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Pit aafl ffororngmal igsutw --•••_- - ■••••••• 1 ” fOB THE TRI-WEEKLY. la^'fc' - !<rrr I ^"fnaU Strictly In advance, tne price of 1 * °tlr courier will be $2 58 a year, and the _«*HV S5 00. ; ' . I ciuts of n ro or more ’ OQe “Py 11111 •** for- I Wflshington dispatches indicate that cjejator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, Kj bs appointed Consul-General at, jiris- _ * . & n Pasha, who it was said had ojAtpd suic'de a few days ago rather f “ ...ffer amputation of his leg, is now ******* I £ja but admire his dash add military ,,e ! aid w ;sh him better luck than E:t Go v Dinplcy of Maine, presents. Ielaborate statistics to show that there is U-proportionately e-tenth of the Loi sold and used in that State that there was forty years ago, and that drunkenness, pauperism, and crimes Lf Violence hr.ving their origin tn the b=o of liquor have largely decreased. 4 relative of Gen. Grant is reported a saying that the ex-President will re- laain abroad indefinitely, and adding: Kamsurehe will not come back while .quarrel between the party and iHayea goes on. He doesn’t want to be ] up in it. You may make up r mind that while there is conflict Ljdeof the Republican party here (jrant will keep abroad. * * I sus- L he is studying civil service admin istration on the other side.” Bis thought probable that the per- s who preside over New York life in duce -companies will next month Usent annual statements upon which may rely with confidence, site-conviction of President Case for (forgery, which is likely to be followed L the conviction of President Lambert, |i» is now on trial for the same of- s, may be expected to have a whole- e effect,- and to induce officers of Itorporations to ascertain for themselves whether the figures of their subordi nates are false or true. The puhlic nay soon, therefore, get some idea as to rial companies are sound by their athebming annual statements, VOLUME XXXU. ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 26, 1877. NEW SERIES-NO. 17 In ON dangeroi sground. The Tennessee Legislature seems de- Itomined to repudiate fifty per cent, of State debt, a bill to that effect hav- igbeen advanced the first legislative lep. It is an easy and approved way |h pay old debts in the South.—N. Y. \ltmld. Tepnsssee ought to pay her just debts, tt if her creditors agree to take fifty cent, instead of the whole, am 1 'Tennessee aefcepts the proposition, is fiat repudiation ? But suppose it is ipuliutiou, can not the people of Ten- nee, or of any other State of the Union, point to the Fourteenth Amende nit of .he Constituting of the United* States for precedent and justification? By that amendment the Southern ctates were compelled to repudiate teas just, as honorable, and asbind- *5 in conscience as auy it is possible for a State to o*"e. Scarcely a youth of 17 is to be found among the Sanummns who is not elab- rately tattooed. Candleout ashes and T i’er are used for coloring matter, that par! of the body from the waist to the knee is covered with a variegated pattern that at a short distance resetn- iacework. The operation con- t-mes two or three months, and the operator is very exacting about his pay. ‘'- r - r -a he gets half through he demands -‘recompense, and if it is not forth- tonung he refuses to finish the work, rang man is in deep disgrace if he about half tattooed. The girls -ra.'b at him, and the men scorn him the process is very painful, and the :;a:m = are dieted while undergoing it. !: aie become mere skeletons before they are completed, but it is the fash- s ni they are repaid oy the admir- mgglances of the women. The gentler SfI ar “ rarely tattooed. Sometimes a ielicate garter is seen twining around 4e H’> ‘ometimi s an armlet, or a straw ■::y design in the middle of the back, ‘tech instances are rare. U>e difficulty between Senators ff'lon and Coiikling occurred in !s Mntive session of the Senate, when '•erybody except Senators was excluded, -wee it is difficut to get an exact version - - affair, as there was no one present , “° 5e Business it was to report the pro- •~iu,gs, and, of course, the parties “Selves and all other Senators have ••Se hi.it mev about going into details If the silver dollar dispute shall pass thestrict bounds that ought to limit it, says the Missouri Republican, and ex pand into a re-investigation of the whole subject of the public indebted ness—how it was contracted, how much real money it represents, what it was payable in originally, and what it is be- in paid in now—the Eastern creditor class will have none but themselves to upbraid for it. There are some signs perceptible already of the dispute drift ing into this dangerous realm. Senator Hereford, of West Virginia, reminded the Senate last Friday that. the public debt was originally payable in lawful money, or greenbacks, as all other debts contracted daring the, war were; that Thaddeas SteVegis, chairman of the Housp^jpqipaigee on Ways and Means, expressly .declared this when he re ported. the bills for the issue of the bonds, and that Secretary Sherman himself, in a letter written in 1S68, avowed the same thing. Yet a Repub lican Congress in 1S69 enacted that the puhlic debt should be payable in coin, although at that time coin was worth 35 per cent, more than lawful money, or greenbacks, and from that day to this the semi-annual