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lished io Savannah.
Affairs in (Jeoriria.
V Mississippi robber has been having
n h h old time in Augusta recently. He
wm caught on Saturday night.
'Pile students of the State University
Pave concluded to resucitate the Georgia
CnittriUy Magazine.
The receipts of cotton at Home this
season exceed twenty thousand bales.
Atlanta has Turkish baths. We are
not particular abput the nationality of
tbes ■ baths. If they are really in Atlanta
■we are satisfied.
Colsubus has raised a fourteen pound
cabbage.
The distribution of gifts to its sub
scribers by the Atlanta Constitution will
take place on Saturday.
The gin-house of Mr. J. H. Dunham,
of Marion county, together with twelve
bales of cotton, was destroyed by fire last
week. Ho. 54.
Judge Hopkins will preside at Spalding
Superior Court in February.
The Atlanta Chief of Police has re
signed.
The papers are discussing the fact that
the (ireensboro Herald bos an “ Ass. Ed
itor ” As the editor in question writes
over the signature of a star, we presume
be is the Asstronomical editor.
Judge Madison D. Cody, of Covington,
is dead.
Colonel Jones, of the Macon Telegraph,
learns from an extensive planter of
Southern Georgia, who still preserves
some sl ow of the wealth and prosper
ity of the said regime, quite a num
ber of interesting and pleasant facts.
This gentleman, besides raising 393
Pales of cotton in 1874, and an abun
dance of provisions, actually offers
fur sale one thousand bushels of corn and
slaughtered (>,000 pounds of pork. He
was que i.ioued as to the proposed acreage
of his crops the present year, with the
following results : Of cotton he intends
to plant 1,200 acres: com, 000 acres;
oats, of the Mexican variety, all up and
growing. 300 acres, besides sowing 400
bushels of peas tor stuck. He will also
kill near 100 heavy bogs if they escape
the cholera. This is not exactly observ
ing the injunctions of his brother Grang
ers to plant only one-third in cotton; but
. our fn -ud avers that he will make more
thau enough corn to do him; which is all
that can be expected of any planter in
tire “cotton belt.”
The same industrious trourist has un
earthed a sovereign remedy for hog chol-
tl The discovery was accidently made
in Alabama, and consists simply of the
free use of • collards as an article of diet.
The pnthology of the remedy is difficult
of i xplanation, save upon the anti-scor
butic theory. It seems an old farmer,
who had lost half of his swine when in
fine condition from this fatal yet incom
prehensible disease, noticed that those
which ata freely of this vegetable recov
ered from the cholera or were not affected
at all. He forthwith began, therefore, to
strip the leaves with his own hands and
feed them to his hogs. Immediately the
sickness was assuaged and the mortality
arrested.
A correspondent of the Augusta Chron~
tele thus discusses the homestead law : I
will give only one example which comes
within n y knowledge, to show how un
just are tlie operations of the hqmestead
law, aud will close. There lives a very
deserving gentleman, a plain, honest
farmer* i\i my neighborhood, who, by
hard toil nud wise economy—and a great
deal of the labor is performed by him
aud bis sous—had accumulated six thou
sand dollars in cash—all made by tilling
the soil with limited means. He bad
three neighbors, old and long-tried
frieuds and acquaintances. They had
labored less, spent more money in
eating, i:i . wearing apparel and in
horses and carriages, and the result
was the^ soon became embarrassed
aud it became necessary to arrange to
meet their indebtedness. Knowing the
success of their economical and hard
working neighbor they immediately set
to work on him, and after long aud re
peated efforts succeeded in borrowing
bis jjji.000. This paid their indebted
ness and made them temporarily com
fortable. But during the ensuing year,
while their friend and his family were
using everv economy aud endeavqping to
earn their living by the “sweat of their
brow,” they lived in idleness, spend
ing money freely. The result was, they
were just twice as much in debt at the
close of tlie year as when the year began.
Their good neighbor, however, wanted
his money - and to avoid the payment
those three creditors took the benefit of
the homestead. Their property was
valued at half its value, as is the custom,
and hence they have an abundance to
make them comfortable, aud them and
their families wear their broad cloth, kid
gloves, tine beavers, drive fast stock aud
tine buggies, aud feel that they are far
the superior of their good friend and his
family, who follow the plow and stand at
the cooking stove and wash pot. Such
is the justice of the Georgia homestead.
New York Mercury: 4Ym. S. Irving,
general agent, aud m. B. Day, adver
tising agent, of Sheridan, Mack and
Day’s Combination, write as follows re
specting their treatment in Atlanta: “We
arrived in Atlanta, Ga., January 13,
coming from Rome, about ninety miles
distant. The Legislature being in ses
sion at Atlanta, the hotels were crowded
with politicians and their frieuds from all
parts of the State. We experienced some
little difficulty in contracting for the
lodging of our people, but dually settled
at the Kimball House, and commenced
advertising the town. On Saturday night
we retired at about a quarter to 12, and
about two hours after were awakened by
loud kuocking at our door. Mr. Irving ask
ed: -Who is there?’ and not receiving any
reply, but hearing a number of voices in
the" hall, he immediately arose and
opened the door, and was somewhat as
tonished to find the hall crowded with
negro servants of the house, armed with
revolvers, clubs and other weapons. On
asking wli*t was the matter they all re
treated, remarking: *\Ve would soon find
out.’ In about ten minutes another
knock came. Mr. Irving arose and
opened it, the superintendent, clerk of
the house, aud a policeman entered, and
informed us that we were accused of en
tering some of the other rooms on our
floor, ■ which was the third,) and that the
watchman swore he saw one of us go
from another room and enter our own.
