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J, H. ESTILiL, Proprietor.
W. T. THOaiPaON, Editor.
MONDAY. MARCH 23. 1874.
The Temperance Crusade—Danger of '
, Serious Conflict.
There are good reasons to apprehend
: that serious consequences may grow out
I of the ini
which has assumed so violent a form in
: the West and is rapidly extending over
Financial Condition of Cuba.
From private advices received from
j the country, especially in the North and
| Fast. There is danger, especially in the
Havana, under date of March 11, Cuban j citie3 of “ e North and West, that
merchants in New York have learned that
the commission de la denda has been en
gaged in an examination of the affairs of
the Spanish bank, and have ascertained
that that institution lias issued $104,000,
000 in paper currency, instead of $60,-
000.000, which the bank had aeknowl
edged in their published statement, and
that their capital is only $6,000,000. It
has been further ascertained that the basis
for this over-issue has been a loan to the
Captain General of less than fifty mil
lions of dollars in paper currency, with
out specie to back up the notes. In ad
dition to this immense issue, a very large
quantity of counterfeit bills have been
discovered, and this has created so much
excitement in Havana that specie is going
up rapidly, and many persons are ex
changing their currency for real estate
and buildings. In the erection of the
latter there has lately been great activity,
owners of paper money being far more
anxious to have property in buildings than
to hold any quantity of depreciating cur
rency. The effort made to introduce
foieign specie into Cuba as currency has
not been very successful. So far, the
specie has only gone into the ports and
out again in foreign trade.
The latest mail advices from Havana
report that the advance of gold to 230 is
disorganizing every branch of trade, and
that the retail dealers and importers can
not hold out much longer. The credit of
Cuban merchants abroad, it is not sur
prising under these circumstances, is se
riously impaired. Even the most
spectable houses complain that their cor
respondents refuse to furnish them with
consignments, and will only sell them
small invoices at short dates. The suf
fering among the poor, too, is increasing
to an alarming extent.
The Bald Mountain Sensation.
For several days past the telegraph has
been giving us instalments of sensational
news about the Bald Mountain volcano in
North Carolina. The Wilmington Star,
of Saturday, says: “The latest reliable
information in our possession concerning
the phenomena at Bald Mountain, is to
the effect that the reports have been
greatly exaggerated. A McDowell county
man says there have been shocks like
those of an earthquake, but no greater
than the ‘oldest inhabitant’ remembers
occurred in 1812. There has been no lire
and no smoke—only a heavy rumbling
sound accompanying each shock.”
Notwithstanding tho accounts of the
‘ McDowell county man,” we shall not be
surprised to hear of some startling devel
opments—a terrible earthquake or a full
blown volcano—in the neighborhood of
Bald Mountain, about a week from next
Wednesday. In the meantime we shall
keep the readers of the News thoroughly
posted in regard to the matter.
The German Army Defeat.—The de
feat of the new army bill by the German
Iteiclisrath is full of significance, it was
a government measure, fixing the peace
footing of tho army at 401,669 men, a d
had the active support of Prince Bis
marck. The speech of Yon Moltke in its
favor startled all Europe with its an
nouncement of the threateuings of war
that it was necessary for Germany to pro
vide Rgainst. And yet the liberals have
defeated the measure. Germany begins
to feel the remonstrances of the people
against the military burden; and though
Yon Moltke may point to France and her
large' military organizations, it is well
known and believed that France is veiy
. peacefully inclined, for the present at
least—os it is wise that she should be.
The New Ten Cent Currency Note.—
Tho new ten cent currency notes does not
seem to find much favor with the mercan
tile community. Its close resemblance to
the fifty' cent note has of late occasioned
many a small loss to the retail dealer.
This similarity has been taken advantage
of by designing persons, and instances
are given where the ten cent has been
raised to the fifty note. A case is re
ported where the “fifty' cents” from a
revenue cigar stamp was pasted over the
figure ten of the new note, the size of the
fifty exactly covering the figure ten.
Shirkjnq Theib Duty.—The poipt is
made that the Committee on Ways and
Means of Congress have refused to insert
the probe at the tender point of the in
vestigation, in regard to the plunder of
merchants by Treasury agents and in
formers If Jayne only received $140,000
of the $338,000 as his proportion of pen
alties, what became of the balance ? The
Committee on Ways and Means stopped
short of their duty in not requiring Jayne
to tell what became of the $200,000
which he claims to have distributed.
Every dollar of it should be traced.
Elaborate letters are being written to
the Northern journals by European cor
respondents, to show what mischief has
been done to Germany by the payment of
the French indemnity. They declare
that the plentifulness of money lias
caused an enhancement in the prices, not
only of luxuries, but of the common
necessaries of life, and that the indem
nity has proven a. curse instead of a
blessing.
The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald mentions
the return of several well-known citizens
from a Southern trip, having visited by
invitation a very extensive gold mining
property at Dolilonega, Lumpkin county,
Georgia, lately purchased by a resident
of Cleveland. They expressed confidence
in the abundance of gold in this mine,
and are about embarking largely in the
mining of the precious metal.
The Hatton, of this week, says: “It is
said in Washington, and we believe it,
that one of Butler's bribes to the Penn
sylvania Senators in tho Simmons cose
was a promise that he would carry the
Centennial appropriation in the House if
they would help him in his rascalities in
the Senate.”
A man doing business under an assumed
firm name has been thrown out of court
in the Cincinnati Common Pleas, sustain
ing the defendant's plea that “a single
individual could not associate and multi
ply himself into several different persons,
ns the plaintiff had attempted by the
name assumed.”
Since Sumner’s death, Butler has de.
term ined to be the Moses of the negroes,
«nd lead them to the promised land of a
superior equality. Butler will make a far
more crafty and efficient Moses than
Sumner. The Wilmington Journal says
he will be Moses, the pawnbroker, sharp
in bargains and intrigues.
