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Affairs in Georgia,
enjoying mosquitoes.
ThTSon". Potiphar Peagreen, of Tugaloo,
, , t . ,,k the usury laws stringent
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If Potty is alter an astringent,
he ought
i take creosote and chloroform.
woU lJ do the business.
\Ve urmt elsewhere a prospectus of the
i is one of the best and
i of our exchanges,
usta Constitutionalist learns
Shields, his attending phy-
Mr. Stephens’s condition had
lewhat for the better yesterday.
t Dr.
mo:t feai
The
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sician, t
changed
The fever was apparently abating, the
thermal therm >m ter showing a less aver-
temperature than on the day before.
It .nbsided Sunday night at 12 o’clock, and
did not begin to rise untii noon yesterday.
The high
nt registered by the ther
mometer to
. in. yesterday was 101i de
grees.
Here is something spontaneous from the
Rutledge reporter of the Madison Home
'f ,, irn , The Savannah News is now the
leading paper of the South, and one of the
best newspapers in tho United States. It
is a rehab: political journal, and gives the
ariety of general news. With its
B 1 '
able and numerous corps of editors, all de
partin'
euts are well represented, and filled
with mutter to suit all classes of readers.
Mr. Haywood Barrow, an oldjcitizen of
West Point, is dead.
Spalding county is blessed with horse-
thieves.
A negro named Charles Blount has been
arrested in Augusta, charged with attempt
ing to assassinate Dr. Pritchard at the Sand
Hills.
The Forsyth (Monroe county) Advertiser
guvs that Mr. Loriug Wadley, son of Col.
Wm. M. Wadley, President of the Central
Railroad, has a farm of several hundred
acres near Bolingbroke, on the Atlanta di
vision of the Central Railroad. A large
portion of the farm is under a good plank
fence, and in a short while all the fencing
will be built of good plank and will be such
a protection as will last a long time. Mr.
W. pursues the wise policy of first making
an ample supply of provisions for man and
beast, and after a sufficient acreage of land
is devoted to that use he plants the surplus
in cotton. Corn, oats, wheat and bacon
are raised in abundant quantities on his
farm. Recently he slaughtered four hogs
averaging in weight, net, three hun
dred and twenty-nine and one-half pounds,
nine averaging two hundred and seventeen
pounds, and thirteen averaging one hundred
and fifty-seven and one-half pounds. The
hands that work on the place are hired for
standing wages and are paid promptly. If
they do not squarely come up to their work
they are paid off and discharged. The farm is
managed with the same system, method and
energy as a railroad, and such management
is already telling. Dump carts are kept
constantly busy hauling manure, from the
woods, barnyards and wherever anything
valuable as a fertilizer can be found. This
is composted, and a good and cheap manure
is obtained, lu a few years, we doubt
not, Mr. Wadley will have the most valua
ble farm in Monroe county, if not in Mid
dle Georgia. The family of Col. Wadley
reside on the farm, and the busy railroad
king himself finds time to spend one or two
clays of each week with them. The removal
of Col. Wadley and family to Monroe was a
valuable acquisition to the county, and this
admirable way of farming and improvement
will find many followers. If the majority
have not the funds that Col. W. can com
mand, they can at least do something in the
way of improving their homes and making
their farming profitable.
An anonymous correspondent, writing
from Charlton county, sends us the follow
ing. for the truthfulness of which we do
not vouch ; “The community of Centre-
village, Charlton county, Ga., was aroused
not loug since by the mysterious disappear
ance ot a Mr. Mark Driggers, which was as
Mr. Driggers was a native of Bul
loch county, (11., but for the last two or
three years had resided near Centrevillage.
He was a highly respected gentleman, but,
unfortunately, like a great many of our best
m°n. he was a slave to that demon, ‘liquor.’
V.' r ’ IV1!, S beeu under the influence of
intoxicating liquors for about two weeks, his
ne disordered, which finally re-
total ciaziness; after a day and
ng, he escaped from his family
i mile to th • house of Mr.
. D.Giusua, and told him he had been a
pnsoner in the hands of some demons who
intended murdering him, and all the white
men they could catch ; that he was going to
the houses of all his neigh-
, and put them on their guard ;
snu insisted on Gibson going
with
l — wij UI”?UU gui ug
f^ ' ,^ ut ^' r - discovering from his act
ions that he was laboring under some de
rangement, endeavored to dissuade him
, r ° :u 8)13 intended course. He would not
infl m aD .- v ar snment, neither would he
0 near to him, but seemed
» Cun?! "ua: . oxpecting to be pursued
h'etTd 6 UU0 ’ aDt *’ back from where
» ' • : 'l c ni ‘ng: ’ and run for a swamp near
him Jr*k a0D &ttem Ptod to keep sight of
n , but l lw uistppeared in the bushes, and,
him • d t * lil ” UDt search was made for
i n, not r;u . whatever could be found past
a JS 6 ;vas 8ee n by Mr. Gibson until
th . <♦ or *Jiore afterwards he was fouud in
d P , -‘ ar . v ’s river, near Woodstock,
: d partly eaten bv the fish. He
fooodilxrat kia 8 °“ 8 P “ P ° r3 that were
i person.”
Florida Affairs.
t is rumored that Walls, colored, will be
a candidate for Governor. We would vote
for him
Purman'
Ju preference to Stearns.
now
s electioneering band-wagon is
Then
undergoing a coat of paint.
&:e nifhors afloat that McLin will
- -audidate for Governor. This is alto-
g T ;'; r 100 muc h- We prefer Stearns,
i, ere ^ ave been inquries of late as to the
^ °f ‘“Adrianos,” our sprightly Jack
sonville ,
fnllv
'^respondent. Those who care-
' rea ‘-l yesterday’s Morning News are no
S' r in ii'mbt. Randall has found out who
, la by this time. “Adri
ly entered u
•ianus” has not fair-
•alviUaiaj and
upon his duty of exposing Radi-
UC€ gets settled down
corruption, and when he
... to work, our readers
expect something lively.
utapa are not unusual in Monticello.
Ua • -hem when he was a boy.
^ . en 15 Littlefield to take possession of
tun i ^ aD< ^ Railroad ? It is about
a! 6 ris ‘ D K to the surface,
the C , t0 *be Monticello Constitution
preg lJ4&ntfcr,< of Jeffc ‘ r80n county say that the
1 K season is altogether different, in
the
rfcs pect, to any of its predecessors since
been
" ar ’ Heretofore field hands have
n®ceg- 8Citr aU(i C0Dbi derable tact was
uh to secure labor at a reasonable
^ nce - -Now labor i:
toand,
in excess of the de-
j^and the darkieB are hunting homes,
Th g * ° f llie 11011168 bunting the darkies,
t* * oula indicate that the planters in-
° Cuntr act thoir cotton planting opera
tions,
Th
been 6- 1V ° Times sa y 8 three men have
bicfcJ 0 , towu duri Hg the week, passing
ire ru kr 8 aD( ^ ^ orwar ds on the train, who
Art * DD,D ® 4 three-card monte game. They
toone* rf J pp08e< * 10 be passing counterfeit
book oat for them. From a Jack*
J- H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
sonville paper of a later date we learn that
two of these swindlers were arrested at Me-
IntoBh station, No. 3, Atlantic and Gulf
Bailroad. They are now confined in jail at
that point under five separate charges.
They had just succeeded in cheating a pas
senger out of $175, and had leaped from the
train, but were chased and captured. The
third confederate of this infamous gang
is now thought to be in that city.
Lloyd Brown, colored,who brutally cut his
wife s throat recently in Jacksonville, wil'
hang on the 4th of February.
A Calhoun county man has raised a
bunch of nine oranges, all but one touching
each other, which weighs nearly thirteen
pounds.
Tho Monticello Constitution understands
that a colored man was arrested on last Sat
urday who furnished unmistakable evidence
that he was an enterprising and thrifty thief.
He was found in possession of a couple of
oxen, a horse, a mule and a wagon, and the
animals and the wagon were all stolen from
different parties. He bails, we believe, from
Thomas eounty, Georgia, and can be found
by inquiring friends at tho Jefferson county
jail.
A negro edits the local department of the
FernandiDa Observer. It would be an im
provement if sensible colored men edited
the entire sheet.
