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~ <&legrap!j atilt Itixxmfpt FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1SS0. —Two camels raised in Texas were sold at San Antonio last week. _jThe present wheat crop in Texas will probably be the largest ever grown in that State. — 1 The printers on the New York Wit ness have struck because a colored com positor was employed. —An average of about one hundred and fifty immigrants per month, mostly from Ilavana and Nassau, have been arriving recently in Key West, Florida. —Senator Beck made a sudden appear ance in Kentucky last week, and" Watter- son charged him with having come home to set up the pins against Tilden, an ac cusation which the senator only faintly denies. Advices from Havana are to the ef fect that much damage has been done to the tobacco and other crops by the drought of the past three months. The total su gar crop, it is estimated, will not exceed 400,000 tons." Grant’s Prospects.—A gentleman who has much to do with justices of the Supreme Court, says that every Republi can on the Supreme Bench is opposed to Grant, and that Justice Strong predicts that Grant will not be nominated at Chi cago. —During the course of some excavations and levellings which have been carried out within the historic lines of Plevna by the Bulgarian government, 16 cannon and 10,000 muskets have been found, which Osman Pasha caused to be buried before he surrendered to the Russians. The Tay Bridge Disaster.—A Lon don dispatch of Monday, says a part of the latticework of the Tay Bridge has been recovered which bears marks tending to sustain the theory of Sir Thomas Bouch, chief engineer and projector of the bridge, that the train went off the track before the bridge fell. , —A report to the annual conference oi the Mormons says that the Mormon popu- . lalion of Utah is 111,820, that the church in that territory has lost 600 members and gained 1,500 in a year, and that the church receipts in that period were over $1,000,- 000. Apostle Snow made an eloquent de fense of polygamy, and there was no show of opposition to that dogma. —The dome of the Troy Polytechnic Institute's observatory is twenty-nine feet in diameter, and made of paper, reduced by pressure to the hardness of wood, and one-sixth of an inch in thickness. Its weight is only one-tenth of the usual ma terial, and it is so nicely adjusted that a child can turn it. —General Stoler recently had a narrow escape from assassination atKieff. He was walking along a street when he felt something cold touch his cheek. He turn ed suddenly and saw ft man with a revol ver standing by his side, who at once hurried away, exclaiming, “Excuse me; I have made a mistake.” —The Philadelphia Times says edito rially: “The one tiring irrevocably set tled in regard to the next presidency is that Mr. Tilden can’t be elected. Sooner or later he will abdicate, but it won’t be until he is entirely prepared to whisper in the ears of his. immediate friends' the name that is to illnniinate the Democrat ic banners of 1880.” —A stalwart negro, with a scowling face and a gun across his shoulder, saun tered into a farmyard near Shelbyville, Indiana, and said that he had come to kill the man who lived there. Hedidnotknow this man, but had been told that he had helped the enemy in a recent drunken fight. The intended victim was, hastily hidden, and a summons sent for several neighbors, who came and shot the negro. —Ex-Governor Hendricks says that, un like most Democrats, he does not want Grant to be the Republican nominee. In his opinion Grant would be a hard man for the Democracy to beat, in spite of the lionest and deep-rooted feeling against a third term. « . Another Proposed Consolidation. It is stated that an important railroad meeting is shortly to be held in New York, city for the purpose of taking steps fop ef-,‘ feeling the consolidation of the Memphis and Charleston, the East Tennessee and Virginia and Georgia, and the Atlantic, Ohio and Mississippi railroads, so as to make one continuous, line from Memphis to Norfolk. A Paris dispatch to the London Times, of the 20tli, says that M. de Lesseps con- chided his lecture on the work required for the construction of the Panama Canal at the Sorbonne on Saturday with an ac count of his experience in America: Hd said that on his having explained that he acted utlder a concession of the govern ment of Colombia, that no other power had anything to do with it, and that the management would rest with whomsoever chose to become shareholders, all prom ised their support, and he had 300,000,000f. of subscriptions pledged to him In Amer ica. The canal: he said, would be built bj^ France, with the co-operation of all the world. —The neighborhood of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, is in a state of great so cial excitement over the recent elopement and marriage of a gushing young couple, Jonathan Ivy and Florence Seymark. The girl’s parents did not approve of young Ivy’s" advances and forbade him their house. The lovers, however,-managed to meet clandestinely, and had made up their minds to an elopement, which was to have occurred one night. Old man Seymark, by some means or other, got wind of the proposed escapade and Went gunning that day for Jonathan. Coming up with the gay young lover, he blazed away at him, shooting him in the left shoulder, and in flicted a painful but not dangerous wound. Florence was overwhelmed with grief by her father’s hasty conduct, but her passion for her wounded lover was intensified a thousandfold. She sent him a letter tell-* ing him she would fly with him that night if he would come for her. So that night young Ivy put in an appearance, with a close carriage, about 1 o’clock. Miss Florence was in a terrible dilemma, for her cruel parents, to insure against- any escapade, had. notonly locked the girl in to her room, but had also taken away every stitch of her clothing. But she was not to l>e balfied. She made a rope of the sheets of her bed and let herself down to the ground, with no other garment but a night dress. She told the coachman to “look the other way,” and after her lover bad helped her into the carriage and cov ered her with the carriage robes, she made bim sit on the box with the coachman. They drove to the house of a friend, where she was attired in proper garments, and ' proceeded to the bouse of a sympathizing preacher, where the lovers were speedily united in matrimony. Extraction of the Precious Metals. The Baltimore Sun of Tuesday has the subjoined interesting summary of facts in relation to recent discoveries in America and France as to new, cheap and com plete processes of extracting metals from ores, which in their practical effect on the precious metals, are destined, as it were, to duplicate the mining discoveries and products of past centuries. M. Scbillot’s process has been entered in the Patent of fice at ‘Washington, and will contest the discoveryof Prof. Edison, as to cheapness and practical efficacy. It