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Xiroe for Mr. Stephens to Speak Out.
vVe unite with our friend of the Co-
lumhusE/iquirer in the hope that Hon. A.
II. Stephens will take an early opportu
nity to let the country know that he has
cut aloof from Gen. Grant’s policy to
wards Louisiana. “It is impossible,’’ says
the Enquirer, “that Mr. Stephens can sus
tain the action of the Federal military in
New Orleans ou Monday last, and as Gen.
Grant is said to have highly appreciated
Mr. Stephens’ support of his coarse to
wards Louisiana two years ago, it is rea
sonable to believe that an emphatic ex
pression of the Georgia statesman’s dis
approval of his more recent orders will
go far towards convincing him that his
course is indefensible.”
We have no idea that Mr. Stephens’
disapproval of his course would have any-,
influence on Grant, who seems resolved
on carrying out at all hazards his war pro
gramme for a third term. But it is due
to the country, due to Mr. Stephens’ great
reputation and to the people of Geergia,
who have so long and freely confided in his
wisdom, statesmanship and fearless patri
otism, that he should in this hour of
menace and peril raise his voice in de
fence of the principles of constitutional,
republican government, of which he is so
able an expounder.
Thinness.
The Washington Star, a paper that has
long occupied the ungrateful position of
would-be organ to the administration,
says that the clamor in New York in re
gard to the Federal outrage in Louisiana
springs le.ss from motives of patriotism
tlian a speculative desire to depress
stocks, and put up the price of gold.
This is about the neatest turn a Radical
organ could give to the movement, and
yet, neat as it is, the suggestion is enough
to turn the stomach of a loyal supporter
of Grant. For where is the record of
the black Friday transaction ? And what
explanation has been made of the synop
sis of the President's recent message,
which was furnished from the White
House for the puapose of influencing
certain markets ? When the Star touches
these things it opens sores that are raw,
notwithstanding their age.
There has been a marked change in
the tone of the administration organs on
the Louisiana outrage within the last few
days. The more intelligent of them have
found out that the popular indignation
is too wide-spread and too deep to be
quieted with a few meaningless phrases
about “standing by the President,” and
“crushing out the old rebel spirit” in the
South. The majority of people have
come to the conclusion that there has
been too much crushing already, and
liiey are determined there shall be no
more of it. Several prominent organs
have discovered this, and are now hastily
protesting that they do not wish to be
considered as justifying the operations of
de Trobriand and Sheridan.
Off With Their Heads !-
fob Honest Men.—Kellogg’s
-So Much
Board of
Police Commissioners has cashiered seven
of the force whom the Times endorses
as “good aud effective patrolmen, having
the respect and confidence of the resi
dents on their boats,” for refusing to go
to the State House ou Monday with arms
to expel the Conservative members of
the Legislature. They deserved to be
discharged. It was bad enough to refuse
to shoot down their fellow citizens at the
command of an upstart usurper; but these
men were also guilty of being good and ef
fective officers, having the respect of the
community. What business has such
men in the service of the Grant-Kellogg
despotism.
Bully Sheridan’s Bragadocio Sup
pressed.—A Washington special to the
New York Post says: “Numerous tele
grams have passed between the Secretary
of War and General Sheridan relating to
the course of the military on Monday, and
the general situation in New Orleans at
the present time ; but these are withheld
from publication, the effect of previous
publications not being satisfactory. ”
If General Belknap had had the per
ception of an able bodied lunatic, he
would never have given Bally Sheridan’s
first purile gasconading effusions to the
public. Fortunately, however, for the
country, Belknap didn’t know any better.
The chief of the “ high crimes and
misdemeanors ” for which President
Johnson was impeached, was his removal
from office of Secretary Stanton. But
President Grant has removed from office,
by brute force, five members of the Leg
islature of the State of Louisiana. The
legality of the removal of Stanton was at
most a matter of doubt. The illegality
of Grant’s action towards Lousiana is as
clear as that of the Pavia’s murder of the
Spanish Republic.
Pennsylvania calls upon Governor
Hartranft to address the Legislature in
as maniy tones as those of Governors
Allen, Gaston, Brown and Woodson. No
doubt he will do so, unless he has forgot
ten what he said in his last message :
“In no event and under no circumstances
should a military force be used until the
power of the civil authorities is exhausted
and the outbreak assumes proportions of
6uch magnitude that these officers would
be powerless te overcome it.”
Grant and his satrap, the enfant terri
ble Sheridan, are both graduates of West
Point. The reckless usurpations of the
former and the bullying ignorance of the
latter suggest the query—is the Constitu
tion of the United States excluded from
that institution ? A lance corporal who
had read the articles of war, would know-
more about the principles of constitu
tional government than is disclosed in
Grant’s Louisiana policy, or Sheridan’s
banditti dispatches.
In the Pacific Mail investigation on
Friday, Congressman Parsons testified
that he received $12,000 from Mr. Stock-
well as counsel and lobbyist and for trav
eling and printing expenses, but acted
openly and bribed no one. He was not
then a member of Congress. Congress
man Schumaker admitted having received
$275,000, of which he kept $10,000,
sending $150,000 back to the Pacific
Mail Company, and distributing the rest
to persons whom he would not name.
The New Orleans Bulletin, of the 7th,
Bays that it is certain that on the Gth
inst. Gen. Sheridan received dispatches
from Washington ordering him to declare
martial law and arrest prominent Con
servative leaders; but that the spirit ex
hibited throughout the country on ac
count of the conduct of the military au
thorities in New Orleans on Monday de
terred him or the Administration from
parrying out these orders.
The Cotton Tax.
