Georgia weekly telegraph and Georgia journal & messenger. (Macon, Ga.) 1869-1880, April 09, 1880, Image 4

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•jejJKgm lpel£gj£.§ipli Jammed & Jf|fc««*ttg£K* ^iltgrnpji null 38mui$t MACON, APRIL D l*SO. —According to an estimate of the Fin ancial Chronicle, of New York, Jay Gould controls 7,864 miles of railroad. The New York Express says that Jay Gould considers the personal magnet ism of Mr. James G. Blaine one the most beautiful of all natural phenomena. Prominent Republicans in New York held a meeting two days ago to organize a central committee in opposition to the renomination of Grant. There are such men in the movement as Sheridan Shook. Judge Dittenbofer, General George H. Palmer, George P. Webster, and many others who have plenty of money, brains and influence, and they have enlisted for the war. —The Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs property was sold at auction, 81st ult., William A Stewart, of Saltville, Va., being the purchaser. The price obiained was only $340,000. Judge Jackson will confirm the sale, however, so it is thought by competent judges. —Ralph Waldo Emerson said lately: “My ancestiy is made up of ministers; in my family the Bible is seen oftener than any other book in the hands of wife and daughter. I think these facts tell my whole story. If you wish to call me a Christian theist you have my authority to do so, and you must not leave out the word Christian, for to leave out this is to leave out everything.” —Grant’s friends evidently intend, and he seems to be with them, that he shall be a candidate for a party nomination, running in the luck with the rest, taking his chances, making his combinations, and seizing every vote he can get. This is not heroic, but it is practical. Grant means business, a business of $50,000 a year as President. He has now been in the coun try long enough to know exactly how lit- tie enthusiasm there is for him; but he sticks. —The Charleston News and Courier discoursing on intemperance says:. Above all we warn our women against the idea that they can reform a drunkard by mar rying him, any more than they can by talking to him and flirting with him. The farther they go, the worse they will fare. What influence they have before marriage they will lose when passion cools. There are some exceptional cases, hut, as a rule, the man who is a drunkard before mar riage will bo a drunkard afterward. What a man will not do for his own sake he will rarely do to solace the aching heart of his wife, or to give bread to his neglected children. —The Knoxville Chronicle says Ten nessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad has just received the invoice of about forty- five miles of new steel rails, direct from the celebrated Krupp steel works in Ger many, the most extensive steel works in the world. A portion of the rails are re ceived, and they are coming in every few days. These rails are being used to sup ply the place of the old iron rails, and will be put down on the line from Bristol to Chattanooga, where there are not already steel rails, just as rapidly as practicable. Wherever they are put down the road-bed is first put in the very best condition pos sible, by a liberal use of ballast, new ties, etc. When the work is completed, and the entire line is strung with steel rails, and first-class road bed, it will be one of the best roads in the South. —The King of Siam, who is go ing to make a tour of th^.wotld, is Vr .cif. He was educated by an En- governess, Mrs. Lenowens, whose eply interesting narrative was original- ’jy published in the Atlantic Monthly. Somdatah is 27 years old, speaks and writes good English, and is pretty well versed in political economy and the sciences. He is said to be acquainted with our history and literature and to be great admirer of this country. He gave General Grant a distinguished reception, and will expect as much when he arrives In the United States. In 1871 he abol ished slavery in his dominions by procla mation, and is supposed to hare freed about 6,000,000 people. —Senator Bruce’s special committee have just made a report on the Freed man’s Savings Bank in Washington, but no new facts are added to the.crushing story told in the 44th Congress; nor can much be added to the simple story that 70,- 000 poor negroes by the villiany of men, several of whom are dead but most of whom are still living and cne or two of whom are wealthy, have lost nearly $2,- 000,000. More than ten per cent, of the claims against the bank, $335,000, has been spent in the expense of liquidating its affairs; a large part since the House in 1876 attempted to reduce these expenses but failed. Senator Bruce’s report re peats now what was urged by one of the investigating committees of the Demo cratic House four years ago, that only one commissioner was needed instead of three, to whom $50,000 has been paid in salaries. That the law incorporating the bank was drawn without penalties so as o promote fraud; that its weak provisions, mch as they were, were systematically dolated, and that the members of the district of Columbia Ring, on intimate erms with Grant’s Administration, profit- id by these violations was already known; int no remedy exists, and no one has ever >een punished. In all about fifty cents on he dollar will be paid depositors. Tidings Fbom Liberia.—The Augus- a News says George Shaw, a well-known olored man, formerly of this county, but iow in Liberia, writes to friends in An xista warning the colored people not to o to that benighted region. He says the ountiy is mountainous and sterile, and lie climate very sickly. All the necessa- ics of life are very inferior, scarce and jgli in price. The letter further says: Wrong statements have been made to the clored people of the South about Liberia, liich cause many a poor soul to come Ere and suffer. Liberia is a certain path for all the American people who ,me here; and the natives, who think we ■o just out of slavery, look on us with ispiclon and scorn. If the true facts >out tills country were generally known would save many a poor soul from dy- g, which a large majority do who land :i the# burning shores. There is no ma nner)- in the country, and farmers can- 3t keep out of debt from one season to ,e other. The much-talked-of bread nit is nothing like the bread you have in ie States; it is a peculiar kind