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MACON, MARCH 10,1S80.
We learn that Rev. J. W. Bnrke has
Jlacen appointed presiding elder of the
■Americus district, to fill the vacancy
•caused by the death of the lamented'Rev.
’.Samuel Anthony.
The project of building a cotton factory
•an Griflin is talked of by some of its citi-
•sens.
Saturday evening the members of
Pulaski Council, Royal Arcanum, gave
banquet in honor of the Supreme Regent,
Julius M. Swain, who has just been mat
ing a visit to Savannah.
The citizens of Americus are said to
Lave contributed $480, and raised the
mortgage on the Anthony homestead. On
Friday last the necessary papers were
drawn and the deeds turned over. This
-speaks well for their liberality.
The work of improvement is going on
in Vienna. Several new dwellings have
■been erected, and there are others in
contemplation.
Several boys in Grifiin ran away from
their parents.
Griffin* can boast of a bell nearly one
.hundred years old.
Savannah's exports last Saturday
reached a valuation of $634,043, an excel
lent exhibit for one day so late in the
season.
A eat weighing six pounds was killed
da a Columbus hotel the other day.
The Keics says:
Augusta is now reaping the fruits of the
last election. Whisky then ruled the
day. This is another illustration of
-*‘sowing the wind and reaping the whirl
wind.”
Yesterday, as the sun came out, an
•old frame building, standing near one of
the engine houses of Augusta, began to
smoke and look as though a huge fire was
-smouldering beneath. The men of the
company at once gathered their hose reel,
-shouted fire and made for the spot, only
ta be laughed at heartily by some other
-firemen.
The Post says the water now furnished
by the Atlanta water works is beautifully
-colored.
If a man can’t make both ends meet,
Jet him sit down on the end of a shaky
barrel. When the head caves in the prob
lem will be solved to his complete satis
faction.
The Conyefs comet band will furnish
■music for the Georgia Press Association
which convenes at Cuthbert on the 8th of
May.
Last Wednesday was held the annual
meeting of the stockholdrs of the Enter
prise Factory of Augusta. The report of
-the Ihesident sliowed that the net earn
ings of the past six months would enable
the factoiy to pay about 4| per cent, divi
dend, or 9 per cent, per annum. The ca
pacity of the factory will soon be increas-
-ed by the addition of 6,000 sptodies.
Atlanta is rejoicing in the near pros-
/pect of possessing a free public hospital
the want of which has long been felt in
'that city. It will be under the charge of
the Sisters of Mercy.
. Augusta’s tax digest shows an in
crease in real' estate of $150,000 since
-1879.
'The Post comments as follows on the
condition of the streets in Atlanta:
Such weather as the present is a har
dest time for the street railway company,
because every body prefers riding in a
sheltered car to wading through mud an-
• ’k3e deep. It is no exaggeration to say
' that such is the condition of the streets all
over town. Even the sidewalks, a few
•. squares from the business centre of the
. city, are almost as impassable as the
streets. In some places the street car
track is entirely submerged under mud
and water. It is rather hard on the mules
to stvim thr .ugh all this slush drawing a
loaded car after them, but they seem to
do their work cheerfully, and the drivers
seem to be as patient as their teams.
The wives of literary men are some
times very appreciative. It is said that
Walter Scott once read ono of his beauti
ful and imaginary passages to his wife
who listened with eyelids cast down and
bated breath. When he closed, she re
marked, “Don’t put on your left stocking
to-morrow, dear, I must mend a hole in
-it.”
The last issue of the Thomasville
. Times has a long article on the life and
execution of the colored criminal, Dan
Brigheity, who was hung in that place on
Uhe 12th of March. It is to be wished that
the law should always he executed in such
.-away that justice should not seem to be
•so “lame of foot” hut that crime should
be prevented by the thought that she
“never fails to overtake the wicked going
before.”
We take the following from the Atlanta
Post.*
There will be a very interesting exami
nation before the Board of Police Com-
mtssioners to-night. It will be remem
bered that a few Sundays ago officer Mc
Crary attempted the arrest of Jesse Har
per, a colored watchman at the Georgia
Railroad depot, and on being resisted
■used force to compel his anthority. It is
claimed by Harper that the arrest was il
legal; and that therefore the force used
was unwarranted. The colored man has
preferred charges against McCrary, which
will be •heard to-night. The
:trial will be highly inter
esting, and will go far towards de
termining the duty of an officer when
making arrests. This has been a great
-question in various cities. A notable case are over
being that of Captain Williams, of the
New York city police force, who clubbed
a man to unconsciousness because he
•could not get out of the way of a proces
sion that was advancing in the street. The
■clubbing was very severe, but the police
commissioners finally dismissed the case.
So much feeling was raised against Wil
liams, however,'that he was withdrawn
from the rorce. From the facts given to
the public iu the case of Officer McCrary,
it is somewhat difficult to determine
whether he is wholly justifiable or not, for
his conduct m the premises. The public
will therefore look with some interest for
the report of the trial.
In order to get inside of a saloon a
prominent fireman of Augusta employed
the device of dropping his key inside
through the front grating and then asking
the saloon keeper to open liisdoor in order
to go below and get his keys. He was suc
cessful.
In the vicinity of Dahlonega large
patches of wheat, from seven to ten acres
in a field, have been completely destroyed
by a white worm in the shape of a com
mon cut worm. The farmers are plow
ing up the fields thus destroyed and plant
ing in spring oats.
Mr. J. M. Morgan, of Sumter conn tf ■
IiA3 raised some green corn, the joii
which were matured tpthe length of
feet, and some of them measurin:
incites in circumference.
A PUBLIC library is to he i: -
iu Forsyth, to be under C
•eftbe two literary and m
that place. A comfortal ’ b<
rented for the purpose a;
of books has been air..
.’’he room will be provi
piano, and each club will hold its meet
ings there. The clubs have our best
wishes for the success of the institution.
A tornado passed through Emanuel
county last week doing considerable dam
age. Mr. W. A. Maxey had his property
greatly injured.
The main volume of the wind passed
in a few rods of his dwelling, blowing
down his barns and stables and scatter
ing his com and fodder along the track
of the wind for two miles. His fences
were entirely demolished and many
of the rails blown away, while
others were driven with such force
against standing timber that they
were broken in two like straws. Enor
mous sticks of timber were dropped about
the plantation that were brought from a
distance unknown. It is strange to say
his stables were bl jwn down to the
ground and not one of the horses hurt.
He had three log buildings neareach other
which were of the same size, and the tim
ber of the three were so mixed that
the logs belonging to the different houses
could not be identified. It was without
doubt the severest wind that ever passed
through Emanuel county.
Mb. M. Wells was whetting the saw,
at the new saw mill of Bazemore & Wells
in Screven county, when liis hand came in
contact with the teeth of the saw and two
of his fingers were badly lacerated.
Columbus Times: The Chattahoochee
river is on a boom and the prospects last
night were that it will 4>e very near as
high as it was in January. It had risen
sixteen feet up to 5 o’clock yesterday eve
ning, and was at that time rising at the
rate of two inches an hour. All the facto
ries were stopped, and unless the river
falls very rapidly operations will not be
resumed to-day.
