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WRAP THE
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^ r.. i vr^' and velvets too rough,
s a? not white enough,
n - >: ’ V. • fineness no fairy can spin,
JS* shall we wrap the baby in ?
* nf cola s may cover his bed—
' ‘ hky and the rose,
1 - hat in May mouths unclose,
ileep drops hi* head ;
j, more heavenly instead.
h4 jl we wrap the baby in?
• woven will do;
love ever anew,
the right thread to spin ;
wrap the baby in.
Lucy Labcom.
Love, only
Love we n
\ (fairs In Georgia.
Wbat is known as “hog clover” is getting
to be very popular in Oglethorpe county,
jud^e A. C. Morton, of Columbus, is
d e&d.
The Atlanta small boy finds the peanut
trade lucrative.
The Hon. 1’ tiuhar Peagreen opposes & con
vention on the score of public economy. At
the same time he travels on a free pass over
the railroads, anil draws his mileage regu
lar! v. So wags the world.
The Comptroller recommends a revision o
the laws exempting certain kinds of property
from taxation. He is also of the opinion
that corn, cotton, etc., in the hands of the
producer should not be taxed.
A negro man an l a small boy near Craw
ford made thirteon bales of c »tton and
plenty of corn last season.
The Comptroller-General thinks that the
products of agriculture should be exempted
from taxation on the same principle that
cotton, woolen and iron manufactures are
exempted.
A white boy and two negroes were buried
beneath the ruins of a wall in Colnmbns the
other day. They were rescued alive, but all
were seriously hurt.
The Comptroller-General clamors for a
fire-proof safe. If Goldsmith were a black
smith, In-might make one himself. How
ever, as we once heard a Wilkinson county
girl remark, “he’s got an awful head for
figures?”
An Oglethorpe county man killed thirty-
seven rabbits in one afternoon recently
without a dog. If we hadn’t have seen this
in print, we wouldn’t believe it.
According to the Comptroller General’s
report, the total increase in city and town
property is $712,1' *5; the total decrease in
money in solvent debts, $1,368,522, and the
total increase iu merchandise, $142,377.
Two negroes iu Gordon county had the
impudence to steal a whole ox the other
day; and they got very angry when the
owner put in a claim for the hide and horns.
They have doubtless written to Grant about
it.
An Oglethorpe county negro carved up his
brother for breakfast the other day. He
wielded a raw razor.
The papers are after Lloyd, the map man.
It has beeu decided that the turpentine
men of Dodge and Pulaski counties can burn
off their lands whenever they see fit.
The losses by the liro in Columbus on
supposed to be more
than forty thousand dollars.
In Georgia there are 121,819 white voters
to 37,569 colored. This is quite a discrep
ancy. What is Farrow going to do abont it?
Jackson county labors under the delusion
that it has a barrel of brandy sixty years
old.
In Atlanta they go so far as to rob phreno
logists. This is probably one of the reasons
why that city is opposed to a Constitutional
Convention.
Muscogee county is having her share of
incendiary fires.
At the close of the year there were 926
convicts iu the penitentiary.
Mr. John Jones, of Mitchell county, was
detained in Thomasville recently on a charge
of passing counterfeit money.
The keeper of the penitentiary urges the
pnrehase by the State of an island on the
coast, between Savannah and Brunswick, on
which to colonize and utilize the convicts.
The J-'-mier's Friend is the name of a
new paper recently started in Griffin by Mr.
6. N. VauPraag.
The Columbus Enquirer says that Super
intendent \Y m. Redd, of the North and South
Railroad, thus reports iu substance to Dr.
E-A. Flewellen, Receiver of N. & 8. B. R. at
Maoon, operations from April 24th, 18"4, to
November 30th, 1875 : The earnings were
J16.676 29, and expenditures $15,938 63,
*eavmg balance of $737 66. The average ex
penses per month were $829 03, and earn-
tngs $359 04. This shows well for a road
only 20 miles long. Of tho expenses $500
Were P ai d for damages to cotton burned No
vember 23, 1374, $250 for goods stolen from
Eingobor > depot; $900 paid in return to T.
• Blanchard, ex-President, the Receiver,
• Fleweiieu, II. H. Epping, and others
for monies advanced to repair tho damages
ti, prior to tho seiznre of
eroad bj Judging by tho past
nineteen months, the repairs of the road
can be kept uuder earnings, unless some
irs the present year. The road
t JeeD * Q P°ssession of the State nearly
twenty mouths. The report recites the
0N, 'f 8Usla iued by freshets jnst before tho
-ceiver took charge, and the amounts
d'} loaned by the gentlemen above
^med to make repairs, all of which has
tn repaid. The engine is in better order
ow l *‘ in f° r several years, as it has been
thoroughly overhauled, the tender supplied
*ith new wheels, and the certain defects
Btippiiod. The rolling stock is in good or-
u ‘.With the exception of three platform
***’ whi ch need flooring.
Crawford Echo; A colored family near
(^wfonj bad a silver wedding the other
with . k l k. e happy pair was presented
a brn ' 8 riu 2, an old calico bounet and
tom tv ^°r’ Wlttl a sma ^ hole 1° k°*‘
with ,, 1 . ^urd of the manor remarked,
ui,w 0Iit ' ^at k® “’tended to bab an-
didn't Dlxt * 6u k« but de stingy debbles
t Rib enuff to make it ov ’vantage.”
of if« kiLs T iIIe ^l'Mch : On Monday night
neprv! Week U9ar Cochran, in this county, a
own *,'! man ntan( ling in the door of her
b !1 ’ * aa brutally murdered by un-
rodf-« P artu ‘ 8 - Two men, on horseback,
man’, ih F , d° or ’ aQ d called for the wo-
ck " ij^band. She replied that he was
men then began firing, and as
* w ._ 111411 raa to tbo door to take her child
and n/ i: ' u ^*11 struck her in the stomach
ku death. A more diabolical act
the tv. beeu com nntted in a long while, and
■evero r » b< trators of deed deserve the
mnrdJi* PUDi8 hment for their villainous and
*oman ,T° rk - . Shooting a harmless
that wl, ether white or black, is a crime
chiii' 1 . ' not un PttDished, if there be
the bar b r' to the guilty wretches to
Curon*r°» JU8llce : An inquest was held by
Unfortn, . ron Dixon upon the body of the
oh-aw, 41 ! Woman i but no evidence could
ned as io who committed the deed.
that th EcJt0 : 11 is a notorious fact
the nar,.^ Iarmera who are the tightest on
*,***■ m their employ never fail to
ie»ei-.i^ uy band s as they wish. We know
beerr»A O 0 i 0Q i r - arge8t planters who treat the
did th«.^ W i Jrklng ^ or them exactly as they
to annH« liVes ~ wor ^ them from daylight
Silks. , Wn - ,Uo " ■“> Klling, and, if a
fcdnn any Of the rules, be is
im . a b0QD d thrashing administered
™ - then, if h e ^ esjployer
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J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
hunts him up, brings him back and doubles
tne dose. This generally makes an effectual
cu.e, and the offender resumes work, makes
a good band, and is anxious to hire to the
same man another year. The employer has
got value received out of hie hands, and is
consequently, able to pay full wages. Gov^
ern your hands, and all sides will be better
satisfied. Let them govern vou, and the
country will soon go to the dogs.
; The Planters' Bank of
Fort Valley has suspended. No atatement
has been rendered so far as we are informed.
We presume the liabilities, if anv, will be
promptly paid. In the case of Houston
county against the former Sheriff, John B.
Cook, W L) Nottingham, Esq., has been
appointed Receiver by Judge Hill. Inbc-
haif of the court he now has possession of
the buildings in Perry known as Cook’s
Bange, and is renting them and collecting
the rents, to be held subject to tho final
decree in the case. We are authoritaiivelv
informed that Mr. G. G. Potter, late of Pot
ter 8 factory, Taylor county, has leased the
Houston factory for one year, aud is now in
possession of it. We learn that the titles
to the entire property will pass into the
hands of Colonel H. L. Dennard, of Perrv
Mose Hollinshead, who stole a boiling of
moat lrom Anderson A Co., in Fort Valiev
was sent to Baldwin county on a twelve
montns apprenticeship, to learn to make a
pot to boil it in.
