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(jisgirijiinr Siiusfrhtjv %#leg)t»|sl» Terms of the Tel«* aph and Hessen- - gwr- «w JHV* ¥**£otj i,.,. ..srf il.ttiuQtr glO.OO/,,•;•«,/• • •>.,,•/ ••, • " ■ »■ *.•• **<>* ■ .. ••* •> g.30 3 MOV. Daily Tflegrsph end Jteuencer , amJ.^'ufArr* farmer"* .Vo <My U«Jd/vrjrr. Weelty Telegraphand Mettenger ISMO ;.i ...» *• “ 1.00 6 mo* TjVet'y TW*prapA a«a Mt'etesgtr and Southern fanner's Monthly XSOperyr BcmU by P. O- Order or Registered L etter h {°‘ ft. B- DAVlS.Msnaycn ^tltgrofli nub ftteflmgtr FRIDAY. NOVEMBERS. 1SS0 The first wife of Bishop Pinckney cf Maryland was twenty years bi* senior. Miss Lucy Hunter, of Washington, whom the Bisbop Js «oon to many, la twenty years bis junior. 11 • The Richmond Intelligencer says that an agreement bas been made between Gen. Mabone and "the Republicans that will control the Virginia'Senator's vo*e in tbe Senate. The Intelligencer is the lead ing Republican paper of its sedlton, and is supposed to be informed as to party affaire. • .> i. i Fifty million bnabels of wheat is a great year’s yield (dr a rfwgje State, but Ohio reaches IttWtfj’eaY, bnd with two and a half millions more on top. Thus far tins promises to be the champion wheat score ot the yWar, though Illinois and other rivals oTCJhlo are yet to get In their Coal statistic*. The China (native) Merchants’ Steam Navigation Company, sailing under the native flag, noaf/owns—having largely in creased its fle£t>hy the purchase of Rus sell <£ Co.’s American steamers—33 steam Tassels of 22^10 tons. Li-Hang-Cbang, Governor-General of the “home” province of Chih-ll is the patron, and probably real founder df the association. In » ficSd near Sbeemess, England, that his been in cultivation for centuries, the found Elions 6f the convert'fbrsavfctKy nuns, founded at Mluitet'-lT.-Sheppy in'llie year 070, hare just been discovered. The extensive buildings wore many’thnes pillsged and destroyed fcy the Danes, and were finally rebuilt , in 1180. Objects of interest In good preewvationlmevnready been brought to light. • A Sc. Louis bankwdlier,' m -cashing check, gavb a wooum a -scaled -envelope marked $600. ••‘She did not’count the money until she got home, and then found only $226. She retered to the'bank, but could wot get the mistake rectified. Sbe ought to have opened thcccvelope, tbe teller said, before quitting <he counter. A lawsuit has resvitad in* verdict for the woman, whose statement bfthe facts was air.ply corroborart-il. Tl.. Vault will ap peal. . , he nebest goldmine' known in the last Week’s Cotton Figures. Now—Yoik Cluenicle report* tboj] -receipts of tlio seven days ending last Fri day night at 266,018 bales, against 218y- 408 bales for the corresponding week of last week, showing a gain for tbe week of 88,110 bale?. Total receipts since 1st of September last, 2,114,524 bales, against 1,8S5,840 bales for the same period of the previous cotton year—showtag an Increase of 228,678 hales. The Chronicle’s table of interior port business for the week shows that the re ceipts were 114,675. bales against 185,110 For the corresponding week of last year. The shipments were C9,4S5 bales against 103,328 for the same week last year, and the stocks on . tfriday footed up 242,326 against 218,096 at the same date last year. The Chronicle's visible supply table showed ou Friday last 2,2S8,700 bales of cotton in sight, against 1,975,225 at'tho same date last year—1,859,472 at the same date the year before, and 1,843,244 at the same date in 1877. These flgnaaa show the followiig Increase in the visible cotton sup* ply: 313,477 bales on the supply of last year at this date; 420,283 on the supply of 1878, and 445,450 bflcs on the supply of 1877. Cotton was quoted in Liverpool last Friday at 0 7-16 for middling upland. At that date one year ago the quotation was 0{—in 1878, at same date, it was 5|, and in 1677, at same date, 6 7-16. Cool rains have characterized the weath er of me entire cotton region generally for the week ending last Friday. In Galves ton it rained on five days of the week—the hardest rain for three years, accompanied by fro**- Md ice and sleet. The rainfall of the week reached 4.03, and much damage was done. Picking was interrupted and the soil was a bog. At Indiauola, rain on ToUr'daj s, reaching 4 inches, and frost on ttvo 'nights. Picking half done, and much otthe remainder will not be gathered at •wH. The picking season lias been a very bad one. At Corsicana, bard rains on three days. Fall, 1.21. Picking ans- pended and farmers discouraged. At Dallas, hard rains on three days—rainfall 1.25—two killing frosts, ace aud half an inch of snow. Picking stopped, wad a great deal of tbe crop wifi not be gath ered. Picking season one df tho worst ever known. At Waoo, hard -rains on three days, frosts and ice on 'two. nights, and one iadi of twMMl. Picking sus pended. J- ‘ la Lou Wans, at New Orleans, it rained on five days of the week -to -a depth of 2-85. At Shreveport rainy -all the week a intervals. Mercury -from 18 to 64. At Vicksburg, 'in-Mississippi, cal n on three days «ad s’.eet on Wednesday night. Weather veryesfd. At Jackson rain on one day only. The cold weather stopped poking. In Arkansas, «t-Little Rock, a week of unusual severity. Rain on two day^and snow on one to the depth of four inches. .Lowest 'mercury 30. In Tennessee, at Memphis, rain on four days, and r«foll of-BOO. Average mercu ry 35—lowest 16. Picking entirely sus- to the State. Pending these legal proceed ings, the company would be unable to is sue new bonds for the construction of tho proposed extension, and this would mate rially cripple their operations. If their request now embodied in the bill before the Legislature is granted, - however, the $250,000 installment due the State in March, conld and would be ap plied to the immediate construction of the extension to Atlanta. Wo can sec no good reason why tbe bill should not pass with es it opposition. The JTe' 7 Route to Jacksonville. | Tbc A«*drn. y for tue uttud. Col. H. M. Drane, the very efficient and ; Prof. W. D. Williams, principal, has energetic master of construction on the placed upon our desk a copy af the twenty W ay cross railroad, which will soon be , ninth annual report of the Georgia Acad- corapicted in a direct line to Jacksonville, ’ emy for tbe Blind—a neat pamphlet of gave us some interesting Information on t twenty pages. It is addressed to the Gov- The Mississippi Fiver. A brief synopsis of the-forthcoming re port of the Secretary of War is printed in the regular press dispatches of Sunday, and m them- it will be seen