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Affairs ill Georgia.
The Ordinary of Butts county refuses
to retail liquor licenses.
Col. Johannes B. Gormanne, who was
once editor of a country weekly, has
written to Professor Youmans asking
whv they don't utilize the turnip in filling
balloons. Col. Gormanne once wrestled
with a five-pound ruta baga, and hence
his curiosity.
Now that it is a settled fact that Wiley
Bedding is still at large, the Atlanta po
licemen have to be chained to the lamp-
posts.
Two days after the opening of Mercer
University one hundred and thirty stu
dents were in attendance.
Among the candidates for Clerk of the
House, besides those already mentioned,
are C. R. Strother, of Lincoln, Mark
Harden, of Bartow, and DeLauney, of
Upson.
The Columbus Times accuses us of
employing a traveling correspondent.
His charge is too serious to pass unno
ticed. We‘have neither managing editor
nor traveling correspondent, and we trust
the Times will make the correction.
Tao business houses in Albany were
closed up by the sheriff the other day.
G. W. Hugaly. a citizen of West Point,
attempted to commit suicide at the Battle
House, iu Mobile, a day or two ago. A
ctomaeli pu mp saved him.
The dulcet voice of the soap man is
heard iu Griffin.
The dedication of the Pio Nono Col
lege will take place on the lGth, at which
time the statue of the Virgin sent over
by the Pope will be unveiled.
A negro assaulted a little white boy
who was hunting near Macon and took
his gun awayjfrom him.
The Atlanta Herald remarks : “ His
Majesty, Rex, has appointed M. A. Nev-
in, of the Rome Commercial, Duke of
Floyd.” To which Mr. Nevin responds :
“In view of the above Judge Underwood
v i please keep his children out of our
yard in future.*’
Mr. J. H. Williams, a conductor on the
Central Railroad, fell from his train the
other night and received some severe in
juries.
The Atlanta Constitution calls the print
ing of the names of those who received
calls on New Years “enterprise,” and re
marks that “there are some things which
transpire in city life which require en
ergy, skill and talent.” Precisely so, and
if there is anything “transpiring ’ that re
quires genius, it is the cataloguing of
names. Few editors are equal to the ar
duous task.
We are glad to learn, as we do from the
Macon Telegraph, that the trouble in the
State University is greatly exaggerated.
The Macon Telegraph has discovered a
novel insurance case in that city. Last
fall the dwelling of E. J. Johnston, on
Mulberry street, was burned. It was
insured for about $4,000 in the Hartford
Company. The company’s agents con
cluded they could replace the building for
$:’..30O on that portion which they con
sidered uninjured, and persistently de
clined to paj r the full amount of insurance.
Mr. Johnston received the amount of
fered, but protested against their action.
The policy did not expire until January
1st, 1S7J, 12 o’clock m. At 9 o’clock
a. m. that morning, one of the heavy
chimneys fell, giving away near the foun
dation, destroying several costly marble
mantles, and injuring much of the re
mains of the burned building. The ques
tion arises, has not Mr. Johnston the
right to institute another claim for dam-
ages ? Again, ou the 2d instant, the day
following the fall of the first chimney,
the remaining chimney fell in, nearly
completing the demolition of the house;
what prospect is there for a claim on the
last chimney fall? The case is said by
all insurance men to be a novel one and
naturally creates considerable comment.
A lively little affair occurred in Gwin
nett county on Christmas night, accord
ing to a correspondent of the Norcross
Advance. Two of the Bellew boys and
George Cates went to Mr. George Yancy’s
about balf-pasl ten o'clock, and went in.
They were all drunk, and one of the Bel-
lews began to use very obscene language,
lancy asked him to stop using such lan
guage in the presence of his wife and
family. He refused, saying he would say
what he pleased; whereupon Yancy
knocked him down with a chair.
Then Cates and the other Bellew
attacked Yancy, one with an iron poker
aud the other with his pocket knife, and
inflicted an ugly but not dangerous
■wound iu his breast, and bruised him
until he is in a bad fix. During the strag
gle Mrs. Yancy got out of bed to help
ler husband, and one of the Bellews
knocked her down with a chair. Had it
not been for a disinterested man who
happened there the crowd would have
Kill-d Yancy. They robbed him cf
Money while beating him Thw L iieiwa
lave made their escape, bat Cates was
c *ught and bound over under a bold of
five hundred dollars.
Albany News: We had the pleasure of
greeting Hon. B. H. Hill on Saturday
last. He had been spending a week on
J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
Carnival Scene*—The Twelfth Night
Reveler*—City and County Elections—
Comment* ou the Louisiana Infamy.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Atlanta, January G. 1875.
THE CABNIVAL IN ATLANTA.
To-day at 12 o’clock the streets of the
city were thronged with many thousand
people eager to witness the royal parade
of King Rex, who was announced to ap
pear at that hour, attended by the broth
erhood of Twelfth Night Revelers. Every
available space on all the principal streets
was occupied by expectant, restless, im
patient men, women and children; every
window and door from the first to the
last story in every building was alive with
human faces, all praying for the coining
of the King. The royal banners (black
and yellow) decorated every building,
hung pendant from cords stretched
across the streets, adorned every passing
vehicle, all proclaiming the advent of
“His Most Puissant Majesty, Rex, King
of the Carnival.” Three salutes were
fired from the ro}*a] artillery; the Mayor
delivered up to the King the keys of the
city, and the King, with his royal retinue,
proceeded on their march through the
city. The King, clothed in magnificent
regalia, seated on a richly caparisoned
white horse, attended by a royal guard
detached from the Twelfth Night Revelers,
marched at the head of the procession,
bestowing at every step kindly recogni
tions on his dutiful subjects. Following
him appeared the Brotherhood of Twelfth
Night Revelers, all mounted, and hand
somely and richly costumed, and in their
wake, innumerable promiscuous maskers,
representing almost every Jiving creature
familiar to us. Next came a vast proces
sion of advertisers, who, by numberless
INGENIOUS DESSGNS,
advertised their business to the many
thousand spectators, among whom were
great numbers of strangers from abroad.
