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}hm! J vtr.V forcibly says
4 ve that the State elections
^mediately i,recede a Presideu-
1 • hire a malign and corrupt-
our politics. They
I 'Lrecated from every point
engulf all State ques-
maelstrom of federal poli-
-'.• (e t(V0 or three States a dis-
:: 7,j ,, off i;r in national affairs,
.rl Indiana should both go
•« or both go Democratic,
^tef will really choose the
T There is no fairness in
I.; ,u.h pcwir in two or three
■i>'veieht States, and enabling
decide' the Presidential elec-
whole Union. We are con-
t hi s unfair advantage can
" : ,Z duration. We are en-
Of believe tint it approaches
’Vi,vine fact that so much
’ ” =Wn made sines the last
’’h election. Pennsylvania
V'voluntary surrender of her
■ bv a constitutional amend-
;',|>nng her election from Oc-
!Uv:ni>er. Since 1872 North
Connecticut and Nebraska
. usi-mled their constitutions
*-ir State elections on the
'when all the Presidential
V required to be chosen.—
. attempted the same reform
V 0 (jed constitution which was
;o the vote of her people in
•it. That constitution but
rrutelv local reasons, was
i similar attempt is made
acre the day of her State
U'e trust and expect that be-
'residential election of 1S80
will choose their mem-
rvress and State officers on
jv.and that nomember of the
r _ have any advantage over its
•iters in the national contest,
ill its part toward this im-
: r:n by the act of 1872, re-
~ members of the 45th and
ceding congress to he chosen
;~iiy following the first Mon-
real,er. It is owing, in a
cue. to that law of Congress
::ch progress has been made
itonnity within the last four
fortunately, however, an act
i March 3d, 1875, modifying
"so as not to apply to
iat has not yet changed its
.'ion, and whose constitution
echI in order to effect a
— .aeday of election of State
: ; iiu State.” This relaxation
sspones the completion of
nidi is in full progress.—
p-hire, which was not bound
::::onal restrictions, changed
' -t State eloction at the last
«legislature. Ohio, Indi-
Maire are the only States in
:change remains to be made,
encouraged to believe that
B slist of our Presidential elec-
h particular States will
a! Wright beyond that to
re entitled by their popu-
il rt KKISII QUESTION'.
: York H- raid tlius sets forth
Ks that environ the Sultan
a the solution of the Ser-
tir Sultan is the Moslem
fetch the Sultan is the pup-
■it l-jwer declares against the
:, t"JH''l. If the Sultan makes
-t'-'-rms presented to him
: f Eunqie he believes
t : t ..i element of the popu-
uni butcher all within
Pro he dare nut accept
t’-e does not accept that
-the nations by whose
■; Turkey exists, and he
■ “'li.-lau invasion, before
• i inevitably go down,
l-svl.Austria, Germany and
accord on the terms
‘ted the Sultan must
: a-ii of furtlier negotiation,
-'•conditional armistice is
V ; ' ,s t is. a cessation of the
Porte must assent that
•loutenegro shall retain the
•® they possessed before the
** Montenegro shall have a
■ ‘ Anally, it must concede
-itonorny ”for Posnia, Herze-
- ‘•"•lgaria. These terms
;, y England. But the
■ ;att° reject them because
-ya that the Sultan should
p- "ivereiguly of three prov-
,1"“- certainly open to
but the Cahinet3 are
r'ltnnch to objections of that
V Constantinople. The clear
n ’ ( h e English Ministry
',7 tern’s were rejected Eng-
■-o.imgerpupport or befriend |
- Eovernment, seems to have ‘
7 Sovernment to reconsider
-. ;! on to reject the condi-
l “e end is not yet.
. °f 'he awards by the
^ th <? Centennial Exhibi-
U J “' ' llve been apparent to
V w i and great dieappoint-
hy all the leading
"hn offered their works
; jn - Ou this subject the
says:
... . ' :Ure merely, hut a pos-
kfetrti ! )r °d ucers °f the
»C “ av ® their masterpieces
Ss ' Ij. ne . evt ‘ tliose of in
ti, 0 CIVe every exhibitor
I- iirir! ^j'e^Lv to leave rela-
'■ and thus the
-orrmn, 0 — "* 10 entered into
l tEi. 111011 f° r the first prize
r '“J enolT, system °f award not
I 7 . i L raKe exc ellenc e , but
k» r ; ,ce ' ' • Put the ma-
3? = on the same grade
Kt r'f 11 ^ r £ Us (Rep.) comes to
l^’nion . ttorDfc Y' ( - ipn eral Taft
1 1: aiwh Tu i lt ha9 made a
U f obvious to him
| enforce any pro-
pimoun C e d h ‘ ch tlle Supreme
.‘iert.fr . unconstitutional.
■i Thi.fr 0 ; ” W ‘R have to be
I t 5 as in, n ? occa sion, though
T^tiori of, la<1 meditated a
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to ben 8 noth ‘ n S to prove
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VOLUME XXXT
Pennsylvania Correspondence,
aillitary Despotism Against Constiiutional
Government — Tl.e Duty of the Hour —
Democratic Prospects of Success—Mis
cellaneous Kemarlrs.
