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Affairs in Georgia.
\\’e take pleasure in stating that the
^ta Herald has published another
elaborate article on usury. If we are not
mistaken this is called a crusade.
The assistant of Watson, of the Macon
Ttkgraph, contributes this puzzling co
nundrum ; “Why are not the laws of God
good enough for man?” He might as
well ask us why Bob Alston doesn’t be
lieve that money is a commodity.
The Gridin Hews is four years old, with
a good prospect of getting older.
There has been considerable sickness
in the neighborhood of LaGrange re-
O ceutly.
Thomas Stolnaker, of Burke county,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary
for life for murder.
Augusta is eating strawberries grown
in the open air.
Tim Murphy, of Atlanta, is shadowing
a gang of sharpers which is said to be
operating on the railroad.
The Atlanta Constitution has got
through with its gift concert business and
there were no bones broken. Not a prize
was drawn in Atlanta—a fact that looks
to us like poetical justice.
Mr. David W. Patman, the member
from Oglethorpe county, preached a
hardshell sermon in Atlanta last Sunday.
A youth named Baudry Moore acci
dentally shot his hand off in Augusta re
cently.
The Griffiu News has unearthed a ter
rible scandal. It is the old story of love
and wrong, the victim being a young lady
of respectable connections in Alabama.
The colored people around Griffin have
a raging desire to flee into the wild West.
Talking about Georgia’s resources, the
Atlanta Herald says the Dade Company
own 8,000 acres ot land in one body,
which is estimated to contain coal
enough to last forever. The principal
stockholders are Gov. Brown, who owns
about one-half; Mr. John T. Grant and
Capt. Win. Grant, Mr. W. C. Morrill and
Mr. Jacob Seaver, of Boston, owning the
balance. They have already spent over
$2**0,000 in actual cash, and are still im
proving. They get out now about thirty
car loads of coal per day, and will soon
he able to send off forty-five. They have
only been at work about two years. The
coal is shipped to various points, espe
cially to Chattanooga. The State Road
consumes about one hundred tons per
day. The iron works at Chattanooga
consume a great deal, and the Scofield
mills of this city are heavy consumers.
It is peculiarly adapted for generating
heat, for railroads and foundries. It is
one of the largest and most entensive cor
porations in the State, und as yet it is in
its infancy.
The Meriwether Vindicator remarks:
Among the prominent members of the
House, Gen. A. R. Lnwton, of Savannah,
appears eminently conspicuous. He is
chairman of the House Judiciary Com
mittee. and I hazard nothing in saying
that no man in Georgia ever filled the po
sition more worthy. Though there are
many able lawyers in the House, yet when
Gen. Lawton rises and announces that
his committee recommends that the bill
do not pass, you can see at once a deter
mination on the part of the House that
the bill shant pass. It is but just to say
that among Gen. Lawton’s associates on
the committee are found the ablest men
and best lawyers in the State, for second
on the list is Judge Speer, of Griffin;
third is our clear-headed Warner; then
comes the logical Hoge, of Fulton ; after
him the earnest and convincing Ander
son, of Cobb; then the accomplished
Bacon, of Bibb—each and all of them
giants. Georgia has a right to expect
something from this committee.
McDuffie Journal: The bill introduced
in the Legislature by Representative J.
M. Potts, of Jackson county, which pro
vides for the reduction of the House to
eighty-eight members, giving two to each
Senatorial District, is a measure which,
if carried out, would result in much good,
t very thinking man must admit that the
General Assembly as now constituted,
with forty-four Senators and one hundred
and seventy-five Representatives, besides
being an immense expense to the State,
is entirely too large and unwieldy for
practical purposes. Every member im
agines that he must introduce sev
eral bills, however nonsensical or
unimportant, and make a number
°f speeches during the session, or re
turn to his constituents in disgrace. The
result is that valuable time is consumed
m discussing insignificant local bills, and
delivering trashy speeches, to the exclu-
| sion of business of importance- One of
the greatest curses inflicted on our people
is too much legislation, necessitating a
2ew Code every few years, and producing
such conflicts and confusion among the
numberless statutes as to mystify the
finest lawyers. These troubles would
f disappear if the plan proposed in the bill
were adopted, and the Legislature con
vened biennially instead of annually.
I he office of Representative would be of
aiuch higher honor, while the material
from which to select members would be
vastly increased, and the expense to the
tax-payers reduced at least two-thirds.
But we do not expect any such bill to
pass. There are too many would-be
•statesmen, with free passes over the
railroads, and the doubtful prefix “Hon.”
to their names, who would suffer total
eclipse when brought into competition
with the talent of a Senatorial District.