i3 worthy of remark that these im portant discoveries make their appear ance at a critical period, to-wit, at a time when, in the gold and silver producing States, the working of the ores is begin ning to be seriously and Increasingly em barrassed by the scarcity and excessive price of the “fluxes” used in treating the ores. This advance in prices has render ed large regions unproductive and intro duced a serious question in reference to many ores whether they can be treated with profit. The New York Bulletin, speaking on this point, says: It may be safely affirmed that, provided these difficulties in separation coifld be overcome, there would be no limit to the production of the precious metals in the United States; and the more so because the risks of mining would be immensely reduced. The synoptical article in the Sun to which we have alluded, speaks as follows: It has been stated in the Sun that Mr. Edison has found out a way whereby this waste gold can be saved, and that a corn- pany has been formed to work over, by his method, the refuse of certain mines iu California. The means employed by him are said to be electricity combined with chemical agents. It is now claimed that M. Sebillot, an eminent Paris chemist and engineer, has discovered the process, and applied for a patent for it at Washington, for extracting the metals from the most refractory ores so cheaply that even the working of mines abroad, that have been abandoned, may be resumed and carried on at a profit. The agent employed by him for reducing the ores is said to be sulphuric acid, and it is also alleged that the manner of its application is such that machines can be constructed that would be capable of treating from fifty to one hundred tons of ore per day. “The working of the proc ess,” we are told, “is very economical, re quires no special skill and the employ ment of very little labor. All that is needed is a moderate consumption of fuel and pyrites for producing the sulphuric acid.” The process is said to be applicable to all ores, and while the cost is “from one- tenth to one-fourth of what is now gener ally paid,” its peculiar value lies in the fact that it extracts the whole of the pre cious metals, and preserves all the baser metals, as leads, for instance, in a mer chantable form. It is announced that the merits of this process are about to be sub jected to the most searching tests. If it does all that M. Sebillot claims for it, the discovery throws that of Edison entirely in the shade; for while he proposes to deal only with the minute particles of gold, that the ordinary methods of extraction have heretofore failed to recover, M. Seb- illbot asserts that the whole of the metal, in any kind of ores submitted to it, may be recovered. Striking Below the Belt Slander and calomDy are of all others the greatest and most dastardly sins against society. Under their baleful in fluence no man’s reputation is sale. The Savior had one traitor and maligner even among his chosen twelve apostles. The loveliest exemplars of religion in the pul pit are shamefully traduced. The mer chant “on change,” it matters not how upright he may he, has to submit to the malicious whispers of those who wish him ill. The ermine of the judge is no pro tection to the shafts of the disappointed litigant. The statesman who has labored long and faithfully for his country is often wrongfully denounced and assaulted. The editor who seeks to do his duty by exposing fraud and stands up bravely for the right, is often made the victim of base innuendoes and . ungenerous flings, even from men of his own profession who dare not attack him openly. The student at college and the miss in her sequuary, too, if straightforward and attentive to their duties, often come under the ban of envi ous associates. Even the private citizen, however worthy, if he possesses anything positive in his character, will have ene mies, and some of these are bound to slan der him. . All men in this wicked world must ex pect to be thus dealt with. But what re course is there under such circumstances? jWe answer, if the slanders are tangible - and can be traced, directly, home, at all hazards, refute and expose them if their authors are worthy of notice. If they are covert lie3.tbat are, simply breathed out behind your back, perhaps, by seeming friends, who thus wie!AJhe.blade_of Joab to ypur hurt, quietly lite them down. Any man with a clear conscience .can. afford to do this, and the remedy, though slow, is nevertheless certain. Conscious rectitude will make evqn, the timid brave and serene, even-though- the victims of the vilest detraction. The Colored Presbyterian Paro chial ScnooL.—The worthy pastor of the colored Presbyterian.church on Wash ington Avenue, extended an invitation to one of the editors of the Telegraph to witness the examinations yesterday of the parochial school of the church, which is ■Conducted by the wife of the pastor, Mr. McCurdy. Unavoidable engagements- prevented our attendance, but we learn that the school, which numbers over forty scholars, is in a flourishing condition, and reflects credit upon all connected with it. Paistor McCurdy is a man of excellent sense and unquestionable piety. His in fluence is ever exerted on the side cf peace and harmony in the community, and of late quite a gracious revival has blessed his ministerial labors. The congregation of the colored Presbyterian church em braces many of our most conservative citi zens. They deserve and should receive encouragement from the entire commu nity. t i • The New York Tribune, which is res olutely anti-Grant - and- anti-third term now, but will soon have to retreat in good order, say* A correspondent wnres that he thinks it “£ trance that the Tribune should ask for reasons for the renomination of Grant, when so many have been given.” ‘ He then proceeds to give one reason. The term intervening since Grant’s second term lias given him “opportunity for larger experience, and ‘.'or correcting the errors which may have been committed.'’ This isn’t very clear, but the idea seems to be that Grant ought to have a third term in which to correct the errors . of the. other two. That may be a powerful reason,but as a campaign issue it is a little too heav ily loaded. . Yes, it h highly possible that the active discussion of General Grant’s eight years of administration, and the careful study of its errors during next fall’s canvass, may improve the judgment and taste not only cf Grant, but also' of the country at large. But the point whether two failures enti tles a man to a third trial, is at least doubtful. Traveling by Steam. Faster and Faster. The New York Times, commenting on the railway speed between that city and Philadelphia, says some of the trains are already the fastest in the world—making the distance of ninety miles in two hours; but the Baldwin Locomotive works, at Reading, Penn., have just completed a passenger engine designed especially for speed. It is to he run over the Bound Brook route between New York and Philadelphia, and it is expected that it will do the trip in an hour and a half, or ninety miles in ninety minutes, which is altogether faster than any time yet made in Europe or America. The new engine has probably a larger pair of driving wheels than any passenger engine on the continent, the diameter be ing CJ feet, whilq the driving wheel of ordinary passenger engines is from 5 to feet. It ha3 only one pair of driving wheels, without- the additional smaller wheels that other engines have. It is much heavier, too, its weight being 84,000 pounds, while the weight of most engines is from 70,000 to 75,000 pounds. It will not stop between the two cities, even to take water, for it is supplied with a tank of double the usual capacity, and will hold 4,000 gallons. The new engine will, it is said, be put on the road this week, and make the first trial trip within two or three days. Its builders have no doubt it will accomplish all that is claim ed for it, and great interest is naturally felt.in the result. Should it do what is hoped for it, other engines of a like pat tern will be built at once. We ought to be able to achieve a mile a minute. That is the proper speed for an American train in the big Republic. We might perhaps question the Times’ idea that it is essential to an American citizen, male or female, to be fast. South Carolina Sea Islands. The Charleston News and Courieof last Monday, prints a very elaborate re port of nine columns on the condition of of the sea islands on the coast if that State, prepared by its reporter, - Mr. J. R. Blackman, who, at the expense of much time and labor, upon each of tbe islands, in turn, has presented a mass of facts equally minute, reliable and surprising. Now, upon faith of what has been the case, up to the last time these localities were heard from, it will be assumed, off hand, that all is disorder, debt, ruin, pov erty and destruction; but, on the contrary, within the past two or three years (since South Carolina has had a government) affairs on the Sea Islands have taken a surprising turn, and the long cotton cul ture, as now pursued, is attended with the happiest results. Friendly relations exist between the white and colored planters and the work ing population—the Northern capitalists, who have for years past tried their hands at the cotton culture, have all abandoned it, and the old Southern proprietors, who flourished before the war, have resumed work on an entirely different basis. They have cut down their farms to a compara tively few acres, which they have sub drained at a large expense to the acre, and then by the lavish use of mercantile fertilizers have realized, in many cases, a net profit of a hundred dollars to the acre, i - Bclore the war, on Edisto, eighty to a hundred pounds of ginned cotton was the average—now it is 300. A prize acre on Wadmalaw Island, fertilized at an ex pense of eighty dollars, brought 566 pounds oi lint, which brought $266, and netted its proprietor $146. The drainage of these lands costs about forty dollars to the acre, and the average cultivation is about fifty or sixty acres. One planter on James Island cnltivatcd sixty-five acres—expended eighty-five dol lars per acre on fertilizers, and realized a net profit of one hundred dollars to the acre. • . • The correspondent reports a great im provement in the donditlon of the colored people on the island^. They have good schools and churches. Many of them have become proprietors, and some are wealthy. Farm labor is becoming scarce on account of the increasing disposition to fartn On their own account. Good cot ton lands are held at a high price—from forty to seventy-five dollars per acre. All is peace and good nature on the islands, but the advent of the politician during the summer and fall was dreaded: The Republican Convention. The Georgia Radicals have been pitch ing into each other “hammer and tongs” for several days in their State Convention at.Atlanta. Fifteen years of freedom and citizenship do not-seem to have taught them much of manners or parliamentary tactics. The members charge open brib ery upon each other,’ and offer to prove it. They wrangle, give the lie, fret, fume, hoot, and yell like so many dervishes. What a sorry sight to see an ex-attorney general of the United States, an ex-mar shal of Georgia, and other while men falling themselves respectable, mixed up in such scenes, and ravening after the loaves and fishes' which are dispensed from Washington. Grant, Blaine, and Sherman are each represented by an ar ray of ihongrel followers, but the great tourist is the strongest, though hi3 sooty cohorts have been out generaled iu the convention. We think it nothing but right and prop er that the black element, which comprises nine-tenths of the Radical vote of Georgia, should demand their share of the public patronage and ' offices. And' when it mes to a choice, who would not prefer right, Deveaux, Belcher, or any other decent colored man, to the white ingrates who align themselves with the negroes, simply that they may manipulate them for their own selfish purposes. ' The convention has been one prolonged row all through. It will probably culmin ate in a divided delegation to Chipgo, or another convention, which will send Simon pure Grant men to represent it. The voluminous proceedings are not worth reproducing. Before going to press doubtless the de nouement will be forthcoming. —A ytfung girl arrived in London from Scotland: She was about seventeen, and was, she said, the daughter of a Presbyte rian minister. She bad come to marry a Zulu, and, accompanied by one of the oldest acd most ill-favored of these dusky savages, she presented herself to the man ager of the aquarium and made known her wish. In vain he remonstrated with her on her folly. She replied her heart was given. He suggested that she would only be one of many wives when her contemplated husband returned to Zulu- land, but sbe persisted. Finding that it was useless to reason with her, she was told she could not marry without her pa rents’ consent, and was sent back to Scot land to obtain it. •Track-laying on tbe Texas and pa cific railroad is progressing at the rate of 4,000 feet per day. ^ Just as was to be Expected. An official order has been issued from .the national sanitary bureau at Washing ton that “on and after May 1st New Or leans will be declared quarantined against allvescels from West Indian and South American ports as security against yellow fever.” This has been done without consulta tion with the parties most interested, the local authorities and people of New Or leans. Moreover it is claimed by St. Louis merchants that the effect of this or der, perhaps designedly, will be in the language of the New York Bulletin, “to practically suspend the shipment of hulk grain to New Orleans for the tropical ports, and in return all West Indian con signments for that city would he forced around by New York.” But the most significant feature of the whole matter is that thereis