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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1877.
HER LOVER.
With wistful eye* she looks
O’er fields and running brook*
Aud blooming fclover.
To where, rieath western skies.
Aflame with gorgeous dyes.
An unknown kingdom lies.
Where reigns her lover.
Above daye's closing gates
A light cloud swings and wait*.
As for seme rover
Who’d sail for distant lands,
The far off Indian strands
Where he. her king, commands, —
Her king, her lover!
Tho gazing eyes grow dim
At thoughts of flight to him.
The far off rover;
Her pulse is thrilling now
With throb and beat and glow ;
The hlnehes on her brow
Are for her lover!
*****
The Hammer days again
Have come, with ana and rain
And scented ciover;
The soft, still nights have come,
Like birds returning home—
Hat where alas! doth roam
Her iooked-for lover ?
0 gathering, heavy cloud,
Mayhap with wintry shroud
Thou’it shic-id and cover
Her grave beneath the trees;
For. ah ! no western breeze
Will bring o'* r sunny seas
Her deal, slam lover!
.IfV ANSWER.
Do you know you have asked for the costliest
thing . , .
Ever made hv the hand atsive;
A woman’s heart, and a woman’s life,
And woman's wondeiiui love ?
Do you know you have asked for txiis priceless
thing.
Asa child might ask for a toy,
Demanding what others have died to win,
With the reckless dash of a boy ?
You have written my lesson of dnty out,
Hen like yon have questioned me,
Now stand at the bar of my woman’s soul,
Until I shall question thee,
you require your mutton shall always he hot,
Vonr socks and your shirts he whole ;
| require yo r heart to he true as God's stars,
And a* pure as is Heaven, your soul.
You require a cook for your mutton and beef;
i require a much greater thing—
A seamstress you're wanting for socks and
shirts —
I took for a man and a king—
A king for the beautiful realm called Home,
And a iaan that his Maker, God,
tihal! look upon as he did on the first.
And ray, ' It is very good!”
I am fair and young, bat the rose will fade
.( rom my soft young cheek one day ;
Will you love me then "mid tho falling loaves,
A* you did mid the blossoms of May ?
Is your heart an ocean, so strong and deep,
1 may launch my all on its tide ?
A loving woman finds heaven or hell,
Tho day she becomes a bride.
I roq lire all tilings (ha 1 are grand and true,
All things that a mau should he ;
If you give this all, I would stake my life
To ho ail yon demand of me.
If you cannot ha this—a laundress and cook
You can hire—and little to pay ;
But a woman's heart and a woman's life
Are not to bo won that way.
BEFORE THE MIRROR.
BY PAUL H. BAYNE.
Whore in her chamber by the Southern sea,
Her taper's light shone soft and siiverly,
Fair a a planet mirrored in the main,
Fresh as blossom bathed by April rain,
A maiden, robed for rosifu) sleep aright
•Stood in tier musing sweetness, pure and
white
As some shy spirit in a haunted place ;
Her dew-bright eves, and faintly flushing faoe
Viewed in tho Glass their delicate beauty
beam,
Strange as a shadowy dream within a dream.
With fingers hovering like a white dove’s
wings.
Mid little, tender sighs ami murmurings.
Joy s scarco articulate speech, her eager hands
Loosed the light coif, tho ringlet’s golden
bands
Till by their luminous loveliness embraced,
. head to lithe and dssome waist,
Poured iho froo tresses like a cascade's fall.
Her image answered from the shimmering
wall,
Answered and deepened, while the gracious
charms
Of brow and chock, hated breast and dimpling
arms, *
To innocent worship stirred her happy heart ;
Her lips - twill rosebud petals blown apart—
Quivered, half breathless : then, subdued but
warm,
Around her perfect faco, her pliant form,
A subtler ait seomed gathering, touched with
tire
By many a fervid thought, and swift desire,
With dreams of love, that, bee-like, oarne and
went.
To feed Iho honied cote of life's content.
Closer toward her mirrored self she pressed,
With largo, child eyes, and gently parting
breast.
Bowed as a Flower when May-time breezes
pass.
And kissed lior own dear Image in the Glass!
The Galaxy for December.
VNIIKK THE VINE-*.
To VI v Vine find School House, the “I.ue#
Cobb Institute.”
ETHEL HATTON.
Oh. under the vines of the L. C. 1.,
Where tho glimmering sunbeams play j
I bade ray girlhood a sad good-bye,
On the evo 1 came away.
Sure I think Night’s star eyes wept on tho
night
That 1 loft thy green laughing bowers,
And from their eyes the tear drops so bright—
Fell to christen baby flowers.
Oh, vine clad home of my girlhood, farewell !
For I never shall know thee more !
Hut in my soul shall memory’s swell,
Murmur thy lust voices o’er.
Yes. for uudor these vines I sat and dreamed.
While the breeze* my hot cheek fanned,
Tho vines catching the sunbeams that gleam
ed,
And cast them down from their hands.
Oft would I sit with lesson unlearned,
Till the book would fail at my feet;
Letting my muse that within me’lmrued.
Sing her lays so wild and sweet.
lint Oh, my Muse, I am twinging thy brow,
Not with laurel's all timo to last.
Only with roses I twine them now,
To die whon fragrance is past.
My fanes have broke each gossamer wing,
'Gainst the cruel rocks of lioasott.
And heart flowers blooming iu tho spring,
Diod in tho winter season.
.For you gave me thoughts pure, tender and
bright.
Yet so fragile beyond control.
That they could not boar tho world'e cold
blight.
Folding their wings iu my soul.
FoltloJ their poor broken wings in my soul,
Like not'in's too bright for art to portray,
Visions too dainty for sculptors mould
To form, e'er they glide away.
On the harp of my life haug willow wreaths.
As tokens they never can sing
The music that in my sad soul breathes,
And echoes of Heaven bring.
It is there the faces of angels stay.
And bright hopes with sweet voioes sigh ;
Some that I hear,! in a bygone day,
'Neath vines of the L. C. I.
Voioes ami hopes l shall never hear more,
Upon Lethe's fabled stream they die,
And white arms whose farewell clasp was o’er,
On the day we said good-bye.
Ob harder lessons in life I have learned
Thau I ever learned 'neath thy bowers.
Farewell homo, where my brightest hopes
burned.
Home of my girlhood hours !
Under those loved vines, to a conch of gold
I’ve watched the sun-god sink to rest,
And seen the lillies blush in the fold
Of that red god of the West.
Soon the morn come out, like a fairy boat.
And cover all the earth below
With moonbeams that downward softly boats
To earth, like mimic snow.
No re\ lipped shells sing the ocean's song,
Or fairy harps wail in the pines;
So memory's tide shall bear along.
My loved ones under the vines.
A Capture.
Last Tuesday evening the police ar
rested a white man and bis wife charg
ed with larceny in Madison, Georgia,
On the 7th instant the Chief of Police
received a telegram from the Atlanta
Chief of Police, asking him to arrest
this man and his wife, giving their de
scription, if they came this way. The
ruau gave his name in Atlantans Engene
Preston. On the 19th instant Mr. J. C.
Bead, of Eatonton, was robbed in Madi
son of his gold watch and pistol, and it
is charged that these parties com
mitted the robbery. On the 20th
Chief Christian received a telegram
from Mr. Read, requesting him
to arrest them. The two left Mad
ison after the robbery was committed on
the Georgia Railroad passenger train,
and proceeded as far us Beraelia, where
they left that thain, boarded the accom
modation train and eatne as far as the
seven mile post. Here they left, the
“picayune” and walked across the coun
try to the Toombs plantation, in Co
lumbia county. In Columbia the man
represented that he was a land agent
and wanted to purchase laud for West
ern immigrants. Last Saturday Lieut.
Prather went to the neighborhood of
Quaker Springs and hunted for Preston,
bat did not find him. Tuesday, how
ever, Lieut. Prather arrested him in
this city. He then said his name was J.
J. Thompson. His wife was afterwards
arrested at a boarding house. They
will be held until the arrival of Mr.
Bead this morning. It is not known
why they were wanted in Atlanta.
A Uitftc Life Ended.
