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.i fSfcflicgitf MsjekJu lESktegAapli wmwi '5 \ i Terra* «(M Telegraph ud ■*«*»■. y*.' 1/ ~T«A it Portage fr*e (o.all.Editions.„, Deity TslrgrophandMttttmgtr %l»JMo*ryr . •» •• “ 5.00 Cmoa ~ H •• “ SJtO 3 nor. Daily Telegraph and Messenger and Southern Parmer'* Monthly 1IJH> peryr. Weekly Telegraph and Messenger ** ••i •• •» •• 1.00 tmot. Week’y Telegraph ana Messenger and Southern Farmer’* Monthly UAOperyr Remit by P. O. Order or Registered Letter, to R K DATU,X«u((r. flMtgrnpJr unit Htsstngtr FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1880. The Duchess of Montrose recently iron X 10,000 by fortunate ventures on the tnrf. Ax Alaska iceberg ot tlie largest size 'will send its waves a half-doren miles or more before they are spent. The Lacryme Christi wine node from grapes grown on the lava enriched slopes of Mount Vesuvius is unusually fine this season. Ax English lady writer protests against educating girls too highly, because they are inclined to indulge in Arise ‘hopes, and the reaction sometimes brings utter de spair. “The great misfortune of France,” said a worthy statesman when convening with Monsignor C——, -“is that the major ity who govern have no religious convic tions.” “They make irp'for it,** replied tho priest, “by the abundance of their re ligious evictions.” The well-known Russian millionaire, War sebawski, has been arrested by order of the Russian‘Government in Odessa and brought to St. Petersburg. It is stated that evidence is forthcoming to show that he defrauded the authorities to the extent of not less than 22,000,000 roubles by army contracts during the late war. A society of Mormon girls, having for its object the securing of monogamic hus bands, lias‘been 'discovered and broken up at Salt Lake. The members took a vow to marry no iuan wbo would not pledge himself to be content with one wife, Five grand-daughters of Brigham Young had joined it The NewGrieans’Pfcayime says: No. 320 lias been cliaike'd on the White Mouse door. The-guns of liberty haro been spik ed. John Chinaman shall do the wash ing for Misa Columbia. The road to nation's shame is covered with DeGoiycr ‘, pavement. The American eagle no lon ger soars aloft. It is sore all over. Tuc ‘London ' Telegraph says that, iu consequence df the-advance in value of many securities held by thq Glasgow Bank, the liquidation is 'likely to show much better results than were at one time anticipated, and those shareholders who have met their calls in full will be hand somely remunerated. * Paumiaxs delight In monstrosities oi various kinds, and have been crowding round one of Chevel’s windows in the PalaiseiRoyal to see an enormous mush- room, which grew in a wood at Versailles, and was'brought to Paris with the ut most onre as a positive phenomenon. It is more than a yard to circumference, and the weight is something over 24 pounds. At Allahabad a Mahometan girl of ten years of age was-some time-since married to-a boy of-seven by the Mahometan form of marriage. She never lived with him, and, indeed, never saw him after the ceremony *was performed. When she came to-maturity- she married the man of her choice, by whom she has had children. Now, liowever, the first > husband lias claimed bor,«nd by. an order of the Chief Court. The Society of Arts is putting tablets up in .Loudon on houses once occupied by j famous men. -It has already marked - fourteen houses,--including tbe residences of Johnson, Faraday, Garrick, Nelson, ' Dryden, Reynolds -and -Byron, and . ordered six more tablets for the erection of which it. has obtained permission. Charles Dickens’name is down on tbe list. i Mb. James G.Faxb, ofNcvada, *s of Irish birth, and Is.49.years old. -While a boy be lived In Illinois, and at eighteen went>toCaUfornia,-and in time became a superintendent of mines. .In .addition to bis fortune made from. the Big Bonanza mines be owns nearly a hundred acres in various,puts of Ban -Francisco. *He suf fers from rheumatism. ;Ee is Of-medium be^blztud heavy, ..with a large beard Jtreakcd with gray. Mme. Taciaoni, once the famous dan *use, and sinoe the -Franco-Pras- tian war a.professor of .dancing to Lon don, has,quitted England,and is, itissaid tbout to retire into private life. Betore jer.departure the; Princess of,Wales hade • farewell .and presented her with vel as a recognition of tbe trouble she t taken la teaching the youqg Princess. . TagUonl la now seventy-three years r age, andshe has well earned her re- jremeut. jr Dr. Cutter says that • the increase of Servo us diseases, decaying teeth, preraa ore .baldness and general lack of muscu- ar and bone slrejngtk are generally due to he impoverished quality of flour now in se, the gluten being thrown away in der to make the. flour white. Jle. urges s use of unbolted .floor and of eggs, :11c and butter. ,Se denies that fish U tin food or that.Agassje ever said that was and claigu that butter, being arly all {at, is a better ikirjd of brain id tban any <otber. A motor ynent without steam now ikes her way. shout .Boston harbor. It' istrates tbe .washing of a compressed air roleum engine. No smoice-plpe is ble, for there is .-pone; nor *py .need of r, tar there is .no smoke And not to ueb tire as the flAiqeof an ordiqjup kero- ne lamp. The whole engine and rnn- ng macldnery are contained in A Jong, r box in the bottom, of jtbe boat, occi^py- f scarcely more room .than would be i»- •trud for tbe ballast ot a-ssil-boat of Ma a. Tbe peculiarity o.f .this engine Is d s commonuuhch.brings ft instantly 'V full working power. Ox Suuday, October 30,.a fine, stalwart ■fng man named Alfred Garnett, twenty- -ryears of age, b.uUfeer, belonging to i-tton, near Skjptoa-ln-Crayen, died in Infirmary from liyditiphobis* As back as the boginning of April he was en on his thumb by a stray dog at ■Hon, and it was not until last week i tbe more serious elk '» of the injury une apparent, lie became ill and lualiy tbe symptoms Of the terrible ate appeared. It was thought ueces- : -jo remove him to the infirmary, and tile the skill and attendance which 1 there afforded tbe sufferer grew »•; and expired iu great agony. ~ * Too Many Elections. I Lart • Cotton Figures* I jf there is one fact more thoronghly im- Xbe New ^ orlc CJiromcle of Saturilay I upon the public miud in Georgia reports.the cotton receipts of the seven days ending Friday night, 6th instant, at 251,108 bales, against 225,081 bales the corresponding week oT last year. Total receipts from 1st September to last Fri day, 1,042,004, against 1,447,222 bales last year to same date, showing a gain of 194,842 bales. [The Exchange figures make the gain 245,213 bales.] The Chronicle's Interior port tables makes the receipts