From Saturday night up to yesterday
evening at dark the rainfall was 2 and
71-100 inches. The prospect at this writ
ing is that the rain is not yet over.
We leam that the plantations down the
river are many of them flooded, and much
damage has been done to the newly
planted com fields and where guano had
been bedded in the ground for cotton.
The Constitution has the following:
The Supreme Court having refused to
grant Sam Hill a new trial, there is no
chance for his escape from his sentence of
life imprisonment, except in the clemency
of the Governor. The friends of the pris
oner are going to try this last resort. A
petition is being circulated on the streets,
and has already received several hundred
signatures. We leam that petitions will
be sent from other localities. The friends
of the unfortunate man are using every
means in their power in his behalf.
- Daily Times: Miss Viola Rogers, one
of the most charming and accomplished
young ladies of Macon, and who has been
visiting this city as the guest of Mrs. Wal
ker, for several weeks, left for her home
in Macon yesterday. Several of our
young men have already engaged rooms
at the Brown House for the summer.
We regret to leam that Rev. A. M.
Wynn, presiding elder of the Columbus
district, happened to a serious accident
day before yesterday. He was thrown
from a buggy and his shoulder was badly
hurt, and, it is feared, one or two of his
ribs broken. We trust it may not prove
so serious as is feared.
Skating seems to be very popular in
Augusta at present. Friday evening sev
eral couples will skate for prizes. Mr.
Platt is arranging a prize skating match
between Prof. Charles, now in Charleston,
and Mr. McMillen, of New York, who is
acknowledged one of the finest amateurs
in America,
The Forsyth Advertiser gives the fol
lowing account of a prisoner’s escape:
On last Sunday morning, about 9
o’clock, Mr. C. A. King went to the coun
ty jail to give the prisoners breakfast, and
first opened the door of a cell in which
were confined Squire Shannon, Tom Pit
man and Bill Lemons. As he opened the
outside door to the cell Bill Lemons
sprang out with a piece of iron in his
hands, and struck Mr. King a blow on the
head, which staggered him for a moment.
He rushed up to the desperate negro, hut
could not prevent his escape down the
stairway and out of doors. He gave his
attention to Tom Pitman and prevented
his escape.
Squire Shannon made no attempt to
come out. Mr. King received a severe
blow on the head, which gave him consid
erable pain. The wound was promptly
dressed by Dr. Moore, and- is not serious.
A crowd collected, but before they arrived
I 11 had got such a start that pursuit was
not attempted.
The Comptroller General has issued fi.
fas. against Samuel R. Hoyle, for balance
due by him to the State as tax collector
for Fulton county for about $29,000. The
Constitution gives us the following Infor
mation:
We are informed that Mr. Hoyle left
the city about a week ago for Nashville.
Tennessee, where he had some race horses
on Goneral Hardin’s place. A letter was
received yesterday by Mr. W. A. Brown
from Mr. Lin^k, of Nashville, stating that
Hoyle had sold his horses and had gone? to
Cincinnati. This is all the information
we could get of his whereabouts.
It has been known in the city among
his friends that he lost eight thousand
dollars at the Augusta races a short time
since. He also let Mr. W. L. Goldsmith,
late Comptroller General, have a large
sum of money—how much we are unable
to ascertain—when he (Goldsmith) was
being investigated by the .legislature,
which he has been unable to get since
from Mr. Goldsmith.
We are also informed that he was inter
ested in a large gambling house in Cin-
le had a lrrge s
cinnati. He had a lrrge sum invested in
race hones, owning an interest m Ben
Hill and Round Dance, and other cele
brated race horses that have been on the
turf in Georgia daring the past few years.
Colorado Heights.
A Colorado correspondent of the New
York Christian Advocate, says:
Just west of this same line of contact of
ilain and mountains rise some of the sub
imest peaks in America. Go up Pike’s
Peak before sunrise, and you will see
about twenty peaks tipped with flame that
14,090 feet above the sea. The
Alps have very few that are higher, and
nowhere so many visible from one place.
Colorado has one hundred peaks over 14,-
000 feet high, and two hundred more over
13,000 feet. Among these peaks lie the
parks in the same general direction north
and south. These are areas from 20 to 100
miles wide, and from GO to 200 miles long.
They are supposed to have formerly been
very deep lakes among the mountains,but
the mountain barrier having been cleft
with a canon, they are now dry. They
are located as follows beginning at the
north: first, North peak, then two charm
ing little ones called Egeria and Estes,
Middle park, then South park in the mid
dle of the State—where Fremont was
hemmed in with snow and obliged to sub-
st on his mules—and San Luis paik in
the south. The view of these deep in
closed valleys, from the surrounding
bights is attractive in the extreme. Men
build tlicir cities and work their mines at
unheard of elevations. All Leadville,
with its 30,OCX) inhabitants, is 10,025 feet
above the sea; the Stevens’ mine is nearly
12,000, and the present Help mine 14,000
feet above the sea. This is nearly twice
and a half the elevation of Mount Wash
ington.
Lord Derby to the workmen: “We
have heard a great deal recently about
•* peasantry tiecoming owners of land
1 having gardens, fields and farms of
ir own. Now, anaere of good agricul-
■>1 land Is worth, on an average, about
or as nearly as possible 3d for every
• e yard. I wonder how many work
'd consider that when they order
penny worth of beer or spirits they
.allowingdown a square yard of
.• agricultural land.” ■ - • -
. Pwens, druggist, Altoona, Pa.,
■Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup lias a
hi reputation, the demand for it
i.str.nishing. Mothers will have
It is destined to supersede all
thing Syrups.
Washington Correspondeaoe.
Washington City, March IS, 1880.
both houses
are resting to-day from tbeir labors of the
past week. A goad day it is, too, to rest.
It has been snowing with scarcely an in
termission since yesterday noon, and the
Canadian weather prophet has triumph
antly vindicated his reputation. He call
ed for three snow storms between the 1st
and 15th of March, and we have had ex
actly that number with one day to spare.
I move Ms appointment as our “Old
Probs” rice General Myer, who hasn’t
done nearly so well since he has been in
charge of our weather. With a low tem
perature we should now have at least half
a foot of snow on the ground. As it is,
there are scarcely two inches, the weather
being comparatively mild and the ground
rather warm in consequence of the long
continued mildness of the temperature.
If the doctors don’t reap a rich harvest
now I should like to know the reason
why. There is enough rheumatism to
the square inch of the present weather to
satisfy the' greediest medico that ever
wrote a prescription or pocketed a fee. I
should like, exceedingly, to belong to the
profession just now.
