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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBEK 24, 1870.
\1k ,ut 125.000 immigrant* have lan-
,1^,1 n the port of New York since the Ift
tit January tot, or nearly 45.000. more
than .tarintt the name period in 1878.
Das Uh k Ti bs** Preacher.—Dan
Kice, the famoua rircua man, announced
tot Friday that he had been converted
and will at once enter the field M an
rranselift. He had an interview with
Mr. Moody, now holding meetings here,
ami wiH im.baidy begin liis new career by
speaking at Moody's meetings, and then
seek such field as oilers the best prospects
of success in hi* new work.
—A leading imtcl in Chicago lias been
making some experiments in tins use of
thr electric light which appear to liave
Wn succssful. Si* ligliLs were put up in
the rotunda of the liotcl in tlic place of
two hundred and fifty gas burners, and
they not only gave a much hotter light,
but cost nearly three hundred dollars a
mouth less than gas. The electric light
is now to lie introduced into the dining
room of tlie house.
—t'nderthe Federal Constitution, says
tie* ITnrlil, Indiana cannot “emit hills
of credit." That is certain. Tlie Supreme
<'ourt has said that tlie "bills of credit"
tel. rred to an; trills issued by a State, in-
vnlv ing tie- faith of tlie State, ami designed
to cimilate on tlie credit of the State as
money, in the ordinary uses of business.
But Indiana can cn'ate a State hank to
issue Idlla of credit, even if Indiana as a
commonwealth owns all tlie shares in the
luuik. provided tlicn* lie a fund put be
yond State rontnd for any other parpMe
than to nilecm tin* bills.
—Tire New England manufacturers re
port that tlie demand for tlieir goods ex-
creils the su|>pl y and that many of them
have been obliged to n*ftise new orders,
having already "engaged all their produc
tions for months ahead." The advance
<d prices has Ircu rapid. In some kinds
of good* prio-s are abnormally high ami
must soon fall hack again to their normal
standard. Tie; wages of lalmtvrs have
mat yet liecn advanced, hut the working-
men share in lie* returning pms|n>rity liy
having steady employment. As soon as
tlie present condition of things is shown
to lie permanent wages will undoubtedly
atom.
Mil: Saw Stabs.—At ono of ilaguiu's
au«1 ions, on Wilmington street, a few
days past, a country negro purchased a
job l<d of miscellaneous “plunder.”
Aimuig tliis were twelve dozen 1 sixes of
Beckwith's pills. When the African car
ried bis iMireliascs home, liis wife asked
aliout tie* pills; how many wen: a dose,
etc. Thi* man replied that one was a
dose, she tlwugltt Is: meant one box. A
few night' ago sin* was taken suddenly
ill, ami hunted up tlie pills. Pouring out
mae water, she took an entire box con
taining four dozen. She was astonished
at the results of tlie wholesale dose, and
said to a neighbor a day or so since: “I
cant scribe it, chile, hut I "sure you I seed
stars."
In con in sTini.K Wood.—Tlie follow
ing compound is claimed to render wood
imxmburtibk* without affecting its natural
color: Sulphate of zinc, 36 pounds; Ame
rican |»Sasli, 22 pounds: American alum,
44 pounds; oxide of manganese,22 pounds;
sulphuric acid of til) deg. strength, 22
pounds, and water, 55 pounds. The solids
are first placed in an iron vessel contain
ing the water at a temperature of 25 de
grees centigrade, and when they are dis
solved the sulphuric acid is added, in
small ,|iiantities at a time, until the whole
is saturated. Tlie wood is tlien laid,
with half an inch span* between each
piece, on iron gratings in a suitable appa
ratus. into which tin; mixture is pumped
until all the spaces are filled. Heat is
applied, and the wood is boiled in the
mixture for about three hours, wlien it is
taken out and dried for use in the open
air. After this treatment, it is said, wood
resists very intense heat, its surface only
being ehanvd slowly, while its fibre re
mains intact.
Tin-ex's Nomination.—The Kalcigli
tsSscrrcr. speaking of Mr. Tildcn's nomi
nation ami tlie declaration ol Scott Lord
that if Mr. T. is uof nominated his friends
will bolt and ruin Democratic prospects,
iiludrates the subject with this remin
iscence : It is not to be thought of that
they, either Mr. Tilden or liis friends,
would jeopardize success by any word or
act whatsoever. But, while tills is so, his
mwninaxiou would recall what we onee
beard in connection with tlie nomination
of John Bell. In IStift, tlie Whigs were
in hard lines; they went over to Balti
more ami held tbeir convention, and nomi
nated John Bell, of Tennessee. On tlie
return from the convention of Senator X,
be took a seat by Seward, who asked,
“what did you do over there?” “Oh, we
nominated John Bell." was liis reply.
"John Bell ?" “Yes. yes, Bell of Tennes
see." was the reassuring response. “Why
didn't yon nominate Henry Clay?" queri
ed Seward.
~Clay r exclaimed Senator X, “why,
(lay has been dead half a dozen years.”
~Ye».” replied Seward, gravely, “and
Bell has been dead twenty." Mr. Tilden.
in 1880. will be as dead as John Bell
was in 1800. The world moves.
DON* CAMERON'S CHOICE.
The Pennsylvania Republicans Want
Grant, and Mean to Have Him.
flVIHi'pliliili 1 to the C.ncicnaii Gazette)
Senator Don Cameron, after a short call
upon General Grant, in speaking of his
recent choice as Chairman of the National
KefabBean Committee, said to a Time*
reporter that it was a mere friendly con
test as to locality rather than in the inter
est of any possible candidate.
“Who is your choice for the Republican
naaafaistton?" was asked.
"There ought to be no doubt about my
position as to that. The Pennsylvania Re
publicans hare but one candidate and that
is Grant. Any candidate chosen by the
Convention would be supported, of course,
tot we want Grant and mean to have
him if we can get him."