that the secre tary indorses substantially the efficiency of the Eads plan of deepening the channel ofthat great river. But in au article in the New York Herald of Friday upon tho late Mississippi Valley Convention in New Orleans, the enterprise is spoken of as a scheme to “rebuild the broken levees of that river.” The rebuilding of a broken levee may be now and then necessary as a temporary expedient; hut It should enter but a little way into any scheme to estab lish the current of that river. Any plan which looks to floating that “waste of wa ters” any further “on top oT the country’’ —to be held against lateral diffusion by banks piled up against it, can he no part of a sensible improvement. The Mississippi must he compelled to acour out for Itself a deep aud permanent channel far below tbe eurroundlug coun try, so that, In due time, the old devtes will be superfluous and the swamps along the banks will drain into the river, and so give dry and bluff banks along Its whole course, is what should be embraced in any plan of Improvement worthy of tho coun- try or the river. And such an improvementasthrssboiiM wot Involve a squabble between rival po litical parties and politicians; hut all parties should mature it ou a solid basis of sound public economy. The river should be previously surveyed—the lands on its margin assessed and held responsi ble for a fair share of the cost-of tbe im provement. It is a stapendonsenterprise, upon which the best Intel iigeace and en ergy of the government should be ex pended, with a view to provision for all future time. W<c want loses the press of the country take a position on this subject worthy of its transcendent importance— upon tbe single idea that the current of the river must be brought'to the worl: of cleaning ont and maintaining a deep -and permanent channel all the way to tbe Mb United States, fcefore ’ fcfce acquisition of California, was in'Rowan county, North petided. C-otton in the field falling out. Carolina, whldh In 1840 yielded $560 to the bushel of earth, of$3,000,000 in aiL when the minee'beeame'-Eooded. In 1799 a uugget found In Cabaras county weigh ed seventy-eight ■ pounds. For years aj number of gold vein* and placers of gravel deposits were extensively wonced over a large territory oil'both sides of the Bloc -Ridge. Gen. GABFiEBD-k-expected to amve here, says the Washington correspondext of the Baltimore* Atr., next Tuesday night, aud will remain-qWefly at his home, on Thirteenth and I streets. It is generally believed that upon'-his visit lie will-see Secretary Sherman, and the two wKl come to a frank understanding about tire treasury portfolio. The belief here k that Gen. Garfield-will tender Mr. Sher man the secretaryship and that Mr. Sher man will accept. MX this, however, of. course nothing positive is known. The Greenville (S. C.) Mm truly and concisely expresses the prevailing aeoll- ment of tho Southern people in these words: “Now letrevery man ignore poli tics as much as nposslble; support the Democratic party ac long as a fragment of it remains to cling to; borrow no trouble from the future, hat resolve to bear it patiently and bravely when it is forced ou him; and above all devote his best thoughts and efforts, at self-sacrifice; to building up tbe material interests of the South, developing her resources, and mak ing her to be self-supporting, rich, and in tbe front rank ef-civllization and pro gress.” Tue Rev. J. H. Gall shorn and a party of evangelists were -conducting a revival meeting at Hannibal, Mo. Perfect holi ness was their espcciahtheme, and their energies were directed in arousing true piety among church ^members. They were highly successful -end every even ing they drew a crowded congregation to tbe Academy of Music. Suddenly their mission was closed by the publication of a statement, signed by clergymen of sever al Western places when rGallaborn had iaborc.l,it1«t b$ was a gocssiy immoral person, anc bad lately-been, exposed by a church council. Butter.Made of Lakh.—The fact was developed in Chicago tha&Jarge quan tiles of a material which is called “batter,” and sold as such-on tbe market, is really made of lard by a peculiar proems known only to a.few. Ope establishment in that city hu been doIpgA prosperous business for more than a year, and bas a > trade so extensive that shipments are made to England. No effort whatever is made at concealment. Tbe manufacturer is faank about it, and says the compound is mo more injurious than pork- A large num ber of restaueauts are said to be using >U as butter, and -the report Js that other, manufactories ave <to be oposed toon. The New Cny«$« Treaty-—A cable dispatch has been .received at the Depart ment of State anuMndog that a treaty on the subject of immigration has been made between the UniteddUteaCommissioners and the government of China. The de partment refuses at pawept to fwaUh any particulars, but aays theUmty It .consid ered satisfactory. AeJohu Miller, toil gala keeper Ja Adams county, Pa., went oat to collect toll of an Old man who was passing through the gate, a bystauder remarked that tbe two men looked enough alike to he twins. Investigation proved that they ware twin brothers born lu 1616, who had not seen eacli other for sixty years. Wlien they were 4 years of age their mother, a poor woman, sent them Into separate counties to live atnoug 1 friend*. This was the last they saw of eaqh other until this adven ture. Daniel Miller lud lived within Tbree-eighr.be will-remain unpicked. At Neshvillecaiu on three days. Mercury from 18 te 54. In Alabama, at Mobile, showery on three-days and severe rain on two; ice formed on Thursday night. At Mont gomery, rain-on two days; killing frost on two mights; lowest mercury SO. At Scb ma.'iaki -on two days aud one killing frost. At Madison, Fla., rain on three days; lowest mercury 44; too wet. In -Georgia, at Columbus, 1.26 of rain on twoidsys. At -Macon, 1.52* on two days ar.d-onc killingtfrost. At Savanoali, rain or.'three days. At Augusta, heavy rains -on-five days; raiafall 1.78; two-thirds of •the-crop has been picked. At Charleston, vain on four days and 1.65 of fall. Oh the whole, the -most inclement week we ■ever reported. Kaoon antLifruntwick Railroad. • A Profitable Investment. We are advised upon tbe most an il cub ted authority that tbe recent purchas- £iaaf the Macon-and Brunswick railroad .realized-for the .month of August a net prafit.at the rate ol ticenty-Jlve per cent. jper annum on.tho $1,125,000, for which Xhs road.and.its appurtenances were bid s»a. .Since then, apnosperous cotton season and heavy trade with