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THK lIKKOIIKTIZVnfIII OF SILVER.
On the lsth of January last Senator Joseph
E. Bbown delivered a very able speech In
the United States Senate, upon the follow
ing resolutions offered by him:
/.'esolrrd, That it is inexpedient and unwise
to contract the currency by the withdrawal from
circulation of what are’known as silver certifi
catos, or to discontinue tr further restrict the
coinage of silver.
/.*€so/red turther. That gold and silver coin,
based upon a prop* r ratio of equivalence be
tween the two metals, and issue of paper, predi
cated upon and convertible into coin on demand,
c •nstitotu the proper circulating medium of this
country.
Commencing at the outset with the decla
ration that, intrinsically, gold and silver
are less valuable than iron, Senator Brown
proceeds to show why they were adopted by
the nations of the world as a circulating
medium. They were well adapted, he said,
to tho use intended, as they arc easily
molded into the proper shape and upon
them can be indelibly impressed the Htamp
of the Government authority, which gives
to each a specific value, us compared with
other articles of commerce by which we test
the value of such articles. Again, these
metals seem to have been intended by the
Creator for the uses to which they have been
applied, as they are found in larger or
smaller quantities in every grand division
of the gl< ibe, and they are now here found
in such quantities as to exceed the legitimate
demands of the world for a proper circulat
ing medium. Divest them of their value as
a circulating medium, or as a standard of
tho values of other articles, aud they would
be less useful to maukiad and less val
uable than iron, which is used in
making the tools and implements of every
trade and calling, in the construction
of our railroads, tho supply of the im
mense motive power used by laud and
water, the building of our bouses, the con
struction of our ships at sea, nnd the ciotli
iug of our men of war upon tho ocean. In
point of intrinsic value to mankind there
would bo no comparison between iron on
the one hand aud gold and silver on the
other, were it not that the two last men
tioned metals have for thousands of years
been used by common consent as a medium
«>f exchange. The value of gold or silver is
not, therefore, found in its intrinsic worth,
but it is found in the laws of the different
nations uud the laws of trade; and it is
worth more or loss as the nations stamp
their signets of value upon it for a larger or
lauallvr amount. Mere than three-fonrths
of the whole population of the nations of
the earth use stiver or gold as tho standard.
Senator Brown goes on to show how silver
was demonetized in the United States by a
•sort of trick, which escaped notice at the
.tittle. He says:
But there came a time when the English Oov
vroussnt, whose colonics, I believe, produce a
greater proportion of gold than of silver, dis
carded as a medium of exchange the silver
which <V>r centuries, by the common consent of
•the civilized world, had been'used for that PUi
(Kise. Germany, another great European Fow
*C„ at a later period was induced to follow the
lead of Great Britain in tho demonetization of
silver. Other small Towers followed, and the
/longresa of the United States, on tho 13th of
February, 1H75, passed a statute which author
ized the coiuage ol the trade-doilar of 420
grab.** of standard silver, aud not the old dol
lar of pur fathers of 412 V, grains. Tho act aDc
provide*' for other smaller altver coins, and de
clared tha* said coina should be a legal tender
in payment of any debt not exceeding $5, in
any one payment. Aud the codifiers of our
taws, at a later period, gave this statute a
broader li tit mb' b/ declaring in the Code that
the silver coins of the United States should be
a legal tender at their nominal value for any
amouut not exceeding ss;u any one payment.
It is believed that very few members of
either House of Congress understood the
ct«ope and intent of the act of i. 873, and
<h« people generally felt that they had been
*.straged when the set was made public and
its provisions undor-tood. And their in
dignation wan the greater when they learned
ihat the Code hod been made broad enongh
t<* cover all silver coina of all the denomina
tions coined in the United States, no mat
ter at w hat period they may have been is
sued from the mint. We were thou told
by the representatives of the money
power of the country that it lout
become necessary to demonetize silver,
as the quantity was becoming so great
as to destroy tbe proper equilibrium
between it and gold, and to tender it un
waited as a medium of exchange. And to
'sustain this theory it was affirmed that the
esojae quantity of silver which had previous
ly i*v<* used in clothing the legal ten
der silver dollar, and which is now used,
was as a legal tender mors than the eqniva
in value of the same number of grains
driver. In other words, that the silver
out at which the Government of the United
States had coined a silver dollar, stamped
with the authority of the Government as a
legal tender, was not worth a legal dollar—
'hat this result had been produced by the
over-production ot silver. He denies the
corre*tii*-ss of this position, and gives in
strong torn)* his reasons for jo doing. He
maintains that it is not on aoootuat of over- i
production of silver, or of the fact that tjje ,
svtd ratio between silver and gold has been
■destroyed, bat that it grew oat of the fact
that the British Government and tile Ger
man Government had demonetized aiiver &a
a legal circa laving medium. He says
1 am aware that it was predicted when we re
monetized silver in the l T nited State*, and au
thorized the coinage at from two to fear tuil
bous of dollars per month of that metal, that the
Nicer coin would become so plentiful as com
pared with gold that other nations would im
tx rt their silver to the United States for sale,
that we would have t o pay balance* abroad
iB gold; that our sold, the more valuable arti-
would be purchased by aiiver, the less val
uable ,’rUcle, trom other countries, and export
e»l from this country, leaving the United States
with a loev’ silver circulation, while Great Brit
an and Gem.’ 4nT maintained mouonietaiism in
cold which » 'aid soon compel other great
evonm ties to follow suit.
As a replv to this he quotes from the
quarterly report of tha Chief of the Bureau
of Statistics of the TrMih.7 Department of
the United States for the three months end
ing Jane GO, 1880, which also contain*
other statistics relative to the trade anu in
dustries of the United States.
Among those other statistics, I find on page ]
■l4-1 that there were imported into the United
States go! 1 and silver coin aud bullion during
the year ending June 3t>, 1881, a total of sllO,-
r.?r v t;i7 ih this amount there was $100,031,-
259 in gold, and $10,544,238 in silver, malting
the importation of gold during the last fiscal
year within a fraction of $lO for every $1 of
silver imported. Sow, let us look a moment at
the exports. Dur.ng the same period there
s ere exported tmm the United States in gold,
gout, bats, aud bullion, foreign and denies tic. a
total of $2.E*>5,132; and of silver $16,841,715
were exported. Thus, we see in its practical
working that there was in one year nearly ten
times as much gold as silver imported, and
nearly sever, times as much silver as gold ex
ported, after nearly $100,000,000 in silver had
jbeeu coined uuder the act of 1878.
'The following extract pats the matter in a
wtear tight :
The fact that the rako m France and most
other tumeUlUc nations va 15% to 1 while ours
a 16 to 1 shows that we Wave discriminated
aga.net silver, putting more silver or lees gold
-n the dollar than the just ratio. And this is de
monstrated ai practice, as the how of gold is 10
uor I to tin- United States, and the flow of silver
nearly 7 for I from the United States. Then,
those who maintain that the et 1 ver dollar as com
pared with die gold dollar does not contain
enough grains ol silver are really iu error, as is
clearly shown in practice, which is tbs best tett
of the correctness of a theory. One practical
fact is worth halls dozen theories that will not
work in practice.. It, then, we would do full
justice to our great eiirer mining interests in
this country, and would place silver and gold
on the proper ratio existing in most parts of the
world, we should put more gold into the stand
ard gold dollar than we now do if we maiQtain
the standard silver dollar at 412% grains. I
repeat, it is not true in practice, and the theory
that asserts it ia therefore erroneous, that 412%
grains of standard eilTer in this country is in
trinsically worth less than the legal-tender gold i
dollar. We have not fixed the ratio as to silver
too low, but if we have erred at all we have
fixed it too high, and if the trade dollar of 420 ;
grams of standard silver or 420 grains j
ot standard eilver in any other shape willj
sell in our market for less than a legal tender
dollar it grows out of the fact that we have by |
legislation discriminated against silver and in
favor of gold, and thereby depreciated the
price in the m&iket. A test which, under like !
unfavorable legislation, gold could endure no
tletter thau silver hts. Neither the people of
the United States nor tbe other great powers of
Europe look at present with favor upon the ac- j
tion of Great Britain and Germany in demone
tizing silver; and if the Government of the Uni- j
ted States wit! stand firmly upon the old rule, >
and, as the heaviest producer of both the pre
cious metals, give to each, to the extent of our
power, its proper position in tho currency of the
world, it will not, with the aid of the other bi- !
metallic powers, be manv years before the con- 1
test will be ended and silver coin will again oc
cupy its proper position, not only in the United •
States, but in every country in Europe, as it
Dow does in every country elsewhere: and the j
proper ratio of relative value will still he found -
to be from 15 to It; of eilver for 1 of gold.
He shows that so far from there being a
necessity for depreciating the valueof silver
in tho coinage on account of overproduc
tion. the value of gold should be depreciat
ed and the value of silver increased. In
other words, if either should be demonetiz
ed on account of overproduction, it should |
be gold, A'hich from half the amount of sil- j
ver produced during the eighteenth century
sprang during the twenty-nine years after
1850 to double tho amount of silver pro.
duced.
Mr. Jf.vons, an able British author, speak
ing of the policy of Great Britain and Ger
many in demonetizing silver and its effects
upon the commercial world, says :
The Nations of Europe constitute only a small
part of the Nations of the earth. The hundreds
of millions who inhabit India and China and
other parts of the Eastern and tropical regions
employ a silver currency, and there is not the
least fear that they will make any sudden
change in their habits. The Englieh Govern
ment has repeatedly tried to introduce gold
currency into her East India possessions, but
has always failed. The gold coins now circulat
ing there are supposed not to exceed one-tenth
of the metallic currency. Although the pour
ing out of forty or fifty millions sterling from
Germany may for some years depress the price
of the metal, it can be gradually absorbed with
out difficulty by the Eastern Nations, which have
for two or three thousand years received a con
tinual stream of the precious metals from Eu
rope. If the other Nations should, one after an
other, demonetize silver, yet the East may he
found quite able to absorb all that is thrown
upon it.
