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TUESDAY, APBIL 10,1877.
A Stabt/so Ohloatcnn, who wsb taken
into tb. Cincinnati Hoepilal a few days
ago, for resuscitation, attributed hia wofnl
plight to tbe fact that he started a laun-
dry In Lsuirvllle. Ha wins np bia expe
rienca In a single line: “Kectackea—two
woe—oao ablrteo."
Tee Japanese government baa npplled
to the 8ro commissioners to be allowed
to enlist 200 firemen of New York for
tbreo years, nnd take them to Yokohama
lo fnatrnct the natives in the art of sa
ving life and property from burning
bnildings.
At tho town meeting in Foxboro, Mas-
aachoaetts last week, an old farmer spoke
s trongly against making a largo appro
priation for tbe schools, saying that edu
cation does not mako a person honest, bat
rather tended to dishonesty, citing
Winslow, Babcock, Belknap, Orvil Grant,
nnd General Schenck as illustrations of
tho ovil effects of a liberal education.
A Movement is on foot in New York
city in favor of a constitutional amend
ment, taking the control of municipal
finances out cf tho hands of politicians
and vesting it in a Board of Finance to
be elected by renters and taxpayers only.
Thu is a hopeful sign, nnd we wish
the movement entire succees. If it could
be mado a part of the constitution of
ovory Southern State, It wonld bo tho
host thing that could happen for us.
With some such restraint the sting could
be effectually taken oat of tho tail of that
scorpion, universal suffrage.
Giu.sfnorPEss in Texas.—Tho Galves
ton Noes vouchsafes the following: “Tho
grasshopper has not dono much damage
in tho interior of tho State as yot, but
they are everywhere and aro attacking
everything green and tender. Thero are
still hopes that they will tako flight bes
fore doing any serious harm. Thero is
great probability, however, that a second
planting will be necessary whenever they
aro batched ont.
Rewarding the Thieves*
Tho Jacksonville Pres$ eays that
Stearns, Melon, Varnum, Goss, Bowes,
Jay, Humphreys and Bell have been ap
pointed to ofilco by Hayes. Dennis,
LeCain, Martin and others aro at Wash
ington awaiting their turn. These men
aro all simon pure carpet-baggers, who
havo feasted upon tho tax-ridJcn State
of Florida for lo, theso many years.
This is a gigantic step taken by our
fraudulent President to reward thosowho
assisted in stealing tho voto of this State
for him.
Phillips’ Rampage.
Wendell Phillips’ furious onslaught on
Hayes and all the Southern people, ex
cept the carpet-baggers and their negro
dupes, brings us back to the old lang
syne of thirty five years ago. when the
political world in America was made up
of Democrats, free-soilers and abolition
madcaps and incendiaries. Slowly, at
first, but with headlong violence as sec
tional animosity reddened to the pointof
bloodshed, two of these elements coal
esced nnd was heavily reinforced by ac
cessions from tbe more radical among the
Democrats, until an overwhelming party
was built up, of which the most radical
and aggressive naturally took tho lead,
and tho whole country became tbe sport
of the Carmagnole. “John Brown’s Body'
was tho idea and the inspiration which
controlled politics and government—and
Wendell was tbe prophet of tbe new in
spiration.
Well, it has bad its day, and Is now
sinking every hour deeper into the mire
of pnblicdisgnst; bat it is no marvel that
Phillips goes into a phrenzy over his
waning greatness. Ho is a miserly, self,
ish and reckless old demagogue, with no
real sympathy for the masses, white or
black; bat he lives in the melody of his
own voice, and conscious power of sensa
tion. To slink hack again to the tern,
pests cf the tea table and the plaudits of
his little circlo of old veteran cans
cullottcs, is a thing ho cannot bear to
think of, and yet he most realise it.
No party led or seriously influenced by
such a man as Wendell Phillips can live
long outside of Pandemonium or the at-
mesphere of civil war. Wendell is gone
up. He is a dead cock in the pit. The
country, we devoutly hope and believe,
will never again be in a condition to make
Wendell Phillips' voico potential ontside
of a tea-drinking or n Badical sewing
circle.
And as Wendell’s occupation is gone,
his following must speedily align them
solves accordingly. Morton and all that
class of politicians whoso "moral” hold on
the people was borrowed from Philips,
mast crayfish rapidly bask to the ordi
nary range of normal political topics.
Civil war, tempest and “high moral idea”
politics, with all tho swindling of every
sort which grew out of them, are laid on
the shelf, and onco more, after thirty to
forty years, tho opposition to the Democ
racy are obliged to plead their cause be
fore the people on grounds of useful,
practical administration. Mr. Hayes
sees this and is trying to govern himself
accordingly. But such a programme to
Philips is mero inanity. Ho must sink
once more to tho sphero of a ranting
neighborhood scold.
Rsronu in Civil Service.—That’s a
sturdy strido toward tho illustration of
tho beneflccneo of Secretary Schurz’s
civil scrvico reform, 6ays tho Philadel
phia Times, that President Hayes mado
on Tuesday, by the reward of McLin, lato
Secretary of Stato of Florida, and the
chief agent in the Returning Board
frauds, by which tho voto of that Stato
was ccunted for Hayes in dcfianco of tho
decision of tho Republican Supremo
Court nnd against tho verdict of the peo
ple. “As he exhibited tho sternest con
tempt for both courts and law in Florida
tho President has commissioned him to
•it as a Judge in Now Mexico."
Miscellaniocs WEATnsn.—Since our
Saturday Situation artiolo strange hap
penings have come in tho meteorological
department. A small deluge of ram foil
Saturday night, prefaced by a violent
squall between nine and ten o'clock, from
tlio southwest, which brought with it, on
tbo wings of the wind, legions or stout
grasshoppers and large numbers of an
aquatic bird, both of which aro described
in the city department cf tho paper.
These grasshoppers wero to be seen every
where on Sunday, and would generally
rise beforo you, when walking in garden
or other enclosure, in swarms of ten to
twenty—flying as freely as a bird.