The total ice yield in Maine for the
Besson, including old ice on hand, is esti
mated at 1,500,000 tons, and it may pos
sibly reach 2,000,000 tons. Of this some
500,000 tons have been sold or bargained
for at $3 per ton, or # total of nearly $1,-
000,000.
other questions will become involved in’
this temperance crusade, and that reli
gion and nationality will add fierceness
to the conflict. As the political canvass
opens for the approaching fall elections,
reckless politicians will avail themselves
of the popular excitement for partisan
purposes, and we need not be surprised to
see the advocates of temperance and the
opponents of' restriction, religious and
non-religious, native and foreign born
citizens, arrayed in fierce and unreason
ing hostility against each other. As the
present temperance crusade begins to
tell upon the business interests of
the manufacturers and wholesale deal
ers in spirituous and malt liquors, their
influence is being exerted against what
they consider an unlawful interference
with their rights, and the opposition of
the consumers who are unwilling to be
deprived of their accustomed indulgence
is assuming a more formidable and deter
mined character. Meetings are being
held in’the large cities, at which strong res
olutions against the women crusaders are
adopted, and these meetings are responded
to by meetings of the friends of temper
ance, at which resolutions of a semi-reli
gious character are passed. Last week
the Germans in Cincinnati had an im
mense mass meeting on Tuesday night to
take measures to resist the temperance
movement. The hall was crowded, and
hundreds of persons had to go away.
Speeches wera^made by Rev., Mr. Kroell,
Rev. Mr. Eusenlohr, Rabbi Wise, Emil
Rothe, and Herman Eckel, severely de
nouncing the women’s movement, and
some of the speakers counseled resistance
to it. The following resolution was
presented and referred to a committee to
report at the next meeting:
liesolced, That it is the duty of all citi
zens to see that their fellow-citizens are
protected in their vocation, and also the
duty of the State to protect its citizens
against interference with their business;
that it is contrary to the spirit of liberty and
justice for women, in the name of re
ligion, to interfere with the rights and
liberties of citizens; that the motive of
this movement is to re-open the hatred
between the natives and foreigners, and
that men are using the women os instru
ments for this purpose.
Tlie proceedings were in German, and
the meeting continued until a late hour.
The German saloon keepers of the
seventh, seventeenth and eighteenth
wards in New York held meetings on
Tuesday to complete their protective
sociation.
In Elizabeth City on Sunday before
last a large anti-rcstriction meeting was
held, at which resolutions of an irritating
and threatening character were adopted.
In response to this meeting another meet
ing of those in favor of the temperance
movement and in favor of the enforce
ment of the Sunday laws was held on
Sunday last, at which resolutions were
adopted expressing indignation at tho
German demonstration against the Sun
day .laws, declaring that “ open and
organized resistance to the Sabbath law
by habitual violators, supported by
large and formidable element of infidel
ity, inspires alarm for the permanency of
the Christian Sabbath, and calling on all
good citizens to forsake party affiliations
and put It down."
It requires no great degree of sagacity
to foresee that a conflict involving large
pecuniary interests and long established
habits, and which has already developed
such strong feeling and prejudice, must,
when manipulated by political dema
gogues, become dangerous to the peace
of the community. If the agitation- is
continued in its present temper, it will
soon involve other questions, and the
worst passions of the worst classes, the fa
natic,the profligate and tho vicious,will be
aroused, and we may see the secenes of
violence, conflagration and bloodshed
which, only some thirty years ago, dis
graced tho city of Philadelphia, re-enact
ed on a much larger scale in more than
one American city. If there were ele
ments then for a social conflagration in
the city of “Brotherly Love,” those ele
ments exist now in tenfold degree in every
large Northern city.
A Coming State.—The people of the
Territory of New Mexico are becoming
anxious to be admitted into the Union as
a State. The Territory has a population
of at least 140,000, which is a much larger
number than one-half of the States which
have been admitted since the organization
of the government contained at the date
of their admission. The bulk of the pop
ulation are the native Mexicans and their
descendants, about 40,000 of the peo
ple being, it is said, of American
or European descent. The popula
tion are almost altogether engaged
either in mining or in agricul
tural pursuits, and are as a general thing
quiet, orderly people, and have given the
General Government much-less trouble
than most of the other Territories. The
Spanish language is principally spoken in
the Territory, and the journal and pro
ceedings of the Territorial Legislature are
recorded in Spanish. The Territorial
Legislature has addressed a formal memo
rial to Congress asking the passage of an
enabling act to provide for the admission
of the Territory into the Union, and the
matter will soon be considered by the
Committoe on Territories.
Melton.—A correspondent at Midway,
Fla., sends us a copy of a correspondence
between himself and .the somewhat no
torious Mr. Milton S. Littlefield. The
latter, with a fervor that cannot be mis
taken, begs that the postmaster will for
ward to the Cashier of the Freedman's
Bank in Jacksonville any amounts due to
the Post Office Department for the quar
ter ending December 31st, 1873. The
postmaster at Midway informs Mr. Little
field, with some degree of sententious-
ness, that the office has been in operation
only since the 12th of January last, and
aal-s by what authority the meek and
lowly Milton makes this request. While
we are not impressed with the idea that
Littlefield has ever had a serious attack
of honesty, yet we must do him the credit
to believe that, in this instance, he is
simply endeavoring to collect his fees for
carrying the mails. It is very natural that
the postmaster should desire to know by
what authority Littlefield constitutes him
self collector of the revenues of the Post
Office Department
The New York Post, a Republican jour
nal, which supported Grant for Presi
dent,.asks: “Why should not this man
Butler, by right and justice, be deprived
of his privilege to insult the country from
a seat in Congress ? He is there as the
attorney of interests which antagonize
the commercial welfare and morality of
the country. He is voting constantly
upon questions whioh almost directly
promote his wealth. Oakes Ames was
sacrificed for far less mercenary, if not
less criminal, offenses than those of which
Butler is guilty, and why should he any
longer be allowed to ride over public sen
timent by the favor of the administra-
tmp?”
