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Affairs iu (Jeoriria.
The State Agricultural Convention,
. h waB to have been held in Thomas-
’;;' 1 ou the Uth of February, has been
hundred and ten bills have al-
j been introduced iu the Georgia
Listature, an<l I,ool y couut > - is stiU to
b ° from. This seems as if it had the
“mace of looking like business.
Did anybody make a remark about all-
u ..bt sessions, embroidered with gum-
jreps ehd goober-peas ?
The Atlanta News gives a different ver-
sion of General Toombs’loan of $5,000
“ thc Herald. Abrams says General
Toombs loaned the money with the un
derstanding that the paper was to be run
on an independent schedule. When the
n , rM changed its tactics then Toombs
endeavored to collect his money, and fl
uidly did collect it by obtaining a loan
from the Washington (Ga.) Bank for
Alston A Co. This loan, Abrams says,
his never been paid, and General Toombs
considers himself responsible to the
bank. .
There were eleven deaths in Atlanta on
Fridav last.
Col. Marcus A. Bell is out in a pam
phlet addressed to the Legislature in
which he favors the re-enactment of the
usuary law. We commend the pamphlet
to our legislators as containing some of
the ablest arguments on the subject yet
advanced, as, for instance, this : “The
borrower has ever been, and will always
he, a slave to the lender, mainly from the
fact that he obtains possession of a thing,
>r K, not only barren, but foreign to
uses that supply comforts for the body;
nor cau impart pleasures to the mind
unless, indeed, the soul be clouded with
the shadowy vaporsof a miserly concern.”
Conld anything be more talented ?
Columbus is to have a kerosene factory.
The coroner is understood to be warmly
in favor of the project.
Mr. Samuel Gurr, of Houston county,
is dead
The Columbus Titties lias probably
secured the city editor it was advertising
for. At any rate, the statement is made
iu a recent number that Miss Minnie
Monk "has eyes that are capable of de
noting her thoughts.”
The Atlanta Commonwealth puts it this
way: "We know a man who has five
hundred bushels of corn to sell for one
dollar per bushel cash, or one dollar and
fifty cents on twelve months’ time. The
same man has a neighbor who has five
hundred dollars to lend, at twelve and a
half per cent, per annum. Col. Hoge’s
hill, if passed, will not allow the one to
exact twelve and a half per cent, for his
money. Will Col. Hoge also interfere and
prevent the other from extorting fifty
per cent, for his corn.” The Comtnon-
waWi hardly considers it necessary to
clinch the whole matter by stating that
a person in need of corn would make an
actual saving of twenty-five per cent, by
borrowing money at twenty-five per cent,
to buy the corn for cash. But, Lord love
you, all the arguments in the world
wouldn’t change the opinions of men
who have to be argued with on this
subject.
Mr. Wiggins, of Fort Valley, is dead.
The Telegraph says that ColoneLT. J.
Smith, the Grand Master of the Georgia
Grangers, presided over the recent ses
sion in Macon, dressed throughout in
Georgia made fabrics, manufactured at
home. His coat, vest and pants, were of
Georgia jeans, of a beautiful Confederate
gray, made at home, and as neat and
jaunty a suit as any man might desire. In
deed his trim apparel attracted our notice
before he spoke of it. His shoes were
also made at home of Georgia leather. As
to the hat—he had to give in there—for
hats are not made in Georgia, unless it be
summer hats of straw or palmetto. His
good wife, the Ceres of the State Grange,
also took her official position in the Lodge
ilressed entirely in home-made apparel.
These art- bright examples and should the
lime ever come when Georgia shall pro-
lucv her own clothes and food, all the
talk about stay-laws, liens, homestead
exemptions, loans, mortgages, and usury
^ill be- heard no more.
Jim Kilgore killed L. F. Coulter in Cc-
umbus ou Saturday night. The Times
&ys Coulter was in the grocery store of
• H. Newman, sitting on the counter,
lirn Kilgore entered the front door and
°oked around suspiciously, after which
Je approached the deceased. No one
“lows what passed between them, as
lothing of this kind was expected. After
•hey had talked awhile, the tones of both
jTew louder, and then the attention of
Jiose in the store was attracted. At this
i&ucture Kilgore was heard to say, “We
*ill fight this out to-morrow,” and simul
taneously with that remark the deceased
ilaced his hand against the chin of pris
oner and said, “go away.” In an instant
•he shining blade of a knife was seen as
18 kuck the deceased in the heart. He
e il forward, exclaiming to the proprietor
the store, “I won’t have any difficulty
n your house," and within a minute ex-
Al red. The prisoner, Kilgore, ran out of
he house, but was pursued by officers
Mitchell and Fagan, (who happened there
l *. the time,) to his residence at the
“* a gle Factory boarding house, at which
olace he was captured, hid behind the
l°or. They took from him a large two-
'hGed kuife with blood on it.
I he Macon Telegraph is informed that
Dawson was visited by auother disastrous
1Fc on Saturday morning, between mid-
l ‘bht and day. which destroyed twelve
wildings, occupied as follows: B. H.
|'°°d, groceries; Orr, groceries: Marshall
1 Reddick, groceries; McDonald & Peet,
joceries; J. \\\ Johnson, dry goods; J.
