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(Scltgmjtjr auli Jfeswgt FRIDAY, MAY 7, 16S0. HUBDARD’S FBDmBf Advertiser Is one of the neatest publications in the Un ion. It is filled brim-full with informa tion to the craft. It is published in New Haven, Connecticut. —“Tell me, Dennis, what is Social ism?” “Listen. This is Socialism. You and I go into a beer shop. You offer to stand treat and you pay for it; then I offer to stand treat and you again pay for it.” “Yes, but what if I am a Socialist too?” “Then the beer shelter must pay.” “But suppose he is a Socialist also?” “Then we’ll clear out.” —The prevalence of terrific and, in our day unprecedented storms, says the Nash ville American, goes far toward confirm ing the belief that there are planetary disturbances of an unusual nature. It is strange that these old planets can’t get to gether without conceding mischief and in terfering with the meteorology of this planet. Saturn especially ought to be ashamed of himself after all that he has been through with. —“The Judge,” said Mr. Evarts,alluding to O’Connor, “wants a strong government. What can we do for him, Mr. Merrick?” •“Well,” replied Mr. Merrick, “I don’t see what better he can do than renominate Hayes. He fills a place to which he was never elected, and that certainly is a veiy unusual sign of strength.’ Mr. Evarts tried a faint laugh, and then asked what the house would do about the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The Fall in Prices.—The New York Commercial Bulletin publishes a table of leading articles showing their market value for the first four months of the pres ent year. By this comparison it is shown that the decline in prices is fully equal to fifteen per cent. This should set our mer chants to thinking, and induce increased vigilance, industry and circumspection on their part. With proper care there is no danger of a panic or financial collapse. “Gentlemen, you are in the hands of the sheriff,” said the judge to the “addi tion, division and silence” crowd, when they remonstrated against the penitentia ry. The fact is, so muny people dressed in store clothes are now caught stealing, that the judges feel compelled to be polite. “My dear sir,” said the polite Sheriff Ran dolph, to the man he hung, when ad justing the noose, “I am awkward, but have a little patience, and I wiil fix it all comfortable for you.” Gobtschakoff Recovering.—Prince Gortscbakoff, the Russian Chancellor, who must be nearly ninety years old, is re ported to be recovering irom his recent at tack of pneumonia. A Paris dispatch to the Herald represents him as in high spirits, chatty and bumorsome. We sent for a hairdresser, who cut his hair and shaved him. The hairdresser, however, cut him slightly on the chin. The Prince said to him, ‘For the first time in fifty years I did not shave myself to-day, and the consequence is that I have been cut. I am therefore right in refusing to employ a barber.’ Since the commencement of his illness the Prince has lived entirely isolated from politics.” —Witchcraft in Russia is a profitable occupation, but accompanied by great dan gers. Last year, near the city of Tikhvin, woman was burned as a witch. Now, in the city of Saratoff, a whole peas ant family is to be tried for the murder of a sorcerer. The circumstances of the case are these: A peasant known to be a sor cerer was invited to a wedding ceremony, and treated with the utmost attention, in order to dispose him in favor of the young couple. The conjurer, however, looked dissatisfied, and when the young pair were lying at his feet supplicating his mercy, the mother of the young bride instantly began to cry out as one possessed with an evil spirit. This was looked upon as a bad sign for the newly-wedded couple, and their relatives fell on the sorcerer, killed him on the spot, and mutilated his body so shockingly that it could hardly be identified. —A vagrant as3, says the San Antonio Herald, stood beside the track of the Sun set railway at the depot this morning; an engine moved slowly up; it stopped with in a few feet of the ass, and the engineer blew one of those terrible screams, pro longed and ear-piercing; such a blast as makes a sleeping Millerite dream of the dav of judgment. Did the ass scare? Not worth a cent! Did he shake the sloth from his limbs, erect his tail and speed away like the asses of Bassorah, faster than the Bedouin coursers run, back to the chaparral? No, he didn’t. He turnpd one car towards the engine just as a deaf man uses his tin ear-trumpet, and caught every particle of the sound. And when the steam-blawn whistle ceased its notes, and all the echoes died away, the animal straightened out his neck, opened his mouth, and in a voice that deafened all the railroad men and caused the freight clerk to drop his pen, roared: “I can’t! I can’t! I can’t! I can’t! be beat! be beat! be beat! be beat! I c-a-n-’t be-be-be-be beat!” Tilden and the Original Jacobs. —A Washington dispatch to the World lays down the facts in the caso thus: “Governor Tilden will at the proper time withdraw as a candidate before the na tional convention. It goes to say that both personal and political reasons con tribute to this result. Ex-Govemor Rob inson, who heads the delegation, will of coarse be his mouthpiece in the conven tion. It is a knowledge of these facts which induced Senator Jacobs, chairman of the Syracuse convention, to assert in his place in the State Senate on Thursday that the Democracy of New York would be united in November. Mr. Tilden's choice as a candidate is, it is believed, Henry B. Payne, of Ohio. The World some time ago, it will be re membered, in an Interview with Colonel Harm-’n, sent from here, announced that Mr. Fayne was- Mr. Tilden’s - choice after himself. The same local paper to-day, publishes an interview with Congressman Coffrotli, of Pennsylvania, in the course of which, in reply to the question whether the Pennsylvania convention would de clare for Tilden, he is represented as say ing, “No, Sir. We intend to send an in dependent, umnstructed delegation com posed of our very best men to Cincinnati to select for us a candidate who can be elected. My choice for the nomination is Seymour. I believe my personal prefer ence is Hendricks, but the eastern people are so touchy on the financial question that he might not suit them. The con vention will be largely against him. I want to see our party in Pennsylvania and New York harmonized. I’m for harmony, and am willing to make concessions to bring it about. I say, let Tammany and alj Democrats into the party. Let’s rebaptize all of them into the Democratic faith.” The Chicago Convention. According to the New York Sun's count (27tb instant,) 380 of the 738 dele gates to the Chicago convention had been cbosen, who represented for Grant 218 votes; for Blaine 110; for Sherman 25; for Edmunds 24, and for Washburn 3— giving Grant a majority of 56 overall The State conventions now, however, are rapidly wheeling into line, and the count changes from day to day. The Sun thinks that the chances of Grant’s getting a majority are against him; but we believe that to be a mistake, Grant’s backers know what they are about. They are fierce, determined and uncompromising. Having made up their minds to run this goverment on imperial principles, nothing short of a strong pop ular negative is going to stop them; and it has got to be very strong and decisive at that. No such feeble and puerile opposi tion as the Republican party is now set ting up on the divided candidacies of Blaine, Sherman & Co. is going to stop the career of the man on horseback to dy nastic power. The whole American people are obliged to meet this grave proposition with all the solemn earnestness its importance de mands. If they are ready for the mo mentous change, well and good. They are on the high way to it. But if they desire the continuance of constitutional popular government, they have a heavy struggle before them. Retailing Liquors.