The Lake City Reporter is glad to learn,
from investigation, that the majority of our
plauters will engage in the culture of rice
the comiDg season. This crop is one of the
most remunerative the farmer can plant,
and requires much less labor and attention
than the cotton crop. Many who have never
planted this profitable crop will this year
undertake its culture. Our farmers will do
well to ignore cotton and turn their atten
tion to rice and sugar cane. Their past sad
experience skould teach them the advantage
of the change^
Lake City clamors for a reading-room.
Mr. Codrington’s excursion was a success,
On Christmas, in Pensacola, two colored'
women amused themselves with razors, in
the following manner, according to the
Gazette: “The razor should properly be
the implement of the bearded sex, in whose
behalf it was devised, to reap the hirsute
harvest of the chin ; but it was misappro
priated to other and feminine uses on
Christmas morning, when a negro woman
was terribly slashed down the breast by
another with the barbarian instrument, and
would possibly have bled to death but for
prompt surgical assistance. The stroke was
transverse to the ribs, or her lungs would
have been cut through. As it was she re
ceived a dreadful wound about eight inches
in length and to the bone. Later another
woman, also a negro, had her throat cut
with a razor, but not effectually, for the
wound was superficial, and did not touch
the vital conduits.”
Lake City Reporter: Attorney General
Cocke, in his protest to the Supreme Court
of the United States, in the railroad case
lately decided, says “that the four million
dollars of bonds were issued illegally and
fraudulently,” and he protests against the
people of the State being made liable for
their payment. His opinion is worthy of
respect throughout the land, and he surely
kuows whereof he speaks. No, the people
have not been far wrong in the past, when
they insisted that the whole matter was but
a trick to place a burden upon tho people
for the sake of benefiting a few office-hold
ers. If the railroad as the property of the
State is run as some other institutions have
been, the people have not only been op
pressed with this additional debt but the
road will be bat additional means of perpet
uating the power of those who care nothing
for the welfare of the people.
Tallahassee Sentinel: A*few days ago one
of our citizens, who has been down in Wa
kulla county on a hunting expedition for a
few weeks, returned, and among other in
teresting accounts of the trip states the fol
lowing, which is about as good as some fish
stories we have heard : Early in the morn
ing this gentleman started out from the
camp to procure water from one of the many
springs in that section, and, after proceed
ing a short distance, came to one located m
a secluded spot and surrounded by dense fo
liage. Pushing his way through the under
growth he reached the spring, and, feeling
thirsty, threw himself upon tho ground and
commenced drinking. Suddenly he was
startled by a rustling of the leaves and the
snapping *of twigs rear by, and presently
a huge bear made hie appearance. Quietly
raising his head, oar friend, not daring to
move and not being armed, kept his posi
tion and waited to see what turn affairs
would take. His bearship slowly approached
the water within three feet of onr friend,
and. after eyeing him a few moments, pro
ceeded to drink. Our friend began to feel
mors easy on noticing the bear so good-na
tured, and, wishing to. become better ac
quainted, reached out his hand and gently
tapped him on his nobe. The bear, not
seeming to be in a qnarrelsomo mood,
sniffed his hand, looked at him a moment,
and then, waggling his stumpy tail, “walked
off on his ear.” Oar friend says he shall
take another hunt shortly, when we expect
to hear of something else.
LaKe City Reporter: On Wednesday morn
ing last, as the eastern bound train was
going under good speed, about one mile
from town, the engine r».n off the track and
was overturned into the ditch, where it lay
on its side when we saw it; and although
several of the passenger coaches were some
what damaged, none of the passengers were
hurt. How the engineer and fireman
escaped is misraculons, yet we hear they
were uninjured. The same day we hear
that the westward bound train, when near
Baldwin, ran off the track without serious
damage, and after getting the train again
upon the track and starting, the engi
neer, when a few miles this side of Baldwin,
discovered a bridge on fire, bat too late to
stop the train. So he ran at usual speed,
and the whole train passed safely over. The
workmen on the road, coming up in a very
short time, found the bridge burned and the
track fallen in. These recall to our memory
the fact that, while numerous accidents have
been reported for the last few years upon
this road, we remember none that occurred
during the time to a train in motion that
caused injurv to a passenger or to the em
ployees. We are told that the road-bed is
in a very bad condition, and that there is
not a spare bar of iron for sixty miles.
Jacksonville Union : Yesterday evening
the steamer liockaway brought up to the
citv one of the most astonishing specimens
of/as Paddy says, “The bastes that swims
the sea,” seen here or along the coast, for a
long time. The fish in question looks some
thing like the sun fish, and measures in its
bulky proportions nine feet in length, six
in width, and weighs probably more than a
thousand pounds, as the fldsh, unlike a sun
fish, seems to be of about the consistency of
a rock. The mouth is small, being about
big enough to put somebody elses
fist into, two large and fishy eyes watch
over it, and just back of these are two
holes about three inches in diameter, with
gills inside. Captain Jones—formerlv of the
Silver Springs—informs us that Captain
McDonald, of ihe schooner McDonald, lying
at the bar, saw the fish swimming alongside
and harpooned it, after which it took a dozen
men to get it into the boat. The Captains
at the bar are a little undecided as to what
kind of a fish it is, but think if it’s a sun-
fish it’s the largest by far they have ever
A Wonderful Clock—One of the
most peculiar pieces of mechanism in
Boston, if not in New England, is an
eight-day clock now in the possession of
Dr. A. P. Pierce, 41 East Newton street.
It was manufactured by A. J. N an Bergh,
of Rotterdam, about a hundred years ago,
and has upon its face some eighteen
different movements, all governed by the
ordinary clock machinery. The month
is represented by appropriate devices,
January, for instance, by a man skating,
May by a clown, who can change as often
as the weather, the autumnal months by
pictorial reference to the crops, etc. The
days of the week are shown by dial-plates
bearing the time honored legends of the
planets. A man fishes in a pool at the
bottom of the dial, bringing up a fish
every minute or two, two old-fashioned
wind-mills work by the striking arrange
ments, while a clock in a miniature church
tower keeps time corresponding to that
manifested by the large dial itself. To
crown all, there is a wonderfully musical
chime of silver bells, which can be set in
operation at any time to plaj any one of
six French, Prnssian and Dntoh tones
one of which gives timely waning of the
striking of every hour and half-hour.
The clock also strikes the quarters with a
distinctive knell. The dock was im
ported by Messrs. DoU & Bicharita,
set up by Mr. George H. Elaon, of Bea-
oon stipet.
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
FEOM THOMASVILLE.
Result of the Municipal Elections.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Thomasville, January 18.
The municipal election passed off quietly.
Two hundred and twenty-four votes were
polled. K. T. McLean was elected Mayor
by a majority of sixty-four.
Noon Telegrams.
THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.
RATHER A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK FOR
THE BONAPARTISTS.
THE BOSTON PRESENTATION COM
MITTEE.
Claapinc Hands Across the Bioody t'hasn.
THE BOSTON PRESENTATION COMMITTEE.
Norfolk, Va., January 18.—A committee
of ladies and gentlemen, delegated by the
ladies of Boston to present to Southern
military organizations who participated in
the Bunker Hill centennial celebration,
June 17th, souvenirs of the event, pre
sented last evening to the Norfolk
Artillery Blues the white banner of peace, as
also other mementoes. They were welcomed
to the city by Hon. John B. Whitehead,
Mayor, who extended to them the freedom
of the city, and who Baid : “We were indeed
a united people, and henceforth would be
friends, countrymen and brothers.” In pre
senting the banner, Dr. Robert White, chair
man, in his remarks, said that whatever dif
ferences might have arisen between the
North and South, they were now bonnd to
gether again in amity and brotherly love, in
new, firmer and more enduring bonds than
ever before. On receiving the banner,
Captain Hodges, of the Biues, said that
while the Blues were its custodians, Vir
ginia and the whole South were its recipi
ents, and he was anxious that it be known
that not only are the ladies of the South
ready to meet the committee and th >se they
represent half way, but their husbands,
brothers and all the men of the South are
ready and anxious to clasp hands
with the women au,d men of the North,
and that, bo tho course of demagogues
aud malcontents of 'either sections what it
may, we understand each other, and defy
their efforts to sever it. The ceremonies were
witnessed by large numbers of ladies and gen
tlemen of the city. Yesterday the committee
under escort inspected tho harbor and points
of interest, and also visited Fortress Mon
roe, where they were received by General
W. F. Barry. To-day they visit the navy
yard, and at night attend a grand concert
given in their honor.