• Martin, saloon; Morgan A Keaton,
,ar room and groceries; A. O. Garrard,
infection eries; James <fc Bro., groceries,
°*ard it Keaton, livery sables; Odd Fel-
and Friends of Temperance Hall,
Nelson s Hall. A building occupied
' J°bson as a gun and locksmith
°P * as badly damaged. The buildings
r ' all of wood, and being situated close
JJjf ther efforts to stop the fire were
*uiiug until everything within reach
to the 23d.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
was consumed. There was no insurance
upon any of the property. The buddings
were all old, of wood and very dry. and
no company was willing to take a risk ou
them. The loss falls with stunning effect
in these hard times.
Atlanta A exes: Several days ago Dr.
J. G. Thomas, a member of the House
of Representatives, introduced a bid
which proposes to create a Board of
Health, to be composed of one member
from each Congressional District in the
State, the Comptroder General, Attorney
General and State Geologist. The bid
provides that this board shad keep a rec
ord of all births, marriages and deaths,
and have control of all sanitary regula
tions in the State. The plan proposed to
obtain a f ud and complete record is as near
perfect as could have been made, and al
though, at first sight, the machinery ap
pears complicated, yet, we believe, when
put in proper operation will doubtless ac
complish the purposes of the contem
plated law. The advantages to be de
rived by the passage of the law will be of
immense benefit to the State. The es
tablishment of the Board will tend large
ly to put down charlatanism and whole
sale liumbuggery, and meets the hearty
approval of the physicians throughout
the State. At a convention of medical
gentlemen held at Forsyth on the 20th
instant, the following resolutions were
passed and signed by forty members
who were present: Resolved, That we,
the members of the Middle Geor
gia Medical Society, composed of .the
physicians from the counties of Upson,
Spalding, Butts, Pike, Crawford, Bibb,
and Monroe, respectfully and earnestly
urge upon the members of the House
and Senate who represent these counties
to use their influence in the passage of
this bill Resolved further, That we will
always greet with pleasure him who has
so faithfully labored to bring about this
much-needed arrangement, and pledge
ourselves to use every effort, in an hon
orable way, to secure its passage by the
General Assembly now in session at At
lanta, Georgia.
THE
COMPTROLLER
REPORT.
GENERAL’S
An Array of Interesting Statistics.
The balance in the Treasury on the 1st
of January, 1874, was .$1)22,556 25, and
the amount received during the fiscal
year was $1,895,116 86, making the aggre
gate amount charged against the Treas
urer last year $2,817,723 11. The dis
bursements for the same period amounted
to $1,814,594 23, which, deducted from
the amount received, leaves a balance of
$1,003,128 88 on hand January 1, 1875.
Taxable property for 1874, $273,092,-
999; taxable property for 1873, $242,487,-
382; increase, $30,605,617; tax on in
crease at present rates, $153,028 08.
Total amount paid Legislature for 1874,
$102,528 21; the grand total of the
House amounted to $78,847 71; the
grand total of the Senate amounted to
$23,680 50. Rather expensive legisla
tion, and the sooner we return to bieu-
nial^essionsAhe better for the people and
the State in general.
The Legislature passed a law in Feb
ruary, 1874, taxing the property of all
the railroads in the State, and requiring
the Comptroller General to issue fi. fas. in
default of payment. Many of the rail
roads refused to pay the value of their
property, and fi. fas. have been issued to
the amount of $176,636. Some of the
roads have paid, and the amount col
lected was $7,735 99. It is the intention
of the railroads to test the legality of the
act in Fulton Superior Court. The old
law taxed only the income of the roads.
The total public debt, not yet due,
amounts to $8,105,500. The State owns 186
shares in the Georgia Railroad and Bank
ing Company, worth $18,600; Atlantic
aud Gulf Railroad, 10,000 shares, worth
only $150,000, or $15 a share; Oconee
bridge bonds, 16 shares, worth $1,280:
Western and Atlantic Railroad, not esti
mated; and also public buildings not esti
mated. The State is more than solvent
and able to pay its indebtedness with
ease.
The number of acres of improved land
in 1874, 27,535,639; aggregate value of
improved land, $96,511,935. Number of
acres of wild land, 6,654,159; aggregate
value of wild land, $2,191,854. Total
number acres improved and wild land,
34,535.639; aggregate value of the same.
$98,703,789.
Value of city and town property for
1874, $57,218,248; the same in 1873 was
$58,302,246, a decrease of $1,183,998.
Amount of money and solvent debts for
1874, $38,507,465; same for 1873. $37,-
185,347. Value of merchandise 1874,
$13,766,587; for 1873, $14,759,923.
Value of household and kitchen furni
ture for 1874, $11,012,688; for 1873,
$1,695,926; an increase of $9,316,762.
Plantation and mechanical tools for 1874,
$2,925,796; for 1873, $205,851; an in
crease of $2,719,945. All exemption
laws 4 were repealed by the last Legisla
ture.
Number of hands employed in 1874,
between twelve a*d sixty-five years,
114,086; in 1873, 125,044, a decrease of
10,958.
Value of stock, and bonds in 1874,
$3,676,696; in 1873, $7,180,910; a de
crease of $3,504,214.
