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A LAST LOOK.
[From the Coruhill Magazine.]
They say the years since Just we met
Have wrought sad change in thee;
That it were better to forget
our youth’s fond history.
And yet I fain would clasp that hand.
Would meet those eyes once more,
t»ne moment by thy side would stand.
As I have stood of yore.
They say the very tones that thrill'd
My heart, and dimm’d my eye?.
Now, by the cold world’s blighting chill’d,
I scarce might recognize.
And yet I long 10 hear thee speak,
Repeat some bygone strain.
Although the charm 1 there should seek
Were listen’d for in vain.
I would not wish the years roll’d back,
Could such a choice be mine.
Nor falter in the onward track.
Though sever’d far from thine.
But pilgrims may from hard-won heights
Receding homes survey,
Aud give a sigh to past delights,
Yet, sighing—turn away.
Affairs in Guorgia.
(\,louel Jones, the editorial tourist of the
Macon Telegraph, was in Atlanta at last
accounts. The Colonel never did like to
hoard in one place more than a week at a
time. He went to Waycross once and
stayed two whole days, and when he got on
the cars, the proprietor of the hotel weut
out into the horse-lot, pulled off his coat
and boots, raised his eyes to heaven, aud
heaved a deep sigh of—well, you can call it
what you pleaso. He are not going to get
into any fuss with Colonel Jones.
There is a printer in Savannah who wants
to work on a country weekly for his victuals
and clothes, with the privilege of boarding
at the village hotel. This seems reasonable
enough.
The editor of the Darien Gazette didn’t
make a long stay in Johnson county this
time. However, he fixed things up, aud in
three or four weeks he promises to introduoe
11s to Mrs. Grubb. We have already seen
her photograph. It was the product of
Mora, of New York.
The Albany News promises to run a lively
schedule this year. Col. Styles will devote
himself to the paper, and will publish a
more spirited sheet than ever. A little bird
whispered to us the other day that some of
the brightest articles in the News were from
the pen of Mrs. Styles.
Au able letter from the Hon. Nelson Tift,
of Albany, on Tomscottism, appears in au-
othor column this morning. It will well re
pay perusal.
A lad named Joiie , living near Macon, at
tempted to drag a loaded shot-guu down
stairs the other day. The resentment of
the gun was such that both barrels weut off
and both charges passed through the body
of the unfortunate youth. It is a pity that
parents will allow their children to tamper
with lirearms, when they kuow that such a
practice is only a roundabout way of enrich
ing the Coroner.
The Atlanta Constitution is informed that
an old Jtamage printing press, the one used
by Graudfather Minor in the publication of
his paper at Fayetteville aud McDonough,
Ua., together with a small portion of type
aud other material, is now in the hands of
one of his grandchildren in Fayette county,
Ga. It is said that Mr. Minor’s paper was
the lirst to hoist the name of Andrew Jack-
sou for President of the United States. This
press, without doubt, was used by Dr.
Fi&nkliu in his day in the city of Phila
delphia.
The Dalton Citizen says that Campbell
wrote the poem beginning “When lovely
woman stoops to couquor.” It may be that
Thomas was boarding in the next house,
hut Goldsmith certainly has the credit of
dictating the verses ailuded to to his private
secretary.
The death of Mrs. Nannie Colquitt Ansley
is announced. She was a most charming
and accomplished young lady, and had been
a wife but a few short months.
Little Nannie, only daughter of Mr. James
M. Freeman, of Albany, fell from a cart in
Laker county, the other day, aud died in a
few hours.
Gilmer county has a singing dog, so-
called.
Mr. James Moore, of Gwinnett county, was
accidentally drownod the other day.
The freedmen in Gwinnett county seem
auxious to make contracts this year.
Tim warm spell extended as high up as
Gwinnett county, aud much moat is spoiled
•h that section,
A negro girl was burned to death near
Seuoia a few days ago.
Mr. J. C. McMichael is now sole proprietor
fti'd publisher of the B&ruesville Gazette,
Mr. J. J. Alleu haviug retired.
Fbe colored emigrants to the Western
grave-yards are still passing through Co
lumbus.
babbits are not unfrequeutly captured iu
the streets of Talbottou.
•Mr. J. D. Weston, a young man still in
his teeus, has become associate editor of
Dawson Journal, aud announces that
a very gracefully written salutatory,
the Albany News says that from alj
sources we have the most gratifying
accounts of the coming oat crop. The
acreage sowe i down exceeds any former
year by, peihaps, two hundred per cent, in
this section; and the planters report the
huest prospect ever before witnessed at
this season of the year. If no disaster
c °nies to the crop, they are confident of a
}ieid sufficient to cany their stock through
the cultivating season without corn.
A colored man in Albany called his wife
°ut of church the other night, gave her a
gvutee walloping, and carried her home.
■Judge Irwin has been elected Representa
tive from Cobb county, to fill the vacancy
Oi casioned by the resignation of W. D. An
derson.
I he thirty-eighth gin-house burned since
September 1st, is that of Mrs. Susan M. Ar
nold, of Terrell couutv.
pudge Divid Ogle tree, of Monroe county,
f dead.
IjTump Ponder. of Monroe county, has
iPucluied to pad the hind feet of his roan
this season, iu order to retain his col-
jv 1 laborers.
y ie Marietta Journal has entered
“Mi volame.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
tie
fact
Fkrr-
lv sending out circulars in regard
- Refilling of a constitutional convention,
doesn’t like the prospect.
1 donel Hardeman denies that he has
* hdrawn from the Gubernatorial race.
Marietta Journal: There are in Georgia
xbout 150,000 dogs, allowing one dog to
r Vcr y 8fcven persons. It is admitted that
| '© food required to feed a dog would be
f amply sufficient to sustain and fatten a pig.
coMtuned by our pets w »u!d
ti 000 ho "' 1 ever / year, worth $20, or
stiHftn’ 1 . * or l “ e * ofc » ,0 sav uothing of the
dav* P Ju? tr, # ye,i Hun ually. Iu the last sixty
thre« J?i?" : ‘°" r sheep have been killed in
Cobb eru^n** of Morass H. Moore’s house in
a ° B U * bicolll#i “
Atlanta Constitution : Mr. T. S. Crawford,
a fine specimen of a Georgia farmer, was in
the city yesterday. He has lived about one
mile from Lovejoy’s fifty-four rears. Be
fore railroads were built he hauled cotton
to Augusta, one hundred and sixty-five
miles, and has killed many a deer and wild
turkey around where he now lives. He never
bought corn to feed a mule; has now full
cribs, and wheat for two years. Ho does
not owe a cent, aud always has enough and
to spare. Mr. Crawford is seventy years of
age, and is the father of our worthy fellow
citizen, Dr. Geo. G. Crawford.
Talbottou Standard: Maj. R. A. Mat
thews, of this place, has a chair that has au
interesting history. It used to be in Con
gress years ago, and was occupied by Henry
Clay at the time he made his great compro
mise speech. Afterwards Daniel Webster
squirmed around in it aud gazed at the
President of the Benate. Other distinguished
Senators occupied this chair, JThe la-d man
who sat in it in Congress was Hon. Richard
M. Young, Senator from Illinois. He
was the father-in-law of Maj Matthews.
He purchased the chair at the time of
the sale in Washington when the furniture
of the Senalo was changed, aud Maj.
Matthews, at the death of Judge Yovug,
took the chair as an heir loom for his wife,
she being the only lineal representative of
her father. It is a queer looking piece of
furniture with a square back, a writing at
tachment, with drawers, and a place under
neath where books aud documents were
kept for reference. It is prized very highly'
by Major Matthews and justly so, too, as it
is the only one of the kind iu this part of
the couutry. The Major also has a violin
that has been in Judge Young’s family fur
nearly a century, and is no doubt over a
hundred and fifty years old. It is of a very
flue make. These old family relics are filled
with living interest, and could they speak,
great would be the histones tol.l by them,
of those that have passed from this stage of
action.
Cartersville Express : Wo have been here
tofore but little inclined, so far as person
ally concerned to the holding of a constitu
tional convention in Georgia; but wo have
ever been willing that such a convention
should be held if it were the wish and de
sire of the people to do so. Tpis feeling we
have entertained upon the broad urinciple
that the will of the people should rule
especially in a free republic like ours.
