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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1877.
EDITORIAL NOT KM.
There ia one vacant consulship, that of
Mozambique. Nobody i* poor enough to
want it. __ _____
Over two hundred journals have perish
ediu Washington City. The last one born
is the Deinooratic Foil.
General Forrest, at his own request,
made just before bis death, was buried in
bis Confederate uniform.
The army on the Rio Grande will soon
number 2,000 cavalry and 2,500 infantry.
Listeu for music in the air.
Detroit Free Frees: “The English say
eora when they meau w heat, and we say
nrilor when we mean a one horse Con
giessrnan.”
The New York Times really thinks the
Carolina people call Patterson “Honest"
John out of kindness. It is sarcasm, man,
1 ike “Honest laqo."
Senator Patterson has received an of
fer of $2,000 to lecture twenty times in
Massachusetts on the subject of the Presi
dent’s policy. He will accept.
Mrs. Augusta J. Evans Wilson, au
thor of “St. Elmo,” “Beulah,” etc., is in
New York visiting Mrs. Vandbbiiilt. —
Mrs. Wilson’s home is in Mobile.
The Herald P. I. man says: “Many peo
ple put up a fancy sign in their parlors
asking Goo to bless tiieir borne, and then
they themselves do all they can to curse it.”
*•*-
THE Ballard (Ky.) News says an assassin
entered a room at Lovelacevilleaml attempt
ed to cut Capt. Howlr’s throat, but in the
dark he cut at the wrong end and atnputed
two of Hie captain’s toes.
It is held by a New York Court that
wedding presents, being made a few hours
before marriage, become tbe property of the
wife, who can hold them after the divorce
.or the death of the husband.
•**- ■ —
The Nashville American thinks three
weeks is not too much for the Congression
al halidny. (Sheridan always said it took
him a week to get drunk, a week to get
sober, and a week to repent.
Tine New York Tribune has looked on
all ssides of this Patterson question, and
say* sententiously: “ ’Tis time the jest
were over. Take up Patterson, shake
him, spank him and set him down hard.”
A Boston lady, traveling in Germany,
thinks that some of the youths who pride
themselves on face scars received in duels
might show greater bravery by helping
their mothers and sisters to plow anil
Jioe.
•Charlotte, N. C., said farewell the oth
<er day to Presbyterian Minister Beard, bis
wife and eight children. Tbe adieux
spoken, Mr. Beard and family proceeded
to walk to Saulsbury, a Sstance of about
fifty miles by rail.
An expert observes that women love
’brave and dashing spendthrift men from
their hearts. The plodding, steady-going,
money saving men they love from their
heads. Woman, is a paradox. Man a
sham. Note that, ye preachers.
Gen. Boynton writes : “The President
to-day outside his Cabinet is without a par
ty in Washington. But the means by which
he can rally all the best and the controlling
elements of the Republican party in the
•country are completely within his reach.”
Noticing the departure of emigrants
from the older Southern States for Texas,
<the Galveston Jfeirs says the majority of
thoughtful Texans do not care to encourage
such emigration. They want honest and
industrious people, and all such, says the
..Xrws, will be welcome.
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The Missouri tiejmbliean fancies that
Senator Edmunds is a lineal descendant of
that pious Scotchman who, when asked
\Vtmt would constitute his chief joy in
Heaven, said—“to look down below and see
the other folk grill.” Such men die occa
sionally ; they never reform.
The Timet' staff, from the highest to the
lowest, wisher! to uuite in a testimonial to
be presented to Mr. I>elane on bis retire
ment. But lire intended recipient declined
the proffered honor, and not even the sug
gestion that it should take the form of his
jHMtrait, tojbehung in the editorial nioui,
'would induce him to consent.
Prince Bismarck iikes to And every
thing in his study in disorder and general
topsiturviness, just as he left it—bottles,
snugs, eigars and cigar boxes, odd gloves,
books, (Kiiuphlets, papers, letters, spurs,
stray antiques, swords, hand mirrors, pis
tols, fiddle strings, flutes—these are all ar
ticles he wants to put bis hand on at short
notice, and see lying around loose on the
tallies, floors and sofas. Whenever he dis
cos era any signs that his wife or the ser
vants have been trying to set things to
right* a terrible row is raised.
\V kiting from Mississippi, during the
raid snap, a Western man aays : “The idea
that hi 'uses are to keep folks warm never
seems to have entered their heads. When
•ever a fire is built, no matter how tightly I
•close the dot/rs there are seventeen distinct
■draughts blow ing on my back. I tried to
•write in the office of the Meridian Mercury
this morning. Tiiere were cracks in the
-wall 1 could stick my fingers through, and
the air was colder than out doors. But l 01.
A. G. Horn, the editor, ami his friends got
to telling rue how badly they had been
abused and misreprrtsented, and tie air
vanned up about turtv degrees in about te
rn mutes —impregnated with damnation, so
to speak."
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, h>'# w
York, well known for her philanthropy,
makes some very pertinent suggestions re
garding places of entertainment and in- ■
junction for the poor. She says that sa
lat/ns and dns of vice prevail on every
ha mti to allure the young amt the unwary
into dissipation, but there are no places
provided where they ean find innocent
amusement arid refining influences. There
are costly oUwches which are closed six
days in the week, t—„J which do nothing to
saye the people from temptations that
beset thorn. There are wealthy women
-who waste their jives in ennui wLifs there
are ample opportwaifies for doing sut**-
thing for tkafe imfarutwkte fellow-being*;
.-She says, “we want yeas talk About reform
and more energy and patience te finding
■work for the unemployed and substiaiiigs
ttor their miserable quarters and 4e* r 4' D i
associations.”
THE IMKSHAI-HII'.
The appointment by the President of
O. P. FrrzsnioNS, Eeq., to tbe office of
United State* Marshal for Georgia gave
rise to a prolonged and bitter party con
test in tbe Senate. While this office is
one of importance to the people of Geor
gia, we fail to see any good reason why
it should have assumed the prominence
and proportions of an issne between two
great parties. Bnt such has been the
case. Our people felt a deep interest in
the result of this contest, by reason of
the fact that great abuses can be impos
ed npon them unless tbe offioe is prop
erly administered. Now that tbe strug
gle ia over and that an appointment baa
been made satisfactory in all respects to
all classes of our people, it may be well
to correct the misrepresentations, and,
if possible, to remove the prejudices,
created in tbe minds of onr Republican
friends in Washington.
President Haybs, in his wisdom and
justice, determined to give the people
of Georgia an official that would be ao-
in carrying ont the re
■ ° f iiareiiai
can fit to combine to
gether to defeat this appointment.
After tbe name of Mr. Fitzsik-
ons was sent into the Senate his confir
mation was held inabeyanoe by the com
mittee for several weeks, and was final
ly reported npon adversely. The Geor
gia Marsbalship was made the pivotal
point npon which to attack the South
ern policy of the President. Senators
Conklino aud Edmunds marshalled
their forces in the Senate and determin
ed to defeat this particular nomination
by a strict parly vote. But these gen
tlemen were defeated in the iasne, and
President Hayes was sustained in bis
polfcy of peace and good will by the
confirmation of Mr. Fitzsimons. Our
friend has secured a uotoriety that he
never dreamed of, and the Marshal of
Georgia a prominence never before giv
en to an official of a like character.
When he applied for this office he never
imagined that there was anything in his
name that would provoke the two great
parties into hostile array aud result in a
heated political contest, Mr. Fitzsim
ons has been very much vilified in the
course of this party fight. Those who
know him personally in Georgia and
South Carolina need no recom
mendation from us as to his
character and his record but for
the information of Senators who have
been imposed upon by false representa
tions, we will state briefly that Mr.
