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TUESDAY DECEMBER 7, 1880/
At St. Lourf tlie river is lower than
or many years. Navigation is suspended
and cannot be resumed until after a rise.
According to the Paris L'Evcnement,
the beautifbl Lady Dudley has just ar
rived in Peris. Lady Dudley is one of
the most beautiful women in Great
Britain.' She is th'rty years old—the age
preferred by Balzac—her eyes are blue,
ber features adorably delicate, and her
figure as ethereal • as that of a sylph.
Sho takes gloves at 51 and boots at 25J
(4} English.)
Chinese trade with the United States
is increasing rapidly in the line of cotton
piece goods. The bade has more than
doubled the past year. The Chinese
market is also op-ra for numerous articles
oi manufactured goods from our country,
avd it our people pursue a fair and honor
able policy they will absorb most of the
Chinese trade.
Tub English magistrate in Pooree,
India, compelled the priests pf Jugger
naut to put patent safety brakes on their
famous car before they could have their
annual procession. The car is enormous
ly heavy, and Is very apt on down grades
to get beyond control and run down large
numbers of the processionists.
Swiss for Georgia—Georgia, says
the Nashville American, lias inaugurated
an imm’gration scheme of her own through
the cn'orprise of a railroad corporation
having 3,000,000 acres of salable land in
the northeastern part of the State. One
hundred Swiss are announced to set sail
from Havre, De:.4, to found the Georgia
Switzerland.' If the experiment succeeds,
many others will follow.
The Rev. Mr. Nutting, in his sermon
at Fail River on Thanksgiving Day, laid
bare with a steady hand the evil conse
quenccs of wliat he, a Rhode Islauder,
frankly styles “Yankee" influences. lie
charges the “Yankee people ” wherever
located, with the offence of seeking to
destroy the American family “through
divorce and worse crimes,” and declares
that the license of the worse periods of
the French revolution is surpassed in
Rhode Island and Connecticut. That is
a very startling confession to come from
the laud of steady habits.
The President's Message.—Presi
dent Hayes has completed bis message,
and the question which now disturbs him
is whether or not to put it in print. lie
is apprehensive if he prints it It may have
premature publication. Editor Smith, of
the Cincinnati Gazette, advises him to
compel the Associated Press to telegraph
it from manifold copies to be furnished
Meanwhile the President has telegraphed
for Win. Henry Smith, the Western As-
saciatud Press agent at Chicago, to coine
to this city and consult him with reference
to its distribution.
The story Is told tliat when George D
Prentice, founder of the Louisville Jour
nal, was editor of the .Veto England
Weekly Review, at Hartford, he had oc
casion to make some reflections upon
John Vanderbilt, a brother of the Com-
mo lore, who was running a boat between
Hartford and New York. Vauderbilt
started out to thrash Prentice, but had
hardly reached the third story of the
building where Prentice was, before he
found himself lying on the sidewalk at
the fool of the stairs. Prentice published
an account of the matter, inviting Van
derbilt to cal! again, and saying that he
(Prentice) weighed fourteen stone and
swung a pair of fists like the halyard
blocks of au East India sclieoner.
The Primitive Baptists make it a rule
to exp.'l a member from the church who
takes advantage of any relief law or re
fuses to pay a debt. A few months since
one of this class—a pretty rough looking
case—entered an Athens, Ga., store and
wanted credit for a few goods until he
could sell his cotton. Not knowing bis
customer, the merchant refused, but about
this time a well-known elder of the church
entered and tapping the farmer on the
shoulder, asked: “ How are you, Brother
Frank?” “Is that gentleman a member
of your church, Uncle D?” asked the
tradesman. “Oh, yes, and a good one
too,” was tho reply. “Weil, then, my
friend,” continued the dealer, “go through
this bouse from cellar to garret and pick
out wliat you want. I will sell you the
whole establishment, clerks and all, on
credit, with only your religion as security.'
It tamed out that the customer was one
of the solid men of Northeastern Georgia.
A Bio Transaction in Railroad
Tickets’.—A Toledo, Ohio, dispatch to
the Cincinnati Gazette says: “A new
phase of the railroad war was developed
here, Wednesday, which was no less than
the purchase by S. T. Fink, a ticket brok
er of this city, of unlimited tickets over
the Lake Erie & Western and Chicago &
Alton rodds t i the amount of $275,000
The hroEer Is also acting as agent for the
two roads, and It was suppoied by some
that it was merely a nominal arrangement
and tliat it was only another way of put
ting the tickets on sale, but inquiry at
the national hank where the arrangement
was made developed the fact that it was
a bona fide purchase. After the terms
were agreed upon, it seems that the rail
road companies were Inclined to weaken
and, apparently to kill the tho negotiation,
demanded gold. They were directed to
eend up a dray, which was done, and the
money was promptly weighed out. This
is Uy' far the largest transaction of the
kind which has over occurred, and will
have a tendency to keep rates unsettled
for a long time to come.”
The Tennessee Bond Compromise.
Tho Chattanooga Times says “tho com
mittee in charge of the interests of Ten
nessee bondholders advise their clients to
demand more than CO and 0. We advised
Mr. Kelly, the chairman of this commit
tee, to accept 50-1 when that measure was
before the people. Had lie dene so, in
authoritative form, the debt would now
toe settled. He declined in most pointed
terms to take our advice, and wq printed
Ills letter. Wo now warn him and his
associates Shot they have committed a
serious blunder in advising tha withdrawal
of tho (X)-C proposition. The bondholder*
will never get mors than that; they will
hardly get so much. We speak as one
know ing the sentiments and intentions of
the mgjorily of the people in reference to
i this matter. Wo believe the State owes
i every dollar ihc face of the.bonda calls
; for, hut that belief lias nothing to do with
' the practical question of sMUainent.” The
last clause of tills editorial deefyat^pn la
equivalent lotlie admission that the fitale
of Tennessee is not willing to pay ber
just debts. That it among that claaa of
fads which may be-eiassed as “mribrtn-
iiutO| if true.”
How to Preserve Sugar Cane Seed.
One reason why the cultivation of the
West Indian sugar cane is not more
general m this State is the difficulty
of preserving the seed through the winter.
Frequently, when the beds are opened in
the spring at planting time, the canes are
covered with a white mould, and though
seemingly sound, and when expressed
producing good syrup and sugar, upon ex
amination the “eyes” are found to be
black, shrunken and destitute of vitality.
