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ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESllA\bl< IKNING, JANUARY 9, 1878.
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NEW SERIES-NO. 19
pittiimniono. U- ited State*
K,! entered upon bis duties Tbura
T . Bull<H* ir now on trial
jfo r “cheitioj and swindling’ tht
, gf the State.
;
:.i
, givannah Daily H«w*. always
I paper, comes to us in a new drear
ttbe Brat infant. ^
kingdom ..f Portaifl has alreadi
19d the Vatican of its indigposi:
renounce its right of vote in th.
Papal election. ^
e Northeast G-orp**, of Athene
, published under its old name o
,eru Banner. We are always gla"
it whatever name it bears.
Legislature sf Kentucky met i
session last Monday, in Frank
Jad*e Turner, of Madison county
lected Speaker of the House.
ue is fresh, sad merited, criticisn
Erarls for his attempts to hole
his law practice while Secreter.
it as just illustrated anew hv he
rsnoe aa counsel in the Erie Rai’
litigation.
j ( niy name is G*u. B. F. Butler,
jibs eeneral to a New York re-
ind I want to be left severely
tod that right away.” The re
pur he would have to boil do«;
irrriew ami retired.
mit of Mrs. Mary A. Olive
Hon. Sinmu Cameron for breael
lisehss heen abandoned bv Mi
A. Lock wood, her attorney,
was set tied without a suit h
tmeron paying to Mrs. Oliver on
and dollars.
Chandler's organ, the Washing
publican, is to be sold again, wit
»ppurtenaiic-B thereof, on U.
!i Clapp does not »eem to have
point in journalism ; at least
nrdoea not think that the organ
ijj iiirratfuent-
F. M VV. Holliday was inau-
Goveruor of Virginia on the
lint. He was publicly tnaugu-
with imposing ceremony, which
10 bs 6r.it instance of the kind
State, the Governors heretofore
been sworn in without any pub-
ade or display whatever.
*
T
itj United States Msrshala were
the Mayor and members of the
Council of Memphis, last week
purpose of serving a writ on
]rcontempt of court, in not as-
levying and collecting taxes to
theNicolson pavement jugdments,
tied by Judge Trigg.
telephone has been tested at
over a circuit representing, in
negate, one thousand miles of
*, and yielded splendid results.
transmitted, though weak
fearing to proceed from indefi-
danoes, were perfectly recogniz-
»ho the voices of the transmit
Nona.
The money question is one in which
nearly every one takes a deep interest
and at the risk of being thought tedious
we propose to take a glance at the views
expressed by Senator B. H. Hill, as re
ported in the Atlanta Constitution, and
which report or interview we repub
lish for the purpose of letting onr
readers hear the views of a confessedly
nard-money man,
Senator Hill, as is nsual with him.
is very decided in his opinions and
very emphatic in the expression of
hem, but in the outset oTthe inerview
-ays he “does not cate to go into any
fflail of his views, nor of the reason*
which influence him to them.” Witli
this declaration of an intention to give
only bis opinion, without the reasons
•in which they are based, and the fur-
her declaration that he will oppose
every proposition that even tends to
mpair the public credit, he anewers
categorically all the questions the po
le reporter sees tit to pnt to him, and
u the end comes out in opposition to
e Bland bill and to the bill to repeal
tne resumption act.
Why Mr. Hill lays so mnch stress-
s'On the idea of not wishing to impair
•« public credit is a question that we
• >uld like to see answered. That the
aymeut in coin of the interest of
onds which themselves are payable
•-> coin Can in any wise impair the
redit of the Government is more than
v« oan discover. T:ue, it is, that
he holders of the bonds have been led
believe that their interest wonld be
aid in gold, and gold is worth- more
ban silver, their bonds wonld not be
valuable if the interest should be
-idered in silver. At the time every
ond was leaned silver was being
ined, or conld legally have been
coined, in pieces of some denonuina-
ion, and silver was as much a coin of
n United States as was gold. And
he promise was to redeem in coin, not
gold alone, and there can be no just
mputation of wrong on the part of the
Government if every dollar due, both
as prir cipal and interest, is psid in sil
ver coin.
The Senator’s objection to coining
silver because the silver does not be
long to the Government, and that some
one will have to be paid for k, applies
with equal force to gold, for it is mined
by individual effort, and is the proper-
of him who extracts it from the
earth. The argument, it seems to ns, is
Paris Exhibition will open on
l! May, 1S7S. Several hundred
“"M hive already been received
■oi'ed States Commissioner, Mr.
“I. who says they come from
of the country, and relate to a
eiety of goods. None can be
™ which are not received be-
1W| of January.
