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—Ruskin says that Eurojiean 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 tlie following no
tice: Band plays at 4 o’clock, and Mrs.
Langtry will be present.” %j j/nj J<j >/
—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, bat 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, HI.,
but the place abounds in drug stores, in
which the traffic Is almost entirely in li-
- quor, each having a business connection
with a physician, who writes alcoholic
prescriptions on demand.
—The Legislative council of Memphis.
Tenn., have issued ah' order for the de
struction of the Nicholson pavement In
that city, soTiBtfpJViour^of epidemic,
and by April 1, tkey "hope to have it re
placed with broken stone and phvel.
—London gossips report Frln&ess Louise
very loth to return to the Dominion, and
that the royal mamma sternly refused her
entreaties to stay in England. She can
not gratify her taste for art, musie and
cultured society as she would like at Ot
tawa. .
—The life of the late Marquis of An
gles}’ was insured in various companies
for an aggregate amount of not less than
£750,000. The present Marquis will come
into a magnificent and unemeumbered
property, with an estimated income of
£100,000 a year.
—There are now ten oleomargarine
factories in the United States. In France
the manufacture has become an impor
tant industry, and in Holland there are
seventy-four factories, while in Russia and
Germany there are large factories. One
house in New Fork sells nearly 10,000
pounds of oleomargarine daily.
—Whoever knows ef any valuable use
for sawdust can make a fortune at Minne
apolis, Minn., where the sawmill men
not know how to get rid of 300,000 cords
of it that accumulates every year. Many
years ago the mills used to bum their saw
dust for fuel. It was the slabs then that
gave trouble.
—General Grant was the guest of Uni
ted States Consul Troybrige, at Vera
Cruz, on the 19th, where the party was re
ceived with distinguished honors. On the
20th they stopped in Orizaba and were
splendidly received, and witnessed the na
tive sports, including the colandero,
tailing the bull, which is said to have been
very spirited.
—The Rev. Dr. Justin D. Fulton,
Brooklyn, preached on Sunday upon the
career of George Washington. In the
course of his sermon he said: “Remem
ber, that to nominate Grant is not to elect
him. The machine may control the cau
cuses, the conventions and probably the
TIES TELEGRAPH AST ME8SEJT-
ora.
Public Notice.
The announcement of the’publishing
firin of this paper, which has appeared in
our columns for the past fortnight, was al
together premature and unsustained by
facts. The entire stock of the paper, with
avery slight exception, is now represen
ted by Messrs. Clisby & Jokes, and this
will be the fiminame and style—the. Ser
nior representing a decided controlling in
terest in the stock.
The entire management of the business
concerns of ;tlie paper—including the
making of all advertising contracts, sign
ing receipts, notes, drafts, etc., will be in
the hands of Mr. Henry B. Davis 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 & Jokes.
ballot-boxes, but it cannotcomge^ajnan cKHonof storms have interrupted travel
sician in that town who has never seen
birthday, “notwithstanding he is between
20 and SO years of age. His birthday will
come on the fifth Sunday in this month,
and will be the first he has ever seen.”
Unless he was born in the dark night
time, or blind, we would like to know
how he missed seeing the day on which
lie came into the world.
—The Congregationalist repeats the
story which General W. N. Armstrong
tells of a pious colored brother, loud in
exhortations but exceedingly shaky in
morals, who was remonstrated with by
his employer for various breaches of law
and order that brought scandal on the es
tablishment. “Yes, boss,” said the cul
prit, “lowns squar up: Fsdone broke
ebery one ob de c’mandments; but,” bress
de Lord, I’s nebber lost my ’ligloni” The
Congregationalist adds as a “snapper”:
“Unless the signs of the times are decep
tive, too many white folks are getting hold
of that colored religion.”
—Jefferson Davis, says the Philadelphia
Times, thinks that his memoirs will be
ready for publication in the fall of this
year. A large portion of the first volume
will be devoted to his views as to the
causes that led to the late war. The re
mainder of the volume and the whole of
the second volume will relate to the con
duct of the war. Both volumes will he
illustrated with portraits of Confederate
leaders. Mrs. Davis and General Joseph
Davis, a nephew, assist in the preparation
of the work. In fact, the old man has his
hands full just now, expecting to raise as
many as 1,000 bales of cotton on his Miss
issippi plantation the coming season.
How TEE CENSUS WILL BE TAKEN.—
The penalty for obstructing the census
takers, who begin their labors on the first
Monday in June, are severe.* The law
says: All persons above the age of twen-
ty-one years who shall refuse to furnish
the information required by the supervi
sor or enumerator shall forfeit and pay a
sum not exceeding $100, to be recovered
in an action of debt. Presidents, direc
tors or other officials of'private corpora
tions who refuse to furnish information
required of them are made liable to a
penalty not to exceed $1,000. Only two
weeks are allowed for the completion of
the census. The compensation to the
enumerators is as follows: Two rents for
each living inhabitant; two cents for each
death reported; ten cents for each farm;
fifteen cents for each manufactory, which
is to be full for all services, and no mi
leage or traveling expenses.
