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An ex-member of the South Caroli
na Legislature now ornaments the Da
rien chain-gang.
Too mnch attention cannot be be
stowed on that important, yet ranch
neglected branch of learning—the
knowledge of man’s ignorance.
Gov. Holliday of Virginia, has locked
up the Executive Mansion and gone to a
hotel to board; whereat many old-fash
ioned Virginians are represented as some
what indignant."
iltlagl We’are inclined to believe that Mr.
Hayes will not veto the silver bill. He
may pocket it, and thus allow it to be
come a law without his signature, but
we doubt if he will face the majority
in each House with a step of positive
opposition.
It is announced that Ben Hill is pre
paring to reply to Dan Voorbees on the
silver afid resumption questions. Ben
Hill is putting himself to unnecessary
pains to satisfy Georgia' of her grievous
mistake in sending him either to the
House or Senate.
There appears to be a growing likipg
for the study of political economy
among females in London. Of seven
- prizes given this year by the Cobden
Club to the most successful students of
the subject, fivp have been awarded to
female competitors.
The Historical Island of St.' Helena is
said to be rapidly going to decay, owing
to the opening of the Suez canal, the use
of steam condensers, and the accelerated
speed of vessels plying between Europe
and fndia. There are now only 2,681
males left on the island, of whom 1,154
are children.
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M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR.
“WISDOM, JUSTICE AMD MODERATION.’
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
VOLUME XXXII.
ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1878.
NEW SERIES : -N0. 22
BRISTOW ON TUB DOLLAR.
The New York Times, in Bpeaking
of Mr. Voorhees’ recent speech, refors
to him os an “ex-Copperhead.” We
deprecate, says the Washington Union,
all such untimely flings. It is idle to
attempt to divert attention from the
living financial issues of the day by
reviving the extinct passions of the
past.
The bill passed by the House pro
viding for the payment to the officers
and soldiers of the Mexican war of the
three months’extra pay provided for by
the act of July 19,1848, includes all
officers and men who served in that
war, of whom one hundred and fifty
have never called for their money. It
It will require $40,000 to’ pay them.
The Courier-Journal says: 'Our
Washington special indicates the dif
ficulties of the Ways and Mesne Com
mittee in handling the subjects of tariff
and revenue through the differences of
the West and South as against the East.
The income tax is especially objection
able to the East, because it will make
that section bear its proper burden of
taxation. '
The condition of the Turkish popula
tion is truly deplorable. The women
and children who are crowding by thou
sands towards Constantinople, which is
already overrun with refugees, are not
fleeing from the Russians. They have
witnessed the atrocities practiced by the
Mussulmans upon Christians, and they
fly the vendetta. They know what retal
iation means.
The Ohio Senate on Saturday passed
a joint resolution favoring the remon
etization of the silver dolluxand the
passage of the Bland silver bill with
amendment restricting free coinage,
and censuring President Hayes and Sec-
hretary Serman for their position on the
silver bill. The resolution was passed
by a party vote, the Democrats voting
the affirmative and the Republican in
the negative.
The Texas Pacific Railroad Company
asks no laud grant, or appropriation of
money, or bonds’, but simply a guarantee
by the Government, indorsed on the
company’s houds, to the effect that the
interest on these boud. will be paid
promptly. Although the Government
is placed virtually iu possession of all the
rights, property ami franchises of the
road, it will be secured further in the
cost- of transportation more than the
whole interest guaranteed annually.
The question of entering the German
Confederation is already exciting mnch
interest in Holland. Letters from that
country state that the royal fnmily are
divided on the suhject. The Ring op
poses it, while the Prince of Orange and
several other members of the family
favor it Bismarck is said also to de
sire the annexation to Germany of the
Dutch colonies, in order that emigrat
ing Germans may go to them and still
remain Germans, instead of expatriat
ing themselves to the United States and
becoming lost as German subjects.
Maryland’s new Senator, Ex-Govern
or James Black Groome, is a native of
- that State, forty years of age. His fa
ther and grandfather were distinguished
' professional men, and he began the study
' of. law in 1859; was admitted to the bar
in 1861 at Elktdn, Md.; was a member
of the Constitutional Convention of 1867;
was elected to the Legislature in 1871;
was a candidate for the United States
Senatorahip in that year, snppoited the
Libera] ticket in 1872; was re-elected to
the Legislature in 1874; was elected to
fill the unexpired term of -Governor
Wm.'Pinkney White, when that gende-
- man waB elected to the United States
Senate in 1874. Mr. Groome is a life
long and zealous Democrat
It is not entirely clear from the re
port of.ex-Secretaiy Bristow’s speech
at Boston, Friday, says the Missouri
Republican, whether he is in favor
or opposed to silver payment The
audience he addressed and the circum
stances under which he addressed
strongly suggest that tee ex-Secretary,
like the Bostonians, is opposed to sil
ver; hot the report of his speech does
not represent him as saying so. After
dwelling on the necessity of maintain-
ing the credit of the Government with
its creditors, he said:
“Having promised dollars, it must
pay dollars. Every device or scheme
whereby it is sought to discharge its
public promise to pay a dollar by the
delivery of anything less than a dollar
is practical repudiation and merits,
and, as I believe, will eventually re
ceive the condemnation of a majority
of the people.”