Ligonier Valley, Pa., 1
October 7, 1876. }
To (he Editor of the Courier:
We think the most skeptical ought
to be convinced by this time that there
has been a desperate conflict going on
in this country between a government
bv the bayonet and a government by the
people—in other word=, between a mil
itary despotism and constitutional gov
ernment. Tiiose two forms of govern
ment seem to have been waging
sleepless warfare upon each other ever
since the close of the late war. The
Radical party has always been in favor
of club law ; hence its adherence to
a government by the bayonet instead
of by the people.
It was probably Andrew Jackson
who once said that “ That government
is best which governs least.” This
short sentence contains a volume of
meaning, and could only be uttered by
a statesman and a patriot. But how
is it with us to-day ? Is this the char
acter of the Federal government in
these latter days? Not much ; just the
reverse. And if “ that government is
best which governs least,” then that
gornment is worst which governs most
is the only logical corollary to be
drawn. Such, too, is u"questionaably
the present character of our govern
ment. As long as the Democratic par
ty held the reins of government, there
was but little to govern. The will of
the people was the supreme law of the
land; the rights of sovereign States
were respected; everything moved
harmoniously along, and the bayonet
was never thought of.
But the Radical party always had a
real penchant for the bayonet; hence,
it had no sooner assumed control of
the government than it be^an to use it.
It is the only form of government that
suits the party, and the only form of
government it will ever have. And this
leads us to make a remark in regard to
tho
DUTY OF THE HOUR.
The duty of the hour, under existing
circumstances, is plain. It is unques
tionably our duty to adopt such meas
ures and pursue such a course as will
he mo3t likely to culminate in the sub
version of out present form of govern
ment. The Constitution of the United
States warrants us in making an effort
to abolish any form of government as
soon as it becomes oppressive. Our
present form of government is uncon-
ititntional, as well as intolerable. There
.s no safe ground to be occupied outside
Constitutional government; and the man
who sets up such a claim is a traitor to
his country and to the God who made him.
What, then, is our duty ? Shall we lie
supinely upon our hacks and listen to
the syren song -of reform, with which
we have been so frequently deluded,
while the Radical party digs the coun
try’s grave ?
Our only safely is in prompt, ener
getic action. We must crush the power
that has crushed our liberties. We must
hurl from place and power the blood
thirsty tyrants who would make slaves
one section of the Union and mas
ters of tile other. This is one of the
many foul aims and objects of the par-
now- seeking another tour years
lease of power. It is our duty to give
such aims and objects, as well as
party from which In ry emanate,
full benefit of our contempt. It is
our duty, also, to be thoroughly organ
ized, and then strike one more terrible
blow for the resuscitation of Constitu
tional government and civil liberties.
DEMOCRATIC PKOSI'ECTS OF SUCCESS.
Never, since the dark and stormy
days which preceded the war, did
Democratic prospects of success shine
brightly as at present. The symp-
ns of approaching triumph grow
stronger every day. Our party is thor
oughly organized, and working with
might and main all over the country.
campaign is full of Democratic
energy. Our mass meetings up this
way are largely attended, and overflow
witli enthusiasm. The enemy appears
to be almost entirely on the defensive.
The Jacobin army is badly demoralized,
badly commanded, badly equipped,
short of rations, devoid of enthusiam
—in a word, short of everything except
bombast, falsehood and hypocrisy.
And these features will only add to the
overwhelming character of the defeat
we feel morally certain will be admin
istered to the party in November next.
The people, we are satisfied, demand a
change. Everything indicates it. The
States South will be a unit in giving
Grantism the seal of condemnation.
Look at the withering rebuke lately
administered in Arkansas and Ala
bama; and ere this communication
finds place in the columns of The
Courier, the Empire State of the South
will have sent a verdict of from fifty
thousand to seventy-five thousand
against the bayonet. Upon the above
facts and many others we base our
prospects of success.
miscellaneous remarks.
That irrepressible, incorrigible black
guard and blatherskite, Col. Ingersoll,
of Illinois, has called round this way
of late. He made a demonstration in
Pittsburg a short time since. The Colo
nel is as brave(?) as ever. We wiU
finish up this communication with ex
tracts from his speech. He says:
“ The Democrats say ‘let by-gones be
by-goneB; we are in favor of secession,
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY M^RNINOi OO^OBER 18, 1876.
NEW SERIES-NO.
but don’t mention it.’ We are in favor
of slavery, but if you are a gentleman,
you will not hint anything about it”
Again:
“ When the Republican party was
born the bay of the blood-hound was
the music of tho nation. The dome of
the Capitol at Washington cast its
shadow upon slave pens in which
crouched and shuddered mothers from
whose breasts babies had been torn by
wretches now howling for honesty and
reform.”
-Again:
“ We must protect every black man
at the South, even if we have to let
the whites go to the devil. There are
not enough good men in the South to
control the bad. The policy of the
Democrats there is not to reason with a
man, but to knock him down—not to
pursuade, but to shoot him.”
“ The only crime the poor innocent
negro is guilty of is that of accepting
liberty at the hands of the Republican
party. We are going to give them a
fair chance, Mr. Democrat, and you
can’tprevent it.”
And again:
‘"We don’t want any more Confeder
ate Congresses, but we want men like
Blaine, who will take them by the
throats and choke them till they are as
black in the face as their record.”
