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Affairs in (ieorgria.
I’ll© Atlanta Commonwealth says that
_. ank Leverelt, of Putnam, is one of
" voungest members of the Legislature.
*V.. don't’know how this is, but there are
le no w living who are old enough to
unember that Leverett was one of the
f'J’r settlers of Jasper county. How-
r we suppose he has dyed his hair,
or omething of that kind.
L'ol. Henri liradi, of the Atlanta Herald,
n£Ver niisses a free lunch. He is now
working his jaws in Memphis.
,, r william Cowper Moore, the well-
r own police court reporter, has attached
himself'to the reportorial staff of the
Atlanta Herald.
' Sow that J. Young Brown has
...uelcheJ Butler and the gift concert of
, ie Constitution has taken place, Col.
lVhidbie breathes easier.
Clarence Fort, a well known negro des-
perado, who was sent to the penitentiary
from Brunswick, has escaped. A reward
of one hundred dollars is offered for his
arrest.
We are awaiting with much impatience
to hear that the bill empowering Colonel
Beverly Bogardus, of Gwinnett, to raise
bumble-bees and peddle may-pop seed,
has become a law.
Mr. Robert H. Harris, of Thomasville,
proposes to deliver a zoological lecture
in that city shortly,
Mr. Quinn, a member of the Legisla
ture from Wilkes county, was seriously
injured the other day in Atlanta while
attempting to pass between two freigh t
cars.
Col. J. R. Harris committed suicide
i Chattooga county recently.
There are six hundred patients in the
Lunatic Asylum.
Molasses elongations are the life of
Hamilton.
The town marshal of Conyers made
thirteen arrests in one night recently and
was then attacked by a number of mem
bers of the Young Men’s Christian As
sociation. He wants his salary doubled.
Mr. Clarence Stephens, of Crawford-
ville, is of the opinion that the Legis
lature has the same rights to regulate the
interest on money as it has to regulate
the sale of poisons. We cave.
The Columbus Enquirer says it is re
ported the Central and Georgia roads will
soon take charge of the Western Railroad
of Alabama. It is then stated the Geor
gia Road will take that part between
West Point aud Opelika, and the Central
the Columbus branch, and the two com-
panies will jointly run the line between
Opelika and Selma.
It is a great sacrifice for a statesman to
leave the comforts of a home and go to
Atlanta merely to “rastle” with an unof
fending code.
Harris county boasts of another jail
deliver}’.
Mr. W. P. Price is an independent
candidate for Congress in the Ninth Dis
trict.
The Legislature would do well to re
flect a moment before it requests our
Congressmen to vote for Tom Scott’s
Texas Pacific job.
Columbus negroes try to “conjure” one
another’s horses.
Rev. Mr. Puller, of Thomasville, fell
through the opening in the rotunda of
the hotel on the night of the 2d. He
was discovered au hour or two afterwards
in an insensible condition, and has re
mained so ever since. The skull does
not appear to be fractured, though it is
feared that he has sustained internal
injuries.
A person of color brought a stolen bag
of cotton to Thomasville the other day,
and then made his escape before he could
be arrested.
The Columbus Times has heard from a
reliable source that a young woman in
Chattahoochee county was creating quite
a sensation by her success as a spiritual
medium. She was at a social gathering
not Jong since, when the table in the
room rose above the floor and fell in her
lap. Previous to this she had no know
ledge of her power as a medium. She
has since performed many curious feats;
she has told the history of people who
died before she was born, and of whom
she had never heard before. She is said
to have revealed several incidents in the
personal history of persons in the neigh
borhood which they supposed were only
known to themselves.
According to the Griffin News, the
fabulous pot of gold that is reported to
be hidden at the end of the rainbow, has
been found. Some eight years ago, Mr.
Henry Fletcher, of Butts, bought at ad
ministrator’s sale of Merritt’s estate, an
old sideboard, and took it home. At the
time, old man Merritt was reported to
have had a large sum of money, but none
■was found by the administrator, and the
report was considered without founda
tion. A few days since a secret drawer
was found in the old piece of furniture,
and within this drawer lay the precious
treasure, consisting of a bag of gold and
a bag of silver.
Thu^** saitli the ThomasviUe Times: We
are auth ^ ze ^ by the committee of citi
zens on entPi **inwent at the approaching
car ,•*> ’•straa'Rs
Muta r5» r£HL£*t
Georgia Press to visit ThOv. . members
occasion. They, as well as ttu b ,
0 the Association, will be enterta. ,
our citizens. The meeting of the
ciation promises to be a highly entertain
*8 ou $- The season will be mild and
pleasant, especially to those in middle
nnd upper Georgia. We trust that a large
number of the fraternity wiU take adyan-
tage of this occasion to visit our flourishi
ng town. And we can assure them that
they will meet with a hearty welcome at
the hands of our citizens. Parties who
propose to come, wiU please send their
names to Judge R. H. Hardaway, chair
man of committee on entertainment, to
the end that suitable arrangements may
be made for ihem.
