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lit TV Off • I <o 0 JOURNAL AND MESSENGER. CLISBY * JONES, Proprietors. THE FAMILY JOURNAL—NEWS—POLITICOS- LITERATUR3I—AGRICULTURE—DOMESTIC NEWS, Ere.—PRICE $2.00 PER ANNUM. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING ABLISHEM826. MACON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2 9, 3880 VOLUME NO—LV KOTEIBEB. November brings no sectional war, No hate, our prosperous days to mar, No autocrat, no would-be King, No subsidy, no swindling ring, No stifling of the pnblic voice, No plots against the people’s choice, No fraudulent Returning Boards, No rule of armed and lawless hordes, No theft of honest freemen’s rotes, No Fraud, with all the word denotes, No insolent Elght-to-Seven job, No games, the public purse to rob, No cannon at the Congress aimed, Nc grabs or steals, however named, No centralizing despotism, No deadly heresy and schism, •No petty tyrants, loud and coarse, No bayonets, no rule of force, No haughty, domineering few, No venal, base, and selfish crew, No policy of false pretense, No small official insolence, No Indian wars, no Southern claims, No mean and hypocriticaims, No tangled path’ and crooked ways, No Schurz, no Shennan and no HaYC3, No bribes or Joans or fees to pay, No trace of Credit Mobilier, No pavement jobs, no salary steals, No blocking of the nation's wheels, No move in wrong directions farther, No slippery Garfield, and no Arthur! —N u> YorkSun. A Tale of Camps and Courts. Mr. Archibald Forbes, the distinguished war correspondent of the London Neics, delivered his first lecture at Checkering Dali n the 13th of this month, and for two hoars entertained his hearere with bright sketchy descriptions of some of the royal personages. Mr. Forbes was re ceived with hearty applause as he came upon the platform in evening dress with a large portfolio in his hand. Spreading his manuscript upon a reading-desk be fore him he read it, trusting rather, and trusting not in vain, to the subject-matter than to the method of its presentation for the gratification of his hearers. He was frequently interrupted by applause, and at the conclusion of his task was recalled to the stage. He began his lecture by Announcing that he bad been continuous ly engaged in “the trade of war corres pondence’’ for ten years, and by briefly reviewing some of the dangers and hard ships he had undergone for that length of time. It was not, however, he explained, his purpose to speak of his own achieve ments. He had come to talk of crowned heads, and should begin at once. By a few fe licitously turned sentences he set his audience down in a little Belgian hotel. It was the night after the battle of Sedan. He was making the best supper possible under the circumstances, when there en tered with a heavy tread a solemn-visaged bnt keen-eyed soldier, who sat down at a neighboring table, and called for eggs, bacon and a few sardines. This was Prince Bismarck. Mr. Forbes was known to him and was given a hint to be stirring ear ly in the morning. “It was past 1 o’clock,” said the lecturer, “when he drank his last glass of champagne yvith us, but before the chimes struck six that morning I saw Prince Bismarck mounted and ready fora journey. He was cool and bad the ap pearance of a man whose rest had been unbroken. Upon a duAy road I saw advancing from the direction in which Prince Bis marck rode a carriage. The Prince drew rein, dismounted, and approaching the carriage, from the window of which pro truded a leaden face—the face of a man in suffering, entered and in company with the man of the leaden face was driven to the door of a weaver’s cottage that stood by the roadside. At this humble place Prince Bismarck and Napoleon HI alight ed. I stood by a wall within sound of the voice of Bismarck as from time to time in his conversation with liis leaden-faced and dejected companion it was raised above a whisper. Bismarck's long fore-finger was frequently raised and brought down forci bly upon the palm of his left band. Mean while upon the dusty road long lines of Prussian troops were tramping past the weaver’s cottage, asking of one another; * Where is this Napoleon ? ’ ” The conversation ended, and Bismarck rode away. Napoleon, smoking cigarette after cigarette, paced the walk in front of the cottage. What food for thought? The proudest man of his time cooling his heels at a weaver’s cottage while a Prussian offi cer gallops away to a Prussian King for orders as to his disposal. Giving bis hearers barely time to com prehend in all its details the excellent and graphic picture which he had drawn, Mr. Forbes turned to another page of his won derful note book. He reaccoinpanicd (he Prince of Wales to India, and then went again with young Alfonso from England to Spain, ne had, he said, made the acquaintance of Alfonso while the latter was at school, and he had in a measure been taken into the confidence of the con spirators who plotted so faithfully for the coronation of the lad in the hotel on Brook street. He was on the train into which the Carlists fired, and he had in fact seen from beginning to end the estab lishment upon the throne abdicated by “ that unprincipled mountain of flesh,” as he called Queen Isabella, of the boy- King. “The Shah of Persia,” continued Mr. Forbes, taking another leaf from his note hook, “was the shallowest and gaudiest fraud ever imposed upon the people of Europe. I know all about him, for I saw him many times. I met him first at Brus sels. He had not leen so well or so long entertained at Berlin as he might have been had he refrained from spitting on the ■dress of the Empress. He was a veiy rude and a very unprepossessing, hook-nosed, hawk-eyed Oriental. But we all loved him! We raved about his dress and swore that he was actually the possessor of a diamond and of a ruby costume. Now, the truth of the matter is, as I happen to know, that hisgems were tapis and were made In Paris a year before his arrival for effect. You see, the Persian government was a little impoverished, and looked npoa a large loan from England or France as something much to be desired. The ohah was to dazzle us and give us all the impression that money invested in Persia was money invested in diamonds and precious stones. To keep up the deceit of the Shah’s enormous wealth he was reported to hare lost jewels worth fabulous sums from the bows upon his horses’ tails. Poor Shah! I saw him in a large cotton mill on ODe occasion, where in his honor five hundred young womeu employed in the mill sang to him a song of welcome. He was pleased—of course he was; he appreciated it. He appreciated It so much that he went to the proprietor of th« establish ment and offered to buy all the female slock on the premises. He usually traveled free, hut a certain Italllan rail road which objected to this seized upon some of his jewels In payment of railroad fare and found them to be shams.” Mr. Forbes next related an interview he once had with the Emperor of Russia. He had, it appears, gained the good-will of the Russian army by the truthfulness of Iris reports of certain battles, and hav ing on oue occasion accomplished the journey between Sitka and Bucharest be fore the Imperial couriers was invited in to the presence of the Emperor that he might give His Majesty the latest news from the seat of war. The Emperor was found in a dingy, cheerless apartment. He was gaunt, wan and haggard, and his voice was broken by nervousness and the asthma, with which he suffered. “I was,” THE SUPREME COURT, said Mr. Forbes, “left alone with him for — a few minutes, and I saw lines of terrible ]>eclsloi» Rendered October 5. 