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GEORGIA PRESS. Tjie guano trade in Thomasville is quite lively. A man by the name of Smith came near breaking up a show in Tkomasville a few nights since by insisting on indulging in great laughter. Several citizens of Swainsboro look in vain for Handy Harden, a colored brother who took French leave of that place and his bondsmen in certain cases against him. Tiie Thomasville Library Association has celebrated its fourth anniversary. Mr. Lou Drewby handed the Griffin News a bogus marriage notice of a young lady and and gentleman of Griffin. The Neics very properly goes back on the young man and he probably has changed his ideas in regard to the absolute merits of the joke. The Presbyterians of Louisville con template building a church in that place soon. Miss Neppie Jordan and Mr. John . Wall, of Twiggs county, were married Irwinton on Wednesday. The cyclono season has opened in Schley county, and a furious one played a star engagement there last week, demol ishing several buildings. Mr. M. E. Thornton, of Atlanta, lias purchased the Crawfordsville Democrat, and will make it a lively sheet. The Albany Evening Advertiser says we saw a collard this morning nine and-a half feet high, grown on Mrs. E. H. Barnes’ place in Mitchell county. There were eighteen deaths in Savan nah last week—eight whites and ten col ored. The Mazeppa correspondent of the Oglethorpe Echo says that about the year ’48, a miner of the Pacific slope unearthed a perfect cross of solid gold. He gave it, with thirteen dollars in specie, as a marriage fee to a missionary, who is now an honored member of the North Georgia Conference. Louisville Courier: We are informed by a friend who lives in the vicinity of Stellaville,that Judge Noah Smith has re cently had nine stocks of fodder on his plantation eaten up by buzzards. Valdosta Times: We heard a busi ness man from Savannah say a few days ago that in his opinion there was never a more brilliant prospect for Georgia and the South than now. He thinks that the long looked for “good time a-coming” is near at hand. While we see nothing dis couraging in the near future, except the scarcity of com in this immediate section, we are' not as sanguine as our friend, but still we hope he is the prophet, and not us. A correspondent of the Berrien county News says that Mrs. Sindarilia Lee, of Appling county, is the mother, grand mother and greatgrandmother of 215 chil dren. She enjoys very good health for one of her age, and her prospects are good for several years yet. Tiie Jefferson Forest News remarks that “if you don’t think the average Georgian is a goober masher, just go into a court room and look under the benches after a day’s sitting of the court. All times during the day, when there is a lull in the proceedings, you can hear the «on- stant crack, crack of the goober hull. Our people have a perfect mania for them that is uncontrollable.” Hi.NE8Vir.LE Gazette: When a farmer can make eighty-seven dollars net profit to the acre on rice, and that too, on pine land without fertilization, it does seem that there is money in it. That is the re turn that some of the farmers in this lo cality made last year. Tub LaFayette (Walker county) Mes senger says: “Another shocking accident occurred at the Western and Atlantic railroad crossing on Market street early Tuesday morning. A lady was crossing, and being alarmed by an engine approach ing from one direction, returned to anoth er ti act, not noticing a locomotive back ing from an opposite direction. She was terribly mangled. The engineers of the locomotive were ignorant of the accident until told of it some minutes after. It “will Ire our painful duty to chronicle from time to time similar accidents at that cawing until a bridge is built.” Louisville Courier: Jefferson county stands above the average counties in the Stale in a financial point of view. It is out of debt and has money in the treas ury. We are not informed as to the ex act amount in the treasury, but it is, we learn, quits enough to meet tbs current expenses of the year, and there is no probability of the county getting into debt agai' i unless it has to meet some unex pected and unusual expense. TTinkbville Gazelle: We had the pi ensure of an interview with Mr. L Jut . .son, a gentleman originally from Scotland, but who has for a number of years been engaged In tea culture in the East Indies. He is examing our land, with the view of locating a large tea farm, where he will employ a large number of h •> !s. Before locating permanently he proposes to visit other portions of this State and the Indian river in Florida. A niENS Banner: On yesterday we \ ..essed what is not often seen in this of uncertainties and but few days. Mr. Marion W. Watson, of this county, ?"1 who lives near Wintervilie, was in the city with three of his brothers, Messrs L. W. and J. M. Watson, of Greenville, S. C., and Mr. A. J. Watson,of Oglethorpe county, which is the first time the four brothers have all met in forty-three years. The separation had been so long that Mr. Marion Watson, the youngest, did not re cognize or know his brothers until they I !e themselves known to him. Mr. M. I Watson is the oldest, and seventy-one a old; Mr. A. J. Watson is the next oldest, and sixty-five years old; the next, Mr. J. M. Watson, is sixty-three years old, nn<l Mr. M. W. Watson the youngest, is filiy-six years old. The brothers are all hale, hearty and healthy ldoking men, ami seem destined for a goodly nnmber of years yet. They go to-morrow to spend a tbw days with the brother in Oglethorpe. May their enjoyment in each others com- ..,y in some measure compensate for the tong separation. Thomasville Enterprise: On Friday last there occurred in our city one of those r Ar ays between the young colored men :hat are of such frequent occurrence as to cause the opinion that the generation now growing up is not disposed to regard life as at all sacred. Andrew Jackson had obtained twenty- fii - cents from one George , Dr Bruce’s driver, and George had repeatedly imnortuned him to return it. Friday morning George again asked him.for it a :d some words ensued, when George again struck at Andrew and ran; Andrew ‘■■'owed him and overtaking him corn iced cutting him; he cut Geoige in the *- ist, just over the heart, and again in 'Tim neck and then in the hand; he bled • -iv freely, and fears were entertained ft .• bis life. Andrew Jackson was prompt ly .crested and lodged in jail. i he Southerner and Appeal speaks as ' 1-iws of the Representative in Congress -. uis district: • is our honest opinion that Hon. J. II. u'< ant is decidedly the best and most ■ful member in Congress from Georgia. •'••• arc wo alone in this opinion. Many ft ; ie papers that were disposed to under- >• -fra last year are now his strong ids and admirers. This is true of the lie as well as the papers. This popu- i y is not confined to Geoigia, for Mr. int is winning golden opinions from actions of the country, for his work in Appropriations Committee, of wliicli as, for some time, been acting chair- . This is gratifying to us, for we have ij’s believed in him. We are glad to dm on the right side in tiie Simmons -uversy, though we never doubted lie would be. iiicitK are au unusual number of brides season in Hall county. ie late rise in iron did not affect the .esviltc-Dahlonega railroad project. Mr. Joseph Sinckland died last Wednesday near Gainesville, aged one hundred and five years. Colonel I. W. Avery telegraphs the Chronicle and Constitutionalist that he is not seeking a clerkship -from-General Gordon in Washington. Newton, was so severely-burned _on Mob- ver is heard as he swaggers,along. Trade day that her life was despaired of. I Mr. Addcrson and his wife, left-tbs j liouso for a short while to look after some domestic