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CL13BY, JONES k REE8E, Pbopeiztobs, GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING Til FAMILY JOURNAL.—NlWS—POLITICS—LlTSBATUBS—AsBICULTUBB—DOKSBTIS ESTABLISHED 1826. MAC03N* FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1880. Volume LY—NO 12 nrrm. The Simple Onmo Which no One Can Do, Except when Alone. For just forty-nine days the New York papers have been full of the new ‘game of Fifteen.’ The game has traveled South slowly, and has at length reached Macon and will soon take possession of all. The few sets of the game now in the city have been for the past few days in active • demand, and the little blocks contained in them have hardly, been idle a moment. The game is ceedingly simple to all except the person engaged in solving the problem, and it looks-simple enough to him also. Two sets were in full operation on Sunday af ternoon. Two young gentlemen, who had started on a tour of calls, acciden tally came across one. Oh! yes, simple enough; they could get it in' 4 moment. Go on; they would join-the party in moment. The rest of the party wandered up “the Hill” made one or .fwo calls, al ways keeping watch for their companions, but they came not in sight. Late in the evening they were discov ered in an earnest search after the solu tion of the puzzle, seated on an accom modating curbstone. -Another young man was up until nearly fouFo’clock Saturday night shoving the" blocks desperately around, trying to get the last three num bers in proper position. Fascination is no suitable expression for the hold the game has on all who give themselves over to it. It resembles the severe attack of the simple rhymes “Punch with care,” which took possession of the unfortunate Mark Twain. The puzzle consists of a square box into which are fitted fifteen, wooden squares, numbered consecutively from 1 to 15. There is room for four ro.ws of four in a row. The absence of the sixteenth block in the box affords room for the movement of the others. The gapae is to disarrange the blocks and then to bring the numbers into consecutive order by shifting them into place without lifting one off the bot tom of the box. The intricacies of this apparently simple exercise are startling. A mathematician who reported the result of his calculations in the New York Sun wrote that the number of possible move ments is 1,307,<574,308,000. There are said to be a number of combinations that are either very difficult of solution, or, as some believe, impossible. The game is taking the ‘country by storm. Everybody nearly in New York have their little puzzle boxes. Lawyers, bankers, merchants, pleasure men, even news boys all have them. The demand has increased so that the trade can with difficulty be supplied by several firms, who are now devoting themselves to the manufacture of the wonderful puz zle. It was formerly considered reprehensible to come to busi ness in the morning with dishevelled locks, unkempt beard, bloodshot eyes and general untidy appearance, but the expla nation is found in the fact that the person so presenting himself is one of the unfor tunate victims of the “game of fifteen”! It is said, that while many /claim to have worked it, that they cannot go over their work again and explain it, and although many lay emphatic claim to the distinc tion of being one of the solvers of the_ puz zle, no one has been looking on while it was done. The puzzle was invented in Boston about two years ago and the inventor passed a few of them around to his friends. They received . slight notice and then passed out of sight. About three months ago, Messrs. E. G. Selchow & Co., of New York, who handle them now about as extensively as any dealers in the-North, and who claim to hold the right of man ufacture, ordered out from Boston some thirty or forty dozens of the puzzle from the old stock of the manufacturer of the inventor. They could, however, do noth ing with them and turned them over to the pedlers of the city. They were soon dis posed of and orders came in for more. The fever for them began. One hundred dozen were ordered out, followed by an- order for a thousand dozen. Nine hun dred dozen were disposed of in one day. The orders now ranged up in the thou sands, and the supply could not equal the demand. The Northern papers have been full of the puzzle, the Herald of New York de- votiug from one to four columns daily. An offer of $100 for a solution of the puz zle for certain difficult positions has been . offered by the Herald. Other parties have made standing offers of the same re ward. The puzzle is very simple until the last three figures 13,14 and 15 are reached. The arrangement of the other numbers are comparatively simple and easy. The rub comes in jnst when it looks as if the end is reached. The order in which the last two figures usually stand, is 14,15, 13; 15,14, 13, or 13,15,14, and when the blocks assume those relations, thesolu- lution seems well nigh impossible. Only a few of the games have up to this time reached this city. In a few days, however, the city will be fully supplied through one of its popular firms, add then . all will be able to show their skill or suf fer defeat at the hands of the “Game of Fifteen.” A New Opera House. Plans for the building of a new opera house linve been developing for some time past. They seem at last to have taken some definite shape. Mr. T. Guernsey and other parties have perfected plans for a building to be located at the comer of Cherry street and Cotton Avenue, to be completed above the first floor for an ope ra house. • ‘ <■_ The building is expected to cost a num ber of thousand dollars, and will be an ornament and handsome improvement to that part of the city. The lot now owned by Mr. Guernsey is too small for the lo cation of the opera house as it now stands and Council has been peti tioned for a permanent encroachment of twenty-five feet in addition to twenty feet granted by the last Council to Mr. Wolffe extending down Cherry street into First street. The building would certain- ly improve that part of Macon very much indeed. The question will come up in Council this evening. We hope all the encroachment that the body can give will be given to the scheme of improvement. Mity D»y—Preparation* for the An