On Sunday, in tbo afternoon, a very
heavy shower fell in town, accompanied
with some bail, but too light to do any
harm. Thero was nlso rain during Sun
day night, and again Monday morning.
Tho streets, gardens and fields have been
a good deal washed by these showers.
Walked from Georgia. /
The Baltimore Sub’s Wasbiogtotf cor
respondent, nnder date of Thursday last,
vrtites as follows:
Among tho callers on the President
to-day was en old man who lives near
SAvannnb, Gr. Ho told tbo President
that there was a great deal of illicit dis
tilling in his section, and that the men
who owned tbe distilleries enspected him
of giving information to tbe Internal
Revenue effleers. and that for several
months they bad been trying to
kn-klnx him, and that ja?t btfore he
left h:s homo they fired at him. wound
ing one of his children. The President
told him that ho should have informed
tho authorities cf his trentment instead
of coming all the way to Washington.
The old man told tho President that he
bad walked every foot of the way, start
ing from his home on th» third Saturday
in February, arriving here yesterday.
The President gave him a noto addressed
to tho United States Marshal at Atlanta,
requesting him to investigate the case.
As he was leaving the Executive office
Mr. Rodgers, the President’s private sec
retary banned him a five dollar noto.
The old man, who was attired in a but
ternut suit, had a canteeen and haversack
hung on his side. He also carried an
army blanket and a large umbrella. In
case he cannot get transportation from
the Treasury Department he will have to
waik all the wav back, which will take
him about forty days. He will leave here
to-morrow.
Sharp.—Tho World “pinks’’ Mr. Stan
ley Matthews as follows:
Stanley Matthews is intriguing at
Washington to secure the Speakership of
the next House for Garfield or Foster, or
some other pal of Hayes, by buying up a
few Southern Democrats. We fear ho is
wasting shoe leather and gray brain mat
ter, for it is but a low days since he
demonstrated elaborately that in his
previous negotiations he was a mere con
fidence operator, selling goods ho couldn’t
deliver and making pledges for a princi
pal irhoknewncthiag of his mission.
Tbo Bulldozers.
Who is backing Chamberlain and Pack
ard in thoir roeisiance to Hayes “concilia
tory poiioy ?" A Washington press dis
patch esys that Chamberlain left there
oontent to allow the wishes of tho Presi
dent to rnle him. It was, in fact, given
ont before he left Washington that Cham
berlain had mads an engagement to con
nect himself with a prominent law firm
in Now York city, and intended to remove
from Soalh Carolina immediately.
But no eooncr does ho reach Columbia
than various echcmcs of resistance to
Hampton are agitated, and a purpose is
avowed to exhaust all the artificee of op
position and delny. The same temper is
displayed by Packard, and it is Yery
naturally assumed, in Haye3 circles, that
this opposition does not altogether origi
nate in mere personal and domestic sug
gestions, but is responsive to some
promptings_from abroad. It means a
political combination to frustrate and de
feat tho administration, nnd is, perhaps,
a declaration of war from a section of tho
party.
Under these circumstances Mr. Hayes,
who wa3 at first disposed to ridicule tho
opposition of Packard and Chamberlain
to his “policy,” is now becoming incensed
and minatory. These parties shall learn
who they aro dealing with. We are in
formed that very few appointments have
so far been made, because tho Hayes
Administration intends to use tho pat-
ronsgo of the Government in a manner to
reward the friends and pnnish tho ene
mies of this Haye3 "policy.”
And thus we are taught how political
corruption perpetuates itself. For this
patronage, having long been used by
Grant to bnlldoze and enslavo these
States, must now, according to Hayes,
be used to liberate them and pnnish the
bulldozers; so that cover, on this princi
pie, can tho political patronage of the
government bo dispensed on a sound and
patriotic basis—that of securing the best
service to the country withont interfer
ence with tho personal independence of
the incumbent.
For, every “high moral idea politician”
In America will bo ready to swear that
Grant was far more patriotic in using tho
government to bnlldoze tho Southern
whites than Hayes is in using it to bull-
the carpot-bag usurpers.
- And so stands the case. Do the bull
dozers mean to make a square fight with
Hayes, or do they moan to play wasp and
mosquito? Will they join brother Wen
dell Phillips, or will thoy pattern after
Blaino in a Captain Bobsdil denuncia
tion to be laughed at ever a enp of tea
with Mrs. Hayes as tbe best joke of the
season ? It is time to show their hands.
Tbe New Knclamt Methodists
Go lor Rutherford
The anneal conference of this so-called
religions body met at Boston on Wednes
day, and among the proceedings adopted,
with great applause, the following reso
lutions :
Resolved, That we are alarmed and
filled with apprehension for the future
when we contemplate tho practical sale
of one of the great political parlies of tho
Repnblia by two politicians of that par
ty, who have held, and now hold, very
intimate relations to the President, thus
sacrificing principle and party and right
eousness for the sake ot temporary
saecess.
Resolved, That we protest most earncat-
ly against the action of the administra
tion in making terms with tbo chief of
the Ku-Kiux instigation of the Ham
burg massacre, M. C. Butler, and still
more earnestly do we protest against
official recognition by the administration
of that arch enemy of the republic, who
lcng since ought to have been hung for
treason, Wade Hampton, of South Caro
lina, and who now, by threats nnd intimi
dation, under the very roof of tho White
House, os well as on railroad platforms
and in other places, defies tho power of
the government and bullies the President
into compliance with his traitorous and
wicked usurpation.
Last Week’s Cotton Figures.
The Chronicle ot Saturday reports the
reoeipt3 of the seven days ending Friday
night, G.h inst, at 26,287, against Go.SOI
the corresponding days if last year—show
ing a week's decrease of 29.517 bales.
Total receipts to that due 3.75C.SC9,
against 3.813.4S6 to same date last year
—showing a not decrease of 5G.637 bales.
