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k 1 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTA. GA., rUE3XAY. JANUARY 11. 1881.—WITH SUPPLEMENT. fjfhe Constitution THE SOUTHERT CCLTITATOK. HowtoUwtlMtomteUlK.lortttootoroU i* Hsbl. Agrtrultun]l Journal. *“*»iXXAVjn I M y a i em 0 f chemical farming and hi, volume ind lundi It tbs mm oi ifnoiiran I TT . It laoow pnbilahad bj Ta*Cons rrr 1 proved methods of cultivation. He shows, I moreover, that if three fourths of the cot 1 ton seed of the crop of 1879 had been car- 1 s* s«Rih»r« % uiiiswior. j justice, why is not the custodian of the In bis 'Thoncbta for the Month/’ in the j a f oreaa jd ponderons sea] made a party to the suit? We charge nothing for these suggestions. They are thrown into the January number, the editor of the Southern Cultivator review* tte remarkable progress t i*t has be«n ma-’e in the culture of cotton Since Mr. David Dickeon inaugurated his low. Atlanta, Georgia. . rtre. 4 1 » per anna: - 12 so ” UUIM Of J THE WEEKLY COSSTITCTIOS. THE GREAT SOCTBEBJf FAMILY FAFER S 1 M p . 15 SO _4 1 M par annuls I1M « Clubs of JO. The Cn.iT atoa and Wmtt v» U»* eune address 1 K per aann Ateota wanted everjwbere Liberal «ma - - CONSTITUTION. Wrrklj Constitution, nix month*, $1.00. IMPORTANT. Wi> Mod the CoMtitotlon sad Coltl- mior to one iddrru for |i.W). Tkr ton. not «rplj to put rebwrlptWm. Both «obvrlpUoumast be nude at to Itltoa, the localiilng .fleet cl r.ifi !o the cotton mill., the fr s, yield would have been ltesriy fifty million dol- lars, half of whish would have come from the sale of the oil. Another marked fea ture' of progress in ll»e 1 is? decade, to whico the editor calls attention, is the extensive b$ mu tion cf oats U r ejrn as stock feed, d he nays that a ro'a’i *n of cotton and oata in regular succession is the moat ad .tageoua method of cropping that can adopted in the cotton s’ates. The agricultural department of tie Janu ary Cultiva'or contains articles on checa- iqg cotton, a reu»e i> for the freccLiug of , the growth and t'x: oi carp, winter arrangemeuts, peanuts as food, ffjdder it. mate on air as benefactions, but they are doubtedly valuable. Fifty flllllowa of People. The final official figures of the censu will soon be forthcomnig, and in the meanwhile Superintendent Walker fur nishes the following footings, which are very near the true result: 1 262.341 «JU2c64 8»4 6efc. Loulsiaua. — 996 992 484,471 MO.-4" 174.MV c9 ►€!' 62r.6a3 537.4 .4 1*6 651' 12 .01 266. 66 17.74- l.5*-,Vt« ; 1.1S* 10 3.078,-<6 1.97a.3» 1,640.637 1.431.46 > 1.194 Oi* MX 31' S.59* 1 321. 11 ■t time. Neeilampeh'r. Ne m J«ney Tors., 38 31 Jersey ' 1.130.^.92 <A**yf, ' “ ” ‘ 4 3-2,7 * 1.071,36 I agriculture, tobacco bed-*, corn-growing the j temperature of the toil during winter, the nparative yields in poor land of short or The label on your Coaarmmow informs I long-! imbed cotton, oata versus upland you when your subscription expires. If I <y>rn. cotton picking by ime’nnery, and you wish the paper continued, do not wait I b * fence laws. The stock department ha- Ull the time expires before sending on the I articles on the care of l>use's hoof in win subscription pries. You may lose a num- I ter, an arctic lesson on the icor.omy ol j ciroDiu her, and it will save us the trouble of tak- I ood In winter, and the training of oxen. ohto_„... — Ing your name out of type and reentering I fbe dairy department has articles on c *ws lv^^ivania". 1 4,>2 7j» 3,53,1 It again. Lei every subscriber aand at least I r**ti*t ng milker-, good and bad milker. ’*!*■%*, » other subscription with his or her re- 1 the economy of .full feeding f rmilk, and ] winter dairying. The poultry department • as articles on the raanagciu sat of poultry. I charcoal and lime, and the use of an it cu- I oetor. The other departments, eapeciallj the inquiry department, contains timely od suggestive articles, and it may be said, ipon the whole, the Cultivator opens the ew year more auspiciously than ever. formerly a member of congress, and has long been one of Mr. Cookling’s most active agents. He leads the Conkling candidates. In Pennsylvania, Mr. Grow, the anti-Cameron candidate, has loet ground, and Mr. Oliver, a wealthy manu facturer of Pittsburg, has pushed to the front. The probabilities are, however, that either a dark horse or Mr. Grow will be elected. The contest is very sharp. Not much is known in relation to the Texas canvas?, but the little in formation that has come to hand points to the re election of Senator Maxey. Three other states elect senators a week later, January 25th—Wisconsin 265 3*2, 26 51 West Virginia and New Jersey, all sharp- ?C4 ?V *J S hy contested and all in such a confused j condition as to render conjectures very v3!o39 i» 4 j uncertain. Boss Keyes and the wealthy lumberman, Sawyer, want the Wiscon- aMJt 17 7 I 8 * n 8eDatorsh ^P» Sawyer having perhaps o 4i3 36 o j the b* st chance. In West Virginia Sen ator Hereford’s seat i3 sought by half a dozen, a millionaire oil man, whose name 151.2*5 la i 1 is Camden, having perhaps the largest J&0J7 St ? I support. In New Jersey three or four SNOW AtfDJSLUSH familiar with these subjects is not the best test of the real status of the productive in dustries of a state. Let us see what the _ ...... , people have been doing in Georgia for the AS ENJOYED BY WILLIAM ARP. 1 p a3t f ew years and what they have oeen ■ I doing it with. The figures of 1876 may be .. Wrath. *ro«MB-r*n ; im - Goes Haw Year's Calliag asd Has a Good Tima —Ho Cards—Hs Visits tks Tk star, sad Maiie Tkaws Bin Oat. proved lands,” 28,737.539 acres; in 1880. 29 815.591—an increase in four years of 10T8 052 acres of tilled land. That is, dur ing the tour years enough land had been “cleared and taken in." as the farmers say. „ . * to make 100 acre farms for nearly eleven Every light has its shadow, and every thousand families. We will see presently snow its slush. It’s all well enough to sing who own a good deal of this increased area of the butiful snew when you wake up in I of‘‘improved lands." ,k, _ rr j . . . .. _ I The increased value of town and city the morning a.,d look out of the window propertv W ufain the last year indicates not and see all nature robed in a covenrg of I only reaction from the l*>ng continued <!♦*• feathery dowu. It's all well enough to en-1 prestion, but substantial progress In 187* joy it in its wonderful beauty and purity the “ f AS; s -. , ’ ro P er, J' w “* 49 - c072s6 . , . . . , , ,. . . .7 in 1880. $51.230,*30, an increase in oneyeai before it begins to melt, to frolic in it »«h of $J 223 444 Here is another indication: the children, and coast, and slide, ano 1 April 1, 1879, there were in “money and sleigh, and snow ball, and Hunt rabbits, 1 (solvent debts," $26,513 005; April 1, 1SS0 and set traps and deadfalls for the Hub A .«‘ »S oirds, but the shadow is bound to come—th* | |i > 012,755; April 1, 1880, $13 989,109. •lush, and slop and drip of it, end the feei I What does the comptroller’s report indi- get cold at d aet, acd the littie chaps won’ 110?“" to , * 1 * ™ eMure ?< J*® ««>ye produc- EroumGS BY H. W. G. ON SEVERAL SUBJECTS. Dr. Felton and the Democracy—He WUhes He Had Btood for Governor—The Condition of Memphis—H.w York City Affeira —Tks Georgia Welters. r.ulrrau m aeoimrt-c Virgin ie._. ATLANTA. KY II The f.-id Mm hpr-gue la an Oi should not be lost sight of. Mn Brnorr announces that he has put | on hie enow-ahoe* for the »ea*w*n. Pcmrnz has two recorls—one on the piar»* and the other on the Poncas. The latte> will outlast the f»rmw. Tim Peruvian dollar is worth three cents, and some of our North American politician would lie dear at that price. It is now Mated that Brooklyn was th* birth place of the Morey forgery. In th language of our native clime, great good ness! !t|'n a grent ar.d pity that th* democratic maa«e* of the conntry i ni'-a-ur** held mporuihle for words and a of a few silly-billies mlatlaa ol sue t'ltlca Superintendent Walker has fnrnisbed -he press with a statement of the popu lation of all cities in the country laving thirty thousand and upwards. In this statement as published Atlanta's ipnlation is given at 34,398, It should »e 38,398. With this correction the table •rands as follows: .r-.klyn N. Y tMeajto. Ill Vinton, Mi'i ly.uls, M* iltlmore. M*1 ........... inclnnatl, O i Frar cisco. C*1 AVoiti.ii!*’t it lie well for the true reform en in the republican rat ks to turn thei attention to smiling and slaying the bout bonn in their own party? CotiKi.iMi is understoo*! to deny the cur rent a< count of hia famous walk off at C'a I Detroit. Mich nonchet. Like the clown in the pant*.- I p^denre’, H ^ mime, Conkling doesn’t know whatreallj | N_Y did occur. Mrw OrP-ans, La... leveland.«» ■it^burgh. Pa inlTitlo, N. V Newark. N J mi'Vlu*-. Kv ■rv>y City. N. J . ‘£kl- 816 5-6 6 h MS.3ID 3^2 5SV K 9.5/2 3r2,t9> v 255.70- 233 956! 160142, 116,400' 1 3.64 1 120,7/S /iUJ) 51.215 32j,7 A 45jOJ7 >03 9°7 36 5 i mea are rnnn,n 8 a neck-and-neck race L7;d 4*7.7% _26 o j f ,r Senator lliudolph’s seaL All in*or- tnation about these three cases is very 52*'Si 24 h I an ^ conflicting. This is a great senatorial year, and a 9 I very sad one to the democracy of the 7»<’ 2131 country; for the republican wave will 59.175! J! -j I carry out of the senate chamber many 2*<i 94 ' 22 5 I eminent statesmen. Eaton, McDonald, j Thurman, Whyte, IUndoIph, Kernan 3i7,oio 2-* 3 I and Wallace go out, and the country 260,7*?• ? 