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0ne 0 f the pastimes of legislation seems
be to dally with the code.
i» a freshet in the Altamaha, and
from three to five miles
to
There
the stream is
ride in some places
A flat car
ran off the track on the
Jlacon
au<l Western Railroad the other
night, causmj
■ delay to a freight train.
Gen. Lee's birthday was celebrated in
Ilincsville with appropriate ceremonies.
p H. Richardson has taken charge
of* the city department of the Columbus
Times-
Mr. Marion J. Jenkins, of Lumpkin, is
dead.
The Atlanta Constitution of t nday an
nounces the death of Mr. Oliver H.
prince, a well known citizen of this
State, who died at Decatur, about one
o clock on Friday morning. Mr. Prince
was celebrated throughout Georgia for
■ xtensive information and great gene-
tv He was honored and loved by a
lartie circle of friends and relatives. He
moved to Atlanta recently in feeble
health, hoping to be benefited by the
cnange. and subsequently located at De
catur. Ills death was very sudden. He
leaves a family, to whom we tender our
deepest sympathies. Their loss is indeed
a ( , rea t one, but they have many who
mourn with them. The remains were
taken to Athens for interment.
Augusta Constitutionalist of Tuesday:
Christina Spears, the young woman
charged with killing her newly born
infant, and throwing it m a ditch on
Mr. Hookey’s place, near this city, by
the jury at tl© inquest held last Satur
day. will have a preliminary hearing to
day at twelve o’clock, at the City Hall,
justices Smythe, Picquet and Habersham
will sit as a court of jury. We learn
that the {irl, who is not more
than seventeOi years of age, was suffer
ing in grea; pain Sunday, no doubt
partly, if nd wholly, caused by being
placed in a cold cell in damp
weather, wiihout any of the comforts
actually neeifed by a woman in her con
dition. Thi? was imprudent, to say the
least, on the part of the officers of the
law. and it nay even now be too late to
remedy the effects of this treatment.
Notwithstanding the fact that she is
charged witj so great a crime, there was
no probabiliy of an escape on her part If
she had beet placed in more comfortable
quarters, aid received the attention
needed uinkr the circumstances. The
city hospitahwould have been the proper
place for herto be sent to.
Thomasvi e Enterprise: Several color
ed people engaged in a desperate affray*
on the Lintm plantation, near the
Florida line, in this county, on Friday
last, during rhich two or three women
and two or hree men were so severely
cut and shot that several of them at last
accounts wee expected to die. Ben
Cary, a stot mulatto, seems to have
been the iause of the difficulty,
he having fn a half drunken con
dition, attempted, and perhaps suc
ceeded, in committing the crime
of rape upti the person of a young
colored girl. The facts elicited are scant,
but it is repeted that Cary was probably
attacked, wHle engaged in the commis
sion of the irime, by relatives or friends
of the girljagainst whom he defended
himself witlglesperate energy, wounding
terribly, witla knife, at least two men and
two or three vomen. Cary was himself
desperately tabbed with a knife or
bavonetjm several places,andjshot severely
in the right moulder with small shot. He
was arrested <n the spot, and underwent
a preliminarytrial on Saturday, before a
District Magitrate, and sent to prison in
this citvou tie same day. He refused to
give anr nccomtr of the affray, stating
that he was drmk and knew nothing about
it, and the cmstable who brought him
here unknown to our informant) also de
clined a statenBnt of the facts.
Grant’s Maivelous Military Quari-
ties.—The Triune, in speaking of Gen.
Grant while iucommand at Cairo, says
that ‘'thus obtuning seniority of rank,
this General so»n had the opportunity of
displaying tluse marvelous qualities
which subseqiently placed him at the
head of all the amies of the Union, and
still increasing iis reputation, and hold
ing his power aid the prestige, uutil he
struck the last tnal blow* at the rebellion
in the very heait of that great common
wealth which lad given it its greatest
strength. ’’ Let us see. Those “marve
lous qualities” vere displayed in getting
threshed at Belnont: in permitting the
Confederates to escape from Fort Henry
after Admiral loote had captured it; in
being supremely astounded by the totally
unexpected—by him—surrender of Fort.
Donelsou: in getting knocked to pieces
at Shiloh: in being, a little later, most
signally all ‘thawed up” on his over
laud march to Vicksburg, in the fall of
I s ’’-- whereby our forces were almost an
nihilated at CLickasaw bayou; and, lastly,
his capture of Vicksburg, after spending
twenty times as many lives and ten times
as much time as were really required for
the operation. These were a few of the
‘‘marvelous qualities” which had the
happy effect of “subsequently placing
him at the-head of the armies of the
1 uion.” It nay be added that, if it had
not been for Sherman’s conception and
execution of his march to the sea from
Atlanta, Grait’s “ marvelous qualities,”
at the present moment, would locate
him somewhere about Richmond, in the
a L*t of ordering the last ten able-bodied
males left in the Northern States against
impreguaole position occupied by the
h^t two able-bodied males left alive in the
States of the South.—Chicago Times.
Means to Get Rich.—Ten or twelve
* ears ago there was a miner in the upper
levels of the Comstock at $4 per day.
he lived in a little cabin down the can
yon. did his own cooking, and whistled
softly, “There’s a Good Time Coming,
"°y- s - To-day that miner walks about
fhe streets of Virginia City as cordial as
lu th© old dayp; he dresses no better than
an -v ordinary‘gentleman of Virginia, and
ojt-s no better food than a conscientious
£oitor ought to have. And yet, as his
fortune is rated in the stock list daily, he
f s so rich that, were his stocks turned
mto money, he could lend Scott that
^‘0,000,000 he wants, and have enough
lef tto live comfortably upon. He could,
unaided, go down and open, at his own
expense, the Darien canal; or should his
fancy mu that way, he could advertise
Jo morrow that the'government, through
mm. had determined to resume imme
diately specie payment, and pretty nearly
uiakfc the promise good. Ho could endow 1
a college in each State of the Union with
£-,000,000 each, or could build a double-
hack narrow-gauge railroad from San
iruncisco to New York, and solve at once
problem of cheap transportation,
luere is no telling, indeed, what he
might do; but what he will do is appa
rent enough. He was here when thirty
feet of ore near the surface was a big
f T Ue ' A; 1 » 50 ° feet he has fouI T d u
mve or four times as wide. He believes
ai 4,()oo he will f-trike it 500 feet wide,
fa ud get rich, and he is going for it—P»r-
yinta Enterprise,
J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
BY TELEGRAPH
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE RADICAL PROGRAMME.