And yet again:
“The Republican party came into
power upon the heels of the Buchanan
administration. The Treasury was as
empty of coin as the Democratic party
was of patriotism and honor. We had
to borrow money. What for? To buy
shot and shell to shoot enough Demo
crats tc save the Union.”
To all of which the good people of
the South, and all sensible people, will
be likely to say ament?).
Key-Stone.
The Chicago Time?' Indiana corres
pondent, who has been giving the facts
in regard to the campaign there with
reckless impartiality, says that the Re
publican poll of Illinois shows a Dem
ocratic majority of over 12,000, and
that the Republicans will endeavor to
overcome this by frauds. He thinks,
however, that the Republican treasury
has been depleted:
The entire State has been given an
outfit in torches, brass bands, uniforms
and the like. Many of the highest
priced speakers in America have been
here stumping the State in the intereato
and at the expenses of Republicanism.
Royal in their notions, it has not been
unfrequently the case that these aristo
cratic representatives of the party in
power are moved in special railway
trains at a cost of much money. The
entertainment of the Boys in Blue
drew upon the Republican barrel of
money for not less than 825,000. One
single Republican newspaper in the
State drew from the same barrel to the
generouB amount of 820,000 before it
would consent to see that interests of
free Government demand tho retention
of Radicalism in power.
A newspaper of Terre Haute had to
have $3,000 in order to become satis
fied that Republicanism and free gov
ernment are synonymous terms. Not
less than ten thousand dollars have
been paid i >ut to other newspapers in
order to assure their loyalty, and to
convince their proprietors that Demo
cratic ascendency means the placing
of rebels in control of this blood-bought
republic. The canvass, or poll, of the
State has had to be provided for, and
this is a job which cannot be done un
der much les3 than S10,000. And
then documents had to be printed by
the ton ; and printing, in campaign
seasons, lias to be done by partisan job
presses, and to be paid for. Finally,
the importation and support of a
thousand or fifteen hundred Africans
till after election cannot be set down,
inclusive of railroad fares both _ways,
board, wages, etc., at less than $25 per
head, which figures up the very pretty
sum of from $25,000 to 840,000, in ad
dition to what has otherwise been ex
pended. Now, when in addition to
this enormous outly, there comes the
necessity of going into the market and
buying uo enough votes to overcome a
majority of 6;000 to S,000, the question
is, “Can any barrel of money, unless
as inexhaustible as the widow’s barrel
of meal, stand the drain without run
ning dry ?”
N. Y. Sun : After all, the greatest
question to be settled in the approach
ing election of President and Vice-
President, is whether or no the self-
government of the people can be
maintained in the United States. If,
in spite of all revelations of the cor
ruption and incompetence which char
acterize the Republican party and its
leaders; if, in spite of Belknap’s bribe
taking, Robeson’s robbery, Fish’s dis
honorable complicity with Spain,
Grant’a and Babcock’s relations with
fraudulent distillers, and all the rest of
that long and terrible catalogue of
crime and misgovernment, tho Repub
lican party can still carry this election,
the fact will prove that the office-hol
ding machine is too strong for the peo
ple, and that the party in power can
never be turned out by the regular
method of an honest election. In
comparison with this question, all the
other questions on which men are to
vote on the first Tuesday of November
are of inferior moment
Jere Haralson is not held in high es
teem by the truly loyal of the North.
The Brooklyn Argus, a Republican pa
per, thinks no good is to come of put
ting this black exponent on the stump.
In its issue of 26th, it says :
AVe are sorry to hear that the noto
rious Jere Haralson, of Alabama, has
been permitted to take the stump for
Hayes and Wheeler in Indiana Jere,
bv his own confession, is a bribe-taker
and corruptionist. He trained in the
armv of scamps which followed the
standard of George E. Spencer, and has
been everything and anything to put
money in the pockets of Jere. If he
were caught in a water-melon patch
Bomemight and shot, it would be a good
thing for the Republican cause in In
diana.
Gen. Babcock’s “Vindications.”
Correspondence of the Hertford Times.]
Washington, September 30.—And
now .Babcock lias been “ vindicated”
again. The Jury that has been hearing
the ugly stories about him for the past
two weeks left the; coi|rt-room about 4
o’clock this afternoon. They went, to
their room in the upper part of the
court-house. While they were absent,
Boss Shepherd came into the court
room and sat beside 3ab. The Boss
seemed very happy, and he wanted all
to be joyful. The hour of vindication
was near when U. S. Grant, Jr., stepped
into the court-room and approached
Bab. A oung Grant has been out of
the city since Congress adjourned. He
shook hands with Bab, and took the
chair on the other side of him. Then
Levi P.^Luckey, who was for many
years private secretary of the President,
came in and took a seat. He was per
fectly sober.
Since Levi received the “ bounce” at
the Executive Mansion, he has drawn
a salary as chief clerk in the Interior
Department, under Uncle Zach Chan
dler. A. C. Bradley, Shepherd’s broth
er-in-law, who figured at St. Louis as
one of Babcock’s counsel, sat near. As
did Mr. Pardon, ex-paymaster of Shep
herd’s Board of Public Works. Behind
this distinguished party were J. Harry
Thompson, the English barber, who
figures at the Columbia lying-in
hospital as chief surgeon—of which
Babcock is the president—and a host
of other ring-strikers, great and small.
