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felegrupli anft fttetngtr 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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L!t- teil A Co., Boston, are the publishers. j 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.