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Affairs in eeorttfa.
The Augusta Constitutionalist wants to
know why the Constitution's Okefenokee ex
pedition has not made its roport. Why,
hang it all, haven’t they got to cart the
swamp to Atlanta in order that it may be
photographed and analyzed.
Pearson has a telegraph office, with Mr.
W. H. Love as operator.
Judge A. O. MeCalla has become editor-
in-chief of the Conyers Register, with Mr.
Wallace P. P. Reed, the latter of whom is one
of the most graceful and graphic writers
upon the Georgia press.
Dr. J. D. Andrews, of Thomaaville, has
uprooted auother cancer.
Mr. John Bilbro, of Columbus, is dead.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ward, of Stewart county,
is dead.
Rev. W. A. Dodge, of Atlanta, is dead.
The Columbus Enquirer says that a very
painful accident occurred at the Southwest
ern Railroad depot recently by which John
nie Munn, about eight years old, lost his
right leg above tho knee. He is the son of
Mrs. Lizzie Munn, a teacher in the public
schools, and the grand-son of tho late John
Munn. Johnnie jumped on the step of a
car and let his legs dr ag on tho ground.
When passing a switch one of them was
caught in the frog, which jerked him to the
track and threw the other leg under the
wheels of the car. The wheels almost sev
ered it. He was canied tenderly home in
the arms of strong men. He was a brave
little fellow and did not utter a groan or
shod a tear, though he must have suffered
agony untold. Drs. Stanford, Mason and
drimes attended him. It is doubtful
whether ho lives. The afflicted family have
universal sympathy. The accident was due
to no lack of diligence on the part of any of
the officials of tho road, who had frequently
directed boys not to come near the trains.
The education of tho colored troops is
gradually progressing. The following mys
terious document was found posted up in
Stewart county the other day : “I will
make a Speeach at athan Hill for the eollard
Population nox Saturday Nigat on Tom-
press matters for the Defence of our county
and there Estopeed Stato they Drills in at
Present end C hope that they will all Turn
out end I will do my Best for ThiDgs I say
that Freedoms wills Great But Principurl is
the Best end Dear eollard friends Les mon-
tense Thire among Our White Friends Do
away With being Yung end a ondivid^d
mind and Les hold up our beds among all
nations of all kinds well a Solistunt mem
ber of tho baptist Church Near mr Totnmas
Hill.”
Florida Affairs.
The Radical papers seem to be stirred up
by Conover’s letter.
A few of the carpet-bag vagabonds are
intimating that our Jacksonville correspon
dent is unreliable. Well—suppose they
tackle him ? Try him on.
A regular term of the Supreme Conrt will
commence on the 11th. The appeal in the
case of Mrs. Keech, as accessory to the mur
der committed near St. Augustine some time
ago, will be heard at this term, and it is
probablo that a decision will be rendered in
tho railroad case of Holland vs. tho State.
Tampa is enjoying watermelons. And
they are seasonable down there, too.
There is said to be an orange tree in the
Guardian block, at Tampa, that has three
different crops of oranges on it, and is now
very full of blooms. The first crop is fully
ripe, and ready to bo picked.
The Tallahassee Sentinel learned
Christmas day, that the gin-house of Mr.
Thomas J. Roberts, located near Centre-
ville, in this county, was destroyed by fire.
There was about thirty bales of seed and
ginned cotton in tho house at tho time of
the fire, which was completely destroyed.
Most of this cotton, we are told, belonged
to the colored people of the vicinity, and the
occurrence was, to some of them, a heavy
blow. The informant of the Sentinel, a
colorod man, said he had but throo bales—
Just what he had left after paying for the
ren* of the laud—and he was left without
any means of support for the winter. It is
supposed that the fire was incendiary, but
what m Rives could have actuated the in
dividual who did the deed are not known. A
grist mill, attached to the gin-house, was
also consumed, bat this bnilding and the
gin-house were fully insured.
Mr. Joseph Bowes has retired from the
position of reporter to tho Sentinet. Joseph
has our sympathies.
Monticello had a colored tournament the
other day.
Tho Monticello Constitution says that one
night recently, as Charlie McCann was about
to turn a street corner, a concealed person
dealt him a heavy blow on the head with a
club. He fell to the ground insensible, and
remained in that condition for .probably a
half hour. It is a pity the cowardly would-
be assassin was not discovered and hung to
tree.
Mrs. Mary A. Manley, of Jefferson county,
is dead.
Here is an item from the Tallahassee
Floridian: Mr. S. K. Cusseaux, of Wakulla
county, living about fifteen miles from Tal
lahassee in a southwest direction, brought
ua in last week a sweet potato of the Indian
yam variety, which pulled down the scales
at twelve and a quarter pounds. It meas
ures 25 inches in length, and 18 inches
Around. It is simply a monster. Several
*f our Western visitors have called in to see
t, and were hardly prepared to believe it a
enuine potato. Mr. Cusseaux gathered
ree hundred bushels of these potatoes
om a single acre of ground.
Thomas county dogs, belonging to Judge
[opkins, took the first and third prizes in
ie recent fox chase in Leon county.
■The Floridian says that several wagon
1* of oranges were in that town on Fri-
y last, grown in Liberty county. That
unty, all up and down the Apalachicola
er, is fast becoming a vast orange grove,
md is cheap and good, and the county
althy. The oranges referred to wore of
size and flavor.
Che Lake City Reporter says: On Cbrist-
we saw some very fine oranges grown
Mrs. Mattox, who lives eight miles south
>wn, and though we are becoming pretty
skilled in judging this Iruit we have
>r had the pleasure of tasting finer ones
rn in any latitude.
jenry Gwinn, colored, is supposed io be
acksonville.
C. A. Finley will edit the Lake City
'ter another year.
num has a two-story structure at
Golly!” that he calls an Agricultural
'ge. It is truly rural, at any rate,
ie Madison Recorder says that John
iamson, Duncan McDaniel and a colored
were traveling homeward on Thursday
ng, the 23d, from town on the road
g South, when Williamson began to
ie effects of liquor drank, and deter-
to have a row, as is his nature under
circumstances, and began to flourish
tfe, and cut at the colored fellow, who
his life. Wiliiamson mounted
horse, hitched «£c his
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
cart, and abandoned his horse.
McDaniel asked him kindly several times to
light. Williamson dismounted and made at
McDaniel. McDaniel seeing the blade flash,
fled as fast as possible. Williamson cut him
severely just above the elbow and made sev
eral unsuccessful thrusts at his body. He
jumped a fence near by and thereby saved
himself. Williamson was arraigned before
Judge Tidwell on Friday, waived an exam
ination, and, in default of bail, was incar
cerated in jail to await an examination at
the hands of a grand jury, next spring term
of the court. The amount of bail required
was $1,000, qualified bond.
Tampa Guardian : A rumor reached town
last week, before we went to press,that J. C.
Rockner had shot and killed Hilliard Jones,
at Fort Meade, in Polk county, Florida.
Hoping that the rumor was unfounded, and
beiug slow to roport the misfortunes ot our
fellow men, we did not give place for the
rumor, but we are now pained to say that
the rumor was well founded, and that such
is the fact. This sad misfortune will bo re
gretted by all who hear it, that know the
parties. Mr. Rockner im merchant at Fot t
Meade, and is one of the wealthiest, most
energetic and enterprising citizens of Polk
county. Mr. Jones was a young lawyer,
who had settled at Fort Meade to practice
his profession, and was universally respected
and beloved by the members of the legal
profession of the Sixth Circuit.
Jacksonville Union : From reports and
communications received here, it is esti
mated that ten thousand people will visit
Jacksonville duriug the fair week. Not only
our own State will be grandly represented,
but Georgia will contribute* handsomely,
and even from Kentucky we hear of an in
tention to bring down fine stock—horses,
cattle, pigs, merino sheep, etc. The con
cert in aid of tlio fair will be given by Messrs.
Weldon & Gould on the 12th proximo. Tick
ets will be out on Monday next. The best
amateur talent 0? the city have tendered
their services, and professionals to take a
part will be here in a few days. Wo feel
confident that every one of us in the city,
who can afford it, will purchase tickets for
himself and friends. A plan of the building
by an architect is now being drawn up, and
will be exhibited in the post office. The
whole purpose promises to be a credit to
the city and county, and the liberality of our
citizens will not be thrown away.
Lake City Reporter : A short time ago we
visited the yard of Mr. J. W. Cathoy, and,
notwithstanding the fact that be has dis
posed of thousands of small orange trees,
we found he still bad thousands of genuine
sweet seedlings left. There are several
bearing sour orange trees on the lot which
afford shelter to the young plants. Sev
eral apple trees were shown us, which
are said to produce good fruit. A
largo citron hanging by tho side of
a very small one convinced us that the
tree is an ever bearer, having fruit all the
year, in every stage of growth. The tree
upon which they hang is but six years old.
