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ILinbsof <"'' ,nr ; copy will be fur- VOLUME XXXII. ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21„ 1877. NEW SERIES-NO. 12 six monthsj........ twelve months — One col twin ” l 101 Oli One column twelve nmnth* r ^ 100100 , foregoing rates are for either Weekly o Tri-Weekly. Wli^nirabltehealnbotUpapeTr. _ ^er cent additional upon table rates. » 3 nomination for the Supreme conviction of shaixs. , v Senator McDonald is going f a w idow in tbe Treasury De- Well, what is more natural propriate than for the active I carry irtmsi Lore approp : . I , or [ 0 want to take a little hand in financial affairs of the Government? K .publicans in Massachusetts II about exhausted themselves jump- .. and fro between exultation and : ‘ They alternate between ' ’ ov r the Republicans carrying as=actiusetts, and asking who will •fuse Ren Both* IThe papers are ail talking about the ’ tbe four planets that are visi- night. Well, everybody that ■ out at night sees them, and there . mn king such a fuss about it; excuses enough already IfiO U.'" r-oin? ou nights. riauii- I When the Empress Eugenie visited Yic.cria first after her flight France, it is said, she threw ber- •'iuto the Queen's arms, and cried, ! tears and sobs. “Oh ! it was all : 't—I.cuis did not want the war .I would have it!” The Prince h'.'aits : '-‘t so touched by her grief . j, e bad to leave the room. I Gen. Sherman’s official salary, it is . amounts to about SIS,000 a year ve of tbe usual commutation for He lives, at present at the House, 1.1 Washington Pie is 1 to enjoy Washington gayeties great- . all( l to feel aggrieved when there is —to use his own words—“some sort i fandango” every evening. Congressmen in Washington i follows-. Senator Gordon at is,Senator Hill at the Arlington, jntatives Stephens, Harris and the National, and Hartridge, , Blount and Candler at Willard’s. s E;i'i''ircr-Sun. Wonder what has become of Mr. felon and the Seventh District. Does Enquirer-Sun propose thus, by his b>n alone, to expatriate us ail ? or Keruan, of New York, says t the Senate of New York just elect- [. and the members holding over, will t a successor to Conkling ; but that lembly just elected will not partici- ; it is only elected for one year, e says, admitting all that the Republi- s claim, they have only a Republican ■ in tbe Senate, and that all Democrats will require to secure a 3 cratic Senate will bo to get a maior- ' ihr." in the General Assembly, to Ttcd in 1S7S. Tic- Postmaster General has issued , ■ : all railroad postal clerks that importance to the traveling pub- . No person will hereafter be allow- ; iride in a mail car except he has ; -s from the General Superinten- if tiie postal service and counter- by the Division Superintendent, or,! r shuts out all railroad em- Iv.-i . nostmasters, post officials, and fits, everybody except postal clerks ;.line of tbe road on which the i: runs. The rules are so strict that case a person rides in this car with a pass regularly signed, the clerks in i'.arge of the car are obliged to report ■'the Government that this persoD : . in their cur, and tho distance. If v ; -huul 1 happen to step into a postal .: don't fee! hurt if you are told to go at. for the clerks are obliged to ask The mixed jury, consisting of five whites and seven colored men, have found Congressman Smalls guilty of re ceiving a bribe. There was not a flaw in the testimony, says the Charleston News and Courier. Yet there wa3 room to doubt that the jury would agree upon a verdict, inasmuch as Smalls 13 a col ored man, and one person of color had just been convicted. It is evident that the jury were above prejudice, under exceedingly trying circumstances. They did their whole duty. The thorough ness with which the cases of Cardozo and Smalls were prepared, and the ability with which they were piosecuted by Attorney-General Conner and Messrs. Miles and Youmans, are exhib ited in the result. Success is the test of tlie*r merit. The Attorney-General directed the proceedings and led in the examination of witnesses, and in the contest with the eloquent and learned counsel for the defense. Only they who know the inner history of the cases can appreciate the numberless difficul ties which were met and overcome. The line of defense could not be foreseen. It was not to be expected that the very evidence on which the defense relied should he made the means of bringing out facts which would aggravate the guilt of the accused, and convict him before the country, at least, cf system atic corruption. This was done. The proof that Cardozo refused a bribe in one instance enabled Gen. Conner to prove that Cardozo had paid other cer- terficates that he knew to be fraudu lent, and had received from Hardy Sol omon $13,000 in payment of certifi cates belonging to the Merriam series, one of which series, when offered him by Woodruff, he had rejected and spurned. In the examination of wit nesses, in meeting the objections of the counsel for the defense, and in the ar gument, Gen. Conner exhibited a read ness, tact, legal knowledge and fertility of resource admirable in the eyes of even those who know him best, and most fully appreciate his powers. Smalls will, no doubt, make an ef fort to obtain his release on habeas corpus by the grace of Judge Bond. This will not help him. Nor do we suppose that Congress will be unwill ing to dispense with his attendance for the rest of the session. GEORGIA GLIMPSES. Lands are cheaper than for yeara in Stewart county. Mr. P. Hazleton, aged SO, of Colum bus, died at Macon the 10th insl. Col. Ben. C. Yancey, of Clarke coun ty, is making the race for Representa tive. Foster Blodgett died