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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1877.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
What did the President and Pamaud
talk about ?
Op 09 words which make up the Lord’s
Prayer, only 5 are not Saxon.
* Thk Republican slogan just now is “Put
not your trust in cariHJt-baggers.”
A Wbeat many bankers are retiring from
active business— Chicago bankers particu
larly.
Forty-two New York husbands have
kicked their wives to death in the rast five
years.
Jkkff.kson Davis’ great law suit about
his brother, Jo. Davis’ estate ia now being
heard before the bapreme Court of Missis
aippi.
Editors amount to something in Ger
many. For instance, the editor of the gen
eral post office Journal ia called a Reichio
lieramtseeitungßchreilier.
A Bboorx.tr doctor said on the witness
stand, the other day: “Many of my pa
tients are in love with me, but I canuot help
that, for it is a c mrn n experience among
medical men."
Me Lawd Pierrkpont has informed
Oi.rvE Loo an flcvt he had spent in London
during liis one year’s tenure of office the
sum of $150,000, irrespective of the little
official salary of $17,-500.
The very worst form of political assess
ments is to lie found in Baltimore. The
superintendent and other officers of tin.
schools are assessed a per centage on their
salaries for election purposes.
Baron Rothschild was defeated in the
Department of Seine ct Marne, where he
ran for Council -General, and it is said that
his defeat was owing to the report being
circulated that he was a Clerical.
The Raleigh <N. C.) Neus asserts that a
dashing young hawk swooped down on the
gilt vane on the spire of Christ Church, in
tint city, mistaking it tora genuine rooster,
and. grasping it in his talons, essayed to
carry oil his prize.
The lines addressed to Gen. Lee on the
tly-loufTif a translation of Homer, recently
published, were not written by Earl Derby,
hut by Philip Stanhope’.Worsi-ey, an
English | met of some considerable reputa
tion, who died recently.
A Louisiana man lias discovered anew
use for wives. He has had three in foul
years, and has succeeded in trading one for
a farm, another for a pair of horse*, and
the third for a mule. Ho is a good judge
of stock and of the kind of women other
men like.
An English woman writes: “I have just
made the acquaintance of an American
laily who married ft Frenchman—a man ot
title—who lias made away with her money
and run oil with her lady’s maid. She is
very lovely and fascinating, and is now
supporting herself by managing a large
laundry."
Bohemia, after all, is a country to live
in. In less than eight days a shooting
party on Prince von Schwarzenbeho s
estate have brought down 4,000 hares, 100
roebuck, <l*o deer of other kinds, 48 boars,
200 pheasants and 1,000 partridges. Only
fancy, four dozen boars! What terrific pig
sticking!
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“ Hambkro-murderkr Butler” is
what Clapp, of the Washington Republi
can, calls Gen. M. C. Butler, of South
Carolina. Clapp, be it remembered, is the
bloody shirt Radical Republican who left
the office of Public Printer with redundant
evidence on the books that lie bad forced
balances and abused his trust.— U.-Journal.
The Cincinnati Enquirer's Washington
correspondent says Patterson, who bad
stood the arrows and slings of a whole
day’s debate, aimed most relentlessly at his
apostasy, was us chipper as a bird and as
unabashed as a lion. Through the long
stages of the night he flitted from the cloak
room to the Senate, watchful and, to all
outward appearances, unconcerned.
Bon Inokrsoll at a Paris dinner party :
-“A Frenchman’s rights are so few in num
bef and so insignificant in character that
they can Ik: enforced with a bodkin, or for
that matter with a tootli-pick. But in
America a citizen’s rights are so numerous
and important that he needs a whole arsenal
to defend them. 1 Itnce the practice of car
rying concealed weapons in America.”
A younu lady was overheard explaining
to a friend as they emerged from a very
fashionable ultra high church place of wor
ship in London, a few Sundays ago, that
although it was a dreadfully long way to
come, she never missed a Sunday service
there, because she invariably got anew idea
as to a dress or bonnet.
Robert L. Case, the President of tlio
bank hi pt Security Life Insurance Com
pany, has been sentenced to five years for
swearing to reports whose correctness lie
took no pains to ascertain. Air. Case’s
crime in reality was drawing a President’s
salary without doing a President’s duly.
His punishment is deserved, although it
falls on an old man who had no intent to
deceive.
Oath says: Perhaps the ancient anti
much-abused lobby will return, and all the
Reformers will be in it as they were twelve
years ago! Wouldn't that be a reform in
itself—to sec no more investigations, and
plenty <>f cash ? To see John Patterson,
who merely bought his seat from the nig
gers, again on good terms with Jones and
Sharon, who only bought theirs from gen
tlemen t ‘ _
A fem ale employe of one of the depart
meats at Washington Unis writes, concern
ing some sensual officials: “I am a lone wo
man anti can safely defy them, as no one
depends on me for bread. The victims are
generally girls between 15 and IS, princi
pally the fatherless. It the Secretary will
put himself to a little trouble he will tind
suit that the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing is nothing but a pool of iniquity,
where the honor of young girls is bartered
for positions which pay $1 50 per day.”
A woodman in Nevada was angry with
tight of the leading men of the town. He
was powerless to injure them, even had he
so desired. But his revenge was as odd its
it was tantalizing to the victims, lie named
his team of oxen after them, and the people
enjoy the sport when he starts to town
through the mud with a very heavy load:
• Gee, there, John Lyons!' Whoa, Hr.
Sheridan, you blamed Jazv beast! Haw,
there, Colonel Price, or I'll break every
hone in your old skinny body! Get up,
Jack Squires!” He will Wat the minis
ter, throw stones at the Bank President
and .curse liis fatlier-in-law. The whole
thing often gets exceedingly rich.
New York has a case of wliat Charles
Rradk called “A Terrible Temptation.” A
Mrs. Duryka, desiring to reform a drunk
en husband, borrowed a baby and an
nounced it publicly and privately as her
own. The physician called upon to par
ticipate in tlie deception wouldn’t partici
pate, and told the whole story. The hus
band in the case accepted the borrowed
baby as his son and heir, and indulged in a
grand drunk, extending over several days.
Finally the whole story came out in Court,
and the deceived husband sobered np. The
baby was returned to its rightful patents,
and no action was taken against Mrs. Dcr
yka, because her motives were good.
ANt. Louis contemporary is of opinion
•that CUmbetta intended a cutting bit of
sarcasm when he declared at the Grant
banquet in Paris the other night that “while
he (Crant) understood the importance
and the dignity of the army, he never per
mitted it to assume supremacy over the
civil power.” It is not conceivable that the
■distinguished French leader was speaking
■seriously, for he must surely have known
that Grant did nothing else, during the
•entire eight years of his administration, but
what Gamb etta seems to say he did not do.
Things have indeed come to a pretty pass
in France, if the courtesies of social life
are so far forgotten that post-prandial
speeches arc enlivened by flinging into
guests’ faces all the crimes and disgraces
that stain their record. Grant's duty in
this emergency is very plain. He mast
challenge Oamubtta and shoot him.
THAT FM.
We have, once or twice, referred to
the request made by Governor Hubbard,
of Texas, of the Indiana authorities for
the return of the flag belonging to Ter
bt’s regiment, now in the possession of
the State of Indiana. Governor Wil
liams, of course, oo risen ted to the re
quest, but one Connoh, State Librarian,
refnsed to surrender the standard, de
claring that he would hold with his life
this “trophy of the heroism and courage
of the Indiana troops.”
The Houston Age rises to explain. It
acknowledges that the reply of Conner
is good Radical sentiment, but begs
leave to state that the possession of this
particular flag is not very strong evi
dence of heroism or courage on the part
of the Indiana troops, inasmuch as it
was wrapped aiound the flagstaff, never
unfurled, slipped off daring the march
without being noticed by the oolor
bearer, and was picked up some time
after by an Indiana soldier. A flag so
acquired means nothing to a soldier,
and he who had found it was quite will
ing to return it to the Texas troops.
True enough. But a flag so lost is
hardly worth all the fuss that has been
made about it. Let the Texas soldiers
get anew one made, and let Conner,
the Librarian, keep the bunting he
would die to save. Would not honors
be easy in that way ?
THE SENATORIAL STB*G-K.
The rage of the Republicans at being
deserted by Senators Patterson and
Conover does not abate one jot. It is
a'l the more intense as the situation
grows more desperate. The dying agony
of Radicalism is righteously made in
tolerable by just such pnen ag it once
used to rain the South and the whole
oountry. Mr. Eomwndr, who has led
the Republican host in the Senate,is be
ginning to be taunted with unsatisfac
tory management of his case. We begin
to hear that he wan too hard upon Pat
terson and made it impossible for that
individual to return to the party camp, if
he so desired. In the intervals of wrath,
despair seizes upon the Republicans.
