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Newspaper Page Text®tkgro$ k Skssntgtr. FRIDAY, MAY 28, I860. _Payne, one of the Ohio Democratic candidates for the Presidential nomina tion, is worth $3,000,000, and his son, who is an oil man, is worth $3,000,000 more. Junes David Davis.—-The Raleigh Observer says Judge Davis weiglis every thing, and might have added with equal truth that the Judge not only weighs •everything, but outweighs the most of things. —Gen. W. W. Loring, formerly in the service of the Khedive of Egypt, hut who returned to this country several years ago and settled in Florida, is being pressed for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the second district of that State, with good prospect oi success. —Chemists having asserted that the wholesome air we breathe needs but a minute alteration of the proportion of its constituent gases to wrap the round earth in fire, the Virginia, Nev., Chronicle awaits in breathless apprehension the meeting of the Republican convention at Chicago, fearing that the humiliation of noxious vapors may precipitate the cata clysm. —Samuel S. Scattergood was a conserv ative importer of Mediterranean fruits in Philadelphia, and had amassed about $250,000. A year ago he invested nearly all of his money in Leadville mining proj ects, and they have all failed. Not only was his own fortune engulfed but friends were led by him into similar loss. He could not bear his adversity, and hanged himself. —A great many ships have unhappily been lost this year in the Atlantic Ocean, and the fragment of a vessel’s stem which has just boenpicked up on the Irish coast, and is supposed to be a portion of the miss ing school-ship Atalanta, may prove to have belonged to some other unfortunate bark. The mournful statement is, how ever, made tliat all hopes are now given up of the safety of the Atalanta by the British admiralty, and that the searches previously ordered have, therefore, been discontinued. —Tire acceleration and economy real ized in the St. Gotliard, as compared with the Mont Cenis Tunnel, may be thus briefly indicated: The latter, 12,233.58 metres in length, took thirteen years and one month to make. The former, which is 2,080.45 metres longer, only seven years and Are months. The mean monthly ad vance in the Cenis Tunnel was 71.551 me tres ; in the St. Gotnard, 107.640 metres, •or more Ilian double. And the total cost of the St. Gotliard will be about 25 to 30 per cent, less tlian that of the Cenis. The Color Question jn Delaware. In the court at New Castle last Monday Chief Justice Comegys delivered his de cision in the case of Win. Neal, colored, indicted for a felonious assault on Mrs. Margaret E. Gossner, white. The defense claimed that the indictment should be quashed or the cause removed to the United States Court, on the ground that there were no colored men on the jury, and that the prisoner was thus denied the rights guaranteed him by the fourteenth amendment. The court refused the mo tion, holding that the prisoner was not de nied any right to which lie is entitled by any known law, Federal or State. Ex ception was taken to the ruling of the court. —Toledo (O.) special to the Cincinnati Enquirer: Gen. Stccdman, one of the del egates at large to the Cincinnati conven tion, who lias been on a visit to New York, returned home on Saturday night last, and to-day was interviewed by your correspondent with a view to ascertaining the appearance of things political in the East. He was asked, as an opening ques tion, if lie had seen Mr. Tildeu while in New York, and having answered in the affirmative, the question was followed by one relating to the state of Tilden’s health. In answer to the latter, Gen. Steedmau said: “I found Mr. Tilden looking very fee ble, indeedand added: “I do not think he will come before the Cincinnati con vention as a candidate. I have positive assurance from his friends that a letter ex pressing his wish to withdraw his name as a candidate will be presented in the con vention.” Senator Gordon’s Prospects.—A special dispatch to the World says Sena- ator Gordon authorizes the statement that he has been tendered the position of asso ciate and consulting counsel for the new railroad combination, which includes a continuous line under one management from St. Louis to Savannah, and although he has not yet accepted the offer the pros pects are that he will do so at an early day. Gen. Gordon is also contemplating a renewal of his forincr law partnership with Judge Bleckley, his brother-in-law. They began the practice of law together many yeirs ago, afid Judge Bleckley was elected to the Supreme Court bench about the same time that Gen, Gordon was elected to the United States Senate. They were both re-elected to their respective offices, and a short time ago Judge Bleck ley resigned, although several years of liis term of office yet remain. Now Gen. Gor don has done a similar tiling, and it would be a pleasing coincidence if the two should . again meet as private citizens and renew their old law partnership after having vol untarily abandoned the public offices which they might have held for several years to come. Injustice to Ex-Senator Gordon. A Washington special to the Cincinnati Gazette says Gen. Gordon’s attention hav ing been called to dispatches sent from here, purporting to be founded on state ments ot A. H. Stephens, to the effect that his resignation of liis seat in the Senate was to avoid the exposure of certain busi ness transactions in Georgia which had come to the knowledge of his enemies and •would not bear the light, he denounced the insinuation as a malicious scandal. His enemies in Georgia put in circulation every injurious tale they could find or in vent, previous to his re-election to the Senate, and put up a candidate in opposi tion to him. When the election came off his opponent received five votes, he receiv ing all the rest that were cast, wliich he justly regards as a satisfactory vindication of his record. Senator Gordon says he does not mind any revival of these slan ders in Georgia, where he is known, and they could do him no harm; but he re grets that they should now be given cur rency in the North, and especially in Bos ton, where he has many friends to whom he is strongly attached. He declares that liis sole motive in resigning was to take advantage of opportunities to improve his impoverished fortunes and paake a bet ter provision for those who are dependent upon him. 1 Decisions of Supreme Court. RENDERED MAY lSTIT, 18S0. {Abridgedfor the Telegraph and Messen ger by mil & Harris, Attorneys at Law, Macon, Ga.) Morrison vs. the State. Certiorari, from Morgan. „ _ , , 1. When a certiorari to the decision of a county judge in a criminal case is sought, it must affirmatively appear that the peti tion, duly sanctioned, was filed in the clerk’s office within ten days from the trial, otherwise the certiorari will be dis missed. 