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Spirottvcle anft 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! - “ 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