They catch at any straw for safety. The
National Republican of the 28th, allud
ing to this matter, in all of its bearings,
says: “Oa the meeting of the Senate
to-day (Wednesday) the report of the
Committee on Privileges and Elections
on the case of Kellogg, of Louisiana,
really beoomes a question of the highest
privilege. The Democrats will make an
effort to override that question and bring
Butler’s case to the front for immediate
action. If Patterson and Conover vote
with the Democrats on this question it
will prevail and Butler will at once be
admitted. Then, no matter what the
recuiiauts may do, it ia more than prob
able that Kellooo will not be admitted
to a seat at all. We regard it as a mat
ter of moral certainty that if Butler is
admitted before Kellogg, the latter will
share the fate of Pinohback, and though
he may have been permitted to look
upon the promised land, his entry there
into will be impossible under the treach
ery of the hoar. This we think the con
spirators fully understand, when they
make a virtue of the declaration that
they will vote for KblloOb’s admission.
It will, we apprehend, be too late after
Butler is admitted to save Kellogg.”
The same paper, granting the possi
bility of such tactics, eventuating in a
Democratic control of both houses of
Congress, thus concludes: “Unless we
mistake the signs of the day, and pend
ing rumors prove false, these conspira
tors will have the satisfaction of seeing
the work go on in an effort to displace
Mr. Hayes, under quo warranto pro
ceedings, backed by a law of Congress
that they have power to pass, and in
augurate Mr. Tildhn as President of the
United States, under the assumption
that if Hampton and Nioholls were le
gally elected as Governors of South
Carolina and Louisiana, then Mr. Til
den is most assuredly President of the
United States. And, let us ask, who oan
gainsay such a proposition? When
Butler aud Eustu, aud probably Spof
ford, are admitted under this conspi
racy, then Congress will have power to
pat the Presidential question before the
Courts, with an apparently plain ease in
favor of Mr, Tilden, under the recogni
tion of Hampton and Niohollb by Pres
ident Haxes aud his subsequent South
ern policy based upon those premises.
It now looks as if the conspiracy lias a
much wider range of purpose than was
at first developed, and that the conutry
is abont to enter upon new and startling
scenes.”
We have seen sensational reports of
the above character, but they had that
ancient fish-like smell for which Bohe
mian correspondents are notorious. It
may be in the minds of some extreme
men to attempt each a proceeding, but
we do not believe that this experiment,
if ever seriously entertained, would
work out any practical results. The
majority of good men of both parties
would never sanction suoh revolutionary
proceedings, and we regard the whole
thing as a olever canard gotteu up by
the desperate Republicans to frighten
the oountry for a wicked purpose.
SUBSIDY AMI ANTI-BUBIRY.
There is just now an immense amonut
of demagoguery and hypocritical cant
ou the snbjeot of subsidy. While this
attribute of government, properly exer
cised, is most beuetioent iu its influence,
like everything else human, it may bo
abused, and prostituted to the worst
purposes. Strange to say, in this
country, those who have grown rioh by
the misapplication of the power are the
londest iu denouncing its legitimate nse
in any other enterprises than their own.
The North aud Northwest have together
received subsidies in money or lands
amounting to more thau $300,000,000,
while the West, South and Southwest
have beeu aided by less than five per
cent, of this vast amount. Yet the mil
lionaires of the. Union and Central Pa
cific aud thoir partners, the great syndi
cate of stockholders, bondholders aud
gold bullionists of Wall street, howl
themselves hoarse in dennneiation of
any measure of tiuancial reform or ma
terial improvement connected with the
West and South. Like the miserable
drab, whose faded charms bring no
more subsidies to the bagnio ; that has
tilled her coffers with ill-gotten wealth,
aud who becomes so virtuoas and pious
in her old age that she denounces her
whole sex ; these fat pensioners upon
the Government’s bounty deny its
right to bestow aid in any other quar
ter, and raise the cry of “subsidy”
when no subsidy is asked.
What is there in this terrible word
that should'so frighten men from their
propriety ? It is simply aid in money
or its equivalent, and when properly ap
plied is most benefioent in its results.
State governments subsidize hunters
and trappers by offering premiums for
the scalps of wolves and other beasts of
prey. The General Government sub
sidises the thinly settled States and
Territories by giving them mail service
for far less than the money received in
postage. In this way the Government
becomes the parent and protector as
well as the rnler of the people, exercis
ing its functions for the oommon weal of
the nation.
The time has some at last when the
West and South are not only strong, bat
they are united in their demand to
share in the blessing* as well as the
burdens of Government They together
occupy nearly nineteen-twentieths of the
area of the States and organized Territo
ries of the American Republic. Their
productive capacity is almost illimit
able, bat they have no sufficient means
of transporting their surplus products
to market To famish such facilities
requires the improvement of our rivers
and the extension of oar railways. The
first of these can only be accomplished
by a direct appropriation of money.
The latter, as in the ease of the pro
jected Southwestern Railroad to the Pa
cific, may be achieved without any actual
outlay by the Government The Texas
aud Pacific Company, who have this
enterprise in hand, and have already
constructed nearly 600 miles of the
proposed railroad through Northern
Texas, ask the Government to lend its
countenance instead of its coin, aud in
return for this benign favor, they prom
ise to speedily build an open highway
from the M ssissippi to the Pacific,
which, with the roads already con
structed, would extend this trans-Con
tinental line directly through the South
ern States, giving new life and pros
perity to all our material interests.
But then the Soath and West need
i more than channels of internal trade.
We must have easy access to the mark
ets of the whole world. To secure this
there mast be a large increase of our
merchant marine, there must be lines
of ocean steamers between the South
and those countries where our greatest
trade interests lie. But how can we get
these lines of steamships to transport
our surplus products ? It will reqnire
the same kind of subsidy that brings
us a daily mail, which is not paid for
by the receipts of local postage. There is
a movement in this direction in Con
gress, which, if it ripens into action,
must produce good results. The Senate
bill, by Mr. Eaton, authorizes and di
rects the Postmaster-General to contract
with ooean lines to transport foreign
mails on terms not higher than those
allowed to railroads for similar dis
tances. An act of this kind would
build the steamships and put them in
motion. This would be no subsidy in
fact, because the increase of trade by a
line of ocean steamers woald augment
the Government revenue so as to more
than cover any deficiency in postage to
meet the cost of transporting the mail.
These measures are essential to the
welfare of the West and South, and if
the representatives of these great divis
ions will stand firmly by each other we
can have justice in the distribution of
Government favor; if we choose to
qnarrel amongst ourselves abont hair
splitting theories, wo shall continue to
be, as we have been in the past, humble
vassals to the money power at the North,
SAVANNAH BONUS.
From all we oan gather, tho city of
Savannah is indisposed to deal with her
bonded creditors as becomes her and
according to their desert. The bonds
of the city were taken and paid for in
good faith. They should be redeemed
in the same manner. We believe, and
have elsewhere suggested, that this
oan be done without extraordinary
sacrifices. At all events, the city
of Savannah should submit to any rea
sonable sacrifice rather than suffer the
taint of repudiation, which will bang
like an inoubns over her future career
and cost her mnoh more, in the long
run, than she could possibly save by pal
tering with her honor. We trnst that
her people will ronse themselves in this
matter and meet the issue honorably.
It would be disgraoeful that the chief sea
port of Georgia should go into voluntary
bankruptcy, especially when suoh a ca
lamity could be avoided by proper meth
ods of relief.
THE PARIH EXPOSITION AND SENATOR
HOB DON.
The following communication was
sent to Mayor PiLsnuar, of New Or
leans, on the 28th instant :
New Oblrans, November 27, 1877.
To th* Banarabls ttm Mayor and City Council
of Mem Orleans :
Gentlemen—Letters have been written by
prominent Southern representatives, includ
ing the Hon. L. 4- 0. Lamar, of Mississippi,
and Judge H. M. Spowoxd, of Louisiana, urg
ing the importance of the Cotton Exchanges,
Boards of Trade and city governments of the
South selecting a suitable gentleman to vi-it
Europe, and to be present at the Pans Exposi
tion, to present to the oapitalißts and repre
sentatives of diflorent nations the yet unde
veloped resouroes of our oountry, and to use
proper influences to induoe capital and immi
gration to come here.
Appreciating the impertanoe of this move at
this particular juncture of our affairs, vre take
the liberty of suggesting that your honorable
body, presiding over the greatest municipality
in the South, do pat yourselves ip communi
cation with the Mayors of the principal South
ern oities with the view of selecting a suitable
gentleman to represent every interest at the
entire Bouth at the Paris Exposition, who shall
go properly accredited as commissioner from
the principal municipalities and the most prom
inent commercial corporations of the South,
each making a small appropriation to aggre
gate sufficient to defray properly the expenses
of said representative.
Wo would, in conclusion, add that the name
of General John B. Goudon, of Georgia, has
been most prominently mentioned, and we
are advised that he will aooept the mission if
properly tendered him.
It is important that whatever may be done
in this matter be oonsnmmated at once, to
give the gentleman ohosen ample time for the
work before him.