affairs, and were induced! to re turn by the loud and continued howling of the dog. When they entered the house j they were, appalled by the sight of. their I child lying on' the bed, where "shehad We regret to learn from private letters crawled In her frantic efforts to escape’ the received in this city that Hon. Gregg Wright has recently been seriously ill. We trust be may soon be better. Real estate in the suburbs of Carters- flames, with her clothing burned and her body blistered and charred. These sad calamities are of frequent oc currence, and should impress upon people the great danger of leaving children un- ville is said to be rising as the brass band 1 attended in a house where there is fire, is learning Pinafore. It is probable a bill! Augusta News: Rev. J. S. Lamar is will be introduced in the Legislature next. fm % ^ this timCj and jg wa ;ting session making a special kind of reserva- • f or construction of his new machine tionlor the band, with a prohibitory j on a large scale and the test of hi? great clause against its leaving its domain ex- invention. It gives us_ pleasure to Rote cept in case of invasion. Miss Deabing, of Adairsville, has left that place to go on the operatic stage. Mbs. William A. Wright, wife of the Comptroller General of the State, is dead. Mrs. Eunice Price, wife of Mr. J. Lott Price, died last week at the Plains of Dura, in Dooly county. She was a daughter of the late Matthew E. By lan der, who was well known in Macon. Wild turkeys are frequently killed in Sumter county. Mrs. N. J. Joiner died in Americas on Monday last while on a visit to her sister. The store of Mr. Sam Cohen was bur glarized in Amencus this weejr, and four hundred and four dollars taken therefrom) Albany wants a faster line between that city and Savannah. . j 'i The irrepressible Ham has been heard from again. He is practicing law at Gainesville. It is authoritatively stated the North Eastern railroad will be built to Clarkes- ville at an early day. Judge W. F. Clarke, ofCuthbert, in Cutbbert last the great and universal interest excited by Mr. Lamar in his invention, and the fa vorable notice of the press all though the country. _ Scientists and those interested everywhere are now awaiting his experimentum crucis with much interest, as his theory is perfectly sound, and successful application will bring him great reputation coupled with substantial reward. The chief electrician of the Western Union Telegraph Company agrees with Mr. Lamar, and is interested to the ex tent that he is superintending the con struction of the machine, and is a warm well wisher of our Augusta inventor. Such an influence is very powerful in itself, and has its weight in forming scien tific opinion. The displacement of steam by electricity is a great problem, and if successfully solved by Mr. Lamar, none will offer their congratulations and plau dits with more truth and fervor than his many friends and admirers in Augusta. Gwinnbtt Herald: Mr, Parish, of this county, has had i the misfortune, to lose both of Ids hands, yet he does cot sit mop ing around Waiting for something to turn' in every line is booming.- Gold dust cot ton accomplished this joyous end. We are fearful however it will be returned to us in due season in the'shape of the poorest calico and other cotton goods ever seen. , • a's Gainesville Southron : We are glad to know that Colonel Foreacre is doing all he can to induce the people along the Air Line and others to come in and go to raising; shipping and man ufacturing tobacco. In a conversa tion With' him the other day, he stated that no part of Maryland or Vir ginia coaid produce the finer grades of ttf- bacco bettcr.tlian this Piedmont belt, and no industry on tbe farm pays better if properly managed. Colonel Foreacre has given the subject much attention, and can convince any man that he is right. We hope, every farmer in this section will put out a small patch of tobacco, and learn, by reading up and practical experiment, how to raise and handle it to get the best results. Seed can be procured by writing to any house in Richmond or Danville, Virginia, or to Baltimore, Maryland, ask ing for the best qualities aud how to plant it. Mr. O. E. Mitchell, of this city, will have quite a number of plants, and per haps others will have by the time to put them out into • the field. We hope our people will take hold of the matter at once. If they will, they can rely upon a manufactory being put up in the city and in full running order by the time the crop is matured. Don’t wait one for the other, but pitch right in, if you don’t raise more than five hundred plants. Says the Dahlonega Signal: “Our friend,Mr. Marcus Reeves, of this county, brought to this office last week the skin of the largest wildcat we ever saw. It is neatly and artistically stuffed, is furnished with a pair of red flannel eyes, and looks alarmingly lifelike. The animal was cap tured by Messrs. William and Randall Reeves, a short distance below Patteson’s bridge on Brier 1 creek, and was three feet up”arid the pEKfo^o t^“fiiTreKrf,Tu‘t WS® 5 ^es in length and large in proper- plows, hoes and does almost any kind of ,.k* ve l*^, n work withing complaining. He is mak ing an honest and comfortable living, and maintains the respect of all who know him. On the-'contrary, we conld find young men with two bands, and stout, athletic fellows, too, who are continually complaining that they can find nothing to do. It is sometimes said; there is,' always plenty of room in the top story, and our observation is there. is plenty of room on' tbe ground floor if yon will only pull off /bur coat take hold, ~ ran into-a fire engine week. Tbe engine is still in working or der, but tbe Judge is not. In Southwestern Georgia they have had ice only three times this winter, conse quently most of the meat is spoilt. T c K ey, i iving at King’s Gap, Harris' Dr. W. W. Flewellen, of Columbus^ county, has'recentlypatentedan improved has accepted the superintendency of the cotton press. It is a very simple arrange- Florida lunatic asylum. { ment > can be hauled upon* two horse „ ,_r ,. 3 „ „ . l wagon, and two boys can easily pack a Tiie Washington Gazette says. Mr 650 pound bale of cotton in tyro minutes. Toombs DuBose delivered a valedictom Its cost need not exceed thirty-five dollars, for Miss Thompson s dancing school at’ and it will !ast a ijf e time, V Stammers Hall last Tuesday. Thanks \ were returned to the town and her pc- 'For two or three weeks past Borne has Irons, and a chiding gratuitously given by ’ ’ ’ j| I the orator to the bashful young men who had declined the honors he was bear ing. Americus Republican: The Presbyte rians are contemplating erecting a new church on the corner of Jackson and Church streets, provided the negotiations now progressing can be completed to any advantage. The site is one of the most desirable in the city for such a building, and we hope that the land maybe secured and a building erected thereon which may be an ornament to the city. | Mil Andrew J. Miller, late Deputy Collector at the port of Saint Mary’s, who was removed from his post by Tom Blod gett to conceal irregularities of which the latter was guilty, has written a long letter vindicating himself and exposing the crookedness of the ways of the ex-Collec- tor. He states that Mr. Camp, a Special Treasury Agent, has examined his books and found them correct in every respect, and will so report. As proof also that he is considered entirely innocent by the de partment, we learn that he has been ap pointed Collector ad interim until Blod gett’s seccessor has been finally decided on. Montezuma Weekly: “A little colored girl, aged five years, daugh ter of Saliie Gibson, was accidently killed in this place on last Tuesday after noon. Sam Johnson, colored, went into Saliie Gibson’s house to get a gun