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fr»-<8>j&0Ejgia jtteeklg- Mtt&f* Itatmrol & liiiiiw^W, Ctltgrnpfi nub jfltsstngtr MACON, FEBRUARY'2'. ‘880/ —Railroad people look for a large amount of pleasure travel this summer. —The” railway time betweenNew York and Philadelphia Is to be reduced Co one hour and forty-five minutes. —Americans are said to bQ par excel lence the champagne drinkers of the world, consuming half the vintage and a vast deal of frothing Imitations. —A grand banquet was given at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, last Thurs day evening, in honor of Chief Justice Waite, of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of Ohio has de cided that it is illegal to dun a debtor on a postal card, as such is liable to figure the credit or reputation of the debtor else where. —A prominent New York musician, who advertised to t receive applications for tenors, recently had a note from a clerk in Wall street who wanted to know whether he would judge of his voice by telephone. —A movement is on foot to erect a Ro man Catholic Cathedral on the Thames embankment at a cost of a quarter of a million of pounds. 'Cardinal Manning is chairman of the committee, the Duke of Norfolk, vice-chairman, and the Marquises of Bute and Ripon, secretaries. —The United States nickel five cent piece furnishes a key to metric measures and weights. This coin is two centimetres in diameter and its weight is five grammes. Five of them placed in a row will give the length of the decimetre, and two of them will weigh a decagramme. New Yoke, February 18—Rev. Ed ward Cowley, manager of the Shepherd’s Fold, who has been on trial for the pas eight days, on the charge of. starving and ill-treating children, was to-dav convicted, Crowley wept bitterly upon the announce ment of the verdict of the jury. He was remanded to the Tombs, and will be sen tenced Saturday. —The business of lending money to farmers, so far as Illinois is concerned, seems to have come to an end. In fact there is no demand for money at all. The farmers have been meeting their January interest promptly, also paying ofT their mortgages that have become due. Very few farms arc being sold under forfeitures. —The growing popularity of the postal card as a means of correspondence is some thing wonderful. The entire number manufactured and used during the first year of their introduction was 100,000,500, and during the year which has just closed the aggregate number sent out was 246,- 063,000. This latter number is an increase over the number issued in 1878 of 36,- S79.0C0. —The London Advertiser says that out of every five loaves of bread eaten in Eng land in 1SS0, three must come from the United States and Russia ;Jand the Pall Mall Gazette, in view of the armed con dition of Europo and the event of a war, asks: “ With millions of men dependent upon countries thousands of miles distant from their daily bread, what would be the result of a fortnight’s short supply ? S mat f D £:o’mpft tiy^ of 1 Yor£,M’e misyfv ani a"j have succeeded in obtaining a contract for furnishing cars for a railroad in Japan. It is said this will be the first railroad in in that far-off eastern country ever equip ped with American rolling stock. The cars are to be delivered next May. —Captain Hemphill and his bride are sailing down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, on their honey-moon tour, in a boat built expressly for the purpose. No others soul is aboard of the craft, which is gayly bedecked with flags and evergreens, and is greeted on the way with steam whistle and cannon, the bridegroom being a popular man, and known to all steam- boatmen. Trouble at Princeton There is said to be trouble at Princeton College. The .class of 1880 feels that it has been • too severely treated by the faculty, and the faculty on the other hand, claim that the class of 1880 is the 'most turbulent that has ever entered the college of New Jersey. Out of a class of one hundred and thirty students, only eighty remain. —Leadville is a place of strong con trasts. the characteristics of a new min ing town are seen there yet; gambling hells and bar-rooms are more numerous than any other places of business, the pis tol and the knife are in common use, high waymen rob the stages close by, and des perate adventurers abound;but opposed to these things is a strong desire for law and order, schools and churches are bein established, and it is thought that the civilization of Leadville will soon be ac complished. Split Among the Utica Republi cans^—Utica, N. Y., February 17.—At the First Assembly District, Oneida coun ty, Republican Convention, at Utica, to day, two conventions were held, each claiming a majority of the duly elected delegates. One elected Honorable Ros- ooe Conkling and Messrs. Cordon, Hackett and J. P. Richardson, to the Utica Con vention ; the other elected Messrs. Samuel S. Lowry, S. A. Millard and N. A Pierson delegates. The latter adopted the follow ing resolution: “ That we repeat earnestly the declaration of the New York Repub lican Convention of 1875, of ‘unalterable opposition to the election of anyPresi dent for a third tern,’ and instruct our delegates to the convention to be held on the 25th instant to enforce tin's principle in every honorable way.” No resolutions of any kind were adopted by the conven tion which elected the Conkling delega tion. Preparing to Receive M. de Les- 6EP8.—A meeting of merchants and ship pers interested in the. Central and South American trade was held in the rooms of the Down-town Club, New York, off Tuesday, to arrange the preliminaries to a reception and banquet to M. de Lesseps upon his arrival in this city.' Royal Phelps presided. The opinions expressed were in favor of an Isthmus Canal at the tide level. Resolutions complimentary tp M. de Lesseps were adopted, and a com mittee was appointed to receive him upon his arrival on the Pacific mail steamer Colon, due on Monday next. The Com mittee is as follows .* J. M. Hurtado, J. M. Munoz, D. de Castro, Thomas Relley and R. H. Hoad ley. Tanas Yarus of Mustard Plas ter.—Dr. Chapman, of Philadelphia, as tounded a druggist by ordering a mus tard plaster three yards long for an at tack of bronchitis. He was obliged to explain that the plaster was for a giraffe at the Zoo, whose throat was inflamed jbroughout its entire length. Russian Nihilism. “ Uneasy Lies the Head Which Wears a Crown,’' saitb-tho poet.. But in Russia the .uneasiness.Is by no means confined to the royal head.