nual Celebration. It is probable the Sunday School cele brations this year throughout the State will be more extensive and general than ever known before. The late. State Sun day Schopl Convention which met in this city, last summer unanimously agreed to a resolution introduced by Governor Col quitt, who was a delegate, to set apart and designate a day to he known as the chil dren’s day which it was proposed be de voted to a general celebration throughout the whole State. The exact date was left to the decision of a committee and the 1st of May was selected. The whole State is becoming interested, and on that day the children belonging to nearly every Protes tant church will join in the celebration. The Idea is a good one,' and is finding great favor with the Sunday School workers in the State. The custom of hav ing union Sunday School celebrations is well established in this city, and steps are already being taken to keep np the fine old custom. The day, on account of the recent action of the Sunday School Convention, will be even more-generally observed than usual here. Yesterday, in response to the call made on Sunday morning, a nnmber of the Sunday School workers were at the office of Messrs. Cobb& Clancey, on Second street. The First Baptist Church was repre sented by Messrs. H. M. Willet and S. A. Torrence; Mulberry. Street Methodist, by Mr. W. W. DeHaven; Vineville, Isaac Hardeman; First Street Methodist, J. A. Rogers andH. L. Jewett; Presbyterian, G. B. Dettre, Dr. P. H. Wright and Dr. J. P. Stevens; South Macon Baptist Church, IW. B. II. Ivey; Mission Chap el, C. C. sWb. The meet^JP^^very harmonious. No definite actioiJn? Weaken, and the meeting adjourned oftr to assemble on next Monday afternoon. It is thought there will be no doubt about the union celebra tion taking place, as usual, at the Park. Entertainment of the Hebrew Uter- ary Association. On Sunday evening, at the hall , of the Hebrew Young Men’s Literary Asso ciation, an entertainment was held, which for general excellence, was equal if not ahead of any'ever given by the Associa tion. The music and recitations were all good, and fully appreciated by the large audience ssembled. Miss Lizzie Merkel played .an instru mental piece very nicely. Mr. Dave Bar nett gave a burlesque lecture; Comic Vo calisms found apt expression from Mr. L. Lowenthal; a recitation, “Asking for a Wife,” was well done by Mr. D. Einstein; “Fairy Tales Waltz,” Faust, was played quite prettily by Miss Mary H. Loh. Miss Miss Belle and Master A. Harris played The Jolly Brothers” in good style. The entertainment was closed with “Onr Honeymoon,or My Motlier-in-lsw,”by Mr. John Hartz. The best was certainly sav ed for the last and Mr. Hartz was inimita ble in his rendition of the selection. Init he assumes three characters, Mr. Walter Fitzsummons, Mrs. Walter Fitzsummons and Mrs. Skinflint. The bill for the eve ning announced that the piece was “pre sented for the first time in Macon by Mr. Hartz as performed by him one thousand consecutive nights at the Dooly county opera house.” ne displayed great versa tility and fiyrly took the house by storm. The farewell entertainment of the sea son will take place on the 4th of April, when extraordinary efforts will be made to have it the best that has ever been given by the Association. The names of the committee on enter tainments are Messrs. John Hartz, Wil liam Landsherg, M. Skalowski, D. Bar nette and S. S. Einstein. Putnam Rifles Election. The following were the officers chosen at an election of the Putnam Rifles, one of the companies of the Second Georgia Battalion, held at Eatonton. on the eve ning of the 4tli instant: Captain—I. H. Adams. 1st Lieutenant—C. M. Davis. 2d Lieutenant—W. L. Tumor. Jr. 2d Lieutenant—A. I. Branhalh. 1st Sergeant—J. S. Tomer. 2d Sergeant—C. D. Pearson. • ti. 3d Sergeant—F. R. Pelot. 4th Sergeant—R. A. Gibson. 5th Sergeant—J. R. Webster. 1st Corporal—W. H. Pelot.- 2d Corporal—J. T. Spivey. 3d Corporal—C. X-McDade. 4th Corporal—B. F. Adams, Jr. Chaplain—Rev. Dr. I. R. Branham. Surgeon—Dr. D. B. Nisbet. Lesseps and Eads Trying Conclusions before the Special Committee of the House. Onr noon dispatches announce that Count Dc Lesseps has been granted a full hearing before the special committee of the House of Representatives, and pledges himscif to answer satisfactorily any ques tions that may be propounded financially, politically, or otherwise concerning his great Panama Inter-oceaHic Canal. The discussion had not terminated, but it was understood that the Count would remain over in the Capital another day to complete his statements and argument. Captain Eads is a quiet and inter ested spectator of what is going on, and in due time he also will be heard before the Committee. The Nicaraguan route likewise has several zealous advocates on hand, ready to present its superior claims, and on the whole the inter oceanic canal question just now is decidedly interesting. Our night, or midnight dispatches, may throw further light upon the subject. ' “A friend in need, is a friend indeed.” Such a friend is Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup, which should be in every family, it costs only cents a bottle and may save many a dcMor bill. Give it a trial. Last Week’s Cotton Figure#. The New York Chronicle reports the receipts of the seven days, ending Friday night last, at 78,451 bales, against 83,266 for the same week of last year. Total since 1st September last, 4,280,271 against 3,919,830 for the corresponding pe riod of the previous cotton year, showing an increase of 3G0,441 bales. The Cotton Exchange statement for tlje same time was as follows: ‘Receipts, 78,- 688 against S4,565 for the same week of last year. Total since 1st September, 4,2S9,061 against 3,879,023, showing an in- creese of 410,018. The Chronicles interior port table shows 89,011 receipts during the week ending Friday, against 51,223 hales for the corresponding week of last. year. Shipments 53,304 against 56,042 last year. Stocks, 303,279 against 1G5,619 last year. The Chronicle?s visible supply table shewed on Friday 2J>S0,33S bales of cot ton in sight, against 2,585,009 last year at same date, 2,814,614 the year before at same date, and 3,210,388 in 1877 at samo date. These figures show 'a decrease of 4,671 bales