Bainbridge Democrat: Captain Blaine
ls Captain of the steamer Wylly, a craft
which plys the river between this city,
Apalachicola and Columbus. He may be
a relation of Speaker Blaine, or a cousin
of Mary Blaine, but it is not our prov
ince to locate his relationship. One
thing we do know, he was in command
°f tu© steamboat Wylly on Thursday
night last when she landed at the Bain-
§rg 6004$.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
bridge wharf. Having a lady and her
little son under our charge to see safe on
the boat for Columbus, we made some
polite inquiries of Blaine as to the
time of departure. With the instinct of
the brute that he must be. he answered
us most insultingly and with numerous
oaths. We told him that in these
parts where a civH question was asked a
civil answer was certainly returned, and
seeing that his locks were white, we went
off in quest of a gentlemanly officer,
which we found in the person of the
clerk. This Blame is a snappish old hog,
and we give him the publicity of a notice
that people traveling over the river may
make it convenient to take some other
boat if they would prefer not being in
sulted. We are told that “that was
Captain Blaine’s way.” If so, the com
pany for which he works should discharge
him at once. He is a nuisance that we
hope soon to see abated.
Quitman Independent: Able lawyers
codified the laws of the State, and the
Legislature adopted the Code. A better
system of laws is not to be found in any
State in the Union. Why not let them
stand until, at least, the lawyers can be
come familiar with them. There isn’t a
wrong known to the human mind that
hasn’t a remedy in that book. There
isn’t a crime known to man that isn’t
catalogued within its pages, yet in seven
teen days’ legislation largely over seven
hundred new bills have been introduced
in the House of Representatives.
What for ? Is it to furnish reme
dies for wrong? No, for there is
now a remedy for every one. Is it to
create new offenses ? No, for they are
as numerous and diversified now as are
the thoughts and inclinations of the hu
man mind, and for every offense there is
an adequate penalty. Then what are
the seven hundred bills for ? For im
mortality, of course. There has been
within the sixteen days an average of
over four bills to every Representative;
so it is manifest that nothing has been
done and nothing could have been done,
but read the seven hundred and odd bHls
that has been introduced in the House.
If the next twenty-four days proves as
prolific of new biUs as the past sixteen,
how much time wiU it require to in
vestigate and pass upon their merits.
The Senate don’t seem to be cursed
with such originating capacity. The bills
introduced in that body are but few and
of very doubtful importance. The usury
bill is the most agonizing of all others,
and the last one of all others that should
pass; but it must be discussed and will
most likely pass. Other bills must be
argued, representatives must be heard,
speeohes they must make or they will
never attain to the akitudinous heights
of legislative immortality. The biU in
reference to a Constitutional Convention
is perhaps the only one of any real im
portance to the State, and that bill, if we
understand it correctly, provides for more
than four times as many delegates as
ought to attend it.
Florida Affairs.
And so Tom Long was on hand at Tal
lahassee ? Well, he was mighty quiet
about it.
The Floridian comes to the defence of
Dr. Hicks. It is useless. Dr. Hicks
doesn’t need a defender. We judged h’m
merely by his own record, and there was
no “personal” attack. He was either an
extreme Democrat in Georgia, or he was
an extreme hypocrite. That is all there
is of it.
The fire department of JacksonviUe in
dulged in the annual inspection and parade
on Thursday.
Cummings, of the New Y’ork Sun, is
at New Smyrna.
It is understood that a new paper will
shortly be started at Orlando, Orange
county, with WiU Wallace Harney, the
well-known poet, as editor.
The Herald says that one of the best
and most attractive orange groves on the
St. Johns river is owned by Dr. N. H.
Moragne, of Palatka. It is situated
within the corporation, in the cove front
ing the St. John’s river. This grove num
bers about three hundred bearing trees of
good size and well proportioned. The
doctor has for several years cultivated
the famous Tangerine orange, the fruit of
which is perfectly delicious and much
sought after.
The Ocala Banner tells a pathetic tale
of a lady of beauty aud varied accom
plishments from Virginia, who, having
lost her husband, to whom she was de
votedly attached, retired with her little
son to a secluded spot near Ocala. There
she lived for many years in the strictest
seclusion. She had the misfortune to
lose her little son, and not long after
sickened and died herself. An old negro
woman, Polly Fudge, nursed her in her
last illness, and inherited her property,
amounting to several thousand dollars.
The Live Oak Times says that, among
other important bills introduced in the
Assembly by Hon. Dan. McAlpin, is au
act to grant corporate powers to the At
lantic and Gulf Railroad. This bill, if
passed, will enable the A. and G. R. R
Company to extend their road south from
Live Oak, thus giving facilities for trans
portation to the citizens living in the ex
treme Southern portion of the State.
