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Samiinallj Saib ©meg. VOL. 6.—NO. 42. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS. FIKE IN ATLANTA. The Leyndon House and the Crew Street Sc hool House Destroyed—The Philadel phia Excursionists Experience a Southern Snow Storm. Special Dispatch to the Times. Atlanta, February 11.—The Leyndon House was burned last night. It was one of the oldest houses in Atlanta. The fire department turned out promptly, but the flames made such rapid progress that it was powerless to save the building, though had the water supply been more adequate some thing might have been accomplished. Ihe guests escaped safely. Insurance on the building was about $14,000. Mr. W. W. (Jordon and daughter of your city wete among the boarders. Fortunately no dam age beyond the loss of the building was At midnight last night the Crew street school house was destroy ed by fire. Loss $12,000. Six hundred children are thrown out of school by this fire. The Philadelphia excursionists arrived here at noon and found the city enveloped in three inches of snow and more falling. They will have a reception at the Govern ors at 2 o’clock, and a banquet at the Kim ball House will be given them at 5. FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. The Work of Both Homes This Morning. Washington, Feb 12. —In the Senate, the concurrent resolution of the House, pro viding for the appointment of a Joint Com mittee of the two Houses, to officially in form Hon. Grover Cleveland and Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, of their election as President and Vice President of the United States, was, on motion of Mr. Garland, who thought the phraseology should jbe changed referred to the Committee on 1 rivis leges and Elections. At 11:45 the resolutions introduced yesterday, by Mr. Ingalls, dissenting from Mr. Edmuuds’ manner ot announcing the result of the electoral count, as well as Mr. Hoar’s resolution on the same subject, were then taken up. Sen atorHosr quietly moved their reference to the Committee on Privilegf s and elec tions. This motion prevailed so that contrary to the general expectation, the threatened discussion of the old and unsettled question as to the right of the Vice President to de clare authoritatively the result of the count ing of the electoral votes, was temporarily averted. SPEER’S NOMINATION Reported Favorably—Chances of Confir mation. Washington, Feb. 12. —Speer’s nomina tion has been reporteu favorably from the committee by a strict party vote. The sub ject will probably come up in executive ses sion to-day, and the indications point to con firmation. Senator Brown outgeneraled Senator Colquitt, and Hoar and Brown are working industriously among Democratic Senators for Speer. TWO ABBEY’S Recently Created by the Pope. St. Vincent’s College, Penn , Feb 12 —Rev. Father James Ziliox, O. S. 8., and Rev. Father Oswald Moosenmuller, were chosen respectively yesterday by t • Benedictine Monks to be Abbotts of St Ma ry’s Abbey, Newark, New Jersey, and St. Mary’s Help of Christians Abbey, Gaston County, South Carolina. The two Abbeys have lately been created by the Pope. Father Ziliox is only 35 years old, and is the youngest Abbott in the world. Father Moosenmuller is now stationed at Savan nah. THE CABINET. What Mr. Cleveland Himself Has To Say New York, Feb. 12—The Herald’s Al bany correspondent telegraphs President elect Cleveland authorizes a positive contra diction of the statement that he has sent a letter to Senator Bayard, tendering that gen tieman a Cabinet position. He further authorizes the statement thut he has not issued letters to any one else on that or kindred subjects, and does not intend to do so for s >me time to come. Fatal Result of a Disagreement, Marshal, Tex, Feb. 12—Will Jackson yesterday shot and fatally wounded Lindley Fisher, the ball entering his mouth and coming out at the back of his head. Fisher is not expected to live. Both men are highly connected and the quarrel was the result of some social disagreement. The Ocklahoma Boomers. Wachita, Kansas, Feb. 12. —W. L. Couch, leader of the Ocklahoma Boomers, and Stafford, Brown and Wilcox were ar raigned before the United States Commit sioner yesterday, and were discharged with out a hearing of their case. The witnesses for the government failed to appear Fire—Loss, 5555,000. Cincinnati, 0., Feb. 12—Shortly after 1 o’clock this morning a fire broke out in the bar room fixtures establishment of Hass Bros., and completely destroyed the build ing and stock. The loss is about $55,000. - . ■ - ♦ Chicago ’Change. Chicago, Feb. 11.