7 I every one of these statesmen. Their places will be Ailed by lesser men. its tramp in and tramp out all the da> I lands. In 1879 the value of horses, mules, long, and they’ve got dreadful colds, ano I hogs, sheep, ca'tle, etc , was $21,017.634; Jn icg aod snwiing cunlinualiy, •' I Tnbi’fn'eMly^lO^cenU^fwelve Stha. I *»« m Tletory in’so. Itwlidified the ’org.n not oftener, and the handkerchiefs hav* | what these tables every man who travels at | ,ied *’ inspired them and held them Staff Correspondence of Ihe Constitution. Washington. January 3.—There is still a great deal of talk about Dr. Felton’s coming speech, and a variety of opinions as to what it will con tain. The belief is universal that it will be a much milder speech than it would have been had it been delivered a month ago. 1 understand that in an ii.formal conference of Georgia mem bers it was decided that ihe Bon. K J Hammond should reply to Dr. Felton if a reply was needed —and that when Blount asked him if he Intended to n fleet on the democracy of other districts than the seventh, he replied that he should speak ouly of the abuses in the seventh district. A Geor gian tells me that he heard Dr. Felton say "the other night: “The mistake I made was in not running for governor.” Apropos of the seventh. Colonel Abda Johnson, said to me. “The cam* paign that Gordon mude for us iu ’78 was what HI 923. 3 f •27o.52» I 195,70*1 1 1,5* ,46 i-jr*** J..-97 New'lftcxlc Cuh Waibiogto*.— 1I8.4<* 143 9^7 75.1^0 and the washing Has not ome in. I large through the state knows from the andno'*. hey are using most anything foi 1 »>8ht of his own eyes. Georgia has not been . ° _ , ... I so well “stocked" in work animals and all nose !»_.». and Mn. Arp stand, at the win- tinde 0 , c . ttle in twenty years. The value dow aud mournfully sings: I of plantation and mechanical tools enters Oh the slosh—the honid old slush. I largely into the question of the real condi* The ground Is ail covered with mire and mush; I tion ot the people. April 1,1879, plantation The house is as dirty as pigs could make it, I and mechanical tools were wertn $2,9 1.3*2; And it come, from the beautilul mow. plague 280 I $235,037. Here also the eye supports the figures; our people have more tools and of better quality and design. The value of cotton and other manufactories “not ex empi" from taxation shows an increase witnin the year of $326 845. (The total values of manufactories “exempt” nnder the act of August 22, 1872, is $4,133,375.) Comparing 1376 (not for values, but for 17 6 1.17 4 86.786 23 055 9 115 ndianapoll*. Ind...„..........J rfrhromid. V I I Sew Haven, Conr „..! t^wei.Slaas | WorreMer^ Mas- — | KsnMM dty, tio 1 • 'ambridge. Mass ' Syr. cuae, N. Y„„ | olumbns. ! Urraon, N. J .1 nlnlo, O J ’Sinrb-Nton. H. C 51 €65; 50il 4*! 4*».99» 49.00*, | . Conn . Wilminvton. Del oden, N. J Paul, Minn . Maw... Lynn. Mass Denver, Col •akland. «:al Utica. N. Y Portland, Me...„... Memphis. Tena... ■y>rlngfleld, Mrs*. 33,81 Wheeling, W. Va Mobile, Ala... 82.6 0! 82.46*1 32 015! , 31,26.; „ 1 31,20 ‘•j Omaha, Seb of 1876. Turn* has been talk of a coolness betweer General Garfield and Conkling, but Gor baui intimates that they will.do nothing but eat philopesnas together during tb» comini; sess n. Tita Iamisiana witneases look hopefully foiward to the ensuing :ea?on when rovlny oongrenaional committees will go sky-lark- K>|1 KUg}| . vtv*. ing around the country getting up evidence I m*Inn* a^dls, Minn’..’.’..'. 46 S3. to unseat democratic_e«mgre*ismen. Mr Bi.aink is not capering around an of I Fa., yore. Mr. Blaine should take our advice 1 — • and make friend* with the wide awak southern representatives. Only in thi; way can he succeed in bluffing Conkling Tux democratic minority in the next con gress promises to be a muck more useful body In preventing partisan legislation thai the democratic majority in the present gress has been in projecting necessary legis lation. OCR waste bjskrl is Ireer from |ioelry now than it has been at ar.y time these font 4'ears. Whether ibis ia due to the weather or to the increasing literary tendencies ol the office-boy will probably never be known Tit* Nation wants the southern papers t<* notice Redfield’a volume about murderail the i-outh. The great difficulty at present is th* lack of facilities in getting hold ot Itcdfield’s book. Ilia publishers seem to be b t*» coy and ecm omical. The editor o‘ The Nation, however, thinks that Redfield'* figures are to be considered in connection with his dy q>eptic com!tlion. Colonkl John W Forney is spoken of a democratic candidate for mayor of Pbila delphia Asa matter of courre, we wish the colonel well; but, really, is it any honor to be a democratic candidate for mayor of Philadelphia? We can nnder stand why an ambitious man might striv* to be a sexton, or something of that ksnd, but why a man in gm>d health should de sire to ho mayor of Philadelphia is a nays t**7- Another humbug ia presented to the American people this morning in the shape of ship railroad across the isthmus of Tehuantepec. Lobbyist Ea«'i foremost friend. This and the Nicarauga project are humbugs of the first water, and they are only important as ohetacle- to the carrying on of the grandest project of modern times, which is progressinv favorably under the direction of the domi table D. lv^op*. Ttix president has sent the name of Nathan Goff, Jr., of West Virginia to the senate for confirmation as secretary i the navy. Mr. Goff does not enjoy national reputation in respect of com roereo anti maritime affairs; his state not washed by the waves of any consul- able body of water, but still he may prove a very satisfactory successor of the manner of the Wabash. He will un doubtedly be placed at the head of the national wave. The first number of Tin: Weekly Cox- btitction for the new year is full of news. Tine Daily Constitution has long been considered the newsiest paper in the south, an*l we art* determined that the weekly edition shall share this repnta turn. Beginning with the issue for this week, a summary of all news not fully presented, will be specially prepared for The Weekly. This a strong statement, but we intend to make it good. No week ly anywhere shall excel The Weekly Constitution in pewsineas. ArcoKToisMiNT hills^for 293,300,306 and 325 members have been prepared, and will be offered very soon. It is admitted on all hands that the number of repre sentatives will not be less than 393, the present number, nor more than 325. G* n- eral Walker says the approximate state ment of the population of the states, al ready published, will notvary more then 5,000 at the outside, and probably not to exceed S.KX). from the final revisei enu meration. Tne population of r e states 19 4 92-S 86.0:6 117 71* 109.1 9 !<»,<* 9 10 *.753 82.516 48.244 51.188 50.84** 25.865 SH.9S0 37,180 3I> 8*1 2 *.0l ’.O.UK 28.02 SO 43 21,781 28,23.1 io’scD 81,413 It was eighty years ago last Saturday since the celebration of the formal union jo I of Ireland and Great Britain and to the Di»r~Cofuinbi» 177.636 isl.70^ 4j.«o J j4 3 J millions of Irish people, generation after Total.... 50,152 559*5. ssxn.iLSOUs | Ts generation, the weary years were the — — : moat distressful they ever experienced. !T aP !T“T, .Not one of them can be Mid to have nearly that of the whole conntry, bnt she ixen in IreIan(1 years of peacu and con- drop one point in the lUt of itat-s. In tentment . ClU1 it u that , crime 1870 she was the twelfth state in popule- mn|ioM wilI much , onger nnpunish . tion; she is now the thirteenth, holding I e( j 0 the place that was hero in the original struggle for independence. Michigan I If the house is kept at 293 members, and Texas have passed her in the past Georgia will be entitled to 9 members, decade, and Virginia has fallen behind with a fraction of 22,501 to snare; at 300 her. An additional gain of less than four I the state would have only 9 members, thousand people would have given the I »>ut the fraction w’ould be increased to state a place above Tennessee’s, and I 47,888; at 310 mem here, only 9 members, kept her the twelfth state of the union. I unless the fraction of 105,661 gave us The old state has, however, no reason to I additional member, as it probably weep over her progress; for she has in-1 would; at 325 members, the state would creased more rapidly than any eastern or be entitled to ten members and still middle staG—more rapidly than any of nave a fraction unrepresented amount- the central states, Michigan alone except- i D g to 19,913. ed, and has only been much excelled by _ “ . ... 