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-jcm-gfo Msiyklg Qljeifrgsapt* J^ucnal & 3fE»jsueomg£c* Ctlcgrnpji anil Jtotngtr FRIDAY, APRIIi 2:1, 18=0 —In order to encourage liis young war- riors, Sitting Bull lias announced that each one of them may have a wife for every white person’s scalp he brings in. That beats all the booms yet invented. —Queen Victoria sailed from England to visit the tomb of her daughter, the Princess Alice, in Germany, on the same day that the ex-Empress Eugenie sailed to visit the place in Africa where her son fell. —Here is a small triumph for Mr. Dar win:—“Why, my dear,” said a lady to her friend, “where did you get that beau tiful monkey?” “Oh!” was the reply, “my husband travels a great deal, you know, and he gave me the monkey that I might not forget him in his absence.” —A physician was called upon the other day to answer in court to a complaint about one of his prescriptions. This is quite an unusual occurrence, but society rightly demands that when a kiss is the dose administered, as in the case in ques tion, there must be ample proof that the malady requires exactly such treatment. —The Australians do not take kindly to the polygamic idea. One of the Salt Lake priests who has just returned from a proselyting visit to the big island states that four attempts were made there to murder him, and the Salt Lake Tribune is abusing the Australians for their poor marksmanship. —One of the English election phrases tor which there is no equivalent in the United States is “plumping.” Wherever a constituency returns two members, each voter can give one vote each to any two candidates, but he can not give his two votes to auy one candidate. If he chooses he can give one vote to only one candi date, and this is termed “plumping.” —Four dime novel heroes,-all under 12 years of age, started from Benedict farms, Connecticut, on a campaign, arm ed with a revolver and a butcher knife. In the outskirts of Westport they built a hut, and set out on a foraging expedition. An old hen was successfully chased, but unluckily the owner pounced upor the boys, had them arrested, and they * ere fined each $7 and costs, which thei pa rents paid. —The stalwarts are evidently gr wing shaky as well as scary. They seem to be losing confidence in their drill. Not only is the youthful scratchcr abroad this year, hut there is such a change of base among the veteran politicians that it will take some time to ascertain definitely who is for who. Thus, cx-Secretary Robeson, who was considered the right bower of Grant’s administration, is this year “agin him,” while General N. P. Banks, who was an ardent Greeley man in 1872, is now for Grant. ,,, —The lion of Paris during the past week has been Captain Nordenskjold, the Swedish Arctic explorer. He has been feasted by the city and by the President of the Republic, and has been presented with gold medals, citizenships, eulogies and homage or all kinds. Being a man of great sense and intensely practical, he is profoundly bored by the honors heaped upon him, but he proposes to make an other expedition in four years from now, and will probably expect his entertainers to sho.w their appreciation of his work in the only way he cares for, by contributing to the enterprise to which he has devoted his life. Hillsboro, TexAs, April 11.—A me teor, so brilliant as to be visible- in the day time, exploded in Hill county and fell in fragments like halls of fire. ' A Mr. Wilson stated that a ball of fire wa3 seen falling, and was also seen to hit the earth on his premises. It was dug out and proved to have gone five or six feet in the ground, and was as large as a man’s head. In tire same neighborhood anoth er fragment of what is supposed to be the same meteor was seen to fall on the same day. From what we have been able to learn, this occurrence took place a few days since in open .daytime and near Richland Creek, in Hill county,, . —There used to be a member of Con gress from Vermont named Poland, who liked his glasses of whisky. He went out to Maine one campaign to take the stump and the liquor prohibition there made it fashionable.for the stump orators to think milk when speaking. They used to have the milk in mugs on the stand, but some of Judge Poland’s friends knew what he liked and put two mugs of- whisky on the table. From his seat he supposed the mugs contained milk and he didn’t par ticularly notice them when he began to speak till he felt thirsty. Then lie pieked up a mug and drained it dry. with a do* lighted expression, and as he set it down gave the whole thing away by exclaiming -“Ye gods, what a cowl” The Why of a Novel.—A great many good people write novels every day, and mean no barm. They have experi ences, information and the means .of ex pression; why should they-not make a book out of the combination?. Who can say that a man may not pick up a dia mond worth jE10,000 the next time he walks down the strand? A man may know that he is a genius; but how can a man know that he is a genius until he has proved it? It might be. answered thatj al though it may be supremely worthwhile to know that we are geniuses, jtis.intense- ly not worth while to prove that, we are not. ... 1 -i —The proprietor of what is still from force of habit spoken pf as the leading English journal keeps his seat in Parlia ment notwithstanding his close affiliations with the Conservatives....Never has; that journal been more unfortunate in antici pating the verdict of the constituencies at large than during the last half of Lord Beaconsfield’s administration. The pop ular uprising when the. Bulgarian out rages were dinned into the ears of En glishmen opened its eyes for a season, but subsequently it gave the government support so undiscriminating that rumors have frequently been in circulation ; to the effect that Mr. Walter was to bo raised to the Peerage. He was too stuiJy and senst ble an Englishman to be bribed in that coarse yyay. His only political ambition seems to be to represent Berkshire so long ashe lives. - • m * l.vjr.frta Declines Unequivocally.