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nama (bares for Mine, do Lesseps and
tbeir eight little children.
Tii* (anil ary authorities of Brooklyn
report that diphtheria bolds 1U own.
There were upwards of thirty deaths re
ported at tbe Health Office during last
week.
1CBS. SrRAOCE Sues FOB DIVORCE.—
A Providence. (R. I.) telegram says a
petition will be filed in Washington county
by Katherine Chase Sprague, praying for
a divorce irom William Sprague, on the
grounds of adultery and other misbeha
vior and neglect to provide.
Mb. D. Whiting, of Riverside, Cal.,
is enclosing 1,600 acres of land with a
stockade, and proposes importing one
hundred pairs of ostficho? from South
■\frica, drOrth from $260 to $'00 a bird.
Ostriches breed at four years .of age, and
will produce four broods a year each aver
aging twenty chicks. At eight mouths
the leathers of* bird become worth $5,
find as it growl older, attain a value of
over $100. It is said that it costs no
more to keep an ostrich than a sheep.
Material Fbgspxbitt ix North
Carolina.—The com, cotton and rice
crops of Eastern North Carolina have
been unusually large this year, and the
farmers of that section are reported to be
in good financial circumstances. There
are large quantities of cotton at various
points awaiting shipment to market. In
Hyde county about one hundred and fifty
thousand bushels of rice have been raised
the present year, the greater portion of
which has been sold in Charleston.
Sax Fbaxcisco has been in the habit
of importing the codfish consumed on the
Pacific coast. It now appears that in lieu
of deriving her supply from the East she
Will soon be in a position to export the
article. In 1865 seven vessels caught
460,400 fish, in 1875 seven vessels caught
504,000, while durng the season of 1890,
just closed, eight vessels conveyed to San
Francisco tbe large number of 1,200,000
fish. The chief source of the supply are
the Cooumagin islands and the Okhotsk
Sea.
A West Tennessee Woman Saves a
Train.—The Paris (Tenn.) Post learns
that Mrs. Tennis Lee, while coming up
the railroad on Monday last, accompanied
by her little danghter, discovered that the
track had been blocked up for some pur
pose.' There were three crossties on the
track securely fastened down by pieces
of old fence rails. Mrs. Lee spent nearly
an hour In clearing away tbe encumbrance.
Being a delicate woman, and having no
assistance except what her little daughter
could give, she was perfectly exhausted
from her exertions in prizing and rolling
tbe heavy crossties from the track. She
states that the northern bound train pass
ed In less than 20 minutes after she had
finished her work.
A Stable ox the Tof of a Mansion.
It must be confessed that that the build
ing of a stable for twenty horses on the
top of a private mansion, access to which
is obtained by means of a lift, Is calculat
ed to awaken a feeling of astonishment
even In these days of marvels. Tet this
is the esse on a house just erected in Bel
grave Square, London, by Mr. Sessoon.
Ground is very valuable in that fashion
able part of London, and by relegating
the horses to the top of house two birds
are killed with one stone, for space is
saved and tbe smell ofthe stables avoided
Tbe horses do not seem by any means to
object to the mode of ascent; possibly they
are unconscious of it on account of the
closed shutters of the lift.
Nxakly 1,000 Casks of Diphtheria
ix Six Weeks.—The Sun says tbe course
ofthe diphtheria epidemic in Brooklyn Is
bo peculiar that the physicians are greatly
puwled. The number of new cases re
ported to tbe Health Board has been from
twenty to thirty daily for a number of
weeks past, but ou Thursday only nine
new cases were reported. There were,
however, ten esses of death from diph
theria reported for last Thursday. Yes
terday seventeen new cases of diphtheria
were reported, and ten cases of scarlet
fever. Up to the hour of closing the
Board of Health’s office in the afternoon
five fatal cases of diphtheria were.reportod.
In tbe last six weeks 936 cases of diphthe
ria have been reported to the Board, and
of this number 332 have been fatal.
A. T. Stewabt’s Body Gstb, lu the
' Cincinnati Enquirer says: Tbe body of
A. T. Stewart has never been recovered.
This Is from persons close to Judge Hil
ton. The thieves who stole it relied upon
a women’s weakness to redeem the body
at a costly price. But to the same re
ligious feelings Mrs. Stewarts friends ap
pealed when they told tier that if she pur
chased these poor bones no man would
lie safe in his grave; that they were not
necessary to the repose of her husband’s
•oul, and that if be could appear to her
in spirit be would tell her never to give
one cent to keep alive such an example.
Hence tbe grave robbers had tbeir nasty
work and subsequent expense and long
walling on a reward for nothing. I once
asked Judge Hilton for information on
that subject, and he said: "I would pro
bably tell you if I had any thing to say,
but the newspaper discussion of the’sub-
Ject Is mainly designed, to assist thieves
and extort money from Mrs. Stewart.
When the subject dies out, and the wounds
of tbe hour are healed, it may be time to
talk np that question.”
Coal at nine dollars a ton! Men of
Atlauta, will yon stand this f If you will,
the town may as well be roofed sad
marked “maximum.”
Thu* ejaculates the Constitution. Well,
arise and go to work on the “Western”
and charge straight into the coal fields of
Alabama without an hour’s delay. How
would it pay, also, in tbe meantime, by
voluntary subscriptions to buymore roiling
stock for the impecunious railroads who
are unable to provide the people with fuel,
which is only second in importance to the
staff of life. For once, the beastful Gate
City seems to be fairly cornered.
Gov. Joseph K. Brown.—The late
able speech on tbe education bill by our
new Senator has lionized him considera
bly at the North. The New York Herald,
and nearly all the leading prints en both
sides, commend the effort highly. i
Last Week’s Cotton Figures.
The Crop Situation.
The New York Chronicle of the 18th
reports the cotton receipts of the seven
days ending Friday, 17tb instant, at 238,-
490 bales, sgslnst 218JW7 for the corre
sponding week of last year. Total re
ceipts from 1st September last to that date
3,019,684 bales, against 2,804,948 for the
same period of tbe last cotton year—show
ing a net gain of 214,736 bales. The con
tinued excess of tbe weekly receipts is
surprising.