which he had left there. The child was sitting on the floor eating. Johnson attempted to let one of the hammers down on the nipple. The hammer slipped from his fingers. The gun fired and the whole load of shot entered the temple of the child on the floor. The child was instant ly killed. Purely accidental. No in quest.” Gainesville Eagle: The Websterian professor who murders the Queen’s Eng lish in the Southron' ought to rig up a hoisting tackle for the beams in his own eye befor he adjusts his spectacular mag nifiers to scan the ocular demonstrators of other people for motes. A man who spells “mode” without a final “e” and “moneyed” without a “y” is certainly neither “y’s” nor at “e’s” in an ortho graphical skirmish, The Columbus Enquirer tells a strange story on a well known character of that city and vicinity known as Barefoot Wal ker, so called because he had not worn a pair of shoes for the past forty years. He is aged about ninety-five years and three months, and is employed on a farm about three miles east of Columbus. On Sun day afternoon last, says tbe Enquirer, he apparently died, probably from sheer ex haustion and old age. He was dressed, laid in bis coffin, and his friends from the neighborhood gathered to pay their last tribute to the departed. When the as sembled multitude were bending in their jpbpatby, amid the serenity which over shadowed the surroundings, the defunct arose from his strange position and de manded of the assemblage “ wbat they meant by such treatment.” The 1 party turned away, leaving tbe old man master of the situatfb&t* -■* -i T . Savannah News:-, The first case.un der the act passed'by. i the Legislature, chartering the Society for the*'Prevention of Cruelty to Children will coino' up be- fore-the Ordinary- oh' -Friday. The -peti tion is filed by the society, stating that two orphan' children, ‘ 'Cordelia E. Bur- long, aged ten years, and James Buriong, aged two years, colored, are now In the custody of Louisa Powels, colored, living at Ruckettsville, in the suburbs; that they are being reared under immoral influen ces likely to degrade their moral char acter, and dcvqte them to a vicious life, In consequence of the neglect and drunken ness of said Louisa Powells. The peti tioners pray the appointment of ad roper guardian for said children. W. W. Ma- kell, attorney for the Society, A. P. & S. B. Adams for the plaintiff. Sumter Republican; We learn from Mr. J. D. Scett, of the 2Stli district, that on Tuesday night a colored man by the name of Mintus, once a preacher, attacked Houston Kemp, another colored man, much esteemed in the neighhsrhood for Jiis uniform good behavior, and inflicted a dangerous gash in his forehead with an axe. Parties went to arrest him, but he made good his escape thus far. Houston is in a critical condition, and this villain should he apprehended and pay the pen alty of the law. The wounded man is receiving the kindest attention from his white friends, as well as those of his own color. We hope they will be rewarded by the recovery and gratitude of Houston Kemp. ‘ ;*'/ - ,s • DawsoJT Journal: Some weeks ago there appeared in this paper the advertise ment of an Atlanta firm proposing to sell a “magnificent watch for $2.60.” We see the same advertisement in a great many of the weekly papers of the State, besides numerous circulars offering the same thing. Of course no one can expect to get a good watch for $2.60, but some persons here thought of sending on the funds, but first wrote to a prominent merchant of Atlanta to investigate the matter for them. The been luxuriating in a toothsome social scandal. Charlie Warner, an old codger about forty-five years of age, disappeared suddenly leaving behind a wife and fami ly. Miss-Alice Hall, an accomplished and rather pretty girl, vanished at the same time. The girl’s father, Dr. Hall, his daughter and Warner were all going on to Philadelphia to join an opera com pany, accounting for the sudden flight of Wamnr by saying that Mrs. Warner could not stand the idea of seeing her fes tive little hubby prancing before the foot lights. This story pretty well appeased the Romans for several weeks, but now that enterprising community has tolera bly well settled down into the belief that it was a clear case of elopement. Dr. Hall stood well in Rome, and many friends sympathize with him in this, the deepest affliction that can befall any man. Tbe Rome papers have been vaguely hin ting at this afl'air for several weeks, but have never come right square out with the item. We are suiprisedat this be cause we thought the Rome press was keen after any item, sounding metropoli tan. Brace up, fellows, and have some style about you.—Cartersville Express. Atlanta has seven faro banks. Savannah has contributed, up to Fri day night, $2,173.75 to the Irish Relief Fund, f- ■ Monroe Coleman, colored, was acci dentally drowned at Savannah on Friday. Rome’s new. opera house will soon be completed. ^ : Corn is selling at fifty-five cents s bushel out of the-wagon in Dalton. Miss Stella Morton died near Rome on Monday, p Tin: Middle Georgia Argus hoists the names of.General Hancock for President, and General Gordon for -Tice President, as itif choice for 1880. : The orange trees are in bloom in Quit- Quitman Reporter says the farm era have lost enough in spoilt meat to about offset tbe benefit from the rise in cotton. Bainbbidge wants a town hall opera house. The Decatur county, fair will be held at Bainbridge May 6 and 7. A party of Perry hunters killed 1^90 robins last Monday.,' Corn Is being planted in Quitman county. . Griffin News: Hobs* Thief*. A negro boy stole it horae out of ' one of • the warehouses in Griffin on Monday last and made his way to Brooks Station and on to Newnan, but before reaching the latter place he swap ped the stolen horse, and, when, in New nan sold the horae he swapped for,- and before he got his money he was safe > In the dutches of the Bray and'Is noWifi Spalding county, jad to await his trial)',j I From the same: A Terrible Outrage.—Wo under stand that a man who lives at Brooks.' Sta tion, committed an outrage upon his own daughter on Sunday 1'astv. Our informant says the community 1 is . vtoyyjtiuch en raged, and when he was In that village on Tuesday, hardly a citizen could be found, from the fact that they were all dn tiie hunt for the criminal, who had made his escape. We are not Id possession of any. of the .particulars, and will withhold the name until we get further informa- The Stock Market.—Savannah and wildcat seen in that section for many years. The Messrs. Reeves are noted and successful hunters, and rarely fail to cap ture any kind of game, even a wildcat when once started.” On Monday last Mr. John Brady, con tractor for the improvement of the Bruns wick harbor, arrived in that city and en tered upon his work. The Appeal says: “Four thousand feet of jetties are to be constructed at Brandy Point, running par allel with tbe Brunswick shore, and the shoals at Buzzard Roost Point, and the point just above the ' Brunswick and Al bany railroad shops will be dredged and he dredgings emptied into the cribs at .randy Point.” The Augusta Chronicle wants free rade in paper. It declares the present protective tariff on printing paper and the chemicals, etc., used in its .manufacture has created a grinding monopoly, which is a special hardness upon all publishers. Lighting the Way over the Wa ters.