last Monday of typhoid fever. He was in his fifty- second year. Mr. J. H. Wynn, the County Treas urer of Green county, died at his resi dence last week. In Gwinnett county a little girl threw a rock at a brother three years older than herself and killed him. Mr. H. P. Richards, of Rockdale county, made thirteen bales of cotton on thirteen acres of land this season. Married at Athens, Nov. 7th, Mr. James U. Jackson, of Augusta, and Miss Marianne Schley Falligant, of Athens. Bishop Gross dedicated the Catholic church at Sharon, in Taliaferro county, with appropriate ceremonies, on the 4th instant. Gen. Robet. Tooml>3 and Hon. B. II. Hill have concurred in the opinion that Gov. Colquitt can, with all legality, endorse the bonds of the Northeastern Railroad. A colored man named George Butt, of Marion county, has made this year twenty-three bales of cotton with two mules, and corn, etc., in due proportion. Alluding to this the Columbus Enquir er says : “George is the right man in the right place; in fact, ‘George’ is a good name for a farmer, as it is from the Greek ‘georgeo,’ meaning to till the soil.” i . Cincinnati Commercial says that 2! a meeting of the Board of Directors el the Cincinnati Southern Railroad Friday, a free interchange of opinion was entered int 'v. ith reference to the necessity of an immediate completion ■ the road to the Cumberland river, so «to secure the trade of four hundred miles of river extending to Nashville, Tam., the value the trade being evi denced bv tiie establishment ol a line oi steamers to run between the river crossing and the city of Nashville and stopping at over one hundred points; also, to’.he necessity of the completion of the road to the coal fields beyond the rive-—a distance of fifteen miles. The entire cost of the extension has been estimated at $20,000, which the ° e “_ e J Common Carrier Company profesb themselves willing to advance, and to oo the work themselves if the trustees cannot provide the necessary funds, as they anticipate a consequent addition to their revenue thereby of from $300 to $4> h > p er day. REPUBLICAN SINCERITY. John Morrisey, of New. York, whom the Pharisaical Republican papers of the east nave been inning up uy me cuat col lar and exhibiting to the people a3 a specimen Democrat, was elected the other clay to the Senate of the btate of New York, over the regular Democratic candidate by the combined votes of the Republicans of the Senatorial District and of a small per cent, of the Demo cratic vote that Mr. Morrisey was able to control. Mr. Morrisey, we believe, ha3 always heretofore, acted with the Democratic party, and while jt was convenient for the Republicans to denounce him, they did so unsparingly, and in fact with truth on their side, for it has never been de nied that John Morrisey is a gambler, and that his operations in that line are upon a large scale ; hut now, when the Republicans are able to deal a severe blow against the strength and unity of Democratic party by voting for him they do not hesitate to do so, and then a Democrats are found who are willin lend the Republicans their aid in this at tempt to defeat the regular nominee of the party. There is this consolation in this particular case, that is, that the best men of the Republican party in the city of New York think they are doing well for themselves, and of course for the coun try. by voting for ono whom they con sider one of the worst men of the Demo cratic party. And we reckon that as to the several parties to the compact and combination all things are about even The Republican Caucus. Special Telegraphic Correspondence of tho Cou rier Journal.] Washington, Nov. 11.—Some Re publican Senators assert their caucus of yesterday passed off quite smoothly. They say that there were no angry words or recriminations, Quite a num ber of Senators, including Messrs. Chris- tiancy, Hoar, Dawes and Matthews, de clared a friendly feeling fortheAdmin- tration. Mr. Conkling, however, struck the key-note, and seems to have been the master spirit of the gathering. His speech was more in sorrow than in anger. He did not condemn the Southern pol icy of Mr. Hayes, or attack the South, and he is evidently keeping open his communications with Democratic Sen ators. The few Democratic appoint? hl hit -li/iiAKd that the removal of competent and faith ful officers to make room for others did not accord with President Hayes letter of acceptance and announced policy. This position is understood to Jiave special reference to the New \ ork ap pointments. At the same time. Mr. Conkling did not propose antagonizing tbe President. He said that he believed that the President wanted to do right, and that those Senators who were in a position to do so ought to advise the President to a right course. Mr. Ed munds sustained Mr. Conkling; and, indeed, no one seems to have had the nerve to oppose him. Mr. Conkling is undoubtedly moving with great delib eration, and taking every step carefully. It seems to be understood that the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections will hurry up matters, so as to report in favor of Kellogg. This is far from indicating that Kellogg will et the seat, or that hi3 cese will soon be acted on. There is talk among Sen iors of sending the case of the Louis iana Senators back to the Legislature. It is stated to-night that tiie Senate Republican caucus of yesterday adopted by a decided majority, a resolution re questing the President hereafter not to make any appointment to office in. the South by which the interests and rights of the colored population might be af fected, from the Democratic party, or from those who participated in the re- bell ion. Some curiosity is expressed