Colt'mb.a, Teas., November 28.—Ro
per, alias McGhee, for an unsuccessful
indecent assault on Miss Butler Temple
ton, was lynched in the presence of 2,000
people.
Tb Sceleli Hierarchy.
London, November 28.—A corres
pondent states that the establishment of
the Roman hierarchy of Scotland has
been indefinitely postponed.
SOUTH AND NORTH.
RELATIVE COhT OF RUILDINGL
Home Practical Ward* Pram a Practical
llailder—Nabstaatlal Food Far Bv. Straw
to l)l*r*l—Mbawioa (hat Mtrawa Daa'l
Atwaya Itbaw Which Way aba Wlad
Slews.
A reporter of the C'hboniole and
Co>“TmrnoALi*x interviewed Mr. W.
E. ISarrick, a practical builder yester
day, on the relative coat of building at
tho North and at the Bonth.
R porter—Will you give me some
facts Mr. Barrick, iu regard to the coat
of LuildiDg here and at the North ?
Mr. Barrick—l have noticed several
articles lately in your live paper in re
gard to the facilities for the manufacture
of cotton goods in the two sections of
our common country. North and South,
and I use the expression common coun
try in no idle sense having been raiaed
North and now having had four years
experience South, I can safely say that
any man that will come Sonth and at
tend to his legitimate business (no mat
ter what bis politics are) will find as I
have found, a cordial support. Bat to
the matter under consideration—the
facilities of the two sections in manufac
turing cotton goods. The views as ex
pressed by Messrs. Cogin, Hickman,
Sibley and others as regards the cli
mate, staple, labor, and other means
nreessary to the successful operation of
this great branch of industry, are true
both in letter and spirit, and while
there are others who have written upon
the subject that know far more about
the manufacturing of cotton than
I possibly can, and while they
are better posted, no doubt, in regard
to the difference of cost of manufactur
ing the great etaple between the two
sections, yet there is one point upon
which I am as well prepared to spqpk as
they and one that enters largely into the
cost of not only manufacturing of cotton
but of the permanent improvement of
any place or business, and that is suita
ble buildings, and as the cost of any en
terprise is based upon the cost of the
different items necessary to conduct it
and as suitable buildings enter so largely
into the items necessary, and as persons,
who wish to invest in any enterprise will
first inquire into all the oost attending
each and every item, both as to quality
and quantity, as a practical builder, one,
who has had experience in building in
both sections, I can give you some
facts and figures.
I will here make the broad assertion,
and which I propose to support by
facts and figures, that a factory or
building of any kind either stone,
brick or wood, can be built now for
one half the money in Georgia,
that it can be bnilt in Massachusetts,
and I mention these two States as ex
amples. But what are the facts ?
First, as to quality—the stone and brick
quarried and made in this section are as
good and durable as anywhere. In the
erection of the Vauelnse Factory the
stone is as good a quality as I ever saw.
It was quarried upon the spot. The
lumber in quality cannot be surpassed.
Ask any Northern builder when he
wants strength and durability where to
find it, aud he will tell you in the Geor
gia bard pine. The fibre of the wood is
so close and compact that it will stand
a greater pressure than any lumber
known to trade, Then, for the beauty
of it. You have only to look at the in
terior finish of a great many churches
North and South, particularly those
which have an open worked roof, and at
cars aud fine dwellings to see its beauty
in the golden finish it presents. What
material makes a more durable floor
one that will stand the test? Aud, last
ly, all who know anything about the
durability of timber know that heart
pine exposed to weather will last longer
than any material known to the trade.
There is about from three to five dollars
difference in the price of brick, run of
ki!u and about the same ratio iu stone.
But when you come to the wood depart
ment the difference is far greater. In
the retail trade North builders have to
pay from 825 to S3O per thousand; for
the samo grade South, from sl2 to sl6
Manufactured goods, such as sash,
blinds and doors, aud in fact all manu
factured material necessary to build, are
upon the sumo ratio. Hardware cau be
bought just as cheap here as North.
This may seem strange, but it is never
theless true; and when you go into the
wholesale market you find the same, if
not greater difference. Northern whole
sale prices are sl6 to $25 per thousand;
Southern prices, same gofids, from
$5 to $lO. Skilled labor at the
North from $2 to $4; same grade of
labor South, from $1 to $2; and the me
ehauics here, taking all branches, make
more than they do North, because here
it is twelve months labor, at the North,
six and not exceeding eight months.
The difference in price is more than lost
in the difference of time, it being a well
established fact that an idle man will
spend two dollars, where a man at work
will not spend one, and the expense of
living, clothing and fuel make the
Southern mechanic better off at one dol
lar than the Northern one at two dol
lars. I think I have supported my
proposition that bnilding South is
cheaper by one half than North, Men
look at facts and figures, not at straws.
But when the straws wave one oan
tell which way the wind blows, and it
seems clear to my mind, from the way
Governor Straw's straws are waving,
that the financial wind has set in the
wrong direation, for the interest of this
shrewd business man. Ho seems to
scent the danger from afar (and it is not
so far away either), and he begins to
wave his straws and warn the
moneyed men not to come South.
If Governor Straw were a young
er man and could pull up stakes I
should soon expeot to see him and the
young Straws that just begin to wave,
down here, buying a mill site on our
raging canal. But all due allowances
ought to be made for our aged friend,
the Governor. His pins are set, he can
not come, and naturally he does not
want others to drain the chest. But he
might as well stand at Niagara Falls and
with his straws try to wave back that
mighty stream as to try and wave back
the mighty financial river that has turn
ed its course Southward. Men will find
out where it will pay best and there they
will co. lam sorry for the Governor
but I cannot do him any good unless he
takes my advice and sonds some of the
young Straws down to start a mill on
our beautiful caual. I would further
advise him to start early as the sites may
all be taken aud I might not be able to
build as cheap for him then as now.
TIIK TWENTY-NINTH.
[ Corretpondsnet Chronicle and Constitutionalist. 1
Lingolnton, Ga., November 22. —The
following we send yon as a synopsis of
the Senatorial Convention held at
Col. J, Belknap Smith’s Mills on No
vember 20th instant.
To this Convention ten delegates were
sent —four from Wilkes and two from
each of the counties of Columbia, Mc-
Duffie and Liuoolu. The meeting being
organized by Mr. J. W. Morgan, Presi
dent of the previous invention assem
bled at. Thomson, Ga., on November 6th
instant.
The names of James W. Rarkesdale,
of Lineolnton, anil H. C. Rooney, of
McDuffie, were duly presented by their
respective friends as candidates for
nomination before said Convention; and
no other names were presented at that
time. In proceeding to ballot some of the
Wilkes delegates cast two votes for Col.
Wm. D. Tutt-, but failed at any time
during tho Convention to declare him as
a candidate for nomination, which had
it been doue by the said delegates from
Wilkes, he would have been no doubt
nominated.
Then the Convention proceeded to bal
; lot with the following results ; Barkes
dale, 5; Rooney, 3,,aud Tutt, 2; Barkes
dale being supported by the counties of
Lincoln and Columbia, and one vote,
out of fonr from Wilkes; Rooney being
supported by Me'Jnffie and one vote
from Wilkes, and Tutt by two votes
from Wilkes, but without his name be
ing placed in nomination before said
Convention.at any time, as a candidate.
The second ballot gave the same re
sult as the first. The third aud fourth
ballots gave the same results, and
stood as follows : Barkesdale, 4-Co
lumbia and Lincoln supporting his
name; Rooney, 4—McDuffie and two
votes from Wilkes supporting his name,
and Tutt by two votes from Wilkes.
Still none of the Wilkes delegates plac
ed his name in nomination, but simply
voted for him as it seemed to suit.
At this juncture, seeing plainly that
it was the intention of the Wilkes dele
gation (from the scattering manner of
their voting) to prevent the nomination
of either Barkesdale or Rooney, whose
names had been presented to the Con
vention for nomination, and seeing the
name of Col. Tutt had never been pre
sented in regular and usual form to said
Convention by thoße who voted for him,
which, if it had been, would have se
cured his nomination, it seemed evi
dent that his name was only used to
prevent the nomination of either Barkes
dale or Rooney.