FROM FORT MONROE.
Fort Monroe, Va., January 18.—The
Boston Presentation Committee, accom
panied by a committee of the Norfolk Light
Artillery Blues, arrived here at noon yes
terday on the tug Snowdrop, together with
the naval band. They were met and
escorted to General Barry’s quarters, where
the band of the artillery school were
assembled, and where they were entertained.
The party visited the principal points of
interest and inspected the big guns, the li
brary and museum and old quarters of Jef
ferson Davis, after which the}' repaired to
the hop-ioom, where all the officers of the
school not on duty were assembled. Dan
cing at once commenced, and an hour thus
pleasantly passed. At half-past three the
p irty accompanied by Gen. Barry and Rev.
O. E. Herrick, post 'chaplain, re-embarked
aud returned to Norfolk. The presentation
took place last night at the Atlantic Hotel.
THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.
London, January 18.—Among the Con
servatives elected comparatively few are
Legitimists or Orleanists, the prevailing
element being pronounced Bonapartists.
.Should present averages prevail throughout
France the result would be in the Senate:
130 Republicans, including the life members
already elected, one hundred militant Bona
partists, and 70 belonging to various parties,
including the patient Bonapartists.
THE BANK OF CALIFORNIA.
San Francisco, January 18.—The case of
Burling Bros. vs. the Bank of California is
up under a bill of exceptions filed by defend
ants. The plaintiffs claim that the code
under which the hank was reorganized is
Unconstitutional.
THE LOUISIANA SENATORSHIP.
Washington, January 18.—Eustis and
Dupont called on Senator Thurman this
morning. They quote him as saving that
“ Either Enstice or Pinchback will get the
seat.” Morton is quoted to the same effect.
THE KENTUCKY SENATORSHIP.
Cincinnati, January 18.—Frankfort ad
vices arc that, at 2 o’clock this morning, the
Democratic caucus unanimously nominated
Mr. Beck lor the Senate.
More Davenport Deviltry.
Miss Caroline Gest, German, and aged
twenty-four, was a very good, respecta
ble girl when she left her parents' house
and went to Davenport, a year ago, to
engage as a servant. She became ac
quainted with Henry Wagoner, a bar
keeper, near the place of her service, and
Henry made her believe he intended to
marry her, with all that such a belief
sometimes implies. Yet the perfidious
Henry not only refused to right her
wrong?, but engaged himself to marry
another woman, and set the day. Caro
line was ashamed to go home, ashamed
to stay in town, ashamed of herself, and
did not know what to do. She, however,
resolved never to see the day that made
Henry Wagoner another’s. She went to
a storekeeper acquaintance and said she
wanted to buy a pistol for her father, as
she was going to see him. She preferred
one that carried a big bullet, and picked
out a five-shooter to suit her. Then she
desired to know if it would go off, sure
pop—and she and the storekeeper went
into the cellar to make some trial shots.
All five barrels went off promptly. The
storekeeper loaded them again. She paid
him ten dollars for the pistol, and went
away. Then she tried to hunt up Henry
Wagoner, but could not find him. He
was out of town. She tiied to hand Hen
ry’s room-mate a note for her recreant
lover, but the room-mate, aware of the
state of things between Caroline and
Henry, would not take it. He was
Henry’8 friend, and didn’t want to get
mixed up in anything against his friend’s
interests. He was probably at that mo
ment getting married, and wouldn’t want
to be receiving notes from other women
*fter that event. Caroline then went to
un empty room in the building and pres
ently a shot was heard. She was found
lying on her back in the middle of the
floor with a pistol ball hole in her breast.
The shot bad pierced her heart and she
was quite dead when found. The pistol,
with one barrel discharged, was lying at
her side. She held the note addressed to
Henry Wagoner in her left hand. Being
translated, it read : “Now I will do what I
swore to you. I will kill myself before
your eyes. You alone shall be the witness
of my death. Then everything will be
forgiven you.”
It was evidently Caroline's intention to
kill herself in the very face of her deceiver
aud give him a lasting memory of her any
how. Wagoner has not been seen in town
since Caroline Gest’s suicide.—St. Louis
Republican.
He Won the Money.—Virginia, Ne
vada, Enterprise: “Bet half a dollar I
shall fall down ! Bet half a dollar I shall
fall!” murmured an old chap last even
ing as, loaded to the muzzle with forty-
rod whiskey, he was feeling his way down
Smith street. “Bet half a dell ” Just
here the old boy's heels flew so high into
the air that his head and shoulders beat
them back to the ground. Rising to a
sitting posture, he took up his hat, rub
bed the back of his head and then said :
“Won the money, by thunder! And it
is the first bet I’ve won this winter!”
The close of the war was a terrible
blow to the Republican party, and Blaine
is engaged in a desperate attempt to re
cover from it But he has already failed;
his hope will never be realized.— Worces
ter Frem.
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Evening Telegrams.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS AJiD NOTES
A North Carolinian on Amnesty.
A SILLY PLEA FOR A CENTENNIAL
APPROPRIATION.
BILLS INTRODUCED AND REFERRED.
Leon Gambetta and His Marsaiiles
Friends.
CAPITAL AND OOS'QBXSglOHU. NOTES.
Washington, January 18.—In the Senate,
Thurman presented the credentials of Jas.
B. Eustis, claiming a seat as Senator from
Louisiana, and asked that they be referred
to the Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions. After some discussion, the matter
was laid over until to-morrow.
Banks’s amnesty bill excepts Mr. Davis,
though Banks himself will vote to
strike the exception out. The theory
is that the bill cannot pass unless the Re
publicans be allowed to record themselves
on the subject, but that the bill will pass
after the exception is stricken out. It can
not pass with the restriction. It is the*onlv
means of securing two-thirds for a clean
amnesty.
In the House, the Judiciary Committee
reported an amendment to the Constitu
tion, limiting the Presidential term to four
years, and persons who have held, or may
Bold the office, ineligible. It was made the
special order for Tuesday. The retroactive
feature can only apply to Grant, he being
the only survivor.
In the House, the Judiciary Committee
reported a bill authorizing the Court of
Claims to take jurisdiction of the claims of
all persons wBo were infants, married
women, idiots, lunatics, insane persons, or
persons beyond the seas at the time of the
seizure of any abandoned or captured prop
erty; provided, that such claims are alreaay
on tile or shall be on file within two years.
Referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The same committee reported a bill au
thorizing the Court of Claims to take juris
diction of the claim of Robert Irwin, of Sa
vannah, Ga., for property taken from him.
Referred to the Committee of the Whole.
The same committee reported adversely
on the bill to repeal capital punishment;
also, a bill to extend the time three months
for moving claims before the Alabama
Claims Commission. Passed.
The following bills were introduced :
Riddle—To pay half customs in lawful
money.
McFarland—To allow planters to sell leaf
tobacco without license.
Cannon—Penalty for mailing obscene mat
ter, and excluding lottery circulars from
the mails.
Hatcher—Improvement of the Mississippi
between St. Louis and Cairo.
WiNhire—To establish a judicial district
for Oklatoma.
Slomons—The improvement of the
Ouachita river.
Luttrell—To prevent naturalization of
Chinese and Mongolians. It went to the
Committee ot the Whole.
Waddell, of North Carolina, said he had
been an unwavering supporter of appropria
tions for the Centennial Exhibition ever
since it had been first projected. If it were
supposed that the irritating discussion of
last week would have driven Southern men
away from the support 6f this measure, he
sincerely trusted that the result of the vote
would only add another illustration to the
many already given of how utterly impossi
ble it is for some people to understand
and appreciate the spirit that animates
the Southern people. He and his
associates acquitted their Northern brethren
of all responsibility for that discussion.