4l . , . , . . ... ..... . | Senator Beck is very much uisgruutlcd the states lying west of the Mississippi , , . .. I b*cause democrats—presumably southern nver. Michigan alone of thenorthern democrat3 _ have remained away from states east of the great nver has risen ^ This ia no doubt Tery ?md; but i( faster. ^ southern democrats had taken their seats, The south as a section shows a gain of I , be y would have been expected to join the 31.05 per cent,againat a northern percent- J partisan row that marked the proceedings age of 25.85. It will gain at least three I of congrers up to the recess. We are of the representatives in the lower house of I opinion that Mr. Beck and others will dis congress. I cover that southern representatives are The country now contains more people I growing tired of the peculiar partisanship than any of “the effete monarchies” cf ‘*»t seems to be demanded of ihem the- Europe, Russia alone excepted ; and if [ moment they enter the federal legisl.tnre the present rate of increase is maintain- e it. Therona is all mud and the yard is all mire, And all I can do L to ait by the fire. The children keep tramping In and out, And the dogs will follow them all about. It*a eat, and travel, and sneeze, and blow. And all of it cornea from the beautiful snow. But we had a good time of it sowing the clover seed, for we had been waiting for a snow, and so we stepped off an acre of 70 yards, and experimented with six quarts I There were in 1879 107.827 hands ern of seed. We gauged tha width of the lano I ployed; in 1880, 100,.80, This ?a hope- , „„„ . . .? , * fuL It indicates not that fewer people are by our tracks in the snw as we sowed the I dt wor j^ bu t that m* re people do their owu seed, and it come out about right, with oniy | wo rk and farm their own lands It indt a half pint left. We sowed eight acres in cates au increase of “small farms" carved about two hours and feel satisfied with | our labors. some red top and timothy, for grass I fteedmen “ own the farms they work, ia better than cotton, and oata are better! At this point it is interesting to inquire number*-) with 1880 we tiod in the “ num ber of bauds emplojed between the a*es *»f rwelve and sixty-five" a decrease ot 7,827 ed through the present decade,the Russian empire will soon be passed, and we will then be outranked in population only by the overcrowded countries of the far east. During the civil war the rate At any rate, the people are growing tired of it. AN IMPGRlANr RUMOR. Hie Laalavilln asd Kaibvllle Trying to Clet Control ol Ucorgla I* all roads. . There is a rumor att jat that E. H. Green, of growth fell to 22.65 per cent., but be- , he mluion4ire who control, to , great de fore the war it was thirty-five per cent., I j^tre, the Louisville and Nashville railroad, and the present outlook does not indicate bas begun a wholesale purchsse of the an increase of less than thirty per cent, during the coming ten years. A popula tion of 65,000,000 seems to be a reason able promise of 1890. Atlanta is the forty-eighth city, rank ing next below Dayton, Ohio, and just above Lynn, Massachusetts. Her rate of increase was within a fraction of 80 per cent. Fall River and Denver are the only towns in the country that have increased more rapidly since 1S70. Hie number of cities having more than 30,000 inhabitants has increased from 36 64. The nnmber having over 100 000 20, against 14 in 1870. New York, Philadelphia and Brooklyn, hold their relative position al the head. Chicago has risen from fifth place to fourth, and St. fxmis has fallen from fonrth to sixth. Boston has come up from seventh to fifth, and Baltimore has dropped from sixth to seventh. Cincinnati continues to hold the eighth position, ami San Fran cisco takes the ninth, crowding New Orleans from that to the teutli. Those which have passed the 100,000 line in •heten years are Cleveland, Pittsburg, Jersey City, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Providence, flie Magna R>»nU<* aad Their Holders We print elsewhere a communication from the pen of Colonel It. K. Hines, Macon, in regard to the claims of th* holders of the bonds of the Brunswick and Albany railroad against the s’ate. The communication is a clear exposition of the status of those bondholders and embodies a concise history of their case. It is a prelude to what may in time be come an interesting controversy, and we commend the facts set forth to the atten tion of our readers It appears from Colonel Hines’s history of the case thai these bondholders are not only not nocent as they claim to he, bnt that they have not suffered as great pecuniar}' loss os they pretend; and it appears, fnrther- moie, that they are al*out to attempt to set up what is mildly termed a legal fraud. The real victims of these bogus bond transactions are citizensof our state, and if there is to lie any revision of a !e- gil finality it should be m favor of those who have lost their labor and their capital in building a road for the ccm plaining bondholders to seize and appro priate. But the real sufferers have made no attempts to reverse the inevitable, and they are not likely to; instead, we have the ennobling spectacle of a parcel of bondholders, who eagerly took the state’s place in the litigation and secured the road, now moving for damages. But even this is not aggravating enough to cause us to recede from the position we have maintained all along. While we believe it was the fault of the foreign purchasers of these bonds that they were swindled in the first instance—knowing a-* they ought to have known that a bond with the valivl indorsement of Georgia ould be promptly gobbled up by the is thus practical y fixed at 49,369,«14. Lpiert financiers of Wall street—neverthe- The ratios of population to rvpresenta- j a swindle was consummated, and tion for 293 members would therefore be ■ lboee w i lo were the victims thereof are 16S.49S; tor 300 representatives, 164,566; j , ntitled to seme re para- ion. We have for 310 representative*. 159,25$, and for j a r v a ,|y made it plain that the parties 32o representatives, Jol.90.. I wbo sw * m dl*id them are the parties The past year consigned to the silent to whom, in equity, they should tomb many notable persons. From the | lock for reparation. As near as ranks of literature were taken Paul De j we can get at the facts, the re- Musseit and George ElioL The stage sponsible parties carried on thtir opera- lost Tom Taylor, Mrs. Charles Kean, lions under the name and title of Clews, Adelaide Neilson, and John Brougham. | Habicht A Co. The courts are open to Music mourns O e Bull and Offenbach. ! the victims. The situation lacks little of Gifford, GuiUeman and l>e Haas of the being picturesque. There are the artists, and BackUnd, Watson, Benja- ; courts, here are the victims, and yonder min Fierce and B irnas Sears of the sei- are the responsible parties. It may be •mists, finiahed their career. The min- ! that the holders of the invalid bonds do istry lost Dr. Chapin, Bishop Haven, ! not consider the responsible parties re- Dr. Wiliiam Adams, Empress of sponsible enough. In that event, we Russia passed away a f ter a life have a suggestion to make which may be of trouble, and among notable ! ol value to the holders of the bogus pub.ic men lost in this c mntry should j bonds and their attorneys. If we are be mentioned Thomas F. Bayard, Wil- j not mistaken, the ponderons seal of the The Xew Senatorial Crap. Twenty-five new senators, out of seventy-six, will take their seats on the fourth day of next March, always pro vided there is an exira session of at least the senate, as of course tbero will be, if only to confirm the nominations of the new president. Five of the twenty-five new senators have been elected, namely: A. P. Gorman to succeed Senator Whyte, of Maryland; General George to succeed Senator Bruce, of Mississippi; General Mahone to succeed Senator Withers, of Virginia; General Burnside, of Rhode Island, and Mr. E Imnnds, of Vermont, each to be his own successor. The work of electing the twenty other senators will begin next Tuesday, when choices will be made in California, Ne vatla, Ohio and Tennessee. In California the republican caucus has already placed in nomination, Geneial Miller, a native of Indiana, and a millionaire. He will be Senator Booth’s successor. In Ne vada the democrats have nominated Bo nanza Fair. He will succeed Senator 9haron. In Ohio John Sherman has a walk-over for the seat that Mr. Gar field would have filled if he had not encountered a presidential rial windfall. In Tennessee things arc “mixed,” both houses be ; ng distressingly divided up among several parties and cliques. The chances of securing a dem ocrat to succeed Senator Bailey are, however, good, but no man can oretell the name of that democrat. A week later, January 13, will be one of excitement at no less than thirteen state capitals, to say nothing of the feel ing in other parts of the contrary. Con nect ient, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts. Michigan, Minne sota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York Pennsylvania and Texas will on that day select thirteen senators. Connecticut General Joe Hawley will certainly succeed Senator Eaton, and it is equally certain that Senator Bayard, of Delaware, will be his own successor. The beet information is to the effect that Senator Jones, o! Florida, will be his own successor, although a few bourbons are trying to compass his defeat. In Indiana Senator McDonald will doubtless be sue ceeded'bv Ben Harrison, a grandson of a president, and a good lawyer. Mr. Har rison has opponents, but he will doubt less be able to secure the price. Maine Eugene Hale has received the re publican nomination, and wiU in due course of time take the seat of the ancient Hamlin, who voluntarily retires. Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, has conquered a peaceful re-election. He has got the upper hand of the Boston kickers, and “ high cuichaw ’ generally. After a sharp race the great Conger ha-* captured the republican nomination in Michigah, which is equivalent to an elect ion. In Minnesota Senator McMillan thought he had another term in a swing, but the announcement of Secretary Ram stock of the Georgia and the West Point I roads, with a view of obtaining control of these lines. It is merely a rumo-, and a reporter of The Constitution yesterday endeavored to trace it to something solid in fact. He called on Mr. Janies, and asked wlmt he thought of the matter. * Well," he replied, “it all amounts to about this: Tne friends of General Alex ander in New York, have recently bought wo thousand shares of Georgia railroad stock." “ Was it done with a view of obtaining control of the road?