on the supply of last year; 234,270 on the supply of 1878, and 630,- 050 on the supply of1877 at same date. Cotton wa3 quoted last Friday in Liver pool at 7| for middling upland. A year ago the quotation was 5 5-16; in 1878 at same date it was 6j, and in 1877 at same date 6 9-10. We note the following among the points of interest in the Chronicle's weather tel egrams for last Friday: There have been rains in Texas—light at some points but heavy at others. At Galveston there was 0.23 of rain during the week. In the whole month of February 1.92 was the total rainfall. At Indianola 1.76 fell alto gether, in February, and 0.09 during the week. At Corsicana 1.49 fell during the week and.4.98 during February. At Dal las 2.30 fell during the week and 1.15 during all February. Ice formed during one. night of the week, but did no damage. At Brenham there was rain on five days during the week, hut only 0.40 in Februa ry. The weather has been generally showery in the Southwest. At New Or leans 4.62 was the measure of rainfall in the month of February. At Columbus, Mississippi, the rainfall in February was 4.83. At Little Rock, Arkansas, it was very wet. The rainfall during the week, on four days, was 7.61, and in the month of February 7.75. Nashville had rain on five days during the week, during which the fall amounted to 3.13._ The rainfall at Mobile, in February, -was 6.73; at Montgomery 0.25. There was none in Columbus or Macon during the week. In Columbus 2.S6 fell during February. In Augusta the rainfall of the month was 3.57. The Chronicle remarks as follows upon its weekly table of receipts from planta tions: 1. That the total receipts from the plantations since September 1 in 1879-80 were 4,576,249 bales; in 1878-70 were 4,- 079,797 bales; in 1877-78 were 8,845,9S4 hales. 2. That although the receipts at the out ports the past week were 78,451 bales, the actual movement from plantations was only 04,758 bales, the balance being drawn from stocks at the interior ports. Last year the receipts from the plantations for the same week were 78,447 bales, and fob 1878 they were 72,477 bales. .. The Rainfall and the Weather. The Nashville American prints a table of rainfall at that point since 1873, show ing an average of 52 inches a year, and adds that the fall in the past two months (January aud February, 1SS0,) has amounted to 16.11 inches, while, as we know, the fall in Macon for the same two months amounted to only 4.14. Nothing seems to be mdre irregular and uncertain than the rains. of late years in this lati tude. For while we seem to be fairly en titled to about sixty inches a year, of late we have fallen far below forty. The Amer ican's table is as follows: Year. In. Year. In. 1S73. . . . . . 49.47 1877 . . . . 49.64 1S74. . . . . . 58.14 1878 . . . . 48.50 1S75. . . . 1870. . . . . . 53.49 . . 46.91 1879 . . . . 67.69 According to the Montreal Witness, the Canadian weather prophet, Yentnor, pre dicts a cold term ending in heavy snows on the 15th, 16th and 17th days of March, although these snows may be represented by cold rains as far south as Boston. April, he also says, will enter cold and stormy, with snows up to the 4th or oth (lay. The weather question is now an ex ceedingly interesting one, particularly to farmers and gardeners. We are reminded that ten years ago, on the 27th day of March, 1870, there was snow in this part of Georgia, which slaughtered young crops almost totally. . On the night of the 9th day of April, 1S53, the writer being in Florida at the time, there came a freeze which killed all the young com and cot ton. Corn, in that region at the time, was a foot and upward high, and cotton was four to six inches. It was the day before that frost, that wejnet the planter who had . not dropped a seed, and yet claimed to be ahead of all his neighbors— for, says he, I am ready to plant, and they who have their crops up have yet to get ready, for they must all plant again. He was the man who never planted cotton until he saw tumble-bugs. There is, of course, a possibility of frost and ice yet—just enough of it, we repeat, to make the weather question inter esting; but we hope to escape all such set backs. New Rules of the House. The new rules of the House of Repre sentatives were finally adopted last Tues day and went into operation yesterday. It is generally conceded that they will simplify business and put the brakes upon interminable debate. The' “morning hour,” so-called, is abolished. Commit tees have simply leave to report hills when called without discussing them. There are three calendars for three gen eral classes of bills, that of the committee of the whole, thatot general legislation,! and the private calendar, precedence be ing given to them in the order named. Motions to suspend the rules may. be made only on the first and third Monday in each month, the previous question is regulated and restricted, and ^riders” to appropriation bills are prohibited unless germaue to the subject and reported by. a committee. .The chief effect of the new rules will be to restrict speech-making and add to the business powers of the House. Farmers, Take Heed. One of Georgia’s most prominent agri culturists, who resides in Macon county) informed the writer on Saturday, that Ite had finished planting his entire com crop and farmers are more advanced in their preparations the present season than in any previous year within Ins recollection. As was to he feared, however, regardless of consequences, they are bending every ef fort to increase their „ cotton, production, and many a broad acre that shoiild.be de voted to bread and lieme Eomforts_will.be planted with the seed of the delusive sta ple. This, of course, is due to the present inflated prices. But no ignis fatuus was ever more alluring and illusive to those who would pursue .it. An incident that came under the writer’s personal observa tion will form a fitting illustration. An opulent Sea Island planters in Liberty county-sent a lot of 45 hales of cotton to his Savannah factors with directions to sell at 50 cents per pound, * The commission merchants, Messrs. R. A W. King, wrote back that they could only obtain 48 cents. The planter replied, saying, take the offer. Again the factors.wrote, “the market has receded, and we can only get 44 centsffor