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—Tho 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
carry his saddlebags.full of historical and
biographical works. His favorite novel is
“David Copperfield,” 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 tlie
Massachusetts Legislature 41 Republicans
for Grant, 37 for Blaine, 3G for Edmunds,
and 75 for all other candidates, leaving
Grant and Blaine hadiy 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 tie year, were the three most
heavily insured men in England, the com
panies being hit for $0,250,000, 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 it
upon the list of official interdictions. If
they will next pronounce chewing gum to
be injurious to the public morals, there
will be nothing further for them to do in
that line.
—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 pile 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 for eight 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 fuml
“No News the Best of News."
The absence of all stirring and interest
ing events just now in tha United States,
is but another name for peace and plenty,
though it makes a dull news sheet. In
the good providence of God, no calamity
or threat of woe beclouds our horizon.
There is no sickness or unusual mortality
among man or beast. The dreary finan
cial lapses and breaches of faith which use
to burden every day’s tidings, more or
less, have ceased. The current of failures
and bankruptcies has stopped its flow.
The statistics of declining trade show no
figures. The granaries of the country are
full to overflowing, and are imminently
threatened already with new and over
whelming burdens. It is a fact that if tho
promise of the winter wheat crop is veri
fied, the country, in respect to its stores of
food, will bo much like the nch man in
the gospel—“it will have no room to be
stow all its fruits and goods.”
And 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 moment
shows an improvement in their style and
temper. Tbey^el better-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 ini-
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,
about 500 have been physicians, 200 law
yers, 27 governors, 160 representatives in
Congress, 7 State officers, 130 judges, 185
professors, 42 college presidents, 13 cabi
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 eertain evidence was inadmissible,
“I 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, bnt let the jury decide.”
—The choice some people make of mat
rimonial partners is hard to understand.
A young Maine farmer married a highly
cultured Boston girl who didn’t know the
first thing about house-keeping, but had
devoted her youth to the study of geology
and mineralogy, and when he took her
holne. 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 hand and firm riding.
General Siieriian’s Indian View.
—On the communication from the Inte
rior Department, conveying the wish of
the families of Victoria’s band to remain
at San Carlos, instead of going to the Hot
Springs, General Sherman endorsed as
follows:
“Respectfully returned to the Secretary
of War, 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 this magnanimity verge
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
yeqra, has just had its annual dusting and
examination. Nobody knows how 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 latent Office. The contents
include several small pearls and diamonds
and two lumps of gold, all worth about
$3,000.
mand for an enlightened 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, but the people, in their
present condition, are unmistakably more
averse to the 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 ease
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 n'o 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, withsuch
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. He rouses
the emissaries and instruments of evil of
all kiuds;evcn themselves,for when one has
little or nothing to trouble him, he is of
ten set to work to furnish tho-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 Eress, to meet in At
lanta on the 15th day of April "f—
the purpose of taking into consideration
“Bed Tape” Triumphs Over the
Voice of the People.
After a long contest in the House, and
some lively filibustering, our telegrams
announced yesterday that the Townshend
bill, referring the dut£ on paper, chemi
cals, etc., to the Committeeon Revision
of the Laws, by a vote of 142 to 89, was
remanded back to the custody of the Com
mittee on Ways and Means. As it is
known that under Speaker Randall’s ma
nipulation the majority of that body are
opposed, now and in future, to apy change
in the present tariff, this settles • the mat
ter until the adsent of another Congress.
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
committee to report, or not to report, for
almost an indefinite period upon the
measures referred to their consideration.
But where, as in the present instance,
their action is so manifestly unjust and
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.
The Commissioners' Schedule.
An Atlanta special to the Augusta
paticnce of demagogueryj'antTa loud dllStadng Assays “the railroad commis
sioners express satisfaction with the read
iness of the railroads to accept their rates
of tariff.”
This is not in accordance with the ru
mors that obtain here from all parts
of the State. 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-
isfiedf 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. The
situation is doubtless exaggerated, bnt
still it is evident that the railroads arc 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 beoverloo ed,
as both arc essential to the well being and
prosperity of the Commonwealth.
