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W. T. THOMPSOS, Editor.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1875.
The Two-Thirds Rule.
Our Atlanta contemporaries who seem
to imagine they have or ought to have
things all their own way, and who will
announce to the people the Democratic
candidate for Governor at the next elec
tion, so soon as they have settled the
matter between themselves, are still
fighting against the two-thirds rule. In
its last issue the Constitution levels a
broadside from the Cincinnati Entjuirer
against the “time-honored usage” of the
Democratic party, from which, as a sam
ple of the argument, we give the closing
paragraph as printed in the Constitution.
The editor says :
“The wedding occurred promptly at
the hour named this evening at the ele
gant residence of Judge Davis, upon the
eastern edge of the city, in whose spa -
cious, richly furnished parlors a brilliant
company had assembled. The bride en
tered, leaning on the arm of her father,
and Mrs. Davis on the arm of Justice
S wayne. The bride is a brunette, of
pleasing form, rather above the medium
height, with a face which, though not
beautiful, may be called handsome in
feature and of charming expression.”
In the belief that the maintenance of
the two-thirds rule would be a means of
preserving the unity and harmony of
the party, especially when nominations
are contested by several aspirants, we
have felt inclined to adhere to it now,
when there is a probability of a warm
personal contest for the nomination for
Governor. We have believed and still
believe that the all important object of
a nominating convention is to unite the
largest number of those whom the people
have delegated to represent them in the
support of tho candidate presented for
their suffrages. While a mere majority
may be obtained for one candidate,
strong minorities may be uncompromis
ingly opposed to the nominee, thus en
dangering his success. Besides, ir
warmly contested canvasses for nomina
tion, the opposition often assumes a
personal character which even the para
mount interests of party fail to reconcile.
In such cases the two-thirds rule is a safe
resort. It is a means of compromise,
and becomes a pledge of party fealty
and strength. But in a case like the one
above stated we see no particular
reason for strenuously adhering to the
rule. In such a case, when the fate of
only the two candidates for matrimony
is involved, wo are perfectly willing to
waive all arbitrary rules, and to permit
the parties to arrive at an unanimous
agreement in their own way. We submit
that the case, as stated, does not make
a point in support of the argument
against the two-thirds rule.
Shebidan and Louisiana.—Lieutenant-
General Sheridan, in his report to the
General of the army, makes the follow
ing allusion to his action in Louisiana
last winter: “In the Department of the
Gulf everything seemed to be getting
along quietly. Last winter when the de
partment came under my jurisdiction I
thought it best to call a halt in a forcible
way on much lawlessness from armed
mobs, which action brought the atten
tion of the government and the law-
abiding and good people of the country
to a growing and inhuman evil. Peace
has been the result, and I hope pros
perity will follow.” This little paragraph
is all that the little Piegan hero has to
say of the part played by him last
January in trampling upon civil law. It
evidences that even at this late date he
looks back upon those scenes with com
placency, but it is principally important
in showing that even he thinks the time
has come to cease the shaking of the
bloody shirt. Let the Mortons in Con
gress take notice.
The fact that some of the New York
city banks have declared large dividends
out of their “surplus” appears to have
given rise to a false impression. This
course, says the Bulletin, has been
adopted, not from any lack of earnings to
make ordinary dividends, nor for the
purpose of assuring appearances, as some
seem to imagine, but solely because the
banks cannot afford to pay the local tax
on surplus which the Tax Commissioners
have most unwisely and wrongfully en
forced on the accumulated profits of the
banks as well as on their capital. It will
thus be seen that taxation is compelling
the distribution of a large amount of cap
ital employed in banking, as well as pre
venting capital from seeking employment
in the banking business. What will be
the effect of thus depriving the trade of
the city of banking facilities it is unnec
essary to foreshadow. This is one of the
numerous obstructions to trade arising
out of our excessive taxation.
PbEJUDICE Ag> INST Colob IN THE ClTY
of Bbotuebly Love.—Some months ago
an attempt was made to bury a mulatto
by the name of Henry Jones in Mount
Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia. We
believe a lot in the cemetery had been
purchased for the deceased by a white man,
the managers cf the cemetery not knowing
at the time of the sale that the purchaser
was a colored man. The corpse was re
fused interment, and a lawsuit ensued.
The Philadelphia Gazette (Radical,) of
Saturday last says:
After an interval sufficiently long to
enable them to make up their minds, the
Judges having decision of the case of the
body of Henry Jones against the Mount
Moriah Cemetery have decided that the
burial must be completed ; Judge Lynd
dissenting. There has been an appeal
filed and the case goes to the Supreme
Court, where we sincerely trust that a
final decision will be made that no cor
poration can establish prohibitory rules
against the inter cent in their grounds of
respectable people because they are not
white.
W. J. Whipper, the man whom 4,he
South Carolina Legislature has elected a
Judge, ir Alt ccjnpany with ex-Governor
Moses, is shown now to be a defaulter in
addition tio his other shortcomings. The
Charleston News and Courier shows from
official records that Whipper, while Sec
retary of the Sinking Fund Commission
in 1871 and 1872, received State money
and securities amounting to $19,550, and
has never passed them over to the State*
When a special investigating committee
asked him about the missing funds in
1873, Whipper responded : “I have not
made a settlement with the Treasurer of
the Commission as Secretary, All
moneys received by me and the State
bonds are yet in my hands.” That is the
last the State has heard of the money.
The Now York Bulletin of Saturday
aayB: The weekly bank statements begin
to regain their former interest with the
growing activity in money. Past week
there was a further loss of $1,200,000 in
legal tenders; but, as the liabilities were
reduced, the reduction in net reserve was
only $054,000. This tendency, says the
Bulletin, suggests the question where
vould any considerable contraction of
legal tender notes, so earnestly advocated
in some quarters, be likely to land the
banks of this city ? Business and prac -
Uce first; theories afterward.
Babcock v<. Bristow—Now Phase of
the Whisky Ring Frauds.
The St. Louis whisky frauds are as-
| suuiing a new phase, and the probability
is that the “crooked” will play an impor-
; taut part in the politics of the country
j during the approaching Presidential
campaign. It seems that Babcock has
employed the respite given him by the
President, when he dismissed Henderson
from the prosecution, in devising means
to head off his pursuers, and with the
aid of his friend Grant, not only to escape
punishment for his crime, but iQsn
to catch Secretary Bristow and
other virtuous anti-third term Radi
cals in their own trap. In
recent interview with a correspondent of
the Inter-Ocean, Grant’s Chicago organ.
General Babcock indicated that lightning
was about to strike from an obscure por
tion of the whisky heaven not then anti
cipated by the prosecution of the whisky
ring, and admitting that he was to some
extent innocently involved in the opera
tions of the ring, he had proofs sufficient
to implicate Secretary Bristow, and that
he was determined to make a clean breast
of the matter, and to show to the country
that if he Lad be en
tent, Secretary Bristow was tarred with the
same stick. He admitted that he sent the
“Sylph” dispatch to McDonald, using that
nom de plume because it was by that term
McDonald was in the habit of pointing
out to him “fancy women” in the streets
of St. Louis. This acknowledgment,
which places Babcock in a very undigni
fied attitude, is relied on by the Inter-
Ocean as an evidence of the truth of
his statement so far as it relates to the
dispatch, which, it is asserted, had no con
nection with whisky matters. In this
interview Babcock charges that Bristow
has acted as counsel for members of the
whisky ring: that since he became Secre
tary be has ordered the release of whisky
that had been seized for irregu-
arity, and that he has not only
protected his friends in Louisville
and Chicago, engaged in the illicit
whisky business, but has permit
ted the government to be defraud
ed out of many millions of dollar^
due from railroads. These facts are all
to be brought to light, and, for the pur
pose of a full exposure of Secretary Bris
tow, Babcock has resolved to go before
a committee of Congress to be appointed
for the purpose of a thorough investiga
tion of the whole matter. Babcock’s
plan is thus set forth by the Inter-Ocean.