For the good of the State we hope the
biU may become a law, and that in a rea
sonable length of time we shaU be able
to note the completion of the extension
of the A. & G. Railroad as far as the Su
wannee river.
At least three hundred parties are
searching for homes in Orange county.
Visitors are crowding St. Augustine to
the sea wall.
Mr. Jno. Einig, engineer of the Etna
Steam Fire EDgiDe of Jacksonville, at
tempted to commit suicide the other day
by shooting himself.
A Polish Count passed through Jack
sonviUe last week.
The Florida Senate is fearfully and
wonderfully made. One of the Radical
members, A. J. Parlin, is, according to
the Pensacola Express, under indictment
for larceny and perjury, to say nothing
of his felonious practices in connection
with the revenue coUections of that
county.
The Gainesville Citizen has absorbed
the Era, which must have been a dirty
dose.
A loose wild-cat is astonishing tourists
at Palatka.
GainsvUle is gloating over a two pound
lemon.
A party of five colored persons were
drowned at Cedar Keys recently.
Negroes are now stealing orange trees
^ -om the groves around Palatka.
" : nesville is transplanting shade trees.
The j a J^ sonviUe P res8 has been sbowu
. , .'*«y from Sanderson, from
a priva e * f 0 u 0W i D g facts . An
whic we g Monday last over the
inquest was held onk J
body of a negro man W-d by a pistol
shot in the abdomen. The j w c
was composed of six whites and s'X ne
groes, after hearing aU the facts, returne-
O verdict that the deceased came to his
death at the hands of George Canova, and
that the act was committed in self-de
fence. The negroes in the neighborhood
became highly incensed after hearing the
verdict, and indulged in th^ats agamst
the partiee concerned. The whites, at
last accounts, were fully prepared to resist
any hoatiie demonstrations.
The Live Oak Timed says that Mr.
James L. Avery, of Madison, not being
satisfied with the moderate remuneration
of his trade, and knowing the need of
such a thing, has invented the most use
ful gun in existence, upon which he has
Secured a patent. It is useful for either
purpose, a game, a burglar, or a trap gun.
For the latter purpose it will be in de
mand for killing grizzly bear and panther
in the Northwest, from whence has re
ceived liberal offers from parties who
desire to make and use this valuable gun.
We have no doubt the gun will have an
immense sale, and as Mr. Avery is pre
paring to place his invention before the
public, we think the day ie not far dis
tant when it will be dangerous for a
burglar to attempt to enter a house that
has one of the patent burglar guns to
protect it.
Monticello Constitution: Last week we
gave the particulars of the cold-blooded
murder of a colored man named Ben
Hutchinson by two brothers named
George and Daniel Thomas. The former
had escaped, and the latter, at the time
we penned this article, was in jail. The
latter part of this week Daniel was ar
raigned before Judge James Bell, of the
County Court, for a commitment trial,and
at its termination the prisoner was dis
charged from custody on a one hun
dred dollar bond for his appearance at
the next term of the Circuit Court. We
know not what motive prompted Judge
Bell to the promulgation of his extraor
dinary decision in this case; but, if it
was to court favor with a particular class
at the expense of his sworn duty, then
he deserves the execration of all honor
able men. If it was an error of judg
ment, then he should resign or be re
moved from the position he disgraces,
for no man is fit to preside as a judge
whose official errors are of such a char
acter as to place in jeopardy the lives of
the people.
Monticello Constitution: Rideout k
Hamlin is a Radical-miscegenation firm,
organized for the purpose of swindling
negroes out of their money, and recog
nized by the very ignorant as the “gem-
men" who are to furnish the “forty acres
and a mule,” promised in the days of the
“immortal Lincoln;” and lately the firm
has been driving a brisk business among
the darkeys in the neighborhood of the
Aucilla. “Colonel" Hamlin, to judge
from his associations, is an intelligent
negro, with a white skin and Anglo-Saxon
features, and is, by occupation, a land
surveyor, with pretended authority to
make official survey of public lands;
and for his services demands from his
credulous dupes five dollars for each
mile surveyed. Rideout is a colored
skinned fellow, with African features,
and acts in the capacity of a decoy for
the firm. The bulk of the public lands
in the neighborhood of the Aucilla are
swamp, but they are used as a pretext
to effect sales. The modus operands is as
follows: Rideout discovers a negro with
a little money—he is advised to make a
permanent investment in land—he knows
exactly where there is forty or eighty
acres that can be entered for one dollar
per acre. The money is paid over,
and soon thereafter the party is
furnished titles for certain lands,
which generally, upon investigation,
is discovered to belong to private parties.
