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SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1876. ESTABLISHED 1850. Mr. ridaborn Few, of Madison, has a series or mag uificent fish-ponds which are stocked with nearly every variety of fresh water fish. ,ach insen No cont rates allowed except by special ;x;ral discounts made to large ad- lU advt • will have a favorable place •rted, but no promise of continnoas :i particular place can be given, as inn I have equal opportunities. >OtlK POETRY. k MAN WHO WENT TO TEXAS. usty, tearful eye, d creeks go dry— . perhaps you think,) , drop to drink - . through all her wilds— i" lor countless miles. ler whole domain, cl it was the same— ,e in all 1 saw is of Arkansaw— •v, the winters wet. r and all iu debt. lie lands a: e good :ie rolling ilood; p*, anti on the hills, i'vr mid the chills— oust b j the fate in the State. .« arc always green, • 1 them—changed the scene— ps that showed the green— cuts swell the spleen; uiniue you must take, ith ague-cake. ueu, or more, ick ami poor— s and the fern, nglo return a—lorraer home— never come. i, in sad distress, iowliug wilderness, oop, and weep, and die— ildren when they cry: 1 something worse- mi all in verse. Irunk, I think, of those that sink is to tne sod, names of Gi d. from that fate— save that Mate. every whim, y they will swim— ;—slashing ’round— man he found— vrs, doctors drunk— r wealth and spunk. l >inirta Times and Planter. of V r llav We Affairs in Ueorgria. j I itaiiro iii annouucing that a i tne pen of Miss Fanny Andrews, igton, Wilkes county, will soon is- ;hc press of Messrs. J. B. Lippin- cott k Co., of Philadelphia. The title of the work is “A Family Secret,” and wo feel justified in promising the lovers of fiction a rare treat. Mias Andrews is well known in literary circles as the author of a charming senes of essays over the pseudonym These essays were remark- ; ss for their scholarly fiuish than cal quality of humor which, for uore expressive word, people call Miss Andrews is a daughter of led Judge Garnet Andrews, and a lie editor of the Washington Ga- dh&ll look for the appearance of ‘•AFamily Secret” with some interest. It would be a pity, now, if, when he draws the remnant of his salary to-morrow or next day, the Hon. l’otiphar Feagreen, of Tuga- loo, should fall into the hands of the raven ous bunko men and lose his hard-earned money. Enter no suspicious places, Hon. Potty. Buy a bag of ginger-snaps for the children and take the first train. It is said the Legislature will probably adjourn iu a few days. This is too good to be strictly true. • A good many romantic Augusta youths dated their valentines “On the Canal.” We shall hear of some suicides in that neigh borhood presently. The editor of the Thomasville Times, who has solemnly promised that he will be mar ried by the first of May, has precisely two months and eight days in which to enjoy himself. Tin B-ickdale Register is hereby informed that the editor of the Talbotton Stand- I didn’t threaten to nominate the Devil fur Governor. He merely said that he had a r ' to nominate the Old Boy if he chose. LIdle Mumford is a member of the church, and we do not desire to see his writings dis torted b’ ; mful and scoffing newspaper man. We h received a poem of nineteen was from a LaGrange girl, of which the ‘ ;ow i ;i o • s a specimen: “If he should go m . v pet, my sweet—if he should go, my love, my dear—oh. who would tread with smiling fret, the borders of my gay pa- t*ni. This is well enough in its way, but w " submit that when a man’s feet get to soiiin _• m this climate, it is abont time to Uv. carbolic acid or something of that kind. !>oung lady to send her verses r -‘" K'i • >\ it is her home organ; and ! ■ ■■ s, \\ aternian is a good deal more long- Mffcring than we are. |,! A. M. Moore, who has considerable W. expe Into, her gu other d • i assist Mr. Henry M. Mc- 1 ditorial conduct of the Black- "i. The Georgian, by the by, n excellent paper, but seems to fly prosperous. 'lit* r of the Augusta Consiilu m been trying for weeks to make yme with canal. The effort is irrcl rhymes with barrel, woman ia Franklin county, af- • 1 for one hundred and six- ' lining her vitality to that ex- ■ould crack a corn-cob with went and spoiled the fnn the Korth Gei long-suffering citizens of liavo concluded that about K ' a P s ' way to rid themselves of the c " and positive tyranny of the reve- 1 s to bushwhack them. ( - K ibert Baugh, of Atlanta, had a f paralysis the other day. In fall- " bis shoulder, and now lies in ndition. • n thunder is Jack Brown V And And l’salmbardofidaho? aM llnt Johannes B’Gormanne is still ‘ • 'bateau ou Lake Crescent iu Florida. lhe box of di Warded to mg * critical When* The ous oranges that the Count us three years ago is probably u * - in some express office. ‘Mayson, of Atlanta, was se- eat ab °ut the head and face the other ! ‘ a shelf of crockeryware, *hich a • a negro was arranging. The manumit tiot hurt, of course. m ^ "'■! Institute Messenger has ford US a i’b ear ance. Miss Lolly Ruther- q aQ( i ^iss Susan Kelley are the editors, of Muscogee, i8 having some op- • miu big race j or ^ u ouae liepre- * tn tativeg. be of en clia i D *g a Dg doesn’t appear to Prevtm h * le ° f arc bitecturo calculated to escape of prisoners. il r j r i pl , t t0 lear “ of the sudden death of iail . ' ^ am P> °f Griffin, which occurred and p ' JQ ^ a ’’ 1 WO0 i £ * Mr. Camp was brave -- a - u '- ro us to a fault, and was his own Wont f&tnily. enemy. fl e leaves an interesting $2,500 ^ aUeB ^-* e Ki8la-tivo clerks were Hert r lD were in 1874. v aunt, i 1 Kood c bance to display your ^economy, Hon. Potty. t beiw^ U | Ilanifc ^ Dav is has been swindling ^otcarrouton. The Columbus Enquire)' savs that Com missioner Janes figures up that corn was raised last season in Georgia at fifty-eight cents per bushel, oats twenty-nine* cents, and cotton at eleven cents per pound. Though an awfully bad year coru and oats have brought double the price of the cost of production. Cotton has brought less. What is the use of raising cotton when it brings less than it costs to make it. Either the Commissioner’s figures are worthless or the farmers are with their eyes open working from January through to December to see how far they can get in debt. The Macon Telegraph says that a verv sad accident occurred Saturday morning in Bibb county. While >lrs. R. Mitchell, a widowed sister of Colonel John Braswell, was at the well, a little daughter of Colonel Braswell, some seven or eight years of age, came run ning out of the house with her clothing on fire. While attempting to extinguish the flames the dress ot Mrs. Mitchell took fire and before she could rid herself of her clothing, was so severely burned that she is uot expected to recover. The little girl died from the effects of her burns in an hour and a half. It is not known how her clothing took fire. Darien Gazette: The bill abolishing the office of Inspector General, and making other absurd alterations in the existing laws regulating the sale of timber and lum ber in this port, has passed the Senate, but not as yet the House. It would seem that the Hon. Potipbar Peagreeu had got him self more ridiculously mixed with the local affairs of McIntosh county, about which he kuowB leas than nothing, than with the State at large. Columbus Times: The Macon Telegraph states that jt received two thousand dollars for publishing articles relating to the lease of the State Road. It claims that this was poor pay for the quantity of matter which it published, and that its hill was larger, but it compromised on two thousand. We had no idea that the publications on the subject were so voluminous. The lessees either advertised very liberally, or paid with a liberality very unusual. LaGrange Reporter: We beg leave to call the attention of the chairmen of the two Finance Committees of the Legislature to the fact which appears in the Comptroller’s report, that J. W. Murphy is Keeper of Public Buildings and J. W.'Murphy is also Secretary of the Senate. A proper subject for them to investigate would be whether the same J. W. Murphy holds the same two offices ; and il so, whether ho draws his sal ary as Keeper of Public Buildings at the same time when he is receiving $1,000 for his forty days’ service as Secretary of the Senate. Another subject for them is one to which we called their attention last week —namely, that S. C. Williams holds three offices at the same time, aud receives pay for them all. THE MORNING NEWS. Xoon Telegrams. COLLAPSE OF THE CARLIST CAUSE Darien Gazette, of Friday : The Episco palians of Darien and vicinity are having a jubilee week of it. The Savannah convo cation met in St. Andrew’s Church, ou the Ridge, on Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock. There were present Rev. Dr. Benedict, the Dean, or presiding officer of the meeting, Rev. Mr. Mortimer, Rector of Christ Church, Savannah; Rev. Mr. Boone, Rector of Bruns wick; Rev. Mr. Leigh, of Butler’s Island, aud Rev. Dr. Clute, of this parish. A new feature in this convocation was the presence of Rev. Messrs. Love aud Morris, colored ministers, both of whom are men of high culture and education. Services have been held day and night for both the white and colored