We give an abstract of it for what it is
worth:
There is a law to the effect that any
man appearing before the House or a
committee of the House, or the Senate
or a committee of the Senate, and who
shall testify to any facts in his posses
sion, that his testimony shall not be used
against him on any criminal proceeding
which mfty be instituted against him. Of
this fact General Babcock appears to
have been informed, and he proposes
now to avail himself of that act, make a
full and complete statement concerning
the dispatches he is charged with having
sent, and claim immunity from any pros
ecution which may have been started
against him in the United States courts.
Rumors to this effect have been float
ing around Chicago for nearly two weeks,
and an Inter- Ocean reporter has finally
traced them to headquarters. Four law
yers, two Democratic and two Republi
can—the Democrats working in the inter
ests of the Democratic party, and the two
Republicans operating against Bristow
and his ambitions for the Presidency—
have worked up the case and studied the
law, under instructions from Washington,
and have concluded that General Bab
cock’s proposition to secure a Congres
sional Investigating Committee will, if he
states the facts, freeze out all proceedings
against him in the United States Court
at St. Louis.
The law is quoted from the United
States Revised Statutes, p. 1G2, title 13,
chapter 17, section 859, which reads as
follows :
“No testimony givenhy a witness before
either house, or before any committee of
either house of Congress, shall be used
as as evidence in any criminal proceed
ing against hirn in any court, except in a
prosecution for perjury committed m giv
ing such testimony. But an official pa
per or record produced by him is not
within said privilege. ”
It Lad not generally been supposed
that General Babcock could be convicted
of any conspiracy against the govern
ment, though it has been generally
admitted that the power of the Secretary
of the Treasury, backed by the public
demand for justice and the power of the
Democracy in the event of failure, re
quired prosecution independent of means
and regardless of results. But the
Democratic element in the legal consul
tations, while they have conceded to the
Republican element the necessity of
clearing Republicans, have demanded
Babcock’s political death, that they might
be saved the inflections resultant upon
the consummation of Bristow’s ambition.
After long arguments, the Republican
element gave way, and the result was the
patching up of a scheme by which Bab
cock is to be sacrificed to save himself
from the penitentiary, and save the De
mocracy from the perpetration of a fraud
on the people, in the presentation of
Bristow as the “honest” candidate for the
Presidency.
Babcock is ready to go before a com
mittee which will be appointed during
the first week of January to investigate
the whisky frauds. And he is ready to
give up all he knows, and fully explain
his connection with the whisky ring, to
save himself and enable the honest ele
ment of the Democratic party to dispose
of Bristow by showing that he has from
the start been as deep in the mud as Joan
A. Joyce is now, in the penitentiary.
There are more things connected with
the present situation than politicians or
even honest men suppose. Babcock’s
present situation, while he contends that
be is innocent, is a peculiar one. The
Secretary of the Treasury at present has
connecting wire between his little bell
and ever}' penitentiary in the land. But
if all stories are true, there is not a peni
tentiary in the land that does have a wire
connected with his little bell upon the
appointment of his successor.
Overtures have been made to Babcock,
which Babcock has accepted, to tell all
he knew before a Congressional commit
tee. That committee will consist of
seven members, of which the Hon. Sam
uel Randall will be chairman. There will
be four Democrats and three Republicans.
Two of those Republicans are known to
be friends of Bristow. Babcock will ap
pear before them and will fully relate all
le knows concerning the whisky ring.
He will explain his dispatches and call
four witnesses to substantiate his state
ments. Government detectives will be
called who, not knowing the testimony
presented before theirs, will endeavor
to put a new face on the af
fair. The only man who can de
cide between the contending wit
nesses is General John MacDonald, of
St. Louis, and his sentence has been re
served to enable him to testify before
that committee. He will be sent to Wash
ington, and his evidence will be reserved
for rebuttal. The testimony of the gov
ernment detectives will be solely for the
crimination of Babcock, while Babcock’s
testimony and that of his four witnesses
will call the attention of the President to
Mr. Secretary Bristow.
The argument of the Democratic ele
ment of Congress is that Babcock is
smaller game than Bristow, and they are
willing to bury Babccck by the wayside
if they can drive the cross through Bris
tow’s body at the cross-roads.
Babcock has for a long time hunted up
Bristow’s record. He means war to the
knife on Bristow, is willing to sacrifice
himself, in the interests of the Republi
can party, that he may be afforded an
opportunity to kill the ambition which
protects friends, swamps enemies, and
elevates the autocrat. Babcock has given
np his claim that his dispatches were in
every respect purely innocent. Re was
betrayed into doing a thiDg which ho now
claims he never reaped any benefit from,
and were be not to be tried by a court
completely under Bristow’s influence and
&oting under Bristow's instructions, he is
satisfied that his explanation, which he
will make before the Congressional Com
mittee, would be sufficient to clear him.
The committee will be appointed not
in Babcock’s interest; bat in the interest
of the Democratic party. This has been
agreed upon, and the four lawyers of
Chicago, though they disagreed at first,
will combine with two lawyers in New
York, and exer themselves in the inter
ests of justice, regardless of party. Bab
cock knows his own connection with the
whisky ring to be very slight, and so far
as it goes, he is ready to tell all he knows.
Under the statutes already quoted his
statement will exempt him from his trial
in St. Louis, and he is willing to follow
out the President’s injunction, “Let no
guilty man escape,” by showing up
the man who has protected Louis
ville and Cincinnati at the ex
pense of St. Louis and Chicago.
It is not improbable that the investiga
tion before the committee will be open,
for Babcock claims that he has nothing
to conceal. Chicago whisky men, know
ing the circumstances, will appear before
that Congressional committee, and will
avail themselves of the section of the
statute already quoted; and, in fact, this
new streak of lightning illuminates a plan
by which the unimportant elements of the
whisky ring will eventually squelch all
kinds of political trickery.
Another Political Nostrum.
A Mr. William J. Fowler, editor of the
Rural New Yorker, has written an open
letter to Hon. A. H. Stephens, and pub
lished it in the New York World,
which he proposes to save the country
from the evils of negro suffrage, by giving
the ballot to the women in the Southern
States “with an intelligence qualification
to exclude those unfitted for political
rights.” By this plan the writer thinks
the vote of the intelligent white women
of the South would neutralize the ignd
rant negro vote, which he recognizes as
one of the greatest dangers now threaten
ing the Republic, although he admits that
he, as a Republican partizan, favored its
infliction upon the South. He admits
that by giving the ballot to the negro his
party have adulterated the political life
of the nation, and to the extent of that
adulteration debased and degraded the
body politic; but he maintains that the
addition of the women as voters
would neutralize the evil, as their vote
would outnumber the negro vote, the
“intelligence qualification” having the
effect of shutting out the vote of the ne
gro women.
The proposition is utterly absurd and
only worthy of notice as showing to what
reckless expedients fanaticism will re
sort in the vain hope of remedying its
own malignant folly. This man Fowler
argues well against the demoral
izing influence of negro suffrage,
so lawlessly and ruthlessly forced upon
the people of the South. To it he attri
butes the misrule, corruption and out
rage that has sprung from the Radical
reconstruction policy, and now to get rid
of it would still further unsettle and de
moralize society, would carry the corrupt
ing influence of higher law politics to our
homes and firesides. The writer ought
to know that the true women of the South
are not of tho class to embrace his theory
of saving the country from the impend
ing dangers which he so much dreads.