Atlanta Constitution: The report of
fhe joint special committee appointed to
investigate the indebtedness of several
officers of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road, etc., makes a bulky pamphlet of
nearly four hundred pages. We assume
that our readers have no time to examine
the voluminous evidence upon which the
findings of the committee are founded,
and will be content to know their con
clusions. We give them iij the order of
their presentation. In Jesse W- Jack-
son’s case the Comptroller General had
issued fi. fas., for $3,218 90, besides
interest. Mr. Jackson presented seven
items of credit, only two of which
'were satisfactory to Ihe committee.
r £hey recommended that he be allowed
3Md$ and lif$taurant$.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
$750 for looking after the unfinished
business of the Atlanta station after
the lease of the road, and $43 46 for
the proceeds of some cotton sold by order
of the superintendent, which were turned
into the treasury. After deducting these
credits they recommend that the fi. fa.
proceed against Mr. Jackson and his secu
rities for the balance of the principal and
interest. The fi. fas. against A. L. Harris
amount to $8,407 67, besides interest.
He presented fifteen items of credit, which
only netted him, in the judgment of the
committee, $162 55. They recommend
that the balance be collected according to
law. In B. W. Wrenn’s case the books
show a balance against him of $14,979 53,
to which should be added admitted items
amounting to $1,659 90. Air. Wrenn
claimed credits as follows:
Cash paid on time check $ 724 75
Paid express for stamp, C. O. D 13 00
Orders from conductors,returned to trea
surer as cash 804 50
Lost vouchers 6,SS3 50
Two receipts from Jared I. Whitaker,for
printing 3,650 00
Four receipts of A. B. Wrenn 90S 50
Total 12,9S4 25
The committee allowed the third, fifth,
and part of the sixth items—in all amount
ing to $5,654 50, and recommend that
the balance be collected. Isaac P.
Harris presented no less than for
ty-three items to reduce the State’s
bill of $28,933 24 against him. He
secured recommendations for credits to
the extent of $7,758 37, leaving the
amount to be collected $21,184 87, be
sides interest. The report concludes with
a consideration of the State’s liability on
the endorsed bonds of the Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroad Company. On this
subject the committee say: “We are
clearly of the opinion that the State's
endorsement on these bonds is a viola
tion of the Constitution of the State, and
void; and we recommend that it be so
declared, and that the Governor be in
structed not to pay said bonds or the
interest thereon.” This certainly covers
the case, and leaves little room for sur
mise when the Legislature takes up the
question.
—TO—
T11E MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
POLAND’S PRESS GAG LAW.
WAS ZACH CHANDLER ON A SRPEE t
Attempts to Wreck Railroad Trains in
Pennsylvania.
LARGE STRIKE IN NEW ENGLAND
COTTON MILLS.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, February 2.—In the Senate,
Mr. Clayton, of Arkansas, presented a me
morial of Jos. Brooks, of Arkansas statiDg
that he was elected Governor of that State
in 1874; that the State government lias been
usurped by force and fraud, and asking that
ho be recognized bv Congress, and such
action taken as to protect constitutional gov
ernment in that State. Referred to the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections.
After nearly three hours spent in fruitless
efforts to have the rules suspended and the
new rule passed, a motion was at last car
ried, by a majority of one, to suspend the
rules aud allow the Committee on Rules to
report now. Garfield thereupon reported
from the Committee on Rules a new rule
prohibiting dilatory motions. The House
is now considering it.
WAS CHANDLER DRUNK?
St. Louis, February 2.—A. C. Buell, of the
Republican, has been notified by the District
Attorney, under orders from the Bureau of
Justic e, that he is wanted in Washington for
slandering Zach Chandler. The proceedings
are under Poland’s gag law. Buell gave
bail, and the best legal talent have volun
teered to test the legality of the law.
ATTEMPTS TO WRECK TRAINS.
Philadelphia, February 2.—The timely
discovery of a chain across the Pennsylvania
Railroad, at Paoli, Pennsylvania, prevented
a frightful accident. The probable object
was plunder.
Repeated tamperings with the switches of
the Reading Railroad failed of accomplish
ing any disaster. The road men are doubled,
and are doubly vigilant.
FRENCH POLITICS.
Paris, February 2.—The amendment for
bidding the President to assume chief com
mand was met by the assurance that Mac-
Mahon would resign if debarred from draw
ing his sword in defense of the country.
The amendment was withdrawn. The
amendment giving the President power to
dissolve the Chamber of Deputies is pend
ing.
THE CARLISTS.
Madrid, February 2.—The army of the
north continues to advance. It has taken
Monreal and Lergos. The relief of Pampe-
luna is considered certain. The Carhsts
abandon the route within resistance.
Serrano has returned. A great council of
Carlist leaders has been held. Don Carlos
presided.
FOULKS.
Alexandria, Va., February 2.—Foulks.
who murdered the Herndon family ii
Prince William county, Ya., was recaptured
five miles from the Court House. He impli
cates other negroes, but it is not believed.
It is expected he will make a confession be
fore being hung.
LABOR STRIKE.