even less yellow fever than usual in the West Indies, and no special danger from South America. The St. Louis people and all the cities on that grand artery of navigation, the Mississippi river, are outraged at the above arbitrary mandate, which to a great extent asphyxiates their Southern foreign trade, and of course the New Orleans merchants also feel that they have been deeply wronged. t When we reflect that the inhabitants of the Crescent City are far more directly interested than any one else In the sanitary condition of their homes and the prevention of the disease which has so often played havoc in that community, it does seem passing strange that a foreign commission should be clothed with power from the government to assume the control of their hygienic condition, even to the extent of placing a practical embargo upon an important branch of commerce. We had thought and hoped that the in stitution of the national sanitary board was for the purpose of co-operating with the local authorities in those cities of the South which are subject to occasional vis itations from the yellow fever. That the government officials should assume the initiative, and undertake to dictate in ad vance to the experienced and acclimated physicians of New Orleans, Savannah, Memphis and other places, when quaran tine regulations should be established, and assume practical control of the whole situation, is an outrage upon the rights of those communities. The national and local sanitary author- ties should, by all means, aet together. The former, backed by the prestige and resources of the general government, could be made a power for good. But to place them in the van and ignore the opin ions and experience of the representatives) of the cities most deeply concerned, is) like putting the cart before the horse. We trust the action of the Savannah medical association will be heeded at Washington. The extraordinary powers of the national sanitary commission certainly require to be reviewed and materially abridged. ‘ School Books. We have received from Messrs. D. Ap pleton & Co., through their agent, Joseph YanHolt Nash, at Atlanta, a package of school books, embracing— 1. A series of five school readers, ar ranged in regular and systematic progres sion from the first to the fifth. The au thors of this series are 03 follows: Wmt T. Hams, A. M., LL.D., Superintendent of schools at St. Louis; Andrew J. Kickoff, A. M., Superintendent of Instruction, Cleveland, Ohio; Mark Bally, A. M., In structor in Elocution, "kale College. Mr. Nash calls upon us to note with what a regular and ' consistent system these readers advance the pupil, and be ing the work o r some of the most eminent and practical teachers in America, they may be assumed to be planned upon the most enlightened and judicious, method for the development of the pupil. What is still more obvious is the beauty of- the books, which are printed with great ele gance, and the pictorial illustrations are worthy of special commendation. Illustrated Lessons in oar Language; or How to Speak and Write Correctly. De signed to teach English Grammar with out its technicalities. By G. P. Quaclc- enbos, LL.D. The title explains the character of this book. In the olden time of our youth, we never got an idea of the bricks and mortar of grammatical construction till we began the study of other languages. Primers.—With the foregoing are a series of primers for school study. There are Science Primers, edited by Prois. Huxley, Roseoe and Balfour Stewart, and Political Economy by Jevons. Literature Primers, Shakspeare and studies in Bry ant. History Primers, Roman and Greek antiquities and daily life. All these in several small cloth-bound volumes, with illustrations that will give the pupil a clear idea of leading classical, scientific and historical facts.. Ruskin’s Letters to Workmen and Labor ers. Complete'in two parts. New York: L K. Funk <& Co., publishers. Price 15 cents per part. * This is another admirable work belong ing to the “Standard Series” of these en terprising publishers. These gentlemen deserve the lastinggratitude of every lover of literature, in their efforts to supply the best standard books at .the lowest price, thus driving to the wall the pernicious publications that hafe hitherto flooded the land. We would commend these pub lications to our readers as worthy of. pat ronage, and surely the price is so low that everybody can secure tliem. The Opium Boom.—The N. Y. Bulle tin of Saturday, says the speculation in opium, which has excited so much atten tion of late, appears to waver- for the mo ment. At all erents, sales were effected yesterday at a decline of 25® 37 Jc from the highest prices ^recently paid. The “syndicate” appear to have had things their own way so long as they were active buyers; but now that their holdings foot up heavily and the drug trade proper as well as the outside public are manifesting no" inclination to take hold, the prospect is not so cheerful as it might be. The Whittaker Outrage—The Ral eigh Observer says the latest and most probable theory of the outrage upon the colored cadet, Whittaker; at West Point, is that;it was committed by negro men who live in the neighborhood and have access to the academy, through jealousy of, Whittaker, whose brass buttons and distingue air had won the favor of their dusky sweethearts. The leader of there negroes has been 'found hiding in Wash ington. Dr. Tptt’8 pills is a purely vegetable concentration for keeping the bowels in natural motion and cleansing the system of all imparities, and a positive cure for constipation. They restore the diseased liver, stomach and kidneys to a healthy action, while at the same time they brace and invigorate the whole system. api20-lw. A Mew Programme. Distinctions on Account of Color and Race. The Republican State Convention at Atlanta has declared that hereafter, in Georgia, there must be three negroes ap pointed to office to one white man. That is an arrogant claim, which even General Grant may not be prepared to enforce. We concede that, as to the so-called Re publican party in Georgia, it stands even more than “three to one colored.” Per haps it is nine to one, or more. But then it ought to be observed that the whites in Georgia far outnumber the colored race— and although white ought to he counted, even if they do not belong to the so- called Republican party. Furthermore, in our view of the case, the Republican party of the State of Geor gia, in thus declaring, substantially, that a negro is three times as good as a white man, sets itself dead against what is claimed to he the fundamental postu late of the party, that all are equal and there shall be no distinctions on account of color. The Rosin and Turpentine Business in Georgia. The Brunswick Appeal contains an ar ticle on the turpentine and rosin business now prosecuted in the region of that city, bn the Macon and Brunswick railroad, from which we take the following: It has been estimated that the annual product