of fruit ■owing on large trees, and very insignifi- nt.” Shaw, with several others from is section, shipped on the Azor from ,iarleston about two years ago, The English Elections. A Surprising Political Revolution. The defeat of tho Eeaconsfield ministiy Important Railroad Appointment, j It is announced in the Constitution, • that Mr. J. M. Edwards, who has; Last Week’s Cotton Figures. Rainfall In March. The New York Chronicle, of Saturday In their appeal to the people i, P**W|S££* < T‘!2' "**•*• not more a surprise to that ministry than 1 since ta leti0I1) has beenap- to general public expectation on this side j . , secure against capital mistakes. Lohl Beaconsfield, with all his acknowledged sagacity, has made a grand miscalcula tion, and finds himself hurled from power and place, with a bewildering violence. That he was sure of a popular triumph which would materially strengthen his administration in Parliament, is clear from the fact that he not only selected his own time and opportunity for a popular appeal, but he made it with a majority al ready in hisiiand, and made it not alone for the vindication of his policy, but against obstruction by the minority. He demanded not only that his policy should be endorsed, hut that opposition should be rebuked and crippled. The response already is a clear sentence of popular con demnation; and reasoning on the general course of elections, we anticipate in the return of the remaining members a still more decisive Liberal majority. Precisely what will be the practical re sult of so sndden a political revolution, it is impossible to say. The telegrams of Sunday say that Mr. Gladstone will refuse the responsible leadership of the Liberals, and It will devolve on Earl Granville and the Marquis of Harrington, men of insuf ficient pre-eminence to command the ne cessary confidence of the party in the pres ent crisis. Gladstone is not of sufficient age to demand retirement. He was bom December fi, 1809, and, therefore, passed his three score and ten last December; while Earl Beaconsfield is several years older as well-as in feebler health. Brit ish statesmen of their grade have often retained the reins into the eighties, and we are therefore disposed to look for the reason of Mr. Gladstone’s persistent re tirement from responsible political life to his personal relations with the Queen. He is believed to be under a clcud—at any rate, he has been the subject of social neglect by the Court, which seems to im ply royal disfavor. As the responsible head of the ministry he would necessarily often he brought in to personal contact with the Queen, which might be unwelcome to both. The royal Executive of Great Britain has no party politics. She embodies the sovereignty of the realm, and is, theoretically, with out personal or partizan partialities. The conflict of parties in Great Britain, there fore, does not involve the government, however much interest the Queen, as person, may be supposed to take in the straggle. Questions vitally affecting the course of the national administration may be contested with the greatest heat among electors, but the Queen and all her merely executive subordinates sit serenely above the agitation and excitement, The Beaconsfield ministry, in this case, contemplate continuing in office until an actual conflict shall arise between it and the parliamentary majority. This brings us to a recognition of the plain fact that the Liberals have yet a policy to outline and agree upon. They have now only the general bond of opposition. They are united only in the iact of discontent. They do not approve the Beaconsfield policy, but they maybe far from agree ment upon a substitute. It is a crucial test when an opposition party is brought by events to take the pos itive instead of the negative—to affirm and assert a particular line of conduct, instead of merely denying the, wisdom and ..-e. 1 or objection. are brought to light—all motives are tested—all want of harmony and cohesion exposed. Inhuman affairs, and especially those of governments, rare ly is any course offered in itself wholly free from objection. The question almost always lies in the most prudent and wise alternative. The British Liberals have now to en counter this severe ordeal and to show their ability to harmonize on a line of policy in its adaptation to actual facts and existing conditions, which is to sub stitute and revolutionize that of the Bea consfield Ministry, of which they com plain for many and various reasons. Can they stand this test?' This is the next question. The Consultation, of the Railway Magnates at Savannah. Messrs. Newcomb, Alexander, de Fu- niak, Stahlman, Wadley and others of the visiting railroad managers, were re ceived with great cordiality in Savannah, and many of the most prominent citizens called upon them. On Friday night the merchants also turned out in large num bers, accompanied by a band of music, and paid their respects to their guests at the Screven House. The News says: Mr. Newcomb states that they had ad journed from Atlanta to Savannah for the purpose of obtaining a clear insight into arrangements which had been proposed and discussed and of completing certain details. They also desire to visit and in spect the docks and shipping facilities and the advantages of the harbor. A confer ence will be held to-day, when it is be lieved all differences will be adjusted aad a grand alliance perfected which will be of incalculable benefit. Among those who called upon the rail road party, the same paper states, was Col onel Karweise, engineer in charge of the harbor improvements who “assured the distinguished visitors of the feasibility of making the Savannah harbor of such depth as will float any vessel likely to visit our waters. The grain elevators and different railroad projects were discussed, and one of the schemes laid stress upon was the railroad to Tybee Island, the building of a breakwater and harbor of refuge for vessels, which project it is thought is practicable, and, if carried out, will make Tybee Island the great outpost for our seaport. “After this interchange of opinion and friendly conversation, the party, knowing that the visitors were fatigued by the day’s travel and needed rest, bid them adieu and retired. They then proceeded with the band to the residence comer of Broughton and Drayton streets, and com plimented the worthy President of