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eeauazSrEeaB tfrltgrapjl niti JllesHEngcv MACON, MARCH 2, «80. —Raskin says that European •wars would not last a week if their effect was to break all the china in the houses of the governing classes. —At the skating rink at Brighton, Eng land, recently appeared the following no tice: Band plays at 4 o’clock, and Mrs. Langtry will be present.” —An ice-bridge has formed across Ni agara River below the falls, extending from the new suspension bridge to a point between Prospect House and Table Rock, and several persons have already crossed on it. —The New York brewers now furnish beer at $8 a barrel, but the prospective scarcity of ice next summer and the rise in hops, malt, building material and wa ges have decided them to raise the price $1 a barrel next May. —There are no barrooms at Cornell, Ill but the place abounds in drug stores, in which the traffic is almost entirely in li quor, each having a business connection THE TELEGRAPH AND MESSEN GER. Public Notice. The announcement of the publishing firm of this paper, which ha3 appeared in our columns for the past fortnight, was al together premature and unsustained by facts. The entire stock of the paper, with a very slight exception, is now represen ted by Messrs. Clisby'& Jones, and this will be the firm name and style—the Se nior representing a decided controlling in terest in the stock. The entire management of. the business concerns of the paper—including the making of all advertising contracts, sign ing receipts, notes, drafts, etc., will be in the hands of Mr. Henry B. D avis alone, and all outside arrangements are unau thorized. We desire it to be understood that all personal arrangements of any other kind are unwarranted, and do not bind the paper. Clisby & Jones. The Third Term. Atlanta, Ga., February 25, isso.—To r Reform in Cuba. Action of the New York State Con- . H* 8 Excellency A. II. Colquitt, Governor: Ablate Madrid dispatch announces that vention. i was announced to the public, by the by t be Cuban budget the export of sugar The precise action of the New York SteSS'S S?MawnandBewick »nd ^oney to Spain is rendered free, and Convention on Grant ,nn tic third ten. SStoMjSffiSSl SiSS ^^“dU^ccV'fc'SSSS’SJ will be comprehended by reading the sub- . who would comply w ith the terms of the colonies asks authority to open negotia- joined preamble and resolution reported statute should have the lease, and the tions for the reduction of duties on bread- by tie committee on resolutions: _ I IUkliitS I%££S!i3S& The Republicans of the State of ew I joO. Mr. Couper bid $194,000, and it was York, assembled to appoint delegates to knocked off to Mm. represent them in the National Conven- | The leasing occurred on the 13th day of tion, reaffirm the principles and patriotic • January, 1SS0. The terms allowed the purposes of the Republican party hereto- j bidder by statute for concluding the trans- fore declared and faithfully acted upon, action, was thirty days. On the 13th in- and equally impressed with the rcsponsi- stant the secretary of the executive de bility now devolved upon them, declare j partment addressed me the following let- tliat the safety of the nation is again im perilled by the virulent and unlawful ef forts of the Democratic party to overawe aid subvert the State governments, as represented by the conduct of its leaders in Maine and in several Southern States, thereby intending to secure the control of the general government by deeds of vio lence and fraud, and m defiance of careftilly constituted judicial author ities. In the presence of these grave and threatening dangers, it is the duty of the Republican party of the Un ion, in its united strength, to meet and prevent them, and to this end, mindful of their great responsibility in the coming presidential contest, and of the fact that it must be determined by the electoral vote of tlieir State, hereby solemnly pledge to the Republicans of other States their abil ity to cast it for Ulysses S. Grant. We declare that in him we repose absolute trust for his honesty, bis fidelity to duty, ter: A Mistake. One enthusiastic Grant brother, inPhil- with a physician, who writes alcoholic I adelphia, states as the conclusive reason prescriptions on demand. why be 5nsists upon Grant and a third I i^VereneT jud^ent^and" &oiid7ntelli- —The Legislative council of Memphis, term is that he wants to make the South- gence; his varied experience, and for the Tenn., have issued an order for the de- em rebels shrink down into their boots uniform success that has ever attended struction of the Nicholson pavement in and. curse the day they were bom. We M 1 * 8 e . ffo rts in securing the integrity, per- that city, so frnitful a source of epidemic, oppose that some such forecast of the For CSS and by April 1, they nope to have it re- j character of the third, fourth and fifth I because we are satisfied that in him the placed with broken stone and gravel. terms, if they are to come, is as general nation, North and South, decidedly greet —London gossips report Princess Louise as it is fallacious; but there is nothing in a ~ candidate des erving of its con- very loth to return to the Dominion, and the South now which Grant could possi- ro the^sufireg^of ever“ pMriotte S tbat the royal mamma sternly refused her b ly lay hold of as an occasion or an apolo- zen. We also declare that the election to entreaties to stay in England. She can- gy f or the re-establishment of a provincial I a third Presidential term applies only to a not gratify her taste for art, music and domination in the Southern country. He cultured society as she would like at Ot- could fill the Federal offices with bad and a nd has been a private ciSzen,\teent / I unwelcome appointments, and he could from the country, destitute of allPresi- —The life of the late Marquis of An- require his courts aud attorneys to exe- dential or official influence or patronage, glesy was insured in various companies Lute the laws with a discriminating se- for an aggregate amount of not less than | verity; but all this would amount to little fhiences alone which give force, if any £750,000. The present Marquis will come so for as the great body of the people is there be, to that objection; therefore, into a magnificent and unemeumbered cencemed. These would continue to en- I Itesolzed, That the Republicans of New P /i°S Wkh aU eStimatCd iDC ° me °i joy ’ to the main, the same rights as the JgJgff s!