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ADDRESS *ll communications to WALSH 4 WRIGHT, OgßnvrcT.R AXD CoMTmrnoSALiaT. AngustaTla. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21,J. 877. EDITORIAL NOTKS. jar. Consulship to Iquique lias been filled, and 399 monrners are uttering keno oaths. — Papers that published obituaries of tbe Pope now allude to them a “stetabes of bis life." ... ‘•Fivjs years of good stealing in South Carolina" cuds, most likely, in ten years of good penitentiary. Stoughton has briefly and feebly re plied to Jerk Black. It sounds like a hysterical sob on the gallows. Pahjbox, “Kip’s" new son-in-law, is a slave to his pipe and tobacc* pouch. He will soon be the slave to bis wife. A beautiful Circassian girl can lie Iwugbt for S3OO in Constantinople. The currency is depreciated and the market dull. <g> The New Jersey Legislature, just elected, has nine Democratic majority and will re district the State, undoing a deal of Kadi cal unfairness. When a great sinner dies, would it not lie a little modest to sometimes omit singing over him “Asleep in Jesus” and other hyuins of that confiding character ? It is Stated by New York physicians that the general prevalence of diphtheria is due in a great degree to the gas which is thrown off from coal stoves in rooms where there is defective ventilation. The New York Democrats fought and defeated seven different combinations. The Albany Argus thinks it safe to say that such a fever for wild and foolish action will not prevail again, very soon. The New York Express grimly announces that what there is left of Stoughton is ex pected to sail for Russia this week. Jf.rf. Black’s credentials were much more spicy than those issued by Mr. Evarts. Effingham Lawrence, nominated lor the New Orleans Custom House Collector ship, is a moderate Republican, and entire ly acceptable to the Democracy. He is a wealthy planter and a man of affairs. The Jackson (Miss.) limn, a lonely Re publican sheet, says: “We have a great no tion of converting the Time* into a first class Sunday school journal. Politics in .Mississippi are altogether too one-sided." It. G. Dun As Cos. estimate the indebted ness of New York—national. State, cor porate and private- at $7,,175,000,000. The annual interest upon this amount, at six per cent., would he more than $450,000,000. Mince Todi.ebkn became the ruling spirit, everything is done geometrically in front of Plevna. Official bulletins announce tbe capture of “tire apex of au obtuse angle” awl forecast the rape of a “trape zoid." It takes a good deal to kill a tough old man. The late Vanderbilt had dyspep sia, flatulence, hernia, pleurisy, heart dis ease, dropsy, Bright’s disease, a second ■wife, and other diseases yet to be developed in lire progress of the trial. The unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of lowa says: “The vote cast for Greenback candidates in lowa is a fair census of the men lioplcssly in debt.— Their sorrows came of greenback inflation, •uid they >vant now to ‘apply a hair of the -Senator Jonvm’ grievance, next to the silver question, is that dead beats from Air. Hates’ section of eouutry have more influ •enoe with the President than he has. This, the Philadelphia Time* thinks, ought to convince the gentleman from Nevada how much more glorious it is to be a dead beat than to be a Senator—a Senator from Ne vada. Thf, Bank of France continues stronger in .bullion than any institution of the kind in lire world. The statement for last month showed cash and bullion, $438,602,531; discounts, $106,506,398; treasury bonds. $62,165,000; note circulation, $480,730,- <lB2 ■ public deposits, $37,949,079, and pri vate’ deposits, SB-1,199,313. The demand for loans was strong. We publish this morning the statements rt Solicitor-General 11ef.se and of Col. Jno. C. Reid (the latter corroborated by Col. Pope Barrow and Gen. Robert Toombs) of the cause of the rule against Col. J. I). Mathews for contempt, taken at the recent session of Oglethorpe Superior Court . These statements are intended as a reply to the account of the affair which ap •pcared in the Oglethorpe Echo, and which was copied into the Cn ronicle and Con smTcrieNALiaT. Those who profess to think or really VieKeve that the Republican party in Geor gia is disbanded will do well to read the article from the Washington National Re publican, which is published elsewhere in Hie Chronicle ani> Constitutionalist This morning. The National Republican is The organ of the "stalwarts,” and is daily ip reaching anew crusade against the South. "Through Independent movements our ene unu'S hope to reconquer Georgia aad tiring , niir people of the State once more in sub jection to ignorance and corruption. I)r. Trksham D. Gregg, a renowned cowtroyersialist of Dublin, has challenged "Hob" Isokksoi.i. to a public debate. The conditions arc these : Dr. Gregg is willing,, if defeated in the contest, to retire from his work of propagating the Gospel, and to withdraw from circulation his numerous theological works. On the other hand if Jjjmersoi.l is lieattii, he must forever 1- terwstt.l hold his peace against the Chnstia*. religion, and must also withdraw from cir-, tculation Us dangerous book and other .anti-orthodox documents. The Washington correspondent of the Western press slates that Kellogg and Spokkord wet for the first time, a few .days ago, in the committee room of Priv ileges and Elections, where they had beeu Mimiiv°iieil as contestants, and were intro duced to pacli otlier. Kellogg openal the acquaintance' by telling Spofford that, by j a singular coincidence, he had that morning ] received a letter from his wife, who ex pressed the hope tliM Mr. Sfoffoed would get the seat. Of course Afford regretted tlie husband was not of the mind as the wise woman w!k> had uttered ihjtl prop- j er wish. The London Wald/ RcfitUr has just’ published a record of disasters to British shipping during the year ended July 30, 1877, which shows an increase of wrecks casualties over those of the previous I The numbei for 1876- '77 was 3,757 an iuc'tc'ase of 167. Five huadred and two casts involved total loss, against 472 and 498 respectively for the two previous years. From 1850 1860 the average num ber of wrecks for etah _ vear was 1.362; from 1861 to 1865 it was 1,535. and from 1860 to 1870 the average for each £M? r TFas 2,230. The disastere between 1861 aud 70 in volved the drowning of 12.332 pereo n. — These statistics present some startling fact*, and lead us to hope that the signal service will be so generally established every where, that most of the great dangers from sudden atmospheric changes may be avoided lay sea-goers. The value of the new senric* has not been fully demonstrated until very recently, so that hereafter it may he expect ed that wreck statistics will indicate far I ess destruction to shipping. UROBtil* UKTTINO ALONG well. Georgia seems to be gettmg along very well in Congress. Messrs. Bell and Felton made fine speeches in favor of the repeal of the Resumption Act last Wednesday. Georgia is indeed a great State and haa any quantity of great men. To the high-toned Vir ginian politician at the Springs last Summer, who was constantly boasting that “ Virginia was the mother of States and of statesmen," General Gaby, of Edgefield, sharply retorted “ that Vir ginia might once have been the mother of statesmen, bnt she bad quit breed ing a long time ago.” Such a reproach cannot be uttered about Georgia. The old lady ia atill in the basiness and it ia astonishing what a number of great men are lying around loose within her bord ers. If the State had a thousand seats in Congress instead of eleven she oould place a statesman in every one of them. We are glad to know that the eleven for whom there is room are doing so well. Mr. Bell is among the new members of this session, but served a term in Con gress a few years ago and is a man of decided ability. Mr. Felton is serving his second term and is both eloquent and intellectual. He ia very popular in the Seventh District, and if he was not such an uncompromising enemy of party organization might one day be Governor of Georgia. _ A FOOLISH MOVE. In Mr. Charles Gayabre’s remark able article on the Southern Question, in the North American Review, be notes that one peculiarity of the oolored people is to make all their claims, es pecially in politics, on the ground of race. The white nan poshes himself forward on an individual basis of per sonal merit. But the leaders of the negroes move on the line of race, just as if there was no personal merit worthy of consideration, and that the whole question was one of avoirdupois. A striking exemplification of the truth of Mr. Gayabrb’s statement is found in a letter published in a Washing ton Sunday paper, written by the Secre tary of anew organization, called the “ Invincibles,” at the instance of a com mittee of that body and address'd to Professor Langston, recently appointed Minister to Hayti, in whioh complaint is made that the African race is not suf ficiently recognized by the Administra tion. It is said that the organization is already seven hundred strong in Wash ington City ; that though young it has rapidly spread throughout the United States, and that by the next Presiden tial election every true black will be en rolled in its ranks. The platform is justice and recognition according to merit. We venture to say, in general, as Mr. Gatarre says in minute particularity, that no race has