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A set
Adairs in (ieorgia.
Lfralil that there is not enough of
eft intact to give the Legislature
for assembling next year. What
L u do, Hon. Potty ? However
Lye to repeal what little needed
, Las been enacted iu your despite.
r US ta Constitutionalist is mistaken
to Colonel Henry Hamilton Jones,
or two on a dab of butter can’t
j,,ua how people will differ. The
.respondent of the Columbus
says that Wachtel, Ford’s advance
m}thingbuta gentleman. Well,
have been transformed after ho
auah. The writer hereof never
re courteous and accommodating
igeut, nor a more genial gcntle-
etest toothed nigger iu the State
i Atlanta. He stole forty pounds
u of the Legislature is a .godsend
L I’eagreeu element. They make more
money in forty days than they would
me iu two years. Thoy hire attic rooms
id town ami live on peanuts, cold wa-
id an occasional free lunch, and pocket
per diem. They preach economy in
• that they may practice extravagance
lining up bills that the people have to
Bishop
It is said
manne, latt
uaui
dal (
Com
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blast.
Millet
trous fi;
Dr. J
kwith will preach in Thomas,
h of March.
at the Count Johannos B’Gor-
: Norwegia, will shortly erect
iis Florida chateau. The bri-
vill be omitted, owing to the
j well-known delicacy.
Altamaha shad fisheries are in full
dgeville came near having a disas-
iro the other day.
. St: vciis, formerly of Liberty’
livore 1 a lecture iu Hinesville on
is subject being “God iu Nature.”
i is the father of Mr. W. LeCoute
Lie accomplished young scientist
of this city
Thomasv
, with her proverbial hospi
tality, is making ample preparations to pro
vide for the comfort of the delegates to the
Baptist Stat j Convention which meets in
that city on the 20th of April.
More fertilizers have been sold in Griffin
tins season than any year since 1870. Next
season the farmers will be sold.
Eider Thomas M. Harris, State Evangelist
of the Christian Church, has been holding
aviry interesting series of meetings in Ail-
Tne dwelling-house of Mr. Isaac N. Moo
ney, of Flowery Branch, was destroyed by
fire on Friday night.
Notwithstanding that it has been blazoned
from Baltimore to New Orleans that Booth
rarely left his room in the daytime, and
-ceived visitors, an Atlanta reporter
ue Atlanta Constitution says: A glance
trough our exchanges of the past week
would convince a wayfarer that Senator
Hester is the most popular man in the State.
His crusade against the “lottery'* has car
ried his name and fame from one end of the
State to the other.
Colonel 13. W. Wrenn sends us a copy of
neswc Route Gazette. * It is one of
the best edited railroad periodicals in the
country, and is lively all the way through.
The Iierrien County News says that on
Friday last at Nashville a little daughter ot
Ihiv. J. J. Pot-plea, aged five years, was
burned to death. Some of the older chil-
kaJ *'veu cleaning the yard, and fired
the piles of trash, which they left burning
and retired to somo other portion of the
- ,ir and left the little girl playing around
• • the vicinity of the burning heaps. Pass-
^ too near, her dress caught on fire. She
was heard to cry but no attention was paid
literal the time, but her continued cries
brought at length some one to her assist-
• her clothing being en-
Crely burned off and her bodv one charred
mass.
L- Atlanta correspondent of the Macon
h-s this curious piece of in for
judge Peeples has appointed Dr.
Receiver i» the office of the
er - Thio was in response to a
^ i by Z. D. Harrison, iu behalf of
°* rtam cr °ditors of Alston & Grady, and It.
• •-i.atom lhe State Printer’s profits are
• o'-* to iheir creditors. It is believed that
leoision cannot stand. The idea of
P a public office of the State in the
an a of a receiver is novel.”
“ r - A. r. \ioodward, former business
manager
Tdt
mation:
Lawton .
State Pr
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Sonth Carolina Affairs.
Wilson Harris*, a very worthy gentleman,
was killed at Gaffney City, on the Air-Line
It&ilroad, last Saturday. He was witnessing
a horse race, and got on the track, when he
was struck by one of the running horses and
killed.
To the 15th instant, the Treasurer of
Pickens had collected $12,000. Number of
tax-payers in the county, 2,429.
Twelve prisoners have been sent to the
penitentiary from Darlington on the charge
of burglary or larceny, or both. Their sen
tences range from two to eight years.
Au unsuccessful attempt was made to
burglarize the residence of Dr. Lartigue in
Blackville some nights since.
The County Treasurer of Pickens has col
lected $1,200 taxes from one thousand two
hundred and eighty-one persons; one thou
sand one hundred and forty-eight persons
have yet to pay over $14,000.
