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by telegraph London, Febraary 25.—The Moscow Qi-ntc demands the appointment of a dictator to more effectually cri sh Niliil- 5s 'a Madrid dispatch says the Court of Anieals has confirmed the sentence of Otero, the would-be assassin of the King. jj,e bark SLathnaim, bound for Mel bourne from London, was sunk by a col lision. Sixteen were drowned. It is stated that Tersia is actively assem bling troops to make war on Herat. A Berlin dispatch states that at an au dience given by the Emperor William te the President of the Reitclistag, his Majes ty declared the passage of the army oill absolutely necessary for Germany’s defen sive power. A Paris dispatch says Hartmann con fessed he was engaged In the attempt to kill the Czar at Moscow. The B. ii ; sli ship, “Mistress o> the Seas,’ which lefe Philadelphia January 2Cib, for Bremen, was abandoned and dismasted in north latitude forty-three degrees, west longitude thirty-one degrees. The crew was taken off by the ship P. Ivy, Captain Lowell, from New Orleans, January 25th, for Havre. Utica, February 25.—During the roll call several disputes arose between con testing delegates from various paits of the State,'and (here was much confusion and wrangling over the appointments to the committee on credentials. Stephens B. French, of New York, nominated for tem porary chairman, Hon. Charles E. Smith, of Albany, which was received with ap plause and was made unanimous. During his remarks on taking the chair, allusion to Grant, at Appomattox Court House, was received with great applause. After the transaction of a considerable routine of business the convention took a recers till 3:30 o'clock. The convention has adopted a resolu tion favoring the nomination of Grant. Tlie tost vote showed Grant’s friends had thirty-seven majority over the advocates of an untrammelled delegation. The resolution favoring Blaine for the second choice was laid on the table. The Convention, upon re-assembling this afternoon, effected a permanent or ganization by the election of Charles E. Smith, of Albany, as permanent Chair man. Mr. Conkling took the floor and ad dressed the Convention at great length. Resolutions were then adopted. A dele gate moved that in case Grant cannot be nominated at Chicago, the delegates be instructed to vote as a uuit for Blaine. Motion tabled. The delegates to Chicago, and the members of the State Committee, were then named, after which the convention adjourned nine die. London, Febraary 25.—Cardinal New man is suffering from the effects of a fall by which one of his ribs was broken. He is progressing, however, as favorably as could be expected, considering his ad vanced age. A St. Petersburg dispatch to the Times says: “There is a sense of uneasiness ob servable in every direction, 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 sell led idea that the Czar will pro claim something new on that day. The most important fact connected with tiie latter expectation is that very jinjxirtant State documents are in the course of publication in the printing of fice of the fourth section. A certain num ber of trustworthy men have been work ing at these papers for three weeks. The contents of the papers are kept secret, and in orilep that nothing shall leak out, the printers are kept in charge of olficers un der look and key. This proves that something unusual is being prepared, but as it was begun prior to tiie explosion in the Winter palace, that event may have somewhat changed the government’s intentions. Ann atoms, Md., February 25.—In the House of Delegates, Dr. Bruce, delegate from Allegheny county, presented the memorial of tiie citizens of Cumberland and Allegheny counties, preferring charges against Judge George A. Pcarre, assistant judge of the fourth judicial cir cuit of the State, with a view to his im peachment. The charges allege that I’carre has received counsel fees while acting as judge; has decided cases m Which he had personal interest;- has made an assignat ion house of the court consult ing room, and has been guilty of profani ty and violent and immoral conduct. The charges were referred to a special com mittee of seven. London, Febraary 25.—A dispatch from Berlin to the Time*, says: A recent article in the Xorth German Gazelle, on Genuau fortifications, has excited much notice. A dispatch from Constantinople repoits the receipt of a letter from Colonel Syrige, saying brigands demand £150,000 for the release of himself and wife. Moiule, Alabama, Febraary 25.— Tiie spring meeting of the Mobile Jockey Cluti will commence on the 7tli of March ami continue three days. There are now at the track twenty-five horses, and others are expected. Everything points to good meeting. London, February 25.—A large tenant- right meeting to-day was attacked by three thousand Orangemen armed with blud geons, who stormed the platform and then dispersed the meeting. The tenants were outnumbered and twenty of them severe ly injured. Tiie Orange party considered the meeting to be of a seditious char acter. San Francisco, Febraary 25.—The Board of Supervisors this afternoon passed an ordinance increasing the police force to -WO men. At a meeting of the Eleventh Ward Club to-night it was announced that there was an attempt to be made to prevent the condemnation of Cliinameu, and, shaking to this resolution, Dennis Kear ney delivered an inflammatory harangue, lie announced that to-morrow the ward club presidents, tiie mayor and the Work ingmen city officials would meet at the headquarters of the party. The object of the meeting is not known. New Ori.eans, Febraary 25.—In the Senate to-day Mr. Cunningham rose to a question ol privilege, and sent to the Sec retary's desk and had read a copy of a memorial address to the Senate and House of Keprcsentativcs of Louisiana. The memorial is in the interest of Mr. Kellogg, and represents that extensive frauds were perpetrated in the State elec tion. and that consequently a majority of the members of the present Legislature Were elected and hold their office by un lawful means. The memorial was read, after which Mr. Cunningham said he con sidered the memorial not only false and slanderous, but so disrespectful to the Senate that he desired action upon a reso lution declaring in contempt Senators Cohen, Denias, Stewart and Senr.ncs, who had signed the same.' The resolu tion was adopted. When Senators Co hen, Denias, Stewart and Semmes were arranged before the bar of the Senate, De- ina> submitted a paper which he read de claring that no contempt for the honorable body was intended. The term Senator w as affixed to the signatures merely as a means of identification, and no disrespect tp tiie Senate was intended, Further ac- w special i-"!s meeting Sunday a woman named F. Smith advocated the hanging to hmi]i jmsts of a dozen or moie cigar man- '•factun.rs, and Kearney took up a colleo-' •ion from*his excited audience to erect a Permanent , gallows in the Sand Lots. Khun secret information it is believed ‘wit Kearney’s crowd intended an iinmo- diao> resort to violence. In this contro- *?