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tfdtppjr * Jtacngtr. FRIDAY, MAY 14,1SS0. —Samuel Jt. Sqiyth, a noted civil engi neer and steel manufacturer, of Manches ter, England, is in Pittsburgh trying to ar range for a plan of gigantic steel-works in the “Iron City” on the English plan. —“Maybe there isn’t any God for the United States,” said a Canadian Mayor to Colonel Robert Ingersoll, “but there is one for Canada, and you can’t have any hall in this town in which to defame him." „ —The Chicago Times thinks that if the third-termers did not feel assured that Tilden would be nominated at Cincin nati they would not be so active in push ing the fortunes of Grant. They are shrewd enough to djscovei that anybody can beat Tilden. —The report of the Canadian govern ment superintendent of railways, shows including 045 miles under construc tion, there are now 8,022 miles of railway in that country, with an invested capital of $302,000,000. —The shipments of postal cards from the Holyoke, Massachusetts, agency are larger than at this time last year, and the total number ordered since January 1 ex ceeds the order of the same period in 1879 by about 10,000,000. —The business of whaling in the vicin- ity of Provincetown, Massachusetts, has assumed large dimensions of late. Eigh teen whales were killed outside the har bor in one day, and twenty-three have been landed during the last few weeks, which will yield 350 barrels of oil. —The Princess of Wales, notwithstand ing storms and winds, insisted on reach ing Copenhagen “for papa’s birthday,” and papa prettily said that he couldn’t have had • any birthday gift which gave him so much pleasure as a sight of his daughter’s charming face. —Ex-Collector Simmons, of Boston, re- , marked in a recent interview that the pre vailing feeling among Massachusetts Re publicans is in favor of the ex-President. j Blaine has more enemies than friends among them and would never receive the full vote of the delegation at Chicago. ■ The State, however, will give 40,000 ma- ! jority for the Republican nominee. —It may not be generally known that levees are necessary to preserve Sacramen to from the danger of inundation. The city lies in the focus of precipitous water sheds, and the recent heavy rainfall pro duced great alarm. A plan is under dis cussion to extend the levees on a grand scale and make them serve the additional purpose'of adorning the city by converting the crests into pleasure, drives. —The Richmond (Va.,) Conwiomceallh has received letters from prominent Dem ocratic citizens of that State on their preferences as to the nomination for Presi dent. The majority are for Field as first choice and for Bayard as second. Mc Donald, of Indiana; Randall, Hancock and Church arc also mentioned for the Vice-Presidency. Ex-Governors Kemper and Smith support Field, and Congress man Goode favors Seymour first and Field second. —The Boston Herald says every day increases the certainty that the election of the next President lies with the party that shall secure the independent vote by put ting up the dwngjUMfir the l>»l£ht>licans evidently do not read jhe signs of the times. The truest friends of the party are those who'say to them: ‘Put up a candidate unsmirclied and above reproach or next November will ad minister a startling lesson.” —Secretary Evart’s request to the com- nitteo on appropriations to provide $50,- W0 lor the entertainment of the King of Siam is reported by the St. Louis Repub lican to have called out this statesmanlike lemark from one ol the members of the ommittee: “It is just as I expected. Jrant has been entertained over there, nd has invited everybody to return his isit, expecting the government to pay the xpenscs, and this is the first of the raft.” Knoxville Patents.—The Knoxville ■Vitiune says we saw yesterday in the ands of Mr. A. Maxwell letters patent isued by the government of Canada to •eGroat & Maxwell, on their recent in- entionof a rotary engine, blower and ump. Notwithstanding the fact that the lower and pump are essential attach- ients of the engine, letters patent are re- aired to be taken out on each. We have ireiofore given a description of the en- ne. The great advantage claimed for e pump over all others heretofore ta inted, is, that it throws or draws a solid -earn, making no break in the column of ater. Good Enough for John Chinaman. San Francisco special says that since e recent decision of Judges Sawyer and pffman in the Tyburcio Parrot case that I r fourteenth amendment covered the linese with the protection of this gov- nment, even if no treaty existed with Chinese government at all, the mem- rs of the Chinese consulate there are ectly indifferent to anything the new- appointed minister and commissioners .y seek .to effect in modifying any por- a of the Burlingame treaty. They % perfectly contented with the provis- j. tor their protection in the fourteenth endment, and regard the mission to the estial Empire now as “a fool’s errand.” -The rush of voyagers to Europe, says Sun, is almost as remarkable in its I as the counter-tide of immigration j passenger business of the outward- nd ocean steamships has never been ;reat as now, except, possibly, in the is and London world’s fair years. season of European travel began y with the pleasure seekers this year, the many engagements riiade for ns ns far ahead as midsummer show the outflow will be heavy and long- -inued. A month hence, all the ouk- g passenger sldps will be uncomfort- ; crowded, as those arriving are now. year is a prosperons one for the knsliip companies, and many of them t to put on extra steamers. Large prints of the new Roman lolic Cathedral at South Kensington] ►h is to be raised on the site of the npton Oratory, are exhibited in all print shop windows in London. If rdifice corresponds with the present- it will be the most imposing relf- i building in the metropolis, next, of »e, to St. Paul’s and Westminster Ab- The style is ornamented gothic, florid, but most effective; and, as the ture will be very large in size and the character of its architecture ve it ail the nobler aspect. Opera- are actively proceeding on the build- hlch, it is said, has been very pru- Laken in hand, not a sod having turned or a stone cut until the full t of the estimated cost was in hand, asnrer has in hand two bundled <1 pounds. How a City Can be Ruined. A writer in the San Francisco Califor nian for May shows how easily a pros perous city can be rained by yelping dem agogues. In 1879, he says, the banking capital and deposits of San Francisco were reduced from twenty-four million's to nine and a half. Ten banks failed. Real es tate was everywhere unsaleable—capital moved East. Armies of laborers, so- called by courtesy, were wandering un- employed about the streets clamoring for work or bread. A great shrinkage in all values took place, and society sunk into the condition of a fitfully slumbering vol cano. Kearney was but one expression of the general disorder, which he traces to Chinese labor—the railroads, and the in difference