Latonton Mes&ougei': On Fridav, the 7th
instant, at the office of the Judge of County
Court, a novel marriage took place. Mr.
Henry Dennis and Miss Annie Per.rson
were married by Hon. J. W. Hudson, ex-
ojficio Justice of Peace. The circumstances
were embarrassing to the entire company.
Two years ago, Mr. Dennis eloped with Miss
Pearson and married either in Clinton,
Jones county, or somewhere in Alabama.
Now, Mrs. Dennis comes up and
wishes to institute suit for her property
from her guardian. The attorney employed
by the ward, after making much inquiry as
to the legality of the first marriage, fails to
got satisfactory evidence that the marriage
ceremony was performed. He has been uu-
able to find a license, returned and recorded
by a proper officer, so as to make the matter
perfectly safe for the young wife. The cou
ple are married again by authority lrom the
Ordinary, and that after two years living
together as man and wife. They have the
advantage of two honeymoons.
South Carolina AfTairs. *
Colonel Frederick, of Orangeburg, was
severely injured on Thursday by his horse
rearing and falling back upon him.
Bishop Howe visited Darlington county
last week and confirmed several members.
At the municipal election in Yorkville last
week, the following officers; comprising the
former board, were re-elected: Intendent—
W. H. McCorkle. Wardens—J. R. Schorb,
Joseph Herndon, Robert Wright, Edward
‘Wheeler.
The school trustees of Orangeburg county
are to have a convention.
The Pendleton Farmers’ Society met on
the 7th to devise measures for holding a fair
next November.
The trial of Glover for the killing of the
Goumillions will be had again this week in
Newberry on a change of venue.
Archy Matheson, a negro who outrag 3d a
white lady in Marion county, has been
lynched. Lewis Matheson, at whoso house
the villian took refuge, was shot and killed.
Two new streets in Orangeburg are with
out names.
An appeal is being made in behalf of
Erskine College, at Due West. Forty thou
sand dollars are needed to complete the
$100,000 endowment fund. This college has
graduated one hundred and sixty ministers,
besides many leading members of the vari
ous professions.
An auxiliary Bible Society has been organ
ized at Belton.
The first shad has appeared in George
town.
The Florence Grange has had a grand
dinner.
Agrippa Wigfall, colored, stole three bales
of cotton, on three different nights, from
Mr. John L. Addison, of Edgefield. He was
discovered, but escaped.
The upper counties are sending delegates
to the Blue Ridge Railroad mass meeting,
to be held at Kdoxville on the 20th.
Twelve thousand six hundred and twenty-
four bales of cotton were shipped from An
derson last year.
On Saturday afternoon Mr. Calhoun Clink-
scales, of Anderson, while reaching out of
bis buggy for his hat, fell out, and tho horse
stepped upou his stomach. Ho died that
night.
Seventy-five German immigrants cele
brated New Year’s at Mr. Crayton’s plant
ation in Anderson county. Mr. Crayton has
been very successful with these immigrants,
aud they are much attached to him.
Treasurer Ruuion, of Greenville, has not
procured satisfactory bonds. There is,
therefore, as yet no one to receive the taxes
of the county.
The citizens of Indian Land Township,
Lancaster county, have entered into an
agreement that, after the 1st of March
next, all stock are to be fenced in and a sub
stantial boundary fence to be built, the
fence to be built and kept in repair by the
land owners in the township.
The paupers of Beaufort are fed at 10£
cents a head per day. They are not likely
to become pampered on that diet.
A mysterious stabbing occurred in Ander
son county last Saturday night. At ten
o’clock Messrs. Morgan and Gambrell left
Mr. Carfpbell’B house together. Later, in
the moonlight, a Mr. Erskine saw two men
fighting, and hastening thither, found Mr.
Morgan stabbed in the throat and temple.
The wounded man charges Mr. Gambrell
with the stabbing, but he denies it. There
was no bad feeling known to exist between
them.
Pittsburgh Subterranean Fire.
The Allegheny (Penn.) Mail of the 4th
instant says : “The Board of Fire Com
missioner, the Chief Engineers of the
Department, and City Engineer Demp
ster yesterday visited Herron's Hill, in
the Thirteenth • ward, and examined the
locality of the fire that is consuming the
coal therein. It was found that the
meuths of the two coal pits opening on
Thirty-third street, where the fire is pro
gressing, had been closed by the cutting
down of the supports, thus dropping
masses of stone and earth from above.
This has been done to prevent a draught
of air from reaching the fire, yet, whde it
might be supposed that the openings
were hermetically sealed, evidence to
the contrary was made manifest by the
issue of smoke therefrom. There were
no other indications of the consumption
and destruction going on. Here is one
of the difficulties: the fire has been pro
gressing now over a year, and the ques
tion is, how far has it progressed ? The
general opinion is that a shaft or trench
must be dug in its rear, and the fire thus
stayed. How far back from the street
this digging should be done is the ques
tion. The further back the deeper the
cut necessary, and, of course, the greater
the expense. It is believed that the fire
is not only progressing eastward toward
the reservoir, but also southward toward
the Minereville car stables, and in both
directions there is danger of great
damage. Mr. Dempster and Mr. Mcllroy
entered with a lamp a pit some two or
three hundred feet below the locality of
the fire, and we understand that Mr.
Dempster is of the opiuion that from
that direction the operations against the
fire should be commenced. The Fire
Commissioners, after their examination,
requested City Engineer Dempster to
give his opinion to them in writing, and
upon that ihey will base their report to
the Councils upon the subject.”
Mr. Wingate’s famous cabinet of
ancient Scotch coins has just been sold
in London, together with specimens from
several other similar collections the
whole bringing a little less than *20,000
in round numbers. A farthing of Kobert
Bruce brought *200: a haif St Andrew
of Robert IIL (very rare),,*240;; a half
tester in gold of Quean Mary brought
.■$75- a unique lion of Queen Mary struck
in 1553, with the crown and arms of
Boo Hand, between two cinque-foils,
brought $525; . thisUeJoUar of the same
Queen, 1578, $105; » “union, struck
after the aooeasion of King J*™ 68 VL *>
Am crown, brought f 75.
BY TUR1PH
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE POLITICAL SITUATION IX
FRANCE.
Results of the Receut Senatorial
Elections.
BRIEF CONGRESSIONAL NOTES
Escape of the Ruchurions Helmbold.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Washington, January 17.—Iu tho Senate
Gordon presented the petition of G. T.
Beauregard, for the removal of his disabili
ties. Referred to tho Judiciary Committee.
The Committee of Investigation of the
Frec-daieu’s Bank had their first meeting
tins morning, aud agreed that the investi
gations should bo private. The Commis
sioners of the bank, with the books, were
before them.
The Texas Border Committee appointed a
sub-committee to investigate information m
tho War Department. when that is ex
hausted it will probably send for persons
from Texas, but will not visit the State.
In the House, Banks introduced his bill
again. It has gone to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
THE FBENCII ELECTIONS.
Paris, January 17.—A majority of the
Senatorial delegates elected in the Depart
ments of the Seine, Seine et Marne, Fruis-
tert, Vienne aud Ailier are Conservatives.
London, January 17.—The Paris corres
pondent of the Times, reporting the results
of tbo elections for Senatorial delegates,savs
that iu fifty towns forty-tw’o Republicans
and eight Conservatives have been elected.
Orleans elects a Conservative and Montpel
lier a Radical. This does not enforce tbe
result, as every commune, large or small,
elects one delegate. The delegates chosen
by the large towns merely act as figure
heads.
HELMBOLD.
Philadelphia, January 17 Dr. H. T.
Helmbold, confined in the Pennsylvania
Hospital for insane, yesterday effected his
escape, aud has not since been heard from.
. AGITATION in CRETE.
Vienna, January 17.—There is agitation
in Crete over the movement to annex the
island to Great Britain.
FROM BELGRADE.
Belgrade, January 17.—The SkuDtschina
has vdted to impeach Mainevich’s Ministry
for excessive expenditures.
‘ Where Weak, Sentimental Ignorance
has Brought the Country.^
Marblehead, Mass., Jan. 3, 1876.
To the Editor of the N. T. Day-Book:
Gentlemen—I take the liberty to send
you Mr. Sprague’s opinion on the con
ditions and prospects of our country,
thinking that you would understand it
far better than I could. I also take the
liberty to ask you your opinion, and how
you can reconcile the remark that he
makes when he says, “where weak, sen
timental political ignorance has brought
the country,” be being the first man to
take up arms to help destroy it? If this
should meet with a favorable answer, I
will be much obliged.
