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j i telegram from Atlanta yester-
, !1C e.s that the legislative com-
to whom was referred the sub-
• Macou and Brunswick Rail-
,made their report to the
cognizing the validity of the
Governor has approved only
bills and seven resolutions. It
,,s probable that some of the pet
r , -u.f the Hon. Potiphar Peagreen,
will be consigned to oblivion.
! t iu Banks, of Atlanta, is re-
i-rs from all portions of the
i hit ion to liis silver mountain,
tended to write to Jim ourselves,
hay-, concluded to wait at least
he ore is smelted.
a miserable carpet-bagger, Las
i<.minuted postmaster at Albany in
of Mr. Arnold.
, irner-stone of a turpentine dis-
h . been laid at No. 0. Central
tad.
],. r ick Hart, of Gwinnett county,
ccently aged one hundred and two.
Joseph A. Gurley, of Augusta, fell
u the street the other day.
[botton wants that turnpike to
\\Y print the following from the Macon
<l A r in order to inquire if that paper is
not mistaken as to the road. Our under-
standing is that the road will come neither
toSavannah nor Brunswick. Nevertheless,
-(. frjvc the Star's kind and neighborly’
panuTuph tlie benefit of our circulation:
•‘Something was once said about self-
i * and the main-spring of human
... lion: those who remember what it was
an probably account for the violent op-
podtion by the Savannah News to the
Southern Pacific Railroad if they will also
cm :u r that the proposed road goes to
Brunswick instead of Savannah."
Horse thieves are abroad in Monroe
The store of Messrs. Dumas & Allen,
f Forsyth, was robbed recently of a
quantity of tobacco and bacon.
.Mr. William B. Williams, of Barnes-
viile. was induced, by an overdose of
! • ./.iiie. to commit suicide the other day.
Mr. Burgess Cheek, an old citizen of
Sumter county’, is dead.
The Athens Georgian protests against
the tax on commercial travelers.
The Albany News calls to mind the
.a that lion. Thomas Hardeman, when
• was installed as Speaker of the present
muse, expressed the hope that he was
,■» “preside over a working, rather than
a spalling body," and says that never
ois a presiding officer, or a people, so
woefully mistaken in the character of a
l*dv siiit up to legislate for a great
State. Thirty-five days of the session
have been consumed in talking, and the
; respect is that the next aod last five of
the Constitutional period will be frit
tered away in the same manner. The
Legislature has not met the expectations
of the country.
Atlanta Herald: On Monday two coit-
1 of real colored people were married
; a justice of the peace in the station
hou .. Circumstances which it is not
try to particularize forced this
tiling ami they accepted. A negro, named
•'"in: Johnson, and a genuine specimen
r tin quintessence of Dahomey, and
• ■ 1 livt-s in the country, heard of the
< t the two bridesmaids, and one of
m being his own particular star, he
•topped the farming implements and
S'teued to towu. As he entered the
: irbs he fired up with a half-pint of
d kqtior, ami by the time he arrived on
A principal street he was steaming and
: like a madman. He ran over
ral people in his frantic endeavors to
' t" tin- station, but was arrested and
"•k'-d up. The Recorder at the trial
yesterday fined him $25.
Atlanta Mur*: Senator Harris, on the
'i'i >u of increasing the pay of the
constitutional clerks of the General As-
mbly. upon the reconsideration of the
i■; "cpriation act yesterday, made an
eloquent appeal in behalf of that class.
II" -slid that while members were slum
bering uuconsciously in their downy
!i L the clerks of the Legislature
• re toiling over the labor assigned
toiling until the midnight lamps
kd low. For this they should be
i aud paid well. Iu reply to Judge
L' * • . v. no thought that such an amend
ed was wrong, lie said: I was the one
■ . when the Finance Committee were
: • A upon this question, proposed to
• v c my pay to the State of Georgia and
‘:ne by Duggar’s line, but when the
r, f reducing the pay of members
'l-rung, there was a graveyard scene
; < committee room, and men paled
a proposition that was to affect
He had been a clerk, and he
o:m thing of the labor required of
He hoped the amendment would
he- adopted.
vt iiiut.i Herald: In the Sheffield district.
L 'vkiiale county, lives a gentleman
ed A. •). Black, who has pursued the
calling of a farmer, and latterly
as r.-cted a saw mill on this laud,
from which he furnished the surrounding
' oimiry with Limber. A few days ago lie
L *d a pme tree cut down, and the stock
r > gLt to the mill, and rolling it in
!; i;; • he set his saw at work. After cut-
, tiu g into the log a foot, he heard a pecu-
hiir grating noise from the saw. This cir-
ttracted the attention of Mr.
