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THE COURIER lias a lan?A nn,i ^ , l it ion in Cherokee GeorgIaf and d i?thi?L C l rc 5" vi-rUslng medium In tUlsnekiTO.“ ,h 1,081 ad " M. DWxjmEIJ., Proprietor. Wednesday Morning, D ec . 19,1877 Hon. T. F. Bayard, United States Senator, has our thanks for valuable public documents. If Senator Hill continues his eccen tricities upon the silver question > will find, when he rises before **® P eo_ pie of Georgia to ask a verdict in his favor, that it will be a down-hill busi ness. ' The New York cigar manufacturers received another blow Monday by the establishment of a large factory, in which union rates will be paid. The Herald says thus far the strike is success. The Georgia Supreme Court has com pressed an unusual amount of common sense in the brief decision that a mur derer, “to be too drunk to form the in tent to kill, must be too drunk to form intent to shoot.” ... The Gentiles'in Utah have sent on delegation to Washington to work for legislation by Congress in their interests. They particularly want a secret ballot, which is now practically denied ; the withdrawal of suffrage from the women as they are even more fantical than the men;, and the denial of the ballot to all persons living in polygamy. The Washington Union says there has never been a time in the history of the American Republic when so many people have flocked to the National Capital seeking Government situations, and while the various executive depart ments all have a fair share of applica tions, the great rush is at the post office, where are very few vacancies occurring save in the minor post offices. The Union warns people against rushing to the crowded capital, where poverty and want always abound, even when times are good. We publish in another column the ac tion of the Senate upon the altercation between Senators Gordon and Conkline, Senator Conkling had, in his usual domineering way, tried to carry the Sen, ate forward according to his dictation, and Gen. Gordon resented his insolence in such way as to call out from Conkling an expression that a was a virtual giving of the lie to Gordon. Senator Gordon, thereupon, proposed to drop the matter there and settle it outside of the Senate Chamber. Friends interfered and the matter was adjusted. The “Marable Family,” by S. G. Hillyer, jr., a most interesting story, to which was awarded a one hundred dol lar prize by the Savannah News, has been coming out in that paper for sev eral months past. It has progressed far enough for us to form an estimate of its merits, and we hesitate not to pro nounce it good. The scene being laid in Georgia, and -the name of the author so decidedly a Georgia name, we take special inter est in its future, but still more special is our interest since the “Marables” seem to have been distinguished mem bers of this community. The story will probably be published in book form when the News is through with it. Lovers of fiction will no doubt anxiously await its appearance. We predict for it a brilliant success and a position among our most popular American novels. the republic am party a.vdtbe National honor. Sush is the head of an article in the New York Tribune, the intent and pur pose of which is to show that the Gov ernment is in honor bound to pay indebtedness in gold, and that " lbe special mission of the Rer" oIlcan P arl 7 to see that it is so pa» J - ^'^ le blfsl paragraphs are “ follows The veu- existence of the Republican party now depends upon the financial action of members of Congress. If Republican members make no defense of the public honor, the last strong hold of that party, by which it has been enabled thus far to resist Democratic assaults, will be surrendered. This the Tribune has repeatedly urged, and it is now plain to the dullest comprehen sion. Men who are wrangling about control of the Republican party for the future will have no party left to control, if it fails to defend the public credit. In spite o: past errors, that party has lived because it has been the only bar rier against schemes of inflation and repudiation. Its chance to live in the future depends upon its courage to re sist and its ability to defeat measures like the Bilver bill. True and honora ble Democrats will be found to sustain the public honor, but the votes necessa ry, if repudiation is to be stopped, must come mainly from Republicans. This question cannot be brought to a orroM %n bo®' .. uTe hands of the Rus- I awaiting final action, and no proofs I all have been filed in aboutsevAy-'" - I sand six hnnrimfl i mm. * J ^r fllll T one l Forty-Fifth Congress. “The Blues ” It Wasn’t the Toothache. "th arm y counted out, j ibird of It 1 *presented under the act of , 25|$e that stopped the pursuit March 3,1871. -JJt the Russian plan of operations in We clip the" above from the New York Bulgaria is overcome; but another ob-1 World for benefit of those who have filed stacle is substituted, says the New their claims for property takendnring the York Herald. Winter now stands in the I late war. A great many failed to file way, and will stand there as long ap I their claims in time, and many so far Osman stood on the Vid. No doubt it | have failed to have their testimony taken, is this consideration that sustains the I The time for that will soon expire. Ottoman Cabniuet in its reported de- Their testimony must be on file termination to fight on despite the Washington by the 10th ef March next- overwhelming Russian victory of the Wash nmon Correspondence. Washington, Dec. 14,1877. The weight of testimony makes Col lector Arthur one of the most efficient heads the New Pork Custom-house has 8th inst. “Fighting on,” they suppose, means, and must mean for some months, merely that the Muscovites will stand still on one side of an impas sable icy barrier and the Moslems s'and still on the other. That kind of “fight ing on” even the