—Pierre Yaicour, a Frenchman of
Lockport, New York, claims to have in
vented a deep-sea telephone by which ves
sels can be kept in constant communica
tion with tlie shore while crossing the
ocean. He has discovered how .to insu
late a single wire so that immersion in
water does not impair its transmission of
electricity, and this wire is to be paid ont
from a cigar-shaped metallic float, thirty
feet long, in tow of the vessel. Leaden
sinkers are to be automatically detached
every two hundred miles to keep the wire
on the ocean’s bed, and if the inventor's
claims are realized, the ocean passage will
lose much of its present isolation.
The National Conventions.—We
were in error yesterday as to the date of
the Republican National Convention at
Chicago, which is the M day of June, in
stead of April. As the Democratic Con
vention meets at Cincinnati onthe22ddav
of the same month, there is but nineteen
jl$ys between these dates
v. * A Mis taka
One enthusiastic Grant brother, in Phil
adelphia, states as the conclusive reason
why he insists upon Grant and a third
term is thatlie'frahlAto mflee the^outh-
ern rebels shrink down into their boots
and curse the day they were bom. We
suppose that some such forecast of the
character of the third, fourth and fifth
terms, if they are to come, is as general
as it is fallacious; but there is nothingin
the South now which Grant could possi
bly lay hold of as an occasion or an apolo
gy for the re-establishment of a provincial
domination in the Southern country. He
could fill the Federal offices with bad and
unwelcome appointments, and be couM
require his courts and attorneys to exe
cute the laws with a discriminating se
verity; but all this would amount to little
so far as the great body of the people is
concerned. These would continue to en
joy, to the main, the same rights as the
Northern people, and the extravagance
of Grant’s administration would bear as
heavily on the North as the South.
We should all go down into the depths
of imperial autocracy together,: and the
Southern people, in the quiet of their
farms, would probably find less personal
vexation In the change than the Northern
man of commerce and trade. We console
ourselves by the reflection that Grant and
the third term and its sequel will, after
all, he substantially the same North and
South. The little crowds of fuglemen all
over the Union, who are organizing the
third term against the will of The people,
are doing it to fill their pockets with pub
lic plunder, and if they succeed in their
operations, we may be sure thp treasury
will suffer. There is not a man of them
who fixes his. anticipated stealings at less
than six figures, and the record shows
they will win if they can secure Grant’s
re-election.
But they are comparatively few. To
the great body of the people it will prove
a tiresome and expensive business, and
the time will come when there will be as
mighty a struggle to overthrow this cor
rupt aud unscrupulous dynasty as we
have ever seen in onr political history.
The Third Term.
Action of the New Yoke State Con
vention.
The precise action of the New York
Convention on Grant and the third term
will be comprehended by reading the sub
joined preamble and resolution reported
by the committee on resolutions:
The Republicans of the State of New
York, assembled to appoint delegates to
represent them in the National Conven
tion, reaffirm the principles and patriotic
purposes ST the R epubllcatTparty^heretCF"
fore declared and faithfully acted upon,
and equally-impressetLwitlLtbft responsi
bility now devolved upon them, declare
that the safety of tbe nation is again im
perilled by the virulent and unlawful ef
forts of the. Democratic party to overawe,
and 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 ofvio-
lence and fraud, and in defiance of
carefully constituted . judicial author
ities. In the presence of these
grave and threatening dangers, it-is the
duty of tbe Republican party of the Un
ion, in its united strengtii, to meet and
prevent them, aud to this end, mindful of
their great responsibility in the coming
presidential contest, and of the-faet that it
must be determined by the electoral .vote
of their 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 weTvepose absolute
trust for his honesty, his fidelity'te duty,
his serene judgment and; solid-jntelli-
gence; his varied experience, and for'the
uniform success that has ever attended
hit efforts in securing the integrity, per-,
petuity, grandeur and prosperity of our
common country. For these reasons, and
because we are satisfied that In him the
nation, North and South, - decidedly greet
a “candidate deserving . of, its con
fidence, we present him. as entitled
to the suflrages of - ’ every patriotic citi
zen. We also declare that the election to
a third Presidential term applies Only to a
third consecutive term, and is not applica
ble to tbe election of General Grant, who is
and has been a "private citizen, absent
from the country, destitute of all Presi
dential or official influence or- patronage,
and whose election, must be , by the free
choice of the people, unaided by those in
fluences alone which give force; if aby
there be, to that objection; therefore,- • -
Besotted, That the Republicans, of New
York believe that the renomination of
President U. S. Grant as a Presidential
candidate, is of urgent Importance, and
the delegates this day assembled are
called upon and instructed to use- their
most earnest and united efforts ,-to. secure
this nomination.
Tlie only test action was upon a motion
to strike out the name of Grant -and sub
stitute that ©f James G. Blaine. Upon
this motion, Senator Conkling took tbe
stand and spoke at length. At tbe conclu
sion of his speech the question on the
amendment was taken by yeas and nays;
and the vote stood, yeas ISO, nays 217—
that is to say, 37 majority out of 397 votes.