of the higher classes to politics and the polls. Others will say that all these and oUier ailments found at last a legal vent in the form of a new State constitution, which is in the nature of a great abscess or ulcer— concentrating the once scattered maligni ty, and overriding private, personal and property rights under the insane notion of benefiting the poor and tlie masses. But if it were possible, the absolute se curity of personal and property rights is more vital to the poor than the rich. To the rich the loss of these guarantees means inconvenience and damage—to the poor it means starvation. The rich man can pack up and leave, but the poor must stay and suffer. When a community becomes disordered and crippled by bad legislation and a state of general insecurity, all tbe absolute suffering falls on the poorer classes of the community. The demagogue who fo ments the discontent and disorder by ar raying class interests against each other, under the pretense of self protection, is a cruel knave—cruel to capital, but more cruel to labor. There is no more profit in this moral and social war than there is in a state of physical war. It is loss all round; but in both the chief loss falls on labor. Labor must do the bleeding and suffering and starving. Let everybody remember this fact—for it is universal and invariable. Times of confidence, security and consequent activ ity are pre-eminently the times for labor. Then labor is in demand. Times of dis order are times of paralysis. Then there is no demand for labor. It is a drug; and yet we must all be fed and clothed. The demagogue who stirs up strife be tween labor and property interests under the plea of championizing labor is, there fore, an awful curse and pest. If he is honest and conscientious, he is fatally stupid; but in nine cases out of ten he knows better. He is playing incendiary to secure some small benefit to himself out of the public ruin. The true man is he who seeks to har monize labor, property and social inter ests, and bring them into active and har monious co-operation for the common good. Nothing hut disorder and ruin come of conflict. “The Impending Conflict.” No man of ordinary intelligence need •be told that all the Blaineism and Slicr- manism which will be mustered in Chica go from the Southern States in the persons of delegates to the convention, is an abso lute, total, remorseless and inexcusable misrepresentation of party sentiment in this section. The colored population, which makes np the party here, as amass, can Veatferliut '(‘franL The Blaine dele gates and Sherman delegates from this section are, therefore, all base counter feits, so far as their representative charac ter is concerned. They arc as bogus a3 a brass gold piece—an impudent pretense— foisted on the convention in tbe interests of popular misrepresentation—like a false count, a stuffed ballot, or the manipula tions of a retuming’board. And how is this bogus representation secured? By bribery—not, perhaps, by money in hand paid, the receipt whereof is acknowledged, but by other promises and schemes Sf personal gain: And these operations in the Southern States have their counterpart in the North, A snap judgment in behalf of Grant has notably been taken in the great States of New York and Pennsylvania, under the injustice of which the friends of Blaine writhe. These facts disclose the prospects in Chicago. The Republican papers are fond of allusions to Tilden’s “bar’l,” but if the rival fuglemen of Grant and Blaine have not exhausted their barrels already, when they meet in dread encounter in Chicago on the 2d of June next, money will not be lacking to correct misrepresentation or rivet a baigain. A scene of intrigue and bribery will open which has never yet been displayed on the American continent. The third term leaders put Grant for ward as a man who will not accept defeat attheballot box, no matter how the votes go. It is, therefore, not unbefitting. the conclusion of the programme, that he should begin the race as the nominee of bribed delegates, although, as we believe, as to tli.'i s.iction, they will be bribed to do their plain duty as fair representatives of the colored Republicans of the Southern States. —Four locomotives were stopped by a drift in a snow shed, on the Union Pacific railroad. Snow covered the roof com pletely, so that no air could get in and no smoke could get out. The engineers and firemen soon became insensible. Fifteen Cfitaamen went to the rescue, and were also overcome. All were nearly dead from suffocation when finally taken out. The Co-operative Dress Society.— Miss Kate Field seems to have met with much encouragement in her laudable ef fort to establish a co-operative dress society fa New York. A number of well-known ladies have “taken hold,” and tha results thus for are very gratifying. The capital stock of the company is $250,000, divided into 10,000 shares of $25 each. Tho as sociation is modelled after one which is in successful operation in London, and its object as stated in the prospectus, is to es tablish a co-operative store, well stocked with ladies’ and children’s dress goods, millinery, &c,, and to make up not only these goods, but also the materials fur nished by the stockholders. A small per centage is added to the cost of goods to pay for running expenses, and fa this way the cost to customers is reduced to a minimum. Agencies are to be established in London and Fads, and arrangements will be made with American manufac turers for the production of special brands of silks and other goods. When it is con sidered wbat enormous sums are expended annually by tbe ladies in dress, it can readily be seen that there is plenty of I write " Editors T. and M, Scenes in the Holy Land. We make .another extract from Dr. William M. Thompson’s interesting work on “Scenes and Scenery in the Holy Land.” The following will ' give > the reader an idea of the threshing floor of Philistia. Some interesting incidents in Biblical history are associated with, thresbing-fioers, of which Dr. Thomson presents an admirable illustration Jn his picturesque sketches: The common mode of threshing is with the ordinary mowrej, which is drawn over the floor by a yoke of oxen, until not on ly the grain is shelled out, but tbe straw itself is ground into chaff. To facilitate tliis operation bits of rough lava are fas tened into the bottom of the mowrej, and the driver sits or stands upon it. It is rare sport for children, and even our own delight, to get out to the baidar, as the floor is called, and ride upon the mow rej. Do you suppose that these floors which we sec at Yebna and elsewhere resem ble those so celebrated in the ancient times? They have, perhaps, changed less than almost anything else in the country. Ev ery agricultural village and town in the land has them, and many of them are more ancient than the places whose in habitants noW use them. They have been just where they are, and exactly as they were, from a period “to wlrqji the memory of man runneth not to the con trary.” In