Tbe Chronicle's table of interior port
business shows the receipts of the week to
have been 121,422 bales, against 122,993
the same week of last, ihe shipments
were 92,474, sgslnst 96,958 last year. The
stocks footed up ou Friday last 294,224
bales, agaiust 343,503 at same date last
year.
The Chronicle?* visible supply table
showed last Friday 2,606,648 bales of cot
ton In sight, against 2,460^02 last year at
that date, 2,311,886 the year before, and
2,228,407 in 1877 at same date. Cotton
last Fsidsy In Liverpool was quoted
at 6 13-16 for middling upland. Last year
at tbe same dale tbe quotation was tbe
same. In 1878, atsame date, it was fi 1-16,
and in 1877 6 7-10.
The Chronicle says the total receipts
from plantations since September 1 In 1880,
vere 3,292,905 tales; iu 1879 they were
3,141,150 and in 1878,2,681,460.
The weather telegrams to the Chronicle
of last Friday show rain at many points,
but Inconsiderable in amount.
In Texas, at Galveston, the weather has
been warm and dry, and tbe condition Is
improving. Picking is going on again.
At Indlanola there was no rainfall, and
picking was in good progress. The same
statement Is applicable also to the other
points in Texas—Dallas, Brenbam and
Waco. All complain of insufficient rail
way transportation.
In Louisians, at New Orlearts, there was
rain on three days. At Shreveport It was
dry. At Columbus, 1.49 of rain fell. At
LiUle Rock the week was foggy, cloudy
and wet. At Nashville there wAs rain
on three days. In Alabama, at Mobile,
the same. At Montgomery it rained on
five days. At Selma, rained on three
In Georgia, at Macon, it rained three days,
with a fall of 1.56. At Columbus, rained
two days, with a fall of 3.45, and much
damage. At Savannah, two days, with a
fall of 2.09. At Augusta, cloudy and sul
try, with light rains.
the crop of 1880-1.
The Chronicle ciphering on the agri
cultural department and tbe cotton ex
change estimates, says according to the
former, the crop will be 5,719,200 bales,
against 5,757,000 m 1879-80. By the cot
ton exchange estimates the crop will be
6,300,200 bales. Both estimates, It will
be seen, are less than the actual crop of
last year, which was 5.757.397 bales.
notes, rising and falling like the fitful in- j The Mississippi River Problem,
to nations of tbe ABollan fcarp, and strange-1 The Baltimore Sun says the difficulties
ly moving tbe hearts of her auditors, will! which engineering science has to encoun-
not soon forget tbe lovely cantatrice and ter in grappling with tbe problem oi the
Hr. Cornelius J. Roossvelt,
Who was buried ou Sunday last, sprung
from the old Knickerbocker stock ofNew
York Roosevelts, and was worthy or the
linesge. Hb age was a little in excess of six
ty, and he had been a practicing physician
of tho Homeopathic school, in Macon, for
about thirty years. He was
man of a great but modest
merit—literally and truly a gentle
man—that is to say, to the courage, fort!
tude and constancy of a hero and martyr
he added tbe tenderness and delicacy of a
woman. Tbe Doctor was, perhaps,for the
larger part of his generation of active and
successful medical practice, an intense
sufferer from Inflammatory rheumatism,
and yet everybody familiar with him has
seen him about the sick, busy in his pro
fusion, calm, pleasant, and unruffled in
in his demeaner with every nerve racked
by intense pain.
Us was a hero In respect to a cheeiful
courage which stuck by him to the last
and never yielded to despondency. He was
always “better,” always improving, how
ever hopeless the situation appeared to hb
friends. Hops sprang eternal inhb breast
and hb self-command was perfect. Hb
constitutional malady assailed tbe func
tional parts of hb system In various forms
and at last took the shape of dropsical
effusion. Two yean ago, last summer,
Iu a veiy low condition of health, he vis
ited certain springs in Virginia, but re
turned apparently on tbe verge of death
The best authorities said he could not
live more than a few days at most, and
once he was reported dead all over the
city. But he never lost heart. He was
soon “better” again, and since that pe
riod has been tapped tweuty-two times for
dropsy.
Last week be was out in this Inclement
weather, attending to some matters of
business, when he contracted a cold, which
bb medical Judgment assured him he had
not the strength to throw oB. He told
hb family that it must prove fetal, and
prepared their mtnds tor the parting.' It
came on Saturday morning last, when,
with perfect consciousness, Composure
and submission, be breathed out a noble
soul—a strong Illustration of the gentle
man, not In tho too common idea of an
imperious self-assertion and a selfish and
aggressive deportment, but in all the vir.
tnes of self-command—tbe wiuning graces
of a generous and conciliatory disposition
and the manly fortitude of a dauntless
courage
Bad tad Untimely Death of Mrs.
Jehn B. Wardlaw, Jr.
From a private letter, dated Chrbtians-
biug, Virginia, December 16tb, we learn
that on tbe 10th instant, after a brief Ill
ness, tbe pure spirit of tbe beloved wife
of our cherished friend, John B. Ward-
law, Jr., was translated from earth to
Heaven.
The deceased, Lizzie D., was tbe eldest
daughter of W. B. Davidson, Esq., one of
the noblest citizens of Baltimore. Beauti
ful, highly educated, talented and lorely
in every sense of the werd, fora single
year only had she been permitted to fill
woman’s highest mission, that of a true
and loyal wife to the husband of her
choice.
Mrs. Wardlaw was no common person
age; hers was a mind possessed of all the
attributes and salient characteristics
which are embraced in tbe highest type
of her sex. She was generous, confiding
and true in every relation of life, and to
her devoted husband a gentle, ministering
angel, at once tbe solace and pride of hb
existence.
The writer -recalls with melancholy
pleasure tbe vivacity, insouciance and cul
tivated manners of tbe departed. Iu con-
dection with superior mental accomplish
ments, the also possessed an exquisite ear
for music, which found utterance in a
voice replete with sweetness and volume,
and which bad been long and carefully
trained by the moat skillful masters.
her graceful, winaomo manners. But alas,
like a delicate flower, suddenly snapped
from its stem by tbe destroying breath of
tbe tempest, she baa been cut off in the very
heyday and bloom of existence, and her
sorrowing husband and friends weep, and
refuse to bo comforted. In that untimely
grave, also, lies buried other tapes and
precious anticipations which perished with
her.
