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omtdfmtmn ESTABLISHED IN 1843. THE COURIER lias a large and steady circu lation in Clierokee Georgia, and is the ocst ad vertising medium in this section. M. DWDTELI, Proprietor. Wednesday Morning, Dec. 5,1877 Democratic Nominations. Fioyd County. FOK REPRESENTATIVES, S. C. TROUT, JOEL BRANHAM. ( Election on Wednesday, Dec. 5.) ANNOUNCEMENTS. We are authorized to announce the name of Judge Samuel Hawkins as candidate for the Senate from the 42d District—composed of the counties of Chattooga, Floyd and Bartow. We are authorized to announce Hon. D. B. Hamilton as a candidate for Senator from the 42d District—composed of Bartow, Floyd and Chattooga counties. We are authorized to announce Col. A. J. King as a candidate for Representative from Floyd county. The Greenback and Labor candidate for Suprerr-e Judge of Pennsylvania received 51,582 votes. College young ladies, they say, have discarded “old salt” when speaking of a sailor. They say “ antiquated chlo ride of sodium.” The New York Sun makes fun cf Secretary Evarts styling Diaz the defacto President of Mexico. It says that Diaz’s title is better than Hayes’. Florida experienced the coldest weather kriown for ten years, at the same season, last Thursday and Fri day. Ice formed a half inch thick at Jacksonville, and all fear of yellow fever, for this season, has vanished. Moses H. Grinnell, one of the most prominent of the old citizens of New York, died on Monday, at the age of 74. The Sun says that no man in New York, of like means, ever bestowed so much in public and private as Moses II. Grinnell. The phrase “to die in the last ditch” was first employed, we believe, by Will iam of Orange. “Do you not see your country is lost,” said the Duke of Buck ingham, who had been sent to negotiate at the Hague, when England and France leagued against Holland. “There is a sure way never to see it lost,” replied William, “and that is—to die in the last ditch.” Robert Bacon, of Chicago, is an in ventor. One of his devices is a fan- wheel, to be placed in a hat and run by clock-work. His idea is that such a machine would keep the head cool in the hottest weather, and prevent brain diseases. He set one of them going in his own hat, and the first thing he knew his hair was being wound up in the machinery. The Bpring was very stiff, and before he could release himself a large part of his hair was pulled out by the roots. The Atlanta Constitution of a recent date publishes an article written by Hon. J. tV. H. Underwood, of our city, upon the question of National Finan ces. The article gives evidence of a thorough acquaintance with, and a full appreciation of the magnitude and im portance of the subject, and is written in the vigorous and comprehensive style for which Judge Underwood is noted. It will interest those whose tastes incline them to the study of po litical economy. Jimmy Todd, one of Lee’s favorite scouts in the West Virginia campaign, was killed last week in a dispute with a hunter on the mountain near Staunton, Va. The Vindicator says of him : He was the most remarkable hnnter in the Valley of Virginia, havinc killed over 2,700 deer up to 1860, with one old muz zle-loading rifle, which he had had bored so often you could get your thumb in it. He had killed bears without number. He was a dead shot, and could perform tlie feat of putting a bullet through a hat on the opposite side of a tree by placing an ax-blade for the ball to glance. Bishop Marvin, of the M. E. Church, South, died at St. Louis, Mo , on Mon day last of pleuro-pneumonia. The Knoxville Tribune, in announcing the fact, says that the news of his death will be received with sad surprise by the members of the denomination of which he was so shining a light. He was born in Warren county, Missouri, June 12th, 1823, and entered the itin erant ministry in 1841. He was elect ed to the Episcopal office in 1866. He recently completed a tour around the world, having been commissioned by his Church to visit the various fields of missionary labor. His letters of travel were of a very high order, and attract ed wide attention. During the greater portion ot his ministerial life he was a member of the St. Louis Conference. Archibald Forbes, the brilliant Non- 3 News’ correspondent from the ssian camp, has written a magazine icle for the Nineteenth Century, se- ely criticising the Russian officers 1 managing men. Mr. Forbes says mlation and corruption are univer- in the management of their affairs, lether a man has ordnance, shoes, :rcoats, or flour to provide, the con st must be raised to a figure that al- r s a per cent, for all the officials con ned. When the stores are once ight, they are piled in an open field hout shelter, so that still others may bought. These are the evils which encountered in our own war, and ich ruined France. They spring n imperialism and inexperience, Russia will be driven by them to ndon bureaucratic government, and take refuge in parliamentary insti- ons. Several other causes are in ration to necessitate this result, as approaching financial exigencies of he Government, and popular dis tent at the hardships and the email ipensations of the war, TUB VICE-PBHSIDEHr. The challenging of the vote of the Vice-President'by Democratic members of the Senate was, no doubt, thought to be the height of absurdity by Mr Wheeler and, doubtless, also by his po litical friends generally, but a careful examination into the powers, privileges and duties of the two houses of Con gress and of the Vice-President satisfies us that the objection was well founded, and that in the decision of the main question then under consideration, Mr. Wheeler was no more entitled to a voice than was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, who in a certain con tingency presides over the Senate. By the Constitution the Senate is com posed of two Senators from each State, and the