Fall River, February 2.—The Granite
aud Crescent mills bavo stopped. The Mer
chants’ mill stops to-day. The Weavers’
Union has decided to send* a thousand weav
ers back to England.
EXTRADITION TREATY.
Berlin, February 2.—The Federal Coun
cil empowers Bismarck to conclude an ex
tradition treaty with the United States.
DECLINES.
London, February 2.—Great Britain de
clines to send delegates to the St. Peters
burg National Codo Convention, alleging
that no practical results are possible.
JOHN BRIGHT.
London, February 2.—John Bright pre
sides over the Liberal caucus.
CLOSED.
St. Louis, February 2.—The People’s Sav
ings Institution is closed.
What He Thinks.—When the Ha
waiian King was asked what he thought
of American, i. e. Yankee women, he re
plied: “I think they are handsome, bold
and forward. Why, I actually received
several letters from ladies m New York,
Washington and Boston, plainly pro
posing marriage. I am a bachelor; but
when I want to marry a woman I will
ask her. I do not like to have women
propose. It is, in my opinion, wrong.”
Think of those brazen white spinsters
thus rebuked by a mulatto “king.’’
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER,
Ulysses at the Theatre—The Frauds of
the C’ottou Bureau—A Nigger In the
Wrong Pew—The Tribulations ofSecor
Robeson— .Vlortou’s Joint Resolution-
General Gordon’s Defence of the Sooth
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
A recently patented automatic lock is
about to be placed on the door of a Ful
ton county bank vault. This lock is so
constructed that it can be unlocked by
no person except during banking hours.
The lock was purposely invented to
obviate bank officers from being taken
from their beds at night and compelled
to open their vault by burglars, as has
been done in many parts of the country.
The lock is said to be no longer an exper
iment,
North Carolina Judicial Expenses.—
The western district of North Carolina
will now command the attention of the
Committee on Judicial Expenditures. The
expenditures in that district last year
leached the enormous sum of $114,000.
The Marshal of the district, Mr. Robert
M. Douglass, has been summoned to
Washington to explain to the committee
the cause of this large expenditure, and
the committee will, if necessary, proceed
to a general investigation of the subject.
In the Bank of France they have got a
brick for which they paid one thousand
francs in specie. This brick was redeemed
on presentation because it had on the
surface the image and figures of a note
for one thousand francs transferred by
heat from a real note. It was taken from
the ruins of a burned house.
Washington, January 31, 1875.
a little incident.
The President is very fond of going to
the theatre, and it is very rarely that a
week passes that he does not spend an
evening at one or the other of the thea
tres of Washington. At the National
Theatre a night or two since he occupied
his accustomed front seat in the private
box, where he can be easily seen by the
entire audience. During the course of
the play there was considerable gagging
indulged in by the actors, including allu
sions to the third term, military inter
ference, Ac., which seemed to delight
the audience very much. Finally one of
the players brought in the name of Grant
when another quickly replied. “Andy
Johnson will soon be in the Senate and
will take care of him,” At this the ap
plause was perfectly uproarious, the
men cheered, and the women waved their
handkerchiefs, and it was a minute or
two before order was restored. As
straws show which way the wind blows,
this is a good indication of the way the
popular current is running even in this
hot-bed of Radicalism. In the midst of all
the commotion, the President retained
his attitude unmoved, and not a change
of expression flitted across his stolid
countenance. As he looked upon things,
he no doubt construed the demonstration
as an indication of the popular approval
of his policy. Formerly he had no policy
of his own to enforce, but he has long
since gotton bravely over that.
pinchback and his hopes.
Pinchback airs his impudence in the
Senate almost daily, just as he did last
session. He has been on the ragged edge
of expectancy for a good while, but seems
to stand it very well. It is twenty thou
sand dollars to an apple that the Senate
will ever take him off this ragged edge.
If he does not get in before the 4th of
March that will be the end of his Senato
rial aspirations. In the five weeks left
of this session he and his friends will
have a hard row to hoe.
a corrupt concern.
Efforts have again been made at this
session of Congress to institute an inves
tigation into the operations of the noto
rious Cotton Division of the Treasury De
partment, but it is to be expected that
tiiey will be baulked as they have been
before. The investigation of this cor
rupt concern will, however, certainly be
made by the next House of Representa
tives, and its nefarious transactions be
laid bare to the public gaze. Perhaps
then the country will find out why less
than $200,000 of the $20,000,000 received
for cotton unlawfully seized has been
returned to those to whom it belonged.
There are men living in this city rolling
in afliuance, who went into this Cotton
Bureau a few years ago as poor as a church
mouse. These men should be called and
made to tell “what they know about it.”
a set-back to social equality.
The town gossips have just got hold of
a nice tidbit, which they roll under their
tongues with great unction. The story
is that two carpet-bag members of Con
gress, and of course believers in social
equality, paid a visit a few nights ago, in
company with a negro member, to the es
tablishment of one of the demi-monde.