—Wheat opened firm; May, 83}. Corn steady; March, 36}; April, 36f; May, 40}. Oats steady; May, 30jja30}- Lard quiet and easier; March, $7 02}; May, ! $7 20. Pork dull but steady; May, sl3 22}. | Bulk meats dull. 1 SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1885. ATLANTA FLASHES. Grand Charity Ball-Ba e Ballists Con vention. Special Dispatch Daily Times. Atlanta, Feb. 12 —Last night the an nual charity ball of the Hebrew Benevolent Association occurred at Concordia Hall. The ball w s a very brilliant affair and was largely attended, A snug sum was rea ized to be devoted to charity. A convention of basebalists was here yes terday afternoon. Atlanta, Washington, Chattanooga, Columbus, Augusta, Macon and Birmingham, Ala, were represented. The diflernces between the Southern League and the Southeastern were settled as follows : j The Southeastern League admitted the I Clinches, of Augusta, and the Nashville club, and the name of the Southeastern was changed to the Southern. THE ARMY. The Bill for the Retirement of Private Soldiers. Washington, Feb. 12. —A similar bill to that just passed by the Senate to provide for the retirement of private soldiers of the regular army who have served a certain term is upon the House Calender, having been reported and its passage recommended by the Committee on Military Affairs. It is held that the private who has passed all his life in the service of his country is as much entitled to be retired on three-fourths pay as the officer who commanded him. THE GREELY EXPEDITION. The Starvation Scene at Cape Sabine. • Washington, Feb. 11.—The publication I of the diaries of the members of the Greely 1 expedition has again aroused attention to I the horrible details of the starvation scenes ,; at Cape Sabine, and a hasty perusal of - I the documents would lead to the it - , | ference that the discipline was of the i , most lax description; but it must be re membered by those who are disposed to 1 I censure the commanding officer of that j unfortunate band that the bickerings re ' : corded took place at a time when the writers • were actually starving, and a commanding ' officer less considerate of the true condition I of his men might have brought about more i trouble and perhaps have provoked open mutiny among them. Lieutenant Greely’s ■ course has been generally commended by ' his superiors, and among members of Con gress there is a feeling of sympathy with him in his controversy with the uncharit able critics who assail him. A MURDERER HANGED. j Dissipation Brought Him to the Gallows. , j Philadelphia, Feb. 12— R. Treukswas . I to-day hanged for the murder of Mrs, j Augusta Zimm. Just before the drop fell he exclaimed: “My life of dissipation has brought me to this s d end.” His death I i was caused by dislocation of the neck. MACON MATTERS. : A Libel Suit Against a Newspaper Fails. Special Correspondence Daily Times. Macon, Feb. 11.—Wm. Foster, formerly ; j tiler of Bibb county, beat his wife yester day for several hours while drunk. The poor woman fainted and was unable to cal) a: istance. She was found deserted last ’ night, taken to a boarding house and Dr. 1 Fitzgerald summoned. Her body and face ■ show many brusies. She is delirious and ■ expected to die. To-night Foster was arrest -1 ed and a warrant charging him with assault with intent to murder was issued. He was released on bail. He has kept this wife- 1 whipping up fourteen years. In the case of Sarah Jane Thomas, a negro ■ school teacher, vs. Te'egraph and Messenger for libel, a jury in Bibb Superior Court to day returned a verdict for the defendants. Wynton. New York Stock Market. ! New York, Feb. 1 2—At 1:30 p. m. to- I day quotations were : I Union Pacific 50% 1 Missouri Pacific 96 l Western Union Telegraph Co 62% i Pacific Mall 55% ; Lake shore 64% Louisville and Nashville 26 Texas Pacific 13% Denver and Kio Grande 7% Michigan Central 62 Delaware, Lackawanna West’n 97% Northwestern 94% St. Paul 74% Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 121% Oregon Transcontinental 13 Northern Pacific 40% ; Kock Island 112% Jersey Central 38% Memphis and Charleston 85 East Tennessee, Va. & Ga (com) 3% East Tennessee, Va. A Ga. (pfd) 6 Philadelphia and Reading 17% Omaha (com) 27% Omaha (pfd) 88 New York Central 92% Kansas and Texas 16% Erie 12% New York Produce Market. New York, Feb. 12.—Flour dull. City mills extra, $4 60a470; superfine $2 80a3 00. Who at; No- 2 red winter for February, 89}. Corn; No 2 mixed, 50} for February. Oats; No. 2 mixed, for February, 36 j. Pork quiet; mess sl4 00al2 50. Molasses quiet; domessic grades, 40 to 53. Turpentine steady at 30}; rosin quiet, strained to good do. 1 22al 27}; sugar firm, refined cut loaf 6}a6j; coffee steady, fair cargoes 9}. Arrest of a Radical Lunatic. St. Louis, Feb. 12 —Wm. Ryan, an es caped lunatic from Seneca Falls, N. Y., was I arrested here yesterday for threatening to “remove” President elect Cleveland. Probabilities. Washington, Feb. 12. —For the Sonth | Atlantic States, slightly warmer, partly j cloudy weather, and light rains or snows; winds generally from the southwest to northeast; lower barometer. FIGHTING ON THE RIO GRANDE. Mexicans Slaughtered Near Carrizo—The Texas Rangers Punishing Invaders for Cattle Stealing. A special dispatch from