We 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 and justice, if it be : within the scope
of possibility to do so.
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 eases, and that, upon official publication
the Constitution, and ample arrangements
will be made for tbeir comfort and enjoy
ment.”
Shortly after the close of the civil war,
the Southern Daily Press held a Conven
tion in Savannah, and afterwards in Mo
bile, Alabama, and there the 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, but the proposition failed
and each press was left to accept such ar
rangements, rules and discipline as it
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
subject for consideration by the Conven
tion. We trust whatever (if anything) is
done,the whole daily 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
Staats Zeilung, Sigismund Kauffmann,
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-
will 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-Fresident will be
defeated in the race and so get them to
withdraw before the nomination. Grant
is as certain to be the nominee as sum
mer comes.
General Gordon Vindicated.
The Washington Star says:
Senator Ben Hill, of Georgia, and bis
friends pronounce the statement that they
had attributed to Senator Gordon some
hand 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
m this matter, and he has been willing
and anxious to aid the latter in any way
he could.
No one acquainted with the chlvalric
Gordon could believe fee an instant that
he would lend his influence to defame the
private character of a brother colleague.
His grand record as soldier, statesman
and Christian, gives the lie to such a
statement.
A bill now pending “to Increase the ef
ficiency of the National Board of Health,”
niiioL, among other provisions, contains
the following: “That the National Hoard
of Health, or, in the interval of its session,
its Executive Committee, shall make re
port to the 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-
comes apparent.
Nevertheless and notwithstanding Grant• i%;on unless they aspire to the unsavory
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, and 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 ol a rigid quarantine system in times
of danger, 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, and 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, but 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, blade or white, has the right to com
plain of the discrimination that excludes
him from the jury box, and ordinarily, in.
dividuals do not complain at such exclu-
distinction of professional jurymen.
Religious 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 the official journal until after Easter.
They will be preceded by a report drawn
up 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 of the 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 tunes 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. .
Dr. Bull’s CougB Syrup has been be
fore the public for years, and is pronounc
ed by thousands superior to all other ar
ticles for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Influ
enza and other Pulmouary Complaints.
It costs only 25 cents per bottle.
The Grain Crops.
We have bad news from the growing
crops of wheat, oats and rye in Middle
Georgia. A very extensive wheat raiser
in Wilkinson county informed the writer
yesterday that his whole wheat crop had
been so utterly ruined by rust that it
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,
there is considerable complaint of rust in
the oat crop. The fact has not been es
tablished yet, whether the non-rusting
varieties have been infected with the dis
ease, and as the cases are exceptional and
rare when approved seed of that inscrip
tion has been known to succumb to rust,
. we are disposed to hope and believe they
trill pass safely through the ordeal. Our
informant and-a friend of his state that
even the rye is badly rusted.
A farmer yesterday also brought to this
office a bunch of oats from the Warrior
District utterly ruined by rust. The
wdhn 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, com and cotton. If it fails the
present season after the scant yield of com
in.1879, great distress and pecuniary loss
to the agricultural community must be
tbe inevitable result.
But there is time even now to retrieve
the situation, if our farmers will diminish
their cotton crops and increase the acreage
in com.
Let them sow every spare rod of land
also, in the whipporwill or speckled pea,
and by the first of July they will have
both grain and forage for their stock, and
can be independent of the com crib. Mil
let for forage likewise would prove profi
table if sowed upon rich soil. In short,
there is no thrifty farmer in the country
who cannot, by close attention to these
secondary or small crops, supplement an
inferior com and oat harvest, and man
age to keep aloof from the grip of our old
Western masters. The wise ones will
certainly make the effort.
Interesting Religions meetings.
For. near two weeks, daily religious
services have been held twice a day,
respectively, in the First Baptist and Mul
berry Street Methodist Churches. During
this entire period the attendance has been
good—sometimes large; and the members
of both congregations havo 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. Wairen, 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-
csty on High. Both ministers say the Learts
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
next week, and all who love the Savior,of
every faith and creed, and those who know
him not, are alike invited to attend.
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, Hr.