Senate is the sole judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of it members. True, the Vice-President’s duty, by the same authority, is to pre side over the Senate, and he has the right to vote in case of a tie; but be fore his right to vote even in case of tie can he exercised there must be a Sen ate to preside over; and as to who shall compose this body the Senators, two from each State and no more, must de- decide for themselves. Suppose the Senate was meeting for the first timOj would anybody think for a moment that the Vice-President had any right to vote at all until an organization had been effected, and there was a Senate for him to preside over? The assem blage of men with proper certificates of election would not constitute a Senate until they had organized as a Senate, and then the Vice-President’s duty begins, and not till then. The same rules that apply to the organiza tion of the body in the first instance ap ply with equal force to the admission of new members. The same persons are the judges in each case, and to the Senate, composed of two members from paeh State, is committed the preroga tive of deciding who is properly elected and qualified to sit with them. If Mr. Wheeler’s vote puts any man into the Senate we hope to see the day that the Senate will put the seal of righteous disapproval upon the act by declaring such Senator illegally admitted. George Alfred Townsend, writing from Washington to the Cincin nati Enquirer, has this interesting paragraph : “Specking to one of the most prominent men of Georgia yester day on the physical growth of the Sta'e, he said: ‘We are less restless than the North, because we suffered such pains and penalties during the war and fol lowing it that ever since our benefits seem to e< me in regular ratio. Blessed are they that expect little! Yes, we lest thirty thousand of our people last year who emigrated to Texas. But in stead of constructing a piece of dema goguery out of that and using it for statistics to explain everything, as they do in the North, we merely reasoned that it was a benfit. That class of em igrants generally had never acquired a farmstead with us, which only costs S500 to 81,000. We reflected that peo ple who were thirty-five years old and had saved nothing—not a cabin nor a field—were no loss, that they must have sold what they had to some one who would be a better neighbor; and that in Texa3 they would do what never was done uefore by them—work or die. I can see,’ resumed this gentle man, ‘one of the existing distresses of the North : the effort to maintain aloDg general prosperity and indulgences. You are slowly suffering what came to us like a thunderbolt. In Georgia, only a few miles from Atlanta, one can buy a hundred acres of good land, with an improvement on it, for §2,500. Here is Gen. Gordon, our Senator, living in that region in that quiet way. Now, one hundred such acres will give a family subsistance, feed the stock, and send the children to college. We have ceased to he a State of planters, and have become a Commonwealth of farm ers. At present there is but one party substantially. The South will vote Democratic solidly in 1880; but after ihat a general division is inevitable.’ ” TheNew York 2W6unc calls Mr. Bland a repudiator, because of his silver bill, and the Day-Booh comes back in this way : Repudiation is a hard word, but it would astonish the Tribune to know many millions of voters in the United States are whispering that word to-day. When men, in the terrible struggle now taking place in the business world, are driven in sane over their troubles, produced by the great load of debt the nation is struggling under, and which load is more than hu man nature can carry and prosper, life becomes insufferable, and the future hopeless. Those who keep their reason ing faculties in a normal state, make up their mind that debts which cannot be worked out must be shaken off some how, and “repudiation,” shocking as it is to the man of honor, is grasped at, rather than eternal slavery. A debt that can be worked out should be thus worked out, but the advocates of “repudiation” will tell you that history never recorded the paying of any national debt that amounted to §2,000,000,000 since the world was created. It is a terrible ordeal to pass, and no Republic on earth could it. Humanity, in shape of a Republic, with a free ballot would be more than humanity—would be gods—if, finding the debt could not be paid, did not wipe it out by the ballot. Stand from under bondholders. The Democrats are taking good care to let the Republicans underslard that they mean to call for a reckoning of all past delinquencies on the 4th of March, 1879. Nothing can preventthem having a majority then and several Democratic Senators have plainly stated that what ever wrongs may be done now will quick ly be undone then. Of the 52 Senators who hold over on the4th of March, 1879, 28 will be Democrats without counting Mr. Davis or either of the three claim ants from Louisiana and South Carolina, while 12 States, Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio and South Carolina are certain to send Democrats back, so that the Democrats are sure of a majority of four and likely to have more than that. KEXLOUU'a ADMISSION, The admission of Mr. Kellogg to a seat in the United States Senate by the vote of the Radicals of that body shows that the entire disregard of right and justice that has marked the course of that party for the last twelve years, and more, has not forsaken them, and thai they are ready still to vote for the su premacy of the party regardless of th« requirements of truth and justice. Judge Davis, Senator from Illinois, who is jocularly termed the third party in the Senate, who has been trained by his habits of thought as a Judge on the bench of the Supreme Court to look upon all questions he is called on to de cide in the light of truth, did not hesi