THE FITZ JOHN PORTER CASE
has been hung up for the present, to the
immense disgust of those “moral ideas”
statesmen of the Senate who had charged
themselves with big speeches, to be used
as campaign documents. Logan’s four-
days’ yawp, however, had pretty well
disgusted everybody, and there was a gen
eral willingness to lay il aside until the
pangs of that infliction had somewhat sub
sided. It can, however, be called up at
any time by a majority vote. Speaking
for myself, I hope it will be allowed to
rest for the remainder of this session,
The discussion certainly cannot help the
Democrats, and may be made to work to
their injury iu the campaign of bloody
shirt lies and sectional bigotry and bitter
ness that lies before us. The South has
little interest in it anyhow, but if her rep
resentatives take it up actively, her ene
mies will turn it against us somehow.
They have the will and would certainlyfind
a way to do so. Let the Northern Demo
crats do the talking. Wewilldothevotin ;
when the time comes, wMch I hope wii i
not be until after the November elections.
TMs restraint will go hard with some of
our statesmen, but better that than they
should throw any more tkt in the fire.
That business has been vastly overdone,
already.
JUST AS I EXPECTED,
Dr. Felton voted with the Radicals on
Thursday on the bill forbidding the assess
ment of office-holders for political pur
poses. Mr. Speer voted with the Demo
crats for the bill. Felton is getting ready
for the next campaign in his district and
of course doesn’t like the idea of being cut
off from the material aid he is likely to
receive from the Radical office-holders
down there. He will have to rely upon
their aid more this year than ever before
and of course is not willing to close their
pockets' against him by voting for a bill
that proposes to cut him off from that very
thing. Mr. Stephens did not vote on the
bill, so I can’t say how he stands on the
matter. Of course the rest of the delega
tion voted for the bill. When it is remem
bered how Dr. Felton has thundered
against party corruption, his vote against
a measure calculated to do away with
one of the most fruitful
sources of it is very edifying, but at the
same time, very characteristic. As you
will have noticed, he also voted against
breaking up the present iniquitous and
swindliug high tariff by which New Eng
land robs the South and West annually of
so many millions of dollars.
THE VARIOUS PRESIDENTIAL “BOOMS”
are still booming. I see one for Tilden
in some paper this morning to the effect
that so far from his health being feeble,
lie is as “spry” as a two year old—better
and stronger than he has been for years,
and enjoys nothing more than “walking
down Broadway” In the mid3t of a pelting
snow storm, while younger men are shut
up in cars and stages. I suppose this stuff
is deliberately man tured and circula
ted in the belief that it will fool some
body, but it seems to be the boldest kind
of flapdoodle. But then, you know, the
old chap is rich enough to make an object
to some greedy newspapers to print just
what he wants circulated. I may oe mis
taken, but I tMnk I can put my hand on
some newspapers of this sort in Georgia;
and you will see more of them, too, as
nomination day draws near.
THE TREASURY BROOM BRIGADE,
* Every day a little past 4 p. m. the
broom brigade is turned loose on the halls
and rooms of the Treasury building. They
are of many colors and nationalities.
Prior to their grand charge they are mass
ed in one of the basement halls with their
brooms, buckets, brushes and swabs,
Their pay is only fifteen dollars per
month, and among them are women who
once would have scorned such work. But
bread is as necessary in Washington as
elsewhere, and scrubbing beats starvation
all hollow. The sweepings are collected,
sorted and placed in three bins. Most ol’
it is of coarse waste paper, and returns
again to the mill.
After you tire of looking at this sweep
ing brigade yon can go down stairs and
see the “macerator” at work, grinding to
a soft nasty pulp the called in and con
demned greenbacks. It grinds up from
one hundred to five hundred thousand
dollars per day. It Is ran by a ten-horse
power engine, and grinds about two hours
daily.
The money goes into a hugo round caul
dron-like hopper into wMch open three
small dials secured by three separate locks.
The obsequies of the condemned green
backs are daily observed with a rigid and
precise formality. Three separate United
States Treasury officials, men of known
trust, probity and honor, “higMy respected
by all who know them,” carry the con
demned bills to the sacrificial hopper, un
lock the sacred doors, chuck them in, lock
them up and carefully watch each other
to see that none of this government paper
sticks to their clothing or to the tar on
their heels. .Then hot water is let on, and
the cogs of the government coffee mill
rend the tens, hundreds and thousand
dollar notes to atoms. You may look
through a little window in the top of the
hopper and see this process of liquidation
going on. The engineer scooped up a
landful of the ground up currency from a
mass and put it near my nose and eyes
for Inspection. It is a nasty mack. Yet,
since it has been money, one gazes at it
with grief, curiosity and even respect.-
A special to the Courier-Journal says:
New York, March 14.—Yonr corres
pondent is justified in saying that there
■are railroad combinations under negotia
tion here that when consummated will
surpass in magnitude anything yet done.
Certain changes secretly made in railroad
ownership may serve to coalesce antagon
istic interests and drive apart those .here
tofore allied. I am not at liberty to dis
close the nature of these negotiations, but
will notify you as soon as they are in
part accomplished. The Newcomb-Cole
conference continues, though nothing Is
announced as definite. Mr. Newcomb is
very busily engaged, and in conference
dally with leading capitalists and rail
road men. The statement is authorized
that the Georgia Western project is re
vived as a part of the new programme,
and in certain contingencies, which I re
gard inevitable, it will be built iu less
time than ever known before. It need
not be said that the Louisville and Nash-
vL.e is the directing spirit in the negotia
tions. Mr. Newcomb will leave New
York In about a week with a party of
gentlemen and go directly South and
West. - -
A young gentleman 1 somewhat numer
ous in social circles took his sister, a wee
miss, to see a family the other day in.
which he is a regular caller. The little
girl made herself quite at home, and ex-,
hibited great fondness for one of the young
ladies, hugging her heartily. .
“How very affectionate she is,” said the
lady of the house.
“Yes; just like her brother,” responded
the young lady unthinkingly.'
Paterfamilias looked up sternly over
his spectacles, the young gentleman blush
ed, and there was consternation in the
family circle.
—The negro physicians of Tennessee
have organized a State medical society, of
Inch Dr. J. M. Jameson is President.
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
EDITED BY
General Wm. M. BROWNE,
Professor of History and Agriculture in the
University of Georgia.
Amount of Nitrogen in Cotton Seed.
REPLY TO GEN. WILLIAM M. BROWNE,
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—In
reply to my former letter, General Browne
says ‘T have not made the statement con
tained in the articles to which Dr. Jones
excepts without good and sufficient au-
thority.” He then gives as his authority
Dr. E. M. Pendleton, whom he quotes as
saying: “As an average, we may safely
put down seven per cent, of nitrogen
equal to a little more than three per cent,
of ammonia. Fifteen hundred pounds .of
seed cotton will make a good bale of cot
ton, leaving one thousand pounds of seed
For every bale of cotton, then, the planter
has seed enough left to make eighty pounds
of ammonia.” I quote the above from a
paper on the value of cotton seed as a fer
tilizer sent one by Dr. Pendleton, and pub
lished by me iu the Southern Farm and
Home.