- Lck.and he immediately stopped the rna-
chmery. His curiosity prompted him to
* 11; dilate the matter, and taking his axe
c > u '- into the log. The surprise of Air.
■ • ‘ k may be imagined when he discov-
r a pile of gold coin. Mr. Black did
iJ, it know whether his eyes deceived him
‘ kot. But being a very plain and prac
tical man, at once took hold of the
’ Taller boys” and examined them closely.
There were thirteen pieces of what ap-
i vured, from the inscription, to be
Spanish coin. They were octagonal in
• ; aud resembled closely the Ameri
can fifty dollar gold piece. When these
1 "ins were all gathered up, and Air. Black
' vas certain he was not dreaming, he
* J *--gau looking more closely at the su:-
r ;-’uudiugs. It appears that- an excava
tion had. at some remote period, been
made in the pine tree, the com
deposited and the place plugged up with
' v oo(3. All the evidences were plainly
Visible, and the tree had grown at least
,ht inches over what at one time was
l outer surface. It was nothing but
d'-rsi for Air. Black to begin thinking
how the money came , to be there. He
■•ad often found honey in trees, and ’pos-
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
sums, and squirrels, and coons, but he
had never “treed” a gold mine before,
and especially where the currency was
stamped and read}’ for circulation. It
was brought to Conyers and the story
was in everybody’s mouth. The pieces
of coin are supposed to be worth
about forty dollars apiece. In the
course of speculation many surmises are
indulged in as to who and when it was
placed there, and the only lucid conclu
sion is that it must have been done by
DeSoto and his followers during their
memorable raid through this section iu
the sixteenth century. His line of march,
after landing on the Florida coast, was
up the Savannah river to nearly as far as
the present site of Augusta, where they
struck off in a westerly direction towards
the Alississippi river. Those who
have read Pickett's History of Ala
bama, can trace a line of march from
the Savannah river through that sec
tion to as far as Rome, Ga. According
to Pickett, DeSoto passed the present site
of Atlanta, about sixty miles above, and
crossed where the Western &, Atlantic
Railroad is now, at about Cartersville.
It is a well established fact that he and
his party were camped for a long time in
the Nacoochee Valley, and that they
roamed over the hills of Northeast Geor
gia in search of gold. It is not improba
ble that some of DeSoto’s troops,becoming
sick or lame, and therefore left behind
by his comrades, and fearing capture by
the savages, resorted to this means of
saving his money. Other conjectures are
indulged in as to who could have placed
the money in such a place, but we think
the above solution the most susceptible
of belief. Air. Black is well known iu
Rockdale. The above story comes to us
duly authenticated, and the only trouble
we apprehend is that everybody in that
section will set to work aud cut down and
split up all the trees in the hope of find
ing Spanish dollars.
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
BRIEF COXUBESSIOXAL NOTES.
The Political Situation in France.
JOHN MITCHELL AND THE BRIT
ISH PARLIAMENT.
AN ENCYCLICAL LETTER FROM THE
POPE.
Civil in New Orlcnun.
CONG UlISSION AL.
Washington, February 19.—In the Sen
ate, the credential* of Mr. Cameron, United
States Senator from Wisconsin, anti Mr. Mc
Donald, United States Senator from Indi
ana, were read aud placed on file.
The House, on motion of Air. Harris, of
Virginia, inserted iu a bill providing for ai-
tilicial limbs for pensioners a provision r -
pealing all laws that prohibit the payment of
revolutionary or war of 1812 pensions on ac
count of disloyalty.
The House* passed a bill removing tLe
political disabilities of Dr. Chas. H. Smith,
of Richmond, Va., aud ot James M. Ho wop,
of Covington, Ky.
The House refused to go into Committee
of tho Whole on the tariff hill and went into
committee on the private calendar.
FRENCH POLITICS.
Paris, February 19.—The Right and Left
Centres have agreed upon a new bill for tin-
organization of a Senate. The Assembly
shall appoint seventy-five Senators, who
shall be irremovable, and the remaining two
hundred and twenty-five to be appointed by
the Councils General, Municipal Council*
and Councils of Arroudissements, one-thir !
of that nu cber to be renewed by election-
every three years. AlacAIahon agrees to
renounce the prerogative of appointing a
portion of the Senate.
GERMANY AND SPAIN.