—The Wesleyan Christian Advocate copies and commeuts upon some liquor statistics copied from the report of Internal Revenue Com missioner Green B. Raum. By these it appears that in the six New England States there are 11,940 Jicensed retailers of spirituous liquors, and in the six South ern States of Georgia, Louisiana, Missis sippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, 13,981. The population of New England by the census of 1870 was 3,487,- 724; and of the six Southern States enu merated 5,334,-812. The Advocate thinks, and is proba bly correct in its opinion, that the popula tion of these Southern States in 1879 doubled that of New England. The figures are surprising. That New England, with all her prohibitory legisla tion should number not far from twice as many liquor retailers as these Southern States, (according to population), is a strange fact, which must have its lesson. And if we consider what proportion of these licenses in the South represented mere road corners concerns, with a trifling business, the case becomes still more re markable. We do not wish to draw any uncomplimentary inferences from the facts to the New England States. There too much liquor drinking all over the country. But certainly the fashion the Northern papers have of habitually speak ing of the Southern ■ people as pre-emi nently intemperate, should be abated. Mb. Goldwin Smith on the Thibd Term.—The advocates of a third term pretend to believe that it would be no change of the constitution. On this point, perhaps, the judgment of dispas sionate onlookers is as likely to be true as that of enthusiastic partisans. Were a civilian re-elected for administrative mer it there would merely be a breach of a tradition too long established to be lightly broken; but if a soldier were re-elected, not for administrative merit, of which Gen. Grant is notoriously devoid, but as ‘strongman"—in other words, as a mil itary rider and possible dictator—to say that there was no change of the constitu tion would be absurd. There might be none of its letter, but there would be a serious change of its spirit. Nor do the more outspoken of the third termers shrink from avowing that tliej» are for a fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh term, as well as for a third. In other words, they are in favor of a military presidency for life, which, after the long disuse of elec tion, might pass more readily into dynas tism than they imagine. If society can be saved from confusion onlv by a man on horseback, a man on horseback it must have; but let it at least see what it is do ing. The Calcutta Markets.—The cap tain of a vessel just arrived at New York from Calcutta, communicates some facts of importance with regard to the rapid changes in the tone of the markets in that quarter. For several years past it has been extremely difficult to obtain a char ter at Calcutta at all. Tonnage accumu lated, and vessels waited months to obtain cargo. The rate to New York in Sep tember last was $4, but in one month it advanced to $12, with vessels in demand and chartered' before arrival. The change was caused by better demand for goods and abundant crops, but it took shipping people there by surprise, with the excep tion of a few brokers, who took advantage of their superior knowledge to engage a number of vessels at a low rate just pre vious to the advance. In the case of the captain’s vessel, the advance made a dif ference of $20,000 in his freight money. He say3 there was a great scarcity of ice in Calcutta when he left. A More Cheerful Crop Outlook in Eu rope. The latest advices by mail from France, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Germany and Hungary, are all exceedingly favorable as to the present condition of tho growing cereal crops. The weather has been warm and balmy, and the wheat does not appear to have undergone serious injury from the severity of the past winter. Should the harvest prove satisfactory, and in this country, also, the enormous acre age laid down in wheat approximate the yield of last year, there will be bread and to spare on both continents another sea son. This is a consummation devoutly to be wished for. The year 1880 will be ever memorable for the famines in Ireland, India,and Bra zil. It is difficult to see what the starving Old World could have done without the teeming supplies which have been forth coming from the abundance of the New. Fleets of ships have been kept in constant motion, wafting across the ocean the food for which all Europe was clamoring. Ver ily, the discoverer ol America is entitled to a thousandfold more fame than Alex ander, Bonaparte and all the renowned captains of history. They caused the death of millions by their cruel wars: Columbus opened up a continent as the result of his eventful voyage across the Atlantic, which is now the abode of freedom and the high est civilization, and a priceless blessing to the overcrowded nations of the Old World. The spring thus far has been, on the whole, propitious to food crops and “gar den truck,” so-called. Tne frequent and generally light rains in Middle Georgia have given com a promising start, and vegetables are growing finely. Irish potatoes have attained the standard eat ing size of a hen’s egg. Green peas and asparagus are abundant and snaps begin ning to appear. We are speaking of home productions. The Florida vege tables of these sorts, and even tomatoes and cucumbers, are common. We got the following yesterday: . Macon, Ga., April 29, 1830. Editors Telegraph and Messenger-Gen tlemen : Judge Amow, of 8t. Marys, Ga., sends us a few of the celebrated Spanish onions, and requests us to send you one as a sample. They are not fully matured, but are of delicious flavor.. Try the sample aud say wliat you think of them. Yours, respectfully, J. F. Gbeeb & Son. Accompanying this note was a solitary onion, thirteen and a half inches in cir cumference, and weighing twenty-two Northern Methodist General Conference.