at those ports for the seven days ending Friday night 113,104 bales, against 102,122 the same week ot last year. Shipments 8S,0S1 against 83,- 932 last year. Stocks 204,759, against 133,905 at same date lost year. The Chronicle’s visible supply table showed, ou Friday night last, 2,000,410 bales of cotton in sight, against 1,755,038 bales last year at tha^ date, 1,025,821 bales in 1878, and 1,019,058 to 1817, at tlia same dates. These figures show an in crease of804,783 bales on the supply of last year, 434,535 bales on the supply of 1878, aud 381,358 on the supply of 18T7, at this date. In Liverpool, last Friday, middling up land was quoted at G|. Last year, at same dale, the quotation was 0]; in 1878 it Was-5 11-10, and In 1817 it was 0 9-l<f. As to the Chronicle's weather reports for the week ending last Friday, and other reports to Monday, we judge that the rec ord of the growing crop in tho field has been generally concluded. Rainfall, frost and tbe election made a poor exhibit of picking for the week ending last Friday, aud transportation has been a good deal interrupted in Texas. The rainfall In Texas during October was 2.20 in Galves ton, 3.42 to Indianoia, 1.40 in Corsicana, 2.05 in Dallas, one inch in Brenliam, and the same in Vr aco. In New Orleans the rainfall in October was 1.8S. Iu Vicks burg it rained six days daring the week. In Columbus, Mississippi, there were four days of rain during tlie week and a killing frost. Tbe rainfall iu October at Colum bus was 4.51. At Little Rock there was a killing frost on Monday, the 1st instant. Tbe rainfall in October was 2.24. At Memphis there was five days of rain m the week and 1.05 1n October. Hall the cotton picKed and the crop suffering from rot. At Nashville it rained four days in the week. In Alabama, at Mobile, it rained six days in tbe week, the rainfall amounting to 3.11. In October the rainfall amount ed to 9.40. At Montgomery it rained tour days to the week, and the fall amounted to 2.60. In Georgia, at Columbus, ono day’s ra'n in the week, amonuting to 1.55, and the rainfall in October 3.80. Iu Sa vannah, there was rain on five days of the week, amounting to 1.03. Augusta, rain on four days, amounting to 1.49. Rain fall in Octobor 2.03. The Chronicle appends the following to its table of receipts from plantations: 1. That the total receipts from the plan tations since Sept. 1 in 1SS0 were 1,825,880 bales; to 1879 were 1,573,820 bales; in 1818 were 1,332,075 bales. 2. That the receipts at the out- ports the past week were 221,768 bales, and the actual movement from plantations 270,851 bales, the balance being added to stocks at tho interior ports. Last Year the receipts from the plantations tor tbe same week were 243,257 bales and for 1878 they were 217,338 bales. Since Friday snow and ice bave been noticed in Texas, and the mercury in Georgia has been down to the/reezing point, or very near it, as low as Macon. The growing crop has been closed. than another, it is that we have too many elections.- They are demoralizing in their influence, and destructive In their tenden cy. We have passed through the most ex citing State campaign that Georgia has ex perienced in many years, and also through the Presidential canvass. Most of our cities have next on docket municipal elec tions, to Ijo followed in January, 1881, with county elections, all or which pro duce more or less friction. We are tired of this political turmoil ahd beg for rest. While it is true that tho public func tionaries, by long occupancy, arc liable to become Independent, forget that they are servants and assume to be masters; yet being fixed for a period in which politics may change greatly, they are more apt to serve the people tban their party follow ers. At all events experience demonstrates that even the best men can accomplish but little good during a brief term of of fice. To the writer the most objectiona ble feature in our new constitution Is the one shortening the term of Governor and other officers,involving the people in the ex pense and political commotion attendant upon a popular canvass. Far better, if these opportunities were less frequent. Tbe people need a cessation of party strife, and a full opportunity to devote their energies to the Improvement of their material condition. The longer the penod intervening between these ex citing political contests the greater will be their prosperity. Legislature Hatters. It is presumable that the wheels of leg islation will remain fast locked at Atlanta until the numerous elections now pending aro over. It is to be sincerely hoped, therefore, that they will be all held this week, as nothing can be more distracting, not to say demoralizing, to membeis than tho active cauvass among them of half a hundred aspirants for office. Some feel ing appears to be manifested as to tho or der to be observed in conducting these eltc‘.ions.”|The usual precedents, what ever they may be, of course ought to be adhered to, though perhaps each General Assembly is competent to regulate its own action in the premises. At all events let the matter be settled by taking tho sense of both houses with the least delay possi ble, and then proceeding to elect at once. We trust the session will be both brief and harmonious. Hew York, The Ely in the Apothe cary’s Ointment. Since the advent of the “bam burners,” in the days of John Van Boren, who split in twain the Democracy of the Em pire State, to the present time, New York, great and potential as she is in population and political influence, has been a mere marplot iu the councils of the party. Local questions have been made to override national politics, and corrupt cliques and partisan hacks have dominated in every election. This has been eminently tbe case also in the recent Presidential contest. Iu tbe language of the World, “the vote of New York State will be given to General Garfield, not be- 1 cause General Garfield is the choice of a majority of the voters of New York, but because, not for the first time in the history of our municipal parties, local and personal interests have been preferred to the general welfare of tbe party and of the country.” It was so in the days of Tweed, when be ran for the New York Senate and was elected, though at the cost of an entire county ticket ana Democratic Legislature. New York, says tbe World, in the re cent election, “ has secured a Democratic city government, which is so far a good thiDg, but it remains to oe seen whether New York could not have secured this at a less cost than that ot tho 35 electoral votes which, added to 138 from tbe South, 0 from New Jersey and 3 from Nevada, not to mention California, and Oregon, would hare elected General Hancock, President of tbe United