Fontaine, Should Hake a Note
oflt
The New York Bulletin says:
The tide of immigration has set in very
strong, all tho incoming steamers from
Great Britain and 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 the entire month of
March lost 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 tbe present African exodus.
After a while they will learn the ropes
and come. And then it will be too late
for Sambo to return.
Yankee Liberality.
The Thomasville correspondent of the
Savannah News relates the following:
We have many visitors 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 purchase
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
tmned to move away, with great dignity
and condescension, handed over to the
humble proprictess the munificent sum of
a nickel. The Thomasville lady was
speechless.
Any one 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
dies. Tho littleness of this Northern
“fashionable” can only find a parallel in
her own New England.
How they Honopolized 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
have, by means of thirty-seven different
city charters in the Territory of Utah,
managed to include nearly all of the ara
ble land of the country. The desert po>
tions, of course, they had no use for. A
memorial complaining of this sharp prac
tice has been introduced into Congress by
Senator Edmunds.
Why Should He not be the Almoner
of Hu 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 has a perfect right
to do what he will with his own, and his
munificence to an institution which may
be the means of carrying the gospel to the
farthest ends of the 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 elemosynary object.
"Will the Georgia Western be Built!
THE MACON AND BRUNSWICK EXTEN
SION.
The live railroad question of the hour
is, whether the reported alliance between
Messrs. Newcomb, of the 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
vannah News says:
Sensational telegrams still seek to keep
up the Georgia Western- Railroad boom,
but with little success. It is well under
stood here that the whole thing is being
worked up fora purpose, and when the
Legislature meets that purpose will be
made plain. There is no intention of
building the road to Blount Springs, and
it cannot be built to Birmingham or De
catur m less than eighteen months. It is
hoped that special telegrams and surveys
and other cheap demonstrations will
frighten Governor Brown, but, as he once
remarked to me, “he lias a way generally
of taking care of himself.” He don’t scare
worth a cent, as he i3 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 every Legislature during
the five-years of grace granted them, for
relief from compulsory extension.
These rumors, it is alleged, however,
may be traced to hostile Central railroad
influences and have no foundation in fact.
On the other hand, the Constitution of
yesterday contains a special from Louis
ville, Kentucky, which states that at the
meeting of the stockholders of his road
on the 26th instant, when the purchase of
the Western road franchises came up,
“President Newcomb, after stating the
price paid for the road, and how the pur
chase was 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,
but 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 the advantages, and
while we can to-day get for the property a
large advance 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 stockhold
ers unanimously endorsed the action of
the management in making the purchase,
and they now have power to take such
steps to carry out the suggestions of
President Newcomb as they deem neces
sary.”
We have it, too, from the lips of a re
turned delegate to Cincinnati just from
Louisville, that he heard Captain McDan
iel, one of the engineers, who, with Cap
tain Glostei, is about to commence the
survey 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, at the eaflfct 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,
matters do really seem to be coming to a
head, and the road may be built in the
near future. The citizens of MaCon and
—.. i. i UccdIT mieresreq-m-ting-
combination, and solikewise are the peo
ple of the whole State. It would give us
another grand and independent through
liue from the West to the 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 be undertaken in-
stanter. 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 the first shovel-
full of earth can be moved.
We cannot 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 bo well, however,
if they would reassure public confidence
by somo authoritative declaration on the
subject. The company could not better
consult the wishes of our people, also,
than by confiding the construction of the
Atlanta extension to their Georgia associ
ates, Messrs. Hazelhurst, Lane and Coup-
er. These gentlemen are old railroad
men, and deservedly enjoy the confidence
of the 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 largest weekly
newspapers in the South, containing eight
pages, of sixty-four columns, and brim
full 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 Geoigia.
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, aud more 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 27,1880.
Not 0or Agent
A letter from Eatonton states “that a
book peddler named James A. Baugh has
been going through Putnam county solic
iting and receiving subscriptions for the
Telegraph and Messenger. He is
said, also, to chaige 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, Massenbuig & Co.; Hunt,
Rankin & Lamar, wholesale and retail.
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The Civil Record of General Win
field S. Hancock is a pamphlet of forty
pages, designed by his friends to inaugu
rate a boom for the gallant veteran.