This creates dissatisfaction, and the igno
rant purchaser demands a return of his
money. This is impossible, however, for
Rideout avers that the money has been
turned over to the State, and the best he
can do is to make titles to a few acres of
swamp—not worth the paper on which
the titles are drawn. Whether the State
Commissioner of Lands is a partner of
the firm of Rideout & Hamlin, we are un
prepared to say, but it looks very suspi
cious. The negroes will do well to be
aware of the sharks!
Gen. Schenck as an Author.—Several
newspapers in the North and elsewhere
have lately given circulation to a state
ment that Gen. Schenck, United States
minister to Great Britain, had recently
published a book on the “art of poker
playing," and the comments thereon have
generally been both funny and savage.
These comments having come to the eye
of Gen. Schenck, he has felt much an
noyed, and rises to explain as follows in
a letter to a friend:
“In the summer of 1872, while visiting
with others at a country house in Somer
setshire, the guests, as is usual in Eng
lish society, amused themselves in the
evening with games at cards, and, as is
also usual, the stakes were for pennies
and six-peuces. They were anxious to
learn the American game of poker, of
which they had heard, and of which
some of them already knew a little. I
showed them how it was played. When
I was coming away the lady of the house
requested me, as a favor to herself and
other friends who thought it attractive
and amusing, to write down some of the
rules of the game, as it is so generally
played in America. I complied with her
request as well as I could, on the very
morning of my leaving her hospitable
bouse, and thought little more of my act
of politeness until she surprised me by
seuding me some copies of these rules,
which a gentleman, another visitor, had
printed for her, aud for their own private
use Rud circulation, on his own private
printing press. It was very prettily
doDe. It was intended as a compliment,
aud I am very sure that nobody can be
more amazed or annoyed tban my friend
Lady W. and her family and guests to
11.id’ that they have thus unwittingly
brought down on me the wrath and rep
rehension of so many good people in
America.”
The Beecheb Tkial.—The evidence
against Beecher, which occupies whole
pages of the large New Y'ork dailies, con
tinues to be of the most overwhelming
character, and for the first time his most
devoted friends are beginning to give
way, being reluctantly forced into the
conclusion that he is guilty. Moulton’s
testimony was not shaken by a tenj days’
examination, and Tilton is now in his
evidence giving long particulars of the
most damnatory character. Beecher, in
his defense,will be called upon to explain
the following in addition to proving
Moulton and Tilton liars and perjurers :
“If Beecher is innocent, why wish he
was dead ? Why write Tilton that he
was better than himself ? Why say it
was his last sermon ? his last Sabbath ?
Why have such dark hours ? Why pay
Tilton’s expenses abroad ? Why mate so
many pastoral visits to Mrs. T. when
Theodore was lecturing West? Why
eulogize Moulton for saving him ? Sav
ing from what ? Why get on his knees
to Bowen ? as Carpenter states. Why
sign tripartite treaty ? Why have secret
police? Why arrest Woodhull for ob
scenity instead of libel ? Why not arrest
Tilton at first ? Why not let Moulton
shoot ? Why have Congregational trial ?
Why suspend Tilton from Plymouth
Church without a public trial ? Can all
this misery arise from having given bad
advice regarding Tilton's domestic af
fairs ?” ^
The New York Worid publishes official
returns of the elections since 1872, which
show that in the course of two years the
Republican party, which elected its
President by a majority of 750,000 votes,
has been put in a minority over 500,000
votes. In 1872 their party carried thirty
States, and by the end of 1871 had lost
all but eleven of them.
High life below stairs. Mistress of the
house—-Tve some important letters I
want taken to the post, Progmore. Have
you finished dinner down stain yet?”
Butler—“Not yet, mum; the ‘ongtraya’ is
just agon’ in.”
BY TGUAPH
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
The Tariff on Sugar to be Increased.
CUSTIS LEE’S CLAIM TO ARLINGTON.
THE CARLIST REVOLUTION.
Conservative “Compromise-in Louisiana.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Washington, February 9. —Mr. Sipher, of
Louisiana, offered the following resolution,
which was agreed to :
Whereas, The expenses of the govern
ment require an additional revenue of from
thirty to forty millions of dollars; and,
whereas, by the act of the 14th of July,‘1870,
the duty on imported sugars was reduced at
the rate of 881 per cent; and, whereas, said
redaction of duty diminished the revenae of
the government fourteen millions in gold
annually, without reducing the price of
sugars to the consumers; therefore be it
liesolced, That the Committee on Ways
and Means be directed to inquire into the
expediency of rest >ring the duty on all im
ported sugars to the rate of duty imposed
by law previous to the passage of the afore
said act.
Mr. Howe, of Mississippi, introduced a bill
to remove the political disabilities of Isaac
N. Brown, of Mississippi. Passed.
The Sab-Committee on Ways and Means
have reported in favor of twenty per cent
increase on the present tariff on all grades
of sugar, and it is said the full committee
have adopted the report, and that their bill
embraces this feature.
