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<§*o*gfer Hjejektff Qtietegeapl? 3fe*«m?*i $s Terms of th«Xcl<*r»ph »nd *«**”■ ger. Postage free to all Editions. Daila Telegraph and Messenger, $10.00per yr %4 •* ** 5.00 Gf7ios ,« «• <« •• 2.50 S mos. Daily Telegraph and Messenger and Southern Farmer's Mo thly TFeelly Telegraph and Messenger 2.00 IWfTc'v TeUaraph ana Messenger andlllZnFarmer’s Monthly MOpcryr Demit by P. 0. Order or Registered Letter, to H n j»avis, Manager. ■ine couou getting interesting. A state of great ex- week, according to the New York C7 j ation exista bet ween the factions, due icle, were 24,636 bales, against 19 867fo . “ tbe operations of Logan, who is the corresponding week of Mt year. 1 he, t ^ g y to ^ in minois with totals on Friday night were 4,089,164 c J nk ^ ing and Cam er 0 n in New York and Ctkgra# nub Jtastngtr FRIDAY, MAY 21, 18S0. The Three P’s.—The embodiment of the Grant dynasty is represented by three p’s—place, power, and plunder. The lumber business of Georgia, it is estimated, will amount to 300,000,000 feet the present year, worth over $5,000,- 000. _ It is asserted that the Readjusters of Virginia, while intending to maintain their State organization, will almost unan imously vote for the Cincinnati Demo cratic nominee, Senator Mahone to the contrary. t Episcopal Convention.—The State Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Church will convene on to-morrow in Trinity Church, Columbus, at 10 o’clock. Bishop Beckwith will preside. The body will consist of twenty-eight minis ters and about twice as many laymen. Macon will be represented. General Assembly.—The general as sembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church, meets in the city of Charleston S. C., on to-morrow morning, and will continue in session for two or three weeks. Rev. A. W. Clisby, the pastor of the Pres byterian church of this city, accompanied by his excellent lady, leaves tins morn ing for the ‘‘Ancient City by the Sea.” West Point.—It is said that in a short time the order relieving General Schofield from command at West Point will be is sued, and that it has been determined to replace him With General Po~e. General Pope is a “Christian soldier” of the stamp of General O. O. Howard, and the idea is that he will be able to restore peace and good-will among all the cadets, black and white. Personal.—We had a pleasant call recently from Mr. J. T. Karins, the build er of the Macon Confederate monument, He reports many other monuments of private and public nature on foot in the State, which would indicate that the pe cuniary condition of the people must be improving. Americus alone has recently invested $10,0C0 in the erection of mauso leums to ter cherished dead, and Savan nah has expended much in the same way. Anxious to Adjourn.—This week the House will begin its daily sessions one hour earlier, in the hope of carrying out the resolution looking to an adjournment .on the 31st instant. But unless some thousands of bills of greater or less im portance are allowed to go over, we do not see how the members can cease work in the very midst of. their labors. This comes of frequent “recesses” and the large amount of time wasted upon unim portant questions. As usual much hasty legislation will probably be the result. “Just as of Old,” is the title of F'uutuuci wmrtA bales, against 4,355,035 for the correspond ing week of last year—showing an in crease of 333,220 bales. The interior port business of the week was: Receipts 11,105, Against0,607 for the corresponding week of last year. Ship ments 21,687, against 21,064. Stocks 170,- 151, against 50,240 at same date last year. The Chronicle’s visible supply table showed on Fiiday night last, 2,2S7,025 bales of cotton in sight, against 1,886,044 bales at same date last year—2,404,775 in 1878, and 2,031,040 in 1870 at same dates. These figures show an increase of 479,850 bales on the visible supply of last year, and a decrease of38,872, and of oC5,- 143 bales on the supplies of 1878 and 1877 at same dates. Cotton was quoted in Liv eipool last Friday at 011-10 for mid dling upland. In 1870 at same date the quotation was 7}, in 1878 sixpence, and in 1677 5 13-10. ^ „ . The Chronicle appends the following to its table of plantation receipts: The above statement shows— 1. That the total receipts from the plan tations since Sept. 1 in 1679-80 were 4,- 857,4S5 bales; in 1878-9 were 4,409,532 bales; in 1677-8 were 4,108,103 bales. 2. That although the receipts at the Last Week’s Cotton Figures, The cotton receipts at-the ports last How About Illinois. The third term situation in Illinois is A state of great ex- Pennsylvania. Logan has packed all the county conventions he could control for Grant upon the unitary system—allowing no delegates for Blaine or Washhurne; and in th : s way has probably secured a majority for Grant in the State convention provided he can divide Cook county. But Cook county, administered by the same rule, will not give one vote for Grant, and hence the third-termers come forward With a liberal proposition to divide accord ing to relative strength, which the Blaine and Washhurne men indignantly refuse to do. The Chicago Tribune hurls the fol lowing brick at them! “If the third term bolters, conscious that they have no rights in-the Springfield convention, still count upon a possible third term majority outside of Cook coun ty to admit them, or a part of them, they are sowing the wind only to reap the whirlwind. Not a single Look county bolter can be admitted into the Springfield convention without transferring the whole question to the National convention, to which the anti-third term sentiment of this State, backed up by an outraged par ty in which bolters are given lights over regulars, will appeal with irresistible force. If a single Cook county bolter be admitted to the Springfield convention, in defiance of all right and precedent, the actual scramble, for State offices may as well nn lv i4 „ I cease, for the prospect for election will be omy l*, , . * » were 24,036 bales, movement from plantations was wmj "»- / - tn ; f tractive : 105 baies, the balance being drawn from too d.m to be attiactive. stocks at the interior ports. Last year the receipts fiom the plantation's for the same week were 7,000 bales, and for 1878 they were 10,700 bales. In the Chronicle's weather telegrams for Friday that paper reports dry weather in Texas except one shower one day in Galveston. The crops of com and cotton are in fine condition and very promising. There was a slight rain in New Orleans— none in Shreveport—none in Mississippi —none in Arkansas—none in Tennessee, Memphis had been without rain for seventeen days. Mobile had light show ers on five days and Montgomery on two. Selma had none. Madison, Florida, had rain every day and too much of it. Macon and Columbus had rain on one day amounting to about 0.25. Savannah had 0.10 of rain and Augusta 0.09, ports from the crops are universally good On the matter of speculation and its collapse the Chronicle i3 of opinion that trade is now rapidly returning to a con dition of health. The Count at Chicago. The Sun, of Saturday, including the operations in Michigan, Nevada, West Virginia and Florida last week, foots up the situation thus: The whole number of delegates now chosen is 050. According to their avowed preferences they may he allotted about in this way: Blaine . Grant . Sherman 2CS 235 97 I Edmunds . Washhurne 20' Minnesota . 