Capital invested in shipping 1874,
$200,025; cotton manufactories, $3,092,-
989; iron works, foundries, etc., $735.-
580; value of shares in any national bank
in the State, $6,967,985; number of
shares, 67,707.
Value of all other property—personal—
not enumerated, except annual crops, for
1874, $32,948,158; in 1873 the same was
$30,249,764. Aggregate value of whole
property in 1874, $273,093,292 ; for 1873,
$259,593,622—an increase of $13,499,670.
An encouraging increase for the year
1874 ; if 1875 will do as well, greater will
be our strides to prosperity.
Number of white polls. 115,330; color
ed, 84,220; total polls, 199,550. Number
of professions, 2,634; dentists, 128; auc
tioneers, 21; daguerrean artists, 63; bil
liard tables, 115.
Number of children between six and
eighteen years of age, 402,500. School
fund paid each county, total amount,
$265,000.
Polls, 83,318. Number of acres of laud
owned, 338,769. Value of city or town
property, $1,200,115. All other prop
erty, $3,513,809. Amount of money aud
solvent debts, $80,736. Aggregate value
of whole property, $6,157,798. Total
amount of Tax Assessor, $30,78S 99.
Estimate of probable and permanent
receipts and disbursements at the Treas
ury, from and during the fiscal year
ending 31st December, 1875, $2,565,-
628 88.
Your readers can see at a glance the
condition of our State in every particular.
We have no cause of complaint, and if
the Federal Government will but confine
itself strictly within the purview of the
spirit and intention of the Constitution,
regarding the rights and the sovereignty
of the States, peace and prosperity will
not only bless our State, but aU of our
sister Confederate States that suffered
with us in the dark days of civil war.
R. M. O.
Two strangers walked into the German
Bank at Alexandria, Va., a few days ago,
and endeavored to induce the cashier to
come from behind the counter, in order
to tell him something very confidential.
Their suspicious appearance led the
cashier to decline, and he at the same
time put his baud ou a pistol in his desk,
whereupon the strangers departed. The
cashier and a messenger were the only
persons in the bank, and it is supposed
foul play and robbery were the objects of
the visitors.
The Pope has intimated in an encycli
cal letter, that a jubilee will be celebrated
in 1875. Such a solemnity his holiness
considers necessary in the present crisis
of affairs, both as a means of procuring
special grace for the faithful and Divine
favor for the world at large.
BY TE1MAPH
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
BRIEF CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
DEATH OF REV. CHARLES KINGSLEY.
RECEPTION OF GARIBALDI IN ROME*
CO XGRESBIONAL.
Washington, January 25.—In the House,
a large number of bills were introduced
aud referred, the Democrats calling for the
reading «»f every bill.
In the Senate* a large number of petitions
were presented for the repeal of the law of
1872, relieving various foreign products of
ten per cent, duty, and against the re-enact
ment of the duty ou tea and coffee. Re
ferred to the Finance Committee.
DEAD.
London, January 25.—Rev. Charles Kings
ley is dead.
New York, January 25.—Judge Maunsell
1>. Field, formerly Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury, died here yesterday.
GABIBALDI.
Rome, January 25.—There were extrava
gant demonstrations over Garibaldi. The
people took the horses from his carriage
and hauled it to the hotel.
• RESUMING.
Lowell, Mass./ January 25.—Appleton
Manufacturing Company starts two hundred
and fifty looms which have been idle ten
weeks.
ROBESON IN A FLUTTER.
Washington, January 25.—The Navy De
partment caught tire at twelve thirty o’clock
to-day, and is still burning.
compromised.
Vienna. January 25.—The Montenegro
an l Turkish troubie has been compromised.
FROM SPAIN.
Madrid, January 25.—There are various
rumors of a compromise with Don Carlos.
More Next Friday.
There is a little drama called “The
Post Office Mistake.” Old man Hackett
used to play Mons. Mallett in it. It was
very touching. He was constantly call
ing for a letter that he could not get and
yet he knew it was there all the time.
The delivery clerk became to him a fiend
of darkness and deceit. He was simply
a monster of ignorance. There are many
post office romances if you could only
get at them. One comes from Washing
ton. It began forty years ago—in 1835.
Mr. John H. Hallefc, now superintendent
of the dead-letter department, was then a
delivery clerk in that post office. In the
year named, a fine-looking, well-dressed
lady came to his window one Friday
morning and enquired for a letter for
Mrs. Mary H. Russell. There was a letter.
She called the next Friday morning.
There was another letter. She called
every Friday morning; there was always
a letter—if not in the morning, it came
in the afternoon, and the lady returned
aud got it. They were all dropped let
ters, directed by the same hand, and
Mrs. Mary H. Russell never got any other
letters. This went on for thirty years,
ai d Hallett still stood at his window. Iu
the mean time the handwriting of the
address showed signs of age, and the
lady was gray and looked sixty. Hallett
was transferred to the dead-letter depart
ment, and a younger man took his place
at the window. For a short time the
lady came and got her letters as of old.
At leDgth Hallett found a dead letter ad
dressed to Mrs. Mar}' H. RusselL He
knew the hand. The lady had then quit
calling for her weekly missive. The letter
was opened. It contained a five dollar
note and this sentence, without signature:
“More next Friday.”