This Li owing to dry rot, caused by lack
of moisture in the bed.
The proper method of saving seed,
which the writer, during an experience of
many years in Liberty county, found to
bo invariably successful, is as follows:
Before the first frost, but after the cane
has fully matured, dig it up by the roots,
and mattress the stalks in beds six feet
wide and about three feet In depth. In
these beds the canes should be placed in
layers and shingled along, as it were, the
butts being protected by the foliage of the
plant. The exposed end, or starting point
of the bed, should be covered with earth
as a protection against cold, but the bed
itself ought not to be excluded from the
atmosphere until the leaves of the cane
are pretty well dried. A light covering of
the dead blades at first will aflonl all the
protection then needed. To cover deeply
witii soil at the outset produces fermenta
tion in the bed, and will result iu great
damage to the seed.
Alter the foliage of the cane has suffi
ciently withered, say about ten days, the
beds may receive a light coating of earth
as a protection agaimt frost, but on no ac
count should they be finally covered up
until immediately after a saturating rain.
It is the lack of moisture that causes dry
rot, and this can be demonstrated by
opening and watering the beds in seasons
of drought, thus preserving the seed, when
without this precaution the germs ot the
cane would perish.
When fully wet cover deeply with soil
to retain the moisture, leaving the beds
perfectly flat to catch the winter rdnfalls.
Cane seed thus treated will stand the
hardest winter in m'dJle Georgia, and
every eye will be swollen and in perfect
condition for plautiug iu the spring.
Plant during the first open spell in Feb
ruary, cutting the canes into pieces each
containing about three eyes, and lapping
the ends to insure a thick stand. Where
the laud is very rich it will pay to lay the
cane double in the furrow, as it is a cu
rious fact that unlike most crops, sugar
cane does best when planted very thick.
In Cuba lhc’rt>W3‘are only two feet apart
and the fields resemble a dense jungle
when the canes itre Tally grown. In proo
of the above remark we have only to
plant a single eye by the side of a ma
nure heap, and alXbpugh the dismatcrof
the stalk will be large, the altitude will
not exceed four feet.
Every planter in middle and southern
Georgia should raise his own syrup and
sugar, and a few acres as a market crop
will be found to be far more profitable
than cotton.
A Short Cotton Crop.
Tiie whole cotton region, with but lint'
ited exception, Las had a month of rainy
and cloudy weather, principally in-Novem
ber, when tiie fields are white with the
staple, and even before this solid block of
wet and clouds set in, cotton in Arkansas,
West Tennessee, at Memphis, and in
many parts of Texas was reported rotting
in the field from too much rain and lack
of sunshiue. It is clear that a very large
portion of the cotton grown has already
been lost from ibis cause, and very little
that U now exposed can be placed in the
market in a merchantable condition. The
picking season, as a whole, has been the
worst wiihin our memory, aud estimates
founded on acreage and comparison
with last year, are of no value. The out
turn so far from reaching six million bales,
as anticipated by some, will be consider
ably short of last year. Instead of being
about 250,000 bales in excess of last year’s
yield, (which was 5,757,31*7 bales,) it will
and must be a good many bales short of
that product. The men of long figures
have got to come down. There will be
no surplusage in the cotton crop of this
year.
Our Next Mayor.
The retirement of Dr. Collins and Cap
tain Camos from the mayoralty contest
leaves Mr. Felix Corput wi.b no competi
tor in tho race.
Both of tiie gentlemen firet named are
popular and deserving citizens, and either
of them would have gracefully and ably
discharged the duties of the chief magis
trate of our fair city. While they were
all before the public we felt that any ex
pression of opinion as to the merits of
any one of them would have been in vidi
ous and improper. But now that Mr. Cor
put is the sole candidate, it is only dtle to-
him to say that his election will be emi
nently satisfactory to the people of Ma
eon.
A sagacious and successful meichant,
and possessed of popular manners, he is
also, as one of the leading aldermen of the
city and chairman of the finance commit
tee of council, thoroughly posted upon all
matters relating to the finances and mate
rial wants of the corporation, and has dis
played signal ability Inthediscliaigeof his
responsible duties. In bis hands, there
fore, may safely be confided tiie interests
of our city, and we trust his election will
be unanimous.
A good mayor,however, is powerless un
less bacxed by a good board of aldermen.
It is to be hoped, therefore, that the very
best men will be selected from the several
wards to represent the city at the council
board. Some of those whose names have
been suggested are admirably qualified
for tliat position and doubtless will be
elected.
The Health of Senator Lamar.
Faiurul reports have been going the
rounds of the press respecting the physi
cs! condition of the distinguished Senator
from Mississippi, Mr. Latuar. It has even
been asserted that bis public career is over,
aud never again would he be permitted to
lift up his clarion voice in the councils of the
nation, in defense of constitutional gov
ernment. But the following extract from
the Oxford (Miss.) Falcon shows that
these rumors are without foundation:
We give below an article that appeared
in the New York Graphic under the cap
tion of “Probable Changes iu the Senate,”
which, so far as it applies lo Senator La
mar, is a gross exaggeration. Senator
Lamar's health has been improving since
the dose of the canvass, and lie will cer
tainly be in his seat. Mrs. Lamar lias
been for some time in very poor health,
and Senator Lamar may take ber to some
tropical climatp, which may. prevent his
being present at the opening of the Sen
ate, but under no circmstauces will his
seat be vacant during tiie next session of
Congress, unless he can be paired with a
Republican Senator.
Senate would l>e a public calamity. Calm,
conciliatory, sagacious, yet bold and de
cisive in the hour of action, he is a tower
of strength to the South. Long may he
be spared to represent the constituency
which is so devoted to him.
Incorrect.—The Atlanta press dispatch
that the vote of Georgia has been lost to
Hancock and English, because of the fail
ure of the electors to meet or Wednesday,
we believe to be wholly erroneous. The
Governor of the State notified tho electors
as to their duty in the premises, and the
failure to meet and cast the vote of Geor
gia, in consonance with the verdict of her
people, was simply owing to an iradver-
tence in the State statute.
No one is to blame, and it would be a
monstrous violation of every principle of
equity if the vote of Georgia was thrown
out simply because her electors obeyed
the laws of their own State and cast their
votes on the day designated therein, in
stead of in accordance with the revised
statutes of the United States. By the
merest chance the assembling of the elec
toral college in Georgia has been delayed
one week, but next Wednesday it will as
suredly meet at the capitol and cast the
vote of the State for Hancock and Eng
lish.