10 16 Nebraska . 6 . 0 42 One Territory 2 . 4 Total . .“306 . tirniitifi'i ™*<- r ' J ^ , i Hullab’s splendid song “Three Fish ers Went Sailing,” and La Hache’s favor ite “Picnic Polka.” These three pieces will cost at any music store over $i, and here they all are in regular form for c-’-' ten cents. Send ten cents number and it win tmfr Address -»““ e rs, Ludden & Bates, .uiiab, Ga. •■I A Novel Visitor.—We are indebted to Dr. A. P. Collins, who is traveling in the East with his bride, for a copy of the Cairo (Egypt) Times, of the date of March 4th, 18^). It is a curious looking three column sheet, printed in the language of the country, and, of course, wholly unde cipherable. . We doubt if there are & dozen citizens of Georgia wbo could peruse and translate its contests. 4 The Doctor will- remain Total . . . 650 The present week will witness the last of the Republican conventions. The States yet to choose delegates to Chicago are: Alabama . Louisiana . Colorado . ■ Illinois . • Massachusetts The result in the stalwart Republican States of Illinois, Minnesota and Nebras ka will exert a large measure of influence upon the national convention. If Grant captures their 58 delegates, and keeps the 128 delegates from New York and Pen: But it is reasonable, says the Sun, to assume that ten per cent, of *hese delega tions are composed w very slippery mate rials inci'~ u 10 slide int0 the syndicate .. onfeago which will pay the highest price for them. There is no good ground for doubting that the same rule will be ^applicable to the 100 delegates who are yet to he appointed. Therefore, It is safe to safe to’say that no one can tell With certainty for whom at least seventy-five members of the Chicago convention will throw their ballots, until they have them selves cast them. extended tour. Congressional Legislation. The House, it is said, is determined to adjourn sine die the last day of the present month. When last heard from it had about 1,500 hills on its calendar, ninety-nine in the hundred of which will go .by the , - , board. As to general legislation outside abroad probably for several months Ion- of 4ppropr5 * tioa billSj the operations of ger, and has had a delightful and quite Congress this session may be summed up by the word nix. Congress has lost abil ity to do the needful legislation of the country, and there is no reason to hope that it will ever return. On the contrary, as the country grows and Its necessities increase, (as they are doing with raiboad speed), the calendars will swell till not one in three hundred bills of needful leg islation will have any chance at all. And yet if therais one preflomipent’idea among the so-called Republicans : of Congress, it Is to undertake the legislation of the States—to practically abolish the State governments and undertake all the ‘.legis lation lor (he continent! , . • e ' Have Enough.—While the stream of emigration still sets westward, it would seem that in some portions of the country at least, the supply of labor begins to ex ceed the demand. A Helena, (Montana,) correspondent of the Chicago Tribune says that region is “over-supplied with men without capital or business of their own and the long winters deprive them of much of their summer earnings.” A goodly number of these new comers could be well provided for on the farms and vacant lands of the South, and he able, in our genial climate, to work and make money all the year round. . Rocking Little Rhody.—The Ger- man-American citizens of Providence, Rhode Island, realizing the fact that they are not so good as the negro, as a voter, bring in a remonstrance. They want to be placed on an equal footing. As we remarked the other day, all foreign horn citizens are compelled to own property worth $134 before they can vote, but a negro can vote if he does not even have clothing sufficient to cover his nakedness. Hence the Germans make their demanfrfor a change in the follow ing language: “By the abolishment from ther constitution of this State of property qualification as a pre-requisite to the ex erciseofthe elective franchise, and the institution in its stead of manhood suf frage.” . | ^ - Our Favorite Beverage No Longer a Chinese Monopoly.—In As sam and other provinces of India the cul tivation cf the tea plant is progressing rapidly. Thirty-four large companies are engaged in the business with promis ing results. It is said the Indian teas are one-third stronger than the Chinese arti cle, though wanting in theii mild flavor. They are generally mixed with lower grades of (be Iptter. -An exchange says the tea plant requires seven years before coming to perfection. So that the full in fluence of the greatly increased area un der cultivation cannot be felt in the mar ket for some time. The cheap labor of India and Burmah bids lair to compete successfully with that of China; and what is more it will be backed by Eng lish capital, enterprise and command of the home market. A New Jury Sug gestIox.