The Parly to be JSaved at the Expense of
the Country.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.
BUTLER STILL ATTEMPTING TO
PUSH THE MEASURE.
THE DEMOCRATS FILIBUSTERING
A Chance to Stave off Final Action.
CIVIL RIGHTS.
Washington, January 27.—The House
caucus resolved to instruct the Judiciary
Committee to report the civil rights bill in
regular order. This takes the control from
Butler, and staves action off for two weeks.
The best parliamentarians say there is ma
chinery to push it over to the 4th of March.
In the House, Mr. Butler, of Massachu-
chusetts, as a question of privilege, called
up the motion made by him at the last ses
sion to reconsider the vote by which the
civil rights bill was referred to the Judiciary
Committee. A point of order was raised,
but the Speaker decided, on the authority
.of that day’s journal of proceedings, that
the right existed, and thereupon the Dem
ocrats fell back upon the policy of filibuster
ing, and the House is now engaged in that
business.
THE CARLISTS.
Madrid, January 27.—Prince Di Revero
commands the Second Corps of the Army of
the North. It is reported that many Car-
lists are surrendering; that Don Carlos has
shot several officers ior treason, and that a
great battle is expected near Peratta.
carpenter’s chances.
Milwaukee, Wis., January 27.—The pro
posed compromise between the supporters
of Carpenter and the bolters has failed.
Statistics of Cigars and Tobacco.—
From the advance sheets of the yearly
official report of the tobacco trade the
following statistics are gathered. The
report is for the fiscal year ending June
.‘10, 1874. There was exported from the
United States, of native leaf tobacco,
1118,007,804 pounds, amounting in value
to $30,399,181. During the same time
there was imported into the United States,
and entered for consumption, 9,213,800
pounds of leaf tobacco, for use in the
manufacture of cigars, and 85,690 pounds
of stemmed or prepared tobacco, amount
ing together in value to $5,332,548.41.
During the same time there were im
ported into the United States and entered
for consumption, 845,774 pounds of ci
gars, or, at an average of eleven pounds
to a thousand, 75,888, (XX) cigars, amount
ing in value to $3,030,628.79. There
were manufactured in the United States
of foreign and domestic tobacco, and tax
paid, 1,780,961,000 cigars. Allowing
thirty pounds of tobacco for every 1,000
cigars manufactured, there was used
53,428,830 pounds of foreign and domes
tic leaf tobacco in the manufacture of
cigars in the United States. The com
parison shows there were 23,000,000
domestic cigars manufactured in the
United States, and the tax thereon paid,
for every cigar that was imported and
paid duty during the same time. A closer
scrutiny reveals the astounding fact that
the average number of cigars smoked in
the United States during each twenty-
four hours is 5,168,000. The total amount
of import duties on tobacco paid in gold
was $6,150,060.41; total amount of taxes
paid in currency $33,874.92 ; grand total
$39,392,936.03.
Constitutional Monarchy. — The
Farmville Mercury does not wish to see
constitutional monarchies compared with
such a despotism as exists in this coun
try. It says:
“There are constitutional monarchies
in England, Belgium, Holland and Scan
dinavia, even if we omit to classify as
such Germany and Italy. In England
the sovereign has no control of the army
and navy, nor of any branch of the pub
lic service. In Belgium and Holland the
functions of the Crown are rigidly limited.
In Norway the King has not even the
power of veto. In Denmark and Swe
den royalty is only the figure-head of the
State. This model republic has become
a bureaucracy, very similar in its actual
work ng to the French kingdom under
Louis Phillippe. How long it will last it
is hard to say, but that the dark shadow
of a great despotism is creeping over the
land is apparent to the most superficial
observer. Already there are governing
classes who seem to think they have a
divine right to power, and the whole sys
tem of national legislation tends to the
concentration of authority first in bu
reaus, and then in the select circles of
those who made the bureaus. The sys
tem, built upon enfranchised ignorance
and selfish lust for power, is admirably
adapting jtself to the requirements of the
first Ciesar who may arise. Perhaps it is
not so much Grant as his successors years
hence, who is to be dreaded.”
[Telegram to the Baltimore Sun.]
Washington, January 24.—The cau
cus of the Republican members of the
House last night was more slimly
attended than on Friday night, and in
view of the dissensions among the mem
bers and the lack of anything like unan
imity, it is not at all surprising that the
members want to keep everything as
quiet as possible. In fact, the proceed
ings of last night, as well as of Friday
i night, were indicative of complete de
moralization. As soon as the caucus was
called to order Mr. White, of Alabama,
offered his bill to
AMEND THE ENFORCEMENT ACT.
It provides among other things for the
appointment by United States Circuit
J udges of supervisors of election in all of
the election precincts of the South, the
said supervisors to be compensated by
the United States. The penalties for in
terference in elections are very stringent.
The caucus was not unanimous on this
bill, but it was agreed that Mr. White
should, however, be authorized to report
it. A resolution was then offered to en
deavor to so amend the rules as to pre
vent more than one dilatory motion upon
any question. This is one of Gen. But
ler’s schemes. The caucus would not
agree that either of the above measures
should be reported until after they had
adopted a resolution declaring that the
action of the caucus was not to be consid
ered binding upon any individual member.
So that practically the action of the cau
cus amounts to nothing. Mr. Hurlburt, of
Illinois,made a very inflammatory speech,
in the course of which he denounced the
white people of Alabama and Mississippi,
and intimated that the committee sent to
New Orleans had not performed its duty.
He also advocated the use of troops at all
points in the South, the said use to be
discretionary with the President. Gen.
