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W. T. THOMPSON, Editor.
KKIOAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1875.
The Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
With a view to giving the General As
sembly an opportunity of investigating
the status of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad, and in order that that body
might, in its wisdom, suggest a remedy
by which the best interests of the road,
as well as those of the State, might be
subserved, the Governor postponed the
day of sale which had already been duly
announced in the leading papers of the
State. Thus far, however, the Legisla
ture has not been eager to grapple with
the question, and it seems likely that an
adjournment will take place "without any
final action.
In this event the duty of disposing of
the matter will devolve upon the Gover
nor—a contingency that will not by any
means be regretted by the friends of the
road—and there can be little doubt that
he will at once renew the advertisement
offering the line for sale. This seems to
be the only solution of the problem. The
Executive was compelled in the interest
of the State to seize the road, and now
that it is seized it at once assumes tht
shape of a huge elephant. To get rid of
this elephant so as to protect the inter
ests of the State and at the same time to
subserve those of the road, is the duty of
that department—whether the legislative
or the executive—which shall have the
fiual disposition of the question.
From what we can learn a sale of the*
road as first proposed by Governor Smith
will meet the views of those who havt
the interests of the corporation at heart.
It is even stated that a company of those
who live along the line has been formed
for the purpose of purchasing the road,
and we daresay the members thereof wil!
not find it diffcult to come to terms with
the Governor.
Fkeedman’s Savings Bank.—A till
has been introduced in the House of
Representatives to continue in operation
all the branches of the Freedman’s Savings
and Trust Company under certain new
regulations, including the election of
trustees and directors of the several
branches by the depositors therein. The
bill provides that the United States as
sumes to pay to the said depositors ihirtj
per cent of the whole amount of the
assets and securities of the said bank,
and shall hold the assets as securities to
the United States for the payment of the
thirty per cent, so advanced.
We are gratified to learn that there is
a prospect, if the bill should pass, of the
colored people recovering even thirty per
cent, of the money of which they have
been robbed by that swindling institu
tion, the Freedman’s Savings and Trust
Company. It is right that the de
positors should get back a portion, at
least, of their hard-earned savings, which
in their mistaken confidence they eu
trusted to the keeping or their pretended
friends. We wish they could recover
every dollar of it, - with interest, from
the hypocritical knaves who defrauded
them. But this being impossible, they
will have to be conteut with the govei n-
ment guarantee of one-third of the
amount. Seventy cents in the dollar is a
pretty high price to pay for experience,
but if it costs our colored friends that
amount to learn who to trust in the fu
ture, it will be money well expended.
The Radical Dilemma.
The American people might almost
forgive Grant for aspiring to a third
term, since his efforts in that direction
promise the utter annihilation of the
Radical party. He has placed the party
in a dilemma from which there is no
escape. The defeat of the proposed
bayonet election law—a measure that has
so justly excited the fear* and aroused the
indignation of the people of the entire
Union—would not relieve the Radical
party from the ignominy of having con
spired to overthrow the liberties of the
country; while the passage and attempted
enforcement of such a law would ensure
its overwhelming defeat. The prospect
now is that the caucus infamy will not
receive a majority of the Radical votes in
Congress. But that will not save Radi
calism from the doom that awaits it.
“Whom the gods would destroy they first
make mad.”
The Scum of the South.—The Albany
Argus publishes a list of a dozen or more
prominent members of the Southern
Confederacy who have accepted the situa
tion and been received and honored by
the cruel, unforgiving and proscriptive
Republican party. It then concludes:
“Others will be added from time to time
in order that the country may be re
minded where the scum of the South has
gathered.” It appears that all who do
not keep up the old fight is “scum.” —
Syracuse Standard.
Not at all. The scum of the South is
made up of those who are keeping up the
old fight, by denouncing the whites as
rebels and pro-slavery, and by bandiu;
the blacks together, and using them as
tools to enable them to plunder these
“rebels’' without scruple, at the same-
time so operating on their prejudices by
inflammatory aud untruthful statement*
as to lead them to inaugurate reigns of
terror such as desolated Graut parish.
In other words, the scum of the South
are the carpet-baggers, scallawags, mean
whites, and such depraved Congressmen
as the rebel General Hayes, who is now
the Republican leader in keeping up the
old fight in Alabama.
The Third Term Ghost not yet Laid.
A Washington special to the Cincinnati
Enquirer says: “The events of the last
two weeks have developed a strong feel
ing in favor of the third term. Members
of Congress who have hitherto been op
posed to the scheme, who hate Grant,
and who have not sympathized with him
in the ring which he is working for his
renomination, now begin to concede that
a third term nomination is almost inevita
ble. A leading Republican member of
Congress from Pennsylvania says to-night
that Grant has the whole thing in his
own hauds, and that he is evidently de
termined to play every card in his hand.”
The lower house of the Wisconsin
Legislature has passed a bill for the pur
chase of two hundred Webster’s Un
abridged Dictionaries, to be furnished to
members. Postage stamps are no longer
accepted in liquidation of board bills, but
dictionaries are.
The Washington Capital of Monday
Fays that the President designs an armed
occupation of States enough to re-elect
himself in 187(1. It adds that the sole
remedy is armed resistance. He also in
tends to get the appropriations made for
two years ahead.
Thanks.—We a*e indebted to Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens for bound vol
umes of the Con/tressional Record. We
are also under obligations to Hon,
T. J. Smith. Master of the Georgia State
Grange, for substantial favors.
A Washington dispatch says: The
second Sub-Committee from Louisiana
in their report sustain the Kellogg gov
ernment, bnt that the majority of the
full committee are unlikely to concur in
this,
The Louisian* Banditti and Bully
Sheridau.
It seems that Mr. Frye, of the Louisi
ana Investigating Committee, has re
turned to Washington in a perfect stew.
He is troubled very much, it would seem,
between his desire to serve his party by
making a damaging report of the condi
tion of affairs in that unhappy State, and
a superstitious regard for the truth,
which his Radicalism has not entirely
eradicated. He was unable to find any
evidence of disloyalty to the government
on the part of the Conservatives of New
Orleans, who, he says, compose the
wealth, intelligence and respectability of
the community. But he is extremely
outraged at the bearing and conduct of
the bad boys of that city, who, he says,
are not ex-Confederates, but youths who
have grown up since the war. A cor
respondent of the New York Tribune,
who has heard Mr. Frye converse since
his return to Washington, says he comes
back with as much of the Radical fire in
his eye as the most Radical could desire.