Wiingtoh National Republi
i opinion that “ if the Reput>li-
were allowed a free and
“d-d exercise of suffrag.- they
■"'o a larep majority in the
h vision re ” Well, sacs the
1' 4 S ntioel. if the Radicals
1 "Id nia.-hinerv at work with
f T o d re say toe Republics.' }
U P a f w more members,
"■whine is not even for sale at
’Oops, and never, never, never
“ !n ‘I* South a vain
“•(loiidi-nt of tV Londou
•veiti. fr i Plevna on
i-r sn-: ‘AH
ir- n v. cnv.red
•" Hc-re at.d
w»- .||> ... by the .X
I*® 4 - St ir '.lit: lay a horse
sar, d strug li. :u death. Close
'■In ti;, t.] . din*. 1 to death;
ground, p i e ye» looking
• 4 ‘ u *- Jus! before me was
"deal! ho-si- lying in yoke
It", and a Turkish soldier
^"ile whose head had been
’• Another man was lying
and around were four
® en ' lying gaz'ug up at the
>r covered np with the
“‘tit ragged gray overcoat
'* their faces. Not one of
a sound. They lay there
_'“> r suffi, r i n g with a calm,
, e w "ioh brought tears to
behind the wagon the
ripped up by shell-fire,
| We Ur >ft>rt'anates had met
s f!t ® road a "d its edges were
idy J\ *ere with dead and
its,,/ l8 ‘ 3 soldiers, oxen, horses
uarts, and a few hundred
ro »d the ground over
4^ ‘‘“ba’s 6allying column
iivffj 1 eroio charge, was liter-
1 doc* ^ eat * an< H wounded.
15 tbs's M er “ alresd y g° in R
after th®
tvsiv^^Kthem temporary
«tiug : 0 r the amba-
«up »
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‘ SILVER AMD REStTMPnOI.
Hay hi for his Southern policy. The 11 o.fj ’to Hill on Finance.
unfair, for the authority vested in GOn^)evnanle,'
gress to regulate coinage gives to Con
gress just tne same right to say that so
much silver shall represent a dollar as
that bo much gold shall be equivalent
the same amount. Of course, we
would not wish to see any wrong done
to the bund-holder, but it is the duty of
the people’s sei vants tosee that no senti-
m-iutalism>hall cause them to increase
ie value of the bonds merely for the
sake of keeping up the public credit,
when that, increase in value is brought
about by paying the bonds in n man
ner different from that contemplated
by the act authorizing their issuance.
The thinness of the proposition that
the present agitation hiaders the conver
sion of five and six per cent. boD<is into
four per cent, bonds, it seems to us, must
apparent to anyone, who looks at it.
Tne idea that a bond due thirty to forty
years hence, bearing six per cent, would
be exchanged for one bearing only four
per cent, seems to us absurd. There is
business sense in such a transaction.
This might occur if the bond had reach-
maturity, but Mr Hill takes as an ex
ample bonds with thirty to forty years to
run.
Opposition to, and advocacy of, the re
peal of the resumption act are in grea°
neature founded upoD spsculati n. As
ihe .-(foot of the resumption act, if
allowed to stand, eaeh one may draw his
i conclusions. We honestly think
will be ruinous to the industry of
the country. Mr. Hill thinks the coun
try is not prepared for resumption a..d
this we think alike, bu* from almost
all his opinions as to the duty ot the
country in the premises and the effect
upon public credit, we most respectfully
dissent.
In the closing paragraph of the iuter-
w Mr. Hill admits that he differs with
Southern Democrats, or that Southern
Democrats differ from him, but appears
be happy in the thought that all who
differ with him will see the error of the
way, and finally agree with him.
Democratic Organization.
the Editor of The Courier:
The recent elections in this county
were not carried by the popularity of
the candidates elected, for the most
popular gentleman in the county was
defeated, and also one whose qualifica
tions as a legislator has no superior in
the State. The election was a square
out fight againBt conventions and nom
inations—disorganization against organ
ization—Independents against Demo
crats. Like all revolutions, it may
succeed for a time, but its course will
end when its disastrous effects'recoil
upon the count-y by bad government
and unreliable politicians. It was
through organization of the Democratic
party that the South was redeemed
from Radical tyranny. Without thor
ough organization we would still have
been under a Bullock, carpet-naggers
and bayonets; and we ask new, has that
Northern Radical hate ceased to exist
against the South? In reply we can
only point to the course of Conkling
and Edmunds in opposition to Mr,
great disappointment of the Northt
a solid South; it took them by surprise,
for they calculated on their plans and
measures to so divide us that the Dem
ocrats of the South for all time to come
would be in a helpless minority. By
reconstruction their aim was to thor
oughly Radicalise the South. But or
ganisation saved the Sooth and defeat
ed Radicalism, and now they say there
shall be a solid North to keep down
the Sontb; if not, tbeir work has been
in vain. We stand in our light if ne
disrupt the South and create two par
ties, for if the Democratic party of the
South losrs its power the Northern
Democrats become helpless in Congress:
and let the Radicals once more regain
the ascendency-in national affairs, a'
what protection and safety are there in
Slate lines and State Governments
when their rule is backed by bayonets?
Our. experience for the last ten years
should teach ns that our only safety is
iu a solid South. There is also another
view to be taken in this division, and
that is, if there are to be three parties
in the South, Democrats, Independ
euts and Radicals, one of two things
must be the result, as the Radicals must
necessarily become the balance o. pow
er party, all experience in human af
fairs baa shown that when men have
withdrawn from any organization, be
it church or political party, an-' set up
in opposition to their old or former al
legiance, they become the most inveter
ate enemies agaiust those they have de
serted; as such, it is bat natural to
suppose that all Democrats who have
left their party, and have created an
Independent party, will ever in a pO'
litical contest co-operate with the Rad
icals for the purpose of defeating the
Democrats. We have seen this already
done twice by Mr Felton to secure his
elections to Congress, and in the elec
tion just over with. The support of the
Radicals elected Mr. King and Mr.