My first remark on this quotation is
that it contains glaring mistakes, probably
typographical. I do not think Dr. Pen
dleton would have made them. First,
that seTenper cent, of nitrogen is equal to
a little more than three per cent, of am
monia; and second, that a little over three
percent, of ammonia would make eighty
pounds of ammonia in one thousand
pounds of seed. Any one in the least con
versant with the rudiments of chemistry
knows that when nitrogen by combination
forms ammonia, the resulting compound
(ammonia) weighs more than the original
nitrogen. In tne case cited, seven per
cent, of nitrogen is equivalent to eight and
a half per cent, of ammonia, and not to
“a little more than three per cent.”
And if there was only “a little
more than three per cent.” a thousand
pounds of cotton seed would contain a lit
tle more than thirty pounds of ammonia,
and not “eighty” pounds. Such errors"
would have struck any one, familiar with
chemistry, on reading the passage, and
ought to have made the Professor of Agri
culture pause and investigate the matter
more fully. Had he consulted Dr. Pen
dleton’s work on “Scientific Agriculture,”
page 364. a work prepared probably with
greater care than an article for a maga
zine—he would have found Dr. P. saying
“the average of these tliree chemists * • *
makes the amount of nitrogen inthe whole
seed, capsule and all as used by farmers
for manure, 3.10 per cent.” This is not a
casual statement, hut occurs in a para
graph in which Dr. P. is giving, accord
ing to the best information within his
reach, a fall analysis of the cotton plant.
The figures of each chemist, from which
the average is taken, are also given, so
that there Is little possibilityof typograph
ical error.
General Browne implies that Dr. Pen
dleton had made an analysis of cot
ton seed himself, and from that he
was quoting. If Dr. P. ever made such
an analysis, h« does not refer to it in his
book, or in any other publication I have
ever seen. With commendable prudence
Dr. P. relies upon the average results oh-
tained by reputable analytical chemists,
and I.now submit that General Browne’s
own witnecs has fully substantiated the
statement In my first article.
The propriety of adding phosphates to
composts of cotton seed, I did not discuss
and did not dispute. I joined issue with
the statement that cotton seed contained
only “a littlejffiosphoric acid.” A thous
and pounds of cotton seed (about thirty-
three and . a third bushels) contains as
much phosphoric acid as is present in a
soluble condition in 100 pounds of first-
class acid phosphate. Would any farmer
calf that only “a little phosphoric ac»d.”
W. L. Jones.
Athens, February 16,1880.
REPLY TO DR. JONES.
The “glaring mistake” upon which Dr.
Jones bases his argument in the foregoing
communication, is so manifestly typo
graphical I am at a loss to Comprehend
lis motive in noticing it. It was so plain
that when I read my article in print, I
did not think It necessary to correct it,
because I felt certain that it could not
mislead any fair-minded reader of ordin
ary intelligence, however casual his peru
sal of the article. My extract from Dr.
Pendleton’s paper in the Southern Farm
and Home, made “seven per cent, of ni
trogen equal to a little more than eight,
(not three) per cent, of ammonia.” I
have the paper before me now as I re
copy it from the Farm and Home, Yol. I,
p. 307. The mistake, most “glaring,” I
admit, was made by the printer, I can as
sure Dr. Jones, and not by me. Although
I do not pretend to he a practical analyt
ical chemist, I am perfectly aware of the
fact that nitrogen when changed into am
monia weighs more than the original ni
trogen. At all events, I am sufficiently
conversant with “the rudiments” of arith
metic to know positively that ten limes
three cannot make eighty pounds of am
monia or of anything else, simple or com
pound
Dr. Pendleton may have found reason,
subsequently to writing the article for the
Farm and Home, from which Jl quoted—
though he does not say so—to modify his
analysis ot cotton seed; but in that arti
cle he certainly stated as follows:
“As an average, we may safely put
down seven (7) per cent, of nitrogen equal
to eight (8) per cent, of ammonia. 1,500
pounds of seed cotton will make a good
iale of cotten, leaving 1,000 pounds of
seed. For every bale of cotton, then, the
planter has seed enough to make eighty
(80) pounds of ammonia.”
In another part of the same article, Dr.
Pendleton estimates the value of a ton of
cotton seed “as a nitrogenous fertilizer,”
at'$36, or “eighteen dollars for every
heavy bale ginned.” As the commercial
value of nitrogen varies from seventeen
(17) cents per pound (Prof. Johnson’s es
timate) to twenty-five (25) or twenty-six
(26) cents, it is clear that he must have
believed, when he wrote, that 1,000 pounds
of cotton seed contained more than forty
(40) pounds of ammonia. Taking Ms fig
ures—seventy (70) pounds of nitrogen in
1,000 pounds of seed, and allowing the
price of nitrogen, when he wrote, to be
twenty-six (26) cents per pound, we find
th« value of nitrogen in a ton of cotton
seed to be $36.40. And further, af
ter making this calculation, Dr. Pen
dleton goes on to remark: “Hasps no ex-
.aggeration. It is substantiated by agri
cultural chemistry and by actualexpori-
ments made by myself and others.” It is
true that in the appendix to his “Scien
tific Agriculture,” ftt the page indicated by
Dr. Jones, Dr. Pendleton states that the
average of the analyses of three chemists,
Jackson, Yille and Colton, one of whom,
(Ville) had only analyzed the kernel,
which is just50 percent, of the whole
seed, makes the. amount of nitrogen 3.10
per cent. He says nothing in his appen
dix of any analysis made by himself, hut
that he aid make one with the result
stated in his article may certainly he in
ferred from his statement, that the figures
in that article are no “exaggeration,” but
are substantiated by agricaltural*chemistry
and by actual experiments made “by him
self and others.” By what other actual
experiment hut analysis could he and
others have ascertained those figures ?
Since writing my first reply to Dr.
Jones’ strictures on my statement made
on my faith in the accuracy of Dr. Pendle
ton’s figures, I was informed by my friend,
Dr. J. S. Lawton, that he had'an analysis
of cotton seed made by Hr. Laud, late
State chemist, a year or two ago, wMch
exactly-agrees with Dr. Pendleton’s asser
tion as to the per ccntage of ammonia.
Now, Dr. Pendleton and Mr. Land may
be mistaken, but I must insist that, in
quoting Dr. Pendleton’s figures with the
design of showing,. in general terms, the
value of cetton seed as a fertilizer, I was
not guility of that want of caution which
Dr. Jones would seem to impute to me.
Dr. Jones joins issue with my statement
that “cotton seed contain only a little
phosphoric acid,” and adds, to refute me,
that “a thousand pounds of cotton seed
(about 33 j bushels) contain as much phos
phoric acid and is present in a soluble
condition in 100’ pounds of a first-class acid
phosphate.” As the average artiount of
soluble phosphoric acid in a first-class
acid phosphate is twelve to thirteen per
cent, the amount contained in 100 pounds
of cotton seed must, therefore, be one-
tenth of twelve or thirteen per cent, or a
fraction over one per cent.; or, in other-
words, one ton of good acid phosphate
contains as much phosphoric acid as is
contained in ten tons of cotton seed or
the seed of twenty heavy bales of cotton.