the North have aided largely.to their receipts, and our informant, whole well posted, it of the opinion that the present earnings of the toad are equivalent to 40 per cent, on tbe naealmetit. This is a prodigious yield, but it should be remembered .that tbe purchasers have expended at least 8200,000 for steel rails, engines and new rolling stock, and are sparing no expense to place the road in first-class condition. A trip over It last week as far as Jesqp * showed the road bed, superstructure, bridges, culverts, etc., to be in excellent .condition, while the pi.n.p'Bipnt was, apparently, without a flaw. The new company is certainly unde* tbe vigilant superintendence of Mr. J. M. Edwards, doing its whole duty to the public. In regard to the -extension of thirty years asked for during which to pay tbe installments of purchase mosey still due the State, we can see objection whatever to the ar rangement. The whole property, In eluding the improvements and additional rolling stock, Is bound far the debt, and the commonwealth does not incur tbe slightest risk in tbe premises. Under this head tbe Constitution of Sunday sayK Does the State need tbe purchase mon ey at present? She does not. On tbe contrary there ii a surplus in the treasury with which the Governor recommends baying four per cent, bonds not yet due. It will be a geod thing for tbe State to get five per cent, on this money when sbe has .money with which she Is taking up her four per cents. Can tbe State lose anything by extend ing. tbe time? Nothing—for the papers under which the road was sold make the htste perfect iy secure. The State is much mooc secure than when she sold the prop erty, ibecause the new company has added 1,200join of steel rails, and i.verai en gines aod cars to the property, all of which are subject to the State’s claim. Will the Stale be benefited by passing this bill ? Certainly. For the simple reason that the men who.a«k it guarantee that they will at once build a new road from Atlanta to Macon. This will add vastly to the taxa ble property of tbe State, will open a new section to' the quickening influences ot rtil, and develop a long tier of counties. Jc will give new life to a territory that coven nearly one half tbe State, and will establish a new highway through from tbe ocean to the West. It should be mentioned, also, that a prominent reason for asking this exten sion of time in the pay ments, is the fact that the ptuYijiaiera bam to encounter a suit tor $600,- A Mew Kovel by x Southern 1 Lady. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : 1’er- mit me, through your valuable-journal, to call tlic-attention of the reading public to a new-and charming work of fiction by a Southern lady, who, in this effort, makes her first considerable contribution to the growing literature of the South. Mars ton Hall is the title ef this delightful novel, just issued from the press ef Carletou & tlCL, New York. Tho fair authoress, who lias Assumed -the nom de >plume “Beryl ■Cnrrr,” U an Alabama -lady and is well known to the writer of this notice. Aud it is a labor of love to him, who cherishes *o warm an admiration el her lovely char acter aud brilliant talents, to pay his sin- o-*re tribute-to this first .production of her genius. Oi'queenly beauty and manners, she is also lrighly cultured in mind and possessed or those nofalenquaiities of heart winch magnetize all who come within tbe •circle oi her acquaintance. About three yearsagoslic wrote a beau tiful little romance, which was published in pomplrlet form - at her own expense, and sold dor tho benefit of the sufferers from yellew fever in Memphis. That un pretending little .production was au earnest -ef the greater work she now -modestly places before tbs publie. It more than redeems the,promise of that little maiden -effort. It is as, pure and bright as the spirit of its fair author, aud entitles her to a place in that small but splendid galaxy of Alabamian authoresses, in whicii Miss Augusta Evans and Madame OcUvia LeVert are-shining lnminarics. The style of the writer is not unlike that of Miss Evans, between whom and her self subsists an intimate friendship. Less ambitious 'than the author of ln- lelioe, she is not so prodigal of erudition, yet she exhibits a wide: range of informa tion and culture, and many of her de scriptions of nature are in the highest de gree poetical. Some of her Characterizations are strik ing, -evincing much inventive genius. The heroine, Gillian Marston, is almost t» perfect for earth,-and strongly engages the interest. Yet tlie.most thrilling incidents cluster around a.more wayward specimen of beautiful femininity, In tbe person of Marion Boss. Tbe description of the supposed death of this fascinating charac ter matches in pathos some of the best scenes in the pages of Dickens. It is a novel illustrative of Southern life, many of tbe scenes being laid in Mobile. For purity of tlieught, beauty of style and absorbiug interest, it deserves a high place in the novel literature of the day, and will doubtless command a wide and ready sale. It is gotten up in the usual excel lent form oftbe Carieton novels. A. J. Battle. BEK ARKS. The writer received ifrom-the hands of the fair authoress beieelf a short time since through his friend, Ber. J)r. McIntosh, of Marion, Ala., a copy of “Marston Hall,’ aud is now occupied during his leisure moments in its perusal. So far as we have been enabled to form An opinion, every word that Dr. Battle lias written is most fully indorsed. The. style of the book is elegant and perspicuous; the char acters are clearly drawn, the plot clever and well sustained, and tbe moral excel lent. Indeed, “Beiyl Carr,” by this work alone, mounts, at a bound, to the proudest heiglit attained by tbe fiction writers of America. Her powers, of description are fine, her imagination brilliant, And there is a beautiful purity and. lolly elevation in her thoughts and conceptions, that can not fall to win upon the refined and intel ligent reader. Should sbe continue to roam through the regions of romance, and give to tbe public hey fairy revelations in a Ungibfa form, we predict for this gifted Southern lady a high niche in tbe temple of fsase. The London Times.