your cotton.” The'fanner answered by: return mall, and ordered the sale at that figure. t Before the lot could be closed out, how ever, there was another decline, and final ly little or no demand for Sea Islands. Matters remained thus until July, when, to quote the words of the owner, “I went to Savannah in person, and begged a sale of my cotton at eighteen cents per pound;” This same story may be repeated next fall to the ruin of thousands. Tinder the stimulus of enlarged.acreage, unpreceden ted guano sales and high prices, with or dinary seasons, such a crop of cotton will be produced the present year as the world never saw. We should not he surprised to see it reach six and a half millions of bales, or even more. This increase, too, will he at the cost of diminished bread stuffs, meat supplies, and the small crops which contribute so much to the real in dependence' and comfort Of the • farmer/ Nor will his profit, granting that a full crop is gathered, by any means come up to his expectation. In the first place taking Marshallville as a guide, over one-fourth of the Cotton raised must be handed over to the guano dealers, even if the crop is an average one. If the worm,drought,storms or early frosts, contract the yield, so much the worse off will the farmer be. 2. Labor, mules and plantation imple ments are from twenty-five to thirty per cent, higher than last year. 3. Com, (of which immense supplies must be purchased), and bacon, have ad vanced twenty-five per cent; and 4th. It is evident from'the tremendous trade of the winter and early spring, that our farmers have had their heads turned by the rise in cotton, and are disposed to go back to their old habits of extrava gance. While it is still time, therefore, we call upon them to .look out for’“breakers ahead,” reef sails, cast out bow and stem anchors and resolve to ride out the coming storm under “bare poles.” While the season will permit, too, let them add 30 per cent, to their com crops and plant largely in the early varieties of peas, not neglecting chufas, ground peas, sweet potatoes, highland rice and German millet. Pursuing this course, the millet and peas will come in early in July and eke out their scanty com supply until harvest, and the root crops will furnish food for their swine. The rice, too, they will find to be their most profitable mar ket crop. We are aware that many of our farm ers are accustomed to regard these ap peals as stereotyped. But the' prudent and knowing ones will give heed never theless, and be able to hold their own whatever may betide in the* luture. Surely • the sad experience of the past should be a sufficient monitor to them. over two hundred mules purchased by their customers. The season has not yet closed and there will beagood demand for stock until late In the spring.' We beard a drover remark yesterday that he was confident there would be a good trade in stock until late in the season. Since .October there have been brought to our city-and sold one thousand ana seventy* six mules and horses. Of this nnmber there were probably not more than two hundred horses. There Is now on hand eighty mules and thirty-seven horses The trade is rapidly increasing, and Co lumbus is a favorite market with the dro vers. Douglasvtlle Star: There died in this, county, on the' 25th instant, quite a Notorious character. We refer to W. B. Smith, more generally known as Doctor Smith. He bred to the ripe old age of seventy-three. In his youth he was a large portion of his time among the Creek Indians, and quite intimate with their great medicine men. From these, like Edwin Eastman, he claimed to have learned the secret ingredients of many valuable remedies, and especially one for the cure of cancers. Although he was a very, illiterate mau, mauy people had im plicit faith in his powers as a physician aud as a conjurer, in the capacity of both of which he frequently practised. Many people from all portions of Georgia and of East Alabama, have come to this coun ty to be treated by him. . Of his cures we kiiow nothing. He had been gradually failing for the last year, and finally died from the effects of old age. During his last illness he would take, no medi cine except that of his own manufacture, The Louisville* Courier says: “We learn that M. W. A. Roberson came very near being bitten by a mad dog a few days ago. He saw the dog aud threw a* rock at him, which enraged the crazy ca nine 96 that it made frantic efforts to get to Mr. R. to bite him, but he made his cs- cape by jumping a fence, and afterwards fie and Mr. Caldwell followed the dog out of town and killed him.” Walton County Vidette: On Friday morning last, about ten o’clock, two ne- GE0RGIA PRESS. Captain Boynton, the celebrated swimmer, is exhibiting his skill in Sa vannah. The scrap iron gatherers are. having a boom in Cartcrsville, and all the old wells and out of the way places are being searched for old shot aud shell. Carteesytlle has a Pliilomathean Society. Mr. R. R. Blocker is a correspondent of the Arlington Advance, as well as the Early county News. Dr. S. D. Rambo, of Blakeley, is at home from Rio de Janeiro, where he is engaged in business. The papen of the State arc urging Congress to exempt the chemicals used in the manufacture of paper from duty. The Crawfordsville Democrat says that a petition of three hundred names has been forwarded to the proper authorities for the establishment of a post-office at Powelton. It is likely to he granted, as such an office is much needed. The Louisville News and Farmer say3 that its town has had a sensation in the lerson of a sou of one of the best families n the State, who has been there under the name of Professor Gillipool, picking his banjo, singing comic songs, and selling song hooks and a grease lotion. Colonel Foheacre, general manager of the Air-Line railroad, is very active in encouraging the cultivation of tobacco throughout the section of country tributa ry to his road, and is gratuitously distrib uting packages of tobacco seed among the farmers. Says the Fnquiter-Sun: During the th living on Dr. Barrett’s plantation, near Centerville,' engaged in a difficulty In relation to some opprobrious words -•sedby the latter to the mother of the former. On Friday morning it seems Thompson attacked Patrick with a