tate to vote against Kellogg’s admission. But Patterson and Conover, who it was hoped might do right for ooce in their lives, failed to do so, and voted foi seating Kellogg. Judge Spoffordis a gentleman worthy of the honor Louieina conferred on him when he was elected to the Senate, and we hate see him deprived of a place he is justly entitled to, and a man whi has no legal or valid claim upon it fill ing his seat. But he can do no harm fuither than to draw a salary he is not entitled to and keep the man who is entitled to it out of his seat. The present House is Democratic by a majority sufficient to save us from all danger from the Radical majority in the Senate, and the next Congress will find a good Democratic majority in the Senate. (.OK CRESS, The House was not in session the 29th but the Senate kept pegging away on the contested election cases without reaching any final action. Our Senators, Messra. Gordon and Hill are constantly at their posts, occasional ly putting in a word in the right place and always voting in favor of right am justice. GEOatlA LDIP-ES. The State Grange will meet in Macoi on the 12th of December. We learn there is a new daily pape started in Atlanta, yclept the Evenin; Tribune. The Elherton Gazette thinks that th next crop raised in that county will hr carried to market by rail. Two Columbus policemen named Hackney and Jackson engaged in a shooting affray last Friday. The latest sensation in Dalton is a female blacksmith, and all the young colts are anxious to be shod. Married, at Athens last Thursday Mr. George W. Calvin, of Augusta, and Miss Amy Buesse, o f Athens. Rev. W. A. Candler, of the North Georgia, Conference, was recently mar ried to Miss Curtright, of LaGrange. The whistle of the st-rn-wheel steam boat will soon greet the ears of the peo ple who.live on either side of the Flint The Supreme Court affirmed the judg ment of the court in the case of Moses Green, of Upson county, found guilty of murder. Moses will now be hanged Four negroes were severely burned at Mr. J. H. Jackson’s, Greene county, on last Friday night. They were in the lint-room of the gin-housp, and the cotton caught fire from a lantern. Mr. W. F. Darden, tax collector of Monroe county, was recently halted on the road to bis home by three masked meD and ordered to give them all his pocket change, eighty cents, and went on his way in peace. A gold mine has been recently dis covered by W. H. L. Clay on the prop erty of Mary A. Win, three miles from Acworth, Coho, county, there being thirteen leads of gold-bearing quanz. An assay yielded one hundred and thirteen dollars to the ton. The election for anniversarian in the Demosthenian and Phi Kappa socie ties, of the University of Georgia, re sulted in the choice of Messrs. P. W. Davis, of Lexington, Ga., and J. Gor don Russell, of Dalton, Ga., respect ively. No member of the North Georgia Conference has died during the year just past. Just before adjournment Bishop Pierce addressed the Confer ence, calling for transfers from among the younger men to the Florida and some of the Western Conferences. He stated that Rev. S. H. Babcock, who was transferred to one of the Arkansas Conferences from the North Georgia several years ago, and who was quite a young man when he went West, is now a Presiding Elder—is the leading man among his brethren, and heads the list of delegates to the General Conference from his Conference. Five preachers of the body are named Quillan. Correspondence from Kentucky Louisville, Nov. 27. SpeakiDg of telephones, my .dear Courier, I call to mind a prophecy ut tered by George D. Prentice many years ago. It was after Morse’s de monstration of 1844 had thrilled the world with electric wonder, and the more intelligent minds were trying to follow the grand gleam of light then projected into the futnre’s darkness. Prentice said that the day would come when the words of the orator, while he spoke them to the people, would be coined into a legible record without any human intervention or agency. As the words of eloquence fell from the lips, warm with passionate life, they would crystalize on paper be fore him, and remain in registered thought. No pen, no pencil, no me chanical appliance to receive the lan guage like baker’s dongh, mould it into loaves, bake it, and then turn it out a tangible thing that can be cut, consumed or laid away; but the great editor’s idea was that the words them selves should, while yet in sound, be laid uoon the paper, and there cool into fixed intelligence that would last as long as human records last. We need not hunt far for Illustration of tH6 he idea. Down in Mammoth Cave may be seen the stalagmites dotting the subterranean floor likfi Cypress- knees in a Louisiana bayou. There’s the precise pattern. Limstone water drips from the arches; it crystalizes on ihe floor, and ages of dripping piles the sediment in a slim heap. No human hand Interferes to' direct, prevent or mm aside the work of nature, but it goes on forever. First, the water, which is formless, like the breathed word; then the fall, which is like the utter ance of the word, a direction being giv en it; and then the change from the volatility of water to the stony perma- uence that must wait for Gabriel. But what I wished to say is, that the great paragrapher’s bones have hardly had time to mingle with the common -lust of earth before we are told that his prophecy is fulfilled. You may have read, a few days ago, of Mr. Edison’s contrivance, called the phonograph, Should he succeed in perfecting it, as seems very likely from his progress so tar, we shall be able to reproduce the it reel so words and tones of fhe human voice once spoken into, at, through, or around the machine, no matter how many years or ages afterward, as faith fully as lines of light record the photo graphic image. The uses to which this new thing could be applied would fill a barrel to mention. In schools, for