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Affairs in (ieorsjia.
( .j- Cameron, messenger of the Sen-
probably the owner of a water
At any rate, the Atlanta Herald
; ,-m-s that “his little bark will continue
• o float for some time to come. '
I j,, Supreme Court has re-elected Mr.
/ 1). Harrison as Clerk for the term of
civ years. This is a well-deserved com
pline ut to the efficiency of one of the
most careful and courteous officers the
Court ever had.
Mr~. Maria liatcliffe, an old resident
0 f Augusta, is dead.
Mr. T. J. Stubbs, of Bibb county, was
:.o; and. it is feared, fatally wounded by
Benjamin Hanly.
V live Pequod Indian is what sold
Vimista on the civil rights business. It
came near getting up a row, Pequod.
Col. Sweat, Clerk of the House, was
robbed of his watch on the train between
Macon and Atlanta the other day.
Mr. .lames Kirkpatrick, one of the
oldest citizens of Columbia county, is
dead
Dr. Newton, who has been editing the
Athens Gtorgian recently, passed through
Savannah the other day on his way to
N w York. The reason he quit was be
cause an old lady walked from Haber
sham county to tell him that the eggs
(.! a ‘ frizzled” chicken were just as good
as any other eggs. He says he will never
put anybody else to such trouble.
A McDuffie county man broke his arm
in two places and put out the eye of a
: rass widow recently in endeavoring to
dn.p some warm molasses candy which he
bad picked up.
, proposes to name a county after
Gi n. Cordon.
> ,.<A. Bill Tumlin, of BandoJph, who
; himself sick in trying to get the
islature to do the correct thing in
r aid to the bogus bonds, is, we are
id to loam, in a convalescent mood.
‘ I. T. J. Smith, Master of the State
: . accompanied by Col. Thos. llar-
li. of Macon, will visit every county
in the State this year.
Henry Colton, of the New York Timex,
is in Atlanta.
\ little daughter of Mr. Erastus Wil-
of Wrightsboro, was drowned near
; it place last week.
Thomson wants some sort of aparatus
to put out fires.
Tin Atlanta JTerald remarks, with con
siderable fervor : “ Carlyle has recently
refused the honor of the grand cross of
both. Penny son, the great poet, has
declined a baronetcy.” We know noth
ing about Carlyle, but our last advices
from Peuuysou are to the effect that he
will accept all the baronetcies he can get
his hands on.
Mr. Hugh Heard, one of the oldest cit
izens of Butts count}*, is dead.
Mumps are no respecters of persons.
Vnd it is for this reason that Judge
James T. Nisbet, of Macon, wears his
able jaws in a sling.
Some one has given little Eddy Mum-
hrd, of the Talbotton Standard, the jaw
bone of a beaver to play with.
Thomasville will hold her annual horti-
:dural fair on the lirst of May.
Mrs. Elizabeth French, aged eighty-
three years, died recently in Brooks
county.
Deer hunts are not infrequent in the
neighborhood of Talbotton.
the turpentine negroes at Groover’s
station do not shirk an occasional row.
Brunswick thinks she is harboring an
incendiary.
Au Atlanta parson says it would be
belt- r to have a thousand children grow
U P in ignorance than to educate them
with the proceeds of a lottery. Isn’t
'bis putting it on rather too thick ?
The Coroners verdict in the case of
Mbs Lashley, who recently died in Pike
" mty under suspicious circumstances,
v - s that she came to her death from
poison.
i he State lload will be in running order
irf a day or two.
Mrs. 1'ret well, formerly of Walton,
:1 °\v of Butts county, has commenced
•lings in Newton Superior Court for
• purpose of having her dower laid out
ot the lots of land upon which the princi-
1 i business portion of Covington is now
situated.
A' uator Gordon will engage in the New
Hampshire canvass.
Barm work in Washington county is
Ver y backward.
1 he Columbus Enquirer says a planter
ni Southwestern Georgia has still over
• " bales of cotton on hand, after selling
over 5(H).
1 he Griffiu News says a planter of
1 niwether county a few days since sold
" ii bales of cotton iu that city, a por
tion of which he had been holding for
' months. He has long since found
'* T that, iu these days of universal suf-
ra b' e slinging and civil rights, it is use-
" s attempt to raise “porkers,” and
i'h winter he buys droves of hogs
•'bicli he drives home and sells them out
sufficient profit to make his own meat
ri^tr. It is such planters as this one
riio get rich aud never want laws by
^bicli they can get credit.
According to the Columbus Timex there
a Uew avenue of trade opening up to
:ction, which can be controled if
merchants and those directly inter-
es t°d will make an effort. Columbus,
* IlSR -» ai *d Demopolis, Ala., are thriving
i'bu-es. aud on account of the want of
abroad facilities are unable to supply
Yeniseives except at enormous expense
•u the way of freights. The Central
Railroad line has gone to their rescue,
a! ‘d has sent an agent out to contract
V l th the merchants at a much lower rate
freights than they have received.
Columbus, if she can get the patronage
‘T these and adjacent places, can get
through rates of freight over this line,
uud thus extend her trade into a rich
country.
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, MARCH (1, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
The Quitman Reporter says there will
be more land cultivated in Brooks county
this year than there was last.
The Atlanta Constitution says a de
served compliment to the wife of General
Gordon was paid at the Catholic Church
in that city on Sunday. In his sermon
to married men, Rev. Father Smoulders
was impressing the duty of husbands and
wives remaining always together, never
being apart for any length of time. The
wife's place at all times, whether in busi
ness or pleasure, at home or abroad, was
by the side of her husband. St. Eliza
beth, Queen of Hungary, when her
husband went to fight in the Holy
Laud, accompanied him through ever}'
peril. “Another instance of this kind,"
said the reverend speaker, “occurred in
the late war. It was on a mission in the
army, and the case came under my own
observation. In the cold and snow of a
Virginia winter, surrounded by the liar-
rassments and discomforts of a state of
war, a noble Georgia lady remained at
her husband's side, cheering him with
her counsels and supporting him in his
adversities. That lady was the wife of
Gen. Gordon, a true and noble woman,
who understands her wifely duties, and
diserves the esteem of every one. Her
example should be imitated by ever}’ wife
in the State, aud husbands would be the
better for it.*’
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
MORTON’ ON LOUISIANA AFFAIRS.