London, February 19.—Five German meu-
of-war at Kiri are ordered to rendezvous fo;
immediate service. The officers and crew
are not allowed to go ashore. It is sup
posed they will sail for Spain iu case of fu. -
ther delay of satisfaction from Spain for the
Gustave outrage. This move will probably
force Spain to resume active operation.-
against the Carlists.
JOHN MITCHELL.
London, February 19.—It is stated that
Johu Mitchell’s sou, who was a captain in
tho Confederate army, will be returned from
Tipperary. Should he be disqualified, Mr.
Kickliam, a released Fenian, will he invited
to stand for the county. Mitchell is report
ed to be seriously ill iu consequence of tin
excitement of his election.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Philadelphia, February 19.—Train num
ber five, cast bound from Columbus at 6:25
last evening, was wrecked near Steubenvil <
at 3 this a. in. A special car, with the Vice
President and General Freight Agent of tin
Pennsylvania Company, was ditched ai d
burned. The Vice President and Agent
were slightly hurt.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, February 19.—A negro wn?
admitted to the high school, when twenty
of twenty-two whites left. There was in
disturbance.
Air. Ward, of Colfax notoriety, who repre
sents Grant Parish, has been expelled foi
disorderly conduct by a vote of 49 to 9.
THE POPE AND GERMANY.
London, February 19.—The eneyclical
from the Pope to the Prussian Bishops, de
nounces the Folk ecclesiastical law?, and ex
communicates the Bishops who accept bene
fices from the Btate.
appointed.
Madrid, February 19.—Tlio ministers
abroad appointed are—Senors Rauces, Eng
land; Bedniar, Russia; Meuy, Germany:
Coello, Italy; Tetuan, Austria.
EXTRA SESSION.
Washington, February 19.—The Pros'
dent has issued his pro lamation calling th<
Senate in extra ssssion at 12 o’clock March
5th.
FOR SPAIN.
Havana, February 19.—The rebel prison
ers, Gen. Calixto, Garcia and Juignea, sailed
for Spain on the 13th.
continued.
Paris, February 19.—The Workingmen's
Associations are discussing the propriety of
sending delegates to tho Centennial.
Existing Superstition.—A very sin
gular case is reported from Pans, il
lustrating in a striking manner the
power of the imagination upon even a
cultivated mind. Nicholas Boralajova, a
Servian nobleman, had been forced to
leave his own country because of a
strange tale to the effect that iu his
family the eldest son was invariably a
vampire, always returning from the
"rave after death, to suck the blood
of the living. Singular as it may ap
pear, the nobleman, though educated and
intelligent, actually believed this re
markable story himself, and previous to
his death, which recently occurred,
requested that his heart should bs
taken from his body to prevent him
from leaving the grave—it being sup
posed that a vampire cannot get along
without a heart. This anomalous inci
dent would seem to indicate that we are
not so far removed from the dark ages as
we boast of being, for the nobleman in
question was a type of civilization, a
man of remarkable powers and culture,
and justly popular aud respected in
society. It would be an interesting study
could some one demonstrate in a book the
exact degree of superstition which in the
nineteenth century still prevails among
the most intelligent people of any na
tionality. It is to be feared the showing
would indicate tho prevalence of more
superstitious delusions, even here in the
United States, than might be supposed
without reflection. The fact is, this spe
cial weakness is one which it takes long
to eradicate. Wo may marvel at the
singular case of the Servian nobleman,
but it will be some time yet before ail
men will disregard the bad name of Fri
day, or maidens care nothing for the
weather of a wedding day.
OUR ATLANTA DELEGATION.
The C hatham I)eletfati«n—11* Personnel
and Standing—’The Members from
ISrookN and TliemaM—Tho Homestead
and IJen Law*-The Trouble* iu the
•State Treasury—A Frugal Patriot.
[Special Correapondeace to the Morning News.]
European contract has just been
offered to an American firm for the manu- . . .
facture or J,.100,000 pounds of saltpetre. this monstrous burden was fraught with
Atlanta, February 18, 1875.
GENERAL LAWTON, OF CHATHAM,
the efficient Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, takes a very prominent stand
in the House as a debater. He has made
no “set speech” during the entire session
—indeed he has scarcely ever, if at any
time, occupied the floor a longer period
of time then ten minutes, yet he always
commands the attention of the entire
House, a feat raiely achieved^by any one.
Though devoid of the embellishment of
fancy and imagination, his language, both
in conversation and debate, is elegant,
concise and pointed. In his arguments
he always takes high ground, appealing
to the reason and judgment, not to the
passions and prejudices of his hearers.
