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J. U. ESTILL, Proprietor.
VV. T. THOJIPSON, Editor.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1875.
The Louisiana Investigation.
At last accounts the Congressional com
mittee appointed to weaken the force of
the report of the sub-committee, had
arrived in New Orleans and proceeded to
business. The Conservatives, however,
are not at all worried. They propose to
show that the late election was peaceable,
without any intimidation except such as
was practiced against Democratic negroes
by their own race, or against white peo
ple by the United States troops; that the
results of the election were falsified by
the Returning Board, in contravention of
the statute and in contempt of well-
known facts; that the prostration of busi
ness and impoverishment of the State are
directly traceable to the carpet-bag gov
ernment, of Federal creation and support.
The Republican counsel are going into
the massacre business, the White League,
and Democratic extravagance in 18G5, 18GG
and 18G7, together with the usual allega
tions. The Conservatives are prepared
to conduct murder investigations, and to
show, as has been asserted in the Pica-
yvnt, that two-thirds of the negroes killed
in Louisiana have been killed by negroes,
and that two-thirds of the remainder
have been killed by white men while in
the act of committing or attemping some
horrible outrage, murder, rape, arson,
burglar}', etc. The immunity attending
these murders is directly owing to the
criminal indifference of the reckless and
the indiscriminate employment of execu
tive clemency. They are getting up sta
tistics in the parishes on these points,
nud will bring official records in as evi
dence. The Conservatives propose bring
ing witnesses who were not before the
other sub committee, among whom will
be many Northern men settled here since
the war. and who are Republicans. It is
believed quite confidently that a better
case will be made this time than before.
The people are determined to convince
the committee.
The Sheridan Legislature is said to be
low-spirited. There is no money, and a
quorum is with difficulty got together.
There is no change in the Conservative
front. A bitter fight is waging between
Governor Kellogg and his Legislature.
He wants it to pass the general appro
priation bill for 187."> and adjourn sine die,
but it refuses to do it, and manifests a
disposition to give him some trouble by
taking away a great portion of his pat
ronage.
The Returning Board, it will be re
membered, claimed a laige Radical ma-
iority on the ground that the negro
population is greatly in excess, and that
the colored vote is reinforced by 5,00(1
white Republican voters. This excess of
colored voters is based on the fact that
in 1874 an excess of 15,000 colored over
the white voters were registered, and on
this excess, with the addition of the
5,000 white Republicans, it is boldly as
serted that “a fair and peaceable election"
should give the Republicans from 20,000
to 25,000 majority.
Statistics furnished by that eminent
statistician, Dr. Chaille, refute these
claims, and prove beyond discussion
either that the registration of 1874 was a
fraud, or that the United States census
of 1870 was a fraud. The correctness of
this census, however, is admitted by
President Grant, Congress and Marshal
Packard.
. This census (of 1870) states that
Louisiana has a total population of 72(i,-
015, with 362,0G3 whites and 504,850
colored, and of these there are 87,060
white and 80,913 colored males over
twenty-one years of age—thus giving a
slight excess of white males over twenty-
one years.
A Real “Romance.”
What the New York papers call a
“romance” has come to light in that
city; Henry Shields, an opulent flour
merchant of New Y'ork city, died March
15, 1874, leaving a large estate, the
greater part of which was devised
to his children, without mentioning
them by name. The will was duly ad
mitted to probate. Soon afterward a
lady residing in the eastern district,
Brooklyn, and calling herself Jane Shields,
began an action against the executors
of Henry shields for dower, repre
senting that thirty or forty years
ago she was married to Henry Shields,
who was then in comparatively poor
circumstances. She had five children by
him, some of whom are dead. About
twenty-six years ago. when Mrs. Shields'
circumstances had considerably improved,
he began to absent himself from his
family, who resided in Brooklyn. He
returned to them only at long intervals.
He continued, however, to support his
wife and family. After his demise Mrs.
Jane Shields ascertained that he had left
a lady in New York calling herself Mrs.
Shields, and claiming to be his wife, and
that she and nine children borne by her
to Mr. Shields had inherited a vast es
tate under his will. It is alleged that
twenty-six years ago. at the time when
Mr. Shields began to absent himself from
his Brooklyn family, he married the lady
now inheriting as his widow. He estab
lished himself in an elegant residence in
New York, and the lady with whom he
was living was known as his wife. The
nine children before mentioned were born,
and their education was conducted in the
most expensive manner. They are said
to be very highly accomplished.
Andy.
The election of Andy Johnson to the
United States Senate from Tennessee,
which occurred yesterday, is quite a
victory for that doughty politician. He
had a good many prejudices to overcome,
but he went into the canvass with pluck
and energy of no common order, and he
is successful. We are not a very enthu
siastic admirer of the ex-President, but
in some respects his election to the Sen
ate may be regarded as very nearly prov
idential. He is a hearty hater of Grant,
and where his patriotism will end in op
posing the schemes of the smoker, his
prejudices will begin, so that we may ex
pect to see "the present administration
pursued with a vigor that will surprise
its supporters. As relentless and vindic
tive as Morton—as bluff as Beck—as su
percilious as Oonkling—as shrewd as
Thad Stevens—and as brave as a lion,
something lively may be looked for when
the ambitious ex-President takes his seat.
To the qualities we have enumerated,
Mr. Johnson adds a fluency of speech
well-nigh marvellous, and a readiness of
retort that will not prove wholesome to
the Radicals and carpet-baggers.
as Randolph s Spues.—Hon. Mark
inder, of Mecklenburg county, Va.,
leposited with the Virginia Historical
sty a pair of silver spurs which were
by that eeoentrio son of genius,
Randolph, of Roanoke. One of the
Is is broken out, possibly the result
ue of Mr. Randolph’s sudden lm-
m when his horse did not go to suit
women who keep a baby-farming
tunent at HoUiston, Maas., have
rested on a charge of poisoning
ants within eight weeks.
Mr. Duncan’s Enabling Act.
H0F8E op Refresentatiaes, >
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 25, 1875. >’
Editor Morning News :
I see in the News of the 23d an edi
torial in regard to my bill introduced on
the 20th inst., entitled, “An act to waive
homesteads,'* <£c. In section 7, as re
ported, it reads, “cestui que hew." It
should be cestui que trust.