—This body meets in Cin cinnati next week, inquadrennial session. It represents over two millions of member ship. Georgia will be represented by the following delegates: E. J. Fuller, of At lanta, clerical; Lewis D. Ellington, of Lawrencerille, layman; C. O. Fisher, of Atlanta, clerical; W. H. Cragman, of At lanta, layman. Atlanta in this, as in all other big things, has the lion’s share. Washburne, avowing his third term preference, says he sees nothing in outcry about it. Other people “see the millions in it.” Fan in the Senate. The Whittaker case has given rise to series of very awkward and spasmodic ef forts among the Republicans in Congress to appropriate the suspected feud among the white and negro cadets, in some way not very clear, to use as party capital Senator Allison, of Iowa, undertook the job early on Monday last, and introduced an amendment in an appropriation bill directing tbe President to select aud ap point two of the ten cadets at large annu ally appointed, from the colored men The amendment drew out a few objec tions and suggestions from Mr. Maxey and Mr. Hamlin, which Mr. Allison eas ily met, and then Mr. Cockrell, of Mis souri, in a most impressive and deliberate manner, rose and' said: “I am utterly astonished at the position taken by the Senator from Iowa. The country knows how kindly the President feels towards the colored race. Delega tions of colored people have called upon him, and he has expressed his kindness towards them, and shown them a circular issued to the heads cf departments re quiring them to recognize the colored ele ment in appointments to office, and with that before him the Senator from Iowa comes and asks a Democratic Congress to take the executive by the throat and com pel him to recognize the colored people of this country in appointments made by him. He asks the Democratic party to compel the Republican executive to ap point colored cadets to West Point. “Why, sir, is it possible that a distin guished Republican Senator will rise in uis seat and ask such a thing at the hands of a Democratic Senate? Members of Congress have the right to appoint cadets at West Point. Nearly one-half of the members of the House are members of the party in sympathy with the Republi can executive. They have, the right to appoint colored cadets there, and the Sen ator from Iowa might just as well ask Congress to put a proviso in this bill com pelling the representatives from the differ ent States to appoint from the colored people. Mr. President, I cannot think that the Senator from Iowa is in earnest. I cannot think that he would so reflect upon his Republican executive and upon his Republican party and the record which they have been making for so many years. It is an admission to the country that they are not recognizing the colored element. I have feen it stated that the colored element will ask forVice-Presi dent’s position in the coming contest. I suggest that the Senator insert an amend ment in this bill, compelling tbe National Republican convention, when it meets in Chicago, to nominate a colored man for Vice-President. They constitute nearly one-half of the voters of tho Republican party, and I think that the party ought to recognize them. But it ought .not to come to the Democratic party for compulsory measures to make them do what they otherwise ought to do.” Having thus delivered his protest Mr. Cockrell resumed his seat with the re lieved air of one who had performed con scientiously au arduous duty. The Senate was for a moment stunned at such a sally from such a quarter, and Mr. Allison shifted uneasily in his seat, blushing like a schoolboy. After a rather awkward pause some one on one of the retiring sofas ex ploded in a guffaw which set the floor and galleries roaring. The amendment wont over. The British Political Revolution. The victory of the Liberals at the re cent election, says the Baltimore Sun, was so unexpected and so astounding that until some analysis of the vote could be had, it seemed difficult to account for it. Looking back to the condition of the country six years ago, it becomes quite evident that the Beaconsfield minis try entered upon office under very trying circumstances. It was at the beginning of that depression of trade which contin ued throughout the whole period of Con servative rule. The ministry was almost immediately subjected to the troubles, perplexities and anxieties growing out of the Turko-Russian war. When peace was patched up by the treaty of Berlin, war broke out in Zululand, and before that was brought to a close the British troops were fighting their way through the passes of Afghanistan. All these agitating events, not unaccompanied as they were by some serious disasters, bad their effect upon the recent elections. But the principal cause of tli6 Conser vative overthrow was the development of a democratic spirit among those electors whom Mr. Disraeli created when he forced his reluctant party to vote tor household suffrage. The late Lord Der by vehemently protested against it, and declared it to be, in a phrase now famous, “A leap in the dark.” But the law was passed, and a few months later the elec tion resulted in putting the Liberals out of office and the Conservatives in, with Mr. Disraeli (since become Lord Beacons field) at their head. Six years has passed since then, and the very voters to whom he had opened the suffrage, and on whose support he seems to have relied, cast their votes at tbe last election against him, cither as Liberals or as Radicals. In the Glad stone parliament of 1868 the Liberals, as Mr. Labouchere has pointed out, were in the majority. In the Parliament to as semble a few weeks hence, the Radicals constitute the majority. So great has been tbe change in the political situation since household suffrage was granted, that through the action of the newly imported “caucus” system and skillful organiza tion and leadership, tbe Democratic spirit has been strengthened, and will be felt for the first time as a power in the incoming Parliament. Mb. Hendricks is not willing to play “second fiddle” again this year to any body, as a mere candidate for the vice presidency. He wants the “whole or nothing”—to continue to be a high private in the Democratic ranks rather than ad mit his inferio'rity to the great leaders of his party. And so we go. Big Frauds—Bogus Emigrants. It has turned un that the band of color ed emigrants from Arkansas who for some weeks have been snugly quartered upon their people in New York, while waiting to start for Liberia, are nothing but laza- roni and conning deceivers. They are unwilling to work even for high wages. An exchange says: One stalwart guest was offered sixteen dollars a mouth and his board if-he would work, but he declined, and luxuriously expressed his preference for lounging about the bouse where the rest are idling, and for being treated as company. So it was with a number of others. But that is not the worst of it. One of the leaders of this poverty-stricken crowd was a day or two ago detected in drawing from the inner lining of his coat a large roll of bills and deliberately counting the same. Even after this be declared that he had not a dollar to bless himself with. An other, equally poor in spirit amd appar ently poverty-stricken as to means, was found to he engaged in a speculation Breaking the Machines in Nsw Tork. A Gleam in bacon. He was going to "supply those who should go to Liberia with enough of this useful article of diet to keep them in sandwiches during the voyage. It was moreover found that others of these chil dren of poverty were nicely provided with funds and were more able to take care of themselves than their hosts were to take care of them. Therefore there is a sudden change in the circumstances of the gentlemen and ladies from Arkansas. Their kind friends announce that accord ing to a prevalent custom in New York they will please to consider the first of May moving day. By that time they are expected