Of course, after having promised dol
lars, it mnst pay in dollars. No silver
advocate disputes this. On the con
trary, all silver advocates insist on it.
But are not the United States silver
coins, containing 412i grains standard
silver, dollars ? Can any one deny that
they are dollars ? To seek to discharge
a public promise to pay a dollar by the
delivery of anything less than a dollar
is practical repudiation, Bays the ex-
Seereiary—and . the assertion is true.
But it cannot be practical repudiation
to discharge the obligation by the offer
of a coin containing 4121 grains stand
ard silver—for that coin is not less than
a dollar. It is a whole dollar—and
nothing less, and the offer of it fully
discharges the obligation.
LAWLESSNESS IN S4N FRANCISCO.
Society in San Francisco is in a very
distnroed and menacing condition, and
it would appear these classes of citizens
who have the largest interest at stake
are most to blame for it, says the Mis
souri Republican. The hostility to the
Chinese is almost universal—so nearly
ao that there are few who dare to defy
it The whole press of the city is anti-
Chinese. and has done its fnll share in
bringing the hoodlum element, which
leads the popular feeling, into the
prominence and influence, which is the
present cause of trouble. To hate the
Mongolians is the fashionable virtue in
San Francisco, at this time, and as the
hoodlums hate them most, they excel
all others in ihe prevalent virtue. They
have exhibited repeated symptoms of
design to massacre the unoffending
Mongolians, and it requires all the re
monstrances of the press and the con
servative classes to keep them from
making the threatened outbreak. Mean
time, the lawless element, being re
strained from attacking the Chinese,
vents itself in other ways and on other
subjects—in burglaries, highway rob
beries and assassinations. The Chron
icle says:
“There is no other large city in the
Union where such a state oi lawlessness
prevails, and where such inadequate
police service is provided. Robberies,
perpetrated in the most audacious
manner on the principal streets, are
common-place incidents, and assassi
nation, committed with no conceivable
object than to gratify a fiendish thirst
for blood, receives no more effective
consideration than a passing paragraph
in the papers of the day.”
Washington special to the New York
Journal of Commerce : “The movement
in favor of unseating Senator Butler, of
South Carolina, does not appear to pan
out well. It is reported that Cameron’s
report is distasteful to Cbristiancy ; that
the latter says it Is too partisan, that it is
not judicial, and that he refuses to sign it
unless it is modified. Most of the report
said to have been written by the noto
rious James Redpath. Cameron, Chris-
tianey and Merrimon are the sub-com
mittee who investigated South Carolina
affairs last year. The report has not
been Bnbmitced to Merrimon, and even
it had been it cannot be made to the
present Senate without special action, as
the investigation took place during a
format Congress. If the committee on
Vileges and electiors ask leave to make
the report the Senate will doubtless grant
it, but that committee has not yet deter
mined upon any programme concerning
the matter.”
The anti-silver men are in need of an
other Senator or two to make them feel
easy with a veto. To this end the New
York Tribune has been cajoling Senator
Eusris, of Loaisiana; but the New Or
leans Democrat says: “The Tribune is
wasting its eloquence when it appeals to
Mr. Eustis to become a henchman of
Wall street. That gentleman is as sound
on the silver bill as any man in the Sen
ate, and he is not made of the stuff to be
bullied or coaxed. He represents Lou
isiana, and he cannot be bamboozled into
betraying Louisiana into the clutches of
.he New York rings. Louisiana is solid
for the silver bill, and so is her Senator.”
-Conrier-Jonrnal: The first ballot for
State Librarian stood: Mrs. Hanson,
63; Mrs. Bnsh, 62; Ur. Grimes, 9.
< Id Grimes is dead,
7 hat good old man.
The Chinese, after a campaign of two
years, have captured their old province
of Kashgar which the late Yacoub Beg
wrested from them. When the Rus
sians get through with the Turks, they
will advance their eastern boundry by
annexing their country. China is des-
tided to be divided between Russia and
England. The latter is slowly advance-
ing from the southwest and is now en
gaged getting ready to’seize Thibet and
Yunan. The star of empire thus goes
eastward.
Louisville Courier-Journal, January
23; Alfonso, the young King of Spain,
who will to-day marry his cousin Maria
de loe Mercedes, daughter of Doc de
Montpensier and his aunt Louisa, was
twenty-one years old on November 28.