The laws of the United States do not
contemplate the disfranchisement of any
of the members of the confederation, es
pecially fora mere informality ia the de
positing by an electoral college of its
vote for President and Vice President. In
any event, however, fortunately, it is not a
matter of the smallest consequence wheth
er the vote of Georgia is recorded against
Garfield or not. It would not affect tho
general result. He will certainly be our
uest President.
Irish Affairs.
The World’s London correspondent
says: •
It lias been decided that the govern
ment, when Parliament meets, will intro
duce a coercion act at the same time with
tiie new laud bill. The act will provide
for the immediate disarming of the people
but whether this can be accomplished
without bloodshed in the present temper
of Irishmen is a question which nobody
cares to answer just now. I fear it will
be found, sooner or later, that the laud
agitation is only one outward manifesta
tion of a deep-seated feeling tliat the
proper place iu which to make laws for
Ireland is- College Green, Dublin, and
this feeling will remain in spite of all the
beneficent land measures tliat tho gov
ernment can introduce and Parliament
pass.
On Monday last the press telegrams an
nounced that four more regiments of
British regulars were under orders for
Ireland, and would move in a few hours.
Tiie Land League meetings are daily be
coming more minatory. At an immense
meeting in Loughrea many present carried
naked swords and other arms openly
exposed.
A Quarantine Convention.
The Board of Health of the .State of
Louisiana, deeply impressed with the ne
cessity of instituting proper sanitary pre
cautions fur the protection of her great
seaport aud people, have taken advantage
of the approaching meeting of the Ameri
can Public Health Association at New
Orleans during the present month, to call
a convention of tho Municipal aud Stale
Boards of Health of tiie States of Alabama,
Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Kentucky, Georgia, Florida and Louis!
ana, to assemble at the State house in
New Orleans on the 7th insl. The Na
tional Board of Health are also invited to
be present and take part in tbeir delibera
tions.
The primary object of the convention is
to effect a permanent quarantine associa
tion, with a regular organization includ
ing president, vice president and secre
tary.
Governor Wiltz will deliver the address
of welcome, after which sundry salient
questions will bo propounded and dis
cussed. From these we condense the fol
lowing:
In what shall quarantine consist? In
detention or disinfection, or both; And
when, by what authority, and for what
length of time shall it be established.
Against what ports or countries shall
the quarantine be enforced.
What diseases are to be regarded as In
fectious or contagious.
How long shall ships and their cargoes
and passengers be detained at quarantine,
and what articles of merchandise are in
cluded in the quarantine restrictions.
Shall similar quarantine regulations be
indiscriminately enforced against ail ves
sels from tiie same infected port, whether
or not they have clean bills of health.
What is the best method of disinfection
for ships and their cargoes.
Wliat are tiie best disinfectants.
in wliat cases will it be necessary for a
vessel to discharge its cargo for more com
plete fumigation and disinfection.
How a uniform and general system of
quarautine can be established in the sev
eral States that are interested, and by what
rules and regulations shall it be governed
and enforced.
Whether the Ship Island Quarantine is
the best location for the protection of the
Mississippi valley from foreign dfceases,
and the propriety of establishing other
quarantine posts at the principal ports on
the Golf ot Mexico.
The above questions comprise in a nut
shell what the quarantine convention pro
poses to accomplish. It’s deliberations
will be looked forwaid to with the deep
est interest, nut only by the medical fac
ulty of the country, but by all the intelli
gent portion of the people residing in
cities and districts that are subject to
visitations from yellow fever. It is now
almost an established fact that efficient
disinfectants, proper drainage, a duo re
gard to cleanliness and hygieui: rules,and
a vigilant and rigid quarantine arc ail that
necessary to protect any communi
ty from the ravages of tho dreaded fever.
It is to ascertain the best methods of at
taining ibeso desirable results that tho
quarantine convention has been called at
tiie request of the Board of Health of
Louisiana. * i>«
We trust that Georgia will be fully and
ably represented in that important body.
The committee of arrangements on tiie
part of the Board, through a printed pam
phlet, cordially invite thq governors aud
municipal authorities of all the Southern
States and Maryland, Missouri and Illi
nois to send delegates to the quarantine
convention. Wo trust they will respond
without delay.
The County Candidate*.
The Democratic Executive Committee
of Bibb county have reconsidered their
action appointing a primary election for
candidates for county officers to-day, thus
leaving the field open for all candidates.
We have no doubt this action is respon
sive to the feeling generally prevailing
throughout* the, community on this sub
ject—a desire to exercise a lull individual
discretion in filling offices of mere local
fiduciary trust, which have no direct rela
tion to politics.
Now that this programme has been
agreed to by general consent, what we
ask is that every citizen will feel it incum
bent upon him—a part of his solemn civic
duty, which he musf discharge, to come
forward-on the appointed day (which is
the 5th day of January next) and vote for
the men he deems best qualified to fill
these offices with most credit to the coun
ty and acceptability to the people.
It is needless to say that our county of
ficers should be exemplary men—men of
established character and exeentive abili
ty; and if tho popuiar vote uncon
trolled by any party or politi
cal machinery fails to make a
wise selection, it will be a discredit
to the people of the county, and we have
no right to gossip about abuses in office,
while we fail of our duty at the ballot
box. It is almost universal that the class
whose social position should make them
most prompt in tho discharge of their
duty as citizens are the most negligent.
It is disagreeable to vote—takes time and
patience, and they have only one vote
apiece, which is easily oflset and goes for
little iu the crowd. It is such talk that
destroys the morale of the ballot, as the act
of an intelligent public will and judgment,
which might otherwise be controlling.
Thus men who complain most of a rabble
ballot, are the most in fault for its result.
Turn out, every man, and give tiie candi
dates whom you believe best entitled to
public support a strong and hearty back
ing.