What more can we do in this hour of
supreme sadness and desolatiorf, when
human aid seems a mere mockery, than
exclaim to the bereaved mourners, “Peace,
bo still T* God rules and reigns, and He
who ‘Hempen tbe wind to the shorn
lamb” will not suffer you to be over
whelmed by thta dire calamity.
There fs a balm in Gilead which can
afford consolation to the wounded spirit.
May the Great I Am apply it to the bleed
ing heart of our beloved friend.
Magazines.
The number of tbe Eclectic for J sure
ty, 1881, has for its frontispiece the finest
and most beautiful steel engraving that
we recollect to have seen among the great
number of excellent ones that hare ap
peared in iu pages. It is a reproduction of
Bertrand’s famous painting entitled “Mar
guerite;” and it is not a mere figure of
speech to say that it is alone worth tbe
price ofthe magazine,
We may also call attention to the pub-
listar’s announcement that with the num
ber for January the magazine is enlarged
to auch an extent as will give about two
hundred pages of additional reading mat
ter during the year. Thu very material
increase of size will afford the opportuni
ty not only for an increased quantity, hut
for a much greater variety of reading
matter; and it is confidently promised
that the opportunity shall be so utilized
that the Eclectic will be more valuable
than ever before. Tbe Eclectic has al
ways been a favorite with readers of cul
ture and Intelligence, and tho beginning
of another volume affords a good opportu
nity for this large class iu our community
to try tbe Eclectic for the new year.
The tabie of contents of tbe January
number comprises twenty-four valuable
articles, as follows: The Sabbath: An
Address.—By Professor Tyndall. Lady
Hester Stanhope, the “Queenof Lebanon.”
Some Strangely Fulfilled Dreams.— By
Richard A. Proctor. Animal Instinct in
its Relation to the Mind of Man.—By the
Duke of Argyll. Social Life Among the
Ancient Greeks. A Letter from Newport.—
By Frederick W. H. Myers. Decorative
Decorations: Household Art. Fiction-
Fair and Foul.—By Jobu Ruskin. Trev
elyan’s “Early History of Charles James
Fox.” Recent Science.— By Professor
Huxley. Through Siberia by Way of the
Amur and the Ussuri.—By the Rev,
Henry Lansdell. Life and Death: Three
Sonnets. The Mystery of the Pezazi: A
Sketch from Ceylon. Plain Speaking—
I—A Little Music.—By the author of
“John Halifax, Gentleman.” The Bugle
From the French. The Natural History
of Dress. Over-Eating. The Wages of
Literature. Phosphorescence. Three
Wishes. Literary Notices. Foreign Lit
erary Notes. Science and Art. Miscel
lany,
Published by E. R. Pelton, 25 Bond
street, New York. Terms, $5 per year;
single copy, 45 cents; trial subscription
for three months, f I
Quarterly Review.—We have re
ceived tbe January number of the Quar
terly Review of the Methodist Episcopal
Church (South), published at Nashville,
Tenn. Price, $1 per annum, in advanco,
This publication was commenced a year
or two ago, and was regarded by many as
a questionable venture. Dr. J. W. Hin
ton, formerly of this city, was at tbe helm,
and safely conducted it throngb its first
year of trial. It had proved a success,
and success has followed it through its
subsequent career, until now it is upon a
solid foundation
Tbe present number is a great improve
ment, in Its general makeup, over former
numbers, and it promises much for tbe in
coming year. The table of contents is as
follows: Fre-Adamites; The Rev.Elijah
Steel, an apostle of the early Southwest
The True Manhood of Christ; Condi
tional Immortality, its Canon of Interpre
tmtion; Modem British Methodism; Osl-
andrainlstn and Zinzendorfianlsm
Pliny’s Letters; Physical Fatalism; Wit
ness of tho Spirit; Death of Bishop Dogg-
ett; Literary Notices and Notes and
Queries.
The Promotion of Judge W. B.
Woods to the Supreme Bench.
The successor of Justice Strong, under
tbe appointment of President Hayes,
seems to find more favor at the South
than in higher latitudes. Perhaps that is
owing to the fact that Lis long residence
and constant intercourse with our people
have had the effect of liberalizing the
views and animus of tbe Judge towards
Southrons, and this does not chime in
with the notions and prejudices of tbe
Northern Radical mind. Another ground
of opposition is bis being a native of
Ohio. It is charged that Mr. Hayes is
loading with honor* the people of bis own
State, with a view to making fair weather
for himself when he retires to the shades
of private life.
Be this as it may, inasmuch as the
South had no hope or expectation ofbe-
lng represented on the bench by a Demo
crat from that section, they are well
pleased with the selection that has been
made, ^peaking ofthe appointment tbe
Savannih News*ays:
True, Judge Woods is only a political
citizen of Georgia. Nevertheless, he has
been honest and fair in his dealings with
our people and our section. Therefore,
though a Republican, we are willing to
adopt him, and are glad be is promoted.
It is as near to a recognition of the South
ou the Supreme Bench as the South has
any reason to expect under a Radical aud
Ohio administration.
We trust the United States Senate will
not hesitate tq confirm tbe nomination of
Judge Woods.
Polygamy ox the Increase.—Gov.
Neil, of Idaho, in his late message, states
that polygamy Is being rapidly introduced
into that Territory by tbe Mormons from
Utah.. It seems that owing to defective
laws it Is next to impassible to prove tbe
sealing ceremonies. Tho Governor de
clares the Territory is In a fair way of be
coming a second edition of Utah, and calls
loudly upon the Legislature and the na
tional Congress to take more effectual
measures for the punishment and sup
pression of the crying sin of polygamy.
The “best government tbe world ever
saw,” however, seems either nnwllllog or
powerless to abate this nuisance, which is
Those who hare listened to its delightful a blot upon the escutcheon of the country.
best means for improving the navigation
Of tbe Mississippi and its tributaries, from
their sources to t^e mouth, are commen
surate with the magnitude ol that mighty
volume of water. The rivers of Europe
are but rivulets alongside of this stream,
which crosses twenty degrees of latitude
and twenty-four degrees of longitude, fall
ing two miles in a length of 5,000 miles,
draining 1,250,000 square miles of terri
tory, discharging annually a volume of
water equal to 145'cubic miles, and carry
ing in suspension one part of solid matter
m every 2,900 parts ol its eutlre volume.
