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The Greorgia 'Weekly Telegraph.
-p 4 T>TT What Congress Is to do with Georgia.
A specid dispatch from Washington, dated
Sdinst, to Forney's Philadelphia Press of the
i 4th, says:
The House Reconstruction Committee are con-
__ . . , ... n * V ! ridering Gen. Paine’s resolutions as to the right
The Atlanta, ntelhgenoer oonclnies a report - G f the Georgia members to their seats. They
of Hon. Dnnlr p Scott’s speech in the House -will report on Friday or Saturday next that the
t the res< lution referring the ouetion of State is not yet reconstructed, and is not, there-
elicibilit i to office to th« m, nrf fore, entitled to representation. Mr. Sumner
b J o omce to the Supreme Court j a strenuous effort to-morrow to get
against
negro
as follows: f
j _ | the caseof Hon. Joshua Hill acted upon. There
[A most singular incident ocaqrred while Mr. j is little doubt that the resolution of the Jndicia-
Soott was spea.king nnder the reetAation passed : ry Committee will be sustained. Itisunder-
yesterday. H'e was limited to 16 miwites. Ten stood th*t no action other than this mil be taken
minutes after lie commenced the clock in \ho Hall
stopped. Stood still 30 minutes and started
again just the speaker was closing, with
out the aid of human hands.
on the Georgia ease until the forty-first Congress
assembles, when Judge Edmunds' bill teiU be re-
in trod teed and probably passed, as President
Graniis certain not to veto it. The same course
We submit to the judgment of the learned an- will, Misunderstood, betakenonGov.Bontwell's
gnrs what this means. Did the clock stand still
and listen entranced to Mr. Scott ? Did it stop
in order to admonish him to stop ? Or, did the
jarring effect of applause at the beginning of
Mr. Soott's speech stop the clock, and a similar
jar start it again as the speaker was closing.
Until we hoar from the soothsayers we will adopt
the explanation last mentioned, particularly as
we know that it has been thought prudent to
Lave the foundations of the Opera House exam
ined by a committee of builders.
bight from the West.
We have a circular from Versailles, Missouri,
signed, “Respectfully, James A. Spurlock.
The writer says: “I claim the honor of dis
covering the centrifugal powers of nature that
■ustain and spreads out the starry heavens, and
causes them to revolve miran/l the sun and other
fixed planets or suns. I will publish a book this
jcomingspring entitled “A Philosophy of Heaven,
Earth and tho Millennium. By a member
of the Missouri Bar; in which I will demonstrate
in a sceia. tifir. way," etc. Welcome, Spurlock,
let ns have light as well as peace, and a murrain
on grammar and orthography. Spurlock says
ho will also show why “collusions’’ cannot occur
in the moon’s orbit, and that wo imagine will
be difficult, as well as interesting. Every
school-girl knows moonshine is a terrible place
for collusions, delusions, illusions, fusions and
all the rest of the usion family. Spurlock says
he will send us a copy of the book, and then, if
yon are good, and will read over our shoulder
you shall see it
Large Crockery Establishment.
Mr. B. A. Wise has opened at Nos. 80 and 82,
Mulberry St., one of the largest Crockery estab
lishment in the South. His arrangements in Eu-
ropo and all the leading American establishments,
by which he buys and ships in large quantities and
at the lowest rates, enable him to offer proposi
tions to jobbers which will make it greatly to
their advantage to buy of him instead of going
farther to fare worse. They will find they can
save money on any prices they can possibly ob
tain in New York, and pay freights to Georgia.
House-keepers will find at this establishment
a vast range and variety of goods from which to
make their selections, and can satisfy the most
critical and fastiduons taste. See Mr. Wise’s
advertisement.
The Negbo Question- is the Legislature.—
Tho Savannah Republican of Sunday says: As
near ns we can come to the truth from the mud
dy accounts from Atlanta, it appears that the
House adopted on Thursday the resolution of
Mr. Price to refer the question of the eligibility
of negroes to the Legislature to tho Supreme
Court. Yesterday a motion to reconsider the
vote was lost by a considerable majority, so the
resolution stands adopted by the House and
awaiting the action of the Senate.
If constitutional, and we know nothing to the
contrary, it would have been better for the Leg
islature to have passed a bill giving original ju
risdiction to the Supreme Court in this particular
case, as there is likely to be no appeal before
them for some time. The Savannah clerkship
case has been resolved into an issue of facts in
which negro eligibility is in no wise involved,
and will bo finally disposed of by a jury.
Columbus Passenger Station to be Com-
pleted.—The Sun says the Passenger Station
House, in Columbus, the naked walls of which
have so long stood os a monument to good in
tentions, is at last to be finished. That paper
Bays: Work will commence in a few days. The
originnl plan is to be somewhat altered. In-
eitead of two arches and four tracks there will
be substituted three of the first and the same
number of tracks. When completed, the ap
pearance of the structure will be quite hand
some, and the entire building will have cost $22,-
000. The contract made before the war was for
$14,000. Barringer and Morton are the con
tractors. The expense is bora equally by the
three railroads entering at Columbus. We are
glad this handsome depot is to be finished.
New Postage Stamps.—Tho new series of
postage 6tamps, shortly to be "issued by the
Postoffice Department, will differ fiom previous
ones in size, being smaller, and in respect to
the engravings, which will not, as heretofore,
all be likenesses of public men. The designs
are thus: On the two-cent stamp is an engrav
ing of a postboy on horseback; on the three-
cent, a locomotive under full head of steam; on
tho five-cent stamp, a head of Washington; on
tho ten-cent stamp, a picture of the Declaration
of Independence; on the twelve-cent stamp, an
engraving of an ocean steam-ship, and on the
thirty-cent stamp, the surrender of Burgoyne.
Gen. Grant’s Cabinet.—The Washington
correspondence of the Savannah Republican
says there is very good authority for stating
that, in a conversation with General Grant, the
other evening, at his residence, he remarked
that he had made np his mind upon his Cabinet
appointments, but that as yet, tho persons whom
he should invite to accept positions had been
given no intimations of his intentions. Mrs.
Grant remarked: “That is more than you have
ever told me, General." He answered, “Yes;
more than I have ever told any one yet" A
number of feelers were then thrown out but all
failed to elicit any hints upon the subject
Another Sickles.—Dr. Geo. B. Peters, who
killed Gen. Van Dorn, have recently been united
in the holy bonds of matrimony with his former
wife, from whom ho was divorced in conse
quence of her intimacy, as claimed, with Gen.