On our first page we publish the views
of an Arkansas planter on the subject of
the proposed restoration of the uncon
stitutional cotton tax, in which the writer
maintains the position long since assumed
by the Morning News, that any law of
Congress for the restitution of the money
collected under the illegal cotton tax law
should be so framed as to insure its
return to the producer of the cottou from
the market value of which the tax was
deducted. It is well known that an ex
tensive and influential ring of speculators
hive been gathering vouchers of the cot
ton tax, and that a powerful lobby has
been organized to procure the passage of
a bill by which, under pretense of a just
restitution to the plundered planters,
many millions of dollars would go into
the pockets of parties who never paid at
their own cost one dollar of the tax. It
was this scheme that Mr. McIntyre, our
faithful and able representative in the
Forty-second Congress opposed, while he
advocated a measure that would make a
just and proper restoration of the tax to
those from whom it was wrongfally col
lected. We approved the course of our
Representative then, and we still adhere
to the opinion we then expressed, that
no bill deserves the support of the South
ern members of Congress that does not
fully protect the rights and interests of
the planter, from whose pockets the tax
was extorted. The subject is now before
Congress, and we are pleased to see that
Governor Brown, of Tennessee, in his
message to the Legislature of that State,
has brought it to the attention of that
body. We commend the suggestions of
Governor Brown on this subject to the at
tention of our own Legislature. The Gov
ernor, after reciting the provisions of the
bill of Congress which provides that the
gross sum derived from the cotton tax
shall be paid to the respective States, “to
be held by the said States to be refunded
and distributed to the parties who actual
ly paid the said tax, either in full or in
part, pro rata, as circumstances may re
quire, or otherwise to be disposed of, as
the several Legislatures may direct,” «kc.,
remarks:
It is well known that the farmer seldom
paid the tax directly to the government
agent. He generally sold his crop to the
cotton buyers, at the market price less the
cotton tax, the buyer retaining the amount
of the cotton tax out of the market value
of the cotton, to pay the revenue officers.
Then, who lost the amount of tax ?
Certainly the producer—the farmer. And
it was upon him, and not upon the
factor, or buyer, that the tax operated as
a burden.
You will doubtless concur with me,
then, that the tax should be refunded to
the producers.
I therefore recommend that you in
struct our Senators and request our Re
presentatives in Congress to procure, if
possible, such an amendment to the bill
as will secure the refunding of the tax to
the producer, at least so far as Tennessee
is concerned. That will remove all doubt
as to the construction of the language
“actually paid,” and place the rights of
the producer beyond hazard.
I suggest that you further instruct
your Senators and request your Repre
sentatives, if it is found impossible to se
cure the repayment of this unjust, in
iquitous, odious and unconstitutional
cotton tax, to producers, that it be paid
to the States respectively whose laborers
paid the tax, to be held as a school fund,
or applied to the extinguishment of the
debts.
We hope that the Legislature of Geor
gia will unite with that of Tennessee and
other Southern States in such measures
as will, if they do not secure the passage
of a law of Congress returning the tax to
thosG from whom it was wrongfully col
lected, at least prevent it from going
into the pockets of the lobby ring.
The Effect of Feejee Annexation by
England.—The Feejee Islanders are not
delighted with one of the results of their
annexation to the British empire. As
soon as the act was accomplished, the
Governor-General proceeded to impose
taxes on the natives, and to establish
custom houses within^a tariff of duties on
importations, which was a feature of civi
lization which the unsophisticated natives
did not anticipate, and which they fail
to appreciate kindly. The Sydney Em
pire says that if the consummation of an
nexation had not been hastened, a terrible
massacre would have occurred. The com
pact of cession was entered into between
Great Britian and King Thakambau, chief
of one of the principal island. This gave
offense to the chiefs of the other islands,
of which there are more than one hun
dred and fifty, and a plot was concocted
between several of the windward chiefs
for the subjugation of Thakambau and a
general massacre of the trecay parties.
An agent was sent by these chiefs to
Sydney to purchase a steamer and arms
and ammunition, and he actually bought
and shipped to his employers pieces of
ordinance. But before the preparations
for the uprising were completed, the
British had assumed authority over the
islands, and the idea of resistance was
abandoned. It is doubtful, however, if
the discontented savages will prove either
tractable or profitable subjects. The an
nexation project was strongly opposed
in the British Parliament for years, ou
the ground that if it should be peaceably
effected it would entail more loss than
profit, to say nothing of trouble.
This is the way the tax-payers of Mis
sissippi put it, and we think they put it
right: “Shall the few officials, the mere
servants of the people, be permitted to
fatten and grow richer, while the people
grow poorer and starve ? Shall these
public servants be privileged to enjoy an
extravagent waste of the money of the
people, to the destruction of the property
of the State, or will the Legislature inter
pose immediately, and by a vigorous sys
tem of wise reform, enforce rigid economy
of expenditure ir all departments of the
government, legislative, executive and
judicial, and in counties, cities, towns
and districts ? Let every supernumerary
be discharged. Let every dollar as far
as possible be saved to the suffering
people. ”
The Cincinnati CommerciaCs New Or
leans correspondent says that from the
day of the arrival of Sheridan and his
staff in New Orleans they were loud in
their denunciation of the people of Louis
iana, and especially of New Orleans, as
rebels of the worst type, who deserved
only the severest measures of subjuga
tion. They did not wait to see for them
selves whether the people had changed
any in the six or seven years that had
elapsed since Sheridan was m command
here, as he was sent to stir up strife and
exasperate the people to the point of
violence against the General Govern
ment. Sheridan has lost no opportunity
to aggravate their sense of outrage and
oppression by every means in his power.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says the late
military coup detat in Spain; the pro
clamation of the King; the destruction of
the Republic, and the Grant-Sheridan
movement in Louisiana are substantially
alike in motive, as they were simultane
ous in their occurrence.
BY TELMlPB
THE MORNING NEWS.
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
GATHERING OF THE GEORGIA LMV-
MAKERS.
The Contest for Officers of the Body.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Gen. Sherman says that “little Phil” is
“a kind man.” Yes, he is as kind a man
as ever scuttled a government or cut a
throat, as kind a man as ever devastated
a valley or burned a Tillage, as kind a
man as—well lei os say as—Sen Butler,
Atlanta, January 12.
legislative notes.
