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Wednesday Morning, Dec.1'2,1877
' Governor Irwin, of California, gloom
‘ ily predicts what he calls an irrepressibh
conflict on the Pacific coast unless th
heathen hordes pf China are driven home
ward. • • ^
* General Orel thinks the five thousand
•* nien wiitt^will soon he on the Tesau
‘ frontier jwill be sufficient to protect it'.
The os|Jense will be only about five mil
lion dollars- annually.
, The last French census, taken in 1876.
the results of which are just made public,
shows an increase of 800,000 in the pop
ulation in five years. The latest pre
vious census had shown a decrease.
Boston is to have an exhibition of
five hundred ladies in Horticultural
hall, and a gold watch, a necklace and
a diamond .ring given to three hand
somest. At least so the advertisements
read.
Dr. Brown, formerly and for nearly
25 years at the head of the Blooming-
dale insane asylum, has not been bene
fited by his trip to England or his treat
ment there, and seems to be a hopeless
lunatic.
A Louisville man has had three
wives in four years. He traded one for
a farm, another for a pair of horses,
and the third a for a mule. He is only
forty years old, and expects to stock his
farm entirely if he has good luck.
The last Ohio Legislature, which was
Republican in both branches, passed a
law excluding colored men from the
.State militia. White male citizens
only arc eligible. The colored people
think this a strange proceeding, and
are looking around for the cause.
The World gloomily remarks that it
was reserved for an American Senate,
with a Republican majority, to hear
one dignified member politely remind
another of the same political faith that
he daren't remain among his constitu
ents “long enough to change his shirt.”
A country paper in France, named
the Progress, received a pamphlet with
a picture of MacMahon on horseback
to grace the cover. The editor remarli-
ed that “the horse had an intelligent
eye,” and for this expression was fined
SI00. Hereafter the Progress will not
progress on horseback.
THREE QUESTIONS SETTLED.
The result of last Wednesday’s elec
tion is sufficiently well-known to satisfy
us that the Constitution of 1877, and the
Hrmestead of 1877 carried by large rna-
inrilioa, npfl jjjat Atlanta
SIR. H WES ON FINANCE.
The leading papers in England are
highly gratified at the tone of Mr. Tr —
large enough to lake the question out of
public discussion for some time.
SENATORIAL ELECTION.
The majorities in the counties cf the
Forty-second Senatorial District are as
follows :
Hamilton. Hawkins.
Bartow 95 __
Chattooga 238
Flovd 342
message upon the question of finances.
The London Times says, “President that city \oi
Hayes has not disappointed expectation.
His message gives no uncertain sound on
the subject of currency legislation, ? and
other papers are equally free to express
their approval of the message in its' en
tirety. -
Mr. Hayes, no doubt, felicitatekyhim-
-elf upon having gained (tie applause arid 1
commendation of .the English aristocra
cy and money-kings. And it is our
opinion that he' is entitled to such com
mendation, as the views he expresses are
b;r. the echo of thedesiresof the bondhold
er, both European and American, and are
uot in unison with the wish, will, or pur
pose of the great body of the American
people whom Mr. Hayes is theoretically
supposed to represent, and whose interest
the President, of United States is expect-
to subserve. The truth is that in these
latter days, under the Dew ideas developed
by the Radical party, the President of
the United States cannot be considered
as the friend of the people.' The. inter
ests of the overwhelming majority of tax
payers and those of the few who hold the
bonds of the Government are so diverse
that a constant warfare between the two
parties has been goiDg on for years past,
and will continue to go on aud increase
in bitterness and fierceness until the voice
of the people is heard and heeded, or un
til it is hushed forever in utter degrada
tion and subserviancy to the will of the
nominal President but real autocrat.
Mr. Hayes has clearly alligned him
self with the money power, and while
we would not sanction any measure that
would be unjust to them, we are equally
interested in seeing that the debtor class
is not unjustly injured and wroDged.
If silver and greenbacks were good
enough to buy bonds with, surely silver
and greenbacks are good enough to pay
the debt, both interest and principal.
THE SILVER BILL.
The vote in the Senate on the mo
tion to postpone consideration of the
silver bill, which had passed the House
until after the holidays is considered by
many as a test vote. The division upon
that vote shows that the Senate was
not controlled by party views, but that
the division was almost entirely sec
tional. Democrats and Republicans
from the Eastern States voted for the
postponement, and Democrats and Re
publicans from the South and West
voted against postponement. Among
the very few Southern Democrats who
voted for the postponement we find
that of one our Senators, Mr. Hill
What his purpose is, or what his rea
sons may be for such a course, we can
not tell, but of one thing Mr. Hill may
be assured, that is, that the people ot
the State he represents are in favor of
any measure that will put more money
in circulation, provided the money is
as good as silver or greenbacks. They
CONVENTION AT < HlTTAKOjti
'he Chattanooga Bippatchittf Ihe 6th
ie.^ij?8ccount gUtljp proceed-
bich' met in
tp . W, A Wednesday forthe
purpose of farthering the project of ob
taining aid to remove the obstructions
from the Tennessee river, especially at
the Muscle Shoals.
We do not find a list of the delegates
attending the convention, but learn it
was largely attended by public-spirited
men from several States of the" South,
tainly “officers of. the Govern
and they, it is there stated, “shall con
tinue in the exercise of their several
mmu i/tyj ftjfeiijffojtcessorsare tfbty!
elected, or appointed and qualified.”