We are, gentlemen, very respectfully,
- Wm. 0. Black,
President New Orleans Cotton Exchange.
John Phblts
CvßOrt Busset,
Pres dent New Orleans Chamber of Commerce.
What does the Augusta Ootton Ex
change think of this proposition ?
UP THE MISSISSIPPI.
Tbo Ureal River—Soijnr I’liintaMons—The
Levee question—Sutiduy Laws —Election of
Bishops.
| CorrsspondenosChronid* and Constitutionalist ]
On tub Wino, November 28. —The
Mississippi river, so properly denomi
nated “the great father of waters,” is
no less an object of admiration and
wonder now than it was to De Soto ovar
three centuries ago. It moves to the
Gulf with tho same majestic sweep, and
every year augments publio attention in
its career. Bearing upon its bosom
crafts of all sizes, conditions and
names, this mighty stream becomes
restive of restraint, periodically, and
excites more of fear than aught else in the
minds of the thousands who have inter
ests ou either shore. It is a crying
shame that the Government has so long
neglected to assist the people in con
structing levees that would protect them
and give unwonted vigor to planting
operations the entire length of the river.
The people are.,to-day, as they have
been for years, in jeopardy of their
homes and their crops. They have been
engaged, whilst waiting for tho helping
hand of the Government, iu improvi
sing levees, whioh resemble the earth
works that in some places mark the spot
where brave men stood in battle array.
These servo a purpose, it is true ; they
arrest the attention of the observant and
may be the means of creating a public
sentiment so Btrong and outspoken iu
favor of Government aid that Congress
will be obliged to give heed to a de
mand that has, np to this time, passed
unnoticed. We shall see.
From New Orleans to Baton Rouge,
and even fer miles beyond, there is
nothing in the scenery to attract one’s
attention, except jt be its sameness. —
The country is flat and a trip of a hun
dred or two hundred miles will prove ns
barren as to variety as a trip of a mile,
nnless one resolves to look at the coun
try just as God designed it. Studied in
this light, a trip even to Baton Rouge
and return to the city of New Orleans,
will prove very interesting, indeed.—
The sugar plantations stretch out on
both sides of the river, and, at short
distances, one notes the sngar mills in
fall operation. Near these mills, nest
ling amid choice shade trees and taste
ful shrubbery, appear the dwellings
of the planters, se that one is
treated to not a few most beautiful
stereoscopic views. Besides this, there
is food for reflection in the relations of
this magnificent industry to the general
prosperity of Louisiana and the country
at large. It has increased in extent an
nually. The average yield of an acre is
one hogshead of sugar and two barrels
of molasses. An exceptionally good
season or a higher degree of cultivation
will cause an acre to yield as much as
two hogsheads of sugar—the yield
of molasses being increased pro
portionally. Just now t£e river
steamers are busy carrying sngar,
etc., to market. The steamer on whioh
I went up the river carried down to New
Orleans 323 hogsheads of sngar and
1,451 barrels of molasses—ijuite a nice
freight, you will say when told that the
charges are $1 50 per hogshead and 75
cents per barrel from Baton Rouge and
intermediate points.
Captain Eads is progressing finely
with his jetties at the month of the
Mississippi. Some of yonr readers may
not have had an insight into the natnre
of jetties. Let me briefly describe
the modus operandi. In the first place,
two rows of piling, twelve feet apart,
are driven in the sand and mad. These
rows are something over two miles in
length. The piling is planked and filled
in with small willow trees, rooks, eta.
A similar process is observed as to the
second taw ot piling on either side, dis
tant from thin' first abont one thousaad
feet. Between the parallel pilings are
placed woven willow mattresses, held
down by rocks, and followed by alter
nate layers of mattresses and rocks.
The theory Is that the willow will take
root, aod what is now an artificial
bank will, in time, become immoveable
—guaranteeing a channel through
which ships of more than average draft
can readily peas.
The question of a Sunday law is being
agitated throughout the State. Several
of the smaller towns have already adopt
ed the idea and passed laws in accord
ance therewith. Whether it will ever
prevail in New Orleans oan not now be
declared. Suoh a law would find many
advocates and a multitude of enemies in
the city. Sabbath evening is the ac
eepted occasion for the inangnration of
the drama or the opera. Quite a number
of organizations fix upon the Sabbath for
their annual parade. Earnest workers
are canvassing the State in the interest
of the proposed reform. Persistent
effort, here a little and there a little,
will eventuate in the accomplishment of
the desired object after awhile. The
greatest obstaole in the way of the en
actment of a general and positive law
on the subject will likely be the lack of
men in the Legislature who will dare to
do whatever is right. The people will,
of course, never expect to muster the
required number from among the poli
ticians who may chanee to get into the
General Assembly.
The death of Bishop Marvin, of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
will necessitate, as I learn, the election
of three Bishops by the General Con
ference which meets at Atlanta in
May next. It is quite probable that
Rev. Dr. Lynns Parker, editor of the
New Orleans Christian Advocate, will
be nrged for one of the places. Dr.
Parker is a gentleman of extraordinary
executive ability and deep piety. He is
regarded as one of the ablest preachers
in the bounds of the General Confer
ence. Had Rev. Dr. Duncan, who died
a few months ago, lived he would un
doubtedly have been elected to the
Bishopric. Mabtin V. Calvin.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Senate Caucuses—A Hensatioual Report—
Thompson Wants a Larger Navy—Another
Indian War—The ftioax on the War Path.
Washington, November 29.—A1l the
Republican Senators, excepting Patter
son, of South Carolina, met in caucus
this morning and unanimously agreed
that the Kellogg case should be pressed
to a final vote by a continuous session if
necessary, although there seemed to be
no objection to deferring the commence
ment of the continuous session until
to-morrow in the event of the Demo
crats moving an early adjournment to
day. The Democratic Senators also
held caucuses, but determined upon no
action. The general sentiment, how
ever, seemed to favor an early adjourn
ment until to-morrow.
Specials to the Tribune, say the Re
publicans have heard that the Demo
crats are trying to get a majority in the
Senate in order to declare Tilden Presi
dent.
Secretary Thompson says the rnuutry
needs a larger navy. Evarts has sent
assurances to Coukliug looking to the
latter’s 00-operatioa with the Adminis
tration.
Information has reached the authori
ties that while the Sioux Indians were
being removed from the Red Cloud
Agency to the Missouri river, seventeen
hundred broke away and are now on the
war path. Terry has issued orders to
the troops to prepare for a Winter cam
paign. Those who deserted are operat
ing in the Dead Wood Country. 'J hey
have already attacked trains and caiiSed
general consternation.
Nomination: Lawrence to be Collector
at New Orleans, It will not be acted
upon at the present session. The delay
is understood to be in the interest of
Paokard,whose friends are desirous that
he shall be appointed to this office.
Confirmations: Thomas, Collector of
Customs at Baltimore; Stuart, Collector
Second Kentucky; Snow, Postmaster,
Palatka, Fla. The nomination of Har
lan to the Supreme bench was confirmed,
but subsequently a motion to reconsider
was entered, which now pends. There
is good authority for saying Harlan will
be confirmed.
The Virginia Midland and Kennesaw
route is open and trains are running as
before the freshet.
Geueral Zamacoza, agent of the Mexi
can Government, arrived to-day. He
represented the Diaz Government as
anxious to maintain friendly relations,
and instances the sending of regular
troops to the Rio Grande to take the
place of the local forces, with the inten
tion of co-operating with the United
States soldiers in restoring order on the
border.
Washington, November 30.— Senators
Patterson and Christiancy were at the
White House to-day.
Judge Humphreys will give a decis
ion in the Patterson habeas corpus case
at 10 o’clock Wednesday.
The Star says : “ The regular session
of the Cabinet to-day was unusually
short. The publication in the New
York Sun, purporting to be a portion of
the -President’s message, was talked
but the Cabinet officers are all
reticent on the subject, neither denying
nor affirming the truth of it. The pub
lication is generally considered aocurate,
although some deny its genuineness,
claiming that the President’s message on
Monday will prove its falsity. It is re
ported that an investigation is already
on foot to discover the source of the
leak. In this probably true report the
President favors resumption and is not
opposed to limited silver.”
The Snb-Committee of the Ways and
Means Committee on the Revision of
tlie Tariff and Internal Revenue are at
work every day, and will probably sub
mit early in the regular session the re
sults of their labors on new legislation.
The whole system of taxation will un
dergo a thorough revision, and there
will be a redaction. A heavy pressure
is being brought upon the committee
(Messrs. Ward, Tucker and Gibson),
from the West and East to remove the
duty on sugar. It behooves the Lou
isiana planters to bring all the influence
at their command to back Gen. Gibson,
who, fortunately for them, is on this im
portant committee.
THE FRENCH SITUATION.
Letter From a Bonapartlst—lnterview Be
tween President MacMahon and M. tJrevy
—No Coup d’Etnt Contemplated.
