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I .. \>«- York Herald P. I. column
1 ° ,.’ 00 d joke” in French. It surely
preat man to be witty in two
[inu(rpSi Yearly all fail in one.
sief 3' I
iccuages.
There '
18 a fire at Sweetwater, Tenn.
r.^ay night, destroying several busi-
hou;c s. It originated in a drug
v". and is thought by some to have
?“*’ caused by popping fiie-crackers.
| about 830,000.
' Col Bob lngersoil and Henry Ward
„ k, r have both come to the conciu-
don that 'here is r.o hell, and in good
Republican fashion, have conned it
, Well, just , " t ,hem 8° ahead if
°h ft y believe there fa no-hereafter.
GLIMPSES.
Oor Georgia exchanges ail report
.jio am! mini on Christmas,
Forsyth had a “gander pulling”
Christmas Buy. For shame, Forsyth!
A o-entleic iu at Griffin had his eye
ho' out by a Roman candle during the
Christmas “funny” time.
Savannah is furnishing fine shad for
lit people of Columbus. Two bun-
j le .j nvre received on Christmas, much
^ t he jov of the Columbians.
Holder-at Port Royal Railroad bonds
are suing tin- Georgia Railroad and
Banking Company as endorser, in the
CoBDtv Court of Richmond county
Christmas amusements in Augusta
jolted in the cutting of John Ruffin
hr Bill Brown, colored, and the carv-
the head of Henry Verbal by
feorce Thompson, white.
The grand jury of Muscogee county,
offering, made up a purse and
pre it to the Columbus Orphan Asy-
i, B This is an item that it does one’s
N pod to give to the reading pub-
c during tin Christmas holidays.
Two aged and respected citizens of
M county, Mr. IVm. Prather and Mr.
I, N. Whitlow, died suddenly last
reel: tiie former at his residence near
toesville, and the latter in the
neighborhood, while loading
isrvacon with fodder.
Washington Correspondence.
Washington, Dec. 26,1877.
The latest advices from the Mexican
Brier, showing the cordial co-opera-
:e of the soldiers of President Diaz
vithour own in the suppression of
aiders, and evincing a desire to meet
VOLUME XXXII.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 2, 1878.
NEW SERIES-NO. 18
e half way in an honest effort to *’f Manassas, 1862.
Company <5, 22nd Guorgia Regiment.
If anyone note any errors or omis
sions in the following list they will
please notify me of it at as early day
as possible. T. J. Perry.
Names of the members of Company
G, (Capt. W. F. Jones), 22nd Georgia
Regiment, who went from Floyd coun
ty to the war and were killed or died
during the service:
W A Chambers, 2d coporal, died at
Petersburg, Va, of wounds, 1864.
Peter Archey, died at Petersburg of
fever, 1862.
Lafayette Archey, died at Petersburg
of fever, 1862.
A J Arnold, died at Petersburg of
fever, 1862
H Blackwell, killed at Seven Pines,
June 25,1862
James Blackwood, killed at Seven
Pines, June 25, 1862
VV B Brav, killed at Petersburg, Va
1864.
G P Bell, killed by cars on O & A
railroad.
John Bell, killed at Sharpsburg, Md
Sept 17,1862
J A Campbell, killed at Gettysburg,
July 2, 1863
J D Coruutt, died at Petersburg, Va,
1862
James Chesser, died at Falling Creek,
Va, 1862
Wm Cunningham, died at Richmond
of fever, 1862
Joseph Cushion, died at Richmond
of fever, 1862
0 M Davenport, died at Norfolk of
fever, 1861.
J H Drummond, killed at Gettys
burg, July 2, 1863
Wm Elies, died at Winchester of
fever, 1862
G D Fuller, died at Petersburg of
wounds, 1S64
J H Freeman, died near Manassas of
fever, 1862.
James Formby, died at Richmond of
fever, 1862
John Hipps, killed at Gettysburg,
July 2,1863.
Joseph A Hipps, died at home with
measles, 1861
T A Hunt, killed at second battle of
Manassas, Aug 30, 1862
W G Johnson, 1st Lieut, died at
Richmond of fever, 1862
E Langston, died at Richmond of
fever, 1S62
H Lasiter, killed at Petersburg, Va,
1864
W W Liggin, killed at second battle
the international complications
to grow out of that and
alters, have discouraged the
fetiean lobby, which has been so jolly
Stthe na=t few weeks at the success
thought about to crown their
fas irovoke a war. Enlightened
Kuc sentiment appears to have turned
singly in the other direction; and a
wto gratify citizens of Texas and
sympathizers elsewhere would be
tony as a , with no better
PWMl for it th w seems to exist,
litre appears no foundation for the
: *tv rumors of Cabinet changes as
other than the wish of many
Vlicans, d of seeing more
raoaious relations established be-
“v; the Pie-ident and the Republi-
>-ci-r-ei.ti-rs from some of his rneas-
ti.e Senate, and who regard the
~>iM.t of some members of the
■r-a ht .- I'ahinet as a pre-requisite to
■*mi), a-.d it is believed that Mr.
management of Mexican matr
!>.-t;ij"! i. undergo the severest
■iy In- it,i- rummittees sitting du-
- ,e recess with a view to an under-
-‘ , t ; i-’ of our relations to the Mexi-
: Vermnen'. Knox.