An Old Subscriber.
THE CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY—AN IN
VISIBLE FORCE AT WORK.
The following correspondence between
Philip B. Lindsey, Esq., of this town,
and the Hon. Wm. Sprague, ex-Governor
of Rhode Island, on the condition of the
country, may be found interesting, as
giving Mr. Sprague’s views on a subject
not generally understood l>y the people :
Marblehead, Mass.. Dec. 11, 1875.
To the lion. William Sprague, Provi
dence, B. I.
Dear Sib—I have noticed a remark of
yours, in the Boston Journal of the 9 th
instant, that “we are on the edge of a
war of self-destruction, and no man gives
the alarm, because there is no man—no,
not one—to heed him.” Now, sir, if it
is true that you made the remark, I fully
agree with you. I have read your speech
es made in Congress, several years ago, in
regard to the times, and they hsve come
true. The reason I write is, that I should
like for you to give me your views in re
gard to the condition and prospects of
our country. Yours, most respectfully,
Philip B. Lindsey.
The following is Senator Sprague’s re-
ply:—
“Peradventure ten shall be found there,
(Sodom) I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.’’
If there be ten in a State having wisdom,
The people can thereby be saved from them
selves.
“Sir—Your note received. I am ihe
author of the words you quote. I hasten
to answer your note, not elaborately, as
you request, but to say, I am glad there
is one man whose memory can reach back
far enough (four or five years,) to remem
ber what I told the country, and that
every word I uttered has come true. A
few days before Mr. Wilson’s death, he
having obtained from me, last winter,
a promise to write out the history of
the Altona conference of loyal governors
during the war, I being one, aBd the con
ference having been assembled by me,
and which forced the administration to
an immediate issue of the emancipation
proclamation. While begging for delay,
I took occasion to remark on the situa
tion of the country, and where weak,
sentimental political ignorance has
brought the country, calling him to re
member how I tried to enforce on the
Senate the idea of our drifting into the
fate which has come upon the Spanish
Americans, Spain, Mexico and France,
and the Asiatic principalities and king
doms, from their being surrounded by a
force which no individual had as yet com
prehended, and that such a force sur
rounded this country.”
We republish, in the above, all of
Governor Sprague’s elaborate and ego
tistical letter that is worth publishing,
and that, however misty or indeed ab
surd his “views” in the main may be,
show his mind is drifting towards a tran
scendent truth, to wit: “We are on the
edge—and for fifteen years have been on
the edge—of a war of self-destruction.”
And however blindly, the Governor has
an absolutely truthful conception of the
cause of such self-destruction, though
(no doubt ignorantly) he states an absurd
falsehood when he says no one has
pointed out the cause, for the leading
article of the Day-Book has done so for
these same fifteen years, never missing a
single week, and, as we often fear, to the
disgust of its readers, from the constant
repetition. For fifteen years the leaders
of Mr. Sprague’s party have done their
utmost to “abolish” the distinction of
race, and as in Mexico, South America,
etc., incorporate the negro in their “new
nation,” and just to the extent of their
labors—ever}’ life sacrificed and every
dollar expended has been aimed at the
heart and very soul of the Republic of
Washington, and the sole problem before
us is simply this—shall we “progress” to
utter ruin, or come to our senses, and re
tracing our steps, in the language of
Governor Tilden, “rebuild our prosperity
on the old foundations ?” If there is
sense enough left in the country to do
this—to restore the Republic of Wash
ington, well—if not, if the people follow
Lincoln and Grant after the model of
Mexico and South America, of course
they must needs drift to the same doom.
New sources of India rubber, or mate
rials characterized by the elasticity and
the other peculiar properties of that sub
stance, are constantly being brought to
light and experimented with, it being
well known that the rubber constituent
abounds in the milky juices of many
plants besides the caoutchouc tree, as,
for example, the dandelion and lettuce.
Recently a company ha9 been formed in
London, Ontario, Canada, for the extrac
tion of caoutchouc from milkweed, the
juice of which is found to contain some
four per cent, of rubbers. In the pro
cess of production pursued in this case,
the plant is first partially decomposed,
steamed, then treated with coal tar
naphtha, which being distilled leaves the
—in the solid foesn.
Evening Telegrams.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS AND NOTES
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Proceeding* in the House and Senate
Yesterday.
BISMARCK CLOSING CP THE CON
VENTS IN PRUSSIA.
FATE OF THE AMNESTY BILL.
(JORDON AND THE RADICAL CEN
TENNIAL.
The Prince of Wales In India.
CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Washington, January 17.—In the House,
on the call of the States, Joyce introduced a
bill to prevent tho sale of intoxicating
liquors in the Centennial buildings and
grounds daring the exhibition.
Banks—A bill for the removal of all polit
ical disabilities.
Vance—To open navigation in the French
Broad river.
Seals—Granting pensions to soldiers in
the Mexicau war.
O’Brien—An amendment to the constitu
tion, prohibiting, among other things,
preachers from holding office under the
general or State governments.
Sailor—To amend the steamboat act.
White moved to suspend tbe rales, and
vote on the amnesty bill, excluding Jeffer
son Davis. After voting on the amendment
striking out the excluding clause, tbe vote
was, yeas, 165; nays, 110—not two-thirds—
and the rules were not suspended.
Uollman moved to suspend the rules to
instruct the Currency Committee to report
a bill to repeal the resumption bill, but it
failed—yeas, 112; nays, 158.
Carr, from the Committee on Rules, re
ported back the proposition introduced
some weeks since, by Hollman, of Indiana,
to amend the rule governing the offering of
amendments to general appropriation bills,
so as to make tbe rule read: “No appropria
tion bill shall be reported in such general
appropriation bill or be in order as an
amendment thereto for any expenditure not
previously authorized by law, except in con
tinuation of appropriations for such public
works and objects as are already in progress;
nor shall any provision in any such bill or
amendment thereto changing existing laws
be in order, except such as, being germane
to tbe subject-matter of the bill, shall re
trench expenditure. Adopted—yeas 156,
nays 102, nearly a party vote.
Tbe House went into Committee of the
Whole on the Centennial bill for a million
and-a-half, but there was no action.
Morrison offered a resolution, calling on
the President for correspondence with Spain
about Cuba. Adopted.
Knott offered a resolution instructing the
Committee on the Jndiciary to consider the
law now iu force in the District of Columbia
relative to libel. Adopted.
In the Senate, Morton will call up the
Mississippi resolution on Wednesday.
Sherman’s amendment to the charter of
the Freedman’s Bank comes up to-morrow.
The Judiciary Committee reported ad
versely on allowing accused persons to tes
tily in Federal courts.
West introduced two bills affecting the
Northern Pacific Railroads, and looking to
the protection of the government.
Morrill said he was in favor of the bill in
troduced by the Senator (West), but he did
not desire io be committed to the idea which
he had heard of to the effect that any
amount received from these roads should be
given to aid the Southern Pacific Road. The
bills were referred to the Judiciary Commit-
toe.
Boutwell stated that the Treasury officials
were preparing a statement answering the
questions of Senator Davis, which would be
ready to-morrow. He hoped Davis would
not repress investigation.
The Centennial bill is said to be gaming
ground rapidly. Several prominent South
ern men take a decided stand for it, among
them Senator Gordon, of Georgia. He
agrees with Senator Bayard that it is
both constitutional and sanctioned by
numberless precedents. He has been
heard to express himself very freely, and
is earnestly for the bill, on tbe following
grounds: First, that no section is so
deeply interested in tbe proper celebration
and re-establishmeut of the principles of
1776 and in the restoration of good will in
in tho country as the booth.
Second. That the proposed appropriation
would cost only about three aud one-half
cents per capita in the United States.
Third. That Pennsylvania has paid four
and a half millions of tho five millions
already expended; that it would be
unjust to make that State pay more, where
as the appropriation by Congress wonld per
fect the national character of the celebra
tion. Fourth. That foreign nations having
accepted an invitation to come, the reputa
tion of the government is involved in per
fecting tho arrangements. On this account,
ho would regret to see the South vote
against it
SUSPENDED.