He denounces with unsparing phrase
the masses of the opposition, whose pres
ent disloyalty to the General Government
and to the peace of society, he thinks, is
more venomous than daring the war, and
there is nothing he would not do legally
and properly to put them down. He said
it was no uncommon thing for General
Sheridan to be hissed in the street and at
his hotel, and that everything that could
be done to humiliate and annoy him had
been resorted to. He is insulted at the
table: he constantly receives anonymous
letters abusing him in the vilest language
and threatening his life. He is treated
with sneers by some of the ladies, and
even at the table he is forced to listen to
abusive talk, not addressed, to him but
carried on in so loud a key as to indicate
that it is meant for him. The Conserva
tives, who are made up of the best people
in the city and State, are not guilty of
any impropriety, but they are as power
less to control the wicked element that
seems to have the mastery, as the Kellogg
government.
Mr. Frye admits that the Kellogg gov
ernment is a most flagrant usurpation,
ind that the Radical Returning Board
was a fraud by which the Conservatives
were deprived of their legally elected
majority in the Legislature. But he can
have no patience with Louisiana while
her young men are permitted to snub
Bully Sheridan, aud even the young la
dies have the audacity to talk left-handed
compliments in the hearing of that re
doubtable hero at the hotel tables, in re
sentment of his dispatches to the govern
ment, in which he characterized their
fathers aud brothers as “ banditti and
murderes,” and asked for permission to
hunt thein]down and shoot them.
Such conduct on the part of the young
people of New Orleans is really unen
durable. To put a stop to it .Congress
should reinforce Bully Sheridan at once,
the Jpeople of the entire State should
be declared banditti, and the President
should be authorized to suspend the
fuibeas corpus throughout the Southern
States until after the next Presidential
election.
The Ambition of Ulysses.
Many of Grant’s partisans at the North
have persistently denied that he enter
tained any third term aspirations, but
the St. Louis Republican is enabled to
make public some information which
sets the matter at rest. The informa
tion thus printed is contained in a letter
from a former high official of the gov-
eminent—whose name is not given—to a
friend in St. Louis, and is based upon the
utterances of the President himself. The
letter thus quoted from begins by stating
that the President is perfectly satisfied
and even gratified by the results of the
elections last fall. To use his own ex
pression they demonstrate that the Re
publican party can not carry the country
without him at its head, and they serve
to teach the politicians the lesson that
they cau not afford to divide upon per
sonal or other minor questions in the
face of the enemy. In this conversation
the President seems' to have given out
the idea that he let the election last fall
go by default, as a piece of strategy,
first, to reduce the Republican party to a
state of desperation; and. second, to
show to its leaders that, without his iron
hand and his inflexible will at their head,
disaster in 187G would be as certain as
that defeat had overtaken them in 1874.
In respect to the part played by the vo
ters in the last election, Gen. Grant is
simply indifferent, if not contemptuous,
and does not deem that department of
the subject worth discussing.
General Graut then went on to enu
merate his chances for a renomination by
the Republican Convention. He would
have the delegations from the Southern
States solid for him. This would leave
him only forty-two votes to get from the
North, and he relied on Mr. Conkling to
bring New York up to his support with
thirty-five solid, while Butler and Bout-
well would furnish the remainder from
Massachusetts. Having gained the nom
ination he would fight the battle of 1872
over again. He had no doubt as to the
result, but broadly intimated that he
might possibly be defeated by fraud and
intimidation of voters, iu which case he
should see that justice was done. Grant
is most firmly impressed with the theory
of his own invincibility before the peo
ple, and regards the “anti-third term
clamor of the press” as merely the ma
lignity of editors whom he does not con
sult as to the disposal of patronage. But
he implicitly believes the people are with
him, and will remain with him as long as
he lives. The Republican says that the
source of this information is of the most
nuimpeachable reliability, and that it
comes direct.
A Washington letter says: Secretary
Bristow declares that if the revenue bill
or some equivalent does not pass, he will
pay interest on the public debt first,
provide for the sinking fund next, and
then for salaries; will stop payment on
the latter if funds are insufficient, aud
will stop Congressional salaries as will
ingly as any other. This threat may
have some effect in rallying votes to the
bill, but he will hardly dare to execute it.
The attack on the proposition to tax
whisky on hand will be very’ sharp, and
is quite likely to succeed.
Another Radical Villainy Brought to
Light.
For eome time past there have been
floating rumors of malfeasance and cor
ruption in the Navy Department, and
bints have been given that when certain
transactions were brought to light im
plicating the official integrity of Secre
tary Robeson and ex-Secretary McCul
loch, the country would have a cue to
the late mysterious fires in the navy
buildings at Washington. The facts pre
sented below, and which are derived
from sworn testimony, speak for them
selves, and carry with them their own
comments. They explain why the cash
accounts of the government have been
suppressed and falsified, and they impli
cate a member of the Cabinet, who has
not been above suspicion, and an ex-
member of the Cabinet, who is at the
head of a London banking house, to
which the account of the Navy Depart
ment was transferred from the old and
responsible house of the Barings. The
Barings frequently made advances to the
government, which they were well able
to do, but the new firm have had to have
advances from the government to main
tain themselves. The following facts
show how the funds of the Navy Depart
ment have been misused :
Accoiding to this evidence, the North
ern Pacific Railroad Company bought up
the St. Paul aud Pacific Company’s fran
chises. and gave Mr. Moorhead, of Jay
Cooke &, Co., a contract to construct the
Brainerd A St. Vincent extensions. Mr.