exhausted Ottoman I had for many years. The most ever can stand for an indefinite period; and, I heard here alleged against Mr. Cornell deeming themselves safe in this chaace. I is that he is a friend to and a protege, they defer the evil day of making con-1 so to speak, of Senator Conkling, and ditions in the hope that the chapter o. I had Heated the President’s civil service accidents may yet turn up assistance I order rather cavalierly. The term of from some unexpected complication iu I neither had expired "•hile Mr. Sharpe’s European politics. But how far is this had; and the pretense that civil service Ottoman faith in the winter a sure re-1 reform was vitally involved in the con- liance? Great operations can certainh "rmation or rejection of the three gen- not be safely projected in this season in | tlemen nominated to succeed them is - . _ the Balkan country. It would be folly (laughed at here among men who, ifde- fullVdiscassed nt Then it will be un- to initiate campaigning that would re- sirous of conscientiously doing their deretood, we trust, why the passage of I ff uire the movement of large bodies of duty, were necessarily obliged to in- >!F. HILL ON THE SILVER BILL. The following colloquy between Mr, Hill and Mr. Matthews, in the Senate, last Friday, will ssrve to show Mr. Hill’s views upon tho silver bill, if he has any. Judging from what appears in the report, we are inclined to believe that Mr. Hill has no opinion upon the subject, except that he wants the bonds and the interest paid in gold. Mr. Hill may rast assured that the work of remonetizing silver and of loosening the grip of the money tyrant upon the throats of the people is no child’s play, as he curtly terms it, and whatever he may think of the “dis grace” it will bring, the people intend to pay the debt as easily and cheaply as they can, without any infraction of the law. Mr. Hill spoke in opposition to the resolution. He said the question pre sented by the resolution was one of law. The funding act of 1870 declared the bonds to be redeemable in coin of their present standard value—that is, when "the bonds became due they would be payable in whatever might then be the coin of the United States, but that coin must be oi the standard value of 1S70. Should the coin of the United States then be silver, the bonds would be payable in silver, of the standard value of 1810. The whole thing de pended on the coinage law which might prevail in the United States at the maturity of the bonds. Mr. Mattnews—Supposing that on the day of the passage of the act of 1870, the gold dollar contained 25 8-10 how many grains of gold must a dollar contain to pay the bonds when it ma tured, should gold then be the coin of the country? Mr. Hill—25 8-10 grains, of cousre. That is a simple question. Mr. Matthews—Then, if silver should be the coin, how many grains must be in a dollar ? Mr. Hill—4121, of course. Mr. Matthews—Then, what objection is there to malting silver a coin? Mr. Hill replied he was not willing to say now what sbould be the coin thirty years hence. With all due re spect to the statesmen of to-day, he thought this work Congress was now engaged in was mere child’s play. This Congress had no right to say what should be the coin of the country thir ty years from now. If this nation chose to disgrace itself, it could do so. He could not vote for the resolution, because it asked him to declare that the bonds were redeemable in silver; but, in truth, they were redeemable in whatever might be coin at their matu rity; should silver be the coin then, they were redeemable in that coin, the pending bill would be virtual re pudiation of a pledge of the public faith. There are many Republicans, we kcow, who do not yet compbebend thatpaymentof theUnited States bonds in silver, with interest in silver, would be an act of bad faitb, fatal to the pub lic credit, and terribly costly in tbe de feat of resumption and refunding. They are blinded by tbe perfectly truthful statement that the bonds, originally issued, provided for payment in coin of the United States, as fixed by acts in force in 1870. Silver was not thereby excluded, they say; therefore silver can now be paid. Two things must be considered: the conditions the contract, and the just understand ing of lenders. The Tribune then proceeds to argue that because only 8,000,000 of silver dollars have ever been issued it was practically impossible to pay in silver. Well, the same argument applies gold, as there was not enough of that to pay. This same wise man of Gotham says “all talk about the legal option of payment in either metal is a gross mis representation.” In answer to that, we can only say that the law fully beare out the interpretation he brands as misrepresentation, and whatever may have been the “clear understanding of both parties,” is a matter of little conse quence to parties now, unless it is so nominated in the bond.” After much more in the line of spe cious argument to show that the Gov ernment is pledged to the payment of all its bonds in gold alone, this clinch ing argument is brought forward: The cause becomes still stronger when the effect of the act of 1873 is considered. Bonds amounting to many hundred mil lions have been issued since the passage that act; bonds previously issued amounting to many hundred millions more, have either changed bands or have been retained by the present holders, in the faith that the policy then adopted by tbe United States was not to be changed for the purpose of wronging creditors. It is not possible to conceive of a more definite understanding, based upon a more explicit declaration of policy. * * * When the United States declared that it would coin no more silver dollars, it pledged its faith that the conditions ac tually existing in 1870 should not be at tended by any future coinage of silver. Upon that pledge of public faith buyers ~ bonds had a