of Georgia in the rosin and tur pentine trade is 800,000 barrels of turpen tine and 400,000 barrels of rosin. The turpentine lands are valued at from $2 to $20 per acre. The estimate values of this industry is about $3,100,000. There are about 5,000 to 6,000 hands employed in the business. The turpentine is pro duced by cutting boxes or pockets in the trees—the common pine treepinus palus- tris. The boxes are cut in November to March. The sap logins to flow freely about the middle of March, and is col lected from the boxc3 by means of a pe culiar ladle and deposited in barrels. The stills used are not essentially different from the ardent spirit stills in common use; they have a capacity of from five to twenty barrels, and run through two batches a day, i. e. a twenty-barrel still runs forty barrels of sap, producing about six barrels of spirits turpentine and twenty-three barrels of rosin. Below we give a pumber of representa tive turpentine firms, not all engaged in this industry along the Macon and Bruns wick railroad, by any means—of these farms we give their capacity, their yield, acres under cultivation, t?sk for each band; the number of distilleries and stills in use with the number of hands employ ed. From these dozen Anns wc have a source of revenue from this great and growing industry of over half a million dollars. Seventy thousand live hundred acres under cultivation and over eight hundred hands employed, and this is but af drop in the backet. We omit the table of turpentine mer chants, which sets forth, in detail, the number of crops, acres, boxe3, hands em ployed, yield per year, number of distil leries and stills, prepared carefully by Hinton A'.'Helper, Esq.' '!■ , , Decoration; Bay. For some days past the officers of the ladies’ memorial association have been iqaking efforts to celebrate, the 26th instant iii the customary manner. At the. last moment it has been decided that there will be no public demonstration on that day, as heretofore customary in this city. The ladies found it impossible to procure an orator for the occasion, and the associ ation not being in funds with which to pay for a band, have decided not to have any procession, music or speaking upon the 26th. It is urged by the ladies of the as sociation that the citizens of Atlanta visit the cemetery, upon memorial day, with their floral offerings, and place them upon the graves of our fallen heroes.—Atlanta Constitution. What is the matter with the first city of Georgia, with over forty thousand inhabi tants ? No speaker, and no money- to pay for music on that occasion! Andhas.it come to this—the metropolitan city of the Empire State too.poor in brain to furnish a speaker, and too poor in purse to secure a band to play a requiem over the resting place of their dead heroes ? —Something wonderful in the way of a rowing device is to be used by Courtney in the forthcoming boat race, according to the Boston Herald correspondent, who says: “We entered the'boat house, and Courtney closed the door and locked it against intruders. He took a scull from its resting place, and placed it right side up on a pair of sawhorses. The reporter examined it sharply, and, with Courtmy’s explanations, at once saw itt utility. Courtney dwelt at consjderablejength up on the invention, and the reporter was im pressed with the fact that the contrivance wa^ a great production. It demonstrated that the oarsman was not only a man of muscle, but a man of mind.” But Court ney had imposed a solemn vow of secrecy* and the public must wait for f .the race to know what the contrivance is. Another Pacific Railroad;—The people of tho New Dominion, unmindful of the Credit Mobilier- experience of their cousins over the border, seem resolved to spend thirty millipns of dollars in con structing a railroad through the barren wastes and frigid regions of the British possessions to the Pacific ocean. That the scheme will pay* no practical man be lieves. The mother government wisely refuses to- have anything to do with it. Bnt the administration of Sir John A. Mc Donald will probably- get the measure through the Canadian Parliament. Al ready huge frauds, it is said, have been developed even in tbe inception of- the project. . Just So.—The Springfield Union pro fesses to believe “that, whatever may be said of the ‘divine right to holt,’ the time to bolt is before a man has taken part in deliberations of a party caucus. If he distrosts the party, and thinks that, in any contingency,he cannot acquiesce in its decisions, he has no business in its delib erations.” Every delegate to the two conventions in Georgia which are to give voice and effect to the .efforts of the State and na tional Democracy, ought to weigh the above words carefully, and be guided by them to the letter. Personal preferences should he made to give way to the will of the majority fairly expressed, or hope of success at the polls must be abandoned. Will Never Come Down.—A special te the .Philadelphia Times says: “Con cerning the story widely circulated and frequently repeated that Mr. Tilden’haa written a letter withdrawing fcqm the Presidential race| it may be said, on the authority given this evening by one of Mr. Tildeu’s most intimate friends and most trusted advisers, that they are false. “Mr. Tilden has not .written‘such a letter,” said this gentleman; “I know that he has done nothing of the sort. You may pnt it just as strong as you please, and yon may add that Mr. Tilden expressed to me his belief in his ability to carry the Cincin nati convention.’” We do not doubt that Mr. Tilden will hold on while there is the ghost of a a chance for him to succeed. But that he can secure two-thirds of the Cincinnati convention is among the Impossibilities. Census of 1880. 4th District of Geokqia, Griffin, Ga., April 20,1SS0. Editors Telegraph and Messenger; I will thank you to publish, as a matter of information to your, readers, the inclosed communication, and oblige. Respectfully, Chas. R. Johnson, Supervisor of Census. Having just received my commission as supervisor of tlie census' for the fourth district of Georgia, 1 beg to communicate through the columns of your paper infor mation for the benefit of the public gen erally, and especially for the guidance of applicants for the positions of enumera tors who may reside in the following counties, to-wit: * Baldwin,-Bibb, Butts, Campbell, Car- roll, Clayton, Coweta, Crawford, Doug las, Fayette, Hanis, Heard, Henry, Jas per, Jones, Meriwether, Monroe, Newton, Pike, Putnam, Spalding, Talbot, Troup, Upson and Wilkinson." My first duty will be to propose a plan for the form at i m of sub-divisions of coun ties into enumeration districts, and in so doing I shall be thankful to persons who may favor me with a map, or even a rough sketch of the county of their resi dence, showing numbers and relative lo cation Of the militia districts, in order that proper and convenient sub-divisions may be formed. In forming enumeration, dis tricts I shall be governed by the following rules and suggestions taken from a letter from the Hon. F. A. Walker, superin tendent of census: 1. In no case will a part of one county be joined in an enumeration district with another county ot any part thereof. 