The Ran
si o' the Times.
V'v York Journal of Com-
' c tin article on the Christmas
ba.s tin- following concise and
J jr!jri e rejections :
;-vrp:at c: the blessed Christmas
jver more welcome. There
unrest all over the world,
T-.t hearts oi the human race are
every where lor a visit of the
angel with the olive wand.
> Ldia skeleton fingers are beck-
’ “'sweet vision that is to draw
^ “rtain Behind the long months ol
m.*' Europe, from its Eastern
..'■fcddened with blood, to its West-
j“ ur vr against which beat the
_g- W> Vi 5 0 ( political strife, lias been
-iw V Jtt " ear y hours. Our land
K Tg’’‘ *or it through a year of un-
St j ? ‘“od and trial. The Presi-
succession, tiie ludian massa-
a- labor riots, the bank failures,
U P the little hordes which
7, - v Uu I placed as -i guard against
it *? at ’ dle sa 'l demoralization on
Laving scanty wrecks o
.-■7 f 1 at *d fortune that had been
v' ! >r °of against temptation and
■Y- assault—these all have dark-
! Y' il thickened the very air until
H.l too lieavy for the weary
tfttits of ttonest Rule.
Y“ l: ‘ Caioiina, under the carpet-
t ) ’ l he expenses of the State gov-
lvr hue year 1872 were $1,090,-
for 1873, $1,046,367, whilst
-t ; .j ,JV -Hampton's administration
v ^“svs of lhe government for one
Sn v ’ ,: been S332.880—only one-
J ‘the amount squandered under
(trtai^t'. 1 ‘““Bolmiuistration. This
tfylt , t '" uu gl 1 to encourage the
*it, t . u South Carolina to go on, to
\ e 8 J °d woik, to restore in
old-tiuie frugality, old-
’ ‘.vriy and old-time credit.
•th- l" re three Republicans elected
Wjf** ^gtolature instead of
K, v ' nr " 1 reported. They are, A.
W {. ‘■•colored, of McIntosh; Lem-
'^httan . i’r T ' 01 Newton; and G. C.
. ul Upson.
Robert Lumpkin, died at Petersburg,
1862
' Dennis Martin, died at Petersburg of
congestion, 1862
George McKisick, died at Richmond
of fever, 1862
Stephen Newman, died at Richmond
of fever, 1862
C M Perry, died at Richmond of
fever, 1802
Samuel Stafford, died at Richmond
of fever, 1862
R D Strickland, died at Richmond
of fever, 1862
Samuel Stewart, killed at Gettysburg,
July 2, 1803
U r D Smith, died in Rappahanock
county, Va, of fever, 1863
Samuel Treadaway, 1st Lieut, killed
at second battle of Manassas, Aug 30,
1862
David S Teat, killed at Manassas
Gap, July 22, 1S63
Samuel Thomas, died at Richmond
of fever, 1S62
Leroy Tucker, killed at second battle
of Manassas, Aug 30,1862
Samuel F Woodruff, died of wounds
at Petersburg, 1863
John Zuber, died at Petersburg of
fever, 1SG2
Uosictter’s Almanac.
The edition for 1878 of the sterling
Medioal Annual, known as Hostettei’s
Almanac, is now ready, and may be
ibtained, free of cost, of druggists and
general country dealers in all parts of
the United States and British America,
and indeed in every civilized portion
of the Western Hemisohere. It com
bines, with the soundest practical ad
vice for the preservation and restoration
of health, a large amount of interesting
and amusing light reading, and the cal
endar, astronomical calculations, chro
nological items, etc., are prepared with
great care, and will be found entirely
accurate. The issue of Hostetters Al
manac for 1878, in the English, Ger
man, French, Welsh, Norwegian, Swe
dish, Holland, Bohemian and Spanish
languages, wiil in all probability be the
largest edition of a medical work ever
published in any country. The propri
etors, Messrs. Hostetter & Smith, Pitts
burgh, Pa., on receipt of a two cent
stamp, will forward a copy by mail to
any person who cannot procure one in
his neighborhood.
The Teeth an Advertising Medium.
Every time a lady who uses fragrant
Sozodout opens her mouth, she adver
tises the article. The state ot her teeth
i certificate of its excellence. No
spot darkens their surface, no impurity
clings to them, the cushions in which
they are set are rosy, and the breath
that swells through them is sweet as the
breeze of June.
Spalding’s Liquid Glue, always ready
to use.
True bcoiioni}.
It has been found tnat the only true
economy is that which stops the little
leaks and saves in trifles. For instance,
one saves in milk, butter, eggs and flour
by the use of Dooley’s Yeast Powder,
which is made from the purest cream-
tartar, derived from grape acid. Good
housewives have proved this by expe
rience.
Floyd Courty Crops.
Dr. G. W. Holmes made eighteen
hales of cotton this year on fourteen
acres of land, after paying the toll; one
mile above Rome. No guano used.
James H. Camp, three miles above
Rome, on the Etowah river, made five
bales of cotton on four acres of land,
and forty-three hales on fifty acres, after
paying toll for ginning, and the hale3
averaged him $50. No guano used.