A lemon tree with quite a number of enor
mous lemons upon it, attracted our atten
tion. Mr. C. informs us that be has several
varieties of lemons, but the trees are not
yet old enough to bear fruit. We were sur
prised at tho number and size of plants, and
knowing as we do the ready market for them,
we were astonished that no one else had at
tempted the 6ame thing at the time he
begun.
South Carolina Affairs.
On Suuday night last the corn and foddor
lionse of a Mr. Gray, in tho Fork, Orange
burg county, was consumed by fire. The
work was that of an incendiary, and left
Mr. Gray without a blado of foddor or an
ear of corn.
Greenville expects to have a new Federal
court house.
Mr. Benjamin Rogers, of Marlboro, while
fox bunting recently, shot himself in the
thigh, inflicting a severe though not danger
ous wound.
The Georgetown Times states that “Con
gressman Rainey declares the action of the
Legislature in giving us Moses for Judge a
calamitous blunder, which puts in jeopardy
Republican ascendency in this State.”
A party of hunters in Sumter county last
week killed eight deer and seven wild ducks
iu a four days’ hunt. Tho game was bagged
in Sumter Swamp, about fifteen miles below
Wright’s Bluff.
Chicken disputes are the latest excite
ment in Greenville.
Mr. Samuel Jackson, an ex-member of the
Legislature under the new regime, has
moved to Mississippi.
The Aiken Sehuetzen Club have been in
vited to join tho Sehuetzen Bund of the
United States, and to participate in the first
grand festival at Philadelphia, commencing
June 26, 1876.
Two sailors were set upon and beatou in
Georgetown on Christmas day by a mob of
negroes.
Marlboro is a strictly temperance county.
There is no regular bar-room in Bennetts-
ville. In tho country whisky is sold only by
tho three gallons, and the thirsty are com
pelled tc betake thomsolves to Cberaw or
Darlington. Contraband whisky is, how
ever. frequently sold from wagons.
Tho store of Messrs. Allen & Baker, at
Conwayboro’, was robbed on Christmas
night.
The Greenwood New Era lias been pur
chased by an association of gentlemen at
Ninety Six, South Carolina, and will be
issued from that place next week, with the
name changed to the Ninety Six Herald,
under the editorial management of W. K.
Bl&ke, Esq.
During the past year some twenty-five or
thirty cottages havo been built in Newberry.
Aiken Tribune: The only incident which
marred the celebration of Christmas day in
Aiken was a difficulty that occurred early in
tho morning between Messrs. Samuel and
Lester Courtenay and George Bouyer, on
the one band, and Town Marshals William
Hewett and Frederick Alford on the other.
It sprang out of a violation of the town or
dinance in reference to exploding fire-arms
and fireworks on the street, and resulted in
the slight shooting of Marshal Alford
through the shoulder by one of the Courte
nay brothers, and tho wounding of Bouyer
through the foot by a stray shot from the
same source. The aggressing parties were
arrested and gave bail. As the matter will
undergo judicial investigation next week,
wo forbear further comment.
Nihilists in New Iork.—Not long ago
reports were spread regarding a commu
nistic Russian sect termed Nihilists, who
gave great umbrage to the Russian Gov
ernment, and caused a despotic banish
ment by the Czar of a large number to the
banks of the Volga. A number managed
to escape over the frontier, and anioDg
them one Beresy Feodorowitsch, with his
wife, two married sons and their wives,
and three daughters with their husbands
and families. They came to New York,
and are living in a tenement house in
Third street, where they manufacture
cigars. The men dress in sheepskin coats
and wear heavy top-boots, and the women
wear the brass tiaras frequentl^seen
upon the heads of female Russian pleas
antry. They are learning to speak a lit
tle English, and say that their sect wishes
all fortunes perfectly equalized, inasmuch
as there is quite a sufficiency of riches in
the world to enable all to live in abun
dance. Thrones and class distinctions,
they say, must be abolished, and all should
be practically free and equal, socially as
well as politically. All persons, they
consider, over the age of ten should do a
certain amount of daily work, and the
State should be ruled by representatives
of the communes. The Nihilists believe
in the coming of a Messiah, who is to
bring about the desirable state of things
they look forward to. They pray to him
every evening from five to six o'clock. A
peculiarity of these people is that they
never buy for money. They pay for what
they purchase with cigars.
Early Life of Flobence, the Come
dian.—At a dinner to the comedian
Florence, in New York, he alluded to his
early life, and told how he once walked
from Newark, N. J., to New York.
“ ’Twas twenty-four years ago, on a bleak
November night, and I was wrapped in
the protecting folds of a thin alapaca
coat and a pair of light summer trowgers
[laughter], carrying with me my entire
stage wardrobe and library, consisting of
a pair of tights and a play book of ‘Oliver
Twist.’ ”
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN
QUITMAN.
[Special Telegrrm to the Morning News.]
Quitman, January 3.
The most exciting municipal election that
has over taken place here was consmnmated
to-day, electing Dr. J. T. Davis Mayor by a
majority of six.
Noon Telegrams.
SPAIN’S ATTITUDE TO CUBA.
More of the Sonora Rebellion.
SURVIVING PASSENGERS OF
THE DEUTSCHLAND.
THE BREMER HAVEN HORROR.
FISH’S NOTE TO THE FOREIGN
POWERS.
What America. Proposes to I>o.
THE l^lEMEBHAVEN HOBBOB.
New Yobk, January 3.—The Salier, of the
North German Lloyd Steamship Company,
arrived hero yesterday with the surviving
passengers of the Deutschland, and tho un
harmed passengers of the Mosel—19 cabin
and 45 steerage passengers of the Deutsch
land, and 21 cabin and 68 steerage of the
Mosel. The Deutschland’s passengers were
made happy by the subscription raised in
England, which reached such an
amount that the steerage passengers
received fifty dollars each, and after
the principal division two hundred
and eighty dollars remained, which
was also divided upon the arrival of the
Salier. No person was allowed on board
until the representative of the German Con
sulate General had boarded the vessel and
seen the Captain. This was in consequence
of orders to the Captain who bad sealed the
package for the Consul General. The object
was to give German officials hero an oppor
tunity to co-operate with the home govern
ment, by making an investigation before
anything on the vessel was dis
turbed. The letter in question
had been written during tne in
tense excitement following the dynamite
explosion by the German authorities at
Bremerh&ven under the impression that
possibly some trace ".hat woulu lead to addi
tional facts in regard to the explosion might
be obtained on the Salier, and the German
Consul here was delegated to prevent any
one from boarding or leaving her until he
obtained the information desired. Nothing,
however, bad been discovered, and the pas
sengers were permitted to laud. A great
crowd of the passengers’ friends were at
the pier to meet ttiem. Thus far nothing
has been discovered in freight or baggage
on the steamer Saber to indicate that there
is any infernal machine on board. The
freight, however is being rapidly removed,
and it is expected that if there is anything
of that kind concealed it will be discovered
to-day.
AMEBICA AND CUBA.
London, January’ 3.—The Manchester
Guardian's London correspondent writes as
follows on the subject of Spain, Cuba and
the United States : “I havo been furnished
with what purports to bo the substance ot
the American" Cuban note. I believe it is
correct, though I do not pretend to
give the exact language. It recites that
the general interest ot humanity and com
merce demand tho cessation of a struggle
which has been waged in Cuba for seven
years. The United States are great suf
ferers, but are unwilling to act
without the concurrence of other
powers, including Spain. The continuation
of the attempt to govern Cuba from Madrid
will be fatal to the hopes of restoration of
peace. Nevertheless, Cuba belongs to Spain
and a great Bhare of the population is op
posed to a separation. Under these
circumstances the solution of the
question might be found iu tho estab
lishing of a corporation in the West
Indies resembling the Canadian. Cuba aud
Porto Rico might be constituted a confeder
ation, with local independent rights and a
Governor General appointed by Spain. The
powers are asked to join the United States in
proposing such confederation and aiding
Cuba to establish it. The abolition
of slavery would, however, be a necessary
condition, and such pressure must b3
brought as would make the insurgents
cease their warfare. This would be difficult,
but it could be accomplished. Secretary Fish
is emphatic in deuying that the United States
desire the acquisition of Cuba. They only
wicb peace restored, slavery abolished and
commerce allowed to resume its course.
The powers are asked to express their opin
ion upon the proposed means of accom
plishing these ends.
PACIFIC NOTES.
San Fkancisco, January 3.—The ship
Itnisca, 253 days from Baltimore, has ar
rived. She hail successive gales duriug 112
days in the Southern hemisphere. John A.
Winns, second mate, and Daniel Sherana,
sailor, were swept overboard. Three died
from hardship and exposure. The vessel
stopped at Juan Fernandez for water.
A dispatch from San Diego says that
Colonel Mines, with the Sonora State troops,
attacked the main body of the Yagui In
dians at Piertopalla on the 3d of December,
killing and wounding two hundred. The
Spanish loss was two wounded.
SPANISH POLITICS.