2. In no case will a militia district be joined in an enumeration district with a fractional part of another militia district. In cases where more than one such civil division is taken to form an enumeration district the whole of each such civil divis ion so taken must he included. 3. In t. eneral, every militia district of the county should be constituted an enu meration district, if the estimated popula tion thereof exceeds seven or eight hun dred inhabitants. The only reason which this office could recognize as sufficient for making such a civil division a part of a largerenumeration district would be the impossibility of securing a competent and trustworthy enumerator within its own limits. 4. The enumeration districts must be made small enough to secure the comple tion of the canvass within the limit set by tho census law, viz., during the.month of June. Compliance jvith the law in tins matter, will be rigidly insisted on. The number of inhabitants who can be enumerated within the time allowed by the law will vai7 greatly, according to the geographical conditions of the district and the density Or sparseness of settlement. As settlements become more sparse and the difficulty of travel increases, a smaller amount of population should be embraced within enumeration districts. 5. In cities having over ten thousand inhabitants by the census of 1870, the law requires that the enumeration shall be completed within two weeks. An active, intelligent enumerator. can easily take from 200 to $00 names per day in a city, at least after the first day of two. Enumerators should decidedly rid themselves of the notion that it is impor tant that every .enumerator should be kept employed during the whole of the period allowed by law for the enumera tion. The sooner the census is taken, the better it will be taken. The limit set in the act of March 3, 1879, is an outsido limit, to meet the necessities of individ ual cases. Where two equally good enumerators can be appointed, who will complete the canvass^in.two weeks, it is better than to have one "cnumei ator car rying on the work for a month. The more highly localized the enumeration is made, the more accurate and complete will be the statement of the required par ticulars. The rates of compensation to enumerators iu the several sections will be announced as soon as practicable. the appointment of enumerators. The most important duty which the su pervisor has to perform is the selection of enumerators. If this is well done the success of the census is secured. If it is badly done, in any district, the service will be discredited, the.district will be disparaged in the result, and the super visor will not escape blame. The following consideration should be observed in tbe choice of enumerators: _ 1. The appointment must be non-par tisan and selected solely with reference to the fitness ofthe ; applicant, and without reference to his political or party affilia tions. • 2. The appointments should be - made with reference to physical activity, and to aptness, neatness and accuracy in' writ ing and in the use of figures. These re quirements are scarcely more in the inter: est of the census than in the interest of the enumerator himself. Unless, the officer be fairly proficient in all clerical exercises, he will find his duties very trying and his ay very meager. To appoint old or fcro- :en men to this duty (as supervisorsi'will, on all sides, be pressed to do), would not be an act of charity, but of cruelty. The census requires • active, 'energetic men, oi good address and readiness with the pen. Only such can do the work with satisfaction to the’government or profit to themselves. It is desired that persons who may be tendered appointments as enumerators, should be given to distinctly understand that if they accept such appointments and qualify as enumerators, they: cannot, “without justifiable' cause,” ■ refuse or neglect to perform the duties of the posi tion. Having assumed tho office, they cannot retire from it at their own pleas- ure. *' • •*«>• Applications made, upon postal cards andscraps.of paper, will .be filed, but it company the application, or bo sent di rect *to this office.' The supervisor cannot be expectcd to write to persons to whom reference is made. • Eor public information, I Would .say that a great mass of applications made to this office, are evidently not in the handwriting of the applicant, and do not conform in other particulars to the rules established by the Department, and cannot, therefore, be considered. Every applicant is required to set forth his or her place of birth, and present legal residence, with-post-office address; the principal faets of his or her education and professional or business experience,-in cluding a statement, of . all national, State, county or municipal offices at any time held by him, and the place and na ture of his'Or. her. present occupation. The application must be throughout in the hand writing of tho person designated, and must be so certified by himself, and should also give the number of the militia district in which .the applicant resides. Ladies are eligible to the position of enu-. merators. Very respectfully, Charles R. Johnson, Supervisor of Census. The number of different kinds of post age stamps which have been hitherto issued all over the world is estimated, in round numbers, at 6,000. Among them are to be found the effigies' of five emper ors, eighteen kings, three queens, one grand duke, six prinees, one princess and a great number of presidents, etc. Some of tbe si amps bear coats of arms and other emblems, as crowns, the papal keys and tiara, anchors, eagles, lions, horses, stars, B?rpent8»Tallway trains, horsemen, -messengers, etc,.The collection preserved in the museum of the Berlin post-office in cluded, on Jiffy 1, 1879, 4,498 specimens of different postage stamps. Of these, 2,462 were from Europe, 441 from Asia, 251 from Africa, 1,143 from America and 201 from Australia. HUGH MOONSHINE. The Reception with Which an At lanta Crowd Met at Red Oak. One day last week a party of young gentlemen in Atlanta bound themselves together for the purpose of making a raid on the moonshiners and thereby confiscat ing to the government some good old corn juice. The party was composed of repre sentative youD" meir of the city, and no thought of failure entered their minds when theytook up their line of march to tfie illicit distillery neighborhood known as Red Oak, about forty miles from At lanta. On their loute they “pressed into ser vice” a3 a guide a negro who professed thorough acquaintance with the country and commanded him under penalty of death to conduct them to the house of a well known corn smasher. The negro, actuated by fear, complied with their de mands, and from the top of a hill