—Mr. Sey mour said last week to Mr. Theodore Cook, a,Democrat from Cincinnati, that “under ; no circumstances could I accept nomination. My age and health both forbid it; but, even if these were not the way, I am not the man to perfectly unite and harmonize the party. I trust my friends and the party all over the country will have no question as to my sincerity in this expression.” Personal—Judge Field in the Pres idential King. We had a pleasant visit yesterday from Hon. John E. Ward, who is on' a visit to his friends and kindred in this State. Mr. Ward is a native of Liberty county, Georgia, and received his early education at the old Sunbury Academy. Attaining to his majority he removed to Savannah and entered the law office of Judge Mat thew Hall McAllister, afterwards becom ing associated with him as a legal partner. For many yearn he continued to make that city his home, several times repre senting Chatham in the Legislature and standing at the very head of his profes sion. In criminal cases before a jury he had few superiors, while as a stump ora tor he never failed to carry the crowd with him. During the administration of Pres ident Pierce Mr. Ward was sent as Uni ted States Ambassador to the Chinese Empire, and was on board Commodore Tatnall’s flag ship, at the memorable British engagement at the mouth of the Peiho river. It was there that Tatnall, when he perceived the danger of the Eng lish fleet, uttered the famous words, “blood is thicker than water,” and at once plunged into the thickest of the fight. Since the war Mr. Ward, who married a Boston lady, has pursued his profession in New York, abstaining from all con nection with politics and doing a lucra tive practice. Time has dealt tenderly with him, and he retains all the vivacity *and bonhomie of former days. WHAT RE SAYS OF TILDEN. The conversation turning upon the Presidential chances of the sage of Gram- mercy Park, Mr. Ward who was once a strong supporter of Tilden, declared that the sentiments of a majority of the people of New York was utterly opposed to his re-nomination. As to the proposed af filiation of the Tammany and anti-Tam- many factions, he was quite positive that there could bo no hearty union and co operation between them unless Mr. Tilden unequivocally retired from the contest. That he will do this is very doubtful A BOOM FOB JUSTICE FIELD. On the other hand, it was stated that there is a strong and growing feeling" at the North in favor of the candidacy of Judge Field, of the U.S. Supreme Court. The total disconnection of that distin guished gentleman from politics, his manly and unswerving course when a member of the High Commission, which by a vote of 8 to 7, counted out the right ful President elect, his late able dissent the iniquitous decision of a majority of his Radical associates on the Supreme bench, on the negro jury question, which was a practical subversion -of our State courts, and his opposition throughout to the iron-clad and all other odious test oaths, have endeared -him to the Dem ocracy of the nation. Mr. Field has always been a Democrat, though on the Union side during the war. Since the surrender, his voice lias ever been uplifted in behalf of State rights and thorough pacification of all the unhappy differences engendered by the war. • His first appearance on the bench was as the successor ot Judge M. H. McAllister, Court of the United States iiT California. From that position, which he filled with great acceptability to the people, he was elevated, though a Democrat, by Presi dent Lincoln to tLe seat he now so grace fully fills as a member Of the highest tri bunal of the country. The Judge has recently been endorsed by the State of Oregon for the" Presidency, and will henceforward be an important tactor, it i3 thought, in the struggle which is to culminate at Cincinnati. So far as the Telegrami is concerned, we are resolved to give our hearty support to the nominee of the Democratic Conven tion, even though it be Tilden himself, al beit he is not our choice. Should either Field, Bayard, Hancock, Thurman, Hen dricks or Pendleton he selected as the standard bearer of the parly, wC shall he satisfied, and believe that it would be well for the delegates from Georgia to be un- trammeled by instructions of any kind. Will the Atlanta Extension of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad be Built! We quote the following special 'to the Savannah Hoes, dated Atlanta, April 12: There is an impression here that the ex tension of the Macon and Brunswick Rail road will never be built. It is stated that the guaranty title given by the Governor is absolute, and that it is stipulated in the bond that the latter instrument shall be void after purchase and delivery. There has been no inventory of the stock, and the parties who desired to buy the road claim the whole transaction was clumsy. It is thought the contracts between the Central and Newcomb will prevent Oie purchasers of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad from building, and the problem now is how to compel them to fulfilLthe conditions of a bond said to be! void.. The bond was intended to be in opera tion in the event of a lease only. The bona fide purchase of the road, in the opinion of eminent legal counsel, super seded the necessity or propriety of any such instrument afterwards. But a con dition precedent to the sale of the road as incorporated and emphatically announced in the act authorizing that disposition of the State’s property, was that the buyers should, under the penalty of forfeiting their title to the same, proceed within a prescribed time to boild the extension in good faith. This they must do or relin quish the road, together with all the im provements that have been added. Should the present owners refuse to carry out their binding agreement, and thus array against them the animosity of aJarge portion of southern and middle Georgia, their only recourse would be to seek relief from another legislature. But it is not probable that they could succeed in any such attempt. .Indeed, we are of the opinion tba}.th4 proposition, if made, would be overwhelmingly voted down. We do net believe, however, that there is scintilla of truth in the report that Messrs. Couper, Lane, Wilson and com pany intend to go back upon their plighted word, and refuse, in good time to build the required extension. Certainly they have authorized no such statement. The Termination of the Saits for Taxes Against the Railroads. By the final decision of the last Court of Appeal, tie supreme tribunal of the Unit ed States, we sbe in the Constitution, the Macon and Augusta Road was found lia ble for $40,000 in taxes and $60,000 penalties. The latter have been remitted by the Legislature. The Georgia Railroad ha3 paid $30,000; the Central, and Augusta and Savannah, $06,833.80. The Atlantic and Golf has been assessed $7,000, which is still'in abeyance, on account of unsettled ques tions as to interest and penalties. The Constitution says: “It has fixed a princi ple in favor of the State, which was con sidered settled against it. It has increas ed by several millions the taxable property of the State, and thereby greatly reduced the burden of taxation on other property.” Attorney General Ely deserves much credit for the industry and ability dis played in the conduct of these cases. Gen eral Toombs was the assistant counsel for the State. Eiders to Appropriation Bills., In the abstract it would seem that every project in Congress should be made to stand or fall upon its own merits. Bdt' there are exceptional instances when im portant bills must be grouped together and engrafted upon some important meas ure to prevent them from lapsing by de- This is particularly the case in the last bouts of a session when all is hurry and confusioD,andthe requisite time cannot be had for the proper-consideration of each separate? proposition. It