And he should know that even if his
scheme was acceptable to the people of
the South, that it is ntterly impracticable
and unreliable. He should know
that his “intelligence qualification,” as
he calls it, would offer no bar to the flood
of ignorance that would swell the tide of
negro suffrage. He ought to know
that his “intelligence clause” could only
stand the assaults of demagoguery till it
was thought by some one down in New
England that the votes of the colored sis
ters of the South would be useful. The
howl would go up for equality of rights,
and the result would be an increase of
the evil of ignorant, degraded negro suff
rage, with all the demoralizing and dis
gusting features of female suffrage super-
added.
Mr. Fowler, as a Radical reconstruc
tionist and negro suffragist, has done
about all he can do for his country and
civilization in this line, and it is only to
be regretted that the experiences of the
past are not sufficiently impressive to
teach him and such as him that the best
thing they can do in the future is to
simply mind their own business.
The Gospel Not Without Money and
Without Pbice.—The executive commit-
mittee of arrangements for the revival
meeting conducted by Messrs. Moody
and Sankey in Philadelphia, announce
that the expenses incurred on account of
those services will amount to $30,000, and
up to this time only a little more than
one-third, of that sum has been received,
and as a consequence are very urgent in
their call for prompt and liberal subscrip
tions. There is an effort being made to
get up a Moody and Sankey revival sea
son in Washington City. In view of this
heavy bill of expense, the Chronicle of
that city is alarmed, and says : “If the
expenses attending a few weeks’ ministra
tions on the part of those gentlemen
usually reach such a large figure, the
proposed revival in this city had better
be inaugurated without waiting for their
assistance, as it would be simply impossi
ble to raise anything like that sum here.
The items of the expenses are not given,
so that whether the expenditures were
really necessary or not cannot be known
at present.”
President Grant’s proposition for State
taxation of church property is not meet
ing with warm approval in sources from
which hearty support was anticipated.
Many of the religious organs of Protest
ant denominations are opposed to such a
measure, and the wealthy churches of
the large cities are not all favorable to it.
The prevailing idea, says the Baltimore
Gazette, that the Catholic Chulfeh enjoys
special privileges in the exemption of its
property is widely erroneous. In the
past ten years the accumulation of prop
erty by the other denominations has
nearly kept pace with that of the Catho
lic Church. Of the estimated total of
$354,000,000 of taxable church property
in the United States not less than $294,-
000,000 is owned by Protestant denomi
nations, leaving the amount held by
Catholics at about $00,000,000. WhaU
ever may be said of the wisdom of the
President’s suggestions, an analysis will
show that it is not a sectarian question,
at least.
Radical Opposition to Warfwith Cuba.
It now appears that about a week ago
a number of leading Republican members
of Congress held a private caucus on the
Cuban question. Some information
which bad reached these gentlemen from
the White House led them to think the
Spanish situation much more critical
than the President’s message aDd the sur
face indications at the State Department
made it appear. The suggestion of in
tervention conveyed to their minds a
plain threat of war. They were opposed
to any action threatening a breach of
peaceful relations with Spain—they were
determined to resist to the uttermost all
movements looking to annexation, or
even to a protectorate over the island, as
the outcome of friendly negotiations.
Their purpose seems to have been
to serve a notice upon the Ad
ministration that if it still cherished
designs upon Cuba it would have to
prosecute them without the aid of the
leading Republicans in Congress. Such
a notice, it is said, was duly served—
with what effect we shall see hereafter.
The motive which undoubtedly prompted
these “leading Republican members,”
was a fear lest a Spanish war on account
of Cuba, should turn out to be the last
and winning trump card of the third
term game Just at present, Mr. Blaine
is a leading Republican member of the
House as well as a Presidential candidate
—and he naturally does not desire to see
Cuba used to defeat his aspirations.
Probably Secretary Bristow, and perhaps
Senator Morton, were present at this
anti-Grant caucus. Each distrusts the
Cuban issue as dangerous to their own
interests; each relies upon some other
so-called issue to effect his personal pro
motion. Blaine has his constitutional
amendment, Bristow flourishes the
whisky frauds, and Morton exhibits the
“bloody shirt.” With Grant, they con
stitute a prettily diversified quartette.
Still Another Official Scandal.
The New York Sun, which has a strong
penchant for prying out official rascalities
of every kind, has just unearthed one
which implicates a number of prominent
officials. It is, in brief, that Senator
Logan, Col. Fred. Grant and H. H.
Honore, Col. Grant’s father-in-law, used
their influence with the President to
secure the removal of a United States
Judge in Colorado, and appoint another
person in his place, for the purpose of
securing a decision favorable to a certain
silver mine in which these persons had an
interest. The Sun tell the story about as
follows: The Pelican Mining Company was
working a silver lode on one side of a
mountain, near Georgetown, Col., and
the Dives Company began operations on
the opposite side. The latter run
cross-cut into a vein claimed by the
Pelican Company, whereupon the Peli
can Company sued out an injunction
against the Dives Company. Subse
quently the Dives Company secured an
injunction against the Pelican Compa
ny’s going beyond a certain line. At the
trial of these suits the Pelican Com
pany is said to have been successfuL
But it seems that the case was re
opened and is still pending. Mean
while the Sun charges that Messrs. Lo
gan, Honore and Fred Grant secured an
interest in the Dives mine on condition
that they would use their influence
to have the President remove Judge Bel-
ford and appoint a man named Stone in
his place. The Sun further charges that
since Stone has been appointed he has
granted an injunction preventing the
owners of the Pelican mine from operat
ing their own property, and has also
given one of the Dives party possession
of a mine belonging to an English com
pany, which paid $500,000 for it.
by mmm
THE MORNING NEWS
ALL FOR LUCK.
Drawing of
the Jackson
Lottery.
Artillery
[Special Dispatch t> the Morning News.]
Macon, December 28.
Ticket number two thousand, and eighty-
two draws two hundred and fifty dollars,
and ticket twenty-one hundred and fifty-
seven draws one hundred dollars. Savan
nah got left.
Midnight Telegrams.
“O. A. U.”
Official Declaration of Principles.
A CLEVERLY DRAWN PROGRAMME
Mrs. Moulton Still After Beecher,
More of the Breincrliaven Horror.
The Mississippi Resolution.—The
Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Sun]B&jB: “The discussion of Sena
tor Morton’s Mississippi resolution among
Republicans shows that it is far from
meeting with universal favor on that
side. It is presented by Governor Mor
ton as a party question, but several of
his party colleagues think that the party
will lose much more by its adoption than
it can possibly gain. In the opinion of
some of the Republican Senators the
proposed investigation is not only inex
pedient but is unconstitutional. If Mr.
Morton is certain of a majority for his
resolution he will bring it up imme
diately after the holidays and insist upon
an early vote. It has been suggested
that if it should pass it would be a proper
thing for the Democratic Senators to
refuse to serye on the committee on the
ground that it was illegally constituted. ”
Piuchback and West have got back to
New Orleans in a very tangled condition.
Pinchback swears he will push an inves
tigation into West’s election because he
did not help him in Washington, and
West is preparing to rip up Kellogg und
defeat his aspirations. The quarrel is all
in the Radical family.
Secretaby Fish and the President.—
A Wahington dispatch says: “Gentlemen
who are well informed with regard to tho
relations between the President and Sec
retary Fish, assert that the President has
had in his hands since the Virginius affair
sworn documentary evidence to ostablish
the fact that Mr. Fish has ever since 18G9
inspired numerous newspaper articles on
our affairs with foreign nations, which,
while they have been unsparing in criti
cism and abuse of the President, have
also been filled with praise of the Secre
tary. These articles are said to have been
written for the most part by Sidney Web
ster, Mr. Fish’s son-in-law, who is tho
attorney for the Spanish Government,
and to have been printed in one of the
most prominent Democratic newspaper^
in the country. It is also alleged that
other evidence of Mr. Fish’s duplicity
have been accumulating in the President’s
hands, and that he is merely awaiting th9
proper time to punish the offender. This
is one of the chief reasons why the early
resignation of the Secretary is confidently
anticipated; and another ono is that the
Secretary is believed to be the chief
obstacle at present to the President’s
purpose to bring about a war with Spain
on behalf of Cuba.”
