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the morning news.
[special dispatch to the morning news.]
Fatal Stabbing Affair at Baldwin,
Florida.
Jacksonville, December 8.—Isaac Dar
den was fatally stabbed last night at Baldwin
tv a man named Bragden. S.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Proceedings of Congress—Memorial [or
the Georgia Scalawags and Carpet
baggers, «Ste., &c,
Washington, December 8.—The Senate ad
journed. It did nothing. The House is en
gaged on the fight over the tax and tariff on
copper. In the House a motion is pending
to return to the Legislature of Oregon their
resolution censuring and requesting the re
signation of their Senators, as impertinent.
Cries from the Democratic side that Oregon
is a sovereign State were disregarded. The
motion will pass.
Washington, December 8.—Mr. Evarts’ as
sistants have been assigned as follows: J.
Huliley Ashton to the Supreme Court, S. L.
Dickey to the Court of Claims.
The Senate is in caucus for.the re-organiza
tion of committees.
A full Cabinet meeting was held to-day.
The Supreme Court has been occupied in
hearing the argument in a number of cases
involving the constitutionality of the legal
tender act and its application to trusts and
contracts made before its passage. The argu
ment will probably' occupy two days more.
The internal revenue to-day amoonts to
$198,000.
It is Wowing a gale.
A memorial has been presented to Congress
from the members of the Georgia Legislature
protesting against the manner of organizing
the provisional government of Georgia and
the subsequent action of the Legislature,
wherein the following statement occurs:
••Your memorialists also respectfully sub
mit to the decision of Congress, whether the
constitutional amendment has been adopted
by the Legislature of Georgia, and whether
further legislation is not necessary before the
State can legally resume her status as a State
in the Union, and be entitled to all the privi
leges of a loyal State. Your memorialists
present these facts in behalf of themselves
and over six hundred and fifty thousand loyal
citizens of Georgia, and trust their appeal
will not be in vain.”
The memorial is signed by Benjamin Con
ley. President of the Senate and fifteen other
Senators, and J. 1J. Bryant, J. H. Caldwell,
and forty other members of the House, inclu
ding the expelled members.
Senate—Bills were introduced electing the
President and Vice-President directly by the
peopje ; removing political disabilities ;
abolishing the franking privilege; to continue
the Freedmen’s Bureau in certain States.
The following was offered by Senator
Pomeroy: That the President be requested
to communicate all information regarding
onr relations with Sonth American Republics
and Brazil.
A bill was introduced extending the juris
diction of the Court of Claims over Arkansas
and Louisiana. Adjourned.
House—A bill making the tariff on coffee
three to five per cent., was passed.
Several department communications were
presented.
The Oregon Legislature resolutions declare
that Senators Williams and Corbett have b
hayed and misrepresented the people of that
State. Among the acts specified are voting
for the impeachment and reconstruction acts.
The House passed the following resolution
hr relation to the resolution, by a vote of 127
to 35:
Resolved, That the paper be returned to the
presiding officers of the Houses of the Oregon
Legislature, the same being scandalous-and
ttopertinent
Sutler introduced a bill repealing the ten-
tre of office act. It was referred to the Ju
diciary Committee.
A bill restoring the Bureau of Indian Af-
fairs to the War Department, was passed by
U6 to 23.
Robinson spoke in favor of active measures
for the relief of Fenians . imprisoned by
hy Great Britain, for words spoken and deeds
done in America. Adjonmed.
More Trouble iu Spain*.
Madrid, December 8.—The Republican bar-
hoades at Port Santa Maria, in Cadiz, were
hhned by the marines. The authorities here
te gard the demonstration as merely a local
Similar demonstrations are reported
at different points.
The Provisional Government are preparing
a now tariff
The Metarie Races.
New Orleans. December 8.—The following
is the result of the . sixth and last day on the
Metarie Course:
First race, mile heats, purse $100. Jack
Gamble, 1 1; Wesenhurt, 2 2; Tom Green,
3 3. Time, L64i; l,55i.
Second race—walked over third race—three
mile heats, purse $1,000, $200 to second
horse. Rundown, 1 1; Carrie Apperton, 3 2;
Transit, 2 3; Chalmette, dis. Time, 6m. is.;
6.45.
The day was fine and the track in good
condition. The attendance was large.
From Augusta*
Augusta, December 8.—It is understood
that Gov. Brown, Senator Hill, CoL J. E.
Bryant, and other promihent Republicans,
are opposed to any farther Congressional in
terference in the affairs of Georgia, and dis
agreeing with'and opposing the policy advo
cated by Gov. Bullock. They are not willing
to admit that the reconstruction of Georgia is
a failure.
From Fnglaucl.
London, December 8.—There was a heavy
gale throughout England on Sunday and
Monday, and many marine "disasters. It is
telegraphed that the shipping in the different
harbors suffered, and that many honses ore
prostrated.
FLORIDA ITEMS.
The muddle among the Florida Radicals
seems to extend all over that happily recon
structed State, the parties to the quarrel
being the carpet-baggers or Gypsies, as they
call them on one side, and the native scala
wags and negroes on the other. The Tampa
Peninsular gives an account of a recent
Radical pow-wow held in that place, at which
a carpet-bagger by the name of Plumbe un
dertook to have things his own wav, and was
opposed by a Dr. Dishong. The editor says:
“Anything bnt harmony existed between the
colored people and Southern loyalists and
carpet-baggers. The said ‘Plumbe’ was
pitched into by both colored and white
Southern loyalists. The whole thing was a
perfect farce, and broke up amid the squeak
ing of sable yonng ones, the hissing of the
soldiers present and the evident discomfiture
of the getter up of the meeting, ‘Plumbe.’ A
negro was stabbed in the confusion, by some
one unknown.”