Reece as the Independent candidates
to the Legislature. Should this Inde-.
pendent movement spread over Geor
gia, what then becomes of the Demo
cratic party of this State ? Why, it
becomes the minority party, and the
State is turned over to the Independents
and Radicals jointly. And what can
be more pleasing and gratifying to
such men as Conkling, Edmunds and
Butler atid all the Radical hosts of the
North thin that Georgia is no longer a
Democratic State, or that the South is
no Iodi
tlid?
Tne resinrio uieu iu
im will once more re
gain its ascendency and power, and
carry out its centralizing aLd despotic
measures in governing and ruling the
country. Such opinions may be con
sidered but visionary, but whether
visionary or not, they are based on long
political experience and observations.
well remember the time when the
Audition party of the North was con
sidered too insignificant and contempt
ible to be noticed aa having any pre
tensions to becoming a political party;
few in numbers, but fixed and deter
mined in its principles, it grew and
rengtbeued with time, and it was not
many years before it became to be the
balance of power between the Northern
Whigs and Democrats, courted by each
party, until at length both parties be
came thoroughly abolitioniztd, and
disrupted the Government and freed
four millions of slaves by force without
shadow of justice o r right, a purely
revolutionary measure. Such are the
results brought about by a party losing
siitht of its principles and prestige in
affiliating with a revolutionary element
merely for victory's sake. We say,
better for ihe Democratic party to be
beaten, and thrice beaten, and remain
i . a minority for years, than to dis
band its organization lor expediency
sake. Its principles are too socrtd and
toti deeply rooted to he set aside for
temporary purposes, for when the
country becomes uearly shipwrecked by
faclinuista aim demagogues all reflect
ing minds will turn back to the old
D mocrats as the ouly means and hope
of saving the country from ruin. As
such, we say to all true Democrats,
stand firm, be not dismayed by our
late defeats, hold on to our old flag
and to our principles, and when disor-
gauizers and Independents have had
their full sway they will assuredly re
turn to the Democratic party, as the
prodigal returned to his father. As a
last resort the Whig parly of the South
aligned itself with the Democrats to try
and save the Constitutio i of the United
States, aud recently the reflecting Rad
icals of the North joined iu with the
Democrats to put a stop to further bad
government, and when such has been
accomplished, wiil the South be so re
gardless of its safety as to disrupt the
Democratic party. Conkling this day
is the ruling spirit in Washington, and
his purposes are to once more unfurl
the bloody shirt. Index.
American Enterprise.
Philadelphia, January 1. — The
steamship Mercedita, chartered hy the
contractors, for .the Madeira aud Mamore
railway around the falls of the Madeira
river will Bail to-morrow for Saubutouio,
brazil, at the foot of the falls, carrying
1,100 tons of railway material and a full
corpe of picked engineers and laborers
hi begin the rjad. This is the first work
of the Kind on foreign suil builtexclusive-
ly of American materials by American
tabor, and it is proposed that it shall be
pushed forward to completion with the
utmost dispatch. This eutegirise, it is be
lieved, will greatly tend towards the de
velopment of commerce between the
United States and the richest portions .of
Booth America.
MO
What Be Thieka of Ue 31
From the Atlanta Constitation-l ■ . J
The financial queationdooms up
prominent factor in our national puli t:
Because of the dead level of uoiforn
in the views of ■ tuihernmembers oft
gres3 upon the silver and 1 res tin _
repeal bills, the antagonistic vies
Senator Hill and Congr
of this state have attract
attention at home aod abroad. Alreati
we have given the views' of Cong
man Candler but it was only yeste:
that reporter of the Constitution su<
ceeded in getting an interview a
Senator Hill, He was found in his o
quitely reading the papers from amoui
bis morning mail. The reporter ‘
tacked him without ceremony.
In reply to our announ
the senator said: -a ^
“ I do not care to go into any detail J reef
of my views, nor of the reasons which' 1 -'
influence me to them. My conviction-!
are settled, however, and I Will give
them to yon in a general way. But, i.'
the first place. I.want to say that
long as I hold a seat in the nati
councils I intend to support ever
position which tends to improv'
maintain the national credit, andi
shall oppose every proposition that
tends to impair that credit. I utterly'
scout the idea that there is a coi
between the credit of the nation
the interests of the people. On
contrary, they coexist. To prom<>i
either is to promote both
impair either is to
both. Therefore, when I say. I
favor all measures that maintain
improve the public credit I have noi
the slightest doubt that I am taking tb^
most effective course to promote the in-'
teresti of the people.
THE SILVER BILL.
Reporter—First, then, we would like
your views ou the silver bill?