This seeming a plain fact the counties
of McDuffie, Lincoln and Columbia
combined to prevent farther manipula
tion of the Wilkes delegatee, who un
doubtedly had ends to promote by de
siring to run in someone from Wilkes
county, and thus secure the nomination
for themselves, though no such name
was placed before the Convention.
Then to prevent farther manipnlation,
as just stated, the name of Dr. H. R.
Casey was presented by the county of
Columbia for nomination and the fifth
ballot resulted in his nomination, he be
ing supported by the three counties of
Lincoln, McDnffie and Columbia, and
one vote from Wilkes county.
The balance of the Wilkes vote was
scattered as usual, not giving their sup
port to the compromise candidate, which
is skill farther proof that the Wilkes
delegates desired the nomination for
tbemselvw.
If it becomes necessary in the future
the design and intentions of the Wilkes
delegation can be shown. Juhtic*.
GEORGIA MARSHALSHIP.
LETTER FROM SENATOR GORDON.
Sm ot Mr. W. A. HiF -Hln-rpreaentaiUas
Exposed—How aMu Tried ta Bea Radi
cal la One Place aad a Democrat la An
other—Another Cane of aa Easlneer Heine
hr Hia Own Petard.
Washington, November 12, 18TT.
i/r. W. A. Huff:
Dear Sib— l have only to night re
ceived yonr letter of the 9th inst., which
waß handed to me printed in pamphlet
form. Before attending to the request
it contains, permit me to correct some
of the gross misapprehensions of mate
rial facts upon which your request is
based.
First. You say that the President
promised me last March to appoint a
Democrat Marshal of Georgia. About
this you have been misinformed. The
President made no such promise to me.
Second. You say that you have infor
mation upon which you rely that the
President had appointed yon as a Dem
ocrat, and that I convinced him that you
were not a Democrat. This is not true.
Precisely the reverse is true. The
President had not appointed you at all.
He had made up his mind to appoint
yon, but not as a Democrat as you will
presently see. I did not convince him,
but he did satisfy me that you were
being urged, ‘‘not as a I
never said to the President that you
wire not a Democrat; nor did lever say
one word to him directly or indirectly,
from which any such inference oould be
drawn, you have the facts, in this res
pect, as in several others all reversed.
The facts are these, I arrived in Wash
ington on the day preceding the one on
which Congress assembled, and then
heard for the first time that you were
being pressed for appointment as a
suitable person to build up the Republi
can party in Georgia. Surprised at this
l ut once asked the President to with
hold any appointment for a day, and
until I should be beard from. The
President consented. My object was
to ascertain the truth in reference
to this report. On my return to
my hotel a printed copy of endorse
ments of yourself was placed in my
hands. On the first page of this pam
phlet I found that Messrs. Mcßurney
and Dibble, Republicans, from Macon,
had presented your application. They
say in their letter to the President,
“We have the pleasure to hand you
herewith his {your ) application.”
This seemed to indicate that these
gentlemen were yonr chosen agents for
this purpose, for it did not occur to me
th it they would state to the President
that they presented your application
“herewith,” <fco., unless they really did
present it and had charge of it for this
purpose.
On the second page of this pamphlet
I found the reasons assigned by them
selves for their anxiety to have yon
made Marshal. They state these rea
sons in the most frank manner. I give
the reasons in their own words.
They say in their letter to the Pres
ident that his {your) appoint
ment would materially strengthen Re
publicanism in Georgia in harmoni
zing,” &c., <Scc., “and bring much add
ed strength from sources hitherto dor
mant or in active opposition” Now,
when I found that these Repnblioans
were your chosen agents apparently to
present your application and had as
signed these reasons for your appoint
ment and I found the letter of Mr. Dib
ble to the Attorney General on the next
page, which he states that, the “real true
Republicans in Georgia,” (italicising the
word true) “desire bis (yonr) appoint
ment,” it ocoured to me that it was time
to look further into this matter. I felt
that it was my duty to the people of
Georgia to learn from the President
himelt the impression on his mind as
to your political status. I therefore
asked the President the direct question:
“Is Mr. Huff urged for appointment as
a Democrat.”
I give the President’s reply in his own
words. He said, “No; not as a Democrat,
but as a man with very liberal ideas in
politics. This information given me by
the President himself, supplemented by
the fact that Messrs. Mcßurney and
Dibble had presented your application
and urged your appointment, because it
would “materially strengthen Repub
licanism in Georgia” were the reasons,
the only reasons, and I think sufficient
reasons, for my opposition to your ap
pointment; and I am sure are the rea
sons which governed the Georgia dele
gation.
I had, in response to your wishes ex
pressed to me through yonr friends, en
dorsed yon, under the firm belief that
yon were a Democrat and would seek the
office as a Democrat. The apparent in
consistency, therefore, of being endorsed
as a Democrat in Georgia and urged for
appointment in Washington as “not a
Demoorat,” but as a suitable party to
strengthen Republicanism in Georgia,
left me no alternative but to say to the
President that I did not believe your
appointment would be acceptable to the
people of Georgia.
Yonr insinuations that there were
other reasons impelling the Georgia
delegation to oppose you are not worthy
of a reply. In answer to your inquiry
why the “pamphlet arguments,” aa you
term them were not used against you
at an earlier day, I have to say that I
have no knowledge of the motives
which brought them out iu opposition
to you, as I have none of the purposes
which prompted their use in yonr favor,
neither do I know why they were pub
lished in pamphlet form by yonr friends;
I only know that when, for the first
time they were presented to me, they
made upon my mind precisely the same
impression, which by some means had
been made upon t.be mind of the Presi
dent; viz. : That you were being urged
for appointment—“not as a Democrat.”
In conelnsion let me say that it is
very difficult to determine from yonr
letter the precise request you make of
me. Relying upon your sincerity in de
nying that you bad any oonneotion
with the publication of these endorse
ments and political pledges made for
you, lam more than willing to state
that great injustice has been done you
by those Republicans who made these
publications and pledges for you, and
who presented you to the President as
“not a Democrat,” and urged yonr ap
pointment, on the ground that it would
"materially strengthen Republicanism
in Georgia.”
It is, however, to be greatly regretted
(and yon will pardon me for the sugges
tion) that you did not expose this
wrong aud denounce this misrepresenta
tion of yonr purposes, when you first
learned that these “ pamphlet argu
ments” were being used in your interest
at Washington.
Had yog, on receipt of that copy sent
you a few days after its publication, or
in June even, made known yonr disap
proval of suoh arguments and yonr dis
sent from such pledges, you would
have saved the President from any mis
apprehension as to yonr political status,
me from the disagreeable tusk which a
sense of duty to my State compelled
me to perform, and yourself possibly
from the morrifieation experienced at
thelo6sof the offiee yon desired to fill.
As you saw fit to publish your letter
before it reached me, i respectfully re
quest that you will publish my answer,
if yon are disinclined to do so I shall
publish it myself. Respectfully yours,
J. B. Gordon.
national notes.
Ussier, nod Hippie. Frew tke National Cap
ital.
Washington, November 28.—General
Ord is expected here Friday, for con
sultation over the border troubles. The
Treasury sells a million of gold Satur
day.
Senator Sargent was in his seat to-day
after a few day’s absence, to conse
quence of the suicide of his sister.
There will be a court of inquiry over
the loss of the Huron. The Depart
ment closed at noon for Thanksgiving.
a*el Clearances— F.o*-RolUd£ on the Coast.
Mobile, November 28. Secretary
Sherman revoked the order refusing
clearances to vessels from Mississippi
ports. Citizens of Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana have petitioned Congress
to send a commission to investigate the
log question and the oonduct of the
Government agents at Pascagoula. Nine
Deputy Marshals arrested the sheriff of
Jackson county at Pasoagoula to-day.
The charges are not known.
A Just Punishment.
Ebik, Pa., November 27.—The men
indicted for tarring and feathering a
woman of donbtfnl character at Water
ford, in this county, have all been sen
tenced to the penitentiary from one to
ten years.
Some merchants insure theif stock
and houses and neglect their children.
Why not save the mother’s heart and
life by carrying the baby a boi of Tbb
thesa’ (Teething Powders?) Other
fathers do it
SaruiiFi Health.
