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THW CONSTITUTION. VOLUME XIV TUESDAY MOKNTNGK EEBEUAKY 14, 1882. PRICE 5 CEJSTTS THE STRANGE GODS VVKICH THfi PEOPLE OF GEORGIA ARE ASKED TO FOLLOW. An Interview with Ez.Governor Smith, in which He Dokls n Branmng Blow at the Coalition Move- ment—TThat Coalition Keans and What it Wilt End In—Some Splay Beading. A representative of Tits Coiwrrnmos h ad Stalk with ey-Go'cmor Smith yesterday on the political situation in Georgia, the meaning and strength of the now coalition movement and the doty of dem ocrats at tills juncture. Governor Smith is one of ;he foremost men of the rtatc, a man of great ia- £vtriiulc and popular strength, a wise adviser and an Agriicst and lifelong democrat. Ilia vfews were so ^ Yorciblc and apt that we asked for awl obtained his * permission (ogive them to the public. He said: ■ 'There is trot the sRghtest trouble if the demo crats will only act wisely. 1 believe that thoooa- , litlon between thefudejpendeats and the republi cans—at *nt suspected and now fairly understood —threatens Gcow'.i with a daupjr an<l disgrace the full extent of which few meu comprehend. I do not beHeve that it is possible tor this roalitteu to effect anything if the democrats will only act with caution.” “Ie what ■•respect?" "In thistercet, to begin with: It is well under Mood that at the last election we had a family quar ml. The party, confident in its overwhelming strength awl careless of opposition, divided Into twe factions. There was not the remotest principle dl- ' siding these factions. They simply disagreed on ipcnoual questions and certain points of ininorim- portion e. They both ioved and revered the demo cratic party, the record that it liad made In Georgia mnd the principles on which it is based, and will ireadily unite when it is threatened by outside as- •multrif they arc permitted to do so. To nominate ■ as a party candidate for governor is the next race :a man who was partlcutatly prominent ■on either side in Ibc Ule campaign won'.d lie a mistake, in my opinion, and tend to (prevent that hearty union that Is so Important Just now. If a candidate that will revive note of the ’memories of that tdt'tcr campaign Is nominated, he will be elected by an overwhelming ’majority. /Otherwise, his majority will be diminished Just in .proportion to his prominence in the Colquitt and Norwood campaign. As for me. I shall vote for • any man who is nominated, but thsre are mnuy • who might be influenced by the prejudices that I ' > have alluded to." WHAT OOAIJTIOK WUI. BO. “You would consider tire vuoeexs of fire coalition ■ detrimental to Georgia's Interests?” “Emphatically, yes. It would beto remand llie control of our all'airs to the hands o' the republi- • cans. That I would consider a calamity. Willi the republicans once aguiu in power the Aid race issues would be revived and extravagant schemes would bcaguin inaugurated. We should have constant agitation, collusion and tfoubleJjJthcrc would be. insecurity of projierty, the pulfildcredit would suf fer, salaries would be enlarged and taxes increased. Tills is the record that the republican party made when it was in power before. It would be repeated if it were put in power now. With.Hie negroes amt republicans again in control ol the-statc, we should have immigration chocked, capital -would cease to seek investment within our borders, and we should quietly lose li e Drogret* weliav»«aftde since the state was reclaimed (non theft hands.'' ,„u I..V.U. ,11.1. .At. ., 1.1 vn tj Independents amt republican* <1* complete?" “Certainly I do. Iris bjieuly announced and not denied. The administration is hastening to the aid of Hits movement. Tnc union league is organizing to send speaker* amt money into-this state to re claim the state to the republicans. The republican committee of this state has virtually declared that It will support the independents on the platform formulated by I)r. Felton. I have never yet heard 2 independent say one word against-the republican {tarty. Did you notice how tender.ho was in his allusions to it in hfs speech at Augusta? lie claimed to be a democrat, but he abused Hio democratic party for corruption. He claimed that he was not a republi can and yet he had not a word to say of the cor ruption of that liarty although he knows it to he corrupt, in his platform he has nothing but praises for them ami their administration, but he has not dared to give one word of praise to. a. democratic administration. Of everything that he says he has not one word of criticism even .for the republican party or of republican lenders. <11 cannot be other wise. He cmfiiot hope for democratic votes and he must have republican votes or his cause is hope less. 1 um glad that the issue.is made thus plainly, and the coalition thus thor oughly and promptly uncovered. The peo ple now will thoroughly .understand the situation and cannot be misled. .There are a good many honest Independents in Hie state who have been misled by iudependcutoStaMeeken, and who . have subserved republican purposes w ithout kuow- t Ing what they were* doing. These people are now put on notice as to who ikeir allies are and what . the triumph of ilieir cause must wean. The con- • sequence is that they will return to the democratic ran Us satisfied that further training with theinde- pendents menus an alliance with tho republicans and* putting the state bock into tho bauds o: the ■ republican party.” Tiir. tiMKHiuer the aeal ubckaia “I want to say one thing." said Governor ainiah. “about the cheek with which Hie leaders of sl:e coalition assume the uazue of liberal! If there ewvr was a libera! party on earth, with* liberal and pro gressive record, it is the democratic parly of Geor gia. The democrats have instituted and sustained -every progressive step made lu this state. When. the bidding of a few men who seek toluse them in order that they may get office.” BETTER WtTKOtT THEM. Will the secession of the independents weaken the democratic party?” Not atall. On the contrary It will strengthen it. As for the men who go into this coalition With its purposes and its composition stated and understood, the sooner they leave the better. 