Fully two-thirds of the members of the
General Assembly have put in an appear-
ance, and, as a consequence, the lobbies—so
to speak—of tho hotels are much livelier
than usual. In regard to the contest for
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE,
it is impossible to speak with any decree of
certainty. At this time, the chinces of Col.
Rufus E. Lester seem to be the brightest,
but the vote will be a very close one. As to
THE SPEAKERSHIP,
Col. Hoge, of Fulton, has withdrawn from
the contest, leaving the field to Hardeman
and Bacon, of Bibb, and Andeison, of Cobb.
If either Col. Bacon or Col. Hardeman
would retire, the other would be elected. As
the matter stands, the result is somewhat
uncertain.
CLERK OF THE HOUSE.
The race for Clerk of the House will be
between Mr. L. Carrington, tho present
incumbent, and Colonel J. L. Sweat, of
Clinch county.
ASSEMBLES.
The General Assembly will assemble to
morrow at ten o’clock.
A GOOD SHOWING.
The State Treasurer reports one million of
dollars in the Treasury.
ARRIVED.
The Savannah delegation arrived to-day.
scarcely an acquaintance with Gen. Sheri
dan, aud had no desire to detract from his
merits as a soldier, but it seemed to him
(Mr. Bayard) almost incredible that a Sena
tor so advanced in years and so amiable as
the Senator from Wisconsin, should stand
here to find fault with him for stating that
the conduct of Sheridan in New Orleans was
that of human ferocity. The Senator out
side of this chamber "would find but one
sentiment in regard to this dispatch.^ Did
he not ask the President of the United
States to issae a proclamation be had no
more right to issae than he had the right to
issue a bull in the name of the Pope ?
Mr. Howe said General Sberidau did not
ask the President »o issue such proclama
tion. He only suggested that such be
issued. General Sheridan stood there in
the presence of murder. He felt keenly and
spoke strongly, and he suggested a remedy
which the law would not warrant. He
< Howe) did not regard Jhat as evidence of
human ferocity, especially in one trained is
Midnight Telegrams.
RECOVERY OF A WORK OF ART.
Message of
the Governor
Carolina.
of South
PENNSYLVANIA DENOUNCES THE
LOUISIANA OUTRAGE.
a soldier. Did the Senator from Delawai e 1 day next.
NEW YORK NOTES.
New York, January la.—Moses Chamber-
lain, convicted of sending scurrilous postal
cards through the mail, was sentenced to
pay a fine of $5,000.
Governor Tilden has refused to interfere
in the cases of the two murderers, Jackson
aud Jarvis, and they will be banged on Fri-
THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE.
NO COMPROMISE OF TIIE SEN
ATE DIFFICULTY.
Purman as a High-Toned Kuave.
l BRACE OF TALENTED RADICAL
CON TEST A NTS.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Tallahassee, January 12.
STILL AT IT.
The Senate still remains in the same dig
nified position, with little prospect of organ
ization. A prettier difficulty could not be
imagined—with this consolation in prospec
tive : that the Conservatives can stand it as
long as the Radicals can. In the meantime,
the Radical party is splitting up into pieces
too fine lor kindling wood.
THE PENSIVE PURMAN.
The Assembly adopted the resolution of
fered yesterday by Hicks, of Dade, referring
Purmau’s application for his seat lo a spe
cial committee. All the Radicals voted in
the negative with the exception of a couple
of disgusted colored members.
a fraud.
Purman’s attempt to take his seat in the
Legislature is a fraud on Congress. On the
8th iustint he got leave of absence from the
House for twenty days, and it is reported
that before leaving Washington he drew Lis
pay to tho 4tli of next March.
CONTESTED SEATS.
Notices of contest of the seats of Messrs.
Jones aud McGuire, of Escambia county,
were given in the Assembly to-day. There
is no ground for tho contest, but the de
feated Radical candidates think they have
only to claim the seats to get them—just as
Radicals have gotten seats before. This is
the way that party has been doing, but the
days of such rascally frauds are gone by.
[By the Associated Press.]
Tallahassee, January 12.—Senate met
and adjourned without organization.
In the House, resolutions were adopted
requesting Messrs. Gordon and Stephens, of
Georgia, to look after the interests of Florida
uutil Conover, Turman and Walls find it
convenient to return to Washington. It has
ordered that a copy of tho resolutions be
sent to Messrs. Gordon aud Stephens. The
resolutions were adopted by & vote 26 to 14.
(Bayard) believe that there was a Senator
in this chamber, especially on the Republ -
can side, who would consent to the slight
est infraction of our Constitution? Did he
believe that the Republican party wanted to
substitute a despotism for a Constitutional
government ?
Mr. Bayard said he eould scarcely believe
that the Senator asked him that question
seriously. He did believe that the Republi
can party had trampled ou the Constitution
until there was scarcely a vtstage i f it left.
They had made effort after effort to break
it down till he believed, as he believed in
his own existence, that the R publican party
paid no respect to it.
Mr. Howe denied that the Republ.can
party wanted any despotism, and said:
The Senator says that we bavo trampltd
upon the Constitution. That is bis
opinion, and fortunately neither his
opinion nor mine c -ntrols the country.
In conclusion, he argued that the
Democrats iu 1854 employed a detachment
of the army in Boston to take one negro out
of that city. It had been said here that the
people are preparing to overthrow that
party which has conducted the government
freni 1861 down to the present day, and it
might come. Ho was not insensible to it;
but could not consent to turn back, as ad
monished by the Senator from Missouri,
(Schurz,) yesterday. He- was not consti
tuted on the craw-fish order. Theie
might be storms ahead, and it
might bo prudent for those not fully in
sured to go ashore, but he was going to
complete the voyage. If the ship went
down bo would go down with it, ami if it
should ever be raised again, as it mu -.t be—
for the Great Underwriter would attend to
that—there would be found at the mas head
her flag, upon which might be read that all
men, whatever their race or color, had equal
rights to tho pursuit of liberty and hap
piness.