He is the fortieth in direct descent from
Don Felayo, who raised the standard of
the Christians in the mountains of Galicia
in A. D. 716. There have been nine fe
male representatives along the line, of
whom the first was Ormisinda, heiress of
Dod Pelayo, who married AlfouBO L, the
first sovereign of Spain who bore the ti
tle of Catholic, and the last was Isabella
II., now residing in Paris, and forbidden
by the Madrid Government to attend the
royal wedding to-day. The young
King is the twelfth of the Alfonsos, and
represents in his person the long line
from Alfonso L, in the eighth century-
The first eight Alfonsos were champions
of the faith and successful warriors with
the Moors and the French, The tenth
of the name was snrnamed The Wise,
bnt the valiant Kings of Spain were
those who had not intermarried with the
Bonrbons and Hapsburg. King Alfonso
XII is not as securely established as he
might be. His sharp cousin Don Carlos
is ready to head another rebellion against
him at any time; secret republican
organizations, whose object is to extia
gnish the Bourbon claim to Spain and
establish a republic, are scattered all over
the country, and the royal treasury is
very scant of funds, with a public debt
of about $2,500,000,000. It may not, in
deed, be long before the Spanish crown
will he going a begging once more, and
Alfonso and his bride be refugees in
France or England.
The attitude of the “Workingmen,”
as they call themselves, of San Fran
cisco, has grown so menacing that the
authorities have found it necessary to
adopt extreme measures to protect the
city from violence which they openly
threaten. The Mayor has prohibited
their assembling in large bodies—a
precaution rarely adopted even in Eu
ropean cities, except in times of siege,
and cases of great public peril—and
the law and order classes of the city,
with that capacity for organization
which the vigilance committee days
taught them, have organized to protect
the city against an uprising. At the
same time milder measures are being
taken to meet the difficulty. Work at
$1 a day, which is about two-thirds the
regular rate on the Pacific coast, has
been offered to as many as 1,000 men.
This’ wltlEatlsfy - all who really want to
work, and the others, who seek only
mischief, can be taken care of in an
other way. The precautions taken are
so thorough that it is not probable now
an outbreak will occur.
GEORGIA GLIMPSES.
The city of Darien and county bf
McIntosh are out of debt and hav? a
few stamps on band.
Newton county has seventeen-mm
over eighty years of age, three of whtp
were in the war of 1812..
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Reid, of El
ton ton," celebrated their golden weddiig
on Tuesday evening last.
The repairs on the capitol will socp
be commenced, and the building
safe for the assembled wisdom of
gia to meet in next November.
On last week the employees of tie
Georgia Railroad and Banking Compel
ny,in their workshops in Angnsta, w'es
put on half time until farther notice, j
The Brunswick Aappeal says
whole of our water front, from
of the city to the other, is filled
lumber, which gives an air of
to that locality.”
The wedding presents of Alfonso and
Maria Mercedes, at Madrid, were enough
to give a frugal couple a pretty fair start
in the world.
An exchange very tenderly suggests,
for the comfort of W. E. Chandler that
“a kitten that is drowned before it gets
its eyes open is saved the pain of grow-
ing np and getting its tail pinched by
the woodshed door.”
The Russians, according to a Sc. Pe
tersburg dispatch, are getting excited over
the attitude of England, and while they
say they do not want war with England,
they farther say that if it is forced on
them it will be immensely popular.
Sib Stafford Nortrcote, Chancellor
of the English Government, has inform
ed a deputation of conservative members
of Parliament that the Government in
tends to protect both Constantinople
| and Gallipoli, and.that a money vote
might be asked.
Gov. Colqnitt has offered a re'
$200 for the arrest of JosepJ
charged with the mnrdi
Wilson, in Whitfield bounty,
night of the 19th of November
The cotton receipts at Colnmbi
September 1st foot np 58,357 bales,
436 less than last year. The mill
Wood and his experts
t they have arranged the tar-
lob tain a revenue of$120,000,-
intrenal revenue. A liberal
allowance is made fora falling off in
receipts, and the bill proposee to greatly
simplify the tariff.
3,148 bales, being 2,110 less than for
the same time last year.
sumption for the same time has been j@gt election for members of Con-
- ----- - - - , gress occurs afeain this vear. It is high
| time that the friends of aspirants were
publishing letters- from all such, and
giving their pious views as to the cause
of '.be people vs. • gold. Dr. Felton is
far ahead on that iKxte,
The Servians have got as far south a3
Judging from the replies receive
from farmers from all parts of Stewa:
county the grain crops are lookiq
well; and the area planted this season
more extensive than ever.before. Wheaj
makes the best showing bat the
proof varieties of oats give promise
fine crops.
Scientific Drinking.
The other day, during a thunder storm,
a man went into a Milwaukee saloon,
and harrying up/o the bar, he said ex
citedly :
“Give me glass of the best brandy in
the house. I need it.”
When the glass was filled, he held it
between his fingers, and said:
‘•Stranger. I don’t drink, bnt this is a
fearful storm, and a man is likely to be
struck by lightning ; brandy is a non
conductor, and I have never been struck
by lightning, from the fact that I always
drink brandy daring a storm.”
After he drained the glass, he rolled
his eyes around the room once or twice.
“That was a vivid flash, jost now,” he
said; “lightningis a dangerous element,
bnt to me it is a glorious element; its
flash is sunshine to my eyes. Stranger,
I love the lightuing; it lolls me to sleep
at night; it cheers me when in the morn
ing I awake. Give me another glass of
brandy.”
