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n 3ntms»i & 3H»i 4Jtbgropjr- ntiii Btangr MACON, MARCH 80 >580. —The memorial which is being ad dressed to Queen Victoria in support of the legalization of marriage with a de ceased wife’s sister, by the Mayors and ex-mayors of boroughs, has just been signed by the Lord Mayor of London. —David Davis is a great reader, and as a circuit Judge in his early days used to cany his saddlebags full of historical and biographical works. His favorite novel is “David Copperficld,” though he -has a fondness for Thackeray and Waller Scott. —Earl Beaconsfield was never better than at the present moment. Health and spirits are both excellent, and he is so good a walker that he tires out any lady friends who venture pedestrian exercise with him. —The New York Herald finds in the Massachusetts Legislature 41 Republicans for Grant, 37 for Blaine, 3G for Edmunds, and 75 for all other candidates, leaving Grant and Blaine badly in the minority. Of the Democrats, 21 are for Bayard, 10 each for Tilden and Thurman, and 11 for others. —The Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of Anglesey and the Earl of Fife, who died within the year, were the three most heavily insured men in England, the com-* panies being hit for $6,250,000, while two other noblemen, who have just died, had between them $1,250,000 in the same companies. Still Growing.—'The New York Herald's Irish relief fund is gradually growing, and on Monday evening aggre gated $311,347.84. In addition the Herald has been notified that the oil producers at Bradford Pa., have subscribed 4,140 bar rels of oil, to be used for the benefit Of the relief fund. —The Maine Legislature—the expurga ted one—has just declared cider to - be an intoxicating beverage, and placed upon the list of official interdictions, they will next prononnee chewing gum to be injurious to the public morals, there will be nothing further for them to do in that line. I' »•- • —As a lazy tramp came down the street With free and easy gait, This welcome sign his eyes did greet: ; • “Free chop to those who wait.” “Now here,” he said, “I’ll get some food Without the slightest tax;” ’’ But they led him to a pilo of wood, And handed him an axe. ■' —The price of ice to housekeepers and small purchasers in New York, has been advanced from forty cents to one dollar per one hundred pounds, whilst in Phila delphia consumers have already been no tified of an advance of forty per cent. Fifty cents per week foreight pounds daily Will be charged in Philadelphia during the coming summer, whereas the same quantity was furnished for thirty-five cents last year. —There is no place like San Francisco for enterprise, after all. Last week the wife of a well-known business man, re siding on Ellis street, eloped. The depar ture was discovered about 10 o’clock in the evening, and at the same hour the next morning the husband had the furni ture sold at auction and delivered up the key of his house to his landlord the after noon of the same day. He was terribly afraid she would change her mind and re tain. —The attendance on the schools in Ire land has fallen ofi forty thousand on ac count of the famine and destitution. One kind-hearted woman has already taken measures to provide about one thousand With substantial soup and bread, which is served out at school. The children who are stinted in food of course wax weak, wan and dull in their mental faculties, while many of them are destitute of clothing. —Of the 4,700 graduates of Princeton College it has been ascertained that more than 1,000 have been or are clergymen, abont 500 have been physicians, 200 law yers, 27 governors, ICO representatives in Congress, 7 State officers, ISO judges, 135 professors, 42 college presidents, 13cabi net ministers, 1 President and 2 Vice- Presidents of the United States. At pres ent about four-fifths of every Senior Class study law. —A Bridgeport attorney recently took strong exception to. a ruling of the Court that certain evidence was inadmissible, ,{ l know, Your Honor,” said he warmly, “that it is proper evidence. Here I have been practising at the bar for forty years, and now I want to know if I am a fool?” “That,” replied the Court, “is a question of fact and not of law, and so I shall not pass upon it, but let the jury decide.” —The choice some people make of mat rimonial partners is hard to understand A young Maine farmer married a highly cnltured Boston girl who didn’t know the first thing about house-keeping, bnt had devoted her youth to the study of geology and mineralogy, and when he took her home, instead of attending to household duties, she went roaming about the farm and soon discoved on her husband’s land a gold mine worth $40,000. You can’t al ways tell how a match will turn out. —The value of good riding horses has increased immensely in Ireland since the Empress Austria has patronized the chase there. Several ladies have been lucky enough to sell their horses for her use or that of her suite for a very large figure, varying from three to four, five, and even six hundred pounds. One lady, whose horse was fancied for the Empress, asked .£300, and got it, having purchased the animal from a dealer last year for £50; so much can be done to improve an animal by a light band and firm riding. General Sherman’s Indian View. —On the communication from the Inte rior Department, conveying the wish of the families of Victoria’s hand to remain at San Carlos, instead of going to the Hot Springs, General Sherman endorsed as follows: “Respectfully returned to the Secretary of TVar, inviting attention to the principle involved in the case. The Indian Bureau is feeding, at heavy cost, the families of Victoria and his band of Apaches, while the War Department is fighting, at an aw ful cost in money and life, the warriors or bucks. Does not thi3 magnanimity veige on the borders of folly?” —The mysterious box of jewels, which has been in the vault of the Government Treasury at Washington for over thirty years, has just had its annual dusting and examination. Nobody knows bow it came there though Secretary McCulloch express ed the opinion, in a report to Congress, that it was part of the proceeds of a rob bery at the Patent Office. The contents include several small pearls and diamonds and two lumps of gold, all worth about $3,000. “No News the Best of News.” The absence of all Stirling and interest ing events just now in the United States, is but another name for peace and plenty, “ Bed Tape" Triumphs Over the Voice of the People. The Grain Crops. We have bad news from the growing Will the Georgia Western he Built?. THE MACON AND BRUNSWICK EXTEN- ! EASTER IS COMING. DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. . _ , . tt ' crops of wheat, oats and rye in Middle After a long contest in the House, and ; _ r . . . . . 