initiative step, but it re quires the general government, who alone has power to regulate commerce, to give support and protection to those upon city hail were destroyed. Washington, February 10.—In the Senate the Vice-President laid before the Senate the memorial of the mayor and common council of Milwaukee for the re peal of the compulsory legal tender power of United States notes. Referred. Mr. Conkliug presented the memorial of the New York Chamber of Commerce askjng an increased appropriation for the fortification of the New York haibor. Re ferred to the Committee on Military Af fairs. Mr. Allison cf the Committee remarked that the Committee ha l inserted an in creased appropriation for that purpose in the House bill now before tie Senate. In the Senate Mr. Corikling presented the memorial of the Ithaca Farmer’s Club, of Ithaca, New York, favoring the passage of the Reagan inter-State com merce bill; also, the petition of a large number of citizens of Buffalo, New York, for the same purpose. In the House, Mr. Fernando Wood, of New York, chairman ofthe Coumittee on Ways and Means, reported a resolution whom depends her commerce, her re- calling on the Secretary of tlie Treasury sources and her prosperity. I see the dan- ‘ for all the evidence on file in the Internal ger, gentlemen, of these vast combina- , Revenue Office touching the enforcement tions, these syndicates, these comers iu I of tbe Internal Revenue laws in Northeast trade and produce, these shufflers for your Geoigia. Adopted, hard earnings, and pi lyers, not only for I Mr. Conger, of Michigan, from the tlie sweat of your brow, but for the pound same committee, reported back the bill of flesb, and I warn you now, unless the f° r the relief of colored emigrants, planters of the South and West become , Passed. It provides that all charitable aroused to their dangers from this system contributions imported for tbe relief of of “commercial relations,” your industries ' colored persons who hare emigrated from will be regulated by tlie uncertainties of, their homes to other States, shall be ad- chance, and the value of your products ; mitted free of duty, this act to take effect will be assessed by the speculative charity ! immediately, and to remain in force until of capital combinations. Entertaining February 1st, I8S1. these views, I would bo false to myself, The Sportsman announces that Christo- false to your generous confidence if I did P be r Barrass has authorized the editor of not endeavor to' arouse you to a sense of. that journal to return fifty pounds of the your situation • and a more serious atten- stakes of the Boyd-Elliott match and issue tion to your public affairs. Call upon ! a challenge to Ilanlan in behalf of Boyd to your public servants and demand from • row a race within the stipulated time, for them interposition and protection. The two hundred pounds aside, the champion- destruction of your labor is the ship of England, and the Sportsman's destruction of your subsistence, and j challenge trophy. Boyd will row- the race when you render It unremuuera- I with Ilanlan on the.Tyne Saturday, tive, you have virtually destroyed it, j London, February 10.—The Times has Let labor be free and protected—capital reason to believe that directions have been can take care of itself, if you will give sent to the British minister at Teheran td it just laws for the enforcement of its" le- inform the Persian government that her gitimate and proper demand; but justice, Majesty’s government releases Persia from humanity, private necessity and public the treaty engagement of 1857, by which prosperity, demand that the operations of Persia bound herself not to take possession capital in trade and commerce should not of Herat. This is tantamount to an invita- be permitted -to paralyze the energies of tiou to Persia to do the thing she is thus the.people and rob the working classes of expressly permitted to do. The Times their hard earnings by combinations and adds, we seem in effect to have- handed devices as demoralizing in tlieir tenden- Herat over to Persia with a view to uni- cies as they are disastrous in results. I ting the interest of Persia and India in op- woulil not array labor against capital—far position to Russia. from it. They were designed to live and i London, February ip.—Tbe steamer move and act in harmony and accord; but State of Nevada, which hailed from Glas- wlien capital, conscious of her own inde- gow, February Cth, and Lome on the 7th, pcndence and power, wishes to divorce ? or ^ew York, put back with her pro- herself from these relations and seesaw (if. pollers damaged. you will allow the expression) labor at i Washington, February 10.—In the will, I would interpose the power of law . Senate, Mr. Eaton, from the committee on anil say to her, “Thus far shalt thou go, ■ Foreign relations, reported favorably on and no further.” . the House joint resolution appropriating In conclusion, gentlemen, let me im- - $20,000 to enable the United States to be press upon you the necessity of a higher j represented at the International exhibi- appreciation of your own State Agrieultu- j tion, and it was passed, ral Society. Suffer it not to languish for J Mr. Burnside introduced a bill, which want of proper support. It bas done ' hy unanimous consent, was considered much for your industry, much for Geor- j aU( l passed, appropriating $1,000 to defray gia. It lias awakened a spirit of investi- : the.expenses of transporting the body of gation in the minds of the farming Major General Geoige Sykes, late of tlie population—into the science of ag- United States army, from Fort Brown, riculture—it has encouraged home { Texas to West Point, economy, homo independence—it has Mr. Jones, of Louisiana, introduced a created" a greater thirst for educa- J hill making an appropriation of $85,500 to tion and general knowledge, it has eleva-, *hl in