They had understood it fully, lor it was
transparent. The motive which underlay
the introduction of that subject and attach
ing to that motive its exact value, they sim
ply looked down upon and passed by the
whole subject. They would treat that la
mentable chapter in American history as
Noah’s sons had done in the hoar of their
father’s humiliation. They would avert their
looks, and with backward step cast the man
tle ol oblivion over it. They wished dis
turbers of the public peace to understand
that notwithstanding the spirit ex
hibited, they were too good pa
triots and too sincere men to allow that
spirit either to control them or to serve as
an example for them. They wished to
maintain the honor and character of the
American Union, and they would do it if
they were allowed. One element in the
House had not been heard from in that dii-
cussion—the element of the Southern
soldiers m the late war, of whom he was
one. They had sat in silence and taken the
fire which the gentleman from Maine
(Blaine) had opened on them with no other
feeling than that of gratitude for having
escaped from so terrible an enemy as he
(Blaine) must bavi been during the battles
of the late war. (Laughter.) If now, when
that gentleman’s hair was silvery and his
natural force perceptibly abating, he could
develop such intensity of spirit, bow must
his plume have waned in the forepart of
that conflict which had occurred at a time
when be (Blame) was young, and strong,
and healthy? (Laughter.) That element
had not yet spoken. It could not be goaded
into the discussion. On the contrary, it
had exhibited a spirit which he believed
the American people would not soon
forget. It had met a storm of hate
and persecution, as the swan meets
the billows, with breast of down.
He knew some gentlemen who had been
engaged in the same cause with him who
bad not iutended to vote for the measure
before that discussion, but who now in
tended to support it, so as to set an example
for patriotism. If there were any of them
who still opposed the bill he appealed to
them to nnite with him in doing an act
which could only promote the honor and
advance the the interests of the country and
the peace and happiness of the people.
Without aation the committee rose aud
adjourned.
In the Senate, Goldthwaite, of Alabama,
said he found on his desk this morning
pamphlets in the Spencer case. He felt
some delicacy in presenting them to the
Senate, as they were made up of newspaper
testimony at best. He asked, however, that
they be referred to the Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections, which committee had*
charge of the Spencer case.
Cameron presented petitions from citizens
of Pennsylvania in favor of a subsidy for the
Southern Pacific Road.
A bill was passed to allow courts-martial
to compel civil witnesses to testify on penalty
of two months’ imprisonment
Davis’s resolution to investigate the
Treasury Department was not acted upon.
NEW YORK NOTES.
New York, January 18.—George Kline-
stein found a burglar in his apartment, who,
in a struggle, stabbed him twice, danger
ously, in the abdomen.
The funeral of Dr. H. J. Anderson, who
died at Lahore while on a scientific excur
sion, took place to-day from St. Patrick’s
Cathedral.
Three trams came together on the Ele
vated Railroad, and all were considerably
smashed. The hindmost train, which caused
the collision, was running seven miles an
hour only. One leg was broken.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Washington, January 18.—Nomination :
Isaac D. Sibley, Postmaster at Huntsville.
Alabama.
The Navy Department has advices of the
arrival of the Congress at Port Royal, and
the departure of the Juniata to-day from
St. Thomas for the same port.
Baron Rothschild visited the Treasury
Department, and had a long interview with
the Secretary.
FRENCH FOOLISHNESS.
Paris, January 18.—General Lewal, acting
commander of Marseilles, has, by virtue of
the powers conferred upon him by the state
of siege, prohibited the projected political
banquet to Leon Gambetta.
Returns from forty departments show the
Conservatives have carried thirty, the Re
publicans four, and six donbtfnl.'
AN EMRF7.ZI.F.R,
Toronto, January 18.—Prince Albert Wil
cox, formerly emploved at Anderson’s mer
cantile house, is helcl for extradition, charg
ed with forgery and the embezzlement of
$15,000.
London, January 18.—The steamship Sa
ber, which went ashore yesterday at Bram
bles, near the Isle of Wight, was'floated at 4
o’clock this morning, and proceeded on her
voyage, apparently uninjured.
THE FRENCH ELECTIONS.
Paris, January 18.—Later returns show
that the Conservatives have elected majori
ties of the Senatorial delegates in the fol
lowing departments: Loire. Marre-et-Loire,
Loire Inferienre, Indre and Gironde.
PROBABLE BUICIDE.
St. Louis, January 18.—Robert E. W.
8ayr§s, the senior partner of Sayres, Shaw
& Co., merchants, has disappeared. Sui
cide is apprehended.
North Hoobic, N. Y., January 18.—The
Carpenter Company’s woolen mills are burn
ed. Loss $75,000. Two hundred persons
are ousted.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Washington, January 18.—Probabilities :
For New England and southern portion of
the Middle States, rain and increasing south
east to southwest winds, with fabing oa-
rometer, followed on Wednesday afternoon
or evening by cooler northwest-to southwest
winds and rising barometer.
For the southern portion of the Middle
3tates, lake region, Ohio Valley an<l Ten
nessee, areas of rain, followed by partly
cloudy weather, southwest to northwest
winds, and during Wednesday rising ba
rometer and falling temperature.
For the upper Mississippi and lower Mis
souri valleys and the Southwest, cooler
northerly to west winds and rising barome
ter, with partly cloudy weather, but areas
of snow during the night in the upper Mis
sissippi valley and Minnesota.
For the South Atlantic 8lates, continued
warm, partly cloudy weather, with southerly
to west winds and areas ot rain and lalbng,
followed by rising barometer.
For the East Gulf States, fight rains, fol
lowed by clearing and cooler weather during
Wednesday, southerly winds, shifting to
west or northerly and rising barometer.
castellab.
LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE.
Madrid, January 18.—Advices from Car
tagena announce that the Intransigentes
refuse to vote for Castellar, who is a candi
date for the Cortes.
Calais, Me., January 18.—Mc(Mlnchv
Bros. A Co., dry goods dealers, bavalailcd.
Their liabilities are $jp hundreu
dollars; assets unknown.
A WIFE MURDERER.
Philadelphia, January 18.—Samuel Hel
ler, for killing his wife a few weeks ago, was
found guilty of \oluntary manslaughter.
A Victorious South.
colliers’ strike.
London, January 18.—A thousand more
colliers in the north of Wales have struck on
account of a reduction of wafsa.
The truth is, the entire South is grow
ing rapidly in population. There has
been no great rush of immigration, but a
constant trickling into various healthy
and fertile sections of our fair Southland,
of Northern and Western families who
seek refuge from the inclemency of their
colder climate. In South Carolina, Flor
ida and Arkansas and North Louisiana
this influx of population has been very
marked, while in Texas there has been
an absolute tide of new people from all
quarters of the world. Here in Ala
bama we have witnessed a current of
immigration of no insignificant kind.
Along the Tennessee river,throughout the
valleys of North Alabama, we find every
where strange names and faces. A dozen
villages have sprung up around iron fur
naces which are owned by men lately
from the North.
There is no question that the South is
asserting her birthright. The gentle light
of the Southern cross is attracting the
gaze of millions, and when the census of
1880 is taken, it will be found that ihe
Confederate struggle which forced the
emancipation of the slaves has resulted,
under the mysterious workings of Provi
dence, in inscribing ultimate victory upon
the banner of the South.—Mobile Register.
The Jennings Suit.—The celebrated
Jennings case, which has been in the
courts of England for fifteen years, it is
said will soon be decided. Jennings died
in this State about a hundred years ago,
and left property in England valued then
at fifteen million dollars. Since that
time it has increased in value to over four
hundred millions. The heirs to this im
mense sum in England and the State of
Virginia number about one hundred. The
ground of the litigation now going on is
the identity of the Virginia claimants,
which is disputed by some of the English
heirs. There are seven claimants in
Richmond, and one of the principal is a
young' gentleman who is a clerk in one
of the stores here. He is represented
in this case by Messrs. T. T.
Giles and Judge Haliburton and J. V.
Reddy, Esq., of this city, two lawyers in
Georgetown, D. C., and Hon. Judah T.
Benjamin in England. He yesterday re
ceived a letter from the last mentioned
distinguished lawyer, in which that gen
tleman assures him that this tedious case
is now rapidly drawing to a close, and
states that there is every indication that
the identity of the Virginia claimants
will be admitted. In that event the heirs
in this city would receive thirty-five mil-
ion dollars, or five millions apiece. The
majority of the other Virginia heirs re
side in Lynchburg. Mr. Iteddy will pro
bably go over to England soon in the
interest of his client. The Jennings es
tate has been in the hands of the cashier
of the Bank of England, and he will
continue to hold it until the courts decide
the matter.—Richmond ( Va.) Whig.