P. M. Sheibly made seven bales from
twelve acres, on his place, one mile from
Rome, known as the Berrien farm. All
upland, no fertilizers used.
J. J. Cohen sowed down one of his
fields in rye, November, 1876, and in
June, 1877, he harvested a large crop;
and in June he turned the stubble under
with a two-horse turning plow, and
planted corn and peas, which made him
fifty bushels to the acre of corn and a
large crop of peas. In September he
turned the crop of peas and corn-stalks
under and sowed down rye again. He
now has a fine pasture for his stock.
Another farmer says he had an old
sedge field that had been lying idle for
a number of years. In 1875 he put it
under a good fence and tamed the sedge
under with a two-horse plow, while
green, an 1 let it lie until the spring of
1876; he; then sowed it down in clover
and rye and harrowed it in. The crop
grew fine y, and he did not disturb it
that year, hut let the clover and rye ri
pen and remain on the ground, and by
March, 1877, there was a fine pasture for
his stock. He turned in his hogs, con
sisting of three brood sows and pigs and
twenty-two shoats. They remained on
the clover and rye all summer and fall.
He gave them, upon an average, an ear
of corn per week per head, and kept
them well salted; and in October he put
up his fattening hogs and fed them on
corn, and in the latter part of November
he salted down 8,000 pounds of pork;
and if he has no bad luck, will be able
to kill 15,000 lbs. next year. This from a
ten-acre field. Besides, it affords a good
pasture for his horses and mules while
not at work. This same man says he is
going to fence in another ten-acre field
and sow it down, and as soon as the clo
ver gets a good set he will then turn the
other under and put it in wheat and run
it two or three years and back to clover
again.
There are many other farmers who
can make equally as good reports, and
some perhaps better, and we invite them
to do so, in order that our section' of
country may be better known and appre
ciated,
Weekly Cotton Statement.
Benj. F. Hull, of this city, reporter
for the National Cotton Exchange, fur
nishes the following statement for the
week ending Friday, Dec. 28, 1877:
Stock on hand Sept. 1st 4
Receipts this week:
Boat via. Coosa 711
Boat via. Oostanauia
S., R. & D. R. R 362
Rome R. R 84
Wagon 247— 1404
Receipts previously 29166
Since Sept. 1st 30570
Total 30574
Shipments this week— 1726
“ Previously—23289
“ Since Sept. 1st 25015
Stock on hand 5559
THE ROME MARKET.
Enquiry for best grades.
Middling 10 j
Low Middling 10
Good Ordinary 93
STATEMENT
For the corresponding week of last year:
Stock on hand Sept. 1st! 53
Received this week 1135
NEW ENGLAND IDEAS.
Mr. Evarts’ Speech at New York
on Saturday.
New York, December 23.—The fol
lowing is the concluding portion of Sec
retary Evarts’ speech at the New Eng
land dinner last evening:
We have finished a struggle that has
made permanent and general in the
constitution, in the law, in the arrange
ments of society, a complete admission
of equality of law, of safety of citizen
ship, and of duty of mutual love—now
after a great civil war, greater than any
nation has ever endured, separately,
without disintegration or injury to its
integrity. There are duties that do not
belong to a condition either preparatory
to strife or when the strife was in pro
gress. We have found out what bayon
ets mean in this country, and you remem-,
her what Hosea Bigelow says on that
subject, “Lord 1 didn’t I feel streaky the
first time I found out the bayonet; were
peeping;” and you will observe that
their utility is of a somewhat demon-ta-
tive character. But I think it is Bis
marck who is credited with the bull that
bayonets are not an institution to sit
down on, and so the American people,
as averse as any people can be, to the
use oi admioistration of beyonets, is the
last nation of the world that would wish
to set down on that institution. [Laugh
ter and applause.] Whea, therefore, we
have come to a time when having secur
ed every purpose of the war, when hav
ing enlisted the law and institutions of
society in furtherance of New England
virtues, that justice and duty and right
should prevail throughout this land—let
us accept at once what we shall be recre
ant and faithless to onr importance if we
do not accept—that New England opin
ions, New England ideas and New Eng
land results are making 'their way in
this country by moral and intellectual
methods. I hear some talk of reaction
ary tendencies and influences, but if we
are not willing to be patient I do not
think it advisable to resort to finished
methods of force. Whenever those
methods are necessary New England will
resume her arms and not resort to ani
mosities and jealousies in order to reach
the coarser methods of hostilities. New
England practices her faith, it these
methods are slow, and by a gradual dif
fusion of moral government. We can
never be charged with having done any
thing that does not honor our New Eng
land ancestors.
There are three questions now before
the people—all public, unselfish, enno
bling and patriotic. The public peace
is the first one, and that is to be assured
in the general way in which I have indi
cated. Then there is the public faith,
[the whole audience at this point rose
and cheered heartily for the president]
without which we cannot have an hon
orable national life, and last of all there
Gossip of the Grants.
ath” m Clue in uati Enquirer- *
Meeting a relative of ex-President
rant a day or two ago I asked abont
iat mystic man’s intentions as fol-
ows:
“How long will the President remain
n Europe?”