6 - Georgia. A very extensive wheat raiser t . . ,, , ... • M T „ some liv< f filibustering, our telegrams in WilIdnson county inforlned tll0 writer though it makes a dull news sjce t . in announced yesterday that the Townshend . t d ,, . , ] d ilia nmrMonpo n rcniiy nn onUmitv : j... , yesieruay ina;; ms \\ noie w neat crop iiau been so utterly ruined by rust that it the good providence of God/ no calamity mi, referring the duty on paper, cliemi- or threat of woe beclouds our horizon. cn\ 3i e tc., to the Committee on Revision There is.no sickness or unusual mortality 0 f the Laws, by a vote of 142 to S9, was among man or beast. The dreary finan- remanded back to the custody of the Com- cial lapses and breaches of faith wliich use mittee on Ways and Means. As it is to burden every day’s tidings, more or known that under Speaker Randall’s ma- less, have ceased. The current of failures nipulation the majority of that body are and bankruptcies has stopped its flow, j opposed, now and in future, to any change The statistics of declining trade show no j n the present tariff, this settles tfie mat- figures. The granaries of the country are ter until the advent of another Congress. full to overflowing, and arc imminently threatened already with new and over whelming burdens. It is a fact that if tlic promise of the winter wheat crop is veri fied; the country, in respect to its stores of food, will be much like the neb man iu the gospel—“it will have no room to be stow all its fruits and goods.” Arid unmistakably the general prosper ity of the situation is inspiring a better humor among the people. There is much less sectional malediction in progress. Probably “the ensanguined under gar ment” is only temporarily laid by to be brought forward with greater effect after the June nomination; but the fact that the Republican brethren are willing to in termit the bloody shirt for'a mometit shows an improvement In their style and temper. They feel belter-natured than common. They are willing to allow Sa tan to be chained for a little season. Candor compels one to see, also, there is on both sides an increasing regard for the useful in legislation, and a growing repugnance to mere partisanship on the part of the people at large, a greater im patience of demagoguery, and a loud de mand for an cnlightenod and candid statesmanship. Many signs will be noted indicating a weariness of party blather as a means of preferment. It may be that the stalwarts and the machine will still display their wonted vigor when set regu larly in motion, bnt the people, in their present condition, arc unmistakably more averse to tlie machine than they used to be. Left alone they will prefer common sense and patriotism to party rancor. In short, we are having, perhaps, a mere “lucid interval.’* We are perhaps allowed to take a little breath and case before they set the rack in motion again, and a kind providence permits a general condition of prosperity, so that the people may enjoy it. Hence there is no news in America. There is nothing on the lapis seriously at war with public tranquillity. With a country of such resources as ours, with Such a population and soil, with such mining wealth, such transportation, such wealth of forest, seas and waters, we shall only be too rich and comfortable to be have as we ought to. Hence it is that Satan stirs up the tormentors, ne rouses the emissaries and instruments of evil of all kindsjeven themselves,for when one has little or nothing to trouble him, be is of ten set to work to furnish the raw material at his own labor and expense. Daily Press Convention. A call issues from the office of the At lanta Constitution for a Convention of the Southern Daily Press, to meet in At lanta on the 15th day of April next, “for the purpose of taking into consideration such means as may secure a complete and more systematic service of the news, and al so to consult as to the best means of secur ing prompt, intelligent, and cordial co-op eration in those interests which the Daily Press of the South have in common. During their stay in Atlanta the members of the Convention will be the guests of the Constitution, and ample arrangements will be made for their comfort and enjoy ment.” Shortly after the close cf the civil war, the Southern Daily Press held a Conven tion in Savannah, and afterwards in Mo bile, Alabama, and there tlie project was agitated of reorganizing the Southern Press Association, which had, by necessi ty, been called into existence by the state of non-intercourse between the great sec tions of the country, and terminated with the war. It was proposed to revive that organi zation, so far as to combine the Southern daily press as a unit in arranging for the supply of their common daily telegraphic correspondence, hut the proposition failed and each press was left to accept such ar rangements, rules and discipline as could obtain by separate negotiation. The effect of this non-action is now ap parent to all, whether for good or bad,and the necessity or non-necessity of united action is equally apparent. The question whether such action would be likely to conduce to better or more economical service, seems to us to embrace the main In the meantime, these protectionists hope that the results of the coming general election will fasten the iniquitous system upon the country for a -further term.-of years. It is true that custom and prece dent bestow the right upon a standing jcommittee; to- report, or not to report, for almost an indefinite period upon the measures referred to tbeir consideration. But where, as in-the present instance, . their action is so manifestly - unjust arid oppressive to the industrial interests of the country, there ought to be some rem edy in the premises. It is simply an out rage that a half-dozen members of the House should have it in their power to defeat the expressed will of the people all over the Union, for a modification in the duty upon certain leading necessaries, such as paper and salt. The action of these protectionists on the Committee of Ways and Means, we trust, will be thor oughly ventilated on the hustings during the ensuing Presidential canvass. would not yield over a peck per acre. The same was true also all over that large wheat producing county, and what, if possible, is still more to be regretted, SION." The live railroad question of the hour is, whether the reported alliance between Messrs. Newcomb, of tlie L. & N., and Wilson, McGhee & Co., representing the M. & B. Railroad, has been effected, and will amount to anything. We find quite a variety of opinions exist on the subject. Thus the Atlanta correspondent of the Sa- therc^ considerable complaint of rust in vannab News says: the oat crop. The fact has not