A Virginia Earl.—An English paper
having announced the “death of the last
of the Stuarts,” in the demise of Lady
Louisa Stuart, who recently died at the
advanced age of one hundred years, at
Traquair House, near Peebles, the Alex
andria Sentinel denies that she was the
last living descendant of the royal house
of Scotland. It says :
“We happen to know that a direct de
scendant, in fact the great-grandson of
John, sixth Earl of Traquair, is now liv
ing in Virginia. Lady Christina Stuart,
daughter of Earl John, married Judge
Cyrus Griffin, of Virginia, who was the
last President of the Continental Con
gress, succeeding John Hancock. She
left several sons, only one of whom had
issue. This was Dr. S. S. Griffin, of Wil
liamsburg, who died during the war. His
only son living is Dr. James L. C. Griffin,
now of Glouster county, who is conse
quently, by direct descent, the heir of the
title and estates, as ninth Earl of Tra-
quir, or rather would be if he were not
an alien. His right, however, notwith
standing the fact, will now be tested by
the necessary proceedings. His heirship
is so clear and so close that it is not im
probable that we may soon see a native
of Virginia a peer of the British realm.”
The Chicago Man Who is Ready to
Knock the Prop From Under the Ring.
—A Chicago dispatch says: If the author
ities at Washington conclude to accept
the terms that Jake Rehm has proffered,
the bottom will surely be knocked out of
the Chicago ring in a very short time
thereafter. Rehm has been the medium
of communication between the distillers
and the revenue officials and politicians.
He was the confidential friend and trusted
agent of both Logan and Farwell, aud if
he is permitted to unbosom himself
before the grand jury he will certainly
pull down the temple.
It is said that he is willing to pay a fine
of $200,000 and to tall all he knows. If
the government accepts this very liberal
offer the grand jury will have to remain
in session for two months, and the State
institution at Joliet will have to be en
larged. Dann Munn, late Supervisor of
this district, has been indicted by the
grand jury at Milwaukee for participa
tion in the frauds in that place. He is
also indicted in St. Louis and under
bonds for his appearance there, and it is
only a question of a few days before he
will be indicted by the grand jury in ses
sion here. This is the man that Senator
Logan went to the White House and in -
sisted should be retained when Bristow
asked him for his resignation.
Lunatics Watching Each Other.—
Recently an officer at St. Albans, Vt.,
having two insane persons to convey to
an asylum for the insane at Brattleboro*,
called one of the lunatics aside and asked
his aid in keeping watch of his compan
ion during the journey, and then did the
same with the other. The two lunatios
sat side by side silently eyeing each other
through the whole route, and they have
continually kept guard over each other
in the asylum ever since.
“Dickens! Watts Tupper’s Words
worth!” asks the New York Commercial.
Not a Whitman. Hood imagine they
were. But when the veteran bard Burns
with mortification, Shelley be Dryden
the furnace of sarcasm any longer. Be
sides, Byron-ing him down all the while,
you make him Pope-ular. If you wish
the memory of his Motherwell, Shakes
peare of ridicule at him no More.—
Utica Herald.
Babcock is to be used as the stop-cock
of the whisky investigation.—Boston
Post.
Morton is happy since Blaine stubbed
his toe on tha Prsisdsntiil rape-track.
Billy, Bobby and Xarcellna—An Unex
ampled Trio of Brntes—Exit Billy, the
Sinuous Hanger-on—Boring n Hole—
The Identical Sameness of Radical Ar
guments—Last Call of the Roll—Home
Fish or Sun Fish—One by One the
Voters Hung—Lines, but not Close Lloes
—Marine.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, January 17, 1876.
Florida’s uncaged lunatic.
The monstrous example set by Chief Jus
tice Randall in his unswerving fidelity
to dishonest practices is adhered to with
unvarying exactitude by the entire crew
of his fellows in iniquity. The owner
of a newspaper, stolen by a crazy fanatic,
whom we will continue to designate as
Biliy, having succeeded in regaining posses
sion of his property, produced a critical agi
tation in the scheming brain of the superin
tendent of public illiteracy. So Billy re
paired straightway to Tallahassee, and ad-
drersed his abettor, Maroellus L. Stearns,
thus; “Stilus, how do you expect.me to
avenge me of mine enemies if I lose
the Fernandina Observer ?” Marcellus, with
paternal unction rejoined: “Goand steal the
paper again. Bob Archibald will so arrange
it thakyou can hold on until after the cam-
paieiuJ^Yf* been a father to Bobby; picked
nun up on! of the gutter, in fact; you know
we made him a Judge before he had been
admitted to the bar two months. Bob
by’s my slave, and so is Randall for that
matter.” Emboldened by these assurances,
Billy proceeded to Fernandina and effected
a lodgement. Being doubtless a believer in
the skepticism that Daniel never would have
come forth from the lions’ den alive if he
had not chloroformed "the animals, Billy’s
first care was to block up the avenues with
•something that did not smell exactly like
chloroform, but which answered the same
purpose. He then decamped from Fer
nandina never to return, and with a
wink of wonderful sagacity greeted Archi
bald, who said: “All right, Killy, but gaudam
that Savannah Aieios,” which was certainly
elegant language for a Judge of a judicial cir
cuit to use, and for a clergyman to absent
to. After Billy’s departure from Amelia
Island the Observer made its appearance,
bearing unmistakable traces ol his conduct,
reeking with filth. Had Billy confined
himself Ao dirtiness simply, it would
have elicited no comment, but when
he asserts that he was assailed as
soon as his back was turned, we
invite the reader to a slight retrospection.
It will be remembered that when the world
stood aghast at Billy’s crimes he first tried
to silence investigation into his felonious
career by referring to his character
as a minister. Finding that this plan
would not bring about a respite he after
wards talked of a “little white face flecked
with woe,” and subsequently empha
sized this supplication by imploring
mercy for the children who would
bear his name. Although recognizing
that no one with a particle of man
hood, honesty or shame would have resorted
to t*uch a diabolical subterfuge for his own
protection, it had the effect desired by Billy
of rendering our arms powerless. We war
not against women and children nor against
any one’s family, however little respect he
may show for them himself. As little credit
as we allowed Billy, for reason we never
dreamed that his hopeless imbecility would
lea 1 bim into a misapprehension of the
motives for treating him with comparative
lenity, and we shall hereafter pay the same
attention to him that we would to any other
uncouvicted felon, whenever the interests of
the public demand it. He is a sempiternal
poltroon, a galvanized hypocrite, destitute
of sanity, sobriety and principle. The Fer
nandina* Observer is now in the hands of the
sheriff, which, according to the modus ope
randi prevailing in this region, U equiv
alent to Billy W&tkin having it himself.
ON A SNAG.
A Little Romance of the .WiMiaoippi.
SO GLORIOUSLY sad.
The Republican party narrowly escaped
losing another voter on Saturday evening.
Thd habit of driving furiously through the
streets,so common among African jehus,has
its legitimate outgrowth in a serious acci
dent every now and then, and yet
the reckless practice is not miti
gated by any of these terrible ad
monitions. Two vehicles came in contact
suddenly, aud one of the drivers sustained
damage to the extent of two broken ribs
caused by the buggv shaft of his vis-a-vis
plowing into nis frame. His sufferings since
have been most intense, bat he iB said to be
in a fair way for recovery, and will probably
diminish his confidence in his power to
bump against a pointed wooden substance
without injuring it more or less.
THE CHAIRMAN’S REPORT.
The terrified but mercenary apologists for
the disreputable deeds of their crony, the
Judge of the Fourth Circuit, have adopted
their usual method of dubbiug robbery by
another Dame. Allowing all that they assert
in reference to the irregularity ef tho report
we will not permit them t j detract from the
undeniable proof of Archibald’s knav
ery, which the chairman brings for
ward by raising issues not at
all pertinent to the matter under considera
tion. We insist upon the text—that Stearns’s
puppet has been guilty of a most unblush
ing and petty system of stealing, and has
been detected in the act. The impossibility
of glossing over the irrefragable truths that
have been revealed is one of the loveliest
peculiarities of our position, and by what
process of induration this degraded official
contrives to still expose himself to the gaze
of an outraged people, is one of the over
powering riddles to which carpet-bag despo
tism is constantly giving birth.