In the Senate, on motion of Mr. John
ston, of Virginia, the vote by which the bill
referring to the Court of Claims the claims
of G. W. Custiss Lee for the Arlington es
tate in Virginia was indefinitely postponed
yesterday, was reconsidered, aud tho bill
was placed on the calendar with tho adverse
report. Mr. Johnston gave notice that ho
would address the Senate in regard to the
bill at an early day.
THE OARLISTS.
London, February 9.—The capture of Es-
tellabythe Alfonsists is unconfirmed. The
Carlists claim to have regained the ground
lost in Guiprizcoa; that Gen. Loma was com
pelled to abandon Zarri&z and Guitaria aud
is hemmed in at San Sebastian; and that the
Alfousists lost 1,200 in recent battles.
Madrid, February 9.—Alfonso returns to
Madrid on Saturday. Jovellar takes chief
command of the Army of the North.
A steamer with four hundred troops leaves
Cadiz shortly for Cuba.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, February 9.—The cotton
laden steamer Princeton is burning in her
hold.
Judge Marshal], member of the Congres
sional Committee, m a card disavows any
formal action of the committee towards a
compromise. Individual members are re
sponsible as individuals.
ARREST OF A PAMPHLETEER.
Vienna, February 9.—The Archduke Jo-
hanu Salvator is arrested for writing a
pamphlet on military reorganization, vio
lently attacking Germany auil declaring a
war between Austria aud Germany immi
nent.
TERRESTRIAL CONVULSIONS.
San Francisco, February 9.—Several
slight earthquakes yesterday nearly panick
ed a congregation. No damage.
SPOILS OF SHERMAN’S MARCH.
Two Superb Works of Art Found in an
Iowa Hovel—They Were Torn Fr«iui
Their Frames in a Southern .Mansion.
[From the Dubuque Herald.]
It is not generally known that Iowa has
the honor of the ownership of two of the
finest works of art in existence, connected
with which is an interesting and remark
able 6crap of history. The year follow
ing the close of the w’ar Dr. , of Fort
Dodge, was called to visit a patient some
distance in the country. He was con
ducted to a rude cabin and found the
patient to be a soldier who had served
through the “late unpleastness,” and had
settled upon his bounty land. The scene
was one of squalor and destitution. In
lieu of a door to the hovel a heavy canvas
swung from the casement, and made a
feeble pretense of excluding “wind and
weather” from the miserable apartment.
The doctor pushed aside the curtain and
entered the cheerless cabin, prescribed
for the sick man, and was about to take
his departure when his attention was
attracted to the canvas upon which were
the outlines and coloring of a picture
too shadowy and indistinct in the
darkened room to furnish any definite
idea of its merits or character.
The Doctor’s curiosity was fully aroused,
aud on closer inspection great was his
astonishment to discover a masterpiece
reflecting its glories over the forlorn
scene of sickness and obscurity. He at
once made close inquiry into the history
of the painting, and received in answer
the information that it was one of the
trophies of “ Sherman’s March to the
Sea.” (We are not aware that General
Kilpatrick makes any mention of this
great work in his recital of the exploits
of that remarkable campaign.) In pass
ing through the country on that eventful
march, the soldiers had encountered what
had evidently been the palatial abode of
some wealthy aristocrat of the South,
dismantled of all its costly adornments
saving the pictures which still huug with
in the silent and deserted halls. Here
Sherman and his men luxuriously bivou
acked for the night, and as they were
about to resume their march to the sea,
on the following morning, two of the
pictures were torn from their stretchers,
rolled up and deposited in one of the
soldier’s knapsacks as a souvenir of the
night they had spent within the splendid
home of fallen chivalry. The circum
stance was soon forgotten, and the pic
tures stowed away with other useless
relics of the rebellion, until within a few
days of the physician’s visit, in making a
search for some means to exclude the cold
from the cabin, the paintings were un
earthed and put to such “base uses” as
we have named. The physician being of
Southern birth, was deeply interested in
the recital of their history, and by giving
a couple of India rubber blankets in ex
change became the lucky possessor of
these matchless gems of art. They were
sent to New Y’ork, cleansed and framed,
and attracted a great deal of attention
in art circles. After being on ex
hibition in the above city for
several months, they were returned to
Iowa. The finest and largest picture,
which probably measures ten by eight
feet in size, is evidently a faithful copy
of Valasquez’s famous Spanish, painting
of “A Boar hunt in Padro.” The other
is the celebrated work, “Diana aud Her
Hunting Dog.” The pictures have been
examined by well-known connoisseurs of
art, who have pronounced them rare gems
of artistic merit and beauty. Large sums
have been offered for them, but with the
loyal spirit of a Southerner, Dr. has
refused them all, hoping that time and
circumstances would reveal their earlier
history, and that he would be able to re
store the valued pictures to their original
owner. But as so many years have elapsed,
and they are still enshrouded with the
shadow of time and mystery, Iowa will
probably continue to be the home of the
two pictures that have a world-wide re
nown.