been es- Sensational telegrams still seek to keep mIh. non-rusting varieties have been infected with the dis- stood hero that the whole thing is being it subject for consideration by the Conven tion. We trust whatever (if anything) is done,the whole dally press of the Southern States will act as a unit. The German Vote. The New York Tribune of Wednesday says it is the unanimous opinion of promi nent Germans of all parts of the country that the Republican party would lose nine-tenths of the German vote by nomi nating Grant. The Herald publishes in terviews with the leading Germans of this city, including Oswald Ottendorfer, of the Stoats Zeilung, Sigismund Kanffinann ex-Governor Salomon and Dr. Jacobi, and they all agree that with Grant as a candi date the Republicans would run a risk of losing five States, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota. When, says the Tribune, it is remembered that the loss of any one of these States would make the election of a Republican President impos sible, the size of the risk which the Third- Termers wish to thrust upon the'party be comes apparent. Nevertheless and notwithstanding Grant mil be nominated, and it behooves the Tribune • to be a little more chary in its speech unless they can satisfy Grant and his friends that the ex-President will be defoated in the race and so get them to withdraw before the nomination. Grant is as certain to be the nominee as sum- mercomes. General Gordon Vindicated. The Washington Star says: Senator Ben Hill, of Georgia, and his friends pronounce the statement that they had attributed to Senator Gordon some band in bringing about the Raymond scandal a fabrication entire. That no thought of Senator Gordon in any such connection was ever entertained; that, on the contrary, Senator Gordon’s sympathy has been active in behalf of Senator Hill in this matter, and he has been willing and anxious to aid the latter in any way he could. No one acquainted with the chivalric Gordon could believe for an instant that he would lend his influence to defame the private character of a brother colleague. His grand record as Tlie Commissioners’ Schedule. An Atlanta special to ■ the Augusta Evening News says “the railroad commis sioners express satisfaction with the read iness of the railroads to accept their rates ■of tariff.” b i This is not in accordance- with the ru mors that obtain here from all parts of the Slate. It is said that unless mate rial changes are made, several short lines will suspend operations or be forced to re- ■duce their service to about one train per week. Also, that all the roads are dissat- isiicdf and declare that the loss of income under the new tariff will make their re spective enterprises non-remunerative.. It is feared by many merchants, too, that the effect in practice will be’'to reduce- the receipts of cotton at all our prin cipal interior cities and take the staple di rectly out of the State. We give the above simply as the current talk of the day. Tlie situation is doubtless exaggerated, but still it is evident that the railroads are not satisfied with the new schedule. The people seem better pleased. We trust that just and equitable modifications will be made whenever needed, by the com missioners, so that the system may inure alike to the good of those who own the roads and those who patronize them. Neither interest’ should be overloo e d. as both are essential to the well being and prosperity of the Commonwealth. SVe again repeat our firm conviction, however, that such wise heads as Govern or Smith, Colonel Wallace and Mr. Bar- i nett will devise some method for har monizing all differences on the basis of right aud justice, if it be within the scope of possibility to do so. The National Board of Health. A bill now pending' “to increase the ef ficiency of the National Board of Health,” which, among other provisions, contains the following: “That the National Board of Health, or, in the interval of its session, its Executive Committee, shall make re port to tlie President of the United Slates, whenever any place in the United States is considered by it to be dangerously in fected with contagious or infectious dis eases, and that, upon official publication by the President of such report, the trans portation of goods and persons from such a place into the State, other than that within which such place is, shall be un lawful,” etc. No such extraordinary powers as above recited should be accorded to the Presi dent. Suppose in these days of defalca tions and easy morals the national health commission, yielding to the pressure of pecuniary inducements, should see fit to declare that this or that port, the rival of another perhaps, was infected with a con tagious disease, aud all commercial inter course with the same should be discontin ued? What an immensity of wrong would be inflicted' upon an innocent community. And yet it is possible that this contingency may arise either by design or through in advertency. While we are strong advo cates ot a rigid quarantine system in times oi dauger, yet the whole matter should be confided to the local authorities and med ical faculty of the city or port where con tagion frOm any given disease is appre hended. They are the parties most inter ested, au£ to them- should be confided the power to take the necessary precautions in the premises. Negroes upon Juries. Our readers are advised of the acquittal of Judge Hill, of Virginia, in the United States Circuit Court, for refusing to place negroes upon juries. This was done not because they were negroes, hut on account of their lack of the necessary qualifica tion of a juror under the laws of the com monwealth. The same action would have been taken if the parties had been white men. In an editorial upon the verdict of the court the Constitution makes these just remarks: Wherever there is discretion there must also be discrimination, and the discretion given to those who draw juries must be discriminating—not against whites, nor against negroes, because they are negroes, nor against classes, but against individu als. The right to sit on juries is an indi vidual and not a race or a class right, and the inevitable discrimination that must be exercised in drawing jurors is against in dividuals. This being the case, no individ ual, black or white, has the right to com plain of the discrimination that excludes aim from the jury box, and ordinarily, in dividuals do not complain at snch exclu sion unless they aspire to the unsavory distinction of professional jurymen. Religions Persecution. A Paris dispatch of March 23d states that decrees “dealing with unauthorized religious bodies were signed at a cabinet council held to-day, but will not appear, in tlie official journal until after Easter, They will be - preceded by a report