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(@£jSEgia »«& ^jnmt&l $e Mjjjsjsjmgec. .' — ~ <&?kgntplj oui Jfirasengtr MACON, APRIL 2 «S0. —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. feblO-lw , 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. 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