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m * Ife QUtegjtapIi Jmimni & llsjec^ttgec, ^Eltgrapji %, Jfitsstngtr. FRIDAY, JULY 30, I860. —Enormous natural caverns, one COO feet long, have lately been found near Wells, Somerset, England. —The New Haven police quickly quelled a street fight by throwing water on the combatants with a fire engine. —This year’s yield of tea in India is timated at 70,000,000 pounds, nearly double that of 1878. Ten years ago it was under 14,000,000. —It is claimed that a new Swedish gun (adopted by the Russian Davy) is even more deadly than the Gatling. It can be carried up into the maintop if necessary. —The college graduate is hanging about the outer edges of journalism, wait ing for a chance to jump clear into the middle of it and astonish the world, and when he does get a chance he is sent around to the police office to sec how many “drunks” have been brought irt. —At the recent examinations of the University of Bologna, a young lady re ceived her Diploma of Doctress, surpass ing the students of the other sex in anat omy, physiology, and chemistry. At the University of Turin a fair girl graduate obtained a similar degree of success in law. —Jose Maria Salazar saw a young girl in an Arizona mining camp, fell madly in love with her, and within three hours asked her to marry him. She declined, and he killed heron the spot. Retribu tion was as speedy as his courtship had been, for he was at once hanged by the miners. —Some one has undertaken the busi ness of lion-breeding at Bond, in Algeria, in order to supply menageries and zoolog ical gardens with specimens of the king of beasts, for which there is a great and growing demand. The extirpation of the lion in a wild state in Algeria, from a va riety of causes, is only a question of a very short time. —Captain Eads, California’s new con sulting engineer, has gone to that State, and will begin his work by making a thorough examination of the Sacramento river. He has declined the proposition of Dom Pedro to accept the charge of the Brazilian engineering department, rec ommending, however, an American engi neer, who has been,appointed. —General Robert Toombs, says the Sun, is one of the best farmers in Georgia. He made this year three hun dred and fifty bushels of white rust-proof wheat on eleven acres of land. He gave one hundred bushels, worth $10 a bushel, to the State for distribution among the farmers of Georgia to sow lor the next crop. —General Benjamin F. Butler is looking down from some commanding peak of the Rocky Mountains at the political situation before making his descent into the midst of the fray. One of his friends in 3Ias- sacliuselts says that a letter may be ex pected irom him before long pledging his support to the Cincinnati ticket, and put ting himself squarely ia position for the regular Democratic nomination for gov ernor this fall, which he means to claim. —The smallest lovers on earth were united at the altar at Odessa, three weeks ago. The “Marquis,” is a native ol Kiel, is thirty years old, aud weighs only nine teen pounds, while his faiiy-like consort, a young lady, born in Neumunster some two-and-twenty years ago, just turns the scale at thirteen pounds. At a first glance this tiny pair, it is said, might be taken for a couple of scarcely weaned babies, dressed up for a joke in the garb of adults. ’ —The Albany (New York) Journal says: “A few sensational journals are reviving the silly rumor that it is the pur pose of Governor Cornell to call an extra session of the legislature ostensibly for some 1 audible purpose, but really to change the mode of choosing presidential electors. Nothing has occurred to justify such rumor, and we have yet. to hear of the first Republican who desires or would approve ot anything of the kind.” Building in New York.—It is offi cially reported that more money has been expended tnis year for new buildings and substantial repairs and improvements in New Fork city than at any time since 1873. The returns of the department of buildings for the six months ended July 1 show that 1,100 new buildings have been commenced, at a total estimated cost of $14,800,000, or nearly $13,500 for each. This is $3,000,000 more than was expend ed for these objects in the same period of last year, and double as much as in 1877. A great many apartment houses on the “French flat” plan are being erected, while the number of tenement houses is decreasing. Bagasse for Paper Stock.—The demand for paper-making materials is so sharp and incessant that American in genuity, although a quality of seemingly indefinite powers of expansion, has as yet failed to meet it. A great step forward lias, however, been made in the discovery of a means for utilizing bagasse, the re fuse cane st3lks left over from the process of manufacturing crude sugar. This in vention will be greatly to the profit and advantage of Louisiana, where 200,000 hogsheads of sugar are made annually. It is estimated that the bagasse, which has heretofore been used only to heat the evaporating pans that the syrup is boiled in, will yield paper fibre in the propor tion of a ton to every hogshead of sugar. The new fibre is said to be of good qual ity and bleaches well. —The New York Herald, in an edito rial explanatory of the remarkable gain in Dr. Tanner’s weight when he resumed the use of water, says: “His revival under the use of water is so far the most curi ous phenomenon in hi3 experiment; but it is not so incomprehensible as to force the conviction that his increase of weight implies the digestion of food. He had gone to the limit of -endurance without either food or water, or on a minimum of water. But as the whole human fabric taken together is about 8® per centrwater —as if all the water were 'drie'd'out of us not “more than 20 per cent, would remain by weight—it follows that water is pro portionally important, and that when a man is starved as to food and water he is more starved for water than for. food. Consequently when Dr. Tanner began to take water he came up suddenly, and gained weight and strength and elasticity, not merely as he would if he had taken meat, but more than he would if he had lakea meat.” A Champagne Campaign. The Herald compares the opening of the Democratic campaign to the pop and effervescence of a ./'nmpagi.c bottle, and warns the Democracy that this fizzing and foaming do not constitute a winning ele ment against an old, seasoned and com pact phalanx of adroit politicians like the so-called Republican party. There must be effervescence and enthu siasm about every popular movement, and without it, as things stand, stem drill amounts to rowing against wind and tide. It cannot, at best, make many more hon est votes than belong inalienably to a party, although it may plan and execute abundant frauds. The canvass has not yet fairly com menced with either