population, on the Ridge, at Darien and Butler’s Island, aud several sermons of real merit aud power have been delivered. Senator Hester is right after the State Lottery. Here are some of his figures: As to the cost of the lottery, I am glad that my facts as taken from the roturns made to the Governor have not been disputed. They were as follows for tho six years ending 1st of April, 1875: Paid to trustees $ 41,534 70 Paid to managers 78,584 42 Paid to clerks 19,45s 41 Paid to commissioners 9,164 >2 4,000 2,000 Making a to’al of $148,692 35 Appropriations for Executive Department for year 1875: For compensat ion of Governor $ Far compensation of Secretary of State For compensation of Comptroller Gt*n- For Compensation of State Treasurer.. For compensation of clerk for Secretary of State For compensation of clerk for State Treasurer For compemation of two clerks for Comptroller General For compensation of State Librarian.... For compensation of Attorney General. For compensation of two Secretaries of Executive Department 2,000 2,000 1,609 3.200 1.200 2,000 Multiplied by.. $23,200 $139,200 Deducted from aggregate received by managers, &c., ot lottery leaves $9,492 35 more receive! by trustees, managers, clerks and commissioners of the lottery in six years, to run just one school of one super intendent and four teachers, than is re ceived by the Governor and all the officers of the executive department as enumerated above, for the same time. Is it lair that we should keep up an institution deemed by almost all people to be immoral—managed by three managers—I hear there are only three—each of whom receives a salary larger than tho Governor of tho State. Then where is this money gathered from ? I hear it is from the poor, the ignorant, around this city. Are you willing to plead for such an institution at such a cost ? a ( South Carolina Affairs. * By a statement oT the Comptroller Gen eral, the time for the payment of taxes ex tends for sixty days from the date at which the Treasurers in the various counties opened their books. The penitentiary received a reinforcement of twenty-eight last Thursday. A site has been selected for tho new Meth odist Church to he built at Walhalla. A lot 60 by 80 feet has been purchased on Main street, adjoining Mr. Wesley Pitchford ou one aide aud Mr. Jacob Schroder on the other. About four hundred shade trees have been planted in Bamberg within tho last fort night. To the present time only about one-fourth of the taxes of Fairfield county have been paid. The amount levied, for allpurpoBcs, i about seventy thousand dollars. To the 18th, the Treasurer of Barnwell county had collected only about thirty-one thousand eight hundred dollars—a little over one-tbird of the amount assessed. Last year, iu the same leugih of time, over one- half the taxes had been collected. Bamberg contributed to the tax-gatherer on his re- ceut rounds more than any other point vis ited by the Treasurer. About three thou sand dollars have been collected for building Court House. Walhalla Methodist Church has organized choir. Alston Wright, the ringleader of the railroad robbers at Peo Dee Bridge, ia in Marion jail. Walhalla had quite a row amongst some negroes on tho 11th instant, one of whom knocked the Marshal, Mr. Sullivan, down with a rock, enabling another one under ar rest to escape. Both were recaptured. All available mercantile stands are occu pied in Blackville. The Keowee Courier learns that a diffi culty occurred on last Sunday in the Choe- hoe section of Oconee county, iu which the wife of Mr. Peter Chapman was shot in tne breast by John Chapman, the ba)« pass- near ly through her body. She was liv- when last heard form. Peach and plum trees are blooming all over the State. The new Baptist Church was dedicated at Abbeville last Sunday, the 13th. Rev. C. H. Toy, of Greenville, preached the dedieatoiy sermon. , General M. C. Butler, the Chairman, has called a meeting of the Executive Committee the Democratic party of South Caro'ma, the parlor of the Columbia Hotel to-day, fcu e 22d instant, at 8 o’clock p. m. The county chairmen of the several counties are invited to meet the committee on the foUow- g day at XI o’clock. Mr Thomas Shirlock, who lives near St. Matthew’s Churck, Orangeburg county, was ^ot inThe breast on Thursday before last. The Royalists ('arrjiBi; Things Before Them. Hon Carlos Said to Have France. Fled to Result of the French Elections. ing ’ i^lioQad’^ c °l° re< l emigrants from the cnidi.i.t Jactot 40 Columbus have become | ■-* tor Western graveyard*. 1 Bridge DemocraUc party^ m ^m"^; % v £ur7?H ’ J.Kearse, and W. I:»Se Prestdem^M A Moye aud THE CARLIST DEFEAT. VnroaiA, February 21.—The Carlists are withdrawing their contracts and reserves. Little resistance is expected from them at Toleso. Madrid, February 21.—The government sent a circular dispatch to its representa tives abroad, announcing the capture of Montejurra and the occupation of the Car- list positions above Vera. The dispatch admits that the combat was sanguinarv, the Carlists fighting with great valor. There is great rejoicing here. The city is illumi nated. Telegrams from the North announce that the Royalists continue successful in their progress. General Primo de Rivera has oc cupied the Carlist forts in Navarre. The greater part of the Carlist artillery at Estella was captured. Tho Carlists had* thrown a portion over the precipices before the ar rival of the Royalists. It is reported that Don Carlos fled into France last night. The Carlist resistance at Toleso is expected to be short, on account of the discouragement now prevalent among the Carlists. King Alfonso has gone to Azcoitia. He will sleep to-night at Azpeita. THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. Paris, February 21.—Thiers has seven thousand majority. The city is perfectly quiet. Buffet is elected in Bourges. Du- favre, Minister of Justice, is elected. Gam- betta is elected in five places, and Blanc in tour. ArrLS aud Roubaix return Republi cans. Of the 169 elections of which results are known, 123 are carried by Republicans of various shades, 17 by Bouapartists, 11 by Radicals, 7 by Legitimists, 6 by Conscitu- -tioualists, aud 5 by Conservatives. The earlier returns, being those of cities and large towns, will probably show a relatively greater proportion of Republicans thau the districts yet to hear from. RIVER DISASTEB8. New Orleans, February 21 The Mary Lowery, from Red River hither, is burned. No lives were lost. The steamer Lotus, from Jefferson, Texas, hither with 1.0(H) hales of cotton, sunk. Her cargo received damage. DEAD. St. Petersburg, February 21. — The Grand Duchess Marie Nicolaevana, a sister of the Emperor, is dead. RADICALISM REVIEWED. Senator Gordon's NIasterly Speech on the Political Outlook. THE MYSTERY OF TROUT CREEK Probable Foul Play—Damon ami Pythias, or Cain ami Abel f [Special Correspondence of the Morning News.] to B. Bice, vice -- - u T. J. Dickenson, Secretanes. -the g sfttion numbers about one hundred. Jacksonville, February 19, 187(1. A rumor obtained currency this even ing that the remains of a white man had been found by some negroes in a wild and desolate spot near the water’s edge of Trout creek, otherwise known as Brou- ard’s Neck, in the vicinity of Panama Mills, distant some five miles from Jack sonville. Upon visiting the scene the bruit was verified in every particular, and the lifeless form of a being, which, even in the advanced stage of decompo sition in which it then was, indicated a splendid physique and ath letic build, was discovered about two hundred yards from the ferry. The head had been blackened by exposure to the elements, a set of teeth that might have been envied by Apollo stood out promi nently, a million of vermin were rioting in a feast of flesh, and the receding tide seemed to be rippling forth a plaintive elegy for the dead. There was something exceedingly melancholy in a fate like this, aud as the stream pursued its winding way towards the river and the sea, it car ried the thoughts of the spectators to dreams of eternity. Death under sur roundings so inscrutable and horrible is DEATH EMPHASIZED, and the KiEg of Terrors in any other than a lonely guise seems divested of half of his sting. A Coroner’s jury was em- panneled, and Dr. Babcock submitted the body to a thorough examina tion, but could detect no marks of violence thereon, and the jury rendered verdict that the deceased (who was identified by his clothes as William N. Larson, a Danish ferryman in the employ of Mr. M. L. Brouard,) came to his death by drowning in Trout creek, though whether by accident or design could not be determined. According to the evi dence of Mr. Brouard, Larson was about twenty-four years of age, had but re cently arrived in the United States from Denmark, and, together with a companion named Nelson Petersen, also a native of Denmark, had been employed by him as ferryman. Larson could speak nothing but Danish, while Petersen spoke the English language, if not fluently, at least intelligibly, and the pair appeared to he another instance like Orestes and Pylades, instead of GAIN AND ABEL. About three weeks since they left Mr. Brouard’s in company, with the inten tion of going to town. Larson, upon his leparture, wore a