The letters continued to come and they
were all dead letters, and there was al
ways a $5 and “more next Friday.” For
ten years they have come—520 dead let
ters and 520 $5 bills. In one letter was
the admonition “Do not write.” What
could he mean? Who is he? and what
has become of her? StiU the weekly
dead letter comes addressed to Mrs. Mary
H. Russell, and forty years have passed.
The history of that correspondence is the
history of two long lives. John M. Hal
lett, growing old at his post office win
dow, saw the hair turning gray and the
wrinkles multiplying on Mary H. Russell's
face. Then he went to the dead-letter
office and the letters followed him, but
the old woman comes no more.
Pardon of a Noted Counterfeiter—
Curious Will CasePhiladelphia, Jan
uary 22.—William Cregar, counterfeiter,
has been pardoned by the President, and
was liberated to-day. His pardon was
granted on the petition of District At
torney McMichael and nine of the jury
that convicted him, believing that he was
innocent of the offense for which he was
convicted, and to enable Cregar to testify
iu a case pending before the Register of
WiUs in the matter of the will of the
late Elizabeth Burns, formerly the wife
of Cregar. After the last conviction of the
counterfeiter, his wife sued for divorce
on the ground of his being convicted,
and the court issued a decree in her
favor. This was foUowed by her mar
riage with one Peter Burns, to whom, at
her death, she left the bulk of her pro
perty. This property, which was priuci-
paUy real estate, was conveyed to her by
her former husband after his conviction.
Cregar has been a counterfeiter for thirty
years. His last conviction was in 1872,
when he was sentenced for three years.
Six Largest Ships in the World.—
According to the American Manufacturer
the six largest steamships in the world
are the Great Eastern, owned by the In
ternational Telegraph Construction and
Maintenance Company, 674 feet long, 77
feet broad; the City of Peking, some
months ago launched on the Delaware
river for the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany, 6,000 tons, 423 feet long, 48 feet
broad; the Liguria, of the Pacific Steam
Navigation Company, 4,820 tons, 460 feet
long, 45jfeet broad : the Britanic of the
White Star line, 4,700 tons, 455 feet long,
45 feet broad; the City of Richmond, of
the Inman line, 4,600 tons, 453^ feetjlong,
43 feet broad, and the Bothnia, of the
Cunard line, 4,500 tons, 425 feet long.
424 feet broad.
Merchants and others doing business
about Post Office square, Boston, have
been much exercised the past ten days
because of the firing of pistol balls from
an unknown source. Balls come crash
ing through the windows of business
houses, much to the terror of their occu
pants, and so far all efforts to discover
the parties doing the mischief have failed.
So far no one has been injured, though
several narrow escapes are recorded.
In the city of Cognac, France, there is
an establishment fitted with an automatic
indicator to guard against fire. It is
simply a thermometer, so constructed
that when the mercury rises to a certain
point it starts an electric alarm, which
lings a bell in the proprietor’s quarters.
It provides against fire as the ordinary
burglar alarm does against thieves.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany have offered $450,000 for Edson’s
quartuplex telegraph instrument, for
which the Atlantic and Pacific Company
have been negotiating.
Lord and lady Milton, living in Alle
ghany county, Virginia, have gone on a
visit to England. On New l’ear’s day
the}’ gave an entertainment to more than
a hundred guests.
The St. Louis Times says: “Gen. Sheri
dan is tormented with a vision of four
thousand unpunished murderers in
Louisiana. That’s the way it affects him.
Some men would have ’em in their boots.”
The Oakdale iron furnace property,
near Kingston, Tennessee, has been pur
chased by a party of Northern capitalists
for $80,000.
WHAT
IS PRESIDNT
AIMING AT
GRANT
A Conundrum for American Citizen**.
[From the New York Herald ] *
If the President were quite new to pub •
lie life and the country had acquired its
first knowledge of him from his recent
acts, the universal impression would T>e
that an incompetent man had been lifted
to a station above his abilities, and that
rebellion, his last effort to retain control ;
of the country may t>e a foreign war. Does |
he seek to win the next campaign by this 1
bloody sign ?
FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
Southern A Hair- Before Congress.
[Telegram to the Baltimore Son.]
Washington, January 22. — Senator
Morton has found that he was a little too
his stupendous blunders are the fruit of fast in notifying the Democratic Senators
incapacity and folly. No man of even
the most commonplace ability as a poli
tician could perpetrate such astonishing
mistakes if actuated by honest motives
and ordinary prudence. Vice President
Wilson may not deserve to be ranked
with the highest order of statesmen, but
he is a man of excellent sense, long ex
perience, quick perception of popular
tendencies, and no man in the country is
better qualified to judge of what the peo
ple, and especially the Republican party,
will or will not indorse. His recent letter to
the editor of the Springfield Republi
can goes as near as official propriety will
permit to making President Grant re
sponsible for the gloomy outlook of the
Republican party. He does not think
the case desperate, but he sees no safety
for the party but in repudiating the
mistaken policy of the President. Vice
President Wilson is an original Republi
can, entitled by long service and un
swerving fidelity to be listened to as an
adviser: and when he is constrained to
censure General Grant in a public com
munication the Republican party will be
disposed to weigh his reasons. When so
eminent and trusted a Republican un
dertakes to show that the fortunes of the
party are not yet desperate, and to point
out methods of rescuing it from impend
ing destruction, the sense of danger
which such an effort betrays is very sig
nificant.