2. The act of ISOS provided, in the sixth section thereof, “that no writ of certiorari shall be granted unless the accused shall first have filed his affidavit setting forth that he is informed and believes that he has not had a fair trial, and that he has been wrongly and illegally convicted.” The act of 1872 provided that “no application for certiorari, however, in a criminal case shall be entertained unless the party ap plying will make the affidavit set down in section 0 of the act of 1868, as follows: ‘That no writ’ ” etc., in the same language as tliat above quoted, except the words “is informed and believes tliat he” were omitted, leaving the affidavit without such qualifying clause: Held, that the act of 1872 is the latest expression of the legislative will, and since its passage an affidavit on belief is ndt sufficient. Judgment affirmed. Moody vs. Griffin. Equity, from Greene. The son of the first cousin of one of the parties to a suit is not a competent juror; if the relationship be not discovered until after a verdict in favor of the party re lated to him, this court will not reverse the grant of a new trial on that ground. Judgment affirmed. . Mosely et al. vs. Jenkins, guardian. Complaint, from Putnam. On January 1, 1859, A. W. Mosely, as principal, and J. A. Mosely, as security, made their note, payable one day after date to Jenkins for $650.00. Jenkins died. In 1867 his administrator brought suit thereon in the county court. In 1868 county courts were abolished. The pa pers were lost, and the case was never transferred to the Superior Court, nor was any effort made to establish copies of the papers. In 1809, on a bill filed lor direction by the administrator, the note was transferred by decree to Reid, guar dian, and in the same year the administra tor was discharged. In 1875 the guardian made a compromise with the makers of the note, by which they paid part of the money in cash, and made a patrol prom ise to pay the balance agreed upon. Re fusing to do so, the successor of Reid brought suit: He'ld, that the suit being virtually aban doned in 18CS|the statute of limitations began to run, and more than six years having elapsed before the compromise, a proof promise was not sufficient to revive the claim. Judgment reversed. Ayer & Co. vs. Kirkland. Certiorari, from Coffee. Notice given by plaintiffs in certiorari to the opposite party “that they had applied for and bad issued a certiorari returnable to the next term of this court, etc.,” was not a sufficient compliance with section 4059 of the code, which requires notice to be given of the sanction of the writ of cer tiorari. In default of the notice re quired, the certiorari was properly dis missed. Judgment affirmed. Williams & Co. vs. Hart. Claim, from Greene. 1. On objection before sale, a levy would be held insufficient if made in the following terms: “I have this day levied the within fi. fa. on nine hundred acres of land as the property of James B. Hart, cne of the defendants, said property being situated in and in the vicinity of Union Point, Greene" county, Georgia”—(Union Point being an unincorporated village). But after sale has been made, and the l ights of a purchaser have intervened, it should be left to the jury, under all the facts of the case, to say whether the levy was sufficient, and the fi. fa., with this en try upon it, should be allowed to go before them. Jackson, J., dissented. 2. It is the duty of the sheriff to state in ’ his entry of levy who is in possession of j the property, and therefore his entry is evidence on that point; but it is not a 1 part of Ids duty to stale who died in possession, and if he volunteers to make such a statement, it is not evidence of the fact. Such an entry would not re lieve the plaintifl" in fi. fa. of the onus pro- bandi. 3. The mere understanding of witnesses as to what was levied on and sold,without any statement of facts on which such un derstanding was based, was inadmissi ble. 4. So long as a debtor remains in pos- . session of property which once belonged , to him, and which his creditor is seeking to condemn as fraudulently conveyed, his | declarations, though made after he has j parted with the formal paper title, may be given in evidence for the creditor against the claimant. It makes no difference that the claimant bought at a sheriff’s sale, and not at private sale from the debtor. 5. Where counsel, in argument, goes outside of the testimony, it is the duty of the court, on objection made by opposing counsel to settle the fact as to what was sworn to by the witness. A statement by the court that a witness said a certain thing, is not, in a legal sense, an expres sion of opinion as to the evidence. What is sworn is testimony; what is truth de duced therefrom is evidence. 0. This case has not been fully tried, so as to bring out aftd submit to the jury the whole truth on the issne of fraud, and therefore a new trial is ordered. Judgment reversed. Willis, et. al. vs. trustee, et. al. Equi- ■, from Greene. 1. The existence or non-existence of aud is peculiarly a question for the jury, be question being whether executors and trustee had combined to defraud certain meficiaries of an estate by buying in operty at the executors’sale at a price ■low its real value, and appropriating it their own use, the jury having found lat fraud did exist, the evidence being ifficient to warrant the finding, and the esiding judge being satisfied, this court ill not interfere with his refusal to grant new trial. 2. If executors fraudulently bought ■operty belonging to the estate at their vn sale, including both realty and per- naltv, and subsequently one of them Id his interest in the realty to a purchas- ■ who took with notice, such purchaser ould not be liable to the same extent as ie executors not being interested in the ■rsonalty, and therefore not liable on ac- iunt thereof. Judgment reversed as to Inman, Swann Co.; affirmed as to others. Gerding, surviving partner, vs. Adams, smplaiut, from Putuam. To a suit on a note given for the purchase oney on three mules, it was not matter r recoupment tliat the vender had •used one of them to be sold under an tachment. which was void because not tsed on any affidavit. If the sale was rongful, it was a tort. The attachment ose not out of the contract, but out of a •each by the defendant himself. Judgment affirmed. Gray Brothers et al. vs. Gray. Injunc- sn, from Houston. 1. Alimony is granted in cases pending r a divorce, and in suits where there is a limitary separation between the parties, • where the wife, against her will, is isndoned by the husband. In these iter cases, where the husband fails to ake provision for the support of the wife id minor children, equity may compel in thereto by decree. 2. That equity will, by injunction, pro mt the husband from alienating his ■operty to defeat alimony, being well es- blished, if others co-operate with him to irpetrate such wrong, the same remedy proper as against them. Judgment affirmed. Snow vs. Council. Laborer’s lien, from "ilkinson. A laborer’s lien as against real estate must be foreclosed as provided by §19S0 of the code, and in declaring ior such a* debt, the pleadings, verdict, judgment and execution must set forth the lien. Judgment affirmed. Story & Bro., vs. Walker. Complaint, from Greene. 1. When a guardian, who was also the husband of his ward, transferred an execu tion in his favor as guardian to certain creditors ss collateral security for sup plies, and they collected money thereon, the remedies of the wife were twofold: 1. Those of a ward to call her guardian to an account. 2. Those of a wife to re cover from a creditor who knowingly re ceives in payment of his debt money be longing to his debtor’s wife. 2. Where the action belongs to the lat ter class, it is competent for the defend ants to show that the money was received in paying of the debt of the wife; that though these goods were charged to the husbaud, yet the quantity sold to and used on the wife’s place amounted to more than the sum received on the execution, and this after her consent to the transfer ; that the husband was* insolvent and credit was refused him.. Judgment reversed. » Thornton, ordinary, for use, vs. Willis, trustee. Claim, from Greene. 1. A purchas§ by an executor at his own sale is not void, and although it may be set aside by any parties injuriously affect ed thereby, yet until that is done the le gal title remains in the purchaser. 