Mr. Hunt. ;he clerk of the hotel, said it
could not bo possible, that he knew the
party me represented, and that we
would 'not be guilty of any such
Otfeuse. I By this time the hall was
swarming i/ith the guests of the hotel,
who cMnuenceri asking us ‘Who we
weier’ I. vVbero we came from ?' and
other impertinent questions,
them who we were and our
J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1375.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
occupation. We then insisted that the
policeman should search our rooms and
baggage in the presence of the super
intendent and clerk of the hotel, which
was done, and proved to their satisfaction
that we were neither burglars nor hotel
thieves. Our feelings can well be im
agined as the recollection of Frank Du
mont's (of Duprez «fc Benedict’s Minstrels)
troubles flashed through our minds. We
asked ourselves if we were to suffer a like
martyrdom. The following morning
(Sunday*) we came down to breakfast,
and, of course, were the centre of attrac
tion. We were told by the clerk and
superintendent that they were very sorry
that such a thing should have happened.
But apologies were of little consequence
to us. whose feelings had been greatly in
jured. There is no doubt but that we
should have been arrested upon the spot,
on Saturday night, had it not been foi
Mr. Hunt, the gentlemanly and courteous
clerk, who knew us and our party by
reputation. There has been considerable
thieving going on in the hotel lately, and
on the evening previous to our coming to
the hotel, the notorious General Toombs,
who is stopping at the hotel, was brought
in, laboring under an overdose of old rye,
and carried to his room. He had either
lost his watch or had it stolen from him.
The negro servants, hoping to gain some
credit, and perhaps a reward, would sacri
fice honest people, and who should be
the victims but the showmen ?”
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
TESTIMONY OF A SO-CALLED
CAKPET-IUGOER.
POISON MEAT FOR MEPHISTO-
PHILES MORTON.
KELLOGG FRAUD IN THE SENATE.
Wrestling; With tlie Radicals over the
Civil lliglitN Bill.
TESTIMONY OF A RADICAL.
New Yoke, January 28.—Tlie Alabama
Committee examined J. P. Southwortb, of
of Mobile, who was appointed United States
District Attorney for the Southern Dis
trict of Alabama by Grant iu 1869. Mr.
Southwortb testified that he went to Alabama
from Illinois in 1868, was and always had
been a Republican, and had spoken dur-
iug the last campaign in Selma for the
Republican State ticket. He thought he
knew the gen jral condition of the State as
well*as any one could. His professional
duties took him to all parts of it, and there
was no coun tv in which a Republican could
not live and advocate his political princi
ples, even offensively, without molestation.
The effect of sending troops to the State
was injurious, aud there was no time when
they were needed or when the country would
not have been better off without them. He
was a carpet-bagger Republican, and bad
been a Federal officer, aud not ostracised.
CIVIL BIGHTS.
Washington, January 28.—The dead-lock
in the House continues, neither side show
ing any signs of yielding. The probability
is, however, that an adjournment will
soon take place, and the Republi
cans will fall back upon a re
newed attempt to change the rules
next Monday by adopting a new rule, ap
plicable only to" the session, prohibiting the
Speaker from entertaining dilatory mo
tions. With that rule established, the pas
sage of the civil rights bill would be plain
sailing.
THE KELLOGG MAUD.
Washington, January 28.—The Commit
tee on Privileges and Elections stood thus
on a proposition to recognize the Kellogg
government: Yeas—Morton, Logan, An
thony and Mitchell; nays—Alcorn, Hamil
ton "and Salisbury; abseut—Carpenter and
Wadloigh. Mr. Alcorn statod in the com
mittee that if the Senate recognized the
Kellogg government he should vote to ad
mit Finchback.
CANBOBERT.
Paris, January 28.—Marshal Caurobert
declines to stand as candidate for the De
partment of Teat.
LOST AT SEA.
London, January 28.—The bark Aurora is
lost with eight persons. The survivors were
four days without food.
BANK RATE.
London, January 28.—The directors of the
Bank, at a meetiug, fixed the minimum rate
at three per cent.
Gladstone’s successor.
London, January 28.—The Home Rnle
members take no part in the election of a
Liberal leader.
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR FISH.
Vienna, January 28.—Spain has paid Ger
many money indemnity for the Gustavus
affair.
Supposed Murder Near Cumminsville,
Ohio.—Cincinnati, Jan. 24.— 1 The body
of a man was found on the railroad track
near Cumminsville Saturday morning,
horribly mutilated, having evidently been
run over by a train. The supposition
was that it was the body of a tramp, but
the coroner’s investigation brought out
the fact that it was the body of Hermann
Grippe, aged thirty-one, a resident of
this city, who started for Mount Pleasant
with one Louis Schwenker on Friday last.
They got no farther than Cumminsville,
where they drank considerably, and it is
supposed that Grippe was left on the
railroad track by Schwenker, to hide
crime. Schwenker was arrested to-night,
with blood on his clothing. He gives
various accounts of his whereabouts since
Friday evening. The coroner has not yet
concluded the inquest.
Indians Frozen to Death.—Cheyenne,
January 25.—Dr. Saville, Indian ageDt
at Red Cloud, arrived here to-day en route
to Washington, and reports everything
quiet in the upper country. Several of
the Kiochs, a band which, recently went
South to hunt on the Republican river,
had returned and were badly frozen;
three were frozen to death. He reports
that Col. Henry and his company were
recovering from the effects of their freez
ing in the expedition to the Black Hills,
and that there were no cases requiring
amputation.
A Whole Family Perish * in the
Flames.—BouchervUle, Quebec, Canada,
January 24.—A fire this morning de
stroyed a farm house occupied by Pierre
Dulude. His wife and ei^ht children
perished in the flames. Dulude was
seriously burned in his efforts to save
his family, and is not expected to live.
His wife and children were literally burned
to ashes, and only fragments of their
bodies can be found. The eldest child
was thirteen years old and the youngest
a baby.
Storm and Revolution.—Panama,
January 16.—Advices from La Paz,
Bolivia, to the 24th inst., state that a
terrific thunder storm had occurred there.
The lightning injured a large number of
houses and killed many persons. A rev
olution has also taken place. The mili
tary pronounced in favor of Senor Quen
tin. The troops all got drunk and went
through the streets firing at random,
right and left, killing several persons.
Frightful Accident.—Pittsburg, Jan
uary 24.—Thomas Sturgeon, a conductor
on the Pittsburg, Washington and Balti
more Railroad, was instantly killed in the
yard on Ross street yesterday evening.