Laredo, Texas, says : A messenger arrrived late last night i with the news that a fight had taken place at Carrizzo Springs, between a band of rangers under Sheriff Tomlinson and a large party iof Mexicans from Neuva Laredo. A few days ago three Mexican horse thieves were caught near the Springs by the rangers and are alleged to have been lynched. Some members of the band escaped and were pursued. The Mexicans started for the Rio Grande. Sheriff Tomlinson joined the rangers with two of his deputy sheriffs and the pursuit was pushed with vigor. On Thursday afternoon the Texans overtook the Mexicans, who had been heavily reinforced by other members of the band and by a score of Mexican fugi tives. As only half of them were mounted, their progress was slow. The rangers were all armed with Winchester rifles and Colt’s revolvers, and were led by Captain Shelly and Sheriff Tomlinson. They opened fire when within shooting distance, and at the first volley a half a dozen Mexicans fell, and those who were mounted put spurs to their horses and fled The others returned the fire of the posse and wounded five. William Marshall, one of the wounded, has since died. The Texans emptied their revolvers, after their rifles were fired, and the result was that ten Mexicans were killed outright, and it is belie fed that fifteen others were wounded. Several of the wounded were captured by the Texans, and a horrible story is told of their disposition. It is said that many were shot to death on the field. The meet reliable information places the Mexican force at 120 and that of the fex i ar sat 50. A despatch to the Galveston News from San Antonio says: “The situation at Car 1 | riza Springsis growing serious. The citi ’ | zens are determined to res st the band of a I I hundred Mexicans when they arrive. A . i bio. dy battle is expected. The citizens o . S-tva. kt and Maverick county are joining ; . forces with Dimmit county in cotabattim , ; the marauders. Runners have been sent ‘ o . : Cotulla and other points for arms and am munition. It is ascertained that the Mex . . ic,-.ns crossed the Rio Grande on the night , of February 6. They numbered 100 ’ and have divided their forces , into four bands, who are approaching Car . rizo through unfrequented portions of the . esuntrv, driving away herds by detail as ' they advance into the interior. A spirited running fight occurred to-day between the , scouts of the citizens’ organization and a detail of Mexicans. Two Mexicans were killed and one American wounded. Sheriff Oglesby, of Maverick county, has sent a mounted posse to the scene of action. The frontier troops at Uvalde left to-night for Carrizo. A Daughter Found After Many Years. I Lewis Jones, an old farmer from Morris, 111, a town near Chicago, who arrived in ' Jersey City one day last week, and who was supposed to be derange , proves to be one of ’ the principal characters in a story posses -1 | sing a large element of romance. When the old man alighted from a Pennsylvania Rail road train in Jersey City he seemed bewil ; dered. He said that he had come East in 'search of his daughter, whom he had nil ■ seen for twenty-six years, but he had no ' further knowledge of her address than that she lived in Brooklyn. Jones was taken to po ice headquarters, and Chief of Police Murphy interested himself in the case. The ■ old man needed little encouragement to con • fide his story to the Chief. He said that about 42 years ago he married, and began ; to cultivate a clearing that he had pur . chased in Morris. A daughter was born, ■ and when she was about 12 years old bis I wife died. Jones married again, but his daughter could not agrse with her step ; mother, and when she was only 14 years old, I she left home. Jones became wealthy, and recently a longing came upon him to see his daughter, whom he had not seen since > the day she left home. His wife and his • brother-in-law tried to dissuade him from his purpose, but without avail. All that Jones knew about his daughter was that she had gone to Brooklyn to iive and was a widow. His wife and her brother had the daughter’s address, but they refused to give it to him. “They were afraid, I suppose,” said the old man, “that if I found the gal I’d give her the most of the money, 1 but I’ll find her in spite of them.”. Saturday evening the detectives succeeded in finding . Mrs. Thomas, the daughter, in Brooklyn. 