One reason for the advance of gold in
New York is that merchants are taking
their goods out of bond pretty freely to
escape the little tariff bill and the threat
ened revival of what is called the “hori
zontal” tax. Last Tuesday, the Custom
House received $1,150,000 in gold, the
largest day’s receipts in several years.
A “converted” prize fighter named
William Thompson, known as “Bendigo,”
him recently attracted mnch attention in
London aa a speaker at religious meet
ings. He is now 62 years old, having
spent nearly a quarter of a century of his
life in the “ring.”
BISMARCK’S FAMOUS DISPATCH.
What the Pr*ace Said to Arnim on the
Flection of the Next Pope.
[Translated from the Imperial aud State Intelli
gencer of 30th December, 1ST4, official.]
[confidential.]
Berlin, May 14, 1872.—The health of
Pope Pius IX., according to all reports
received, is quite satisfactory, and no
symptoms visible of a speedy change.
Sooner or later, however, another Pope
will be elected. A question of time, hu
man calcoiation or precision cannot fix
on the moment when. The position of
the head of the Catholic Church being
of such significance for all the govern
ments within the confines of which he is
recognized, it is right in time to realize
the consequences of such a change. It is
a fact long since admitted that the gov
ernments having Catholic subjects are as
deeply and immediately interested in the
election of a Pope, in the person to be
elected as well as to see the election sur
rounded by all the guarantees, both for
mally and materially, so that they may
be enabled to recognize it as valid and be
yond every doubt, both for themselves
and in behalf of that portion of the
Catholic Church found in their respective
lands. Because there, can be no doubt
that before they are bound to concede
these rights to him so constituted a
sovereign by virtue of an election, and
called to exercise rights far-reaching,nay,
almost verging on sovereignty, in their
own lands, the governments are conscien
tiously to weigh whether they should
recognize such election. We can as little
conceive of a Pope, whom the totality or
the majority of the Europeau sovereigns
would feel obliged to refuse recognition,
whether from formal or material reasons,
as that the Bishop of any country or
metropolis could exercise any rights not
being recognized by the State govern
ment. Under the former order of things
already, his position was far more inde
pendent, and any government would but
barely come in contact with him in ref
lation to churchly matters. By the con
cordat concluded in the beginning of this
century, the relations between the Pope
and the several governments were ren
dered more direct and to a certain extent
more intimate. But it was pre
eminently the Vatican Council and
its two important decisions—the in
fallibility and jurisdiction of the
Pope—which completely changed the
position of the Pope, as related to
the several governments. Thus the latter
became vastly more interested in the
election of a Pope, at the same time ac
quiring a more secure basis for their
right and privilege to see to such election.
For, by means of these resolutions, the
Pope is empowerd to administer rights in
every diocese belonging to the bishops as
such, and to substitute the papal power
for the episcopal. The episcopal juris
diction has been swallowed by the papal.
The people no longer exercise certain
definite, reserved rights, but are now in
possession of the entire fullness of epis-
cocal rights. In theory, he occupies the
place of every single bishop, while prac
tically, as far as he is related to the re
spective governments, it depends alto
gether and alone upon him, at any mo
ment, to assume their place and position.
Now the bishops are but his instruments,
his officials or deputies having no respon
sibility of tber own. In reference to the re
spective governments under which they
live, they are functionaries of a sovereign,
and that, too, of a sovereign who, by dint
of his infallibility, has been rendered per
fectly absolute; more so than any abso
lute monarch of the world. About to
grant such place and position to a new
Pope, clothing him with the exercise of
such rights, the several respective gov
ernments should first ascertain whether
the election and the person elected afford
ed such guarantees as they have a right
to demand against any abuse of so much
power. Moreover, under present cir
cumstances, it is not to be expected with
certainty that even the guarantees by
which a conclave used to be surrounded
iu times past, and by its forms aud com
position presented, will now be resorted
to. The so-called exclusion exercised by
the Roman Emperor, France and Spain
has so often been but au illusion. The
influence commanded *by the different
nations through Cardinals of their na
tionality is made dependent on incidental
circumstances. How, under what cir
cumstances the election of the next
Pope will take place, whether it may not
perhaps be attempted precipitately, so
that the guarantees of time past be en
tirely neglected, even as to their very
form—who can tell ?
These reflections make it desirable that
the governments interested iu the elec
tion of a Pope by the churchly interests
of their Catholic subjects and the posi
tion of the Catholic Church in their re
spective countries, would in time take up
the questions touching such elections,
and, if possible, have a mutual under
standing about the manner and mode of
their relation to the same, as well as the
cauditions on which they will eventually
recognize any such election.