silver watch, valued at about twenty dollars, and it is believed also had about twenty dollars in money in his possession. Nothing of this description was on his person when he was found. The boat in which the two Danes left was found tied to a tree three or four days afterwards. Pe tersen has never yet returned to claim his baggage, aud his unaccountable dis appearance was not inquired into until the discovery of Larson’s remains to-day. It is supposed that the corpse must have been drifted- by the action of the tide to the spot where it was first seen. A letter addressed to W. N. Larson was produced and opened at the inqui sition at 5 p. m. to-day. It was written iu Dani-h, dated Perth Amboy, New Jer sey, January, 1870, and bore the signa ture of Charles Christophersen. WAS IT FOUL PLAY ? The sudden and unexplained disappear ance of Nelson Peterson, the empty pock ets of Larson, and various other consid erations, tend to engender a concatenation of circumstances that warrant the suppo sition of foul play. But the absence of all marks of violence upon Larson would seem to heighten the mysterious features of the affair. Aside from the suspicious phase of the calamity, it is barely possible that Wm. N. Larson and Nelson Petersen perished as they had lived, together. In contemplating this sad demoralization of poor humanity the reflection wells up that some fond Scan dinavian mother, whose hoy brightened her home in the land of the snow, the lichen and the fir, is ignorant of the fact that he in drifting to a tropic clime has died unseen, under the shadows of the forest oak, the jessamine and the trailing moss. SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS BUILDING Adbianus. An Indianapolis cat got to playing with a small turtle the other day, and was having a nice time tumbling it around, when suddenly the turtle’s jaws closed on the cat’s tail. There was some very lively tumbling then on the part of the cat, to an accompaniment of her own selection. Two hours after she was seen examining that tail tenderly, evidently wondaring if the piece would grow out again. A Frenchman who has lived in America for several years says: “When they build a railroad, the first thing they do is to break ground. This ia done with great ceremony. Then they break the stock holders. This is done without cere mony, “ [From the Atlanta Constitution.] At an early hour the House of Repre sentatives was densely filled. Senator Gordon spoke as follows: Gentlemen of the General Assembly, my\ FeUmc- Countrymen: You may well imagine that the circum stances which have called me to my home, •ind which were beyond my control, have, of necessity, occupied much of my attention for the last few days, and led my thoughts upon lines not legitimate to pursue here to night. But, notwithstanding these un toward circumstances and the pre-occupa tion of my thoughts, I would he an insincere man if I did not express the deep gra'eful- nesa I feel for the opportunity of conference with you in behalf of those infinitely greater interests of local government for these States and popular liberty for this people. And, I would be an uncandid man if I withheld from you the expression of my ap prehensions that we, as a people, stand in the very shadow of a great political ca lamity. The nature of that calamity, its probable fruits and the possibilities, the chances and methods of averting it, 1 pro pose as the subject for discussion to-night. I think that I am no alarmist, but I solemnly believe that if the disaster to which I refer, which, of course, is the re- election of the Republican party to admin ister this government for the next four years, shall befall yoa, it will surely endan ger, if it does not destroy, the governments of these States, and of* consequence your liberties under them. Let me submit at the outset, two or three truths deducible from history. It is the history of governments that when they fall, except from foreign invasion—from which cause the United States is happily ex empted—they usually fall either from the incompetency, or the corruption, or the tyranny of their rulers. Second. In popular governments, the loss of liberty follows arau/edly upon the loss of an enlightened public sentiment, or as has been better expressed, the loss of that “eternal vigilance, which is the price of liberty.” It these he truths, as they un doubtedly are, how is it possible to exag gerate the peril of that republican govern ment, iu which the controlling party is not only incompetent, but corrupt; not only cor rupt, hut actuated in its legislation towards a large portion of the people by the spirit of tyranny; aud when a majority of the people of that country seem possessed of so mortal au apathy that they are incapable of throw ing off such a government ? Iu this the condition of this country at this time ? Let the hist »ry of the party iu power since the war answer. Let me group together some facts, which though familiar, can not be too often brought to the atteu- tion of the country. It will he remembered that early iu 1865,1 this party, which had the control of this government found the Southern armies dis armed and disbanded. They found their own armies, although successful, hailing with satisfaction, not only the cessation of war and the restoration of the Union, but the prospective participation by the South in the legislation of tho country. This party repudiated tho sentiments of their own soldiers aud intervened by law to strike down the open hand, extended aud ready to he grasped in reconciliation of past differ ences. I offer that as au argument against its competency. ■ ■ TLere was Sherman, fresh from hisl “March to the Sea,” and -covered, iu their estimation, with the glory of victory, mak ing terms with General Joseph E. Johnston, which, if consummated, would not only have brought immediate peace to the entire* coun try, but would have crowned both these Generals with a fame brighter and more en during thau all their victories! D.d they endorse Sherman ? They threw contempt upon his propositions. I offer that as an argument against their competency. ■ ■ What else ? They found Andrew John son, who had pandered to their passions, yet within tho purview of his powers, seek ing to restore local government to those States based upon the freedom of both races, white and black. Did they support him ? On the contrary, because of his wisdom and liis statesmanship they sought to impeach him—to impeach the man who had turned his back upon his kindred and adhered to tho Union amidst the shock of a revolution, which left his section one pile of ruins ! They found General Grant as late as 1867 making a tour of inspection through the Southern States and reporting what he saw and heard and believed of the Southern peo ple. Did they receive that report? On the contrary, they treated it with contempt and J their public press pronounced him a white- washer. General Grant a white-washer of the Southern people! The commander of their armies and whose initials they claimed to stand for “Unconditional Surrender Grant,” aud who, in spite of themselves, had persisted in his “on to Richmond” until he had overthrown the proudest, the bravest aud the knightliest army that ever followed the grandest leader to victory! [Applause. ] What else ? They found tho Southern peo ple after the war with disordered labor, dis rupted society, discordant political elements, bravely, persistently, grandly endeavoring to gather up these broken fragments and to mould them into consistency and these shat tered organisms into the autonomy of States, [Loud applause.] What course was adopted iu reference to us by the party in power? Did they say “ these people are more interested in good government, in peace between the races, in the good order of society, in the enforcement of the laws and the perpetuity of local government, and we will entrust to them the delicate but gigantic task of lay ing anew tho foundations of their govern ments within the purview of the Constitu tion and the legitimate results of the war ?’ Such a course was the only possible one con sistent with the spirit of our institutions or with common sense. But what did they do? They tent their own agents to do this deli cate work for us, or rather for themselves. Who were these agents ? They were stran gers, they were adventurers* they were camp-followers, they were plunderers, they were ruthless Harpies, they were ossifrage- nouss vultures, gathering in their filthy talons the debris of battle and the spoils of conquest! [Applause.] They were vultures ready to fly at the approach of danger, yet, when their victims were helpless and mana cled, driving their bloody beaks into the writhing forms of these prostrate States. Such was the statesmanship of this party in the reorganization of these governments, and I offer that as an argument against their competency. What else? As if to furnish a fitting cli max to their past blunders, aud to heap madness upon folte, they struck down their own greatest leaders, the Nestors of their party, whenever they gave evidence of statesmanship. Among those who were guillotined because of their wisdom were Lyman Trumbull, of Illinois; Carl Schurz, of Missouri, and Horace Greeley, of New York. [Applause.] These, I repeat, were among their ablest and best men. Yet they struck them down the very moment they proposed any constitutional measures to ward the South, or a restraint upon their power. For myself, I have great respect for such men as those I have named, come from what party they may. All honor to Schurz, to Trumbull and to Greeley, who, with the forecast of statesmen and* the courage of patriots, sought to restore concord to the sections, aud the Constitution to its supre macy, and went down fighting the enemies of both. [Loud applause.] So much for their former record. What now are they doiog ? The experiments have been tried; tho test cases have been sub mitted to the courts, and the judgment ren dered and proclaimed to the world. Experi ence pours its flood of light upon the record. From a bed of ruins, from the slimy pools of corruption into which tho emissaries of that party had dragged these plundered States, every one of them that has been re covered from the hands of these harpies is at peace. Harmony reigns between the races, the laws are enforced, government is honestly admini-tered, schools are support ed for both races and the school fund is not stolen! [Laughter and cheers. ] They find every one of them which are in the hands of oar own people on the high road of progress, and with a prosperity equal at least with many of their favored Northern sisters. With these facts before them do they say to us, “Well done, good and faithful servants, enter into the joys of your great deliverance?” No, sirs. With these horrid experiences still fresh m the memory of our people, and with the smoke of their torments from some of these sin-cursed governments forced upon the South still rising to Heaven, we are startied by the propositions contained in two series of resolutions introduced by the Senator from Indiana. What are they?* One series, in substance, declares that this is not a government of free and independent States. They declare, in substance, that the States bear the same relations to the Fede ral Government that the counties bear to the States. If adopted, they practically ob literate State lines, and convert this Federal Government into a consolidated empire. Let them he sanctioned by the people, let this fissure he once made in constitutional harriers, and the passions of any party in power, like the floods of the Mississippi through a crevasse in the levee, will rush through End continue to widen the breach, and finally carry local government and liberty before them. (Great applause.) The other aeries of k resolutions offered by the same Senator contemplates the appoint ment of a committee by the Senate to in vestigate the last popular election in the BUte of Xiauuippi. The Confutation of PAPER FOUNDED 1S50. BUILDING ERECTED 187C. On tho Cth day of July, 1875, the proprietor of the Savannah Morning News commenced the erectiou of the hand some building, of tho appearance of which the above engraving gives an excellent idea. The new Home was occupied on the 15th of January, 1876—the twenty-sixth anniversary of the paper. The buildiug is four stories and a basement, granite iront, and from tho street to tho top of the cupola, is eighty- eight feet high, and, exteriorally and into- riorally, is handsomely finished in the best style. The first, or basement, floor is occupied hv the engine aud presses, and iu this de partment are printed the several editions of the News and all the varied and extensive work of the job printing department. The southern half of the first floor is ad mirably arranged as tho counting-office, in which all the business of the establishment is transacted. In rear of this is tho propri etor’s private office. The remaining section of this floor is con verted into a Stock Room, in which are stored all the supplies for tho paper, the job department and the bindery. The two front rooms on the second story are rented as lawyer’s offices—the rear ones are used as the “Book Room,” where hook and pamphlet work is done. The Job Printing Department and the Bindery occupy the entire third floor, and aro provided with all the conveniences nec essary for the rapid execution of work. The fourth floor is divided into three edi torial rooms and a composing room for the newspaper, all splendidly famished and conveniently arranged apartments. The entire building is supplied with all the modern conveniences and comforts, is thoroughly ventilated and protected against fire and is considered by all who have vis ited it a model newspaper edifice. Communication is had with tho several floors by meaus of speaking tubes, dumb waiters, and one of Bates’s patent elevators. The cupola, which surmounts the build ing, is neatly furnished and offers a ileasaut place for visitors, especially the plei ladies, hundreds of whom have* visited the building since its completion. From the cupola a magnificent view of the harbor, city and surrounding country is obtained. The building is open at all hours of the day to strangers and citizens, and a cordial invitation is extended all to visit the premi ses whenever they desire. the United States says of Congress that each bodv shall be the judge of the election, qualifications and returns of its own mem bers. If, therefore, some one claiming an electiou from one of the Mississippi districts were knocking at tho door of the House of Representatives for admission and fraud were charged, that body could investigate his election by the people. Senators are not elected by the popular vote. Under the Constitution’they are .--hosea by the Legis latures of the States. What possible right, therefore, or glimmer of law is there upon laughter.] But why talk about corruptions in these Southern governments? Look else where!—look everywhere! Pollution—pol lution is left wherever that party makes its track. Look at Credit Mobiliet 1 —the gigan tic railroad swindles—the Facific mail—tho I Washing ton City government rings—tho Sanborn contracts—and the endless schemes aud jobs to rob tho Treasury. Look at the collossal frauds of the “whisky ring,” which I shall in a few days show to the Senate and the country exceed in the magnitude of their proportions the peculations of all these cor- whicli the Senate can proceed to investigate i rupt governments in the South. [Applause.] a popular election in Mississippi. Gentle men of the General Assembly, tho Senate could, with the same propriety* aud just as legally, investigate the right by which yon hold your seats in this body; or the charge of fraud in the last elections in the States of New York or Illinois ! Tho proposition is too absurd for argument. But what mat ters it to Senator Morton that, to secure Mississippi’s eight votes iu tho Electoral College, he must fly in the face of all prece dent, override the law, trample down the constitution, overthrow local government aud endanger popular liberty in this coun try? What matters ail this to him ? Pic ture to yourself a Senator from one of the States of this Union, standing iu the highest legislative body known to the iaws aud which under the form of his government by the constitution he hag sworn to support is made the bulwark against au invasion of the rights of the States—picture, I say, this grave Senator standing in that august as semblage clamoring for a committee, upon whose report he may overthrow the popular government of one of tho coequal States of this Union ! And then look at tho gravity of his argument! Tho question before tho body is this: Whore is the law under which the Senate of the United Stales can investi gate a popular election ? How does the Senator seek to demonstrate that the United States Senate has such a power? What are his arguments? They are these: The last election in Mississippi must and can law fully be investigated, because you want in Georgia a constitutional convention and a dog law! [Laughter.] jNow, of course, that is not literally true, but I have done the honorable Senator’s argument no injflstice in thus presenting it. Indeed, it is a compliment to put it in that light. [Laughter.] He does urge the Senate to investigate the election which has just occurred in one of tho States of the Union, and which sent Democrats to Con gress and to the Legislature of that State. But the constitutional provision which per mits it he has not, as yet, shown us. The Senator had spoken for two cla3*s when I left Washington, aud among the arguments that he presented was the fact that some time iu the past Mississippi had repudiated her bonds. [Laughter.] Another was that sometime in the past her banks had broken, and hence we must investigate that election. [Renewed laughter.] These were cogent reasons, doubtless, aud the honorable Sena tor only needed one other point to ren der his argument complete and over whelming. If, when he was treating of banks he had only given us a chapter on the Freedman’s bank, of which he has a right to know a great deal more than of Mississippi banks, and which would have been quite as germaiu to the subject aud much nearer contemporaneous with the events ho sought to iuvestigate—if he had done that, his argument would have indeed been worthy of the Senator’s patriotic, law ful and disinterested purpose. [Great laughter.] And while this Senator is thus proving