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wl'iiii" r 12 tiic West had
.j,iuio lings, against 9lXt
li'iimulie'utmost capacity
iti, in in consume groin in
food is eiglit to ten bushels
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t to eighteen bushels per
■"in excess of supply which
. uukif agriculture unproht
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,„iii of liis own life
f of the artificial
rounds a led!’ drowned
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.,-s:on of the North
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■ .1 Friday.
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fatherless, and more
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VOLUME XXVIIL
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ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING JANUARY' 14-1874; ^
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.. J. !j 20
MU no nviiuqu
"I Ji
r.'caut
euig is said to have sent
..in llurope to send
saints over thirty years
.-raving a rich country,
f.mines there now-a-
r.-nk- ago the personalty
. : l.a'.it who had recently
:..i 1 r;-!i estates of Lord
i yrarv. for b'llill.fKK), was
• r v.;i>mk*i. ;U1 ,] „ovv that of
: .adiah r. has been swon
i-iit of tin- St. Louis
'.!|"ii; Mrs. Krv. at her
N' w 1 M lcaiw. a few days
arpi.'i- of consulting her
’-:•«> regarding the .St.
The widow of the
m a in half of an un-
■ s.ngle story frame cottage,
■ ■■ a little garden, oppo-
pahlic markets, in a
I'.vi part of the city.
!i the correspondent
■ I'l.iiiil.v but neatly
die matted lloor was
i ivi-r tin- chininev
r y * vi' client portrait of
■ id 1 liy l.illiclitlial, of
d a ''inn|>:mioii picture
'■■da. the Cuban leader.
■ red with marked eino-
e of what the citzens
11' 1 ' doing, and in reply
hr only In rself to think
a-k nothing blit to lie
■ di her grief, but for her
'•■■■ -he would gratefully
.nliet proposed; and in
'■'" .bdt she was only acting
a- wild would have wished
1 aptain Fry leaves seven
■ oldest, an accomplished
• ■ girl, just verging upon
proposes to take a position
■■’ae public schools, so as
. ■'ine degree, the burden
a her bereaved mother.
''' i: >■-' a lady of culture
and is in delicate health.
.' -apathy has been mani-
bn-m by the people of
O Ailol.lTloN OK Fka.NK-
"' :: ye I b partment is now
’ r,: g a statement to be
' •'euate showing the
department since the
1 Hanking privilege.
■ ran in sending in this
■■ ,.iKe the occasion to
against this pro-
tile iranking privil-
■y a tair judgment of
j, t'.v the exclusion of
■'•be mails cannot vet be
' the end of the" local
■ . railroads carried the
; “ lr F'"ig a suited gross
'■■■■er or per year. Ity
' '""’ti. fixing anew the
,:";y u "= the mail, it was
d ay' •tbiountof pavinent
i. li; - weight of the
'im'^VL'iencral says
- I nvile.g,. was again
,';;y 11 a Iiiudilicd form,
I , .' i '‘ U " r . -'dug through
1 '' " nave to be paid
' ■■ I'btU.d.
HUMORS OF CABINET CHANGES.
The Cincincinnati Commercial . of
Monday, the iilfth ult., prints tlie fol
lowing in its Washington telegram ;
The rumors which have prevailed
for the last forty-eight hours, with re
gard to contemplated Cabinet changes,
by which Richardson and Delano
would exchange places, are believed to
have their origin in the faet that Dela
no is and has been very anxious to be
come Secretary of the Treasury, and
that Richardson is disposed to assent
to the arrangement, as something bet
ter than a dismissal from the Cabinet
altogether.
An understanding of this sort is said
to exist between the two for this, who
are only checked in their pleasing task
of fixing things to suit themselves by
the circumstance that the President is
not disposed to consent to it. General
Grant is supposed to have acquired
views on several subjects since he first
became President, tire finance among
others, and does not desire as Secretary
of the Treasury one who also has views
which might occasionally conflict with
those of his Excellency.
Delano, unfortunately for his aspira
tions, has financial views, and would
be pretty sure to stand up for them,
even against those of his superior offi
cer. He is a second cousin, or some
thing of the sort; and everybody
knows how disagreeable are family
quarrels, such as might arise between
him artd the President.
Richardson is said to have made his
recommendation for increased taxation
in obedience to the President’s instruc
tions. This may be correct. At all
events, the President is understood to
be not in favor of the change. That
part of the rumor which indicates the
recall of Schenck appears to have no
foundation whatever.
The Chief Justi^eshii-.—The New
York Times thinks that, in spite of his
unpopularity, Williams will, in the end,
be confirmed as Chief .1 usticc. The well
informed Washington correspondent
of the New York Journal of Co amerce
ye:
“ There is a decided and very bitter
opposition to the confirmation of At
torney-General Williams as Chief Jus
tice. A member of the judiciary com
mittee says the object of adjournment
Friday week was to defeat the confirm
ation by giving an opportunity to Ore
gonians and others to present new evi
dences against him.
“ J t lias been conceded on all hands
that delay injures his chances. Rut in
the meantime the President appears to
have taken up the cudgel, and make a
personal matter of it. lie appears to
ie as pertinacious for Mr. Williams’
confirmation as lie was about San Do
mingo annexation, and since many
Senators will he able to regard it as
simply a personal matter, the probabil
ities seem largely in favor of Mr. Wil
liams’ confirmation. The President
has maintained all along a belief that
he will bo confirmed.”
THE VILLE LU H AVRE.
PLUNDERING THE PEOPLE.