Hawkins’ majority..
580
-485
Congressman Candler’s vote against
the resumption repeal bill delighted
the hard-money’ papers '"of the North
The Baltimore Sun quote his remark
and adds: “Mr. Candler is not only
‘hard-money Democrat,’ but he is a
common-sense man. He knows what
is good for the people, individually and
collectively, and he is honest and fear
less enough to teach what is sound,’
Mr. Candler’s constituents may think
differently.
Strasburg Cathedral is undergoing a
complete reparation, and German hands
are bent an effacing the memories of de
struction by German shells. Advantage
has been taken of this proceeding to re
place, or, as we should call it, to “restore’
the slower injuries of time, so that a good
deal more has been added than was
knocked down in August, 1870. Sculp
ture and pinnacles, canopies and pedes
tals, the statues of emperors having a
considerable prominence, are bring re
placed or erected in positions which may
never before have been occupied. Most
of the imperial statues are on horseback
Andrew Johnson, it is said, preserve
all his papers and died leaving them in
the upper story of a shop in Greenville,
Term. Throughout his li:e he carefully
saved all papeis.and even took to Green
ville complete files of three daily papers
of New York, covering bis Presidential
term. Of telegrams alone he must have
left more than a bushel in a compact
form. He saved them all; none were
considered of so little importance as
not to be worth saving. He remarked
once how little space a folded letter
took up, and what small trouble to save
them, and how important they some
times become. His only surviving son
now lives quietly in Greenville; he has
only once sought office, as a candidate
for the Legislature, and was defeated.
WEDNESDAY'S ELECTION.
The election passed off quietly last
Wednesday. So far as we have heard
there was no disturbance at the polls
at any place throughout the State.
Under Democratic msnagement and
control every man, white and black,
was allowed to vote as sentiment or
conviction of duty and right dictated.
There, was a very large vote polled, and
from the latest news we are satisfied
that the Constitution of 1877 has been
ratified by a majority ranging from
thirty to forty thousand, and that At
lanta has been chosen-as the capital of
the State by about the same majority.
The vote upon the Homestetid of 1868
Wifi 1877 is close with the chances in
-favor of the latter.
United States may not make a silver
dollar ns good as a greenback dollar,
and if greenback dollars are by law, as
interpreted by the Supreme Court ot
the United States, good enough ! o pay
a debt due an individual, it does seem
that a silver dollar ought to be good
enough to pay interest on a bond
bought at about half its face value, and
paid for in greenbacks, silver or almost
anything else. We warn Mr. Hill that
it will not do for him to ignore the
wishes of the people of his State, unless
he has some better argument to justify
his opposition to the silver bill than
any we have seen advanced heretofore.
POSTAL SAVINGS HANKS.
The march toward centralism
steady and constant, and the purpose
of a great portion of the people of the
United States to make the "“National
Government,” as they term it, a sort of
necessity is apparent to every one who
watches the strides of centralism. The
Federal Government, by means of its
laws upon banking and currency, has
virtually become the great money
changer of the country, and no man is
allowed to issue money without license
from Washington, and from the States
is taken their sovereign right to charter
companies to do a banking business
The Postoffice Department has be
come a bank of exchange and deoosit,
and millions of dollars are carried by
the mails in the shape of postoffice or
ders every year, when there can be
found no warrant for such proceeding
in the Constitution of the United States.
And if by any accident to the mails, or
by any rogueiy of postmasters or route
agents, money is lost, the loser has no
recourse. We admit the money order
system is very convenient, but then it
is very unconstitutional, and conse
quently very wrong. And now comes
ome one in Congress proposing to
tarn postoffices into savings banks.
Such an idea is so ridiculously errone
ous that it would seem it would meet
with no favor, but no doubt it has a
strength sufficient to give it a promise
of success, provided a few Democrats
can be found to vote for it in the House.
pervaded the meeting.
From Georgia we recognize among
the names who took a prominent part
in the proceedings those of onr towns
men, Col. D. S. Prihtup and Dr. E.
Hillyer, also GeD. P. M. B. Yonng,
Col. B. W. Frobel, and Dr. Geo. Little.
Hon. John M. Fleming, Chairman
of the Committee on Resolutions, pre
sented a series of resolutions urging the
importance and' practicability of the
improvement of the navigation of the
Tennessee river, which were unanim
ously adopted. He then stated that
the committee also instructed him to
report, independently and favorably,
on the following resolutions, submitted
by Dr. Hillyer, of Georgia:
Resolved, That we recommend to
the favorable consideration of the Con
eresa of the United States a further ap-
nropriation for the Coosa river, of Ala
bama and Georgia.
Resolved, That this recommendation
is made outside of the specific object
for which this convention has assem
bled, being cognizant of the great ad
vantages to the agricultural and com
mercial interests of this section of the
South, we make favorable mention of
this work to the Government of the
United States.
Dr. Hillyer’s resolutions called out a
very spicy and entertaining discussion,
participated in by Col. Frobel, Gen. P.
M. B. Young, of Georgia; Col. Gaskill,
ofTennessee; Dr. Ililiyer, of Georgia;
Judge VanDyke, of Tennessee; Dr.
George Little, of Georgia; Hon. John
M. Fleming, of Tennessee, and others.
Finally Gen. Young demanded the pre
vious question on the resolution, hut
withdrew it to give Col. Fleming op
portunity to speak. Col. F., after a
very forcible speech, in which he sup
ported the resolution and deprecated
needless division of sentiment, renewed
the previous question, which was sec
onded by the convention, and, the main
question being put, the resolution "■as
adopted.