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Bitter Times.
Ike business revival and new era of
amperity which lias commenced are in
Xet: <s with the increased health and
happiness all over the land, resulting
from the introduction of Warner's Safe
KiJnev and Liver Cure. “The changes
wrought J»y this remedy," says Rev. Dr.
Harvev, "seems but little less than mirac
ulous." dec23-2w
The Best Method 6i Propagating the
Sand Pear.
Mr. T. W. Fleming, of Baker county,
who was one of the first persons to intro
duce and recommend to public considera
tion this famous pear, which is now s
source of so much comfort and emolument
to Southern Georgia, sends us an interest
ing communication on the best and most
certain method of propagating the cut
tings. This, in brief, is as follows:
Take from the growing trees as many
roots as can he spared without injury to
the parent stocks. With a sharp pruning
knife then divide tliese roots into sections
about six inches in length, and cut, as be
terms it, “a long slant on the end that
grew the nearest to the tree,” and on this
graft your cutting, which should be about
the same length as the roof, as nearly as
possible of similar size, and iiaving a cor
responding “slant.” Afterwards, proceed
as usual, covering the grafted portion witli
a cement made of equal parts of beeswax,
rosin and tallow. The whole should then
be buried in rich earth so deeply that only
two eyes on the cutting will lie exposed.
The six inches of root thus planted will
readily put forth small fibrous rootlets,
which cause tlie buds to expand and come
forward rapidly, and so surely tliat Mr.
Fleming is certain that over ninety per
cent, of tlie grafts will catch. He recom
mends those who have engaged cuttings
of the usual length, say from twelve to
fifteen inches, to call in tlieir orders for
shorter cuttings, to lie accompanied with
roots, even though tlie cost would be
greater, as tlie certainly of success is much
enhanced by grafting upon the root. Mr.
Fleming Ls prepared to furnish a moderate
supply of roots and cutting? to those who
may desire them, if orders arc addressed
to him at Xewton, Baker county, Georgia.
The Railroad Convention.
One of Brunswick’s most promising young
citizens called upon us yesterday, and said
that whole region is much wrought up on
tlie subject of the lease and future of the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad. They
cannot tolerate tlie Idea that this splendid
property which furnishes the inland gate
to tlie far interior, for Brunswick, shall
pass into hostile liands. Hence, the de
termination to spare no effort, first, to
control the lease themselves, witli the help
of tlieir up country brethren, and second
ly, failing in tliis, to give all the aid and
comfort possible to tlie company or organ
ization, which will deal most liberally
with them in the subsequent conduct of
the road.
We cannot leant that any definite ac
tion has been decided upon, but every one
seems to be awaiting tlie result of the
Convention's deliberations.
Brunswick lias appointed a very strong
and able delegation, and tve learn that
all the counties on the line of road between
this city and Bninswick have already ta
ken the necessary steps to lie reprosented
in the convention, save Twiggs.
Jones, Jasper, Newton, Fulton, and ail
that section immediately interested in tlie
proposed extension,will doubtless come to
timo also witli their representative men
when the convention assembles on Tues
day next. That body, it is confidently ex
acted, will number from seventy-five to
one hundred gentlemen, many of whom
are possessed of large experience and the
highest intelligence.
Got Everything in a Swine.
The Grant melt are now rejoicing witli
unspeakable joy. They have simply got
everything in a swing, and ask no odds of
anybody. Tlie question whether it is
worth while to “conciliate” Blaine, being
on tlie tapis, voted that only in tlie single
matter of avoiding an apparent contest in
convention was it worth while to concili
ate Blaine; and that as, long before June,
it would be apparent that Grant held a
full hand, and would swamp all other
candidates on the first ballot, so tliat none
of them would he willing to display his
own weakness, it was not important to
conciliate Blaine or anybody else. Penn
sylvania would lead off at Harrisburg for
Grant and nobody else. New York would
follow suit. Illinois, Indiana, California,
Michigan, Iowa, and then the solid South
on the back of them. All would make
such an array for Grant in the convention
that Ohio will lie unwilling to display a
feeble hand for John Sherman. John
would retire to meditate on resumption at
some future period.
A Uew Hind of Eire Hose:
The old leathern hose, it appedr*. is
about to be superseded in England by a
new tanned canvas hose lined with India
rubber. The London Times of 4 recent
date says:
Yesterday tlie leathern hose of the Me
tropolitan Brigade was given up in favor
of a new tanned-canvas hose lined with
India rubber, abont 800,000 feet of which
has been manufactured for the brigade b'y
the inventors. Messrs. Anderson, Abbott &
Anderson. The new hose was tested up
to :i00-pound pressure on the square inch,
and, with the exception of one short
length, all was accepted. The new hose
has the advantage of being water-proof,
and can convey water through a ware
house or room' without damage by leak
age to the goods. It is claimed for it that
it is cheaper, lighter, and stronger than
leathern hose, will not require so much
labor to convey it to the hydrants, does not
need dressing to keep it in order as leath
er does, and it is not so liable to be burnt.
Captain Shaw was yesterday present at
the testing of the hose and expressed him
self perfectly satisfied witli the new mate
rial.
The Church Militant.—A free fight
in a ‘‘Reformed" Presbyterian church in
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on Sunday night
last was one of tlie strange telegraphic
items in our last edition. This is the
grossest exhibition of the odium thcologi-
cuin we have read about for some time;
and wc are gratified tliat the scene of the
display was not in tliis benighted South
ern country.