London, January 3.—The Standard has a
special from Madrid saying the decree con
voking the Cortes says the plan of the Min
istry is based upon a conservative policy re
jecting impracticable theories and re
ligions intolerance will be laid be
fore the Cortes. Vigorous efforts
to restore order in Cuba are promised. The
declarations of the government have created
a very favorable impression. The decree
declares that all may participate in the
elections except declared foes to the dynasty
and monarchy.
EMBEZZLEMENT.
New Yobk, January 3.—Chas. R. Beck
with, a clerk lately employed by Ben. T.
Babbit, the soap manufacturer, has been ar
rested on a charge of forgery aud embezzle
ment for between two and three hundred
thousand dollars.
BUBNED.
London, January 3.—The East End Flour
and Rice Mills at Wapping were burned to
day. One fireman was killed and several
wounded. Eighteen adjacent buildings were
damaged.
SPAIN AND CUBA.
New Yobk, January 3.—A London special
says the Spanish Government on the 23d of
December, confidently declared to the other
European powers its firm resolution of
satisfying all just complaints of the Cabans.
Evening Telegrams.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Mild Weather at the North.;
RAILROAD DECISION IN VIRGINIA.
The Situation iu South Carolina.
Syuopsin of Kellogg’s Memage.
High-Handed Outbade in Salisbuby.
—Last Friday evening, while George
Brigner was riding with a young lady
named Reed, on a lonely road in Lime
Rock, he made improper proposals to his
companion, and meeting with a decided
rebuff, tried force, by pulling her from
the carriage and choking her. She re -
sisted as well as she was able, but Brig
ner was violent and determined, and
dragged her roughly around the road.
While the struggle was in progress, the
horse started od, and Brigner desisted
from his brutal efforts long enough to
catch and secure the animal. This gave
the girl a moment’s time, and she im
proved the opportunity to slip
into the adjoining woods and
crouched among the bushes. Brigner fol
lowed and endeavored to find her, but al
though the terrified girl heard him tramp
ing about the place for a long time, the
rain and darkness screened her from ob
servation, and he was at length forced to
abandon tbe pursuit and drive away. The
excitement and fatigue of the struggle,
however,and the cold and exposure had.so
terrified and exhausted the girl, that she
did not leave her retreat until the follow
ing morning. Then she gathered strength
enough to reach the nearest house, but
fell in a faint upon getting inside the
door. The authorities were informed of
the outrage, and Brigner was arrested in
South Cornwall on Saturday, taken before
a justice and bound over for trial in the
sum of $1,000.—Bridgeport Farmer.
Mrs. Hannah Stover, of Bowdoinham,
Me., v. as bom on July 4, 177C, and if she
lives will be exhibited at the ~
Threatened Indian Depredations.—
San Franciseo, December 30.—The Nez-
perces Indians threaten to drive the set
tlers from Wallowa valley, Oregon. They
have about eighty warriors. Gen. Howard
has ordered two companies of cavalry
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, January 3.—The debt state
meat for December shows an mciease of
$1,915,062 70, compared with a 1 increase
during December 1874, of $3,659,967 83; coin
in the Treasury, $79,824,448 01 ; currency in
the Treasury, $11,117,344 80; special de
posits of legal teuders for redemption of
certificates of deposits, $35,175,000; coin
certificates, $311,985 05; outstanding legal
teuders, $371,827,220.
In tbe Supreme Conrt there were no de
cisions to-day. The written opinion of the
Court in the case of A. F. Richards and
others, against the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad Company, which was
argued before the United States Circuit
Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
on the 21st of December last (Chief Justice
Waite, of tbe United States Supreme Court,
sitting with Circuit Judge Bond,) was held
this morning bp JuJge Bond in Alexandria,
Chief Justice Waite, though absent, concur
ring in tbe opinion. There were present
Hon. Wm. Evarts, ex-Judge Shipman, Mr.
Stores, of New York, Judge Robertson and
Judge Crump, of Virginia, representing the
company and creditors under various mort
gages, aud Col. Gordon, Messrs. Steeper,
Smoot, Jones aud Smith of Virginia, repre
senting the general bondholders, resist
ing the application of the company.
It will be remembered that upon the ex
parte statement of Richards, who originally
brought the suit, Henry Tison, of Balti
more, was appointed receiver of the road in
November last by Judge Bond, of the
United States Circuit Court. Subsequently
the trustees, under the six per cent, mort
gage, made application to the State courts
of Virginia aud West Virginia for the ap
pointment of a receiver to wind up the af
fairs of tho company, and under this appli
cation General William C. Wickham, Vice
President of the road, was appointed re
ceiver. The questions before the United
States Court to-day were: First. A motion
to dismiss the suit from tho United States
Court for want of jurisdiction, both the
plaintiffs, present and indispen8ible,aud tbe
defendants being citizens of tbe State. Sec
ond. A motion of the plaintiffs themselves to
be allowed to enter a common order for dis
continuance, that they might bo able to pro
ceed in tbe State courts, whose jurisdiction
was unquestioned. Judge Bond, after a full
review of the case, and the action of his
court heretofore taken ip. the matter, an
nounced that an order would be issued
directing the receiver appointed by him
(Tyson) to settle accounts on or before a
day to be fixed ; whereupon he will be dis
charged and the parties allowed to proceed
in the State courts according to the desire
of a large majority of the creditors of each
class. The effect of this decision will be to
place the affairs of the read in the hands
of Gen. Wickham, receiver, appointed by
the Stato courts. After tho opinion had been
received, Mr. Evarts inquired what day would
be fixed for the receiver to settle his ac-
couuts. Judge Bond replied that this could
be agreed upon by counsel; aud, after con
ference between them, the 20th instant was
fixed upon as the time by which the receiver
must settle, and an ordor directing him to
do so will bo made immediately. As soon
as the road passes into the hands of General
Wickham, those most interested in it will
proceed to a foreclosure of mortgages and
tho sale of property, and it will be
purchased in the interest of ail classes
of creditors and reorganized upon a plan
generally satisfactory. The Chesapeake
aud Ohio road extends from Richmond to
the Ohio river, and was constructed at
cost of about forty millions of dollars. The
present indebtedness is about twenty-seven
millions of dollars. It is regarded as one of
the best constructed roads in the country.
It is stated that three-fourths of all the
creditors of tho road are favorable to the
foreclosures of the mortgages and settle
ment of affairs by tbe State courts in oc-
ccrdanco with tbe decision of too United
StatesfCourt to-day.
The Internal Revenue agent superintend
ing the government sales in South Carolina
of lands for the non-payment of direct tax,
reports to the Department that tho town
property in Beaufort, S. C., belonging to tho
government, was sold December 30 for
$6,300, which is considered a fail* price un
der all the circumstances. Sales at Hilton
Head and other sea islands, for the same
cause, were to commence immed ately, and
it was anticipated that good prices would
be realized.
LOUISIANA POLITICS.
New Orleans, January 3.—In the Legis
lature to-day the House, after receiving the
Governor’s message, adjourned out of re
spect to tho memory of L. H. Southard and
Esel Pierson, deceased members. Kellogg’s
me ssage is exceedingly elaborate. He con
gratulates tbe people on hopeful prospects
of the State, which ha ascribes mainly to
the fact that they aro now on the threshold
of tho full fruition of those financial re
forms urged by himself, which, at tho last
election, by an unquestioned vote of a
majority of the people, were engrafted in
the constitution of the State. He expresses
the belief that these amendments are not
even yet fully understood. The debt of the
State is reduced to a point within the power
of the State to meet the principal and inter
est at maturity. The appalling lead of con
tingent debt over $21,000,000, an amount
never actually incurred, but standing on the
statute books a constant source of danger
aud uncertainty, bas been burit el beyond
resurrection. The interest and appropri
ation on the new debt were made perpetual
until the extinguishment of the debt itself
shall have been accomplished. Eoth prin
cipal and interest are guaranteed by tbe
constitution. The bonded and floating debt
of tho State, when he took charge, were
$24,000,347. Tho present bonded and floating
debt, January 1, 1876, is $19,061,645 25.
While this redaction of the debt bas been
effected, the general expenditurss of the
government have been largely reduced, and
taxation has been iiminished from twenty-
one and a half millions to fourteen and a half
millions. The message says : “Accurate sta
tistics indicate that tht 0 rops of cotton, sugar
rice and fruits raised iu the State of Louisi
ana during the past year largely exceed
$50,000,000 in value, while for the first time
in the history of the State the crop of corn
has been equal to home demands., leaving a
surplus foy exportation. With capital in
sured against excessive taxation by funding
laws and constitutional amendments, it now
only rests with tho citizens themselves
to give to emigrants assurances that their
lives an 1 property will be protected by the
laws, and that no social ostracism will be
visited upon them on account of political
opinions,and tbe State will receive an influx
or labor and capital which will increase its
prosperity a thousand fold.”
NEW YORK NOTES.
New York, January 3.—The report that
Princeton has challenged Harvard is un
true. •
Beckwith, the embezzler, has been com
mitted without bail. It is expected that his
embezzlements and forgeries will reach five
hundred thousand dollars.
The old Board of Aldermen mat and ad
journed sine die, and the new board was
organized.