to be res.dy to betake themselves to other quarters. Failing in makiug the needed arrangements they will be put out into the street bag and baggage. Now this is shocking treatment, to be sure, of tbe poor darkies. Can the ku- klux have settled in New York ? Facts for onr Colored Friends to Con sider. The Philadelphia Times says: The outcome of the Georgia Republican convention shows what an unequal race the negroes have with the few white men who train in the same political party. They supply about ninety per cent., at a rough estimate, of the Republican votes cast in Georgia, and they are overwhelm ingly and notoriously in favor of Grant, and yet their convention was captured and the spoils divided so as to give Grant a small minority of the delegation to Chi cago. Had they not made a demonstra tion during the absence of the managers on committee duty, and demanded an equitable representation of their race in the delegation, it is probable that they would not have secured half as much as they did. As it is, the carpet-baggers will do tbe bargaining for Georgia’s"vote at Chicago, and pay the negroes what they please. This is nothing but the simple truth, and the obvious moral sucli men as Jell' Long, Wright, Deveaux, Pledger and oth ers, will not be slow to point. Their white confederates only court their alli ance for personal and selfish ends. And so will it be, too, when the army of Inde pendents comes bumming around, asking tbe “dear man and brother” for help, for sooth, to elect men who would scout the charge of being in sympathy with them, But the colored people are beginning to realize the “true inwardness” of the situa tion and cannot be duped as extensively as hitherto. They will organize and ope rate for themselves in preference to any such delusive game hereafter. The Western Whirlwinds. The past four days, says the Herald, will long be remembered by the inhabi tants of the central portions of the country on accpunt of the terrible atmos pheric convulsions experienced by them during that short period. On the 23d the Herald weather bureau called attention to the advance of a large depression from the northwest, and then stated the electri cal disturbances would be developed as it moved eastward. Its progress was closely watched and warnings given from day to day that tornadoes would be experienced throughout the central valleys. We print to-day dispatches from Ten nessee, Illinois, Georgia and Mississippi telling of the dreadful havoc made by those terrible storms, which, * although they are of short duration and are felt over comparatively small sections of country, sweep everything that comes in tbeir way, and leave in their tracks tbe most harrowing scenes of death and des truction. During the one that was ex perienced in Mississippi over twenty peo- ile were killed outright and thirty-two njured. The force of the wind may be imagined when thirteen loaded cars were lifted completely from the railroad track and houses blown to atoms. To foretell the approach or development of such des tructive phenomena should be made the study of the people paid from the nation al Treasury. That their prediction is possible has been fully demonstrated by tbe Herald weather bureau on this and former occasions. A network of stations throughout the regions usually affected and the careful study of the electrometer, together with the other meteorological in struments, is all that is necessary. Caving In. What were called lime sinks used to be not very uncommon in Florida; hut they are something novel in the up-country. The Chattanooga Times, of the 22d inst., tells of one at Lakeside, eight mile3 from that city, where the ground in a level field suddenly gave way and formed deep lake, 200 feet in length and 75 feet in width, the shape of a figure eight. The ilace where the sink occurred was former- y used as a deer stand; here, under high trees, the hunters waited as the deer were driven from the mountain side. The trees were from 50 to 75 feet in height. The tops are now 25 feet below the sur face of the ground. A few hours after the occurrence of the phenomenon, some farmers were passing, and noticed that water was gradually ris ing in the deep sinlc. It was then fully 1(H) feet to the bottom, and the trees, and all vegetation were standing deep under the ground, just as they formerly stood. It seemed as if the ground had been care fully cut out and then sunk, for tbe sides are. perfectly perpendicular, and the ground was unbroken in the fall, and ex ists just as before. Evidently there was some extensive cave under the place, and the ground, rendered very heavy by the frequent rains of the past few weeks, overcame the resistance and * caved in. The water is slowly rising, and has al ready nearly reached the surface. It is clear as crystal. There is no surface communication at all with either river or creek. There must be an underground, stream flowing through the . immense cave, which has at last found an outlet. • There are other deep depressions near at hand, which evidently caved in years ago. The farmers gaze on the bottomless pit, so lately formed, with undisguised fear, and seem to apprehend a caving in of the whole locality. They will give that vicinity a wide berth in future. of Hope for Better Things. We print elsewhere a telegram to the Chicago Times which holds out the hope of Democratic reconstruction in New York, on Democratic principles. The Nashville American, of the 29th nit., says: A movement is on foot in New York to call a new convention under the terms of the call for the national convention, of all, “irrespective of past political associations and differences, who can unite with us,” to appoint delegates to Cincinnati. It is headed by August Belmont, Senator Ker- nan, an ardent Tilden man in 1870, Judge Comstock, ex-Attorney General Pratt, Amasa J. Parker, Seymour, Ruger and others, the best of the leading men in New York. The defection of Jacobs has been followed by that of McLaughlin, of Brooklyn, leader in Kings county and thoroughly honest man. There is an ev- dent popular protest against all machines, Tammany and Irving hall, and a desire that the popular voice shall be heard. This is tlie same story that comes by way of Chicago, and all American De mocracy will unite in bidding the move ment God-speed. It is time that the great Empire State of the Union were set ting an example and exercising an influ ence more worthy of her august position in the federacyof the United States. To do this effectually the Democracy of New York must begin at the beginning—go back to her constituent elements and make (as we understand this proposition to contemplate) a solemn appeal to the people. Leaders who. have so many private grievances to redress, that they cannot agree on any general basis of organiza tion against the common foe, are power less for good and potent only for evil The effort to harmonize them only dis tracts and embitters. The proper course is to set them aside and revert to primary and original authority. New York should lead off in the great struggle for a pure republican govern ment; but as tho case stands she has be come an incubus on tbe energies of its friends, throwing an odor of defeat on all their efforts. It is high time that the Democrats in that great State, who value the