18SO. suffering in his fece, together With a look Abridged for the Telegraph and Messenger by of constant dread, I do not call it fear. jiili <e Harris, Attorneys at Law, Macon, His face seemed to say, ‘What an oppor- : Georgia. / tunity for this man to kill me.’ When j 1. Where the residuary clause of a will Plevna fell I accompanied him to St. Fe- provided that alter paying debts, etc., the tersburg, and saw his triumphal entrance remainder of testator’i land should be di- and exit from the cathedral, whither, ac- vided amoDg certain named legatees, title cording to custom, he had gone to return remained In the executors fat the purpose thanks for the success of his arms, and in of executing the will; and-If prescription the midst of all the splendor of that began to run against the testator, it con- scene, the picture of the dingy room in tinued to run against the' executois. Nor Bucharest, and the nervous suffering man would it be affe.ted-by'fhe minority of was before my eyes.” J one of the residuary legatees until some- The lecturer next took his listeners into thing was done by wHibh thb title passed South Africa and showed the field upon to her. which the last Napoleon died, with i 2. After prescription began to run glimpses of scenes in that unhappy young against a feme sole, her voluntary marri- prince’s life. In conclusion he referred in age would not exempt her from the opa- an interesting way to scenes in which the ration of the statute, sons and daaghters of Queen Victoria had j 3. The married woman’s act of 1866, as been actors, and of which he had been well as the constitution of 1808 and the spectator. [ act of 1872, removed the disability of The above fails to touch upon a tenth 1 — *- — —•"* of the reminiscences, all of them interest ing in character and charmingly related, with which the note-book of Mr. Forbes, as last night read, abounds. Is the North Foie Afloat? “ Several vessels came into port lately with strange tales of the sea. Their cap tains report mountains of ice off the banks of Newfoundland, and vast fields of loose ice, each piece large enough to sink a ship, were sweeping down from the north. They did not know what to make of the unusual phenomenon. Some thought that the Pole had broken loose, to spite the ex plorers, who had gone in search of it with steamships and balloons. The bark Condor arrived at New York from England, after a voyage of thirty- four ary ~ during which time she encoun tered a 'imbc of icebergs. At four o’clock CCS cl'ernoon a fleet of glittering hills a.> -a:«. 1 in the distance, and when the l> .. tad approached within a mile, ncr captain found them to he ice bergs. Myriads of shafts and pinnacles sparkled and flashed back the sun’s says, and the whole was surrendered by a blaze of light. The dark-blue of (he sky formed a beautiful background for the scene. The crew of the Condor were spellponnd by the sight, and watched the bergs until they disappeared in the distance. Captain Nybeig measured the height of the larg est berg with a quadrant, and found it to be over 150 feet. The next day a sharp lookout was kept up, and as night came on a heavy fog arose which obscured the horizon, and when morning dawned it was impossible to see more than 200 yards ahead. At three o’clock in the afternoon, all hands were on deck, when they were star tled by a cry from the man on the look out: “Ice right ahpad! Fall in ship!” The crew and captain rushed to the ves sel’s bow, and saw a great, dark wall loom out of the fog. The color of the berg was a dark green, and it was covered with sharp cornere. The ship was head ing straight for it. The sides of the ice mountain descended straight into the sea, and slanted outward as they rose in the air. The Condor answered the helm admira bly; but as she turned a corner of the berg, her mizzenmast crashed against the ice. For a moment the crew saw the two men on lookout dangling against the jreen mass, and then fall on the deck be low, where one the poor fellows broke his leg. The next instant the entire main rigging fell into the sea, and the ice crushed in a portion of the port-bulwarks. Then, as the Condor passed to windward, the shrieking of the wind through the peaks of the iceberg, and the groaning of the mass as it split and cracked, sounded to the terrified sailors like a wail from a bottomless pit. Captain Nyberg says the washing of the waves against the base of the berg pro duced a sound which he could only com pare to the moanings heard in the hospital after a great battle. He states that he took temperature of the water four hours before sighting the berg and found it to be 38 degrees below zero, and after the ad vent of the berg the cold increased to 61 degrees below zero. He believes that an arm of icebergs is stretching across the path of ocean steamers, directly off the Newfoundland hanks. See Your Own Country First. Olive Logan, in a letter to the San Francisco Call, says: What strange things Americans do! On board the ship was a New York gentleman, with his lit tle wife and family—three young children —one a baby in arms—who have been itemized in all the leading European pa pers as having made the earliest ascension this year of the Rigbi and other Swiss mountains. The idea of a nursing baby being brought 4000 miles across sea and land to ascend the Rigbi, is one that never would have suggested itself to a pa rent of any nationality but American, I venture to assert. The baby bore his honors with dignified grace, but there were moments when I fancied his meditative mode of sucking his thumb showed full appreciation of" his own ex ploits, and a disdain for other men of a twelve month’s growth less enterprising than himself. They say nothing in re spect to eccentricity from either English or Americans can surprise a Swiss inn keeper. One of these worthies, whose hotel at Lucerne is so run down with cus tom that he can afford to brave the occa sional anger of a guest, has got some beautiful photographs of mountain scen ery, which he is fond of showing to his American patrons. No oue has ever failed to admire them, and one and all are anxious to know in what part of Switz erland these magnificent peaks, are to be found that they