Van Dorn, Miss Peters, hia daughter, has, in
consequence, renounced hor design of becoming
a nun.
The Opera.—The Montgomery papers speak
very highly of the Gorman Opera Troupe who
will open in Macon on Thursday, and say their
renditions are very pleasing and effective.
Use of Febtilxzets in Southern Georgia.
The planters of this section are pretty generally,
purchasing guano for tho ensuing crop. This is
as it should be. So jsays the Bainbridge Angus.
S&State Road.— A ^rriter in the Rome Commer
cial suggests the building of a double track
on the State Road, The time will come, if it.
has not already arrived, when this will bo neces-
aary. 1 ’Tl I-’--’
Six Oaks Cotton.—The Thoraasville Enter
prise says:
Mr. John White!, of this county, has sent ns a
sample of the Six pales Cotton which he produced
lost year, and thinks it ajsuporior and valuable
cotton. Some whd planted this cotton pronounce
it a humbug, and;others think it very superior.
When doctors disagree, v,-ho shall docide ?
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bill regulating suffrage, upon which it is said a
majority in both bodies can be got to agree.
Tie committee, however, have not yet report
ed, although they were to report last Friday or
Saturday. We may possibly hear of their report
before going to press, and Senator Hill’s case be
disposed of adversely, although we do not be
lieve it is the desire of the incoming adminis
tration that Senator Hill shall be deprived of
his seat: bntthe Senate did not defer to Gen.
Grant’s wishes in the case of the Tenure-of-of-
fice bill, and may, therefore, very probably fol
low the same course in the matter of Senator
Hill
We printed the Edmund's bill last December
but as the reader may have forgotten its provi
sions, we will add a synopsis. After reciting
the crimes, transgressions and enormities at
tending reconstruction in Georgia, ana de
claring that the State Legislature has violated the
Fourteenth Amendment and the fundamental
conditions upon which Congress consented to
the restoration of the State, the bill goes on to
provide that so much of the acts passed June
26, 1868, as relates to the State of Georgia, and
the military government organized under the
new constitution of Georgia, shall continue in
operation, during the pleasure of Congress, as
provisional only, and the expulsion of the Afri
can members shall be considered null and void.
Sncli members shall resume their seats, their
successors vacating the same, and no person
shall be a member of the Legislature or hold
office under the Provisional Government, who
is ineligible by the terms of the Fourteenth
Amendment. It is further provided that the
Circuit and Districts Courts of the United States
shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the
courts under said Provisional Government, of
all offences and facts, but such United States
Courts shall not proceed therein unless the party
injured, or some one in his behalf, shall make
oath before a Judge or Commissioner that jus
tice cannot be obtained in said Provisional
Court. Finally, it shall be the duty of the
President of the United States to cause to be
stationed in the State such part of the land and
naval forces of the United States as shall be
sufficient to carry the foregoing provision into
effect.
We have little doubt that the foregoing dis
patch to Mr. Forney’s Philadelphia organ may
bo relied upon as developing the actual plan of
the majority in Congress respecting Georgia.
We have, therefore, a breathing spell, till after
the inauguration of General Grant.
The Press says that “General Grant is cer-
tain not to veto the Edmund’s bill” The ex
pression is a peculiar one, and no doubt is true.
Gen. Grant, in all probability, will not take is
sue with his party by vetoing the Edmund’s
bill We have, indeed, as we think, very sat
isfactory reasons for believing that General
Grant docs not approve of any of the schemes to
remand Georgia back under a provisional gov
ernment again; bat to what extent he may
chose to exert his personal influence against
the passage of a bill for that purpose by Con
gress, or how potential that influence may be,
are uncertain.
The praetical suggestions of the situation are
briefly these : If tho Georgia Legislature desire
to avoid the expense, confusion, derangement,
danger and hindrance of the Edmund’s bill, or
a worse measnre, let them go as far as they can
conscientiously to strengthen the hands of Re
publicans who maybe disposed to side with Gen.
Grant on the question. A judicious statesman
ship acts upon affairs as they are, and not as
they ought to be. Where heavy pecuniary losses
stare us inexorably in the face, we compromise
with lighter sacrifices, if possible. That is the
policy of every man of sense, and no one ques
tions it. Why, then, should legislators take
their stand upon points of law, justice, the Con
stitution, etc., when they know that all these are
powerless to defend them or to breast the com
ing storm ?
Teachers of the Poor in Bibb.
The Board of Commissioners, on Saturday
last made the following additional appointments
of teachers authorized to instruct'indigent chil
dren, viz:
Miss Josephine Lane, at Swift Creek near
Davis’ mill.
L. P. McCord, Warrior District
Wiley N. Arnold, Hazzard District
William Y. Howard, Warrior District
To teach poor colored children:
Richard U. Mitchell, Collinsville.
S. H. Robertson, Riley’s, near Laboratory.
John W. Brooks, 2d street Macon.
The Board adjourned to Saturday 23d instant,
when the question of who constitute proper sub
jects of education at the expense of the county
will come np. It appears that loose and latita-
riinariRTi views prevail on this point
The South Carolina Railroad.
The Charleston Cornier, of the 6th, after
comparing reports, comes to the conclusion that
the Sonth Carolina Railroad has maintained its
position since the war better th r- r.’-y main
trunk railway in the South, and from tl - stand
point of tho present, the company can exclaim:
“I have lived”—its reign of terror is not only
over, but it survives, full of hope and strength,
destined, we hope and believe, to work out
great results for both the State and the city.
Tho gross receipts are stated at...§1,204,961 Sl»
Operating expenses. 697,447 40
Net.... $597,514 49
As compared with 1867, there is a deficit of
$16,262 67 in net earnings, a very insignificant
amount when compared with the total figures of
the year.
The Courier compares these returns with
those of four leading roads of the South as fol
lows:
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad Com
pany is as follows:
Gross earnings $1,174,914.13
Operating expenses 830,107.86
Net $344,806.27
And the President in the Annual Report says:
To the general prostration of the business of
the country from various causes, such as political
agitation, short crops, low prices of cotton, etc.,
is attributable the reduced receipts of the Road,
which as compared with the previous year
shows a deficit of $486,698.30, of which $320-
374.C2 stands as the loss in passenger receipts.”
The Georgia Railroad Company shows a fall
ing off of $133,418.20, which the able and ex
perienced President tells ns “ has been almost
exclusively in local fares.”