'They nave been enemies to the party and disturbers ot Its har mony for years, and have been wearing its colors simply that their troacheyr might be more cff. ctivc. They have been enemies in the camp, and it is for tunate that they are uncovered at last I coll your attention to tho fact that not one of them has yet spoken who does not want office. They hate the democratic party because It has not recognized their superior claims, and they appeal to the repub licans with a fefivor that is born of revenge and ambition. The i*rty will be better and stronger without them than it has been, while they wore Its livery that they might stab it in the back.” IlOW THE PUBLIC PULSE BEATS "Yon have traveled over the state a good deal. What do you find the sentiment on this question?" “I have talked with a great many people and I have yet to find the first man, not an office-seeker, who is in favor of this coalition. 1 repeat it. I have ro find tire first single man who gives his ad herence to U»is movement that docs not .hope to' gain by it. I Oiave found on the other hand a greet viany independents—meu who honestly (lifter as to the party policy and methods—that have cc«ae back . into the ranks since (his coalition has been announced. They find at last what many of them have sus pected long ago that independetitism leads vnevit ably to republicanism. Dr.-Felton and his friends claim to-t’bject to organization, Why, the wry first thing that he did was to formulate a ydatforni. Now everybody kuows this’is the nucleus end basis of organization. Ho calls on ids friends Re organize on the platform he proposed,and yet he claims that he Is opposed to organizetiou. lie says that he will not consent to appear in the convention of democratic delegates elected and accredited by the people, yet he does go to a caucus composed of rad- icnteiuid independents, self appointed, that usurp the powers of a convention. Even giving him ills own basis of disciisMou. lt is plain that there must be organization in everyvaovemcat and the people will prefer an organization established on a platform made by themselves and effected through delegates elected and instruct ed by themselves, uud not a platform formulated by one man and perfec ted by a few republicans und olfice-seekers metdn the back room of u hotel." THE COJMTIOy IUTNIUL "Wliat do you think of llie platform proposed by Hr. Felton and accepted by the republicans?" “It amounts to nothing. It declares In favor of free schools. The democratic party has already es- - tali!khed and madepcrfecta system of free schools. (It declares for a free ballot ami a fair count These arc already guaranteed under the law, and in practice. It declares for liberality in sentiment; and in ndmiiiistratiou. The state already has these.; It declares lu favoiV of low taxes, low salaries and economy. The state already has these. I don’t understand his demand for (the payment of all hon est debts. That demand is superfluous unless it ■means more than appears on the surface. The state cf Georgia lias paid every dollar that It hos-t estly owed, but she has refused to pay a single debt that she does not owe. Itis a proper course for either a state or a man to take. If cither attczspts to pay every fraudulent claim that is brought against it it will soon be triable to pay what it bom estly owes. I don’t understand this demand at-all U(ilcs8,a3 Isay, there is •something under the eur- £*-••*.( As for the outcries eg dust tho . tetitiury system, .that. is as absurd as ' it r',s- wicked. The ' -law says that criminals must nc confined and .punished. As to how this should lie done is merely a question of administra tion. I believe that tho present system is the best that can he devised. I-fliave never been able to-get from any one who criticised it the suggestion far a better plan. There baro-beeu mistakes committed under it, but, as I said-before, this is simply a mat ter of admiuistraliou. ai’d can be easily corrected and is corrected. I am the author of this lease sys tem and I am proud of. it. If it needs additional safeguards let them bs-glven it, but the system is the best that can be devised. Under it there kas been less than one-fourth of one par cent deaths per annum and only twenty- one escapes in nearly three years. It is au insult to the colored people of this state to ap peal to their prejudicesagaiust the convict system. The negro fanner, whose, mule is stolen, or whore child is raped, or whose house is fired, or whese wife is murdered, needs tho protecUon of the law and Isos much interested in having the law en forced ns the white man. To appeal to the negro in Ix-half of the convicts, is to insinuate that (be most of them are apt to. go there, and that those who don't, sympathise with those who do. As .to the.assault made ui»o» -the judges aud Julies who try criminals in this stale, I suppose they cau take caro.cf themselves." "To sum up,” said Governor Smith, rising to a ,; "I consider this coalmen us announced* the most fortunate thing that coaid have happened for the democratic party. It unloads a little squad of mnJ- coutants and office-seekers-who havo been a burden, iN THE CAPITAL ft. FIERCE FIGHT ON THE APPOR TIONMENT BILL. Geaerrl Discontent with the Manner in which the Whole Subject haa been Treated—The Contest Over the Georgian Offices—The Expected Bolt in North Carolina—Tensions. Washington, February 9.—[Special.]—Sen ator Harris called up bis'resolution to-day to appoint Neil Brown, late reading clerk of the house, chief clerk of the senate. Senator Brown said he could not vote for the resolution. He was not in any caucus which recommended it, and lie had been as sured that the republicans would not offer much opposition. As they seemed disposed to ik> so, however, and thereby delay business, he-did not wish to renew the old fight over lire offices of the senate. David Davis voted aye. Mahone voted nay. The count showed 25 on each side, and the resolution, therefore, failed. The evening papers have some criticism oil the Georgia senator s negative vote, but he expresses himself perfectly satisfied with it. At the caucus which agreed to support the resolution 23 democratic senators were pres ent, and 12 voted for and 11 against it. Sena tor Brown says no party principle wss involv ed, and Ire veeed on the conviction that She democrats had best let alone the present or ganization, : cs it gives them all the offices, and that while they do so the republicans shew no disposition to