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Terms *f ib« Tdeeraph lM»d K*>r. Postage free to all Editions. Baity Ttltgroph andMttsenger $10.00.perjrt- B „ ., •• 2.50 3mot. Xktilu Telegraph and Messenger andSouthem farmer'*Monthly UJUtperyr. Weekly Telegraph and Messenger 2.00 .. .. •• '■ •• 1.00 6mo*. Week'y Telegraph ana Messenger and Southern Farmer's Monthly HJSOperyr Remit by P. O. Order or Registered Letter, to H B PA yis, M«—ter., €tltp# cnii jfitsstngtr FRIDAY, JUNE 25,1880. Population of Chicago.—Chicago is crowing over a population of 475,000, and says she will be a hundred thousand ahead of St. Louis. - , • ^ Db. James K. Barnum, of Stewart county, Ga., has received notification through an attorney that he has fallen heir to an estate in England valued at $100,000. Currie, the murder-fiend of Texas, has been acquitted on the ground of in sanity. When a man becomes possessed of the devil of murder, the safety of the living demands, if not the treatment giv en to a mad dog, certainly the chains, grates and bars of a madhouse. A Cool Week.—We close what has been, on the whole, a remarkably cool week to-day, Saturday, with promise of warmer and perhaps wet weather. After a day well in the -nineties, last Tuesday, the mercury fell in the evening, and Wed nesday morning indicated CO, Thursday 64, Friday 64, and Saturday morning CO in some places. During the recent trial of Currie for the killing of Porter, the actor, at Mar shall, Texas, the defense, according to the verdict of the jmy rendered, proved that it was whisky and not Currie that killed Porter. It is about time 'that this insrjii- ty dodge was banished from civilized communities. It is the merest delusion in the world. They ought to punish whisky and Currie both. Senator Bayard is a man of books and diligent reading. It is said that his library in his down-town office at Wil mington, is a treasure-house of informa tion ; and in conversation hut few men can equal Mr., Bayard in copiousness of illustration, graphic statement, or wealth of reminiscence. He is one of the most genial of men, and his courtesy is that of the typical Southern gentleman. Garfield is praying to be delivered from his friends. He fled from Washing ton to escape the irrepressible biographer. They are represented as swarming to him like flies to a carcass. Ho is wise in refus ing to furnish material for a biography. His past record is just what he wants to be kept from the public. He is hiding out somewhere in Ohio now. The conversion of the Oglethorpe Echo and its editor is chronicled in the follow ing words from Larry Gantt himself. He says of Gov. Colquitt, “Mr. Lester is our choice for governor, for the reasons given in our editorial columns; but we conceive that this public tribute to one of Georgia’s purest sons is due from a pen that has Written many bitter criticisms on a man whom we now feel has been most unjust ly censured.” r —It was dinner-time In a select board ing-house when the new boarder arrived. He was a venerable looking gentleman, with silvery hair, and his face beamed with a sweet repose betokening a pure and holy life. As he joined the table the land lady said: “Would yon ask a blessing, sir?” The venerable stranger shouted, “You’ll have to talk louder, marm; I’m so d d deaf.” Fob our part we woulcT suggest to our daily friend, we would rather run a good country paper—a fearless exponent of truth an3 justice—than to run a half dozen steam cylinder presses under the thumb of Joe Brown or any other man.—Val dosta Times. Exactly our case, Charlie. But above all else, we prefer to run a daily in accord ance with our own ideas of propriety and justness, without any regard to the sug gestions of others. “Vat You Tinks.”—Every paper abounds with interviews and prognostica tions about Cincinnati; but, as no two agree, it is manifest that somebody is in prophetic error. Cincinnati, we have -no doubt, is to-day (Saturday) crowded with convention people, who are speering about and asking questions, and getting ready to caucus, perhaps. The convention will not meet till 12 o’clock Tuesday, and will hardly get ready for the ballot before Thursday. There will be no disposition to hurry matters. . • The Neus York Tribune, February 19, 1873, says: “James A. Garfield, of Ohio, had ten shares; never .paid a dollar; re ceived $329, which, after the investigation began, he was anxious to have considered as a loan from Mr. Oakes Ames te him self. “Well, the wickedness of all of it is that these men betrayed the trust of the peo ple, deceived their constituents, arid by evasions and falsehoods confessed, the transaction to be disgraceful.” i ,t, - ■ — —Bismarck has lately been speaking his mind with characteristic candor in reference to Mr. Gladstone. His opinion of the British Prime Minister is neither flattering to that statesman nor assuring to the nation whose interests he holds in trust. But it is well known there is no love lost between the man of blood aud iron and his rival of the axe and pen. Mr. Gladstone Is just as unreserved in his views of Prince Bismarck as Prince Bis marck is in his views of Mr. Gladstone, and the great feature of their mutual opinion is that it expresses a thorough antipathy., ' , The Capitol Frescoes.