^ The assassin besets the Czar,not only in his bed cham ber, but by the way side—on the railway and in the dining room. Murder lurks everywhere,- and makes its approaches through every a-renne. Its agents beset him in every guise, and are as stealthy and in visible as the winds. It employs every agent of every other service, and no man can tell who to trust. The fact that the royal palace itself was mined with dyna mite and exploded with such fatal effect at the precise moment of the assembling- of guests, tells in startling tones of the en tire unreliability of all precautions against such plots. The workers are omnicient and surround the oqnrt. . They . exist among; fts most" confidential servants. The difficulty is to say where they are not. Surely no great autocracy was ever be fore in such a situation. It is nothing new for murder to lurk around thrones, but it is new to find it so all-pervading, insidious, uncontrollable and inexorable. To find it in a pseudo normal force which defies all the powers and influences of govern ment, and Is able to work unhindered even in the presence of its destined vic- times. The question is„whether Nihilism will wear out the Russian autocracy, or Tice versa. It is a question of endurance and fortitude. For the present it seems probable that the Russian court must con tent itself to walk daily in the shadow of death. A Story of the Servo-Turkish War* The distinguished correspondent of the London Times at Bucharest, sends us a reminiscence of the Servo-Turkisli War, mainly, as we suppose, in the way of a personal reminder to his numerous friends in this region, who will remember him in the capacity of a Civil Engineer. Since then Mr. Grant has won fame and an elevated literary and social position at the head of the Bucharest Bureau of the London Times, and many of his letters have passed the rounds of the newspaper press of the world. As one of the most responsible and trusted correspondents of the Times, he has been through two great wars, and if the aspects do not improve may very possibly find himself the busy chronicler of another before long. The Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College. At the late convention of the State Ag ricultural Society in Cutlibert, Mr. M. S. Whitaker, of Baldwin county, read the following paper: “In behalf of the Local Roard of Trust ees of Middle Georgia Military and Agri cultural College, I respectfully invite you to appoiHt a committee of three to visit said college and report to the next session of your body.” On motion this communication was re ceived and unanimously adopted. Tire President then appointed Colonel George R. Black, of Screven, Colonel L. F. Liv ingston, of Newton, and T. O. Wicker, Esq., of Washington county, as the visit ing committee. From Mr. 'Whitaker, we learn that the success of the Milledgeville branch of the University has been almost unexampled, The school opened on the lath of January Good New*—The Sale of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Concluded to the Original Bidden. Private dispatches from New York and the following special to the Constitution will cause great rejoicing to' the people of Middle and Southern Georgia: New York, February 10.—The terms of the contract for tlio sale of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad have to-day been agreed upon between R. T. Wilson and his associates and Governor Colquitt. Governor Colquitt left for his home this evening, and will reach Atlanta on Satur day. Formalities to be closed when he reaches there. Representatives of Wilson’s company will be on hand to pay over'the sum required by the act, and to comply with all the requirements of the act. This time, at least, we trust there will be* no “slip ’twixt cup and lip.” Gov ernor Colquitt has verified the sincerity of his intentions, throughout every phase of the recent transactions. He has r ever been the pronounced friend of the k-ase and sale, and only refused in the first in stance to sign the warranty deed, because convinced that such was his duty under a careful construction of the Act, and the opinion not only of the Attorney General of the State, but of that able and incorrup tible jurist and ex-member of the Supreme Court, Justice Bleckley. Can there be more satisfactory proof of this than the great personal effort he has made to over come every existing obstacle, and re-in state the trade which had so suddenly been broken off? What modifications or changes, if any, in the original contract have been agreed upon have not yet trans pired. Perhaps the Governor was ableto impress the patent fact upon Mr. Wilson and his associates that unless a first mortgage on any property is satisfied by its foreclosure and sale, in terms of the law, there is no remnant left Weatem Blizzards. It is only ofrCc^nt date that the public ear has become familiarized with the term Blizzard. The -habitat of a blizzard isthe'far Northwest, and it is a terrible thing. Web and fibre are powerless to protect the human frame against a bliz zard. The thickest of woolen clothing is no defense against it. Nothing but an Esquimaux outfit—bearskins dressed with the hair on and proof against the escape of animal heat, can preserve life. And even this has to be doubled to save life in periods of inaction—such as a sleep out dooTS'durlng a blizzard. Dr. Kane'in his interesting narrative, it will be re membered, describes the modus operand! of passing a night in safety exposed to a furious hurricane, at a. temperature of forty degrees and upwards below zero. Upon a substitution of heavy flannels,each man had superimposed a complete suit of bearskin into cape and hood—the hood fastening firmly over head and face and only a few narrow slips left to see and breathe through. This oiltfit would do ordinarily for the march, hut when the thermometer began to hover about sixty ^elow zero and the wind blowing at the same time at a speed of sixty to eighty miles an hour, no bodily activity could supply the waste of animal heat. Then they were forced to call a halt, and each man brought out his bear skin bag—a sack of ample dimensions, provided with a contrivance for drawing Uie mouth together with a thong of raw liide. Into, this he stowed himself and pulling the mouth together as closely as possible threw himself upon the snow, if possible under the lee of some rock or ice dump or snow drift, and there slept per fectly secure against freezing. Those were arctic blizzards, though not Stock PluctuationB. Central railroad stock was booming for the holder of any second mortgage up- ctf|ed by that name . Butj during the on the same premises. This, -it appears, was the real hitch in the case, but we nev er could make anything out of it. There are some enemies to the lease and sale who predict that Mr. Paine will be able to head off the purchasers of the road, on the ground that the property was really sold to him the first time it was put upon the market. But so did not Governor Colquitt think and believe, and he was the vice-gerent of the State, and repre sented it in his person on that occasion. His refusal to confirm the transaction at once settled the matter, the more espe cially as no one was adjudged to be the purchaser within the time prescribed for the termination of the sale. The road, therefore, was re-advertised, and fair no tice given to all, so Mr. Paine had anoth er opportunity to become its purchaser if he so desired. AVe are quite sure that in the hands of Messrs. Hazlehurst and Lane, as the ac tive managers of the new enterprise, Ma con, Brunswick, and all Middle and Southern Georgia, will need no other guaranty for its successful prosecution and proper management. We shall have more to say hereafter' on this subject. of three weeks, had increased to 300. The institution is modelled after