After refl ction, we are of the opinion
that there ought to bo a conven
tion iu order to relieve the State of
many annoyances growing out of our orgau-
ized laws none of them more disastrous to
private credit and general prosperity than
what are now known as relief aud homestead
law s. While the tax digests of tho State show-
growth of general wealth, we see but little
prosperity iu our industrial and commercial
interests under the operations of the Consti
tution of 1868, which was framed aud
forced to ratification at the point of
the bayonet aud at the dictation of
Federal authority. The constitution under
which our laws are now made have entailed
upon our people many entanglements, in
volving the loss of private credit aud gen
er&l prosperity. The laws have become sc
complicated and litigation has become so in
tricale and uncertain that justice is slowly
meted out. The homestead law, ex
empting more property from the payment
of debts than seven-tenths of the people
own, has weakened private credit to
such an extent that men of enterprise and
thrift caunot use their property to advan
tage iu business transactions that would
add to their prosperity. A friend of ours,
few days ago, said to us that a constitu
tional convention would reduce the
Codo of the State at least one-third aud
litigation as much, and the expenses in
curred by holding it would not aniouut to
that of the burdens imposed by the present
constitution upon the people for one year.
Florida Affairs.
A few “Conservatives” are getting restless
over the prospect of a straight-out fight in
Florida at the next election. Well, they
have tried their plan of fighting, with the
bow of compromise, as it were, and they
ought to allow the true Democracy of Florida
a chance.
It is said that when the campaign is fairly
opened, Stearns proposes to sleep with his
boots on.
Purman is to canvass tho State with a
brass-band attachment. He ought to hire
the learned pig to make speeches for him.
A full report of the recent fire at Jack
sonville is printed elsewhere.
Jndge A. O. Wright, of Monticello, sent
up a balloon the other day for the pleasure
of his pupils.
We have missed the Palatka Herald from
our table lately.
The Florida mails aro exceedingly ir
regular.
Mr. Fred. L. Robertson, in a feeling vale
dictory, turns over the Sanford Journal to
Messrs. Way & Osborn, who have recently
purchased it.
Sanderson has a whole eating-house.
The Monticello Constitution learus that an
incendiary fire occurred at Madison on last
Sunday night, whereby the gin-house of
Capt. Dickerson and its contents were re
duced to ashes. The' gin-house is located
about three-quarters of a mile from tho
town, aud several merchants had in the
establishment a considerable quantity of
cotton, all of which was destroyed.
Squire Randolph, a prominent negio poli
tician of Jefferson county, who was recently
recommended to the Governor by the mem
ber of the Assembly from that county as a
suitable persou for the office of tax assessor
and school commissioner, was arrested last
week for stealing a horse from Dr. T. M.
Palmer.
The Sentinel calls f ir a subscription from
Tallahassee of a thousand dollars in aid of
the State Fair, aud heads the list with fifty
dollars.
There is said to be a tig tree at San Pablo
which is five feet ten inches in circumfer
ence, with two sprouts growing from the
same root, one measuring thirty-six inches
aud the other twenty-one iuches in circum
ference two feet from the grouud. The top
“preads over an area of about forty feet and
it has been known to have twenty bushels
of figs ou it at one time.
Tho Clear Water Times reports twenty-
sevou oranges fr >m a tree throe years from
the seed, and budded eighteen months
since.
The editor of the Clear Water Times does
his work with open door aud coat oil in mid
winter. He has no stove iu his office in
winter aud never suffers from heat in sum.
mer.
Ninety-eight thousand two hundred and
seventy oranges were shipped from Tampa
last week.
Tue Pensacola city election has been car
ried by the Democrats.
The Supreme Court of Florida will com
mence its regular term in Tallahassee uext
Tues lay.
'The Jacksonville Press says •here are al
ready one hundred aud fifty guests at the
St. James Hotel, an excess of forty over the
number the corresponding season last win
ter. The average number was 261 more
than iu December, 1874. For November
the number was more tbau double |that of
November, 1874. These facts indicate a
large influx of visitors this winter.
The Constitution says a considerable
amount of property w’as disposed of at
public outcry before the court house in
Monticello on last Monday, and at one time
the spirited biJdiug was suggestive of ante
helium days. The contest was over a valuable
plantation known as “Turkey Scratch,” aud
it was finally disposed of for twenty-nine
thousand nine hundred and ninety-one dol
lars, cash. The acre lot, on which is the
residence of the late Jos. M. Marvin, was
knocked off to Mr. J. C. Turner for two
thousand two hundred dollars. The
Roach lot, fifty by one hundred feet, front
ing on the public square, was purchased by
Mr. S. Pasco for five hundred aud ten dol
lars. Other property brought very fair
and we see no reason why all cannot realize
this handsome yield if they but manage
properly. It is* a matter of some signifi
cance to the Bottler that from one or two
acres planted in some profitable crop he can
replace in one year the amount invested in
a home. Lot more try it. The secret of
Mr. Wright’s success lav in planting a small
area and cultivating well.
Cedar Key Journal: Our published call
s ime time since for a meeting of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee of the county
succeeded in awakening our friends in other
counties, but strange as it may sound there
has not been a meeting in our own county.
The call was from the Chairman, CoL FL J.
Lutterluh, but no action looking towards
organization lias been had. What is the
matter V Do our friends think because wo
have a small majority in the coun^r that
we need not take any action looking
towards an organization? If this be so
then the sad lessons of ’68, ’70 ’72 and 74
will be repeated to us. In Jefferson county
the party have put the ball in motion. 'I hat
county is the stronghold of Radicalism.
Shall we not commence in time V hat say
the committee ? Gentlemen your position
is a more responsible one than you are
probably aware of, then you should go 10
work. If you are not inclined to do
this, with all due respect, you should
retire. Our State is ruled by the most
corrupt, incompetent set of men that ever
ruled over any country. That corruption
and iucorapetencv exists in every depart
ment of the Stato Government, legislative,
executive and judicial, aud must be eradi
cated. To do this it requires the most per
sistent efforts. Our enemies being totally
corrupt, will not scruple at anything howev
er ignoble to carry their points. We believe
our committee is composed of as true men
as belongs to the party and we trust they
will remain idle no longer, but will com
mence moving in tho right direction. With
a thorough organization, old Levy can roll
up a majority of four hundred for the De
mocracy.
Pensacola Gazette : One of the inspect
ors appointed for duty at precinct No. 1 in
tho city election of Monday, was George
Brooks, a colored man. The election hap
pened to go agaiust the Radical organiza
tion—against the “league,” and managers
aud co-laborers generally working in Radi
cal harness. And then some defeated Rads
swore bitterly that they had been betrayed
by a man of their own color; that ho had.
by connivance or perpetration, in some way
wronged the “truly loyal.” Vengeance was
threatened. On Tuesday night,while Brooks
was sitting at the supper table iu his house,
surrounded by his family, an unknown
scoundrel discharged a heavily loaded gun
through the doorway. He received five
buckshot, two being through the right arm,
shattering tho upper bone, another, which
fractured the shouldor joint, cannot bo ex
tracted. aud tho fdurth and fifth passed
through the left arm and slightly wounded
his side. A sou of Brooks, aged about six
years, was struck by three shot, one of which
entered tho hip, another the right side,
glancing around a rib and passing out at
the back, and the third wounding au arm.
Both patients are considered dangerously
wounded by the physician in attendance.
Much excitement was occasioned by this
deliberate and dastardly attempt at'assas
sination, and immediate aud vigorous meas
ures were instituted by the authorities to
prevent riotous disturbance and arrest the
perpetrator, if possible. Members of the
Escambia Rifles and the Pensacoia Guards
volunteered at once for duty to assist
in policing tho city, rendering the
force at command too formidable for
any attempted disturbance of the
peace. A large number of arrests
nave been made of persons who are now
confined, or under bonds, to await tho in
vestigation of the affair, when it is hoped
that a rigorous examination will fix the guilt
upon the perpetrator, and his immediate
accomplices, at least—if accomplices he has.
The Mayor offers a reward of five hundred
dollars for tho arrest of the assassin. A
communication elsewhere published speaks
for a citizen, who, like all good citizens, is
anxious to have justice meted out, and is
willing to aid in sustaining law and order at
considerable expense to Ins owu pocket—a
test which the public spirit of but few will
stind.
An Important Document.—A Wash
ington correspondent says : I have just
heard through a private source that a pa
per which will furnish “mighty iuterest
ing readin’ ” to the whole country will
appear during Babcock’s trial. This
document, which is held by an ex-Inter-
ual Revenue Collector, is a copy of a pa
per which was sent to Grant some two
years ago, informing him of the existence
of a certain mystic circle, now somewhat
widely known as the whisky ring, and ac
quainting him with the members and
workings of the order. The ex I. li. C.
who holds this dangerous document was,
while in office, an awkward person to
have around, and, it was thought best to
take him into the ring ; ne, however, re
fused to be surrounded, and wrote a
nice a little description of the ring-worm
as ever he could, and sent it to the Presi
dent, and now be just wants to know, for
his own satisfaction, if Grant ever re
ceived it, or if his private secretary or
some other kind friend took the liberty
of intercepting the President’s mail.