touching the President s notice of this impertinent advice. ... Butler’s prospect for adminission is good at writing. The Courier-Journal says: Senator Davis is preparing a bill providing for the reorganization and maintenance of the militia of the States. There are ac cording to the books of the Adjutant General at Washington 115 general officers, S95 general staff officers, 1 The remark i3 often made that we do sot hear of so many gin-houses being ournt this fall as have been for several fear? past in the South. There are wses where gin-houses are burnt the careless use of fire around them, ■"'T also by tbe dropping of matchei •a the piles of seed cotton, and perhaps a majority of such fires occur in this -ay ; but then it is known that many nave been the work of incendia- • : -’S who did the work to injure the owners of the gins. We believe that die removal of the troops from the 'oath, the withdrawal of Government aid to capet-baggers and scalawags and the consequent exit of the tribe from the South has much to do with it. I* the people of tho Southern States are allowed their constitutional rights and liberties it will not be long until the two races will thoroughly understand • each other, and, also, their respective social and political standing and rela Rons, and all will go on well. White and black will labor together for the good of each, and for the common good. ,175 regimental, field and staff officers, and 4,356 company officers in the organ ized militia. Total number of commis sioned officers, 6,541. Non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, 93,826. The total number of men available for military service, but at present unorgan ized, is 2,875,469— apportioned as follows: Maine, 9S.376; New Hampshire, 36, 394; Vermont, 30,112; Massachusetts, 247,495; Rhode Island, 40,939; Con necticut, 61,302 ; New York, 483,183 New Jersey. 134,257; Pennsylvania, 356,393; Delaware, not reported ; Mary- lank, 88,244; Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, not reported; South Carolina, 79,040; Georgia. Florida and Alabama, not reported; Mississippi, 135,- 178; Leuisiana, 113,209; Texas, 78, 45S; Arkansas, 95,165; Kentucky, 217, 044; Tennessee, not reported; Ohio, 229, 725; Indiana, Michigan, Illinqis, Mis souri, Wisconsin and Minnesota, not re ported; Iowa, 169,11S; Nebraska, 46,- 000; Kansas, 90,000; Nevada and Ore gon, not repotted; California, 101,937 The New York World has published a chapter on the treatment of drunk ards. The New Orleans Picayune says the best way is to encourage them swear off and not treat them at all, An Atlanta woman says that if death loves a shining mark, it s a wonder it never aimed at her husband s nose. The Pope’s Waning Health- New York Nov., 12—A special to the Herald, from Rome, says the gravest fears arc entertained for the life of the Pope. A short time ago his physicians feeling anxious about the pontifl’s con dition summoned some of the mo3t emi nent men of the medical profession in Italy, arnoDg others Vanzeld, professor of surgery at Padua, for consultation. After the most careful examination the consulting physicians have given up all hope of his recovery. His condition is such now that he may die atany moment, and if he rallies the recovery will be only temporary. His lower limbs are paral yzed, and he cannot live very long. A London dispatch says : Dispatches received from Rome to-day state that the holy father passed a very restless night, and great fears are entertained for his life from his fitful slumbers during the night. He always awaked in full pos session of his faculties, and was conscious of all going on around him. Despite his enfeebled condition, he insists on recciv- most of those who call upon him, and to many he gives instructions of a personal or ecclesiastical character. Many of the most eminent physicians of Italy have been summoned to his bedside, and give it as their opinion that he can not recover, although they admit he may linger for many days, if not for a week or more. London, Nov. 13.—Th? Times Paris correspondent says: There is much anxiety in consequence of the violent terms to which the motion for inquiry into the elections censures the Cabinet. All the great powers have advised Pres ident Mac Mahon to be conciliatory. The same correspondent denies em phatically that President MacMahon in reply to the allegation from groups of the Right, which waited upon him on the night of the 8th inst., said, as was reported at the time, that he was right to rely upon the support of the Senate for a conservative policy, which was the only one he was able to follow. Earthquake Incidents- The following is what the papers have to say of the earthquake that shook the North a few days ago: The Saratogian says that it was felt most severely on the west side of that village, and reports are at hand of .dish es, windows and mirrors being broken. Quite a number of persons ran out of their houses, and it was some time af ter the shock before they summoned sufficient courage to re-enter their dom icils and return to bed. One curious fact in connection with the earthquake was the peculiar action of the wind. A few moments previous it had been blowing almost a gale. Suddenly it ceased, and for several minutes the si lence was painful, the quiet being sim ilar to that that usually precedes a hur ricane or cyclone. Then came the shock, and in a few moments the wind again returned, hut it did not attain the velocity with which it had traveled previous to the action of the earth. The Auburn Advertiser Eays that in that city the vibrations were of thirty seconds’ duration, and caused no par ticular damage, except to window pane3 and china closets. The