Butler indorsed all that Mr. Hurlbut said,
and added that nothing could be done in
the House until the rules were amended
as indicated by the resolution given
above. At the same time he insisted that
there should be some action on the civil
rights bill, and urged the Republicans to
help him to get it up.
BUTLER SET BACK A LITTLE.
It may be stated in this connection that
General Butler made a like speech at the
Friday night caucus, when Mr. J. Ambler
Smith, of Virginia, opposed all he said
with reference to the civil rights bill, and
said if that bill were forced upon the peo
ple and the Administration continued to
use troops in the South, that a year hence
the number of native white Republicans
in the South could be counted on the
fingers and toes of members. Butler sub
sequently went to Mr. Smith, privately,
and said if he would rally his friends and
assist in putting through his dilatory-mo
tion resolution, that he would not press
the civil rights bill except in a very modi
fied form. Mr. Smith replied by entering
a further protest against the use of mili
tary in the South.
Mr. Foster, of Ohio, replied to the re
marks of Mr. Hurlbut, and while defend
ing the action of the New Orleans sub
committee, he too entered a solemn
protest against the further employment
of troops.
The vote on Mr. White’s bill last night
was very scattering, and the indications
are that there will be nothing like
unanimity when either of the above ques
tions come up in the House. It is ex
pected that there will be a good deal of
dodging on all the questions, but the
MODERATE REPUBLICANS,
like Messrs. Smith and Thomas, of Vir
ginia; Lowndes, of Maryland; Foster, of
Ohio: Phelps, of New Jersey, and even Mr.
Buffington, of Massachusetts, will vote
solidly against the extreme measures pro
posed by the extreme Republicans.
There is no prospect that the new rule
proposed by Mr. Butler can be adopted.
It is conceded on all sides that the more
liberal Republicans have gained strength
since last session.
The Republican Senators held another
caucus of several hours’ duration yester
day, when the old talk as to the best
means of saving the party was resumed.
The affairs of the South, Louisiana,
Pinchback, the admiesion of Colorado
and New Mexico, and internal improve
ments were all gone over. The Hon.
Zachariah Chandler, who has returned
from his unsuccessful contest in Michi
gan, was present, but his counsel did not
seem to help matters, and the caucus ad
journed without coming to a definite con
clusion on anything. Mr. Chandler was
asked how he came to allow himself to
be beaten. He said the other man was
one too many for him.
Imperial Marrying and Dying.—The
Emperor of China, who died on the 12th,
was the successor of Hien-Fong, the last
Emperor, who died in the year 1861.
The present Emperor was then scarcely
five years old. In 1872 he was married.
The youth of the bridegroom was not
more remarkable than the process by
which imperial marriages are accomplish
ed in China. In Europe sovereigns seek
for partners of equal rank in other na
tions. In China the custom from time
immemorial has been to choose a consort
from some respectable family of the offi
cial class. Lists are made of the
daughters of officials, and the young
ladies have to appear before a committee
of choice, which, in this case, consisted
of the two dowager empresses, members
of the imperial council, household, Ac.
Sometimes there are several trials before
the committee is satisfied. The success
ful candidate in 1871 was a young Mon
golian lady, named Alute, while at the
same time three other ladies, one of them
an aunt of Alute, were chosen as first,
second and third wivesjof the Emperor.
The marriage is said to have cost about
twenty millions of dollars, but as pecula
tions are as enormous among officials in
China as in this country, the employes of
various kinds on this occasion no doubt
absorbed enough to account in some
measure for the amazing expense.
The body of Mary Seckel, aged twenty-
four years, was disinterred at Philadel
phia Saturday, on suspicion of malprac
tice, and a man and a woman, supposed to
be implicated, were held in custody. A
post mortem resulted in showing that the
young woman died of pleuro-pneumonia,
and the arrested parties were discharged.
The Governor of Michigan says that
the $150,000,000 worth of railroad prop
erty held by the people of that State is
making hardly any return to its owners.
And now it is thought Baker, the young
colored naval Cadet who is reported to
have dropped astern in his studies, will
be dropped from the rolls of the academy.
Five men were arrested in Dayton, O.,
the other day for playing poker. Schenck
lives in Dayton when he is at home. Here
let us pause.
A hollow roller, heated from the inside,
is a French invention for keeping the
streets of Paris free from snow.
Grant and his bayonets will probably
be “fixed” when a Democratic CongTess
gets at them.
It is stated that 3,000 head of horses
and 1,000 oxen are likely to starve this
winter in the grasshopper region of Ne
braska.
The people of Thibet salute each other
by putting out their tongues and scratch-
ing the left ear.
Sixty heads were lopped off in the Phil
adelphia Custom House on Saturday.
A Strong Arraignment.
[Rochester (N. Y.) Union and Advertiser.)
Jeff. Davis’ secession, rebellion, and
war with the Government of the United
States were all based upon a principle of
civil government. Sheridan's action and
proposed action at New Orleans and at
Vicksburg are based upon a principle of
military despotism .which destroys and
precludes the idea of the existence of
civil government. Jeff. Davis contended
for the sovereignity of the State in the
powers it had delegated to the United
States as well as in the powers it had re
tained. Sheridan contends not merely
that the Stute is not sovereign in its re
tained powers, but that even the dele
gated powers of the United States,
and the laws enacted under them, as
declared by the Supreme Court of the
U nited States, arc of no account in a
State as against the will or order of the
Satrap who may for the time being be in
Federal military command, and who may
have a force of Federal bayonets to carry
out his despotic decrees. Jeff. Davis &
Co., although they claimed the right to
secede in peace from the Union, and
fought to the bitter end in support of
their claim, never for a moment tolerated
the thought of setting up bayonet rule,
but framed and would have established,
had they succeeded, a Republican
government modeled after that of
the United States. Sheridan <fc Co.,
while wearing the livery and in the
service of the Government of the United
States, trample its Constitution and laws
under foot, make the bayonet the supreme
power, and sit upon the drum-head as
arbiters of the rights of States, of the
rights of State and even county officers,
tnd of the fate of individual citizens.
Drawing his inspiration, as he notoriously
does, from tightly-corked sources, he
proclaims:
“If the President would issue a
proclamation declaring them banditti,
no further action need be taken except
that which will devolve upon me?"