**>' the® is no certainty what Mayor Ka'iocli may elect to do, but tiie Chief of 1‘olicc will wet-independent of him in the preservation of the peace, and will be snpl-irted by the State militia and the Lulled Si atod I poops. •>r. Febraary 25.—It has * decided that General Louis Melikoff Mia!] be appointed Governor General of ™; I V.ersbarg, vice General Gourko. • Teodor Kecolaiewicz Glainie, 'Russian author, is dfead. , \. r Tiie Maltfas states that on Sunday last Superintendent of Police delivered to the thereupon ordered the verification to he made up of all the ammunition stored in the district, and discovered that thirteen shells were missing. San Francisco, Febraary 26.—Many persons who have been supporters of the anti-Cliinesc movement, hut whose busi ness interests have been seriously injured by the reactionary effect of a serious agi tation in this city, as well as others, fre quently express the sentiment that rather than suffer a continuance _ of the evil re sults of the protracted agitation it would be preterable to have it out at once for all, and the sooner the better. The leaders of the workingmen evidently have no desire to precipitate a conflict, and their action yesterday indicates that their policy is rather to keep the agitation just at such a point as falls short of violence yet is suffi ciently threatening to induce an acquies cence in their desires. This line of action is dangerous in view of the excited state ot the public mind and may result in pro voking the other side into some action that will bring about a collision. Indeed, that perhaps, at present, is the greatest source of danger. The Ninth ward Workingmen’s Protec tive club met last evening and organized a military company, twenty-two men signing the roll. Some very hot speeches were made at the meeting of ward presi dents yesterday afternoon previously re ferred to. Sheriff Desmond, elected by the Workingmen, signified his intention to support them in their movement. The ward Presidents recommended that their seven clubs hold executive sessions to consider the pending question and pledg ed the entire party to support the mayor and authorities in carrying out the law. Tiie Eleventh ward club, which was the theatro of Kearney’s extraordinary oratorical efforts Tuesday night, met last evening again, but with closed doom Around police headquarters everything is profoundly quiet and there is no vmusual force on duty. San Francisco, Febraary 26.—The ward presidents, Mayor Kalloch, and agi tators, held a meeting at their headquar ters, and passed a series of resolutions de nouncing the increase of the police force, and the efforts making to resist the execution of the demolition of China town. The resolutions give notice from that on the perpetration of any outrage upon the workingmen’s party, or the employment of force to interfere with the peaceful abatement of Chinatown, a nuisance, all are ready to assert and maintain our rights, aud visit upon those interfering, punishment so swift and terrible that the reader of history will shudder at the rec ord. Mayor Kalloch approved of the resolutions, but recommended a cessation of processions for a few days, as they in terfere with the plans for providing work for the unemployed. The Chamber of Commerce has decided to raise funds to employ several hundred men on the sea wall, at one dollar per day. Corpcs Chkjsti, Texas, Febraary 26. Last night a band of fifteen Indians at tacked a Mexican wagon train, consisting of six wagons heavily laden with goods, from Chihuahua, en route for Laredo, and captured three drivers and the live stock belonging to the train. The team sters escaped and brought the news of the attack to Enciras, whence twelve men went in pursuit. The Indians were well mount- ted and armed, and drove towards Rio Grande river. I’oTTSvir.i.E, Pa., February 20.—The breaker at Mount Carmel, owned and operated by 3Ientelens & Co., was de stroyed by fire this morning. The breaker had a capacity of ten thousand tons per month, and is one of the oldest in the re gion. Loss $35,000. Des Moines, February 26.—Tiie Dem ocratic State Convention is to be held at Burlington, April 7. New York, Febraary 20.— The Tri bune congratulates the Republicans of New York upon the harmony which pre vailed in the Convention, and says the Convention will be certain to have the ef fect of making the discussion of the Pres idential question, which began in earnest among the masses of the Republican party, after the snap judgment in Penn sylvania, more vigorous and exciting. j The IleiVld says the resistance to tint third term has proved altogether stronger than anybody dared to hope or ventured to predict twenty-four hours ago. ■Washington, February 26.—In the Senate Mr. Maxey, from the Committee on Post-offices and Post-roads, reported with amendment Senate hill to authorize refunding to postmaster of funds or valu able letters lost or stolen. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Blair submitted a resolution direct ing the Secretary of the Navy to transmit to the Senate any information in posses sion of the department in relation to pre sent condition of affairs in Alaska. The Senate proceeded to consider the calendar. In the House Sir. Warner, of Ohio, called attention to the fact that no re sponse has been received from the Secre tary of the Treasury to the resolution calling upon him for information as to the connection of the Treasuiy Department with the New York Clearing House, and stated he would, in a short time, offer a similar resolution. Mr. Warner intro duced a joint resolution reaffirming the Monroe doctrine. Referred to the Inter- Oceanic Canal Committee. Mr. Reagan, of Texas, chairman of the Committee on Commerce, reported the bill to establish a Board of Commission ers of Inter-State Commerce. Also the following bills, which, he stated, would be offered as substitutes for that bill: To regulate inter-State commerce; to amend the act of 1866 to facilitate communica tion between the States. Three bills were ordered. printed and made the special order for the fourth Wednesday of March. Washington,' February 26.—In the Senate at the expiration of the morning hour, Mr. Morgan submitted a resolution expressive of the regret of the Senate at the death of Senator Houston, of Ala bama. Resolutions were adopted and eulogies upon the deceased Senator were ponnds. The Duchess of Marlborough’s fund now reaches sixty-three thousand pounds, of which thirty-six thousand pounds have been expended. New York, February 26.