A union of the European governments
iu this sense would be of immense weight,
aud most likely be strong enough from
the start to prevent any grievous aud
momentous complications.
Most respectfully would I beseech your
Excellency, confidentially at first, to as
certain from the government to which you
have the honor to be accredited wheth
er it would feel disposed to exchange
views with us on this question, and meet
us eventually in a mutual understand
ing on this subject. The form in
which it may be consummated would
easily be discovered, if assured at first of
its readiness to co-operate with us.
I authorize your Excellency to read
this document to them, though for the
time being I would ask you not to deliver
it, and generally treat the matter with
discretion. V. Bismarck.
BROWN S D E X U 511A T10 X OF
BUTLER.
Changes of Fortune.—Twenty years
ago Guiseppe Garibaldi and John Thomp
son were making soap on Stateu Island,
New York. Sunday week Garibaldi made
his entrance into Rome as a member of
the Italian Parliament. The whole popu
lation turned out te do him honor, and he
was greeted with tumultuous enthusiasm
as the deliverer of Italy. His partner in
the soap business, John Thompson, is
now President of the First National Bank
of New York. As instances of the vicis
situdes of fortune the lives of these men
are noteworthy. It is well to bear in
mind, however, that they were excellent
soapmakers and attended to their busi
ness.
Judicial Salaries in Pennsylvania.—
The Committee on Finance of the Penn
sylvania Legislature yesterday reported
the judiciary salary bill, in which the
salaries are fixed as follows: Chief Jus
tices of the Supreme Court, $7,500; asso
ciates, $7,000; Philadelphia and Pitts
burg Judges, $7,000; Dauphin county
Judge, $5,000; and the remainder of the
law judges in the State at $4,000.
On Saturday afternoon Robert Harper,
a wealthy citizen of Hoboken, N. J., as
cended to the roof of the Presbyterian
Church, on Seventh street, in that city,
to see what repairs it needed. While thus
engaged he slipped and fell to the ground,
receiving injuries from which he died in
two hours. He leaves an estate valued
at $200,000.
The new building of the Western Union
Telegraph Company in New York is just
completed at a cost of $1,000,000. It is
150 Dy 75 feet in dimensions, and is per
fectly fire-proof. The main cornice is
226 feet from the level of the sidewalk.
The batteries weigh 100 tons, and the
consumption of zinc is 55,000 pounds per
annum.
Graphic Description of (he Scene.
[Telegram to the Western Associated Press.]
Brown, during the time the resolution
relating to him was being discussed, had
obtained a copy of the reporters' tran
script of his words. When the Speaker
asked him, after Lamar had concluded,
whether he had anything to say. he,
holding the manuscript in his hand,
slowly and deliberately disclaimed any
intention of evasion or prevaricating in
reply when he had been questioned
whether he referred to a member of the
House. As to his words, he concluded,
1 shaking the copy of them as he spoke,
he would stand by the record. Judge
Hoar, who spoke immediately after him,
made a great point of the falsehood in
the reply to the Speaker, and Mr. Brown
rose two or three times to answer him,
but was induced to refrain by those
around him. The resolution of censure
was passed very quickly after this by
a strict party vote. There was no one,
perhaps, within the hearing of Mr.
Brown’s voice, who had a parti
cle of doubt, after be spoke a
dozen words, to whom he had reference.
Mr. Butler himself was one of the first
to catch the meaning of the hot, biting
words which rang out so clear and dis
tinct that not one syllable was unheard
even in the farthest corner of the hall.
Butler clutched nervously at his desk and
leaned forward as if he wanted to drink
ia the fearful arraignment to the full.
Brown was evidently deeply in earnest,
and after the first interruption by Hale,
of New York, had the benefit of au ex
ceedingly attentive audience, every one,
Loth on the floor and in the galleries hav-
i iug turned to him to hear what he in
tended to say. He is one of the best speak
ers in the House, and gifted with a tenor
voice which sounds with all the clear
ring of silver. He has a deal of warmth
a ud earnestness in his manner that makes
liis delivery unusually impressive under
any circumstances, aud this increased to
ri iy as he neared the climax of his charac
terization to a pitch of hot, passionate ut
terances that made him more eloquent than
anyone who has spoken in Congress for
} ears. As the full intent of his words
became apparent, the Speaker rattled
savagely with his gavel. But Brown was
no mere to be stopped then than a whirl
wind. He leaned forward, his face crim
son with the passionate determination
that moved him, aud his hands clenched
together as if to force the scathing words
oat faster and still more forcibly. As
lus voice died on their ears, the first im
pulse moved every one to a long breath
of relief. Such stinging words, such ter
rible denunciation, put with so mnch of
real eloquence, are rarely heard, and
could • not but have moved the most
stolid auditor. Butler, though, was
as undisturbed after a moment as
any one in the hall. There were mur
murs and exclamations of all sorts about
him, but he sat quiet and complacent as
if no one was less concerned than he.