the plan of theDahlonega college. It is a graded school, and pupils of both sexes are ad mitted. The professors and instructors are seven in number, and the old Capitol is fairly alive once more. * How pleasant to know that those vener able halls have not been surrendered to bats and owls, and that they will serve the good purpose agaiu of training not only inchoate statesmen, but lawyers, physi cians, divines, merchants, farmers and ar tisans for future usefulness and service to the State. Verily Milledgeville, by the inauguration of this school, is infinitely better off morally, and many think in financial point of view, than if she had se cured the glittering prize of the Capital, with its periodical inflations, succeeded by corresponding reactions, its formidable influx of bad characters, so difficult to get rid of, and its fearful multiplication of gambling hells and other sinks of iniquity. Not that we wish to charge special immor ality upon our lawgivers. Far from it, But every one knows that the assembling of a Legislature brings in its train a vast army of office seekers, lobbyists, gamblers, and other doubtful characters, many of whom are a curse to any community. From all such visitations Milledgeville is now happily exempt, and in lieu thereof hnndreds of bright youths and gentle girls Walk her streets and imbibe from the sparkling fount which our common moth er, Geoigia, has opened up in that lion ored spot, deep draughts of knowledge for the future healing of the nations. We are glad to chronicle the success of the Branch of the University located at Milledgeville, and learn that special at tention is paid to the physical sciences, with a view to preparing the students for agricultural pursuits hereafter. The military feature in the school also com mends itself to the public, and many trained soldier will be sent forth from the old Capitol to lead the armies of the State if the raven wing of war should ever again overshadow us. Blaine and Grant.—The New York Tribune has been busy the past week in circularizing the Republican county and township committee men of Pennsylvania, upon their Presidential preferences. In five days, ending the 17tb, that paper had received 1,081 responses, cf which 812 were for Blaine and only 188 for Grant. This showing would make Grant’s Penn sylvania strength lie principally in Don Cameron and the-machine; but still Penn sylvania will go as a unit for Grant—so they say. What a screamer! is a tribute often paid to a crying baby,but Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup by alleviating the pains of the little one soon stops the crying. Design on Central America.—The Washington correspondent of the New York Sun telegraphs: “ There is good rea son to believe that the Hayes administra tion has engaged to buy or has already bought a pair of naval and coaling sta tions in Central America,and is negotiating for the entire region known as the Chiri- qm tract, with the view of holding a belt across the Isthmus. It is also believed that a naval expedition has rendezvoused already at the point indicated, to take possession of the land and establish the stations.” Unfurling the Old Flag. From the highest pinnacle of King’s Mountain, North Carolina, will to-day ba unfurled to the breeze an immense and beautiful “Star Spangled Banner,” the gift of the Atlanta and Charlotte Air- Line Railway Company to the committee in charge of the arrangements for cele brating in due form the approaching cen tennial of the famous battle of King’s jwuiua.il, niiiu. wui-red October 7, 1780, and resulted in a victory for the American troops over the British forces, commanded by Colonel Ferguson, wLo was killed in ths fight and buried on the battlefield. Major W. J. Houston, the General Pas senger Agent of the Company, will pre sent the flag in a few appropriate remarks, after which Colonel Thomas Hardeman, Jr., of Macon, will deliver an oration, no small part of which will be devoted to a history of the National flag. Following these addresses, and amid the booming of a salute of one hundred guns, and the cheers of the assembled military, the Governors of North Carolina and South Carolina, will unfurl the banner of stars and stripes from its dizzy height among the clouds, there to float, day and night, through sunshine and storm, until the centennial celebration is reached. In the poetic words of Drake, this “majestic monarch of the cloud,” will “rear aloft its regal form,” and remind passers by iu the valley far below, of the time “When Freedom from her mountain’ height, Unfurl’d her standard to the air, To hear the tempest trumpings blare, And see the lightning flashing bright.” The orator of the day will find his his torical notes rather meager, for but little has been put on record as to the origin of the American flag. Some early authori ties tell us that it is a modification of the “great Union flag” raised by Washing ton’s troops on the 2d of January, 1776, in honor of the United colonies. If this be true, it is well to have the King’s Moun tain flag raising on Washington's birth day. It is also recorded that Washington was a member of the Congressional Com mittee that arranged for the manufacture of the first flag adopted for official pur poses. There is still standing in Philadelphia, on Arch street, a venerable and humble building, somewhat modernized, in which this flag was discussed by the committee and Mrs> JSlizabeth Ross, fvho was .finally engsgedcJtP: make it. The 'committee wanted a star with six points, hut Mrs. Ross suggested :a five point star as. more appropriate, and it was adopted. This was about the first of June, 1776, and on . Jiily 8th, at the summer house of Dr. Enoch Edwards, on Frankfort avenue, it was imfurled at the first celebration of Independence, which was held by Thomas Jeflersofa and other members of Congress, in a rather social manner. . r...: It was not until a year later, Jane 14, 1777, that Congress adopted this flag, in a formal and authoritative enactment.! On that day it was “Resolved, That the flag of the thir teen United States be thirteen stripes, al ternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars in a blue field, representing new constitution.” It was of this flag that Francis S. Key, in 18i4, when the Britsh fleet attempted to start up the Potomac river, to destroy Washington city, wrote his immortal and stirring song of “The Star Spangled Ban ner,”— “Whose broad stripes and bright stars, Through the perilous fight, » O’er the ramparts we watched, Were so gallantly streaming.” Sidney Herbert. National Hotel, Feb. 21, 1880. ■ ■ present winter, the blizzards in Dakotali, Wyoming,. Montana, Colorado, and sever al of those amiable countries, have been frequent and fatal for want of the proper defenses. A great many have lost their lives by being caught out in an arctic hurricane, on a hunt or journey, with only heavy clothing and blankets for protec tion. That Boreatic highway, the North em Pacific Railroad, is reported by Fargo dispatch of last Wednesday, to be sealed by a succession of blizzards, -fa which travel is impossible. A dozen teams were struggling to get along one way