But Mr. Wilson’s letter does not touch
upon the most recent aud alarming meas
ures of the President. He merely ac
counts for the astounding Republican
losses in last year’s elections and suggests
means of retrieving them. The high
handed military interference in Louisiana
is the most damaging blow of all. and its
prompt repetition in Mississippi exposes
the insincerity of the recent message. It
indicates an unrelenting purpose to em
ploy similar means in like emergencies.
When President Grant caps the previous
blunders which the Vice President depre
cates with this open and persistent affront
to the most deeply rooted sentiments of
American citizens, the conduct of the
President becomes a stupendous enigma.
Is he demented, or is he resolutely bent
on the subversion of our free institutions ?
A simpleton might unwarily fall into
such astonishing blunders as Gen. Grant
has perpetrated in his recent employment
of military force: but it is not easy to
give him the benefit of that excuse.
Nobody who has had opportunities for
closely observing President Grant believes
him a fool. Friends aud foes alike who
have been in personal contact with him
unite in declaring that he is a man of
uncommon capacity. Alexander H.
Stephens, who is a person of superior
talents himself, and therefore a compe
tent judge of talents, had good oppor
tunities to take the measure of Gen.
Grant’s capacity at the time
of the famous Hampton Roads con
ference. aud his testimony to Grant’s
intellectual capacity, as recorded in
his history of the war, is most
emphatic. General Frank Blair had still
better opportunities for observing him in
long and intimate army associations, and
nobody can have forgotten that in the
Presidential campaign of 1868, when the
whole Democratic press was decrying
General Grant as a man of slender ca
pacity, General Blair stated that this
slighting estimate was a mistake, and as
serted that Grant possessed a vigor of
mind aud intensity of ambition which
would make his election to the Presi
dency a great public danger. The sub
stance of General Blair’s memorable dec
laration was that if General Grant were
once elected to the Presidency he would
never relinquish the office. The events of
the last two years tend to vindicate the
penetration of General Blair. It is only
under such a President as Blair supposed
Grant would be that the third term ques
tion could have arisen to alarm the coun
try. The imputation that President
Grant was scheming for a third election,
though regarded with incredulity at first,
is almost universally credited at present.
Vice President Wilson evidently believes
it. It he thought it had no foundation
he would emphatically say so in the face
of the country, instead of calling on the
President to make a public renunciation
of such designs. Why should he think
it necessary for Gen. Grant to renounce
such pretensions if his own observations
of the President’s cnaracter had not con
vinced him of the reality of the danger ?
President Grant’s recent conduct is
consistent with this theory, but is inex
plicable on any other unless it be the
theory that he is a dolt in public affairs.
If he is determined at all hazards not to
relinquish his office at the expiration of
the present term, the extraordinary
things he has been doing are intelligible ;
on any other hypothesis they are a puzzle.
So long as the Republican party main
tained its ascendancy and showed no signs
of decadence it was natural for Pres
ident Grant to trust to common po
litical arts. With that party in an
assured majority he had only to se
cure its nomination to realize his hopes,
and the activity of the office holding in
terest might have been relied on for pack
ing the National Convention in his favor.
But since last year’s elections have de
monstrated that the Republican nomina
tion will not be equivalent to an election
the President has been forced to change
his third term tactics. His mere nomi
nation will be more easily secured when
its worthlessness to an ordinary candidate
abates competition. The difficulty will
be iu electing the nominee, and the game
thePresident is playing looks further ahead
than a mere nomination. It is apparently
his policy to bring the Southern States
under military control and make their
votes in the Presidential election depend
on his will. By reviving and inflaming
the old animosities between the North
and the South he hopes to get the votes
of many of the Northern States and to
secure his success by military control of
the Southern elections. The third term
question, therefore, comes up in a more
dangerous aspect than ever. It looks as
if Gen. Grant were determined to re-elect
himself by trampling down all rights in
the South and making the bayonet the
instrument of political success. The
same means by which he under
takes to change the political character
of Southern Legislatures would be equally
effective in controlling the Southern elec
toral colleges, and he would seem to be
trying how far he may go in employing
the army to frustrate elections, with a
view to future operations, when all his
hopes will be finally put at stake. Foiled
iu this by the patience and persistence of
the Southern people there is another
means on which he may rely. Inspired
organs hint of troubles with Spam
and the revival of the Yirginins dif
ficulty. We have many grievances with
Spain, but no more than we had
fifty years ago, and no different
from those that have harassed previous
administrations. Our country’ lies con
tiguous to Spanish possessions and to
countries formerly under the Spanish
crown. The tendency of our “manifest
destiny” has been to bring us into con
stant collision with the policy and do
minion of that nation. We hAve been
incessantly driving the descendants of
Cervantes from a continent over which
they once ruled. From the very nature
of this geographical and political rela
tion it would lead to misunderstanding
with Spain. We have had this fer a half
century, not alone during Grant s admin
istration. If the President had intended
to extend aid to Cuba and recognize its
independence, he could have done so on
many occasions; but “he has stood aloof
until now. He has really been the ally
of Spain in its war upon Cuban inde
pendence. But driven from his hopes in
the centralized Republican party, defeat
ed in his plan lor the reviving of the
of his motion to swear in Pinchback.