party, but we rest as sured that solid labor will not be spared by either. Both are well aware of the importance of organization. Tilden de clared that it would require a majority of about two-thirds to elect and install a Democrat, and that is making a liberal allowance for tactics and knavery. The Democracy will open the cam paign feeling well assured of success, but knowing well that the main condition of success is organization and effort as hearty, fearless, thorough and tireless as that put forth on the other side. It is no holiday task they have undertaken, and it must be pursued with vigor and determi nation as well as with prudence and judgment. With the weapons in their hands, to be used bravely, adroitly and discreetly, it will be a gross piece ot mismanagement if this takes any other form than a bold and aggressive campaign on the part of the Democrats. The long catalogue of fraudulent and tyrannical abuse is aptly crowned by a ticket impersonating politi cal malversation. Garfield and Arthur both stand judicially and officially brand ed by their own party as unsafe deposita ries of public trust. Garfield has been so voted by a Republican House of Repre sentatives, and so adjudged by the United States Supreme Court; and Arthur is on record in a message of Hayes as in the same condition. Surely never was a par ty placed in so indefensible a position. Justice to CoL Hardeman. The Constitution, in an article defend ing the accuracy and integrity of its tabulated statement of the counties that have chosen delegates to the gubernatorial convention, has this to say of an editorial in the Telegraph and Messenger deprecating what seemed to be an injus tice in its report of the strength of our talented townsman, Col. Hardeman: But the Telegraph asks us why we “persistently underrate the strength of Col. Hardeman?” We reply that we have not done so. We stated when our first table was prepared that the opponents of Gov. Colquitt had combined in so many counties on a general “anti-Colquitt ticket” that we were at a loss in some cases as to how to divide the “anti-Colquitt” dele es. Beyond tliia natural and confessed doubt, we have given Col. Hardeman all the delegates that we can get authority forgiving him. We have believed that lie would lead Col. Lester in the contest, and have so expressed ourselves. If lie gets a reasonable share of the “an ti-Colquitt” delegates he will lead Mr. Lester. If he carries the counties or a share of them in which he is contesting Go7. Colquitt to-day, he will lead Mr. Lester. But whether be does or not, we shall give him the delegates he wins with all pleasure. In the meantime the Tel egraph would do well to specify the del egations or delegates belonging to Col. Hardeman, not given to Col. Hardeman in our tables. We may be able to adjust the matter between us before the conven tion meets—if we do not, the roll call will squarely settle which of us is right, and which is wrong. We do not charge intentional misrepre sentation on the part of our contemporary, especially after such a disclaimer as the above, but would recall the fact that the vote of Muscogee, though well known to be for HardemSn, has never been accorded to him by the Constitution, and, if we re member aright, there were other omis sions in the Hardeman list. What the aggregate vote of our townsman will be cannot, of course, be stated at present, nor will anything certain be known in the pre mises until the convention organizes, and a ballot takes place. We cannot but hope and believe, however, that his following will be considerably increased when the returns are all in; and such is the bon homie of the man, such his personal popu larity, the versatility of his genius, the signal services he has rendered to the party and commonwealth—in short, his salient aud admitted claim upon the suffrages of the people—that, in the event that there is no choice by the convention, after an honest effort', to compose differences and elect the strongest man, has failed of suc cess, we would again present the name of our distinguished fellow citizen, Colonel Thomas Hardeman, Jr., not as a “dark horse,” but that Democrat and statesman who is pre-eminently entitled to the posi tion he honorably seeks—the executive chair of State. We are satisfied that his selection would be hailed with enthusiasm in every portion of the State. A Card to the Georgia Confederates. Col. Fielder makes the following ap peal lor information relating to the mus ter rolls and military organizations of the troops sent to the front by Georgia during the late war. We trust it will be prompt ly responded to by all who are possessed of the facts he wishes to obtain: Cuthbert, July, 18S0.—In the sum mer of 1S63, Gov. Brown, under a resolu tion of the legislature, sent me to Rich mond, with ample preparations to make a complete roll of Georgia troops who had entered the service. It was found to be impracticable at that time, on account of the activity of the departments, in prepara tion for the campaign into Maryland and Pennsylvania. President Davis advised me to postpone it; and the governor re called me. On account of rapidly accruing disas ters, the effort was never renewed. The work I had performed was lost in the de struction, by Federal troops, at Milledgc- ville. It is not important now lor the purpo ses then intended, but the sentiment sur vives the cause, and it will add to the interest and value of my book of Georgia history and biography if I can get the in formation here sought—an account of the regiments, separate battalions, batteries and companies not organized with others; also the divisions and brigades, the Held and company officers, and places or coun ties from which the companies went, and the principal engagements taken part in. I will gladly accept contributions from them, and make a clear and simplified account of each, if the suryiYing officers will aid me. The labor will be heavy to me, but light to them. I hope in this method to preserve much that within a few years, without some such effort, the grave will forever exclude from the history of our grand old State. Contributions from different persons, about the same commands, will not be objectionable, bgt all should be concise, brief and legiblyWritten, especially proper names. Respectfully, Herbert Fielder. —The .Victoria, Australia, Irish relief fiihd amounted altogether to $158^)70. Longfellow at Cambridge. A door opens and you are in the study the great poet of the New World. The walls are panelled to the ceiling with dark polished oak; and you see from the circular-headed windows’, with their heavy wooden muliions, and the tall oak chim ney-piece, with its classic ornamentations, that the architect lias hut reproduced some mansion of the early Georgian era, with which he was familiar, across the sea. At one end of the