renew the contest over them. During-fire session Air. Brown spoke on the Ingalls resolution, declaring tire sense o£ the senate against the rejieal of the arrearage pen sioci act. Ho favors that resolution with amendments to cut off the frauds in the pen sion office, and including the maini'fd and destitute veterans of the Mexican and Indian wars. It is now too late, he -argued, to repeal the act under which marry brave ad- ready been benefitted. llurlng his remarks the senator put ia some good talk fort: complete reconciliation, and -asked that the'; government extend its favors-of {tensions aw •well to the veterans of the-lndiaii and ITeraS- oan wars. Tire speech was <remaxkably received. Andrew Clark will arrive on the telaie.i train to-night and at uncefiscgln "his defense. Bryant has actively -espoused his cause, ar.il asked the president As promise that he wot Id moke no change in ten days. This war? re fused, blit Bryant was /-assured that alkali hearing would he given *te Clark. Secrotary Fo\gcr again assumes the opponents of'Crark. that the change will ho:made in ten Gays, and it is agreed that "Walter Johnson wfli "b e the successor if tiws ppesrramme is carried ou< Bryant appealed to the secretary to-d?y, i n the course of his interview, attacking Dr. Ft- 1- ton, and endeavoring <to tkrow the Georgi ia against him. W. J. White, a colored preacher politician, is sitting on the anxous bench with little chance of relief. Some dark horse (till probably win. An admirable opening is of fered to some of the new’converts to the coali tion in Augusta. The promotion of Madison Davis leaves the Atlanta surveyorsliip open, but with plenty of applicants ready to step in. Rev. Sherman Merrill, Ple'dger and Smith Easley, of the Abysinnian library, are among the willing. 1 am reliably informed, however, that the posUion will be tendered to Colonel Marcellus Thornton, and that he will accept it if he finds its requirements will not conflict with his journalistic duties. It is conceded even by the friends of the applicants for the ap pointment that this is a fitting concession to the leader of the new movement in Georgia. Mr. Johnson’s change will leave vacant one of the most desirable federal offices, in the state. It will probably be used to stitten up the coalition backbone in the fourth district. Colonel Farrow, General Longstreet and the other representatives of the new movement have the ear of power completely. What they sav is done so far as Georgia is concerned. General Longstreet does not like the nomen clature of the situation. “You see,” said he to a friend the other day, “we are not making a coalition with the independent democrats. We are simply going to vote with them.” The general would never have achieved his Ainu-, as au architect of definitions. All these gentlemen are hopeful of wonder ful. results next fall, but I believe most of them are Messed by nature with a sanguine temperament. Old mien Tom Clingman ays North Caro lina is .'going to pop like a Christmas gun a trout the time of tne Georgia explosion. We hear of *so many great changes predicted for the cjoulli that some of us hardly expect to recognize it when we return. Butt amid all this (anxiety and confusion, now and then theri; gleam 'out certain features (A the situa tion Which are refreshingly funny and we arc trying to Ire content. COLLECTOR ■CLARK’S CASE. ‘ ' strong effort is Wisag made for the re- |R 1 independents generally into disrepute. Tb ,e secretary informed Bryant that he had Syr a- pathy with the coalition, and said sxS.sta> i- tho republicans controlled the state's arialra the A ao|to . b, «br WMn. r.r Films .public schools were burdened with a debt of nearly $BX),00d. The democrat* have .paid this .-debt and improved and strenj.ber.i-d ■the bcK">o1 system until it ils one .of the best in the country. They established the .agricultural bureau, they establishedihegeological bureau, they established the railroad commission .that has been made a model for many other slates, tlrey reduced taxes, they restored ihepubtic. credit, they established harmony between the races, giving to each its equal and exact rights, they reduced Abe -expenses of every branch of thegovernment, pinch ing salaries and appropriations to the very poict *if parsimony. TAe state of Georgia has been under domorraric contact longer thau any other southern „tu:e, and ia confessedly the most proaperousof them all. There ia a ewmplcter harmony between the whites and blacks in Georgia than in any other state*. The colored people have accumulated more property In Georgia than iu any other southern state and are more prosperous. This is tire record <>f i!.<. democratic patty of Georgia. If anything .-an b > inure liberal, honest and piogrescdva than it Iras been, 1 don't know where to find it. The truth Is the prosperity and the peace and the happiness „f tin people has been secured to It by the so-callod Iscirio ms. and I am proud that I belong to that ,-Ia.ss The people know the record of the demo . raiioiparty of Georgia and they know the record of ii: •publican party that preceeded it, and they will Sc -low to remove the former from steward 'll i p |-i<t restore the latter. The colored people wiil ^ ,te with this coalition. They havo interests j(* ze a- well as the white people. They are pror rty holders, voters and citizens and they can- pot •) .* deluded into reviving seamless saltations at trally, speaking •of the -independents: “\\ r e will bolt* them if thoy-yill help us.” Longstreet, who -at'.&st was rathor rind'.if* ferent as tu the result -of the fight on fla rk is said to bo now -oottvscced tliaf Ills re.««iv al would be a good policy to aid the new- par ty. Clark’s case is considered to be the * test of Wade’s, and the iatter- is helping his Sello -tv- collector. He is aided by some strong me tu bers of the union league who, at the reec mt meeting held here, had resolutions indorsi ng Wade passed and sent to the president. The Upheaval Amour the Georgia Washixgtox, February 8.—[SpecialCori *es- pondence Constitution.]