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Ii»« the largest city and mail |i,hed in circulation ■savannah. of any paper pub- Affairs in Georgia. 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,