Washington, Dec. 26.—In 1863-4, the
Treasury Department was required to
transact a great deal more business than
it is now. We were then at the fever
heat of a great civil war, and every de
partment of the government required
more clerical labor than at any time
since. In the very nature of things 'the
contingent expenses of the Treasury De
partment should have been greater then
than now, for the purchasing power of
our currency has increased more than
one and a half times; but the appro
priations for the contingent fund of that
department for 1863-4 was only 894,-
000, while for the present fiscal year
8227.500 was appropriated.
The Sun has heretofore shown the
criminal manner in which a large por
tion of this quarter of a million is dis
bursed. Nearly 812,000 is used to pro
vide favored officials with horses and
Carriages, and 818,000 for gas, which in
cludes the gas bills of nearly all the
bureau offices, chief clerks and the Sec-
TeSaryV pets. The Sun has also shown
hbw a laundry is run in the Treasury
building at a cost of $5000 a year, os
tensibly to wash towels, and a cabinet
shop-is run at an annual cost for labor
alor.e of S16,000, to make furniture for
(he department.
In looking over the report of the
Superintendent of the Treasury build
ing for 1S73. I noticed the following
items of expense which the Grangers
will take a deep interest in:
December, 1871—Hyacinths 836 44
December 16—Plants - 13 40
April 12, 1S72—Flower Pots— 10 00
May 11—Plants and seeds 49.00
June 27—Plants 60 00
June 29—House for Garden .-1.695 00
.1 une 29—Hot Bed Pits .957 00
J une 29—Tables in hot bed pit 2QS 00
The latest theory offered in regard to
the loss of this vessel, is that of the
captain of the steamship Java, who
claims tiiat the officers of the ill-fated
Yillcdu Havre were deceived by mirage,
quite common at sea:
The idea is that the supposed appari-
tional place of the sailing vessel Loch
Earn, (resulting from observations j are respectively SI,511 10, 81 656 and
Total $3,02S 90
The government is quite lavish in its
expenditures for hqt houses, conserva
tories, etc., outsid the Treasury Depart
ment. A botanical garden, a horticul
tural garden, and a number of conser
vatories for flowers are maintained at
great expense to delight sight-seers and
provide Baembers of Congres and heads
of departments with nose-gays and
boquets. Rut the Treasury Department
must have an establishment of its own,
and here we find thirty-six dollars in-
- Jested in hyacinths in December, and
<n April ten dollars for flower pots. If
our legislators are in' earnest'in their
demands for a- reduction of the Treas
ury Department estimates, they will
see to it that all these useless and ex
pensive luxuries, which have within a
few years grown to large proportions,
are lopped off. The lopping off must
not be confined to the departments.
There is work of the same kind to be
done at the Capitol.
Mr. Dawes, in his speech on Mr.
Richardsons’s proposed incrcse of taxes,
fiercely denounced extravagance in
every department of the government.
In this he was right, and did not say
one word too much, but there are a
great many leaks in the capitol which
Mr. Dawes might stop if he would ad
dress himself to the task. Let him
lead off on the House side for a reduc
tion the of salaries to employees. He can
commence with liis own committee, the
Wax’s and Means. His clerk receives
$2,9S0 80 per annum for about five
months services. A messenger to the
same committee receives 81,511 10.
The pay of messengers to the Commit
tee on Appropriations, to the Sergeant-at-
arms, and to the Clerk of the House
made from a different part of the Ville
du Havre, from that which would have
shown the true position of the forme:)
led to the fatal belief that the distance
between the two was greater than it
really was, and so produced the col
lision.
The conclusion is therefore arrived
at. that for the avoidance of similar col
lisions in future,observations,especially
when the atmosphere is unusually
loaded with the watery vapor which
brings fortli those reflected images—■
ought to be made from two different
points, and these as wide apart as pos
sible.
till-
-I,t
■■- tin
‘ ■• i:. I If;.
orenien are
cers. There
among the
in conse-
■ enibarrass-
. ""''I- Thu public
, j measure, used to
., ’ ’be Striker" march
j’ ,, l , ;i:ng at each wharf
; aM, l where per-
"■ : aro made to com-
V 1 M'i’in, time simply
,c, ril . | bans. and the
' "'th them accord-
s:„i ,
'i' 1 ," 1 ,of all the New
■"Mbtii,,;: 1 ^; 11 l,e of
.?• AI <0Ve'tl, . "J U 1 W »I a
"■ of ];,[],■ lu »t story the
’‘"lines. 'Tick, with
b'litcd “I," 'Geran Tr
biailti, v, b l,i tos, having
i ’ Usu "l, an,l e u, hal > ,las gone
ilba ndon his
Gex. BrecKKXRIDGE.—The Courier-
Journal says that the Philadelphia Press
is mistaken in its prognostication touch
ing John C. Rrcckcnridgc. Nothing is
less likely than that he would accept a
seat in {lie lower house of Congress,
and there is no election for the upper
house in Kentucky between this and
the time specified for the re-entrance of
the ex-Yicc President into national af
fairs. The fact is, that P.rccken-
ridge is averse to polities and devoted
to railroading. He neither meditates
going to New York nor to Congress.
He is doing very well where he is.
Colonel Forney’s civilities however, are
pleasant, as they are characteristic.
Whatever they may say of the Phila
delphia journalist, they cannot say he
is not a gallant and generous friend.
As retrenchment is fashionable among
the government officials at the capital
just at the present time, one of the sec
retaries gave orders not to have the
usual number of visiting cards printed
for New Year’s and charged to the
stationery account. He then told
his chief clerk to have six packs of
blank vi siting cards purchased and to
have a clerk, who writes a handsome
hand, write on each, “The Secretary of,”
with the remainder of liis official title.