This paper, if genuine, is worth gold,
figuratively speaking, or greenbacks, lit
erally. Whether purchasable or not, 1
cannot say, but if it appears in public on
the stage, it will undoubtedly make Rome
howl.
BY TELEGRAPH
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS-
Noon Telegrams.
THE TROUBLES OF TURKEY.
DEFEAT OF THE HERZEGOVINIAN
INSURGENTS.
Progress of the Movement for the
Paeiitcition of tho Provinces.
THK KENTUCKY SENATOESIIIC.
Condition of Polltiml Affairs in France.
Fbee Suffrage and Free Press in
Spain.—Don Alfonso, of Spain, by his
last decree, has mingled universal suffruge
and a crushing censorship of the press iu
a way that looks amusing to us on this
side of the water. He orders an election
of Senators aud Deputies to take place on
the 20th instant, to be chosen—on this
occasion only—by universal suffrage.
But, lest the spirit of the defunct repub
lic should be revived by this, he takes
care to nip any such hopes in the bud by
issuing another pronunciamento which
puts a double muzzle on the press. It
imposes penalties upon any “attacks’
upon “King, or royal family, or the con
stitutional monarchy;” and then, as if
expecting a large crop of such “attacks,
he institutes news tribunals to try news
paper offenses. Don Carlos, up in the
mountains, has thundered away with a
proclamation promising plenty of hard
fighting and glory to his followers, aud
describing Don Alfonso as an “usurper.
If there are auy newspapers in thejprov
inces of Navarre and Biscay, which are
the present scenes of conflict, they must
be placed in great embarrassment in the
effort to be “lively” and “enterprising.”
—Baltimore Gazette.
The great majority of persons are too
matter-of-fact now a-days to allow them
selves to be swayed by fatalistic doc
trines; but occasionally a case arises,
which illustrates the delusions and dan
gers of fatalism. Such a one occurred in
Chicago a few days since, where a man,
who solemnly believed that some fearful
end awaited him, took the precaution to
shuffie off his mortal coil before the dread
event could happen, thus practically
giving the lie to his own belief. If the
foolish people; who run after tantrum be
liefs would bring a little hard, common
sense to bear, they wpuld be saved a good
deal of unnecessary mental trouble.
Almost the only comment we neard Mr.
Seward make on his defeat at Chicago,
in 1860, was : “Well, power has departed
from the Atlantic States to rest hereafter
in the Mississippi valley.” Have not the
events of the last fifteen years made Mr.
Seward's prophecy true? What do we
see? President. Vice President, Chief
Justice, and all the chairmen of the lead
ing committees in the House of Repre
sentatives, from the West; none from the
Atlantic States! New England, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, Virginia, and the Carolinas ignored.
—A. T. Commercial Advertiser.
prices.
Lake City Reporter : Mr. U. A. Wright,
one of onr enterprising planters, bought
him a farm some fourteen mouths ago, and
among the different crops planted by him
upon said farm was one acre of sugar cane.
The product of this acre not only paid for
the tract of sixty acres, but left him suffici
ent of both syrup and sugar for tho use of
bis family. Mr. W. raised also au abun
dance of eoru, potatoes, aud a de
cent crop of cotton ou the remain
der Tne handsome profit of this
solitary acre of land, paying in its yield of
one vear for a good sized farm encourages us
to solicit the attention of settler* to our sec
tion “What mm bu dona, man can do,
It being still some ways from the
Presidential contest, General Grant is
not paying the national debt so rapidly
as he was in 1872. In fact it has increased
nearly two millions in December. This
would be the natural result of the falling
off of revenues, but as his Excellency
got all the credit for paying the debt
when it was being reduced he must be
held responsible for the increase now.
Let no guilty man escape.—Baltimore
Gazette.
A Client Robbing a Lawyer.—The
robbery of a lawyer while returning home
from court in Missouri a few days ago,
by a client whom he had defended against
a criminal charge, furnished a singular
illustration of poetic justice. The lawyer
had robbed the client by exacting an ex
orbitant fee, and the latter made him
stand and deliver jn the dark part of the
the whisky frauds.
Chicago, January 7.—Anton Junker, of
the firm ot Roeiler, Junker & Co., before
the graud jury made a statement as to the
manner in which a whisky fraud was uerpe-
trated. By a transaction involving $700,uOU
worth of whisky the government was de
frauded of $600,000. It is stated that infor
mation is in the hands of Supervisor Ma
thews, implicating one of tho heaviest com
mission firms on Broad street, New York, in
frauds on the government.
FRENCH POLITICS.
London, January 7.—A Paris corres
pondent telegraphs that active negotiations
are going on between the various Republi
can groups, with the object of bringing for
ward a compromise list, consisting of
Victor Hugo, Tol&in, Freycine,
Blanc, Peyrot, or Floquei, as
candidates for the Senate from Paris. The
success of this trickery may bo considered
already certain. It is probable the united
Left will have one hundred aud ^ixty iu the
Senate.
turkey and the powers.
Vienna, January 7.—The Tages Presse
states that Count Andreassy has informed
tho representatives of England, France anil
Italy that the publication of the Austrian
note regarding Turkey would be inoppor
tune until it had received the adhesion of
the powers.
London, January 7.—Tho Bulletin Fran-
caise says : Private telegrams received in
Berlin assert that France anj the other
powers have adhered to the proposals of
Austria.
FOREIGN NOTES.
Vienna, January 7.—Negotiations between
Austria and Hungarian ministers ou the
bank question were productive of no result,
and will be resumed here.
Before Niesic and Duga were revietualled
by the Turks the iusurgents suffered a de
feat, the severest since the beginning of the
war. Six hundred were killed aud many
wounded. The insurgent Paolovich, ac
cused of treason, tied to Cittingo. Nicsic is
provisioned till May.
TURKISH REFORM.
Constantinople, January 7.—The Aus
trian Ambassador to this Court has semi
officially communicated to tho Grand Vizier
Count Andre&ssy’s scheme for reform iu tbe
Turkish provinces. Tho Grand Vizier,
in reply, is represented to have
rejected the idea of foreign medi&tiou, and
to have said that the Sublime Porto will
give the people of tho provinces all neees-
sary guarantees for reform.
MONTENEORO.
London, January 7.—The Galos insists
that the Montenegrin loan is an accom
plished fact, and asserts that 10,000 rifles
aud sixty cannon are to be delivered from
America by March. It adds, that in conse
quence of the threatening attitude of Tur
key 30,000 Montenegrin guards have been
armed with breech-loaders and sent to the
frontier.
THE KENTUCKY SENATORSHIP.
Frankfort, Ivy., January 7.—In the State
Legislature a Lot fight is in progress for
United States Senator. Stevenson, the pres
ent incumbent, ex-Governor Leslie, Hon.
John B. Beck, John S. Williams and Isaac
Caldwell are aspirants.
RAILROAD TROUBLES.
Trenton, N. J., January 7.—The Governor
has ordered Colonel Angell, of the Seventh
regiment, to go at once to Hopewell, and
four companies to muster at once aud repair
to the scene of the railroad trouble.
TEXAS POLITICS.
Galveston, January 7. —The convention
elected D. K. Taylor as permanent Chair
man, nominated two electors for the State
at large, and will probably renominate
Governor Coke.
A CONTRADICTION.
London, January 7.—The Daily Neics
says the rumor current in Paris that
President MacMahon intended to propose
Marshal Caurobert as Vice President,
semi-officially contradicted.
SEIZING BITTERS.
Chicago, January 7.—Two huudred and
fifteen cases of unstamped bitters, belonging
to the German Consul at this city, were
seized by the government officers yesterday.
FAILED.
London, January 7.—Charles Soothers,
cotton spinner at Oldham, Lancashire,
failed for a million dollars.
HEAVY LOSS.
London, January 7.—Tbe loss by the
burning of Egletou’s book bindery is esti-
mated at fifty thousand pounds sterling.
LAND 8LIDE.
Paris, January 7.—By a land slide in tho
Isle Reunion sixty-two persons were killed
and many wounded.
AUGUSTUS.
New York, January 7. —Hon. Augustus
Scholl is elected Chairmau of tho Tammany
General Committee.
LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE.
Fire—Ullndly the Lump* Swung by the
I i lure—Protable I reeudinrinm—Work
ing a Temporary Reformation—.% Radi
cal—Spikinff Show Cases—.Municipal
Gladiators—Information Wanted—(.as
with an Admixture o f Wind —Mnrtne.
[Special Correspondence of the Mp ruing News.]