To be Executed.—The - three freedmen,
Smart Walker, Bill Morgan, and Alfred Mc
Call, convicted at the recent session of the
Circuit Court, for the murder of Mr. Weimar,
at Waldo, last summer, were, on Saturday
last, sentenced to be executed on Friday, the
18th inst Judge Goss, before passing
sentence, delivered a most impressive charge,
which was listened to in profound silence by
the large audience present. The crime was
of a most brutal and aggravated character,
without any extenuating circumstances what
ever.—Gainesville {Fla.) New Era.
The Banana The Gainesville (Fla.) New
Era, of the 6th, says the leaves of the banana
plants, in that section, were killed during
the frost of last week. It is hoped that the
trunks have escaped very serious injury.
We had a killing frost on the night of the
23d inst. This is unusually early for a kill
ing frost in this part of the State.—Tampa
Peninsular, 2Blh xdt.
We understand that in a short time a small
steamer will be put on the line from Clear
water to Charlotte Harbor, touching at Tampa
and Manatee.—Ibid.
We are pleased to learn that Captain Reed
has, or will in a short time, succeed in rais
ing the schooner Santa Maria, which was re
ported capsized last. week.—Ibid.
Captain J. D. Haygood’s steam saw mill
caught fire last Saturday night, but the fire
was extinguished before much damage was
done to the mill.—Ibid.
The Late Steamboat Disaster.
Cincinnati, December 8. — Thirty-three
•°dies have been recovered from the scene
'Relate steamboat disaster. The follow-
lQ e have been recognized: Jas. Johns, Louis-
'■Re; John Farrell, New Port; Win. John-
Wallace Farris, Mr. Forbes, of Indiana;
. rSl Geo. W. Griffin, New Orleans and Mrs.
"***7 T. Thompson, of Philadelphia.
Looa of am Ocean Steamer.
Liverpool, December 8-—The steamship
bemia, from Glasgow for New York, fouji-
®red on the "West Coast. A boat containing
lr ty-three persons was lost The balance
00 board were saved.
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury
is completed and printed. A digest of the
same has been before the President for
several days, to enable him to obtain the
proper financial data for the annual message.
The suggestions and recommendations are
pretty much the same as in the previous
financial reports. The funding of the public
debt and the contraction of the paper circula
tion by the redemption of the United States
notes is treated elaborately, though the
Secretary opposes a forced resumption, or
the naming of any time by legislation for re
suming specie payments. The funding of
the public debt, as a step in that direction,
may be noted as follows: Up to December 1,'
$827,629,350 of seven-thirty notes have been
funded into six per cent, five-twenty bonds:
of this amount there have been funded of the
first series, $295,565,700 ; second series,
$330,188,200 ; third series, $197,875,450.
This leaves outstanding of this class of se
curities, but $2,363,150. The compound
interest notes, all of which became due be
tween the 10th of June, 1867, and the 16th
of October, 18G8, have not ajl been redeemed,
bnt have been exchanged for three per cent
certificates, leaving but a few millions out
standing. The Secretary estimates the ex
penditures for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1870. to be $250,000,000 in round numbers,
though the War Department, in the event of
an Indian war, will call for several additional
millions. Twenty-five millions required for
bounties by this department for the present
fiscal year are not required for the next.
The report will fnrther show that between
November 1, 1867, and November. 1, 1868,
the public debt, less cash in the Treasury,
has been reduced $35,625,102 82. These are
the twelve months in" which the comparison
is made. If the November increase were
added in this statement, of courae the de-
crease would be seven or eight millions less.
The receipts show that the internal revenue
will be about $120,000,000 for the present
fiscal vear, and the estimates of revenue for
STnext fiscal year are about $80,000,000
less than last year, owing to the reduction of
taxation. The report shows the interest on
the public debt to be, in round numbers,
$140,000,000 per anqnm, or $10,000,000 more
than the estimate for this fiscal year.— Wash-
iivjlan dispatch to the N. Y. IT orhl.
*■ i «~1
An East India paper publishes a matrimo
nial advertisement from a young lady in Eng
land, in which she offers herself to an Indian
prince. The young lady commences by sta
ting that she has lost her papa and het ma
ma that she is living with a Wesleyan minis
ter, is twenty-four years of age, flas some
property, and would like tow? king-
She has seen the Marahjah well spoken of in
newspapers, and would be glad to hear if the
potentate is willing, and if he wiU ‘ name the
dav ” The Wesleyan minister attaches a tes
timonial, pronounces her a very nice, amia
ble,, kind; ansi excellent youqg lady, who
would make an excellent Wife, She is sup-
iosed to be particularly At for an Qnental
pose
hare
iNClifcASE OP TOE Fqnno Pept—4 special
dispatch in the Richmond Dispatch, of Mon
day, says: .
The Northern papers contain a synopsis of
the report of the Secretary of the Treasury,
which erroneously states that the Secretary
shows a decrease of the public debt. The
fact is, the report shows an increase for the
year ending the first qf November of qver
thirty-five millions of dollars, and the state
ment of the public debt for the inonfo of No
vember wiU b(iow a further marease of over
eleven - millions of dollars, making the in
crease of the debt for the last thirteen months
about forty-seven millions of dollars.