very many cases the topo graphical conditions of the sites neces sarily decided the place of the threshing- floors. It must be an unoccupied spot near and outside of the village, in a place exposed to the prevailing wind, and suf ficiently large for one or more of these floors. Generally there are several in the same vicinity. The construction of the floors is very simple. A circular space, from thirty to fifty feet in diameter, is made level, if not naturally se, and the ground is smoothed off and beaten solid, that the earth may not mingle with the grain in threshing. In time, the floors, especially in the moun tains, are covered with a tough, hard sward, the prettiest and often the only green plots about the village, and there the traveler delights to pitch his tent. Daniel calls them summer threshing floors; and this is the most appropriate name for them, since they are only used in that season of the year. The entire harvest is brought to them, and ^threshed and winnowed, and the different products are then transferred to their respective places. In large villages this work is - prolonged for several months, but all is finished befote the au tumn rains, and from that time till the next harvest the floors are entirely deserted, but when the threshing is in full opera tion, the scene is both picturesque and eminently oriental. The Egyptian mow rej is quite different, having rollers which revolve on the grain, and the driver has a seat upon it, which is certainly more com fortable. In the plains of Hamath I saw this machine improved by having circular saws attached to the rollers. It is this instrument, I suppose, that Isaiah refers to in the forty-first chapter of his prophe cies : “Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shall thresh mountains, and beat them small and shalt make the hills as chaff.” This passage lias several allusion which residents in this country can read ily understand. The Hebrew poets often allude to the whirlwind that sweeps away the chaff from the summer threshing-floor. Job, also, had witnessed the boisterous behav ior of these winds in his native Hauran, where both they and the chaff they carry away abound; and hence his threatening to the wicked upon whom “God distribu ted! sorrows in His anger. They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrietli away.” The sacred writers speak of treading out tbe corn. Is tills mode still practiced by these fanners of Philistia? On some floors here at Yebna, for ex ample, there was no machine of any kind; but boys rode or drove horses, donkeys and oxen, either separately or yoked to gether, round upon the grainy and^it sopeenfiar. ’’Some ran from right to left, and others the reverse; and no one con tinued long in the same direction, but changed every few minutes, to keep the animals from becoming dizzy; while some sought to secure the same result by fasten ing blinders over the eyes of the bewilder ed animals, and this practice prevails especially in Egypt. The command of Moses not to muzzle the ox that treadetli out the com is lit erally obeyed to this day by most farmers, and you often see the oxen eating froni the floor as they go round. There are nig gardly peasants, however, wlio do muzzle the ox—enough to show the need of tho command; and Paul intimates that there were some such in the church in his day: “Doth God take care for oxen ? Or sailk he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes,no doubt this is written: that he that plougheth should plough in hope; and that he that tliresheth fa hope should be partaker of his hope.” The territory of Philistia, which is a great centre for the production of wheat, is beautiful, though monotonous. Under the Moslem rule, most.of the land has be come the property, not of the cultivator, but of the government- Under this rui nous regime there can he no successful agriculture. No man will plant orchards on land which does net belong to him. The husbandmen, moreover, cannot pros per until the Bedawins are driven back to their deserts, and kept there by a firm and -stable government. Neither vine yards nor gardens can exist so long as tlieso plunderers are permitted to roam at will with tlieir all-devouring herds of cat tle and droves of camels. Letter from Bolingbreke. Bolingbroke, Ga., May 4,18S0. Editors Telegraph and Messenger; I promised to keep you. informed in refer ence to the growing crop in our section, extending from Ocmulgee to Bolingbroke and that immediate neighborhood. First, the wheat crop is considered a failure ex cept in some small area?. Oats have im proved wonderfully, and now promise an average yield. In fact tho stalk is not so high as last year, but the head is equally as large and heavy, and tliis will make the oat crop more valuable than last year. Spring oats, are very good. Most farmers think they promise better than years pre vious. Com crops on red lands were ney- er better at this season, and early plant ings in February are even fine on cold gray land. .Those 'planted later have had to contend with poor stands, cold weather, frost and too much rata. The bud worm and cut worm have been de structive of all com on gray lands and wet bottoms. We need hot sunshine and less rain. Cotton that was planted by the middle of April came up to a perfect stand and looked more vigorous than usual; but the excessive wet weather, cold winds and nights have* caused it to sicken and die out until good stand is lost. The lands continue to be too wet to work, and the rain has continued with cold east winds during the past week. Gardens are infested with worms, which are* destroying the cabbage and other garden produce. I fear that the very warm winter has failed to kill many insect larva:, which will hatch out in great numbers as soon as we have a little warm weather, and prove very de structive. Some fanners are just commencing to plant cotton, and! believe cotton planted in May always gives the best results, folding more and much easier cultivated, tepides, it gives the farmer more time to repare Ills land and complete bis fencing. Ie can better apply his fertilizer, and in consequence, the cotton comes up more vigorous, and grows off better under the influence of the warm weather. Cotton is well known to be a hot weather plant, and does not thrive In cold seasons or with too much rain. Sunshine, hot sultry nights and quick, clean work are the es sentials to a good cotton crop. I will write again as the season progresses. Note.—AYe will be glad to hear from our friend as often as he can conveniently Congress. Washington, May 0.