—The rei suit of the Billings trial in Ballston, New York, has led to the following ingenious proposition to secure a verdict in mnrder cases. f It is proposed that forty-eight men shall be drawn, examined And sworn in as jurors, just as the .twelve now are. These forty-eight men-shall be kept to gether daring the trial, and be guarded in the same way as a jrny now Is. They shall all sit and bear the evidence. When the case closes, twelve of these jurors shall be drawn, and if they agree upon a Ver dict, that ends the case; if they cannot agree they are discharged and twelve more are drawn from the original forty- eight. If the second twelve cannot agree, a third twelve are drawn, and so until the whole forty-eight have been called upon to render a verdict. This has at least the merit of original! ty, but the imprisoned prospective jurors who would be kept in attendance await ing the decision of tbe first twelve, might think they were hardly dealt with. Be sides, would not tbe first panel be. more careless and less conscientious in the dis charge of tbeir duty, when they knew that the responsibility could be shifted up on others. Better take no risks when life and property are at stake. This distinctly threatens An adjourn ment of the whole question to the Chicago national convention. That question is briefly whether a majority in a State (real or simply assumed as in the case of New York and Pennsylvania) lias the- right to gag a minority and demand a unitary vote. It is conceded that clearly established majority may control the votes of the delegates at large, bht that it may effectually smother the district delegates and compel them to vote against their judgment and election is pretension now distinctly set up for the first time, and relative to which all the precedents affirm to the contrary. The introduction of this pretension into the Chicago National convintion by the Grant men will place him and his friends in a most ungracious and undemocratic attitude before the country, and will be poor illustration of that “overwhelming popular clamor for a third term,” which was to furnish the apology for Grant’s running again in response to a great pop ular uprising, which, in point of fact will be shown to have subsided into a scheme to foist a third term on the people against their will. As to Waslibume’s telegram from Port land that he is in favor of Grant, and will not, under any circumstances, be a candi date, tbe Chicago Journal says it will have no effect whatever, that Mr. Wash- burne’s friends understand his position be that he does not consent to be a candi date against Grant, but that they are re solved to push him for the nomination the very last. . * Tbe Cincinnati Commercial has this upon the situation: Ninety-two out of the 101 counties have now held tbeir conventions, and a careful review of the figures, giving Cook couDty her delegation as instructed, and as it stands (which has been done in all other counties in making up this summary) Grant will be found to have 303 votes in the State convention, Blaine 230, and Washhurne 103. If Grant gets all the re maining votes but one (which of course lie will not do), he will have a bare ma jority in the convention. If he fajlaJn hare rerusedto go to Springfield under existing circumstances. Both delegations held meetings to-day, but so far as known nothing transpired, and no compromise now likely, as both arc stubborn. Organising Their Clans. Despite the apparent quiet that pre vails among tb3 colored Republicans of southwest Geoigia, there are unmistaka ble signs that, under the leadership of Wright and other astute men, they are preparing for a vigorous Presidential and State campaign this fall. In the Journal of Progress, published at Cnthbert, they have an organ of their own, edited with considerable adroitness and ability, whose very moderation operates the more dan gerously, as it disarms the active opposi tion of the white community. This pa per ramifies all over the “black belt,” and has agents in every town and village. Through its efforts a perfect organization can and may. be effected of the entire Rad ical element, and this is the avowed pur pose of the editor. The very fact that he opposes the hitherto absolute monopoly of office by the white members of the party greatly endears him to the rank and file, of African origin who do nearly all the voting. The Democracy of the second district especially, therefore, may expect a hardly contested fight at the next- con gressional election, aud should begin in season to prepare for it. The names of no less than six candi dates, to-wit: Messrs. Smith, Wooten, Kennon, Clarke, Hammond and Turner are urged by their irlends for nomination before the convention. . .In view of this division in public sentiment, how impor tant that every preliminary step of the party in eaph county he taken with due care andi deliberation, so as to assure a fair expression of the popular voice. A3 only one of the ubove able gentlemen can be chosen to bear the congressional stan dard, all should agree and pledge them selves in advance to render a hearty sup port to the individual who is fairly nomi nated by the convention. That they will do so, we canHOtdoubt. To divide would be suicidal indeed, and result in conse quences fearful to contemplate. Happily, we have the lamp of a past and bitter ex perience to guide us in Geoigia, and hav ing tested the blessings of free local gov ernment once more,after a dreadful hiatus of several years, which brought the com monwealth to the very verge of rain, our people will steer clear of the same mael strom. The above remarks are equally applicable to this aud every other district in Georgia. The Democracy must stand together as a unit, even at the cost of the personal and private aspirations of many of our best citizens whom, if possible,they would delight to honor. , „ , -Mb. Hayes and the Presiden tial Term.—A party of Delaware gen tlemen called at tbe White House on Saturday and had a talk with the Presi dent, who said he favored a change in the law so that a President shall serve but one term of six years. This is a mild but de cided condemnation of third-termism. He gave very good reasons for favoring tbe change. • County Primaries, Several counties in Georgia hare al ready held meetings or conventions and designated their delegates to the two State conventions, the first to meet in At lanta, June 6th, for the' appointment of delegates to Cincinnati,'and the olher at the same place, August 4tb, for the pur-* pose of selecting electors: and nominating candidates for Governor and State House officers. In this connection, we Would earnestly egllthe attention- qf the Democ racy of the State to the following resolu tion which was offdted by Hon. ,P.PE BeH, and adopted by the committee : Resolved, That the people of Georgia, in selecting their delegates to said conven tion, are hereby earnestly requested to adopt such methods satisfactory to them selves, as will insure s full, free, and fair expression of the popular choice in selec ting delegates and candidates. The com mittee recommend .that meetings to ap point delegates to the first convention meet on tba first Tuesday in June next, aud the meetings to appoint delegates to the second convention be held on Wed nesday, the second day of July, and in each case, that the most extensive notice practicable be given. The above-was amended so as to insert Wednesday, the 21st day of July, in lieu of the 2d of that month, for the primaries in the several counties to appoint their delegates to the gubernatorial convention in'Angust. '-d'. The executive cpmmittee believed (bat ia designating the same time throughout the State fbr the holding of these primary elections or mass meetings, general atten tion would be concentrated upon that par ticular day, and a more thorough expres sion of the popular, voice would be ob tained. ' We agree s^iih them, and' for the future harmony and yelfare of the party, would earnestly suggest that the primary meetings be duly and extensively adver tised for several weeks previous to any county election or convention, Let there be no snap judgments, no packed or rotten assemblages, no fraudulent balloting when delegates come to be chosen to ap point the standard bsarers of the Democ racy. This will go far towards satisfying the people and laying the Independent ghost. We trust these words will b# duly heeded. Jute.