The jury had been out an hour when
Shepherd suggested that all hnnds
should go out and get a drink. Thomp
son thought a smile would do Bab
cock good service, but the great vindi
cated did not feel like taking any mere.
Several of the smaller fry thought there
bad been a long time between drinks,
and went across the street to the “ hole
in the wall”—the favorite tippling
house of the court-house loungers.
Babcock was now very nervous, and
his cousel, Fullerton (who, by the way,
fell a good dead short of what was ex
pected of him here,) and Billy Cook,
with the Boss, kept him in conversa
tion, so that the time would pass away
faster.
Two hours thus passed; the court
room had been lighted up, and prepar
ations, were being make for a long
siege, when word came down from the
jury that they had agreed. One of the
strongest points of defense before the
judge that this whole safe burglary con
spiracy was a huge joke. But to a
looker-on about this time it appeared
to be anything but a joke. The judge
was sent for and the jury called.
“What say you?” said the clerk; “do
you find the defendants, O. E. Babcock
and Thomas P. Sommerville, guilty or
not guilty ?”
The foreman, a man named Jett, who
furnishes his scales, ■ncishts, elr.. In
several ol the Ciovernmentdepartments,
national and local, “truly loil,” an
swered:
“Not gulty.”
As soon as he had the word “not” of
his mouth, there was a shout and cheer
sent up. Shepherd threw his hat up
in the air, as did several others. By
the time the foreman got out the ste-
and word, a half dozen sprang towards
Babcock to congratulate him. Babcock
improved in looks quickly. The judge,
McArthur, who had been at bauquets
with Shepherd, Babcock and the whole
party for the three, minutes previous,
tried to put on a little seeming dignity,
and, turning to “the prisoners at the
bar,” said:
“ You are discharged ; marshal, ad
journ the court.”
The court was adjourned, and then
there was plenty of cheering, and the
safe-burglary crow 1, although consid
ered in the minds of the people of this
District, as well as of many throughout
the country, left the court-room.
As Sommerville, who did not receive
as many congratulations as Babcock,
was walking out, some one said to
him :
“Well, old man, I am glad to see you
alright It was a huge joke, after all,
wasn’t it?”
“It was just such a huge joke,” he
said, “that, if. any more of them are to
be gotten up, you can count me put.; I
don’t want any more of it.”
The banquet given at Boss Seepherd’s
to-night, to the visiting foreign rifle
teams,., turned out to be in reality a re
union and glorification night of the
safe burglars. Babcock was there, fresh
from the prisoner’s box, as was also
Judge McArthur. Dick Harrington, it is
Baid, sends his regrets. There was more
than one drunken man taken home
from Boss Shepherd’s mansion when
the spree closed.
The jurors who did their duty to
wards Babcock are to be rewarded—in
what way it is not yet known. But if
I am able to ascertain in the future, I
will let the readers of the Times know.
Some say that Wells, the district attor
ney, will have to step down and out
This is uncalled for, , for certainly he
did not strike Babcock as hard a blow
as he should. Indeed, the prosecution
on the whole was very thin, no effort
seemingly being made to bring out ev
idence against Babcock, and no partic
ular desire being nolicable to convict
him. But it mattered i^otwhat evidence
tho jury that “vindicated” him would
hear. The -result would- bo the same.
The trial cost Babcock and the ring at
least $10,000, and, in their present state
of finances, they will possibly feel that
their so-called joke, on the whole, has
been a costly one to them.
Strange things have happened in our
day, but nothing so strange as that
which is telegraphed to the Boston Post
by its Washington correspondent as a
possibility of the near future. It is
this: “In case Ohio is carried by the
Democrats at the approaching State
election Hayes’ name is to be with
drawn. - It being demonstrated that he
cannot carry his own State, a change
must be made in the head of the ticket
or all is lost This being done who can
rally all the elements of strength in the
party and win a victory in the face of
defeat? Who but Ulysses S. Grant?
Chandler exnltingly points to the fact
that every Republican Convention of
the year has warmly and cordially in
dorsed Grant’s administration. Nearly
one hundred thousand officeholders
would rejoice at the change. Butler
and Blaine pledge every New England
State for him except Connecticut, and
with the remnant of the ariny now in
the Indian oonntry judiciously placed
in the South enough Southern States
could be controlled to insure the success
of the plot.”
p
The Eastern War.
/London, Get 10.—Reuter telegrams
from Celtinje state that the Montene-
gHhs turned the positions of Mukhtar
Desha and entered Trebipje and Lyn-
blnje. They burned the latter town.—
The Turks are now cut off from rein
forcements.
A Reuter dispatch . from Belgrade
says Gen.Sehemayeff telegraphs Prince
Milan that Gen. Autichon-on Satur
day occupied all the villages ift Poplet-
zaValley.
A dispatch to the Times from Bel
grade says the Bosnian chiefs have
held a meeting and rejected the auto
nomy scheme as totally inadequate to
meet the merits of the case.
Cossacks and Russians arrive in Ser-
via by thousands daily.