Congress, it is believed, at the instance
and certainly with the warm approbation of
the bondholders, the bankers, the capital
ists and the monopolists of this country,
passed the act to demonetize silver, thereby,
in ease of every indebtedness over five dol
lars, making gold the only legal metallic
tender in payment. Congress at that time
still refused to receive its own Treasury
notes in payment of duties on imports.
The Senator says:
Now, I desire not to be misunderstood on this
question. I stand firmly by the public credit.
1 am in favor of paying the last obligation of
the United States iu strict compliance with the
contract. Iu other words, lam for ttio strictest
good faith in the payment of the public debt as
a whole aud in every part. But I am not in i
favor of giving largo gratuities to the public j
creditor at the expense of the people of the
United States. In my opinion gold aud silver
of the legal standard with the present ratio of
equivalence in this country is a safe aud proper
currency to bo used by this Government and
by the people of this country iu the payment of
every debt o' every character. 'And I
am iu favor of maintaining such &
currency, aud of applying it alike to
all the creditors and all the people of
the United States. I am opposed to the con
traction of our greenback currency, and I
would reissue them in payment bv the Gov
ernment when redeemed, ftnt I am'in favor of |
redeeming the greenbacks whenever they are
presented by the creditor at par, in gold and
sitver of tlio old standard, just as I would pay
the bondholder at par in tkewame currency.
In other words, I am opposod to one currency
for the bondholders and another tor tho people
who hold gre-nbaeks or have other obligations
of the United States. I know the pnblic debt is
■Apred, aud the claims of the bondholder are of
as higher character as the claims of any other
creditor of the Government: but they are of no
higher dignity.
The act demonetizing silver and making
gold the only legal tender in payment of
debts over $5 wns followed by a contraction
of tbe enrrenoy. This was followed, in
September, 1873, by the great commercial
crash, and the contraction went on, and the
price of property went down, down. Sil
ver, iu which the Government had a right
by the contract to pay all the bonds, had
been demonetized; the commercial crash
had followed; the price of everything had
beeome greatly depreciated; gold would
buy in the market a much larger amount of
property than it would have purchased be
fore the demonetization of silver and before
the crash. The bondholders got the benefit
of this extraordinary state of things; the
people were the sufferers. It certainly can
not be aaid, then, that the United States
Government has dealt otherwise than liber
ally with the bondholders. He says again.—
The Secretary oi the Treaaury says the Gov
ernment is able to pay the bonds in gold. That
is true. The people of this country are able to
pay, within a reasonable time, the bonds in
gold, with 50 per cent, added. They arc able
to make a present to eacli bondholder of 50 per
cent, on the amount of his bonds. Blit upon
what principle of equity, justice, or common (
honesty can he demand it ? I protest against all '
.such gratuities to the bondholders and injustice I
to the people.
One ot the chief objections made to silver |
coin by its opponents was that it is bulky, j
heavy and inconvenient to handle, trans- j
port, or count in making payments. So is j
gold coin in a less degree. But this diffi- I
culty is met and overcome at once, in case j
of both metals, by the use of the silver or j
gold certificates. Instead of transporting ■
the coin from place to piaee, to be used in |
settlements or other transactions, the gold j
aud silver coin is deposited in a vault in |
the Treasury, that is perfectly burglar- ;
proof, in charge of tho proper officers and j
under the necessary guard; and, instead of
sending out ten silver dollars or ten gold
dollars the Treasurer issues a certificate
which represents ihe ten dollars in either
coin, which contains the pledge of the I
faith of the Government that the ten dol- i
lars in rain which the certificate represents i
is in the Treasury, payable to the bearer on j
demand. This eertisaate, in the shape of a j
Treasury note, ia transport*-*! and used in !
payment with all tne ease and facility of a
bank bill. The same rule which applies in
case of the ten dollars applies equally to
ten millions or a billion of dollars; the coin
lies m the Treaaury, and the certificates
which represent it go into circulation as
money in its place. Not a dollar of certifi
cate is issued without a dollar iu specie iu
the ‘ffressury which it represents.
This, in hie opinion—
Is the soundest w. 4 jjpwt reliable currency [
that can be used bv the Gv'-nimeut. It is not j
subject to any of the objections winch apply to
the old b» uking svstem, where the ban* yas ]
authorized to isefie three dollars in bills lor.
each dollar in specie. The Government issues
its certbicates dollar for debar with the coin in i
tbe Treasury. Whai better currency could any i
people desire ■ What sounder currency *i»d spy i
people ever possess * It meets fully the objec-v (
tion made to coin on amount of its being incon- j
venient to haudie, and sulvtitales in the place ;
of coin its representative iu paper, whvh is
convenient to handle. The representative is t
only equal in amount to the com represented.;
The depreciation of the representative is im
possible, because s dollar in legal tender coih .
lies in the Treasury ever ready to meet the de- j
ttsaml of the holder.
There is a large wear, aud consequent loss,
iu the handle.; of the coin, whether gold or sil
ver, whtU it passes from place to place, and *
from hand to hand in payment. But if it is laid
up securely iu the vault of the Treasure, and
its representative in paper pesees from place to
piece and from hand to hand in its sL-a4. there
q no wear of the coin, and no loss or ieprsou. j
tion >''« «*»** .“core.
It is r'll* the silver certificate, or the goid j
certificate issued a«r b? lost upon the ocean,
or burnt in a house, or othszwise destroyed, so *
that the holder loses just as us ,’oses a bank
bill. But he takes this risk tor the -wj enience i
of the circulation, just as he tikes it in cash oj
the bills of s bank. Jn tbe* cue of th£ lo§t j
tneate the Govern moot, representing the t»hole
people of the Cmtod States, holds the coin rep- 1
resented by the lest certificate as the money ot j
the people, when the certificate cannot be iden
tified and established. In case of a bank bin ,
the owner loses tbe amount just as he would ■
lose it in .case of the gold or silver certificate.
Id every view of it, therefore, tbe stiver oertifi- I
cate and the gold certificate would be a tetter :
currency for the people of the United States ;
thau the currency cow in use in the shape of
bank bills.
Senator Beovn says tn conclusion
I say nothing in reference to our banking sys
tem. ’That is a question I do not purpose ’ at>
present to consider. But I do say I would
never consent to the withdrawal of the silver
certificates or gold certificates, of ths kind
above mentioned, to make room for the circula
tion of bank bills. I would never do the peo
ple the injustice to* take from them the legiti
mate profits oi such a circulation that 1 might
give those profits to corporations, capitalists, or
organized monopolists. And why risk the con
t» action of the currency by withdrawing gold
add silver from circulation by their legitimate
representatives, leaving it in’ the hands of the
bankers to expand or contract at their will or as
their interest may dictate ?
finch a policy may serve the interest of the
few who have large wealth and enable them
greatly to increase their accumulations, but it
pan nerey benefit His laboring masses of our
people, the hardy sons of toil, who can earn
touir bread by the’sweat of the brow; and after
j till, whether in the field of production, the har
rest field, or the field of battle, they are the
irons and sinew and muscle and nerve of so
tiety.
The middle classes and laboring men of our
! country are always most prosperous when every
branch of industry is flourishing. When trade
is active our villages, towns, and cities are
; building np. When the products of our fac
j torie* and mines are in active demand; when
new nulroads are being constructed, new boats
put upon our rivers, and npw lines of steameis
| upon the ocean; when our machine shops arc
kept busy to make and repair motive power
and other means of transportation, then tho en
gines!, the machinist, the mechanic, and the
artisan find ready demand for their labor at
good prices, and "the farmer and planter re
munerative aud liberal prices for their produe-
I tions. This state of things can never exist
while the capitalists of the conntry, backed by
the Giveniment, pursue the policy"of contract
ing thß currency founded upon a specie basis,
which contraction drives new enterprises from
the field, destroys the demand for labor, re
duces the value of property, and produces dis
trust, depression, and bankruptcy.
*
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON,
a
(From a Staff Correspondent.)
Washington, D. C., February 4, 1882.
asked one of the best informed Southern
| men now in pnblic life what Dr. Felton
meant by posiDg as a “Jeffersonian Demo
crat.” He said that old-time Republicans
claimed that title, such as Greeley, Sumner
and the Abolitionists who' split from the
party on the free soil and slavery issues.
I The animus of Dr: Felton is not so much
I his claim to any sort of Democracy but his
declaration of revolt, under the convenient
pretext of independence. Mahone asserted,
in tho Senate, that he was .“a better Demo
crat than Ben Hill;” but he has never fail
ed to vote with the Republicans, and is
to-day, except in self-asserted Democracy,
the mo9t Radical Senator in the Chamber.
If anybody has .ever known him to
exercise independence as a Senator that
person has kept conecealc-d, and the re
cord will not bear out any such assump
tion. What he will do hereafter, I caunot
tell, but if he is a Radical-Republican in
the green tree, what will he be in the dry?
If “Feltonism" does not lead to the Re
publican camp, what ix its objective point?
