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J\dvufim and jforfri YELLOW FEVER. Aa usual at tl carried by silly SATURDAY Ml Atlanta DOW bts with] another new paper—the Greenback Gance. What next ? A fleet of forty vessels from Key West are gathering sponge off Ardot and Clear Water harbors, Fla. The highest point in Florida is in Gadsden county, three miles east of Chattahoochee, the elevation being three hundred feet above sea level. Fire wood in Key West cost $9 per cord, and next winter it will probably be advanced to $16. None can be bad less than seventy-five miles from the city. Col. Sumner Baker of Charlton is reported as coming out for Congress' man in the First Congressional Dis trict rather on the “still hunt” style, making no public announcement. Won't, Mr. Stephens do us the fa vor to come down to the seacoast and give the party n lift ? There are a whole “passel” of independents in this section that must be hammered back into line. Besides, we low- country folks, many of us, have never seen the great statesman. The Savannah Recorder speaking of the coming race says that there will be three candidates in the field for Congressional honors. Warren of Savannah, Nicbolls of Blackshear, and Black of Screven. Black will go into the convention with 16 votes, Warren with 18, and Nioholls with 12. It speaks of a “dark.horse.” Dr. Bliss is very moderate in bis charges for attending President Gar field. He says his pecuniary losses during the time he attended the President, and during his subsequent ill health caused by over exertion, amounted to $16,000, and he thinks be should receive as compensation for losses and services to the late Presi dent $26,000. The war in' Egypt still continues, the English vitorions in every en counter, slaying the enemy by hun dreds and losing very few men them selves. A general advance seems the order of the day and Arabi Bey hud better look well to his position or ho may wake up Borne fine morning and find himBolf in the hands of his pur suers. Hon. J. J. Clements of tho Seventh District has respectfully declined to divide time with Dr. Felton who has invited him so to do. Mr. Clements reoalls to Dr. F. the treatment re ceived at his hand two years ago and says ho does not care to have it re peated, and furthermore that only strife would be engenered by their joint discussions. Dr. Felton’s last defeat has made him decidedly more respectful to his superiors. The Savannah Echo, edited by some Savannah colored men thus gives a bit'Of information tonching Brunswick politics: During the late State Convention many snrpising secrets were brought to light, among which may be men tioned the numerous mastodon bribes of tho cut-throat syndicate. They of fered W. A. Pledger the oollectorehip of Brunswick if he would allow them to boss the late convention. Of course the ironclad Farrow was at the head of this bait, and Longstreet in the rear, shoving him up with the syndicate derrick ; but Mr. Pledger, who iH a wholesouled Republican of the first water, could not see wherein the people would be benitited thereby, and they were cast aside as a child would a plaything. A Nesleotcil (leave. Sow York Tribane. In view of Mrs. Jesse James’ ter rible grief at the death of her hus band, and ber heroic resolve to vin dicate his character by a course of lectures, it might have been reasona bly supposed that she would at least see to it that bis grave was kept greeu. On the contrary, only a neg lected mound of red clay marks the spot where the outlaw’s body lies. well as at Pensacola, Matamotas etc., and home goose has gone so far even as to say that such a malady had actU' ally reached onr fair city. This latter report is an unvarnished yarn, oat of whole doth. The authorities of Savannah pronounce the report about that city equally as great a misrepresentation. We have seen no positive denial from Fernandina but presame the facts far removed from the statements as in other instances. Tellow fever, however, does exist at the three other named places. The latest from Pensacola is that up to the 30th of Angnst there were four teen coses and two deaths. At Brownsville, the fever seems to have taken firmer hold, there being on the above date fifty-two new cases and three deaths. On the same day, there were eight deaths at Matamoras. At these latter places the Marine sur geons have the matter iu hand and will render what services they can. THE OUTLOOK. At no period since the war has the outlook been brighter than at pres ent. The grain crop last spring was unprecedented, the corn crop now be ing harvested, or at leoBt now fully matured is abundant, the cotton crop is excellent, the rice crop, with out a mishap from storms, will give a handsome yield, and lastly and by no means in significant, the sweet po- tatoe crop ot Georgia promises grand yield. Add to this the fact that special rates have been made on this last commodity