When the President anil his family
visited Utah last autumn he was met at
the Ogden station by Brigham Young,
accompanied by many of his wives and
children, only one special car having
been provided for the occasion. There
was a pleasant interchange of compli
ments on both sides, and then the train
moved off in the direction of Salt Lake
City, Mrs. Grant being seated by the side
of the Mormon Patriarch. “I scarcely
know by what title to address you sir,"
she remarked. “Well, madame," replied
Brigham, “I have a great many, please
take your choice. I am President of this
church. I have been Governor of the ter
ritory, and I was once General of the
Mormon Legion; in fact—" “There, that
will do, stop there,” returned the lady,
“General is good enough for my husband,
and it will do very well for you,” and
until they parted she styled the old gen
tleman familiarly “General Young.”
Using the Needle.—A married woman
named Boyon has been condemned to
death at the Lot Assizes for murdering
her seven children and a grand-daughter,
bj pushing needles into their bodies.
She had ten children, seven of whom
died under twelve months old, but it was
not till the death of her grand-daughter
that an investigation was made. Her
apparent motive for this last crime was
that the child might die before its father,
who was in a desperate condition, and
that she might thus secure part of bis
property, to the prejudice of her daugh
ter-in-law, whom she detested. When
asked how she came to think of sticking
needles into her children’s bodies, she
stated that at the public house she kept
there was one day a conversation on in
fanticide, and it was said babies did not
suffer when murdered in this way. The
jury in this case could discover no exten
uating circumstances.
To prevent the accidents to which
railroad trains are liable from one car
jumping the track, the plan has been de
vised of applying to cars a kind of shoe,
consisting of a clamp-like arrangement
which is placed between the wheels of
each truck. This runs about two inches
from the rail, and if anything happens
tending to throw the wheels from the
track, the clamp at once grasps tbe rails,
holds the car on the track, and brings the
train to a speedy halt. Such a shoe will,
it is claimed, prove a great saving of rail
road rolling stock, and add considerably
to the strength of the truck, it being con
structed of iron aud weighing some five
hundred pounds. Experiments made
with cars provided with this device show
that the arrangement accomplishes very
effectively the object in view.
Jacksonville, January 6, 1876.
DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION.
An alarm of fire was sounded from
Hoag s Block, corner of Bay and Ocean
street*, at half-past nine o’clock last
night, and Himes were discovered
to be issuing from tbe fancy
goods store of A. Daunenbaum. In
less than a quarter of an hour the entire
building was enveloped by the destroy
ing element and the safety of the whole
row seriously endangered. The fire
engines by this time were playing upon
the property, *and the steamer Hampton
moved up the river aud commenced pour
ing a stream of water upon the adjacent
buildings. The purser of the Hamp
ton. Mr. James Gallagher. held
the hose, doing effective service,
and showing himself an experienced
fireman. The promptness, with which
this steamer advanced to the rescue was-
especially noticeable and worthy of the
highest praise. Mr. C. D. Horn, Dr.
Robinson s clerk, was in the store when
the alarm was given preparing a prescrip
tion, and at the risk of his own life and
effects nobly devoted his energies to
saving his employer’s property until the
heat compelled him to leave the premises.
It requires a man of more than ordinary
courage and self abnegation to stand
undaunted at his post for up
wards of two hours while a conflagra
tion is raging with unabated fury in the
adjoining building, and Mr. Horn has the
unfeigned sympathies of this commu
nity in the loss of about nine hundred
dollars worth of personal property which
he sustained. A. Daunenbaum, in whose
establishment the fire originated, was
attacked bj T epilepsy, aud for a while his
life was despaired of. At ten o’clock the
walls began to tumble, aud several brave
firemen narrowly escaped injury. The
heat was so intense that only by a per
sistent application of water could the
buildings on the opposite side of the
street be kept from igniting. Consider
able stock was removed into the street,
but the usual uegro was on hand to steal
and get drunk on the contents of the
liquor stores that were emptied. The
structure was occupied on the
ground floors by merchants, the
upper story being used for law
offices and other purposes. The following
is a correct list of the losses as far as I
have been able to approximate them :
Buildings valued at *50,000 ; no insur
ance.
Zicharias & Co.—stock, *10,000; in
surance, .*0,000.
Florence Alspaugh & Bro.—stock,
*1,500; insurance, .*800.
Dr. Henry Robinson—3tock, $9,000 ;
insurance, $4,000.
L S. Bacharach & Co.—stock, $5,000;
insured for $1,000.
Morganstein & Casliberger—stock,
$1,000; no insurance.
A. A. Knight—library, $2,000; no in
surance.
A. Doggett—$500,000 railroad bonds
aud securities in an unreliable safe.
A. Dannenbaum—stock, *9,000 : insur
ance, $8,000.
C. D. Horn—personal property, *900 ;
no insurance.
J. B. Roche sustained damage to the
amount of *500, not covered by insur
ance. Government property to the
amount of about *50,000, exclusive of
records, was deposited iu two iron
safes and will probably be saved.
Various other parties were suffer,
ers to a small extent, but their
losses consisted principally of j ersonal
effects, records, etc., the value of which
c mnot be correctly estimated. The cir
cumstances under which this destructive
fire occurred are, to say the least, suspici
ous, and such as call for a rigid investi
gation of all the facts. It is asserted
that the fire originated in the upsetting
of akerosene|lampin Dannenbaum‘s store,
but such a reason will not account for the
fact that the buildings were in a
blaze within fifteen minutes af
ter the flame was first ’ dis
covered. Besides, the Deputy Collector
of internal revenue avers that he de
tected something very much like the
smell of burning oil in the premises di
rectly below where ho was writing, i. e.
Dannenbaum’s. From all of the sur
roundings, and after due deliberation, I
feel justified in declaring that this terri
ble calamity was the result of premedi
tated incendiarism, and in the iuterest of
the innocent-sufferers, demand a thorough
investigation into all of the circum
stances.
TRICKS OF TRADE.
“Versed in all arts of war or peace or
stocks to rob a hen-roost or stuff a ballot-
box” was Bill Johnson, colored, who
makes a business of stealing poultry after
dark. While engaged in appropriating a
few fowls on Monday night, he encoun
tered a pugnacious hen that mistook his
proboscis for an ear of corn, and bit him
with such incisive force that he unwitting
ly yelled in agony. His shrieks brought
upon the scene a slave who forthwith dis
engaged the bill of the carnivorous hen aud
administered a castigation with a cudgel
of immense weight—it being no less than
a stick of oak wood—unto the unfortu
nate Bill Johnson. The thwarted pur
loiner swore in accents the most piteous
you can imagine to reform, aud was per
mitted to depart, leaving a large portion
of his left ear behind, as security for his
good behavior. It is proposed to have
the victorious hen cluck at the Centen
nial.
A BRIEF' BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH.
Instead of improving in the selection
of incumbents for its offices in Florida,
the administration at Washington ap
pears to reach a lower degree with each
new appointee, as is evidenced in the
nomination of one W. F. White to be
Collector of the port of Cedar Keys. This
prospective Collector is at present the
unconfirmed clerk of Hillsborough
county, by appointment of “Gubner”
Stearns. As the State Senate has re
peatedly repudiated him, he has always
occupied the position of clerk ad interim.
White belongs to that precocious class of
Radical mongrels who have neither ability
nor honesty to recommend them, and he
will probably make an assiduous Collector
for White.
DEMOCRATS IN COUNCIL.
Quite a goodly number of Democrats
assembled at Polk’s Hall on Tuesday
night in answer to a call issued for a
meeting of the Conservatives, for the
purpose of organizing a campaign club.
Addresses were delivered by Messrs.
Stokes, Boyd, McCollum, Call, Cooper,
Bentley and others, and a committee of
seven appointed to draft suitable reeolu
tions, by-laws, etc., and report at the
meeting on Tuesday evening next
THE FORTHCOMING CONTEST
for the Mayoralty, in March next has
brought to the surface a whole battalion
of patriotic candidates who seem de
termined not to be defeated in the race
for municipal honors. The aspirants for
minor offices are equally as numerous and
confident of success. ’The temptation to
make predictions is well nigh irresistible,
but it is almost too early in the day to
discuss this matter scientifically.
A QUESTION OF LICENSES.
Considerable dissatisfaction is exhibited
by some of the merchants or. account of
the action of the corporation in granting
licenses for a term of three months to
strangers, to tbe prejudice of actual resi
dents, who are forced to pay for a year.
This is, in all probability, a well grounded
complaint, and tbe Council should im
mediately remedy the evil. *
PERSONAL.
Ex-Governor Robert W. Furnas, of Ne
braska, passed through the city yester
day en route for the North from St. Au
gustine, in the vicinity of which place he
has recently invested in land.
ACCIDENT TO TRAIN.