At this rate our national debt will soon
become a thing of the past.
The leading Radical newspaper of
Oregon mildly alludes to that eminent
Republican statesman, Senator Hipple-
Mitchell, as "a man whose history is
summed up in the few words, seducer,
wife-heater deserter of wife and chil
dren, embezzler of moneys collected for
his clients, keeper of a mistress whom
he passes off in society as liis wife,
bigamist for over seven years, and
United States Senator under a false
The moderate Republicans and Liber
als at Washington openly declare them
selves in favor of a new election in Lou
isiana as the only solution of the unfor
tunate situation of aftairs in that State.
Among the outspoken in this direction
are Edmunds, Sumner, Carpenter, Ferry
of Connecticut, Schurz and Senator
Carpenter.
The Postmaster General has made ar
rangements for a fourth regular mail
from New York to Europe each week,
the new or additional mail day being
Tuesday.
82,500.
In addition to these there are eigh
teen messengers not specially assigned,
each of whom receives for five months’
services 84,656. There are five others
who receive S2,U00 each for like services.
There are men and boys in positions
that require only ordinary intelli
gence and no education, receiving
ing higher salaries than are to second
and third class clerks in any of the de
partment. The post office of the House
in provided with four messengers who
receive 8,987 20 each, four mail car
riers who receive a like amount, and
seven others who are paid Sl,240 each.
On the Senate side there is the same
shameless extravagance. Three mes
sengers are paid 82,070 each and twen
ty 81,656 each. The clerk of Printing
Record and the clerks of the Commit
tees on Finance, Claims, and Appropri
ations each receive 82,553 per annum,
and don’t perform three months’ actual
hard work. The truth of the matter is
that from Senators and Representatives
down to clerks and messengers there
lias for years been a desperate struggle
to grab "the people’s money. Because
forty millions of people pay the bills
they think the burden falls very light
ly on individuals, and therefore there
should be no grumbling.
To illustrate the difference between
private and public salaries I need not
go outside the Capitol. On the House
side Geo. T. Downing keeps arcstuarant
lie employs during the session of Con
gress twelve or fifteen colored men for
waiters, paying them S20 per month.
There are quite a number in the em
ploy of the House as messengers and
laborers. They are on duty about six
hours a day during five months, and
during the remaining seven month they
have nothing to do, and yet they are
paid from $800 to S2,000 per annum.
The Quaking Among tbe Officials.
[Frum the Springfield Republican.]
Washington, Sunday evening, Dec.
28.—The combat deepens over the pri
vate carriage and servants. One cabi
net officer is reported to have sold out
his establishment and returned the
original amount to the contingent fund.
Not only are the department officers
provoked and indignant at the imper
tinence of the Senate judiciary com
mittee, but they are incensed at the
attempt of Williams’ friends to defend
him by saying that everybody else
about the departments were driving
themselves and families in similar
stolen teams. . ,
Before this subject is disposed of, the
chances are that half the officials of
high rank in this city will be by the
cars. The last discovery of an extra
fine carriage and span is that of 4he- :
chief clerk of the Agricultural Depart
ment, Frederick Watts, Jr., who comes
over to the city regularly to his meals,
and his driver sits in state outside and
waits for him. Senators and members
here say the matter has become such a
scandal that it must be investigated at
the meeting of Congress.
The book of estimate contains an
item of 87500 for forage for the marine
corps. This is inserted under the naval
establishment It has been ascertained
that although the Comptroller of the
Treasury construes the present law as
prohibiting military officers from draw
ing commutation of quarters, all of the
principal officers here own houses, such
as Generals Sherman, Meigs, and oth
ers, and receive commutation under
the pretext that the War Department
rents rooms for them. The money is
obtained by these officers turning these
houses over to agents, generally mem
bers of their families, who, in turn
rent them to the Government for aa
amount equal to the commutation paiff
for rooms due to tbe rank of each
officer.
general notes.
It is estimated there are nearly 7,000
indignent Italian children farmed out
annually by The padroni of New York,
to be made beggars of. They are com
pelled to earn at least eight cents a Bay,
or be beaten unmercifully and depriv
ed of their usual scanty allowances.
Mrs. Marshal Bazainc is a beautiful
Mexican woman, only 28 years of age,
and with bright intelligent features.
She is said to favor Adelina Patti, and
to love her husband devotedly. They
have two. children, a'boy and a girl,
the first five years old. No wonder the
the old man became'so excited when
hi3 sentence' Wjis announced.
The World thinks this gives a fair
idea of odium which attaches to the
Freedmea’s Bureau management under
the administration of General Howard.
An ex-officer in the Southern Confeder
acy is even in Republican Con
gressional circles treated with respect;
hut to have been connected with the
Freedmen’s Bureau is such a disgrace
that even a member of Congress is
ashamed of it. .
The fight for United States Senator in
Kansas, to fill the vacancy caused by
Caldwell’s lapse from grace, is growing
quite lively. The election will take
place on the 2Sth of January, and there
arc already about twenty candidates,
which goes to show that the position
is still held in high estimation. It is
not improbable that the Grangers and
other farmer's associations, who are in
the ascendancy in Kansas, will choose
a Democrat to succeed Caldwell.
The total liabilities of Jay Cooke it
Co., amount to $9,S4S,250, and it takes
thirteen columns of the New York
Herald to publish the names of their
children.
Yirginia is making great efforts to se
cure English immigration, and it is
said ten thousand laboring families
will leave that island for the Old Do-
minon in die spring.