interest on the bonds has been paid in coin—and gold coin at that These facts are old; they are part of the financial history of the'country, and have been repeatedly mentioned. It were better that they be permitted to pass out the arena of active politics into the silence of history, for, to bring them up now, will surely inflame the public temper, already betraying symp toms of impatience at the attempt to make all indebtedness payable in gold, and impart to the present controversy elements that were better left out. The Eastern creditor classes are doing their unjust cause no good when they de nounce the people and their Congress as repudiators and knaves for insisting that the United States bonds shall be paid at the rate of OLe hundred cents on the dollar, and no more; and Mr. Hayes and Secretary Sherman are not wisely defending the public credit when they imply that a just and right eous popular demand will destroy it. The very least that the minority can do in this matter is to concede that the majority are as honest aB themselves— that the people who are to pay the pub lic debt are as effective custodians of the public credit as the bondholders to whom the debt is paid. Li — SteNmd iHsulceFs?^^^?^ Our WaSDlngton correspondent gives «• v(h«gjg3|Sjk~' 0 v ( he X c York Herald's Washington tepwi.-U-nt gives the following history - j > which is, doubtless, substantially frrtct: . hi tiecutive session, after the case of Georgia Internal Revenue Collector .' S L had been confirmed. General Gor- '; J proposed to move that Mr. Spencer, j .ilsbama, report the ease of Mr. '-‘ph who was nominated for Collector -iotiiie-. in which case there had been j- diverse report which had been as- ---'I ui Spencer’s charge. Spencer was the report back while Gordon I' 11 :l; - of the speaking, and while b this motion, Coukliug called out ] on with the calendar ;,i Jj rdon immediately said: “Mr. Pres- :‘ 6a h the Senator from New York is not Chair but he orders the Chair to go *'* the calendar.” ^ Several names had been called for ac- £ when Gordon made this remark, tetor Conkling sprang to his feet after ion I s remar ks and asked what Gor- tjj j sa 'd about h m. Gordon imme- u T re peated the language r.Loukling then said, “If the Seua- tj-U’® Georgia says that I ordered the »pl f° S u on with the calendar he states „ 'a not true.” Settle 11 re p'ied, “Very well; we will /l e ^thereafter.” We i] lu .o rel orted, “ We will settle it Gort re peMed what he said before, settle tlleu a gaiu said, “We will not 1 here, but elsewhere.” a versiotfof the Gordon-Conkling af fair, which we omit, as it is substan tially the same as that pu 1 liahed else where in our paper this morning, and continuing upon the same subject he says: “The subject of Conkling’s victory over the Administration in the defeat of Roosevelt and Prince as successors to Arthur and Cornell in the New York Custom-house, which has been the staple subject of conversation since its occurrence, gave way for the time to the newer sensation; and speculation was rife as to what was likely to grow out of the rencounter, about all agreeing that the import of Gordon’s threat was a challenge to the New Yorker. From responses received from points, near and remote, whence the intelligence has been telegraphed, party feeling appears to have been aroused as it has not been before for months. The matter was discussed at the hotels here, and other resorts of the politicians, in all its bear ings, and not always temperately ; and not a few, judging from the sentiments expressed, were made unhappy this morning that the matter had been am icably adjusted through the interven tion of mutual friends. “No occurrence for many months has created a more profound sensation as first reported, and as embellished, according to the fancy of those retail ing it from one to another. But now, that time has been allowed for “qpol- ing off,” a large majority, irrespective of party bias, are happy that a peacea ble way out of the ugly complication has been found by the gentlemen who patiently wrought out the method, hon orable to both alike, and humiliating to neither. Congress has adjourned for a good long holiday recess. Many of the mem bers, even those living in the far West, have gone to their homes and constit uents to extract wbat of enjoyment they may during the recess. Others remain and will materially add, by their participation, to the social pleas ures of the next twenty-five day. The supply of holiday goods brought to this market for the Christmas and New Year’s trade is said to exceed that of any previous year, even during the flush times preceding the crash of Sep tember, 1873; and one can readily be lieve the statement by a leisurely in spection of the shops along our princi pal streets and avenues. Pennsylvania avenue and 7th street are not, I believe, excelled even in Boston, New York or Philadelphia for plenty and brilliancy. Knox. The Next Assembly. SENATORS. j 1st District, Chatham, Bryan and Ef fingham—RofnsE Lester.* V 2d Dist, Liberty, Tatnall and McIn tosh—J H Clifton.* 3d Dist, Wayne, Pierce and Appling -—G J Holton. 4th Diet, Glynn, Camden and Charl ton—J M Tison. 5th Dist, Coffee, Ware and Clinch— W B Folks. 6th Dist, Echols, Lowndes and Ber rien—J W Staten.* 7th Dist, Brooks, Thomas and Col quitt—J P Turner. 8tb Dist, Decatur, Miller and Mitch ell—D A Russell. 