may proceed to visit them without delay. They are far from here, replies Boniface. Oh, that is no objection, urge the hardy mountaineers. It cests a ;ood deal to get there, continues mine tost. But dear me, money is no object when mountain-seeking is in question. Then, why on earth, queries the compa triot of William Tell, didn’t you m to them before you came to the Alps? They are the White Mountains in your own country, and if I were an American I should be ashamed to say I had no ac quaintance with them. A Gain of Eight Pounds in Forty Ore Days. “About forty-five days ago,” writes a gentleman from Mississippi, “I began the Oxygen Treatment, and, as regards the efiecis of it, with a grateful heart I can say that it has proved wonderfully effica cious, even surpassing my most sanguine expectations. My lungs have been much developed, breathing capacity increased, and the cough, which was times hard and laborious, lias also passed away. My general health has much improved—feel more life-like aud energetic,having gained eight pounds in forty-jive days.” Our Treatise on “Compound Oxygen,” which tells about the remarkable remedy, is sent free. Address Dies. Starkey & Palen, I10S and 1111 Girard strelft, Phil adelphia, Pa. It. The A. S.T. Co.’s BlackTip, advertised in another column, is worn on fine aud costly shoes, as well as on the coarser grades. Our readers in buying children’s shoes should be sure that this tip is upon 1 issued thereon should not be quashed on them. lw 1 demurrer. married women as to bringing suit. Carte administrator, vs. Monroe et al. Claim, from Randolph. 1. Where to an action of ejectment an equitable plea was filed setting up that the deed relied on by the plaintiff was only amortgage, and the jury so found, butalso found a specific amount to bo due by the defendant to the plaintifis, and that it be a lien on the land, and a decree was en tered accordingly, an execution for the amount so found followed the decree. 2. Where such a fi. fa. was levied on the land, and it was claimed under the conveyance made pending the former liti gation, the record of the suit was admis sible to fix the date of the lien of the fi. fa. 3. Where one made a conveyance of land, and on ejectment being brought thereon he pleaded that the conveyance was only a mortgage, and pending litiga tion made another conveyance; when the first was held to be a mortgage it was a lien from its date, and the junior deed was subject to it. James vs. Kisers & Co. Claim, from Early. Upon the call of a claim in which the levy showed the defendant in fi. fa. to have been in possession, if the claimant failed to .assume ‘the burden of proof and proceed, and the court directed the plain tiff to assume the affirmative, the latter wa3 entitled to open and conclude. Jowers vs. Caker, Equity, from Ma rion. L. filed a bill for account and settle> ment against B., who answered in the na ture of a cro3s-bill, making a party. J. answered in the nature of a cross-bill against both B. and L. B, filed a plea of bankruptcy, and the case was dismissep as to him; it proceeded to trial between J. andL. J. excepted to the dismissal as to B. Held, That both L. and B. were neces sary parties to the bill of exceptions, and for failure to serve L. the writ of error will be dismissed. Jones vs. The State. Murder, from Ran dolph. 1. The judge in a criminal case stating in regard to an immaterial point that there was no conflict, when in fact there was no dispute ou that point, will not necessitate a new trial. (a) While it may not have been best for the court to state the law in regard to the crime of murder in an interrogative or augumeatative way, yet where it was not so done as to injure the defendant, a new trial will not be granted on that ground. 2. Where the indictment charged two modes in which the killing was done, if the evidence showed that the defendant was guilty, it made no difference whether death resulted from one mode or the other, or both. 3. The jury were no more judges of the law and facts in a case of circumstantial evidence than in other criminal cases. McDowell vs. McKenzie. Complaint, from Clay. A merchant whose agent purchased goods in New York on a credit—although the credit was unauthorized—cannot re fuse to pay, when he has received and sold the goods, and pocketed the proceeds; especially where he has paid other bills made by the same agent. Haney vs. The State. Keeping open tippling house on Sunday, from Talbot. The law requires tippling houses to be closed on the Sabbath day; if the whole house is used for tippling purposes it must all be closed; if apart only is so used, that part must be closed. Where a part of a tippling house was used as a bed room, and between that part and the saloon there was an open way, unclosed by a door or otherwise, keeping open a door for ingress and egress to and from the part used as a bed-room on tbe Sabbath day, would amount to a violation of the statute. Amos vs. Dougherty et. al. Possessory warrant, from Chattahoochee. The remedy by possessory warrant is applicable for the purpose of recovering the possession of property, where such possession has been lost by fraud, vio lence, etc. Where the title is obtained by fraud, and possession accompanies it by consent of the owner, the writ does not lie, ncr will tho tender back of what was received in exchange authorize a posses sory warrant. Robinson et. al. vs. Alexander et. ux. Ejectment, from Early. 1. Where a defendant files equitable pleas setting up facts upon which the jury are to pass, they may return a verdict covering the facts, which will be sufficient and legal, if it decides the issues in the trial so tuat a decree may be moulded thereon. 2. One party to a transaction in issue being dead, the other is an incompetent witness as to what passed between them. 3. Nor can such a witness testify as to what was reported to her by other parties as coming from the deceased. 4. A party having an absolute deed as security for a debt may recover in an eject ment; nor can the maker of the deed de feat a recovery by merely setting up a par tial payment of the debt. An equitable plea for that purpose should go further, and tender the balance, or allege some good reason why it shontil be inequitable for him to be ejected, with a properprayer for relief. Jones, ordinary, vs. Collier. Hlegality, from Early. While sitting at chambers for county purposes, an ordinary rendered a juag- tnent finding that the county treasurer had abandoned his office and removed from the county. He therefore declared the office vacant, and appointed a person to temporarily fill the vacancy. On the next day be rendered a judgment which recited that he had appointed persons to examine the accounts and vouchers, that they had found and reported a deficit of $3,669.15, which he failed to pay over on demand; that properly authenticated orders had been presented to him, and payment re fused. The ordinary, therefore, rendered judgment against him and the sureties on liis official bond. Held, That the ordinary had legal power to render such a judgment, and the fi. fa. Bush vs. The State. Burglary, from Muscogee. This court will not interfere with the discretion of the court below ini refusing a continuance on the ground that a brother of the movant had gone to AlaUana, and was an important witness, where no effort to secure his testimony or to find his whereabouts appears. 