government more than cliques, juntos and factions, should take the bull by the horns and command the peace. Mr. Tilden never had any personal popularity in the Southern States. His sole strength as a candidate lay in the popular impression that, as a man of per fect integrity, he would institute in the government at Washington the thorough reform and purgation which it was gener ally conceded he had established in the State of New York. It is useless to deny that this Idea of him does not now exist in its original force, and this is the reason why the South refuses to press him for re-election. We believe a single aspiration in refer ence to the coming Presidential election now possesses the intelligent mind of this country with overwhelming forth. It is, that the candidate shall not be a machine politician, but shall embody and represent the patriotic aspirations of the country, after a purer government, a nobler and more patriotic order of things. The peo ple are wearied of drivelling, peddling, trading politics. They want a man.of noble and patriotic impulses—able to rise to the height ot his great mission, at the head of the grand republic of the world, and that the government shall henceforth cease to run the partisan pot-kouse3. The lower order of political fry on either side may be slow to apprehend this senti ment, but in a struggle against Grant imperialism, it will be fortunate for the Democracy if they are able to recog nize and take advantage of it. It existed four years ago and actually elected Til den. It is stronger now, and demands a man of high mould—not a machine poli tician—not a peddling party strategist, but a noble specimen of manhood; and tbe less mired in partizan complications the better. It demands a clean ticket— pledged to a revival of pure, republican traditions and usages. The country should meet tbe empire under tbe standard of an exalted republicanism. Imprisoned in a Trunk.—A singular discovery was recently made in Styria. Some woodcutters felled a venerable oak in'the forest of Drommling. It was found to be hollow, aud was soon broughtto the ground with a crash. A human skele ton, in excellent preservation, was disj closed. Even the boots, which came above the knee, were almost perfect. By its side was a powder horn, a porcelain pipe-bowl and a silver watch, on which was engraved the name “H. Yon Kracko- witz, 1812.” The teeth were perfect. It was the skeleton of a man betwen thirty and forty years of age. It is conjectured that, while engaged in hunting, he climb ed the tree for some purpose, and slipped incautiously into the hollow trunk, from which there was no release, 'and he prob ably died of starvation. Louisville and Nashville Bailroad. IV e make the following summary of the earnings of the Louisville and Nashville Company, for the year ending Juno 30, 1879. The gross earnings of the main stem and branches amount to $5,3S7,611. The whole number of miles in this, com bination is 978. The main line from Lou isville to Nashville is only 185 miles In length. Its gross earnings amount to $2,341,877, or $12,655 per mile. The recent acquisitions of this compa ny, consisting of the following: Mobile and Montgomery, Pensacola, New Orleans and Mobile; St. Louis and Southeastern, with the ' Ten- :e and Kentucky divisions, and the Nashville and Chattanooga rail roads, aggregate 1,176 miles in running order. Their gross income only amounts to $4,4S9,S85. The highest figure reached per mile was by tho New Orleans and Mobile road, $4,772. The grand total of net earnings of all tbe roads ynder the control of the company, amoimts to $3,- 464,000. The average per mile net earn ings is only $1,611. We gather these fig ures from the New York American Ex change. ■■ —Temple Bar is to be replaced by a handsome memorial, to be erected in the middle of tho roadway, and adorned with the statues if her Majesty and the Prince of Wales. The monument is to serve as refuge in the roadway for foot passen gers, and the two niches hewn out to re ceive the statues will be surrounded by magnificent bronze lamps. Old Temple Bar will be re-erected in Epping Forest. The stones have been numbered, so that it may present exactly the same appear ance as when serving as a harrier to the encroachments of the royal power by de fending tbe city entrance against tbe sover eign, and marking tbd limit beyond which no royal edict could take effect unless sanctioned by the mayor. Postmaster General Key.—Judge Trigg of the United States District Court of Tennessee died last' Sunday. . Applica tions for the vacancy have already been filed in the White House. It is said that the place will be given to Postmaster- GeneralKey. Mr. Key would probably fill the place satisfactorily. He has a large family, and is said to be dependent upon his labor for its support. An active business life is not suited to his indolent temperament, and it woul j be a cliarita- act on Mr. Hayes’ part'to provide a flue place for Mr. Key before the present administration dies. NEW YORK TO REORGANIZE. Democrats After a New Beal A New York special telegram to the Chicago Tribune, says the' dissatisfaction 6f the anti-Tilden men over the results of .the recent Democratic State convention taking positive form. Judge William C. Ruger, who led the war against the sage of Grammercy in that body, with the en couragement of a number of leading Democrats—among others Judge Sanlord E. Church and Senator Francis Kernan— is now engaged organizing a movement which will probably eventuate in calling another State' convention, to send del egates to Cincinnati. The project is suggested as tho only means of uniting the Democracy of New York next fall. Provided it is found that the convention would be a truly repre sentative one, it will be called, probably within tbe next fortnight. The delegates would be elected under a call of the na tional committee, addressed to all persons “irrespective of past political associations or differences, who can unite with us,” etc., such call to be issued over the signa tures and by the authority of prominent and representative Democrats in all parts of the State. " Such a call, it is claimed, would be hailed wjth enthusiasm by a large major ity of the Democratic party of tbe State, and would serve to harmonize the fac tions now warring against each other in tbe party. Tbe action of the State com mittee in restricting their call for the State convention to Democratic, electors “and all others who intend to support the nom inees of the Democratic national conven tion,” fell far short of the broad terms of tbe national call. The delegation to Cin cinnati would probably be beaded by Ho ratio Seymour, and would consist of dele gates of the character of Judge T. Com stock and ex-Attorney General Daniel Pratt, of Syracuse; Senator Francis Ker nan, of Utica; Amnsa J. Parker, of Al bany; August Belmont and David Dudley Field, of New York, and others. Judge Ruger left to-day to consult with Judge Church regarding the plan. The Western Wheat Crop, Apropos of the discouraging reports in the newspapers about the Western wheat crops, we find the following in the New York Sun of the 2Sth, from its correspond ent, Eli Perkins, who writes on the train going west. We do not doubt tbe sub stantial truth of tbe correspondent’s re port: In passing