While running ahead of his train, to turn
a switch, his foot caught in a frog, throw
ing Aim to the ground, and before he
could extricate himself, the train struck
him, killing him instantly, and mangling
him in a terrible manner.
Gen. Cockrell, who is Schurz’s succes
sor in the Senate, is a man of profound
education, of imposing presence, of tine
oratorical abilities^ and as a student of
the opinions aud resources of his State
he has no superior. His popularity in
Missouri is unquestioned. It is founded
on a mixture of civil and military ser
vice, and is braced by the resplendent
virtues of his character.
THE L0UISLL5A DOCUMENTS.
A Clear View of the Loaiaiana Stains
Under Kellogg’s Oppression.
The President sent to the United States
Senate yesterday, in further response to
the resolution of inquiry, another large
mass of correspondence relative to affairs
in Louisiana. The correspondence dates
back to October 25, 1874, commencing
with the telegrams sent by Gen. Emory
to the War Department, in which he ex
presses strong disapprobation of Major
Merrill’s action in making affidavits
against citizens of Shreveport, under
which they were arrested, for alleged
violations of the enforcement act. The
following is an extract:
Merrill’s conduct in Louisiana.
Gen. Emory informed Maj. Merrill
that he considered his personal appear
ance as prosecutor as a departure from
the general rules of the service, and mis
chievous in its tendency. Merrill there
upon explained that his action was due to
the fact that no citizen could have made
the affidavits except at the risk of his
life, and submits sundry voluminous re
ports detailing the lawless condition of
affairs iu the Red river region. These
reports beiog all before .the War Depart
ment, Adjutant General Townsend tele
graphed to Merrill December 7, 1874,
through the headquarters of the army,
that the department considered his action
justified by the circumstances.
hodgson’s telegraph exploit.
The papers next comprise a long re
port from General Emory concerning
Lieutenant Hodgson’s arrest by the civil
authorities for cutting telegraph wires,
and various reports of subordinate officers
giving details of the disorders and mas
sacres in Colfax and Coushatta parish,
etc. Emory subsequently reports his
action detailing Lieut. Col. Henry A.
Morrow to proceed to the Red river
region and make a thorough examination
of the condition of affairs.
state house occupation.
On November 16th, 1874, Adjutant
General Townsend telegraphed to Gen.
Emory as follows: “If troops in New
Orleans still occupy the State House, it
is desired by the President that they be
transferred to the quarters they are to
occupy for the winter. Are there any in
the State House ?
Emory replied the next day: “The
troops moved as directed. It will slightly
increase estimated expenses for quarters.
While in the State-house strict orders
were observed not to interfere with free
ingress or egress of citizens or with State
affairs.”
hostile attitude of people and politi-
Ou the 15th of December Emory tele
graphed to the department as follows:
The returning board and the people re
presenting the opposing party differ on
vital questions. Each avers against the
other crime of such enormity that in the
present excited state of the public mind
violence is imminent. On the occasion
of the 14th September I was informed in
a dispatch dated September 15, that the
President directed you to say previous
orders are not to be observed. In conse
quence of which my order to Col. Brooks
to recognize Governor Kellogg was re
voked, and an interregnum intervened.
To avoid future misunderstanding in
the impending disturbance, which may
happen at any moment, or may not occur
until after the meetiug of the Legislature
in January, I ask to be informed if the
instructions of your dispatch of Septem
ber 18 are considered in force, or if I am
to await the result of another application
from Mr. Kellogg to the President. To
this Brigadier General Townsend replied,
December 16, as follows: “The President
directs that you make arrangements to
be in readiness to suppress violence, and
have it understood that you will do it.”
On December 16 Emory telegraphed:
“Since m3' dispatch of yesterday infor
mation comes which I think justifies the
conclusion that personal violence and
armed conflict will not be used by con
tending parties to settle the pending po
litical troubles in this city.”
Under date of Shreveport, December
11, 1874, Lieut.-Ool. Morrow makes a
brief report of his investigations in that
vicinity, in anticipation of a longer re
port, which he says he will write out
subsequently. After stating there was
qo need of more troops in that vicinity,
fie says: “An arrangement has been
made between the United States civil au*
ihorities here and certain prominent citi
zens, under which it is more than proba
ble that there will be 110 further calls for
troops to act.as a posse to marshals. If
this shall follow from the arrangements
referred to, the army will be relieved
from a most unpleasant and onerous duty
md a great cause of local irritation will
be removed. As to the general condi
tion of affairs in the parishes of Caddo
ind De Soto, I reserve my opinion until
I have had fuller opportunity for form
ing, but this much I ma3' say—it is not
such as to give auy ground of apprehen
sion on the part of the commanding
general of serious disturbances of any
kind, at least at present. It is not to be
lisguised, however, that local distur
bances of a very seiious character may
take place in the event of the returning
board, now iu session at New Orleans,
ruling out the votes of parishes for mere
technical reasons.” He goes on to say
that
the universal sentiment
there is that resistance and violence
would be entirely justifiable to secure the
people a change of local administrators ;
to which they claim to be entitled as the
result of the late election. Lieutenant
Colonel Morrow continues : “In all I have
<aid it is important to understand that so
Tar as relates to the United States there is
not the slightest disposition to oppose the
General Government, but the opposition
to the State government is determined
and expressed, and will manifest itself in
ipen violence whenever and wherever it
asserts itself.”
On the 24th of December, Lieutenant
Jolonel Morrow, then in New Orleans,
submits a detailed report of his investi
gation. Its main conclusions are the
ume as those above given in his skeleton
report. He expresses the opinion that
die troops may be safely withdrawn from
Alexandria, Colfax and Nachitoches, and
leed not be increased at any other point
v.0 compel obedience to the laws of the
United States, though he adds: “Troops
will be required, however, in nearly every
section of the State to sustain the State
iuthorities if Congress by appropriate
egislation does not give some relief.”