- “Indefinitely. He expected when he
■went away to etay a good while, but
.thought he would have to fight home
sickness. I hear that-he is very well
■ontented; at least better off in mind
han he thonght to have been. Grant is
itndying and learning civil institutions,
le is the only- President we ever had
ho was not too old or too obstinate to
to school again after he had adrnin-
ired the Government as long as
ashington.”
“Will he come back in a year?”
“It is entirely indefinite. I am sure
e will not come back while this quar-
r5l between the party and Hayes goes
ion. He doesn’t want to be mixed up
in'it You may make up your mind
jtLat while there is a conflict int"
Republican party here
“Do you know what he thick's about
this, muddle ?”
, “No. He wouldn’t tell me if he did.
■He is a stout party man by nature, but
approved of the Southern policy of
Hayes. He gave the civil service peo-
ple—Curti8, etc.—a chance, and found
them a set of hypocrites and fools. Bnt
J expect he is studying civil service
administration on the other side.”
■ “Where are hischildren ?”
7 “Jesse is with him. Buck is in a law
office in New York. Fred is ont with
Sheridan. Nelly is with Sartoris’ fam
ily in the south of England.”
) “How does Nelly feel about living
all her life over there?”
She likes the United States the best.
So does Sartoris. Bat he is now the
oldestyson, and bis parents are old.
They both have to stay there. Nelly
has had two children—one of them is
living ”
* ‘ Whom does Grant depend on for
Society in his more lonely travels ?”
? “Bsdeau is with him a good deal.
Grant finds him sound and useful.”
“Yet he is, by profession, a newspa
per man ?”
■ “That doesn’t matter. Grant got to
like a good many newspaper writers
before he left here. He found the Bo
hemians more reliable than those wear
ing a little brief authority. And the
•respectable men of talent got to like
Grant Of coarse the detectives, pimps
r.nd pretenders don’t like him.”
“How came he to take a fancy to Ba-
deau ?”
‘ “Grant is very strong lor a man if
his sympathies are aroused. Badeau
was on the staff of T. W. Sherman—noi
Tecumseh—that Sherman was ver>
rough on Badeau, and Grant gave th
A Hard Hit at Hayes-
Bill Chandler ^Launches a Bolt.
Washington, December 26.—Wm. E.
Chandler, of New Hampshire, of the re-
pnbl’can national committee, has address
ed an open letter to the republicans of
his State, making mention of numbers
of explicit statements concerning bar
gains made during the electoral count,
and their fulfillment by the adoption and
pnrsnrnce of the president’s southern
policy. Mr. Chandler asserts that the
republican party, by the advice and pro
curement of Governor Hayes, made the
necessity of keeping federal power in
republican hands and using it for the
protection of the black and white south
ern republicans, the main issue of tne
presidential campaign.
Chandler 6ays: “The ‘bloody shirt,’
as it is called, was freely waved, and
Governor Hayes himself urged public
me a to put forward as our best argument
the dangers of rebel rale and a so’id
south,” Chandler quotes several ex-
“ since Sept. 1st
25611
25664
Shipments this week 1710
“ previously 22771
Total since Sept. 1st
244S1
Stock on hand
1183
ROME MARKET.
Quiet:
Middlings
11)
Low Middlings
. -Ill
Sood'Ordinary
—11
is the public, service, which, uifesa it-inferacg fellow relief on his own staff
pure, strong and noble, will degrade the Ao e — *" * mt tW “ p “ r, “ r “ r " 1 R ,K '
pceans of our freedom to the lowest dog-
genral in our ears. In regard to public
faith, we have passed the stage of antag
onism with regard to the nation’s debts,
there are difficulties and dangers to be
overcome, but there are no hostilities.
Everything from east to west, from north
to south is at peace. What we need is
to look after our wealth, to increase our
gold and silver, preserve our industry
thrift, and make the most of our broth
erhood. It was a very wise maxim of
Mr. Webster, when in the bitterness of
the strife that wa3 waging against him
in the latter days of his career he made
this ready answer: “They are not bad
men, but bad reasoners.” Upon the sub
ject of public service it is better that all
should have one good example than
many principles. We must rot step
backward. This must be a motto of our
magistrates, statesmen, teachers, editors,
ami people. We must go on—we must
go on. We must understand that there
are many difficulties to be encountered
in the methods by which we may reach
our way out, and I believe that those
difficulties wi ! I he met. In the words of
Mr. Burke, when he speaks of the lite
of a good government, he says: “By
whatever pa'll the great places are to be
reached, even if that path be slimy with
calumny and jealousy, the one which
tends upward will be the one which
taken.”
It i* for you as a people to make your
liees blight and clear and ever tending
upwards. A- an example of your pub
lie sec rice I need only start with your
honored president. He has never pur
sued any devious paths, and he does not
propose to encourage their pursuits by
others. [Prolonged cheers.]
METEOROLOGICAL.
Barometer, Dec. 21 29-40
“ “ 22 29-42
“ “ 23 29-44
“ “ 24 29-43
“ “ 25 29-38
“ “ 26 29-39
“ “ 27- 29-40
THERMOMETER.
Rain fall in inches 2 96-100
Highest temperature 64°
Lowest temperature 4S~
Average temperature 61'
An Awful Tragedy.