The Secret Oct.—James Redpath,
who arrived from Ireland Monday, spoke
in Newark that evening at the Irish Land
League meeting. H? said:
Ail this year there hare been only live
ca3cs of accidental death that any one can
attribute to tiie tenants. One of the men
killed was Lord Leitrim. If he bad not
been shot it would have been an eternal
disgrace. He had ruined thirty pure girls,
aud the bro her of one of them went to
Ireland from Chicago and shot him down
like the dog that he wa3. [Applause] I
profoundly honor him lor it; and if I meet
him in Chicago I will congratulate him
on being a good shot. I hope he will dis
close bis name, that we may give him a
testimonial. Mr. Froude has condemned
that shooting, and I charge him with de
fending debauchery. It is time to speak
out about this thing. The Land League
has given the people new courage. Last
year they were crushed, but now they act
like free men. By socially ostracizing
every one who takes a farm from which
a tenant has been evicted, tiie people keep
such farms vacant.
I* Gearffia Prosperous T
j fM, fair hoy he had christened but two j
! weeks bofore. He saw that the trouble
Condition of the Haw. j ta; Morris Roger, New Orleans; Thomas
Our esteemed contemporary, the Augtis- ' "iruuu.e j Washington, December 2—The an-! Dolan, Philadelphia; Wm. A. Burke.
m rLonWe and CoLitutlonalist has 1 than , nuat report of the Secretary of the Navy Lowell, Massachusetts; Wm. Gray, j£
ta Chronicle and Constitutionalist, has advised the afflicted parents to consult a waj pubUc t0 . day . J Tlie Secretary, Boston, and J. H. McMillan, Biddeford
been making inquiries upon this subject; physician at once. Thisi was done, and afl er referring to the various squadrons j Maine. ’
ot the business men of that city. We re- j various doctors prescribed for the child,» an( j t j, 6 condition of the vessels of the The plan contemplates a grand interna-
produce the entire article: child“SSdari*?!uddarker 6 'The Jlor * view \. re P°? s t ° f «*** “°- nal of appliances and ma-
Last Saturday the Chronicle published I ***““ bureau, of the departwen* | chewed In tbe preparation, cultiva-
was uniform all over the body, except at
an interview of Hon. A. H. Stephens with the Joints, where it was a little darker,
a reporter of the Washington Republican. * " “ “
We reprint the following which pertains
Garfield and Blaine.—A Washing
ton correspondent of the Philadelphia
Times says:
It has been ascertained tliat Senator
Blaine came here at the request of Gen.
Garfield, who wanted to have a long tala
with the Maine Senator. They break
fasted togethei at Garfield’s house on Fri
day, nobody else being present, and they
spent three hours In private conversation,
it is known that at this interview General
Garfield offered Mr. Blaine first tiie sec
retaryship of state and then the secretary
ship of the treasury. Mr. Blaine answer
ed that lie was greatly complimented, but
he felt that his place at this time was in
the Senate and he did not feel like desert
ing or shrinking from his duty.
The condition of the London money
market, just now, is a peculiar due, as
described by tbe Times' city article, of the
14tl» ultimo:
“The belief that we are going to have
dearer money before the end of tho year
seems to be gaining ground In tiie city,
but no one is able to say wliat are tbe
particula' Influences which may be ex
pected to cause the rise or how soon they
will come into operation. Tho fact is
that everybody is a holder of securities,
and is, consequently, interested in money
remaining cheap, and all are at tiie same
time afraid of dearer money comiug too
suddenly upon them before they can real
ize. Hence there is that fidgetty demand
for money by the more timid which lias
to-day given the holders of floating bal
ances more to do.”
French Wheat Crop.—Franco pro
duced a better grain crop tbe present year
than in any one of the last eight yearn.
The tables show C3,034,000 increase over
last year on the wheat product. And in all
grains a gross increase of S8,081,000 bush
els. The total French yheat crop of last
year was 279,S20,000.
The Senatorial Question, i. t., the
question" whether the Senate Is to
be Democratic or Republican, is giving
new (rouble upon a rumor that James C.
Flood, calling himself a Democrat, is
about to buy out the situation of Mr.
I Booth in that body, and is likely to sue-
The loss of Lamar in the United States ceed.
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particularly to what we shall write here
after:
“Reporter—Mr. Stephens, I see In sev
eral papers you are reported assaying tliat
it is not true that the South is at present
growing in prosperity, that in Georgia
particularly there has been a decline in
material wealth for several years past.
Were you correctly reported in this state
ment? It has greatly surprised a number
of people, aud I see that some of your
Georgia papers join issue with you ou this
question.
“Mr. Stephens—I was much more accur
ately reported in that statement than I
have often been in other instances. I did
say that forseveral years past tho people
of Georgia have been growing poorer aud
poorer. How it was this year I did not
know, as I have not seen tbe comptroller’s
report for 1880. For several years past,
however, there has been almost a contin
ual decrease in the aggregate wealth of
the State, as appeared from the comptrol
ler general's report. I spoke from the
records, but from memory of them only,
at the time.”
A representative of the Chronicle
talked with a number of prominent busi
ness men yesterday in regard to the mat
ter, and we found them unanimous in tho
opiuion that tiie prosperity of Georgia
was never greater than at the present
time.
Gen. M. A. Stovall, resident manager of
the Georgia Chemical Works, and cotton
commission merchant, said he was satis
fied that tiie condition of the Stale was nev
er better than it is now. The planters
have more money, and they show it bv
spending it for luxuries which a few years
ago they could not 'afford to get. They
carried on their planting operations on a
cash basis, principally, and were doing
well. He presumed that Mr. Stephens
reasoned from statistics, but it was very
apparent to him tliat the country was in a
prosperous condition.
Mr. C. U. Pbiuizy, president of the
Georgia railroad, said so far as his obser
vation went, we were nevermore pros
perous.
Mr. Alfred Baker, president of the Na
tional Exchange Batik, said Georgia an 1
South Carolina were both increasing iu
prosperity. There is moro money, and
the rate of interest is lower. He was a
planter himself, and could Epeak for that
class. The crop i were never belter, and
the planters had more money at their
command.
Mr. Goodyear, of the firm of R. II. May
St Co., carriage dealers, said the planters
were buying more buggies and wagons
this year than ever before. This was cer
tainly an evidence of prosperity.