BY TELKAPB
Saturday’s Telegrams.
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THE
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MORNING
NEWS.
Evening
Telegrams.
DEATH OF JUDGE DENT.
Weather Prognostications for To-Day.
DEATH OF JUDGE DENT.
Washington, March 22.—Judge Dent,
a brother-in-law of the President, widely
known in the earlier days of California,
and later as a candidate for Governor of
Mississippi, where he was a cotton-plant
er, and in his candidacy opposed by the
administration, and in all known respects
a high-minded and honorable gentleman,
is dead. Judge Dent died in the Catholic
faith.
THE WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, March 22.—Probabilities
for the Southern States: Northwest and
northeasterly winds, rising barometer,
falling temperature, cloudy weather and
rain in the Gulf States.
For the Middle States, northwest and
northeast winds, rising barometer, slightly
lower temperature and clear weather.
The rivers will probably rise at Nash
ville, Cincinnati and Louisville, and the
Ohio fall at Pittsburg.
Midnight Telegrams.
GRANT CORRECTS A~BOHEMIAN.
What He Thinks About the Intima
tion of a Veto.
THE EMPEROR WILHELM’S BIRTHDAY.
THE TEMPERANCE AGITATION
THE NORTH.
Capture of the Cure Santa Cruz.
GRANT ON INFLATION.
Washington, March 22.—President
Grant, in conversation yesterday with a
leading Western Republican Senator, said
the statement in a Washington special'
dispatch to a New York paper published
Saturday morning to the effect that any
legislation tending to inflation must run
the gauntlet of his veto, was wholly with
out foundation ; that lie had conversed
with no one on that subject at all, and
that if he were himself a member of
Congress, he should regard an intimation
of a veto in advance of legislation as an
unbecoming threat by the Executive, and
should resent it.
THE TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.
New York, March 22.—The temperance
crusade was marked to-day by meetings
in many of the churches throughout the
city. At the Church of the Strangers
there was a large attendance and much
enthusiasm was evinced. Addresses were
delivered by A. T. McMullen, Mrs. Law
rence, Mrs. Smith and others.
At the Seventeenth Street M. E. Church
a temperance prayer-meeting was held
under the auspices of Rev. W. H. Boole,
and at the Forsyth Street M, E. Church
there was another meeting conducted by
Rev. J. W. Barnhart.
THE GERMAN EMPEROR.
Berlin. March 2?.—The generals of
the army waited in a body on the Em
peror to-day and congratulated him on
reaching bis 7 7th birthday. The Emperor,
in the course of liis reply, referred to the
crisis which was hanging over the army,
and declared that he was determined to
maintain its strength and thereby insure
the peace of Europe.
THE CUKE SANTA CRUZ.
Bayonne, March 22.—The French offi
cers have arrested the Cure Santa Cruz
on the frontier and brought him to this
city.
AUSTRIAN MINISTER AT WASHINGTON.
Vienna, March 22.—Tho appointment
of Baron Reubom to be Austrian Minister
at Washington is gazetted.
A SPRIG OF ROYALTY.
Bayonne, March 22.—Tho wife of Don
Carlos has been delivered of a daughter.
Communistic Anniversary.—The New
York refugees of the Paris Commune
celebrated their anniversary on Wednes
day night in New York. The organization
claims a membership of four hundred,
but there were only three hundred pres
ent at the celebration. At about nine
o’clock the assembly took seats at three
long tables in the dining hail, and shared
a frugal collation. The head of the hall
was vivid with the red color of the Com
mune. Upon a great piece of scarlet
cloth was the name of the society; a red
ensign was inscribed with the appeal in
German, “Workingmen of ail lands—
Unite!” A black banner bore the
words, “Groupe Revoldtionnaire Social
ists International” in red letters.
Three portraits were hung upon the
wall, those of Ferre and Rossel, shot at
Satory, were draped in black; that of
Blanqui was heavy with scarlet drapery.
A large ensign on the side wall displayed
the liberty cap upon a column of spears,
before which a balance hung, while be
hind were crossed cannon and scarlet
banners. Above was the inscription,
“Union des Peuples,” and below the mot
toes, “Pas de Devoir sans Droit: Pas de
Droits sans Devoir.”
Citizen Panzel was among the speakers.
In the course of his address he said the
only way to cure great abuses in govern
ment is by a display and exercise of force.
Moral suasion was pow irless in great
emergencies, and the only appeal was to
the baton, not to the law. In this coun
try especially it was impossible to estab
lish any great principle without the shed
ding of blood, and it was therefore
necessary that the citizens should bo or
ganized and vigilant. But there must be
prudence in assault as well as in
preparation, for it was difficult to
gain tbe point contended for unless
the time .was opportune. Capital
was always in fear when the people
showed a determined front, and he there
fore counseled calm judgment and prepa
ration for all great emergencies, and the
time for preparation was always so as to
be ready when the opportunity presents
itself. The company then adjourned to
the ball-room, and the festive dance was
opened with a grand march of “La Mar-
sellaise.” The programmes of dancing
were finished with crimson button-cords,
and were printed with red ink.