Tbe annual total of this suspended matter
emptied Into tbe gulf would make a prism
one mile square at the base and 265 feet
high. Tbe delta of this great river ex
tends nearly up to its confluence with tbe
Ohio at Cairo:
. All below that Is low land, and liable
to floods at bigli water. Long before the
country was settled by the white man
these great floods were dreaded, and there
is positive evidence that the extinct race
of mound-builders sought to control them
by means of levees.
Since tbe United States have had juris
diction over both banks of the great river
a great deal of engineering skill has been
brought to bear upon the river problem,
and a vast amount of money lias been
spent in cutting bars, removing “anazs”
ai.d- sawyers,” straighter ing channels and
building levees. Nono ofthe levees were
stiorr; enough, however, to escape occa
sional “crevasses’* and tbe widespread de
struction which ensued.
The jetty system, applied With so much
•kill by Capt. Eads to the South Pass, haS
secured to the river a deep and safe chan
nel at Its mouth, at a cost of a little over
$5,000,000, and now the Mississippi river
commission, created by Congress in June,
1879, proposis a scheme for tbe improve
ment of tbe navigation of the river and
the security of its banks along its entire
length. Their work has been pretty well
mapped out the entire distance from Cairo
to the mouth of tbe river, a length of 1,-
100 milts. To elerr out the shoal places
in this length of channel, the river which
created them must be made to do service
in removing them. The commission have
been seekiug for means to harness the
leviathan and compel the mighty current
to clear away a channel for itself.
To do this ft is proposed to narrow the
low-water channel to a maximum width
ot 3,000 feet, by a combined system of
levees and of brush harriers and jetties.
By this means the space between the new
and old low-water banks will be gradual
ly raised and the contracted channel
quickened in flow of current, will be
scoured out to a greater depth. This
would tend to give the current a greater
uniformity, both of depth and velocity,
aud enables floods to pass off with greater
speed. Levees are needed to project tbe
work, as well as to protect the adjacent
out-lying lands. “Cut-offs” are to be
eschewed; it Is not advisable to straighten
the channel to any great extent, aua It is
recommended that caving shores should
be secured Gy “matrasses” of brush and
riprap works ol stone.
The commission’s work will necessarily
be costly. Over $4,000,000 is asked to
start the improvements, which cannot be
completed at a less cost than $23,000 per
mile, or $3,000,000 for the part of the
river between Cairo and. the passes. If
(lie improvements can be made at any
such figures, they will be procured very
cheaply. The area of rich bottom lauds
to be reclaimed underagood levee system
amounts to 32,000 square miles, worth
$20,000,000 at the low price of $10 per
acre. The annual products of the re-
claimable alluvial lands, at ante-bellum
rates, is estimated would not be less than
$300,000,000.
Scotch Manufacturers Coming South.
It Is said that several Scotch manufac
turers of tweeds propose to transfer their
establishments to this side of the Atlantic,
locating at the South. In this way they
export to add to their profits tho amount
of duty now levied on tbeir fabrics through
the tariff. If such a movement hither of
foreign enterprise and capital should be
entered upon ou a scale of any considera
ble magnitude it might be a good thing for
American workingmcD, were it not for a
probability that a corresponding volume
of foreign labor would accompany it.
Philadelphia Record.
The South will bo glad to welcome our
Scotch friends, and all the canny sons of
the “Land o’ Cakes” they may bring with
them. Cheap aud abundant waterpower,
the raw material, whether of cotton or
wool, at their doors, and food without
stint, certainly offet great attractions to tbe
foreign manufacturer, aside from the pro
tection afforded by the tariff.
In less than ten years everyone of these
thrifty Scotch laborers will be transformed
into Industrious freeholders and make ex
cellent citizens. We only wish the water
power of the Ocmulgce could be utilized
byjust such a class of capitalists and im
migrants. It is the one great want of this
section of the Union.
Gexeral Gbaxt’s Captain Geneb-
alcy.—General Sherman,with a bluffness
that is refreshing to witness, takes the
bull by the horns in the matter of Mr.
Hayes’ proposed creation of the office of
captain general for tbe benefit of Presi
dent Grant. He says in a letter to Wil
liam Scott, Esq , of New York city:
As to my retiring, yon know tbat I will
not be sixty-two years old until 1882, and
the rumor of my intending to voluntarily
retire grew oul of an expressed desire to
manage so as to bring Lieutenant General
Sheridan to Washington, and thus to leave
the three military divisions for the three
mgjor generals now on the army register.
But as the President has Just Indicated a
new fourth division for Major General
Scofield that pressure lias passed, and I
am In no measure committed as to my fu
ture action. Tbe service Is already em
barrassed by too much rank for our small
army, and I don’t know what a captain
general will find to do. There never was
auch an officer in the United States, and
it will need legislation to create and de
fine such an office. I will take xuy own
time and course of action when the emer
gency comes.
As always, your friend,
W. T. Sherman.
There la a spice of dry humor, says tbe
Philadelphia Record, in Gen. Sherman’s
remaik tbat be doesn’t know what a Cap
tain General will find to do, just it he
were not aware that inch officer would
not be expected to do anything except
draw his par and allowancea. He hits a
big nail oil the head, and hits it hard, in
his observation that “the service is embar
rassed already witli too much rank for our
small army.” That the military estab
lishmeut of the Union is rather top-heavy
has occurred to others than General Sher
man. The wearers of shoulder-straps are
out of all proportion to tbe rank and file,
and West Point griuds out a fresh grist
eveiy year In additiou to occasional ap
pointments from civil life. Artemus Ward
conceived tbe Ideal regiment to be one
made up wholly of brigadier generals.
Catailne’s partisan force iu Etruria had at
one time more officers than men. Other
instances, mythical and historical, of this
upside-down and wrong-aide-out arrange
ment might be adduced; they are not,
however, eminently deserving of imita
tion. The epauletted supernumeraries
cannot well be cut down, but Congress
can at least forbear to augment their
number.
bands of music and military companUt’
Atom all- parte of the State are expected
to be preaeut aud add lo the importance
and enjoyment of that auspicious event.