—A Dublin special says the correspondent on her Majesty’s gunboat, Goshawk, which is distributing meal among the Western Isl ands, writes from Iunisbark off Galway, as follows: It is a terrible state of affairs. Fifty families here eke out a miserable existence. Their homes are small heaps of dirty stones. Their land is rock and soft bog. Hunger and want are every where visible. The people go naked and without food. Many are slowly starving to death. Such scenes of appalling desti tution I never before witnessed. The more we saw the more certain did death from starvation appear the inevitable fate of nearly every man, woman and child on the island. In many cabins the children crouched shiveriug and almost naked around the fire. When I entered, they sprang behind their mother, whose single garment, a thin dress, was but slight pro tection against the wind, which blew through the brokeu roof. On the fire was dinner, a heavy pot of brown green sea weed. The same correspondent writes from Innislioffin concerning the shocking maladministration on the part of the offi cials there. The Government dispensary office has no drugs, and the relieving of ficer no food. San Francisco, February 26.—The Call this morning says a secret meeting of citizens was held in the Palace Hotel last evening to organize a vigilance committee for the suppression of any riot which may break out as the result of the labor agita tion. San Francisco, February 26.—There was no parade of working men to-day and the meeting at the Sand Lots was com paratively tame. A meeting of merchants was held inis otvomoon to hear the report of the committee appointed u» re lief measures. The committee stated that since the last meeting the incendiary lan guage of the agitators had put the mercan tile community in a frame of mind in which it would be of little use to ap proach them for contributions. Consid erable inquiry to-day among gentlemen supposed to be interested in the reported vigilance committee movement failed to draw out any direct information on the subject, but there is good reason to be lieve that the report is well founded and that a thorough organization exists. London, February 26.—A Paris dis patch to the Times says the inhabitants of St. Petersburg are beginning to attribute the recent Nihilistic crimes and menaces to the students and threaten that if any criminal act is done on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Emperor’s accession to the throne, they will bum down the uni versity and lynch every student who falls into their hands. The government is now forced therefore to take measures for the prot ection of the students. St. Petersbtrg, Febraary 26.—The office of the Governor General of St. Pe tersburg has been abolished and the mu nicipal power vested in the commission of supreme control under independent direc tion oi Lovis Mclikofl? Energetic meas ures will be taken against the revolution ary scheme. The appointment of Gene ral Melikoff gives general satisfaction and confirms previous indications that the pre sent crisis will not be made a pretext for increased repressive measures. Cincinnati, February 26.—A Nash ville, Tennessee, dispatch says at a called meeting of the stockholders of the Nash ville, Chattanooga and St. .Louis railroad tliis afternoon, President E. W. Cole gave notice that he would resign his position which he could not consent to hold in a company which might not he able to afford him unquestionable authority to protect its interests. President Cole read a statement show ing that the earnings of the roads for January were larger than ever known, and the net increase nearly thirty per cent, for the past seven months. Vice President Newcomb, of the Louis ville and Nashville road in an address to the stockholders, said that what had been the policy of President Cole must neces sarily be the policy of the new adminis tration. He suggested that a committee GEORGIA PRESS. The store of Mr. E. H. Bradwell, at Gintown, near Albany, was burglarized last week of quite a quantity of goods. Many of the county jails contain luna tics awaiting vacancies in the asylum at Milledgeville. Gus L. Brack, of Ty Ty, now takes his meals in the Albany jail for stabbing a man named Brumby. Hog cholera is depopulating the swine population of Spalding county. McVhae had an attempt at buiglaiy last week. A mule committed suicide nearMc- Ville last week by winding up all the slack rope with which he was tied, and choking himself to death Mb. John F. Currie’s com crib in Laurens county was destroyed last week by an incendiary fire. The Fort Valley Hook and Ladder company is flourishing. Mb. and Mrs. L. E. Welsh, of Alba ny, have gone on a trip to Florida and Cuba. 1 Tub price of mules in Elberton is steadily advancing. About twelve thousand hales of cotton Lave been shipped from Washington this season. The Park Theatre company is billed for Cutbbert. Fort Valley Advertiser: Reuben, that remarkable mule for strength, endur ance and longevity, as well as viciousness, has left Fort Valley for Macon, where we expect to hear from him soon. His equal for strength and meanness has been known. The same gays ; On last Sunday Rev. y 3IcKay camQ out from Macon and held av~„.j C g j n t jj e Presbyterian church—memorial ot q W. Sturgcs. Quite a large crowd w£l present, the other churches uniting to do honor to the' memory of one so well known and so highly esteemed. Mr. Mc Kay’s sermon was well timed and appro priate, and the tears of the congregation, while he was speaking of the death of Mr. Sturges, testified to the great love and re spect of all our people for his memory. > cVille South Georgian: In the lower part of this county, a few nights since, while Rev. C. R. Windham was spending the night at the house of a friend, his horse’s mane and tail was shaven off. This is about as mean an act as could be conceived, and as it was doubtless done for mischief is still more contemptible, as there is always a little excuse for crime done in the heat of pas sion. Such conduct is deprecated by our good people. It is stated by the Winterville corres pondent of the Oglethorpe Echo that the owners of Tallulah Falls (Habersham county) property bought last week 50,000 feet of lumber, for the purpose of erecting, before the summer, a largo hotel at the falls,‘capable of accommodating 150 to 200 guests. Recently the grounds adjacent to the fall have been cleared of all under growth, and a park neatly laid out, which will be dotted over with summer houses, convenient seats, benches, etc. The whole has been inclosed with a wire fence. The falls is about 3,000 feet above sea level, which presents claims to pleas ure seekers and invalids and especially so to persons affected with pulmonary dis eases. ’Tis a noted fact that a native of this section was never known to die with consumption. The scenery here is too grand for portrayal, and nothing but a sight of it can convince one of its gran deur. It is worthy of the name it has borne for years, “the Switzerland of America. Elberton Gazette: “The other day Mr. R. W. Taylor made what is called a ‘ revenue raid’ a few miles from Elberton, and coming upon an illicit distillery, he destroyed fourteen hundred gallons of beer, three mashes, eleven stands, a forty- five gallon still, cap and worm. We have settiementandtakeiessonsfromtheowR-^otlier Attempt to Breakup the The Last of a Brilliant and Popular Sparta Ishmaelite: Mrs. H. B. I I * ease a ? d Sale of the Macon and - Hooks, of this county, was dangerously! Brunswick Railroad—Kimball and burned ou the 16th instant. She was en- [ Bullock thi« Time, gaged