Paris, November 29.—A letter from
M. Raoul Dnval, Bonapartist, is pub
lished, expressing the conviction that
true Conservatives should submit to the
national will, and recommending such
submission to President MacMahon.
M. Dnval strongly condemns the policy
of the Duke de Broglie.and the intrigues
which resulted in the overthrow of
Theirs’ Government on the 21st of May,
1873. M. Jules Grevy had an interview
with President MacMahon to-day.
The President assured him that the
Parliament was in no danger. Neither
its existence nor the functions as estab
lished by the Constitution would be
threatened. Apprehensions of a coup
d'etat were baseless, aud he repelled all
incitements to such a solution. The
President listened to M. Grevy’s argu
ments for reverting to a parliamentary
regime, bat although he did not pro
nounce for any other solution, he
seemed not to accept M. Grevy’s propo
sals, and eviuoed towards the Chamber
sentiments of resistance rather than
conciliation.
It is stated that President MacMahon
will to-day see M. M. Waddington and
Bertauld, Senators of the Left Centre,
bat an understanding seems to be diffi
cult if, as reported, Gambetta requires
that the right of dissolving the Cham
ber be struck from the Constitution or
restricted.
An Election Confirmed.
V erßAili.es, November 30. The
Chamber of Deputies to-day verified
and declared vaiid the election of M.
Ronher.
BUSINESS MEN'S UNION.
The Workings of a Confidence Concern Ex
posed.
New York, November 80. —Dun, Bar
low A Cos., proprietors of the well known
mercantile agency, instituted a replevin
snit against anew agency called “The
Business Men’s Union,” owned by
Fonse, Hershberger A Cos. They al
leged that the latter were making np re
ports mainly from the reference book
issued by Dan, Barlow A Cos., and that
this book and its contents were the
property of complainants. The affida
vits in the case state that thelateFonse,
Hershberger A Cos. had come into the
possession of it by improper means, and
were retailing information it contained
for the improper purpose of deluding
merchants, many of whom were already
holders of the book, who thought they
were getting fresh information from the
defendants, as it was dressed np in a
different shape, Ac., at a subscription of
one-third the rates charged by othor
agencies. The SherifFs posse made a de
scent npon “The Business Men’s Union”
and discovered Don's book in a back
room in actual use, seized it and carried
it away. This concern has offices at
Baltimore, Atlanta, Savannah, Rich
mond, ka.
“Punctuality la the Hinge af Baaiaeaa.”
Ia families where Dr. Ball’s Cough
Syrnp is kept, there is never a case of
absence from school or business on ao
ooant of Coughs, Colds or Bore Throat.
KELLOGG’S CREDENTIALS.
SENATOR HILL FLOORS THE LOU
ISIANA PRETENDER.
Kllo*x’ Cue the Hlahrat Privllexr— Au
thority to DnUt* Tie Tote—An Interest
ing Question—Debate Upon Recommitting
Helloes to the Committer.
Washington, November 28.—Imme
diately after a reading of the journal,
Mr. Wadleigb. of New Hampshire,
Chairman of th Committee on Privi
leges and Elections, moved to proceed
to the consideration of the resolution
reported, by that committee lor the ad
mission of Kellogg, as Benator from
Louisiana.
Thurman, of Ohio, objected, and
read the eighth rnle, which sayß that
no bill, report of the committee or oth
er subject upon the calendar shall be
proceeded with in the morning hour,
unless by unanimous consent. A
lengthy discussion in regard to the
rules ensued, participated in by Messrs.
Edmunds, Thurman, Wadleigh, Wal
lace and others. Finally tha Vioe-Pres
ident decided that the ’ subject was a
question of the highest privilege, and
oould be considered in the morning
honr, notwithstanding the objection.
Thnrman appealed from the deeis
sion of the Vice-President, and the
yeas and nays being called, the deois
sion was sustained —yeas, 29; nays, 28,
Patterson voting with the Democrats in
the negative, Conover with the Repub
licans in the affirmative. Davis, of Illi
nois, did not vote when his name was
called.
The question then beiDg, Will the
Senate proceed with the consideration
of the resolution reported by the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections de
claring Kellogg entitled to a seat as
Senator from Louisiana; the vote result
ed—yeas 29, nays 29. The Vioe-Presi
dent voted in the affirmative and the
resolution was taken up. Conover voted
with the Republicans in the affirmative;
Patterson and Davis, of Illinois, with
the Democrats in the negative.
Thurman then moved to amend the
resolution byjtriking out all after “re
solved” and insert “M. O. Butler.”
Edmunds, of Vermont, said he did not
want time wasted and suggested that the
vote be taken on the admission of Kel
logg Friday next at 1 o’clock, and on the
admission of Butler, Saturday next at 1
o’clock. [Laughter on the Democratic
side.]
After it was decided to take np the
Kellogg case a lengthy debate sprung
up between members of the Committee
on Privileges and Elections as to the
sta!us of the case of Mr. Eustis. The
Repnblioan members claimed that Eus
tis’ case would have been reported this
morning but for last night’s continuous
session.
The vote on Thurman’s amendment
to the report of the Committee of Privi
leges and Elections to substitute Butler
for Kellogg, resulted 31 to 31, Davis
and- Patterson voting with the Demo
crats, Conover with the Republicans.
The Vice-President voted nay, and the
amendment was lost.
Thurman rose to a point of order, and
challenged the right of the Vice Presi
dent on this question, as the question
was one affecting the organization of
the Senate, and it was not a question
where the proviso of the Constitution,
giving the Vice-President a casting vote
applied. After some debate Mr. Thur
man withdrew his challenge of the Vice-
President’s vote.
Saulsbury, of North Carolina, sub
mitted a resolution to recommit the
Louisiana contest to a committee, with
instructions to take testimony on va
rious points.
Hill, of Georgia, addressed the Sen
ate on this amendment.
Arguing the Vice-President’s right to
vete, Mr. Book, of Kentuoky, said it
was not necessary that the Vice-Presi
dent should have voted to-day at all.
He thought he was rather hasty in giv
ing the vote, and that being so all this
discussion was out of order. The amend
ment did not receive a majority of votes
and, therefore, was lost.
Mr. Eaton, of Connecticut, said the
action of the Senate some twenty-five or
thirty years ago was taken without
thought and without time for examina
tion. He had no donbt in his own
mind that the President of the Senate
had no power to act in the organization
of the He is not one of the
representatives of a State in the Senate,
and when the proper time came he (Mr.
Eaton) would be glad to argue this mat
ter. He would go further, and say that
if any man should get a seat in the
Senate by the action of the Vice-Presi
dent if he (Mr. Eaton) lived 1879 he
would ask that the ohair, filled by such
person be declared vacant. In his opin
ion, such action on the part of the Vice-
President would be a violation of the
Constitution of the United States.
After Thnrman had withdrawn his
challenge to the Vice-President’s vote,
Vice-President Wheeler said he had
carefully considered the question as to
his right to vote in oases where the
vote of the Senate was equally divided,
and he had no donbt of his right. After
what had fallen from the Senator from
Connecticut (Mr. Eatin), he would take
occasion to say that as at present ad
vised, be would exercise that right in
his discretion.
Mr. Saulsbury submitted a substitute
for the resolution of tlie committee re
citing at length various charges made
by Jndge Spofford against the Return
ing Board officers in Louisiana; the
legality of the Legislature which elected
Mr. Kellogg and that Mr. Kellogg him
self, when Governor, joined in illegal
acts with suoh returing officers and
therefore providing for the recommittal
of the whole question to the Committee
on Privileges and Elections, with in
structions to said, committee to take
testimony in regard to suoh charges.
Mr. Sanlsbnry spoke at length in favor
of his substitute and Mr. Wadleigb
against.
The Speech of Senator 11111
la support of the substitute is con
sidered the finest of the session. Allud
ing to JSpofford’s brief, Mr. Hill ap
pealed to every Senator on this floor to
sink the partisan for a moment and not
deny the right to this contestant to take
testimony which no Court on earth
would refuse him. Mr. Kellogg came
here now to claim the price of his frand.
He came here to ask that this Senate
would give effect to that fraud. A com
mittee had been appointed to examine
all such cases and this committee said,
we have taken so much testimony about
returning boards that we will take no
more.
Mr. Wadleigh said that the Field com
mittee last Winter took testimony on
this very point.
Mr. Hill said the committee took tes
timony in regard to the electoral vote.
That was closed and, so far as he was
concerned, should be closed forever.
Mr. McDonaled inquired of the Sen
ator from New Hampshire (Mr. Wad
leigb) if he did not know that the mem
bers of the Louisiana Returning Board
refused to testify before the House Com
mittee, and were not summoned before
the Senate committee last Winter ?
Mr. McMillan said they were examin
ed by the Field committee.
Mr. Hill resumed, and again called
npon every Senator to put his hand upon
any testimony already taken as to Kel-j
logg’s complicity with the Returning
Board, as Judge Spofford offered to
prove.