Savannah, November 29.—The Mayor
and Board of Health authorizes the
statement that the health of the city
is excellent and the mortuary reports
of the entire season is below previous
yews.
forty-fifth congress.
DILATORY TACTICS UPON BUT
LER’S CREDENTIALS.
The Committee Purer Kell***’* Claims—
Minority Report for Npofford—Legislating
Ajralost the Union Peel So-Toiling Up Gee.
Bailer’* Case.
Washington, November 26. —1n the
Senate, Wadleigh, of New Hampshire,
from the Committee on Privileges and
Elections, submitted the report accom
panied by a resolution declaring W. P.
Kellogg entitled to the seat as Senator
from Louisiana, for six years from
March 4tb, 1877. He asked a present
consideration of the resolution, but ob
jection was made by Merrimon, Withers
and others, and the resolution was laid
over until to-morrow. Merrimon, of
North Carolina, submitted a minority
report, signed by Hill, Saulsburv and
himself, in favor of seating Spofford.
Ordered printed.
The Honse bill to repeal all that part
of the act January 14th, 1875, known as
the Resumption act, which authorized
the Secretary of the Treatary to dispose
of United States bonds and redeem and
cancel greenback currenoy, was read and
referred to the Committee on Finance.
The latter portion of the morning hoar
was devoted to discussing the resolution
submitted by Chaffee, of Colorado,
calling npon the President for informa
tion as to what impediments exist which
prevent him from executing laws against
the Union Pacific and its branches, bat
before reaching the vote the morning
hoar expired, and consideration was
resumed of the resolution to discharge
the Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions from further consideration of the
credentials of M. C. Butler, claiming a
seat as Senator from Sonth Carolina; and
Davis, of Illinois, explained the reasons
why he favored the motion to discharge
the committee. He said it was impor
tant that the vacant seats from South
Carolina and Louisiana be filled. Legis
lation of Congress was binding npon the
people of those States, and they had a
right to expect that their claims for
these seats Bhonld be acted npon at the
earliest possible moment. Had the
Committee on Privileges and Elections
reported in favors#! seating Kellogg be
fore the Senator from Ohio, Mr. Thur
man, submitted his resolution to dis
charge the committee from the Butler
case, he would have voted to consider
the Kellogg case first, but he thought
the resolution of Mr. Thurman, having
been snbmitted first, was entitled to the
precedence.
Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont, after a
brief reply, moved that the Senate pro
ceed to the consideration of executive
business—rejected—yeas, 28; nays, 30.
Conover, of Florida, and Patterson, of
South Carolina, voted with the Demo
crats in the negative.
Debate Open on Gen. Butler’s Case-(liarßt’N
of Corruption Preferred.
Washington, November 26.— The
Butler ease being resumed, Edmunds
read an article from the New York
Tribune, alleging that Butler had used
corrupt influences in the lobby and in
the Senate itself. Edmunds proposed
that this question be referred to a com
mittee. After a very sharp debate the
substitute was defeated by a vote of 27
to 30—Matthews and Davis, of Illinois,
voting with tho Democrats, and Patter
son, of South Carolina, against whom
the resolution is mainly aimed, not
voting. The question recurred ©n the
main resolution, and an all night session
is probable.
Exeontlve Session.
At five o’olock the Senate went into
exeontive session, on the vote of Senator
Davis, who said much executive busi
ness required attention. A prolonged
open session is expeoted after the doors
are opened.
Edmunds .Sustains Ills First Defeat—Conover
nnd Patterson Hold the Balance—Dilatory
Motions.
The scene in the Senate to-day would
be worthy a full statement but for the
nufortunate condition of the wires. Mr.
Edmnnds met his first signal defeat by
the rejection of his motion to refer a
newspaper article charging a bargain
between Gen. Butler and Senator Pat
terson, to the Committee on Privileges
and Eleotions. Had this motion pre
vailed, as it was a substitute for Mr.
Thurman’s resolution to discharge the
committee from further consideration of
Bntler's credentials, and empowdered
the committee to send for persons and
papers, a vote as between Butler and
Corbin would have been indefinitey
postponed. Mr. Edmunds, however,
made his resolution the vehicle of nn
geutle words toward Mr. Patterson and
Conover, whereupon Edmunds was
haudled for his course regarding Pinoh
baek.
Mr. Edmunds, they say, was defeated
and laughed at, for the first time, to
day. The bearing of Conover and his
speech are pronounced excellent. Mr.
Patterson was somewhat excited, and
once pronounced a statement of Mr.
Edmunds untrue. Mr. Thurman made
the point that while these charges were
pending against Mr. Patterson the ma
jority had made him Chairman of one
of the most important committees of
the House.
Filibustering Tactic of Republicans.
A number of dilatory motions have
been made by Repnblioans to put off a
vote. They are having read papers as
to the South Carolina election to kill
time. The object is to tire out Judge
Davis, of Illinois, and make him vote
for adjournment ; if he don’t tire to
keep the session np till twelve o’clock,
to-morrow, when Kellogg’s ease will be
called np.
Report Unfavorable the Col. FltKNimonN—
Ills Confirmation Probable in tlie Senate—
Harlan Supported—Whnrton, of Kentucky
Bounced.
The Senate, after an hour and a half
executive session, without confirming
any one, resumed consideration of the
Butler case, with a prospect of settling
it.
In executive session the Judiciary
Committee reported adversely on Fitz
simons and favorable on Harlan. They
also made an adverse report on Whar
ton’s nomination as United States At
torney for Kentucky.
The friends of Col. Fitzsimons are not
apprehensive of his defeat before the
Senate in executive session. They feel
that in securing a report, though ad
verse from the committee, his confirma
tion is sure. The danger was that the
nomination wonld be smothered there.
Puttertfon’ci Cose Concluded—Butler’s Chan
oeu Good for Che Senate*
Washington, November 26. The
argument in the Patterson habeas oorpus
case was concluded last night. Jndge
Humphrey will deliver his opinion on
Tuesday.
It seems nnderstood that Senator
Sharon will not be here to give his vote
in favor of Kellogg and against Butler.
Bailer’s chances are good and Kellogg’s
are not bad.
The Commissioner of Internal Re
venue oppuses any change in tax ou
pirits end tobacco.
The Mobile Postmaster.
Washington, November 26. The
Senate Committee on Post Offices agreed
to report favorably the nomination of
Nickersham to bp Postmaster at Mobile.
Senator Spencer has been strongly op
posed to the nomination.
Eiistis Submit* Auther Brief.
Enstis submitted a brief report—re
ferred to the sub-committee to report to
a fall committee to-morrow.
Nominations.
Washington, November 26.—1n view
of the determination of Governor Mc-
Cormick to retire from the office of As
sistant Secretary of the Treasury, there
is a strong movement on the part of the
friends of Hon. Geo. E. Harris ; present
Attorney-General of Mississippi, to place
him in that position. Nominations—
Jas. B. Jolley, Collector of Customs,
Teche, Louisiana.
BUTLER’S CREDENTIALS WREST
ED FROM THE COMMITTEE.
Exciting Scenes in the Senate Chamber—
Gordon Manfully Flings Back Edmunds'
Innuendoes —Ransom Grapples With Hoar
Carolina and Massachusetts Re
divions.
Washington, November 27- —The fol
lowing is illustrative of the character of
the contest now progressing in the Sen
ate : Patterson said that if the Senator
(Mr. Edmunds) said that he (Patterson)
made a bargain of that kind, he said
what was not true. [Sensation.]
Edmunds, of Vermont, said it was one
of the duties of a Senator and a gentle
man to be careful in his statements. He
repeated the statement as made in pub
lic newspapere, that the Senator was un
der indictment for the alleged offense of
having secured his election by bribery.
Gordon, of Georgia, inquired where
the Senator got this information.
Edmunds replied that it wa3 the com
mon statement on the streets and in the
public prints, one of which he held in
his hand.
Saulsbury, of Delaware, arose to a
point of order,and stated that no charge
was pending before the Senate against
any Senator. The Senate owed it to
the morality of this body that scandal
against Senator! should not be indulged
in on the floor without specific charges
had been made against snch Senator;
he therefore thought that the Senator
from Vermont (Mr. Edmunds) was out
of order.