President Orton, of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, is con
vinced that the sentiment of Congress
is averse to the postal telegraph scheme.
Obstreperous Indians at Laramie are
are made to saw wood for the Govern
ment, and they had rather take six
months in jail than to tackle a cord of
wet pine.
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange
gives 3.5S2JXX) bales as their estimate
of the cotton crop of 1873—’74. The
Agricultural Bureau at Washington es
timates it 3,700,000 bales.
The Internal Revenue and the
Panic.—The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue makes a statement, in which
he estimates the falling off in the re
ceipts of liis Bureau for the months of
October and November at about $4,000,-
000; that is, less by that amount than
they would have been except for the
panic. The receipts for the first sixteen
days of the current month were
$4,141,9SS, against $3,893,420 for the
corresponding period in the last fiscal
year. Should the receipts for the re
mainder of this month bear the propor
tion to tlie receipts for the first sixteen
days, as did the receipts from December
17, to December 31,1872, to the recu]its
for the first sixteen days of that month,
the entire receipts for the current
month would be 87,020,300. This
would seem to show that the worst of
the financial troubles are over, so far as
it affects internal revenue, and that soon
receipts will reach their former average.
Had there been no disturbace in mone
tary affairs there is little doubt that tlie
aggregate receips for tlie current fiscal
year would have reached 8105,000,000.
AL^fejuik/iPTHtWft; ’ { -
iK: . il fl- 'iiru.iii. i:/t huh
About fifty ! white .emigrants, frdpj
Talladega county, passed through Sel
ma, last weekfen route for Texasl "7
The wherabouts of Mr. Brtjwn, com
missioner of Industrial Itesources, is
painfully agitating the public iriind at
this particular time.
Auditor Smith has issued a circular
to the sheriffs'of the State, notifying
them that from and after December 18,
they will onlytie allowed forty cents a
day each for Heeding prisoners, and
that for persons confined on charge of
misdemeanors no allowance whatever
will be made.; 1
The Rev. Mr. Bogean, a Converted
Karenc from Eastern Asia, will lecture
in Florence next week, the proceeds
to be divided between Mr. Bogean and
the Baptist Church at Decatur. His
lecture will consist of a description of
the domestic, life and worship of his
people.
The Montgomery Advertiser, of the
26th ult., says that a person named
Jacob Friedman, of Midway, attempt
ed to commit Vuicide last Friday night,
by cutting Sis throat with a razor. He
cut his windpipe, but not so severely
as to prevent his recovery should noth
ing further happen.
The Eufaula Kars thus alludes to
tiie strange antics of E. M. Keils, judge
of the city court of Eufaula; when a
son in-law is mixed up iu the matter:
After opening court on Thursdiyr, Judge.
Keils enquired of the sheriff why .^e
had telegraphed to the sheriff of Mont
gomery to afrest Mr.' M. ‘McNair (the
Judge's son-in-law). The sheriff replied
because he had a writ for his arrest,
based upon Stn indictment made by the
grand jury.; The Judge-thenasked if
the sheri ft' did not know that he (Judge
K.) had taken the recognizance -of
McNair foriis appearances The she riff
answered that he did not. Tiie Judge
said that it was the sheriff’s businessto
know; awl he thereupon .piade’an
order suspending, the sheriff* ftfld an
other appointing a negro- , bailiff as
sheriff. Not content with, this,’ tiiel
Judge quashed the venire/<)£••
made up sheriff, and." Olucrcm
the appoipttu sheriff to7 make” new
ones. The first panel made out'hy the
new sherhfl’.ivas also quashed, because
some of toe jurors selected had signi
fied their'willingness to'receive, and
circulate .the Eagle and Phoenix" cer
tificates. Finally the negro sheriff
made up panels composed of 22 negroes
and 2 whites, which His Honor accepted.
The Xcmf says that one of them is
cliarged with larceny, another burglary
and a third "with horse stealing. The
next step of the Judge was to direct
the dismissal Of several cases carried
up by certiorari from the mayor’s court
—all against negroes. The City attorney
objected, but the Judge said he was
determined to put the cases out of
court, and entered upon his docket in
each case, “jury, and verdict of hot
guilty.”
LOS;: OF THE VIRGINIUS.
CESERALKOTES.
Samuel P.'B. Morse will.shortly
published by B. Afipleiotr it ‘Co. '
'.Generals. B. Maxey is referred ferfts
Senator Flanagan’s; successor inthe
United States Senate from Texas.- - ;j i,
Samuel Hooper, member of Congress
from the Fourth-Massachusetts .district,
does not intend to resign. fz-futij
The cheapest newspaper in the world
is the London Daily Sun, which is sold
at the rate of six copies fpr- a penny,
yet its circulation is only 40,000. -
A travelling showman in; England
has recovered £10 and costs from a rail-
way.company lor neglecting to forwaird
a carload of his “properties” on time,
thereby preventing a performance.,
A banquet has Men given at Bologna
to M. Gobatti, the author of the opera
of “Goti.” The composer, who is r only
23, is a native of that city, and only
finished' his studies at the Academy of
Music there a year ago.