across tbe continent and back, I am impressed with three things— the splendid wheat crop, tbe opposition of the voting Republicans to Grant’s candi dacy, and the bad agricultural outlook for poor Kansas. The wheat crop in New York and Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Missouri, has" not looked better in twelve years past. In fact, with in the last twelve days I have been in each of these States, aud I have not yet seen a single .poor piece of wheat. Then, again, the acreage is alarmingly increased. In many places a half more wheat is in than ever before.. Vanderburg county, Indiana, m which Evansville is situated, is almost wholly given up to wheat; Posey county is one continuous wheat field, and Gibson county, north of Evansville, will iroduce 3,000,000 bushels. Southern II- inois is almost entirely surrendered to wheat. Tbe millers say that Madison county will produce 2,700,000 bushels this year, St. Clair 2,250,000, and Jersey and Green counties, and, in fact, all of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Missouri in the same proportion. Old prairie bottom lands around Cham pagne and Tuscola and Effingham, on which wheat never used to be raised, are now loaded down with it. A dozen crops of corn have reduced the rich alluvial prairie soil so that it now yields tremen dous crops of wheat, where ten years ago nothing but corn or wheat straw could be raised. The wheat iu Ohio and Michigan could not look better, and everywhere the acreage is increased. The only damaged wheat to be found are a few pieces of winter wheat in Wisconsin and Northern Iowa, which have already been ploughed up and spring wheat substituted, and in Western Kansas. Last spring I estimated tbe growing wheat crop for the Sun at 470,000,000 bushels, and the crop measured up about that. This year I estimate the growing wheat crop at 550,000,000 bushels. All dealers and wheat brokers who have looked over the country as I have agree with me in its estimate. How about Kansas ? The wheat in Kansas is good up to twenty-five miles west of Topeka, and then it begins to be bad, aud grows worse and worse, till it becomes worthless at Hayes City, which is on the 100th parallel west of tlie rain belt. Crops west of Al>- erline and Salina in Kansas are a failure three years out of five, and the people might as well know it. I have-voted for General Grant twice for President, and what I now say I say reluctantly. There is a tremendous feel ing against General * Grant’s third-term candidacy among voting Republicans all over the country. I hear dozens of sound Republicans say daily : “I will throw away my vote before I will vote for General Grant. He has bad Philistia. A Nihilist Journal—A Paper Printed We take the following interesting quo- rum tation from a book published by the Har- _ , f. _ J The Mill of the People is tbe title of per Brothers, -Scenes and scenery of ( the organ of tlie Nihilists in Russia. It tbe Holy Land,” by Rev.Win.M. Thomp- appears in tbe most extraordinary way in son, D. D.: The first time I came into this region I was agreeably surprised to find it neither flat nor barren, nor in any way resem bling a sandy desert, as I had been led to expect from reading the narrative of Phil lip’s ride through itjwith the eunuch. From tbe distant mountains it indeed lias tbe appearance of a level plain, but the view is so vast that even very considerable bills are lost to the eye. Ip reality, Philistia closely resembles in appearance some of tbe rolling prairies of the Mississippi Val ley. The country i3 equally as lovely, and no less fertile. I am inclined to be lieve that, owing to something in the na ture of tlie soil, or the climate, orhoth.the sources of its fertility are even more inex haustible than in most parts of our own land. Without manure, and with a style of ploughing and general culture which would secure nothing blit failure in other countries, this vast plain continues to pro duce spleudid crops every year, and this, too, be it remembered, after forty centu ries of such tillage. Here we are at el Muntar. I have brought you to the top of this high hilt not to honor the mukam of the saint, nor because this is the “hill that is before Hebron,” to which Samson carried the gate of Gaza—though tlie tradition is probably corret, since it is . in the proper direction—but because from it there is fine view, stretching far away to the southeast, even to the ridge that overshad ows el Khulil, as the city of Abraham is now called. Nothing more than this cau be intended by “tho hill before Hebron,” for the town itself Is at least thirty miles off, and behind lofty mountains. Be this as it may, I know of no one standpoint from which you can survey so much of old Philistia as from this Muntar. We are to pass through the central part east ward to-day, and can study it at our leis ure; but the southern region, quite to the desert, is best seen from here. I once came from er Ruhaibeb, spending the night on the bank of Nahr es Suny, where it unites with Wady es Seba’, whicli comes down from Beer-sheba. The roll ing plain from the Wady northward Gaza was tl.en green and flow- cry as a meadow, and much of it clothed with wheat; but there is not a village along the entire route, and all the grain belonged to tent-dwelling-Arabs We passed many of their encampments, where every kind of work common in or dinary villages was in active operation, and carried on with the same sort of im plements. There were, however, as was natural, many more camels and larger flocks than ordinary peasants possess; and these formed a very striking feature in this agricultural tableau. All around us were examples of primitive pastoral life, like those seen on this same plain, I suppose, in the d^ys of Abraham and Isaac. Men, women and children, clad in garments, and following employments, pastoral and agricultural, like those of the patriarchs. It carried one back, a3 by enchantment; to the tents pitched in the valley of Gerar in the days of those venerable ancestors of God’s chosen people. These pastoral Arabs present a very in teresting study. Unlike the wandering Bedouin, their cousins, they are perma nently settled on this plain along tlie sea board ; and their manners of life must closely resemble that of the Philistines with whom the patriarch associated. We ere passing through their encampments for several hours, and were everywhere welcomed as friends. The women were not veiled, nor was there any objection to our visiting tbeir tents, and inspecting their furniture, their employment and even their garments. They were far from idle; but as the harvest had not yet com menced, tbey-were chiefly occupied with their flocks and herds, and in the manu facture of cheese and butter. Some of the women were spinning goat’s hair into strands, to be woven into coarse black material for tent coverings, nigs, and sacks for the grain. Tlieir spindle wa3 of tlie most simple kind, being often merely stone, which they dexterously twirled around until the strand was sufficiently twisted. They can weave without any loom. The ’threads of the warp are stretched upon the ground, and made fast at either end to a stout stick; aud tho threads of the woof are passed through with the band, and pressed back into po tion by a rude wooden comb. Boys and girls