—The joint committee on the library on Wednesday last, instructed Architect Clark, of the capitol, to give the New York fresco ar tist, Filippo Costlgini, a'tMarat complet ing the allegorical belt in the capitol dome left unfinished by the iate artist, Biumidi. No money has been appropriated for con tinuing this work, but the design is to test the merits of Costigini, who is reported to be a superior fresco worker, and who be lieves he can complete the belt according Lest Week’s Cotton Figures. The Situation. The New York Chronicle Teports the receipts at all the ports for the seven days ending last Friday night, 18th instant, at 19,870 hales, against 7,1S8 bales during the corresponding week of; last year- showing an excess in the week of 12,662 hales. The year’s receipts footed up last Friday night 4.801,566 hales, against 4,414,010 last year, showing an increase of 880,956 bales. The interior port business of the week was as follows: Receipts of the week 6,764, against l,85Sthe same week of last year. Shipments 24,621 against 5,012. Stocks 90,190, against 29,300. The Chronicle’s visible supply table showed, last Friday night, 2,139,466 hales of cotton in sight, against 1,G17,14S last year—1,894,711 the year before, and 2,401,060 in 1874 at same date. These figures show an increase on the visible supply of last year of 622,318 hales. On the visible supply of the year before, 244,- 755 hales; and a decrease of 321,594 on the visible supply of 1874 at the same date. Cotton on Friday in Liverpool was quoted at 013-16. The year before at same date, the quotation was 615-16. In 1878, at same date, it was quoted CJ, and in 1877 6 3-16. The Chronicle appends the following to its table of receipts from plantations: The above statement shows— 1. That the total receipts from the plantations since Sept. 1 in 1879-86 were 4,890,455 bales; in 1878-79 were 4,438,264 hales; in 1S77-78 were 4,237,241 bales. 2. That although the receipts at the outports the past week were 19,850 bales, the actual movement from plantations was only 1,022 bales, the balance being drawn from stocks at the interior ports. Last year the receipts from the plantations for the same week were 4,065 bales, and for 1878 they were 4,693 bales. Weather Reports.—TJ'he Chronicle's weather telegrams of Friday from the cot ton regions, report the situation, in gen eral, as very favorable. As’to Texas, Galveston had 1.06 of rain in the week and cotton looks strong and healthy, though some plantations are grassy. Range of the mercury 73 to 91. Indiano- lahad showers on three days—0.75 of fall, and a range of mercury from 75 to 92. Corsicana, rain on two days—0.64 of fall—and a mercury from 65 to 96. Bren- ham had half an inch of rain—mercury from 75 to 95—fislds grassy and corn promises abuudant. Dallas 1.60 of rain and a mercury from 65 to 96. New Orleans, rain on four days, 0.30 of fall—average mercury 81. Shreveport, 0.48 of rain—mercury 64 to 93. In Mis sissippi, Vicksburg had rain -one day and hears caterpillar rumors. Weather cool. Columbus, 0.S3 of rain—mercury 82 to 89—weeds troublesome. Nothing from Arkansas. Memphis had no rain—fields clear and prospects never better. Nash ville bad no rain. In Alabama, Mobile reports 0.01 of rain—mercury 63 to 95. Crop promising. Montgomery, -0.02 of rain—mercury 63 to 98. Some talk of caterpillars. In Georgia, Macon had rain on one day and mercury from 68 to 95. Savannah had no rain, and a merenry from 63 to 100. Augusta, 0.02 of rain—mercu ry 63 to 99. Fields clean aud cotton plant strong aud healthy. The Chronicle makes the crop up to June 11, 5,291,GOG against 4,837,422 last year. This shows an excess over last year up to June 11th of 454,274 bales, to which should be added 83,000 bales excess at the interior ports—making in all 537,274 bales excess. The Chronicle concludes that the total crop will be about 5,675,- 000 hales, against 5,073,531 hales last year—netting about 600,000 excess over last year. The Chronicle analyzes and compares the reports of the agricultural depart ment and New York cotton exchange on the condition of the growing crop. The agricultural department makes the ootton acreage this year 13,612,978, and the cot ton exchange makes it 13,744,620. Per cent, increase according to the depart ment, 7.30—according to the exchange, 8.39. The cotton acreage in 1879 was 12,- 679,962. The average increase, taking these two estimates, is 998,790 acres. needless improvements which only create a greed for others still more needless--for if Congress gives a hundred thousand dol lars to remove obstructions from Dry Creek in one county, the claims of Saw dust branch in the next become impera tive. The people want the money spent in their neighborhoods, and the neighbor hoods in a great country. are numerous. - It is important and right that greet na tional streams like the Mississippi should be under the care of the general govern ment—and so of great entrepots of for eign and domestic trade; but it is easy, to see the danger of waste from a river and harbor hill which may easily become a mere log-rolling scheme to empty the treasury, so as to_ furnish excuse for a continuance of exorbitant and oppressive taxation, bearing most heavily ou those least able to bear it. Given a country whose wealth is locked up in two thousand millions of bonds, wbiducannot-be taxed, and whose poverty is represented In great masses of taxpayers paying a hundred per cent, tax on all they buy,on pleas that the manufacturers of the country cannot live without the bounty, and you have a situation offensive to God and man, and which clamors for change. The Democratic National Convention The convention met at a quarter to one o’clock—got through with needful prelim inary action and adjourned till 10 o’clock Wednesday, in the course of 75 minutes. The action to-morrow will he the reports of the committees on organization, creden tials, resolutions, the election of the national committee, and then ballotings for nominees.- Tlie gossip sent by telegram makes it pretty clear that up to three o’clock p. si. there had been no marked concentration ol opinion on candidates. That may take place some time daring the day or night, and very probably a free intermiugling of delegates may-be the best way of produc ing it. There is hut one leading idea among all, and that is to select the best aud strongest man. There does not seem to be any obstinate prepossession for any of the candidates; but a notable Uncertainty on tiie point of which one it is best to select—which one will be most available. Bayard leads, and has a vast moral strength in conven tion as well as all over the country, but we hardly count upon his nomination. It will'be noted that Illinois still insists on Seymour. All recognize the indispensa bility of New York. In a word, there is not yet the smallest apparent development of the causes which will lead to a choice. Congressional Legislation. When Congress adjourns, after the long session, with no important legislation ac complishcd except the routine appropria tion hills, and five to seven thousand bills left hung up on the calendar, the public cannot say how-much is lost or won; but there is one thing the public is fairly au thorized to say, that when Congress, be sides its “appropriate legislation,” shall undertake that of the States also, as the Radicals propose to do, it will have more on its hands than it can attend to. -di all-sufficient answer to the brotherhood who want the empire and to abolish local self-government in (he States, might be this: Don’t undertake the legislation of forty States until you have measurably cleared your own docket, and are ia dan ger of getting out of work. We do not say that Congress could not do more; but there are two strong rea sons why Congress doesnotdomore. iThe first reason is applicable to the first half of the session, and it is this: “There is.no need of haste—we have plenty , of. time.’