ever had so much done for it with so little corresponding re turn as the negro. What oceans of white blood have been shed for him, what untold millions of money squan dered ! How all the natural functions of man and law have been strained and perverted to make him different from God’s decree! And yet we are to be told, in the general wreck of American prosperity and institutions, consequent upon a war for slavery, that the negroes have not been sufficiently recognized by the Administration 1 We rather think that this threatened blaok organization will amount to noth ing very serious. But, if it should come to a head, it requires no prophet to rise from the dead or from the tomb of Medina to declare that it will be the be ginning of the end of the whole negro business. An antagonism of that sort would instantly array the vast ma jority of white men against it, and the swift destruction that must come npon it would be as blasting as tbe simoom. If the negroes want “justice and re cognition according to merit” they must seek it as individuals, and not as a race. All of these stormy mutterings among the oolored people, however, are por tentous. They but confirm Mr. Gayab re’s announcement, in due form, to the people of this oountry, and especially to those of the East and West, that the Southern question is not dead ; that it has simply ohanged its aspect from ne gro slavery to negro freedom, and that the wisest statesmanship will be re quired to make useful and harmless the monster the Radical Frankenstein has created for the disturbance of this Union. DISHKCTINU THE IJIANT. When the Eastern and Western presses of all shades of politics get through with their pritioisms upon Senator Morton there witi be precious little greatness left for his heirs and assigns to comtem plate. The Chicago Times, a sort of vigorous free lance, speaks of the dead Senator as a bundle of prejudices and contradictions, who was everything by turns and nothing long, bnt who always shifted to what he considered the strong and winning side. The Time* pithily same np that ( “When he lived, he lived in clover, And when he died, he died all ever.” The inference, of course, to be drawn from this is that there was nothing grand or enduring in his character and therefore his fame, like a soap bubble, must peri**; with the breath that gave it volatility and brightness. The New York Nation, the most scholarly of Republican journals, which circulates most largely among the intel lectual and cultivated men of all parties, shows, in some terse and compact sen teaaen, how chameleon-like the Indiana gladiator sqm. It says : He was tn advocate, if not tlia author, of President Joxnson* pebfiv of reconstruction, and afterward was ready to impeach him for carrying it out. He violently oppeaad nogro suffrage when it was first proposed, bat as goon as it became a party necessity eagerly ad vocated it. When tlie evil results which he predicted would flow from it began to show themseteew, he strenuously denied their ex istence or aecriAMkl them to some other cause. In 1667, probably audeu ib fi same devotion to party, tie bagau to advocate tiw payment of the Goverumaot bonds ip giqcuhfcks. bat finding that the teheme did not take hdi<i the public mind, supported the payment of them in gold. A few years later ho hftevne 1 1, leader of the inflationists in the (Moats, and —-ft p near plunging the country into the wildest flustwlfl disorder by the championship of the measure v/ caper expansion which General Grant luckiiy His speeches on finance during this period wot* £uch as to bring discredit on the body to which *a be ionged and which had to listen to them. A 1 yav later, however, he appeared on the stump as a eappegter of redemption in coin, public opinion having vested in that direction. For reform of the civil service si*ys expressed great contempt. During the trowAee attend ing the Presidential count last Winter, when there was talk of a resort to fores to carry out the Republican view of the law, the extremists turned to him as the one man in the party who wae supposed to have the plnek and de termination and kind Of Judgment necessary for the'.coqaucf of such an enterprise. In a plan which he song Agreed for counting the Presidential vote he denwl the right of the President of the Senate So perfqan that duty, but as soon as it ■ergot®'! necessary ip? the election of Mr. Hams he maintained it. That a man should so swiftly and with such evident gusto play fast and loose be-; tween such paradoxical extremes is mon strous enough But that he should, in spite of tips, fce the leader of the United States Senators who adhered to the Re publican party iaqnite as maiyalous. We <-<Ms explain it upon one ground only, and that a .common hatred of the South. That prop is falling away, and no man ean confidently Lurid upon it an en during title to called tellect was in tease, bat it was partisan and narrow. His moral nature is best alluded to with charity or not at all. His darling prospects, founded upon bitterpess and sectional strife, are gone ic the wind. They have bat one me meavfc-a bloody rag which no man will claim Wade or of folly and fanaticism. The grave de dait in Senator Moftrow> ,£**&*, of late years, was his inability M> come down from his perch aa a “great war Governor. ” When all the reel soldiers had gone borne and sub sided into the ranks of peace, the Sena tor insisted upon wearing the plume cf Gen. Bora and demanding the sabre of his father. It iB true that, on his death bed, he peroeived the folly of all this and, with aoenstomed pliability, was willing to accept the inevitable, so long as his uniform of “great war Governor” was permitted to be worn on holiday oc casions. We are glad that his latest change was a peaceful one and that be had no opportunity to resume his an cient attitude. Bnt, as the years wear on, he will have few, if any, reminders of real greatness. Meanwhile, the men who deem him something Titanic are striving to get subscriptions for a monument, and Daniel W. Vookhkes, his life-long opponent, who occupies his seat in the Senate, is almost smoth ered with flowers. The King is dead ! Long live the King 1 SLOW BUT SURE POISON. The Louisville Courier- Journal, which is published in a State where whUky ought to be good if anywhere, confirms the statement that probably nine hun dred and ninety-nine gallons out of every thousand that are sold as brandy are made from a vile compound of whisky swill, distilled spirits and chemi cal abominations, and adds: “And as it is also true of whisky, what in the name of goodness are we all to do for something to drißk ? It looks as if we were to be driven to the pnmp in spite of ourselves. If the world at large knew what villainous staffs brandy and whisky and wines are made of, the present crop of drunkards would be about the last, or at any rate, all future crops would be small. Nearly or quite all of the iiqnors that are retailed now-a-days are un doubtedly a slow bnt sure poison, and to drink them habitually is simply a roundabout way of committing suicide, and unless you guard yourself carefully the way is not so roundabout either.” OFFICIAL INFORMATION PRIVILEGED. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has decided the dispute between the Al legheny county grand jury and Governor Habtbanft in favor of the latter. The grand jury summoned the Governor and the Adjutant-General before them to give testimony in the case of the riots. The Governor and Adjutant-General re fused to come, on the ground that the information in their possession was priv ileged, and to divulge it would be detri mental to the public interests. The Al legheny County Court decided that this answer was insufficient and the executive officers must come. The question was submitted to the Supreme Court, and that tribunal decides in favor of the position taken by the Governor. The decision means that official information in possession of the Governor is priv ileged and the Governor need not give it in evidence before a grand jury or a Court of Justioe, unless he is willing to. DEMOCRATIC APPOINTMENTS. The New York Herald, of a recent date, goes to the very marrow of the case when it thus speaks of the partisan intolerance of the Republican Senators in dealing with tbe President’s Demo cratic appointments : Every political party baa equal rights in tbe Senate. What a majority of one party may do in relation to appointments the other party wonld have precisely the same justification in doing when it in turn has a majority. If it be right for a Republican Senate to decide that it will reject every appointment of a Dem ocrat to office, then it would also be right for a Democratic Senate to refuse to confirm the appointment of any Republican, The Republican Senatprs are proceed ing as if they thought there was no hereafter. But in 1879 the tables will be turned, and with a vengeance, unless a better spirit should prevail in the im plaoable camp. It seems to us that men whose lease of life is so short should have the sense to take as few risks as pos sible in the immediate Future. THE TAXATION OF LAWYERS. The lawyers of Bt. Louis have re sisted the collection of the tax imposed upon them by the municipal authorities and have won their case in the Courts. One of their number refused to pay the tax assessed by ordinance upon attor neys at law, for which refusal he was arrested, tried and oonvicted before the Police Court, and a fine of SSO im posed, from