are scattered over the plain, watching the flocks, to prevent them irom trespassing upon the wheat fields. From every camp broad and well-trodden paths led across the plain to the wells, where only the flocks are watered; and I noticed that many of these paths turned toward the seashore, probably because water is there found at less depth than in the interior. These wells are the places of public resort, and there one can see and study to tbe best advantage the ap» pearance, manners, customs and costumes of these modem Philistines. There they gather with all their belongings, iu groups picturesque and suggestive to the traveler and to the eye and imagination of tlie artist. Some singular and even romantic inci dents in the history of the Hebrew patri archs are associated with wells. It.was at a well in the city, of Nalior, in Mesopo tamia, that 'Eliezer of Damascus, the faithful servant and steward of Abraham, met Rebekah, as recorded in the twenty- fourth chapter of Genesis. It was at a enough. We are tired of him. If the poli ticians foist him upon us voters again we well inth0 - „ landof the people of the wiU have to teach them a lesson by letting East „ t!iat Jacob first saw ,f ousin) the him be defeated. “beautiful and well-favored” Rachel, and —If the Republican party, says the Cin cinnati Commercial, has nothing better to offer the country than a third term of Grant, it is high time the party was re solved into its original elements. Land Pirates., ,v..l I It was hoped that the recent decision of the Supreme Court, following the incom plete and inconclusive investigation of the wild land frauds undertaken by the Leg islature, would put a stop to' the operation of land pirates in Geoigia, but the Hawk- imvilte. Dispatch has been put in possess ion of facts relating to another and quite as serious phase of the land stealing bus iness which has heretofore escaped expos ure. ■ , ; The Dispatch says that i their mode of procedure is to forge deeds and plats and grants. One of the swindlers sold lands in the neighborhood ofHawkinsville, took notes for the same, and then discounted the notes .to a citizen of Hawk- insville for fifty cents on the dol lar; and the same person sold lots of land to citizens of Pulaski county that he had never owned. Another plan of land stealing i3 described by the Dispatch. An unimproved lot is’pointed out to the tax collector, and he is ordered to levy upon it for taxes. The lands are thereupon sold to satisfy a fraudulent fi. fa., and in this way a fraudulent title i3 obtained. Thousands of acres of land have been sold in Southern and Southwestern Georgia to satisfy tax executions against men who never owned the lands, and the Dispatch says that in some instances ti. fas. for tax es have been issued against men, and lands which they never owned, or claimed to have owned, have bean sold to satisfy the executions. In the same issue of the Dispatch, Mr. JohnW. Griffin, of Dodge county, Warns the people of that section against purchas- g lands “from parties representing C. M. Dodson, and especially R. H. Daniels, who claims to bail from Americus.” Mr. Griffin writes to the Dispatch that he has seen several batelies of the titles sold.Ijy these parties, and that not one of them’is a genuine claim. Some of the deeds and plats given by them have been sent to the secretary of state, and we may soon ex pect to see the whole, matter thoroughly ventilated.—Constitution. Delegate Downey’s copyrighted epic poem “To the Immortals” is furnish ing a choice morsel for the newspaper wits. - If it shall lead to the abolition of the venerable abuse of publishing at each session in the Congressional itecord hun dreds of pages of undelivered speeches, it both ought to and may add its author’s name to that select list of “the Immor tals? who are remembered as public bene factors. Even the evgineer who had control of the building of the Tay bridge now testi fies that its supports were “insufficient.” The architect of the biidge having been knighted because of his success in build ing this “triumph of engineering skill,” it looks now as though he ought to be un knighted, if that thing can be done. kissed her, “aud lifted up his voice and wept.” It was also at a well that Moses met Zipporah, the daughter of Jethro, the priest of Midian, whom he afterward married, and helped her aud her sisters to water their father’s flock. Did you no tice amongst the tents of these modern Ishmaelites any females- of surpassing loveliness that recalled the stories of those celebrated ladies ? No, indeed; still, some of the young people are ntf. wanting in attractiveness. They have good features, bright eyes, forms slender and erect, and a singular ease and grace in the disposal about the person; of their flowing garments, and in their attitudes and. motions. Doubtless the well is still the favorite trysling-place as it must have been in ancient days; and any young Bedouin bent on matrimonfal alliance would expect there to find the object of his ardent affections. The Third Term.—I. Q. Howard, one of the New York custom house poli ticians, gives eight paragraphs of reasons why he cannot support Grant, the first three of which read as follows: 1. Because he has already served as long iu the presidency as the framers in tended one man should serve. You are aware-that a single seven-year term was agreed upon by those who made the con stitution, and was adhered to until a few days before the convention completed its labors. Upon tbe suggestion that seven years would be too long to suffer the in fliction of a poor president it was then agreed that the people should be given the option of getting rid of a bad ruler at the end of four years. It was the univer sal understanding in tbe convention • at the time that no one man was to serve more than eight years, which was one year longer than had first been fixed a3 the proper duration of the executive term. 2. So long as the men who made the constitution were alive there was mani fested in unmistakable ways a disposition to abide by the understanding of the fathers on the part of all chief magistrates from Washington to Jackson. 3. To depart from a precedent so honor ed in its observance and declare in favor of perpetual re-eligibility is to declare a willingness to adopt, in substance, the theory of hereditary ralership, thus chang ing the fundamental structure of our gov ernment. Movements of General Grant.