should be-, re membered, however, that these “riders,” can never be tacked on to any bill but by. a vote of the majority, and the majority ought to rale. Occasionally they place the executive in an embarrassing position when he is called upon, on the heel of an adjournment or even after, to decide w hether he sliall.'veto some great measure, such as an appropriation bill, for instance, wltlioutthe enactment of which the wheels of the government would stand still, or take the “riders” along with it. Of course, under such circumstances, he must be the judge as to whether the country would suf fer the most harm by the interposition of a veto, or the adoption of the bill with its appendages. In signing such an act, he has the consolation of knowing at. least that he is hut voicing the will of the peo ple through the expressed verdict of a ma jority of their accredited .representatives, This custom has been uniformly pur sued! hitherto by all the great parties of the nation, and if any blame attaches to it all are equally 1 " culpable. Hence, the Inconsistency and felly of the Republicans of ttyi House in stamping as fraudulent and improper the amendment to the ap propriation bill, which prohibits the Pres ident from Interfering with the perfect freedom of the polls by stationing troops m the vicinity, ready to do the bidding of his minions. In the debate as reported Mr! Ewing (Democrat) showed that the Republicans in the,last twelve years had placed no less than 887 riders upon the various appropriation bills that had been before Congress. The amendment was adopted and the bill passed by a party vc-te of 118 yeas to 86 nays. It, is not be lieved that Mr. Hayes will veto it from his past record on the subject. MB. ILAYKSj'like tbe URWJLste wardJn the Bible, is making provision against the time to come—when he shall no longer exercise the functions of an office which he was never elected. It is said the family house at Freamontp. Ohio, Tammany Votes fob Harmony.— i IK wuwnuw. w. .(TVW., *-- . by the Committee on Organization of Tammany Hall to confer with the Demo cratic Union met yesterday afternoon, and after a brief consultation sent to the union a letter stating: “We will be happy to meet your committee for confer ence either in Tammany Hall, which we ilace at your service, or, if more conven- ent and agreeable, at your own head quarters at any time you designate.’ This is the tenor of a New York dis patch, and the whole Democratic party would rejoice if the proposed pacification could indeed be effected. But the chances are very dull for any such consummation. Of course all Would be, lovely if Kelly would surrender to Tilden, but will he do We think not. The only solution to the difficulty, would be the voluntary re tirement of both of the leaders of the factions from active participation in the pending Presidential campaign. Let Tilden and Kelley step down and out, and then a common danger and mu tual interests may unite once morejhe two belligerent wings of the party. . Bnt this is almost too good to even hope for. The Site fob the United States Court Room.—Several spots have been pointed out as suitable locations for the government building, which will be needed to accommodate the United States Courts when holding their sessions in tills cityj and perhaps for a permanent post- office. The last suggested is the vacant lot adjoining Messrs. Rogers Sons’ grocery establishment. This is quite central to tlie business community, and a' suitable edifite at that point would give the finish ing touch to the improvements on Cherry street.- We have heard that the property is owned by Mr. D. Daly, but do not know upon what terms it could be pur chased. There are other eligible posi tions talked of, and we suppose at the proper time the claims of each will he duly presented. Persecution of the Jews.—The times have developed a wonderful spirit of religious persecutions lately. In con nection with the crusade so persistently pressed in France against the Jesuits and unauthorized sects, comes the wail from Russia, emanating from a society called the “Union' of Hebrew Congregations.” They have presented to the Secretary of State a remonstrance against the Czar’s alleged recent cruel discrimination to the injury of Russian Jews, and asking that the Unitea States Minister at St. Peters-' burg ha directed to inquire -into the mat ter,’ and if reports be true, to enter a'pro test :in the interest of religious freedom and suffering humanity, as reflected in theDeclaration of Independence. The Fall inlron. The Philadelphia Times gives some ex cellent reasons for the rapid deciine in iron, which has caused many of our largest mills already to confine their opci at ions to halftime. Water, it says, will find its level, and the laws of supply and demand are as in exorable as the law of gravitation. When business began to revive a few months ago, and there was a reasonable prospect of a steadily increasing demand for tho’prod- ucts of our furnaces, factories and mills, and fair profits to capitalists, an insane de sire was developed to multiply prices and profits extravagantly. The iron men anil the printing paper men were the earliest to advance to speculative and oppressive prices, and the first are now reaping a speedy harvest of retribution, and the last will closely follow them in realizing meas ure for measure. The iron men had the most Inviting field before them. The demand for iron was no sudden or temporary call for the products of our furnaces and mills. The steady wear of five years had to he largely restored to our railways, to machinery and to all the eountless channels in which iron is employed, and and all that the iron men had to do Was to pursue the even tenor of their way and enjoy the legiti mate and permanent profits offered them. They had a certainty in the market for the future, and they had only to avoid the folly of killing the goose that dropped the golden eggs, to assure a long season of prosperity. But they were ijot content with legiti mate returns for their investments. They stimulated a grand boom in iron and thus rekindled almost every furnace hearth and bred discontent with labor. Strikes multiplied, extravagant wages had to be concededpandnoW, after a few months of unhealthy prices, the boom has collapsed, and there is a general depression and des pondency in the trade. The increased price of labor and ores .cannot be sum marily reduced, and a number of our largest mills have come down, to half work. It is the old, familiar story of sacrificing the substance to shadows, and now the iron men must waste their foolishly en larged profits, confront fresh troubles with labor, and go back to get an’honest start on a legitimate basis. ' They have chilled the generous inclination to con sume iron this year by the sudden increase of prices, and they inust now he conteut with a more cautious demand for months to come. Our contemporaiy might have added that but for the baleful effect of the pres ent high protective tariff, this disastrous boom in iron might have been prevented by importations from abroad. But the committee on Ways and Means has been stocked totSpeaker Randall, that not upon the question could re the present Congress. e Exodus Iniquity; From a Washington special to the World, we quote the following additional evidence before the Congressional Exodns committee, which will go far to counteract the sensational twaddle of some of tlie ‘put up” witnesses who had previously testified: c. .u.:. Washington, April 10.