2. Where land was so purchased by an executor, his title being only avoidable the property was subject to an execution based on a judgment rendered against him whilst he held the title. Judgment reversed. Longstreet’s Appointment. In all the talk about rebel brigadiers it is rather remarkable that no objection is made here to the appointment of General Longstreet to be minister to Turkey in place of Maynard. Longstreet has borne himself with conspicuous good judgment since the war, and he stands very high among the Republicans in both houses. I have heard that Longstreet, like most great generals in the Southern army, has not prospered in a commercial sense since the war. Business was down, all trade depressed. There were no chances and the habits of a lifetime of idleness could not be shaken off at will. I believe Longstreet accepted a little postmastership in Georgia. [Editor—Is it Geoigia?], and this promotion to him will be like finding a fortune. General Grant was greatly attached to Longstreet. They were together at West Point, though in different classes, and served together in the Mexican war. How Hayes came to appoint Lohgstreet is more than I can tell. He went into the White House greatly prejudiced towards the whole Grant fam ily and all their friends. It was enough to kill a man’s chances for office to say that he was a friend of Grant’s. It has already been printed that Grant asked only tliree favors of Mr. Hayes. One was that Mr. Cramer, a relative, should remain as minister to Denmark; that Gen. Ba- deau should remain as consul general to London, and that Smith, the colored coachman, should remain in the White House stables. Since that General Grant has never asked a favor of Mr. Hayes, nor has Mr. Hayes consulted him. I believe, liewever, that General Grant did one day recommend to Mr. Hayes the appointment of John Russell Young as minister to China, a recommendation that Mr. Hayes made haste to disregard.—Philadelphia Times. How the Cherokees Make it Rain. “Speaking of rain-makers among our peo ple and the Creeks,” says the Cherokee Advocate, “they had them in all the tribes. Many years ago we were return ing home from a journey, and at the ford of the Illinois river, seven miles from town, we found a large gathering of Creek Indians, those that then lived below Park Hill. They were in gay attire. Some of our people were present, who informed us that they liad gathered for the purpose of “making it rain.” We halted to see what next. Two elderly men retired a short distance and they appeared to be mumb ling prayers, we presume conjuring is the name for it, but aftersome time a fire was made on the hank, when these two con jurers gave an order and a young man plunged into the river; the river was very deep, and when he catne up he had a blue catfish in his hand, which was taken by one of the two old men and thrown into the fire. There was profound stillness while the fish was being consumed. There was more mumbling and other strange ceremonies going on when we re sumed our |Ourney. It rained that night.” Health of Bismarck.—The weariness of life which Prince Bismarck manifested in his speech in the Reichstag the other day was noticeable in liis whole demean or, which in its lassitude was a marked contrast to his activity in past days. He walked into the House with difficulty, heavily supporting himself on his stick. His huge frame, showing manifest signs of bloated unliealthiness, almost trembled as he slowly advanced to his seat. To ward the end of his speech his words be came almost inaudible. His nerves were evidently highly excited, and he endeav ored to calm his inward emotion by fre quent draughts from a tumbler of cognac and water, constantly renewed by his at tendants. His friends affirm that he suf fered intensely from the mental and phys ical effects of his speech in public, and was obliged to retire to bed immediately on his return home. He stayed at the Chancellery, and even excused himself from paying his respects to the Emperor. The chancellor’s nervous irritability is said to exceed all bounds. Any trifle is sufficient to arouse his anger and make him lose all self-command. —Queen Victoria held a drawing-room ontlie 11th of May. The occasion, ac cording to the LoHdon News, was the sub ject of much searching and palpitation of heart. “Every nobleman or gentleman kneels, with a face as solemn as though he were about to say his prayers. Every lady makes a ‘cheese’ as though her salvation depended on its not curdling. Now, these gymnastic feats are not, and cannot in the nature of things, be always performed with cither grace or safety. Even on the very latest occasion when the Queen’s Majesty was pleased to delight the priv ileged classes with a pageant of this sort, something in a high-born lady’s dress came undone with such disastrous consequences that two household dignitaries were con strained *to hurry forward from their cus tomary places of discreet retirement and envelop the lovely gymnast with the shawls and other wraps which her mis chance required.” Stoppage of Iron Mills.—Work in the principal Philadelphia iron mills has ceased, and about 1,400 men heretofore employed in this branch of labor are for the time being idle. The trouble has been brought aooul by a notification from the manufacturers that on and after Mon day last they would be compelled to re duce the wages of puddlers from $5.25 to S4.25 per ton, with a proportionate reduc tion in the wages of all other employes. The manufacturers claim that this reduc tion was made necessary by the present low price of iron, which in the past month lias declined from four cents to two and a-half cents per pound. They say that even if the men oonsent to work at the re duced wages there will be little or no profit in the' manufacture of iron. This laige falling off in the price of iron has been occasioned by large importations of English iron. CAPET WHITTAXEB’S TROUSERS A Singular Discovery Made in bis Boom for Which He has been Called to Account. The special correspondent of the World from West Point says the court of inquiry will meet again and probably for the last time on Friday at ten a. m. ; when Captain Sears will sum up, if that term may be used, in a written speech. Lieutenant Knight will then speak for Whittaker, also from manuscript. Ac cording to the military code of procedure the recorder will be allowed if he chooses to answer the counsel for accused. Sev eral days will probably elapse after this before the record of the court will be ready to be submitted, but it is thought that the court will forward its report to General Schofield without-waiting for the completion of the record, and that it will probably be made public at once. This summing up would doubtless have been the sole business of Friday’s session but for the discovery since the court last met, of a little matter which will give Cadet Whittaker an opporti nity to do some more testifying. Naturally the mem bers of the court, punctilious as they have been from the first, are opposed, to making known in advance of the session, just what this matter is, but something of it has leaked out. It is one of the most stringent laws of the post that cadets shall keep no citizen’s clothing in their room, and it is the duty of an inspector from time to time to examine the cadet barracks for the purpose of de tecting any infringements of this rule. While performing this duty yesterday or the day before the inspector; or such is the story, found tightly rolled up in the sleeve of Cadet Whittaker’s overcoat a pair of citizen’s trousers. 