ARCH BISHOP MANNING APPOIN TED
CARDINAL.
THE BLACK IIILLS EXPEDITION.
PRUSSIA
AND THE
CLERGY;
CATHOLIC
The Exportation of Horses Forbidden
by Emperor William.
MRS. TILTON TO TESTIFY.
mUSSIA AND THE CATHOLIC CLERGY.
Berlin, March 4.—In consequeuce of the
Pope’s last encyclical, the government in
troduced in the Prussian Chamber of Depu
ties a bill withdrawing the State endow
ments from the Catholic clergy, and pro
viding for a restoration to those who bind
themselves to obey the laws.
A decree has been issued by the Emperor
William forbidding tho exportation of
horses.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, March 5.—In tho Senate, as
soon as the new Senators were sworn in, Mr.
Morton offered res Dint ions acknowledging
the Kellogg government in Louisiana, ami
for the admission of Pinchback as Senator
from that State. They wore laid over. lie
gave notice that he would call up tho matter
perhaps on Monday.
FROM THE BLACK HILLS.
Washington, March 5.—Two members of
tho Black Hills expedition reached Fort
Laramie on a small sled drawn by au ox.
They were two days without food. One
member of the expedition died. They report
gold, but the weather too severe for pros
pecting.
vessel abandoned—loss of life.
St. John’s, March 5.—The Veoletta, from
France, with salt and sugar, was abandoned
in the ice. The captain and crew were
saved. People from the shore went to save
the ship, but tho wiud shifted, scattering
tho ice. Twenty were lost, and twenty-two
missing.
THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY.
Paris, March 5.—The Left will not con
sent that the Representative of tho Moder
ate Right shall enter the Ministry. If ne
gotiations fail, M&cMahon will form a minis-'
try without further consultation with the
parties iu the Assembly.
THE BEECHER BUSINESS.
New York, March 5.—A bill has been in
troduced in the New York Legislature allow
ing Mrs. Tilton to testify iu the Beecher
case.
POSTMASTER KING TURNS UP.
New York, March 5.—Postmaster King,
whom the House wanted iu tho Pacific Mail
matter, arrived from Canada.
ARCHBISHOP MANNING APPOINTED A CARDINAL.
London, March 5.—Archbishop Manning
has been summoned to Rome to receive his
last Cardinal's hat.
DEATH OF A NOTED SURCiEON.
Philadelphia, March 5.—Geo. W. Morris,
a noted surgeon, is dead.
Conversions in Russia.
Tracy Turnerelli writes to the editor of
the Loudon Standard: “We live in a won
derful age, and the accounts the papers are
giving us of the conversion in twenty-
four hours of 50,000 ‘Uniates’ in Poland
to Russian orthodoxy would alone prove
it to be so. I happen to know something
of these matters myself, having person
ally assisted, note ns volenx. at the ‘edifying’
conversion of about 2,000 Tchouvash peas
ants in the Government of Kazan, made
‘Christians’not in twenty-four, but in less
than four hours. The Tchouvash—whose
customs and religious ceremonies I have
described iu my work on Kazan—were
pagans. The Emperor Nicholas deter
mined to convert these unbelievers to
Russian Christianity; so on a given
day a regiment of Cossacks, armed
with whips—the Governor General, the
high clergy and other great officials pre
siding—and a sufficient supply of can
non, muskets, pikes and bayonets in the
rear, the task of ‘conversion’ began—id
est, the task of scourging; aud so effec
tually were these Christian arguments
applied, ad hominem, that on bended
knees, full of zeal, fervor and gratitude,
the Tchouvash peasants kissed the cross,
signed their names with a ‘cross' also, ca
va xanx dire, and went to their homes
with bleeding backs, blessing ‘the white
Tzar' for tho benefit done them and
heaven. But that I had better not touch
on.
A few months later, when they had re
ceived full instructions in Christian doc
trines, I chanced to visit one of the ’con
verted' Tchouvash Christian villages. A
crowd of hirsute Christians of the race
were gathered round me. ‘You believe
iu Jesus, God the Son ?’ said I. ‘Oh,
yes, master, we do indeed—indeed we
do,’ and the Cossack whips floated be
fore their eyes when they answered
my question. ‘And in God the Father
also ?’ I inquired. The crowd were
puzzled, bewildered, terrified at the
answer they had to make. At
length one gray beard, evidently an
authority among them, came forward and
said gravely and solemnly, ‘What, mas
ter ? Is the old man still alive ? ’ Not
being able to persuade themselves that
the Son could reign even in heaven until
the Father had ceased to live aud breathe
there. This was ‘Russian conversion'
aud ‘Russian instruction,’ and as these
50,000 converts will no doubt find a place
in history, it will be well if the ‘methods
of conversion’ adapted were coupled
with it.
From a balloon which had risen some
eight hundred feet over a Western city
the aeronauts let a cat drop to the earth
beneath. She struck paws down, and
when a small boy was asked if she was
dead the fellow answered, “No, it only
shook up her fiddle strings a little.”
Model for the Beecher Verdict.—
A colored congregation in Dayton, Ohio,
decided to forgive their clergyman for
betting on three card monte and losing
ninety dollars of festival money. One of
the deacons remarked: “We is all human,
and de game is werry enticing.”
THE GREAT ROUT.
Wlmi Im to be I'oue About It ?
And so Treasurer Jones has whipped
out the Georgia Legislature in a fair,
square, stand-up fight! In the most sin
gle handed and singular manner did he
accomplish this feat. Solitary and alone,
“sick” and feeble, he encountered the
impetuous attack of this truculent body
of men “breathing out threatenings and
slaughter,” and routed them “horse, foot
and dragoons!” Never was there a more
ignominious defeat. History does not
record an instance where a more confi
dent army sallied forth ; one with proud
er penants flying; one with louder boasts
of anticipated success, which came back
more discomfited; with banners more
soiled, and torn, and bedraggled. The
Modoc war was not so fruitless in its re
sults : for, after many mortifying fail
ures, Captain Jack was at last unearthed
and captured. But the Atlanta Captain
Jack utterly and positively refuses to be
taken; and his pursuers have felt com
pelled to give over their attempt, utterly
and entirely, and have gone home to seek
consolation in the bosoms of their fami
lies.