This may hot be, strictly speaking, “a
little phosphoric acid,” but it cannot cer
tainly be said to be a great deal. In
compliance with Dr. Jones’ request ad
dressed to the publishers of this journal, I
would explain the apparent tardiness of
Ms rejoinder to my reply to his first com
munication. Nearly a month ago
he sent a paper to the Telegraph
and Messenger, containing substantial
ly all that is contained in the foregoing
communication. This paper, with true
journalistic courtesy, was submitted to
me by the publisher. I replied immedi
ately in terms almost identical with those
i now employ, and promptly returned Dr,
Jones’ paper, and my reply by mail. For
some unaccountable reason my letter, as
well as other packages mailed by me on
the same day, did not reach its destina
tion. I am glad that Dr. Jones has re
peated his reply, because it affords me the
opportunity to state the reasons of the
faith that is in me, and to explain that
when he discovered the palpable typo
graphical error cf his first reply, “the
Professor of Agriculture” did not “pause
and investigate the matter more fully,”
because he bad no doubt the readers of
the Telegraph and Messenger are
conversant with the intricacies of the mul
tiplication table.
William M. Browne, ..
Professor Agriculture, etc., University of
Georgia.
A valned friend, an intelligent planter
in Randolph county, writes us in regard
to the value of the poultry yard as a
source from which we may collect fertil
izing material in abundance and very
cheaply. He says: “I have thirty fowls
and ten turkeys which sire never housed
except at night in a pole house with a dirt
floor. Every week, a boy ten years old,
rakes up and deposits the droppings in a
bacon cask. After two or three layers of
the droppings, a small amount of fresh
wood earth is spread over them to prevent
the escape qf the ammonia, and so on, nn-
1. Any laud that is suited for com will
do for lucerne.
2. The oest time to sow is in the latter
part of Au gust or September, so that the
young plants may become well established
before the winter begins; hut good results
will follow early spring sowing in rich,
well prepared dean land*
3. Drill sowing is far preferable to
broadcast, because it allows cultivation to
keep down weeds and grass wMle the
crop is young.
4. From ten to twelve pounds of seed
per acre are sufficient.
5. Cut when the bloom appears, and
cure like clover.
We will add to the above that lucerne
should he invariably cut, never pastured.
On rich land, five good cuttings per year,
for six or seven years, may be counted on,
with annual top dressing and one plow
ing.. The great essential to success in
raising lucerne is to keep the crop clear
of grass and weeds while it is young.
When once it has taken the ground it wul
hold it.
TO CORRESPONDENTS. *
Correspondents on agricultural subjects
desiring information through the agricul
tural columns of this paper, are requested
to address their communications to us at
Athens, Georgia. We will take pleasure
in replying to them as fully and as prompt
ly as circumstances may permit.
The President to-day confirmed the
sentence of dismissal in the case of Major
Reno.
The House Committee on Foreign
Affairs adopted a resolution to-day calling
upon the Secretary of the Treasury for
the history of ali the proceedings had in
the matter of unsettled claims of the
Spanish inhabitants of East Florida during
the years of 1812 and 1813, known as the I
East Florida claims, the settlement of
which is provided for by a stipulation f
contained in the treaty of 1819 [between
the United States and Spain. The ques- [
tion which has been in dispute since
1836 is the propriety of allowing five per
centl interest on the claims passed upon I
by the Florida courts. Upon receipt of I
' ~ 1 —
take
SIMMONS’
LIVER
REGULATOR;
It Will Positively Cure
BAD BREATH.
the I inforavationasked for "by theTcdfo.- I ^ bre »‘l>
SS e J™“ bJe “
gated with a view to its Aral and satis- j Regulator.
factory settlement. I JAUNDlCH
San Francisco, March 16.—The po-1
lice Judge this morning sentenced Dennis I
Kearney to six months’imprisonment in th * * bad «*'
the House of Correction, and to pay a fine I
of $1,000. The severity of the sentence I SICK HEADACHE,
was a surprise to Kearney, who expected The stomach „
to get off with nominal punishment. It I etuse* severe pain in the head, aeeompantadin
is probable that he will take the case to for the relief and core of this distress-
the Supreme Court on habeas corpus. I * Suction take Simmons' Liver Regulator.
. Mobile, Alabama, March 16.—Spe-1 MALARIA,
c.al dispatches to the llegister from Rome I .
, , and Selma, says there are overflows of S"*** bring in unhealthy localities mar
BY TELEGBAPHlISSSiSS^ttaS. SSSlfcSfiB&ffi-
~ j pected that before many hours the water I
Nashville, March 16.—The presi- j reach Selma, and the indications 1 CONSTIPATION
ITOU.
ALCOHOLIC POISONING.
dency of the Nashville, Chattanooga and P™} 610 a overflow than those of shooM not he regarded as a trifling ailment na.
- Tlrp POTirTT > v yard St ' Lou5s railroad has bsen accepted by 1871 and 187p. At Rome the water has I tore demands the utmost regaUrit; G the bov-
EEBTILIZEB3 FROM THE poultry YARD. ex _ Govern#r j am es D. porter, of this reached the battery rooms of tho Western S 1 *- T D ho " °! a •“•"* n,tU! ? tv ‘•Hn* Simmons'
State. I Union Telegraph office, and is still ris- “ TOr J, «s»“ to r. i ‘l , »°n> , Won d eff S ctnsi.
Savannah, March 16.—A special to I * n S‘ I PILES,
the Morning News from Jacksonville an- ' Augusta, Ga., March 16.—Fifty prom- ...
nonnees the organization of the East mentbusineM men and others left Angus- d.y»ith P He^8iiSm^u^ S f^Mii
Florida Railway Company, making the I ta this morning, to take part in the excur- I cured hundreds and it will sure tou
east link in the proposed short route be- sion over the Cincinnati Southern Rail-
tween Jacksonville and Savannah. Its I road to’Cinciimati. The invitations were
completion will reduce the time between j issued by the Cincinnati Southern Rail- •• ,,, „ , .
Savannah and Jacksonville to six hours, road Company. ci£ct eounter«M tts
and from New York to Jacksonville to J Montgomery, Ala., March 16.—The I pi<i liver u»roo*d tbe DerVeesJww rasa*
forty hours against sixty at_present. (rains of the past five days have been very J jnc^nubance corrected urn in tempt rim-• w»*
YELLOW PAVER.
_ The BeguHtor hM proven n»pre»t va'ust
til the cask isftdl. LaSt year, I saved three J tion, and adopted ultra resolutions against I here. ° It is now growing cold. 1
casks full. They were kept in a emigration. Thevformulated a petition I Harrisrttrg. Pa.. AfawL n
dry place protected from rain. 1 do not
know what the casks hold, but I suppose
about thirty bushels each. If so, and
each bushel weighs tMrty pounds, the
three casks gave 2,700 pounds of guano,
But, to be within the mark, throw off 700
pounds, and I had 2,000 pounds—one
ton—of guano, equal, in my opinion, to
Peruvian or any other. If one ton of this
will make three, we have, at $40, or 480
pounds of lint cotton per ton, $120 worth
of fertilizers from thirty-five or forty head
of poultry, allowing the eggs and chickens
raised to pay for feeding and manipulat
ing the fertilizer. If my estimate is cor
rect one hundred head of poultry will fur
nish seven and a half tons of fertilizer.