M. Logan speaks to-morrow.
THE WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, January 12.—Probabilities:
During Wednesday in the South Atlantic
and coast Gulf States, falling barometer,
riring temperature, wiuds veering to east
erly and southerly, cloudy and rainy
weather.
Eor the west Gulf States and northward
over the lower Missouri and upper Missis
sippi valleys, aud thence west, rising ba
rometer, falling aDd low temperature, north
west and north winds, clear or clearing
weather, and in Texas a norther. '
For Tennessee and Ohio valley and north
ward over Ohio valley, aud north over upper
lake region, cloudy, rain, sleet aud snow
and lower barometer, followed by rising
barometer, falling temperature, winds shift
ing to north and northwest, clearing aud
decidedly cold weather.
For the Middle States and lower lake re
gion, falling barometer, rising temperature,
easterly to southerly winds, cloudy weather
and sleet or snow, and followed bv or on
Thursday morning winds shifting to north
west, rising barometer, generally clear and
decidedly colder weather.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, January 12.—Tho Alabama
Committee has arrived. They will examine
Hays, Sheet, end Pelham, and then make
their report.
A half dozen Senators were in consulta
tion with the President this morning before
the Cabinet meeting. It is stated that the
Cabinet will sustain the Sheridan-Grant
policy.
Don Piatt has until Friday to answer the
question concerning the Pacific Mail Susidy.
BOSTON AROUSED.
Boston, January 12.—The petition for the
use of Fauouil Hall, for tho Louisiana in
dignation meeting, is headed by Charles
Francis Adams. Among the sigaers are
Mayor Cobb, Henry Lee, Win. Gray, Francis
Parkman, Wm. Perkins, J. Freeman Clark,
Alex. H. Bullock, Theo. Lyman and Martin
Brimmer.
B.-T.
Brooklyn, January 12.—Mrs. Tilton was
in court to-day. There was the usnal crowd.
The opening speeches are continued. They
are sensational, but develop nothing new.
A cable dispatch announced two months
ago that a portion of one of Murillo’s pic
tures iu the Cathedral of Seville, contaimug
the picture of St. Anthony, of Padua, had
been cut out of the cam ass aad stolen. It was
supposed the fragment was taken to Ameri
ca. This turned out to be true. Mr. Scbaus,
a well known oil dealer on Broadway, was
recently offered, by two Spaniards, the miss
ing picture, and, after identifying it, pur
chased it for $250. Mr. Schaus has volun
tarily and unconditionally placed the work
of art, which is badly damaged, at the dis
position of the Spanish Government,
through Senor De Vriarte, its Consul in this
city.
chamberlain’s message.
Charleston, January 12.—Chamberlain’s
message says make no appropriation in ex
cess ot income, and pay as you go, but in
view of the present debt, he opposes present
liquidation. He wants competent teachers
for the public schools, and thinks that Jus
tices of the Peace should be elected by the
people. He concludes: “I feel warranted in
congratulating the General Assembly, and
our fellow-citizens generally, on the evi
dences already presented of a purpose on
the part of all "good citizens to aid the pres
ent administration in its efforts to restore
and enforce good government in our State.”
CARLIST RUMORS.
Paris, January 12.—Le Soir says rumors
are circulated in the lobby of the" Assembly
to-day that the Carlists have taken Pam-
peluna, and that Gen. Moriones, command
ing tho national troops in the North, had
pronounced against Alfonso.
PENNSYLVANIA SPEAKS.
Habrisbubg, Pa., January 12.—Denunci
atory resolutions regarding the proceedings
in Louisiana were adopted by a strict party
vote iu the House—108 to 82.
Madrid, January 12.—Alfonso was enthu
siastically received at Valencia.
Cabinet Troubles—Rumored Resig
nation of Secretary Fish.—A special
Washington dispatch to the New Orleans
Times, dated on Saturday, says:
Vice President Wilson said to your
correspondent to-day that the suggestions
of Gen. Sheridan in regard to Louisiana
affairs filled him with horror, and that
the whole country was opposed to the
views of the President, and that he in no
way approved of the President’s course.
There was a stormy time at the Cabi
net meeting yesterday. Mr. Bristow
talked very plainly to the Attorney Gen
eral, as did Mr. Jewell. Mr. Fish said
that Gen. Sheridan’s course was without
color of law, and believing this he could
not concur with the President in sus
taining him.
It is said that the President took great
offense at this, and intimated if these
were the views of Mr. Fish, his resigna
tion, if tendered, would be accepted, and
that Fish left the meeting and tendered
his resignation, which has not yet been
accepted.
It is said to-night that Bristow and
Jewell have also resigned, but it is too
late to verify it to night.
Savannah Theatre !
Benefit and Last Appearance of the Charming
and Versatile Actress,
MISS KATIE PUTNAM!
SUPPORTED BY
J. J. SULLIVAN,
And a powerful Comedy Company.
WEDNESDAY EVEfl.VG, JAY. 13,
Will be presented the ever popular Drama,
from Dickens’ novel of the same name.
THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP
Littlx Nell, the Marchioness,
Miss Katie Iutnam,
With Songs, Dances and Banjo Soles.
Incidental to the piece, the song “Grandpa
Bless Your Little NeU.’’
Little Dot Putnam will appear daring th»
drama in her great specialty Song and Dance, as
taaght by her sister Katie.
During the evening Mis* Katie Putnam will
sing a new piece composed by a lady of Savan-
' led"*'
Dry ©oofls.
Dixon’s Annual Clearance Sale*!
FOR. 30 DAYS ONLY. *
Great Bargains in all Classes of Goods!
Dress Goods Reduced. Shawls Rednced.
Calicoes Reduced. Flannels and Domestic Goods Reduced 1
Call at the store aud get a published PRICE LIST of leading bargains.