right to rely and did rely. The sophistry of this argument is too apparent, it seems to us, to need com ment. The very act of 1873, spoken of and relied on, authorized the coining of silver half dollars of light weight, and also of silver trade dollars. And as to tbe United States declaring that they (the Tribune, following its idea of cen tralism, uses tbe pronoun it when speak ing of the United States) would coin no more silver dollars, we deny the making of any such declaration or promise; and by the same process of reasoning we can reach the conclusion that when they issued bonds, in accordance with an act of Congress, say, for instance, the act of 1870, that they pledged tbeirfaith that no more bonds should be issued, because the more bonds there are the less they are worth after tbe sum has reached, a figure that the people grow restless under them. In the whole article we find no new argument. It is only the pleading of the bondholder for gold, when the letter of law does not promise gold. COLORADO’S REPRESENTATIVE. The House on Wednesday seated Patterson, Democrat, from Colorado, over Belford, Republican. It will be remembered that two elections were held in that State, one while the State was governed as a Territory and the other after the State was admitted. At of these elections Belford was elected, and Patterson at the other, the Republicans not voting in the election when the Democrats carried the elec tion. The question decided by the House was purely a question of right to the seat under the law, and it is strange that opinion should be con trolled so completely by partisan feel ing as it was in this case. Some of tbe Democrats did not believe that either one was fairly entitled to the seat, hence the changing of the votes on tbe different propositions, as will be seen in the telegraphic news from Washington, given below: The contest over the Colorado case closed with “nip and tuck.” The first vote was to seat Belford, Republican This resulted, yeas 110, nays 128—a strict party vote. The second was on motion that there was no valid elec tion, yeas 116, nays 117; the Democrats voting aye were Cutler, Stenger, Will iams, Potter, and Willis. The vote then recurred on the majority report seating Patterson, Democrat, yeas 116, nays 110. infantry and artillery, and that would form themselves of the merits and de demand tbe regular transit for even a merits of the matter in dispute. Di moderate distance of supply trains, vesting the quarrel of all ^xtraneous since aD army might perish in a matter by which the priucip/A® ")ught heavy storm of sdow continued for I <o gain the popular endorwr-* - Afor many days. But short of such opera-1 their respective sides, it would in tbe tions a great deal may be done. Si«-e | opinion of very many resolve itself into operations may, for instance, be pushed I a simple trial of strength between Mr. against the cities on the Danube, and I Conkling and Evarts, where the Presi- an advance may be made to Sofia, and I dent had honestly enough, perhaps, that place perhaps occupied. For certainly very naturally, espous'd the movements of this nature the season side of the contestant standing to him will even give the Russians some ad-1 in the intimate relation of a confiden- vantage, since relief is as hopeless for I rial adviser and a personal friend. It the Turks as great advances for their I was a square hand-to-hand fight, and enemy. They can thus effectively pass Mr. Evarts has come out second best, a winter in the reduction of obstacles, through a pretty general belief among and have their bands so complebly I Republicans that the latter gentleman, fr»e in the spring that t ley will be able I Mr. Curtis and other New York poli te march as safely in Rottmelia os they I ticians had attempted to use their in might in Bessarabia. But it will be fluence with the Presiaent to crush an the height of all folly for the Turks to I opponent standing in their way, mid propose peace only when there is no who was regarded as so formidable as military reason whatever why their I to preclude all hope of thrir success enemy sbould respect any demand unaided. In this view it was the cul- they may make. | urination of an old vendetta running hack for years into New York politics, GEOKbueGLiMPsES. 1 and thence radiating outward to na tional affairs. This feeling relative to non. J. D. Mathews, of Oglethorpe. | “ c j v ji ger - ; ce reform” and as the “true | !>«<r it Free Press. In tbe ladies’ waiting room at th< I Central depot the other day were i newly married couple from Grass Lake. SENATE. | The Rev. W. P. Abbott on tbe run a , Washington, D. C., Dec. 12. Cur ® #r d **i wd <i«<-j. A great portion of the morning hour P __ _. _ . ~ T,, was again taken up in tbe presentation of I ^ J «• . Iw ““•*«* a— petitions for tbe appointment of a com-! , , “l ne8 „“ 80 greatpr**- I Tney bad been visiting in the city tw< mission to inquire into tbe alcohol liquor I J™ 10 ? to-aay, said the Kev W. P. Ab-1 , r three days, and were then ready t< traffic; Coring a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States ya ‘ St - L ? bea Methodist Epi- to secure female suffrage; and against on We9t F.irry-firstatm-i any l.gislation concerning a revision of appropriate to devote * the tariff duties, until after official inqni- 8 ‘ ,or *. tnne to eecking an answer to tht I Kant. having ry as to the business interests of the coun-1 qU “ j° D of the psalmist—“Why art th»u I walked in, KM „ , try. All referred to appropriate commit- - TH’ 9 *?* 1 lnd wb 7 * rt thou I in about a minute he asked of the baa- tees. disquieted in me?” For it has peculiar | .» u a: The consideration of Matthews’ Silver | Chris- I that woman there got the tpoth- resolutiou was resumed. home. They sat side by side, of ■v.urse, bis arm around her waist, •uid she leaning on bis shoulder. A long-waisted stranger from tbe sore eves.and big heart, w themftthus seated, and riang. The causes of this general de-1 ache?” Mr. Chaffee, of Colorado, submitted I P"* 310 . 