The Cotton Record’s report is—week’s
receipts 27,390. agafnst 55,933—week*!
decrease 23,148. Total to that date 3,
737,571, against 3,814.573—showing
total decrease of 7G.929 bales.
The Chronicle's interior port table
shows receipts 11,109, against 25,446 last
year. Shipments 22,010 against 34,331
Stocks 140,G49, against 132,495.
The Chronicle's visible supply table
ehowed, on Friday, 2.971.G27 bales of cot
ton in sight; against 2,959,917 l*3t year
2,877,308 the year before, and 3,048’50S
1874—showing an increase of 11,710 on
the supply of last year—94,319 on the
supply of 1875 and a decrease of 76,881
on the supply of 1874.
Middling- uplands in the Liverpool
market last Friday were worth 6}—last
year, at same date, 6 7-16—in 1875 8 to
81 and in 1S74 8}.
The New York market declined about
six-sixteenths during tho week.
A huge rhinoceros got loo;- 1 in the
steamer Colon in a storm oil Cape Hat-
teras, and killei two dogs and a horse
before being recaptured. It seemed to
be infuriated by the rocking of the ves
sel, but became tractable when a calm
nsned.
Tho Constitution and the Con
ventlon Again.
The “Eleven Able” of the Constitution,
and their twelfth recruit, have been most
unfortunate in the effort to convince the
peoplo that they favor a Convention,
This is evinced by the talk of nine out of
ten of the common people, and the very
general expression of tho press of the
Stato when they have alluded to the
subject. And that, too, in the face of
weekly symposium of flattery adminis
tered seriatim to onr rural brethren.
Not that the latter are not worthy of
praise 03 true men and good journalists,
but then the thing looks too systematic,
and wo should not bo surprised if they
begin to smell “a mice” ere long.
If tho editors really desire a consti
tutional convention, it is high timo
that they should ccaco to point, or cir
culate snch paragraphs ns that which
asserts that the said convention will
cost tbo State $74,000, thus plainly
seeking to create a prejudice against the
movement on tbe scoro of economy.
Whereas the experience of psBt conven
tions shows that the $25,000 votod by
the Legislature will bo amply sufficient
to cover every expenso, the more espe
daily as tho amendments to tbe present
organio Jaw will probably be fow and
simple.
They should be candid on tbe home
ahead question also, and not merely say
thoy are opposed to reducing it. This is
a quasi appeal to the people to voto
against a Convention to prevent any
chanco of reduction.
But why not speak out and say that the
present homestead is a miserable .failure
unless adequately perfected and pro
tected, therefore, every homestead man
Blionld vote for a Convention. All existing
homesteads will stand such ns they are,
and there is abundant time between this
and the election for all who are willing
to accept of the present exemption, with
its many uncertainties, to take out heme
steads.
And the peoplo may be assured that
a good and scfficient homestead properly 1
secured, will be one of tho principal ob
jects of tho convention.
Next, the Constitution throws cold
water on tho convention movement be
cause it opposes tho removal of the Capi
tal. Now, why not arguo this question
upon it3 original merits and do it inside
of an open and honest advocacy of tho
constitutional convention ? Surely it i3
competent, for a citizen to voto for a com
vention and yet be opposed to removal.
But it would seem that our contem
porary iB disposed to make this a test
upon tho question of convention or no
convention, by tbe remark that if tho
removal of tho Capital is to be moot
ed, it will array North Georgia against a
convention- In the absence of protesta
tions to the contrary, it would be fair to
Bay the “wish is father to tho thought.’
Once more. Oar contemporary is tre
mendonsly exercised because the Tele
graph and Messenoxb, to prevent crime
and protect tho property of honest peo
ple, urges a return to corporal punish
ment in lieu of imprisonment for steal
ing, which is found utterly inadequate
as a pnnisbmcnt for that offense, and in
deed, is even regarded a boon by very
many lazy villains.
This wo have been doing for years
without animadversion from any source,
for all admit the wisdom of the recoin-
inundation in the low stato of morals in
tho new element of citizenship intro,
duced by tbo Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments. But class legislation is
impossible, hence tho penalty must be
inflicted upon abandoned whites also,
just as hanging, for mnrder. And cer
tainly the white offender is even more
culpable than the negro, and crime can
not be made too odions.
Bat the Constitution instead of waiting
until tbe Convention bos been called, and
thee taking issue with ns on this proposi
tion cr mere snggesiion, to which we are
by no means wedded, forthwith raises the
raw head and bloody bones ciy of “whip
ping post,” which it declares itself, and
every negro in the country is opposed to,
and therefore the Convention will bo vo
ted down.
Now could anything he more deftly
arranged to make tbo blacks oppose
it ? Hence tho very, natural opinion en
tertained by thousands, that tbe entire
course of the Atlanta journal has been in
effect highly inimical to the call of a
Convention, though it still asserts that it
favors tho movement. Be more explicit,
gentlemen, if you please.
Your face seems familiar to me, sir,”
said one man to another on a Western
railway train the other day: “can I have
met you before? Was it at the Canten-
nial? or did I see yon at St. Louis lost
fall?” “It may have been either, air,”
courteously responded the unknowo, “for
~ was n Turkish pasha in the cake and
coffee business at Philadelphia, and sub
sequently filled a brief engagement at
St. Louis as a cannibal. I am now on
my way to California, to become a gorilla,
if native talent meets with any eccour
agement; but if business is bad I shall
either let my hair grow and enter the
lecture field or get a chuck-a-lnck board
and follow the country fairs.” “Life,”
said the other man, musingly, “is full
f vicissitudes.”.
It has been officially established that
Philadelphia haa a drinking-place to
every fifty adults, nnd that the people of
that city spend every year in intoxicating
liquors mere than enough to pay all its
municipal expenses and ail the coat af
its churches. Oae-half cf those places,
and naturally those which wo-k the most
harm, exist in violation of law and pay
nothing to cure the enormous evil they
work.
THE GEORGIA. PRESS.