9th Dist, Early, Calhoun and Baker —E C Bower. 10th Diet, Dougherty, Lee and Worth —J P Tison. ; L- . 11th Dist, Clay, Randolph and Ter rell—J T Clarke. 12th Dist, Stewart, Webster and Quit- man—W H Harrison.* 13th Dist, Sumter, Schley and Macon —J N Hudson. 14th Diet, Dooly, Wilcox, Dodge and Pulaski—J J Hamilton. 15th Dist, Montgomery, Telfair and Irwin—J C Clements. 16th Dist, Lawrence, Johnson and Emanuel—Neil McLeod.* 17th Dist, Bulloch, Screven and Burke—H H Perry. 18th Dist, Richmond, Glascock and Jefferson—Joseph B Cummings. 19th Dist, Taliaferro, Warren and Greene—John A Stephens. 20th Dist, Baldwin, Hancock and Washington—C W DuBose. 21st Dist, Twiggs, Wilkinson aod Jones—A S Hamilton. 22d Dist, Bibb, Monroe and Pike— T B Cabaniss.* 23d Dist, Houston, Crawford and Taylor—John F Troutman. 24th Dist, Muscogee, Marion and Chattahoochee—T W Grimes. 25th Dist, Harris, UpBon and Tal bot—Dr J C Drake. 26th Dist, Spalding, Butts and Fay ette—Seaton Grantland. 27th Dist, Newton, Walton, Clarke, Rockdale and Ononee—H D McDan iel* 2Sth Dist, Jasper, Putnam and Mor gan—J W Preston. 29th Dist, Wilkes, Lincoln, McDuf fie and Columbia—H R Casey. 30th Dist, Oglethorpe, Madison and Elbert—Sam Lumpkin. 31st Dht, Hart, Franklin and Hab ersham—B F Hodges. 32d Dist White, Lumpkin and Daw son—M G Boyd. 33d Dist, Hall, Banks and Jackson— Allen D Candler. 34th Dist, Gwinnett, DeKalb and Henry—Geo W Bryan.* 35th Dist, Fulton, Clayton and Cobb —Evan P Howell.* 36th Dist, Coweta, Merri wether, Dong- lass and Campbell—F M Duncan. 37th Dist, Troup, Heard and Carroll —John A^pf.er. Mr. Conkling’s Mexican committee has begun operations by calling Gen. Sherman, who repeated the story he has been telling a dozen different com mittees since Congress met He must wish by this time, says the New York Herald, be were on the border or in the canyons of the Rocky Mountains—any where beyond the reach of a commit tee. erokee, Milton and For syth—A ‘WHolcotnbe. 40th Dist, Union, Towns and Rabun —C J Wellborn. 41st Dist, Fannin, Gilmer and Pick ens—W T Simmons. 42d Dist, Bartow, Floyd and Chat tooga—Samuel Hawkins. 43d Dist, Murray, Whitfield and Gor don—J C Fain. 44th Dist, Dade, Catoosa and Walk er—J C Clements. REPRESENTATIVES. Appling—Michael Branch. Baldwin—James A Greene.* Banks—D COliver. Berrien—J H Kirby. Bartow—T W Milner and R H Can non. Bibb—A 0 Bacon ,* C J Harris and R A Nisbett. Baker—P D Davis. 9 Brooks—H G Turner. Bryan—J M BranDan. Bulloch—R W DeLoach. Butts—S T Smith. Burke—E A Perkins,* W F Walton* and S A Corker* Chatham—W W Paine,* A Pratt Adams* and P M Russell.* Clinch—Lewis Strickland.*' Clay—W J Johnson. Cherokee—W B C Puckett. Claike—Ben C Yancy. Calhoun—O H Paul. Colquitt—Jas Vick. Charlton—Felder Lang. Coffee—James Pearson. Camden—Thomas Butler Columbia—J P Williams Clayton—J L McConnell Cobb—C D Phillips and George Roberts. Campbell—J M Wilson.* Carroll—H Hogan and E Phillips. Coweta—J D Simms and W A Tur ner. Chattooga—W T Irvine Chattahoochee—Lafayette Harp Catoosa—Arthur H Gray Crawford—J F Jordan Decatur—W W Ilarrell'and J O Farnell. Dougherty—A C Webstbrook and J W Walters. DeKalb—R A Alston Douglas*:—VY M McGourk Dade—M A B Tatem Dodge—Jas M Buchan Dooley—Isaac L Toole Dawson—J McAfee Elbert—R F Tate Effingham—J F Berry Early—W C Sheffield Emanuel—John Bell Forsyth Willingham Fannin—B C Dugger* Fayette—D A McLucas Franklin—J H Shannon Fulton—W H Hulsey, N J Ham mond and P L Mynatfcl Floyd A J King and John H Reece* Glasscock—E G Scruggs Glynn—T W Lamb Greene—R L McWhorter and J B Purks Gwinnett—N L Hutchins* and W J Born* Houston—A L Miller,* B M Davis* and J F Sikes* Hart—A G McCuriy Heard—H W Daniel Hancock—W J Northern, A Millar DuBose. Harris—W J Hudson and Jesse Cox Habersham—John H Grant* Hall—J E Redwine Haralson—Chas Taliaferro. Henry—W T Dicken Irwin—James B Fletcher ■ Jones—R H Barron Jasper—E C Pope Jackson—WI Pike and A T Ben nett . Jefferson—J L Polhill* and E A Tarver • Johnson—W L Johnson Lowndea—G H M Howell Liberty—EP Miller Laurens—H M Burch Lincoln—J E Strother Lee—J A Clegg Lumpkin—Eli Weehnnt Macon—J M DuPree and David Gam mage. Madison—J A Green Montgomery—D J McRae Monroe—J G Phinazy and B H Zell- ner. McIntosh—A R Rogers Muscogee—L F Garrard and Reese T Crawford Murray—Wm Luffin Milton—H L Cunningham Marion—H T Hollis Morgan—L G Anderson' McDuffie—Dr J S Jones Mitchell—C W Collins Merriwethei—F J Williams and C VV Williams Miller—H C Sheffield Newton—L F Livingston and Lem Anderson (Rep.) J Oconee—W Y Elder Oglethorpe—J M Smith* and W M Willingham » Pulaski—R W Anderson Putnam—R C Humber Polk—C G Janes Pickens—R R Howell Pirce—D P Patterson Pike—S K Cook Paulding—0 T Bimtle Quitman—L P Dozier* . Randolph—J J McDonald. (To be contested by W M Tntnlin) Richmond—H G Wright, Geo R Sibley and L D Duval Rockdale—B F Carr Rabun—John M Bleckley Spalding—John D Stewart* Stewart—W W Fitzgerald and W H Harrison Screven—W M Henderson Schlev—M J Wall Sumter—Allen Fort and W H Davi son Thomas—W M Hammond 0 and Dr D H Wilmot Telfair—J J Wilcox* Talbot—John C Maund* and J M Matthews* Troup—A H Cox* aDd J F Awtrey* Towns—S Y Jarnson* Taliaferro—J T Chapman Terrell—EG Hill Twiggs—James T Glover Taylor—J D Mitchell Tatnall—Elbert Bird Upson—0 C Sbarman Union—T J Butt Ware—T J Ivey Warren—Robert T Barksdale Washington—Green Brantly and J W Peacock* Wilkinson—Frank Chambers Walton—W R Smith* .Wilkes—F H Colley* and B F Jor dan' WhitfieTd—J A R Hanks . T. V-~-* 1 . Wayne—J A Poppell Webster—Dr W C Kendrick Worth—G G Ford White—J J Kimsey Wilzox—Samuel D Fuller I^*A11 those marked with an * are members of the last Legislature, now re-elected. The Rovised Statutes. Special *o the Courier Journal-] Washington, Dec. 19.