Railroad fares have beret reduced on
all tbe roads, and a great crowd is ex
pected to be in attendance. We congratu
late the Democracy of our sister State
upon having emerged clearly from the
woods, after the complications of 1876,
si d the wholesale villainies which tbe
“High commission” made her. the unwil
ling medium of perpetrating upon the en
tire couutry.
Irish Affairs.
Nothing can give a livelier idea of the
Irish situation than tbe statement of tbe
Jurors summoned to try Parnell and his
coadjutors, that they could not be bound
by their oath to give a true verdict, be
cause it wonld be done at the coat of their
lives. This is conclusive of the practical
overthrow of the government and defeat
of the prosecution.
An Irish woman, Miss Charlotte G.
O’Brien, In a late number of tbe Nine
teenth Century, who writes with great
vigor and apparent intelligence, asserts
tbat when the government has forced a re
duction of rents they hare not touched the
real sore. She says the real pressure and
suffering are felt by the Irish labertHI,
and Inflicted by big tenants, who sublet the
ground to thebe laborers fit an advance of
200 per cent. On what they themselves pay
to the landlords. Says the World:
Miss O’Brien summons Mr. Gladstone
to consider these feeble folk a'so. She
says: “When you have secured the farm
er in his just rights you have but skinned
the wound, for then wilt follow the rising
of a class that hates the class above it
with an unspeakable hatred. A revolu
tion not political bat social.” Sho tells
Mr. Gladstone that emigration takes the
best blood away from Ireland, and that it
finally sends back money not so much to
benefit Ireland as to benefit steamship
companies. Quoting what she once saw
written by a young Irishman in a letter
from America; “I would rather be a
lamp-post in Ireland than the President
here,” Miss O’Brien asks tbe government
to take means for tapping
the Irish wealth outside., of Ire
land by so ' dealing with estates as to
puichsse with national fundsone-screplots
out of every twenty acres, aud so iu pro
portion, and hold them for sale on the Inf
stalment principle to resident relatives o-
emigrants, or as inducements for the re
turn of those “who have gathered their
bandful of halfpence in America and still
keep their sheer love of country. She
claims that Ireland is suffering now from
stagnation—not over-population. She ar
gues with considerable force that “an im
mensity of money” would return for land
in Ireland if Irish laud in small parcels
could be bought and held. - And growing
eloquent, if not poetical, with tbe warmth
of her theory, Miss O’Brien declares tbat
with immigration and laud bolding in a
small way encouraged Irishmen might
still “go forth to conquer the world, that
they might return to adorn the mistress of
tbeir love—their country.”
English indignation against the Irish
tenantry Is under severe check from In
creasing dread of the came movement in
England. Clubs are forming everywhere
to demand proprietary rights in tho land
—lower rents and the right of purchase
There Is a rapidly gathering dread of
something like a communal agitation
which, at least, will seriously unsettle the
agricultural interest, and throw a deeper
shadow on landed property, the aspects
of which are none too bright, at best.
This movement ofthe working farmers, it
is said, now finds sympathy in the class of
small traders, which have been disaffected
to the landed interest lately by tbe co
operative storo associations, which have
struck a severe blow at their trade. Here
tofore Ibis class actively supported tbe
landed geutry.
The IP$rM correspondent, in a London
letter of the 18th; says he had a long con
venation that day with Thomas O’Con
ner, M. P.,wlio had just' re turned to Loudon
from Ireland, and O’Conner said to him
That he believed the situation :in Ireland
was most grave and threatening, aud that
abioody Christmas was not at all improb
able.
Spain's Injustice to Cabo.
grievous oppressions, but revolution made
Albeit there has been some “jet-up” of Hie division of estate* compulsory end the *bo has just
policy of tho mother country tow&rds tho tlon, was extinguished. would indicate r * ceni
“Queen of the Antilles,” still, the inbabi- ! The cry of “more troops for Ireland” W< L "
toots ot the richest gem of ocean continue Alls the world with apprebensious for the ' Ewolish *P* JT0 * r » were imported to des-
to be subjected to tbe most grinding ties- fete of tbe brave end generous, but mis- worw *» now ' 8h «re is e general
potiam on earth. No wonder that iosur- ' guided people of that Island. Are there ,le * lre to have something imported that
rections aud conspiracies succeed each ! not substantial concessions that if i Wll! destroy lh * *P am, ws
other like the links of an unbroken chain,
while the people are taxed beyond endur
ance, directly and indirectly, and an
armed constabulary and gleaming bayo
nets are required to maintain even the
semblance of law and order.
The Cuban tariff is the great engine of thau see tbe laud in tbe throes of revoiu-
oppresslon to tbe toiling mamas of the i tion aud deluged with blood. It would be
island, and wrings from them tbe means j • vast aaving in the end, and if auything
would suffice to allay tbe tbe tempest that Gladstone has been visiting the
is brewing? Better far for the govern- Prim* of Wales at Sandringham, aud,by
meat to purchase outright half of tbe ***• Prince ’» especial desire, read the les>
routed estates of tbe island from their 80n * *1 morning prayers,
proprietors aud resell them on easy terms
in small freeholds to tbe suffering people,
In bis opinion, tbe greatest danger was to
ba apprehended in the Wes', where every
male is armed to the teeth, and where all
have revolvers, many rides of the most
approved pattern, and no inconsiderable
number carry both kinds of weapons.
Reduction ix Ielkoraph Rates.—
The Western Union, on Thursday last
made reductions on. all of,Its. rates from
New York to points in competition with
the American Union. Tbe rate to Oma
ha Is reduced from $100 to GO cents, and
those to New Orleaus, Atlauta and Au
gusta, Go., are reduced from $)00 to 75
cents; to Pittsburg, Rochester and Buffalo
from 40 cents to 30 cents; to Cincinnati:
Cleveland and Toledo, from 50 cents to
40 cents; to Richmond, Va., from 50 cents
to 30 cents; to Syracuse, from 35 cents to
25 cents; to St. Louis, from 60 cents to 50
cents; to Milwaukee, from 60 cents to 60
cents. Corresponding reductions are
made to points in the vicinity of these
places. The rales lo Boston, Chicago
and Albany, are not affected by this re
duction. Notice was sent of ibis reduc
tion by the Western Union to fill its of
fices- ' v 1 *.’