The Vice-President over-ruled the
point of order and said he did not un
derstand the Senator from Vermont as
making charges against any Senator. 1
Mr. Gordon said the Senator (Ed
mnnds) has seen fit to arraign, by in
sinuation, not only two of his former
party associates, bat Senators on the
Democratic side of the chamber, for
what be was pleased to call a corrupt
bargain; and, sir, upon what evidence ?
Upon newspaper articles, reports and
whisperings around the Capitol. Now,
Mr. President, why this indirectness ?
Sir, I wish to place that Senator npon
notiee that if this side of the ohamber
or any member of this body is to be ar
raigned upon such testimony, we might
jnstly retaliate. If corruption is to be
charged by insinuation and .innuendo,
which I will not follow Webster in say
ing is “the basest subterfuge of cow
ardice, of malice and of falsehood,” let
it be nnderstood that npon like evidence
I might arraigu that side of the cham
ber for having invoked a Judge npon
the bench to hold the decision in a
criminal prosecution over the head of a
Senator, so as to indnee him to change
the political coarse he has panned for
the last few days. But, sir, I only rose
to protest against such. insinuations,
and to put that Senator upon such no
tice that npon such evidence I could
demonstrate that Republican Senators
had sought to influence a Judge to use
his fearful powers on the bench for po
litical ends; had sought to change the
very Temple of Justice into the Altar of
Sacrifice, for aSeDator who chose, to vote
according to the dictates of hisconscience.
In farther illustration of the artifices to
beat time and exhanst Senators s* as to
consent to an adjournment, Mr. Ran
som, if North Carolina, as the reading
of testimony was about beiDg resumed,
inquired of Gen. M. O. Bntler had an
opportunity of cross examining the wit
ness.
Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, who was
Chairman of the committee whioh in
quired into the South Carolina affairs,
said the testimony of the witnesses was
taken down by the stenographer and
handed to Gen. Bntler, and that he sug
gested to Merrimon, a member of the
committee, such witnesses as he desired
to have examined and the questions he
wished to be asked.
Mr. Ransom, of North Carolina, asked
Tf this testimony was not taken with
closed doors, and if Gen. Bntler was not
excluded from the sessions of the Court?
Mr. Cameron replied in the affirma
tive.
Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, solo voce:
The usual way.
Mr. Ransom referred to the remark
made by Mr. Hoar which he said reach
ed his ears and said it was unnsual in
any civilized community to have testi
mony taken to damn a man and not
allow him to be present to cross-examine
witnesses. Had not Mr. Corbin, the
contestant of Mr. Butler, these same
witnesses with him two or three weeks?
Mr. Cameron replied that nearly all
the Democratic witnesses were under in
dictment and they were summoned tso
Columbia to attend Court, Mr. Corbin
then being United States Attorney for
South Carolina.
Mr. McDonald, of Indiana, asked if
the Senator from New Hampshire wonld
not read the testimony of Gen. Bntler.
Mr. Wadleigb said that he thought it
best to put in one side of the ease first.
Mr. Hoar said that the Senator from
North Carolina (Mr. Ransom) assumed
a style of speech unbecoming to him.
Mr. Ransom, “Mr. President”—
Mr. Hoar, excitedly, “I do not yield,
I have the floor.” He (Mr. Hoar) was
sorry that it was a strange thing that
any place where common law or Chris
tian law prevailed outrages should be
committed and among the members of
a great party, not a man was found to
raise his hand to stop them.
Mr. Ransom said he had the floor by
the courtesy of the Senator from New
Hampshire, Mr. Wadleigh, but the
Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Hoar,
interrupted him and then claimed the
floor; that the Senator, daring his re
marks, took ocoasion to first reflect up
on him (Mr. Ransom), then upon the
party with which he acted and upon the
section which he loved. He desired to
say to all that when he desired to be
instructed as to what was becoming, he
trusted he should have the good sense
to seek that instruction from other
sources than the Senator from Massa
chusetts. Mr. Hoar said that when Mr.
Ransom made the statement that in no
civilized community a man conld be
condemned without an opportunity to
cross examine the witnesses, was it an
answer for the Senator from that great
State of Massachusetts to say that in no
oountry would suoh wtoug be committed
as had been in the South. That an
swer was unbecoming his character and
unbecoming the Senator from Massa
chusetts. Nothing prevented him
(Mr. Ransom) from using a harsh
term to denounce the statement of
the Senator from Massachusetts but
the proprieties of the Senate Ohamber.
There was not a good man in the South
who had not denounced all outrages.
Did it become an American Senator to
throw calumny upon eight millions of
people, upon thirteen great States,
whose glory did not pale before that of
Massachusetts herself here to-day ?
Senators had witnessed an assanlt made
by the other side of the Chamber upon
one of their own number; one whom the
policy of the Republicans put over the
people of the South. The Republicans
had had the control of the army and
navy and the judiciary, and now they
undertook to lay their own crimes at the
doors of the Southern people. If his
manner was wrong or objectionable he
couid not help it; he oould not help his
nature, but he desired to say to the
Senator from Massachusetts, that when
he (Mr. Ransom) saw a man come here
who was the peer of all, in whose veins
flowed the blood of Oliver Perry, when
he heard that bright name assailed, he
must defend it.
Mr. Hill, of Georgia, said that he de
sired to appeal to the sense of justice of
the Senator from Massachusetts to know
what this discussion about the Ham
burg trouble had to do with the elec
tion of either Mr. Corbin or Mr. Bntler.
Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin—“ Has
not Gen. Butler been indicted?”
Mr. Hill—“He has not been indicted;
he has asked to be, bnt a Republican
solicitor said that the evidence was not
sufficient.”
Mr. Wadleigh again quoted from the
evidence before the South Carolina com
mittee and said that Ku-Klux outrages
had not been denounoed by the Demo
cratic party.
The Combat Deepens—Butler’s Case Wrested
from the Committee ot Elections—Patter
so nand Conover to the Rescue.
8:30, a. m.— The fact having again de
veloped that no quorum was present,
another call was ordered. After some
delay, the Vice-President announced a
quotum.
Edmunds, of Vermont, moved when
the Senate adjourn to-day it be to meet
at 2 o’clock to-morrow. Again no quo
rum. The absent Senators having been
summoned, a quorum finally responded,
and various dilatory motions from the
Republican aide of the ohamber for an
exeontive session to adjourn, bo., were
voted dewn. At 9:10, a. m. f Mr. Wad
leigh, of Vermont, resumed the floor,
aud Mr. Burnside, of Rhode Island,
continued reading testimony for him
until after 10 o’clock, when he yielded
the floor to Cameron, of Wisconsin, who
said the claims of Messrs. Bntler and
Corbin, claiming the seat as Senator
from Sonth Carolina, were so blended
together that one coaid not be disouss
ed without the other. He proceeded to
read the brief of Mr. Corbin, claiming
he had beeu legally eleoted Senator
from South Carolina. At 11:80, a. m.,
Mr. Allison, of lowa, moved a recess un
til 1, p. m.—rejected; ayes, 21; nays, 25.
Cameron, of Wisconsin, resumed the
reading of the brief in favor of Mr. Cor
bin, and continued until 12 o’clock,
when Wadleigh moved to take a recess
until 2 o’clock—rejected; ayes, 23; nays,
26.
Wadleigb, who bad held the floor
since 10:30 last night, gave notice that
he now yielded it, at 12:05, p. m,
Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, who oc
cupied the Chair during the temporary
absence of the Vice-President, said he
wonld call the attention of the Senate to
the faot that the hour of 12 o’clock,
which was the hour for the daily meeting
of the Senate, had arrived and, in the
judgment of the Chair, legislation would
be continued until an adjournment of
the Senate took place, and unless objec
tion was made, it wonld be so consider
ed—no objection being made.
Dorsey, of Arkansas, moved to pro
ceed to a consideration of executive
business—rejected; ayes. 22; nays, 25.