room stand lofty oaken bookcases, framed in drapery of dark red cloth. Here and there on orna mental brackets are' some marble busts, amoug them a fine effigy ot Gen. Wash ington. Easy chairs and reading stands are scattered around. In the centre of the room, which is cov ered with a well-worn Persian caipet, there sits, writing at a round table, lit tered with books and papers, a tall, bony man, apparently about seventy. His long hair and beard are white as snow; hut from beneath an ample forehead, indicat ing considerable intellectual power, there gleam a pair of dark lustrous eyes, from which the fire of youth seems not yet to have fled. He rises with a grave sweetness to salute you. Some chance remark or some tone of your voice, that recalled to htm the wild feils and moors of distant Yorkshire, makes you at once something more than a mere passing stranger. IJe tells you with pride of the remote Yorkshire an cestry, to which perhaps his poetry owes something of its manliness and vigor. And if you happen to be familiar with many of the scenes which he visited nearly half a century ago in Europe, he listens with strange interest as you tell of the changes which lime has wrought in some of the spots on which ht3 Muse has bestowed an undying fame. Yes, the house in which he lives was-built by an old Royalist, who carried with him over the sea his Georgian architecture as well as his theory of the divine right of kings. But it is better known- as having been inhab ited by the great hero of American inde pendence than as the home of the most widely-read of American poets. You walk out with him into the fresh spring morn ing to see the famous willow with its S 'ant arms, which spread over the mossy wn, and form sometimes m the warm days of summer the poet’s study. You must admire, too, the great north avenue of majestic elms, of which he may well be proud. It is more than forty years ago since, a grave, studiou3-looking man of thirty, he first trod its shady pathway, and lifted the huge lion-lieaded knocker which frowns still from the front door of the house.—London World. A Hero! A Man Who Consigns Himself to Certain Death to Save Others. The catastrophe of last Wednesday morn ing, by which twenty out of twenty-eight men were drowned in the Hudson river tunnel, developed an act of heroism which should be recorded and remembered. The eight of the party saved being on one side of the air-lock nearest the shore could only escape by letting in the atmos phere, which was an act of certain and sudden death to the twenty on the other side, of which Assistant Superintendent Woodland was one. But he knew their fate and his own was sealed, and deliber ately gave the orders, ivhich were tanta mount to sadden death. Here is the testimony: woodland’s heroic deato. Thomas Van Nostiand, one of the rcs- cved men, said the -main shaft is sixty feet deep, and from the bottom of this shaft the entrance to the tunnel is effected through a cylindrical barrel, six feet in di ameter and fourteen feet in length. This is called an air-lock and serves to pre serve the density of the atmosphere of the tunnel, which in turn is secured by the forcing of air through pipes from pumps. There is a door in each end of the air lock. They both open inward. At each side of the doors are round windows of thick glass, through which from the out side of the air-lock a view can be gained of the work and the workmen inside the tunnel. There were twenty-eight men at work in the tunnel. They went on at twelve o’clock that night for the eight- hour shift. I was at work near the east end of the lock and in the west end of the tunnel. It was about half-past four o’clock that I heard the holts snap, and the braces give way. At the same time I felt a rush of air iu my face. I started hack with seven of the men who were near me, and ran into the lock. The air pressure crowded the door shut at the east end. At first it was blocked by a joist, which we pulled out, and then the door slammed to. Through the dead- eyes we could see the men inside the tun nel. The water was fast rushing in. Ps- ter Woodland, assistant superintendent, stood at the door oucside the lock, which was stationary. It would not move with out knocking out the dead-eyes. This would be fatal to the men outside, as the water would rush in aud drown the men in an instant. Woodland knew this, hut stood at the door. His face was ghastly white, and he realized the terrible danger He said to me: “Tom, quick, bust the dead-eyes, and do what you can for us.” I knew it was death to us if I did not, so I obeyed the order. As the glass broke the air rushed in, and the lock shot out in the main shaft, Paving the men to drown as the space occupied by the shaft filled with water. In an instant we were wholly stripped of our clothes. When wo crawled out I heard the rush of water at our back. It filled in fast, but the ob structions kept it back long enough for us to escape from the main shaft. It was all we could d j to save ourselves. Woodland was standing in the water np to his waist when I saw him. It was sure death, and I had to knock out the dead-eyes as I told you. He knew as well as I that it was all over with them. I shall never forget the look on his face or the sound of his voice as he told us to save ourselves, though the very act was to insure his death. The Swallow-Tailed Coat.—'The conventional dress coat has been called the “swallow tail,” the “steel pen,” the “claw-hammer,” the “two-tined,” and other picturesque and somewhat oppro brious names. It has been, a fashionable, but never much loved garment, and there is a certain popularity about the man who, despite the demands of society, boasts that he never owned one. The great majority of men who possess a dress coat, not being very wealthy, and not be ing able to purchase one every year, are unhappy. It cannot be laid aside like a wedding-dress, and looked at in solitary- moments on rainy days, because if it is packed away it comes from the press with an unusual appearance, indicating that the wearer has not been invited out much. Many men, especially if they have a dress coat, grow stouter or thinner every year, so that the dress coat, being a very sensi tive thing, not amenable to tucks or wise repairs, resents the insult by making the wearer appear ridiculous; and perhaps a man is never so absurd as when he gasp ingly and sheepishly says to a crowd of thinner persons, “Does anybody want to buy a dress coat ? Crescent spring Water. For several years had been affected with gravel of the kidneys. My urine was carefully analyzed and found to con tain nearly half an. ounce of uric acid. I had not taken the water three days until the quantity was reduced fifty per cent., and three weeks after, a last analysis showed the urine free from gravel,. Solomon Stein, Of S. Stein & Co., 446 and 448 Broadway, New York. September 8th, 1879. For information apply at Hall’s Drtig S’ore. ; Monroe,’ Ga!, March 23,1880. S. S. S.