—Secretary Boutwell has completed the first volume of the new edition of the Revised Stat utes, under a late act of Congress; and, as he is not a regular lawyer, there is a possibility th..t the work may be done better than the carebss revision of 1873. The plan of the work is as follows : First—Where Congress has enacted verbal alterations of the Revised Stat utes, the addition or alteration is insert ed verbally in its proper place, but in a type different from the body of the work ; and he has added in each case a marginal note referring to the statute authorizing the change. There are about oue thou sand such changes. Second—He has a reference in the margin against every section which has been amended by Congress since the Revised Statutes were adopted in De cember, 1873. The reference points to the statute by which the amendment has been made, giving the date. Where no reference is made, the reader knows that the statute remains uncharged Third—He has given marginal refer ences to all the decisions of the Supreme and Circuit Courts of the United States beating on any section of the Revised Statutes which has been interpreted by any of these courts. Finally, he has revised the Index. New York Losing Her Prestige. New York, December 13.—To-day’s Times says: Business men assert that the dry goods jobbing trade is fast being taken away from New York city by the establishment of jobbing houses in Chica go, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Louisville.^ To ledo, Buffalo, and other interior cities. The sales of Field, Lieter & Co., of Chi cago, last year amounted to over $17,- 000,000, an increase over the previous year of $7,000,000, and those of other houses in the cities mentioned have been in like proportion. Many new houses have recently sprung up in those places, are doing well, and A. T. Stewart & Co. have thought it worth their while to es tablish a branch in Chicago. A large proportion of this business is drawn from New York city. It has been made possi ble by the course of the trunk railroads, whose through freight tariff for several years has discriminated largely in favor of the interior. On the other hand, since January 1st no less than eight important New York concerns have gone out of business. Mexican Border* Washington, Dec. 19.—The War Department has the following advices: Chicago dispatches received at Lieut. General Sheridan’s headquarters late last night from Capt. Blair, in command at Fort Bliss, report that the Texas ran gers at San Eliza Rio surrendered yester day morning. Judge Howard, agent for the salt mines, and Atkinson and Mc Bride, rangers, were shot and the rest of theRangersdisarmedandliberated. The rangers now at Fart Bliss, opposite El Paso, Mexico,, and the mob was dis persed. No help was given the mob from the Mexican side of the river. The mob is composed entirely of native born citizens of Texas. Kain Truths for Western Read ers. To intelligent men at the East,it seems a most amazing thing that there is so great an indifference at the West as to the public credit For the South there is.some excuse. The debt was created e suppressing rebellion. But the Ifestern States were intensely and vig orously loyal. They gave without stint of their best blood to sustain the Union. How can it be that the people of those States care bo little for the honor of the Nation preserved so largely by Western fidelity and heroism ? Yet Pendleton- ism suddenly became so strong in that region,Jit one time, that few Republican statesmen bad the manhood to combat it Inflation swept over the section like a prairie fire in 1874. The demand fqr repeal of the Resumption Act was Hoisted with difficulty in any Western stkte in 1875 and 1876. Now the sil ver delusion, coming swiftly like a nightmare, has driven crazy Dearly 6jjefy public mao and journal at the \Yest. An yet the people of that region are personally not devoid of honesty o?r of common-sense. How it is that every sort of raid upon the public honor prevails there so easily ? - Is it in part because the people of le West do not comprehend how pub- urosperity depends upon cridit? y experience has not familiarized iem with the effects of credit upon (pimerce and'indusiry. Crops can be j6ed, whether capital is alarmed or ^ But merchants know that crops cannot be moved unless money can be barro ved to cover the cost while mov- iqj; from the farm to the consumer. If capital is alarmed, if banks are in trou ble the movement is instantly checked; _ le producer has to sell at lower rate, in order to sell at all. The Iosb in price he feels; the disorder of the credit sys- tein, which is often the true cause, be rarely perceives. Why is capital alarm ed, and why are the banks in trouble? ,The most necessary reserves of banks, savings banks, insurance and trusts companies, and active capitalists, are kept in government bonds. Danger to tfem, or a decline in their prices, in stantly brings disorder to the whole money market, causes corporations and lenders to call in loans and refuse renew al!, prevents the free employment