Tho Western and Atlantic Railroad which is,
as our readers are aware, the great State Road
of Georgia, 6hows for gross earnings
$945,607.24
Expenses 679,287.12
Net $2G6,32012
Which, in the language of tho Superintendent,
“ shows a considerable falling off from the pre
vious year.”
The Central Railroad Company of Georgia
presente for gross earnings $2,008,721.31
Road expenses 1,284,065.10
Net................. $764,891.17
This deficit, from figures of 1867, is $212,-
226.57.
The Southern Georgian.—This paper has
again changed hands, Mr. John E. Hayes hav
ing purchased the material from the proprietors.
We learn that Mr. Hayes will soon start a new
paper, in place of the Georgian, under the name
of the Southern Sun.
A celebrated
Paris received •
necklace oora^
each atone' wri
franc note.
Number in the City.—It is estimated that
icniber of tho demi-monde of ! ? he £ e . are . about hundred colored children
a New Year’s gift an emeirald ! ll °2 lnn l bn3 *, Tbe average attendance on all
;ed of seventy-two emeralds ! , bo f re ®dmen s schools is not much over two
separately wrapped in a I ooo bundrea an d The house built by the
.1 '• rapped m a 1.000 ■ Government is furnished with only 2G4 .W-*
Columbus, Sun. * V - -
The Canal.
The Columbus Enquirer, noticing the propo
sition of “ Georgian” in the Telegraph for a
canal connecting the Tennessee with the Aita-
maha river, suggests another, and, as that paper
thinks, a shorter route as follows:
That is, to start from near the same point on
the Tennessee, say Gunter's Landing, thence
running through Wills’ Valley and along Wills’
Creek for a considerable distance to the Coosa
river. The distance between the two rivers by
this route is probably not more than thirty miles,
and the suggestion of a canal to connect them
at these points is not a new one. The Coosa
river is navigable for some distance below the
point of this connection, and the navigation
thence to Wetumpka. is interruptedby a succes
sion of falls and rapids, there being plenty of
water but for these breaks. It is proposed to
make the Coosa navigable all the way from
Rome, Georgia, to Wetumpka, by a series o
locks and dams, and competent engineers have
recently surveyed it, and pronounced this a
practicable undertaking at a small cost com
mensurate with its advantages. Its consumma
tion seems to be a question of time only. At
Wetumpka or Montgomery, the improvement
would meet and connect with another series of
far-reaching water communications, with Mobile,
Ala., Aberdeen and Columbus, Miss., Tuscaloo
sa and Demopolis, Ala., and New Orleans and
other cities on tbe lower Mississippi, with their
diverse and wide-spread river connections.—
From Wetumpka or Montgomery, the canal
could be made to take a directly easterly course
for Hawkinsville, Ga., running for a consider
able distance along the Tallapoosa river, and
crossing the Chattahoochee at or near the head
of navigation, and the Flint near Lanier, in
Macon county.
The distance from Wetumpka or Montgom
ery to Hawkinsville is not more than 180 miles,
and, with tho 30 miles of canaling between tbe
Tennessee and Coosa rivers, the length of the
canal would not exceed 210 miles, being 80
miles shorter than that proposed by the corres
pondent of the Telegraph. It would not, like
the latter, run through any very elevated coun
try—the highest points to be overcome being
the dividing ridges between the waters of the
Alabama and tbe Chattahoochee, and the wa
ters of the Chattahoochee and Ocmulgee.
[communicated.]
Messrs. Editors : How is it that the President
of the Southwestern Railroad refuses to have an
Agent at No. 1, Southwestern Railroad ? The
citizens of the eastern portion of Houston coun
ty are put to a great deal of trouble by having
to pay for freight before it is shipped; also, to
ran the risk of receiving freight after it is deliv
ered at No. 1. Yesterday morning the yard at
No. 1 was crowded with freight No one to take
charge of the same. Myself and others were
forced to hire a negro to watch our goods and
pay $2 00 apiece for his services.
We wish to know if it is the intention of the
President to force ns to ship our goods to No.
14 or No. 2. If so, we would like to know.
Yours, very respectfully,
J. H. Corwin.
The Fifteenth Constitutional Amendment. —
The special Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette writes as follows to that pa
per in reference to the Fifteenth Negro Suffrage
Constitutional Amendment, recently passed by
the House of Representatives, so-called:
The greatest interest is now manifested in po
litical circles here regarding the newly-proposed
amendment to the Constitution, securing the
right of suffrage to all persons regardless of
color. This choice political blessing was con
ceived and brought forth for the special benefit
of the Southern States, its authors never for a
moment suspecting that tho “rebel States”
would be generous enough to insist upon their
Northern sisters participating with them in the
blessing. The ways of Providence are indeed
mysterious, and it is now for the down-trodden
States of the Sonth to say whether or not ne
groes shall vote in Ohio, contrary to the wishes
of an overwhelming majority of her people.—
Senators are anxiously inquiring of Soutlftm
men how their respective States will probably vote
on the suffrage amendment. “Unquestionably
for it,” is the almost universal answer. This
fact has tended to weaken the prospect of suc
cess for the resolution proposing the amend
ment, as many who favor its passage do so with
the confident belief that the Northern States will
reject the amendment, and no harm be done,
but if it shall appear that the Southern States
are willing to divide the boon of negro suffrage
with their r!cr*h.om sisters, it then becomes a
more serious question, and the rumor among
Senators to-night fo that the proposed amend
ment will be lost.
BT TELEGBAPH.
FROM ATLANTA.
Negro Eligibility in tbe Senate.
House Resolution Adopted.
Ethiopia on the Floor in Strength.
Bills for tho Macon City Election.
Special to the Macon Dailu Telegraph. I
Atlanta, February 8—Night.
Senate—The Senate, this morning, resumed con
sideration of the House resolution referring the
question of the eligibility of negroes to the Supreme
Court.
To this Mr-Speer moved an amendment that each
House will abide by the decision of the question, on
which the previous question had been called, which
was upon the amendment of Mr. Speer.
An unsuccessful effort was made to get the con
sent of Mr. Candler to withdraw his call for the
previous question, many members being desirous to
debate the general proposition.
Mr. Speer asked permission to withdraw his
amendment, but the Chair ruled that consent could
be giTen. as tbe call for the previous question for
bids the privilege.
On a division of the question, the first part of
Mr. Speer’s resolution, referring to tho pledge to
abide by the decision of the Court, was lost by a
vote of yeas 13 ; nays 19. The other portion, re
ferring to the oath to be taken by officers, members
and clerks, also, if they had engaged in the re
bellion, etc., wa3 lost—yeas 12, nays 20.