pointed out the house of the wanted distiller be low. Here a halt was made and the negro sent foiward.to reconnoiter. After the lapse of an hour the negro made his appearance in front of the house and gave tho agreed signal. The raiders, who doubtless had spent weeks in study ing “Sherman’s march through the South,” approached the residence of the boss moonshiner, doubtless congratulating themselves on their success, and having surrounded the house, were about to force an entrance when they discovered that they themselves were environed by arined men, who demanded their unconditional surrender. Not having studied the tac tics of a standing fire as well as the raid ing element of warfare, they quietly gave up their arms and wept at the ignoble de feat With which-they had met. As soon as a complete surrender of the arms had been effected, the big mogul among the moonshiners said “march,” and the line took up its march to the house which the raiders intended to invest. When once within, the doors were closed, sentries placed on all sides of the building, and ail extra baggage laid as ; de, and then it was that the fun began, and the Atlanta boys showed themselves to the best advantage: 3 The “big Ike” among the moonshiners instructed a big six-foot mountaineer to bring forth ids liddle and ‘‘111110 her up.” The order was complied with,, and wheu the horse-hair touched the cat-gut, har monious sounds resounded through that old building. Turning to the raiders the moonshin er said, “Get your pards lor the next quadrille.” The boys looked around, but no blooming lassies were present. See ing that his order was not thoroughly un derstood he approached and explained. Said lie: “You’re come all the way from Atlanter fer fun, and darn me if you ain’t going to have it. Two on youn’s git out there together and the others over here, and when Jake plays that liddle you dance. Don’t fool about it, hut dance like h—.” At first the boys hesitated, but seeing that biz was biz, and that it took money even in that county to buy whisky, they, proceeded to mix toes lively. When once the set began the moonshiners “joined hands all around,” and kept them faith fully at work fpr an lnur, when a rest was had. They then brought out a jug and passed it around among the raiders with instructions to drink and be - merry. Nothing loth they complied with the first injunction any how. - “Now,” said the moonshiner, “that's the first part of the programme for this evening’s entertainment; let’s see how you fellows Can pat, and mind, no faolen.” Atlanta arranged herself up in a.line, and began patting, and such patting, why Cal Wagner was no whet*. After patting come more whisky, then singing, then whisky, then praying, then whisky, etc., through all the varied accomplishments which the boys knew. When the night had about spent itself they took one of the boys to the door and said, “Do you see that gray horse tied to the fence ?” “Yes,” was the reply. “Well, who rode lum here?” “I did,” said At- lanta.“ Well, now,” said the moonshiner, “you just climb up on that'horse and get, and git fast, too, and don’t you come back any more, and take good care to tell tlie revenue officers how well we treated you,” and ’lis useless to add that he got. One by one, with half an hour inter vening, they were dismissed, and strange to say when they got back to Atlanta yesterday, they were yet each half an hour apart. The .boys express themselves as highly pleased with their entertainment iu the mountains.—Atlanta Post. “I’ve got a letter here,” said Colonel Solon, yesterday, “which some one ur nuther is tryin’ to play off on me as a reg’lar letter from Joe Kurts,” and Hie Colonel placed the letter on the desk. It was neatly written, and’Joe’s name was signed to it correctly. “Certainly, Col onel, that’s Joe’s letter,” said we. “No, sir-ee, bob, no, sir,” said the Colonel veiy S iuitively, “that air letter is a forgery, coz oe stutters worse’n whisky flowin’ out of a bottle, and this ere letter reads as straight as a mill-race.” And the Colonel would not be convinced that Joe didn’t stutter in his writing. The Future Outlook of Georeia and Ceptral Railroad Stock. '“Chatham,” the Atlanta correspondent of the Savannah Mews, in his last letter indulges in the following “sober reflec tions:”* J • ’• ' ; The fall of Louisville & Nashville Rail road stock Will probably have a tendency to cause a decline in the stock of the Cen tral railroad, if not in that of the Georgia railroad.. There is, however, no reason for any such decline. The Central and Georgia are both independent, so far as a paying business is concerned, of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, and the price of stock of the latter road is of no consequence to the stockholders of tberfonner roads. Tliree^of the best railroadmen in Ala bama and Georgia have to-day expressed to' me the opinion that the Louisville and Nashville railroad mauaging the Central- would be like a tail wagging the dog. The Central is to-day on a solid basis, and whatever may be the fate of tbe Louis ville and Nashville railroad and its branches, the stock of the Central is sure to be profitable. t . I; . The lease of the Selma end of the Western * railroad of Alabama' to tbe Louisville' and Nashville railroad, with the right to purchase, was a wise move on the part of the Central and Georgia, who own it jointly, as it has never been a de sirable piece of road for their manage ment. Montgomery is tlie proper and paying.terminus of the Western road, and there it will qow stop, and by such an ar rangement become more profitable as an investment. -There is no doubt that the Louisville and Nashyille railroad has reached out and grasped rather more territory thau it can successfully and profitably cover. * Ri val interests arc being aroused, and other causes have combined to put Its stock down and threaten it with still further de preciation.- ColoneP’Cole’s* policy was with ail competing lines, but Presi- eciares war The Graniteville Factory. We make the following extract from the interesting report of 1’resident Hick man, of the Graniteville manufacturing company to the stockholders on the 22na instant. It is published in lull in the Au gusta Seics. Mr. Hickman says : Believing, as I do, that the prices of ail commodities will decline to a more natu ral and safer level, and fearing most of all the disastrous consequences of a protrac ted inflation of values, 1 shall so shape the financial business of your company, if I am again called to preside over your af fairs, as to avoid, if possible, all loss from shrinkage, by meeting dealers in your goods in a spirit of concession, whenever concessions may be demanded by the exi gences of trade. ‘» ■ - The results of the operations of your mills, during the year ending February 29th, are succintly set forth in the follow ing statement: profits. Graniteville Mill. $127,774 67 Vaueluse Mill... 66,800 16 -$194,574 83 EXPENDITURES. Granitevitle. Exchange account .. $599 71 Expense if . . 