—Before the Exodus committee to-day W. P. Ford, a Shreveport cotton factor, testified that there Was plenty of' work for negroes in that neighborhood at from $12 to $15 a month, with hoard and -lodging. He had been told by many negroes that they were induced to emigrate by a desire to better their condition, socially and politically,by id-suasions of their political leaders and jy means of circulars distributed among them. He had never been told that they tel)Jw:anso,qf.Beree,qutiom He had been James Butler. (coloreu;r“d£‘'Uunrreport,- testified that he owned twelve or thirteen lots in Shreveport, and considerable per sonal property. He voted the Republican ticket and had had no trouble, except that in 1872 the negroes were advised that there would be troublfe if they voted, and they refrained. With this exception lie had always voted as he pleased. Colored schools were well kept up. Any colored man could earn enough in fifteen years to buyjiiniself a home and he independent. Judge J.J3. Sears, of. Ottawa, Kan., testified that the negroes latterly coming to Kansas were paupers, and the people of Kansas heartily disliked to see them come. W. P. Fleming, a Shreveport- druggist testified that the negroes could get plenty of work in that neighborhood. There was more moral than'physical intimidation. The negroes felt dissatisfied because the State government had got into Democrat ic hands, but their ideas were very vague. J. H.: Gilliland, city editor of. the Shreveport Times, testified that the whites and blacks in his neighborhood were on friendly terms. In 1878 District Attorney Leonard advised the negroes to leave the polls, as there was no chance of their get ting a fair vote, probably for the purpose of contesting tne clecHon. • Db. Talmage.—The pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernabkrhas -reached home again, and last Sunday before commenc- ing-his discourse said ! •' 1 I- tbank the contributors -from every State in the Union for their donations to ward the payment of the • Tabernacle debt. ‘ If my call for $1 fr-m each of my friends the world over, 'does not finally succeed, it will be through their procrastfe nation. As near as I can tell .there are 60,000 people, who, some lime or other, Will contribute a dollar.”’ He also said that on next Sunday he would preach national sermon on his recent Southern observations. . The Doctor made many friends daring his late lecturing tour, at the Sooth! The turnrcoat Mosby hasbeenin danger lately of losing favor at the White House. But recently Mr. Hayes baa growhmore placable, and stated in being enlarged to suit Mr. Hayes’ new dl- f conversation with reference to the rumbn UViuy oi TUVmsKit’c ramnva flint hA ll&l mensions, and to store away the accumu lations of a four years term of office. As a gift-taker he has not been a success, however. - of Ccilonel Mosby’s removal, that he has no intention of disturbing Mosby, notwith standing that he thinks Mosby has written almost too many letters. One Man’s • Life. — The dangerous sickness of Senator Grover, of Oregon, awakens serious apprehensions in the minds of many. If he should die, the Or egon ‘Legislature,/which is now Republi can; would most certainly elect a Repub lican in his place.’ Then the United States Senate after the fouitli of March next would stand Democrats thirty-eight, Republicans thirty-eight. The • President of the Senate would have the casting vpte and'determine all political measures. It is hoped that Senator Grover will not iiiCi —»■— Tlie Utica Observer says; It is painiulto think that in a few months the Southern States, now so peaceful and contented, will be pictured as convulsed by the crack of musketry, and the shrieks, of slaugh tered women and infants, and illumined by the glare of burning cabins. The Northern heart must be fired, and this is the'only means % which that end can he reached. The imaginary;woes of the down-trodden negro are the- only- means that will open the pnrses of the Stalwarts. And this must be done to in sure! success' in the approaching eara- flalgtn -uci. - ; ; Plucky,to the Last.—iGu yesterday Otero,the would-be murderer of young Al fonso, of Spain, was executed,; . The other day when brought in before the judges to hear’,his.sentence, he displayed wonderful nerve, signing a copy of his sentence with a firm. hand. As they carried him through .the; streets, heavily, ironed and bareheaded, h“ gsve.no sign of: fear.or quaking, and although pale, was composed and seem ingly resigned to his fate. He refused all offers of advice or consolation from the priests. • >. • ■ ■ : f AGreat Di»c«veiy by » CreatUaB. Tliis, primarily, is what 'Warner’s Safe Nervine is. The great'man is^me of the most famous living physicians'.. He found a harmless remedy 1 for all kinds of pain, others improved it, and thermal result is, the Safe Nervine now manufactured only by It EL garner &jGg. ited the White , Sulphur Springs of Vir ginia, and . trying innumerable so-called “remedies” of the day. Having resided hereTor forty-seven years, my fjfends will be glad to see this statement. The dis coverer is, indeed, a public benefactor. Wm. H. Patterson, 1,481 Wabash avenue, near Twenty-ninth ' street. aprl4-lw Will the Mild Winter Cause a Sick ly Summer! The almost unprecedented absence of severe cold' during the past winter, and the long protracted spells of. weather ap proaching in temperature the summer sol stice, have awakened many forebodings that the season before ns will be noted for its insalubrity and abounding .malaria. This is the received popular opinion, hut not sustained by the logic of facts. The writer was reared in a region where, save on the immediate seacoast and in the pine barrens, removed some fifteen or twenty miles, not even the Pontine marsh es of Italy were more unhealthy. In that climate, those who ventured to remain af ter June upon the plantations situated among the swamps and in the deltas of the sluggish streams of brackish water which slowly debouched into the arms and inlet3 of the sea, did so at the immi nent peril of their lives. A freshly imported Yankee from New England usually stood it pretty well the first summer, because sustained by a good constitution and vigorous health. The second season, however, he became a prey to malarial fevers and grew weak and ca daverous. The third, alas, proved too of ten fatal. Few-indeed were the instances of acclimation even among the natives