'Whit taker has declared that there was no citi zen's clothing in his apartment. He was reported to the superintendent and was summoned at once to the superintendent's office. There the trousers were exhibited to him and he was asked if they were his property ? He failed, upon inspection to recoguize them, and was not able to do so until his name, written upon the inside of the watch, pocket, was pointed out to him. This is the story as it is related around the post. General Schofield declined to say or to permit the commandant of ca-. detstosay whether this version was the correct one or not. He admitted that citi zen’s trousers had been found in Whitta ker’s room, but took pains to add that he regarded it as manifestly unfair to express any opinion or jump to any conclusion in regard to the matter until it had been thoroughly investigated. Whether this discovery shall turn out to the damage or to the benefit of the colored cadet it has unquestionably created a stir heie. The contraband article could hardly have been in Whittaker’s room at the time of the “assault,” for it will be remem bered that a most thorough search and ransacking of the premises followed that now historic event. And there is much speculation why—if the trousers shall appear to be his—he should recently have provided himself secretly with citi zen’s clothing. One surmise is that he may have entertained some idea of throw ing himself on the country. It is proba ble that the matter will be sifted to the bottom, as the first part of Friday’s work. I understand also that the session of that day is to be rendered still further interest ing by an exhibition with the aid of a magic lantern of expert Southworth’s im portant discovery, and that the fact set forth by this expert, that the anonymous note and a portion of Whittaker’s note to Ids mother were written upon portions of the same sheet of paper, will be made ap parent to the court beyond question when the magical images are thrown on the screen. One \>f the daughters LI Brigham Young, who was lately expelled from the Mormon church for suing some of the las- cally brethren who attempted to rob her, when entreated to return to the fold, said: “My father, prophet though you call him, broke many a woman’s heart. If it was required of me to break asmany . hearts and ruin as many women as my I father did, I should go to perdition before I would go bade into the church. A re ligion which breaks women’s hearts and ruins them is of the devil. That’s what Mormonism does. Don’t talk to me of my father 1”. From Louisiana. Ciieneyville La., May 18, 18S0. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Permit me to speak through your columns to many inquiring friends as tothe health, soil and climate of this portion of Louisi ana. Rapides parish is in the central por tion of the State. The Red river runs through it, at all times affording cheap transportation to its denizens. The health of the citizens is remarkably good. We have no typhoid or diphtheria, and a pul monary complaint is a rare aud unusual thing. The people, one and all, are of high-toned hospitality, kind to strangers, and are willing to welcome immigrants, provided they are of the Caucasian race. We have negroes here, but under the se vere drilling they received in some of the political carpet-bag rows of 1S65 to 1S70, they have toned down and become tame and crderly citizens, and no murders are ever committed, and even petty stealing is a thing seldom heard of. To a person traveling up the Red river on a steamboat, I know of no country so unattractive as the country on its banks, lined on either side with willows, sweet- gum and other kinds of forest growth, and clad iu long gray moss—a gloomy appear ance presents itself with not a cheerful ray to enliven the traveler. But leave the river, strike through the wilderness for four or five miles, and lo 1 what a scene of beauty presents itself; farms for over one hundred miles lay stretched out be fore yon, all as level to the eye as a billiard table, and most luxuriant crops of cotton, com and sugar-cane growing finely and on a soil which extends down ward to the clay which is fourteen feet deep. Although these lands appear level, yet they have a fall towards the swamp which lie outside four or five miles back, and this fall in many instances amounts to nine feet per mile, which gives ample drainage without expensive ditching. As to the productions, there is nothing raised in North or South America which we can not raise unless it be coffee andcocoanuts. It is considered poor land which does not yeld 450 pounds of lint every year, and there are thousands of acres of land which, with good cultivation, yield twice that amount. An average com crop is about twenty- five bushels per acre, and only two plow- ings to make it—one before it is planted and one after it comes up. Good cultiva tion wiil increase it twenty bushels. Sugar cane produces from one and a half to two and a half hogsheads of sugar, weigh ing 1,250 pounds per hogshead, per acre. Of all crops, it is at present, the most pay ing. Sugar laboreis are paid from $15 to $18 per month, of twenty-six days, and their rations furnished. Cotton hands re ceive from $10 to $15 and board. Yet so easy is it for a poor" man to get a start that hands hardly ever work cotton places for wages, but strike for themselves, on the share "plan. A light forty dollar pony or a yoke of ox en is all the team necessary to start a cot ton planter. The year’s expenses he can easily find on the faith of his crop, and it is no unusual thing for a person here, whose farming capital amounts to not more than seventy-five dollars all told, to make nine or ten bales of cotton and two or three hundred bushels of com. The land rents from $4 to $5 per acre, and to any one unacquainted with its merits it might be deemed a high price. But with this land is included house, gar den, com crib, cow pen and the renter has it already, fenced, and fifteen acres is considered as much as a man can gather when the crop is made—eight acres of cotton and seven of com. Patent and im proved tools are beginning to find their way into our fields, and the walking cul tivator greatly assists us in the cultivation of crops. We can have gardens all'winter. Cabbages head finely in December, beets do well, as do onions and a few other hardy vegetables. In summer it is indeed a lazy man who does not raise a suf ficiency of vegetables and to spare. I left Alabama in 1877, after moving from near Macon, Ga., and traveled until I found this place. Then, like tlio Indian, I cried Alabama—“here we rest”—and am happy to say that I have gained by the change. All this country needs is immi gration and hard working white laborers. We have good schools and numerous churches of nearly all denominations, ex cept Mormons. In conclusion, I would say that this is no highly colored picture, but, if anything, has not had all the mer its told. It is a country where even a lazy man can make a living, and an in dustrious one is bound to thrive. I remain yours truly, H. G. Clark. —Grant says: “My enemies cannot drive me from the field.” And then Grant says: “I am not a candidate, and cannot therefore withdraw.” Steadily Onward. Macon’s Gratifying Progress. Within the past ten years hundreds of commodious brick stores and handsome residences have been erected in our city, to say nothing of the numerous cottages which dot the adjacent hills and suburbs in every direction. And yet the demand for dwellings is greater than over, and but few are offered for rent. The wholesale trade of Macon also dur