the Central, Colonel Wadley, in a similar manner, but the hour was not appropriate for a call, aud after playing several pieces, they completed their tour by a call at the Morning News office and favored the corps with a serenade.” All causes of disagreement between the Central and Louisville and Nashville roads, it is said, have been amicably ad justed, but upon what basis thus far has not transpired. pointed te succeed Colonel Adams as Su perintendent of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. Mr. Edwards is one of the most popular, enterprising and skillful railroad men in the State. He is still very young, but has fairly won his way, step by step, from the ranks of his profession. Of Colonel Ad ams it is unnecessary to speak. Few men are his supariors in sagacity and adminis trative ability, while his spotless integrity is one of the most salient characteristics of a long and useful public career. We doubt not, unless preferring the retirement of his pleasant farm, his great experience will very soon be called into requisition again in some other railroad field. Since penciling the above we hear it as serted on the streets that the report of the supersednre of Colonel Adams and the ap pointment of Mr. Edwards, is with out foundation. It is claimed that matters still remain in statu quo with the present officials ot the road. Newspaper Progress. The last Courier-Journal contains six columns elaborately devoted to the work of Jack Ketch, with illustrations. JThe first cut i3 that of the nooss which stran gled Robert Anderson and Charles Web ster. Then follows a series of startling sensational headings. Next, all the sick ening details of the execution, drawn out most fearfully, are given with a mul titude of minute personal incidents con nected with the wretched criminals. Half of the fourth and fifth columns are occupied with pictures of the scaffold and the horrid portraits of Robert Anderson and his black associate, Webster. Last ly, a drawing is made of the entire area adjacent to the gallows. When the men had been duly hung, to cap the climax, the minutest particulars of the murder and rape for which they had suffered,were painted in language that will not bear to be reproduced in the presence of decent people. If this be progressive journalism, the less of it the better, for tbe purity and virtue of our girls and the rising genera tion. Warm Weather—The rain and hail storm in and about Macon on Sunday be gan with a temperature of eighty and low ered the mercury only two degrees. Yes terday was still warmer. The Two-Thirds Rule. An exchange says the two-thirds rule will not be in anybody’s way in the Cin cinnati Convention. It is only a tra dition of the party, and it has been well understood since 1804, that when any candidate received a majority vote, the rest would soon go to his support. But to place the matter beyond all dis pute, we trust in response to the request made by the State Executive Committee, that every county primary meeting or election, held to appoint or elect delegates to the National convention, will send delegates who will pass rectly upon the two-thirds rale. Let us have a . fair expres sion of the will of the party on the ques tion, so that our delegates to Cincinnati may be proper ly instructed in the premises. If this could he done generally in all the States, it might prevent any danger of a holt in the event of a majority nomination. How a Legislature Proposes to Raise the Wind. The Communistic Legislature of Cali fornia has passed a bill providing, says the New York BulletinXhstwhen at ij-nmifr ~ TITfflTr "(n a borrower, bbtti the depositor and tbe bank must pay. a tax upon it. It Is said that not only double but a triple tax is' proposed. Thus, if A has on the first Monday March deposited money in a bank and drawn a check to meet a debt due to B, and if the check was not presented until after 12 o’clock at noon on that day, will be taxed as having a credit at tbe hank, the bank will be listed for themon ey in its vaults, and B will be taxed for it a? a solvent debt due from A. The Governor is strongly urged to veto the bill. The Macon Daily Herald. We have received the fint number of neatly printed and well filled sheet, to be published every evening in this city by Messrs. Christian, Sims & Company, bear ing the name of the Macon Daily Herald. These gentlemeh have purchased the Cen tral Georgia Weekly from Mr. J. D, Williams, aud will cany out his subscrip tion contracts. We welcome our young contemporary Into the journalistic arena, and extend to it the nght hand of fellow ship. * Tilden in Georgia.—An Atlanta correspondent of the New York Herald is credited with a canvass of the Presidential preferences of the Georgia Legislature, which shows for Tilden 79; Thurman 14; Seymour 10; Hendricks 4; Bayard 11; nominee 16; scattering 5. .Tilden has very little personal strength in Georgia The Brig Emma L. Hall, has been fined $1,200 in gold by the Spanish au thorities at Matanzas against the protest of the captain. A New York dispatch says the American consul general, when notified of the facts, said that he was not satisfied that the fine was lawfully im posed. A Model Legislature.—The Iowa Legislature only passed during its late session twenty-one laws, near .half of which were private legalizing acts. Some of the Solons of other States should point the moral. Mail Failures.—No Northern news papers mailed on Sunday and Monday were received northof Louisville, Unhappy King Cetywayo is confined in a narrow cell, aud only permitted to walk on the ramparts accompanied by a sentinel. The parapet of the wall is high above his bead, se that flight by this means is impossible, while the poor fel low has grown so stiff and unwieldy from confinement, change of habit and diet, that it is as much as he can do to keep himself steady on his legs during the long and dreary promenade. How the Civil Service Reform is Made to Work at Beaufort.