of capital which is necessary for active business, and thus checks purchases and shtpmeuts. The producer suffers. WithiD the last two months, movement of crops has been checked by uncertain ties in the money market, and Western aDd Southern producers have already lost millions of dollars because of the silver agitation. The instant effect of public credit upon private prosperity is constantly felt at the East. Mines employing an hundred thodsand men must stop work if the borrowing of money is checked by alarm of capital. Mills and factories employing workers by the hundred thousand are obliged to borrow constant- i by the thousand- result from every new raid upon the public credit. The alarm is not unreasonable. Not only the National banks, by which the greater part of commercial loans are made, but nearly all financial corpora tions wisely hold in public securities as large a part as possible of their sur plus or reserve fund. Short loans are drawn in at once when there is alarm, and Government bonds cannot be ad- van ageonsly sold. In New-England mo'e than one person to each family is a depositor in a savings bank, and the least danger to these hanks causes many to withdraw deposits. But these de posits amount to twelve hundred mill ions, and are largely employed in mov ing machinery, paying wages and car rying crops and other products to con sumers. An alarm instantly checks the vast commerce and industry which depend upon freedom of borrowing. The West and South have to pay a large share of the cost of all uncertain ty or alarm in business. In part, be cause unemployed bands cannot buy so freely of Western products; in part, because in times of uncertainty Eastern mills or merchants do not venture to carry as large Btock of cotton or wool or grain ; in part, because the cost of ar ticles imported or manufactured here is increased by uncertainty and string ency in the money market; and in part because the West and South are always borrowing largely at the East, and have to pay more for money when there is fear of trouble. In these, and in many other ways, the great burdens which Western repudiators cause inevitably roil back in great part upon Western producers. Many millions, no man can tell bow many, the agitation this Fall has already cost. The West has assailed the public credit, and has thereby fleeced itself. The sale of bonds was stopped, and lowered; thousands of depositors were alarmed ; hundreds of banks tried to protect themselves, and some failed; (he money market was made uncertain and feverish. The cost is heavy, and the West pays its full share.—N. Y. Tribune. We publish the foregoing at the re quest of a friend, whose views on the money question we cannot endorse. God’s Alarm Clock- Now, conscience is God’s alarm- clock. God has wound it up so that it may warn us whenever we are temp ted to do that which is wrong. It gives the alarm. It seems to say: “Take care, God sees you. Stop!” How im portant it is to have a conscience that will always warn us of the danger of sin! But if we desire such a conscience, we must be willing to listen to it. If we stop when it says “stop,” if we do wbat it tells U3 to do, then we shall al ways bear it But if we get into the habit of not heeding its warning, and not doing what it tells us to do, then, by and by, we shall cease to hear it Our conscience will Bleep, its voice of warning will be hushed, and we shall then be like a ehip at sea that has no compass to point out the right way, and no rudder to keep it in that way. Chicago. Dec. 20.—Official dispatches from El Paso, received this morning at Gen. Sheridan’s headquarters, state that nothing important has occurred there during the last twenty-lour hours. The United States treopsj began to arrivp there from New Mexfto ryesterday, and it is expected that by-to-day or to-mor row a sufficient force will bqthere to ren der farther disturbance of t]ie peace .un likely. “Goodnight, Papa.” A Sad Case ot Hydrophobia in Philadel phia. Philadelphia Times. Another death from that hotrible and mysterious disease, hydrophobia, has occurred, the victim in this instance being a child of tender years, and the cause a bite by one of that villainous breed of dogs whose presence in a city in which they literally swarm is almost as dangerous as that of so many cobras. Mr. Charles Leibrick, a salesman in tne hardware store of Shields & Bro., 119 North Third street, resides with his family at No. 1,541 North Twenty- fourth street, and it is his youngest child, Charles Edward Leibrick, un usually bright for his only two years and eight months of life, who is the victim of the terrible calamity. Last evening Mr. Leibrick was called upon and related the story of the child’s suf ferings and death, as follows: “Six weeks ago to-day Charlie was playing with other children on the pavement in front of the beer saloon of Joseph Eichman, on the southwest corner ot Twenty-third and Bulton, about two squares away from here. Eichraan’s child was playing with a Spitzer dog belonging to him, and the dog afterward jomped in an apparent ly playful manner Lorn one child to another, when suddenly my boy cried out that he was bitten. He was takeD into Eichman’a house and then brought home. He was then at once sent to my family doctor, and word was brought back that the doctor did not think it was a dog bite. I saw the marks when I came home