Fitzsimons is an honorable, high-toned
gentleman. He has always been a
Democrat, but not a politician in any
senae of the term—never having filled a
political office. He is not an extremist,
but a man of the most liberal and con
servative views. He has the respect
and confidence of all classes of our peo
ple, and his appointment is less objec
tionable to Republicans in this State
than that of any other Democrat whose
name has been mentioned in connection
with tbe office. He will execute the
laws as he finds them, and will admin
ister tbe duties of the office without
fear, favor or affeotioD, and without
any regard to party, class, oolor, or
condition. We venture the assertion
that no man oonld be appointed to this
office who will give more satisfaction to
the people of Georgia and who will bet
ter conserve the interests of the Admin
istration at Washington. It may be as
well for us to state authoritatively that
Mr. Fitzsimons entered into no combi
nations to secure bis appointment, and
that ho is entirely untrammelled by
promises or obligations. He will ap
point good men to office under him.
Tbe enforcement of revenue laws is not
a pleasant duty. It is at all times a
disagreeable one. That haß been our
experience in Georgia. The official who
is appointed to discharge this import
ant duty must have certain pre-requi
sites. He must stand well in the es
teem of his fellow-citizens ; and in or
der to do this he must be a man of
character and intelligence. He must
have probity and judgment, and above
all, he must have the courage to do his
duty under all oiroumstanoes. All who
know Mr. Fitzsimons will recognize his
qualifications, and admit that he is ad
mirably adapted to discharge the de
licate and responsible duties of Marsha).
It may be well to state here, as there
has been much misrepresentation on this
point, that Governor Hampton never
wrote a line to President Hayes urging
the appointment of Mr. Fitzsimons,
Onr immediate Representative, Hon.
Alex. H. Stephens, was mainly instru
mental in securing his appointment, and
we make this statement without intend
ing to do any injustice to others who
subsequently united with Mr. Stephens
in urging upon the President Mr. Fitz
sihons' claims and fitness for the offioe.
President Hayes has made a most ex
cellent appointment) for Marshal. It is
another evidence of his good will toward
Georgia. He has risen above the ties
and tie clamors of party. He has done
a graceful and patriotic act. We thank
him for it. It now remains for the peo
ple of Georgia to prove to the country
that the confidence of the President is
not abused, and that they will yield
willing and prompt obedience to tbe
revenue laws of the Government under
a Democratic Marsha). As peaceful and
law-abiding citizens, they owe this duty
to themselves, the Government, and the
President.
TKIE PKES4IDENT’S POIJCY.
It is rather late in the day for the
New York herald to attack the Presi
dent for not being more prompt in the
removal of the Packard-Chambrb&akt
incubi, in Louisiana and South Caroline,
We deemed ths movements of Mr.
Hates too tardy at the time and so ex
pressed ourselves, but it is the supreme
of folly to quarrel over what has been
accomplished, however much mistaken
the mitdue operandi at the time may
have been. If there is to be any con
troversy with the Executive it mast be
over his so-called future Southern
policy, and, oddly enough, the mes
sage is so worded as to leave the
inference that there is to be a
policy of the future in this direction.
What it will be in Georgia, we eaß wait
and see. Whmt it is to be in Lonisians,
the New Orleans Democrat thinks it
already perceives. AHuding to past ap
pointments and those to come, the edi
tor says:
Kino (that u the Returning Board); Law
yxxca (that is Warmoth) and Packard 1 If
this he the last act of ths Southern policy, it
has Inde-d i.innd up as disastrously as it be
gan auspiciously, yir Havas mind seems to
hare wavered uncertainty ..m his New Orleans
appointments, and yet he hsa managed in the
mnast space of three months to take np, en
dorse and reward three of the ideas most ab
horrent to asi Louisianians. He begins by
complimenting the Returning Board and vindi
astieg as it were the charges this body made
on the luriiieation and humanity of oar citi
zens. The dose was too strong, and he finally
yielded to the pressure; bat who does he se
leec in He phme f —Warwotr, whose rale of
theft and rein ean to-day be traced m broken
fortunes and rained households in every por
tion of the State; and when he drops Wa
motb, it is to take ap Packard, who threat
ened os with four years more of bayonet rule.
In these short three months the President has
indicated the forgeries of the Returning
Boats thefts of Warmgth, the threats of
Packard.
Such is the only policy. Sach
is the Southern policy of to-jsy. *lie removal
U the troops was a thing of the far distant
past, the President received his foil measure
•f praise mere tor 4 he cirmot now come and
ask that all thia applause be given over again,
especially when he supplement* his Southern
policy with such insult* to onr whole people a*
hi* Louisiana Federal appointment* have
been. The Southern policy of the past met
with tbe cordial approval of all our people ;
the Southern policy of the present is an insult
to Louisiana.
We must confess that we see no indi
cations of any reform in Louisiana that
embraces Kellogg, Wabmoth, Packard
and Sheridan. It is true tbat Wells
and Anderson have apparently been
made to walk the plank; but these men
never bad in their whole bodies a moie
ty of the power for evil possessed in
the little Wabmoth, Packard
and Kellogg, Hot to speak of their de
voted henchman, Marshal Jack Whar
ton. Without the ennning brain and
:unscrupulous management of Wabmoth,
there wonld have been no Dubbll,
Packard, Kbllogg or Returning Board
Rognes. Tbe return of such a man to
power in Louisiana ia an evil sign, the
more so as he bids fair to come backed
by tbe Administration and with
his old camp-followers in bis train.
We can only hope that onr
brother of the Democrat exagger
ates the danger of snch an appari
tion, and misconceives tbe President’s
intent. If not, then the prime duty of
the Democracy of that Commonwealth
is to organize without delay against
such a combination, and preserve a
solidarity that will break to pieces the
corruptions, the machinations and the
deadly instrumentalities of the head
devils who have done so mnoh injnry in
the past, and are plotting new diabol
ism for the future.
the pluck and vitai.ity of
CHARLESTON.
Glancing at tbe Journal of Commerce,
of Charleston, we are amazed at tbe
evidence of solid and growing prosperi
ty of that good old city, and especially
in the revival of direct and reciprocal
trade with foreign nations. The advan
tage she derives from her position,
which famishes such a variety of ex
ports as return cargo, is greater than
any other Southern city, notably in the
case of her phosphates, which arc un
limited in quantity. The Journal of
Commerce prints a list of vessels, steam
and sail, in port on Saturday morning a
week ago, consisting of seventy-five of
various nationalities. This shows well
for Charleston and we have no doubt of
its being only the harbinger of a glori
ous commercial future. We shall al
ways hear of her prosperity with pleas
ure and have no fears of her future. In
spite of many obstacles and much bad
management her career will be onward
and upward, the more so as her people,
though oruelly oppressed by bad gov
ernment, have always kept their com
mercial and municipal faith intact and
above suspicion.
THANKSUIVING IN GKOIHUA.
Under the above title, the National
Union of Washington quotes from the
Chronicle and Constitutionalist’s re
port of the resolutions of the Cotton
Exchange meeting relative to a proper
observance of Thanksgiving day, and
comments as follows : “The proceedings
at this meeting indicate a healthy state
of public seotiment. It may, perhaps,
be said tbat even the most irascible of
mortals are apt to be amiable when they
have everything their own way ; but in
point of fact Georgia has enjoyed al
most the same degree of local indepen
dence for several years past that she en
joys to-day, and the chief reason why
her people are now in a mood to give
thanks, as they certainly were not a
year ago, is to be fouud in the triumph
of the spirit of amity and conciliation
over that spirit of reciprocal animosity
which so lately divided the North from
the South. All is not yet, by any
means, as serene as might be wished ;
but the progress iu good feeling made
since the fourth of last March is so
great as to justify tho most hopeful an
ticipations as to the future.”
COLONEL A. It. I.AMAR.
The Repnblican papers, especially
those of the West, are much exercised
over the appointment of Colonel A. R.
Lamar to a position in the House of
Representatives. The truly good Dea
con Richard Pmith, or one of his wick
ed partners, goes so far as to make it
the subject of an editorial note, which
runs as follows ;
The tally clerk of the House, having the
misfortune, though & Democrat, to come from
New England, has been kicked out to make
room for a gentleman from Georgia. There
was an apparent incongruity in allowing New
England to keep tally of the votes after all the
important committees had been handed over
to the South, and Clerk Adams made baste to
rectify it. Eastern Democrats are beginning
to realize that they are of little consequence
alongside the Southern members, and it is
pleasant to notice that they accept the situa
tion meekly. The brains of the Democracy
*re in the South ; why should not the domina
tion be also ?