He discusses all questions on their merits,
never resorting to childish subterfuges to
carry through a measure, but always
meeting fairly and squarely every issue di
rectly as it is presented. Yet, without com -
promising either dignity or candor, he is
one of the wariest aud most adroit par
liamentarians on the floor of the House.
There has been no extreme measure
passed in the House which has not been
qualified by modifying amendments fas
tened to them by his plausible and in
genious arguments. Unlike many otht r
Representatives, General Lawton, is lib
eral in his views and actions. Some men
are so intolerant and dogmatic in their
opinions that they frequently bring the
business of the Legislature to a dead
lock. General Lawton, however recog
nizing the truth of the proposition that
legislation and laws are always the result
of compromises, is always ready at any
time to yield immaterial individual opin
ions to the majority, and thereby secure
that harmony and unanimity necessary
to effect wise and judicious legislation.
MR. WARREN, OF CHATHAM.
The most humorous and the most
pleasing, as well as one of the most ef
fective, speakers in tho House is Mr.
Warren, of Chatham. The House is
always ready to listen to him on any
measure before it for its consideration,
whatever may be his position, for he is
always entertaining, and because he never
offends by word or gesture, though he
speaks with warmth, Zealand enthusiasm.
He is a very fluent speaker, employs
many words to express his ideas, but em
ploys them all with precision and with
marked effect, ne is a ready master of
irony and sarcasm, yet uses them, strange
to say, iu a manner to offend no one. He
has occupied a prominent rank in nearly
all tho leading debates. Personally he is
genial and sociable, and i9 probably the
most popular man in the House.
DR. THOMAS, OF CHATHAM,
though a quiet, modest gentleman, is
conceded to be one of the most valuable,
conscientious and efficient members of
the House. He has participated in only
one debate, the one elicited by the bill
to create a State Board of Health ; but
his speeches on this measure evinced
scholarship and unusual ability as a
speaker. After his effort in behalf of
that important measure it was evident
from his manner that he himself greatly
underated his capacity as a speaker, and
it was remarked by many that with prac
tice he would become a speaker of great
influence.
MR. TURNRB, OF BROOKS,
is pronounced one of the ablest men ou
the floor of the House, and is considered
a lawyer of unusual attainments for his
time of practice. As a debater he is su
perior to the great majority of those who
take a more conspicuous part in the leg
islation of the House. He seldom speaks
but when he does, it is with force and
effect. His powers of analysis are equal
to those of any member of the House,
and in speaking he never fails to place
before his hearers the chief merit and
strongest recommendation of the ques
tion he is discussing. He has a ready
command of language, and by this is
meant not a natural aptitude of speech, but
a discerning and discriminating knowl
edge of the use and power of words when
applied with point and precision. He is
conceded to be one of the most formid
able debaters in the House, and no one
dares encounter him, unless he be well
prepared with facts aud figures.
MR. HAMMOND, OF THOMAS,
Chairman of the Committee on Banks, is
propably the most polished speaker in
the House. With a charming manner,
an elegant diction, a distinct articulation,
and a musical voice, he unites a self-
possession and a power of argument that
make him both effective as a reasoner and
pleasing and captivating as an orator,
i le seldom speaks, and indeed never docs
except when it seems that he is especially
needed. Doubtless to him is attributable
the passage of the bill to reduce the
homestead. Maj. Bacon had made one
of his most effective arguments against
the measure, i:i which he appealed with
marked effect to the House not to pass a
measure which would imperil our chances
of success in 1876 by producing divisions
in our domestic concerns. At this junc
ture Mr. Hammond sprang up, excited
yet self-possessed, and in a speech
of ten minutes duration, chained the at
tention of every member of the House,
while he gracefully dispelled the sophis
try iu which the opposition had so
<ilroitly placed it. The result was that
the measure passed by only three votes.
Mr. Hammond improves every time he
speaks, and probably not until next
session will he have attained his full in
fluence ai d position in the House.
THE HOMESTEAD.
Ten or twelve days ago the House took
up, as the special order, a bill to reduce
the homestead, fixing the realty at $700
aud personalty at $300. The Judiciary
Committee reported a substitute, the
same being a bill to re-enact the old
homestead, which is itemized, specifying
numerous articles of domestic use, be
sides a certain number of acres of land.
The substitute was lost, wanting ten
votes of the requisite two-thirds ma
jority. The next day the House re
considered its action. Yesterday the
subject was takeu up, and the debate
recurred on the passage of lhe original
bill of Rankin, of Gordon, fixing the
homestead at $700 and $300 for reality
aud fc personalty respectively, and it was
oue*of the most spirited discussions of
the session. The warmest advocates of
the measure were Messrs. Warren, of
Chatham, and Hammond, of Thomas:
and Messrs. Bacon, of Bibb; and Harri
son, of Quitman: and Walsh, of Rich
mond; most strenuouslyfopposed it. Mr.