who essayed to tarry all the year round iix that moist atmosphere, laden with the noxious exhalations of oozy morasses, and infested with myriads of mosquitoes. In the early settlement of the country, before the inhabitants learned the neces sity of migrating every summer to the sea side or the pine covered hills of the inte rior, the tomb stones in old Midway Chusch yard told the sad story that few, very few, attained even to the age of for ty years. The first frosts of Autumn in those times were eagerly looked forward to and welcomed as the certain termination of the malarial reign on the plantations, and affording the sigual for the denizens of the “summer resorts” to hie them again, to their comfortable homes, where hospi tality was dispensed with Baronial profu- sion. n But just here, we wish to state as a fact, that after the prevalence of settled cool weather, when the turbid water of the ponds and swamps had deposited its sediment and impurities, and the tropi-. cal vegetation was gradually declining, not unfrequently the impatient planters did not wait for frost, hut returned to their homes early in October. And this was usually done with impunity. In deed, we have seen cotton blossoms at Christmas in these sickly localities, and yet, fortified by the cool weather’of the season the inhabitants enjoyed perfect health. Now, then, we would point our argument. If this was true in exception ally malarial districts, why should not the frequent recurrence offrostwithl a few spells of real cold weather the past win ter be sufficient to assure the health of the whole country, despite the unusual mildness of the season ? JWe have, therefore, no fears whatever on the sub ject. .. The worst thqt is to be apprehended is the debility that may ensue from a protracted —-—there that we shall exnerience such a season? Cemumj- the late re peated frosts and present cool weather do not betoken any such climatic results. On the contrary, Nature, in her endeavors to restore the equilibrium of the seasons will very probably send us an unusually cool summer. -We repeat, therefore, that there is no good cause to apprehend a sickly summer merely because the winter has been so mild. Germain to these re marks, we quoth the following from the Memphis Avalanche: -m, . ■*>’ The oldest inhabitant says his, experi ence proves that mild winters are. not fol lowed by sickly summers. But quite the revorse, that sickly summers follow win ters 1 of unusual coldness. On this point, however, some doctors differ. But as doctors always do differ on some points, their conclusions, or some of them, arc not of so much value as they might be. The Cincinnati doctors have been dis cussing the probable effect of.the mild winter, and of course they. differ. Some of them predict aii epidemical summer on account of the mild winter, while others ridicule the idea that an opeh winter would be necessarily followed by a sickly summer. Dr. Mussey.said the climatic conditions had no'offect on health. Every thing depended on the meteorological condition of the atmosphere, which he ex plained as follows:' . When the barometer is falling,, the vi tality of people, sick and well, is'also fell ing, and the reverse is the case wheii the barometer is rising, and far that reason 1 always perform my surgical operations, if possible, when the,. barometer .shows a rising tendency, and never while it is de clining. Of course, there are times : When the rule cannot be observed. The whole human system of vitality is a nerve bat- 1 tery. The, brain is the battery, and_ the nerves the wires which conduct the vitali ty through the body. This battery ebbs and flows like the tide; '-getting 'stronger from morning till afternoon, and getting weaker as the night passes* reaching the extreme ebb in the small hours after mid night. It is during this period—from midnight tilL3 o’clock in the. morning— that so large a per cent, of deaths occur. It is this period which, with sinking pa tients, is knotfn as the crisis. Doctors say that, if the patient passes the crisis, lie or she will havea good chance to re cover. That means, that if they can sur vive, the ebb of the vitality battery, mid strike tlie flow, they are likely to rally and 'AV - .I' The Two-Third# Rule Will not be Rescinded. ', ‘ Personal;,—We had the pleasure on Wednesday of a call from Mr. James W. . | Stanford, who is an enterprising druggist i It seems plainly evident that the two- , of Cuthbert, and dealer in the best scup- Biirds rule, which in national politics has j pernong wine by the barrel. This gentle- worked so well, will be continued in force man is a self-made man, and began life as by the Cincinnati Convention. So far, all of the Democratic State Conventions have pronounced against its repeal. The recommendation to rescind the rale which was proposed in the last National Convention, says the Nashville American, arose chiefly on account of the attitude of Tammany, and it was argued that an ob stinate minority might'prove an obstacle, under the two-thirds rule, to the nomina tion of the most available man. This is probably true if the opinions of the friends iff a candidate are to establish his availa bility; bat, as a practical question, it may well he doubted whether a man is availa ble who is resisted by one-third of a repre sentative Convention'. Politics is at last a practical matter where all depends on success. It may be the opinion of almost two-thirds of a par ty audits convention, that some particular man is by far the best means to the end, to-wit; the triumph of principles, and yet if he cannot succeed in the election it makes no difference what his qualifications are, or how well lie may discharge the duties of an office he cannot obtain. It matters not why he cannot reach the place, wheth er it be through obstinacy or through well-grounded objections, practical men in politics vfoll deal simply with the facts as they are, with the full knowledge that, in popular government,, there are hun dreds of men always equal to the emer gency, if oply they can be found. The reference of the subject to the State Convention grew out of the preliminary struggle in St. Louis, and of the Tam many opposition to Mr. Tilden. It was proposed at one time to adopt the majori ty rule, but that was deemed unadvisable. and so contrary to precedent that it would be unwise, if strictly lawful. It was sug gested that the State Conventions were thfe only power that could properly make the change, and no serious attempt was made to adopt the majority rule. The resolution wa3 proposed by the majority which had nominated Mr. Tilden, and the subject referred to the State' Conventions by a close division, the vote being, on the motion to lay on the table, 358 for aDd 378 against. “Tilden to Come Down.” This is .the heading of a Philadelphia dispatch from "Washington yesterday, stating that Mr. Tilden has written a let ter to be read before the. New York Dem ocratic Convention ab-Syracuse, with drawing