The object of this bill is not to repeal
the homestead law, for it does not de
prive any person of the privilege of the
homestead, but to enable thousands who
would not take the homestead at all to
use as security the property they control,
whether it be $100 or $2,500. I think
the bill, if passed, will be the best remedy
as a usury law that we can devise, for it
gives the lender a security—so it does to
the seller. I can't see how this bill can
be objectionable to the homesteader, as
it is optionary with him as to whether he
will waive the privilege or not.
It may be asked whether this bill, if it
becomes a law, will stand the test of the
courts or not. I can say thaa I think it
will, as the State of Virginia has a con
stitutional homestead and an enabling act,
enabling persons to waive all homesteads
and exemptions. In a case that went
up from Richmond, in which A had given
B a promissory note in which he waived
all homesteads and exemptions, B sued
A and he took the homestead. The case
was carried before Judge Waite, of the
United States Supreme Court, aud he de
cided that where a State had a homestead
law, and an enabling act to waive home
stead, etc., the parties so waiving could
not take the benefit of said homestead
and exemptions against the particular
debt in which they had made the waive.
Yours truly, F. M. Duncan.
If his enabling act can be made of
force, and there seems to be no doubt
about that, we are inclined to look upon
Mr. Duncan’s measure as a very timely
one. Its provisions, as interpreted in
the foregoing note, seem calculated to
create a basis for credit, and that is the
great need in Georgia at this juncture.
It is true that in certain quarters we
frequently hear clamor against credit,
but this clamor is not only superficial but
senseless. Without credit, government
would be unstable, communities finan
cially feeble, commerce restricted and
individuals comparatively destitute.
Credit is simply the transfer of capital
from one person to another, whereby
production itself, if not the means there
of, may be increased. But in order to
have credit we must have security, and
this may be given through wholesome
laws, such as we conceive Mr. Duncan’s
bill to be. The truth is, it is a sort of
compromise all around. It will serve
juster ends than a lien law, will obviate
the necessity of repealing the homestead
clause, and will be far more effectual in
lowering the rate of interest than all the
usury laws now before the Legislature
put together. It must be remembered,
however, that we are commenting upon
Mr. Duncan’s own interpretation of his
measure. A perusal of the bill itself
may bring about a material modification
of our views.
The Mendacity of Merrill.
Eight Northern men, residents of
Shreveport, La., representing the States
of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connec
ticut, New York, Ohio, and Iowa, have
united in a publication denouncing the
malicious lies of Major Merrill. They
say they have read with inexpressible as
tonishment the statements made by Mer
rill and others, representing that com
munity in a condition of anlrchy and its
people lawless and defiant, stating that in
that vicinity there are not less than 250
political criminals; that the freedmen are
systematically maltreated and cheated of
their earnings, and that 2,000 have been
driven from their homes in penury. They
most solemnly asse«t that all such state
ments are baseless misrepresentations
and absurdly false. There is no lawless
ness there, nor in that vicinity, that has
come to their knowledge. The only dis
orders that they have know’n were made
by this military slanderer, just before the
election, by sending his soldiers raiding
over the country, arresting unresisting
citizens for imaginary offenses, who have
not been held for trial because there was
no evidence of guilt. If ordinary crimes
are not vigorously published by the pres
ent judicial authority, it is through no
fault of the intelligent and virtuous part
of the community, who have had no
voice in their selection. If any tenantry
have been ejected, it has been to a small
extent, and mostly, if not altogether, the
vagabonds and vicious. If there be any
destitution among the colored people, it
is in no sense from want of remunerative
employment. The relation of the two
races is unusually friendly, arising, doubt
less, from the fact that at the recent elec
tion manj’ colored men voted with the
tax-payers the Conservative ticket. They
think the good order in that section quite
remarkable, when it is remembered that
the parish officials and representatives,
who were elected by 000 majority in as
orderly an election as was ever witnessed,
have been for the second time cheated
out of their success by the present ruling
dynasty. They conclude by saying that
the statements referred to are so out
rageously false and groundless that they
could only have originated in a crazy
brain or in a poorly concealed malice.
BY TELEGRAPH
THE MORNING NEWS.
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
Proceedings of (he General Assembly.
The Georgia State Grange.
Among the resolutions adopted at the
recent meeting of the Georgia State
Grange was one requesting the Senators
and Representatives in Congress from
this State to urge the passage of an act
refunding the cotton tax illegally collect
ed by the United States Government, to
the producers of cotton, where paid
either directly or indirectly by them; and
when the same was sold by the producers
while not subject to said tax, then to
such persons as may have paid the same.
A preamble, setting forth that it is 1o
the interest of the farming community es
pecially, and of the country generally, that
a speedy reform should be made in its
labor, and that concerted and systematic
action through the subordinate Granges
is the surest and most direct mode of
accomplishing it, and farther, that its
universal demoralization grows directly
out of its anomalous condition in which
labor controls capital, was followed by a
resolution, which, while not designing
certain advantages to the cropping and
tenant systems of employing labor, re
cognizes the wages system as best for the
employer, and best—because the safest
for the employe.
As Isoesiocs Compilation op Jobs.—
The little tariff bill, which was rushed
through the House in spite of the-earnest
opposition of the Democrats, is drawn
entirely in the interests of the manufac
turers and the money power. It pro
vides for no increase of the revenue; bnt
the tax on gold sales by brokers, which
would have yielded $8,000,000 per
annum, was knocked out so as to save
rich men and speculators from taxation,
while additional burdens was heaped upon
the consumers of hops and other con.
Burners. The relief to the smaller grow
ers, of tobacco, by allowing them to re
tail $100 of their own production, was
stricken ont.
CUTTING DOWN THE COMPENSATION
OF TAX RECEIVERS AND
COLLECTORS.
THE HO.HESTEA D I.AW.
Professor White and His z\imlysis of
Fertilizers.
[Special Telegram to the Morning Sews ]
Atlanta, January 2C.
TAX RECEIVERS AND COLLECTORS.