• I have now, after putting, I am afraid,
too much on my garden, one cask nearly
full. Next year I propose to manipulate
my own fertilizers and intend to increase
my poultry to one hundred bead.”
Our correspondent cannot over-estimate
the value of the sweepings of his poultry
yard, being particularly rich in nitrogen
and phosphoric acid. They rank next to
night soil in value, because they contain
both the solid and liquid excrement*
mixed together. Three or four hundred
weight of fowl manure, preserved so that
its volatile matter is retained, and kept
jcrfectly dry, were estimated by the late
iViiliam N.WMte as “of equal value with
from fourteen to eighteen loads,pf animal
manure.”
To preserve all the valuable prop
erties of poultry manure, the floor of
the fowl house should be thickly strewn
with charcoal dust or plaster, and occa
sionally raked over and kept as free from
moisture as possible. When required for
use, it should be thoroughly mixed with
eight or nine times its hulk of good soil,
and a liberal admixture of plaster. * It is
an especially good manure for com. Care
should be taken in applying it to cover it
an inch deep, so that the seed may not
come in immediate contact with it. As ex
perience has proved, this will prevent ger
mination. A good Jhandlul to a hill of
com is sufficient. ^
POWER OF THE SOIL TO RETAIN MA
HUBS*
Many persons suppo.d that all mate
rials soluble in water pass downward in
solution, and are thus lost to plants; that
those whose soil is sandy soon loose all
the value of whatever manure they apply
because they sink rapidly below the point
where the roqU of the plants can reach
them; and thirclay soils alone, through
wMch water cannot percolate easily, have
the power to retain manure. This is a
great mistake. While it is quite true that
the existence of a proportion of clay is
very valuable, and in the absence of car-
bonacious matter, is essential to the re
tention of manure, it is not necessary
that the clay he so tenacious
as to prevent the free filtra
tion of pure water, to enable
it to retain manure, for many soils,
through which pure water will pass readi
ly, will retain all the impurities of impure
water, allowing only the pure water to
pass down. This may be said, indeed, of
all arable soils, lor if it were not so, the
water in our wells would become so im
pregnated with soluble organic matter as
to be undrinkable. We can prove this by
digging in an old stable lot, a little way
below where the soil has been stirred, and
we will find that it does not contain a
much larger proportion of the soluble
matter resident on the surface than any
adjacent soil. Clay has the property of
retaining all animal and vegetable sub
stances and the gases wMch they evolve,
until taken up by growing plants.
It will also retain most of the alkalies;
hut clay is not the only substance
In soils that has this retentive power.
Carbon in every form possesses it, wheth
er it be applied artificially as charcoal
dust, or whether it exist in the soil from
the decay of vegetable matter or from ma
nures. Peat, swamp mack, etc., are
forms of carbon, and manures, vegetable
mould, etc., are notMng but modifications
of it. It is the presence of carbon which'
gives the dark color to soils. It is well
known that black garden soils will retain
manure much longer than any ordinary
soil, and that a smaller quantity is neces
sary to be applied to them annually than
any other, and this for the reason that
the carbon wMch they contain, in conse
quence ot the previous decay, retains the
gases resulting from the decomposition of
the manure, until the plants appropriate
it. The soluble results of vegetable de
cay are retained in the soil, if it contains
clay or carbon, until taken up by new
vegetation, and are only lost when they
are suffered to escape as gas into the at
mosphere.
WHEN TO PRUNE
I have been requested to give my opin
ion as to the best time to prune trees in
our Southern climate. As our climate is
mild and the spring generally early, I pre
fer pruning late in the fall just before
winter sets in, because the active func
tions of the tree scarcely cease with us as
they do during the long, severe winters at
the North. By early pruning the sap and
strength of the tree are economized.
Pruning in the growing season checks
growth, and where it is deemed necessary
to arrest excessive vigor in order to pro
mote fruit bearing, it is the best season to
prune. When, by pruning, it is desired to
give shapeliness to a tree—to give it a
certain form—if it has put forth its leaves,
the best way is to pinch off the shoots,
and the best instrument is the fingers.
Nip the superfluous or ungraceful shoots
while they are young, and do not wait till
they become full grown limbs, and then
lop them off with a pruning hook or scis
sors. Where the trees are luxuriant, but
have been neglected so that the dense
foliage deprives the fruit of sunlight and
air, severe summer pruning is allowable.
In the cold climate of more northern lati
tudes It is safest to pmne after the frosts
of winter are past aud just before the buds
begin to swell.
CULTURE OF LUCERNE.
Another correspondent who has read
what we have- heretofore written in the
Telegraph and Messenger, recom
mending the cultivation of lucerne as a
valuable forage plant, requests us to in
form him first, as to the best kind of soil
for lucerne; second, when to sow; third,
how to sow—whether.’ broadcast or in
drills; fourth, how much seed per acre;
fifth, when to cut ar. : ' jW to cure.
Chicago, March 16.—Tho Socialists I heavy, and the Alabama river has over- j
held a meeting last night, and heard ad- flowed its hanks. There are no renorts of
dresses from leaders on the Chinese ques- damage to any of the railroads centering
tion, and adopted ultra resolutions against I here. It is now growing cold. I ribie Momjm. simmoni Liver Ke^u'nt' i
emigration. They formulated a petition Harrisburg, Pa., March 16.—Matters I fElu 10 do tUt *» da’awd tor is.
to the City Council to quarantine against concerning the striking puddlers are in COLIC
the Chinese, and threatened dire tMngs no way changed. Fifty-seven mills in all Children with eolic toon
in case they came to Chicago m any num-1 have shut down. The puddlers say they I relief when Simmom Liver Regale m - iseawtst*.
hers. I are in receipt ot information that at least tered eooordin* to directions. AduUa -* mDh
Richmond, March 16.—The heavy twenty or thirty more will go out before ohll<irtn dtriT ® ***** beI1 * a * ,hi * o-odldne.
rains In the past few days have swollen all the end of the week. Thus far, no d isor- CHILLS ANB fiver
the tributaries of the James river above I der has followed the strike in this region.
here, and serious floods are feared. Mer-I London, March 16;—A Vienna dis- There k no nsed of (offering »nj’angsrwith
chants inthe lower part of the cityrare patch to;jtheTimes highly commends Gen-
removing their goods to places of safety. I eral MelikoiFs treatment, both of his'sub-1 it tarsi wiien all other rrmeuiei (mil.