or the other, between Bis marck and Fargo, but such was the ve locity of the wind—the depth and. drifting power of the snow, and the terrible depression of the mercury, that little or no progress was made. It would cost the road a hun dred dollars apiece to get their passen- S rs safely from one point to the other, if ey were able to eflcct it at all. That people should voluntarily affect latitudes of this character is one of the marvels which are incomprehensible. in Savannah on Friday, as many as 1,100 quiteagoodiy percentage of the favored Shares having changed hands at figures fet ^ 0 are privikged attend the having changed ranging from 95 to 96J. The Georgia railroad stock is also now selling at 102. Many think the Central will reach, par before many days. But nobody knows. Since writing the above, Central Rail road stock has mounted up to 100, and stiff at that. We heard a prominent bank er make the prediction that It would reach 105 on Monday. Various theories axe ad vanced to account for this unexpected and sudden (UK One of them ' is that the Louisville and Nashville railroad, with lips estops all farther revelations. We nuuisvine ana nasnvme raiiroau, wun mav nnl . r, ptrnv wrpt , Muumes ui me jiusco- StandlfiJrffalhS van,'Kas _ a§aIn entered - dcargirlSi an^sbould be mercilessly dealt owedcSort ofttVlate IWK-ff had with, perhaps scalped, if so lost to all pro- just arrived at his majority and succeeded A lady in our neighborhood who has suffered for over three months the most extreme torture by a violent Cough, has become completely cured by Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. For sale fa efery drug store. Why ■ Things "'Vegetable are Green.—The uniform green color of the vegetable world Is Site' ‘ td .chlorophyll. - ' This substance, however, exists only fa minute quantity in plants, the leaves of *- large tree containing perhaps not more than 100 grains. It appears to be a direct product of the action of the sunlight upon vegetation, as It does not exist In plants kept in darkness. The changes fa the color of leaves in autumn are supposed to be due to the oxidation of their chloro phyll. The hand that rocks the cradle, is the hand that moves the earth. Dr. Bull’s Churning butter is not difficult when Baby Syrup is the best remedy for all corn cobs are in a healthy condition. Foutz’s plaints .children are subject to, such as Celebrated Horse and Cattle Fowdets • dysentery, diarheea. summer complaints, Will correct »nj disorder fa the system. : wind cdjic^ etc. 'Price 25 cents. Grant in New York. t The real popular strength of the third term in the State of New York is, according to the Albany correspondence of the New York Sun, quite as feeble as it is in Penn sylvania. The masses are against the third term, and it is forced through the primaries by the sheer force of the ma chine. Says that correspondent: In Cayuga, on Saturday, after the dele gates were elected, It was decided to east a vote in the .primary just to gauge the SRBtSnumt of tlio ppnplo. It was'uvjder- stood that the vote, whatever it was, was not to affect the action of the delegates, and out ot 130 votes, Grant received only one, Blaine carry ing the majority. A worker in Utica, upon whom Senator Conkling relies for the home work, was asked on Saturday evening about-his district primary. “Well, we managed to elect a Grant delegation by a very small majority, but I really wish we lmd been defeated. The opposition to this third term business isn’t any slight matter. With our people it is a serious, honest ob jection to the third term principle, and held by many men who have been and are Grant’s warmest admirers. I think will be very risky to force bis nomination if that feeling exists elsewhere as it does here.” , ■A member of the Legislature from the Oneida district says that spite of all the machinery the Grant men succeeded in carrying the delegation, only after a great pressure and. by a very narrow ma jority. Senator Woodin is reported as having said to'friends here that the opposition to the third term in bis district, as shown by the recent primaries, is very much greater than any one had supposed, and it is not a mere question' of preference there as to candidates, bat of earnest opposition to third term. Senator Robertson is said to regard the situation as serious. He will go to the Convention as a Blafae man. He has been told that the.great opportunity of his life imfy" occur -fa that convention. He knows that the sentiment of hisown coun ty, Westchester, is very strong against third term, and he has learned that the first; honest, choice of many of the dele gates to the convention is not Grant. •There will bo opposition, strong opposi tion, fa the convention to the third term, and iunder the lead of a skillful and strong mad, " the opposition is believed to be strobg enough to be made effective. Along the lino of the St. Lawrence RiyCnthe machine is less powerful- than elseffijere. Here the primaries showed afi‘anti-third te'ph feeling. Yet? in sjjiite of all these convincing proofs of hit opposition that is based upon ] trfabiple, the managers do not waver. With the great patronage at command, they feel perfectly sure of .winning, and rely .upon the party submission and fealty to overcome this opposition after the pre liminary-work fa caucns and convention Is done. ! T8& Tax on Paper—Riffht. The Milledgeville Recorder qays Con gress onglit to remove the duty on paper, Will our immediate representative, Hon, J. H. Blount, come to the relief of the oppressed industries, that are row at. the mercy of a set of Shy locks, who are bleed ing the intelligence, as well as the hard working printers Of the country at every pore ? We appeal to him, as well as to all our Congressmen, to help in this work, We have no doubt that Colonel Blount will lend all the weight ot his influence to prorate the repeal of this direct tax upon 1 the whole intelligence of the nation. We have a fine opportunity now of wit nessing what effect an almost united press can. have upon legislation. But then there may be some erring Congress men, who, having been shown up in time past by the knights of the quill may now seek their revpnge by refusing to vote for the repeal of the duty4 We trust the matter may be: pressed to a decision in Congress with the least delay practicable. 1 Divorces in Massachusetts.