ing that period ha3 been fully quadrupled, and she is now the distributing point for a very large scope of country. Her travel ing agents canvass Florida, Alabama and South Carolina, and sell immense quanti ties of goods beyond the borders of the State. As an educational centre no town at the South can compare with this. Well endowed aud ably officered male and female colleges, a most excellent sys tem of public schools, constantly growing in favor aud usefulness, the Alexander free school, and several private academies, leave nothing wanting to the education of the youth, not only of this community, but of every portion of Georgia. The finances of our city, too, are hap pily in a very satisfactory condition. Within the last eighteen months the bonds of the corporation, despite a reduction in the rate of interest, have advanced from fifty to ninety per cent., with every proba bility of soon reaching par. The taxes of the people are moderate, yet sufficient to create a sure sinking fund, which, under the faithful direction^of an able commis sion of disinterested citizens, will sweep out of existence in less than thirty years every description of present indebtedness: The lirense-tax of wholesale and retail merchants has been largely reduced. The old currency of the city, once almost worthless, is ready to he received dollar for dollar in exchange for new interest- bearing bonds. With judicious economy the revenue of the city is ample for its wants. There is no danger, under the new constitution, of again becoming swamped in debt, and, on the whole, the financial outlook is, indeed, cheerful. The only drawback to an advancing prosperity is the apprehended injury which will inure to Macon under the operation of the commissioners’ schedule of freights. It is confidently expected that under the present tariff there will be a vast falling off in the cotton receipts of Macon, and some of our merchants complain that they are more discriminated against now than ever. It will require time, however, to arrive at the true working of the commis sioners’ rates, and it is to be hoped that they will not hesitate,as promised,to make every needed modification that may be asked for, whether by the railroads or pri vate citizens. To the eye of the writer, the task assigned the railway commission passes the power of man to perform. No one system of freights can be made to operate justly and equally upon tnirty or forty railroads, all of them differing widely in their cost, length and running expenses. We are satisfied that the law creating the commission, and clothing it with the most extraordinary powers ever granted to private citizens, will either be repealed or very materially modified by the next general assembly. Judee Stephen J. Field. A Sketch of His Life. The writer is indebted to a friend in Washington City for a pamphlet contain ing a succinct narrative of the life and career of Justice Stephen J. Field, whose name is prominently mentioned as an available candidate for president of the United States before the Democratic con vention soon to assemble at Cincinnati. The little work is replete with interest, and reads like a verit able romance. Judge Field’s experience in the far West, where he lauded with but ten dollars in his pock et; the address with which he overcame obstacles apparently insurmountable, and fought his way to the highest judicial posi tion, liis stirring personal adventures, in domitable courage, great ability, aud un swerving rectitude, are all graphically set forth, and charm the reader by their freshness and individuality. The judge is a learned scholar, and speaks several languages fluently. Personally, too, he is very popular. A pronounced Democrat, yet without any damaging partisan record or personal antagonisms, he would doubt less run well, if nominated. That lie will be our next president is certainly within the range of possibility. —Yesterday, says the New York Sun of Wednesday, was a hot day—the hottest thus far in 1SS0. The sun shone without' a cloud to soften its rays. Hardly a breath of air stirred. The flags on the tops of tall buildings hung listlessly against the stafis, the weather vanes pointed due west. Some thermometers indicated 90 degrees above zero, and even more. Laboring man exposed to the sun’s rays suffered se verely, and in one instance at least death resulted. The horses drawing cars, stages, and heavy wagons panted and labored heavily, and care was required to keep them on their feet. It was a hard day for the thousands of New Yorkers who year in and year out never lose sight of brick walls and stone pavements. It was a bad day, also, for the babies, who wilted with the heat like tender plants. A few more such days will swell the death records. TnE Chicago Convention.—The Washington correspondent of the Balti more Sun says advices from Chicago re ceived to-night state tliat the city is rap- itlly filling up with politicians and visit ors. The Grant mon are said to have mapped out their programme for the or ganization of the convention, to make ex- Senator Creswell, of Maryland, temporary chairman, and ex-Governor Boutwell, of Massachusetts, permanent chairman. Rep resentative Conger, of Michigan, will be presented for chairman, it is said, by the Blaine men. It is denied very positively that there will be any coalition between the forces of Sherman and Blaine. It is understood that some of the delegates from the Northwest who have been confi dently put down as for Blaine have de termined to go for Edmunds, who is now looked upon as the favorite dark horse. —Antoine Brisbois was found murdered in his trapping hut, in Ontario. His furs and money were missing, and so was his partner, Patrick Hennessey, upon whom the crime was laid. That happened two years ago. Hennessey was never discov ered. Lately, Felix Raicot and' Cyrus Greenover,, lumbermen, were crushed by a heavy log. Raicot was told that he would speedily die. He then confessed that he and Greenover murdered both Brisbcis and Hennessey, concealing the latter’s body. Those who heard this reve lation hurried out to fetch a ^Justice, and in their absence Greenover crawled from his couch, though dangerously hurt, and pulled the bandages from the dying Rai- cot’s wounds, so as to silence him in death before the official came to write out his confession. * —A San Francisco letter says: “Lep rosy is not uncommon here among China men. But it is not paraded. Some white men have it, reputed to have come from the Sandwich Isles. It is not contagious. The Hawaiian government has, for six teen years, spent $59,000 a year in vain ef forts to stamp it our. An island is set apart for lepers. There are 700 at present insulated and guarded. About 400 a year die, but new ones replace them. Many are hid by families and friends. Those iu the city escape scrutiny in emigrant ships from China. They are employed in cigar making.” ___ Hon. J. H. Blount.