Entitled to x Pension.—Under the
law, retiring justices of the Supreme Conrt
are entitled to receive a pension for life
Judge Clifford, therefore, when lie resigns,
will be thus provided for. The judge was
appointed by President Pierce lu 1857 and
has occupied his position with dignity aud
honor alike to himself and tbe countiy
for nearly a quarter of a century. He is
at present prostrated from a long and
patuful Illness. Tbe judge is one of the
few Democrat* who, with Justices Field
and Strong, (the latter having recently re
signed) have been accorded seats upon
our supreme tribunal.
The Jubilant Democracy or Flori
da.—The Tallahtmeeant are making
grand preparations for tbe Inauguration
of Governor Bloxhatn on the 4thproximo,
and there will be a general rally of the
beauty, fashion and intellect of tta State
on that occasion. Tbe ball will be given
Illness or ax Old Citizen.—Wo re
gret to.slate tbat Mr. James N. Seymour
has been confined to bed for near two
mouths with a complication of- disorders,
from which he has been a great sufferer
This is tbe harder for him to bear, as for
thirty-nine years be bss enjoyed uninter
rupted health.
Mr. Seymour has been one of tbe most
active and enterprising of Macon’s citi
zens. Several times has he accumulated
fortune in the cotton business, only to
lose it again by the fluctuations of tta un
certain staple. .
He is a man of unblemished character,
great sagacity and surprising energy, how
ever, and we trust will soon be restored to
wonted health and prosperity again. Many
friends wilt echo this wish.
Tbe Occident of San Francisco, says
that Moody’s meetings in that city, al
though tbe press has in many instances
tried to make light of them, are having a
decidedly serious effect. Tho daily news
papers have given more attention to the
meetings than they ever before have given
In tbe Senate chamber, and numerous to any religious services there.
to maintain those costly armaments, and
the expensive machinery of the colonial
government. Think of a tax of $6.15 per
barrel npon flour imported in any other
ilian Spanish bottoms. And even in that
case the duty is onerous, while the supply
is far from adequate.
With these obstructions removed, or
materially modified, instead of 100,000
barrels of flour received annually from
the United States, necessarily at famine
prices, the entire supply could be furnished
at one-half tho present coat, and this
rronld bean unspeakable relief to the
needy eonsutnafi
America IB the most convenient and
profitable market for Cuba, and with a
proper reciprocity in the dealings between
tbe two countries, the trade of both would
be almost indefinitely augmented. ! As it
stands, we buy $63,000,000 worth of pro
ducts from Cuba and she only draws
$12,000,000 in the way.rof supplies from
tbe United Slates. The reason is obvious.
It is because the Spanish tariff on ihe one
band and American protection on the
other, combine to place beyond the reach
of the people those articles of prime ne
cessity which they would gladly
purchase, if to be had at
living prices. And this is the history and
true operation of every tariff for mere pro
tection. It inures to the benefit of a pam
pered few at the cost of millions of ueudy
consumers, who are thus pitilessly taxed
by the government and discriminated
against without a shadow of reason.
It is stated tbat the English possess a
signal advantage over us in the Cuban
trade from the fact that they are able, at
reasonable freights, to transmit their
goods in the ships and under the flag of
Spain, thus getting the benefit of reduced
duties. For this reason, in a single year,
England sold Cuba and Porto Rico $000,-
000 worth of cotton fabrics, while the
United Stales could only find purchasers
to the amount of $95,249. And this
wholly on account of two infamous tar
iffs whim the balf-clad islanders were
forced to submit to.
“Protection” means privation and
misery to the many for tho upbuilding of
a favored class and the injury of the
whole country. Still, it is one of those
problems in political economy which
time and experience alone must solve.
Perhaps, ere many years the eyes of the
whole world will become enlightened on
the subject, aud the manifest justice and
propriety of free and uurestricted com
merce between all nations will begin
to be realized. Till tben, a tariff for
revenue ouly is tbe utmost that the
liberal statesman can dare hope to ob
tain, and not even that under Garfield’s
administration.
A Typographical Error Correct
ed.—In the notice published In Sunday’s
paper of tho protracted illness of Mr. Jo
seph N. Seymour, his name, through mis
take, was printed James N. Seymour.
James, who was a brother of Joseph,
all will remember, died soveral years ago,
He, too, fora long period had been Iden
tified with the mercantile operations of
Macon, and was a successful, liberal and
excelientgentlemau. They had still a third
and elder brother, named Jacob, who was
the pioneer ol the fkmily to this city. He
has been dead for many years.
The Seymours and their mother all
came from Sunbury, Liberty county, about
forty-five years ago* and have sojourned
In Macon ever since. One sister, Mrs,
Rogers, survives, and Joseph, the second
son. The boys were self-made; men, and
exhibited rare industry, perseverance aud
integrity throughout their lives. Several
Worthy descendants of the third generation
continue to represent them in our city.
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“Fob rAXAMA.”—.The World?s Paris
correspondence represents everything
aflame for the Do Lesseps canal. It is for
the present like Law’s South Sea bubble
the song every where—tbe talk In parlor,
kitchen and stable—the gossip of street
corners and the stock exchange. It is
the wedding and Christmas present—the
provision for youth and old age—the puff
ot the daily press and the hope and
dream of everybody. Do Lesseps ride*
on the topmost wave ot popularity and
has already made a contract for the ex
cavation ofthe canal, with the contractors
who dug the Suez canal, for the sum of
512,000,000 franc*
can do so, convince tlieir Irish brethren
that the Queen and Parliament are re
solved to treat them with the humauity
and consideration which they have so
long contended for. We fear, waver, it
Is too late. Parnell seems to be omnipotent
now with excited Union Leaguers.
Beautiful but Unhappy Ireland.
The poet Spenser 200 years ago spoke
of Ireland as “a most beautiful and sweet
country as any is under heaven, being
stored throughout with many goodly riv
ers, replenished with all sorts of fish, most
abundantly sprinkled with many very
sweet islands and goodly lakes, like in
land seas, that will carry even shippers
upon their waters; adorned with goodly
woods, even fit for building of houses and
shippers so commodiously; also full of
very good ports and havens opening upon
England, as Inviting us to come onto them
to tee what excellent commodities tbat
country can afford;besides, tta soyle lt-
selfe fit to yeeid all klride of fruit that
aliall be committed thereunto. And last
ly, the heavens most mild and temperate,
though aomewbat more moist than the
points towards the East.”