—The mighty Thunderer has become tbe sport of the boys. Having lost tbe confidence of the Gladstone administration, its attempts to gin Cablnst news, without tbe dots, have been so unfortunate ot late that it is now dabbed throughout London as the "mis leading journal.” Arms in Ireland—Tbe last telegrams represent great accessions to the musketry of Ireland from Belgium and Italy and tho movement of troops from England to that country. All, brethren, a roost pig with praties is belter than a musket, and works easier for the stomach. When Mr. MaglnnU’ attention was call ed to the molten lava flowing from the enter of Mount Vesuvius on his first and only visit to the land of band organs be ' vary naturally asked how tbe “poor crater the rail last Saturday, respecting the prog ress of the: work. Tho distance from Waycross to Jack sonville is seventy-two miles, and 1,500 laborers, hacked by every possible means and appliance, are rapidly prosecuting tho enterprise. The road will be equipped with steel rails and iron bridges, all of which are in readiness, and is intended to be first-class in every respect. Though much retarded by. bad weather and water it is expected to be in operation early in Janu6ry,and the trip from Savannah to Jacksonville will then be accomplished in six hours. It is believed that this route when completed will be of decided advantage to the Macon and Brunswick road in the increase of travel over that line. It will greatly dam age, however, the Florida steamboat lines which for several years have eDjoyed a large patronage. .* ' ' * Col. Drane says much of tho country traversed by the new road is heavily tim bered, and well adapted to tho turpentine business. The soil, too, Is kind and pro ductive, and in a very short space of time this hitherto terra Incopnitawiilbe devel oped under the magical influence of the steam locomotive into a thriving aud de sirable section. < hi *. r ,i The International Review for Decem ber reached Macon J*esterdsy. Its con tents are: State Support of Denominational Schools in Englan'd^by B. W. Dale, D. D.| English Philosophy and English Philoso phers, by Daniel Greenicaf Thompson; Alexander Von Humboldt on Politics, by Karl Blend; Bush Life, by Walter Cham berlain; The Drink Problem, by Felix Oswald, M. D.; A Reply to Prof. Bonatny Price, by Edward Atkinson; TheUniveiv sity of Texas, by Prof. OScar H. Cooper; A United States Bankruptcy Statute, by Hoc. John Lowell; Two Poems—Love’s Gam and Love's Gift—by F. W. Bourdel- lon; Cotemporary Literature. A. S. Barnes A Co., New York. Indiana Ideas on Pr*p*aed National Reforms. Fobt Wayne, November 19.—At a meeting ot Democratic editors of norm ern Indiana in this city to-day it was unanimously agreed that the following points should at oucc be pressed upou the attention of the American people: 1. A change lu tho constitution of the United States providing for the election of the President aud Vice President by the popular vote. 2. The election of United States Sena tors by the people of the several States, instead of by tbe Legislatures thereof. 3. A judicious revision of the present tariff in the interests of the producing aud ind’istriai classes. 4. Vigorous opposition to the introduc tion of cheap Mongolian labor. 5. Appropriate legislation by Congress for the taxation of greenbacks. 0. Opposition to tbe controlling of elec tions by Lite defendants of the national administration, high and low, and against coercive measures on the part of corpora tions of interferring with the elective franchise of their employes. 7. Securing the holding of elec tions in all the States on the firet Tues day after the first Monday in No vember. 8. We protest against any tin kering wi'h tho finances of tins country, and express unqualified condemnation or the presumptuous proposition of Secretary Sherman. 9. A demand upon the present Congress to institute a thorough aud searching investigation of the charges that the apparent majority for Garfield aud Arthur in tho State of New York was ob tained by fraudulent aud illegal means, to the end that justice may be done to all parties So far S3 this Indiana Democratic plat form expurgates the States, as political communities, from all interest and respon sibility for the government of the United States, it backs the Grant imperial idea admirably. A President and a Senate elected by the popular vote, and respou sive to nothing else but a shouting crowd with a military satrap to lead it, supple ments tbe imperial idea perfectly. ernor of Georgia, and contains the report of the presideut-of the board of trustee*, and that of the treasurer, as well as the report of the superintendent. The president says In his report: “Tbe trustees believe that • the expenditures of the Academy for the Blind have been con ducted with prudence aud economy.” These report cover the space from Octo ber 1,1879, to October 1,1880. The treajurct’s report shows: Balanco from last year . . .$ 4,397 84 ' Receipts front State- appropriation for ", fiscal year . . 12,000 00 Receipts frotp board- , Ing . .' . 465 00—$10,862 84 From this sum there has hceu paid out— Upon orders of the k board in favor of Principal • .$10,200 00 Improvements or grounds and out- „ houses . . 324 00-$10,524 b0 A Flattering Exhibit. Report of tue President . and Directors or the Central Rail- j,Interest in the commonwealth? ItOAD. ,: ; < :n»N» xJn»|„>/|.iMku k :— Wo have received from Vice President j A DKSor ^ TE Family—One mourns Raoul, who ably fillsJho important poal- he desoUuon wbich bas cre ^ iul0 lbe tion to which he has been promoted, » ( floating household of tbe late khedrve of copy of tho forty-fifth annual report of the earnings and financial condition of tbe Central ratlroad. It.will be seen from the detailed statements and figures submitted, that this ancient and powerful m i (M of h| 9 brother, but had no 0<» by tb# second mortgage bondholders to overload its stbotaacb so dread- rfl *&%**». “ •» » I P“’ rf"* * *» * .Mir." Death of a Journalist. We learn from the Griffin News that Mr. John B. Durable died on last Friday night at liis home in Jackson, Batts county. Mr. Durable will be remembered by many of the readers of the Teleouahii and Messenger. For a number of years before and during the war, Mr. Dumble was ou the editorial staff of the Memphis Appeal. As the enemy ap proached, that paper was removed first to Atlanta, and then to this city, and with it came John B. Dumble, Esq. When the war ended, instead of returning to Ten nessee he became one of the proprietors of the Macon Hally Telegraph, the firm be ing Clayland & Dumble. Mr. Dumble was a good newspaper roan, bis capability partaking more of tact than talent. He remained in this city some time, and had many, friends, who will be grieved at ids death. Subsequently lie became the editor of the Atlanta Daily Opinion until it was •old to Messrs. Anderson & Styles, who changed its name to the Atlanta Consti tution, a journal which now is circulated