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6 THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION - . ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9. 1886 TBB WEEKLY CONSTITDTION. latered tune Atlanta PoaMMBoa aa <eoon4-cla<a Mall mattar, November it, U» W..81JI Constitution, •!.** par annum. anUofllre.fl.OOeachl cluba of.tea 11.00 each Ud * cow » getter-up of Club. A WORD WITH YOU. If nr are not a anbacrllMr to Tlia Con.tt- tntloa, clila copy la sent you at a cample, tclth a request that you eiamtno and decld# whether or not you want to taka It, You weed a good paper for IWMI. We think The Constitution l« the beat paper yon can gat. Plraaefraamlnrpt carefully. Bend It, com pare It with other papers, ami send us your aubicrlptlon. It will bo the best Investment you ever made. Try It one year and yon will never quit It. ATLANTA, OA.. TUESDAY, FKIIBPABY P. IMP, M'e Arc So Crmvtlctl AVItli New* Thia week that we have little room for onr weekly talk with our milimJ-ibcn. We nuitl last week we wanted 7,500 new entacrlben for February. The first week has given us 2,101. If the remaining weeks do as well, we shall have 10,000 new still- reriliers for February, Instead of 7,500, whirl) will make us very liappy. Tiik Constitution goes this week to fiH.ooo subscribers. We repeat onr inquiry: Cannot each one of tlieso get us one more subscriber (luring the month of February? Wilut a great piper we could make if each one wonld do this little favor. Won't yon doil? (Jet one line oaf. If you arc in a i Ink, give it to your rluh-tniser, and it will double bis club! laitus raise February to 10,- 0011 new subscribers. fs.tji Jones has been persuaded to stay another week in Cincinnati. Seven thousand people rose at one of his recent meetings and requested him lo slay. 1E any wonion was ever entitled to a di vorce It is Mrs. lamas (Jcnningcr, of Brook lyn, N. Y. filio states that last Hoptember he tried to ent her throat with a razor. In December he took a clothes line nntl tried to etranglc her. Failing In this ho tried lo finish her with an ax. Then ha bid in the collar and tried to kill her. She escaped nil ol these dangers and now wants a separa tion, Hotv is Ibis? We were told, when llie "new rules" were ndoplcd liy the house, that business in that Issly wonld be carried through with n rush. lint thus far there have been no signs of u rush to speak of. Tin- house has done, and is doing, literally nothing, and it will continue to do nothing until the last weeks of the session, when the laanly anil perfection of the new rales will lie demonstrated liy the facility with which rxtruvagont anil unnecessary legislation is rushed through. Thu new rnles nre good enough for the joldiers and whisky ringsters, lint they are fatal to democratic economy. Our Friends From Ohio. We laka it for granted that onr friends from Ohio mean business In coming to see us. And beyond the sincere welcome with which ws greet them wo have a few wools of bust- ness tor them. Georgia is, In our opinion, the bent farm ing state in the union. tVe may be askod, if it la the beet state why it is not the rich est. The reply Is direct. When General Bherman started his march to the sea he tel egraphed Grant, "X will nuke Georgia bowl. If Georgia did not howl it was not because the hand of war was not laid heavily on her. Our town* and cities were destroyed, onr loiras devastated, our stock killed, home* and fences burned anil the state was one stretch ol desolation. The farmers, coming heme ragged and barefoot and dazed from the war, tonnd Ihoy had literally nothing to begin work with. Their money was value less their sieves freed, their families deci mated. With this scanty resource they had to solve new problems and strike new lim of eaperiment They had to bny imple ments and machinery, rebuild their houses end fences and stock their farms on credit. The testimony of (turners, collected through the agricultural department, showed that they paid an average of 54 per cent per an num Interest on their supplies. When our visitors see what Georgia's farmers have ac complished in spite of alt disadvantages Urey will agree that their progress is anuulng. It mutt lie remembered, too, that Georgia has only lately become a manufacturing state, end that the farmers bate bad no home mar bets, nnd no market* at all for perishable truck. Our staple crop—cotton—la the beet money crop ol the world. When supplemented by ether crops and made with home raised meat and corn it never fails to tiring prosperity nnd competency. In Georgia wheat and cotton grow in the snnie field, clover and rice thrive side by side. Onr climate is incomparable, except when an Ohio excursion come* dowu nnd brings it* weather with it. Work in open Held need never be impeded a day in the year for heat or cold. Cattle grass nine months in the year. lands are cheap and n pittance bays a farm. Our laborers are the best in the world when they an watched, decile, strong and willing. Our soil is worn •omewhat by the desperate farming of tho pstt fifteen yean, bat responds