Along with various other important
committees, the following were :i[i-
pointed, to-wit:
Committee on Visitation to Wash
ington—J. T. Wilder, chairman, of Ten
nessee; D. S. Printup, of Ga.; Captain
Coffee, R. E. Coxe, Gen. Jos. Wheeler,
of Alabama; John M. Fleming, ofTen
nessee; Gen. Addison White, of Ala.;
and E. A. James, V. A. Gaskilt aud
Prof. H. E. Colton, of Tenn.; and Col.
B. W. Frobel and Gen. P. M. B. Young,
of Ga.’ ~
TvffauifS.J'UIIilA'tnan, ol ^itnnesaee; I)r.
beany doubt Yu *the interpreta-
the clause of the new Constitu
te!! says, that the present Leg-
shall hold thtirjseats only until
iccesBors are “elected,” the other
ranee in paragraph seventh of
cle eighth, would seerato affirm the
contrary, as the President’ of tfie Sen- by Mr. Honiker, at the
ate and Speaker of the House are. cer- reBidence of the bride ' 8 moth er, about
1£Q6DC, ♦trrv'miluo fpiYrta t)ln oWc *
"and usages r in nff ■Btne^cotopad»
Hillyer, of Georgia; Wm. Rul*-, H. Sr
Chamberlain, ofTennessee; J. M. Crow
der, Frank Coleman, and R. M. Patton,
of Alabama.
The convention adjourned subject to
the call of the Executive Committee.
parallel <£|sq& ffhjph have occurred in
the past-it.is claimed: also, would. juff-
tify the holding over of the present of
ficers of tbfe General Assembly. And
even if there was any doubt in ‘he
premises, the people would sustain
them in the quasi usurpation of tfie
necessary power to keep in motion the
wheels of government and preserve the
State from anarchy.
But doubtless Gov. Colquitt will re-
ler this grave question to the Attorney-
General and other competent counsel,
and a proper decision will be reached.
We think an extra session of the
Legislature is greatly be deprecaftjjjtn
the present condition of the fiuirri-es,
and should he avoided if within the
bounds of possibility.
Finally, we have every confidence
that our wise and discreet Chief Magis
trate will take no false step in a matter
of such vital importance, and fervently
hope and pray that he may long con
tinue to live and serve his admiring
constituents in the future.
This is a novel and interesting ques
tion, however, and we wish to see it in
telligently aud fully ventilated.
mi. ^■/■rr'-Y’rrMrTg
hundred thousand dollars
Sayannah bonds were held’'
of Augusta. 7 3 t
The Macon Telegraph and Messen
ger of the8th says: “Yesterday morn
ing Mr. Thomas Powers, of Rome, was
married to Miss Mattie Rogers, of Bibb
two miles from the city.
For the first time sioco the war,
[Glynn county hgs elected a Democrat
ic member of the" Legislature.' James
manifested to resort to extreme meas
ures on the part of their advocates.
Mb !to various officetjffjtBfjnfi
yesterday, were those for The New Y-
Custom-house, rejected by Mr.. Conk-
iing’s committee. ’' The 'failure of the
President to hfed the request of the
New York delegation that these names
be not again sent to the Senate, and his
disinclination to appoint Packard to
the New Orleans Custom-house also
MARSHAL .HAGMAHuN YIELDS.
PATTERSON'S SPEECH.
“Honest John” Patterson’s recent
speech in the Senate was the sensation
of the session. It attracted attention,
says the Augusta Constitutionalist, not
because of the views expressed—fur
they were known before—but on ac
count of the language in which they
were conveyed. It was known that he
would arraign the Administration, that
he would denounce the President, that
he would attack Conkling and E<1
munds, who had assailed him so sav
agely after he had stated that lie would
vote for the admission of Gen. Butler.
But “Honest John,” though famous as
a many-sided thief and rascal general
ly, had never acquired distinction as
an orator or made any pretensions to
the possession of literary gifts. Imag
ine, then, the surprise of the Senate,
the amazement of the public, when this
coarse, illiterate and villainous carpet
bagger launched upon his audience a
speech an hour and a quarter long, writ
ten in choice English and eloquent even
in print, Balaam was not more aston
ished when the ass opened his mouth
and spake than was the Senate when
it heard the rhetoric, the classical allu
sions and the fervid eloquence of this
social and political outcast. The ra:
cal, like Silas Wegg, even dropped into
poetry, aud, what is more to the point,
chose his quotations well. When he
came to the hypocritical Edmunos,
who, he said, had repeated the naughty
stories invented about him (Patterson)
by his enemies, he styled him a “huck
ster of anonymous slanders,” and went
on as follows: The old Scotch poet
Ferguson must have gazed with the
the eye of prophecy into the future
when he wrote the verse:
The New York Herald of the 7th
says the threatening aspect of the po
litical crisis in France has been baj -
piiy changed to one favorable to a pa
cific and even complete solution of the
problem of government by the with
drawal of Marshal MacMahon from
his untenable position of dictator. The
reactionists who surrounded and ad
vised him t 0 assume an attitude antag
onistic to the country, having overdone
their work, were appalled by the situa
tion they created, and have permitted
ttie better impulses of the President to
asseit their supremacy and inspire him
with a desire to end the struggle by
yielding to the popular will. A special
dispatch recounts the incidents that
ishered in this policy of conciliation.