There were loud calls for a report of
Brown’s words, and the official reporter
was ordered to write them out. Whilst
lie was doing this the Speaker had some
official communications of an indifferent
kind read, but which all heard while
waiting impatiently to hear again that
awful arraignment. The clerk read it
amid general silence, and even iu his
cold, passionless voice, it sounded dread
ful enough to appal any one. It was
double punishment for Butler, and as
word after word was read, a full indorse
ment of its truth was re-echoed in the
heart of more than half the hearers.
Tilton’s Ordeal on Wednesday—The
Petticoat Constabulary.
[Chicago Tribune Brooklyn Special, 3d.]
Tilton’s lightened face indicated how
greatly his very soul had been relieved by
the discharge of its gravest and most ter
rible secret. By coincidence, the features
of his adversary never looked so sombre,
so full of heart-sick anxiety. The shadow
of death seems to have fallen upon him.
A Aim covered liis blue eyes like a mystic
vail, and upon his face was a look of per
petual longing. Troubles have spiritual*-
ized his being. The grossness is melting
out of him, and the fires of refinement
promise, by and by, to bare the heart
which glows within his fleshy bulk. Mrs.
Beecher was very ill to-day. Her pinched
and careworn features were set in their
usual rigid defiance of scrutiny. The only
way in which suffering showed itself con
sisted in a weary sigh which every now
and then escaped her, the tired move
ment of her haud, and her pathetic
glances at the troubled front of her hus
band. Just before the proceedings com
menced, the petticoat constabulary
marched the prisoner into court. A
blight, hectic flush burned on Mrs. Til
ton’s face and a weird brightness glittered
in her eyes. Either fever rioted iu her
blood, or a very unwholesome state of mind
was lieis to-day. The turnkeys were in
quadruplicate force, Judge Morse follow
ing the hollow square that swept his
daughter-in-law to the battle-field. Mrs.
Shearman looks jaded and exhausted,
but Mrs. Field’s official bearing was as
serene and her face as relentless as ever.
Tilton, all the clearer and brighter for be
ing purged of the loathsome confession
which startled us yesterday, showed as
a nicer poise and a wiser self-repression.
What his enemies yesterday ascribed to
frivolous egotism was heart break. His
love for his wife is the spectral flame
which flickers above all the material
wreck of this tragedy. He closes his eyes
to the empty and torturing world, and
sees only the happiness which once wrapt
him—a home whose ruin his God (so he
cries) is unable to repair. He is as moody
and as wild as the possessed creature who
lived among tombs and held solitary con
verse with the dead.
They bring his lost wife into court day
after dav, that perhaps ho may see a
phantom love wooing him, and so forget
the awful present in a clutch at the van
ished past. She, poor soul, giddy from
dexterous handling, and shaken by the
heavings of a terrible passion, is as stone
to the man who smiles and simpers,while
the agonies of damnation wring the man
whose punishment is that he loves her
still.
A Sad Accident and a Strange Dream.
—James Brooks, constable at Clinton,
Kansas, accidentally dropped a loaded re
volver. and one barrel was discharged, tho
ball passing through the body of his little
son, killing him, and entering the body
of another son, seven years old, who may
recover. A remarkable incident of the
sad affair is the fact that the night before
the oldest boy, after being put to bed,
awoke in great fright, and coming down
stairs told his father that a neighbor’s
boy had shot him and his little brother,
and that his brother died, but he did not.
Kidnappers in Pennsylvania, by a re
cent law, will suffer fifteen years’ im
prisonment and a fine of $10,000 if they
continue to conceal children. A singu
lar fact of the law, however, is that if
they tell where the child is, or give it up
personally, they suffer no evil conse
quences for their criminal conduct.
Rather a curious way of administering
justice. They might as well make a law
to the effect that a murderer or a thief, if
confession is made, shall be allowed to go
free.
In reply to a young writer who wished
to know “which magazine will give me
the highest position quickest?” a con
temporary advises “a powder magizine,
if you contribute a fiery article.”
“The Helen of the Brooklyn Iliad” is
the way she is materialized by the Chica
go Times. Helen Blazes is what Theodore
called her when he found out all about it
California Wool Product.—The Cali
fornia wool product for 1874 was little
short of 40,000,000 pounds, against
31,000,000 in 1873 and 23,000,000 in
1872. Of this total 36,000,000 was sent
out the State, 32,000,000 by rail, an item
of no small magnitude and profit in the
traffic of the Pacific Railroad. The ex
ported crop returned $8,120,000, which
is less per pound than in the previous
year, but still a good price.
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