.’ The-second reason is applicable to the last half of the session, and is, “In a few days we shall adjourn, and there is no. time to perfect any important measure.” These two reasons cover the whole of ev ery session, and unless there :are some strong pecuniary or personal reasons to suspend their Operations, they are.conclu- jive anil fatal in every case. ,{ t . j.: Upon the single subject • of the public revenue, it may be said with truth, there never was a time when every 'interest of the country and of public justice and equality of burdens of agriculture! trade and commerce clamored so. loudly, for sweeping reforms as now. The country, in respect to tariff and -internal taxation, is now, more than fifteen years after the war is over, under a war fax, which, to the extent of 1 its oppression op the people ( is an anti-revenue tax. Nothing but the im mense resources of our soil and the ener gies of the people, coupled with short crops in foreign countries, has counteracted the strangulating effects of these tares, which are much like , a serpent’s coil around our necks. But the whole action of Congress has amounted only to this: A law providing for a commission of experts to digest a new revenue scheme and report to the next session. Everybody regards this as a 8imple‘ evasioh!olr tiio subject, amounting, practically, to indefinite post ponement. This is one of those re Conns toBrumidi’s idea and style. If lie fails, which will never take shape and effect tilt his frescoing will be erased anil another | P u ^" c opinion makes itself stronger than artist will be allowed a trial. ’ tllC » en who bftve tlie arttotax the people not for revenue, but for their, own benefit. Meanwhile, so vast are the revenues as to corrupt the courte of general legisla tion. Large sums are squandered in —In Portugal the camellia japonit-a is planted out doors for omanieqt, Jt grows as big as an apple tree. Tflden’s Letter of Withdrawal is a cogent statement of the great election fraud of 1876 and its moral. The Repub lican party (so-called) is committed to a war of extermination on a free suffrage of the American people. The empire has been whipped out for the present, but there is no hesitancy or doubt in their declarations that the suffrage shall never be free again. Tilden says he thought in 1876 it would take a two-thirds vote of the people to regain control of the govern ment, and wo may be sure it will take no less now. Mr. Tildetfs letter is not a peremptory and unconditional withdrawal. He inti mates his readiness, if needful, to devote his remaining strength to an attempt to restore the government to true republican usages, but he says he is not strong enough, and desires nothing so much as to return to private life. The country will read his letter with a profound im pression of the transcendant importance of the issue it presents. Very Reticent While the remoter organs of public in formation are assured that Mr. Tildeu will not be a candidate before the Cincin nati convention at all, the quidnuncs in and around New York are certain that Mr." tilden has matured some stupendous scheme by which v he will loom up before that body in magnificent proportions, and distance all competition. They saytliat Mr. Tilden is like a mole. The whole fun of the political hunt lies in its being un der-ground. If he could not mystify and bamboozle everybody around him, friend and foe alike, lie would take no pleasure in life. When Mr. Tilden gets to the White douse, there will be such a de lightful uncertainty as to what he thinks and what he is going to do, that the cabi net, both House* oi Congress, all the of fice-seekers and all Pennsylvania Avenue may be happily represented In a grand game of blind man’s buff. , A Sweet Pool. A sugar pool should he a sweet place, but we doubt whetlier it will practical ly any sweeter to tlie people than a tobac co pool—a nail aud Iron pool—a leather pool—or anyothercombination to enforce fancy prices on consumers. The sugar re finers have pooled their issues; and put an eighth of a cent a pound on all<r£w su gar melted into the bahds.of aq ex. cutiye committee qf the whole, in order ,ta/con centrate an independent control of prices in a! few hands. Under this ariapgeinent ■tbojf will sweeten erety .tnapVcOfiie to his cost. A correspondent of the Cominer- chljBidlelin.sa.ys: . ,1*7 M.e:fT Here weT’are with aii‘ nriprecettemeil stoefe of 177,000 tons, being 50,000 tons rniip than last year; over 100,000 tons in sight on the north side of Cuba; reduced consumption here and in Europe; large stock left of Louisiana sugars in New Or leans; numerous cargoes known to be on the way from all sorts of out of the way places, such as Tort Louis, Togal, Formo sa, Campeaehy, St. Ann’s Bay, Iloilo, St. Domingo City, Aracaja; Belize and Anti gua, without naming better known places, such as Baliia, Pernambuco, Point-a-Pitro, Demerara, Manilla, etc., and our old friends, Cienfuegos, Santiago, Guantana mo, etc., and yet prices are lie. per pound higher than last year. . Aflfi the daily mar ket reports speak cif. the confidence of holders. '"I ‘ '■'»? : We believe it would be far .better for all-tp pursue a fair trade without any of these contrivances to extort. . M t i , < ; Mb. Moody’s StT’Couis Work.