A FINAL WARNING.
The gentlemen of the State Fair Commit
tee are urgently notified that unless such
explanations are speedily given as shall con
vince us that they have no settled design of
converting the concern into a Radical politi
cal machine, we shall strip the mask away
so rapidly that the wearers will be blinded.
We would be culpable of an unpardonable
dereliction of duty to the enormous constitu
ency in Florida, represented by the Morn
ing News (larger than that of any other
journal), did we stand calmly by and fail to
protect them from imposition.
A PISCATORIAL WONDER.
A regular hullaballoo in tho water came
to the notice of the master of a vessel lying
at th ^ bar on Satu r day, and the commotion
impelled him to man the schooner’s yawl
and investigate the disturbance. He soon
harpooned a monster of the deep, or rather of
tho shoal, which required four boats to
draw it in. It was brought to the
city yesterday by a steamer. Its di
mensions are those of a small
whale, being—length seven feet,breadth fif
ty-four inches, weighing above twelve hun
dred pounds. It is pronounced by experts
in ichthyology to be of the sun-fish species,
aud bas prominent eyes, a small mouth and
large tail. It will perhaps be placed upon
exhibition.
SENTENCED TO BE HANGED.
The New York Mercury has the follow
ing : Traveling up the Mississippi river
one day on board of a steam boa - , the
name of which I have forgotten—it is
now more than twenty-five years since—
our vessel ran upon a snag. The trickish
thing had cut right through the bow and
up through the fore-cabin, between the
two smokestacks; the pilot-house was
upset, and the officers’ cabins on the hur
ricane deck all tattered and torn, looked
forlorn. It was evening, long after sup
per, when the accident happened; the
passengers were all in the cabin, and, as
was customary on some of the larger
Western boats at the time, the ladies’
cabin had been transformed into a ball
room and concert hall, the colored stew-
art and his waiters composing the or
chestra. Suddenly there was a
heavy thnd, a crash, a terrific rattling
noise, as if ten thousand strokes of
lightning had hit the boat, cracking the
timbers on all sides, and before we had
even time to think what the cause of all
this hubbub might be, down came we all
pell-mell, rolling along the fearfully in
clined floor to the back wall of the cabin,
in one confused mass—men, women and
negroes, tables, sofas and chairs, violins,
banjos and bones. The breaking of glass
doors, of the lamp globes and chimneys,
the shrieks of the women, the shouts of
the blacks and the curses of the men—all
these made up such a wild pandemonium,
as if we had all suddenly landed in the
infernal regions, and had a million of
imps gamboling around, bidding us wel
come. Quickly, and above all the din
and uproar, we heard the stentorian voice
of the Captain from somewhere above us:
“ Put out the lights ; let nothing catch
fire. I’ll have you out in a twinkling—no
danger.” This was undoubtedly the
best advice he could give us, but th6 very
worst for us to follow. Men and women
were so much intermingled with tables
and chairs that none dared to move for
fear of eitheKburting themselvesjor some
body else. But the steward was as agile
and frisky as a monkey. Kerosene was
not known at the time, lard oil alone
being used in the lamps of the boat.
There was no danger from a rapidly
spreading conflagration as there would
have been with flaming kerosene rushing
about among the inflammable objects
surrounding us. Yet the burning wicks,
driven in every direction by the terrible
concussion, had here and there set fire to
the carpet and to some of the woodwork.
Quick as lightning the steward was up,
and comprehending the situation at a
glance by the light afforded by the flick
ering sparks, he thrust his hands right
between us, and rip and tear went the
ladies’ skirts, petticoats and undergar
ments, and rolling these into a bundle
which he held between his teeth, he
climbed up the inclined floor like a cat,
smothering the flames as he went with
the roll of rags he had torn lrom the
ladies. Shortly after one of the cabin
doors opened halfway up to the forepart
of the boat—which hung to the snag as
to a spit, while her stern was gradually
sinking—a deckhand with a lantern made
his appearance, and another with a lad
der. They descended to us, and after
relieving us pf much of the furniture
that held us down, they helped us all up
the ladder, and then down into the boat,
for the shore, where some torches had
already been lit to guide us. The sight
as we came on shore I shall never forget.
There were about sixteen lady passen
gers in all, and the dresses
of half of them were wholly
gone, partly ripped off by the steward,
and partly torn in the fall among the
furniture. Most of them, seeing that
there was no immediate danger, refused
to leave their hiding places, where they
were screened from the rude gazes of the
deck-hands—some by darkness, some by
an accidental wall of a sofa, a table or a
couple of chairs. To one of them I gave
my coat, another hurriedly was handed a
stray pair of pantaloons and a vest, a
third enshrined herself in a table-cover of
variegated colors, for a fourth a breadth
of the carpet was cut out, which she
wrapped around her. In this fantastic
array we stood silent around a bright,
warm fire that had been kindled, the gen
tlemanly conduct of the male passengers
inspiring the unfortunate ladies with con
fidence, and their frightened souls slowly
come to ease. “Good God! where’s
Louisa?” suddenly exclaimed one of them.
“Where’s Jim?” shouted a male pas
senger. Sure enough, these two were
missing. Word was instantly sent back
to the boat, and search commenced,
“Gracious Heavens!” said the captain, as
he found them. The two were sitting on
the top of the snag, that protruded from
the roof of the hurricane deck. They
were lustily chatting and laughing as if
nothing extraordinary had happened.
Being out on the balcony sparking when
the accident occurred, their first impulse
was to run aloft, which they did. Once
there they were out of danger’s reach, and
their merriment returned. BuMlheir se
cret was out, and as there was no objec
tion, Louisa and Jim were joined by a
justice, who happened to be a passenger,
and we all, ladies and gentlemen, in a
semi-nude s£ate, were the witnesses of
this romantic marriage.
Lloyd Brown, the negro fiend who, with a
little * razor, in August last annihilated
a part of his wife’s throat, and the
whole of her life, has been sentenced to be
executed on the 4th proximo, by hanging
by the neck until he is dead. I dislike to
see black murderers going this way without
being accompanied in their journey by some
of the white skinned scoundrels of Radicals
who have inculcated the notion into the
woolly heads of this besotted race that they
can commit murder, rapine and violence
with impunity.
COMBUSTIBLE SHANTIES.
It has been the custom for two or three
months past for various parties to rent a va
cant lot within the nre limits of the corpora
tion, aud erect a rookery for the purpose of
transacting business on an ephemeral and
diminutive scale, in total disregard of mnni-
cipal regulations to the contrary. The at
tention of the Council has been called by a
number of citizens to this flagrant violation
of the city ordinances, and some determined
action will doubtless be taken at their next
regular meeting.
SNEAK THIEVES.
A carious hallucination has taken posses
sion of me that if some of the guardians,
instead of driving around drunk in the
night, would devote a moiety of their sur
plus moments to tho laudable pursuit of
ferreting out the active Radicals who de
prive denizens of their wearing apparel,
they might earn the thanks ot this com
munity. A sneaking wretch entered Ochus’s
boarding house Saturday evening, and
bagged a half-dozen overcoats, together
with other articles.
FIRE AT FERNANDINA.
Darby’s saw-mill, located at Old Town, a
suburb of Fernandina, was destroyed by fire
last week. The property, I believe, was
owned by Mr. Johu Darby, who valued it at
fifteen thousand dollars. Insurance un
known. The destruction was the work of an
incendiary, it is thought.
THE FLORIDA SUN.
Mr. N. K. Sawyer has purchased the es
tablishment of the New South, aa#*iil
shortly commence the publication of a tri
weekly newspaper under the title of the
.Sun. “Welcome the coming, speed the
going guest.”
THE WEATHER
resembles the advent of Jane, and sundry
delicate fruit trees in this vicinity are put
ting out blossoms.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived—Schooner Admiral, New York.
Departed—Schooner Ada Ames, New York.
Becomes Worse and Worse.