Mr, McMillan: “It would be very dif
ficult to prove a fact which never ex
isted.”
Mr. Hill : “Did anybody before ever
hear a Judge tell a parfy asking leave
to present testimony, ‘Why, you can’t
prove that, even if I give you permis
sion ” Addressing Mr. McMillan, he
said : “How do yon know it never oc
curred, were yon down there ? ’ [Laugh
ter.]
Mr. Millan : "I was there for a long
time.”
Mr. Hill : “Well I did not know that
before. We will investigate yon.” [Re
newed laughter.] Continuing his re
marks, he said : '“Senators should not
sit as judges to decide the rights be
tween parties, and say they would not
let them take proof, Mr. Kellogg did
not pretend to have a Legislature except
by the action of that Returning Board.
He admitted that three of the members
of the State Senate returned as elected
by that Beard were not elected by the
people. If this should be proved was
he fit for a seat in this body 1 Would
Senators say that the Governor of a
State might collude with a Retaining
Board to elect himself to the Senate ?
Would they seat such a man in this
body ? So certain was the committee
at first that it would have to take testi
mony that the Chairman applied to the
Senate and got authority to do so, and
when the committee got the parties to
join issue, it refused to take testimony.
If Governor Kellogg should be convict
ed of these charges it would not only
dose the Senate to him, but would open
the penitentiary to him. The oases
were referred to the committee for the
purpose of inquiry into all the facts.
He did not want to reopen the qnestion
of the electoral count; be did not want
one particle of testimony on that sub
ject, but he did want Judge Spofford to
have an opportunity to prove that Kel
logg, in counting in three Senators and
ten members of the House of
Delegates who were pot elected, for
the express pnrpose of making him
Senator. The Legislature which elected,
him never did a single act for which 1
they claimed vitality, except the election
of Kellogg. It had disbanded and gone,
but oh, said his f.iends on the other,
side of the chamber, it was a Legislature
when it elected Kellogg. This whole
frand was concocted by Governor Kel
logg for the pnrpose of transplanting
him to the Senate, that be might mia
represent Louisiana for six years.
Would the Senate take a man in with
the charge ringing in their ears that be
was the author of the fraud which sent
him here f Would the Senate take the
statement of the Senator from Minnesota
that this fraud was not true because it
Oonld not be trne f It was the first time
that he (Mr. Hill) ever heard that a man
like Kellogg could not commit a frand.
[Laughter.] Should the Senate do this
wrong, it wonld be one for whieh there
was no compensation, and for which
there was no exense. He wished if he
oonld to break through this orystalixed
ernst of party bias and £et to the sound,
honest truth. Kellogg paid the price
of Louisiana, and comes here now to
ask the Senate to give him his reward.
All this haste in the Kellogg oase wae
never made in the committee until after
a certain motion had been made in the
Senate. When a direct charge of per
sonal frand is made by one of the con
testants in the presence of the other, it
was the dnty of the Senate to allow him
to take testimony to see if he oonld
prove it.
Mr. Wadleigh said he had listened to
the furious speech of his friend from
Georgia with a good deal of interest be
cause it showed how great a noise oonld
be made about a small matter, He
thought the Senator from Georgia was
not justified in stating all that he had.
Mr. Wadleigh then referred to the testi
mony taken by the Senate Committee of
which Senator Howe was Chairman; the
Citizens’ Committee, of which Senator
Sherman was Chairman and the Field
and Morrison Committee of the House
of Representatives. He argned that this
testimony covered all the essential
points in the case, and for that reason
the committee thought it best not to
consume time in hearing more evidence.
Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, also
spoke of the investigation made by
these committees, and said that Judge
Spofford himself, at first, was not in fa
vor of taking any more testimony, and
he was certainly familiar with all the
circumstances, having been ef counsel
for the Democratic party before one of
these committees. Judge Spofford had
set up no substantial fact in his request
to take testimony, but merely said he
intended to prove so and so. What
Court in the universe would take such
an offer.
Pending discussion at 6:10, p. m.,
Mr. Coupling moved that the Senate
take a recess until 8 o’clock.
Mr. Patterson, of South Carolina,
moved that the Senate adjourn which
twas agreed to—yeas, 29; nays, 27
Messrs. Davis, Cameron and Patterson
votiDg with the Democrats in the affir
mative, and the Senate therefore, ad
journed to 12 o’clock to-morrow.
LIVELY DISCUSSION IN THE SEN
ATE.
Gordon and Hill, of Georgia, Speak for the
Right—Call for An Investigation Into Kel
logg’s Connection With the Heturniug
Board Frauds.
Washington, November 29.— 1n the
Senate, after the reading of the journal
of yesterday’s proceedings, Mr. Sar
gent, of California, asked unanimous
consent to oonsider the Paris Exhibi
tion bill, but objection was made by
Mr. White aud others, and the Senate
resumed the consideration of the reso
lution for the admission of Kellogg.
Mr. Hill, of Georgia, ppoke in favor of
recommitting the whole subject to the
Committee on Privileges and Elections,
with instructions to take testimony.
Mr. Hill said he reaffirmed here to-day
that every act done and every resolu
tion passed by the Committee on Privi
leges and Elections during the past five
weeks had in view but one single pur
pose, aud that was to ascertain the dis
tinct points upon which testimony
should be taken. Judge Spof
ford gave notice that the testimony
heretofore taken "did not cover
all the points he desired to have
shown, and there were five additional
subjects upon which he wanted testi
mony taken. He had witnesses ready
to develop new facts never before devel
oped. They establish conclusively that
Governor Kellogg was in complicity with
the Returning Board in frauds, and one
of the promoters of those frauds to elect
him to the Senate of the United States.
What he (Mr. Hill) complained of was
the refusal of the Committee on Privi
leges and Elections to take testimony on
these subjects. Was it right, was it
proper, was it decent to say that testi
mony offered to show that Kellogg him
self was personally gnilty of the frauds
charged, should not be taken? The
question oame back to the Senate, would
it havo an investigation or not ? The
Committee on Privileges and Elections
had never passed a single resolution to
bring before them a witness or paper
from Louisiana. He agreed that the
testimony in regard to Louisiana,
already taken, stenched the whole
earth, but he affirmed that the half had
not been twld. He affirmed that the
ohief agent, the chief conspirator, the
chief actor in these frauds was now, for
the first time, before the country, and
stood here to-day asking admission to
this Senate. He then referred to the
frauds in Louisiana in regard to the
electoral vote, and said it was gratifying
to know that the gentleman who finally
came into the office of the President had
no complicity in these frauds. No man
would dare stand up and say Mr. Hayes
bad any complicity in them. Would
this Senate admit Kellogg to a seat with
witnesses standing at the door affirming
that they knew faots abont him which
had never been told ? Would the Sen
ate make itself a party to all these Re
turning Board frauds by refusing to
take testimony to show the complicity
of Kellogg in them ? What ex
ouse could be given to the
country for saying that no in
vestigation in regard to Kellogg
should be made? He (Mr. Hill) would
not believe that this Senate was so far
given up to party service. The charac
ter of the Senate was involved. To ad
mit Kellogg would be a crime against
popular government and bring a blush
of shame to the cheek of every lover of
popnlar government in the world.
Mr. Wadleigh said the Senator from
Georgia (Mr. Hill), in his seal, had again
gone beyond the record and gone be
yond what Judge Spofford himself al
leged before the committee.
Mr. Hill here interrupted Mr. Wad
leigh and asked if he might ask a ques
tion. Mr, Wadleigh declined to yield
and said he proposed to go on with his
argument without being interrupted.
Mr. Conkling said he would like to
know whether this refusal of the com
mittee to stop the wheels of business
for this investigation was made before
or after the high sounding decla
rations in the Senate a few days
ago, about the Committee on Privileges
and Elections having delayed and neg
legted its duties, all that talk about the
importance of the case demanding im
mediate action, about a State beiDg kept
in waiting. He would like to know
whether this refusal was before or after
these charges of delay on the part of
certain Senators.
Mr. Hill, of Georgia, arose to reply.
Mr. Gonkling : "I am speaking to
my friend from New Hampshire, Mr.
President. [Laughter.]
Mr. Wadleigh replied that tho refnsal
of the committee to go into the investi
gation was after the complaint that the
committee haidelayed.
Mr. Gonkling, resuming, said ha af
firmed that a Democratic Senator—more
than one—-arraigned the Committee on
Privileges and Elections because of its
delay. They counted up tho days that
elapsed at the last session of the Senate.
They counted np the vacation and
charged upon the committee negleot,
tardiness and shortcoming. He would
state further. A Democratic Senator
had insisted that the credentials of Mr.
Sp .fford should not be referred to the
committee ; that the facts were all fixed.
Ho alleged further that it was said by a
distinguished member of the Senate
that the case of Spofford was as clear as
if Kellogg had died and the Senate had
attended his funeral; that ovents in
Louisiana had taken place of which the
country was aware, and of which the
Senate must take judicial notice ; that
these events determined beyond inquiry
the Kellogg-Spofford case. The Senate
heard yesterday a statement of what the
country should know. Had he (Mr.