The Senate passed the bill recommended
by the Finance Committee, giving tax re
ceivers and collectors of Chatham, Fulton
and Richmond counties fixed salaries—four
thousand dollars to receivers and five thou
sand dollars to collectors for receiving and
collecting State and county taxvs combine J.
The other tax receivers in the State are al
lowed the same rate of commissions as
heretofore, bnt the basis of commissions is
changed so as to make the State and county
tax combined the basis instead of the State
tax alone, which slightly reduces the com
pensation of receivers and collectors whose
digest is under twenty thousand dollars.
BILLS INTRODUCED.
The following bills were introduced in the
Senate:
Mr. Arnow—To amend the act prohibiting
hunting on the land of another in the coun
ties of Quitman and Camden, by including
Glynn.
By Mr. Black—To incorporate the Georgia
Granger’s and Planter’s Banking Company,
with an office in Macon.
BILLS PASSED.
The following bills passed the Senate:
To repeal the act to prevent the destruc
tion of game m Liberty and McIntosh.
To amend the act incorporating St. Mary’s.
To prevent the sale of spirituous liquors
to minors.
To amend the act to incorporate the Haw-
kinsville Bank and Trust Company.
LEGISLATIVE FACETIOUSNESS.
The following bill was introduced in the
House by Mr. Sbewmake: To prevent the
waste of virgin affeetious aud to husband
our resources by levying a tax on bachelors.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
The following passed the House:
To abolish the per diem of jurors of Wil
cox and Coffee counties.
To prohibit camping or building fires
under bridges.
To amend the act incorporating the Bar
nard and Anderson Street Railway Com
pany.
SPECIAL ORDERS.
The bill to require voters to vote in their
own militia district was made the special
order for Monday.
The original bill, fixing the homestead at
seven hundred, and personalty at three
hundred dollars in specie, and the substitute
of the committee, fixing the homestead the
same as it was prior to the adoption ol
the Constitutio 1 in 1868, was made the
special order for Friday week.
SPARKS.
Col. W\ H. Sparks, author of “Memories
of Fifty Years,” will deliver a lecture on
Friday. Subject: “ Life and Times of Sar
gent Prentiss.”
GUANO ANALYSIS.
For the last two days an important arbi
tration has been progressing in the city be
tween the Patapsco Guano Company on one
part and the State University and the State
Agricultural Society on tho other part, on
account of an allegation by the company
that the aualysis of their fertilizer by Pro
fessor White, of the University, is incorrect.
The Committee of tho State Agricultural
Society, consisting of Messrs. Colquitt,
Lawton, Phillips, Adams, Black, Livingston
and Mobley, made up an opinion wlfich was
delivered to General Colquitt sealed, to be
announced to-morrow. The impression is
that White will be sustained.
TIIE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE.
Balloting for United States Senator.
ANOTHER OUTRANK ATTEMPTED BY
THE RADICALS).
Fraud ami Knavery Cropping Ont.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Tallahassee, January 26.
FIRST BALLOT FOR SENATOR.
The vote to-day for United States Senator
was evidently not intended to be serious.
Iu the Senate the vote was : For Wilk Call,
6; Henderson, 2; Bisbee, 5. The rest scat
tering. In the Assembly the voting was
pretty much after the same fashion.
TO-MORROW.
It is supposed that to-morrow matters will
crystalize a little, and the parties begin to
show their hands. At present matters re
main in a stato of uncertainty.
A FLANK MOVEMENT.
In the Senate to-day the Radicals at
tempted a flank movement to stave off the
action unseating Sturtevant. They offered
a resolution declaring the seat of McAulay,
Conservative, from the Hamilton and Su-
wanee District, vacant. The resolution was
made the special order for eleven o’clock to
morrow.
AN OUTRAGF.
The move is a most outrageous ono, but
in keeping with the illegal course of the
Radicals heretofore. McAulay was elected
in 1872, aud his right to his seat has never
been questioned before.
A Northerner on the Witness Stand.
—A Northern gentlemen who served ir
the Federal navy during the war, writes
to the New York Tribune denying Sheri
dan’s lies. He says “he was ordered to
to New Orleans in 1870, and judging b}
the reputation given to tho native resi
dents of that section by the Radical press
of the North, expected to be snubbed on
account of his buttons, and to receive the
cold shoulder because of his shonldei-
straps. On the contrary, he soon be
came intimately associated with many
men with whom but a few years before
he could have conversed only under a
flag of truce, and among these he to-day
counts many of his warmest friends.
Within a few months of his arrival, and
while still on duty as an officer, he was
elected a manager in two of the promi
nent benevolent organizations of New
Orleans, where several of his colaborers
were gentlemen whose names have been
very prominent in the opposition to the
Kellogg usurpation. In all of these re
lationships, as well as in his church con
nection in that city, ho has uniformly re
ceived the most cordial greeting, and has
as yet, failed to discover any signs of
‘ostracism.’ ”
A New Proposition from the Louisi
ana House Conservatives.—New Or
leans, January 23.—The Conservative
caucus adopted the following, which was
read to the Congressional Committee aud
accepted by the chairman to be taken
under consideration :
Resolved by this House caucus, com
posed of the Conservative members re
turned by the Returning Board, and
those claiming to have been elected. That
desiring in the interest of our afflicted
State to have a solution of our political
troubles, and relying on the integrity and
fairness of the four members of the Con
gressional Committee in New Orleans,
and in advance of an investigation on
their part, we, as a body, hereby agree,
if the task is not considered too onerous,
to take the returns of 1874, together with
all fair and reliant testimony, and upon
such returns and evidence to declare
what members of the Legislature were
fairly elected.
The spectators at a wedding in Eng
land the other day must have been sur
prised to see “the bride walk in on the
arm of her father,” a feat which is duly
recorded in a local paper.
■ill-..
Evening Telegrams. ! Midnight Telegrams.
FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
SUMMARY OF CONGRESSIONAL PRO
CEEDINGS.
Ben Butler Declares for a Third Term.
THE LOUISIANA DEBATE RESUMED
IN THE SENATE.
A LIVEI.Y MAR FRO.H MISSISSIPPI.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Washington, January 26.—In the House,
the various proposition for changing tbe
manner of electing President were ordered
printed.