“ Greet JTTresfdenti^ £100,000 a year. J Northern people, and the extravagance candidate, is of urgent importance, and —There are now ten oleomargarine of Grant’s administration would bear as j the delegates this day assembled are factories in the United States. In France heavily on the North as the South. called upon and instructed to use their the manufacture has become an impor- We should all go down into the depths J nomination? UnitCd CflbrtS l ° tant industry, and in Holland there are I of imperial autocracy together, and the seventy-four factories, while in Russia and Southern people, in the quiet of their Germany there are luge factories. One I forms, would probably find less personal house in New Fork sells nearly 10,000 J vexation in the change than the Northern pounds of oleomargarine daily. | man of commerce and trade. We console —Whoever knows of any valuable use The only test action was upon a motion to strike out the name of Grant and sub stitute that of James G. Blaine. Upon this motion, Senator Conkling took the I stand and spoke at length. At the conclu- . . . , , ourselves by the reflection that Grant and sLon of i li3 sp eech the question on the for sawdust can make a fortune at M.nne- the third term and its sequel will, after amen dment was taken by yeas and navs; apolis, Minn., where the sawmill men do all, be substantially the same North and and the vote stood lso , n 2 17— not know how to get rid of 300,000 cards South. The little crowds of fuglemen all tbat is t0 37 majority out of 307 votes. Of it that accumulates every year. Many | over the Union, who are organizing the Thjs is an exceedingly dangerous minori- Late Washington dispatches state that years ago the mills used to bum their saw I third term against the will of the people, I t y‘7n such aqtfe'stiOT,’'taroTit bTque^- the Senate Conullittee on Territories has dust for fuel. It was the slabs then that are doing it to fill their pockets with pub- tion of principIe> , )pon wb5cb many gave trouble. lie plunder, and if they succeed in their , lkely to ***. Particularly will they -General Grant was the pest of Uni- operations, we may be sure the treasury stick sbould thc Democrats bring out ted States Consul Troybnge, at Vera will suffer. There is not a man of them 0od man and nt a strong front Crayon the 19th, where the party was re- who fixes Iris anticipated stealings at less as to ronder the rcsult at tlie polls prob _ ceiyed with distinguished honors. On the than six figures, and the record shows lcma tical. There will be a heavy.Repub- 20th they stopped in Orizaba and were they will win if they can secure Grant’s lican defection in sucb , for a bun . splendidly received, and witnessed the na- rerelection. dred tbousand Replica*, w m never en live sports, deluding the colandero, or But they are comparatively few. To doree a tbird tenn by tbeir voteS) if tbey tailing the bull, which is said to have been the great body of the people it will prove see it js like i y t0 be defeated by the very spirited. j a tiresome and expensive business, and | peop i et —The Rev. Dr. Justin D. Fulton, of I the time will come when there will be as Brooklyn, preached on Sunday upon the I mighty a struggle to overthrow this cor- career of George Washington. In the I rupt and unscrupulous dynasty as we course of his sermon he said: “Remem-1 ba ve ever seen in our political history, ber, that to nominate Grant is not to elect him. The machine may control the cau-1 Snow Storms in the Northwest.— Duty on Steel Rails. Of the strange fact that several of the Northern and Western Railways have op posed the projected reduction of the exor bitant tariff duty on steel rails, theSpring- cuses, the conventions and probably the I A Bismarck special says that the hardest 1 field Republican offers at least a partial ballot-boxes, but it cannot compel a man I snow st -°rm ever known in the Northwest I explanation. It was clear that there must to vote. God is behind the Republic.” I ra S ed there two days. For months a sue- j be some strong reason for the strange po- —The Carrolton Times boasts of a phy-1 cession of storms have interrupted travel I s fti on of the petitioning roads, when they sician in that town who has never seen a j on *he Northern Pacific, causing a very I objected to a reduction upon an article birthday, “notwithstanding he is between Iar S e Ioss to Uie roads and t0 the Black which they buy aud are compelled to use. SO 30 ,e„, of «e. Hi, bWM.y .111 O-w.. ■»"» come on the fifth Sunday in this month, from the Easthave arrived since February I gj therails they wanted, or nearly all, and will be the first he has ever seen.” | h All extensions, improvements and re-. J a nd since steel rails last a long time, they Unless he was bom in the dark night time, or blind, we would like to know [ pairs are suspended. did not expect to buy soon. In that case they would prefer that the other roads should have to pay as high they have paid. This we still thing must have been What is Going on in the Land of how he missed seeing the day on which I Steady Habits.—New England is fast I price he came into the world. I assuming the most conspicuous place in i FMs we stiu tiling must nave ueen -The Couprepafiona^ repeats the divorce annals. Mr. Sidney Androvr* WSttSS story which General W. N. Armstrong I who is an official statist in Massachusetts, I the habit of thus insisting upon paying a tolls of a pious colored brother, loud in I has just reported on the subject of di-1 high price when they can reach a low exhortations but exceedingly shaky in I vorces. In that State these were in 18781 P ,,cc - The Republican, however, finds inorals, who was remonstrated with by as 1 to every 21 marriages, ageinst 1 to I roadf^ tbose whidi ba^ ° a PP fol5e his employer for various breaches of law I every 51 marriages in 18C0. In Vermont, I amount of old iron to sell, which they can and order that brought scandal on the es-1 during the past ten years, the ratio of di-1 under the present high tariff on iron and tablishment. “Yes, boss,” said the cul- J vorces to marriages has been 1 to 17, in | steel rails, dispose of at such prices as to Connecticut 1 to 12, in Rhode Island 1 to 14. prit, “1 owns squar up: I’s done broke ebery one ob de c’mandments; but,” bress de Lord, I’s nebber lost my ’ligion!” Tlie Congregationalist adds as a “snapper”: “Unless tbe signs of the times are decep tive, too many white folks are getting hold of that colored religion.” [ Early Strawberries—A Strange Sea son. Every month duringthe present winter the Telegraph has had occasion to acknowl- —Jefferson Davis, says the Philadelphia j od S e the receipt of ripe strawberries, from Times, thinks that his memoirs will be the gardens of the city and neighborhood, ready for publication in the fall of this and we think nearly eveiy bed lias shown year. A large portion of the first volume "I* berries evei 7 week since Christmas will be devoted to his views as to the I T esterday Mrs. H. R. Ertwn, oi Gris- causes that led to the late war. The re- I woldville, sent several quarts to town, mainderof the volume and the whole of I which were left with Mr. Bcggs for sale, the second volume will relate to the con duct of the war. Both volumes will be illustrated with portraits of Confederate make tbe tariff a matter of indifference to them. With steel rails at $80 a ton they can dispose of their old rails at $-14 and upwards. Tbe Republican intimates that these roads bought, most of them, per haps, steel rails at $40 and that how at the present price of old rails they can nearly pay for their new equipment with the old stock. and Tbe Eight Over the Macon Brunswick Railroad. Matters ire in statu quo as to the con troversy which is pending between Mr. Kimball and the Governor. No action can be taken until the arrival of the New and we are told the supply will be pretty | York parties to the purchase, who were constant hereafter at tbe same place. . I expected yesterday. These are remarkable facts for this high I The Constitution says Mr. Kimball has, latitude. Jacksonville, Savannah and | through his attorney, Judge Hopkins leaders. Mrs. Davis and General Joseph 1 1 “ lplLl ! 