It is not to he disguised, however, that
more care is generally duo by ecclesias
tical assemblages, councils and courts in
regard to tlieir demeanor. It is much to
be deplored tliat these assemblages have
often of late failed to display the self-
command and decorum whicli usually
characterize secular bodies—and much
less the broad and generous charities of
religion and that self-abnegation which
are enjoined in the gospel. When Chris
tian men and preaclicra of age and repu
tation make tliese displays of evil and sel
fish tempers, they may lie sure they are
doing a mischief to the cause of religion
which they cannot easily repair.
The “Cental” Metrical System Hangs
Fire*
The Grain Excliange of New York,
which, by a small majority, adopted tlie
Cental system of weights and measures,
finds it impossible to enforce the regula
tion. In every transaction that has taken
place under the new rule, it lias been
fonnd necessary, in order to satisfy grain
dealers, to reduce the cental rates back in
to bushels before tlie parties could be sat
isfied. This has greatly retarded trade
operations, and caused much embarrass
ment to the Western merchants, who are
invincibly opposed to any such change.
In Baltimore the autagonism is equally
strong. It is quite doubtful indeed
whether the system will not prove an ut
ter failure in this country, albeit the most
intelligent portion of the merchant guild
favor it.
In Bad Taste.
General Grant, during his speech at the
Merchant's Exchange reception at Phila
delphia, spoke of the opportunities he had
enjoyed of studying the commerce of for
eign countries while abroad,drawing some
appropriate conclusions relating thereto.
When he liad finished, up bounced Mayor
Stokeley and said: “IUs not a part’of the
programme that I should say anything,but
I can scarcely help remarking that you
can see. liow usefully, if he is ever again
called upon officially, General Grant
could administer the affairs of the nation,
after his extensive and careful observa
tions abroad.”
Verily, if the third term boom is a suc
cess, tlie Mayor may yet have his reward,
though his remark can only, under the
circumstances, be regarded in tlie light of
a solecism and was iu execrable taste.
At Sqa,
So far as we can learn, the Nicaragua
Canal scheme is as yet without any defi
nite form or shape, either financially or as
to feasibility. A writer in the New York
Times says that Senor DeFranco admits
that not tlie least concession has been
made by the Nicaraguan government in
favor of tlie project. Nor lias a dollar
been specifically subscribed by the Roths
childs or anyone else towards the build
ing of the canal. The most that tlie
Senor could say, was, that lie “has no
doubt” that the financial means will he
forthcoming when needed. General
Grant, too, it seems, lias not in the least
committed himself to accepting tlio presi
dency. The whole affair is under a
cloud, and will, it is believed by many
result in nothing of a practical character.
As to Christmas preparation's yes
terday, let us report a generally cloudy
sky, occasional and very slight sprinkling
of rain, a temperature in the neighbor
hood of 70, (it was (H at sunrise), streets
crowded with black and white, in quest
of all the holiday supplies—stores jammed
with purchasers—salesmen desperately
bent on doing the work of half a dozen,
and vainly trying to he in six places at
once. All of them will rejoice when the
holidays are over. The unseasonable
temperature is worrying tlie importers of
Tennessee poultry, but every now and
then they will relieve their own anxiety
by prognosticating a “freezing Christmas
yet.” But unless it makes haste it will
hardly come this year.
Makino ax Island.—According to
tlie World the last speculation afloat in
New York is the excavation' of a channel
from New York Harbor to deep sea 500
feet wide and 311 feet deep, deposit the
sand on Romer Shoals and make an
island, whicli, as a summer resort, will lay
Coney Island hopelessly in the shade.
How long would that deep-sea channel
maintain its depth? A week—a month or
three mouths, according to the weather.
Blaixe complains of the course of the
Democracy in Maine. While he was ty
ing up the strings to his boom and getting
ready to launch it forth on the ambient
air, Garcelon and liis pesky council took
all of the wind out of him by their ridicu
lous counting-out operations. Nothing
can be counted on, says Blaine, while a
single Democrat is loose.
Gas.—A London dispatch of yesterday
reports a decline of gas stocks, predicated
on some recent success in Edison’s meth
ods of lighting by electricity. To-night
is tlie time assigned by Edison for surpris
ing the world with a brilliant display of
electric light in the town where he re
sides.
Railroad Property on the np Grade.
In the month of November the Louis
ville and Nashville Railroad earned $6Sft,-
434 gross against $591,370 for the same
month last year. Tlie net earnings for
November, 1S79, were $351,600 against
$292,925 for the year previous, showing an
increase in favor of the present year of
$5S,C75. This is certainly a handsome
addition to the revenue of the company.
Other railroads have done equally well
and investments in this kind of property
are more active than for several years past.
The Liverpool quotation for May and
June futorus yesterday was 7 3-10. Their
pnlsc beat freely.
The Utes.—Los Pinos telegrams yes
terday report the Ute prisoners there and
ready for a start, but detained awaiting a
White River chief. It was expected that
the cavalcade would get off by Christ
mas.
Cottox revived to the extent of 6J in
Liverpool yesterday.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Temperance Reform opened in Sa
vannah Saturday evening, and fifty-three
names were enrolled among the reformed.
Savaxxah is to have a new steamship
to be run by the most powerful engines
ever placed in an American built vsssel.
This ship will be of greater capacity than
any steamer running into Savannah, and
is believed to be tbe forerunner of a new
carrying line between that city and Liver-
poolrVlien completed, however, the vessel
will be used at first between Savannah
and New York.
Thebe was a snatch and pull contest
in Savannah Sunday. A white man and
a negro snatched each other, and the po
lice pulled them both.
Hereafter we will issue a supple
ment Tuesday morning whenever we
attempt to notice everything that hap
pens in Savannah upon the quiet Sun
days.
We learn from an exchange that Grant
and the Madame have attended with
great pomp and glory a Pinafore enter
tainment in Philadelphia. It strikes us
that this is a fit ending for a triumphal
tour around the world, and one that will
make the sympathetic heart of Brother
Childs to bud and blossom as the rose.