Warren said the homestead was exorbi
tantly large. Some one has said that
three-fourths of the people of Georgia
were in favor of the present homestead.
He could not believe it. If t three-fourths
of the white people of Georgia opposed
a reduction of the homestead in order to
avoid the payment of their honest debts,
he would unhesitatingly join the other
one-fourth of the white people and such
honest negroes there as were, and stand by
his principles. Mr. Bacon opposed the
measure on the ground of policy. He
thought the homestead too large, but
he thought it exceedingly impolitic
to agitate the question of a reduction at
this time. It would produce issues in
tie next general elections which would
greatly imperil our success in 1876,
whereon hinged the fate of American free
institutions and the destiny of republi
can government. Mr. Hammond, of
Thomas, supported the bill to reduce in
a most eloquent speech. Thi^ effort to
reduce the homestead was hailed with
gladness by nine-tenths of the people of
Georgia; they yearned for an opportunity
to place the seal of condemnation on a
measure oonoeived in fraud and brought
forth in iniquity. The idea of retaining
infinitely greater peril than the agitation
of the question. The bill was passed by
yeas 107, nays 49, there being only three
votes in excess of the requisite two-thirds
majority. This being acted upon by the
House on a reconsideration could not be
again reconsidered, and was consequently
transmitted forthwith to the Senate,
where it will soon meet its fate, which is
unknown. The chances for and against
its passage are about equal.
THE LIEN LAW.
A great pressure was brought to bear
in favor of the re-enactment of the lien
law. Circulars from merchants were dis
tributed throughout the various counties
of the State requesting that petitions for
the re-enactment of the law be signed
aud forwarded immediately to the Legis
lature, but the design fell still-born. Not
a petition of any importance reached
Atlanta. However, notwithstanding this
remissness on the part of the friends of
the measure, powerful and plausible ar
guments were made, the substance and
point of which were that such a law was
indispensable: that half the farmers of
Georgia relied solely on its provisions for
credit upon which to obtain supplies to
support them while making another crop,
and this argument had a powerful influ
ence, though not sufficient to secure the
passage of the bill. On the motion to
indefinitely postpone the yeas were 80
and nays 70, aud yesterday, on a motion
to reconsider, the yeas were 72 and the
nays 84, showing how thoroughly the
House bad digested the question. The
Senate also yesterday defeated the bill.
So it is buried beyond the chance of
resurrection for one year longer.
REPORTS ABOUT THE TREASURY.
Numerous reports are in circulation
touching supposed irregularities in the
office of the State Treasury, occasioned
by a resolution in the Senate appointing «
Dr. Bozeman, an experienced financier,to
examine the State Treasury. True this
proceeding is quite unusual, yet I am as
sured by Senator Kibbee, Chairman of
the Finance Committee, that it is the
imperative duty of that committee to
make a thorough examination of the con
dition of the Treasury at every session of
the Legislature, a duty they have for a
number of years failed to fully discharge,
having time only to make a superficial
examination. Though the committee
has as yet ascertained nothing definite,
it is feared that in the great confusion
occasioned by the repudiation of certain
fraudulent bonds, and through an im
perfect understanding of the law on the
subject, some bonds have been paid
without the proper authority. I cannot
say more touching this important cir
cuinstance except at the hazzard of
doing injustice to some of the parties
concerned.
THE DANGER AT WASHINGTON.
What a Radical Organ Tliiuk* wl (lit*
Situation.
THE COURSE OF COTTON.
Printing, finding, &t.
Element* of Uncertainty
tor I lie Staple—“Futures
“Bulls’* Blue.
iu the .Market j
’* Hull anil the
NEARLY A PANIC.
There was a sort of panic among the
members on Saturday last occasioned by
a report that the Treasury was almost de
pleted of its funds.
THE FRUGALITY OF STATESMANSHIP.
A member of the House from one of
the upper counties caines to Atlanta in n
wagon and camp outside the city limits
where he eats the frugal meal prepared
by his wife.
MAJOR BACON.
One of the ablest and most efficient
presiding officers in the State is Major A.
O. Bacon, speaker pro tern of the House.
He presided over the deliberation of that
body for two years without offending a
man. He could to-day obtain any posi
tion or distinction in the gift of the
House.
PROLONGATION.