*’ “I have no idea it was. You must re member that there are $4,200,000 of capital mves.ed in the r**ad, and the stock referred to represents only about $200 000 of it. It would take a much larger purchase to gain en an appearance of control " *‘Wha» ooespbe purchase signify, then?" “Nothing out that the st«»ck isdtsirable as i inve-tment. It is now 1 14 ar>d will pay 8 per ceut this year, in all pmbabi’ity This vill run it away up to 1.20 or 1 25 and •hrewd capitalists naturally tuin their attention lo if. I think the 2,100 shares ere purchased simply as an investment." “What shout the West Point road?” •‘I don’t think the New York parties have purclia-ed a*-y of it. At least, I have not heard of any such transaction?'’ One acre yielded -a la*,y«« I ilirce tons and a hall and it waa wo-thjusi i»;j, the nearoea owned of •• improred seventy dollars in Ihe field without baling 458 098 acres, worlh #1.582,723; April I wish our farmers wuulil try the parses, i 18s o, S86,U&t ec es. worth $1,522 173 en for it does look like agricultural suicide to increase in acrerge in four years of 127.085; see car after carofTeunesseebay unloading , ucrea se in value of $250 450. In 1877 the et our depot every winter and selling for negroeaowned -town and citv property” to $25 a ton. I reckon our farmers know their I the amonnl of $1,151,122; in 1880. $1,201 902 business, bnt it looks curious to me to see ^ote also their “ slock and tools." In 1877 them running everything inlo cotton, and [heir home-, mules, hogs, caltle etc , wete selling it for a big pile of money and then wo rlh $1 920 912; in 18SU, $2 051,787. Ihey paying halt of it out for labor and mostal had made a small increase also in the value the rest for corn and hay to make another „[ ,heir plantation t jola. The aggregate crop wilb. The worst of it is they haveut I value of the property owned by colored peo- sowed hardly any wheat this year, for when pb , j n 1879 wes $5,782 398; in 1880, $5,764 they ought to have sowed, the cotton was 293—a«» increase of $581,895. That s th in the way and then the rains set in and I negroes have increased the total value ot they never have quit as yet to my knowl | their iproperty about ten p*r cent—the ediic. whole people about six per cent. Had the Las*, week I went over to Rome on a visit whole people doue as well as the negroes Rome is a cotton town. I never saw the instead of an increase of something over $14, like in my life, for you can hardly see the I OQO.OOO it should have been nearly $^3,U00, town for the cotton. The warehouses are I Q00. all full inside and outside, and they have I All of which proves one of two things,per lined all the sidewalks with it on the back 1 ba ps both—either the negro has a tolerably street**, the bales standing up on end be-1 fairchance in Georgia or else he is a re tween the shade t»-ees, which made Ihe 1 markable force in Georgia political econo streets look like they were walled in with I ro y. it pfrhaps indicates, furthermore, cotton. It looks to me like the business of I that the ‘‘exodusters" are not troubling Rome waa growing faster than ita popula I Georgia to any marked extent. More and tion. The handling of a hundred thou J more our colored citizens are anxious to sand bales of cotton ought to draw I “bay land;" more and more the together and give support to t^n thousand I Georgia landholders—the “old pro- people. Rome is growing though, growing proprietors," if the reader please—are wil- ttts*, and has got to be a beautiful city and |£ (S g to soil it to them. 3 mie of the “stal- putting on aristocratic airs On Saturday W art" friends who have been insisting that night I was iuvited to go a New Year’s southern whites ought to sell farms to the calling with a few friends, one of whom was I freed men may not relish one result of the a preacher. He was taken along to give the experiment so far. The negro landowner, crowd a proper degree of respectability and especially when he has his farm paid for keep us all impressed with the sobrieties ot an( j his deed safe in hand, develops a sin- life. We had no cards, but were introduced 1 gular penchant for votingas the white land by our preacher as Mr. Job and h ; s frieuds I owner vote. It may be mentioned at this x .d somehow in the confusion I Rot I point that one of the leading landowners in the name of Major Bill Dad, of Shuhite, I m y county (Newton) said to me a few days It was a splendid IroUcand 1 saw more nice «c Q that he had sold farms, averaging about people and terreslial angels, and mote good one hundred acres each, to nearly thirty things to eat than I ever saw before in ihe 1 negro men, giving them long time and easy same rime and spice. I waseut used to the I terms. Only two failed to come to time, business and therefore allowed myself im I The Georgia taxiaies ruav be mentioned, pt sed on at the first place we came to, for Comparing the rates of 1876 and 1880 the the beautiful and hospitable ladies seemed figures show that of the 137 counties in the to think I had been fasting about forty day3 state C9 have increased the rate since 1876, and was hungry, and as they stulled me aud jo have *he same rate, 73 have lessened it crammed me w ; th tui key and chicken Lalad an d the rates of 13aro not reported for 1880 and cake and coffee and various jellies and I of the 137 counties only 2 go over $1 on the froth a id paraphernalia and codicils aud |$i00(for a new court house or something contexts without number. Rav. Mr. Job 1 extraordinary), 85 come under 50 cents, 15 observed me with alarm, and gently whm- under 30 cents; the average is 42 cents'on pered that we would be expected to partake j be $ioo. The state rate is 33 ceuts, giving a little at other plsces and to I baited pre- a oate for costs, state and county tax of 75 maturely in gcod order. After that 1 en-. J dints on the $100. deavored to regulate myself and to slide I There is every reason to believe that 1831 along on coffee, but dident altogether sue will show a still larger advance in all the c*cd. We crossed the toll-bridge in out [lines of real progress; 1880 was a good year, phaton and when the toll man came out I Large crops Drought good price**, and there Mr. Branham says he: “My friend, this is I j S money, aside from debts and necessary The Constitution Elsewhere. Gumming Clarion. The Atlanta Constitution did not slop f Christmas, but *eut out its issues with the regu larity of clock work. The enterprise of its pro orieturs. Its lre*>h newsiness. aud general ability, receive comraeHdat’ons from all quartets, /or it msy truly be said that it is known aud admired north, east, south and west. LaGran;e Reporter. The Atlanta Const itction has a larger circu lation then any daily i a the state, and is read by thousands o! people. Cartersville Express. None but the wealthy, wbo can live without work, can read The Atlanta Constitution. Ihe time rtqulrcd for the perusal of its four mammoth pa.ts knocks m«»e timeout of the week than any work ug man can si*aie. Henry County Weekly, period in its exi-tence has The Consti The Poor sail Tbs Conatilatlon. Sparta I-hmaelite. It was the spirit of noble comlderetion for the poor of Atlaut-i that iuduetd The Constitution to »endi “ *“■ ity that ; messenger* « ineirdutv. The suffering were sought out. aud ready hands did tne bidding of warm hearts in ministering to their wants. Such deeds are doue to be uumpe ed abtoad: aud yet the ac 1 in them s ould be kuoan i honor* d of all men. We do obeisance in the pre ecce of the generous souls in At ianta who. und»- r the warm-hearted guidance o, The Constitution rwnembt red the Buffering in their midst, such *-eeds are better than victories on the but lefle’d, or triumphs in the world of letters or of aaiesmmstiip. Creeds are nothing but emptiness in the comparison with the Chmt- like benedk-txm of Mibstantial remembrance tor the naktdmnd the hu gry ones of ear h. There is a lesson for us a’l in this simple recital. Let the new year find as less Careful lor self and A Cotton richer. Little Rock Gazette. M*. WilJam Apperly, who is nowengated in putting machinery into the new oil mills, this plane. h*s inveu’ed a cotton picking machine, which he rhirms isaper/eef success. Mr. Apperly tarns t > th** country in )S61.aud shortly after wards invented a eo. u»n picker The seat of gov ernment of the southern confederacy was ihea at Montgomery, Ala., and the first patent iesaed by the guve-nmeni was granted him. When die war became waim. he threw hi-* machine into a wdL A/.erthe war he a-raln took up his faverite theory, and soon completed a machine which, af V r the expenditure of a large mm of money, at tained a moderate degree of success. Full of hor funeral procession, and they don’t pay." “ Who is dead?” says the man. “ Anna Domini,” says Mr. Branham.” * When dia she die?" said he. ‘ Last night, at 12 o’clock, precisely,' says Mr. Branham. " How old a woman was she?" says the toll man. Eighteen centuries had rolled over her,’ says Mr. Branham The toll man still seemed in doubt, when Mr Job exclaimed, “Leaves have their time to fall, and flowers to wither at the north wind's hrtaih. but Anna DomiM and all must go sooner or later, my friend." That seemed to settle it, and we hurried on. I had to put away some of the delicacies everywhere I went, and by the time we had finished up the busine-s I took an in ventory in taemory and could recall nine cupsot coffee and a promiscuous assortment of eatables and frothy things according. Mv dreams that night were by no means refreshing or satisfactory, for it seemed me 1 was surrounded by a score of lovely and enchanting angels who were flying around with silver baskets all full of golden appies, and as they pressed me to take and eat 1 saw old Father Adam in the back around a riiaking his venerable head, and cou d hear him as he mournfully whispered, L ok out, tuy son, lookout!" The more they pressed me the more he frowned, but wi at could one poor faMen man do against *he fascinating smiles of twenty beautiful women? 