Moorhead borrowed some millions in
Amsterdam, and bought fifteen thousand
tons of iron rails. He then borrowed of
Jay Cooke &, Co. .75200,000, pledging the
iron as security. Jay Cooke & Co. in
turn borrowed the money from Jay
Cooke, McCulloch A Co., of London,
pledging the same iron again. When
Jay Cooke A Co. suspended, Jay Cooke,
McCulloch «fc Co. were insolvent, and
owed the Navy Department on account
§5200,000, which, if payment was insisted
on, would break the firm. Mr. McCulloch
tried to get an advance of half a million
on the same iron from Drexel, Morgan A
Co., but by advice of counsel they re
fused to accept the security. Mr. Mc
Culloch then got half a million from the
Navy Department, and afterward another
half million or more. Secretary Robesou
(it is stated,) knowing the facts, accepted
the twice-pledged iron as security for
these loans, though Mr. McCulloch was
not the owner, the value was not a proper
margin, and the market wa*". tending
downward. Jay Cooke, McCulloch A
Co., at last advices, still owed the De
partment three-fourths of a million.
The Next Senate.
The Republicans are much alarmed at
the idea of losing the control of the next
Senate. It consists of seventy-four mem
bers. There will be twenty-eigbt straight-
out Democrats, including one to be elect
ed from West. Virginia. The nominal
Republicans of the body include such
Senators as Robertson, of South Caro
lina : Conover, of Florida: Alcorn, of
Mississippi; Booth, of California; Ham
ilton, of Texas; Ferry, of Connecticut;
Christiancy, of Michigan; Cameron, of
Wisconsin: Paddock, of Nebraska, aud
Sharon, of Nevada, none of whom can be
counted on for the revolutionary Radical
programme. In order to overcome this
tendency the Republicans are endeavor
ing to get in two rotten borough States—
Colorado aud New Mexico—by which
they hope to get four Radical Senators.
Both these Territories together, counting
Iudians, negroes, carpet-baggers, aud na
tives of all crosses, have not the popula
tion of one Congressional district in
Georgia, and it is not probable that in
the next half century the revenue derived
from both States would be sufficient
to pay the salary, mileage, pickings and
stealings of one Senator. Colorado can
support only a sparse population east of
the Rocky Mountains, and in what is known
as the “Parks,” west and southwest of
Denver; wh’le New' Mexico is still Lss
inviting to emigration, having only a few
oases scattered amid its volcanic deserts.
Speaking of it Gen. Hazen says that the
whole American population of New Mex
ico, less the army, its hangers-on, and
transient miners, could “sit in the shade
of a good sized apple tree." These are
certainly poor material, out of which to
make States of this glorious Union. But
these deserts will be made to grow a fine
crop of Radical third term Presidential
electors, Senators and Representatives.
Each State will be entitled to two Sena
tors, and, at least, oue loyal Representa
tive. Anything to recruit the Radical
party.
Republicanism (not the Republic) in
Danger.—In view of the statement that
the executive departments are moving to
get appropriations for two years ahead,
so that they may be independent of the
next House, the following from the Aa-
tional Republican is significant:
“ If the present Congress leaves to its
successor the privilege of making or re
fusing to make appropriations for the
executive departments, it is certait that
disquiet, intimidation and assassination
will be continued in the South, and the
overthrow of republicanism—one step
remote from the dissolution of the Union
—will be assured. * * These
are not idle speculations. They are the
stern realities of the future, realities
which confront the Republican majority
in the present Congress as admonitions
that the safety of the republic depends
upon their action during the few' days
remaining of the present session.”
A handsome bouquet was sent to Gen.
Butler’s desk, in the House on Saturday
morning, made up of azaleas, white
fuchsias, aud for a center relief a lavge
calla lily. Appended to the fragrant tri
bute was a card having the inscription:
“Justice to all is equality before the law.
The country owes you. its gratitude.
From the ladies of New York.”—Ex
change.
As the word colored is omitted in the
above paragraph, we are left to infer that
in New Y’ork city among the “women of
the town who ply their vocation,” Beast
Butler has some admirers who presume
to call themselves ladies.
A War Prophet.—The Washington
correspondent of the New York Journal
of Commerce says: “An experienced ob
server with whom the writer talked freely
to-day (a Republican), expressed the
opinion that we should have a civil war
within ninety days. ‘In the last war,’
B&id this prophet, ‘I was a patriot; in the
next I shall be a contractor. ’ ”
Georgia Grange.—After the first of
March the Georgia Grange will be issued
weekly. The Grange, as many of our
readers know, is published in Atlanta. It
is a large eight page paper, devoted to
the interests of the Patrons of Husbandry
in particular aud to agriculture in gen
eral. At the recent meeting of the State
Grange in Macon the Georgia Grange
was made the organ of that body, and
consequently the members of subordinate
lodges will find it indispensable. Apart
from its special features the Grangt pos
sessesallthe merits of a laboriously edited
family newspaper. Merchants and others
who desire to get prominently before the
Patrons will find the Grange a most ad
mirable advertising medium.
Mystification of the Public Debt
Statements.—A large part of Mr. Bout-
well’s debt reduction, it is now stated,
proves, like part of Secretary McCulloch’s
contraction of the currency, a mere jug
gle of book-keeping. Many warrants (it
appears; were withheld, and payments of
ju8t dues delayed, while the revenue laws
were enforced under extreme construc
tions, and the money thus obtained was
used to buy bonds not due, and antici
pate the requirements of the sinking
fund. The just claims thus delayed
under Mr. Boutwell’s administration are
estimated at $75,000,000. The amount
really due for refunds of taxes illegally
exacted is unknown.
BY TELIMPU
THE
—TO—
MORNING
NEWS.
Midnight Telegrams.
THE POLITICAL CRISIS.
An Address !o the Southern People.
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
I SERIO USX ESS OF THE SITUS TIOXIX
WASHINGTON.
THE .MOI Til OF THE .MISSISSIPPI.
Proceeding-* of the General Assembly. Ead ..j e „ y Plan Adopted b, the H...e,
THE
BOGUS BOND AMENDMENT
GOING THROUGH.
IMPORTANT REGISTRATION LAW.
Cau the Speaker Sign 1UI1* After Adjourn
ment t
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Atlanta, February 18.
bills passed.
The following House bills passed the
Senate :
To repeal the act incorporating Sylvania.
To repeal the civil jurisdiction of the
County Court of Mitchell.
To amend the act authorizing the transfer
of executions.