He says he is aware of the fact that the
Federal troops have not been ordered into
parishes except on requisition of the civil
iuthorities, but recommends that strin
gent orders be given to officers \p exer
cise caution, and not to furnish posses
except in cases where the marshal, un
aided. has tried to serve his process and
failed, and has made application to the
citizens for proper assistance and been
refused. This, he believes, to be good
policy as well as good law, and if strictly
adhered to fewer demands will be made
on the military. He says the general
condition of affairs on the Red river is
bad. Respect and
REGARD FOR THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT
are expressed by all classes of people, but
they also express open contempt and de
fiance of the authority of the State gov
ernment. This dissatisfaction and dis
content affect all departments of business,
and the whole aspect of the country has
a look of poverty and neglect. The law
has fallen into disregard and disrepute,
and the judges are openly charged with
corruption. United States Deputy Mar
shals have used United States soldiers in
cases where there was no necessity for
them, and in some parishes have dis
charged their duties in an unnecessarily*
harsh, if not cruel manner. CoL Morrow
gives the following as his deep-seated
convictions: “The present State govern
ment cannot maintain itself in power a
single hour without the protection of
Federal troops, and even with their pro
tection they will not be able to collect
taxes and perform the functions of gov
ernment.” The
STATE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT THE CONFI
DENCE OB RESPECT
of any portion of'the community. - ’ Fur
ther on he says: “If the expressions of
the people are to be believed, and I do be
lieve them, there is a very sincere desire
to live quietly under the Constitution of
the United States and enjoy the blessings
of the National Government. But there
is no disguising the fact that the protec
tion afforded by the Federal administra
tion to the government of the present
State executive is the cause of bitter per
sonal and political feeling in the breast
of nineteen-twentieths of the white in
habitants of the State.”
RESULT OF THE USURPATION.
In forwarding this report December
27th, Gen. Emory says: “For nearly* two
years the condition of affairs has been
very precarious, and the State govern
ment has constantly shown itself unable
to cope with the difficulties of the situa
tion in which it is placed. This state of
things is daily growing worse, and I com
mend the subject to serious considera
tion. The mission of the army to keep
peace without the power of removing the
causes disturbing it has, I think, been
carried out as far as practicable, and I
therefore respectfully recommend that if
it can be done, the powers of the mili
tary commander be greatly increased, or
that some other measure be resorted to
to obtain the desired end.”
GENERAL SHERMAN’S INDORSEMENT.
General Sherman makes the following
indorsement:
Headquarters of the Army, >
St. Louis, Jan. 4, 1875. >
This paper is most respectfully* for
warded to the Secretary of War, with a
request that he submit it for the personal
perusal of the President. I kjiow of no
officer of Colonel Morrow’s rank who is
better qualified to speak and write of
matters like this, and his opinions are
entitled to great consideration. I profess
to have some knowledge of the people of
that section, both white and black, from
a long residence among them before the
war and several visits since; but I shall
not intrude my opinion in the confusion
in which the subject is now enveloped.
W. T. Sherman, General.
THIRD TERM PLOTTINGS.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Jlorton’s Amendment — Defeat
Dilatory .Motion Scheme.
Washington, January' 25. — Senator
Morton is very anxious to have adopted
his proposed constitutional amendment
abolishing the present electoral system
for the election of President and Vice
President. If it should be passed upon
favorably by both Houses, it would be
impossible to secure the assent of a suffi
cient number of the State Legislatures
to have it effective in time for the next
Presidential election. Even if there
should be time, it is not believed that
three fourths of the State Legislatures
will ever consent to it. But what is
more to the present purpose, there is no
prospect of its passing the Senate, be
cause the two other Republican leaders
in that body, Messrs. Conkling and Ed
munds, have determined that it shall not
pass.
Mr. Edmunds introduced on last Fri
day a bill vesting in the Supreme Court
of the United States plenary power to
determine contested elections of Presi
dent and Vice President. This bill he
has determined to antagonize with the
proposition of Senator Morton, and as
chairman ot the Judiciary Committee he
will be able to control a considerable
number of other Republican Senators.
The Judiciary Committee was, on motion
of Mr. Edmunds, granted leaye to-day' to
sif fluring the session of the Senate. The
object of Mr. Edmunds is to have his bill
considered and perfected so that it can be
reported back to the Senate at the earli
est possible day. Some members of the
Judiciary Committee have suggested con
stitutional objections to the bill as orig
inally drawn, but Mr. Edmunds is willing
to modify it to meet these objections.
DEFEAT OF A CAUCUS PLOT.
In pursuance of the caucus arrange
ment on Saturday night Mr. Cessna to
day offered a resolution, which was in
tended to deprive the minority of the
privilege of making dilatory' motions,
which has frequently enabled them to
defeat such arbitrary legislation as the
majority has frequently evinced a dispo
sition to put through the House. The
proposition was defeated by a vote of 150
y'eas to 98 nays, a two-thirds vote being
required to carry it through. It was not
only resisted by the Democrats on party
grounds, but by some of the best men on
the Republican side, who plainly saw
that if it was adopted there would be no
end to the efforts that would be made to
put jobs through the House under the
whip and spur of the previous question.
That it was deliberately intended to gag
the minority of the present House, and
to hold them hand and foot, was very
plain from the terms of the resolution
which was limited in its operations to
the present session.
The lobby—the representatives of the
Choctaw and Chickasaw claims; those
interested in the notorious Chorpenning
claim; the Texas Pacific lobby and
kindred interests—looked on with anxiety
as the vote was being taken, and saw a
gleam of hope for their schemes, if two-
thirds of the House could be found to put
this barefaced measure through. Their
chagrin was undisguised when it failed.
1’he Republicans who voted with the
Democrats and helped to defeat the pro
position, were Messrs. Buffington, of
Massachusetts; Burleigh, of Maine; Bur-
chard, of Illinois; Foster, of Ohio: Hale,
of New York: Kasson, of Iowa: Lowndes,
of Maryland; Merriam, of New York;
Phelps, of New Jersey; Pierce, of Massa
chusetts; E. H. Roberts, of New York;
Ross, of Pennsylvania; Sener aiul Smith,
of Virginia; Smith, of Ohio; Willard, of
Vermont, and Willard, of Michigan.