And the winds blew upon that woman
and whirled her hat over the fence, and
tugged enthusiastically with her over
skirt, and when she held the front down
the back flew up, and when she held the
back down the front flew up. And
straightway the fiery spirit of her sex
arose within her, and she backed up
against the fence, shut her knees together
on the front bredth of everything, poked
the hair away from her eyes and smiled
sweetly, whUe the wind howled aad
shrieked around her; and moaned and
sobbed and darted between her ankles,
and found naught that it could wiggle
except the loose end of a shoe-string.—
Fulton (TV 17) Times.
Belgrade, December 26.—The Ser
vians, on Monday, after eight hours’
severe fightirg, captured Palanka, to
gether witk three Krupp gnus and a
large quantity of ammunition and pro
visions. The Turks lost many killed ann
seme prisoners. Prince Milan was pres
ent yesterday when the bombardment of
Niosh was commenced.
The Child Teacher-
Backward and forward in her little
rocking-chair went Alice Lee, now
clasping her beautiful waxea doll to
her bosum, and singing low, sweet lul-
labys; then smoothing its flaxen curls,
patting its rosy cheeks, and whispering
so:tly, “I love you, pretty dolly;” and
anon casting wistful glances toward her
mother, who sat in a bay window,
busily writing. After what seemed to
be a very long time to the little daugh
ter, Mrs. Lee pushed aside the papers
and looking up, said pleasantly:
“I am through for to-day, Alice; you
may now make all the noise you
choose.'’
Scarcely were the words uttered ere
the little one had flown to her, and
nestled her head on her loving heart,
saying earnestly:
“I’m so glad 1 I wanted to love yon
so much, mamma ?”
“Did you, darling ?” And she clasped
Her tenderly. “I am very glad my
Alice loves me so; but I fancy you were
not very lonely while I wrote; you and
dolly seemed to be having a happy
time together.”
“Y'es, we had, mamma; but I got tired
after awhile of loving her.”
“And why?”
“O, because she never loves me
back!”
“And that is why you love me ?”
“That is one why, mamma; but not
the first one or the best”
“And what is the first and best ?”
“Why, mamma, don’t yon guess ?”
and the blue eyes grew very, bright and
earnest “It’s because you loved me
when T was too little to love you back;
that’s why I love you so.”
“We love Him because He first loved
us.” whispered the mother; and fer-
ve tly she thanked God for the little
child teacher.
In the reading-room of the British
Museum they are eomplaining of an
influx of idlers who come to solye the
acrostics in “society journals.”
As soon as he got there Porter and Bab
cock took a dislike to him and under-
took to drive him off. The big-natnred
justice of Grant was aroused and his
sympathies excited. He found Badeau
faithful and made his fortune.”
“You mean by helping him and pro
moting him?”
“Yes; he gave him the valuable
original material of his life instead of
trying to make some profit out of it
himself. He sent Badeau Consul to
London, where he married a lady of
property.”
“Does Grant keep his olden faith in
Babcock ?”
“Grant is silent on that point, but I
think not. I think the developments
of that trial at St. Louis staggered
Grant. I think he saw that if his con
fidence had not been abused he had not
bee told the truth.”
“Is the President independent of the
world ?”
He is comfortable. His wants never
were great. He has naturally fair, me
dium, bold business pluck.”
Will Grant come back here and let
any of the old crowd meet him ?’’
Not one. He won’t give one of
them a chance. There are people now
crying‘Grant 1 Grant!’ who would not
get within gunshot of him if ho had
any influence again.”
The H me tead as Affected hy
the New Constitution.
In a comoiunication io the Atlanta
Constitution Hon. W. O. Tuggle, of
Troup county, a prominent member of
the late Constitutional Convention,
says :
The new Constitution settles the dif
ficulties suggested about the homestead.
As to all debts existing at the time of
its adoption the homestead of 1868 can
be taken at any time.
Section III, Article IX. Homestead
and exemptions of personal property,
which have been heretofore set apart
by virtue of the provisions of the ex
isting Constution of this State, and in
accordance with the laws for the en
forcement thereof, or which may be
hereafter so set apart, at any time, shall
be and remain valid as against all
debts and liabilities existing at the
time of the adoption of this Constitu
tion, to the same extent that would
have been had said existing Constitu
tion not been revised.
As to the debts created after the
adoption of the new Constitution, the
old homestead, before 1868, called the
“pony homestead,” contained in the
Code in paragraphs 2040 to 2049 inclu
sive, and the acts amendatory thereof,
can be taken, or the new homestead of
1877. The homestead of 1877 takes the
place of the bom**stead of 1868 in the
Constitution, bnt the enactments for
the enforcement of the constitutional
provisions, except sach parts as are in
consistent with the new Constitution,
remain of force until modified or re
pealed by the General Assembly. Art
XII., par. 3.