A Georgia editor was fonnd upon the
floor ofliis sanctum a few days since in a
dead faint. It seems that he had picked
up one of his most reliable exchanges,
and opening it with quieFconfidence,found
side by side a Pinafore joke and tbe
“Clement Attachment.” The combina
tion slew him.
There is yet no clue to the murderer
of Mr. Gammon in Columbns.
Atlaxta lias had the honor of enter
taining the Governor of Ohio, and the
Governor of Ohio has had the honor of
being entertained by Atlanta. Now let
the “Buckeyes" and the “crackers” lock
horns and brag.
Oxe of our exchanges calls us a “co
temporary.” We can stand ridicule, in
sinuations and ordinary abase, bnt when
a man publishes us as a cotemporary, we
will make a personal matter of it.
ThA next ofTfc, broad Axe arid
Itemizer will appdar the Eatonton
Messenger: ¥116 ediiin qt the B. A. & I.
in bidding farewell to' journalistic life,
delivers a valedictory full of humor and
pathos: He says: Patent medicine men—
pestiferous nincompoops—shake! God
hasten the dawning of the day when each
and every one of you shall receive your
reward, namely—a heavy dose of buck
shot from every country newspaper man’s
shot-gun.
Spring poets and arrbgant contributors,
noxious gallinippers that always bite at a
poor editor’s patience—please “consider”
yourselves shook!” That your posterity
may ever be as limited*as a Georgia
mule's and yonr reputation as glorious
as an English jack's is about as hearty a
wish as I am capable of flinging at you.
Uninvited advisers and counsellors—gas
eous ganoters robed in the togas of seem
ingly good intentions—an affoctionate
adieu! Never become so silly and foolish
as to accept that admonition'which you so
freely and lavishly bestow upon others,-
unless, forsooth, you are very desirous of
“dead-beating” your way to a front seat
in some pauper home.
Wood-haulers, I drop a well-meant tear
to your memory! “Coldness I can from
others brook,” but God knows I hope I
may never have to purchase another piece
of “fire bread” from you.
Critics—unappreciative ninnies that
hover about one’s written productions,
like filthy vultures around a dead mule—
during my journalistic career yonr sparks
of criticism have fallen unnoticed on the
wet blanket of independence. In truth, I
have alwas been by your darts liije (ho
honest old fenqor who sat silent in the
State Legislature whilst a port younglaw-
yer abused him—“It always wrenched
him terribly to kick against nothing.”
Backbiters and detractors—despicable
and slimy leeches that suck in vain at
one’s reputation—au recoir! May full
justice be meted out to you immediately
after your passage qyer tho river §tyx.
Brother editors, ta ta! Lot tlie darts
that we have at times hurled at each oth
er remain where they fell. Strive to
make your prosperity as unbounded as
your cliaracteristic stinginess, and my
word for it, the wolf will never even peep
in at your door.
Columbus Times: On the evening of
the 18th a negro named John Jlauiu} atqlo
a horse from Mr. Henry' Williams, near
Jamestown, went to Mr. Amos’ shop on
Wynne’s Hill, and without leave or li
cense hitched him to a new buggy and
continued liis journey. The next morn
ing, as soon ns ho missed his buggy Ml
Amos instituted scorch for it qnd quickly
struck tho trail, which led off’ towards
Harris countv. He, accompanied by Mir,
Robert Blanqfon}, immediately sot out in
pursuit, and late in tho evening, or about
night, overtook and captured the tliief
near the Standing Boy creek. They
brought him and the horse and buggy
back to Columbus, reaching the city yes
terday morning, and now the festive John
lies in jail.
Dublix Gazette: That staunch old
journal, the Macon Telegraph, has
donned a new dress, and it fits amazingly
well. Wc hope she will catch many now
subscribers by her stylishness. Her
beauty ls not skin deep only.
Middle Georgia Argus: That sterling
old daily, the Telegraph axd Messen
ger, has donned a new and elegant suit,
and In it presents an attractive appear
ance. There is no better daily in the
State than the staid old Teleghaph.
Savaxxah News: Yesterday morn
ing, as tlie regular passenger train on the
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway
was approaching the city, the engineer
espied the body of a man lying on tho
track at a point about two and a half
miles from tho Ogeeohee crossing. Heat
once sounded ‘‘down breaks,” and the
train was stopped promptly. The con,
duetor and several passengers at once
alighted, and on approaching tho body, it
was found to be that of an old negro, hor
ribly mangled and perfectly cold, life
having apparently been extinct some
time. The mutilated remains were re.
moved to the side of the track, and the
train came on to tlie city.
It was presumed that the unfortunate
man had been ran over some time during
Saturday night by a lumber train. On
reaching the city, the conductor reported
the matter, and Coroner Sheftall was noti
fied. He proceeded to the place designated
about 1 o’clock, when an inquest was
held, at which it was ascertained that the
deceased was an old herb and root doctor
by the name of Shaffer Harris. He lived
at the place of Mr. John Gibson, about six
miles from the city, and shortly after 2
o’clock Saturday afternoon had started to
the city to attend some patients. He was
very deaf, and about seventy-six years
of age. His wifo states that she does not
think he could have heard tho whistle of
a locomotive if it had been sounded, as his
hearing was so defective. He was sober
in his habits. The jury rendered a ver
dict that the deceased, Shaffer Harris,
came to his death by being run over by
one of the trains on the Savannah, Flori
da and Western Railway, and, in the
opinion of the jury, no blame can be at
tached to the railroad company.
ROMANCE FROM REAL LIFE.
In Three Parts.
PART I.
Midnight. Algernon and Claude DeVere
age fifteen, upon their downy couch lie
side by side. Algernon slumbers and in
his slumber dreams. He is away off in
fairy land. He is a prince. Thousands
of subjects bow down before him and a
dove-eyed princess smiles upon him. Ho
is happy. He is more than happy. He is
hilarious; wildly hilarious. Rut Claude!