—A spe cial to the News and Courier says: A great stir has been 'created in Repub lican circles here, this eveaing, by the re moval of Cuthbert, Bold and Hasel, as lighthouse keepers, on Hunting Island, the cause being-that they were- natives and Democrats. F. C. Miller, the ex- County Commissioner of Charleston, has been appointed chief, and John Brodie, white, and Hamilton Robinson, black, as assistants. J. P. Boyce, white, has been appointed Inspector at Port Royal, and Julius Washington, colored, has been ap-. pointed clerk to one Sammy Green, at Coosaw. These are new offices. So much for Sherman and civil service re- j form. cotton receipts at the ports for the seven days ending Friday night, 2d instant, at 47,893 hales against 54,283 for the corres ponding week, of last year—showing a falling off for the week of 6,800bales. The Cotton Exchange report for the same week was receipts 46,989 against 53,895— showing a decrease' on the week of 6,- 900. The Chronicle makes the total re ceipts from 1st September last 4,495,002 bales against 4,173,503—showing an in crease of 321,559 bales. The Cotton Ex change makes it 4,505,652 against 4,141,- 423, making the increase 364,229 bales. The Chronicles interior port table shows receipts 22,564, against 32,389 the same week last year. Shipments 29,461, against 46,973. Stocks 259,223, against 116,879. The Chronicles visible supply table showed2,572,448bales of cotton in sight last Friday; against 2,324,376 insight at that date one year ago; 2,735,738 in sight in 1878, at same.date, and 3,029,269 in sight, in.1877 at same date. These figures show an increase in the visible supply over last year of 248,072 bales—a decrease of 163,- 290 bales on the visible supply of 1878, at the same date, and a decrease of 456,821 bales on the visible supply of 1877 at same date. . Cotton in Liverpool last Friday was quoted 7i for middling upland. Last year at that date the quotation was 6§. In 1S7S, at that date, the quotation was 6J, and in 1877,6*. The Chronicle closes its table of re ceipts from plantations with the following: The above statement shows— 1. That the total receipts from the plant ations since September 1 in 1879-80 were 4,740,984 bales; in 1878-79 were 4,284,730 bales; in 1877-78 were 4,056,855 bales. 2. That although the receipts at the out ports the past week were 47,393 bales, the actual movement from plantations was only 40,496 bales, the balance being drawn from stocks at tbe interior ports. Last year the receipts from tbe planta tions for tbe same week were 39,699 bales, and for 1878 they were 48,082 bales. As to tue Chronicles weather telegrams there are none from Texas. The Missis sippi river is falling, and fear of further overflow is gone. The week in Louisiana has been characterized generally by light rains-and pleasant weather. Shreveport however, complains of 2.06 of rain and bad roads. The rainfall in New Orleans* during March was 6.76. In Mississippi, Vicksburg had light rains during the week. The rainfall of Ma-cliat Colum bus was 7.57. At Little Rock, Arkansas, there was 0.36 of rain in tbe week, , and 6.64 during the month of March. Farm work behind hand. At Nashville there was rain on three days, but only 0.37 of fall. At Memphis only 0.33 during the week. Plowing vigorously carried on. At Mobile only 0.25 during the week. At Montgomery only 0.18. The rainfall at Montgomery during March was 9.20—a ■heavy allowance. At Columbus, Geor gia, there was 0.15 during the week, and during the month of March 8.60. At Ma con 5.68 during the month. At Augusta C.53. Only a light rain dining the week in Georgia. Prices Toning Down. The rapid-decline in the prices of al most almost all descriptions of merchan dise, shows unmistakably that the great impetus given to mining, manufacturing and every other branch of industry for the past six months bf « cnlmim : ..j, Rice Corn. Wonderful Provision of Provi dence. Our readers will recall an article pub lished several weeks since on the Egyp tian Doura, a species, of millet which is raised in Texas, and described to be very nutritious and productive. That this ce real is identical with the rice com of Kan sas and New Mexico, can hardly he doubt ed. Of tbe latter we have a detailed and most marvelous account in the columns of the New York Bulletin. It is known as the Egyptian com or Pampas rice, and is said to have been brought to the Uni ted States from Southern Russia by the Mennonite emigrants. About two years ago a Mr. Hollings worth, of Chicago, discovered this plant growing in the Valley of the Arkansas, in what is called the “dry belt,” 316 miles west of Kansas City, and about the same distance east of Pueblo. He was so much pleased with its appearance that he em barked at once in the cultivation, on an extensive scale, of this important cereal. The following is his experience as con tained in a published letter from Las Ve gas, New Nexico: “Mr. Hollingsworth had forty acres of sod turned over, and having procured several quarts of the seed, with an ordi nary seed-planter he deposited two or three grains a foot or two apart in the sod. There had not been a drop of rain lor the previous eight months, and it did not rain for five weeks after the planting; yet the seed geiminated. The com came pp and grew finely. After it got fairly started, the hot blasts came up from the Llano Estacado (Staked Plains), burn ing up the grass and every green thing in the gardens, scorching like the blasts from a furnace, yet it did not affect the new-comer from Egypt a particle. It grew right along in spite .of the heat. Then the rains came on, and the sturdy grain was equally indifferent to that. It grew right on and ripsued about the 1st of September, yielding some sixty bushels tc the acre, weighing sixty pounds to the bushel. “The stalk is much better for fuel than corn-stalks, and makes as good fodder al so. Its fuel qualities in this treeless re gion east of the mountains is a mo3t im portant fact, as a few acres will furnish fuel for a family for an entire winter. From the top of the stalk issues a tuft' something like that of sorghum; this soon droops over, and the whole bunch is one mass of the grain. The kernel is about the size of a grain of wheat, perhaps a lit tle smaller aud more nearly round. Each one is inclosed in a shuck or independent capsule. The grain can be ground iuto an excellent flour, from which bread and other food can be made; it can be boiled and eaten as rice or cracked wheat, and. in fact, can be used for any purpose for which our ordinary cereals are employ ed. A neighbor of Mr. Hollingsworth who raised a small crop last year, assured him that it fattened pigs faster than he had ever known common com or any oth er food to do it.” The above facts have also been ^sub stantiated by a cloud of witnesses in that part of tbe