A lawyer, representing a number of per
sons who claim to have been elected Aider-
men and Assistant Aldermen, under the
charter of 1870. which they Bay has not
been repealed, sent in a communication,
asking for the use of the Aldermen and As
sistant Aldermen’s chamber, which was
also refused, the Mayor stating that he
already had trouble enough with one Com
mon Council. The lawyer and party then
withdrew, to meet and organize elsewhere.
The suit against Tweed to answer the six-
million dollar charge ha3 been com
menced.
WASHINGTON WEATHER FBOPIIET.
Washington, January 3.—Probabilities:
For New England, Middle StateB and lower
lake region, decidedly cooler, clear or fair
weather, with northerly to west winds and
rising barometer.
For the South Atlantic States, cooler,
partly cloudy weather, northeast to north
west winds and rising or stationary barome
ter.
For the Gulf 8tates, Tennessee and Ohio
valley, clear or fair weather and lower tem
perature, except slight changes of temper
ature in the Southwest, northerly to east
winds, veering to souther.y in the Southwest
and stationary or rising baromeeer.
mild weather.
Toronto, January 3.—The weather con
tinues mild throngh Canada.
Owen Sound, Ont., January 3.—The
steamer which has arrived from Medford
reports the bay and river free of ice.
Buffalo, January 3.—The tug; Engram
left this port at 11 o’clock this morning.
Daring the last three or four days several
canal boats have left for Asht&tiala, Ohio.
Several loads of wheat have been shipped to
Lockport. The harbor, river and canal are
entirely free of ice. This event is looked
upon as being unprecedented.
DEAD.
Providing*, January 3.—Join Bollock,
FOREIGN NOTES.
London, January 3.—The Howe Keidge
cotton spinning* mill, at Acherton, is
burned. Loss $170,000. Two hundred per
sons are ousted.
Tbe Morning Post's special telegram from
Berlin says that Archbishop Ledowski’a
imprisonment terminates on the 3d of Feb
ruary next, and the Catholics of all Ger
many propose to celebrate it in an appro
priate manner. Deputations from the
Reichstag and Landtag will wait
the Archbishop and tender their congratu
lations. Archbishop Ledowski per
sists in his refusal to acknowledge
the jurisdiction of the new ecclesiastical
court or the validity of his deposition. It
is expected that the government will intern
him, as it did the Bishop of Paderborn, un
less he prefers quitting the country. The
whereabouts of the Archbishop of Cologne
is still a secret. The Volks Zeitung invites
diocesans desiring to present him with New
Year’s felicitations to leave their cards at its
publishing office tor transmission.
Brussels, January 3.—Disturbances have
broken out among* the striking miners in
the Lomviere district. The rioters used fire
arms. A detachment from the garrison at
Mous has been sent.
Odessa, January 3.—Navigation in ibis
vicinity is suspended on account of ice.
Sydney, Australia, December 28.—Tbe
steamship Colima, from San Francisco, has
arrived here with a shaft broken.
FIRE.
Boston, January 3.—Daring the morning
service, the lace curtain covering the statue
of the Virgin Mary> caught fire in the base
ment, panicing five hundred Sunday school
children. A young man pulled down the
curtain and extinguished the fire with little
injury, but the cry of fire reached the upper
floor where the congregation were worship
ing, causing a terrible scene. Many leaped
from the galleries and windows, and the
outlets became blocked. A great part reach
ed the street before the Danic subsided.
There was no loss of life and few casualties.
HIGHWAY BOBBEBY.
Brooklyn, January 3.—John Johnson,
a boat builder, was Bhot and mortally wound
ed by two highwaymen a short distance from
his house, They demanded $400, bat on
looking in Johnson’s face they said he was
the wrong person and ran away.
CONSULS.
Washington, January 8.—The President
has recognized Jose Peregnot, as Vice-Con
sol of Spam at Now York; Federico Grana
dos, Vice-Consul of Spain at Savannah; aud
II. R. Bolden, Vice-Consul of Uruguay for
Richmond, or for any ports in said State.
▲ STRIKE.
New Yobk, January 3.—The ship caulk
ers, carpenters, fasteners and spar-makers
have struck against a redaction to $4 from
$4 50 per day.
The Swell-Head Democrat of the
Northwest.
[“Gath” in New York Graphic.]
Alexander T. Mitchell, of Milwaukee,
is said to be the wealthiest man in the
Northwest, worth about $10,000,000. He
is the individual owner of the Western
Union Railroad, which ruus from Racine,
on Lake Michigan, to Rock Island, on the
Mississippi, one hundred and ninety-seven
miles, and the controlling spirit in the
Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. He is
a native Scotchman, who married a sister
of Harrison Reed, ex-Governor of Florida.
He came to Milwaukee when it was a
muddy village on the bluffs of Lake
Michigan as the agent of a Chicago
banker, and toot large contracts in the
railway which reached the Territory of
Wisconsin about 1849-50. He established
a bank of issue on the basis of a Marine
and Fire Insurance Company, and almost
monopolized the currency of Wiscon
sin and the Northwest, until the
formation of the national banks.
Refusing tQ change the State character
of his bank, Mr. Mitchell found himself,
as a Democrat, in a consistent position
towards his party, which was unfriendly
toward the national banking system. He
did not tako that position of unfriend
liness, but be happened, by his business
attitude, to have anticipated the pre
judices of his party and squared with
them. Living in a handsome villa on
the high grounds of Milwaukee, half a
mile back from the river which divides
the city, he spends his leisure in society
and reading, having sturdy Scotch con
victions, and he has repeatedly enjoyed
the confidence of his party by repre
senting Milwaukee in Congress, and he
would have been tbe Senator from the
State had a Democrat prevailed as
successor to Senator Carpenter. Hi:
friends are troubled because he refused
the nomination for Congress last year, as
he would have been made Chairman of
the Banking aud Currency Committee,
the stepping-stone to Secretary of the
Treasury if the Democrats carry the
country in 1876. By his determined at
titude and reasoning influence on the
subject of specie-bottomed currency
Mitchell has kept the Democracy of Wis
consin steady all through the era of agi
tation for inflation.
I found him at his bank, a yellowish-
dun brick edifice on a corner, full of
clerks, and above stairs was the railway
office, with a long table down the Direc
tors’ parlor and office and conversation-
rooms.
Mitchell bore out the report Judge
Hoar, of Massachusetts, once gave of
him: “The most sensible Democrat he
had ever known.” A short, fattish Scotch
man. with a large head crowned with
thick, gray hair. He had the head of
Sir Walter Scott, a regular oat-meal head,
out of which the beard of the oats
seemed to stick for hair. Having been
up late tbe previous night or nights, fol
lowing the great career perhaps outlined
by General Sedgwick, is the only conge
nial way of discharging one’s superabun
dant public spirit, Mitchell was not very
brisk. He was good-natured, however,
and said discursively very nearly the
words I put down in a single sentence :
‘There is no delusion more current
than that America is a poor country at
present. It is in the most satisfactory
condition, probably, of any country on
the globe, and has merely suspended the
almost superhuman exertions of com
pleting its material unity by railway ad
ditions and extensions, bridging its rivers,
and fixing up its towns. For the comfort
and communications of the people it is
now very nearly a perfect thing, and what
is called decline is merely rest—the con
clusion of our task.”
There is a man in Cincinnati named
Dr. Schilling, who was arrested, some
time ago, for making pretensions about
witches and witchcraft. Of course the
court could not make a case of it, for it
was ridiculous. But this doctor, who, as
he asserts, has the power to conquer the
devil when the latter sits in any human
being, was arrested just about twelve
o’clock on Christmas night for fast driv
ing and locked up in a cell at the station-
house. The witchcraft doctor and his
two companions (two of them) knelt
down in the cell and began praying.
They said that they would crawl out of
the key-hole of the cell by witchcraft,
but Lieutenant Cody said : “If this con
queror of the devil will crawl through
this iron mosquito bar, then I will give it
up.” That Lieutenant locked the doctor
up. The doctor and his associates did
not get out until they were released on
bail, and so Lieutenant Cody conquered
the doctor, the celebrated man who,
some months ago, conquered the devil in
that part of Cincinnati called “Bethle
hem.”
THE MISSISSIPPI ELECTION.
A Letter From Ea-Senator Revel*—Fact*
for Senator tlorion to Ponder.
H. R. Revels, the colored ex-United
States Senator from Mississippi, has writ
ten a letter in regard to the late election in
that State, which takes the ground that the
Republicans were defeated through tneir
own corruption. The publication of this
letter is opportune, as it may materially
assist Senator Morton in arriving at the
truth should his resolution to investigate
that election be adopted by the Senate.