The resolution paying the interest on the
District of Columbia debt in currency was
referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The bill giving citizens of acquired terri
tory by the United States citizenship passed.
This bill does not give Mexican citizens the
right to appear before the Mixed Com
mission.
The Judiciary Committee reported ad-
verse’y to forming a new State from r ortions
of Louisiana and Texas.
Cessna, of Pennsylvania, from the Ju
diciary Committee, reported adversely on
the bill for the relief of the Southern S’tates
by the compromise and settlement of their
debts. Laid oa the table.
The Judiciary Committee reported an
amendment to the Constitution fixing the
Presidential term at six years, and prohib
iting the re-eleciion of the President. A :
interesting debate ensued, in which Butler,
of Massachusetts, intimated his willingness
to support Grant for a third term as a ne
cessity to put down lawlessness in the
South, and in which E. It. Hoar, of Mass i-
ebusetts, and E. H. Roberta, of New York,
took strong ground against a third term,
the latter declaring that in the direction of
a dictatorship and a strong government lay
the murder of the Republic. The amend
ment was defeated for want of the neces
sary two-thirds majority. Yeas 134, nays 104.
In the Senate, Mr. Edmunds, of Vermont,
ntroduced a bill to provide for and regu
late the counting of votes for President and
Vice President. Referred to the Committee
on Privileges aud E'ections.
The following bills were passed :
Senate bill to facilitate the din-position of
cases in the Supreme Court of the United
States and for other purposes.
House bill to amend the twenty-third par
agraph of section three of the act to regu
late the fees and costs to be allowed clerks,
marshals and others of the Circuit and Dis
trict Courts of the United States, and for
other purposes, approved February 26th,
1853.
House bill to extend the provisions oT the
act approved March 3d, 1851, entitled ‘an
act to provide for the collection of debts
due from Southern railroads, and for other
purposes.”
House bill to provide for deducting any
debt due the United States trom any judg
ment recovered against the United States
by such debtor.
House bill relating to the punishment of
the crime of manslaughter.
Senate bill to chaugo the boundaries of
the Eastern and Western Judic‘al Districts
of tho State of Texas, and fix the times and
places of holding courts in the same, was
passed, but Mr. Hamilton, of Texas, entered
a motion to reconsider.
The Louisiana debate was then resumed,
and Mr. Pease, of Mississippi, concluded
his argument commenced yesterday. He
said outrages were daily committed in the
South. The American Senate and the
Americau people should become awakened
to the fact that the conutry was on the eve
of auother resolution more fatal iu its re
sults than the late rebellion. He argued that
crime was more frequent in the South
than in the North,and read from statistics to
show that such was the case. He deuied that
white men wore ever puuished in the South
for the murder of negroes. The same spirit
which pervaded the press of the South iu
1861 existed to-day. Ho know there was
a large element in the South which did not
subscribe to these wild doctrines. The old
Whig party did not subscribe to them, but
that party was powerless. The same old
Democrats who brought on the difficulty
before were the men who were the leading
editorial writers to-day—the men w 10 were
tiring the Southern heart, to murder and as
sassinate, aud overturn the Go\ernment of
the United States, if necessary. Iu every
case where the treasury of a Southern State
had been plundered it had been done by
Democrats. The members of that party
were in the scheme some way. Ho argued
that Mississippi was the best reconstructed
of the insurrectionary States, and every
dollar of the State debt could be paid in two
yeais. In conclusion, he called u ion the
Senator from Ohio (Thurman), as the leader
of the Democratic party, to say to the
Democrats in the South that outrages there
must be stopped.
Thurmau read from a speech dedivered by
him in the Senate January 18, 1871,where he
condemned anything like violence and asked
the people of the South to obey the laws.
He argued that a picture of the condition of
Southern society could not be drawn bv
rewspaper clippings. If they were to be
taken, a picture of the condition of North
ern so iety could be drawn which would
make any living man North of the Potomac
shudder.
Thurman will conclude his speech to
morrow.
THE WASHING TON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, January 20.—Probabilities :
During Wednesday in the South Atlantic
and Gulf States falling barometer, rising
temperature, easterly or southerly winds
and cloudy and rainy weainer will prevail,
but followed in the West Gulf States by ris
ing barometer, falling temperature, north
erly winds and clearing weather.
In Tennessee, tbe Ohio valley and upper
ake region, falling barometer, rising tem
perature, east or south winds, cloudy aud
raioy weather, except mostly as snow in the
last district, but followed during the after
noon or night by winds shifting to west or
north, rising barometer and clearing aud
colder weather.
In the upper Mississippi and lower Mis
souri valleys, and the Northwest, rising ba
rometer, winds shifting to west or north,
clear or clearing aud colder weather.
In tho Middle States and lower lake re
gion, falling barometer, rising temperature,
easterly or southerly winds, and generally
cloudy weather, accompanied by snow or
rain in the latter and Northern New York,
and followed by light rains in the former.
In New Eugland, higher barometer, lower
temperature, winds mostly from the north
or west, partly cloudy weather aud possibly
followed at night by snow.
NEW YORK NOTES.
New York, January 26.—The ice has dis
appeared, carrying can and spar buoys to
sea. Pilots use familiar objects on shore as
guides.
A new steamship line hence to Hull is or
ganizing.
The ice on East and North rivers is very
heavy. Several ferryboats were caught.
senator’s elected.
Providence, R. I., January 26.—Burnside
is elected Senator.
Trenton, N. J., January 26.—Randolph
is elected Senator.
Nashville, Tenn., January 26.—Andrew
Johnson is elected United States Senator.*
freight rates.
Chicago, January 26.—The freight fight
hence to New York is fiercer. Contracts
are 32 V against 40, the regular rate. Tue
tight is general and involves passenger rates
to outlets.
FROM CUBA.
New York. January 26.—A letter from
Havana says the small pox rages over the
wh<A islatid.
Tho patriots are hopeful of reaching the
sugar plantations, which they will burn.
DEAD.
Buffalo, January 26.—Gleasen Fiilraore,
a Methodist preacher, is dead, aged eighty-
five.