Our Florida Correspondence.
Madison, December 6, 1868.
Editors Morning News: • -
Nothing of interest has transpired in this
place within the last wgek, without we say
Dan Costello’s “Show” has “done come’.’ and
‘ ‘done gone. ”., Our Circuit Court, Jndge Long
presiding, will hold an adjourned term here
next week. The remaining cotton in the
hands of planters is coming in slowly. Onr
Post Office is adrift, having no legal manage
ment or responsible head, contrary to several.
sections of the act of Congress of March 3d,
1825. Every thoughtful, and especially busi
ness man, has a deep interest in the sacredness
of our Post Office management, and the pecu
liar obligations of those who are trusted in mat
ters so essential to the tmthfol and otherwise
faithful discharge of their duties. The act
above named strikingly illustrates the wise
and watchful care of Congress (at a period
when “Rings,” “corruption” and rascality
had no influence in the land) over the vast
interests of the people, involved in their pri
vate and public correspondence.
In relation to the “mnss” among the gip
sies, commonly called “carpet-baggers,” Glea
son, the so-called Lieutenant-Governor, and
lately Acting Governor, in his course and de
fiance. of his accusers, is bold and direct
Boldness and directness are always points in
any man’s favor.
The people have an opinion, based upon
experience and observation, that the theory
of operations of the present Executive power
to “ran the machine” is a bad failure. The
unwarrantable attempt to govern the intelli
gence and wealth of Florida with about ten
thousand ignorant freedmen, who were doped
and dishonestly deceived into supporting
“Harrison Reed and the Constitution,” two
hundred of" whom at most can hardly read
intelligibly in a primary reading book, and
not more than fifty of whom can write an
intelligible hand, and these led by about forty
political gipsies, more than one half of these
but a little above the speed of Barker (a cele
brated Jndge for Marian county) for intelli
gence and learning, and some of them less
than two years in the State, practically re
ducing our much boasted “representative re
publican government” to about fifty political
gipsies or “carpet-baggers," nearly all of
whom are mere infants in correct political
science.
These beauties, like the “Kilkenny cats,”
are in a terrible fight, from aU appearances,
over the stealings or spoils of office. Two-
thirds of the members of the House of Repre
sentatives, although not a legal body, at the
time for the performance of such an act,
“solemnly," under their oaths of office, ac
cused Harrison Reed, Governor, of high
crimes and misdemeanors, and affirm ,ihey
are ready to prove them at the bar of the
Senate. The people of Florida, outside of
gipsev influences, have, as a general thing,
refrained, and undoubtedly will refrain from
interfering or expressing any opinion in rela
tion to these grave and serious charges of mal
feasance, and sins of omission and commis
sion, until the Senate, (after legal charges are
made at the next regular session, which
seems determined upon) is armed with proof
to make these charges good. If proved guil
ty, Harrison Reed should .be “turned down”
with the disgrace branded upon him. An
Executive who would bargain for, or take
stock in “Rings,” or who would receive
money, or any other consideration, for appoint
ments, or who would allow political alliances
to influence his action to appoint incompetent,
unworthy, dishonest or immoral men to office,
when proved guilty by a competent Court,
honest and intelligent people would have but
little feeling for. Such a man can have no
feeling for the peace, harmony and prosperi
ty of the governed,'and for him the milk of
human kindness would probably be curdled.
Bnt no judgment will be entertained until
those who take it upon themselves to charge
liim are prepared with the facts and figures to
legally convict him before the Senate, the au
thorized Court for such proceeding.
The Governor now stancls “solemnly ac
cused” by two-thirds of the same House of
Representative that cast their vote3 for the
Stale of 'Florida for Grant and Colfax, for
President and Vice President of the United
States, and if the accusers have the sordid
stuff behind their accusations, let them, at
the next session, produce it as copiously as
may be or‘stand condemned themselves.
Horatio Jenkins and the House of Represen
tatives so-called, owe it to themselves and to
the State, and they certainly owe it as a .debt
of honor to Harrison Reed, Governor, who
should desire investigation, as he defies them
to bring on the proofs.
What the patient, orderly, peace-loving,
intelligent and thinking citizens want and
desire, and will ere long require, and legally
obtain, is a full bench of Justices and Circuit
Judges, eminent in the State, not only for
high legal attainments, but for well balanced
minds and spotless character. , They desire
the county officers (all appointed by the
Governor) to be honest, industrious and ca
pable, with intelligence enough to understand
the high trusts and duties reposed in {them,
independent of earned political rewards, or
their ignorant fealty to party. _ We want, and
are properly entitled to, intelligent and good
officers, through and through, and not in
spots—then we may expect good order, justice,
peace and prosperity.
If the controversy now going on-between
the gipsies or itinerant political “carpet-bag
gers,” now eating onf Qtir sqbstance, and in
juring the peaceable churac(p.r qf qqr State,
should by any proper and legal means enable
us to get rid of them, a good service will be
done to the cause of justice and morality,
however the peisonal character of the diffi
culty may terminate. L R. ENE.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dee. 7, 1868.