And the Secretary of his
chief responds: “The President and
all of us have full confidence and
thoroughly approve your course. ” Say of
Jeff. Davis what you please—paint him
as black as he can be painted with color
of what he has done, and we defy any
one to put his finger upon anything he
ever did, or anything he ever uttered so de-
stractive of the liberty and the constitu
tional government fought for and estab
lished by the founders of the Union as
the acts and words of Sheridan carried to
their natural and inevitable consequences.
Fbiday.—Friday, long regarded as a
day of ill omen, has been an eventful one
in American history. Friday, Christo
pher Columbus sailed on his voyage of
discovery. Friday, ten weeks after, he
discovered America Friday. Henry VIL
of England gave John Cabot his pommis-
sion which led to the discovery of North
America. Friday, St. Augustine, the old
est town in the United States, was found
ed. Friday, the Mayflower with the
pilgrims arrived at Princetown, and on
Friday they signed the august compact,
the forerunner of the present constitu
tion. Friday, George Washington was
born, Friday, Bunker Hill was seized
and fortified. Friday the surrender of
Saratoga was made. Friday, the surren
der of Cornwallis at York town occurred,
and on Friday the motion was made in
Congress that the United Colonies were,
and of right ought to be, free and inde
pendent.
THE COTTON BUREAU.
Coogreiunmii Whitthorne doing lor n
Big Swindle lu tne Treasury Depart- i
meat.
SCIENTIFIC MATERIALI M.”
I
In the House on the 20th, Hon. W. C.
Whitthorne offered the following impor
tant preamble and resolution, which were
referred to the Committee on Appropria
tions :
Whereas, under the act of Congress
approved March 12, 1863, entitled “An
act to provide for the collection of aban
doned property, and for the prevention
of frauds in the insurrectionary districts
within the United States,” the proceeds
of a large amount of captured and aban •
doned property was covered into the
Treasury of the United States, a large
proportion of -which was seized by the
agents of the Treasury Department after
the 30th day of June, 1865, the total
amount received from these sources
being over $20,000,000, and that which
was seized after the 30th day of June,
1872, was, by the fifth section of the
act of May, 1872, directed to be paid by
the Secretary of the Treasury to the
lawful owners thereof; and whereas, it
appears by the report of the Secretary of
the Treasury, made to the present session
of Congress, that since the passage of
said last mentioned act there has been
paid to claimants under said act but the
small sum of $133,018 27; and whereas,
it further appears that under various acts
and resolutions of Congress the amount
of $260,000 has been appropriated to
defend certain “cotton suits” against the
United States, and it does not appear
how or in what manner the sum of $260,-
000 has been used; and whereas, it ap
pears that a division, called or termed a
“cotton division,” has been organized in
the Treasury Department, with chiefs,
clerks and employes, at high salaries,
amounting to over $12,000 per annum:
and whereas, the management and distri
bution of said fund, from its large
amount and other considerations, requires
that it should be under the supervision
of men of unquestioned character and
intelligence: therefore,
Beit Resolved, That the Secretary of the
Treasury be, and he is hereby directed to
inform this House—
First. By what authority of law said
division of the Treasury Department
known as the cotton division was found
ed, and clerks and their pay assigned,
and what amount of salaries is paid on
this account per annum.
Second. By what authority of law J. S.
Frazer is employed to adjudicate cotton
claims at an annual salary of $10,000 per
annum, and also what time the said
Frazer has been so employed, and under
what appropriations he received his com
pensations.
Third. To whom aud for what services,
and when aud where rendered, has the
appropriation of $260,000, or any part
thereof, been paid.
Fourth. Whether the chief clerk of
said cotton division is not M. L. Noerr,
who, previous to his appointment in said
division, was in the employment of the
detective, Pinkerton; and whether the
second clerk in position in said division
is not William Fessenden, and the same
individual who held a position in the
Army of the United States as paymaster,
and was dismissed therefrom for embez
zlement of a large sum of money; aud
do not these parties have charge of all
records of the United States pertaining
to cotton claims.
The Case iu a Nut-Shell.
In one short paragraph of the masterly
speech of Senator Schurz upon the ques
tion of the violation by the Federal army
of the legislative halls of Louisiana, all
the fallacies of the President’s message
are anticipated and exposed. We com
mend this paragraph to the especial at
tention of the people. It should be
copied by every journal in the laud:
“It is said in extenuation of the inter
ference of the military power of the
United States that the persons ejected
from the Legislature by the Federal
soldiery were not legally elected mem
bers of that Legislature. Suppose that
had been so; but that is not the question.
The question is, where is the constitu
tional principle, where the law authoriz
ing United States soldiers with muskets
in their hands to determine who is a
legally elected member of a State Legis
lature and who not ? It is said that the
mode of organizing that Legislature was
not in accordance with the statutes
of the State. Suppose that had been so;
but that is not the question. The ques
tion is, where is the constitutional
or legal warrant for the bayonets of
the Federal soldiery to interpret the
statutes of States, and to decide for and
in a Legislature points of parliamentary
law ? It is said that the Governor re
quested the aid of the United States sol
diers to purge the Legislature of illegal
members. That may be so, but that is
not the question. The question is,
where is the law authorizing United
States soldiers to do the bidding of a
State Governor, who attempts to decide
who are to be the members of a Legisla
ture regularly convened at the place and
at the time fixed by law ? It is said that
trouble was threatened between contend
ing parties in Louisiana. Suppose that
had been so; but that is not the question.
The question is, where is the law from
which the National Government, in case
of threatened trouble in a State, derives
its power to invade a legislative body by
armed force, to drag out persons seated
as members of a State Legislature, that
others may lake their places ? Where is
the law, I ask? You will search the
Constitution and the statutes in vain.”
True as Gospel.—‘‘To say that law
lessness, turbulence and bloodshed have
characterized the political affairs of that
State since its organization under the
Reconstruction acts, ia only to repeat
what has become well known as a part of
of its unhappy history.”—Grant's Mes
sage on Louisiana.