The House is disinclined to prolong,
but the loss of two or three hundred bills
may possibly influence them to protract
the session a day or two. Seminole.
LETTER FROM FLORIDA.
The Senatorial
Flection—Hon.
.Ioiics.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Tallahassee, February 16.
I wrote you some time since that West
Florida might well claim the Senator to
be elected at the present session of the
Florida Legislature. As I then showed,
that portion of the State had been
ALTOGETHER IGNORED
in the distribution of high offices during
the reconstruction regime. With perhap.-
the ablest bar in Florida, yet in the mak
ing up of our Supreme Court in 1868, it
was overlooked, as it has been since in
filling the vacancies which have occurred
on that bench. The two appointees of Cir
cuit Judge for that section were carpet
baggers in a double sense. Having first
carpet-bagged into other districts, one
into South, the other into East Florida,
they were thence successively carpet-
bagged, a second time, into West Florida,
as judges. If, then, in the late contest for
Senator the Western members of tbe
Legislature, in the judgment of some,
too pertinaciously—not to say exactiugh
—pressed the claims of their section,
much is to be said in defence of their per
tinacity. And as the result has been so
admirable a choice as that of Mr. Jones,
there are few good men in the State who
are not rejoiced at it. Your telegraphic
correspondent was quite pardonable fot
the exultation and enthusiasm with which
he announced his election. The Senator
elect is a good lawyer—proven so in con
tests with tho ablest members of the pro
fession in the State, and is
A STRONG MAN EVERY WAY.
Moreover, being but forty years of age
and a laborious student, he will at the
end of the next ten years be much
stronger than he is now. Add to this,
that lie is a gentleman of honorable de
portment and high character: iu politics
a proclaimed disciple of Mr. Jefferson: a
zealous advocate of State rights and of
home rule, as shown in a late excellent
speech in denunciation of Federal and
military usurpation iu Louisiana, and I
feel quite sure that neither Florida nor
any of her sister Southern States will
ever have reason to regret the election of
Charles W. Jones to the United States
Senate. Tallahassee.
Correction.
Eatonton, February 18.
The types make me say “Justice of the
Peace, T. F. Collinsw’orth, the County
Judge: W. A. Reid being retained,” Ac.
But here is what I wrote : “ Justice of
the Peace, T. F. Collinsworth; the Coun
ty Judge, W. A. Reid, being retained,
Ac.” The County Judge is W. A. Reid.
Notice the punctuation. Please publish
correction. Eaton.
A Snow Palace.—At the Clipper Gap
hay-yard, North C street, a Muinber of
boys have been at work for two or three
days in tunneling into a huge suow bank.
In the centre of this they have excavated
a large chamber. Adjoining this are halls
and galleries, and in these are numerous
windows, in the shape of port-holes.
The outside of the drift has been hewn
into shape, and altogether the palace is
a very elaborate and complicated affair.
A grand reception and concert was given
in the palace, the interior of which was
brilliantly lighted up with candles, placed
in a candelabra formed of snow. The
palace and the entertainment attracted a
great number of spectators. This was
the second night that the snow palace
has been lighted up.—Territorial (Nee.)
Enterprise.
[From the Chicago Tribune of Tuesday.]
The prevailing anxiety among the Re
publicans of the country is that, during
the eighteen remaining days of the present
session. Congress will pass out of the
control of the cool and temperate men,
aud in a few hours of madness enact a
series of unfortunate acts that will have
the effect of completing the discomfiture
which overtook the Republican party
last fall. Had the Democratic leaders
the preparation of bills intended to de
stroy the Republican party and give the
j Democrats all the political capital they
need, thev could not have concocted
measures better adapted for that purpose
than those already presented to Congress
and urged as purely Republican measures.
The latest of these monstrosities is the
“political bill” adopted, it is reported,
by a majority of a caucus of the Repub
lican members of the House on Frida}
night. This bill has no apology ; it is
generally unnecessary, inexpedient, and
unconstitutional, and, as a party measure,
vicious and fatal. We regret that Mr.
J. D. Ward, of Chicago, should take such
a mournful view of the political situation
as to insist that a bill of pains and nenal-
ties like this, and the establishment of
absolute and irresponsible military power,
are essential to compel the people to
maintain the ascendency of the Republi
can party. When that party can only
retain its ascendency by laws making it a
penal offense to vote against it, then the
party should pass away. We do not
think the Republican party needs any
such legislation, and if it did, we do not
think it should be sustained by any such
legislation.