—The Washington correspondent of the Constitution says: “CongressmanBlounthas been so press ed, from home and from bis colleagues in the House, ;not to hold to his determina tion to retire from Congress, that he may almost be said to have yielded. He has not so stated, hut it is rather understood that he will submit to the Democracy of the district in whatever decision it may make. If he is renominated he will serve; if not, he will retire lo the rest and recuperation in private which he so much needs. Democrats and Republicans alike think his retirement wonld be a great loss to Congress.” The writer adds: “Congreseman Ham mond will positively be a candidate for renomination in the fifth district, and let ters received from all parts of the district indicate that he is greatly stronger than in the last campaign.” ANOTHER COUNTY HEARD FE0M Jasper Nominates Blount. Monticello, May 20th, 18S0. We, the undersigned, having seen with regret Col. Blount’s letter declining to run for CoDgress, and having seen the sponta neous call from several counties demand ing his return, heartily co-operate with the movement, and nominate him as our candidate before the approaching Con gressional convention. James Henderson, T. R. King, J. B. Goolsby, B. E. Goolsby, C. J. Goolsby, Isaac W. Henderson, John McCullough, F. C. Marks, J. T. Garland, F. C. Goolsby, C. R. Goolsby, Isaac McKissock, Powell J. Phillips, Wiley Peddy, J. S. Malone, S. A. Johnson, Joel J McDowell, J. J. Alexander, S. H. Middlebrooks, W. R. Gordon, E. Y. Swanson, W. L. Zachy, M. B. Key, C. W. Jordan, G. F- Merriwetber, B. P. Bailey, W. F. Jordan, James T. Lewis, R. F. Freeman F. Jordan, S. C. Laurence, J. F. Walker, J.H. Kelly, C.T. Ezell, B. A. Kelly, G. W. Shockly, L. L. Campbell, Jr., W. C. Jones, D. K. Glover, B. W. Purifoy, J. L. Brally, Dr. G. M. Clements, N. B. White, Walter L. Lane, L. W. Hubbard, J. M. Lane, A. Goolsby, H. C. McAllen, J. J. Tollison, P. P. Kelly, V. A. Wilson, T. A. B. Turner, John D. Turner, Ben Barron, Hue Malone, T. R. Malone, S. B. Malone, John Ezelle, Wm. Ezelle, Zach Truman, Wm. T. Waits, W. R. King, Wm. J. Garland, Thomas McKissock, John Garland, John Gordon, Sherel Turner, Sr. An Interesting Case. The Hartford Post tells the following story: On the 31st of December, 1878, Jesse, an eleven-years-old son of Edwin Morgan, an influential citizen of Canter bury, fell into a shallow vat containing a solution of potash in boiling water. He struck on both feet, the liquid coming nearly up to his hips, and instantly the skin of the legs commenced to peel off. It was found that the flesh on both legs had been so horribly and thoroughly boiled that no cells remained for a new skin to form a growth upon. The boy’s life was one of excru ciating agony for months. The seared members began to turn under liis body, and actually “flexed” or knit to the back of the thigh. Last April a young physi cian, George G. Ross, finding that his elder brethren had given the case up as incurable and one which must speedily result in death, determined to attempt the salvation of the lad’s life by skin grafting. The boy’s parents imploring him to undertake the operation, he was finally induced to try it. Over 2,000 grafts were used, the mother of the child, a noble-lieartcd Irish coachman in the family, the lad himself and many of the neighbors submitting portions of their cuticle for the operation. Hundreds of visitors flocked to see the patient, and im plored Dr. Ross to try a piece of their skins in the operation. The pieces of flesh were pulled off with forceps, and were about three times the size of the head of a pin. The process of gratifying is similar fo that employed in horticulture. The grafts grow fastest in the spring months. One of them is put on a muscle, where it sinks in and deposits a cell,after which the top sloughs off. Although the work is not yet complete, the legs are nearly restored to their normal and natural functions,and the child can walk a short distance with out a crutch, but is still very weak from exhaustion and emaciation. A Dog and a Paueot,—A Cleveland lady is the owner of a small, frisky do{_ and a very talkative parrot. Occasionally Polly gets demoralized, and instead of be having herself like a good lady-bird should, she gives vent to some terrible shrieks and endeavors to be as bad as she possibly can. When she takes these spells the dog, knowing that a reprimand is needed, gees to the cage and administers several severe rebukes in the shape of savage lit tle barks. The other day Poll sat upon her perch with all the dignity" possible. The dog was taking a nap in an adjoining room. Suddenly, without a moment’s no tice, Poll let loose two or three unearthly screeches. The dog was awakened of course, and immediately started towards the caga at a full run, barking as he went. After he had scolded as he thought enough he ad journed to the other room and snugged himself for another snooze. He had not more than closed his eyes before Poll shrieked again, longer and louder than before. Up jumped the dog, and out he went barking furiously. When he reached the cage, Poll, who had stopped her noise to give the dog a chance, began to hark just as loud as her four-legged associate. Penny choked himself off aud gazed on in holy horror. He stood looking at the cage for several minutes. Finally his tail dropped be tween liis legs and he turned round and left the spot. Just as he was going out of the room Poll stopped barking, a sort of a pleased expression crept down her jag ged beak, and as the dog faded from view she yelled at him, “Good-by, Penny,” and without further ado resumed her medita tions upon her perch. Bogus Milling Stocks. The Northern papers say that the shares of a great number of silver and other mining companies have been thrown upon the market of late iu nearly all of our large cities. Whetherthese mines have any real existence, and where they are located, not one person in ten cares to ask or has the slightest idpa. They go it blind, and buy and sell again from day to day, and some have even made money at it. The Philadelphia Ledger says: Large sales were for a time daily report ed, and while the “boom” was on, at steadily advancing prices. Somebody seemed to be getting rich, and while that idea prevailed, the old saying that “a new fool is born every day,” was verified, and, like guats buzzing around a blazing lamp, hundreds were gradually drawn in and destroyed. The luck of an individual here and there, who made a thousand or two by the easy operation of buying a handsomely printed certificate to-day call ing for a specified number of shares, and selling it to-morrow at double the amount, was a fact cheerfully trumpeted abroad by the companies seeking new victims* Hundreds followed, assuming the success of that one case as an evidence of the value of the certificate and of the company it represented. The many who went in and lost silently submitted to tlieir fate. Their warning was never heard of. Their shame at their folly, or the severity of their loss,or both,effectually closed their mouths. Bat is there no law that can be made to reach, such fraudulent transactions, and force the utterers of these bogus cer tificates to disgorge their ill-gotten gains and pay the penalty of tlieir crimes in the chain-gang or penitentiary ? Georgia at Chicago. An Atlanta dispatch to the Courier, Journal saysW. H. Pledger, of Athens, Ga., chairman of the Republican State central committee, and delegate at large to Chicago, declares that lie has canvassed the Georgia delegation, and that the claim that Grant has twelve votes is all bosh; at best he will have but four, and inay have only two. Sherman is certain of eleven aud Blaine seven. We would hate to risk a wager bn the accuracy of the above statement. The neero Radical vote ot Geoigia is almost solid for Grant. Of Blaine and Sherman, four-fifths ot the dnsky voters have never even so much as heard. The appointment of the Republican delegates at Atlanta was a piece of sharp practice on the part of the white members of the party who outwitted their sable associates and car ried everything their own way. There will be lively work at Chicago if the delegates from the several States are permitted to vote as individuals for the candidates placed in nomination. But Grant is bound, we think, to win in any event. The Chicago