The President and his secret council would
not aid and comfort it under any other
supposition. The First Assistant Post
master-General, for example, who repre
sehts the Stalwart wing of the party—the
Guiteau Republicans has frankly declared
that no Democrats can hope for office with 1
his consent. If any man, therefore, calling
himself an “Independent Jeffersonian
Democrat," aspires to a Federal office—a
postmastership, for instance-he is not at
all likely to succeed, unless, indeed,
the Republicans here have had iron clad
assurance that the person so. favored is
a Radical-Republican in disguise. I do
not say that many excellent gentlemen in
Georgia are deliberately intent upon this
false pretense; but I fail to see how they can
hope for Republican preferment except on
such terms as the men who rule by “the
lottery of assassination” dictate. Why should
they not become open and avowed Repnbli
i cans at once ? That would be the manlier
course. Why masquerade as “Independent
Jeffersonian Democrats,” unless their pur
pose be to deceive their fellow-citizens
who, thongh they may feel the necessity of
reform within their party, would not utter
ly betray it? We hear much about break
ing caucus rule by independentism. Be
hold how Mahone, the other day in Virginia,
attempted to crush Massey, the apostle of
Readjnsterism, because he dared assert an
honest liberty of action outside the Mahone
caucus ! Men who proclaim, in specious rhe
toric, the gospel of reform are often, when
successful, the worst of tyiants. Under tl e
banners of “Liberty, Equality and Frater
“ nity,” Franco “got drunk on blood to
“ vomit crime.” Never was there such a
reign of hell on earth, because the passions
of the mob once roused swept to the mur
der of friend and foe alike. Mirabeau rolled
on tbe ball of revolution, but lie could not
stop its onset when he sought to do so. The
Bourbon Democracy of Georgia, so-called,
represent at last law and order and pros
perity. uot to speak of intelligence and vir
tue. What good can come when iconoelasm
seeks to demolish this fabric ? I am
not blind to the faults of the Democratic
party, and no man has surpassed
me in vigorous protest against them.
But I do uot want the party organization
destroyed, just to please a few malcontents
who, personally most estimable, are led by
ambition into methods that seem to me
most dangerous and inopportune. If the
people of Georgia are ripe for a Republican
coalition, then Dr. Felton may have suc
cess. Otherwise he will fail miserably.
That the Doctor thinks he is right, and that
he hopes to perform a patriotic work, is
likely enongh; but ambition often leads
astray, and grievance long nursed turns to
vengeanee that is not of the Lord. How
mnoh of his present course is humane, and
how muoh selfish, I do not undertake to
say. It is not necessary to determine that.
1 The plain proposition is: Whither does he
| attempt to lead us, if not into the Republi
| can fold? Germane to that is another
j proposition: If the essaf is not to lead us to
I the Republican fold, upon what other
| ground can the Stalwart Republican Ad
ministration give the movement aid and
j oomfort? There need be no deception,
j Tho man who joins the new crusade has
j taken the firdl step to become a Republican.
| and might as well do so without a mask.
! The Democratic party now organized in
i Georgia will. I doubt not, remove whatever |
| impedes its progress, and make uomina- .
tions that commend themselves to all classes.
I regret to say that we need in Congress
some leader of eminence and magnetism.
Unfortunately, the South has the genius of
leadership, but it is under a ban. No North
ern Democratic Senator or Representative
has developed the qualities of consummate
generalship. Both parties in Congress are
much torn-up on all questions that are of
instant importance; but the Republicans of
the Senate are more compact than the Demo
crats, and, in the House, Republican lead
ers aro developing to take tbe place of those
who are lost or missing. If I were asked to
place my finger on the man who is to suc
ceed Mr. Garfield in the House, 1 should
select George D. Robinson, of Massachu
setts, without hesitation. Ho is about 47
years ot age, tall, athletically stout, aud lull
of energy. His dark chestnut hair is with
out suspicion of gray, aud his abort black
beard tufts and emphasizes a most deter
mined chin. There is a small bald spot on
the back of his head, like a priest's tonsure.
His brow is whits, high, broad and a throne
of intellect. His eyes are blue, inelinine to
hazel. His complexion indicates supreme j
health. His cheeks resemble ruddy apples !
grown on the sunny aide of a New Eng- '
land hill-top. His voice is masculine His
gestures have the vehemence of a piston- i
rod in full action. He is conservatively
nrm in politics, and a gentleman Lorn
head to heel. Little by little, he wins his
way to the front mpk. and 1 suspect that,
by the law Ql’ polarity, be wiil !; * yielded
tbs direction of affairs on the Republican
side ot the House. The Democrats have !
men of greater ability, in specialties, than
Mr. Robinson, but they lack come peculiar
faculty that constitutes the born command
ex. The great debates to come may create
such superiority that it cannot be denied
authority, although fam at a loss to see
how it can endure the handicapping of Mr.
Holman, who has been described to me “as
a small scavenger of petty corruption, like a
tumble-bug that rolls one way and looks
another.”
One Senator pronounces first “lust;” an
other alludes to a National bank as “she”
and calls Mr. liaum's department “eternal”
:Wh e not “infernal?”) revenue. Another
Senate;, other than Gen. Logan, runs
a-muck with the vernacular, but he had no
early education. Hs can s-gn his check
however for millions of dollars and has the
money-making faculty to a degree that puts
mere "grammar in the vocative. I am in
forms* 4*ft Judge Lumpkin’s oratory was
dily inferior te 4; at of Choate in scholarly
eleganoe and precision. He would say
“them” for “those,” and ■tub provincial
barbarisms were the only spots oa a most
glorious sun. Mr. Calhoun could not
understand a even with a surgical
operation, and no mc-u ever heard him
laugh at anything.
Listening to debates on finance sines the
dth of January, I have been struck with
two things. The first is the powerieeeuess
oi any bank system without individual
honeoty. The second is, how radically men
differ upon what would seem to be the
plainest propositions. I asked a statesman
how this happened. He replied: “The
financial question is easily enough under
stood, unless a man he a fool or a knave.
The more a fool dices into it the deeper he
geU into the mud. The knavs only desires
to comprehend it perversely, for hi« own
interest.” The infersace I'drew was that
Solomon spoke wisely when he said that
the number of foots was infinite, but he did
not leave margin enongh tor the knaves,
unless he classed them under the general
head of fools. A young friend of mine in
Augnsta, who is on the road, I think, to the
highest distinction, once told me that he
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 15, 1888.
i did not understand the financial question,
! but was determined to master it. If this
; should meet his eyes perhaps he may oblige
| me by reporting progress.
Before leaving this subject, I may ob
| serve that Mr. Plumb, of Kansas, gives tho
; best reason for rapid payment of the Na
i tional debt. He asserts, without contra
i diction, that the day men of capital have
i no inducement to salt down their surplus
| wealth in United States securities we shall
witness an industrial development, on sea
j and land, such as no countw ever beheld,
j That is the enterprising Western idea. The
| policy of the East is to make the debt a
| perpetual annuity and thereby propagate
: privileged classes. What was thought to
| be a Southern reproach is now an Eastern
| establishment.
| Gen. Longstreet has been here, but did
j not talk on politics to any outsiders. He
| and hi 3 friend Speer no doubt had many
| conferences. I presume that the President
j shared in some of the confidence. Mr.
i Speer bad about succeeded in ousting An
| drew Clarke from the Internal Revenue
| Service, when Commissioner Raum came to
I the rescue of his pet, and procured a sus
* pension of Executive action. They say
| that if Clarke goes, Raum will follow him.
llt is about that issue after all. If President
| Arthur shall sacrifice Raum, who did'so
much to make him what he is, and who
| made Virginia sure for Mahone, what does
jhe expect from Speer? Republican poli
! ticians, bred in New York Custom Houses,
! do not give much for little, as a general
| thing, especially when they inhabit the
j White House. If Mr. Speer controls,
] as he is 3aid to do, the patronage of all the
! Georgia Congressional Districts, what has
j given him such authority? What service is he
| expected to render the President and party
! yielding such gracious favors ? Somebody
| is going to come out at the little end of the
| horn. The solution of the Raum-Speer em
| broglio may be like that of tho Pledger-Speer
i contest. They may embrace and swear
I eternal alliance; or if there be no embrace,
; the man who has least grit will slink away
i and abandon the field to his master. Both
| liaum and Speer have nerve and backbone,
j The one who has Arthur nearest and dear
| est to him will prevail in the present quar
! rel.
j Some of the officials of Congress have con
trived to retain their places because they
know how to adapt themselves to political
emergency, like the man who never inquir
ed of the religion of his host, but joined in
family prayers, all thp same. They have
the art of Talleyrand in serving any Govern
ment. He was compared to a pampered
cat that cares nothing for the people of the
house but is devoted to the premises.
The Refunding bill, variously amended,
passed the Senate by a decisive vote. Ex
tremes of party met on common ground. I
suppose that Vest, Hampton, Butler and
Voorhees, for example, voted against it be
cause it was an attempt to steal Democratic
1 thunder, aud because they preferred to lot
those who got into the trouble scramble out
to suit themselves. I think Morgan voted uay
because of righteous indignation at the de
feat of his amendment, which even Mr. Ed
munds considered logical and fair. Windom
voted antagonistically because Sherman
cut his comb. Some other Republicans pre
sumably hated to part with the half per
cent, interest, as did Mr. Bayard probably.
A majority of Democrats took the practical
view and tho popular one. Thev had put
Hayes and Windom in the pillorjMhid forced
the latter to a bill ol indemnity. Nothing
wan to be gained by any further obstruc
tion. Mr. Sherman cannot crow very’ lust
ily, since he had to depend at last upon De
mocratic reinforcement. He is too wise to
make much of a personal or party outcry
with the record before him. Upon all other
questions, as upon this, there will be many
remarkable conjunctions.
The most memorable event, during the
Funding bill debato, was Ingalls’ excoria
tion of Windom. But for Mr. Hill’s spring
ing of the question of illegality in issuing
the 3% per cent, bonds, I doubt if
tho Kansas Senator, whose person and
method I have described in a former letter,
would have ever had an inspiration on the
subject. But in the Georgian’s absence he
played a conspicuous part. He drove his
poisoned dagger into Windom’s political
I anatomy as a bashi-bazouk smote the Rus
sian who was at his mercy. Ingalls alluded
to Hayes as “an alleged Republican Presi
dent,” and virtually conceded that Tilden
had been robbed of his seat. As he drove
Windom from place to place, that worthy,
who 13 ordinarily cool, sober and frog-like,
exhibited all the confusion his flibby na
tnre was capable of. Tho Kansas Senator's
ooniard penetrated his opponent’s blubber.