Mr. Merrimon, of North Carolina,
said that he did not rise to enter upon a
discussion of Sonth Carolina affairs as
they appeared to him as a member of
the oommittee of the Senate which
visited that State about a year ago. At
some future time, when the Senate
should be |in a better humor, he would
give his views. For the present he
wonld merely show how entirely false
were the statements as to intimidation
in South Carolina. He argued that the
Republicans had been in the majority in
that State. They eould do as they
pleased and did do as they pleased. The
whole population in South Carolina en
titled to vote was 184,943, and the whole
number of votes cast in 1876 was 183,-
388. How was it that persons were in
timidated when nearly the whole vote
of the State was polled? Moses, the
Republican candidate for Governor in
1876, received many more votes than
any candidate before had ever received.
He then referred to the Hamburg
riot and aaid that the evidence be
fore the oommittee showed that the
tronble was in consequence of a long
continued series of outrages in Ham
burg on the part of the negroes who
lived there. He defended.the charge
made against Mr. Bntler of being con
cerned in the riot, and said Mr. Bntler
happened to be there, and no doubt
sympathized with the white people;] but
to hold him accountable for the outrages
at m orders 'committed there was against
all'decenoy. The evidenoe showed, that
when men were shot down like wild
beasts at Hamburg, Butler had left the
place. Mr. Merrimon quoted at length
from testimony to show that violence
did not exist in South Carolina. He ar
gued that the presence of Federal troops
in the Bt4te affected the vote of that
State to the extent of at least 10,000
votes. Again, it was the common im
pression that all the nagroes in South
Carolina voted the Bepubiioan ticket,
whioh was erroneous. Thousands of
them voted for Hampton. Mr. Merrimon
then argued that there was a conspiracy
in South Carolina to prostitute the
army of the United States to oarry the
elections the refor the Republican party,
and Mr. Corbin was concerned in that
conspiracy.
Cimerou, of Wiscousin, said that the
Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Mer
rimon) was fortunate enough to get
a clever Senator to pair with him last
night, and now the Senator looked as
fresh as ever. The clever Senator who
paired with him stayed in the Senate all
night but did not vote, therefore he
(CVtmeron) did not propose to go into an
argument now as the Senator (Mr. Merri
mon) physically had the advantage of
him. He then referred to the testimony
and charged that there had been intimi
dation and violence in South Carolina
against the colored people during the
campaign of 1876. He spoke at some
length of the rifle clubs organized in the
State for the purposes of intimidation.
The pending question, being upon the
amendment,submitted last night by Mr.
Mitchell, of Oregon, providing that the
resolution be made the special order for
12:30, p. m., to-day, he said the time
mentioned in that amendment having
passed, he would modify the same so as
to make the resolution the special order
for Wednesday, the 28th, at 12:30, p. m.
—rejected: yeas, 23; nays, 28. The
question then recurred cn the resolu
tion of Senator Thurman, which reads :
The Victory Gained.
“Heaolved, That the Committee on
Privileges and Elections be discharged
from the consideration of the creden
tials of M. C. Butler, of South Caroli
na.”—agreed to; yeas, 29; nays, 27, as
follows :
Yeas—Bailey, Bayard, Beck, Cock
rell, Coke, Conover, Davis of West Vir
ginia, Dennis, Qarlaud, Gordon, Harris,
Hereford, Hill, Jones of Florida, Ker
nan, Lamar, McCreery, McDonald,
McPherson, Merrimon, Morgan, Pat-
terson, Rndolph, Saulsburv, Thur
man, Vorhees, Wallace, Whyte and
Withers—29.
Nayes—Allison, Anthony, Booth,
Bruoe, Burnside, Cameron of Pennsyl
vania, Cameron of Wisconsin, Chaffee,
Conkling, Dawes, Dorsey, Edmunds,
Hoar, Hower, Jones of Nevada, Kirk
wood, McMillan, Matthews, Mitchell,
Merrill, Oglesby, Paddock, Rollins
Saunders, Spencer, Teller and Wadleigh
—27.
Armstrong, Grover, Davis of Illinois,
Eaton, Barnum, Ransom, Johnson and
Maxey, who would have voted in the
affirmative, were paired with Plumb,
Blaine, Christiancy, Sargent, Hamlin,
Ingalls, Windon and Ferry, who would
have voted in the negative. Immediately
upon the announcement of the vote Mr.
Edmunds objected to the present con
sideration of the credentials and under
the rules they were laid over.
The Senate then, on motion of Mr.
Thurman, by a vote of ayes, 29, nayes,
27, went into execntive session, and at
four o’clock, when the doors were re
opened, the Senate, after a continuous
session of twenty-eight honrs, adjourn
ed until 12 o’clock to-morrow.
TUB SANATORIA*. SITUATION.
How Ihe Democrat. Hold the “Ac”—A Vivid
Plctnro of Patterson and Conover In the
Toll..
[Washington Special to the Ohioago rones.]
The work of the Senate briefly summa
rized is this : The Democrats, by the aid
of Senators Conover and Patterson, have
been able, in the face of every move
made by the Republican Senators, to
substantially, althongh not yet in fact,”
discharge the Committee on Privileges
and Elections and to leave the considera
tion of the credentials of Gen. M. C.
Butler before the Senate as unfinished
business, and therefore entitled to pre
cedence over all other business of the
Senate now pending. Both
l 1 Patterson and Conover
Had announced themselves as in favor ol
Kellogg as a separate proposition. Sena
tor Edmunds, acting for the Republi
cans, sought to take advantage of the
expression of feeling and get the Kellogg
case put in ahead, and even moved to
discharge the committee to do so; but
Patterson and Conover were in the hands
of their master, who held them rigidly,
and they were obliged to vote as direct
ed, until Mr. Edmunds, discouraged by
repeated efforts to catch them, moved an
adjournment till Monday. Then Mr.
Conover, to keep himself within
The Pale of His Party,
Voted with his Republican associates,
and so released himself from the ordeal
until that time. Senator Edmunds was
telegraphed for on yesterday, and ar
rived this morning from Virginia. He
oonduots and the Republican fight to-day.
He was impassionate and composed in
his manner during the exciting two
hours until the last, when his voioe
grew so low as to be scarcely heard.
His object in seoaring an adjournment
until Monday is
To Get Senator Sharon Here,
Who is absent without a pair. He will
arrive here by that time. It is further
intended to have the Committee on
Privileges and Elections prepare its re
port in favor of seating Kellogg, so that
it can be made at that time. This
beiDg a report of a committee is privi
leged, and will, therefore, be entitled to
take precedence; but the same majority
that carried the Democrats through to
day Will be suflicient to set this order
aside.
The rare spectacle of a felon in the
hands of his keepers walking about the
Senate floor in their churge and voting
as they direoted is one that has never
been seen in the Senate before. A more
humiliating sight than John J. Patterson
in his subjection to Gen. Butler and his
Democratic associates is rarely seen in
politics. He came into the Senate worn
and wrinkled with the fatigues of his
criminal trial. From the first he never
voted without openly consulting with
the Democrats, openly walking over and
consulting with them as each vote was
proposed. Patterson’s gray-brown hair
w*s brushed back in crinkly, waving
masses from a dead white face. His
black eyes snapped uncertainly with
The Expression of a Rnf
In a trap. His short, brown mustache
was gnawed short over tremulous lips,
pale with nervous agitation. Was this
man trembling on the brink of a peni
tentiary that he never remained still ?
He would go to his seat and then dash
to the cloak rooms, and then over to
the Republican side. At first his own
party men would talk with him. Later
they left him to himself, while even
Democrats talked to him patronizingly,
knowing to what extent he was an ab
ject tool of their will. Nothing but the
most imminent danger and a relentless
grip upon big very life could have led
Patterson to openly stand up to-day and
desert his Republican associates. The
contempt showered upon him by all
sides was
The Most Wittering I'nol.fcment
That is ever fastened upon an official
rogue. He had no credit with any one.