So many Republican Senators are shaky
on this point that it was finally concluded
to resort again to the caucus, in the hope
i of securing something approximating
unanimity of action. A caucus meeting
was accordingly called for this morning,
and was in session nearly two hours.
There was the usual excited discussion,
which has been a feature of every Re
publican caucus held this winter, and
where the faithful can unbosom them
selves secure from the fear of prying
eyes. The wish of Mr. Morton and Mr.
West was to have it agreed that Pinch-
back’s new set of credentials should be
preserved, to be followed immediately by
the motion to swear him in. and that no
other business should be considered until
the motion was disposed of. It was found
impossible to secure an agreement of
this kind, several leading Senptors insist
ing that Pinchback’s credentials must go
to the Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions.
When the Senate met the credentials
were presented, and were at once referred
without any debate whatever. By the
presentation of his new credentials Pinch
back virtually admits that his former cre
dentials were invalid. It is the general
opinion that the old credentials made a
better case for him than the ones now
presented. There are strong indications
of a renewal of the disposition to leave
Pinchback out in the oold, if it can be
done without compiomising the status
of ‘Kellogg. As Pinchback has now, by
his own voluntary act, severed his case
from that of Kellogg, this may be less
difficult than has been heretofore sup
posed. However, in the present condi
tion of affairs, it is impossible to pre
dict what the Senate will or will not do
beyond the positive certainty that it will
adopt no course which is not agreeable
to the executive.
what was done in caucus.
The Republican members of the House
of Representatives held a caucus to-night
to consider the report of the special com
mittee on Southern affairs. The attend
ance was not very large, only eighty-sev
en being present. The committee re
ported through Mr. White, of Alabama,
in favor of two bills recently introduced
by him and referred to the Judiciary
Committee. One of these bills is to regu
late elections in the Southern States, and
imposes a penalty for carrying firearms
or using any intimidation whatever at an
election. The other prohibits State Leg
islatures from passing any act disfran
chising any portion of the people for any
cause except for crime. The report was
discussed, but no conclusion was reached.
Bills for the recognition of Kellogg, civil
rights, and authorizing the President to
suspend the habeas corpus were also pro
posed.
A resolution was introduced endorsing
the President and General Sheridan for
their course iu reference to Louisiana
affairs, but no vote was taken on this re
port, all questions being postponed to an
adjourned caucus. In regard to actiou
as to the settlement of the Louisiana diffi
culty, there were two propositions submit
ted by the Senatorial caucus this morning;
first, a distinct aud formal recognition of
the Kellogg Government; and second, the
ordering of a new election. Several Sen
ators expressed regret that the Carpenter
bill was not passed two years ago, and
thought that if it had been favorably
acted on the difficulties which had now
grown so much more serious aud conflict
ing would have entirely disappeared.
Still there was much doubt expressed as
to the propriety of now having a new
election, but the sentiment was over
whelming that something of a definite
character must be done,and immediately,
particularly in view of the determination
of the President to withdraw the troops
in case of non-action. The caucus will
hold another session to-morrow, in the
further effort to contrive some plan
which will bridge over the difficulties
besetting a settlement of the Louisiana
questiou, which will be held to-morrow
night.
The caucus committee has under con
sideration a proposition to recommend
that appropriations for the army be made
for two years. This, however, does not
meet with any favor except among the
Southern Republicans. They also propose
to recommend to the caucus to-morrow
night the repeal of the law’ requiring un
expended balances of appropriations to
be covered into the Treasury. The ob
ject of this is obviously to get the benefit
of appropriations already made, but no
such legislation can be adopted.
THE VICKSBURG INVESTIGATION.
Mr. O’Brien made another unsuccess
ful attempt in the House to-day to secure
an investigation of the alleged interfer
ence of United States troops with the
courts in Vicksburg. He did not even
ask the House to pass his resolution, but
simply to refer it to the special commit
tee on Mississippi affairs, but even this
was objected to by Mr. Conger, the chair
man of the committee, who seems deter
mined that this shall not be inquired into.
If Mr. Conger does not call his commit
tee together next week, the Democratic
members, Messrs. O’Brien and Speer, will
protest against further delay and inaction.
Mr. Conger’s excuse, that the testimony
has not yet been printed, is a very
flimsy one. This Vicksburg affair would
seem to demand a very close and thor
ough investigation. The testimony
taken at Vicksburg shows that Judge
Brown, the late Judge whose officer was
interfered with by the army, testified that
there was no interference with the peace
able and quiet administration, and he
knew of no reason why the oourts should
not be kept open. Luke Lee, the Repub
lican District Attorney of the county, also
testified to the peace aud good order of
the county. Neither he nor Judge Brown
saw* any necessity for an armed body of
men to protect the courts. And yet, in
the face of this testimony, as soon as the
committee had turned their backs ou
Vicksburg and came North, the military
did mterfero and oust an officer who was
holding peaceable possession, with the
connivance and consent of these very of
ficers, and in face of the testimony of
which the above is a brief outline.
court of contested elections.