Aspects. The New York Tribune ot the 26th de- velopcs, in a special telegram from Wash ington, “a startling plan of the Grant leaders, by which they expect to secure both the temporau- and the permanent chairman of the Cfiieago convention,” and enforce the unit rule straight through. This “startling plan” is developed by that paper, thus: Cf course Senator Cameron, (who is chairman of the national executive com mittee), when he calls the convention to gether, will be obliged to nominate for temporary chairman whomsoever the na tional committee selects; but it will he ar ranged to have some leading Grant dele gate move to substitute the name of a Grant man for the place. On that there will have to be a vote by the convention, and an attempt will be made to enforce the unit rale when that vote is taken. Naturally, some delegates from Pennsyl vania, New York and other States will in sist on voting differently from the majori ty of their delegations from those States; but Senator Cameron, who will be in the chair, will decide that the unit rale is binding upon all delegations representing States in which it was adopted. If the anti-Grant men appeal from this decision and a vote is taken upon the appeal, Sen ator Cameron will decide again that the unit rale must bo enforced in this vote also. • . The Grant men have been talking about this programme freely, and assert with the greatest apparent confidence, that by the help of Senator Cameron and the unit rule they will not only get a temporary chairman, but also that when it comes to the choice of permanent chairman they will secure iiiin likewise by the same kind of tactics. Now, however startling this plan maybe to the Blaine minority, we have little or no doubt that it will be carried through in an equally startling manner. Those des potic and tyrannical methods in the prac tice of which so-called “Republicanism” has grown gray, never will be appreciated until they come to ho applied to domestic quarrels, and then the brethren will un derstand them and liowl accordingly. This is the providentially ordained remedy and cure of fraud, injustice and tyranny. Their application cannot always be con fined to foes and outsiders. The rival leaders are now flocking in crowds to Chicago, and the in terval from to-day until the opening of the convention will be filled with plots and counterplots. It is charged that Don Cameron, in appointing the sub committee of five, who should have charge of the. arrangements of the convention, made it solid for Grant, in defiance of the instructions of the executive committee, and the hall and galleries will be packed witli Grant men to do the “spontaneous enthusiasm.” \V. E. Chandler, who is Blaine’s prin cipal engineer,arrived in Chicago on Tues day last, and is unterrified. He is report ed by the Tribune as saying that he does not believe Grant will be nominated on the first or on any other ballot, but is confi dent the third term will receive a crash ing defeat. The hall, allowing seventeen and a half inches for each person, will have a seat ing capacity of teu to twelve thousand, and tickets to that number will be issued. Atrial of its acoustics showed that a speaker on the stage could be heard in the remotest part of the room. The first special train for Chicago from New York left that city last night and another starts this morning full of delegates and alter nates. The president of the “Western Ander- sonville Survivors’ Association,” of Chica go, iu the name of ten thousand out of twelve thousand of its members, protests against the third term. [P. S.—More An- dersonville survivors than prisoners.] Colorado is disgruntled. Eigbty-ono delegates, representing counties which gave 2,700 Republican majority, sav they nvopo «lonaod iho paaarrord and aUmittonvC to a Grant caucus, and practically shut out from all representation of tlieir constitu ents in convention,—wherefore they pro test, etc. The Tribune is trying herd to persuade itself that by a supreme effort, the Chica go convention will rid itself of the grasp of the third term monster, throw him flat on bis hack and hold him there till Billy Chandler ties him. There would be good promise of a lively time at Chicago, but fur the Coukling and Cameron gag. A Story of Lamb. Lamb received an invitation on a cer tain evening to be present at a breakfast at Rogers’ on the following morning, to meet a young author, whose first volume of poetry left the press tliat day. He went a trifle early and reached the waiting-room while it was vacant, Rogers not having come down, and none of the other guests having arrived. On a table lay a copy of the young poet’s new book. Lamb picked it up, ran through it, saw .that it contained nothing of any special mark, and then, in a few minutes, yet remain ing, amused himself by committing to memory three or four of the short poems it contained. The guests arrived —among them the young aspirant for honors. Some of the leading men of the London world of letters were among the number. Rogers descended, the young man was introduced, and the breakfast was served. Some literary matters came under discussion, pending the after-intro duction of the young poet’s book. With the gravest ot faces, after a few moments, Lamb said: “I d-don’t think, g-gcntle- men, that I b-liave ever r-repeated to you one of my b-best poems. What s-say ? Will you h-havc it?” Nobody quite un derstood what was coming, but all could read the mischevious flash in the eye that was usually so kind ly, and the demand for the poem was gen eral. Lamb quietly repeated, word for word, one of the poems from'the young man’s book. The key was furnished lo the rest, when they saw the poet pale, then redden, and then fall back in his chair, as astonished as if thunderstruck, and as helpless as if paralyzed. Loud cheers, clapping of hands, and demands for more. Lamb bowed his thanks, pre tended not to remember anything else that he had lately written, and then, un der urging, repeated another, and yet an other—of the poems from the young mau’s book—the budding poet manifesting symptoms of doubt whether he was himself, whether anything on the earth was real, whether he had really written the poems that up to that time he had be lieved that he had—until he heard a man declaiming them and claiming them for his own; a man who could not even have seen his unpublished book. Louder cheers, and a still louder demand for yet another. The fun, with all the “old ’uns” now thoroughly instructed, began to grow “fast and furious.” Lamb, who had previously retained liis sitting position, now rose, and said: “G-gentlemen, I have only been g-giv- ing s-ome 1-little bits of my p-poetry. But I h-bave one p-poem that I am a litt- tle p-proud of. I w-wrote a g-good m-many years ago. This is h-how it be gins: «‘Of m-man’s first disobedience, aud the fruit OI that forbidden t-tree, whose immortal taste Brought d-de.