True as Gospel every word of it! The
confession is a wholesome one for a Re
publican President to make after the Re
publican policy of reconstruction has had
an eight years trial. The garbled state
ments by which Grant endeavors to
fasten the responsibility for this “law
lessness, turbulence and bloodshed” upon
the Louisiana Conservatives will deceive
nobody, but they do forcibly remind the
country that the task of restoring the
South, which the Republican party has
hitherto been kept in power to per
form, remains unperformed. The coun
try knows painfully well that there has
been a lamentable reign of lawlessness in
Louisiana, and is every day learning more
accurately who are the lawless persons
who create it. The cr* pe of Louisiana’s
woes is every day brought closer to Kel
logg and his coterie of knaves, and to
Grant, whose nepotism maintains them. It
is they who exhibit “ lawlessness.” South
ern States not cursed with carpet-bag rule,
and, above all, with Presidential brothers-
in-law, ambitjous for a seat in the Senate,
have attained orderly and stable govern
ment, and are on the advance to pros
perity. Louisiana will take her place
among such States as soon as a Demo
cratic Government at Washington gives
her even-handed justice.—M. Y. World.
Detective Reform.—The New York
Commissioners of Police have com
menced the work of reform in the detec
tive bureau of that city. On Friday Cap
tain Irving was transferred from the de
tective department to the twenty-fourth
precinct, and simultaneously twelve of
his men were relieved of their detective
duties and placed on patrol. The changes
have caused great excitement in police
circles, and, indeed, throughout the city,
and the subject is discussed with great di
versity of opinion.
The “wickedest man in the world” has
been found. His name is Welker, of
Fremont, Ohio. He went West and swin
dled his partner in Toledo out of all the
goods he had taken with him to sell; he
deserted his wife, who has a young baby;
scooped his father out of $1,500 and his
mother-in-law out of a smaller sum, and
when last heard from was still going
West
The Reply ®f Profe*u»or Tyndall to llis
Critics.
The reply of Mr. Tyndall to his critics
which forms the second preface to tbe
edition of the Belfast address, and the
lecture on “ Scientific Materialism ” ap
pended, are of but little less importance
than the address itself. The principal
charge against Mr. Tyndall has been that,
a man of science, he invaded the domain
of theology in crossing the boundaries of
experimental evidence. Mr. Tyndall re
plies to this by saying that just this is the
hab t of the scientific magnetism, and
eiectricity all imply the crossing of this
boundary. The nebular theory pro
pounded by Kant, Laplace, and William
Herschel was derivable in no other way.
In fact, that which distinguishes the great
from the mediocre investigator is his
power to derive from experience some
thing finer than mere experience. This
has been already conceded to science in
the inorganic world; he contends for the
same right in tbe organic world. A brief
paragraph explains the Belfast position
in his acceptance of the nebular
theory, in which is implicated the
whole course of nature. This position
he takes occasion “to reaffirm, not arro
gantly or defiantly, but without a shade
of indistinctness.” The greater part of
the preface is devoted to the Catholic
opposition. In this Mr. Tyndall acts not
only on the defensive. The relation of
the Catholic Church to science in the
past and in the present he reviews with
some vigor, quoting from recent utter
ances on the part of German Catholics
and the Irish students on the fact that no
Catholic can be numbered to-day among
the ranks of scientific investigators. The
tone of the preface, on the whole, is sad,
but not unmingled by an occasional pun
gent sentence and satirical expression.
The lecture on “Scientific Materialism,”
although delivered inJ868, furnishes the
complete explanation of that which so
many of Mr. Tyndall’s critics have failed
to discriminate from what they term
scientific atheism. A few sentences
from this would seem to set the mat
ter at rest, as far the charge of
atheism is concerned; “If you ask
him (the materialist), whence is this of
which we have been discoursing, or who
divided it into molecules, who or what
impressed upon them this necessity of
running into organic forms? he has no
answer. Science is mute in regard to
these questions. But if the materialist is
confounded and science rendered dumb,
who else is prepared with a solution? To
whom has this arm of the Lord been re
vealed? Let us lower our heads and ac
knowledge our ignorance, priest and
philosopher, one and all.” This mystery,
he says, further, is not without its uses;
it may be a power in the soul, but it is a
power which has feeling, not knowledge,
for its base, and its mission may—and he
hopes will—be to rescue man ‘from that
littleness to which, in the struggle for
existence or for precedence in the world,
he is continually prone. Those who have
read the addreso should not fail to read
these two papers, which make Mr. Tyn
dall’s position one of such distinctness
that no one can be excused from per
fectly understanding it,
The Proposed Duty on Tea.—There is
a general impression that the duty on tea
and coffee will be reimposed. Since the
duty was proposed there has been an
advance of from six to eight cents, gold,
per pound. If the duty is levied, and
does not take effect until June 30, the
end of the fiscal year, it is doubtful if
the further advance will be material. If
it takes effect March I, there will proba
bly be a speculative demand for a short
time, as the bulk of tea afloat cannot
arrive before that date, aud will then cost
more, but it is thought that such specu
lative demand will not long continue,
unless it extends to the distributive trade,
which is not now expected, and that by
July 1 some discriminations that are in
large supply will sell as low as now. If
the dutj* does not go on there will be
some reaction, perhaps, to the^tgures of
December last. The country in in a bet
ter condition to Luy now than a year ago,
and this, it is thought, may sustain tbe
advance already made. The large sales
lately made have been well distributed,
and in case the duty is not levied are not
likely to seek a market through auction
rooms, aud thus demoralize the market,
as was done last summer.
We hear the opinion of the Secretary
of the Treasury’, that the taking off of the
duty beforehand actually enhanced the
price of tea, severely criticised. The
statement may have some significance if
it referred to producing markets, but so
far as it relates to our own market it is
well known that there has been a decline
from ten to thirty cents a pound on teas,
owing very largely to the heavy importa
tions, causing the price of teas here to be
less actually than they could be laid down
here for. It may follow as a corrolary of
(he statement of the Secretary of the
Treasury that if the duty is reimposed on
tea the China market will break, and the
trade be bentfited both ways. It must
not be forgotten, however, that if the
duty is not levied before July 1 the gov
ernment will get nothing till next season,
and that if prices are enhanced only the
holders of teas here will be benefited, and
the consumer have to pay for it. The
statement made in a daily paper as to the
immense amount of tea on hand here is
not correct. It is largo enough in all con
science, but 75,000,000 pounds is putting
it too high. We cannot trace the rumors,
that money has been paid at Washington
to put back the duty, to any authentic
source.—N. Y. American Grocer.