quickly to good treatment, and i* capable of the highest mulls. Onr school system is fine, churches aloud!, law and order pravail, taxes are low, >oi iety is good anil the people are frank and hospitable. No where on this earth can a sober, industrious, intelligent farmer find a better home than in Georgia. It may he asked, then, why so much of Georgia la ofi’ered for sale. In the first place, there is abundance of land for sale in any stale. In the eceoud place, the Intensive system of forming has made marvelous pro- gras in Geoigia. "A little form well tilled” is becoming the proverb of Uie Georgia farm er. The snug patch is replacing the field, and the meadow aupplauts the barren. The man who has been scratching a plantation tow rralirra there is more money in culti vating a small farm. I onueqiie ntly the own er of a thou-and acres, cumentrutiug oa five bundled acies, has five lmudred acres for sale. Intensive fanning is splitting up the eld plantations and the new made farms await purchasers. A wire man -hould not hay without in spection. No man should locate a home without stndying the situation. That is what we want our visitors to do. Look over the ground carrfolly. When yon find what yon want bny it. We will he glad to have yon settle in Georgia. Von will agree with ns afier you have lived here it is the bent •ttfe in the onion. The Dead Lock In Ohio. No compromise, no plan of settlement has lieen adopted in the Ohio senate. Matters stand jnst where they did when tho body suddenly resolved itself into two senates. The republican senate consists all told of seventeen senators, headed by Lieutenant Governor Kennedy. The other senate con sists of twenty democrats and Clerk Valion- digham. The difficulty arises over the four senators that Hamilton county is entitled to. Etch party claims its nominees were elected in that troublesome county. The democratic candidates were declared elec toil by the hoard ofcanvassers, and tho supreme court compelled the proper officer to issue certifi cates of election to them. They look their seats with the knowledge and consent of the republicans, and participated in the election that gave Mr. John Sherman six more years in the L'nited Slates senate. .V* soon as that was accomplished the republican leaders re sorted to high-handed and revolutionary measures, and the state is disturbed by their antics. The arbitrary nnd reckless course of the lieutenant governor blocks the way to a set tlement of the difficulty. His rulitlgs pre sent so wide a departure from parliamentary law that no one takes the pains to show their absurdity and false grounds. The democrats are ready to accept any reason able plan of settlement. They nre willing to co-operate in sending a special committee consisting of three republicans and three democrats, to Cincinnati, to investigate tho election, and report to the senate. Bat, then,Jiny the republicans, none of the men occupying contested seats shall vote on the In other words, if .Senator John Smith's rase is up, the other three setting senators, each holding certificates of elec tion, shall not vote. No court in the world wonld say they had no right lo vote. If they ore allowed to vote the republicans would lie outnumbered; their rump organization would be repudiated, and the entire con spiracy would go by the board. As the case stands, there is no room for compromise. The republicans demand that their journal shall lie approved, and that enough democratic senators shall be kept from voting to let them vote their own men in. As long as they stand on these proposi tions, no compromise is possible; and we hope to hear each morning that the demo crats are holding fast to undoubted rights nnd tho plainest constitutional provisions. The noil Telephone "Honmlnl." A correspondent asks us to explain the serious charges that have been mode agaimt certaiu leading democrats in regard to their holdings of I'nn-EIcctric telephone stock. The explanation is a very simple one. Cer tain prominent democrats liavobcen charged by newspapers more or less in the interest of the Bell telephone monopoly with dishonest ly holding shares of the Fan-Electric tele phone company. Most of these democrat! are southern democrats, and they are men whose honesty and integrity will ho vouched for by the best people of both sections. Throe charges against prominent demo crats are made by tho organs of tho Bell telephone company for tho purpose of cover ing np and concealing the real lames to be tried before the cohrte. The charge, simpli fied and stripped of ell details, Is that tho Bell patent* were obtained by fraud. It la understood that a former employe of the potent office 1* prepared to testify to this effect, and that there Is other evidence at hand to substantiate the charge. Now, if the Bell monopoly, which has lieen organized into a system remarkable for iis rapacity, is based on frond, it is high lime (list tlio pnbllo know it. It is provable (bat if the Fan-Electric patent* should be declared to lie the lowfril ones, this company wonld also become n monopoly, bat