—Accordingtc all re ports there will he a general stirring up among federal office-holders in Georgia. Colonel Farrow, of .'Atlanta, Mr. Wilson,, of Savannah, and other: prominent reptiblica ns, have been asking Andrew Clark’s removal for two or three weeks. They made no -apec ific charges but insisted that Clark liad been 1< >ng enough in office, and that some exe < rise could be appointed who would enjoy the more general confidence of the people and serve mare effectively the hitei test of tire republican party in its proposed gy ra tions in Georgia. Clark has never taken a ny stock in the coalition and I suspect this 1 aas had no little to do with his removal. Hauin stuck by hirti to the last, bnttfcke s ec- retary of the treasury liad determined to . ip- point Colonel Farrar-. Indeed, it "As si lid everything was ready for tire transmission of his name to the senate when Rnum hezrd of it. Tire news so unsettled him that he at on ,ce agreed to give rap Claik. provided Farrow w ns not appointed as his-successor. “Take ai ty to the .party for years. It exposes their programme | shape but that.” There were lively scenes, fully, brings to Hie front the republicans who are j Raum 1* ses his temper on slighter oeoasioi is the real beneficiaries of ti-eir revolt and inform* : a cause so near to his heart as Shi&jaai le *»•£-• “rjaswsa: cxpoull ih. .din. _T1o "*»’■ «■» „„„ Ooc.wimK, «n,l coed laeet to the secretary to -read. After loftkins; through the delicious details of this business* the secretary decided: that Raum’s chafes had not been sustained^ hat Colonel Fcrztvv tsiw that he and Raum could not sac" in - fi’ie -srnic Iroat. The opposition to’dark then settledicn STaltcr Johnson, son of,ex-Qovernor James dchnson, aud now postmatter at Columbus. Hr. Johnson conducted Himself with-dignit;' ,in ‘Be matter, declaring that he would take the cGl'octorsliip it the secretary desired .him .tc dc-so, but that he actually,! refers his-present- plate, which pays nearly as well and is in; ■every way more pleasant. * ■ Tl^ secretary indicated that he. had best, cuakf tire change, and tokLJchnson iiissainei would be sent in as Clark's ssveessor in r. day! <zr tu, 9. Thus, after a long series of ii gilts, C,lark is to go. Xo mas ever lad a etomrier offSoutl career, and i f he had. not stood so .well heu-e -he would hare goat* under Joog agu. His friends are indignant at Iris tr-ffctiuent and attribute .it to the fact .of his bolding aloof team .the coalition. They say Clack will be offered some other good place in.the revenue service. Whether he is or not it, can no longer he doubted that the administration is going heicr and hand with the coaiiJon. Republicans who stand out- side will bo made to suffer. Clark’s successor is a young neon of fine character. He has managed the^’o'unrbus oiice to tire universal sstisfaetiori of the peo- KiVya! of Collector Andrew Clark, at ^.tla'nta, ■0w.' The president has, however, promised ‘GSllector Clark a farr hearing before -any ■change is made. Collector ■Clark writes to Commissioner of Internal RrtYenue Ra®iu as h'ollfiws: “Some days Ago my men cleared up ( vi had nest of distilleries, :b d I am iust in formed that the guide has been murdered. I will send the deputy to investigate.” Washdsgton, Februscy 9.—ff peeial Correspond ence Constitution.]— 1 he apportionment bill is proving the knettiestErouble yet experienced by the house. Thr comn.ittee’s t ill to fixthe number of reoresantatittes at5320 is A,own to Ao the plan most nujnst tostatee*that have made ‘the greatest growth da-the ipest decade. As the republicans con tended in-thekast congress fer :tl9, aiw’ as Hie incas ure was supposed‘<«_* represent the wishes of the party in this ■ congress,the bi'.l seemeS likely to pass as rerporied. The vopposiliou to it*-.as developed such -strengfii,.however, ae to make the result un certain. , Yesterday Mr. Blcckburn and Mr. Blov-m -shs-wed'frow un-just theesminittecftiill is, aiidOhe-lotter boldly declared that t could not pass fa its pressnt-shape if onci fairly understood by the howse. Some At the western republicans are weak ecizrg in’-their snpport of it. Southern repKxentatbres geiMcally do not want to go al ove -SIC, and - some of them favor a still sasllenr. umber. Georgia would get- a nr w member at 308. Etls safe to say the n amber of z-ppresentatives v;ffi be i' xed ahova-aiO. of this character are handicapped at the start this has been worked up so weH by Mr. Tuggle that it will probably go through without serious difficulty. The amount is about $25,000. TWO DISTRICT COURTS. The bill by Colonel Hammond to make two ju dicial districts of Georgia stands third on the house calendar. First comes a bill to incorporate the Garfield memorial hospital, which will soon be disposed ol. Next is the bill to codify laws relating to the District of Columbia, which, by resolution, is to be const lered at night sessions. The Georgia bill is therefore really first, and may come *p very sOOTl. 1 believe it meets the favorable consideraUon of the whole delegation, and reasons of sufficient weight exist for its passage without diffieuly. Judge Erskine will retain jurisdiction uf the northern part of the state A most desirable life time position will be opened for some enterprising south Georgia lawyer. Mr. Atkins may come iu for it. Ilis ambition lies in the direction of legal honors, though for several years he has not been idenfified with the practice of law. THE INGALLS RESOLUTION. Senator Brown yesterday expressed himself very forcibly on the Ingalls resolution declaring the sense of the senate against a repeal of the arrearage of pensions act. waiving the question of right and policy as to the act when first considered, the senator took the r ltlon that It is now too late to talk of repealing Thousands of those coming under the benefits of the act have already received them. It would be wrong to exclude those who have n'*t done so. Speaking as a southern man who had sympathized with tho confederacy, the senator said that when the war was over the men of the south accepted iu good fa th its re sults, recognizing the established principle among nations that the victors shall care for the soldiers who wok the victory. The resolution as amended will provide that maimed aud destitute veterans of the Mexican and; Indian wars may receive pensions. It will also look to a prevention of such frauds as have undoubtedly occurred in the payment of pensions, it is time to lay aside all distinctions relating to sectional strife. The government is right to care forlts soldiers. It should extend its care to the men who fought for it in the Mexican aud Indian wars. This was the general line of the speech. 