The Marshal found it impossible to
count on support from the monarchia)
but anti Bonapartist group of the Sen
ate f or his scheme of dissolution which
the more desperate of his advisers
prompted him to put in force, and,
knowing that the contest if prolonged
must certainly have ended in civil war
r his resignation of power, chose’the
sensible course of accepting a Ministry
represeotiog Frtir “’“
With military abruptness he says tU
M. Batbie, “ I give you carte blanche t<
make a Ministry in twenty-four hours,”
and to the Prefect of Versailles, “ I
sacrifice you, but I am obliged to do
so.” Here is the whole case in a nut
shell. The cause of France triumphs,
but officials lose their places.
county since 1868, and was the oldest
member of the last House. He sds-
tained, at the hands of Mr. T. W. Lamb,
his first defeat last Wednesday.
On Saturday last a difficulty occur
red in the lower part of Coweta county,
near the line of Heard, between two
brothers, J. C. and C. B. Newman, in
which the former shot the latter in the
forehead, withont, however, inflicting a
dangerous wound. J. C. Nevjman states
that be acted entirely in self-defense,
as bis brother was at the time Advanc
ing on him with a loaded pistol, threat
ening to kill him.
A Characteristic Utterance-
Mr. William B. Chandler, late Secre-
retary of the National Republican Com
mittee, obstinately refuses to be comfort
ed ; and this is the ways be looks at the
Southern situation :
“The very lack of murder in the South
will alarm every thinking man in the
North as much cs deeds of blood.”
Chandler, says the Missouri Republi
can, is only a fair sample of an element
iu the Republican party which makes up
in bitterness what it lacks iD size. These
Radical Republicans never wanted the
South pacified, and never intended it
should be. They had rather have a Re
publican hell than a Democratic heaven;
and they did their best, by precept and
practice, to keep it a hell. Every real
outrage upon the blacks was magnified
tenfold to suit their purposes, and when
there were no outrages they manu
factured them first aud crammed them
down the throats of the gullible portion
of the Northern publicafterward. Now,
when Republicanism in the South is so
thoroughly dead aud deeply buried that
an outrage, genuine or fictitious, cannot
be had at auy price. Chandler, as spokes
man for his fellow knaves, declares that
the profound peace which prevails
throughout the South is quite as alarm
ing as violence and bloodshed! A more
diabolical sentiment was never uttered,
but it will serve to show the true animus
of those who are fightingthe conservative
policy of the administration.
Ex-President Lerdo has sensibly come
to the conclusioo that it is better and
s ifer to live in France than to head in
surrections in Mexico.
Washington Correspondence.
Washington, Dec. 5,1877.
The feeling that has permeated every
circle here to the effect that the Presi
dent and his party representatives in
Congress have sensibly drifted further
b&'not been lessened by the vigorous
THE RESULT IN FLOYD COUNTY.
By reference to a tabulated statement
of the vote in this county which we pub
lish to-day, it will be seen that Col. A.
J. King and Hon. John H. Reece, inde
pendent candidates, have been elected
Representatives from this county. Capt.
Reece was elected last year, and by his
re-election receives the endorsement of
his course while in the last legislature.
Col. King has long been a citizen of this
county and is well known. While we
would have prefeired the election of the
nominees of the party, candor require? us
to say that we have no fear of the inter
ests of our county or State suffering at
hands of either of these gentlemen. In
saying this we intend to speak
our sentiment of these gentlemen person
ally, but in no manner to endorse their
course in running aB independent candi
dates against the nominees of the Demo
cratic party.
The Novembrr dividends payable in
Boston aggregate 82,708,640.
In robes of seeming troth and trust
Came sly Dissimulation,
And underneath a gilded crust.
Lurked dirty Defama ion.
When he reached Hayes and liis re
creancy to the Republican party, the
carpet-bagger recounted the perfidious
manner in which the Republicans of
South Carolina bad been treated, and
pointing to them prostrate and helpless
in that State he exclaimed “with Eng
land’s great poet:”
Sea tbs struck eagle stretched upon the plain,
No more thro-igh rolling cloud- tn soar ag.in.
Views iu ran feather on tho fatal dart
That winged the shaft that quivered in his.
heart.
Though keen his pangs, yet keener far to feel
He nursed the pinion that impelled tho steel.
GEORGIA GLIMPSES.
Col. Fitzsimmons, U. S. Marshall for
Georgia, will remove to Atlanta.
Joseph Brown has been sentenced to
be hanged in Cobb county on the 28th
instant.
No memher of the North Georgia
Conference has died during the year
just past.
Gov. Colquitt pardoned two females
on the chain-gang during his receni
visit to Gainesville.
Lieut. L. A. Ransom,of the Richmond
Hussars, has been appointed a Major
in the South Carolina military estab
lishment.
The Library Fair at Macon was the
recipient of handsome presents from
business firms in Northern and East
ern cities.
The farmers of Carroll county say
that the wet weather is throwing them
behind in gathering the cotton crop
and towing wheat.
THAT POSSIBLE INTERREGNUM.