country, and bear the endorse ment ofthe Kansas Board of Agriculture at Topeka. From a long list of testimo nials we extract the following: Mr. Charles Willets, Ellis county, writes: “Rice corn was planted June 10, 1870; treated in all respects as Indian corn. • Was very dry when planted, yet it came up in due time without rain. Fed the heads to stock, all eating it with avid ity. Past season was excessively dry in this section, but all rice corn fluids yielded much better than any other grain. Con sider it the most valuable grain yet intro duced for a dry climate.” The Hon. D. H. Waite writes from Larned: “It is quite prolific. The grain is small, white color and round. Fowls/ hogs and cattle are iond of it. Drouth does not seem to affect it, a3 it holds its color when Indian.com wilts.” into meal, finding it of excellent quality and in many respects superior to com. It One of our most reliable and prosper- supplies the place of hominy perfectly; is ous grocery merchants who was one ofthe an excellent feed for all kinds of animals Cincinnati visitors, was informed by a ? hink stand two or three times the . l ... .. .. I drouth that Indian com will: is beyond vliolesale dealer of that city that on the a - doubt grasshopper and worm proof. stock bought some two months ago, he I Whenever you plant rice com you are had sustained a net loss of $25,000 by the sure of a crop. A large area will be Tl ? T!iS3 u as true of the hardwaremen and other I seed will plant fifteen or twenty acres, branches of trade to a greater or less ex- It is pure white, and weighs sixty pounds tent. The loss falls, hardest on manufac- to the bushel.” turers who were forced to purchase iron, j A sample of meat from the rice-corn at chemicals and all kinds of raw material at I the instance of the Kansas State Board of their highest figure,to enable them to sup-1 Agriculture has been subjected to ply the large demand for goods. Now, I chemical analysis with the following re- that this demand has fallen off and prices I suit: Moisture, 7.18; starch, CS.22; fat, have gone down, they are compelled to 14.61; cellulose, 3.00; dextrine and sugar, pocket the loss. 12.64; albuminoids, 11.12; extractive We are assured also, however, by mer-1 matter, 1.18; ash, 1.65. cantile traveling agents,that already many I Let us compare this with a similar country merchants, notably oh the line of I analysis of Indian com. the Georgia railroad, who bought heavily I Equal quantities of the latter contain in the early winter, are now in sore I moisture 11.5, starch 60.1, fat 4.4, cellu- straights, because of the subsidence of the lose 14.9, dextrine and sugar 2.3, albume- boom and their inability to sell their goods [ noids 8.7, extractive matter—ash 1.6. even at cost figures. As there Is every in-1 Remarking on the above, Professor Pat- dication that prices will continue to -tend ] rick says the rice com compares favorably downward, the ontlook is not cheerful to I with com, wheat, rye, and oats, as an ar- those who have thus overstocked them- j tide of food. It is especially rich Tn al- solves. huminoids or flesh forming qualities,.and Flour and groceries, too, are breaking “surpasses all the Indian corns of which in prices, and will probably soon reach I find analyses.” their normal level. ’ If the halt ofthe above be actually true. t a i ai tuc uau vi tuu auuiv uuawtuaijj uucj Wise men will heed these signs and j Mr . Lo Duc and the National Agricultu- werk off their goods as expeditiously as I ral Bureau sho uld spare no pains or ex _ possible. With the prospect of a crop of pense in disseminating this invaluable ce seveu millions of bales of cotton next fall, j throughout the length and breadth and an over stocked market of manufa* 6f tbe In the South it will prove ture goods, every dealer should keep j a perfect Godsend to the people where close to shore and confine himself to the the droughts of summer so often blast the legitimate wants of the trade. | f a j res t provision prospects of the planter. _ Perhaps it may not be too late to pro- The Railroad Managers in Savannah, cure a supply ofthe precious seed even The Morning News contains an into the present season, to supplement the loss eating account of the visit of Mr. New-1 of the 'oat crop comb and his associates, together with quite a party of invited guests to Tybee Island, where a sumptuous dinner had been prepared for them. The object of] the visit was the inspection ofthe bar and harbor at the entrance of Savannah river, and the location of suitable points for the erection of grain elevators. We clip the following from the concluding portion of | tho article: The Langley Cotton Kills. We learn from the Charleston News andT Courier, that the stockholders of the Langley Cotton Mills held their annual meeting last Wednesday, and 2,802 shares were represented. The President. W. C. Sibley, submitted a report, from which wo take the subjoined: We are assured in tbe statement that ^'^ ie onr guests will cany with them the con- year 1870 were viction ■ that Savannah is not only the ^' rom yhich deduct taxes, re- shertest route to the Atlantic ocean geo- pans, etc., • graphically, but has many other undenia-1, . , ’ ble advantages which will eventually Leaves net earnings for the —i- . ... - J * year 1879, . $87,891 19 0,813 88 make this harbor known over the world as second to none. During the triD ° r n ?? rly 87 SOprofltperspin- Colonel Wadley and Mr. Newcomb were rn f J™ . in close and earnest conversation, and the j balance at credit examination of certain documents induced | ?i P ro ®t J an -16, 1870 • ■ • . $81,277 31 the inference that details were being con sidered. From the satisfied expression of, ™ .., . , .. 4 the entire i&rty when they retured to the Would leave to creditofprofit 151,088 02 and loss, | During the past year we have expended for additional ma- $233,266 23 , $1,722 73 hotel, it may be assumed that an amica ble adjustment has been arrived at. Colonel Wadley stated to Messrs. New comb and deFuniak that by August nexti P hinerv a new iron steamer of larger dimensions would be added to the Company’s li“ F ho ^ ^ 1000 00 with powerful engines, that would enable For( S r buildinM * 2 5T5 00 the company to carry passengers and 2, 75 °° through freight to New fork In forty- ° l yCt o 300 00 eight hours and make the best possible have decided tw<» °° ' connection with all trains North and Z -earned’ “ ^ ^ ** deSsSperS!' TT ’ „ each, amounting to 48,000 00 Upon reflecting over the experiences of Which are charged to profit and this trip, we are induced to believe that a loss, say new and unquestionably strong impetus I will be given to tbe general commerce of Which leave to credit of profit bavannah b) the perfection of au equita- J and loss, after paying divi- ble and satisfactory combination. 