Mr. Wm. E. Jackson, president of the
National Bank of Augusta, said be consid
ered that Georgia was in a better condi
tion ftMlay than at any time in his recoi
lection, even before the war. A practical
illustration of her condition can be found
in the fact that while a few years ago
three-fourths of the bonds of tiie State—
the debt being about eight millions—were
held in New York, now about three-
fourths are held in Georgia, her citizens
having bought them. This certainly shows
there is money in tbe State, and that ber
citizens are seeking permanent invest
ments iu ber own securities. He had
ascertained tliat from three-fourths
to seven-eighths of - the bonded
debt of Augusta was held iu Richmond
county. A few years ago the planters an
ticipated their crops aud sought advances
at a high rate of interest, twelve or fifteen
per cent, discouut. Now they seldom ask
for any and if for anything, very little,
aud this their factors advance without auy
paper. Kichmoud county, as one illustra
tion, plants now a very large quantity of
oats, a lucrative crop, where very little
wa3 planted a few years ago. On every
band there is evidence of progress aud
prosperity. Every store on Broad street
is occupied and those iu them must be
making money or they could not pay a
I ijh rent. Securities have advanced and
the rate of interest on the amount invest
ed, is, therefore, lower aud yet money seeks
investment in this way.
Mr. W. T. Wireless, ^president of the
Commercial Bank and a member of the
cotton firm of Sibley & Wlieless, said ho
was satisfied that not a single business
mau would agree with Mr. Stephens.
There were two practical evidences of the
prosperity of the Stine, the great Increase
iu tho value ot securities and the decrease
in the requests lor advances by tiie plan
ters. A few years ago Georgia railroad
stock was quoted st 85; now ft is sold for
117; so with other securities. The planters
are doing well and ask very little in the
way of advances, so that a cotton factor
can do a great deal more business now,ou
a certain capital, than he could a few
years since. At one time the capital stock
of tho Commercial Bank was reduced one
hundred thousand dollars because ft was
found tliat it.couid not payjdi vidends on the
then capital. Now the hank could work
and pay a good dividend on a much larger
capital. There is decidedly more money
in tho State and more progress. Manufac
tories have been built and other enter
prises inaugurated. There are no vacant
stores on Broad street in tills city, and ail
tiie merchants seem to bo doing well.
Mr. W. U. Howard, cotton factor and
planter, thought theState had not declined
in prosperity. The reason, in his cstima-
tiou, why the statistics of wealth did not
appear as great, was because property was
iu the hands of fewer men than formerly,
aud the few did not make as good returns
as tiie many. The wealth is In the State,
but it is not returned. Then, again, there
is a large amount of non-taxahle bonds in
the State, and these do not appear on the
comptroller general’s books. A large sum
is also invested iu manufactories, which
arc non-taxabic.
Hon. Robert U. May, mayor of Augus
ta, had no hesitancy in saying that tbe
Stale of Georgia wa3 very prosperous.
The progress or the State could easily be
seen in every direction.
We givo these views to show what is
the general opinion in regard to the pro
gress and prosperity of the State. Coming
from business men, they are worth a great
deal.
and at the palms of the hands, where it
•was lighter.
The once fine, brown hair grew stiff
and jet black, and the eyes *!«o grew
darker, so tliat the line between the pu
pils and the iris could not be distinguished.
In spite of medical treatment the boy grew
worse, and be-ame very weak, ail tbe
time the color of his skin deepening. At
last he became as black as a full blooded
negro. Then he was attacked by convul
sions, which grew more frequent and vio
lent until they threatened the child's life.
It was in oue of these that Dr. Reynolds
was called in. He succeeded iu curiug
tho spasms, and then devoted his atten
tion to the strange disease which afflicted
tiie child. He at once recognized it as me
lanosis or pigmentation, which is men
tioned iu the books m a general way, but
there is no case given where it had devel
oped all through tiie body. This was
over' sixteen months ago, the child
being three years old. Since that time
tiie boy has greatly improved, by degrees
becoming lighter until row he Is of a
light chestnut-brown-color. The hair has
once more become brown and soft, and
the eyes are regaining their natural ap
pearance. The parents of the boy are
perfectly healthy, and the mother now
carries at her breast a robust infant, aged
six months. Tbe father is a muscular
man of medium height, with black hair,
and dark complexion. The mother is of
fair complexion and lias brown hair.
Since Dr. Reynolds has had the case in
charae the child has been visitod by over
two Hundred physicians, who all agree
tliat it was’a truly remarkable case.—St.
Louis Gl)be-T>emocral.
and calls attention to the recommeuda- I lion and manufacture of cotton fibres and
lions made therein. He then says; “It is fabrics, and whatever else is directly or
Changing Complexion.
For over sixteen months past au up
town physician has been attending a case
of a disease that is so rare that tiie like of
it has never been known, or at least re
canted in medical works. It is a case of
real melanosis or pigmentation, where the
pigmeut or melanin, as it is technically
called, which gives color to the hair aud
eyes, pervades tho whole body. A boy
liorn of white parents, and perfectly na
tural in color at lus birth, turned under
the disease as black as a full blooded ne
gro. It is certainly one of the most re
markable freaks of nature ever brought
to light, and it will attract tho attention
of the entire medical fraternity of the
world.
The parents live iu New Jersey, the fa
ther, John Salter, being a mechanic.
They were married In Duceraber, 1870,
tho woman at that time being twenty years
of age, and the husband twenty-eight.
They are both of American birth, the
wife being of English descent and the
husband of Irish extraction. Ten months
after the union of the couple there was
born to them a fine ami apparently
healthy boy baby. Tiie infant thrived
and promised to dcrelop into a robust
boy. He was a beautiful child, with fair
complexion, dark eyes and silky dark
brown hair, which grew in profusion.
When two weeks old he was taken lo a
priest and christened, and all tlieir friends
attending that interesting ceremony com
plimented the happy parents upon the
reality and promise of the youngster.
But in a few days the parents were
alarmed at a change tliat was coming over,
the child. Ho gradually grew dark.
At first his skin became a pale
yellow, then deepened into a saffron hue,
add then, to the terror of the parents,
rew darker yet. They thought the ba-
y was attacked withjaundicefand turned
to tho priest for advice. The good father
How They Vote in England.
Your readers may be intested In know
ing how au English general election is
conducted, how much it costs, how dis
putes are settled and investigations are
carried on, aud how the standam of purity
among public men aud voters compares
witii that in their own jcountry. Qur
House of Commons contains CSS mem
bers, of whom Irejand returns 105 and
Scotland CO. Members must be natives of
theUuited Kingdom, at leasttwenty-one
years old; naturalize.!! foreigners may sit,
if naturalized by act of Parliament; judges
(except the English Master of the Rolls),
priests and deacons of tiie Established
Church, ministers of the Church of Scot
land and Catholic priests are ineligible; so
are government contractors and '£0211311
or Scottish peers, while sheriffs and re
turning officers can neither sit in Parlia
ment nor vote for members. Household
suffrage exists in the burroughs, and in
the counties an elector must have a cer
tain property qualification, so that
of our male population, there were this
year 2,038,720 qualified to vote.