To prescribe the manner of granting
liquor licenses in Laurens county.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL QUESTION.
The House reconsidered its actiou in de
feating the public school option law, aud
appointed a committee to so amend the hill
that any county cau take adrautage of the
provisions.
LOCAL OPTION.
The House also reconsidered the action
defeating the liquor option law, and it was
amended and passed. Tho hill provides
that the licenses to retail liquors outside of
towns and cities be granted only by the
written consent of two-thirds of the per
sons living withiu three miles. The bill is
applicable to about fifty counties, of which
the following are some: Burke, Jefferson,
Washington, Laurens, Chatham, Mitchell,
Eckolls, Pulaski, Wilcox, Dodge, Thomas,
Brocks, Lowndes, Wayne and Camden.
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
The House took up the bill reconsidered
yesterday to donate fifteen thousand dollars
to the State College of Agriculture and Me
chanic Arts; passed—85 ayes to 53 nays.
LOST.
Tho bill to cali a Constitutional Conven
tion was withdrawn.
Tho bill to pay the public school officers
and teachers for 1871 was lost.
% BILLS PASSED.
Tho following passed :
To provide for tho registration of electors
in Thomas, Lowudes, Docatur, Mitchell and
Camden.
To incorporate the Turtle Paver and Buf
falo Swamp Canil Company.
To make Augusta the Northern terminus
of the Great Southern Railway.
To define the duties and liabilities of
overseers and commissioners of public
roads.
To reduce and regulate the compensation
of ti x receivers and collectors.
To change tho corporate limits of East
man.
To chaugo the lino between Tattnall and
Montgomery.
To authorize tho Mayor and Council of
Rome to compromise with parties holding
the city’s bonds an I to issue new bonds in
exchange.
To pay the Tax Collector of Chatham five
hundred dollars for collecting county taxes
aud pay the Receiver nothing.
To repeal the act amending the act in re
lation to the fee of the Sheriff of Chatham
to take effect on tho first of July.
To protect innocent purchasers without
notice aud junior liens.
To punish criminal abortion.
To provide for the purchase of tho West
ern Railroad of Alabama by the Central and
Georgia Railroads.
To organize a Criminal Court in Effing
ham.
A QUESTION’ OF AUTHORITY.
Speaker Hardeman said he thought ho was
not authorized to sigu any bills after final
adjournment, as has been the custom since
the war. The question was referred to the
Judiciary Committee. If they sustain this
ruling, it will necessitate a prolongation of
the session.
THE BOGUS BONDS.
Mr. McDaniel’s amendment to prohibit
the payment of the bogus bonds has passed
the Senate, has been read the second time
in the House, and will be a law in seven
days after introduction.
The plot thickens in Pacific Mail, and
now tin) present management testify to
the fact that the “abstractions” for lobby
purposes amounted to 82,000,000, and
that they were kept from the knowledge
of the directors by false entries under the
name of loans to brokers. Mr. Rufus
Hatch pronounces Mr. Irwin’s statements
to be false, inasmuch as the books of the
company do not show anything to sus
tain his testimony. So there was a
swindle all around—first the company, j
then Congress, and now the poor, inne-
Valuable SuiMtog £ot$ at Auction.
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The catastrophe of one John Parker is
thus feelingly commemorated in his epi
taph, which we find in the Brooklyn
Argus:
* Beneath these monumental stones,
ATI tranquil lie John Parker’s bones.
He would not practice self-denial,
And died of too much “Beecher trial.”
Snr Advertisements.
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that they are more domestic in their nature, and
that th^y are just the Poultry for small yards in
the cities.
A limited number of Eggs from a flock of
Brown Leghorn Hens, from T. J. Kinney’s im
ported stock, Worcester, Mass., will be for sale
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Evening Telegrams.
MEPHISTOPHILES MORTON
HIS FRIENDS.
AND
PINCH BA CK LAID UPON THE
TABLE.
TINKERING THE TARIFF BII.I
Tom Scott’s Job in the Senate.
The parents of Charlie lioss may find
some comfort in the fact that a son of
Bichard Haworth, of Philadelphia, who
was kidnapped over four years ago,has jnst
been found in Illinois and restored to his
home.
A European contract has just been
offered to an American firm for the manu
facture or 3,500,000 pounds of saltpetre.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Washington, February 18.—In the Senate,
Mr. Thurman said that tne question before
the Senate was not a question for Congress,
but a question for tlie Senate alone. It there
is to be an extra session this resolution
could be considered then, and it seems to
bo admitted on all hands that an extra ses
sion of the Senate would be convened on the
4th of March. He believed it was the first
duty of the Senate to provide means to cam-
on the government, and would therefore
move for taking up the appropriation bill.
Mr. Morrill, of Maine, said lie was dis
posed to regard this resolution entirely as
an order of business, and with a view of
getting the Iudian appropriation bill before
the Senate, he moved to lay the resolution
on the table. Upon this question the yeas
and nays were ordered and the resolution
was tabled, yeas 39, nays 22, as follows :
Yeas—Messrs. Allison, Anthony, Brevard,
Bogy, Conkling, Cooper, Davis, Dennis,
Eaton, Edmunds, Fenton, Frelinghuysen,
Goldthwaite, Gordon, Hager, Hamilton ot
Texas, Ingalls, Johnston, Kelly, McCreery,
Merrimon, Morrill ot Maine, Morrii of Ver
mont, Norwood, Ran bo m, Robertson, Sauls-
oury, Scburz, Scott, Sprague, Stevenson,
Stockton, Thurman, Tipton, Wadleigb,
WaaUburne, Wiudorn and Wright—39.
Nays—Boremau, Cameron, Chandler,
Clayton, Conover, Cragiu, Ferry, of Michi
gan, Flannagau, Hamilton, Harvey, Howe,
Jones, Logan, Morton. Oglesby, Patterson,
Pratt, Ramsey, Sargout, Spencer, Stewari
aud West—22.
Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, who would have
voted iu the affirmative, was paired with
Ur. Boutwell, who would have voted in the
uegative.
Mr. West then moved that the Senato ad
journ, which was rejected—yeas 6,nays 52.