The negro, who is of a very light com
plexion, was not suspected by the in
mates, and soon made himself perfectly
at home. A person who knew him came
in shortly and informed the proprietress.
She at once communicated the intelli
gence to “her girls,” when with one ac
cord they set upon Mr. Sambo. Pum-
meled almost within an inch of his life,
his face scratched and his wool plucked
out, he was driven ignominiously into the
street, and his carpet-bag associates were
requested without much ceremony to fol
low suit. The colored gemmen was very
indignant at the ignominious treatment
to which he had been subjected, and in
sisted upon calling for the police to redress
his wrongs. He said that at any rate the
least he could do was to rise to a personal
explanation in the House the next day,
and offer a resolution of inquiry as to
whether tl^e rights and privileges of one
of its members had not been violated.
But after a great deal of argument his
carpet-bag associates persuaded him that
the part of wisdom would be to keep
silence. However, as is always the case,
the whole affair soon became generally
known, and the “nigger” and the carpet
baggers have been run so much about
it that they are almost worried to death.
ANDY IN THE SENATE.
The return of Andrew Johnson to the
Senate will make matters very lively in
that body. It is said that Mr. Johnson
intends to bring his Presidential letter
book with him, and will vary the debates
of the Senate by giving choice excerpts
from that interesting record. In it
he has letters from a number of the Rad
ical Senators who afterwards clamored
for his impeachment, offering him their
support in the Senate in exchange for
offices for their friends. Among those
whom it is alleged will appear in their
true colors when Mr. Johnson makes his
disclosures, is John Sherman. Sherman
stands without an equal among public
nier for deceit and treachery. While his
mouth is ever full of honeyed phrases,
his hand is ever ready to deed the blow of
hate and vindictiveness.
bobeson’s troubles.
The Navy Department has been set on
fire no less than three times within the
past week. Robeson has made a great
show of summoning detectiyes to discover
the incendiary. The popular belief is
that the torch has not been applied by
any outsider, and consequently no one
expects the detectives to light on the
real culprit. It is known that the in
vestigation which is bound to be made
into the affairs of this department will
disclose the grossest corruption under
its present management. It would
not only be to the interest of Robe
son, but to that of others high
in authority if certain tell-tale docu
ments and records were put where they
could not be found. The most effectual
way to get rid of them is to bum them.
A year or more ago a number of import
ant documents on file in the Navy De
partment were consumed by a tire as
mysterious in its origin as those which
have recently occurred. The affair was a
niue days’ wonder, and then it was for
gotten. ' So now if this renewed at
tempt is finally rewarded with the en
tire destruction of the Department and
all its contents, those who are at the
bottom of it will also hope that it may be
a nine days’ wonder. Perhaps they will
be mistaken. While these parties are at
their work of destroying papers which
may be troublesome hereafter, they may
conclude to extend their operations to the
navy yard. I have it on the authority of
a former clerical employee at the yard
that skilled workmen from the yard were
regularly detailed for labor on the new
house, in the west end of the city, which
Robeson now occupies. The same gen
tleman informs me that last summer a
handsome baptismal font was constructed
by the workmen at the yard of costly
marble, belonging to the government,
carried around to Rye Beach on a govern
ment steamer, and there, with a great
flourish, presented by the Secretary and
madame to an Episcopal church. As an
investigation would bring out such facts
as this, it is of course to the interest of
those concerned to have the evidence
made way with.
morton’s plans.
Senator Morton has already brought in
a motion to repeal the twenty-second
joint rule of the two Houses. This is the
rule which in effect gives to either House
of Congress the power to throw out the
electoral vote of a State, The role is un
questionably susceptible of gross abuse.
But it is a matter of grave doubt whether
it is good policy for the Democrats in
Congress to consent to its repeal at this
time. With the rule still in force the
Democratic House will have the power to
thwart any attempt of the Radical Senate
to reverse the decision of the people at
the next Presidential election. With the
rule abrogated, the President of the Sen
ate will have in his hands absolute control
over the counting of the electoral vote
A bold, bad man could thus elect whom
he pleased, and the people would have to
submit or resort to armed resistance.
Henry Wilson, who, by virtue of his of
fice, is the presiding officer of the Senate,
is not the man to defy the verdict of the
people. He lacks the courage. But
there are men on the Radical side of the
Senate chamber who would not hesitate
for one instant to disfranchise Democratic
States in order to elect a Radical Presi
dent. If Wilson would not do it, and
refused to step aside for some man less
scrupulous or less timid, I do not believe
that the Radical“conspirators would shrink
at the most violent measures to displace
him. Forewarned is forearmed, and the
Democratic members of both Houses
would do well to take notice.
PURITANISM. .