Among them was a moving box manu
factory in full operation, carried on by a
full set of machinery, a plumb and gas
fitting establishment, which turned out
at every step utensils of a variety of uses
in the domestic economy, scores of sewing
machines in operation, a bakery in full
blast, a planing mill, and hundreds of
trades, professions and businesses of
every clars and description. After the
procession had passed through the main
streets, it passed in review of the King
by the State Capital, where every subject
was formally dismissed and permitted to
go his way. The procession was about a
mile and a quarter long, and occupied
about a half hour in passing. After it
was dispersed the freedom of the city
was allowed to all within its limits with
liberty to indulge in any species of
sport that was not dangerous or ob
scene, and for the remainder of the
day the city was in a state of con
tinual uproar and confusion. Togeth
er with fireworks, tin horns and young
America war-whoops, the streets were
made scenes of unprecedented activity.
To-night Rex has a grand carnival recep
tion at the Opera House, where will occur
a splendid masquerade ball and some gor
geous aUegorical tableaux representing
events in history and fiction. Thousands
of visitors came into the city to witness
the parade, which was superior in many
respects to the one a year ago. Many
conjectures as to who is the King, but
his name is known to only a select few.
Among the gentlemen mentioned are
Gen. L. J. Gartrell, Dr. N. L. Angier,
Major \V. It. Hill, Air. J. AV. English and
Gov. J. M. Smith, but the secret remains
in conjecture. Only a limited number of
tickets were issued to the grand carnival
reception and tableaux to-night. It is
said that so urgent was the demand for
tickets that a gentleman offered last night
one hundred dollars for a ticket without
obtaining one. The carnival has become
an established feature of Atlanta.
ATLANTA TOPICS.
The election for county officers passed
off quietly to-day. There was no opposi
tion to the regular Democratic nominees,
except for the office of tax collector. For
this office there was one independent can
didate, but he received a small support.
The new City Council has organized
and gone to work. All the so-called
“ring candidates” for office have been
elected. This, however, is nothing re
markable. In this age nedjy all elec
tions are operated on the same principle.
The state of public affairs in Louisiana
is the subject of general comment. AVhile
nearly all are surprised that the people of
that State have submitted to the violent
encroachments of Federal authority, lead
ing citizens here say that the fortitude
and patience exhibited by the citizens of
that oppressed State in her present
humiliation wiU awaken a sympathy
throughout the Union that will, at the
next elections, hurl from power the last
vestige of the Radical dynasty.
Seminole.
A Shocking Murder at Sea.—Her
mann Donars, a former citizen of New
York, was recently brutally murdered
while working his passage on the steam
ship Lessing, from New York to Ham
burg, by two of the firemen. After re
peatedly knocking him down they poured
water over him. Subsequently they
chased him around the furnace with a red
hot iron, burning him severely, until the
poor wretch sunk with exhaustion against
the steam chest, near the boiler. This
had the effect of making him insensible.
He was then hoisted like a log on deck
with a rope around his body. Here it
was discovered that he was dead. The
fiends, whose names were Wendt and
Burmeister, were tried in the Hamburg
Criminal Court and sent to prison for
three years and six*months respectively,
the lesser punishment being awarded to
Burmeister.
Left Out in the Cold.—AVe see it
stated in the Northern papers that the
will of the late Gerrit Smith has been in
existence without material alteration for
twenty years. It bequeaths one-half of
his entire property to his wife. The
other half he divides between bis two
children, Col. Green Smith and Mrs.
Charles D. Miller. The estate is worth
about $2,000,000.
Not one cent is left to the poor negroes,
though he professed all his life such love
and devotion to them. The old man
seems to have been built pretty much
upon the same pattern with all the rest
of the Northern “philanthropists” of his
-Lripe. A little less “philanthrophy ’ and
more greenbacks would probably have
been more acceptable to the negroes.—
Macon 2'edegroph.
^ Ls plantations. Our interview with him
brief, and the conversation was con-
aped to planting and labor. He reports
his own and his neighbors* plaLting
1 eterest in a much better condition than
at the same period any year since he has
been operating in Dougherty; but he is
thoroughly convinced that the present i
aystem is carrying the country to
universal bankruptcy and poverty. He
ls ei upbatic in his opinion of the bale-
influence of the. country trading
shops-—set up to deal solely with the
colored people. They tempt depre
dations for unlawful gain, rob the planta
tions of a large per ceutage of products, - '
demoralize labor and breed all the criineg
known in the criminal code. There must
he some law to regulate or prevent these
deadfalls and dark holes of crime and in-
famy. or labor wifi cease to be valuable,
*nd lauds will depreciate to fifty cents
per acre. AVe hope Mr. Hill's gloomy
view may uever be realized, but must
confess the tendency in that direction is
fearful and rapid. He is clearly in favor
°f the tenant system, now being exten
sively adopted by our large planters, and
thinks that it will eventually force itaelf
h-to prominence and probably success,
It is thought that the “nervou. pros
tration” from which Irwin, the Pacific
Mail witness, suffered so acutely week
before last will be “catching” along about
to-morrow, in case he takes the stand and
is compelled to tell ail he knows about'
the manner in which the corruption fund
that passed through his hands were dis
bursed. AVhether he will do so or not
remains to be seen. The opinion enter
tained by a g^od many is that he will
keep his secret to the end; but with the
majority of these the wish is doubtless
father to the thought. The general im
pression is that the sub-committee has
gained so many points in New York that
the whole truth must now come out, or at
least enough to play sad havoc in a good
many quarters.— Washington Star.