We do pot know why Clerk Adams
made the change, but feel assured that
he had good reasons for so doing. While
we have nothing against the “ New
England Democrat” who lost the place,
we do most heartily rejoice that “ the
gentlemau-from Georgia” secured it. It
is not a position that his fine talents de
serve; it is very far from being a place
oommensnrate with bis mental and
moral capacity; but it is a tardy recog
nition of one of the best, purest and
most patriotio of Sonthern gentlemen,
and bnt a stepping stone, we trust, to
higher and better things. Colonel Al
bert R. Lamar is one of nature’s noble
men. His career in this State has been
upright and brilliant as a journalist,
and without reproach as a citizen. When
it cost something to bo true to his State
and section, be was foremost in the
cause, and largely to his labors,
in aud ont of the sanctum, is
Georgia indebted for her deliver
ranee from Radical domination. He
is a master of the English tongue,
and worthily has he employed the gifts
and cnltnre of an exalted character. His
appointment to a subordinate office in
Washington is, as we have already said,
a poor return for Jiis labors and sacri
fices for his people and hi? party, but
Mr. Apams will be the gainer by hi? i
courtesy, not only in the association
with such a msn as Mr. Lamar, bnt;
from the gratitude of thonsands in this
Commonwealth. We do not go so far as
the Cincinnati Gazette and its tinlygood
editor, in claiming that “the brains of the
Democracy are in the South,” and hence
the domination should be there too ;
bnt we are prepared to admit that we
have onr share of the intellect here, and
there is no question as to onr vote,
solid or otherwise. Of that intellect,
CoL Lamar is s shining exemplar, and
we believe he is bat the precursor of a
number of Sonthern men who will, not
remotely, find congenial employment a£
the federal capital and aid in restor
ing the pnion, in all of its ramifica
j tions, to the honest customs of yore, be
: fore the stream of life in that respect
was polluted by Radicalism and its
pestilential works.
Mr. Hendricks informs the public,
through the medium of the Indianapolis
Xetee, that, whatever Tildkn's plans may
be with reference to the Presidency, he has
no designs upon the Vice-Presidency. The
matter, so far as be is concerned, was end
ed when Mr. Whkki.kb was sworn in.
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 19, 1877.
A CAME OF PROSCRIPTION.
The special correspondent at Wash
ington of the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer
Bays: “Apropos of the issuing of 001.
Walter Taylor’s book, in which he
wonld not only take all the glory of
Gettysburg to the ‘magnificent Vir
ginians,’ bnt disparage other States,
comes the story of his lorn, financially,
from the disputes between himself and
the North Carolina papers. A gentle
man from Norfolk, a personal friend of
Col. TANARUS., informs me that sincethis news
paper discussion has arisen about the
merits of the Virginia and North Caro
lina troops, the greater portion of Col.
T.’s North Carolina patronage has fallen
oft. His grain patronage along the Dis
mal Swamp Canal, and from the North
Carolina connties adjacent thereto,
especially, has been altogether with
drawn. This is attributed to the arti
cles written by him reflecting on the
North Carolina troops, whom, it wonld
seem, are not slow to resent an imputa
tion on their courage,”
Col. Taylor certainly committed a
grevions mistake if he published, nnder
the authority and weight of his name, a
book of the war which credited Virginia
with a monopoly of glory and threw a
pall of donbt over the valor and endnr
ranee of North Carolina and other sol
diers. He shonld have followed the ex
cellent example of Gen. Early, who,
while assailing Gen. Longstrbet criti
cally, is most careful to separate him
from the superb body of men nnder his
command. His conclusion of the article
on the “Cause of Lee’s Defeat at Gettys
burg” is so pertinent tbat we give it en
tire and commend it unstintedly : “I
must add that I never at any time en-
tertained the feeling that would exalt
the soldiers from one State at the ex
pense of those from another. It was
my fortune to command at some time or
other during the war soldiers from every
Confederate State, including Kentucky
aud Missouri, except the State of Texas,
aud I also commanded the Maryland
troops. I could oite instances in which
the troops who fonght nnder me from
each of those States respectively per
formed the most brilliant and daring
feats. As the soldierß of North Caro
lina especially have taken exception to
the remarks and statements of others,
I will take occasion to say that every
infantry organization from that State
belonging to the Army of Northern
Virginia, prior to my departure from
it on my Valley campaign, had at some
time been under my command, and
there was bnt a brief interval when I
did not have North Carolina soldiers
nnder me. I can any, in all sincerity,
that there were no better troops from
any State in ail that grand army, and
of all that bright galaxy of heroes who
yielded their lives for their country's
cause, the names of Anderson, Branch,
Pender, Daniel, RAMsEUR.and Gordon,
of the cavalry, will stand among the
foremost. There was glory enough won
by the Army of Northern Virginia for
each State to have its full share and
be content with it, and there is no oc
casion to wrangle over the distribution
of the honor.”
WILL THE CZAR BE CHECKMATED t
The fall of Plevna and surrender of
Osman’s heroic army, which had eaten
its last biscuit and perished as an or
ganization in a desperate sortie, oompel
either a gradual submission of Turkey
or anew lease of life because of novel
diplomatic intrigues on the part of
foreign powers. The most startling in
telligence reaches us that England has
negotiated for the purohase of the Otto
man fleet. This is a stroke of. policy
worthy of Earl Beaoonsfield and, if
accomplished, will give perhaps anew
turn to the Eastern question. The fleet
of the Turkish Sultan is one of the finest
in the world and manned by the British
wonld, if called into action, make itself
felt. If this project be carried ont, it
will cause a prodigious commotion in
Russia, because the Czar had set his
heart upon securing the Turkish navy
as a condition of peace, and the many
millions of money gained for the Porte
by the transfer to Great Britain wonld
eoußtitute sinews of war which might
prolong the struggle indefinitely. Aooor
di ng to a semi-official pamphlet published
at St. Petersburg, the Russian polioy was
to hold Armenia, to demand free naviga
tion of tbe Blaok Sea aud the Bospho
rus and the transfer of the Ottoman
navy. The writer pf the pamphlet,
Prince Wassilitchikoff spoke .'plainly,
thus;
Our principal and probably irreconcilable
opponent will be England, or rather that party
in the English Parliament whioh sees in every
fleet a rival and a foe, and every movement
eastward a menace to British dominion in
India. That party is strong it. England. It
will receive with malicious anger the proposal
to create anew a Russian fleet in the Black
Sea, and perhaps it will offer armed resistance.
We must, therefore, weigh the consequences of
the hostility of the British Empire with its poio
erful armada arul countless financial resources.
To decide that question directly in our own
favor would be a light beaded act. If at the
conclusion of peace we secured for ourselves
the liberty of the Black Sea and of the Straits,
that right would remain for many years a
dead Jettef until we could construct a fleet.
Turkey, in alliapce y4h England, might use
the freedom of navigation for hey own inter
est and our disadvantage. But the case would
be very different if we obtained at once a ready
made fleet truilt in England for the Turkish
Government, and provided with the latest im
provements. We might then hope that, by
disarming Turkey and by taking the necessary
measures for the defense of our coasts against
the English fleet, we would retain the com
mand of that sea, which is unquestionably the
chief artery of our political and economic
organism. Our sailors, whose bravery has
survived the destruction of Sebastopol, would
find anew career worthy of their heroism, and
the shades of Lazaroff, Nakhikoff and Korni
loff would be avenged by the reorganization of
a fleet rendered famous by their names.
It remains to be seen how mnch truth
there is in the report of {England’s pur
chase of the men-oi-war so eagerly
coveted by Russia. If it be a canard,
nothing is to be said, of course, at
present, upon a point no longer problem
atical. If it be true, complications
may arise to change the whole course of
the war. It is certain that the navy is
useless to Turkey, but can become
formidable in the hands of English
men, especially if the bold Britons
think the time has come at last to bar
| fhe road to jSygantinm.