This is an exceedingly dangerous minori
ty on such a question, because it is a ques
tion of principle, upon which many are
likely to stick. Particularly will they
stick should’the Democrats bring out
gsod man and present a strong front,
as to render the result at the polls prob
lematical. There will be a heavy Repub
lican defection in such a case; for a hun
dred thousand Republicans will never en
dorse a third term by their votes, if they
see it is likely to be defeated by the
people. ....
Atlanta, Ga., February 25,1880.—To Reform in Cuba.
His Excellency A. H. Colquitt, Governor: J a lats Madrid dispatch announces that
It was announced to the public, by the by the Cuban budget the export of sugar
representative of tbe State, at the time of and honey to Spain'is rendered free, and
the leasing of the Macon and Brunswick duties on exports to ether countries are
! leasing
Railroad, that the highest qualified bidder
who would comply with the terms of the
statute should have tbe lease, and the
bids were made with that understanding/
I bid for the company I represented $193,-
100. Mr. Cooper bid $194,000, and it was
knocked off to him.
The-leasing occurred on the 13th day of
January, 1SS0. The terms allowed the _ _
«tion, wal'thS dayT'ou ufe^ar 1 ^ t0 de?ra >' the cost of en ' forcin S
stani the secretary of tlie executive de
partment addressed me
o Statb of Georgia, Executive 1 ’
Department, Atlanta, Ga.,
" — February 13, ISS(r.
Snow Storms in the Northwest.—
A Bismarck special says that thehardestlfi^j^atooftT'Tt was clear that there must
fifnrm mins Irr ’ iilllHIffi ;
outlie Northern Pacific, causing a very
large loss to the roads and to the Black
Hills Stage Company.. But three trains
from the East have' arrived since February
1. All extensions, improvements and re
pairs are suspended.
What is Going ox in the Land of
Steady Habits.—New England is fast
assuming tbe most conspicuous place in
divorce annals. Mr. Sidney Andrews,
who is an official statist in -Massachusetts,
has just reported on-the Subject of di
vorces. In that State these were in 1878
as 1 to every 21 marriages, against' 1 to
every 51 marriages in 1860. In Vermont,
during tjie past ten years, the ratio of di
vorces to marriages has been 1 to . 17, in
Connecticut 1 to 12, in Rhode Island
to J4. w •- . * -
Early Strawberries—A Strange Sea
son.
Every month during the present winter the
Teleoeaph has had occasion to acknowl
edge the'receipt of ripe strawberries, from
the gardens .of the city gnd neighborhood,
and we think nearly every bed has shown
ripe berries every week since Christmas
Yesterday Mrs. H. R. Brown, of Gris-
woldvllle, sent several quarts to |^wn,
which were leli with Mr. Beggs for sale
and we are told the supply will be pretty
constant hereafter at the same place.
These are remarkable facts for this high
latitude.. Jacksonville, Savannah and
Charleston have been shipping strawber-
ries to'Jj'ew / York in quantities for several
weeks,and everywhere through Florida;
Middle and Southern Georgia, and the
coast regions of this State and South Car
olina, in the absence of a cold spell, it
may safely be announced that the straw
berry season has commenced, and will
continue until tbe first bearing season has
passed.
As to the probabilities and possibilities
of ice and a killing frost yet all can judge
for tbemselres. The weather ia persist
ently warm. Almost every day shows a
temperature about seventy. With every re
curring rain tbe prediction that it will fob;
off with a cold snap is general, but .steadi-
ly proves fallacious. It ia a solemn fact
that every garden, if planted, would have
produced abundant supplies of the more
hardy vegetables all winter. Every one
of us might bave had green peas and let
tuce constantly, as well as spinnach, en-
dine, cabbage and all tbe salads, besides
turnips, beets, carrots, etc. As the season
has turned out we think they might all
have been produced with ease up to this
date. But whether it will ever happen so
again, and whether even now in the course
of a week or two a fatal freese may not
come is quite another question.
Purging the Louisiana Legisla
ture.—A New Orleans dispatch of
Wednesday, says the Republican mem
bers of the State Legislature having heen
arraigned before the bar of the House for
contempt in signing and forwarding to
the Senate of the United States a memo
rial favoring Senator Kellogg and reciting
intimidation, frauds, etc., on the part of
Democrats generally, purged themselves
* contempt by saying they signed the pa
per without reading it.
Four Republican Senators were brought
the bar of the Louisiana Senate yester
day, for contempt in signing the petition
the United States Senate in favor of
Kellogg. - Action was postponed until
Friday, the accused declaring that they
| intended no contempt,
Duty on Steel Rails.
Of the strange fact that several of the
Northern and Western Railways haveop-
posed the projected redaction of the exor^-
bitaut tariff duty on steelrails.the^nilvyr ifept ~tne onefor”the establishmentof
court, are made dependent upon tho con
be some strong reason for the strange po
sition of the petitioning roads, when they
objected to a reduction upon;gn.-article
which they buy and are compelled; to use.