Death from a False Charge.—An in
quest was held on Friday in New York in
the case of John Merz, a German, who
died at Bellevue Hospital on January 1st
from erysipelas, following injuries re
ceived from an accidental fall in front of
a lager beer saloon on West Forty-seventh
street. A verdict of death from acci
dental injuries was rendered. When, on
the day of his fall. Merz appeared at the
police station, suffering from his hurts,
he made a charge against Henry Yoliin-
ger, the keeper of the saloon, of causing
his injuries by throwing him from the
saloon. Tbe charges affected Vollinger
so seriously that he became deranged,
refusing all food for ten days, and drink
ing so desperately tbat;he died a few days
ago. An inquest was held in his case on
Thursday, when it was shown that he
had not used any violence towards Merz.
The jury in his case returned a verdict
of death from physical exhaustion.
The Cincinnati Times announces a new
novel by Don Piatt: “ A Loan in the
Wide, Wide World.”
LOUISIANA IS WASHINGTON.
DISCORD m THE RADICAL CAUCUS.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL TO BE
FORCED TO A TOTE.
Affairs in Edgefield, Sooth Carolina.
civil rights.
Washington, January 26.—The Republi
can caucus resolved to instruct the Judicia
ry Committee of the House to report their
civil right* bill in order that there may be
three hours’ debate, during which time it
would be open io amendment. At the close
of the three hours the previous question
shall be moved, when a vote will be forced
if it takes a forty-eight hours’ session. It
is not known now when the bill will come up
in order.
the south Carolina banditti.
Charleston, January 26.—Judge T. J.
Mackey, Republican, who was sent by Gov.
Chamberlain to investiga'e the recent
troubles in Edgefield county, has made his
report, in which he lays the blame chiefly
upon the gross abuse > in the county govern
ment. He recommends the immediate dis
bandment aud disarming of the militia. It
is said Gov. Chamberlain will act upon this
recommendation.
imbortant to shippers.
Washington, January 26.—In a question
before the Supreme Court yi sterday it de
cided that iu a question of loss between a
shipper and an express company, the stipu
lation that the loss should be reported with
in sixtv days was a valid agreement, and
that after sixty days without process or no
tice the shipper has no good claim. In
giving this opinion. Judge Strong said sixty
days was a reasonable limitation.
THE LOUISIANA CASE.
Washington, January 26.—The Republi
can caucus of the House upon Louisiana
affairs was discordant. Many prominent
Republicans have left it, and there is no
prospect of a definite line of proceedings
that will control the party. Geueral Logan
thinks Pinchback will be seated.
Dublin, January 26—Rev. Dr. Patrick
Lehy, Homan Catholic Archbishop of Cashel,
is dead.
TORPEDO DEFENSES.
London, January 26.—The government
has adopted a system of torpedoes for the
defense of its colonial harbors.
carpenter.
Milwaukee, Wis., January 26.—Carpen
ter’s frieuds still claim his election sure.
JOHN BULL INSULTED.
Santander, January 26.—The Carlists
have tired on a British vessel.
Asbetos.—In the cabinet of natural
curiosities of Yale College there is a gar
ment which the fiercest heat cannot de
stroy. The color and general appearance
of tbe fabric is not unlike that of coarse
linen or to w < loth. This garment came
from the Sandwich Islands. The ma
terial of which it is made is found in the
crater of the volcano Manna Loa. It puffs
out of the volcanic mouth like wool, and
is gathered by the natives and woven into
cloth. We have seen the elder Silliman
take this garment in one of his college
lfctures upon geology and fling it upon
the fire of coals. In a few minutes it
would be changed to a white ashy color,
and cleansed of all impurities. It would
be washed by fire, so to speak, and after
being cooled was ready for use.
A Chicago Murder.—Chicago, Janua
ry 23.—A shocking murder was commit
ted to-night on West Madison street,
near Canal. Christopher Malone stabbed
James Kegan, inflicting wounds which
proved fatal in a few minutes. . It seems
that the murdered man had his pocket
book stolen and a friend of Malone was,
among others, arrested on suspicion of
being the thief. This evening Malone
and Kegan met at a saloon and got into
a quarrel over the matter, with the result
stated.
The Detroit Free Press keeps a boy
who is paid fifty dollars a week to do
nothing but sit on a chair and yell, “shut
the door ! ” People who come up stairs
on business are thus saved the pain of
hearing* seven or eight men yell out in
succession.
Mctc Artvcrtisiemrnts.
A. B. IVES,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
A NNOUNCES to the citizens of this city that,
to reduce the present stock to make room
for Spring Goods, he has reduced the prices of
CUSTOAf-MA DE CLOTHING, so that fine and
elegai.t Goods —artistically cut, substantially
made and trimmed—will lie within the reach of all.
French and English Cassimerc Pants, usually
made at sixteen, eighteen and twenty dollars, re
duced to ten, twelve and fourteen dollars. Other
garments iu proportion. Fit ana satisfaction
guaranteed, or no sale; and “ Cash on Delivery "
is the motto. Come and see for yourselves.
“ Acme Shirts ” to measure, as usual.
jan27-2w
FOR SALE,
O U EXCHANGE for City Property or Rail
road Stock, the place known as BLOOM-
DALE, at No. Central Railroad—about four
hundred acres. On the place there is an Orchard
of Fruit Trees of various kinds—some bearing.
The Dwelling contains eight rooms, with Kitchen
and Sforeroom attached, with other ont bouses,
all of which have been put up since the war.
About forty or fifty acres are under fence. The
place is healthy and very pleasantly located.
Persons desiring a home in the country would do
wt 11 to examine early, as this is a rare chance.
Together with the above, or separate, will be dis
used of, One Hundred and Fifty Acres, or up
wards, Immediately at the Station, opposite the
other. For information, apply to
I. M. MARSH,
Bryan street, opposite Monument Square.
jan27-W,F&M3t
Desirable Residence to Rent.
M IDDLE TENEMENT of Dade A Co.’s New
Block of Residences, on Gaston street, be
tween Lincoln and Abercorn—one of the most
desirable neighborhoods in the city. It contains
ill the modern improvements. Rent moderate.
