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—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.