ceiling was cracked by the shock in Mrs. Cornell’s house, on Fort street. Pitchers in wash bowls were violently rocked, waking the occupants of rooms in many in stances. The Troy Times says that the atmos phere, after the shock had passed, be came very close, with a slight sulphu- rious odor. Along the banks of the Hudson river, where large quantities of lumber were piled up, its effects were plainly visible, as many of the log ends were rolled from their positions. At Whitehall a large house, owned by Hon. H. G. Burlegh, was shaken so that the timber cracked loudly, and the in mates feared that it would fall. Many ceilings were cracked and other damage inflicted, such as tho toppling over of chimneys. The Montreal Herald says that the night clerk of the Ottawa Hotel was looking at the clock, when he suddenly felt the hotel commence to away, and then settle down to a tremulous move ment. The St. Lawrence Hall em ployes also experienced some unpleas ant sensations, and bells rang, while one or two carters’ horses started like maddened Arabs up St. James street, carrying with them their still more frightened drivers. The Queen’s statue in Victoria Square swayed her sceptre for once, and seemed to the astonished policeman on duty there beckoning the Bonaventure block to fall upon him and wipe him out of existence. He reached the center of the Victoria Square and surveyed the statue from a seat on the curb of the fountain. In the vicinity of Beaver Hall in many residences bells were rung, and doors closed fast were thrown open with a violent swing, while the church steeples seemed nodding to the stars good morn ing. Nelson’s monument swayed, and thfcCf knjsbfldjiCftrt/i-rur uJSfo -ttcra -h Jo, under, fearing that the aged hero was bent upon interviewing them. A vol unteer officer who keeps the “Sabre dc mon }icrc” suspended over his couch, found that the earthquake had turned the sword upside down. The son of Mars would have slep on, however, had not the sword-blade been shaken from the scabbard, and, falling across his nose, dented the bridge thereof as clev erly as if it had been done to order. In several cases sleepy servants answered door-bells—too drowsy to feel the yi- bration, and fancying that the milk man had come rather early in the morning. Animals seemed to ha7e a knowledge that there was something unusual in progress underneath. There were several cases mentioned of dogs having howled and scratched as if try ing to get out of the house, and of cats performing all manner of feats in their attempts to escape by windows.^ One gentleman, a resident of St. Lrbane street, was awakened by the maneuvers of the house cat, which jumped on the bed and left her trail upon his chin and forehead. Startled by this occur rence, he had scarcely time to lift a boot when the earthquake commenced. The Montreal Witness reports that a policeman at the west end of the city was walking slowly along the stone pavement, when suddenly he thought he heard a street-car being driven rap idly toward him, and was actually wondering why he could not hear the tinkling of the bells upon the horses necks, when he was greatly unnerved by feeling the ground undulating be neath him. He ran out from the walk into the middle of the street, for, said he, “the block of three-story houses back of me was all of a shake, and the pavement was fairly rolling toward me, like as if you would shake a carppt. A gentleman on St. Catharine street, who was roused, went to the window and perceived a policeman standing in the middle of tho street, and apparent ly in a state of terror. In response to a question the alarmed guardian cf the peace remarked that “something was John Kelley on'Morrissey. The New York San'thus describes it scene in Tammany Hall Tuesday night. Mr. Kelley, spoke.as follows : V. “Fellow citizens:—The returns that, we bave rjeceived so far assuredly .iqdi* efite that you have carried the State by- „f complication?, .and .wisi-at length a.yery large majority, and th,'' you forced to.fold his tent andsjlently'steal have elected the county ticket by-at least from 5,000 to 7,000 majority.- [Ap plause.} Biit itis. well tha t you sho&ld know—there is no use of keeping any thing froth yon on an occasion of tliiS. kind, and I tell you now frankly—that John Morrissey is elected.” - '’ The wildest confusion ensiled: Ring ing cheers were given for Mornssey, mingled with' hisses,' -applause for Schell and cheers for Mr. Kelley. After a long pause Mr/Kelley contin; ued: ' ' -'■■l.e \ - “The responsibility for this act falls' upon the Republican-party, i Mr.'Mor rissey in that district "has- - received about eighteen»per cent. of'the-Demo- eratic vote. ! Now, gentleman, I am astonished that'you here, as Demonra® would cheer attthe election.of the -.man who has been elected by Republicans over tbe Democratic '.party. [Cheers.] That old TrqjaD, tbat-old Democrat who has served his party so well ih this city for forty-five years,' has been beaten: by John Morrissey. Let the jfriqmy- aud disgrace rest upon thd6ey to whom, it belongs!- Let -.your Dodges and Phelpses ind the other gentlemen who reside in 'that district, who have' beetr continually berating the Democratic party'of thi3 cjty—let them now consid er the'act they have, done in rending that man to thp-Legislature -to make laws for the hohest peonle of .this great State-. To my mind it is a disgrace to republican .institutions-. There is an old maxim, Vox -populi, vox Dei. Is there any gentleman within hearing of my voice who can now agree, to that sentiment?. John Morrissey, the man who k'eep3 the largest gambling house in the State of JJewj York,-.'.[Voice— “They all do it.”