Yes, it seems that a committee ap
pointed by our Legislature, find that our
State Treasurer—the man who handles
our money, our all, without which our
credit fails, aud we financially die—they
find that this high official is careless,
grossly negligent, utterly incapable ; and
yet they can devise no means to remove
him. They see that he has already lost
hundreds of thousands of dollars, be
cause he is, to say the least, unable to
take care of it; yet they have been com
pelled to leave the State funds still in
his hands. They know that he reported
near a million of dollars in the treasury,
while there was not more than a third of
that amount; yet he is allowed to con
tinue in office. They draft several bills
to meet the emergency, hut everything
fails. They attempt to appoint a finan
cial supervisor, who shall take charge of
the exchequer, but the Treasurer declares
•he will admit no one into the office, and
he boldly says: “If I have done wrong,
impeach me, aud let the issue he tried !”
And our Solons “were afraid to strike.”
They allowed themselves to be defied,
bullied aud beaten. It has come to
this. The same spirit seems to pervade
the whole country. A poison radiates
from Washington, New Y'ork and other
centres, that permeates the whole land.
It penetrates everywhere. It is found in
national affairs, in those of the State,
those of towns, counties, and down to
the smallest and most insignificant cor
poration that can be thought of. It
seems almost utterly impossible to do
auything to stem the tide that is sweep
ing the hard earnings of the poor into
the pockets of members of rings, of
bloated nabobs who are fattening upon
the very life blood of the people. Tweed
stands as about the only instance of re
tributive justice in the kind of matters
to which I allude.
Not that any one accuses our Treasurer
of corruption or dishonesty; but it seems
he has allowed swindling on the part of
others, which, it is thought, a vigilant
aud capable officer might have prevented.
It is said that all the business of the
Treasury is loosely conducted; that the
system of book-keeping is hard to under
stand, and not what it should be at all;
that there are not sufficient data by which
to ascertain the condition of our finances.
The vocabulary of the English language
is exhausted to find terms in which to
express the idea of Mr. Jones’ incompe
tency and inefficiency. It seems to be
conclusively established that our money
is not safe in his hands, because, although
he does not steal it himself, lie allows
others to steal it: and yet we do not “re
move the deposits. ” We allow them to
remain where they may be raided upon
at will by those who have the confidence
of our Treasurer or who are aware of his
weakness.
Doubtless a large majority of the peo
ple of the State would like to see some
body else besides Mr. Jones in charge of
the Treasury; but, disguise it as you may,
the day has come, in Georgia, when the
will of the majority does not always pre
vail. by a great deal. True we send men
of our own selection to the Legislature—
at least we choose among those who offer
themselves—but nine times of ten they
fail to meet the wishes of their constitu
ents. This last Legislature has frittered
away forty odd days in a most shameful
manner, doing hardly anything that the
people wish, aud finally, after individuals
•had boasted that they w’ould remain in
Atlanta till they settled the Treasury
business, coming off leaving our funds at
the mercy of—somebody, the public hardly
knows who, though there is a very strong
suspicion abroad that, I hope, may yet
assume the form of inquiry, which will
give the desired information.
I say, people would like to see the
funds of the State in hands other than
those of Mr. Jones; but tchose? Oh,
whose? “There’s the rub.” Whom can
we trust ? The atmosphere of office now-
a-days reeks with corrupting influences.
An honest man is a curiosity for which
Barn urn might well afford to exchange all
the wooly horses, aud Joyce Heths, and
men-fish in his museum. I mean one
who can remain honest—whose integrity
can stand the test of temptation. There
are thousands who never misappropriated
a dime in their lives, because they never
had their eyes dazzled by the immense
sums that pass through the hands of
those who have charge of the public rev
enues, but who, if they saw where they
could so easily become wealthy or com
fortable, would fall, Ami most of them
would not be satisfied with becoming
comfortable—wealth, opulence, luxury
alone would satisfy their cravings; and if
arraigned for their misdeeds they would,
iu their hearts, if not with their tongues,
as Warren Hastings did, express astonish
ment at themselves for having taken so
little where their opportunities had been
so great. Hubox.
A Brooklyn Abduction Case.—The
trial of Thomas Lyons for alleged abduc
tion was begun in the Kings County Court
of Sessions yesterday morning. The de
fendant, iu November last, lived at
Cypress Hills, and worked for a family
named Cudworth. They had a daughter
named Alice Cudworth, aged thirteen
years, and it is claimed that the defendant
fell in love with her, notwithstanding he
was at the time a married man. One
night in November last Lyons placed a
ladder up to tho window where the girl
slept and the two started off together, in
tending to elope. They were pursued,
however, and the girl was captured and
taken back to her parents. Lyons es
caped at the time, but was subsequently
arrested and indicted. Several letters
passed between the parties, in one of
which Lyons called the girl his “Dear
Alice,” and promised not to “go back on
her.” The girl testified that before the
elopement Lyons had outraged her.
Lyons was found guilty and remanded for
sentence.—N. Y. World, 27£A.
HORRIBLE ASSASSINATION.
A Romau Newspaper Editor Murdered in
His Priming Office—The Victim n Repre
sentative of the (-real Printer Fninily of
Italy.
A Cat Carrying a Bottle.—A number
of persons were in the American House
billiard saloon last night, when a man
came in with a cat in his arms. A mo
mentary wonder was expressed as to what
the companionship meant, as men are not
in the habit of going about with cats in
their arms. The observers had not long
to wait, as the cat carrier exclaimed,
“Bet anybody this cat will carry a bottle
of ale ten feet.” Somebody, either
doubting pussy would perform the feat
or willing to see it done, took the bet.