Conkling) commandment of what the
country should know he would call at
tention to the fact that the same party
in the Senate which awoke the echoes of
the chamber with the charge that the
Committee on Privilege* and Elections
had delayed, now, when the opportunity
was presented upon a report to stand op
fairly for a count of the Senate, whether
the one or the other of the men
was entitled to a seat, cried out
for delay; that the Committee
on Privileges and Elections should be
come a police court and go te the Gulf
for witnesses to ascertain facts tonebing
the character of one of the claimants. A
few nights ago a prominent Senator was
heard declaring to the Senate abont it
being a matter of small importance to
inquire whether a claimant to a seat in
the Senate had or had not been privy to
a murder to secure bis election. There
had been something said abont sooh a
eharge against a gentleman. Referring
to the action of the Committee on Privi
leges and Elections, he said the
committee had the Kellogg case on
trial first and, therefore, the other canes
should .succeed that; but now another
case had been wrenched from the com
mittee by main force and by the power
of members who had been brought to
tears to dislocate and read the rules of
the Senate, and Senators arose in their
places to insist that the Kellogg case,
the first case taken up by the commit
tee, should have been kept in the com
mittee, hung np, while process went
from the-Capitol to the Gulf to bring
witnesses here to testify as to the per
sonal character of one of tlie.contest
ants. Mr. Wadleigh footed from the
testimony takoA, ip Louisiana in rertgrd
to the acts of 6n Littlefield, when Mr.
Dawes, of Masaachnsetta, inquired if the
Senator knew what had become of Lit
tlefield. Mr. McDonald, of Indiana:
“I believe he has gone back to Massa
chusetts. ” [Laughter.] Mr. Dawes:
•* Yes, the Democrats expected to carry
Massachusetts this Fall and sent him
there.”
Mr. Gordon said he wished to say a
few words in reply to the remarkable
ntterancea of the Senator from New
York (Mr. Conkling), not with any view
of convincing that Senator, bnt to im
mortalize his position which, to say the
least of it, was very unique in inconsis
tency. The Senator had seen fit to in-'
dnlge in a tirade of abuse of a olaimant
for tbe seat from South Carolina. He
had denounced the Democratic side of
\ the chamber because Senators on that
side desired to inquire into the com
plicity of one of the claimants from
Louisiana in the Returning Board
frauds. Mr. Gordon then read from the
speeoh of Mr. Conkling, delivered in
the Senate a few days ago, as to the
charge of complicity in the Hamburg
riot, against M. 0. Butler, claiming a
seat from Sonth Carolina, whioh should
keep him out of the Senate. Mr.
Conkling said he wonld be very sorry to
do any thing to interfere with the plan
;of the Senator’s speeoh, whioh he said
was going to be a fine one, but no
where in his remarks of the other day
did he (Mr. Oonkling) say anything
touching his own oonviction of the
guilt or innocenoe of the contestants
from South Carolina. He simply stated
a hypothetical oase, but disclaimed hav
ing said of either of these contestants
that one was free from all blame and
the other guilty. However, it was said
that rhetoric did not bear an examina
tion by the rules of arithmetic Mr.
Gordon : “And nothing illustrates the
truth of the Senator's position so muoh
as his own rhetorio.” [Laughter.]
Continuing his remarks, Mr. Gordon
defended Mr. Butler from any complici
ty in the Hamburg massacre. He al
luded to the testimony of one Doo Ad
ams, a witness before the com
mittee whioh made the investiga
tion into the South Carolina affairs,
and said it had been quoted in the Sen
ate to oonnect Mr. Butler with the
Hamburg riot. The Senator from New
York (Mr. Oonkling), in allndiDg to this
witness, characterized him as a born
leader of men. That Senator had de
clared he did not express any opinion as
to the guilt or innocenoe of Mr. Bntler,
bnt all who saw his manner oonld not
fail to understand his motives. He
then read from the lieeord Mr. Conk
ling’s remarks of a recent date in regard
to the witness, Doo Adams, being a
born leader of men, descended from the
tiger hunters on the gold coast ot
Africa, and said, “There’s rhetoiio for
you.” [Laughter]. Continuing bis re
marks, Mr. Gordon said: “la the course
of the investigation in South Carolina,
witnesses were called to learn from
them something about this boru leader
of men.” ne then quoted from the
testimony where witnesses said they
would not believe Doc Adams on
oath, and that he was a loafer.
Resuming his argument, he said:
“In South Carolina, from the cessation
of hostilities to this time, Mr. Butler
has been recognized by meq of both
races as the conservator of peace in the
State.” Mr. Edmunds asked the Sena
tor (Mr. Gordon) to yield to him, as he
desired at this point to read a statement
in regard to Mr. fuller. Mr. Gordon
declined to yield and said he knew how
hard it was for men to hear the troth
sometimes. Mr. Edmunds : “I see my
friend feels that.” [Laughter], Mr.
Gordon, continuing, spoke of Mr. But
ler as a gentleman whose reputation was
equal to that of any Senator on this
floor. He might be a born leader of men
but he was not a leader of loafers and of
liars, as Doo Adams was; though he was
not a born leader of men he was the de
scendant of those whom history charac
terized as leaders of men. In his
viens mingled the blood of Francis
Marion and Hazard Perry, wh se noble
deeds emblazoned the walls of the Capi
tol. How was it that the Senators had
forgotten another riot in Sonth Carolina,
which oocurred at Cainhoy, where no
colored men but fifteen white men were
wounded, nine of whom died ?
Mr. Patterson, of South Carolina, said
the Senator was in error. Eight white
men and two colored men were killed in
that riot.
Mr. Gordon, resuming, spoke of the
use of the army in South Carolina, and
said it was idle to talk abont the whites
intimidating the blacks. He had heard
of such intimidation before. Ireland
had intimidated England; the giant oak
in the forest had intimidated the de
scending bolt, and Pompeii, at the foot
of Vesuvius, had intimidated the bab-
bling, boiling crater.
The discussion continued until half
past four, when the Senate adjourned,
without division, during the day. Both
Houses will meet to morrow.
Washington, November 80. —Imme-
diately after the reading of the Journal
of yesterday’s proceedings, Mr. Sargent,
of California, obtained the floor and
asked unanimous consent to consider
the Honse joint resolution in relation to
the Intel national Industrial Exposition
to be held in Paris in 18T8. He spoke
of the necessity of immediate action on
this resolntion, and after a brief discus
sion it was taken up. Mr. Morrill, of
Vermont, asked unanimous consent to
have the resolution voted upon as it
came from the House of Representa
tives, and said he feared if it shonld be
amended by the Senate it would be lost
for want of time for the House of Rep
resentatives to act on it. Mr. Gock
eril), of Missouri, objected, and said the
resolntion was bad enough 'as it came
from the House, but the Senate Com
mittee had improved it some. Various
amendments reported by Iho Senate
Committee on Appropriations were
agreed to, and the joint resolution was
read the third time and adopted—ayes,
36; nays, 20. After the passage of the
Paris Exposition resolntion, a number
of bills were introduced and referred,
after which the ■Senate resumed the
Kellogg case. Sanlsbury, of Delaware,
spoke in favor of recommitting tbe sub
ject to the Committee on Privileges and
Elections, with instructions to take tes
timony. At 12:60, p. m., the House ad
journed, no quorum being present.
The Committee on Commerce of the
Senate agreed to report adversely on the
New York Custom House nominations.
The Senate reassembled, and toe dis
cussion of the Kellogg Spofford case
was continued. Messrs. Howe and Hill
spoke elaborately of past events. The
feature of the day was Patterson. He
said he had already announced his
intention of voting to seat M. C. Bntler
as Senator from South Carolina, and he
would cheerfully vote to seat Wm. Pitt
Kellogg as Senator from Louisiana. He
had resisted every motion to give the
case of Kellogg precedence over that of
Butler, because the Butler ease was be
fore the r'enate first. Had the Kellogg
case been brought up first, he would
have voted as steadily against displacing
it. He then criticised the action of the
Administration in withdrawing the
troops from South Carolina, and
said the troops were withdrawn
in spite of the remonstrance of
those who secured the election of
the President. He recognized the Dem
ocratic State government and turned
the Republicans of South Carolina over
to their enemies. He replied rather
sharply to the remarks of Messrs. Ed
munds sud Conkling, and said he re
pudiated, he disowned the authority of
such as these to pass judgment on his
fidelity to the Republican party. He
spoke of Mr. Conkling as the Achilles of
lbs Senate, and characterised the attack
of Mr. Edmunds upon him (Patterson)
as malignant. Referring to the indict
ments against him in South Carolina,
he was ready to answer all these oharges.
He defended Gen. M. 0. Butler from the
charges of complicity in the Hamburg
massacre, and in concluding his remarks
again commented severely on the Sooth-,
ern policy of the Administration, saying
he understood it as abandoning politi
cal friends to conciliate political foes.