11 of *P irit ® m *7 Ml. said he, be I l’tie husband looked op in surprise, tha following, as a substitute for the reso-1, d i n -°“ r {“HP 8 ** 01 ? against the I nut made no answer. After two or lotion, leaving the preamble of Matthews ^ of . eit j ier ^ odlIj ' or *P‘ n f““ 1 health, -tin* minutes the long-waisted man the same as submitted by that Senator. j of to-day keep unnatural hours, eai I again remarked: Kesolred, That all tbe ronds of the j/’ dre8 ^ m M nD “H that woman has gottbetooth- Uuited States, issued or authorized to be I health J Dl , fa8hl0n “d distort the nature' j .rhe I’ve ent a bottle of pepperment in issued, uDder the said act of Congress 10116 “• to® n ewous system by the use>o1 I my satchel here.” heretofore recited, anfpayable, principal “5? othe . r . st i“ nl,lIlt *-. . An l ‘ nt » brI ’ 1p billed her big, whits eyes and interest, at the option of the Gov- ® ad ? I i° a dl! « aaed bodily condition, and. I around, and the lnisbai.il looked some- ernment, in coin of gold or alver of the ?! *“ .*.• body reacts on the mind wnat embarrassed. The man from staodard value when such bonds were is- I ^ 8 P e P sla « onP . of the greatest rumen- down East unlocked his satchel, fum- sued; and to restore to it coinage such - ■ an h *PP meES ’ and a piece ot tiled among shirts and collars, and silver coin as a legal tender, co-equal m,n . ce P ie ma 7 “ays of^misery, not brought up four ounces of peppermint with gold coin, is not in violationofthe to r^ co “ nm " onl y but to his nnfortu Usence. He uncorked it, toucbedtbe poblic faith, and in derogation of the S ale - B “‘ tha “oral causes are contents of the bottie against his big rights of the pnblic creditor I des ^ rT ^ D ? of mnc * 1 more serious attention | red tongue, and, handing it forward to- C - 2n. Tbe Senate then went into executive session. HOUSE. Ordered printed, by a vote of 44 to eT - en t ?. e ^ 7® “® one “ap the husband, feelingly said: ■ usiag Di3 religions professions a means of I ‘‘Just have her sop some on a rag carrying out successful forgeries and an-1 and rub her gooms with it. We’ve otner covering peijury nnder tbe mask ot I used it in onr family for—.” bis respectability is, it any wonder that I The bride’s eyes threw out sparks as Rtankona o Kill I we sll0I ^ d be afflicted in mind? Thus I she lifted her head from its loving pa ^ bm evenpoveny ’ which “ 8Dch » ««rible sition, and etrikingat the bottle she aling the iron-clad oath. sonree of sorrow, is the result of human snarl'd out: he House has under consideration the thra, _b n Colorado contested election i crime. Fer those who have fallen from I “Tuthacbe, you foie! If you don’t good circumstances through no fruit ot | know the difference ’tween true love better pick to-morrow. io man, and he satchel in one | hand and the bottle in the other. New States, Raw Orleans Democrat. There are plenty of new States and in prospect. Utah wants to Sto Grande, near El Piw> I sinner’s own snffering most be the great- Zt tjJTT ° a 6 < ? l0r tfL C ? ,, i eSt «nd he never esrepes it. But whTis occuptedtiie day. A vote will be taken j free from sin! Personal sin is the cause of most of the domestic unhappiness that exists. senate. I As to the cure—it is easily found. If • Washington, Dec. 15.—Mr. Paddock, men gave half tbe care to their bodies | _ lnere . a pf Nebraska, inquired if it would be I that they do to a piece of machinery «r| , I T lu ’ n „ any violation of the agreement made I a good horse therewoold be no dyspepsia. IS* *? *? 0,8 ,, 01 V e8er8t » “Pr yesterday for the Senate to proceed to I If they would take wholesome food and 1 Jf ealco 13 ^finally “tixtous to join the the consideration of executive business, keep proper hoars and abstain from stim-1 Unlon bnder some Mexican-lndmn The Chair (Mr. Ferry) ruled that it ulants they would be twice as happy ““?• , “ “ propose to divide would be a violation. I For the spiritual sorrows of life the one | P^bkota lnto *hree new Territories. Mr. Sargent—I think so too. great remedy is hope in God. The motion for an executive Jsession, I — » therefore, was not made. I Recipes- ' Mr. Thurman, of Ohio; arid there was * a matter which he was authorized to The eastern part is to be rechristened as either Huron or Pembina. The act creating this Territory has already pass ed the Senate committee, and will un doubtedly be favorably reported and or; and J. C. Wofford, L. A. Chapman, J. A. Slover and T. W. Simpson, Aider- men. a matter which he was authorized to White Cake.-Two cups of sugar I T \ report ww Aite would be brought to tbe attention one of butter, one of sweef milk, three rnJLh^h 8 " ,i the Senate; he therefore asked that and a half of flour, the white* of five ' the doors be closed under the 64th rale; eggs beaten very light, one teaspoonful B th , . ***** the y “ aVfc »nd the motion was unanimously.agreed ofloda and twS of umm S f* a d ®« ree of that u.miuiuautnuBuu, I entitles them to recognition as citizens Rule 64 provides that on a motion Lily Cake.—Four eggs, three cups of I r >‘ the new Territory of Lincoln. It i* teing made and seconded to close the fra K ar > one cn P of butter, one of ewe*--1 possible that they may succeed in hav- doors of the Senate, on the discussion milk - fonr ® n PS of flour, two teaspoon- a new Territory created, bnt not of any business which may in the opin-1 Ibis of cream of tartar, and one of soda. I uuder this name proposed. Congress (on of a Senator require secrecy the Flavor to suit the taste. decided some time since that no Ter- f’ esidit.g officer shall direct the galieries citron Cake.