2,611 42 Office it .. 273 15 School u .. 1,000 00 Insurance ,. if .. 4.709 50 Interest cc . 33,577 59 Taxes a .. 5,302 99 Repairs it .. 375 00 $44,440 36 Expense account.. Insurance Office Repairs Vaueluse. $50 47 2,885 75 25 90 134 34 2,596 16 $51,045 82 Total net profits . $143,529 01 Deduct dividends paid 48,000 00 Am’t carried to profit and loss $95,529 01 Amount at credit of profit and loss, March 1, 1879 30,120 75 Amount at credit of profit and Moss, March 1,1880 $125,649 76 The cost of Vaueluse is $347,589.47, exclusive of cost of land and mill privi lege. Your commercial capital was $300,000. To this add the amount at credit of profit and loss, and you have the sum of $425,649.76. From this deduct the cost of your Vaueluse mill, and you have at credit of profit and loss $78,000,- 29, over and above all liabilities. The production of your’ Graniteville mill for'the fifty-two weeks, beginning with March 3d, 1879, and ending March 1st, 1880, was as follows: Pounds. Yards.’ 444 Sheeting . . . 1,600,025 4,971,000 7r8 Shilling . • . 940,057 3,443,000 7-S Drilling . . . 303,413 1,063,070 3-4 Shirting . . 422,281 1,905,000 Total . . . 3,386,670 11,472,079 The quantity of cotton consumed in this production was 3,9S5,001 pounds, or nearly 8,856 bales, of 450 pounds average weight. The loss of running time, by reason of low water, was seven days—ten days les3 than it was last year; and this loss was partially made up by running fifty-seven hours extra in the aggregate during De cember, January and February—a neces sity imposed by the very large and urgent orders for your goods during those months. The production of your Vancluse Mill, during the same period as above, was as follows: Pounds. AA 4-4 sheeting '. . 753,469 SS 7-8 drilling .... 245,624 LL 4-4 sheeting . . . 447,718 Yards. 2,265,000 \ 742,000 J 1,085,000 j Total . 1,440,811 4,092,000 The cotton consumed iu the manufac- ture.pl these goods was 1,751,108 pounds, or nearly 3,892 commercial hales. Newcomb de upon all ri val interests, and so tljey are preparing to make war upon him,backed by the Adams and Southern Express Company,which he has expelled from his lines. Judging a. Senator by His Looks. The Washington correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch says Judge Mackey, (Republican,) from South Carolina, was sitting in the gallery of the Senate, when a sharp-laced, razor-strap-looking fellow said to him: “Mister, can you point out to ine that infernal Hamburg murderer, Butler, of South Carolina ?” “Certainly,” said the polite Judge; “and I will point out, also, other notables of the Senate. Don’t you see that handsome Senator with light, curly hair ? Well, that is Conkling; and the gray-headed, bright- looking man near him is Blaine; that large Senator is. Judge Davis, of Illinois; and over there is General John B. Gor don talking to Lamari Don’t you see that bald-headed man?” pointing to Sen ator Edmunds; “well, that ia Butler, of South Carolina.” The eyes our Yankee frien<l were light ed up with indignation as he replied, “Yes, I could have picked him out of a thousand”—adding a good deal that was not complimejitary to the distinguished Vermonter. The other day Senator Ed munds came over on the Democratic side, when Mr. Vest said: “Edmunds, Hamp ton has a good joke on you,” and the gal lant Carolinian was forced to tell the whole story. Senator Edmunds laughed heartily, and remarked that it was a com pliment to be taken for so handsome a man as General Butler. The fact, how ever, is that Mr. Bdmnnds’ face strongly indicates justice and wisdom, with no trace of mercy in it, unless when he is talking to Mr. Thurman or some personal favorite, and then it is as genial and pleasant as possible. Duel to the Death.—A sickening account of a duel in Morocco is given by a correspondent of the Bepublique Fran- caise. Two young men of noble birth were paying their attentions to the daugh ter of a neighbor, and as she showed equal favor to each of them, it was ar ranged by mutual consent that they should meet in single combat and fight a duel to the death. The conditions of the duel were that they should meet on horse back, each of'the combatants being armed with .a rifle, a revolver and a hunt ing-knife. •„ . _ vii ; . . They were placed 100 yards apart, and upon a signal given- by one of the seconds they set their horses at full gallop and rushed upon each other. For a few mo ments the spectators could see nothing bat a cloud of dust, from out of which were heard two successive reports of a rifle', and then a third, followed by the neighing of ahoise. When the dust had cleared away, a shocking sight met the gaze of the spectators; one of the combatants, con cealed behind his dead horse, was taking aim at bis adversary, who still re mained in the saddle. The latter spurred his horse and made it rear, the noble ‘M beast receiving in its chest the bullet - 9 meant for his master. The rider, as soon as he was dismount ed, rushed forward to grapple with hik adversary, but a second shot fractured ilia left shoulder.' Nevertheless he retained sufficient strength to discharge two cham bers of his revolver,'both shots taking ef fect. A hand-to-haud combat then en sued, the two adversaries, neither of whom was able to stand, stabbing each other repeatedly. When the seconds and spectators at last interfered the two com batants were picked up dead—one with his teeth firmly set in his adversary’s cheek, while the latter’s hand was thrust into a gaping wound in the other’s chest- Mfii Gkant Duff, in the course of one of his recent addresses to his constitu ents, said that some years ago, when Sir. Gladstone’s administration was in power, a clever Toiy, who hated both Mr.-Glad- Ip- stone and his administration, wrote the following acrostic : G was the great man, a mountain of mind; j i L a logician, expert and refined; A was an adept in rhetoric’s art; D was the dark spot he had in his heart; S was the sophistry led him astray; js’ T was the truth that he bartered away; * O was the cipher his conscience became; N the new light that enlightened the same; JS -was the evil one, shouting for joy— “At it and down with it, Gladstone my boy!” This acrostic was repeated in a drawing- room in the presence of a young lady of good Liberal principles, and the daughter of a well-known member of Parliament, who, without leaving the room, went to a table and wrote this answer to it: G is the genius that governs the nation; L are the lords, who require education; A is the animus raised by the great, D are the donkeys who fear for the state ; S is tbe standard that Liberals raise; T are the Tories who howl in dispraise; O’s the Opposition, wanting a bead; N is the nation, not driven butTed; E is old England, shouting for joy, “Stick to the Government, Gladstone, my boy!” The reading of this reply was greeted with loud and prolonged cheering by Mr. Grant Duff’s friends. i A Great Discovery by a Great Man. 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