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* 3Pp$ <§*ji*gia lltaeklg Qutegjcapf* irafr 3*»murl & Itosamg**® Ctkgrapji anil ffitsstfsm MACOX, ilARQI^4y6S0. —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.