Great Cypress Township, in Barnwell
county, organized a Democratic club on the
11 ih instant, with au active force of ovei
one hundred men.
lhe Rev. Luther H. Wilson has been in
stalled pastor of the Presbyterian Church
at Yorkville, to fill the vacancy caused by
the removal of the Rev. Henry Dickson to
Brooklyn.
The Marion Star tells of a shooting affray
between B. Matthews and G. B. King, in
which both were shot. Matthews was not
much hurt, but King is dangerously wound
ed.
At the recent court in Beaufort witnesses
received one-third of their dues in cash and
two-thirds in scrip. This scrip sold as low
as ton cents on the dollar.
Anderson is the first county in South
Carolina to complete the Democratic organ
ization, and has already twelve tmudred
Democratic voters enrolled.
Iu Oconee county, to the 15th, 1,807 tax
payers have paid their taxes, and $17,200
have been collected, which leaves about
$15,000 yet to be paid in.
Georgo Gage, reappointed Collector of
the port at Beaufort and Port Royal, has
acted in that capacity since 1S62. He has
coUected in four years $1G7,107, one-sixth as
much as the Collectors of Charleston and
Savannah, at one-fifteenth of the expense.
At Cross Keys the smoke house of Mr.
W. Massabeau, containing a barrel of mo
lasses, besides a year’s supply of meat and
flour, was dostroyed by fire. Nothing
saved.
Simon Lourance, alias Simon Jenkins,
was tried for murder in Columbia and con
victed. Ho suspected a man named Sykea
with being too intimate with his wife, and
he killed her.
In Walhalla, the 14th, Mrs. Robert Mathe-
son and her iufant child died of pneumonia.
There was only about ten minutes difference
between the times of their deaths.
Columbia Register: Last Wednesday,
about eleven o’clock in the morning, a girl
child Esau Milligan, three years and five
months old, was burned to death in the up
per part of ties county. Esau and his wife
left their little girl in the yard with a
younger child, and while the parents were
at a neighbor’s, a little over a quarter of a
mile away, grinding au axe, the fatal burn
ing occurred. On tbeir return they found
the child had started the fire under the
wash pot in the yard, which the parents
thought the}’ had entirely extinguished,
and from this the child’s clothing caught,
and before discovered she was burned to a
crisp.
* the Atlanta Herald, prints the
' " i '' The type and material for
T • “ aat * l'aily Courier, to be edited by
■ ■ H< nry W. Grady, arrived
tL ‘ Unta ,! ‘ Saturday night. The bill for
^ '^ae \v u a promptly paid by the under-
' ’ aiul I took the consignee’s order,
Co., for the delivery of it.
' “ the depot I found that legal
= s kaT been taken out to detain
Kl - V thus occasioned. I beg my
& ul the editors of the paper to
day or two, as I am deter-
• ‘ : t ' f nt a paper worthy of their
many days, even though ,
t ;e 8sary io purchase another ia "
frit
outfit.
1 jury of Polk couuty thus ad-
•rs: Wo also feel it our
•urse and conduct of
' iwards each other, and
wtj; . 1 i 1 ' the two editors to cease
into ut themseives and brauch off
irtides or others that will
' : P the interests and welfare of
Macon and Brunswick Railroad Bonds.
The substitute offered by Mr. Walsh
for the bill to authorize the issue of
bonds to retire by exchange the recog
nized bonds of the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad, and bonds of the North
and South Railroad was agreed to, and
the bill, as amended, passed, and is as
follows:
An Act to be entitled “An Act to au
thorize the issue of the bonds of the
State to pay the interest now due and
falling due on the recognized bonds of
the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, en
dorsed by the State, and the interest due
on the recognized bonds of the North and
South Railroad, and for other purposes.”
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Georgia, That
from and after the passage of this act,
His Excellency the Governor be, and he
is hereby authorized and directed, to
issue bonds of the State sufficient to pay
the interest due and falling due upon the
recognized bonds of the Maeon and
Brunswick Railroad issued under an act
approved December .’3, I860, and endorsed
by the State; also the bonds of the North
and South Railroad, having like endorse
ment; such bonds to be dated July 1,
187G, and to bear interest at seven per
cent, per annum, in currency, with semi
annual coupons attached, payable at such
place or places as the Governor may desig
nate, on the first day of January and the
first day of July, in each year. Said
bonds having twenty years to run, and
to be redeemed at the expiration of that
period, in currency.
Section 2. Be it farther enacted, That
nothing in this act shall be so construed
as to authorize the use of said bonds for
any other purpose than payment of in
terest bonds mentioned in the first sec
tion of the act.