The rain to-night is falling in torrents, ac- ordinates, and of all who come in contact f
companied by lightning. Telegrams from with him, and says it is In striking con-
LynchhiL-g report that the river there has trast with the brutality and contempt of Thi*' medicine wUi poeitiveiv cure ioa of thia
risen about six feet, and still rising rapid- I officials towards the Russian public. He | temble olnue. It la do vmui ooa»t but we at-
ly. The river at Charlottesville is repor- I not only investigates things personally. *® rt «“f} 1 * t . Ic » 1I 2 »ha* we know to he tree,
ted up several feet and also rising rapid- and dispatches promptly affairs which,
ly- I under the'old regime,would have dragged I nlotor or Medicine prepored only by
• Nashville, March 16.—The ‘steamer | on for months and years, but he evidently I H. 2EIL1N A CO,
Bradford arrived from above to-night, means what he says, and has not only PhltadeipMe,
Captain Armstrong says the entire low- I asked the co-operation of all good citizens ———-- 1
land for twn hundred miles up the river J for the protection of society, but has re-
is flooded. He reports that a rise is com-1 quested the St. Petersburg town council I continues the President will issue & proc*
ing down which will swell the river here J to sendsomeof its members to advise with I lamation, and troops will be used to pro
to at least forty-seven feet. The Tennes- j the executive committee. The success of tect the Utes, if necessary,
see river is oat of it banks at Decatur and I this system raises the question whether J The House Committee on Foreign Af-
Johnsonville. • {its application on a larger scale, and the | fairs agreed to-day to report favorably to
Madrid, March 16.—England, France, reorganization on this basis of the whole the House of Representatives, Wilson’s
Germany, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, and Russian Empire, might not be underta-I bill providing for the restoration to the
, . States, have agreed to a propo- | ken. I Chinese government of the so-called Chi*
sal of Spain for a conference to be held in I Mr. Gladstone started to-day on an elec-| nese “Indemnity Fund,” after making
Madrid, to arrange with the envoy of Mo- tioneering tour through Midlothian in the proper deductions for the loss of certain
rocco, rules relating to the protection, by | Liberal interest. I ships destroyed by the people of that
foreign powers, of the Jews and other! The meeting of the Radical Association I country.
subjects of the Sultan of Morocco. of Lambeth to support the candidature of Also Representative Cox’s bill to restore
Washington, March 16.—The Senate Henry Laboucherc, editor of Truth, of I to the Japanese Government $785,000 and
committee on Privileges and Elections to- I a seat in Parliament, ended in a free interest, paid as indemnity by that or ov-
day by a strict party vote decided to re- ] fight. The lights were extinguished, eminent, under convention of October”22,
port that Kellogg should be unseated and I chairs broken, and hisses and groans pre- 11864.
Spofford seated. There will be a minority vented speaking. An attempt to storm On motion of Mr. Atkins, the House
report. I the platform was vigorously and success-j Appropriations Committee agreed to-day
In the Senate, Mr. Edmunds introduced I fully resisted by its occupants with fists, to report an amendment to the special de-
bill to fix a day for the meeting ef elec-1 sticks and chairs. I ficiency bill, now pending in the House,
tors for President and Vice President, and I London, March 16.— Mr. 'Gladstone, I providing foran appropriation of$6,605,000
to provide for and regulate the counting of in addressing a crowd at the railway sta- to complete the payment of pensions for
votes for President and Vice President, tion to-day, before his departure for Mid-• the present fiscal year, ending June 39,
and the decision of questions arising there-1 lothian, said: “I am going to gain a vie- I860. $56,000,000 have already been a*-
on. In doing so he said: Fcr more than a tory. I expect to be supported with a propriated, and the last item will swell
year, now, there has existed a large zeal such as will make Scotland an ex- the appropriations to $62,765,000 required
and select committee in this body, chaiged ! ample for the rest of the Kingdom.” He j to pay the pension rolls during 1880. It
with the duty of considering this and other | said also thathe had no doubt he should I is thought much more will b”e required
cognate subjects. So far as I know, that I secure the object he had in view in going for 1881.
committee has had no meeting, and I have j to Scotland, which was not only to win The bill introduced by Mr. Edmunds in
be this most important business; but as no I and to consign them to that retirement J on the second Monday in January after
movement has been made, I leel it my I for which they are more fitted. I their appointment, that previous to such
duty to ask consent to introduce this bill, I London, March 16.—The British bark j meeting each State mav determine any
and that it be referred to that commit- j Yuba, for Baltimore, and the German j controversy arising in connection with
tee. I bark Gasolle, Captain Anekter, from Wil- j such electors, and that such determina-
On motion of Mr. Thurman, the resolu-j mington, North Carolina, for Hamburg, I tion shall establish a lawful title of the
tion ot Mr. Kellogg, on Friday, for the ap- I were in collision on the 14th instant in 1 electors, and shall govern in the counting
pointment of a committee to investigate longitude 10 west, and are badly damaged, of the electoral vote. Both Houses of Con-
the scandalous newspaper charges against The Yuba has put into Queenstown and [ gross shall meet in joint session on the
him, was laid on the table by a vote of I the Gasolle into Brookhaven. second Wednesday in February to
thirty-four yeas (Democrats) to twenty-1 Match 17.—In the Chamber of count electoral votes. Objections to
five nays (Kepublieans). | Deputies to-day, the Left introduced an I the counting of votes shall be made in
In the House, on motion of Mr. Wood, interpellation asking the government ‘writing and submitted to each House sep-
of New York, the session was ordered for 1 w q, a t course it will pursue relative to the irately. If more than one return from
Saturday next for the purpose of debate j unauthorized religious confraternities. I an J State shall hare been received only
only on the fundin" bin. I Premeir Do Freycinct emphatically re- 1 1110 TOtes fi iven b y the electors appointed
Mr. Sawyer, of Missouri, called up the I seated his declaration of yesterday, that! conformity with this hill shall he
contested case of Bradley vs. Slemons, I jj C wou id apply existing laws. He de- i counted, aud the two Houses acting sep-
from the second district of Arkansas. j manded complete liberty of action. He 1 arately shall concurrently decide which
Mr. McMahon, of Ohio,raised_the ques- wou id always be ready to render an ac- return is supported by the proper State
tion for consideration, and the House re- j coun t 0 flu S acts. He asked for a com- I tribunal. No electoral vote from any
fused to consider the election case, and j p j ete vote 0 f confidence by a large major- Statc from which only one return has
the morning hour having been dispensed I j ty _ motion was introduced by the 1 1)01:11 received shall be rejected, except by
with at 12:40 a. no, the House went into I j^ft, expressing confidence in the Gov- the affirmative votes of both Houses. In
Committee of the Whole, with Mr. Car- I ernme nt and relying on its firmness to en- cases where there is no more than one re-
lisle, of Kentucky,.in tlie chair on the ae- I force the laws against unauthorized con- j from a State* not . supported
ficiency appropriation eiU. I gregations and adopted by a vote of 338 I ^7 decision of a State tribunal, whose
Washington, March 16.—The com- 147. Tj, e Extreme Left abstained votes onl y shall he counted, which the
mittee on Mihtary Affairs reported favora- from yoting. The minority were all mem- I two houses acting separately shall con-
biy the House joint resolution to carry in- I 0 f the Right. currently decide to be the lawful votes of
to effect a resolution of Congress adopted I The Feny educational bill, as amended I 018 legally appointed electors of such
in October, 1787, in regard to a memorial j, y t ), e Senate, was then adopted. The State. The joint meeting of the two
column at Yorktown. Placed on the cal-1 Senate to-dav nassed a bill emhodvimr Houses shall not dissolve until the count
° D a?*Y . .. „ I-Postal Money Order Convention with the I ** completed.