instance, it might take the place of nooks, and oral instruction might be dispensed from one of these machines set in the middle of the room, the full- eared pupils standing around. The voices of the past, thus preserved and produced at will might substitute or at least supplement in a valuable way the present ix ethods of teaching. Then again, there's the telephone— getting so common now as to be ro longer a curiosity. Walk down Jeffer son street on any sunny day, and near the corner ot Fourth you may see a curbstone Professor of acoustics telling a knot of idlers about the thing; and he will hand you a little pasteboard cup about the size of a mustard box, and invite you to send a message along the string to the boy in a window on the opposite side ot the street, or on top of Masonic Temple—a direction which 'he man gracefully indicates with a flourish of his arm if he see you have not eyes enough to follow the twine till it ends at the boy. You talk into the cup, and ask a question or two; the boy hears you perfectly and answers. If you want it to amuse the children at home, buy one; ten cents. A wire can be used, as ordinary telegraph connec tions. I suggest that we ought to com p-1 tomcats and tabbies to use it at their courting concerts on the back shed and across the dividing fences of the kitch en area, thus allowing us nervous ones to sleep while they have as much fun as usual. About the “Dizzy Blondes.’’ Rome is morally so sweet a place—so Eden-' like when compared with the crime centers of population—that when the Devil obtrudes in the shape of illegiti mate drama, or puts on the ravishing disguise of musical extravaganza, vour people have but to assume a frowD and he vanishes. Such is the blessedness of a well-ordered community where churches have reasonable sway. But the horns and the hoofs and the forked rail will not down at our indignant bid ding here—because the Old Boy thinks tie sees an inviting twinkle in our eyes, however we pretend to be severe. We have a very fine organization of Y. M, C. A. here, and I’ll tell you what they fid. Madam D’Enclos came with her “blondes” to Library Hall last week, and there was excitement among the bald-headed ones and the youth un curbed, for the blondes’ bad moials and performance had been sniffed from afar. So much, so very much of the people m large cities are devil-prompted, and always on the keen scent for dirt. The blondes showed, and Louisville Mu-fied. The Courier-Journal had pre viously printed an indignant warning, which had the usual effect of keeping good folks away, and jamming the the ater from pit to dome with the loose, the vile, and the well-dressed but care less. Next day the Y. M. C. A. pro cured an interference of the police, and the blimdes were squelched. They went over the river to Jeffersonville and finished the week there, but were toned down somewhat from the broad ness of their exhibition here. You should have heard the howl of in dignation set up by the loose moraled at being thus checkmated by the Young Men; and you would have to sit down and reflect pretty heavy after listening to some opinions expressed by people whom you had thought might be fiiBt cousins to angels. We are having some weather, and it is very ugly weather, too. There seems to be a general rain overspreading this latitude; and the terrible disasters in Virginia make us pray for less of a flood here. Yet it is an ill wind that blows nobody away. The rains which to-day cause Virginia to sit in desola- cion are the same which have raised our Ohio and sent down the coal fleets from Pittsburgh—and the price of fuel will return to within the reach of the filden on Hayes* Policy. Ha Think* Hi* Reception South “ Wa* *11 Humbug.” poor. Next month we have onr municipal election, and the nsual squalls pf that teething period. The Workingmen’s party is pretty strong, and almost swept the field last August I cannot say whether lately it has gathered strength or not; but some time since I formed the opinion that it is a very complete humbug, and will only last until the politicians get ready to sit down upon Old Pick. How Sbe Mizes ’em- A New York Herald interviewer re ports to that jonrnal the following in. terview, said to have been held between him and ex-Gov. Tilden. It opens with the inquiry: “Governor, how do you feel?” “Never felt better in my life,” re sponded Mr. Tilden. His appearance indicated that he was in the best of health and spirit", and he was commu nicative in an unusual degree. AN OPINION OF HAYES. ‘iWhat do you think. Governor,’ continued his interlocutor, “of the pol icy Hayes is pursuing ?” “I think he is chilling some of the fa naticism in the Republican party.” “Is he breaking up the party, in your opinion?” “He will have no party very soon,” replied Mr. Tilden; “he will, in three years from now, have no more support than a corporal’8 guard.” “Then yon think, Gov. Tilden, that he will alienate from his snpport both Democrats and Republicans?” “I think so. The South appears to be disposed to pat him on the back and uige him forward in his work of re conciliation; but will they stand by him ?” “What do you think they will do, (aavemor ?” ■ “Well, they will do as they always Aid, snpport none but a true-blooded I^mocrat that will represent them.’’ THE SOUTHERN TRIP. ‘•Then you think that these ovations to President Hayes in the different Southern States were assumed for a purpose? Were insincere, in fact?” “It was all humbug,” replied Mr. Tilden, with emphasis. “It can’t be that these Southern Democrats will ac cept an administration which they must know is founded on fraud, and which is Republican in spite of every thing.” “But they do accept it Mr. Tilden.” “Yes, they do accept it, hut you know the present administration is falling to pieces, and where it will end Heaven only knows.” MR. TILDEN WILL CONTEST. “Do you purpose prosecuting your tight to the Presidential chair?” “Certainly, I do,” answered Mr. Til den spiritedly. “The country knows that I was legally elected President, and thu American people is top intel ligent to forget that one glaring and paramount fact On that fact tbe very foundations of the Republic rest If jhe voice of a Eation he not realized in the serious question of electing its su preme ruler, then you may calculate bn bitterness of feeling that will not be assuaged until the wrong is righted. The people who supported me feel to day that their votes were given in vain. They feel that they might as well haye cast tneir suffrages for a dummy, and they number so large a portion of the population of the whole country that it is an unwise experiment to trifle with their rights. As far as I am concerned, it is of little consequence, but I tell you one of the gravest principles in repre sentative government is involved, arid if the people do not see to it the mat ter will be-a subject of deep regret to coming generations.” A PARTY GOING TO PIECES. “What do you think of the action of the Senate in the case of the Southern Senators ?” “Well, as I said before, the adminis tration and the Repnblican party are going to pieces. Mr. Hayes has no color, and the Republican party has no policy.” “You appear, Governor, to feel a distrust of the Southern support of Hayes ?” “Humbug/’ responded the Governor sententiously, “you can’t mix oil and water,” and then he looked around, saw what astonished him, and walked briskly off, entered a Broadway stage and drove up town.” News Items. R. Whitader’s Cotton Mills, the lar gest in Oldham, Eng., containing 50,000 splindles, have been destroyed by fire, and many persons thrown out of em ployment. Germany has informed Switzerland that, subject to ratification by the Ger man Parliament, it will contribute a further sum of two million dollars to ward the St. Gothard railway. Nathaniel Greene postmaster at Bos ton from 1829 to 1841, .died recntly, aged SO years. He was an active jour nalist in New Hampshire in early life, and was one of the founders of the Bos ton Statesman. At Sedalia, Mo., Thursday night the house of Eliza M. Orz., colored, was burned during her temporary absence and her two children perished in the flames. The fire iB believed to have been started by a Voudoo doctor, named Eddy. At San Francisco on November 28 there were about seven thousand in t procession of workingmen. It was en tirely quiet. The parade was admitted to be in the highest degree creditable to the good sense and moderation of the laboring classes. David Stillman and his wife, an in firm couple, aged about 70, have been found murdered at their home at Shef field, Mass. The weapon employed was an axe. John Teneyck, a colored man, who went to the house to buy but ter, has been arressed on suspicion of the murder. Marsh Polk, treasurer, and James P. Gaines, comptroller of Tennessee, are en route home from New York, where they made a final settlement with the Mississippi Central Railroad Company receiving one million two hundred thousand dollars in State bonds in full discharge of all debte due the State. Antiquity of the Turkey. An old colored lady of one of the back counties siDgs all the good old Methodist hymns, but she gets them mixed some? times. She sings, ‘Sweet preipeet*. sweet bird* and sweet flower* Here ell loot their (weetau* tut me." An another: 11 Am I ■ boulder of e hoM, A quarter of a lamb.” She means all right, though, bless her good heart.—Aehland (Ay.) Repent, Turkeys were introduced into England from America by William Strickland, Lieutenant to Sebastian Cabot, in the time of Henry VII. B. Franklin re marked once upon a t;ms that the wild turkey should have been the emblem of the United States, the log cabin pf the pioneer being in his day snrroanded by these birds. The first turkey seen in France was served up at the wedding feast of Charles IX., in 1564, af, which feast Craddock and Susan B- Anthony was present, Since that day turkeys have always formed the nucleus for wed ding feasts and Thgnksgivipg dinners, which is about all we know concerning the bird, unless we shonld say that newspaper men have always held that a cut from the forward part of a roast turkey’s carcass, smothered in gravy and surrounded by a pound and a half of artificial intensities, is a dish not in the least detrimental to health, and one which no newspaper man ever hesitated to tackle when favorable opportunity offered.—Ovcemboro (Ky) Examiner. It was a man in Missouri who walked 123 milee to get wedded. Fdfty-Fiitll Congress- Extra Session. Washington, D. C., Dec. 1. SENATE. j The-first vote last night was on Hill’s substitute to seat Spofford on bis prima fade case, which was rejected, 27 to 29 ; Patterson and Conover voting nay; Da vis, of HI., aye. On the direct vote to seat Kellogg, Patterson and Conover voted aye; Davis, no. On the vote to seat Bntler, Conover and Patterson voted aye; Davis did not vote. Kellogg and Bntler were then sworn in. In executive session the following were confirmed: Given, of Fla., Consul to Leghorn; G. C. Wharton, District At torney for Ky.; Norton, of New Orleans, Inspecting Supervisor of Steamboats. Wadleigh from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, reported a reso lution declaring J. B. Eustis entitled to a seat as Senator from Louisiana, for the term ending March 4, 1879. The report was spstained in Committee, 6 to 3. A minority report was presented, and the matter went over. Butler and Kellogg and in their seats. The Deficiency bill was amended in several important respects and passed. The Senate went into executive session and took a recess to 10 A. H Mouday. Fitzsimmons was confirmed as Marshal of Georgia. HOUSE. The House adapted a resolution in structing the Committee on Patents to re port a bill prohibiting the bringing of suits for damages for infringements of patents against persons who may pur chase said