Section 3. Be it farther enacted, That
said bonds shall be issued in denomina
tion of one thousand dollars, shall be
signed by His Excellency the Governor,
and countersigned by the Secretary of
State, and shall by the Treasurer be reg
istered in a book kept for that purpose,
and the amount so^issued also be reported
for record in the executive office.
Section 4. Be it further enacted, That
His Excellency the Governor is hereby
directed to give notice, by publication in
one or more papers published iu the city
of New York, and in one or more papers
published in the State of Georgia, to be
designated by him, of the provisions of
this act, relating to the payment of in
terest on said bonds as prescribed therein.
Section 5. Be it further enacted, That
all laws and parts of laws in conflict with
the provisions of this act be and the
same aie hereby repealed.
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE TEXAS ELECTION.
SEVATOK XOIUrOOJJOV THE C£.\
TEXXIAL.
MACMAHOX AXI) HIS TROUBLE
SOME MINISTRY.
STILL
German News and Notes.
PUSHING DON CARLOS TO
THE WALL.
THE FRENCH CABINET.
Paris, February 23.—Le Soled says the
Cabinet will probabiy be modified as follows
Dufavre, Minister of Justice; Pathuau, Min
ister of Marine; Casinier Perioror Renault.
Minister of Interior. Gen. Cissey, as Minis
ter of War, will probably retain his
Portfolio, as will also the Due Decazes as
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Walton as Min
ister of Public Instruction, and Caollaux as
Minister of Public Works. The Minister of
Agriculture is undetermined.
BISMARCK’S SUCCESSOR.
London, February 23.—The Standards
Berlin correspondent telegraphs : “ I hear
that the appointment of Count de Stolberg
Wernigeroue to the Vienna ambassadorship
has made such au impression that Prince
Bismarck would like to regard him as his
successor to the Chancellorship.”
ALLEGED EMBEZZLER.
New York, February 23.—Richard B. Ir
win, former agent of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company, has been arrested on the
complaint of Rufus Hatch on a charge of
embezzling three-fourths of a million of the
company’s property. He was bailed in $50.
000.
THE CARLISTS.
Madrid, February 23.—It is officially an
nounced that the Royalists captured thirty-
six caunon, besides those captured at Toleso.
As the Alfonsists entered Toleso the Carlists
retired. The war may be considered to be
virtually ended. The army and fleet saluted
Alfonso on his entering San Sebastian.
THE WISCONSIN RADICALS.
Madison, February 23.—The State Con
vention to appoint delegates to the National
Republican Convention, declare it unwise
for a chief magistrate to hold office beyond
two terms. The resolutions indirectly en
dorse Blaine.
ISABELLA.
Paris, February 23.—It seems now decided
that when the Carhst war is over ex-Queen
Isabella will enter Spam. Alfonso will meet
h< r at the frontier and conduct her to the
capital.
FROM TEXAS.
Galveston, February 23.—Iu thirty-eight
counties Coke’s majority is 33,381; for the
Constitution 22,289.
DORKEGABY.
Madrid, February 23.—It is officially con
firmed that Gon. Dorregary has been in
terned iu France.
buffet.
Paris, February 23.—Buffet’s resignation
has been accepted.
DEAD.
Paris, February 23.—Ambroise Fermin
Didot, the publisher, is dead.
Criminal Negligence.
The following is a copy of the bill in
troduced in the Legislature by Hon.
Wm. M. Reese, and which has become a
’ count!
J- Furubull publishes the fol-
Eaq. : ’“Ynni 88 * ^ to Thomas L. Snead,
- letter’ addressed to me
G ‘/“of.' ^‘Uains of the Atlanta Consti
to the Hr- 16t - 8t * “
fcori&l or°pff t Representatives the me-
• f -aud i. ' “ il , u holders of repudiated and
been read. In reolv
- •'Urmiae why you address
* •— f ulj ject, uuless it is because
taid i ; - V . ‘ i Uie Payment of the bonds
t,J s’iiv i M..W atld Herring. If go, permit
oppose- * i'lally earnest in my
rt '" : 'e i i,- . Payment of the bonds rep-
'“1 that, consequently, I
rpight v | , - a ' j f lln0 t0 do anything which
Xi/n.iL- 1 ! » ndirect ly to aid in
, asking me to present
Utlr payment.-*
\\ Qupy T
ftie uifK.. 0BBi ’ IS Ts in Washington.—
le class of people here-
mu si 5 * ema ? e lobbyists, of whom
*ant ba*.■ •. ’ e thirty or more. Some
claims ami exte oded, others have war
ule “ t ofnm!!l >t k a „ £ew urge the ena,1t -
^Isonie !«? ^ 1 ^ s ‘ ^ lew of them are
,e o«ion; Una eft ! possess literary pre-
tlle convention^ 1 .* 1111 pa * great regard to
’“t. some I oualltle8 of society. All have
*04 thos,, Pcsctieal common sense,
fhicii Sun, \v‘,, * on S Co the class against
. “c shn w eUer . warn od Lis father to
*>th the ku ‘otiinate acquaintance
In im WBy o£ mana g>og the other
r 1)s °f Louis^-iv coa j* tr *> from the
• and the Court of
£ >k inanenc7^ ed by GU Blas ’ has
14 tshtre ium ° e beeu more potent than
JU6t now.-X. T. Tima.