a least it wonld lie a lawful monopoly, and there is to believe that its rapacity wonld not be oa ferocious as that of tho Bell company, supported as it is by tho Western Union telegraph company. The position Tut: Constitution takes is this: That though ten thousand prominent drmonati held stock in the Fan-Electric company this feet would have no sort of bearing on the issne to he settled in the suits to lie bronght liy the government. These ten thousand democrats might have come by their holdings of stock fraudulently—hut this is a question for their constltncnta and for the public; whereas, the charge that the Bell telephone patents were fraudulently procured is a question for the conrti and must be tried there. We are perfectly will ing to have (ho innoceuce or guilt of tho democrats who hold l’an-EIectrio stock dia- cttMcd Iwfore the public or elsewhere. If their possession of this slock is not in ac cordance with tho strictest rules of honesty snd integrity, we shall not hesitate to con demn them, nor will they fail to be con demned liy their own party and liy the pub lic; but, in the meantime, the question is, did the Bell telephone monopoly secure it* patents by means ol fraud? Let this natter he settled in the courts; nnd if the conrt* arc not huge holders of tho shares of n rival company then tho Bell monopoly wilt have no reason for complaining of their decisions. You pick apples when apples nre ripe! Then pick subscribers when subscribers are ripe. Now is the season when subscribers are so ripe they drop off tho lice liy shaking. Shake the trees, then, and hold The Con stitution under them! You can't gather subscribers when the friends of other papers have stripped the trees bare. Now is the time—shake ami gather! . President Cleveland and His Party. The fight between the president and the senate is inevitable. The republicans have lieen determined from tho first on making thia fight. They have simply played for vantage points and have lieen ready to throw off the mask of peace whenever daisy and diplomacy had done their perfect work. All appointments made by the president lo fill vacancies caused liy death or resignation have lieen promptly confirmed. All appointments that followed removals have Ismi laid aside. These have accum ulated and the light will open whenever they are touched. The small pretext under which the re publican senatois begin boitilltiee will de ceive no ore. The demand that the prest- dmt ftunish reason! for the removal of every official whose head is smacked off, is in sulting ami alumni. The right of remoral goes with the right of appointment. Both aio presidential ftin.tions. Both were handed to President Cleveland when ha assumed office, nnd both he most transmit unimpaired to bis successors. With the removal of an official the senate has nothing whatever to do. It is the duty of the senate to review certain appointments and oonfirnr or reject them. For papers relating to the fitncee of appointees who come nnder its review, the senate might nek and the presi dent wonld doubtless famish. But for papers connected with the removal of an official the senate has nothing whatever to do. The whole purpose ol the fight is to rob the democratic party of the fruits of its victory and to keep republicans in office. No rule is sounder or more jnst than thst the party responsible for the administration of affairs should have the right to fill the offices. Otherwise there can be no j nst re sponriliility. When the people voted for a change of parties they voted for a clearing ont of the rat-lioles of the government. They voted for on overhauling of the liooki nnd offices. They wanted a change from top to bottom. It Is this that tho republi can senate will try to prevent. It Is good for the democratic party that Fresidcnt Cleveland is a man of courage. With an opposition majority of eight in the senate a weaker man might waver. Mr. Cleveland will do nothing of the kind. He willBimpiy wlict his cleaver and go to work. As fast ns one democrat is refused he will present another. And between times he will chop off heads. The first year of his admin istration showed that be was slow, prudent nnd conservative. The official ax fell lightly and nnfrequcntly. lie did not allow parti san greed to discourage the public business. He accepted tho reproaches of his party rather than nronse apprehension among the people. All this was lost on the repnbiican senators. They insist upon a light. Frost dent Cleveland will doubtless accommodate them. He will meet them with n hearty, undivided and enthusiastic party at his luck. This he can count on until “the last day in the morning." Tho Wood Chopper nnd tho Throne. Mr. James O’Kelly, tho brilliant Irish leader who mode fume in this country as correspondent of the New York Herald, ca bles that paper from London as follows ‘The lories are sad. Their plotting has brought them disastrous defeat. Their whig allies failed them, and the queen toiled them, for she did not send for land Harrington, Her mgjesty bates Mr. Gladstone, and would like to