1 uc ' *' ““!* J served a paper on each of the alleged loca Davis, a nephew, assist in the preparation Charleston have been shipping strawber- par tners.in the Wilson company, includ- of the work. In fact, the old man has his I rics York in quantities for several j n g General Austell. This paper recited hands full just now, expecting to raise as weeks, and everywhere through Florida, | the rights that Mr. Kimballs company 1 Middle and Southern Geoigia, and thc many as 1,000 bales of cotton on bis Miss- | issippi plantation the coming season. How the Census will be Taken.— I claims in the lease, and carried notice of a o. . .. r, i determination: to insist on these rights. It coast regions of this State and South Car- ^ gaid tbat General Austell stated yester- olina, in the absence of a cold spell, it I day be would liavfe no interest whatever Tlie nennttv for nhstnirMim the census I safely be announced tbat the straw- in the Wilson company, and that another Ilie penalty lor 0Dstructin o tne census I . I gentleman who had an interest submitted takers, who begin their labors on the first seaso1 * bas _ co ® menced > d ? tiie questions to his attorney, and that the Monday in June, are severe. The law I continue until the first bearing season has I attorney decided tbat in liis I opinion Mr. says: All persons above the age of twen- . I Kimball’s right to the road was an esseu- tyrene yeais who shaH refuse to^furnish A» ’ Governor Colquitt received onyester- the information required by the supervi-1 of ,ce and a frost ? et a l , canjlt ,° c I day, a dispatch from Mr. R. T. Wilson, of Bor or enumerator shall forfeit and pay a I themselves. The weather is persist-1 New York, stating that the members of nnt MMMdlnff *100 to he recovered cntly warm. Almost every day shows a the company would be here this morning . sum not exceeding * ’ 0 tfirr.neraturc about seventv With every re- for 1110 purpose of closing the lease. The what changed the good intentions of the in an action of debt. Presidents, direc- temperature about seyenty.Witn eveiyre matter ^ tberefore g,. brougbt to an Czar. tors or other officials of private corpora- curring rain the prediction that it will fair issue t0 _ day or to -morrow. It is said that tions who refuse to furnish Information ^ w5th a 001(1 sna P ^ general, but stcadi- the Kimball company is prepared for the required of them are made liable to a ly proves fallacious. Ills a solemnTact briskest^sortof^lfl over the lease,and will penalty not to exceed $1,000. Only two tbat eveiy garden, if planted, would bare P Wc haye already giTen OU r'reasons for weeks are allowed for the completion of produced abundant supplies of the more tbe belief that the Governor will not be tlie census. Tbe compensation to the \ hard y vegetables all winter. Every one enumerators is os follows; Two cents for 113 bave bad S recn and let- each living inhabitant; two cents for each I tuce constantly, as well as spfnnach, cn- death reported; ten cents for each form; dine, cabbage and all the salads, besides fifteen cents for each manufactory, wfficli tunli P 3 > carrots, etc. As tbe season is to bo full for all services, and no mi- bas turned out we think they might all leage or traveling expenses. bave 1x5611 P roduced with ease n P to thia -Pierre Valcour, a Frenchman ofl date - Bnt whether it will ever happen so deterred by this effort of Mr. Kimball, Lockport, New York, claims to have in vented a deep-sea telephone by which ves sels can be kept in constant communica tion with the shore while crossing the ocean. He has discovered how to insu late a single wire so that immersion in again, and whether even now in the course of a week or two a fatal freeze may not come is quite another question. from executing the title agreed upon be tween tbe State and the company to whom tlip. lease was awarded at public outcry. Before tbe second bidder can come in, it would certainly seem but just to allow every opportunity to those who held the prior right, to make good their purchase, the more especially as the negotiations had been broken off by the Govenror him self. If his excellency afterwards saw - I good cause to re-open the matter and was Purging the Louisiana Leg sla- ^ tbe difficulty that he had fearful strides. The Key West Videttc -A New Orleans dispatch «\ tbe le33ee3 _certainly he water does not impair its transmission of I Wednesday, says the Republican mem- electricity, and this wire is to be paid out bera of State legislature having been trom a cigar-shaped metallic float, thirty I arraigned before the bar of the House for feet long, in tow Of the vessel. Leaden I contempt in signing and forwarding to sinkers are to be automatically detached I tbe senate of the United States a memo- every two hundred miles to keep tlie wire I ... . _ . Tr „ . Iaiuw uu nuniow mi^u, _ claims are^eal izeif'the'oceim paisa^e wS MmWaUoSraS Scl.of ?he partof Governor had refusedto allow Mm to lose much of its present isolation. ° Democrats generally, purged themselves come in after the final rejection of the of contempt by saying they signed the pa- couper bid. There are many who do not , TV e per without reading it. .. I Hint, nnfler all the conditions of the was privileged to do so, and it is. manifest that Mr. Kimball’s claim only begins at the point where that of the highest bidder ends. No right of the latter gentleman could be considered Invaded, unless the Tire National Conventions.