—Mr. Moody was at work four aud a half -months in St. Louis, and the clergymen there estimate that 2,500 persona were converted, of whom 700 had ' joined vari ous churches up to the 1st of last May. —Prince Gortschakoff Is reported to have made a marvellous recovery, and is In Badeu fill! of health and spirits. He will spend the summer there and next winter in Paris. Before he left jjt. Peters burg be published a-newspsper card offer ing the assurauo^of bis. “heartfelt grati tude” to those who had given him “tokens of their affectionate sympathy.” • 1 —The North German'Lloyd Company intends to have a new steamer bdilt which will exceed' any other afloat,' both as to size and arrangements. As the Kaisorhaven must, be previously enlarged to'fellow the entrance of such a vessel, no definite period for beginning the construc tion has yet been determined on. Industrial Problems. A new and fearfully inevitable and ir reconcilable conflict is disclosed to the afflicted brethren of the North by a la bor scholiast in the International Review for June. Ah, we thought these dear brethren were going to be happy after they had once gotten rid of “that sum of all human villainies—African slavery.” But not so; not so, my boy. They are more miserable than ever. The dread of impending-calamities is scaring them to death. Yon see, the case is just here: After spitting ou their slates - aud rubbing out that ugly sum we have just spoken of With their jacket sleeves, they find an other sum on the other side oi - the slate, which, if not worse, is at least so little better as to leave a chip’s choice between them. And it is a more dangerous sum because it is mainly a white folks’ sum. To drop metaphor and unknown tongues, .these saddened brethren have found, in what they style the labor and wage problem, an evil only a shadow of a shade less in degree than slavery. In slavery the master owns the bodies of his workmen. Under the wage system, al though ho don’t precisely own their bod ies—he owns their time—he owns their food and lodging, and in that Way owns their lives. He can discharge them with out appeal (unless, as in some union cases, they discharge him.} They are vir tually slaves—living a life at. his mer'ey, and wholly inconsistent with the rights, dignities aud duties of American freemen; and unless some mode and principle of re organization can he found in a country where the people (comparatively poor people) are the source of all power, it is quite manifest that this arrangement can not last long. It must all he blotted out in blood aud disorder. Now, this mode of reasoning has some reputable parentage. We remember foity years ago that Macauley prophesied that a great crisis was bound to come in America between the. voting and impov erished many and the capital-liolding/ew, when the former would no longer abide in quiet with empty meal tubs, while the latter were rolling in wealth; but having the political, numerical and material power they would help themselves to what they Wanted. It is evident this ugly phantom is loom ing up more and more vividly before the eyeballs of our respected fellow-citizens who reside about the great populous labor centres. Now, if such an apparition would only have the good effect of making the brethren sensible, prudent, just and “keerful,” it might help matters. But in stead of that the whole legislation of the country, for the past twenty years, looks as if it had been formed to precipitate a catastrophe of this character. Look at the facts, that the wealth of the country, accumulated in the national debt, is ex empt from taxation—that taxes collected on imports swell the wealthy with boun ties and’deplete the poor with extortion ate burdens, doubling the cost of a liveli hood ; that under the excise or internal revenue tax system, enterprise without a large capital is emasculated, because large capital is necessary to prepay the tax— see, under these and other influences, enor mous disparities in fortunes are being yearly created, swelled and aggravated so that every year we are having more and more a broad and strongly marked line between enormous wealth and defenseless penury—the rich getting richer with rapid strides, and the poor, poorer. See how deaf and. blind our legislators are to what is perfectly apparent on the face oi things, and how careful not to assail a single wrong or inequality in our taxation; but rather to rely ou “a strong govern ment” (imperialism), a third term, or a crippled aud emasculated suffrage, than on the only remedies possible under free government—impartial justice and equity. We see, in these constant strikes and quarrels about wages, the indications of popular discontent, which the scholiast of the International Review says must be al layed in alimely manner, by a total reor ganization of labor, in which labor shall fix its own compensation, after the town meet ing system, by the votes of the majority. His reasoning and his remedy are as satis factory, as those of any “labor problem’* theorist—4liat is to say, they are utterly foolish and impracticable. It takes two par ties to madee a bargain, aud both must be as free as the case, admits. The capital ist must have labor, although his necessi ties may not be so great as thoso of the laborer, who must have food, clothing and all the necessaries of life. But the capi talist must accept, the risks - of the enter prise and pay in advance. He cannot, if lie would, allow prices to be fixed for him. independently in the production of merchandise, while he cannot fix the prices of his merchandise in the general .market. ’ ' . " f yin short, the world most still blunder along as it has done for many generations —doubtless with many a hardship and in justice under any practicable System; hut the general system itself must be just. It should impose equal burdens—cqnter equal, privileges and rights. It should ieave all to work out their destiny under oqual laws; hut no action of man can produce equal results. These were ape patently'never • intended by the Diviuo Rui^r of the universe, and were there an equal division of the. proceeds of labor' every year, some would have'plenty