send Mr. Farncll to tho tower: hut she is anxious the prince of Wales should have a throne to sit on, and therefore, her majesty sent for the wood chopper of Ha- wardeu." That Ireland ought to have home rale every liberty loving American will affirm, The violence of some of her representatives, however, will rally the stont hearted Eng lish to the defense ol the throne that is threatened. This Is to bo regretted, for it may drive away the spirit of concession and compromise, throngli which alone Ireland ran get her rights. It la fortunate that control of the matter la once more given into the hands of Mr. Gladstone. He is the wisest and greatest of Englishmen. All that the human mind may conceive or human courage accomplish, ha will plan and execute for thia crisis. If hs fails, the isilnn will be leering. As for Victoria's thnme, thst might easily crumble before advancing enlightenment and the pro gress of human liberty. It will never be hacked to pieces by alien knives or destroyed by dynamite. Democratic Officiate and she Hotter* Family. Dr. J. W. lingers, one of the talented pro- prieton of the Fan-Electric telephone com pany, has opened his books for tho informa tion of the New York World, nnd that teemed contemporary covers a whole page with (he interesting contents thereof. We have cuseftUly examined every one, and In no instunco is there the slightest intimation that the writers of the letters purpose to de fraud anybody. There is not, from the be ginning of the published correspondence to the end nn expression, or even n word, going to show that fraud is intended. On the con- tnuy, each and every writer, without ex ception, bus the most sublime faith in the goad intentions of the great Rogers family, uud the most enthusiastic confidence in the utility of their inventions. As the correspondence strikes as, so it must strike the public, and the 'public will probably agree with ns that such men as General Joseph E. Johnston and Isham G. Harris, with nil their knowledge nnd expe rience, were probably the dupes of the esti- mublr Rogers family. This nuiy be said of all the other shareholders in the so-called Fnn-Eleciric. Wean very sorry to know that there are prominent democrats in the bunse, in the senate nnd in the cabinet own ing shares in this Rogers concern, for which they gave nothing hut their official iuflaence. We believe they were the dnpes of the Rog ers family. They committed an error of judgment for which they have no donbt suffered. Their error wopld become quite inexcusable should they cantlnne to bold stock in the inventions of the Rogers family. No democratic official, high or low, ran afford to bold stock in a concern for which he Is expected to pay noth ing bnt his real or supposed influence. This being so, it becomes the dnty of those demo cratic officiate who hold stock in the concern to surrender It promptly, and thus prove to the country that their intentions in procur ing the stock were what the country sup poses them to be. Bigamy In France. American bigamy cases are tame and com mon-place affairs. Bigamy in Franco is a different thing. It has variety, chic end kick. A recent cable special from Paris tells s ro mantic story, and a synopsis will give the reader material enough to serve as the ground-work for a five hundred page novel. Leon Leconte, young, handsome and dash ing, was married to a fond, motherly wo man ten years his senior, lie lived with her live vears, and then met Mdlle. Blanche, near Alfoitville. Blanche was the very im age of Sarah Bernhardt.oml Leon fell in love with her. When lie went home he said to his wife: "I have fallen in love witha young liden. Her name is Blanche. She lives at Alfoitville." Tableau. One night I.cou jumped into lied and said to hi* wife: "Have my die* suit rcaiy in the morning. I am to osiist at a wedding.” The next morning thia bold, bed man went gaily away strayed in his bolidsy attire. His neglected wife, however, was not a fool Kbe said to beroelf: "The wedding may lie at Alfortville. The parties may be Leon snd Blanche." So the good woman trudged off to Alfort ville. There she learned at the mayor’s office that Leon snd Blanche had Jnst been married, and were eating their wedding dinner at the restaurant. “It was my hus band!” she cried, and fell (hinting to the floor. The mayor’s clerk was a man ot chivalry and resources. He rushed to the restaurant, stuck his head in the door, and looking at Blanche's father, shouted: "Monsieur, your son-in-law is a bigamist!" Another tahleao. While Blanche fainted, her father and the rest of the wedding party seized the miser able I .eon, pulled his hair, scratched bis face and beat him black and bine. Finally he cseoped with about enough clothing on to cover n bine bottle fly. He jumped into a cab and drove to a place of refage. Then came arrest, nnd the trial. Tho scene was very dramatic, and hundreds of fashionable ladies witnessed it. The youth ful bigamist dressed for the occasion, witli a white camelia in his button-hole. When the judge rebuked him, and asked him how he could treat