This bill proposes to hold the recon
structed States, in tho management of
their local affairs, to what are called cer
tain “fundamental conditions” of admis
sion. The States of the Union, once
admitted, are on terms of political equali
ty, and no one of them can be held sub
ordinate to a ‘‘fundamental condition”
which is not equally applicable to all
the other States. Congress has no power
to impose “fundamental conditions"
which are not already imposed, expressly
or impliedly, by the Constitution, not
merely on one State, but upon all the
States. This bill proposes, however, to
insist upon certain “fundamental condi
tions” prescribed iu the acts “admitting
any of the States lately in rebellion.”
All of which is going outside of the Con
stitution aud law, and making a new
‘‘supreme law” in a particular class ol
States, aud not in the other States.
The bill also authorizes the President
in his discretion to suspend the privileges
of the writ of habeas corpus in any State
of the Union, and, of course, to tak»*
military possession of such State, and at
his pleasure to make and depose State j
governments. In 1871, under an alarm
ing state of affairs at the South, a law
was passed grunting this power to th»*
President for a few months, within
limited districts; but the law specifically
declared that such authority should ceast-
six mouths before the Presidential elec
tion. This bill proposes to give the Presi
dent this absolute power indefinitely, to be
exercised at his discretion, iu Maine as welt
as in Louisiana, in Illinois as well as in
Texas. Does Mr. Ward wish the world
to suppose that there is any occasion or
necessity for clothing the President with
power to suspend the habeas corpus in
Illinois, or Iowa, or Indiana, or Wiscon
sin, and to declare martial law here,
suspend the civil governments in these
States, and have the elections of
1876 conducted by United States Mar
shals and officers of the army ?
Does he suppose the enactment of such
a law will advance the Republican part;
in public estimation, or win recruits foi
it from the ranks of the opposition ? Tin-
pretext for such a law is wholly absurd.
There is a State government iu Louisiana
which, according to the President, and a
Senate Committee composed of Republi
cans, and two Committees of the House,
composed of Republicans, was put it.
office by a “gigantic fraud.” The w’hoh-
country has waited for Congress to tak<
some action that would relieve the gov
ernment of the reproach of such an in
iquity, aud restore peace to the State ol
Louisiana. But the extreme men of both
parties have refused to take such action:
both sides want the “gigantic fraud” to
be continued; both sides oppose the res
toration of peace, and under the pretext
of giving the President absolute power in
Louisiana, this bill proposes to give him
like power iu every other State. ThU
pretext is altogether too weak. Behinti
it the country discovers the miserable
tribe of political adventurers in Arkansas.
Georgia, Alabama aud Florida, from
whose dishonest hands power has beet,
withdrawn by a plundered people; it dis
covers these men frantic for the use of
the bayonet, frantic for civil w’ar, frauti<
for place, and clamoring that they bt
kept in office by military power.
If the Republican party has lost its as
cendency in the reconstructed States, we
believe that result is due to the worthless
character and desperate schemes of tin-
white men, who. in tho name of the Re
publican party, have abused their offices
to the degradation and impoverishment
of those States. There is not a Repub
lican State at the North which would not
have rejected the Republican party had
it endeavored to force such men tipoe
the people as rulers. It is a matter of
congratulation that tbe Republican Sena
tors, as a body, declined attending tin-
caucus, and that of those who did attend
the ablest, best, and most experienced
Republican Representatives not only op
posed the bill, but refused to be bound
by the action of the caucus. Still, it will
be presented and urged as a “ party
measure,” aud who can tell but during
the next two weeks this bill of abomina
tions may be taken up aud passed ?
This bill does not stand alone. Along
with it is a proposition to invade the
State of Arkansas, and ievolutionize per
haps tbe most peaceful aud popular gov
ernment that State has had since I860.
Then there is a terrible effort to levy an
extra tax of fifty or sixty millions of dol-
h rs. and another bill to give Tom Scott a
subsidy of over a hundred millions of
dollars, and a determined purpose all
around Congress to reduce no expendi
tures, but to continue the extravagance
ami waste of the last five years. Is it
surprising that Republicans all over the
country are anxious that Congress should
adjourn, in order that the party shall not
be loaded down and crushed with these
ill-advised measures, or any of them?
Is it surprising that the Democrats are as
anxious that the present Congress shall
pass all these measures, and thereby dig
the grave of the Republican party ?
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A Horrible Affair.—A special from
Topeka, Kansas, says: Near Helena,
Colorado, on the 8th instant, thirty vigi-
lants went to the house of one Gibbs, and
on his refusing to deliver himself to them
to be hanged, set fire to the house, in
which were Gibbs, two women and sev
eral children. Gibbs leaped out through
the flames with a revolver and shot three
of the party dead and wounded a fourth,
when the rest took to their heels and fled.