1 dend Jan. 15th, 1880, . - .$177,688 50 , $55,597 73 The English Elections. The English Liberals now count with confidence on a gain of a hundred seats and a strong working majority in their own right. They are as much astonished at the extent of their achievements as the Conservatives are. Their best hope at the opening of the campaign was, that with the aid of the Home Rulers, they might he able to hold th« ministry in check. The telegrams of yesterday state that the ministiy will pnt their resigna tions in the hands of the Queen immedi ately upon her return from the continent. The talk among the Liberals now is that none but Mr. Gladstone will be al lowed to take the helm. He was, by last accounts, on the top wave of popularity with his victorious party, who attribute their success, in a great degree, to the vigor of his onslaught upon the ministry, and the tact and address with which he has conducted the canvass. The Continental powers are represented to be profoundly exercised upon this promised ministerial revolution. Ger many and Austria view it with distrust. They take Bcaconsfield’s view that an ac tive and rather aggressive participation of England in Continental politics, as they stand, is more likely to he promotire of peace than any change in her attitude. France and Russia are rejoiced at the promise of less vigorous interposition. It is not probable that any sudden or abrupt change in policy will be adopted. That is not the way they manage matters, What may he earliest perceptible is greater degree of liberality and caution. The Herald compares Beaconsfield, in Continental politics, not to a bull in china shop, so much as to a fussy, inter- meddlesome gentleman, who leaves the doors of the china shops open to the bull. Georgia’s Resources. Report of Cosiptboller General W. A. Wright. We have just received a copy ofthe first annual report of our new Comptroller General W. A. Wright, Esq., and in jus tice to that gentiemau must say that it is the best arranged, most comprehensive and lucid public document of that descrip tion that ever emanated from the State Department. As any attempt at detailed statements would be far too voluminous for a single newspaper article, we must be content with the merest summary of the financial and material condition of the Commonwealth. The receipts into the treasury from October 1,1878, to Oc tober 1,1879, were . . .$1,847,700.54 Add balance on hand . . . 2u5,789.63 Tbe Commission and the Brunswick Railroad. We perceive by a notice from the Rail road Commission that they have author ized the Macon and Brunswick railroad to increase their local rates by adding twenty per cent, to the published rates of the Commission.. This act will show that the Commissioners are- disposed to do justice to the railroads, and prevent unfair discriminations against any portion of the people, The managers of the M. & B. R. R. ap peared before the Commission on Friday last, and, after a pleasant interview of two hoars, and the presentation of various comparative tables, made up from the road’s business for 1879, satisfied the Com missioners that their published rates would work injustice to the road and its owners. The Commissioners promptly, as seen by their notice of the 6th instant; made an effort to correct their error, and though the allowance of twenty per cent, may not, considering tbe largely enhanced cost of railroad materials, be snffleient to give the owners a fair dividend on their investment, we feel assured from the well known character of the gentlemeu composing the Commission, that as soon as convinced by facts and figures that their rates will work injustice to the M. & R. R., or any other road, they will take pleasure in rectifying it. We propose pursuing this subject in fu ture articles, if we can procure data to en able us to do so intelligently,as our purpose is to sustain tbe law, tbe Commission and the railroads, and prevent, if possible, any injustice beingLjljJJf^ 1 ^ the npivnlft-or- -ui-uieiBi^ji*., $uno,-i05; increase, $33,- Witbtbe assurances that have been given them, the purchasers of the Macon and Binnswick road will now en ter with renewed energy and alacrity up on the work of improving and thoroughly equipping their valuable highway. It will be made first-class in every sense of the word, and the new extension to Atlanta commenced with the least delay practica ble. That tho abandonment of this part of their contract was ever contemplated, is denied. But up to the nresent momeut, everything has been kept at a standstill until the action of the railway commis sion could be definitely ascertained. Our people may rest assured that the exten sion will certainly ho built, and the cor don of rich counties between Macon and the Georgia road enjoy the railroad facili ties which they have so long coveted, What share, if any, will be accorded to the Macon and Brunswick railroad in the big Newcomb combination, we are una ble to say. Indeed, no one seems to be apprised of the precise terms of that mon ster alliance. But discriminations,at least upon local freights, will be impossible un der the action of tho commission, and we trust the day will yet come when Bruns wick will be able to make her own con nections with the West by the Georgia Western or some other route. The Strashurg Clock. We advise all lovers of the umquo and curious, while the opportunity is afforded, to spend a few minutes hi examining the model of the world’ renowned clock which is mounted upon the ancient Cathedral of Strasburg. The clock on exhibition is one-fifth the size of the original, and its precise coun terpart in mechanism, with the exception that the works are made to perform their functions eveiy quarter of an hour, iu lieu of the long intervals of the Cathedral machine. The arrangements are exceedingly inge nious, and cannot fail to challenge the admiration of every intelligent visitor. The history of this work of art is graphi cally told by the exhibitor, and is worth hearing. It is not often that our commu nity has the chance thus of coming, as it were, in personal contact with an object of so much celebrity in the old world. .A Sliqht Variation in Tempera ture.