Two chalk lines were made on the floor,
the bottle was produced, and the per
formance began. The bottle was placed
on the mark, and the cat was to carry it
to the other. Seizing the animal by the
tail, the man hung her head down over
the bottle. Obeying a known impulse,
the cat grabbed the bottle tightly with
her fore feet. The man then walked
over the chalk mark, and the cat, cling
ing desperately to the bottle, carried it
along the floor to the specified distance.
The wager was won.—Miners' Journal.
[Rome (Feb 7) Correspondence of London News.]
While Rome last night was enjoying
her first genuine experience of carnival,
a horrible crime was perpetrated on one
of the most prominent of her citizens,
ltaffaele Sonzogno, at twenty minutes
past eight o’clock, was sitting alone at
his desk, in the printing office of the
ultra Democratic journal, the Capitate, of
which he was proprietor and editor.
Suddenly his employes heard sounds of
struggling in the room—an upper one—
in which he was at work, and one of
them, Luigi Maracci by name, rushing
up-stairs, stopped a man striving to dis
engage himself from the grasp of Son
zogno, who cried out, “Luigi, Luigi, he
has murdered me!” Iu the act of utter
ing these words Sonzogno fell a bleeding
corpse to the ground, while X M. Maracci,
seizing the fugitive by the throat, stopped
his flight. The man, a tall athlete, was
proving too much for Luigi, but he was
now assisted by his fellow workmen, one
of whom, holding the murderer back,
though still struggling forward, finally
brought him to a stand on the doorway,
where further assistance arrived.
the murderer and his mode of work.
The carbineers took him into custody
and conducted him to prison. By this
time the street was filled and the house
besieged by a dense crowd, some of
whom, pushing up stairs, found Sonzogno
breathing his last, with four severe
wounds, two in the breast, one on the
shoulder and one on the head. Lifted up
and carried in the arms of the printers’
foreman, he expired without saying a
word. A dagger, sticking in the breast
wound, fell to the ground as the murdered
man was being borne along. It was
nearly a foot long, two-edged, with a
sharp point aud handle of black wood.
The assassin, said to be a carpenter, must
have known his habits intimately, as he
chose the hour and place where he was
always to be found alone and intent on
work. He must have dealt the fatal
blow while his victim was sitting at the
desk—aud this explains the wound on
the forehead, followed by the two others
on the breast. Sonzogno must have re
ceived the shoulder wound while strug
gling with his assailant toward the door.
The motive of the crime remains yet a
mystery.
the motive.
Some accounts suggest private vindic
tiveness, others public resentment—the
latter hinting darkly at the opportune ex
tinction of an intrepid opponent of poli
tical and sacerdotal serfdom. One fact
all are agreed upon, that it was no un
practiced hand, but that of a trained aud
professional assassin, who dealt the blow.
the representative printer a radical
democrat.
The Sonzogno family of Milan is known
throughout Italy for their printing estab
lishment, which, for more than fifty
years, has enriched the kingdom with
excellent publications, scientific aud
literary. Sonzogno and Edward, his
brother, who resides in Milan, were the
directors of the establishment. In
1848-41) Raffaele acted as a Liberal.
After the return of the Austrians, aud
their occupation of Milan, he was editor
of the Gazetta di Milano, then an official
Austrian journal, now a Radical one.
After 1857, when Lombardy was liber-1
ated, no one mentioned Raffaele Son
zogno—a silence which favored him as a
journalist But after Mentana the Mena-
brea Ministry persecuted the hot-headed
publicists of Lombardy, and made them
celebrated in the process. Liberated
from prison, they were, by a spirit of
re action, sent to Parliament, and so the
Chamber was inundated by men who were
new and unknown until that time, viz.:
Raffaele Sonzogno, Billia, Ghosios and
Cavalotti, (the last a good dramatic poet,)
all of them wild and headstrong Repub
licans.
It was then that, in the Gazetta, which
has served every government of Italy
from 18-fS to Eurico Moutazlo gave
up to Carlo Paucrazio, director of the
Gazetta d'Italia, a letter of Raffaele’s
with the stamp of the Jmjwrial and Royal
Gazette, of Milan, greatly compromising
that gentleman’s fame and reputation.
An outcry was raised at having in Parlia
ment an Austrian sympathizer, masked
as a Republican, who had dared to ap
prove, in the Milan Gazette, the public
flagellation of the Lombard matrons by
the Austrian government. By (he pres
sure of public opinion Raffaele was
forced to quit Parliament, aud his cou-
! stituents took good care not to re-elect
him. Raffaele now began to write more
violently against the Savoy dynasty and
in favor of the Republic, attaching him
self to all the malcontents of the period.
He had talent, w’as steady aud indefatiga
ble in work aud long suffering toward the
critics of his past history.
When Rome was freed he came here
and started the Capitate, giving it that
title because he thought the Italian Gov
ernment did not wish to make Rome the
capital of the kingdom. Facts have re
futed him. He remained, however, the
declared enemy of the Italian Ministeries,
lashing them without mercy, sparing
neither them, nor, of course, the Pope
and the priesthood, and displaying unu
sual power of mind in his daily diatribes.
The Roman populace and the discon
tented noblesse, such as the Duke of Ser-
rnoneta; were friendly to him, and his
journal was widely read by the constant
opponents of the powers that be. A few
days ago he visited Garibaldi. He was
tolerated as a visitor, because he was a
man of vigorous intellect and well versed
iu history so as to apply it effectively to
current events. Lately he dictated some
articles on tho Agrarian law, which, in
deed, brought us back to the time of the
Gracchi.
How the Hard Times Affect Things
in New Y'ork.—First, building is stopped,
and men by the hundreds are thrown out
of work. Rents are down, and land
lords have to wait where rents remain, or
take the stores and warehouses on their
own hands. Every third store on Broad
way seems to be to let, with chambers
and lots innumerable. Men who had fair
employment, last May, and took a tene
ment to live in, having lost their place,
have to give up; society is so interlocked
that what hurts one department hurts all.