in every city and Tillage in the State, and carries the news of Georgia's greatness in to every section of the union. Mr. Dum ble afterwards removed to Butts county, where he has since lived. He was for a number ot years editor of the Butts County Argus, and may be said to have died in the harness. He was connected with the Southern press embracing a period of more than a quarter of a cen tury, and was indeed a veteran Journalist. The last week of tbe cotton region— that ending Friday night, 19th instant, presents a wretched record of rains, hails, snows, ice, frosts, boggy fields and rotting cotton, which it would be hard to parallel. Mahony Malone—Tho Richmond Whig, which belongs to Mahone, braces itself against a well-curb and uttem this grand flourish: A Democrat in principle and practice, with a noble career already achieved to attest h, General Mshone will not sacri fice present realities to obsolete fictions, nor subordinate tilings to names. An earnest, resolute man, with the courage of bis convictions, lie dares to l>e right, no matter what the consequences to himself individually, and this marked trait in ids character wbich endears him to the peo ple, aud which is the characteristic of the patriot and tbe self-sacrificing hero, is seized upou by tbe petty cabal of politi cians who neither comprehend nor appre ciate his motives as evidence of bis ego tism and selfishness. Yes, General Ma- lione is a Democrat. But be is not a Bourbon, nor will be submit his Democ- Balancc in hand . . . .$ 0,338 84 Principal Williams in his able report says: The year lias been one without any special incidents worthy of mention. Tho health of the household has been general ly good; the work of the officers and teachers in all departments has been faith fully done; entire harmony has prevailed among the members of the establish ment, aud a kind of Provldencehassniticd beuignantly upon our several efforts to discharge thevane4 dHties imposed up on us in our places of trust. The roll of pupils appended to this re port shows tue number of pupils in at tendance to have been sixty, and the at tendance tho year round has been unu sually regular and uniform, the averago being fifty-seven, and their progress In tho school room, the music room and the workshop has been each as to afford me much satisfaction. It is to he expected, as it is ftl all schools, that there will be variations of >radcs, of talent and advancement. Per- laps our exhibitions now would not show as high degree of skill and culture among our pupils, as they could show a few years ago, owing to tho fact that then, there were more advanced pupils under our charge, while now the class of beginners and young children preponderates. This fact is not to be deplored, since we Know that many, very many, of those who have left us as graduates are worthily il lustrating iu tlio walks of life aud biisi- ness tlie beneficence of our wortand with their skill, talents aud acquisitions filling places of usefulness. Again, Principal Williams says: Since the last report of the Academy was sent to the State Legislature, a measure of great importance to our work, then pend ing, lias been fully consummated. In my report for the year 1876,1 called attention to the American Printing House for tlie Blind, located at Louisville, Ky., giving a brief account of its purposes and history, and stating that its enterprise and useful ness were greatly obstructed by a want of means. 1 also mentioned that at the meet ing of the American Association of In structors of the Blind, held that year at Philadelphia, it was resolved to petition tlie general government for a grant of funds to aid in the work it was organized to do, and a oomuuUeo of superintendents —Huntoon, of Kentucky; Wait, of New York; Chapin, ot Pennsylvania; Morri son, of Maryland, aud Williams, of Geor gia—was appointed to prosecute the meas ure before Congress. Tlie committee entered without delay upon the duty assigned them, and they were rewarded by the House of Represen tatives passing the bill prepared by them, with only nineteen votes in tho negative. It was sent to the Senato and referred to the committee on education and labor. The committee of superintendents visited Washingtou aud went before the commit tee of tlie Senate, aud presented tbe whole question so clearly and forcibly that they resolved unanimously to report in favor of tbe bill. On March 3,1879, the hill passed the Senate by a vote of torty-nlne yeas to seven nays, and, receiving the signature of the President, became a law. By this measure Congress lias set aside $256,000 of four per cent, government bonds, the interest of which, $10,000, is to he paid over semi-annually to tlie trustees of the printing house, to be used by them in the manufacture of books and other ap pliances for distribution among the Insti tutions oftbe United States in the ratio of their respective attendance. This distri bution is gratuitous, but the books are rated at the actual cost of production. The first distribution lias already been made and another Is ready; amounting to this institution to an aunual addition to our scliool requisites and library for tlie blind of uearly three hundred dollars iu value. Tlie mere receiving of the books with out cost is n boon to the institutions, but there is a greater value than that accru ing to the bliud from this subsidy. A greater number of embossed books (the selection of which is entrusted to a com mittee of superintendents) will be pub lished, and thereby great additions be made to the now meagre literature of the blind. There is no work being done in Geor- gia more commendable than that of Pro fessor Williams and his corps of assist ants. Tills unfortunate class of our fel low beings are c enlitled to our Assistance and our sympathies, and the Legislature should be liberal in making provision for their maintenance. We have lived near and have watched the working of this in stitution for years, aud can candidly and knowingly say, that a nobler work does not claim the ^attention of the peoplo of Georgia than that going on in the Acade my for the Blind. The colored question is discussed in a supplemental report, and which will claim our attention. Matthews and Sherman.