The letter, which is dated Holly Springs,
Miss., November 6. and appeared first in
the Vicksburg Herald, is addressed to
President Grant, and reads as follows:
“My Dear Sib—In view of the results
of the recent election in our State, I have
determined to write you a letter canvass
ing the situation and giving you my
views thereon. I will premise by saying
that I am no politician, though having
been honored by a seat in the United
States Senate. I nover have sought
political preferment, nor do I ask it now,
but am engaged in my calling, (the min
istry,) and feeling an earnest desire for
the welfare of all the people, irrespective
of race or color, I have deemed it advisa
ble to submit to you, for consideration, a
few thoughts in regard to the political
situation in this State. Since reconstruc
tion, the masses of my people have been,
as it were, enslaved in mind, by unprin
cipled adventurers, who, caring nothing
for the country, were willing to stoop to
anything, no matter how infamous, to
secure power to themselves and per
petuate it My people are naturally
Republicans, but as they grow older
in freedom so do they in wisdom. A
great portion of them have learned that
they were beiDg used as mere tools, and,
as in the late election, not being able to
correct the existing evil among them
selves, they determined by casting their
ballots against these unprincipled adven
turers to overthrow them. My people
have been told by these schemers, when
men were placed upon the ticket who
were notoriously corrupt and dishonest,
that they must vote for them ; that the
salvation of the party depended upon it;
that the man who scratched a ticket was
not a Republican. This is only one of
the many means these malignant dema
gogues have devised to perpetuate the in
tellectual bondage of my people. To de
feat this policy at the late election, men,
irrespective of race or party afliliation,
united and voted together against men
known to be incompetent and dishonest.
“I cannot recognize, nor do the masses
of my people who read recognize the ma
jority of the officials who have been in
power for the past two years as Republi
cans. We do not believe that Republican
ism means corruption, theft and embez
zlement. These three offenses have been
prevalent among a great portion of our
office-holders ; to them must be attribu
ted the defeat of the Republican party in
tbe State, if defeat there was, but I, with
all the lights before me, look upon it as
an uprising of the people, the whole
people, to crush out corrupt rings and
men from power. The bitterness
and hato created by tbe late civil
strife has, in my opinion, been oblitera
ted in this State, except, perhaps, in
some localities, and would have long since
been entirely effaced were it not for some
unprincipled men who would keep alive
the bitterness of the past and inculcate a
hatred between the races, in order that
they may aggrandize themselves by office
and its emoluments to control my peo-
people, the effect of which is to degrade
them. I give you my opinion that had
our State administration adhered to Re
publican principles, and stood by the
platform upon which it was elected, the
State to-day would have been on the high
way of prosperity. If the State admin
istration had advanced patriotic meas
ures, appointed only honest and competent
men to office, and sought to restore con
fidence between the races, bloodshed
would have been unknown, peace would
have prevailed, Federal interference been
undiought of, and harmony, friendship
and mutual confidence would have taken
the place of the bayonet. In conclusion,
let me say to you, and through you to
the great Republican party of the North,
that I deemed it my duty, in behalf of
my people, that I present these facts, in
order that they and the white people
(their former owners) should not suffer
misrepresentation which certain dema
gogues seem desirous of encouraging.
“Respectfully,* H. ft. Revels.”
TWO LITTLE SPECKS.
A New Version or the Babe* In the Wood*.
[From the San Francisco Chronicle.]
Yesterday morning at one o’clock,
while Officer Coumeen was patrolling
Montgomery* street, he stumbled upon
two mites of humanity who were aim
lessly toddling along with their little
hands imbedded in their pockets and
their little faces blue with the oold. The
officer was considerably surprised at the
unusual sight, and revelled in a roar of
laughter. “T say, you specks, does your
mother know you’re out?” One of the
specks affeeted dismay at the glitter of
the police star, and would have scamp
ered oft had not his wee companion
restrained him with the consolatory an
nouncement: “Hold on, Harry, he won’t
hurt us.” The little man then straight
ened up and almost dislocated a miniature
neck in attempting to gaze the officer in
the eye unflinchingly. “We hain’t got no
mother.” “Where’s your father, your
home ? What’re you doing out this time
o’ night, anyhow?” questioned the officer.
The little fellow replied readily but
quiveringly: “Hain’t got no father
neither, nor no home, and were looking
for a box to sleep in.” The officer made
a mental note on the innocence of child
hood. and tucking a speck under either
arm, sped with extravagant steps into
the presence of Captain Douglass, at the
police office. With the single ejaculation
“lost,” the officer took a mite from each
arm, wiped a tear from each eye and re
treated in confusion. The little spokes
man gave his name as Amos Axton, and
that of his brother as Harry Axton,
and related that their mother died at
Santa Cruz three months ago. Their
uncle, Wm. Kirby, brought them to
this city, and on Thursday afternoon left
them at the corner of Eddy and Powell
sheets, promising to return in a few min
utes, and bidding them wait bis reappear
ance. They lingered there until night
fall, but tbe uncle failed to return, ami
the youngsters wandered about the city
until a late hour, when they found an
empty dry goods box, and in it made a
bed for the night. For the past two
nights and days they have lived in an ad
venturous manner, subsisting on crackers.
They were dressed in excellent clothes
and presented a neat appearance, albeit
that their shirts were somewhat crumpled
from service as nightgowns, and their
little faces streaked slightly with dirt; it
was manifest that they had been accus
tomed to careful and kir»d guardianship.
One of the little fellows from time to
time exhibited a mourning handkerchief,
with which he effaced an obstinate tear.
The Captain directed an officer to convey
the children into the prison where they
might be fed. They had declared that
they had eaten nothing all day.
(City (Drtlinancfsi.
CITY ORDINANCE.
Dr. Salmon Skinner, of Brooklyn, hav
ing sued Rev. Henry Ward Beecher for
$500, for the value of a set of false teeth
for Mrs. Beecher that he says were fur
nished six years ago and were not paid
for, the case has been noticed for trial in
the January term of the Supreme Court
Circuit. Mr. Beecher, in his answer, first
denies that he employed the plaintiff to
do the work named: second, if he did
employ him he has forgotten it, and,
third, he sets up the statute of limitations
as a bar to recovery of the amount de
manded.
Mr. Blaine, at the Philadelphia banquet,
was sent by a gentleman, who ba 1 obtain
ed it by an introduction, the card of one
of the editors of the National Republican,
with a request for a song penciled on it
Mr. Blaine wrote back, in all seriousness:
T am no more competent to sing a song
than you are to write an editorial. I
must therefore respectfully beg to be ex
cused lest I should make the same mis
take that editors do, by attempting to
perform a feat for which I am not
The Man-Eating Tiger.
Dr. Fayrer caused some sensation by
showing that during one year—1869—
6,219 deaths from snake bite occurred in
the Bengal Presidency alone, among a
population of something more than 48,-
000,000 of souls. He now horrifies us
with accounts of the devastation caused
by man-eating tigers, which .occasionally
cause villages and even whole districts to
be depopulated. In one instance, in the
central provinces, a single tigress caused
the desertion of thirteen villages, while
250 square miles of country were thrown
out of cultivation before the creature was
shot. Another tigress, in 1869, killed
127 people, and stopped a public road for
many weeks before it too succumbed to
an English sportsman.
In 1868 the Magistrate of Godavsry
reported that that part of the country
was overrun with tigers, no road safe,
and that a tiger had recently charged a
large body of villagers within a few bun
dred yards of the civil station. It is
impossible to give accurate statistics for
the whole of so vast a country as Hin-
dostan, but Jerdon corroborates these
statements by asserting that, in the dis
trict east of Jubbulpore, in 1856 and
previous years, on an average, between
two hundred and three hundred villagers
were killed annually. Tigers apparently
develop into man-eaters when they are
old and sluggish, and the teeth are some
what decayed. Preferrin > human flesh,
they find, when once the awe natural to
wild animals at the presence of man is
shaken off, that he offers an easy and
tempting prey. In some districts they
abound ; while in others, as in Oude and
Rohilcund, one is only heard of about
every six years.
The natives are extremely superstitious
respecting tigers, and in many parts dread
the wrath of the slain tiger’s spirit almost
more than they feared the creature when
alive. The small clavicles or shoulder-
bones, which are deeply imbedded in
muscles, are esteemed valuable charms;
while every sportsman, or, indeed, every
one who is familiar with tiger skins,
knows how difficult it is to save the tiger’s
claws. The whiskers are immediately
plucked out by the sportman’s servants,
on the tiger beiug shot, before their
master can come up, as they are deemed
a valuable love-philter. Those who are
most rigorously honest in all other re
spects cannot refrain from thus mutilating
a skin.
On the spot where a tiger has slain a
human beiDg, in the district round Mir-
zapore, they erect a curious conical
mound of earth, which is ornamented
with some colored wash for a coating, a
few flowers, and one or more singularly-
shaped pieces of pottery. It is considered
sacrilege to touch these, and once a year
the inhabitants of the neighboring vil
lages visit the memorials and worship
there.—Chambers's Journal.
Flying Machines.
[Chatham Correspondence (Dec. 15) London
News.]
The new flying machine, the invention
of Mr. Simmonds, and intended for use
in military operations, was subjected to
a public trial by the inventor on Chatham
lines to-day, tho experimental trial being
attended by a large number of the officers
of the royal engineers, among whom were
Major V. G. Clayton, Secretary of the
Royal Engineer Committee; Captain M.