Congress is again flooded with Yankee
petitionspraying for the. ’"ppression cf
the manufacture and sale of spirituous
liquors in the District of Columbia and
the territories. There are very many
nice, agreeable, good people in New Eng
land, men and women of noble charac
teristics, as tolerant and as hospitable as
any people to be found on the face of the
earth. I am glad to be able to say this
from personal experience. But while this
cannot be denied, it is no less true that
the pestiferous inclination to meddle in
other people's affairs is a mighty big
bump in New England phrenological de
velopment. I have lately been looking
over some of the bulky petitions on ttib
liquor subject coming from New England.
They are largely signed by the prolific
crop of pastors and deacons and brethren
and sisters of that section. It occurred
to me when looking over their names
how much better it would be for these
good people if they would only depress
their optics sufficiently to observe what is
going on at home.
Benighted Washington does not afford
nearly so promising a field for philan
thropic effort as cultivated Boston and
all the numerous watering places and
mountain retreats of New England. I
have had a very considerable experience
in different parts of the country as a
consumer of spirituous liquors, and have
certainly absorbed my full share as a free
bornAmerican citizen. I can say conscien
tiously that I never saw more whiskey
tippling anywhere than in New England,
and notwithstanding that the traffic in
that section is declared to be unlawful.
It must not be understood that I am a
pleader for whiskey. I suppose that like
all other American citizens, I will con
tinue to imbibe as long as I can get a
drop, but I think it would be a blessing
to humanity if there was not a drop in
existence. I bid the pious people of New
England God speed in their crusade
against it. All I ask is that they begin at
home, and by the time they have stamped
out the fiend at their own firesides, we
may be somewhat reconciled if their ef
forts are turned in this direction.
general Gordon’s latest speech.
Senator Gordon made another grand
speech on Friday. I regret that it did
not appear in the Congressional Record
yesterday, as I would like to send you
some extracts. It was a thorough and
masterly reply to the slanders heaped
upon the South during the Louisiana de
bate by Logan and Sherman and the dogs
of carpet-baggers. One by one General
Gordon disposed of the falsehoods con
cerning the condition of affairs in the
South, by producing irrefutable testi
mony to the contrary. His rebuke to the
cowards who are constantly assailing the
men they did not dare meet in battle
with the epithets of rebel and traitor was
most withering in its sarcasm, though it
is sarcely to be expected that it pene
trated the thick skins of those for whom
it was intended. His defense of Georgia
was full, complete and unanswerable. It
is to be hoped that the two speeches of
Gen. Gordon will be widely distributed.
The Southern people need wish for noth
ing better than that they should go over
the North, side by side with the maniacal
ravings of Logan, the slimy insinuations
of Sherman, the pretentious indictment
of Conkling, and the lies of the carpet
baggers. F. A. R.
Bully Sheridan.
[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Private letters from New Orleans state
that General Phil Sheridan is shunned
generally by the people as a pariah.
He is socially ostracized almost univer
sally. He is regarded with about the same
feelings of detestation that the infamous
Claverhouse, who, likewise an officer of
dragoons, was in Scotland about two cen
turies ago. Claverhouse was let loose
with his force to hunt down the Presby
terians of Scotland with fire and sword,
just as Sheridan desired to hunt down the
people of Louisiana. The loudest in New
Orleans in denunciation of Sheridan are
citizens of the North, who are temporari
ly there, many of whom were Union
soldiers. The latter say that they fought
against the South when it was in arms
against the government, and would do
so again under like provocation, but that
they are not so ungenerous and cow
ardly as to desire to strike a prostrate
foe after the manner and fashion of
Sheridan. He, it is said, is fully con
scious of the position he sustains, and is
keenly sensible to the blasts of indigna
tion which come from the great news
papers of the North and West, which ex
press the almost unanimous sentiments
of the American people. He is especially
mortified that he has not been better sus
tained by the Washington administration.
Even Grant, malevolent as he is in feel
ing* toward the Southern people, and
ambitious as he is to inpite a disturbance
there that would further his third term
or dictatorial pretensions; cool and au
dacious as he is in the prosecution of an
individual scheme, has yet recoiled from
the responsibility of indorsing the mur
derous request of Sheridan. That worthy
has not yet been gratified in his modest
desire to be allowed the privilege of
butchering the people of the South at his
good will and pleasure. Grant would be
undoubtedly willing to do so, but he fears
the general shame, horror and execration
which such a massacre would create. This
man Sheridan is a disgrace to the proud
uniform which he wears, which he has
soiled and profaned by a recommendation
the cruelty and atrocity of which has not
been equaled since the day of the tyrants
of the sanguinary’ French revolution of
1793-4. He probably would treat New
Orleans as the villainous Collot De Her-
bois did Lyons, and for a similar reason.
As a play-actor he had been hissed by the
people whom he murdered; and Sheridan
has been denied invitations to dinner by
the leading citizens of New Orleans, and
for that he would retaliate.