Editors Morning News:
Being now in daily communication with
Savannah, and receiving your paper every
morning, we keep well posted in current
events. The impeachment muddle drags its
slow length along, what, with writs of man-
damns, quo-warranto and qther legal docu
ments, the courts and lawy ers parties
are making a round bill of costs for somebody
to pay, probably the State. It is generally
thought that “Reed” will come onf ahead,
he is making outside capital tft favor his
cause. (Reason, however, is right smart, and
his former experience in pecuniary, political
and'land operations will make him a tough
customer to get rid of. The Radicals in
their divisions are very bitter, and criminate
and recriminate in a’manner pleasant to us
Rebels to‘see. The Convention nominee for
Congress (Radical) is Hamilton, a Pennsylva
nia carpet-bagger of Freedman Bureau fame,
bnt CoL W. A Sanders, a Baltimore (colored)
carpet-bagger is out for the same office, and
a verv pretty fight they are having of it. It
is to be hoped that CoL fofrnea, the conser-
. vative candidate, will b,e elected in conse
quence. When rogneB fall out, Ac.
Just now we ora having a session Of th|
Circuit Coqrt, Umfed States Court and
County Court, which give a busy look about
town: ■ Invalids and strangers are fast filling
up the public and private hoarding houses,
not only here hut along the river. ...
City real estate and ' lands in the vicin
ity are selling at high figures. Building
rapidly going forward. Mills busy at work
and lumber in good demand. The cotton
i _„11 rrrina fnrwflrf: crr.nd
[From the New York World.)
‘-Nationalizing” tile Suffrage.
There is one branch of craft in. which the
Republiean party perhaps excels every politi
cal organization that ever existed—that, of
sharpening the entering wedges, of the vaiions
i very thin wedge until they open
a cleft wide enough for inserting a blunter
one, which, last they then drive home with all
the energy that can be applied to a “three
man beetle.” They began their crusade
against slavery by pretending that they only
:nt its ext
sought to prevent its extension into new ter
ritories, and disclaiming any intention to
meddle with it in the States. At the outset of
the war, Mr. Lincoln gave oat that his object
was merely to “hold and possess” the forts
and other public property and collect the
revenue, bnt not to invade the South. When
the war had been folly begun it was pretend
ed, and unanimously declared by Congress,
that its sole object was the restoration of the
Union; that whenever the secessionists subr
mitted, : aU . the . rights and domestic institu
tions of the States should be preserved to.;
them unimpaired. This was thin wedge
number one; blunt wedge number two was a
military edict abolishing slavery. When the
national bank system was proposed, they
disclaimed any hostility to the State banks;
they ended by taxing them all ont of exist
ence. When they began what they call- re
construction, wedge number one was a pro
posed constitutional amendments which re
cognized the Southern State governments
and their competency to bind the States by a
valid ratification; but wedge number two
overturned and abolished those very govern
ments by military force. Whatever we may
think of the honesty of this system of tactics,
it is impossible to deny its cunning. In great
political changes “it is the first step that
costs;” it is easiertn move a community up a
gradual 6lope than to lift it, by sheer force,
to an abrupt perpendicular height All the
deceptive craft which the Republicans ha
bitually use on such occasions has been
exerted in shaving down to a sharp edge their
pioneer proposal in reference to “national
izing" the suffrage. It is put forth in yester
day’s Tribune in the following shape. ■'N
AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.
Article XV.—The right of suffrage in the
several States shall be regulated by the Legis
latures thereof, subject to the following pro
visos:
1. That no State shall exclude froih the
class of electors of State or National officers
any male citizen of the United States, of the
age of twenty-one years, who has resided one
year in the State, who is of sonnd mind, good
moral character, and has not been convicted
of a felonious crime.
2. Any person who has resided one year in
the United States, and mokes public oath.be-
fore a competent magistrate that he intends
permanently to reside here, and to render
allegiance to the United States at all times,
shaft be deemed and held a citizen of the
United States, and shall be entitled to vote
as such at any time after he shaft have been
six months a citizen, but not sooner.
3. Each State shall be authorized to pass
such registration or other laws as may be
deemed necessary to protect the rights of
legal voters, and punish illegal voting.
It is intended that, while the project is
fresh enough to engage public attention and
provoke discussion, the objections to it shall
spend their force against this particular form
of it It will then be withdrawn and another
substituted, just as military reconstruction
was submitted for the constitutional amend
ment. The ohief stroke of art in this project
is the lure thrown out to persons of foreign
birth. When the other features have been
assented to in view of this compensation, its
pretended liberality will be cancelled by some
nullifying accompaniment. If the amend
ment should be ratified in the above form,
Congress would immediately pass an act re
quiring all naturalization papers to be taken
ont in a Federal Court: A law of this kind
h’as already been advocated by a great num
ber of Republican papers. The Federal
courts are so few, their sessions so infrequent,
their places so distant, that such a law would
operate as a denial of naturalization to ninety-
nine hundredths of those entitled to it. Thus
part of the project yiU now be withdrawn and
dropped until an attempt has been made to get
the amendment ratified. If the attempt is suc
cessful, the practical exclusion of foreign-born
persons can be afterwards accomplished by
a mere majority of Congress, whereas it re
quires two-thirds of Congress to propose an
amendment to the Constitution and three-
fourths of the States to ratify it. The scheme
is adroitly contrived, but an exposure of its
real character is all that is necessary to de
feat it. The Tribune as good as confesses that
universal negro suffrage is its sole purpose by
this declaration: “It aims to secure Repub
lican governments not only to the seceded
States, but to Maryland and Kentucky, and
to blot ont for ever the charge that the Re
publican party proposes one system of suffrage
for the northern and another for the Southern
States.” That is, the Republican* party must
vindicate its constancy by doing in Maryland,
Kentucky, and throughout the North, what
it has heen doing in the reconstructed States.