T. Sale, one of the instructors in field
fortifications, and other heads of depart
ments connected with the school of mili
tary engineering. A number of non
commissioned officers and men of the
royal engineers had been placed at the
disposal of Mr. Simmonds, to assist him
in carrying out the experimental trials.
The machine, which may be said
to consist of the two independent
parts, is nothing more than a huge,
square-shaped, light canvas covering,
stretched on four slight but strong ash
poles, or arms placed at right angles to
each other, the covering being further
attached to a centre pole—resembling
nothing so much as the handle of an
enormous umbrella—by means of light
galvanized wires, the entire machine
being in appearance an enormous square
shaped umbrella, the largest of tbe two
parts, or, more properly, machines, weigh
ing about one hundredweight, and the
other, which is smaller, somewhat less.
From the extremities of each of the four
arms is attached a rope of considerable
length, the four ropes being brought
to a point—somewhat similar, in
this respect, to a parachute—so
as to support a man, the
machine being intended for reconnoiter-
ing observations in connection with an
army in the field. During th6 experi
ments to-day sand-bags were employed
to represent the weight of a man. The
smallest of the two machines was first
tried, but owing to there being little
wind it attained ar. elevation of but a few
feet only, a number of sappers of the
Royal Engineers running away with the
rope to which the machine was attached,
much in the same way as that adopted by
children when flying their kites. After
repeated attempts in this way Mr. Sim
monds only succeeded in inducing the
machine to rise up about twenty feet,
when it would immediately fall
with great force to the ground.
After some time spent in these
fruitless efforts, which occasioned
much impatience among the spectators,
it was decided, at the request of the royal
engineer officers present, to try to raise
the largest of the two machines, which
had been lying during the former part of
the experiments in the centre of Chatham
lines, where it was swaying backward and
forward with the little wind blowing. The
same method of raising the larger ma
chine aa that adopted in the previous ex
periments was again employed, a number
of men of the royal engineers being sta
tioned at the end of the rope, about three
hundred yards away, the machine itself
being held up to face the wind by several
other sappers. At a given signal from
Mr. Simmonds a run by the men
was made, when the machine rose
to a height of about fifty or
sixty feet, and then came to the ground.
A re-adjustment of the four guiding-
ropes and wires having been made, a
further attempt to raise the machine was
tried ; but, although an altitude of rather
more than one hundred feet was obtained,
the flying machine obstinately refused to
remain in the air, but fell with a crash to
the ground, breaking one of its four-arm
poles, and sustaining other damage. The
oause of the collapse of the ma
chine was stated by Mr. Sim
monds to have been occasioned by
the ballast attached to it not being
of sufficient weight, and the four ropes
which were connected with the ends de
scribed not being of the proprer length.
After a consultation it was decided to
abandon any further trials on the occasion
with the large machine, as some time
would be required to substitute a new
arm-pole for that broken, and the ma
chine was at once stripped of its canvas
covering. A second series of attempts to
raise the smaller of the machines was
then made, but with little or no better
results than those previously achieved,
and, after upward of two hours had been
consumed in carrying out the trials, the
experiments were for the present aban
doned.
Memorable Kisses.—Here is a white
rose that has not faded through three
hundred years—the white rose sent by a
Yorkist, Duke of Clarence, to his Lancas
ter inamorata:
“If this fair rose offend thy sight,
Placed in thy bosom bare,
"Twill blush to find itself less white,
And turn Lancastrian there.
“But if thy ruby lips it spy.
As kiss it thou mayst deign,
With envy pale ’twill lose its dye,
And Yorkist turn again."’
It is a pity that we do not know who
plucked that rose with such courtly grace.
The lines, like “Chevy Chase,” “The
Nut-brown Maid,” and “Allan-a-Dale,”
are a tilius nulUus, and like many other
anonymous waifs which have floated
down to us could, just as well as;
The Alleged Outrage in Virginia.—
A dispatch from Harrisonburg, Va., says:
“The report of a negro having violated a
young lady living near McGaheyville,
Rockingham county, on the 21st instant,
was exaggerated. He attempted to com
mit the outrage there, but his courage
seemed to fail him at the last moment,
and he released the young lady and ran.
He was caught on the morning of the
22d by some hot-blooded young men,
who immediately proceeded to hang the
rascal. Some more judicious gentlemen,
however, cut him down before he was
seriously injured and took him before a
magistrate, who gave the negro the choice
of standing a trial in the county oourt or
thirty-nine lashes well laid on. The
negro chose the latter and received se
vere castigation, som6 half dozen gentle -
men handling the cowhide. He was let
loose and told to leave the country, and
BEAD THE FIRST TIME DECEMBER lOTH, 1875,
READ THE SECOND TIME DECEMBER 29TH.
1875, AMENDED AND PASSED, AND PUB
LISHED FOR INFORMATION.
AN ORDINANCE to assess and levy taxes and
raise revenue for the city of Savannah; to fix
the salaries and compensation of certain offi
cers anil employes of said city; for the regu
lation of certain kinds of business in said city;
fixing penalties for the violation of the reve
nue ordinances of said city: and for other
purposes connected with taxes and revenue
of said city.
Section I. The Mayor and Aldermen of the
city of Savannah, in Council assembled, do
hereby ordain. That from and after the; 1st day
of January, 1876, the inhabitants of the said city,
and those who hold taxable property within the
same, and those who transact or offer to transact
business therein, except such as are exempt from
taxation by law, shall pay towards the support
of the government of said city, and for the safe
ty, benefit, convenience and advantage of said
city, the taxes hereinafter prescribed.
Sec. II. bvery person holding real property
in said city, including improvements on lots
subject; to ground rent, shall pay a tax of two
and one-quarter per centum on the value of such
property.
Sec. ill. Every person holding household aud
kitchen furniture above the value of three hun
dred dollars, a watch or watches, jewelrv, plate,
mn» ual instruments, private billiard tables, shall
pay a tax of two aud one-quarter per centum on
the value of such property; and every person or
partnership engaged in business as a wholesale or
retail, or wholesale ami retail dealer in goods,
wares and merchandise of any description what
soever, besides such specific^ tax as he or they
may be required to pay by this or any other ordi
nance as a person or persons transaciing or offer
ing to transact business in said city, aud every
person engaged in the business of selling horses
or mules shall pay a tax of two and one-quarter
per centum on the value of his or their stock in
trade, except such articles as are exempt from
taxation under the laws of this state.
Sec. IV. Every person or corporation, other
than bankers and banks, taxed according ta their
earnings, receiving.!!!threat on bonds.notes,mort
gages,] udgments, or other evidences of debt,except
bonds of the city of Savannah and other bonds
exempt by law. shall pay a tax of two and one-
quarter per centum on the amount of snch inter
est so received.
Section V. Every person and corporation de
riving income or commissions from nis business
as a merchant,factor, auctioneer, broker, forward
ing, shipping, or commission merchant, (except
dealer; taxed on their stock in trade.) keeper of
a hotel or restaurant, or from the pursuit of any
profession, faculty, trade, calling or business
whatever, aud every street railroad company, gas
company, express company, cottcu press compa
ny, Insurance company, and every bank, banker,
and loan association, and every agent carrying
on business for another, shall pay a tax of one
per centum cn the amount ot such income
or commission above eight hundred dollars.
Sec. VI. Every person and corporation transact
ing or offering to transact either of the kinds of
business hereinafter mentioned, shall pay the tax
hereinafter prescribed, viz ;
Every auctioneer, two hundred dollars; every
wholesale and retail dealer in goods, wares and
merchandise, exclusive of liquor licenses, one
hundred dollars; every retail dealer, exclusive of
liquor license, twenty-five dollars, including con
fectioners ; every manufacturer of confection
aries, fifty dollars; every bank, banker or bank
agent engaged in buying or selling exchange, in
cluding every insurance company doing a banking
business, two hundred dollars; every person or
house dealing in foreign or domestic exchange,
aud every broker of any kind, including real es
tate brokers, cotton brokers, money brokers,
pawn brokers, one hundred dollars; and every
building and loan association, one hundred dol
lars; and every loan association doiDg a banking
business, one hundred and fifty dollars.
Every iusuranrejeompany, or agent for any in
surance company, one hundred dollars for each
company; every sewing machine agent or agency,
two hundred dollars—the same for each and
every agency; every keeper or keepers of a hotel,
oue hundred dollars; every boarding house
keeper, fifteen dollars; every the owner or
owners, lessee or lessees of a cotton press estal>-
lishment, three hundred dollars; every hand cot
ton press, twenty-five dollars.