1 Ti e reunion of the old man and his daugh ter was extremely affecting. Mrs. Thomas i | had been reduced to poverty and was earn ing a living by working in a factory,. She ' cheerfully emsented to return home with her father, and they started Sunday for ‘ Morris. ' Doing Sary Ann’s Unfinished Work. Philadelphia Record. , “You dtfn’t cook line Sary Ann used to, Matilda,” be s.iid, in tones of gentle, exasperating reproof; “no, it seems to me you can’t cook like Sary Ann used to.” On another occasion it was: “You’re not as smart in gettin’ around as Sary Ann was, Matilda. You don’t appear to ketch on where she left off.” About this time a heavy rolling pin came in contact with his head. “What do you mean by that, you vixen ?” he exclaimed in agony. “I’m do ing some of the work Sary Ann neglected,” she replied, and there was much peace in the family thereafter. A student undergoing examination in the . principles of mechanics was asked: “Why will not a pin stand on its point?” He re turned the following answer: “In the first | place, a point is defined by Euclid as that which hath no parts and no magnitude, and how can a pin stand on that which hath no I parts and no magnitude? In the second place, a pin will not stand on its head, much less therefore will it stand on its poin'. Thirdly and lastly, it will if you stick it in hard enough.”—l'id-Bits. “ROUGH ON RATS.” Clears out rats, mice, roaches, flies, ant ned-bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers . 1-5 Druggists. TELFAIR ACADEMY OF AKTS AND SCIENCES. Its Formal Opening This Moining—ATre • mentions Rush of Visitors During the Entire Morning—The Specimens of Art Greatly A<lmi>ed—Eloquent Address of General Jackson —Mr. Brandt's Remarks— An Institution Which is an Ornament to Sa vannah and the South. The opening of the Art Rooms of the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciencas this morning was attended by an immense crowd of the best people of Savannah, to say noth ing of the many strangers from other points. The weather was pleasant and from 9:30 until the close of the doors the concourse of people whs streamed in was continual. The rooms had been put in the best of con dition, and the improvement made in the last three weeks has been si marked that even the Times reporter, who has been a constant visitor weekly, was surprised. The progress made by that indefatigable worker, Director Brandt, can only be likened to the creations of some hidden genii. The admiration and surprise of all who had the golden oppor tunity to visit the place can be better im agined than described. In the room of the east pediment of the Parthenon the busts and full figures of 16 of the most famous pieces of plastic art from the old mas ters were seen, in addition to many fine pictures the Parthenon frieze and the Par thenon. The hall was much admired by all on account of the many beautiful photo graphic reproductions of paintings of the masters and the frieze. In the hall up stairs is a fineoil painting of Ger . Henry R. Jack- I son, much admired by all. Everything was, of course, given only a passing glance by the majority of the concourse on account |of the limited time, but it was enough j to convince all that there is enough in the r oms now to give a moderate thinking man I foosl for thought for a year or more. ' An incident occurred during the speech of 1 I General Jackson which may be mentioned. i The cornice of the old mansion has hereto ’ I fore been intact, not a piece having been L I displac'd up to day, bit just back of the 1 ‘ center of the Parthenon gr, up, while all was ' 1 si’ene, a large piece, about a foot long, fell with a crash to the floor. At first it was sup ' posed that some oue h- d earele-sly knocked J I off one of the busts. However, no one was I seen to touch a ; ie. e < f the works of art, ; I obeying literally the inj motion to touch 1 i nothing. ■ At 11 o’clock Rev. Dr. .Axson delivered 1 a beauufu and most appropriate prayer, in- 1 ' voking the di iueb essitur on the work just ' j bet- tin, and was fohowi din a short address r : of tv-eli .-me by General Henry R. Jackson, President of the Georgia Historical Society, . | as follow- : j Ladies and Gentlemen: Speaking for i the managers of the Te fair Academy, 1 bid j ' you welcome! Not as yet, and for reasons f self-evident, can they open this b- tiding to . the public. But all the members of the . Georgia Historical Society are component . parts of the trustee to which Miss Telfair has left her family home, and it w»s thought that the natal day of the Trustee Society would be a time most opportune for , a visitation by them all of the object of their trust, to view what their agents have so far , accomplished. That expression should . have been given to some impatience because of the seeming slowness in the work of or ganization may be accepted as an augury of hope for the future. Impatience means interest, and interest means life in the Trust But the Board of Managers cannot admit that their progress has been slow. On the 10th of May, 1883, the society was placed in ; possession of the trust property, and forty six thousand dollars in cash. With this sum the necessary changes in the mansion were first to be made; what might remain of the money to be then applied to the purchase . of works of art. Impelled by an eager de sire to press rapidly forward in their work, the Board of Managers were tempted to take one precipitate step. Could I conjure up before this audience the result, and compare the ■ clumsy, repulsive and disheartening appear ance of this hall, under the change then ventured, with the lovely picture it now presents, sure I am that all of us would be of one unanimous opinion, that to nothing can the old classic adage, “festina lente”— hasten slowly—be more forcibly applicable I than to the (dealing, by inexpert hands, with the subtle elements of beauty in art. . ; Comparison, too, will enlighten us as to j what was our then prospect of securing de . ’ sirable art-productions. But a short time before the receipt of our legacy, Mr. Vander i ■ bill had paid for a small picture by Meisso nier, a mere miniature of 18 by 14 inches at most, $50,000. A few years earlier Mrs. | Stewart had given for a large picture by the same master, $75,000. Within the last eight j months the National Gallery of London has ' i bought a portrait of Charles I. ’j by Vandyke for £17,500, or I $87,500, and a Madonna by Raphael 'for i £370,000, or $1,850,000. What a hope crushing-out contrast 1 What could we ac complish with the remnants of our modest sum of $40,000? Thus it becomes clear that to enable us to establish anything deserving the name of an Academy of Arts, we needed more money, or something which money could not buy. We needed the man! and loudly may we thank our kindly stars that we found him! In the mid-summer of 1883, Mr. Brandt insisted upon leaving his home on the Hudson to visit this building. “If 1 am to become responsible as Director, 1 must see the building, and see it at once.” He came to Savannah, and the design of this beautiful hall ILsiied from his brain. Ar rangements were made for all other altera tions. And bebo’d! the mansion how changed! and, yet again, how unchanged in the essen tials of the old family home. The library of Mr. Hodgson on my right, the room in which Miss Telfair died, on my left, all the apart ments on the South side of the house specially occupied by the itmily, remain substantially the same. The octagonal reception room on the floor below to to be the reception room for the future, and the family dining room, beyond it, to be : devoted to the pictures and other works oi 1 art of the Telfair family. None of these I have been placed On exhibition now.be cause it would not have been just to show them in their present condition. Through ■ I the long-weary period < f litigation they suf sered deterior tion from the effects of our; i moist climate and dusty air. But they can | ■ be, and will be, restored, and religiously cared for. When our annex shall have ' been completed; when our casts shall have been gathered in their appropriate hall; when the family pictures ami portraits shall have been n sored and shall be hung in their permanent places; when this institution shall have been finally opened to tne admis I . sion of the public, then will have arrived the ! time for making an appeal to this commu nity for some practical, substantial exhibi tion of their ai precia on o t ie ben factions of Miss Telfair and the Telfair family, , which stand without precedent, or parallel, i , or anything like it, in the entire history cf I , Georgia. The 18th of August, 1883, found Mr. Brandt already embarked for Europe, with authority to spend $20,000 in works of a: t. During the four months employed in tl i task he travelled 13,000 miles; be visittd most of the art centres in Europe; he made his purchases and his contracts nearly tve, y where. Shortly after he had landed at Liverpool, the shipments of them began. They have been coming ever since, and the cry is “still they come.” A glanca at this building will suffice to show that it is wholly incapable of receiving them. It was ■ resolved to build an annex, to consist of two large halls, fifty-seven feet square; the lower to be foored with marble; to contain the largest group of statuary in the world—the Tauro Farnese, of which but one other copy has ever been made, to stand in the center; the entire hall to be well filled from the beginning, and its four walls to be cov ered with photographs and engravings like those which you see in all directions around you; the gallery above, to be surrounded with the noblest and most beautiful frieze, a part of which is now hung before me, the work of a master painter. And so architec ture will unite with her sister arts, painting and sculpture, in the decoration of these consecrated premises. And all this to be ; effected with $40,000, and a gross annual in come of $7,000! With every new arrival from Europe the triplex marvel grows. How could any one ; man accomplish so much in four months? [ Hov was it possible for him to secure the performance of so much work by others i w ithin so short a time? By the exercise of what occult power has he been enabled to . buy so much for so little? Standing before I “The Relics of the Brave,” Professr Proctor, i who had already exhibited a knowledge of t j art, so comprehensve and exact as to be i ; amazing in a great