Tho Georgia Senator’s sword would have
reached -his vitals. The whole contest,
however, dwarted into au almost preposter
ous ’Pickwiekianism, when Kansas and
Minnesota, on an incidental question
of veracity, agreed to compromise
on the neutral ground that neither
had told the truth, and neither had lied.
This was good-natured, and in the interest
of party concord. Old John Quihcy Adams
onco impaled an opponent in Cougress
upon tho horns ot a dilemma that involved
ignorance or malignity. The gentleman
who had the selection of horns chose ihe
former, with a manly renunciation of error
that almost made him the victor.
Mr. Stephens, on Friday, offered a resolu
tion to the effect that specimens of all United
States coins should be placed in the room
of the Committee on Coins, Weights and
Measures. Up popped the inevitable Hol
man in objection. On a division of votes,
Mr. Holman was snowed under by a major
ity that took peculiar delight in manifes
ting their opinion of his unsavory ‘-states
manship.”
Representative Hammond distinguished
himself in the debate that sprang up over a
bill reported from the Ways and Means
Committee to release the Reading Railway
Company from taxation on certain promises
to pay. Hammond’s view was adopted by
one of the most overwhelming votes I have
ever witnessed. The committee was routed
horse, foot and dragoons, and it was almost
pitiful to see the crest-fallen few who up
held, it pass between the tellers.
The thorn in the fiesh of Senator Mahone
is a domestic one, from all accounts. He
can manage the Readjusters of Virginia,
but his son is not so easily controlled. The
young man has a facility for getting into
| scrapes and into the papers. But there are
only too many fathers who have had cause
to regret that their children were ever born.
Washington, February 7.— The snow
storm of last Monday was a small affair com
pared with that of yesterday. Saturday is
usually the most valuablo part of the week
to shop keepers and market people. But
iheir hopes were blighted this time. It was
difficult for man or bea9t to venture forth,
The wind drove the frozen flakes into the
face and eyes of pedestrians, and no man or
woman, unless compelled to, went upon
the streets. Ponderous wooden “ploughs"
cleared the railway tracks partially ; but
many times the cars, drawn by four-horse
teams, left the line and plunged into vast
drifts, from which they had to be extricated
by much shovelling. To-day, the snn is
brilliant, the wind is still, and a genetal
clearing of pavements permits church-goers
to put on their finest raiment and enjoy
sermons and ceremonies without discom
fort.
I am told that some of tbe brewers in
this part of the world are not pleased with
an extract published from one of my letters
concerning the removal of the tax on
whisky. There can be no denial of the
fact, I believe, that about ten distillers iA
this Republic, already enormously rich, are
reaping the chief benefit of this tax. While
they are growing bloatedly opulent, the
mountain people, from Pennsylvania to
Alabama, are raided, murdered, impover
ished and dungeoned. Spies and informers
abound and a dangerous and demoralizing
system is maintained. Thousands of simple
minded and good people are being levied
upon and turned to demons in order that a
few individuals may have every luxury and
a superfluous hoard of gold. Now, the
beer men are mad because cheaper whis
ky means a reduction of their prodigious
profits upon their swill. These brewers
like the favored whisky distillers mention
ed, have become very wealthy, in a 9hort
time. They live in palaces, ride in coaches
of the most regal character and roll in
splendor. Meanwhile, the mountain men,
remote from railroads, who dare do a little
distilling of rye, wheat or corn on their
own hook, jnst to keep body and soul to
gether, are- treated more like dogs of bad
repute than men who were wholesome
enough until the Government turned them
into what they are by a monstrous imposi
tion that should not bavg Jong survived the
evils of war. If whisky is to be ta*ed let
the States deal with it, and not the Federal
Government Some good people think that
intemperance would increase if the tax
upon whisky were removed. That does not
at ail follow. We do not alwavs value most
that which ia easiest procured, and, irom
what Tennessee Congressmen tell me, I
should say that the most practical way 'of
being rid of drunkenness is the law that
prohibits the sale of intoxicating beverages
within three piiles of anv Court House or
other public building. Rut something
should be done to relieve our mountain peo
ple, and after that we can devise methods
tor repressing the appetites of other citizens.
It will be hard to extirpate the Internal
Revenue system, which is odious politically
and morally; but it will §oon haye a tre
meuidotjs shaking up in Congress, and
then proceed to ranid dissolution.
Mr. Enoch f rati, wfio has donated
i 1,055,000 to Baltimore for the purpose
of establishing free circulating libraries,
is a very wealthy snd childless man. He came
from Massachusetts, years ago, with one
hundred and fifty dollars in his pocket.
Having an uncommon talent for acqnisi
j tion, he made and saved money, which sa
| gacionsly invested, has swollen with the
growth and importance of thfoity. A few
years ago, nobody credited Sim with any
liberal or enlarged views; bfl he harbored
his purpose secretly, and will probably live
to see that it is not bafflecK People who
profess to know inform me jdwt the Johns
Hopkins University and Peabody Institute
have become so aristooratic tlwt the masses
instinctively shun them. ThJ social walls
that shut tho poor from tffse establish
ments are stronger than 'damant. Mr.
Pratt’s benefaction seeks to ■ ure that com
plaint, and it will do-so if fie right kind
of trustees are appointed. iThe trouble
about this free library z ill be that
its doors must close ?n Sunday,
which is about the chy time of
leisure allowed tbe very £ oqj who are
anxious to avail them Uvea of the
royal roads to knowledge, pis a farce to
offer the indigent food for the tiind, coupled
with the condition that the; ishall not have
time to partake of it. I favif a decent ob
| servance of the Lord’s day; itit I do not see
why the laboring man should not have at
least one day of the week moorded to him
for rational diversion and L jneat improve
ment. We should have u kch less crime
and ignorance if hide-bt ad Puritanism
were just to the working p jple, who hun
ger and thirst for a little .-rational escape
from their hard lot, and ai-tdenied it. Ac
cording to Joseph H. Ohoa 7 in a recent ad
dress, on this very suVj ect, v’eter Cooper is
the one millionaire of Near York who has
done any great thing for tie metropolitan
poor. Enoch Pratt may wi . similar praise
in Baltimore. His example may stim
ulate something of a likj character fur
ther South. The rich parson we deem
the most miserly may conoesl in his bosom
the most generous designs. The millionaire
from whom, at death, the noblest benefac
tions are expected, usually leives his treas
ure to relatives who create a iery purgatory
of contention over it. It is nstural to cling
to money to the last. It is alnost divine to
dispense it while one lives foi the good of
mankind and the glory of God. I think
'that one reason why rich pfrsons are not
more generous is because they have had
small returns in gratitude fortheir charit
able acts. Indeed, some cynic holds that if
you do a good deed yon are sure to be pun
ished for it. . I see that thepoor outcast
colored man who was the hero of the
“H’orM” building fire and saved three valu
able lives, was rewarded by a clubbing
from the police, which nearly broke his
head ! These dreadful paradoses are severe
strains upon our faith. I aiked a wise
friend how he accounted for luch things.
He answered; “A good deed should be
done without the selfish hope of grateful re
cognition. The credit for it will not fail
where the rich most need to hive a balance
iu their favor. God, who tries odr faith by
these perplexities, will adjus; tho merit.
That poor colored waif and hero in New
York may- have a seat in Heaven when Dives
howls in hell.”
Here Ls an over true tale of this region:
A good map, by a lucky discovery, became
a millionaire. He had a molt interesting
and attractive family. Last Christmas, a
year ago, they had everything that heart
could desire or wealth puichase. This
Christmas they have neither money nor a
home. The man who ruined them was a
friend trusted from boyhood. He drained
his benefactor of the last dollar and turned
him out upon the streets a pauper. All of
this was accomplished by a deceit that last
ed until the explosion of business in
which both were engaged; the one actively
and the other passively. Perhaps you think
there was mutual loss? Not so. The old
man, despoiled of his property, shrinks
irom notice. The younger man stalks
the streets in fashionably flishy attire, and
his head erect like the prize cook at a poul
try show. He has a knowing lawyer ar
ranging his affairs, while te disports him
self in his city or country palace. He may
turn out better than he seems; but the
chances are that the old man, thus plunder
ed and betrayed, will be biried by charity,
while the lusty plunderer pampers his
sleek stomach and resumes business with a
grand flourish. In the face of such mon
strosities, Bob lugersoll wiil never eradicate
a belief in the abode of Satan.
I had a talk the other day with Hon.
David Davis, who holds the balance of
power in the Senate with just and im
partial hands. He still clings to the
view that tho Republican party would
go to pieces rapidly if th,e Democratic
party would only consent to die. I told
him that many persons were of the opinion
that both factions were disintegrating, and,
if this were true, which of them did he
think would last the longer. He promptly
replied that, in such an issue, the Republi
can organization wotild survive, not per
haps because it was the fitter, but be
cause it had the offices, and, therefore, the
inside track, not to speak of discipline
and business sense. I told him that, in
despair of either party making proper nomi
nations, not a few people hoped that he
would be a candidate for the Presidency.
Ho answered; “My ambition in that way is
gone. lam too old, and would not accept
a nomination if tendered.” “Why, Judge,”
I said, “you do not look to be 60 years of
age, and are a hale and hearty man.” He
rejoined: “Well that maybe so; but I am
67 years old, and the machine is not what
it used to be. I am not a candidate and
will not be.”