patents without the knowledge of such infringements. A resolution foi final adjournment at 3 P. m. to-day, was adopted. The House to-day passed a bill for the relief of the survivors of the wrecked steamship Huron, and the families of the lost. It gives one thousand dollars in the cases of officers, aDd oae hundred dollars in the cases of the men. The bill also applies to the crew of the swamped wrecking boat It was introduced by Mr. Knott, of Kentucky, aid passed unanimously. A motion to suspend the rules and pass a bill to remove all political disabilities was made by Goode, of Virginia, and was defeated for want of the necessary two thirds majority. Mr. Mills, of Texas, moved to suspend the rules and adopt a resolution iostruci- ing the Committe on Ways and Means to report a revenue tariff; rejected. The House took a recess till 10 a. m. Monday. Origin of Some Famons Leg ends. Not among the different members of the great Aryan family only, are the germs of many of our best-known stories discoverable. They see-n to belong to humanity. Prof. Fiske, of Harvard University, noticing how the “ William Tell” legend (for it is a legend), and that which among the We’ah celebrates the death of Gelert’s faithful hound, and good many otners besides, are found everywhere, says: “We must admit, then, that these fireside tales have beeu handed down from parent to child for more than a hundred generations; that the primi tive Aryan cottager,os he took his evening meal of yava and sipped his fermeoted mead, listened with bis children to the Boots and Cinderella and the Master Thief, in the days when the squat Lap lander was still master of Europe and the dark-skinned Sundra was as yet un molested in the Punjab.” True; but may we not go farther, and say that, finding these tales, or counterparts, among Zulus aDd Mongols, and Malays, and Red Indians, we must either pronounce them to be “innate ideas,” or else bold that men had invented them io the old old time when the differences between Aryans and non-Aryans had not grown up ? Sir H. Rawlinson seems to prove, from the earliest Assyrian remains, that “in the biginning,” Hamite and Shemite and Japbetian were all one—that even what afterwards became the Aryan tongues were then “agglutinative,” like the Red Indian of to-day. S >me one. too. has just proved that the old Peruvian was a kindred speech to the Sanskrit No wonder, then, that the same stories are current all the world over. Minister Hilliard. Oar Minister to Brazil arrived safely at Rio de Janeiro,on he 14th day of Oc tober.' In a private letter from that splendid capital, dated October 15th, the day after bis arrival, he writes: “I arrived yesterday morniDg, by the blessing of a good Providence, quite well and with grateful heart The voy- ago was pleasant from the day we sailed from Bordeaux. The Consul and some fifteen American gentlemen came to the ship to receive me, in a boat from which the United States flag floats and I found a very handsome and ele gant carriage awaiting me. Apartments had been secured for me at the Hotel of Strangers, kept by English people. It is somewhat singular that upon the walls of my parlor are hung the por traits of General Washington and of the King of the Belgians, the Queen and the three children, the little girl beiDg Curlotta. So I seem to have taken up diplomatic life where I left if off, having been Minister to Belgium formerly. It is of course design in it.” He says also that “Rio is a magnifi cent city, but unlike any I ever saw, The sea and mountains surround it. Thejbay.is very beautiful,and rocksfrom twelve to twenty-five hundred feet in height rise to view. “The Emperor yesterday in full state adjourned the Congress. He wore his imperial robes, his crown, etc., etc. driven to the Chamber in a coach drawn by eight horses, the Empress also in an other drawn by eight horses.” mete coincidence—no ness for office. I voted for Felton & his record and his capacity with^ 4 nomination. I shall vote for Braah ' with a nomination.for the SumpZr* —Bulletin of the 29th ull. Telephonic Experiments. Some very successful telephonic ex periments have been made recently upon a short line between the Maryland Agri cultural College and the college station a distance of nearly a mile. Prof. War- field and others of the college staff have transmitted messages, even though spoken in a whisper. Singing is even a greater success. Whistling, laughing, drum beating, guitar playing, and even the beating of a watch can be clearly heard. Speeches can be as clearly heard as though in the presence of the speaker. Visitors coming unexpectedly can by this means have a carriage at the depot in a few moments.—Baltimore Gazette. London, Dec. 1.—The Times' corres pondent at Berlin telegraphs the follow ing: There seems to be no doubt that the German Government has endeavor ed to obtain Austria’s acquiescence in the Russian plan of direct negotiation with Turkey, by promising her friend ly support if any of Austria’s vital in terests are imperilled. The Times’Vienna correspondent says it ip announced from Bucharest that the general bombardment of Plevna commenced Thursday. London, Dec. I.—The city was vis ited by the heaviest fog of the season to-day. At 10:30 o’clock this morning it was as dark as midnight, but the darkness only lasted a short time. The British Government has con tracted with the owners of the Bell telephone for its use as a part of the British telegraph system. Between two and throe thousand cotton operatives are now on a strike at Mossley. The employers threaten a general lock-out The Rural Home tells us that “the Hessian fly has been very numerous and destructive in autumn.” It is be lieved that George Washington was re sponsible for the introduction of the Hessian fly into this country. At any rate, it was never heard of.in this coun try until we were suddenly told ibat he had made (he Hessian fly at Trenton. “I wish I was sbort-sigbted,” said a little boy his mother the other day. “Why, my dear ?” said the fond pa rent “Because,” replied the precocious six- year-old, “I should not then be blamed lor always taking the largest plums off the dish) for, of oourse, I should not be able to see the small ones.” “With regard to these gentlemen helps,” said a respectable maiden lady to a very witty matron (with daughters) “you may depend upon it that they will never stoop to low menial work.” “My dear madam,” wag the reply, “it is the hymeneal work that I am afraid of their rising to.” The rice crop of South Carolina for the year is estimated at 44,000 tierces, and that of Georgia at 26.000 tierces. London, Dec. 1.