The lists are revised from year to year,
the agents of each party pressing tiie
claims of new electors or objecting to tiie
names on the list. When election day
comes the voter goes to the polling booth,
tells the officer his name, and it being
found on the list, receives a ballot paper,
on tbe back of which is an official mark
corresponding lo tbe one on tiie counter
foil from which the ballot is torn out. On
the ballot are printed, in alphabetical or
der, the names of the candidates, aud ou
the rigid a space is ruled off. The voter
goes iuto otic of the private compart
ments and with the pencil provided there
marks across opposite the name of the
caudidate for whom he votes, he then
folds up the paper so as lo show the offi
cial mark on tiie back, shows it to the of
ficer aud drops it into the box. If he
spoils a ballot he will be given a new one
ou returning tbe old oue. If lie is blind
or incapacitated from marking his paper,
tiie polling shcrill will assist him.
You will notice that under this system
there can be no false registration; no per
sonation; no ballot box sliiffiug; 110 intimi
dation; no “ringing iu” cf defective or de
ceptive ballots on the uuwary or ignorant.
The voter who was on the list votes for
tiie candidate who wls nominated, and
his vote was counted as it was cast, llis
vote is inviolable. When the poll is closed
the counterfoils arc scaled up and tiie bal
lot papers are opened face upward in the
presence of witnesses trout both sides.
The number on the back of the ballot
would give no clue to the rotor’s identity
unless the person seeiug ft had the sealed
up counterfoil; still the official must not
let it be seen, aud if any cue endeavors to
look at it he commits an offense punished
by six months’ imprisonment. After the
count tiie ballots are sealed up and sent
to tiie clerk of tho crown here, with tbe
registers. He keeps them sealed up for a
year and then destroys them. Nobody can
see them under any' pretence whatever,
hut the House, or a court ot law, if
there is a contest, may open the parcel to
trace a dishouest or illegal vote. Tho
honest voter need not, therefore, bo wor
ried about atiYlbing. His master can bid
him vote lor Junes, and lie can say “aye I”
and go and vote for Smith, and no one
will be one whit the wiser. If-tho em
ployer presses him to know far whom he
voted, the employer will have to answer
for that to the law. Where there is one
member elected, a cross is set against oue
name; wlientwo,two names are crossed;
where there are three members returned,
the elector votes for two only; in tho city
he votes for three out of four—these latter
arrangements being to protect the minori
ties.
Tho law is very jealous about compli
ance with its conditions. No mark but
tbe “X” may bo put on tbe paper. If the
voter writes his name or initials on the
ballot, or marks it so as to identify it after
ward, it will be thrown out.—Chicago
Times.
The Silver Hollar
Jn that dollar of which we have coined,
at the present writing, at the most, 74,-
000,000, wo give a greater weight in sil
ver for 100 cents in gold than is given by
any other of the commercial nations of
the world—a greater weight by 3.00 per
cent. In other words, in our alleged
‘dishonest” dollar of 412J grains, we
make silver current at tho rate of about
sixteen ounces of silver for one ounce of
gold; on the other hand, France keeps in
till legal tender circulation a silver cur
rency amounting to more than $800,000,-
00'*, at the valuation of fifteen and a half
ounces of siver to ono ounce of gold ; aud
further, of this species of money is con-
stituted, at this moment, 'the cash
reservo of the Bank of France
to the extent of $250,000,000. And if
tiie same weight of silver given In
74,000,000 of standard dollars,
which our mints have turned out up to
tiie 14th of November, 18S0, were coined
into French five-lranc pieces, it would
pass current for about $2,270,000 more in
cold in France and on the continent of
Europe generally than ft does in our own
currency. Nor is this all. While thus
France has a silver circulation to the ex
tent of $800,000,000, valued, in the aggre
gate, $18,310,000 higher with respect to
gold than tho same weight of silvpr would
Save if coined into silver dollars of 4I2J
grains, the rest ot Europe—that is to say,
Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Aus
tria, Switzerland, Spain and Russia—lias
a silver circulation of at least $100,000,000
of the like higher valuation compared
with our own. This being tbe undenia
ble fact with resped to Europe, we must
add that that portion or tiie British Em
pire which lies in India lias a
silver circulation at the rate of fifteen and
half ounces of silver to one of gold, to
tiie extent of $1,000,000,000. Even in the
English Islands, also, there is a silver cir
culation to the extent of $05,000,000
(larger than the amount ot our standard
silver dollars by $21,000,000) subsidiary
money, with legal tender valuation for all
transactions to the extent of $10. We
repeat, as a pertinent, conclusive fact, that
the trade and daily business dealings ot
mankind are largely carried on iu ail
parts of the globe wish silver money—in
the aggregate at least $2,250,000,000—
coined with 3.00 per cent, less of silver ou
100 cents of gold than is given for a like
amount of gold iu every standard dollar
was astonished when told tliat the dark I coined at tiie mints of the United Stales.
4 . I '
skinned child before him was the beauti- J —Mining Record,
very gratifying to be enabled to report an
entirely satisfactory condition of affairs in
the instructive, disciplinary, financial and
sanitary management of tiie Naval Acad
emy, a condition creditable alike to the
able and efficient superintendent, officers
and professors and to the cadets them
selves. The prescribed course of studies
has been pursued during the academic
year, and the practice ships have made
their usual summer cruises. The super
intendent, Rear-Admiral G. B. Batch, in
iiis annual report, states tliat the ships
hare been iu a high slate of discipline, and
tbe officers, cadets and crews contented
and happy.”