EASTSB IS COKING.
“Easter is coming,” the flower king said,
As through his dominion he passed,
Where the haughty and gay,
With the humble and sweet,
Were cunningly mingled and massed.
And each tender plant was thrilled to the
heart,
As the spring life*went joyfully through,
j While they made themselves ready,
To give of the 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 and in ashes it lay,
The passion is deep, and tbe way is
so dark;
But yonder tbe morning tints faintly
I see,
Which presage tbe dawning of day.
“O, Easter is coming!” 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 Committeeon
Commerce, a plan to make tbe 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 an.army of contractors.
What next?
A Fact not 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
rarely 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 pieces cannot be ex
changed for certificates, or greenbacks at
the Treasury or Sub-Treasury. The 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 laiger part of the ani
mal with seeming delight.
This splenetic paragraph emanates from
the Courier-Journal end does that paper
no credit. The people of Cincinnati re
ceived the.ir 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 he to their
sister city.
The English Elections.
The cost of a general election in Great
hut dependent in its extent on the num
ber of seats actively contested. There are
in all 652 seats, and from these, in the
last general election 1,081 candidates were
run. The average sum expended by the
conservative candidates for England and
Wale3 was £1,520 and for the liberal can
didates £2,160. The large t sum spent
on any one county election was in the
case of North Durham, where four candi
dates returned an aggregate expenditure
of £28,202. The English and Welsh
boroughs iu that electiou spent an aggre
gate of £423,900—those of Scotland £119,-
4S0, and £80,6S0 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 suppldlnents 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
redeeming its promise to remedy any in
justice which their tariff unwittingly in
flicts. On this subject, the Atlanta cor
respondent of the Savannah News says:
The Kimball and Markham House are
crowned 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 the 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
tbe officials.
General Alexander, Colonel Rogers,
Colonel Bowers, Captain Raoul and
others are bard 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 he im
possible for the railroads .to afford the
public one-half the benefits now received
by them under the old tarifls.
The Dissatisfied Germans.
Tho Cincinnati Commercial prints the
following telegraphic statement from
Cleveland, Ohio:
The Hon. Jacob Mueller, ex-Lieuten-
nnt Governor of Ohio, and now the con
trolling spirit around the Wdecliter am
Erie office of this city, the leading Ger
man daily paper of Northern Ohio, says
that lie is satisfied that nothing cau 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-Lieutcnant
Governor, “I candidly believe that Grant
would not get fifty votes among all the
Germans of Cleveland. In fact, I have
not seen one 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 think his re-
election would be a very bad precedent.
I should like to sec Washburne nomi
nated.”
Mr. Mueller says, also, that the Waechter
will support the best Presidential platform
adopted and ticket nominated, always ex
cepting General Grant.
It is to be feared that if the organs contin
ue to print these statements about Grant,
they will make it very hard for themselves
to fall into line and support the General
hereafter, as they will have to do. The
movements of the ex-President, so soon as
he strikes American soil; leave little doubt
that he will be as persistent aud eager a
candidate as auy of them.
DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.
The Queen’s Speech to the Lords—
Writs Issued for a New Election.
London, March 24. — The Queen’s
speech, announcing the dissolution of Par
liament, was read in the House of
Lords to-day, by Lord Cairns, the Lord
High Chancellor. There were present
only twenty-five member? of the House of
Commons, fourteen peers and eleven la
dies. The following is the full text of
the speech; .
My Lords and Gentlemen: As the time
assigned by law for the termination of the
present parliament is near at hand, I am
induced by considerations of public poli
cy aud convenience, to select this period
of the session for releasing you from your
legislative duties, with a view to immedi
ate dissolution and the issue of writs for
a general electiou. I cannot part from
you without expressing my deep sense of
the zeal and ability which during more
than six years you have constantly dis
played in exercising your important func-
tiqus, nor without tendering my warm
acknowledgments for the useful measures
you have submitted fpr my acceptance,
and especially for the manner in which
you have upheld a policy the object ol
which was 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 of the distress unhap
pily prevalent in parts of Ireland, and,
trusting that these measures will be accep
ted by my Irish subjects as proof of the
ready sympathy of the imperial Parlia
ment, I look forward with confidence to
the 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 the heavy losses sustained by the va
rious [classes coimected with the cultiva
tion of the soil, and have viewed with ad
miration the 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 which will lead to a more
profitable use of the 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
the blessing of Almighty God may guide
them to promote the object of my con
stant solicitude—the happiness of my
people.”