The inward bound train from Savan
nah yesterday got off of the track in the
neighborhood of Lake City and succeeded
in delaying mails lor about eight hours.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived this day, schooner Addie Ames,
New York. Departed, schooner Joseph
Fish, Martinique. Adrianus.
THE FLORIDA METHODISTS
COUNCIL.
IN
Fin»( Day's Proceedings of the Conference
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Richmond, Va., with
DANGEROUS ORNAMENTS.
An energetic firm on Bay street has
caused to be placed in front of its show-
window a formidable array of sharp
pointed spikes that are anything but
pleasant to contemplate. They are, per
haps, there for tbe purpose of keeping
gazers at a proper distauce, which is all
very well in the abstract; but is not any
thing that may accidentally ruin some
incautious passer-by an infringement of
the city ordinance against obstructions on
the streets. The authorities should see
to it at once that this horrible contrivance
is substituted by some other guard for
the windows.
A SUGGESTION.
While the Mayor is showing a disposi
tion to mete out justice to sneak thieves,
tramps and vagrants, it is suggested that
he iustruct the guardians to ascertain
how ai.d in what manner Stearns’s detec
tive acquires his livelihood. The Mayor
may expiate many of his sins if he will
rid the community of the fellow alluded
to. I desire here to intimate in language
as temperate as the occasion will justify
that your correspondent is abundantly
capable of defending himseif whenever
attacked by any one who may feel
aggrieved over any of his strictures.
GEORGE THOMAS ENGLISH.
Any -one acquainted with the fate, or
whereabouts it alive, of the above named
gentleman, who arrived at Jacksonville iu
a condition of ill-health about three years
since from Canada, will relieve the mind
of an anxious mother by communicating
Quincy, January 5, 1876.
The thirty-first session of the Florida
Annual Conference M. E. Church South,
commenced t#-day at 9 a. m., Bishop
William M. Wightman, presiding. The
session was opened with religious ser
vices by the Bishop, assisted by Rev. E.
B. Duncan.
The roll was called, and but few absen
tees were noted. Rev. F. Pasco was
elected secretary, and Rev. H. E. Part
ridge assistant secretary. The hours of
9:30 a. m. and 1:30 p. m. were fixed for
meeting and adjournment.
The different committees were nomi
nated by the Presiding Elders and con
firmed by the Conference.
A communication from I. B. McFerrin
and D. C. Kelley, Missionary Secretaries
of the M. E. Church, South, principally
stating the assessments aud urging in
creased interest on the subject of mis
sions, was read and referred.
A communication from the Southern
Methodist publishing house at Nashville,
Tenn., was read and referred.
Rev. E. S. Tyner was appointed to col
lect dues from the S. E. M. publishing
house and to solicit subscriptions for the
Nashville Christian Advocate.
INTRODUCTIONS.
Professors O. L. Smith anil R. M.
Doggett, Emory College, Georgia: Rev.
R. D. Gentry, transferred from South
Georgia Conference last year, and the
following transferred ministers: Henry
B. Trazee, Little Rock, Ark.; W. C. Col
lier, Northwest Texas: John H. Johnson,
SL Louis. Missouri, aud W. M, Watts,
South Georgia, were announced as
present, and duly introduced to the Con
ference.
A communication from J. W. Burke A
Co., publishers of the Southern Christian
Adtiteate, Macon, Ga., was read and re
ferred.
Professor (). L. Smith read a communi-
tion from the President of Emory Col
lege, which spoke hopefully of the future
prosperity of the institution.
Rev. McK. F. McCook was appointed
agent for the Southern (Quarterly Review.
EXAMINATION OF CHARACTERS.
The following action was taken under
this head: Tallahassee District—S. Wood-
bery, P. E.; Josephus Anderson, E. L. T.
Blake, R. H. Ho wren, J. P. DePass,
passed. Live Oak District—A. Peeler,
P. E.; M. M. Michan, E. J. Knight, H.
E. Partridge, S. E. Philips, J. J. Sealy,
T. li. Barnett, E. S. Tyner, passed; W.
E Collier, granted a superannuated rela
tion; li. M. Ellzey, absent, and examina
tion laid over. Jacksonville District—
S. Pasco, P. E.: J. B. Fitzpatrick, T. W
Tomkies, T. W. Moore, li. II. Barnett,
W. lb Davies, G. C. Leavel, E. B. Dun
can, passed; J. C. Lee, absent, and exam
ination laid over. Tampa District—A. A.
Robinson, P. E.; C. A. Fulwood, W. li.
Johnson, E. H. Giles. O. Eady, passed;
W. W. Hicks, absent, and examination
laid over; J. A. Casteel, passed, and con
tinued on trial: W. F. Robertson, discon
tinued; Hardy F. Philips and George W.
Mitchel, continued on trial: Junius S.
Collier, passed aud advanced to fourth
year. There was an effort made
that the Conference should sit
with closed doors, during this ex
amination, but without effect. In
the statements of the preachers referen
tial^ to collections, generally speaking,
there was mention of the impecunious
condition of the people, and one member
said, excusing the small amount of col
lections made by him, that he had been
barely supplied with the necessaries of
life for himself and family, and that he
had, owing to the hard times, to move to
as many as six different localities during
the year.
Revs. F. Pasco and H. E. Partridge
were elected editors of the Conference
minutes.
[From the Albany News.]
AN OPEN LETTER FROM HON. NEL
SON TIFT TO GOV. SMITH.
The inherit Pacific Unilroud Sabaidv
Prepasitiou Ably Ulicuwrd aud
deal aed.
Miss Belle Harper, of Fairhaveu, W.
Va., was paid attention by a youDg man,
who finally said he would not have her.
Then Miss Belle armed herself with her
father's shot-gun, and, stepping out of
her door as her old lover was passing on
the opposite side of the street, raised the
gun. and, as she says, “took aim, prayed
to the Lord, and tired-” The young man
fell. Miss Harper stepped back into the
house, and said to her father: “Pap, I've
shot him,” and then sat down and ate a
of with Mrs. George English, Lang poet hearty dinner. She ia out on bail, and he
DR. JOSEPH ANDERSON.
The following resolution was offered by
Revs. J. P. DePass and F. Pasco, and
unanimously adopted :
Rewived, That as a Conference we
deeply regret the transfer of Dr. Ander
son from our body, and extend to him a
heaity Godspeed upon his new field of
labor; aud if, in the providence of God,
the way should open for his return to us,
we will most heartily welcome him to his
old place among us.
Committees were requested to present
reports iu duplicate, and in the future
preachers in charge were required to re-,
port assessments as well as collections,
and vacancies on several committees were
supplied.
Rev. E. S. Tyner preached at 3j p. in.,
and Rev. McK. F. McCook at 7 p. m.
REMARKS.
The Conference is a body of good
looking nieo, and the business is con
ducted with much smoothness and
dignity. Bishop Wightman is a fine
presiding officer, and, as he advises his
brethren, goes at once to the heart of a
subject. The sense of the thing—let’s
hear the reason—is metho-ed in all of his
words and acts. He combines attention
and kindness, patience and otemness, in
no ordinary degree. It is refreshing to
attend an assembly of speakers at which
irrtrelancy, a great curse of all public
meetings, hydra-headed as it is, is crushed
as soon as it presents itself. Jacob.
Albany, Ga., J&uu&ry 1876.
7b His Excellency James M. Smith, Gover
nor of Georgia :
Dear Sir—As one of the delegates ap
pointed by you to represent the State of
Georgia iu the National Convention, held in
St. Louis on tbe 23d and 24th days of No
vember, “*o consider the subject of a Pa
cific Railroad through the States and Terri
tories of the Southwest,” I have tbe honor
to communicate to you such facts and iug-
gestions, relative to the convention and the
subject matter uoon which it acted, as seem
to me important.
The published proceedings of the conven-
t.on, so far as they are coueerurd, will go to
g’’OW that the resolutions wore uuanimonsly
adopted. This apparent unanimity may, iu
my opinion, be accounted for by a pre-ar
rangement which precluded any other re
sult. The friends of the Texas and Pacific
Railroad were heard in lengthy and plausi
ble speeches in favor of the propose ! sub
sidy. Few of tbe disinterested delegates
had auy sufficient knowledge of the facts
necessary t j form an opinion. The several
local and general delegations, from
each State, were massed together as one
delegation, and allowed one vote. A short
discussion was allowed under the “five min
utes’ rule,” which was occupied chiefly by a
proposition for a branch road to Galveston,
when the “previous question” was called
aud sustained, which cut off all debate and
amendment, leav.ug no opportunity for dis
cussion or diss°ut, or for consultation
among the members of the several delega
tions, when the vote was called.