The Philadelphia night schools have
had, during the past year, twenty-one
thousand five hundred persons of all ages
enrolled as students, but the appropria
tion for this purpose having been ex
hausted, the schools are to be closed. Too
much money was appropriated to the
Centennial.
The Michigan Supreme Court decides
that no ceremony is necessary to make a
marriage contract valid. The consent of
the parties and the acknowledged relation
of man and wife are sufficient. This cuts
short the clerical fees for joining two
hearts and lives in the State, and makes
matrimony a facile performance.
Mary Allen, an opium eater, aged fifty-
three years, cut her own throat in Phila
delphia on Friday night. An unknown
German was found dead near Willow
street wharf, in the same city, with a
bullet in his brain and a pistol in his
hand.
The Marquis of Ripon, previous to his
conversion to Roman Catholicism, had
begun the building of a large church for
the Church of England. He has had the
edifice finished, and has presented it to
the communion he first intended it for.
All the money which the war cost
France—her army expenses, the requisi
tions of the enemy and the five milliards
of indemnity, counted together—foots up
nine milliards three hundred millions of
francs, or one billion eight hundred and
sixty million dollars.
California papers announce that Bndd
Double will bring Gov. Stanford's famous
gelding Occident east during the coming
spring, and that he will be entered in the
“ free-for-alls ” at Cleveland, Buffalo, and
other prominent meetings.
The funeral of Charles K. Fox, the fa
mous “Pantaloon,” and brother of Geo.
L. Fox, took place in New Y’ork Saturday,
attended by a large number. of members
of the theatrical profession.
James Boyers, who was confined in the
Sparta, Tenn., jail for murder, was re
leased by a party of his friends, who
forced the jail en masque.
Philadelphia rejoices that the city as
sets show an excess of over thirteen mil
lion dollars more than the liabilities, and
the city 6 per cent bonds sell for 105.
The total debt of Philadelphia on Jan
uary 1 was $64,290,463 65.
The Rival Babies.
[From the Detroit Po*t.]
Uncle Luther Beecher’s grand co-opera
tive baby-show, which was to have been
one of the features of the poult^’ and
dog exposition at Young Men's Hall, is
not visible to the naked eye as yet, but
it came very near makiug a start on Sat
urday afternoon. Two women with
babies entered the parlor set aside for
the little popsey-wopseys, and, taking
seats on opposite sides of the room, pro
ceeded to stare at each other coldly aud
suspiciously. One was a tall female with
auburn hair, and the other was a little
lump of a woman with very black eyes
aud a determined look. Although they
were alone in the room, neither spoke,
but they commenced to unpack their
offspring.
The auburn-haired lady dually pro
duced from the midst of innumerable
wrappings a pale, serawuey-looking in
fant, wearing considerable gold chain and
an expression of settled melancholy.
The other baby was a chip of the old
block, so to speak—a corpulent cherub
with puffy cheeks and big eyes, who pro
ceeded to suck its fat thumbs with much
composure.
The silence was becoming oppressive
when the tall woman broke it. She re
marked with affected solicitude:
“What is the matter with your baby,
mum ? The poor little thing looks quite
unwell”
The little woman’s black eyes snapped,
but she answered with forced composure:
“Minerva Geraldine was never sick a day
in her life, inadame, and she is sixteen
mouths and ten days old. Has your little
one been ailing long ?”
The tall woman’s hair began to raise
up, but she pretended to be looking to
see where the pin was pricking her sad
faced baby, and made no reply, and
presently she wound the infant’s gold
chain around her finger in an abstracted
manner, so that the other woman would
see it.
The rival mother produced a coral
necklace with a blue locket, and care
lessly clasped it about Minerva Geraldine’s
neck.
Then the other in tones of alarm ex
claimed, “Why, Alphonso, have you lost
your little gold ring?” Alphonso, who
was about thirteen months old, vouch
safed no reply, but only looked sad, and
his mother, after a brief search, produced
the ring from a needle-case, and, with a
glance of triumph, forced it on his finger.
The little woman was pale, but com
pressed her lips with stern determination.
Reaching down into her basket she
brought out a silver mug and a wax doll
with real hair. She trembled with ex
citement, for she had shown her full hand.
She won: the silver mug settled it.
“Did you intend to put that overgrown
monstrosity on exhibition here ?” inquired
the fiery-haired female, glaring wildly at
her rival.
“Why don’t you hire out your living
skeleton to a side show ?” screamed the
little woman, her eyes snapping with
rage.
“ Woman.”
“ Creature.”
It looked as if there might be blood
shed, and a humane reporter, who had
overheard the wrangle, rushed in to in
terfere.
“ Is my little darling a monstrosity ? ”
“ Is my Alphonse a living skeleton? ”
Both interrogations rang out simulta
neously, with a shrillness that drowned
the yelping of the canines and the crow
ing of the prize roosters in the next
apartment.
“Ladies,” said he, with an expression
of great solicitude, “ they are both
angels. But for Heaven’s sake don’t de
tain me, for I have just been exposed to
the scarlet fev—”
And each exasperated female clutched
up her baby and nursing bottle and bas
ket, and bounced out. He was alone.
Prohibition.—The Governor of Michi
gan, a State with a prohibitory law and
• >,000 liquor saloons, asks the Legislature
in his annual message: “Why not re
cognize the fact that there is a difference
between drinking and drunkenness?” He
favors a license law, with a broad distinc
tion in the amount of tax between the
sale of distilled liquors and malt bever
ages.