John Y. Dixon, corner Broughton and Bull
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nah, entitled “Afraid.”
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Savannah Theatre!
THREE NIGHTS ONLY"!
COMMENCING MONDAY. JANUARY 13th,
Miss Adelaide Phillipps’
ITALIAN OPERA C0MPJNY
DRY GOODS—NOTICE !
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25 PIECES WHITE TARLATANS, just received.
White aud Opera Colors KID GLOVES, at $1 00.
CO dozen Gent's L. C. HAND KERCHIEFS, 15c, to $1 00
Black GRO GRAIN SILKS, very cheap.
Plain Colored DRESS SILKS nt ;»> , {
DRESS GOODS, all Wool, at cost. ’ ’ lu “ ew 9 hadesrj
2 cases BLEACHED SIIIRTING, at 18MC., Lonsdale and Fruit of Loom.
BLANKETS, at reduced prices. COMFORTABLES, at rednced prices.
MARSEILLES QUILTS, at reduced prices. Fur bu I
j»nn-tf DeWITT, MORGAN & CO.
The Company includes the following Artists:
MISS ADELAIDE PHILLIPPS,
the American Contralto.
MR. TOM KARL, Tenor.
SIGNOR ORLANDINI. Baritone.
SIGNOR BACELLI, Buffo Basso.
SIGNOR LOCATb LLJ, Basso.
MR. GEO. W. COLBY, Musical Director.
Admission, $1; Reserved Seats, $1 50; Gallery. 50c.
Subscriptioa Tickets, Reserved Seat,
Three Nights, $3 00.
CILAS. M. ATKINS, Bus. Ag’t.
Sale of Seats commences Friday, January 15, at
Schreiner's Music Store. For Operas see small
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SEED KICK !
Hand Threshed, Gold & White
10,000 BUSHELS
From one-tenth of one to three per cent. Red.
For sale by
Di
L A THRO P *V CO,
Will open on to-morrow a fine assortment of Ladies' and Gent’s
White, Light, and Medium Shade Kid Gloves,|
from s 1 oo to *■* i an.
—ALSO—
Courvourseer’s best quality, Two Button, at $2 00 per Pair,]
Considered the best Fitting Glove in the market.
A fresh supply of those very CHEAP RIBBONS, all colors and widths.
BLACK SILKS A SPECIALTY
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3AVANT, WAPLES & CO.
Evening Telegrams.
THE LOUISIANA INFAMY.
GRANT BESDS TIIE RADICALS TO
BASE USES.
Read, Ponder and Consider.
[From Grant's Organ, the Washington National
Republican.]
1. In the election for President in 1870,
the 37 States of this Union will choose
366 electors. Those States in which
slavery lately existed will choose 138 of
them. The New England States, together
with New York, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey, will choose 113, and the 12 States
lying west of the Ohio, in which slavery
did not exist, will choose the remaining
115. The following table shows the
vote of each State and of the three sec
tions :
Here are two telegrams under the same
date of January 7, which do not read
very well together:
“King Alfonso has sent a dispatch to
Canovas confirming the ministerial ap
pointments and expressing the hope that
there will now be inaugurated an era of
real ltf>erty and peace, and forgetfulness
of past discord.”
“Two Protestant newspapers have been
suppressed in Madrid.”
We presume by “real liberty” Alfonso
means the liberty to believe precisely as
he does in all matters of religion and
politics. The conception of any other
kind of freedom never dawned upon the
Spanish Bourbon soul.—St. Louis Repub
lican.
And that is just the kind of liberty that
dawned upon the people of Louisiana on
Monday of last week, accompanied by
the gleam of Federal bayonets.
Gordon Confuses a Radical Hound,
BAYARD TOUCHES HOWE
RAW.
Bouton Moving; in the Louisiana 31 at ter.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Washington, January 12.—In tho House,
some tilllbustciiiig defeated action on the
civil rights bill.
The Senate had up to-day the resolution
of Schurz instructing the Judiciary Co.-i*
mittee to inquire what legislation by Con
gress is necessary to secure to the people ot
Louisiana their rights of sell-goverume:it
under tho Constitution, aud report with the
least possible delay by bill or otherwise.
Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, criticised Mr.
Scharz’s speech of yesterday, and denied
that the army of the United States had re
moved from "the Louisiana Legislature a iy
member of that body. He defended the
course of Geu. Sheridan, and said he vas
not in command of New Orleans wuon
events of January 4th took place. Referring
to the speech of Mr. Gordon, he said the
Republican party did not bate any porti-m
of this country. All tho laws made for the
South were also made for tho North.
The Republican party had poured out the
treasures of tho country as Ireely lo open
tho channels of the Southern ports as it Lad
to open the channels of Northern ones. Jfe
thought murder was too commou iu the
South, and was regarded there with much
less abhorrence than m the other portions
of the country. Murder aud other speciec
of violence had been employed in the South
for political purposes. He spoke of the Red
Ilmr troubles in Louisiana, and said the
perpetrators of these crimes went unpun
ished.
Mr. Gordon, of Georgia, said the Repub
licans were iu charge of the State, aud had
the judiciary thereof. If a majority of the
peop e supported the Kellogg government,
as wa3 claimed by the Seuators ou the
other side of the Chamber, how was it that
the courts of that State, aided by the army
of the United States did not bring tb*e
perpetrators of these crimes to just ce?
Mr. Howe replied ho would not go into
that question now, but to the best of Ins
infermation, the courts of that State were
weak.
Mr. Gordon said the Senator, by implica
tion, if not by direct words, charged that
murders were committed in the Red River
Parishes. If it be true, it was a moat re
markable fact that the Attorney for Louis
iana, who belongs to the same party as the
Senator, did not prosecute the criminals.
The Seuator had said the courts were weak.
If the Attorney had not the brains or nerve
to draw up a bill of indictment, the Demo
cratic party was certainly not responsible.
(Applause in galleries.)