Important to Cotton Men.—Smith,
Edwards & Co., of Liverpool, concludes
that the last crop of American cotton
yielded a surplus of 300,000 bales above
the world’s consumption and the previous
one 200,000, and if the present crop
reaches 4,250,000 bales, it will be a sur
plus of 200,000, for they do not believe
the consumption^ will exceed 4,000.000
bales. In England, the const!mption will
be stationary, on the continent increase
1 little, and iD America decrease a little.
If the present crop be 4,250,000 there
will be an excess in the three years of
750,000 bales of American cotton. India
and Brazil will give as much as last year,
(India certain unless prices fall very low;,
Egypt 50,000 to 100,000 less.
Will the United States crop amount to
4,000,000? That is now the question.—
Columbus Enquirer.
Mysterious Disappearance.—Denver.
CoL, January 23.—Francis Foot, recently
fromTjondon, opened an extensive jewelry
establishment in this city about six weeks
ago. Nothing has been seen or heard of
him since the 9th inst., when he stated
that he intended visiting the southern
portion of the Territory. His clerks,
though having the combination of his
safe, are unable to open it. The store,
since his absence, has virtually been
without goods. Telegrams have been
sent in many directions inquiring as to
his whereabouts, but the response comes
that nobody has seen him. Some sur
mised that he has been murdered and his
goods stolen, while others hint that he
has jumped the country. The case cer
tainly is a very peculiar one, and is being
investigated by the police authorities.
The wife of one John Israel, negro, ap
plied for a warrant before Justice Arm
strong, of Salem, Virginia, for the arrest
of her husband, charging him with beat
ing his child of about one year old, and
then, shocking to relate, torturing it to a
cruel degree by holding it to the fire till
blistered by the heat. She brought the
child before the justice, its person show
ing it to have been unmercifully mal
treated both by blows and with fire. The
negro man has been committed to jail to
await the action of the next grand jury.
The Republican Party’s Unconditional
Surrender.
[Correspondence New York Sun.]
Washington. January 20.—Now that
the plot against the South and against
the liberties of the American people has
been fully developed, it may be well to
inquire when and by whom it was origi
nated. It may be clearly traced back to
a date auterior to the October elections,
when the slander mill was running up to
its full capacity of manufactured out
rage dispatches, and a Grant newspaper*
which proved short lived, was established
in New York to print them.
Attorney General Williams, through his
j emissaries in the South, led off in this
nefarious scheme for maintaining the
supremacy* of the Radical party and se
curing Grant a third term. If other
means failed it was determined to place
the South onoe more under bayonet rule.
Early in October, 1874, the Watchman, a
weekly newspaper printed at Mobile, and
edited by a colored man named Philip
Joseph, advocated increasing the powers
of the President, the proclaiming of
MARTIAL LAW IN THE SOUTH,
and the establishment of drum-head
courts-martial. This service the Presi
dent r^'-arded 0 short time ago by the
nomination, at the request of Joseph, of
L. W. Parsons to the Judgeship vacated
by Busteed. In so doing he ignored the
whole Alamaba delegation, even to Spen
cer, his willing tool, and Judge White,
who now aims to lead the carpet-baggers
in the House, but who, having failed to
secure his re-election, wanted the place
himself. The President had been greatly
perplexed over this appointment, but
when Philip Joseph came to Washington
with a petition signed by negro Ku-Klux,
• and demanded the appointment of Par
sons as a man “upon whom the colored
people could depend,’ it was made forth
with.
The slander-mill outrages having failed
of their effect in the North, and the car
pet-loggers finding when Congress as
sembled that they were rather looked
down upon and despised by respectable
Republicans, recognized that all was lost
unless they made a desperate move. Hav
ing first secured as an organ the National
Republican of this city, a paper which
has laid claim to serving the President in
that capacity, they held a caucus and re
solved that, unless they were treated as
equals by the better class of Republicans,
were granted equal privileges in the way
of patronage aud other respects, and un
less the Republican party followed out
for the next two years Attorney General
Williams’ policy toward the South,
they would leave the Southern States
to take care of themselves, and that
would be the end of Republicanism down
there, at least. Most people regarded j
this as mere idle vaporing on the part of
a lot of adventurers, who saw place and
power slipping from them, and were
ready to resort to desperate means to re
tain them. Democrats laughed, while
Conservative Republicans regarded their
proceedings with silent contempt. But
the carpet-baggers meant business, as
has been proved by recent developments.
They have arrayed on their side the
President, with the army and navy at his
back, and the revenues of the country at
his command. They* control, through
Attorney General Williams, tho United
States courts, they have the cugtom
houses and the post offices of the South;
and finally, with the aid of Senators
Morton, Conkling, Sargent, and others,
they have fully committed the Republi
can party to their policy of
PROSCRIPTION, OPPRESSION. AND IIATE.
The Southern States have 108 Congress
men in the two Houses. Forty-six are
Democrats and the remaining »j2 are
carpet-baggers am] spalawags. Of this
number perhaps a dozen are honest, fair-
minded men; so that fifty carpet-baggers,
representing only* ignorant negroes, ac
tually' control the Republicans iu Col-
gress, and have committed the Republi
can party to a pernicious policy*, which, |
if it does nothing more, will revive sec
tional prejudices, create an antagonism
of races, place a blight on agriculture,
and embarrass trade and commerce.
Everything has favored this plot from j
its iuception. When it was decided to |
consider the appropriation bills during j
the recess, and the Committee on Appro
priations was authorized to sit for that
purpose, it was expected that the Demo
cratic members would fail to attend its
sessions; and this proved to be the case.