—Ex-Sen ator Stanley Matthews said to your cor respondent this evening, says tbe Balti more Sun, “I am not in Washington in reference to.the Cincinnati bridge , case, as published in some of the papers, I see. That does not come up till next March. There will bo a hot contest for United States Senator fropi Ohio. I think Sher man will win. It is argued by tlie Foeter faction that be is tbe candidate of the young meu.. That is not true. Foster's friends in the Legislature are those who owe him for some favor. He is not such a very young man, nor has he suffered for want of office. I am in favoi of Secre tary Sherman. I have been mentioned for the place myself, hut I am not a can didate. Of course I would not refuse it, though; but the fact is, my friends are chiefly Sherman’s friends. There may be' a few who would rather see me get the office thau either Sherman or Foster, but notmauy. The people generally think that as Garfield got tlie place for wbich Sherinau was a candidate, that is, the Presidency, Sherman should hare Gar field’s. Tlie Secretary’s strength Is very general, and not confined to any locality or class.” , Miss Bird, the traveller, remarked to racy to any Procrustean measurement. Be » j.p.tiexc factotum: “What a beautlftil ***** 0 1 **~ -a- day!” aud toon afterward, note-book iu The New Or Wan* hotel* are aubotttu- hand, he said: “You say a beautiful day, ting white girls for colored waiten, and Is that hatter English than <a deviltsli fine like the cf anje. j day,’ which most fqrclgnera ray?" organization, despite the forebodings of its officers and friends a few months since, is In a stronger and.more satis factory condition than Cor many years past. This is due to the general pros perity of the countiy, supplemented in ho little degree also by the tact and sagacity of the managers- Ih a single year the market value of tlie stock has advanced near fifty per cent. According to the report, the gross earn ings of the road and Us connections amount to $8,190,480.82, and tho ex penditures $1,652,554.96; leaving a net balance to credit of $1,537,034.80. Thi shows an increase In gross earnings of $365,943.20 over the previous* year, while only $30,253.85 have been added to the expense account, leaving $320,0S9.35 of net income more than for the year ending August31,1879..- TJie gross earnings are divided between the several branches of the road aa fol lows : The Savannah division earned $1,- 081,142.55; the Atlanta division earned $803,580.20; the Southwestern railrdad, $844,866.13; the Upson County railroad, $14,513.87; and the profits of the com pany’s bank are estimated at $40,387.07. Mr. Wadley does not hold out the hope to his stockholders that equally favorable net results may be expected for the follow ing year, as about $203,000 will he re quired for the purchase of six engines and not lew (bail 253eara. Tlio cost of mate' rials and labor will probably rule higher, also. - • 1 1 Tbe loss to the Ocean Steamship Com pany, by the collision of tho “City of Savannah” with tlie hark “Tobey," in New York harbor, thus far lias been $11,- 187.99, with some unsettled claims still to he added. But notwithstanding this and other accidents, tho net earnings of the steamships, exclusive of receipts from cot. ton presses, eta, amount to the satisfac tory figure of $178,00S.70 tor tlie past year. Since tbe last annual report, of tho $80,- 000 outstanding Indorsed bonds ot tlie city of Savanuab, falling due November lat, $70,000 have been presented and paid by tlie company at a loss of $25,057.84. The business oftbe Western railroad of Alabama has materially increased, and the payments to tho cimpany amount to 8134,000. Tlie portion of that road known as the Selma division has been leased to tbe Louisville and Nashville road for five years, from May 1st, at an aunual rental of $52,000. The division of the branches oPthe Western railroad between the Cen tral and Georgia railroad companies, as per agreement, has not yet been effected. Duri g tbe year, $144,000 of Southwes tern railroad bonds becoming due, were paid with S00 shares of that company, and the balance ($3S,000) in cash. On the 2d of June, owing to the in creasing ago and labors of President Wadley, the office of vice-president was created, and Captain W. G. Raoul unan imously elected to that position. Time has evinced that lie is every way qual ified for the creditable discharge ot its re sponsible duties This was followed by tbe promotion of Maj-irW. F. Shellman, tho worthy agent of tbe company at Macon, to be superin tendent of the Southwestern railroad: which place bad been tilled by Captain Raoul. Tills excellent gentleman also possesses the entire confidence of tlie company and public. President Wadley is strongly opposed to the railway commission, on the ground that tbe present law gives them unlimited power overall the railroads of the State. He would favorsuch a modification in tbe act, however, as “would allow maximum rates to be made by the different roads, under the approval of the commissioners, leaving the roads freedom of action under them, and providing for a reference to the commissioners of all questions that may arise between the roads and their patrons.’ But the president admit* that alter a fair test of the prescribed tariff of rates laid' down by the commissioners, when it was found in practice to be onerous and Injuri ous to tbe interests of his road, upou rep resentation of the facts, the board con seiited to make such modifications of their rates and rules as reidered them lesAob- jectiouable. Hence, the flourishing con dition oftbe Central railroad at this time. As yet the Legislature bas taken no ac tion upou tbe subject. WOHK AT MACON. The report of General Superintendent William Rogers is very full and satisfac tory. Of our own city he says: “Macon being the point of the greatest concentra tion of our rolling stock, the demand upon the shops there for repair work is very heav^ the improvements now in progress have been piauned with a view to meet it lully.” The superintendent bas enlarged the water supply at Macon to such au extent that ample protection, by a system of wa ter pipes and plugs connected with Uie tank in the shop yard, is afforded to all the works and property of tbe company. From Uie tables of statistics we extract the following: Tlie number of passengers carried by tbe road and its breuebes from September 1st, 1879, to September 1st, 1880, foots up 607,200, against 547,971 for the previous year. For tbe same time the number of bales of yam transported, 17,082, against 11,593 the year before; number of pounds of wool transported 453,991, against 587,- 064; pound* of tobacco transported 1,419,- 909, against 839,709 tbe previous year; pouuda of. lard 755,404, against 103,406; pounds of bacon 8,147,777, against 3,477,272 last year; barrels of turpentiuo 4,587, against 3,581; barrels of rosin 20,406, against 24,749; pounds of dried fruit, 95,877, against 339,* 147 last year; whole barrels of beer car ried 500, half barrels 15,179, against 712 whole and 6,315 half barrel* last year; bushels of com 442,055, against 46,744 last year; number of feet of timber 10,- 790,000, a&aiust 8^79,000 for the past year; whole barrels of liquor trans ported 3,125, halt barrels 1,807, against 3,728 whole barrels and 1,2S8, half bar rels the previous year; number of pouuds of guano, 128,032,372, against 81,472,737 tor last year—increase, -46,550,635 pounds; number of bales of co on trans ported 598,227, against 539,794 of the crop of 1870-70. Tbe .above is sufficient to show the vast aI.,ms r-f #HAl»1ita nI* Al'iivt- 1 1»»1 arwl tlw> * Egypt. But yesterday, as it were, lie was the happy husband of scores of beauties from the mountains of Georgia and Cir cassia and numerous provinces of.