—The cnlture of jute, says the Italcigli Observer, is sure to become one of the industries of our State. The lands in the eastern belt of the State are adapted to its growth, and especially are the abandoned rice plantations suitable. The jute grows vigorously on such places, with a long and good fibre. It can be pro duced, at about one-eighth the cost of cot ton, and from an acre, of it $40 to $100 can be made, taidag the present price of jute as a basis. The great and varied uses off Jute are hardly known, but It is made up in dozens of things. It comes to us here principally in the shape of cot ton bagging. Of this there are used, say,, 1,200,000 yards to cover the 200,000 bales of cot^qn raised State. There are very fine specimens otf jirte stalks grown in tbe State now on exhibition ih the Ag ricultural Museum, whidh were sent Colo nel Polk seise two or three years ago. A Hew School House Fob the North Macon Grammar School. • “ The importance of this enterprise cannot he well over-estimated. Five or six years ago the school board was paying rent for such rooms as they could secure, isolated and totally .unfit for school proposes. When the Polbill property was thgpwn into market the city agreed to pay J a por tion of the purchase money, and the board paid the remainder by transferring for this purpose the amounts of annual rents they were then paying for more unsatis factory quarters. Id this way the proper ty was acquired, and the title to it vested in the city. Meanwhile, the school increased until it is rare to find a vacancy, and there is not space in the small rooms for the nec essary desks for all the pupils. These rooms arenas to the most of them, less than twenty-five feet square. Some of them are not ten feet in pitch, and yet contain about forty pupils, with poor light and ventilation. This gives an atmos phere positively baneful, and it is a re proach that the teachers and children should bo exposed to it. Tho movement now is to get the city council to transfer the title* to the lot to the trustees of tiie Bibb County Academy, and get them to erect a spacious and com fortable school building upon it dining the time intervening between the 15th June and 15th September, when the schools will' be closed. It is hoped they will be willing to do it, as they have funds which might be applied to this pur pose, and surely money could not he put to better use. Coals to Newcastle. * Manufacturing in the South. That the South is destined to be largely manufacturing section of the country, is , firmer persuasion in the North than it is ere. We have numerous advantages for many branches of mechanical production, which practical men there fully understand but which few in the South do. These are constantly asserting themselves in several kinds of cloth and yam manufactures, all of which are behind orders; but it may safely be said that in every business where cheapness of raw material—cheapness of power and cheapness of labor all unite in our favor, production and trade must come. We have learned, however, of a striking case where only one of these conditions threatens singular revolution. Our neigh bors, Messrs. Berad Brothers, who are large saddlery, harness and collar manu facturers on Third street, it is well known liave built IIP ft vary copsidcrablc iriRnil- ~r several contiguous Southern States. They have a force of forty men constantly busy in tho manu facture of these goods, and say that they could easily double their trade, which consists in articles entirely of their own manufacture. \:t :■ ■ \n\i Bat the other day they were surprised with a heavy older from a leading whole sale saddlery and harness firm in Phila delphia. This was not a sample or trial order, but a solid 'order' for trade-goods, and %ill leave Macon in a day or two. This Philadelphia firm.is not a young or ^speculative firm, but, one of the most solid In the trade. The order was not An ■experiment, but bought on samples and comparison of prices. We should be less surprised if it bad come from New York, but it comes from the point of cheapest production on the Atlantic coast, and it comes on strict trade conditions—the best goods at the lowest prices. iWe suppose the Messrs. Bemd will hereafter need no certificate of thfelr ability, on tbe score of prices, to supply the Southern markets to any extent. ’i<o . '■‘■ri— J! «*«»* ' ■ . e-ru The Difference. The difference lies solely In the fact “of whose ox Is gored.” h“Little Rhody” en joys immunities that are denied the rest of mankind. In this State, says the Mont gomery Advertiser, all native citizens who jdwnno real estate - must pay a poll tax and register on the first of January, and naturalized citizens cannot vote unless they own $134 worth of land over and above all incumbrances, or which yields rental a year,,, The effect of this last provision is to exclude a large num ber of naturalized citizens from the ballot box. * At present the State has two menff- bers of Congress; and four electoral votes. If)&« constitution of the United. Statas was enforced, she would lose one member of Congress and one vote in the electoral college. There is po justice in requiring foreign white citizens, wko have been residents of theTJnited State* for five years, to hold land as a prerequisite for voting and letting negroes vote without any such landed qualification. All ought to be fed out o* the same Spoon.' If we were to pass a law in any Southern State requiring the ne groes to bbld land worth $134 before they could Tote, there would be no end of talk about it at the North, and the bloody shirt would wjive as it never waved before. Y, M. C. A.