The Russians have gone mad over
Patti again. At Moscow recently, the
ioceipts of the opening night were $7,500,
mid when it is stated that in the course
of the evening she was called before the
curtain no less than sixty times, and that
upwards of two thousand bouquets were
showered upon her, some idea may be
framed of the triumph. At the conclu-
opera Madame Patti was pre
! ' five splendid stars of rubies
>1 • uuVfids, and a magnificent orna-
A^^o^ln sting entirely of large bril-
BY TELEGRAPH
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE LAST DITCH OF RADICAXISM.
Grant’s Osarism and Sheridan’s
shamelessness.
BRAVE WORDS FROM THE NEW
YORK “ times:'
MESSAGE TO BE SENT TO CON
GRESS ON EOLISIANA AFFAIRS.
Fatal Railway Accident.
PATBIOTIC words from a radical TOUBCE.
New York, January 8.—The Toitssays:
We learn from our coriespondent at Wash
ington that the President will 6end iu &
message to Congress to-day or to
morrow on the Louisiana difficulty, and
that it will be unusually pointed. We
hope that it will not be pointed
with bayonets like Gen. Sheridan’s dispatch,
which seems to have produced an outburst
of indignation from one end of the country
to the other. Some of the people in Wash
ington must be curiously incompetent to
gauge Dublic feeling, or they would never
have allowed that ma l dispatch to have seen
the light. It is much to be desired that
some members of the government would
take pains to acquaint themselves with the
tone and temper of the country.
If the Cabinet had been prudent, it would
have put General 8heridan’g precious mes
sage on or under the table, or into the fire,
and said nothing about it. Instead of that,
General Belknap telegraphed back to Sheri
dan, and said: “The President, and all of
us, thoroughly approve your course,” which
was oue of the most unnecessary and foolish
blunders ever committed by the present
government. We hope that the President’s
forthcoming message will bo a little more
creditable to h mself and hiB Cabinet, his
party, and to the people of the United States,
who, if they also thoroughly approved of
Sheridan’s course, would stand disgraced
before the civilized world.
grant’s dilemma.
New York, January 8.—The Hei'ald has a
double-leaded editorial calling attention to
tbc call fora meeting bore Monday evening
and the influential names attached thereto.
It says : “The President cannot affect to
ignore or undervalue such a demonstration
supported by such eminent names. The
President is bound to pay some regard to
the public opinion of the couutrv. He ought
not to be coundeut that he is right when the
best sentiment of the best classes condemns
him. It is at least his duty to pause
and i\ fleet, and to re-examine the grounds
of his unprecedented action. The President
will soon see that he is not supported by the
sentimeut of the country, and that liis un
paralleled course arouses the apprehensions
of the people as no other public event has
done 8iuoe the tiring on Fort Sumter. This
respectable and influential call ought to con
vince the President that there is a limit be
yond which no public officer iu this republi
can government can go with impunity.”
FATAL ACCIDENT.
New York, January 8.—The express train
hence at nine p. m. yesterday collided with
a freight train. The s*iteh-tend**r is blam
ed. The mail and express cars, with the
mail agent Fayman, were burned. No pas
sengers were seriously hurt. The entire
Northern mail from Washington, including
the accumulated day’s mail from the South,
excepting oue pouch and canvass for Balti
more, was destroyed by the burning of the
f estal car of the New York train last night,
t is believed that the mail agent, Mr. Fay-
man, was erflshed to death before the cars
took tire. He was a young man about thirty
years of age, and a sou of the local post
office agent in ibis oifcy.
RELIGIOUS.
January 8.—Tko committee
Baltimore,
of the Northern and Southern Presbyterian
Churches, to consider the existing differ
ence, have organized with Dr. Wm. Brown,
of Richmond, President.
UNITED STATES SENATORS.
Augusta, Maine, January 8.—The Re
publican caucus nominated Hamlin as United
States Senator.
Lansing, Mich., January 8.—Tbe Repub
lican caucus nominated Chandler for United
States Senator.
PARIS NOTES.
Paris, January 7.—Alfonso embarked at
Marseilles.
Emile Pierrier, broker, is dead.
FROM MEMPHIS.
Memphis, January 8. — The Democrats
carried the municipal elections.
State Agricultural Convention.
Office of the Georgia State Ag-)
RICULTURAL SOCIETY,
Atlanta, January 1, 1875. )
2o the County and Neighborhood Agricul
tural Societies and Clubs:
We would hereby announce that the
next semi-annual convention of the State
Agricultural Society will bo held in the
to wn of Tkomasville, on the second Tues
day in February, (ninth day.) 1875.
2d. We hope, through the continued
liberality of the railroad companies, to
obtain transportation for the members as
heretofore, free both ways.
3d. The State Society makes the fol
lowing requirements of the subordinate
societies in reference to the admission of
delegates, as set forth in Article HL of
the Constitution:
The body is composed of delegates from
lesser societies, life members and the offi
cers and all ex-Presidents of the society.
1. Delegates from any society or club
heretofore connected with this society shall
be admitted on the following basis of rep
resentation, viz.: One delegate tor any num
ber of members from ten to twenty; two
delegates for any number of members from
over twenty and not exceeding forty ; three
delegates for any number exceeding forty
members; provided that not more than
three delegates shall be admitted from any
oue county. Such delegate to be elected at
the January meeting of the society or club
for one year. The credentials of delegaies
to be sigued by the President and Secretary
of the society or club, and be accompanied
by a report of the number of moetiugs held
iii the preceding six months, and a list of
officers and members.
$ 2, Life members are entitled to admission
without fees to the Fair Grounds, and to
the same privileges a-* delegates at the Con
ventions of the Society.
Associations or Clubs not heretofore repre
sented may make application to the Secre
tary, wbo* can admit them provisionally
upon the same basis of representation, sub
ject to the approval of the Executive Com
mittee.