in attending to the rooking, when j The Constitution contains the not tra iler dress accidentally took fire—she does i , u ~ . ,, not know how. She immediately gave ; cx P ected nelvs that Mr. Kimball would the alarm, and ran towards where her ■ ®Sht the ratification of the Wilson sale husband, Mr. B. H. Hooks, and brother,! and claim the road for himself and asso- .T2? J? ^ 0r , k ' crates,on the ground that it had been ten- soon as they saw her thev ran to her as- I , „ _ , ~~ ~ sistance, and succeeded in putting out the | dered 115111 **y Governor Colquitt, as the flames with their bare hands, which were next highest bidder, painfully bruised. While sympathizing I We quote the following from an inter- Ste'KSl g “* Xlmlwllby a glad to know that her recovery will he almost sure. Messrs. Wamble and Hooks are ha:d working, worthy citizens, and we hope their disablement will be of very short duration. Sparta Ishmaelite: Last week a very heavy calamity befell one of our cleverest and most enterprising citizens— Mr. E. B. Brown. He was absent from home, having gone to Milledgeville on business. His wife had gone to make a short visit to a near neighbor; so that ho person was left in the house. There was but little fire in the fire place, and it is a matter for conjecture how the house could have taken fire. The fire was first dis covered by parties living on the place, only after it had got such headway as to be utterly beyond control. The fire spread rapidly and was spent only after it had consumed everything within its reach. The dwelling house and all the furniture, two corn-cribs, containing about 300bush els of com, two smaller cribs filled with forage, a workshop and most of the tools were destroyed by the remorseless ele ment. It is a very sad affair. Mr. Brown has the substantial sympathies of our citi zens. Such blows as this, in these hard times, come with a dreary and telling force. Ed is brave, strong and energetic, and will fight his way up again. of the stockholders of the Nashville and warned those engaged in this illegal busi- Cliattanooga road, and the officers present i ncss t° leave off the same, and if they are of the Louisville and Nashville be ap- determined to persist in it, to do so accor- poLited. He added that it was the pur- (1 > n S to the laws relative thereto. The pose of the Louisville and Nashville I United States Government is determined company to carry out the project of a i to out down this infringement on the inter- through line from St. Louis to some j nat revenue laws, and it appears to us that Georgia port and they expected to have ! men are silly who lay themselves liable to * ■ - . - - . the prosecution of the government. True, shipments of grain from the northeast not only to Europe, but to Netv York. A resolution was adopted ordering the sale of the St. Louis and Southeastern railroads and also of the Owensboro and Nashville railroad. The meeting then adjourned until March 30th. London, February 26.—In the House of Lords to-day, Mr. Nolan’s bill author izing the purchase of seed potatoes for Irish tenant fawners, was read a third time. The House of Commons to-dav .,, ,, was crowded. Sir Stafiord Nortlicote j J, a L ‘“L d a man may manage to evade the law suc cessfully for a season, but the time will come, if he continues therein, wiien he least expects it, perhaps, and in an hour all the profits he has gained for months is ruthlessly destroyed or confiscated. Bet ter stop it in time.” Concerning the contemplated railway from Wayeross to Jacksonville, the Ilines- ville Gazette says it is a fixed fact, and pronounced by Morgan, Hamlin, Davis of his fellow workingmen, the individual Illinois, Thurman, Satilsbury, Pendleton made his final precautions, ignited the and Piyor. The Senate then adjourned. At 12:45 tiie House, having dispensed with the morning hour, went into com mittee of the whole on the star service deficiency bill. Mr. Page, of California, opposed the bill oil the ground that it favoring some sections of the South at the expense of the ■^Vest. The service had been increased, he said, on nineteen routes in the Second Georgia District, not one of which this bill would touch, while it struck at one hundred and seven routes in the West. After considerable discussion, Mr. Ba ker, of Indiana, in behalf of the Appro priations Committee, submitted as a sub stitutc for the whole bill a bill the first section of Jwhicli appropriates nine hun dred and seventy thousand dollars for in land star routes during the remainder of the current fiscal year at contract prices existing Febraary first, I860, providing that increased compensation in excess of twenty-five hundred dollars on any route for expediting of service on any route. After a long debate, Mr. Page, of Califor nia, moved to strike the provjso out of Hie pending bill, so as to make it appropriate whatever amount shall be necessary for the star service during the remainder of the fiscal year at or within the existing contract prices; yeas, eighty; nays one hundred and nineteen. Mr. Blount, of Georgia, moved as a substitute for the first section of the pend ing bill, the corresponding section of Ba ker’s bill introduced to-day, (summarized above.) Agreed to. Mr. Blount then moved to amend the second section of the bill by striking out the appropriation of one hundred thousand dbtlars to increase the service on existing routes. Agreed to. The committee then rose and repor ted the bill to the house, and it was passed. Adjourned. Chattanooga, February 8 20.—The city of Chattanooga forwarded one thou sand dollars to-day to Patrick Egan, sec- retaiy of the Irish Famine Relief Bind, Dublin, as lufecOrttj’itmtkm for the relief of the Dish people, .r^ . v .- '■ Dublin- February 26.—ihe Mansion House relief fund now amounts to seven ty-eight thousand pounds. The commit tee esiimate that they , will require one hundred and six thousand pounds raorq Chief of Artillery six shrapnel shells to ccmplete their work.' The gnmt^.thus found in a tramway car, * The .Okie! j f ar mad • amount to thirty-nine thousand moved the resolutions of which he gave notice on Monday last, providing for the temporary suspension of any member of the House named by the speaker or chair man of the committee, who shall persis tently obstruct the transaction of public business. Lord Hartiugton strongly sup ported the resolution. lie thought action in the matter had been too long delayed. St. Petersburg, February 20.