—We have,, for a year, been pre scribing Swift’s S. Specific for the diseases for which it is recommended, and are frank to say that the results hare been most satisfactory, not having been disap pointed in a single instance. We think, for all the diseases for which it is recom mended, it stands without a peer, and that, sooner or later, the medical profes sion will be forced to recognize it a sine qua non.. N. L. Galloway, Md. . july4-2w. I. T. RoBrasoN, Md. “All is Wefl that Ends WelL” We are quite sure that the intelligence published elsewhere, that on the one Aim- ‘ dred and seventy-fourth hallot, in the ! sixth congressional convention assem bled at Milledgeville, our talented and worthy immediate representative, Colonel James H. Blount, received every vote of that body, will be received with the live liest satisfaction by nine-tenths of his con stituents. There really was no pronounced and personal opposition to Mr. Blount, but, on the contrary, even the most earnest of his opponents free ly conceded that he had made an able, faithful and efficient member of the national legislature. The only difficulty in the way was the “latter day” idea of rotation in office, based upon localities. Onr friends in the upper portion of the district felt a little restive aud dissatisfied because Colonel Blount had been chosen for four consecu tive terms, to the seeming neglect of their own section. Hence the attempt to dis place him, or rather to promote some citi zen of their own. Bnt even by the action of the primaries, we see that there was really no animus or combination against Col. Blount, as no less than three gentlemen were voted for by the several counties, Mr. Barton re ceiving on the first hallot 6 votes, Mr. Glover 2, and Mr. l’reston 0. It is true that upon a conference these opposing elements united aud voted solid ly, first for one and then for auother can didate; hut when the struggle had pro gressed through a whole day and the greater portion of another, and the “moun tain” composing a decided majority of the entire district stood firmly for Blount, a change came “o’er the spirit of their dream” and better counsels prevailed. It began to be realized that Col. Blount was no sectional candidate but the spontane ous choice of a vast majority of the dis trict—that he had labored faith fully and industriously, not only for his immediate constituents, but for tlie whole commonwealth; that he had also rendered sigual service, as the acting chairman of the committee on appropria tions, to the country at large; in short, that he was an able, untiring and influen tial representative, who had discharged with fidelity every trust confided to him, and was therefore worthy of-the continued support of his constituents. Then, after Bibb county had compli mented with her six votes several of the gallant gentlemen who led the opposition there was a “breaking of ranks” amid the greatest enthusiasm, and all went to Blount. We congratulate the people of Georgia at the auspicious termination of this holly disputed contest. May we not hope that it will poist a moral and afford a prece dent for the guidance of the gubernatorial convention which meets at Atlanta on the 4th proximo. And now, in conclusion, we simply in voke the Democracy of the sixth district to organize without delay and roll up such a majority for Blount, Hancock and English as never has been witnessed in the annals oi the past. “Colquitt and Gokdon abe Simply Demagogues of the Most Unique Shape.”—These are the words of the Car- tcrsville Free Press, and certainly go very far to prove that the virus of Inde- pendentism is fatal to Democratic senti ment. How can a journal which profess es to be Democratic speak so disrespect fully of two of the most prominent and trusted leaders of the party ? Is it right, or loyal to do so ? This paper is person ally partial to Colonel Hardeman, and would rejoice to see our distinguished fel low citizen made governor of Georgia. But would that justify us in attacking Colonel Lester, General Gartrell, Judge Warner or Governor Colquitt, all of them good and tried Democrats, and patriots, because they stand in the way of the suc cess of our favorite?- Not so. We honor and respect all of "these gentlemen, and will accord a cheerful and earnest support to any one of them if nominated by the convention. It is this unnatural internecine warfare in the Democratic camp that causes us to tremble for the success of the party. We beg brother Willingham to pause and re flect ere he allows his prejudices to dis rupt and dismember the only organiza tion that can preserve local government at the South and secure-to us the blessings of constitutional liberty. We know that at heart he is a true Democrat. Princeton College and Drain age.—The trustees of Princeton college some weeks ago appointed a commission, consisting of Dr. E. G. Janeway, of the New York board of health; Dr. Hunt, of the New Jersey State board of health, and Mr. Philbrick, of Boston, the eminent civil and sanitary engineer, and commit ted to them the entire sanitary question of the college. These gentlemen have made a thorough examination of the drainage and plumbing of the institution; have caused the most thorough cleansing and disinfection of the entire establishment, and have prepared an entirely new plan of sewerage and plumbing, which will be carried out under the immediate super vision of 3Ir. Philbrick. Every descrip tion of plumbing is to be removed from .the dormitories; the closets are to be placed outside of the public buildings, and these gentlemen aver that when the college session opens there will be no pub lic institution in the country so thor oughly protected as Princeton college so far as sanitary arrangements are con cerned. Eclectic Magazine.—The 'August number of the Eclectic contains a finely engraved portrait of Gladstone, now the ablest statesman in England. The con tents are varied and interesting, suited to the present season. Among the leading articles we note the following: “Fiction,” by John Ruskin; an inter esting article by Prof. Huxley; “Suicide;” .