The original House Resolution was then adopted
—yeas 19, nays 12.
The Republican and Democratic votes were con
siderably divided.
Mr. Merrill gave notice that ho would move to re
consider.
Mr. Adkins succeeded in getting read tho resolu
tion he had formerly introduced to reseat immedi
ately those members who had been expelled on ao-
count of color alone.
Mr. 'Winn raised a point of order that tho same
question had been acted on by the Senate, in re
ferring the matter to the Supremo Court.
The Chair held that the point was not well taken,
as any Senator might introduce such a resolution
at the proper time.
Mr. Adkins intimated that possibly the Senate,
having erred, should bo punished.
This resolution virtually brought up the whole ne
gro eligibility question again.
Mr. Smith of the 7th replied to Mr. Adkins in an
able speech in opposition to negro eligibility. In
the course of his speech ho said he did not believe
the negroes to-day, as a mass, would pretend they
were able to take charge of the Government. He
had conversed with many in the last four months,
and he had not met with more than three in favor of
negro office-holding. Lincoln himself, had no such
intention. Congress could not honestly entertain
the notion of imposing governmental responsibilities
upon the negro in hia present condition. Mr. Smith
favored delay, to act till the colored man is compe
tent for the position. To thrust him into it now, is
to increase the antagonism of races and to endanger
war. The mass of the people desire peace and let
us have it. In spite of the representations made to
Congress, placing ns in a false light, an overwhelm
ing majority of our people were devoted to the arts
and interests of peace, and in favor only of things
which make for peace. His peroration was truly el
oquent.
Sir. Lester moved to postpone Adkins’resolution.
Blotion adopted—yeas 18, nay310. Mr. Adkins gave
notice of hia intention to move a reconsideration.
House.—In the House, Sir. Hall, of Meriwether,
introduced a bill to abolish capital punishment.
Mr. Morgan, a bill vesting the jurisdiction of the
late County Courts in Justices’ Courts.
Two bills were introduced, respectively, by Sir.
Sparks and Sir. Fitzpatrick, to bring on a municipal
election in Macon.
Mr. Sparks’ biH provides that the election shall
take place at the regular time, according to the char
ter; whilst Sir. Fitzpatrick’s bill brings on the elec
tion in April. Both bills require a registration of
the voters.
Sir. Hall, of Sleriwether, introduced a bill legal
izing the collection of any rate of interest which
may be agreed on.
Sir. Hall made an earnest appeal in favor of his
bill, declaring that what Georgia needed was capi
tal, and that the laws of supply and demand should
apply to money as well as to other commodities.
Messrs. O’Neal and Anderson opposed the bill,
and pending its consideration the House adjourned.
Sir. Hudson, of Harris, having the floor. Sir.
Sparks also supported the bill in a few appropriate
remarks.
The Charleston Phosphntes.
The New York Evening Post commenting on
Ashley and Cooper river mineral phosphates
and the cost of adapting them to the use of a
fertilizer, has the following:
It is not unreasonable to expect that, just as
ships from every part of the civilized world have
flocked to tho Chincha Islands in search of Pe
ruvian Guano, so will they before long crowd
the wharves of Charleston in quest of that ele
ment of guano found there which ha3 the most
lasting value. This long hidden source of
wealth cannot foil to draw to this port the enter
prise and capital necessary for its regeneration,
and for the establishment of permanent pros
perity. A company in Charleston, which is now
aged in tho preparation of a fertilizer of
which the phosphates are the chief constituent,
find a ready market at $60 per ton for this pro
duct. The cost of a ton of 2,000 pounds, as
they prepare it, is thus divided; 1,400 pounds
crude phosphate, $5.60; 400 pounds sulphuric
acid, $12; 200 pounds ground animal refuse,
$1.50—total cost of material $19.10 The cost
of manipulation may carry the entire outlay to
$25, which leaves a very wide margin for an in
crease in the cost of the phosphate. Either su
perphosphate of lime must become much cheap
er, in consequence of this discovery, or the
owners of the phosphate lands must become ra
pidly rich, for it is impossible that so large a
profit as $35 per ton can long be made in a man
ufacture in which there is no monopoly.
A New Boole by an Old Author.
Some twenty-five years ago a book made its
appearance in this country—first published, we
believe, at Knoxville, * Tennessee, entitled
“Gunn’s Domestic Medicine, "which soon passed
through several editions, until within a few
years its scale roached the enormous extent of
over a hundred thousand copies. The renowned
author of that book, Dr. John C. Gunn, is still
alive, and has given to the world a new work on
“Domestic Medicine,” somewhat after the plan
of the old one, bnt much larger. He baa de
voted several years to the preparation of his
new book, discarding from me medical depart
ment what time and experience have shown to
be useless or injurious, and incorporating the
latest improvements and new remedies. The
work is entitled “Gunn’s New Domestic Physi
cian, or Home Book of Health,”—a very hand
some and appropriate title. Altogether it
seems to be an admirable work; such as every
family should have on han^, for consultation
and reference. It may often be the means of
avoiding sickness, or a doctor’s bill and may
save life. The work is written expressly for
the people; its author is an old and well-known
physician, having practiced medicine near for
ty years ; its style is chaste, beautiful, and so
plain that all who con read can understand it
This book is for sale bv S. M. Tooke, general
agent, now canvassing the city of Macon.
The crop of California raisins this year will
be insignificant.
Mr. and Sirs. Howard Paul will be in this
country in March. . '
From Washington
Washington, February 8.—The Supreme Court
has affirmed the decision of the Court of Oregon,
requiring taxes to be paid in gold and silver. The
Court hold3 that taxes are not in the nature, of a
debt or contract, and therefore the legal tender
law don’t affect taxes.
Revenue to-day $500,000.
Sirs. Surratt’s remains were delivered quietly to
her family to-dav.
Hon. E. J. Stafford, one of the Judges of the
Supreme Court of Blississippi, presented, to-day. an
address to the Reconstruction Committee in behalf
of himself and others, claiming to represent a large
and influential part of the Republican party, who
opposed the adoption of the Constitution voted upon
in June last. The address is in the nature of a pro
test and is a discussion of the condition of affairs in
tho State. He proposes a plan of restoration as
follows: First, That Congress shall declare all the
offices in the State vacant. Second, Provides for
tho appointment of a Provisional Governor, with
power to fill all the offices, thus declared vacant;
with power, also, to remove from office his own ap
pointees. Third, Provide that tho proposed Con
stitution shall be so modified, or amended, as to
remove from it those features that are more pro
scriptive than is required by the Reconstruction laws
of Congress. Fourth, Provide for an election
at the time designate' by the proposed Constitution
for holding the ant. . election for the ratification
of the Constitution, as amended for the election of
all State, county and municipal officers.