Gibbs had recently been acquitted on the
charge of murder, and the vigilants pro
posed to take a summary appeal from the
decision which set him at liberty.
[From the New York Bulletin, Februa y 16 ]
Another week has passed without the
development of any decided variation in
the general status .of the market, prices
fluctuating moderately and mainly ou j
contracts, while ail movements have
shown plainly the nervous, doubtful feel
ing current among operators. In fact,
great caution has evidently guided every
one interested, aud the universal dispo
sition was to hold off and closely watch
for any indications which might appear
reasonably conclusive as to the probable
course of affairs during the balance of the
cotton year. The state of the foreign
markets, the amount of premium likely
to rule on gold, and the volume of re
ceipts are the sources from which infer
ences were mostly sought, though the
first named was considered as iu a
measure dependent upon the tw’o last,
and the supply, after all. the main hinge
upon which everything must eventually
turn. While, as above noted, no decided
stand has been taken, we think on the
whole there is a slight modification of the
previous “bull” toue, aud a feeling that
values must react somewhat from the ex
tremes reached.
Of course, on a market as sensitive as
the one now tinder review, a very slight
and unexpected iufluence may change
matters very decidedly in a short time,
but our conversations with some of the
leading dealers, and including those who
have for a time past felt rather buoyant
iu their ideas, seemed to indicate the
following feeling: First, that all hopes of
an increased consumption thus far have
been disappointed, both as regards the
domestic and foreign distributive centres,
and the available stocks now piled up are
ample and tending toward a further in
crease; second, that the manufacturer,
after having largely curtailed production,
still finds his goods accumulating on
hand, with scarcely any margin for profit
on what he is enabled to dispose of; aud
third, that though present receipts are a
little slow, the theory of bad roads and
retarted transportation was a good one,
aud the loss on supply now shown will be
more than made good during the spring
months, indicating that there certainly
will be enough cotton and possibly too
much. The failure of gold to show quite
so high a premium as was expected ha*
also had a partially weakening tendency,
and though the “bulls” argued from the
old standpoints with a continued display
of confidence, they did not find so many
adherents as last week.
During the earlier portion of the week
there was a slight show of strength on
“spots,” but the demand only moderate,
and business subsequently became very
slow aud dragging, and at times so small
iu the aggregate as to present no basis
for quotations, prices frequently proving
almost entirely nominal. Spinners, at
the best indifferent operators, were still
further retarded in their movements by
the lack of water at the mills and the
general difficulties attendant upon trans
portation, while exporters, though now
aud then tilling a few expensive orders,
were, as a rule, unwilling to even bid
except at a figure far b-. low the asking
rates. The condition of the market for
exchange, the cost of the freight room
and the absence of any encouraging ad
vices from Liverpool, with some of the
private accounts very “blue,” all worked
adversely to shipments. Where purchases
were actually made a preference has been j
shown for lots offered on “basis,” buyers I
becoming more ami more displeased with I
the pushing forward of lines of “varie- j
gated” cotton containing an assortment |
of nearly all grades and colors. On an I
unwilling market it is natural that hold
ers should prevent the appearance of a
desire to realize, and at no time have the
offerings been large. Evidences of less
general faith in the accumulating stocks
were not wanting, however, and a better
outlet could at any time have been sup
plied, with a probability of some shading
ou desirable lots and good even running
lines at quotations.
For future deliver}’ there has been no
very positive gain for either interest,
taking the week through covered by this
review, but the “bulls” have scarcely had
the same advantage as during the pre
ceding week, aud iu some cases seem to
be slightly losing courage. Indeed, to
ward the close it was believed that some
of the most extensive “longs” had be
come tired of carrying, and were pre
pared to unload with greater freedom,
though this merely repeats a rumor cur
rent ever since the strong upward ten
dency was checked. There is nothing
really new shown on contracts; in fact,
business having proven very slow, and
at times quite stupid, amounting to little
more thau a broker’s market. Orders
have come from the South both to buy
aud sell, and the feeling there appeals to
be also unsettled, with the indications
latterly rather toward weakness. Little
new interest has been created for an}
month, the current small movements
being confined in the main to contracts
outstanding in the way of extensions,
coverings, settlements, Ac., the majority
of the larger operators Bolding aloof for
new developments, or only taking a hand
in temporarily as their influence was re
quired to carry through some little point.
As we close the tone of the market is
slack, and there appears a quiet effort to
realize by some of the larger operators.
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