myself, but I do care for the poor color
ed men of the south. %* %*
Northern men cannot live there, J \*
The southern people will treat tbe/cojli-
stitutional amendments as nullities;And
then the colored man’s fate will be worse
than it was when he was in slavery. *
* * That is the only reason that I
regret that th»-news is as it is.” Chand
ler proceeds: “Governor Hayes not
only pledged himself to protect, to the
fall extent of Federal power, life, suf
frage and political rights in the sonth,
but was counted in as president only by
reason of such special pledges, given by
Senator Sherman and other Onio emmis-
saries, who practically and emphatically
promised chat he would recognize and
maintain the lawful State governments
of South Carolina and Louisiana, and
stand by Governors Chamberlain and
Packard.” Chandler amplifies these
statements at length, and proceeds to
make elaborate charges. Almost the
first act of the new administration was
to fulfill a bargain he had made daring
the presidential connt, by which he
should be president. The lawful gov
ernments of Louisiana and South Caro
lina were to be abandoned and the mob
governments of those States were to be
recognized and established. Certain
democrats, in the house of representa
tives, seeiug that by the recurring deci
sions of the electoral commission, and
the regular proceedings of the two houses
uuder the electoral bill, which they
Had warnly supported, Hayes would
sureiy become president, had conceived
ne idea of saving something from the
vreck. They cherefore threatened, by
ilatory motions and riotous proceedings,
1 o break'up the coUDt and then open ne-
g.eiations witnsueh timid or too expect
ant republicans as they, could find.
One H. ury Walterson, a member of
the house, „nd a nephew of Stanley Mat
thews, had acted as go-between, Senator
Sherman in the meantime having visited
Ohio and consulted Governor Hayes, and
on the one side Matthews, Chas. Foster,
John Sherman and Jas. A. Garfield, and
on the other L. Q. C. Lamar, John B.
Gordon, E. J. Ellis, Randall, Gibson,
E. A. Burke and John Young Brown
bad agreed—first, that the count should
not be broken in the house, but that
Hayes should be inaugurated and de
clared president; and second, that upon
Hayes’ accession, troops should be with
drawn from tne support of Chamberlain
and Packard, and that the new adminis
tration should recognize Wade Hampton
and Gen. Nicholls after the inauguration.
The bargain was fully carried out, and
Governors Packard and Chamberlain
were notified, by, Matthews and Evarts,
to get out. Cliandler proceeds at great
length, noticing, among other things,
the appointment of Key, who in the
Senate denounced Hayes’ title as fraud
ulent, to the postmaster generalship.
Notes from the War.
Tbs DlOerence Between tbs Bleb Skobe-
lelT and (be Poor Gourko*
From the London Times.
Here is old Krndener absolutely re
fusing to go away, though he has been
offered a liberal pension repeatedly.
He is ovei 73 years of age, was a fall
Colonel in the Polish campaign of
1831, and has to be shoveled on to bis
horse by his Cossack orderly; yet he
will not go away, and still continues to
misdirect a corps of 35,000 men. It
never seems to occur to the authorities
that a mistaken tenderness to these old
men is death to their troops. At Niko
pol Krndener made the Ninth Cossacks
charge a battery mounted to his own
intense satisfaction, but to the utter
destruction of half the men and horses
of the regiment.
At Brestovee village (the place from
which I write) is Skobeleff’s advanced
forepost line, covered by artillery,
heavy siege guns, and rifled mortals.
the Sixteenth, up to its
'■ " ensconced in excel-
and a half further
back, prepared for any cold, and witlr. D —
a fireplace and chimney to every hi Ugjk > .,> , *'.i6tith reference to the Eastern
His is the only Russian camp I etyA^t tk® aiL 8a 3 rB «is, perfectly certain
saw that is dean in the English seciyL.td^ ^French Government docs not
of the word. All others are pig-sty A-ggetv® departing from its attitude of
or worse, polluting the streams anl\ gjo-Sy' _wyilay an active part in East 1
breeding disease, regardless of conssA ^'Aairs.
quences. His is clean. His one objec&V'Lo.VDoN, Deo. 25.—It. is folly ex-
Ons column three months MW
One column elx months 1(M 00
One column twelTr months. 100 00
‘55**°!88. Iate * *** toT either Weekly or
™-Weekly. When published In both papers, SO
percent, additional upon table rates.
The Eastern War.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 25 .—An official
r e P am states that the sudden drifting
u in Danube has torn away
the bridge at Ibrail. A Russian st. am-
er is frozen in, and unable to apprupch
the bridge. The Grand Duke Alexi« '
announces that communication cannot
be restored for the preeent.
Belgrade, Dec. 25—The Servians
Monday, after eight hours’ severe fight-
tug« captured Akpalanka, together with
three Krupp guns and a large qnanti-
ty of ammunition and provisions. The
Turks lost many killed and tome pris
oners. Prince Milan was present yes
terday when the bombardment of Nissa
began.
Ebzerouh, Dec. 25.—The Russian
lines have been pushed forward and
Erzeroum is almost invested. Russian
infantry is massed in the northern part
of the plain. The bombardment of the
town and the consequent interruption
of telegraphic service are imminent
Pabis, Dec.,25.—The Temps, allnd-
~ report that active inBTeonrse
going on between Paris and
Pickings.
Silence is not always golden.
Long and wide riven need abridging.
The oyster is continually getting into
broils and stews.
Lieutenant Bullia does not hesitate
to Kickapoo Indian.
A besetting sin of mankind is to be
setting round all day without doing
anything.
Prejudiced people have gone so far
as to say there are no redeeming fea
tures about the silver bill.
3Ir. Hayes on Silver and Re
sumption-
picial trt Cincinnati Enquirer.