2 1 . On a trial for burglary, the reason able doubt which would acquit the pi is- oner is whether or not he is guilty of that offerwe, and not whether he is guilty of larc -j from the house. A charge to the latter effect was properly refused. 2 Where it was shown that a witness upon a former trial had since committed a homicide, had been advised to go off, had not been heard of in several yean,, and that his wife andsisters either die I not know where he was, or would not communicate his whereabouts if they did, that he was inaccessible was reasonably established, and secondary evidence as to what his testimony was on the iu st trial was admissible, 2 Where there are several lessors in ejectment, deeds from the one to the other are admissible in evidence, whether void or voidable, to show privity between them, and to establish the right of the plaintiff to use their names. (a ) Under art. ixi, sect, viii, par. 1 of constitution of 1S77, a deed conveying a a homestead which had been set apart under tbe constitution of 1868, and the acts passed thereunder is not void. (b) When tho consideration of a deed conveying a homestead set apart under that constitution was to secure a debt which was superior to the homestead, the title passed. (c) Though a deed tendered in evidence by the plaintiff in ejectment conveyed no title, it should'be admitted subject to have its legal effect construed by the court. Code, §2,712. 3. Where a recovery in ejectment is had upon a deed containing several demises, the verdict will be upheld though but one of the demises be good. 4. Where ejectment was brought in the year 1874 on the demises of the beneficia ries of a homestead and of the purchasers therefrom, and was pending at the date of the act of 1870, even though the convey ance of the homestead was void, the title remained in the beneficiaries and a recov ery could be had on their demise. 5. Where one of the heiis of an estate having a one-third undivided interest in certain lands, executed a mortgage there on in the year 1877, and foreclosure was had, a sale thereunder only conveyed such one-third undivided intercst.and made the purchaser a tenant in common with the other heirs, though subsequently to the date of mortgage, and before the sale, a division waS had by agreement, and a specific portion of tbe iahd was set apart to the mortgagor, and a homestead laid off to him and his family therein. Cherry vs. the North and South Rail road company. Complaint, from Harris. 1. Suit must be brought on a contrac tor’s lien within twelve months from the date of its record. The mere filing a de claration in ‘office, unless followed by proper service upon the defendant Is not the commencement of suit. 2. Though the railroad may have been seized by the Governor under an act of the Legislature prescribing such course in case of its failure to meet the interest due on its bonds indorsed by the State, this did not abrogate its obligations to others, aud the taUure to sue on such lien within twelve months from its record, notwithstanding such seizure, destroyed its vitality. McLendon vs. Turner. Injunction, from Macon. 1. Where a perpetual injunction against the enforcement of an execution was prop er on final decree, a temporary restraining order pending the litigation to protect property levied ou was not improper. 2. Property acquired by the bankrupt since his adjudication, is not subject to a judgment rendered before, even though it may never have been proved in the bank rupt court. . Dixon vs. Lawson, et al. Claim, from Macon. The setting apart of a homestead under the constitution and act of 1868, even though subsequently confirmed in the bankrupt court, does nut protect property from a judgment rendered prior both to the adoption of the constitution of 1868 providing for such homestead and the pas sage of the bankrupt law of the United States. Einstein, Eckman & Co. vs. Butler. Ejectment, from Eaily. Where in an action of ejectment based on title conveyed by a deed given to se cure a debt by notes, the defendant sought to show usury iu the notes by parol, the admission of evidence showing the consid eration of the note3 and deed was proper,' and did not violate the rule that a writ ten contract could not be varied or con tradicted by parol. Miller vs. Hensley. Certiorari, from Muscogee. Where upon a suit in a justice couit judgment was rendered for $31.06, and an appeal entered to a jury in the same court which was dismissed on the trial of the same, tho appellant was precluded from the remedy by certiorari to the orig inal judgment, even though applied for within three months after its rendition. Perry vs. Christie. Rule, from Terrell. Where in response to a rule for failure to make the money ou an execution, the sheriff showed that an illegality had been filed setting up numerous grounds, aud amongst them that the execution did not follow the judgment, which he felt it his duty to accept, and asking time to procure tbe papers which had been returned to the Superior Couit of the county fi’om which the execution issued: Held, that the discretion of the court iu overruling a demurrer to the answer, no traverse having been filed, will not be controlled, if not appearing that the sher iff was in contempt, hut, ou the contrary, that ho was endeavoring to discharge his duty. Clover Fed Tebbatik.—Iu one of the fish ponds of the Smithsonian Insti tute at Washington, some twenty varie ties of terrapin have been kept for purely scientific purposes. It was the custom to feed them on such interloping fish as dis turbed the fish cultural economy of other preserves. A low gold fish, a hybrid trout, a carp of impure' race, would fcc thrown to the terrapins. Sometimes these fisli were eaten, but mostly were haughti ly disdained. One day this spring a gar dener, who had been cutting the blooming clover, filled his barrow with the fra grant load, and trundled it over a dank. He made a misstep, and dumped a is clover into the terrapin pond. In an instant the water was in a commotion. Every terrapin, no matter whether from Long Island Sound or the Golf of Mexico, was seen busy devouring the clover. Like Elia’s roast pig, the se cret of feeding terrapins was discovered. Learned and grave Smithsonian professors chuckled over it. During tbe past sum mer the daily allowance for the Smithso nian terrapins has been a barrowload of sweet clover. We may expect, then, to see quite shortly in our markets an an nouncement: “Clover-fed terrapins for sale.” This winter, as your true gour mand gobbles his stew, ho wilt wonder whether clover was made for bees, cows or terrapins. _ WINTER. Writlenfor the Telegraph and Messenger. The sumac and the golden-rod Make glorious the hill, * While down the glen’s dark shade We hear the plover’s trill. These are the heralds of winter That turn the green leaf sear, But bring the glorious harvest time To glad the waning year. We welcome these postillions, Though they herald winter’s blast: This cannot chill the words of love Breathed in the summer past. The wind will blow, The snow will chill, - But this will still live on, As a full heart’s overflow of love, That burst its bonds in the sntnmer morn, No wind can shake, No cold can chill. Tho memory of this love Is wrought in letters of crystal light In that other life above. Then welcome our old frost king, With joy and banners gay; He only hides with a snowy veil What he cannot take away. The snow is a warm white coverlet For the sweet flowers in the night, When old King Frost would gather them in, Leaving us to foe 1 the blight. When gentle Spring comes back again, And softly lifts the veil, The violet’s sweet blue eye looks up *To the dew-gemmed snowdrop pale. ■ And so each time and season All things run for the best: The Spring and Autumn of life in turn, And after these comes rest. StABBRIOIIT. "HUSH!” Jewell Sends a Colony to Florida—So Is Canzht at Ills Tricks by Tele- grams That Accidentally Fell Into Bunnm’a Bands. A special to the Philadelphia Times says tho Democratic National Committee has issued the following: To the Public: When this campaign opened the National Democratic Commit tee contracted with the American Union and Western Union Telegraph Companies for special rates for their business, and ar ranged with said campanies that all tele grams sent or received by the committee should be returned at tho end of each week to the cashier of the committee, as vouchers for the bliss ren dered. Telegrams so scut or received by our committee have been returned under this agreement weekly, and paid for according to ths contract. On Wednesday morning, October 20, the Western Union Telegraph Company re turned to the committee vouchers as usual for the second week in October. Upon their being examined by our cashier to verify the amount, tho following tele grams were found in the package so sent us as vouchers, evidently being a mistake on the part of the official having the same in charge at the office of the Western Un ion Telegraph Company. The telegrams are written upon the Western Union blanks, and are as follows: Rusn, October 21,1880. To JJon. Charles J. Noyes, careJ. Jcnk- kins, Jr., Jacksonville, Fla.-, I telegraphed yesterday. I will provide, as requested, two hundred each for Callender and yourself as compensation: (17 paid.) (Signature) Marshall Jewell. Rusn, October 12,1880. F. IK. Wicker, Collector, Key 1 Vest, Fla.: “City of Dallas” took 150; “City of Texas,” 100; “Colorado,” 100 lor Key West. Men on dock instructed to say nothing about it. (26 paid.) (Signature) Marshall Jewell. The numbers “150” and “100” in this last telegram mean so many men. These telegrams, or rather the one addressed to F. W. Wicker, United States Collector at the Port of Key West, Fla., tells its own story. The sun had not gone down in the State of Indiana, where one of the great est frauds ever perpetrated on a free gov ernment and a free ballot were about to be consummated,when the chairman of the National Republican Committee and an official of the United States Government were preparing to repeat in the State of Florida the infamy then about to be con summated in Indiana. The committee were advised previous to the re ceipt bf these telegrams that the State of Florida was about to be overrun by the repeaters of our large cities. The telegrams of Mr. Jewell only confirm what the committee well knew to be the fact. The above telegrams are in the possession of the committee. They are written in copying ink, Lave been copied in a letter press book and bear the telegraph receiver’s cheeks and marks, and this committee defies any one to as sert that they are not genuine. The tele grams are now being lithographed and will be given to tho public in a day or two. Wsi. H. Barnusi, Chairman National Democratic Com. New York, Oct. 21, I860. An Isothermal Region at the South. On Wednesday last, Hon. Edward At kinson delivered an address of great power and interest in the Senate chamber of the capitol at Atlanta, before an appre ciative and highly intelligent audience. He spoke in favor of holding a grand cot ton exhibition in that city next year, and dwelt with much force upon the value of our great staple, the increase of manufac tures anil improvement in cotton machin ery of evry kind of late years, the condi tion of our field labor, the rearing of stock, the proper utilizing of cotton seed, and upon other kindred topics relating to agriculture. We extract from this unique address, which occupies six columns of the Constitution, wliat was said of the isothermal region which touches this State on its northeastern bolder: There are among tho Appalachian mountains, from Virginia to Georgia in clusive, belts of land, thermal they might be called, where frost does not appear, but the transition is flora fall to freezing weather, without that iutermediate state where the frost destroy fruits, cotton and tobacco. One of th- most notorious of these tracts is near Tryon mountain, com ing down from Asheville to Spartanburg. It is some 2,000 feet above the level of tlm sen, and perhaps 30x15 miles. I saw a planter who was growing cotton there. Fruits have, of course, a great advantage in such a region The cause is said to be due to the fact that the parallel ridees of mountains retain the stratum of air which being healed during the day ascends to a height where its equilibrium is main tained, aud this relation, due to special configuration, keeps off the frosts in the fall, hot, of course, not freezing weather, which stretches everywhere when the sun is on the tropic of cancer. With regard to storms, sea breezes, and the deflection of winds by the Appalachian mountains, it may he observed that hurricanes— the designation of thoee terrible tropical meteors—do not reach these mountains because such storms, and all widely extended ones, are the product of heat and moisture. They are born iu the Antilles, are rotary in character and buried in the prevailing winds-j-fellow their course as ths circular eddies do when an obstacle is placed in Stream. Their path is where heat and great moisture exists, otherwise their force is diminished and they are' dissipated. Those that strike our Atlantic coasts and follow the gnlf stream are fed by the moisture and heat of (hat stream, and their greatest violence is on the ocean and its shore line. I was in the inountains of North Carolina when the great