The President, to-day, made some additional con-
snlar and naval nominations.
Washington, February 7 Senator McCmeiy and
others had an interview with Evarts yesterday re
garding tho release of Lieut. Braine, of the Confed
erate Navy. Evarts doubts whether Braine’e case
comes within the President’s amnesty: bnt listened
favorably to the appeals for mercy.
Recent utterances and votes of Speaker Colfax in
dicate a liberal feeling towards tho Southern people;
both regarding political and property rights.
Delegates to the Southern Press Convention on
tho 17th inst.. will he entertained by tho Mobile
Board of Trade. Several railroads have tendered
complimentary passes to editors to and from Mobile.
the oyster trade from the Virginia laws ae modified
by Gen. Schofield.
The House went into Committee of the Whole,
and then took reoesa.
General News.
Columbus, February 6.—The Southern Press Con
vention will meet in Mobile, Ala., on Wednesday,
17th day of February. A B. Lamar.
President Southern Press Association.
From Cuba.
Havana, February 7,—Salnave has destroyed two
and captured another town in San Domingo. The
inhabitants at Aux Cays and vicinity are panic
stricken. Many are escaping to Jamaica.
Foreign News.
London, February 8.—The news from Greece is
contradictory. The latest dispatches say that Zai-
mis has formed a ministry, and peace is assured.
The reported battle between the Turks and Mon
tenegrins is authoritatively denied.
marine News.
Savannah, February 8. — Arrived, yesterday,
steamship St. Petersburg, Leith, Scotland; schooner
Edward Slade, Baltimore. Arrived to-day, steamer
Herman Livingston, New York; Fannie, Baltimore;
steam packet Cricket, New York.
Wilmington, February 8.—The schooner John
Griffin, Capt. Foster, loaded with sugar and molas
ses, bound from Sagua la Grande to Philadelphia,
experienced a heavy gale on the 3d, and was struck
by a water-spout, carrying away her rudder irons,
wheel, ropes, eta
Congressional.
Washington, February 8.—Senate.—The Rail
road Committee have asked to;be discharged from
the further consideration of various propositions
for aid, the Omnibus bill reported on Saturday
covering all meritorious schemes now presented.
After the proceedings reported at noon, the Con
stitutional amendment was resumed and discussed
all day, which was only suspended to allow a vote
in Edmunds’ resolution, regarding Georgia’s elec
toral vote, which passed by 34 to 11. This reso
lution provides that, in declaring the vote, two re
sults shall be announced—one counting and tho
other omitting Georgia’s vote. Tins leaves the Geor
gia question open.
House—The House is considering the change in
tho election of Congressmen.
Tbe Reconstruction Committee did nothing to
day. The Election Committee ditto.
Under the regular call the following bills were in
troduced : For regulating the fur trade; for en
couraging the building of steamships; a hill relating
to the rights of the loyalists of Alabama; for au
thorizing the President to appoints committee-to
revise the tariff: for granting a right of way
to the Memphis, Elp&so and Pacific Railroad;
for granting lands to the New Orleans and Selma
Railroad: a bill in regard to inauguration associa
tions ; and three bills regarding naturalization.
Eldridge asked to select a committee to investi
gate the outrages of the Arkansas militia riots. Ob
jected to.
Tl'.e copper tariff bill, as amended by the Senate,
was passed by a vot e of 127 ayes 56 nays.
A petition was presented asking for protection for
Tho Row at the Tacon Theatre.
The Havana correspondent of tbe New York
World gives the following account of the late
political row at the Tacon Theatre, Havana
At 8, p. m., the performances commenced,
and every allusion indirectly favorable to Cuba
was loudly applauded, and at about 10:15 some
of the remarks of the actors had created
such an enthusiasm in the audience that
the attendant noise, within the theatre, be
came so great as to prevent anything to be heard
that was said upon the stage. At this time
some one rose and shouted ‘'Viva Cuba! Viva
Cespedes!" which shout was repeated by a
couple of persons on the outside of the hall,
drinking and talking at the bar of the theatre.
The officer in command of the troops detailed to
S reserve order, inteiposed to hush these visas,
at tiie existing confusion prevented his being
heard. With a view of restoring qniet, he or
dered his men to fire in the air, which was done.
This caused the volunteers who had been
prowling in the neighborhood to hurry up to
the theatre, and without orders they began
firing upon the bnilding, while many, more
reckless and murderous than their companions,
forced their way into the hall and fired upon the
unarmed audience (composed of women and
children, as well as men] and some even went
so far as to use their bayonets.. Over 250
shots were thus fired at the outside of tho the
atre, and some fifty within upon the audience,
before the officer and troops on duty could suc
ceed in getting the volunteers to* cease their
murderous proceedings, and allow the people at
the theatre to retire to their homes. By this firing
five persons were killed outright, and twenty-one
wounded, including a Spanish lady severely, a
young girl of eleven dangerously, and an actress
slightly hurt. The Spanish lady and three more
of the wounded have since died of their injuries.
After all citizens unhurt were gone from the
neighborhood of the theatre, the volunteers
amused themselves in yelling and shouting
around the building, and the silly miscreants
even went so far as to give nine groans to the
American flag, that, with two others, were flying
upon the bnilding. After this they dispersed,
some returning horns and others perambulating
through the city during the greater part of the
night in groups of four, five and six.
The affair at the theatre, very naturally, at
once, created great excitement throughout the
city, and led within a few hours to several en
counters between parties of Cubans and the vol
unteers, principally along the Prado. As far as
I can ascertain, one volunteer and two citizens
were killed in these, and two volunteers, one
watchman and three citizens wounded. On Sat
urday, some two hundred different sqnads of
volunteers, generally six in a squad, patrolled
the city the whole # day upon their own
volition, with loaded guns, rarely an officer being
seen with them, and he never higher in rank
than captain. By this overbearing conduct,
and by the arbitrariness in arresting parties
without cause, and in grossly insulting all those,
whether Spaniards, Cubans, or foreigners, who
would not join them in shouting “ X'ita Espa-
na!” the volunteers brought about numerous
difficulties, and it is surprising that the casual
ties for the day only foot np one citizen killed,
two volnnteors and two citizens wounded.