Senator Hill—It is important,
to determine what is meant by
silver bill ” The country is as full
false notions about this as about oi'
fioancial issues. If you mean by
silver bill, a proposition'to adjust
weight and fineness of the silver doll
so as to make the standard dollar
to the gold dollar in real value,
you mean to keep the coinage of 4ilv*r
well regulated and guarded, and under
the constant control of the Government,
there may be no objection to such a
proposition. But if yon mean by the
silver bill to make that amount of sil
ver which is worth 90 cents, or 9^ cents,
by declaration of Congress, to be a dol
lar; and if you mean to make such a
coinage free and unlimited, .then I say
to you Irdnkly it will never receive my
support.
Reporter—Yon speak in the alterna
tive, why is that? . * , -.
Senator Hill—Because ’ihei^people
I which all currcncv should
i vertible. I do not believe that
7 trjfi.-r--.-7i,-,' „ a lower
am tate, and thereby save to the people the
of the country will ever'Mnye, difference of the internet -
that the prosperity of the couurry will : Reporter—Yon think that scheme
cau sucked ?
; Songtor Hill—Undoubtedly. Look
atthe facte preventing it even now.
return, until we shall have a converti
ble currency. An irredeemable cur
rency always has, been and always will
be an evil. It unsettles value*, de-
^es huainess, and always will, in the
produde distress as well as corrup-
An •irredeemable carrency is
ly inconsistent with a-_ nealthy
’ condition. There can.be one
for any nation.to,have such a
cy, and that lathe excuse of ne-
arising opt.-of atich unnatural
as war, or?, similar disastrous
owns
when the Government coins a silver
dollar, the Government gets the benefit
of that coinage, or, in seme mysterious
way, the people get it In truth, the
silver bullion—the silver mines—are
owned by individuals, and whnn the
Government comes forward and says
every 92 cents worth of silver waich
these silver miners own shall be by law
dollar and everybody in the country
must take it as such, it is nothing iu
the world but an act of Congress in
creasing silver stock in the country
from 8 to 10 per cent in value. Now,
wno pays that 8 to 10 per cent? Why
the Government and the people, and
the mine-owners get the benefit. That
is the real trutu about this silver
clamor.
Reporter—Then, to what do you at
tribute this clamor?
Senator Hill—The whole clamor has
originated with the owners of silver
mines. It has originated since silver,
hy reason oi causes which I need noi
enumerate, has depreciated in value
from 8 to 10 cents in the dollar. These
parties did not ask that silver be re
stored to coinage before this deprecia
tion. It is simply a scheme to put into
their pockets the benefits resulting
from this depreciation in the value of
silver.
It is nothing more nor less than a
proposition to levy out of the pockets
of the people 8 to 10 per cent, of the
whole amount of silver currency for
the benefit of the bullion holders, with
out regard to its effect upon tne hon
esty of legislation or the credit of the
Government. While I am willing to
have silver coin, I intend to have, so far
as my vote goes, honest silver coiu, and
" do not iutend to levy from 8 to 10 per
cent, out of the pockets of the people
to increase the value of silver mining
stock that amount for the benefit of its
holders. We hear a great deal of talk
about “bloated bond-holders.” It is
well for the people to understand that
there 13 a class in this country clamor
ing to be “bloated bullion-holders” at
the expense of the people. I might
state other objections that there are to
the Bland bill, as it now stands, but it
not necessary.
THE RESUMPTION REPEAL ACT.
Reporter— We wish, also, your opin
ion on the resumption act?
Senator Hill—I must say I doubt,
and have always- doubted, the ability
oi the Government to resume specie
payments in January, 1879, under the
operations only of wnat is called the
resumption act. I have always be
lieved that there were certain prepara
tions necessary to enable the Govern
ment to resume, and I have thought
the indictment in the St. l.ouis Dem
ocratic platform against the Republi
can party for failing to make such pre
parations, was a just one. The Repub
lican party has done nothing to bring
about resumption, except to pass what
known as the resumption act Ido
not propose to undo the little that par-
r has done to hring it about If the
overament can resume beyond all
question it ought to do so by January
1879; but if, under this Republican-
legislation it cannot do so by that time,
the result will establish before the
country the utter inefficiency of the
Republican party to bring it about, and
they stand condemned before the coun
try fur failing to accomplish the good
result.
Reporter—How do you account for
the distresses of the country, financial
ly, it not largely to the results of at
tempted forced resumption?
Senator Hill—I confess, for myself,
that I think the distresses—the con
ceded distresses—now upon the conn-
originated in the want
-porter—'That has been our. Condi-."
on, has it not?
n' j-JHtor Hill—Yes; ■ but T repeat
cJl' is the duty of. the country to
, *. as soon as practicable, and all
*'"- f Vo 0 kn.g to that end ought to
u.—^g.^VsQppqrt of the people.. It
jhd itiat .the contraction of ’the cur
ls the cause of the distress in the
itiy. That is a manifest abenrai-
ri\ The largest amouut of paper mon-
that, ever existed , in the .United
•es at.one trine before the .war'
unted to 9215,000,000. The paper
ency now iii'existence id the United
ea approximates 9700,000,000. Pop-
idn since I860 has. barely increased
;y per cent, but too paper currency
the country is ahoui. 350 tier bent
•later than it ever was prior to 'I860,
ow, then, can any one say that the
teases of the country are owing to
contraction nf the paper cu, rency ?