The Boston Advertiser publishes an un
pleasant allegation in regard to the last
inter-collegiate regatta. It is reported as
saying that five of the winning crew from
Cornell were picked for the occasion; that
they were not candidates for a degree,
and not members of the University ; that
they nominally entered Cornell simply to
row the race; and that a deliberate fraud
was thus successfully practiced upon the
boys of the other crews and upon the
public. And the Advertiser goes on to
say that three of the Columbia crew,
which came near winning the race, were
of the same sort of men as the five “Cor-
neliians.” These are serious charges from
a regatta standpoint, which should be
answered forthwith. The public has
come to expect such tricks from profes
sional ball-tossers and blacklegs; but the
utmost confidence has been placed in the
honor of the student amateurs who pull
oars in our college races.
Elections This Year.—Sixteen States
have held elections this year. The ag
gregate vote is 1,923,111 Democratic and
1,907,293 Republican, a Democratic ma
jority of 15,818. A comparison of this
vote with that of 1873 in the same States
shows that in that year the Democrats
had 1,71G,487, and the Republicans
1,830,363 votes, thus evidencing a De
mocratic gain of 129,694. The official
voto t>f Mississippi gives the total Re
publican vote at G7,000, which is but
3,4G2 less than the vote for the Republi
can candidate for State Treasurer in
1873, when an exciting canvass for Gov
ernor was in progress. The pretense of
intimidation is therefore preposterous.
Speaker Pro Tem.—The health of
Speaker Kerr was each when he left
Washington a few days ago that his inti
mate friends were pained to hear that he
had at this season undertaken a journey
to the western part of Pennsylvania.
The election of a Speaker pro tem., an
extraordinary event in the House, it is
said, will be a necessity. The pro tem.
Speaker is absolute during his service,
though neither he nor the Speaker him
self can make any change in the com
mittees. The last Speaker pro tem. was
Congressman Pomroy, of Auburn, New
York, near the close of Mr. Colfax’s
term, and who, if he had been re-elected,
would have been the successor of Mr.
Colfax instead of Mr. Blaine.
* o. a. u.
New York, December 29.—The evening
papers publish the following statement of
principles of the Order of the American
Union:
New York, December 28.—The National
Executive Committee of the Order of the
American Union deem it advisable to pro
mulgate a summary of the principles which
underlie and energize their actions as citi
zens and as members of the Order:
First. We Accept the Bible as the basis of
all moral, religious, governmental and edu
cational undertakings.
Second. We yield an unhesitating sup
port to the constitutiou and government of
the United States and the several States.
Third. We urge that the present system
of our general unsectarian, free school or
ganization shall be maintained inviolate.
Fourth. We claim that no part of the
public funds shall ever bo used for the sup
port or maintenance of any sectarian school
or institution whatever.
Fifth. We are opposed to any interference
in political affairs by any man or body of
men acting in behalf or by direction of any
ecclesiastical body or powers; yet we make
no war upon any man’s religions creed. The
objects and purposes of our Order are few
and simple, and we give them publicity. The
ways and means of conducting our business
matters, the methods by which we propose
to secure the desirod results are peculiarly
our own and we intend to keep them to our
selves.
The third t6rm or one term, Democracy
or Republicanism, hard money or soft
money, crooked whisky or straight, are en
tirely outside of our aims and plans, and
receive no attention whatever. To sustain
and advance tho ideas above summarized
we propose ti use all lawful aud suitable
measures at all* tlffies that to us seem
to be propitious, with all persons who
labor lor their triumph against all
agencies which seek their overthrow and
destruction. As in the past, so for the
future we invite and expect to receive tho
co-operation and aid of thousands upon
thousands of the sturdy, stalwart, patriotic
thoughtful men who love their country with
an ardor surpassing that of party, sect or
clan.
By order of the National Executive Com
mittee. Geo. D. Weeks, President.
Henry T. Holt, of Brooklyn, New York,
Secretary.
THE TUSCARORA.
Washington, D. C., December 29.—The
Navy Department has a report from Com
mander J. N. Miller, commanding the Uni
ted States steamer Tuscarora, dated off Hon-
olula, December 4th, 1875. The Tnscarora
left San Francisco on the 3d of November,
and arrived off Honolula on the 29th. Capt.
Miller says : I will leave here on the Gth
instant, to carry out the Department’s
order of October 14th, in running a
line of deep-sea soundings to Aus
tralia, hoping to'.reacli Brisbane, Australia,
by the middle of February, or before. I
have made inquiries at this place, where
there is constant communication with the
South Sea Islands, in regard to the kidnap
ping of natives, and the impression is that
tho practice Ins been broken up by the
English Government. A Caption Hayes,
who has been engaged for many ysars in
kidnapping, has been arrested by the Span
ish authorities at the Ladrono Islands.
SIRS. MOULTON AND BEECHER.
New York, Decomber 29.—Mrs. Moulton
declined to meet the Plymouth Church spe
cial committee last evening to confer upon
the preparation aud issue of letters missive
for the call of a mutual council. She said in
her note of declination that the time given
is altogether too brief for tho grave duty to
be discharged. The better plan, and the
one I prefer, is for Plymouth Church to
submit to me a proposed letter mis
sive and a list of the members of
the council it desires to summon,
and then I will suggest amendments to the
letter, and submit the names of members I
may wish to invite, or vice versa, I will take
the initiative in the preparation of the pa
pers and nominating the members. I be
lieve the idea of a mutual council originated
with me, and I am advised that I have some
voice in the constitution of the council, tho
platform ou which it is to proceed, aud the
time of its meeting.
SOUTH CAROLINA LANDS TO BE SOLD.
New York, December 29.—A representa
tive of the Internal Revenae Office here
has been 83nt to Beaufort, South Corolina,
within a day or two, for the purpose of at
tending to the interests of tho government
in the sale of valuable sea island cotton lands,
the sale of which have been ordered
consequence of the non payment of
direct taxes. It is probable that if the
lands in question will not bring a proper
price the Internal Revenue agent will bid
them in for the government. The sale will
take place either to-morrow or Friday next.
THE BREME1UIAVEN HORROR.
Berlin, December 29.—The meeting
called last Monday by citizens of the United
States, resident hero, to give expression to
their abhorrence of the Bromerhaven
crime and to protest against unjust com
ments of the German press, was held to
night and was attended by 200 Americans.
A resolution was adopted declaring that
the act of Thomas, or Thomassen, is in no
respect a fruit of American honor or
humanity, nor that of a particular
nationality, and protesting against the un
just aspersions on American character
which have appeared in some German
newspapers in connection with tho crime.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, December 29.—The
2Jnr Admtismrnts.
iurniturr.
RUPTURE!
RADICAL CURE
BY DR. MARSH’S
Radical Cure Truss
T he citizens of savannah and sur-
rounding country, who are so unfortunately
afflicted, now have the opportunity to procure
the above named valuable appliances, ano be re
lieved of the suffering and danger attending it.
I respectfully announce that I have taken rooms
at the MARSHALL HOUSE, and shall remain
here one week longer by request, and cordially
invite those who are in need of valuable experi
ence in the treatment of HERNIA (or Raptures)
to call and be convinced ot the efficacy of my
appliances.
In connection with my stock of TRUSSES, _
sha l have an assortment of imported Silk ELAS
TIC STOCKINGS, used for relief of Varicose
Veins end Swollen Limbs; Silk Elastic BELTS,
for Abdominal Support; Silk SUSPENSORY
BANDAGES.