Transfusion of Blood.—A recent suc
cessful attempt at transfusion of blood in
Ohio, is thus reported by the Cleveland
Leader: “An operation of special in
terest was performed at Elyria, on last
Tuesday, by Dr. H. F. Biggar and his
assistant surgeon, E. C. Buell, with Drs.
Peckham, Cushing, Ingalls and Parks.
The patient, Peter Beckett, of that town,
who is under the immediate treatment of
Dr. Peckham, is in the last stage of what
is commonly known as stone-cutter’s
consumption. The patient was greatly
^educed, and in an aenemic condition.
Transfusion of blood was considered
worthy of trial as a last resort, everything
that madical skill could accomplish hav
ing been done for the patient. This was
effected by taking the arterial blood of a
lamb, defibrin&ting it, special care being
taken to retain it at the normal tempera
ture of that of the body of the patient,
and injecting it into the median basillic
vein. A sufficient quantity of blood was
in this way transferred to the system of
the patient with the most happy results.
The temperature of the body was at onoe
quite perceptibly increased, and the pulse
accelerated,”
Tlie Joint Rule.
[Fr<».. UieSt. Louis Republican.]
The debate in the Senate on the 21st.
on the prop>sed constitutional amend
ment providing for a new method of elect
ing the President, brought out the flagrant
unconstitutionality and danger of what is
called the twenty-second joint rule for
counting the electoral votes, with start
ling dist ; netness. The rule referred to is
not a law of the land, enacted by Con
gress, approved by the President and re
corded in the statute book; it is merely a
rule governing the proceedings of the
joint session when assembled to count
the votes. And yet, this simple rule of a
body that has no right to make laws has
all the force of a supreme law: it actually
governs the whole matter of electing a
President, and may be used to set the
will of the people at naught. It provides
that the two houses shall meet together
on the second Wednesday in February
next after a presidential election to count
the votes: that the President of the Senate
shall preside over the joint assemblage;
that there shall be one teller appointed
by the Senate and two by the House, to
whom shall be handed the certificates of
the electoral votes as they are opened by
the President of the Senate: that the
tellers shall oake a list of the votes and
hand it ©o the President of the Senate,
end the President of the Senate shall pro
claim the result. All this is plain enough.
But the rule goes on to provide as fol
lows:
“If, upon the reading of any such certifi
cate by the tellers, any question shall arise
in regard to counting the votes thereio cer
tified, the same having been stated by the
presiding officer, the Senate shall thereupon
withdraw, and said question shall be sub
mitted to that body for its decision; and the
Speaker of tho House of representatives
shall, in like manner, submit s lid question
to the House of Representatives for its de
cision; and no question shall be decided
affirmatively, and no vote objected to shall
bo counted, except by the concurrent votes
of the two Houses; which being obtained,
the two Houses shall immediately reassera-
b’e, and the presiding officer shall then an
il mace the decision of the question sub
mitted, and upon any such question there
sha l be no debate in either House; and any
other question pertinent to the object for
which the two Houses are assembled may be
submitted and determined in like manner.”
The words—“ no vote objected to shall
be counted, except by the concurrent
votes of the two houses ”—embody the
danger. It is not the joint session that
may reject the electoral votes of a State :
it is not the two houses acting separately
that may reject them; it is either house
that may assume this solemn responsibil
ity. Under the Constitution people of
every State—those of one as well as those
of another—have a right to vote for
President, and, of course, to have their
votes counted : but under this joint rule
either house of Congress may do a thing
that both houses and the President to
gether have no authority to do—disfran
chise the people of a State by simply ob
jecting to the reception of its electoral
vote. It would be difficult to imagine a
more palpable disregard of the Constitu
tion than this partisan device invented
by’ the Republicans in 1864 to place it in
the power of the Senate to veto the elec
tion of a Democratic President. Sena
tors Morton, Conkling and Edmunds
have the frankness now to admit its
unconstitutionality, and no Senator dares
to defend it; yet there it has stood to
govern the count of three Presidential
votes, and there it will probably stand to
govern the count of the next. In
1857, when the joint session met to
count the votes cast for Buchanan and
Fremont, it was found that the Wiscon
sin electors had been prevented by a se
vere storm from reaching the State cap
ital in time to cast their votes on the day
fixed by law, but had cast them the day
after. The certificate showed this, and a
Senator moved to reject the votes on the
ground of illegality; but the President of
the Senate, Mr. Mason, of Va., declared
the motion out of order—holding that the
joint session had met to count the votes,
and nothing else was in order. The mo
tion to reject the Wisconsin votes was
reviewed again and again during the pro
ceedings, but the presiding officer ad
hered inflexibly to his decision, and when
the count of votes were finished he pro
claimed the duty for which the two
houses have assembled discharged and
the joint session at an end. But, when
three similar cases arose in 1872, they
were decided differently, under the joint
rule. The Arkansas certificate was ob
jected to on the ground that, instead of
having the great seal of the State affixed,
it had only the seal of the Secretary of
State. The two houses separated to vote
on the objection; the House overruled it;
but the Senate sustained it—and the Ar
kansas votes were thrown out, although
it was afterwards discovered that the seal
of the Secretary of State was, itself,
the great seal of the State. When
the Georgia certificate was reached,
three of the electoral votes of that
State were objected to by Mr. Hoar, of
Massachusetts, on the ground that they
were cast for a person not living at the
time they were cast—Horace Greeley.