| jit is formally announced that, as 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, and many and
bitter are the feuds and local questions
that will he lugged into the canvass. In
..v.a ur tins deplorable aspect of. afifeir*,
our contemporary the Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist makes the following timely
remarks:
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
recreaut to its trusts and unfaithful to its
record, did it not point out tho 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
aud 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 tree elections
bear in their open practices satire upon
their names. Men are disgusted with the
course of such elections, and each year
Augusta ha3 tolerated methods more ques
tionable and witnessed scenes more revolt
ing than in the dark days of 1867 and
186S, when party strife ran high and cor
ruption was abroad in the land. It is for’
the candidates who 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 the 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 aud influential
Republicans are preparing for the contest
are neither vague nor unreasonable.
They have been organized for nearly two
montlis, steadily planning the national
canvass, and will be no unimportant fac
tion in the next election. To their party
caucuses prominent citizens have been
invited, and from their ranis heavy sup
port toward independent candidates, if
not some of the candidates themselves,
will be furnished.
Littell’s Living Age.—The num
bers ot The Living Age for the weeks end
ing Much 20th and 27th respectively,
contain the following articles: Bishop
Wilbcrforce, 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 Libraiy, and
Mr. Bright as a Churchman, Spectator;
with instalments of “He that will not
when he may,” by Mrs. Oliphant, and
“Adam and Eve,” by the author^ 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.
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, he safe
from after effects, and yet so simple that
ir might be used by any one. Dr. Tutt’s
Liver Pills supply tins want. They are
prescribed by tlie most eminent physi-
sicians. lw
#•»■»
The Pestiferous Bucket Writer,
who has so long annoyed Lev. Dr. Dix
and others, was arrested in Baltimore
last Wednesday and taken to New York.
His name is Eugene Fairfax Williamson,
and he confesses his otienses. 1
j Gilbert Budd of Clarcnden, Mich'
1 died at the close of morning family pra .-’
ers, before he had risen from his knees.
: He was 60 years old.
i —John Roach has decided to with-
■ draw his Rio Janeiro steamers after May
1, as owing to English competition, the
line is run at at a loss.
Bilkington has passed away. Mrs.
B., who had just read tho notice of his
death in the newspaper, said: “What a
pity John couldn’t read this! He would
be so pleased to see his name in print.”
—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 you
ain’t goin’ very far.”
—Masonville, Vt., is excited over, a
small nugget of gold that was found in a
hen’s crop, and a gravel bed near her own
er’s house is an object of great interest to
himself and his neighbors.
—According to the Times, some fastid
ious members of the best society of Al
bany are not altogether satisfied with
Governor Cornell’s ways. They do not
take kindly to such innovations as negro
banjo players and candy-pulls at the Ex
ecutive Mansion.
'—William Smoak of Orangeburg conn,
ty, S. C., has 10 living children, ^grand
children, 391 great-grand-children, and 70
great-great-grand-children, making in all
5W 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. “Five
crowned heads” have been pleased to he
pleased with the feathered performers.
Six Feet Deep at St. John’s.—The
severest snow sterm of the winter was rag
ing in St. Johns, N. B., on Thursday. It
began yesterday. • There are many huge
drifts and trains and steamers are delayed.
Tho snow in some places is five or six
feet deep.
—California Crop Prospects.—
Crop prospects of the 25th indicate that
wheat throughout the State promises
at least an average harvest, although more
rain is needed. Since the date of these
reports a general rain has visited the State
aud still prevails. Later dispatches show
a feeling of increased confidence on the
part of the farmers.