Senator Conkling is hostile to the
development, by Government aid, of
the Sontb, bnt he has introduced and
endorsed a petition asking for $50,000
for a preliminary survey by army engi
neers of a rente for a grand African rail
road, extending from Liberia into the
interior. It is Conkung’s intention to
develop Liberia. He wishes, in addi
tion to this $50,000, to establish a steam
ship line from New York to Liberia, by
means of a large subsidy, and will pro
bably follow this np with a bill making
the Dnited.States guarantee the bonds
of this prospective Liberian railroad.
‘Eke Southern Congressmen should see
to it that their own section of country
shall be aided and encouraged before
Liberia or any other outside place gets
a hearing.
TffE distance f f>nns from
the time of occultti*u was about 2o? times
that of the moon, the respective distance
being 63,700,000 aud 248,000 miles. This
fact enables us to account for the appa
rently small size of Venus, though her
lineal diameter is to that of the moon as
m to 100.
“no,war john.
WHAT GEN. M. C. BUTLER THINKS
OV HIM.
Nat Ha Bad Altar All—Mouth Carolina 10
Take Ike ('iu-pet-Bn**rr to Her Bosom and
Her Heartk-Sioaes.
IA. C. BueUto AT. O. Democrat . j
I pat the question to Batler : “What
will the people of South Caroline think
of John altar what he has said aDd done
for them in the laat few days ?”
“Patterson has never been hated by
the people of Sooth Carolina as bitterly
as is imagined np North,” said Bntler,
deliberately. “He ha* never been re
garded a* the worst of the carpet-bag
gers, and in many respects be has en
joyed a better personal repute than any
of them. He is* as yon see, a man of
strong enthusiasm and weak or, at least,
not independent judgment. When he
was acting with the Republican party
he went his length ia seconding all its
moves and executing all its mandates,
excusing himself on the ground tbat
everything is fair in politics. Bnt he
never has been a really bad man in bis
own impulses. He and I are no more
alike than the two antipodes, and yet I
have always felt kindly toward him, be
cause, whatever else he might .do, he
. wonld keep bis word religiously and was
consistent with himself.”
“How will Sonth Carolina read John’s
defense of her as it will be printed in
the Record to-morrow ?”
“Like
A Revelation.
‘And then they wffl“ give him a warm
place iu their affections. Even if, by
Conover’s mishappenings, I shonld be
kept out of my seat in this body, Patter
son will reoeive full credit from the peo
ple of South Carolina. He will be kindly
dealt with and his family will be plea
santly met by all onr people in an over
flow of generous gratitude for his fidelity
to their interests in these days.”
SENATOR HILL.
Why He Oppose* Resumption Repeal—How
He Stand* Ou tlie .silver Bill.
| Washington Correspondence Chicago Tribune.]
“It wont do for us to repeal the act,”
said Senator Ben Hill to me to-night.
“The St. Louis platform is an indict
ment against the Republican party for
not having done something toward re
suming, and it would not do for us to
upset what little they have done. The
law as it stands will never enablo them
to resume. There is at present no pre
paration for it. We are not in a condi
tion at present, and yet, if we repeal the
aot, we take the responsibility of effect
ing practical repudiation. There’s where
we stand, with a bad law on one side
and disaster on the other. lam in fa
vor of letting Mr. Sherman go ahead
and see how he’ll come out.”
“In your judgment, Senator, what
would be the proper oourse for prepara
tion?”
“The best plan that suggests itself to
me is in makiDg tho currency fundable.
This would, of oourse, briDg the ory of
‘contraction’ around our ears, but what
are we to do? Here we propose to take
up $700,000,000 of eurrenoy with $200,-
000,000 of gold, and it occurs to me that
there must be some contraction some
where or the gold won’t cover it. The
fact is, wo are now in a pretty bad
plane.”
Of the silver plank of tho President’s
message the Senator finds himself a
unit in warm approbation.
“Why, my dear sir, it isn’t a question
of legality, this payment of the debt in
silver. No one questions the right of
the Government to make such payment,
but jnst look at it! Capitalists stand
ready to take our bonds at 4 per cent, if
we will pay them in gold, while, if we
make them payable in silver, they want
sor 6 per oent. Shall we not save this
difference to the tax payers ? lam not,
nor is the Democratic party, working
for the bondholder, but for the people,
and, if the bondholder is collaterally
helped, he is to be oongratnlated, but
that is not our object. It is not a ques
tion of the Government's right to pay in
silver, it is a question of expediency,
and it is perfectly plain to me that if it
costs us less to pay in gold than in sil
ver, it is our duty to pay in gold.”
THE SOUTHERN POLICY.
Keep the Cotton Until Europe Has to Send
For It—The Cause of Depression—tlam
blitia at the Expense of llie Producer—The
Etleet.
[ Extract from Easton's Cotton Circular. J
With a position for cotton stronger
than I have known for twenty-nine years
(exoept during the war), it may be asked
why is cotton lower than last year ? The
most important depressing influence is
the number of people who have lately
gone into the business of offering every
night to Europe, from every Southern
port, cotton at cheaper prices than can
be done in any legitimate way. These
people oalculate that the necessities of
the planters will oompel large deliveries
and lower prices, and enable them to
oover the accepted offers with a commis
sion. This system interferes with all
regular business, and, from the number
of offers, it gives a false impression to
the European spinner about the ac
tual state of the crop. As Europe is a
buyer of onr cotton, of course the feel
ing there is generally bearish, and, if
they have the help of people on this
side, it has a powerful influence.
The policy in New Y or k appears to
have been, for the past two years, in the
same direction. Instead of offering ad
vances to planters aud others to carry
cotton until a fair prioe can be obtained,
every effort is made to depress prices,
in order to Becnre, at low rates, 200,000
to 250,000 bales, against which con
tracts are then sold for some future
month. Then, by sending out notices
of delivery when nnexpected, or with
holding them when looked for, these
parties control the market at their pleas
ure.
The effect of this policy is disastrous
to all legitimate business in New York.
Spinners and exporters find that, on a
stock of 250,000 bales, nothing can be
bought, are obliged to make arrange
ments to bay in the Southern interior
points.
How oan this state of things be reme
died?
It seems too bad, with snch a
strong position and everything in onr
hands, a comparatively few men should
be allowed to keep prices down and per
mit Europe to get her supply at a low
rate, when by some combination we
conld compel her to pay ns a fair price.
Say with a crop of 4,500,000 bales, of
which 1,500,000 are required in this
country, we have three million for ex
port. These 3,000,000 we want to sell,
and Europe mast have them or stop her
mills.
The question is, shall we endeavor to
let Europe have these cottons as low as
possible, or shall we, as any merchants
wonld, try to get the best attainable
prices ?
If England or franca produced an
article’ of which they had' almost a
monopoly that we mast have or stop
onr mills, I don't think we would see
them fighting among themselves to see
how low they conld sell that artiole to
ns.
When we consider that 10. per ponnd
on the three millions exported is $13,-
500,000, and 2c. is $27,000,000, it be
comes a subject of great importance to
all the eonntry; because we oannot ben
efit the planters of the South without
also increasing the prosperity of the
whole country. My idea is to have the
bank officers consider well this subject.
If therie is anything safer than an ad
vance to merchants on their notes, back
ed by cotton at these prices, with a fair
margin, I don’t know what it is. Let
the merchants make fair adyanpea to the
planters op thpif Sfdps- to be held nntil
fair prices oau be Obtained. Let the
banks help ths merchants in this.
Let the ootton come forward from the
plantations to some interior town or
port, there to be held where it can be
well insured.
Keep the cotton in this country nntil
Europe has to send over here for it at a
fair price.
If this policy ia adopted we wonld
soon have an end to the cable offers to
Europe, and business wonld be brought
back to its legitimate channels.