The naturalization clause is a deceptive
bait to cover this hook untRit is jerked into
'the jaws of the Constitution. The negroes
will then be voters by the mere fact of birth,
while immigrants will be excluded by the ne
cessity of getting naturalization papers,
which they could no more procure than they
eould get flour if a]l the wheat in the country
-bid to be carried to half a hundred mills,
each having but one ran of stones and local
business up to its foil capacity.
__J3efore the Tribune proceeds further in the
advocacy of this scheme, we wish it would
undertake tq reconcile it with the Chicago
platform, which has a declaration virtually
pledging the Republican party against any
attempt to “naturalize” the suffrage.
— ► t» . <
Tlie Case of Dir. Jefferson Davis—The
Argument on the Motion to Quash the
Indictment.
At the' conclusion of the argument of Mr.
Dana against the motion to quash the indict
ment, Mr. Charles O'Conor followed- He
showed from the very nature of the great
civil war it wa3 impossible to follow it up by
trials for treason conducted with the fairness
required by law. . Howl utterly repugnant to
the world’s idea of humanity it is that after
being recognized during the war as, in all re
spects, equal and honorable men, the leaders
of-the conquered force should be searched
out in peace to be hnng as traitors, that the
Government and people had never intended
to do this, and it was for this reason the four
teenth amendment was adopted.
It was a constitutional provision, and exe
cuted itaelf; and those who fell under it were
now suffering the punishment. He asked the
court to give the construction to the four
teenth article that the American people in
tended it should bear, and to accept the great
and beneficent act of mercy in the construc
tion which they had put upon it, and which
tends to advance what all good men who are
believers in universal suffrage so much de
sired—that universal suffrage should be ac
companied hand, in hand with universal am
nesty of supposed offences arising ont of the
unfortunate controversy in which universal
suffrage may be said to have had its origin
and its establishment.
The court adjourned until to-morrow.
Diabolical.—On Friday morning last as
the Eufanla express train was running down
the track it suddenly, came across, six cross-
ties in a sharp carve on tlio track between
the twenty-five and twenty-six mile posts.
Fortunately foe cow-catcher knocked them
off. No damage was sustained.
The train was stopped, and upon examina
tion it was found that the ties had been
thrown across foe foielc apd strapped to
gether by means of stout plank and railroad
spikes. The preparations to wreck the train
were evidently made with the coolest de
liberation. Its escape was miraculous. Tfiis
is the fifth time during this year foese disa-
bolical efforts have been attempted on that
road, mostly in that neighborhood. "We hope
the good citizens there will assist the officers
of foe rqqd in detecting foe fiends engaged
at these attempts of wholesale murder.* The
company should offer a large reward for their
apprehension.—Macon Telegraph.
_ j oi iour. a-mwbu planters ... —
jire able kift pl'&ft’a 'good deal of breadth in
colt ou flu: joining season. Track farming on
foerivOr'promises (Abe extensive 'and. pro
fitable. The "discontinuance of the Freefo
ipan’s-Bureau will re'ino.ve the great obstacle
to the labor question, and will ensure more
hoeing and less voting. M. A S.
A New Haven young lady, while recently
walking to her home, in Fair Haven, was
followed by a man, who finally attempted to
arrest-her progress. The lady drew a re
volver from her pocket, and foe man took
to his heels, followed by twobnllets which
his fairyoung friend sent after bifo-—New
York Times.
If fois fisd heen in Charleston or Rich-
mpnd it would have furnished the Times
wifo n fine text for a sermon upon foe semi-
civilized society of either place. For foe
limes holds it to be proof a terrihle slate of
things in this city that men (not women)
should carry pistols concealed about their
persons. —Eichmand Dispatch.
■*r
A fossill horse, it is stated, has recently
been discovered in the tertiary deposits of
Nebraska. Although full grown, as tlie-ossi-
fication of the various bones proves, foe skele
ton is reported to bg fo-q "feet high.
This ip.ftkes seventeen species of fossill horse
nqi^ known to have lived in North America,
although until quite recently it was generally
believed that there were none indigenous to
the continent,
-£«S
On November i8fo, at
>.• i.‘. - _ _
the house of the
late Baron Rothschild, in Paris, 15,000 poor
ing the munificent sum of $60,000 in gold.
A DIVIDED OPINION.
After the adjournment of the United States
Circuit Court to-night, counsel were recalled,
when Chief Justfce Chase announced that
the court was divided, he (Chase) being in
favor of qaasliing the indictment, and the
District Judge (Underwood) opposing.
Whereupon this division of the court was
certified to the Supreme Court of the United
States.
The Chief Justice leaves for Washington
to-morrow morning.
THE PETITIONER’S pt.f.a.
The following paper, which was submitted
by Mr. Davis’s connseL shows more folly the
grounds of the motion to quash the indict
ment:
The indictments in these cases were framed
on the alleged fact that the defendant did
engnge in the insurrection and rebellion
against the United States known to the court
and to the several departments of the Govern
ment as having existed at the several times
mentioned in the said indictment, in the
State of Virginia and elsewhere, and thereby
gave aid and comfort to the enemies of the
United States engaged in said insnrrection
and rebellion. And the defendant alleges
chat prior to said insurrection and rebellion,
and m the year 1845, he, the said defendant,
was a member of the Congress of the United
States, and, as snch member, took in said
year an oath to support the Constitution of
the United States in the usual manner,
and os required by law in snch case.