which decision he appealed to the Court of Criminal Correction, where the decision was affirmed pro forma. He then appealed the case to tbe Court of Appeals, and this tribunal reversed the decision of the Court be low. The Court held that the General Assembly of the State had a right to levy a professional tax upon lawyers, but also held that municipal corpora tions were not vested with any such au thority. In Georgia, as in many other States, city authorities impose a license tax upon members of the bar and its oolleotion has been frequently resisted— though a test case has never been oarried to the Courts, the city or the lawyers nsually conceding the point at issne. HKB. HATES* ATLANTA ESCORT. The Chicago Inter-Ocean has been thrown into spasms by the receipt of a letter from Atlanta stating that O. H. Jones, the Chairman of the Citizens’ Committee on the ooeasion of the Presi dential visit and the gentleman who es oorted Mrs. Hates from the Union De pot to the hotel while his assooiates looked on gremt with envy, was of the party who hanged the men from Sher man’s army who stole an engine at Big Shanty in 1864 and attempted to carry it off to Chattanooga. The correspon dent says : The unsuccessful hero, Adams, was a man of splendid physique. By some miscalculation of his height or the length of the rope his toes touched the ground. One O. H. Jones, noted for his gallantry in disposing of unarm ed Union men during the war, got a spade and dug the sand from beneath Adams' feet tmtil hie weight was sufficient to choke him to death. The troth of the matter is that the men were spies and were oondemned and /executed as spies. If Mr. Jones did whsit he ia charged with doing (which we capitally he was sim ply trying tG pat a doopaed man out of his misery, THE SMALLS CASE AGAIN. The conviction of Robert Smalls in South Gaitolipß, for bribery and corrup tion, imposes upon toe JJouse of Repre sentatives at Washington a vepj plain duty. The Washington dispatches to! the Northern press suggest that this mac “may go on drawing his salary as a mestfoei of Conjjrqje a t the same time that he draws his rations pa a South Carolina convict, because, being a car pet-bagger, he comes of a race of men who seldom die and never resign, and because two-thirds of the House might not be willing to vote for his expulsion." It is hard, we know, to divine the choice of j husband oil the part of an in fatuated woman, the verdict of a petit jury, and A&p Tension of a Rad;?*! minority in Congress., but we bardly think one-third of the Hopse vjjl pro tect Smalls in this way, on the ground that he did not commit the crime con victed of while a member of Congress. The New York Tribune, protesting this bald and immoral sophis try, cites ii> well knows case of Wx. Blount, when toe Sunste expelled a member for an offence which was noi in violation ef any statute, which he did not <yp as a Senator, nor at the Capital, ncr _the session of Con gress ; and the ride Ah toe House of Commons, e# stated by Storj, shows that that body esetzises even a larger discretion in cases of expulsion than has been fixed by precedent in Congress. The same Republican authority nno tnonsly adds: “It is undoubtedly worth something to get Mr. Smalls ont iff Congress, bat five thousand a year is too large a priee to puy for the lack of hia company.' When officially informed of Smalls’ rascality we confidently expect that the House will expel him. The quickest way, then, to fill his place wonld be by admitting Hon. Geobob D. Tillman to the seat he contests. The probability is, however, that anew election will be ordered. In that event Mr. Tillman will be triumphantly returned. GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA IN CONGRESS. We continue our resume of what has been done in Congress daring the past week by the members from Georgia and South Carolina. November 8, Sen ator Gobdon introduced a bill for the relief of Samuel Noble, which was re ferred to the Committee on Claims.— November 9, Senator Gordon presented the petition of John F. Andrews, of Wilkes county, praying the passage of a bill refunding him $l3O which he had been oompelled to pay on acconnt of the bnrning of a registered lei ter mailed by him to Atlanta last Summer, which was referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. In the House, on the same day, Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, spoke in favor of a reductiom of the army, and said that if additional soldiers were needed for the protection of the Texan frontier, there were some stationed at Colombia and Charleston who Coaid be easily spared. Mr. Felton presented a petition from the citizens of Gordon connty, asking that the laws be so amended as to extend the time for filing war claims, which was referred to the Committee on War Claims. No vember 10, Mr. Felton presented pa pers relating to the claim of J. H. Rogers and C. J. Shepard for property taken by the United States Army ; also, papers relating to the claim of William Hbdgpeth to be refunded the amount of taxes illegally collected from him by United States officials ; which were both referred to the Committee of Claims. In the Senate, November 12, Senator Hill introduced a bill to refund to the State of Georgia certain money expend ed by the State for the common defense in 1777, which was referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims. Senator Gordon presented the peti tion of W. F. Hovis, of Walker county, Georgia, late assistant assessor of in ternal revenue for the First District of Georgia, praying for the passage of a bill granting him $594 with interest thereon for services rendered as assist ant assessor of internal revenue from the Ist of October, 1865, to the Ist of February, 1866; whioh was referred to the Committee on Claims. He also pre sented the petition of James H. Glenn, of Woodville, Georgia, praying compen sation for property taken for the publio service after the close of the late war; which was referred to the Committee on Claims. He also presented the petition of Guerry & Son, commercial lawyers, of Americus, Georgia, praying for the repeal of the joint resolution of March 2,1867, requiring an oath of loyalty be fore receiving bounty land; whioh was referred to the Committee on the Ju diciary. He also presented the petition of Mrs. F. A. Timberlake, of Augusta, Georgia, praying for the introduction duty free of a monument for the Augus ta soldiers’ cemetery; which was refer red to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Stephens introduced a bill for the relief of Stafford, Seymour & Cos., and sundry other parties for Indian de predations, which was referred to the Committee on Claims. He also intro duced a bill for the relief of V. Rich ards & Brothers, which was referred to the Committee on War Claims. Mr. Hartridge introduced a bill to provide for the settlement with certain railway companies, which was referred to the Committee on Military Affairs. Mr. Blount introduced a bill for the relief of Anthony L. Maxwell, of Ma con, for ordnance stores and supplies taken at Knoxville, Tennessee, for the use of the United States Army, which was referred to the Committee on War Claims. Mr. Cook introduced a bill for the re moval of the political disabilities of Wm. A. Cornwell, which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Mr. Cook also introduced a bill to appropri ate $2,000 for survey of Flint River, which was referred to the Committee on Commerce. Mr. Cook also introduced a bill authorizing payment for all ootton seized after May 29, 1865, which was re ferred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. Cook also introduced a bill granting pensions to the soldiers of the Seminole and Florida wars, whioh was referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Mr. Cook also introduced a bill to refund certain taxes collected by the United States on raw cotton during the years 1863, 1864, 1835, 1866, 1867 and 1868, which was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. Mr. Smith, of Georgia, introduced a bill re storing to the pension roll the name of James Buchanan, of Blakely, Early oounty, Georgia, First Lieutenant Geor gia militia, in the Florida Indian war of 1836, and whose name was dropped from the rolls under the act of February 4, 1862, which was referred to the Commit tee on Invalid Pensions. November 13 Mr. Stephens intro duced a bill for the relief of Edward Gallaher, which was referred to the Committee on War Claims. Mr. Blount, from the Committee of Appropriations, had charge on this day of the naval de ficiency bill and engineered it safely through the House. Mr. Evins, of South Carolina, presented papers relat ing to the establishment of a post route from Texahaw to Camden, S. C., which was referred to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads. Mr. Habtridge presented memorials from the commis sioners of pilotage and merchants of Brunswick, Darien and (Savannah, pro testing against the repeal of the lay regulating compulsory pilotage. THIS YEAR’S COTTON CHOP. Reduction oi Yield Compared With Last Year— flppjrglQ. Loses an Eighth Per Cent. —Four Per Cept. Falling Off iu the Aggre gate. Washington, November 15. —The cot ton retarns of the Department of Agri culture, made daring the first week of November, compare the product in bales with that of 1876. The absence of killing frosts is noted in all the States; slight frosts in the more north ern districts have been favorable to the ip.Cjrease of yield,by hastening the ripen ing oi l&tej bolls. Rains in October have been unusHaKy Jieavy and general ly interfering with picking, causing staining and loss of fibre. The loepeu from the prevalence of the caterpillar were heaviest in Texas, were somewhat serious in Louisiana and to a less ex tent in Mississippi and Florida. In the cczaparison by States with the crop of ’ list Texas has the lowest per centage atfd would be still lower but for the 15 per centum in crease of area; Arkansas and Tennessee stand high, not by reason of a good crop but because their yields were relatively low lai year; Alabama is above 100 only because 'her l#st crop was a vary poor one. The figures ar,a as follows North Carolina, 91: South Carolina, 9Q; Georgia, 92, Florida, 87; Alabama, 105; Mississippi, 93; Louisiana, 97; Texas, 80; Arkansas, 110: Tennessee, 115. This indicates about 4 per cent, reduction of the aggregate of last year, even it the fa •—.a iif toe picking season should be as favorable < of JfJ. also reports of low J’ e W A,° aee£ which may further a?? 01 there torn*." " ~ “ _ Honorably DinOwgrt. Chicago, November 17.