—A Constantinople correspondent sends the following: “The Turks having seized two Ital ian vessels in the Bosphorus, although they had passed the blockade in the Black Sea, Count Corti, the Italian Am bassador, has formally declared that if they are not released he will proclaim the blockade ineffectual and invite Italian ship owners to send their ves sels into the Black Sea. He has also declared that it the Porte insists on maintaining an ineffectual blockade, Italy will resort to extreme measures. Unless the Porte yields there will be rupture with Italy.” A later dispatch from Rome, how ever, anticipates no serious difficulty be tween Turkey and Italy about the seizure of two merchant ships on the Bosphorus. Count Corti, the Ambas sador at Constantinople, protested against the seizure, and the Porte offer ed full satisfaction. Risings are apprehended in Epirus, Thessaly and Albania. The Greeks have sent a strong note to the Porte concerning their grievances, and the Porte has replied that it is inclined to meet the danger half way by sending both the Servian and Greek represent- tatives their passports. As the note is evidently intended to provoke an an gry reply which could be used as pretext for a rupture at a favorable op portunity, the situation is very critical. The following passage between Sena tors Edmunds and Davis occurred on Wednesday, in the debate on contested seats: Mr. Edmunds—Mr. President, I be lieve my honorable friend from Illinois (Mr. Davi-0 is partly correct in speak ing of the evenly balanced state of parties in fee Senate. Whether he re ferred to all the parties in tne Senate or not I do not know. [Laughter.] There are two parties in the Senate that are very evenly matched ; how it is with the third I do not know. [Laughter.] Mr. Davis—The third is unanimous. [Laughter.] Mr. Edmunds—I assume that the third party is unanimous, as my friend has just stated. [Laughter.] I hope we shall have order, Mr. President; cannot go on. The Vice President—That rests with the Senator from Vermont. [Laugh ter.] Mr. Edmunds—Then we shall have order. The Supreme Court of Georgia has decided in the case of Stafford, Rla- lock & Co. vs. Elliott, in a claim case from Pike county, that “A general waiver of the right of homestead to all the property of a debtor, in esse and to be acquired, in a promissory note witn- out words which create any lien or de scribe any particular property, will not estop the debtor from taking a home stead, though he may have owned and possessed the property set apart at the time he gave the note.” The official returns of the vote of New York in the late election show a considerable range of the majorities. While Mr. Olcott, the Democratic can didate for Comptroller, has a majority of 36,389, Mr. Beach, the Democratic nominee for Secretary of State, has only 11.280 majority. About 12,500 of this difference is to be found in the vote of New York city, and is doubtless due to the fact that the German organizations supported Olcott and opposed Beach. New York, Nov. 28.—The Sound steamer O. H. Northam, lying at the foot of East 7th street, was burned yes terday, with three negroes who were asleep aboard. The origin of the fire is supposed to be a spark which drop ped from a tobacco pipe. The vessel was insured far §120,000, London, Nov. 29.—The Telegraph has informatioa that Kars fell througn the treachery of a Pa.-ha who admitted the Russians to the commanding fort and was paid for it. It is reported that Warsaw and other parts of Poland are about being declar ed in a state of siege. Savannah, Dec. 1.—The store of Na than Cornwell, near Bartow, Ga , was ourned last night, and Corn we 1 IV charred remains were found in ll e ruins. It is thought ha wag murdered and the store burnt by the robbers. Washingtoii, Dec. 1.—The bridges recently washed away by flood on the Virginia and Tennessee road haviug been replaced, trains via the Kenne- saw route resume the regular through trips to day. A Buffalo man dreamed that he was goiog^ over the falls, and he had his wi‘ e by the throat when he woke up. Next night she bad a dream, and broke his nose as she struck at an Indian. Some men’s only stock-in-trade are their misfortunes. These they are al ways trying to force upon the market, but they rarely ever Sod a purchaser. The law makes a witness swear he will tt-11 the whole truth, so help him, and then it imposes rules of evidence by which he is not permitted to tell it. JudgeA.B.Wrighdt^Uj’ We called up Hon AR w • terday andsubmit the r c s u i t ,,? ?hk J» terview. 1 uf <toi p I It is said yon are for Branham r , House of Representatives i, f.®A “Notwithstanding all that L t0? [ainst Wm. G. Browrdow th^ bt(t against that stood at tbe bead of theT Ia< *o Whig was essentially righi- B in nothing; on one side or the * all questions.” I ghali tt <( Branham for the house.” . “What are your reasons for 5nr ,_ ing him.” en PPcut “I answer unhesitatingly bee, elected, I believe he will he’ leader sof the house. I am fact that he is the nominee of a ^‘ l!i non ana that a good many of ° j pendent friends think that for that son alone, we are bound to vntl. !