States.” It is too late, however, to complain of this shameful action on the part of John Kelly and other representatives of the wretched Tammany and anti-Tammany factions, which have not only disgraced the Democrats of New York, but re duced their Influence to zero. Once more has it been demonstrated that the Democracy of the Union must hence forth In all critical emergencies make no Calculation upon the support ol the Em pire State. Nor should that turbulent and selfish commonwealth, as hitherto, be tendered the the lion’s share of tbe offi ces And honors of the nation. She has been deferred to -long enough, and only sets an ugly example.of insubordination and defection to tbe other States in their hour of supremest need. To tlie selfish- teas aad internal dissensions of his party in Near fork may Gen. Hancock ascribe his defeat. This and nothing more. French Enterprise and Fash. Whatever the French government un dertakes, it usually prosecutes to comple tion with tbe greatest industry and suc cess. The project or building a railroad to connect tbe provinces of Senegal with tbe river Niger and Soudan in tlie inte rior of Africa, seems to be an assured fact. The New York llullctin says Tbe scheme originated with the minis ter of marine, wlio lias provided the ways and means to cany it out, and is likewise charged with the execution of it; tlie funds being provided by tlie Frencli Parliament. Under tbe command of M. Desbordes, of the marine artillery, a column of soldiers and workmen will erect a line of forts be tween Senegal and tlie Niger. Under the protection of this column a band of sur veyors, astronomers aud oilier scientists will explore aud map the route; their chief officer being M. Derrien. On October 5 MM. Desbordes aud Derrien embarkui withtlieir officers at Bordeaux forSt. Louis, in Senegal, and from thence they will pro ceed to Bafuuiabc up tbe Senegal river. Here, some 300 leagues from the coast, their survey will begin, and the best track for a railway for Mediae to tbe Niger via Bafoulabe and Fangalla, determined After this Use Wheat Meal Bread. Much has been said and written in be half of the superior nutrition of unbolted yrheaten bread, over tbe finely ground and artistically treated flour to which house keepers are so much wedded. We have seen it asserted that, the matter having been fairly tested during many long and fatiguing marches of tbe English army, tbe British government now feeds its sol diers exclusively upon bread made of wheat, simply ground but not bolted. “Grabam bread,” as it is termed, is be coming very popular also iu this country, anS is found even upon tbe tables of tbe rich and our most fashionable hotels. Per sons of sedentary habits often use no other. An English paper, of recent date says: A large meeting was held at the Town Hail, Kensington, in England, the other day, under the auspices of the Bread Re form League, to advocate the universal use of what is technically known as “wheat meal bread.” Dr. B. W. Richard son, the well known authority on hygiene, presided. One of the speakeis maintained that tlie bread in common use was forty per cent, deficient in sustaining qualities. An entire grain of wheat containing every thing that was requirod for nourishing purposes, and yet the belter half of it was wasted, and this half was much healthier food, especially for children. A white loaf, iu fact, was only half a loaf, for a large portion of the material that formed muscular flesh, and nearly all that formed bone, were taken from it. Chil dren fed on while bread were vety liable to suffer from rickety bones, consumption aud bad teeth, because their food did not nourish them properly. The outward whiteness of tlie flour might be considered an outward sign of the starvation within. One shilling’s worth of wheat meal bread contained three times the flesh-forming, seventy times the heat-producing and three limes the bone-forming material to be found in a shilling’s wortli of beef steak. Dr. Richardson maiiuaiued that if tho mothers of this kingdom were to give their families wholo meal, which con tained the structure of the skeleton, in from three to four generations ail tho dc- foimities of children, not caused by acci dents, which they now saw, would pass away, as by tlie hands of an invisible en chantress. preliminary survey has settled the general route, a second expedition will take more careful levels, aud the engineer ing or the work will then be begun. The Niger once readied by means of this rail way, Timbuctoo will be accessible by boats, and a great commercial ceutre there established for trading into equsto rial Africa. This enterprise will probably do more to civilize and Christianize the benighted heathen of Africa tban a thousand mission aries. Who can estimate also the im mense benefit likely to accrue to ail Christendom by opening up to cultivation tiie fabulously fertile and vast region of central Africa? * Tennessee IiEOisLATUBE.-The Nash- yille America*, (very reliable Authority,) estimates that the Democrats have elected fifteen State Senators and the Republi cans ten. Tbe House will stand Demo- coats thirty-fl.ve; Republicans, thirty-six; Gnenbsckers one. Three floating dis tricts are yet to hear tom which will send Democrats. It is sow generally conceded that the Democrats are certain of tbe continued control of the next United Ntates Senate, while lutlie House the parties will be very evenly divided, tbe Greenbackers irobably holding tbe balance of power. Lt is very clear, therefore, that Garfield’s eleetlan will be a barren victory to the Republicans, so far as tbe inauguration of a..y of their pet schemes for Southern op pression are concerned. Tbe (party wilt be kepi jper force on their good behavior. The late election will by no means prove s Sedan to tbe Democrats. Let us take heart and stand by our colors aa firmly as ever. Bill Arp on Macon. In a recent racy letter to the Constitu tion, Major Smith says: Macon is a splendid old town; so much latitude and longitude; such magnificent distances; such beautiful and stately houses; such abounding shade of ever greens and vines; such fruits aud flowers ami fair women to make glad tlie hearts of a wayfaring man like me. I visited tlie public library and spent tbe morning of a rainy day most happily. Charley lierbst has gathered there a thousand quaint and curious things that I never saw anywhere else. There are pieces of the okl battle flags of nearly every Georgia regiment. A scrap of tbe old 8tb is there contributed by Miss IdaEpullock, who helped tosnake it, and-it Awakened many sad but sweet memories. There was a Vicksburg paper printed on wall paper during tbe seige, and an army biscuit baked to the year ’64. There was a speci men of every bill and bond of Confeder ate money and some old issues of the first revolutiosi-continental money of 1718 and 17711. TUere was a Georgia provincial bill of fiveeliillings dated 1755, aud one for thirty Spanish dollars, with a razor-back hog in the center of the seal. There are newspapers 140 years old, and a commen tary on the 13th chapter of Revelations printed at the-old Bayiy in 1056, mod one still older called the Amphitheatre, print ed in Latin In -.1588—venerable relics of tbe ages that are past. Macon lias a his tory. Judge ttSamer was here and toll me lie had been down to see tbe old Mock Louse that was called Fort Hawkins; that be practiced law hereabouts filly years ago, when the city <wss not laid out. I saw a printed advertisement that appeared in tue first newspaper in 1825, published by Shari Rose, and it Mad as follows: ‘•To the Publick.