1 took their apples, and the first bite gave me an internal twist that woke me up with a groan. I think I now understand the doctrine of original sin Old Mother Eve d'dn’t care anythrog about the apple for herself. She just wanted Adam to have some, and that’s all she took it for. It's always teemed mighty curious to me That Eve aud Adam and all of us fell Just from eiting a red appelh “Oh music, what is it and where does it dwell 7" I have been to hear the Mendels sbons. and they mellowed me down soft and lifted me up high, and thrilled me with the swee»est strains of delicious music I ever heard in my life. They made me feel like I was a better man than I am. and it does seem to me that folks can’t make that sort cf music without soarir g n a heavenly atmosphere and becoming more lit for para dise than the rest of us. They say that heaven is love, and I am su r e that while Miss Nellini was singiug I loved everybody in the bouse, and her t*»o, and could have leaned upon most any fair lady and wept, and I did want some of ’em to lean u(»on me end weep, and let us all feel heavenly together. Madam Urso is no bear, if she Uas got a beary name. She is no angel neither—that is, not a young etheriel sylph, but she is a bleared little lump of dumpy mortality and beats P**g*ninny at his own came. I never heard such fiddling in all my life and if I was miserable and blind I would rather die under her u usic than live without it. She dident care for any of us hut just stood there in a trance with her eyes closed and never moved a muscle of her sad and mar ble face. I wish 1 was rich, I would take a ease for life on the whole concern. Yours, Bill Arp. expenses, to invest in larger and better pro ductive apparatus. There can be no question about it; the mess of our people were never so comfortable in their lives or in the lives of their fathers. There not, perhaps, as many rich there are hundreds of thousands of comfortable middle class people. There are fewer “mansions" on the plantations, there are many more sightly and pleasant cottages on the farms. The people—the great mass of the people of Georgia—were never so well fed, so well cloihed, co well housed as now. They are increasing substantial wealth. What is more impor tant, they are improving in all good things, as in the spirit of political and social *oler atioD, in hearty support of law, in intelli gence and morals. together." Dr. Felton is said to be very bit:er against Senator Browu and Governor Colquitt, and it is probable that his speech will have something to say ot both of these gentle men. The speech, as a speech, will be the great est effort ot the doctor's life, and if not delivered sooner, will certainty come In February, when ihe question of counting Georgia's vote will open the way. Re will oppose the counting of the t understand. NEXT GOVERNORSHIP IN GEORGIA. There is a smart bit of speculation through the Georgia colony in Washington, as to the next race for governor down your way. It seems to be accepted that some comparatively new and young will bear ofT the prize, as Toombs, Stephens, Hill, Gordon, Colquitt, Brown. Warner aud of that class are off the track. This *iate of things will develop sn unusual number of candidates. may count ou at least two from the gresslonal delegation—Messrs. Blount and Ham moud. The first will certainly be pressed by hi> fi lends, and I ihlnk the latter will oa. A move ment will be organized shortly in the interest of Colonel J. C. C. Black, of Rich moud, and Judge Jas. R. Brown will be put forward as the candidate of north Georgia. I do not know whether or not Colonel Lester, of Savan nah, will be acandidate again, but his section of the state will certainly have a mau in the field The Hon. Patrick Walsh could bring a district up to the convention if he took a mind to go in. and there are perhapi a half dezen of oth r promising candidates. The race will be an emphatically “free for all,” and “the field” will be the favorite in the pools It is not probable that there wi 1 be any “conso lation” race for beaten horses, as it looks no* as if Beu Hill would carry off the senatorship- 1 the ouly prize that follows the gubernatorial race, without a struggle. THE CONDITION OF MEMPHIS. I met an intelligent Memphian yesterday, who gave me cbeei lug news from that ill-fated city. “We have made reforms and improvements,” ht ►aid, “that 1 feel sure will give us exemption from yellow fever Iu the future. Increditable a> It may appear, the city of Memphis, prior to this year, had no sewerage With the exception of a hotel, and a block of banks and business houses that had private sewers, every home had a cess-pool water closet that were cleaned by carts with pumps. The driukiag water all came from cis terns dug iu the same soil in which th* se pits foi closets were dug. and it is little wonder that th* fever took us by the throat. Now there is a com pieteand efficient system of sewerage, and th* surface closet < are done away with. Every houst almost has lu water closet properly trapped, and couueeted with ample s*wera, Then we have uetwork of drainage sewers tuuk into the ground. These ate not connected with closets, but are pu in simply for cleaning the s il by absorbing u impurities. The pipes are put together with porous joints through which the damp impuritk* of the soil are absorbed iuto the pipe and carriec off. At the mouth of these pipes there seen a little stream of f juI .and dLcolored wate< flowing almost continually.” "You think then that Memphis is safe?” “No city is safe from a visitation of yellow fevei—that is iu the region where has ever gone. But we think thai the changes made will prevent getting a deadly hold ou ux again. We hav* found the cause of our trouble and we have moved it, and put iu the remedy. We are natu rally entitled to health, for Memphis Is place- upon a high blulT with but little malarial grouuo about her.” “What is the financial condition of the city?” “Well, it is hardly a city. It is simply a tax district—but it is doing welL The price of estate is looking up, business bas revived won derfully, and we have already 50,000 more bale* ol cotton than we have had before. The mone: for the sewer ge was advanced by tax-payers who simply ask that their Ux accouuts be creditec with what they have put up. The city is ru^ heaply. About all we pay lor is police and gas think we are safe in believing that item phi; will from this time forward, take her sUnd among the prosperous and progressive cities of Ameti fering houses for rate, the price of the lowest of which was $215,000 aud the highest I3S5.0CO. And so it goes. The days *>f gigantic fortunes in America has freely set in. sn1 it is natural that there should be luxury and display. MR. W. H. PATTERSON AND THE GEORGIA WESTERN ROAD. I had a Ulk with Colonel Cole the other night, and asked him if he thought the Georgia Western would be built ia the next five years. * ‘I do," he replied; “it certainly must be built witblu a few years!” The trouble we have had with the Geor gia West*rn, as it looks to me, is that we have not had one man a t the head of it. We have commit tees, but not a single leader. Now, committees never build railroads. It take* one man who will put his character, his energy, and his sagacity into it, and give it all his time, feeling that he ha*, all the responsibility. There is a in Atlanta who Is pre-emiuently the man for such a work-and that man is W. H. Patterson ol Citizens’ bank. If the people of Atlanta will subscribe 8AO.COO—and they will do it easy enough—aud the subscribers will then elect Pat terson. president, and give him the power to go ahead—he can build the road as sure as shooting. he will only accept the place. He would first go to the Louisville and Nashville headquarters, exactly what could be done with the charter they hold, and never leave the headquarters till he get a positive and official decision. With his -■OO.Ot-O subscribed In Atlanta, he would then go to work in New York and raise money with which to build enough of the road to put bond on to finish it with. I have been aston ished to see the reputation Mr. Patterson has here among moneyed men, and the powerful connec tions he has. No man in Georgi* c *uld d» more lu New York with a legitimate enterprise—and that the Georgia Western surely is. I do uot claim credit for tbis suggestion. It was given m* by a bank officer, who assured me that if Pallet put at the head of the enterprise am approved it as safe, he would take $ O.i 00 stock in t himself, and would lend his influence ale of its bonds. I spoke of it to another t railroader interested in Georgia, and he said: “If Patterson could get that charter and would take hold of the enterprise, I might put iu caough to enable him to push t through. I would tainly heip heavily.” I cannot say any more, but I am morally that if Patterson i9 put iu charge of the thing and will take It, aud if $2u0,000 is subscribed home—that he can come to New York, get the old charter without payiug a dollar, and in thirty days have enough money subscribed to build equip the road, with the help of its bonds. If he don't do it he will turn the trust back ingoml order. If the pe pie r*al y want tbe read they can get ii quicker through one man than through a commit ice—and through Patterson quickcrtbar* any other man. H. W. G. FEDERAL FACTS. CONSIDERING TUB FUNDING BILt. The Appointment of Judye ‘Woods's 8ioeenor- The Mawhalehip of Georgia-Senator Brawn’s View of a Cabinet Position -Congressional Procsedingt. WILSONS WOUNDS. effort to have the cotton fields After coming bock to this country and making a few i introduce i .. It experiments, be discovered ilb*. which fo- several veirs he ha- been work- correct. Now hi cia:ms that all tne imper- ...» . hi claims that all frcdocsbave teen act arignt, and th.t bin pre sent machine carnot fail to prove.saiisuactory. Tbe Xovnarst of Cotton. Ntw Orleans. January 7.