tile completion of the Custom ted the public sentiment in its estimate of j Hous'e at New Orleans. Referred, agricultural pursuits; it lias endeavored to j On motion of Mr. Gordon, the Senate educate planters that small farms and proceeded to consider the motion entered CONSUMPTION CURED. Aa old phy«id*n, retire 1 from practice. Mo B> had placed in nts hands by an Bast w® missionary tbe formula of a liffiilo xemedy for the apeedy and permanent Consumption, Broncn.tjs,Cst: rrh. Asthma. “ •U Threat and Lung Aflectio s, slip a aud radical cure for *’ Nervous Complaints wonder 11 curative ps has felt it hio duty t. aud rirg fellow*, a doaire So relieve i. also a m '-Vvu Debility *y« K ' aving tested 1 • !jous*nds«<*-Si o it known to »* .1 by this motire dering, I re it, this rutrv jdns'and usipic-. free of charge to a!) with full direction* : German. French or j „ _ _ addressiiia with stamp, naming this paper- „ hsqjb 14 <5* Power*’ xmek, Rochester, n. * Seitby ?»>!$ Held tor Postage. A letter ior J. B. McNeice, Byron: is held for postage in the Macon oflire. Bridges in Bad Bepalr. We hear much complaint in regard G*- explained the object of his bill, and said he thought we ought to give some assur ance to the distinguished citizen of Nic aragua, now here, to capitalists whom he represented, as well as to the Nic araguan government, which felt deep interest in the subject, that tbe United States would not be backward in protecting any enterprise which might be undertaken on that isthmus. He con sidered it absurd to refuse to appoint spe cial committees upon the greatest enter prise of modem times merely iu order to save the salaty of a clerk. Pending the conclusion of M-. Gordon’s remarks, the morning hour expired. He continued to speak, however, until Mr. Edmunds rose to the privilege of a motion under the 64rh rale and asked that the doors be closed. Mr. McDonald demanded tbe regular order. The Vice President declared the business before the Senate to be Mr. Pad dock’s bill to authorize tlie Secretary of the Interior to ascertain and certify the amounts of lands located with military warrants in certain States and to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to pay said States five per cent, on such amounts es timated at one dollar and twenty-fire cents per acre. Among the States men tioned in the bill are Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Mr. Edmunds spoke at considerable length in opposition to the bill. Mr. Jones, of Florida, gave notice that he would offer the following amendment to be inserted after the first section, provided that the Secretary of the Interior shall also ascertain the quantity of public lands entered and patented un der the provisions of the homestead law in the States of Florida, Mississippi, Ar kansas and Louisiana, between June 21st, 1866 and March 3d, 1877, and that such lands shall also be subject to tlie provis ions of this act in tbe same manner as lands entered by military scrip and land warrants. Mr. Burnside, from tbe Committee on Military Afiairs, submitted a minority re port on tbe hill for the relief of General Fitz John Porter. ThejSenate then ad journed. The House then resumed tlie considera tion of the bill to settle tlie titles to lands in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Messrs. Chalmers, of Mississippi; Haw ley, of Connecticut; White, of Pennsyl vania ; Dunnell, of Minnesota, and Con ger, of Michigan, spoke in opposition to the bill on the ground that it was a bill for the relief- of the claimants who had been living on tbe government, and who now wanted to get for $20,000, property worth $400,000. Messrs.. Converse, of Ohio; Dunn, of Arkansas, and Wright, of Pennsylvania, spoke in favor of the bill, after which the previous question was seconded and the bill passed, 125 to 121. Mr. Johnson, of Virginia, introduced a bill amending section 3,585 of the Revised Statutes, on the cancellation of export bonds on tobacco, snuff and cigars. Re ferred. Mr. Beltzhoover, of Pennsylvania, in troduced a bill to remove the political dis abilities arising under the third section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Consti tution. Referred. Adjourned. Peteesbubg, Va., February 10.—The railroad bridge over the Melierrin river at Hickford, on the Petersburg and Weldon railroad, was destroyed by an incendiary fire last night, together with the county bridge at the same point. The railroad bridge was two hundred feet long and cost $8,000. Passengers hy Hie midnight train from the North remained here last night. A large force of workmen has gone to erect a temporary bridge. Washington, February 10. — The President sent the following nominations of postmasters to the Senate to-day: Joshua R. Smith at Meridian, Mississippi, James W. Lee, at Aberdeen, Mississippi, Charles Miller, Morgan City. Montgomery, Alabama, February 10—Tlie Lehman cotton factory, near Brattville, fifteen miles from this city, destroyed by fire this morning. The fac tory bad recently ran day and night. The flames were discovered about four o'clock in the main'bnilding, which was entirely destroyed with all tlie machinery. Twj loss is supposed to be about one hundred thousand dollars, and the insurance about sevehty-five thousand dollars. The fire 15 thought to have been caused by friction- About one hundred and fifty bauds are thrown out of employment. The proper ty was owned by Lehman, Durr & Co. San Francisco, Febru: y 10.—The State normal building at San Jose was burned to tbe ground early this mornm? The fire was first discovered in the cupola- There is a suspicion that the fire was 01 incendiary origin. The loss is estimamu at more than $250,000. Insurance, $at>i- 000. ; scarce and credit high; face of all these,'the cry is _ _ ^ and with-it conies its companion, more fered to exhaust themselves; it has been-oceanic Canal Committee. ’ Mr. Gordon ed to.