The Virginia correspondent of the Capi
tal predicts that the opposing Presidential
tickets of 1883-’B4 will be*Grant and Ma
hone, on one side, and Blaine and Gordon
on the other. Ex-Senator Eaton, tho only
Senator who did not fall into the Electoral
Commission trap, says if he has to choose
between Grant and Blaine, or a blank bal
lot, he prefers the last. He thinks that
when tho Democratic party is reduced to
that extremity, it had better retire from the
stage altogether. Senator Butler, of South
Carolina, not only smiles al the idea of the
Democratic party dying, bat emphatically
declares that a majority of the people are
on that side and only require good leaders
nnd a sensible campaign. He is strongly
in favor of making ex-Senator Wallace, of
Pennsylvania, Chairman of the National
Democratic Executive Committee. Mr.
Wallace is competent and uptight, and the
proper person to take charge. Senator But
ler is also favorable to choosiug a Western
man for the Presidential nomination, aDd
Joseph McDonald, of Indiana, is his beau
ideal for that honor. If a Southern man is
to be chosen to match a Republican Vice-
Presidential nomination, Brown orjzamar
would command immense following. Gen.
Gordon is not in public life, and I doubt if
he would sacrifice his business prospects
for tha second place on the ticket. The
Democratic party has timber enoigh of its
own to construct Presidential platforms
and put its own leaders upon them. There
fore, Ido not think it will give up the
ghost at present. Rather am lof opinion
that its next grand National struggle will
be the mightiest since the war.
Senators who expect shortly to retire to
private life are beginning to econoaise and
save every possible dollar. The abience of
a big monthly check from Mr. Nixon’s office
is one of the severest trials of an ex-Senator.
The squeal against the admission of
Southern Dakota as a State comes from the
New England and Middle States princi
pally. Some Southern men are not averse
to the proposition, although there may be
two more Republican Senators. Tha more
powerful the West becomes, the more the
East will need Southern aid, and make it
worth while according.
I hear nothing but eulogy of Representa
tive Hammond’s speech of last Friday
against the committee’s report favoring the
relese of the Reading Railroad from taxes
on its promises to pay. Hammond is in
excellent health and his mind Is in its best
estate. He is one of tbe leading men in
the House and always commands attention.
His District will do vrell_ to keep him in
Congress indefinitely. |
Mr. Stephens' report on the Metric Sys
tem is pronounced by experts to be the
most masterly ever presented on that sub
ject. Our Representative also caused to be
reported tc.day the public building appro
priation for Augusta. He asked for $200,-
000, but could not get more than SIOO,-
000. I understand, in anticipation of its
final passage, that the property ot Mw.
D’Antiguac has been already suggested as
a proper site. That there will be other ap
plications I do not doibt, unless indeed
sopie patriotic citizen is anxious and ready
to donate land fop the purpose. I simply
glance at these things as ioming within my
knowledge and for pnblic information.
While upon matters cf local interest to
Augusta, I may mention, what you perhaps
already know, that there is no hope of per
suading the Government to sell the Arsenal
property on the Sand Hils, and that some
other locality had better le secured for that
long-looked for hotel to hs built upou.
In the House, this morning, Mr. Tillman
made a brief speech, upoi a point of -order
relative to the Apporticnment bill, which
commanded the undivulai attention of his
audience. A leading Coigressman, of Na
tional repute, said to me i “Tillmap is de
veloping gloriously. He kas at last reveal
ed himself. He has comeout of the chrys
alis state and will be hetrd to some effect
hereafter, because be hai exhibited brains
and originality, and, unike sa many oth
ers, talks from a full, exact and capacious
intellect.” All of whicl I heartily en
dorse. In this connection, let me add that
my dear friend and companion has lately
become much more of a stciety man and is
sought for at all the entetiainments of the
political world.
Chatting with Hon. Join Sherman the
other day,’ I asked him whthe thought of
his Refunding bill in its present shape. He
answered that it had been considerably
hampered jgy amendments bat untouched
as to the ma.n principle. Itrange to say, he
did not anticipate much dimage to it iu the
House from the assaults of Greenbackers.
But I suspect that it will be considerably
perforated. Mr. Sherman is generally re
puted to be a cold, forbidding man; but f
have always found him gratious, kind and
gentlemanly.
The liquor question has lad some slight
agitation in the House, but it is shrewdly
suspected that, thus far. all the fuss has been
raised by the machination of revenue offi
cials to prevent the removal of the tax on
whisky.
Very little doubt exists at to tbe rechar
ter of the National Banks. Oratorical broad
j sides will be poured against the*, hut the
j votes of a sufficient majority will be in their
j favor. Some of the presumed objectionable
j features may be eliminated, but the eesen
j tial basis will remain.
| Mr. Stephens will be 70 years of age on
j Saturday. If he is well enough, the Geor
gia delegation and a sow other friends will
| be invited to a grand dinner at his rooms.
His lady friends are to surprise him with a
delicate present, and they insist upon hav
ing an autograph album filled with the
names of his callers on that festival. With
the exception of a slight cold, which affects
his eyes, our Representative is in what he
calls his “ usual health.” I think he con
tracted the cold when visiting some rarely
accomplished ladies in the hotel, who in
vited him and Hon. David Davis to an en
tertainment that was a marvellous revela
tion of female accomplishment. Judge
Davis being a widower and Mr. Stephens a
b ichelor, they had some advantages over
married men.
Representative Singleton, of Illinois, gave
a splendid party last evening, which was
numerously attended by the most distin
guished men and fashionable ladies of the
Federal capital. There was a lavish spread
of all the most toothsome eatables and
drinkables. Gen. Singleton commanded
the State troops that drove the Mormons
from Nauvoo and compelled their hegira to
Salt Lake. He is a Virginian by birtli, but
a resident of Illinois since 1833. By the
practice of law and sagacious investments
he has acquired a colossal fortune. Though
71 years of age, he does not look more than
50. His Iconic head is crowned with a mass
of long, tawijey hair that appears never to
have been submitted to the comb. One of
his peculiarities is the occasional wearing of
j an extensively flopping buckskin vest. °He
| laid in a supply ot 200 barrels of Kentucky
whisky, at the beginning of the war and
has some of it still on haDd. He is a man
of wit, learning aud character. His Democ
racy is of the straightest sect, and he will
not tolerate an Independent. A “grand
old Roman,” with a heroic spirit and°mos
pable of falsehood or deceit, he loves his
country nnd only hates a sham. Long may
he still survive in peace and honor—a poli
tician without guile and a gentleman with
| out reproach !
CHIMES AND CASUAI.ITIES.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Peteesbubq, Va., February B.— The jury
in the case of the Commonwealth against
John W. Sanderson, on trial in the Green
ville County Court for the murder of John
Davis, rendered a verdict ot acquittal short
ly after midnight, last night, and the pris
oner was discharged.
St. Lotus, February B.—Charles Miller,
who was sentenced Monday last to be hang
ed at Benton, Scott county, Mo., March 10,
for the murder of Franklin Hamilton, com
mitted suicide in hi 3 cell last night by
hanging himself with a blanket, which he
had torn in strips for the purpose.
St. Louis, February B.—Major Wash
burn, engineer and superintendent of a
part of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, of
Texas, and the wife of W. Stoll, head con
tractor of construction, were killed in a
hand car accident, near Waco, Texas, last
night. Mr. Stoll was also seriously injured.
Chattanooga, February 8. A widow lady
named Tankersly, living in Cherokee coun
ty, was murdered and robbed, and her
house burned, yesterday. Her charred re
mains wore found in the ashes. The par
ties who discovered the crime found under
the embers a box containing $762 in gold
and silver. Tom and Boler Moon, neph
ews of the deceased, have been arrested,
charged with the crime.
Savannah, February 9.—A special from
Doctorton, Ga., says : “The boiler in the
Kirkham mill here exploded to-day, killing
David Mitchell and scalding six others.”
Glen s Falls, N. Y., Februarv 9.
Timothy Scannel was instantly killed, and
Wm. Gleason dangerously injured, by a
premature blast in Morgan Lime Company’s
quarry here to-day.
Cincinnati, February 9. -A freight train
on the Louisville Short Line was thrown
from the track this morning, near Eagle
Tnnnell, Ky., and Engineer Stendford was
crushed beneath the engine. He was still
alive, alter being six hours under the en
gine, but caunot recover.
New Yoke, February 9.—The Herald's
Coalfield special Says : “The settled opinion
of leading miners is that the disaster was
caused by the accumulation of carburetted
hydrogen in one of the drifts during the
dinner hour, and one of the men carried a
light into it when going to work at one
o’clock, causing the explosion.
Chicago, February 9.—A private detective
yesterday arrested Jack Brush and six men
who came here last week from New York.
They are noted forgors and plied their
trade raising checks. So perfect was their
work that the Cashier of the Union Nation
al Bank cashed one of their checks raised
from $-18 to S4BO, although they had been
warned that it would be presented.
Newbuby, N. Y., Febrnary 9.—A quanti
ty of giant powder accidentally exploded
last evening in Rock Out, in Cornwall, on
the Middleton branch of the New York,
West Shore and Buffalo Railway. B. F.
Cuchmau, of New York, foreman, and Hil
man N. Taylor, Norwegian, laborer, were
killed, their bodies being shockingly
mangled. Others were injured.
Kkoxville, February 9.— Milton and
Samuel Hodges, negroes, who murdered
Jim McFarland, last September, were this
morning sentenced to be hanged on the
24th of March. When Judge Hall said,
“May the Lord have mercy on your souls,”
Milton Hodges replied: “May the Lord
have mercy on your soul ; you will be gone
before we will!” This is the first death
sentence passed in Knoxville by the Courts
in twenty-five years.
Nobfolk, Va , February 9.—The jury in
the murder trial of Sidney S. Sanford,
charged with the killing of Jacob Glemm
with a butcher’s knife, on tha night of the
20th of October, failed to rgreo after eight
een hours and was discharged this after
noon. They stood ten for hanging and two
for eighteen yeais imprisonment in the
penitentiary. Tee next term of the Crimi
nal Court will be held in May next.