The contingences discussed in our
last issue, says the Telegraph and Mes
senger, upon what would be the politi
cal status in the event of the death or
disability of Gov. Colquitt before No
vember next, continue to form the topic
of conversation among the lawyers of
the city. Various and contrary opin
ions are expressed, but the general sen
timent seems to be that the old officers
of the Legislature would hold overiin-
til their successors are elected. For if
A man in Habersham county recent
ly “homesteaded,” and the Toccoa Her
ald asserts that it took the last ear of
corn he had to pay the costs.
At the December sale day a large
amount of real estate was sold. The
prices brought were remarkably small
says the Telegraph and Messenger.
Hon. John H. James, of Atlanta,
gives it as his opinion that Georgia
bonds will advance on account of the
ratification of the Constitution of 1S77.
Capt. John J. Allen, formerly a prom
ine' t citizen of Macon, died at Port
Royal, S. C., recently. He was Mayor
of the latter city at the time of his
death.
Nine itinerant and sixteen local
preachers were ordained Deacons by
Bishop Pierce on Sunday last, and ten
itinersnt and eight local preachere
were ordained Elders on the same oc
casion.
The State Line Press remarks:
Thanksgiving was not observed in
West Point. Yet onr people have
shared the blessings of a kind provi
dence. Gratitude is a noble, elevating
feeling.”
The Madison girls are cultivating ex
citing out-door sports, as will be seen
by the following announcement: “Miss
Minnie Foster, of Madison, aged twelve,
went fox hunting the other day and
returned with the trophy of success.”
It was the belief expressed at the
meeting of the Augusta bondholders of
the city of Savannah bands,- held on
Tuesda- that between four and five
criticisms he-rd on every hand of those
portions of the message devoted to
Southern affairs. The circumstances
attending the nomination of Fitzsim
mons in Georgia and Northtip in South
Carolina to important Federal positions
in those States, are offenses not likely
to be condoned or overlooked; and the
utterances of the message -*.re not re
garded as inviting a truce with a view
to more amicable relations.
Mexican matters are once more in
the ascendent. Gen. Ord and other of
ficer* summoned from the Rio Grande
•re here, some of them having already
given their views to thp House Military
Committee, to ihe President, General
Sherman, and Secretary of War, and
• he others will be at once called. It is
understood that there is a substantial
•greement of all those who have been
heard, touching the immediate neces
sity of reinforcements on the Indian
and Mexican borders in Texas, and
they are being hurried forward. Some
of the incidents related by Ord as com
ing under his observation as command
er of our forces in that department are
well calculated to discredit Diaz’s pro
fessions of friendship and a desire to
do away the chronic grievances that
have brought us to the verge of war
with our Southern neighbor. He is
reported to have said that the present
authorities will observe their obliga
tions toward us just so far as appears
compatible with their own individual
interests—not farther; and that if a
war witi^us should appear the readiest
means of consolidating their power its
proclamation would not be delayed
twenty-four hours.
The opening of Congress didn’t ex
cite the usual attention. The long
struggle over the contested seats crowd
ed the Senate galleries day and night;
and at its close the exhaustion was al
most as marked among the habitues of
the galleries as with the direct partici
pants.
The gay season opens very quietly,
with comparatively few strangers here,
and with the ghastly rememberances of
the Huron disaster still so vivid as to
impose something of a restraint
The theaters have been only moder
ately patrooized since their opening for
the season, and the managerp, hotel
and boarding-house keepers are all
awaiting - the influx usual after the
holiday season.
grass. ’
w m'apj/bobbers of Con-
1 not tend to heal the existing
ested spectators of this silent contest,
Dr. Mary Walker has gained a vic
tory after a long contest with the
Treasury Department. It seems that
in 1873 she was recommended for ap-
pointment in that Department. It is
understood that she passed a creditable
examination, was sworn in service, or
dered to report far duty, did so report,
was instructed in her duties, and only
failed to go to work from .failure of the
authorities to make out her commission.
It is' understood that she was told if
she would discard her hermaphrodite
dress and assume that suitable to her
sex she could have her commission.
She refused, but reported at the office
from day to day for duty for an indefi
nite time; and Solicitor Raynor, basing
his opinion on the above facts and al
legations and many others contained
in the papers, has adjudged her entitled
to a year’s salary—S900. His decision
is generally approved. In this connec
tion I may say that the women suf
fragists confidently count on the Presi
dent’s influence in their fight for the
ballot from what he is believed to have
conceded to Mrs. Spencer and Sargent
in a recent interview held with him at
the White House. Knox.
Forty-Filth Congress.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 3.
SENATE.
The extra session adjourns at five min
utes before twelve o’clock, and all the
nominations drop.
Smith was confirmed Collector of Cus
toms at Chicago.
Harlan stands confirmed for the Su
preme Court.
Lawrence and Lewis remain in the
committee, but may be renominated.
The extra session has adjourned sine
die and the regular iession opened.
At 11:50 this morning the doors of
the Senate were reopened and the Vice
President declared the special. session
of tho Forty fifth Congress adjourned.
At 12 o’clock m., the Senate was call
ed to order, and the Vice President an
nounced that the Senate was in regular
session under the requirements of the
Constitution.
Anthony R. Whyte, of Maryland,was
appointed a committee to join a similar
committee on the part of the House
Representatives to wait on the President
and inform him that a quorum of the
two Houses of Congress had assembled
and were ready to receive any com
munication he might be pleased
make.
The Senate then took recess for half
anJlflJi&c.