e tenth is, that an irredeemable cor-
icy produces, 1 '%rst, 'overspeculation
extravagance, and they end in
rupting the country. The result
the utter destruction of confidence—
this is 1 wba. has produced these
. There is no relief from these
until we return to a specie
It is very lamentable for public men
> be impressing the people with the
that the Government ought to
more money for their benefit,
beqe'lt wilPit be to the people to
e the Government issne more mon-
1 Can any man get it nnless he has
meriting to give for it? Do yon pro
to make the Government a grand
ner, distributing largess to the iu
idaal citizen? The great idea fot
people to un<$totand is that there
io way oat of their troubles except
ough patient toil, close economy aud
w profits. .We have been made p»>i
a most exbanstiye war and th
quitous measures put upon os sine
war, and we are now feeling th-
sequences of our fast living. W
st recover by slow degrees, har.i
rk and patient self-denial, Of »1
people in the world the people «>
South could be the moat in-tei>-->
it. If they-would only raise t"t*n
a supplies and make cotton the »ur
jp they coaid demand gold ot
egnjWiftiiiimnM*
as to relit
eve their own necessi
ties and make them prosperous aud
happy. In my judgment it is a crim<
for public men to be impressing iff
people with the idea that they can be
relieved by the Government issuing
pore money. For these and many
other reasons which I shall not state,
I shall vote against the repeal of the
resumption act. I think when the
people come to understand the ques
lion I have given no votes which they
will more warmly and universally ap
prove than those which I now state I
intend to give.
NOT FOR THE BOND-HOLDERS.
Reporter—There seems to be a dis
position to charge such actions to sym
pathy with the Wall street crowd ?
Senator Hill—Perhaps there is no
greater fallacy imaginable than that
with which ibe press and speakers in
favor of more money and unlimited
free coinage of the silver dollar are now
filling the minds of the people, and it
is that we must pay the bonds of the
public creditor in this way, and that
what they call the legislation against
the unlimited free coinage of silver and
in favor of resumption is legislation
in favor of the public credi or. Tbere
is not a particle of truth in this state
ment. The bonds are not due, there
fore they are not now payable. Then,
again, if the bonds were now due, mid
were now payable,- we could not pay
them in either gold, silver, or currency.
There is no proposition made to pay
the bonds at all. Tne real state of the
case is this:
We have about 81,700,000,000 (iu
round number) of luterest-heariug
bonds outstanding. About 8700,000,
000 of them are nearing 6 per ckiu.,
and about 8700,000,000 hearing 5 per
cent. Now, the hardest, burden upon
the people is the payment of this ex
travgant interest, for either 5 per cent,
-or 6 per cent, is an enormouB rate of
interest for any great Government to
pay. Now, what we really wish to do
with the bond-holder is to induce him
to surrender the bonds beating such a
high rate of interest and take in lieu a
new bund bearing a less rate. For in
stance, if we could fund 8700,000,(XX) oi
bonds bearing 6 per cent, aud a like
amount bearing 5 per cent., into 4 per
cent, bonds, you perceive that we
would reduce the interest which the
people have to pay on 81.400.000, an
nually, the sum of 821,000,000, and that
would be an actual saving of that
amonnt in the taxes which the people
are called upon to pay annually.
The question then is this: Canyon
expect the bond-holders to give np
their bonds bearing this high rate of
interest and accept others at a lower
rate, unless you offer them some valu
able inducements? The proposition
is aosurd. Now, we are simply offer
ing inducements to the bond holders to
accept these bouds with low interest,
for the purpose of lessening the amount
of interest and the burdens of tne peo
ple by so much.
What inducements can we offer?
One is to give tnem a long bond, say
30 to 40 years, for men who invest in
Government securities like a long bond,
because they want a permanent invest
ment. (Another inducement is that
their investment shall be lifted as far
as possible above all the fluctuations
to which all nations and enrrenev are
liable. ' Experience proves that what
.we call a gold bond-rone paid in . gold
—is regarded-by capitalist? as the must
stable, aod freer from liability to these
fluctuations than any other class of se
curities. Hence, when we offer the
creditor a long time gold bond, the ob
ject is not to benefit him, bat it is to
. indufe him to and justify him in giv-
of a fixed, stable measure of values, tug up his bonds bearing a high rate of
ie President and the Secretary of the
Treasury, who have been authorized to
— that experiment of funding this debt
ring such high rates into4 per cent,
nds, toll ns that this agitation for un
limited free coinage of stiver and post
poning indefinitely the resumption of
speoe jNtytoento aoeomimhieti by the
declared object of those who clamor for
them, of paying the bond-holder in
what they consider a debased coin, has
caused them to refuse to give up the
^ they have for those bearing a
rate of interest. If they cannot
ijet a better bond by the exchange, no
P expecte them to surrender tbeir 6
cents. for 4 per oents. If, on the
' jntrary, we cany by offering the public
edit w.hat he considered great induce-
leiits, such as along bona lifted above
the fluctuations of the currency and the
lOssibilitit* of payment in the end in
[ebaaed coin, by promises to pay it in
aold. we can save the people even 821,-
000,000 per annum, will any m»n say
the proposition is unreasonable? Will
any man say that statesmen, actuated
by this high motive, are to be consider
ed as favorbleto the bloated bond-hold
er? It is simply a proposition, not to
repudiate the existing contract, not to
settle on that contract, bnt to induce
the creditor to take a hew contract
which will innnre to the benefit of the
peopte by lessening the burden of inter
est they bare to pay.