3t was well received. One of the senator's favor ite measures lias been that to pension Mexican veterans, and his liberal spirit in this speech is cal eulated to aid their cause. While the republicans generally have opposed the pensioning of Mexican veterans, it has been evident that they did so because most of the soldiers in that war were southern men. As soon as all vestiges of sectional feeling are gone they will see the justice of this claim for Hie gallant veterans whose ranks deaffi.is fast thinning out. SOME SIGNS OF SPRING THAT HAVE ENGAGED THE ATTEN TION OF BILL ARP, be an overwhelming victory for the organized derm-.-! erats. iuffiey only observe cenunou sense Iu the selee- Uonof their candidate aud.fffatform. The people ev ery wlttre are awakened against thisuselessaud dan gerous me vo, and tliousauda.who have been outside of the party ranks have bee rid riven back. As fo rm* 1 am /an bourbon ceqpinLed democrat. I am S roud ol .the reeord made by the organized boux- on deiua.ralic party iu Georgia, and 1 propose Yt slick by iuii 1 am tne only-man left.” WIDOW BARNES’S AGED LOVER. Ia La New York Star. “I knelt Oram in the susw cm the stoop and c vore that my name was etUl Mary Barnes; for what else could I do under tftecircu'.nstaucos? The ri ght was cold mid stormy, aud 1 had no other place to go to. tac my daughter, as sue stood at tire window,was swearing that she would not admit me to :he house unlbcr I solemnly averred that I was not married, and cvould promise that I would te- ma_u single for the rest of my life.’' When she had said this her emovon overcame her,.and she ap pear ,*d as if about.w fall from the chaff- iu Justice Courtney's room. Brooklyn. An eldtriv gentle man rushed towarcL-cnd clasped her It his arms, and tiien procuring a^lass of water gave it to her and soothed her with words of kindness. ThCiJld geuUemau <is the person who.caused all the trouble which the old lady spoke of as existing between herself aud herdaugnter. she is the widow of a former New York jterenaut, and hasibeeu re siding with hersouand daughterat No UGS-Fruspcct S lace. Brooklyn. A short time ago this son and aughter began loat-u-eacd annoy iter, being ably seconded by the family .sf Mrs. Agnes fed ell. who occupy apartments In the house, all because she said she "had the hardihood to rec-ivu the vis- itaof tne old gentleman, ac<f had admitted that a matrimonial cunuection sras likely to result from their acquaintance.” When Mrs. Barnes gained admittance to Ac house, her children kept her a close pri-one.- Lr two days. Escaping from the piaee. she took refuge in her sister's house As sire was the owner of tne tennises, she began proceedings to eject the Jsdeli family, and it was white these proceedings were being devised before Justice Courtney that the story of the old lady’s love and her persecution for love's sake were made known. As tire necessary notice to vacate had not been gDen to Mrs. Isdel., E le in that <Uy. Jlis clear badness bead and is high character fit hint for Uie delicate du ties Ire is about to assume, and in hint Atlan ta wt.'l gain a .valuable citizen. The tight on Mr. Wade, the collector at Sa vannah, has about resulted in hia removal to give place to Louis AL Pleasants, a colored politician of considerable influence, now in the railway mail service. Air. Wifeou was urged for Wade's place, hat it was thoagut proper to use it in clinching the negrb vote, which threatened a revolt- Justice Courtney decided against Mrs. IUrnes. He. • Pleasant s appointment ts expected daily, however, directed the daughter to give to her j Prince has no chance of retaining the mother the keys of the house. Mrs. antes, iu the ■ Augusta post-oflice but it is hard to tell who presence of the deputy marshal, returned to the ..-jif ,. et L yj; r S'enliens is working hard house demanded the rent from the isaeils. and ’ "J u .i' v,,? upon their refusal to ] legs auerr. The case ^fr-endsof. thee»eimittecA.ill are firm in rd- i johi SHORT ON COTTON. m The Siuipcnsl*n af the Old House of Wm. It. Preston A- Co— of New York. New Yoan, February 9.—[Cincinnati Enquirer.]— Excitement was ooeasioned this afternoon in the produce and cotton exchange ’oy the announce ment of the suspension of Wm. R. l’reston & Oo, produce and commission merchants at CO Pearl street. The-firm-is an old one and was reputed to be wealthy, Its capital has been estimated at from $500,000 to Sra0;000. „ , . .. The suspension was due chiefly to speculations^!! cotton. So far as can be learned, the firm held about95.000 bales of cotton, purchased fdr an ad vance. On Wednesday the price of cotton declined sixteen points, or lG-'OO of a cent per pound. Since January 1st the -decline has been about 1% cents per pound. The decline to-day, due iu part to the failure, was one-fourth of a cent per pound. <’f the 95,000 bales-held by the suspended firm, 85,000 are in this citv and the rest In Liverpool. All of the stock in the latter port, and all but 30,000 bales of its holdings in this city, were Bc^d in this market to-day. The shies had a very depressing influence upon'the market. The firm's loss upon Hie 95,000 bales is generally estimated iu the trade at about $3061980. The transactions of the firm in the produce ex changewere also verv large, and prices suffered by the-failure. A few days ago the (inn was long of about two hundred thousand bushels of wheat, but sold the same before failure. Its large interest in grain was in Chicago, but the amount is not stated The hov.se was both long and short of lard, with t balance on the lopg side, it is said, of about six thousand tierces. ■ Tho firm consisted of R. Preston and James Lc due. The senior partner ,came to this city M-bout Le-ii v of rt:e * : rm about 12 years ago. At one time Mi; tkedMose. 3lr. • tjeimwsts has .presenter;! a petition from skoutrlwo hundred cttizens-oCthe seventh district in flavor'-' national, -rr’.lroadrjgulation. An.anti- mocy«oly -occiety is at work getting op such ...petitions tom every part ■Ot iffie -roountry. The question not come i-srp at- this -session, but anybody! -eacsrse it is ose-ofrtbs.big tea as of toe not-distant fntues. Some-of thea.rdenbaffvocates of resiricUon on.oofporatapowersv.vautoangress to eatchihold of-the difficulty at occe, boctfiiere is a scAier-sense- ■jnevaSling which.