Measurements will betaken, and Dr. MARSH’S
valuable appliances supplied, for the following
named physical deformities: Club-Feet. Bow-
Legs, Knock-Knees, Spinal Curvatures and Weak
Knees.
As my stay is limited, I advise all who need my
services to call early, so that they may receive
the required attention.
DR. S. S. K. DO'SHEE,
Of Dr. Marsh's Truss and Bandage Institute! I
Vesey street, As’or Mouse, New Y’oik. P. oJ
Box 3,296. Established forty years.
nr- ADVIC E G RATIS. dec30-3t
FLORIDA.
DAILY USE ON THE ST. JOHN’S RIVER.
The Old Dominion Steamship Company’s New
and Elegant Steamer
HAMPTON,
Capt. A. W. Stark,
H AVING large and handsomely fitted saloons
■ and state rooms, with every convenience
and luxury of a Northern passenger river
steamer, will leave the Railroad wharf at JACK
SONVILLE, FLORIDA, DAILY' (>unday ex
cepted), at 9 a. m., after the arrival of the
train from Savannah, for PALATKA and all in
termediate landings on the St. John's river, re-
turuing same day. Close connections made at
Tocoi, Doth ways, with trains of the St. John's
Railroad for ST. AUGUSTINE, and it Palatka
with steamers for ENTERPRISE and .utermedt-
ate landings on the Upper St. John's and the Ock-
lawaha river. Passengers by trains from Savan
nah can have baggage checked through, and take
the HAMPTON, without being subjected to de
lay and expense of transfer through Jackson
ville. Meals served on bo&rd.
Excursion ticket* to St. Augustine and Palatka
at reduced rates, and through tickets for sll rail-
Iroad aud steamer connections. North and South,
6old on board. JOHN CLARK,
Agent, Jacksonville, Fla.
[C. M. Davis, Passenger Agent. dec30-tf
DLCALCOMAXIA !
A FULL ASSORTMENT OF
TRANSFER ORNAMENTS!
For Carriages, Furniture, etc. Also
WAX FLOWER MATERIAL.
JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE AT THE
PAINT AND OIL STORE OF
JOHN OLIVER,
No. 5 Whitaker Street.
dec30-2w
HILLSHORO
MILITARY ACADEMY,
HILLSBORO, N. C.
ew conducted his celebrated Military School,
has now passed into the hands of
R. II. GRAVES, A.9., as Sole Principal,
who has the liberty of referring to the Right Rev.
William M. Green, Bi-hop of Mississippi: Hon.
Matt. W. Ransom, of North Carolina, and Hon.
c. B. Cole, of Macon, Ga.. with the Faculties of
the Universities of Virginia and North Carolina.
He will be assirte-l by the accomplished in
structors. HUGH MORSON, Jr., and Maj. D. H.
HAMILTON, Commandant of Cadets, the former
of whom refers by permission to the Faculty of
the University of Virginia, and the latter to Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston, of Savannah, and Col. Si-
monton, of South Carolina
I* r The SPRING SESSION of 1876 open* on
the 17th o; January.
ter For circulars, address the Principal, Hills
boro. N. C. dec30-ThdtM,4t
Ice House Notice.
O UR RETAIL HOUSE ON CHARLTON ST.
LANE is closeu for the season. Families
can get their supply on South Broad street lane,
corner of Fioyd ctreet (rear of the Fireman’s
Hall), or by leaving their orders a’ our office.
dec3b-3t HAYWOOD, GAGE & CO.
BACON.
CHEAP SECOND-HAM*
Furniture Store-
street, between
ontgomery.
Nos. 193 and 195 Broughton
Jefferson and Mi
I HAVE now on hand a very large and com
plete assortment of BEDROOM and PARLOR
FURNITURE. Bureaus, Chairs, Tables, Mat
tresses, as good as new, and for sale cheap.
Every description of Old Furniture bought or
taken in exchange.
dec24-lm J- HOLLAND IN.
FURNITURE.
A. J. MILLER & €0.,
(ESTABLISHED 1S56,)
150 and 152 Broughton street. Savannah,
A RE offering a complete assortment of CHAM
BER. PARLOR and OFFICE FURNI
TURE, BABY CARRIAGES, etc., etc., at
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
We buy direct from manufacturers—thus sav
ing middlemen's profits—and are confident of our
Awusmrnts.
New Year’s Eve Ball !
—or—
WASHINGTON STEAM FIRE ENGINE
AND HOSE COMPANY.
MASONIC HALL,,
—OS—
FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1875.
T ICKETS can be had from the following com
mittee:
Chas. E. Wakefield, Chairman.
William Hone. James Ray.
John H. Stroos. P. M. Dunn.
E. J. Kennedy. George Monro.
James McGrath. dec27,29<fc31
A LECTURE
WILL BE DELIVERED BT
RIGHT REV. WM. H. GROSS,
U NDER THE AUSPICES OF THE LITE-
rary and Benevolent Socierv of St. Vincent
de Paul, at the MASONIC TEMPLE, corner of
Liberty and Whitaker streets, on next MONDAY
EVENING, January 3d, 1S76, at 8 o'clock.
ability to sell a good article as low as the lowest. I Subject — “CHARITY.”
Hotels, halls and private houses fitted up *** '
... - ~ ‘ >rd«
style
carefully filled.
N. B.—No need to go North for your Furni
ture. We will sell you just as cheap here, and
save you ail the expensive risks, etc. octl-3m |
Furniture. Furniture.
nr Tickets (50 cents eac*) can be procured
from the members and at the door.
dec2S 5t
J. LINDSEY,
Street,
No. IDO Broughton
SAVANNAH, GA.,
Next door to Mr. Geo. W. Allen’s extensive |
Crockery Store.
I AM NOW OFFERING to the citizens of
- South Carolina, Georgia and Florida one of
the largest and best selected stocks of
FURNITURE
ever brought to this section.
chased entirely for cash, and _
best and most reliable manufacturers in the I
North and West. Owing to the depressed con
dition of trade and finances I was enabled, by
paying “cash down,” to lay in my stock at prices
actually below the cost of manufacturing. I am |
therefore able and willing to sell Furniture
S. S. Entertainment.
T HERE will be given an ENTERTAINMENT
to the Children of St. John's Church Sunday
School, at the MASONIC TEMPLE, on THURS
DAY', December 30th, at 4 p. m. Contributions
may be sent to the above place after II o'clock.
Parents are invited with their children. dec29-2t
coming umlrr Out head m-
*”2? °* **• <*"*» « for turn Uaet or
If tea Hum Bore* lines, nemty-Uo,
YV^ STED - cmll on or
• eC3ft4t 156 Bay greet
WANTED.—A white woman desires to n-r
familv C ^ S STATION as cook in a pri££
family. Reference given. Addr * M. A. T./at
decao-it
this office.
W ANTED, a situation
Tv and companion in a nice family Saiir,
no object-only a good home. Do not ob,«t m
going in the country. Can teach, if r.-trptU?
Ad.i.irerr MAI D. OBlo,. < £& l g <1 -
W-’tSScJ W0MAN “
A GEN /LEMAN and his wife, or two prrv .
-(X can find a PLEASANT ROOM and SSSSi
INO at No 54 Liberty street. «*ecSX~4t
TTEIRS WANTED-TEXAS LANDS - A „
P«»ons who lost relatives in the
revolution of 1836 win hear of someth ng to SS
advantage by communicating with CARLOS
re of this office. Savannah, Ga.
ROD]
octlO-tf
*52 *20Bfia.-flHwSSlSo-
Portland, Me.
Jiolidau 6oods.
m HOLfUAV 1876
GOODS!
My stock was pur- J
i directly from the f
Lower Than ETer Before Offered in
this Market.
Come and see the Beautiful and Durable Goods |
I am offering at such attractive prices.
parlor and chamber suits,
substantial and ornamental, of the latest and
most approved designs.