—A Massachusetts slatiscian has been looking up the number of divorces granted in that State. From 1800 to 1878, inclusive, 7,233 decrees for separation were passed in Massachusetts, 2,40Qfon the petition if injured husbands And 4,833 on the petition f Injured wives. Under the laws of Massachusetts,-, there' are nine specific causes for which the courts may decree a dissolution of the bonds of matrimony, an^^e particularly virtuous people up there appear to indulge the “specific causes” very freely. —The Milledgeville*'Recorder says Dr. Felton should be known hereafter as Sim- the ring, and are determined to purchase a controlling interest fa the stock of the Central. -We place no faith, however, a this suggestion. To Colonel Cole, who first galvanized the securities of the com pany, and, by liis wonderful combination, sent them soaring upward, is in part due this gratifying appreciation. Then, too, people are beginning to find out that the road itself is in a healthy and flourishing condition, and able to pay fair dividends. We congratulate the stockholders of the company; and advise the weak-kneed to “unload” at once. ' The Savannah New* oh the Macon and Brunswick Warranty. The Savannah News concludes an edi torial strongly endorsing the Governor’s refusal at first to sign the warranty title to the lessees in these words: “It follows, therefore, that it is exceed ingly unjust to. ask the Governor to grant the warranty demanded by the purchasers ot the Macon and Brunswick railroad lease, and it is simple folly to threaten him with defeat at the ballot box here after because of his refusal to assume se rious responsibilities which he has no le gal right to assume. At last accounts it seemed as if an arrangement was about to be effected by which the road will be leased, and we hope the result will be sat isfactory to the friends of the lease. As matters now stand, the road, when com pleted, can work no injury to the Central, .while it will probably add materially to the tuture trade of Savannah and to the entire section of country through which it passes. In the meantime, wo trust all partios interested will restrain their un righteous and unreasonable indignation against our wise and prudent Chief Ex ecutive.” The above is in the right spirit. Cer tainly Savannah, with her broad and nav igable rivqr, and vast railroad system, should not be jealous of another sister seaport still comparatively in its infancy, Why should not Brunswick have a trunk line also permeating the teeming West, and adding to the wealth and resources of our Commonwealth? See what she has done already for the development of the recently neglected timber and turpen tine lands of the State ? Smiling villa ges grace her thoroughfare from the sea, and it is lined with saw mills and turpen tine farms and distilleries. Tliesoil, too, under the stimulus Of fertilizers aud care ful tillage, has been shown to be well adapted to both com and cotton, while sugar cane, oats and rice are sure and profitable crops. Now, let this useful artery, say we, be extended with all possible speed to At lanta, Knoxville and Cincinnati. There is abundance of commerce and business for all the existing and projected routes, One of the parties to the late sale told the writer a few days ago, that so powei fal was the new Company, that leaving out the Georgia members, any one of the others was able to build the extension singly, and without assistance. There should be no jealousy between our Geor gia roads, where they do not cioss or con flict directly with each other. The great back country can support them all. Philomathean Big Night Despite the inclemency of the weather, charming society exhibitions of Wesleyan College, were present at the Philomathean “big night” on Friday evening. The young ladies never looked prettier, and no con fidence is violated by the assertion that a more charming coterie of girls never graced an assembly in this or any other city. We will go so far also as to affirm that they behaved most sweetly and decorous ly .__Butiusl_here, & padlock, upomour. affaire dueveur was-being-developed-in a The Theological Seminary at Colom bia, South Carolina. We liave been pained to learn from time to time, during the past year, that for lack of adequate pecuniary support, there was danger that the exercises of tliat venerable school-of tlie prophets, the Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Columbia would be suspended. It is with real pleasure, then, that we are informed that the churches are com ing nobly up to their duty, and there no longer exists the slightest apprehension once that a foundation, so useful and so venera ted will ba allowed to collapse. For a half century this Seminaty has flourished, and many of the ablest, wor thiest and most noted divines of the South received their religious training in its hails. But the war robbed the institution of a laige portion of its endowment and since then there has been a constant strug gle to meet current expenses even upon the most economical basis/’ At length, however, the alumni have taken the matter in hand, and arc doing yeoman’s work for their cherished alma mattr. An appeal to the churches, too, is meeting with an unexpectedly liberal re sponse. Wo trust the seminaty, which is graced by such instructors as Rev. Dr. Plummer, Dr. George Howe, Rev. Dr. Gi rardeau, and the gifted editor of the Southern Presbyterian Review, Dr. Woodrow, will soon be relieved of all of its difficulties and enter upon a new ca reer of usefulness and honor. In this con nection we are pained to see it stated that the Theological Seminaries of both the Baptist and . Methodist denominations South, are also in straightened circum stances and calling for help. Surely these religious fountains should never be al lowed to run dry when it is from them chiefly that the whole of God’s Zion is watered. The Republican National Convention will Consist of 756 delegates, and 0 majority only is required to nominate. Two delegates are allowed to each Rep resentative in Congress, and two from each Territory and the District of Colum bia. There are 293 Representatives, 76 Senators, 8 Territories and the District, and the number doubled makes 756. The Democratic Convention consists only of 738 delegates who arts entitled to vote. The District of Columbia delegates and those .from the Territories are merely honorary; they are not permitted to vote. The rule now in force in*h(Slding Demo cratic Conventions requires a two-thirds vote to nominate candidates for President and Vice President, but it will be within the power of the coming Convention to abolish it and substitute the mojority rule if it sees fit. In the Republican Conven tion it will require 370 to nominate, while in the Democratic—unless the rule shall be changed—it will require 492. mous’ Regulator. —^Put of 64 stocks quoted at the New York Exchange 11 were at par or above at the opening of 1879 and 21 at its close. —It is said that Colonel Ingersoll’s in fidel proclivities was all that prevented him from being chosen to represent the United States at the Court of Berlin. —According to the Manchester Exam- bier, the consumption of cotton per spin dle in Great Britain in 1870 was a little over 26 pounds, while on the continent it 1 was over 48 pounds, and fa the United 1 States it was nearly 60 pounds. priety as to do so. All that was done or said, however, re* dounded to the credit of the dramatis per sonae, as was sufficiently attested by the outspoken opinions of the guests. The Philomathean And Adelphian Soci eties of Wesleyan College achieve much for the culture and improvement of the young ladies of the institution, and are an ornament to it. We are pleased to stale that the College is fa a most flourishing condition, and the late visit to Columbus of three of the accomplished musical instructors, all of whom sustained conspicuous parts in the rendition of Belshazzar, has added no little prestige to that noble founda tion. It may safely be asserted that in no in stitution at the South is the curriculum of study more elevated, or the instruc tion imparted more thorough. The fac ulty are fully up to every modem improve ment of the schools, and are both able and faithful in the discharge of their duties. 