The Paris corresspondent of the
Times telegraphs T “That the Porte’s
first reply to the Powers is a dead let
ter. The Porte’s second reply is now
officially known, I believe. This re
ply has been communicated to me. Its
important points are regarding the ar
mistice aud the administration of the
Christian provinces. The Porte re
fuses to accept the terms of the ar
mistice because it cannot recognize
Servia as a beligerent, but consents to
a suspensionof hostilities, the duration
not to be fixed, pro tided the Servian
army shall not meanwhile be rein
forced by foreigners. As to the second
point, the Porte accepts the proposal
of the Powers in principle, but pro
poses to give all its provinces the same
liberties without distinction. The
Porte considers it absolutely ruinous to
introduce different treatment into the
provinces. It is willing to place the
reforms under the collective guarantee
ol the European Powers. In short, the
Porte says: ‘Either you wish I should
take my place among civilized States,
and are willing to conciliate me by
giving all my subjects the same laws,
privileges and security; or you persist
in exaggerating division and antagon
isms, because you only wish to delay,
not prevent my destruction. If the
letter is the case, then I prefer to strug
gle now, at the risk of perishing, rather
than resign myself to a slower but in
evitable death.’ ”
A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
from Constantinople says: “Au ar
mistice for one month has been agreed
to.” This announcement must be re
ceived with caution. The same dis
patch states that the Grand Vizier re
signed on hearing that England’s
last proposal was intended as an ulti
matum.
A Reuter dispatch from Ragusa dated
yesterday says the Montenegrins have
attacked Moukhtir Pasha’s main force
and an engagement is now proceeding.
It reported that the Montenegrins
life gaining Hie advantage. - — :
A Reuter dispatch from Paris says
that the news that the Porte has already
accepted an armistice is considered pre
mature. Special telegrams to nearly
all the London papers, however, speak
hopi fully of the speedy conclusions of
an armistice, for which all the Powers
are represented as continuing to work
in unison.
A Reuter telegram from Belgrade
says the Servians yesterday repulsed
the Tarks in an attempt to cross the
river Drina. near Ratcha.
The Bisuop and the Bees.
We find the following good story in
a foreign journal:
A French bishop, being about to
make his annual visitation, sent word
to a certain curate, whose ecclesiastical
benefice was extremely trifling, that he
meant to dine with him, at the same
lime requesting that lie would not put
himself to any extraordinary expense.
The curate promised to attend to the
bishop’s suggestion; but he did not
keep iiis word, for he provided a most
sumptuous entertainment.
His lordship was much surprised,
and could not help censuring the con
duct of the curate, observing that it was
highly ridiculous in a man whose cir
cumstances were so narrow, to launch
out in such, nay, almost to dissipate his
annual income in a single day.
“ Do not be uneasy on that score, my
lord,” replied the curate, “ for I can as
sure you that what you now seer is not
the produce of my curacy, which I
bestow exclusively upon the poor.”
“Then you have a patrimony, sir?”
said the bishop.
“No, my lord.”
.“ You speak in riddles,” rejoined his
lordship; “how do you contrive to live
in this manner ?”
“ My lord, I have a convent of young
damsels here, who do not let me want
anything.”
“ How! you have a convent? I did
not know there was one in this neigh
borhood. This is all very strange—
very unaccountable, Mr. Curate.”
“You ore jocular, my lord.”
“But, come, sir; I entreat that you
would solve the enigma—I would fain
see the convent.”
'“So you shall, my lord, after dinner;
and I promise that your lordship will
be satisfied with my conduct.”
Accordingly, when dinner was over,
the enrate conducted the prelate to a
large inclosure, entirely occupied by
bee-hives, and, pointing to the latter,
observed: ; ;
“This, my lord, is the convent which
gave us a dinner; it brings me in about
eighteen hundred livres a year, upon
which I live very comfortably^md with
which I contrive to entertain my guests
genteelly.”
The surprise and satisfaction of the
bishop may be imagined.
Alabama and Chattanooga Bail-
’• ' •'? ; road.
The Master Comalsloaer’s Sole Yesterday
—D. X. Stantou to the Front Again.
From the Hobite Tribune, 9th inst J-
The purchasing bondholders, who
bought the Alabama and Chattanooga
railroad two or three years ago for 81,300,-
000 and failed to pay for it, did not bid
ou it at the sale yesterday, by order of John McLaughlin, from which wecon-
Sohthing Tangible.—A Near-sighted
man out on South Hill went wandering
around among his currant bushes yes
terday afternoon and,, stooped down
and polled a live Centennial wasp's
nest up by the roots to see what it was.
He diden’s get it anywhere near the
focus of bis eyas before he had an idea
that it was a flat iron some of the wo-
men had set outsi.de to cool: than he Sajdor
thought-it might be a concentrated J
case of prickly heat; and then it dawn
ed upon him that he had picked up a
raw thunderbolt, and finally his heart
went clear down into his boots as he
realized that he had got hold of the
dangerous end of the Hell Gate explo
sion and piffled it off.
A dispatch from Dr. J. D. Braus, of
Brunswick, Ga., to the Howard Asso
ciation, says the epidemic at that place
may be considered at an and.
the "United States Circuit Conrt, in front
.of the Custom-house
' Major T. M. LeBaron, the auctioner
employed by Robert W. Healy and Na
thaniel W. Trimble, Master Commission
ers, at 12 o’clock announced the t»Je of
ihe Alabama and Chattanooga railroad.