and we have an outlook that is indeed comforting. Finally the bottom has fallen out of the lumber business for the present, but what avails that, the breadstuff supply is abundant, and already we see in prospection fat people, fat stock, fat poultry, with contentment abounding everywhere. MAKING- A START. There are three, ailed down side b; led down side latform broad enou i to attract and i number of voters to balance of power in tbe approach- frig elections. These are: 1, Civil service reform ; 2, revenue or tax re form ; 3, reform in publio expendi tures. Both of the olid Duties have proved fnlso to the pmriples em bodied in this jdatform, which, short as it is, obntubs the “promiso ftnd RINGS—BOSSES. These names seen as familiar in Maine as iu Georgia. Independents are cropping out there as well os’ here—among the Republicans, how ever. Hear wbat the Argue of Port land says : “Ever since the triumph of the ring in tbe Republican State couveutiou, by methods which the better portion of the party strongly condemned, there has been talk of an Independent Republican tioket. Frequent consultations have boon re ported, bat the movement has taken no publio aspieot, until last evening the Advertiser announced the candi dates that have boen selected for Gov ernor and members of Congress. These names make the movement a very portentous one for the ring bosses of Maine.” Tl»e Question Settled. The contest for the locations of the shops of the E. T. Va. & Ga. R. R. os between Macon and Atlanta has at last been settled. Atlanta gives the ground and subscribes $10,000 for levelling the same. Just as wo ex pected—that city has more plnck to the square inch than any other town in this section. If she keeps on she will become the "Hub” of the South. Worth County Star: Monday be fore last we rode part of tbe way from Albany to Isabelle in an elegant coach built at Brunswick, smoked an excel lent oigar with Capt. Snap Taylor, which was monufactured in Brnns- wiok (tbe cigar, not Capt. T.), and felt prond of the growing importance of onr seaport town. An exchanges says : “When Cor nell, became Governor be owned more than $100,000. After three years in the office, be is reported to have paid off all obligations and salted down about $1,000,000. His salary is $10,000.” An Agreeable Dressing for the Hair That will stop its falling has been long sought for. Parker’s Hair Bal sam, distinguished for its purity, fully supplies this wank aagl6-lm potency” of more good to the gov ernment, the politics and the pockets of tbe citizens of this country thaD all the vote-catching resolutions that have been pnt forth for the past eight years. There is no issue onteide of them in which the people have any thing at stake compared with what is involved in these. They are funda mental and exigent And the people who are not politicians, or who have no selfish or sentimental reasons for desiring the success of either of the old parties, believe in and desire the reforms here indicated. They want the minor office taken out of politics. They wish to see the publio business done on business principles. They object to having the machinery of the government used as an agency for controlling elections nnd forcing po litical contributions from the public employes. They ask that the publio service shall be open to all deserving and competent citizens, and no longer be maintained as the monopoly of political bosses. They demand a na tional revision of tbe tax laws, with the express object of relieving the people of the burden of $160,000,000 of unnecessary and extravagance breeding taxes. And they insist that tho policy under which the national expenditures have increased over $100,000,000 in two years shall be changed one of strict economy. They condemn the reckless and criminal extravagance that has given ns the arrears of pension act, the gigantic growth of the river and harbor grabs, the needless multiplication of costly public buildings, and the disposition to spend tbe public money as though there were no limit to the tax-paymg capacity of the country. If a poll of the voters could be had upon these questions, does anybody donbt what their response would be ? Even tbe politicians who thwart and hinder these reforms understand the popular wish concerning them. Every platform that is adopted is a recognition by hypocrisy of the de mands ' of earnestness. With the sentiment of the intelligent and die interested voters thus strongly in fa vor of thege reforms, what prevents their accomplishment ? Nothing, in our judgment, but the servile or the tbougbless fidelity of voters to the old party organizations. Men are still voting the Republican tioket be cause it once meant hostility to slavery, or loyalty to the Uhion, or security for the fruits of the war. They are voting the Democratic ticket because Jefferson was a Democrat, or because their fathers voted it, or be cause they call