his name- frem. the -Presidential canvass. Tlie reason assigned is ill health. The country will look forward with feverish anxiety to the verification of this announcement. We are disposed to think the report hot destitute of foundation. Mr. Tilden is by far too sagacious and far- seeing not to read the hand-writing on the wall, which proclaims so unmistakably, that he cannot hope to be again the nom inee of the Democratic party. Our old statesman has already enjoyed the high honor of being the unquestionable choice t)i*.neoule as the chief magistrate of the nation; and it would be the very imper- when in thV“sear''atof n <i?h..hia laurels life,” and enfeebled in body, by again seeking the Presidency, with a prospect of failure before him. If there was the least prospect of suc cess, so great is the ambition and so fer tile of resources is this. wonderful man, that we doubt not that lie would come to the front and contest every inch of ground at Cincinnati. Nor will it be certain that he will not do so until, under his own sign manual, we read that he is no longer before the people a3 a. • candidate. In that event a most formidable obstacle to the triumph of the Democracy will be remov ed. Then may it be Reasonably hoped that the feuds of Tammany and anti- Tammany will be compbsed, and the De mocrats of the great State of New York, once more, wheel into line as a unit. With the happening of this auspicious ad justment of private differences and local diyifidns In the Empfre State, and a prop er degree of 1 han&ony and patriotism in tlie National Democratic wigwam at Cincinnati, it may be confidently expect- ed that victory will perch' upon YheJDe- mocraticbanners next November.. Then,: forewarned forearmed, the Supreme Cotfrt will never bo trarfifeHned into an other High Commission; (so calKd,) to de feat the fairly expressed will of the peo- fW-rnwi***** an apprentice in the office of the Cuthbert Appeal. Gradually, by the force of his industry and integrity, he worked himself upward, and in the drug store of Dr. T. S. Powell became a skillful apothecary. At this time he is the proprietor of a neat drug establishment of his own, and is greatly respected in Cuthbert. Mr. Stan ford, at the recent convention of the Phar maceutical association of the State, was appointed to deliver the annual address at the next meeting of the association, which will be held in Columbus. He will per form that duty gracefully and well. - Another Alleged Important Rail road Enterprise.—A Chicago dispatch says the Chicago, St. Louis and New Or leans Railroad proposes to make common cause with the Cincinnati: Southern—the former to build a line from Jackson, Tennessee, to Nashville, and the Cincin nati Southern to build a line from Knox ville to Nashville. Such a line would enable the Chicego, St. Louis and New Orleans to maintain the business enjoyed heretofore, and-woujd make it, as well as the .Cincinnati Southern, entirely inde pendent of the Louisville and Nashville combination. The scheme is only under advisement, nothing yet having been definitely decided upon. Congressional Courtesies. —- Con gress, which has b?en unusually dull and stupid during the ‘ last three or four months, is beginning to arouse'itself from its lethargy and become alive to the obli gations it owes the country. A few days ago one honorable member attempted to fasten the charge of bribery and corrup tion upon an equally honorable andlllus- trious colleague; and yesterday a distin guished statesman from the great North west, with the vigor bom of the prairies, repeatedly denounced a meek und modest member from the East as a “liar.” Con sidering that the spring has only just opened, and that we have not had more than a mere suggestion of warm weather, this is an exceedingly promising begin ning. By the middle of June, wfren the heat of.the sun and the caloric of the po litical campaign shall have fairly set.in, lively times may be expected in the House of Representatives'. Indeed, it isnotjm- probabLe that the ancient glory of the his toric Bladensburg will ,be, revived. The spring outlook for Congressional funerals is excellent, and it is scarcely surprising that the coffin makers are striking for higher'wages.—jy. Y. Hprald. A Man of Ability. John Forrester was very ' correctly named, for, until a few days ago, he' had spent his life in the woods. Sever#! days ago he threw a ide his maul, came to the city, and now handles the. somewhat lighter rock hammer. The story of John’s downfall shall be briefly related. Short ly after arriving in the city he was attrac ted by a sigh bearing the inscription, “Meals at all Hours.” Entering the place and meeting the proprietor, he said: - • “You keep a tavern here, don’t you?”_ “No. I keep a restaurant.” “I don’t know much about your new names; but you feed folks here, don’t you?” “Yes, sir.” “Well, I want to board here three days, or I reckon until I get a job of some kind. I sea your sign says ‘meals at alFh6ufs. T three days for $3. “And give me'my meals at all hours?” “Yes; sir.” “Here, take the $3. I never set myself up as a regular eater, but I’ll buck agin you for the n4xf ’ threedays. I think that I cAn stand her about that long.’ It’S 11 o'clock. Give me something to eat.” A meal was brought out and quickly dispatched; and remarking that he would be back on time, Mr. Forrester left. At 12 o’clock he came back'ahd ate again. 1 “You needn’t stare at me,” he said to one -of the waiters. ; , . - “You. are a regular boarder, are you? “The regularest one you’ve got. I don't intend to miss a meal.- Tve got a chance now to git even for bein’ hongry ■ many a time.” 'o.’i • At T o’clock John came back and re marked as he hung' Up his hat: “I’m on time. It’s 1 o’clock. Fetch me suthin to eat.” The waiter went away muttering, and brought in a rather slim meal. “Lock a here,” said John, “dou't try to go back on youir contract.' I reckon you did rather underrate my ability, but I’m a man.” ..