that night; one was on the left eye-brow and the other on the left cheek just below the eye. Both together were not as big as the head of a tenpenD/ naiL I did not think them the result of a dog bite, because a woman who saw the child fall, as the dog jumped at it. said they were caused by his face striking against the wheel of a baby carriage. The marks disappeared in twelve hours. “I had been for a long while in the habit of carrying my boy after he had awakened every morning down stairs ‘piggy back,’ a practice he enjoyed very much, but on last Saturday morning, for the first time, he showed a fear of falling so marked and unnatural as to excite my notice. He played all that day with his sisters, as usual, but his mother noticed h6 was drooping. Sun day morning he was still evidently out of sorts, but nothing happened of note until the afternoon. Then his mother stripped him for the purpose of wash ing him all over and dressing him. The instant the water came in contact with his body he gave a veil unlike any s mud she ever heard before. I came Dome about six o’clock, and she report ed to me what had happened. I took him up stairs and sat with him on my knee for an hour and a half I theD asked him to lie down with me. He consented, hut when I laid him down anything likeTn life~ " heard “From that time he would never lie down, and it was then his convulsions began. These were from seven to ten minutes apart, lasting a minute at a time. The sight and touch of water caused them the worst; a tear that dropped from my eye upon his cheek threw him into a convulsion. The convulsions lasted all Sunday night and Monday until ten minutes past six o’clock in the evening, when he died very easily. He was sensible all through his sickness, and just before his death he said to his little sisters, who were crying beside him: ‘Oh, don’t cry. I will pray for you all when I get to heaven.’ His last woids were: ‘Good night, papa.’ ” A Lone Empress. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press writes from St. Petersburg: “The Empress is regent of the Em pire in the absence of the Emperor at the seat of war. Her Majesty is a wo man of stroDg understanding and fine education. She was reared with the expectation of being married into the reigniDg family of Russia. She is dis tinguished for kindness of heart, benev olence and amiability of character. Her gay and cheerful disposition is in marked contrast with the habitual mel ancholy of Alexander. His Majesty would have avoided the war had not the Panslavist party been too powerful for him to resist. Since he has been forced into it, he has been oppressed with sorrow at the immense sacrifice of life it has occasioned, the unikillful manner in which it has been conduct ed, and the corrupt practices which have characterized every branch of the military administration. As I wrote in a previous letter, he is not willing to return to St. Petersburg until the honor of his arms has been redeemed by successses which will oblitera:e the memory of past reverses. All the Im perial Princes are with him. He lives in a Bulgarian hovel, in the midst of all kinds of discomforts, and his sons are housed in tents, which, in rainy weather, are enveloped by a sea of mud. The great palaces at the capital with their luxurious equipments are, for the most part, closed, the Empress dining in her own apartments. There are no receptions, no balls and no court enter tainments of any kind. Some of the large rooms are occupied by the Red’ Cross Society, who, under the superin tendence of the Empress, daily meet there to prepare lint, bandages and stores of different kinds for the relief of the Russian wounded. Her Majesty plies the needle as dextrously as the noble dames under her orders, and sets an example of Christian charity that all seek to emulate. Regent though she be, she rarely presides over a coun ci 1 , and leaves everything to Count Milinutin, the Minister of War. London, Dec. 20.—The Daily News, in a leading article, says: We think Parliament is summoned to approve war preparations. A Paris dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette says the Marquis of Harconrt, French Ambassador to London, is to be removed. The Marquis of Bonne ville goes as Ambassador to Constan tinople. Portsmouth, N. H., Dec- 20.—The City Hotel, a large fonr-story building, hnrned this morning, with most of the furniture. The guests lost most of their private effects. Loss heavy. The btrildifig was owned by Hon. Frank Jone% and . ftirnitnre by John York. Insurance small. Appropriations. The military telegraph line around the Texas frontier to El Paso and np to Misola, New Mexico, has been com pleted. The City of Peking, on her last voy age, brought 100 packages of silk-worm eggs from Japan to Son Francisco, con signed to a firm in Italy. The Congregational Chnrch of Wal cott decided that the use of wine at the communion table tends to promote in temperance. Water is hereafter to be used. By the new route from Portpatrick to Stranraer the sea passage ’twixt En gland and Scotland is but twenty-two miles, and Belfast is within nine houre rf Glasgow. Of forty-three varieties of apples tested by M. Truelle of the Chemical Society of Paris, the American renette was found to contain the largest amount of sugar. A woman fifty-nine years old, with her son arrived in La Grange, Oregon, recently, having