- akL nowlodges the delicate dan->! gorsc. the situation and niL consent to nonetion thatris impeiicd irtihi.ste. i.Ir.Tsteplioes is.more hopeful than ever -of the, ctrly iriumpi: of the- ■ metric-;.',yslem. The .‘.'nraniit- tee.hrs ordered soute speoszans of the -coins he s3corrsaeuds fn his tile repe t. He says t!iaaevery- : ■kodywho lias-seen >.*he golcid coins pronounces: aremthe moetllieax'.ii'ul moneys, while,their, harckiess gives even a greater advantage. Mr. blountcemmands thf. ear of the house now- aibout-z^readt y. asniie did when he virtually led t&e,«cffaniue«-on.oBpropriations. He made .himself’ felt vrfeKU the postal appropriation hill -was up.; V.’lien ha speak s there is noexpense in lire wesksor waste in preliminaries. Haloes to business with a direet-aaergy rcrely-eceu in si body well filleff aeith Jjurcy tefikers. The «vw men .from-Georgia have already taken a ctainf iaiieatirig.thei^heiraitHiHes are appreciated. Sc-.far.a-; the federal ■ -officers in the state are-oon- eeenedj! eonfess io-stedegreexf mystification which nethentie deparuntnt nor the visiting -Ueorjia. eurenaec seem -Joie, to remove. Tia2<CE»iT*I>e«£AMBLE. •Gaeday they have it fixed and by the time Xleoen Gie6lat3.it Is sponged out by some unforeseen con tingency. A n<lrow tUsrk has,keen removed a do-.ieu times.irstte last week, -and.,yet his friends claim positive as ,uranee« that lie .will not be condemned ustl-fie oomes ottatndcas a,kearing. The secre tary of Che trtasu ry-seems bent on giving th-e uelleetorship t«- '.Alter Juknson, the favorite <r. Colonel.Farrow and.other prominent coalitionists, itaum Jiaayut oil fcis ivoir ,paint, siveariug he will notsas Gissk saertfiaed. Em«ry Speer is helping tokeeg the.pot boiliog.-froiog: in with zeal for the Farrov, faeton. Koa-m does net like .Speer, and; Clark-is outspoken iu Jrisodaconjclimeutary optoioc! of the-sndeeeudenL RtaLmoays he has no .mere.esftirient officer than, Clark, afe. demands fiae right to l e heard in choos ing men whemre to Reeve underhim, and for whom be is to'be reiponsible. Arthur teeathused over .the ccktU’on. aud Foiger seems to&eart Arthur klii-.i. cut ami out, in every thing. And sc we have fit. Three-days ago Clark seemed xmA-goofl ior twenty-*four,hours official life. Now heargream to have caught breath, and refuses to bo kepi-down. The war on -Wade, of Savannah, .is not so ttrii.vely iu progress, -but if Clark goes, tee . will probatfiy los* hts p'aoe. too. It is due Mr Jokuson to nay that herfs not urging kimself for Clark's place, hut. on Fie eontrarv. Las told hit friends and the secretary that be prefers his place.os postmaster at • Col ambus. If ifuad not been for,Raum. dark woulfi probably hare lost hfs plaeeifast winter, cad if he had sur vivtd then w-ouid surely have bailed .under the present pressure and,tlie prejudice-of the adminis tration against ad republicans whohesitate to fuse Inte he’sew mosaic party in the south. Wade seems to realize that Clank’s .fight, in a measure, involves Ins tate os collector at sysrannah and.ii helping his Atlanta friend. THE COfcDITlVN OP ME. Bid. News.from Mr. Hiii continues to be most encour- :*ging.amd the hopes of hix complete recovery are Letter-grounded than ever. He is missed in the rcaaie. .where there is ne more imposing figwe, none mota frequently Cuqitited for or eolamented . If^WLll he again in his ss then. I trutf, Preston tvas interested in eouktrns in Memphis a-.-.f j, New Orleans. When he embarked in business in New York he put $100,000 into the house he started with. He has for several years been a director of the: Continental national hank. The credit of the ftrm had always been rated high. Thedirm made an assignment to-day to Cyprian Weston, giving preferences of $34,391:60, of which , 515,000 was to Rebecca Preston, and $8,000 to M. P .may. Fargo. It is expected that the firm will resume ' payments and business soon. A large amount of afd.*v/as offered the firm to-day, and the feeling to ward it in ail the branches of trade is exceedingly < -friendly- The rSIrth or an Elephant, New York Star. By the birth of the baby elephant at Bridgeport all theories hitherto indulged in -by scientists con cerning the manner of birth and -rearing of the young of this animal have been entirely swept aside. Mr. Baruum had previously instructed those of his employes baring the care and attend- ance-of his herd of elephants to take memoranda of everything of an interesting or important char acter taking place, and the following is the result: Period «f gestation, 19 months and 22 days; weight ■at birth, 145 pounds; weight twenty-four hours •afterward, 155 pounds: height, 30-inehcs; length 28 y.aches: length of runb, 7,'/. inches: length of legs, 18 inches; circumference or iegs.X’t inches; length of tail, 6 inches. It was also ascertained that the /infant begins to suckle immediately after birth. jt.nd tnaL -.t reallj is born conscious of all its attrib utes and advantages. It was presup posed that the baby elephant nursed by means of • its trunk, but >t is now definitely settled that it takes nourishment by means of-1 s mouth, using the trunk only as a feeler or arm. The actual time consumed in the birth is only about two hours, as the first symptoms manifested of the interesting event about to take place occurred about 6 o’clock pan., and the birth took place two hours aud eight at nutes later. All the foregoing fleets are new to the world ot science, for. with the exception of one other clep'i .nt, this is the only one ever known to have been corn in captivity. In the case of the former one--it was such a surprise and so entirely unlooked for. that no data of any consequence was taken. '• he termer baby is two years old, and quite largr. Messrs, ltarnum, Bailey & Hutchison, the owners of bar h these baby elephants, intend ex hibiting then* in the zoological department of their shows, which*pens in Madison bcuare garden on ile of this to leave it. I be again ia his seat in a few days, and , without Interruption until heehcaisu,: Mardr 13, thus affording the people o: family—t the rent froni the LaeUs. and ’ ! nf tb* FeticflESnt of the state , to pay began ejectment proceed- i or Hoiden, of Lrawio.oville, L ut I sub-coramittee, and ne ha* reported in favor of it* use will ha tried