Mr. Wiodom, of Minnesota, then moved
that the Senate proceed to the consideration
of the Indian appropriation bill. That bill
was then taken up ;tnl the Senate a ljoori e«\
The House spent throe hoars on the taril:
bill. All the amendments offered by the op-
C onents of tl:e measure were voted down.
ut an amend cent was adopted, on motion
of Mr. Dawes, to increase the tax on domes
tic cigars from five dollars to six dollars ;i
thousand, and on cigarettes from three lift}
to three seventy-five.
Having got through the first two sections
of the lull—the whisky and tobacco section r
—the committee rose, and the House took
up as a special order the bill reported b\
Mr. Stauard, of Missouri, from the Commit
tee on Commerce, for the improvement oi
the mouth of the Mississippi river on Eads
jetty system. The House then passed the
Eads’ bill without division:
The House then resumed the tariff bill
The third section abolishing tax on matches,
was struck out. The fourth section, in
creasing the duty on molasses and sugars-
25 per cent., was amended by including
melada.
The committee then rose,and Mr. Coburn,
of Indiana, reported the caucus force bill,
which was orderod printed aud recommit
ted.
The Houso Committee on the Pacific Rail
roads will vote on the Texas Pacific on Fri
day. They are about evenly divided. It is
stated that a majority of the Senate Judi
ciary consider Pacific Mail subsidy a con
tract which Congress cannot abrogate.
THE WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington. February 18.—Probabilities:
During Friday in the South Atlantic and
Gulf States, falling barometer, northeast to
southeast winds, warmer, cloudy weather
and possibly rain.
For Tennessee, the Ohio valley and lower
lake region, falling barometer, increasing
southerly winds, cloudy weather and possi
bly rain or snow.
For the Middle and Eastern States, falling
barometer, southeast to southwest winds,
warmer, cloudy or partly cloudy weather
and possibly snow or rain.
GAS EXPLOSION.
D*a Moines, Iowa, February 18.—The gas
works here were destroyed by an explosion.
Ono missing.
ADDRESS TO THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
Washington, February 18.—The following
address has been prepared by the Demc- < cent directors of 1872. Possibly as the
west 0 memljers and South- movement proceeds the public interests
To the People of the Southern Stairs: j Iua ^ kenefitted.
You have confided to the undersigned in
this conjuncture oi affairs the delicate aud
difficult task of guarding iu the Federal
Congress your public interest, your rights
aud your reputation. You will* therefore
pardon the liberty we take of addressing
yon at a period so critical and upon a mat
ter affecting your destiny and that of your
posterity. You cannot have failed to observe
the persistent efforts of some of the leaders
of the Republican party to revive the animos
ities of the late war* which, happily, are
fast giving place to a spirit of concord and
unity in every section or our common coun
try. It is impossible to predict certainly the
effect ot these appeals to passion. We be
lieve that through the honest representa
tion of a lew upright and conscientious
Federal officers and agents, and an inde-
I e ident and able public press, aud of many
citizens without regard to part} - , the true
condition of the Southern States, and the
real sentiments of the Southern people are
being graduallv made known to our fellow-
citizen* of the North. We hope for their
favorable decision when fully apprised of ail
the facts. The great ends of good gov
ernment will be reached when the peo
ple of all sections forget that we
have ever been enemies, aud come together
again as in the early days of the Republic,
emulating each other only iu devotion to the
best interests of the whole country. With
this exalted purpose in view there is noth
ing inconsistent with the honor and man
hood of a brave people to resolve to suffer
with heroic patience whatever bo their prov
ocations aud wrongs, looking through the
fearful present to a hopeful future, and re
paying unjust epithtts aud gratuitous in
sults with dignified moderation. Let every
white man in every neighborhood in the
whole South regard himself as a commis
sioner of peace, maintaining the kindliest
relations to the black man, remember
ing that responsibility for the extreme
poverty to which we have been reduced,
and the corrupt governments to which
his vote has subjected us rests not so muc-U
upon him as upon the bad men who, with
assurance of Federal support, have by ap
peals to his worst passion sought to make
him our euemy, while we labor by all honest
mcaus to convince him of the truth that oar
interests and his are identical, that both
must be preserved by good governmout,
and those who stir up strife between us are
enemies of both races. Let us—at the same
time that he is iuliy protected iu his guaran
teed rights to vote as he pleases iu all elec
tions—let us continue to deal with him
honestly and fairly, and let us continue cor
dially to invite to our midst those of any
political party who eilher seek to kuow the
truth or to find homes upon our soil.
We do not exaggerate when we admonish
you of the dishearteiiiug fact that every
street disturbance, every bonne de of what
ever character, aud by whomsoever com
mitted—by black or by white, by Republi
can or by Democrat, such as are incident to
every community upon eertli—is perverted
into an evidence of a spirit of lawlessness
aud violence, and a purpose to accomplish
political ends. Wo well know the gross in
justice of such charges, which have weight
only where ignorance of our true condi
tion prevails. Strenuous efforts are now
being made by those who misrepresent
you to induce the passage by Congress I
of tho most dangerous measures iu order to j
irritate our people, to drive them to despair
and to provoke them to violent outbreaks :
in ord r to furnish an excuse lor applying |
for military interference. We express the
hope that a’majority of the present Congress
will not be louud ready to sanction such !
VALUABLE BUILDING LOIS
SOT IN THE SCBURBS, BUT IN TnE BEST LOCALITY IN SAVASNAH ^
| On Whitaker, New Houston and Howard Streets, fronting .be Park. Fee Simple—No «
Will be sold on the premises wound
BY BELL, STURTEYANT & Co
ON FRIDAY, 26tli FEBRUARY, 1875, AT4 O’CLOCK p. >, ’
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rjpHBSE lots are beautifully and eligibly situated in that
ligibly 8il
creasing in value. They ARE NOT I>
near our beautiful Park,
cessible to all classes-!
SNOW DON A PETERS*
A m in o ii i a ted Soluble
Bone Phosphate!
A COMPLETE FERTILIZER FOR
Cotton mid Corn.
Packed in hags, 200 pounds each, at $70 per ton,
payable 1st November, or $65 cash. For sale by
HAVANT, WAPLES & CO.
febl9-lm
Indian River
Oranges.