Commenting upon this quaint but truth-
fill description of tbe Emerald Isle, tbe
Courier-Journal deduces that, “under any
other European power, even Russia, Ire-
laud, so truthfully aud beautifully . de
scribed by Spenser, would have been otic
of the richest islands on the globe, and tbe
people iu all portions of it would be hap
py and contented compared witii their
present condition. It is a pity, iudeed,
that the French did not succeed in con
quering Ireland on some of the occasions
when they attempted to do it, for there
would to-day be no law of primogeniture
and entail, with its feudal accompani
ments, France having rid herself of that
obstructive arrangement, and so created
industrious and prosperous peasant pro
prietors. Great Britain clings to the ob
solete arrangement, and the Tories boast
tbat ‘the great bulk of our community re
main firm to the old aud true faith.’
So said the landed aristocracy of France
one time, cursing the country with
Mrs. Mato Chose Sprague.
Her Petition for Divorce.
The prominent position of the parties
to this suit, and the public interest taken
iu tbe matrimonial and political compli
cations it involves, will excuso tbe publi
cation of Mrs. Chase’s statement of her
case in tho following petition for divorce:
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, through her
attorney, Winchester Britton, filed,
on the 18th instant, a. petition for divorce
from her husband with tbe Clerk of the
Supreme Court of Washington county.
In the bill she declares that ata married
Sprague November 12,1863, at Washing
ton, and has ever since kept aud performed
on her part all the obligationa of the mar-
rlige covenant, but alleges that her hus
band has violated the marriage compart
at various times between 1664 and 1679,
and names several women, residing in'
different cities, as corespondents in the
case. She also declares tbat he has per
sonally assaulted her at Canoncbet, where
Senator Conkling was a victim ot ‘he
“shot-gun policy,” and that he entered
her room at tbat place at night in a state
of intoxication and attempted to throw
her out of a window.
In 1879, she says, lie threatened to kill
her and that lie has been guilty of contin
ued intoxication since 1875; that he baa
neglected and refused to provide tta nec
essaries of life for the sulisistence of her
self aud children. She then refers at
length to the failure of A. Jb W. Sprague
in 1S73. After the conveyance of tbe
property to tbe trustee for the benefit of
the creditors he claimed to have a surplus
of over $6,000,000. After the execution of
the trust deed lie entered into the employ
of the trustee and received from him con
siderable compensation for services ren
dered up to 1879, a part of which was ap
plied and paid by the trustee for the sup
port of petitioner and her family. Since
then, however, ho has lived In voluntary
idleness and has neglected and refused to
contribute in any way to the sup
port of his family and by
bis action she has been deprived
of the moderate compensation received
through the trustee. She further alleges
that lie has repeatedly applied vile epi
thets to her, both alone and in the pres
ence of others; tbat he lias destroyed fur
niture and at one time collected the bed
ding and furniture and set fire to them in
the night lime. She further claims that
he has often said to his children that he
was not their father and that they were
not his children; that lie has repeatedly
and falsely accused her of gross impropri
eties in violation of her marriage vow;
that he has intercepted aud returned let
ters addressed to her by her counsel; that
in August, 1879, when Mr. Conkling was
a guest at Canoncbet, he refused to allow
her friends, including her legal adviser,
to see her, and at the same time he re
fused to permit her to leave the house
with her children and sought to imprison
her.
She avers that he had Insulted tbe fe
male domestics and had made Cauoudiet
an unsuitable abode for her and her chil
dren. At the urgent demand of the t rus
ted of Sprague’s property she obtained
permission to accupy Canoncbet in 1879.
That Sprague urged that by so doing it
would be of material pecuniary benefit to
him in adjusting his (flairs with his cred
itors. Thai while on her way to Canon-
cliet, at Watch Hill, Sprague came to
see her iu a state of Intoxication and was
violent and offensive aud assaulted tbe
woman in charge of his children with
stick; that on her arrival at Canoncbet he
presented himself at tbat place from time
to time often intoxicated and finslly as
sumed authority over the premises, and
that it finally became impossible for her
to remain there longer, as he caused her
to fear for her personal safety and that he
threatened to take her children to Europe
Influenced by her fears and his threats
and as her ouly escape from indignity aud
danger sho says she tied with her daugli
ters to a place of safely.
She says that since driving her from
Canoncbet he has persistently refused to
deliver to her her wearing apparel and
other personal property, and that having
made it impossible for her lo remain at
Canouchet, he has occupied tta premises
as a place of resort for persona of vicious
reputation and has allowed Ids only son
to associate with such persons, withhold
ing from him all educational advantages.
in view ot all these allegations the peti
tioner prays that she may be divorced
from him and that the custody of her chil
dren, William Sprague, jr., aged fifteen!
Ethel Sprague, aged eleveu; Katherine
Sprague, aged nine, and Portia Sprague,
aged seven, may be awarded to her aud
that sho may bi allowed reasonable ali
mony out ofthe estate of her husband.
Sho further prays that she may resume
her maiden name, Katherine Chase.
Gov. Sprague will probably file a coun
ter-petition by and under tta supervision
of Gen. Butler, who will be his leading
counsel iu the “celebrated case.”
Tbe bearing of Mrs. Sprague’s petition
is set dowu for the third Monday of Feb
ruary at South Kingston.
Millions Coming.—A Washington
telegram says: There will be a tempor
ary alleviation of the demaud for money
in Wall street after the 1st of January.
Many letters have been received here
uring tiie past week making inquiries as
to the amount of money which would be
released by the Treasury at tbe beginning
of the new year. Requests have also been
made that the department anticipate tbe
payment of the January interest, so that
the temporary stringency of the money
market wcyild be relieved: Secretary
Sherman has oi late shown a reluctance
to comply with the requests made by
Wall-street operators, as tta Inevitable
effect of bis action would be to either de
press or elevate stocks. On tta 1st of
January about $1,092,000 will be paid
for interest on the Pacific Railroad bonds,
$7,384,445 interest on the 4 - per cent,
bonds, and abont $0,000,000 interest on
the 0 per cents. Besides, there are $10,-
000,000 of bonds of the issue of Febuary
8, 1861, falling due December 81st, which
will be paid as rapidly aa presented. If
the bondholders come to tta front with
alacrity about $25,000,000 wilt flow into
public channels at the beginuing of tta
new year.