\th into the world, with all our woe’—” The recitation was doomed to co no further. For the previous few minutes the young poet, crazed with wonder, and yet aware that in some unaccountable manner he was being robbed, had simply been tearing his hair. But at this junc ture he could restrain himself nolonget. He sprang to bis feet, his face ablaze, and hurst out: “Gentlemen, this is too much 1 I have sat here, gentlemen, and heard that iuan repeat poem after poem of mine, claiming them for his own, and I have borne it. But when I hear him attempt to claim the opening lines of Milton's ‘Paradise Lost’ —” That address, too, was doomed to be cut short, like the recitation. Rogers averred that never beneath his roof, with all the merry madness that that breakfast- table knqafehad such a storm of laughter and appraise gone over it, as finished that speech and sent the young man to his chair, for the time little less than an absolute maniac, under the pres sure of Lamb's crowning atrocity. DEPARTMENT. EDITED BY General Wm. M. BROWNE, Professor of History and Agriculture in the University of Georgia. WINTER CABBAGE. We have been requested to give infor mation “as to the best plan for raising winter cabbage.” Seed sown during the months of June and July will make good plants to transplant in August and Sep tember. Sow in drills. The soil should be rich, and deeply spaded or plowed. To raise perfect winter cabbages they must be transplanted, and to secure a good hard head they must be planted deep. Put the stalk in the ground vp to the leaf. There need be no fear that the stalk will rot. Keep the ground well worked and free from weeds, occasionally working in a liberal dressing of leached ashes. A slight sprinkling of salt now and then over the bed will protect the plants against the depredations of the green cab bage worm. The cabbage came origin ally from the sea sliote where the worm never ventured for fear of the salt. The drumhead is the best variety we know both for size and flavor. There is no reason why we should grow long, spind ling collards. The cabbage can be just as easily raised, and it is more nutritive and digestible. The seed should be sown and the plants transplanted during damp weather. OVEBCBOrnNO. The greatest evil of Southern agricul ture is overcropping, planting a greater number of acres than can bo properly prepared and cultivated. The small, tidy fann—that is, one which, in all its arrangements, is just large enough and no more for the force that is to culti vate it, is rarely seen. Such farms are “few and far between.” The rough-and- tumble plantations that we see in every direction, where disorder seems the pre siding genius of the place, are mainly due to overdropping. The great fundamental maxim.of all true agriculture, that pro duction must be in proportion to tillage, is either not knowr or is forgotten upon such farms, and in Us stead is adopted the maxim that pioduction is in proportion to the quantity of surface to which the rude and unshapely counterfeit of tillage is given. To obtain as much as possible from the number of acres a hand cau cultivate thoroughly, and to attempt to cultivate no more than can be made to yield the maximum of profitable production, should he tlic main obje ct of every fanner’s labor and skill. Until we become satisfied to cultivate a smaller surface and to bring to bear on all the varied operations and processes of that cultivation more practical science and experimental knowledge, the best means of preparation, the best arrangements to guard against the vicissitudes of weather, the attainment of the greatest quantity and best quality of acreahle productions, can never he reached. A large crop Irom. thorough cultivation's invariably the most advantageous. It demonstrates the skill and industry of the farmer, and the extent to which agricultural development can be carried, beneficial to the fanner who exhibits it in dollars and cents, and beneficial in example to all who see it. GRADE STOCK. A correspondent writes us that he has a good opportunity to purchase advanta geously an almost pure-bred Short Horn bull, which he describes as a beautiful animal in every particular, and asks us to tell him whether lie would do well to buy him. We answer, that if his object is to raise improved stock, we advise him not to buy the bull at any price. He may be as “beautiful” an animal as he is described, but his calves will probably he scrubs, re producing all the stains in their sire’s blood. Such an animal does great injury to a neighborhood. While on this subject we would correct tbc wmnnra * dim of - ouypwing “grade” and “cross” instock raising mean ono and the same thing. A grade is the product of a full-blood bull and a common cow. A cross is the product of a full- blood sire of one breed—say an Ayrshire —and a thoroughbred cow of another, say a Devon or a Durham. Anybody can tarnish the reputation of another, however pure and good, by ut tering a suspicion or an innuendo which his enemies will credit, aud liis friends never hear. A single puff of idle wind can take millions of seeds of thistles and work a mischief wliich the farmer must labor long and hard to undo. LUCERNE. Lucerne should he cut when the patch begins generally to bloom. Do not wait until it is in full bloom, or until the plant begins to change color. When cat at the above indicated stage of growth, the for age is more succulent and nourishing ior all kinds of stock than if allowed to become riper. The subsequent cuttings are also improved in quantity and quality. Lucerne should be cured like clover—al lowed to wilt where cut, never scattered, and put up in tall, narrow cocks, where it sweats for three or four clays, then turned over and sunned for hn hour, and then hauled home and stowed away iu the barn. It pays well after the first cutting is cleared away to apply a top dressing of plaster and ashes to the patch. Scatter this mix ture early iu the morning or late in the evening or on a cloudy day just before a rain. —Le Monde Illuslrc publishes the fol lowing significant anecdote, which con tains a moral for American picture buyers in Paris: ‘•The ensuing story is absolutely true. Firstly, because I relate the facts precisely a3 they occurred; and secondly, because its concluding prediction will certainly be realized some of these days. “A. M is an amateur in painting. He is rich and an excellent judge of art. “We met accidentally, the other even ing, while pressing our noses against the plate-glass window of a picture dealer in Rue Lafitte. “ ‘What are you looking at?” he asked. “ ‘That little painting of X’s.” “ ‘That Venetian sketch?'' “ ‘Yes,the very one; 1 think it is charm ing.” “ ‘Pooh! there’s not much work about that.” “ ‘That is just why I admire it.” “That kind of thing will do for ordinary purposes of decoration, but it is not paint ing.” “ ‘Perhaps!” “ ‘And then it lias one unpardonable fault—it is inconceivably high priced.” •‘ 'Who tohl you so?’ “ •Well, I suspect it. Let us go in. How much is that X?’ “ ‘For you, 5,000 francs.’ “ ‘A pretty stiff price. Much obliged. I’ll call round this way again.’ ‘“When?” “ ‘I don’t know.* “ ‘Do you want me to put it aside for you?” “ ‘Gracious goodness, no! ’ “ ‘But you looked at it as if you would like to have it ? ’ “ ‘True, I would.’ “ ‘Well, come now, how much will you give for it ? ” “ ‘I shall wait ten years; then you will let me have it for fifteen francs.’ “ ‘Suppose I let you have it now for that price, it would save you the trouble of calling again.’ “ ‘Yes, that is'true; but if you are will ing to let me have it now for fifteen francs I do not want it at all.’ “He was right. A genre painting which is not worth 4,000 francs is worth nothiug at all.” Horrible.—Out ot the number of hogs th.it arrived recently in Chicago, in a single day as many as twenty car loads were dead —succumbed to the heat and over-crowded cars. Query—What be came of the carcasses ? Hope none of them came South in the shape of “bulk meat.” Charles F. Greer, Norwich, Con necticut, writes, Febuary 11, 1878: “I have several times in the past few months sent lo you for one or two boxes of Tutt’s Pills. All who have used them express the greatest satisfaction at their boneuclai effects. Send mo four dozen. I trust by putting them m our store they will soon be used not only by our customers, but by the community generally.”