A lettes for A. M. Harris, lliocn,
held for postage in the Savannah effic-
Tue German bark, “Mercin,” was
cleared at Savannah for Bremen, on Sat
nrday, with 1,959 bales of oottoa valued
at $101,000.
The East eaya the United States Pos
tal Commission, consisting of Hon. Gat-
diner G. Hubbard, of Boston, Hon. Dan-
iel M. Fox, ex-Jlayor of Philadelphia,
and Hon. George A. Bassett, of New York:
W. P. Bice, Eiq., Secretary; sccom
panied by Hon. J. W. Marshall, late As
sistant Postmaster General, now one
the General Superintendents of the Rail
way Mail Service, arrived here yesterday
from Washington.
This Commission was appointed nnder
an act of Congress passed in Jaly, 1866,
to report roles, regulations and compen
sation for the transportation of the mails
by railroad. The last session of OoDgress
directed the Commission also to report
npon tbo transmission of the mails
steamboat and stage coach.
Tho Commission has visited many pa:
of tbe country, and now desire to learn
what improvements can be made in the
mail service of the South, to put the
Southern States upon an equality with
the West. The believe great improve
ments can be effected, bnt that any re
port they may make will bo valueless un
less supported by the people of the South
and their Representatives in Congress,”
Judge Underwood, of’Rome, having
issued an order forbidding the sale
liquor at Cedartown, Polk county, on the
13th., inst when Wm. Meeks will
bnng, tbe Chronicle and Constitution
alist very pertinently enquires :
Ha3 not Judge Underwood overestima
ted bis importance to the Eolsr system
Where does he got his authority for is
suing such an order ? It is well enough
to prevent men getting drunk on that
day, if possible, but Judgo Underwood
has no more power in the premises than
any private citizen. If tho order
obeyed the thirsty people of Polk county
who enjoy hangings will bring their jugs
with them, and thero will be more drunk
enness than there wonld be with tbo sa
loons of Cedartown in fall blast.
The total net receipts of St. Paul’s
(Methodist) Church festival at Columbus,
which closed last Saturday, amounted to
$1,100.
The total cotton receipts at Columbus
sinco September 1st are 71,042 bales,
21,693 moro than last year, of which tho
factories there take 7,726 bales, a decrease
of 1,753 as compared with list year. Tho
total through cotton tbi3 year to date,
amounts to 23,064. The Enquirer prints
tho following cotton statistics:
If as much cotton acmes to 0o!amba3
tbe remainder of tills season os did the
last, 2,529 bales, the total will be 73,571.
Tho largest receipts Columbus ever re
ceivcd was in lS58-’9, wbsn 115.SS5 bales
were warehoused. In 1859-'60, 112,110
came, and in 1855-’6, 100.628. Every
other year the receipts have fallen under
90,000 bales.
The largest receipts since tho war were
85,685, in 18G7-*8 and 75,007 In 1870-71
The average for the 20 year ending
with the season of 18Gl-’2 was 70.3S2
and for the 11 years since 1865, ending
with the season of 1875-7G was 56,524
The average for the 31 years is 65,465
bale3. This is exejnsivo of the present
season.
Tho smallest year of the thlrty-ono
was 1865 '6, when tho xeceiDts wero
31,486.
We quote these additional items from
the same paper:
The Snappers.—The “Rid Snappers'
are fixiDg up for their annual excursion
to the Gulf. From the “implements” in
sight wo think a devil fish will certainly
come to grief this time. The Macon
‘Snappeis,” we learn, will bq unaile to
join our boys, which is to oe rtfgrcttf d, 03
they aro ss clever a set as ever patted a—
cork out of a Congress water bottle.
Tatlor Court—Shepherd, Charged
with Wife Murder, Acquitted.—Tay
lor Superior Court adjourned yesterday
afternoon, concluding with the trial of
W. R. Shepherd, who was charged with
tho murder of his wife on January 21
Tho verdict wa. an acquittal. Tho trial
of this case lasted nearly two days. The
only testimony, excepting that of cir
cumstances, was tho statement of Shep
herd himself. Ha is about- forty-five
years of age and his wife was about
thirty-four, and they had been married
nearly eight months.
He stated that when he discovered her
dead it was at night and she had left him
in bed and gone into another lionse. He
said that ho found his rifle lying across
her feet with a cotton hank tied to tbe
trigger, and her temple pierced with two
balls. She had keen greatly troubled
about her physical condition, that of
giving birth to a child, in which she felt
that she would be disappointed in that
sho wonld die before delivery, and conse
quentlysho had been taking different
medicines to cause prematuro birth. The
strongest affection existed between them
andtbela8tof his consciousness before
finding her dead was that they were
clasped in each other’s arms, and he fell
asleep in that position. He had been
married three times. HU first wife died,
his second is living in divorce, and the
third is no more and her life was ended
in a mysterious tragedy.
Adout $32,000 of city taxes have been
collected at Columbus up to date.
We quite agree with the Blakeley
Sews in tho following sententious utter
ance:
We don’t think a juror’s oath requires
him to turn a notorious rogue loose on a
mere quibble of law, for the law is fuller
of quibbles than the country 13 of rogues,
Jnr Diobt, of Newton county, furnish
es the Covington Enterprise the following
receipt, which we print for the informa
tion of all concerned:
Plant your melons near a grave yard
and no free nigger will ever steal them,
thereby warranting you a full crop.”
If yon havo no grave yard bandy, get
correspondent of someRadical paper to
provide you with one. They have dis
tributed them pretty generally all over
the South.
The Greensboro Herald fellows np its
last week’s story of a male, a plow, and
negro, with this one of a negro and a
rifle •
There’s a negro in this county who
shoots a rifle, and he concluded the more
powder he put in hi9 gan tbo more rab
bits he would get So one day this
week he filled hu rifle about half full of
powder, and shot at the first rabbit be
saw. It killed the rabbit and everything
else in fifty yards around except the ne
gro, and he is not feeling well. He
hasn’t picked all tee epUnters of his gun-
stock out of his arm yet, and says “’fore
God he uever knowed a rifis to bust till
den.”