Ricnmond, Ya.. J anuary 17.—The Trede
gar Company Iron Worts have been sus
pended. Five or six hundred operatives
are ousted. Details will be sent later.
General Joseph R. Anderson, President of
the Tredegar Iron Works, made a brief
statement to tbe eflect that the company
having lost largely by tbe failure of other
parties during the papic of 1873, has been
compelled, in consequence of those losses
and continued depression in tbe iron trade,
to suspend payment. It is hoped, however,
that tbe suspension will be temporary. Before
tbe panic the company was worth a million
and half over its liabilities. After the panic of
1873 the company, owing to the large
amount due by the Chesapeake, Ohio and
New York, Oswego and Midland roads, be
came embarrassed and were granted an ex
tension, the creditors being secured by
deeds of trust on tbe company’s property.
It is believed the liabilities not* covered by
said deed will not exceed one hundred
thousand dollars.
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, January 17.—Admiral Wor
den reports from Lisbon that 1tie piracies
on the Mediterranean coast of Spain are
greatly exaggerated.
S. E. Gettings, of Maryland, has been ap
pointed doorkeeper of the House reporters’
gallery.
There were no Southerners among the
nominations to-day.
George S. Bangs, of Illinois, was nomina
ted Assistant Treasurer at Chicago.
A Republican delegation, headed by Col.
Dongl&s, United States Marshal of North
Carolina, visited the President to-day.
The Demoratic National Committee meet
at Willard’s Hotel February 22d to arrange
the time aud place of the convention.
HORRIBLE DEATH.
Richmond, January 17.—John H. Shields,
a son of Col. J. C. Shields, for many years
proprietor of the Richmond Whig, was
killed to-day near Prospect depot, on the
Atlantic. Mississippi and Ohio Railroad,
while attempting to jump from the west
ward bound train. Tbe body was horribly
mangled. The deceased was twenty-nine
years of age, and had been married but
two months.
BOOTH.
Richmond, January 17.—The reception of
Edwin Booth in Richmond, his first appear
ance here since before the war, was a grand
ovation. The theatre was densely packed
by the most brilliant audience seen for many
years. Hundreds were unable to get even
good standing room, A large number of
seats are reserved for the entire week.
TURKEY AND THE POWERS.
London, January 17.—The Times editori
ally urges adhesion to Andrassy’s note. It
says the Porte never before was so critically
situated. If Andrassy’s offer is allowed to
pass Europe may soon be forced to apply
harsher measures to a wider area. England
stands in a peculiarly responsible position.
MURDERED BY H18 WIFE.
Massalon, Ohio, January 17.—The wife of
Edward Richardson, a prominent citizen and
a member of Council, instantly killed him
with a pistol. She says he was approaching
her with the avowed purpose of cutting her
throat. Many suspect premeditation.
THE PRINCE OF WALES.
Calcutta, January 17.—The Prince of
Wales left Delhi for Lahore. The Rajah of
Cashmere is preparing a magnificent recep
tion.
MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.
Southwest Pass, January 17.—Several
vessels picked up bales of cotton about four
teen miles off tne bar. It is supposed that
a vessel is lost.
CLOSING CONVENTS.
London, January 17.—The Times's Berlin
correspondent says the government will
close the Ursaline Convent and school April
1st.
deranged.
London, January 17.—The telegraph wires
between London, Antwerp and Paris are de
ranged.
THE KENTUCKY SENATORSHIP.
Frankfort, Janaary 17.—The first ballot
•tood: Beck 52, Williams 40, Leslie 29, Wads*
worth 14. Lethe was withdrawn.
A Presidential Reception—A Alania for
Bate—The Radical Convention—^Wash
ington Liberality—Georgia Sole* and
Appointment**—^The Lobbyists Out-lob
bied—Odds and Ends.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Washington, D. C., Jan. 14, 1876.
A Presidential reception has always been
a lively affair, but under this glorious admin
istration it beats everything. It is a sort of a
combination,anatomical museum and circus*
All the functionaries are present, and all the
func’s friends. Every greenhorn on a wed
ding tour makes it a point to get here at
reception times and goes up in a hack. The
bride generally gets out with her skirt in her
hand, while tbe groom sports a hat that has
gone through many a racket and which he
cannot call his own. Receptions are great
places for hats. The newspaper men, who
are up to such things, generally blossom
out in new hats immediately after these oc
casions. Iu other cities the reporter ex
plains the phenomena of a new hat by a
semi-idiotic leer and the remark of “fire,”
but here they say “reception.” Last Satur
day the reception was gorgeous. Colonel
Fred Grant performed the duties
of introducing inside, aud carriages, a string
of a mile long, were dumping tneir freight
in the portico. The police at the White
House damaged their white vesta and ties
by lifting out fat proprietresses of centennial
hash houses. All the foreigners were on
deck, weak eyed Britishers iu side whiskers,
sausage eating Germans in glasses, Aris-
tarchi Bey from Turkey, Kod-dawme from
Japan, and Sam B’Ard from Ala-bamme.
It is a sad commentary on human nature to
ihink that Grant, with $50,000 a year and
perk’s, can’t set out a luuch. Third term
ers lean towards lunch, aud refreshments
are always considered- m order. The mild
mannered youth of the “card basket,” tbe
society journal, is always tbe big gun on
these occasions. He goes around and takes
down the dresses and their occupants like a
constable taking an inventory of chattels.
Girls pose for him, matrons interview him
aud beaux say “I’dloike to meet you at Wil
lard’s in ah f an ’ower,” a possible sugges
tion of fluids. All the other newspaper men
get jealous, and pronounce the “card basket”
a sickly sheet. The jostling, crowding and
hand shaking goes on, and Grant pumps
away stoically for about an hour and a half,
and then the show is over.
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION,
after a spirited contest between several
rival cities of the North, in which Washing
ton nobly tendered the Market House, Cin
cinnati was chosen as the place of meeting
for the next Republican National Conven
tion. This is said to settle Blaine’s hash,
and all his revival of old issaes and “Bloody
Shirt” and “Andersonville” matters have
gone for naught. Many of tbe Rads have
grudges against Blaine, aud G&rfiold is
fighting him for the leadership on their
side. General PhiL Cook gave him a shot
about “Elmira Prison,” which woke him up
the other day iu the midst of his oration,
aud the “Bull of the Kennebec” also took a
nice setting down from Cox. Gran*,
Morton, Bristow aud Washburne are the
talked of now, but there is something sus
picious in the ardent fellowship of the first
three. They understand each other well,
aud one oi them proposes to have the nomi
nation.
COLORED-OM.
A great change has come over the gal
leries of the House since this Congress met.
The crowds of negroes who slept and per
fumed the air are gone, and now tho gal
leries are filled with persons who have been
heretofore debarred by that dirty throng
from enjoying the debates of tbe House.
The beats are also driven from the lobby and
tbe House presents a more order!? appear
ance than it has for years. Fred Douglass
and bis crew have held a .convention to re
organize the Republican party, claiming
that the “cullud” people must be recognized
or the country is lost. A colored Capitol
policeman named Bryant, a very pompous
African, was set back on his haunches a few
days ago. He went to tbe west entrance of
the House, where a number of persons were
waiting to have their cards taken in to mem
bers. H« pushed pompously through these
people anu banding bis curd towards the
doorkeeper commandingly said: “Take dat
kyard in to Mister Walls, sail.” The door
keeper gave him a very expressive glance
and then said: “Stand back there until your
betters are waited on.” The people all
laughed and the greasy Bryant swelled up
almost to suffocation and waltzed away.
THE ARMY BILL.
The Texan members are hostile at the
thought of army reduction, and are opposed
to tbe bill contracting the force to ten
thousand men. They aver that even more
force is necessary to protect the frontier
against Mexican cattle thieves and keep the
Iudians m subjection. All the members
from tbe extreme West will work against
the measure, aud will be aided by the ter
ritorial delegates. It is not tear of Indian
depredations, as much as. tho revenue de
rived from the sale and hauling of supplies,
etc., to distant frontier posts which makes
many of these gentlemen interested.