W innemucca, Nev., February 9.— Charley
King, Chinaman, was hanged to-day for
the murder of Ah Lick, a fellow country
man, last May. On the scaffold he said
that he committed tho act in self-defense,
and claimed that £6OO had been used to
bribe the witnesses to swear falsely. When
the trap wa3 sprang the condemned man
fell with a scream, which was cut short by
the dislocation of his neck.
Habrisbubg, Pa., February 9.— Three
freight trains were wrecked on the Penn
sylvania Kailroad, near Huntington, to-day.
At the moment when an east-bound and
west bound train were passing on adjoin
ing tracks an axle on one train broke. The
car careened and fell upon the other track,
in front of the on-cowing train. The en
gineer and conductor were instantly killed,
and the tireman fatally injured. Another
freight train following close upon one of
the wrecked trains ran into and added to
the wreck, but there was no further loss of
life.
A FLURRY IN CHICAGO.
Prices or (jraln un.l Meats Decline.
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Chicago, February B.—Wheat met a heavy
set back in prices to-day, which is variously
accounted for. The weather is so mild and
Springlike that farmers in some parts of the
Northwest are preparing ground for Spring
seeding. Many strongly “bear" statements
have been published lately, and a prominent
operator, who was credited with being a
“bull” yestetday, is proven, to-day, to be a
strong “bear.” Wheat, which opened 34 to
lower, declined at once an additional 1%
to 2, rallied %, and after a little fluctuation
closed 1% to below yesterday’s
April and March prices. Sales were wade
at if 2S34asl 3034 sot February, $1 29
asl 3034 for March. Corn, unde/ the
influence of heavy selling or'ders from
the country, and the decline in wheat, as
well as of large receipt!, selling off
closing weak, although active, at lJ3£al%
below yesterday’s close. Sales at 58%a59?|
Starch. Oats drooped off in sympathy, but
were not particularly active. The sales rang
ed from 41J£a41% for March. Pork was
moderately asked for, but sellers were free
and plenty, and prices declined 2to 3, but
closed stronger at the outside prices. Sales
at $lB 30al8 40 February; $lB 3?34a18
3734 March, bard opened weak and 3 to 10
lower, and closed steady at medium figures.
Sales at sll 27%a1l 37)4 for March.
The Hcail
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
Richmond, Ya., February B.— The Read
justee, in caucus last night, decided to
reverse the action of the Oommittee on
Courts of Justice, which, a few days ago,
reported adversely to the abolishment of
the whipping post. The question of redis
tricting the Judicial Circuits of the Sfate
was considered at length and final action
was postponed until Friday night. On
(Tuesday sight next they will hold a caucus
for the nomination of Judges.
Richmond, February B.— The Senate to
day passed to engrossment a bill repealing
sections 12 and 13 of the Criminal Code
prescribing punishment by stripes, and
providing that offenses so pnnished shall
hereafter be dealt with as other misde
meanors. The vote was—ayes, 33; noes,
20. Messrs. Kinston and Lowenstein,
Democrats, of the Richmond District, voted
in the affirmative. %
By the way, what under the cernleauj
dome is a pelisse, anyhow ?— Peoria I'carisA
sri.pt. Well, well. If we don’t pity sueU
ignorance as that. Haven't you got anfd
pelisse in Peoria ?
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
DISCUSSING TIIE TARIFF AND AP
PORTIONMENT BILLS.
Mr. Coke, of Texas, In Favor of Free
Trade—A Strong Speech On That Side—
The Apportionment Bill In the House—
A Report In Favor of a Public Building
In Augusta General Washington
Note*. _— 6
(By Telegraph to the Chronicle.)
SENATE.
Washington, February 7.— Reports upon
private measures relating to pensions, re
lief of official securities and kindred propo
sitions, occupied the greater part of the
morning hour. These included favorable
reports upon the bill granting the tempo
rary nso ot the United States barracks at
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to the State Insti
tution for the Blind.
The Chair submitted, in response to the
Senato resolution of inquiry, a statement
by the Secretary of the Treasury of the fees
and costs collected, under law, from Ameri
can shipping during 1881.
Bills Introduced.
By Mr. Garland—To grant to the Missis
sippi, Albuquerque and Inter-ocean Rail
way Company the right of way throngh the
Indian Territory.
By Mr. Farley-—To admit, free of duty,
steam plow machinery adapted to the culti
vation of the soil.
Mr. Morgan, from the Committee on
Foreign Relations, reported favorably the
bill in relation to the Japanese indemnity
Mr. Hawley reported favorably from the
Military Committee the hill to retire Brevet
Brigadier-General Meigs, with the rank and
pay of a Alajor-General.
On motion of Mr. Dawes, the resolution
was adopted calling for the report of the
Acting Commissioner of the General Land
Office of April 25th, 1881, in reference to
the right of occupation by settlers of any
portion of the In lian Territory. On motion
of Mr. Harrison, tho Senate bill for the de
livery of one hundred and fifty pieces of
condemned bronze cannon to tbe Society of
the Army of the Cumberland for a Garfield
statue in Washington, was considered.
The committee amendment, substituting a
provision for the payment by tbe Secretary
of War of $7,500 out of ihe proceeds of
condemned ordnance, was agreed to, and
the bill, as amended, passed.
The unfinished business. Mr. Ingalls’
resolution approving the Pension Arrears
law, came up at 1:15, aud was laid aside
informally.
HOUSE.
On motion of Mr. Vance, of North Caro
lina, a resolution was adopted directing the
Postmaster-General to furnish the House
with snob information as he may have con
cerning the custom of sub-letting contracts
for carrying the United States mail. Mr.
Crapo, of Massachusetts, Chairman of the
Committee on Banking and Currency, re
ported a bill to enable National Banking
Associations to extend tlieir corporate exis
tence.
Mr. Buckner, of Missouri, presented the
minontv report, which, with the report of
the mvjority, was referred to the House cal
endar.
Mr. Lord, of Michigan, from tho Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs, reported baok ad
versely the “Nicaraguan claims” bill,-and
it was laid upon the table.
Mr. Gibson, of Louisiana, from the Com
mittee on Commerce, reported a bill to ex
tend the limits of the port of New Orleans.
Placed on the House calendar.
Bills were reported from the Committee
on Public Buildings for the erection of
public buildings at Oxford, Miss., and Au
gusta, Ga. Referred to the committee of
the whole.
At tho conclusion of the morning hour
Mr. Page, of California, called up the
special order, being the bill to restrict
Chinese immigration.
Mr. Prescott, of New York, antagonized
this with a motion to take up for present
consideration the Apportionment bill, and
as the order setting apart to-day for tbe con
sideration of the Chinese bill made it sub
servent to appropriation bills and the Ap
portionment bill. Mr. Page yielded, but
asked that it be made the special order for
consideration as soon as the Apportionment
bill aud the Post Office Appropriation bill
were disposed of.
Mr. Ellis, of Louisiana, objected upon a
point of order. The Speaker decided that
the Apportionment bill presented a privi
leged question.
Mr. Page raised tho question of considera
tion. The House decided—yeas. 163; nays,
63—to consider the Apportionment bill.
By unanimous consent, Mr. Ryan, of Kan
sas, was permitted, from the Committee on
Appropriations, to report the Indian Ap
propriation bill, and it was referred to the
committee of the whole. It appropriates
$4,920,203, which is $921,510 less than
the estimates, and $351,600 greater thau
the amount appropriated for the current
year. The number of agents is reduced
from 67 to 60.
Mr. Prescott was awarded the floor for
the purpose of debate, but yielded for
amendments, which wero submitted as fol
lows:
By Mr. Anderson, of Kansas —Fixing tbe
number of Representatives at 325; bv Mr.
Burrows, of Michigan, at 321; by Mr. Joyce,
of Vermont, at 365; by Mr. Page, of Cali
fornia, and Mr. Springer, of Illinois, at
319; by Mr. Briggs, of New Hampshire,
at 314, and by Mr. Robeson, of Massachu
setts, at 320.
Mr. Prescott then proceeded to review
the question. The bill was sharply criti
cised by several gentlemen and advocated
by others, but the debate to-day indicated
that it had more enemies than friends.
Pending the discussion the House adjourn
ed.
Washington, February B.— Mr. Miller, of
New York, and Mr. Dawes presented peti
tions for a constitutional amendment to
prohibit any abridgement of suffrage on ac
count of sex. Mr. Vance reported adverse
ly from the Naval Committee the Senate
bill prohibiting ministers of a denomination
having already six representatives on tho
active list being appointed as chaplains in
the navy and providing for four additional
chaplains. Indefinitely postponed. Mr.
Vest reported favorably a bill for a public
building at Frankfort, Ky.
After an informal discussion by Messrs.
Morgan and Allison upon the efficiency of
the response made by the Secretary of War
to Mr. Morgan’s resolution calling for the
full report of the Mixed Board of Ordinance,
etc , the response referred to was read. It
states, upon the authority of the President
of the Board, that it is impracticable to
make a full report at this time, but that the
Board expects to make such a report before
the end of the present fiscal year. Mr. Mor
gan criticized the response as in the nature
of an evasion of the inquiry, and as snub
bing the Senate. He remarked that he had
been informed that some of the heavy guns
ordered to be built by the Government, cost
ing $60,000 apiece, had burst when being
tested, and he would insist upon having tbe
facts.
Mr. Allison explained that under the act
creating it, the Board referred to did not
enter upon its duties until July 1, and as
the full report’upon the action of the Board,
which the resolution called for, was not in
the possession of the Secretary of War, no
more satisfactory response than the one
which had been received could be now ren
dered.
Mr. Hawley had read an explanatory let
ter on the subject, from the Chief of Ord
nance, and the matter was then passed over
without further notice.