—Savannah Netcs: Last night, about half past ten o’clock, the guests of the different hotels who were up, and people who chanced to be on the streets In the vicinity of the bav, had their at tention attracted by a brilliant aud beau tiful soft light, which brought into promi nent view the Exchange and the build ings along the bay. The steadiness of the light excited curiosity,andjroany mean dered to the river front to ascertain the cause, some being under the impression that it was a powerful Bengal light on some ship; others that the illumi nation was caused by an Aurora Bo realis or Northern light. The shrill whistle of a steamer, coming up the river, soon cleared up the mystery, and on reaching the wharf it was found that the illumination was the result of a powerful electric light, operated on the bow of the splendid steamer St. Johns. Hutchin son’s Island, opposite the city, was bathed in the soft translucent rays, and even the houses on the South Carolina side could be distinctly seen. The light was bril liant, and the good steamer was enabled to make her way up the river to her wharf with as much ease as though favored with the smiles of the god of day. As the steamer swung around in the river and moved up to her wharf, the light was thrown in different directions, and the effect was beautiful and gorgeous beyond description. As soon as she was •made fast, representatives of the News, who were preseut on the wharf, immediately boarded her, and were courteously received by her popular and clever commander, Captain Leo Vo gel, who informed us that the light had been of incalculabc benefit to him, as he was Enabled by it to discover the buoys several miles off, and could see his way perfectly clear. Captain Vogel states that when off Martin’s Industry lightship he saw pilot boats five miles away, and could very easily decipher the numbers on their sails, and that the light was so powerful that he could see seagulls flying, and thus learned for the first time in his extended experience on the seas that these birds flyby night. He is thoroughly sat isfied with the light, which was used on this trip as an experiment, and would not now be without one, as hereafter by its aid he will be enabled to avoid de- first call at 85, and than 95^, 6596 and 00J, closing at 06 bid, 06j_asked. The sales for-to-day were 1,100.'share* with more buyers than sellers. Homicide.—Meriwether 1 Vindica tor: Tuesday morning news was' brought to Greenville 'that on Monday evening about dark Mr. Theodore Davis had shot Wade Glanton, colored, killing him in stantly. The parties were tenants of Mr. Clem Evans residing near Lutherville and tbe difficulty arose from a dispute they had in the field during the day. It was reported that Davis would be arrested and brought to Greenville, but as we write nothing further has been beard in the premises. Middle Georgia Argus: Mr. William Moss, of this county, who has been fann ing with Hon. S. F. Smith for the last eight years never owned a horae or a mule in his life, but has been working for Mr. Smith on shares. Mr. Moss has raised a large family, paid his debts as he went ana now has seven bales of cotton piled up at home waiting for a high price. That beats buying mules at high priees and paying big rents, f | ' j ‘ Meriwether Vindicator: Rev. G. P. Sutherlin reports the wheat.crop.as looking so well as it should in the Luther ville district withibe jurat (Warm winter. niiii mi i L ■ ml u | He represents the p&Jple“rthe district as replv received states that the “watch man” j energetically .pushing alraad-.WJthtljgir is a fraud and advises the persons not to farming operations and preparing for a: send him any money. The merchant al- ( large cotton crop. Guano isbeing bought hided to stated that the selling man was on an extensive scale, always out when lie called at his place of | Cotton Still Pougs In.—Oglethorpe - -Washington Correspondence Washington City, February 16, 1SS0. SOUND THE THE HEWGAG And strike the lyre, not once hut many times, and until the welkin rings. The eagle orator of Georgia has been found at last, and she is once more famous. The proceedings of the House‘ofBepresenta- tives have been generally, this session, a dreary waste of lifeless and arid words. But thanks to the god of eloquence, there comes occasionally a delicious oasis to refresh the desert of dull routine. Last Tuesday was such a day. A reso lution came up last Tuesday “calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for cer tain information regarding the enforcement of the internal revenue laws in North eastern Georgia. That resolution may aj>- pear 5o be a very small peg on which to hang oratorical gems. But genius asserts itself, especially that prime quality of gen ius possessed by the brilliant (and brass band hating) Emory Speer. Some of his fortunate, and yet unfortunate, constitu ents—fortunate to he represented in Con gress by one so well equipped and so pe culiarly able to defend them, and unfor tunate in having been charged with ob structing the revenue laws—were the chief topic ef his discourse, though he made several incidental allusions to the pending resolution. I cannot refrain from rescu- ing, as it were, at least two bursts of Emo ry’s choice eloquence from the Lethean § loom of the Congressional Record. peaking of the scenery amidst the moun tains of his district, he ascends the Jacob’s ladder of oratory and the following pearls drop from his lips: “There the mountains of ‘Tray’ and ‘Yonah,’ and‘Currahee’ lift their towering summits towards the heavens. ' There the falls of Tallulah, of wonderous yet terri ble beauty, attract thousands to gaze with admiration and awe upon the feaful force with which the shining river is hurled into the abyss of the grand chasm. There the Toccoa—the Cherokee for beautiful—in its precipitous leap down the side of the mountain dashes its translucent wave to spray; and the legend haunted falls of Amicaiola—all add to inexhaustible natu ral charms. Sir, the people of this country ar e not a lawless population, as they have been represented; they do not merit that asper sion. To make the charge is to de their future great injury. Principally employed in agricultural and pastoral pursuits, far removed from the temptations and vices of large cities, they are an honest, virtuous people. They pursue the even tenor of their way in their quiet homes on the slopes of the great Blue Ridge, and adown the fertile valleys of the Tugola and Chattooga, the Tenora and Turora, the Hiwassee, Toccoa and Soquee, and where the bright waters of the Chattahoochee with rythmical murmuring winds away from fabled vale of sweet Nacocliee.” Let there be no more sentimental non sense about seeing Paris. Ratber let the word be, hear Speer and then die. This is the story as told by the Repub lic, a clever Sunay paper, iu its issue yes terday, but it omitted to mention that Speer did not make the speech at all. He asked permission to have it printed in the Record, where it duly appeared next morning! THE GEORGIA NOMINATIONS for census supervisors will likely come up in the Senate this afternoon or to-morrow, in Executive Session. They will all be confinnedlexcept the godly Simmons, who so hates “the corrupt secession traitors,” that he wants the office merely to get even with some of them. Messrs. Hill, Felton and Stephens, are making a des- jierate struggle for him, but will only have their labor and a large share of pub lic odium for their pains. Mr. llill will not carry a single Democratic Senator with him. He will stand solitary and alone with the Radicals in support of Simmons. I also make the prediction that at least half dozen Radical Senators will gag at the dose, and find it eon.e- nient to be out of the way when the vote is taken. Stories about Simmons’ being a gay deceiver and ruining some of tbe lambs of his flock, are also in circula tion, and wont help him much. What an ass the man has shown himself. As tbe detectives say he lia3 not only “given him self away” completely, but also some oth ers of his cloth, who will find him the heaviest load to carry around next sum mer and fall they over attempted. By the way, this, I learn, is not the first time Simmons has been on record here. I un derstand that he once did some swearing RY TETiEfrBrAPH ! . d , uci ”g.se? ui » e diamonds, which Stand all! instant, via Lisbon, state that f roi » , XJA -Cl. the tests that can be applied to them, to ten persons are dvlng in that e j& — ; Professor Maskelyne says: “There is no from yellow fever. c t f doubt whatever that Mr. Hannay has at i —• — the St. Gothard tunnel, will be finished in W nIiI A Berlin dispatch says the Socialist Deputies, Bebel and Bader, stated in the Reichstag that German Socialism had no connection whatever with Russian Nihil ism. Paris, February 20.