Applications for life membership are sub
ject to the same conditions and the pay
ment of twenty-five dollars.
4th. Societies should by all means en
deavor to have their reports in at the
Secretary’s office by the 25th day of Jan
uary, in order to insure the reception of
their railroad tickets in due time. The
tickets for each society will be mailed to
the Secretary of the Club, and by him
will be distributed to the delegates.
5th. Life members expecting to attend
the Convention should notify the Secre
tary, that he may send them passes.
order of business.
Hirst Day—February bth.—\. Open”’
ing Address of the President. 2. Agri
cultural Ode or Pastoral Poem, by James
A. Stewart, Esq., of Atlanta. 3. Report
from the Experimental Farm, by Dr. E.
M. ‘Pendleton. 4. Discussion thereon.
Second Day—February 10th.—5. Green
Soilirj, with report of experiments re
lating thereto, by Dr. E. C. Hood, Colum
bus. 6. Discussion thereon. 7. Cotton
Seed, its agricultural value and uses, by
Dr. W. L. Jones, Athens. 8 Discussion
thereon. 9. Report of the Executive
Committee.
Third Day—February llfA—10. The
Moon, its influence upon vegetation and
animals, by CoL W. LeRoy Broun. 11.
Discussion thereon. 12. Gardening, by
R. H. Hardaway. 13. Discussion there
on. 14. New Business. 15. Closing
Exercises.
A. H. Colquitt, President.
Malcolm Johnston, Secretary.
The Confiscation Process.
If Congress had ten years ago passed
an act providing that no white person
should, after a fixed day, hold lauded
property in certain parts of the South;
that the lands in the specified districts
should be distributed among the blacks;
that white persons should remove from
tli6 plantations, and either leave the dis
tricts entirely or confine their residence
to the towns and cities—the measure
would have been regarded as the most
ruthless proscription of modem times. It
would have extorted a cry of despair at
the South, and a shudder of horror at the
North. And yet, it would not probably
have been more cruel than tbe series of
measures for the gradual banishment of
the whites from certain districts in the
South which Congress has been enacting
and enforcing during the last ten years.
Indeed it would, perhaps, Lave been more
merciful, for it would have placed before
the proscribed w hites the inexorable ulti
matum which they were required to con
form to, and thus spared the repeated
agony of conforming to it by piecemeal.
It would have been merciful in the same
sense that it is more merciful to sever a
condemned limb at one stroke than to
amputate it by a long protracted process
of successive incisions.
The government has actually been en
gaged for ten years in the task of exiling
the w’hites from the most productive
parts of the South, and despoiling them
of their lands for the ultimate purpose
of distributing these lands among the
blacks—and what is more, it has nearly
accomplished the work, and the process
is none the less remorselees because the
victims did not know what the final end
w as to be, and even the government itself
did not foresee and aim at it. How effec
tively and thoroughly the process has
been, and bow nearly it has reached com
pletion, will be seen from the following
extract from the testimony given by Col.
Horace Miller before the Congressional
Committee at Vicksburg:
“Increase of taxation here has been rapid
and enormous. Now the entire taxation,
State, county and city, was near six per
cent. It was difficult to estimate assess
ments on lands outside the city with real
value, but in nearly every case, if put up at
public sale, they would not bring the as
sessed value. The value of lands in tbe
State since before the war has deteriora»ed
from 50 to 75 per cent. Lands iu this
vicinity worth prior to the war $25 to $50
per acre are now only worth $5 to $10. Cali
fornia plantation, on the Louisiana side,
which sold Before the war for $100,000, sold
recently for $15,000. He also instanced a
similar case iu Issaquena county.
“Large bodies of lauds iu these and ad
joining counties have been abandoned by
the owners, or else forfeited to tbe State for
taxes, because of excessive taxation.”
It makes no practical difference to a
Mississippi, Louisiana or South Carolina
land-owner, whether his property is taken
from him by a single act of violence, or
taken out of his possession by confisca
tory levies which he cannot pay ; the ef
fect is the same, at least; and when the
latter process is applied to the laud-hold
ing class of oitizensin a State, it amounts
in the end to a transfer of their property
to the landless class, and to the exile of
the despoiled property-holders from the
State. Colonel Miller testifies that the
aggregate taxation iu some portions of
Mississippi is 6 per cent.: that the value
of lands has depreciated from one-half to
two-thirds ; and that large bodies of land
in Warren, Issaquena and the adjoining
counties—-districts in which the blacks
are the governing majority—“have been
abandoned by the owners or else forfeited
to the State for taxes, because of exces
sive taxation.” Similar testimony about
tbe condition of South Carolina and
Louisiana could be produced, showing
that the same process of spoliation and
exile is going on in these States, under
the supervision and active co-operation of
the^Federal Government.
The white land-owners who did not
foresee the end of the government’s
policy at first perceive it now, and the
White League in Louisiana, the Tax-pay
ers’ League in Mississippi—an association
of white land-owners —and the Tax Asso
ciation of South Carolina are. simply,
organizations of self-defence against the
spoliation. The government, too, per
ceive the ultimate result of its policy and
shrinks from it—as well it may, for it is
only less savage and pitiless than the
series of spoliation and proscription
measures which followed Cromwell’s in
vasion of Ireland. The Republican party,
still in control of the government, hesi
tates to go forward, and cannot decide to
go backward; it does not know r whether
to prosecute its policy to the bitter end,
or to reverse it—the bitter end being a
transfer cf South' Carolina, Louisiana and
southern Mississippi to the blacks and
the exile of the whites to other regions—
and a reversal being the surrender of the
numerical black majority to tbe superior
white majority. The Republican papers
confess their helplessness iu the presence
of the dilemma. The Chicago Tribune,
with a candor which is pathetic, under
the circumstances, thus presents it:
•If the intelligence, the education, the
property and the tax-paying elements of a
State should exercise the law-making power
and administer the public offices, certainly
the government of Louisiana should be in
the hands of the white men, and it adds
to the force of the argument the fact that
in the Southern StaUs where the white in
habitants exercise authority there are peace
and order and improved administration of
government. Desirable as this may be,
however, how is it to be accomplished in
Louisiana without overthrowing the very
foundation principles of government, and
setting a precedent which might be ruinou*
to republican institutions V On the other
hand, ff the government of the State is not
given to the minority, but to the majority,
then two incalculable evils preseut them
selves at once. First, it places the black
man in authority over the white man, and
The Uucivirzed Von-hivest.