DINING ROOM, OFFICE AND MISCELLA
NEOUS FURNITURE,
of every Btyle and price desired. Matting, Mat
tresses, Baby Carriages, in fact everything
usually kept in well ordered ware rooms, can be ,
had at the LOWEST PRICES and on the most
accommodating terms.
Prompt attention given to orders, and all
goods carefully delivered or shipped.
J. LINDSEY,
No. 190 Broughton street.
octll-wlt«fed6m
(fandii, Ju-uit, &r.
FRUIT, CAADY, &c.
EXHL1SH AXD AMERICAS
JUVENILES !
Standard and Miscellaneous Books.
| ENGRAVINGS FROM THE OLD MASTERS. ]
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
In Great Variety.
Albums, Writiasr Desks, Work Baskets,
LADIES' COMPANIONS,
I’oeket Books, (fold Pens a;.d Pencils.
OFFICE AND LIBRART INKSTANDS.
JOHN M. COOPER & CO.
dec!5-tjanl
GRAND OPENING!!
lost and .found.
L ost or mislaid, a five HrsnsiT,
DOLLAR ($300) BOND of lie Atlam"
Golf Railroad Junction Branch, jlated Nowinh.
1, ISIS, doe I-I.conpona Mav nd x
No. SHeixty-Bce). AU ETJSJS
to purchase the same, ae payment ha.
stopped. This BOND, heine a nee h»ue
never been sold. Any pities who may hate ' . i
“• BO™ M in, their ptweesBi nnii. ^
will confer a favor by retnmine same to i e
. _ _ JAMES HtNTEB
leca-tf Broker, 111) Bry.n erm
hoarding.
with good
It BOARD , erms very reasonable, a. ,
urge BAN EM ENT, soluble for an office
>outh Broad street. dec3h-3i-Th>aATri
for £atr.
T7«OK SALE, DESIRABLE PROPERTY - ^?
U aer Liberty and Lincoln streets. Add tv -n
ED. F. NEUFVILLE, » B.y etrw^ o«?»!?f
So Sent.
F jOR RENT. SMALL STORE ; also 5 RoomT-
snitable for any retail bMines^Rent very
any reti
. UAKi.
JEE, Broughton street.
C^OR RENT, three story BRICK HOUSE. >v
i 56 Broughton street. Gas, water, bath and
servant rooms. Newly painted. DR. HAhDEE.
I dec30-lt
>R RENT, four ROOMS; aiso a DWELL-
-T ING HOUSE. Apply at 64 Broughton street.
dec30-ThASa,a
^EVEN-OCTAVE UPRIGHT PIANO FOR
O PENT or eale low. 156 tjouth Broad «rrt*rt-
dec3»*-3t-Th,SaATu
TT'OR RENT, from January 1st, a dvsirable
T BRICK HOUSE on s£eet.
Barnard and Tattnall. Apply corner Gaston at d
| Tattnall. dec*Mt
1 “jX>R RENT. SEVERAL ROOMS, verTi^T
Apply at No. 36 Broughton street.
decYVtf
I tj'OR RENT, the DWELLING HOI SETm
! . Broughton street^ PossMsion giv-n inuae-
Apply to JOHN DERST, opposite Mar-
oofle * dec!6tf
F ive thousand Nassau oranges, for
sale low to close consignment.
sale low to close consignment.
Fifty barrels fine It ED APPLES, just landed from I
New York steamer.
WHITE and RED ONIONS.
LAYER RAISINS, in boxes, halves and quarters.
CITRON, FIGS, CURRANTS, etc.
FRESH BUCKWHEAT, in boxes, quarter bar
rels and bagB.
FANCY’ CANDY, in five-pound boxes, at $1 25 I
per box.
ASSORTED CANDY, in twenty-five pound boxes I
at $3 75 per box. 1
Fresh supply of PIG HAMS, STRIPS, SHOUL- I
etc.
& Freeman, |
94 BRYAN STREET.
Christmas Goods!
FIRF CRACKERS)
FIREWORKS !
[ Raisins ! Currants ! Citron !
XUTS, MIME MEAT!
L'UK RENT, the PREMISES in BAY ST.
-L Apply at the Morning News office.
nov2.'-tf
T O RENT, the OFFICE now occcpied t>y ,i~T
Abrams, corner Bull street and Bay inV
I Possession given November 9th. For terms ar>^
ply to GEO. W. OW ENS, 119 Bay street
1 oct27-tf
And a Choice Lot of Candies ! I office
TT’OR RENT, two furnished and two antor-
f aished ROOMS, at No. 72 Bryan KreeL Ap-
piytoj. i- Mt RPtlY. octll-tf
1 jX>R KENT, ROOMS in City Eichauee Boiid-
ihg. lately occupied by H. Mayer A Co. Ar.
I ply to JOHN K. JOHNSON, City Treasurer
1 sep2S tf
>R RENT, STORE in Waring'g Kan-e, N 0 ‘.
1M St. Julian and No. 151 Bryan street. Wffl
be rented low. Appij to JAMES S. slLVA, Itf
Congress street. »ep9Q-tf
1 7»OR RENT/ THE PREMISES 111 BAY
STREET. Apply at the MORNING NEWS
FOR SALK LOW AT
Urn ©nods.
Champion
dec23-tf
BRANCH & COOPER’S. HeWitt, Morgan A Co.
declS-tf 1
0 BOXES DRY SALT SIDES.
5 hhds. SMOKED SHOULDERS.
10 boxes SMOKED SHOULDERS.
Just received and for talc by
dec30-6t WM. H. STARK A CO.
$20 RFWARD.
B OAT LOST FROM SCHR. J. D. MCCAR
THY’.—New Yawl Boat, 17 feet long, lead
color outside, and green with brown inside;
' *£. Wood" on inside of stern. Ap-
branded
ply to
dec30-3t
" on inside of stern.
JOS. A. ROBERTS * CO.
Com
missioner of Patents to-day decided the
interference case of Watkins, of New York
city, vs. McCollough, of Richmond, Indiana,
both claiming a patent for the Fire and
Police Alarm Telegraph which, is now gene
rally in use throughout tho United 8tates.
The Commissioner awards priority of inven
tion to Watkins.
Dispatches from many points north say
the authorities of the respective cities in
tend ushering in the Centennial year with
great eclat—the firing of cannon, chiming of
bells at midnight, illuminations, decora
tions, etc.
LABOR CONVENTION.
Tyrone, Ta., December 29.—A labor con
vention composed of delegates from New
York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, has
been in session here two davs. Resolutions
opposing the subsidy to the Texas Pacific
Railroad and requesting the government to
give the Union and Central Pacific Com
panies a certain time to pay their indebted
ness, and, failing, in that case to take pos
session of the road, were adopted. Resolu
tions favoring a National Labor Convention
to be held in Pittsburg in April nexfaiul op
posing the third term were also adopted.
THE KNIQHTS-TEMPLAR.
Philadelphia, December 29.—In com
memoration ot the centennial anniversary
of American independence, a reunion of
tho KnigLts-Templar of tho United States
will take plaoe in this city on May tho 30th
and 31st. and Juno 1st, 1876. A grand pa
rade will take place on June 1st, which, it
is expected, will bo participated in by Sir
Knights from all quarters of the globe.
THE BIBLE IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Philadelphia, December 29. — At the
meeting of the Common Council, this even
ing, resolutions were adopted that the
Board of Public Education be requested to
inform ihe Councils by what authority the
reading of the Bible has been discontinued
iu certain public schools in this city.
Auctumms.