walked thither from her home in Indiana. She carried a pack weighing seventy-five pounds. The London Gardner’s Chronicle says that a bnnch of grapes from Lady Cbarleville’s, King county, Ireland, 24 feet long and 23 pounds 5 ounces in weight, is the heaviest ever grown. The Bank of Russia is supposed to hold a metallic reserve of $125,000,000, to be tonebed only as a last recourse; but now insinuations are thrown ont that this great Bum is not really there. The young women of Orion, Mich., have adopted the fashion of wearing their hair cropped cloee. They look odd, especially when their smooth heads are gathered in chnrch; bnt they are gainers in pocket money, for they sold their hair at good prices. In order to prevent mistake and frand, it is said that every season ticket holder at the French Exhibition next year will be required to carry his pho tograph. The ordinary ticket will cost oue franc, and will have to be procured beforehand at postoffices, railroad of fices, eta The Fate of a Noted Deiperado. Atoka, Choctaw Nation, Independent. Charlie Jones, the McAlester desper ado, will never again terrorize his neigh bors or “bulldoze” his family. He was captured last Sunday evening and shot dead while attempting to escape. The Jones family were a hard lot— as the slang phrase has it, “a bad crowd.” Charlie, the subject of this sketch, was a big, bony fellow, about 30 years of age, 6 feet 3 inches high, and weighed about 180 pounds. In 1871 he and his brother Alick killed a discharged soldier at Fort by strikmg’lilm witHlfn !xc wffile"ffe I was sitting at the sapper table. The object was robbery, and the Joneses got 8600, a span of moles and a shot-gun. After they were tried and acquitted, they openly boasted of their success. In 1873 Charlie way-laid arid shot a negro, for which he had to leave the Nation. He went to Georgia, and from there to Texas, returning to the Nation as soon as he learned of his brother Ben’s death, which occurred at McAl ester about one vear ago—the particu lars of whose “taking off” are familiar to many of our readers. Alick Joues was killed at Whites- boro, Texas, in 1873. Another broth er, Joe we believe, is now under sen tence of death at Atlanta, Ga., for kill ing a negro. Charlie’s latest crimes—and those leading to his death—were committed recently at Old Perryville, where he stabbed Mr. Johnson; and later in the evening, brutally assaulted his family, at McAlester. The “Solid South.” A Little Common-Sense Talk about it H V- Redfialu in Cincinnati Commercial.] The solid South, with its immense power, and n oved by a controlling im pulse, is not a pleasant thing to have in the country, but I have never conceived that it was as gigantic an evil as some people paint it Living in the midst of the solid South, perhaps I am not as afraid of it as I would be it iacated in Beu Wade’s neighborhood. You may suggest that “familiarity breeds con tempt” Be this as it may, I have never spent sleepless nights because all tne Southern States were arraying them selves in one party. For some years I have thought it inevitable in the nature of things. It has come. Let ns refrain form fright until we see what it will do. Sufficient unto the day is the evil there of. I do not believe it is the policy of a controlling portion of the Southern people to attempt to saddle the confeder ate debt upon the Government, or to claim pay for slaves, or pension for con federates. One sees more of this in Northern newspapers in a week than he bears of in the South in a year. When the united Sonth makes the at tempt it will be time enough to sound the alarm. I do not believe the attempt wiU be made, for I dont believe the South will unite upon any such proposi tion, and unless the whole section is a unit nothing can be accomplished, and indeed nothing in that drection can be accomplished any way or at any time, without very considerable Northern support. His Occupation. What do yon do for a living, sir?” asked the Judge of a stout, rough looking young man, charged with steal ing a handcart. “I’m a hair dresser, your honor,” “What! you a hair dresser? Why, I always thought hair dressers were delicate, dainty and effeminate per sons, and here you are as strong, coarse and able-bodied as almost—” “Horse hair dresser, Judge,” inter rupted the prisoner. “Oh! ah! am I” muttered the mag istrate. “That explains it.” Country gentleman, (to foreign friend)—“Hi, there; fire, man! Don’t yon see that hare back there?” Foreign er—“Vat? Shoot ze poor ting down as it retreat? No, no, my good saire; vaittiU he turn about and face me; then I will—zing I”—[Judy. COHTRACT RATES OF ADVERTISIHG. One square one month — ? i 00 One square three months —S 00 One square six months —’ 12 00 One square twelve months 20 00 One-fourth column one month 10 00 One-fourth column three months 20 00 One-fourth column six months 30 00 On e-fourth column twelve months 00 00 One-half column one wimitfi ,,,,11 20 00 One-half column three months 32 00 One-half column six months 00 00 One-half column twelve months — 101 One column one month Ono column three months... One column six months.. One column twelve z percent, additional upon table r»t«. Hayea* National University- Hew York Snn. The faculty of Mr. Hayes’ proposed p-at National University at Washing ton has not yet been fully arranged. Several important chairs, including thoeeof Greek, Political