Nothing in the above must be con
strued into tire i4ea that planters should
hold bade their crops. As they have al
ready delivered against their contracts
for gnano in November, so they should
promptly fulfil] their engagements to
country storekeepers. merchants, hands
?n4 others- otffer course ifonld he
contrary tp commercial Jionor and in
tegrity, ana would block the f heels of
commerce- ' _
We are of the opinion that it mutt be
good, tor the simple reason that so many
praise it and physicians prescribe it.
We mean Dr. Bulrs Cough Syrup.
NAMING GRANT’S BABY.
The War In Which It Wa* Done— One et
the Yerr Oldest Inhabitant* Tarns Vp
With the True Story—lt Is Perhaps Wise
te Receive It “ Cara Bushel of Salt.*’
[From the Pittsburg Telegraph..]
We need hardly say that we do not
vouoh for the following story famished
by a very venerable citizen of Ohio, who
claims to have taken part in the alleged
transaction. Naturally an Ohioan gets
an office, and if he fails, we presume
that he is excusable for drawing a long
bow npon old reoolleotionß :
One beantifni Summer twilight, some
years ago, I was reposing on my neck in
a large arm chair, with my feet resting
caressingly npon the mantelpieee, when
I was suddenly interrupted from my
reverie by my only son— oommonly
called Jim—(smart child) poshing his
head through the half open door and
shontiDg at the top of his voioe :
“ Old Grant has a baby!”
This communication startled me ; not
that I was alarmed at the idea of Mr.
Grant being in such a preoarious condi
tion, for I knew tbat my son bad mis
represented tbe faets of the ease, but I
was filled with consternation at tbe
alarming way in which the Grant family
was slowly but surely increasing.
“Boy or girl ?” I inquired.
“Boy.”
“Have they a name for it ?”
“No, and that’s jnst what’s raising a
rumpns. They are having a high old
time over there. Old Grant’s rarin’
round, and he wants the child named
Dan Webster Grant, while Mrs. Grant’s
ma wants him named George Francis T.
Grant. She says she thinks George
Francis Train is an angel in disguise,
and old Grant says ‘mad’ baokwards
‘George Francis Train !’ ”
“Mr. Grant’s ma says ‘call him Henry
Ward B. Grant,’ and then old General
says ‘mad’ baokwards again. He doesn’t
care what they call him, only so they
don’t call him too late for his wittles.
“The baby’s Aunt Jemintha says to
call him Hannibal Carthage Grant, and
then old Grant says why don't they call
him Belzebub at once if they want
such old-fashioned names ?
‘•And then iu comes the preacher and
says, kind of solemn like, ‘call him
Obediab Ezekiel Grant,’ and then the
Old man says, ‘O, gosh !’ and then the
preacher says, ‘Mr. Grant, I am oome
over at such language,’ and then old
Grant put on his hat and went down to
the tannery awful mad.
“Then the baby’s aunt Vemes says
‘look at the old fool; he’s indigent be
cause we don’t call the dear cherub
Jesse, as if we would oall him that out
landish name. I want to know if we
haven’t got something to say about that
child, when its my sister’s own. As for
me, I propose Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.,
Grant, and that’s what the child's agoin’
to be ealled, you bet.’
“After a bit old Grant eomes ruahin’
back, brings an awfnl lot of people with
him, and after a good bit of talking they
got a hat and everybody wrote a name
ou a piece of paper, and ’Squire Quack
enbosh says : ‘Now, yon all understand,
the fifth one draws the prize ;’ and then
he says to me, ‘Sonny, come up and pick
out five slips of paper, one at a time.’
Of course, I did as I was told.
“The first one I handed to the preach
er, and he read out loud ‘Claude Mel
notte Grant,’ the second one 'Richard
Plantagenety Grant,’ and the third one
■Charles Spurgeon Grant.' and the fourth
one was ‘J. Wilkes Booth Grant, ’ and
then the Squire said, 'Now, be careful,
sonny. Remember the fifth one draws
the prize, and then 1 drew out another
one, and the preacher read with an awfnl
loud voice, ‘Old-Man-Afraid-of-His-
Horse Grant,’ and Mr. Grant said,
‘Hold on; that’s too thin ; dash me if
I’ll take that,’ and Squire Quackenbosh
said it would hardly do, and said we
would commence all over again, and no
Indian name allowed in the hat.
‘So eyery person wrote new names,
and the preacher says : ‘Now, no jokes
thiß time; we desire names that are ap
propriate, and the third one t hall be ap
plied to this dewdrop fresh from
Heaven.’ ‘Yes,’ says old Grant, ‘the
third time's the charm, and no shenani
gan.
*|£Now, bub,’ says the ’Squire, ‘draw,’
and I drew. The first one was ‘Scratch
mybackaudillscratehyourbackiski Grant,
and the second one was ‘Biobard Tur
pin Grant,’ and the third one was ‘Ulys
ses Smith Grant,’ andjwhile every one
was boller’in ‘bully ! bully !’ old Grant
said that he had been bull-dozed into
the thing and then he said romething
about the Returning Board considering
the civil service reform syndicate in re
gard to something or other and that he
would get a name for that child ‘if it
took him all Summer.'”
A WOMAN
[Eureka (JVpo.) Republican]
Late last night the monotony of one
of our secoud-story sporting rooms was
relieved by the advent of a woman,
closely veiled, accompanied by an es
cort. Her presenoe of course excited
considerable curiosity, and the game
(faro) was temporarily interrupted, the
players and dealers taking more than or
dinary interest in the new comer. They
recovered their composure, however, on
failing to penetrate her veil, and contin
ued their game, keeping a good watch
though, lest she might draw some in
strument from under the ample folds of
her dress, and castigate or scatter the
crowds from their wrpetje \yi(h the tiger.
A number thought she was an outraged
wife in seiarph of her dear “hubby,”
whose absence she had mourned, and
whom she wanted tp catch at thp green ta
ble. All conjectures were, however, soon
dispelled, The page peeper bad risen from
his seat and turned in his checks, when
the fair incognito deliberately planted
herself in his chair, opened the case
keeper, piled up several tweuty-dollar
rolls of silver alongside of it and ap
peared ready for business. All eyes
were turned upon her, and Purdy’s nim
ble fingers trembled perceptibly. A
slight paleness was visible in the deal
er’s face, but, like the boy who stood
upon the burning deck, ho was bound
to stand it, win or lose. Luck favored
the fair stranger, and from white checks
she turned to red and the red resolved
themselves into bine ($25 each). Bhe
kept the cases carefully and played with
all the pluck of pu ols hand at the busi
ness. She w° and lost, but kept
gathering in the blue 1 checks. Finally,
when she was a couple of hundred dol
lars ahead, she handed them to the deal
er and rf ceiyed hef eagles in exchange,
and, with jier espoft, lpft the rpoqi and
disappeared from view. The eyes of the
boys stuck out like bungholes on a mo
lasses barrel, and they looked at each
other in perfect bewilderment. They
were mystified by the fair stranger be
yond conception, and it was some time
before the game was resumed. Who she
was no one knew, but they would give
something to find out.
SEN*AT)ON OF HANUINO.
1 _iiiL ?!••<• •Cl
Does it Ilorl—Staiemeiit of a Man that Was
’ Huog.‘ * ' '■
A correspondent writes a bt. Louis
paper in the following strain ;
Recently you repeated, in an article
headed “Reform in Capital Punish
ment,” what you have frequently said
before, viz: “The neck is not broken,
and the victim perishes by the long and
painfal process of strangulation.” The
experience of John Burns, an old and
heavy citizen of this county, load Y aae
to believe that strangulation df hanging,
like strangulation by drowhing, is not a
very painful process after all. "
Some time' during the War ruffians,
who desired to he thought bushwhack
ers, came upon Mr. Burps at his house,
intending to cofqpel'bi(n to give up
some money that' fie wa s supposed to
have. Burns had none, and told them so.