Gen. Healy read the advertisement that
was published by order of the conrt, and
when he had concluded Mr. J. L. Smith
mounted the auctioneer’s block and said
he had two papers to read for the inform-
ation'of parties interested. The first set
forth that the State of Alabama had a su
perior lien, which would prevent a title to
the purchaser under the present sale.
Being asked by whose authority he rep
resented the State, an answer was given
by Mr. R. Smith, of the firm of R. H. &
R. luge Smith, that his firm represented
the lien of the State, which will be main
tained for the benefit of the bondholders.
The other paper related to the Ala
bama and Chattanooga railroad sinking
fund, created by the State Legislature.
Next comes forward Stephens Croom,
representing the State of Mississippi, to
which the railroad owes taxes for 1874
and 1885, amounting to between six and
seven thousand dollars, with the penalties
added, which claim constitutes a lien on
that part of the property of the road in
that State.
And now comes J. Little Smith, of the
film of Herndon & Smith, representing
a large number of holders of laborer’s
liens.
J. Little Smith asked the master com
missioners what they proposed to take in
satisfaction of the 8100,000 cash payment
by the purchaser or purchasers—whether
actual cash or claims.
Gen. Healy replied that they would re
quire actnal cash, certified checks or ac
cepted drafts, such as any bank of good
standing here would negotiate.
Then Sam Rice came to the front, as
the representive of certain interests af
fected by the sale of the road.
The bidding then commenced, Major
LeBaron called for a bid to start with.
E. H. Gremlin bid 8100,000; then Gen.
Tyler, President of the. Mobile and
Montgomery railroad, bid §105,000. The
next bid was SI 10,000, followed bv bids
of 8200,000, 8250,000, 8260,000, 8275,-
000, 3280,000, and 8290,000 and $300,-
000, which latter was the bid of General
Tyler, ivh* retired from the field when
Mr. Grainlin rurt it up to S310.000, at
which pirce it was knocked off by the
auctioneer at twenty-two minutes 12.
Mr. Grandin gave the name of A. P.
Batch as the purchaser. It is stated that
Mr. Batch is a Boston man, from which
city came Mr. Daniel N. Stanton, the
projector of the road, in whose interest
the purchase is supposed to have been
made.
The only competing bidders were Judge
Grandin and General Tyler.
The 8100,000 cash, it was stated before
the sale, had to be paid by four o’clock
yesterday afternoon, otherwise the road
would be resold under the same advertise
ment.
Caught in His Own Trap.
Once two ministers of the gospel
were conversing on extemporaneous
preaching.
“Well,” said ffie old divine, waxing
warm, “youareniiningyourselfby writ
ing your sermons and reading them off.
Your congregation cannot become in
terested in your preaching; and if you
were called upon to preach unexpected
ly, unless you could get hold of an old
sermon, you would he completely con
fused.”
The young divine used all his elo
quence, but in vain, to convince the
old gentleman that the written sermon
expressed his own thoughts aud feel
ings, and if called upon he could
preach extemporaneously.
"As we are of the same faith,” said
the young minister, “suppose you try
me next Sabbath morning. On as
cending the pulpit you can hand me a
text from any part of the Bible, and I
will convince you that I can preach
without having looked at the text be
fore I stood up. Likewise, I must be
allowed the same privilege with you,
and see who will make the best of it.”
The idea seemed to delight the old gen
tlemen, and it was immediately agreed
upon.
The following Sabbath, on mounting
the pulpit, his senior brother handed
him a slip of paper, on which was
written: “And the ass opened his mouth
and spake ;” from which he preached
a glorious sermon, challenging his de
lighted hearers, and charming his old
friend with his eloquence.
In the afternoon, the young brother
who was sitting below the pulpit, hand
ed his slip. After rising and opening
the Bible, the old man looked sadly
around—“Am I thinu ass ?” Pausing
a few minutes, he ran his fingers
througb hjs hair, straightened his col
lar, blew liisnose like the last trumpet,
and read aloud, “Am I not thine ass?”
Another pause, in which a deadly si
lence reigned. After reading the third
time “Am i not thine ass ?” he looked
over the pulpit at his friend, and in a
doleful voice said, “I think I am, broths
er.”
It was Pope who used to swear “God
mend me!” and swearing his favorite
oath one day in the presence of a little
boy, the boy looked at the diminished
and misshapen form of the great poet,
and said:
“God mend you, indeed! I think it
would be a good deal easier to make a
new one.”
Yon talk about mending the Repub
lican party, about reform within its
limits. I tell you, my fellow-citizens,
that in October and in thin November
election, the people of the country
most make a new one—Congressman
Mortuary Statistics of Savan<
nah for the Month of Sep
tember.
Mr. S. P. Bell, one the Savannah
unfortunates, who is sojourning in Ma
con, has kindly furnished as with a
copy of a tabular statement of the
interments in the several cemeteries of
our afflicted seaport, prepared by Mr.
The fractional currency in circulation
is steadily diminishing at the rate of
two and three million dollars a month.
For awile after the silver subsidiary
coin was put into circulation there was
an apparent dearth of small change, as
there was considerable hoarding both
of the silver coin and of the fractional
currency. This trouble seems over now,
and small change is obtained without
difficulty sufficient to supply the wants
of the trade.
dense the following:
In Laurel Grove there were 405 bur
ials, of which 254 were from yellow
fever, and 151 from other causes. In
Cathedral Cemetery, 310 interments;
267 from yellow fever and 43 the re
sult of other diseases. Evergreen
C.emeteiy, 14 interments; IS of vhich
w;ere yellow fever and 1 otherwise,
Bonaventure .Cameteiy, 6 burials, 4
caused by the .epidemic and 1 : from
some other malady; making a grand
total of 735 deaths—to-wit, 538 from
the prevailing sickness, and 196 from
other diseases.