1 President Bass deserves great credit for the skill and devotion he has ever dis played fa the management and advance ment of old Wesleyan College, which is fairly entrenched fa the hearts of our peo ple. Army Experience. The efficiency of Warner’s Safe Pills was first rendered unquestionable by their use in the English army in malarial re gions, where the stomach and bowels were peculiarly subject to derangement. They were found to be the best of army medi cines in such regions. H. J. Foster, ot Toronto, writes that they recently cured him completely of sleeplessness, caused by biliousness. See other testimonials. feblS-2w •—During the past year Massachusetts has instruccd 311,528 pupils, in 5,558 pub lic schools. The teachers numbered 8,- 749. There were 216 high schools, hav ing 595 teachers and 19,311 pupils. In the State there are also 378 private, or parochial schools, with 15,16S pupils, and 66 academies, with 8,662 pupils. Alto gether, there were 335,358 children fa the schools during the year. The average length of the public school service was eight and three quarter months. The to tal cost of the schools was §1,994,824.4! The average monthly salary of the male teacher was S07.44; of the female teacher, $35.50. A Tragedy of the Serro-Tnrkiah THE UNHAPPY CZAE War. — Editors Telegraph and Messenger: A Pen-and-ink Sketch, of Alexander The following -incident, which came ofButtia. under fay personal observation.during The feeling which comes uppermost in the Servo-Turkish campaign of _ 1876, has the mind of any one who sees the Czar never been published, and, as.it corrobo- for the first time is one of sincere pity, rates the oft-repeated assertion to the efe He is a large, ox-eyed nan, evidently of feet that ‘truth is stranger than fiction, good intentions, but with a look of sad- .n^ 6 °^. your readers:- ness and perplexity fa hifa. His voice is While rchernaieff, the Russian comman- M harsh as the grinding of a coffee-mill der-m-cluef of the Servian Army, had his i out of order, for an affection of the throat headquarters at Alexinatz, in the beauti- j under which he has long suffered makes ful Slorav a river valley, which has seen ! speech painful to him. He would have m ancient days so many bloody conflicts • between the Cross and the Crescent, an far-away Russian village on the estate of one of the proudest families of the Musco- made a very amiable private gentleman, IUAUV/ U 1VI » Mil. ^LUUUUOU) and_could have got far more ease and amusement out of life if he had banded all the botheration of government over to his brother ..Constantine, who has a taste for that sort of nonsense. He him self could hardly have wanted to reign. ® It was the Schouvaloffs, the Lamberts, to tbe estates of bis deceased father; he tbe Banatinskys, the Adlerbergs, the Dol- The Doctors’ Yielding-. • Ever since Prof. Greeu wrote to the Medical Record advising physicians every where to use the Safe Kidney and Liver Cure to their practice, it has been gaining in favor with the profession. They can find nothing which is a substitute for it. R. Caulkins, M. D., of Rochester, N. Y... says be would now prescribe it to all who are afflicted with serious kidney and liver diseases. febl8-2w —Tbe Savannah News says an appro priation has been made by Congress for changing the position of the present light on Fig Island, Savannah river, to the Ex change building, provided that the gov ernment is at no expense for rent. In ac cordance with this action, Peter C. Hains, Major of Engineers of the Light House Board, addressed a communication to the Major on the subject, which was read at the meeting of Council on Wednesday night, stating that the purpose is to estab lish range lights to guide vessels through the “wrecKs channel” leading to the city. The ordinance passed gives the desired right, upon certain conditions, and we un derstand the work will be commenced at Commonwealth Distribution Co. Buy tickets for the drawing on 25tli hist., and ljave a chance at tlie §30,000— it only costs §2 to try for all, or §1 for half of it, ami if this small amount is lost it is lost in a “square lottery,” where eve ry ticket has an equal chance, aud all tlie prizes are drawn and paid. Address R. M. Boardman, Courier- Journal building, Louisville Ky., or at No. 163 Broadway, New York. It. —Lord Beaconsfield’s ministry is likely to have the good fortune of a favorable Indian budget to lay before Parliament fa the next- three months. For several years past a decreasing revenue and a growing deficit marked each annual statement in Indian finance, but the returns for three- fourths of the Anglo-Indian fiscal year closing next March show an increase in the revenue amounting to $12,500,000. Tlie commercial improvement visible in the rest of the world has appeared in In dia, and taexs, like the iniquitous excise salt, on which best mark the general expen diture of the people, show the largest im provement. Iu spite of a reduction to the current expenditures the outlay in the Afghan war and the sums spent on rail ways to reach the Afghan frontier will use up the surplus, so that the unfortunate ryot is no better off for the improving con dition of Indian finances, and at least half of the saving in ordinary outlay effected by Lord Lytton’s administration is on public works needed to prevent fu tare faniins. - -was betrotheffto a lovelYgM,TEe daugk- * ter of a neighboring noble, and only awaited bis coming to man’s es tate to_ consummate thS union upon which his earthly happiness was staked; but the fair one, with the proverb- ial{fickleness]of her sex,for some as yet un known reason or whim, suddenly married a rival suitor only three weeks before the day appointed for her union with young Prince K—ft. I never learned any more than the simpleontline given above of the circumstances connected with the young Prince’s disappointment; we heard after wards that, inconsolable under his loss, the young fellow wandered restlessly about the neighborhood of the family cliatteau until he grew to hate tlie very sight of every familiar object that recall ed his previous life and its puiposes. H13 fond mother, although loth to part even temporarily with her only child, finally le- sought him to leave liis home and country for a time, and visit Paris, where she hoped be would find distractions which would banish the recollections of past sor rows, and save him from the helpless state of listless despondency into which he appeared to he sinking at home. After a hasty preparation, and sorrowful leave- taking, the young Prince set out for Paris, but, on reaching the Russian frontier at Unglieni, he suddenly changed his route and came to Belgrade, where I made his acquaintance upon liis arrival. His trieste demeanor and evident restlessness caused us all to conclude that he was suf fering from recent affliction, but no one attempted