—A semi-official statement says: “It is im possible to rectify all the erroneous state ments published in the foreign press rela- tbere is no doubt but that the Savaunah, Florida and Western Railway Company will soon build it. As the distance from Wayeross to Jacksonville is only seventy miles, it will shorten the route from Sa vannah to Jacksonville one hundred miles, and the ran cau be made in six hours. The road “will be of great value to the thriving town of Wayeross.” “Every day this week,” says the Ogle thorpe Echo, “we have noticed wagon loads of cotton passing our office. There is more behind, and the country smiles tive to the explosion in the Winter pal- ! with prosperity. The rusty old pocket ace. No member of the imperial family books of our long-suffering farmers are has removed to other apartments since splitting their sides with greenbacks, and the explosion. The Emperor informed the musical jingle of silver is heard as he the Empress of the explosion the day af ter it oecurred. No arrests have been made in the Winter palace, except those of the workmen occupying the room where' tiie explosion occurred. Dyna mite was, in all probability, brought to the palace in small quantities by a pre tended carpenter who had been working in the palace since September last, and who is now suspected to have been me chanical engineer. After having sent away slow match and quit the palace. London, February 26.—Semi-official Provinsial correspondence of Berlin in an article on the recent attempt on the Czar’s life, declares that while Nihilists are gratifying their thirst fo- destruction and confusion by ruthless attempts on the monarch’s life, pan-slavists are seek ing to inflame the minds of the people for conflicts abroad. The Berlin correspon dent of the Times remarks that this semi official utterance clearly indicates the element which the German Government believes might precipitate a breach of the peace. Berlin, February 26.—Prince Bis marck has submitted to Bundcsrath a railway law bill for the creation of a Railway Council, and a bill for constitu- ing a Railway Committee. These meas ures, it is expected, will be submitted to the Reichstag at its next session. A good nurse is a blessing to every family, and all sensible nurses recom mend that innocent but effectual remedy for all the pains and ills that befall a baby. Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup. Price 25 cents. _ _ The Girard Estate.—John F. Gi rard and numerous other heirs of Stephen Girard have filed a bill in equity in Phila delphia, which is to obtain from that city and board of directors of city trusts a sur render and release of all the real estate in Philadelphia owned by Stephen Girard at the time of his death, and the payment to the heirs of all the surplus income for the past twenty years above the expenses of the college. These two items would give over to the claimants several millions of dollars. ‘ ’ Big Locomotives.—The New York Sun says the largest passenger engine ever made in this country was shipped from the Rogers Locomotive Works, Patterson, on Saturday. It is for the Missouri Paci fic, and one of ah order' for six of the same kind. It is built for heavy loads and great speed, and has 19 inch cylin ders aud weigh, 36 tons. The Danfortb wprks also sent a very heavy freight loco motive‘for the Central Pacific, which is ?fie seventh for an order of twenty. swaggers along. Trade in every line is booming. Gold dust cotton accomplished this glorious end. We are fearful, how ever, that it will be returned to us in due season in the shape of the poorest calico and other cotton goods ever seen.” It is stated that a new paper, to be called the IFire Grass Watchman, is soon to be started at Hazlehurst, on the Macon and Brunswick railroad. W. T. McAr thur is to be the proprietor, and Robert S. Burton, the editor. Death of Judge J. H. Jones.—Grif fin News: Nearly two years ago Judge J. H. Jones, of Twiggs county, moved with his family to this city, where he has since engaged in the practice of law. Ho left his old home on account of ill health, hop ing for a new lease on life amid the healthful lulls of Middle Georgia. Last fall, during a visit to Twiggs county, he was attacked with the fell disease that had long threatened him, consumption,- and since his return he had been gradual ly but noticeably failing. For several weeks past it became evident that his end was drawing near, though until a few days he was on the street daily. Friday afternoon he returned home and took life bed from which he never rose. He died yesterday at noon. He was attended in his last hours by his family, his two broth els from Twiggs, and his brother-in-law, Representative Dupree, of Twiggs county. The body was conveyed last night to Twiggs county, where he will be in terred. . The deceased was a man of more than ordinary intelligence and talent, and was for many years a prominent citizen of his native county. Oglethorpe Echo: While in Elbert county recently we passed a small settle ment of three neat log cabins, and every thing about them was in such perfect re pair that we decided to stop and make in quiries. We found that the places were owned by Mr. Ficquet, w ho was reared near the Glade in this county, his son and son-in-law. Mr. F. is of French descent, and farms after the maimer of that coun try. The three families own but one hundred acres between them, and it was a few years ago too poor to sprout’ peas. Wo never saw finer wheat and oats than are now growing thereon, and were told that in summer their corn and cotton is the wonder of the neighborhood. Every plant is manured and the crops look like those on rich bottoms. They work them like a garden, and not only make a good support but money. A gentleman living near says he never saw one of the famiiy, idle. When business calls thorn to Elber ton they carry a load of wood and turn the trip into profit. Everything that can be used as manure is" saved-r-eveu .the fence corners being cleaqyd put' and' the trash scattered over gabled spots. It would pay our farmers to visit this thrifty The Panama CanaL The arrival of DeLesseps has set on foot an active verbal and newspaper dis cussion of his project. Admiral Ammen Pron°“- -«>.s the whole scheme a burlesque on civil engm^ !n!: _ so Impracticable ^ to be literally prepo*^^ Using ^ valley of the Chagres river in for the route of tho canal, and even a con siderable portion of the bed of the river as the canal line, and attempting to pro vide against wash and overflow by dams and reservoirs is utterly wild. That river frequently rises forty to fifty feet in the course of two hours. The rainfall of the valley amouuts annually to 100 inches, and the river itself becomes in these rains a raging mountain torrent, sweeping down its channel with irresistible fury, No practicable human engineering, ac cording to the admiral, can withstand the enormous pressure and accumulation. Tiie Panama Star and Herald, of a late date, states the result of the recent sur veys as follows: “The canal route has been thoroughly studied, its difficulties investigated and practical plans laid foe their successful treatment. The material is obtained for the settlement of all disputes as to quan tities, cost, etc., and manyj prejudices in tho minds of some of the members of the commission removed as to the practica bility of the tide level canal. The whole work, including every eventuality, is set down at 843,000,000 francs, or §186,000,- 000. Complementary studies still going on will reduce these figures, it is believed, and several members of the commission believe that the entire enterprise will not involve an outlay of more than 5150,000,- 000. The