Furthermore, military posts being selecte d
in advantageous localities, always form the
nucleus of a settlement and town. The
Western people, especially those of the
mining regions, are very averse to any re
duction of the army as the
MEXICAN CESSION
of Chihuahua aud Sonora has became with
them a certainty in a short time, and they
gaze with longiDg eyes at the vast deposits
of treasure in those States. In a former
letter I spoke of a company being organized
here to go to that region as soon as we
obtain possession, but I now hear that
some of the party will start shortly. Several
of the most important mines of Chihuahua
are now owned in New York and Philadelphia,
but the unsettled condition of that countr\
prevents their being worked. The railroad
now abont being constructed to Guaymas iu
Sonora on the Gulf of California, known as
the Rosecranz road, is a part of the scheme
of those connected with the
SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD,
and rnns through all the mineral region of
Northern Mexico. Grant in his message
refers only to the settlement of the “neu
tral zone” question, but wishes action on
that point in order that steps can be taken
by Mexico looking to a cession of the cov
eted territory in satisfaction for our claims
against her. The railroad men are here in
force, and will push their claims for subsidy
to tbe extreme during the session. Tom
Scott is a great tactician, and has already
forced a combination of tbe New York rail
road men to protect themselves against his
combinations. He is on the go a great deal
of his lime and appears here occasionally,
valise in hand, to dodge around amongst
his forces and disappear again. Tom is not
using any of the professional lobby to aid
him, and Sam Ward has to make “pig’s
ears” satisfy him, while the other
ODDS AND ENDS.
General Maxwell, the United States Mar
shal of Utah,is here in suspense,and the Mor*
mons are determined to make things lively
for him. A petition of twenty-three thousand
Mormon women, asking the repeal of the
anti-polygamy laws, etc., was presented in
tbe Senate by Sargent, of California, and
referred to the Judiciary Committee. It is
said that Dr. Mary Walker, who is now at
Salt Lake, is manipulating with a view of
being elected on the sorosis-breeches ticket
upon the admission of Utah.
Belknap fell heavily in Iowa. With all his
working ud the Federal offices, gathering
the clans and giving tomb-stone contracts
aud sntlerships to his Iowa friends, he gath
ered only 13 out of 110 votes for the Setia-
torship. Thus one of the clique has fallen,
and, as the virtuous Zack says, “knows how
it is himself.”
Hon. Dan Yoorhees is here on crooked
whisky business.
The floors of the Congressional library are
filled with books for which there is no room,
and Congress is asked for a separate building
to accommodate this mass of literature.
Ben Butler kindly suggests that his house
near the Capitol is for sale, while Castle
Stewart, the mausoleum of the “ Little
Emma Mine,” is also in the market.
A delegation of a thousand Pennsylvani
ans, excarting at two dollars & head, took
in the city on Wednesday. They marched
from one point of interest to another, pre
ceded by a brass band, and, after sh&King
bands with the administration and gather
ing up “ trophies,” left the same evening.
The report of the Secretary,of War con
tains an interesting account of tbe recon-
noisance of the Black Hills, but while giv
ing a good description of the country tbe
engineer officers found but little gold.
The District ring are hard at work after
appropriations, bnt the committee proposes
to see that they get only what they are en
titled to, and no more. Shepherd’s plan of
“capturing” has rather failed him, at least
he has made no sign as yet.
The order of the “ Stars and Stripes,” the
remnant of the “ Union League ” and
“Grand Army of the Republic,” is trying
to extend its circle further than among tbe
clerks at Washington. The “Grand Army”
onlv performed two acts during its exist
ence—one was to make John A. Logan Sen
ator from Illinois, and the other to make
Timothy Luby Water Registrar of Wash
ington.’ They then demised to slow music.
Senator Jones, of Florida, delivered f few
appropriate remarks on the death of Andrew
Johnson after the eulogy by Senator Mc-
Creery.
Five of the Georgia delegation are quar
tered adjacent to each other, on Thirteenth
street, near “ F.” They can thus hold little
conventions very easily when necessary.
Cyclops.
lobbyists
are running after Throckmorton, of Texas,
for a “sight” as they term it. Don Piatt
being piqued at not having an offer, has
opened his batteries of ridicule on J. T.
Ford, proprietor of Ford’s Opera House here,
aud a theatre in Baltimore. Ford comes back
on Don and throws mud on Don’s character
as diplomat, warrior and journalist, but ad
mits him a success on Pacific Mail. The
combat is interesting and the papers are
filled with Sbakespc-rian quotations collated
by the stock of the rival theatres. The
lobbyists pronounce this a Door Congress
for business, owing to there being so many
green members amongst them.
OKLAHOMA.
The Rosses, Adairs, Boudinots, etc., are
marshaled here already, backed by the
Arkansas delegation principally, pushing
lor Territorial government in the Iudiau
Territory with the poetical title of Ockla-
homa. Most of the Hoble lieds are opposed
to the bill, bat the aforesaid are able half-
breeds, and, if they succeed, will hold the
reins of power. This will stop the annual
rifle contests at election times in tbe na
tions, and the chivalrons Cherokee, courtly
Chickasaw, crusty Creek and corpulent
Choctaw will sigh for tbe good old times
when “stiffs” lay thick through the Terri
tory, and the population was kept from
overcrowding by judicious gunning. The
Indian Territory Las sufficient population
for admission as & State, and should
come in, so that we might have Albert Pike
and Dick Wintersmith on the floor of the
Senate.
GEORGIANS, ETC.
The Georgia delegation held a meeting a
few evening* since, and selected Morgan
Rawls and Frank Lamar for the two positions
which Georgia will receive in the Clerk’s
office of the House. They are both happy—
Rawls on account of tbe dozen little mouths,
and Lamar because he dislikes tbe dishonor
of defeat, and has an appreciation of filthy
lucre that generates in a man after gazing
on the Treasury for a few months. The
Doorkeeper has appointed J. L. Knight, of
Georgia, Folder; A. W. Reese, of Georgia,
Superintendent of Document Room, and N.
G. Henderson, of Florida, Folder. A young
man named Finder, of Savannah, has just
arrived, and is desirous of entering the army
as a Second Lieutenant and slaying nomads
at the $125 a month. Messrs. J. At
kins, oi -h, and Fannin, of Augusta,
are ro^ smertment <& hotel*.
The Centennial Farce.
Cervantes is credited with having
“laughed Spain’s chivalry away,” and Mr.
Blaine will hereafter be given the doubt
ful honor of haying cursed American pa
triotism into sudden paralysis!
In the Centennial year of the nation’s
life, when the memories of an hundred
years in glorious majority are crowding
upon us, when we have proclaimed a year
of jubilee and sent out word to all the
nations of earth to come and be with ns
at the fete of our Centennial birth-day,
one bitter and discordant voice has broke
rudely in upon the rising anthem of the
Union and drowned the reconciliations of
patriots.
The people of the South desire the
Centennial to have its projected consum
mation. The are ready to lend their
power and means to this end; they are
true to the traditions and aspirations of
the past, and have been hopeful of the
beneficient births of the future. To credit
them with obstinate opposition to the
Philadelphia exhibition, is to do Uiem
groRs injustice. But to credit them with
regard for the show, with interest in its
object, with a desire to aid it in any par
ticular, with a disposition to become a
part of it, with care for its out-comings,
after the refusal of amnesty to them in
free and unqualified measure, is to do
them the grossest injustice. To credit
them with the want of such self-respect,
of such pride of ancestry and birth
rights, of such hypocrisy before the
world, of such craven truculence and
such abnegation of honest spirit and up
right manhood, is to pronounce them at
once unfit for citizenship, and fit subjects
for serfdom.
Iu the face of accredited representa
tives of all the nations of earth, from the
dusky kingdom of the Sandwich Islands,
to China, Japan, Turkey, and on through
the list of civilized and enlightened
Christian governments up to Great Bri
tain, the people of the South are asked
to stand shouting huzzas and singing
peans to “the best government the world
ever saw,” to the government which
makes profert of its country as the one
of unrestrained freedom, the home of
liberty, the asylum of the oppressed,
while thousands of these same Southern
people are disfranchised, out-lawed and
held up to the execration of their fellow
men as the greatest of criminals—crim
inals for whom no earthly pardon is
provided.
While such a spectacle is presented to
the world there can be no Centennial,
there can be no re-union of hearts and
hands, no general re-lighting of the fires
of true and lofty American patriotism.