—Claude has the lumbago; in other words
Claude has a misery in tho back. Claude
is not asleep. He is awake. He is more
than awake. He is on the ragged edge
and groans unceasingly. Can it be that
Claude has no one to help him? It can
not be.
PAST II.
A mild-eyed woman appears upon the
scene, shifting hurriedly a bottle of hot
water from hand to hand. Boiling hot
water. She rushes to the bed. It is sum
mer. Algernon has changed sides with
Claude. The rooom is dark. Algernon’s
night gown is rolled up like a horse collar
about his neck. ' The wild-eyed woman
aims for Claude and deposits the bottle.
The bottlo is deposited in the small of
Algernon’s back. There is a shriek in the
night. Algernon has the floor. The bottle
accompanies him and falls with a spatter
ing crash at his feet. He dances the can
can in the moonlight and calls upon his
patron saint. He rushes in the parlor and
says, “Fire!” He says “Fire!” as he
crosses the hall, and when he skips
through the dining room he still says
“Fiie!” There is no fire. It is only
water. But it is water that had been
near tbe fire. It is a very natural mis
take. Claude has laughed the lumbago
away. The bottle is a success.
PART HI.
The night is still, with the exception of
a low howl that comes from a comer
room in which beams a light. Through
tho shutters may be seen a sad-eyed woman
with a sieve, sifting flour upon a pair of
freckled legs. They are Algernon’s legs.
Washington Letter.
Washixotox, D. C.,
December 20,1879.
Don Cameron has been elected Chair
man of the National Republican Com
mittee, but by only two majority, which
shows a stronger feeling against him than
was expected by the outside lookers on.
He says his election will give no candi
date any advantage over any other.
There are only three names mentioned
among Republicans at present—Grant,
Sherman and Blaine. The real signifi
cance of this move on the Republican
side of the political chess board is that if
Cameron should be kept in his present
position by the National Convention,
(which, it is decided, is to be held in Chica-
gOjJune 3,18S0) and ft is not likely he will
be displaced, he will, as chairman, levy
heavy assessments on Federal office hold
ers, and carry on a vigorous corruption
campaign with the fund thus raised, sup
plemented not only by large sums from
the 2,000 national banks, but by heavy
contributions from the great railway cor
porations. He will probably spend a lib
eral share of this fund in Pennsylvania.
Hale, when occupying the same position
iq 1878, used one-tentfi of his committees’
campiigti fund in Maine, and Don Cam
eron is iiot likely to let slip o similar 6p=
port unity, to increase his own power dnd j
popularity by scattering money among Ills I
retainer^ in Pennsylvania.
Senator Morgan", of Alabama, one of the
strongest minds in tlie Senate, and a law
yer of ability, has made the first set speech
against the Hayes-Shennan-Bayard finan
cial programme, and it is regarded by
those of his way of thinking as an able
and exhaustive discussion of the subject.
Senator Morgan held that the legal tender
question “lias been authoritatively deci
ded by tbe Supreme Court,” “and that,”
said he, “is the only tribunal that can fi
nally. decide this question, which as a
question of law can only affect two
classes of people, the debtors and cred
itors. If there ever was an occasion when
the necessity of the rule stare decisis was
more obvious than in all others, it is in
this case. These decisions of the Supreme
Court, affirming the constitutionality of
these laws, have become all pervading
laws of property, so that it may be said
witli absolute certainty that almost tbe
entire volume of indebtedness among the
people was contracted with direct refer
ence to the legal tender quality of green
backs.”
It is a little amusing to see Senator
Bayard’s resolution, which is the point of
his devotion to the Constitution, assailed
as in itself unconstitutional by Senator
Morgan. I quote what he savs on this
ESr as a close piece of legal reason-
— “There is such a thing in this country
as a final settlement or judicial {ques
tions, and when tlie Supreme Court has
fettled a question purely iu its character
I think it IS right and proper to let that
question rest where they have left it. My
right under ^tlie constitution to pay my
creditor a debt in paper currency, can only
be upheld or denied by.tlie judgment of a
court, when an act of Congress declares
that I have such a right. Neither the ox.
ecutivc nor legislative departments can ad.
judge tins question, This rigid tode.
inafid gold or silver coin In payment of
debt due ino, in which I firmly believe is
an individual right—a right as personal to
myself as the right to have my person or
papers or property protected from unlaw
ful arrest or seizure or destruction. It is
a right of the same class as those nipped,
It is in no sense q political privilege, and
Cqqgrqaa lifts no power to deny it or to
treat it as a political privilege. I must
deny the power of Congress to do sucli a
thing so as to prevent any man from pay
ing a debt existing at tlie time of tlie pas
sage of such an act in legal-tender notpg
if lie had tlie wmsdftuUdnai right so to
pay It when the debt wqs created, if a deb
tor ever hqd the right under (he constitu
tion to pay his debt in legal-tender paper,
Congress cannot take from him that right
so tq 4t$cimrgo that doht so long as that
currency is iu circulation, If Congress
can do this it can well doclare that gold
and silver shall not he a legal-tender for
debts already existing, and I do not be
lieve it has tliat power. To do that would
be to deprive a max of liis property or liis
rights by a mere legislative declaration
which is not by due course of la"',” If
Congress cqu declare that no gold and sil
ver coins, and no paper money shall bo
legal-tender, it can put a stop to all pay
ment or collection of debts. If any de
scription of money is made legal-tender
by act of Congress, and if tlie act is un*
constitutional, it must necessarily fallow
tbftt Congress caiinot pass a rqtroactiro
law whicli will operate to prevent any
debtor from paying his debt contracted
before its passage, lu that description of
money if he can get it. But the resolu
tion of the Senator from Delaware
destroys the legal-tender quality of our
greenback currency“from aud after the pas
sage of this resolution" and makes no res
ervation of the rights of debtors to pay
their debts then existing in that sort of
money,
The chief toplo of discussion among
the Democrats gathering here, continues
to ho, who shall bo tlieir candidate in
1880. Tliis may be premature, but ak it
cannot be helped, it is probably better
that there should be a general airing of
views and a full discussion of the merits
of tlie various candidates, than tlie can
vassing of merit should be partial and in
complete. Shennan seems, by general
consent, to have boon abandoned upon the
failure to carry Ohio. There are a good
many, however, who think that the giant
of the Senate is not dead but sleeping, and
there are signs that liis leadership in tli*
Legislature to control the Pacific Railways
will give him strength with the Grangers
and anti-monopoly element.