The Snmter Republican notes tho death
Terrell county, recently, of Captain
Isaac O. Edwards, in the eighty-first
year of his age, who mo ved from Wilkes
to Lee county in 1S30, and adds:
He was one of the members of the first
rand jury of L-e county. Court was
held at old Chebaw.cn t be east side of
Muckalee creek. He built t be fir.t Court
House a3 *ell «s the first bridge in that
county. He took port in the Indian war
of 1836, when the Indians were moving
from Alabama to Florida. Wa3 a mem
ber of Captain Samuel Thomas’ company
of mounted infantry, which company was
rganized soon after the burning of Ro
anoke, on the Chattahoochee river, and
was in two engagements with the Indi
ans. One of the engagements took place
Muckalee creek, below Starkville, the
other was on Kmchafoonee creek, at the
ace known as the Barlow Fish-trap,
At both of these engagements Captain
Edwards was wonnded.
Tbe Famine In India.
Courier-Jourral.
Thelfamice in India is trying the soul of
the British government. For two seasons
the rain has failed to come, r.nd the crops
could not grow. In tho Madras Presiden
cy the famine covers more than 80,000
square miles, containing 20,000,000
habitants. In the Bombay. Presidency
the scourge reaches over 50,000 square
mileB, with a population of 12,000,000.
The surrounding districts are moro or less
affected. Thousands have starved to
death, nnd the hospitals are fall of poc-
pletdiseased for lack of food. In addition
to the famine hordes of robbers have been
roaming through the country, planderirg
tbe helpless people of their worldly
goods.
The Indian government, however, is
doing a great and goed work in furnish
ing relief for thes9 poor people. It has
inaugurated a system of public works to
give employment to the laboring men
These works consist of roads, reservoirs,
tanks, publio wells, market-houses, jails,
street?, bridges, and publio parks. Sup
plies of food are sent daily into the inte
rior, and relief camp3 are established,
stated intervals. At present over 1,000.
000 people are engaged on the publio
works, thoir labor being paid for in food
while ns many moro aro fed gratuitously
at soup houses, and at the relief camps.
It is probable that the government will
spsnd at least $30,000,000 or $40,000,
000 in this year. With all this aid,
however, it is impossible to provide for
all tho millions who aro in distress. Thou
sands of people r.ro living on roots and
berries, while thousands are falling dead,
on tho public ways, from starvation. Tho
□ext rain should occur, in tbe natural
order of things, in May and Juno. This
is the lighter i ain-fall of the year, as it
only partly fills tho water-courses and
reservoirs.
Ia Ootobor comes (he greet monsoon,
when it reins constantly for a month, day
and night, and moistens tho whole conn-
try. As the large proportion of tho Indian
cereals ore grown by irrigation, the neces
sityforrainis apparent. Nearly every
hill-tup has a tank for water distribution,
while nearly all the rivers of southern
India nro dammed at a great oxpoase, and
tho water is thus distributed over tbe
thirsty fialda. When the monsoon3 of
the spring and autumn fail, tho tanks
end dams aro of no avail.
Europe a Vast jnilUsry tamp
A short essay entitled ‘The Question of
Money” has been prepared by M. do Gi-
rardin, in which it is made to appear
that all existing governments, except
thoso of America and England, are fast
hastening in the direction of bankruptcy.
Referring to one of tho less great politi
cal systems which in recent years have
alternately found favor with mankind,
M. do Girardin says the rosult is “En
rope is one vast camp.” tho six powers
alone spending close upon $500,000,000
annually upon soldiers. On this subject
he makes a minute calculation, which
well worth reproduction. AJsoldior costs
Englind, according Ito this calculation,
$503.40, which for an army of 100,000
men, makes her military expenditure $53
256,160 por annum. A soldier costa the
Frenoh Republic only slightly over $254,
bnt then hor army amounts to 480,000
men, and thus raises her military expen
ses to $112,913,293. The Czir pays
little over $233 a head for his soldiers,
but ho has 575,000 in tho regular army to
pay, and tho total cost of tho Russian ar
my for a single year is estimated at the
enormous sum of $137,034,925. The
Gormira Government pays a lntlo over
$225,14 for eaoh of its soldiers, of whom
it eas no less than 412,000, oosting the
Empire $72,764,603. Italy pays less
than $181,5u a head for her soluiere, who
number in all 205.6000, and oust the
Kingdom $37,176,0SG. The Austrian ar
my seems to be intrinsically tho cheapest
cf those kept up by tho great Powers.
Etch man in it is supposed to cost tbe
publio $174.30, whioh, for an army of
273.800, gives a total of $47,705,914.
To these sums might have been added
the anual amount expended by the great
powers upon naval armaments, which
may bo roughly stated at $60,000,000 for
England, $35,000,000 for France, $24,
000,000 for Russia, $7,500,000 apiece for
Germany and Italy, and $5,000,000 for
Austria, making a total of $135,000,000.
The danger of universal insolvoncy will
never be removed till, in the words of
Victor Hugo, rulers shall havo ceased
their search for the philosopher’s atone of
a definite and invinoible armament; and
leave off first spending millions on ships
which no projectile can pierce, and
spending additional millions on tho con
struction of projectiles to pierce the same
ships.
An account of the business failure of
Si Reck of Cincinnati is pleasant reading,
despite pity for his misfortune- Ho was
possessed of over a million of dollars,
was President of several moneyed insti
tutions, and estates were intrusted to his
management. By a reverse in an im
mense speculation ho lost all he had; bnt
an examination of his affairs showed that
not one of the institutions that ho might
havo plundered had suffeied to tho ex
tent of a cent, and the estates in his
hands had not been touched. This is a
bright example in these days.