If the very plain-spoken bill introduced
by Mr. O’Brien passes Congress, the
great National Livery Stable and Intelli
gence Office at Washington will be broken
up. It declares any public officer, who
uses public property for private purposes,
to be guilty of embezzlement and liable
to removal from his place, and to be pun
ished by law. To set up a private lau-
daulet or other vehicle at tbe public ex
pense, or to pnt any government soldier
or other employe into livery or at pri
vate work, is a misdemeanor, and sub
jects the official found guilty to impeach
ment and fine and imprisonment. Some
body seems to have been guilty of the
further enormity of putting black cock?
ades on the soldiers thns misemployed,for
it is further provided that to place any of
these servile badges, which are the mark
of the menial service of tbe British Crown,
upon any government employe, shall be
punished by $100 fine for each offense.
It has long been matter of notoriety,
as charged by Mr. Wheeler in the debate
on the Army bill, that the soldiers of the
army were misused in the way forbidden
by this bill.
An insane man in Brooklyn, N. Y., by
the name of John Hanly, committed sui
cide on Wednesday last by taking chloro
form. Mr. Hanly was a buyer for a large
dry goods house in New York, and be
came demented daring the late panic.
A counterfeit fifty cent note of the
latest series has-been received at the Trea
sury, the sender having already detected
it. The imitation is by no means a good
one, and very little scrutiny is necessary
to discover that it is not a genuine note.
A Burglar Mortally Wounded.—
. About half-past two o’clock, Wednesday
. morning Mr. Charles E. Cook, who re
sides at No. 90 Frelinghnysen avenue,
capital and oonoressional notes. Newark, was awakened by hearing a bur-
Washtngton, March 21.—Hon. JL S. | glar moving about the house. He seized
Foote, of Mobile, leaves for home to- i a revolver and went down stairs very
night. He has been here co-operating carefully, but the burglar heard him and
with members of Congress for the pur- : ran out in the yard. Mr. Cook opened
pose of maturing plans for a better dis- the window and fired two shots at the
' fugitive, neither of which took effect
He then followed him into the yard, and
as the burglar was scaling the fence fired
again, the ball striking him in the shoulder.
The burglar yelled with pain and fell to
the ground. He succeeded in picking him-
jftanijsonents.
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tribution of cerrency in the border States.
Senator John B. Gordon will take charge
of the bill, which will recommend a com
bined action of both National and State
authority in establishing banks on a
specie basis. He has received the prom
ised aid of several prominent members
from the West
The Senate Committee on Finance held
a special meeting to-day, at which a com
promise financial measure was agreed
upon, to be reported to the Senate next
Monday. - In its main features the bill
will fix the amount of greenback circula
tion at $382,000,000, thus legalizing the
reissue of that portion of the $44,000,000
legal tender reserve which is outstanding,
and making it part of the permanent cir
culation. The amount that has been re
issued, and which is now outstanding, is
something over $26,000,000. The bill
will also authorize free banking on the
national banking system, but will contain
a requirement that legal tender notes
shall be relieved from circulation propor
tionately as new national bank notes are
issued.
This latter provision is regarded as a
measure of contraction, but the preceding
authorization for keeping in circulation
the twenty-six million legal tender, that
have been received from the reserve, is
considered a substantial victory for the
advocates of an increased volume of cur
rency, who, it is understood, will claim
in the Senate that the principle having
been thus admitted as regards a portion
of the forty-four million dollars reserve,
the whole of said reserve should be ac
cordingly placed in circulation.
Frederick Douglass has been elected
President of the Freedmen’s Savings Bank
here, which has branches in nearly all
the Southern States.
Dr. C. B. Pravis, another colored man,
has been chosen Vice-President. Forty
out of the seventy clerks employed are
likewise colored.
Tbe new Board of Management appear
ed before the House Committee on Bank
ing and Currency yesterday,. and said it
was their desire to make the bank on in
stitution exclusively for colored people,
and one which they would regard as then-
own.
There was a wrangle over District of
Columbia matters—a new bridge over the
eastern branch of the Potomac and an
appropriation of $97,000 to pay school
teachers. Tbe former bill was rejected:
tbe latter passed.
Then the Georgia contested election
case was taken up, but no vote was
reached.
The State Department has a circular
from the Intendent General of Cuba that
on and after the 1st of April 25 per cent,
export and import duties must be paid in
gold; after 1st of May, 50; after 1st of
August, 75; and after the 1st of Novem
ber all must be paid in gold.
STRIKE ON THE ERIE ROAD,
New York, March 21.—The Erie Rail
way Company endeavored to-day to sup
ply the places of the strikers at the freight
depots by employing Italians and Ger
mans, but only with partial success. A
gang of one hundred and fifty of the
former were marched early in the morn
ing to pier No. 1, and left standing on the
sidewalk. While arrangements were
making to put them to work on the dock,
some of the strikers came along, and the
Italians scattered in all directions. De
tachments of police were sent for, and
under their protection two hundred Ger
mans, who soon afterwards arrived, went
to work. The strikers hang about the
company's dock, iu Jersey City, saying
twenty cents an hour or no work.
The movement of freight is at a stand
stilL The freight which accumulated at
New York docks has been overhauled and
the perishable stock forwarded by way of
Piedmont.
Over one thousand laborers employed
on the new railroad tunnel at Bergli Hill
struck to-day for an advance from one
dollar and a half to one dollar and seven
ty-five cents a day.
THE NOBTH CAROLINA SENSATION.
Raleigh, March 21.—The Daily Heirs
special reporter here has arrived in the
neighborhood of Bald Mountain, and
reports that the citizens confirm the pre
monitory symptoms of volcanic eruptions
on the mountain. A' large party of sci
entific adventurers are en route to the
mountain. The citizens in that section
are intensely excited, out door prayer
meetings being held, many believing that
judgment day is at band.
NEW EXGLAND FBEEDMEn’s AID SOCIETY.