—The Young Men’s Chris tian Association of Louisville, Ky., have just moved into their huililihg and prem ises on Eleventh and Locust streets for which they paid cash down$37,500. The first cervices were conducted by Rev. T. M. Post, D. D. The growth of this asso ciation has bteen most extraordinary throughout the United States and Canada, and the immense good accomplished by it oan only bo revealed in the “final day.” Flourishing branches are to be found at Savannah, Atlanta, Augusta and very many of the interior towns of Georgia, the moot eminent divines of all denominations fbr the most part cooperating earnestly with, the young men in tbeir labors of -Li? Next to tbe Risible ebureb of God, of Which it Is an active feeder, no other hu man Institution la doing more for the good of the people. The Whittaker Campaign Dodge a Failure. Attorney Townsend, whowas sent from Washington to conduct the case of the colored cadet Whittaker,and who,it will he remembered, by his insolent airs gave so much offense to General Schofield and the West Point officials, has lowered his tone considerably as to the exalted worth and impregnable character of the dusky client Mr. Hayes commissioned him to repre sent. Even that dyed-in-the-wool Radical sheet, the Globe-Democrat, intimates that Townsend i3 inclined to the opinion that this affiur has been given undue impor tance, and that there i3 ^considerable in the allegations that the so-called outrage on cadet Whittaker was self-inflicted. Indeed, our late dispatches, ih the report ed interviews between the negro cadet and General Schofield, leave the infer ence pretty clear that Whittaker wrote the “note of warning,” ar d was guilty of all the outrages (in a horn) declared to have been perpetrated upon his person, The whole affair, which was thought wor thy even of Congressional notice, lias proved to be the veriest fizzle, and tile Rads will be able to manufacture no thun der put of it. If managed properly, how ever, the story may be made to point a good moral by tbe Democrats during tbe approaching presidential canvass. Hard to Know How to Operate. Prices at tbe North and in Europe, both in stocks and merchandise, continue to fluctuate to such a degree that the wisest operators are oftentimes at their wits’ ends. Especially is this true of tbe transactions in metals. The Lon don Economist thus notes tbe rise and fall in these articles since July 1,1870: * x -n. .arep- months. Pig iron, in the same periods, rose 78 per cent, and fell 01 per cent.; tin rose 01 per cent, and fell 30 per cent.; tin-plates rose 07 and fell 3S per cent., and lead rose 48 and fell 24 per cent. Northern General Conference. The election of bishops in the Northern Methodist General Conference last week, was a triumph for conservatism. Every man elected is conservative in feeling,and all were eminent for their learning and piety. If the Southern people had been called upon to have selected four men out of that large and intelligent denomina tion; they would doubtless have placed their hand upon ffcese very men. We re joice at the wisdom displayed in this elec tion, and congratulate the Methodist de nomination, both North and South, on the result. Tbe general conference has done a good thing. It is about to remove the pugnacious Fuller from -Atlanta by dis continuing his paper and book establish ment. There never has been a more in sidious and persistent slanderer of the South thah this man Fuller. By this act the general conference say that they have had enough of’this kind of warfare, and that there is no necessity for such a publi cation in the South. The wisdom of the conference is manifest in thiaact also. Another good thing done by thi3 body liras the retiring of the notorious Dr. C- H. Fowler from the editorial control of the New York Ckristian Advocate. He has been a constant villifier of - the South and her people for the past two years. Wer are glad that-the good sense of this denomination demanded his retirement to a secondary position in the missionary Society. Thousands of good people, both North and South, will rejoice at this in formation. Another action of this intelligent body of men that will be criticised severely is, that they have entirely overlooked the de mand of the colored portion of the church, for the election of a colored bishop. An earnest appeal was made during the pres ent session in behalf of this measure, but it seems that the conference has ignored the claims of the “man and brother.” Bemarking on the above, the Baltimore Sun says: J It will he observed that though about half tbe rise in these prices has been lest, prices are still so much better than they were nine months ago, that there is no danger -of tbeir getting back to the old level, unless it be in the case of pig iron. That has fallen back fonr-fifths of the rise already. But the mercantile world is kept in state of feverish uneasiness by these inces sant changes in valuations, and the trade of the country cannot regain its normal condition while they continue. - Perhaps a good grain harvest abroad the present year, and the absence of any general war, rna^ tend to steady the financial helm. In the meantime prudence should be tbe watchword of every merchant and dealer. Science of English Verse.—By. Sid ney Lanier.' New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. Price $2. Perhaps no book on this subject has ever created more discussion than this one will. It is certain to excito the widest at tention of every student of literature. Iu fact, Mr. Lanier, by jth& thoroughness of his special study, has made him a place among the first authorities to students of English literature. Hence the publica- ition, by a scholar of his rank, of an en tirely new theory of English prosody, would necessarily awaken a general in terest. This treatise includes critical studies of the older English poetiy* which brings out admirably Mr. Lanier’s accurate learning and keen appreciation of his subject. The striking and suggestive review of the relations of music and verse in which Mr. Lanier indulges opens a line of thought so original as to make this volume, if his conclusions are accepted, the pioneer of a new-scienoe and new methods. We take ^peciaLpride in noting the success of this accomplished gentleman, as he Is a Macon contribution to the world of let ters, and we hope his old friends and associates will exhibit their appreciation of his labor by purchasing this admirable publication. It can be bad at the bookstores. ■ Sighing for the Old Plantation- Emancipation doubtless brought great joy and satisfaction to the bulk of the ne gro population, albeit