Sir Samuel BdkerV address to- the'
Geographical Society on his adventures
in Central Africa is said by the Satur-
day Heuiew to have been quite as good
as Robinson Crusoe, and it will whet
die appetite of‘the public for his fori 1
■Otefie boOk. jU '" ismlom* h
Hans Cffiristain Andersen, rie 'heafv
has a couple of comedies in :the press,
which i are . to be published soon.:
„ to a statement iu
—Magazine. that he
has the neeassary material for iaaHt/g
'a-good-dramatiBfe•( his . .« fa
It appears from a recent Parliament
ary return that the only countries which
impose a duty on books imported ijjto
{them are Spain.' Switzerland, Turkey
So the Money Goes.—A Washington
special to the Baltimore Sun says:
“ The Secretary of the Interior will
send in a letter to Congress next month
asking an appropriation of one mil
lion dollars, more or less, to supply de
ficiencies in tbe Indian service for tiie
last fiscal vea”. Both Congress and the
people will be apt to look upon this as
rather a singular response to the cry for
retrenchment, particularly as in the de
ficiency bill of Marcli 3, 1S73, there
were inserted items to the amount $1,-
277,000 for deficiencies in the Indain
service for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1S73. In addition to this it is un
derstood that an appropriation of an
other million will he asked to supply
deficiencies for the present year. It has
been noticed here that since tlie hu
mane policy toward the Indians lias
prevailed the expenses have run up
frightfully.”
The truth is, the government in its
distribution of spoils is paying more
money to white Indians than to red
ones.
A Definition of an Editor.—We
have seen many definitions of many
names, words and phrases, but tlie fol
lowing of an editor, given by Josh Bil
lings, is about the best yet we ever en
countered :
An editor is a male being whoze buz-
incss iz to navigate a nuze paper. He
writes editorials, grinds out poetry, in
serts deths and weddings, sorts out
manuskripts, keeps a waste basket,
blows up tlie “devil,” steals matter,
fites peoples battles, sells hiz paper for
a dollar and 50 cents a year, takes
white beans and apple sass for pay
when he can git it, razes a large family,
works every 19 hours out or 24; knows
no Sunday, gits damned by everybody,
and once in a while wbipt by some
body, lives poor, dies middle aged, and
often broken hearted, leaves no money,
iz rewarded for a life ov toil with "a
short but free obituary puff in the nuze
papers.
Forney on Breckinridge. — Col.
Fomey predicts in the Sunday Chronicle
that before the holidays of 1875, Jno. C.
Breckinridge will be back in Congress,
and also spenks a plensant word for that
Kentuckian.
A Washington special saye :- The
total loss of the Virginius, though not
wholly unanticipated here, after the
knowledge of her unseaworthy condi
tion and the advices of the Juniata of
the terrible storm off tlie North Caroli
na coast, is received in various ways.
In some quarters there is a feeling of
relief and gratulation at' the possible
end of further complications arising
out of the status of the vessel, though
the department of justice is very de
sirous that the question of ownership
should be settled in the United States
District Court at New York, especially
since the publication of Mr. Patterson’s
letter refuting the facts alleged in the
Attorney General's opinion. The Gov
ernment, however, will do nothing si
it as Mr. Patterson is concerned. Thi
charge of peijury made against him is
barred by the statute of limitation, and
the disputed fact could only be settled
by a trial for the forfeiture of the ves-
el under the registry law.
Whether the Yirginius will be raised
or claimed even as propertj’ in her
present exposed condition,,arc also
questions that are discussed here, but
not decided. The President, it is un
derstood, w ill Monday or Tuesday next
send a special message to Congress,
transmitting all the official correspon
dence covering fully tlie negotiations
regarding the vessel since her capture
by tlie Spanish man-of-war Tornado.
These official details may present the
various questions which have arisen
regarding the course of this govern
ment and that of Spain in a some
what different phrase, and it is, there
fore, probable that no further step will
he taken by the authorities here till
this correspondence is submitted.
Nutting Bonds all Sold.—From
the State Treasurer, Colonel Jones, we
learn that the entire issue of the twelve
hundred thousand eight per cent, bonds
of the State known as the Nutting bonds
have been sold and exchanged. Some
half a million have gone North- The
rest have been sold and exchanged in
Georgia.
Col. Jones says he could dispose of
more of them if he had them.
The fact is a very gratifying one for
Georgians. The bonds have all sold or
been disposed of at par. The achievement
of their sale is one of which Col Joues has
reason to be proud.—Atlanta Constitution.
and the United 1 States. It 1 must.'Be'
admitted.-that the! model Republic'-is
in, rather poqr ebmpudy in. ata taxes
In tKe Marylan d Legislature the
important business' tome corisidert-
the election of a successor to -Uni
States Senator William'T- Hamilton,
whqse ,ter«L, does
March, .ISfp. As the. sjpiqns ^qf the
Legislature are only 'biennial'the nee-'
essity arises for the election this j'4af. 1
Premier Gladstone has, it is said,
cautibned’M. Arch to ’ beware foPIMidg
‘again such threatening language as ut
tered lately at Bradford, Ehglitiid,
where heiShid that if^ Parliament were
not' careful of the term’ -laborers, i hq
would lead 500,000 of them, even to.
the gates'of SL Stephen. ” , *
A meeting was held in Philadelphia
on Wednesday evening for the : purpose
of fotmingm. new political organization,
“te.pcttogether under thepewqoqstitu-
tion for the election of good rqen for,
councils antf the other ward offices.” .If
is ittf be colled the “constitutional citi
zen’s partyi”
The Pope’s encyclical was read in all
tlie Roman Catholic Churches of Lon
don, on a recent Sunday, and by de
sire of Archbishop Manning, the “ faith
ful” were at the same time formally
warned that those who dispute or deny
the definition of the infallibility of
the Roman Pontiff or impugn the de
crees and dogmatical constitutions of
the late Vatican Council incur the pen
alties attaching to the sin of heresy,
and are in danger of being excommu
nicated.