We offered as a posable explanation that,
perhaps, the opposing roads had obtained
all the'rails they wanted, or nearly all,
and since steel rails last a long time, they
did not expect to buy soon. In that case
they would prefer that the other roads
should have to pay as high
price as they have / paid.
This we still thinK, must have been
the chief reason for the singular objection
to a reduction of price. Men' are not ifl
the habit of thus insisting -upon paying
high price when they can reacli a lov?
price.. The Republican, however, finds
tlie reason in tlie fact that the opposing
roads are those which have a large
amount of old iron to sell, which they can
under the present high tariff on iron and
steel rails, dispose of at such prices, as to
make the tariff a matter of indifference to
them. With steel rails at $80 a ton they
can dispose of their old rails at $44:and
upwards. The Bepublican intimates that
these roads bought, most of them, per
haps, steel rails at $40 and that now at
the present price of old rails they can
nearly pay for their new equipment
with tbe old stock.
The Fight Over the Macon and
Brunswick Railroad.
Matters ire in statu quo aa,to
troversy which is pending between Mr.
Kimball, and the Governor./No fiction
can be taken until the arrival of the New
York parties to tbe purchase, who were
expected yesterday. . ' ,! 1 **'
The Constitution says Mr. Kimball has,
through his attorney, Judge Hopkins,
served a paper on earth of the alleged local
partners in the Wilson company, includ
ing General Austell. This paper recited
tlie rights that Mr. Kimball’s company
claims in the lease, and carried notice of a
determination^ insist on these rights. It
is said that General Austell, stated yester
day he would.have no interest .whatever
in the Wilson company, and that another
gentleman who had an interest submitted
the questions to his attorney,' and that the
attorney decided that in bis opinion ifr.
Kimball’s right to tbe road was an essen
tial one. . '" ' 0 i
Governor Colquitt received on yester
day, a dispatch from Mr. R. T. Wilson, of
New York, stating. that, the members of
tbe company would be here this morning
for the purpose of closing the lease. The
matter will, therefore, be brought to an
issue to-day or to-morrow. It ia said that
the Kimball company-}* prepared for tbe
briskest sort of fight ewer the lease,and will
push matters forvrard at once; " * war
We have already given our reasons for
the belief that the Governor will not be
deterred by this effort of Mr. Kimball,
from executing the title agreed upon be
tween the State and the company to whom
the lease was awarded at public outcry.
Before the second bidder can oame in, it
would certainly seem but just to allow
every opportunity to three who held the
prior right, to make good their purchase;
th'e more especially as the negotiations
had been broken off by the Governor him
self. If his excellency afterwards saw
good cause to re-open the matter and was
able to bridge the difficulty that he hid
created—not the lessees—certainly he
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
Governor bad refused fo allow 'him to
come in after the final rejection of the
Conper bid. There are many who do not
believe that under all the conditions of the
lease act,Mr. Kimball’s second bid should
be entertained at all. Doubtless the whole
matter will be decided to-dmv.
The following is the peperserred on tlie
A Chanoe at Last for the Indians.
Late Washington dispatches state that
the Senate Committee on Territories has
decided to recommend the passage of a
bill extending the jurisdiction of United
States Courts in civil and criminal mat
ters to the Indian Territory,’and provides
for the acquirement of citizenship by In
dians and the allotment of lands to them
in severalty under prescribed conditions.
The bill proposes to create a United
States District Court for a new judicial
dUtrict, to be composed of what is known
as the Indian Territpry» in general
terms provides for extending them all laws
of tbe United States over the whole Ter
ritory. It is provided that every Indian
may become a citizen by making declara
tion that he 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 ahsorbed by these &m®c-
tions. areti* be sold for the benefit of t
.x x, __ „ - m r — SNSTv. r
i exports 1
reduced ten per cent. The minister of
colonies asks authority to open negotia
tions for the reduction of duties on bread-
stufis imported into Cuba.
This is a great concession from the
mother government, and we trust will
prove the harbinger of brighter days for
Cuba. That verdant isle is literally taxed
principle of protection, stifles competition
aud 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 the interests of a
favored few at the expense and distress of
the general consumer.
From a World interview with Lesseps'
on the steamship 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 the starboard side of
tbe 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 aud
strongly built, apparently about fifty-five
years old but really seventy-four, active
almost probibitoiy excises imposed, would
'quadruple tbe commerce of the island
“Withthe UnltsdStafosandTedoundrastiy
! Mr. H. I. Kimbflll, Atlanta, Georgia: to the benefit of both countries. This
DEABTSiRr^Jiin directed by tbe Gbvern-
'or to inform you, as the next highest bid-
jder at the lease of "the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad, that the parties fnaking
the highest-bid have failed to conclude the
transaction, and . that tbe time allowed
them for doingso has expired. s! ..