Reporter—You think you represent
the true interests of the people upon
the this subject?
__ Senator Hill—I do* and I do not hee
itato to say now that I will not vote for
toy proposition to pnt into the pockets
of a few owners of silvei mines eight
per cent, advance upon the value of
their stock, nor to postpone further the
resumption of specie oayments, when
we find, by experience, that it keeps on
the people this heavy harden of inter
est. If we can get the debt fnnded at
a lower rate of interest the fact that we
do so by promises to pay it in gold can
not damage the people, for it will be
the policy of wise statesmen to so regu
late their finances as to keep silver, if
joined, equal with gold and restore tne
lurrency itself to equality with gold. If
ne Government will do its dnty, and
ve shall have wise statsmon, and avoid
ixilish wats, and keep onr currency al
ways equal with gold, onr promise to
• iy in gold will do ns no damage. It
- an utter mistake lossy that by agree-
; ‘<t to pay the bondholders in gold we
gfl them the benefit of the present
•liiutn on until, for the bonds are not
.ten now. They are to be paid
v or forty year* from now, and by
it time it is the duty of the conntry
'-t a present, actual continuing benefit
in lessening the hardens upon the peo
ole. If we continue the bonds at the
uresent high rate, we continue the
chances of these bond-holders gettin;
all the benefits of a premium on goli
thirty or forty years hence, which is
oertainly madness.
Reporter—If you are correct the peo
ple are sadly deceived as to their action
in this emergency ?
Senator Hill—Now, jost there let me
make one further remark. England is
paying upon the great mass of her in
debtedness an interest of 3 per cent.
There is no good reason in the world
why the credit oi the United States
should not b» as able to negotiate her
bonds at as low rate as any country on
earth. If the credit of the United
States could be made what it ought to
be—as good as that of any other coun
try—we might fund our whole debt,
not only in 4 per cent., but in 3 per
cent, bonds, which would save us about
840,000,000 annually i - taxation. The
truth is that the people of the United
States are to-day, in my judgment, pay
ing 840,000,1)00 per year more than
they ought, in consequence of the fool
ish, unwise and unpatriotic clamor to
pay the bonds in something less than
gold. We are thus inflicting upon the
people an enormous actual burdeu; we
are discrediting the nation, or impair
ing its credit, at least, upon a theory
which c.tn give no material benefit to
the people, but annually inflicts a
heavy buiden upon them.
Reporter—H >w do yon reconcile
vour position with that of the great
of the Democracy ?
Senator Hill—For my part I am un
able to throw aside all the beet settled
principles of political economy to grat
ify the clamor of uiodera doctrinaires
on finances. I am unwilling, especial
ly, to make the Democratic party,
which has, if it has any character at all,
the character of always having been a
hard money party, now a soft money
party. I am unwilling to have the
Democratic party take a position
which will injure the natioual credit,
and specially unwilling that the South
should abandon all her old positions,
prejudices and unquestionable interest
and join in this mad demand for un
limited free coinage of the silver dollar
and the indefinite postponement of the
resumption of specie payments. As a
matter of policy I protest that the
Southern people Bhall not bo pnt in
the attitude of even apparent hostility
to the national credit. Nothing can
more purely prevent the retnrn of the
Democratic party to power than such a
position by the Southern wing of that
party. Looking at the qaestion as a
matter of policy, outside of all princi
ple, I do trust that the Southern peo
ple will place themselves where tbeir
interests lie—in the position of absolute
fidelity to the national credit. It is
easy to make the Nortnern people be
lieve that *>e are willing to depredate
the national credit, and even to repu
diate the national debt. It is natural
that they should believe we lutve no
fondness for that debt, and their poli
ticians will be qnick to make use of
that natural feeling for the purpose of
consolidating the Earth against the
South. 1 helieve, for one, that we are
under every obligation of honor, as
well as interest, to stand by the nation
al credit and pay the national debt to
the last farthing. I think an unmis
takable position on this line, upon the
p/art-of the 8outh, will do more to an
swer the .slandda of Northern ppljti-
oians than anything else we can possi
bly do.
Reporter—Do yon look for any seri
ous division between Southern men
upon the'suhjeat?
Senator Hill—I do net apprehend
any serious issue amoi
men Q]
to
our public
... ’e now seem
sr, bnt as the argument pro-
I have not the slightest donbt
that the Southern people will be solid
against all propositions that look to
impairing the national credit and in
favor of all that tend to maintain it. I
will say, in all kindness, that, while I
know they do not intend it, that every
Democrat who is now inmsting upon
continuing on the conntry an irredeem
able paper corrency and establishing
the unlimited free coinage of silver,
with a view to the payment of onr na
tional debt, is doing the most effective
work possible to secure a continuance
in power of the Republican party in
the election of 1880. Ithtnk it is a
mistake which they themselves will
soon recognize, and, therefore, I do be-
‘"eve tiiat the Southern people will ul-
tnately be found almost a unit in fa
vor of the propositions I have announc
ed in this conversation.