Russia and Turkey. -
giving some idea of the views of
nirient clergyman upon the war
between Russia and Turkey, * we give
:ts from a ^discourse recently de
livered by. Eevrjohn Cotton Smith in
New York ' ~'~
The Rev. John Cotton Smith deliver-
oLd&SH&Lgtirfifc
and Temh street, on “The War Between
corned for the welfare of the civil "
vra, and thoroughly convi„ ced
Presidents policy is calculatedp j 4 *
senoUB injury. Instead, howevJ 0it
opposing it as a matter of urin■? ’ of
Russia and Turkey: or, The Religious attacks it on personal etoim.i. Pe,t »
Ay* of following a
said: 1 am to speak to night upon conduct, approves a bad 0t
■haiiig
speak to night upon
UMbMjSliKMq
>To
or the relations of the Turks to Christ-"
endom. 1 I kupwsof.'io subject '.which)
is more fraught with significance as to
important that there_sboul<I be'dtfidi*-
oughly intelligent- eentim, nt through
out the ChrL.iaii woild. These are
my reasons for bridging the considera
tion of this subject before you fit this
time and in - this place. More thaD
seven hundred yeans ego a Greek writer,
whose works are still extant, .spoke of
a prophecy which was' already ancient
in bis time, that in the last days the
a rugmmraeagiun;
the President message and adjourned
Thursday.
house.
At noon the Speaker called the House
to order. The second session of the
45th Congress was opened with prayer
by the Chaplain.
The clerk proceeded to call the list of
members by the States, beginning with
the State ol Maine.
Mr. Knapp, of Illinois, moved to sus
pend the rules and pass a resolution en
dorsing the President’s policy, in respect
to Louisiana and South Carolina.
Mr. Conger moved fur an adjourn
ment, and called for the yeas and nays.
Pending the call the hour for adjourn
ment arrived.
The President’s message was rea* 1
and referred to the Committee on the
Whole.
Washington-
Washington, Dec. 6.—The Demo
cratic caucus of the Senate put Voor-
hees on Finance; Jones, of Florida, on
Naval; Harris, of Tennessee, on the
District; Butler, of South Carolina, on
Military; and McDonald, on Indian
committees, with the understanding
the latter give way to Eustls when
seated.
The House . Elections Committee
agreed to report in favor of seating Pat
terson, Democrat, from Colorado. The
vote stood seven to four.
The assignment of Senator Jones to
the -Naval Committee is gratifying to
him and the representatives of the peo
ple from the Gulf and South Atlantic
coast.
The Star says: “Senator Harris, the
new member of the Senate Committee
on the District of Columbia, is one of
the most intelligent and genial of the
Southern Democratic Senators.”
The Secretary has a proposition from
the Syndicate for subscription of ten
millions additional for pensions.
Senator Butler is congratulated on
his assignment to the Military Com
mittee.
The highest and most significant po
sition was given to Voorhtes on the Fi
nance Committee.
Mr. Eustis will be seated Mondav.
The delay was accorded to Mr. Wad
Jeigh, who made a majority report in
favor of Mr. Eu9tis, who wisnes the
affirmative vote to be as nearly unan
imous as possible.
Blaine is in his seat to-day.
The Treasury has called in ten mill
ions 5-20s consols of 1865. The inter
est ceases the 6th of March.
It is thought Congress will adjourn
on the lath for the holidays.
Washington, Dec. 7.
Already there are indications of an
organized attempt to force Mr. Hayes
to accept silver remonetization as a
condition precedent to voting him the
annual appropriations; in other words,
the scheme to tack the silver bill to the
appropriation hills has scores of advo
cates in the House, and the defeat of
Morrill’s motion in the Senate to defer
consideration of the silver bill until
January 11th by the decisive vote of
40 to 18, is regarded as a test of the
popularity of the measure in the Upper
Honse. Those hoping and believing
three days ago that the opposition an
nounced through the message and the
Secretary’s report "would give; both
measures named their quietus, hive
become alarmed at the disposition
London-, Dec. 8.—The Vienna corres
pondent of the Times contradicts the
rumors of the ill health of the Czar.
His Majesty’s return, however, to St.
Petersburg in January is ‘probably as
it is assumed. Plevan will have fallen
by that time.
The Times’ Belgrade correspondent
says Prince Milan’s departure for the
frontier is postponed.
A Constantinople dispatch to the
Daily News says the Turkish Govern
ment has impressed the street car
horses for the army.
A Russian official dispatch, dated
Bogat, says the battles of Mariani and
Elena on the 4th insL were more unfor
tunate for the Russians that at first re
ported. Fifty officers and eighteen
hundred men were killed and wounded,
and eleven guns captured. The opera
tions of the 6th were confined to driving
the Turkish right, numbering mn thou
sand men, from Statantza to Bebornna.
The left confronting Jakowitza numbers
3,000 men.
The Hindoos of Benares have organ
ized a society for sending miesionaries
to convert “drunken Englishmen.”
Russians should be masters of Constah-
stinople. On the tomb of tbe:Great
Constantine, the founder of Constanti
nople, is an inscription to the effect
that “the yellow-haired race shall over-
tnrow IsmaeL” These facts are but In
dications of a deep-seated anticipation
on the part of the Russians and tho
Turks that the great city founded bv
the first Christiao Emperor, would at
some time fall into the hands of the
Czar. Therefore, it is that in each gen
eration one of the Grand Dukes ot the
Imperial family of Russia bears the
name, because it is anticipated that he
may he called to succeed to the Impe
rial throne, in the East, of Constantine.