-Three enns of stnrer r . ,tor y. 8bonId . recei y® the “Jf® . ■To” ■« be cleared and durinu the diurna. t,iiron uaxe. lUree cups ot sugar, American citizen, however illustrious was married to Mrs. Waller Richardson. in d » ofthe motive nn derlyirW s 'i 0 n of such motion the doors shall re-Lffl™ r bD n !f , , 0 “ e ^f B f W , eet mll M onr he may have been, holding that such a Tuesday morning, December 11, at the attempled removal of Sen H y 1 main closed. This motion wasrabm£ ttS-Suif a WM 8 ? d Glennville, Ala. Conkling* friends from the New Yt feUbr the purpose of considering the I ? I basw > 1“ no P r °P® r nomenda- A trouble is said to be brewing in At-1 Custom-house a-d their euustitution b - lanta between Bryant ami Clarke over the adherents of other politicians mneb the possessorship of a Republican or-1 less popular than Conkling, which I gan of tl-at city. have imputed to a large majority of Carters ville has elected the following «®pnblicans, is shared by. Democrats municipal ticket: A. P. Wofford, May- a proportion eqoally large; and per sonal friendship or an adherent love of fair play-mqy .have moved enough of them to side with Mr. Conkling to make him certain of victory; otherwise The Thirteenth Senatorial District I j s believed the pigeon hole tactics will have weight as well as intellectual would have been pere i8ted into|he<>Dd ( qualifications in the next Senate. Maj. L f tfae 8eegion . Mr . Merritt* ' £ J. N. Hudson, Senator elect, kicks the „ orted favorably to succeed Geu.8barpe. scale beam at three hundred and nine. Xhe vote on tfa e confirmation of Messrs. Chronicle & Sentinel': Why speculate Roosevelt and Prince is given as fol- over mournful contingencies ? Unless, lows: yeas 25—19 Democrats. 6 Re- within the next year, Gov. Colquitt, publicans, to-wit: Burnside, Dawes, Pres’t Lester, Speaker Bacon and Speak- Hoar, Conover, Ctristiaucy and Mat er pro lem. Carlton die, Georgia will not J thews. Nays 31—29 Republicans, be without a ruler. A Juicy Conundrum. Democrats, namely : Maxey and Ea- ’on. Absentees. 17; 12 Democrats. Republicans. Dodgers — Thurman Cockrell and Jones, of Florida, all Democrats. Gordon made the most elaborate speech in favor of confirma tion. Bayard, Neman, Hoar and Mat- From the Burlington Hiwkeye.] Here is a conundrum for the. silver grays: In 1875 Congress pledged the na tion to redeem the greenbacks in coin. But in 1873 it had demonetized silver s<> | th its also spoke on the same side, and so that the dollor ot 4121 grains of sil I Conkling, (very effectively) Edmunds ver was no longer a legal tender, and its ! ,, ud filley against. Various reports theGoverpmant toSem greenbacks °n come fr0 f the Wbit ® Hl,U8e , 118 lbe 1879 in coin meant gold. It could mean I *'** eC t °* th® vote there ; nut the Presi- orhing else, and has been so understood I dent is regarded as an amiable philoso- by the world, and greenbacks has stead* I pber and is expected to accept the de- ily approached the gold standard, and f eat £ n a 8 pixit consistent with the char- are now worth within les* than 3 per | . . , . -a cent of the gold dollar. This is an in- acter ,,n P ated tohlm [ botlf Mr Evarts disputable fact which thesilver dollarists I rSCa P*a an acute attack of dyspepsia he cannot get over. But if a doubt in re- is more a stoic than is usually sup- gard to this point be conceded, the silver posed. men are still in a quanduary For if M r . Matthews’ ambition to achieve silver is included m the term “coin ” m I „ n . . , . , which the greenbacks are to be redeemed. g«*tness 83 ■ . financier si- ce his col how are we to account for the fact that I ^ a politick manager, led him to greenbacks are worth from six to seven get in the way of the silver bill with cents more than silver ? Can the stream j project of his own to secure that cum rise higher than its source ? If green- menahlee n d . His resolution, substan- backs are redeemable in silver, would . „ _ » ,, .,. , they be worth seven cents more on the I Uil ^ afitnmng that all public and dollar than silver ? private obligations might legally be Whenever tie Hawkeye’s vision be-1 P ald ln s fi ver dollare of 4121 grains, comes clear enou-h to read and under-1 hl dtobe considered and disposed of The Griffin News is responsible for the following: During the recent Conference meet ing at Gainesville one of tbe Methodist ministers, it is said, was awakened one morning by the crowing of a chicken which was roosting upon the bed-post' This chick, we would say, was quite “cheeky.” stand what is true, that is, that “coin” does not mean gold alone, but aLo in cludes silver, and that if Congress in tended to mean gold, gold was the word to use, a good deal will have been done toward answering its conundrum. Fur thermore, the act of 1873, referred to above, legalized the coining of a trade me ? d . it8 ®l f t0 . th ® re ? uisite two-thirds’ before tbe Bland bill was taken up. It was tbe subject of a good deal of unin teresting talk in the Senate yesterday. No vote reached. The friends of re monetization still hope to get that measure through both Houses by Sat urday night, in such shape os to com- dollar of four hundred and twenty grains, which is seven and a half grains more than was in the dollars of our daddies, but the same act also author ized tbe coining of half-dollars of the weight of twelve and one-half grams,, which is less than two hundred grains use of tbe S®“<“® Chamber for holding majority to insure its passage over a Presidential veto, should it be inter posed, when Congress reassembles after the the holiday recess. Notwithstanding tbe chnrlisb refusal of Mr. Dawes’ committee to allow the to the half dollar, or four hundred to the annual convention of the female the dollar. If the Hawkeye’s dedne- H^ 8 *’ ' he y wil1 b ® b «*® tions are correct, then we can pay the month as they have done for^the bonds and the interest in half-dollars ;,a8t 9 or 10 and L,ncoln Hal1 whicl are some fifteen or twenty grains wil1 ' 88 U8Ual - harbor tb ® m dnnn K ^ lighter than the half-dollars of our ^o-days’ sessson.