AUCTION HOUSF
—OF—
GEO. SCHLEY & CO.,
-J fit* BAY STREET. Commercial Row, foot of
I tfO Whitaker street. Regular sale days, Tues
days and Fridays in eachlwetHc. Parties wishing to
purchase, or those having Horses and Baggies
to sell, also, Household Furniture for sale, will
find that we have every facility of disposing of
the same. We give the purchasers of every
horse that is warranted sound from twelve to
twenty-fonr hours for triaL Horses, Mules, new
and second-hand Buggit s, always on hand at
private sale. novS-tf
[No. 1,333.]
Notice iu Bankruptcy.
I N the District Court of the United States, for
the Southern District of Georgia. In Bank
ruptcy.
In the matter of DuBignon & Beck, bankrupts.
Southern District of Georgia. S.S.
A warrant iu bankruptcy has been issued by
said Court against the Esiate of DuBignon &
Beck, of the county of Glynn, aDd State of Geor
gia, in said District, who 1 nve been duly ad
judged bankrupts upon petition of their credit
ors ; and the payment of any debts, and the de
livery of any property belonging to said bank
rupts, to them or to their use, and the transfer of
any property by them, are forbidden by law. A
meeting of the creditors of said bankrupts, to
prove their debts and chose one or more assign
ees of their estate, will be held at a Court of
Bankruptcy to be holdeu at Brunswick, in said
District, ou the 15th day of January, A. D. 1876,
at 10 o’clock a. m., at the office of A. J. Smith,
Attorney at Law, before Isaac Beckett. Esq., one
of the Registers in Bankruptcy of said District.
W. H. SMYTH,
U. S. Marshal for said District.
J. L. WHATLEY,
Solicitor for Petitioning Creditors,
dec30-2t Savannah, Ga.
Notice in Bankruptcy.
I HN the District Court of the United States, for
the Southern District of Georgia.
No. 1202.—In the matter of Allen A. Page,
Bankrupt. In Bankruptcy.
The said bankrupt having petitioned the
Court for a discharge from all his debts prova
ble under the Bankrupt Act of March 2d, 1867,
notice is hereby given to all persons interested to
appear, on the 11th day of January, 1S76, at 10
o’clock a. m., at Chambers of said District Court,
before lR;iuc Beckett, Esq., one of the Regis
ters of said Court iu Bankruptcy, at his office
at Savannah, Georgia, and show cause why
the prayer of the said petition of the bankrupts
should not be granted. And further notice is
given that the t*«*< ond and third meetings of cred
itors will be held at the same time aud place.
Dated at Savannah, Georgia, this 29t h day of
December, 1875. JAMES McPIIERSON,
dec30-lt Clerk.
tf opartnrrsbip gotirrs.
NOTICE.
Savannah, December 20, 1S7^
I HAVE THIS DAY’ associated with me in
business Mr. J. B. SHERHWD, and will con
tinue to conduct the General Commission Busi
ness antler the firm name of H. F. GRANT &CO.
dec20-tf H. FRASER GRANT.
Whitman’s Candy!
IN ONE AND TWO POUND BOXES.
QRY STALIZED FRUITS.
CREAM BON-BONS.
CHOCOLATE CREAMS.
CHOCOLATE CARAMEL.
ALMOND AND COCOANUT.
SOFT GUM DROPS
FRENCH MIXED.
PEPPERMINT and HOREHOUND.
ROSE and VANILLA PRALINES.
TURKISH CONFECTIONERY.
nr Fire Works and a foil line of goods suit
able for the holidays.
AT
A. M. & C. W. WEST’S, |
No. 159 Liberty Street.
Holidays, Holidays, j selling off colu> dress goods
CLAPP & ROBERTS’
99 Cent Store! I
GKEAT BARGAIN'S.
157 Broughton Street, Savannah,
D EALERS in Jewelry, Silver-plated and Glass- j
wares, Lamps, Table ana Pocket Cutlery, ;
Stereoscopic Views. Black Walnut Picture
Frames, Brackets, etc.; Chromos and Engrav- I
ings framed: Clocks, Mirrors, Tova, Games.
Dolls, Pipes, Whalebone Whips, Books. Albums.
Writing Desks, Work Boxes, Vases, Toilet Sets,
Shopping and Travelling Bags and Baskets:
Blankets, Table and Bed Spreads: Handkerchiefs,
Towels, Napkins, Furs, Ladies’ Hair Switches,
Shawls, Hats (trimmed), Two-button Kids. Un
derwear, Scarfs, Hose and Shoes; Gents' Ilats. f
leaps, Shirts, Drawers, IIose,Pants, Vests, Shoes.
Extra fine iineot GENTS’ DRIVING and DRESS
GLOVES. Also, thousands of other useful and
ornamental articles, new and novel, at lees than
manufacturers' prices. NEW GOODS EVERY’
DAY. NO ARTICLE IN THE STORE MORE |
THAN 99 CENTS. nov25-tojanl p
Signor, Sm, Ah, &r.
BLANKETS AND QUILTS.
C l O..ORE ) CASSIMKRES AND KENTUCKY
I JEANS.
Great bargains in fine TABLE LINEN.
Black FRENCH CLOTH for Gents’ Coats, at
cost.
SO dozen Gents’ CNDKRVESTS, at cost
BLACK CLOAKING, at cost.
WATERPROOF CLOAKS, at cost
SEW GOODS.
RUFFL1NGS, NECK TIES.
BLACK SILKS.
Gents' LINEN CAMBRIC HANDKERCHIEFS.
Ladies’ BALBRIGGAN HOSE
dertWf
DeWITT, .MORGAN & CO.
139 Congress street.
iirmt, ^rflrtables, &c.
Closing Out Our
FIREWORKS!
Tlio Largest and Best in the City!
VERY LOW.
Also in store and arriving daily:
QHOICE RED APPLES.
BANANAS. MALAGA GRAPES.
FLORIDA ORANGES.
MESSINA LEMONS.
COCOANUTS. FIGS. etc.
tw~ Red and White ONIONS, Early Rose,
I’eachblow aud Peerless POTATOES, BEETS,
CARROTS, TURNIPS, etc., at the lowest mar
ket prices, by
O NE HUNDRED CASES NATIVE WINES.
just received, embracing NATIVE CHAM
PAGNES, equal to any imported; a variety of
Sweet and Dry WINES too numerous to men-
. tion: pure BRANDY’, WHISKY. RT'M. GIN. 4c.;
all the leading brand* .if rted CHAM
PAGNES.
‘ Office and Wine Cellars. DeRenne’s Block,
Bay street.
decl5-lm GEORGE S. HERBERT.
145 Bay, Corner of Whitaker Street.
dec29-tf
Constantly on Hand!
CHOICE RED APPLES,
MESSINA LEMONS,
CURRANTS,
DATES,
FIGS,
PECANS,
BRAZILS,
COCOANUTS,
FLORIDA ORANGES, I
RAISINS,
CITRON,
PRUNES,
ALMONDS,
WALNUTS
FILBERTS,
MALAGA GRAPES.
II. FBASER OBANT. | J. B. SUERBOD.
H. F. GRANT & CO.,
GENERAL COMMISSION
MERCHANTS.
Cotton, Rice, Naval Stores.
NO. 102 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
decSO-tf
(BrocfrUs and iborisions.
W HY IS IT that Printing can bo done to the
utmost satisfaction of the customer at the
MORNING NEWS JOB OFFICE? Because the
office i» complete in the way of material—eix power
hs«s, types in quantity and every needed variety,
ping at all times an extensive stock of pr
ing a well-equipped Bindery, employing
workmen—thus having aix and th* bxbt far
we are enabled to tom out SUPERIOR WORE,
and to do so 5N THE SHORTEST TIMS possible
MILLER & KILL0UGH,
No. 9 Market Basement,
H AVE on hand and are receiving every day
large quantities of
TURKEYS, FOWLS AND POULTRY,
of all kinds, which are DRESSED WITH
GKEAT CARE.