Boston*, March 21.—Tbe New England
Freedmen’s Aid Society has voted to wind
up its affairs. Since April, 1864, the so
ciety has received and expended over
$350,000, and lias supported 706 teachers
among the colored people of the South.
A new organization, to bear the society’s
name and continue its work, is probable.
LOUISIANA FINANCES.
New Obleaxs, March 21.—Judge Wood
sustains the scale of Louisiana bonds.
This is Federal sanction of partial State
repudiation. The injunction prayed for
was dismissed with costs, bnt Jndge Wood
suggested that tbe questions were of such
importance that they might properly be
taken at once to the Supreme Court.
THE BUNKER BROTHERS.
Philadelphia, March 21.—Two sons
of the Siamese Twins are here for the
bodies of their fathers. They disavow
any intention to make a speculation by
the exhibition of tbe remains. Tbe state
ment is repeated that no money conside
ration induced their consent to the au
topsy.
EXONERATED.
Atlanta, March 21.—After a careful
and thorough investigation by Treasury
Agents Wheeler and McAlpine, the
charges recently preferred against Col
lector Holtzclaw of tho Fourt District of
Georgia are not sustained.
BURNED.
Boston, March 21.—The workshops of
the Tucker Manufacturing Company at
the penitentiary are burned. Loss $200,-
000. The prisoners were at dinner, sav
ing heavy escape.
PAUL SCHOEPPE.
Baltimore, March 21.—Dr. Paul Scho-
eppe, on a habeas corpus, was remanded
to prison for a reasonable time to await
tbe requisition of the Governor of Illi
nois.
THE CUBAN PATRIOTS.
Havana, March 21.—Tbe Fuse de Cuba
has information of the killing of the in
surgent CoL Belioario Faralta and sixteen
of bis men by the Spanish troops.
TICKET AGENTS’ CONVENTION.
Nashville, March 21.—The General
Ticket and Passenger Agents’ Convention
adjourned to meet in Lonisville on Mon
day morning.
self, up again and _ making his escape
before Mr.’ Cook effidd reach bun. The
latter,. on . re-entering the; house, found
about two hundred dollars’ worth of sil
verware, which he jprbseqnently learned
had been stolen from Willis Stevenson’s
house on Broad street Later in the day
the fugitive was discovered in a house in
Howard street, where he had taken refuge,
and removed to Police Headquarters,
where he gave his name as William Sny
der. A physician was summoned, who
expressed the opinion that tbe ball had
passed downward and penetrated the
man’s lungs, causing a wound from which
he cannot possibly recover. Snyder has
already spent a term in the State prison
for burglary. Charles Taylor, his accom
plice, has been arrested.—H. T. World.
Another Tragedy in Brooklyn. —
There was another tragedy in South
Brooklyn Wednesday evening last, but
whether a murder or suicide has not yet
been determined. When Mr. Francis
Bidwell, residing at 148 Twenty-third
street. Gowanus. came borne from busi
ness lie was shocked to find liis wife lying
in a pool of blood in her bed with her
throat cut. She was quite dead, and held
a razor in one hand and a looking-glass
in the other, but the circumstances sur
rounding tbe case are such as to indicate
foul play. Mrs. Bidwell was about thirty
years of age, and had been unwell of late.
Some claim that the woman was mur
dered. and that the glass and razor were
put in her hands to conceal the ’crime.
The Coroner will endeavor to unravel the
matter to-day. Mr. Bidwell was on the
best of terms with his wife, and left her
in good spirits Wednesday morning.—
World. ~
Attempted Murder of a Lady.—On
Tuesday evening, at Union Hall, New
Jersey, Delos Ackerman, the son of
well-known hotel proprietor of the place,
and a young lady named Mary C. Glack-
meyer, were standing on the sidewalk en
gaged in seemingly pleasant conversation.,
when Ackerman suddenly struck the
young lady a stunning blow on tbe head
which felled her to the sidewalk. Before
she could regain her feet he pulled out a
revolver and fired at her. Fortunately
his aim was bad, and'the ball merely
grazed the young lady’s left arm, without
inflicting very serious injury. The re
port of the pistol attracted a crowd, but
Ackerman had succeeded in making his
escape. It is said Ackerman attacked
Miss Glockmeyer because she refused to
let him kiss her.
Flash Equipages Prohibited.—The
Mayor of St. Louis has instructed the
policemen of that city to notify certain
women in that city that the display of
unusually painted equipages, drawn by
horses of unusual color and appearance
on the streets, will be treated as viola
tions of laV. The Mayor considers these
displays as an ovidence of having pros
pered in sin.
After that the Mayor of St. Louis need
not apply to Gen. Grant for an appoint
ment to office.
Mrs. Worth, of Westfield, Mass., has
sneezed her face awry. It happened at a
party, and she vainly tried to repress it,
thinking that sneezing was unladylike.
But it broke out !n spite of her, and at
once she felt a queer sensation in one
cheek. That side of her face swelled
rapidly, drawing up the corner of her
mouth and completely closing her eye.
The physicians say that the trouble is a
paralysis, caused bv her effort to avoid
sneezing, and that her face is permanent
ly disfigured.
Fate of an Opium-Eater.—Mrs. Angle
Warner, of Nashua, N. H., who was try
ing to break herself of the habit of eating
opium, was overcome by her appetite on
Tuesday*, and swallowed a large quantity
of laudanum, from the effects of which
she died. «
£pmal gottccS.
Georgia Chapter No. 3, R. A. M.
Coxpanioxs : You will assemble
at Masonic Temple, THIS (Monday)
EVENING, at 3 o’clock, for the pur
pose of holding an regular Convocation.
The Royal Arch decree will he conferred.
Companions of other Chapters iu good standing
are invited to attend.