Apply at comer of Charlton and Lincoln.
jan27-4t
WANTED,
A GOOD, SOBER PRINTER, who under
lie stai
1\. stands Job and Newspaper work. To such
a one a good situation is offer*.d on a paper in the
interior. Apply to
J. H. ESTILL,
jan27-tf 111 Bay street.
LEGAL NOTICE.
Moses Ferst et al., Complainants,
AND
George Von Seybold et al., Defendants,
}
I N THE SUPERIOR COURT, Chatham County.
Iu equity.
Whereas, it has been referred to me, by an or
der of the said Superior Court, to ascertain and
report the names of the Creditors o; the firm of
II Mayer * Co., defendants in the above entitled
cause, and the amounts and nature of their
claims, with authority to receive proofs for and
against such claims, etc.
Notice is hereby given to all persons iiaving
claims against the said firm of II. Mayer & Co.
to make proof of the same before me, at my of
fice, No. 9 Kelly’s Building, Bav street, Savan
nah, Georgia, bv the FI Its l’ DAY OF MARCH
NEXT. 1 will be found at my said office, for the
purpose aforesaid, every day during the time
atoreeaid (except Sundays) between the hours of
10 a. m. and 2 p. m.
C. D. C. RtllXD,
jan27-6tfebS,15,22,mbl Master in Chancery.
MURltAT’S LINE.
FOR NEW YORK
EVERY TUESDAY.
THE FIRST-CLASS STEAMSHIP
LEO,
Captain DANItLS,
W ILL sail for the above port on TUES
DAY’, February 2, 1S75, at 4 o’clock P. M.
Through bills lading furnished on Cotton des
tined for Liverpool, Hamburg, Glasgow, Antwerp,
Christiana, Rotterdam, &c., Ac., by first-class
steamships.
For freight or passage, apply to
HUNTER A GAMMELL,
jan27 84 Bay Street.
BALTIMORE AND SAVANNAH STEAMSHIP
COMPANY.
Keep Aliyb Ustil 1880.—Mr. E.Wood
ruff, of Grand Kapids, Michigan, has
published a pamphlet in which he
says information has been communi
cated to him in a vision of great
physical changes to take place on
the earth fifteen years hence. He
declares that during twenty-one days,
commencing January 16, 1880, a new
planet will be formed from a belt of mat
ter thrown off from the sun, and a new
moon from a belt of matter now sur
rounding the earth, and that our present
moon will be pushed farther off. That
the earth’s atmosphere will be purified by
the change, and that sickness from nat
ural causes will thenceforth be unknown.
The chances are that all of us who can
manage to prolong our existence until
1880 will be in a position to live forever.
*1
FOR BALTIMORE
Cabin Pasrace BI5.
THE FIRST-CLASS STEAMSHIP
AMERICA,
G. W. BILLUPS. Commander,
W ILL sail for Baltimore on SATURDAY,
January 30th, 1875, at 2 o’clock P. M.
Through bills lading signed for Cotton destined
for Liverpool and Bremen, by first class steamships
sailing from Baltimore.
For freight applylo
jan2‘
AS. B. WEST A CO.,
ISO Bay Street.
Wrapping: Paper.
SAT.lc, OLD NEWSPAPERS, SUITABLE
• wrappin* paper, at Fifty Cents par hao-
tjHW SALE, <
(k for wrapt
J
Urjr toads.
LATH KOP a CO.
ARE NOW OFFERING INDUCEMENTS IN
Winter Dress Goods, Shawls, Flannels & Blankets,
TO CLOSE OUT THE REMAINDER OF THEIR WINTER STOCK.
W E have received to day a full line of BLEACHED SHIRTINGS and SHEETINGS, cheaper than
offered since the war.
Our 4-4 Bleached at 10c. and 12^c. cannot be surpassed; we invite special attention to them; also, our
SHEETINGS—particularly our 96 in Twilled.
We have in store a full assortment of Ladies' and Gents’ KID GLO\ ES, from »5c. to $2 25.
A fine variety of Windsor and other styles of 1 adies’ TIES and SCARFS.
BLACK SILK A SPECIALTY
A fresh arrival of those superior GOLD-EDGED BLACK SILKS, which we recommend so highly,
and which have given snch general satisfaction. jan22-ti
CHAPLUf & NEIDLINGER
Dealers in Dry Goods,
153 CONGRESS STREET,
A RE AL WAY’S READY’ TO CLOSE OUT THEIR STOCK OF DRY* HOODS, and more especially
as the season for fall and winter goods will soon be over, would call ihe atteution of purchasers
o their stock of
DRESS GOODS,
WHICH THEY’ ARE OFFERING AT PRICES TO COMMEND THEM TO ALL IN WANT
Black and Colored Delaines, Black Bombazine, Black and Colored Alpacas, Diagonals, Cashmeres,
Merino, Black and Colored Silks ; Ladies’, Men s. Misses' and Boys' Merino Vest*, aud White and
Striped Cotton Hose; Mens’ and Boys’ English half Ilose; Ladies' aud Gents’ Silk Ties and Cra
vat- ; Kid, Silk, Berlin and Doeskin Gloves and Gauntlet*; Blankets, Quilts, Table Damask, Nap-
b i no I in. f* i' I'lAf hil .Tuana T 1 ,, >i»olo .1 ♦.ill 1 ’.tivuta fi^.m
kins. Doilies, Ac. Cloths, Cassimeres, Jeans. Tweeds, and a lull assortment of Corsets from T5c
to $2 50. Velveteens in Black, Brown, Blue, Green, Drab and Rose, aud all goods usually kept by
the trade. janl9-tf
DRV e«ODS-VOTICE !
DeWITT, MORGAN & CO.
— OF F E R —
2 K Dozen Ladies Opera Color KID GLOVES, at $1 00.
D FRENC ‘
FRENCH CORSETS, at 75c, $1 CO, *l 25.
50 dozen Ladies’ LINEN COLLARS, just opened.
25 Pieces WHITE TARLATANS.
30 Boxes NECK RUFFLING.
40 Pieces BLACK ALPACA, at 25c, 50, and 75c.
BLACK SILKS, very cheap.
COLORED SILKS, very cheap.
• INITIAL HANDKERCHIEFS, at cost.
Fine DRESS GOODS, great bargains
janlS-tf
DeWITT, MORGAN A CO., Congress St.