} Gentlemen, you have vou families '•to -took'- after;' yon have yonr children 4o bring*, op in this com- munity._ ^pw iet me ask yop-a3 sensi bid mentis itpihper, jg.it right that a mga like John- MorrSby-sht^ild ia*e elected ? . As a member of ; the State Senate atihe last session he was preset; when a law whs. passed making.it'ifi penpl offense to'engage in pool selling.' Yet Mr?*Morrissey goes .to Saratoga, and, in-defiance- of ..th£ law officers, sells po«^-just as-if no law had been enacted. Now, 'gentlemen;' these are things for yon to look. at. -,As; Ameri can citizens you are allequal before the law. Isn’t it your duty.- unjlef ali cir- ,ae 0 cumstances, to.obey the law.?. Now,'iff the fajee of all this; the men who live on Murray Hill, w.ho support the ; New York Times,>have elected to the Seftaff. of the State of New Yorkf such a^nraV as porrissey;..Let tUo. jAvsV' - *■ After announcing the election of Ec- clesine, IVagstaff, and others, Mr. Kel ley, referring to the cry of “anything to beat Tammany Hall and John Kelley,” said : “No defeat can scare me; there is too much pluck in my nature to let it put me down. I fight better under de feat than under victory. Drive Tam many Hall from the country? You migat as well talk of driving the Gov- ernnent out. You can never drive Tanmany Hall from the city or John Kel'ey from the Democratic party.” lersonnel of the Khedive. I.mal Khedive is a man of about forty eirit years of age, under the middle heJfht, but heavily and squarely built, will broad shoulders, wnich, during thjiast year, seem to have become boved dorn by the heavy burdens imposed upn him, under which he has so man- ftiy struggled. His face is round, cov er! by a dark brown beard, closely cliped, and Ehort mustache of the sale color, shading a firm, but sensual math. His complexion i3 dark ; his feiures regular, heavy rather than mbile in expression. His eyes, which h keeps habitually half closed, in Tur- kh fashion, some times closing one etirely, are dark and usually dull, but »ry penetrating and dark at times, hen he shoots a sudden shary glance ke a flash at his interlocutor. His face : usually as expressionless as that of ■e Sphinx or the late Napolean III., of aom in my intercourse with the Khe- we. I have been frequently reminded r thep are men much of the some stamp :character and intellect, with the same mng and the same weak characteristics dug constant battle with each other. 1e Khedive’s voice is very character- ic,—low somewhat thick, yet em- latic, well modulated giving meaning the most common-place utterances ; .s words accompanied by a smile of tuch attractiveness when he seeks to _ tease, and his mind is at ease. But up,” but he could not exactly say ndei the mask of apparent apathy or Mr. Blackman, a civil service officer eren ;ty the close observer will remark in Montreal, said that the precise time jj a j -; le ]j neg across the broad brow and of the vibration there was between lA9 jj on j tUe strongmouth indicate strong and 1:50 o’clock A. m., and that the mo-, ags j ong ag gtrongly suppressed, and lion was from eastward to westward, as^ care3 0 f empire intrading over on a bell in his room, used in connectionjgtp er thoughts,and judge the Khedive with the storm signal service, was rung, 0 a happy man.—The Khe- which could not have been done from|jy e > g Egypt—De Leon, north to south. — A Long Widow’s Device. Smarts Advice to an Office- Seeker. An amusing story come3 from th( — - Ardennes, where, according to the tale A young New Yorker called on bec- an agriculturist recently died leavinietary Evarts the other day with a let- a wife, a horse and a dog. A few meter form a prominent citizen of New menia before his death he called h Yorkrecommendiogbimforaconsulate. wife to him and bade her sell the hor; There were a number of persons present and give the proceeds of the sale to fc at the time. The Secretary read the relatives, and to sell the dog and ke letter and they glanced at the young the money thus gained for herself. man, who presented the appearanced of —i r J one in the full glow of health. The Secretary said; “Well, really, I should Soon after his death, the wife went the market with the horse and dog, a exhibited them,with the announcemi that the price of the dog was five hi dred francs, and that of the horse 1 francs. The passers-by stopped s stared, and judged the woman m more especially as she informed! would-be purchasers that to buy* horse it was necessary to buy the first. At last a curious passer-by eluded the bargain, after which the fnl woman handed over five fran the family of her deceased husl and retained five hundred frar “ herself, thus contriving at the time to carry out the letter, if spirit, of the wishes of her hushanc'-d to secure the largest sum of monejr herself. like to oblige Mr. but you do not seem delicate, yon do not look as if yon needed to go abroad for yonr health. I do not like to see able-bodied young A" Modern Cagliostro. .itis hot long since Brof. Parafbadea fond farewell to.Ban Francisco. He had appeared among us: to manufacture tal low butter. ’•-Bat he came to the - wrong place for ‘a suressful imposture. The •—waa that he fell into all sorts- away. He beaded at once ftr .Chili' There he appears to be creating a great That he is doing well 7iaes- from-it began to show themrelves. he stren: the fact that he is reported to Save become thepurchaser of Meiggs’ famogs mansion,-called the Quinta, in 1867, Santiago. Bat. he is-engaged in a more the sa important convmSfion.than'that of suet ‘ 3 intd ; buUei ; .'