[From the Mobile Register.]
The newspapers generally of the North,
and especially the New York Herald,
tuke the recent New Orleans homicide as
a text for sermons, upon the want of a
high type of civilization in the South
west. We must again deny that the peo
ple of this section are less law-abiuing
than those of the North and West. In
the very issue of the Herald which con
tains the editorial referring to the Byerly-
Warmoth affair, we find the following
dispatches:
Port Richmond, Pa., Dece ober 30.—Two
young men, Robert and William Young, kill
ed each other in a duel at Fawn township,
York, in this State, yesterday.
Kansas Citv, Mo., December 30.—Two
men, named Fuller and Clemens, killed
eacli other at New Gardner yesterday. They
were quarrelling over a jug of whisky, when
Clemens suddenly drew a revolver and shot
Fuller. The latter jerked out a knife and
disemboweled Clemens. Both died almost
instantly.
Muscogee, I. T., December 30.—Three no
torious desperadoes were killed on Pryor’s
creek, oue of whom was a member of ths
Deputy Sheriff’s posse.
St. Paul, December 3).—During a ball at
Centroville, in the interior of Anoka county,
on Monday night, an affray occurred be
tween a party of Frenchmen, and Felix
Ro»inald, a French half-breed, was killed.
His body, when discovered in a stable, was
cold, his murderers haring resumed their
da lice. The body was brought into the
ball-room, placed on the floor in one corner,
in plain signt of all the revellers, and the
dance continued for an hour or two.
Portland, Me., December 30.—About six
this evening Thomas Pernell, Treasurer of
Cumberland county, was knocked down in
his office and the safe robbed of between
$8,000 and $10,000.
Perhaps this record of ft single dny in
the North and West may offeet the crimes
which occasionally occur in the South*
west. We wish the Herald to remember
that Byeily was from Pennsylvania and
Warmoth from Illinois. They had re
ceived their education and civilization
before they came South.
If it is objeoted that the large list of
burglaries and murders which appear in
the Northern papers daily are few in com
parison with the population, we have
only to refer to the following extract
from an editorial of the New York Times
of the 31st:
Robberies with violence are beceming
more rnd more common in the city of New
York, and it is quite certain that compara
tively few of them get reported to the po
lice. We heard of a cass the other day in
which a clergyman was kuocked down in
Madison avenue and robbed, after returning
from a visit to the Windsor Hotel.
The Times thus affirms that but few of
the outrages in New York city get re
ported to the police. This statement is
confirmed by the “first annual report of
the Police Justices,” which appears iuthe
very issue of the Herald which laments
the want of civilization in the Southwest.
After reviewing the circumstances con
nected with the entrance of the Justices
upon their duties, the report continues in
substance as follows:
STATISTICS OF CRIMB.
The tntil number of prisoners arraigned
was 34,321. Assuming the population of
this city to be 1,000,000, this would givo
one arrest for less than every twelve of the
whole population. Alarming as those fig
ures are they do not represent the full
extent of offences against the laws. There
are no reliable means at hand of determin
ing the number of crimes and offences com
mitted for which no arrests were made,
either from inability to discover the offender
or the unwillingness or indifference of those
pei sons especially offended to make known
the facts or to take any steps towards the
prosecution of the offenders. Could all such
cases be known and the offenders prosecuted
the number of arrests would be largely
increased.
In the civilized city of New York there
has been, during the past year, arraigned
before the courts one out of every twelve
of the population for violation of the
peace. The justices declare that if all
the offenders had been arrested “the
number of arrests would be largely in
creased.” Shall we say that half of the
offenders against law escape arrest! If
so, there is one criminal in New York to
every six of the population. But the
proportion of heads of families to women
and children is as one to six. Hence we
find the police justices of the greatcentre
of civilization, where is published the
Herald, and Harper s Journal of Civilisa
tion, declaring that well nigh the entire
male adult population are a mass of
drunkards, swindlers, thieves and mur
derers.
Perhaps a duel once a year, like that
which occurred over tho line in Missis
sippi a few weeks ago, and a homicide
like that which occurred in New Orleans
the other day, is better than the sub
mergence of Southern barbarism into tbe
cess-pool of New York civilization !
Bismarck and the Election of Pope.
—The circular Bote of Bismarck of May
II, 1872, read in the secret session Qf the
Von .-Vruim trial, stated that a new Pope,
if not recognized by a majority of tbe
European sovereigns, would cease to be
a Pope, but would stand in the same posi
tion as a bishop appointed without the
consent or approval of his government.
subjects the intelligence, the brain power,
the commercial element, tbe property, ana
the tax-payiug resources of the State to the
disposition and imposition of the ignorance,
tho poverty and incapacity of the State.
This would bo a disposition of the quostion
which would be abhorrent to everyone’s
sense of propriety and justice, and would set
the whole South in a fever heat of rage, and
undo all that has been done toward the re
storation of peace and order. Neither of
these propositions, therefore, suggests a
feasible plan of escape from tue evils which
environ this unhappy State. Turn either
way. and insurmountable objects seem to
present themselves.”