The average mortality was 18 per
diem, and of the total number 273, or
nearley one-third, were children and
youth.
To show how much more snbject to
the malady is the white population,
with about equal numbers, only 154, or
about cme fiifth of the deaths were ne
groes. And from other source we learn
that of that number, much the larger
portion were half-breeds, or of mixed
blood.
The total deaths from causes outside
of yellow fever reach the abnormal fig
ure of 196 during the month, which
would show the prevalence of malaria
to a most alarming extent.
The usual mortality during the sum
mer is 17 per week, or 68 for a month
—showing an increase of 128 the pres
ent year in September.
These figures should be laid to heart
by the Savannah authorities, that in
future seasons the drainage of the city
may he made more thorough, and
proper attention given to sanitary and
hygienic rules.
Deportment in Church.
A writer in the South Florida Jour
nal gives expression to very sensible
views upon the inexcusable, ungentle-
manly habit of misbehaving in church.
There are those who claim to be of
gentle blood and courteous training
who disport themselves in our congre
gations like illmannered, untutored
heathen. The following is the articnl
referred to:
Behavtor is in licative of character.
This criterion applies more ex
actly and severely to deportment in
church than to deportment elsewhere.
It does not matter what pretentions a
man may make for himself—no mat
ter what his relations may be ; no mat
ter what church is concerned, Protes
tant, Catholic, Jewish or Christian—
the man who so behaves in the place
of worship as to embarrass or disturb
the worshippers will forfeit his claim
to be regarded as a gentleman. Socie
ty will hold him to this conclusion.
Nobody obliges an unwilling party to
attend divine service. If he has no
fear of God, and no regard for the opin
ions of the wise and good, if he is not
restrained by the ordinary motives
which influence cultivated and Chris
tian men, and if he will behave like a
ruffian in the place where the Awful
God is approached in acts of solemn
service—then his place is elsewhere; he
has no business there; and the sharp
edge of the ciyil law must be applied to
teach him respect for the right of others.
If there is one thing wholly opposed
to the spirit of our institutions and the
earlier and better usage9 of the coun
try, it is the political trick of nomina
ting unknown and untried men, on the
ground that, being unknown and un
tried, they have no “record" to defend.
Eveiy voter is thus left free to imagine
what he pleases, and, of course, omne
ignotum, etc., in such a matter as this it
is best perhaps to try to see ourselves
as we would see otters, and as others
must see us. As practical men, priding
ourselves on our capacity for self-gov
ernment, what would we Americans
say if we saw, for instance, the Liberal
party of England, on a defeat of the
Disraeli ministry and a dissolution of
Parliament, select as their candidate for
premier, not Gladstone, not Foster, not
any well-known or experienced leader,
bbt some unknown, untried lord lieu
tenant of Canada, who had been a
colonel in the Sepoy insurrection, and
a silent member during one short Par
liament? In the days of Washington
and Jefferson and Madison we should
smile, not without just pride, and re
mark that, Republicans though we
were, we at least did not make a farce
of our Government—Eorth American
Renew.
For a sensation of the serio-comic order,
the town of Saco, Me., is now prepared
to furnish an excellent illustration. A
young man belonging to the United
Stats Navy returned home one day last
week, and, befare meeting his wife, learn-
a that she was about to go to the Centen-
il Exhibition with another man. He
immediately blackened a spot on his
breast with a soft csal, pierced a vein till
it bled, proceeded to the house with a re
volver in his hand, entered the family
drawing room with his bleeding breast ex
posed, discharged a revolver under his
arm and fell to the floor as if dead.
There wa3 great consternation in the
household for a few moments, which was
then followed by a storm of indignation
at the fright the man had caused.
On Wendnesday last Mr. Striedeger,
the electrician of the Hell Gate explo
sion, and Mr. G.chran.a practcial diver,
eqniped in diver’s dresses, examined
the broken surface of the reef at Hallett’s
Point. After an hour’s examination of
ihe bed of the river nearest the lowest
or southernmost buoy it was announced
that so far as had been discovered the
rock had been broken up thoroughly,
and that the action of the dynamite
had been'all that could have been de
sired, and is thought there will be no
need of any farther blasting for its re
moval.
Mr. McDonald, of Michigan, left his
family and went to California. Eigh
teen years' after he returned and found
his wife was Mis. Mansell. When the
quondam' Mis. McDonald recovered
from her hysterics her first question
was: “What is to become of Mr.
Munsell?” “Why, I shall leave him
alone,” quoth the degenerate Enoch;
“I was married myself a little over
seventeen years ago.”
Onft column BIX months..
■>ne column twelve mouths.
A*- The foregoing re-.ee are for either We* klj-
ar Tri-Woekly. • When published iu both pepere,
SO per cent, additional upon table ratae.
Gen. Bragg’s life was insured for 340,-
H°0.
The Emperor of Morocco has received ’J
a present of eight women from th^ftu-to
of the late Sultan of Turkey.