a loving wife so, Leon replied with pathetic dignity: "Mon Iiieu, judge, just fancy yonrself in my place!" There was a buzz of admiration and sym pathy nil over the courtroom, and even tho judge shed n few tears. The jury found Leon guilty, but with extenuating clrcnm- stanees. Under this verdict he got off with five years. He made his exit from the court witli one hand on his heart, signifying in dumb show that his blighted affections were ntiont to canse his untimely death. A Fraud on tho Coiv. Representative J. Wharton Green, of North Carolina, the well known vineyardist, is after oleomargarine with n sharp stick. His bill is carious in phraseology, but it appears to have a sound nuh to it. AVe quote: "Whereas, of Into years* certain imitation or counterfeit butter known as olcomargartno 1ms been extensively manufactured "and sold m tho genuine article, thus perpetrating a fraud alike on tho Innocent purchaser, the cow and tho hones dairyman ; and, whereas, from newspaper investi gation and report, it Is a mist tlltliy and villainous auballtute. Therefore, bo It enacted, that whoever sells the same to any resident of tho districtof Co lumbia, or of tho tcrrltorlca, or ol any fort, arsenal or dockyard of the United States, shall havo it la belled accordingly 'oleomargarine' In plain and unmistakable letters. That every retail dealer who sells the stuff, and every keeper of a tavern, or hostelry, or boerdlng-bouse, or captain of a steam boat, that sets It upon the table for the use of guests or boarders, shall place scant by tho dish with the Inscription thereon, ‘this Is oleomargar ine.' " Having than assailed what he officially slates is “a fraud on the cow,” Air. Green enlarges the plan of his crusade, and pre sents the following bill: "Whereas, It Is a notorious and admitted fuel that various and divers articles of diet drink and medicine are manufactured, stretched aud com pounded by the use of Ingredients foreign to tho nature of tho article, and often the substance so made np and sold for consumption is hurtful to health and almost Invariably tho offspring of fraudulent design. Therefore, whoever shall Im port, manufacture, mix or compound such delete rious and fraudulent substances and sell tne same to residents or territories, arsenals, forts and dock yards, shall be deemed guilty of a felony." He provide* for a sanitary board, which shall examine all medicines, foods or drinks submitted to It, and if it finds anything in it nowhere essential to its intrinsic mer its, the maker and dealer are to be prose cuted. Mr. Green has certainly ent ont a big lot of work. We only hope he can get through with it, , ’ Divorce Made Easy. Even in the Illinois court* there 1* some delay in obtaining n divorce. The filing of n bill, the service of papers nnd the hear ing require time. How to simplify the pro cedure in these cases fag* occupied tho thoughts of many able lawyers, bat no satis factory solution of the problem has yet been reached. What onr learned jurists have failed to do has been successfully accomplished by a law yer's office boy in Now York. 'In the particular case referred to a plain lock ing man and woman walked into a (aw office and found nobody in hut the boy. As aeon os the youngster sized up bis visitors be knitted hie brow and bent over the open of “Story’s Equity Jurisprudence." The strangers stated their business. They desired a divorce. "Nothing easier," said the accommodating hoy, cheerfrilly. He •rated himself at a desk, and in ten minutes produced a sheet ot legal rap covered with ‘said*,’’ "aforesaids," and mysterious refer ence* to “parties of the second pert,” con cluding with the words: “Know all men by these presents, that raid parties have pro cured a divorce a rinculo matrimonii, and are free to marry again in thia state." Having added a big red seal to the document this surprising lioy said in a cart, haziness like way: “Fifty dollars.” The man asked if It was not too much, bnt the paralyzing hoy ihnt him np with the remark: “They comes high, they do.” Not having the required amount the man planked down half of ft and left, promising to pay the balance later. The next day the boy era* oat and the lawyer was on deck. A men came in and tendered twenty-five dollars, raying that it was for the divorce drawn np the day before. The lawyer smelled a rat and asked to see the paper. When be read the concluding portion a cold perspiration stood on hi* brow. “Haw yon married yet?’ he asked. When informed that the man had jnst obtained a license to marry that night, he explained the situation to him, and started off on a wild hunt for the office boy. It wasadoae shave for the confiding client. He barely missed bigamy. Bnt the rapid and yet simple method of executing a di vorce invented by the office boy deserves at tention. It Will Be a Clean Sivoep. There ore very few who appreciate tile rapidity with which official changes are daily made. Mr. Cleveland lias not been in office a year, lint he lias mode over 25,000 changes, mid it is believed the full year’s work will aggregate 