* ’ very Respectfully,
■' B ‘- J. W. Wabren,
Secretary Executive Department.
Iwas inNew York; the letter was for
warded to me, and I-jnade the following
reply ohthe 17thinstant: .
jfEnv York, February 17,1880. :
i 1 Bear Sir: Youxl; favor of the 13th in
stant, informing me “as the . next highest
“bidder at the lease of the Macqn and
Brunswick railroad, thkt the parties mak
ing the highest bid have failed to oouclude'
the transaction^ and that the time allowed
it hern tor doing so has expired,” has been
forwarded to me here, and I will proceed
(to comply tyith my hid and the require
ments i; of tne -law, and 'take possession
without Jdmiecsskrydelay.
j i- respectfally,|onm, f
Td’HiS Excellency A. II. Colquitt, Gov-
lerrtdt 1 , ’Atlanta, Ghf : Subsequently yon
went to New York; and while there, , and
other party, I of-
hds the $10,000
and Comply oth
erwise with the statute.
1 Youdeclinhd to receive it on, tbe ground
jthat negotiations had jbeen resumed .with
’the"bidders whose £erin.na‘d expired, that
‘occurred’Without theliinit'of the State.
The statute required the road to’be leased
at public.outory in the city of Macon, and
it was done, the term allowed the highest
bidder'haft expired, and by the terms of
the leasing it was my time for action.
Your excellency has now returned to
the State and there can now be no doubt
of your power to accept, at the capital, the
money," arid therefore, I herewith tender
the ten thousand dollars mentionedih the
statute, and I am ready to take the lease
at iny bid and comply with the statute in
letter arid spirit.
The money I will deliver td yon imme
diately should you signify your willing
ness to accept it. I bave it ready to be de
livered. Very respectfRlly,
H. I. Kimball.
t ... _ . v . that part of the country lying south of tho
her continued subjection to the Spanish . PfitQ0 , 8(V If t he Republican brethren £
crown. A more liberal reduction m the it possible that tlie force on the ni S
should ever be applied to themselves they
sent of the Ipdian Councils being ob
tained therefor as provided in existing
treaties.
Of course, this will include the privi
lege of the ballot to all wlio become citi
zens. X^e do not pretend to say aught in
behalf of the above movement, for heaven
knows the elective franchise has been
shockingly watered. But if tlie Constitu
tion of our fathers could be sufficiently
tinkered,’ stretdied and manipulated to
admit to citizenship 4,000JO00 of recently
liberated slaves who could neither read or
write, certainly the ppor Indian, by parity
of reasoning, might claim the same pre
rogative.
Next we shall have John Chinaman try
ing his hand at^he same business. And
with the huge precedent already estab
lished, who is prepared to say where the
ban shall be put up?
- ■' •—The Independent Republican League,
-of New York, has issued a protest against
the third-term movement, and . also against
-the nomination of Mr. Blaine, in whom
•the protest says, “many Republicans re
cognize tbe typo of a “statesman” found
upon the surface after the war, who. have
great reputations, but have established
no. claim, to the respect of this genera
tion.”
Afikirsm Russia.
A 8t. Petersburg dispatch to the Lon-
don Times of last Wednesday, says:
There is a sense of Insecurity observe
ble in every direction bere, and while
there is great fear that something will
happen before the anniversary of the Eui-
peroris 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. Tk« most important feet connected
with tM ‘latter explanation ia that very
important State documents are in course
pf publication in the printing office of the
fourth 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 chaige of an officer, un
der lock and key. This proves that some-
r unusual is being prepared, but as it
begun prior to the explosion in the
Wjnter palace, tbot event may bave some
what changed the good intentions of the
Czar. 1 '■
The anniversary of the Czar’s accession
to the throne occurs next Wednesday, the
third dlay of March, and that is the day
which the Nihilists have formally notified
the Czar’s leading police functionaries will
be serialized everywhere throughout
Russia 'by bonfires and illuminations
compared with which those of Nero in
Rome were Inconsiderable. The world
will be interested to see to what extent
these nefarious threats are carried out.
Leproay in this Country.
This terrible disease, so justly tbe dread
of the ancients, has existed for years
among tbe Inhabitants of the Bahama Is
lands, and has continued to increase with
fearftil strides. The Key West Vidette
announces that the malady has extended
to that island, and thus sounds the
alarm:
It hat been introduced here until we
have a number suffering from the disease.
-But recently a Nassau leper married a
rounglady of this city, and was compelled
\rj her 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 I forty days) on all vessels entering
from that port.
arid vigorous, with keen bright eyes set in
a face seamed and hardened by a longlife
of exposure in out-of-door work. Iii reply
td questions as to tbe trip lie said:] “ Our
passage up from Aspinwall has been very
pleasant; too much praise cannot be given
to the steamer or to the commander, Cap
tain Griffin. As to the work upon the
Isthmus, I am well satisfied with it.”
“You are,cpDfinned then, in your opin
ion of the feasibility of making a canal at
this ooint?” „-
■ “1‘arit 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 with locks or a canal at
some other point let him do so. I am at
the-head of a private enterprise, and I
propose to build my canal in my own
way.”