the constitutional power of Ihe Senate to investigate the Mississippi elec tion, with a view I presume of relieving that * State of iheir Democratic government, and I of restoring to the rebellious subjects of Father Ames, the Daternal government with which that individual by the grace of the Republican party and Federal intervention, has blessed them [laughter] for the past few years—while he is thus engaged iu the Senate, Mr. Blaine in the House sounds the centennial jubilee by summoning before him the ghost of the Duke of Alva to prove that the Duke was au immaculate saint as compared to the Southern people? [Laugh ter, applansc and hisses.] Probably 1 ought to apologize for treating » grave a subject with so much levity. If 8Uclijexhibitious oT insatiate vengeance, of unconquerable prejudice aud of undying hate at such & time, when the hearts of the Southern people yearn for peace, and the jople everywhere, North, South, East aud eat, hail the return ol the one hundredth anniversary of American independence as a day of oblivion to all these horrible memo ries—if such an exhibition of partisan pas sion does not proclaim these men unfit and incompetent to rule this government, then I know nothing of statesmanship and of the qualifications requisite for rulers of a repub lic, which, if it live at all, mast live in the hearts of a united people. (Great applause.) I come now to the second charge—that the party which rules the country is a party of corruption. On this point little need be said. From the days of old Rome to this hour, through all history, civilized and bar baric,there neverhas appeared in any country or any century, such seething heaps of cor ruption as have been piled up by their agents in these Southern States! They were the worst governments upon earth. There is scarcely a Governor whom they put in power who is not now either a fugitive from outraged law or impeached by the judgment of the country. There is scarcely a Legis lature which was not notoriously purchasa ble. There is scarcely a Judge in some of these wretched governments who has not mocked justice and shamed the ermine upon his shoulders, while not few have been convicted of gross frauds and embezzlements. This is true in Louisiana from the Chief Justice d:>wn; and in Mississippi and South Carolina that lawyer ought to be stricken from the bar as an imbecile who would expect a decision ia accotdMW wiU» tlw lav. [Great The “whisky ring”—holding * in its] [polluted embrace, , not only officersl of the government and collectors of the revenue, but those high iu the confidence of our rulers. Look, finally, at the widespread demoralization among tho people, conse- Jouent upon the demoralizing example of r demoralized rulers. Look at this, fellow- countrymen, and tell me if under any administration of this or any other country official embezzlements were ever so com mon, official hooesty and integrity were ever so rare, or corruption so rife? I do uot say it from any prejudice, nor as a par- tizan, but I do say, and say it with a full realization of its truth, with as profound a regret as I am capable of feeling, and with a love of my country broad as its vast ex panse, that the very reputation of republi can government is imperilled, if its exist ence is not endangered, by such a state of public affairs. We come now to the third general charge —that this party has been and still is actu ated in legislation toward tho South by a spirit of tyranny. What is tyranny? Let me describe it. Tyranny is not always per sonated by a soldier. It may be in ono garb or another. To-day it may be a General at the head of an army, issuing laws to a peo ple; to-morrow, a legislator enacting statutes which violate the fundamental law of the land and place in jeopardy the rights of the people! Both are tyrants—the one bold, defiant, manly; the other, coming in the form of the arch deceiver, with the honied woids of peace, law, constitution, upon his lips, which are hut the trappings which cover his lawless intent. Tyranny may he tho act of one man, or of a minority or a majority. It may be Ciesar pushing away the crown with one hand and raisiu^ it tor his brow with the other; it may be a Jacobin miority or a Republican majority. Tyranny is usurpation. The usurpation of powers not recognized by law, which override law, and place in jeopardy the rights of the people, is tyranny. Let mo now apply this definition to the acts of the Republican party. They waged the war upon tho one ground that no State had the right to withdraw from the Union—that no State, uuder our form of government, could break the bonds of union and resume the powers it had delegated to the Federal Gov ernment. That was the ground upon which they raised their armies and waged the war. Therefore, the very moment war ceased, with the triumph of their armies and the defeat of the South, the Union was a fact ! It needed no reconstruction! If the bonds of union could not be broken except by force, and if that force which defended the right to withdraw was defeated, how is it possible to resist the logical sequence that the defeat of the South was per.se the restoration of the Union ? As I have said, the soldiers thought this true, and so we thought. But what did this party do? They intervened by law to Dr event it. That was tyranny. They passed an election law under which corrupt men could aud did take charge of the registration of voters who struck from the lists whom they would, and lrom their decision there was no appeal. That was tyranny! They took charge of elections and the bal lot boxes, turned out the men whom yon had elected, and placed in power those whom you had not chogen. That was tyranny ! They interfered to ascertain the constitu ent elements of yonr Legislature, and sum moned by military authority a railroad agent to sit in this seat and decide who should and who should not take their seats in this hall. That was tyranny. They dispersed Legis latures with bayonets. That was tyranny 1 But do you say these aro things of the past, aud that we must look to the future? No man is more ready than your speaker to turn his back upon all these horrid recol lections, and no man looks with more in tensity of anxiety to the day when this conntry shall be no longer under the domi nation of hate, and when the whole people, from ocean to ocean, shall be united, peace ful, hopeful and happy. [Loud applause.] But what encouragement have we if this administration is to last to hope for such a future? Suppose Mr. Morton passes his resolutions? That is the aim of that party to-day, and if it goes into power again upon the passions which they seek to inflame, and the prejudices which they essay to create, they will not only pass those resolu tions, but make the precedent set the fixed policy of this government. To adopt such resolutions, and thus override State lines and the popular will, is tyranny. But what next ? This party majority in the Senate of the United States is trying to make & legislator out of Pinckback! Pinchback, sent from Louisiana by a body which, by the judgment of their own committee, had no legel exist ence. It is said to be capable of proof that he was a convict. Bat suppose we should prove it ? We should only commend him by that to the confidence of that party! [Laughter and applause.] If we coaid prove him a jail bird it would only be to say “here is a fit legislator for the Sonthern peopleand in the estimation of that party panegyric would be exhausted did we call him a thief. [Laughter and cheers.] I presume they will seat him. I hope they will not. I trust I shall be there, although 1 am now paired, to record my vote against him—to more-tojoim with my brother Demo crats in entering upon the records of the country a solemn p’rotest against this out rage upon decency, law and the Constitution of the country. [Cheers.] But, 1 repeat, I think they will seat him as a participator in' the glories of Republican legislation and a sharer in the emoluments which go to Re publican Congressmen from the tionth, in the shape of the sale of the cadetships and the purchase of their votes by scheming cor porations. [Laughter and applause.] Now, have I proved that this party is in competent, corrupt, and moved in its legis lation towards us by a spirit of tyianny ? If so, you are prepared to appreciate the declaration with which I set out, that we are in the presence of overshadowing dan gers. We come now to the second general head —the chances and methods of averting this danger. But I fear I am talking too long. [Cnes of “go on.”] I say there is a possi bility—] believe a probability—yes, I believe a certainty—that we shall win the victory in November, and take one long breath aud rise to a higher—[Long and load applause, drowning the speaker’s voice.] There is at the North unquestionably a disposition to have a change of rulers.