cyclone of 1879 passed up the coast destroying so much property at Beaufort, Wilmington, Long Branch, etc. It was only a gale in the mountains. Other meteors steer straight across the Gulf of Mexico, but their force is expended in that inland sea and along its shores, Havana, Key West. Galveston, Mobile. When the storm passes inland it expends its violence, im mediately decreases and the whole valley of the Mississippi and the Appalachian mountains receive tbeirneedful rain. The first observation one makes in these mountains is that no violent storms can exist there such as characterizes the White Mountains, because, except on the very highest peaks, lofty and regular trees and cultivation reach their summits. They do not deflect these storms, they emascu late them by depriving them of moisture and the vortex of the meteor, where the greatest force is exerted—must seek a wa ter way for its course. The prevailing winds bring great storms across our coun try from the Pacific, but they lose their moisture in crossing the mounsains, and would be dissipated if it were not for the great chain of lakes, the moisture from which rekindles their fury and they ex hibit It in all the citic3 near their path in their way to the Atlantic, where they fre quently meet a cyclone coming up the gulf stream, and the friction of the two are those terrible storms which one meets between here and England. Salt and Cotton Worms. A Marshall correspondent of the Gal veston News writes as follows: “I propose to relate, for the benefit of your readers, the result of an experiment made a few years ago by a planter in Ma rlin county, Texas, to protect his cotton from the ravages of the worm. The facts were related, in my presence, by a gentle man who had witnessed tbe result, aud may be relied upon as being correct. The planter making the experiments took up the idea that salt—common salt— would do the work, and to test this mat ter, when he had ridged up his cotton rows iu the spring, preparatory to planting, he took salt in about the same quantity as if it was small £rain, and sowed it over the tops of three or four rows, down the mid dle of the field. In due time the cotton seed wore planted and grew as usual. During the month of September following tho worms made their appearance in great numbers and literally destroyed the field, save and except the plants grown upon these particular ridges. Not only were these plants uninjured, but the growth was much more luxuriant and the yield of cotton was abundant and very fine, “Now, as to how the salt acted in thus protecting the plant we are unable to state. The fact remains all the same, however, and leaves no doubt in my mind that to the salt, as applied, is due the re sult, as stated. Wo know that salt in proper quantities judiciously applied, is a good fertilizer, and inthisway are enabled to account for the superior growth of this cotton. Now, as to the modus operandl of the salt in protecting theplant, my idea it is this: The ground on which the salt was sown became impregnated with it. The sap taken up by the plant was drawn from this saline earth, and, as a matter of course, was to a greater or less extent impregnated with the salt, which, to the delicate taste of the worms, was not palatable, and they, as a consequence, re fused to eat it. Be this as it may, the fact remains as stated, and is submitted to your readers, in the hope that at the prop er time others may test the merits of the plan, which is both simple and inexpen sive." Franks in Indiana. The Indianapolis correspondent of the Courier-Journal, in reviewing the politi cal situation, says: To begin with, there is now no longer a doubt that Indiana wa3 carried by the Republicans last Tuesday week by the commission of the most unblushing and outrageous frauds ever practiced upon a freo people. A million dollars, in brand splinter new United States legal-tender treasury notes, fresh from the press, were sent into this State in sheets, and openly used on the day of election in the pur chase of votes for Albert G. Porter. There is not a township in Indiana where tl-is money was not sent to corrupt the people. Again: In Delaware, Henry, Randolph, Wayne, Marion, Warren, Hamilton, Lake, Howard, Wabash, Steuben and Parke counties open and notorious frauds were committed. The ballot-boxes were stuffed and gangs of repeaters got in their dirty work at nearly every potliug precinct. The people of Indiana never elected Porter Governor. He was elected Gov ernor by ignorant black scoundrels from the South and villainous repeaters from tho East. Had an honest vote been polled in In diana, one week ago last Tuesday, Lan ders would have been elected Gorernor by 10,000 majority. As high as fifty dollars was paid for sin gle voters in Indiana for Porter. In Fort Wayne Democratic workers were even paid one hundred dollar new bills for their treacheiy. In the first district, German counties, ten thousand new two and a half dollar gold pieces were put in circulation SJ Bill Heilman and the Republican dis bursing committees. The State was debauched by money from Lake to Randolph, and from Posey to Steuben. California All Right Ex Con gressman McCorkle, of California, savs the Democrats are thoroughly organized in that State and will carry it; that the Republicans will not, “dare not,” intro duce tho tariff issue, because men of all parties there are free traders—for free trade and Jreo ships; that the Chinese question is the principal issue, and on this the Democrats are making their fight. He has been in Nevada, too, and ex presses liiinself as very much encouraged with the Democratic prospects there. He says Mr. Fair is making a determined fight, aud will carry the State and the Legislature; that the fact that Sharon has not a residence in Nevada is hurling him badly. The Chinese question, he says, is being worked by the Democrats in Ne vada and Oregon, as well as in Cali fornia. “American workingmen must be pro tected from the competition of foreign la bor.” So say the high-tariff people. The practical operation of the protective sys tem seems, however, to be very far from securing the end proposed. It keeps for eign goods out of the country to some ex tent, bnt'it brings in foreign laborers at the rate of something like half a million a year to engage iu a hand-to-hand con test for work with the native citizens of the United States.—Phi’.a. Recorder. “’Tis true, ’tis pity, and pity ’tis, ’tis true,” that too many sensible people re gard Coughs aud Colds so indifferently. Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup cures Coughs and Colds and is.only 25 cents a bottle. GOV. JEVBLL EXPLAINS. ate Denies Having tat aw Colonists Ex-Gov. Marshall Jewell, chairman of tiie Republican National.Committee, was interviewed yesterday in regard to tbe dis patch bearing his signature, and published in the Sun supplement to-day, in regard to tbe departure of several huudred men from New York to Florida. Mr. Jewell admits that he did send a dispatch toF. W. Wicker, collector of the port at Key West, notifying him that three steamers had left New York with an aggregate of 350 men on board; but the ex-Governor claims that the message was meant to notify him that a “colony” of Democrats, and not Republicans, might be expected to land in Florida. To support this statement, Mr. Jewell furnished a copy of the follow ing dispatch, said to have been sent to Mr. Wicker, October 8; “Mallory’s steamer of last week had two or three hundred work men for some railroad. Looks to us as though they were sent to Key West to vote - .”, It is also explained that tbe “two hun dred” iu tho dispatch to the Hon. Mr. Noyes meant $200 to be sent to pay the expenses of the'two campaign speakers. Dr. Norvln Green, president of' the Western Union Telegraph Company, yes terday addressed a letter to Hon. Wm. C. Bamum, chairman of the Democratic Na tional Committee, in which he says: “If, as it appears from the address, the*alleged telegrams came into your hands in the package of messages returned to your com mittee as the vouchers of its account with this company, and are found to have ho relation to said account, it is apparent that the same came into your possession by mistake, and should bo forthwith re turned to us. And we must protest against the publishing by your committee, with out our sanction, of any papers, wheth er telegrams or supposed telegrams, which may be a part of. the files of this company. And in this behalf we further request that the proposed lithographing and public distribution of copies of such alleged telegrams as mentioned in the address be forthwith abandoned, and that copies, if any, whether lithographed or otherwise, already taken thereof, be either destroyed or surrendered to this com pany.” The Late Wm. Swan Flnmer, D. D., LL.D. The decease of this eminent clergyman, who was so well known in the communi ty and throughout the South, has elicited the following editorial in the Charleston News and Courier: “A telegram from Baltimore brings the sad, but not unexpected, intelligence of the death of the venerable Dr. Plainer, from tbe effects of an operation to relieve a painful malady, from which he had long been suffering. Dr. Plainer was one of the most distinguished clergymen of the Presbyterian Church South, and was esteemed and beloved for his high personal qualities as he was admired for liis eloquence a3 a preacher and his abili ty a3 a theologian. He was bora in Bed ford county, Pa., in 1802, and was conse quently 7S years of age at the time of his death. His early ministerial life was passed in Richmond, Va., where he suc ceeded the Rev. John H. Rice in the pas torate of an important church, and where he wielded a powerful influence. Whilst there he established the Watchman of the South, which in time was merged in what is now the Central Presbyterian. Sub sequently he was pastor of a leading church In Baltimore. Then he became a professor of the Western Theological Seminary at Alleghany, Pa., and wa3 for a time pastor there. He next served as pastor of a church in Pottsville, Pa., when lie was called in 1867 to a chair in the Theological Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina. This position he retained until last year, when he was created Emeritus Professor, and shortly afterwards ac cepted a call to the church in Baltimore of which ho remained the pastor until his death. During his professorship at Columbia, Dr. Pluiner often preached in Charleston, where he made many warm personal friends, aud where lus ministrations were always attended by large and attentive congregations. Printers and Great Hen. A little knot of printers, just arrived in Titusville, were indulging in some per sonal reminiscences, and an epitome of the conversation will give the public an insight into the cosmopolitan life of the craft, and show how they often hobnob with greatness. Said Slug One: “I tell you, Sam Bowles was a good one. Nothing small about Sam. One day I struck Springfield, busted flat as a flat-iron aud bolted right for the Republican office. Sam was writ ing an editorial on the Kansas Border Law, or some of those old heavy subjects, but he dropped everything and made it comfortable for me. Gave me an order on restaurant for something, and gave me the ad. frames that night. “Did you ever strike Greeley when you wanted a favor? Greeley wa3 always busy grinding out that horrible ‘copy’of his, but he rarely allowed his work to in- terferfere with ins social duties. I was present once, however, when he throw a printer down stairs, hut I never blamed the old fellow much. The trouble grew out of some insinuation 1 had made about the Niagara meeting.” Slug Three said he struck Louisville once in George D. Prentice’s time, and the visit was always a bright "spot in his memory. “ I wanted to see the old man and went rbht to his private office. He asked me if I needed anything, and I told him I didn’t. Had two full weeks’ work in my pocket, and I told him I wanted him to come out and take something with me. I remember it like it was yesterday. He was writing a poem on the death of a child—none 6f your Philadelpliia Ledger poetry, but the real thing. George jabbed his pen into liis desk and said, sort of melancholy like; *1 don’t often take anything, but when I do, I have noticed it is usually about this time of day.’ He stayed right with me all the afternoon. Never, had such a circus in all my life. The police knew George, or both of us might have been jugged. Quote poetry ? Why, he could hang on the edge of a bar like a ground squirrel and quote the Greek and Latin poets till your head would swim.” Slug Four was in Boston when Dickens read there, and enjoyed the extreme felic ity of a night off with the great novelist. Dickens came into tho ofliciT one night to look over the report of his lecture, and raake some corrections and additions in the proof. “I couldn’t read his writing very well,” said the printer, “and brought the proof out and asked him what so and so was. He told me, and then tipped ine a wink and askrd me to correct the galley and put on a ‘ sub,’ and come and see him at hu botch When I got through and went around to the Tremont House it was about one o’clock iu the morning, but I’m darned if Dickens wasn’t waiting for me. Well, I needn’t tell you any more than to say, simply, that before we parted company 'ne wanted me to call him Charlie.” And so the interesting personal reminis cences went on. Oue printe-, a French man, had set up a sonnet fr om Victor Hu go’s manuscript. He captured the “copy” and had it at his boarding house now, if any one cared to step around and see it. 4"°^ had set up a “take” of a famous double-leaded editorial on the abolition ' a 7 e 7» written by the elder Bennett, and ejected into it, surreptitiously ami ®'if ed “ es l*forethought, a quotation from “Mary’s Little Lamb,” chewed up the copy and managed the whole thing so adroitly that it gotinto the paper and went through all the edit ions.