Yet the South does not desire the con
tinuance of this fearful spectacle. It is
ready to kindle the Centennial fires upon
every Southern altar, but not until the
spirit which teaches the duty is recog
nized as fully by the North as it is by the
South. We are a unit for the Centennial
if it is to be a Centennial in fact, and we
are a unit against it if it is to be a gigan -
tic farce enacted to the audience of the
assembled globe. We say, earnestly,
“Millions for a Centennial, but not one
dollar for this farce !”—Atlanta Consti
tution.
A Danbury Mau Goes a Docking.
Our scientific men and journals should
give their attention to the solution of the
phenomenon in man which prompts him
to leave ever so good a business to go
hunting or fishing in cold weather. We
really think that people at large are more
directly interested in an explanation of
this peculiarity than they are in the Cen
tennial. Levi is a well-to-do Danbury
farmer. His fields of waving grain stretch
over hill and dale when it is time for them,
and his Kome is bay-windowad. Levi
went duck-hunting, one day last week.
It was a cold, wretched day—a mean con
temptible, dishonorable, depressing,
home-sickening day. There was not a
particle of snow on the ground. The roads
were gray and hard with eddies of du6t
constantly circling above them, while the
fields were brown and bleak. And so this
man, surroundfd by a happy home, de
liberately went duck-hunting. He went to
Neversink pond, five miles away. He got
into a boat and paddled around for some
little time, but no duck appeared. Still
that didn’t matter. People like him
rarely expect to see anything to shoot,
and more rarely expect to hit it. He was
paddling about near shore and watching
the reeds with as much intensity as if
there were really anything to come out
from them, when suddenly a duck rose
just before him, and started to sail
directly over his head. He was sitting
on the stern of the boat, with the gun
between bis legs. Immediately he
dropped the oar, and snatched up the
gun. The bird was just over his head.
He raised the weapon to his shoulder
with a rapid movement, and at the same
time his feet kindly but impulsively
raised themselves from the bottom of the
boat, and were the next instant glisten
ing, soles upward, towards the firmament.
And they were all, for the instan'., that
could be seen of one of the well-to-do
farmers of Danbury. How he got out of
the water and on to the shore he cannot
satisfactorily explain,but he was thought
ful enough to discharge one barrel of the
gun when he was going over and another
when he was under the water. He started
for home at once, his clothes stiffening
with the frost as he advanced. He re
ported his adventure when he got home.
The report of a duck being seen on^tev-
ersink pond spread with the impetuosity
of wildfire over the village, and the next
day the avenues leading towards Never
sink were thronged with men, boys, dogs
and guns. It is hardly necessary to say
that Levi, having changed his clothes, was
in the van.
That duck is not on Neversink pond
now. We don’t know where it is.—Dan-
burgtfm*c.
The Convention Bill.
[From tbe Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.]
We cannot approve the bill to call a con-
, vention introduced in the House of Repre
sentatives of this State by Mr. Candler, on
Thursday last, and referred to a select com
mittee of nine for consideration and report.
Our first objection is cne of technicality and
style. The proposed title is “An act to au
thorize and require the Governor of the
State of Georgia to call a convention of the
people thereof to revise the State constitu
tion,” and we suggest that the Governor
cannot call a convention nor can the
General Assembly authorize him so
to do. His Excellency may, if so di
rected by the Legislature, perform any
executive act i n connection with tbe calling
or assemblage of a State convention, such
as issuing a proclamation stating the time
and manner in which a convention election
shal: be held, or the time and place for the
meeting of such a body, and this is really
what the body of the bill contemplates, but
the caption as it stands does not indicate
the lact. It is “ to authorize and require
the Governor of the State of Georgia to call
a convention of the people thereof,” and,
with every respect for Mr. Candler, this is
not only illegal, but absurd. The constitu
tion of 1868 provides as follows :
“The Legislative, Executive and Judicial
Departments shall be distinct; and each de
partment shall be confided to a separate
body of magistracy. No person or collection
of persons, being of one department, shall
exercise any power properly attached to
either of the others, except in cases herein
expressly provided.” (Bill of Rights, sec
tion 31), and also that :
“Legislative acts in violation of this Con
stitution, or the constitution of tLe United
States, are void, and the judiciary shall so
declare them. (Ib. section 32.)
Now, does the constitution of 1968 “ex
pressly provide,” in any part of it, that the
Governor, the head of the Executive Depart
ment of the State Government, may exer
cise so supreme and important a function of
the legislative branch as to call a constitu
tional convention—the highest law making
body in American politics ? If there be no
such express provision iu the constitution,
the legislative act which might “authorize
and require the Governor of the
State of Georgia to call a convention
of the peonle thereof to revise the
state constitution” would infringe the
first section just quoted, and be, therefore,
absolutely void. Now, we nowhere find it
“expressly provided” in the present organic
law of this State that tho Governor may
call a State convention, even if so dir acted
by the Legislature. It is provided in
Article XII that the General Assembly may
“call a convention of the people,'* provided
that the representation therein be based
upon population, and that uoue now
authorized to vote be disqualified from
voting for delegates thereto, but there is no
provision whereby the Governor may call
such a convention upon any conditions.
Further than this, the convention when
called by the Governor is, according to the
bill, to be a convention “to revise tne State
constitution.” Revise means “to review,
alter and amend, as to revise statutes”—
Webster; aud we are not at all sure but that
the process marked out iu the constitution
of 1868 by which it may be amended is the
only way. The provision is: “This con
stitution may be amended by a two-thirds
vote of two successive Legislatures,* and
by a submission of the amendment to
tbe qualified voters for final ratifica
tion,” aud it is the opinion of a very learned
writer upon constitutional conventions,
Judge Jameson, that where a particular
method of amending a constitution is thus
pointed out no o»her method can be resorted
to, unlesB custom, that unwritten law, sanc
tions it. Now it unfortunately happens
that the Legislature ol 1874 in its insane
aud ignominous fear of a convention
adopted certain resolutions declaring that
it was the time honored usage iu Georgia
from 1798 to 1861 to amend the consti
tution only as above pointed out, and
that conventions “have never been re
sorted to for that purpose in Georgia,
except where demanded by revolution as in
1861, 1865 and 1868”—thus denying the
grqund of custom on which alone an amend
ment by convention can be justified when
another process is pointed oat in the consti
tution itself. Even, however, if the legality
of such a convention were beyond cavil and
the constitutionality of its action could not
be afterwards impugned, we object most
decidedly and positively to any such po
litical eunuch as a convention simply
“to revise the State constitution.” If we
are to have a convention at all, and we
ardently favor the assemblage of such a
body, let its object be “to frame a consti
tution for the State ol Georgia.” The pres
ent instrument is the work of alien hands;
it has on'y been even endurable because its
administration has been wrenched away
from those who made it, bat if there is to be
aoy change, let us “reform it altogether.”
The people of North Carolina, Alabama,
Arkansas and Texas shame the public
manhood of Georgia by spurning in toto
the foreign law imposed upon them and
framing at the earliest moment organic
laws of their own. They have erected the
political temple to suit themselves and not
simply scoured and whitewashed the de
serted brothels of departed licentiousness,
and thought the furnished dsn of infamy
good enough. Let us have no constitutional
cobbling, but a fundamental law of and for
Georgia from the ground up.
Coming to the body of the bill, we might
pause upon the third, or apportionment,
section and ask if this meets constitutional
requisition that “the representation in said
Convention shall be based on population.”
The Senatorial districts are called election
districts, bat are Senatorial districts for all
tnat, and we have doubts as to whether those
districts were ever constituted with such an
eye singly to numbers, as the constitutional
rule of apportionment demands, but will
nut press that point, vital as it is, just now.
Nor is it necessary to dilate upou so much
of the first section as says that the con
vention is to meet “for the purpose of revis
ing the constitution of the Btate,” having
already given reasons for holding that it
should be “for the purpose of framing a
constitution for tho State of Georgia.”
But the great aud main objection is that
if the Legislature pass this or any like bill
it but perpetrates in a different form the
same outrage upon the reserved rights of
the people of this State as was committed
by the General Assembly of 1873-74. That
body was so vehemently opposed to a con
vention that it deliberately voted down a
proposition to allow the people to sav at
the ballot-box whether they desired a
convention or not. This abominable in
fraction of one of tbe cardinal tenets of
free government has never been rebuked,
as it should have been, and hence, no
doubt, the mediiated repetition now of
the same wrong. The present Legislature,
swinging to the other extreme, proposes to
call a convention without consulting the
wishes of the people of this State thereon.