During the whole of Saturday night these
self-selected patrolmen walked the streets
of Havana, but very fortunately killed only
one man, and wounded two. Sunday being a day
of rest should have witnessed a cessation of
these murdering patrols, but such was not the
case. On tho contrary, the unauthorized patrol
squads were trebled in number, and the conduct
of the volunteers throughout the day was even
more abusive and tyrannical than on Saturday.
Fortunately, occasional showers of rain kept
very many persons in doors, and thus gave them
fewer opportunities for the exercise of their ar
bitrariness than they would otherwise have had.
It is rather difficult to say what were the casual
ties for the day, but as far as I can learn they
amounted to one citizen and an artilleryman
killed, two volunteers and four citizens wounded.
State Road Management.
The Columbus Enquirer, whose opinion oa
the existing management of our great State work
we oopied some days ago, and which some have
thought proper to question, returns to the sub
ject in its issue of Thursday and gives a com
parative statement of the receipts, expenditures
and net profits for several years together, in
proof of its statement that the report of its
operations for the past year should not be satis
factory to the Legislature. It says:
We are now enabled to make a comparison of
the proportionate raeeipts and expenditures of
several late years, and show what relation the
expenses and profits have borne to the gross
earnings.
1359—from 30th Sept, 1858, to 80th Sept, 1859:
Gross income $832,43 303
Working expenses 377,081 50
Net $454,541 53
Ratio of expenses to receipts, about 45 per
cent
1860— from 80th Sept., 1859, to 80th Sept 1860:
Gross income $835,919 55
Working expenses. 419,464 95
Net..... 8417,454 60
■ Ratio of expenses to receipts, about 50 per
cent
1861— from SOtb Sept. 1860, to 30th Sept, 1861:
Gross income $892,436 39
Working expenses! 339,858 43
Net..... $552,577 97
Ratio of expenses to receipts, about 88 per cent.
1867—from 30th September, 1866, to 30th Septem
ber, 1867:
Gross income $1,273,161 28
Working expenses 685,462 22
Not $587,629 13
Ratio of expenses to receipts, about 54 per cent.
1863—from 30th September, I897, to 30th Septem
ber, 1868:
Gross income $943,607 24
Working expenses 655,236 51
Fet $288,367 73
Ratio of expenses to receipts, abont 70 per cent.
Every reader will see at one glance that the
administration of 1868, figures very disadvan-
tageously in the above comparison. With re
ceipts larger than those of 1859, I860 and >1861,
its net earnings were not half as much as their
average, and its ratio of expenses to receipts
ran up to seventy per cent, while theirs was on
ly forty-four per cent. As compared with 1867,
it incurred very nearly as great expense in do
ing $643,607 worth of business as was incurred
in 1867 in doing $1,27^171 worth, and its net
earnings again fell sfcort of half as much as
those of 1867.
The reason why the road did not pay a large
sum into the treasury in 1867, was that it had
in that year to incur “ extraordinary expenses"
and satisfy old claims to the amount of $450,
000.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Saturday, February 6,1869
In the Senate, we see little or nothing in the
Atlanta reports to add to our special telegraphic
report After the ineffectual attempt £0 recon
aider the labor contest bin, the Senate took up
the House eligibility resolution, which, we see la
as follows: ’
Resolved, That the case involving the right ol
colored men to hold office in Georgia be
to the Supreme Court ^
Gen. Grant on Universal Suffrage and
tbe South.
Tho following is from the Washington corres
pondence of the Savannah Republican:
Washington, D. C., Feb. 3, 1869.
Gen. Grant, in conversation yesterday morn
ing, took square ground in favor of Impartial
suffrage. He seemed to have some doubt about
the power of Congress to regulate suffrage by
law, but said there could be no sound objection
to submitting a Constitutional amendment to
tbe people. He speaks of the one passed by the
House on Saturday last as embodying the right
idea, but expressed no opinion on the language
therein chosen. He said explicitly that the prin
ciple of impartial suffrage is right in itself, and
added that as wo have, through reconstruction
acts, imposed negro suffrage on the South, it is
only fair that the Northern States should give
the ballot to their oum colored citizens. - The
General is emphatic in the expression of his
opinion on the question, and thinks that it had
better be disposed of as soon as possible soasto
take a disturbing element out of our affairs, and
he expressed the hope that the amendment
would be passed by Congress before the end of
the present session.
If Gen. Grant has a proper regard (and I be
lieve bo has) for consistency, the Sonuern peo-
plejwill in some manner be benefited by a change
in the occupants of the White House, for tho
reason that while Mr. Johnson is powerless to
help them in view of his difficulties with the
Radical party in Congress, yet Gen. Grant, hav
ing the confidence of all the Conservative mem
bers of both Houses, and will be supported in
all constitutional acts by tho Democrats, can, if
he is so dsiposed, contribute largely by his in
fluence and his acts towards restoring that peace
and quiet throughout the Southern States so
earnestly desired by everv right thinking mind.
Gentlemen of high standing from the South
who have had frequent conversations with the
President elect, express themselves as satisfied
with his vie#S in regard to the reconstruction of
the Southern States, together with the questions
of suffrage and amnesty. These gentlemen say
that they are going home perfectly satisfied that
Grant will do all that he can for the benefit of
the whole country and in a direct constitutional
manner. What I consider as the best evidence
of Grant’s kind disposition towards the South,
is the fact that all the carpet-baggers and scala
wags have commenced to abuse him in a manner
peculiar to men of their ilk; they begin to real
ize the (to them) startling fact, that with a bold,
daring and honest executive their chances for a
new lease of political pow^r are indeed verysliin.
CouNTiNO the Presidential Vote.—The Presi
dential vote will be counted on Wednesday, the
10th day of February instant, atone o’clackin
the chamber of the House of Reprerentatives,
in the presence of the Senate, with the President
of the Senate in the Chair. The Senate selects
one teller, and the House two. The presiding
officer (Mr. Wade) opens the envelopes, arid
reads the vote, and the tellers record ft. Ob
jection can be made by any member of either
House to the counting of the vote of any State,
and in that case the Senate will retire to its own
Chamber, and each House will vote seperately
upon the question of the reception of the vote
of such State, and without debate. This is the
provision of the joint rule of the two Houses on
this subject.
Peeler Cotton.
From the Atlanta Constitution.]
In the columns of your valuable issue of the
3d ultimo, my attention has been attracted by
an extract from the Griffin Star, headed, “Beat
this if you can,” in which the following some
what extraordinary language oocurs: “Much
has been said through the papers of the Peeler,
and other varieties of long staple cottons, but
we have yet to learn that any of these have been
sold in any Southern market for more than 35
cents a pound, except the Threskin cotton, etc.”