1 0 000 FINEINDIAN RIVER ORANGES
in store and for sale low by
JOHN LYONS,
feb!9-lt Cor. Broughton and Whitaker sts.
WANTED,
WHITE WOMAN as COOK.
febl9-2t
Apply at
THIS OFFICE.
AUCTION!
Hare Chance for Capitalists
Tlie Best Investment iu tlie Market.
EXECUTOR’S SALE.
T IIE following described property will be sold
at public auction, in front of the Fridenberg
Building, Jacksonville, Fla.,
MONDAY', MARCH 1, 1875,
The TIIREE-STORY BRICK BUILDING be
longing to the estate of Perez Fridenberg, de-
, , . • , - ...... ,, . ceased 30x80 feet, now occupied as a wholesale
legislation. If it be accomplished, it would i and retail dry goods establishment; lot 35 by 10J
be against the protest not only of the Demo- j feet; splendid brick warehouse and cistern at-
crate, but of the m iral worth and states- tached, located on Bay street, between Pine and
mauship here of the party in power, and of l Ocean streets, in the very heart of the city. The
such Republicans as Bryant, Evans, Cliae. 1™*!*** must ** 801(1 m ord(ir t0 cl0!S e tue
Francis Adams and others, whose patriotism two phivatf RFstnPVi'Ps f,. _ ,
a..d sen so of justice are known to the entire j At T t he°sai5? timl amhii^will^o^be Mid the
country. ' former residence of Mrs. P. Fridenberg, located
We may, however, bo mistaken. Tho on Monroe street, near Pine, and the house now*
most extreme, oppressive and uucougtitn-* occupied by Mr. II. I*. Fridenberg on Adam
tionul measures may be imposed upon von. street, near Laura street.
In such ail event* we w >uld appeal to tho i All of the above is classed as very desirable and
wisdom and patriotism of a long-gnfferins productive property being located in the finest
tinned forbearance of hopeful reliance, and
upon the virtue and sen >e of justice of the
American people for the ultimate vindica
tion of our rights, the protection of our
liberties and tho safety of our republic an
form of government.
Signed by
Senators George Goldthwaite, of Ala
bama; John W. Stevenson, of Kentucky; T.
M. Norwood, J. B. Gordon, of Georgia;
Henry Cooper, of Tennessee ; M. W. Rin-
som, of North Caroliua; T. C. McCreery. of
Purchaser paying lor titles.
II. P. FRIDENBERG, Executor,
P. O. Box 417, Jacksonville. Fla.
HARRIS SOLOMON, Executor,
13 London Terrace, W. 23d streeet, N Y.
M. A. DZLALYNSKI, Auctioneer,
Jacksonville, Fla. febI9,22,24,26-4t
CITY COURT SHERIFF’S SALE.
r NDER and by virtue of an. fa. issued out of
the Honorable the City Court of Savannah,
in favor of P. P. Gastine vs. Lingg & Block, I
• , r . v v • x * have levied upon all the Stock, Liquors, Oysters,
Kentucky* Lewis V. Bogy, of Missonn, Jao. Pictures, Furniture, etc., etc., contained in the
W. Johnston, of \ trginia; A. S. Merrimon, house southeast corner of South Broad and
of North Caroliua ; and signed by the fol- llonston streets, occupied by the defendant. M.
lowing niembeis of tlie House of Represen- B. Lingg, known as the “Blue Light” saloon,
tatives: Philip Cook, of Georgia; John 1 And by virtue of an order granted by the Hon-
H. Caldwell, of Alabama; Hiram P. Be l, of orable W. 8. Chisholm, Judge of the City Court
Georgia; Fred. G. Bromberg, of Alabama;
John^C. Atkins, of Tenuessee ; Alfred M.
Waddell, of North Caroli a ; DeWitt C.
Gidding, of Texas; William S. Herndon, of
Texas; Roger Q. Mills, of Texas; Asa H.
Willie, of Texas; John Hancock, of Texas;
Thes. J. Crittenden, of Missouri; John
Y'oung Brown, of Kentucky; Heurv R. Har
ris, of Georgia; Pierce M. B. Young, of
Georgia; Washiugto-i Whittbome, of Ten
nessee; Join M. Bright, of Tennessee; Ed.
Cressland, of Kentucky; Reese T. Bowen,
of Virginia; Jas. B. Beck, of Kentucky;
Richard P. Bland, of Missouri; Geo. M.
Adams, of Kentucky; John B. Clark, Jr.,
of Missouri; Wm. E. Arthur, of Kentucky;
Abram Comitigo, of Missies ppi; Milton J.
Dunham, of Kentucky; Eppa Hunton, of
Virginia; Robert N. Hatcher, of Missouri;
Thoniis M. Gunter, of Arkansas; John M,
Giover, of Missouri; William P. McLean, if
Texas; Joseph M. L* ach, of North Carol.ua;
Robert B. Vance, of North Caroliua; William
M. Robbins, of North Carolina; Thomas E.
Ashe, of North Carolina; James H. Blount,
of Georgia; John T. Harris, of Virginia;
Thomas Whitehead, of Virginia; Elisha D.
Stendiford, of Kentucky; Wm. H. Stone, of
Missouri; Joseph H. Sloss, of Alabama; John
D. Young, of Kentucky; Erastus Wells, of
Missouri; Charles W. Miihken, of Kentucky;
William B. Read, of Kentucky; Lucius Q. C.
Lamar, of Mississippi.
pads’ plan.
Washington, D. 0., February 18.—Tho bill
which passed the House to-day authorizes
James B. Eads, of St. Louis, aud his asso
ciates, to construct such jetties and other
auxiliary works as to create and maintain a
wide and deep channel between the South
west Pass of the Mississippi river and the
Gulf oi Mexico. They aio'to receive eight
millions of dollars for constructing such
works aud obtaining a depth of thirty lee'
in the channel, and one hundred and lift}
thousand dollars a year during twenty years,
while such depth is maintained.
ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC SENATOR.