We warmly and heartily favor a convention; I
wo have long urged the assemblage of such
a body with every argument m our power,
and would rejoice to know that at last Geor
gia was to enter on the same path of dig
nity, security and self-respect, in which, to
our shame and mortification, her sister
States have long preceded her, but we want
the convention called and held properly]
when it is called and is held.
The arrogation of sovereign power by the
Legislature of this State is not to be borne.
Usurpation is still usurpation, even if our
own friends commit it, and commit it in en
tire parity of heart, and we protest earnestly
and positively against any second attempt
—even if the attempt be this time in favor
of a convention—to forestall the will or
muzzle the voice of the people of this State
upon the subject of an organic law therefor.
Let the question of convention or no con
tention be submitted to tbe people, dele
gates at the same time to be voted for, in
• be event the convention is carried, and let
the object of the convention be to frame a
constitution for the State of Georgia.
An Irish Monster.—An extraordinary
monster was seen a few days ago at Fo-
dera, near Loophead Lighthouse, which
is situated on the most western point of
the County Clare, in Ireland, It is thus
described : Its head and neck resemble a
horse, and are of a reddish hue; it has
short, round ears, and flowing mane, and
from the poll extend two branching horns
like that of a stag, underneath which
were eyes glaring and protruding. It
made directly for the narrator; who was
on the side of the steep rock. He at
once ran out of reach of the monster,
whose approach looked anything but
friendly. It then rose high cut of the
water and plunged with such force as to
cause the water to fly so far and in such
quantities as to drench the observer to
the skin, he standing forty feet back
from the water at the time. It remained
near thirty or forty minutes, never dis
appearing a moment from view, bnt rear
ing its huge body partly out of the water
and giving a chance for further observa
tion. It was observed to have the tail of
a porpoise and two large fins from the
shoulders, and on the breast were two
large fatty lumps, which shook with every
motion of the body. It then shaped its
course westward, still keeping its head
and neok well elevated. Its bulk far ex-
ooodod that of the largest porpois j ever
MtnastiM
SUPPOSED HYDROPHOBIA.
Death «f a Man In Brooklyn from the
Bite of a Cat. -
Coroner Simms was called on a day or
two since to hold an inquest on the body
of Hugh Murray, aged twenty-four years,
who died at the corner of Baltic street
and Albany avenue on Sunday from hy
drophobia, caused by the bite of a eat.
He was attended*by Dr. John D. Sulli
van, 493 Tompkins avenue, who gave the
following statement of the case:
Hugh Murray was about twenty-four
years of age, a working man of sober
habits and healthy condition of body and
mind. About the 19th of October last,
while acting as night watchman of certain
new buildings in this city, he saw a cat in
one of them and tried to drive it out.
Instead of going, it being up on one of
the timbers, it jumped down at him,
and, alighting upon his shoulder, “made
at his throat,” as he expressed it He
tried to get it off, and it gripped him on
the nose, making a very slight wound.
The wound was so trivial that he paid no
attention to it; said there was merely
blood enough to soil his handkerchief,
and it healed up rapidly. I suppose
he forgot about it soon after, and had.
therefore, no imaginings on the subject,
as some are said to have had who have died
from hydrophobia, as supposed. Last
Thursday, while working outside, he felt
an acute pain in his nose, which was
probably the first symptom of the disease,
but thought he bad taken cold. That
night he had considerable headache and
felt languid, but resumed his work on
Friday, and although quite indisposed,
kept at work that day. On Saturday
afternoon I was called in for the first
time, and found him m bed, but looking
quite well. But while talking to him ne
suddenly jerked up, all his muscles going
into a spasm. After telling me of his
difficulty in drinking, I called for a glass
of water and handed it to him. As he
took it his hand began to tremble, and
only with great effort he succeeded at
last in getting it to his mouth and taking
a mouthful. When I saw the symptoms
were fully developed I asked him about
it, and he said that for the last two or
three days he had had darting pains in
his nose. There was, however, no swell
ing about tbe soot, nor any dislocation.
I saw him again yesterday morning, and
his symptoms having become more in
tense in every way, in spite of the reme
dies I had applied, I sought a consulta
tion with another physician, and called
in Dr. Pilcher. When Dr. Pilcher ar
rived in the afternoon the symptoms
were still worse although the sedatives
were increased, and we thought the
steam bath was the only thing that could
help him. However, there were no fa
cilities for it there, and when I went to
the police station for an ambulance, in
tending to take him to the hospital,
where a bath could be had, I could not
get one. It was, however, then too late.
He was jumping and struggling violently,
his agony being awful to witness. We
finally concluded to let him alone, and he
went rapidly into collapse, remaining in
a very low condition until 2 o’clock this
morning, when he died from sheer ex
haustion.
The doctor said further that the patient
did not know at any time that he bad
hydrophobia, and that he always said if
they could only take tbe difficulty out of
his throat that he would be all right. He
was quite sane till near the last, when in
one of his attacks of delirium he asked if
they were ffoing to shoot him.—N. T.
World.
Thanks to Mr. Hill, of Georgia.
The speech of Mr. Hill, of Georgia,
seems to have created no little excite
ment among the Radicals, and some of
our Democratic friends at the North pro
fess to believe it was imprudent and, in a
partisan sense, damaging.
For all that, the speech was very able,
it was closely logical and struck straight
at the conclusions reached by Mr. Blaine,
of Maine, overthrowing them so thorough
ly that Mr. Garfield was forced to disa
vow the very thesis which the whole of
Blaine’s argument set out to establish.
We cannot but believ^ too, that the
speech was timely. Mr. Blaine’s argu
ment was two fold: first, that Mr. Davis
was responsible for atrocities practiced
by the Confederacy on its prisoners of
war; second, that it is right to punish
him for this by excluding him from am
nesty. Mr. Cox handled this latter branch
of Mr. Blaine's attempt, and showed up
the Presidency seeker by recalling the
fact that the argument was better two
years ago than now. Yet Mr. Blaine
supported then an amnesty bill, inclusive
of Mr. Davis. Taking this inconsistency
for his target Mr. Cox riddled it without
mercy and left Mr. Blaine's conduct as
full of holes as a Reive, and opposed to it
he contrasted a statesman’s course under
the circumstances: a statesman’s appre
ciation that mutual wounds are not healed
by mutual recriminations.
So far, so good; but so far Mr. Blaine’s
main point lay still untouched, the point
that the Confederacy was barbarous in
its treatment of its prisoners, and that
Mr. Davis was responsible. To this Mr.
Hill devoted himself and showed wherein
the responsibility really lay—with the
Cabinet and officers of the administration
at Washington.
No wonder that his array of the unan
swerable, the damning facts was unwel
come to both Democrats and to Republi
cans of the North. It is bitter to them,
but it is true, and it is due to us that the
truth be known. Conquered peoples
write few* histories, but the people of the
late Confederacy will not rest satisfied
till the truth of this matter, as well as
some others, is fully shown to the world
at large.
Mr. Hill is entitled to our thanks for
doing his duty to history, to himself and
to us, and for doing it firmly and with the
honest heat fit to be felt by him who re
pels a disgraceful slander and fixes where
it belongs a responsibility nothing less
than terrible.—Norfolk Virginian.
A Sad and Singular Death.
In New York, on Thursday night last, a
Swede by the name of John Knight
pushed his wife down six steps which led
to a cellar, in Water street, near Roose
velt. She fell through the glass in a win
dow frame forming part of a door at the
foot of the stairs, and the glass cut her
throat in such a manner as to cause her
death shortly after. The woman was an
habitual drinker, and when under the
influence of liquor, was very violent and
quarrelsome with her husband. About 6
o’clock Knight came home from his day's
labor and met his wife in the hallway of
their residence. She had just returned
from the grocery store, and had in her
hands a pitcher of milk, a bottle of kero
sene oil and a tin kettle full of
beer. Knight remonstrated with her for
buying beer, and she became enraged and
threw the bottle of keiosene oil at him.
It struck the wall, and its contents were
scattered over the entry floor. Knight
turned to flee into the street, but she,
dropping her pitcher of milk, pursued
him with the tin kettle in her hand, and
when she reached the head of the flight
of steps leading into the cellar of Mr.