—we | perwuiiouc reaumgu, 1 believe that under all the conditions of the were in error yesterday as to the date of Four Republican Senators were brought ueneve unit unuer a t the Re publican National Convention at to thc bar of the Louisiana Senate yester- lease act,Mr. Kimball s second bid should Cl)ica\’o, ivliicli is the 3d day of June, in- day, for contempt in signing the petition be entertained at all. Doubtless the whole stead of April. As the Democratic Con- j to the United States Senate in favor of matter w m be decided to-day. vention meets at Cincinnati on the 22d day Kellogg. Action was postponed until of the same month, there is but nineteen Friday, the accused declaring that they State of Georgia, Executive Department, Atlanta, Ga., - February 13, 1880. Mr. II. I. Kimball, Atlanta, Georgia: Dear Sir—I am directed by the Govern or to inform you, as tbe next highest bid der at tbe lease of tbe Macon and Bruns wick Railroad, tbat tbe parties making the highest bid have foiled to conclude the transaction, and that the time allowed them for doing so has expired. very Respectfully, J. W. Warren, Secretary Executive Department. I was in New York; the letter was for warded to me, and I made the following reply on the 17tli instant: New Yobk, February 17,1880. Dear Sir: Your favor of the 13th in stant, informing me “as the next highest bidder at the lease' of the Macon and Brunswick railroad, that the parties mak ing the liighest bid have failed to conclude the transaction, and that the time allowed them for doing so has expired,” has been forwarded to me here, and I will proceed to comply with my bid and the require ments of tlie law, and take possession without unnecssary delay. - Very respectfully, yours, H. I. Kimball. To His Excellency A. H. Colquitt, Gov ernor, Atlanta, Ga; Subsequently you went to New York,-and while there, and before you had seen the other party, I of fered to place in your hands the $10,000 mentioned in the statute, aud comply oth erwise with the statute. You declinhd to receive it on the ground that negotiations had been resumed with tlie bidders whose term had expired, that occurred without the limit of the State. The statute required tlie road to be leased at public outcry, in the city of Macon, and it was done, tlie term allowed tbe Mghest bidder had expired, and by the terms tbe leasing it was my time for action. Your excellency has now returned the State and there can how be no doubt of your power to accept, at tbe capital, the money, and tberefore, I herewith tender tbe ten thousand dollars mentioned in tlie statute, and I am ready to take the lease at my bid and comply with the statute ‘ letter and spirit. The money-I will deliver to you imme diately should you signify your willing ness to accept it. I have it ready to be de livered. Very respectfully, H. I. Kimball. of A Chance at Last for the Indians. decided to recommend the passage of bill extending the jurisdiction of United States CoHrts-in civil and criminal mat ters to the Indian Territory, and provides for tlie acquirement of citizenship by In dians and the allotment of lands to them in severalty under prescribed conditions. Tlie bill proposes to create a United States District Court for a new judicial district, to be composed of what is known as the Indian Territory, and in general terms provides for extending them all laws of the United States over the whole Ter ritory. It is provided that every Indian may become a citizen by making declara tion that lie has severed his tribal rela tions and thereupon he is to become enti tled to select a homestead for himself and family. Tribal lands in excess of the number of acres absorbed by tbese selec tions, are to be sold for tbe benefit of the Indians. All the foregoing provisions, ex cept the one for the establishment of court, are made dependent upon the con sent of the Indian Councils being ob tained therefor as provided in existing treaties. Of course, this will include the privi lege of the ballot to all who become citi zens. "VVe do not pretend to say aught in behalf of tbe above movement, for heaven knows the elective francMse has been shockingly watered. But if the Constitu tion of our fathers could be sufficiently tinkered, stretched and manipulated to admit to citizenship 4,000,000 of recently liberated slaves who could neither read Or write, certainly the poor Indian, by parity of reasoning, might claim tbe same pre rogative. Next we shall have John Chinaman try- iug bis hand at the same business. And with the huge precedent already estab lished, who is prepared to say where the bars shall be put up ? —Tbe Independent Republican League, of New York, has issued a protest against tbe third-term movement, and also against the nomination of Mr. Blaine, in whom the protest says, “many Republicans re cognize the type of a “statesman” found upon the surface after the war, who have gredt"' reputations, but have established no claim to the respect of this genera tion.” Affairs in Russia. A St. Petersburg dispatch to the Lon don Times of la3t Wednesday, says: There is a sense of insecurity observa ble In every direction here, and while there is great fear that something will happen before the anniversary of the Em peror’s accession to the throne, there is also a settled idea, which is destined probably to be disappointed, that the Czar will present something new on that occa sion. The most important fact connected with the latter explanation is that very important State documents are in course of publication in thc printing ofliee of the fonrtb section. A certain number of trustworthy men have been working at these papers for three weeks. The con tents of the papers are kept secret, and in order that nothing shall leak out the prin. ters are kept in charge of an officer, un der Jock and key. This proves tliat some thing unusual is being prepared, bnt as it was begun prior to tbe explosion in tbe Winter palace, that event may have some- The anniversary of the Czar’s accession to the throne occurs next Wednesday, the third day of March, and that is tlie day which the Nihilists have formally notified the Czar’s leading police functionaries will be signalized everywhere' throughout Russia by bonfires And illuminations compared with which those of Nero in Romq were inconsiderable. The Worid will be interested to' see to "what extent these nefarious threats are carried out. Leprosy in this Country. This terrible disease, so justly the dread of the ancients, has existed for years among the inhabitants of the Bahama Is lands, and has continued to increase with announces that tbe malady has extended to that island, and thus sounds the alarm: It has been introduced here until we have a number suffering from tbe disease. But recently a Nassau leper married a young lady of this city, and was compelled by ber relatives to return to his native land to rot and die. Our city authorities should at once enquire most rigidly into the matter, and impose a severe quaran tine (forty days) on all vessels entering from that port. No wonder the people have confidence, , when the best physicians are prescribing The following is the paper served on tlie ' Dr. Bull’s