^when Mr. Dawes and daddies. Greenbacks are worth more th ® members of bw committee wiU than silver, because the silver is de- Probably «®® 1V ® a c^tderable share monetized. Let Congress say that of attention, complimentary and other- many grains of coined silver are worth H®-, A woman scorned” has been as mnch as so*much paper, commonly K oUnd a terribly disagreeable adjunct called greenback and the thing is done w the other annoyances of every day at once. All these are easy; ask us a lif ®’ froin th ® time of Joae P b down *° hard one. _____ ' pr6S6rit date " Knox * South ern Claims- I The Turks seem to have renewed of- fensive operations in the neighborhood Washington, December5.—The Com-1 of Rustcbuk. A report prevailed at missionerb of Claims have submitted tbe I Constantinople last night, that a great seventh of their repons made at the be-1 battle had been fought between Metchka ginning of every regular session of Con-1 and Rustcbuk, the result of which is gress. They report on 1,659 Southern uuknown. Thus far, however, official claims. The amount claimed is $5,761,- reports from tbe Turkish headquarters 109; the amount allowed is $434,638. | only mentioned an affair with six Rus- They make allowances in 714 cases, and j sian battalions. 945 are disallowed. Claimants who have A Peru dispatch dated yesterday not yet proved ap their claims most do so I says: The fall of Plevna isstillun- before the tenth of March next, and the known to the Turks generally, so it is commission itself is to continue no longer I impossible to estimate its effects upon than March 10,1879. The Commission- the population, which, however, will ers have still about two thousand claims I maintain its usual calm. ed for the nurnooe of conaiderimr tl» ’Tr? ivoopwuim a i oasea on no proper idea of nomi ^™-nltv between Messrs ConLinp P° nnd °? curo “ cut fi“ e and thin, and I ture. The people of Colorado EniSonJ^ executive Ssten o! ° f ten very a „xi 0 us to ente{the Union unde yesterday, and after the doors were re 8 illosteions tifleof theStateof Jeff . opened, the following papers were made Orange Cake.—Five eggs, leaving out £“* tb,s Da '“, e ’’“a actually refused by public : the whites of two, one and a half raps ^?" g T 8 l and Ul6 Foloradians request- During the secret session Mr. Hamlin I of sngar, two of floor, one-half cup of ^ find a® 10 ® better title for the new offered the following, which, was unah-j water, the juice of one orange and the I bt ^f* inously agreed to. yellow part of the rind grated, one-half “-iTr °* Whereas, a misunderstanding having I teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one-1 Dklahotnajao be formed out of a part wisen between the Hon. Bwcoe Conk-1 quarter teaspoonful of soda. For jelly: 1 0 . ® n Territory, are also advo- ling and the Hon. John B Gordon in I Whites of two eggs, one orange and I ca 5j¥ t ^ I f J 11688 ?.!® be I or ® Congr^. the course of tbe executive proceeding ] sugar enough to mix like icing. The I. ^ 11001 boys wul scarcely be able to of the Senate of yesterday, and mutual I sugar for the cake is boiled in the wa-1 6ee P. n P f® 8 geography of this .understanding thereon having been ar-1 ter and used cold. Bake in layers as ^iged at, as set out in the following pa-1 any jelly cake, it is'ordered that said paper be en- couutry under these circumstances. ■STSSSr* Her rxtraordiMiry »r m Don Piatt gives the f 0 | )( . Blaiue,impubive,l,i,„t.( 1 . a , icBlaioe—cntdouMi>;..t wi?»- ' that actually indit-hi^i ' 1 relief. Dawes—the D iJ '/r. youbeKeveit? aciUAiiv 6 . he gene,alt, keeps i„ Z i the neck of old swallow tailed 6 ** ** < “Ham. my friend, let l. w r Da-^ ^nded Hanffl^' I feel as tf I had rei ig, 00 , do n ’ t ’, J*| Can’t say Ham, I neve, had 3 IU get some.” ‘“Li Senate, Davre, the 300 po ttad , . atonal adipose, kept one i n donh 1 where the perspiration ended **1 tears began. Incredible as it m*, s he appeared to be weeping a ]] 0T J^ by far the most impressive specui' a group of Southern men one niebt? gave way to their emotions with Li don that is delightful to look u«» “Gentlemen,” cried Lamar, j with a gloomy, abstracted Joo’k tbuS presses one with the belief that he-1 the dim distance of a dark fntnrsJ sees darkly “the chariot ofGabrij] coming with four white hones a i in the lead” to tote hia soul to the f. eloquence personified.” •tit most be,” responded Hill, . his eyes and then gaz'ng carioajl,"^ handkerchief, “for lbelieveIabedik She reminds me of an effect I < * dneed".” “If any one dare say she is not f greatest of all actora,” cried Joe j " burn, “Ill shot him on the spot,” The Wrong Han Hung. Galveston Nows. In a casual talk with Prof. kJ Burgess yesterday, he gvae to a ' reporter the following startling dL sure as one of the adventure o{"2 somewhat eveotful life: Daring tbe time Gen. B. F. _ was in possession of New 0rlesn] will be remembered what a great Is ing of excitement and indignation i caused by the hanging of Mumfonii polling a United States flag down S a staff on the New Orleans Mist Prof. Bargees states that he * u j ireon who pulled the flag fro staff and passed it to Captain Canton, of the lower MIssissipni coast packet Isabel, who, the 1 says is ready to corroborate this s of the affair. Mumford was roof of tae mint et the time vitii crowd of men and boys, and it label ed received the flag from Canton. Prof. Burgess says a yonng u named Adolph Harper haabea* corded the credit of first taking holds the flag, and in the history of H. I Allen, by Mr. Dorsey, where refer is made to a lad fifteen years of agi the one who got the flag. Mr. Hu; was the person had in view. TbeP.. feasor was about his own age itfi time of the great incident that has pi down to history, and young Harper indeed one of the party. Prof. B. was wise in keeping his o counsel on the subject till now, ud News is the first to receive the i ‘ particulars from him. Gen. Bntler, please take notioe. 