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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 BRYM STREET, SAVANNAH, GA. —AND— RESERVOIR lit,!,,/,. rj^HE Proprietor, having completed the nece*- A sary additions and improvements, can now C lter to his guests all the comforts to be obtained Cl other Hotels at less than HALF THE EXPENSE! A RESTAURANT ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN Has been added, where guests can AT ALL HOURS Order whatever can be obtained in the market y'ynfil AS WE HAVE 12 GOOD REASONS WHY THEY WILL DO YOUR WORK. Quick and Easy, Cheap and Clean. They are cheapest to bay. They are best to nse. They bake evenly and quickly, Their operation is perfect They have always a good draft They are made of the best material, They roast perfectly. They require but littic fuel, They are very low priced, They art* easily managed, ^ They are suited to all localities. Every stove guarant’d to give satisfaction Sold by EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING CO. St Louis, Mo., and by Lovell & Lattimore, SAVANNAH, GA. aug22-S,Tu JfcTh, <fcw5m gaiating. PAINTING! CHRIS. MURPHT. CHAP. CLARK. ROOMS, WITH BOARD, $2 00 PER DAY. Determined to be Outdone by None, All I ask is a TRIAL, confident that complete satisfaction will be given. JOHN RRESNAN, PROPRIETOR. 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 drawings take place. Tickets Address, for 1 P. O. Box 2446. i and circulars, inagers, ST. LOUIS, MO. j 4n5-Tn.Th.SaAw! y 56RtlUufry ftoods. .Millinery! Millinery! —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. Shad and Oysters. fiEO. A. HUDSON. M. 31. SULLIVAN. HUDSON & SULLIVAN, —DEALERS IN- Sliad, Oysters, Open and Shell —ALSO- All kinds of SALT and FRESH WATER FISH in reason. Orders from all parts of the country promptly attended to. North side of Bay street, foot of Whitaker street. janl-tf Sats and Caps, &c. New Year Calls. All who intend calling on NEW YEAR’S DAY Should provide themselves with a Pair of Angeles’ Seamless White Kid Gloves. Also, one of the Latest Style of Hats, THE HOLIDAY. Sold only by Brown, thc Hatter, dec31-tf 137 Congress street. ©as .fitting. JOHN NIC0LS0N, Gas & Steam Fitter, Plumber and dealer in Gas Fixtures, DRAYTON STREET, SECOND DOOR ABOVE BROUGHTON. Houses fitted with Gas and Water, with all the 'aiest im: its, at the shortest notice. WM. M. McFALL, Practical Plumber and Gas Fitter, Tie. 48 WY1 taker Strew, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. Bath Tabs, Water Closets, Chandeliers and Gas Fixtures of every description constantly on ^ Jobbing dose at the shortest notice, fehiutt Jtardtrare, k(. 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. F. W. CORNWELL, dealer in HARDWARE, CUTLERY, Agricultural Implement*. Msshanlcai Took, Arab Hoes, Nails, Traces, etc. Aim, CUCUM- Murphy & Clark, 98 Bryan strut, between Drayton anti Abercom Streets, SAVANNAH, GA. HOUSE, SHIP, STEAMBOAT, SIGN AND Ornam’tal Painters, GILDINQ. GRAINING, MARBLING, G I, A Z I TV G AND Paper Hanging. We arc prepared to offer estimates fer every de scription of Painting in any t>art of Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, ana guarantee satis faction in the execution of oar work. We keep always in store a select stock of the following articles: PURE ENGLISH B. B. LEAD. ATLANTIC and ali other brands of LEADS. Olts, varnishes, putty, brushes. Furniture, Demar and other VARNISHES pot up in quart, pint and half pint bottles, ready for use. GROUND and ENAMELED GLASS. STAINED and PLAIN of various colors. Doable and single thick French, English and American GLASS. GOLD LEAF, BRONZE, Glaziers’ DIAMONDS. Machinery OILS, and Axle GREASE. A select stock of GOLD and PLAIN PAPER HANGINGS. Persons desiring work and material in our line would do well to give us a call before going else where. PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL SIGN WORK Executed with neatness and dispatch. PATENT STEP LADDERS. As the s *ason has set in when house cleaning is the order of thc day, it can’t be done without a step ladder: The place to get them Light and Durable is at the Paint and Oil Store of MURPHY & CLARK. PRICE $2 50 TO $0, ALL SIZES. Stained to imitate Black Walnnt and Lettered with thc purchaser's name, if desired. oct22-tf Copartnership gotlresi. 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 WOOD & SWEAT. The general r atnre of the business to be trans acted is that of Commission Merchants. 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. Dated this 14th day of January, 1875. j anl 5-6 w ain hoofing, &t. CONTRACTOR —FOR— TIN ROOFING, Gutters and Conductors. Also, for making and putting np GALVANIZED IKON COliNICE, ORNAMENTAL BRACKED, GUTTERS AND CONDUCTORS. REPAIRING ROOFS wiil meet with prompt attention Orders solicted. Cormack Hopkins, No. 167 Broughton St. jan7-tf ©frafttt Pipes, Sit. CEMENT PIPES. Savaniiiili Brick ManuTg Co. Having purchased the Cement Pipe Machine Patents are now manufacturing Cement Pipes for Drains, Sewers, or Well Curbs, of all sizes, and have on hand a large stock of pipe of the following sizes: 3, 4, 6, 9,1«, 15, 30, and 36 inches, and Bends and Branches to suit, t octractors are requested to give them a call BEFORE USING ANY OTHER PIPE. This Patent Pipe has been tested for years in the North, East and West, where it has given eu- tirc satisfaction; and it has also been used in the South with success. Orders for Pipe in any quantity are solicited and will receive prompt attention. Orders left at the store of Messrs. Crawford & Lovell, 157 Brough ton street, for Pipe or Brick will be promptly at tended to. E. C. SWAIN, President Sav. B. MTg Co. D. Bailey. Sec. and Treas jau4-3m ©lothing. The New Departure c. o. i>. By This Sign We Conquer. HELDT, JAUDON & 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 I w adopt th and sell for cash.' Their prices the “Cash £ . will conform to and will be found lower than any city. They now offer unparalleled inducements to cash buyers. janl lm this cl house in