“Fishing and Fishing Literature;” “Cabi net-Making;” “The days of the Week;” “Geology and History:” “Cliff Roses;” “The Pinch of Wealth,” and a sketch of Gladstone, by the editor, besides the usual valuable Scientific and Literary Notes for which this periodical is noted. All lovers of good reading will appreci ate this number of the Eclectic. Published by E. R. Pelton, 25 Bond Street, New York. Terms, $5 per year; single copy, 45 cents. Trial subscription fqr three montLs, $1. : Boston and Elevated Railroads Citizens of Boston and neighboring towns haye-fbrmed a company, ora number of companies, for the purpose of buildiug and operating elevated roads in the city and its suburbs. The Boston Herald, while it admits the need of relief for crowded streets, says that it is doubtful that the railroad commissioners will or can give the necessary authority, since it is doubtful that the legislature itself can constitutionally do so. ARRIVAL OP THE OBELISK. I Garfield’s Defense. " ' _ I Reviiwiug Garfield’s defense in his The Tiqrs;e or tlx Steamer BeMonk. ” . • A reporter of the New York World campaign^Hfe just published, the rhila- boarded the Dessouk at 2 o’clock last delpbia Times, au independent paper, Monday morning and interviewed Com- says: mander Gorringe as to the obelisk and , Ano ther £t range omission in his defense his trip, fhe commander said they left is bis failure t0 tak(i auy 110te ofthe unaa _ Alexandria, June 12, and Gibraltar on the 25th. “The weather continued fine, and nothing particular occurred until on the 6th of July, at 8 o’clock in the morn ing. We were going along, eight and a half knots per hour, with a smooth sea, when all at once the engine stopped, and we found an after crank shaft broken short off. began to dismantle the shaft and take the engine to pieces. We worked night and day until the 12th. On theevening of the 12th we were ready to start again, having put in a new shaft. There is a story connected with this shaft. When I bought the vessel in Alexandria, I purchased ev erything on board belonging to her, and afterwards I found this spare shaft be longing to her was in her stores. I had the greatest fight you ever heard of for two months before I could get them to give me the shaft, bnt I got it at last and it saved us from a very long passage. On the day after I broke the shaft we were spoken by the Austrian bark Meltuno, of Persaguo, and I requested the captain to deliver for me at any port the following telegram: “To the Honorable Secretary of the Navy: Tne steamer Dessouk with the oblisk, broke her crane shaft July 6, lati- itudc37, longitude 47. A spare shaft is being fitted. Probable detention of 10 un til repairs are completed. Will try to keep between parallels 37 and 37 30. Lieut. Gorringe.” The Austrian bark was bound for Con- stantiuople, but promised to stop at Gi braltar to send this dispatch. By the skill and energy of Commander Gorringe he has been enabled to reach New York before the hark has reached Gibraltar, and he will accordingly tele graph at once to Mr. Sprague, our consul at Gibraltar, not to forward the dispatch. “This broken shaft,” Lieut. Commander Gorringe continued, “has delayed us for pbout eight days. There is one thing you can say, the obelisk has arrived and there is not a sqnare inch broken of it. It is 70 feet long, S feet square at the base and 5 feet 3 inches at the top. It weighs 200 tons. The pedestal weighs 42 tonsT The steps or foundation without the pedestal weighs 74 tons. The machinery for low ering it weighs 60 tons. While I was at Gibraltar Lord Napier, the Governor General of Gibraltar, came on board with all his staff and a large party of ladies, and went down in the hold and examined it critically—the obelisk and the manner of its stowage. They expressed them selves much pleased with all they saw. Lord Ripon, on his way to India, came on board at Alexandria and inspected the obelisk. Tlifere were also many engineers who came from a great distance to see it and to observe the manner of its ship ment. Two Austrian engineers came all the way from Trieste. I shall take it out just exactly as I put it in—that is, put the vessel in the dry deck first.” This morning the steamer Dessouk, having the Egyptian obelisk in her hold, steamed up North river and anchored off Twenty-third street, where she will prob ably be for the next few days. Hancock and English.—Some gos sip about the fact that the names of Han cock and English have not as yet appeared at the head of our editorial columns, hav ing been reported, it is proper to say that we considered the omission proper until the electoral candidates are nominated. The people cannot vote for Hancock and English, but must vote for electors. The point is not of much consequence. Many of tlie leading papers do place the names of the presidential candidates in their pa pers, although their columns arc crowded in advocacy of the candidates. But when the electors are nominated, we will put the whole ticket in the usual place, as wqjl as do what ever else we can to advo cate their election. Jay Gould on the Garfield Ticket. A special dispatch to the New York World of the 21st inst. says: Mr. Jay Gouldlast week visited his former home in Delaware county, in this State, and honored Kingston with his presence en route. While here he spoke his mind freely on the subject of politics, prophesy ing the certain election of Hancock aud English. In conversation with Major Thomas Cornell, the wealthy forwarder here—a Republican, by the way—Mr. Gould unhesitatingly said that he antici pated the success of the Democratic Pres idential ticket this fall. “How is that?” queried Major Cornell. “Well,” said Mr. Gould, “the fact is, General Arthur loads down the Republi can ticket, and aside from that the Demo crats are thoroughly united on Hancock and English. I have no hope of carrying New York, and I believe that as goes New York so will also go New Jersey at least, and Connecticut probably.” Mr. Gould also ventured the remark that the Republican “machine” had al ready practically abandoned the presiden tial fight, and would henceforth concen trate its efforts upon carrying the various State legislatures, with the obvious pur pose of controlling the United States Sen ate. . • Mr. Gould’s revelations are important only as exhibiting the fact that what is called the money power does not seem to be a3 much afraid of the Democracy as some people make out, and that the Trib une's lot in this contest is not a happy one. __ _ —Guizot in a letter, lately published, to one of his children, tells how, on his first visit to Windsor, he lost his way, and opened a wrong door and beheld for a moment a lady having her hair brushed. The next day the Queen (for it was she) joked him about it, and he says: “I end ed by asking her leave, If ever I write my memoirs, like Sully or St. Simon, to men tion how at midnight I opened the door of the Queen of England! She gave permis sion, laughing merrily.” —The Columbus Fact tells how on Dreshach’s menagerie entering Newark, Ohio, the elephant’s keeper fell into a fit when the elephant wouldn’t allow any one to approach him, hut at fiist takihg- liim up tenderly with his trunk tried to put him on his tusks, but finding he wa3 insensible put him gently down again, and showed great distress. At length the man-revived enough to speak to the ani mal, aud to tell him to let people ap proach —General Grant, it is stated, has been informally offered