Dixon’s Annual Clearance Sale!
FOR, 30 DAYS ONLY".
Great Bargains in all Classes of Goods !
Dress Goods Reduced. Shawls Reduced.
Calicoes Reduced. Flannels and Domestic Goods Reduced.
Call at the store and get a published PRICE LIST of leading bargains.
John Y. Dixon, corner Broughton and Bull streets.
janll-tf
.flour TfttiUs.
FOREST CITY FLOUR MILLS
—AND—
GRAIN WAREHOUSE,
Congress Street, Corner of Montgomery,
M ANUFACTURERS of all grades of FLOUR; also, GRIST and MEAL, and have for sale the
offal, Bran, Shorts, Ac., together with CORN, IIAY’, OATS, and GROUND FOOD, in quantities
to suit, at Wholesale and Retail, and at the very lowest market rates.
CORN.—Average stock bushels 20,000
FJLiOUR.—Average stock barrels 1,000
SsT Cash country orders solicited.
Office 95 Bay Street and at the Mill.
S. G. HAY'NES & BRO., Proprietors.
mhl0-dl2m
(flotUintj. &(.
BARGAINS.
CXOTHXAfC}! CLOTHING!!
LILIENTHAL & K0HN
Are now offering their entire stock, consisting of Men’s, Youths’ and Boys’
WEARING APPAREL,
AT GKEATLY KEI>L T CEI> PRICES.
A Complete Line of Childrens’ Clothing, at Cost,
AT THE
Emporium of Fashion, 161 Congress St
goot$ and £hoc$.
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, Set.
GIFFORD A GIBSON,
141 Congress Street,
K EEP a foil and well selected stock from the Best Factories of New York, Philadelphia and
Baltimore, of
LADIES' BUTTON BOOTS. LADIES’ LACED BOOTS,
LADIES’ CABLE SEWED BOOTS,
MISSES’ AND CHILDREN'S BUTTON BOOTS.
MISSES' AND CHILDREN S LACED BOOTS,
MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S CABLE SEWED SHOES.
GENTLEMEN’S AND BOYS’ BOOTS AND SHOES of all kinQe, which they are selling low
for the CASH. jan9-tf
Clothing.
Refreshments.
The New Departure J.m.iiexdersox
CL O. I>. Custom House Shades.
By This Sign We Conquer.
I This well known Saloon (on Bay lane) has been
handsomely refitted aud improved, and the
HEIDT, JACD0N & CO.,
occasion will be marked by a
One of the Oldest Clothing
Houses in Savannah,
Reduction iu the Prices of
Refreshments.
R ESPECTFULLY’ announce to their large cir
cle of Friends and Patrons, that from and
after this date they will adopt the “Cash System,”
and sell for cash. Their prices will conform to
this change, and will be found lower than any
house in the city.
They now offer unparalleled inducements to
cash buyers. janl lm
T \\ ILL be pleased to see my friends and the
[ 1 public generally, and assure all that the scale
• of prices I have adopted to meet the stringency of
j the times will give entire satisfac.ion.
Potator$.
PRICES REDUCED!
LIQUORS SAME!
Lunch daily from 11 a. m. to 1 p. m.
jan23-lw J. M. HENDERSON.
Seed Potatoes.
Removals.
OOO Barrels Early Rose,
lOO Barrels Early Goodrich,
50 Barrels Chili Red,
Removal.
For sale b;
jan21-6t
ALEXANDER & RUSSELL,
I HAVE removed to my stores, NO. 196 and 19S
BAY* STREET adjoining Haywood's Ic*»
House, where I am in daily receipt of heavy con
signments of Western Produce, such as
GRAIN, FLOUR,
Wholesale Grocers.
3fiay, &t.
Hay and Bricks.
300
BAIES PRIME EASTERN HAY’.
30,000 EASTERN- HARD BRICK, suitable for
Taving.
Landing from schooner M. Kinney, from Wis-
cassett, Maine, and for sale by
dcc!9-tf WILDER * CO.
—ON HAND—
1 car load extra HEAVY’ MESS BEEF
, 100 boxes CANDLES.
I 200 boxes SOAP.
; 500 bbl.*. FLOUR.
i 50 tnbs choice New Y’ork State BUTTER
10 bbls. New Haven PIG HAMS.
Ali for sale low to the trade
dec29-tf M. H. WILLIAMS.
O. A. ROWELL.
B. A. DENMARK.
Wanted.
HOWELL & DENMARK,
Attorneys at Law,
WANTED,
D RY HIDES AND DEER SKINS. Cash paid
lor Hides, sixteen and a half cents; and for
Deer Skins, forty-two cents per pound.
M. Y. HENDERSON.
jan25-3t ISO Bay street.
office to the Southeast
— ~ ouicc lu tue ooutaeaat
T— con lf r .Pf. B, 3 rai1 au d Whitaker streets, in
i the new bnildmg, upstairs
jan4-M,WAF lm
HEIRS WANTED.
T ier AS LANDS—All persons who lost relatives
in the Texas revolution of 1S36, will hear ol
something to their advantage by communicating
with CARLOS RODREQUES, care of this office
Savannah. Ga. octimf
Rent.
for rent,
T HE \V ESTERN FLOOR of City Exchange,
lately occupied by H. Mayer <fc Co. Apply
to JOHN K. JOHNSON.
dec25-tf
City Treasurer.
CUSTOMERS
O F the POPLAR GROVE DAIRY' desiring
MUk delivered at their door a ill please send
name and residence to the Depot, corner of Y'ork
street lane and Abercorn street. jan23 Gt
FOR RENT,
The Rice Plantation known as
New Hope,
On the Ogeechee River.
dec7-tf K. HABERSHAM’S SON A CO.
Amusimrats
RACES! RAC®:
ftJL
Annual
Meeting i
or the " |
Savannah Jockey (i„|J
February 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ] v .