Theouly significance of the action of the
Convention is, iu my opinion, tho expres
sion of au earnest and common desire that
a railroad should be built from ocean to
ocean near the 32d parallel of latitude, as
early as practicable by any proper means,
and iu this I heartily agree.
The sum of the action of the convention is
a recommendation to Congress to guarantee
tho iutere-t on bonds to be issued by the
Texas aud Pacific Railroad Company, not to
exceed $40,000 per mile for the main line
and branches —the bonds bearing five per
cent, iuterest per annum iu gold, (equal to
$2,000 per mile), the principal payable from
a sinking fund to he furnished by tho com
pany fifty years from date; and the sum of
the reasons given for this recommendation
is the benefits which will accrue to the gov
ernment aud the country by the building of
the road, and the fact that the government
lias heretofore granted to other roads large
subsidies in bonds as well as lands.
The Texas and Pacific Railroad Company
was chiftered by Congress iu March, 1871,
anil new powers were granted in ’72 3 4.
The company purchased tho rights of sev
eral other railroad companies, including 66
miles of railroad completed and in opera
tion from Shreveport, La., via Marshall, to
Longview, Texas, this being the beginning
of the mam lino to Nan Diego, on the Pa
cific. They alBo acquired 50 odd miles of
completed and ineompleted road, called
a bra-ich road, running northward
from Marshall to Tex^reana, anil in
tended to be connected with the main line
again at Fort Worth. The company re
ceived grants of lauds along th-ir linos
amounting to about thirty million acres,
upon condition that the road should bo
built within specified times. The stock
holders formed themselves into a “Califor
nia and Texas Construction Company,” ex
cepting only so much stock as was necessa
ry, under the charter, to qualify the Presi
dent and directors for their positions, and
this secoud edition of the Credit Mobiiier
contracted with the company (themselves)
to hnild the road for construction bonds. In
1S73 the company stopped work and have
not since resumed. Tho construction bonds
not being marketable, were by common con
sent cancelled, and new bonds were author
ized-first and second mortgage, aud land
and income bonds—amounting to $42,000
per mile.
The present condition of the Texas and
Pacific Railroad Company is, as nearly as I
can learn, substantially as follows : They
now have, built and in operation, about one
hundred aud ninety-seven miles of road,
from Shreveport, Louisiana, westward, and
about one huudred aud twenty miles on the
branch road from |Marshall,.noithward and
westward, making in all three hundred and
seventeen miles; aud they have graded ou
tbe branch road about ninety miles, aud ou
tho main line about twenty-eight miles,
i’hey have earned under the grain from the
State of Texas about three million eight
huudred thousand acre s of land. They have
issued first and second mortgage bonds to
tho amount of $25,000,000, on which they
have defaulted inierest, besides land and
income bonds, and they owe about $1,000,000
of floating debt.
The located Ime through to the Pacific is
stated by President Scoit in his report for
the year euiliDg May 31st, 1875, to be about
two thousand miles. The amount of bonds
on which Congress is asked to guarantee the
iuter* st is $40,000 per mile—interest at live
per cent., gold, or $2,000 per mile per an
num. Tho principal of the bonds would
amount to $80,000,000, and the interest
would amount to $4,000,000 per annum, or a
total for fifty years of $200,000,000 in inter
est on the main line, to say nothing of tho
sevoral branch lines mentioned, or of the
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad connection,
which, together, would probably double the
sum for which the government is asked to
b icome liable.
Great stress is laid upon the fact that the
Texas and Pacific Railroad Company ask
oidy a guarantee of the interest on the
bonds. The principal must he guaranteed
directly or indirectly by the government.
The sinking fund with which it is proposed
to pay the principal of the bonds, must
come out of the fuuds furnished by the
government, if tho road should fail to make
the money to pay it. Call it guarantee, en
dorsement, or what you please; ] ut it in
what shape you please, the sum and sub
stance of what is asked of Congress is the
credit and responsibility of the government
for $80,000,000 principal, and $200,000,000
interest on this sum, running through fifty
years, for the main line, exclusive of
branches. It must be tho equivalent of gov
ernment bonds, or it would be as worthless
in the market as their own paper, which
they propose t j give to the government as
security.
The various benefits which would accrue
to the government and couutry from the
building of the Texas aud Pacific Road are
urged as reasons tor granting the proposed
subsidy. The same argument would apply
with more or less force to every useful en
terprise. It is not the business of the
Federal Government to aid private enter
prise by partnership endorsement or sub
sidies from the troasurj’. If tuero were any
such coustitutional necessity for the con
struction of a railroad to the Pacific or
elsewhere as there is for the construction of
a navy or the raising aud maintenance of an
army in time of war, then I would say
let the government build it, and sell the
lands along the route to pay for it, and give
to the people the incidental benefits of cheap
transportation. But there is no such neces
sity, and consequently no such power.
It has been said that the “North” lias re
ceived large subsidies in government bonds
for railroads, aud that the “South” should
take her share. Congress has loaned the
existing Pacific railroads and branches
a-bout $63,000,000 iu government bonas,
up -n which it has paid, and is still paying,
millions of interest. Congress has created
a nest of railroad vampires, which it has
fastened npou the property and industry
of the country, for a generation to come,
and from which, accouling to a recent de
cision of the courts, there is no hope of re
lief. The people, North and South, have
been robbea of & large amount of bonds aud
interest, by a corrupt Congress for a corrupt
ring. Will it help the taxpayers, North or
Sontb, to be robbed again, because the 1 cs-
ti n of their enterprise sin the South? Sha 1
we ask for a repetition 01 these usurpations?
Cannot the present Congress reach this class
of corruptly subsidized roads hv taxation or
otherwise, so as to relieve the people from
farther tribute to their avarice ? These
roads are now paying eight per cent, divi
dends to the stockholders, whilst forcing tbe
people to pay interest on the bonds.
To show that a railroad on the line of the
Texas aud Pacific company can and will be
built without auy further aid than has
already been granted to the Texas and Pa
cific Iiailro&d Company by the government,
I refer to a published report of the proceed
ings before a committee of Congress, on the
20th day of January, 1875; Col. 8cott repro-
s nting the Texas and Pacific Road, and Col.
Colton and Mr. Huntington representing
the Southern Pacific Rtilroad, being \ esent.
These two railroad companies wer 3 char
tered by Congress and received their re
spective land grants about the Bam * date.
Both companies had located their lines and
had their lanJs withdrawn from market.
The Texas and Pacific Company had located
their line from Marshall, Texas, to Fort
Yuma, on the Colorado of the West, and
thence, 189 miles in a nearly direct line,
to San Diego on the Ptcitic. The Southern
Pacific, of California, had located their
line from San Francisco, 722 miles, to Fort
Yuma. The subject before the committee
of Congress was a bill asking for the Texas
aud Pacific Railroad a guarantee of iuterest
by tbe government on the bonds to be issued
by the company, and a change ot their lo
cated line between San Diego %nd Fort
Ynma, increasing tbe distance from 180 miles
Southern Pacific Road and increasing the
asked for subsidv of the Texas and Pacific
K jid about 17,1.00,000.
The representatives of the Southern Pa
cific Railroad, of California, stated in sub
stance that they had about four hundred
miles of their road completed, and if not
obstructed by a change of the Texas and
Pacific line, would completo their road to
Fort Yuma, on the Texas and Pacific liue,
•even hundred and twenty-two miles from
San Francisco, within eighteen month)-';
that, if permitted, they would build east
ward from Fort Yuma 011 the Texas and Pa
cific line until they should meet the work
Lorn the eastern end; that thev would build
a road from their line to San Diego if de
sired, or they would build tbe whole of theco
roads alone within eight years, aud all this
without auy aid by the government, cxcopt
the lands which had already been granted
along the lines, so far as they should build;
Fiat the company was strong, they were
building with their own money and owed no
floating debt.
It was oharged aud deniei that the South
ern Pa itic Company was controlled by the
Central Pacific Compauy. It matters little
whether the charge or the denials be true
or false. Corporations are alike in their
tendency to a misuse or abuse of their pow
ers for the benefit of their members or
managers, and are only restrained by proper
lawn well administered.
The Taxas and Pacific has agreed to unite
with the Atlantic and Paci^c (35th parallel
line from St. Louis, Missouri,) for the pur
pose of securing this iuterest subsidy, and
they would to-day, or at auy other time,
unite with the existing road to the Pacific,
provided only that they find it to their iu-
tere-itand possess the power to do so.
The 32d parallel lino can be buirt without
bond or interest subsidy b> tho government,
leaving the proposition to guarantee tbe
interest ou th« bonds of the Texa*» and Pa
cific Company, withont a shadow of reason.