—Chas. Fenl ker, who was arrested lately for de frauding the Government by shipping goods from Italy and substituting a a..--u°. invoice for that which came Wifli too merchandize, was acquitted 'to dayV ‘ it having been proven that a lesser invoice represented it correct value of the goods, while! the large one was intended for the inspection of cus tomers. Nothing mpfces f hope so attractive as tastefnl ornamentation, ft ?s within the power of any lady to mage fancy work, glove and handkerchief boxes, etc. “Andrews’ Bazar" give# all the lateet and most beantifnl designs for these articles, which give pleasure in making and tend so much to beautify a home. Bend ten cents to W. R. An drews, Cincinnati, for specimen copy. THE SENATORSHIP. DISCUSSION BETWEEN MESSRS. CCMMISO AND FOSTER. The CaapaJffß Ovens In Earnest—Tbe Can didates In Jeßersea—A Joint Discussion Darin* Court Week-Hew the Time Was Apportioned—. Major Commie* Opens-Mr. Foster Follows— Major Comedo* Goa. clade*. [ Correspondence Chronicle and Constitutionalist . 1 Louisville, Ga., November 14.—Yes terday and to-dav ttre political waters were much stirred hereabout in connec tion with the Senatorship from the Eighteenth District. Major Joseph B. Camming, of Augusta, reached town on Monday in Order to address the people of Jefferson on that question, and on Tuesday morning Hon. H. C. Foster also put in an appearance on Major C.’s invitation, in order to participate in the discussion. Owing to the pressure of Court basiness, Jefferson. Superior Coart, Judge Hersohel V. Johnson pre siding, being now in session, there was no speaking on that day. On Tuesday night the Louisville Cornet Band paid Mr. Foster the compliment of a sere nade, and discoursed a number of beau tiful airs with a skill reflecting great credit on the musical abilities of the amatenrs composing the organization. On Wednesday Judge Johnson consent ed to extend the usual dinner adjourn ment to two hours, and immediately on the recess tho Court room was complete ly filled with a large audience, not even standing room remaining, and numbers clustering at the doors unable to gain admission. The Time Apportioned. Judge W. F. Denny, Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of Jefferson connty, called the meeting to order, and announced that Major Joseph B. Camming and Hon. H. C. Foster, of Richmond, candidates fof the Senator ship from the Eighteenth District, would address the meeting on that sub ject, the discussion to be opened in a speech of three-quarters of an hoar by Major Cumming, who would be followed by Mr. Foster in a speeoh of an hour; the discussion to close by a reply by Major C. of fifteen minutes, thus allow ing each gentleman one bonr. >laj. Cummins’s Opentas Speech. Hon. Jos. B. Camming then opened the discussion by adverting to the fact that the last time he stood before the citizens of Jefferson county was in 1868, when he addressed them as a Demo cratic Elector on the Seymour ticket. At that period the government of Geor gia was in hands hostile to our people— so with the South generally. Now Georgia and the entire South are re deemed, and this then despised section is the “solid South” and a great power in tho National Government. This magnificent result was due to the fact that the people of the South, banded together in the Democratic party, had moved as one man, and that private am bition was subordinate, to the general good. Major C. tlien proceeded to say that he stood as a candidate seeking the pre servation of this Democratic party and a nomination from it. Mr. Foster was an Independent candidate, who had thrown off his allegiance. The speaker here read Mr. Foster’s card of October 14, 1877: “To the voters of the Eight eenth Senatorial District,” and said while some of Mr. Foster’s friends said he was not an* Independent, this card showed that he was. Mr. Foster claimed an advantage be fore a Jefferson audience for two rea sons: First, that Major Cumming had opposed Col. Cain in the Senatorial con test in 1872. This was true in fact. He gave his reasons why he sought the nomination at that time of a gentleman from Richmond. But here was the record of the Convention, too long to read, bnt which any one might examine. His opposition had been open and man ly. Colonel Cain had so declared it, and the speaker appealed to General Carswell in the audience, who had done battle for Colonel Cain, to say if that was not the character of the opposition, and if any discoarteous or unfriendly word had been said about Colonel Cain. General Carswell here stated that he had before said and now again declared that what Major Cumming said about the contest was correct. He defied any one to say that he had said a harsh or dis respectful word of Colonel Cain.— The speaker said in 1868 a vic tim was called for the slaughter, and Richmond had furnished it in the per son of Hon. A. C. Walker, and in 1872 ho thought Riohmond should be re warded for the sacrifice. So much for the advantage Mr. Foster claimed by reason of the feeling against the speaker. His second claim of advan tage was that Jefferson owed him a debt of gratitude for supporting Col. Cain. The speaker said this claim was not true in fact. Mr. Foster did not support Col. Cain. He asked Mr. Foster if he had not in fact voted for Col. Snead ? (Mr. Foster said yes he did vote for Col. Snead, but he believed that Col. Cain was entitled to the nomination, and he supported Cain in every other respect.) Major Cumming continued: Favor him with no such support. He called upon the people of Jefferson to pass judgment and say which they thought more cred itable to a man—such opposition as his, or such support as Mr. Foster’s. Another point of opposition he had heard since his arrival was that the Richmond Executive Committee was discoarteous to Jefferson in the action it took in reference to the Constitu tional Convention in April last.— That action was certainly not meant discourteously. It only undertook to apportion the delegates among the coun ties and to say that each county should select its own delegates. The appor tionment was not unfair. The result was not unsatisfactory to Jefferson, for by it she got Dr. Phillips and her favorite son Col. Cain. The speaker’s relation to the measure was that he, as a member of the committee, voted for it. Mr. Foster’s, that he as a member of the County Convention, exeonted it. In executing it he tried to defeat Gover nor Jenkins. He tried to defeat him by nominating Mr. Wm. A. Walton—one of the first citizens of the tjtate, but the gen tleman who had stood shoulder to shoul der with the speaker in his opposition to Colonel Cain, and who had presided over that section of the Convention which nominated Colonel Snead. Such were the merits of Mr. Foster’s claim upon the gratitude of Jefferson county. The opening forty five minutes here ex pired. Mr. Foster’s Reyly. Judge Denny then introduced Hon. H. C. Foster, who was greeted with applause. On taking the stand Mr. lostersaid he disclaimed seeking the vote of Jefferson county on any such grounds of opposition to Major Cum ming or gratitude to himself in connec tion with the Senatorial contest of 1872, as Major C. had insisted on. After the Convention of that year had split and both Col. Snead and Col. Cain had gone before the people, he felt constrained to vote for hi ß Ppunty man, Cos). Snead, and had done so. Rut he had known Col. Cain long and well, and knowing him to be a gentlemen of high standing and that harsh and crnel charges and insinuations had been made against him, he felt it a duty to pnt him fairly before the people of Richmond oonnty so far as lay in his power and had done so. As one friendly to Col. Cain and as one who felt it a duty at all times to afford a man unjnstly assailed a fall and fair opportunity to vindicate himself, be had given him a foil and nnreserved commendation. Col. Cain well knew his position and fully appreciated his efforts in that contest to do him this measure of justice and right. This was all that Col. Cain required. In all respects he was the peer of his distinguished com petitor. He was a man fit for any trust and of abilities so great that he needed no nursing, nothing bat a fair opportun ity to come before The people and with this was amply able to take care of him self. As to the