—In the House, Mr. Wells, of Missouri, submitted the conference report on the Indian appropria tion bill, and it was agreed to. The re port states that the main, point of differ ence between the houses was in regard to the discontinuance of the board of Indian Commissioners. As finally agreed upon,' the commission is continued, but a pro viso is inserted that no moneys shall be paid for salaries and expenses of that com mission. The morning hour being dispensed with, the House, at 12:35, went into committee of the whole, Mr. Carlisle in the chair, on the post-office appropriate n bill. In the Senate, Mr. Hoar submitted a resolution instructing the judiciary com mittee to report a bill providing compen sation for all persons whose ships were, destroyed by Confederate cruisers during the late rebellion from the moneys re ceived under the Geneva award. Laid over under the rules/ Mr. Morgan submitted a resolution providing a rule for counting the electoral vote. Referred to the select committee on that subject. . Mr. Eaton, from the committee on ap propriations, reported favorably on the bill appropriating $250,000 for public printing, and said he hail intended to ask for its present consideration, but under standing that the Senator from Minnesota, (Windoin)intended to offer certain amend ments, he would not ask it. He would prefer not to have any public printing rather than renew the fight over the marshals’ appropriations. Mr. Edmunds asked the present consid eration of the bill, and it was taken up. Mr. Windom offered an amendment appropriating $(500,000 to pay marshals and their deputies. This was opposed by Messrs. Eaton, Davis of AVest Virginia, Saulsbury and Bailey, and advocated by Messrs. Ed munds, Conkling and Windom, the lat ter referring to the closing of the United States court in New York, and saying the amendment provided for as necessary an outlay as the bill itself did. The president pro tempore (Mr. Thur man) decided on a point of order that the amendment was in order, this not be ing a general appropriation bill. Washington, May 6.—In the Senate, during the debate on Mr. AVindom’s amendment, Mr. Saulsbury said that the President having shown an unwillingness to sign bills having riders, he was obliged to vote against tbe proposed amendment. Mr. Edmunds understood that tbe President’s objection was to riders mak ing new laws as the conditions upon which Congress would vote money to conduct the government. This amend ment was not such a rider. It merely provided for expenses already incurred under existing laws. The United States court in New York, had closed already, and unless money was soon appropriated the President might be obliged to say to all those connected with the administra tion of justice that, Congress having evinced an unwillingness to appropriate money to carry on that • administration, they must stop. Mr. Saulsbury said Congress was al ways ready to vote money to carry on the government, but they proposed to do it-in their own proper way, and not to be lec tured like school children bn the way they should do their duty. Mr. Bailey thought the amendment premature, as the President’s objection was only to the form of the proposed legis lation and not to its substance. Mr. Win dom said that if the bill itself was not premature his amendment was not, for it provided fora service more important than the proposed measure, which was simply a matter of convenience. Sir. Conkling said he had a right to consider other reasons than those named by the President in his veto, though he should vote against passing the bill over the veto. After more debate of a similar charac ter, Mr. Windom’s amendment was re jected by a party vote, and the bill passed without discussion. Subsequently Sir. Bayard introduced a bill to regulate the pay and appoint ment of special deputy marshals, which was rcfeired to the judiciary committee.. -dj:.. uvk, Hum cue couiuieice comini tee, reported favorably on the biil abolish ing all tolls at the Louisville and Port land canal. Placed on the calendar. Mr. Butler presented a memorial of the Charleston Medical College, favoring the bill increasing the efficacy of the marine hospital service. Sir. Kirkwood, from the post-office com mittee, reported favorably on the bill au thorizing the postmaster general to treat the mail service between East St. Louis and St. Louis as other than railway ser vice, and let it to the lowest bidder. Placed on the calendar. The morning hour having expired, the Senate resumed consideration of the Dis trict of Columbia code bill, the discussion of which occupied tile entire afternoon. Sir. Morgan called attention to the fact that two days had been spent in wran gling over amendments touching local dis putes. The Senate of the United States has turned itself into a town council. He was more than ever convinced that the District shocld have a local government. The bill was finally passed at 0 p. m. The conference committee’s report on the Indian appropriation bill was ’lien taken up, but without action thereon, the Senate adjourned. The Kellogg-Spofford resolutions are laid aside, subject to call at any time. Washington, May 0.—In the House. Sir. Scales, of North Carolina, chair man of the committee on Indian Affairs, reported back the bill ratifying the Ute bill. Tbe House then went into the commit tee of the whole on the post-office appro priation bill. Sir. Hawley moved to strike out the proviso relative td the star service. For ty-three per cent, increase in the service in one year was tbo much. He would not charge fraud, not knowing that there was more than maladministration. Sir. Mills, of Texas, supported the amendment. If the postmaster general was guilty, he should be impeached, but the people of the West slionld not even then be deprived of necessary facilities. In the further debate, Mr. Hazelton, of Wisconsin, said wheri a step was taken west of the Mississippi river the cry was raised, “AVhat an outrage on the treasury!” He would not charge fraud unless he could prove St, and any man who did was a coward. One gentleman said the con tracts shomd be abrogated because there was a swag attached to them. The gen tleman 'from Tcxns, Reagan, contended that • they should .be abrogated ' on tho ground of fraud. That charge was made with ill grace by the man who had once invoked the charity of the House and ob tained it. He had brought in a bill for the payment of $300,000 to Southern mail contractors, and had stated on his sacred honor that the Confederate government had never paid any of them, and It had appeared afterwards * that the same had been paid. All hie, Hazleton, meant to say was, tliatwhile the gentleman was so bold in charging other men with fraud, lie was himself in a position to want the charity of the House and country. Mr. Reagan—“I made a mistake of fact, and no one was more ready to acknowl edge it, But the gentleman is hardly warranted from the whole course ol my. life in saying that I need to veil my action before the House or shrink away from the discharge of my duty, and from exposing the villainous contracts of the mail ser vice.” After further debate, Mr. Blount, of Georgia, closed the discussion and de fended the action of the committee on ap propriations. The man who was so ready to assail the gentlemen of the committee as cowards, had better beware that some one did not rise and say that a lack of moral sense induced his attack. It was said.that the routes east of the Mississippi liad been greatly