The Florida Electoral Case at
Law.—Washington. March 30.—Two
of tho Florida Republican electors were
at the White House tosday on a peculiar
errand. It will be remembered that one.
of the circuit courts of Florida issued
mandamus to the Returning Board to is
sue certificates to the Democratic elec
tors. The case was appealed to the Su
preme of the State, nnd will come np for
trial in a few days. Tho electors who
called at the White House to-day desired
to know if the President would give them
pecuniary assistance to deftni their
cauro. Tho President did rot seem to
think he had anything to do with
the matter and referred them to Wil
liam E. Chandler, with whom they had
an interview to-night. That gentleman
said if he gave anything ho must know
who was responsible for tbe spending of
it.—Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.
Knoxville Chronicle: Oar advices
from all parts of East Tennessee, as to
the peach prospect, are that, where the
orchards are on high ground, tbo trees
are blooming out nicely with good pros
pccts for a fair crop of peaches; bnt oa
the low lands it seems to bo almost uni
versally tbe case that the buds and even
in some instances the trees are killed
outright, and show no signs whatever of
putting out. So, taking it, all together,
should no farther mishap befall it, we are
inclined to the opinion that, taking the
country over, there wilt be plenty of
peackei to supply the local demand.
Coop prospects throughout Louisiana
aro at present very favorable, the most
of tho country exchanges reporting farm
and plantation work well advanced; the
seed cane i3 good; the ground is in ex
cellent condition, and what is still more
important, the freedmen are ready and
willing to labor in the fields to a much
greater extent than at any timo since
their emancipation. Besides this, there
an increasing number of white farm
hands now available, which appears to
have a very good and vivifying effect
upon the negro field hands.
Lshsoton (Ya.) Gazette: The people
Virginia drink annually 2,326,000 gal-
ons of at den: epiriv. Of this 201/00
gallons are produced in ihe State, leaving
.025,000 gallons of the consumption to
be imported from other States. Ool
Barwetl makes ihe calculation that if,
therefore, only 1,000,000 gallon* less tlaa
half drank in the State posses throagh
the punch under Moffet’s bill, at 2J cents
per drink, the revenne derived wonld be
over $1,200,000, which, with the present
revenne derived from all other jources of
Uxatiou, wonli be $3,900,000—enough
p»y ths current expenses of the gov
ernment, toe school fund, and leave more
than $1,800,000 in the treasury—a sum
sufficient to pay six per oast. interest an
nually on the entire $30,(03,000 of in
debtedness of ihe State.
If yon feel dull,
drowsy, debilitated,
thave frequent head
'•cha, mouth tastes
badly, poor appetite
■ml tor tree coated
J yoa aro suffering
from torpid liver,
“biliousness.” and
j, notbiugwillcureyou
so speedily and permanently as to taka Simmons'
Liver Regulator.
era. victims of Fever and Asm. tho mercu
rial diseased patient, how they recovered health,
cheer.ul spirits and pood appetite, they will tell
you by taking Simmon’s laver Regulator.
BAD BREATH
NOTHING is so unpleasant.
•orbing is so common, as Bad
Breath; and in nearly every c*
It comes from the stomae i «rd
can be so easily corrected you
will
Tafce Simon’s Liyer Replator.
Do not neglect so sure a remedy for this re pul-
si ,-o disorder It will also improve your appe
tite, complexion, and general health.
JTust Try it Once
COLIC INCHILDREN
FOR children complaining of colic,
headache, or sick stomach, a tea-
spoonful or moro will give relief.
Children, as well as adults, eat some
times too much supper, or eat somo •
thing which does not digest well,pro
ducing sour stomach, heartburn, or
restlessness; a good doss ot Liver
Regulator will give relief. This ap
plies to persons of all ages.
PILES.
HOW many suffer, torture day after day, mak
ini? life a burden nud robbing existence ol all
pleasure owing to the secret suffering from piles.
Yet rt-’icf is ready to the hand ot almost any one
who will use systematically Simmons’ Liver Reg
ulator, tho remedy that has cured thousands.
No drastic, violent purge, but a gentle assistant
to nature.
CONSTIP ATION
SHOULD not beregardodas a
trifling ailment—in fact, nature
ccmands the utmost regularity
of the bowels, and any deviation
from this demand paves the way
often to serious danger. It is
quito as necessary to remove im
pure accumulations lrom tho
bowels as it is to eat er sleep and
no heath can be expected where
a costive habit ot body prevails.
Unfailing Remedy for Sice
Headache.—I havo used Dr.
Simmons’ Liver Regulator in my
family for dyspepsia and sick
headache, and regard it an inval
uable remedy in those attacks.
It has not failed to givo relief in
any instanco.—Rev. \V, P. lister-
ling, P. E. Tallahassee district,
Florida Conlerence.
ChILLS AND FEVER
YOU nro at liberty to uso my name in praise
of your Regulator as prepared by you, and rec
ommend it to every one as the best preventive
for Fever and Ague in tho world. I plant in
Southwestern Georgia, near Albany, and must
say that it has done more good on my plantation
among my negroes than any medicine I over
used; it supersedes quinine if taken in timo.
HON. B. H. HILL, of Georgia
TAI£B
Simmons’Liver Regulator
POR all Diseases of the Diver,
Stomach and Spleen, the Cheap
est. Purest and Best Family
Medicine in ihe world.
This unrivalled Southern Reme
dy i. warranted not to contain a
single particle of Mercury or any
injurious mineral substance, but
PURELY VEGETABLE
Containing those Southern Roots and Herbs
which an Ail-Wise Providence hns placed in
those countries where Livor diseases most pre
vail . It will cure all diseases caused by dcrango-
ment of the Liver and Bowels.
Alwavs Eeeu it on Hand
I havo used Dr Simmons* Liver Reg
ulator myself and in my family for
years, and pronounce it oco of tha
most satisfactory medicines that can
housed. Nothing would iuduce me
to bo without it, and I recommend
all ray friends, if they want to secure
health, to keep it always on band.—
K. L. Mott, Columbus, Ga., Congress
man.
CAUTION.
Buy no Powders or Prepared Simmons* Liver
Regulator, unless in our eiu raved wrapper, with
Trade Mark, Stamp, and Signature unbroken.
None other is genuine.