That objection, was sustained, and
three of the Georgia votes were rejected.
When the case of Louisiana w r as reached,
it was found that there were two certifi
cates—one signed by Gov. Warmoth, de
claring that tha votes of the State had
been cast for Greeley and Brown, the
other signed by Bovee, the Kellogg Sec.
retary of State, declaring that they had
been cast for Grant and Wilson. Seven
objections were made—Senator West and
Representative Sheldon, of Louisiana,
objecting to the votes for Greeley and
Brown, and Senators Carpenter, Trum
bull, Stevenson and Boreman, and Repre
sentative Potter objecting to the votes
for Grant and Wilson. The two houses
separated, and both sustained the objec
tion without any debate that shows why
they sustained them—and the votes of
Louisiana were rejected. When Texas
was called, its certificate was objected to
on the ground that it was informal, and
that four of the electors, less than a ma
jority, had undertaken to fill the vacan
cies of the four others who had been
elected, but were absent. On this the
houses separated, and both overruled the
objection—the Senate by a vote of thirty-
four to twenty-four, and the house by a
still closer vote—and the electoral vote of
Texas was received and counted.
The votes thus rejected were 17, and
those objected to were 25 in all. It is
easy to imagine a contest so close as to
make 25 votes, or even 17 votes, decisive
of the result. What then ? Simply this:
that the contest In the joint session over
these electoral votes would be the prelude
to a civil war, for there would be no tri
bunal authorized to decide the dispute;
it would be one outside our laws and
Constitution, and we would have to
resort to the realm of revolution to set
tle it
Senator Morton would escape the
danger possible to grow out of the present
system by the adoption of an amendment
to the Constitution virtually consoli
dating the popular vote in the election of
President His plan is a direct step to
wards centralization of the government
and the wiping out of State lines. Even
if there was a possibility of the ratifica
tion of such an amendment to the Con
stitution, there is not sufficient time to
accomplish it between now and the next
Presidential election, and the only remedy
that it is possible now to adopt is the
repeal of the present joint rule of Con
gress.
NEW ORLEANS.
Ex-Governor Wells’ Assassiuation Siory
Dissolved into Tliin Air.
New Orleans, January 29.—The Con
gressional Committee continued its in
vestigation.
Dr. Scruggs was brought forward to
prove the attempted assassination of
Gov. Wells at the City Hotel. He said
he saw no demonstration of violence;
that he and Wells were dining at the
hotel together, and at a table near by
were two drunken men. Witness under
stood from Mr. Watson that they might
cut up, and he insisted on Wells leaving
the house. The men said nothing to
Wells, and it was only on witness' sug
gestion that he left. Witness simply
thought that the men, being drunk,
might become involved in a difficulty
with Wells.
Baiford Blunt, the colored State Sena
tor from Natchitoches, professed to be
pretty well acquainted with the people of
his parish. The condition of affairs there
between the whites and blacks was tolera
bly pleasant until June last, when a meet
ing of tax-payers was held. It was pro
posed to reduce taxes, and also demand
the resignation of some officers. In July,
the Republicans held a mass-meeting.
„\!any white men made suspicious move
ments, aud Mr. Duplex, a white Tlepubli- •
can, was carried off. But he failed to
tell whether he returned or what became
of him. The police jury did resign. On
July 25th we held a nominating conven
tion in our parish. Armed men were as
sembled in a room in town. I understood
they were there to assassinate if we
nominated a certain District Judge and
a certain District Attorney. We did
not nominate them on account of
threats. He was told there was no
objection to him, yet he professes to have
been afraid, and to have slept at home
but seldom. He says there was a
reign of terror up to election day. but
instances no facts to establish it. He
sxid the negroes arc better off financi
ally than when they were slaves.
Many of them have purchased property
since the war. More colored men have
made money since the war than the
planters have. On cross-examination he
confessed that he taught school and re
ceived $100 per month, and when he did
not teach he paid a substitute $50 per
month.
W. H. Maxey, of Claiborne parish, was
the next witness, and he repeated the old
story about intimidation, murders, etc.,
but his knowledge was confined to hear
say, except m one instance, when a man
said openly to him, with his hand on his
pistol, that he would an soon eat his
(Maxey’s) heart as a beefsteak 'jJr rea
son for this plain speech is not given.