The hotels are losing money, and seem
like banqueting halls deserted. Grocers
groan over the lack of trade. Men who
bought by the pound, buy by the quarter;
men who bought by the chest, buy by
the quarter; men who bought by the
chest, buy by the pound. Butchers say
that their trade has decreased one-half;
men live on vegetables. The barbers
complain: men shave themselves. The
car receipts are reduced: men walk in
stead of riding. They have nothing to
do, and five cents is worth saving.
The churches feel this state of things
terribly. In one church that I hap
pen to know, over a third of the
pew rents have been lost, and the penny
collections have been reduced one-half.
In the most important Baptist Church in
this city, $1,000 was taken from the
minister’s salary, and in a miff he re
signed. A general reduction of salaries
is threatened all along the line. Last
year, in Brooklyn, a very costly Presby
terian Church was built through the in
fluence of one man. He was worth a
quarter of a million, and promised to “see
the thing through.” He went to smash,
and the minister, disheartened, has left.
Our mission work feels the pressure be
yond example, The sufferers have in
creased a hundred-fold, and the supply is
cut off full 50 per cent. The same is
true of all the benevolent operations.
The Dutch Church have announced that
their receipts, the last month, for mis
sions were the smallest ever known since
the organization. Men are begging who
never begged before. There is absolutely
nothing to be done, and no pay if people
could get work. To say that there is ac
tual want and starvation in the city is to
speak within bounds.—'‘Burleigh's' Let.
ter to Boston Journal.
Mrs. Piueli.
There was a colored lady in the case of
Pinchback, who, though she did not ap
pear in the discussion, perhaps had more
to do with shelving that aspirant to Sena
torial honors than all other causes com
bined. He has been sensible of this em
barrassment for two years without being
able to relieve it.
Pinchback is not a retiring patriot of
the colored persuasion, like Revels, who
once figured as a Senator from Missis
sippi, or like Bruce, who is to take the
place of Pease after the 4t’n of March,
much to the advantage of the Senate and
of the State. He seeks social distinction,
is not content with a back seat, and de
mands all the privileges that the position
which he occupies may confer.
Perhaps he is not to be blamed for pre
tensions that were encouraged when a
political object was to be gained by the
very men who have secretly been doing
their best to defeat him. With his pecu
liar disposition it was easy to foresee that
once seated in the Senate he would claim
equality with his Republican friends, in
sist upon recognition for himself and
family, and expect Mrs. Pinch to be re
ceived like the wives of other Senators.
In the shoddy etiquette of Washing
ton under Grant, class distinctions have
been created that never before were
known, and the families of Senators set
up as a body entitled to exceptional con
sideration and rights. By the Fourteenth
Amendment they all stand on the same
footing, without regard to race, color, or
previous condition of servitude; aud while
this amendment has been used by Re
publican Senators as political capital,
their wives and daughters have not been
inclined to regard a principle with much
favor, which would bring Mrs. Pinch and
her friends into their drawing rooms aud
to their dinuer tables. Thus far they had
crowded out the colored wives of mem
bers of the House, but here was a Sena
tor’s case, aud it changed the whole situa
tion.
So the Senatorial fair sex and the Cabi
net ladies aud other snobbish dames to
be affected by the new’ element, caucused
in their own quiet but effective way, and
resolved that Pinch should not be seated
iu the Senate, as the best mode of dis
posing of Mrs. Pinch. They became
more energetic of late after learning that
the dozen or more of yellow Republicans,
who assume to be leaders of the race at
Washington, who monopolize the best
places on that account, aud who will not
associate with an “ordinary nigger,”
were only waiting for Pinch to get in to
spread more sail and put their theories of
social equality in practice.
This is the secret of poor Pinch’s
failure. He was sacrificed by the snobs
on the altar of society. It was his mis
fortune not to be a bachelor. Nor is he a
solitary example of official neglect. When
the President entertained the Commis
sioners who were sent to San Domingo to
whitewash that job, he left Fred Douglass
without a dinner to meditate on the
beauties of the amendments, while his
colleagues in swallow’-tail coats and white
cravats rejoiced over the tidbits of the
White House cuisine and enjoyed the
flavor of the President's wine.
So long as the amendments and obnox
ious legislation can be applied to the
Southern people to wound their pride
and irritate their manhood by enforcing
social equality between them and their
former slaves, and by raising ignorance,
superstition and vice above intelligence,
Christianity and virtue, they are regarded
as admirable expedients of party. But
when they come home to the authors,
and bring Mrs. Pinch and the colored
ladies into the W'liite House, Mrs, Robe
son’s and Mrs. Landaulet Williams' re
ceptions and the Senatorial saloons, the
case is very different, and such au inno-
votiou is not to be tolerated. Alas! Alas!
—New York Sun.
After the Spirits—Hot Shot from the
Tabernacle Against the Mischievous
Table Tippers.
The Rev. Dr. Talmadge turned the
Tabernacle gun against Spiritualism yes
terday. There were four thousand per
sons in the church building, and among
them were a few prominent Spiritualists,
aud the gentleman who was among the
first to discover the mediumistic powers
of the Eddy family. Dr. Talmadge’s ser
mon dated Spiritualism from Saul's
seance with the Witch of EnJor. In this
country it originated in 1847, in Michael
Weakman’s house in Hydesville. Wayne
county, N. Y\, when mysterious knocks
were made at the door by invisible
knuckles, aud where a cold hand passed
over a maiden's brow. Then a Mr. Fox
took the house, aud saw the ghost which
was said to be that of a dead peddler who
had been killed, years before, for $500.
Mr. Fox said that it was a spirit, and all of
the little Foxes said so. Judge Edmonds
declared that he saw a bell pass over the
heads of persons in all the rooms, aud
ring: and N. J. Taluiadge, United States
Senator, and afterward the Governor of
Wisconsin, had his head completely
turned, and all over the country spirits
began to go into the furniture business.
But before Christ’s time the Brahmins
went through all of the table manipula
tions.