Mr. Call offered resolutions, which were
laid over to enable him to speak upon them
hereafter, directing the Secretary of State to
institutenegotiationsfor a reciprocity treaty
with the States of Central and South Amer
ica; also declaring that the good faith of the
United States requires the execution of the
obligations imposed by the treaty with
Spain in 1819, for the cession of Florida by
the payment, with interest, of claims for
losses and damages adjudicated by United
States tribunals.
Mr. Hoar reported, irom the Oommittee
on Claims, an original bill (as a substitute
for one referred to the committee) to pro
vide for the payment to the State of Georgia
of $22,567, money advanced by said State
for the defense of her frontier against the
Indians.
T'ne Senate, at 1 :30, resumed considera
tion of the resolution declaring that the
Pension Arrears law onght not to be repeal
ed ; and Mr. Blair, in its favor, made an ar
gument to illustrate the correctness of the
principle upon which the arrears are based.
Mr. Vest submitted, and had read, a state
ment by Commissioner Dudley, giving as
the total cost of the law $301,964,493, and
proceeded to make an eloquent speech in
advocacy of the bill and of the principle un
derlying our pension laws. He said the
naked question presented by the resolu
tion was: “Shall the soldiers of the Union,
their widows and orphans, receive the
amount from the Government or not ? He
(Vest) had been a Confederate honestly and
earnestly^with his whole soul devoted to
the success of that cause which surrendered ;
at Appomattox. He mentioned to-day this :
piece of personal history only that he might :
Kta!„ in a most emphatic manner andin this
place that he had accepted the full and le- j
gitimate fesult of that surrender without
qualification, evasion or limitation. All that
lie had ever ask;e.l, ail that the people of the
South ask, is that they might be believed to !
have been honest in their devotion to the !
Confederate cause and honest in their state
ment that they accepted ail the legitimate j
consequences ’ of its defeat. Those who
risked ail and lost all had the right to de
mand this and it would be accorded
by every just and generous mind. One
of the inevitable evidences and legitimate
consequences of the success of the Union
arms was the payment of pensions and
bounty to the men whose valor hnd hero
jißm gave victory to the Union cause. A
jteople who would not thus reward the
Hcrifice of life and limb for a Nation’s life
(ffonld deserve to be stricken from the map
M Christendom.” He (Vest) had been a
»2 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
: member of tbe Confederate Senate, and if,
j in the Providence of God, his cause had
I succeeded, he would have voted to the sur
vivors of those gallant brigades, whose tat
tered grey was hurled by Lee and Jackson
against the Union lines, every dollar of
money, every acre of land until their just
demands had been satisfied. “Standing
here to-day,” he continued, “in the pres
ence of victors and vanquished, I declare
i that the Confederates accept oheerfully the
result which leaves for them only the con
sciousness of honest motives, only the his
tory of unqualified heroism, and they ac
cept, at the same time, the further result
which gives to the soldiers of the Union
what has been awarded to them by a grate
ful country.”
Mr. Maxoy said that of the members of
Congress who were in the Confederate army,
an overwhelming majority voted for the ar
rears law, and did so upon the principle so
eloquently stated by the Senator from Mis
souri (Vest). He could say, for himself,
that since he had been a member of the
Senate he had done everything in his power
to bring about complete fraternal relations
between the people of the North and the
South, and the record would be scanned in
vain for a word of his offensive to any Union
soldier. He was, therefore, surprised, the
other day, to hear the Senator from Kansas
(Ingalls) charge that the introduction of
repealing bills in the House by former Con
federates was a suspicious circumstance.
He believed this, however, to be in accord
ance with the custom of the Republican
side to impugn tho motives of the minority.
He believed, with Air. Vest, that if the Con
federacy had been established the gallant
soldiers who fought under the stars and
bars would have been liberally pensioned.
Discussion followed, participated in by
Hoar, Allison, Ingalls and Butler, upon the
propriety of making the declaration in re
gard to pensioning soldiers of the Mexican
war more specifio, in view of existing pro
visions of the law. Mr. Ingalls finally as
sented to a suggestion by Air. Butler to al
low the resolution to lie over until to-mor
row, adding that he did so upon the under
standing that a vote would then be taken
upon it.
Mr. Allison asked whether tho under
standing was binding, and tire Chair re
plied that, uot being an order of the Senate,
its effectiveness was doubtful. The resolu
tion was then laid aside informally. The
remainder of the day was occupied in the
passage of Senate bills not objected to, of
which only three were of more than passing
interest. These were the following ap
propriations: $20,114 for filling up, drain
ing, and placing in good sanitary condition
the grounds south of tho capital along the
line of the old caual, and for other purposes;
to accept and ratify the agreement submit
mitted by the Crow Indians of Montana, for
the sale of a portion of their reservation,
and to make an appropriation to carry out
the same; to establish points of delivery at
Kansas City and St. Joseph, AIo.
The Senato, at 4 o’clock, went into execu
tive session, and soon after adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Kasson, from the Committee on
Ways and Means, reported the Tariff' Com
mission bill, and it was referred to the com
mittee of the whole. He said he would ask
its consideration, at as early a day as tho
business would permit. Mr. Morrison said
the report lias not the unanimous report of
tho committee, and as the majority had pre
sented no reasons why the bill should pass,
the minority had uot thought it necessary
to submit their views. Mr. Randall gave
notice that he would offer au amendment
providing that the Commission shall consist
of two Senators, three Representatives and
four experts.
Under the call of committees the follow
ing reports were submitted :
By Air. McKinley, from the Ways and
Means Committee—To%dmit free of duty a
monument to Gen. Washington.
By Air. Reed, of Maine, from the Com
mittee on the Judiciary—To re-establish
the Court of Commissioners of Alabama
Claims and to distribute the unexpended
moneys of the Geneva award. Referred to
the committee on the whole.
By Air. Lacey, from the Committee on
Post Offices and Post Roads— To establish a
Postal Savings Depository as a branch of the
Post Office Department. Ordered printed
and recommitted.
Bills for the erection of a public building
at Lynchburg, Va., were reported from
the Committee on Public Buildings and
Grounds and referred to the committee of
the whole.
At the conclusion of the morning hour
the House resumed consideration of the
bill authorizing the Postmaster-General to
adjust the claims of postmasters for losses
by burglary, fire or other unavoidable casu
alty. The bill confines the jurisdiction of
the Postmaster-General to claims which may
arise hereafter, or which have arisen with
in the past six years, but on motion of Mr.
Robinson, of Massachusetts, this limitation
was increased to 15 years. The bill, as
amended, was passed.
Consideration of the Apportionment bill
was then resumed- -Mr. Mills, of Texas,
submitting an amendment fixing the num
bor of Representatives at 307. After sever
al members had spoken the matter went ■
over for the present, and the Sherman
Funding bill was taken irom the Speaker’s 1
table and referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means. At 3 o’clock tho House
proceeded to pay its last tribute of respect 1
to the late M. P. O’Connor, of South Caro
lina. Eulogies were delivered by Messrs.
Dibble, of South Carolina; Randall, of Penn- I
sylvania; Bowman, of Mississippi; Alagin- i
nis, of Montana; Lindsey, of Alaine; Beltz- 1
hoover, of Pennsylvania; Ellis, of Louis- 1
iana; Robinson, of New York, and Evius, of i
South Carolina, and then, at 2:30, out of 1
rospect to the memory of the deceased, the I
House adjourned.
SENATE*
Washington, February 9.— Mr. Harris, of
Tennessee, moved to lay aside the regular
order (the calender), to take up his resolu
tion appointing Neal S. Brown, Jr., of Ten
nesse, to perform the duties of Chief Clerk
of the Senate, while the present Chief
Clerk performs the duties of Secretary.
Mr. McMillen, of Minnesota, demanded
the yeas and nays, and the motion to take
up the resolution was defeated on a party
vote by a tie—yeas, 25; nays, 25. The
President pro. tem., Davis, voted aye with the
Democrats, and Mr. Brown, of Georgia,
voted with the Republicans. Air. Mahone
also voted with the Republicans.
Tho Senate then proceeded to consider
the bills on tho calender, under the new
Anthony rule, which sets apart the interval
between the close of the usual morning
business and at 1:30 o’cloek each day for
legislation reports from the committees to
which there is no objection. The only bills
considered were several of private interest.
The unfinished business being a resolution
declaring that the Pension Arrears law ought
not to be repealed, was taken up.
Mr. Plumb, of Kentucky, referred to the
arguments upon which the law was vindi
cated, its abstract justice aud the unfair
ness of the repeal to those who had filed
claims. He thought the position assumed
by Senators Vest and Bntler‘one that did
them honor, as they had been regarded as
representing a large class peculiarly hostile
to our war pensions.
Mr. Call, of Florida, submitted an amend
ment to the resolution favoring pensions
for needy and disabled survivors of the In
dian wars prior to 1845, including the
Black Hawk, Creek and Seminole wars.
Mr. Brown, of Georgia, said that as many
Union soldiers had already received the
benefit of th#law, and as it would be un
just to deny to the others equally merito
rious a like consideration, it was now too
late to question the wisdom of the law.
The South, for various reasons, needed not
to agitate the question, bnt the unanimity
of sentiment on the subject was welcomed
by him as the most gratifying evidenoo of
harmony and fraternity prevailing between
the once hostile sections.
Mr. Maxey, of Texas, expressed his dis
sent from the doctrine that because a few of
! the survivors of the old wars were not in
dependent circumstances, their less fortu
nate brethren should, for that roason, be de
prived of Government aid. Mr. Maxey was
interrupted by the arrival of the hour (3
o’clock) fixed for eulogies upon late Repre
senative Michael P. O’Connor, of South
Carolina. The Pension Arrears resolution
was accordingly laid aside as unfinished
business, and encomiums upon the charac
ter and services of the deceased member
were pronounced by Butler, Bayard, Jones,
of Florida, and Hampton. After the adop
tion of appropriate resolutions the Senate,
as an additional testimonial of respect at
3:40, p. m., adjourned.