After some further incidental re
marks upon the subject,, the reporter
allowed the Senator to resume his cigar
and newspapers.
A CaBB of Retribution.
The following, which we find is the
last issne of the Sunny South, will be pe
rused with interest by many of onr read
ers, some of whom may probably retain
recollection of the occurrence:
A remarkable case of retribution was
that which overtook the murderer of a
youngactor, SolSmith’s brother Lemuel,
who was killed in Augqata, Georgia
He was shot by a man named Flournoy,
who was acquitted by the jury on the
plea that the killing might be
the resole of duel,
verdict, Sol Smith said to the homicide:
“Before God and man, I charge vi
with murdering my brother! The sleep
of the innocent will never more be yours.
You are a murderer, and will evermore
carry the mark of homicide upon your
brow. From this time forth in this world
yon will never sleep agaii
Two yean after Sol was accosted by
an abject looking wretch, who stood be
fore him in an attitude of snpplication.
It was William Flournoy.
"Why do you follow me?” said SoL
"Because I want yon to shoot me
right here.”
"No, it is not for me to punish you,”
was the reply. '
“It is not punishment I ask yon to in
flict—that I have received already,
full measure; it is vengeance I ask you
to take, for your brother’s murder upon
his murderer. I endeavored to persuade
myself I committed the deed in self-de
fence, bnt know better now. I am a
murderer. You stud I would never sleep
more, and I never have. I have closed
my eyes at night as usui *
my senses in brandy
unconscious
, ness came, bnt that blessed sleep yon
. haveacarren^eqpal..to gokjU .^y. array has nevermtnraed.tome for
*•*» ‘■" , V ■" . T one moment, i
stj me is a burden to me.
Take it. Let me die by your hand, and
then I may feel yonr brother may forgive
me. I will die to-night!” he said im-
iressively, as a Sol turned away, and left
lim.
The next morning Flournoy’s body
found at his country place. It was rid
dled by ballets and Kiaoed. An Indian
war had just broken out, and he had
been the first victim.
Grant and Silver.
Didn’t Know be bad Signed tbe Demone
tising Act for a Year.
Nearly a year after the silver dollar
was demonetized Gen. Grant sent a
message to Congress in which occurs
the following passage:
“I wonder that silver is not already
cuming into market to supply tbe defi
ciency in the circulating medium. * *
Experience has proved that it takes
about 840,000,000 of fractional curren
cy to make the small change necessary
for the transaction of the business of
the country. Silver will gradnailv
take the place of this currency, and,
farther, will become the standard ot
values, and will be hoarded in a small
way. I estimate that this will con-
same from 8200,000,000 to 8300,000,-
000, in time, of this species of our cir
culating medium. * * * I confess
to a desire to see a limited boarding of
money. But I want to see a boarding
of som thing that is standard of value,
ihe world over. Silverjs this. * *
Our mines are now producing almost
unlimited amounts of silver, and it is
becoming a qaestion, “What shall we
do with it?” I suggest here a solution
which will answer for some years, to
put it into circulation, keeping n there
until it is fixed, aud then we will find
other markets.” -
This is now indisputable evidence
that he never knew that the silver dol
lar bad been demonetized, as he won
ders why it did not come into circula
tion. He said truly enough that sil-
was a standard of value tbe world over,
only he was not aware, by his sanction
of the recoinage act, silver was demon
etized in this country.
' A Mistake.
New York San.
Gen. McClellan took up his quartern
in Trenton on Thursday. His append
ages were six servants, four horses and
two carriages. While the servants were
setting his house in order he pnt up at
Peter’s. At the proper time he called
for his bilL
“It’s all right. General,” said the
suave clerk, rubbing his bands, “yonr
bill is paid.”
“My bill paid 1” exclaimed the Gen-1
end. “Who pahtmyWtt?*'
The clerk, astonished at the General’s
stern, cart qaestion, an unusual one in
Trenton, faltered out, “Secretary Kel
sey. General, paid your bill this morn
ing.”
“Then just return the money to Sec
retary Kelsey, sir,” said Governor Mc
Clellan. “I allow nobody to pay my
bills for me.”
Opinions are divided ss to whether
Mr. Kelsey will succeed himself as
Secretary of State or not
Or. e-fourth column one month
One-fourth column three months _
One-fourth column six months
One-fourth cohunntwelve months.
SS 00
A Female Constable.
Speelsl t • tbe Clncbnsti Enquire.]
Washington, Dec. 29.—At the open-
ingofcourtin General Term of the I)i--
tnct of Columbia to-day a motion
made by a member of the bar for ihe
reappointment of a Constable, where up
on Chief -Justice Cartier remarked tiiat
it had appointed i
. lies, and inquired as
to the character of the candidate. Upon
tong assured that it was good,
tho appointment was made. Mrs.
Belva A. Lockwood, thereupon moved
the appointment of Mrs. Lavinia C.
Dundore as a Constable and Collector,
and presented a petition to tbut eff. ct
signed by the leading lawyers of the
District Bar, by a large number of Jus
tices of the Peace of the District, sever
al constables, and some of the leading
merchants and well known citizens, as
well as by the reporter of the court.