On the subject of foreign coasting, Sec
retary Thompson says: “I have caused
steps to be taken for the establishment of
a coaling station upon each side of tbe
Isthmus of Darien, at points eminently
suitable, both as regards naval uses
and the commerce of that region. The
ono on the east side is located at Chiriqui
Lagoon, on the Caribean sea, and in tbe
immediate vicinity of veins of coal already
opened, and that on tiie west at tiie bay
of Golflto, a part of Golfo Dulce, on the
Pacific. The distance between them is
less than one hundred miles. Tbe only
two safe and sufficiently commodious har
bors on the Isthmus are at these points,
and although the department did not, be
fore making deposits of coal, acquire title
to tbe lands occupied, yet it assured itself
that no difficulty would be likely to arise
on that score. Although it was not antic
ipated that any political objection would
be made to a 1 rsliminary examination
and survey of tbese waters, with’so useful
au object to these ports as well a3 to this
government in view, yet careful instruct
ions were given to the cammanders
of tiie vessels assigned to tiie performance
of this duty, to tbe effect that if
either government interposed any objec
tions to the movement they should im
mediately suspend operations and report
tiie mailer to the department, in order
that it might be made the subject of dip
lomatic negotiation. Inasmuch, how
ever, as no obstacle of this kind was en-
countered, either at Chiriqui Lagoon or
Golfito, coal was deposited at each harbor
iu sufficient quantities, and now remains
there for future use by our vessels when
ever it may be needed. Tiie question of
acquiring a title to a sufficient quantity cf
land upon these harbors is necessarily left
for tbe subsequent action of the govern
ment. Initiatory steps have also been ta
ken to establish a like station at Punta
Arenas, iu Costa Rica, and it is believed
that tiie department will be enabled to ac
complish tlsis before tho expiration er
many mouths. Witii all these harbors
made immediately accessible to our ships
by means of these important s'ations, and
such others as may become desirable
hereafter, our intercourse with the people
of the United States of Colombia, of Cos
ta Rica and of Nicaragua will soon be
come more direct aud iutimate than it has
hitherto been. That it will produce fa
vorable and beneficial results both to
them and to us cannot be doubted.
By our treaty with the authorities of
the Samoan Islands we acquired a right
to establish a. coaling station upon the
bay of Payo, on the principal island of
the group, and I have caused a coaling
station to be established. It is already
supplied with several hundred tons of
coal.
“The cruise of tiie Ticonderoga had
special reference to tho increase of our
commerce. The first duly required of
Commodore Shufeidt, her commander,
was tliat he should visit Monrovia, wuh
the understanding that if it became neces
sary he should act as umpire in settling
the disputed question of boundary be
tween Great Britain and Liberia.
His instructions, however, required
him, after leaving Monrovia, to
visit both the western and eastern
coast of Africa, and hold such intercourse
with the nations to whom lie could obtain
access as would enable them to appreciate
the advantages of trade with the United
States. He was also instructed to visit
Madagascar, India, China, Japan, Corea
and the intervening seas and islands, witii
the same object in view. The special
purpose of his visit to Corea was to pre
vail, if possible, upon the authorities of
that king lorn to open their ports to the
commercial world. While Commodore
Shufeidt did not succeed in obtaining the
consent of the Corean authorities to open
their ports lo commercial intercourse with
tbe United States, yet it is believed that
Ini was enabled io remove much if not ail
of the irritation which our former relations
may have occasioned, and lias laid the
foundation for future success.”
The Secretary calls attention to the re
lations of tiie navy to commerce, and con
cludes as follows: “Our material wealth
is in a largo degree the produet of our
commerce upon the ocean. As this is ex
tended so will our wealth bo increased,
and as at no time in the past has this
wealth increased so rapidly as at present,
now is the opportune time to extend to it
tho neces:ary degree of protection. This
is coucedsd on all hands, but about the
best method of doing it there arc differ
ences of opinion.
“It is not the province of Congress to
build vessels for the merchant sei vice, nor
is it expedient to allow commercial arti
cles to be transported upon vessels of war,
but it is undoubtedly within its constitu
tional powers to give necessary protection
to our ship building interest, so as to jus-
tifyJhe increase ot our mercantile marine
to such au extent 03 the necessities of our
commerce shall require.
“it is entirely competent to arrange
with private ship buildeis witii reference
to the extension of our postal service up
on the ocean, and to require tliat the ves
sels used for that purpose shall be so con
structed that in tbe event oi war they
may be employed immediately for war
purposes. Such vessels, built both for
strength and speed, would add most mate
rially, in case of necessity, to our means of
national defense, and tiie increase of our
naval force by this means would soon ena
ble us to compete ou the ocean with the
strongest naval powers in the world. Eng
land owes her present naval superiority to
this policy, and it serves no valuable pur
pose to contrast our condition with hers
unless we should profit by her example.
80 long as her merchant vessels, built un
der her protection aud patronage, are al
lowed to draw off, annually, about $100,-
000,000 as compensation for freighting
our commerce, just so long
will our inferiority exist. Whenever our
owe commerce shall be carried
by vessels owned and built by our own
people and capable of Ijeing turned into
ships of war when necessary, then we
shall reach the point ot equality with her,
and be prepared, when tbe necessity shall
arise, to test with her tiie question of su
periority upon the seas. Before the war
we had nearly succeeded in running Brit
ish vessels from the ocean, and since then
have contented ourselves with uttering
complaints against England for her agency
in destroying ours while the war was in
progress. The time for active and ener
getic measures lias now arrived, and every
future year of neglect will add to_ our in
feriority.”
Indirectly connected with or beneficial to
the cotton interests or the United States.
The exposition will be held In Atlanta
during October and November next.
The Cotton Exposition.
Atlanta, December 2.—At a largo
aud enthusiastic meeting of the business
men held here-this afternoon, the Inter
national Cottou Exposition Association
was organized, with the following offi
cer,: President, Senator Joseph E.
Brown, of Georgia, and twenty-five vice-
presidents from the principal cities and
manufacturing towns of tho country;
treasurer, Samuel M. Inman, of Atlanta,
Ga.; secretary, John W. Ryckman, of
Philadelphia.'
Tbe executive committee is as follows:
Tiie mayor of Atlanta, ex-officio, chair
man, H. I. Kimball, R. F. Maddox, W.
L. Calhoun, B. E. Crane, W. H. Patter
son, M. C. Kiser, Evan P. Howell and W.
B. Cox, of Atlanta; Edward Atkinson, of
Boston; Richard Garsed, of Philadelphia;
Cyrus Buaeby, of New Orleans; J.
W. Paramore, of St- Louis;
John H. Inman, of New York. The fi
nance corammiU.ee are: Robert J. Lowry,
Paul Roman and D. N. Speer, of Allan-
CHBISTXAtt STOBV FOB BOYS.
Painting a Moral and Adorning a
” 1 Yale,
ll* LIE.
It was upon the Right before Christmas,
in a Georgia city, that a crowd of small
■boys met together, and hatched out a
plan fQr spending the evening pleasantly.