Bills introduced: By Mr. Coke, of Texas—
For the erection of .a publio building at
Brownsville, Texas. By Mr. Grover’ of
Oregon—Providing for the organization oj
the District of Southeastern Alaska and
civil government therefor.
HOUSE,
Mr. Cobb, of Indiana, from the Commit
tee on Public Lands, reported back a reso
lution calling on the Secretary of Interior
as to the names of all railroads to which the
Government has granted lands; the amount
of land granted to each, etc. Adopted.
The House then resumed consideration of
the Apportionment bilL Mr. Davidson of
Florida, attacked the “Seaton” method of
apportionment, contending that under it
New York, with a population 19 times as
large as that of Florida, was given 34 times
as many representatives.
Mr. Dibble, of South Carolina, criticised
the “Seaton” method, pointing out what he
conceived to be a great error in the system
employed by the oommittee in decreasing
the ratio of representation, The commit
tee tailed to take into consideration that the
population of Nevada and Delaware fell be
low the modulus fixed upon—a fact which
would have great effect upon the frac
tional representation of various States. ,
On motion of Mr. Valentine, of Nebraska,
the Senate amendment was concurred in
to the House bill appropriating $5,000 for ,
packing and transporting and arranging
certain agricultural and mineral specimens ,
exhibited at the Atlanta Exposition and ;
presented to the United States, to be placed j
in the National Museum. Adjourned.
SOUNDS FROM HOMK.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN GEORGIA AND
HER VICINITY.
Tile State anil ttae South—Excerpt* From
Our Exchanges and Private Advices to
the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
(Cor. Ohroniole and Constitutionalist.)
Washington, Ga, February 9.— The belief
that small pox had appeared in our midst,
has caused considerable excitement among
some people, while others have regarded
the rumor with indifference, and backed
their opinion by refusing to be vaccinated.
The disease that gave rise to this excitement
is certainly cutaneous, though wanting in
the nlost characteristic feature of the leprous
malady—contagion. The report excited as
much alarm and consternation in neighbor,
ing counties and towns, as it did here, and
we were threatened with quarantine. The
Armstrong Brothers recently gave an enter
tainment here, and notwithstanding the
inclemency of the weather, were deser
vedly well patronized. The heavy
sleet of last week did great damage to
shrubbery and trees of every description.
There is scarcely one that is not mutilated
to some extent. The telegraph posts are
down, and rapid communication,for awhile,
will be impossible. Many of the highways
were obstructed.—For the past week Wash
ingtonians have been intoxicated with the
revolutions of Caronssel; while the more
fastidious have viewed it with an apathy
that attaches to a beverage which produces a
like result.—The “F. F. D.” Club will cele
brate' Valentine’s day with a hop. It is
composed of the merry and fashionable
young people .of our city, with their hearts
full of sentiment and their souls softened by
strains of gentle music, they gracefully pass
through the mazes of the harmless dance.
—Bill Johnston, a train hand on the Wash
ington Branch, recently met a tragio death
near the depot. While walking on top of
the cars and attempting to pass from one
to another, he fell, and his body was passed
over by several cars. His mutilation was so
complete that the mind revolts at a descrip
tion.-—Another sad death has occurred in
our midst, and one more is added to the
throng whioh lines the shore. When we
cnntemplato his brief illness and sudden
death, we are constrained to ask, who next?
and wish that man could meet his God by
some other way than a loathsome entrance,
the grave.—Wylie H. Duncan, in the noon
ot life, has passed the trying ordeal that
surely awaits us all. His life was exempla
ry and free from the impurities that so oft
en despoil us, and the fact that all deplore
his death is an honest and just tribute to
his memory. j.
(Aiken Journal and Reviow.)
The grain crop at Montmorenci is in a
nourishing condition, and bids fair to yield
a handsome return.
(Savannah News.) ’
We are pleased to learn that the Georgia
Historical Society has requested Gen.
Henry It. Jackson to repeat his lecture on
the “Mexican War,” which he delivered at
the meeting of the survivors of that war in
Atlanta, during the Cotton Exposition.
(Sumter (S. C.) Watchman.)
Fink-eye is taking oft' a number of horses
in this_ section. —John Brown, a colored
man, said to be from this vicinity, was run
over and killed, by a train at Florence, on
last Wednesday night. It is supposed that
he was drunk and went to sleep on the track.
(Pickens. Sentinel.)
The amount of money for the public
schools for the present school year, exclu
sive of a small cash balance on hand and the
amount to be paid to the School Commis
sioner for his salary, in the aggregate, sl,-
360 25.—There has been no preaching in
the town of Pickens this year.
(Greenesboro Herald.)
Trade is exceedingly dnll with the mer
chants of Greenesboro, so much so that a
great many clerks are being thrown out of
employment.—We heard one of our old
farmers say that he was compelled to quit
farming on account of not having means to
support him in running a farm this year.
(Columbus Times.)
Yesterday morning, when the negro who
feeds the prisoners in the Hamilton jail
opened the door to give them their break
fast, he was knooked down and run over by
three prisoners, who had effected their
escape from the iron cage during the night.
(Savannah Recorder.)
Since the Mayor fines policemen for
neglect of duty in allowing places of busi
ness to be broken open or robbed at night,
the guardians of property and the peaoe of
the citizens exercise great vigilance now.
They try the doors of every store on their
beats and report if anything be amiss.
(Montgomery Advertiser.)
Among the many attractions to be added
to the Mardi Gras festivities in Mobile this
year will be the parade of the First Alabama
Regiment, on the]2oth inst. By order of
the Governor, they will parade in full dress
uniform, to receive and escort Felix, Em
peror of Joy, on the occasion ot his arrival
to preside over the Mardi Gras carnival.
(Henry County Weekly.)
Henry county farmers are tearing down
their fences in every direction, and will
soon begin to realize the benefits of a stock
law.—The recent severe spell of weather
has done considerable damage to the Bhade
and fruit trees in this vicinity. Most nota
ble among the damages is the fine fruit
farm of Col. G. W. Bryan.
I Macon Telegraph and Messenger.)
The grand jury of Douglas county has
returned a true bill against the man Cooper,
who murdered Mr. Willie Nottingham,
some time ago.—And now it is proposed to
form an electric light company in Macon
for the purpose of street and store illuinina -
tion. Brush light is to be used, and the
subscription book will probably be opened
to-day.
(Sumter Correspondent News and Courier.)
There is a larger area of small grain plant
ed in Sumter county this season than ever
before, and the farmers, report the crops as
exceedingly promising. The season has
been a propitious ono so far, and with no
drawback hereafter the crop will be early
and abundant. It is also a noticeable faot
that the amount of fertilizers used in this
county this year will fall far short of what
has been used heretofore.
(Hampton Guardian.)
E. A. Braham, a notorious Radical, has
been appointed postmaster at Brunson.—
There are .fine prospects of a good crop of
small grain this year.—Farmers are pre
paring some of their best lands for corn.
What is the use for them to buy corn from
the West when it can be made at home. If
corn received half the attention that cotton
gets, Hampton county would prosper with
out the passage of any more laws.
(Marion (8. C.) Star.)
The new county of Berkley has a very
large negro majority.—The small grain crops
are looking remarkably well.—ln some sec-
of the county the farmers are busy
building their pasture fences, preparatory
to complying with the new stock law.—On
the 4th inst. a tree blew down on a small
son of Mr. Froy Grantham and killed him
instantly. The unfortunate little fellow
was out with a colored man hauling wood.
(Abbeville (8. C.) Medium.)
The handsome residence of A. P. Connor,
who lives on Long Cane in the Cedar
Springs section, was burned to the ground
last Thursday night. It was evidently the
work of an incendiary. The family slept
up stairs and hardly had time to escape
with their lives and nothing at all was saved
from the wreck. Mr. Connor reached the
parlor, where the fire was set, first, and
found kerosene poured over the floor, both
in that room and in the hall. .
(Columbia Advertiser.)
On the 30th ult. a fire occurred on Mr.
Jeff Thomas’ plantation, in this county,
known as the “Road Place,” in a house in
which lived an old colored man by the
name of John Fuller, better known as Un
cle John Fuller. The old man was about
ninety-five years old, and was a cripple and
almost helpless. His charred remains were
found among the ruins of the burnt house,
and as the building was made of pine poles
with a stick and dirt chimney, the fire is
supposed to have originated in tho chimney.
(Waynesboro Herald and Expositor.)
The store of Dr. R. Hteiner, three miles
from town, was burned on Tuesday. There
was- no insurance, we learn. —ln the space
between the post office bniiding and the ho
tel Maj. W. A. Wilkins is having erected
two brick offices, to be occupied by Judge
E. F. Lawson and Col. T. M. Berrien.—We
learn that on Mondav morning, at Brinson
ville, on the Central Railroad, Horace Gar
vin (colored) shot and probably fatally
wounded another negro man. We could
get none of the particulars of the affray.
(Milledgeville Union and Recorder.)
Dr. T. O, Powell, Superintendent of the
Lunatic Asylum, requests us to give notice
to the public that visitors will not be ad
mitted to the Asylum until it is definitely
ascertained that there is no small pox in the
State.—On Thursday and Friday evenings,
Mr. Luther Benson, of Indiana, probably
the most powerful temperance lecturer in
this country, delivered inimitable lectures
at the Methodist Church in this city.
There has been some complaint in this
county of a green fly in the small grain
crops, and onr farmers were puzzled to ac
count for them. It is not probable they
staid longer than Monday and Tnesday
nights of last week, unless they are of the
hypoborean breed.— Onr community was *
surprised on Thursday last to hear that
Messrs. Mapp A Sanford, dry goods mer
chants of this city, had made an assign
ment to Mr. T. B. Lamar. Their liabilities
are $17,378 85, and their assets are $37,-
130 90,