By order of
THUS. BALLAN TYNE, H. P.
J. T. Thomas, Secretary. mar23-l
Forest City Lodge, Xo. 1, K. of P,
Knights, at a regular meeting to be
held THIS (Monday) EVENING, th) A,g/«|
K. rank will be conferred.
Members of the order are fraternally 1
invited to attend.
JOHN LORD, C. C.
S. C. Roberts, K. of R. & S. mar9-lt
Selma, March 21.—The Alabama river
is within two inches of the mark of the
flood of 1872, and still rising.
FIRE IN TEXAS.
Dallas, March 21.—An eighty thon-
sand dollar fire occurred here to-day.
Will bx Wound Up.—A special Wash-
ngton telegram to the Courier-Journal
says: “A committee of the House has
been investigating the Freedmen’s Bank
branches. The President of this bank
had a hearing before the committee re
cently, and stated that he was satisfied
(hat special necessity for this institution
no longer existed. He was willing to have
it wound up. The committee will not,
at present, report any scheme for wind
ing np tbe principal bank at this citv,
bnt will report a bill to close np the
branches.”
The Philadelphia Press revives Mr.
Kingsley’s suggestion that New England
ought to bnry one of her distinguished
dead in Westminster Abbey, and inti
mates that Charles Sumner should have
that honor.
If giving his life and talents to the
overthrow of Republican institutions and
the oppression and humiliation of his
countrymen entitles an American to the
destinction of being buried in Westmin
ster, then surely Charles Sumner is enti
tled to that questionable honor.
It was a North Carolina landlord who
posted the notice in his dining-room that
members of the Legislature would be first
seated, and afterwards the gentlemen.
St. Andrew’s Society.
The adjourned meeting for March will be held
at the Cooper Boat Club rooms, THIS (Monday)
EVENING, at 7 o'clock.
As business of importance is to be transacted
a full attendance is earnestly desired.
By order of the President.
J. S. HUTTON,
mar23-l Sec’y and Treas.
Grocer’s Protective Union.
A meeting will be held THIS (Monday) EVEN
ING, at S o’clock, at Germania HalL As the By
laws and other important business will be adopted,
every Grocer is invited to attend.
By order of JOHN COOPER,
President.
IL Calm. Sec’y. mar23-l
Xpticc.
The office of the Citizens Mutual Loan Com
pany. is removed to No. 7, Kelly’s building, first
door to the right at tbe head of the stairs.
CH.VS. H. OLMSTEAD,
mar23-l Treasurer.
Notice.
The annual meeting of the Stockholders of the
steamer “Katie” will be held on hoard the steam* r
in this city, THURSDAY', 2Gth instant, at 10
o’clock a. x. Stockholders an if their families will
he passed free. A. M. MARTIN,
niarl4-td President.
Why Will Ye. Vie I
Death, or what is worse, is the inevitable result
of continued suspension of the menstrual flow.
It is a coudition which should not be trifled with.
Immediate relief is the only safeguard against
constitutional ruin. In all cases of suppression,
suspension or other irregularity of the “courses,”
Dr. J. Bra-Ifield’s Female Regulator is the’only
sure remedy. It acts by giving tone to the ner
vous centres, improving the blood and determin
ing directly to the organs of menstruation. It is
a legitimate prescription, and the most intelligent
doctors use it. Prepared by J. H. Bradfleld,
druggist, Atlanta,* Ga~ $1 50 per bottle, and sold
by respectable druggists everywhere.
O. BUTLER & CO„
mar3-M,F&wlm Savannah, Ga.
Savannah Theatre
E P. KENDALL Cosine;3 Manager.
MONDAY, TUESDAY. WED’SDAY. THURSDAY
March 23, 24, 25, 2C.
FOX & DEXIKIt’S
PANTOMIME TROUPE!
TONY DENIER, tbe sole acknowledged rival of
G. L. FOX, as Clown, in his Famous
Pantomime, entitled
HUMPTY DUMPTY
As Played far 3 Years iu New? York City.
*5 Talented Performers. .
AN ARRAY OF SPECIALTY ARTISTES
The usual scale of prices. Reserved srats lor
sale at H. L. Schreiner's Book Store.
Open at Tit o’clock; commence at 3. Matinee
"mhS-t y * tSP WM. E CQ1EMAN. Agent.
MTHROP «fe
HAVE JUST OPENED
lDew Desips Heavy Oil doth
(THE MATTING PATTERN.)
China Mattings, Wall Papering, Window Shades.
WtTttSfce np LINEN SHEET1NGS, PILLOW CASING, and all HOUSE-FURNISHINn mv.
at short notice. u “°0DS,
Co.
mh23
LATHROP&
CALICO BALL
OF THE
German Steam Fire Engine Company.
s
PREVGr AM) SIJMLER G00
DcWITT, MORGAN & CO
HAVE NOW IN STORE
1
The German Steam Fire Engine Company will
give a Calico Ball,
Oii Monday, March 23,
AT THEIR HALL ON CONGRESS ST. EET.
Tickets may be procured from either of the un- |
dersigued Committee:
Peter Shefer, John Counts,
B. H. Levy, John Derst,
Fr. Kuck, Ch. Schwarz,
Ben. Delhres, Martin Wohltman.
A. Goebel, mhl9-Tb,S,M-3
New Style English and French DRESS GOODS;
Black and Colored DKESS SILKS;
Solid and Striped Japanese SILKS and POPLINS;
Black Solid and Satin Striped GRENADINES;
Colored English GRENADINES*
French CAMBRICS!