Though a grower of the Peeler cotton, and to
some extent interested in the sale of its seed,
yet this consideration alone would not have
prompted me to respond to the above; bnt aside
from any selfish considerations, the great agricul
tural and commercial interests of the country—
now just beginning the straggle to free itself
from the slough of bankruptcy and despond in
to which it had fallen, demands in the most im
perative manner, that truth should be* elicited
upon every subject of this character; that the
planter’s energy and industry should be concen
trated upon that variety of our great staple,
which experience proves will be most remuner
ative to mm, and add to the general wealth and
prosperity of the South, now just again begin
ning to claim her agricultural superiority over
the world.
I have nothing to say abont other varieties of
cotton, nowrecommended to the planters of your
State, more than if experience teaches that
their cultnre, on account of superiority of staple
and abundance of yield, is most profitable, then
every consideration of justice and interest re
quires that we should render them that praise
which is due. As to the snperiority of the sta
ple of the various varieties of the cotton now
offered to the planters, I know of but one in
stance where their respective merits have been
fnlly investigated and compared by competent
and disinterested authorities, and that was at
the State Fair at Montgomery, Ala., some two
months ago, where every variety of superior
cotton was on exhibition; and the result of the
comparison can be seen at Messrs. Pratt & Ed
wards’. in the shape of the medal awarded the
“ Peeler Cotton." As to what price this cotton
brings in the various cotton marts, I hold let
ters of Messrs. Foster, Gwyn & Co., cotton fac
tors of Now York, that they had sold the “Peeler
Cotton” there this season at fifty-seven cents per
pound. I hold account sales from the same par
ties at forty-two cents. I hold account of sales
from Messrs. Rust, Johnson & Locket, at Savan
nah, at forty-five cents. I hold account sales of
the last picking of our crop, (necessarily an infe
rior grade of cotton,) made at New Orleans at
thirty-five cents, when other varieties of same
grade were bringing twenty-one-and-a-half cents.
With the “Peeler Cotton," it is not occasionally
that, on' account of superior handling, that a
bale is sold at a greatly enhanced price; bnt out
of the two thousand bales sent to market this
season, I have yet to learn that one has been
sold for less than ten cents per pound more than
other varieties of ordinary cotton. But superi
ority of staple and price alone, is not what the
planter demands, Mr. Editor. This has been
discovered long since, in countless varieties of
cotton. But the next question of no less im
portance than this is—Is it a prolific cotton?
If it does not possess this element, it maybe no
more valuable to tbe planter than our ordinary
growth. For an answer to this question, which
so much interests us aU, let the planter at once
open a correspondence with any New Orleans
merchant acquainted with the growth of the
“Peeler Cotton,” for they are acquainted with
every feature of this cotton. It is two months
before tbe seed are to be put into tbe ground,
and ample time is given to investigate folly, so
that there can be no necessity for beingdeceived
about this cotton in any particular.
Mr. Editor, let every planter straggle with the
other, with the proper manly feeling for emula
tion only—rising above any unworthy prejudioe,
bnt determined to award merit where merit is
due—having no wish to detract from that which
tends to build up the scorched and wasted places
of the South. We should turn to everything
which looks to our agricultural interest with ad
miration, and to him who advances it as a pub
lic-benefactor. Who is it that does not honor
Georgia’s great agriculturalist, David Dixon?
He is an honor and an ornament to yonr State,
and should be cherished with pride and grati
tude by her people—for he has successfully rev
olutionized the old and suicidal system of agri
culture, and done more, perhaps, than any one
man toward putting the South once more upon the
high road to agricultural and commercial pros
perity. H. R. Ware.
This resolution under the failure to sustain
the call for the previous question would oobm
np again Monday.
HOUSE BILLS FIRST BEADING.
To provide for holding municipal elections in
Columbus and Milledgeville.
To create Commissioners of Roads and Rev.
ennes in each county.
To make it a penal offence to hunt with fir?
or dogs on the lands of others, without the per.
mission of owners, in Gwinnett, Dekalb ard
other counties.
To incorporate the Desotah Manufactnrinn
Company at Rome. • °
To relieve W. Johnson and Son, and 6. j
Lewis, of Upson county, from payment oftaies
in 1868.
To change time of holding Superior Court in
Southern Judicial Circuit.
To relieve from jury duty certain member of
Watchful Fire Company, at Cuthbert.
To carry into effect the second section of tie
5th article of the Constitution.
To authorize the Ordinary of Fulton county
to issue bonds to meet outstanding claims.
SENATE BILLS FIRST READING.
Mr. Wooten—To give Ordinaries concurrent
jurisdiction with Judges of Superior Courts, in
foreclosing mortgages on personal property, and
in anfrirninct lintie nn Arnrva.
in enforcing liens on crops.
Mr. Winn—To fix the per diem of members
of the General Assembly, officers and clerks, at
$5 per day, without extra compensation.
BILLS ON SECOND BEADING.
To amend the act incorporating LaFavette
Committed.
To incorporate the Georgia Guano Importing
Company. Committed.
To authorize the Governor to draw a warrant
in favor of John Jones, lato Treasurer. Refer-
red to the Finance Committee. •
To declare buying and selling cotton in tie
seed a misdemeanor. Referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
To repeal the act appointing Commissioners
of Roads and Bridges in Muscogee. Committed
To authorize J. J. Everett to settle with his
ward, C. E. Platt. Committed.
To explain the act for collection of taxes for
1868. Referred to the Finance Committee. *
To amend section 3496 of the Code. Referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
To incorporate the Atlanta Manufacturing
Company. Referred to Committee on Manufac-
tures.
To increase fees of J. L. Howell Constable.
Lumpkin county. Referred to Judiciary Com
mittee. ’ «
To relieve J. B. S. Davis of double taxes fer
186 r. Committed.
To amend act incorporating the Gas Light
Companies in Augusta and Savannah. Commit
ted.
BILLS ON THIRD BEADING.
To authorize the Governor to draw a warrant
in favor of Cobb and Byrd & Cobb, for artificial
limbs furnished to maimed soldiers. Report of
Judiciary Committee recommending its passage,
agreed to. Bill passed and transmitted to tbe
House.
To amend the charter of the Macon and West
ern Railroad. Report of the Committee on In
ternal Improvements agreed to, and the bill
passed and was transmitted to the House.
To consolidate the Charlotte and South Caro
lina and Columbia and Augusta Railroads. Re
port of the Committee on Internal Improve
ments agreed to and the bill passed, and was
transmitted to the. House.