“Do you expect to obtain tlie capital for
this work here or in Europe ?”
“Ifl demonstrate, as I think I shall be
able to, that the work will yield as profit
able return on tbe money invested, I feel
assured that capital will be attracted
from bere and also from Europe. I should
best like to bave tbe 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 haviug the greatest interest
in the canal, I deem it but due to the
American people toTnlly explain to them
what is proposed and the probable cost,
leaving to them the option of becoming
pecuniarily interested in the work or not
as they may choose.”
“Great objection Iras been made, M. de
Lesseps, to a canal at Panama on account
of the excessive and -irregular supply of
water—the torrents of the raiily 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
whtcli we propose at the Matachin Valley,
as you will see by the report. Here we
propose to construct an artificial lake
with an area sufficient to contain all tbe
surplus water of tlie rainy season and
be au unfailing: sunnlv dnrinaiL* Ar». cr
son. You "Jit Hlo roport Wfcat
mS. .-..tor tiiis dam will be. Its esti
mated capacity is one thoesaud millions
of cubic metresjof water, a quantity much
greater in amount to that of the freshet of
last November, the greatest that has ever
been recorded. In this will be sluices
or side canals to carry any surplus water
that there may be to tbe sea. Thus you see
that the terrible freshets of the isthmus
streams, of which so much has been writ
ten by advocates of other routes will not
prevent the successful operation of the
canal proposed.”
“Shall you open 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 open a subscrip
tion.”
“What do you propose as the amount of
capital stock for the company which is to
be formed?”
“Six hundred million francs!”
“And wliat is the estimated cost ?”
“The estimated cost, as you will see by
the report, is put at 843,000,000 francs;
but I am so certain that this is au over
estimate that I feel safe in assuming that
600,000,000 francs, or $120,000,000, will
cover the 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
tlie remainder in instalments as called for
by the administrative board, upon the au
thorization of a vote of the shareholders.”
“Where will the headquarters of the
company be ?”
“In Paris.”
A God of Battles.
A Grant frigfemaa in the New York
Convention, one Pierson, proclaimed vo
ciferously that Grant is not ranted 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 a3
the embodiment of force— and that is the
favorite idea on which he" is presented as
a candidate—always with the understand
ing that the force is applicable alone to. law to R. T- Wilson, of_ New York^ and
would much prefer a government of law
.• Governor on Wednesday last:
No wonder tlie people have confidence,
wlien the best physicians are prescribing
D'r. Bull’s Cough syrup in all «ases ef with gold, and trinuneiTwith pink aud
coughs, colds, etc.
Too Much Legislation.
Some of the members' of Congress are
credited with the intention of institutin;
an investigation into the present “comer”
in wheat, with a view to prohibitory leg
islation.
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 aud 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 totisfactorily solved,
However strongly, then, we may be op
posed to “coraera” in trade, the only way
to break them down is by pitting capital
against capital. If a mau’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 Rear Barneeville.
Barnesville, Georgia,
February 27,1880.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger—
Mr. S. G. Slade, a highly respected citi
zen of Pike county, living near this place,
committed suicide last night by taking
laudanum. He seems to have been in a
gloomy state of mind since the death of
his wife. He left a letter appointing a
friend to take charge 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 be the
best remedy for 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
shirt of pale blue brocade, into which
are woven tiny red and pink flowers. Her
hat is a Rembrandt of gray felt bound
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 he counted on to strike in one
direction alone and all the time. When
his blood is up aud bis shillelah in mo
tion, he strikes rather promiscuously. He
hits wherever he sees a head.
To be serious, there is nothing more
lamentable than this passionate desire for
the exercise of arbitrary power which
many of the Northern people display, and
nothing more suicidal. That section alone
in the United States boasts of enormous
accumulations of wealth. All the others
are comparatively - poor, aridt are classed
by the North as rough and unscrupulous,
as well as poor. Not one of them has
apparently half the material reasons for
desiring a government conservative, tol
erant and rigidly adhering to law and
precedent that the North has, and yet
froin the North, from such great and
wealthy States as New York and Penn-
sylvanisjcome 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. Itis,efficacious alone when backed
by tlie. patriotic inspirations and honest
convictions of the people, and these-,can
be operative only so long as tbe people are
satisfied that the government is adminis
tered harmoniously with its great charac
ter and design
When, therefore, New York amd Pennsyl-
vani a set up for force,imperialism and a per
manent executive, an entire departure
from all the principles, traditions and usa
ges of the government, with what sense or
reason can they expect the 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 tlieir 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?