- Asia, Africa and Enrtqie, bound to him by the ties of a wauanf.ee title-deed, and consti tuting a gay and festive throng of every color and feature, rejoicing iu gems, paint and spangles. How gay and brilliant was that household! But, uow, in the course of a few weeks, we can only picture its ruin. -‘It has been reduced down to two fiat-nosed Nubian negresses, who sit down iu the asbes of the chimney-corner, bake their hoecako and croon the plaintive airs of Kirchiramakee-macher. Tbe dreams and sports of young love have fled from that household. Tbe spacious halls no longer resound with gentle and grace ful mirth. The dulcet lays of love are uow no belter than “O, Jinny, git yerhoe- cake done 1” immense business of this great highwayl Queen Viqtorl* DruDOJWlfi ,, . of Georgia. Who can estimate the bene-' the maimr^ rrpnnw «m« ? fit of this airgjq rer*d AoJflrflTS mdesiif grandson, at Berlin an^ Thi import* of Great Britain op to d a . e 000ttv» l ikT ° f laSt ye * r by 0Ter W90,P00, the exports by over $130,000 000 ; ?* a PPe» ra that 478,000 persons born in •oreign countries arc residents of New York City, while 727,000 of the inhabi tants are natives. „ In a cave near Silver Cliff; Col., two bars of gold worth $900, were found. Two human skeletons were there, too, and It is supposed there arc tbercmaiusofvery eafjy miners. SOME of the Choctaw girls In “the Nation,” as Indian Territory is called* are highly educated, veiy beautiful, aud nearl v as fair in complexion as their sisters in the States. A gentleman saw an old Highlander one day fishing with a bent pin. U e -aid tothemau: “Fish will never be caught with that.” “Ay, they will,” the man re plied, “if they’ll only take it into their heads.” SKNATOr. Bruce was feted and feasted by Ills admirers of Memphis a few days ago.* In liis speech he urged the colored people to do three tilings: To practice economy, to buy land audio educate their children. “ . A Nevada widower took bis four sis ters-in-law to §alt Lake and married them all. The oldest is 30, and the youngest 16, and they profess tlie most ardeut love for their husband, as' well as" for one another. ' It seems possible to have a good many acres in County Kerry without much in come from them. Lord Lansdowue's 91,- 544 acres are valued at £8,543 a year,. Lord Ventry’s 91,595 at £15,288, Mr. Bland’s 32,540 at £2,C3S; the O’Donoghue’s 10,450 at £887. A writer in Land and 1 Kilter says: “What a mistake it is to put marble statues in tlie open atr m Loudon! There is the effigy of the Queen in tbe Royal Exchange In fine weather tlie features are soot-be grimed. and on wet days the water flows in dirty furrows down the cheeks.” Hon. John Sherman lias written a let ter to Mr. L. D. Myers, of Qhio, an in timate personal and po.itical- triend, in which he says that, while he could make no personal efforts to secure tlie place of United Slates Senator, he would gladly accept, and, if elected, would faithfully serve the people of Ohio in that position. Kenward Philp denies that he has been discharged from his position of edi torial writer on the New York Truth, or Uiat there has been any unpleasantness An Error Corrected.—In our men tion last week of a visit to Milleilgeville and the Middle Georgia Military and Ag ricultural College, while speaking of the faculty of Uie institution, the writer sta ted that the chair of languages was filled by Professor Hutson. This was a mis take. Mr. Hutson was elected to that position, and his name appears upon the catalogue. But it appears that he did not accept; and afterwards, that ripe schol ar and rising young gentleman, Professor J. C. Hinton, formerly of this city, wa* chosen in his place, and is now at liis post and doing good service in the Col lege. We hasten to correct the error, which Was unwittingly tirade^ Bill Arp says he can manage to squeeze along at a second-rate hotel if ho could get boiled eggs and sweet potatoes, for they couldn’t contaminate them very much, bit that tho other day when he or dered eggs the darky came hack directly and says, “Boss, dldent yon say yon wanted dem eggs skambled.” “No,” said he, “I want them boiled.” After a little lie came back again anil said, “Boss, hadent you just as live have lhem_ eggs skambled?” “No; I told you,” said he, “I want them boiled.” “Boss,” said he iu a whisper, “I is afeered dem eggs ain’t fresh enufto bile, hut day will skamble mighty nice." m T _ between himself and the proprietors of THE PROPOSED WORLD’S FAIR.-Thc tliatpJkper He also denies that he con- fact that $75,000 of stock in the proposed World’s Fair, in New York, was taken within three days after tho opening of thd books, is accepted by the movers in the scheme as gratifying evidence that capi talists are willing to invest in it on trust, particularly as tho site bas not yet been selected. The pressure in favor of the Prospect Park (Brooklyn) site seems to be gaiuing strength the more it is examined; so much so that the up-town real estate interests have about yielded their position that it must be on Manhattan Island or nowhere. Vieoixia’s Iron Interests.—In a speech In Lynchburg last week, Mr. Weeks, editor of the Iron Age, Pittsburg, Pa., declared that there Is a hundred times as much iron in Virginia as there is in Pennsylvania, and Maj. Hotchkiss sta ted upon tbe authority of Pennsylvania iron men, that iron can bo manufactured more cheaply in Virginia—in the James river regioo—tlian anywhere else on the continent. Mr. Weeks also said that there must some day be a Pittsburg iu Virginia, and that Lynchburg was the place for such a manufacturing city. Good Advice.