charge that he, the speaker, was an Independent, he wonld ask what was an Independent ? As he under stood the- term, an Independent was one who sought office in defiance of some legally expressed action or authority of the party. His position he had an nounced in his card of October 14, 1877, which had been read. He was a Demo crat and had never voted for any other than a Democrat. (Major Camming here asked if he had not voted against Mr. Biack and for Till. jDeas. Mr. F. said he had; that Mr. Dess was a Demo crat, and that he had never heard any objection to him *pd none could bo urged unless it was that he was a poor man.) Continuing, Mr. ,F. said he would now show, and from Major Cum ming’s own declarations, that there was no Democratic Executive Committee for the Senatorial District, and in the absence of one *heie was no party asthovi*** for a nominating i^C”vention for the district. Jfe’o? waa a member of the Democratic Executive Committee of Richmond county, and in April last, when a letter was presented to that body from Judge Denny, Chair man of the Democratic Executive Com mittee of Jefferson county, asking for a Convention to nominate delegates to the Constitutional Convention from this Dis trict, no regard was paid to that com munication, and the Riphmond Commit tee proceeded to adopt resolutions that each county should act independently in making those nominations, one of the resolutions giving as a rpasjpn for this the absence of any proper party ma chinery to make nominations for the district. Mr. F. here read the resolu tion as follows: "Resolved, That in the absence of a Democratic Executive Commutes of this election district, the counties of Jefferson and Glascock be requested to nominate,” &c., &c. Now the question arose if there was no pro per party authority to make nomina tions in April, 1877, how was it that with the same state of facts the same men insisted on a nominating Conven tion as being legal and necessary now ? The fact was and is that there being no Democratic Executive Committee for this Senatorial District, any joint ac tion was matter of agreement for each county to accede to or not, just as the Richmond Executive Committee had said. This being so, why should Jef ferson go into a Senatorial Convention where she could accomplish no good for herself, as one-half of the Convention were already instructed to vote for Major Gamming and no one else, and where the only effect would be to give him an artificial strength by an appa rent conformity to party usage when in fact no such usage existed. Such being the fact, he had, as a Democrat, gone directly to the people and sought their support at the ballot box. All this cry of disorganization was bosh ! He be lieved in the people, and further be lieved that, convention or no conven tion, nomination or no nomination, the people always bad intelligence and in tegrity enough to knew and to do right. Any other supposition would do vio lence to the principles of this Govern ment; was an insult to their intelligence and a slander on their patriotism. At the ballot box the best man would always be elected. Now a word more as to this charge of Independent. The primary election in Richmond was undemocratic and unfair. The hours set, from 10, a. m., to 5, p. m., were such as necessarily deprived the large body of mechanics and work ing men, from whom his support was largely drawn, from an opportunity of voting, for just as the polls closed ac cording to these hours, that large body of voters knocked ofl work. Why were the hours as originally proposed—viz: from 8, a. m., to 8, p. m., which would have given them an opportunity to vote—changed to from 10, a. m., to 5, p. m.? Another thing. Hon. Geo. R. Sibley, who firmly supported him, and was himself a candidate for the House from Richmond, was heartily struck at that election because of that support, and yet Mr. Sibley led the ticket. Again, if he (Mr. F.) was an In dependent because he was before them in advance of a convention, soliciting their support, then Major Cumming was also an independent, since he was there before them too. In conclusion, Mr. Foster said let Major Cumming and himself stand even before the people. Let every man be free to vote as his judgment dictated. Don’t go into this convention. Don’t give him the party lash to whip in freemen. This was a free government; freedom was its genius —freedom at home and abroad, freedom at the ballot box, freedom everywhere. The virtue and intelligence of the peo ple would not suffer their form of gov ernment to be injured. The issue before them —and old Richmond would respond to it—was whether they were free to vote for whom they pleased. t. Major Cum mi uk lu Reply. His position was, is and will continue to be, that he does not desire to be forced on an unwilling people. The Democratic party was the people to whom he appealed. If the appeal was made elsewhere we would return to the evil days of reconstruction. This Inde pendent movement would bring that re turn. As to the Constitutional Conven tion of 1877, he approved that action. He thought the proportion was right. The hours of primary election were ex tended longer by two hours than those fixed by law in the country. These 'hours were voted for in the committee by Mr. May, Mr. Foster’s warmest sup porter. Mr. Foster never complain ed of them. There was never a moment when they would not have been changed at his request. When eight days afterwards he withdrew from the nomination, his card did not mention this as a reason. It is now an after thought. It proceds on a wrong as sumption, viz: that Mr. F. owns the la boring men’s vote. He is no more the laboring mau’s friend than the speaker, and the laboring men of Richmond county will so answer at the election. Mr. Foster never struck a lick of manual work, he never plowed a furrow or hammered a piece of iron. His father was a man of wealth, and gave his son a liberal college education, and dying left him a competency, and the only trade Mr. Foster ever worked at was the speaker’s trade—that of the lawyer. Ho was no more a laborer or the friend of the laborer than was the speaker. Here the discussion closed, and the large audience dispersed. D. RADICALISM RAMPANT. The Republican Party In Georgia Neither Dead Nor Dlobanded—“lt Has a Mission and Will Perform It”—Good Reading for Independents. [ Washington National Republican.] Georgia is a Republican State by a large majority when its people are left free to exercise the right of suffrage ac cording to the dictates of their own con victions and judgments. Through out rage, intimidation and a sense of deser tion, the Republican party in that State has become inert, inactive and ineffi cient, until the State has been regarded as substantially Democratic. But this is not the fact. The Republican party there is not dead, but has Buffered from a general paralysis of action. It begins to show signs of life. The appoint ments by a Republican President of Democrats to important positions, in stead of Republicans equally qualified for them, has had one good effect. It has aroused the Republicans to a sense of the wrong done their cause by this departure from accustomed paths, and they are clothing themselves with new energies and new activities. The Atlanta Republican, which has been an able advocate of the Republican faith, but whioh has been suffering from severe discouragements, is putting on its armor for a fresh contest in behalf of the right, with the following declaration of principles and purposes: “Important as the work already accom plished by the Republican party is, other work hardly less in magnitude re mains to be done. The people must be taught that the American Republic nation, not a confederacy. Life and property must be protected. Education by the State &ust be placed within the reach of all the people. Free speech and a free press must be guaranteed. The ballot must be guaranteed and protect ed. The ways and means for promoting tfco material prosperity of the State should be discussed, such as agriculture, commerce, manufacturing, mining, in ternal improvements, a homestead, and strict economy in the public expendi tures.” The Republican will do yeoman’s ser vice in behalf of Republican principles and policy relating to its own State and the nation at large, and is-deserving of the meat liberal support. If the policy of pacification is honestly accepted by the Democrats in Georgia, they will en ter upon the policy of “live and let live,” and the Republicans will be se cured in a peaceable exercise of all their rights; their party will put on its full vigor once more, and the State will be come peaceful, prosperous and happy. The Republican now puts forth these words of cheery promise: “The Repub lican part of Qeorgia is a unit for Re publicanism; it has a mission and will perform it.” TJIE FREEPifAN** MA?IN(iS RANK. A Klim Prospect Far a Kamil Dividend •Several Months (If. The Savannah News has been fur nished with the following letter received by J. H. Deveaux, colored, in reference to the Freedman’s Savings Bank, which we publish as a matter of interest to the colored people of this city, though it appears to us that the hope held out is a forlorn oap : Washington, D. C., Nov. 12, 1877. John H. Deveaux, Esq., Savannah, Ga.: Sib— Replying to yours of the 9th inst., we would say that a dividend of some amount will be paid this Winter or early in the Spring of 1878. We have on hand funds sufficient tjo pay a divi dend of ten per cdhti, and a- prospect of increasing it an additional five pdr cent, within a month or six ' week from this time, and, if successful, will declare a dividend of fifteen per cent, failing in this we will pay the ten per tent, that we have. After the amount has been decided upon it jvill require from two to three months to extend the dividend, write ont pheofcs, etc.;' ’ actual payment can be made. Very respectfully, B. H. T. Leifold, Of the Commissioners. HANCOCK ADHERBS TO NOMINATIONS. • the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.] —n J 16.