50,000. It will lie large enough at any rate to indiatte a dean sweep before the president's term of nffiee expires. About thirteen hundred men have lieen appointed to impoi taut offices; anil there men lmxe caused within the law fully five thou sand ehangf s. Assistant Postmaster-General Stevenson has decapitated 15,000 lirarth-chu! postmasters and he is working with steadi ness ;,ml increasing dispatch. Postmasters and interna] revenue collectors and a host of other officials are making minor appointment* in all coze* where they have the right of re moval and appointment; nnd altogether it is certaiu fully one-quarter of the entire civil service will lie in democratic hand* by the fourth day of next month. - It is computed that decapitation ha* gone on at the average rate of twelve per hoar— the official working day being eight hoar*. One head has dropped in the official basket every five miimtes daring the year nearly ended. If this para is maintained, the groat work will be frilly accomplished inside of the limit. The official ax will donlitlesa move faster and freer ns the headsmen become fimiilinr with the work in hand, and practi cally one more year will revolutionize our civil service, anil give tile people a good op portunity to make up their minds os to the value of the change. President Cleveland is n very Imsy man, and we mny depend up on it that he is making changes ns rapidly as he ran without detriment to tho public ser vice. He is holding fast to the civil service reform act, and is working the nx vigorously outside of it. A I’rolltnble Crop. A shortage In lirooni-corn is reported, and it Is in the power of a daring speculator to cause a regular famine in brooms, at least for atime. Our southern farmers doubtless have never thought of the magnitude of tho broom in dustry. We have broom factories In this section, but no broora-corn. Onr manufac turers are compelled to obtain their mate rial from the north and west This is all wrong. Onr climate and soil are well adapted to tho cultivation of broom- corn. It is a profitable crop, and a southern farmer can gather and sell two crops of it before his cotton ceases to bloom. At a time when onr people nre waking up to the importance of diversified farming this new industry should attract attention. Any of onr broom inctories will doubtless take pleasure in famishing farmers with all the information they may require, and also supply them with seed. A Gigantic- Monopoly. In 187(1, Professor Alexander Bell npplied for n patent on a telephone. On the same day, lint perhaps nn hour later, Mr. Eliahn Gray npplied for a similar patent. Professor Bell got the patent, and Mr. Gray was thrown ont. A telephone had been shown at the cen tennial, and visitors nmnsed themselves by talking to each other across the building. No one thought then the telephone would nmonnt to more than an ingenious (by. In 1877, a company was organized to in- treducc the telephone.' In the past four years that company bos paid fear million dollars in dividends. Its net profits in 1334 were one million seven hundred thousand dollars. The original stock has been doubled seven times, and is now worth $150 n share. The man who paid $50 originally now lias $1,200 of par stock worth $1,800. This enornions gain In vnlno has been made in less than eight years, daring which time his original investment lias lieen paid back five times over in dividends. The income last year was two million dollars; the tax nnd salary list less than one hundred and fifty thousand. The profits increase at tremendous rate. If the patent is not for feited, the company will become the most gigantic monopoly ever known. Professor Bell is worth $4,000,000 which he made ont of his invention, while Fulton, who invented steamship*, Stevenson who invented steam engines, and Mono who In vented the telegraph, died poor. Vf. II. Forties, of Boston, the president of the tele phone company, put in $04,000, and Iras made $7,000,000. G. G.Hubbard on $31,000, has de rived over $2,000,000. The company hoe mode dozen millionaires. Mr. Lamar, secretary of tho interior, Iras decided that there is enough evidence of fraud in obtaining the Bell' patent to justify the government in bringing a suit to vacate tho patent. That suit has lieen bronght hy Solicitor Goode, and Is now pending. THE WEATHER. •□owrromTraatMM to Mexico-Great Devolution to Property end Much Buffering Among tUe Brute CreaUon-Railroad Trains Are Stop- ped end Buelnem Stagnated, Etc. We print this morning the promlied pic tures of congressional leaden. They are not what w* wish, and had we not promised them, shonld have had them made over. We shall hereafter print no pictnrcs that nre njt first-class. Confederate Bond* By Cable to tbe Now York Herald. London, January 30.