With the exception of the workings of
some occult law which will by and by be
explained, all spiritual manifestations arc
arrant and unmitigated humbugs. “I ate
too much before going to bed, not long
ago," said the preacher, “and in a short
time I saw the President of one of our
colleges astride the foot of the bed asking
for a loan of five cents. It was not a
spiritual exhibition, it was too much hot
mince pie. [Laughter.] I indict Spirit
ualism as a social and marital curse, as au
unclean, adulterous, damnable religion,
and the sooner it drops into hell, where
it came from, the better. I wish I could
gather all the raps that were ever heard
from the blest or damned and bring them
together into one thunderous rap on its
head. I would try to crush it out for
ever. I hate the doctrine, aud believe
that its long-haired disciples, whose heads
are soft marshes yielding rank grass, are
doomed to death!”—N. Y. Sun.
Bry ftoofls.
IjntUigtrt.
IMPORTANT
--TO—
GRANGERS.
C’hiuese Funeral Customs.
Some Chinese funeral customs are cu
rious. We do not remember to have met
wilh this account before, and it may be
new to our readers :
Immediately after the decease of a pa
rent, the children and other near relatives
communicate the news to friends living
farther off by what is called an “ an
nouncement of death," which merely
states that the father or mother, as the
case may be, has died, aud that they, the
survivors, are entirely to blame. With
this is sent a “sad report,” or in other
words a detailed account of deceased's
last illness, how it originated, what med
icine was prescribed and taken, and sun-
dr}’ other interesting particulars. These
friends reply by sending a present of
money to help defray funeral expenses, a
present of food or joss-stick, or even a
detachment of priests to read the pre
scribed liturgies over the dead.
Sometimes a large scroll is written and
forwarded inscribed with a few such ap
propriate words as—“A hero has gone!”
When all these have been received, the
members of the bereaved family issue a
printed form of thanks, one copy being
left at the house of each contributor, and
worded thus: “This is to express the
thanks of , the orphan son who weeps
tears of blood and bows his head; of ,
the mourning brother, who weeps and
bows his head: of , the mourning
nephew who wipes away his tears and
bows his head." It is well known that
all old and even middle-aged people in
China like having their coffius prepared
ready for use.
A dutiful son will see that his parents
are thus provided sometimes many years
before their death, and the old people
will invite relatives or friends to examine
and admire both the materials and work
manship, as if it were some beautiful
picture or statue of which they had just
cause to be proud. Upon the coffin is
carved an inscription with the name and
titles of the occupant—if a woman, the
name of her husband. At the foot of the
coffin are buried two stone tablets face to
face; one bears the name and titles of the
deceased, aud the other a "short account
of his life, what year he was born m,
what were his achievements as a scholar,
and how many children were born to him.
Periods of mourning are regulated by the
degrees of relationship to the dead. A
sou wears his white clothes for three
years—actually for twenty-eight months:
and a wife mourns her husband for the
same period.
The Astob House Marriage. — The
Astor House is also noted as having af
forded the closing scene of one of the
chief social tragedies of the age. Here
the unfortunate Richardson, murdered
by the infamous McFarland, spent his
list hours of agony, and here occurred
that carricature of marriage in which
Beecher and O. B. Frothingham officiated.
This was one of that series of blunders
which showed the world the weakness of
the gifted but erratic orator. From the
present standpoint we can look back
without surprise at an act which then
shocked the community. If a marriage
had been strictly proper, the parties
could have been united by a magistrate,
or by any preacher whose conscience
might permit him to officiate. The sum
moning of two such divines from a dis
tance was intended to throw the halo of
their reputation around a union whose
history is disreputable. It was Beecher’s
induction into the free love clique.—
Cincinnati Gazette.
They Went “Down the Hill The-
gither.”—A sad occurrence took place on
the L'7th February iu a little old building
jn the rear of No. 2450 Dekalb street
An aged German couple, named Jacob
aud Anna Gerstel, whose ages were be
tween sixty-five and seventy years, had
long lived there in seclusion, being child
ish, and receiving but few if any visitors.
They had spent the larger portion of a
long life together, and as age grew upon
them and weakened their physical powers,
their mutual affection seemed to grow
the stronger, each regarding the other
with a feeling of dependence. A few
weeks ago the health of both began to
fail, and it soon became evident that,
while there was little hope for the re
covery of either, the wife must go first.
The husband seemed to realize this, and
his anxiety and manifestations of love
were most touching. On the 25th ult.
the wife died, aud it was arranged by
friends that she should be buried at three
o’clock on the 2flth. At the appointed
time several of them gathered at the
house and entered the room to carry out
the corpse. The old man sat upon a
chair near the coffin, evidently thinking
of by-gones, and presenting a most for
lorn picture. When they began to carry
out the coffin, he managed to arise to his
feet, and begged piteously to be taken
along with his wife. They tried to con
sole him, but he continued in his appeal
for a few moments, aud then, with a gasp,
fell forward—dead. AU arrangements
were postponed until the following day.
when, at half-past nine o’clock a. in.,
there was a double funeral.—St. Iyruis
Republican.
Terrible Fight in a Menagerie.—A
remarkable scene occurred on February
25, at Burr Robin’s farm, near Janesville,
Wis., where he winters his menagerie.
About midnight the sacred ox got loose,
backed out of his stall aud stopped close
to a den occupied by a large Bengal tiger.
The tiger seized the ox by the neck with
such tenacity that when the ox tried to
escape he separated the cage bars and
drew the tiger through them. Then a
terrible battle commenced. The watch
man climbed to the top of the building
to save his life. The noise awoke Sam
Dickey and Richard Brooks, who slept
in the upper part of the building, and
they at once came down to discover the
cause of the din. The hyena, elephant,
and all the other animals were terribly
excited and doing their best to escape*
Brooks and Dickey jumped upon the
tiger, and by choking him succeeded in
tearing him from his victim; but he es
caped them and again fastened upon the
ox. They then secured a stout rope
around his throat, and, dragging him off,
secured him once more in his cage. Both
men were badly bitten and cut up.
Brooks will probably be laid up for sev-
*3ral weeks. They stood about one
chance in a hundred of escaping with
their lives.—Chiceigo Tribune.
In the days when rouge-et-noir flour
ished at Baden Baden the Prussian offi
cers were strictly forbidden to play. Qne
of them, however, dressed as a civilian,
ventured to place ten Napoleons on a
color. The color came up twice and the
officer was about to take the money when
his eye fell upon the King of Prussia,
who was watching the game with interest.