- . *•" “ ,J At 2 o’clock John came, back and took _ seat. * The proprietor came in and ask ed him what he wanted. “I want my dinner, supper or breakfast; just as you are a mind to call it.” . -j -“You have already eaten, here thrqq times to-day.” . . _ - , i si -T “I know that.” 1 “Why do you come again?”' £ “Because it’s 2 o'clock.” “It is not supper time.” “No, hut it’s 2 b’clQCk tune.” “I don’t understand you, sir. ' What do Prince GortschakofF. Prince Gortschakofl’s illness, reported in the Herald as a severe catarrh which somewhat impeded respiration, has sud denly taken a bad turn, and we now learn by our special dispatch from Russia that this veteran of thediplomaticservice is on his deathbed. He is eighty-two years old, and it must be said that the chances of re covery for a man of that age affected with an inflammatory disease of the respiratory organs are slight in any climate, while in St. Petersburg in spring such a case may be regarded as hopeless. For a quarter of a century the name of this distinguished man has been one of the most conspicuous in European politics. In deed, considering his great age, hia early advent in diplomacy, and his character as related to the time when princes were men of genius, and figured at the head of great concerns with at least as much suc cess as common men, he might be re garded as related to the past lather than to the present history of European diplo macy; but his connection with the great events and conventions upon which are based the acturtl relations of Russia to the nations of Western Europe, will matte the record of bis life a chronicle of all that is remarkable in the exterior concerns of contemporary Russian history. Gortachakoff succeeded Nesselrode as the head of the Russian Foreign Office, and thus only one life intervenes between our own time and that period when Mus covite diplomats were concerned with others in reorganizing Europe after the suppression of Napoleon; but it is not a short life, and it is an evidence that the responsibilities and anxieties of a great diplomatic position are not inconsistent with longevity when we see the man who began his career in the suite ot Nessel-. rode at Laybach alive to oppose the sdiemes of domineering Bismarck at the Congress of Berlin. It is to the honor of the Russian Emperor and an unusual fact that the trusted and tried minister of the father was continued in his great position by the son, more anxious that his admin istration should have the benefit of great experienoe than that his own crude fan cies should be felt in the history of his country. If the internal affairs pf Russia had been directed as well in the last twenty years as the foreign affairs were, the nation would not now be consumed by tbe fires of a smothered revolution.—* N. Y. Herald. The California Legislature can always be depended upon for a fresh sensation. It has now under consideration a bill to prohibit fishing by anybody except a citi zen, and tbe senators were gravely con sidering the other day whether such.a measure was in contravention of the Four teenth Amendment. Of course, it is aimed at the Chinese, but its supporters seem to believe that they have avoided unconstitutional discriminations by mak ing it apply to.all aliens. It seems to have escaped their notice that the chief sufferers by.such .a restriction would be, first, the consumers of fish, and second, the boys. Under this bill no boy could go!a-fishing—even on school holidays and _ with the consent of his mother. T)l6 Auiiuttl Fireman S Parade. ^ “Yqut: understanding may have been The Change,—The weather pn.yes- terday was exceedingly - pleasant as to temperature.- The few cold ■ days- of, the earlier part of the week enahlefi our peo ple to appreciate the change. But -we fearsome of them have ; acted very fool ishly. The spring changes are the most dangerous, and have been the cause; of innumerable diseases, ..There are some people who, the moment the mercury goes up a little,. immediately, throw off their flannels aud let the fire go out in the grate, because for the moment they feel uncomfortably warm. Several per sons we know of - did this ten days ago, and suffered the penalty. Sitting , in a. cold room, or a slight change of raiment, may result in diphtheria or rheumatism, and not unfrequently it has been known to bring on spinal- meningitis. A little care and precaution is worth a hundred demijohns of rock-and-rye. The first of May will be time enough for such change oi clothing and putting up fire screens. B. H. Warner A Co:, Rochester, N. Y.: ville, South. Carolina, have suffered r*r Gentlemen—I hare used^Wamerfe Safe cently by several fires, burning up a great K rportion of the town. Several negroes ever iSed**that I can reLmm^fd to my were arrested and have bad a tri#l, and on friends, as it has cured me' of Bright's yesterday ' were convicted of both arson Disease oflong standing, after havh^vjs* ^ murder, aud sentence^ to be bung. >»U; A CARD. kotnnSamg from tha errors »”d infUtsro'foes «f jootb, narroua weak near, earb daeaj. ’»• of n»i ho^, ete .I will rend a wipe fSwill rare yoo. FR1# OF OH ABO#. This B eat remedy wae discovered by a aimioeary i« South f me rea. Send ». elf-ad drained envelope to tbe Rev. Joseph T. Inman, Staton D, New To* Ciij. aprlA-deoiawly Our readers will find on the local page of this issue all the particulars of the splendid pageant and exciting contest of yesterday, between the gallant firemen of our city and their no less distinguished guests from Augusta and Griffin. If the- sense of the Macon fire department could be taken, we sure they would gladly, have accorded the prizes to their visiting guests. But when placed upon their met tle and called upon to contest the honors of the day, of course that esprit du corps which is so commendable in every organ ization impelled them to do their best, with the result which, has been announc ed. But our cherished guest* received every courtesy and attention it was possi ble to bestow, and perhaps had the trial of skill taken place at home, where the excitement of a strange place would have had no disturbing effect, tbe score might have been very different. As it was, there were no heart-burnings or dissatis faction manifested by the firemen, or the vast crowd who witnessed the contest. Nor did we see a single drunken man, or hear of any disturbance of the peace. All passed off pleasantly, and it was a gala day to the people of Macon. It would be an act of gross injustice If, before closing these notes, proper mention were not made of the abounding hospital- ty of the Hook and Ladder Company No. 1. Though not active participants in the duties of the day, they bore their part by providing a superabundant feast of fat things for the guests of the city, their comrades of the refi shirt brigade, and all otheis who chose to partake of their boun tiful spread. Relays of piembeix were de tailed to do tha honora> and not one of the hundreds of hungry guests who put in an appearance, wept away without a plenti ful supply of creature, comforts for tha in ner Bum Indeed, the table fairly groaned undet tfie load of nice things, covering all the delicacies of the season and mat ket, which were no sooner discussed than their duplicates took their place. Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 can boast of some of the. meet aged and. re spectable of our citizens in its ranks. The organization is an honor to Macon, and long may it live and flourish. More Titles.