What he did was not the result of any
conscientious belief, but because of ab
ject fear and to escape the penalties of
his crimes. The same iron power had
possession of Oonover, He consulted
repeatedly with the Democrats. Several
times he dodged a vote and then was
brought back. Qcoe he voted with the
Republicans, but was immediately seized
by the Democrats and lobbied into the
dark rooms until he came back and
changed his vote. As he rose in all of
his shambling, pitiable weakness and
huskily said that he desired to change
bis vote, this carpet-bag Senator did his
inner conscience the intense flattery of
blushing
A Boiled Red Color
Up to the top of his bald skull. It was
bad management to have the subjection
of these poor devils made so apparent.
They should have been drilled in ad
vance, and not have needed so mnch
open instruction upon the floor of the
Senate. Daring the discussion the
straight military figure of
31. C. Butler,
Tightly bnttoned in a half-dress coat,
was seen calmly walking to and fro in
the rear of the Democratic seats. He
has a clear-cut, deadly qniet face. His
cold gray eye, straight nose, thin lips,
and prominent chin mark a man of un
usual force of character. He sat in the
rear of the Democrats to-day like a gen
eral watching a battle nnder his own
command. Patterson fawned before
him, and daring the debate Oonover
snuggled down by the side of this 0001,
collected, grave looking man, as if he
needed further reassurances from the
wrath of his Republican colleagues.
Ab Old Pelltlclan,
Who has seen numberless political
fights, sat tbrongh the two hours’ debate
to-day with a pair of eye-glasses perched
upon his nose in the gallery. This
weary, worn speotator did not take his
eyes from behind the dead rest he had
thought his glasses upon the scene be
low. He never took a long breath until
the adjournment came. Then he shot
up his eye-glasses with a snap as he
said, “This is decidely the most intense
ly interesting session of a political body
that I have ever witnessed.”
COTTON MANUFACTURE.
ScDUtr Garden, of Georgia, Give, an Ac
coant ef the Develepaient e Thl. Industry
la tha S.ethers States—An Interesting
Letter.
[Special Dispatch to the Boston Herald.]
Washington, D. C., November 19
The following letter, written by Senator
Gordon, of Georgia, cn the manufac
ture of cotton goods in the South, to a
gentleman in New Hampshire, will be
of general interest to manufacturers in
New England :
United States Senate Chamber, (
Washington, Nov. 16, 1877. ]
E. H. Cheney. Esq., Lebanon , N. h.:
Dear Sir —Yours of the 11th instant
is at hand, and I hastily gather and send
you the following faots bearing on the
subject of whioh you write :
That the South is the proper place to
spin cotton, no one with broad views on
the subject can doubt. That this de
partment is but in its infancy in that
section and is being steadily developed
statistics disolose. With transportation
lines sufficient for present and any near
prospective population ; with the ex
perience that smaller farms, better
tilled, are best for profit under the new
era, with no slaves to invest their sur
plus in, Southerners, never a money
lending or a security investing people,
have turned their attention to industrial
enterprises.
As they reoover from the shook and
desolation of the past, their little surplus
finds investment naturally in cotton
mills. Georgia has always been in the
lead of the Southern States in this re
gard, and stills leads them, though Mis
sissippi, the Oarolinas, Alabama and
Tennesaee have naturally increased their
surplus and looms since the war. The
past year has seen the construction of
the Eagle and Phoanix, No. 3, Colum
bus, Ga.; Matthews’ Cotton Mfll, Selma,
Ala.; Mobile Colson Factory, Mobile,
Ala. (commenced); Enterprise Manufac
turing Company, Augusta, Ga.; Nat
chez Cotton Mills, Natchez, Miss.; At
lanta Cotton Factory, Atlanta, Ga.; Vau
oluse Cotton Factory, Graniteville, S.
O. (commenced); besides some smaller
ones. These enterprises, as a rule, are
of the most substantial and solid ohar
aoter, their machinery of the latest and
most advanced patterns, built with a
certain knowledge that the South in
manufactures must compete with the
skill and experience of the East and of
England. It is common for English
manufacturers to suppose that the
South is oontent with second-hand ma
chinery, that her mills manufacture
only heavy, unbleaohed domestics,
rough in appearanoe, and poor in work
manship. This is an error, and while
the majority of the Southern mills do
manufacture heavy goods, and as the
rule brown domestics, still there are ex
ceptions, and the near future must see
the rule materially altered. The mills
of the South have been generally suc
cessful, and the errors and want of ex
perience of the past will doubtless be
corrected in the future. The largest of
the Southern mills are Eagle and Phce
nix Manufacturing Company, Colum
bus, Ga.; Graniteville Mills, South Caro
lina; Augusta Factory, Georgia; Lang
ley Mills, South Carolina ; Western
Mills, Mississippi. These mills have
been uniformly successful, and are divi
dend-paying institutions. The Eagle
and Phssnix have three cotton and one
woolen mill. They manufacture color
ed ootton goods, and run 1,600 looms,
and will consume 48 bales of ootton
daily, as soon as their last mill, now
nearly all in nnning com
pleted. The Wisson Mills of Missis
sippi also make colored goods. Some
of the advantages claimed for the South
are its prodigal and remarkable water
power, their absolute cheapness,
and the ease with which they can
be controlled, the regularity and splen
dor of the climate, the cheapness of
labor, the aceessability to the raw ma
terial, the saving in the transportation,
commission and loss in weight upon the
same; the saving on the return of the
goods, the exemption from taxation
guaranteed for a series of years by
several States. The labor employed is
whitq labor. It is a common error in
the East to suppose that Southern mills
employ negro help. The tastes and
adaptability of the negro unfit him for
this work. Their fingers lack the deft
ness, brains the wakefulness neces
sary to w mill operator. The depart
ment bosses are, as a rule, seleoted
either from Europe or the East. The
rivers never freeze, the water never gives
out; do need of reservoirs, no fear of
floods or freezes. It is a common argu
ment with new Englanders, who have
never been South, to say our climate is
too warm, and unfit for this style of in
dustry. The argument has no founda
tion either in reason or fact. The theory
is exploded by the indisputable faot
that as fine and as beautiful yarns, with
as many ounces to the spindle, have
been and can be span in the South as
in any place in the world, It should be
remembered that Southern cotton spin
ners generally use an immeuse amount
of cotton to the loom or spindle. This
is because they make the heavy class of
goods. Eastern mills are olten dubious
at the reported Southern consumption
per spindle, simply because they forget
that No. 14 is, in most of the Southern
mills, the finest number, and that s’s
and B’s are often spun. The margin
primarily being the difference of freights
in raw material, it follows as a sequence
that Southern mills, until the demand
for heavier goodß is satisfied, naturally
manufacture that class of goods using
most cotton. Several Southern mills
buy much cotton direct from the field,
gin it and consume it; thus saving all
commissions, all freights, all losses in
tare, for bagging and ties. It is an easy
matter to see the difference in cost of
ootton, say at Columbus, Ga., and Fall
River; Mass., November 14, quotations :
middling uplands (Fall River mfg.) N. Y.,
11.13 o.; middling uplands, Columbus’
9.750.,; difference in cost, 1.380.,500x1.380.
—B6 90. Then there is freight to Fall River,
commissions, loss in weight. Or say he’
buys, as may be done in Columbus, Ga.
500x89 75, 848 75; commissien per bale,
81; dray, ship, marking, etc., 30o.;
freight, 0105 per 100 lbs.xsoo- 85 25;
marine insurance, i per cent., 28c.; ex
change on draft, $ per cent., 250.; total
cost ih Fall River, 855 88. ; in Colum
bus, Ga., 848 75; difference in favor of
Columbus, 87 08. No account taken of
loss in weight. This profit alone on the
rawmaterial is mure the than average prof
it to the Eastern mills for the past five
years. Southern help, of course, has
mueh to learn, and there are economies
whioh experience alone can give. Col
umbus and Augusta, Ga., have splendid
water power, cheap and easily controlled;
the Sfinth is teeming with them. These
two cities have put them in a marketable
shape. Hoping that these crude
thoughts, thrown out hastily from a pre
occupied mind, will subserve your pur
pose, and reciprocating warmly your
patriotic sentiments, I am yours, very
truly, (Signed | John B. Gordon,
I* JOHN PLXNNEKX, JOHNI'. JOHNSON^
Managing partner late firm j
L. J. Guilmartin A Cos.,
1866 to 1877. I
m\ FUNNER Y & CO., j
iCO rTOJN FACTORS j
! i -AND- J
j COMMISSION MERCHANTS, \
t No. 3 Kelly’s Block, Bay Street,
| Savannah, Georgia, \
I Agents for Jewell’s Mills Yarns and Do-1
;mestics. etc , etc.