And the defendant alleges in bar of any
proceedings upon said indictments, or either
of them, foe penalties and disabilities de-
•nounced against and inflicted upon him for
his said alleged offence by the third section
of the fourteenth article of the Constitution
of the United States, forming an amendment
to snch Constitution. And he insists that
any judicial proceeding to inflict any other
or further pain, penalty, or punishment upon
him for such alleged offence is not admisable
by the Constitution and laws of the United
States.
Wherefore he, the said defendant, moves
the Court now here to quash and set aside
the said indictment, or to dismiss the same
and the prosecution thereon, as the aforesaid
facta and circumstances shall require and as
may seem proper. C. O'Conob,
Robebt OtfLD,
William B. Reed,
James A Lyons.
Curious Letter from Dumas.
Alexander Dumas, Sr., has published the
following letter in a Havre journal:
Jo the Editor: One of your writers is anx
ious to know why I have preferred staying on
the second floor of the Hotel Washington to
inhabiting the charming palace of Chiata-
mone, given to me by Garibaldi, by virtue of
a decree inserted in the Monilore of the 7th
September, 1860, for service done for the
Italian cause. You may well ask me also why
I spent 65,000 francs in that campaign, instead
of investing them in the funds. To these
two questions I will reply that I tore up the
decree which gave me the palace—that is to
say, 400,000 francs—because I considered it
beneath me to receive pay for anything I had
done for Italy. As to the 65,000 francs with
which I left Paris, they were destined to pay
my share of a general vengeance in which I
had a private vengeance to satisfy. Ferdi
nand L of Naples imprisoned my father at
Brindisi. You know the words in the Bible,
the sins of the father shall visit the children
even to the third and fourth generation. I
did my part toward making the sin of Ferdi
nand visit his grandson, and I paid without
regret the sum of £3,600 for the pleasure of
seeing the throne of the Bonrbons of Naples
ennoble before my eyes. In a word, sir, I
am not in the palace, becanse I never stay
where I do not consider myself at home; and
I stay on foe second floor of the Hotel Wash
ington, because I pay my way with the money
I earn, giving, by my presence alone, a stand
ing to the hotel, which it never had till I
crossed its threshold. A Dumas.
“Youngman, what’s the prieeof this silk?’’
asked a partially deaf old lady, “tseven dol
lars,” was the reply. “Seventeen dollars?"’
exclaimed she;” “I’ll give you thirteen.”
“Seven dollars, ma’am, is the price of the
silk,” replied the honest shopman. “Oh,
seven dollars?” "replied the lady, sharply;
“CT1 give you five.”
’ -»
The Detective Business Again.—The Rad
icals, sq says the Chronicle & Sentinel, have
imported a detective to work np a case against
some, 'innocent parties for the killing of the
Radical Sheriff at the late election. We wonld
he pleased to know if it is Whiteley ? His
presence is wanted here.—Columbus Sun.
—: >-«■»» <
A Washington couple, having foe misfor
tune to lose a child, and wishing to convey
the body to Baltimore, evaded the express
charges by dressing the child in itsnsnal
clothing, and taking it between them on the
cars,
The Mayor of New. Orleans has appointed
a board of engineers, at the head of which is
General Beauregard, to devise a plan for the
draining of that city and its protection from
overflows.
The “loyal” clergymen of Columbus, Ohio,
have announced that they will not pray for
~ " ' W" ' the F
foe Legislature of that State, unless the State
Library is open for their free use. Disinter
ested pastors, these.
Rossini left between two and three million
francs, and Rothschild two thousand million
francs, or $400,000,000, a pretty snag little
sum.
The United States furnished fifty-five per
cent, of the whole amount of cotton import
ed into Great Britain * during foe first nine
months of-1808.
In all the pork-packing States there is a
large decrease in the number of bogs. Ken
tucky reports 123,000. fewer porkers than a
year ago. - -
Louis McLane Hamilton, grandson of Alex
ander Hamilton, and captain in the Seventh
United States infantry, was killed in a recent
conflict with Indians on the Plains.
Mexican-baudits now not only rob stage
passengers of valuables, but strip all foe
clothes off of them.
A new city iceboat was launched on Wed
nesday in Philadelphia, built of iron, at a
cost of $169,000.
. The chief business marked out for the
next Alabama Legislature is said to be chart
ering lottery companies.
IniUmtlsi.
Cliauge of* Schedule.
.WJ
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1st,
Trains on this Road -will run as follows, com
mencing with 7:00 P. M. Train:
NIGHT EXPRESS TRAIN.
Leave Savannah (Sundays excepted) at... 7:00 P.M.
Arrive at Live Oak at 3:20 A. M.
Arrive at Jacksonville at. 7:30 A. M.
Arrive at Tallahassee at............ Tit. 9:27 A. M.
Arrive at Quincy at .....11:45 A.M.
Leave Quincy at 3:00 P. M.
Leave Tallahassee at........ .......-..-~... 5:18 P. M.
Leave Jacksonville (Sundays excepted) at.. 7:15 P. M-
Leave Live Oak at. 11:40 P. M.
Leave Bainbridge at, 7:00 P. M.
Arrive at Savannah (Mondays excepted) at. 8:00 A. M.
. 7:00 P.
M.
. 8:20 A.
. 7:30 A.
VI.
>L
. 9:27 A.
H.
.11:45 A.
M.
. 3:00 P.
VL
M.
. 7:15 P.
u.
.11:40P.
M.
. 7:00 P.
M.
t. 8:00 A.
M.
. 7:00 A.
M.
.10:20 P.
M.