to learn the secret of his sad ness. . After an interview with the Servian War Minister, Colonel Nikolich, he left for Alexinatz with a commission as cap tain in the Servian service under an as sumed name. Upon presenting himself at TcheraniefPs headquarters, he was recognized by an officer, of whose presence in Sevialie had been Ignorant; hastily re questing his acquaintance to keep silence, he demanded to be assigned to duty in the most exposed position of the outpost line. The keen eye of the General-in chief had noted the little by-play between the new comer and the officer, who had evidently recognized him, and, coupling this with his extreme youth, distingue appearance, and clearly to be appre ciated recklessness, he made a shrewd surmise that there was a hidden romance in the affair, and urged tlie young man to reconsider liis rash resolution and return to his friends; but all his endeavors were in vain, and finally the Prince whispered a sentence in Tcher- naiefl’s ear at which the General started visibly, and with a shrug of the shoulders said: “Well, if you are so determined, I will assign you to duty with a battalion of Russian Volunteers stationed on the other side of the vailey. Goto your camp aud introduce yourself to the future comrades with whom you will associate, and then return here anil dine with me this even ing.” The Volunteer battalion was lying on the Djunis road within long rifle shot of the Turkish outpost line, and the Moslem artillery threw occasional shells into it by way of reminding tlie occupants of the huts that they had not abandoned their position. . The young captain set out for the camp, accompanied by his valet and luggage, He found his brother officers ready to welcome him with that hearty ’hos pitality which is so eminently char acteristic of tlie Russian race from the Imperial Grand Duke to the simple moujik or peasant. As the setting sun was disappearing behind the Balkans, the lately commissioned Captain saying au revoir to his newly made friends, sat out alone to return to the headquarters to dine. The General-in-Chief and his nu merous staff had assembled around the long table, but as enough had been ex tracted from the officer before alluded to as having recognized tlie new comer, to satisfy them all that they had a recruit of high social rank to deal with, the whole party awaited his arrival before commenc ing their attack upon the good cheer spread before them. Minutes lengthened to a quarter of an hour, and still nothing was seen of the expected guest. An or derly was started off at full gallop to the camp to make inquiries as to the where abouts of tbe tardy Captain. The twilight had settled into darkness as he returned with the news that the young officer had left the battalion before sunset, stating that he was going to dine at the headquar ters’ mess; every one became thoroughly alarmed at this intelligence, and lights having been procured, and a patrol of soldiersordered out to accompany the par ty, they set out to follow the path leading between the Russian camp and the quar ters of the General’s stall; about midway they found a huge gap in the earth at the edge of the pathway, where the only Turkish cannon shot,’ fired that day, had fallen, and after a careful search the’ man gled body of the young Prince was found nearly covered with the earth thrown up by the shell.That single shot, fired utterly at random, when the shades of niglft had covered the valley with a pall impervious to the sight of the Moslem gunner, had “Your Simmons’ Liver Regulator has been in use in my family for some time, and I am persuaded it is a valuable addi tion to the medical science. Gov. Jno. Gill Shorter, of Alabama. “It has proved a good and efficacious medicine. “ fobl8-lw C. A. Nutting.” • t ■ ■ ■« j ■— - . >■ —The Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives fa Louisiana accidentally let his pistol fall from his pocket daring a session • of that body. The shock discharged the weapon, and now tlie Attorney-General of the State has filed an information against the Speaker for carrying concealed weapons. —A locomotive on the Pennsylvania railroad made the fastest run on record a few evenings ago. It waff ordered from the roundhouse to the scene of an acci dent, and ran 60 miles in 45 minutes and 8 seconds. The engineer, speaking of the run to a division superintendent, said: was a little skeered once, ‘ when I thought I see a freight cornin’ down agin me; but it was only a skeer. I tell you it gouroukys, and some others who desired he Would., be a firm ruler of men. They were forever.goading and coaxing him by turns, as beef is driven to market for those who wish to roast it. They must often have bad a difficult task, for liis pon derous Majesty (good, easy man) tesloth- ful and heavy witted by nature. He must have been frequently unable to un derstand even what was wanted for him. He is subject to melancholy periods of hy pochondriasis, during which existence seems but a dreary blank to him. He is haunted by fears of sudden death and by the dread of assassination. At these times he moons about ou apparently solitary walks with a large dog,but there is always a policeman handy to keep the sacreligious from approaching him. When well he devotes much of Ins time to tailoring, changing liis costume with much stolid perseverence,and|he likes to be attended,by hump-backed Privy councillor, who acta as foil to his fine figurre and sets it off, for he is a well built man, tall and straight, though rather too German fa the rotun dity of certain of his curves. His father Nicolas, who was in many respects a notable sovereign, bad him very carefully brought up, and foreseeing that he would want support, perhaps devotion, in after life, to counteract his apathy, sur rounded with some select young men who could be relied upon. This little band of cronies have' hung together ever since. They have lived with and on the Emperor without interruption from the time of ilia accession until now. He provides for their wants; they dip their fingers into his purse whenever they are so minded. He is a loosely hung Emperor, more like the good fellow of a free-and-easy than the despotic master of millions, when iu the midst of these his famiiiiars. He has been known to sit fa his shirt sleeves, astraddle on a chair, hob-a-nobbing with them. , The late Count Strogonoff, who was a preset chevalier and a very high-pacing person generally, once broke in upon the party thus employed. The Emperor look ed at him with those unutterably mourn ful eyes of his and held out acliampigne glass to be filled from a bottle which stood by. The old soldier drew himself up and answered stenily, “ Let those who love you less than I do perform that service.” The Czar showed uo sign of displeasure, but within a few months Stogonotf was deprived of his office, though he was nearly connected with the imperial family, his son having married the Grand Duch ess Marie. When His Majesty is in the humor he plays a good deal at cards with his own chums, and it is rather a good thing for these gentlemen, for when ever any one of them is in want the Czar will lose to him