—An evil intendcr have levelled at my carsfcter in the following manor to-witthat l made applikatiou to him for me to giro fibe man one dost of inediton and I would give him ten dol- lars,—alluding that my intentions were villoniy 1 pronounce him a D D Her. This bat-foot vary bone wish to make the com mu net y Baieave he was bones and would not etcen tbe ofler. Mankind of Dizzernment Knows efwe harkontothe sound of a D D Raskul every man is a Hoag but Listelf 1 x Mortis “Elderly mistress Beard state* that this nostrum told a lie on her.” An Incident of the War. Related by K. J. War hex. Bragg was bangiug threateningly around Ferryvilie. aud the Confederacy listened in breathless silence for a great and de ceive conflict near tho borders of Ken tucky. I had just got out of bed aud come upon the streets in Richuioud, Vir ginia, when I saw a dapper little urchin ploughing his way along tlie streets witli a perfect mountain of newspapers, and using all imaginable flexions, genuflex ions and aspirates iu attempting to cfy them off. “ Which, Uexaminer, Enquirer, Chronicle and Recorder, (in sing-song style). Big peace meeting iu Ohio!” On he went, and it was enough to make one cry to see how energetically and yet how unsuccessfully he endeavored to cry off b’s unmarketable merchandise. The lit tle feet went on, tlie little voice still sung its plaintive song, but the mountain tow ered as before. A half hour afterwards, as I stood on the steps of tho Americau Hotel, tlie same figure and tbe same pro digious burden came moving down Main street. Suddenly the .song changed “ Whick, llexaminer, Enquirer, Chronicle and lh carder'. Big light- iu Kentucky, A mighty rush was made for the little auctioneer, and in less time than is em ployed in telling it, the papers were gone and his pockets lined with currency. The papers contained but a single item with reference to affairs in Kentucky, “Bragg mi Kosccrana still occupy threatening positions. A decisive battle cannot be postponed much longer.” In vain was every column and every article scanned aud scrutinized for later and more important news.” The stub born papers told no more. An hour later tlie same little boy was fronting the Row- hattan, singing tlie same song, and reliev ing himself of a load of papers. Just as be sold tlie last one and started to leave I got to where lie was, caught him by tlie arm and stopped him. “My little boy” said l v “there is’ika word about any “big fight In Kentucky in those papers.” “Who said there was?” “You.” “No I didn’t say it was in uany one of them papers neither, and I don’t want nobody to accuse me of telling a lie too.” With this he tore away and was soon moving down towards Ohiraboraso witli another cargo of papers and as tbe music of the same fruitful song “rose with its voluptuous swell” like Bun- yan’s Christian he was losing his burden. Pwift Action of Compound Oxygen In Look Disease*. The promptness with which Compound Oxygen acts iu throat and Lung dis eases is very remarkable. Mrs. Alico A Daniels, of Ramsey’s Station, Alabama, sends, without solicitation, and for publi. cation, a statement of the results of its use in her case, from which we make single extract. She says: ,, Infour days after‘commencing to inhale the Compound Oxygen, chills, fever and night-sweats were alt gone ! My appetite, which be fore was at its lowest ebb, soon became good. My strength increased very rapidly and improvement has been steadily going on-ever sinco tho first inhalation. My cough slowly became milder, and to-day I can truthfully say that I am almost a well woman.” Send for our treatise ou Compound Oxygen. It will be mailed free. Dhs. Starkey & Paler, 1109 and 1111 Girard street, Philadelphia, Pa. The State Treasurer's Report The annual report of J. W. Renfroe, Esq., is a remarkably plain and lucid doc ument, showing that '.he Treasurer had kept his books carefully, and with meth odical exactness. Accompanying tho re- port hi a table giving a list of tho insu- ranoe‘companies that have deposited $25,- 000 each in the treasury, under the pro visions of an act approved February 28, 1877. These are forty-two in number, and cover many of the strongest compa nies in Hie Union. As the .main features of the report, in volving She financial status of tho com monwealth, were set forth in the Govern or’s message, which has already appeared in these columns, it will be unneces sary to r&$:oduce them. Of the 4 per cent., bonds, denown as tbe “Baby bonds,” $250,000 weee paid into the treasury by the purchases* of tbe Macon and .Bruns wick railroad, leaving still outstanding $107,000, which Mr. Renfroe suggests can be called in and redeemed next January from fund^pow An hand. Tlie report o the Treaihrer is ably mud exhaustively drawn, and gives * highly flattering ex hibit of the finances of the common wealth. “Tor” Hughes, after his lecture on Dr. Arnold at Philadelphia was made LL. D. by the President of Harvard Col lege. Speaking ot Arnold he said: He was a fine, tall man, six feet high, loosely put together, and, although a great and rapid walker, be rather shambled, as your' President Lincoln did. He he bad busby hair, deep-set, piercing eyes aud a very strong, beavy'jaw; but his most remarka ble feature was a lip which would swell outwards and plainly indicate when he was annoyed at. tbs stupidity of our an swers or at any mean action which would particularly incense him. When that lip began to swell we kuew that it was not a time to cat up any pranks, Isabella McCulloch, formerly of South Carolina, the soprano singer, died at tbe residence of Wm- H. Neiison, Eighty-fourth street and East River. Some ten years ago she met Brignoli, aud after newly two years of most persistent wooing on Us part she married him and left the stage. After six years of married life, part of it spent in Europe, Brignoli