They aid not t>elieyp biffii and
their next qiqve was to out 'a cord
out of the bedstead, tie oue end
around Burns’ neck, throw the
other over a joist overhead, and pull
him up till his feet were clear of the
floor. This they did four times, ques
tioning him between whiles. Burns
says that he lost consciousness every
time as aeon as his feet left the floor;
that he felt no pain at any time; that
after the second hoist he meany to sham
continued inssusibjßy wnen they let
him drop again (to lower him they let go
the rope and he fell on the floor), but it
was beyond his power. His first con
sciousness was that he had raised his
body to a sitting posUiou, whioh put
shamming out of the question. He ex
perienced no pain when the rope tight
ened, nor* when he was suspended, nor
after he was'reissued, except the sore
ness caused'on the skin bv'the chafing
of the rope. ‘ ■ T ' ”
Mr. Burns is a man o( troth, and there
is no reasop tg doubt big statements.
His weight was sufficient to tighten the
rope well, being about two hundred
pounds.
NEVADA’S WONDER.
MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OP
PURS GOLD AND SILVER.
A Gentleman and Soldier who Turned Her
mit-Led to the Treasure Mountain by an
Indian Gnlde—An Astounding Npectncle.
Carson, November 27.—For many
years there ha* been living in the
Walker river range of mountains a man
named Algernon B. Grant, who very
rarely sought the haunts or habitations
of white men. His ostensible oconpa
tion was proßpeeting for precious metals,
bnt the fact of his long and uninterrupt
ed residenoe in these wilds pointed to
the fact of his non-success in that di
rection. Mr. Grant was in this city a
few days sinoe, and the following is an
extraot from his wonderfnl and interest
ing history : He is a native of Bourbon
county, Kentucky, having been born
there in 1825. He was sent to Harvard
College, where he graduated in 1846,
second in his class. In 1851 he was ad
mitted to practice in the Supreme Court
of Kentuoky. He enjoyed a lnerative
praotice in that city nntil the breaking
out of tbe rebellion, when he entered
the Confederate service, receiving a
commission as major in one of the Ken
tucky regiments. In the meantime Grant
had married and gathered a little family
around him. These he at that time had
taken to the Southern portion of Ken
tucky, and placed them under the pro
tection of relatives.
When tho war ended he pictured to
himself in rapturous delight the happi
ness that would fall to his lot when he
could once again gaze upon the faces of
his loving wife and dear children. He
took passage for Southern Kentncky.
Upon arriving at the spot where his
hopes and happiness were centred, there
awaited him nothing but a mass pf
charred ruins. The strong man dis
mounted from his horse and sat down
upon the ground, weeping like a child.
He learned that about a year before the
close of the war a small band of strag
gling troops had infested that portion of
Kentucky, and that the family of Grant
had been murdered, and the incendiary
torch was brought into play. In the
early Spring of 1860 he engaged pas
sage in a mule train which was then
about crossing tbe plains, and afterward
arrived in this State, and emigrated to
the most oxtreme southern end of the
Walker river mountains, where he has
been existing ever since, only at rare in
tervals seeing tba detested face of a
white man.
A number of the Walker river tribe
looked up to him with great reverence,
supposing him to he endowed with su
pernatural powers. About two months
ago one of these Indians, who had been
a recipient of speoial favors at the hands
of Grant, desirous of exhibiting his
gratitude, requested our hero to accom
pany him on a two days’ ramble through
the mountains, and he would show him
a oave wonderfully rich with gold aud
silver. What direction of the compass
the party followed, Grant is reluctant
about revealing. At all events, after
traveling about two days and a half, our
hero and his companion arrived at dusk
one evening in a narrow ounon or moun
tain gorge, enclosed on either side by
rugged, steep mountains. In this vi
cinity, the Indian said, the cave was lo
cated, A camp fire was lighted, aud
while Grant was pooking supper his
compauiop wept in search of the exact
locatiop gf the cave, so that no time
would be loot in finding it in the morn
ing, The Indian returned with joy im
printed upon his oopper oolored features,
and imparted to Grant the satisfactoiy
tidings that he had found the oave with
out difficulty, and that notwithstanding
the darkness which then prevailed the in
terior of this wonderful vault was as light
as noonday. At an early hoar next morn
ing, after traveling in this canon, which
is many miles in length, for an hour or
maybe a little less, the Indian pointed
to a pile qf granite of immense weight
staoked up against thp cyagged side of
a mqnster mbfintain, and tfild Grant
that by removing the boulders an en
trance'to the cave could be effected.
The two men immediately aet to work at
the herculean task, which occupied them
nearly two hours. When the obstruc
tion was relieved all that could be seen,
was an opening leading into the moun
tain, of dimensions only great enough
to admit the bodies of two largely de
veloped men; but the interior was as
dark as Erebus. Grant ventured into
this opening to the distance of about
ten feet, but the inteusity of the dark
ness precluded him from seeing his
hand before his face. He cried out to
his companion for pome burning sage
brush, which was immediately thrust
intp thp paye; but. strange to relate, this
artificial fight W9uld not illuminate the
darknpss. Here wqs a nipe pass. Grant
emerged from his subterranean visit and
consulted with his semi-savage com
panion as to the most expedient means
to be employed in the emergency ; it was
useless to seek for gold or anything else
in so dark a place where artificial light
proved of no avail. The Indian then
repeated his story of the illumination
which he saw in the cave the preceding
night. Although this yarn sounded
rather improbable in the ears of an in
telligent white man, yet the Indian was
so earnest and sincere, to out
ward appearances, totß "our hero
deoidad to remain until the stars
6hme ' out and determine whother
there was any truth in his com
panion’s fabulous narration. The men
returned to the oamping ground of the
previous night and brought their traps
to the moqth of the mysterious cave. It
sepmed as if that day never would draw
to a close, so great was Grant’s impa
tience; blit as twjlight was approaching
a slight glim W e T Wfte fliepeypfbfe at the
mouth of the vault, yet the blackest
darkness mortal ever beheld was still
holding sway therein. But gradually,
as night was falling, an unnatural light
was making itseif apparent, and at nine
o’clock that evening a ray of brilliant
noonday light shot out from the open
ing of that wonderful subterranean pas
sage. For the first time in many years
Grant gave vent to a shout of delight.
The Indian’s tale of seeming fiction and
improbability was true. sight was
so grand, so vyonderful, and so magnifi
cent, tfiat for a few momenta Grant was
rooted to the ground by a combination
of terror and admiration. After a while
he and’ companion entered the caye, but
the light Was 90 piercing apd brilliant
that foy a few sec.oidg tfie pqir could see
nothing; ‘their vision sepmed tp, be lost;
but graduqliy their pyoa Became accus
tomed to the unnatural brilliancy of
light, aud the sight which met their
gaze no person can depict. The walls
and ceiling of this passage were covered
with burnished gold and silver, the
bulk of which comprised thousands of
tons. Grant relates that the first sight
of these treasures terrified nim,' but," af
ter regaining bis seli-possesmon, Se and
the Indian'made a tour of exploration.
This cave is’ about one mile in length,
150 feet in width, and seventy fept high.
The interior of thip immenap grotto is
arohed airplay fo gu old gothic church,
supported by large alabaster-like
pillars, entwined by heavy golden
and silver wire of the dimensions of a
man’s finger, like the growth of ivy, and
in a style of grandeur and magnificence
that could never be produced by human
hands. These pillars seem to have been
placed in position by a provident na
ture, to support the ceilings of
the grotty ; Y auted by thousands of
ton* ©i gold an d silver wife ahd ingots
wrought into the mbst fantastic shapes.
Besides the incalculable treasures, this
vast cave contains chambers and domes
of the most architectural designs, mar
vellous avenues and Utile lakes, the lat
ter alive with fish of every color of the
rainbow, a gorgeous and indisaribable
sight, indeed, afi (ike an
improbably talp. but Grant vows that
his sfqiepieiit is one oi absolute verac
ity, from Alpha to Omega. One of the
moat unaooountable features about this
cave is the unnatural light at night,
which. Grant says, is not phosphores
cent (he being somewhat of a scientist),
and the unheard of and impenetrable
darkness during the day. Grant asserts
that there are millions unon millions
of pure gold and m that vault,
and he seaaa to* share them with those
whe have been kind to him in bygone
days. He is noW en route for
▼ill®, By•> and bas with him several
hundred pounds qf jold taken from the
cave, to aeec out some of, his old
, friends, whom he will bHng out heyp as
early as possible. '
‘ v
THjK qptu V.