Governor Swann came over a few times
from Baltimore, but alone could accom
plish nothing, aud the other Democratic
members of the committee remained at
t.ieir homes. So the Radicals cooked up
the appropriation bills to suit their pur
poses, and when they’ were introduced on
the first day of the session not a Demo
cratic member knew anything of their
contents. Moreover, they have been al
lowed to pass without scrutiny* and almost
unchallenged. It is already known that
the Naval Appropriation bill contains a
very convenient fund, which Secor Robe
son can expend when aDd where he sees
fit. It is reasonable to suppose that the
other bills have been made useful in a
similar way, and how useful the country
will never know, perhaps, until a Demo
cratic administration authorizes and car
ries out a thorough investigation of all
the departments.
THE PLOT TO RE-ELECT GRANT.
Grant struck the key note of his third
term campaign in those portions of his
last annual message, written by Attorney
General Williams, endorsing the slander-
mill outrages, raising anew the cry of
Ku-Klux and White League, ant} repom?
mending the appointmei^t of a commit
tee to investigate the South. On the re
ports* of this committee it was proposed
to begin anew* the work of reconstruction,
with a view to remanding the South to
military rule. Here occurs, however, the
first hitch in the programme. The re
port of the sub-committee sent to Louisi
ana is not what was expected of them. It
exposes the rottenness of the Kellogg
usurpation, the illegality of tho Return
ing Board, and the frauds committed by
it. The Alabama committee will submit
two reports, The majority report will
l»e as partisan as even Attorney General
Williams could wish. The Mississippi
committee has not yet returned. The in
tention was, and still is, to reconstruct
these three States so as to hold them by
the bayonet in the next Presidential ejec
tion. If the preliminary moyeme-Utfi are
successful, Arkansas wifi k6 included, and
h reign of tenor inaugurated throughout
the South.
BAYONETS AND FRAUD.
But bayonets are not alone to be used
to control the Sooth in the interest ot
Grant. Early in the present session bills
were introduced in the House by White,
of Alabama, and Whiteley, of Georgia,
to legalize repeating and to place the
absolute control of elections in the South
ern States in the hands of the creatures
of Laudaulet Williams. Under White’s
bill, the voter is permitted to vote any
where in the Congressional distriot. A
negro in Wilcox may' vote in Mobile, or
one from Pike may vote in Montgomery,
tie proposed a Federal supervision of the
votes. His Supervisors are to receive and
count the votes, and make a return of
the election. In other words, the whole
machinery of elections is to be taken out
<>f the hands of the States and placed in
the hands of managers to be appointed
from Washington. Whiteley’s bill is of
similar tenor, though less skillfully
drawn, and is to apply only to the South
ern States. An attempt was made to se
cure action by the Judiciary Committee
on these bills during the absence of Mr.
Potter in New Orleans, but it failed.
They are now in the hands of General
Butler, who has been authorized to report
them, and they are likely to be adopted
as party measures and passed.
The civil rights bill is another carpet
bag weapon. No one pretends to say
that either the original or the emascu
lated bill can give to the negro any rights
he does not now possess. But the chief
and only value of the civil rights bill, in
the estimation of its advocates and sup
porters, is that it may incite hatred be
tween the races and serve as a fire-brand
in the South,
The Radical leaders in Alabama are so
encouraged at the turn of events that
( they are openly boasting they will have
; the State under martial law inside of
thirty days, and that they then intend
shooting the Democratic leaders and
1 turning all Democrats out of office.
Grant’s message on Louisiana will give
i the carpet-baggers further encourage-
j ment. It clearly indicates that there is
I to be no betting upon tfr 5, ‘third term nor
I upon the South.
What Came from Keeping a Loaded
Gun in the House.—The Adair county
( Iowa) Reporter gives an account of a
singular accident which occurred in Lin
coln township, m that county*: “ The
family were seated at the dinner table.
A shot gun in the adjoining room was
thrown down by the jar caused by shut
ting a door, and the gun being dis
charged. the contents passed through the
partition wall, making a hole several
inches in diameter. The report caused
Mr. Barnett to spring to the assistance
of his wife, thinking her wounded. In
endeavoring to raise his left arm he found
it to be helpless, the bone shattered and
the flesh badly torn. Mrs. Barnett es
caped injury, the bullet passing just over
her head. Their daughter, aged some
ten or twelve years, received a few shot
in one of her hands.”
CHEAP TELEGRAPHY.
A Vigorous Figlit to bp Jladc Against the
Western Union.
The Cincinnati Enquirer of yesterday
says; “Mr. W. H. Eckert, at one time
connected with the Western Union Tele
graph Company, but w*ho has latterly
been railroading, has been appointed
Manager of the Cincinnati office* of the
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company.
This in itself would not have much sig
nificance, for the efficient Mr. F. M.
Speed, who has been in charge, will con
tinue his duties until he is transferred to
the Construction Department. But the
appointment is but one step in a general
movement that may assume national
importance. Mr. T. Eckert, late
Superintendent of the Eastern Divi
sion of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, was laat week elected to the
Presidency of the Atlantic and Pacific,
and so far as we can gather, a telegraphic
revolution is imminent. Whether the
New York Herald is behind the scenes or
only speculators, we are unprepared to
say, but there has been evidently given to
the corporation a fresh infusion of life
blood. The office here is to be enlarged
and remodeled. A direct wire to New
York is to be put up at once, and will le
made equal to four by the introduction of
the new quadruplex attachment, the
.adoption of which by the Western
Union Company was noticed last week,
but the exclusive right to use which
the Atlantic and Pacific Company claim.
The Western territory will be rapidly
covered, Indianapolis. St. Louis, Louis
ville, Memphis, and Nashville, being the
first objective points. ‘Cheap telegraphy’
is to be ihe motto, active opposition and
without the usual sell out to the monopo
ly is promised. There are rumors that
the movement means consolidation with
the Atlantic Company, the coming mon
arch in telegraphy, but as to this we are
not able to speak authoritatively. It has
not yet been decided, we believe, whether
or not the office will be removed to Fourth
street or additional accommodations se
cured in the present location.”
Advices from the Fast are to the effect
that the Automatic Telegraph Company,
with its entire franchise property, was to
have been transferred yesterday to the
Atlantic and Pacific. Gen. Eckert, who
has just left the Western Union Company,
will be President of the new combina
tion. The system to be used in trans
mission is one known as the automatic,
and persons skilled in this method are
now introducing the peculiar instruments
which it employs in the mast leading
cities. Special arrangements for the
press are to bo proposed by the new line.