-''He 'is no.w taming,copper into gold. His method, a3 narrated by acontemporary,-is a very simple one.. A toff of copper is assayed by experts—not wholly outside'of bis confidence, proba bly. They find-a*small percentage !o£ gold, as’is nsual-r-say four and Uliflrygr. cent Then Parsif- comes on the . scene with’ a marvelous powder, which he calls to ad'vocate the 'payment of the. Gov ernment bonds in greehbacks,but find- ingihat tho schema did. not take hold: of the pnblic mind, supported the pay ment of them jn gold. A Xajv years. - , later hie became the-leader of-the infla- vule n| tionists in the Senate, and came near the, cotmtry into the wildest disorder by the championship of the measure of paper expansion, nth a marvelous powder, which he calls the measure o: paper expansion, ‘reactivp,” and throws it on the mags, which Gffp, GrantIffckily vetoed. His Ini a short time another assay-is made, and the resalt is thirty-seven and 'a-ltolf per cent. gold. It is said that thpjJowder is s u bj acted tolas alyuSed- to prove that'there is no gold in it. . It is, probably sooie.petCsi^harffd^^td- gold dust ?hTtti SurreplitiodS . manner. Sufth experiments, no doubt, are .cosily lora good sfight-of-hand-expert;, but then Pffraf’?. enterprise canstand itfj^Kwjf reported-to be working off tirastbqfc^af. a company, for the- conversion of copper, into gold, with great rapidity. Tbe limit of the stock is. set - idown, at $8,000,000, add the-Chilinps are scrambling to. get it AR thefcopger'minesof the vicinity have immensely increased in value,seeing that they are, according to.Paraf,' nearly one- half gold. But our Cagliostro will not go to work till tbesew and effective ma chinery which he has ordered in Eng land. has arrived. That will give him plenty of time to wofk off his stock, raking a general survey of tbe matter, we should say the.Chilian copper mines •re what is known in street parlance as; good “shorts.” The .day will come when neither Paraf-nor his*“reactivo” will-be visible'to tfienakedeje.^—S»n;Franfi‘sc<f Bulletin. * - . Oakey Hall’s Return. , The greatest surprise we have bad in a long time wa3.the return of Oakey-Hall. Oakey always had-queer ways about him,- and piobably healways Will.. Politician, lawyer, journalist,-dramatist, actor and critic all intone, it would.-hf- one of .the idilesi xhihgs in ihe worKf if-he was not ffae ofti-he oldest ffclloWa 'in it himselfl Aud tfc iv. Iff-buid take a ■jd£ti uflfo.ilM.-ip to' fell all the strange things Oakey has j?C0F, uud thereV no telling bt of'ftrare.'fiAt present-hi It; doing' nothing. dark about that and everything else con- eoncerriiug him, and having touched Hail Columbia’s shore again at Philadel phia, whither he came in partial disguise by steamer from Liverpool he made his way to New York by night, so that he might escape recognition, and went at once to his old home on Forty-second street. He is identically the same Oakey that he was a year ago, before the odd escapade that set the whole country talk ing about him and gave the World a chance to work up its fine theory about midnight murder in the slums of Brooklyn. The effort was wor thy of Oakey himself, but, of course, he had no hand in it, unless, possibly, some telephonic arrangement enabled him to Keep up communication with the office and drop the boys an occasional hint. The only thing he has done since his re turn is the perpetration of an obituary poem on the late John D. Stockton. It was hardly worth his while to come back all the way across the Atlantic just to write obituary poetry, while such blazing lights in that line as George W. Childs and the Sweet Singer of Michigan still illumine our hemisphere.—New York letter to Detroit Free Prees. scarcity in the presenl provision market, and pose of their prodnet comes available for shipment It-is a fighting matter, however, to suggest to any of Jhem that they may be stimalatafiiaa in the. last three season?, to advance prices;'in th? ardor of coinpetitioff, .be yond the rangh of prudent discretion. Those vrho have not statted. tbair eBtab-' lishments anticipate-a farther decline; Leprosy New York Horald. An interview with a leper by a San Francisco reporter is one of the latest evidences of the rash spirit of enterprise that carries the journalist into all the perils he can find. Leprosy is one of the most dreaded of all the diseases that afflict the people in Eastern countries, and bids fair to become naturalized in California. Reference is given to three cases of leprosy in white persons, and in each cose the malady appears to have been derived from contact with the Chinese. It is clear that if the al legation could be made on substantial evidence that the immigration of the Chinese was to result in the introduction of this scourge it woald become a great instiumentin the hands of that kind of grown-up hoodlnmism that memori alizes Congress against the heathen Chinee. Statement? that the Chinese are responsible for the introduction of a horrible disease would, therefore, have to be cleared of the suspicion that they were evilly inspired in that re spect before they could gain confidence. At the same time it seems quite credi ble that these wretched people, coming from a land where the disease exists and retaining in some degree the hab its of their own country, might import and propagate it here. The First Greenback. Nashville Americas.] The first S5 bill issued by tievernment known as greenback money, turned up not long since in a deposit of tbe Third National Bank of Nashville, being let ter A, No. 1, dated Washington, March 10,1863. Mr. J. E. Goodwin, the teller called attention to the fact,and the note was sent to the Treasury Department for identification as the original $5 issued. The Dank was answered that _ it was, and the officers and directors men go out of the country. There is