George Foster testified as to the condi
tion of Carroll parish, stating that it was
peaceable, and that he heard of no dis
turbances. He knew of no ostracism.
The great complaint there among the
people was high taxes. He never heard
of any animosity toward Republicans on
account of politics, but that it was toward
corrupt officials. Judge Wheeler then
questioned the witness as to the debt of
the parish, its amount and the purposes
for which it was created. He answered
that it had all been created since the
war; that the people complained of
the nature as well as the extent
of the debt. Complaints were also
made of the dereliction of the parish
jurors, who had unlimited powers as
regards the assessments, etc. Mr. Frye
then put a few questions as to schools,
etc. Witness stated that they had no
schools; that the officeholders squandered
the funds; that he was told so, but did
not know it to be a fact; that he did not
vote at the last election, but would have
voted for the Republicans.
KELLOGG HEARD.
Governor Kellogg was heard before the
Congressional Committee to-day. He
made a long statement, commencing with
the Legislature of 1865, and coming
down to the present time. It differs
from his testimony before the sub-com
mittee only in beginning at an earlier
date and in beingonore elaborate.
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Alleged Wholesale Murder of Ba
bies.—As has been briefly announced by
telegraph, an aged couple, named Nelson
and Mary Reignclds, were arrested a few
days since on the charge of murdering
five young children at a baby-farming
establishment at Holliston, Middlesex
county, Massachusetts. The Springfield
Republican says the business of the old
couple has been known for a long time,
and they have had charge of two hundred
children during the past three years, by
their own admission, most of them being
illegitimate. Regular physicians have
visited the establishment from time to
time, and everything was supposed to be
all right until within a few weeks, but a
growing suspicion that great cruelty, and
perhaps murder outright was perpetrated,
has been confirmed by an employe (Miss
Mary Colby) of the old woman Reign olds.
She says that laudanum has beon used to
carry off the babies, and that the crimes
have been concealed in at least three
cases, by withholding notices of the
deaths from the town clerk. Another
witness (Miss Shebon) confirms that
story, and even furnishes a bottle con
taining the poison from which she says
doses have been given to the children.
Most of the criminal work is said to have
been done by the woman, but Mr. Reig-
nolds doubtless knew what was going on.
When arrested, the old couple denied the
charges of mnrder, and declared that the
substance they gave the children was a
mixture of laudanum, sweet tincture of
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prescribed by physicians.
The proposition to run a Centennial
Exhibition in Cincinnati receives valuable
support from the Brown county (Ohio)
News. That paper says;
Now Cincinnati is talking learnedly
about holding a Centennial Exposition in
1876. They think one is not enough,
and that one located at one side of the
continent, in a city whose whole govern
ment is run by rings and thieves. We
think so too. Philadelphia should not
have all the honor of celebrating Ameri
can freedom. We are decidedly in favor
of a Centennial Exposition in Cincinnati
Paas the word along the line. Bat don't
let Grant know of it, or hell object
A Trick of the Capitalists.—The
Nashville Union says the wealthy men of
Newark, N. J., have been detected in a
clever ruse for evading taxation, by whioh
the City Treasury has been cheated out of
over four million dollars. On the day
before assessment, Mr. Dives has his note
for $50,000 or such matter, discounted
for thirty days; the amount is placed to
his credit, but to avoid the tax on de
posits he orders it to be converted into
United States bonds. Thus there is no
deposit to tax, and the bonds are Dot tax
able. Meanwhile, in returning his other
property for assessment he deducts; $50,-
000 for the discounted note, as being a
debt he owes the bank. After assessment
day he lifts the note by selling the bonds.
The next result of the transaction is that
Mr. Dives escapes taxation on $100,000
of his property. The grand jury of the
county in which Newark is situated pre
sented these facts and stated that this
practice has become an inveterate habit
with bank presidents, directors and other
men of means. Jersey law seems power
less to reach the shirkers, and the jury
could do more than expose the facts.
Wilmington, N. C., Jan. 20, 1875.
Editor of the Journal of Commerce:
Will you please inform us who loses on
account of rainy days, in a case where a
vessel is chartered with twenty-five “run
ning” days, to load cotton, and the cap
tain refuses to receive on account of wet
weather ? The charter party specifies de
murrage to be paid if detention is caused
by default of the charterer. Is he, the
charterer, responsible for rain, or is it the
misfortune of the vessel ?
Shippers.
Reply.—The stipulation as to “run
ning” days throws the risk of the weather
upon the charterer. The time runs
through Sundays and holidays, storm and
sunshine alike. The captain need not re
ceive the goods in stormy weather, and
such are the misfortune of the shipper.
This is easily avoided, if the ship-owner
consents, by substituting “working days”
for “running days.” The charterer must
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ever the limit is) of good weather in
secular time.
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