expedited. This he de nied. A vast«um—nearly $1,800,000—had been used during the current fiscal year in increasing and expediting the service by executive order, on routes west of the Mississippi, while that order had not touched tlic eastern rentes. Amendments modifying the proviso, offered yesterday by Mr. Blackburn,' at room for economy in the establishment of | Walking made easy with Lyon’s Heel priatioM^ere ^ aPPl '°' such associations not only in New York Stiffeners; they keep your boots and shoes The question then recurred on the hut in other large cities. , straight. rol-lm ' motion made by Mr- Ewing, of Ohio, to strike out the proviso, which was agreed to by 94 to 71. Mr. Blackburn gave notice that lie would demand a vote ta tbe House. Mr. Money, of Mississippi, of- ered an amendment providing that .all star, routes shall be re-let after thirty days advertisement, as now provided by law, on the first of October, 1880, on wliicli pay for expedi tion of tbe schedule for the fiscal years 1879 and 1880, shall not exceed fifty per cent of the contract price before such ex pedition, provided that this proviso shall not prevail when the present contractor desires to continue the contract as re duced. Agreed to by 82 to 29. Mr. Davis, of Colorado, offered an amendment authorizing the Postmaster General to remit in favor of the colonies of New Zealand and New South AVales so much of the cost of overland transporta tion of the Australian mails as he may deemjust. Adopted.' The appropriation for route agents was increased by $50,000, aud for transporta tion by postal cars, $16,000. The com mittee then rose and reported tbe bill to the House. The main question was or dered, pending which the House took a recess until 10:30 o’clock to-morrow morning. St. Lotus, May 0.—The anti-third ‘ermers’national Republican convention was called to order by General Hender son, who called to the chair Mr. C. C. Hubbard, of Kentucky, a delegate to the Chicago convention. Mr. Hubbard de clared that the safety of the republic de manded that Republicans should remain in charge of.the nation’s affairs. His re marks that there were here no private axes to grind, that there was no candidate to be brought forward for the presidency, elicited hearty and continuous applause. ' AVashington, May 0.—Mr. Morgan’s joint rule,introduced ta the Senate to-day, to regulate the counting of the electoral votes, directs that the two Houses shall meet in joint assembly to count the votes —the President of the Senate _ presiding. If no objection is made to receiving tha list from any State, it shall be received as the valid list of electoral Totes and no other package purporting to be the list from such State shall be opened. Ob jections to list or lists from auy State are to be referred and considered separately by the two Houses. If but one list of votes is submitted to each House for de cision, and it appears upon reassembling that tbe two Houses have concurred ta relation to this list, then it is to be receiv ed. If more than one list is submitted and the two houses do not concur ta receiving either ofthem then all shall he reject ed. After the list of the votes of the electors from a State has been received under the rules of the resolution, and before the vote of the electors of another State is considered, the names of the electors on the accepted list shall be read, and if no objection is raised to any of the electors, all such votes shall he counted by the tellers. If objection is made to any of tho electors on the list, the objection must be considered by the two houses separately, and if they concur in a decision to reject the vote of any elector, it shall not be counted. The joint meeting is not to be dissolved until the electioral votes are all counted and the result declared. AVashington, May 6.—The ways and means committee resumed this morning consideration of Representative Tucker’s tariff' bill, and with some modifications adopted the greater part of it. Provisions adopted to-day place on -the free list chrome iron, ckincona bark and other harks not otherwise provided for and extract of hemlock, cut nails and spikes, and cast-iron butts and biases. The duty on' types and type metal is fixed at 10 per cent, ad valorem; on rice, 50 per cent.; all articles in schedule A, section 2,504, title 33, of the revised statutes, 30 per cent.; wools named in schedule L, of same sec tion aud title classed 1 and 2, 35 per cent.; wools named tliereinJn class 3, 25 ner cent.; carpets and carpeting of every discretion, 30 per cent.; all flan nels, blankets, hats of wool and knit goods, 40 per cent.; all other articles not herein otherwise specified, and named in schedule I*, ofsara section ana title, 45 j«i- cent.; steel rails and bars, one cent, per pound. The committee adjourned till Saturday when the remaining articles ot the toil 1 will be disposed of. These includs wood pulp, upon which the bill proposes to place a duty of 10 pei cent.; jute butts, $3 per ton; all other fabrics and fibrous materi als for the manufacture of paper, $10 per ton. AVashington, May 7.—The House met at 10:30 and proceeded to the considera tion of the post-office appropriation tall, Mr. Scannon, of Illinois, opposed the amendment adopted by the committee of the whole yesterday, authorizing the post master general to remit in favor of the colonies of New Zealand and New South AVales so much of the cost ot overland transportation of Australian closed mails as he may deem just. This amendment would enable the postmaster general to exercise a discre tion in letting the mails for England pass through the United States without any charge against the government of Great Britain. The House then proceeded to vote upon the amendments. The first amendment on which a separate vote was demanded was that authorizing $350,000 of the $9,- 490,000 appropriated for tlic railway mail service to obtain and secure from railways necessary and special facilities for the pos tal service. The amendment was adopted—yeas 110; nays 60. The next amendment was that known as the Money amendment, which is as fol lows : “All star routes shall be re-let af ter thirty days’ advertisement, as now provided by law, on the 1st of October, 18S0,on which pay for expedition of: ules ordered during the fiscal y< 1879-80 shall exceed'fifty per cent, of the contract price before such expedition was provided. That this proviso shall not prevail when the . present contractor de sires to continue the contract as reduced.” Adopted by 118 to 57. This amendment now takes tho place of the proviso originally reported by the appropriation committee to the star ser- service clause of the bill. Other amendments were then agreed to, but before a vote could be taken on the bill, the legislative session of Thursday closed, and at 12 o’clock the session of Friday commenced, ta which, after the reading of the journal of Thursday had been concluded, the post-office appropria tion bill was passed as amended. In the Senate, Mr. Hoar stated that lie had intended to