Judges Wylie, Humphries and Olin,
alter examining tbe petition, and being
led that Mrs. Dandore was pre-
to give the requisite bond rf $15,-
r the faithful performance of the
duties of the office,expressed themselves
in favoi of her appointment. Judge
Wylie remarking that the petition was
the most respectably signed of any that
bad been presented to the court for such
appointment. Judge. McArthur sug
gested that instead of appointing her at
once, as a majority of the court propos
ed, the matter be taken under advise
ment Chief-Justice Cartter then said
that the petition was eminently respec
table, and the request one of unusual
importance, and would receive respect
ful consideration, remarking, at the
same time, to Mtb. Lockwood, that the
court had already appointed constables
hearing the perform the busing of the
- - - District Mra. Lockwood replied, point
ing to Mra. Dandore, that this applica
tion is designed to meet the difficulty
that your honor has just complained of
—appointment of shiftless and irrespon
sible men as constables. This oroduced
a roar of laughter, in which the Judges
joined, and which tbe bailifis of the
court were unable to suppress. Mrs.
Lockwood stated further that Mrs.
Dundore was not a married woman,
which prevented any legal difficulty on
that score. Mra. Dandore is a middle-
sized, bright-eyed brunette, a widow of
about forty years, of pleasing manners.
She has been in the law' business here
here for a number otyeara, is a native
of Baltimore, and a member of the
Peace 8ociety.
Oar Border Troubles.
Killed giTill, Recorder.
Affairs on the Bio Grande bear a
more peaceful aspect Tbe riotous
Mexicans atElPaso are qniet,the United
States troops having arrived and taken
posses ion oi the place. There is, how
ever, a belief on the part of many per
sons tint the . Mexican Government, ia
unable (if willing) to controTlthe ma
rauders who from time to time make
raids from her territory into Texas. If
that be the casv, a war between the two
countries is only e qaestion of time,
and probably of a short period of time
at that.
Certain Northern prints (and nota
bly the New York Son) are continually
denouncing President Hayes as en
deavoring to bring on hostilities with
Mexico, on account of tbe orders he
has issued to the army for the protec
tion of Texans, and the pnrauit of their
plunderers on Mexican territory when
they take refuge there. If. however,
the northern portions of New York,
Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine
had been subjected to similar raids
from Canada, these same papers would
be clamorous for war to protect Yankee
life and property. But when the peo
ple robbed or murdered happen to be
Texans, it makes all the difference in
the world. ;
Tbe intense selfishness that inspire'
each articles in Northern papers, de
prives them of any influence with fair
minded persons, and tho pet pie of this
country are not likely to fail in a prop
er support of P.esident Hayes in any
measures that may be necessary_ for the
protection of Western Texas against the
Mexican and Indian thieves and mur
derers who harbor on Mexican soil.
To show how the “bloated” bondhold
er lords it over the country, while others
toil and delve and are ground down by
taxation, hear what ao exchange says of
a small New England town:
“A few years since the valoatinn of
this town exceeded, per capita, that of
any other town in the State. During tho
war and since, tbe large business- men
and capitalists have invested tbeir mon
ey in government non-taxabie bonds, re
tired from basiness, leaving tbe common
laborers and the small householders to
pay quite all the taxes, while these men
walk up and down tbe streets with gold-
mounted canes whistling ‘Yankee Doo
dle,’ aod paying only a poll tax. These
are tbe men, and this the class of bonds
that a portion of our law-makers desire
shall be paid in gold only, when the fact
is, at tbe act was passed creatin'?
gold and silver both were legal coiu.’
Wbat, asks the Macon Teh-jraph, will
our Mr. Hill say to this? It is bad
enough that the favored few ire exempt
from taxation, albeit, perhaps the most
pirt, army sutlers, contractor?, and spec
ulators, who coined money wheo es-.ty-
one else was losing it; but to think now
that this supercilious class should object
to being paid in good silver currency.
This will help, however, to break down
Northern and Eastern influence, and
solidify the bond of union between toose
natural allies, the West and the South.
Boo&r, Dec. 31.—After an exceeding-
_ difficult -passage over 6now-covered
mountains and frozen footpaths, the
vanguard- of a Russian division has
occupied the Balkan passes between
Aralkonak and Sophia, and cavalry
has-been stationed on the Sophia road.
Tbe Turks were taken 6y surprise, con;
sequently the Russians lost only five
wounded. Along the eastern frontier
(namely, the river Lorn) the Turks
nara withdrawn from all positions.
Referring to W. E. Chandler’s charges
against Gen. Gordon and other South
ern Democrats in co section with the
counting in of Mr. Hayes, the Savannah
News emphatically expresses the opin
ion of the people of Georgia in the fol
lowing: ,
“As far as the chargee made against
Gen. Gordon and other Southern lead
ers of being implicated in tho fraudu
lent count are concerned they are
simply nothing. All they amonnt to is
that these gtntiemen, after ihe electoral
commission had been established, fore-
the result of that commission,
ja t Chandler’s conspiracy was
sure to succeed, only endeavored to
make the most of it, and worked to se
cure the best possible terms for their
much abused section. In this they
simply did their duty, and will meet
with the approval of their constituents.
There is an officer to every ei^ht boJ-.
diers in our army. .
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