As the barkeepeer poured ont the li-
qoor, he stud:
Benjamin Franklin solved the mystery
of lightning, bnt before he flew hu kite
he drank a pint of old cognac. Some
times I think I am old Ben, drawing the
lightning from the clouds and bottling it
np. That was a magnificent peal,” he
said, as the thunder resounded with a fear
ful crash.
“I look at everything in a scientific
light. I am from a scientific family.
Partner, I can post yon a little on light
ning.” be said with a knowing look.
“Whenever a thunder storm comes np I
generally drink two or three glasses of
irsndy, and have a better protector
than a lightning rod. Better take a
ass now.
He smiled as the barkeeper took a
drink, and went on:
“Lightning is produced in the follow
ing manner: when two clouds charged
with different kinds of electricity, ap
proach each other they exchange their
fluids, and this gives ns the flash, or
Indian Citizenship—A new
'Washington M.nument.
Special to SL.Y.’Herald.) . ■ ^ •
’Washington, Jan. 20.1878.^-Colonel
William P. Adair and D. H. Ross, of the
Cherokee delegation, have, submitted to
Congress the objections of the Cherokee
Nation to the Senate bill enabling In
dians to become citizens of the United
States. The effect of any such measure,
they say, would in their opinion be.tu
is a non- dismember, demoralize, .pauperize and
destroy, sootier or later, every indian na
tionality in the scope of its operation.
The bill is, in letter and’spirit, in conflict
ilh treaty obligations and acts of Con-
„rtis and the'long established and well
defined public policy of the government
in dealing with Indians, and especially
with civilized nations, and ought not,
therefore, to pass; In conclusion, the
Pristina, on tne Saloniiko apd Metrov- lightning; the shock makes a big noise,
J nn>4 trill tKovnfnvft Ka oWa on/I trn noil Jr tKnnrlow
Washington Correspondence..
Tairoad, and wilL,therefore be able
prevent the Turks from sending any
tore troops from Salonika to the Ser
vian frontier. The design of Prince
Milan is to recover Old Servia, which
jonce belonged to the'Servian Empire
Washington, Jan. 23,1878.
The Committee on Expenditures of the j
Treasury Department, at a meeting held j Dr. Felton “broke the ring” in 1874
on Monday last, adopted the following
resolution:
Rejoiced, That the President be, and
is hereby requested, to co-operate with this
Committee in its investigations of alleged
abases in the Treasury Department, and
to issue the order necessary for that par-
pose.”
Chairman Glover’s letter transmitting
the resolution to the President broadly
charges that “for years the Executive
The World’s Washington correspon
dent says it now tarns out that the
President was abont to appoint Pack
ard Collector of the port of New Orleans
when William E. Chandler’s letter
came out He then changed his mind,
for the reason that if the appointment
were made it would look too mnch like
verification of some of Chandler’s
charges. Gen. Williamson was then
agreed on for the position, and Packard,
is now understood, can have either
the mission now held by Williamson
to the Central American States, the As
sistant Treasurership at New Orleans or
the Collectorship of Internal Revenue
one of the city districts. He “till
probably be nominated for one of these
positions this week. Packard is now
Washington, and has been assured
of an appointment—all of which does
•peak well for “civil °ervice reform.”
The Atlanta Constitution asks: “Isn’t
this discussion in regard to the Speaker-
ship of the next House of Representa
tives, which the newspaper correspon
dents threaten to inaugurate, a trifle
premature?”
To be sure it is, says the Savannah
News. Let ns beg of those disinterest
ed patriots who are so early and deep
ly concerned abont the reorganization
of the next Legislature to contain their
sonls in patience for yet a little while.
Let them wait until after the heated
term next summer. There is no know
ing what may torn up between now
and then. Besides, there will be time
enough after the dog days are past, and
they will be fresher for the strife.
Senator Lamar, of Mississippi, has
spoken against the Matthews resolu
tion, and goes off with the goldites.
The arguments by which he reaches the
conclusion to which he comes do seem
us the veriest sophistry. Bnt we
may be wrong. And then all these
Southern statesmen who are expecting
be candidates for Vice-President, or
President, in 1880, mnst be allowed
some latitnte.
Senator Allison was re-elected in
Iowa. This compleites the Senatorial
elections for the year. Senators have
now been chosen from California, Ohio,
Kentucky, Maryland, and Iowa. By
the five elections, two Senators are ta
ken from the Republican side of the
Chamber and added to the Democratic
mde—four Democrats and one Repub
lican succeed two Democrats and three
Republicans.
The extract of a letter from Dr.
Felton, published in the Cartersville
Express of last Thursday, reads quite
like a real Jeffersonian Democratic
document. Just compare it with the
-writings of such men as Jefferson and
Calhoun and see what a similarity, or
as Mrs. Partington might say, what a
‘singularity” there is.
taken a “modified” oath as to his in
tentions.
ind was elected to Congress, and then
uroke it again in 1876.- He has faith-
"fally drawn his pay since he took his
’feat, but, honor bright, can any one say
tiat the people of this District wonld
hive been worse off if Col. Dabney bad
teen elected?