Hendricks seems also to have lost
ground, owing to the impression assidu
ously cultivated by Eastern journals that
sinco the business revival, liis financial
record renders him unavailable. He will
unquestionably appear, as heretofore, with
the vote of Indiana,but at present,his chan
ces do not look very much better than
Thurman’s,
Before tho November election ft was
admitted on every hand that Mr. Tildon
had staked all upon the re-election of
Governor Robinson in New York, and the
impression still is that the result has en
ded liis chances of controlling the next
Democratic National Convention. There
arc evidences, however, that this view is
not accepted at Grammercy Park. But
whether Mr. Tildon’s peculiar methods of
organization will enable him to present a
formidable front next year remains to be
seen. The talk about Seymour seems to
come almost entirely from those political
workers who had tied their fortunes to the
kite of some of the candidates supposed to
be wiped out by the fall election.
In some cases the shout for Seymour is
a sort of mal de guerre, to fill up the time
while the shouters are looking around for
the coining man. No sensible man be
lieves that 3Ir. Seymour will repeat his
experience of 1808 in tho face of his fre
quent and positive declarations that he
will not. The Bayard movement, which
at present seems to have considerable
strength, will soon dwindle away. Un
less Mr. Tilden slisuld determine to give
Bayard the votes of the New York dele
gation, it is difficult to see how he can
figure before the Convention as promi
nently as he now does in the newspapers.
But Mr. Tilden may not be able to con
trol the New York delegation for any
body, but himself; and in tlie presont
temper of the Democracy of tlie country,
a man picked out by either of tho New
York factions would thereby be rendered
unavailable. “A plague o’ both your
houses” is the feeling towards New York,
and no sentiment is now more universal
than that tlie full Democratic vote in
that State can only be polled by a candi
date not in the least mixed up witli either
Tilden or Tammany.
Mr. Bayard has some personal strength,
and is very popular in the South, but the
sectional feeling could be raised against
him in its full strength. As a determined
foe to the greenback and to silver, he
would be obnoxious to a very important
body of voters. He cannot be elected
President as long as the bloody shirt
maintains its present potency, nor until
the currency conflict is settled finally.
Of General Hancock it may be said,
and this is a very significant fact in his
favor, that he seems to be the second
choice of almost everybody. I have hard
ly seen a prominent Democrat quoted
who did not speak favorably of Hancock.
It is urged in behalf of his nomination
that it would best answer the inevitable
sectional agitation. General Hancock’s
popularity 'with the soldier element is
second to that of no man in the country.
This is particularly so east of the Allegha-
nies. The bulk of the troops in the great
Army of the Potomac were Eastern men.
General Hancock is incontestably the
most popular of all the surviving generals
of that noble army. General Grant came
to it from the West, and, so far as the
writer’s observation went, never gained Its
affections. Indeed, tlie terrible sacrifice
of our best men in the numerous assaults
upon fortified positions, from the Wil
derness to Petersburg, were generally be
lieved, by those who took part in them,
to liave been as ill considered ani badly
delivered, as they invariably were fruitless
and murderous in their results. General
Hancock, whose splendid valor was dis
played on so many of its fields, to whom |
the greatest honor of Gettysburg is due,
who shared the dangers and the wounds ’
which were the common soldier’s iot, and
which some of their Generals did not |
share, is peculiarly the representative of
that army which did the heaviest fighting
of the war. General Hancock would get
thousands of votes in New York, Connec- j
ticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, i
where tho old soldiers of the army of the ,
Potomac are thick, which no other Demo- i
crat could get. But in addition to his ^
grand record as a soldier, he is the solitary
officer of the regular army who has made
himself illustrious by displaying in the
line of his duty a profound knowledge of
the principles of civil liberty and of con
stitutional law. It is this singular union
of the record of a gallant soldier, with the
official utterances, which show the mind
of the statesman, which makes General
Hancock’s surpassing availability as a can
didate. On all sides I hear the question:
Will Pennsylvania present Hancock?
Democrats from other States say that
Unsought to be done iu order that the
GeneraFs name may be regularly
before the delegates' in a position
to be chosen by them if success should
then seem to be best as used by liis nomi
nation. There is undoubtedly force in
this suggestion. A great central State
like Pennsylvania ought surely to present
the name of one of her own citizens, and
it is only due to the Democracy of the
country, that a candidate occupying the
conspicuous position of General Hancock
should not be excluded from the attention
of its convention, by the act of his State,
at a time when the fortunes of the party
are as critical as they now appear to be.
From this point of view Pennsylvania
may support General Hancock without
antagonizing any other candidate. Fur
ther, it is a position which neither antago
nizes candidates, sections nor factions.
The currency question still presents ob
stacles to a hasty union of all the ele-
lUQnta of the opposition. Such a candi
date as Hancock would excite no antago
nism either among tho Anti-Bank De
mocracy of the West nor the capitalists of
the East. Having no embarrassing record
ho could take his stand upon the plat
form, and, as it looks to his friends, get in
every State as many votes as any other
Democrat could get. I confess I have not
yet seen the name of any other candidate
mentioned, of whom tliis could he said.