the sum of whifh he stands in need, as a delicate way of giving it, and this method of bestowing substantial favors is perfectly well understood among them. The Czar is a good shot, and has done some grand things on bears. He some times wears a pelisse which once covered a fine bear lie brought low with his own hands, and it has been so exquisitely dressed that it is valued at about £2,000, which is even more than is ever paid ei ther for the sable or tlie black fox. He can ride, too, though not in the English fashion, and he would be puzzed by a sharp burst across the country. Lately his physicians have recommended him to walk. His personal deportment is excellent. He stands and marches well. He shows to advantage in uniform, though for sev eral years he has wildngly clothed him self in mufti. His manners are those of a gentleman, and there is something ex- t emely sympathetic about him. He pro duces the impression that one would like to know him better, if only he were not an Emperor. It is this unfortunate cir cumstance which takes the amiability out of him, sets him upon liis diguity, and gives a certain funniness to his aspect. His father really could be dignified, but he can’t. There is a chubbiness and ner vousness fa his proceedings upon great occasions, which reminds one more of a drum-major or fugleman of Laudwelir than an autocrat. Formerly the Emperor, as might have- been expected from one of his lethargic temperament, was averse from moving about; latterly he has been troubled by a perpetual restlessness* He lives very plainly and his table is sparsely served. A beefsteak for breakfast, a roast gelinotto and salad for his dinner, form the staple of his fare. His appetite is not robust and he sleeps badly. Tlie first fault of his reign was tbe com mon blunder of heirs apparent when they come into power. He had been much courted by the discontented, and he made far too much haste to undo all the work of Ins father. He was emotional, pitiful, generous, all in a headlong, precipitate way. When he resolved suddenly to abolish serfdom, several of his gen erals and nobles threw themselves bod ily at his feet and besought him to man age so great a change very gingerly. It was no use; he gave everything he had to give, ended the heartache in that youthful bo- j knocked down the great larmers-general som, and the weary soul found the rest it 1 - — - 3 - had so ardently sought for. They gathered up his gory cap, and sword, and the patrol silently covered the mangled cone with the earth thrown up by the iron messenger of death, while the staff followed their General back to head quarters in mournful silence. There was no longer need for concealment, and the officer revealed the ngme and rank of their late comrade, and Ticliernaieff sta ted that when he had whispered in his ear, as before mentioned, he had sworn to kill himself before his very face unless he was accepted as a volunteer, aud assigned to duty at once. The next day the friend of the young Prince K—off received a let ter from Russia, detailing the incidents related at the commencement of this article, with regard to the disappointment he had suffered, and stating that Prince K—off was then in Paris seeking to drown his sorrows in the dissipations of that gay capital. Little did the fond mother know that her son, whom she supposed to he in Paris, was lying a mangled corpse in a soldier’s grave in the Morava Valley. No one at Alexinatz had the heart to write to the mother; tlie Prince’s valet refused to be the first tp carry home the news of his master’s singular death, and I have never known to this day when and how the dot ing mother first heard of the sad end of her only child, the victim of that solitary, mysteriously directed shot, fired at ran dom by a follower of the Crescent in the Sermian hills at Alexinatz. Edward Maxwell Grant. Bucharest, January 21,1SS0. —Mr. Blaine says to a correspondent of the Graphic: “I am not going to get ex cited this time. I am not going to allow single pulse beat to be quickened by what shall occur fa this canvass, and I shall hold myself in such a position that, should the nomination he given me, I will not be surprised, and if I fail to get it I will not be disappointed.” ■An Illinois schoolmistress was unable to chastise-tlie biggest girl pupil, and call ed fa a young school trustee to assist her. The trustee found that the offender was his own sweetheart, hut his sense of duty triumphed over his love, and he whipped tjie girl. Not only did this result in los* was a mighty purty run, but sometimes inghima sweetheart, but her father sued theThh'd^antTfawest' arch become* her wheels didn’t seem to tech the rails him for damages, and got a verdict for, incandescent. There is a saving of 20 per for a whole minute.” ' §500. j rent, of the fuel. or taxes like so many nine-pins, upset mo nopolies for the discreet sale of vodki, closed the free port of the Black Sea ac cording to the latest principles of political economy, dashed off the shackles from the press and laughed at comic newspa pers. There was a caricature published in St. Petersburg shortly after his acces sion whidi represented him as a droscliky driver fa the state that droscliky drivers usually are after dinner. His hat was pull ed over his eyes and his horses were gal loping wildly on the road to “Reform.” Behind him was the Grand Duke Con stantine, saying: “Gently, brother; I am the fare.” Still the Emperor laughed; he laughed too when a piece was played in the Court theatre exposing the corruption of his officials, and aveiy fine piece it was. Then somebody shot at him and shattered his nerves forever. He fell into a sort of panic, trying hastily to undo all he had done. He had new gyves put on writers; he ordered some awful cruelties iu Poland. He tried to win hack his sulky nobles. It was all in vain, and now he is thoroughly flustered and frightened right out of his senses. His only chance of peace and happiness would.be abdication and a year’s yacht ing without newspapers. At present he is worried into a fever every morning by a. summary of all the unpleasant tilings which have been printed about him for the last twenty-four hours throughout Eu rope. It is prepared by a special preeis writer, appointed for the purpose, and his- Majesty takes care that it shall spare him no pang of this self-inflicted torture, for he will not trust a professional diplomat ist to do it lest he should gloss over -the truth and endeavor to make things pleas ant for promotion’s sake. A Baron Her der, a connection ofStleglitz, the banker, not long ago performed this delicate ser vice, and perhaps does so still. ■ The King ofYvetotwasahappy monarch; the Em peror of Russia is not. Surely, times must be strangely altered. ■The Floridian says there are 105 dif ferent varieties of fruit growing on the place of Mr. R. W. Sturderant at Orange City. Where this town now stands, three years ago, not a stick of timber had been cut from the land. It has has now 450 inhabitants. —“A smoke-consuming device” has been made successful by David Sintcn, of Cin cinnati. Three arches placed under the boiler arrest the smoke, which before it