II ,
i Georgia was eleven members in
Congress—t to Senators and nine Rep
resentatives. Out of the eleven l“ere
_ , are nine who are in favor of the silver
Departments of the Federal Government I y U(indof ^ bm to repeal ^ r6 .
have been inoredemgly corrupt aodopprea-j act Oor'Representive has
ive,” trampling on the rights and liberties - - -
of citizens without redress ar-d the officers
rioting in the profusion of their plunder
“till this misrule has wrought wide misfor
tune and distress.” He then makes some
excuse for honest officials, who, with “the
vast extension of the powers of the Govern
ment daring the late period of civil war
and disorder, has thrown on the execu
tive heads such great and multifarious
responsibility that it is impracticable for
the head of auy Department to know
much of what his subordinates do.” He
extends to the deserving heads of bu-
reans and sub-divsions the benefit of the
same good Intentions as are attributed to
honest Secretaries,butchargeu to their snbj
ordinates a good yroportion of every grad*
of crime and misdemeanor known to oar
statute books, who. he says, were banded
together to conceal their dishonest, cruel,
oppressive and infamous practices; and
finally he informs President Hayes if he
will cooperate with his (.Glover’s) com
mittee and assure witnesses of protection
who desire to tell the truth but dare not,
he “will earn the esteem and gratitude
of your (his) countrymen.” The Presi
dent’s reply, as below, has’ likely reas
sured Mr. Glover.
Executive Mansion, 1
Washington, Jan. 21,1S78 j
Dear Sir : I am in receipt of your
resolution adopted by Committee
House of Repres.ntatives
tures in the Treasury De|
questing my co-operation wi
mittee in its investigations
abases in said Department.
I shall be glad to co-operate heartily
with the Committee in the proposed in
vestigation, and to that end will issue
such proper directions to all officers of
that or any other Denartment as may be
required to secure prompt and effective
assistance in the conduct of the investi
gation. Touching the suggestion con-
tained in yonr letter, that witnesses who
may testify before the Committee may be
apprehensive of losing their places if they
testify truly and folly, yon are at liberty
to assure all subordinate officers that the
fact of their testifying before the Com
mittee shall not be used to their prejudice.
Very respectfully,
R. B. Hates.
Son. John Jft Glover.
The Washington Post, the new Dem
ocratic paper, ventures the prediction
that the silver bill will be vetoed by
President Hayes, and then fail of a
two-thirds vote. It hints strongly that
enongh Congressmen will be bought
np to prevent the requisite two4hirds
being obtained. It says: “The money
power already begins to surround the
capital, and it is an open fact that one
of tha strongest lobbies ever organized
will be arrayed against the silver bill.”
A Washington special of January
21d, says, Representative Fomey, of
Alabama, 10-day prsented a memorial
which was refered to the Committee onr
Commerce, on behalf of the removal of
the Muscle Shoals ohs^ctiotuto fee
navigation of feeTennessee river bring
the official report of a convention held
at Chattanooga in December last.
The New Sing of Italy.
The following paragraph from the
Washington Post is important if well
founded. The telegraph has stated
that great uneasiness was excited at
Berlin by the death of Victor Emman
uel, and apprehensions of the fntnre
policy of his successor. The statement
of the Post tends to confirm the tele
graph. and gives the reasons for Bis
marck’s anxiety:
“Itis the opinion of an eminent
member of the diplomatic corps that
Bismarck will he unable to transfer to
King Humbert the influence which he
had with Victor Emmanuel. Humbert
is said to be intelleectually a much
bigger man than bis lather was. He
was in boyhood and young manhood
the personal pet and protege of Cavnur.
and treasures many of the lessons of
tnat Statesman. His strong point is
said to he wbat is called “ Italian indi
vidualism”—that is to say, a fixed re
pugnance to the tutelage under which
his father was always content to rert,
first with Louis Napoleon and latterly,
with Bismarck iri-the role of guardian.
Vie .or Emanuel could not forget that
France cave him Lombardy io 1859,
until Germany gave him Venetiain
1866, and Rome in 1870. But Hum
bert is said to be an admirer of Eng
land. These facts may come to poe-
some importance.
a school exhibition of a town in
the following essay received the
irize:
“On a tnrkle. This animal is found
most always in the water, and then he
cornea on dry land. The tnrkle cannot
fly. If he was the right kind of a bird
he could fly; but if he was a goose, bird
or an ostrich he could not fly. The
tnrkle has four paws and a month like
an American eagle, which makes the
British lion and the unicorn tremble.
The tnrkle has a shell, and sometimes
folks pat fire on it, and the tnrkle
era wls out. When the tnrkle crawls
ont of his shell he is wet and sticky.
There are two kinds of tnrkles; mnek
tnrkle and the other kind. We don’t
have any other kind in onr pond.
French and Irish people eat tnrkles and
frogs, bnt I should not like to. I
caught a tnrkle once, bnt it did not do
me any good, for I exchanged it for a
jacknife and cat my fingers.”
Versailtes, Jan.21.—In the deputies
to-day admiral of Tocleare, in behalf of
the right, moved that henceforth a two
thirds majority be necessary to declare
an election invalid.
M. Gambetta opposed the motion.
He celled for the previous question and
made a vigorous attack on the minori
ty.