knife, wielding it with ferocious eflect, stabbing him fatally in the left side of the abdo men and cutting him severely in the left arm, hand, etc. Patrick backed and de fended himself, as .best he could for ten paces or more, and then fell weltering in hla blood. The murderer fled atouce, and Mr. Willie Barrett took his gun and pursued him some distance, but failed to. overtake him. He then called on Simou Baker, Dawes Baker and Bill Ivey, three worthy colored men living on the. place to pursue and capture the mur derer. This, to their credit, be it said, they did with alacrity, and soon they brought him: to bay in a swamp, where 7e in hand, he warned them that he id kill the firqt one that attempted to •oacb him. One of the pursuing party, however, brought him to his . senses by firing one barrel of the gun in close prox imity to his carcass. This at once caused him to throw down his arms and surren der, and they marched him back to the scene of the murder. Mr. Barrett at once' ] procured a warrant, arraigned him under the cliarga of assault with intent to min der, before Justice Evans, who committed him to jail, where he now is. The woun ded man liugered until Saturday after noon and died, hence, George Thompson’s trial will he for* a graver offense. Mr. Barrett and the three negro men named above, all deserve much credit for their prompt and manly action in bringing to such justice, the murderer.” The Stonewall fire company of Griflin has received its new steamer. Our wishes for the prosperity of the Griffin News are credited to another pape: No matter, we meant what we said, all the same. Some of the citizens are expecting forty thousand hags of cotton for Albany this season. Colonel Nelson Tift, of Albany, will plant a large crop of rice this season. The. Oglethorpe Echo says next to its old bachelors, Lexington is noted for its army of useless curs. Lexington is in dread of an almost certain water famine the coming season. A white girl, by the name of Ella Jane Smith, was fatally burned last week near Lexington, and died the next day. Governor J. E. Brown, while in Al bany on his way to Florida, in company with his family and brother, was sere naded at the Barnes House,and responded in a speech to the young men in which there was no admixture of politics. On Tuesday night the train on the Al bany and Gulf railroad ran over a negro man at Teheauviile, cutting off an arm and a leg. Colonel Christy, of the Athens Watchman, had a beautiful little daugh ter horn to him on the 29th of February. More attention is being paid to the opening and development of the gold mines of Dawson county at this present time, than at any period heretofore. The Cusseta correspondent of the Co lumbus Times says: Israel Gordon, a colored man of this county, and a former 3lave of. General John B. Gordon, has accumulated since the war four hundred acres of land and four or five good mules. He is out of debt and is making money. He takes pride id telling that he used to belong to ‘Mars John.” Darien Timber Gazette: Our city has been visited during the past week by sev eral prominent timber merchaots of the North, who succeeded in placing a num ber of large orders with our dealers for coastwise shipment. The importance of Darien, as a timber market, is becoming more manifest every year, notwithstanding the prediction of old fogies that she has seen her best days. Dahloneoa Signal: A huge rattle snake took possession of a tbunnel on a mine in Dawson county, belonging to Bev. A. Martin, Esq., sometime last sum mer, and to-day holds it undisputed. All efforts to get him out proving unavailing, Bev. is now taxing his legal lore and searching all the'authorities to make out a case against his tenant and oust hig snake- ship. Oglethorpe Echo: Last week while a young lady near Mount Pleasant wai getting some sand from a branch, she dis covered several particles of gold. An in spection of the gravel proved it to be rich in the precious metal. Our entire county is beyond doubt underlined with valuable minerals. The same paper says: We notice that caterpillars are yearly increasing in this county. They have destroyed the per simmon trees and are now taking the frait. In the spring their nets festoon iresent season the mule trade in our city our woods. It is said these are only the ms been far greater tbau for many years, j videttes of the main army, now in Missis- Tlie revenue to the city is .juite an item. | sippi, and which advances twenty miles One of our warehouse firms alone pai.d for cash season. It-will take just fifteen years at this rate for them to land in our Mr. Jonas presented a concurrent reso county—when the Echo will exodust. lutionofthe Louisiana Legislature, ask- Dublin Gazette: Hon. Charles C. ing an appropriation for the improvement Kibbee, of Hawkinsville, would make an of the mouth df the Calcalsier river. Re- excellent Governor. He is a young man, ferred. hut one of the most intelligent in the • Mr. Kirkwood submitted a resolution South. He made a good State Senator,' instructing the Secretary of the Treasury and knows more attbut the State’s affairs , to communicate to the Senate a statement than one half of the men who are now j of the amount of money'expended by the holding public positions in Georgia. Col- j United States for all purposes necessarily onel Kibbee is very popular in Georgia, growing out of the late war, specifying and if he would onlv make a fight, he \ separately amounts paid on principal of could secure most any office in the gift of the people. To prevent distemper in horse and cat tle, when it prevails in the neighborhood, use Foutz’s Celebrated Horse and Cattle Powders. They are a safe and certain remedy. mariblw BY TELEGRAPH Washington, March 7.