J. N. B.
How to Get a Husband Take of
modesty a large portion; unite it with ur
banity and good humor; to which add
sense and plenty of love, with a virtuous
heart and a pretty face. Take Simmons’
Liver Regulator regularly that tho blood
and complexion bo pure and health good.
“From actual experience in my practice
I ftm satisfied t0 subscribe' it as a purga
tive medicine.” T. W. Mason, M.D.
TUITS
IriLLS
SYMPTOMS OF A
TORRID LIVER.
Lossi of Appetite, Bowels costive, Pain in
the Hoad, w.th a dull ronsationJn tho back
part, Ptin undorjtho shouldsrblado, full
ness alter eating, witn a disinclination to
exsrtion of body; or mind, Irritability ot
ne^iectoa some duty, we*
iss. Fluttering at the Hen:
i the) eyes, Yellow Skin
arclly over tho richt eye,.
i, Headacho
ilostlcssncss
fore .....
RCliorally .... .....u,...
wjthfltrul dreams, highly colored Urine.
IF THESE WARNINGS ARE UNHEEDED,
SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED.
TSTT'S PILLS arc especially ndnptotl to
snrli eases, one dose oflecls such a rtmnso
ol fecUn.x ns In astonish tho sudbrer. ,
CONSTIPATION.
Only with regularity of the bowels can perfect
heai.li bj cnjuyAii If tho constipation is
of rocor.t list.*, a sinpto dose of TUTT’S PI1YLS
ndll suntco. but if It has become habitniir^
Dr* L Guy %,pyrin, Fulton, Ark., says:
vJV J^ ac . lice . °* 53 years. I pronounce
TU5*P'S FILLS tho best auti-bilious medicine
ever made.” ^
Hgvy* H* Oaaooilj I'iew York, snysx
“I havo had Dyspepsia, Weak Stomach and
Nervousness. I never had any medicine to do
mo somueJi good aa TUTT’S PILLS. They are
aa good as represented.”
Otllco 33 aiurrny Street, New York.
TUTT’S HAIR DYE.
Gray Hair or Whiskers changed to a Glossy
Black by n ■meto application of this Dye. It im-
parts a haturaI Color, acts Instantaneously, and is
as ilarmlRss ns spring water, Hold by Druggists, or
**•' “ooiutim nu.or, nutu uy xiru
»«ntby express on ruyeipt of $1.
Office 30 Murrgy St., Hew
Yorkj
THOKBURF’S
FBESH GABDEN SEEDS.
TTPON receipt of the amount we willma to
VJ ' applicants the lollowlng seasonable par.
seeds:
per doi. per lb
Jersey Wakefield Cabbage SSo $ S SO
Suprrior Fiat Dutch.,..,,......... 80c 2 00
Extra Early Egyptian Beet...... ISO 75
Early Forcing Carrot ZOo 1 25
Long Or rge Carrot lOo 75
Nonpariel Cauliflower...™...... SOo 10 00
O-orgia Coll.rds S3o SOO
Scotch Kale..™...™. lOo 1 00
Large Flag L'-ok S5o 2 60
American Gathering Lettuce... 25o 2 50
White Cabbage Lfttnrw goo 2 00
White Portugal Onion 15c 160
Curled Parsley lOo 1 00
Frecch Breakfast Radlih 15c 75
Round Sarny 8i)inach 10« 50
Baliify - 20c 2 00
Descriptive priced catalogues UDon application
to IU THOBBUBX A GO,
octt« Sm II John street. New York.
45 Years Befoi-e the Public.
THE CENUINE
DR. C. McLANE’S
CELEBRATED
LIVER PILLS
FOR THE CURE OF
Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint,
DYSBErsIA AND SICK HEADACHE.
Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
P AIN in the right side, under the
edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure ; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain
is felt under the shoulder blade, and
it frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The stom
ach is affected with loss of appetite
and sickness; the bowels in general
are costive, sometimes alternative with
lax;.the head is trouhled with pain,
accompanied with a dull, heavy sen
sation in the back part. There is gen
erally a considerable loss of memory,
accompanied with a painful sensation
of having left undone something which
ought to have been done. ftA slight,
dry cough is sometimes an attendant.
The patient complains of weariness
and debility; he is easily startled, his
feet are cold or burning, and he com
plains of a prickly sensation of the
skin; his spirits are low; and although
he is satisfied that exercise would be
beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely
summon up fortitude enough to try it.
In fact, he distrusts every remedy.
Several of the above symptoms attend
thq disease, but cases have occurred
where few of them existed, yet exam
ination of the body, aftcy death, h^s
shown the liver to have been exten
sively deranged.
AGUE AND FEVER.
Dr. C. McLane’s Liver Pills, in
cases of Ague and Fever, when
taken with Quinine, are productive of
the most happy results. No better
cathartic can he used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. We would
*dvise all who arc afflicted with this
disease to give them a fair trial.
For all bilious derangements, and
as a simple purgative, they are un
equaled.
BEWAKE OF IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar coated.
Every box has a red wax seal on the
fid, with the impression Dk. McLane’s
Liver Pills.
The genuine McLane’s Liver Pills
bear the signatures of C. McLane and
Fleming Bros, on the wrappers.
Insist upon having the genuine Dr.
C. McLane’s Liver Pills, prepared by
Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the
market being full of imitations of the
name McLane, spellH differently hut
same pronunciation.
W. A. HUFF & CO
MANAGERS
Macon Colton
MACON, DECEMBER 33,1879.
The market opened in New York this morning with an advance of
five to fifteen points, then suddenly’fell off and continued to decline
through the day till a loss of about twenty-five points had been reached,
closing a shade higher and steady.