Cough syrup in all cases of days between those dates. I intended no contempt. j Governor on Wednesday last: ^ coughs, colds, etc. This_ is. a great concession from the mother government, and we trust will prove the harbinger of brighter days for Cuba. Tbat verdant isle is literally taxed to death to defray the cost of enforcing her continued subjection to the Spanish crown. A more liberal reduction in the almost prohibitory excises imposed, would quadruple tbe commerce of the island with the United States and redound vastly to the benefit of both countries. This principle of protection, stifles competition and enterprise just in proportion to the extent that its discriminations are made onerous and intolerable. It is a blot upon the escutcheon of any enlightened nation— a shameful pandering to tbe interests of a favored few at tbe expense and distress of the general consumer. From a World, interview with Lesseps on the steamsMp Colon, as she entered the port, of New York, we take the fol lowing : M. de Lesseps was found in his rooms, which were a suit on thc starboard side of the saloon deck, well aft, and to him the reporter'delivered the dispatches of which he had been made the bearer. M. de Les seps is a man of medium height and strongly built, apparently about fifty-five years old but really seventy-four, active and vigorous, with keen bright eyes set in a face seamed and hardened by a longlife of exposure in out-of-door work. In reply to questions as to the trip he said: “ Our passage up from Aspinwall has been very pleasant; too much praise cannot be giveu to the steamer or to the commander, Cap tain Griffin. As to the work upon the Isthmus, I am well satisfied with it. 1 ’ “You are confirmed then, in your opin ion of tlie feasibility ot making a canal at this point?” “I ain decidedly so. The report of the engineers, which I will give you, will en tirely demonstrate the practicability of the proposed canal.” “And you think that a canal without locks is the best?” “Undoubtedly; if anybody wants to build a canal witli locks or a canal at some other point let liim do so. I am at the bead of a private enterprise, and I propose to build my canal iu my own way.” . “Do you expect to obtain the capital for this work here or in Europe?” “If I demonstrate, as I think I shall be able to, tbat the work ■will yield as profit able return on the money invested, I feel assured that capital will be attracted from here aud also from Europe. I should best like to have the subscriptions divided equally as near as may be between this country, England and France. But I do not come here to solicit subscriptions par ticularly. As a matter of courtesy, the United States having the greatest interest in the canal, I deem it but due to tbe American people to fully explain to them what is proposed and the probable cost, leaving to them the option of becoming pecuniarily interested in tbe work or not as they may choose.” “Great objection has been made, M. de Lesseps, to a caual at Panama on account of the excessive and irregular supply of water—the torrents of the rainy seasons and the lack of supply in the dry season.” “Yes, I know all about that; but we but have obviated that by a dam which we propose at tlie Matachin Valley, as you will see by the report. Here we propose to construct an artificial lake with an area sufficient to contain all the surplus water of the rainy season and to be an unfailing supply duringthe dry sea son. You "- ill see by the report what tbe extent of this dam will be. Its esti mated capacity is one thousand millions of cubic metresjof water, a quantity much greater in amount to that of the freshet of last November, tbe greatest that has ever been recorded. In this will be sluices or side canals to carry any surplus water tbat there may be to the sea. Thus you see that the terrible freshets of the isthmus streams, of which so much lias been writ ten by advocates ot other routes will not prevent the successful operation of the canal proposed.” “Shall you opeu a subscription in New York, M. de Lesseps ?” “I have addressed a circular to tlie American bankers, a copy of which I will give you, and they will opeu a subscrip tion.” “What do you propose as tbe amount of capital stock for tLc company wMch is to be formed ?” “Six hundred million francs.” “And what is the estimated cost ?” “The estimated cost, as you will see by the report, is put at 843,009,000 francs; but I am so certain tbat this is an over estimate that I feel safe in assuming that 600,000,000 francs, or $120,000,000, will cover tlie entire cost.” “What will be the price of the shares?” “Five hundred francs each, 25 per cent of which is to be paid on subscribing and the remainder in instalments as called for by tbe administrative board, upon tbe au thorization of a vote of the shareholders.” “Where will the headquarters of the company be ?” “In Paris.” A God of Battles. A Grant fugleman in tbe New York Convention, one Pierson, proclaimed vo ciferously tbat Grant is not ranked in this country as a man—“he stands as the God of Battles”—and the sentiment elic ited overwhelming applause. No doubt Grant stands in the Republican mind as tbe embodiment of force—and that is the favorite idea on which be is presented as a candidate—always with tbe understand ing that the force is applicable alone to tbat part of the country lying south of the Potomac. If the Republican brethren could conceive it possible tbat tbe force should ever be applied to themselves tbey would much prefer a government of law. But a “god of battles” as a permanent executive, to ride over a peaceful repub lic, whose basis principle is the consent of the governed, is universally dangerous He is not to be counted on to strike in one direction alone and all the time. When his blood is up and his shillelah in mo tion, he strikes rather promiscuously. He Mts wherever he sees a head. To be serious, there is notMng more lamentable than this passionate desire for the exercise of arbitrary power wMch many of the Northern people display, and nothing more suicidal. Tbat section alone in the United States boasts of enormous accumulations of wealth. All tbe others are comparatively poor, and are classed by tbe North as rough and unscrupulous, as well as poor. Not one of them has apparently half tbe material reasons for desiring a government conservative, tol erant and rigidly adhering to law and precedent that the North has, and yet from the North, from such great and wealthy States as New York and Penn- syIvania,c'ome the shouts for third termes, for force and violence, for “a god of battles” instead of a tolerant, law-abiding and constitutional statesman as President. “A god of battles” is necessarily a god of disorder and popular dissatisfaction. What is to become of those vast vested rights when order