the presidency of the American Caual Company, which pro poses to. canal the isthmus by the Nica raguan route. It is further stated that as soon as Captain Phelps, who is in Europe in the interest of the American projectors, returns, there will bo a meeting of those interested in New York. General Grant will then he formally tendered the pcsi- ion of president of the company to be formed, and {lie steps looking to an early nauguration of the work will be taken. —Hon. Samuel J. Tilden, it is an nounced, has consented to preside at the Democratic ratification meeting at the New York. Academy of Music, on. the 26tb instant, provided his health will per mit. Ex-Governor Seymour writes that he will come if possible, and so does 3Ir. Hendricks of Indiana. Senator Keman and Governor Hampton, of South Caro lina, also will probably be present. It is designed to have a series of meetings, of which the Academy is to be the centre' imous finding of the Republican commit tee that reported to the House February 18,1878, through Judge Poland,'- as fol lows: “The facts in regard to 3Ir. Garfield, as found by the committee, are that ho agreed with Mr. Ames to take ten shares suait uroKeu j 0 f Credit Mobilier stock, but did not pay Of course we made sail and f or f be same. Mr. Ames received the eighty per cent, dividend in bonds and sold them for ninety-seven per cent., and also received the sixty per cent, cash dividend, which, together with the price of the stock and interest, left a balance of $329. This sum was paid oveno Mr. Garfield by a check on the sergeant-at-arms, and Mr. Garfield then understood this sum was the balance of dividends after paying, for the stock.” General Garfield was theu, as now, a member of the House, but he made no protest on the floor against the judgment of his political friends who thus condemn ed him. This report and the testimony of Mr. Ames in regard to General Garfield’s memorandum of Credit Mobilier profits due to him are the two apparently con clusive facts against him, and they arc the two points which he passes in silence in offering his defense to his countrymen. Another strange omission in General Garfield’s defense must attract very gen eral attention. In his explanation of the DeGolyer fee of five thonsaud dollars, paid him for presumed professional servi ces, he is strangely silent on the solemn judicial decisions of two courts distinctly condemning liis fee as corrupt and ille gal. In a suit brought in the Cook coun ty Circuit Court off Illinois, to recover the full amount of the corruption fund for the Washington paving con tracts, of which General Garfield’s fee was a part, the defense demurred on the ground that the money claimed was promised to influence the official action of General Garfield, chairman of the committee on appropriations, through whose official favor the fraudulent con tracts had to be paid by government ap propriations. Judge Farwell sustained the demurrer because such contract with General Garfield was corrupt aud could not be legally enforced. The trial was had at Chicago in May, 1875, and the case was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, where Justice Swayne delivered the opinion of the court in Oc tober, 1879, iu the following language: “The agreement with Gen. Garfield, a member of congress, to pay him $5,000 as a contingent fee for procuring a contract, which was itself ouade to depend upon a future appropriation by Congress—which appropriation could only come from a committee of which he was chairman— was a sale of official influence, which no veil can cover against the plainest princi ples of public policy. No counseior-at- law while holding high office (much less a minister of the Gospel, etc.) has a right to put himself in a position of temptation, and under pretence of making a legal ar gument exert his official influence upon public officers dependent upon his future action. Certainly the courts of justice will never lend themselves to enforce con tracts obtained by such influence.” Geu. Garfield cannot be ignorant of the fact that the judicial records of our high est courts have stamped the De Golyer fee with infamy, and if he had any expla nation to offer on the subject, ho should have met. these fearful judicial deliver ances against him—the most important of which was given by a Republican supreme judge from his on-u State. Upon the whole, it would l.aye been better for Gen. Garfield to be silent on all charges thau to have attempted to answer them and yet be silent on the points which most conclusively condemn him. Ducks vs. Elies. When a man is thoroughly interested in something he is reading a very insignifi cant house-fly can sometimes worry him a great deal. The other day one of the officials iu a municipal office was reading. A fly alighted on his cheek, crawled up the side of his nose, and there stood fast, and tastened its talons in the tender cut icle. The first clutch with its claws brought recognition in the shape of a very ener-‘ getic sparring back and forth in front of the official countenance, but the fly hardly waited for the disturbance to subside when he was again snugly bestowed on the nasal prominence. The persistence of the insect had worn out the patience of the man, and he broke out fiercely, “ the flies” A quiet stranger who had just dropped iu remarked in tones of the most irritat ing composure, “I’ll tell you what’s good for flies.” “Well, what’s good for flies ?” “Ducks.” “Ducks?” “Yes, ducks. Out to the Lindell car stables we keep ducks. A car-horse can rest easy at the Lindell stables.” “And how is that?” asked the official, becoming interested. “Why, they just have plenty of ducks, 1 tell you. Didn’t you ever see a duck snap a fly ? Whenever the flies get thick on a horse the ducks gather round and snap every fly that comes in reach. If a horse lies down the ducks just crawl all over him. The horses mighty, soon find out who their friends are, and^fey’ like to have the duels come. In fact, if the flies get bad the horses will lie down to give the ducks a chance. They are so indus trious that they keep the flies pretty well thinned out. I tell you there’s nothing like ducks for flies.”—St. Louis Bepubli- can. SANDERSVILLE MASS MEETING. “let ns nave Peace and Hardeman.” Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Sandersville on yesterday was the scene I of a mass meeting, tbe most enthusiastic . and noisest, perhaps, that ever met or will ever meet again at the same place. Last ’ month the ebainnan of the Democratic executive committee called the party to gether for the pmpose of electing dele gates to the State and national conven tions. Owing to some cause’ in the two county newspapers (Herald and Courier) the announcement was not-generally un derstood by the citizens at large. A con vention was had, however, and Lester delegates appointed and received their credentials from the chairman of tlie executive committee. The friends of Gov. Colquitt, declaring this meeting was not the voice of tde people, called auother which was to meet yesterday. On last Thursday' Governor Colquitt and Gen eral Gorton made speeches in San- dersville which aroused the Colquittites to renewed and determined action. Supe rior Court is still in session, Judge Fate presiding. Yesterday morning early the people began to roll in, anxious for the called convention. At eleven o’clock court adjourned. The court house was soon packed and crammed to stifling. Col. Pringle addressed and explained to the meeting the objects, etc., of the meet ing. Mr. Davis arose and expressed him self as an avowed Colquittite, hut coun seled harmony and unity, and read his resolutions, which were conservative to wards all candidates. Major Newman read his amendment, which was also con servative, and tended to coalesce the two factions. ■ Col. Hines, a prominent Lester man, made a short speech in behalf of the previous meeting. All these resolu tions werfe voted down amidst wild en thusiasm. At this juncture our genial and clever friend Dr. Sumerlyn, who has for sometime been working hard in the interests of your noble and deserving Hardeman, entered, and pushed through the combined and deter mined Colquittites and Lesterites, bearing in his hands a banner attached to a ten-foot pole. On this ban ner was inscribed, “Let us have peace aud Hardemau.” This new departure was received with rounds of applause, and had the happiest effect. The doctor planted his Hardemau flag upon the very ramparts (over the chairman’s head) of the con tending and opposing factions, aud like Wade Hampton with his flag of South Carolina at Cincinnati, never hauled down his colors. Col. Gilmore addressed the masses and Rev. Mr. Harris read also sume resolutions. At last it was ordered by the chairman that a line he drawn and friends of the different candidates get on different sides of the court house. The Colquittites claimed 175 majority. Col quitt delegates were appointed. Dr. Sumerlyn gives notice that a meeting for the appointment of Hardeman delegates is to be had. So Washington county will be represented by Colquitt, Lester and Hardeman delegates at the State conven tion. Yours, Warner. Sandersville, Ga., July 21st, 1880. A Card from Hr. E. B. Smith. Smithboro, Ga., July 19,1SS0. Editors Telegraph and Messenger:— Since the communication of “Jasper” in your issue of the 11th inst. is calculated to produce an erroneous impression relative to the proceedings of tlie Democratic meeting held in Monticelloon the Gth inst., I feel it my duty,as secretary of the meeting,besides being requested, to publish the facts. The first matter introduced after the organiza tion was a resolution by Col. Jordan de- TAKE liv^r Regulator, terminipg thnehoice < a candidate lor Coe ■ ingress by ballut, the polls to be opened, etc. Major Key sug- THi FAVORITE Home Remeif I> warranted not to contain a tingle par- sic!oot Mercury or any injurious mine ral substance, but U KURIL! VKGET- ABLts. ooDt.ining those Southern roots - sndlerbr,which an A!l-Wi‘e Providence has placed in countries where LI'er Disease most prevail, it will curs all dn-twr caused by de rangement of tho Liver and Bowels, Regulate the Lsrer and prevent " ■ malarial diseases. Summer is the season ot the year when the sys tem is 1 able to get out ot order and severe and dangerous bilious artactslreq en*U follow. Iba principal otuse ol nearly all richness at this time o' the year has its oricin in a disordered Liver, wh ch if not regained in time, gnat suffering, wretchedness and death will eutne. 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Ba-t Taste in the Mouth, Bilious Attack-, Palpita tion of the Heart, P*n in the begi a of the Kidneys, Despondency, Gloom end Foreboding ot LvU-all ol wh ch ARS THE OFFSPRING OF A DIS EASED LIVER, CBxtiactef a letter from Memphis, Tenn., April 17. 1S79.1 SJW: I bare stood the st-rm of four epidemics of the yellow fe r er. I had it tbe first visitation; but during tbe other three 1 used your nediciue. 1 wan continually iu lh- rooms ot the sick and dy ing, but escapee. 1 have had several to ask me h i - I craped. I to’d them it war all owing to tbe virtueottour blRUDNS l.lVbtt RKt.ULA- TUn. at the fever wa- to break out again, ard l had a bo*tie of your REGULATOR. 1 would feel aa tale as if I was one thousand miles awry. Kwpsctfuhy. W. B. TATK8. IT HAS NO EQUAL. Thocssnos lead miser,b e lives, suffering from d}>i>ep.v:a, a disordered stomach and liver, pro ducing biliousness, htartburr.cosliveness, weak ness, i* regular appetite, lew spirits, raising food alter eatuir. • lid often curling m fatal attacks it ttver. T hey know they am sick, jet get little •ympathy. Tno unfailing remedy to prevent these affiiclions aud restore health is Bimicons Liver Reg uia tor. CAUTION. As there are a number if imitations offered, wo would caution tne public not to allow some oth.-r compound to bo palmed iff uuder a similar sounding cane, with tbe assurance that it is as good. Bear in mind that tbe on y object such dealers cm have, is the fact that tney can make a few pennies extra profit by selling the spurious. Sor.e genuine union, iu our enyrared wrapper, with "Red Z" trauo mark, stamp and signature unbroken. J.H.ZEILINACO., Fhiiudelihia. Pa. Price.SI. Sold by ail drupxis ■ fcnSltf The faose Discovered. Most of the readers whose eyes sean but we doubt if they kuew what was the cause. In nine cases out of ten it was some trouble with the kidneys or liver. rested that the resolution be reduced to some trouble with the Kidneys or liver- writing, and while Col. J. was doing so, This is a truth which has iust become offered his resolution recommending Gov. t-nmrn. sun the result which Warner’s G.vmbetta and Gbevy.—It seems probable that the existing Chamber will run its course, and that no general elec tion will be held before 18S1. The Sen ate has received incite person of 3L Leon Say not only a Republican president above all suspicion, but one who will be able to act in personal harmony with that mue{j greater personage, the president of the Chamber of Deputies. Slowly, si lently, but surely (says the Daily Tele graph), the power and authority of 31. Gambetta are increased, persons aud cii> cumstapces together conspiring to aug ment the importance he has acquired by liis talents, activity and previous good for tune. M. Grevy studies to be forgotten, confining himself strictly to the perform ance of functions he cannot avoid, and performing them with a persistent lack of ostentation. He Is a civilian like Thiers; but, unlike Thiers, he b»s written no military history, and he has no passion for playing at soldiers. Didn’t Want to See Him.