—One of the objects of the visit of the King ot Siam to the great centres of Western civilization is declared to be his desire to decorate Queen Victo ria with the Order of the White Elephant, one of tbe most venerable insignia of rank that is known. Of course when the King learns that- the masquerade mon* arch, Bex of New Orleans, has conferred upon ex-President Grant the title of “Duke of America” he will be ready to bestow the Order of tlie Elephant upon his late visitor also. This will be highly appreciated in this country, where, on several occasions, the people have seemed to look upon General Grant as an elephant on their hands. The World’s Cotton-Spinning Indus try. The cotton-spinning industry, one of the great industries of the world, is'con- (jngaljv increasing, especially in this turns, 71,250,000, dpmtfctf M.jwindlea 30,500,000. Switzerland has, contrary to general opinion, more spindles propor tionally to its population, than auy other • Continental state, ranking in Europe im mediately after England. The United States have 10,0o0,000 spin dles; France-has 5,000,000; Germany 4,- S00,000; Russia, 2,800,000; Switzerland 1,- 87&000; Austria, 1,800,000; Spain, 1 ) '?75 ) - 000; Sweden and Norway, 310,000; Hoi- land, 230,000; Greece, 30,000; and other countries, (including Denmark and Port ugal,) 44,090. Britain has, to every 1,- 000 of its inhabitants, 1,180 spindles; Switzerland, 675; United States, 218; France, 135; Germany, 108; Spain, 103; Holland 57; Sweden and Norway, 48; Aus tria, 42; Russia, 30; Italy 29. Fall-jtiver is by large odds the greatest cotton spinning centre in the Republic. It now has 1,364,171 spindles aud 82,621 looms; uses 162,475 bales of cotton annu ally, and manufactures, every year about. 400t000,000 yards of cloth. All of its 50 mills are now very prosperous, and pro ducing each week 150,000 pieces of print ing-cloths,, not to speak - of sheetings, sile- sias^ fine white goods, fancy cottons, etc. Their, operatives number near 16,000, and the jweekl’y pay-roll reaches some $400.- 000: The corporations have suffered much from dull-times, dishonest treasurers, and other causes, but they have come bravely out of th’eir .troubles, and their future looks radiant. injured by my surprising ability. I came here with t)ie understanding that I was to have my meals at’All horirs.” : J «*The contract hss been adhered to; you have come irregularly.” .“No, sir; I’ve ,come here regular. It was the agreement that I was to have a meal • every hour, and I am going to 1 stand up to it if it packs my stomach as tight M a green watermelon. You are trying to impose on me because I’m from the country. I have made arrangements with a boy to wake me up every hour - to-night, and Pin coming here to eirt. That’s my business now, and I’ll aef fair with; you and eat every time. Give me an eyster, can of coffee and some ball sassage.” The proprietor handed the man $3 and requested him to leave. A fight ensued, and John was led #wey by the police. When he completes his rpek pile' engage ment he will sue the restaurant for dam ages.—Little Rock Gazette. ' Tine English pilgrimage to convey the banner of St.' George to the basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes will leave England for Lourdes early in June. About nitre days will be occupied going and returning. Cardinal Manning will placp himself at the head of the pilgrimage. Four hun dred noblemen r.nd gentry of the United Kingdom have already sent in their names to Cardinal Manning’s secretary as desir ous to join the pilgrimage. It is expected to he to most noteworthy movement of the kind witnessed in England since the Ref ormation. ' ■ !: ■_ _■ The Wind and Dust!—The Good Book tells us that We are' dust, and that unto dust we must inevitably return But the average individual does not long for that time to come. Nevertheless on yesterday the wind thought the time had come for the people of Macon, and sent the puiverized claj and sand into the eyes, th8 ears, the mouth arid the hair of every passerby, and laid tlie foundation of counts, colds and running noses. It also penetrated the elbthtng and sifted the dust through tbe finest fabrics, and cov ered the flash of the most carefully pro tected. The streets were pronged with people and passrng vehicles, apd tbe duat a an all is issira jHriw* rfri i B ■ tine * became an all pervading fliaisafiee! The amount ot soap and water essential 1 to a proper cleansing would be bard to com pute, —Sir Evelyn Wood is preparing a sur prise for the Empress Eugenie in Zulu- land by planting grafts from the St- Helena willow on thekspot where Prince LouisfNapo'leon fell. So, at least, a Paris newspaper says. Has the Senate the Right to Origi nate Appropriation Bills! AWashington correspondent of the Bos ton : Herald says: For several weeks the Horae Judiciary Committee has been con sidering the vexed question of tbe right of 'the Senate to originate appropriation bills. This question lias often been raised be fore, but a decision has never been made »u which both Houses would concur. Per haps the most available instance in which the matter was brought to an issue between the two Houses was in 1857, when; during the long contest over the Speakership, which re sulted in. the election: of Banks, the House was for so many months unorgan ized! At that time the Senate passed various bills appropriating money, which the House, when it organized, refused to consider, asserting that the House—and the Honse alone—had the right to orig inate money bills, and adopted similar bills, which they sent to the Senate for concurrence. At that time" the contested right was debated earnestly in both houses, and tbe Senate by a largo ma jority, both of Republicans and Demo crats, affirmed then that the pawer of appropriation resided alike in either house. The question arises now upon a bill Appropriating a small sum for a pub lic building, which originated in the Sen ate, and upon its arrival in the House was referred to tbe Judiciary Committee for an opinion. A large majority of the commit tee believe that the Senate has the right, under the Constitution, to originate ap propriation bills, and they will so report. The whole question turns upon the con struction given the words “revenue bills,” that provision of the constitution giving the House power to originate various kinds of legislation. The majority hold that a revenue bill is one providing for the imposition or collection of taxes. They cite one powerful argument in sup port of this view, the fact that in the Con stitutional Convention, the proposition to insert the words “and appro priation bills” Jwas defeated. If the framers of the Constitution, say they, had intended appropriation bills to originate alone in the house they would hare inserted the omitted wards. This is the position advanced . by the Senate, especially by Mr, R. M. J. Hunter, of Virginia, who prepared an elaborate re port upon the sublegt in 1857- The mi nority bold that to* powers of tbe House of Representatives are analagous to those, of the House of Commons; that the word* “revenue bills” are understood in Eng land to mean both revenue and appropri ation hills. As all appropriation bill# originate in England in the House of Commons, and . as they have hitherto originated under our practice, in the House of Representatives, the attempt on'the part of tbe Senate to originate them is an. unwarranted innovation and a usurpation, of the recognised rights of the House* /'