—The statement cf the national cotton exchange to be i -sued to mor row will show a total movement ia cotton to de livery por,' dnnng tne four month-, ending O-y’a candidature ha* givin the canvass a , t *M- different look. Wear* too far away to ai t - * as an umpire in the case. In Missouri j Senator Cockrell worked the garden- ] seed business, so that she had no diificnliy in securing a nomination. The j contest in Nebraska is very lively, j Senator Paddock havinethe insidetrack. | The Cold vs. tbe Oranges. The Jacksonville Union, in speaking of tbe recent unprecedented cold in that section lays: Wednesday night was the coldest since 1857, and with one exception the coldest since 1835. The oranges oi trees in the city were all frozen this morn- it g. Mr. Moore of Fruit Cove, reports his orange crop as badly damaged; in fact, he fear* the D>ss of his entire crop. A tele gram fro a linn. Whitfie d Walker, from I'annasolkee Lake, Surat r county, staled that no c amage was done to the orange ciop ees, except to very tender buds young trees. The temperature ye«terday morning stood as follows: Green Cove, 20 degrees; Fruit Cove, 20 degrees; Mandarin, 20 de grees; Beauclerc, 20 degrees; Hibernia, 18 degrees. Mr. John Brown, of Mandarin, reports his entire crop, about 8,000, ruined. M Hudnell, on the ont»osite side of the river, f*orts bis crop, 80,000, pone. Yesterday morning Dr. A. 8. Baldwin gathered loO oranges and the same number of lemons from trees in his yard and found every one of them frozen. Hon. R. B. Canova arrived here yesterday afternoon from Picolata, where he bas a grove. Mr. C. states that the tneroury went down to 24 degrees, but the fruit at that p’ace had not been injured. At Palatka the thermometer went down to 23 degree**, and the oranges at that place were badly frozen. The damage to the crop cannot be ratelv estimated. It is the general opinion that the trees will not be hurt, and it is hoped that the number of oranges destroy ed by the cold will not be as large as most persons now fear. In tome sections mo-t of tbe frirt will probably be saved, and about one third has already been marketed. GEORGIA GROWING RICH. , au increoie Tbe Nevada Democrat*. a A x Franci*co. January 7 —A dirpstch from The senatorial fijfht in New lork is very camm city. Nevada. «ay»: The democrat* held , . . Tj io „ j a caucus la-t n sht and nominate d J. G. t air for hot, bitter and uncertain. There are six , x- n l ed sute« *enat. r it is claimed, however, candidate* in the field, and no one V now, | *”*«*• «“* w “ n “ -* 00 how many dark horse*. The anti-ma chine candidates are, in the order of their Flcwa af tbe President Known College-Substantial Proof •I Increasing Prosperity. Oxford, Ga , December31 —To the Editor of the New York Herald: The Hon A. H S’epbens thinks Georgia is growing poorer wnw luut „ Robert General Toombs is credited with imhw~endhig j entertaining Mr. Stephens’ opinion. With iecent expressions of these prominent gen tlemen as texts a good deal has been recent ly said as to Georgia’s industrial conditio i. In the articles that have a no* a red in the newspapers the reports of 1873 have gener ady been made the basis of com pansoo. True conclusions cannot be reached from 1873 as a starting point, or from anv year before that Tbe valuations of 1873 were fixed in the spring months, before tbe panic of S^ptem ber 26 How that panic “tumbled value**” is tolerably well known. Not before 1873 The West Point Myaterjr Solved. A remarkable case that shows the shrewdnes i detective has just occurred at Weft Point, Ga. On Monday, the tbiid instant, about 9 o’clock p m., the expres' office at West Poiut was robb< Vbout 9:30 the agent was found in his office with wound in his head, appHrently insensible, a broken bowl in front cf him, atid the door about half open near him, and tbe &ife with no money it He was taken to the hotel, two physicians were summoned, and he was found to be cold and pronounced insensible—the pupils of his eyes somewhat dilated, and a wound found on top of his head somewhat iu shape of a chicken's foot, ihow'ng that the skin had been cut with slight contusion around the fissures In the skin. The town was soon on the alert, and in a short time several men were under suspicion as the perpetrators of the hideous crime. The marshal tried to arrest a negro who was on the platform of train that was leaving the depot, and who had failed to stop when called to do to by the marshal the crime was discovered, and the marshal hinking the negro the guilty party, fired at him he retired on the leaving train. The towu of West Point was fully aroused, and two or three parties were suspected in a short time. Mr. E. K. Wilson was tbe agent of the express company who had been so badly treated and obbed. was also the agent for the Western Union telegraph company at West Point, and on Tues day morning he telegraphed to Mr. W. H. Clay- 1, superintendent of the Southern express com pany at Atlanta: i clubbed last night, and the office robbed. (signed) E. K. W This telegram was received by Mr. Clayton about 11 o'c ock on the morning o' the 4th. J. E. Wilkinson, special detective tor the South express company, was in Mr. Clayton’s office when he receive*! the telegram He handed it to Mr. Wilkinson, ard said to him, “Here is i for you ” Mr. Wilkinson left on the noon train and Immediately to West I’oiut arriving there in the evening. ks soon as he arrive! he requested Mr. Wilson tell him how the robbery occurred. Wilwm a nead w-s tied up; he appeared to be tuff-ring from his wounds—his left baud wrs sprain* d. tnd altogether he was in a bad fix.'buthe prompt ly responded to Mr. Wilkin, on’s request and told him how it oc-nrred, making! substantially the following statement: # “Monday night about 9 o’clock! received three telegrams in a few minutes of eaefi other. I wrote hem off. turned off the lusirnmeut; went tip o -* n, delivered one of the terrains, aud re timed to usy o .ice and went to me \fe t -> count Special dispatch to The Constitution. Washington, January 8.—I see it is going the round of the papers, that Senator Brown said to General Raum, commissioner of internal reve nue. that he approved of the course of tbe reve nue agents of Georgia, and tendered his cordial support in executing the laws. Tbis is not a fair statement as I understand ol whit occurred. Senator Brown pointed out to Commisrioncr Raum the wrongs that bad been doue the people of Georgia by subordinates iu the execution of the Uw. He did not know whether those subor dinates were in Raum’sdepartment, or connected with tbe other departments of government there, but there were abuses which ought to be correc ted. And he assured the commissioner that the people of Georgia were a law abiding people, and the departments of government would correct these abuses that have been m» often y :-r|*etrated •y subordinates which have brought the execu tion of the Uw into disrepute, he. together with the whole people of the slate, would very cor dially and earnestly co-operate with the authorl- lies in the faithful execution of the laws. W hat- y be the opinion of Senator Brown or of the people of Georgia, cf the policy of these laws, is of the opinion that they should be faithfully xecuted while they remain oa the statute book, ud that the special officers of the government ihould see to it, that their subordinates are not guilty of abuses in the execution of the law. Alexander H. Stepheus uas expressed the •pit.i-m that the electoral vote of his state should not be counted. He was very emphatic in hU characterization of the folly of the gentlemen who passed the law which makes the day for tbe bliog of the Georgia legislature the Wednesday following the first Monday in De cember, instead of the first Wednesday. “Ihese wiseacres,” said Mr. Stephens, “un- oubudly thought that the first Wednesday must always follow the fiist Monday." Other democrats iu congress are of the Fame opinion aa Mr. Stephens, among wham la Mr. Carlisle, of Kentucky, who says that while these votes plainly should not be counted there is no way, in the absence ot some definite rule of procedureon the subject, to subject them. The only anologous case ou record is that of Wiscon sin iu 1808. lu (ouuting this vote, objection was made by Mr. Toombs, of Georgia, and Mr. Franklin, of Virgiuia, but the presiding officer of the occasion, Mr. Mason, of Virgiuia decided that the func tion of the joint convention of the iwo houses was to witness the counting oi votes and of the presiding officer lo count them, and thereupon he adjourned the meeting. In this view oi the vase, ihe vote ol Georgia must be counted, simply because the two housai cannot do otherwise iu be absence of the twenty-second jolut rule. Taere ispeuding in each hous; of cougress a bid providb g for the purchase by the government o! the Ireedmen'-s bank building iu this city. 8< na- '■»r Brut-e is couiidenl that the bill will become a Actl g up *n that belief, he has prej ared a providing for the distribution ;« f the money realized by the purchase pro rata among the de positors. This bill he will submit immediately to ie committee ou the freoJmeu’s bank, of which 3 Is chairman. Special dispatch to The Constitution. Washington, January 8.