drawn np by M. Le Pere, Minister of the .Inte rior and Worship, which was unanimous ly approved by the ministers.” It is stated that these decrees order the expulsion ofthe Jesuits and several other monastic orders, for alleged political of fenses. This is a sad comment upon the boasted freedom of the French Republic. We had hoped the day forever past, when even a despotic government would dare fly in the face of all Christendom, by re peating, as in the times of old, the whole sale persecution of entire sects for opin ion’s sake. This is very far from evinc ing the spirit of true liberty. and Christian, gives tlie lie to such statement. Dr. Bull’s Couglf Syrup has been be- —. fore the public for years, and is pronounc- "‘“■7* ! edby thousands superior to all other ar- soldier, statesman , t j C j es p or die cure 0 f Coughs, Colds, Influ enza and other Pulmouary Complaints, t It costs only 25 cents per bottle. ease, and a%the cases are exceptional and rare when approved seed_ of that discrip- tion has been known to succumb to rust, we are dispdseiVtOjhope arfil believe they will pass safely through the ordeal. Our informant and a friend-ofi-his state that eren the rye is badly rusted.. A farmer yesterday also brought to this office a hunch of oats from the Warrior District ulterly : ruined by rust. The warm winter and abnormal season have •doubtless produced this result. How far the calamity extends through the State, we are not prepared to say, though dis couraging rumors continue .to reach us. The oat crop of Georgia is only inferior in value and importance to the two great staples, cpni ; and cotton. If it fails the present season aftertho scant yieldof com” jin 1879, great distress and; pecuniary loss to ,’the agricultural, .community must lie the inevitable result. . ’ ...i7 ;. ' rr . But there is time even now to retrieve •the situatioh, if bur farmers wfll diminish jtiibir. .cotton crops aqd^cri^eTjhe.acreage in corn*; A I ist ' ' Let them so# every Spare rod- - of land also in the whipporwill of speckled pea, ! and,by the firat of Ju]y thpy \ ■yHi.hgve both grain and forage for their stock, anil can be independent of tlie com crib. Mil let for forage likewise would prpVe profi table; if sowed upo$ jich.soil. In short, there is no thrifty: farmer in the : country who cannot, by*£los? ! attention to these secondary; or s&qlf cropsfj-'.stfpplement an inferior com amj'-oat, harvest, • and' man age to keep aloof from the grip of our old ■Western masters. The wise- ones will certainlymake tiro, effort!, V • < Interesting Religions Meetings. : For near two weeks, daily religious services have been, held twice a day, respectively, in the Fltist Baptist and Mul berry Street Methodist Churches. During this, entire period the 'Attendance has been good—sometimes la'ge; and the members of both congregations have been greatly cheered and revived. It cannot be said that any decided outpouring of the Holy Spirit has been manifested, albeit there have been a few hopeful conversions in both churches. But in the language of the excellent Dr. WaiiCn, the huge iceberg that enfolded the peo ple of God in its frigid embrace, has gradually been loossened.and drop by drop the thaw progresses until there is hope that it will dissolve in a plenteous stream of grace and mercy from the Mag- esty on High, Both ministers say the hearts of the people are tender, and there is every indication that by God’s help and a faith ful preached gospel, that great results for good may yet be accomplished. The meetings will be continued through next week, and all who love the Savior,of every faith and creed, and those who know him not, are alike invited to a'ttend. 1 , To-day, Dr. Rivers, an able and zeal ous divine from Eufaula, Alabama, will preach at 11 a. m. in the Mulberry street Methodist church, and has consented to assist Dr. Key also in his labors during the ensuing week. We trust these meetings will result in a precious ingathering of souls into the Kingdom of the most High God. Our State Immigration Agent, Mr. Fontaine, Should Make a Note oflt The New York Bulletin says: The tide of immigration has set in very strong, all the incoming steamers from Great Britain aud the Continent bringing full loads of passengers. Compared with last year there is a marked increase in the number of arrivals. The seven'ocean steamers which arrived here Sunday and Monday landed at Castle Garden a total of 1,911 immigrants. This makes, in all for the month of March to date, 12,720, against 6.051 for . tiro entire' month of March last year. .... . What a capital- chance to introduce some of those stalwart Celts, Scots and Teutons into the genial South to fill the gap caused by the present African exodus. After a while they will learn the ropes and come.' And tlien it will be too late for Sambo to return. Yankee Liberality. The Thomasville correspondent, of the Savannah News relates the following: We have many vis:tors here you know. The other day a fashionably attired lady from- a fashionable hotel, with stately sweep,, entered the flower .garden of a Thomasville lady aud desired to pur chose some choice flowers. The rarest beauties of the garden were gathered in profusion, and the fair customer, greatly pleased with the array of petal splendor, generous ly forebore to ask the: price, but as she turned to move away, with great dignity and condescension, handed over to the humble proprietess the munificent sum of nickel. The Thomasville Jady was speechless. Any ohe who has visited Thomasville is familiar with the ‘wealth of gorgeous flow ers which adorn the court yards, of that refined people, and how much pains and care are bestowed upon them by the la dles. The littleness of this Northern “fashionable” can only find a parallel in ler own New England. How they Monopolized the Country. The Mormons are shrewd fellows. It has lately transpired that taking advantage of the laws which prevent settlers from running up and occupying lands within the limits of any incorporated town, they liave, by means of' thirty-seven different :ity charters in the Territory of Utah, nanaged to include nearly all of the ara- ile land of the country; The desert por- ions, of course, they had no use for. A ;nemorial complaining of this sharp prac- ;ice has been Introduced into Congress by Senator Edmunds. Why Should He not be the Almoner ' of His Own Bounty? We'are surprised to note that a contem porary takes Governor Brown to task be cause his princely donation of $50,000 was not bestowed upon our State University. Certainly the Governor lias a perfect right to do what he will with liis own, and his i tmnlficence to an institution which may 1 ie the means of carrying the gospel to the I arthest ends ofthe earth through an edu cated ministry, is deserving of all