the boon came with out insurrection, strife, or even solicita tion on their part. Thoughtless, igrorant, insouciant creatures that they were, it was impossible for them to realize tbe magni tude and reality of the change. The young and vigorous at first like butter flies flitted about tbe country, sipping tbe sweets of freedom, and for a long period refused to tarry • more than a few months or a single year at any one place. But gradually the stern truth dawned upon them that by the sweat of his brow man’s daily bread must be earned in every posi tion and gradation in life, and they have generally gone to work manfully and are doing well. There was one class, however, of manu mitted slaves to whom freedom has proved the direst disaster that could have befallen them. This was the aged and infirm,who were unable to cope with the difficulties of the situation when left friendless and pen niless by their liberators. Such were al ways tenderly cared for and supported by the masters in whose service-.they had worn out, often living to a great old age and almcst worshiping their kind own ers. But now, alas! the poor creatures, deserted by the men who, actuated spite against the South, and from person al and political greed, had emancipated them without the least preparation, were cast out upon' the cold charities of the world. j they received was from the hands of their former masters, themselves reduced penury. During a recent visit to South west Georgia, the writer was a witness an affecting scene between an old family servant and ex-coachman, and a gentle man and his wife, their former owners. When the ante bellum slavery days were alluded to, with their mirth and jollity and freedom from care, the poor old fel low, whose garments were in tatters, fairly broke • down and sobbed like an infant. He was comforted with the donation of small sum of money aud the prpmise of some clothes.- i We heard also of a similar instance where an aged couple of South Carolina sea-coast, negroes, husband and wife, upon meeting their former master and mistress who had provided them with a comforta ble home and patch, free of rent, after the war and helped to support them besides, were so overpowered with gratitude at seeing them, that upon bended knees they kissed the hem of the lady’s robe exclaim ing, “tank de Lord, we hah lib for to see our farrer and’’murrer once mo.” This is an actual fact. * Still another .case can.be mentioned of a faithful servant walking twenty-five miles to greet his former own er, and when .they met, clasping him in fraternal embrace. . *, c Thousands of such incidents are con stantly occurring, and surely no stronger proof can be afforded of the endearing re lations which formerly existed between master and servant in the days of African slavery. The rising generation will never Imow how strong was the tie which once bound the planter’s son to his ebon play mate, and perhaps foster brother. Wenet- er pass the tottering form and white head of an aged negro, without feeling what a barren exchange for him has been the comforts and happiness of the old planta tion for the empty farce of freedom. Illinois State Convention. To-day (19th) is an important day with the so-called Republican party. The third term and Blaine factions meet in deadly grapple in. State convention at Springfield, Illinois. As the first day will probably be devoted to a scuffle for posi tions, we do not look for anything spe cially decisive in the telegrams in this issue. The New York Tribune of the 16th says: The prospect that the Grant faction will control the Illinois State convention fades out as the event approaches. A careful estimate gives Blaine 248 delegates and Washhurne 105, making a total of 353 against Grant to 325 for him, with only l fourteen delegates yet to be elected, if this calculation should prove erroneous, and the Grant men should have a small majority, there is no probability that it can be held together for the purpose of seating the Cook county bolters, who have no claim to admission save tbe grotesque one that being in a small minority in the county con vention, they were not allowed by the majority to control its action. No bolters ever had a worse case. Their recogni tion would break up tbe party in Illinois, and to no purpose, save to secHre for Gen eral Grant the four delegates-at-large aud the two from the Chiczgo district. _ His chances must be desperate indeed if bis followers find it necessary to go to such a length to get six votes. We suspect, however,thatit is Logan rather than Grant who is the cause of the disturbance in Il linois. Logan is fighting as Cameron did in Pennsylvania to keep his machine from being broken up and maintain his hold on the party organization. It remains to be seen whether he will be wise enough to know when he is beaten. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, howev er, brags lustily, and insists that Grant will sweep the platter in Illinois without a particle of trouble. The Whittaker Mystery, Says the Baltimore Suit, appears to he a mystery no longer. As was suspected sev eral days ggo, and especially after United States Attorneys Townshend and Fiero practically abandoned the case, the testi mony of the five experts, who were most carefully summoned from different locali ties and different associations, and kept from all collusion with one another and any 'knowledge of each other’s conclu sions, while at the same time fur nished with ^abundant means to come to sudi conclusions, is in perfect accord ss to one par ticular. .They have all declared, with more or less positiveness, according to tbeir dispositions, that tbe “note of warn ing” was written by the person who also wiote certain other specimens of hand writing furnished them. Tbe person who wrote that note must have been either accessory to or wes tbe very man guilty of the “outrage.” The writer of tbe note, according to the inde pendent, concurrent testimony of five ex perts, was Johnson C. 