. 6:30 P.
5L
. 7:20 A.
M.
. 6:0QP.
M.
DAY TRAIN.
Leave Savannah (Sundays excepted) at.... 7:00 A. M.
Arrive at Bainbridge at. .10:20 P.M.
Arrive at Live Oak at 6:30 P. M.
Leave Live Oak at 1........... 7:20 A.M.
Arrive at Savannah (Sundays excepted) at. 6:0QP. M.
Passengers for stations west of Lawton take Day
Train from^avannah.
Passengers from Bainbridge connect at Lawton with
Express Train for Savannah at 2:00 A. M.
Passengers from Tallahassee connect at Live Oak
with Express Train for Savannah, at 11:40 P. M.
OS' SLEEPING CARS ON EXPRESS TRAIN.
NO CHANGE BETWEEN JACKSONVILLE AND
SAVANNAH ON EXPRESS TRAIN.
Steamers leave St Marks for New Orleans, Apalachi
cola and Pensacola every Friday.
Leave St Marks for Havana, Key West, Cedar Keys
and Tampa every Wednesday.
Steamers leave Jacksonville for Palatka, Enterprise,
and all points on the St Johns river, every Sunday
and Wednesday, at 9:00 A. M.
H. S. HAINES,
dec5-ijanl General Superintendent
Change of Schedule.
NO CHANGE OP CARS BETWEEN SA
VANNAH, AUGUSTA, AND MONT
GOMERY, ABA.
TRANSPORTATION OFFICE CENTRAL B. R.,\
Savannah, August 14,1868. )
"~nh«»T»TfffTiT»T?raX
er mail
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, 16TH INST., PAS-
senger Trains on the Georgia Central Railroad
will run a6 follows :
UP DAY TRAIN.
LEAVE. AimiVE.
Savannah 8:00 A. M.
Macon ..6:40 .P. BL
Augusta 5:38 P. W.
HiUedgeville 8:58 JP. M.
Eatonton .11:00 P. M.
Connecting with trains that leave Augusta. .3:45 A. M.
DOWN DAY TRAIN.
Macon .......7:00
Savannah..5:30 P. M.
Augusta .5:33 P. M.
Connecting with train that f eaves Augdsta. .8:45 A. M.
UP NIGHT TRAIN.
Savannah 7:20 P. M.
Macon 6:55 A. M.
Augusta .3:13 A. M.
Connecting with train that leaves Augusta. .9:33 P. M.
DOWN NIGHT TRAIN.
Macon.... G:25 P. M.
Savannah *. 5:10 A. M.
Augusta ....3:13 A. M.
Millegeville 4:30 P. M.
Eatonton 2:40 P. M.
Connecting with train th?*' saves Augusta..9:33 P. M.
A. M. trains from Savannah and Augusta, and P. M.
train from Macon connect with Milledgeville train
at Gordon daily, Sundays excepted.
P. M. train from Savannah connects with through
mail train on South Carolina Railroad, .and P. M. train
from Savannah and Augusta with trains on South
Western and Muscogee Railroads.
WM. ROGERS,
aug 14-tf Act*g Master of Transportation.
Christmas and New Years’
PRESENTS.
J WOULD RESPECTFULLY INVITE MY OLD
CUSTOMERS, Patrons, and the public generally,
to call and examine my Stock'of
FRENCH CONFECTIONERY,
CRrystalized and Glazed;
FRUITS, CREAM, JELLY,
Fruits and Bonbons, Chocolate, Cordials, Ac.
TOYS, FANCY GOODS, &c.,
Fine Wax, Bisk, China, Rubber DOLLS and DOLL
HEADS;
Fine TEA SETS; FURNITURE, sets or single;
WORK BOXES; TOBACCO BOXES; TOILET SETS;
Fine Motto CUPS nnd SAUCERS, MUGS, VASES, Ac.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS;
MECHANICAL TOYS, DRUMS.
DOLL CARRIAGES, GOAT WAGONS,
SULKIES, Ac.
FIRE WORKS,
Wholesale nnd Be tall,
Together with the usual variety of BASKETS, RETI
CULES, and FANCY BOXES.
The whole comprises an assortment of the choicest
and most desirable GOODS to be found in the market;
well adapted to meet the wants of all who may favor
me with their patronage.
Ii. M. HUNT,
Cor. Whitaker and State Sts., Savannah, Ga.
nov2G-lm
CLOTHING
-AT-
REDUCED PRICES.
HEIDT, JAUD0N1 & GO.
H aving purchased the stock of hkidt
& LUDEOW.-rand JAUDON, CRAVEN & CO.,
will dispose of the same at PRICES THAT CANNOT
FAIL TO GIVE SATISFACTION.
AU who wish good
WINTER CLOTHING,
At liow Prices,
Can obtain them at the old stands of
HEIDT & LUDLOW
154 Congress.Street.
AND AT
JAWDON, CllAyEK& co:
117 Broughton St. *
«S~ THOSE WHO PREFER
SUITS MADE TO ORDER,
Can be accommodated by leaving their measures at
U7 Brougliton Street.novlU-lm
LOGY COBB INSTITUTE,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
EEV. FERDINAND JACOBS, A M.,
JptORMERLT PKKCIPAL_ OF A HIGH SCHOOL
. Ladies, in Charleston, S. C.;
qnenuy rresident of the LaWTenceviUe Female Col
lege, S. C,. haring been elected Principal of this Insti
tute, 't vriil be opened by him for the reception of
Pupils, MONDAY, January 18, 1868.