MACON COTTON MARKET.
The Macon market has been firm with a good demand notwithstanding
the weakness in New York futures, and middling remains steady if not
strong, at 11 3-8 to II l-2c. 7
NEW YORK COTTON MARKET.
Spot Cotton in New York to-day, 121-2 cents.
COTTON FUTURES.
Tho following table shows the fluctuations of cotton in New York to
day:
New York, December 23, 1879.
lour
Utc.
Jan.
Feb.
Much.
Aoril.
May.
Jane.
July.
August
Sept.
Oct.
It 2!
12.80- 81
12.84- 85
13.18-14
13.85186
18.52-5ft
IS 71- 73
13.90-
IS 93 -1 ft
14.C6-08
18.25-40
o.to
12.78- 73
12 31-82
13.08-C9
13.85-86
13.62- 65
13.70-78
13.83-86
13.06 05
14.06 08
13.25 31
U:3C
12.70-76
12.78-79
18.00-08
13.83-85
13.52-54
18.70-72
12.85
12.62-63
12.71-72
13.01-02
13.25-28
13.45-46
1S.CS-62
13.70-80
13.00- 92
13.96 09
13.40
1:83
12.67-60
12.06-05
13.21-22
13.39-41
13.57-59
2:10
12.48- 50
12.53-60
12.89-90
12.16-17
13.33-35
13.52- 54
13.63- 69
13.79- 80
13.(7 89
33u
12.51- 58
12.60-62
12.92-95
12.16-17
13.35-38
13.(2-54
13.69-71
13.70- 81
1389 91
—
Sales, 110,000 bales, Market quiet and steady.
Macon Meat and Grain Market.
Bulk meats were firmer to-day under the advancing tendency of tho
west, and sellers less anxious about tlieir stock. Bulk sides, 7 to 7 1-4;
hams, 11 1-4 ; bulk shoulders, 5 1-4 to 5 1-2; ticrco lard, 9 1-2; corn, 68
to 70j; rust proof oats, 85; mixed oats, 60 to 62.
WESTERN MARKETS.
CHICAGO FUTURE?.
Chicago, December 23, 1879.
Tbe following table shows tbe fluctuations in wheat, corn, clear rib
sides, mess pork and lard, in the Chicago market to-day:
WHEAT.
a. r. sides. fork. lard, j
Dec.
Jau. iFeb’y
j
r
Eec. 3 Jan.
|
1 ’. •—>- • i i
Feb’y. 3 Jan. i February: Jan. 3 Fob. 3
j j j j j
8.S5
9:82
9:89.,™
10:05
10:18 ....
10:47.™
12.05
1:05....
1813, : 132%:.
181%: 1823,::....™.
„j 131%! 1*2)4:
13134: 182%;..
ISIXi 1S2K'
13134: 182540.40
„: 18154! 13254; 0.40
J 132%: 13354:6.40 :6.«0
if 45
:c.4s
|0.45 36.0034
: 0.4754 36.0234
!6.4734 30.6234
36.65 36.65
36.65 |6.«5
:6.60341 :1S.223431S.SS
36.6034 313.2234 318.85
3tt.Sl5431S.3754
313.2234 318.35
313.2234 318.85
313.28 318 45
3184)5 318.43
318.50 313.7254
37.47 34 17.00 •
17.47 34 37.60 3
■7.47 H 37.6S 34 !
37.47 3417.6S34 •
37 47 ; 7.65 j
•7.47 34 37.65 j
37.47 h 37.6754 3
37.57 U37.7S'4 :
Market closed firm with an upward tendency.
Factory Stock.
Aumista Factory Stock 12001251
Graniteville Factory Stock .115gl20|
Langley Factory Stcck 118$)SO
Enterprise Factory Stock™ 60062
Macon Bank fetock.
National Bank Stock.™..™
Central Georgia Bank Btock..
Exchange Bank Stock
Capital Bank Stock
Macon Savings Bank Stock
...................................100a nono ottering
— 75380
48050
78880
ICO and none offering
Municipal Bonds.
City of Savannah new 5 per cent. Bonds... 72 to 781 City ol Macan 7 per eent- Bends .. 75 to 7754
City of Auguita 7 per cent. Bends ...™...100 to 1011 Cty of Atlanta new 6* M to 100
City ot Rome new Bonds 80 to 851 “ “ old 7s ..102 to 108
City of Columbus Bonds 75 to 801 “ “ 8s 108 tolls
State of Georgia Bonds.
Georgia8 percent. long dates.
“ 8 “ short “ ..
“ 7 “ Bonds.™™
“ 6s old™.™™
“ 6s new
GtorgiaBaby Ronds 4<„.™
.....112 to 1)5
.US to 105
™..U1 tolls
.110 to 102
.109 to 110
SC to',100
Railway Stocks and Bonds.
Macon and Augusta Etilrca t Stcck....,
Port Bonl “ ~
South Western “ —
Augus*a and Pavannah “
Atlanta ar.d West Toint “ “ ...
Georgia Railroad 7 per eent. Bonds..
“ “ 6 “ **
Macon and Augusta first mortgage Bonds...
•• »* *• <ir.dnr4f*d hv RJnreii
. 7S to 74
. (6toft*
nominal
10S to 104
107 to 10S
ICS to 112
V5
10234
endorsed by Georgia and Sontt Carolina B. R...
Real Estate Wanted*
We have tin order for a small farm of 100 to 200 acres, anywhere
within four miles of Macon. Any person having such property for sale
can find a buyer by calling on
W. A. HUFF & CC*
BEAL ESTATE FOR SA E.
We have now on' our sale book seven good houses and lots,
ranging in price from 81,000 to $1,800. Some very cheap and desirable
property. Those wanting to purchase a cheap house can get a bargain
brca “ ,,B0 ° w. A. HUFF A CO.
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