Hefferan’s house, which is next door, she
attempted to strike him on the head with
the kettle. Knight turned quickly on her
and placing his hand on the back of her
neck gave her a slight push which sent
her down the stone steps. The doors at
the fzot had several glass panes in
them, and she struck her head on
the sash of one and shattered it.
Her neck came into contact with
the broken glass, which proved strong
enough to give her the fatal injuries.
When Knight saw what he had done he
leaped to her side, put his arms around
her, passionately kissing her, and cned:
“What have I done ? What have I done?
I have killed my Mary, and they will
hang me !” The doctor arrived in a few
moments, but found it impossible to do
anything for the dying woman. In three
minutes more she was dead. Knight was
frantic in exclamations of self-reproach
and remorse. As soon as he knew that
his wife was really dead he embraced her
and then delivered himself np as a pris
oner at the Fourth Preeinct Station House,
To the Editor of the N. Y. Sun :
Sib—My attention haa been called to
the subjoined extract from the Sun ol
December 28:
E. M. Randall, Chief Justice of Florida
writes that the aocount published in the
Sun respecting a case which was recentlv
tr ed before him is utterly untrue- that
he did not sell a tract of land to a suitor
in his court for an amount of monev
la- gely in excess of its real value; and
that he has “never sold any property to
any one interested in any bonds or in any
litigation or question before any court”
The Sun’s article was condensed from the
Jacksonville corrrspondence of the Sa
vannah News, a newspaper which is gen
erally correct in its statements.
It were worse than folly to measure
lances with a Chief Justice, or to advance
such charges as I did without being well
fortified in my position by facts. I de
nounced E M. Randall over the rum de
plume of “Adrianas,” in the Morning
News, because the salvation of those free
institutions that have been so much
talked about, and so little respected
lately, lies in the incorruptibility of the
judiciary, and because I estimate E. M.
Randall as a venal Judge and a political
charlatan. Suppressing farther comment
for the purpose of economizing space. I
subnit my sworn statement be . in
corroboration of my asseveration :
First—On the 10th day of February,
1871, E. M. Randall conveyed unto m!
H. Alberger the lot known as lot 6,
block 43, in the city of Jacksonville, the
consideration, according to the deed,
being $5,000.
Second—M. II. Alberger, the pur
chaser, was universally regarded as the
accredited agent of Littlefield, Dibble and
associates, who were engaged or ex
pected to engage in litigation in the
Supreme Court of Florida.
Third—E. M. Randall subsequently
stated to a gentleman, whose affidavit
can be produced whenever demanded,
that the price which he had received^
was $7,500, and such was the general im
pression.
Fourth—The assessed valuation of lot
6, block 4;;, for 1875, is exactly twenty -
five hundred dollars.
Fifth—The transaction between Alber
ger and Randall was looked upon as a
direct bribe by the people.
Sixth—An examination of Florida re
ports will convince any unbiased person
of the suspicious partiality of the Chief
Justice toward the parties whose agent
Alberger was.
Seventh — It is commonly believed
among the respectable people of the State
of Florida that E. M. Randall prostituted
the ermine of his court for the sake of
gain.
To all of which I swear, to the best of
my information, knowledge and belief.
Thos. A. Britt.
Sworn and subscribed to before me, in
the city of Jacksonville, Duval county,
State of Florida, this 4th day of January,
A. D. 1876. C. P. Cooper,
Notary Public.
Representative Hill's Speech.
[From tho llartfonl Times.]
The speech of the Hon. B. H. Hill, of
Georgia, in the House on Tuesday, in re
ply to Mr. Blaine, was, in the expression
of true Union sentiments, in excellent
taste and spirit. Most favorably do the
views of the Georgian contrast with the
remarks of the Representative from Maine.
Mr. Hill would not reopen the ill feeling
between tbe sections of the country which
had already suffered enough from feuds.
He and his Southern Associates had come
into Congress “with the patriotic idea
to remember nothing but the country
and the whole country.” They were
determined to turn their backs upon
the horrors of the past, and look
with earnestness for the glories of the
future.” Here are true Union sentiments.
Here is a pledge on the part of an influ
ential and leading Southern representa
tive that the people of his section are to
act in harmony with the other parts of
the Union for the preservation of friendly
relations and the good of the country.
There is no longer any slavery to fight
over or to rouse angry passions, and the
Southern people desire peace, harmony
and a glorious Union. Why cannot
such sentiments be met by equally
patriotic and statesmanlike views by
tbe leading Republicans of the
North and Republican aspirants for
the Presidency? The great war in the
family is ended—its cause abolished.
Now let us. in the spirit of Hill and La
mar and other Southern Representatives,
have peace, union and prosperity. The
South has no cause for hostility to the
Union. Her interests, her sentiments,
her happiness lead in the direction of
friendship with the North. Aud it is
equally certain that the interests of the
North lie in the same direction. If the
war was fought out by the North to per
petuate eternal hatred and dissensions
among the people of this country, the
speech of Mr. Blaine is in order; but if it
was to preserve the UnioD, and make a
united and prosperous country, that
speech is ill-timed, and tends to harm,
while that of the Georgian is to be com
mended.
It is to be regretted that Mr. Blaine
opened a discussion over the hardships of
Audersonville, which forced a reply and
a defense. Mr. Hill regretted tbe neces
sity, but the speech of Mr. Blaine com
pelled him to allude to Elmira, Belle Isle,
etc., and the hardships which the South
ern prisoners endured. His story was
equal in horror to that of Blaine, hut he
had the good sense to say that war brings
suffering and death: and that chief execu
tives of nations cannot possibly avert
most of the horrors of war. Mr. Hill
brought out the old facts, long ago dis
cussed, of the refusal of Secretary Stan
ton to exchange prisoners and relieve
much suffering; and that he even re
fused for near four months to take the
sick Union soldiers without an exchange at
a time when the South could hardly pro
vide for its own soldiers or for prisoners;
and he speaks of the fact that the Federal
War Department made medicines for the
sick contraband of war—an order un
known to other civilized nations. Bnt
why rake up and blazon forth these
things again, in the Centennial year, and
ten years after they were put at rest ?
Mir. Hill assumed that he was compelled
to state these facts in reply to the
arraignment of Mr. Blaine of Jefferson
Davis, and his recapitulation of Ander
sonville horrors. He did not desire to
speak of these things. He longed for
peace and friendship, and hoped that
the ill-feelings and the hardships, and the
abuses that appeared in a war among the
people of a common country, might be
considered as past and buried, giving
way to fraternal feelings and the union
of a people devoted to their country and
friendly to their mutual interests. It is
to be hoped that this one experiment of
Mr. Blaine will satisfy him and his party
friends. If not, the appeal will of course
go to the people, and they will decide
whether the country is to be continually
involved in angry strife and disturbed
by the worst of passions, or to accept the
earnest appeals of the Southern repre
sentatives for peace and those friendly
relations which are essential to the glory
and prosperity of a republic.
An Economical Mourner.—The Cin
cinnati Commercial tells this story:
“Many readers of the Commercial will re
member the unfortunate accident to Dr.
F. Glessner, who died from the effects of
a fall down a flight of stairs about a year
since, while in the act of leaving the
room of a brother artist, on Vine street,
between Fifth and Sixth. He was a very
eccentric character, and for many years
lived a retired life. He had few asso
ciates, and, we believe, did not corre
spond with or visit his only living rela
tives, two brothers, who live in the
northern part of the State. Hi3 ha|bits
were very economical, and out of; his
earnings he had saved quite a Deat little
sum, part of which was invested in
real estate in Columbiana county,
and the remainder was found
among his personal effects m
a dingy room in the Ohio Medical Col-
lege, on Sixth street, which he had oc-
cupied for many years. After the death
of Dr. Glessner a telegram was sent to
his two brothers, informing them of the
sad event, and two days later they arrived
in the city and attended the funeral. An
Administrator was appointed by the Pro-
bate Judge to settle up the affairs of tho
deceased, and among other items pre
sented was a bill of one of the brothers
amounting to $47 50, itemized as follows:
Traveling expenses to and from Cincin
nati, hotel bills, etc., $40: three days
time attending funeral, at $2 50 a day,
$7 50. The Administrator, having plen-
tv of funds, and being aware of the fact
■■ ■ after all bills are paid the remainder