New York, Dec. 23.—Your corre
spornlent found President Hayes at the
Fifth Avenue hotel to-day (Sunday
noon), and was kindly received. The
President expressed himself much
pleased with his visit, and was charmed
with the drives about the city during
the fine weather. He looks somewhat
careworn, and is turning gray rapidly,
but is as genial as ever. A fter wishing
the President all the compliments of
th; season, the following conversation
ensued:
Correspondent—I feel called upon to
say, Mr. President, that perhaps many
of those business men with whom you
consult, not wishing to show any signs
of weakness, do not rightly represent to
you the extreme depression in busi
ness. I have seen within a week many
business firms. Gaff, Fleischman &
Co., of New York, tell me they are do
ing no business, and A. T. Stewart &
Co. are making little or no profits, and
cutting do~n the number of their em
ployes.
President Hayes—I am aware that
business has become very much de
pressed during the last sixty days, and
deeply regret that such is the fact.
Correspondent—There must be some
relief soon or the country will go into
bankruptcy. The people look for some
relief, Mr. President, in the remonetiza
tion of the silver dollar.
President Hayes—I am in favor of
the silver dollar if it is an honest dol
lar—if it is a dollar in fact'as well as in
name.
Correspondent—The remonetization
of the silver dollar will tend to equal
ize and bring it up to gold in value.
When it was demonetized it was worth
$1.03. Snbsidiary coin is now worth
ninety-seven cents, and when silver is
quoted at fifty-four pence in London
it is bullion.
President Hayes—That is what I am
trying to arrive at; that is what I am
trying to weigh in my mind, whether
remonetization and the use of the silver
dollar of 4121 grains would bring it up
to gold.
Correspondent—Allow me to say a
word as to the Resumption Act, Mr.
President. It is a law which suspends
all business. A law might as well have
been passed suspending all business
till January, 1879.
President Hayes—I think the effects
of the Resumption Act are mostly
passed, and that we are quite near re
sumption.
Alexinatz,. December 26.—Thirty
thousand Servians, with 120 guns are in
vesting Nisch.
in life is to be idolized by his men,
and he fully succeeds. He appears to
bear a charmed life.
Skobeleff says, and he says with
truth: “This is a new era in war, and
we are making experiments for the ben
efit of others. The shovel and the
breech-loading rifle have changed ev
erything. Artillery goes for nothing;
the infantry assault is the only, though
the most precarious, mode of success.”
This, from a man who has had greater
triumphs than any other in this army,
is very valuable.
And he persists in leading his divi
sion on himself, for he says he cannot
find it in his heart, like oihers, to send
men on to death without sharing their
risks himself. Nobly thought and
nobly spoken. I have bogged him not
to ride one of his gray horses to-day,
but he says that to see him on any
other would dishonor his men. “If I
live to another campaign I will not
ride white horses, bnt I cannot leave
off now.” These are the calm words of
a man who five hours hence is going
to what is like certain death.
Being a rich man, Skobeleff keeps
open table, and all his Brigadiers and
Colonels sit down with him twice drily,
quite unlike Gourke, of whom it is said
that “he never dines,” but takes tea oc
casionally, writing and working all the
rest of the day. These two are rivals
in fame, bnt Skobeleff is a rich young
bachelor of 34, with immense expecta
tions, and Gourko, a father of a family,
of 49, who has nothing but his pay.
Each is a thorough soldier and each
perfect in his way. Gourko, though a
cavalry officer all his life, is no mere
szbreur, but a thoughtful, intellectual
man, who impresses you at once with
a sense of mental power. He defends
his raid through the Balkans on ap
parently sound strategic grounds. At
any rate it opened and has kept open
the gate of the Balkans.
Skobeleff has a curious theory that
to attack positions you ought to begin
late in the afternoon. This makes it,
if you fail, unlikely that your enemy
will retort with a counter attack that
night, and, on the other band, you have
the whole night to intrench. There is
a good deal in favor of the idea.
Startling Discoveries in Astron
omy.
m tbe Manufacturer and Builder.
Mr. Lick, of California, bequeathed a
few years ago in his will nearly a mill
ion dollars Tor a great telescope. One
of the trustees, Mr. A. S. Flovd, Has
just returned from an extended tour,
during which he collected all the in
formation he could obtain in regard to
the construction of great telescopes.
The conclusions he has arrived at are
these: Two teltscopes should be con
structed—one a great refractor of the
largest possible size, the object glass at
least 40 inches in diameter; the other a
reflecting telescope, oi which the mir
ror shouTd be at least 4 feet in diam
eter, adapted to use two kinds of mir
rors, one a speculum metal reflector,
and the other a silvered glass reflector.
As the observatory and the mount
ing of such instruments cost abont as
much as the instruments themselves,
it is contemplated to use half for the
observatory and mounting.
We are confident that if this plan is
realized, startling discoveries are in
store. California, with its monster tel
escopes, aided by its clear sky and oth
erwise favorable situation for astronom
ical research, will undoubtedly take the
lead in discoveries of which those of
the moons of Mars, made with wbat is
now the largest refractor in the world,
have given us a foretaste.
Don’t rely upon your friends. Don’t
rely upon the name of your ancestors.