—The follow ing is the reply of Hon. Fernando Wood, chairman of the Ways and Means Com mittee of the House, to the second dis patch from C. W. Durant, in which he asked whether the merchants and impor ters who have memorialized Congress are to understand that Mr. Wood favored im mediate action by Congress to remove the difficulties that sugar refiners and impor ters complain of: C. W. Durant, Ncto York:—I am in favor of a just and equitable tariff on su gar, which shall impose the duties equita bly upon all grades and not iu the Interest of any classof refiners, merchants or for eign makers, and am opposed to the un just discriminations attempted to he made between the several grades, for the pur pose of favoring particular interests, and am also opposed to the continuance of the color standard, by which so much loss to the treasury has ensued, unless it is ac companied by some other test of value. Such a bill as I indicate I will cheerfully support at once. Fernando Wood. In conversation this evening Mr. Wood stated that the sugar question would come up dgain in committee, the vote by which its consideration was postponed last week not being intended as a final determina tion of the matter. Paris, March 7.—A semi-official state ment has been issued correcting newspa per accounts of the Hartmann affair. It declares that the decision not to surren der Hartman as a prisoner was adopt ed unanimously. No perplexity ever ex isted. The whole matter was settled in the ordinary way. New York, March 7.—Delegates from various Irish societies and Hibernian or ganizations in Brooklyn met this after noon and decided not to parade on St. Patrick’s day, hut to send the money usu ally appropriated for such occasions to the suli'eriug poorof Ireland.' Washington, March 7.—De Lesseps attended early mass to-day, and called on friends during the day. To-uiorrowhe will appear by invitation before the inter- oceanic canal committee. Cincinnati, March 7.—A fast passen ger train on the Cincinnati Southern rail road through tn ^Chattanooga, will leave here to-morrow morning' at o’clock, and wijl run through in twelve hours and fifteen minutes. The schedule time North is twelve hours between Chattohooga and Cincinnati. Leadville, March 7.—The celebrated Iron mine. was sold Saturday to New York parties for three million dollars. St. Paul, March 8.—A fire broke out yesterday iu the wholesale house of Aur- iiach, Finch Culberton & Co., the Iaigest building and occupied by the heaviest firm in the city, and it is a total loss. The building was three years old, cost $90,000 and was insured for $45,000. It was filled with goods in anticipation of the spring trade. The value of the goods was $850,000; insurance $492,000. San Francisco, March 8.—The Call publishes the result of inquiries regarding the recent movements in military circles, from which it appears that all the arms of the second regiment of the National Guard have been removed to the old City Hall or central police station, and a guard of a lieutenant and ten men of company F kept over them. Companies B and C of the first regiment, are concentrated at the armory of the latler, aud the arms of company G, of the second regiment, placed in their charge. An officer and guard is mounted nightly at the armory of the third regiment, which is allowed to retain its arms. The armory of the first regiment is closely guarded, and no one allowed to enter. The anus of the three. cavalry companies have been removed—locality not known. Camp regulations have been established, and “grand rounds” visit various posts nightly. ' General McDowell was tele- -grapheff yesterday from Washington to >ring all available troops in his division to San Francisco, and companies, amount ing in all to fire hundred men, are al ready en route, with more to follow, probably fifteen hundred altogether. London, March 8. — Twenty-three deaths-have occurred front the holler ex plosion at Glasgow Friday. * L A Pari* dispatch says it is announced that Prince Orloff intends to quit Paris on a prolonged leave of absence. This is be lieved to be in consequence of the Hart mann affair, as Orloff confidently expeo-' ted .to obtain his extradition. Another Paris dispatch says the ware houses of the Messageries Natiouel (the great carrying compauy), have been des troyed by fire. The merchandise, valued at two million francs, was destroyed. Six thousand square yards of earth are cov ered with the debris. Yokoho.ua, February 16.—Another fire has oenrred at\he capital. Twenty- five hundred housqs were destroyed. Washington, March 8.—The select committee of the House on the inter- oceanic canal, gave audience this morning to Count Ferdinand De Lesseps. Besides the chairman and members of the com mittee, several members of the House, no tably, Joseph E. Johnston, of Virginia, called and paid their respects to the great leveller. Captain Eads chattqd familiarly with M. DeLesseps, and there were also present Commodore Sullivan, Lieutenant Collins and Mr. Menocal of the United States navy, who are zealous advocates of the Xicarauga route for a canal in prefer ence to the Panama route. The Appro- the public debt thereby incurred; the amount of interest paid on such for the year; amount paid for pensions including arrears; and amount paid soldiers and sailors of the war, such information to be brought down to January 1st, 1SS0. Adopted. The Senate proceeded to consider the calendar bill to amend the law relative to the seizure and forfeiture of vessels for breach of revenue. Passed. It is inten ded co prevent such forfeiture when smug gling is carried on without the knowledge or priority of officers or owners of the,ves- sel. In the House the Speaker announced that the new rules would be operative to day, and in accordance with those rules, proceeded to call States for bills, etc., be ginning with the State of Alabama- The first bill introduced was one by Mr. San? ford, of Alabama, to reduce the tariff on certain articles which he desired to have referred to the Committee on Revision of Laws. The bill provides that no duty In excess of fifty per cent, of the present rate of du ties, shall, after July 1st, be collected on imported merchandise made principally of cotton, hemp, metal, wood or leather. The Speaker ruled that under the new rules the bill should be referred to the Ways and Means Committee. Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, moved its reference to the Committee of the Whole. After debate, in which Messrs. Fernando •Wood and Robeson held it was the Speak er's duty to indicate the reference of the bill, which reference could only be changed by a suspension of the rules, and Messrs. Cox of New Fork, Haskell of Kansas, and Morrison held that a major ity of the House had the right to send a bill to any committee it chose. A vote was taken and the bill was sent to the Ways and Means Committee—yeas, 144; nays, 88. Mr. Sanford also introduced a bill abol ishing the tariff on printing type and blank paper, or the material used in their manufacture. Referred to the same com mittee By Mr. Nichols of Georgia, abolishing the duty on paper, and reducing the duty on unsized paper to ’five per cent, ad valorem. ■ By Mr. Speer of Georgia, forbidding military dress parades on Sundays. By Mr. Gillett of Iowa, appropriating $50,000 for the encouragement of the manufacture of sugar from com stalk3 and sorghum. - 1 ' i By Mr. King, of Louisiana, abolishing t he tariff on the materials used in making paper ani printing inks, and on paper for books andnewsnawuy- —- -- -V"' By Mr. Hatch, of Missouri, abolishing the tariff on 3alt. • Mr. King, of Louisiana, Chairman of the Inter-Oceanic Canal Committee, of fered, by the unanimous instruction of that Committee, a resolution re-affirming the Monroe doctrine, declaring that any canal constructed must he subject to the control by this Government, and author izing the abrogation of any treaties incon sistent herewith. Ordered to be prin ted. They will he Called up hereafter. The Committee on Elections reports that Mr.’Slemons was entitled to the seat from the Second Arkansas District. Mr. Weaver submitted a minority re port declaring the seat vacant. Both were laid on the table. A message was received from the Presi dent, transmitting correspondence rela tive to the inter-oceanic canal, and de claring the right and duty of the United States to exercise such authority over any speh canal as will protect our national itercsts. Printed and referred to the In- r-Oceanlc Canal . Committee, Ad journed. Washington, March 8.—In the Senate a! message was received from the Presi dent regarding a correspondence with for eign governments about the inter-oceanic canal. A bill for the relief of homestead set tlers was passed. It gives such settlers the same privileges as to filing applica tions and-perfecting an entry as now en joyed by pre-emption settlers, and in other respects equalizes the homestead and pre emption laws, Mr. Bayard advocated Mr. Randolph’s substitute for the bill I for the relief of Fitzvfohn Porter. It authorizes Porter’S explosion in the Winter Palace. Since that time 5,000 persons have been arrest ed. The authorities learning that suspi cious persons lived at a certain house, or dered twenty policemen, under five offi cers, to search the house. Nothing suspi cious was discovered, but three men being seen to hastily leave a neighboring shea, five policemen rushed into it. Instantly a-terrible explosion of dynamite occurred, blowing up the policemen and the shed. Hardly had this explosion become known when a great fire broke out on the* street called Balsliaba. Three police buildings and a private house were burned, and several policemen perished in endeavoring to save the papers from the police station. San Francisco, March S—-I1 ;• im possible to ascertain who orders the mili tary movements, but it is coDjecaired they result from the representaaons to the Washington authorities by Colonel Bee, Mr. Bayard regretted' that the Senator from Wisconsin, (Carpenter) had intro duced an appeal to partisan fueling into his able speech on Saturday. There Was no reason for making this a party ques tion. It was purely a matter of public justice. He denied that the jurisdiction •of courts martial is co-equal with that of civil tribunals. Military power must, in all respects, be subordinated to civil •power. Civil courts have authority to4n- terfere in case of irregularity'In courts njartiai, but military courts have no such authority concerning civil courts. This fact alone would prove the subordination of courts martial. They are creatures of Congress and under its control. Whereas,, the civil tribunds are permanent and in dependent and always open to repair the wrongs done by courts martial or otherwise. Congress.cannot be debarred by the sentence of 'a court martial from re moving political disabilities. He cited cases of Surgeon-General Hammond and Captain George A. Arms to show that Congress has before annulled the findings of courts marshal. He said the testimony in the case showed that -Porter’s action was wise and soldierly, that he obeyed the spirit if not letter of the orders, and that his gallantry on the thirtieth, caused Stonewall Jackson, who was a good judge of bravery, to make special mention in his reports of the previous assaults of the Federal force under General Porter which nearly broke Jackson's line. It had been said that Congress would hear from the country if it passed this bill. He hoped so, and wanted the coun- priSioM^committee ‘S&eoS* JSBg ! Urn its room for the holding of the reception, tiffin hut after a time the gafferyrecently W ed at theback of the Speaker’s chairjwas ^ put in requisition, only to be again aban- doned for the Appropriations committee 1 ^ room on account of the pressure of specta- '-J? tTmwL ° fwf tors anxious to see M. De Lesseps. dence ’ ^-McDonald t oo k thc floor) but; He gave his views at much length. Mr. SeSS ‘° n ’ after Appleton, acting as interpreter. He had whlch the Senate adjoumed ' not completed his statement at thc hour ' Washington, March 8.—The House of adjournment, hut at his own sugees- Committee on Coinage, toWay, agreed to tlon, and in compliance with the wishes provide for the exchange of trade dollars of the committee, he postponed_his intend- for legal tender silver dollars, at par. Thc ed departure from the city and will come trade dollars to be recoined into legal again to-morrow before the’ committee, tender dollars, as now provided by law, when Captain Ead3 is also to have a hear- tlie further coinage of trade dollars so re- ing. Count De Lesseps requested the deemed and coined into legal tender dol- oommittee to submitt, to him in writing lsrs is not to interfere with the minimum any question affecting the Panama scheme, amount of legal tender dollars now au- present precautions will continue until the United States Court de cides the constitutionality of the Jaw pro hibiting the employment ot Chinese by corporations, and until the question of the condemnation of Chinatown is settled. The workingmen are much excited over these movements. ■ London, March 8.