Tfce New Verb talon League tpe
Pre(4Sv
ifobAßgnyiiL Ppoerober 11.—The
fifteenth annual report of the Union
Leagae endorses the President e South
ern policy. Goal advanced forty oents
a ton. Crowley's cotton mill burned,
and one hundred men are ousted.
$2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
THE SIX-BUTTON PRINCIPLE.
Awful Discovery of Koine Lnilles of South
ern Pennsylvania.
IIV. I'. Times.]
Although tbe female dress reformers
always demonstrate at their annual con
vention that the practice of supporting
stockings by what are delicately termed
ligatnres insures the moral and physical
rain of the sex, no snocessful substitute
for the denounced article of dress has
yet been invented. Oertain dress re
formers have, it is true, devised a sys
tem of halyards, brails, and downhaiils,
which they aver are far superior to the
deadly ligature, but the intricacy of all
this running rigging, and the difficulty
whioh inexperienced persons find in its
management, have prevented it from
coming into use. The iuexporienced
woman when thus rigged is very apt to
make mistakes, and to find herself
scudding under bare poles, in conse
quence of having hauled away on tlie
down haul when she had merely intend
ed to take a small pnll at the halyards.
Thus, few persons except dress re
formers are rigged with the improved
stocking gear, aud even these confess
that, for the purpose of catching an
early morning train, the despised liga
tnre has its manifest advantages.
About two months ago the ladies of
three contiguous oounties in I’ennsyl
vania were successively visited by a
slight, graceful and unassuming young
woman, who announced that she was the
agent of a “Women’s Dross-Reform
Benevolent Association,” and that she
desired to call their attention to anew
invention of immense hygienic value.
The Dew invention consisted of the ap
plication of tho sir-button glove princi
ple to hosiery. Of coarse this is a deli
cate subjeot, but, in the interest of re
form and public morality, it must be
discussed. It is idle for us to ignore
the existence of stockings, and it is cow
ardly to shrink from performing a pub
lic duty because it involves an allusion
to a delicate topic, Let us, then, go
boldly forward aud relate the strange
conduct of the unassumiug vouug wo
man, as reported among the police news
of a Pennsylvania paper.
While the substitution of buttons for
ligatures or running rigging struck the
ladies of the three counties aa an admit
able invention, the amazing cheapness
with whioh the agent of thp alleged asso
ciation offerea to sell the garments
oreated immense enthusiasm. She said
that the only object of the association
was to do good, and that it was there
fore prepared to sell tho best quality of
six-buttoned goods at one-half their
original cost, In confirmation of this
she submitted lithographic copies of
letters from President Hayes, Mr. Til
den, Peter Gooper, Stanley Matthews
and other eminent statesmen, nil of
whom asserted that they felt that the in
troduction of six-buttoned hosiery was
the greatest boon which could be confer
red upon the women of America, and
simultaneously ordered six dozen pairs
of assorted sizes to be sent to their re
spective addresses. In addition to these
letters the agpqt exhibited a sample of
the garment in question, which appear
ed to be of the very best quality. The
opportunity was one which no prudent
lady could permit to pas3 uuimproved,
and nearly every one to whom tho agent
applied ordered at least hair a dozen
pairs, to paid for upon delivery.
There was, however, one little pie
liminary whioh tho agent insisted was
indispensable, if she was to execute her
orders to the satisfaction of her cus
tomers. The human mind shrinks from
mentioning this preliminary, but it can
not be ignored. If the were
to be of any use they must fen so placed
in relation to the buttou holes that the
garment wonld be neither too tight nor
too loose. Hence, when the agent pro
duced a tape measure and a note book,
her view of the matter was at once con
ceded to bs correct, and the agent’s
note book was furnished with the re
quired dqta, r jphus, that unassuming
agent wept from house to house,
throughout almost the whole of three
counties, cheering the female popula
tion with the hope of miraculously
cheap and beautiful hosiery, and tilling
her note book with satistics. Unfor
tunately, that otherwise astute agent
drank too much whisky at the last town
whioh she visited, and, being arrested
for disorderly conduct, confessed that
she was a man.
When tbe Audios who had orderod six
button hosiery learned tbe truth as to
the unassuming agent and tbe fate
which bad befallen him, they and
ed the wretch with gvhfti vigor, and
were unanimously vJ the opinion that a
combination of yfild horses and red-hot
pincers could alone do justice to him.
To this outburst of indiguation succeed
ed the terrible thought, what had the
felonious agent dojio with his collection
of statistics? Naturally, this thought
led straight to hysterica, and for the
next week the aale of aal volatile in cen
tral Pennsylvania increased to an un
precedented extent.
A deputation of indignant fathers
waited upon the inconceivable villaiu iu
jail and demanded the immediate de
struction of his note book. To thi* re
quest he declined to tie ad
mitted that his association
did nqt he had no inten
tion of executing the orders which his
deceived customers had given him, but
he explained that he was an earnest re
former, and that he intended, publish
the statistics in in order that
tbe medieaj might become
convinced of tbe blighting effect of the
ordinary ligature. Nothing could shake
his determination. He as,id tha,t he had
a great duty to perform, and that much
as it pained him to grieve anybody, he
must perform that duty. The indignant
parents left his cell much cast down in
spirits; and after vainly applying to the
local Court for an injunction forbidding
the false agent to publish his statistics,
went home and reported their failure to
their wives and daughtefs.
The one question now agitating the
public mind in Pennsylvania is whether
that wretched felon will really publish
his statistics. The is one
which cannot Lo contemplated without
a shudder; but af tbe same time it is
possible that there is more or luas merit
in the pretended plan uf adapting the
six-button glove principle to more eso
teric garments, and that the pretended
reformer has really solved the problem
with whioh dtqaa reformers
have proved, incompetent to
grapplf,
A PARTIMJ SHUT,
Pinehbaek’M Withdrawal Prom the Cont?st
lor Senator—What lie Bayt A
Washington, Pinch
beck, in h 4 Wtfcr tp Governor Nicbolls
announcing bis retirement from tbe oon
-1 test a seat in tbe JJnited States Sen
ate, says:. “I deem it proper as a mat
ter of justice to myself and to my friends
to direct attqntipn to. tpe exceptional ac
tion bad in my case, especially as the
| same appears in contrast with the
1 prompt and partisan support of Govern
or Kellogg. I submitted to the decision
of the Senate on the assumption that
the honorable Senators were not only
honest in the grave constitutional ob
jections that they raised,, Vt were so
far acting from a npgyiction as wc uld
authorize tbf expectation of consistency
when a similar case should
! be presented for their consideration.
Now, I find when Governor Kellogg pre
sents a claim eapeyially like my own,
but teat the gentlemen who so
earnestly cpinbated my claim promptly
• and witbonf hesitation admit and de
fend bis. It both my credulity
and charity id concede either sincerity
or oonaiatenijy to Kepublioon Senators,
who, >. earnestly opposed my elaim from
1878 to 18% and so promptly and solid
ly supported the new Senator from
Louisiana.”
A IIRAINAUK CAME.
The City of New Orleans hf a Law
Salt.
Washing*, December IL—The
drejnage case Of Davidson va. tbe city
of New Qrleans, came np to-day in the
Supreme Court of tbe Pnited States on
a writ of error from the Supreme Court
of Louisiana, under the fourteenth
amendment. Tbe points argued were
the depreciation of property resulting
from the Mississippi and Mexican Gulf
Ship CfUm< Company act, by reason of
jU axing an exborbitant rate for level
ing and ditching; by season of its con
fiscating the land which it pretends to
and by reason of its authorizing
U personal judgment which might en
gulf the fortunes of an owner of a swamp
lot. Thq oify of New Orleans
claimed t 9, be exercising powers which
were aot subject to review under the
Fourteenth Amendment, The case con
tinues to-morrow. Jas. D. Hill opened
the case of the plaintiff in error. P.