time allowed for the work is ight years.” DeLesseps is now in Washington, with a view, as we suppose, of first quieting the political and topical objections to his route, and preventing any action of Con gress which may create or strengthen pub lic distrust. It is hardly doubtful that any decided action in Congress against the project will kill it, both in this coun try and in Europe. The enormous capi tal stock required cannot be secured in any part of the world against a decided disapprobation or distrust expressed by Congress. The Irish Famine. According to the Her aid's telegram from Ireland, the distress there is daily increasing. Actual starvation is only kept under buy the excellent machinery for distribution controlled by the several com mittees which have the funds in charge. In Donegal the number of distressed re ceiving relief has increased to sixty-six thousand. In county Mayo, since the Herald’s first report, two weeks ago, the increase in the number of destitute per sons has been nearly twenty-five thousand. The fear is general that the greatest dis tress has not yet been reached. The time which is most dreaded is that between the middle of May and the middle of July— the time, in other words, between the com ing up of the potato crop and its maturing for the table. Tiie government relief, though liberal, does not appear to be so managed as to extend its benefits to the most destitute and afflicted. The works are given out to contractors who cannot be compelled, and who therefore will not employ the untrained and famine-weaken ed poor, but only able-bodied men capa ble of earning their wages. Some letters which the Herald prints are full of afflict ing details. One of these letters reports three hundred families in a singfe parish on the bnnk of starvation, aud nothing to give them. Wc have heard of letters re ceived in this city by gentlemen having connections in the West of Ireland which tell Fully as grievous a tale. The demand for relief is incessant, urgent and most mournful, and it rests upon an almost uni versal distress which no spasmodic efforts seem to be capable of reaching. Central Railroad Stock on the Ram- paere. Yesterday, Central railroad stock vault ed up to one hundred and five with an ex cited market, and many predict it will reach one hundred and ten in a week. Every one looks wonderinglyon, but the explanation of this astonishing rise has yet to be made. The most probable solution of the matter, however, consists in the re liable information that within a brief pe riod four thousand shares, representing four hundred thousand dollars of stock held in Georgia, have changed hands and found their way to New York. This looks ominous and seems to indicate that East ern capitalists or some of the big railway combinations, perhaps the Louisville and Nashville, are bent upon pur chasing, regardless of cost, a controlling in terest in Savannah’s great internal business artery. The stock of the company, fortu nately however, is scattered in small quantities all over the State, and is owned by our own people. It is, therefore, difficult, perhaps impossible, to gather together and purchase a sufficient amount to control the future management of the road. As a Georgian, wc ardently trust that neither the Central, Georgia, or any other railroad in this Commonwealth, which has been constructed by the enterprise and funds of our citizens, will ever go into aliep hands. Let us hold fast to our. own institutions aud operate them as best reporter. That gentleman said: “It is true that we demand the road, and we liavo presented our demand to the Governor.” “What is the history of the transac tion?” “It is simply this. When I was in New York a faw days ago I received an official notification from the governor that the highest bidder for the road had not com plied with the terms of the lease; that tiie time allowed by law had expired—and he notified me ‘as the next highest bidder 5 of these facts. On this official notification I wrote the Governor at once that I had re-, reived his letter and would take posses sion of the road without unnecessary de lay. Shortly after this I met Governor Colquitt in the Fifth avenue hotel with Mr. Tuggle, and I invited him to my room, where I made him a tender of the first payment. In the meantime Iliad learned that he was in Washington, and telegraphed him there the substance of my letter to Atlanta. Governor Colquitt then informed me that he had reopened negotiations with the highest bidders, whose time, as he had already officially notified me, had expired, and said he coaid not treat with me until he had seen them further. After a day or two of discussion I learned that he had consented to an arrangement with a party of New York gentlemen who were never bidders for the road and with whom the Governor had no sort of right to treat, as I am satisfied he will discover upon inves tigation. “Was your company ready to take the road?” “ We were. We had consulted Judge Hopkins, and he had given us an opinion en which we determined to pay tho money. good oneT’ 7 * 0 ' 1 a strons company and a “ What do you propose ». p >> - “ We have filed a paper witn ^ q ov _ eraor demanding the road through Juu & . Hopkins. I will say further that we have a clear legal, equitable and moral right to the road, and we propose to insist on our rights.” “Will you proceed against the new company 9” I do not admit that there is any other legal company, and therefore do not care to talk abontthat matter. It is enough to say that we have the only right to the road and we shall insist on it. There is no doubt of our rights. We know that Governor Colquitt will enforce the law as he construes it. He has already consul ted Judge Bleckley on this matter. He referred the matter of the deed to him. Now I propose to the Governor that we will submit our rights under this case to Judge Bleckley,who is his chosen legal ad viser, without argument. If he does not decide that our right is perfect and com plete, I will agree to give way without a word. You must remember one thing. I have been a legitimate bidder all the time. The other company is an entirely new one, aud is not the company that made the highest bid. The name of that com pany was the two Vibbards, Wheeler and Green. They have all retired and drawn out. 