1 at large ou the legislative Journal 1, 0818110 Fading.—One cap of mo-| « Senate • I lasses, < After Clerk Adamn, About Concluded Not to - • - any More Nomination of the Senate * ~ I lasses > onfi of sweet milk, one of snet I Sperial to Ciaelnnati Enqnirer.] Daring an executive session of the I °5 0, ^? d fine ’^I® 6 cnps of flonr ’ 0D ®I Washington, Dec. 10.—Tha Repub- Senate, held yesterday, words were ut- of 8n ® ™ cltr8n chopped thin I licans contemplated holdings caucus tired both by Senator Gordon of Geor- aDd fi “®' .f 0 , 0 . tb ®. Ba “® T aantu /, of to “8*®® “s to what course, should gia and by Senator Conkling of New cn . rrant f’ 11 llked > bal f a teaspoonful of be pursued in case a resolution was of- York, which were mutually felt to be , and a teaspoonful each of powder- fersd from the Democratic side declar- □ukind and offensive reports of the in- “ cIo J«< “a® 8 and nutmeg, one tea- ing the office of Clerk Adams vacant cident appearing in the papers of the 1 8p< ??. * ofs8d a dissolved in the milk. The removal of French, the tally clerk, morning which are inaccurate and un- I ^ our ^. * covered kettle I has stirred ap a good deal of oile, and just to both speakers upon a careful in- * et into anotber 01 boiling water. there is a disposition on the part of the quiry as to what was said by each Sauce for the Above.—One cup su- Be P nblicaPS t Y UD “ e J' dtb 8 ?® b ®® mo * speaker and what was understood to be gar , one of wine, one-half cup of butter. cra , ta a ? are dissatisfied with Adams, *aid by the other, it is certain that the Mix butter and sugar to a cream, add- T0 l e *° on,t h, ™\ caucus was firet offensive words were inspired by i ng the wine very gradually as you d, : la y ed at tb ® re 9 u “ t of Moore (Dem), an honest misunderstanding of what stir it Put it over the fire and let it K°J had been innocently said by the other heat through but not come to a boil. C ? h . . bow b® 8 * speaker. One harsh remark provoked Do not stir at all. A delicious pndding | OTertbr o w another, as too often happens, but all 1 if made strictly according to recipe. that was offensive was the outgrowth m ^ m of misapprehension. Since such was Maxims on tha Horse the fact, we, who are mutual friends of both Senators, are of the opinion that it proceed to accomi i pndding | of the clerk. For some unexplained reason Adams is unpopular with both sides. Tbe Democrats charge that he keeps Republicans employed in respon sible positions, and the Republicans are out of feather with him because he | 1. Let your colt be domesticated and is due alike to the Senate and to the ]; ve you from its tenderest age, | tAn q speakers, that whatever was felt to be and whe n a horse he will he eim,de, 7 Southern Democratic uukiod or offensive m the remarks of docilei faithful, and inured to hard- ””"- etther, should be treated as if never ut- chin and fntione 1 r ,. tered.and we are now authorized to 2 Do not beat your horses, nor ^u^thus ^^ri^K.^T 5 Se state are mutually and simultaneously Bpeak to them in a j' ud tone of ’ voic 1 8001 ‘I 88 *. . AmerKa .' t0 ? . apf,I ? 8t ’ fb ® ” thdrawn. 1 - - - (Signed.) Dec. 15.1877. H. Hamlin, M. VV. Ransom, Timothy O. Howe, J. E. McDonald. A Little One’s Love. ,- . . . ‘freest’ and the most Vnlightenea’ coun- do not get anpy with them, but kmdlj try J D the world, is f-.ll of tramps, idle- reprove their fruits; they will do better I new< poverty, starvation and crime, thereafter, for they understand the Ian- Such is the testimony of the New York guage of man and its meaning. I Tribune. Turkey-semi-barbar»us, at 3. If you have a long day s journey I war- ignorant and degraded—is on tbe before you, spare your horse at the I point of starvation. It way be well for start; let hnn frequently walk to re-1 phila'ithropi-tstoltHik at thetwopiemres. cover his wind. Continue this until I They are sufficiently haggard to give the he has sweated and dried three times, I most healthy citizen tbe nightmare and to convince the most obstinate that the reign of the Sultan and of Radically iiugh to Cease.” Jefferson Davis said recenlly: “I innk Andrew JncRson had the great eat ii fluence no ois country, ig auv Amencaii, a ; d u that resje-ct riiintne greatest man w.- have produced. He left a strong .nri rt.rnantic nisrk upon iis ’up*'and -u cr eiiihg times. 1 knew Calhoun, and iv.is patronized by him when i entere ■■ :ii« Senate. But nil.the boys and urchins, from ge leraiion to aenerntion, feel Jackson’s example.” A little child between two and three and you may ask of him whatever years old was found by a lady walking on yon please, he will not leave you in the streets, evidently lost, and crying bit- difficulty. terly. Taking her by the hand, the lady 4. Observe your horse when he is asked her where she was going. drinking at a brook. If, in bringing “I’m going to find pa,” was the reply of down his head he remains square, with- the child, between sobs. I out bending his limbs, he possesses “What is your papa’s name?” asked sterling qualities, and all parts of his the lady. body are built symmetrically. “His name is papa,” replied the inno-1 5. Four things he must have broad— cent little thing. front, chest, loins and limbs; four “But what is the other name?” quer- things long—neck, chert, forearm and ried the lady. “Wbat does your mamma I cronp; four things short—pasterns, call him ?" _ | back, ears and tail. “She call him papa,” persisted tbe lit tle one. I “That Language of Onrs.” The lady took the child’s band and led ■ o S her'along saying: “Yon had better come with me; I guera you came this way. I Dear Sib—I have been much inter-! but to keep alive the fires of hop* with want to’go to my papa ” replied the lit- ^ in “S’ Richa , rd Grant Wbite f let * in bo8 ° m ” Sb ® , I ” ok « d al b ™ tie girl crying/ afresh as if her heart regarding our language. I notice a tenderly, nay, lovingly, and her lips would break number have written to him, and I desire, moved in accents that went to the depth What do you want with your papa?” tbroa S. h J 0 !;, 10 °! k b!m * ““P 1 ® T ues * ofhi » *’"}• Sh « asked him how much asked the lady. tlon * : ™° at ® oeB , ‘PhthoIo^nylTh’ , | he earned a week. “I want to kiss him.” spell ? Trao. Just then a sister of tho child came Solution—(To be reserved until we London, Dec. 13.