But the gri-at question iu this connection,
which rises superior to all questions of mere
policy or pecuniary interest, as one which af
fects the character aud fundamental princi
ples of our government, is a question of
power and authority under our constitution.
Are we an absolute government in the mere
will of majorities ? Or shall the power of
the Federal Government he limited by the
constitution which created aud maintains it
in existence ?
Heretofore tho proper representatives of
the Southern States iu Congress anil 111
every department of the gover nment which
they have tilled, have stood firmly by a strict
construction of the constitution as the only
security for the reserved rights of the States
and of the people, aud the bond subsidies,
Credit Mobiiier frauds and other corrup
tions and usurpations, which iu these latter
years have disgraced and demoralized the
government in all its departments were only
possible in the absence of the representa
tive men of the South. Shall we reverse all
this? Shall we become partakers in, or
endorses of, the crimes against good gov
ernment which have rendered the Radical
party infamous, and are now driving it with
thongs of public indignation from the places
of trust which they have violated ?
When millions aro at stake between a cor
poration and the people, depondent upon
the action of a few men in Congress, the his
tory of the past shows that every stratagem,
artifice or device to convince the wavering
or to tempt the ambitious, the avaricious or
the sensualist, has been resort *il to. As
another means of success, interested par
ties or their agents besiege corporate bodies
a’d Legislatures of the Slates for expressions
of opiuion, which are calculated to capture
the bouestly weak representative, and lift
tho responsibility from those who want a
pretext for their action.
The Legislature of Georgia was saved
from the passage of resolutions favorable to
the aiked for subsidy to the Texas ami Pa
cific Road by the thoughtful speech of an
able Senator, who was soon after surprised
by a rebuke from the gentleman whose tup-
per and wines he had innocently helped to
c insume the evening before.
And now, even some of the grange organi-
z itions—the farmers of the couutry—instead
of demanding of Congress, an equalization
of taxation which has discriminated heavily
against them since 1841, carelessly or igno
rantly send up messages to their represen
tatives in Congress to pack them ane»v with
taxes for the benefit of a corporation, and
for the hope of a railroad, which when com
pleted, will give them no new market for
the sale of their produce, or for the pur
chase of their supplies.
i have faith in the integrity anil good
judgment ot our Representatives in Con
gress. They will not be deceived by shams.
They will not lose sight of the constitu
tion. They will remember tho great aud
good men whose places they now fill; their
brothers and comrades who fell in defense
of constitutional principles; their responsi
bility to the present and to future genera
tions; in short, they will remember their
duty and do it, in the restoration of honest,
economical and constitutional government,
and thus make us the most free, secure,
prosperous and happy people on earth.
Very respectful!}', your obedient servant,
Nelson Tift.
Roticis.
e ' TATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham County.—
j To all whom it may ronreru :
Whereas, Matikla N. Tomlinson will apply at
the Court of Ordinary for Letters of Administra
tion on the Estate of David B. Tomlinson, late of
said county, deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all whom it may concern, to be and appear
liefore said Coart, to make objection (if any
they have),on or before the FIRST MONDAY IN
FEBRUARY NEXT, otherwise said letters will
be granted.
Witness my official signature, this 31st day of
December, 1«5. JOHN O. FJJRRILL,
janl-S 4t Ordinary C. C.
S “ TATE OF GEORGIA, Chatha* County.—
To all whom it may concern :
Whereas, James Mnrpby will apply at the
Court of Ordinary for Letters of Guardianship on
the person and property oi John Henry Morgan,
minor ami orphan child of John Morgan, late of
said county, deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all
whom it may concern, to be arJ api»oar before
said Court, to make objection (if any they have),
on or before the FIRST MONDAY IN FEBRU
ARY NEXT, otherwise said letters will be
granted.
Witness my official signature, this 31st day of
December, 1875. JOHN O. FERKILL,
j;ml-S,4t Ordinary C. C
LEGAL NOTICE.
S TATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham County.—
Notice is hereby given tr> all persons con
cerned, that I have applied to the Honorable the
Court of Ordinary of Chatham county, Georgia,
for au order, to be granted on the first Monday of
the February Term, W6, thereof, being the 7th
day of the month, authorizing the tale of ail the
real estate belonging to the Estate of Jacob
Manke, deceased, for the purposes of payment of
debts and distribution among tbe heirs.
December V4 1S75.
JOHN G. STEGMAIER,
Administrator de bo:iis non,
dec25-S,4t Estate of Jacob Manke, dec’d.
NOTICE.
A LL claims against the estate of Francis C.
O'Driscoll, of Savannah, dec*rased, mast be
presented to me in proper form, within the time
prescribi-d by law, and all debts due to said estate
are required to be paid to me.
BELLE C. O’DRISCOLL,
nov27-S,6t Administratrix.
3trflal Mies.
City Marshal’s Hale.
OFFICE CITY MARSHAL.)
Savannah, Jamiiry 4, 1876. f
U NDER RESOLU 1’ION of the City Council of
Savannah, aud by virtue of city tax execu
tions in my hands. 1 have levied on and will sell,
under direction ot a special committee of Coun
cil, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN FEBRUARY,
1876, between the legal hours of sale, before the >
'ourt House door in the city of Savaunah. county j
if ('hMthnm unrl St.lo of fi<*»rrrla lhi> fnllnrainf* .
gihi flrtHmnttg.
SCAVENGER CONTRACT, j
HE following Ordinance is published for in 1
ing the streets, lanes and othertW«.-i
n the city of S.nmiah cle«h, InfuT'“ ’1
the duties ‘->fthe Superintendent. Public
L T * u \ Ma >° r and Aldermen** ca
city of Savannah, in Council assembled
by ordain, That on and after the fine *» a
meeting of Council In January next tl * u
the Scavenger’s depart ment shall be’gh,
contract, and proposals for performing-.
A > irKw ,ade “ hereinafter sp V
All bids must be handed to the t lerk of C I
before ten o’clock on the morning of the dtfv nf
election, notice ot which election shall be riven
y ,r , ev ‘ OU 1 10 thc ,in * at which such eS^
JS* - "" ake K P^5 and each bidder shall en-
doee with his bid the names of two or more ae-
curitles who with the person elected, shall bind
themselves in a sum which shall exceed t£l
amount of the bid for which he proposes per an
num to do the work by one thousand dollanL for
the true and faithf ul performance of the duties of
Superintendent. The City Council shall, at it
first regular meeting in January next, and et t.
first regular meeting in January of every uivd
year thereafter, select from those who shai'sub
mit their proposals one who shall be d riared
eiectcl Superintendent, and who shall execute a
bond to tbe city in the amount above reqaired to
1* approved of hy the Mayor, and shall enter ‘
upon the duties of his office within teu days af ir
said election. Upon faidug to give such boud or
to enter ui»ou his duties within the .aid time hi*
election shall l>e deemed void, and the City Coup
nl, at its next regular, meeting, shall elect »ou>.-
other persou in his place.
Section 2. And it is further ordalucd by the au
thority aforesaid. That the person so elected
superintendent, shall hriore entering upon hi*
duties, provide himself with a sufficient numbe*-
of able-bodied men, ano horses or mules and
carts to perform the duties of the department
as hereinafter described, which men, teams and’
carts shall he approved of by the Mavor, and
none shall be employed iu the department but
such as are able and ofTlc ient. And it shall be
the further duty of said Superintendent to cause
the men so employed to pass through all parts of
the city, daily, Sundays anil general holidays ex-
cepied, with the carts, and to take off alloftal
filth, manure oyster shells, or other rubbish that
may be collected in barrels or boxes, or that mav
be found in any street, lane or square within
tin* city, and carry the same to such place or
places as maybe detei mined by the Mayor or
Chairman of the Street and Lane Com.iittee-
Provided, that all manure ami offal shall beat the
disposal ot the said Superintendent, and shall be
carried beyond the limits of the city, to be used
or farmed out by him.
Section 3. And it is further ordained by the au
thority aloresaid. That it shall be the duty of said
Superintendent to report to the Mayor every
Monday morning the number of bands and team-
employed in the department and tin* condition of
the streets, lanes and squares; and at every alarm
of fire it shall Ik* his duty to repair to thc place of
thc tire with such of bis teams and carts as are
not actually loaded and carrying off the offal at
the time of the alarm being given, and be subject
to the orders of the Mayor or tjersou acting in his
place; and for lailure or neglect to perforin any
of the requirements of this Ordinance, the said
SujKJrintendent shall, on conviction before the
Police Court, be subject to a fine of not less than
five nor more than fifty dollars for each offence,
one-half to go to the informer, and the other half
for the use of the city: Provided, nevertheless,
that for any charge of gross neglect or misdemea
nor, the said Snj>erintendent shall be liable to be
tried before Council, and be removed from office,
or be fined in such sums as Council may direct;
aud in cases of removal from office a new election
shall be held at the next regular meeting of Coun
cil to fill his place for the unexrdred residue of
his term; anil notice of such election shall be
given by thc Clerk ot Council fen days before the
day for such a new election.