* him. Not so. His uominati. t,^ nim. iNot so. ms nomination opinion, ought to make no maw1** difference for or against him. I*/? man stand upon his capacity and o ness for office. I voted fo. a * A statement comes from Bus! headquarters that the story shunto! anticipated surrei der of the Turfa * Plevna is all a myth, and that Tnrti* prisoners report abundant food snpcE Within the fortifications there. London, Dec. 1.—A special from Be lin to the Times says the German TA. graph Department is organizing rJ- phonic commnnication for distant- not exceeding fifty miles. 001 England has imported 396.000 Inna of apples from the United State si-, last October. Boston, Dec. 1.—CommodoreCdi well, of the United States States Xm is dead. Lord & Taylor, NEW YORK. WE INFORM THE LADIES OF ROME Gl THAT OUR MAIL AND KXP8KFS DEPaKTMFtm? NOW SO THOROUGHLY ORGAN IZED. TRETCum THEIR SHOPPING IS NEW YORK WITHOUT?S EXPENSE OF TRAVELING THERE. PLE3 OF PIECE GOODS WITH PRICES PUlm MARKED, AND CATALOGUES OP LADDS' inni AND CHILDREN'S FURNISHING GOODS H® TO APPLICANTS WHO SEND US TUm ADDRESS, FREE OF CHARGE, AND IP THCTrr PLAIN CLEARLY THE KIND OF GOODS WaJtt? WE .-EL DOM FAIL IN SUITING THEM. FROMnf PRINTED CATALOGUE THEY CAN ALWAYS mg SELECTION OP GARMENTS THAT WILL cm SATISFACTION, AND IT IS ONLY NECBSAIIM GIVE THE PROPER MEASUREMENTS TO KB'S SUCCESS. OUR IMPORTATIONS CF THIS SEASON Cl U US AN UNEQUALED «TG(T OF GOOES. ‘ BLACK SILKS, hnniisnine &r.d durable El wvH* • 1.0 to ♦3.50. Tbe GREAT AMERICAN lSMUm? TIBLE SILK, *1.20, $1.2*. and PLAIN COLORED SILKS > low as 75c. per yard, and at $l.lu, same as qairrf t season at $ I 25. Fancy_ firoche and I>ama?StS_ngure3 cf thenerfca io? S*Oaj*t|m u.rie?, from $2.00 upward*. Tn orth $1.25. IHE PRICES AT WHICH WE OFFER OCR fUB >:-TllIRD LES NOVELTIES IN DRESS GOODS give a richer display rt ei this season than for maev; lug bj every European Sie stock. The mixed COSTUME CLOTnS ranjre in prir • f* COc. a yard to $3.0t», am! on loir-priced DRLSd wk, liic. a.yard up, many of them bring ai t tose eat f and infbi i Ldditioai u s the heavier fabrics. SHAWLS, MANTLES and WRAPS India Valley Ca*bracre Shawl* from $100.00 na hh Filled Craters at ♦50.00 and up. Real Drcca, Chedda ai.d Striped India Elavil xr designs, from $10.00 upwards. Also, full Rues Ed* French and German ShawU in beautiful new the best and most reliable manufacture. Piria Re ties a d Cloaks of the latest modes from $15.10 sp, of Berlin from $3.00. Ladies’ and Children’s Sails al Fine Under Clothia; These department* embrace everything periahiafU Female Cos-turnf, suited to all ages a ‘ For full particulars see catalogue*. HOSIERY. Ladies', Misses’, and Children'* Hosiery from J1J* dozen, uo to the finest good- All the newest and;» tie*t designs la Hosiery iae represented in oar Met a r considered an lodjpo GL VES. Kid, SIk, Lisle Thread and Merino Gloves of tte a color* and ehapes. In great variety. Lord t Taylor’s Kid Glove*, 2 buttons, warranted, $1.00 per pair, price last season $1.10. ALSO, Lace, Cambric, Linen and S'Ik Handkerchief*, tod ba> tiful Neckerchiefs, all prices from 25c. upward, art-’ kinds Dress Trimmings to match ocr goods. MOURNING DEPARTMENT. French and English Crapes, Grenadines and Orps- dies. Bombazines, Henrietta Cloth, $1 .i>» np. Trod Cashmere, 50c. up, Biarrii* Cloth, Serges, AastnB* Crape* and other desirable fabric* at very low prat, \\ e make up full suits of MOURNING from nmet at short notice. Mourning Jet Jewelry, sad alisd articles of Mourning in variety. DOMESTIC and HOUSEKEEPING GOODS Sheeting!. PQloir Cloths, Bhnkets, Quite, Ocefcte bles, flannels, and, in fact, every article required is te line, we always eeil at tnannfacturers’ pricr*. White Goods ar»d Liaeas, from the finest White ^Or FURS. Alaska Seal S icqn*». from $65.00 up. Al*3k|t Seal Mufls f.cm$6.oo up. Alaska Beal * o a s. frem *6.00 cp. JKpk Muffs and Lo.« . from §:2_'0 a 'et, cp-rori EQk Far-lined Garments, fro-a $ 5.00. Alaska S .Me Seta, f. cm $7.5*'. A good set tf 1 urs :.s low a* $5.00, . 55F” Our Goods an to fill all orders ex-u t We guarantee all put and stand reqdy t f rat-diM convinced that a fir,’, tru. tom hereafter. All orders for Goods cr where parties i Broadway and Twentieth St Grand, Chrystie and Forsyth S& NEW 1’GRK prop trie; W 1876 ditio by h tola prop were with One and the!: hold: $52.: oatst print then Wet Yorl *cce; thert IU wee: midt finan espc-c bette that th rated tikei A cut Th Kohl IV edit! recei |s, v'aic help. TRAVEI ERS V VIRS Oil TBE El! Should Pukcuase Their Traits m EAST TENNESSEE A and the VIRGINIA MIDLAND Bt this Line passengers go through fr* Dalton to Balti® orl WITHOUT CHANGE OF CABS, Provided their tioket* reed Via. the Baltimore and Ohio, bel« r - - Washington City and BaItio (,rt L. tS. Brown, Southern Pui'W iris ,.i. A fab 51 FLORIDA hear Jacksonville, FOB S-A-L^i- w Silt,.five Aeree, three end » „j from JeckeonrilK FI-.. fornle-urfii* John's river, with some fifty , .uV*" >#uuu d river* wuu o '“* v ~ j aQw;. with * steemboet lending m lew *» U of e mile from the dwelling. “ n ,r The other day a train 60 the Canada Southern Railroad ran 111 miles in 109 minute 0 . One mile was ran in 55 seconds. E. N. FRESHMAN Failure after a long perseverance is Advertising * ' 190 W. Fourth St., CINCINHAW' much grander than never to have a striv ing good enongh to be called a failure. In Denmark a barber i& required to know the ^idiments of surgery, and pass an examination thereon. hammock and p no lend, nni ■pie did orange grore. T, noeeJJ «nd has on it a good house with «id*f ont buUdiBRS. The ” tool*. cnltivaion, end the Block, let®-» cen be bought with the place- . .fat^ be bought low for cash nr in anle town property in Borne. E'fli.wistit on *—«- F-'BD sep20.tw3m At© authorised to contract * ot in this paper* Estimate* ftarniibed frcc.^ ^ , jUrt**] uarl8*twtf edi ao'l; cord; Ogy , nib’, dent: vey 3 Bom: corn; *nd the I light Hie thro: fell, lEgg cluti; •Iso, day, pav< «ent: from with hat 1