call up this morning a resolution submitted by him yesterday, directing the committee on the judiciary to report a bill to reimburse out of the Geneva award, all those who lost ships by depredations of Confederate cruisers during the rebellion, but he would not oppose the consideration of the conference report on the Indian appropriation bill, which was thereupon taken up on motion of Mr. Beck. Mr. Edmunds opposed the adoption of the report. The House having failed to convince the Senate that tho Indian com mission ought to be abolished, it was pro posed, in order to secure the passage of the appropriation-bill at all, to withhold money necessary to pay the expenses Of the commission. This was practically nullification. This was not a political question, and he urged the Senate to re frain from consenting to the introduction of such a practice in conferences ,-between the houses. Mr. Beck said the conference committee had thought it best to remove this ground of difference, and oecure the passage of the bill, inasmuch as tlie sundry civil and other appropriation bills Would soon fol low, on which an appropriation for the commission could be made if thought best. The sub-committee of the appropriation committee has completed the legislative bill, and will report it to the full commit tee Monday. < It appropriates $12 , ,211,2S6, and i3 considered quite liberal, though un der the estimates. It is thought the Coni- mitteewill agree upon the bill and report it to the House on Tuesday. This leaves but two appropriation bills to be perfected —tbe sundry civil and general deficiency bills, both of which are well in hand, and may be in shape to report to tho House within tbe next ten days. AVashington, May 7.—In the Senate, GEORGi atlacheks’ ASSOCIATION after some further discussion with regard to the appropriation of money for the pay ment of the Indian commissioners, the conference report on the biil was agreed to without a division. The mprning hour having expired, the Senate resumed the consideration of the Kellogg-Spofford resolutions. Mr. Pryor supported the resolution, and .made a le gal argument to show that the pleas of res adjudicata and estoppel were not rightfully relied on by the opjionents of the resolution. In interpreting a reso lution, effect is to be given to the inten tion ot the people in adopting it. Look ing to tho constitution of the United States in this light, Mr. Pryor thought that tlie plain Intent of the people in adopting it was to secure a full and undoubted repre sentation in the legislature of tlie nation. It was the plain duty of Senators, under their oaths to suppor tthe constitution, to see that each State had two legally ap pointed Senators, and that there should be no misrepresentation. No - techuicali- ty should be allowed to defeat the rights and expressed- will of the people of a State. Mr. Pryor then cited the case of Golsen and Claiboume in the twenty-fifth Con gress, and that of AVbitfield in the thirty- fourth to show that cases like tlie present have heretofore been revised, and revised after having once been settled. The opin- ion expressed in the ewe of Fitch and Bright, of Indiana, that the Senate’s action could not be revised, was based on the idea that all facts had been consid ered. The facts in this case were not ex amined on the first hearing, so that this opinion has no weight. To admit the right to revise the former action of the Senate was to put the right of every Sen ator to his seat constantly in jeopardy; but it was not to be presumed that honorable Senators would abuse the privileges of their office by using them to eject mem bers rightfully elected. If the Nicholls> legislature is the lawful legislature of Louisiana, then Spofford must be the lawfully elected Senator from Louisi ana. Mr. Bayard, on conclusion of Mr. Pry or’s speech, read from the journal to cor rect and complete some of the latter’s statements ta regard to the report ta the Fitch and Bright ease. Mr. Hoar then offered a resolution de claring it to ho the judgment of the Sen ate that the facts set forth in the report of the committee on the Kellogg-Spofford case are not sufficient to justify a recon sideration of the decision of the Senate, pronounced November 30th, 1S77. Or dered printed and laid on the table. Mr. Hoar said Mr. Cameron was to speak to-day on this question, but had been called away. He himself wished also to speak oa it, but would not be pre pared until Monday. Upon this the reso lutions were informally laid aside. The Senate contingency expense bill, was then taken up and passed. After some desultory discussion on motion made by Mr. Davis, of AVest Virginia, to take up the bill repealing certain perma nent aud indefinite appropriations, the Senate adjourned until Monday. In the House, bills were passed remov ing the political disabilities of Thomas L. Harrison, of Mobile, Ala., and F. L. Gault, of Virginia. Mr. AVaslibume, of Minnesota, intro duced a-jiill appropriating $500,000 for the construction of reservoirs to improve the navigation of the Mississippi river above -St. Louis. Referred. Onmotion of Mr. AVillis, of Kentucky, a bill was passed establishing a life saving station at Louisville, Ky. The morning hour having been dis pensed with, the pending question was on the bill for the relief of L. Madison Day, of Louisiana. Tlie bill was defeated by a vote pf 70 yeas to 89 nays. The House then passed about twenty pension bills and adjourned. AVashington, May 7.—The ways and means committee will meet to-morrow to take final action on tlie tariff bill. AVood pulp, printing paper, manufactures of pa per and agricultural implements are tho only remaining articles to be passed upon. None of fliem, it is thought, will provoke muoii discussion, except wood pulp, upon which the bill proposes to - lay a duty of ten per cent, ad valorem. A strong effort doubtless will be made to place it on tbe free list. If tlie ways and means commit tee dispose cf the bill to-morrow tbe sugar question will be at once taken up as a sep arate measure. Tbe articles which the committee has decided to put upou the free list contributed last year, under the tariff then in force, $1,280,00(1 to the rev enue. The class of articles upon which the largest average reduction has been agreed upon are articles of wool and woolen goods. Upon these the committee have fixed a uniform duty of 45 per cjnt. It is estimated that last year they contrib uted $15,500,000, under a complex scale of duties ranging from fifty-oue to ninety- seven per cent. The convention of sanitary officers., which has been in session here for the past two days adjourned sine die to-day. Two subjects, viz, the practicability of adopt ing uniform rules and regulations for the government of quarantine stations, and a uniform registration iu connection with the preparation of vital statistics, were re ferred to committees, who will report thereon to the national board of health within two months. Life is rendered miserable when the digestive organs are' impaired. 