M. Paul DeCasagnac retorted, vehe
mently attacking the majority.
M. Cano D’Omani, Bonapartut, was
twice called to order daring the debate.
The sitting was stormy. M. Gambet-
ta’s motion for the previous question
was adopted by a vote of 312 to 186.
A skeleton recently fonnd on an island
near New York, contained teeth set on
vulcanized India rubber. The doctor
tor who testified asserted that the teeth
were false, and thereby destroyed a fine
opportunity for the construction, from, the
evidences before him, of a prehistoric
India rubber, man of the Vulcanic pe
riod. It is hard to throw away anch
l opportunities.
and we call it thunder.’
He looked around and saw that the
back door was open. He knew that if
be unhooked the front door the wind
wonld blow it shut, and he smiled, this
lover of lightning did, and he was
said he, “I will illustrate my
last remark.”
He stepped ont, and as he passed the
door it was unhooked.
“There, away io the South, are two
big black approaching each other.”
Th^oor was slowly and sorely blow
ing son.
“Soon they will meet, and I will see
another display of my beloved element
Oh! let the rain pour in torrents ; let the
lightning flash with serial splendor; let
be thunder—”
There wasa slam as the door blew shut
and the barkeeper heard no mere. He
saw that his scientific customer was in no
hurry abont returning, and, as be opened
the door, the truth dawned upon him.
As he looked hpon~the street and saw
no one, he realized that the man who
loved lightning had gone from his shop
forever.
How the Union was Bestowed
I will tell yon how we got this re
stored Union. It was because for
twelve years the great Democratic party
of the country had kept as true as a
needle to the pole to that one object
We will restore this Union; we will re
store self-government to every portion
of the Union, to the sacrifice of every
consideration, and one year ago, by a
majority of three hundred thousand,
under the lead of Samuel J. Tilden, we
said “ We will restore this Union.”
Yon got it under Mr. Hayes, the Pres-
identwho was not elected. Yon have
not got it by Mr. Hayes. I think that
is a fair criticism. Yon have got it by
the efforts of each and every one of
the Democratic party. Suppose a year
ago there had been a majority of three
hundred thousand the other way, does
any man suppose that Mr. Hayes wonld
have thought of withdrawing the troops
from Louisiana, Florida and South
Carolina? Why do yon suppose the
gentleman who got no this toast put the
name of Samuel J. Tilden with it?
Boooaoo. uadcr-God, if it had not been
for Mr. Tilden and the Democracy at
his back, we sbonld not have to-day «
restored Union, bat be in the same pit
iable condition we have been for the
last twelve years.—Judge Abbott, of
Boston.
“ Reckon that air scales of yourn is
nn Ambush scales, ain’t it ?” said a
countryman to bis grocer, as he took the
guzar and handed over the money.
“ Am nush scales, what doyoumean?,
replied the merchant; “ who’s Am
bush?”
“ Ambush—why, y’know—regular
Ambush—y’undcrstand what “ Am
bush’ means, don’t ye?”
“ Well, I should hope so. Mr. Wood
ruff-Ambush means hid—means
somethin’ concealed—means—wait,
here’s the dictionary; Ill jost read to
yer exactly what it means, so’s’t yon
needn’t never use it wrong after this—
here His—A—am—ambush—to lie in
wait for—
“Yis, that’s it, squire; don’t go no
farther—to lie in weight for two cents.”
Farming Host Reliable
During the hard times while every
body else is failing ana bankrupting we
hear of comparatively few fanners going
by the board. "-If they have to work
hard and economize, they still live at
home and have plenty to eat, if the world
does call it homely fare. These things
ought to console the termers and induce
them to raise on the term first, every
thing they need, and then their surplus
will bring money to boy what they can-
e at home. The Observer very sen
sibly remarks that financially the termer
is the safest man in the country. Of
eleven hundred and twelve bankrupts in
Massachusetts, only fourteen were farm
ers, yet the terming community numbers
frilly half the population. The people
mnst live, and while the use of luxuries
may be diminished bv hard times, there
will be a call for the produce of the
farm. Farming has, of coarse, felt the
general depression in business.
When yon see a lady on the street
stop and suddenly kick and reach back
ward and downward, don’t be alarmed
it’s not a brick she is after. As soon
as she shake ont the old oyster-cans
entangled in her trail, that same sweet
smile will return; and every-where the
street contractor hails the woman with
a trail as a blessing.
With all doe deference to Congress,
we do not think it can afford to pass a
bill like this, which not osfy proposes to
ignore its awn repeated action, bnt also
roposes to violate the Constitution of the
nited States and the existing treaties,
as well as the oft-repeated deliverances
of the Supreme Coart of the United
States, and this, too, when there is not
the shadow of necessity or propriety for
sack legislation.
A design for a national historical
Washington monument has been circu
lated among members of Congress and
others, which is intended to supersede
that of the present nnfiuisned structure.
The pedestal is divided into three sec
tions of stories, representing the three'
great epochs in the history of onr coun
try:
First—The discovery of this country
in its rode, wild state.