—Much amusement was caused today on 'change when the broken rrad an advertisement in the latest Herald arrived hero about confederate bonds, which readt a» fol low*: "A committee, consistlugof tho Right Honorable I.onl rcnznnoo, Hie Honorable Thomas C. Urtieo, M. 1*.; John Eldon Gorst, Esq., Q. C., M. F.; John B. Martin, Esq., and Robert Stewart, Esq., has bcon appointed In London to act as trustees for the con* federate bondholders. In view of solicited action by tha congress of the United States, persons hold* ing such bonds, wherever situated, are requeued to rend to William F. Moore. Esq., care of Honor able William Fullerton, of counsol, 18 Exchange Place, New York city, their names and the number of bonds held by them respectively, giving amounts, dates of issue and number of coupons at tached to each bond." A few doors from the Herald office is the Safe do- This Is tbe week of tlmoet universal snow. Down it has come in masses, covering the earth twenty inches and more. The snowfall is attended with less cold than the Jauuary storm, but impedes work and travel very much. Jt Js to be feared that when the snows melt, the spring floods will work heavy dam* age. Breckinridge, Col., February 1.—Ycnter* swept away tbo track and burled J ... and two shovelers under a hundred feet of snow and rocks. Washington, February 3.—The snow be. gan falling here about three o’clock this morn* ing, and this evening the depth at that hour ranges from eight Inches on the level and shel. tered spots to drifts of enormous size. The heaviest snow of the season fell iu Staunton today. At five o’clock, when it stopped snowing, the ground was covered to an averago depth of eighteen inches. Ail the trains nre delayed. In Harrisonburg, Va., the heaviest snow sloim since 1857 began at one o’clock this morning, and continued all day in blinding clouds. It is now eighteen inches deep on a level, and drifted from six to ten feet. Travel on tho country roads is almost Impossible. West-bound trains were two hours late. The mercury is twelve degrees above zero. The severest snow storm for several years prevailed in Richmond all day. The thermom eter has fallen twenty-two degrees in the last twenty-four hours. The six twenty northern train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg Poto mac railroad is delayed. THE SNOW IN TENNESSEE. JNaphyille, Tenn., February 3.—Tho storm ol yesterday and last night was one of tho so* verestever experienced In this state. Tho storm continued unceasingly from daylight Tueseay till daylight today, fully twenty- fonr hours, and prevailed throughout too state. The turnpikes and roads in overy di rection arc impassable, and it is probable that tho mailea for points of several roads will be delayed several days. Reports received from points in upper Middle Tennes* secosay tho snow drifted badly in that section, effectually stopping all the mail carriers and travel generally. All the stage coaches aro snow bound, and do not hope to be able to travel for several days. All the city schools adjourned today, it being impossible for the children to reach the buildings. The average depth of snow hero is twenty inches. An engine was carried under tho snow np to tho steam chest all tho wsy. Tho snow at Martin was rej>ortcd to bo twenty-two inches deep. No trains aro running to or from that place. In various parts of West Tennessee it was rc- ported to bo from twenty-two to thirty inches deen, but no serious damage was done. This is the first tiroo there has ever been a general blockade ou the Tennessee roads. THE SNOW IN TEXAS. Galvemton. February 3.—Meagre intelli gence from north Texaa up to midnight last night reports a heavy snow storm prevailing over the Indian territory and extending south and west into Texaa. The oxtent of tho storm will probably not be known for a few days. It Is blustering and raining hero, hut no cold wavo, anything like that of the January blizzard has yet reached Galveston. EVEN IN MEXICO. City of Mexico, February 3.--Snow fell to the depth of fonr inches at Mexicaleingo, four miles distant frotn this city, yesterday after noon. This is the first snow that hasfallcuia this vicinity since 1860. The tops of all tho adjacent mountains were also whitened. The weather is much cooler than is generally ex perienced in this latitude at this season. Hakkisonbuxo, Va February 4.—Three inches more of snow fell last night. The pike across the mountain to West Virginia is block aded so as to be impassable fo^atleast a month. llering among the stock. The tain bauki tee was ap Ing Lord i Tits SCIIKME KXPOSSD. liseofi nrt proi __ •olntcd two or three yean ago, Includ usance, Mr. Gorst (now Sir John Eldon twm. raiH-itor general!, Mr. Stewart and others. It Kill exists, but u only a committee of trustees, and has not done anything since ism. The committee on bondholders consisting of Messrs. Van Real, of the firm of Mccatta A Cohort, of Gorahlll; Meredith Brown and Mr. Cklnncry. a stock broker, are still general, who held office some few years after the clo>c of the war of secession, bos given an opinion favorable to the bondholders' claims, which is printed and distributed here, but his name is with- "It omits to mention the constitutional amend ment about tbe hundred millions' worth of bonds now collected in London. Fully seven-eighths of these are held by foreigners, and points have late ly been given ont here to t»oom confederate bonis. As I understand It, sums of money have been rais ed by assestment on the holders for a *purt. The bill, which will be referred to a committee, unless the *K«ker roles the inquiry out of order. If not. he wonld then prem for a hearing, sad the fact of the mea-ure pending laymcnt would be made the basis for large holders to -ell to the small one.