-—The news from Vienna of thc betrothal of the Arch Duke Rudolph, Prince Imperial of Austria, to Princess Sleptame Clothilde, of Belgium, is official. Julius Beer, proprietor of tlie London Sunday Observer, is dead. A dispatch from Capetown, dated Feb ruary 17, says that at a meeting of the Boer party, Paul K. Ruger, President of the former republic of Transvaal,proposed that the Boer committee, when it met on the eighth of March, should discuss meaDS for establishing friendly relations with the British government authorities there. London, March 8.—In the House of Commons to-day the Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that the Queen had been advised to dissolve Parliament at Easter. In regard to the election in the depart ment of Dordogne which resulted in the return ofM. M. Dg Fourton and Bosredon, Conservatives,, to the French Senate, the Paris correspondent of the Times says: “M. Fourton is the famous ex-Minister of the Interior. He was strenuously ap posed by the Bonapartists on account of his share in the crisis of 1S77, but M. De- Fourton’s local influence over the Con servative Senatorial electors enabled him to triumph. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says be has reason to" know with certainty that the Government b*« taken elaborate measures in case of the defeat of article seven' of Gerry’s educa tion bill, which prohibits members of un authorized societies from teaching in the schools, that should the article not be voted in thc Senate, all the laws now ex isting against the Jesuits are to be put in force with the utmost possible rigor. Harrisburg, .Pa., March 8.—The riot bribery cases came up for trial to- 4*i' oaiter, Rumberger, Kembler and era afford pleaded guilty of corrupt solici tation. Long’s case Was continued until to-morrow. message to the Senate accompanyrng copies of the correspondence touching the Inter-Oceanic Canal: The policy of this country is a canal under American control. The United States cannot consent to surrender their control to any European power or powers; treaties contrary to their view should be- amended. Capital invested by citizens of other countries cannot be protected by the intervention of those countries without, the adoption of measures on this continent, which the United States would deem in admissible. If ouT protection is relied on, we must have such control as will enable us to protect the national interests and rights of private capital. The canal will be virtually a part of our coast line—our commercial interest in it surpasses that of any other nat ion, while its relations to our power of prosperity-are a paramount con cern to us. No other great power would under similar circumstances fail to assert the right to a fall control over a work so vitally affecting its iuterest and welfare. St. Louis, March 8.—Hon. Henry F. Scharrett, planter of Pass Christian, Miss., is now here and says that in view of the negro exodus from the South and the dis turbed condition of things in his section, the planters have considered the question to some extent of attempting to obtain Chinese laborers. Correspondence haa already been had with on» of the Chinese companies, and probably some Chinamen will be set at work in Southern Missis sippi in-a few days. xluvuuu ruricr.- it sutuuruxs lgrwrs 0i „ T. _ appointment as Colonel, with pay from ® A ?„. Marcl1 8.—Placards 1SGS. ate being posted jn prominent places about the city, warning employers not to continue to employ Chinese labor, and vaguely hinting at terrible consequences .if they persist inso doing. A pointed ref erence is also made to the condition of the unemployed. The placards are signed “Council of 13.” A company from the First Cavalry regiment and Company G, Eighth Infantry, arrived this morning from Camp Halleck, Nevada. • Strikes not Usually Successful. The New York Bulletin says out of 259 strikes embracing a long series of years, .(since 1830) occurring in Massachusetts, 109 were unsuccessful, 18 successful, com promised 16, partly successful 6, result unknown 9, still pending L The report of the British Iron Traders’ Association for 1878 furnishes a list of 277 strikes which are classified as follows: Coal miners 58; iron ship builders 0; boiler makers 4; builders 77; miscellaneous 112. Out of the entire number only four were successful, while seventeen were settled by compromise. But who can calculate the amount of hardship and suffering which have been the result of these com binations? How much better if the mas ter manufacturers of the country would seek to follow the example of the Lowell mill owners, who have, without solicita tion, made a general advance in wages within the past few weeks. The iron makers especially, it would seem, could afford to do so. either politically, financially or otherwise, they might desire to propose, that lie might be prepared to-morrow to accord to them the fullest information at his command. Washington, March 8.—The Vice thorized by law. Washington, March 8.—Postmaster- General Key to-day rescinded his order stopping letters addressed to R. C. Win- tersmitli, Supervisor of the Frankfort President laid before the Senate a memo- School Fund lottery, on the ground that rial of the trustees of the Peabody educa- it was inadvertently given. tional fund, recommending legislation to “London, March 8 A St. Petersburg aid in thc education of colored children, special savs the rigor of the despotism in Referred. Poisonous Drugs in Bbead.—The Baltimore Nun sounds the alarm that a large proportion of the baking powders now on the market are composed largely of alum. The action of alum on the hu man stomach is precisely the same as on the mouth; it draws aud puckers it all up, producing all sorts of dangerous disorders. In Germany, England and France, any one found selling alum powders is subject to fine and imprisonment. Pure baking powder should be made of grape cream of tartar, which is worth from forty to forty-five cents per pound. Alum costa oply three cents per pound. There is nothing more harrowing to the sympathetic mind than to hear a cry ing baby. Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup will give instant relief to the little sufferer. Russia has much increased since the For sale at all drug stores.