What the plan was, matters not now, but
eight o’clock had not arrived before they
started forth in different directions, si
lent and mysterious.
At nine o’clock the boys assembled at
the top of a dark, narrow, steep stairway
which led into a hallway, on which
opened a row of dingy law office,. Sin
gular enough, each boy brought with him
a dog. There was present tho stately
Newfoundland, the hopeless cur, the vi
vacious Spitz, the intelligent pointer, the
diminutive fice, and last but not least, a
terrier, whose cropped tail of four inches
stood straight up into the air like a frag
ment ot a shattered flag staff. And here
ends the first and begins
CHAPTER II.
A brief candle in the clutch of a boy
cast a sickly light upon tbe group. Then
a committee cf three went to work. Amid
a wailing and knashing of teeth a beauti
ful pack of fire-crackers was added to the
tail of each dog—real Chinese crackers,
that made the various tails look as though
red frinrn had been located thereabout.
And each boy smiled and said the evening
was passing pleasantly, but the dogs said,
nothing, but stirred tliemselves uneasily as
though they were bored. But here ends
the second and begins
CHAPTER III.
I said all tiie dogs were decorated with
the red fringe. It was an error. The
stump-tailed terrier could not be accom-
modated; and had it not been fur tha
invention of tho smallest boy, the poor
little terrier would not have had a good
time like the rest. The boy substituted
for the pack a full-sized camion cracker
and stood it on the terrier’s back close to
the rigid stump; then tied it to the rigid
stump, jnst as a sky rocket is lashed to a
stick. Having done this tbe ingenious
boy twisted the cracker’s stem until it
stood straight up in tbe air, and tiie crack
er looked like a red candle which tho ter
rier had been hired to carry round. Ev
erything was ready—but heie ends the
third aud begins
CHAPTER IV.
A series of snickers in the hall was fol
lowed by a moment of silence, during
which the tallow caudle was jobbed round
among lbe dogs an.! a slow sparkling be
gan. Then oue boy ran to the top of the
steps and said:
“Bill, open lh’ front dore, the prercess’on
is goin’to move.” “All right,” was the
reply, “she’s open.”
About tliat time one cracker on the
Spitz’s beautiful fringe went off, and then
tire engagement became general all along
the line. A-brief but active struggle be
tween the various boys and tbe several
dogs for choice of position on llin steps
took place, and then like a passenger train
emerging from a tunnel at nigh; the pro
cession moved out iuto the street.
In a second the stately Newfoundland
was spinning round like a wheel of fire,
barkiug aud a cussing at his tail. The
vivacious Spitz caught fire, and without
losing time arguing the question, struck
for tiie river. The intelligent pointer and
diminutive fice disappeared in the distance
like twin czmets, firing salutes at every
jump. Tiie hopeless cur took the side
walk, and trying to fight fire and run too,
tripped himself up and rolled under a fat
woman’s skirts. The fat woman dropped
her sausages, jumped into the air six
times and holloed murder at every jump.
Then she twisted her ankle and sat down
on the hopeless cur, smothering him along
witii the fire. But au excited office boy
ran out and poured a bucket of water on
her, ail the same.
But the stump-tail terrier! Ha! When
the crowd went down stairs he went too,
and was carried into the street 'by the
rush. There he paused, confused-like,
and looked round. He saw the Newfound
land fighting fire, and the Spitz huuling
water, and the two comets or goats, as
you please, disappear up the street, and
the old lady snuff out the hopeless cur.
He saw it all, and was about to laugh
himself blind, when & delicate spark up
above his tail attracted his attention, Ho
did not laurii. He smiled a sickly sort of
smile, aud began *0 sidle oil on three legs.
The fire followed. He went faster. The
fire burned brighter. He barked and left
at tbe rate of a mile a minute. The fire
played like a fountain bchiud him, and
then disappeared. Did it go oat ? Ah no,
it went in; and the next instant
there came an explosion like
the bursting of a cannon,
and when tiie smoke cleared off a black
object struck tbe ground thirty feet away.
Tiien a little knot of fire and paper went
up the street. The stump tail was home
sick. He remembered with joy his warm
bed in the fodder. He rfegrelted that he
was ever tempted to ream. ’He would go
home. He went, and people gazed as
tonished upon a spark of fire streaking
along the highway. The stump tail was
on his way homo and did not stop to ex
plain. Aud Is that all? Yes, all of that,
but in
CHAPTER V.
There is more. The excitement had just
died away when tho fire-bells rang out,
and a bright light smote tiie heavens. The
engines came forth and took the same
route the stump tall terrier did. But on
Christmas morning the papers said an in
cendiary had burned up Mr. Smith's stable.
THE END.
A Bankrupt Law.
New York, December 2.—At the reg
ular meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
to-day. a supplementary report of tbe spe
cial committee on bankruptcy laws was
submitted, embracing the following: The
Lowell bill should not be accepted by the
Chamber of Commerce or the country
without amendments and additions.
Neither should so valuable a beginning be
allowed to pass into obscurity, be
cause, in so far as tbe dis
tribution of insolvent estates is con
cerned,ft will be difficult to provide a bet
ter. The committee tendered a resolu
tion, which, after a long discussion, was
adopted in the following form:
Resolved, Tliat a national bankrupt
act for tiie distribution of insolvent es
tates aud for tiie discouragement of insol
vency will promote the general wellbeing,
by conferring confidence in business trans
actions, and greatly increase iiiter-Slate
trade.
A series of resolutions were ot'Vred de
claring that In tiie opinion of tiie chamber
Congress should, early in tiie approaching
session, enact suitable legislation for the
distribution of tbe balance from tbe Gene
va award to tue persons entitled to it, dep
recating the delay and declaring tha'- this
neglect to act, regardless of tiie causes
that may have produced it, was developing
a widespread and well founded sentiment
that international arbil ration was un
satisfactory and abortive if the awards
resulting from it were to be detained in
the treasury, whose authorities use the
national power and influence to secure and
collect it from a friendly power. Also
that a copy of these resolutions be sent to
the President of the Senate to present to
that body, and to forward copies to Sena
tors aud Congressmen from this State.
The resolutions were referred to a com
mittee.
A report was heard from the delegates
to the national convention of shipping
men held in Boston on the Ctb of last Oc-
ber, which gave a history of the proceed
ings of that body, and tbe chamber ad
journed.