The Speculative Rage, —
We want to say a word about the rage
tor siMU-iilaUnn. which now in tho progress
of mental infection, is reaching all classes,
and largely, as we understand, even our
planters, who are getting to deal'infutures
in various ways. As a matter of gain,
in the way of dollars and cents, the experi
ence of business men tbe 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 his
brain or his stomach or his pockets, but
lie only gets a fever and a set-back for bis
pains, and as the 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 the future, will strive in vain
to interest himself in the slow achieve
ments of the store, the workshop or the
farm. In spite of himself his daily trans
actions, Which once engrossed him so
much, become a bore. He looks upon
ihem 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 his
time in gossip and speculation about that
phantom gain of the future. His mind is
unhinged and all those regular daily
habits which go to make him a good busi-
new man—a good husband and father and
a good Christian, are in danger, if not lost.
What 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; aud the compensation you
will reap for the sacrifice will be final
bankruptcy. The moral and pecuniary
loss will be incurable.
The whole country is now rushing into
speculation and will wind np by and by
with a general explosion. While prices
all round are rushing over the up-grade
without the smallest reason, every man
sees the absolute silliness at 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
the speculators are so badly broken tbat
the pieces will not be worth saving.
Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea.
In 1879 there were forty-nine steam
ship, 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 this 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 of the steamers, too, are supposed
to have had defective engines.
A Cram Baby.
The Disputed Sale of the M. & B.
Railroad.
At last dates all the gentlemen inter
ested in the Couper purchase of the Ma
con and Brunswick railroad had reached
Atlanta, and the Constitution says the
papers have all been drawn and all tbe
preliminaries have been agreed on. The
deeds would have been signed yesterday,
bnt for tbe absence of J. M. Johnston,
whose signature is required. J. M. John
ston and W. M. Johnston are brothers-in-
represent him in the pending negotiations,
J. M. Johnston was detained yesterday
on business, and was expected
night train from that place last
night.
Mr. Kimball served a notice on tbe res 1
and also on those who came yesterday, of
hif intentions to claim-tlie road. -In con
versation with those who hate authority,
to-speak for the members of this company,
we team tbat they do not care much for
his elaim. They say it will not interfere
at all with their plans.
•The'following letter was delivered to
tbe Governor yesterday at 10 o’clock a.m.:
Td ! Sis Excellency, A. H. Colquitt,
Governor—Smi I hereby respectfully in
terpose my protest against the State of
Georgia dealing with any party or parties
in the matters of the lease and sale of the
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,
that your Excellency will notify them of
my communication to you of the 25th in
stant, a copy of which 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 tlie
lease and sale of the Macon and Bruns
wick Bailroad. Very respectfully,
H. I. Kimball.
Atlanta, February 27,1680.
We haTe private advices from Atlanta,
that there is not the least doubt of the-
prompt signing up and transfer .of the ti
tles to Messrs. Couper & Company to-day
(Saturday). Indeed Captain Bacon, Col
onel Harris, and so far as wo are in
formed, the entire Macon bar, are a unit
in tbe opinion tbat Mr. Kimball has not
a shadow of legal right even to come in
as tbe next highest bidder on the lease.
Had Mr. Couper’s bid been rejected as
illegal under tlie law, then the second bid
would have come to the fore for consider
ation. Bnt the fact that the. first bid af
ter due investigation was accepted, of
course settled tbe matter so far as the
sale for that day was concerned. It is the
general opinion, therefore, that in no
event can Mr. Kimball, under tbe strict
ruling of the law, gain possession of the
road even with tho Governor’s consent.
We have made arrangements for the
earliest intelligence on the subject from
Atlanta, which will be received probably
before going fo press.
Since writing the foregoing, we have re
ceived a special from Atlanta, announcing
the gratifying tidings that at2p. m. yes
terday the sale of the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad was duly consummated to
Messrs. Couper, Hazlehurst, Lane, Wil
son & Company. All the preliminaries
were satisfactorily arranged, the money
paid on the nail, and the papers signed,
sealed and delirereJ.
Brunswick and all Middle and Southern
Georgia will brsatoe_freels_At_ihjs-an-
nouncement. Governor Colquitt has no
bly retrieved the situation, and deserves
the thanks of the State.
Probable Trouble and Bloodshed in
California.
The Legislature of California, which
seems to be in full sympathy with th«
hoodlum new constitution, has passed an
act which forbids corporations employing
Chinamen under any circumstances. This,
too, in defiance of tbe Constitution of the
Uuited States, which prohibits the States
from enacting any law impairing the ob
ligation of contracts.
This reckless legislation is. working
great distress, not only among the Chi
nese, bnt to all-classes of labor. The
manufacturers are not disposed to submit
without a struggle to a law thusarbitrary.
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
$16,000 per month for white and $6,000 a
month for its Chinese employees. The va
cancies, it is understood, will not be filled 1
-with white men, but after finishing up
what work is in tbe machinery of both
mills, will be shut down for the present..
It is also understood that the jute factory)
at Oakland has discharged all its Chinese
employees—700 or 800 of them—and will
also stop work.
It is said that other factories will follow
suit, so these poor deluded white 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:
The closing up of these industrial es
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 tbat some sort of structure be
provided where unemployed men who
have no money and no shelter may find
a place to sleep at night.” Processions of
men and women, clamoring for bread and j
work, supplement the other mobs, by 1
whose agency they hare 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 thst the
steamer that left San Francisco yesterday
was crowded with people anxious to
leave tbe 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.