COUNTRY PRODUCE OF ALL KINDS
Also, a fine assortment of GROCERIES and
All Goode warranted as represented. dec20-tf
COFFEE.
4 005 BAGS C0FFBB ’ JUST ARKIVBD
ex Swedish brigantine “ Veritas," direct from
Rio de Janeiro. For sale by
sepSS-tf WEED ft CORNWELL.
POSTERS:
In the South, and we are prepared to pi-uf Poatwa
and Show Bills with the utmost dispatch. Order*
by or telegraph, from responsible Companies,
promptly filled.
SCHANCJK & CO. I JOHN A. CHRISTIAN,
Cor. Whitaker street aad Broughton lane,
W OULD inform his friends and the public
that he has opened a
NEW SALOON,
at the above place, and invites them to GIVE
HIM A CALL.
TOE BEaT WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS,
etc., kept always on hamL dec20-tf
CELEBRATED BERGXER & ENGEL
Philadelphia Lager,
B EST IN THE MARKET, at wholesale and
retail.
TEN PIN ALLEY’S have been put in thorough
order.
Choice WINES, LIQUORS and CIGARS
always on hand.
LUNCH EVERY DAY from 11 o’clock a. m.
to 1 o'clock p. m., at the
MAKKLET SQUARE HOUSE,
174 Bryan street.
VALENTINE BASLER,
0ctl4-2m Pronrietor.
NEW CIDER, in bbla., half-bbis. and cases.
350 bbls. choice Early Rose, Peach Blow and
Peerless POTATOES.
50 bbls. Red and Silver Skin ONIONS.
A full stock of HAY, GRAIN, FEED, etc.
FOR SALE BY’
L. T. WHITCOMB’S SON,
dec27-tf 141 Bay Street.
I GRAY, O’BRIEN & CO.
WILL. OFFER THIS DAY
| THE FOLLOWING SENSIBLE AND SEASON
ABLE GOODS FOR HOLIDAY PRESENTS:
1 ||A ENGLISH WALKING JACKETS, in
1 u V fifty different styles. Fur trimmed, etc-,
I ranging in price from fin to $15— very elegant
goods, and much under value.
10J Misses' English WALKING JACKETS, in
Navy Blue and Brown Broadcloth and Beaver,
for Misses from 2 years to 12 years— beautiful
styles, and manufactured expressly for first-
class city retail trade.
I 25 Long and Square BROCHEA SHAWLS, from
$12 to $35. 1 hese prices are 33>£ per cent, leas
than the cost of importation. These are a very
superior quality.
25 pair 13-4 CALIFORNIA BLANKETS. These
are the finest goods ever offered in this or any
other market, and worthy the attention of pur
chasers.
29 pair ALL-WOOL BLANKETS, at $5. Would
b_- cheap at $7 50.
I 25 pair 12 4 BLANKETS, from auction, at 15-
worth $8.
30 pair 10-4 BLANKETS—very fine—at $6.
Job lot of FURS from bankrupt sale, consisting
of real Mink, Silver Fox, Seal, and White and
Brown Coney.
Job lot of Misses’ SEAL SKIN CAPS, in Long
and Short Nap, from 75 cents to $2 50—for
merly sold at $2 50 and $5.
100 dozen Gents’ SILK BOWS, at 25 cents—
worth 50 cents.
Gents’ Brown Balbriggan # HOSE.
Ladies’ Brown and White Balbriggan HOSE.
Job lot of Ladies' Balbriggan HOSE, extra Lon
don lengths, at $4 50—worth $7.
50 dozen Ladies' Fancy Windsor TIES, at 3® to
35 cents—usual price, 50 cents.
75 dozen Worsted Bullion FRINGES, at 12#
cents.
TO OPEN DURING THE EARLY PART OF
THE WEEK:
100 pieces new NECK RUFPLING.
A new line of Ladies’ UNDERWEAR,
GOWNS.
Baracoa Red Bananas.
2QQ BUNCHES VERY CHOICE BANANAS.
100 barrels very fine RED APPLES.
10,000 Choice FLORIDA ORANGES.
In store and to arrive this morning. All to be
sold cheap by
L. T. WHITCOMB S SON.
dec27-tf 141 Bay street.
etc.
gtu- Morris.
NEW NOVELS.
£cals, Scat presses, &c.
[Seals and Seal Presses
and Stamps!
50 dozen Ladies* and Misses’MERINO DRAW
ERS, at 50 cents per pair—cheaper than buying
Canton Flannel to make them.
60 dozen Boys' and Misses’ MERINO VESTS, at
50 cents each—cheap at 75 cents.
25 dozen Ladies' MERINO VESTS, at 75 cents—
good value at $1.
100 dozen Ladies' Very Heavy Extra Long En
glish WHITE HOSE, at $5 60—worth
10o dozen Misses' STRIPED HOSE, from 2C cents
to$’..
100 dozen Gents' Hemmed LINEN II AND KER
CHIEFS at $2 50 per dozen—worth $3 75.
£00 dozen Ladies’ Hemmed Linen HANDKER
CHIEFS, at 10 cents—greatest bargain of the
season.
nr Special prices made for Black Silks. Black
Cashmeres, Black Alpacas, Henrietta Cloths, and
Satteens, so as to suit the pocket of aJL
decl3 tf GRAY. O’B
i’BRLEN 3c CO.
JNFELICB $2 00
SKETCHES BY MARK TWAIN 3 50
HOSTAGES TO FORTUNE..... 75
THE ODD TRUMP 75
HARWOOD 75
LACEAY DIAMONDS 75 |
LEAH 1 i
AN ISLAND PEARL 35 |
OFF THE ROLL 75
■ALSO—
Leslie’s Illustrated Almanac for 1876 50 .
Leslie’s Comic Almanac for 1876 15 I
Leslie’s Lady's Almanac for 1S76 50 O EALS and PRESSES for County officers,^No-
Josta Billing*'h Almanac for 1876 25 grAMPtL and HAND ]
Cheap editions of Dickens, Thackeray. Bulwer, I stamps* made to orrfer. Specimens and esti-
Watter Scott, Wilkie Collins, Rcade, Maryatt, I mates furnished. AE orders will receive prompt
etc., etc., at attention. ^M. ESTILL, JR.,
dec»l-tf ESTILL’S HEWS DEPOT. | (Estill’s News Depot),
_ . Ml , Corner of lane and Bull street, near the Pest |
THOMAS WEST, I ^,*^.0,, -< 1
Importer of aad Dealer in | ROCklall'I Lime.
Crockery, China & Glassware,
H OUSE Furnishing Goods. Table Cutlery, Sil- / TUST RECEVED, a small lot for Finishing;
ver Plated W«,Kerwene Lamp?t W J also ALABAMA and GEORGIA LIME, Plas-
deliers, Toys, etc., 1S5 and 187 Broughton and £7 I ter, Hair and Cement. For sale low by
i&.’Sr (St - A “ dreW ' 8 I twe^.et JOS. A. ROBERTS ft
tfrorkrrw, &c.
Pro Bono Publico!
THE ASSORTMENT OF
HOLIDAY GOODS
FINE GLASSWARE, CHINA,
CUTLERY, ETC.,
NOW ON EXHIBITION AT THE STORE Of
JAMES S. SILVJ,
148 Conprees street, text to 8- P. Hamilton’i,
13 SURPASSED BT NONE IN THE CITT.
Call and see. dec*Mf
tf durational.
8a f aim ah Commercial College
ECLECTIC E5KLISM iXSTITtOT,
S OUTHWEST COR. BULL AND BROUGH-
ton streets. Practical Bouk-keeping in a*I
its branches. Penmanship—a free, rapid and ele-
f ant s»yle. Commercial Calculations. Business
apers, etc. An English Department for boys of
twelve years and npwanl. For particular**, cal*
on or address M. B. MCCARTHY,
decSMt Principal