—The Due D. Andiffert was received into the Trench academy Thursday. The reception was a brilliant affair. A grand banquet m honor of General Fairdiild^on the eve Of his departure for Spain, was given last night by the American C-olony. New York, February 20.—Five hun dred cabinet makers in the employ of H. Ilerrman, struck yesterday for an increase of wages. Detroit, February 20.—The Republi can State Convention will meet here May 12th Cincinnati, February 20.—ABellaire, Ohio, special states that as tbe engine of a passenger train of the Bellaire and South western narrow guage railroad came on the trestle work, eighty feet high, near Jacobsborough station last night, it jumped the track, throwingthe coach and baggage car down the embankment turning both bottom up. it is rumored thatex-Con- gressman Danford .and a Mrs. Caldwell were mortally wounded and A. B. Booth, mail agent, badly bruised. ' Washington, February 20.—The Sen ate Committee on Territories to-day deci ded to recommend the passage of the bill extending the jurisdiction of UnitedStates Courts, in civil and criminal matters, to the Indian Territory, and providing for the acquirement of citizenship by Indians, and the allowment of lands to them in severalty, under prescribed conditions, The Committee on the Inter-Oceanic Canal had before it this morning Mr. A. G. Menocal, of the United States Navy, one of the civil engineers formerly en gaged in making surveys of the Isthmus, aud heard his statement as to the relative advantages and disadvantages, of the Pan ama and Nicaragua routes. Mr. Meno cal favors strongly the Nicaragua route, as being 660 miles shorter than the Pana ma one, as between New York and San Francisco, and because of tbe greater sul- ubricty of its climate, better supply of building material, and its relative cheap ness of construction. He expressed his conviction that the cost of the Nicaragua Canal would not exceed seventy millions, while that of a sea level canal at Panama would not be less than four hundred millions. The latter he regarded a3 commercially im practicable. He admitted that the pas sage by Nicaragua would consume more time on account of its greater length, and the large number of locks, and that tbe annual expense of maintaining it would be twice as great, but he thought that these objection were more than oflset by its relative cheapness. In tbe House, the Speaker is cal'ing committees for reports. The House passed tbe Senate joint res olution authorizing the Secretary of tbe Navy to designate a vessel of the United States to cany, free of charge, contribu tions for the relief of the suffering j>oor of Ireland. The Senate proceeded to consider the calendar. Besides various private bills, the following were passed : Bill providing for delivery of dutiable articles in mails and for indemity of lost registered arti cles; it authorizes the delivery to addres ses in the United States under such regu lations for collection of customs duties as may be agreed upon, by the Secretary of tbe Treasury and Postmaster General, of all mailable articles of dutiable matter received by mail from foreign countries, and admissible under the rules of the universal postal union, and authorizes the Postmaster General to accept and execute the provision of the Paris postal union re specting the payment of an indemnity of fifty francs in case of loss of registered ar ticles. Also the bill authorizing the Sec retary of the Treasury to appoint a depu ty collector at Lake Charles, Louisiana, Also, the bill to repeal the provisions of tbe revised statutes authorizing the ad vancement Of naval and marine officers, thirty members ,in rank, for extraordinary heroism, Washington, February 20.—In the Senate, after the presentation of a number of petitions and memorials, Sir. Butler in troduced a joint resolution providing for the restoration of the books of the Beau- Ottawa, February 20—The . . - ---- - - i-- o ; $100,000 by the Dominion govc-rnmo 0 ..-^ been the reproach to chemical seience,; the Irish relief fund passed them ntfo? viz; the problem of crystallizing carbon. I day unanimously. to- His process for affecting this transforma- Washington, Tebniarv o, tion is nardly leas momentous to the, arts House committee on Post-office,;'?^ than to the jiossessors of wealth iu jew- " * - « and n... ,elry. It is on the eve of announcement to the Boyal Society. Sr. Petersburg, February 20.—The Golos says the cellar under the Winter palace was occupied by four joiners, three of whom have been arrested. It is estimated that tbe weight of the dynamite used was about four pounds. Tbe Winter palace and other palaces are being care fully searched by a company of socially charged sappers. The total number of persons killed by the explosion was ten. The funeral of the victims will take place to-day. Liverpool,February 20.-This weeks cir cular of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers’ Association says, cotton was in good de mand throughout the week, and quota tions, excepting for American, generally advanced. American was in good de mand with free supply. Quotations were reduced one-eighth d. Iu Sea Island a large business was done at full prices. Futures opened dull, prices declining. On Wednesday there was an improvement of one-sixteenth d, and since then the mark et has continued flat. The final rates show an advance of one-eiglith d. Philadelphia, February 20.—The Imperial Cotton Mills at Darby, owned by John Verlinder’s estate, were destroyed by fire last night. Loss $50,000. Cincinnati, February 20.—A dispatch from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, says: especial subjects of investiration"hr‘ IS Fully 10,000 persons witnessed the hang- Special Committee of Anpronriatior?)),! Ing of John Hall and Burrett Smith, near. Committee leaving them to be aS Routes to-day prepared a report to pany tbe bill which they propose in the House on Monday, and undp r suspension of tberules endeavor to JL * a two thirds vot Air its passage Th* port will set forth that on the attention of Congress was dirfUfj the fact that a deficiency appropriS 10 $2,000,000 would be required tS °f the present expedited schedule of „ routes to the end of the fiscal year tar that the service would bo discontinuM^ cut down to weekly service upon « routes if tbe required appropriation -T 1 refused by Congress. Two months and half have elapsed and no definite act' * has been taken; that the department), 011 issued a general order cutting (] 0 m, service upon all routes to weeklv serrt which, under the law, requires month’s notice to contractors and volves the payment to them by the J? emment of one month’s pay, which Sit aggregate $600,000, for the investment Z which the government virtually and uL tually receives no corresponding serrfo In view of the above facts and theses ous inconvenience resulting to the puhlS’ the committee will urge the passak C G bill continuing appropriations forth* Sl ; routes upon their present basis of serd» The bill which is being prepared, on care ful estimation omits any considerations three or four routes, which have teen thJ Little’s creek to-day, for the murder of | the ultimate recommendations of th?