—It i* stated positively Ur-night from a high source that Judge Billings, of New Orleans, will be appointed judge in Judge Woods's place, and that Judge 1’arJcc will be put Judge Billings's place. Judge l’ardec was colonel of President Hayes’s old regiment. Judge Hopkins is strongly backed before President lives. There is no doubt that Mr. Kimball will *j appointed mirshal if Marshal Fitzsimmons is removed. At the departments tbis Is openly fitted. Mr. Kimball's support beiug virtually unanimous. Mr. Kimball takes no part in the f.ght, but has gone to Boston, and on Tuesday nucts a party of gentlemen in New York to organ- ire for the cotton exposition. The report of Mr. Newcomb on Mr. Fitzsimmons went to the president to-day, and be is now examining it. It has been seen by several persons and is said to be quite severe, but Fitzsimmons’ friends claim that r K Governor Brown, in an interview as to going ito Garfield’s cabinet, said, “If offered, I ho Id not U*ke a place in Garfield's cabinet. 1 onsider a s< natorsbip next to the presidency.’* * b«*d finished. I wevbed n basin. Xto*v in riccorr.cr. un everything ami going h GRIME AND CASUALTY* > Decern Indiana’* frpeaker. . Ikdi anatous. January 7.—The senate yester- annnrwed Strength. Depew, Rogers and 1 day e ected Vtele. democrat president, pro trm aupposeo strung , lii» thongbi That a com promise will tamale Vice-President Wheeler. Depew is one j dir1d< aui e offices between tee democrats and ofYinderbnt'sUwyers^smooth-tonirtieii, j repubiimo*. capable man. Rosters is a lawyer o( Bat- «*'» !<»“'»*>"<■ f,to! vent wealthv and very respectable, ! , 0 A n S^ e but scarcely up to the Vebsterian sf.n-! £u -“‘ “• dard. The machine cmndidatesarc Platt, j Crowley and Levi P. Morton. Crowley j Ken red Inn the Bwee. after tbe war bad not settled. The reports for 1879 and 1880 will lurui-h more r*-liable data for just <*>nc’urions These tears ready show wnat tie people of Georgia were worth alter recovering from the prostration tbaf followed 1873 Let us •?ee what tbe people did and what they were worth after they got fairly upon their feet. The Azures in This article are taken mainly Louisville, Kt., January 7.—A special to the Courier-Journal from Henderson, Kentucky, says: A murder c icurred in an ice fleet in tne mouth of Green river, early this morning. Among the finning boa’s lying in Here wera two moored together. One was occupied by John Davis, alias Wright, s married man. aged Zb. and the other by H. L. Balmer, au old man, aged 60 years, a fisher man . The two had been coming down the river togetke., in partnership, but had quarrelled last night about a board bill. Babuer states this morn ing that he wa« on Davis’ boat, and Davis, during tbe q’larrel, seized a stick of wood and advauc d ou balmer. wh<» retreated to bis boat, and taking down his rifle, after warning Davis back, shot him through the right side. His wife, the only other witness, says Balmer assassinated him as he w*» sawing wood. Cincinnati. January A—The ice is moving in the Ohio river from Pomeroy to North beud. 1 he steame*- General Lyttle, was cut down this morning, and sunk in seven feet of water at Covington landing here. She is va'uedat tJi.000. nnd may prove a total loss. Tne kUorad . ai PorAmouth, is damaged to the extent of IXI.UO**. There is no -.nsnrance against such l«r:. At about *1,000 each, making the total lo»s f ^.coo srges by cabl- ‘ * tuen barge than their The owners of the barge* had taken extraordinary ire to secure ihem by cabha id their lowas nexpected. The want o' such barges iu case of Machias, Mb., January t —Warren Longmore, axed 9 has been indicted by the grand jury fer the murder of Freeman Wright, aged 8, October last and will be tried Monday. A Bosd Blocked by Crange* New Oreeans Democrat. During the prevalence of a hurricane about ten mi let from Mohjle many of the valuable orange trees in thegrove of Charles from the report lor 1S30 of the Hon. W. A S Patterson were nprooted. At least twen- Wright, cor ptroller general. Some are ! tv of them were thrown mto tbe pablic taken from earlier reporta. > r*>ad. completely biockading that thorough- The t ta‘ i f taxable propertv April 1. fare with their golden fruit. It took at 1880 wa* $238 934 126; an increase over I iea-t one hour to clear the road. The ls79 of $14,379,179. that is, litre over six per cent of U»B,der, Jsn.ro A. S«ldon, Hcndbnl! empire orGrrot BriuTn cat soatctbing »d Morton ,« m«nb«. of I j SSSMSfiSS. V. Johnson, Governor Williams of Indi- of a figuro in the tracs*ction, which im- lower nouse ot congres., cue cum | ^ tr ounced bis retirement from thesen encouraging. Tbebutkof this property is ana, .•ijtnford E Church *nd Chief Jus- 1 posed the bo?na bonds upon a confiding j in* from the >*iag»r» Falls district,, , to rial Ajbt, leaving a clew field to Colonel j in real route, !srmir<t lands, the uibook ice Ryan ol Wisconsin. 1 oreign W uUtion. In the interrot of I «d toother from Sew York city. Platt Fslr. value of wfuen, „ ts well known to those A MARBLE BOOM IN EAbT TENNESSEE. I was ahtomshe J to hear of the progress mad< iu the quarryiug aud shipment of marble .tm. East Tennessee. It has be. a known for a lou*. time thai East Tennessee marble was of the verj Hues, quality, aud before the war, a lot of it wa quarried by the go.emmeut, and the vice-presi dent’s room at the capital was fitted up with il The government works put up to get marble foi this purpose was sold to private parties, aud the real development of the marble interests began from this. Several rich companies are quarrying now, but caunot near supply the demand. The marble is shipped to 8c. Louis and Chicago piiu cipally It is used extensively in the buildiug oi the capital at Albany, in New * ork. It Is of varia gated color, aud polishes almost as finely as ltallrn marble. Iu wearing qualities ore highly praised, aud it is certain to become the favorite marble iu all Amerieau cities. It is quarried in euormous blocks,oue block or two filliug a freight car. It is shipped iu rough state, aud the profits of quarryiug ure very large At one quarry near)) JvOinen are employed. Tuere ie Just as gooo marble as this or any other iu north Georgia— aud tbe little Marietta railroad may fiud it and carry it into market. GOOD roR THE GEORGIA “CRACKER.” At a lay-over on a snow-bound train the other day 1 beard a group of drummers talking in a way that would have done Mr. titepheus’s heart good, could he only have heard them. Haul one: “I have beeu selliug mules in Georgia for 25 years and I never saw the people in auch a fix ah they are now. It looks like every Georgia crackei carries s flOO or so In his breeches pocket all the time. A few yean ago when I sold a mule to a farmer he invariably took me to his factor and borrowed the money to pay for it with. Now he ruus his baud iuto his pocket, draws out a wallet aud couuu me down the bills There is no loug er any sale for cheap mules. Even the negroe won’t buy anything but the best, aud they alwayt. have the money to pay with." Mr. O’Sbaughnessy, an importer of Irish lin ns. just from a Geo gia trip, »aid, “I have nev«.r seen the time when my customers were so ready with the ca>h. On 30 day sales there is probably 75 pei cent that pay cash and take the discount. In Alabama this is not so noticeable ?n in ueorg a. The Georgia merchants generally seem to think that the “boom” will continue and higher prices obtain, as they have bought heavily of goods for next spring and fall delivery—may fear a rise iu prices and want to lay in future stock at present figure*." Mr. Baldwin, well known iu Atlanta, repre senting a Boston shoe house, said: “My r«*h sales lu Georgia ate 00 per cent bigger this season than ever before. The merchants, almost with out exception, want to pay cash and take the di-count. They all say that the people are m prosperous than they have ever known them. 1 SOME RICH FANCIES IN NEW YORK. In nothing has New York advanced so rapidly of late as in the luxurious appointments of her homes. There is little doubt that America will, within the next twenty years, set against the sombre splendor and slowly-accumulated tress urea of the English homes, and the elaborate finery of the French, a glittering combination of taitte and regularity that will astonish, if it due; not compel, admiration. Tbe very newness that will rob it of the dignity and reposeful beauty of the old castles and country seats, will add splendorous effect and enhance its substantial effect. It is one of the sequences that a man who made his own fortune in a few absorbing bu«ine*a will have less culture than he needs when he goes to spend IL It is of the compensations though that be pu*j bis check bo.-k in the hands of artificers, and gives them carte blanche, and so we have riotous prodi gality, ii nothing else. Look at some figures. One of the new Vanderbilt houses Is contracted at <850,000 for the house alone. Fifteen houses like Vanderbilt’s unfurnished, will be worth more than all the houses and lots in Atlanta, and when ho haa moved into it and has it adorned with all its (ictures and appointments, I have doubt that fire or six houses like It would cost more than the entire city of Atlanta. And yet I had rather live in a cottage in Atlanta than to own Mr. Vanderbilt’s house and make It my home. The other night Mr. Keene’s Newport villa burned down. Tbe house was insured at SS5 coo, the brie a-bracat $55,000 more and the pictures at <55.