—A meet ing of the Democracy of ffancook oeuu ty was held here to-day for the purpose of nominating candidates for the Leg islature. Hon. William J. Northern, one of the present members, was nomi nated. The other member, Hon. Jno. T. Jordan, having declined to be a can didate again, Mr. A. Miller Dnßose was nominated. Mr. Dnßose is a talented young lawyer of this place, and a son of Hon. C. W. Dußose, who has recently, been nominated for the Senate from this District. Hancock. He murmured, “lam a man of quiet tastes;” then went behind the door, took a flask from his pocket, and tasted some thing. AN EXPLANATION OF THE POTTLE - MATHEWS TOOMBB EMBROGLIO AT OGLETHORPE. A Reply to the Statement of the Oglethorpe “Echo”—The Cnee of Contempt Against Col. J. D. Mathews—The Account Liven by Solicitor-General Reese—The Statement* of Messrs. Reid, Toombs and Barrow. Some weeks since the Chbonicle and Constitutionalist copied from the Ogle thorpe Echo an account of what trans pired between Judge E. H. Pottle, of the Northern Circuit, and Colonel J. D. Mathews and Gem ral Robert Toombs, during the trial of the Eberhart murder case in Oglethorpe Superior Court. Yes terday the following was received from Judge Pottle: Judge Pottle's Letter. Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist: You have copu and an arraignment against me as a judicial officer to which I do not plead, but prefer to send you an account of the transaction written by others, who are well known for their in tegrity and fairness. Messrs. Toombs, Reid and Barrow were coausel for the prisoner, and Seaborn Reese, Esq., is the Solicitor General, who was adverse to them—so that we have both sides. Very truly, E. H. Pottle. Warrenton, November 15, 1877. Solicitor-General Reese’s Statement. Sparta, Ga., November 13, 1877. Drab Sib— At your request I take pleasure in giving you my recollection of your conduct on the trial of the ease of the State vs. John N. Eberhart in Oglethorpe Superior Court; also of the faots giving rise to the rule against Col. James D. Mathews for contempt. While it is true that you made ad verse rulings both to the State and the defendant, as always happens in esses of such magnitude, yet I know of noth ing in your conduct during said trial that indicated unfairness or partiality to either side. And according to you the same sincerity which every honest man claims for himself, I give it to you as my opinion that your conduct in this instance was marked with the same fair- Dess, impartiality, uprightness and hon esty of purpose which has ever charac terized your administration since I have known you as a Judge. As to the other branch of inquiry, my recollection is, that the first ground upon which the rule was based happen ed late in the afternoon, just before the hour of adjournment, while James M. Poyner, a witness for the State, was upon the witness’ stand, when Colonel Mathews, one of the counsel for the State, requested that the Court adjourn till the lollowing morning, when you stated you desired the examination of this witness (Poyner) conoluded before adjournment. Col. Mathews then Baid he saw no reason for concluding upon this witness any more than upon anoth er. You then said: “Colonel Mathews, that is very improper language.” Col. Mathews then said he meant no disrespect to the Court, but still affirmed what he had first said, “he saw no reason for it.” After wards and during the argument of the ease by Col. Mathews, in conclusion for the State, he (Col. Mathews) began to comment upon the failure of the de fendant to make his statement, when counsel for the defendant arose to a point of order, insisting that it was im proper for counsel to make such com ment. You deoided the point of order well taken. Col. Mathews then turned to the jury and said: “Gentlemen of the jury, you see the key that looks (or closes) my lips.” lam not and oannot be pos sitive as to whether he used the word locks or oloses. Yours truly, Seaborn Reese. To Judge E. H. Pottle, Warrenton, Ga. The Statement of C'ol. Jno. C. Held, Col. Barrow and (>en. Toombs. Washington, Ga., Nov. 7, 1877. Dear Sir —l have read the editorial report in the Oglethorpe Echo of your conduct in the late trial of John F. Eb erhart. I shall notice herein its differ ent statements of fact, and give as to each my own recollection. I was of counsel for the defense, General Toombs leading, and I was present during the trial and also at the disposition of the rule against Mr. J. D. Mathews for con tempt. The editorial report] mentioned above says that Mr. Mathews during his argu ment was frequently interrupted by General Toombs, upon what appeared to the. spectators as most unusual and frivolous charges, and that Mr. M. “bore it for some time with commend able forbearance, as Judge Pottle almost invariably decided against him.” The real truth is that General Toombs conceived that Mr. Mathews was mis stating the evidence, and, as Mr. Mathews had the conclusion, there was no other way to correct these misstate ments than to exercise the legal right of calling upon the Court to stop the speaker, in order that the dispute as to the testimony should be corrected. Whenever General Toombs claimed that Mr. Mathews was misstating the testi mony he made the point to the Court, and he demanded more than once that the Court should itself settle the dis pute and decide what was the real testi mony. The Court decided this always against General Toombs, and held that it was not for him to say what was the evidence, but that it was entirely for the jury; and he bad the report of the evi dence always read to assist the jury in settling these disputes. It is my clear recollection that in every ooe of these disputes General Toombs was shown to be right when the report was read. One of the disputes was whether Mr. Math ews was right in relating to the jury that there was evidence that the pris oner struck the fatal blow when Strib ling, the deceased, was down on the ground, unarmed and crying for mercy. The reading of the report in oonse quence of General Toombs’ denial that suoh was the evidence, and his appeal to the Court to have the evidence read, showed that General Toombs was right. It is due to Mr. Mathews to say that he then stated he inferred from the evi dence that Stribling was thus struck. When he took this position he was al lowed to proceed without interruption. An inference of another fact from faots in evidence by the speaker is a very dif ferent thing from evidence of that other fact. The twelve honest men of the jury did not agree with Mr. Mathews in his inference. Had the evidence been, however, as he at first claimed it to be, the jury would in all probability have convicted Eberhart of voluntary man : slaughter, at least, if not of murder. The editorial mentioned states that you decided almost invariably against Mr. Mathews during his argument. It is my clear recollection that you deoided but one point against him. It was this: He claimed in his argument that the jury could consider the fact that the prisoner had not made his statement, and on the application of his counsel to the Court it was held that such an argu ment could not be made against the prisoner under a decision of the Su preme Court. When the Court announc ed this decision, the only one made by the Court against Mr. Mathews during his argument, Mr. Mat! ews said: “You see, gentlemen of the jury, the key that locks my month.” This appeared to me at the time to be a plain and palpable reflection upon the conduct of yonr Honor in making the decision, and I thought then and still think it justified the rale against Mr. Mathews for con tempt. And I also say that when he explained in answer to the rule fie meant it was the law that lopked his month, the Court was fight in receiving the ex planation and holding Mr. Mathews purged of the alleged contempt. Rnt there is a more important matter con nected with this rnle for contempt which is not mentioned i the editorial. Mr. Mathews, towards the conclusion of the examination of the witness Poyner, it being late in tbe afternoon, applied to the Court to adjourn, and the Court an nounced that the examination of that witness should be finished before ad journment, when Mr. Mathews said that he saw no more reason for going on with this witness than any other. The Coart said to him, “That is an impropei re mark.” He replied in snbstabce: “I disclaim any disrespect to yonr Honor, bnt I reaffirm that I see no more reason for goingon with this witness than any other.” This was, in my judgment, a much graver offense than the words given above'in reference to the key, and I think that it oalled for instant rebuke and pnnishmer t. 1 Arid the rule for con tempt required an tinawer' from Mr. Mathews also as to this matter. At the time that Mr. Mathews nsed the words iri reference to what the'edi torial calls tbe hies of pen. Toombs, I was in the