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10?* $c M**^*«g*** ■M ^tlfgrapjj mih jfemtgti 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.