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Ihc fgoraiiui purs 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 • ■nG i i *i~ff i m i afti kv - •'