The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial states that Judge
Busteed, of Alabama, who stands in
great danger of being investigated with
a view to impeachment, has chosen
that better course which was adopted
by Sherman and Delahay, and will at
once resign his position and retire to the
pleasure of dignified private life, with
none to molest and make him afraid.
The Bankrupt Law.—Opinions are
about equally, divided among merchants
as to the benefits or injuries of the bank
rupt law. The chief, and almost univer
sal, complaint about it seems to be in
reference to, the fees of the legal frater
nity.
tion to inviting tho Grand.
Lodge ofsthe world .to send* represent
tatives to form a Congress to meet at
;the geat Gentenial Exhibition: on the
i4fh day of July,. 1876, ter fhe.purpose
’of revisions of the work of the Order.
The LondomShfawfay Hetieu. doea'nat
apprehend that any of Mr. Whittier’s
poems will survive the memory of
those who are now living. It says
that Whittier has a great fluency in
writing verses which are the triumph
of respectable and successful mediocri
ty. It rates the Quaker bard as far in
terior to Lowell, and says there is more
poetry in any three lines of Mr. Brown
ing than in any 300 pages of Mr.
Whittier.
The London Spectator, in a carefully
considerd article on the freedom and
restriction of the press, says: the thunder
of the English press continued for years
did not shake Lord Palmerston’s pop
ularity or prevent his becoming, by
consent of both parties, a Parliament
dictator and the attacks of the Ameri
can press on General Grant—attacks
quite unprecedented, even in American
journalism—did not prevent his election
for a second term, and will not prevent
liis election for a third.
£ of PUBLlC DEttT STATEMENT. Keif
Juoilflw town -I "j.f fecai tcdl' ••
a»jBb »ji
is £be Terajpitulation of the public d _.
statement wdir'ihe month ending DeA
31, as compared with the previous
month: (lliiaStili isdfuii ifz.vif. o*
<>.* Ge REARING INTEREST IN COtN. •'
ToUicoin bonS«...*l,7iO f M1.55l» $1,725,206,950
BEARING INTEREST'D.- tAWFUL MONEY.
Jt $14,673,000 $11,673,000
MATURED DEBT.
frineipjl $20,916,670 $11,170,830
BEARING NO, INTEREST.
Prracip*!'..
Legal tender notes.....$3*7,001,6S5
Cert if'a of deposit..^ 20,150,0(10
Fractional carrencj... 4S.041.S49
Coin certificates .....
30,220,000
$378,431,339
30,720,009
40,554,79*
37,543,300-
Total bearing no inL$4«5,413,435 $*01*289,431
I »Ji . TOTAL DEBT. i-
xincipal MM , $2^ 17,679,755 $2,249,245,262
ateresr due 38,334,725 42,547,025
week. .ii ’K/diruif
The House then resumed the con-
sideration of tbe suppk-mcntnqyj'cTvil
rights -bilk Ayae, of Maine,! s
' .ctogq oU wafaM _
IBi
to> the.great majority of thfc Hvi—npmfl
country that he would.not occupyjho
time of the House. butw< ? i}^yie|d 1 thg
floor.to Mr. Hams of Virginia.
Hhi-ris, of titWnia, 1 addressed" ttli;
House in opposition te”tfaei’ l bHl>>teMP
tending that Congress had ne-rightiti)
interfere with the internal, lepisletfon
of the States, and that the, oilLwoj4|d
break up' the.pubfic 'school system.-’,'aHij
th6 lunatic asylums, and' nttidr ehirrf-
table institutions-’Of the Seutt*l> He
appealed to the House whether an jtouo
would contend that the negro, was 44-. e
equal of the white .man. ,
Lynch, a colored member of Missis
sippi, rose in response to’the'challenge,
bnt Harris, amid great laughter, de
clined to yield to him, Saying that he
was addressing, himself to white men,
and did not propose to let a negro in
terfere.
Stephens, of Georgia,-next rose to
address the House, bnt said that lie
could not say all he had to say .iu
thirty minutes, and asked to,have an
hour allowed him.
E. R. Hoar objected, but subsequently
Total duo......... ..$2,266,018,181 $2,291,702,287
cash in the treasury. i offered to withdraw tlie objection'’in
case the same privilege was granted-.to
Elliott, of South Carolina, colored- -
Walls, of Florida, colored, renewed
•jBHs' J.ifi—-;rtw~8tO*4*M*7} i $i3$id7kMi the objection, but he too withdrew it.
.oil
i t. i-.
Ml? L1I
Steiji*
aw
July 1, 1864...
I Stephens theii took ttfrptiffifiofFm’
the backqiart Of the ball on the Dent-
ora tic side; and begantd read a. .speech
against the bill remarking that in view
|o7rt£* ‘j£BpOTtence t pf. the, adjja54.jp
had r(iluc'^d .his,views to wruingl' He
wab not'oirposed'td' the bill because of
any opposition. He had to do full and
ample:justice to esOiy- human being
210*9J .'kgiiifltete. jurisdiction .of
Federal legislative power.....The chief
end of all governments, whether 'Stete
I ortFdderaL'SbOtild b8 the prOteOfiOn of
tigbfrl to the- WB
-Vf Vam/miiliTi,
lEcrulIc in Noieaib«r.e -u. . 0,023.576
-Annual htowcriWu
•TW’feUoWidg is a ; oUMfiott^ffe
outstanding-,principal -of tbei.natimial
dpbt.at i thu ckjee, of each finapeiahvegr
‘ .no i.:l Hid : Ji V.