and security are dependent alone on force? When a Republican gov ernment is too find its sole emblem alone in the drawn sword,and not in a wise and patriotic public opinion? It is the merest fallacy to suppose that peace, justice, equity and tranquillity can long be main tained over this great continent by mere force. It is efficacious alone when backed by the patriotic inspirations and honest convictions of the people, and these can be operative only so long as the people are satisfied that the government is adminis tered harmoniously with its great charac ter and design. When, therefore, New York and Pennsyl vania set up for force,imperialism and a per manent executive, an entire departure from all thc principles, traditions and usa ges of the government, with what sense or reason can'they expect tlie newer and poorer States to be more conservative than themselves? Can they alone expect to play the role of destructives, and rely on other States to save them from the mani fest tendency of their revolutionary policy? If the country, fifteen years after the war is over, must surge back again to lawless ness, force and violence,what can we pred icate of the future? Too Much Legislation. Some of the members of Congress are credited with the intention of instituting an investigation into the present “comer” in wheat, with a view to prohibitory leg islation. i,i: •!:i"' We trust our Solons will attempt noth ing of the kind.' When will they learn that commerce let alone, will, in the shortest space of time, regulate itself? Supply and demand are the great and in fallible balance wheels of trade. To say how much wheat, com, cotton or tobacco a capitalist may buy in open market, and to limit him as to price, would be subversive of every principle of free trade, as well as equity. Such a question is alike too delicate and important to be meddled with. In the end, and that prob ably at no distant day, this whole wheat problem will be satisfactorily solved. However strongly, then, we may be op posed to “comers” in trade, the only way to break them down is by pitting capital against capital. If a man’s purse is suffi ciently long, he can make a temporary comer in any article of commerce, by buying it up, and no law can prevent him. Suicide Hear BarnesviUe. Baenesyille, Georgia, ; . February 27,1880. Editors Telegraph and Messenger- Mi. S. G. Slade, a highly respected citi zen of Pike county, living near this place, committed suicide last nfght by taking laudanum. He seems to have been in a gloomy state of mind since the death of Ms wife. He left a letter appointing a friend to take cliargo of his children, and also gave directions for the disposition of his property. A merchant down town sells more of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup than all other medicines together. It surely must he the best remedy fbr a cough. —Miss Minnie Hauk is described as looking extremely pretty and picturesque when she dashes upon the stage in the last act of the “Taming of the Shrew.” Pulling off her cloak of black silk, lined with pink, she appears in a magnificent dress of sapphire blue velvet, looped over a shirt of pale blue brocade, into which are woven tiny red and pink flowers. Her bat is a Rembrandt of gray felt bound with gold, and trimmed with pink and wMte ostrich feathers. * The Speculative Rage. Wc want to say a word about tbe rage for speculation, which now in the progress of mental infection, isreacMng all classes, and largely, as we understand, even our planters, who are getting to deal in futures in various ways. As a matter of gain, in the way of dollars and cents, the experi ence of business men the world over proves that money as a rule is not to be made in tbat way. Brilliant strokes now and then checker a career of speculation and excite a talk .far beyond their practi cal importance, but in the vast majority of cases the speculator comes to grief at last, and vanishes from the stage a ruined man. It is the law of Divine Providence that acquisition either in knowedge, virtue or wealth, to be healthful and permanent, must be gradual. A man may gorge bis brain or Ms stomach or his pockets, but he only gets a fever and a set-back for Ms pains, and as tbe chances of loss exceed those of winning there is small probability of a prosperous conclusion. But the great evil of a speculative life is moral. A man who has his brain fired with hopes of great speculative gains to be realized in thc future, will strive in vain to interest himself in the slow acMeve- ments of the store, the workshop or the farm. In spite of himself his daily trans actions, wMch once engrossed Mm so much, become a bore. He looks upon them with more or less contempt, and thus not only is the main condition of success lost, but he becomes restless, dis contented and unhappy. He spends bis time in gossip and speculation about tbat phantom gain of the future. His mind is unhinged and all those regular daily habits which go to make him a good busi ness man—a good husband and father and a good Christian, are in danger, if not lost. Wlmt is a life of quiet, peace, happiness and security worth ? ‘ Whatever it is worth you sacrifice it by going into speculation, and thenceforth burning with a fever of anticipation or shaking under the ague of a dread of loss; and the compensation yon will reap for the sacrifice will be final bankruptcy. The moral and pecuniary loss will bo incurable. The whole country is now rushing into speculation and will wind up by and by with a general explosion. While prices all round arc rushing over the up-grade without the smallest reason, every man sees the absolute silliness of the situation, and knows that it is too foolish to.last; but he trusts when the deadfall drops his head will not be under it. To keep it out, contract no indebtedness—go into no speculation—stick to your legitimate call ing-husband your resources—live quiet ly, soberly and economically, and you will find yourself easy and prosperous when tbe speculators are so badly broken tbat tbe pieces will not bo worth saving. Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea. Iu 1879 there were forty-nine steam sMp, forty-five sailing ships, 146 barks, forty-eight brigs, and 277 schooners, in and outward bound from the United States, that went to the bottom. The es timated value of tMs immense fleet is put down at $15,000,000. A very large percentage of these losses befel grain carrying vessels. This is as cribed to the shifting of the cargoes in gales of wind, and when making short tacks against the wind. Many ofthe steamers, too, are supposed to have had defective engines. The Disputed Sale of the M. & B. Railroad. At last dales all the gentlemen inter ested in the Couper purchase of the Ma con and Brunswick railroad had reached Atlanta, and tbe Constitution says the papers have all been drawn and all tbe preliminaries have been agreed on. The deeds would have been signed yesterday, but for tbe absence of J. M. Johnston, whose signature is required. J. M. John stonand W. M. Johnston‘are brothers-in- law to R. T. Wilson, of New York, and represent him in tbe pendingnegotiations. J. M. Johnston was detained yesterday in Macon on business, and wa3 expected on the night train from that place last night. ~ Mr. Kimball served a notice on the res ident members of the Wilson company, and also on those who came yesterday, of his intentions to claim the road. In con versation with those who have authority to speak for the members of this company, we learn that they do not care much for his claim. They say it will not interfero at all with their plans: The following letter was delivered to’ the Governor yesterday at 10 o’clock a.m.: To His Excellency, A. H. Colquitt,< Governor—Sir: I hereby respectfully in terpose my protest against tbe State of Georgia dealing with any party or parties; in the matters of the lease and sale of tlie’ Macon and Brunswick Railroad, in con flict with my legal rights as the present; highest legal bidder under the law. And as I am unable to find upon any public record the names of the party or parties with whom it is alleged your Excellency is contemplating negotiations, I respect fully ask as an act of justice to such per sons, if any there be, as well as myself, tbat your Excellency will notify them of my communication to you of tbo 25th in stant, a copy of wMch I here enclose; and that I shall exercise all legitimate means to maintain my legal rights as the now only legal bidder under the statute for the lease and sale of the Macon and Bruns wick Railroad. Very respectfully, H. I. Kimball. Atlanta, February 27,1880. We liaTe private advices from Atlanta, that there is not the least doubt of tbe prompt signing up and transfer of tbe ti tles to Messrs. Couper & Company to-day (Saturday). Indeed Captain Bacon, Col onel Harris, and so far as wo are in formed, tbe entire Macon bar, are a unit iu tbe opiuion tbat Mr. Kimball has not a shadow of legal right even to come in as tbe next highest bidder on tbe lease, Had Mr. Couper’s bid been rejected as illegal under the law, then the second bid would have come to the fore for consider ation. But the fact that the first bid af ter due investigation was accepted, of course settled tbe matter so far as tbe sale for tbat day was concerned. It is the general opinion, therefore, that in no event can Mr. Kimball, under tbe strict ruling of tbe law, gain possession of the. road even with the Goremor’s consent. We have made arrangements for the earliest intelligence on the subject from Atlanta, which will be received probably before going to press. Since writing the foregoing, we have re ceived a special from Atlanta, announcing the gratifying tidings that at2p. m. yes terday the sale ofthe Macon and Bruns wick Railroad was duly consummated to Messrs. Couper, Hazlelmrst, Lane, Wil son & Company. All the preliminaries were satisfactorily arranged, the money paid on the nail, and the papers signed, sealed and delivered. Brunswick and all Middle and Southern Georgia will breathe freely at this an nouncement. Governor Colquitt has no bly retrieved the situation, and deserves tbe thanks of the State. Probable Trouble and Bloodshed in California. The Legislature of California, wMch seems to be in full sympathy with tbe hoodlum new constitution, has passed an act which forbids corporations employing CMnamen under any circumstances. This, too, in defiance of tho Constitution of the Uuited States, wMch prohibits tbe States from enacting any law impairing the ob ligation of contracts. This reckless legislation is working great distress, not only among the CM- nese, but to all classes of labor. The manufacturers are not disposed to submit without a struggle to a law thus arbitrary, Hence late advice by telegraph bring the in formation that the Pioneer mills which own two large establishments, have discharged every Chinaman in their employ. Hith erto that company has been paying out $10,000 per month for White and $6,000 a month for its Chinese employees. The va cancies, it is understood, will not be filled with wMte men, but after finishing up what work is in the machinery of both mills, will be shutdown for the present. It is also understood that the jute factory at Oakland has discharged all its Cliincse employees—700 or 800 of them—and will also stop work. It is said that other factories will follow suit, so these poor deluded wMte laborers who are led by Kearney and his gang, will find their sufferings augmented in stead of diminished, by this wholesale prosecution of the Chinese. The New York Bulletin says on this subject: Tbe closing up of these industrial ei- tablishments, of course, has deprived thousands of persons of the means of ob taining subsistence, and the Board of Su pervisors are in daily receipt of petitions “praying that some sort of structure b.e irovidcu where unemployed men who lave no money and no shelter may find a place to sleep at night.” Processions of men and women, clamoring for bread and work, supplement the other mob3, by whose agency they*have been deprived of both, yet all, or nearly all of these peo ple last summer voted for the communis tic Constitution. The telegraph informs us that the steamer that left San Francisco yesterday was crowded with people anxious to leave the city; the railroad, too, had more than its usual proportion. Meanwhile, the government at Washington is m re ceipt of dispatches from official sources there announcing that there is imminent danger of a formidable outbreak against the Chinese. The friends of the Chinese are calling upon the President for troops to defend the unfortunate Asiatics. What a spec tacle in a free country 1 “No Cure no Pay.”—We authorize our agents to guarantee that our medicine If taken according to our directions, will relieve constipation and diseases incident to a torpid liver; and if any one will show by positive proof that it has not produced what we guarantee, they are entitled to return of their money, provided they take the genuine Simmons’ Liver Regula tor by the directions. feb24 lw 1 A Cross Baby. Nothing is so conducive to a man’s re maining a bachelor as stopping for one night at the house of a married friend and being kept awake for five or six hours by the crying of a cross baby. All cross and , ... e crying brnfies need only Hop Bitters to “ ntrast ' uth tbat of ,. make them well and smiling. Young 'J’ gay and noisy masculine members of man, remember this.