The Republican party cannot discover
a satisfactory solution of the problem;
the indecision of the present Congress,
the division in its counsels, and the ab
ject confessions of the Republican press
prove this clearly. And it is not evident
that any other party, even though clothed
with absolute powers, can find such a
solution; it is certain that the half Demo
cratic, half Republican government
which we shall see on the meeting of the
next Congress cannot do it; it is even pos
sible that the process of transfer of the
three States we have alluded to has gone
so far that nothing can be done to pre
vent its completion, and that the problem
will have to be left to find its own soliu
tion.
What is Found Out.—The Pacifio
Mail investigation has shown that out of
the million of money put into the hands
of Richard B. Irwin to buy through the
subsidy of a million a year, one check for
$115,000 was paid to William S. King, of
Minnesota, then Postmaster of the House
and now a member elect of the Forty-
fourth Congress, and one check for $275,-
000 to John G. Schumaker, of Brooklyn,
a member of tho present House and also
of the Forty-first Congress. This ac
counts for about one-third of the great
corruption fund. King has always been
a Republican, and is a very loud Grant
man, while Schumaker is a Democrat;
and it is rathei remarkable that of the
two, Schumaker got the larger part of
the money; yet King is probably the
greater rascal, as he certainly is more ex
perienced in the busiuess of buying and
selling legislation.—Neic York Sun.
Queen ptoria, on a recent occasion,
way paying a visit to a great noble and
o*ic al. When the hour of her departure
arrived, her host observed that the car
riage was at the door and the train wait
ing. Somebody, however, observed that
Brt>wn, Inr confidential servant, was not
there. 4 *G^.” said the Queen of Great
Britain and Ireland, “we must wait for
him. I suppose he iajmishing his morn
ing pipe. ,
Proposed Disfranchisement of the
South.
The people of Louisiana have not yet
learned the very important fact, that so
far as tfie Conservative portion is con
cerned. they have no rights which Presi
dent Grant aiid his satelites appear to
think are bound to be respected by them.
Grant is evidently not in an amiable
mood in regard to the condition of South
ern affairs, as their aspect is anything
else than favorable to bis third term aspi
rations.
The National Republican, which is pre
sumed to reflect the President’* views, in
an article on “Probable Frauds in the
South,” says the Democrat* have already
got control of most of the Southern
States, and admits that there is every
probability of their securing the whole of
them before the next Presidential elec
tion. As this would give 138 votes
against the third term, only 4G more
would be required to elect a Democratic
President, and that small number the
Republican sensibly concludes, will readily
be made up in what it terms the “free
States, with a considerable number to
spare. Assuming with its usual imagin
ings of “outrages,” that all the elections
in the Southern States will be oarried by
fraud and wrong, it presents the follow
ing interesting oonundrum;
“Row r,re the States in which elections are
couduoted peaceably and leg&llv to protect
themselves against the counting of votes
obtained by fraud and violence ?”
Without waiting for a reply it proceeds
to answer itself thus:
“The Constitution siruply provides for tho
opening aud counting of the votes on a day
named, in the presence of both Houses of
C< ingress. When the vote fos President and
Vice President in 1876 is opened snd counted
it will be in the presence of a Republican
Senate and a largely Democratic House of
Representatives. If the vote of any one or
more States should appear to have been ob
tained by fraud and violence to such an ox-
tent as would render it wholly nugatory and
void in the election of any other officer,
must it he counted the same as if nothing of
the sort existed? It seems to us it should
not.”
Now the precise meaning of the ex
tract, as we interpret it, is that the elec
toral votes of the Southern States shall
be thrown out, just as the Returning
Board in Louisiana has rejected the re
turns of a sufficient number of parishes
to secure a Republican majority in the
Legislature, and the election of Republi
can State officers. Fortunately, a Demo
cratic majority in the House will block
that little game. But in order to secure,
if possible, the disfranchisement of the
South, as a first step towards producing
strife to an extent that would justify
such a measure, Phil Sheridan has been
placed at the head of the Federal forces
iu that section. All who are familiar with
his happy faculty for raising disturbances
where, but for his meddlesome interfer
ence, none could possibly have arisen,
will readily understand what that move
means.
Relying upon the native good sense of
the Conservatives of the South, we have
no fears of the violence and outrage pre
dicted by the Republican, and more than
that, have no idea that Grant, intolerant,
tyrannical and ambitious as he iq, will
dare attempt so hazardous a game as dis
franchising it. He would speedily find
his ^rutus. —Philadelphia Chronicle.
The manufactures of Richmond, Ya.,
for 1874 amounted to $17,746,720, an
increase over 4873 of $2,865,584, which
is largely due to tbe high price manufac
tured tobacco is bringing. The internal
revenue collections in the district were
$3,801,761 56, an inoreaee over 1873 of
$638,705 77.
Sheridan, the brave butcher of Indian
women aud children, is the right man to
represent Grant and the Jacobins at Now
Orleans. His telegram to Belknap proves
that beyond controversy. The ladies and
gentlemen of New Orleans refused to ad
mit him to their parlors aud society whf n
he was there, and like all such cowardly
brutes he yearns for an opportunity of
revenging himself for the cool oonte.npt
with which he was treated. The creature
absolutely thirsts for blood with the hun
gry eagerness of a Parisian fish woman in
the days of Murat and Robespierre. His
recent utterances must absolutely make
Beast Butler turn green with envy. Oh !
how the good Grant does “hate” the “ul
tra Radicals!”—Macon Telegraph.
J>ry Goods.
Prices Reduced!
Gray, O’Brien&Co.
There is a dog belonging to a Concord, 1
N. H., fire company which always takes
it upon herself to spread a fire alarm,
and makes a great ado about it. When a
fire broke out a few days ago she rushed
to a sleeping fireman, and, seizing
him by the throat, waked him. She then
went to the bouse of another fireman,
and, having called him out by her loud
barking, fastened upon his clothes and
tried to hurry him up.