Full Lines MOURNING GOODS*
Full Lines of WHITE GOODS; ’
| Printed LINEN LAWNS, PERCALES aud ORGANDIES; New Style LLAMA LACE sacottdo
SHAWLS; 6-4 WORSTED COATINGS and SCOTCH CHEVIOTS, for Gentlemen's Snit *
HOSIERY, NECK TIES, HANDKERCHIEFS, Ac., Ac. mts -
AT
mb 23
139 CONGRESS
8 Suits;
STREET.
O’BRIEX 4 Co
No. 147 Broughton St.
lew Spring Goods!
JOH\ ¥. MXO\ & CO.
132 Broughton Street,
Are offering the following
SPECIAL BARGAINS from AUCTION.
W HITE BRILLIANTE at 20 and 25 cents, worth 35 and 40 cents; *
PLAIN and STRIPED SWISS at 20 and 25 cents, worth 30 and 40 cents;
INDIA TWILLS and NAINSOOKS at IS and 20 cents, worth 25 and 30 cents;
LINEN DRILLS and COATINGS at 20 and 25 cents, worth 30 and 40 cents;
SCOTCH and DOMESTIC GINGHAMS at 1 cents, very cheap;
Wide BLEACHED and BROWN SHEETINGS at 35 cents, worth 50 cents;
Heavy BROWN SHIRTING, 12 yards for $1, good value;
.SEA ISLAND “ 10 cents, very cheap;
4-4 BLE ACHED “ 10 cents and upwards.
We have just received 25 dozen Ladies’Black and Colored KID GLOVES (two button) at il nor*.-
| worth $150. • JOHN Y. DIXON & CO ^
mh!9 132 Broughton sheet
BLACK SILKS at GREAT BArIa0S i
PERCALES BELOW COST—BLACK GRENADINES VERY CHEAP.
HAVE JUST RECEIVED
H andsome Japanese p puns, at 25 |
cents per yard;
Handsome BROCADE POPLINS;
Rich JAPANESE SILKS;
Rich SILK and WOOL POPLINS;
Elegant DEEP MOURNING DRESS GOO I S;
6-4 BLUE FLANNELS, for Gentlemen's Saits;
NAVY BLUE FLANNELS, for Boys’ Saits;
Fall Lines CASSIMERES and COTTONADES.
Parasols and Snn Umbrellas.
Full lines Ladies’ and Children's WHITE COT
TON HOSIERY’;
Ladies’ LISLE THREAD HOSE;
Ladies’ Striped ENGLISH COTTON HOSE—
Extra Long;
Children’s Striped COTTON HOSE.
BARGAINS IN BLACK ALPACA!
MARSEILLES, CROCHET, HONEYCOMB and |
TOILET QUILTS;
SHEETINGS, SHIRTINGS. TABLE LINENS;
TOW ELS, NAPKINS, Damask TABLE CLOTna
Bargains in Linen Handkerchiefs 1
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SPRING DRESS GOODS
ill I ii r tr *
TOGETHER WITH THE REMAINDER OF
L M.M. .. Jr • T\J L -. t- -
OUR RETAIL STOCK,
AT PRICES THAT MUST SELL THEM.
All Interested In Cheap Dry Goods
WOULD . DO WELL TO BUY AT ONCE.
OUR RETAIL STOCK MUST BE CLOSED OUT IN A SHORT TUIE.
!einstein, EC kb an & CO.
151 aud 153 Congress Street, Savannah, Ga.
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gotifc to SratTlcris.
NEW BOOKS! NOTICE TO TRAVELERS.
1
TAN DE B1B0N. Arthur Help*.
HUBERT FRUTH’S PROSPERITY.’
RECORDS OF A SCHOOL. Alcait.
EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLS. |
Miss Blackett.
Passengers lake Close Connectii
LINCOLN AND SEWARD. G. Wells.
THE PYRENEES. Faine.
ALIDE: AN EPISODE IN GOETHE’S LIFE.
TWO LITTLE WOODEN SHOES. Curda.
JOHN M. C000PER & CO.
mli23-3
VIA THE
SAVANNAH ANI) CHARLESTON
CALL, AT
P. H. Mallette & Co’s
140 Congress Street,
And see the bcautifupline of •
SPRING GOODS
JUST RECEIVED,
E MBRACING all the Novelties in the BOOT |
AND SHOE LINE, consisting of Crown
Prince, Prince Albert’s, tbe Ladies* <Jueen’s, Con
gress and Eugenia Tie. We are offering the
above at prices to suit the times.
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PORT ROYAL RAILROAD
For Augusta, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Memphis, Nashville, Lonisville, Cincinnati, St.
Louis, Chicago, and all Points North, Sooth, East and West
Tivoli! Tivoli! Tivoli!
TRAIN LEAVES DAILY AT 9:30 A. M.
PASSENGERS HOLDING TICKETS BY OTHER LINES
CAN GET THEM EXCHANGED (thereby avoiding delay in Savannah) at
TICKET OFFICE,
21 Bull street, Savannah, Ga.
'STRICTLY RELIABLE INFORMATION FURNISHED.
TIYOLI BIER,
Dublin and Belfast Ginger Ale,
CELEBRATED PANACEA BITTERN.
DAILY PAPERS
From the following cities on file every day, FREE TO EVERYBODY: Boston, New York, PhflaJe!-
phia, Baltimore, San Francisco, Chicago, St. Lonis, Cincinnati, and many others.
Quick Tiinc and Sure Connections via tlie Port Royal Railroad.
J UST RECEIVED per schooner—
25 cases 01 TIVOLI BIER;
70 dozen BELFAST GINGER ALE;
25 cases PANACEA BITTER- 1 .
For sale by
A. G. YBANES,
mli23-l Merchants’ Exchange, Bull street.
mh21-S,M,Th-3w
Carpets, (Oilcloths!, &c.
GARDENER WANTED. | S O II IF A. 56/ /Si 58 JR A. ®
NEW CARPETS,
inducements are offered.