abandoned her, and her suit for divorce about two years ago fioally separated them. For a number of years past she has supported herself as a church singer, for a time iu Grace Church, and later in St. Steplieu’s, in New York city. Tux rumor that General W. T. Sher man intends to give up his present posi tion and go upon the retired list does not find many believsm. Tbs Shermans are not a retiring family. .' A Wealth of Advice. A perfect Niagara of counsel pours from the Northern and Western pres* up on the “solid South,” but the philosophy of its abundauco is to be found in its ex cessive cheapness. If it cost anything, or were worth anything, we should not get so much of it, although we freely concede that those people were never anything else tban persistently didactic, and always disposed to second their admonitions with the lash. The high eminence of a teacher is grati fying to human vanity. It presupposes superiority to knowledge and wisdom; but still, as the old Judge said to the flu ent young barrister, “The court. Is to be presumed to know something.” The N'oithern brotherhood of counsellors should bo prepared'to concede a little common sense to their Southern pupilage. They should admit that our chances of an intimate knowledge of the Southern sit uation in all its aspects are far greater tban theirs. For example, it never seems to occur to them that our first interest, after all, is domestic and belongs to home govern ment. Only a few years ago the Southern States were inthe last stages of bankruptcy, disorder aud ruin, brought upon us by these Northern wiseacres, and nothing saved us —nothing secured us from every peril to which a misgoverned people could be ex posed, but tills very solidity—a firm un ion of the intelligent people of the States to re-establish public order and accounta bility. This done, we could breathe free ly, and look with somo hope to still farther advances. ' • 4 • * Up tc that time tho federal govern ment had never done anything else for us but harm. Its influence had been stead ily on the side of public disorder. Its in terference, during tlie whole period of so- called reconstruction was not for good but for positive evil to both races. Indus try prospered in spite of it. The treasury sops it doled out to its trusted agents were not of a straw’s value compared with those fundamental conditions of public order which the Southern States were nblo to secure as a result of a firm union of Intel ligenl opinion. The talk we hear from them now Is, “divide your intelligent people.” TVTiat it means wo can learn by remembering our ruinous condition before it was united —with no public Interest safe—with noth ing hopeful or improving. Southern men may perhaps now be found willing to back this delusive proposition, but they are selling themselves very cheap. No fed eral honors—no share in the public plun der-can compensate the loss of an intel ligent and reliable local government. Every considerate Southern mau must seo that our highest interest, as pertaining to government, lies at home, and must bo maintained by the effective assertion of an enlightened public opinion, even if It be done at tlie cost of maintaining our con scientious views on federal politics. Rut tlie advice in favor of Southern di vision, is fallacious in respect to mere federal success, aud well do they know it! So long as the Southern States can hold consolidated power, so long are they in the best condition for self-defense—ithe best condition to rcstraiu federal coirup- tion, and the best condition for victory Stand where we are firmly aud patiently and the problem will work out at last. The question of corporal punishment in the public schools has arisen anew in Boston. The Superintendent says: “Teach ers of both sexes use personal violence with their pupils in such forms and such frcqucucy that the facts if published would cause unpleasantness. Some put children into painful and even dangerous positions; some shake them at times with such roughness as to tear their clothing, while many still apply the the rattan as freely as if it were a feather, and strike not merely the hand, but tbe head and body. Within the last month or two some pite ous cases have been reported to me by parents whose children had suffered The monthly reports ot some grammar schools come in ringing with tbe echoes of blood.” A committee examined into the subject, and a majority reported in favor of dismissing teachers who iuflict whip ping, except on boys in the grammar de partments. The Cave Cod Ship Canal.—Work is to be immediately resumed on the Cape Cod Ship Canal, and before September, 1882, between $10,000,000 and 12,000,000 will be expended iu excavating an im mense basin 10 miles long, 200 feet wide, and 20 feet deeper than mean low water. Negotations between Boston aud New York capitalists on the subject have been completed, resulting in a practical con solidation of tbe old and new companies. The new corporation will be organized under the charter granted by the Massa chusetts Legislature of the present year, and Henry M. Whiting of the Metropol itan Steamship Company will probably be retained as President. Assurances have been received that tbe Delaware and Hudson Caual Company, the Pennsyl vania Railroad, aud other corporations in terested in coal commerce wilt take an active interest in the enteiprise. Drcls- bach As Skillman will be tbe principal contractors, and 1,800 Italians will be em ployed in the work. The Tiappfets luliabiting tire convent of “La Toinba,” three miles out of Borne, on the barren waste toward Ostia, some time ago undertook to redeem or “bonify* the lands around their convent, which are now cultivated and rendered healthy by tbe planting ot thousands of eucalyptus trees. Frepostarou aad Ill-AiTJMi. The proposition of some madcap Dem ocratic politicians to attempt to set aside tbe vote of New York, by an appeal to Congress and tbe appointment of a com mission to investigate tbe alleged Repub lican frauds, finds no favor with General Hancock, and cannot be too strongly de precated. Aside from the impossibility of fairly counting out a majority of 20,000 votes, wo should hare the spectacle pre sented of similar commissions which would be demanded for other States both North and South, where tbe least ground foraa investigation could be devised. Tbe result would be “confusion worse con founded,” even if civil war did not super vene. Such a procedure would also cause great fluctuations In the stock market, if it did not precipitate • disastrous panic. Even tbe mention of the matter has al ready bad a sensible effect upon “ ’Change.” No, tbe Democracy bave been outgener al led and vanquished in tbe late Cbntest, and should now