The largest set of scales in tbc wort * I. •«
been built at Ashley, Pa. The platf.r •<
is 150 feet long, of die width of a rail- J
road track, ana can weigh one hundred,
tons. The cost was five thousand dollars.
- The Irish citizens of Richmond, Va..
are raising fund for a monument -to' the
late ex-Govemor Wise, in recognition of
the stand which he took against the
Know-Nothing party when he was leader
in Virginia politics.
. ii# ’m ^
This, let us hope, is the last we shall
hear of Babcock fora longtime to come.
His connection with the President and
Administration has been a constant
sonree of scandal to the Republican par
ty.—San Francisco Chronicle, Rep.
A dreamy philosopher has discovered
that mosquitoes are animated by the
souls of wicked men who have gone to
their last account. If this is so a good
many wicked men’s souls are being
plastered np against bedroom wails.
Mr. Randall means to move for the
abolition of all those clerkships, at the
next session, who occupants can be spared
for forty days in Ohio and Indiana. He
will have a sufficient warrant for doing
it from the Administration itself.—Boston
Post,
The artistic taste of the late Senator
Sumner was so defective “ that the col
lection of work of art which he bequeath
ed to toe Boston Atheneum had so tittle
value that the directors refused to give
house room, and disposed of them at auc
tion.” _
Virginia's Confederate Governor
fuses to name a Virginia day ai theCen-i T
tennial- The fact is, the Virginians arc
not taking much stock in the Centennial.
They want their war claims settled before
celebrating anything.—Cincinnati Com
mercial, Rep.
The vote in 1872, for Governor wa3
377.700, with a Democratic majority of
1,148. The vote of 1874 was 347,056,
with a majority for Secretary of State
of 17,252. In 1874 the Farmers’ can
didate for Secretary of State received
16,233, and scattering 2,297.
Judgs E. Rockwell Hoar has come
out as an independent Republican can
didate for Congress in the district where
the Widow Butler was the straight Re
publican nominee. The widow must
now retire from the contest, or the Dem
ocratic candidates will be elected.
The other day .in Memphis, Tenn., a
blue limestone paving-stone, from the
Ohio River quarries, which had been in
use one of the principal streets for fifteen
years, wa3 broken and a live frog hopped
out of a cavity in it. Make a note of
the synchronism of frogs and the soft pe
riod of the limestone deposit.
Philadelphia, Oct. 10.—A move
ment was organized in this city to-day
for increasing the endowments of
Washington and Lee University at Lex
ington, Va. A permanent organization
was effected, and Hon. Morton McMi-
chael elected President, with Messrs.
Hon. M. E. Waite, Hon. Rjbt. C. Win-
throp, Hon. Wm. M. Evarts. Hon. A.
E. Borie and Hon. Theo. F. Randolph,
as vice-Presidents. An Executive Com
mittee was also appointed.
Here’s richness for you, from the
New York Tribune! Oa the3d instant
that journal said : “The only locality
(in Ohio) where there is likely to ho a
Democratic gain, outside of Cleveland,
is in Dayton. There t o inmates of
Soldiers’ Homo, three-fourths of them
foreigners, have been captured by the
local Democratic politicians, ami are
going to ungratefully vote against the
party that feeds and sht-lters them. So
three-fourths of the soldiers out there
are for Tilden, but then they are “mere
foreigners,” you know. A short time
ago there were “maimed veterans of
the Union,” “the country’s pride and
glory,” “whom the country was bountf
to spend its last dollar to support.' —
New Harm Regislei-.
A fire broke out on Friday night in
Laber’s restaurant, which covered an
extensive area in tho extreme portion
of the Centennial grounds. The flames
originated on the second floor, in the
servants’ apartment. It is supposed
that the tight from a gas jet set fire to
some clothing which hung in the room.
So rapid was the progress of the flames
that it was with the greatest difficulty
that a child that had been previously
pat to bed was rescued. The alarm
was promptly sounded, out by the
time the firemen got into service the
greater portion of the structure was in
flames. All that was saved was the
lunch-room and the drinking-bar. The
building cost 852,000, and the loss is
thought to be about one-half of that
amount The fire caused great excite
ment in.the vicinity of the grounds.
Baltimore Oazettc: One of: the im
pudent claims put forward on the
stump is that the Republican party is
• he guardian of the common school sys- -
tem. The fact is that the common
school system is a well established
feature of American government,
and neither party will exhibit any hos
tility toward it But in the Southern
Slates now under control of the Repub
lican party the support of the school
system is made the avenue of robbery
and fraud. At the last regular meet
ing of the trustees of the Peabody fund
it was stated that no improvement in
those States was to be expected until
there was a change of administration.
Although the Republican party in
South Carolina has expended two mil
lions of dollars upon the public schools
during the last eight years, the schools
are of the most wretched character
imaginable, and are only open from
two to five months per annum, while
the character of the instruction given
in them is often farcial. The real truth
is that the school system is a huge
fraud. The school money is filched by
rascally officials. In 1868 Congress
gave South Carolina 189,000 acres of
land for school purposes, which was
sold for 8130,000, not one cent of which
ever reached the * schools. - There -will
not be an honestly administered and
efficient system of schools in South. .
Carolina until the Democratic party
t-Vaa charge of the State government.'