With each successive phase of the
Beecher-Tilton matter the cause of the
Plymouth pastor seems to become worse
and worse. The latest movement is the
declaration on the part of Mr. Beecher's
counsel that Moulton’s action for mali
cious prosecution will not lie notwith
standing the dismissal of the perjury
case. The claim is that the entry of a
nolle prosequi on the indictment against
Moulton is a bar to any suit by the latter,
as it is a recognition and acknowledg
ment of innocence. Technically this may
be so, though the reason given is one
which, to the unprofessional mind, would
seem to operate in an exactly oppo
site direction. For a complainant to
make deliberate, record confession that
he has brought an unjust and untenable
prosecution against a defendant can hard
ly be made to seem, to the mind untrain
ed in legal fiction, like a sufficient, or any,
reparation for the original offense. The
ways of the law, however, are intricate
and past finding out, and it will not sur
prise any one to learn from the decision
of a court that the claim of Mr. Beecher’s
counsel is well founded. But how such a
decision will help Mr. Beecher’s position
before the public it is difficult to conceive.
He will escape pecuniary loss, perhaps ;
but it will be at the cost of appearing on
the record, and by his own confession, as
the very criminal he charged MoultQn
with being. If he testified before the
grand jury that Moulton had been guilty
of perjury, knowing that such was not
the fact, he was himself a perjurer. Nor
is this all. By assuming this new atti
tude and acknowledging Moulton’s inno
cence he admits that Moulton's testimony
—which he claimed to be false—was, in
fact, true. He admits all that his most
bitter opponents have urged against him.
Which is a tolerably heavy price to pay
for relief from the possible verdict of a
jury imposing damages.—Detroit Free
Press.
Mr. Lincoln used to tell in his inimit
able way a story of a Winchester con
verted Confederate, who was so over
joyed at receiving his pardon that he
exclaimed, “Thank you, Mr. President !
Thank you ! Now I’m pardoned, I s’ptee
I’m as good a Union man as any of you
—emphatically one of you again. But
didn’t Stonewall Jackson give us hell in
the valley ?”
The New York Stoats Zeitung attacks
Mr. Blaine with great severity for his
speech about Jefferson Davis. It holds
that no good can be accomplished by it;
that its only apparent object was to revive
the passions of the war as a means of
furthering his Presidential aspirations,
and concludes by roundly denouncing it
as pure demagogism.
King Kal&kaua has acknowledged the
receipt of a fine barrel of whisky from a
friend in St. Joseph, Mo. He doesn't say
ROXaX catholic principles.
AddreMM by John McKean and Cardinal
McCleakey Before the Catholic Union—
The Snpport of Catholic Schools freed.
John McKeon delivered an address be
fore the Catholic Union, in New York, on
Thursday evening. Among other things
he said that in this Centennial year the
torch of discord has been lighted, and
Catholics are locked upon as dangerous
to the State. I scorn the allegation. I,
myself, and his Eminence the Cardinal,
both natives and to the manner born,
scorn such charges. We come here to
speak as Americans, in defense of the
faith we hold. The American people are
the fairest of all peoples when enlight
ened, but in this matter they have been
misled. English literature and English
history, both hostile to Catholicity, are
taken by Americans as authorities, in
preference to others. We Catholics are
looked upon here in America as tha Turks
are looked upon in Europe—as intruders.
After detailing the important part played
by his coreligionists in every epoch of the
country’s history, Mr. McKeon said:
“Aud is all this to go for nothing ? What
is this war to be except a war against the
highest civilization of the age ? I do not
believe that the war will amount to any
thing. But if it does come it will be a
war in which there will be enacted such
scenes as those we raad of having
occurred in Ireland in 1798. Presby
terian, Protestant and Catholic united in
that country in defense of political free
dom, but here Presbyterian, Protestant
and Catholic will unite in defense of re
ligious freedom. ” In conclusion he urged
the Union to adopt some means of en
lightening the public mind, showing to
it that Catholics would ask for nothing
save what was right, but would submit to
nothing that wa3 wrong.
Cardinal McCloskey then came forward
and, addressing the audience, said that he
did not come there as a speaker, but
merely as a listener. He could say for
himself, and also, no doubt, for the audi
ence, that he was not disappointed, but,
on the contrary, delighted with the words
of eloquence he had heard, and the true
Catholic ring they had about them. He
was thankful for the good advice which
the eloquent gentlemen preceding him
had given them. Continuing, he said:
“ I feel a deep interest in the working of
the Union, and I am delighted afc the
Catholic spirit which animates every
heart present. If I am not often present
among you, do not think, therefore, that
I feel little or no interest in your work.
The fact of your existence is a great
work in itself. It brings you more to
gether, makes you take greater interest
in Catholic affairs, but, above all, it
brings you in closer relation and binds
you more closely to the head of the
Church.” Cardinal McCloskey here al
luded to the work being done by the
Catholic Unions in Europe, in giving
their sympathy and assistance to
their persecuted brethren in Germany.
“It has been said,” continued the
Cardinal, “ that we are to have our turn.
It will be an honor. I have often thought
it would be hard if we would be passed
over. It would not be a blessing to be
left out. We have rather to be thankful
for it. It would.be nothing new to you
nor to your fathers. It will do you no
harm. Consequently, I say, if it has to
come, let it come, and the spirit of the
Catholic faith will take deeper root. But
I think the only trouble is that you do
not vote the right ticket; so, after all, it
will only be a political row. But I give
you this piece of advice: the fire has been
lighted, and they hope we Catholics will
furnish the fuel. Let us not be excited;
do not throw fagots on the fire; go on
quietly: give no offense; but, rather pray
for them, saying with our Lord, ‘Father,
forgive them, for they know not what
they do.’ They are the aggressors; let us
stand on the defensive. Show your sup
port of Catholic schools, stand firm to
the great principle of Catholic education
for Catholic youth, and God will bless
you and give you a great reward hereaf
ter.” [Loud applause. ]
Blaine** Mischief.
Marc Antony, in the play of “Julius
Ciusar,” is not a lovable character. To
his great qualities, his courage, boldness
and wit, are allied an insidious dema
goguery whose cunning display is one of
the greatest triumphs of Shakespeare.
Dangling the pierced robe of the dead
Cscsar before the eyes of the Roman
Rabbi, he stirs their hearts to mutiny
while deprecating any tumult. He brand
ishes Caesar’s will, and as the inflamed
populace rush off to burn the houses of
the conspirators, he rushes down and
cries with fiendish exultation :
Now let it work. Misch ef, thou art afoot;
Take tboa what coarse thou wilt.
If James G. Blaine, after his Ander-
sonville speech, had sat for the picture of
Marcus Antonins, the poet would not
have changed a line. Between .he “curl
ed Antony” and Blaine there is, however,
a striking difference. The one held up the
robe of Csesar, newly slain ; the other
gesticulates as, with nimble fingers, he
holds up the mouldering grave clothes of
the Union dead whose corses he turns
over in their sepulchre to get the mak
ings of a party flag. Outside of the mi
nority in the House of Representatives
who cheered deliriously at the wily speech,
we may ask, Can Blaine awake any other
feeling than disgust as the sacred cere
ments of the dead Union soldiers drop to
pieces in his busy fingers? The dead of
the Union shall never be forgotten, but
the ghoul who robs their graves to make
a party flag shall not be thought a hero.
The flag to sweep the country must be of
fair t r bunting than can be woven from
the “bloody shirt” of Morton or the
“grave clothes” Of Blaine.
There is one other view of Blaine pos
turing as the Republican Mark Antony
which must not be forgotten, for it is, in
Mr. Blaine’s eyes, of the greatest mo
ment, namely, How will it tell for Blame ?
Able and cunning, with the Antonian fla
vor of ostentatious bluntness, he lets his
wishes appear as the undercurrent, rather
than the tide of his speech. Like An
tony, in his most effusive sentences he
would be read between the lines. When
he fled precipitately to the cloak room to
dodge the third term vote, he let his halt
ing exercise excuse of delicacy on account
of being spoken of as a Presidential can
didate tell the under story that he only
refrained from striking Grant's ambition
because he loved Grant. It is* the fault
of such men to reason too finely with
themselves, and expect the world to be
cozened with a half-uttered thought.
Mr. Blaine knows that his fight with Mr.
Hill, in which the latter deserved to be
beaten as much as Blaine deserved to be
censured, is a doubtful advantage to him
self. Brutus said to Antony at Philippi:
The posture of your blows are yet unknown;
and this may be repeated to Blaine; for
as Antony was but clearing the way for
young Octavius Ctesar to mount the
throne over Antony’s corpse, so the blows
of Blaine may tell for Grant, whom Blaine
loved too much to destroy as a Presiden
tial candidate—a delicacy that Grant is
not likely to reciprocate if the gate to a
third term is but left ajar.—New York
lleraOi.