immediately decided to present it to such an inviting field here for young — men of energy and ambition. Mr. says yon are an engineer. That is a good profession and offers abundant op portunities for distinction; why not go to work at it?” All this was said in a tone of voice sufficiently lond to be heard by every one in the room. The yonng New Yorker showed very pain ful embarrassment, and with his face covered with blushes, backed oat of the room. He will not be apt to impor tune Mr, Evarts for that consulate. the Tennessee Historical Society. E. D. Hicks, Secretary of the Commercial Insurance Company, had the note put in an elegant name, with glass on both sides, showing the beck as well as the face of the note, and the bill, thus secure from wind and weather, will be presen ted to the historical society at their meeting on Tuesday afternoon. Good partners at cards—a chimney sweep and a bugler. One can follow soot and the other can trnmpet. Morton’s Political Career/ New Tori Nation, He was-the advocate, if not.'the au thor, of President Johnson’s policy of" reconstruction,gpd afterward was*ready to impeach him. for 'carrying it oak He . violently opposed negro suffrage when it was first proposed;; but assoori 'as it'becanft>Ti’|jarty -necessity eagerly' advocated'it' When the evil results which he had predicted would flow denied theirnxistence, or sBSs.'wftiir* 28SHJrt‘ffl£SS3S2a- speeches'on finance d were snch «r to bring -the bodjr-lo' which. he belofiged, ndd which had'listened to them. A year later, however, he appeared on the stamp as Asapporier of redemption in in coin, public opinion- haring veered .in that direction. For ', reform of the civil service he always expressed great contempt Daring the'tronbles attend ing the. Presidential couqt last winter; when there was talk of a resold to force to carry ont the - Republican view of the law, the extremists turned to.lum as the one man in' the party vrho was supposed to have the pluck and deter mination and kind of. judgment neces sary for the conduct of such an enter prise. 'Tnra plan which he.long nursed for counting the Presidential' vote he denied the right of the President cf the Senate to perform that duty, but as soon as it seetned necessary for the election of.Mr. Hayes, he maintained it. ” Pork Packing. : ting the 4, 41 and 5 per cent. . ig loans,' payable in the Coin of- the American people, regardlea3hf the delicate feelings 5>f the European bond- - holdersiand 'in contempt of those .di vine rights .with which John Sherman - has so laboriously gought to endow the syndicate. But;this is not a great accomplish-' in'ent. It is simply the undoing of a great wrong. .And, instead of haring male progresff, we have only succeed- - ed in getting back where we were five yearn age-^back to the possibility of honest resumption. The- fact that we -find the. hid. stamping ground streWn with wrecks ahd feeknn; with-bank ruptcy, is dne partly to - tbe hired thieves who stole the silver dollar away from-ns, and* partly to the gratu itous idiots who tried to replace.'.what tiie thieves had stolen with waste-pa peri But now that we-have found our good old silver dollar, We can afford to let the resnmptioh act die of its own inanition. It ia a matter, cf utter indif-. ference whether it-is repealed- or not B'itit probably will be. repealed by Congress, and the President will proba- bly veto therepeal bilL .. : - The packers of Louisville have opened the new season, as we have heretofore announced, but as yet “the action has hbgs; Hamilton Bros. & Co. 1715, and McFerran Shallcross & Go. 1800; total 6115. Those who have commenced op erations are backed by a very unusual plies of the 5 able to dis- crease of the supply of corn and'-hogs pertfencIftfrW zrsdh -arftw hotSp®iiS theory is entertained that the undertone of the provisions and packing interest daring the season will be more cautious than for many yeara, and that business will be conformed more strictly to legiti mate principles. The disastrous results of the business for three years, together with the comparative absence of the former incentive to bear speculation af forded by inflated values are retied upon to secure a more reasonable and consora- tive basis of prices and dealings.—Louis ville Courier-Journal, Nov. 5th. What Killed Morton. Columbus (Ohio) Correspondence of the Chicago Tribune.] Postmaster General Tyner, who was very intimate with Senator Morton, is authority for the statement that the lat ter’s life was very mnch shortened by his mode of living. Since he lo3t the use of his limbs of coarse he was unable to take the exercise which is necessary for health, bat hi3 appetite and general faculties re mained unimpaired. He was always a diligent student, studying, studying until far into the night. For several years of the latter portion of his life he was al most constantly in the habit of partaking of a hearty meat-snpperjnst before retir ing. After working until 12 or 1 o’clock he would order up a regular meal, and when it came would partake heartily of it. When the danger of this course was pointed out to him he wondl say, “Ob, well, may as well die one way as anoth er,” or make some lighter remark, aad continue the practice. When it is remembered that he was by no means an old man, and that he was of noble physique and apparently made to endure untold hardship, the statement really has mnch the appearance of troth. The giant frame which required much food stimulus was given too much, and broke down from tho overload. The Western papers say that their farmers of long experience generally favor early selling, believing that on an average there is more profit in it than holding crops a long time for an