make the most of It and learn wisdom in tbe future. We do not suppose tbe above insane project will amount to anything serious. The FmndtUept ^EqntU of Georgia. An Opportune Production. We have received a pamphlet prepared by Mr. Jackson T. Taylor, of Atlanta, which furnishes a list “of all tbe outstand ing bonds oi Georgia, valid and invalid, aud of railroad bonds indorsed by tbe State, in which tbe good and the value less are designated.” To obtain this in formation, which lay scattered along for years upon the public records, and reduce it into a compact and authentic shape, re quired mucli patient labor and research on the part ot the author, and lie is enti tled to the thanks of tlie public. Here after, there will be no excuse tor those who are victimize’d by tbe purchase of the bogus securities. . OI the invalid State bonds, Class I comprises the gold bonds Issued by Gov. Bullock in aid of Uie Brunswick aud Albapy Railroad Company, These amounted to $1,880,000. Next, under Class H, comes tbe bonds of tbe Brunswick aud. Albany, railroad, formally issued and indorsed by compe tent authority, but not registered in the office of the secretary of state., They ag gregate $1,500,000. ,, , - ,, ,, . Class III coven another batch of Bul lock’s - Brunswick and Albany railroad gold bonds for $1,800,000, payable In I860. Class IV includes $1,000,000 of “gold quarterly coupon bonds of tlie Slate of Georgia,” issued also by Bullock, but de clared to be illegal aud void by act of Legislature, approved August 23d, 1872. Class V gives the State’s guaranteed bonds of the Cartersvilie and Van Wert Railroad Company, numberiug $275,000. Class VI—The State’s guaranty ou bouds of the Cherokee Railroad Company, amounting to $300,990. • Class VII—Every guaranteed bond tho Bainbridge, Cuthbert aud Columbus railroad company. Total of said bonds $000,000, of which however only $240,000 were ever reported to the bond commit tee. Class VIII—The State’s guaranty $194,000 of the bonds of the Alabama aud Chattanooga Railroad Company. Class IX—Bullock’s seven per cent, “currency bouds,” issued under the act August 27, 1870, of which there are out standing $970,000. Class X—The $375,000 stolen six per cent, currency bonds of the State, issued Feb. 17,1654, and Intended to be exchang ed for outstanding 7 per cent, bonds of the Central Bank. These bonds were not re ceived by the bank, however, and were re placed in tho treasury. They were after wards stolen while the capitol was held by the Yankees and taken West to be dis posed of. As they had never been duly Is sued by the State, of course their pavnieut was refused. Class XI—Tlie bouds of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company, issued un der act approved October 27, 1870. Amount, $000,000. Class XH—Outstanding past-due bonds of the State to the amount of $37,000. AH of the above bonds and securities, after full iuvestigation, have been passed upon and pronounced invalid by the Leg islature of Geoigia, and the decision rati fied by a vote of the people. All the other outstanding bonds of the State, whicli it is unnecessary to enumer ate, are not only valid but gilt-edged secu rities, commanding high premiums. Mr. Taylor closes his work with a state ment of Geoigia’s bonded debt and when it will mature. It Is as follows: Whole debt, $9,952,500.00. Will ma ture: iu 1881, $200,000; in 18S2, $100,000; In 18S3, $100,000; In 1884, $100,000; in 1885, $100,000; in 18S0, S4,000,000; in 1880, $2,20S,000; in 1890, $2,09S,000; in 1802, $307,600; iu 1800, $542,000 ; 4 per cent, currency bonds, $107,000. The State is only liable as the guaran tor on $724,000 of railroad bonds, to-wit $404,000 of the South Georgia aud Florida Company, and $200,000 of the Northeast ern railroad bonds. Both companies gave first mortgages on their road-beds and property, and the State can lose nothing by them. All other Stato aid to other toads has been formally canceled aud repealed by legislative enactment. Tlie above is a succinct resume of Mr. Taylor’s useful work. A Change of Folicy. We see it stated that tlie Republican party have not abandoned the Southern question. They might as well do so un less they abandon their “bloody shirt” policy, ^fo perceptible headway can lie made in winning tbe South until the bla tant harangues of Conkling and Blaine and other stalwarts are silenced. We claim to bo civilized and, in a large ureas ure, Christianized, and expect to receive that consideration due to such a people. It the Republican party expect to retain its hold upon the masses of the North it must change its policy and approach the Southern question with an even, judicial spirit. Tho absence of this spirit has thwarted every previous effort to solve the Southern question. Self-preservation is tlie motive which prompts opposition to Republican rule by the communities of the South. Republi can rule here meaus carpet-bag misrule ana negro domination. It is to turnover to a set of cormorants and to a set of men bankrupt of all virtuous reputation at borne, every interest, both private and public, in the laud. It would be to re store tho Scotta and Moses, the Kellogg’s aud Wells to their former power. It is this fear that keeps the South solid. It does not partake of tbe bitterness or hate engendered by the war, but arises purely from practical considerations. The •spirit of rebellion” lias long since died out, but the spirit of self-preservation will always exist, and so long as the cause of carpet-bag government ts tlie cause of the Republican (tarty in tbe South, just so long will there be a solid South against the Republican party. If the business in terests and the prosperity of tbe North he coupled with the success oftheRepubli can party, just so surely aro tlie business interests and the prosperity of the South bound up with the fortunes of Uie Demo cratic party. Tlie experience of tbe past demonstrates tlie truth of this proposition. Therefore, if the Republican party would win iu way into the South it must show that it does not aim at the restora tion of the carpet-bag government. It must show a disposition to deal generous ly with the South in the matter of na tional appropriations for iuterual improve- menu. It must do ail this witli no hope of partisan advantage or Republican rnle in tlie Southern States. If the only way to break up the solid South is to go into tbe Republican party it will never be bro ken up. Here was the failure of Mr. Hayes’ Southern policy. lie came wit j bis offices and emoluments in one hand, b&Tthe conditions iu tbe otber. He was ready to barter his patronage provided tbe South would voto tbe Republican ticket. If Mr. Garfield has no wiser measures than these to propose, lie will as