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Courier and Commercial CONSOLIDATED APRIL IO, 1870. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTIONS. FOR THE WEEKLY. One year 81x months- Three months One year.., Six months-. FOB THE TRI‘WEEKLY. Three months -—1 CO If not paid strictly in advance, toe price of- the Weekly Courier will be $2 50 a year, and the Tri-Weekly $5 ZJ. To clubs of five or more, one copy will be far- ntuhed free. 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. e >-• 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.