—Whep the Democrats were on the way to Cincinnati one of tbe most distinguished Senators of the Democratic party was invited to stop at Harrisburg and dine with ex-Senator Simon Cameron. According to promise tlie Senator telegraphed to 3Ir. Cameron his departure from Washington, and was met and welcomed at Harrisburg by the aged Senator’s representative in the person of Don Cameron. Iu the same car was Gen. Garfield, with whom 3Ir. Cameron also exchanged greetings. Taking his guest to ex-Senator Cameron’s house, Don Cameron said to his father: “Father, Gen. Garfield is bn the cars at the depot.” ' . “Is he?” asked the ex-chieftain. “Yes, sir,” replied his son. “Well, let him stay.there,” said the Schuylkill patriot. As the time for the departure of the train drew near,- Don Cameron, not quite satisfied perhaps, said: “Won’t you go down to the train and see Gen. Garfield, father?’’ Very gruffly came the response: “No; wliat do I want to see him for?” i Conflict Between the Convict Guards.—Cartersville Express: On . last Saturday morning at the convict camp, near Rogers Station in this county, a dif ficulty occurred between two of the guards, Quarles and Sewell, in which the former shot the latter, inflicting a serious and perhaps mortal wound. The reports con- ; „„ y , .„i„ 8 and M.»n MM. VSftjj.. the open streets, being included in the justifiable in the shooting. No arrest has 'programme. • • 1 been made. Colquitt as the nominee of the Atlanta convention, etc., and moved its adoption, which was done. Soon after Col. J.finish ed his resolution, read and moved its adop tion, whereupon Major Key arose and read bis resolution, declaring Col. Preston the choice of the convention, etc., and moved that it be adopted in lieu of Col. Jordan’s—which motion prevailed by a considerable majority. This i3 a plain and simple statement of the transactions of the meeting. Everything was done in order, in parliamentary foim, and quiet ly—not hurriedly. It is well known that I .was opposed to Maj. Key and Col. Pres ton politically in the past, and have not changed one tchit as to the then existing issues’, but I utterly fail to conceive the policy or propriety of permitting past mi nor differences to enter into present con tests, and thereby disturbjtho tranquillity of the party. The duty of the hour is for Democrats to work together, and whoever shall be the nominees at Atlanta and Mil ledgeville, let us all rally as one man to their support. Yours, etc., Ed. S. Smith. Poverty of the Bonapartes.—I gave you recently an account (it was in tentionally far from a full account) of the distress into which Prince Pierre Bona parte’s family had fallen. They are again on fortune’s crested wave. Roland Bo naparte is to marry a daughter of Blanc, the farmer of the gaming tables of Ba den and Monaco, who, besides the for tune to his children, left his widow- thirty millions of dollars. Roland Bo naparte is ?o marry her daughter. He has bought San Donato, Ihriuce DemidoiPs place, near Florence. The King of Italy, at Prince Napoleon’s re quest, has given him the title of Prince of San Donato. The estate of San Donato contains seventy-five acres; the palace has a marble terrace and gilded dome; has stables for fifty horses; coach houses for thirty carriages, a‘ riding school; hot, ‘tem perate and cold green-houses; orangeries; greeii-houses of orchids; a conservator)’ 400 yards long; pigeon shooting lawn; steam baths, Turkish baths, Rus sian baths; is lighted by gas; has lan%s, lakes, bridges, islands, a7iaries, grottoes, swimming-school of 1,600 cubic yards; ore chaids, olive groves, kitchen garden, vine yard, dairy. Mine. Bianc has paid $200,- 000 for it. The family of Roland are, of course, delighted. His sister will no longer tiy to get bread by sculpture, and he will no longer look forward eagerly to the $20 bank note which Prince Napoleon sent him occasionally.—Paris Corre spondent N. O. Picayune. John Brougham's Grave.—“To all ray friends I leave kind thoughts,” said John Brougham in his last will and testa ment. It is a characteristic legacy, and all that poor Brougham had to give. He never kept enough of anything, but charity and good nature, to have a surplus at the end. An incident at his burial illustrated liis utter unselfishness through life. The friends who followed his body to Greenwood were delayed there some time by the dif ficulty of getting the coffin into tlie grave that had been opened lor it, owing to the space being so narrow. While the friends waited, the cause of the grave being so cramped was explained. Nome years ago a young actress, a stranger -iu the country*, died in extreme poverty. It was found difficult to get enough money to bury her. Brougham had no money to give, but he ofl'ered a grave in hii plot in Greenwood. His wife had been buried at one side of the plot, the friendless youDg actress at the other, and when the time came that he, too, should be buried, there was scarcely enough room remain ing to receive his body. He had thought of himself last, as he always did, and liis generosity hampered him even in the grave.—Boston Pilot. ___ TnE Florida Orange.—The Jack sonville Sun and Press says tbe present season has been very favorable so far for the growth of the orange tree, and at the present time the progress made lias been something wonderful. We have never witnessed such a healthy, vigorous ap pearance as the trees present now. The scale insect, which committed such rav ages last year, and which appeared for midable in the early spring, has, where the trees were properly cared for, nearly disappeared. The fruit is plump, well formed, smooth, and very free from rust. The only specimens of rusty skin we have observed this year were confined to those limbs which were affected with scale, which more and more confirms us in tbe belief that the rust on tbe orange is due fo the presence of insects. The crop will only be a medium one, known, and the result which Warner’s Safe Kidney and Liver Cure has accom plished. The above named troubles are caused by disordered kidneys and liver, and tbe remedy wbicli cures the cause banishes the pains which arise from it. jyl3 2w How Charity Ke wards the Giver. - The old Charity Hospital in the city of New Orleans was originally endowed by the State of Pennsylvania for the succor and relief of Pennsylvanians who found themselves without friends, sick and des titute, in a then very unhealthy city. It has been the cause of many thousand lives being saved, and is now mainly sup ported by the revenue it receives from the Louisiana State Lottery Company, whose large capital of $1,300,000, with its reser vations, Is a guarantee the promises made will be fulfilled. A dollar occasionally spent for a lotteiy ticket often enriches those whose intent is only to do a charit able act. For information address 31. A. 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