Virginia figured once ns the “Mother
of States and statesmen.” Now she is set
down as the mother of Ohio and tbe
grandmother of politicians and office-
olders.
Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria is
so gallent and devoted to Lis betrothed
Stephanie, of Belgium, tbat he sends her
a magnificent bouquet every day, no mat
ter where be may be.
“GemTjrx,” said tbe old man, “re
member dat it am uot aafe to form an
opinyun on a stranger by de size of hi*
moafor de number of mules in de bam
by looking at de stable door.”
Senator Carpenter’s witticism on
Robeson, while it is not quite fair, is too
good to be forgotten. “He is,” said Car
penter on one occasion, “a great constitu
tional lawyer among sailors, and a great
sailor among constitutional lawyers.”
The health ofthe Pope is said to ha
far from good. He proteats that be is
not ill, but after any continued mental
labor he Is obliged to keep bis bed, and
some weeks he does not leave the Vatlj
can for days together.
They were walking by tbe seaside, and
he sighed and she sighed; and she was by
his side, aud he by her side, and they
were beside themselves, besides being at
tbe seaside, wliere she sighed and lia
sighed.
A New York paper says that although
it is supposed tbat imprisonment for debt
has been abolished in tbat State, there
are at this time a large number of persons
in prison in tbe city of New York for
debt.
A New York book-trader in London
has been causing a commotion among
the London publishers by selling an
American reprint of “Endymion” at tbs
price of ten pence. The price charged by
English publishers is thirty-one shillings.
Senator Mahoxk, says the Tribune,
does not talk much, but his friends appear
to feel bound to make up for his reticence
by talking a great deal about him. One
of them says if the Republicans will sus
tain him he will drive the wedge that will
split tta Solid South. Let him get his
maul ready.
That was a witty man who. being de
talned by a snow blockade, peuned a dis
patch which ran thus: “My dear sir, I
have every motive for visiting you except
a locomotive.” So was the other who in
similar circumstances telegraphed to his
firm in New York: “I shall not ta in the
office to-day, as I have not got home yes
terday yet.”
Alt. IT ATT. TO Florida OlTAXGE8.-»
One of the sweetest Issues of the rebellion,
tays the Newark (N. J.) Advertiser, was
tbe giving of tbat long sandy peninsula to
freedom and to the orange grove. From
the headwaters ofthe St. Johns, down to
the romantic hanks of the Okiawaha,
circling tbe silver lakes skimmed by tbe
heron and peopled by the alligator, crown
ing the hills and stretching out over the
plains, do we find this golden fruit nest
ling amidst its herbage of velvety green.
And if, as no one denies, the orange is the
king of fruits, neither can it be denied
tbat tbe Florida is the king of oranges.
It sheds lustre upon the finest table, the
eyes of children spaikle as they see it,
ltt juice is nectar, they coo! tho blood,
quench fever in the veins and add piquan
cy to the feast. Florida should be the
pet of the Union, for the glow of the color
and the warmth of its landscape comes to
us when tlie storm rages and the cutting
blasts of winter chill us to the marrow.
The British Government solved the
qululne problem iu 1861 as lar as India is
concerned by setting out tho cinchona
tree la the Neligherry hills of India and
in Ceylon. This Is done with such care
ahd in such numbers that last summer
the Indian journals reported “millions of
cinchona trees already yielding the Peru
vian hark were in healthy growth: The
price <>f quinine has already fallen in
Ceylon from 50 to 70 cents per ounce.”
Indian fanners prophesy that in six or
seven years tbe yield In bark will be large
enough to admit of exportation. In the
meantime the fall in the price has brought
it within tbe reach of millions of the
poorer classes who have ncrer heretofore
been able to buy it. It is urged that as
soon as India can export quinine it will
largely Bupply the present demand for
opium and posh that drug out ot tho mar
ket. The English press rejoice that Great
Britain can “replace tbo poisonous drug
in her exports to China by one so benefi
cent in its effects.” England, as we ail
know, has persisted for years in thrusting
the drug into China which she knew was
causing the physical and moral death of a
majority of its people, against the earnest
protest of tta Chinese Government. And
we should be at a less to understand her
sudden awakening to conscientious scru
ples if the reason was not given. Quin
ine will prove a much-more profitable ex
port than opium. In the meantime, why
should not tbe cultivation of tbe cinchona
tree be attempted in our own Southern
States? It is tbe more probable that it
would succeed, as an inferior species of
the tree is already indigenous iu Georgia
and the upper part of the oilier Gulf
States. _
Rev. Mr. Clisby was in Vineville
Sunday night, ready to preach, but the
weather, after nightfall, was so inclem
ent, tbat it was thought tatter uot to
make the attempt to call out a congrega
tion.
Will Go It Alone.—Foster, of Oliity
having retired from tta Senatorial con
test in Ohio, John Sherman will go it
alone. But how far be will go without »-
collision with Conkling is doubtful.
A Bequest to Vanderbilt Uxiveb-
Birr.—The will of Mrs. Maggie Embry,
which was admitted to probate on the
15th instant, gives $200,000 in Louisville
and Nashville railroad stock to the Van
derbilt University at Nashville. •
jtstksM CsuwO.
A well known merchant of Hauover, N.
H., whose wife had ions been afflicted
with asthma aent for the Compound Oxy
gen treatment. After using it a little
over a month ta wrote: “I thought I
would write and tell you ofthe wonderful
effect of Compound Oxygen. My wife was
very tick woman, coughing incessantly
ail day and nearly all Bight. Could get
no rest at night unless sba used chloro
form and alcohol, or 'chloral. Her suf-
forings during the asthmatic attacks were
dlWressing la the extreme. Now has no
cough and no appearance of asthma; is
able to do considerable work, aud we be
lieve that when two month* expire site will
The railroad kino, Jay Gonid, is „ „
said now to control ten thousand mUreof i fellfoformstion,sent
railway in tta United States, or about gtarkey A Fatal, 1109 and
one-ninth of tta sum total. lUi Girard street, j&Uedtdpbia, Pa.