He ridiculed the idea of reviving the old
Whig party, and said if the President
conld go down into the political valley
of dry bones and infuse life into them
he would stand as tho champion resur
rectionist of the age. Referring to the
religious element of the South, he said
they worshipped God and the Demo
cratic party. [Laughter). And would
not bow down to this brazen image of
of Southern polioy called Hayes,
which Nebachadnezzar had set up
[Renewed laughter.] When Patterson
concluded a vote was taken on Sauls
bury’s substitute to recommit the Kel
logg and Spofford case. The vote stood
29 to 29. Conover voted nay. Oglesby
was paired with Mr. Davis, of Illinois.
The Viee-President did not vote, saying
the substitute not having received a ma
jority was disagreed te, A recess was
taken to half past seven, The question
now recurs on the adoption of the com
mittee's report seating Kellogg. Au all
night session is expected.
I’atleraon Makes a Speech and Creates a
Sensation—Lamar on the Floor.
The Senate continues in session. The
sensation to-day was Patterson’s speech.
Colonel Lamar is speaking to-night to
crowded galleries. The impression is
that the case will be talked to the end of
the extra session, when, however, the
same question will come np on a privi
leged qnestioD.
•t ■ r '
Over 100,000 boxes of Dr. Moffett’s
Tbsthtna (Teething Powders) will' be
sold this year, and thousands of children
saved from an untimely grave. J. M,
Alexander can supply the trade.
BUTLER AND KELLOGG.
ADMISSION OF CAROLINA AND
LOUISIANA SENATORS.
The Agony Over la the Home of I.ordo—A
Political l*> Fall—Baatlo Will Go Tbroagh
from Lonlnlann—Colonel Fltzolaiomi Con
firmed.
Washington, December I.—The first
vote last night in the Senate was ou
Hill’s substitute to seat Spofford on bis
prima facie recommendation— rejected,
27 to 29—Patterson and Conover voting
nav ; Davis, of Illinois, voting aye. On
a direct vote to seat Kellogg, Patterson
and Conover voted aye ; Davis, no. On
the vote to seat Butler, Conover and Pat
terson voted aye ; Davis did not vote.
Kellogg and Butler were then sworn in.
The executive session confirmed Giv
en, of Florida, Consul to Leghorn ; G.
C. Wharton, District Attorney for Ken
tucky ; Norton, of New Orleans, Inspec
tor and Supervisor of Steamboats.
Wadleigh, of New Hampshire, from
the Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions, reported a resolution declaring J.
B. Eustis entitled to his seat as Senator
from Lonisiana for the term ending
March 3, 1879. The report was sustain
ed in the committee—6 to 8. The mi
nority report was presented and the
matter went over. Bntler and Kellogg
are in their seats. The deficiency bill
was amended in several important re
spects and passed.
The Senate went into executive ses
sion aud took a recess to 10 o’clock
Monday.
Fitzsimons was confirmed as Marshal
for Georgia.
Baxter and Harlan Hang Fire In the Com
mittee Jack Wharton All Right Flue
■lniona Confirmed.
Washington, December I.—The Ju
diciary Committee have made no report
ou Baxter’s nomination as Cirouit Judge
and a single objection defeats him this
session, and Harlan for the Supreme
Bench is still held under a motion to
reconsider. Should no action be taken
Monday on the motion to reconsider he
stands confirmed.
The Judiciary Committee reported fa
vorably on Colonel Jack Wharton as
Marshal for Lonisiana. The prolonged
contest over Fitzsimons in executive
session to-day postponed his confirma
tion. R. T. Clayton, of Georgia, con
firmed as Consul to Callao.
Bills la CanfreM—Pensioning the (steamboat
Wreckers—Geueral Amuesty Squelched—
Number of Bills la the House.
The House to-day passed a bill for the
relief of the survivors of the wrecked
steamship Huron and the families of the
lost. It gives SI,OOO in case of officers
aud SIOO in oase of men. The bill also
applies to the orow of the swamped
wrecking boat. It was introduced by
Knott, of Kentucky, and passed unani
mously.
A motion to suspend the rules and
pass the bill to remove all political dis
abilities, mado by Goode, of Virginia,
was defeated for want of the necessary
two-thirds majority.
Mills, of Texas, moved to snspend the
rules and adopt a resolntion instructing
the Committee on Ways and Means to
report a revenue tariff. Rejected.
The House took a recess till 10, a. m.,
Monday. There have been 1,800 bills
introdueod in the House daring the
called session. Only two bills have be
come laws—the army appropriation bill
and the naval deficiency bill. The bills
to remonetize silver and to repeal the
resumption act, have not yet been acted
on in the Senate.
The Paris Exposition bill and the
general deficiency bill were taken up
and amended in the Senate, bnt the
amendments to those bills have not been
acted on in the House. All the unfinish
ed business of this session, however,
holds its place in the next session.
The House also adopted a resolntion
instructing the Committee of Patents to
report a bill prohibiting suits for dam
ages for infringement of patents against
persons whojmay purchase said patents
without the knowledge of such in
fringement. Also, a resolution for final
adjournment at 8, p. in., to-day. This
was not acted on.
Good Enough.
Col. Fitzsimons was confirmed by eix
majority. Three Republicans only,voted
for him—Patterson, Conover and Mat
thews.
Samuel W. Small, of the Atlanta Con
stitution, Col. Fitzsimons having been
confirmed, leaves for home to-night.
[Noth. —We don’t see the connection,
just here. Will the operator at the
other end please repeat ?]
TOE BA9TBIIN WAR.
Kara Fall* by tbe Treaohery oi a Paaha—
Lard Uerby Speak, a Pieoe—England Will
Not Let Constantinople Fall Into tbe Hands
of the Russians.
London, November 29. —1 tis persist
ently reported that Warsaw and other
parts of Poland are abont being declared
in a state of siege. The Telegraph has
information that Kars fell through the
treaohery of a Pasha, who admitted the
Russians to the commanding fort, and
was paid for it.
It is reasserted that Kars fell by
treaohery. A Pasha and two hundred
men admitted the Russians into a com
manding fort. Russian officials deny
the rumors of an armistico after the fall
of Plevna.
Lord Derby, replying to a deputation
whioh waited on him yesterday to inform
him that Constantinople was in danger,
and that he really ought to do some
thing, especially if he oould get Austria
to help him, said the Foreign Secre
tary was able to point out that
the policy of the present Government,
to-wit: The abandonment of Turkey ex
cept so far as our own interests required
that we shonld resist her enemies, was
resolved upon and declared even before
the agitation concerning the outrages in
Bulgaria. Having thns reassured his
audience that the policy of the Govern
ment tfas not dictated by St. James
Hall, and would not be altored by it,
Lord Derby was able also to say: “We
have spoken in as strong terms as di
plomatic usage permits of tbe necessity
of not allowing Constantinople to pass
into other hands than those that now
hold it Upon that point I can only re
fer you to the laognage we held at the
beginning of the war. from which we do
not intend to depart in the slightest de
gree.” Lord Derby’s second point was
that “although we Deed not yet talk of
intervention, still should it come to that
we must not rely upon Austria.” One
of the deputation had said that Austria
was ready to do something, provided
England encouraged her. The reply
was explicit: “I think I can lay claim
for myself that I have missed no oppor
tunity of knowing what are the ideas
and feelings of tho Austrian Govern
ment, and I content myself with express
ing my dissent from this opinion.”
London, November 30. —A letter from
Erzeronm, dated November 28, states
that reinforcements continue to arrive,
and that Monhktar Pasha is quite con
fident of his ability to hold Erzaroum.
ConstANTXNOPiiB, November 30.- Re
onf Pasha has arrived at Adrianople,
where he is organizing a camp of fifty
thousand men.
Vienna, November 30.—A correspon
dent of the Times states that the rumors
of negotiations for the surrender of
Plevna are contradicted from the Rus
sian camp itself. Turkish prisoners,
moreover, assert that Osman Pasha bus
supplies for many weeks, and has ad
dressed bis officers, announcing his in
tention to hold out to the last man.
Pabis, November 30. —The Monileur
says if MacMabon holds out the Cham
ber can, by voting the budget., easily
prove that it did not intend that Satur
day’s vote should bo considered as a de
claration of war against him. If the
Chamber thus shows a conciliatory dis-
Eosition the President will frankly fulfill
is promise to appoint a thoroughly
parliamentary ministry. If the Cham
ber does not show such a disposition
the President must ask the Senate to
choose between his resignation or a fresh
dissolution.
OVU NORTHERN RO AON.
Connection With the North Fully ltc-CHtab
-1 tolled—The Htannton Hirer.
Richmond, November 30. —The Rich
mond and Danville Railroad and connec
tions have recovered from the effeets of
the flood, and are now open for through
travel between the North and South, the
only break being a transfer at Staunton
river, ninety miles from Richmond,
which causes bnt little inconvenience.