The Czar is the Ciesar of the East be
cause he claims the succession of the
Eastern Roman Empire, and the Turks
unconsciously recognize their ultimate
destiny as an Asiatic and not European
power in the fact that the burial place
of Constantinople is’ at Scutari on the
Asiatic side of the Bosphorus.
Whatever tnere is of evil in Mahom-
medauistu is a thousandfold intensified
in the Turkish manifestation of it. It
is Turkish Mahommedanism which is
the peril and curse of Christendom to
day. If we would understand rightly
the nature and the influence of Moham
medanism we must have a right esti
mate ot the Koran and of the system by
which the Koran is authoritatively in
terpreted. The Koran is an account of
the alleged visions of the Prophet, with
many precepts of a moral character. It
is singularly barren in an intellectual
point of view, having scarcely anything
in it of science, imagination or philos
ophy. It is intensely monotheistic,
and its whole creed may be summed
up in the single affirmation : “There is
one God and Mohammed is his Proph
et” In order to enable the faithful
rightly to understand the Koran there
are four commentaries or systems of
explanation. These are the systems of
the four orthodox Imaums, who imme
diately succeeded Mohammed. The
first of these was Molekibu-Anas, who
was bom in the year 713. His work
was Bimply that of a compilation of the
sayings of the prophet, illustrating the
revelation which he had given in the
Koran. The second was A bou-Hanifo,
horn in 699. His system was one of
MnbammecL The third * was' born"in
767. His system is an electic one, for
be made use of the system of each of
his predecessors, only inclining to that
of Molek. The fourth was Abmedibo-
Hanhal, who was bom in 780. He
systematized the vast body of tradi
tions iu regard to Mohammed and the
Koran, and reduced them to logical
form.
The speaker reviewed the conquests
of the Ottoman power, dwelling espe
cially upon the capture of Constanti
nople by Mohammed II. Hungary
wa3 invaded, the provinces of Walla-
chia, Moldavia and Servia were con
quered, and Greece itself, with all its
marvelous wealth, the treasures of an.
tiquiiy, was in the grasp of the Otto
man Turk. We cannot overestimate
the marvellous significance in this con
nection of the siege of Constantinople
by the Turks under Mohammed II. it
1453. Think what it was for Christen
dom to have that magniSceDt city fall
into the blood-stained hands and be
defiled by the abominable atrocities of
these Asiatic barbarians. There it stood
and stands to-day, the superb creation
of toe first Christian Emperor, whose
name it will bear forever. It rises in
the midst of a magnificence of natural
scenery unequaled throughout the
world. Through the Dardanelles, over
the Sea of Marmora, and on the waters
of the Bosphorus we approach and
catch sight of the domes and minaret?
of the city. Bewildered almost by the
sc-nes of European and Asiatic luxury
which surround us all the way from
the Egean Sea, we are overwhelmed by
the grandeur of Constantinople as it
bursts upon our view. What a night
was that more than four hundred years
ago when that terrible power, which
had been the dread of Christendom for
seven centuries, had beaten age after
age upon its eastern barriers and had
overmastered tne a-cient kingdoms,
and bad crushed the chivalrous civil
ization of Spain, stood on the very eve
of victory around the walls of Constan
tinople. The million inhabitant were
frantic with terror and desperation.
The gat-.s of the monasteries were
thrown open, and the trembling crowds
of their inmates swept through the
streets to the ancient Cathedral of Santa
Sophia nr the Holy Wisdom. Twenty
thousand sought refuge within its walls.
The shouts of the Turks, the thnnder
roar of their engines of war, sound near-
and nearer. Mohammed II, with
his iron mace in hand, rides on horse
back into the sanctuary. Men, women
and children are outraged, mutilated,
dragged to slavery or slain. The mas
sacre here, with all its devilish orgies, is
but a type of what is going on through
out all the vast city—of what lias oc
curred in every Turkish capture since.
The imperial Church of Santa Sophia
stands as the witness to slay of what
Christiao Constantinople was once and of
what Turkish Constinople ia now. Built
by Justinian, upon a scale of extent and
grandeur scarcely equalled in the world,
it rises in the midstof the awful iniquities
ot Moslem life, venerable with its majes
tic antiquity of 1,2000. The crosses
upon its wallsareobliterated, the heaven
ly beauty of the faces of the colossal
cherubim is concealed by the meaning
less stars which Mohammedan sacrilege
has placed upon them. Why .has this,
the grandest almost of the works of man,
been permitted to stand through all those
centuries but that in the Providence of
God it may symbolize to tne whole world
the immortality of that faith which it was
built to commemorate, and to anticipate
the day when the vile dens of Turkish
robbers and murderers shall be broken
np, the Turks beaten back to the origi
nal vagabond life upon the Asiatic plains,
and the stately walls of the Cathedral
rt-sonnd with the shuntings of the “Te
——
80 Cl
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question.
FOiTYt
Baltimore Gazette.