'Whittaker. This view of the case is corroborated in "a hun dred different ways, and most strongly by the subsidary testimony of Expert South- worth, who identified the paper on which the note of warning was written as being Whittaker’s own. Should the court now decide that Whit taker, in the pursuit of a little cheap “sensation” on the eve of a presidential election, slit his own ears, and then, in a dastardly way, tried to attach the suspi cion of an outrage to some of his fellow cadets w’ho had snubbed him, another fair illustration will be afforded the pub lic showing how easily and transparently the “outrage” fabric may have been man ufactured in times past, and tbe obvious relationship between Johnson G. Whitta ker and Eliza Pinkston will.be too full of suggestiveness not to be noted by every student of American politics. The court has not as yet rendered such a decision, however; I^hittaker avers that if the hand writing resembles, Prof. Greener, Whittaker's friend, prom ises to make some revelations in Whitta ker’s favor; and there is perhaps a ray of hope yet for the unfortunate colored cadet. uticura The Great Skin Cure, INFALLIBLY CURE3. by CuticorsScap.is earnest- ,0 be ‘J 19 °nly r<°,itfre Specific Rem- kheum or Rczami, SKl bough and CliSrt ^ Irritations cf the Skin* Seslti Head, dandruff. Bn. Thin Ha!r, Frema'ure BaldneM ,^. *i£, n *’ JJPhtajasni Inr.atiom of the 8s»io.f ulcus IHceis, Sores, std diichtrainit Wo*mtii* Cut., W°unds,Brjuies. Scalds. BurVl® « St Pail LSSi JjgflMnmauou: Rheumatism and affections of the Muscles and Joints; Sore Tiro at Diphtheria, Croup snd Hoarseness. In all cases of clocd scd hiin Humors, the Cuticura Resol vent should be taken internal! v until some after a cure is effected. Skin Diseases. A SEVERE CASE OF FIVE YEARS DURATION ENTIRELY CURED. * Potix*: Gcctlenun-For »e benefit cl the world I wiih to make this statement. 1 have been afflicted with a ekindia- eeae lor about five years, and hare tried almcst every thins that I coaid hear at, without any re bel whatever, until I savionr Cuticura Rtmo- dies advertised, and concluded to irj them. I certify that I only used them about six weeks, until 1 was entirely weil. but before 1 commenc ed neinx them, my face, breast and bark were- almost a solid scab, and I often ecratcned the blood from my body. I am now entirely weil and think yonr Ualicara Remedies are the beat for akin diseases that ever was brought before lha public. Very gratefully yuan, F. M. FOX. Caddo, Ind Ter., Feb. 21,1ST9. Salt Rheum- Helpless for eight jean—Unable to walk—Got about on hands and knees—A Wonderful Cura. Messrs. WaiKS i Fottbb: Gontlemen—I have had a moat wonderful oure c( Salt Rheum. Fur toventetn sears I suffered with Salt (tlieum; I haditoumy betd, foce,neo(. arms and legs. L wasn.t able to walk, only ou my hands and ki.eea.for one year. 1 have not been able to help- myself for ei<Pt years. 1 tried hundreds of rem* edies; not one had tbe least effect. The doctors laid my cate was incurable. Bo my parents tried. «vo jthing that came along. ■ -I saw your adver tisement ard concluded to try Cuticura Reme dies The flr.t box ef Cuticura brought the Hu mor to the surface of my tain. It would drop off as it came out, untiLnow I am entirely well. AU lean say is, I thank yon most heartily for my euro. Any person who thinks this letter a frond, let them write or come and see me and findont fur themselves. Yours truly, WILL MCDONALD. IS'.5 Butte.field St.. Chicago, 111., Mar. 4.U73. CUTICURA SOAP. MEDICINAL AND TOILET, Is prepared 'rom Cuticurs in amodilUd form, and ts positively indispensable in tbe treatment ol Fkin and Scalp diseases. Wo recommend it lor the preservation of the Skins of infants, for gentlemen wbo shave and dre troubled with ten der faces.for those who desue a clean at d whole tome skin and scalp, end for all purpose* of h« toilet, bath and nursery. THE CUTIOUrT REMEDIES are prepared by Week* Sc. Potter, Chemists and Drugum». 960 Washington street. Do-ten. Mass and tor sale by all Druggists and Dealers. Pnet of Cuticura, small boxes, Ui cents: large bore* containing two ard one halt times the quantity of small, fh Resolvent, «•! Per bottle. Outieu- ra boar, 26 rent, per cake; by mail, SO cents; three cakes. 76 cents.• —The Democrats in Congress have actually, in a Pennsylvania contested election case, voted to keep the Republican fa the seat. It will be remembered, too, that Democratic members of the commit tee of investigation, in South Carolina, in 1878; reported against their own side. We cannot recall any similar cases of impar tiality among Republicans, who will doubtless reply that when a Democrat votes against his own party he simply, by a rare act of righteousness, makes some amends for the hopeless depravity of the rest of his career, while a Republican in sticking-constantly tu his own side, or, as Thaddeus Stevens said, “voting for his own rascal,” simply perseveres in right living. —General Phil Sheridan is quoted as saying that he had seen Grant in tighter places . than the present, but be always mauaget} to pull through. No donbt oth er friends of the general have seen him so tight in many plaj&'that be had to be pulled through. _ A New Departure.—The grand jury of Randolph county last week recom mended that its presentments be published iu that, sterling Democratic sheet, the Cnthbert Appeal, and the Journal of Progress,a Radical paper, edited and con ducted by a negro. Perhaps the name of the latter tickled the ear and fancy of the jury, or they supposed that was one way to makegood citizens, and perhaps Dem ocrats, of the blacks. But we believe it is the first instance of the kind on record, and many of the most sterling people of the country are not a little disgusted thereat. Mr. Sawtell, of the Appeal, is quite indignant, but no reflection certain ly was intended to be cast upon him in the premises. JS Compliment.—Oil motion of Mr. Monroe, a Radical member of the nouse of Representatives from Ohio, during tbe recent debate upon the appropriation bills, the salary of Mr. Eugene Speer, the tally clerk .-of tbe House, was raised to $3,000 —the amount paid to each of the four desk clerks of that 8&dy. Coming from snch.a source, this was a special compli ment. Thoenbebo, of Tennessee, delegate at large to Chicago, says the State will go six teen for Grant, six. Jot BUiue and two for Edmunds or Wasbburne. —When a Boston girl goes to the fish market to buy perch site asks for acan- tbopterygian. A NeqUected Opportunity.