Howe said no matter what the Senator
might think of the personal qualifications
of the Attorney for Louisiana, he (Howe) ,
would say that if the Democratic party of
Louisiana would say to Governor Kellogg
that they would sustain him in every effort
to put down murder no such transactions
as took place in the Red Itiver parishes
would ever take place again. He believed
that a half dozen Senators on the Demo
cratic side of the Chamber would tell the
people of the South that they would uot
tolerate these offenses, there would be no
more of them.
Mr. Morton said it was well understood in
Red River parish that the witnesses who
testified against these criminals, the grand
jurors who were disposed to indict or tho
petty jurors who were disposed to convict
them, would be murdered, aud that was the
reason why these criminals in Louisiana
had not been punished.
Mr. Howe, resuming liis argument, said
tho Democrats were not Iriends of the col
ored men. That party was united upon one
subject, and that was hostility to the negro.
In defending the course of General Sheri
dan, he said the Senator from Delaware (Mr.
Bayard)did him injustice in his recent speech.
What offense had Gen. Sheridan commitUd ?
He bad suggested for a most extraordinary
state of things au extraordinary rem
edy. He (Howe) thought the Senator from
Delaware instead of heaping condemnation
upon the head of Sheridan should have
spent a little of his energy in the condemna
tion of outrages which Slieridau denounced.
He (Howe) did not think that the Senators
should be very harsh in censuring the con
duct of Gen. 8heridan. That officer did not
say ail the citizens of New Orleans were
banditti; and as to the disposition iu that
city to override all law referred by Sheridan
Congress could see for itself that it was so.
Mr. Bayard read Sheridan’s dispatch in
reference to the banditti, and said that it
was an arraignment of the whole communi
ty of Now Orleans. Personally he bad
Alabama
.10
Arkansas
. 6
Delaware.
. 3
Florida
4
Georgia
.11
Kentucky
.12
Tif»nisiana
. 8
Alar viand
8
Mississippi....
8
Missouri
.15
South Carolina. 7
Tennessee
12
North Carolina
10
Texas
.8
West Virginia.
5
Virginia
11
62
76—138
Connecticut...
6
Maine
7
Massachusetts.
.13
New Hampshire
5
New Jersev....
. 9
New \ork
.35
Pennsylvania .
.29
Rhode Island...
. 4
Vermont.......
5
—
51-113
62
California
6
Illinois
21
Iudiana
Iowa
11
Kansas
5
Michigan
11
Minnesota.....
5
Nebraska
3
Nevada
3
Wisconsin
10
Ohio
09
Oregon
3
56
59—115
2. By means chiefly of the White
League aud its teachings and practices
the “so-called” Democrats of the South
have already got control of most of the
late slave States, and they are determined
to have all of them before the election
for President in 1876, aud thus cast the
one hundred and thirty-eight votes of
these States as a unit for their candidate.
Violence and fraud in every form and
phase are the means by which this in
famous “ League,” which is only another
name for the Ku-Klux Klan, has accom
plished its purposes thus far in most of
those States, and there is no reason to
doubt these means will be used to carry
the election in 1876.
3. It takes two hundred and eighty-
four votes to elect the President. If all
these late slave States vote for the Demo
cratic candidate only forty-six votes in
the free States are required. New York,
New Jersey and New Hampshire will be
more than enough; so also would Indiana
and New York
Now we do not question the right of
the people of these late slave States to
vote the Democratic or any other ticket,
but we do insist that in those States, as
in the free States of the North, the peo
ple shall be permitted to vote without
fear, and for such candidates as they
prefer; that the election shall be con
ducted without violence and fraud. If
this is not done, then the one hundred
and thirty-eight votes of the^e States are
made to set off the same number of votes
in the free States, where such violence
and fraud do not obtain. And this
brings us to the consideration of an im
portant question in this connection, viz:
How are the States in which elections
are conducted peaceably and legally to
protect themselves against the counting
of votes obtained by fraud and violence ?
The constitution simply provides for
the opening and counting of the vote on
a day named in the presence of both
Houses of Congress. When the vote for
President and Vice-President in 1876 is
opened and counted, it will be in the
presence of a Republican Senate and of a
largely Democratic House of Representa
tives. If the vote of any one or more
States should appear to have been ob
tained by fraud aud violence, to such an
extent as would render it wholly nuga
tory and void in the election of any other
officer, must it be counted the same as if
nothing of the sort existed? It seems to
us it should not.
Considering the question from a Radi
cal standpoint, and in view of the Louisi
ana precedent, it would be impossible to
arrive at any other conclusion. The will
of the President should be paramount in
such a case, even without the interven
tion of a Returning Board; and if the
Democrats should claim a majority of the
electoral votes, which would be priina
facie evidence of fraud and intimidation,
then Bully Sheridan should be on hand
with his bayonets to disperse the House
of Representatives and enforce the will
of the President, regardless of the votes
of the people, the constitution or laws,
Federal or State. If such a proceeding
was lawful in Louisiana, it would be
equally right and lawful in Washington.
California produces the finest honey of
any State in the Union, and is exporting
large quantities of it. This year it will
export 400,000 pounds. Bees thrive and
increase there wonderfully. A corres
pondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer de
scribes the experience of a settler in the
Sweetwater Valley, who purchased in
May, 1874, eight hives of bees, and now
has eighty-one hives, seventy-three of
which are the natural increase of his
original stock. The Californians are
giving a good deal of attention to their
honey crop. The Italian bee is generally
used, but in some of the best ranges the
common black bee of the country has
hybridized with the former variety.
Amusements.
Savannah Theatre!
Positively Three Nights
And SATURDAY MATINEE,
JANUARY 14, 15 AND
Only
16.
Farewell apjiearance of the undisputed and Regal
queen of
ENGLISH TRAGEDY,
the World Renowned
JANAUSCHEK!
Supported bv her new and most brilliant
New York Star Company,
Thursday, January 14,
MARY STUART!