The bill introduced in the Senate to
day to establish a oourt of contested elec
tions provides for a court of that name, to
consist of the Chief Justice and Associate
Justices of the United States Supreme
Court for the time being, and to be con
vened on the second Wednesday of Feb
ruary, 1877, and every fourth year there
after, and also in every February subse’
quent to any election held to fill a
vacancy in the office of either President
or Vice-President of the United States.
This court is to hear and adjudge con
tests concerning the result of such elec
tions and report its findings to both
Houses of Congress.
Tiie Caricature on Chilized Govern
ment.
[From the Nation.]
As regards the proper mode of dealing
I with this question on the part of
I the public, it is difficult to know
I what to say. The Louisiana problem, in
all its odious deformity, has now been
before us for over three years, and if,
during that period, there had been the
slightest sign of a desire or intention on
! the part of either the President or the
| majority in Congress to set up an honest
government for the good of the people of
the State, we would counsel the greatest
forbearance towards any mistakes the
administration or its agents might make
—towards even such hideous mistakes as
this last one. But as every man at the
North know's in his heart the history
of Federal interference in the affairs
of the State is the history of the conni
vance of a great government at the efforts
of a small band of rascally adventurers to
live by fraud, corruption and intrigue.
The first great scandal in the dismal tale
—the abduction for twelve days, on board
the United States revenue cutter, of
enough members of the State Legislature
to prevent the formation of a quorum in
1872, by the Federal Collector of the port,
Casey, the President’s brother-io-law. was
a fitting beginning of all that has since
occurred, and that,like the latest outrage,
passed without one word of rebuke from
Washington. When we ask what the Re
publicans, either in or out of Congress,
have done to put a stop to this shame
less caricature on civilized government,
the answer is—nothing, absolutely noth
ing. They have remained silent and
often approving spectators, and now,
when the climax has been capped, and
the thing has become so bad that it is
furnishing solid and valuable capital to
the Democrats, good Republicans will not
touch the matter because the Democrats
are excited about it—under the argu
ment ab ira infideUum. So that it is
very difficult to see now the reform is
to be brought about, or why the firm
of Kellogg, Packard, Casey & Co.
should not carry on business in Louis
iana forever. The last few days have
in fact furnished us with an astounding
illustration of the extent to which the
ignorance or indifference of large num
bers of intelligent men has gone in mat
ters pertaining to the very foundations of
the government, in the inquiries we hear
on every side whether there may not be
circumstances which justify a brigadier
in going into a Legislature and selecting
for military arrest the persons whom he
thinks ought not to be there. One might
as well ask whether it might not be good
practice for a doctor to make an incision
in one of the valves of a patient’s heart,
and whether it might not be well to wait
for the diagnosis before condemning the
treatment.
As regards the people of Louisiana, we
trust they will remember that the most
effectual aid they can render to the right
minded men at the North in putting an
end to the regime which has made
tbeir State the scandal and disgrace
of constitutional government, is by
maintaining perfect order. If they do
this, their deliverance, though it may not
oome this winter, is sure to come before
long.
Jftotrls and jtgtaarantg.
BRESNAN’S
European House
156, 158,166 & 162
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SAVANNAH, GA.
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XottfrifS.
Boss Tweed’s Condition.—On Satur
day last several members of the New
York grand jury made a visit to William
M. Tweed, on Blackwell’s Island, for the
purpose of ascertaining exactly how the
fallen Tammany chief was living. The
jurors, after arriving at the prison, soon
reached the hospital, a long, narrow,
cheerless room. In a corner, with a win
dow on the Long Island side, is a small
apartment containing an ordinary bed
stead, over which was thrown a prison
blanket. A cane-seat chair was near the
window', and a rickety table, on which
was a rough box filled with vials, was
ag-tinst the partition. On the wall at the
bedside was a small, cheap engraving,
aud cn a rude shelf was towels and linen.
There was no carpet on the floor. The
room is used by the orderly of the hos
pital, William M. Tweed, who
once wielded unlimited political power
in the Empire City. The deposed chief
tain sat at the window poring over the
record book. His clothing was of the kind
worn by persons convicted of misde
meanors: the pantaloons very dark and
the jacket of a reddish brown, the ma
terial being very coarse. A cap, such as
all convicts wear, was ou the window
sill. The prisoner still retains his beard.
He was very pale. His face has become
thinner, and he moves about with dif
ficulty. He looked through his eye
glasses in an uncertain way. aud bowed
when one of the jurors peered into his
room. In response to an inquiry in re
gard to his health Tweed said he was in
better health than he had been, but re
marked that he suffered much from kid
ney complaint. A juror having asked
how he was treated, the prisoner hesi
tated for a moment, aud replied: “Well,
l think they have got me down as far as
they can get me.” The warden said that
Tweed has no privileges; that he seldom
sees his relatives or friends, and that he
has only ordinary prison fare. He thought
that Tweed was a model prisoner, as he
always submissively obeys orders.
LOOK ! LOOK I
$1,200,000 IN FRIZES!
Th«* GrnndrMt Single Number Scheme on
liceoril, will be drawn in public in
St. Louis on March 31, 1S75.
Capital Prize, $100,000!
Missouri State Lotteries
Legalized by State Authority,
MURRAY, MILLER A 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
1(M) 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, $5.