Phillips continues the argument to-mor
row for tbe city of New Orleans.
THE STATE.
THE PEOPLE AM) THE PAPERS*
Talbot boasts of some fine hogs.
cry little matrimony is reported in
Atlanta.
The Georgia State Grange is in session
at Macon.
Christmas trees may now be left out
in the frost.
Athens has received 21,200 bales of
cotton this year.
Morgan county’s wagon trains arestill
lengthening out.
Noisy boys iu Athens iuterfere with
shows at the theatre.
Wheat sowing aud hog killing are now
occupying the rural mind.
® r - Potter is to remain at the
Athens Methodist Church,
xr A , co^d?e d girl was burned up near
Newton Factory the other day.
Mr. D. C. Dunlap, of Meriwether,
lost his steam gin by fire last week.
Mr. li. G. Williams, a well known
merchant of Columbus, died Monday
A Masonic lodge in Franklin, Houston
county, was burned up the other day.
■d- gypsy band lias been swapping
ft d lies around Griffin reoently.
There’s a Hawkins county spring
which ebbs and flows every two hours.
Ten thousand dollars changed hands
on the result of the election iu Atlanta.
Mr. James Marslo was badly out up
Saturday night iu Conyers by a negro.
The ompioyes of the Atlautio ami
Gulf Road have organized a mutual aid
society. .
The Independents new rise up en
masse to assert that the “colored troops
fit nobly,” r
The Covington Star wishes the Geor
gia Railroad Directors to reduce the
passenger fare.
Mr. ,T. W. Wallaoe, of Augusta, yes
terday conducted the singing at the Y
M. C. A, iu Atlanta.
• ?? me one l" r ' e d to murder a Mr. Clina
in Troup county the other day. A bait
barely missed his head.
A fish trap in Jackson county, on the
Mulberry river, roped in fifty pounds of
sucker fish the other day.
l.he Athens Commercial Reporter
“still pursues” success with a vim. Its
boy-aditors deserve to prosper.
Ex-Governor Bullock is now standing
his trial in Atlanta. What his offense
is, we don’t exaotly remember.
A man iu Habersham county recently
“ homesteaded,” aud it took the last ear
of corn he had to pay the costs.
Columbus is well pleased with her
town ordinanoo requiring street tax to
be paid before municipal registration^
’Possums are being torn limb Siona
limb by various Georgia epicures, and!
are consequently served up in pa-totters..
Mr. Charles Seiler, of Savannah, was
ou Tuesday thrown from the top of his
beer wagon, was run over and badly
hurt.
One ballot in Perry on election, day
read; “For the capital—Gum Swamp
or Stone Mountain ; I don’t care a d—a
whioh.”
Mr. Rhea, a farmer, one of tho oldest
and most highly respected citizens of
Jefferson county, died on the Ist of De
cember,
The “silver-tongued” orators of Geor
gia are those of the “nine” who will ad
vocate iu Congress tho remonetization
of specie.
A post office has benn established at
Brown’s Crossing, o.n the Macon and Au
gusta Railroad, between Milledgevilla
and Macon,
Hon, John H, James, of Atlanta, gives
it ns bio opinion that Georgia bonds will
advance on account of the ratification of
the Constitution of 1877.
When a Colnmbus man wishes to re
member anything he puts a brick in hia
pocket. When he desires to forget any
thing, he hoists it into bis hat.
The Macon battalion is looking
around for a Colonel. Over here they
could piok up one at every saloon, not
counting cigar store precincts.
The beautiful new steamship, City of
Savannah, arrived in Savannah Tuesday
morning, having mndo the trip from
New York to Tybeb in 8 hours.
The young ladies of the Marietta Fe
male College are publishing a beautiful
little pappy, called tho Calliopean Cri
liquet We wish them every success.
The Covington Star thinks that the
appointment of Colonel E. B. Purcell,
as deputy, will give strength and popu
larity to Marshal Fitzsimon’s adminis
tration,
The Union ami Recorder is well per
suaded that the future well being of
Milledgoville is not dependent upon any
such issues as those that have just been
settled.
In caso of Mr. Hilliard’s rejection by
tho Senate, the Constitution has an At
lanta man to touch off for Dom Pedro'S
court—Hou. W. L. Scruggs, ex-Ministex
to Bogota.
A man named Jim Taylor, near Haw
kinsville, shot down a colored boy on a
raft, and jumping overboard, tlie',mur
derer swam hut was subsequent
ly arrested, and is iu danger of lynohing
from the blacks.
The Atlanta book and ladder truck
upset Monday night in running to
a fire, and all on board, including Sam
W. Small, Esq, were pitched off anil
seriously bruised.
One vote elect* Mr. Chan. Taliaferro,
Representative in Haralson. Some man
having failed to pay his poll tax, or in
timidated by hia mother-in-law, failed
to vote, evidently.
Ground work upon whioh the now
Capitol is to be erected by the Atlanta
City Counoil will doubtless be commenc
ed at an early day. Como, gentlemen,
up with the edifice.
Mr. J. C. Newman, of Houston cx>nn
ty, shot his brother a few days ago.
The shot were small, some penetrating
the forehead so far that tha physiciana
were afraid to probe in.
A Mr. Stewart, in Troup county, was
called to the door oi his house the other
night by a nesso tenant, who shot and
killed him with & gun. Stewart’s neigh
bors are highly indignant.
Hon. John Morrissey, of New York,
is greatly improving in health in Savan
nah. lie intended originally to go to
Havana, but he has changed his mind.
Ho will bo back home by Christmas.
Hon, Jimel Turnbull, the eloquent
“Jay-haw-k of the Mountains,” fell be
; hind hia apponent, D. Crane Oliver, in
Banka, by twenty votes. Banks thus
pays a “score’’ and swaps an old Roland
for anew Oliver.
The Macou Teltgraph says: “At a
fire in Franklin the other day one mer
chant fainted, another went straight
way to bed, and a doctor commenced
vomiting. The whisky must be very
1 unpalatable in that section.”
The Oonyers Courier comes out this
week with its vignette reversed, tbe na
tional banner flaunting, Union down.
This suggests that the editor is stand
ing oju his head, else wherefore this
whyuess, as Uncle Jim Anderson has it ?
Governor Z. B. Vance answers the
lecture committee of the Atlanta Y. M.
0. A. that he cannot leave the State of
North Carolina to lecture while he is
the Governor, and as he does not feel
like resigning for the sole purpose of
lecturing, they will not bo able to get
biffl.
lutcreatiD to Miller*.
[Louisville Courier-Journal.}
Hon. Albert Willis, Congressman from
this District, has introduced into Con
gress a petition of W. C. Smith, one of
oor leading millers, which petition is
also signed by all the other millers and
manufacturers of flour in this city and
the State. The petition asks for an in
vestigation into the circumstances con
nected with the re-issne of patent No.
5,841 in favor of Cochran and others ;
also, that the Attorney-General be re
quested to institute a suit for tbe can
cellation of that patent, and that tbe
patent laws, be amended so as to pre
vent tbe fraudulent issue of patents.
The petition was referred to the
Committee on Patents. This is a mat
ter which interests all millers of tbe
United States. The firm of which Gov.
0. 0. Washburn, of Minnesota, is a
member, owning the largest mill in the
United States, was sued several month*
ago by one Cochran, claiming a patent
on a certain “new process of makiug
flour,” as it is called, by the use of cer
tain machinery. This suit was brought
as a test case, and decided in tbe Courts
of the State in favor of tbe so-called
patentee, whose claims, tbe millers as
sert, are fraudulent, and who, if sus
tained, can in reality levy a tax on every
loaf of bread eaten in this country. The
object of tbe petition of Mr. Smith and
others can, therefore, be easily per
ceived.
Lawrence, Kansas, December Ji,
The Simpson Bank, of this isjty, went
into voluntary liquidation yesterday and
J. S. Chew was appointed receiver. It
was the oldest banking institution iu
he cUy. It is believed that the aasufu,' 1
Miot.sacrificed,
•pfora iu fall.