Jdlj 1, 1857. ,28.69fi3I S5
«,»H,S81'.»
rtr.-rTT-zv-nl-
1,815, IWWJSifc
MR: mmsstsmsltm-..
fcW*r=rr±S:ta»SS
July-1, I860 nJ 688^52,212 » 1
July 1, 1370
|j3> 1..1S7T
July 1,18722.
j July I, 1872...
The above figures
irincipaf, without rej
ue and unpaid dr-S
the treasury ’at the dates named, all of
which -are noted, in the monthly state-
ijit;iits.., By adding, interest due iuid
unpaid, and interest aicrued,ahd de
ducting eOsh in the treasury for the
jaSt ’two’ fiscal years, we have the (bl
owing result:
BaTce.of ubliguiqni July l, •72424»l,6|^42? 02
Ba.’ce of obligation. July 1,.’73. ( 5,147,818,713 57
Kyt reduction duringfi>cal
li. 2.252,251.SJS 78
„ 2,231.482,993 26
elude only, the
a To'tire interest
led; or cash in
yror...,. :.L $13,067,820 05
‘“BONDS ISSUED TO PACIFIC RAILROADS.
A ^ent te do foot among Ae
4 1VIL RIGHTS IN VIRGINIA.
Richmond, January 5.—Both Houses
of the General Assembly to-day adopted
a series of resolutions that there is no pur
pose upou their part or upon the part of
the people they represent to chreish cap
tious hostility to the Federal Administra
tion, and reaffirming that portion of the
Conservative platform that they judge it
impartially by its official act, etc; that the
Legislature recognizes the Fourteenth
Amendment of the Federal Constitution
as a part of that instrument, and desire
in good faith to abide by its provisions as
exjioundcd by the Supreme Court of the
United States, and the amendment thus
construed is the supreme law of the land,
and should be obeyed and respected by
all tlie co-ordinate departments of the
government; that the bill now before
Congress known as the civil rights bill is
in violation of this amendment as inter
preted by the Supreme Court, is an in
fringement on the constitutional and
legislative powers of the States, is section
al in its operation and injurious alike to
the white and colored population of tlie
Southern States, and that its enforced ap
plication in these States will prove des
tructive of their systems of education,
arrest the enlightenment of the colored
population in whose improvement the
people of Virginia feel a lively interest,
produce continued irritation between the
races, counteract the pacification and
development now happily progressing,
repel immigration, reopen wounds now
almost healed, engender new political
asperities, and paralyze tbe power and
influence of the State Government con
trolling and promoting domesic interests,
and preserving internal harmony, that
the people of Virghdu and its Legislature
earnestly protest against this bill, and in
struct their Senators, and request their
Representatives in Congress firmly but
respectfully to oppose its passage, not only
for tlie reasons expressed, but as a meas
ure which is calculated to arrest the
growing sentiment of concern and har
mony between the Northern and South
ern States.
Bad Way to Begin the New Year.
■At the municipal election in Mem
phis, on the 1st inst, the entire Repub
lican ticket was elected. A dispatch
says: v
The majority of John Logue for
mayor is about 8000, while the majori
ties for Fred Scliapen for tax collector,
and Ed Shaw, colored, for wharf mas
ter, are much larger. The vote polled
wa3 very light. In many wards not
more than half of theVhitcs registered
their names.”
Poor Memphis!
To'uYtnterwt paid by the U. 8 ! 20,447,088
ftorut repaid bjtth. transportation
of auli, .0_ — 4.666,054
Interest paid by the U. S. and not y.t ’
repaid 6y.ibe.cpmpani«s. 15,781.931
WASjntfpfpr, jjtD. 3.—The payments
by warrants during
; .Were as follows:
of *itfr and miscellaneous - $6,217,654
War 4,663,£14
Navr - 4.133,055
Interior, Indians and pensions - - - 4,753.903
Total $19,76S,226
The above does not include payments
made on account of the interest or
principal of the public debt of the
United States.
GEORGIA NEWS.
The Savannah Kars says arrange
ments are being made to run through
sleeping cars from that city to Rich
mond, Virginia, over the Central, Wil
mington, Columbia and Augusta, Wil
mington and Weldon, and Richmond
and Weldon railroads. This virtually
gives passengers sleeping car accommo
dations from Jacksonvill, Florida, to
New York, with only two changes, one
at Savannah and one at Richmond.
The route is arranged under thedirection
of the Atlantic Coast Line.
Col. I. W. Avery’s name has disap
peared from the columns of the Atlanta
Constitution as its editor in chief. The
names of none of the editorial force ap
pear now.
The Brunswick Appeal thinks the Gov-
cuor’s salary ought to be raised to 810,■
001) [>er annum.
The Thomaston Herald is not in favor
of a convention.
A buggy which Bullock brought out
for his children, and which, owing to his
sudden departure, was never used, has
been bought by a Griffinite.
Colonel Wadley, of the Central rail-
roud, paid a flying visit to Griffin on
Saturday last.
The Georgia State ‘Lottery delivered
one hundred and seventy-eight thousand
dollars in cash prizes last year in Atlanta
alone. Their year’s business approxi
mated a quarter of a million.
Judge Adam R. Brown, of Americus,
is dead.
Savannah exported 5,699 hales of cot
ton on Saturday.
Col. G. T. Goode, of Americus, wants
a Convention held.
The Grand Jury of Quitman county
has made presentments against the Con
stitution.
A brother-in-Jaw shot another almost
fatally with the pistol in Sandersvillc.
Drunk.