Thousands have spent the prime of
life in the vain hot>e of help from those
they call friends, and many thousands
have starved because they had rich
fathers. Rely upon the good name
which is made by yonr own exertions,
and know that better than the best
friend you have is unquestionable de
termination, united with decision of
character.
Paris, December 26.—The Temps, al
luding to -he report that there is active
intercouse between Paris and London,
with a view of establishing an under
standing on the eastern question, says it
is perfectly certain that the French Gov
ernment does not intend departing from
its attitude of reserve to play an active
part in the eastern affairs.
London, December 26.—Tenter’s Er-
zeronm dispatch says the Russian lines
have been pushed forward and that Er
zeroum is almost invested. The Russian
infantry is massed in the northern part
of tbe plain. The bombardment of the
town and the consequent interruption of
telegraphic service are imminent
Sr. Petersburg, December 26.—An
official telegram states that a sudden
drifting of ice on the Danube has torn
away the bridge at IbrriL A Russian
steamer is frozen in and is unable to re
proach the bridge. The Grand Dnke
Alexis announces that communication
cannot be restored for the present
pected that Woolwich will shortly re
ceive an extensive order. Returns were
forwarded last week to the War Office
showing thenumber.of guns, amount
of ammunition and stores which each
Department can produce at short no
tice.
A dispatch from Athens states that
demonstrations in favor of war took
place Monday among the soldiers and
civilians at lamia, on the frontier.
A battery of Krupp guns has started
for Chali, and war becomes more .prob
able every day. It is commonly be
lieved that the Cabinet hesitates to
adopt any decided policy before the
meeting of the British Parliament
Bucharest, Dec. 25.—A correspon
dent telegraphs that Gen. Skobeleffe,.
with a division jf infantry, two regi
ments of cavalry and half a brigade of
artillery, has occupied Trojan, near the
Trajan pass.
A correspondent writing from Plevna
says when the Turks made their sortie
they left thousands of sick and wound
ed starving and nnattended.
These unfortunates remained in this
state three days, and hundreds of them
died. Over a thousand have been al-
ready hnried, and abont a hundred
aorpses come from the hospital daily.
Undoubtedly many who were not
quite dead were buried. Those killed
in the battles were unburied on the
17tbia8L i'-^n «*■
The Turkish prisoners are encamped
among them, and are almost starving.'
Plevna is one vast charnel-house, sur
passing in horror anything imaginable.
Lomotive8 for Russia.
It was stated last month that a member
of the Baldwin Locomotive Works com
pany had sailed for Russia to make in
quiries in regard to a cable dispath re
ceived about the building of a large
number of locomotives. Yesterday the
firm received from its agent, Mr, Parry,
directions to immediately proceed with
the construction of forty large-sized
first-class freight engines of five-feet
gnage. The engines are to be completed
daring February and March, 1878. It
is stated in a letter received from Mr.
Pany a few days ago, that tbe Russian
government has absorbed nearly all the
railway plant for war purposes, and that
it is being rapidly used up and destroyed
in the ruinous service. Meanwhile the
largest crop of wheat ever raised in
Southern Europe and Bu'gara is rotting
io the bins lor need of transportation.
This wheat, which usually finds an out
let from the Black Sea ports, will have
to be sdippet 4 by rail to the Baltic ports,
and about three hundred new engines
will be required at once. A large pro
portion of these will, hawever, be built
iu Europe. The engines to be built at
the Baldwin Locomotive Works will
cost upwards of $500,009, and in their
construction employment will be given
to about eight hundred men in addition
to the force of one thousand oae hun
dred men now employed in the works.
A little six-year-old came to her
grandfather the other day with a trou
ble .weighing on her mind. _
“Aunt 3ays the mocn is made of
green cheese, and I don’t believe it.”
“Don’t yon believe it? Why not?”
Because I’ve been looking in the Bi
ble, and found ont that the moon is
not made of green cheese, for the moon
was made before cows.”
London, December 26.—A correspon
dent at Vienna 3ays intelligence from
Constantinople leaves little doubt that
the rejection of the Turkii-h note by the
Powers has caused the war party to re
cover fulljsway. Above all, the r,ac i< n
produced in the feelings of 'he Sultan
by the humiliating rejection ■ !' the note,
is deemed regretable.
The days are at hand when the letter
1 quietly retires from the language and
waits for sunny spring. For iLree
months from date, if yon ask a man
how he is, he will reply, “IT) wed
enough, egsebt a code id the ed.”
The old Quaker carpenter’s advice to
his son, who wss about to lsave home
to begin business for himself, is in
point here. “My son,” said he, “if thee
ever wants to drive a nail in any place,
my advice is, to hit the nail.”
San Francisco fishermen complain
that the sea lions, which are protected
by law, are increasing ao rapidly and
are so destructive of fish that they are
endangering the needed supply for food
for the citizens.
Paris, December, 26.—A Russian
official dispatch, -dated Bogot, says the
Turkish prisoners from Plevna are dy
ing from cold and that it is impossible
to afford them any aid.
To drain lands—Drink whisky and
spend all yonr time at the village : sa
loon. This will drain yon of all yonr
lands in a short time.
We ought to be eo cleanly in onr
moral habits that when a man drops
an offensive remark he conld be com
pelled to pick it up.
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