—The work of re- along, looking for her, and led her away. I hear from Mr. White). I moving Temple Bar commenced yes- From subsequent inquiries it appeared I First—Phth (as in phthisic) is TI terday. that the little one’s papa, whom she was Second—olo (as in colonel) is UR The India Council yesterday sold so earnestly in search of, had recently Third—gn (as in gnat) is N £2,000,000 of bills at one shilling eight died. In her loneliness and love for him Fourth—yrrh (asin myrrh) is ER | and nine-sixteenth peuce per rupee. Press : answer. “Only uue word,” he said.“if she tired of waiting for him to come home, I and had gone to find him and greet him I with the accustomed kiss. or Turner. What a language! Neitie Grayson. Ya8S*b College,Saturday,8eptember ma rket This is lower tnan anticipated, and completely demoralized the silver The Telephone Misplaced. 29,1377. “Quarter, quarter!” shrieked an ex- Mary Clemmer draws this pen por-1 *»«««} Turk, falling upon his knees ■ and holding up his hands beseechingly toward the panning Cossack. And the Cossack, who was fighting in tne cause A young man from Syracuse, N. Y., I *“** ol Senator Butler carried a couple of telephones, and a I man who looks like a lamb, rath 1 coil of copper wire to Rome, in that or than a destroying angel—-a band-1 0 f humanity and Christianity,quartered State, last week, and in the evening be I some man, a good height and figure, | him. ' went round to a house where a girl seeming a refined gentleman, with fine. lives, and whispered softly until one I gohtle features, with a general aspect of I San Francisco, Dec. 12.—The House of the upper windows was opened, as I extreme amiability. He looks neither I unanimously adop he expected it would be. Then he I Southern nor_Northem, but simply a I current resolution, embodying Shelley’s threw one of the telephones up into the I gentleman. It is easy enough to asso- Chines. bilL window and whispered into the instnj-1 date him witii household loves and I All quiet at Souora. Thenewspa- ut; Sunday-echool celebrations; with mas. I pers exaggerated the recent troubles 'Are you there, darting?” J sacres, never.” | there. Sharp and clear came the answer; “Yes, I am here, and if you’ll wait! Honor and justice, reason and equity, I “bilence in that dotfit!? thundered a till I get my boots on you’ll think you I go a great way in procuring prosperity Kentnckv Judge the- other morning, have been elected for the next world I to those who use them; and, in case of “Haifa dozen .men have been^convicted by fifteen thousand majority.” | failure, they secure the best retreat and already without the court’s having been He had hit the wrong window. | the most honorable consolation. i able to hear a word of the testimony.” to tb. OineiaMii Washington, Dec. 12.- Evarts is reportodjthis morning, to h stated to Congressmen who called n him to recommend some foreign i me-1, that tbe administration bad ty nearly eoncluded that it was teeks to make any more nominations; tii the Senate would not confirm anything and that the President saw little oe ii sending names to that dignified bod; for rejection. “Possibly,” Mr. Ena said, “in a case ot a vacancy, when there was urgent need of an officer, a appointment might be made, bit tb conclusion was almost reached not B make any more nominations.” If tbs decision is made, senators who ins been opposing the administration *2 be disturbed, as they all want appoint ments. _ Anotber effort ia being made tore, cover Charley Ross. The mantgttd the “Great National Baby Show,'' d New York, has offered a reward of fi« thousand dollars for his return, the sum to be paid upon the identifiatka ofthebovbv hi. father, ana takesoe* sion testate hat “the child can beientB this exhibition without exposing any party concerned.” This offer willprd) ably not lead ro the discovtry of tb child, but it will certainly ad virtue tb baby show. Moody, the revivalist, is deterniicri to have things bis wav, and not» Script ml way. At North field netttj .the Omgregalioual pastor was absent, tt.b Mr. Moody took his place. invitation was excerdingly broad. » MVidv sab!: “No matter what yon belling 'it, ,,r if y -n brioiiz to co tt HlI—mnir. W* mako no rei-rrir'tiot* Let us ndw breik broad. widiOUt*™'! nr comment.” Personal item in the Black H® | Champion “One of the mo-t vers ■' ile ladies tW e'er grand the Dead wood 6taEe rj packed her kit. ‘lit out to m the the howling wilderness ' »; for Chicago, where si"- -cenerv aiid ‘whoop it up’ on ‘old Tap Bichore.’ ” t The population of Richmond, ha3 doubled since the war. manufactories now number 361. ^ sales in 1876 reached the sum of 424,800, her wheat and corn mills ducing $2,857,000; her 41 tobacco tories 812.048,300, and her iron »«" I $2,032,789. “My dear,” said a husband in ling tones, after awaking his wife in , night, “I have swallowed a dos • j strychnine!” “Well, then, do for goodness sake m still or it may come up.” ^ iisdowu on a car P et j ?fc only a quarter of an inch lon& ■ { bard for him to realize that the didn’t come out at the haokoi his The Mayor of Des_ Moines, tendered his resignation l® 81 ., with the understanding that » take effect the next time he New York, Drc. 10.-A stayof ^ tence in the case of th® it- surance President, John L ta 68 ' med. Gen.Bntler: “Hayes “ dol °? been well that I really wish he elected.” New York, IAhs. 12--A«»njag bins & Co, dry goods, haw * Bob'