— General Grant is expected in Chicago to visit his son on Wednesday, and will re main in the city for three or four days before leaving for Springfield, in response to a recent invitation from that city to visit the late home of Abraham Lincoln. • way! unexpected corners, and when least look ed for. They say that it is constantly to be found on the toilet tabic of the emper or, and under the pillow's of statesmen and generals. The manner in which this curious organ is printed is described at length by the St. Petersburg correspond ent of the Manchester Guardian. The of fice is a gloomy, miserable room at the top of a house in a poor locality. On the door is an announcement of some ficticious trade. The room is occupied by a poor wretch, formerly a student; it is wretch edly furnished. The bed occupies pretty nearly the entire room. Everything is mean aud squalid. The owner of the apartment is editor, compositor, reporter, printer and publisher. Under the mat tress of the miserable bed the type is hid den. Thence, when occasion offers, it is transferred to the multitudinous pockets of his great coat. He goes out into the streets with a diminitive note book, hangs about public building, glares at people- in'”’" authority, whom he would kill if'a glance could murder, writes his “leader” iu a se cluded corner ol a park, and rolls each page into a pill, to bo swallowed on the approach of a policeman. As soon as the work is finished he steals home, locks and barricades the door, gets out'liis type and sets up the paper, which he afterwards prints in a primitive manner, and distrib utes through the streets and in cafes, and by all other means known only to con- spiritors. This account of the difficult, dangerous and painful duty which that poor, patient scribe performs under the di rection of an inexorable committee, from whom he receives little help, may or may not he in accordance with truth; but there remains the undeniable fact that, under the very nose of the terrible third section, despite all the vigilance of ' the police, a sheet is printed, published and circulated, aud no man can put his hand upon those who thus contribute to the literature of revolution. A Just Criticism Upon the Present Congress. The House of Representatives evidently resents the stigma which has beeu pinned upon it of tho “do-nothing Congress.”- As the political exigencies of the time seeni to forbid discussion of or action upon great public measures aniquestions, such as the jurors’ test-oath, the employ ment of soldiers at the polls, the tariff', the encouragement of commerce, the regula tion of inland transportation and the like, the members have imitated the fair sex in their hours of ennui, and keep themselves busy by dawdling over little things. Women excuse their fondness for dress, bric-a-brac, cracked china and gossip, by pleading their exclusion from the suffrage. In the same spirit Congress, for fear it may not vote right, only votes on trifles. The question of the dilapidation of La- Fayette’s portrait, hanging in the Repre- sentives Hall, teceives prompt attention, and yesterday, when Thomas Jeffer son’s desk was presented to the House by the heirs of the late Joseph Coolidge, Jr., of Boston, it was received with a unani mous and effusive promptness quite re markable in a body which cannot be brought to a vote by any means on any of the great leading principles which Jeffer son held to and advocated in writing upon that desk. The Sim has already mention ed the bill offered by Mr. Stephen W. "Downey, of Wyoming Territory, pleading the apostles’ creed as an argument for ap propriating half a million dollars to em- belish the capital with paintings illustra tive of New Testament history. Mr. Downey, it appears, obtained leave to print his remarks oil this bill, and ha3 taken advantage of tins privilege to pub lish a “poem” in the Itecord, at the ex pense of the country. This poem, com prising fifteen pages and about 2,700 lines, (as long as Hamlet, as long as live books of Homer or Paradise Lost,) is copyright ed, “all rights reserved,” by Mr. Downey. It is entitled “The Immortals,” is “dedi cated to tho Congress of the United States,” and is written in the blankest kind of verse.—Baltimore Sun. The pair, says the San Antonio Herald, came from Medina. They are on a bridal trip to San Antonio; they were married three days ago. The traveling outfit of this bridal pair is a two-wheel cart drawn by two donkeys. The pair—the bride and the groom—arrived last evening, and “though on pleasure they are bent they have a frugal mind.” They camped in a.. wagon-yard. The lady is dressed in cal ico. When made up it was full in the skirt, but after doing it upshs hung it out to dry and a calf ate a yard or two out of the rear breadth. This she remedied by “gathering,” and now the dress looks something like a “pull-back.” 11c bought a cocoanut, a loaf of bread and a red handkerchief. Wrapping the bread and cocoanut iu the handkerchief, he bun" the bundle oh one arm and with the bride clinging to the other, sauntered to Houston street to see the cars. “Ma ry,” he said lovingly, “don’t you want to ride on the keers ?” “I’m most afraid, John.” “Well,” said the husband, “maybe we had better not; sometimes the dum things runs off the track and kills peo ple.” Later in the day he filled his hat with water from a ditch, and, after a good drink, the bride joining in the drink, he hitched up his team and the two left the city pleased to return to rural bliss, “far from the madding crowd.” The New Testament and “The Light of Asia.”—Mr. Edwin Arnold lias done good service by winning his countrymen, who would be little likely to plod through the wearisome theology of Buddhism, to gather from his glowing descriptions and harmonious verse the higher and nobler aspects of the faith of 470,000,000 of human beings. The char acter of Siddartlia or Gautama itselt shines with a purity and saintliness which de serve the English homage Mr. Edwin Ar nold offers. But he must not be offended if we avow another and opposite cause for the gratitude we entertain for his la bor of love. Nothing is more common, in these days of free speech than, to'hear per sons who know equally little of Bud dhism and of Christianity compare the two creeds, as if they stood on the same moral and religious level. Mr. Edwin Arnold is an impassionate admirer of this early benefactor of mankind. The view he takes of his hero’s gospel is not likely to have been unfavorably colored. Let any reader compare it and the morality of the New Testament; the one will be felt to be moonlight and the other sunlight; the one is dreamland, the other is life.— London Times. The Tribune says the friends of Secre tary Sherman claim that he has already positive assurance of 101 votes on the first ballot at Chicago. If he has, it is clear that General Grant will not be nominat- - on that ballot, for his margin is already too small to admit of such a loss as this and still remain. It becomes more evi dent daily that nobody will be nominat ed on the first ballot, and that if Grant is nominated at all it will only he after a scramble which liis friends ouce declared lie would not permit lrmself to be drawn into. A New Bedford man invented a fish pole cane which worked with a spring, and on the latter being touched tbe inner roils would fly out and form a pole, and it was a man who didn’t understand the na ture of the cane who was carrying it, and bile carelessly pointing at a gentleman some eight feet away accidentally touched he spring and the piole flew out and took the victim square ou the nose. And when the latter got up he had to be restrained by four men while the facts were explain ed to him, and even then he wasn’t satis fied. Western Crops.—A telegram from Leavenworth, dated April 28, says a gen tle, soaking rain, unaccompanied by wind, began ill this county at 1 o’clock, and has continued all day. Tlie Times, to-morrow, will publish special dispatches from all portions of the State, and the western portion of Missouri, which show clearly the rain has beeu a general and most beneficial one, especially m the estem part of Kansas, where the rainfall was the heaviest.