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WRAP THE h n W( . wrap the baby in? ^ 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 t 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