themselves conserva tives, or for some other qually in adequate reason. As a result, they aid in postponing a ncedod recon struction of parties, and keep the hoses in power, to piny into each others’ hands. Is it not time to end this folly ? Are intelligent American voters to go on forever with this poor parody up on republican government, this sham contest of galvanized dead parties? Cannot a start be made this year to ward a division of the citizens upon live questions of practical statesman ship? If the time be not ripe for the inauguration of a new business and economic era in our politics of agita tion and conflict upon moral and in stitutional issues, now happily closed forever, it is at least time to prepare for such a change. If fifty, or even twenty, representatives can be elected to the next Congress who will stand up squarely for a reform in the civil service, for a revision of the tariff and tbe abolition of needless internal taxes, and against all log-rolling jobs, by whatever fine names they are called, it is safe to say that no general elec tion will ever again be fought npon reminiscences, or prejudices, or Jper- sonalities. Either one or the‘other of tbe old parties will be forced to to take a position, and stand up to it, upon these questions, or a new party will givo those who think alike and earnestly upon them a chance to act together. Mach a movement can be started in the congressional elections more ef fectively than anywhere else. No vo ter who believes in any one of tbe three reforms mentioned—and, in the minds of most, they , go together—, should support any man for Congress, of either party, who will not pledge himself to favor them to the fighting point. Baum—What Business Has | Hein MaineP i the Portland Argua. ■‘BUD dollara _ hundred dollars a month—a month’s! pay for him being more than half the! men in Maine earn in a year. Whatj business has he here? He is a ser vant of tbe people, paid by tbe people! of all parties. Wbat right has he lo| leave bis office and spend a month on a stomping tour in Maine ? If he has nothing to do, out down his salary, or stop it while be is absent. It is inde cent, it is sheer impudence for him to come here to work in tbe interest of a party, while men of all parties are, taxed to pay him; and if < he had a proper conception of the moral, pro prieties he would not do it He ib no party to the contest m Maine, being a publfo servant in an office that is sup- stomach, Uverandbow<Sr posed to know no party.. Ikis £| ml "° “<» very largely ovorpaid-reither that or I atgoods delivered free to any part 0 r TBE CITY.-®* IN QUARTS AND PINTS. he is unduly neglecting it. One of the People. Siffns ol tbe Times. Springfield Republican. There is a growing popular impres-1 sion that the Republicans will find ev idences of popular reaction, when the Congressional elections are held.— This feeling finds expression in tbe newspapers, and is voiced by far-j sighted polititians. Certainly the] best Republican leaders at Washing ton see and bewail the mistakes of I this session of Congress. The voter-j an ex-Minister Wasbbnrne has been I ■* nmvHN sAwmiaa interviewed by tbe Chicago Times, | fUT6 WINES, CORDIALS and, looking at the situation as an ’ outsider, he says: “I fear the Repub licans will lose many members in Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio, nnd perhaps in other Northern and Western Stares, and the greit ques tion is whether there can be Republi can gains enough in the South to off set the losses in the Northern and Western States.” Mr. Washburne has grounds for indulging the hope of Republican gains at tbe South, but while some Republican members will! undoubtedly be returned from that] section, which has been cultivated] with patronage administered by Chan dler, the party could not afford an] even swap of Northern districts for] Southern ones. Nero York Sun: The worst legisla-1 tion of the Forty-seventh Congress j was carried through by absenteeism. 1 The river and harbor job was passed over the President’s veto by fraudu lent pairing, and by the failuro of Senators and. Representatives to he in their seats to discharge tbe duties they bad sworn to perform, and for which they are liberally paid. Had either Honse been reasonably full, the] job would have been badly beaten. BRANDIES & LIQUORS, ANHAUSER AND VIENNA EXPORT BEER, Goldsmith & Nock’s THE BOSS GROCERS. MALLORY’S NEW YORK & BRUNSWICK Steamship Line. Mayor’s Office, Leesburg, Va., April 19, 1879. Jtessrs. Hutchinson & Bro.: It af-1 fords me pleasure to testify to the] great virtues of yonr “Neuralgine" for steamships the cure of neuralgia and sick head-] am^memwp (WWXA ache. It is tho best remedy for these]OMkIBmJu VJSr FsKmkSm most distressing-complains I have ev er used. It should be in every family in the country. Yours truly, Geo. R. Head, Captain RISK. 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