adjoining jury room, the door being open and J looking at tfle speaker, ITieard the words, though they are riot correctly represented'by the edi torial. sir. IlatheWflkid'in snbstande: “You may bias like’ ft npfi, bd} T do not care for it.” What it was that Gen. Toombs did, or whether he did anything to call forth these words, I do not know of my own knowledge. t mnit ur. in conclusion, that I think the attack upon yonr Honor _ j nsti Sable, because it is founded throngh cmf cn suppressed or mis-state ment' 6f Ipe faefcs, jaj'V that throughout tbe whble triSl andPthe txmuooo, q' tbe rule mentioned yonr Honor’s (oohduct was unexceptionable. r r Yours, respectfully, John C. Beid. At the request of Judge Pottle, I state that Mr. Beid’s statement agrees entire ly with my recollection of the facts in the case. B. Toombs. Athens, November 13, 187 J. v > Upon a like request ! also concur in the statement of facts contained in the foregoing letter from Mr. Beid, bnt I do not think Col. Mathews meant to be disrespectful, and it did not so impress me at the time. Pope Barrow. FORTY-FIFTH_ CONGRESS. STILL HARPING ON THE RE SUMPTION ACT. Tkc House Labors All Day—No Vole Yet On the Measure—Airing the National Elo quence. Washington, November 15. — 1a the House the bill to repeal the Resumption act was debated all day, but no vote was taken. The Senate—Boston Bankers on Remoneti zation—The Nary Defleiency Bill Goes Tbronab—Choosing Electors. Washington, November 15.—Dawes, of Massachusetts, presented a remon strance of forty-five national banks of the city of Boston against the passage of the House bill for the remonetization of silver. The petitioners set forth that they are required by law to hold, and do possess, many millions of dollars worth of bonds of the United States, and they are apprehensive that the pas sage of the bill will greatly depreciate the value of such bonds and have a bad influence on business throughout the country. Referred to Committee ou Fi nance. Mr. Sargent, of California, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported without amendment the House bill to provide for certain deficiences in the pay of the navy and marine corps, and for other purposes, and it was passed with out discussion, and now goes to the President for his signature. EatOD, of Connecticut, introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the oreation of a tribunal for States for the decision of all con tested issues arising in the choice of eleetors for President and Vice-Presi dent. Referred to the Select Committee having that matter in charge. At the expiration of the morning hour the Senate proceeded with the con sideration of the army appropriation bill. Passing the Army Appropriation Bill. The army appropriation bill passed as amended by allowing the army to be recruited to the standard of 25,000 and striking out the provision for four oavalry regiments on the Rio Grande. In the Committee Booms—Kellogar and Spof ford Preparing Briefs and Counter Briefs. Kellogg has concluded his answer to Spofford and will submit it Saturday, meantime giving Spofford a copy to pre pare his answer, by which means both oases will go before the sub-oommittee together. The Appropriation Committee of the House agreed on a postal deficiency bill and will report to-morrow. E. C. Wade h"8 been appointed Col lector of the Third Georgia District, vice Fannin, removed. The Committee on Foreign Affairs agreed to report an appropriation of SIOO,OOO for the French Exposition. Hewitt’s proposition for an Indian Corn Department was rejected. The Committee ou Commerce passed on all nominations against which there were no protests; the others, including the New York appointments, were held over until objections could be arranged and filed. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued orders by which ballast of uo mercantile value may be discharged without the formality and delay of ap praisement. Nominations—Hayes Promises to Nomluate No More Democrats When He Can Get Re publicans to Pill the Bill. Washington, November 15.—Nomina tions—Thomas as Collector and Corkran as Naval Officer, at Baltimore, kavo been referred to the usual committees, where it is said they will be held to make weight for or against the confirmation of New York nominations for like posi tions. The nomination of Lawrenoe for New Orleans Custom House took the same oourse and will probably remain in the committee until the New York nomi nations are confirmed or rejected. The caueus committee, consisting of Ed munds, Cameron, Christiancy, Bruce, Kirkwood, Hamlin and Howe, are said to have exaoted a promise from Hayes that he would not nominate Democrats hereafter, if suitable Republicans could bo found. The nomination of Postmas ter Ftlley at St. Louis for the second term is considered a personal defeat of Secretary Sohurz. The Committee of Commerce of the Senate resolved to ad dress a communication to the President asking his reasons for removals in New York and elsewhere. This creates a sen sation. Gen. Wm. L. Milieu, Pension Agent at New Orleans; Wilder, Postmaster at Chattanooga. The Senate Post Office Committee agreed to report favorably on Gen. Tyler as Postmaster at Baltimore. Aiding the Exodus. Mr. Bruoe, of Mississippi, presented a petition of colored residi nts of Missis sippi asking an appropriation of SIOO,OOO to aid them in emigrating to Liberia. Referred to the Committee on Com merce. In presenting the petition he said the number and character of the petitioners entitled their petition to con sideration, though he was not prepared to endorse their plan new. DEBATING RESUMPTION REPEAL FOR A CHANGE. The Resumption Bill Again Before the House —An Evening Scsslou for Its Consideration —No Decision Vet. Washington, November 16.—The Be sumption act was debated, and an eve ning session was held to continue the debate. A Throb of Private Rill, in the Uouae—Moll Contractors and Frontier Forces—The Paris Exposition—Removing Political Dis abilities. A bill was reported from the Post Office Committee) by Mr. Waddell, of North Carolina, to make available im mediately the appropriation heretofore made to pay Southern mail contractors before the war. Beferred. A resolution was offered by Mills, of Texas, and adopted, instrneting the Military Committee to inquire as to the condition of the military forces on the Texas frontier. A bill appropriating $160,000 for the Paris Exposition was reported from the Committee on Foreign Affairs and re ferred to the Committee of the Whole. The bills removing the political dis abilities of Jno. Green, Sr., and George P. Turner, of Alabama; F. E. Shepherd, of Virginia; O. B. Oliver, John T. Tuck er, of North Carolina; and W. E. Wish am and Chas W. Field, of Maryland, .were reported from the Judiciary Com mittee, by Knott, of Kentucky, and were passed. The Upper House—The Twenty Cent Hilvcr Piece—Examining the Debt Statement—ln structions Given to United States Agents and marshals. Ingalls, of Kansas, introduced a bill to repeal the act authorizing the coinage of the twenty cent silver piece. Refer red to the Committee or Finance. Mr. Davis, of West Virginia, ad dressed the Senate in favor of his mo tion for the committee of five to examine discrepancies in the dtbt statement. Kclzldk Private Property. Mr. Jones, of Florida, submitted the following : Resolved, That the Attorney-General and the Secretary of the Interior be, and they are hereby directed to communi cate to the Senate tpp instructions given to the Agents and Marshals of the Unit ed States in the States of Alabama, Florida and Mississippi touching the seizure of logs, lumber and naval stores, suspected of having beeD taken from the public lands of tbe United States; whether or not nnder the orders given to said agents and marshals large amounts of prrpertv in the possession of citizens of the United States, held under claim of valid title, have been seized without warrant, supported by oath or affirmation; and particularly de scribing the property to be seized. Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, suggested that the resolution, as worded, was rat her broad. He was f ally in sympathy with the Senator from Florida (Mr. Jones) in protecting private rights, but the instructions given by the Govern ment to its officers should not be made public in this instance, as tbe oause of justice might be injured. The acts of the offioers making .seizures, however, were public, and might be inquired in to. He, therefore, thought it' 1 would be best to to refer the resolution to the Ju- diciary Committee. After a brief discussion, tbe resolu tion, on motion of Mr.' Conkling, was amended so as to request the President to furnish the information to the Senate if, in his opinion,' it would not be in compatible with the public interest and, On motion of Ttfr. Chaffee (Colorado), it wari^-further dfnended' so 'as to include inatnjctipns giyfen tip Scents and mar shals in all otnor States and Territories, as well as tbe States named, as thus amended, the resolution waa agreed to. The Connlllw Ravin* Ag#*—F*s| Mall Ser * - -Tka surer RUl—Tbe Hmuw Commit* vice—'—■• Army, lee Sticks to 30,000 Men ■*. ... Vance, from tbe Committee on Post Offioes and Post Boads, will report a bill to-flay to increase and regulate the fast mair service 'between Washington and Baleigh, Charlotte,' Charleston, Atlanta, Memphis, Little Book, New Orleans, Galveston and other points Sooth, ap propriating $28,000 to amend contraota with railroads for closer connections and faster time to an average of 33) miles per honr over the entire line. The Finance Committee discussed the silver bill as it passed the House, bnt took no action. Kernan, of New York, Ferry, of Michigan, and Wallace, of Pennsylvania, were absent. The Post Office Committee resolved to report a bill making two classes of letter carriers at $950 and SBOO per annum; vacances in the first to be filled by promotion from the seoond class. The Committee of Appropriations ad heres to 20,000 as (he force of the army. They concur in the other Senate amend ments to the bill, but destroy the hope for four full oavalry regiments to guard the Texas frontier. Nominations—Wade, Collector of the Third Georgia District. Wood, of New York; Gibson, of Lou isaDa; Tucker, of Virginia; Banks, of Massachusetts; Burohard, of Illinois, were appointed a sub-committee of Ways and Means to consider taxation. Wilson, Forney and Crapo were appoint ed a snb-commitlee of the Committee on Foreign Relations, to consider the application of the Mexican Government to have oertain awards of the mixed commission suspended. The President Interviewed by a Senatorial Caucus Committee—He Satisfies Them of the Beauties ot His Southern Policy. Washington, November 15.