The Case of La Page.—La Page, just
convicted in New Hampshire of the mur
der of a schoolgirl, experiences I he bene
fit of a peculiar law, which is certainly
not in accordance with the common idea
that justice, to be effective, must be swift.
He is sentenced to be hanged in one year
from the present time, the law of the
State providing that criminals under sen
tence for murder shall have one year in
which to exhaust all the possibilities of
the law as to stays and exceptions and
new trials. Indeed, it accepts the fact
that there will be delays, and fixes to
them a remote limit, but certainly a limit.
That murderers are ruthless and sudden
is no good reason why the law should be
without mercy ; but certainly the terror
of the law must come to a culprit’s ear
with a softened sound when the Jndge is
compelled to tell him that he shall be
hanged in a year, particularly if the pris
oner has the sanguine spirit that can fill
every one of the intervening three hun
dred and sixty-five days with a chance for
Senator Bayard.
The distinguished Delaware Senator
“ 018 Democr atic banquet
Philadelphia on Saturday, to celebreS
New S Oriea rSt anm , VerHar >' of °>e batthTof
New Orleanp. and m response to th*
toast of “The Federal Con^” dehv
ered a speech whose soundness of view
was matched only by its high level of
eloquence. After making various local
allusions with the grace of diction which
is ever at his command, the Senator
turned naturally to the consideration of
the true functions of onr representative
government, and to the spirit which
must be steadily cherished in order to
secure its preservation. His analysis
of our Federal Government in its
original construction and its re
lation to the States was the tribute
ot a mind thoroughly capable of appre
ciating the work of the men who lived
one hundred years ago. With impressive
truth he declared that power was so mi
nutely distributed under our system :n
order that all classes alike might perform
their part as public agents and represer-
tatives, and severally share the responsi
bility. It was not a government for the
rich or educated, but for the poor and the
humble as well, and hence the perils of
aggregated power were jealously guard
ed against in the beginning. It is to
the Federal assumption of power, said
Senator Bayard, that our troubles are
due ; its assumption of the right to
furnish currency for the wants of business
equally with its assumption of the right
to exercise local government. And he
instanced the pending attempt of Senator
Morton to interfere in a local election in
Mississippi, without so much as the send
ing of a new member to the Senate for its
pretext. The currency issue was most
ably discussed by the speaker, who
grounded his views on the conviction
that the General Government has no au
thority to regulate the volume of the
currency, or to make anything but gold
and silver a legal tender for honest debts.
“Where is there a line or a word in the
constitution,” asked Senator Bayard,
“that gives Congress power over - the’
banking system of the country, not only
to assume it wholly and decree what
amount, what especial kind of capital
should be used in banking, but to con
trol the volume and character of the cur
rency ?” Congress, he affirmed, is no
where authorized to create an irredeem
able currency, much less to deprive'the
States of banking privileges which they
have exercised from the beginning of our
national existence. He called on Con
gress to give back to the people the
honest dollar of the world, “the
true dollar for all debts, whether
due to the hard hand of labor or the
money chest of the capitalist.” “Dishon
est money,” said he, “will make a dishon
est people.” Again: “To demoralize
a people no engine is more efficient than
a currency which fluctuates in value, and,
being no measure of value, is yet com -
polled to be received for debts.” His
concluding remarks in reference to Mis
sissippi were that, according to the Mor
ton resolution, the results of a State elec
tion may be inquired into by one branch
of Congress. He said that the whole
history of the last election in Mississippi
was this: That the people had suffered
so much that they have thrown aside
all petty differences of opinion and come
together to frame a government that
would insure some protection to
person and property. The Senator felt
that the Morton resolution and the si
lence in which it was received by the
dominant party constituted together a
more alarming fact in the direction of
concentration than any to which he had
referred. “I tell you,” he added, with
fervent emphasis; “that when such
things can be done and the American
people not respond, the end is near; be
cause the paralysis of manhood has
reached the heart of the nation.” This
year, the Senator reminded his hearers,
the people have their chance, and be ap
pealed to all to exercise their sovereignty
by taking it from those who thus endan
ger and dispute it.—Boston Post.
“In the Wrong Car Again.**
He had his hat pulled down over his
half-closed eyes, and a decayed cigar
stump between his lips, as he stood on
the corner of Third aud Market, about
ten o'clock last night. A street car com
ing along he staggered upon the platform,
and catching the conductor around the
neck he hiccoughed :
‘*1 say, old bell-punch, does this car go
to Fairmount ?”
“No, this car don’t go to Fairmount,”
sharply answered the conductor.
“It don’t, don’t it ? Well, I guess I’m
on the wrong oar.”
“Yes, take the next one,” snapped the
conductor, as he pushed him off the plat
form.
“Well, go on with your darned old car,”
he yelled, as he rolled into the gutter, and
with the aid of an awning post, managed
to find his feet, just as another car made
its appearance. Staggering aboard he
planted his little foot, about the size of
an elephant’s, upon the conductor’s corn
crop, which immediately consisted of ten
achers.
“You blamed fool, lookout where you
aregoing,” roared the conductor.
“All right, old boy, I’m going to Fair-
mount.”
“Well, you’re in the wrong car,’’replied
the conductor as he jerked the bell-strap
with one hand and shoved the fellow off
with the other.
The drunken wretch attempted to stand
up for his rights, but sat down in the
mud, and as he staggered to his feet, he
muttered:
“Darn my picture, if I don’t delieve all
the cars are drunk to-night.”
A Vine street car stopped opposite, to
take on a lady, and while the conductor
was helping her aboard, the fellow
slipped on at the opposite side, and
seized the conductor by the hand, which
he shook vigorously, exclaiming m a
husky voice:
“Old boy, we’re going to Fairmount,
ain’t we ?”
“Yes, we’re going to Fairmount, if we
behave ourselves,” replied the conductor,
as he propelled him into the car.
“Well, you needn’t get so mad about
it,” he replied, with an oath, as he reeled
around the car, and only saved himself
from falling by seizing hold of both ears
of a clerical looking old gentlemen who
sat in the corner reading the Christian
Weekly.
The old gentleman dropped his paper,
and as he rubbed his ears he gasped:
“Young man, do you know where you
are going ?"’
“Yes, damn me, if I ain’t going to Fair-
mount.”
“No, sir; you are fast going to hell.”
“Where ?”
“You are bound direct to hell, sir.”
“Stop the car! Stop the car!” he yelled,
as he shot out on the platform, and up
setting the astonished conductor they
both landed into the street together.
“Come back here, you darned IodI,”
shouted the conductor after his retreat
ing figure.
“No you don’t, old boy,” he yelled
back, “you and your blamed old car can
go to blazes together,” and, as he stag
gered down the street, he mumbled to
himself: “In the wrong car again, by
jingoes! I guess I’ll try to walk home
now.” Kerry Patch.
A Tramp’s Merited Fate.—An impu
dent tramp was punished with death near
Rutland, Vt. He entered the house and re
ceived a meal. He began to poke the
meat on the table with his fingers, and,
when the farmer’s wife told him to use a
knife and fork, he said: “I was born and
bred in a shanty,and I ain’t going to begin
putting on airs now.” The farmer com
manded him to go, but he replied that he
would eat first and eat in his own way.
The farmer tried to put him out, and the
tramp shouted: “Jack, Jim, come ami
help me clean out this shebang!” That
made the farmer believe that he was to
be attacked by several men, and he armed
himself with a gun. A fight ensued, in
which the tramp was killed by a chance
shot. In the dead man’s pocket was
found a map of the New England States,
pencil marked, showing that his wander
ings had been long and systematic.
When Mr. Seward told a representative
of the British Government that the va
cant seats of Southern Representatives m
Congress were waiting the return of ^ 6ir
o*:upants, he was only joking. The
theorv of the Republican party now is
that the South succeeded in breaking up
the Union, and that the people of that
section were forgiven with the under
standing that they would always vote the
Republican ticket. Otherwise they
would have been killed. The era of peace
and reconciliation doesn’t seem to be
dawnicg.—Cincinnati Enquirer.