St. Paul, Minn., February 18.—Wash-
burue’s name was withdrawn. Upon tin
last ballot Lochren lacked five votes of ai
election. It is understood bo will receive
five Republican votes, which will secun
another Democratic Senator.
JOHN MITCHELL.
London, February 18.—Disraeli moved i-
resolve that Jotin Mitchell was inelligibh
because he was a convicted felon. Tin
resolve was adopted without division. A
motiou for a new election iu Tipperary was-
then carried without division.
indeed!
Boston, February 18.—The negro win
assaulted Jndge Lowell’s little daughter it
sentenced for life.
of Savannah, I will tell said property on FRIDAY,
being the 19tli day ot February innt., at
tlie place aforesaid, the property being perishable
and impracticable to move, between the legal
hoars of sale, to satisfy above stated/, fa.
Terms Cash.
J. A. GRAEF. Deputy Sherill.
Savannah, Feb. 18, 1875. febl9-’.t
printing, ihmUng, &c.
PRINTING!
y ARE NOT IN THE SUBCftBS^e'In » C GOODNEICiHKJKH( 1 ; : 'i 1 /
IP « hitakiT Street Railroa.1 pas-re, l.y the lo‘s, makiii- them ,
-Mechanic* at tlie Railroads, and Merchant*. Clerics, aud others in tv v *'
part of the city. Gas and water mains in the streits. 1
This is the best opportunity ever ottered to parties of moderate means to secure a Town I, • ;
healthy situation, at a moderate price, and is worthy of the attention of all who desire a :: 1 '
Terms—Only One-Fifrh (.’ash, balance in G, 12, IS and ‘A1 mouths, with 10 per cent inter.--'
febltf-td
FOREST
Jrlour %tUls.
CITY
FLOUR HI ILLS I
—AND—
GKAO WAREHOUSE,
Congress Street, Corner of Montgomery,
M ANUFACTURERS of all grades of FLOUR; also. GRIST and MEAL, aud have lor g&ieti
offal, Bran, Shorts, &c., together with CORN, HAY', OATS, anil GROUND FOOD, in uuantiti.
to suit, at Wholesale and Retail, und at the very lowest market rates.
CORN.—Average stock bushels 20,000
FLOUR.—Average stock barrels 1,000
Cash country orders solicited.
Office 95 Bay Street and at the Mill.
S. G. HAYNES & BRO., Proprietors.
mhlo-dl‘2m
Agricultural ^mplcmcuts.
PLOWS!!
PLOWS !
H AYING secured the best material in the country, and the services of skilled Mechanics, I am pro-
pared to furnish at SHORT NOTICE and LOW PRICES, the following desirable Plows of my
own manufacture:
Tlie Celebrated Parish Combination Turning Plow.
This Plow comprises ONE STOCK and FOUR MOULD BOARDS and TOINTS, two of Cast Steel
and two of Cast Iron, of different sizes, suitable for all kinds of Land.
THE CELEBRATED PARISH GOLD MEDAL PLOW, Cast Iron or Steel.
THE CELEBRATED PARISH HALF SHOVELS, Cast Iron or Steel.
THE CELEBRATED PARISH STEEL SWEEPS.
THE CELEBRATED PARISH PATENT RICE CULTIVATOR.
Will keep constantly on hand a supply of PLOW STOCKS. HARROWS, SCOOTEKs. ( LEV. _
ICES, HEELS, HEEL BOLTS, &c. I am also prepared to manufacture at short notice Timber t irtaJQi I
Plantation Wagons, Damp Cart.-, Rice Carts, aud other Agricultural Implements. Blacksmith \\ :£
and R. pairing promptly executed. Terms Cash, or Approved City Acceptance.
janI-F,M«fcW«few3m
GEO. W. PARISH,
191 AND 192 ST. JULIAN STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
ttrormrs, &c.
THE RED GROCERY,
22 BARNARD STREET,
I S receiving daily a fnil supply of SUGAR, COFFEE, TEAS, CANNED FRUITS, and all sorts of I
FANCY' GROCERIES. Ajso, suitable articles for the German table.
IMPORTED WINES, LIQUORS, CORDIALS, Ac,
jan4-tf
F. RUSS A K.
■furniture.
ALL PARTIES WANTING
PRINTING OR BINDING
DONE SHOULD CALL AT THE
MORNING NEWS
Job Departments
111 Bay Street.
FURNITURE HOUSE!
(r. II. 31ILLER, Agt., |
(Successor to S. S. Miller),
169 and 171 Broughton St.
Foil and carefully selected stock on hand. Cath J
Custom solicited, with corresoonding prices.
NO CREDIT EXCEPT TO
KESPONWlBUE PA RTIF>
jan2U-tf
The U. S. Spring denes competition.
Assiprr $ £alr.
©rooties aud i’rorisiotts.
PliOBPECr OF THE DeEEAT OF THE Tltllil'
Teem Bayonet Bill.—The Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquire)
a his Monday night dispatch, says:
The Committee on Affairs in Alabama,
which has charge of the House caucm
bill for the control of elections in the
South, had a meeting to-day. Mr. Can
non, of Illinois, moved to strike out tht
section providing for the suspension oi
the writ of liobta* corpus, but the propo
sition was rejected, and it was agreed
that he should he allowed to offer the
amendment when the bill was reported
to the House. The bill will be reported
substantially as it passed the caucus.
There is some talk now of allowing tht
Mississippi Committee to report the bill,at
it is understood that, with the exception
of the Democrats, the members of that
committee are unanimously iu favor of
the passage of the bill. They have pre
pared their report, and are ready to sub
mit it. If this course should be decided
upon, there will bo no opportunity for
Mr. Cannon to offer his amendment in
regard to habeas corpus, which is regarded
by every one as the principal point in the
bilL The general impression to-day is
that tho caucus bayonet bill will be de
feated. .Republican members who are
opposed to it have to-day asserted that it
will have over fifty Republican votes cast
against it, and this would be ample, with
the Democratic vote, to defeat it.
Others say that there will be a majority
of the Republicans in the negative. On
the whole, tho defeat of the bill is almost
assured.
It lias the Best Facilities.