Reported Atrocious Murder in West
Virginia.—The Parkersburg (West Va.)
Times, of January 20th, refers as follows
to a rumor current in the streets of that
city on that day. The story* runs thus :
“A farmer living five miles from Grafton,
West Va., sold his farm for $5,000 cash.
The evening after the reception of the
money' his house was entered by three
men, who killed the farmer’s wife* and
two children. Soon the farmer arrived
with a peddler, who, beholding the bodies
of the killed, rushed, the peddler armed
with a revolver, into a room, where they*
found the invaders busily counting tlie
money, at w*hich the peddler commenced
firing, killing two of the men, and fatally
wounding the third one. Of course the
affair is creating intense excitement, the
more so as one of the killed burglars was
recognised »s the brother-in-law of the
farmer. We, however, have not yet seen
any reports of this terrible affair in any
of our exchanges, so we do not know
whether it ; s based upon reliable re
ports.”
Nicely Fixed. — Allen, the Vermont
burglar, made a shrewed attempt to es
cape from the Chelsea jail, the other
night, by rigging up a “dummy” in a
sitting position upon his bed and appar
ently reading a newspaper and fixed its
leg so that it jogged quietly up and
down. The officer who came to lock the
prisoners up at night asked if everything
was right, and a voioe said it was. He
locked the door and went into the cell
above, when he saw some one going along
the walk, and running out caught Allen,
whom he supposed he had locked in his
cell. The leg of the dummy was operated
by a string which passed into the cell
above, the occupant of which worked to
aid Allen in his escape, while the answer
to the officer’s question was made thorugh
the ventilator.
A Strong Man’s Feat.—Patrick Fitz
patrick, an employe of a firm of flour
dealers in Lowell, Mass., on Thursday
afternoon last, carried a barrel of flour,
weighing altogether over two hundred
and twelve pounds, on his back from the
Framingham freight depot to the store of
the firm without stopping, the distance
being over a mile. The barrel was
fastened on his baek by a iope. Mr.
Fitzpatrick’s weight is about a hundred
and sixty-five pounds, and lie seemed but
little fatigued when he arrived at the
store, stating that he would carry it back
again at once for a hundred dollars. He
received the flour and ten dollars addi
tional as a reward for the successful per
formance of the feat.
hotels ana Restaurants.
Alabama State Bonds.—Montgomery,
Ala., January 25.—Governor Hous
ton and Messrs. Lawler and Betheas,
commissioners under the law to investi
gate and asoertain the debt of the State,
v-all on all persons holding bonds issued
or endorsed by the State to forward to
them as early as practicable a statement
showing the amount of bonds held by
them respectively, giving date, number,
amount and rate of interest, and time of
maturity of each bond, and the date of
default in the payments of coupons, and
also a reference to the act under which
the bonds of the State so held were
issued. They also desire to know wheth
er the bonds are held under a bona fide
purchase or under hypothecation, and if
by hypothecation, when, of whom and
for what thev were obtained.
Lucy Hooper, in a Paris letter, says of
the German hair trade : “The highest-
priced hair is pure white, long tresses of
which are not sold by the pound, but by
the single hair, each hair being valued at
about half a cent. The most valuable of
the natural hues is pale gold; a switch of
that color was displayed, valued at nearly
$100, even in that wholesale mart. The
greatest curiosity I saw at Wetzlar was a
switch of light-brown hair, measuring
six feet in length, and for which $100
had been paid to the original owner
thereof.
BRESKAN’S
European Hoim
150, 150, 160 & 102
BRYAN STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
WHAT MOKE APPROPRIATE
Christmas Present
—FOB—
Wife, Sister or Mother,
—THAN A—
WHEELER & WILSON
Sewing iladiwe
Several new and elegant styles In
GOLD AND PEARL
r 'piIE Proprietor, having completed the ncces-
L s&ry additions and improvements, can now
cfler to his guests all the comfort* to be obtained
at other Hotels at less than
HALF THE EXPENSE!
A RESTAURANT
ON THE
EUROPEAN PLAN
Has been added, where gnesta can
AT ALL HOURS
Order whatever can be obtained in the market.
Another Outrage.—A St. Louis den
tist refused to fill the teeth of a “cullud
pussoo.”
ROOMS, WITH BOARD,
$2 00 PER DAY.
Determined to be
Outdone by None,
All I ask is a TRIAL, confident that complete
satisfaction will be given.
JOHN BRESNAN,
PROPRIETOR.
feb!9-tf
Jin footing, &r.
CONTRACTOR
•—FOR—
TIN ROOFING,
Gutters and Conductors.
Also, for making and putting up
GALVANIZED IltON CORNICE,
ORNAMENTAL BRACKETS,
GUTTERS AND CONDUCTORS.
REPAIRING ROOFS will meet with prompt
attention. Orders solicted.
( or mack Hopkins,
No. 107 Broughton St.
janT-tf
•ffiUUnmt ©oods.
Millinery! Millinery!
—AT-?
Reduced Prices!
[ 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
the city. Also a full line of Velvets on the bias,
in all colors.
I have just received a largo and beautiful as
sortment of TIES, in all the new colors.
Also, a new assortment of Hosiery, Kid o/oves,
('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 Umbrella* for
Lillies and Gents.
Ladies, call and examine my stock. You will
tind them cheap and of the best quality of goods.
H. C. HOUSTON,
jan5-tf 22 Boll street (Masonic building).
#hafl and fflptrrs.
siiail and Oysters.
UEO. A. HUDSON.
M. M. SULLIVAN.
HUDSON & SULLIVAN,
—DEALERS IN—
Shad, Oysters, Open and Shell
—ALSO—
All kinds of SALT and FRESH WATER FISH
in season. Orders from all parts of Ihe country
promptly attended to.
North side of Bay street, foot of Whitaker
street. janl-tf
ahats and Caps, &(.