aud some starve. The International Review writer says unless the. rule oft the majority over the wealth of the .country can be established we’are all going into bloody ebaos very soon, but it is certain we should all go sooner on liis piau. Seward’s inevitable conflict did^not come off, perhaps, because Retransferred it into the bauds of the American Government. The policy of sorni in this “inevitable conflict” seeriisto be the same, but it will be far better to allow the States and the people to deal witRit.' ; - 1 Honey from Poison. Tpe Supreme Court of the State of Lou-' isiaua, sitting in banc at New Orleans on the 31st of May, in a decision maintain ing to the utmost the vested rights of the Louisiana State Lottery. Goiupany, thus briefly but forcibly alludes to the institu tion assailed: “The Louisiana State Lot- teryicannot repudiate its charter nor ex onerate itself from the payment of a li cense,: the amount of which goes.to a charitable institution (tbe far-famed Chari ty Hospital at New Orleans) essentially ne cessary for the relief of suffering humani ty, and without adequate means of self- sustenance. It was, no dotfbt, wise in the State .to regulate reprehensible, but, per haps, irrepressible inclinations for that sort Df speculation; so as to draw from those who follow them,' as it were, honey fronj poison, for the betterment of the des titute ! classes of society. ’’-This is a proper expression of tbe highest character from the highest authority at home of the char- aeteKqftbe business ef the Louisiana State Lottery Company, and any one in terested can learu all the particulars by applying to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La.,;or same person at No. 819 Broadway, New York City. lw Tlie Chicago Blunder. We give place to what a discontented Grant organ has to say about the Chicago nominations. The bile has not all been discharged yet. We clip from : the New York Era, of the 19th: We believe that the Chicago couye/ition misrepresented'the wishes of the Ameri can people, and a majority of the party which appointed it ■ to its duty; We be lieve that in nominating Garfield and Ar thur, that convention made the very worat choice ' among the candidates before it. Finally, we believe that the choice it did make, and its manner of choosing, have sealed the fate of the Republican party. • Whoever may occupy the presidential chair in 1S81—it will not be James A. Gartiekl. In nominating General Arthur—and we hav.e the highest respect for the gentleman —the convention stultified itself. A lead ing plank in its platform commends the administration of President -Hayes—one of whose chief acts was to dismiss Gen. Arthur from the position he occupied iu the New York custom-house. This was, therefore, a direct “slap in the face” to the administration thus commended. Silence 1 Ye chattering brood of grave-yard ravens; You beat us by your knavery it is true, But think not though defeated we are cra vens, Or tricksters such as you. For even the Dead shall wake to anima tion i nr And rive in strips the recreant flag you flaunt, : * And then shall wake to noblest deeds the Nation, • The name of General Grant. Parties shall fall apart iu fragments shat tered, The recreant leaders ignominious flee, While the “Old Guard” reforms the forces scattered, Of Grant and Liberty. Eclectic Magazine.—The July num ber of the Eclectic, beginning a new vol ume, has a particularly' fine steel engrav ing lor frontispiece. It is entitled “The Frown,” and illustrates a couplet from Goldsmith’s “Deserted Village.” The picture represents the interior of a school-room, contains eight figures, and is an excellent specimen of tli03e “child sub jects” which arc always and deservedly popular. The literary contents of the Dumber are of a somewhat lighter character than usual, aud show that the editor has made conces sions to the season when the interest of readers in serious topics is somewhat lan guid. The following is the list of articles: “ l’he Gospel of Evolution,” by'Dr. Elam; “Morocco and the Moors;” “The Pinch of Poverty,” by James Payn; “Henri Mur- ger;” “De Profuudis,” a poem, by Alfred Tennyson; “An escape for Life from a Fijian Cyclone;” “White Wings: A Yachting Romance,” by William Black, chapters xxxii. to xxxiv.; “From the Cradle,” by Frederick Locker; “The Griev ances of Women,” by Mrs. Oliphant; “A plea for Musicians;” “Recent Science,” supervised by Professor Huxley; “Cym- beline iu a Hindoo Play-House,” by Har old Littledale; “Daltonism” (or Color- Blindness), by William Pole, F. R. S; “Tbe Regicides of the Century;” “An Anecdote of Instinct;” “Fleuss’ Meth od of Breathing Under Water;” “Literary Notices;” “Science and Art,” and “Va- Publisbed by E. R. Pelton, 25 Bond street, New York. Terms, $5 per year; single number, 45 cents; trial subscription for three mouths, $1. A Mule Causes a Serious Accident on the Junction Branch Railroad. The mail and passenger train drawn by the engine “Coosahatchie,” and under charge of Conductor McManus, which left the city for Charleston at four o’clock Saturday afternoon, met with a serious accident at Ogeechee swamp on the Junc tion Branch, about; three miles from the city. At the point named a mule that was browsing along the embankment sud denly dashed on the track directly in front of the engine, when the engineer whistled “down brakes,” but before the train could be stopped, the pilot struck the animal, throwing him under the cow catcher, completely mangling him and turning the engine from the track, drag ging the tender and baggage car partially down the embankment. The postal car was thrown from the rails, but remained ou the embankment, and the passenger car, which was crowded, was left on the track, and strange to say, the occupants though somewhat shocked were not in the slightest injured, nor was the car dam aged. The engiueer, Mr. Henry R. Mar tin, was slightly scalded and badly bruised, aud fireman Doyle and the wood- passer were also slightly injured. In the baggage or conductor’s car wore Col. H. S. Haines, Messrs. O. C. Olney, Felix Prendergast and Robert LePage, the express manager, and several Lands. The