SIX STEAM PRESSES,
Type of Eveiy Description,
A LARGE STOCK OF
PAPERS AND CARDS,
DIRECT FROM MILLS aud MANl’FACTORIES,
AND CAN DO
BETTER WORK
FOB THE SAME MONEY
Than any Office in the Southern States.
Before leaving your orders elsewhere get onr
prices and see our samples.
Having a fall force of competent workmen, and
working night and day on orders when necesmry,
promptness is guaranteed iu a 1 cases. Buying
our stock direct from the Mills, we SAVE TO
OUR CUSTOM KItS the extra profit of stationers,
tnd #ive a better quality of paper.
REMEMBER !
Before sending your orders elsewhere, that
ANYTHING
From a Poster to a Visiting Card, or, from a
Dray Book to an Imperial Ledger,
Special Notice:
U 'NITED States District Court, Southern Dis
trict of New York.—Iu Bankruptcy.
In the matter of SETH HOWARD HOWES,
STEPHEN HYATT and LEANDEIi W. TOWNS
END, Bankrupts.
The undersigned. Assignee of the estate of the
aliove named bankrupts, hereby gives notice pnr-
Miant to the order of the above-named Court,
that he will sell at public auction,
By WALTER H. TAYLOR, Auctioneer,
At the store of AARON CLAFLIN & CO.,
No. 116 Church street, in the city of
New Y’ork, commencing on
TUESDAY’, THE 23d FEBRUARY', 1S75,
At 10 o’clock a. m.,
And continuing from day to day, the large and
valuable stock of
Boots and Shoes.
(consisting of about 2,750 cases, and adapted to
the Southern ami Western trade,) of the said
Bankrupts, Bowes, Hyatt *fc Co.
Dated New Y'ork, February 2d, 1S75.
febl5-6t AARON CLAFLIN, Assignee.
^or £alc.
Bice Plantation for Sale.
r |MlAT fine RIVER RICE PLANTATION,
X owned by the late John S. Montmoliin, situ
ated on the Savannah river, about fourteen miles
from this city, together with all the woou.and
thereto attached. The rice fields are free from
volunteer aud all bad grasses. For full particu
lars, apply to BLUN Jb DEM ERE.
decl-UM.WAFtf
FOR SALE,
White Pine and Black Walnut
—ALSO—
COUNTER TOPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND
C. S. GAY,
sep2-Iy Corner Charlton and Tattnall Sts.
^KpCERIESfrCA^T-^
-SAVANNAH.Gf 1 '-
142 St. Julian and 141 Bryan Streets.
Consignments solicited—Cotton, Rice, Poultry,
Eggs, Game, aud Country Produce general y.
For sale in any quantity wanted—Win--•
Liquors, Cigars, Canned Goods, Butter, Lard, and
all kinds of Country Produce. febI6-tf
"CHOICE
Muscovado Molasses
PEIt .SCHOONER ASTRA.
221 1111 US., 30 TIBKCLS.
FROM WHARF.
ALEXANDER
fellMw
& BUSSELL.
Seat.
FOB KENT.
V LARGE and very pleasant ROOM, comfort
ably furnished, with or without board, can
l>e secured at 37 Columbia Square,
teb 15-M, W4 F, 1 w
CAN BE
febll-d<fewtf
DONE AT HOME!
atfdiriual.
VIRGINIA
BUFFALO SPRINGS.
A MONG the most remarkable cares upon
record, whether by medicineor mineral wa
ter, are some made by these waters iu diseases of
the KIDNEY’S aud BLADDER, in DYSPEPSIA,
in DISEASES PECULIAR to WOMEN, more es
pecially in Leucorrheo. They have accomplished
the must gratifying reealts in GOUT and KHEU
MATISM. where dependent upon nric acid in the
blood. In CHRONIC GONORRHEA, SECOND
ARY SYPHILIS, Gleet, and ALL KINDRED
diseases, they are regarded by all medical men
conversant with their effects as dfecidedly supe
rior to any remedy in the range of medicine or
among tlie mineral waters of the country.
They are put up for sale in cases containing
.one dozen Half Gallon Bottles, delivered at the
Scettsburg Depot of the Richmond and Atlanta
Air-Line Railroad at $6 per case. Address,
THOMAS F. GOODE, Proprietor,
Buffalo Lithia Springs,
decttl-M&Ttrim Mecklenburg County, Va.
FOK KENT,
A CORNER HOUSE in a desirable locality at
$3U j»er month, and will sell the furniture
complete or any portion of it on easy terms.
Furniture is new. Address
febl7-6
D.” Lock Box 135.
FOR KENT,
rpWO FINE AIRY ROOMS, famished or un-
1. furnished, with aH modern conveniences,
on Broughton street, between Drayton and Buff
Apply at 113 BROUGHTON, or at 98 BRYAN
TKEET. feblO-tf
STREET.
FOK KENT,
The Rice Plantation known as
New Hope,
On theOgeechee River.
dec»-tf R. HABERSHAM’S SON & CO.
FOR SALK.
J CAR LOAD BRAN.
500 bbls. POTATOES, all kinds.
50 bbls. RED ONIONS.
10 bbls. NUTS, “assorted.”
5 frails NEW DATES.
25 bbls. and half bbls. SWEET CIDEK*
10 bbls. choice CIDER VINEGAR.
-BY-
L.T. WHITCOMB’S SON, Ag t,
Wholesale Dealer in Foreign and Domest ir I r. > • •
Nuts, Vegetables, Hay, Grain, Feed. &c. •
Agent for Rogers’ Pure Cider and Cider t me■-
141 BAY STREET,
feb!3-tf Savannah, Ga.
HITTER
r
liquor, gerr, Ale, &(.
FRESH LAGER,
FROM TUE LION BREWERY, CINCINNATI,
II. SANDERS,
nov23-tf Cor. -South Broad A Jefferson Sta.
VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY and
TENNESSEE,
ROLL, SOLID PACKED, POUND LUMPS.
Choice Table &CookingButter
28c. to 35c. per lb.
Fifty packages in store from 12 to 10u lbs. each.
The attention of the trade generally invited to
this superior
BUTTER !
QEOKOG
ftb4-M,W&Ftf
s.
HERBERT,
Ui St. Julian Mrwt