praise. The State University, however, has no stronger friend than he. The most appo site question to be propounded is, how many Georgians can be found willing to donate $50,000 to any olemosynaiy object. worked up for a purpose, aud when the Legislature meets that purpose will be made plain. There is no intention of building the road to Blount Springs, anil it cannot be built to Birmingham or De catur in less than eighteen months. It is hoped that special telegrams and surveys and other cheap demonstrations will frighten Governor Brown, but, as be once remarked to me, “he lias a way generally of taking care of himself.” He don’tscare worth a cent, as he is too old a bird to be caught with chaff It is bruited about on the streets of Ma con also, that so far- from any such alli ance having been formed, it is very doubt- 'ful whether the extension to Atlanta,:if made at all, will be even started for sev- :eral years to come. Some assert the pur chasers of the Macon and Brunswick in tend to appeal to eveiy Legislature during the five years of grace ' granted them, for relief from compulsory extension. • -driiese rumors, it is alleged, however, may be traced to hostile Central railroad influences and have nofoundation in fact. , On the other hand, the Constitution of yesterday contains a speqjal from Louis ville, Kentucky, wliich states that at the meeting of the stockholders of his road on the 20tli instant, when the purchase of ‘the Western road franchises came up, “President Newcomb, after' staling tbe price paid for tbe road, and bow the pur chase w-as made, said it is'the belief of the management that contingencies may ■arise when an independent line into Atlan ta will be a necessity. Parties in New York offer to aid us in building the road, hut the acceptance of such aid is of course optional. The management regards the price paid for the franchise, as A mere bag atelle compared with tlie advantages, aud while we caa to-day get for the property a iaige advanco on what it cost us, we will not sell it at any price. The road, he said, could be extended from' Atlanta to Blount Springs, in Alabama, at a cost of two and a half millions. The stocjjhold- lers unanimously endorsed the action of the management iu making the purchase, and they now have power'to take such steps to cany out the suggestions of President Newcomb as they dsem neces sary.” We have it, too, from tlie lips of a re turned delegate to Cincinnati just from Louisville, that he heard Captain McDan iel, one ofthe engineers; who, with Cap tain Glostdi, is about to commence the surrey of the Western at both ends, state distinctly that a positive contract had been made and signed between Messrs. New comb, and Wilson and McGhee, to jointly build, dt the earliest day, both roads, to- wit: the Macon and Brunswick extension and the Western to Blount Springs, in Al abama. We are of the opinion that this information is premature, however, though so far as the Western is concerned, masters do really seem to be coming to a bead, and the road may be built in. the near future. Tbe citizens of Macon and Brunswick are deeply interested in this combination, and so likewise are the peo ple ofthe Whole State., It would give us another grand and independent through line from the West to tbe Atlantic, and furnish that healthy competition which is the best guaranty for low passenger fares and cheap freights. In regard to the proposed extension to Atlanta, it .is unreasonable to suppose that such a work can he undertaken in- starUer.. As yet the new company has not even perfected its organization, and are hardly posted as to the precise status of its own affairs. The construction of a railroad involves time, and much prepa ration and expense, before tlie first shovel- full of earth can be moved. We canuot permit ourselves to doubt that the new company will carry out in good faith every obligation they have as sumed, and build the extension at the earliest period practicable. This was a condition precedent to the sale of the road, and cannot be legally avoided in any event. It would be well, however, if they would reassure public confidence by some authoritative declaration on tbe subject. Tbe company could not better consult the wishes of our people, also, than by confiding the construction of the Atlanta extension to their Gecigia associ ates, Messrs. Hazelliurst, Lane and Coup- “Easter is coming,” the flower king said, As through his dominion he passed, Where the haughty and gay, With the humble and sweet, Weie cunningly mingled aud massed. And each tender plant was thrilled to the heart, As tlie spring life went joyfully through. While they made themselves ready, To give ofthe bloom, For the mom that was coming anew. “Easter is coming,” the maiden said, As she counted the long lenten days; She had hidden her charms And afflicted her soul; And by the Church ordered her ways. “Easter is coming,” the bowed soul felt. As in dust aud in ashes it lay, The passion is deep, and the way is so dark; But yonder the morning tints faintly —--- I see, . — — - 1 Which presage the dawning of day_. “O, Easter is comingl” sweet flowers^ heavy souls, Your buds will be lost in your bloom, And the one who like Christ, Has gone down to the grave, Like him shall arise from the tomb. Watering the “Father of Waters.” Some gentlemen from Wisconsin are urging before the House Committee on Commerce, a plan to make the upper Missisippi navigable all the year round, by a series of mighty reservoirs to be fill ed by interior streams and the winter rains, and utilized to eke out the water of the river in seasons of drought. The cost is estimated at $2,000,000. At a casual glance, this looks like another mighty Utopian scheme to bleed Uncle Sam, and feather the nest of 1 an army of contractors. What next? . A Fact hot Generally Known. It is a fact not generally known that silver coins with holes bored or punched in them will not be received at the Treas ury. By punching a large hole in'' a' sil ver dollar from five to thirteen cents worth of silver is taken out. Individuals rprely refuse to accept these mutilated coins, as they pass readily. Manufactur ers who obtain large quantities of silver suffer the most by the mutilation of coin, as the defective piece's cannot be ex changed for certificates, or greenbacks at tbe Treasury or Sub-Treasuiy. Tbe pen alty for fraudulently mutilating coins is a fine of not more than two thousand dol lars and imprisonment of not more than two years. Jealousy. In Ohio it is now called “the Feast on Crow” instead of “the late Cincinnati Southern Banquet.” The merchants of Cincinnati ate the larger part of the ani mal with seeming delight. This splenetic paragraph emanates from the Courier-Journal and does that paper no credit. The people of Cincinnati re ceived their Southern brethren with royal hospitality and made hosts of friends and patrons in our midst. This is the first gun against the Cincin nati Southern from Louisville, but the re coil is more damaging to the artillerists themselves than its shot will be to their sister city. —Gilbert Budd of Clarenden in, died at the close of morning f ami J y ers, before he had risen from his He was 00 years old. “ ees - The Queen’s Speech to the Lord3— Writs Issued for a New Election. Xosixxx, March 24. — The Queen's j ,, 7 speech, announcing the dissolution of Par- ! . ‘ r .