Fifty thousand starved out people of
Asia Minor, whom the famine drove
thence, crowded into the city of Adana,
itself a place of but ten thousand inhabi
tants. Their suffering and disease have
cut down on«-half of their number. The
simple mention of the aggregate of vic
tims suggests the extremes of destitution
and misery into which the unfortunate
refugeos must have fallen.
Shooting Case near Elkton, Md.—It
has heretofore been announced that a
colored man whilst driving a carriage
near Elkton, was asked a question by a
tramp in reference to a proper road to
a certain locality, and for answer shot
him. The tr&mp's name is Charles Wil.
son, and the Elkton papers state that he
will recover.
No. 147 Broughton Street.
To decrease our Stock, pre
paratory to our Annual Stock
taking, we will offer our Goods
at reduced prices from now
until the 1st of February next.
OKK VT BARGAINS IN
(fdurational.
COL. AS BURY COW ARB,
PRINCIPAL.
A FULL CORPS OF ABLE PROFESSORS.
Complete outfit of arms, apparatus, etc., for
thorough mental and physical training. Location
noted for healthfulncss and poss-ssing railroad
and telegraphic facilities. For Illustrated Cata
logue apply to Principal. * jand-tf
MR. AND MRS. A. STAUB,
No. 53 Congress Street,
English, German, French and
Music Day School,
F OR Young Gentlemen, Ladies and younger
Children, as well as private lessons at the
pupils’ residences or at their own. They refer
by permission to the Kov. Mr. Mortimer, Rector
of Christ Church, and Mr. C. Taliaferro, and Mr.
John NisbeL jan7-3t
Boarding and Day School
M RS. SYLVANUS REED’S English, French
and German Boarding and Day School for
yonng ladies and little girls, 6 & S E. 53d St.,
New Ycrk. Exercises for the next year will be
gin at 9 a. m., Oct. 1st, when all pupils should be
present. New scholars will report Sept. 29th,
when teachers will class them. mn24-tf
5fHtUi«mr 6oods.
Shawls, Cloaks,
BLANKETS,
AND ALL CLASSES OF
WINTER GOODS.
jan4 GRAY, O’BRIEN A CO.
hotels and JUstaurants.
BRESNAN’S
ijui umiiiii inrutM/
156, 158, 160 & 162
BRYAN STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
'pHE Proprietor, having completed the neces-
A sary additions and improvements, can now
tiler to his guests all the comforts to be obtained
fit other Hotels at less than
HALF THE EXPENSE!
Millinery! Millinery !
—AT—
Reduced Prices!
I AM now offering all of my Stock of Millinery
Goods, consisting of
PATTERNS,
BONNETS, HATS,
RIBBONS, VELVET.
FELT and STRAW GOODS,
For less than they can be bought elsewhore in
the city. Also a full line of Velvets on the bias,
in all colors.
I have just received a large and beautiful as
sortment of TIES, in all the new colors.
Also, a new assortment of Hosiery, Kid Gloves,
Corsets, Rushing, etc.
My line of Ladies’ Underwear, made of tho
best Muslin and Cambric, is still complete.
Real Hair Switch, Hair Ornaments, and Fancy
Goods.
Also, a large assortment of Silk Umbrellas for
Ladies aud Gents.
Ladies, call ana examine my stock. You will
find them cheap and of the best quality of goods.
jan5-tf
H. C. HOUSTON,
22 Bull street (Masonic building).
(flothinij.
The New Departure
c. o. i>.
By This Sign We Conquer.
HEIDT, JAUDON & CO.,
Oue of the Oldest Clothing
Houses in Savauuah,
R ESPECTFULLY announce to their large cir
cle of Friends and Patrons, that from and
after this date they will adopt the “Cash System,”
and sell for cash. Their prices will cohform to
this change, and will be found lower than any
house in the city.
They now offer unparalleled inducements to
cash buyers. janl lm
©as lilting.
JOHN NICOLSON,
Gas & Steam Fitter,
Plumber and dealer In Gas Fixtures,
DRAYTON STREET,
SECOND DOOR ABOVE BROUGHTON.
Houses fitted with Gas and Water, with ail thr
latest improvements, at the shortest notice.
nov25tf
WM. M. McFALL,
Practical Plumber and Gas* Fitter.
No. 46 Whitaker Street,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Bath Tubs, Water Closets, Chandeliers and Gas
Fixtures of every description constantly on hand.
Jobbing done at the shortest notice,
fost-tr
garble $ard.
MARBLE MANTELS,
Grates & Fixtures.
Agent Wallace Patent Basket.
ARCHIBALD McALLISTER,
811 BROUGHTON STREET,
decS-Tu,Th<fcSlm Savannah, Ga.
A RESTAURANT
ON THE
■EUROPEAN PLAN
Has been added, where guests can
AT ALL HOURS
Order whatever can be obtained in the market.
ROOMS, WITH BOARD,
$2 00 PER DAY.
Determined to be
Outdone by None,
All I ask is a TRIAL, confident that complete
satisfaction will be given.
JOHN BRESNAN,
PROPRIETOR.
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gottrrifg.
LOOK ! LOOK I
$1,200,000 IN PRIZES’
The Grandest Single Number Scheme on
Record, will be drawn In public in
SL Louis on March 31, 1875.
Capital Prize, $100,000!
Missouri State Lotteries!
Legalized by State Authority,
MURRAY, MILLER k CO., Managers,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
1 Prize of $100,000
1 Prize of 50,000
1 Prize of 22,500
1 Prize of 20,000
5 Prizes of. 10,000
10 Prizes of 5,000
20 Prizes of 2,500
100 Prizes of 1,000
And 11,451 other Prizes of from $1,500 to $50.
A mounting in the Aggregate to $1,200,000
Whole Tickets, $20; Halves, $10; Quarters, $6.