Manufactured only by
J. H. ZEIL1N & CO.,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Price, SI. Sold by all Druggsts.
malldeodawtf
What Might Have Been Heard
Almost any day during the Centennial, a knot
of physicians might have been seen gathered
around tho elegant glass case, standing in the
main building, in which Benson’s Capcine Po*
rous Plaster was exhibited, discussing its merits
and superiority over other porous piasters, und
the listener might have heard words of warm
pr&iso fall from their lips as they spoke of tho
union of capcine with India rubber, and tha rev
olution it would likely effect in remedies for dis
eases treated externally, such as rheumatism,,
lame and weak back, spinal and kidney disease,
sciatica, lumbago, sprains and bruises and all
aches and pains of a local nature. With these
opinions tho Centennial jurors who were also
learned physicians, wore in perfect accord, and
awarded Benson’s Capcine Plaster the only med
al given to porous plasters. Sold everwhere.
Price, 2cf»ts.
NOTICE TOJLANTEBS.
SUPPLIES ON TIME.
■yjyT’E are now prepared to furnish Planters
Groceries & Provisions
ON TIME,
With Approved Security, and would advise all
who will be compelled to buy on lime to come
forward and mako their arrangements at once.
Wo hsva on hand a large stock of “GEBMAN
MILLET” Seed, which wo will sell at a low
price
Coleman & Newsom.
jan£0eod3m
Sheldon Collins & Co.,
Makers of
BLACK AND COLORED PRINTING INKS,
Office, 26 Frankfort Street,
XfBfT YORK.
rriHESE Inks can always be foutd on sale at
factory prices at
J. W. BURKE * CO’S.
Macon. Ga.
'iTABLISHED IN 1832.
:. P. STRONG;
DEALER IN
BOOTS AND SHOES.
M
Y Stock is always complete, from the finest
Ladies’ Gaiter to a Brogan. Call and exam-
febll sun wed 2m
Give in Your Taxes.
fpflE Books for receiving returns of Stale and
County Taxes aro now open. Taxp ,yt rs will
please give in promptly, as the time is short.
R. J. AJTDERSON.
Tax Receiver Bitb County. Ga.
Office Ko. 9 Cotton Avenue. Macon, Ga.
sprl lm
SOLUBLE PA
THE MOST
FERTILIZE
L AST year, ISTu. there were 112 different Brand, sold in tha State ot Georgia, tho sates aggregat
ing about 70.000 Tons, of that quantity the P«cidc Guano Company soli 13.000 Tens.
PBICBS.
Soluble Pacific Guano.
Purcliasers paying Freight from Savannali.
Per Ton of 2 000 Pounds, Cash $47 00
Per Ton of2,000 Pounds, payable Nov. l, 1S77,... 00 00
or 450 pounds Colton of the Grade known as Middlings,
to be delivered on or before November 1, 1877, ginned,
baled and in goad merchantable order, at nearest
Railroad Depot.
FOE SALE BY OUR AGENTS.
FLANDERS BROS Macon. Ga.
M. E. WARMLY Powcrsville, Ga.
A. DAT. G. SKELLIE Fort Valiev. Ga.
SPERRY A NILES M»r»halviile Ga.
W. W. McLEYDOY Montezuma, Ga.
J. W. WHEATLEY A CO.„...Americus, Ga.
JONES A DOZIER. Dawson. Ga.
OWEN A SEALY Cuthbert, Ga.
WELCH A BACON Albany. Ga.
HINES A GODDARD Reynold,. Ga.
J. W. LIPSE Y..., Bntlor, G;i.
KILLEN A WHITE.. Porrv, «a.
W. A. PYE Forsyth. Gi.
U. C. FAMBRO Gorgansville. Ga.
MURPHY A HUNT Bamesville, G.-i.
R. U. BARRON Clinton, Ga.
Turpin & Ogden,
General Amenta, Macon, Georgia.
Telegraph and Messenger
FOR 1877.
GREAT REDUCTION
O N and after 1st January, 1877, our Mammoth
Weekly, tho Great Family Papor of Georgia,
containing sixty-four columns, and tho largest
tho South, will be sent to subscribers at
©3 A 'SrjSASB.,
and postage. This i, hut a small advanceioul
ot blank paper. Weekly tor six monthCJ i I
postage. Tho postage s 20 cents a year.
The Saml-Weak/y
Has been reduced to THREE DOLLARS i. yt»r
and postago—20 cents. For six month, $1 SO urx
postage.
Daily Edition
Everybody in this region will need tho Tkl-
XG&APir, and we have put down the price to
accommodate then necessities and pecuniary
status.
CLISBY. JONES A REESE.
DIXIE WORKS,
SEA.CON, GEORGIA.
McComb’s Hotel,
Milledgeville, Georgia,
SUM CMPH91
FOR PACKING WITH WINTER GOODS.
A BARGAIN LOT OF
Dressing Combs and Brushes
THAT WILL BE SOLD LOW.
THRASH'S
Consumption Cure,
And a full Lino of Patent Medicine, that are ad
vertised in this paper.
GALLONS KEROSENE OIL with Patent
Can. complete, for $1.73. and a large stock of
Lamps, Chimneys, Wicks etc., for salo cheap, at
mr»7 ELLIS’ DRUG STORE.
Bartram, Hendrix & Co..
Cffllrafttrs, Unites. IimMims
and dealers in
Sash, Doors, Blinds,
Lumber, Etc.
WITH their new and improved machinery aro
prepared to furnish tha best door for tho price,
ever sold in the South. Thc.v make, also, in ary
stylo wanted, Moulding. Hand-Rail, Nowells
Ballusters, and nny other artic^o the builder
needs, at short notice, and at lowest figures. Es
timates lor building or materials, given on ap
plication.
Will, also, furnish Paints, Oil, Putty, strictly
pure Lead, Window Glass, Lime, Tlaster, Ce
ment, etc., at bottom figures. Send for their
PricoList. mar25
ITS VALUE & MEANING.