‘ ° a oac * 1 ^ at5 *tecided to with liament, was read In the Home of li:s Iil ° Jamiro steamers after M,' Lords to-day, by Lord Cairns, the Lord ! ’ AS . °^ m S *° .-English competition tfco High Chancellor. There were present ] lme at at a Ioss ' only twenty-five members of the House cf! T> 1 ’ 1D S t0 ^ ' ias passed away. Commons, fourteen peers anil eleven la- j ” 0 la( l j^ lead the notice ofM, dies. The following is the full text of , Baid: “What a The English Elections. The cost of a general election in Great Britain is always something enormous, but dependent in its extent on the num ber of seats actively contested. There are in all 652 seats, and from these, in tbe last general election 1,0S1 candidates were run. The average sum expended by the conservative candidates for England and Wales was £1,520 and for the liberal can didates £2,100. The large t sum spent on any one county election was in tbe case of North Durham, where four candi dates returned an aggregate expenditure of £28,202. The English and Webb boroughs in that election spent an aggre gate of £423,900—those of Scotland £119,- 4S0, and £S0,6S0 were spent on the Irish elections. All these figures we glean from a Herald telegram. And let It be remem bered that these candidates are all seek ing a gratuitous service. No mileage or per diem supplements the private re sources of the member of "Parliament. He serves for glory. Circular No. 2 of the Railroad Com mission. We call attention to sundry changes published elsewhere in the Commission ers’ schedule of freights contained in Cir cular No. 2, so far as relates to several of our State roads. It will be seen that the Commission is er. These gentlemen are old railroad * redeeming its promise to remedy any in men, and deservedly enjoy the confidence jnstice which their tariff unwittingly in- ofthe community. An Important Announcement. We have made arrangements with Mr. J. H. Estill, publisher of the Southern Farmer's Monthly, whereby we can fur nish the Weekly Telegraph and Messenger, one of the laigest weekly newspapers in the South, containing eight pages, of sixty-four columns, and brim fall of the best reading, with this excel lent Farmer's Monthly, for $3.50 per an num, in advance. The Southern Farmer's Monthly is the best farmer’s paper published. 1. Because' it is gotten up with special reference to the agricultural wants of Southern and Southwestern Georgia. 2. Because it is the only agricultural paper published that has complete de partments for the whole household. 3. Because it is more handsomely print ed, and moro attractive in its make-up, than any other paper published in the South. 4. Because it contains more reading matter than any other agricultural paper published in the State. Send forward your subscriptions at once. Clisby & Jones, Macon, March 27, 1889. flicts. On this subject, the Atlanta cor respondent of the Savannah News says: The Kimball and Markham House arc crowded with prominent railroad officials, gathered to fix the new schedule of rates. They have been here several days, and expect to remain one or two days longer. The work is slow, complicated and not always smooth in its details. Under tlie operations of the Georgia Railroad Commission everything is disor dered in the eld schedule of rates, and as the Commissioners’ tariff is not yet perma nent, great difficulty attends the labors of the oihcials. General Alexander, Colonel Rogers, Colonel Bowers, Captain Raoul and others are hard at work, but none of them speak hopefully of the future operations of railroads in Georgia under the Com mission’s present tariff It will be im possible for the railroads to afford the public one-half the benefits now received by them under tbe old tariffs Not Our Agent. A letter from Eatonton states “that a book peddler named James A. Baugh has been going through Putnam county 1 solic iting and receiving subscriptions for the Telegraph and Messenger. He is said, also, to charge a commission in ad dition to the regular subscription. We have no recollection of giving any such authority to Mr. Baugh, and hereby an nounce that he is not authorized to act in any capacity whatever for this paper. Said an aged mininister, “When I wish to speak with ease I take a teaspoonful of Coussens’ Honey of Tar, the best cough medicine in the world. It will clear the throat and voice better than anything I ever used.” Price 50 cents. For sale by A. A. Menard, John In galls; Rankin, Masscnburg & Co.; Hunt, Rankin & Lamar, wholesale and retail. feblO-lw The Civil Record of General Win field S. Hancock is a pamphlet of forty pages, designed by bis friends to inaugu rate a boom for tbe gallaut veteran. the speech: My Lords and Gentlemen: As tlie time assigned by law for tlie termination of tbe present pailiitrieut is liear at band, F am induced by considerations of public poli cy and convenience, to. select this period ofthe session for releasing you from your legislative duties, with a view to immedi ate dissolution aud the issue of writs for a general election. I cannot part from you without expressing my deep sense of tbe zeal and ability which during more than six years you have constantly dis played in exercising your important func tions, nor without ’tendering my warm acknowledgments for the useful measures you have submitted for my acceptance, aind especially for the manner in which you have upheld a policy the object of wkich'Wes at once to defend my empire and secure the general peace. My rela tions with foreign powers are friendly and favorable to ' the maintenance of tran quillity in Europe. I entertain a con fident hope that the measures adopt ed in Afghanistan will lead to the speedy settlement of the troubles in that country. I have had much satis faction in assenting to the acts you have passed for the relief ofthe distress unhap pily prevalent in pavts of Ireland, and, trusting that these measures will be accep ted by my Irish subjects as proof ofthe ready sympathy of the imperial FarlMi- ment, I lopk forward with confidence to tbe restored prosperity of their country. I rejoice to observe the indications of a gen eral improvement- in trade, and that the commercial depression which I have had to lament, appears to be