(00 There Is one room in the boose of Mr. 9. L. M -arlow. a modest citizen, the decoration of which coat <56,u0J. Jay Gould’s conservatory, ju*t burned, was valued at <2Xj,C00. Mr. Robert rand lb. he door •8 liM* _ th the bi*«dn * Ibo hide of the floor struck n id with a heavy stick. I fell insens of Williams. Moore, dated New Orleans, u-joember 15. K ». accusing He.iator Kell*-.gof bery In securing bis - • —- - t in the senate Moore he wna a member of the itihi-tua lcgtalature in 1876, and alleges the lowirg facts in connection with tbe election Kellogg* »th ! »enaie: A majority of the re- of the state l«gft-laK wo combinations One consisted of 12 and the other of ahiut 45 members—Ihe number «iqbracing the first. For thepur- n in« c electron of Kellogg the mem- ilre«l do’lara, aud those consuming the larger i-wmbinaiiou not Included in the twelve each te- i*.*ivei <2.0 or *2 0. all of which wrs paid by Kel ogg. Moore a.verts that he wa- a ong Ihe < umber who vmt*l f<v Kellogg in the Joint con- aiid that he received bowl broke, a mill I com* had carried t; Some oi.e passing the door of h’« office found After talk >ng with the physicians and find it _ that bolh were well satis lied I a th-irown mind had been knocked Iusensible by the rilteu. He then took Wilson m the office and manegcd to hand him a book so that he would he impelled to Uke it with hisspiained hand, at d, without suspecting. Wilson took the book with his left hand and laid it ou the table. Mr Wilkinson, the deb-ctive, had made no his mind from several circumstance* that Wilson had robbed himself, and he looked him square in the * tee and said to him sharply, “Wilson, who jbhed this office?" **My God captain,” said Wilson, “I don’t know, ome one hit me on the head, ju»t ea I told you. - d -obbed me. 1 don’t kuow who it was; I wish did.” M* Wilkinson then went to the door, taking Vilfion with him, and pointing with his finger _ spot of blood on the dcor p .st about as larg» the head of a tack. Bald "That is your blood, is it ve .lion of the two bot-w*. and that he received a bribe of <5* i from Kellogg He also aweriv that he aud two other members were elected to «hc leg islature from the pirish of Orleans by a protetisof repealing, in which2:7fi*udulent bal lots were era., aud tbatif the republic in delega tion from Orleans parish hnd uot been returned to the legislature, the joint cotiven.un, as then c tnsiiliUed, which elected Kc.lo^g. would .save been lett without a constitutional quorum. The three republican members from Orleans parish, he r.serts, were returned by .mtjorities le?-* th*n the number of fraudulent He reprc'ents that when he t examined respecting Ie therefore asus to be w, together with others whom he blood on tile door just opposite the spot door po*t.*nd looking him ;.qi ‘ ** * eiu the faco.eaid; blood too Now tell i . .. blood went through the door for it was op when you were found, and made that fpot ’heothe- side. Tell jnequick, I want to knog OI coune Wilson could not explain it, but denied knowing anything about iL Mr. Wilkin- -on told Wilson that he hod better go home ; sleep on the matter, adding that after he slep; it he might understand more about iu While this wa-* all going on rumor was against other partic », and a Mr Rainy - •w If there was any evdence, and stating that he (Rainy) was in Columbus. Mr. Wilkuiso . tel* vnphed to Mr. -•Hrfcn atone--: - * --• * Ing to do with if Lai cipher. Kailiy had ter hc telegraphed Mr. O'Brien to gc: Rainy with and that he Opelika. This him at West would 1 sent on the f.th i Mr. O’Brien left immediately with Mr. vho was quite indighant that the people of We! point should accuse him. and wts ready an Willi* g to go there to vindicate himself. Mr. Wilkinson left on the evening train, an left Mr. John Lovett, the rouw: agent of the Bout' eru expreraoomptuy. in charge of the matter u. West Poiut. He went to Opelika and returned with Mr. O’Brien aud Rainy, and yesterday rlth Mr. irubbed himself. U« made a written conPs-ion to Mr. Wdkinic and laid that he cut his head with a knlle, a then beat the wounds with a piece of pine make the contusion and that he was not iusen.. ble when found and carried to the hotel. He took the money to pay a note due as tue first on a piece he had bought which was t«; ‘ ‘ “ ■*! this Is why he mutilated money, test piece ! in Georgia night v 'nstrumem, and wi; 1 tile contusion, he was satisfied that tbe wa* not imensible from the wound. “Fo-.” said he, ' _ _ . have been made in sensible from such a blow, the force would have driven it through the skull." Me then went to work a%d found out all the fact-*, one at a time, aod present* d them to Wilson ia such shape that he finally broke down and own d up. The physicians were all the time strongly of the opinion, and ho told Wilainsoo, that the lick on the head ki«ocked Wilson do»n and that he was insensible wh*-n found. But Wilson s statemen. showed that Wilkinson was right from tbe Bnt. Wilson will be prosecuted and robbery. . punished for the •nd tee that you only get — Regulator. In white tie lace a* d ignature ave stopped lived f ferent practical imitator-of this valuable medi cine by injunction at law. but stiil other frauds are in the market, as rascal.- are not yet all hung lend the c taker has ”t State*," etc), > usual oath ol office, and -titnUon" and declaring that t_. (T borne arms against the United idmlnistcred by Chief Justice . the tourt being opened. Judge Woods read aloud the following spec!* oath of "lice, and subscribed it before Clerk McKenney: 1. William K Woo s, do solemnly sw. ar tha I ill administer justice without respect to persona, iddotqual ricltt to tbe poor and to the rich; and that I will ft' afully and impari tally discharge and perform nil tne duties incumbent on me as an associate justee «* the supreme court of the United Hiatts, according to the best of my abilitits stid uudcrsiamnng, agreeably to the ansiitution and laws of the *' ■ el p me God. He signed a copy of 1 the chief ju-ric^ Ilia p rede a ssor. Judge Strong, assisted at die ceremony in the robin-; room, acd oacup'ed a scut among the lawyers within the bar, while Judge Woods Park the fiaal oath. Washington, January 7.—The president to day listriclnf Richmond, Va. ; Richard C Ken of land office at Jackson, Mbs ; Orlando H. Brewster, United States surveyor-general lor the district ol Louisiana; G. K. Gilmer, postmaster a Richmond, Va —A pocketful! of n onev amounts to lit tle when health is cone. To enj »y life, n «1 appetite, toum! digestion at.dehstic limbs, take Tutt’s IMIs. Then, if you are ", you wi 1 Ire happy; if rich, you can enjoy your money. They dispel low spirits il give buoyancy to mind and body. Gallty ol Wrong. Some people have a fashion of confusing excellent remedies with the large mass of ‘patent medicines,” and in this they are guilty of a wrong. There are some adver tised remedies fully worth all that is asked for them, and one at least we know of—Hop Hitters The writer has had occasion to use the Bitters in just such a climate as we have uiostof the year in B*y City, and has always found them to be lirsi-clats and reliable, doingallthal is claimed for them.—Tribune. The firmly Knniti. 8L Lotiis Republican, Now that "the new south” has got to aping northern ways in the way of weather and uke* Its share in every polar wave that 1* rolled down from Manitoba quite a* naturally as If to the meaner born, we are curious io learn what the north iftgofr g to do about it. With the cifrcnry down ten degrees below zero at Han Antonio, and sleighing in southern Georgia, we have such a startling illustration of southern greed that i can have no srsurance that there is an; “ north wiil be able to call exclusive! when she said that ‘The earth to an end shall come In eighteen hundred aud eighty-one.” —Oil City Derrick. currence is regarded as one of tbe most remarkable on record, aa this is tbe first in stance in which a road waa completely blockaded bv oranges So further damage . worth speaking of was done, and mention Bonner has <160,030 worth of horses with which s made of this o»lj oa account of the greet to do e hundred daja- driving a iter. In a Her- novelty of the thing. aid last week there were five advertiiemenfa of A Saostb Coaplrxias can be had by every lady who will ure Parker’** Ginger Tonic For promptly regulating tbe liver and kid neys and pnrifving the hlo<»d there is r.oth- ng like it, and tbis is the reason why it no quickly removes pimples and gives a rosy bloom to the cheek. See notice. decl6—-dim tues thur sat <&wlm 2dp Nome One Always Wins. A correspondent invites attention to tbe fact that it. has been everywhere remarked by the readers of tbe leading journals in all parts of the country that the drawings of the Louisiana State Lottery company, which occur without ever any interruption in their regularity on tbe second Tuesday of each month at New Orleans. La., and any anteriions made over the name of M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans. La , or tame person at No. 319 Broadway, New York City, are mvarisbly justified by the subsequent ac tion of the company, so that $30,010 far $2 seems to be a certain happiness in store for some happy mortal somewhere. jan4d&wlt —Persons who are addicted to sra-fick ne^-s will prohabiy he interested in know ing that Epes Sargent, who died in Boston [ the other dav, was the author ol t rat high ly preposterous song, “A Life on tbe Ocean 1 Wave." —Samuel H. Irwin, of Ute Creek, Colfax county. New Mexico, say.*-: The "Only Lung Pod” has done more tny wife my wife than all the gallons of Cod Liver Oi', French or American, she hes taken, or ail the Doc tor's Medicine she has used. See adver tisement. novl3—d6m tues tbur sat Awky6.ni K —The politicians of the republican party predict that in four years the quest ion of the government’s relation to railroads will be the leading thing in politics.