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Genuine Hep Bitters are put up ta square paneled, amber-colored bottles, with white label on one side printed in black letters, and green hop cluster, and os the other side yellow paper with red letters; revenue stamp over the cork.- This is the only form ta which the genuine Hop Bitters are put up, and the sole right to make, sell and use them, is granted to the Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company, of Rochester, New York, and Toronto, Ontario, by patents, copyright and trade mark. All others put up in any other way or by any one else, claiming to be like it or pretending to contain hops, by whatever names they may be. called, are bogus and uofit for use, and only pat np to sell and cheat the people on the credit and popularity ;■? Hop Bittern. apr27-2xr . i , Eoat Day’s Proceedings. The association was called to order at 9 a. m. Some minor matters'of business having been disposed of, the presided in troduced Miss S. S. Candler, of Gordon Institute, Bamesville, who read a paper on True Culture. The essayist strongly condemned the shallow, impeifect teach ing that prevails to a greater or less extent in many of our schools. The evil com mences ta the grammar schools and in creases as the pupil advances to the high er giales, until in many cases it becomes the veriest mockery. It is undoubtedly true that much of. the work done in our schools and colleges, and which is called “high culture,” is the merest sham. The essayist specially censured tlie time and pains expended ta preparing school public exhibitions. Many features of these ex hibitions are sham culture of the most palpable and useless kind. She also se verely and justly criticised the custom of allowing pupils to enter higher institu tions of learning, when owing to deficient or imperfect education they were utterly in capable of pursuing the higher studies with any profit or success. The great number of branches which schools undertake to teach, as essential to a finished education, is one prolific source of shame in educa tion. It is impossible to make the aver age pupil acquire all with any degree of thoroughness', so, tho teacher is compelled to resort to a system of skillful veneering, and the poor pupil, in too many cases, leaves the high school or college without one particle of true culture. This system worked great and irreparable barm to the person educated under it, stunting both his intellectual and moral manhood. A considerable portion of the paper was de voted to the subject of moral education, the essayist forcibly maintaining that there could be no true culture except where the moral, as well as the intellec tual man, had been thoroughly .educated. In the discussion that ensued, Prof. Woodall and Mr. Dickey made speeches endorsing the sentiments expressed in the essay, and adding thoughts of their own on the subject. After this the discussion flew the track somehow, and Messrs. Bonnell and Frederick made speeches about the State public school system, both of them strongly dep recating the habit that many private school teachers have of opposing the sys tem and casting slurs upon it. Rev. Mr. AVilkes made a speech, the burthen of which was a half-playful but very just criticism upon tbe poor educa tion, bad reading and lack of earnestness ta most of the persons who had read es says before the association daring this session. His remarks created much mer riment. Professor J. E. Lynes, of Shorter Col lege, Rome, Ga., was next introduced. He read a profound, original and schol arly paper on “Languages, and the ration al method of teaching them." After dis coursing at considerable length upon the philosophy and rationale of languages in general, he proceeded to give his theory of how all languages should be taught. His views on this subject are thoroughly radical. He believes that the system by which the languages have been taught in our schools from time immemorial is not only defective and imperfect, but to tally i and fundamentally wrong, being contrary to all philosophy and common sense. He specifically pointed out many of the evils of tbe system, demonstrating the justness of each criticism by forcible arguments. He next explained, in a gen eral way, his own method of teaching. A mother teaching a child how to talk is tlie ideal of the first steps of that method. In all languages the following order of teaching should be observed: First, conversation; second, reading; third, wri ting; fourth, grammar. Tluf last named should never be taken'up until the pupil is thoroughly proficient in the other three. The essayest claimed immense advanta ges for his method over the one usually pursued. His assertions on this point, ta fact, seemed rather extravagant. Mr. V. E. Orr was ta strong sympathy with the new method explained by the es sayist. AVhile getting his education the speaker had been taught partly by this method and partly by the old one, and from his own experience he could say without hesitation that the-new method was infinitely better. At tbe request of several teachers pres ent Both Professor Lynes and Mr. Orr gave an actual illustration of the way in which they teach a class their first lesson in any language. The members of the association were converted into a class* jnst beginning the study of modem lan guages. Mr. Orr gave them their first lesson ta German and Professor Lynes their first in French. The exercise was an entertaining and spirited'one, and pretty clearly proved there was some real merit in the first steps of the system at least. Mr. S. G. Brinkley was the next essay ist. . He spoke extemporaneously on “How to teach reading and spelling to be ginners.” He gave a clear account of the three prevalent methods of teaching the rudiments of spelling: 1. The alphabetic method. 2. The phonic method. 2. The word method. Ho exposed in a most merciless way what he termed the folly and utter absurdity of the first named method, the old, old way by which ourselves and our ances tors for ages back learned to spell. His criticisms were made ta a serio-comic way that made much amusement among the members. He then explained tbe phonic and word methods, and pointed out their great advantages. His own method of teaching is a combination of both of these. After finishing his re marks he called up two sweet little girls, aged respectively six and nine years, pupils of his whom he had brought from Norwood specially for this purpose, and took them through a series of impromptu black-board exercises to illustrate the phonic and word methods. The test was a thorough and fair one, and a perfect success. The little misses acquitted themselves nobly, and won great glory for themselves, their teacher, and the new methods. To many persons who had heard of these new methods, but had never seen them illustrated, this exercise was specially interesting. At half-past twelve the association ad journed, in order to accept the invitation of Prof. Zettler to visit the six-year olds of tlie South Macon Grammar' School. ' By