—Traveler. fbl&-*w j the troupe, —Cetewayo’s three daughters are now on exMbition in London. Their names are UHolala, Unomadloza and Unozen- daba. The London News says that these names are musical. The dusky maids arc described as decently attired and possessing a taste for personal adorn ment. Although passing much of their time seated on a divan they came down from time to time to welcome their visi tors, shaking hands with friendliness and addressing to each a Zulu salutation. Their manners are are gentle and prepos sessing, and their demeanor is in marked the exuberant- —The fashionable exodus to Europe will be large tbe coming spring. —The Princess Beatrice of England U being engaged by the Continental news paper folk to King Humbert’s cousin Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa. —M. Ivan Tourgunieff, the celebrated novelist, Las left Paris for St. Petersburg, thus practically refuting tbe rumors of Wj banishment. . His object is said to be to repudiate sympathy with Nihilism. —Mr. Thurlow Weed has written a let ter in which he pleads the unbroken usage of two terms only as an argument agni^, t the nomination of General Grant, not to be set aside unless his caudidacy should be demanded by a spontaneous popular movement. —The Princess Louise, in one week, lost valuable jewels, got dumped out of a conveyance and skinned ber nose, engaged in a fight with all tbe newspapers, held six or seven receptions and listened to a lot of addresses, and yet she says Canada is dull. —Tbe Boston newspapers tell of a stage-struck woman who got a divorce from her husband in order to become an actress, failed dismally beMnd tlie foot lights, returned , to her home, and begged to be made a wife again, which was done by a remarriage. —Chief Justice Waite, during bis re cent visit to New Orleans, was treated with the most distinguished consideration. A dinner, atwMch Chief Justice Manning presided, was given, and two hundred guests were present, including all the prominent clergymen, lawyers and han kers of the city. —Hon. Thomas Ewing says the Ohio delegation in the Democratic National Convention will probably go for Seymour after Thurman, but the Cincinnati Enqui rer regards Mr. Tilden as the second choice of the Ohio Democrats, providing his friends can give assurance of carrying New York. —In the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, the ground is frozen so hard that before a grave can be dug great fires Lave to be made in the churchyards, and in some instances, when this expedient proved un availing, the gravediggers were compelled to use dynamite. —Tlie Philadelphia Press says some of the men who bought Southern delegates in 1876 away from Blaine at Cincinnati are delegates to Chicago, and then in quires: “Are the same means to be used again to defeat this favorite of tlie people? If so, bow long will the people silently endure?” —All the articles belonging to the Prince Imperial when he died have now been re covered except Ms watcli, which was pounded to pieces between two stones in order “to get at the inside.” His uniform coat, with eighteen assegai thrusts, all In tront, his overalls, boots and shirt, have been given up by the Zulus aud sent home. —The baril is a very essential thing in the politics of these days, and the an nouncement that Senator Blaine has re cently made two millions in mining stocks is a significant audjimportant one. Gene ral Grant has no bar’l himself, but he knows a great many people who have, while Secretary Sherman, witli decided skill, has filled two or three bar’ls with special treasury agents. Special Manures.—If the fanner would take thc time and trouble and util ize tbe means he has at home, he could manufacture an excellent fertilizer. He should waste nothing that contains plant food. The scrapings of the hen-houses, the contents ofthe sinks, the ashes, refuse bones, sweepings of the yard, all should be collected and utilized. —A wealthy resident of Union Hill, New Jersey, is said to be contemplating the construction of a commodious crema tory in which remains will be incinerated for the reasonable sum of forty dollars per corpse. Union Hill is not far from New York; and as the crematory charges are much below the cost of the average funeral, it is not at all unlikely that the enterprise will prove a profitable business speculation. But it will deprive tbe dis secting tables of the medical schools of many a valuable subject. —Ocala, Florida, Banner understands from a reliable source tbat tbe Palmetto Paper Works at Femandina will most probably be removed to Ocala in a few weeks. It says tbat negotiations between the company and a gentleman of Ocala are now pending looking to the early es tablishment of the macMnery there. The best banknote and bond paper is now made from the palmetto leaf and stem, and the Banner understands that the pal metto around Ocala is of a superior qual ity for tbat purpose. ■> Tilden Said to be Negotiating Fob two Hundred Rooms.—A Cincin nati dispatch to the PMl&delpMa Times, says Colonel C. W. Wooley, who interest ed himself in behalf of Tilden in Florida in 1876, is authority for the statement that Tilden’s friends are endeavoring to buy all tbe best rooms at the leading hotels, with the purpose of placing other candidates at a disadvantage. He says that one of the principal hotels is negotia ting now with Tilden for two hundred rooms. Inquiry at different hotels re garding these statements elicited the fact that the Gibson House has received a tele gram from Albany asking that two hun dred rooms and Sixty parlors be secured,, presumably in the interest of Tilden. The hotel has not acceded to the request. The information in Democratic circles here is- that Tilden will make every possible ef fort to secure the nomination for himself. The New York World publishes the rumor, wMch it says prevails in newspa per circles, that Hon. Samuel J. Tilden is negotiating for the purchase of a large interest in the New York Sun. Stop that coughing, if yon do not, it may kill you. A bottle of Dr. Bull’s cough syrup may save your life. Twen ty-five cents, and its time. . City Bonds. The commission funded $18,000 of the city’s bonds yesterday and are prepared to fund the balance as fast as tbey are sent In. Bonds to tbe amount of one hundred thousand dollars have been signed up, and the rest will be as speedily as possible. The indications arc tbat tbe city debt will now be rapidly funded, and- that within the next few months the entire debt will be funded or so great a portion of it that the remainder will be insignificant in amount. The new bond3 are appreciating in value and many of the; best financiers of the city think the bonds- will reach par before that time. The confi dence of the public in the bonds is being most firmly established every day, and tbey are considered by many to be as sol vent a security as Atlanta or Augusta, bonds. —Father McGlougbliu preached a very- able discourse to a crowded church at St- „ Joseph’s last evening. —^ -