1 BAGGING AND IRON TIES for sale att
market rates. Prompt attention given;
to all business entrusted to us. Liberal cash!
advances made on consignments. r
C3T Our Mb FLANNERY having purchased;
the entire assets and assumed the liabilities;
of the late firm of L. J. GUILMABTIN A;
ICO., We will attend to all outstanding bnsi-1
inees of that
JMee bv mail, our selection.
5 Strong Dimed Komi. Winter Bloomin,, *I.OO
.8 Choiee Hyoeinth Bulbs, doable and iingle, 1.00
■8 fine named TULIPfMonMoud single, i.oo
2 Joses, 3 Cerootlons, oniTJf Hyoeioths, 1.00
Bonraraiaa. 2 Koaee, end A Geraniums, #I.OO
3 Hyacinths, (TTnlipa, and (2 Croons, 1.00
3 *° * rriT ® “food oondWon.
octa-weowl
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tat ion Koae Cor o
■LO Set, Breastpin aut*
Eardops, sent pot
paid t > auy feeler
uf tMs paper for 2ft
‘-writs. Tr.rw
V COUAL SLEEVE
n f TTONB u>
" JEoftleh 25 cent* per
jFWP set. or three seta for
w 60 cents Elegant
Keck laces with—
Charms, 9) each,
I § Currepey tar Postage
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■■ “Paper, 18 Envelope*.
Pencil, Penholder, Golden Pen, and a vitx.o of valuable Jew
elry . C 'tnpic.e sample package, with elegant go’d stone
Sleeve Buttons, Set Gold*fi£ted Studs, Engraved Gold-plated
King, and a Ladle** Fashionable Fancy Set, Pin and Drop*,
postpaid 28 cent*. 5 PACKAGES with Assorted Jewelry 81.
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BRIDE k. CO., u Clinton Place. New York.
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A AHIID PLATED WANHM. Usaoßl
W ln the known world. Sample Watch Free to
eWhfente. A4dit*, A. Coruras A Cos.. Chlcofo.
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V New Advertisements.
KID GLOVES.
Celebrated Princess of Wales
Black and White in Opera and
Street Shades, 2,3, 4 and 6 But
tons. Misses 2 Button Kid Gloves,
sizes 4 1-4 to 6 1-2. Ladies’ Un
dressed Kid Gloves, 3 Buttons, sl.
American Beauty Kid Gloves, 2
Buttons, sl. White, Black in Ope
ra and Street Shades. The best
Gloves in the city for the money.
At J. H. TRUMP’S,
nor* 88# Broad Street.
AUGUSTA SHOE HOUSE,
333 BROAD STREET,
Opposite Masonic Hall,
AND NEARLY OPPOSITE CENTRAL AND GLOBE HOTELS,
Received last week, Cent’s fine hand made Caiter’s. Ladies fine Pebble
Button at $2 40; Children’s fine Pebble Laced Boots-7 to 10 1-2 at $1 25
Chili’s Bronze and Black Batten Boots; C hild’s Spring Heel Bntton and
Laced Bests. Also a large let of goods at all prlces-atl qualities sold
low down for cash.
W. 8. ROY AT.
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AUSTIN MULLARKY 4 CO.
Will ibis week offer the largest stock of Crochet and Knit Wool Coeds
in the city, at extraordinary Low Prices.
A large let of Crochet WoM Shawls, in all the new and favorite shades
of White, Bine, Scarlet, Cardinal, Pink, Brown, Drab, Cray, Nixed, etc.,
etc., from $1 to $6, full size.
A foil stock of New Style Berlin Rifts, Nnbias, Clouds, Seemless Jack
ets, etc., etc., from 59c. to the finest quality.
A complete assortment of Children’s Wool Jackets, all sizes and
colors, from 50c. to $1 50.
A large lot of Children’s Hosiery, to be sold at nearly half price.
A fnll stock of Dress Silks, in Plain Black and ail the newest shades
and colors, the latest importations and finest qualities, at sl, $1 25 and
$1 50 per yard, worth at least one-half mere.
Call and see onr stock before making yonr purchases. We only
advertise Coeds we can supply to onr enstomees.
AUSTIN MULLARKY & CO.,
povlß-tf 262 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
A BETTER DAY HAS COME
ONE THOUSAND CASES
BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS
FOR THE PEOPLE AT
Wm. Mulherin’s, 293 Broad Street.
MERCHANTS who pay Cash will find prices as low as the New York.
Baltimore and Charleston Markets.
PLANTERS will find a class of goods specially suited for Plantation
services.
MECHANICS can get, at low prices, BOOTS, SHOES and CAITERS,
that were made to order and are warranted to stand hard service.
A large stock of LADIES’, MISSES and CHILDREN’S fine SHOES on hand
“Quick Sales and Small Profits” is the motto.
Wm. Mulherin,
oc2B-Buwe&frd&wlm 303 Broad Htrook.
MILLER & BUSSEY,
Wholesale and Retail Grocers,
No. 283 Broad Street, Corner Campbell (store formerly occupied by M.
O’Dowd), offer to dealers and the public at annsnaily low prices for the
CASH:
40,000 Founds O. B. D.S. Sides. 50 Barrels Sugar Syrupß.
20,000 Founds 0. B. Sides. 300 Bolls Bagging.
10000 Pounds D. S. Shoulders. 500 Bundles Ties.
-J (A / \ Boxes Tobacco all Q(A ( \
_L \ J grades. OV7 \J Barrels Flour—all grades.
ft f A Q(A f\ Packages Mackerel, in half
ÜBags Bio Coffee. O V/barrels and kits,
tj 8 Barrels refined Sugar— f\
It) all grades. U V_/ Barrels Liquors—all kinds.
too Barrels Beboiled Molas-
Together with spices, Candles, Soaps, Teas, &c., &c.
Ail Goods and Weights gnarauteed.
MILLER & BUSSEY.
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MYERS & MARCUS,
286 and 288 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.,
—WHOLESALE DEALEBS IN—
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes,
Hats, Trunks, Etc.
PRICES AS LOW AS IN NEW YORK OR PHILADELPHIA
A Large and Varied Stock on Hand.
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NEW PROCESS FLOUR.
CRESCENT MILLS,
AUGUSTA, GA.
J. F. & L. J. MILLER, Proprietors.
OUR FANCY FAMILY FLOUR MADE BY NEW PROCESS HAS NO
EQUAL. mh4—d&wly
NEW GOODS!
NEW GOODS, NEW GOODS l
JUST RECEIVED AT
L. RICHARDS
A GBEAT VARIETY OF NEW GOODB, Dress Goods, Now Shades aa d Styles, Black Cash
meres and Alpacas, Best Makes and Superior Blaoks. A BPECIALTT IN GENTS 1 BHIBTB
- Shirts finished In the beat style at 75c. and 14-
Gents', Ladies', and Children's Undervest and Drawers—a large assortment Just received.
Gents’ All Wool Scarlet Shirts and Drawers.
A superior article —Ladies' Underrest—at 50c., worth sl.
New Cloaks, Shawls- A great variety Net Goods for Children.
The best stock of Hosiery in the market. Blankets, Flannels, Waterproofs, New Shades for
Suits, Caseimeres, Jeans, Ac., Ac.—at the lowest prices. Domestic Goods at Faotory priceo,
The best m the cheapest. Salter A Cutler's Sewing Silk—all Sizes and dolors.
ISO Doaen Ladies' Hgpe at 12]c., worth 25c. Will sell them by the dozen at 41 25.
Kid Gloves at 60c., 76c., 41.
Notions, Fancy Goods, Neck Ties, Lace Bibbs, Ae.
Samples sent as usual. Express paid on orders at retail amounting to 410 and over.
L. RICHARDS,
BBOAD STREET-, AUGUSTA, GA., NEARLY OPPOSITE CENTRAL HOTEL.
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