In his fright the officer did not dare to
remove his Napoleons. The play con
tinued and the same color came up a
third, a fourth, a fifth time, and 3,200
francs were added to his pile, but the
winner stood motionless, erect as if on
parade, expecting the next instant to see
all his winnings wiped out. The King
put an end to his suspense by approach
ing and saying in a kindly mood: “I ad
vise you to draw your winning and to be
quick about it. before I notice you: your
luck cannot continue so favorable.”
Y't’ng Wing Marries a Connecticut
Lady.—Mr. Y T uug Wing, of Canton,
China, Chief of the Chinese Educational
Commission now at Hartford, was mar
ried on Wednesday to Miss Mary L. Kel
logg, at the residence of her father, B. S.
Kellogg, in Avon, the ceremony being
performed by Rev. J. H. Twitchell, of
the Asylum Hill Congregational Church
in Hartford, a very particular friend of
the bridegroom. The bride wore a dress
of white crape, imported expressly for
tliis occasion from China, and elaborately
trimmed with floss silk embroidery. Her
brother and sister attended as grooms
man and bridesmaid. After the cere
mony, a collation was served, in which
Chinese delicacies were mingled with
more substantial dishes of American
style. YIessrs. Yoh Shu Tung, manager,
aud Yung Y T un Foo, teacher of the Com
mission at Hartford, were present in
national costume, but the groom, who
long since adopted our style, appeared in
full evening dress. The bridal presents
were numerous and costly. Mr. and Mrs.
Wing left on the evening train for this
city on a short wedding trip.
Kissing the Small-Pox.—At Mount
Vernon the inhabitants are congratulating
themselves on having escaped the horrors
of an epidemic. It appears that a younj
woman, named Carroll, returned to her
father’s house in that village a short time
since and died in a day or two afterward.
During the wake which followed a large
number of persons present kissed the
corpse. It has now transpired that the
girl died of small-pox in its worst and
most malignant form. None of Mr. Car-
roll’s other children having been vacci
nated, the contagion spread itself among
them, carrying off all but two, out of
seven. Nothing could be done to restrain
the inmates of the pestilential abode from
going at large and intermingling with the
community while the dangerous infection
existed.—New York Herald, Feb. 27.
According to the last census in England
and Wales the females of the population
outnumbered the males by upward of
half a million; but above the age of
twenty-five the males exceeded the fe
males in number. While there were
400,000 widowers, there were 873,00o
widows. Above the age of ninety, fe
males numbered two to every male. The
number of centenarians had decreased
during the last forty years, notwithstand
ing the increase in population. There
were in the southeastern counties, with
two millions of population, 1,080 nona
genarians, while in London, with three
and a quarter millions, there were only
834, and in Lancashire and Cheshire,
with a similar aggregate population, only
585.
An English scientist, by way of experi
ment, injected absinthe into the veins of
some dogs, for which he was fined by an
English magistrate for cruelty to animals.
Shortly afterward the French Academy
of Sciences awarded him a prize of $500
for his scientific researches.
Gray, O’Brien&Oo.
No. 117 Hroughtou Street,
H AVE just received a Full Luie of WHITE
PUiUE and FRENCH WELT’S.
Haudsome LACE and SATIN STRIPE PIQUES.
Handsome PLAIN WHITE PERCALE.
White FRENCH NAINSOOK MUSLINS.
Elegant SWISS and NAINSOOK EMBI
ERIES, very choice.
Full lines of Registered
SERTIXGS.
EDGINGS and IN
LADIES’ HEMMED STITCHED HANDKER
CHIEFS (all linen), at $2 00 per do/.eu.
LADIES’ MACHINE HEMMED HANDKER
CHIEFS, at $1 25 and $1 50 per dozen.
BOYS’COLORED BORDERED LINEN HAND
KERCHIEFS, at $ I 50 and $1 75 per dozen.
LADIES FRINGED NECKTIES, of the latest
styles.
A full line of PARASOLS and SILK UMBREL
LAS.
100 dozen CORSETS, at 50 cents each.
INFANTS’ LONG ROBES,
Swiss, very elegant.
in Nainsook and
LADIES’ UNDER GARMENTS, of all kinds.
Black PARISIENNE and MILANESE CLOTHS,
(the handsoun^t Mourning Dress Goods in
the market.)
Black DRESS SILKS, of best French manufac
ture.
We are offering a very large stock of HAMBURG
EMBROIDERIES, at very low prices.
GKOKGIA STATE GRANGE
FERTILIZER!
GEORGIA STATE GRANGE
Dissolved Bones!
gkohgia state grange
Acid Phosphate!
ALL CHEMICALS
—USED IN—
Agriculture
For Sale Cash at Prices as per
Contract Entered into Be
tween State Orange and
Manufacturers’ Com
bination.
For particulars, addrt ss
W. M. MOSKS,
General Purchasing Agent, or
CHAS. C. HARDWICK,
Local Agent, No. 88 Bay street.
NOTICE.
Parties desiring to make time arrangements
can do so through the undersigned at a reason
able advance—ON SATISFACTORY PAPER.
CHAS. C. lIAltDWICK,
feb9-dlm*.tw4 Commission Merchant.
300 dozen LINEN TOWELS,
dozen upwards.
from $1 25 per
20 pieces extra wide DOWLAS, (warranted all
linen,) at 25 cents per yard.
White COTTON SHEETINGS and SHIRTINGS,
at low prices.
White LINEN TABLE DAMASKS, at low price's.
GRAY, O’BRIEN & CO.
(fommissiou Sttwhants.
Ii
JOSEPH FINEOAN. JAS. B. PAKKAMoKE.
JOSEPH FIN EG AN &C0.
COTTON FACTORS
f- AND—'
Commission Merchants,
i)4 Bay Street, Savannah. <■ a.
£ Liberal advances made on Cotton con-g
^signed to us or to our correspondents in~
New York and Liverpool.