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 Hate,
THE HOLIDAY.
Sojd only by
Browu, the Hatter,
dec31-tf 137 Congress street.
educational.
COB. ASBURY COWARD,
PRINCIPAL.
A FULL CORPS OF ABLE PROFESSORS.
Complete outfit of arms, apparatus, etc., for
thorough mental and physical training. Location
noted for heaithfnlness and possessing railroad
and telegraphic facilities. For Illustrated Catal
ogue apply to Principal.
jan6-M,W&FJan,Jly&Dec3m
C00PERVILLE SCHOOL.
T HE exercises of the above school will be re
sumed on the first day of February, prox.
The course of study will embrace the branches
usually tanght in high schools.
The rates of tuition and board will be moder
ate. Apply to
REV. T. B. COOPER, Principal,
an12-tFebl Ogeechee P. O., Scriven Co M Ga.
Wrapping Paper.
nV)R SALK, OLD NEWSPAPERS, SUITABLE
C for wrapping paper, at Flftr Cmto pm ka^
ired. Aprtx to
JUST RECEIVED.
OFFICE:
New Masonic Temple.
decl4-M,W*F&wtf
fainting.
PAINTING!
CHRIS. MURPHY.
CHA8. CLARK.
Murphy & Clark,
98 Bryan street, between Drayton and
Abercom Street*,
SAVANNAH, GA.
ve HOUSE, SHIP, STEAMBOAT, SION AND
t rnam’tal Painters,
GILDING,
GRAINING,
MARBLING,
GLAZ IN G
AND
Paper Hanging.
We are prepared to offer estimates far every de
scription of Painting in any Dart of Georg a,
South Carolina and Florida, ana guarantee satis
faction in the execution of oar work.
We keep always in store a select stock of the
following articles:
PURE ENGLISH B. B. LEAD.
A^XANTIC and ali other brands of LEADS.
OILS, VARNISHES, PUTTY, BRUSHES.
Furniture, Demar and other VARNISHES put
up In quart, pint and half pint bottle*, ready for
use.
GROUND and ENAMELED GLASS.
STAINED and PLAIN of various colors.
Doable and single thick French, English and
American GLASS.
GOLD LEAF, BRONZE, Glaziers’ DIAMONDS.
Machinery OILS, and Axle GREASE
A select stock of GOLD and PLAIN PAPER
HANGINGS.
Persons desiring work and material in our line
would do well to give us a call before going else
where.
PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL
SIGN WORK
Executed with neatness and dispatch.
PATENT STEP LADDERS.
As the season has set in when honse cleaning is
tlie order of the day, it can’t be done without a
STEP LADDER!
The place to get them Light and Durable is at the
Paint and Oil Store of
MURPHY & CLARK.
PRICE $2 50 TO $6, ALL SIZES.
Stained to imitate Black Walnut and Lettered
wilh the purchaser’s name, if desired. oct22-tf
(fopartumlnp ftotires.
Limited Partnership Notice.
T HE Limited Partnership heretofore existing
under the firm name of HOPKINS & WOOD,
having been dissolved by the death of John I).
Hopkins, one of the general partners, «n the 7th
instant, the undi| ‘ * * ***
rauce Wood amn
England, and Farl
is general partner!
nah, Ga.. as a special partner, will carry on the
business as a Limited Partnership under the firm
name of
WOOD & SWEAT.
The general 1 atnre ot the business to be trans
acted is that of Commission Merchants.
Said Limited Partnership business commences
January 14th, 1875, aDd terminates August 31st,
i876.
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
(Smrnt f iprs, &c.
CEMEnt PIPES.
Savannah Brick Man n’t
Having purchased the
Cement Pipe Machine Patents
are now manufacturing Cement Pipes for Drains,
Sewers, or Well Curbs, of all sizes, and have
on hand a large stock of pipe of the following sizes:
3, 4, 6, 9,19, 15, 30, and 36 inches, and Bends and
Branches to suit. Contractors are requested to
give them a call
BEFORE USING ANY OTHER PIPE.
This Patent Pipe has been tested for years in
the North, East and West, where it 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 attendon. Orders left at the
store ot Messrs. Crawford & Lovell, 157 Brough
ton street, for Pipe or Brick will be promptly at
tended to.
E. C. SWAIN, President Sav. B. M’f’g Co.
D. Bailey. Sec. and Treas. jan4-3m
©as Jittfog.
JOHN NIC0LS0N,
Gas & Steam Fitter,
Plumber and dealer In Gas Fixtures,
DRAYTON STREET,
SECOND DOOR ABOVE BBOUGHTON.
Houses fitted with Gas and Water, with all the
latest improvements, at the shortest notice.
WM. M. McFALL,
Practical Plumber and Gas Fitter,
N*. 40 Whitaker Street,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Bath Tubs, Water Closets, Chandeliers and Gss
Fixtures of every description constantly on band,
Jobbing done at the shortest notice.
gm %ml$.
New Kovels.
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 25
EDNA BROWNING 1 50
IDOLATRY 1 75
STOLEN WATERS 1 75
NOT IN THEIR SET 1 50
TESTED 1 *5
FROZEN DEEP 1 50
A DAUGHTER OF BOHEMIA 1 »N>
SYLVIA’S CHOICE 50
SQUIRE ARDEN 75
LORN A DOONE 75
FOR LOVE AND LIFE 75
NO ALTERNATIVE 1 00
Also, cheap editions of Dickens, Thackeray,
Bulwer, Byron, Shakspeare, Scott, Milton, Moore,
Lever, Captain Marryatt, Ac., at
ESTILL’S
NEWS DEPOT,
Ctner mf Ball Street u4 Bay Ease,
Downstairs (rear of Post Office).
luUiS, &c.
““PLANTS!
BOQUBTS and
FLOWERS.
DESIGNS for
Weddings and Funerals.
Choice BCLB8,
In variety
AMO,
BULB GLASSES.
FLOWER JABS, Ac., Ac.
* <1. PARSONS A GO.
octl-tf ill State and s« Bull street