To perfect service on the Nashville and Chat
tanooga Railroad Company. Report of the"Ju
diciary Committee was agreed to, and the bill
passed, and ordered to be transmitted to the
House.
To incorporate the Atlanta Cotton Factory
Company. The report of the Committee on In
ternal Improvements agreed to, bill passed, and
transmitted to the House.
House bill to amend act incorporating the
town of Lumpkin. Passed. Also, to exempt
from jury and militia duty certain members of
Wide Awake Fire Company, of Americus.-
Passed.
In the Senate, Mr. Harper, of Terrell, morel
to reconsider the bill passed yesterday repeating
the act relative to collecting tax in Muscogee
county, to pay insolvent criminal costs. Mr.
Harper sustained his motion by a few very per
tinent remarks in his usually energetic and forci
ble style.
Mr. Grimes opposed reconsideration. Saying
he was but the servant of his constituents, that
he had already introduced this bill in deference
to their wishes—said the act proposed to be re
pealed was a snap judgment taken upon hi>
county, etc. He considered the tax levied upon
his county, by the Act which this bill seeks to
repeal was nnjust and onerous.
Mr. Bcthune also favored reconsideration.
Mr. Saussey opposed reconsideration."
Mr. Lee called the previous question, which
being sustained, the motion to reconsider pre
vailed.
A communication from David W. Lewis, Sec
retary of the State Agricultural Society, was
referred to the Committee on Agriculture and
Internal Improvements.
A resolution was adopted requesting Hon. D.
W. Lewis to address the General Assembly on
Monday evening next, and the Hall of the Horse
was tendered to him on the occasion.
A Senate resolution appointing c commute-
on the Memorial of Mrs. J. E. M.telu-IL wuscoa*
curred in.
A number of bills wore read the tlirdtimeand
lost. The following passed:
To change (he time of holding the Superb
Court in the counties of Columbia, Washington
and Emannel. Passed.
For the relief of A. Worrell Treasurer of Ip-
son county. Passed.
To change the time of holding Superior Courts
in Cherokee county. Passed. .
To authorize notaries public to appoint pah&
prosecutors. Passed.
Mr. Anderson offered a resolution appointing
joint committee to examine into the business of
both Houses with a view to an early adjourn
ment—specifying an early day for a sine (lie tl-
jourment.
Mr. O’Neal moved to adjourn this day, sinedit
Ruled out of order.
Resolution was then adopted.
The American Farmer.
The February number of this admirable ag-
Save the Dead Leaves.
If every horticulturist and farmer would think
for a moment on the nature of fallen lesres--
which contain not only the vegetable matter, bnt
the earthy salts, lime, potash, etc., needed for
the next season’s growth and fertility—andth 3t -
too, exactly in the proportion required by the
very tree and plant from which they fall—rtj-
more, if they would consider that it is exactly in
this way, by tbe decomposition of these to?
ricnltural magazine has been received. We clip fallen leaves, that nature enriches the soil, yeN
from its well-stored columns this excellent ad- j after year, in her great forces, it would hard?
vice: j be possible for such a reflecting horticulturist or
Mr. Charles Dickens, in a recent number of; farmer to allow these leaves to be swept awnj
his paper, (All the Year Round,) says: “The b Y every wind that blows, and finally lost alto-
part of the holding of a farmer or land owner 1 gether. Nor would he give them away, asmaoy
which pays best for cultivation is the small es-1 uow do. He would rather collect, from week >o
tate within the ring fence of his skulL Let him i 'week, the leaves that fail under each tree,
begin with tho right tillage of his brains, and it b y digging them under the soil about the roo»
shall be well with his grains, roots, herbage and ‘ ^
Via shall f Vl UP nfi aa with omana a * re a nnn*
Minnesota exported
wheat last pear.
8,894,121 bushels of
he shall thrive. ‘Practice with science,’ is now
the adopted motto of the Royal Agricultural So
ciety."
It must be allowed that no one should know
better than Mr. Dickena the money value of
brains. He took home, from a few months har
vest, in Yankeedom, a hundred thousand dollars
or so of gold, the price of the brain work of one
small head. t
There is sure profit in brains well used. The
talk abont farming being unprofitable, and
country life stupid and uninteresting, is the
merest nonsense. Farming is profitable where
brains are rightly used upon it, and where the
contrary is the case, there is either want of
brains or want of their proper application. If a
man has a head, and it is not a good one for
farming, let him torn it to some other purpose,
for brains will surely tell somewhere. If he has
none, or only an indifferent good one, let liim
admit that fact, and not make ft more apparent,
by insisting that there is no profit in farming.
There is profit enough to gratify a reasonable,
that is, a moderate desire for wealth. Those
who make haste to be rich go to cities, and make
haste more commonly to their ruin. But there
is moderate profit on the farm for the mere hand
labor of a diligent young man, and increasing
profit, in exact proportion to his increasing
knowledge of his business and the prudence and
judgment with which he applies that knowledge.
Bell Boyd drew a dagger on her Texas Man
ager.
Where they will decay, provide in the cheap^j
manner possible food for that tree. If this
should be tried we should not see orchards dy
ing out for want of nourishment; but they
would, in this simple manner, receive all the en
riching they require. Pear trees, and doubtless
the peach, would be greatly benefltted by tD 3
procedure. .
In certain vineyards in France and Italy tt*
vines are kept in the highest condition by sup
ply burying at their roots every loaf and branca
that is cut off, or falls from the vines at the close
of the season. Will not some of our fanners 0
inquiring minds give this simple process a tfl*
this reason.—Springfield Rep.
It is told of Billy Hibbard, the Method^,
that once when roll was called in the confer
ence, hia name was read “William.” He K*
at once, and objected, saying that his n*®*
was not William—it was BUly. “But,Bn>th e
Hibbard, ’ ’ pleaded Bishop Aahbury, ‘ ‘Billy »
little boy’s name!” “Yes, Bishop,” was
quick reply, “and I was a little boy when
father gave it to me! ”
That Ball.—There has been a merger
of®
committee of private citizens into "the geue* 1
Republican Committee on the inauguratw
ball Messrs. Mullett, Supervising Archive ■
Mayor Bowen, and sere ml other officials *
a .1J . J A— ll. -■ -— nl ■ . Aful HOV
added to the original committee, and^now^
parties are satisfied, and the ball goes on- - „
preparations indicate one of tho grandest 0*
inauguration balls in our history.
in
MBBSH
as SHES8