this afternoon. ' act that he « not a resident works ! passage. The case }ss' , city the first -eight ol the elephant family—two families— fathers, mothers and babies—who actually form the ‘ first Americans'’ of rheir kind. ** WL-jm Oort Hath JoluerL^ Augusta Moore in the Evangelist. I tool up a dai$y paper one day and saw nineteen divorces iu it. 1 took up another and saw five. 1 iveutto a certain, church and found there in full communion a wok an who has two husbands. I .visited tie house-of a “leading member" in a •tiiureh end found there a minister Who has di- -voreed one wife (a.rartuous woman) and is married t« another. I know.a minister who married a doc tor to a woman for whom he had divoroed hi*, ex- oeiient ,>viie. This t~&s in Clinton, Conn. Time would fuil ine to parCcularize the cases of this sort thae I kuorv, and I live among the best people that there ere In thh: world. These cases are as plenty everywhere ai.they are about me—indeed, muds .more so in many localities. A friend writes me from California that, it is hardly safe to say "di vorce, "so many of "the very nicest people" have two or throe husbands or wives living. Now, is not this an encouraging state of things? Is it any wonder that some m&isters ana telling us how fast the world is growing better, how the very millenium is upon ur. It -Is to be leased we can hardly exert just the moral influence that is needed over the Mormons till the states are reformed. Professor Austiu Phelps says: “We are not half awake to the fact that by our laws of divorce and our toleration of the soeial evil we are doing more to corrupt the nation's heart than Mormonkni, ten-fold.” All OB Account or Victoria. St. Ion is Republican. Queen Victoria in her speech to parliament yes terday, referring to Ireland, says: “My efforts, through the bounty of Providence, have been favored by an abundant harvest in that part of the kingdom.” It was. no aoubt, thequeen’s intention _ , . ... , , .. , . , _ | to sac that abundant harvests have reduced the Georgia isfizk ly to get moreaf its long delayed I general discontent in Ireland, and bv that means dues from the government. I tavored her efforts at pacification iust irs aood f-„ns Mr. V .O. Tuggle, after pushinf through some of j have helped the republteui party in tbfsMunfrv the old claims for repayment of money spent by ; It is a litHe o-id to bear that the queen’s efforts the state In the early Indian wars to defend the na- 1 **“™ *--*—* * ’— -■—* M - - tional frontier, found that between 1812 and 1S20 the state In war with the t reeks, bad expended money for which no return had been made. He began to ask congress to refund this rum. Last winter after hard work he succeed in obtain- inga favorable report in the senate, but too late in the session to secure fhe passage of the bill. Chances are good in ihrs congress. The Mil was pressed from the start of the session by the ener getic event of the state. It went to Mr. Hoar as a SOME GEOBer A CLAIMS. And Set the Wheels of Him Imagination in Motion How tho Housework is Divided—The Approach of St. Valentine’s Day—The Work of 8t. Nicholas—Ruminations in General. Hark, I hear a blue bird sing And that’s a sign of coming spring. The wren is hopping from vine to vine, A hunting for his valentine. The hawk for chickens slily watches, Aud fore you know it one he cotches. The bull frogbellers in the ditches lie’s throtvd away his winter britches, The darky ploweth his stubborn mule. And murmurs gently “gee you fool." The dogwood buds are now a swelling And yaller jonquills are sweet smelling. The little busy bee Is humming And everything says spring is coming. Jesso. But all signs fail in dry weather and n wet weather, too, I reckon. Tho times arc out of joint, and as we liad some April showers in Janu ary maybe we will have winter along in the Spring. \Ve had two or three good days this week and all hands turned out to work, for the work is a long ways behind, and the fanners are impatient. I am gardening, now, I am: Uiat is, me and die child ren, for we have a division of labor ot our house. There are the field hands aud the garden hands aud the house hands. The big boys run the form and the stock aud the wood business, and do tho milking, and I run the garden and Mrs. Arp she runs the domestic affairs and the kitchen and sew ing machine, and hns opened a little school in the comer for Carl and Jessie and Nabor Freeman’s little daughter, and while she sews or knits or dams the stockings, is laying the mudsills of Uieir education. Jessie and Fanny mtrch right along, but it’s a powerful strain on the boy. When he spells kettle he will pronounce it tea kettle or ket- teaUe, and he calls kitten cat, and every little while he wants water and by the time his half hour is out he is as tired as a race nag and wants something to eat. I encourage Uie little chaps by promising to tell them another storv, and I’ve got through the forty thieves, and Binbad, and Jack, and the bean stock, and all the little things that happened when I was a bov, aud now have to make up as I go. They know Uncle Remus by heart, and its funny to seo cm gc. off m a corner and take itUme about tell ing each other about the fox and the rabbit and laughing like they would have a fit. Children have a power of natural sense, and I sometimes think we old folks know too much and have got it all muddled upon the brain. Last night Carl asked what they had court for at town and I told him, the* he wanted to know where we got the law, and I told him, and told him about the jail and the chain-gang, and as he pondered over these dreadful things bis little bosom swelled, and he said they oughtent to do that to anybody. So I said, suppose a man was to come toourcorn-crib and break the lock and steal a big bag of com and carrying it off, what would you do with him? “A poor man," raid he. “Yes,” said L He studied awhile, and raid, "I llnnk I’d give him about one bushel.'’ "Suppose he took ten bushels,” said I. “Well. I’d whip him for ten bushels,” raid he. “Suppose he was a very mean, bad man, and burned up the stables. * well, 1 wouldn’t care if he did go to the chain-gang for that,” said he. lhen he pondered a moment and said, “but if he burned up. the horses and mules too I think I would hang him.” I like gardening because it suits me. It’s light work, aud nice Work, and the rows arc short und the spring is close by, and the sofa is in the parlor where I can recline when ! get tired, and then, be sides, I’m not far off from Hie queen who sympa thizes with me, and the harder 1 work the more she encourages me, and when I get tired digging she scolds me gently for working too hard, and straightway puts me to raking tiro .front/,- yard or trimming tire rose bushes Oi ILxjqe up Iver (lower jots or some other little-, -*Tmuieaiern..i3 she calls it. YVhata bicssed Jiiug r I is to be. tied to a Considerate woman. Stl Valent tine’s day is at hand, a.fd-Mrs.' Arp would think iff a serious matter if the peas, and potatoes, and rad ishes, and lettuce, ana onion sets, and mustard seed and such like were not in the ground by that, time, it is curious what superstitions we have and how we love ’em. These old saints have, come down to us through the long corridors of lime with, nleasant memories, and we have faith iu ’em be cause our fathers did. Candlemas has jtlst passed, the day of midwinter when the com aud the hay is said to be just half consumed, and the ground hog cometh out of his hole, aud the priests march round with lighted candles. Kerosene would be cheaper now, I reckon, but that would take away all Hie veneration of the time-honored custom. And now we have thh birth day of SL Valentine, a good old man, who winked at love and smiled on lovers, but never wooed nor won a maid—who advised all the young people to marry but lived and died a bach elor—who taught by precept nut not by example. If he had married it is awful to contemplate how easily the world might possibly have lost tire saint and the precepts too. In a few weeks St. Patrick’s day will b-- at hand—another great aud good man, I reckon, for if he conldn’t bequeath to the poor Irish freedom and good government, he made their burdens less by driving all the snakes and reptiles from the afllicted country. I wish he had driven ’em out of ours while he was in the busi ness. Then there is St. George and the dragon, that all valiant Englishmen swear by, no matter what he did or what he dident. History rays he was a commissary iu the Roman army aud stole bacon and got rich, and the emperor Julian put him to death for it, and so he never saved his bacon at last. Howsomever, if he is now a saint he is all right, for all’s well that ends well. Yon see (hose old Englishmen hated the Romans,so find it was altogether reasonable for ’em to make a saint of a man who plundered ’em. Then there is the good 8t. Nicholas, the guardian of marriageable gills and little children. He sup posed as bow the big boys could take care of them selves, and so he let 'em rip, and that’s why the boys are worse than the girls to this day, and al ways will be I reckon. They say that one day when there was a famine in the land St. Nicholas slopped with a man to get supper, and the man gave him a stew made of little children he had stolen and lull ed and salted down in a tub, aud the good raint found it out by the taste of it, and made the sign of the cross over the dish, and the children rose up and stood upon the table and sung him a little song. I’ve often wondered what they stopped man ufacturing these saints for, and why we couidcnt just as well make a few nowadays. We have had in modem limes some notable preachers who wak ed the world from sleep and from sin—preachers like Calvin, and Luther, and Bunyan, and Kuox, and Whitfield, and Westley. There is not much material nowadays for saints for the world has set tled down on religion, and all superstition, asd witchcraft, and persecution for conscience sake has passed away and I hope forever. It is morUfying to think that only a century or so ago our own fore fathers in New England were trying helpless women for witchcraft, and when they suspected one they threw her in a mill pond to see if she was, and If the poor thing drowned she wasn’t a witch, aud if she floated she was, and then they took her on and burnt her. Those Puritans always did have saintly way of doing things, and some of ’em hava got it yet. I wonder what kind of a saint Mr. Beechc er would make. We need a sort of a guardian for married women. But I was ruminatiugabout Valentine’s day being so near at hand and how many thousands ol sweet little love letters and other cupidities will be sentarouud. How many hearts wUl go pit a-pat when the mail comes from the post-office, and what a time the girls will nave a-guessing who sent this one and that one, and how they will treasure their secrets and nurse them upon their pillows and be happy. And then I was thinking how some thought less or disappointed youth would abuse this loving and hallowed day to gratify, revenge, or envy, or malice, and send something cutUng or unkind to somebody—something to wound the pride and rankle in the bosom and sting for days, without knowirg who was his enemy or how he had offended. Boys. I wouldn’t do that. It is unmanly and unkind, and you will never think of it without feeling a little mean. It will be a blessed consola tion to a man when he gets old to remember that he has tried to give pleasure and not pain to his ’ Bill Aki*. i*lear, though all claims Djlnx «r Enforced rtarvattso. Cleveland, Ohio, February lL—Mrs. Isaac Voeel- sou, ot Canton, was afflicted with cancer of the sto'- ach. Fifty-one days ago she quit eating, as everything she took sickened her and refused to ' remain by her. She has had nothing in all that time except occasional drinks of cold water. For the past week she has been very low, and to-day she uiea of starvation. fellow men. Vaccinated In the Tongae. Grand Rapids Leader. About a week ago a man stepped into theofiiec of a well known physician, seated himself at the table and engaged in conversation. On the table were lying a number of vaccine points, which the visitor mistook for toothpicks, and taking up one he began using it. The physician didn’t notice what the man was doing for some minutes, and his attention was only called to the fact by the visitor puncturing hts tongue with one of the points, causing it to bleed slightly. The doctor zave the matter promni attention, washed the man's mouth with alcohol and used preventives of various kinds, but, alas to no purpose. The vaccination "took.” and the man to day wears hia tongue eu the outside of his mouth. indistinct print