Accomplished and approved Teachers in aU Depart
ments, have been engaged.
For Circulars, address Johx H. Newtox, Esq., Pres
ident of the Board of Trustees, Athens. Ga.; or; Rev.
Feedixasd Jacobs, (till Jan. 1) Berzelia, Ga.: after
that, at Athens. nov24-lm
H and-bills, show-bills, posters and
PROGRAMMES printed at THE MORNING
NEWS JOB OFFICE, 1U Bay street
Latest New York News!
THE PEOPLE GHEATLY EXCITED!
“COSTAR” ffl THE FIELD!
—-LADIESH-i
JLoolfcOnt! Look OttjU
Look Out! Look
tLadies’ Uagaiine far SrpM
. HENRY R. C
R. COSTAB, of No. 10 Crosby
said"tobe 'our with a BEAUTIFIER 3jf
anything ever known in this line. The 1
wild with delight One lady says, * I know •
and pointed to a skin as fresh, soft and deB
child. Another ladj IW/lpTmt —T’
■IbMMklMdMiaCMVlMkV {gnnraacos-
mctics, and give me only
OOSTART BITTER-SWEET
and Orange Blossoms.
It gives Beauty to' the Complexion, a Rosy glow to the
Cheeks, a Ruby tinge to the lips, nnd Happiness com*
plete.
1! Beware 11 of wortMeseimitations.
. AB Druggists in flNMKAIMftll
One bottle. $1.00; three ^bottles, *2.00.
Or address “C08TAR."No. 10 Crosby st, N. Y.
‘COSTAE’S’ STANDAED PREPARATIONS
“Costar’s” Rat, Roach, &c., Exterminators.
“Costar’s” Red Bug Exterminators.
“Costar’s” (only pure) Insect Powders.
•Only Infallible Remedies known.” i
“18 years established in New York.”
“2,000 Boxes and Flasks manufactured daily.”
“All Druggists in SAVANNAH sen them.”
“ 1!! Boware 1!! of spurious imitations.
$L00 sizes sent by mail on receipt of price,
*2.00 for any three SL00 sixes by express. ■
Address HENRY B. COSTAR, 10 Crosby it, N|
or John F. Henry, successor to Demas Barnes h Co|
21 Park Row, N. Y. ", .
Sold by R. H. TATUM, T. M. TURNER, Savannah,
Ga. dec2-ly
A
(
THOSE
RETURNING TO THE CITY
AND
WISHING TO REPLENISH
TH UTR
Commencing Sousekeeping,
CAN BUY, TO THE BEST ADVANTAGE,
ALL KINDS OF
iHOFSE-FURXISHINCt GOODS,
CHINA, GLASSWARE,*
Toilet Sets, Taney Articles, &c.
FROM
J. W. STANSBDRY & CO,
109 BRO TJGHTOJST STREET,
AT THE OLD STAND OF
K. r». SWfYTHE & CO.
Notice.
ORIGINAL FIRM OF E. D. SMI THE A CO.
_ was suddenly dissolved on the 21st of March last
AmebtotdheflielatellnhtoediMctedrtoJl). paid to
HENRY D. LAW only, or his attorney, JOSEPH W.
STANSBUBY. sep28-ta
G-UANO!
PHCENIX GUANO,
From McKean’s Island,
SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN
PER TON 2,000 POUNDS, CASH:
Price at Savannah..*... $50 OO
At Augusta 55 OO
WILCOX, GIBUS & CO’S
MANIPULATED GUANO!
A mixture of PHusNIX and No. 1 PERUVIAN
GUANO, and which has PROVED TO BE THE MOST
SUCCESSFUL MANURE in use.
PER TON 2,000 POUNDS, CASH:
Price at Savannah............. I $65 OO
At Augusta. ... 70 OO
PURE No. 1 PERUVIAN GUANO,
direct from Die Peruvian Agent, at
PRICE. Also,
■ NowH
LOWEST
BEST LAND PLASTER
• AT MARKET PRICE.
FOR ftAT.Ti BY
WILCOX, GIBBS & €0.,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN GUANO,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS;
ALSO, AGENTS FOB THE WILLCOX Jb 61
SILENT SEWING MACHINE,
No. 97 Bay street. Savannah, and No. 241
Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
Our Agents win sell at same prices, necessary
expenses added.* jy$—ly
PUBLIC LAWS
PASSED* BY THE
General gAssembly
OF TH H
STATE OF GEORGIA
IN
JuljyAugnst, September and October, 1868
MALLOW & FRIERSON.
nov2-tf
JONES’ INDEPENDENT
HYD H-A.XJXnXC
COTTON PRESS
JS NOW PREPARED FOR BUSINESS, AND THE
attention of all parties interested is respectfully in
vited to the facilities it affords.
NORMAN C. JONES.
• DAVID WALDHAUKR, Superintendent, ocJO-Cm
1,500 BOXES
TOBACCO!
IN STORE AND FOB SALE AT MANUFACTURERS’
PRICES BY
THAXTON, CHEWS & 00.,
~ Street,
Si D 7T- 7 -A Ojf
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
f * objfi yp
PUBLIC LAWS
PASSED BY THE
General Assembly of the State of Georgia,
I N JULY. AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER.
1869, WITH AN APPENDIX.
Price, $1.00.
Just received and for sale at -
ESTUiL’S NEWS DEPOT,
BULL STREET, ON BAY LANE, NEXT TO THE.
nov6-ta >~POST OFFICE.