—-Tuesday evening, at 6 o’clock, the mercury In Macon and vicinity ranged in the neighborhood of 88. Wednesday morning at 6 tho range was in the neigh borhood of 68—showing a difference of thirty degrees. Such eccentricities engen der coughs, colds and consumption. Don’t let the first heats of spring tempt you into laying flannels aside. The New York Tribune complains of the “nauseating odor” that pervades the rooms of tbe 127 colored refugees frem Arkansas that have made their way to Gotham. At present twelve of the poor creatures are sick, but 250 more are expec ted. Making a grand total of . .$3,143,580.22 The disbursements foot up . $1,212,671.00 Showing a balance to credit .of the State at the beginning of the new fiscal year of. . 930,908.62 The aggregate value of the property of tho State, including land, merchandise stock, manufactories, household furniture, watches and jewelry, stocks, bonds, bank shares, etc., amounts to $225,093,419; showing a decrease over tbe previous year of $1,128,299. The increase in town property was $G36,S73. The decrease iu improved land $979,532, and decrease in cotton factories $1,132,673. POPULATION. The number of white polls is 130,175; number of colored polls 88,522. Total number of polls, including lawyers, doc tors and dentists 227,150; increase for the year 4,960. indebtedness. The total bonded debt of the State is $10,344,500, the annual interest upon which is $696,135. The amount of debt, principal and interest, falling due the current year, (18S0,) is $990,135.00. There are fifty-one life and fire insur ance companies doing business and pay ing taxes in the State. Thirty-one railroads intersect the com monwealth, and have been made subject to taxation. LAND. Tbe number of acres of improved land in the State footsup 29,823,5S1,showing an increase ofl 82,S09 acres over the previous year. The total value of the improved land is $S3,629,168. Tho average value of improved laud is $2.80 per acre—show ing a falling off of five cents per acre. Bibb county has 153,557 acres of im proved land—an increase over 1878 of 2,OSS acres. The average value of Bibb county improved land is $7.82 per acre— showing a decrease for the year of twenty- eight cents per acre. The total number of acres of wild land returned in 1S79 for taxation is 6,864,054. The decrease in the number of wild acres for the year is 717,669 acres. The aver age value of wild land is twenty-three cents per abre. CITY AND TOWN PROPERTY. The total value of the taxable city and town property of the State is $49,007,286; showing an increase of $036,873. The amount of money and solvent debts is $26,513,005—Increase $3S2,C54. The val- lle of merchandise in the State is put down at the surprisingly low figure of $12,012,755—an increaso of $844,330. In Bibb county tho value of city and town property is S3,685,582; decrease —»——— debts, $610,050; decrease, $52,572. Value 616. It is proper to add in reference to the that many very valuable improve ments have been erected since last April which-are not included in tbe foregoing figures. THE SCHOOL POPULATION, under thirty years of age in Georgia, 433,752, and the total school fund $155 : 264.31. The school population of Bibb is 7,909; amount of school fund $2,007.48. In mining capital there is an increase of $26,274, and what is quite astonishing, decrease in the capital invested in cotton manufactories of $1,132,673. The capital in iron works has increased $59,310. Doubtless tbe late boom in business would materially change the figures re lating to cotton manufacturing, The total value of KITCHEN AND HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE in the State i3 $9,156,404, a decrease of $307,271. Tho whole value of horses, mules, sheep and hogs is $21,017,634; decrease of $404,176. Value of crops held for sale April 1,1879, $546,940; a decrease of $245,300. The value of plantation and mechanical tools is $2,971,372; an increase of $113,034. In the State of Georgia there are 1,292 lawyers, 1,038 physicians and 175 dentists COLORED STATISTICS. There are 88,522 colored polls in the State. The negroes own 541,199 acres of land, worth $1,094,435. In money, they return $73,253, $1,704,230 worth of stock, aud the aggregate of their taxable property i3 $5,182,398. They pay $100,660.39 taxes into the State Treasury. RATE OF COUNTY TAX. The counties of Hart, Jackson, aud Wilkes, pay bjit fifteen cents on the hun dred dollars for taxes; Clinch and Wilcox seventeen and a half cents, and Campbell 20 cents. The counties paying the highest taxes are Baker $1.38, Baldwin $1.31i, Bryan and Charlton $1.00, and Screven and Pulaski 90 cents each. CONGRESSIONAL MAJORITIES. First District, Nichols’ majority was 3,442 The Edison Discoveries. A New York Herald reporter went the rounds of Menlo Park on Saturday. He found the place begin with 700 new lamp posts, on each of which the scientist was to mount an electric light and illuminate the village with a power equal to a thou sand gas lights. He‘explained the state ment of the Boston Journal that the lights were out, by saying that they had been “outed,” after shining 800 hours, to make room for a new blaze of transcendent glory. Edison said he was a slow man— he was in no haste. He intended to give the critics first of all, at Menlo Park, light enough to see every possible objection to his discovery. As to his process of extracting gold out of th»“tailings” or refuse of the gold ores, he declined to state the details ofthe pro cess,further than that the agents employed are electricity and inexpensive chemicals, bearing no resemblance whatever to the old processes. The cost of working the ore will not exceed $5.00 per ton, and he has succeeded in extracting gold at the rate of $100 up to $1,400 per ton of ore—but the last result was quite exceptional. He had been working on these experiments nine months and knew just what he could do. His assistants state that the plans for the mills to be erected at Oreville, Cali fornia, where Edison has secured im- i mense quantities of “tailings,” are now being prepared by Mr. Edison’s architect,, and Major MacLaughlin, the superinten dent ofthe works, would start for the site on