— 1 The Herald, of Monday, makes an earnest ap peal to Grant |o stand aside and permit somebody else to take an unencumbered track for the presidency. That paper says:’ The plain fact, which he (Grant) ought to see, and which so clear-headed a man as he is cannot help bat see, is that he not needed, and he is not wanted. His nomination can he brought about only by suppressing and violating the wishes of the majority or Republican voters; and there is no longer any doubt that his nomina tion will bring a crushing defeat on his party. But the old saw has it that none are bhed as those who won’t .see. Grant has quite too high a respect for himself to be lieve that he is not needed nor wanted. The fuss aud discord that these factious auti-third term men have raised even Illinois, his own State, shows he is badly wanted to bring them intp harmony by mil itary methods. What sense is there in al lowing people to be talking anti acting in this ridiculous fashion and settingup fool- ijsh.opinions, when a few swipes with the broadsword or rounds of cartridges would make quiet and decent people of them: That’s Grant’s view, of the matter. And all the time the Herald is printing'this heterodox and foolish talk Grant is say-^ ing to himself, “when I get my third term and imperial contrivances all fixed, I will stop your clatter, my fine fellow. I will have no mutiny in the camp.” ©OLLINS* HI WW and VOtTWC HqKMSJ fe£a JfSSw Back, d raw Inflammation *Xo5l ftotu the Liver mid Kid- ltrjs, stimulate the Stomuch and t-ovrels, and wheir placed over the pit ot the Stomach, euro Dliptpsiit Indixeatioo mid Bilious Col tap pr©* Tent Ague. At atari* pad other Siaea^es.^tot the School History.—A new - edition of the “History of the United States for schools and academies, by Joseph T. Derry, Professor of ancient and modern languages in Wesleyan Female College Macon, Geoigia,” has just been published by J. B. Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia It is beautifully printed, and in this, edi tion the narrative form has been substi tuted for the catechetical. It is well ar ranged, comprehensible and' sensible We should be glad to see it substitute the history now in use in our public schools every leaf of which has been watered by the tears of suffering childhood. A his tory for eight-year-olds, couched in long sentences of pompous and gorgeous phraseology, out of which it needs the learning and patience of a doctor of divinity to icrest the answers to marginal questions—a spelling book for the same, which demands in a breath, French, Italian, Spanish and English orthography —(veil, it is a certain kind of an achieve ment for the author, and grief to the little students. As TO\ Whittaker, there is a faint suggestion of standing out for him now and then in a Republican paper, but the mass give it up as a bad egg. The Ledger, (G. W. Childs’), of Monday, says: Strong as the desire has been that the colored cadet Whittaker would come out clear from the suspicion resting upon him ever since the full particulars surrounding, his strange story became known, there is no longer any room for doubt that he got up the whole plot himself. —A Montana stage coach fell into an abyss, making three complete revolutions before striking the bottom, and killirg the driver and four horses, but the two pass engers inside were not dangerously hurt. Eev. B. M. Palmer, D. D. The Courier-Journal, in an interesting account of the anniversary celebration at Louisville, of the American Bible Society, falls into the.error of saying that the dis tinguished New Orleans divine was grad uated from Amherst College, Massachu setts, in 1834, in the same class with Rev. Stuart Robinson, Rev. Dr. E. P. Hum phrey, and Rev.-Henry Ward Beecher, of fOiwalrlinxYsW YTo«-L- ' - On the contrary, Dr. Falmer, a native of South Carolina, graduated from Fiank- lin College, Athens, Georgia, in 1834, and has always labored at the South. The same paper pays this grateful tribute to the doctor: Dr. Robinson’s church was filled to over flowing yesterday morning with a congre gation desirous of hearing that bulwark cfSoutjiern Presbyterianism, Dr. Palmer, of New Orleans, who, in a sermon of an hour’s duration, made a masterly present ation of Actsxvii., 27.; “That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one'off us.” A word pic ture of the court of Areopagus as well as of this stranger, Paul, was given. Paul, who now stood up so boldly in behalf of Christianity, had been one of her bitter est opponents under the name of Saul of Tarsus. God is not. far from os, first, in that his existence is reached by us; sec ond, ih that we are his creatures and de pendent upon him; third, in that he is the goal toward which ohr faculties of in tellect and soul tend, and; in whidi they find their rest^upport and consolation.. The attempts of “iundel, bastard science” to win ns from religion were deprecated. Some of the illustrations were very beauti ful—memoirs of a seashore home recalled by the music of a shell; tho maladie du pays of the' Swiss soldier upon bearing some Alpine airs; our earthly loves ana friendships are the ascending rounds by which we mount up to our Father; the innate longing for better things is the in dex on the dial plate that points to God; God’s goodness in. endowing us with es thetic tastes and faculties, and granting the fullest opportunities for their enjoy ment; the legitimacy of a growing,' aspir ing ambition; the appreciation ef Niaga ra’s beauties a type of worship; the Appi- an highway; the employments of the Sas- tile prisoner. The music of the quartette was very fine, and when tbe congregation joined iu “I Need Thee,” the siugiug was indescribably grand and soul-stirring. Glad Tidings.—We are quite sure that not only the people of ’Georgia, hut the entire'South will rejoice to know from an authentic source, that Dr. A. W. Cal houn, the renowned oculist, perfect gen tleman and big hearted philanthropist, is now slowly* but steadily convalescing, though still sojourning with his friends in Augusta. • . rr.su' The doctor has boon prostrated by a. se vere attack of low, nervous fever, (but not typhoid), by which he has been greatly reduced in flesh and strength,, and indeed brought to the verge of the grave. There is every reason to believe now, however, (our informant, one of the leading physi cians of the eity, says) that the danger is past, and Dr. Calhoun will be spared again to resume his invaluable profesr sional labors. The loss of such a man would be an almost irreparable public ca lamity. God grant that his recovery may be speedy and permanent. •The London Lancet calls attention tothe danger incurred in the case of young, girls by prolonged stooping over work and Crossing of th6 legs. Dr. Malherbe, with the view of obviating these evils, has in vented a plan which consists of fixing to the edge of an ordinary table a sort of cushion, on which the work can be easily fastened or spread out, as on tbe knee. A framework of the simplest description ad- mite of the raising or lowering this cush ion, so that the work may be done sitting nrfinp, but in either case the verte bral column is maintained perfectly straight, while the facility of change cf position greatly lessens fatigue. To test the invention Dr. Malherbe introduced it the communal school of Nantes, and with good elect on two pupil}, who had a tendency to malformation. ,