Every the owner or owners, lessee or lessees of
a junk shop, one hundred and fifty dollars; a cot
ton pickery, to be confined exclusively to the
purchase or sale of cotton, two hundred dollars;
every the owner of a steam cotton gin establish
ment, one hundred dollars; every commission
merchant or factor, oue hundred and fifty dol
lars; every cotton shipper or weigher, twenty-five
dollars; every stevedore, fifty dollars; every the
owner or owners of a coal, lumber or wood yard,
for each coal, lumber or wood yard, and every re
tailer of coal from a wharf, fifty dollars; every
the keeper or keepers of a warehouse for the
storage of cotton, merchand : se, goods, etc., for
each warenouse, fifty dollars; every the owner
or owners of a billiard (able, nsed for hire, forty
dollars for each table; lor every pool table, one
hundred and fifty dollars; every the owner or
owners of a ten-pin alley, thirty dol'ars for each
alley; every the owner or owners of a saw mill
or planing mill, one hundred dollars; and on
each sash and blind factory, fifty dollars; on the
owner or owners of every steam engine used for
hoisting purposes, ginning purposes, or any other
business not regularly taxed, as In this ordinance
stated or enumerated, seventy-five dollars.
Every person or partnership running a grist
mill worked by steam, fifty dollars -if worked by
horse power, twenty-five dollars; every person
running a Hour mill, or flour and grist mill, driven
by steam, one hundred dollars; every bakery car
ried on by means of rteam machinery, one hun
dred dollars—if carried on without steam, fifty dol
lars; every master builder, mason, or mecnanic,
including shoemakers, tailors and other mechanics
not otherwise taxed, taking contracts for work, ar
chitects, contractors, other than builders, twenty-
five dollars; real estate collectors and agents, and
other c Electors and agents, and ticket agents,
twenty-five dollars; every the keeper or keepers
of an intelligence office, twenty-five dollars for
each office, every mercantile ageucy, one hun
dred dollars; every daily newspaper printed by
steam, one hundred dollars;‘every weekly or other
newspaper, twenty-five dollars; every job print
ing office worked by steam, fifty dollars—If woi k
en without steam, twenty-five dollars; every
man.ufacturer of soda water selling from
founts, twenty-five dollars ; and manufacturing
and bottling soda water, one hundred dollars,
selling sod* water from iounts, ten dollars for
each fount; every soap boiler, tanner and found
er, for each establishment, fifty dollars; every
barber shop, twenty-five dollars; every
jierson engaged in business of gas fitting
or plumbing, or both, fifty dollars;
every dagnerrian artist photographer and
ambrotyper, twenty-five dollars; every steam
boat, vessel, or other agency, fifty dollars; every
agency for ocean steamships, one hundred dol
lars; every wholesale dealer in ice, two hundred
dollars: every retail dealer in ice, ten dollars;
each and every museum, twenty-five dollars;
every gas company, four hundred dollars; every
restaurant where liqnor license is not taken out,
twenty-five dollars; every rice pounding or clean
ing mill, two hundred dollars; every lottery office
or ageucy, three hundred dollars; every fortune
teller or astrologer, fifty dollars; every telegraph
company or agency, three hundred dollars; every
street railroad company, one hundred dollars;
every lawyer, physician and dentist, twenty-five
dollars: every society or club bar-room, fifty dol
lars; every hall kept for hire, fifty dollars; every
keeper of* a skating rink, ten dollars for the first
wee* and live dollars for each succeeding week;
every undertaker, twenty-five dollars; every per
son engaged in loading or unloading vessels by
horse power, twenty-eight dollars for each hoist
ing apparatus used; every express company, two
hundred and fifty dollars, and in addition thereto
as part of the same tax, twenty-five dollars for
every one-horse baggage express wagon and forty
dollars for every two-horse baggage express
wagon employed by such company; every person
engaged in the business ot transporting or carry
ing goods, wares, merchandise, passengers or
baggage for hire, by means of wagons, drays,
trucks, carts, omnibosses or carriages of any de
scription, or of letting carriages or other vehicles
lor hire, shall pay a tax according to the number
and character of the vehicles employed in such
business, viz : every person employing one one-
horse cart or wagon, twelve dollars; every person
employing one one-horse dray or ti nek; sixteen
dollars; every person employing one one-horse
cab, hack or buggy, twenty do’iars; every person
employing one two-horse cart wagon, dray or
truck, twenty-four dollars; every person emnloy-
ing one two-norse cab, hack, buggy, omnitms, or
carriage of any description, forty dollars; every
person employing one four-horse dray or truck,
forty-six dollars;every person employing one four
horse omnibus, sixty dollars; every person em
ploying one break wagon, forty dollars; and the
tax to Jbe paid by any person employing more
than one vehicle of the same or differ
ent kinds, shall be according to the number of
vehicles employed, at the rates above specified;
every keeper oi a public or livery stable one
hundred dollars, and, in addition thereto, as part
of the same tax according to the number an!
character of any vehicle employed in such busi
ness, either by letting for hire or in the transpor
tation of goods, passengers and baggage, at the
rates above specified for taxes to be paid by per
sons engaged in the business of transporting,
&C-, for hire ; and every person employing, ns-
ing or keeping any vehicle of any sort to be
drawn by one or more horses or mules for any
purpose whatsoever, whether of business or
pleasure, shall pay a tax according to the rates
above established for persons engaged in the
business of transporting, Ac., for hire; every
huckster, hawker, including dealers in iceacam,
fruit and poultry, vendor of imall wares and
keeper of a cook stove or .<*ok shop, ten dollars;
every drummer, runner or other person, soliciting
trade or orders, or business, for another or for
himself, whether resident in this city or else
where, and having no fixed place of business in
this city, and every peddler and itinerant transi
ent trader, and every transient person selling or
offering to sell by cample, twenty-five dollars;
or more or less, as the Mayor in his discretion
may require, according to time and other circum
stances.
And every shipmaster. Captain, supercargo,
agent or other officer of any ship or vessel,
or other person who shall ocll goods or ar
ticles of any kind f:om any vessel or whart, or
personally purchase cargo or collect freight,
shall be considered a commission merchant and
pay the tax above prescribed for commission
merchants.
Sec. VII. The oocupant of any premises where
a dog or dogs is or are kept shall pay for every
dog so kept an annual Lax of one dollar aud fifty
cents. Upon payment of this tax a badge shall
be issued for the dog; and every dog found run
ning at large without such badge shall be lm-
•ounded, and if not claimed within forty-eight
ours shall be disposed of.
Sec. VIII. The value of real property for the
•n£ «3j«
ine to iiiMKt businiw in
and payable by all aoeh ■ m 7, aha]l »e due
city, od tbe 1st day of jEluar^ lra" 1 o?
after, within ten days after that date- .nVZ,
case of persons commencing to tSsirtor’Sfi?
mg o transact buainea. after ttTTate w?hto
ten days after „o commencing or offerng
m the CMe of tranrient and itinerant ^peiTGtue
who Bhail pay tha tax immediately or, SS
required by the second, thinj, fourth
and Mth eectionfl of this Ordinance, of SSn!
residing or holding property in Bain city OMhe
let -lay qt January, 1376, or on the let day of
' u,y !“ i r e “ i l5S real thereafter, shall
be payable quarterly. The tax for dogs kept in
the city on the let day of January of i», , ”
shall be due and payable within ten day ’ from
S’? 1 d< $ bro ”Sl't into the
alter that date to be kept here, within ten davl
aft r it ie so brought into the city. *J| taiea
auired by this Ordinance ahall be payable to the
City Treasurer. c
Skc. X. Every person liable lo pay either of the
second and third sections
of this Ordinance, shall make hia return within
ten days after the let day of January for the
whole year; and every person liable to pay either
of the taxes specified in the fourth andfifth sec
tions of this Ordinance, shall make his or her
return quarterly; that is to say. within ten dava
after the 1st days of April, July, October and
January in each year after the passing of this
Ordinance, but transient or itinerant dealers and
other persons commencing business after ;hat
date being liable to any such tax shall make th\u ''
return immediately on commencing such busine- <
and everv person liable to pay a tax for a dot J jv, , r
dogs shall make his or her return within ter.
after the first day of January, or after sr-o®*’ ?ui»y
or dogs shall have been brought into ( 1
The return shall be made to the City Ti
on oath or affirmation that the same is troSX. «a\e.
that the person making the same, or, if made* U ‘
an agent, that his or her principal, is not liablefc, ms
any other tax and has no other property in the
cit> for which he or she Is required to pay a tax
other than that specified in the return; audit
shall be the duty «/the Treasurer to require such
oath or affirmation in every case, without cxcep*
turn. Aud any person neglecting or refusing to
make any return required by this ordinance with
in the time specified, shall, oc conviction thereof
in the Police Court, be fined in a sum not exceed
ing one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not
more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion
of the coart.