signally tail. Let these appropriations and other measures be tendered tlie South because they are right, and because she Is entitled to them upon the score of justice, and it will prove a greater power ia convincing the South that the Republican party is seeking tbe good of the whole country, than ail their offers of barter. We are a commercial people to some extent, but we do not seil our honor or self-respect merely for the benefits of an office.' ' A Curious Scrap of History. Colonial Greenbacks. The American colonics early learned the advantages of a paper representative money. In 1090, six jesrs before tbe establishment of tbe Bank of England Massachusetts issued $36,000 to pay oB her soidieis who had been ou an expedition against Canada. Tbe form of the notes or Dills was as follows :- “This indented bill of ten shillings due from the Massachusetts colony to the pos sessor, shall be in value equal to money, and shall accordingly be accepted by ibe treasurer and receivers fubordinatetohim. In all public paymeoU, and for any stock at any time in the treasury.” These hills circulated at par With coin for twenty years and until redeemed^Hi I* In 1703, another issue of bills in the same form tor $45,000 was authorized, and made a legal tender for debts and redeem able fn taxes. i In 1710 another issue of $750,000 was authorized to be distributed among the different counties. Tlie issue was put into tbo bauds of five trustees in each county to be loaned out on real estate security iu certain specific sums, for tbe term of ten years at 5 per cent per annum—the inter est going to tbe State, audthe principal redeemable in taxes. This amount was increased from time to time—giving the people an ample supply of money, and from its interest-revenue the colony be came free from debt In 1773. All the col onies followed the example of Massachu setts until England saw that tlie colonies w.ere becoming too independent and pros perous for them long to remain dependen cies. Parliament in 1761 passed an act forbidding tbe further issue of colonial money and declaring all acts authorizing it void. This was a blow almost aa severe as tlie contraction and resumption acts of 1850 and 1675. The inouey sharks of Engiaud had conceived tbe idea that their interests rested on a specie basis, and they deter mined then as now, that, right or wron_ everybody else should subscribe to the idea. David Hume, in a 'letter to Abbe Mo- reilel, make the following remarks on the colonial money of Pennsylvania; “In our colony of Pennsylvania, tlie land itself, which is the chief commodity, is coined, aud passes into circulation. A planter, immediately after he purchases any land, can go to a public office and re ceive notes to the amount of half the value of his land, which notes he employs in all payments,and they circulate as money throughout the colony by convention. To prevent the public from being overwhelm ed with this representative money, there are two meaus employed; first, the notes issued to any one planter must not ex ceed a certain sum, whatever may be the value of his land; secondly every planter is obliged to pay back into the public of fice every year one-teutli of his notes. The whole, of course is annihilated in ten years; after which it is again allowed him to take out new notes to half the value ot liis land.” This was an ingenious expedient ami must have made money as plentilul as blackberries. Bat as time rolled on the system of issuing “sbinplasteis” based upon individual credit came into vogue, so that literally every man that chose to manufatcured his own money. It is as tonishing how current some of these “promises to pay” became, ar.J with what favor they were received “on change.” The writer remembers, soon after tlie war, when the personal bills of J. McK. Gunn, of Cuthbert, were considered every whit as good as the national currency. And so they proved in the end. Not a dollar of them was disavowed or dishon ored. But, unhappily, sucli was not the tact, with the paper of many other irresponsi ble private persons and corporations, and tlie direct effect of this private currency also, was to curtail the supply of green backs and cramp tho mercantile opera tions of the community. Theso consider ations alone, and not the laws of the coun try, whicli, as in the case of usury, docld easily be evaded, eventually put a quietus to the utterance of individual shinplasters. And most fervently do we trust, for the safety of the public, that they will never be tolerated and taken again. The Lost Alpena. Everything relating to the wreck of this uufortunate craft is read with avidity by our community, In consequence of the tragic interest connected with it through the heart-ren.ling bereavement of our res pected townsman,Judge T. G. Holt. With the going down of that vessel sank the cherished hopes and aspirations which had been centred In au only son by a de voted father and mother. God help them in this hour ol unspeakablo calamity. From the national Citizen and Sol dier, of Washington City, we clip the fol lowing: The fate of tbe Alpena, which left Grand Haven on the night ot October 15th bound for Chicago, seems more depiora ble, if possible, tiiau that ot the Vera Cruz, for from Ibe latter vessel a few wrecked survivors were left to tell tlie fearful tale, but iu the fearful stoim which raged through the night or the 15th eighty souls went to the bottom of the lake in all probability, and only eternity will re veal ibe story of that hour of supreme horror. As usual, no one is to blame. Those who bave seen parts of the floating wreck declare the timber to be thorough ly ration. Tlie owners and officers laugh at eucii a report. If an Investigation should follow, of course, like ail suen in vestigations, the truth will never come to light. The Southern Farmer’s Monthly. After a careful perusal, we can truthfully say that the November xrimber of tbe Southern Farmer's Monthly, published at Savannah by Mr. J. H. Estill, may be pro nounced tbe best of any previous issue. Tbe table of contents shows that subjects smiuently practical and useful have been treated of, and, the reader will admit, ably bandied. The present ard future work of the farmer and horticulturist, the man- ageuieut of stock aud poultry, fish culture, the proper application of fertilizers, the rotatiou ot crops, hygiene, the fall and winter fashions, aud a large amount of interesting miscellany, furnish a most attractive bill of fare to the subscriber. This journal of agriculture is not only thoroughly established but justly takes rank with the best enterprises of tho kind at the South. In Georgia it has no supe rior, if, iudecd, a single equal. The Farmer's Monthly is furnished at tlie low rate of $2.00 per annum. Northern Republicans are claiming to have elected a President without the as sistance of the colored brother. This will leave the colored vote stmpty merchantable article in local m.i-i^, There are fifty thousaud acres cultl- ,fated ita rice in Louisiana, and the cion Is estimated at 250,000 bushe Is, The Cleveland Leader is Umi only R e _ publican paper which gives thanks to God for Garfield’S election. The other organs give Grant and Emory Storrs tlie glory and nominate Grant for 1884. Nordenskjold has ordered a vessel to be bnilt at tbe mouth of tbe" Lena, whence be will set out in 1882 on another voyage of discovery- iu the Arctic seas. By going OTerland through Siberia to the month of tbe Lena he hopes to “steal a march” on the brief open season. Coming Senators.