—The rush of immigration at New
York is somewhat remarkable. The seven
ocean steamers which arrived there Sun
day and Monday landed 2,911 immigrants,
making the total for the month up to date
12,720, against 6,051 for the entire month
of March of last year, and as the season
advances the numbers are expected to in
crease.
—Two hundred years ago the shaft of
the turquoise mine in Chalclmti Mountain,
New Mexico, caved in and a hundred In
dians below at work were killed. The
Spaniards tried to force the Indians to
work the mine, and the result was a re
bellion and the expulsion of the Spanish.
•Now some American capitalists are about
to reopen the mine, which is the only one
of its kind on the continent.
—There is an apprehension that the
fashionable luncheon parties in London
prove enihciy too* much for some of the
ladies who attend them. A brougham
was lately seen to drive up to a mansion
in a fashionable street, but no one emerg
ed from it. At length the coachman de
scended, and with considercble difficulty
aroused the slumbering occupant. She
had come from a luncheon party.
—The Philadelphia people are trying to
find out the exact date of the landing of
the alleged honest William Penu at that
point. TheNumismatic and Antiquarian So
ciety of the city, composed of very wise
men, has recently decided that William
landed on November 18,1868. The Phil
adelphians generally accept this result of
a long and agonizing controversy, and
they will have a rattling celebration of the
two hundredth anniversary of the event
November 18,1882.
—The European life insurance compa
nies charge ten per cent, extra premium
on crowned heads, to cover the risk of as
sassination, and M. Rouher, who acts as
agent of the ex-Empress Eugenie, has ap
plied to the French companies who cany
heavy risks on her life, for the remission of
this extra charge, on the ground that she
is now out of the range of king killers.
—Of th^ 25,000 blades who have mi
grated from the South to Kansas, there is
not the slightest doubt that fully 20,000
would return to their homes if they had
the means. While there is a wide field
lor their labor in the South, it cannot he
considered a wise measure for the South
ern people to send the exodusters money
to pay their way back home. If they are
compelled to stay in Kansas until they
earn sufficient to pay their return railroad
and steamboat fare, they will have gained
a stock of experience which will prove of
great value to them hereafter. '
It has been estimated that the blacks
are now going north at the rate of 300 per
week. There is already a return tide,
which will grow larger.
—The German colony of Haifa, found
ed about ten years ago, occupies a strip of
land between Mount Caimel and the
Mediterranean Sea, about a mile from the
town of Caifl'a. The houses are substan
tially built of limestone, and the street*
are regularly laid out, adorned with a
double row of shade trees. The motire
for founding this colony, as well as its
three sister colonies, at Jaffa, Sharon, and
Jerusalem, rests upon faith in the word*
ot prophecy. The society whidi under
took the work is denominated the “Tem
ple,” and the centre of the organization is
in Wurtenburg. It has branches in the
United States, in Russia, and in Switzer
land. The immediate aim is to give a
good example to the natives by -founding
Christian communities, working for th*
elevation of the people aud country. This
colony of Haifa numbers about 330 inhab
itants, mostly Germans, with some Ger-
man-Americans and Russians, and a few
Swiss. It is provided with good schosls.
The colonists carry on various trades and
industries, but the greatest part of the
people occupy themselves with agriculture
and vintage, having about 650 acres of
laud.
It doesn’t do a bit of good to take a
twelve mile promenade in a fourteen loot
room with the baby, and sing or declaim:
“Hootchie, pootchie, pudden and pie*”
Use Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup and bo done
with it.
The Divorce Committee in France has
pronounced in favor of divorce for five
years’ desertion, divorce by mutual con
sent when the wife is turned forty-fits
and has been married above twenty years,
and also for giving tribunals the option
of appending divorce to a condemnation
for fraud, indecency or other erhns*
against morality.
This virtually makes the marriage re
lation the merest matter of convenience.
Why will men, and womentoo, suffik
with warts, corns, bunions, frosted feet,
sore throat rheumatism, neuralgia, sprains
and bruises, when they can get relief by
using Coussens’ Lightning Liniment.
For sale by A A. Menard; John In-
;a!ls; Rankin, Massentmrg & Co.; Hunt,
Lankin & Lamar, wholesale and retail.
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