Tuesday to make arrangements prepa- tory to beginning work on the ore. The Mississippi Improvements. The House Committee on the Missis sippi Kiver held a meeting on Saturday, at which it was resolved that a sub-commit tee of five members be appointed by the chairman to take into consideration both the majority and minority reports of the Commission, and submit to the full com mittee their report thereon, with such rec ommendations as they may deem proper. It was farther resolved that the sub-com mittee, together with any other members ofthe Levee Committee, who may feel dis posed to dp so, should he empowered to visit personally, if deemed necessary, the Mississippi river, under the authority con ferred by the House in December last, to investigate the actual condition of the river, and to take the testimony of steam boat captains, pilots and others acquaint ed with that stream. -The chairman was also empowered to invite the engineers and members of the Commission, as well as other persons acquainted with the sub ject, to come before the committee for the purpose of explaining the report and giving their views upon the general sub ject. 4,4S1 2,621 2,890 2,073 3,174 1,341 8,297 219 Second District, Smith’s Third District, Cook’s Fourth District, Person’s Fifth District, Hammoud’s Sixth District, Blount’s Seventh District, Felton’s Eighth District, Stephens’ Ninth District, Speir’s There are thirty-four factories exemp ted frem taxation under the act approved August 22d, 1872, covering $4,138,375.00. The above is a brief resume ofthe most salient portions of the Comptroller Gen eral’s report. Lack of space forbids all comment at present. - Northern Barbarity.—There are 600 little children in the New York Ju- enile Asylum, and the way they are treated is a shame and disgrace to anv civilized community. The New York Mail has printed a long statement of the enormities perperpetrated upon the help less waifs who are at the mercy of the army of teachers and nurses in charge. The cruelties inflicted upon one poor lit tle negro boy, had they occurred at the —The Hancock boom, that was so re cently started in New Orleans,' has spent its fury already, and is subsiding into a great calm again. The Cincinnati Gazette says that it is queer that so many bibles live to a good old age, while not one pack of playing cards out of a dozen sees the second Christmas. —The New York World declares that Governor Seymour must take the helm in the present feud of the Democratic party in that State, whether he consents to run for the Pre3idencg.nr not — . hampton, a lad of 15, out with his' two sisters last Sunday night at the foot of Lookout Mountain, near Chat tanooga, tumbled down a precipice 9ft feet high, and was instantly killed. —Senator Thurman, since liis recent illness, has been forbidden by his physi cians to smoke more than two cigars a day. He has been a devoted and persis tent smoker. It is not thought that his ill ness will have any serious effect upon hig constitution. Ho is a rebellious patient and utterly declines to obey tbe doctor’* command to stay iu bed. —In the decfiiency hill recently passed is an appropriation of $6,000 to send a revenue cutter to the relief of the whalers icebound in the Arctic. The revenue cut ter Rush will be employed in this service. Preparations are being made to get her off as early as possible. Tbe Rush is partic ularly adapted to such service, and has been employed heretofore in work in the Polar regions. News From the Crops.—The Cincin nati Enquirer of the 6th reports from a large number of points in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky upon the condition of the wheat crop and the prospects for fruit. From these it appears that from 10 to 20 per cent, greater average of wheat was Sown iu 1S79 than in the previous yea and that everywhere, except in some part* of Northwestern Ohio and Central and Northern Indiana, the prospects are good for an unusually fine yield. As to fruit, the reports are almost uniform that there will be an abundance of all kinds unless injured hereafter by the frost. —The death is announced at Gijon, Ju northern Spain, of a very old gentleman indeed, who had completed his 112th year only a few days before he quite unexpect edly paid the debt of nature. Unlike Mr. Weller, Sr., this reverend Iberian was by no means the “wictim of connubiality,” for he successfully withstood the wear and tear of five successive marriages during his long life. His last wedding day was also the eighty-ninth annniversary of his birth, upon which occasion he espoused a comely maiden of “sweet seventeen,” whose union with him resulted in the ad dition of two sturdy boys to his already numerous family of six-and-twenty sons, the fruits of his previous matrimonial al liances. —The well-known fondness of tb* Czar for a joke, even under the most de pressing circumstances, was never better illustrated than on tho occasion of the re cent explosion under the dining-room of Winter Palace. The dreadful event occurred just as the royal party were ap proaching the room, two large pies and a vast quantity of nuts and raisins being thrown with great violence in their direc tion. Quickly taming to the nearest Duke, the Czar asked him why the explo sion wa3 like the alkali fields of New Mexico. Ths Dube gave it up. “Be cause,” said the monarch, “it is a dessert waste.” It is believed that after this the Nihilists will go about their work with re newed vigor. —A geptleman who visited Menlo Park last week in behalf of the Boston Journal, reports that all except two or three of the paper carbon lamps have been taken down, aad tlmt Edison admitted that they bonds of iniquity"” Why should "not re- had been destroyed. —Mr. Scott and Mrs. Kindred eloped from Decatur, Ill., leaving their lawful partners behind. It. was nearly a year before their new place of residence was Smith wm.iH n v- r> . discovered. Then the deserted Mr. Kin- Soutb, would have shaken all /New Eng-1 dred and Mrs . Seott went ^g^er to the land, and resulted in an avalanche of wayward couple, reasoned with them as missionaries to redeem that benighted re- > to their sin an d folly, and offered to take gion from the “gall of bitterness and the them ,. b ^ k to their respective homes. Tim ! negotiations ended in a complete recon ciliation, and the Scott aud Kindred form begin at home ? households were re-established.