the kindness of citizens, carriages were furnished to taka all the members from.their, hall to the school building. There they were ushered into a real pleasant room, upstairs, wheresixty little six-year old children, boys and girls, sat at their desks, quietly awaiting them. Af ter a few introductory remarks by Prof. Zettler, exercises commenced. Tlie teacher of the grade, 'Miss Horton, con ducted the class rapidly through various exercises, in spelling, arithmetic, geogra phy, reading, declamation, and free calisthenics, interspersed with simple little songs, rendered in perfect time and softened tones by the clear childish voices. The recitations were conducted ;iartly by the concert and partly by the ndividual method. Every question was answered correctly and with great prompt ness and animation. Tlie whole exercise was as charming an exhibition as can possibly be conceived, and illustrated the purest poetry of teaching. Too much cannot be said in praise of the fair young teacher, whose faithfulness and skill has wrought this beautiful work. Nothing that has occurred during this meeting of the association wili probably make a deeper impression upon the teach ers, than the hour spent with the six-year- olds in the South.Macon Grammar School. AFTERNOON SESSION. The association was called to order by the president at 3 o’clock, and miscella neous business declared to be in order. Mr. Battle was called upon to preside by the president during his unavoidable ab sence. Mr. Butler offered a recnw the Legislature to make lareir 0 ” prAyin S tions for public education ^ proi>ria ' somewhat solemn diseussio^i thl°K? tions were carried. resoiu- Mr. Dews-reported from the committee on resolutions the words of thanks usuaflv adopted on such occasions. They wem formally adopted. ro Mr. Mitchell reported from the com. °d nominations its recommenda tion that the following officers be elected for the ensuing year: President, C. E. Lamb din, Barnesville; vice-presidents, G. M. Dews, Columbus, J. T. McLauMi- Un, Talhotton, Jno. Neely, Americus, J. J. Metbvm, Nacoochee, andP. E.Davant Buena Affista; secretary, S. U. Caldwell’ Rome; assistant secretaries, J. H. Chan- peil, Columbus, J. H. H.Parks, Augusta, andV. E. Orr, Louisville; treasurer, J. C. Syms, Rome. On motion of Secretary Caldwell, the annual dues .of members were changed from one to two dollars. ~~ • Onmplion of the same gentleman, the secretary was instructed to publish a me morial pamphlet containing selections from the addresses Inade at the Macon meeting. On motion of Mr. Bonnell, a committee of five, consisting of Messrs. Bogart, Zet tler, Caldwell, Dews, and Miss E. Bowen, was appointed to take cognizance of the death of distinguished educators of the State. On motion of Mr. Zettler, the secretary was requested to have the constitution and by-laws of the association published. The committee on publications recom mended the Southern Educational Monthly, of Charleston, South Carolina, to the favor of the association. Adopted. On motion oi Mr. Bonnell the next meeting was appointed to be held at At lanta, on tlie first Tuesday ta May, 1881. After a few eloquent words from tho president and an appropriate prayer by Rev. A. J. Battle, D. D., the fourteenth annual convention of the Georgia Teach ers’ Association was adjourned sine die. Bobbing tbe People for Buncombe. The iniquitous and oppressive high pro tective tariffhas been used extensively by Secretary Sherman to work up a presiden tial boom for himself by employing the largely accruing income ta excess of tho requirements of the revenue, in making monthly reductions of about ten million dollars each from the corpus of the public debt. And yet there is no exigency de manding these payments, as they arc over and above all the actual requirements of the government for ordinary expenses and the interest oh the debt and sinking fund designed for its future liquidation. The Baltimore Sun well remarks: Mr. Sherman,-in his complacency on this subject, seems to forget that a large part of this revenue so much in excess is derived from what are essentially war taxes laid upon articles of prime necessity. A competent authority shows that in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1879, the three articles of sugar and molasses, wool and cotton goods, had paid $05,656,096 into the treasury, and will pay at least $75,- 000,000 during the present fiscal year. These three articles could be admitted free of duty, or the duty reduced to a ju dicious ad valorem rate such as would disturb the prosperity of no existing in dustry in the country, and still tlie treas ury would have a surplus for all legiti mate and advisable purposes. The tariff could be further reduced so as to free the consumers of paper from ex tortion, and to lessen the price of steel rails and other articles so much needed now by our growirg industries. The in ternal revenue taxes could be modified and cut down, and when all this is done and the country relieved from the pressure of war taxes, the treasury will still have a surplus. A majority of both hous es of Congress are believed to he strongly in favor of the revenue reform. AVhy, then, do they staud idle? The tariff is, by universal admission, a bundle of anom alies, and tbe previous obstacle to reform, the need of revenue, is no longer in the way. AATiy does Congress withhold the tariff bill? For the very queer hut conclusive re- son that a high protective tariff Speaker from Pennsylvania has stocked with men of his own way of thinking the important committee on ways and means, who hold the key to the whole situation in their own hands by having confided to tliemj.be pow er of reporting or not reporting at their convenience, any measure submitted to the Houso looking to a modification of tho present tariff. The House refuses to re scind this rule, and as a necessary conse quence, tariff reform must remain to abeyance. There is some hope yet, how ever, that the force of public sentiment all over the country will force them to permit the duties upon a few necessary articles to be revised and properly adjusted before adjournment. During tbe coming political campaign! there will be three separate aud distinct elections ta Georgia. The first will be the election of Governor,State officers and members of the general assembly on the 6th of October. The second will be elec tion of President and members of Congress on Tuesday, the 2nd of November. The third and last comes the election of county officers in January. The Child and toe Mocking Bird. A little child in Jacksonville, Florida, was in the habit of playing upon the piazza o her father’s house. Near by a mocking bird had its nest ta the orange tree, ana the child would throw crumbs to tlie bird daily. After a while the child was taken sick and died. AVhile the child’s body was lying ta the coffin the bird was seen to perch upon the slat of the window- blind, pour forth one of its most brilliant songs aud then flit away. 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