'The company purchasing is a new company, and one that was not represent ed at the sale at all. “If you get the road will you build at once?” “We will. From the very moment of my first appearance in Macon as a bidder, in November, we have been prepared, in every sense of the word, to comply with the letter and spirit of the law. And we are ready now.” We attach not the slightest importance to the above rather sensational reading, and opine that the Governor knows what he is about. It would be silly to suppose that his trip to New York, and subsequent renewal of negotiations with the late con tracting parties, was done without able and competent advice in the premises. Doubtless every step was taken after due and weighty deliberation, and the Gov ernor will show that his position is legally impregnable. It should be borne in mind that the les sees came squarely up to taw in the exact terms of the law, and the bargain was on ly frustrated by the State refusing to make, what they had a right to demand, good titles to the purchased property. And though hi3 Excellency did tender the road after the supposed failure of the sale, to the next highest bidders, Messrs. Kim ball & Company, it was done under the belief that the trade had fallen finally through. Once convinced, however (as the laehese had been on the part of the State), that it could be satisfactorily res urrected and accomplished, he felt it his duty to carry out the transaction in good faith. Had the failure in the end proved final, then the Governor, though we differ with him on this point, would undoubt edly have carried out liis alleged promise and turned over the road, as requested, to Mr. Kimball. /: That gentleman makes one very glar ing error, however, in the statement we have copied, when he says the Company who Governor Colquitt is in treaty with, “is an entirely new one, and is not the Company that made the highest bid. The name of that Company was the two Vibbards, Wheeler and Green. They have all retired and drawn out. The Company purchasing is a new Company, and one that was not represented at the sale at all.” So far from this being true, Mr. Couper, who bid off the lease, and Messrs. George H. Eazleliurst and A. J. Lane, who joints ly made up the ten thousand dollars earn est money, and paid that stun over to the Governor, were then, and are now, active members of the Company with Whom the Govempr has concluded the purchase. In conclusion, we cannot think that any serious delay will result from the claim of Mr. Kimball to the road, and do not be lieve that he stands the least chance of being sustained by the Governor or courts. Young Journalist The following account of the burial services of the lamented H. G. Wright, we clip from the Chronicle and Constitu tionalist, which comes to us draped in sombre black lines in memory of the de parted: The funeral services over the remains of Mr. H. G. Wright, yesterday morning, were conducted by Rev. W.bH. LaPrade, Pastor of St. John's 31. E. Church. The residence of Mr. Henry F. Russell, father- in-law of the deceased, was filled with friends of the dead young man, and rela- atives and acquaintances of the family; the large parlors were darkened, and al though every space in tho rooms, entries, piazzas and stairway, w as occupied and peopled with attendants, a solemn still ness pervaded the house where the living breathed lightly o’er the bier of the dead. Out of doors, the day was one of exceed ing beauty, and nature, as if regretting her final blight upon the life and intellect,threw about the habitation of sorrow a soft spien • dor from the heavens, and summoned to tlie sepulture the purest offerings from earth. During 31onday and up to the time ef midday yesterday the remains were viewed by scores of acquainrances and relatives, who had known the young man in life. Not unnatural to them seemed the face of the dead. No taint of pain or trace of emaciation attended the repose of the well-cut features, shaded by fair, curling hair, and many who had marked his thoughtful, placid countenance in past days and noted his imperturbable expressiou, could scarcely believe that the blue eye would look no. more into life: or that his brain was still forever. Over the casket, around which the family of the deceased gathered for the final fun eral rites, flowers iii choice profusion were affixed, and from the chandelier above, a calm radiance swept over the bier and breathed through the muffled softness of the scene. After singing two verses of the hymn, “Jesus, Lover of. My Soul,” 3Ir. LaPrade made a few remarks. Mr. LaPrade said: This is neither the time nor the place for a memorial address, and yet"« would not close this sendee witR®ut some refer ence to tho important lessons with which the occasion is fraught. Our duty is with the living—not with the dead. lie,whom you knew better than I, has gone beyond our present reach. He had his virtues—r rich and many—and his faults, as who has not? God is just and merciful, and' “r “judgments are right.” According to his and according to his character, which was once the fountain and the product ol his God has judged him. Our estimates of men <*re always more or less erroneous; His estim«n> s are exact. We leave our friend in his Raids- the “Lord of all the earth will do rigut.” Who among us all had prospects so bright as lay before 3D. Wrigbt eight years ago? With youth, talents, energy and friends, all predicted for liim 'a life of great honor and usefnlness. The eyes of the puhlic were upon him, seeing in him a future leader of whom all would some day be proud. Now, be fore his powers had matured witli years, at the very beginning of life, he is gone. While he lived he did good work in his chosen field; noble work—.York that will live, on, as all true work does—but how quickly .ended! Thus uncertain are all this side the grave. Tale'hts, youth, ener gy, ambition—all excellent things—are but as chaff before the resistless sweep of death. It is well to hope,'well to labor, but it is not well to assume that yeara of added life will bring fruits and realiza tions. No man can count upon living un til the harvest. Human leaves do not wait for the “sere and yellow” state. In the greenness of springtime they wither and fall—sometimes more rapidly than the funeral flowers that love otters to their memory- plan in life i3 good that does not reach beyond the grave; no labor cerfain of reward save that which is “in the Lord;” no entry of fame is eternal save that which is made in the “Lamb’s Book of Life.” I read from the coffin-lid, “Re joice, O young man, in the days of thy youth; let thy heart cheer thee, and thy hopes beckon thee, and thy labors employ thee—but know thou that ‘no man know- eth what a day may bring forth’—yea, ‘no man knoweth the day nor the hour when the Son of Man cometh.’ Seek first the ‘Kingdom of God.’ Build for God. Per fect for eternity. Take Christ in thy arms. “Lay up treasure in Heaven;’ and, whether the summons comes, soon or late, all will be well.” Concluding the delivery of these touch ing remarks a feeling prayer was offered and the procession filed from the house to the;cemetery, attended by a long train of carriages and pedestrians. The re mains were borne by the following gentle men: Judge Claiborne Snead, Hon. Rob ert H. May, Hon. Joseph 13. Gumming, Colonel Wilberforce Daniel, J. C. C. Black, Esq., Captain Edgeworth Eve, Captain James Barrett, Louis A. Dugas, Jr., K6r Boyce, William R. Walton. At the grave the impressive Methodist burial service was read, and the mortal remains of Harry Gregg Wright were laid away under a mound, which was covered With flower? by his friends. —The Irish stew missionaries are found to have wondsrful power in drawing crowds in the East End of London. They gather their cold and hungry flocks to feed, them thrice a week. —Two tinsmiths fought on the roof of a St. Louis house, and an excited crowd witnessed the perilous struggle. Finally* one was knocked down with a hammer, and fell to the ground, receiving fatal in juries. —The Vatican is now the scene of un usual activity, in view of the celebration on March 7 of the fiftieth anniversary of the day on which Leo XHI., when a stu dent, sustained a public disputation in theology. —Arrests are being made in Cleveland,. Ohio, under the school laws prohibiting employers from having children trader fourteen years of age in their employ du ring school hours, when not compelled to work ou account of poverty. —The San Francisco Heics Letter says the month of January has been one of the dullest within our remcmh^nce in nearly all trade departments. Business does not revive, nor does the -“boom” continue as predicted.” —The Governor of North Carolina has summoned au extra session of the Legis lature for the 15th of March fbr the pur pose of considering a proposition for the purchase of the State’s interest in, and the completion of, the Western North Carolina Bailroad. —It is freely stated in court circles in England that the betrothel will shortly ba announced of the Duke of Genoa, nephew . of King Humbert, to the Princess Bea trice, the Queen’s unmarried daughter. 'he health of King Humbert is said to ba in a veiy unsatisfactory condition. » mid at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, of a young man who went to the Black Hills to seek his fortune, and wrote back to his father that he had dona well, but added: “I will be home on Wednesday evening. Meet me at dark, just out of town, and bring a blanket or a whole pah of trousers with you. I have a hat.” —Digging Under the North River. —The Hudson River tunnel has been ex cavated a distance of fifty-two feet. AU that can be seen of the work is a small frame building at the foot of Fifteenth stree^ Jersey City, surrounded by piles of earth ami bricks. This shed covers the shaft. The mon are working at a depth of sixty feet under the river. There are three shafts of ten men each, each shaft working eight hours. The men are ad mitted to the tunnel through air locks. Thirty-five feet of the iron frame work have been put in place, and the work of putting in the brick lining, which is to be. three feet thick, will commence on Wed nesday. Abput the first of May the shaft on the New York side will be sunk near the foot of Leroy street. Ohio 3Ien Thick.—The Tribune says Senators Edmunds and Thurman had a bright little passage of arms the other day. In executive session Thurman was quiet ly listening and smoking when Edmunds objected to the confirmation of a certain Ohio nominee. Thurman, putting aside his cigar and springing to bis feet, said: “3D. President, I had not intended to say a single word upon this matter, but the Senator from Vermont has thrown a brick at an Ohio man, and I must resent that.” Mr. Edmunds, with, assumed se riousness, retorted, “You can’t throw a brick In any direction these days without striking an Ohio man.” —The best English authorities state that Great Britain and France must yet import from 110,000,000 to 112,600,000 bushels of wheat, and Belgium and Hol land will require 12,000,000 bushels, and other countries of Europe, excepting Rus- . sify wil^ need supplies from America. . -Moqt Blanc is not the highest emi- English wheat grown last year is said to the Caucasian chain, exceeds it by more millers will hardly look at the home- than 2,300 feet. * 1 grown grain offered them. Rough Tbans-Atlantic Voyages are common this winter. The steamship Idleness, of the Liverpool andPhiladel phia line,, arrived in the latter city last Saturday, having been sixteen days in crossing the Atlantic. Shortly after leav ing the other side the vessel encountered heavy winds aqd sea. The waves broke over her deck aud swept away the wheel house. The railing abaft was bent and twisted by the force of the waves. One small boat was torn from its lashings and several' others were shattered and staved in. Fortunately, neither serious accidents nor loss of life occurred, and her: large and assorted cargo, though tossed about, remained uninjured. —A London journal tells a tale of a traveler who happened to be in one of the principal shops of Cork when the wife of what is commonly called a- “small” far mer entered. "With an air of lofty pat ronage she-asked to see the handsomest cloak they had. The shopman showed her a gorgeous silk cloak lined with fur and after examining- it for a moment she said, “Have you not something more ex pensive? This is not half grand enough! My husband has had his rent reduced, and he told me to get the handsomest cloak money could buy, and this is much too cheap!” —John Hickman, one of the “cattle kings” of Colorado, ran through a sleep ing car on the Kansas Pacific Railroad the other night, and, with a long knife in his right hand, slashed away at the passen gers In the upper berths. He had been attacked with a temporary fit of insanity. The train men were obliged to tie the mil lionaire hand and foot. Peace at Princeton.—The differ ences between the authorities of Prince ton College and the class of 1880 have been amicably arranged. Under the ar rangement class day, next June, will be celebrated with all its customary eclat, and the grounds will be decorated with a memorial drinking fountain. —IDs. Harriet Hink, a widow, aged 30 was outraged, murdered and robbed in her lodgings in Patterson, N. J., Thursday night. She was found in bed with her skull crushed with an axe. She was known to have a considerable sum ot money and a fine gold watch, which were missing. A man was seen to leave the premises early Friday morning. What reminds one of the American navy and the relative cost of taking care- of it, is the case of the .city-library of- Brooklyn, .which is: said-to have cost seV-. enty-iive .dollars, the bookcase‘to put It in $125 and a librarian to lode the case §1,000 per annum. AN Abmy of Working Women.—I is said that there arc 3,000,000 working women in our country dependent upon their own resources for a livelihood and such home comforts and surroundings as' they can create. This list includes a vast army of teachers, sewing women of all grades, domestics, and girl3 employed in factories and other business, who are wrestling with the world for a living to say nothing about a home. ‘ 1 Frederick Paulding. The talented young actor, Frederick Paulding, has been invited by a number of prominent citizens and admirers of tho legitimate drama to return to Macon on his return from the Southwest. He has consented and will appear in Macon ou the evening of the 11th of March in the beautiful love drama and tragedy, Borneo and Juliet. It has been many years since any actor made such an impression in this city as 3D. Paulding on a first visit, and there is a generly expressed desire among all who saw him when here to have him. revisit the city. if THE GENUINE DR. C* McXiANE’S Celebrated American WORM SPECIFIC OR VERMIFUGE. SYMPTOMS OF WORMS. 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