Prize payable in full and no postponement of
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—at—
Reduced Prices!
President Grant gains one more day
in office than the American elector bar
gained for. The 4th of March, 1877,
will come on Sunday, and by statute, the
inauguration of the President elect does
not take place until the next day. Twice
in the history of the Republic this has
occurred—in 1821, at the second inaug
uration of James Monroe, and in 1849,
when Zachary Taylor was installed.
The Superintendent of Education in
South Carolina, in his annual report just
published, states that 45,774 white and
58,964 colored children now attend school
in that State.
That “ Debatable JQuestion. ” — It
makes all the difference in the world
whether it is your bull that was gored or
my ox. When Mr. Kellogg chose to super
intend the organization of the Louisiana
Legislature the other day. and to deter
mine who had a right to sit in it, he had
no trouble in obtaining the services of
the United States army to expel the per
sons whom he judged not to be members;
and the President emphatically approved
the transaction until the indignation of
the country and the threatened uproar at
Washington forced him to acknowledge
that its propriety was “perhaps a de
batable question.”
But it may be as well to remember that
three years ago United States Marshal
Packard and other representatives of the
Federal, power at New Orleans arrested
Governor W'armoth, on a charge of inter
fering with the organization of the Legis-
liture—in other words, doing just what
Kellogg has now done with the aid of
United States troops. The right of the
Governor to interfere with the organiza
tion of the Legislature did not seem to
be “a debatable question” then, did it?
The only difference between the two cases
is that in 1872 the Governor was opposed
to the Custom House faction, and in 1875
he is sustained by it.
What a gigantic fraud and false pre
tence the connection of the Washington
Government with the Louisiana scandal
has been from the first. Warmoth and
his supporters were arrested in order that
the Custom House party might get pos
session of the Legislature during their ab
sence ; and while Packard was thus pre
tending to support the General Assembly
from outside interference, Casey was sail
ing up and down the river with a cargo
of Senators on board a revenue cutter,
keeping out of the reach of the Sergeant-
at-Arms, so a quorum could not be as
sembled until the Custom House secured
a majority.—N. T. Tribune.
I AM now offering all of my Stock of Millinery
Goods, consisting of
PATTERNS.
BONNETS, nATS.
RIBBONS, VELVET.
FELT and STRAW GOODS,
For less than they can be bought elsewhero in
the city. Also a full line of Velvets on thc bias,
in all colors.
I have jnst 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 the
best Muslin and Cambric, is still complete.
Rt al Hair Switch, Hair Ornaments, and Fancy
Goods.
Also, a large assortment of Silk Umbrella* for
Lanies and Gents.
Ladies, call and examine my stock. You will
find them cheap and of the best quality of goods.
H. C. HOUSTON,
jun.Vtf 22 Bull street (Masonic building).
Shad and (Otistrrs.
“Sixty thousand children growing up
in ignorance in consequence of their em
ployment at too early an age, and too ex
clusively in factories!” Such is the re
port of the deputy constable appointed
to look after the children employed in the
factories of Massachusetts. Where is
Bergh, or the President of the Philadel
phia Board of Education ?
It is understood that the Pope’s golden
rose will be bestowed this year on Queen
Marie, the mother of King Louis IL, of
Bavaria, whose recent conversion to the
Roman Catholic faith created so much
excitement in the religious world.
San Mateo county, California, claims
fifteen millionaires, the aggregate of
whose wealth is estimated at $250,000,000.
A Western editor says that much of the
region through which the proposed Texas
Pacific Railway passes is a • ’regular Kam-
skatka.” Tom-Scott-ka would be a better
name for it.
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New Year Calls.
All who intend calling on
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Also, one of the Latest Style of Hats,
THE HOLIDAY.
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Plumber and dealer in Gas Fixtures,
DRAYTON STREET,
SECOND DOOR ABOVE BROUGHTON.
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its, at the shortest notice.
WM. M. McFALL,
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Bath Tabs, Water Closets, Chandeliers and Gas
Fixtures of every description constantly on ^
Jobbing dose at the shortest notice,
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When President McMahon wants to get
away from bores he takes a gun and goes
shooting. Grant takes his cigar and
trotter—or trots oat his soldiers.
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dealer in
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Furniture, Demar and other VARNISHES pot
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Doable and single thick French, English and
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Limited Partnership Notice.
T HE Limited Partnership heretofore existing
under the firm name of HOPKINS & WOOD,
having been dissolved by the death of John I).
Hopkins, one of the general partners, on the 7th
instant, the undersigned, John Wood, James Tor
rance Wood aud Ernest R. Wood, of Liverpool,
England, and Farley R. Sweat, of Savannah, Ga.,
as general partners, and Andrew Low, of Savan
nah, Ga.. as a special partucr, will carry on the
business as a Limited Partnership under the firm
uanie of
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Said Limited Partnership business commences
January 14th, 1S75, and terminates August 31st,
1S7G.
Andrew Low, as such special partner, lias paid
into the common stock of the firm One Hundred
Thousand Dollars in Gold.
JOHN WOOD,
JAMES TORRANCE WOOD,
ERNEST R. WOOD.
Liverpool, England.
ANDREW LOW,
Savannah, Georgia.
FARLEY R. SWEAT,
Savannah, Georgia.
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