scientist, but who subse quently accounted for it in conversation with : I myself, asked the cost of that powerful . painting. “Two hundred pounds,” wss the : reply. He immediately exclaimed, “Why, 1 s you could get two or three thousand for it now!” Ten or fifteen thousand dollars 1 ' ' Only think <f it! With this sum Mr.. | Brandt had purchased all of our possession-, 1 . I including this picture itself, and excluding j I only the five grand statues which are to ! . stand in front of our academy. , But intrinsically valuable as each and , all of these possessions are, what would they ' have been to us or to the world in their ag- , \ gregate, without . the manipulation ofjthe . J artist who, by his knowledge, his taste, his tact and his indefatigable ; labor so indefatigable, because so loving | had secured them tor us; and who was now | to play, in rapid and ever recurring succes sion, the parts of painter, sculptor and ar chitect, drawing out from the dull, dead plaster such forms of living beauty as you I may now contemplate above my head, show ing the inimitable works of the grand Phi dias, as they are to be seen no where else upon earth—this I have from two most . competent judges, familiar with art in Eu rope as well as with art in Am°rica—so selecting and so arranging our wealth of pictures, photographs, etchings, engravings, statues, casts, works in embroidery and in wood, as to make from the whole one har monious picture, as replete with educational power as it is full of ravishing beauty. 1 have no wish to deal in words of ex- . aggeration. The occasion does not re quire them. But, surely, there are . times when the truth, and the whole truth, ought to be spoken ; even though it carry more of pain than pleasure, when heard in public, to a senstive heart. And the truth which pervades the whole of this matter is that, as you shall move from room to room, as you shall gaze upon this or upon that object, everywhere, and upon everything—upon every leaf, and petal, and pistil, and stamen, of this, our opening flow er—you will see the impress of the Master’s touch. “He touches nothing which He does not adorn.” His touch and His taste are our seal of assurance that we can wor thily discharge our trust duty to the Manes of the Dead !—that the home of the Telfairs shall become the abode of the Beautiful I And now, to our Director and his work — which is, at last, but a breathing part ol himself, I give place; for he, speaking through his works, is the true orator of this accasion. Gen. Jackson was followed in his speech by Director Carl L. Brandt, in the following brief remarks : For the kind words which Gen. Jackson has spoken in praise of the success in bring ing together the works of art which you ladies and gentlemen have come to see to day, I thank him with a heart full of af fection. His own generous heart had cloth ed these words with a grace, equaled only by the grace in these lines of the works which adorn this hall—by the immortal Phidias But an equal share in the success of this work is due to the President of the Georgia Historical Society, and the gentlemen also members of that society, constituting the i board of managers of the Telfair Academy of Arts and Science. To you, ladies and gentlemen, I beg to say, that it is not the collecting or arrang ing of the work that I des’re to direct your special attention, but to the works them selves. They are the product of great talents of generations. When we cannot possess the original!, good reproductions in plaster cast or other wise, aie to the art student, of equal va ue Good paintings by old masters are raiely ; S6OO A YEAR ! offered for sale. When so offered they are I bought by the governments of Europe at enormous prices. Good paintings by modern artists of repute have also become a luxury for millionaires. But there are works of art witl in the reach and means of tuis Acade my, if properly selected, with good judg— ; ment and patience, and these walls can be i made to be the pride of Savannah. In making this noble gift of Miss Telfair j what she intended it should be with the aid I of Providence, I hope I may be able to per- I form my share in a work so beautiful and so full of pure enjoyment. I The musical programme, one of the best produced in the city in some time, delighted j the audience. The direction of it was in the charge of Prof Warth. The musicians were from Prof. Henry Geek’s Orchestra, and were seven in number. At fmr o’clock this afternoon the election of officers of Georgia Historical Society | will be held at Hodgson Hall. It was easy |to see that ail were more than pleased at the progress made by Director Brandt. They were filled with wonder that so much had been done in so gigantic and at the same time tedious enterprise. Among the noted guests present, were Mr. G. W. Peck and wife, of Milwaukee. The “Bad Boy” was not present. The Railroads and the New Orleans Ex position. Editor Daily Times : Will