passing away. I have witnessed with the greatest sympa thy tlie heavy losses sustained by the va rious classes connected with tbe cultiva tion ofthe soil, and have viewed with ad miration tbe patience and high spirit with which they have contended against an al most unprecedented series of disastrous seasons. I trust that, with the blessing of Providence, a more favorable harvest may be looked for, and that from the com mission I issued to inquire into the causes of the agricultural depression, sugges tions may come wliich will lead to a more profitable nse ofthe agricultural land, and a higher development of this branch of national industry. The electors of the United Kingdom will be called upon forthwith to choose their representatives in Parliament, and I fervently pray that tiro blessing of Almighty God may guide them to promote tlie object of my con stant solicitude—the happiness of my people.” !'i' ■ • ••--'*• | Jit is formally announced that, zs pre viously arranged, the writs for. the new election were issued to-day.' The Times this morning, in a leading editorial article on the general election, says: “It is tolerably clear that the strength of the Ministry will be reduced.” A Movement in Georgia Politics. The people of Richmond county are be ginning already to agitate the question as to who shall be their next representatives in the State Legislature, and unless good counsel prevails there is every prospect of division and perhaps disaster to the Demo cratic party. Numerous candidates are announcing themselves or being brought forward by their' friends, aud many and bitter are the feuds and local questions that will bo lugged into the canvass. In view of this deplorable aspect of affair-, our contemporary the Chronicle and Con stitutionalist makes the following timely remarks: The Dissatisfied Germans. The Cincinnati Commercial prints the following telegraphic statement from Cleveland, Ohio: The Hon. Jacob Mueller, ex-Lieuten- ant Governor of Ohio, and now the con trolling spirit around the Waechter am Erie office of this city, the leading Ger man daily paper of Northern Ohio, says that he is satisfied that nothing can take place which would reconcile the feelings of the Germans to General Grant. They are dead set against him, and under no circumstances would vote for him. If he be the Chicago nominee Ohio will surely give the Democratic candidate from 25,- 000 to 50,000 majority, and the chances would be good for the majority to reach even 75,000. “Why, sir,” said the ex-Lieutenant Governor, “I candidly believe that Grant would not get fifty votes among all the Germans of Cleveland. In fact, I have not seen oue who has said that he would vote for him. Personally, I am as much opposed to General Grant’s nomination as any one can be, because I tinuk his re- election would be a very bad precedent. I should like to see Wasbburne nomi nated.” i Mr. Muellersays, also, that tbe Waechter will support the best Presidential platform adopted and ticket nominated, always ex cepting General Grant. It is to be feared that if tbe organs contin ue to print these statements about Grant, they will make it very bard for themselves to fall into line and support the General hereafter, as they will have to do. The movements ofthe ex-President, so soon as he strikes American soil, leave little doubt that he will be as persistent and eager a candidate as any of them. ! It shall not be our purpose to dictate any choice to them by advocating the claims of any particular man or set of men; the affair is one for the people to de termine. But the Chronicle would be recreant to its trusts and unfaithful to its record, did it not point out the dangers of a “scrub race,” as indiscriminate cam paigning is called. The idea that elec tions conducted without regard for princi ple or party can be made to conform "to fairness and decency,is one which past ex perience in this city holds in emphatic de nial. Under the guise of perfect freedom and without the hamper of restraint, men are announced for office, party barriers beaten down, “a free race” proclaimed and a free fight ensues. Regardless of af filiations, propriety or law, men are coz ened, bribed and borne to the polls, liquor is used, money spent, and free elections bear in tbeir open practices satire upon their names. Men are disgusted with the course of such elections, and each year Augusta has tolerated methods more ques tionable and witness 'd scenes more revolt ing than in the dark days of 1867 and 1868, when party strife ran .high and cor ruption was abroad In the land. It is for tlie candidates wlio may enter for the next election to declare whether they will again be forced to engage in such con tests, and it is for the people of Richmond county to say whether organization is to be ignored for a fictitious freedom, and nominations abandoned, for a disgusting disenthrallment from party precepts - and party practices. If tbe candidates and their friends prefer primary elections to nominating conventions, let them be held and conducted upon the usages of the party—assuredly nothing can be fairer; but anything will be more accept able than a repetition of scrub races. The rumors that prominent and influential Republicans are preparing for the contest are neither vague nor unreasonable. They have been organized for nearly two months, steadily planning the national canvass, and will he no unimportant fac tion in the next election. To their party caucuses prominent citizens have been invited, and from their ranks heavy sup port toward independent candidates, if not some of the candidates themselves, will he fumishedj Lixtell’s Living Age.—The num bers oi The Living Age for the weeks end ing March 20th and 27th respectively, contain the following articles: Bishop Wilberforce, and The Romance of Mod em Travel, Quarterly; British Light houses, Edinburgh’, The Halcyon’s Nest, Macmillan; A Wild Irish Girl, Temple Bar; The History of Writing, Something about Milk, and-Artificial Production of Diamonds, Nature; Street Discords, Sat urday Beview; Quarrels in a Library, and Mr. Bright as a Churchman, Spectator; with instalments of “He that will not when he may,” by Mrs. Olipbant, and “Adam and Eve,” by the authorj of “Do rothy Fox.” As a new volume begins with the num ber for April 3rd, it is a good time to sub scribe. For fifty-two numbers of sixty-four large pages each (or more than 3,300 pa ges a year), the subscription price ($8) is low; while for $10.50 the publishers offer to send any one of the American $4 monthlies or weeklies with The Living Age for a year, including the extra num bers of the latter, both postpaid. Littell & Co., Boston, are the publishers. pity John couldn’t read this! He Woulr , be so pleased to see his name in prin ts —Elderly gentleman to a Frenchman