officials were on the way to the bridge over the Savannah river, to see about the repairs. The car was filled with trunks, and when the accident occurred these were thrown about in the most promiscu ous manner, and it is a miracle that some of the gentlemen were not seriously-or fatally injured. All were more or less bruised, but fortunately escaped serious harm. Some of the passengers were greatly excited, especially the ladies, whilst others were scarcely aware the ac cident had occurred. As soonns the officials recovered irom the shock and managed to get out of the car, they went to the assistauce of the en gineer ami fireman and extricated them from tlieir perilous position. A messenger then was promptly dispatched to the city by Mr. C. C. Olney, receiver of the road, and a special train was sent to the wreck under charge of Mr. W. T. Marshall, and tbe baggage aud passengers brought back to the city, reaching here about half-past seven o’clock at night. Dr. Duncan, who had accompanied Mr. Marshall on the re lief, train, examined the injured men, aud pronounced their injuries not of a serious character.' They were conveyed to tlieir homes on reaching the city, and received all attention possible, and-will probably bo ready for duty in a few days. Busses aud carriages had been ordered to the depot, add the passengers were transported to the hotels, being occasion ed no inconvenience beyond the interrup tion of their journey. The track is only slightly damaged, hut the road bed is intact, and tbe force that was sent out had it in thorough order by 11 o’clock, The damage to the engine is not serious.- butthe cab’ and tender are de- demolishen, aud the trucks of the baggago and mail car smashed. The wrecks were brought to tlie city yesterday. Wild and exaggerated reports were cir culated concerning tbe accident, some to tbe effect that four men had been'killed and a number badly injured; hut we are pleased to state that they vfere unfounded, and whilst escape from death on the part of some of the occupants of the train was lemafkable, there were no serious conse quences.—Savannah News. Hon. H. S. Jewett, president of the Erie, railroad, has written a letter ac knowledging the %ction of a Democratic clhb'at Zanesville, Ohio, in indorsing, him for tlie presidency. Mr. Jewett says to be highly -esteemed by his old friends and neighbors is evidence such as cannot be doubted that his life has not been a fail ure. ~ . Gen. Grant’s east cottage at Long Branch, the one nearest the ocean, which he lias geuerally occupied himself, is ad vertised for rent. The price asked is $2,. 000 for tlie season. Senator Joseph E. Brown,,of Geor gia, has written a letter to certain citizens' of that State in which he say# he thinks the assults upon Governor Colquitt are unjiwt and unreasonable, but are made by politicians, who, being out of ofllce arid anxious to get in, are disposed to take advantage of every opportunity for fault>fluding. Of hiiuself he says: “It was, not my wish to return to publiq life even for a short time, but while I remain here I shall do all in my power to serve the best interests of Georgia. I shall look carefully to our material prosperity aud development. It is not my purpose to serve the interests of monopolies or of preferred classes, but to look to the best interests of the great body of her people.’, EDITORIAL GLIMPSES. We have received the premium list for the eleventh annual fair of the South Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical As sociation of Thomasviile, Georgia. The fair is to commence on Tuesday, the 9th of November, 1880, and continue five days. The pamphlet is gotten up in splen did style by J. T. Chastain, of Thomas- ville. It contains all the necessary infor mation about the fair and the manner in which it will be conducted. Thomasviile always excels in the matter of getting up exhibitions, aud the fall fair will be equal to any fonrier one. Captain W. J. Houston, general passenger aud ticket agent of the Air Line railroad, gives notice that Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Birderman, of Mt. Airy, Ga., have been appointed agents of that company ia the capacity qf immigrant agents in Eu rope. ; . Very few of the colored people know anything about Garfield, and are disposed to regard his election over Grant as a per sonal grievance. .The Republican party will find it very difficult to arouse any en thusiasm among the negroes in the South over their standard bearer. They don’t know who Garfield is, and consequently a very light vote may be expected in this direction. When the nomination of Garfield was announced the Democrats, says the At lanta Post, thought they had caught a Tartar; hut he turns out to be covered all over with corruption, and does not appear to possess a single honest principle. But no matter for all this, the Republican party will stick to him, and he will be a hard man to beat. It would really appear that the greater the miscreant the closer do the Republican politicians stick to him. . The gubernatorial candidates wHl have a little rest from the bombarding enemy during the next few days.. The editorial guns will all be loaded for the Cincinnati fracas, and will have no time to devote to so small a contest as State affairs. Conkling insisted at Chicago that no one but Grant could carry New Yoik. It recurs to us that Grant was not nomi nated at Chicago. Conkling therefore* makes no calculation on carrying that ing that State for Garfield and Arthur. We hear a great deal about the progress of the age, and we are always ready to award the meed of praise to that which elevates and benefits mankind. Still the remembrance of former days awakens a train of thought that will not down at our bidding. Once it was believed, and gen erally practiced, that the interests of the employer and the employed were iden tical. The master held their workmen personally in high esteem, and were in the habit of promoting their personal com fort. On the other hand, the workmen respected their master and felt in honor bound to work well and faithfully. There was exercised a mutual confidence, and the workmen did do good