B AGGING ami TIES ALWAYS ON HAND.
sep8-6m
I
SAMUEL COHEN & SON.
COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
Geu'l Commission Merchants,
Ray Street, Savannah, Ga.
L IBERAL CASH ADVANCES made Oil con
signments of Cotton.
BAGGING AND TIES always on hand, an
supplied at the lowest market rates.
sep23-6m
It. R. DANCY.
D. Y. DANCY.
I). Y. DANCY Sl CO.
COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
Commission Merchants
y » Bay Street, Suvnnnali, Ga.
Prompt and careful attention given to all business
entrusted to us. Liberal advances made on con
signments. Cash paid for United States Bounty
I.and Warrants. sep9-6m
K. J. DAVANT. W. D. WAPLES. JULIAN MYERS.
Davant, Waples & Co.,
Cotton ami ltice Factors
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SAVANNAH, GA.
I IBERAI. advances made on consignments
J and prompt and careful attention given to al
business. seplO-€m
II. F. GRANT,
102 BAY ST., SAVANNAH, GA.,
General Commission Merchant
I IBERAL advanci s made on Consignments.
J Agent for ETIWAN GUANO. Agent for
,\gei
LANG DALE GUANO.
PRATT COTTON GIN.
‘I*
Agent for DANIEL
ang31-12m
-Cottcrifs.
LOOK! LOOK!
§1,200,000 IN PRIZES!
The Grandest Sinj(le Number SrliiMiie on
Keeoril, will be drawn in imlilie in
St. Louis ou March HI, l'sTS.
Capital Prize, $100,(MM)!
Missouri State Lotteries!
Legalized by State Authority,
MURRAY, MILLER k CO., Managers,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
1 Prize of $100,000
1 Prize of
1 Prize of
1 Prize of
5 Pnzes of.
10 Prizes of
20 Prizes of
100 Prizes of.
50,<MMI
22,500
20,(MM)
10,(MMI
5,000
2,500
1,000
And 11,451 other Prizes of from $1,500 to $50.
AuiountinK in the Aggregate to $1,200,OCC
Whole Tickets, $20; Halves, $10; Quarters, $5.
Prize payable in full and no postponement of
drawings take place.
Address, for Tickets and circulars,
MURRAY, MILLER k CO., Managers,
ST. LOUIS, MO
P.O. Box 2446. j*n5-Tu.Th,Sa£wly
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TIN-ROOFING!
CORNICE WORK.
HE PAIRING TIN ROOFS
-ALSO—
Painting Tin Roofs,
—WITH THE—
Celebrated Swedish Paiut.
Orders solicited, and will meet with prompt at
tention. Satisfaction guaranteed.
C'orniack Hopkins,
No. 107 Broughton St.
rahl-tf
itardirarf, &c.
F. W. CORNWELL,
DEALER IN
HARDWARE, CUTLERY,
A ft] cultural Implement*, Mechanical Tools, Axes.
iioea. Nails, Traces, etc. Also, CUCUM
BER WOOD PUMPS, the best and
Ms. 1C9 Bi
wn
PS, the best and
in use.
Savannah. Ga.
SNOWDEN & PETERS’
A m m o ii i a ted Soluble
Bone Phosphate!
A COMPLETE FERTILIZER FOR
Cotton mid Corn.
Packed in bags, 200 pounds each, at $70 per ton,
payable 1st November, or $05 cash. For sale by
DAVANT, WAPLES &
feblJMm
CO.
hotels and Restaurants.
BRESNAN’S
166, 168, 160 & 162
BRYAN STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
'F'UE Proprietor, having completed the neces-
JL wary additions and improvemeutM, can now
uffer to hi« guests all the comforts to be obtained
tX other Hotels at less than
iliALF THE EXPENSE!
A RESTAURANT
ON THE
EUROPEAN PLAN
Has been added, where guests can
A.T ALL HOURS
Order whatever can be obtained in the market.
ROOMS, WITH HOARD,
$2 00 PER DAY.
Determined to Ikj
Outdone by None,
All I ask is a TRIAL, confident that complete
s&tiMfaction will be given.
JOHN URE8NAN,
PROPRIETOR.
feb!9-tf
Vaitttittfl.
PAINTING!
CHRIS. MURPHY.
CHAS. CLARK.
Murphy & Clark,
!>8 Bryan street, between DrayUm arul
Abercom Streets,
SAVANNAH, GA.
HOUSE, SHIP, STEAMBOAT, SIGN AND
Ornam’tal Painters,
(iiLDib a,
GRAINING,
MARBLING,
GLAZING
AND
Paper Hanging:.
We are prepared to offer estimates for every de
scription ot Painting in any part of Georg a.
South Carolina aud Florida, and guarantee satis
faction in the execution of oar work.
We keep always in store a select stock of the
following articles:
PURE ENGLISH B. B. LEAD.
ATLANTIC and ali other brands of LEADS.
OILS, VARNISHES, PUTTY, BRUSHES.
Furniture, Demar and other VARNISHES pal
up in quart, pint and haif pint bottles, ready for
use.
GROUND and ENAMELED GLASS.
STAINED and PLAIN of various cotara.
Double and single thick French, English ami
American GLASS.
GOLD LEAF, BRONZE, Glazkm’ DIAMONDS.
Machinery OILS; and Axk GREASE.
A select stock of GOLD and PLAIN PAPER
HANGINGS.
Persons desiring work and material In onr lhw
would do welit o give us a call before going else
where.
PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL
SIGN WORK
Executed with neatness aud dispatch.
PATENT STEP LADDERS.
As the season has set in when house cleaning fa
the order of the day, it can’t be done without a
STEP
The place to
LADDER !
*et them Light and Durable is at the
Paint and Oil Store of
MURPHY & CLARK.
PRICE $2 80 TO $6, ALL SIZES.
Stained to imitate Black Walnut and Lettered
with the purchaser’s name, if desired, octttt-tf
trapping gaper.
Wrapping Paper.
iB 8ALK, OLD NEWSPAPERS, SUITABLE
wnpc
Apjlij
TT'OB
C (or wrapping plkper, at Fid, Cent, per luu-
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