Death of Frederick Schley.—Fred-
crick, Md., January 24.—Hon. Frederick
Schley died at his residence here to-day,
of dropsy, in the sixty-first year of his
age. Mr. Schley was formerly editor of
the Frederick Examiner, has held numer
ous positions of trust and honor, and was
well known throughout the State. He
was a brother of the late William Schley,
the eminent jurist of Baltimore. «
And now they say William Penn would
sit down under a tree with Indians about
him, and telling them of the better world
bej’ond the sea, deal himself four aces
and win the game.
5ry ©pods.
Prices Reduced!
Gray, O’Brieu&Co.
No. 147 Broughton Street.
To decrease our Stock, pre
paratory to our Annual Stock
taking, we will offer our Goods
at reduced prices from now
until the 1st of February next.
CHEAT BARGAINS IN
Shawls, Cloaks,
BLANKETS,
AND ALL CLASSES OF
WINTER GOODS.
GRAY, O’BRIEN & CO.,
No. 147 Broughton Street.
SPECIAL.
•*>0 pieces fine WHITE TARLATANS, by the
piece, at 25 cents per yard (about sixteen and
a half yards iu each Diece). worth forty c. uts.
V00 dozen STOUT LINEN TOWELS, at $1 50
per dozen.
&K) dozen Ladies’Colored-Border LINEN HAND
KERCHIEFS (job lot) at from $1 25 per
dozen upwards, worth doable the money.
jan25 GRAY, O’BRIEN Sc CO.
Itardimr, &c.
F. W. CORNWELL,
DEALER IN
U A ROW ABE, CUTLERY,
Agricultural Implements, Mechanical Tools, Axes,
Hoes, Nails, Traces, etc. Also, CUCUM
BER WOOD PUMPS, the best and
cheapest Pump in use.
He. 1A9 BroMfctM Street, Haraaaah, da
tun
Check Books,
O N all the SAVANNAH BANKS, stamped and
unstamped, kept constantly on sale. Check
Books printed to order, with or without stamps,
and consecutively numbered. If desired, at the
MORNING NEWS JOB OWIGB
£otrls and j$r$aura&t$.
BRESJiM’S
156,158,160 & 162
BRYAN STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
rpHE Proprietor, having completed the neces-
L sarv additions and improvements, can now
Cfier to his guests all the comforts to be obtained
it other Hotels at less than
HALF THE EXPENSE!
A RESTAURANT
ON THE
EUROPEAN PLAN
Has been added, where guests can
AT ALL HOURS
Order whatever can be obtained in the market.
ROOMS, WITH BOARD,
$2 00 PER DAY
Determined to be
Outdone by None,
All I ask is a TRIAL, confident that complete
satisfaction will be given.
.lOHN BRESNAN,
PROPRIETOR.
feblO-tf
CottfrifS.
look: look:
$1,200,000 IN PRIZES’
The Grandest Single Number Scheme ou
Record, will be drawn in public in
St. Louis ou March 31, 1875.
Capital Prize, $100,000!
Missouri State Lotteries!
Legalized by State Authority,
MURRAY, MILLER A CO., Managers,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
1 Prize of $100,000
1 Prize of 50,000
1 Prize of 22,500
1 Prize of. 20,000
5 Prizes of. 10,000
10 Prizes of 5,000
20 Prizes ot 2,500
100 Prizes of 1,000
And 11,451 other Prizes of from $1,500 to $50.
A mount ing In the Agffrejrate to $1,200,000
Whole Tickets, $20; Halves, $10; Quarters, $5.
Prize payable in full and no postponement of
drawings take place.
Address, for Tickets and circulars,
MURRAY, MILLER k CO., Manager*,
* ST. LOUIS, MO.
P. O. Box 2445. jan5-Tu.Tb,Sa*wly
Jin hoofing, &(.
CONTRACTOR
—FOR—
TIN ROOFING,
Gutters and Conductors.
Also, for making and putting up
GALVANIZED IKON CORNICE,
ORNAMENTAL BRACKETS,
GUTTERS AND CONDUCTORS.
KEPAIRING ROOFS will meet with prompt
attention. Orders soiicted.
Cor mack Hopkins,
No. 167 Broughton St.
jan7-tf
©oods.
Millinery! Millinery!
—at—
Reduced Prices!
I AM now offering all of my Stock of Millinery
Goods, consisting of
PATTERNS,
BONNETS, HATS,
RIBBONS, VELVET.
FELT and STRAW GOODS,
For less than they can be bought elsewhere in
rhe city. Also a full line of Velvets on the bias,
in all colors.
I have just received a large and beautiful as
sortment of TIES, in all tbe new colors.
Also, a new assortment of Hosiery, Kid Gloves,
('orsets, Rushing, etc.
My line of Ladies’ Underwear, made of the
best Muslin and Cambric, is still complete.
Real Hair Switch, Hair Ornaments, and Fancy
Goods.
Also, a large assortment of Silk Umbrellas for
Ladies and Gents.
Ladies, call and examine my stock. You will
find them cheap and of the best quality of goods.
H. C. HOUSTON,
jan5-tf 22 Bull street (Masonic buikllug).
Shafl and €)ystms.
Shad and Oysters.
«JEO. A. HUDSON.
M. M. SULLIVAN.
HUDSON & SULLIVAN,
—DEALERS IN—
Shad, Oysters, Open and Shell
-ALSO—
All kinds of SALT and FRESH WATER FISH
in 5eason. Orders from all parts of ihe country
promptly attended to.
North side of Bay street, foot of Whitaker
street. janl-tf
Sats and Caps, &r.
New Year Calls.
All who intend calling on
NEW YEAR’S DAY
Should provide themselves with a Pair of
Angeles’
Seamless White Kid Gloves.
Also, one of the Latest Style of Hats,
THE HOLIDAY.
Sold only by
Brown, the Hatter,
dec31-tf 137 Congress street.
educational.
C00PEEVILLE SCHOOL.
T HE exercises of the above school will be re
sumed on the first day of February, pros.
The course of study will embrace tbe machM
usually taught in Ugh schools.
The rates of tuition and board will ba
ate. Apply to
^^R*V. T. B. COOPER, PrindpaL
an!2-tFebl Ogeechee P. O., Scrim Co»Ga>
$tm$.