work, and the masters did try to make them comfortable. It is not so now, only in exceptional cases. The relation has changed. Workmen are regarded by em ployers as machines necessary to the man ufacture of raw material; and employers are regarded by workmen as machines necessary to manufacture wages—on each side there is a disposition to take advan tage of one another. This may he prog ress according to the utilitarian view, hut it is a great strain upon moral principle and the public good. It is said that Sherman’s little axe is endangering Garfield’s success. We don’t believe that Sherman cares a straw if it would defeat the “dark critter.” At least he is doing his best to make Garfield’s way to the White House as difficult as pos sible. A. G. Porter, Esq., a prominent lawyer of Indianapolis, defeated Gen. Streightfor the Radical nomination for governor of Indiana. Streight was the man that got up the boom for Garfield amoug the Wisconsin delegation, Whereupon the St. Louis Q{obe-Democrat, a rabid Grant or gan, says, “He’(Streight) was entirely too active iu the anti-Grant crusade at Chica go. People who expect to win promotion in the Republican party by proving up au anti-Grant record wilt be disappointed.” Garfield instead of healing is only widen ing the breach in the Radical party. Wherever they can slay one another the opportunity never passes. It matters, hut little, however, whom the Radicals place in nomination, Frank Landers will land them in the shade,; by twenty thousaud majority. The blasphemer Ingersoll has let the public rest ever since the Chicago Con vention from his scoffings aud ribald jests on sacred things.- He seeks to destroy religion, hut he offers nothing to make mankind better by abandoaing it; until he can do this, all his railing amounts to nothing. Those who live the religion they profess are quite beyond even the keen shafts of au Ingersoll. . i*."- ■ “Profoundly SnUflfHI to God.” “I have been using your Compound Oxygeu-Trcatment,” writes Judge S. L. Bryan, of Salem, Ill., “for nearly two months, and am profoundly grateful to God aud you for the benefits derived from its use. I have been for more than thirty- years a sufferer from nervous disorders. Overwork ana sedentary habits as a college student brought me into difficulty. Later in life professional labors added dyspepsia to my nervous calamity, and I have been a great sufferer for many years. My sleep has been bad, and I have had much irregularity in the action of the heart. The gas has nearly relieved the disturbed heart-action, and my sleep is becoming as sweet and protracted as in early life. I shall always remember you with gratitude, and appreciate the bless ings of a progressive investigation which brings iuch results. I think you may congratulate yourselves that you stand iii the fiont of a new medical advanoe that is to effect a permanent revolution in the treatment of disease. Our Treatise oa Compound Oxygen, which contains the record of remarkable cures in chronic dis eases, sent free. Address Drs. Starkey & Falen, 1100 and 1111 Girard street, Phil adelphia, Pa. june22-lw. A Strange Epidemic. Adams, Mass., June 16, 1880.—This town has a population of 6,000 people. Last night we were startled by an epi demic which has left its track, and still lingers, loth to leave. Over one thousand people were prostrated by a disease re sembling cholera morbus, and from a cause yet unknown, though it is general ly attributed to atmospheric influences. About half-past eight last night it rained heavily here, though no rain had fallen in towns six miles away, and the air became suddenly and intensely chilly. A fog seemed to rest over the town. Dr. Burton, in conversation with a re porter this evening, described the fog as having an odor like that arising from a damp celiar after it liad been closed for a long time. AboutlO o’clock people be gan to be sick. First would come a dizzi ness, followed by. deathly sickness and vomiting, and then a severe and prolonged purging. Hardly a family escaped, and in some instances whole families were sick. Three of the doctors were rushing from place to place, vainly trying to an swer their hundreds of calls, while the .other doctor was helpless with tbe pre vailing disease. The sickness in the most cases lasted three or four hours, the grip ing pains, vomiting and purging continu ing throughout. Several persons lost their heads with the pain and did not be come rational until this morning. Women and children were chiefly attacked, but strong men were also prostrated. Those who were sick last evening are nearly all much better this afternoon, a few being confined to their beds, hut those who have recovered are weak and nervous. About a third of the entire population was affected, and those who escaped have been thoroughly purged to-day. Many of the factory operatives are unable to work, and there have been several cases this after noon. The doctors did not complete their calls until late to-night, and they are thoroughly tired out. News comes to night that people in Savoy and the other hill towns are similarly affected, though there was not a case in North Adams and other towns in the vicinity. No deaths have occurred, and the danger is consid ered past, hut there are still a number of very sick people in Adams. At first a theory prevailed that the reservoir water had been poisoned, but as it has proved that scores of people who did not use that water were sick with the rest, the respon sibility comes back upon the atmosphere. Nothing like it has ever occurred here be fore, and Adams, nestling at the foot of Grey Lock, has always been considered a very healthy place. The queer visitation is a great mystery to everybody, but if no worse results follow it will probably be a benefit, as all the inhabitants have under gone a thorough spring cleaning.—-New York Herald. Went Into the BiLL.