* They begin to re alize that the same daugers which threaten us directly threaten them indirectly; that the same corruptions, profligacy aud rob bery, which is piling up debt and taxation, is oppressing them as well as us. They also begin to realize that it is the mission of some party outside of the Republi can organization to bring peace to these sections and honesty and economy to all the departments of government. It is true that persistent efforts are being made now, and will con tinue to be made until November to divert attention from the record of this party by inflaming passion. But let me impress upon you, my countrymen, that while they cannot succeed in that effort, they are suc ceeding in another, equally groundless aud far more dangerous to your future. They are upon false assumptions tilling the North ern mind with apprehension. While upon this point let me answer those who have complimented me by asking my opinion upon the convention (question. Candor compels me to admit that I have not had opportunity to investigate the subject suffi ciently iu all its bearings to justity me in urging my opinions upon you. Were la member of this body with the lights before me, I should vote for a convention, for rea sons which I mention. First, to shorten official terms. Second, [to lessen executive patronage, which I be lieve is greater than that of any government in the country, State or Federal*. But thirdly, above all else, that we might restrain the power of the State, the counties I and municipal authorities to create debts ad infinitum, aud levy taxes ad libitum ! [Ap plause.] I think these are good reasons for calling a convention. Several of the North ern States have incorporated into their fun damental law the piovision to which I re ferred. But as I have said, my convictions are not sufficiently fixed for me to urge them upon you; but, gentlemen of the Gen eral Assembly of Georgia, there is one point in reference to this convention question upon which I have the profoundest convic tions, aud that is as to tho time when this convention should assemble, if this Legisla ture shall call it. That time is the earliest moment possible! [Prolonged applause.) Why? Why not wait until 1877? Let me tell you why. A few days before I left J Washington, Senator Morton, in tho United States Senate, read from his seat a speech delivered from this staud by a distinguished son of Georgia—delivered, as Mr. Morton said, by the invitation of the Legislature, iu the presence of the Legislature aud with the approval of the Legislature, [cries of no, no, no, from members in all parts of tho honse], and it has gone to the North flying upon the wings of the telegraph, that the champion of the convention iu Georgia has at last informed the conntry and the [world of the real purpose of Georgia Demo crats in calling a convention. What is that purpose ? Mr. Morton gave it in tho classic words of this Georgian, “To put the nigger where he will never he heard from again.” Now, fellow-countrymen, this has gone forth to tho North as the echo of the sentiments of this body. There is not a man in Georgia who does not know how unjust is such au impfitatiou. Is there one in this body or this great assemblage who does not feel the injustice? [Loud cries of “no, no,” from all parts of the house.] Yet the North be- lieves it. To-daj there are thousands and hundreds of thousands of men at the North who were looking to next November as a day of relief from the profligate party which has administered the government in its own interests for ten years. But these men have been appalled—filled with apprehensions by the wild and unreasoning declarations to which I have been compelled to refer. Hear it, believe it, know it, that unless that ap prehension is corrected overwhelming defeat awaits us in November, attended with [all the disasters which I have so inadequately described. I am obliged to say ou this subject a word more. I share with you, my countrymen, all yonr pride iu the past of that distin guished Georgian. For his past services to the State and the country I honor him. But I would be au unfaithful sentinel on the watchtower to which your confidence has assigned me if I did not warn yon that that sentence, wild as it was, is brimful of poison for the Northern mind and of defeat for Democrats and calamity for you. [Loud applause.] I say it is painful to utter these words; but I would be untrue to my con- [victiona of duty were I to say less. I do not envy the ambition which seeks notoriety at the hazard of such dire consequences to this section and people. [Loud applause.] Therefore, I repeat, if you are going to call a convention, call it quick. [Applause.] ]Lot the people of tho whole country know the truth. Let them look down into the very bowels of your purposes and sound all the depths of yonr intent. The truth and the whole truth, let it be known: Do this and in spite of the folly we recognize, you will disarm apprehensions. Do not rely upon your appreciation of the meaningless [words which have gone to the country. Thes© words to the North mean enough to defeat you in the next election. Let them know that your purposes are these and Jthese only—to shorten terms of office, lessen Executive patronage, forbid the creation of I debt, and to base your government on foun dations laid with your own hands, whose chief corner-stone shall be justice to all men of all colors and creeds. [Loud, prolonged applause.] I said that ap-\ prehension is worse than passion. It is worse because it takes hold of thinking men. It is the thinking but misguided men of the North who have been seized with a tremor lest some brainless folly at your hands may involve this country m further trouble. Passion remains, but its power for evil is well nigh gone. Messrs. Morton and Blaine will not succeed. You have seen the little boy take the sea shell thrown up by the waves from the depths of the ocean, and as he held it to his ear he heard the roar of billows which have long sinc<rbecome a calm; so, If you should put your ear over the little souls of these little men you would hear the roar of a tempest which has subsided years ago. [Cheers.] The tempest is in their own breasts. They cannot uncage it, nor stir a blast which will ruffle the leaves ontside of Washington. The fury of such warriors as Messrs. Blaine and Morton reminds me of the remark of Winfield Scott during the late war,that when the war was over and the fighting ended, it would require the whole noral power of the government to restrain aod repress the non-combatants. [Laugh ter.] But I wish to repeat that vour dutv in reference to the coming election, which is to decide your fate for generations—the whole of your duty is to silence, by the p^ver of troth, these apprehensions. Hear it, gentlemen of the General Assembly of Georgia, in this—in this alone—consists tho sum and substance of your aid to Demo cratic success. [Applause.] It is the multum\ \inparco—tho little drop of extract which contains, in its diminutive sphere, the odors of a thousand roses—the ounce of quinine from a ton bark. If you are defeated, if tho force bill is passed, if the habeas corpus is suspended, if State governments are over thrown, if popular liberty is lost, “ Died of apprehension ” will he the epithet upon its tomb! [Loud applause.] The truth is that in the presence of all the passions, preju dices and apprehensions, the condition of the Southern people is very much like that, if you will permit me to illustrate by an anecdote—and I very seldom tell one—of Patrick, the Irishman, who was very sick and was visited by his priest. Said the priest as he felt his pulse, and the cold sweat stood upon his face: “Patrick, you are very sick I” “Yes, father.” “You are sick unto death, Patrick!” “Yes, father.” “Are you afraid to meet your God, Patrick?” “No, father; its the ither fellow at the ither end that I am afraid of!” [Great laughter.] Now, fellow-citizeng, it is not the truth jouare afraid of. It is of that “ither fellow” with the bloody shirt! [Laughter.] Iu this con test you have to fight the Christain’g fight. You have to meet “the world, the flesh and” —the Senator from Indiana! [Loud laugh ter and applause.] My fellow country men it is not necessary for me to tell you that the object* of Mr. Blaine, in the House, and Mr. Morton in the Sen ate, is to provoke angry discussion. There are times whem it is necessary to gratify them. In the Senate it was thought advisable to act upon Napoleon’s advice when “yon find what your enemy wishes you to do, do something else, bat do not do that!” It was thought wise, therefore, in the Senate that Mr. Morton should »be per mitted to have his fight to himself, especi ally as this whole battle had been fought a year ago, in which, judging from the result of the elections, he nad been defeated. The result is that his two days’ speech has fallen * his feet- ~ * ’ not be understood as saying that there are never times when answer mnst be made. There are occasions when silence is crim inal—when our selfrespect and the cause of truth demands that the South shall answer; and such an occasion was Mr. Blaine’s as sault in the House upon your reputation aod your honor, and he got the answer and an overwhelming answer! [Deafening ap plause. ] I know there are those who think that a reply should have been made to Mr. Morton in the Senate. But, my fellow-countrymen, he is an unworthy representative who, what ever be the clamor, however he may be mis understood or misconstrued, will not hold his tongue when wagging it would bring disaster to his people! [Applause.] This feeling has guided the Senate ; and, much as some of us have been misconstrued, we have still felt that the safety of the people was better than the applause of the popu lace. [Cheers.] Tho lightning rod point ing to the storm cloud and inviting the flash may be melted and consumed by the descending bolt; but it has served its pur pose if it saves the temple! [Loud ap plause.] There are other questions which must be settled, among them the financial question. I am confident a compromise will be effected which will make the Democratic party a unit upon a line of policy dictated by the judgment of moderate thinking, broad headed men, and consistent with sound financial principles. Will you pardon me for a word as to my own views. I am charged with being an inflationist. I am not. I am charged with being an anti-re- sumptionist. I am not. I am an anli-con- \ tractionist, and iu all that I have said and written I have maintained, and I maintain to-day, that when resumption is reached it must be on some lino of common sense and not by a course which insures universal wreck and ruin. I have analyzed, criticised and denounced the absurd law passed by the last Congress aud called a resumption law, and I denounce it now—as a fraud, a sham, a falsehood, promising resumption when it means nothing but contraction of one paper currency directly and the other indirectly. Look at its destructive effects all over the country! Factories are stopped, labor is unem ployed and bankruptcy is the fate on enter prise. Enforce such a law and it will dig the graves of all industries from one end ot the country to the other. I believe four- fifths of the Democrats in the House will vote for its rep -al, aud that the bill will pass the House ; and if the Republican ma jority defeats it in the Senate, we will de- leat them before the people. [Applause.] Let them make the issue. I hope the views I have maintained will be found consistent with the views of the Democratic party. But if they are not, let them be sacrificed ; let every man surrender his theories if they! endanger the success of the party. For while a sound currency is essential to the[ prosperity of the country a sound govern ment is far more essential to the liberties of] the people. [Applause.] M Perhaps I ought to say something about! platforms and candidates. It would be idle to speculate before the convention assem bles. Suffice it to say that the platform should declare for a sound currency; against contraction on the one hand and inflation on the other; it should declare for local gov ernment for the supremacy of the constitu tion, and ought to be au open declaration of uncompromising warfare upon the cor ruption, incompetency and profligacy of the party in power. As to the candidate, I have only this to say, that we ought to nominate that man, ’whoever he may be, who is the representative of sound princi-l pies and can be elected. Who that man is, circnmstanccs in the future must determine. He certainly has not yet appeared, suffi ciently defined for the people of the South to nominate him and torn to his support. The South should go into that convention! untrammelled, and cast her vote for that] candidate who can most certainly carry thei doubtful States which hold their elections in October. And now, will wo succeed? If the South] will rid the Northern mind of the appre hensions to which I have alluded, aud if the Democratic party will adopt some suchl straightforward, manly platform as I havel suggested, we will succeed. [Great ap plause.] r Of coarse there mast pervade the platform such a spirit of conservatism as will guard the great interests of this great country. Do not understand me as using that word conservatism as meaning the sacrificing of principle. Rather than ibis let defeat come. And although defeated, that party is the greatest whose principles are soundest, as that man is the grandest whose integrity survives the wreck of his fortunes. [Cheers.] Iu the calculation of chances we are enti tled to encouragement, because the year will be auspicious. It will be a year of great events, as well as of proud memories —a year for the restoration of concord and a return to ancestral faith, for the burial of passions and the resun ection of principles —a year in which there shall be gathered at the place of its birth the descendants of those who stood by its cradle and saw the lambent flame prophetic of its present greatness playing around the head of the Infant republic. [Applause.] A year to be crowned at last by a great victory won by an appeal to reason and not passion—to vir tue and not cupidity. We may not cele brate, as Russia, our thousandth anniver sary, nor as little Iceland, amid her ice bergs and the fires of Hecla, oar millennial natal day, but we can celebrate principles old as the centuries and yet vigorous with the power of truth. * [Applause.] What a spectacle it will be for this American people, after these years of injustice to the South, of viola tion of law, of estrangements and extrava gance, of funds and of frauds, to witness the administration of government restored to the constitutional methods of its foun ders—an administration brought into power by the shibboleths of truth, of justice to the South, oiconcord to the sections, of honesty in the collection of revenues, of frugality in expenditures—thus bringing peace and pros perity and content to all this impoverished aud passion embroiled country. [Load ap plause.] Such a victory won in such a mau- ner and at such a time, will be memorable in the history of this country, as memorable as its great prototype which we this year commemorate; moRt ftiemorable, because it will mark the re-establishment on this con tinent once more, and I hope forever, of “institutional freedom under constitutional union!” [Immense applause and general congratulation personally to the speaker.] SHBSSfffsms Harvey W. Uthrop vereae to wit: K. Wimberly. I have Wd J<M ?“ and H. ty of defendant*. U« s hC pr T r ' ane hnndred and ninety num “ re rirpi) ami One hnn- dred and seventy-live (roXE LndS and sevent,-eix (nff- h “Odred eiaty-one (LSI', one hondmf and (VJ6). one hundred and ftny-two Lot No. one hundred an.I mnety.flvJ^aKT*™?* hundred one and one-fourth (10l\) icrefof TS No. one hundred and sixtv (ism 1. tve.v^h^ed^.CUzSisi “ res - mure m less, all BituatThwSS hein-m the twenty-fourth (2Uh)diatHaS?5? laeki county, State ol Georeia. ard h*n.V^ » 0rt K h ^J*S d * ot Lurue, south b/landsot Brother. Also upon Lot of Lan.i N.,.%>r?5 seven (47) in the twenty-first (2let) district If Pulaski county, Ga,, containing two hundred twn InStt > »f'^ alf .t (i 2S. acre8 ’ more or les *. bounded north by lands of Solomon Polings,south by lands of D. A. Hears, east by lands of ti. W. Jordan west by lands of Joe Walker (c), Mrs. lk-tsev Jordan, one of the defendants, holding a life es tate in said lands, with the remainder in H i! W imberly, the other defendant, aud will sell" the same at public auction, in front of the United btates Custom Honse, in the city of Savannah " of Chatham, and State ot Georgia, on the FIK^ T TUKSBAY IN MARCH NEXT, betweeS tlu lawful hours of sale. Tenants iu possession notified in writing. Property pointed ou- bv plaintiff's attorney. ' 3 Dated at Savannah, Georgia, January 31, 1875 Terms cash. Purchasers paying for titles. . . , WILLIAM II. SMYTH, feb.S15,22&mch7 United States Mar dial UNITED STATES MARSHAL’S SALE. T NDKR and by virtue of a writ of fieri facias, issued out of the Honorable the Fifth Cir- cuit Court of the United States for tne Southern District of Georgia in favor of the plaintiff, the M fison Sewing Machine Company versus Reuben W. B. Merritt, principal, and George Wood, sure ty, I have levied upon, as the property of George. Wood, the following described property to-wit: All that parce! of land, situate* lying and being in Godfrey’s District, South Ma con, Bibb county. Georgia, bounded on : he south -j by land owned by E. A. Christian; ou the east by a street separating the same from the Mission Chape’ *’ Chapel property ; ou the north by the New Hous ton Road, trouting the same; west by property of George Wood; the whole being dlfided in two lots and containing one aero, more or less, to gether with all the improvements thereon, con sisting of one three-room dwelling and one four- room dwelling and all necessary outbuildings, and will sej the same at public auction ia front of the United States Custom House, in tho city of Savannah, county of Chatham, and State of Georgia, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH next, between the lawful hours of sale. Tenants in possession notified in writing. Prop erty pointed out by plaintiffs attorney. Terms cash, purchaser paying for title. Dated Savannah, Georgia, February 5, 1S76. WILLIAM II. bMYTII, United States Marshal. febS,15j22,29&Mh7 UNITED STATES MARSHAL'S SALE. U 'NDEK and bj virtue of a writ of flora facias issued out of the Honorable, .the District Court of the United States, for the Southern Dis trict of Georgia, in favor ot the plaintiff. William Law, Jr., assignee ol W. M. Poole *& Co., bank - nipts, versus George M. Willett, I have levied upon, as the probity of the defendant, nine and three fourths (9 ‘ 4 ) acres of land, together i with all the improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the village of Montgomery, county of Chatham, and State of Georgia, comprising six and three-fourths (6*^) acres ot high lund, ana . three (3) acres of salt marsh, bounded on tho north by the Montgomery road, on the south by Vernon river, ou the east and west by lands of i G. M. Willett, and will sell the same at public auc tion, in front of theU. ». Custom House, in the i city of Savaunah, county of Chatham, and State i of Georgia, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH NEXT, between the lawful hours ot sale. Tenants in possession notified in writing. Property pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney. Dated at Savannah, Georgia, February 5,’ W6. Terms cash; purchaser paying for titles. WILLIAM U. SMYTH, United States Marshal. febs,l5,22.29Amar7 CHATHAM SHERIFF’S SALE. TTNDEK and by virtue of a mortgage fi. fa. \j issued out ot Chatham Superior Court in favor of John W. Anderson vs. William Schley, administrator on estate of John Schley, I have levied on the following described property, to wit: Upon part of a tract or parcel of land upon Vernon river, and adjoining to Bethesda, known as the Beaulieu tract, which said lot is described and designated as lot number one (I) in a plan or plat of survey of said Beaulieu tract, made and executed by John R. Tebcau, tbe county Surveyor df Chatham county, on tbe 24th day of June, 1869, which said lot fronts upon Front street one hundred and fitly feet, aud extends back five hundred feet to Avenue street; bounded on the southwest by Depot street, on the south east by Front street, ou the northwest by Ave nue street, and ou the northeast by lot number two, said lot having snch lines, shape, form, course aud boundaries as are spedlM in said plat or plan of survey above stated—the property ul Wiiliam Schley, as administrator of the estate of John Schley, deceased, described and con veyed in a certain indenture of mortgage bearing date on the 9th day of April, 1*»72, and made aud executed by the said John Schley in his life time to Francis Muir and Joseph B. Duckworth, co partners under the firm name of Muir & Duck worth, and by them assigned to the said John W. Anderson. And I will offer the said above described prop erty at public outcry before the Court House door of Chatham county, in the city of Savannah, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH, 1876, during the legal hours of sale, to satisfy said mortgage fi. fa. Terms cash: purcliasers paying for titles. JOHN T. RONAN, febS,l5.22,29«fcmch7 Sheriff C. C., Ga. CHATHAM SHERIFF’S SALE. i U NDER and by virtue of a mortgage 11. fa. issued out of Chatham Superior Court iu _ _ supen favor of William Battersby vs. Henry J. Thom- asson, Tiustee of Mrs. Sarah M. McAlpin and Sarah M. McAlpin, 1 have levied upon the follow ing described property, to-wit: LOT NUMBER EIGHT (No b) Sloper Tything, Percival Ward, aud improvements thereon, the property of Henry J. Tbomasson, as Trustee of Sarah M. McAlpin, and of the said Sarah M. McAlpin, described and conveyed in a certain in denture of morgtage, bearing date on the twen tieth day of March, ls74. And 1 will offer the above described property at public outcry, before the Coart House door of Chatham county, in the city of Savannah, on he FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH, 1876, during the legal hours of sale, to satisfy said mortgage fi. fa. Terms Cash. Purchasers paying for titles. JOHN T. RONAN, feb9,15,22,29,Mh7 Sheriff C. C. t Ga. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. B |Y virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary Fulton county, Georgia, will be.scld be fore the Court House door, iu thutowm of Spring- field, Effingham county, Georgia, on the FIRST TUESDAY OF MARCH NEXT, within the legal hours of sale, tiiree town lots in Guyton, for merly Whitesville, Effingham county, Georgia, known as the Pooler lots. Sold as the property of the estate of Carrie M. Lawrence. P. B. LAWRENCE, febs,15,22,20 Administrator. A Sad Sell on a Swell Swain. The present proprietors of the Astor House objected to having their parlors turned into a trysting place for male and female flirts, and the manager of the hotel, Mr. Lansing, played an amusing joke recently upon one young gentleman of this description who came under his notice. He found the following “per sonal” in a morning paper one day: “Astor House, from Fulton ferry, in Fifth avenue stage, one o’clock p. m.— Lady in seal-skin sacque will please send address to the gentleman whom she noticed in hotel parlor yesterday. F. H. B., box 114, Ilerald up-town branch of fice.” Forthwith he addressed a note to F. H. B., penned in a female hand, and ap pointing an interview in the hotel on the following day. The writer urged him to be discreet, and, to make sure that there would be no mistake, suggested that he should walk up and down the main corri dor, with an illustrated newspaper in his left hand. Punctually at the appointed hour F. H. B. made his appearance, dressed to kill, and for half an hour paced the corridor pensively, with a copy of Harper's Week ly in one hand, the hotel officials and the guests of the house enjoying themselves greatly meanwhile. Having finally left the hotel in despair, he put himself to the expense of another personal. Another note was written to him, and he was brought to the hotel a second time, when rumor spread in the street that Weston was walking on a wager in the Astor, and a crowd poured in to look at thim- He was probably the most crestfallen young man in New York when the clerks finally called him into their private office and opened his eyes.—N. T. World, 1 V,th. irpt ilotues. ASSIGNEE S NOTICE. S OUTHERN District of Georgia, S. 8., at SANDERSVILLK, THE 7th DAY OF FEB RUARY, 1876. The undersigned hereby gives notice of his ap pointment as Assignee ot George W. Bateman, ot the county of Washington and State of Geor gia, and within said Di.-tr.ct, who has been ad judged a bankrupt, upon h.s own petition, by the District Court of said District. WILLIAM L. ORR, Assignee of George W r . Bateman, Bankrupt. febb-Tn-3t S TATE OF GEORGIA, Effinoiiam County. To all whom it may concern: Whereas, D. H. Shaman applies lor Letters of Administra tion ou the estate of James T. Shaman, iate of said county, deceased: . These are, therefore, to cite and admonish alt and singular, the kindred and creditors of said deceased, to file their objections (if any they have) why Letters of Administration should not be granted tbe said applicant on the FIRST MONDAY IN MARCH next Witness my official signature this January 1876 AMOS F. KAHN, » febl-Tn,4t Ordinary E. C. Notice to Debtors and Creditors. XTOTK’E is hereby given to all persons having demi ^ , demands against the estate of Maria Moy- lan, late of Chatham county, Georgia, deceased, to present them to me, properly made out, within the time prescribed by law, in order to show their character and amount; and those indebted to said deceased will make payment to me. jas. >). McGowan, Executor Will of Maria Moylan, deceased. janl8-Tn6t Fable from the New York World. A Venetian merchant who was lolling in the lap of Luxury was accosted upon the Rialto by a Friend who had not seen him for many months. “How is this?” cried the latter; “when I last saw you your Gaberdine was out at elbows, and now you sail in your own Gondola.” “True,” replied the Merchant, “but since then I hAve met with serious losses and been obliged to compound with my Creditors for ten Cents on the Dollar.” Moral— Composition is the Life of Trade. Gone on a Buffalo Hunt.—The Wash ington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette says : “Boss Shepherd, Hallott, Kilburn and the agent of the Alaska Fur Company, are wanted here this week on the District ring, the real estate pool >md the Alaska for seal investigation. Yet all these gentlemen yesterday very suddenly left for a prolonged buffalo hunt fn the plains, where (he voice of (he S TATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham Coit«tt.— All persons indebted to the estate of Mrs. Isal>ella Evans, 'ate of Chatham county, deceased, are hereby notified to make immediate payment to me; and those having claims against said es tate will present the same, duly authenticated, within the time prescribed byUw.^ janll-Tcfit Administrator. S TATE OF GEORGIA. Chatham < oc.y All persons indebted to the estate of Simon M Iran It, Sr., late of Chatham coturty. decca “J[* are h reby notified to make immediate payment to me; and those having claims W r f“J estate will present the same duly authentic^ d within the tune presenbed by law. FRANCIS A. MIRAUL1, feb!5-Tu,6t Administrator. £attrit ftoods, &(. 99CentStore 157 Broughton Street, HATS, SHOES, Shopping and Traveling BAG “H^.fEWELKV, SILVER PLATED ml “akIaN^AMPS, TABLE and POCKET CUT- L TOYS VASES, TOILET SETS, MIRRORS, tables, brackets, PICTURE FRAMES, etc., oi new and norel de- si E? s - amcmi: tine to $12 delivered 100 See of sSfdeS 200 mile, from S* u any reilro*! .Cion or boat lancing, PS&OF £bARGK. Sendf£CKcmar».p_ Successor to Clapp A Roberts. feb!6-lm USERS OF TAGS should send for samples of THE GOOD* „ IUDGE RATENT SHIPPING JtTAG, P. O. Box 71, Baltimore. — - 2to tn'iy required. Sevu