Close connections are made at Charlotte,
N. 0., with the Charlotte, Colombia and
Augusta and the Atlanta and Charlotte
Air-Lines; Chesapeake and Ohio Road
is running on regular schedule —for
freight and passengers, same as before
the freshet. Passenger trains on the
Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio are also
running on regular schedule time.
Travel Sonth by the Richmond and
Petersburg and Atlantic Coast Line
Railways is also resumed.
IWK UND OF FtOWMW.
The Fever la Florida Tetnlly Disappeared—
Travel Vaiaterrapce#.
Jacksonville, November 80. —All
fears of further spread of yellow fever in
this section are ended. Last night the
weather was the coldest known here for
ten years in this season. Ice formed
half an inch thick here and at other
points. The Mayor of Fernandina tele
graphs that there is a heavy freeze there
and not a case of sickness. Quarantine
has been removed in all directions and
travel is uninterrupted. The cold
weather oontinoes.
COTTON MANUFACTURE.
NEW ENGLAND AND VDE SOUTH.
What (Superintendent Foster, ol the Langley
Allllr, Has to Nay on (lie .Subject.
[NYom the Milford (X. II.) Enterprise ]
I have read with interest several news
paper articles published recently in New
England papers calling tbe attention of
manufacturers and the people in general
to tbe advantages at the South for cot
ton manufacturing, in comparative lo
cality with New England, and New
Hampshire in particular. The ground
for argument has been well covered by
the writers of these communications,
and only to conrflrm a part of Mr. E. H.
Cheney’s views, as laid down in his let
ters, has the writer of this communica
tion consented to take part in this con
troversy. Associated for over nineteen
years with the manufacturing interest of
the South, I have seen much of the de
velopment of that branoh of industry.
Mr. Cheney’s reasons whioh he assigns
for the manufacture of the oonrser cot
tons in the Sonth are worthy of consid
eration, based as they are upon facts
that cannot be questioned, and are
proven by the results that follow from
well regulated manufacturing establish
ments all over the Sonth, none of which
are more successful than those in the
immediate neighborhoods of the cotton
fields. It would require more space
than wonld be allowable in yonr
paper to enter into all the
data from which this assertion is
based. The intelligent manufacturer in
New England wants no better proof that
the South possesses superior advantages
for manufacturing ths courser fabrics in
cotton, than the knowledge that wheu a
bale of Southern manufactured goods is
laid down in New York or St. Louis that
they are offered and sold with profit to
the manufacturer at one-half a cent per
yard less than the same class of goods
can be produoed for in New England.
Why this result is brought about is
evident from the faot that the South
has a climate well adapted to manufac
turing, wheu nine months in the year
work is condnoted without artificial heat
and with open factory windows. La
borers can bo 'obtained at low wages,
and are well suited for factory opera
tives. In the South there are no or
ganized labor unions, who dictate to the
manufacturer the wages he must pay, or
no restriction by law as to the stated
hours for a day’s work. The Southern
manufacturer has his cotton laid down
at the factory with no short weight from
cotton pilferers or from any other sink
ing process so familiar to parties who
handle the cotton crop. The in
creasing railroad facilities through
out the South give as low rates
of transit to the great markets of the
United States and to foreign ports as
can be obtained by the New England
manufacturer, and places the Southern
mannfaoturer as a competitor with any
manufacturer in the United States. But
the object of the writer is not to impress
the Now England manufacturer with the
idea that by these advantages to their
Southern neighbors in producing the
heavy cotton fabrics that there is noth
ing hopeful for them in the future. The
capital that has gone to erect the mag
nificent manufacturing structures that
adorn, and from which the vital life of
so many New England oities and villages
spring, w>ll not die for want of financial
prosperity. The wiley capitalist and
the skillful mechanio will devise means
to replace the cumberous machinery
that now produces the common fabrio
with something that will bring forth a
finer article of moro value for the mate
rial used in its manufacture, from whieh
he will realize all his hopes of profit and
the operative receive a just reward for
his labor.
The history of manufacturing through
out the world is traceable in its progress
from the coarser to the finer product of
the loom. The coarser fabrio, with its
wealth of staple, will find its producer
uearer the cotton fields and tinder mild
er skies than can be found on the ice
bound streams of New Hampshire.
Langley, 8. 0. M. F. F.
THE MMII-.VIIXH CONVENTION.
Gen. CurMwell Explain**.
Editors Chroniole andConstitulionalisl:
Waynesboro, Ga., November 29,1877.
—ln the address of Major J. B. Gum
ming, recently delivered at the Gity Hall
in Angnsta, as reported in the issue of
your paper of tbe 27th inst., a statement
is made as follows : “Gen. Carswell, in
the last Convention in Louisville, went
backhis constituents.” This state
ment does me injustice, and I am satis
fied that Major Gumming was not cor
rectly informed as to the faots, or ho
wonld not have made this oharge against
me.
The Louisville Convention, when as
sembled was composed of four delegates
from each of the nine militia districts
into whioh Jefferson county is divided.
In the primary meetings held in the
different districts to appoint delegates
to this county convention I was re
turned as a delegate from both the Lou
isville and Stellaville districts. On the
assembling of the Convention it became
necessary to determine whioh of the two
districts I should represent. Being a
resident of the Stellaville district, it was
deemed right and proper for mo to rep
resent that district in the Oonvention,
and my place in the Louisville delega
tion was filled by an alternate. After
the organization of the Oonvention, I
was informed by my associate delegates
that our constituents, who participated
in the primary meeting at Stellaville,
had instructed us to vote for sending
delegates to the Senatorial Convention
at Gibson. I then told them that my
position on that question was well
known and understood, and that under
tbe instructions, I wonld have to de
cline to represent tbe district in the
Convention, but after a free and full
conference upon the subject, it was de
termined and agreed by us (the Stella
ville delegates) that as tbe primary ob
ject for which the Convention was con
vened was to nominate candidates to
represent the eonnty in the Lower
Honse of the General Assembly, I
would go on and represent the District
in the matter of nominations, and if the
subject of sending delegates to the Sen
atorial Oonvention was taken up for con
sideration and action by the Oonven
tion, the four votes of the Stellaville
district should be cast by my three as
sociates for sending delegates to the
Senatorial Convention, in accordance
with the instructions.
After the Convention had performed
the duty of nominating candidates for
tho House of Representatives, the Sena
torial question was introduced by
a resolution offered by the
Hon. M, A. Evans, the pur
port of whioh (the language not being
now remembered) that tho Convention
do now appoint four delegates to repre
sent the county in the Senatorial Con
vention to be held at Gibson. Upon the
introduction of this resolution, I arose,
and stated to the Convention the posi
tion in whioh I was placed—that my
district had instructed its delegation to
vote for sending delegates to the Sena
torial Convention, and the four votes of
tho district would be cast by my three
associates for the resolution of Mr.
Evans, in accordance with the instruc
tions —that I differed with my constitu
ents on that question, and I then stated
to the Convention the reasons why I
differed with them. The question raised
by the resolution was then disoussfd at
some length by Colonel Cain and Mr.
Evans and, when submitted to a vote of
tho Convention, the resolution was
voted down by an overwhelming ma
jority.
This was the course pursued by my
self in the “last Convention in Louis
ville,” and I did not go back on my con
stituents or any one else. The people
who reside in the Stellaville are
my neighbors and friends—the action
which was taken on the Senatorial ques
tion in their primary meeting at Stella
ville was the result of an ex parte hear
ing of that question. If the merits of
the situation had been properly explain
ed at that meeting, no such instructions
would have been given. They are satis
fied with my representation of them in
the Louisville Convention, and I be
lieve will stand by me on the Senatorial
question at the polls.
My course in the present Senatorial
campaign is prompted by no feeling of
personal hostility, to Maj. Gumming. I
entertain for him feelings of personal
kindness and sentiments of high esteem
—some of my relatives and truest friends
in Jefferson are bis strong supporters,
and I freely accord to nim all the noble
qualities which his friends claim for
him. I did not approve the manner in
which the Senatorial Convention was
gotten np; a majority of the people of
Jefferson have concurred with me upon
this subject, and they declined to take
any part in that Convention. For the
Senatorial office my preference is for the
Hod, H. Clay Foster. His friends claim
for him high capaoity and noble
qualities too, and I shall give him
my oordial support. All this olamor
abont party disorganization and break
ing down party nsages; that the failure
to hold a Convention in the 18th Sena
torial District is to be the “ Pondora’s
Box” |from whence in future are to flow
11 of onr country’s woes, may do to
frighten old women and ohildren, bnt it
has no terror for me. Its object is ap
parent to all; it is so thin that even the
dullest vision oan penetrate it. The
free and untrammelled exercise of the
elective franchise is all that Mr. Foster’s
friends oontend for and desire in this
oentest. Let the people apeak their
preference at the polls, and we shall be
satisfied with the result,
Rhuben W. OabswWs