Sec. XI. Should any person neglect or refuse
to make any return required by this ordinance
or any other ordinance amendatory thereof by
the time appointed for such return to be made
it shall be the duty of the City Treasurer to
make the return and valuation for such de
faulter within the calendar year for whi^h such
return is required from the beet information
which he can obtain, and having done so to as
sess against such defaulter a double tax accord
ing to the nature of the tax for which such re
turns are required, whether the same he specific
or ad valorem, and to notify such defaulter
thereof; and if any person shall neglect or re
fuse to pay any tax required of him by t«ns
ordinance or any ordinance amendatory thereof
within the time specified for the payment of the
same, or shall neglect or refuse to pay any
double tax assessed against him or her as above
provided for the space of twenty days after
notice of the assessment of such double tax, the
said City Treasurer may issue execution for
such tax or double tax at any time during the
calendar year for which such tax shall be
required, on which the City Marshall shall
proceed as a Sheriff does on executions is
sued from the Superior Courts of this State,
or such person, upon conviction thereof in the
Police Court, shall be fined in a sum not exceed
ing ODe hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more
than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the
court; or both these measures may be resorted
to in the discretion of the Mayor.
Sec. XII. Every person transacting or offer
ing to transact either of the kinds of business
tervinafter named shall, upon paying the tax
hereinbefore prescribed, take out a license there
for, viz: Every auctioneer; every owner or lessee
of a junk shop or cotton pickery; every vendor
of small wares, huckster, hawker, including
dealers in ice cream, fruit anti poultry, keeper of
a cook stove or cook shop, drummer, runner or
.-oiicitor of a trade or orders, without a fixed
place of business; every peddler, itinerant or
tranrient trader, and transient persons selling or
offering to sell by samples; and when, for good
and sufficient reasons, it may seem proper to
issue to any person follow in* either of the afore
said vocations, whether a resident or a non-resi
dent, a license for a limited period less than
twelve months—the Mayor may, iu his discre
tion, grant the same upon payment by the appli
cant of such part of the prescribed tax aa he shall
think just.
And it is hereby declared to be the meaning of
this ordinance, that the license granted to an
auctioneer shall not aathorize snch auctioneer to
seil tor any transient dealer or other person,
where the sale or sales may not pass regularly
through the books of a regularly licensed auc
tioneer; but every snch transient dealer or other
person shall be compelled vo take ont a license as
an auctioneer, under a penalty of one hundred
dollars for every unauthorized sale or offer to
sell. Every licensed auctioneer shall have the
privilege of appointing one assistant crier; whose
name snail be recorded in.the Trerasuer's office,
and entered on the license issued. And no per
son sliall be permitted to sell as an auctioneer or
vendue master until he shall have complied with
the conditions contained in section 1,425 of the
revised Code of Georgia, known as the Code of
1S73. And iu every license taken out by the
owner or lessee of a junk shop or cotton pickery,
it shall be distinctly expressed that such junk
shop or cotton pickery shall always be sub
ject to the visitation of the police of the city,
and that such person shall not purchase from any
one under the age of sixteen years a duplicate of
which license signed by the person or persons
taking out the same and expressing his or their
assent to such J conditions, shall be retained by
the Clerk of Council, and on refusal to submit at
any time to such visitation, or on conviction In
the Police Court of having purchased from any
one under the age of sixteen years, such license
shall be revok'd and such junk shop or cotton
pickery shall immediately be closed by the Mayor.
Aud every such junk shop or cotton pickery
license sliall be subject to tb“ further condition
that the same sliall be subject to revocation by
the Mayor, if, uu examination beloie him iu the
Police Court, he fhall be satisfied and shall so
pronounce that any city property, or any part of
any machinery, or any appliance of any railroad
company, or gas light company, or the Water
Works of Savannah, or of the Savannah Fire
Dep irtment, is found in any such junk shop; and
such condition shall be expressed in tho license
of every such junk shop dealer.
The licenses herein provided for shall be issued
by the Clerk of Council, and be signed by the
Mayor, attested by the Clerk, and impressed with
the seal of the city. And if auy p-jrson trans
acting or offering to transact in said city either
of the kinds of busimsa in this section s[>ecifled,
sliall lie found without such license, he or she
► hall, on conviction thereof in the Police Court,
be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dol
lars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or
both, in the discretion of the court.
Sec. XIII. Every person transacting or offer
ing to truDsact tbe business of transporting or
carrying goods, &c., passengers, or baggage, for
hire, by means of wagons, drays, trucks or other
vehicles; and every keeper of a public or livery
stable employing such vehicles In his business
shall,upon paying the tax hereinbefore prescribed,
take out a badge, which will be furnished by the
Clerk of Council, at the expense of the appli
cants, for each vehicle to be employed in such
business (the number of vehicles to t»e employed
to be stated on oath), which shall be placed in a
conspicuous place or. such vehicle; except ve
hicles kept by keepers of pablic or livery stables
to be let for hire; and any person using or em
ploying any vehicle on such business w’thont
such a badge affixed, except as aforesaid, shall,
on conviction thereof in the Police Court, be
lined in a sum not exceeding oue hundred dollars,
or imprisoned not more than thirty days, or both,
in the discretion of the Court.
purposes of the tax required by the second sec
tion of this Ordinance shall be ascertained by
means of the assessments provided for by the
Ordinances of the city on that subject: the value
of personal property and stock in trade for the
purposes of tho tax required by the third section
of this Ordinance, the amount of interest re
ceived for the purpose of the tax required by the
fourth section of this Ordinance, the amount of
income and commissions for the purposes of the
tax required by the fifth section of this Ordi
nance, and the number of dogs f^r which a tax
is to be paid aa provided by the aev*
Sec. XIY. On and after the first day ot Jan-
uury next the price of a license to sell
malt, vinous or spirituous liquors at
wholesale or retail for one year shall be
one hundred and twenty-five dollars, and the ap
plicant shall l>e required to submiL as securities
two responsible freeholders of this city as pre
requisite to the issue of said license; aud for a!
wholesale liquor license the price shall he one
hundred and twenty-five dollars; and no sale
shall be made under a quart by any wholesale l
dealer, except in an original package, and no [
license for the sale of malt, vinous or spirituous I
liquors shall cover any other business whatever '
than the sale of inalt, vinous or spirituous ,
liquors, and shall apply to hat one place
for the sale of said liquors, whether un
der one roof or otherwise, under a penalty
of not more than one hundred dollars. And no
b*r-room shall be licensed which has n< \ an en
trance to it separate and distinct from the en
trance to the dwelling; and the license shall be
forfeited for a second violation of any State law
or city ordinance; and in case of forfeiture, the
license shall not be renewed foi the space of two
years, except by the permission of Council. Ami
it shall be the duty of the Clerk of Council to
pubii.ab, quarterly, an alphabetical list of all per
sons licensed to sell liquors as aforesaid. And
any dealer in liquors a.“ aforesaid failing or re
fusing to take out a license to sell liquors as
aforesaid, shall be liable to a penalty of not more
than oue hundred dollars for every day any s*cb
jterson may sell without a license, or to im
prisonment for thirty days, or both.
8eo. XVI. The following shall be the annual
compensation, and no more, allowed the follow
ing city officers and employes from and after the
first regular meeting in January next, and annu
ally therealter, that is to say :
The Mayor - $3,000 00
Clerk of Council L 500
City Treasurer 2,400 00
City Marshal L 700 00
City Printer, (by contract) .
Clerk of the Market 1,000 00
Assistant Clerk of the Market €00 0t>
City Surveyor Fees and
Messenger of Council 7 ^0 00
Keeper of the Pest House 450 00
Jailer 2,50° 00
Jailer’s Deputy^ 000 00
Keeper of Forsyth Place 1,100 00
Pump Contractor (by contract)
Corporation Attorney 1,80° 00
Harbor Master 1,209 00
Chief of Police 2,000 00
First Lieutenant of Police 1,600 Qu
Six Sergeants of Police, each at the
rate per month 83 33>£
Privates of Police, each at the rate per
month -
Jail Guards, each at the rate per
month
Health Officer Fees and 500 OO
Keeper of Laurel Grove Cemetery... 1,200 on
City Dispensary ; • L 000 00
Superintendent and Engineer of W ater
Works 1,600 OO
Assistant Superintendent and Engi
neer of Water Works, at the rate
per month 110 00
Second Assistant Engineer of Water
Works, at tbe rate per month ® 33 X
Secretary and Treasurer of Water
Works, at the rate per month 108
Turncock of Water Works, at the rate
per month. 75 00
Sec. XVII. Hereafter the Clerk of Council,
the City Marshal and tho Messenger of Council
shall, without compensation therefor, perform
for the Board of Health the duties heretofore re
spectively performed by said officers for saiu
Board.
Sec. XVIII. This ordinance shall be subject to
alteration and repeal, in whole or in P* 1 ^ **
time daring the year 1876, should it be domed
advisahle* and no such amendment or repeal in
any particular shall be construed to impair the
right of Council to assess and levy a tax for the
whole of said year 1876, whenever made.
Sec. XIX. A U ordinances and parte of oral
nances militating with the provismns of this 0r-
dinance are hereby repea'eo, provided, neverthe
less, that so much andsuch parts of oniinanca*
heretofore passed as provide tha J
enforcing of executions for *ny
ment or part of a tax or assessment, requrea o.
My such ordinance and now remaining anpard-
rbal/continue and remain ot force ro as to au
thorize the Treasurer to issue such «ecutto“f
and tne Marshal to collect the same, until such
Uz.^ a^ment. ft