Second—The dawn of civilization.
Third—The great revolutionary pe
riod.
The third story is in fall relief. Wash
ington’s generals are of colossal size;
eight of them are mounted on horseback,
two at each of the four corners; the rest
are in groups between the corners, so ar
ranged as to fill the space, making a good
composition. One of the groups is in
consultation; another holding a council
of war, &c. There will be in all twenty-
five colossal statues—nine equestrian and
sixteen pedestrian. There will also be
six panels in alto or high relief figures,
and ten in basso or low relief. The
whole structure is to be purely American,
and eigbty-two feet in height, surmount
ed by the colossal equestrian statue of
General George Washington, as he ap
peared at the battle of Princeton, which
was the turning point of the Revolution.
The Mississippi Jetties.
CapL James B. Eads, in charge of
the jetties at tbe month of the Missis
sippi river, has lately visited Washing
ton, presumably to look after the sec
ond instalment of money due him from
the Government for his work. The
Secretary of War hiB ordered the mem
bers’ of the"Jetty Commission, consist
ing of Gens. Barnard, Wngbt and Al
exander, to reconvene in New Orleans,
and report upon tne present condition
of thejettie8. Capt Brown, of the
United States Engineer Corps, imme
diately in charge, has reported that
there is already a channel not less than
two hundred feet in width and twenty-
two feet in depth, and should the com
mission verify this statement the sec
ond installment will be paid Captain
Eads.
It is stated also that, in consequence
of these jetties, business shows a won
derful improvement in New OrleanB,
and the shipping tonnagp in that port
is larger than ever before known. A
leading ship broker reports that he has
advices that in addition to the regular
tines, seventeen lame steamships are
now on their way there for cargoes of
grain, and as evidence of the confidence
which foreign ship-masters and owners
have in the permanency nf the channel
ii may be stated that the Inman steam
er. City of Bristol, formerly of the New
York and Inman line, has made one
trip through the jt.ties to Liverpool
without belay, and has lately arrived
for a seeon-? voyage.
We congratulate our sister city on
these evidences of future prosperity,
.-specially as it bids fair to arid so ma
terially to the wealth and influence of
the entire SuufJi.
One squai
One square tlireo it,
One square she mor
One square twelve months..
One-fourth column one mor
Onc-fonrth column three:
One-fourth column six months
One-fonrtn column twelve months
One-half column one.month-.,
One-half column three months
One-half column six months. __
One-half colimix twelve months.. 1«>1 00
One columiyme month ... 00 0O~
One column three months. .—.— GO 00 :
One column six months.. —-—
Onexolumn-twelve months ——....— ICO 00
The foregoing rates art for either Weekly or
Trl-Weekly. When published tirboth papers, cu
per cent, additional upon-tabie rates.
A Comical Confederate.
H* V, RedOeld Cin. Com.
General D. ‘H. Hill, unlike the jflfus
triousBen of the name, has the reput >
tion of being “unreconciled,Mike -I .f-fli
Early: He has hot:yet'en)i3teil.i:i i .-
army of reconciliation, so-callf <1.
That he has a Bible class of two ti-i--
dred is not surprising, as he is the .<•)
thor of two oc three theological works
Before the war he asDired- to author
ship, and among other “works” attem pl
ed to set np'a Southern series of school
books, which • should teach tbe young
Southern idea how to- shoot—at the
Yankee. His arithmetic ba3 “prob
lems” in it running in the following
style: ■
“A Yankee mixes a" certain quantity
of wooden nutmegs, which cost him
one-fourth - cent jeach, with a quantity
of real nutmegs, worth four cents
each,” etc. .
“Theyears in which the Governors!
of Massachusetts and Connecticut send
treasonable messages to their respec
tive Legislatures is expressed by fonr.
On the Border.
New York, Jan. 21.—The World’s
San Antonio, Texas, special says, after
throwing all manner of obstacles in the
way of-delivering up the murderer
Cordovcr, the Mexican authorities at
Piedros Negras have at last turned him
over to an American officer. Cordover
is one of A band rf highway robbers
that are snpopsod to have killed six per
sons of this county. The Mexicans ai
Piedros Negras were excited and thought
a rescue wonld be attempted. Infor
mation was received last night of In
dians raiding in large numbers Waaon
and Lano co unties. Two men were
killed and a lot of horses stolen. The.
troops at McCavett were notified of the
raid and are in persuit of the reds.
This raid is thought to be disastrous,
though hopes re entertained that the
raiders will be brought to grief.
The Cuban Excursionists.
Havana. Jan. 21.—The steamer San
Jacinto arrived here this morning
from Savannah and Nassan, bringing
the American exenrsionsts—fifty five
in all. including delegates front the
rincipal cities in the west and south,
’hey are all in. good health. The ob
ject of their visit is to establish better
commercial communication between Cu
ba and the United States by way of Sav
annah.
Tweed’s Latest Move.
New York, Jan. 22.—W. M. Tweed
has made application to the Supreme
Court for bis discharge under the poor
debtor act. He was taken to conn bm
the case was postponed.