Eldridge Jackson, colored, shot and
killed his wife at Cuthbcrt and is now in
jail.
Two or three hundred negroes have
left Houston county the past month for
Arkansas. Emigration agents arc thick.
Bishop Gross has divided Savannah
into districts and appointed Catholics in
each to collect funds for the cathedral.
The employees of the Georgia Rail
road met at Augusta and determined to
promote economy, and effect a certain per
cent, saving of their monthly wages.
Atlanta received last year in taxes,
including bonds issued, S49S,9-5’2 05,
and expended, including bonds sold,
8441,824 63. The police department
costs 829,019 02. At the station house
2256 cases were docketed, of which
1790 were tried and fined to the amount
of 814,17L
Dr. Fogle, of Columbus, died on
Tuesday last.
The tax Collector of Muscogee coun
ty has instructions from the Comp
troller General to effect, that the horses
and buggies of physicians and the li
braries of lawyers are liable for their
taxes. -* -*■ -•
Southwestern railroad stock, upon
which eight per cent, is guaranteed by
the Central, sold at twenty-five cents,
on the 6th, at Hamilton, Harris county,
, at the sale of the Hamilton estate by
; W. I. Hudson, administrator.
sprung from, bo
wa
udice against any
I4.wjtipn^heliflute
aerirhfidej’He gntertiftifeAn'trfofeWfigef
that kind and -VreB tMfrgoverntdia tedt
action, by'ajyr MflalMft o£ IhaLsdrt.
This-'opinum; c£-justice an^, its iprope*
administration was not foundedpnthat
dogma so'g^neraHy gnnounctS^Tftd’-lG
pernicious’ i»' its •pShciples, i ti»4$” ! if
should be fot the greatest good oi-t$4
greatest numbei7-bu*-orethe higher rule
that it-Should’be* ftfrt the- grttfest good
'of all, without detriment or injury to
any. White he*did net-hold tfte dBc-
trine of eqfiality ofi raoetfhe did main
tain tlre trutb, however -paradoxical , it
might appear that alf men wierecreatetl
equal. That great .trtityi'ltits .been'an-
noutfed first-Ity- it cfouticil'bF’StltlfS'oh
the'4th of i Jdly, 1778/ Whit was never
meant to eonvey- the ids*: that f alt men
callj’j mentaSy^ia'd inprafly^ityTas,
however, meant td assert the great Jaw
of nature that all men had Sirf equal
right to justice, to stand perfectly eqtlal
before’the law; In proof of his wjJliDga
ness to have all natural rights secured
to the colored men, he sent to . ‘the
Clerk’s desk and had read extracts firm*
addresses made by him to the people of
Georgia, but he was opposed to the
measure, or to any one kindred to it,
because of the want of the necessary
power on the part of Congress under
the Constitution. He assumed that
every member would admit the powers
of Congress were specified and limited
and that of the legislative powers which
Congress could rightfully exercise were
had by delegation from people of tire sev
eral States, and he contended that no
new power had been conferred on Con
gress by either the 14th or 15th amend
ments. The proper remedy was in the
judgement of the courts, to be rendered
m such way as Congress should pro
vide, declaring any State act in volation
of the rights of citizens to be null and
of no effect.
He opposed the bill further because
of its inexpediency. Even if the pow
er were unquestioned in Congress to
pass this law, he thought it would be
injudicious and unwise to exercise it.
It would he better to leave all such
matters to the States. He did not be
lieve in point of fact that the coiored
people of Georgia desired it; that their
religious and church organizations, ex
cept in the case of Catholics, were dis
tinct from those of the whites, and
they had their own schools—even a
college for colored youths. They did
not desire to have mixed schools.
Mr. Stephens occupied the floor for
an hour and a quarter, having had his
time extended twice. As usual,
however, in the case of written speech
es, its delivery did not command or re
ceive tlie attention of the House. The
peroration was in these words:
“ If you who call yourself Republi
cans sliall in obedience to what you
consider a party behest pass this bill
in vain exnectation that the Republican
principles of the old and true Jeffer-
sonain schools are dead, be assured that
you are indulging a fatal delusion. The
old Jeffersonian Democratic Republi
can principles are not dead and never
will die so long as a true devote of lib
erty lives. They may be buried for a
period as Magna Charta was trodden
under foot in England for more than
half a centuiv, but these principles
will come up with renewed energy as
did tiiose of Magna Charta, and tiiat
too at no distant day.
“Old Jeffersonian Democratic Re
publican principles are dead, indeed!
Alien the tides of the ocean cease to
ebb and flow, when the winds of heav
en are hushed into perpetual silence,
when the clouds no longer thunder,
when earth’s electric holts arc no longer
felt or heard, when her internal fires
go out, then and not before, will these
irineiples cease to live. Then and not
tefore, will these principles cease to
animate and move tlie libert3’ loving
masses of this country.”
Itansier, of South Carolina, a colored
member, followed in a written speech
in support of the bill, contending that
there was no freedom in the Southern
States for the colored people and would
not be as long as the matter was left to
the discretion of the several States.
Mills, of Texas, opyosed the bill os
an unauthorized and unconstitutional
assumption of power.
Elliott, of South Carolina, obtained
the floor hut ycilded to a motion to ad
journ.
The Speaker laid before the House a-
message from the President in reference
to the steamer Virginius. The message
was read and referred to the Committee
on Foreigh Affairs.
The House then at 4:40 adjourned.
A. M. Holbrook, one of the early!
proprietors of the New Orleans Pica^
yune, has resumed the management ofj
that paper, under its new arrangements.