Prize payable in full and no postponement of
drawings tike place.
Address, for Tickets and circulars,
MURRAY, MILLER * CO., Managers,
8T. LOUIS, MO.
P. O. Box 2445. j*n5-Tn.Th.8aAwly
insurance.
People’s Fire Insurance Co.,
OF MEMPHIS, TENS.
iulbis, &c.
PLANTS!
BOQUETS and
FLOWERS.
DESIGNS for
Weddings and Funerals.
Choice BULBS,
In variety
ALSO.
BULB GLASSES.
FLOWER JARS, &c„ Ac.
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J. H. PARSONS * CO.,
Ill State and 54 Boll street
STATEMENT, JANUARY 1, 1874.
Cash Capital $300,000 00
Surplus 108,760 43
Gross Assets $108,760 43
LIABILITIES.
Reinsurance Fund $ 39,569 15
All other Claims against
the Company 6,695 57—$ 46,264 72
Surplus as regards Policy
Holden $362,495 71
J. D. JOHNSTON, Agent,
dec29-Tu,Th«fcS5w No, 114 Bay street.
£hafl and Djfftnrg.
Shad and Oysters.
•EO. ▲. HUDSON.
M. X. SULLIVAN.
HUDSON & SULLIVAN,
—DEALERS IN—
Shad, Oysters, Open and Shell
—ALSO—
All kinds of SALT and FRESH WATER FISH
in season. Order, from all part, of the country
promptly attended to.
Nona aide ef Bay street, fm .f Whitaker
janl-tf
%
3tom.
DOST’T BUT
UATIL, YOU HAVE
Carefully Examined
ourt new
T35AD2
JstLAMSt
—AND—
LOW BESEBV0IR
Muhjfu//
AS WE HAVE IS GOOD REASONS WHY
THEY WILL DO YOUR WORK.
Quick and Easy,
Cheap and Clean.
They are cheapest to buy,
- They are best to use,
They bake evenly and quickly,
► a Their operation is perfect.
They have always a good draft,
They arc made of the best material,
They roast perfectly.
They require but little fuel,
—They are very low priced,
LbJhJ They are easily managed,
They are suited to alllocalities,
PBBBHI Every stove guarant’d to give satisfaction
Sold by EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING CO.
St. Louis, Mo., and by
Lovell & Lattimore,
SAVANNAH, GA.
aug22-S,TuATh,«few5m
ganfeers and grokrrs.
JlA $50. $100, $JC0 Shares in Wall afreet,
n? a 1/ ^ No liability. Full personal control.
Profile every thirty days. Pamphlets showing
the various methods of operating in stocks sent
free by J. IIICKLING Jb CD., Bankers and
Brokers, 72 Broadway, New Yorn. Orders lor
Stocks executed.
A. Waldkon, formerly of Charleston. 8.
and Augusta, Ga.. begs to state that he Is con
nected with the above firm, which is perfectly re
liable, and will be glad to receive commission*
from his friends. dec L5-3iu
JAMES HUNTER,
BROKER,
DEALER IN
Coin, Securities & Exchange,
No. 110 Bryan Street,
(Geoigia Historical Society Building).
I OANS NEGOTIATED. Advances made on
J securities placed in my hands for salo ut
current rates. Real Estate bought and sold on
commission.
Mr. H. J. THOMASSON will take charge of
the Real Estate branch of my busiuess, anu will
give his personal attention to the leasing of houses
and collection of rents. sepl-tf
ALFRED L. HARTK1DGE,
SECURITY
—AND—
EXCHANGE BROKER,
No 8 Battersby Building,
.... GA.
SAVANNAH, - .
octl5-6m
Wood and (foal.
F. L. NEACE’S
One Price Wood Yard
REMOVED
T O WHARF formerly occopied by McLeq^b
Bro., near Canal. Order Boxes at Messrs.
A. A. Solomons *fc Co.’s., G. M. Heidt A Co.’s.;
J. R. Haitiwanger’s, Whitaker and Liberty street
lane; also, at McKee A Bennett’s Carriage -Manu
factory, corner West Broad and Bryan streets.
Prices for the ensuing season:
Oak, Black Jack and Lightwood, in stick, de
livered $6 00
Sawed ......... 7 0f»
Pine, In stick 5 0s
Sawed 6 00
Buyers will please examine measurement, as I
wish to give satisfaction.
dec23-W,F&Mlw F. L. NRACE.
WOOD.
FIRST QUALITY OAK,
LIGHTWOOD,
Pine and Dry Kindlings,
SAWED OR UNSAWED.
No Extra Price for Sawing.
ryFull measure and prompt delivery guaranteed.
Office, 76 Bay Street. Yard, corner Liberty
and East Broad Streets
nov30-1y D. C. BACON.
COAL X
COAL!! COAL!!!
T HE undersigned offer for sale at theii Coal
Yard, next to Upper Rice Mill,
1,500 tons Egg size RED ASH, best quality;
500 tons Lump WHITE ASH;
400 tons Stove RED ASH*
1,500 tons Bituminous PARLOR COAL, In good-
sized lumps;
500 tons CUMBERLAND.
All Coal carefully weighed on delivery.
oct26-3m CLAGHORN & CUNNINGHAM.
—^—i
and Carriages.
H. C. M’KZE. | D. X. BKNNKTT.
McKee & Bennett,
BAY & WEST BROAD STS.
CARRIAGES,
BUGGIES,
Plantation Wagons.
♦ •»
Warranted Work Invariably
Protected.
decl*-tjl0
Publications.
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Principal Office 279, 281 and 283 Brood,
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Savannah Office, $ Hutchinson Block.
John A. Go in, Superintendent*
A S our new issue (Volume 36) has arrived, we
are now ready to supply our subscribers
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bill saved through information furnisher by oar
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PRATT’S ASTRAL OIL,
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