—A com mittee of seven Senators, representing the Republican caucus, has called upon the President in accordance with the de cision of the caucus. The committee consisted of Messrs. Edmunds, of Ver mont, Chairman ; Cameron, of Pennsyl vania; Hamlin, of Maine; Kirkwood, of Iowa; JJruce, of Mississippi (colored); Christianoy, of Michigan, and Howe, of Wisconsin. The committee had an in terview of two hours and a half with the President. The chief topio consid ered was that of the appointment of Democrats to office in the South. Sena tors Hamlin and Howe manifested the strongest opposition to this policy. Mr. Hamlin was most extreme, aud said that he did not believe in appointing any man who had ever been a Drmocrat to offioe. Senators Christiancye,Kirkwood aud Bruoe, ou the other baud, exhibited very liberal views, and were disposed to thoroughly and cordially oo operate with the President. Mr. Cameron, of Pa.,con trary to expectation, stated that in his judgment it was the wisest party polioy to stand by the President. He stated that he felt compelled to do this as a matter of party wisdom. The main point of discussion, as stated, was the appoint ment of Democrats to offioe in the South. They were agreed that in the event of the appointment tf such per sons, none should be appointed except those who give unqualified assurance faithfully to exeoute the reconstruction aots. The President’s reply to this was that he always had, and always should, make it a provision that there should be full obedienoe to all laws growing out of reconstruction, and that as a matter of course he never intended to appoint any one to office who would not oordially and unquestionably carry out the spirit and letter of these laws. As to the re sult, with the possible < xeeption of Howe and Hamlin, it is said that the committee left the President satisfied that there was not the ground for mis understanding that they had been led to suppose existed. The President ex plained at considerable length his Southern policy, and was enthusiastic over it. He was convinced that it would conciliate, stimulate, energise and vital ize the Republican party; that uuder this policy, in 1880, through elements of disintegration now at work in conse quence of it in the Democratic ranks, it would be possible to carry for the Re publicans North Carolina, Florida, Ten nessee, Alabama, and possibly Georgia, DEATH RATHER THAN DISGRACE. Suicide of a Wealthy Youiik Bride In New York City, an Account of an Inebriate Hnu ll mid. New York, November 12.— Seven months ago a qniet marriage was cele brated at St. Thomas’ Church, between Robert Stuart and Evelina Terry Marks. A brilliant receptiou followed at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and the bride and bridegroom, after the wedding trip, fet tled in luxurious quarters at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Ninth street. They had ample means, aud the happiest prospects. Two months ago the bride discovered that her hus band was the slave of hereditary dipso mania, and after she bad patiently but vainly endeavored to weau him from bis love of liquor, her mind lost its bal ance. This morning she lay dead by her own act, while her husband, who had not yet recovered from a debauch, wrung his hands, cursed himself and shed maudlin tears over her body. Robert Stuart, the husband, was tho son of Lieut. Robert Stuart, United States Navy, of Detroit, who died of alcoholism. His mother is the wife of ex-Oongressman Elijah Ward, of this city, and is now in Europe. When Robert’s father died he left his children well provided for, their guardiau being Mr. F. D. Tappeu, Plesi dent of the Gallatin National Bank, who, knowing Robert’s weak ness, and believing that an active busi ness life wonld tend to oure him of it, procured him a oomfortable situation iu the bank. The position, however, the young man was compelled to resign last month, being continually unfit for duty through overdrinking, Miss Marks, the wife, was only twenty three years old. She was the niece and adopted daughter of Mrs. Abiel B. Marks. Miss Marks was a quiet, re fined, well-educated girl, somewhat melancholy in disposition, and inclined to be religions. The marriage was cel ebrated on tbe 19th of April last. Mr. Stuart’s mania for liquor was dectected by his wife about two months ago. As he was not of robust phy sique, a little wine asserted its influence over him for a long time. He suffered greatly when recov ering from a debauch, and of late had been constantly in a dull, quiet state of inebriation. Mrs. Stuart often re monstrated with him, but she kept the secret from everybody but Mr. Tappen until Saturday last, when, goaded by some harsh language that her husband used to her while intoxicated, Bhe made the chambermaid, Kate Cum mings, her confident. The young bride, surrounded by luxury, was shedding scalding tears as if broken hearted. That night Mr. Stuart return ed home in e mandlin condition and treated his young wife even more roughly than before, and she passed the night alone in her bed, he sleeping on a lounge in the sitting room. About 11 o’olock on Simday, Mr. Stuart being ont, Mrs. Stuart told the chambermaid the renewed insults she bad submitted to. She would rather die, she said, than live as she did. The girl tried to con sole her, bnt Mrs. Stuart ciied con tinually. About noou she appeared to have taken a sudden resolution, and dressing herself hastily, she went out. returning in a few minutes. The girl Kate saw her in her room shortly after she returned. She was then calm, and was sitting at the writing desk. To-day, when she was dead, three letters were found on the desk addressed to dear friends. About 6, p. m., on Sunday Mr. Stuart entered bis apartment intoxicat ed. He opened tbe door of tbe bed room, and seeing his wife lyitig dressed on the bed, imagined she bad laid down to take a nap. He laid down on tbe lounge in the parlor and slept till 6 o’clock this morning, when feeling cold, he determined on going to bed, be lieving that his wife bad undressed.— When he opened the bedroom door and saw that his wife stiff lay dressed on the bed, he vagnely apprehended that all was pot right, §nd stepping to the side of tbe bed, shook his wife’s arm This failed to arouse her, and lifting her head he found that she was insensible, pale, and breathing heavily. He endeav ored to seat her on the side o( the bed, bat lie was still nnder tbe influence of liqnor, and her inert form slipped from his grasp and slid heavily to the floor. Dr. Hubbard, who was summoned, found the patient too far gone from narcotic poisoning to rally. Mrs. Htnart died about 8 o’clock this morning. Her last moments were inexpressibly sad. None of her friends or family had been sum moned, and her husband became his torical, wrung his hands, cried bitterly, incoherently charged himself with hav ing caused his wife's death, and he heaped corses on his own head. The coroner’s jary rendered a verdict of death from tbe effects of an overdose of laudanum, Mrs.,Stuart’s body was re moved to-night to tbe residence of Mr, and Mrs. Marks, who had ho knowledge of Mr. Stuart's weakness, and believed Mrs. Stuart to be quite happy. On Strni day, the 4th inst., she went to Trinity Chapel with her husband, and passed k pleasant evening with Mr. and Mrs.’ Marks. She Will be buried on Wednes day. Chemical skill makes manufacture;,, adepts in'adniteratiori; It also : quick enables experts to detect' adulteration* Dooley’s Yeast Powder, for “sale by all grocers, has stood the test of analyst and been proven the purest and strong est of ba|tin'g poydfej's.' p’mkeh the most delicious bread, pakp, rofts' pq pastry of a)l descriptions. When a under medioal treatment in a hospital blaster applied to him had a iuuo. u x . breast be looked up piteously in the face of the attendant physician and ex claimed, “Ah ! Doctor, what a dale of mustard for so little mate !” J. H. Alexander,' Druggist, has just received a fresh lot of Teethina (Teeth ing Powders) which is so vapidly dimin ishing the mortality of infants where it has been used. Teethina (Teething Powders) Re moves and prevents the formation of Worms in children. No remedy eqnals it.