DON’T BUY
ram you have
Carefully Examined
OUR NTEW
—AND—
LOW RESERVOIR
AS WE HAVE 1* GOOD REASONS WHY
THEY WILL DO YOUR WORK.
Quick and Easy,
Cheap and Clean.
They are cheapest to buy,
They are best to use,
They bake evenly and quickly,
, Their operation is perfect,
They have always a good draft,
j They are made of the best material,
They roast perfectly.
They require but little fuel,
They arc very low priced,
They are easily managed,
They are suited to alllocalities,
p&j Every stove gnarant’d to give satisfaction
Sold by EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING CO.
St. Louis, Mo., and by
Lovell & Lattimore,
SAVANNAH, GA.
aug22-S,Tu&Th,<fcw5m
fainting.
PAINTING!
CHRIS. XURTHY.
CHAB. CLARK.
Murphy & Clark,
98 Bryan street, between 1 hay ton and
Abercorn Streets,
SAVANNAH, GA.
HOUSE, SHIP, STEAMBOAT, SIGN A>D
Ornain’tal Painters,
GILDING,
GRAINING,
MARBLING,
GLAZING
AND
Paper Hanging.
We are prepared to offer estimates fsr every de
scription of Painting in any part of Georg.a,
South Carolina and Florida, and guarantee satis
faction in the execution of oar work.
We keep always in store a select stock of the
following articles:
PURE ENGLISH B. B. LEAD.
ATLANTIC aud ali other brands of LEADS.
OILS, VARNISHES, PUTTY, BRUSHES.
Furniture, Demar and other VARNISHES put
up in quart, pint and half pint bottles, ready for
use.
GROUND and ENAMELED GLASS.
STAINED and PLAIN of various colors.
Double and single thick French, English and
American GLASS.
GOLD LEAF, BRONZE, Glaziers’ DIAMONDS.
Machinery OILS, and Axle GREASE.
A select stock of GOLD and PLAIN PAPER
HANGINGS.
Persons desiring work and material in onr line
would do well to give us a call before going else
where.
PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL
SIGN WORK
Executed with neatness and dispatch.
PATENT STEP LADDERS.
As the season has set in when house cleaning Is
the order of the day, it can’t be done without a
STEP L ADDER I
The place to get them Light and Durable is at tbe
Paint and Oil Store of
MURPHY & CLARK.
PRICE $2 50 TO $6, ALL SIZES.
Stained to imitate Black Walnut and Lettered
with the purchaser's name, if desired. oct22-tf
Copartnership gotiers.
Limited Partnership Notice.
T HE Limited Partnership heretofore existing
under the firm name of HOPKINS <fc WOOD,
having been dissolved by the death of John I).
Hopkins, one of the general partners, on the 7th
instant, the undersigned, John Wood, James Tor
rance Wood and Ernest R. Wood, of Liverpool,
England, and Farley R. Sweat, of Savannah, Ga.,
as general partners, aud Andrew Low, of Savan
nah, Ga., as a special partner, will carry on the
business as a Limited Partnership under the firm
name of
WOOD & SWEAT.
The general r.ature of the business to be trans
acted is that of Commission Merchants.
Said Limited Partnership business commences
January 14th, 1875, and terminates August 31st,
1876.
Andrew’ Low, as such special partner, has paid
into the common stock of the firm One Hundred
Thousand Dollars in Gold.
JOHN WOOD,
JAMES TORRANCE WOOD,
ERNEST R. WOOD,
Liverpool, England.
ANDREW’ LOW,
Savannah, Georgia.
FARLEY R. SWEAT,
Savannah, Georgia.
Dated this 14th day of January, 1875.
jan!5-6w
(Cmint £ipr:s, &r.
CEMEYT PIPES.
Savannah Brick ManuTgr Co.
Having purchased the
Cement Pipe Machine Patents
are now manufacturing Cement Pipes for Drains,
Sewers, or W’ell Curbs, of all sizes, and have
on hand a large stock of pipe of the following sizes:
3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 15, 30, and 36 inches, and Bends and
Branches to soit. Contractors are requested to
give them a call
BEFORE USING ANY OTHER PIPE.
Tills Patent Pipe has been tested for years in
the North, East and West, where it lias given en
tire satisfaction; and it has also been used in the
South with success.
Orders for Pipe in any quantity are solicited and
will receive prompt attention. Orders left at th<*
store of Messrs. Crawford & Lovell, 157 Brough
ton street, for Pipe or Brick will be promptly at
tended to.
E. C. SW AIN, President Sav. B. MTg Co.
D. Bailey. Sec. and Treas juu4-3m
lining.
JOHN NIC0LS0N,
Gas & Steam Fitter,
Plumber and dealer in Gas Fixtures,
DRAYTON STREET,
SECOND DOOR ABOVE BROUGHTON.
Houses fitted with Gas and Water, with ah the
latest improvements, at the shortest notice.
nov2fitf
WM. M. McFALL,
Practical Plumber and has Fitter,
No. 46 WUtaker Street,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Bath Tube, Water Closets, Chandeliers and Gas
Fixtures of every description constantly on hand.
Jobbing done at the shortest notice.
fehi-&
gtur Morris.
New Novels.
Price
T HE KING OF NO-LAND.. $ 25
JACK’S SISTER 75
THE TREASURE HUNTERS 40
WEST LAWN 1 50
THE WOOING O. T 1 28
EDNA BROWNING 1 50
IDOLATRY 1 78
STOLEN W’ATERS 1 75
NOT IN THEIR SET 1 80
TESTED 1 75
FROZEN DEEP 1 50
A DAUGHTER OF BOHEMIA 1 00
SYLVIA'S CHOICE 50
UIRE ARDEN 75
_JRNA DOONE 75
FOR LOVE AND LIFE 75
NO ALTERNATIVE 1 00
Also, cheap editions of Dickens. Thackeray,
Bmiwer, Byron, Shakspeare, Scott, Milton, Moore,
Lever, Captain Marryatt, Ac., at
ESTILL’S
NEWS DEPOT,