*^ ’ugh in 1879. nronriations CommitiM van ro.n,fo«?nni ) n f r^ a S e to > * t “i e Ti” C | ai ' niS fort » South Carolina, Library. Referred. Commission in regard to a “loyl” claim, £ niimhfiP ftf uni f nr ti.e relief nfnri. which swearing was afterwards described in the official records as decidedly econom ical as to the truth. A TRIP TO ALEXANDRIA. I decided, one bright afternoon aot long ago, to get on the ferry boat that plys between this place and Alexandria for the purpose of visiting the famous old Christ church, where George and Martha Washington used to worship. How dif ferent Alexandria looks from Washington, where everything is bright, new, fresh and A number of bills for tiie relief of pri vate individuals were considered and passed. A bill to authorize the completion aud publication of the naval history of the war, comprising both Union and Confed erate vessels, was jiassed,' as were also a bill'authorizing the payment of $1,200 to Claude H. Masten, of Mobile, for the reut of the Levert Hospital during the war, and a bill for the relief of Monroe Dono- ho, Land Register of Alabama. A bill authorizing the payment to Jo- tention on account of the risk of-ing*the United States navigation in these waters on dark! from the top reminds nights, and hence will save trips that would otherwise be lost. The advantage, therefore, to the company of the electric lightistoo obvious to need coalmen’. The cost of running the light steadily is estimated at three cents per hour, and the machine is easily and readily operated af ter its workings are - Once explained. lively, while in the former place there is seph R. Shannon, of Louisiana, of the an ancient, tumble down, rusty old world j value of a steamboat impressed into the appearance about everything, and, over S service of the government during the war, all, an almost oppressive silence. Stroll- was objected to by Mr. Allison and laid ing past tbe Mansion House and see-! aside. Jackson-Ellsworth tragedy curred there in 1861. A freedman standing there directed me to the old church, which is in one corner of a square surrounded by .a substantial fence, which brought me to a standstill,as both gates to it were securely, locked,doubt- flag floating) At. the expiration of the nioming.hour me of the ! the Seriate resumed consideration of the which oc- \ five jier cent, and military land warrants I bill, and Mr. Logan spoke in its support. J After a §bort executive session, Mr. Morrill moved- that the Seneate take up and pass House bill admitting free of duty- foreign ••contributions in aid of colored refugees in Kansas. Objection was made ter iu workings are > Once explained. t ps . JL nrpvpnt VanVep folfo lnint^rn 1 and alter some debate the Senate without The motirejwwer is sui plied by a donkey carrvingthe oldcLrchoffbodily! t Canany taking ractioh on thebill adjourned until engine boner.connerted with the electric one explain the solemn veneration anil Monday.^ . LU^lUU UU1IU1 J WUifoUGU TV 4U1 . VIVLW battery, and has all the force requisite. - With one -of these lights any of the sfoauuhips could safely come up to- the wharves tbe darkest nights with as little trouble,dr danger as inthe day. It is not liriprofiable'that the introduction of the, electric light iu this section by the St. Johns will result in its general use by steamships and steamers. The steamer left on her trip to Florida at midnight with a large accession to herj passenger and freight lists. - HR ■ eager desire for a reiic of anything'in any of Louisiana, way, the most remotely connected with th “ th ® Pacific Kail- George Washington, a Southern uml js! • Mnendmj great a rebel as ever lived, which • — to possess the hearts aud souls;' Englauders. §Vt; . A crowd Of school hoys with no rover-1 Oflfib-ed whited- and roenmm ence for the sacred ] vicinity were bttsily^ the" p“ engaged just outside tbe mclosure. in a|ijCom " — game of marbles, -and bnei of them!jO? voluteered to bring the sexton, and after, i jfol&frff* a few minutes delay, I lourfd 'myself The House then went into committee Company, immltted. ded to call es for reports on private bills, a ~ which were reporte d and dis- Besuio and ball for Dr. Ball’s Cough Syrnp, it you are troubled with a bad COllgu or Cold. It Will give relief. For-, UV uic lueaui^u uiics nil WHICH sold by every 1 respectable druggist. Price’ J George and Martha sat- and knelt nearly 25 cents per bottle. ■ <,r ; . , jl a hundred years ago. i standing before the old square pew, With its ragged cushions and still more ragged, carpet, which from their appearance might be the identical ones "on which hundred years ago. ' ••• ' | I was informed that all the pews in the Baroness Coutts’ CoNTHBUTioN.-It' church were originally 'sqmtre, but non 1 •now turns out that the rumor said to have,: are so now except the one mentioned, am j in the lobby of the Brit- louse of Commons to tue effect tjftjt j Baroness Burdett-Coutts contemplated that formerly occupied by General Lee’s family, which is across the aisle almost opposite. A new organ has been recently of the whole on revision of the rules. Ya- rious amendments were offered to rules twenty-three aud twenty-four. But all were voted flown and the committee rose without making any changes. Mr. King, of Louisiana, introduced a bill dividing the State Of Louisiana into two judicial districts. Referred. ^ The House then adjourned until Mon- Washington, February 20.—The Sen ate in executive session to-day confirmed since sliS~-became the' sole possessor, through the* Dtichess of- 6t. Albans—the maoWtfr did “Tom” Coutts,bind In ear- i Her life the-'jdlly Miss Mellon, of theatri cal njgriiory—of the great Coutts estate, j Baroness Coutts has spent- her. life im allnsgivingarid'in tlie promotion of under-; .fiflt&igs forthe TeHef of the poor. She] | n has also been a large contributor totho ] dates of Mis. Elizabeth Davis’ 'birth arid, A AIUTT UlgAU 1IW VUW4U1.U11UJ j PHU lit CAUVUMTC iJUJDIVU wruajf UHlUIi put into the church, aud to make room'-'the nomination of John S. Reed to be for it, some of the original timber inthe pogi$£Sler #t Huntsville, and rejected the roof liad to be remoyed,'and-ait has been! nomination of ' jEflwaru T. Parker to be utilized by making it up into canes, cups; j supervisor of census for the first district of etc., which find a ready sale to numerous. LouIsItCai,;.jf..., . ’■ v : visitors. But the churchyard, with its j The sub-committee of the House Ways old, sunken gravestones, was even more j and Means Committee to-day heard ar- interesting to me than the church. Some > guments by Representative Joe Johnston of the inscriptions struck me as veiy pe- « r >ti-viv unn. -r ni/.i, m ™j i« j-r cullin'; arid altogether different frdm those of latter days. I have forgottep .the exact Palestine exploration fund. death, but the inscription impresses it ’ Frqnl her great wealth it was not at ail I upon one that “she was related to several impossible for her to have given half a ! of the most respectable families in Md. & million of money to Irish relief; but it is j Va.” The inscription on Bethanath Mc- now stated, upon what appears to be good • Can’s tombstone tells ns that he was authority, that the extent of her contribn-1 “bom Nov. 25tli, 1705, at 2 o’clock. A. M. lion is £700, ($3,500), of which. JE200 are \ & departed this life Aug. loth, ,1708, at 11 to be distributed in the distressed dis- o’clock, P. M.” So you see, as far back tricts, and £500 toward making a harbor I gg 1795, babies bad a way of coming at pa the west‘coast of Sligo. We may add ■ the most unseasonable hours. The two' here, as a.farther explanation of how 3I10 ; oldest graves in the yard are those of became endowed with such immense j Isaac Pierce, who was buried there in vrioaTfTi* eVm xraa flu* ilfliiolifflr nf Sir ! 