Tho value and meaning of tho Centennial ju
rors’award to Benson’s Capcino Porous Plaster
of the only medal given to porous plasters, may
be learned, when tho great popularity of tho
old kind of porous plasters is called to mind,and
it is known that the four iurors who gave their
decision in favor of Benson’s Capcine Plaster,
were men having a world-wide reputation for
being great and learned physicians, and that
they carefully tested Benson’s Capcir.e Porous
Plaster, with many others, and became thor
oughly convinced of its great superiority over
them, and of its wonderful pain-reliovinar and
strengthening qualities, for rheumatism, lame
and weak back, spinal and hip diseases, sciatica,
lumbago, painful sprains and bruises, and all
local aches and pains, it is surely tha best reme
dy ever invented or known. Sold by all drug
gists. Price. 25 cents. mlScawlw
ms non of the estate of Bryant Funderburk, do
ceased, applies to me for dismission from said
administration.
Theso aro therefore to cite all persons concern
ed to show cause, if any ttiey have, to tho contra-
jr at this office, on or by tbe first Monday in
une next
Witness my hand officially.
ma2td* ROLAND T. ROSS. Ordinary.
L. M. Warfield,
MeiclibDil
iffii
SAVANNA If. «A.
G EORGIA. BIBB COUNTY.—Thirty days
after date, I will apply to tho Court of Or
dinary of said county for leave to sell personal
property belonging to tho estate ot Jackson De
loach, lato of fcaid county, deceased.
mr7 R. P. LAWTON Ad ministrator
' FAIRBANKS
STANDARD SCALES
MADE WITH THE
Latest and Host Valuable Improvements.
FAIRBANKS*
SCALES
THE WORLDS STAKHARH.
RECEIVED HIGHEST MEDALS AT
World’s Pair, London 1851
World’s Fair, Now York 1853
World’s Fair, Paris 1367
World’s Fair, Vienna 1873
World's Fair, Santiago, Chili 1375
World’s Fair, Philadelphia... ..1875
ALSO
COFFEE AND SPICE MILLS.
TEA AND COFFEE CANS,
STORE TRUCKS, Etc
AGENTS FOR MILES’ALARM MONEY
DRAWERS.
FAIRBANKS &. GO., ::il Brcntlwav
N*ty York.
FAIRBANKS & GO . 160 Baltimore St., Haiti,
more.
FAIRBANKS ft CO., 63 Camp St., New Orleans
FAIRBANKS 4 CO.216 Siam St .Buffalo, Jj. Y.
FAIRBANKS ft CO , 338 Broadway. Albany,
New York.
FAIRBANKS ft CO. 403 St. Paul St, Montreal.
FAIRBANKS ft CO, 34 King William St, Lon
don.
FAIRBANKS, BROWN ft CO, 2 Milk St, Bos
ton.
FAIRBANKS ft EWING. Masonic Hall. Phil
FAIRBANKS, MORSE ft CO, Chicago, Illinois.
FAIRBANKS, MORSE ft CO, Cincinnati, Ohi».
FAIRBANKS, MORSE ft CO. Cleveland, Ohio.
FAIRBANKS, MORSE ft CO. Pittsburgh. P».
FAIRBANKS, MOUSE ft CO. Louisville, Ky.
FAIRBANKS ft CO. St. Louis. Mo.
FAIRBANKS 4 HUTCHINSON, San Francisco
For sale ty all leading Hardware Dealers,
fell! d2aw awcow 20 ws
FltEEMAN & GKEENI
Commission tor Szliins^Cottos':
50 CBtWS PCS BILK!
Liberal Cash Advances Li'adcg
on Shipments.
Country Cured Hams and Lard,
Very fine, just received from Tennesiae on con
signment and for sale at very low pricea, by
aprfdlw JONE8 Jfc COOK.
V. i R«)M k C».,
(One of the o!des dealers in New York City
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
BOOTS and SHO £3
AGENTB FOR MANUFACTURERS.
Have removed to
537 BROADWAY, ST. Y.
Vi/ HERE they invite buyers to inspect their
V Y large stock, which has been selected from
the best makers, and will be offered
At Lower Prices
Than have bean ruling the past season. Promp
attention given to orders. Our lines of
COMMISSION GOODS
Give us opportunities of supplying large dealer
by the package, at manufacturers* prices.
W\ A RANSOM A CO.,
«np29 657 Broadway. New York.
Macon, ga
/ T^kElithje method of aanouncingio the pub
A lie that they continue the manufacture o
every description of Buggies, Wagons and Drays
e have on hand an excellent assortment of
hutrgiea of our own make, which wo are offerine
at prices strictly to suit the present hard times.
We only atkof you atria), and a comparison of
work and prices. We will not be undersold.
We also have on hand a few cne-horse wagons,
built by m either with or without bodies, which
we guarantee to be equal to any m the State.
We are offering them very low. wie ko*p a fu’*
fctc .'k of tho very best materials, and employ t)
best workmen, and are always ready to execT *
all orders for either new work or repalring nek "
and quickly, and at bottom prices. Give us-A <
call. All work warranted-
Shop. SECOND STREET, next door to the
Conrt-hou®«. l«14auAwe5ra w5n
G eorgia, jasper county,—George f
Meriwether has applied for letters^ of ad-
ministiation on the estate of Lula Meriwether,
deceased, this istherehre to cite all and singu
lar tho next of kin and creditors to show cause on
tbe first Monday in May next, why letters should
not he granted to the applicant.
Witness my band officially, April 4,1877.
aprStd* HENRY SMITH, Ordinary.
f-v‘ ii. r ; w fe.~s.Si'J
G eorgia, jasper county.-Application
will ke made to the court of Ordinary of J
said county, for leave to sell the real estate of B . f {
Bridges, situated partly in Jasper and Monro© 1
counties, on tbo first Monday in May next. If
there is snv objection, let it bo known ou thnt
day. April 4,1877.
MARY A. BRIDGES.
aprStd Executrix of B.|Brid£q',
V