Friday—First time in this city of the
grand Historical Tragedy entitled
EARL OF ESSEX!
Saturday—Grand Gala Matinee,
TEMPTATION!
Saturday Evening—Farewell appearance,
D E BORAH!
(Leah the Forsaken.)
Prices of admission.—Admission $1; Reserved
Seats 5n cents Extra; Family Circle, 75c; Gallery,
50c; quadroon Boxes, 75c.
Matinee Prices.—Admiaeion to all parts of the
house, 75c; Reserved Seats only 25c Extra.
The sale of Reserved Seats will commence on
Monday morning. 11th inst., at 9 o’clock, at
Schreiner's Book Store. janS-£t
Savannah Quintette Club
PROF. HERMAN BRAUN
H AS formed the above Club, and will famish
Music for
CONCERTS, ENTERTAINMENTS, Ac.
Orders left at Schreiner’s Music Store will be
promptly attended to. jan7-lm
So iUot.
FOR RENT,
JHE FINE BRICK HOUSE
No. 78 South Broad Street,
formerly occupied by Dr. J. S. Sullivan.
jan!2-2t N. C. MILLS.
FOR RENT,
T IIE WESTERN FLOOR of City Exchange,
lately occupied by H. Mayer & Co. Apply
NR.
dec25-tf
JOHN
. JOHNSON.
City Treasurer.
FOR RENT,
Tlic Rice Plantation known as
New Hope,
On the Ogeechee River.
dec7-tf R. HABERSHAM’S SON A CO.
iTanlfd.
WANTED,
^ RESPECTABLE YOUNG LADY as Clerk.
Only such need apply as can furnish the best
references.
FURNISHED APARTMENTS.
A PRIY’ATE family, in a pleasant location,
will rent to one or two single gentlemen a
Sitting Room aud two Chambers, alf communi
cating, and completely furnished. Bath Room
on same floor; two fireplaces. Terms reasonable
lo permanent parties. Address,
W. SEAY,
jan!3-tf Care Lock Box 204.
MURRAY’S LINE.
FOR NEW YORK
EVERT TUESDAY.
JAMES F. WATKINS d CO.
(SUCCESSORS TO ORFF, WATKINS & CO.,)
125 & 127 Congress St., Savannah, GaJ
WILL CONTINUE TIIE f
WHOLESALE DRY GOODS, >OTlO\|
AMI HA.T BUSINESS,
A T TIIE OLD STAND, and extend to the trade their nsual liberal terms and low prices. With il
fnll stock and ample means and facilities, they are prepared to offer mo:e than J
ments, and respectfully solicit a continuance of the very liberal patronage extended to the old firm 1
deel2 lm
jan!2-2t
K. PLATSHEK,
154 Broughton street.
HEIRS WANTED.
T EXAS LANDS—All persons who lost relatives
in the Texas revolution of 1886, will hear of
something to their advantage by communicating
with CARLOS RODREQUES, care of this office
Savannah, Ga. octlOtf
THE FIRST-CLASS STEAMSHIP
LEO,
Captain DANIELS,
TX7TLL sail for the above port on TUES-
v ▼ DAY, Januaiy 19, 1875, at 4 o’clock P. M.
Through biUs lading furnished on Cotton des
tined for Liverpool, Hamburg, Glasgow, Antwerp,
Christiana, Rotterdam, Ac., Ac., by first-class
steamships.
For freight or passage, apply to
HUNGER A GAMMELL,
janl3 84 Bay Street.
¥<rtatof$, Say, &t.
FOR SALE,
{ CWIIl BUSHELS Prince Edward Island
T.UUU BLACK SEED OATS.
^ 125 bales HAY.
800 sacks Liverpool SALT.
Cargo of Br. bark Sylvia from Prince Edward
Island, just arrived and now landing.
For sale by
janlS-5t WILDER & CO.
Seed Potatoes.
-AA BARRELS EARLY ROSE POTATOES,
♦ ll/l" forseed. Forsaleby
CHAPLIN & NEIHLINOEKi
153 CONGRESS STREET,
nave in store and are ottering a full assortment of
DRY GOODS, CLOTHS, CASSIAIERES, DIAGONALS,
POPLINS, DELAINES, MERINOES, CASHMERES, Ac.. Ac.
Bleached and Brown SHIRTINGS and SHEETINGS I
Bleached HUCKABAC TOWELS.
8-4 Bleached and Brown LINEN TABLE DAMASK.
8-4 French TABLE COVERING, DAMASK NAPKINS and DOILIES I
5-4 and G-4 PILLOW CASE COTTON.
Columbus Factory CASSIMERES and JEANS.
Columbus Factory COTTON BLANKETS.
10-4, 11-4 and 12-4 WOOL BLANKETS.!
Black CASHMERE, Plaid and Striped SHAWLS. nov2.'i
janll-3
HUNT (tit & GAMMELL.
|5oot$ aiul §UofS.
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, fe|
DIFFOBD YlilBSOvj
141 Congress Street,
K EEP a full and well selected stock from the Best Factories of New York. Philadelphia I
Baliimore. of
LADIES’ BUTTON BOOTS, LADIES' LACED BOOTS,
LADIES’ CABLE SEWED BOOTS,
MISSES’ AND CHILDREN S BUTTON BOOTS.
MISSES’ AND CHILDREN'S LACED BOOTS.
MISSES' AND CHILDREN’S CABLE SEWED SHOES.
GENTLEMEN’S AND BOYS’ BOOTS AND SHOES of all kinds, which they are selling low I
“ jan9-tf
for the CASH.
Hay and Potatoes.
BALES NOVA SCOTIA HAY.
3,732 bushels Nova Scotia POTATOES,
best quality, ex bark Carrie Delap. For sale by
jan!2-2t E. A. SOULLAKD.
Hay and Bricks.
300 BALES PRIME EXTERN HAY.
80,000 EASTERN HARD BRICK, suitable for
Paving.