Section 4. And it is further ordaiuod by the au
thority aforesaid. That it shall be the duty of
said SujKTintendent to see that t he public squa.es
are also daily examined, and any offal or rubbish
that may be therein found shall be removed by
his carts.
Section 5. And it iH farther ordained by the au
thority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the
said Superintendent to take charge of aud feed all
cattle or other animals liable to be impounded, or
that shall be impounded by the City Marshal or
any city officer, and to deliver up s&iil catte or
other animals to their owners on the customary
fees being paid; lor the fulfilment of which ilutv
the said Miperintendent shall have charge of all
the buildings belonging to the city ind attached
to the Pound, ami shall use the stables for keep
ing the mu ! es or horses engaged in .'he Scavenger
department, (and shall keep such buildings and
stables in good repair). Audit shall further be
his duty to be at the said Pound, »»r have some
agent there at two stated hours e» h day, when
cattle or other animals are with! , for the pur-
pose of delivering the same to thi owners when
called lor; and further, he shall v ell and truly
pay all moneys collected for thu- delivering up
cattle or other animals to the Cit Marshal, the
money allowed by ordinance for frediug cattle or
other animals impounded being ex *pted.
Section 6. And it is further orda-ned by the au
thority aforesaid, That any person keeping more
tlian three animals of the horse i cow kind in
hi-* or her premises, shall lie comp lied to remove
daily, at his or her own expense Hie offal from
any such animals above three, >nd in default
thereof shall be liable to a fine of not more than
ten dollars for every day's default, Sundays and
general holidays ouly excepted.
Section 7. And it is further ordained by the au
thority aforesaid. That all Ordinances and parts
of Ordinances, so far as they n ilitat** with this
Ordinance, be, aud the same are ereby repealed.
Ordinance parsed in Council December 26,1866.
Attest: )•:. A. SILVA,
Cl- rk of Council.
NOTICE.—Thc following shall be the limits
included in the above coutract: Savaunah river
on the North, Randolph and East Broad streets
on the East, Anderson street on the South, and
Cemetery and West Boundary street on^the West,
and all property east of Randolph street that is
now or may become subject to taxation.
jan6-6t
irflal &airs.
Postponed City h irshal’s Sale.
CITY MARI'HAL’S OFFICE,)
Savannah, Ja.- -ary 4th, 1876. j
U NDER RESOLUTION oi the City Council of
Savannah, and by virtu* of City Tax Exe
cutions in my hands, I have levied on, and will
sell, under direction of a Special Committee of
Council, on TIIE FIRST TUESDAY IN FEBRU
ARY, 1876, between th * legal hours of
■ale, before the Court Hows door in the city of
Savannah, county of Chalhai -md State of Geor
gia, the following property, ti-'\it:
Improvements on Ixit No ** Calhoun ward;
levied on as the property J the estate ot
Augustus Bonand.
Lot No 15 and improvemen t Elliott ward;
levied on as the property of Gu^* Bourquin.
Improvements on Lot No70 Li *yd ward; levied
on as the property of John G. B. ’■ ler.
Ix>ts Nos 23 and 24 and impro' 'dents Jasper
ward; levied ou as the property ot '•■'rands Cham
pion, trustee.
Improvements on Lot No 2 Anf"ii ward, first
tything; levied ou as tbe property of M A De
honey.
Improvements on western X of U>t No 55 Gas
ton ward; levied on as thepropert of T P Elkins.
Lot No 6 and improvements Decker ward,
Tower tything; leviea on as the j operty of Mrs
M C Ferrill.
Lot No 25 ant improvements C> rytown ward;
levied ou as tbe property of John O Ferrill, exe
cutor.
Lot No 1 and improvements, rcival ward,
Hack’s tything: levied on as the , >perty of thu
estate of John C Ferrill.
Lot No 52 and improvements fovn ward;
levied on as the property of Wm « <nitrev.
Improvements on Lots Nos 40 »1 41 Walton
ward; levied on as the property o- P Gowen.
Improvements on Lots Nos 32 and 32,
Walton ward; levied on as the p» >«rty of Mrs
M R Guerard.
Loi No 23 and improvemen Uilinervil%»;
levied on as the property of the >te of A Hary
moo. %
Eastern one-half of Lot No 4 • -iihbert ward,
filth section; levied on as the property of R ¥
Harmon.
Improvements on Lot No 5 ■ orsyth ward;
levied on as the property of Willi: \ « Bone.
Lot No 51 Garden Lot east; le* od on aa the
property ot James A LaRocbe.
Improvements on Lot No 6 Pul? ski ward; lev
ied on as the property of Mrs G J LaBochc and
children.
Lot No 17 and improvements, iilmerville; lev
ied on as the property of F S LaMrop.
Western one-halt of Lot No Jl and improve
ments, Greene ward; levied on .‘3 the property
of Michael Lavin.
Improvements on the western - ne-third of Lot
No 3 Wesley w ard; levied on m the property of
A K Maliette.
Eastern onc-half of Lot N -• 3 and improve
ments, Screven ward; levied «’ as the property
of Eli Maliette.
Improvements on the east* .' one-third of Lot
No 3 Wesley ward; levied oi. « the property of
Mrs E M Maliette.
Western one-half of Lot “ > 3 and improve
ments, Screven ward; levied on as the property
of Mrs Catherine Maliette.
Improvements on the middle one-third of Lot
No 3 Wesley ward; levied or as the property of
Miss Eoline Maliette. . » .
Improvements on the eastern one-half of U)i
No 25 Calhoun ward; levw •>«■ %m the property
of CC Millar. . , .
Improvements on Lot NoBrown ward; levied
on as the property of llaao Molina, trustee.
Northern one-third of L*. No 5 and improve
ments Decker ward, Heatbcetm tything; levied on
as the property of the estate of O P Morin.
Lot No 26 and improve—nU Washington
ward; levied on as the property of James Mc-
of Chatham and State of Georgia, the following
property to wit:
Improvements on Lot No 23 Curry town ward;
leviea on as the property of J V Consent.
Lot No. 8 and improvements. South Oglethorpe
ward; levied on as the property of Mrs. Mary M
Marshall.
Improvements on Lot No. 48 Jackson ward;
levied on as the j>ropcrty of thc Savannah Poor
House and Hospital.
Lot No 10 and improvements. Reynolds ward,
third tything; levied on as the property of James
J. Waring.
Purchasers paying for titles and stamps.
GKoRGK W. STILES,
jar 5-1 m C:ty Marshal.
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Lot No 10 and improve** nts. Franklin ward;
levied on a* tbe property of \l T Quinan.
Lot No 75 White ward; lei led on as the prop
erty of Mrs Winefred Quinai.
Lot No 37 and improvements, Middle Ogle
thorpe ward; levied on as the property ot James
B Read and It J Nunn. u .... „
Lot No 40 and improvement*, Middle Ogle
thorpe ward: levied on as th« ...roperty of Mrs
James B Read. . .
Improvements on the easten ne-half of Lei
No 41 Jackson ward; levied on a the property
of Mrs L G Richards.
Improvements on Lot No 24
levied on as the property of Miss ^J^ 0 **^*
Lot No 3 and improvements Jonf.- ward, leviea
od a. tbe property of Dwight LRol en*. r™«*-
Lots Noe it aud 3. Warden Lot we.t, front lot.
tanyard tract; levied on as the property of James
"improremeute on Lot No 16 Tronp
on aa the property of tbe eetate of Mm at -
Roberts and children. ' .. . o- i.o-'rd
Improvement on Lot No , " i j
on as the property of the eetate of -are » J
Roberta and children. . . .. .
Improvements on Lot No A wharf ’i ftrne8
tee’s garden; levied on as the property m - T am«
^Lot No 9 aLd improvements, Bartow ward; lev
ied on as the property of M T Kyan.
Improvements and machinery on Let NO ®
Garden lot east; levied ou as the property of
Sullivan A Hull. ward.
Lot No 14 and improvements, Lnthut t ward,
seventh section; levied on as the propert.-
A Snilivan, trustee. n-AWt wird
Lot No 7 aud lmprovi ments. Cuthbc-1 ware^
seventh section; levied on as the prope* >
D Improvements on Lot No.44. Ung
on as the property f Bhert
r^ta* 0I
XfNo^f^overne.m ■«£
levied on ae the property of the Ty. Loaon
ward, and impr .^mental
levied on aa the property of Henry .4 Ward,
‘■’improvements on I^t No « step^ .a,'