Economy, and “ 6 Use of the Blackboard, remain to oe rilled. So far as determined opon, the Board of Instruction and Govern ment is constituted as follows : President and Emeritus Professor of Eight-to-Seven Law, Joeeph P. Brad ley, Ph. D. Professor of Applied Theology, Donn Piatt, A. M. by Rrevet Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence, Hiram Ulysses Grant, L1..D, (Harv. Oxon.) Professor of Obituary Literature and Steward of Commoner, G. Washington Childs, A. M., (Princt) Tom Paine Professor of Natural and Revealed Religion, Rev. Robert J. In- Professor of Political Ethics, Zachariah Chandler, D N. Emeritus Lecturer on Antediluvian Literature, Johannes A Dix, CCC. Joint Hayes Professors of Pure Math ematics, J. Madison Wells, R. B., Thos. C. Anderson, R. B. Jay Gould Professor of Journalism,- Whitelaw Reid, DP. Professor of German and Instructor on the Pianoforte, Carl Schurz, (Bonn.) Professor of the French Language and Literature, M. Edouin F, Noyes. Purio Professor of Philanthropic Slaveholding, Johannes Welsh. Instructor of Esthetic Botany and English Composition, William K. Rog ers, A. S. 8. Tutors in Practical Mathematics, C. Casenave, L. Kenner. Director of the Gymnasium, William M. Everts, LL.D., (Yale.) Janitor, Stanley Matthews.* *To whom candidates for admission should apply for rooms, fuel, text books, and board and washing. Conkling and Hayes. The desperation of the game which Conkling is playing against the Ad ministration is best indicated by the unnatural and incongruous alliances to which he finds himself forced to report. The New Y6rk Herald, discussing this subject, says. “The reconciliation of Senator Blaine with Senator Conkling is almost as touching in itB way as the reconcilia tion of Mr. Pickwick with Mr. Tupman. But it is not nearly so interesting as the alliance of Senator Conkling and Sen- frhoug na_oue in theiR-paaeion for the bloody shirt and their hatred of a poli cy of peace and reconciliation, should agree to sink their personal differences in a common hostility to the President who took the nomination of 1876 away from both of them at Cincinnati. These are personal matters with which the public has really no more concern than it chooses to give itself abont them. - But Senator Conkling represents in part the greatState of New York, which is deeply interested in the maintenance of the public faith and the stability of the currency. When a Senator from New York puts himself into the hands of Nevada Jones, the leader in the Sen ate of the silver swindle, it is time for sensible people to ask themselves whether the fall of one per cent, in oar securities in the London markets, upon which the Economist sharply com ments as the cable to-day informs ns, is likely in the end to lead ns. Decline of the Quakers. Mr. Barclay informs ns that there are at present only 17,000 Quakers in Eng land and Wales, while : n 1700 they num bered 60,000, and that their greatest loss es took place in the period of theirgreat- est moral triumphs. Was Coleridge right, as Maurice seemed to think, in supposing that the life is out of the tree and only its bark is left? Various causes have been assigned for its decline, .such as birthright membership—not an original ormciple of the system—which 'ed to the wholesale admission of nominal mem bers, either careless abont religion or hos tile to Quaker ideas and traditions; the system of disowning members for alight deviations from “the unwritten law”, in. such trifling matters as dress and lan-: gnage, but, more important still, for mar rying outside the Friends, the silent meetings, which were very rare in the ■early history of the sect, and the absence of singing ard reading the Scriptures in public. It is bard to conceive, indeed, bow a Christian body can exist without someregular provision for religious teach ings ; and tne fact that one of the rr'st- est secessions from its ranks ari.se out of the persistent refusal-to supply a larger religious instruction seems to |>oint to the inevitable extinction of Quakerism at no distant day.—British Quarterly Beuieie. The Trustees of the British Museum have secured a copy of very rare Chi- neso encyclopaedia entitled: “Koo kin too shoo tsehiebiog; or, “A Complete Collection of Ancient and Modern Books, with Illustrations.” During the reign of the Emperor Kang he (1661-1721), it occurred to that monarch that, in view of the alterations which were being intro duced into the text of works of value, it would be advisable to reprint such from the old editions. He therefore appointed a commission and directed them to re print, in one large collection, all such ’ worthy as they might deem worthy of preservation. A complete set of copper type was cast for the undertaking, and the commissioners were able to lay before the Emperor a compilation consisting of 6109 volumes. The contents they d - v’ided under thirty-four heads, em racing works on every subject contained in the national literatufe. Only a small edi- tkn was printed, and before long the Government, jtielding to the necessities. of a severe crisis, ordered the copper type' employed to print it to be melted down for cash. Thus only a copies few of the first edition are in existence, and it is but rarely that one finds its way into tbe^ market. m > Lawbenceville, Ills., Dec. 20.—The Connty Treasurer of Coffee county was .it a nnn Kn aIha