FIRST DAY—First Race—Hurdle iw. I
miles, over eight hurdles. Second Ha- •’ y,:*v|
nah Cup; two miles; dosed with -
Third hace—Mile heats. ‘ x
SECON D DAY’— First Race—Tenbn ,, T i-. L
tna miln . /.lnozwt
one mile; closed with nine entri.-* 2^1
Race—Two mile heats. Third Race— ^
dash. - " #e I
THIRD DAY'—First Race—Handicap Sr I
one and a quarter miles; ckued with
tries. Second ltacc—Bonaventure stake
heats; closed with five entries. Third
Selling Race; one mile; purse tw.
dollars.
FOURTH DAY’ — First Race—Dash of. I
miles. Second Race—Three mile heats V'l
Race—Lamar Stake; mile heats; i-i'l,. ^
eight entries.
FIFTH DAY—First Race—Hurdle Hams
two miles, over eight hnrdles. Second
Free Handicap ; mile heat*, three in fiw J'
Race—Consolation Purse ; mile heat*. ; ’
Quarter stretch badges for the week, {in
ter stretch tickets tor the day, f?,; to Ik* haliS*
M. A. Cohen, Treasurer, 93 Bay street ■
the Track.
r m „ G- S. OWENS, Pr«>j,w j
J. T. McFarland, Secretarv.
J. T. McFarland, Secretary.
Returning tickets will t> e issued
several raiioads during the week. in^'l
SAVANNAH THEATRE
CHARLES B. FURBISH
• Mr,
T HURSDA Y, FRI DA Y\ SATI’RDAY, ,W
28, 29 30; also Saturday Matins. ■ j
Furbish** Fifth Avenue Theatre < un^ I
lion.
THURSDAY NIGHT—The great?..
DIVORCE.
FRIDAY NIGHT—Augustin Daly's adapto,!
of Dumas’ Parisian sure-ss. Mi »NS. ALP I low I
SATTRDA Y A FTERNOON—Comm.-n,
-ommeucisfl
2 o’clock—the startling Comedy, iu tour
ALIXE. ■
SATURDAY” NIGHT—The Parisian n.
ARTICLE 47.
The above plays will he presented with
attention to dress and detail that has chamJ
ized past efforts, and accorded to them - j
doreement of both press aud public. 1
Admission—$1, 75c, 50c. Reserved seal - £ J
Box sheet for each and every perform an ql
open Tuesday morning, 11 o'clock, at Schr*
Music Store. ■
Note—Since the above Combination wau
last year they have purchased an entire n**w^ I
robe, each lady making from four to six r-jZ I
during the evening, thus giving the lady pn^l
an opportunity to sec the latest styles ai . : *,|
latest styles and
now worn in New Y’ork city. janaj'i
Savannah Theatre!
DIRECTOR JOHN E. 0W]gJ
FOR THREE NIGHTS (>M\ |
The most Scholarly and Artistic Actiess kn r|
to the American Stag**, 1
Mrs. D. i*. Bowers!
Supported by the entire Company from
JOHN E. OWENS’ THEATRE, New Orlec.l
Admission—$1; Second Circle, 75cents;GaiW
50 cents.
rs*“The snle*fcf Reserved Seats, without era!
charge will begin on Friday, January 22, at 11' I
Schreiner’s.
MONDAY EVENING, JAN. 25,
LADY AUDLEY’S SECKET.I
TUESDAY EVENING, JAN. 26,
Camille; or, The Fate of the Coqnettd
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN. 27,
SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.
jTnlS-9t
Savannah Quintette llull
PliOF. HERMAN BRACT,
Solo Violinist of the Mozart Club,
H AS formed the above Clnb, and will fnua I
Music for ]
CONCERTS, ENTERTAINMENTS, £
Orders left at Schreiner’s Music Store nUY
promptly attended to. jut-la
iSrocrries and ^roristoii',.
HOLIDATl
OOOB§!
R
AISINS.
CURRANTS,
CITRON,
MINCE MEAT.
FIGS and DATES;
FIRE CRACKERS,
CANNON CRACKERS,
ROMAN CANDLES.
SKY-ROCKETS and
TORPEDOES, at
BRANCH & COOPERS.
140 Dion "lit on Street,
dec9-Wif Comer of Wliiala
4 PRfinSi
^ ^OCERiES&-CA^f D ^
savannah.G"'-
N. B.—Alive and Dressed Poultry, Fresh ft! 1 1
Roll Butter, ana Country Produce ”|
ceived dally. jan 1 9-M,W*Sr*u a
THE RED GROCER!!
22 Barnard Street,
In offering the following indue ewe* 1
UTTER, choice article, at 40 and 45 cents*
RIO COFFEE, Prime Roasted, at 30 cents.
SUGAR, Light Brown, at 10 cent*.
FINE TEAS, Black. Green or Mixed, fron
cents rip.
-ALSO-
CANNED FRUITS, PRESERVES, 4<~
—AND—
SUITABLE ARTICLES for the German T:
F. RUSS!
All packages to any part of the city
free of charge.
janu
On Consignment*
100
BBLS. EARLY ROSE POTATOg?* ,
200 bbls. EARLY GOODRICH Wl*
TOES.
150 bbls. Chili RED POTATOES.
100 bbls, PEACH BLOW POTATOES
50 bbls. RED ONIONS.
10 bbls. NUTS, “assorted."
5 frails NEW DATES. rp I
25 bbls. and half bbls. SWEET CIDfcK-
10 bbls. choice CIDER VINEGAR.
And for sale by ]
L.T. WHITCOMB’S SON, A? t-
Wholesale Dealer in Foreign and Domestic Fn^ I
Nuts, Vegetables, Hay, Grain, Feed, «tc. ■
Agent for Rogers'Dare Cider and Cider'
janl6-tf
141 BAY STREET'
Savannah^
^ESTABLISHED I85G.
GEO. G. WILSON
So. 190 Coigreas and 185 St. Jolla" *“•
Groceries, Wines and L*i«iu ors ’ |
AND PLANTERS' SUPPLIES GENE RAlJ ' 1 '
Which I will sell low for cash or good a
/CONSIGNMENTS of Cotton and Country 1
V7 duce solicited, to which I will gi ye m ' tl
sonal attention, and satisfaction
Parties shipping small lots ol Cotton
to their advantage by shipping me,, as
charges will be small,” and remittance
goods, as may be directed, made 1
sepl-tf
AN >R the 8AVANNAH BAN
Check Boo
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