~At a hotel in Bordeaux, the garcon, coming into a trav eler’s room in tho morning asks him if he has slept well. “Slept? I should say not,” was the reply; “a mouse kept up such a racket all night thatl couldn’t-close my eyes.” “Is it possible ?” said the garcon; “aud we are so careful here. I assure you it is the first time—” “Oh, never mind; I never can sleep well in a strange bed. The little fellow rattier amused me than otherwise.” An hour afterwards the gentleman, who was going away, went to the office to pay his bill. “How much?” “Eight francs.” “Eight francs for a chamber on the third floor, for one night ? It’s prepos terous.” “Monsieur has apparently forgotten the mouse which amused him last night.” A Gigantic Southern Combination. A New York special to the Chicago Tribune says: Avast railroad combina tion, with the Richmond & Danville and the Richmond & York River roads as the basis, has been formed in the South, ne gotiations for which have been in progress for eighteen months. A number of prom inent capitalists are interested in the en terprise, and have embarked in it more than $20,000,000. Among these are Charles Clyde, Philadelphia; John and Daniel K. Stewart, Richmond;, Messrs. Walters & Newcomer, Baltimore; H. B. Plant, R. T. Wilson & Co., New York; Charles M. McGhee, Tennessee; W. R. Clyde, New York; William H. Palmer, T. M. Logan, James T. Gray, A. Y. Stokes and Thomas Branch & Co., Rich mond, and other well-known gentlemen in the South arid Southwestern States. This combination will seek to control all through traffic to and from the sea board in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Northern Alabama and Mississippi, striking deep water on the Chesapeake bay, at West Point aud Norfolk. This great system of railroads is the counterpart of the Louis ville and Nashville system, which reaches the sea coast at Charleston and Savannah. The purchase, some months ago, of the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta rail road, by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com pany,-Richmond and Danville Company and Thomas and William P. Clyde, was the beginning of this movement. The second step was the formation of a syndi cate composed of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore aud Richmond capitalists, con trolling among them the Richmond aud York River railroad, East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, Memphis and Charleston, aud Selma, Rome aud Dalton railroads, with numerous branches, exten sions and connections. The Sy ndicate was formed to purchase all the railroad interests of the Pennsylvania Company south of Richmond, tvhichgave it the control-of the Richmond and Dan ville with its leased roads in North Caro lina, running from Richmond to Danville, embracing the Piedmont road from Dan ville 1 and Greensborough, N. C., and the North Carolina Railroad from Goldsbor- ough to Charlotte as a trunk line, thus af fording au outlet through Richmond to deep water for Jtne entire system. This w as followed by" the purchase of the con- trolling interest in the Greenville and Co lumbia Railroad Company of South Caro lina, and by arrangements • for securing the immediate completion of the Western North Carolina railroad from Asheville, N. C., to Paint Rock, Tenn., which makes another link connecting tlie roads west of the Blue Ridge mountains, with those east of Blue Ridge, and at tlie same time affording the shortest practical route be tween the Northwest andtbe States of the Southern seaboard. The Richmond and York River rail road, composing a section- of the trunk line of this combination, extends troui Richmond, Ya., to West Point, Va., on the Chesapeake bay, a distance of thirty- eight miles. The East Tennessee, Vir ginia arid Georgia railroad extends from Bristol, Tenn., to Dalton, Ga., a distance of 270 miles, with about twenty-four miles of side-tracks. The Itogersville and Jefferson and the Cincinnati, Cumberland Gap, and Charleston railroads were pur chased at a foreclosure sale for tho non payment of interest on. the State mortgage lien in 1871. The line of the Memphis and Charleston road extends from Mem phis, Tenn., to Stevenson, Ala., a dis tance of 271 miles. It.-has branches to Somerville, Tenn-, and Florence, Ala., making 303 iriilcs of road. The Selma, Rome and Dalton road, also a part of-tliis system, extends from Selma, Ala., to Dalton, Ga., a distance of 237 miles. The effect of this combination will be, it is claimed, to give greater economy of operation and increased efficiency of ser vice than has heretofore been possible under tbe old condition of things, where the roads were independent and discon nected. Among tbe perries interested in this enterprise are those controlling tbe coast line system of railroad, including the new and short railway lines running from Charleston and Savannah to Florida, and also a number of steamship lines trading between New York, Philadelphia, Balti more and Southern coast’ ports. It also connects at Ricli/noud and Danville with tho railway lines from those points to tbe Northern and Southern States for through passenger and express traffic, and at No> folk aud West Point with the steamboat lines to the Northern and Eastern ports for through and way traffic. Blaine narrowly escaped nomination, after all, according to James R. Robinson, chairman of Ohio's Republican State ex ecutive cofmnitteo. The Sherman men from Ohio fblt Tuesday morning that their case was hopeless, aud after the conven tion met were canvassing their allies, from tbe South to see how many of them would support Blaine. Eight delegates from North Carolina, as many from -Georgia, and three from Alabama, agreed to jump that way, and forty-three of the Ohio men decided to go with them. But before their intention could be carried out,' Wisconsin led oft' for Garfield, and the Sherman men decided to go with the crowd. The deadening preparations of Opium for the Baby are rapidly disappearing be fore the use of Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup. Sold by all Druggists. , VEGETINE CONDUCTORS TAKE It Blotches, Pimples, Hu. morsen the face ana " Neck Disappear. A Sovereign Remedy for Rheumatism, KOVTRRAL.P.O.. Oct 17 i&**#. Ms. H. R. 8TRVKM8: ^ * l7,187 °- Dear 8ir-I mtst cheerfully add my teif,;*,*.- *J to *£• area: number you are «aily rweiriW» r»v r of your Vexetine. 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