on the train: “You don’t have any ticket?" “No, I travel on my good looks.” “Then.” after looking him over, “probably w - ain’t goin’ very far.” * —Masonville. Yt., is excited over small nugget of gold that was found in * lien’s crop, and a gravel bed near her owq. cr’s house is an object of great interest to himself and his neighbors. —According to tbe Times, some fastid ious members of the best society of Aj bany are not altogether satisfied with Governor Cornell’s ways. They do not take kindly to such innovations as negro banjo players and candv-pulls at theEj. ecutive Mansion. —William>Snioak of Orangeburg conn, ty, S. C., has 10 living children, 104granj. children, 391 great-grand-cbildren, and ft great-great-grand-children, making in all 575 living descendants, besides 116 dead He boasts that there is not a drunkard among them. —A woman has been surprising Pari, sians by the performance of four birds .rained to such a degree that they select from a series of cards replies to almost any question from the audience. “Fiv( crowned heads” have been pleased to lx pleased with the feathered performers. Six Feet Deep at Stf. John’s.—The severest snow sterm ofthe winter was rag ing in St. Johns, N1B., on Thursday, i began yesterday. There are many hug drifts and trains and steamers are delayed The snow in some places is five or sh feet deep. —California Crop Phospects.- Crop prospects of the 25th indicate tha wheat throughout the State promise at least an average harvest, although moi rain is needed. Since tlie date of thes repoits a general rain has visited the Stat and still prevails. Later dispatches she a feeling of. increased confidence on tl part of the fanners. —The rush of immigration at Nei York is somewhat remarkable. The seve ocean steamers which anived there Sm day and Monday landed 2,911 immigrant making the total for the month np to dat 12,720, against 0,051 for the eutire mont of March of last year, aud as the seaso advances the numbers are expected to h crease. —Two hundred years ago tbe shaft c the turquoise miue in Cbalchuti Mountaii New Mexico, caved in and a hundred Ii dians below at work were killed. Tl Spaniards tried to force the Indians t work the mine, and the result was a n hellion and the expulsion of the Spanisl Now some American capitalists are aboi to reopen the mine, which is the only on of its kind on the continent. —There is-an apprehension that tl fashionable luncheon parties in Londc prove entirely too much for some of tl ladies who attend them. A brouglia was lately seen to drive up to a mansii in a fashionable street, bnt no one emer ed from it. At length the coachman d scended, and with considereble difficnii aroused tbe slumbering occupant. SI bad come from a luncheon party. —The Philadelphia people are trying! find out the exact date of the landing i the alleged honest ‘William Penn at thi point. TheNumismatic andAutiquarian S ciety of the city, composed of very wt men, has recently decided that Willis: landed on November 18,1SGS. The Phi adelpbians generally accept this result < a long and agonizing controversy, ai they will have a rattling celebration oftl two hundredth anniversary of the evei November 18,1882. —The European life insurance comp: nies charge ten per cent, extra premia: on crowned heads, to cover the risk of a sassination, and M. Rouher, who acts : agent of the ex-Emprcss Eugenie, has a; plied to the French companies who can heavy risks on her life, for the remission this extra charge, on the ground that si is now out of the range of king killers. —Of the 25,000 blacks who have a grated from the South to Kansas, there not the slightest doubt that fully 20,(X would return to their homes if they ht the means. While there is a wide fie.' for their labor in the South, it cannot 1 considered a wise measure for the Souti In regions where liver complaint and bilious diseases prevail there has long been felt the need of a medicine that would act specifically on the liver, be safe from after effects, aud yet so simple that ir might be used by any one. Dr. Tutt’s Liver Pills supply this want. They are prescribed by the most eminent pliysi- sicians. 1 w The Pestiferous Bucket Writer, who has so long annoyed Rev. Dr. Dix and others, was arrested in Baltimore last Wednesday and taken to New York. His name is Eugene Fairfax Williamson, and he coufesees his offenses. era people to send the exodusters mom to pay their way back home. If they a: compelled to stay in Kansas until the earn sufficient to pay their return railroa and steamboat fare, they will have gaine a stock of experience which will prove t great value to them hereafter. It has been estimated that the black are now going north at the rate of 300p< week. There is already a return fid: which will grow larger. —The German colony of Haifa, fount ed about ten years ago, occupies a strip < land between Mount Caimel and tl Mediterranean Sea, about a mile from tl town of Caifl'a. The houses are substai tially built’ of limestone, and the streel are regularly laid out, adorned with double row of shade trees. The moth for founding this colony, as well as I three sister colonies, gt Jaffa, Sharon, an Jerusalem, reals upon faith in the wore ot prophecy. The society which unde; took the work is denominated tiro “Ten pie,” and the centre of the organization. In Wurtenburg. It has branches inti United States, in Russia, and in Switztt land. The immediate aim is to g‘V? good example to the natives by founds Christian communities, working for “ elevation of the people and country. Jbj colony of Haifa numbers about 330 inhat itants, mostly Germans, with some man-Americans and Russians, and a fc 5 Swiss. It is provided with good schosc The colonists carry on various trades; an industries, but the greatest part of j® people occupy themselves withagricultur and vintage,’ having about 650 acres o land. It doesn't do a bit of good to tak6_ twelve mile promenade in a fourteen we room with the baby, and sing or declaim, “Hootchie, pootcliie, pudden ami pm- Use Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup and be don* with it. The Divorce Committee in France J® pronounced in favor of divorce for no years’ desertion, divorce by mutual wn sent when the wife is turned forty*"' and has been married above twenty ye*” and also for gMng tribunals tbe optic of appending divorce to a condemnatio- for fraud, indecency or other cn®° against morality. This virtually makes the marriage rt lation the merest matter of convenience suffei Why will men, ana womentoo, with warts, corns, bunions, frosted ■ sore throat rheumatism, neuralgia, s P“rr and bruises, when they can get re lie .. using Coussens’ Lightning Linime - For sale by A. A. Menard; John! galls; Kankin, Masscnburg & Co-5 “. Rankin & Lamar, wholesale and rew- feblO-lw