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Apply at this office^
BALTIMORE AND SAVANNAH STEAMSHIP
.COMPANY.
FOR BALTIMORE
Cabin Passage g20.
—I N—
NEW DESIGNS AT NEW PRICES.
O UR NEW STYLE INGRAINS ARE TIIE HANDSOMEST AND BEST CARPETS EVER
TIIB FIRST-CLASS STEAMSHIP
AMEKICA,
G. W. BILLUPS, Commander,
YX7ILL sail for Baltimore, on THURSDAY, I
VV March 2CUi, 1874, at 2 o’clock P. M.
Through hills lading signed for Cotton iatind
for Li v erpool and Bremen, by first class steamsh ipa
offered at the price.
TAPESTRY
VERY LOW
OIL CLOTHS,
BRUSSELS,
FIGUKES.
sailing from Baltimore.-
For freight apply to *
JAS. B.
WINDOW SHADES,
WALL PAPERS, and
. UPHOLSTERY GOODS,* ,
From the Beat Manufacturers in tlie World, all of which we will sell at less than they can be boogbt #. I
elsewhere. oct!4-tf ■
WEST A CO.,
120 Bay Street
^mutefrs.
THE BECKWITH £20
Portable Family Sewing Machine on
30 Days Trial.
The Beckwith is folly warranted light and silent
running, and is within the means of all to pur
chase. and really own, a good Frjnily Sewing
Machine. 'Wherever used it is tlie household
favorite. Liberal terms offered to agents. Ad
dress C. I. GORHAM,
General Agent, 111 Congress street.
OCtG-M,W,F,12m
ivannah. (
DENNISON’S
[PATENT SHIPPING TAGS,
Over Two Hundred Millions have hem need
within the put ten years, without complaint of
loss by Tag becoming detached. They are more
reliable for marking Cotton Hales than any Tag
in qse. All Express use them.
Sold br Printers and .Stationerseverywhere.
OBSTACLES TO MARRIAGE.
opy refief for Young Men tom tbe effects of
and Abuses in early life. Manhood restored,
to Marriage removed. New method
of treatment. New and remarkable remedies.
Books and circulars sent free in sealed envelopes.
Address HOWARD ASSOCIATION, No. S, South
Ninth street, Philadelphia, Pa.,—an institution
having a high reputation for honorable conduct
Cancers Cured.
Female Diseases, of I
Files, Fistulas, and 11 chronic
invariably cured by Dr. John D. Andrews, Thom
"le, Thomajpmntv, Ga.
r-deMJbwly
asvflle,
JOHN SULEIYAN,
REAL ESTATE AGENT
—AND— «
COLLECTOR
No. 113Bay£r« f (next to C. 11. B. Bank.)
dec24-ly
?aprr pills.
THE ATLANTIC PAPER CO.
Is now prepared to fill orders lor
Straw Wrapping Paper.
All sizes constantly on hnnd
, RICHARDSON 4 BARNARD, Agents.
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Shingles.
Cypress Shingles.
100 000 CTPRESS SHINGLES for sale
at our Shingle xnji on Canal, *”* Central Rail
road bridge.
mh21-6 McLEOD * KING.
ITOH1JM enrol HUB!
Well Known and Entirely Reliable.
Analy sis by Di\ Means, Feb. 21st, 1374:
AMMONIA. 3-20
SOLUBLE PHOSPHORIC ACID 1° °?
DISSOLVED BONE PHOSPHATE "
PRIVILEGE GIVEN OF PAYING IN COTTON 15 Cts.
For sale by
JOHN W. WALKER,
r Claghom & Cunningham's BuHth 0 ?*
Bay Strelt, Savanezh. es.
mar20-lm
©rccerivs.
ffwfcen?, (Slasswarc,
GREAT
EXCITEMENT
-AT-
I THE bed grocery store,,
V V CABINET MAKER, has removed from cor
ner Barnard ai d 8tate streets to *2M Broughton
street, opposite the Marshall House.
Having porchased the well known store, (Nap
tha Store,) he would inform his friends, and the
roat te will keep constantly on
Y, GLASSWARE.
furniture mm,
TRESSES of hair, moss and excelsior, all my own
make and at prices to suit tbe times.
UPHOLSTERING and REPAIRING FURNI
TURE a specialty.
Thankful for pa
lidta a continuance of tbe
N. B.—The highest price paid for SECOND
HAND FURNITURE mhMLWdrS-Im.
—
22 Barnard Street, Corner of Congress Street Lane,
Where will always be found s nice assortment of the best Family Groceries, kept in good *“* I
order. Also prepared for the German Thble. , _ 1
Ten Pounds of Nice Sugar for. One Dollar.
- . Good QuaUty of Parched and Ground Coffee at. ...Fort}’ Cents* I
new and second | Excellent Table Goshen Butter at...: Forty and Fifty Cent*, j
Etc^etc. Call and Bee for yourselves. —
FELIX RUSSAB-
fcMMm* ** e ^ Tere ^ * n hiS* ta small quantities in any part of the city, free of charge.
^uraihnt.
iritis.
Bricks.
decc-tf
FURNITURE! l^XJjaTVITTJl^^ 1 \
G. IT. MILLER,*
(SUCCESSOR TO S. E MILLER,)
in* Furniture of all
Ware-Room* 1 GO and 171 BnurIiim Sl, Betv
13 000 EASTEHN hard bricks, Healer
Suitable for paving purposes, . VVare.Km.m , ,
landed from schooner A. E Chase, from Maine. This OLD-ESTABLISHED FURNITURE HOUSE v
For sale by WILDER * CO. LARGE AND WELL-SELECTED STOCK OF Fi’KN
•* 1 v-~i Northern -—*-