—By conmon con sent Hon. Joseph R. Hawley is named ai tlie successor of Hon. W. W. Eaton as United States Senator from Connecticut, and Secretary Dorsey, of the Republican Natioual Committee, says Hon. Geo. M. Robeson, ex-Secretary of the Navy, will be chosen .Senator from New Jersey to succeed Hon. Theodore F. Randolph. Louisiana Is raising an immense crop of oranges the present season. The New Orleans Democrat says there bave been shipped by a smgfe railroad already to all points of the West 0,300.000 Louisiana or anges. The cultivation of tins delicious fruit is constantly increasing aud is des tined to be an cuormous source of revenue to Louisiana. Virginia’s Resources.--The Bristol News says: Prof. Stevelison, tho New York geologist, has completed his geolo gical survey of the country from Bristol to Imboden City, aud Is now in lids city. He says the developments to be made by the Xairow Gauge railroad are tlie grand est on this continent, If not the greatest aud the most wonderful in the world.. Death of Solon Robinson Mr. So lon Robinson, for many yean the agricul tural editor of tlie New York Tribune, died atliis residence iu Jacksonville, Flor ida, Tuesday morning, in the seventy- eighth year of his age. Mr. Robinson was the author of the story, “Hot Corn, or Life Scenes in New York,” of which over 50,000 copies were sold. Mr. Robinson also published in I860 “How to Live, or Domestic Economy Illustrated;” in ISO#, “Facts for Farmers,” which had a large circulation, and in 1807 a romance enti tled “Me-won-I-toc.” Mrs. Sprague to Sue for a Di vorce.—The New York Sun states that Mr. Winchester Britton, ex-district attor ney of Kings county, has been retained to bring an action for divorce for Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague against ex-Gov. Sprague, Of Rhode Island. He will have tlie pa pers ready for service in a few days. Mr. Britton, on his visit to Providence last week, framed replevin papers for a piano and a portion of Mrs. Sprague’s wardrobe, and placed them in the hands of tlie sheriff to serve. He has since learn ed that they have been served. It is estimated, says the Baltimore- Sun, that 8,000 wild ducks were taken on the Susquehanna flats, in tho vicinity of Havre de Grace, last Monday, the first day of the ducking season. A number of prominent gentlemen from New York, including Judge Gildersleeve, participated' in the slaughter. The greatest number of ducks killed by any one box was that of Messrs. Malian and Dobson, who secur ed 540; the highest number of any encak- boat was that of Capt, Todd, who got 110. The fiats still abound with ducks, and it is said that there is no perceptible de crease since the day before the gunning season opened. A Tribute to General Hancock.— The New York Herald says: “Gov. Cor nell’s Thanksgiving proclamation is pub lished, and Gen. Hancock has probably- issued a private and personal thanks- givingordcr of liis own. Among the men who have been prominently before the public In the past few months none have found the excitement as distasteful as he; on the other Land no candidate lias been so magnificently impervious torcaiiccand mud. To emerge from a heated cam paign with a reputation as good as he started with is greater giory thau could have been gained by au election to the presidency." TnE death at Richmond, Ya., on the 27Ui of October of Bishop D. S. Doggett, of the Methodist Church,South, has created a profound sensation in tlie Church to which lie belonged, and in church circles, generally. He was for more than fifty? years an active and-influential minister,, and won and retained great renown as a preacher, besides filling many positions of trust and honor, even to the highest in. the gift of his Church. His funeral on- Oct. 29 at Richmond, convened an im mense concourse of people, and w as join ed in by nearly the whole Protestant clergy of the city. At Vanderbilt Uni versity, Nashville, Tenn., an imposing memorial service under the auspices ot the Methodist clergy was held ou Sunday* October 81. Who Killed Cock Robin?—Every body knows tbe responsible man—John Kelly. He is the man who broke down the Democratic party in the State last year and elected a Republican governor by a plurality of 42,777, when the Dem ocratic vote, if united, was large enough 1 to have re-elected a Democratic governor by a majority of 34,780. This gave the whole vast State patronage into the hands- of General Uaucock’s political adversaries to be used in aid of Mr. Garfield this year. That was the first act in the tragedy. The second act was played a fortnight ago, when Kelly forced a follower of his own as tlie Democratic nominee for mayor, with the desperate design of making the Democratic Presidential ticket carry the load through for his own personal advan tage no matter bow much harm it might, do to General Hancock’s vole. Tammany’s Lament.—fhc Tammany Democracy have issued an address to tlieir brethren throughout the country, la menting the defeat of Gen. Hancock as ar great natioual calamity, and attributing it to fraud, the colonization of repeaters and the intimidation of laboring -men. In support of this they ask that tbe vote of New York city be scrutinized aud com pared with the vote of 1870, when tlie Democrats cast 112,530 ballois and the- Republicans 58,561. In 1880 tho Demo crats cast 123,102 and the Republicans 81,720, showing a Republican iucreaso of 23,105, and a Democratic increase of 10,- 572. The independent press in New York city is assailed and made partly re sponsible for the disaster. The address also declares that the nomination of Mr. Grace did not lessen Hancock’s vote. An amendment was offered that Hancock’s defeat waa due to mismanagement and bickering of the Democratic leaders in Kings county and New York city. After | heated discussion, in which a j member called on “Ross” Keliy to re- as a sign, the amendment was rejected and tbe | address adopted.