advance. Borne of the agricultural journals advise the keeping ofthe wheat, bnt tbe Prairie Farmer argues that, in view of the great yield, early prices will be fully as good as later ones. The Omaha Bee tells Western farmers not to put too mnch frith in an extraordi nary call from Europe. England takes annually a large amount of wheat and breadslufis from ns, and will not prob ably want much more than usual this year. When lake and canal navigation closes, freights invariably advance. If the crops in the spring indicate a gi yield, the prices will be as low, or low er than now. A general war in Eu rope would cause an advance, but there is only one chance in a hundred of that It costs to hold grain, to say nothing of the care and trouble, and the interest itself is of no small consequence. The other evening a traveler endeav ored to walk into a hotel temporarily closed for repairs, in a town ont West, but was nnable to effect an entrance. That house is closed, mister,” said a pedestrian, as he passed along. The traveler banned away on the door, and the pedestrian called out: “You, theref—that house is closed!” “The traveler twisted away at the knob, and once more the pedestrian called ont: “I say, that house is closed.” “Don’t yon suppose I know it, you idiot?” roared the traveler. “What I’m trying to do is to open it!” The University of the Sonth has be tween 200 and 300 students. *.•' The Silyer Bill. Don Piatt, in the Washington Capital of-SundayJ says: The passage of the silver bill; at one stroke, wipes ont the crime-of 18,3, and scotches the follies qf 1874. It makes resumption-of specie, pay men',, in the proper reuse ofthe term, qjrJetj • cable. It shuts thedpor of the pap-i- mill and ends the empire of’thffsyixli- cafe. Moreover,it makesthe resura]■-, tion act of1875 of -soutittle-j^jhsfqdejririp that it .doesn’r matter whether 'that ; v -sS*| Skd Know What it Was. One of our citizens is blessed (or oth er,vise i says the New York Evening Post, -with, a very stubborn 'wife. In his case he finds that when a woman will she will, you may depend otft, and when Ehe won’t she won’t. ^and that’s an end dn’t., This peculiarity of disposition in his wife is no secret among his associates, and one of them “ W , do yon know why you are like a donkey?” “Like a donkey ?” echoed W- opening his eyes wide. “No, I.don’t.” “Do-yon give it hp.?” ■ ' . “Ido.” " “Because yonr better-half is stnbbor- “That’s not bad. Ha! ha! I’ll give that to my wife when I get home.” “Mrs. W —he asked, as he sat down to supper, “do yon know why I am like a donkey?”. He writeda moment, exp .wife-togive’it'up. Bnt she didn’t. She looked at him somewhat.' commiserat- ingly as she answered: - i “I suppose because you were horn “ •-*- ! » ■ - i - w' There were two of them hanging over the front gate the other night She was standing within the yard and he on the sidewalk ontside, both leaning on the top rail, and apparently as happy as two pigs in a cornfield. He was say ing: “Now, my own little darling, sweet idol of my soul, whose image is ever on my heart,” when he saw the old man coming down the front walk, and continued in a different strain: “The potato bugs haven’t destroyed oar crops so mnch since we purchased Paris green; and you will*find also that cab bages can be raised better on a richer soil.” . The old gentleman heard it, and turned back, saying, as he entered the house: “These young people take more in terest in agricultural affairs than peo ple generally suppose.” Oar Western exchances, at least those which have given attention to the sub ject, are almost unahimons in reporting less cholera among the swine this sea son than last. There is of course more or less disposition in some quarters to figure out possible larger loss than heretofore, but their data will hardly bear criticism. Beyond doubt there are many sections; in which the disease prevails largely, as is the case every year,bnt taken as a whole its prevalence appears to be less than for a number of season past The latest reports do not materially change the showing made in the Cincinnati Price Current of Novem ber 1st—N. Y. Bulletin^ Lady (speaking with difficulty)— “What have you made it round the waist Mrs. Price ?” Dressmaker— “Twenty-one inches, madam. You couldn’t breathe with less*** Lady—“What’s Lady Jemima Jones’ waist?” Dressmaker—^Nineteen and a half just now, ma’am. Bat her ladyship’s a head shorter than «-ou are, and she’s got ever so mnch thioner since her ill ness last autumn! ’ Lady—“Then make it niu -tsen, Mrs. Price, and I’ll engage to gei i :ito it!” Brownsville, Texas, Nov. 14—Gen. Escobedo having been indicte ! in the United States Conit for a vi jla.iou of tbe neutrality laws in organizing a military expedition in Texas to invade Mexico in the interest of ex-President Lerdo, his trial has been set for to- day. A rumor prevails here that CoL Vil- laneal crossed the Rio Grande to-day about 50 miles .above this place into Mexico with 100 men, to oppose the Diaz Government. Unnsnal activity prevails againet the adherents of Lerdo on this border. “Tommy, my son, fetch in a stick of wood.” Ah! my dear mother,” responded the youth, “the grammatical portion of yonr education has been sadly neglec ted. Yon 'should, have said: Thomas, my son, transport from that reenmbent collection of combustible material npon the threshold of this edifice one of the curtailed excresences of a defunct log.” Miss B. would be a beanty if her month were a trifle less imposing in its dimensions. “Itis a pity,” said a yonng man, “that her month.is so large.” “Why not at all,” returned another. It is a derided advantage,” “How bo?” “Why she can whisper in her ear wishont any trouble.”