you kindly allow me a brief space in your valuable journal to speak on a subject which is of the utmost importance to the whole South, if not, indeed, to the entire country ? There ie, as everyone knows, a world’s fair or ex position now being held at New Orleans, the metropolis of the South. This Exposition has been open for nearly two months past and is to continue for nearly four months more, or until the end of May. Truly has it been said that no one who can do so should miss seeing this Exposition. It is the largest and grandest affair of the kind ever before projected in this or any other country. Every Southerner —nay, every American—should take pride in its suc , cess and should do what he can to pro mote that success, apart even from themerely i selfish gratification of seeing it. But how |is this to be done? The city of New Or leans is situated geographically so far from. 1 the rest of the country that comparatively few of those wishing to see the Exposition, even of such as live in the South, can afford the expetue of going such distance to see it. i So unless the railroads pursue a liberal pol icy, which so far they have not done, it is I to be feared the Exposition will be a fail ure, owing entirely to this one cause. A writer in the New Orleans Times-Democrat , dwelt at some length upon this subject last week, and amongst other things, he said: “The railroads are killing two birds with one stone. They are killing them selves and killing the Exposition.” And this is undoubtedly true, lobe sure they j (the railroads) hare reduced the charge j since the opening of the Exposition to one I fare for the round trip, limiting the time |to fifteen days. But, considering New Or leans great distance from ihe more densely i populated portions of the country, this does i not count for much. In Sunday’s Times I noticed an announcement by the Savannah and Charleston, and Savannah, Florida and Western Railroads, of a still further reduc tion of only one cent per mile. This would seem to show a liberal spirit, as well as a disire on the part of the railroads men tioned to “make hay while the sun shines;” but, unfortunately for the Exposition, as well as the railroads and the would-be sight seers, it falls far short cf the mark. The companies mentioned say they will run their excursion trains only on Mondays, and the excursionist is limited to five days, in only two of which can he see the Exposition. They say in their announcement :“This limit” (that is two days) “will afford abundant op portunity for seeing the great Exposition, as well as the sights of the “Crescent City.” Could anything be more absurd? To see this Exposition, as well as the sights of the city in two days ! Why, it would take two weeks to see even a small part of such an Exposition, leaving out the sights of the city altogether. I predict, Mr. Editor, that but few will accept this very liberal)?) offer of the Railroads, in taking their money and allowing them no time to do more than take the most hurried glance at the Exposition after travelling hundreds of miles to view it. Why could not the Rail roads let visitois stay at the Exposition as long as they might desire to stay? To the unsophisticated this limiting of the time seems very unreasonable, to say the least. I cannot perceive how it would militate against the interests of the Railroads to al low people to go and stay even until the close of the Exposition, if they saw lit. The various steamship lines sell excursion tickets to the North from Savannah every summer at one fare for the round trip, good to return from July 1 to October 1. Why could not the railroads as | easily, and without detriment to their inter ests, make their cheap rates —one cent a mile—over the entire time of the Exposi tion, instead of limiting to two days and ten days? I think the increase in travel to the Exposition, which such a course would induce, could not fail to pay the railroads, and it would certainly redound far more to the success of the Exposition were people not hurried away from it, but allowed rea sonable leisure, at least, in which to see it. The railroads ought to be as much inter e ttd in the tu ce sos the Expositi n as any one else, if not more so; for the prospective, as well as the present benefits that they are to derive from its success are too apparent to be dilated upon. Hence the short sighted policy so far pursued by them cannot too soon be abandoned. A Looker On Here in Venice. —The special train bearing the New Hampshire party of one hundred, en route to New Orleans, among whom are many of the most noted gentlemen cf the State, in cluding the Governor and other officials, will arrive here at 4 o’clock on th<- Charles- I ton and Savannsh Railway. They will drive over the city in twenty-five carriages, after which they will leave st 6:55 p. m. for Jacksonville. 1 inen collars, lateit styles, stan Ing and * arn-down’ teduced rota 15 to 10 cents ,at L, Fried's.