-. The Herald - exposure* o:t the Florida swindle* re already noted here, and hope i« held that it 111 rot allow ignorant Invc-tor* to suffer with .e$eloiids h* enough transatlantic swindles ou John Lull Lftvc already been played. OUR PRIZES. 1 l:e pfLes oilured for larpe*t li«t- of subscriber* tVom October l-t, l.*e\ to January Ivt, lviu, are arded a- follows-: 1. E. P. Bruce i J.T. l.av. ren«e 5. J. L. Blackmon 1. J. W, < o-s 6. T. It. Uollenshead ... L. Laytou 7. J. W. F. Little S. J. A. Fowe^ 9. A. H. Bird* eg ... 10. Mrs. JoeCtiX^.^.^... 11. M, K.C©l!ltr.._ 204 moo In O dd. ....... M *25.0) in <J >ld. .... 71 ft*.*) in Gold. 72 MOO) In Gold. 70 Sewing Maculae .. ... 07 Libr«ry. Ci Watch. CO •* There Is great sufl mercury has fallen twenty-three degrees since noon and is still going down. Parsons,Kan., February 4.—Last night snow fell the heaviest ever known In this country. In the Indian territory it is said to bo much heavier than hero, having fallen there to a depth of two feet The roads havo been badly delayed. Reports from western Kansas indi cate the suffering of the people and heavy looses of stock. Belleville, Ont., February 4.—Owing to the cold weather of the past three days, the mouth of tbe Moira river has been almost com* pletely stopped with ice, aud in contequeaco the water is now eight feet above the ordinary level. Every cellar in the principal business portion of the town has been submerged. The back yards and promises in the rear of the stores on tho west side of Front street aro also inun dated. In another district half a mile square every building, excepting half a doaen, has its lower floor covered with from six inches to four feet of water, and mostof the houses have been vacated. Many manufactories and other business establishments of all kinds havo suspended operations. Numerous ffcmiHes are huddled together In upper stories of houses, and are suffering Intensely from the cold, tho mercury having fallen bo- low zero. Denison, Tex., February 5.—The recent, storm that has prevailed through the south west has, in some respects, been the most severe of the Besson. The enow fell through out northwest Texas, and it is expected much damagowill result to vegetation and stock from the cold wave. News from the Indian territory indicates that tho loss of cattle in the nation will bo very disastrous, In consequent of tbe storm that has recently swept over that section. There is much suffering on the ’Frisco extention west of Red Fork, and the loss of stock on the range will be unprecedent ed if tbe snow Ilea on tbe ground two days longer, aa feed and water are unobtainable. In many of the covers in the timber bleaks, where stock usually resort in a storm, the snow drifts are from ten to thirty feet deep. The snow has been fklling hard for the last twenty-four hours in Choteau, Indian territo ry, with no signs of abatement. It is now about two feet deep witha heavy, cold north wind blowing. The snow has drifted in places from live to eight feet, and already weak cattle will undoubtedly perish. It is the worst storm that has prevailed in tbe territory for years. Caattanooga, Tenn, February 5.—A tele gram from Sunbright, Tennessee, says that the temperature was twenty degrees below zero at that place this morning. From twelve to twenty-four inches of snow Is lying throughout thst section. The Pennsylvania Farmees’ Excursion. Mr. J. J. Hprenger has at last made the final arrangement for hie excursion, which will leave Washington. D. C., on the 22nd of Feb ruary, getting to Atlanta about the 21th in stant. These farmers will come from the very rich agricultural counties of Lancaster, Berks, Chester, Dauphin snd York, mainly descend ants of the Pennsylvania Dutch, the most thrifty class of people, perhaps, In America. The principal starting points at which tbe ex cursionists will congregate for special train*, will be Philadelphia and Washington. Mr. Sprrngergoes to Pennsylvania next Thursday to imrtand return with thc-o people, and to give them such inducement* to come to Geor gia as bln knowledge, pro-perify and pleasant experience here suggest. It goes without spying, after the hospi tality and courtesy so recently extended to the Ohio farmers, that the Pennsylvanians will be given reduced rates at our hotels, special fhreot) tbe various railroads centering in At lanta, and every other facility for teeing, with least expense and most pleasantly, the differ ent section* of Georgia, and every true Geor gian and all the thousand* of northern and western people already rerding here, will ex tend to these farmers of Pennsylvania a most cordial welcome, . B. Spencer, Murfreesboro, N. C.