—There is a political club iu Greenville, South Carolina, call ing themselves the Tigers. There is an other political club in Alliance, Ohio, who telegraph the News in Greenville, that they are coming down to shave the heads of the Tigers and send them to the luna tic asylum. Hereupon tbe Greenville News suggests that if the operation is to be performed against the will of the Tigers^ it would be well to sublet the contract. But If it is to represent a friendly and courteous purpose, come on, look at the countiy, aud try a few bottles of cham pagne. Do you visit Washington to witness the inauguration of Mr. Garfield ? If so, look out for your hotel accommodations in advance. Up to this date, all the ho tels have been engaged, and a standing place on the door step is worth five dol lars a day. The Riggs House say they have engagements for 1,700 people from Philadelphia alone, and yet Philadelphia comprises but a small part of this great aud glorious kedutry. By tbe 1st of March every paving tlone will be rented at a dollar a day. Cotton Fickiso for the Church.— In Aberdeen, Mississippi, last week a par ty of young ladies” of the Presbyterian Church turned out a day to pick cotton for the benefit of tbe church, at the rate of sixty-five cents per hundred weight. They made ten dollars iu the day’s opera tions, begiuning at 10:30, which was late for field hands. Besides the money, they won a good deal of fun in the pick ing. A case of compositor's license, unwar ranted by the facts or the manuscript, was tbe spelling of the late Miss Wilis Danforth’s name in an obituary .yester day, Miss Willow Danforth. This most estimable young lady was a general favor ite in Vinerille and one of the fairest and most engaging or her sex in that pleasant suburb. Cold Weather in Nashville—In Nashville on Friday and Saturday last, the mercury rank to the neighborhood of zero, aud scores of street hydrants burst. This arctic weather seems to have cause* a nuptial'rage which was displayed iu numerous weddings. Mr. Labouchxbe draws this lovely picture of an ideal Englishwoman in his paper of November 4ib: “Picture to your self a portly form surmounted by a large head, a larger countenance and the largest hat you ever saw. Clothe, iu your mind’s eye, that form in the lightest tie-back you can perceive of blue verge; roll round iu knees a scarf of bright red; Ue around its shoulders (about a yard aud three- quarters iu circumference) a short cape, also of bright red, and then try to fancy red cord tylug Uie cape to tbe scarf, tbe muff (red, too) to the waist and banging down iu many loops and ends behind and before; tbe hat is white, the face scarlet, . vcjqqra of freighU of every kind and the j the age about fifty.” templates making a confession, and pro tests that he has nothing to confess. Steam Heating in New York.—The New York Steam Heating Company have been granted tbe right by tho board of aldermen to lay their mains tn any or all the city streets. The company are to pay the city sinking fund three cents per linear foot of strcetway In which its mains shall be laid until it shall have paid $100,000> after which payment shall cease. It was a pretty close call in California. The five Democratic electors are clioscu by majorities of from S7 to 143, aud the sixU>, Judge Terry, is defeated by a ma jority of 507. It is a blessed thing that [the Presidcutial election did not depend ou the vote of California. The temptation orecounting out or counting in, in that case, would hardly have been resisted. Mr. William E. Chandler writed a letter in which he lakes the view of most common-sense persons that a subscription for the benefit of General Grant would bo a humiliation to him, aud urges the re newal of a proposition made once before— that General Grant shall be placed upon the retired army list, with the rauk of General and an aunual pay of $17,500. The scaffoldings arc still up around tho towers of Cologne Cathedral, and the Cologne Gazette says that it will be ne cessary to keep at work upon them aiL next year, and much, too, bas to be done in the matter ot glaziug windows and forming and Suing artistically wrought doors. The Gazette puts tho whole cost when completed at $0,500,000, wbich was about the cost of St. Paul’s, London. Captain Eads’jetties have had a re markable effect on tbe commerce ot the Mississippi Valley. Since the 1st of last January, St. Louis has shipped to Europe twice as much graiu by way of New Orleans as passed out of the country by that route in tbe corresponding period of last year. It is said that tbe shipments are at present limited by the want of barges with .which to more the graiu, and fleets of boats are to be built to sup ply the want. One of Sara Berubart’s sumptuous dres ses is described as something between the- Oriental and the Louis Quinxe in style— a long white silk robe, embroidered wilh- gold bordered with ermine, with a broad crimson waist-piece enriched with pearls;, to this waist piece or licit is adapted a magnificent agrafe of silver, inlaid with gems given her by the Prince of Wale*, and a necklet matching tbe agrafe, a mar vel of Oriental woikmanobip, completes- the picture. The finest sugar crop ever raised in Louisiana, says an exdiange, is uow be ing gathered. The yield will be fifty per cent, beyond the average. Tbe use of proper fertilizer* aud careful cultivation have itnprovedand increased the sugar as well as the cotton crop in the South. Hitherto lbe average yield of one hogs head to tbe acre has been considered good,, but Ibis year it will not be less than one and a half hogsheads. On some planta tions three hogsheads per acre are being gathered. Tbe unusually large crop baa had the effect of reducing tbe price of raw sugar from one to two cents per pound, below the price last year. A High-Speed Locomotive.—Tbe • Baldwin Locomotivo Works have just en tered into a contract with Col. G. A. L. Roberts, of Titusville, Pa., for tbe coo- afruction of a passenger engine which will' be able to run eighty miles an beur, and maintain this rate of speed one Min- dred miiee without stopping. Tbe leoo- motlve is to weigb thirty-eight tons, and will comply with tbe standsid gauge. Tbe driving wheels will be sis feet in diameter. Tbe forward trucks and those on the tender will be msda of paper, which it is said will «mlure mere strain and wear than iron or steel. The wheels will all. be of the pattern known as the broad tree#, which will enable the engine to run on roods of either d foe18| inches or 4 feet 10 inches gauge. The most im portant featar.- •* U» locomotive will he - tbe introduc >a of the Roberta patent cyllade. -ud piston, which, it is claimed, has proved rapotte of saving st ieaat twei typer ceiik in attain prank .st: -.-s -m; hettaimog ;