Landing from schooner M. Kinney, from Wis-
cassett, Maine, and for sale by
dec!9-tf WILDER & CO.
#ale.
FOR SALE.
gAW MILL, DOCK HOUSES, and Lease of
Dock, PINE LANDS, as follows:
PANAMA MILLS, Jacksonville. Florida, with
Dwelling House and twenty-five acres of
Land, all in good order.
DOCK, HOUSES and Lease of Dock; Lease, T5
years to run; Dock and Houses cost $25,006
to build, at Brunswick, Ga.
10,000 acres of PINE LAND, on Brunswick aad
Albany Railroad, Georgia. Apply to
JOHN J. MACDONALD,
Trustee of Dodge A Co.,
9 Nassau street, New York City.
Also, for Panama Mills, to FLEMING A
DANIELS, Jacksonville, Florida.
nov20-F.M&W2m
flour cfflillsi.
FOREST CITY FLOUR MILLS
—AND
CJHAO WAREHOUSE,
Real Estate Eor Sale.
Brick Stores,
Several Dwellings.
Choice Building' .Lots,
On Gaston, Drayton, and New Houston streets.
CHEAP LOTS,
With and without Houses, on Gwinnett street
Four Superior Garden Lots,
On Middle Ground Road, over a mile beyond
Anderson street, (one with a house on it).
A Good Farm,
Tn Effingham county, at Great Bargain. Apply t«
HENRY BRYAN,
oct24-tf 113 Bay street.
FOR SALE.
Valuable Property
ON SOUTH BROAD STREET,
C ONSISTING of Lot No. 40, northeast corner
of South Broad aud Lincoln streets, 60x90
feet, and fifteen feet of Lot 39, on South Broad
street, running back to the north line of Brick
building, usetl as Kitchens for dwellings on Lot
No. 40.
This property is rented for eighteen hundred
dollars per annum, and is iu one of the most de
sirable portions of the city. Apply to
dec28-Tu,ThAStf HENftY BRYAN.
Rice Plantation for Sale.
T HAT fine RIVER RICE PLANTATION,
owned by the late John S. Montmo’Iin. situ
ated on the Savannah river, about fourteen mile?
from this city, together with all the woodland
thereto attached. The rice fields are free from
volunteer and all bad grasses. For full particu
lars, apply to BLUN A DEMURE.
decl4-M.WAFtf
FOR SALE,
White Pine and Black Walnut
COUNTER TOPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND
O. S. GAY,
sep2-ly Comer Charlton and Tattnall Sts.
Clotbiag.
The New Departure
c. o. i>.
By This Sign We Conquer.
HEIDT, JAUD0N & CO.,
One of the Oldest Clothing
Houses in Savannah,
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 conform to
this change, and will be found lower than any
house in the city.
They now offer unparalleled inducements to
cash buyers. janl lm
Congress Street, Corner of Montgomery,
M ANUFACTURERS of all grades of FLOUR; also, GRIST and MEAL, and have for salett
offal, Bran, Shorts, Ac., together with CORN, HAY, OATS, and GROUND FOOD, in quantitie
to suit, at Wholesale and Retail, and at the very lowest market rates.
COBJi.—Average stock bushels..
FLOUR.—Average stock barrels...
<ST Cash country orders solicited.
.20,000
.. 1,000
Office 95 Bay Street and at the Mill.
S. G. HAYNES & BRO., Proprietors.
mhl0-dl2m
V. L. STARR & CO.
DEALERS IN
Railroad, Steamboat and Mill Supplies,
85 Bay Street, Corner of Abercorn,
OILS, PAINTS, COLORS, GLASS
AND ALL GOODS USUALLY KEPT IN A FIRST-CLASS ESTABLISHMENT.
The attention of Captains of Vessels is called to our stock of
3IIXED PAINTS,
Which we guarantee to stand all weather.
Agent for Howe’s United States Standard Seales
oct5-tf
yurnituff.
FURNITURE! FURAITUHE
G. II. MILLER,^
(SUCCESSOR TO S. S. MILLER,)
Dealer in Furniture of all Kinds
Ware-Rooms 169 and 171 Brouahton St., Between JefTeinoii and Bnrnard M"*
This OLD-BSTABLISHED FURNITURE HOUSE would call the attention of purchasers 0
which is replenished by evepr ^
from Northern porta.
^morals.
Removal.
I HAVE removed to my stores, NO. 196 and 19S
BAY STREET, adjoining Haywood's Ice
House, where I am in daily receipt of heavy con
signments of Western Produce, such as
GRAIN, FLOUR, &c.
—ON HAND—
1 car load extra HEAVY MESS BEEF.
100 boxes CANDLES.
200 boxes SOAP.
500 bbls. FLOUR.
50 tubs choice New York State BUTTER.
10 bbls. New Haven PIG HAMS.
All for sale low to the trade.
dcc29-tf M. H. WILLIAMS.
Darien Timber Gazette
PUBLISHED
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Every
DARIEN,
Saturday
AT—
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county, Gl
G. A. ROWELL.
B. A. DENMARK.
HOWELL & DENMARK,
Attorneys at Law,
H AVE removed their office to the Southeast
comer of Bryan and
the new building, upstairs.
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Richard W. Grubb
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vannah, Ga. Branch Office: 62 Second St.,
Macon. Ga. All work executed with neatness
and dispatch, and fully warranted. Nitrous
Oxide Gas always on baud. jan!2-12m
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T HE exercises of the above school will lie re
sumed on the first day of February, prox.
The course of study will embrace the branches
usually taught in high schools.
The rates of tuition and board will be moder
ate. Apply to
REV. T. B. COOPER, Principal
jan!2-tFebl Ogeechee P. O., Scriven Co., Ga.
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AND HORSES,
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M Y WIFE, SARAH M. JANSEN, his niy 1'
mission to become a Free Trader^VP ,
Mailing this notice for one month, ad-ouHBt -j
the law in such cases provided.
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