Tbe friends of the Chinese are calling
upon the President for troops to defend
the unfortunate Asiatics. What a spec
tacle in a free country!
| white ostrich feathers.
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
crying babies need only Hop Bitters to
make them well and smiling. Young
“No Cube no Pay.”—We authorize
onr agents to guarantee that onr 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
. "Vit <«uu OUllllU^a A UUUg J Jr—* -
l man, remember this.—Traveler. fbl8-zw j the troupe.
—Cetewayo’s three daughters are now
ou exhibition ia London. Their names
are Unolala, Unomadloza and Unozen-
daba. The London News says that
these names are musical. The dusky
maids are described as decently attired
and possessing a taste for personal adorn
meat. 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
contrast with that of the exuberant
ly gay and noisy masculine members of
—The fashionable exodus to Europe
will be large the coming spring.
—The Princess Beatrice of England is
being engaged by the Continental news
paper folk to King Humbert’s cousin
Prince Thomas, Duke of Genoa. ’
—M. Ivan Tourgunieff, the celebrated
novelist, has left Paris for St. Petersburg
thus practically refuting the rumors of M3
banishment. His object is said to be to
repudiate sympathy with NiMlism.
. —Mr- Thurlo'w Weed has written a let
ter to which he'pleads the unbroken usage
of two terms only as an argument against
the nomination of General Grant, not to
be set aside unlesE his caudidacy should
be demanded by a spontaneous popular
movement.
I —The Princess Louise, in one week,
jost valuable jewels, got dumped out of a
conveyance and skinned her nose, engaged
frt a fight with all the newspapers, held six
or seven receptions and listened to a lot of
addresses, and yet she says Canada is
hull.
—The Boston newspapers tell of a
stage-struck woman who got a divorce
from her husband in order to become an
actress, failed dismally behind the foot
lights, returned to her home, and begged
to be made a wife again, wMch was done
Jjy a remarriage.
—Chief Justice "Waite, during his re
cent visit to New Orleans, was treated
with the most distinguished consideration.
A dinner, at which Chief Justice Manning
presided, was given, and two hundred
guests were present, including all the
prominent clergymen, lawyers and han
kers of the city.
1 —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 have to he
made in the churchyards, and in some
instances, when this expedient proved un
availing, the gravediggers were compelled
to use dynamite.
—The 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
quiries: “Are the same means to be used
again to defeat this favorite of the people?
If so, how long will the people silently
•endure?”
—All the articles belonging to the Prince
Imperial when he died have now been re
covered except his watch, 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 harT 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 andjimportant one. Gene
ral Grant has no bar’l himself, but he
knows a great many people who have,
while Secretary Sherman, with decided
skill, has filled two or three bar'ls with
special treasury agents.
Special Manures.—If the farmer
would take the time and trouble and util
ize the 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 of the sinks, the ashes, refuse
hones, 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 tlie crematory charges
are much below the cost of the average
funeral, it is not at ail 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 that the Palmetto
Paper TTorks at Femandiua will most
probably be removed to Ocala in a few
week*. It says that negotiations between
tbe company and" a gentleman of Ocala
are now pending looking to the early es
tablishment of the machinery there. The
best bank note 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 that purpose.
Tilden Said to be Negotiating
Fob two Hundred Rooms.—A Cincin
nati dispatch to the Philadelphia Times,
says Colonel C. W. Wooley, who interest
ed himself in behalf of Tilden in Florida
in 1876, is authority for the statement
tbat Tilden’s friends are endeavoring
to, buy all the best room* at the leading
hotels, with the purpose of placing oti:«r
candidates at a disadvantage. He says
that one of the principal hotels is negotia
ting now with Tilden for two hundred
rooms. Inquiry it different hotels re
garding these statements elicited the fart
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
tbat Tilden will make every possible ef
fort to secure the nomination for himself.
The New York World publishes tbe
rumor, which it says prevails in newspa
per circles, that Hon. Samuel J. Tilden
is negotiating for tbe purchase of a large
interest in the New York Sun.
Stop that coughing, if vou do not, it
may kill you. A bcttle of Dr. Bull’s
cough syrup may save your life. Twen
ty-five cents, and ila time.
City Bonds.
The commission funded $18,000 of the
city’s bonds yesterday and are prepared to
fund the balance as fast as they
are sent in. Bonds to the amount of
one hundred thousand dollars have been
signed up, and the rest will be as speedily
as possible. The indications are that the
city debt will now be rapidly ftmded, and
that .within tbe 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 bonds
are appreciating in value and many of the
best financiers of the city think the bonds
will reach par before that time. Tbe confi
dence of the public in the bonds is being
most firmly established every day, and
they are considered by many to be as sol
vent a security as Atlanta or Augusta
bonds.
—Father McGlOiighiin preached a very
able discourse to a crowded church at St-
Joseph’s last evening.