1WI *n/1 a*’ Vaw T amJ wealth; that she was the daughter of Sir Francis Burdett, a once famous liberal member of the House of Commons, and the granddaughter of “old Tom Coutts,” the banter. . * i I 1771, and George Mumford, of New Lon-* don Colony, Connecticut, who was burled in 1773. The word prepare on one grave stone was spelt prepair and indisposion on another, meaning, I suppose, indisposition, and on another one letter in a word was left out, hut the stone-cutter, in the most matter of fact way, inserted it above and cut tbe little carat down below. There It ,was Time to Go.—Dr. George C. Lorimer, of Chicago, while pastor in a Southern State was called to perform a - .--- — . -- ---, marriage ceremony Iii a poo? white settle- ,were many others equally as unusual as meat. After the knot! was tied tup mother - tlioso mentioned, but I have forgotten oftbebrjde placed before the guests re- ; them. . -ft- freshmeht in tlicform of 17c,-whisky. Dr. t . J , lv . ‘ Lorimer, by virtue of his office as a Cliris- _ ; . j,. h tian minister, remonstrated ; vfitb her for! Nothing is so conducive, to a.mansre- lm-iriess. and that tiie firm seemed to pro- | Echo: Every day this week we have no- J thus starting in life the t ■--i.ple. The maimng a bachelor as stopping for one fer sending by mail rather than selling di- ! ticed wagon loads of cotton passing our mother, a large woman, aborit a foot tal- wight at the hoipe of amarried lrierfd and rect to customers. j office. There is more behindhand the, ler than the 1 doctor, placing her arms being kept awake for fiveor hours by and Mr. Burr, of Richmond, in favor of the bill amending the revised statues rel ative to tobacco export bonds. They will probably rejxirt it favorably to the full committee soon. New York, February 20.—A telegram from Bellaire, Ohio, says the train on the Bellaire and Southwestern railroad, while approaching Woodfield, Ohio, about half past five o’clock yesterday afternoon, fell through the trestle work near Jacobsburg. Two passenger coaches and a cook car fell about eighteen feet. A. S. WyWe, fire- l’he two ' man, who lives near Burris' mills, Ohio, was seriously, if not fatally Injured. Ex- Congressman Danford, of Ohio, sustained painful, but riot dangerous wounds. Sev eral other passengers were more or less injured. The wounded are being kindly cared for by residents near tbe scene of the aqcidext, * and all, wfith the exception of Wylie, are likely to recover soon. The accident resulted from the breaking of the track fastening. • .Cincinnati, February 20.—Advices from. the scene, .of £he railroad accident near Bellaire, Ohio, are meagre, as there is no telegraphic line to the spot. It is re ported that cx-Congrcssman Danford, Mrs. Caldvyell aqd jlr. B^iwmer, are fatal-, ly hurt./ana afleast teh dr twelve others seriously injured. London) February 20.—Professor Mas kelyne, of the mineral department of the British Museum, writes to the Times that J. Ballautyne Hannay, of Glasgow, a Fel low of the v Chemical Society of London, has at last succeeded in artificially pro ton a.aa&mas i “■ * ' j .4 Hemy Pugh The scaffold was erected within 300 yards of the public square, and raised seats had been erected facing it, sittings ujxm which were sold at a dollar ap : ece. Hall died without a straggle, hut Smith’s death was painfully prolonged. Washington, February 20.—Post master General Keyha3 issued an order to-day reducing the service on all star routes to one trip jier week, allowing one month’s extra pay in the service dispensed with. If this reduction be found insuf ficient to keep expenditures within the aji- propriations, the service placed on all new routes since and including July, 1879, will he entirely discontinued. The last named routes were established by the jiost route bill passed at the extra session of Con gress last year, and are mostly in the Southern States. Deputy Internal Revenue Collector at Atlanta telegraphs Commissioner Raum that two illicit distilleries in Butts county, owned by McMichael and Dukes, were captured yesterday while in full opera tion. The President sent to the Senate to-day the nomination of Rowland E. Trow bridge, of Michigan, to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in place of E. A. Hayt removed. Dublin, February 20.—The Mansion House Relief Committee announce that the amount received to date is 68,000 pounds, of which 36,500 pounds have been expended. Tbe Committee says it trusts there will be no diminution ofsuli- scriptions, as every exertion is needed to meet the demands. London, February 20.—In the six days go-as-you-please walking match, which commenced at the Agricultural Hall Mon day morning last, tbe contestants had made the following scores at twelve o’clock last night: Blower Brown 405 miles, Hazael 850, and Day 313. The dis tance covered by Brown for ninety-five hours ending at midnight, beats all pre vious records. New York, February 20.—A London special says the Parisian Journal La France, publishes tbe following concern ing the attempt on the Czar’s life. It comes from its Saint Petersbuig corres pondent and is dated February nineteenth: The conspirators used dynamite. This substance can only have been placed in tbe vaults with the complicity of persons employed in the subordinate capacities at tbe Winter palace. The train was fired at the hour apjiointcd, with tbe aid of electric wires, which were cut after the explosion, and were found in fragments at some distance from the dining room. Several officials are under surveillance. Many arrests have beeu made, but the jiolice are not yet on the track of the as sassins. {The Emperor is said to be much affected, and rumors of his abdication on March second are again passing from mouth to mouth. ■^London, February 20.—In the house of Lords to-night, the Duke of Argyle moved for the corresjxmdence found at Cabul be tween Shere Ali aud the Russian author ities. Lord Cranbroke, Secretary of State for India, refused to produce the papers, and debate ensued. Bucharest, February 20.—The official communication in which England, Ger many and France acknowledge the inde pendence of Roumania was transmitted to this capital to-day.. Berlin, February 20.- -The Prussian Diet has been adjourned by Royal order until after the close of the session of Get- man Reichstag. In the Reichstag to-day, Herr Ackerman, Conservative,was elected to the second vice-Presidency, which was refused by Herr Hoelder. London, February 20.—In the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Pliinsol read an : apology for the language,used in his hand bill with reference to two other membenj of Parliament, and it was decided that no further action should be taken in the mat ter by the House. The Standard's correspondent’on board the British gunboat Goshawk, which car ried provisions to the western islands of Ireland, writes as follows: “My inves tigations on all the islands visited by the Goshawk satisfied me that there is no star vation among tiie inhabitants, but acute distress confronts me on every side. ivM relief measuie3 of the Dublin and local committees arc, however, sufficient to meet the emergency.” - : J - I The Pans Journal des Debats says: “We believe Russia and England have agreed to allow Persia to occupy Herat, and thus establish a neutral zone between them.” It is to be remarked that yester day’s Pall Mall Gazette declared that Prince Labanoff, Russian Ambassador at London, brought the plan for a settlement ofthe Central Asian question. It also declared that the acceptance of any cut and dried settlemont would be construed as a British surrender, and destroy Eng land’s prestige in Asia, 1.; • j. St. Petersburg, Februaay 20.—The Agence Russe confirms the statement that negotiations are, pending "between' Eng land and Persia relative to the occujiation of Herat. * '*’■ v vrJ 5 Cincinnati, February 20.