At the expiration of the morning hour united States. I Cincinnati, March 16.—A disnatch
consideration ot the star route deficiency I .(oiwMm tt.-rsu i« I from Piedmont, West Virginia, says the
appropriation bill was resumed, Beck con- inoXn.tiAr, I train-men and breaksmen on the Cumber-
tinuing his remarks in advocacy of the land and Piedmont Railroad, struck yes-
preamble. He was followed by Teller terday for an advance of 50 cents per day.
and Garland, in opposition thereto, and expected to gat off | This strike caused all the local miners in
some general debate ensued upon the bill, ‘ ll f a lL this region to suspend until the strikers
pending the conclusion of which the Sen- hw ti^ken an to the Su- and ^ Comply come to terms,
ate adjourned. r About ten thousand miners are thus
In explaining the bill to regulate the 1 I l hrown out of employment,
counting of rotes for President and Vice I SPSS? 13 much Washington, March 17.—Afr. Bayard,
President, introduced in tbe Senate by I d „ 1 from the Committee on the Judiciary, re-
Mr. Edmunds to-day, tbe latter said ; nJSS Ported a bill to remove tbe political W
“The bill that passed tbe Senate at the I bilities of Roger A. Pryor, and asked its
iastsession of Congress on this subject I I Present consideration. There being no
embraced various provisions as to the I ln 11 objection, it was read the third time and
time of holdingtlio Residential elections Offers of
for electors in the States, and various pro- I Mr. Hampton, from the Committee or
visions for better regulating the law to Military A&, reported a hill to corn-
cases of a vaeancy occurring in the office ®I P lete the survey of Gettysburg battlefield,
of President and Vice President, and so f t and to provide for the compilation and
on. A provison was also made looking “ iat „ e ,?,£ ESlJS&Z*. thou ' preservation of date showing the position
to future legislation byStates to respect to , r , 1fl T t ° f and movements of the troops at that bat
providing aSneans of determining contro- ^o b “ ’^isMnffi - CaWn^RobeiU tle - illustrated by diagrams. The bill
versies respecting the choice of electors. Se 1 ,la *°, b: ^ t tUf’ was placed on the calendar.
Time has so ran that of course any pro-1 irfAi” 6 !' I In the House Mr. Manning, of Missis-
vision of that kind that would apply to th '.' w ^Linni and Tennessee railroad sippi ’ asked leave 10 ° ffer a reaction di-
the next election, would be entirely use- I reeling toe committee on the Pacific rail
less. In conssquence of that, I have ta-1 roadto inquire as to the alleged contract
ken that bill and modified to a simple 1 I bct ween the Central Pacific and Union
proposition of providing that meetings of to ^t, pmnt. ^ N1 nob uehsh °t struck Roberts, p acific railroad companies and the Pacific
proposition or proi louiy mat mccuii^ ot i , .
electors shall be on the second Monday of but he wlU ™ c r ove f' „
January instead of the second Wednesday | St. Louis, March 16.—The Democratic
to December. I have also modified it so I State Central Committee met here to-day
as to give time for such States as have I end fixed upon May 20th as the date and
any resisting laws, to propose to determine I Moberly as the place for holding the State
for themselves, and according to the con- I Convention, to elect delegates to the Cm-
stitution, which I believe they have the I cinnati Convention. If is said that eight
sole right to do, who their electors are. members of the committee favor Seymour
This bill, therefore, makes simply a pro-1 for President.
vision for State disposition of any contro-1 Desmoines, March 16.—Both houses of
versy under such laws, as it may have in I the State Legislature have passed a con-
existence prior to the date of choosing I stitutioual amendment which will now go.
electors. I to the Legislature for ratification, prohib
it provides for a later meeting of elect-1 iting the manufacture and sale ot all to
ols, iu order that each State may dispose I toxicating liquors, including ale, wine and
ot any controversy that may arise, and I beer, and authorizing tho enactment of
then provides, as the hill of iastsession j suitable regulations and penalties for the
did, for a meeting of the two Houses, and enforcement of the prohibition,
proceeding in conformity with the decision J Washington,March 16.-The Secretary
reached in the respective States in any j of the Interior is advised by telegraph that
case of dispute.” The bill was referred to j miners and prospectors are already invad-
tlie select Committee on Presidential Elec-j ing the Ute Inuian reservation to Colo-
tions. j rado in largo numb.
In the House Mr. Hawley, of Connecti- 1 of the report that il
cut, spoke to opposition to the policy of I surrender their Is
refusing-appropriations for special deputy I great danger, of
marshals, and aLo to defense of the man- | ans. The si:
;eirent of the public printing office. I Cabinet in
Mr. Singleton of Mississippi, said there I Secretary Sob
was no necessity for haste in making ap- I the trespa.^
prdpriations for special deputies. I tho Ute n -
Considerable desultory debate ensued j stored •■■
upon items of appropriations for special I cation
deputy marshals, and for the government
printing office, at tbe conclusion of which |
Mr. Blackburn stated he would to-mor- j
row move that the general debate close
up'm the bill. The committee then rose !
a.'id the House cdjourned.
pon the strength
'3 have agreed to
nd that there is
. with the Indi-
isidered at the
1 this afternoon
order warning
’s embraced in
it yet been re-
. and that lo-
. jt be reeog-
■ i veen Seere-
now here,
. should re-
. cstrain their
he invasion
Mail Steamship company, and report what
legislation is necessary to protect the pub
lic interests to the premises.
Mr. Brewer objected.
Mr. Taylor, of Tennessee, offered a res
olution for the appointment of a special
committee to investigate the present meth
od of stating claims against the United
States. Referred.
Mr. Reagan, of Texas, chairman of the
committee on Commerce, reported a reso
lution calling on the Secretary of War fir
information in his department in regard
to a bridge now being erected over East
river at New York, and his opinion as to
whether said bridge is not an obstruction
to commerce. Adopted.
• Mr. F. Wood, of New’ York, asked
leave to take from the Speaker’s table for
the present consideration of the Senate, a
bill amending the laws relative to the
seizure and forfeiture of vessels for a
breach of revenue laws. Objection being
made, the bill was referred to the . Com
mittee on Ways and Means.
The morning hour was dispensed with.
'ffiie nouse went into Committee of the
Whole, Carlisle, of Kentucky, in the
Chair, on the deficiency appropriation
bill.
Edinburg, March 17-—Mr. Gladstone
will speak here this afternoon in the Lib
eral interest, and the demand for tickets
of admission to the hall is so great that
offers of five and six guineas each have
been made for them. A list is published
of thirteen places where Gladstone is to
speak between to-day and next Wednes
day.