-Tttugtiftg World. Section of Supreme Court Judges— CdL Fielder’s Address. _ Cuthbkbt, Ga., October 25,18S0. To the Members-clect of the General As sembly: There will be four elections—one for 'iP x X P lre< ^ form of Judge Warner as Chief Justice to January 1, 1881, now held by Judge Jackson; then an election for tbe ensuing term of six years, to which length al] the terms were reduced by the constitution of 1877; the term of Judge Bleckley, by the requirements of that con stitution, will expire January 1,1885, now held ad interim by Judge Crawford, to be filled when you meet. The term ot Judge Jackson, made va cant when he was made Chief Justice in the place of Judge Warner, now held by Judge Hawkins, will expire January 1st. loiw, and is to bo filled by an election. * I was au applicant to Governor Colquitt for the appointment, and on seeing Judge Hawkins’ published assurance not to be a candidate or hold office under any circum stances beyond the meeting of the Legis lature, and that lie was appointed with that understanding, I became a candidate tor that office. I seek this office through you, from the State of my ancestry and nativity, whose true interest and welfare, as understood by me, I have sought every opportun ity m my manhood life to promote and ad vance. I ask it atthe hands of the Dem ocratic party of the State, to which aud to whose chosen leaders and candidates I have from my boyhood rendered every honorable service in my power. I espe cially desire it at the hands of a chosen profession which, under all circumstances, I have tried to elevate and honor. I seek it for the abiding love of the best system known to me of civil and criminal jurisprudence, after thirty- one years of practice and research, and for the mental labor it will afford me in the effort to comprehend all suits that shall come before the rourt; and to ascertain the law, facts and justice of each, and transmit those to be decided by me to the reports in clear, comprehensive, un incumbered, but conveniently abbreviated form. For tne public convenience and econo my, in view of the rapid increase of the books of reports, a large quantity of the matter of which consists in repetition, I should be glad if the State would provide for the consolidation of cases, and colla tion of principles already established in condensed reports, aud discontinue the writing and publication of cases and opinions, except such as coutam new mat ter or present new and unsettled question?. Respectfully your fellow citizen and obedient servant, Herbert Fielder. "Homicide North and South.” Editors Telegraph and Messenger-.— Such is the title of a recent book by Dr. H. V. Redfield, and though we must look with suspicion upon anything pertaining to the South bearing Dr. Redfield’s name, the people of the South cannot but consid er such a publication as this is. The book purports tc give the compara tive statistics of homicide North and South. The result is that life is far less secure and far less valued in the South ern States than in the Northern and Wes tern. The States taken for comparison are the New England States, New York, Penn sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi gan and Iowa, for the North, and Ken tucky, South Carolina, and Texas for the South. The estimates are mostly mado upon returns of the year 1878. According to the figures, the rate of homicide in the three named southern States is higher than in any civilized country in the world. In Texas, in 1878, with a population of about 1,000,000, there were more murders and manslaught ers than in ten Northern States having a population sixteen times as great. The population of South Carolina is only half that of Massachusetts; but in 1S77 and 1S7S there were 251 murders in South Carolina to 40 in Massachusetts. In Kentucky in the year 1878 there were 251 homicides, with a total casualty list under thi3 head of 436; while in Louisville alone there were 133 arrests for cutting with intent to Kill. On the other hand, in Minnesota the number of homicides is 16 annually, and in Michigan 40. Now, these are startling statistics, and might well give ns pause. If they be true they should give us food for thought, and stimulate us to put an end to this great discrepancy. If they be false we should prove them so, and thus avert a great slander, and an infinite wrong done to the South. We think, granting that these fig ures are correct, (and nothing will lie like figures, except facts) that tbe States chosen for comparison are unfair representatives oftheSonthas wellatf of the North. Notoriously Texas is more unsettled and less law abiding than any other Southern State, and should be compared with Cali fornia or Montana. South Carolina, with her large and ex cessive negro population, with tbe con flicts that have arisen between the races, may also be an unfair representative. Tho large negro element in all the Southern States should also be taken into account, since life amoDg them is held cheap and their passions are mostly un controlled. But making allowances for these modifying circumstances, is it not a fact that human life is held too cheap in tho South?—that the frequent homicides on our streets acd the failure to bring the guilty to punishment has cast a stain up on our civilization ? We know that we are not barbarians nor artists in murder, having never reduced it to one of the fine arts, as did Mr. Wil liams in De Quinccy’s imaginative essay. But as long as these charges go out to the world against us, whether true or false, they will do ns infinite harm. We have recently had a great deal of handshaking, but when our late visitors from tire North read such books as Dr. Redfield’s, they will congratulate them selves that they got back safe without be ing murdered, and think that we fed them only to kill them afterwards, as the boa constrictor first licks its victims, but for some reason allowed them to escape. Lev some one arise and prove these figures false, in whole or part, and if not false, show the causes of the great discrepancy; and if not false, but true and preventable, let us hang down our heads in shame, not •„ charging lie North witli slandering us, blit go to work and make a radical change in the matter. Clekiccs. Macon, Ga., Nov. 1,1879. Dr. C. J. Moffett—Dear Sir: We have been handling Teethina for several years, and the demand increases as the article becomes introduced and is known. Our sales average from two to three gross per month. We believe that your Teeth- ina (Teething Powders) will eventually become a standard and indispensable ar ticle, for in no single instance hat it failed to give satisfaction. No complaint has ever been made to us, hence we conclude that it does all you claim for it. Merit is bc-tnd to succeed. Lavas, Rankin $ Lamar, Prugg&f,