Mr. Conkling- is the m 0 »t
ste ■ Ho pratends-to be deeply
. , . . „. wu . *
conduct, approves a bad appoint* ^
rtiiMinrlfnrt TCtole he d *
one in New York. A,
MY Edmunds also deserves thetw
He opposed the admission cf p; ^
back on a question of abstract inl
and when his-fidelity- to
challenged, defended big cour« ^ ***
tentiooaly; declaring that the CoS! -
tion required him to vote accord.,! ,
bis convictions, not in accordance
party interests. Ye we have seen ho.
this, same statesman, when a-shin
crisis arose, not only place dntvi
pirty above that to conscience'u
publicly sneered at those who darU.
differ with him.— ndto
; • Mr.Matthews may be classed inn,
same category. It was by his advk.
and through bis exertions that lb
Hayes took those measures which W
to the dismemberment of the PacW
Legislature and the recognition of th»
body which elected Senator SpoffijH
yet he voted for the admission of [(.]’
logg, whose only title wrs derived f nm
the Government which he, Mattten
had advised the President not to r!
cognize or sustain.
Mr. Patterson, while he must be con.
mended for such independence *s h»
has shown, is liable to be classed ii
the same groupe. The reasons weiej
he gave for his determination to vote
for Butler were assailed, but they all
applied with equal force to Kellom)
case, the only difference being that fla
fall of the Packard dynasty did not af
fect his prospects, while the overthrm
of Chamberlain did.
These four inconsistent statemen an
fair examples of the average Republi
can of the present day. They posg
all the ability of the boa constrictor is
in' the soDg, who could “swallow hint
self, crawl throDgb himself, and ti*
himself up into a double-bow knot *ri
equal facility,” and more thanasr-
pent’s cunning. But these are qualities
which are growing less valuable day tr
day, and the time is drawing on whei
the country will not tolerate such di
gram dishonesty, whatever the party
that it may seem to temporarily profit
A Wanderer,
Somebody send? us the Logansport,
Indiana, Pharos of the 31st October,
with the following article marked,
which we cheerfully republish, with
the hope that tne eyes of the lad men
tioned may fall on it, and that he will |
return to his father:
On the 11th of last August Edwia I
Rock Taber, a lad fourteen years of age, I
five feet high, square build, large bine I
eyes, freckled face, uneven teeth, aid of I
polite and manly hearing, left bis fath-1
er’s home in this city. He was after-1
ward seen at Lafayette, Indiana, bit I
before his father could reach there If I
had taken his departure. I
Paul Taber, Esq., the father of tie [
boy, is a worthy and highly respectable I
■an.fl£lhia G»*J • w ~“' .* ' onr] P I
excellent wire were mourning over tie I
boy who had causelessly strayed from I
his comfortable home, a still greater af-1
fliction was visited upon them. In rr.r I
week four of their remaining children I
died of diphtheria, three of whom were I
buried in one day. It is believed tbit |
if the affliction that has fallen upon his I
fond parents was known to the absent I
Eddy he would return at once to hi" I
home, and it is in that hope that re
respectfully ask our exchanges to copy
thi3 notice.
Tlie Very Thing that is Needed.
A French chemist has succeeded in
producing a paint with which to ilia-1
ruinate numbers on house doors. Fig-1
ures traced with this paint are so lus
trous that they can be read in the dark-1
e8t night. Thus does science come to I
the aid of men who try .to find their I
way borne late. It frequently happens I
that on very dark uights the street
lamps remain uuiighted, according to I
contract, just because the almanacs say
the moon ought to shine. Men often
torget the form and color of tbeii |
houses during busy committee meeting,
and there they are, all at sea, lost B
themselves. The illuminated paisi
will remedy all this. The city I
Deed no electric lighters and no fusil
oils to beat the gas company. Let |
house numbers, names of streets, a
the dark-lanterns on lamp-posts bs
painted with the French mixture, and
all will be plain as day. Men will
then know where they live, and can
see their way to make home happy-
The true and faithful committee man
will be enabled with safety to catch his
own door as he goes flying past.
The New York Times says: “lire-
Frances Hodgeon Burnett is suffering
from the effecis of her reputation as tbt
author of That Lass o’ Lowrit’s. She
began writing stories when only 16 yea8
old. and now two Philadelphia boasts,
against her express wishes, are foisting
her old and immature stor es upon tba
publie, as if with the express de-ire of
the author to float her crude efforts by
the reputation which she has recently
won. Her authorized publishers sn
Scribner, Armstrong A Co., and all re
prints by other publishers are without bet
consent and against her wishes.”
Washington, Dec. 8.—Ex-Gov. Play
back, of Louisiana, has addressed an
open letter to Guv. NicholJs reeigniaf
his place as United States Senator fro®
that State.
It may be accepted that the Demo
cratic Senators will not bind themself®
by caucus action with regard to the
tenure of office act they will vote m
the confirmation cf his nominees, units*
unfitness for the place or peculiar poe
tical odium attaches. Without bnidiif
themselves by caucus action it is seder-
stood the Democrats will vote tea®’
mously on all these questions.
London, Dec. 8.—A Times dispukb
from Rome says the Pope experience
temporary relief, especially in the morn
ing, but every attempt he makes to u-
sume a sitting position produces co
A London dispatch says ftat tb®
Marquisjof Bute has contributed Ld,.
pounds sterling for the endowment
memorial ball to Glasgow UuiveK>.-
Charlie Ross’ father in bis
forthe stolen boy, has spent 6 w,_>
his entire fortune, and is now a
it>g salesman for an Eastern h 00 ^ hi3
has made 300 journeys in sea
lost child, and says he shall .
until it is found or he dies himseli.
“Move on,” said tho
Deura Ladumua?” -Where is the Chris- -New England. “I’m shocked bty oa ’
nan Power that is to have the glory of said New England.
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