Isabella Beecher Hooker talks of or-
inizing a party of her sex to visit the
inthem capitals and address the Leg
islatures on woman suffrage. Aleck
Stephens thinks they wonld be “listen
ed to with attention.”
‘The field of Bnena Vista is six and
a half miles froin Saltillo. Two regi
ments of Indiana volunteers ran away
from the field of battle at ..the same
time,” etc. •,
He was an original secessionist, and
proved his faith by his works. He was
one of the first soldier in the field, go
ing in as Colonel and coming put as
Lieutenant General, tfirongh: a long
series of well-earned promotions. His
“official reports” were among the litera
ry curiosities of the war, and the oh-.
jects of no end of fan in the -Confeder
ate War Department. Of -the’battle of
Malvern Hill he reports officially that
“the Yankees retreated in the night,
leaving their dead unburied and aheir
wounded on,the ground, three pieces
of artillery abandoned and thousands
of superior riflBs thrown away.-- The
wheat fieldc at fcihirley were all tramped
down by the frightened herd. - Numer
ous wagons and ambulances werefoqnd
stuck in the mud, typical of Yankee
progress in the war.” He also speaks
of “lifting the young Napoleon from
his entrenchments aronnd the city, and
setting him down on the banks of the
James river, twenty-five mites further
off.” ...
The conventional style of "writing
official reports was ignored- by him in
every instance. Of an Attempt of a
portion of the Union army to cross
the river at Fredericksburg, he official
ly reports thus: “Finding the fire too
hot for them they fled back to town,
where they were sheltered from Carter’s
fire. Hardaway continued to pelt them;
and to stophte fire (as is supposed), the
ruffians commenced shelling the town,
fall of women'and children. The town
was partially destroyed, but a merciful
God protected the inoffensive inhabi
tants. A dog was killed - and a negro
wounded. Finding 'Hardaway’s fircl
did not slacken, the pirates flea down
tbo’river. From Yankee sources wq
learned that the pirates lost six kille
and twenty wounded. Whether the;
overestimated or underestimated then,
loss I do not know; they sometimes lit]
on one side, and sometimes on th
other.”
If yon wonld be exempt from uneas
iness, do nothing which yon know or
suspect is wrong; and if yon wish to
enjoy the purest pleasure, always do
everything in your power which you
know is right.
After Ten Years-
Ths Augusta Chonicle and Oonstitntlonallsh
LaBt Friday morning the sheriff
Screven county brought to Angnsta and
lodged in Richmond county jail, unde]
a bench warrant from Judge Bartlett, j
white man named Washington McDaif
iels alias Chas. Heath, who commits
-murder in Wilkinson connty in 18"
ten years ago Heath, wa3 tried cod
victed and sentenced to be hung at thaf
time, but while awaiting the dal
designed for his execution he manager
to escape from jail, his wife having coij
veyed him a small saw in a loaf
bread. He wss arrested some time
erwade.butjwhile onjbis way to jail on|
railroad train in charge of sixteen me
he jumped from the car window anl
again escaped. He remained at larjf
until few days ago when wag cangU
in Screven by the sheriff of that cons
ty. He will besent l ack to: Wilkins
county where the sentence of tbe L
will be executed.
The City of Beautiful Wome
Surprised.
Baltimore America*]
jnong the guests yesterday at
Eutaw House were Mr. A. H. Solcm(|
jr., and Miss Marie Solomon, brother a
sister both of London, and tourists nd
visting the leading cities and places I
.,ote in tbe United States. Miss So|
mon made e decided sensation at
dinner table by her extraordinary grJ
beauty and elegance. Herdreess aj
jewelry were of the richest descriptj
but in exquqisitegond taste andsetoflj
proportions and features remarks!]
aymmetr.caland beautiful. The sign
carce of the cicumstance lies in the fi
that in a city with an almost won
wide reputation for the beauty nf j
daughters ayoung lady nnisl bo tin
ally handsome to come casoelly to (
of its leading hotels and in i few ho|
have not only all thegues <—ladiesl
gentlemen—speaking in bn ishadml
tion of her bnt also have tbe circtl
stance much talked about elsewhere|
the city.
“Things are climbin’ down, sonn
remarked an old darkey. “Fa|
done come down ter two meals
den I comes down ter one—mi J
plain one at dat!—an’ npw, bressT
old hide, ef I don’t have ter sc:
’round ter git so much a3 one
squar lunch in a week 1”
Cincinnati, O., Jan. 23.—-A pa:
ger tarin on tbe Nashville and (
tanooga railroad ran off the track
Hunt’s Station Tenn., yesterday, t
ing one coach down an embank
twenty feet high. No one was
outright but several were sevj
wonnded. The canseof the accf
was a srpeadin oi the rails.
Annapolis, Md., Jan. 23.—Gej
Thomas Ewiag.’of Ohio, was the
member of Congress who addresse
members of the legi-isture last nig
the silver and. currency question,
tor Voorhees and Representative 1
bum were not praecnt as annoj
being detained in’Washington. J
Why is’ the . money you’re i
habit of giving to the poor li.ke
-y-bombabe? Because it is"
little.