—The latest reports from the scene of the Bellaire and Southwestern railroad accident,' state that none of the wounded have yet died. Those reported fatally injured are ext Congressman Danford, A. P. Wiley, Mrs. A. B. Caldwell, Henry Wendell and Wm. Trigg. Those reported severely but not fatally injured, are Mr. Bereman, of Pari kersburg, West Virginia, Mr. and Mrs. Bowrnau, Mr. Pendle, Conductor. Buriri head, the - mail agent, both express mes sengers, Mr. Hayden, qnd others whose names are not given. There wereuji- wards of forty persons on the train, and'it is considered almost miraculous that so many escaped fatal injury. Buenos Ayres, January 2S.—Accord ing to intelligence published here the alli ance between Peru and Bolivia has been broken off. Atlantic, Iowa, February 20.—Gil man & Co.’s grain elevator and adjoining crib was destroyed by fire yesterday, with 120,000 bushels of com. New York, February 20.—Dr. Benja min Brandreth, of Brandreth pills notorie ty, died suddenly at his residence in Sing Sing yesterday, of embolism of the heart. He leaves an estate valued at from two to three million dollars, including considera ble real estate in Texas. London, February 20.—The Woolen warehouse of-Hill, Mills & Co., in Man chester, has beeu burned., Loss estimated at £60,000. — _ : . _ — | Cincinnati, O., February 20.—A tele gram from Piedmont, West Virginia, re ports that a strike of all the mining opera tives in that vicinity, for higher" wages, wiil probably be made Monday. Advices from Rio«Janeiro to the 3d propriatious Committee bill, which tha Post-office Committee will endeaw through its chairman, Mr. Money, to in. troduce on Monday. It will provide for a deficiency appropriation of about a mill, ion and a half. Cincinnati, February 21.—Mrs. Cald well and Mr. Wiley, who were injured ia the accident near Jacobsburg Station died yesterday. Hon. Lorenzo Danford's condition is considered critical. A man named Jones, while working at tbe scene ofthe disaster, fell from the trestle and re- e.-ived fatal injuries. Augusta, Me., February 21.— Greenbackers inthe Legislature held s caucus last evening and nominated dele gates at large to the National Convention to meet at Chicago. A committee vu appointed to draw up a resolution of thanks to Solon Chase and the father of the party in Maine for the resolute stand he had taken. New Yobk, Febraaiy 21.—At the prj. maries held last night for the election of delegates to the Republican Convention at Utica, as far as heard from, fourteen del- gates were instructed to vote for Grant, and twenty-one favor Grant, two opposed to Grant, two opposed to third term, only one publicly favors Conkling, fifteen ate uuinstracted; of these two oppose Sher man, three favor Grant as first choice and Blaine as second. London, February 21.—A Times Paris dispatch says the demand of Bussia forthe extradition^of Hartmann has been refined by Premier Freycinct to the Minister of Justice. It is stated some of the reaction ary deputies applied for the man’s release, but were told that if it apjieared that be was connected with the. Moscow attempt the government would surrender liim to the Russian authorities. I Paris, February 21.—The Temps pnh- lishes a letter from St. Petersburg which says: “News from the interior of the em pire is heartrending. Famine and diph theria are decimating the population. The provinces of Saratof and Kief, which an nually export in ordinary times enor mous quantities of grain, had scarcely any crop last year. The calamity is aggra vated by the want of fodder for the cattle, the peasants being forced to sell them. In the Caucassus the famine is still great er, where the people are committing sui cide and selling their children. New York, February 21.—a London special gives the following from tbe Steal- ard’s Berlin correspondence: Lately the Czar has hardly ever left the Winter pal ace. When he went abroad he was sur rounded by a cloud of mounted offices who concealed the carriage, and protected the inmate with their bodies. In the pal ace he was accessible only to diplomatists, dignitaries and officers of the househoU At the Chapiel, detectives occupied the seats that ware formerly reserved for dis tinguished visitors, and detectives iufested the kitchen. Every dish was tasted bypiersoiuof rank, specially selected for the purpose. The Einpieror did not even venture to open his letters, documents steeped in poison having repeatedly been sent to him. Tet with all these elaborate precautions itoe- ciured to nobody to search for the an nounced, advertised and placarded mine in the basement. The Emperor and the Duchess of Edinburgh were seated inthe apartment'next to the dining-room, when they heard the repiort of the explosion. The lights were extinguished and the gss pipes burst. The Princess, officers and valets went blindly through the dark, and then pioured promiscuously through the door of the royal apartments. The sov ereign was found grouping his way out of the fatal quarter. All who saw the sight, the picture of Alexander U. leading hi* daughter away from the mine of dynamite, say it was one that could never be for gotten. The Tag Rlatt relates that for some days, the Czar has dally received sealed letters containing a few words of menaK and saying that If he did not change his system of oppression, he would not live to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his accession. The sheet was always bor dered with black.' In court circles it vsi known as black letttns'i All efforts to dis cover the person who conveyed it to the Empieror’s room were unsuccessful. Little Bock, Arkansas, February 21.—A destructive fire occurred -at Batts- vilie yesterday, originating in ClappS Co.’s grocery, which, with Adder’s three story brick store, J. R. Taylor’s dwelling. Taylor & Heckerson’and Wycough’s store houses, were destroyed. The"" wall 0 Adder’s building fell on the warehouse, owned by H. C. "Smith, instantly killing L. Gorsuch and wounding Thomas Jablia and E. W. Morefield, the former fatally. Three others were slightly injured. The Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights* ' Honor lost all their furniture and regalis- The losses are $70,000, half covered by in surance. Vicksburg, February 21.—Thomas J- Ballon, Jr., of Balton’s depot, shot killed Leonard M. Clarke and his broths Douglass Clarke last night. The began between Balton and Dougffi Clarke. Leonard Clarke coming out « the theatre saw Balton shooting at fo brother, and ran up andgrasped the pisto in Balton’s hand. Balton resisted, aw jerking the pistol from Clarke’s grasp sW him. Neither of the Clarke’s were ani; ed. Balton was captured this noB*j near Edwards. The excitement is in tense. t New York, February 21.—A thank* giving service forthe preservation of E® peror Alexander of Russia from the law attempt on his life was held to-day at tu Russian Greek Chapiel, 051 Second Are nue. Among those in attendance wew his Excellency Nicholas de ShisltB"! Envoy Extraordinary and Minister pxitentiary from Russia to the b n ‘ te _ States, aud his wife, and Baron and bar oness Blanc. The service was of a 11 tirely private character, and was con®* ted by Rev. Father Nicholas Bjarring- London, February 21.—A -Paris ois patch to the Times says the Archbishop™ Bordeaux, in forwarding five hunt!re francs to the Catholic Archbishop Dublin, writes : “France and Ireland ® inseparable names, recalling a coniniu ity of faith and a long-standing excuan a of sympathy.” A dispatch from Rome to the Staiw says: “Strictly confidential reports peering the nature of the agitation ini ■ land have reached the. Pope, which s that three-fourths of it are due to a sp of socialism. Very precise instructions the Irish bishopis, therefore, are being P pared, exhorting them to take care . | 1 ! (0 in relieving distress they do not pi*) . the hands of those who are working political object.”