An Act to define and punish criminal
negligence.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Georgia, That
from and after the passage of this act, if
any person employed in any capacity
whatever by any railroad company doing
business in this State shall, in the course of
such employment, be guilty of negligence
either by omission of duty or by any act
of commission in relation to the matteis
entrusted to him or about which he is
employed, from which negligence serious
injury, but not death, occurs or happens
to any human being, such as breaking
or dislocating, or straining the bones or
joints of the body, wounding the in
ternal parts of the body, fracturing the
skull, wounding the organs of sight,
hearing or speech, so as to impair their
use, such person shall be guilty of the
offense of criminal negligence, and upon
the conviction thereof, upon indictment
or presentment, shall be punished by
imprisonment in the common jail not less
than three, nor more than twelve months,
or by work on the “chain-gang” not less
than two, nor more than six months, or
by confinement in the penitentiary not
less than one, nor more than two years,
in the discretion of the court. The ex
amples of serious injury given in this act
are not intended to restrain or confine
the meaning of the words “serious
in j ury,
Section 2. Be it further enacted, That
all laws and parts of laws in conflict with
this act be, and the same are hereby re -
pealed.
How Twelve Men were Saved from
Being “Hung. — A friend from New Jer
sey had a letter last week from Vineland,
iu which reference was made to the late
trial and acquittal of Mr. Landis. It sug
gested a new way to induce a jury to
but simple as illustrations of the agree. After the trial of Mr Landis the
jury stood eight for acquittal and four
against. The four men declared that
nothing on earth could change their
minds: upon which one, not a Christian,
said: “Then let us try what there is in
Heaven.” One of the jury immediately
said, “Let us pray.” They all kneeled
ruoVt^ ^ a down. |
t^BetSe whether her sailing papers TOted
The Congregationalsst compares Ply-
Tlie Colton Tax—No Time to Cry Af
ter Spilled Milk.
We are opposed to the attempt now
being made by some few in Congress to
obtain the refunding of the cotton tax.
The writer of this article would get some
thousands if this tax could be honestly
refunded; nevertheless we are opposed
to the attempt to get it, square out and
flat footed. We are of the opinion be
cause we feel sure that it cannot be re
funded to those to whom it‘justly be
longs. We are opposed to it because we
do not wish to see Southern members
lend themselves to any scheme that is
questionable by reason of the rings who
are connected with it. In nine cases out
of ten those who really paid the cotton
tax have given up their claims to agents
and others, who, if they ever get any
thing, will pay very little or nothing at
all, as it suits them, to the rightful own
ers. Then this cotton tax is such a little
wrong, comparatively speaking, that
we are willing to let it go with
out another word, and devote
all our energies to securing the
grand object of the Southern Democratic
party—equality in the Union. If our
members in Congress forget what they
are striving for, and devote themselves
to such ring schemes as the refunding of
the cotton tax, a Republican President
will be elected, and the South will be the
Poland of the United States for another
term of dreary years. There is a large
number of Northern people willing and
ready to co-operate with conservative
Southern people if we are willing to bury
the past, and work for the future, but if
such co-operation costs the United States
the cotton tax, the Republicans would
get full control of every Northern State
for a decade at least, while a few shrewd
scoundrels would get three-fourths of the
cotton tax. We hope Southern members
will look at this mattei in a sensible way
at once. We hope they will take means
to quiet the minds of our friends at the
North, so that they will not be weighed
down by charges of the opposition to the
effect that Southern Democrats will de
mand the refunding of this tax or of any
thing similar.
The Radical journals are now using it
as an argument against the South and
the Democratic party. The seventy mil
lions, they say, went to save them a
nation, and whether it was constitutional
or not, a vast majority of Northern peo
ple are opposed to returning it. If they
will only grant us equality in the future,
and spare us negro despotisms, we can
easily give the cotton tax and the rings
the go-by.— Vicksburg Herald.
A Strange Story.—A prominent
colored man, who died on Tuesday and
was buried yesterday, just before his
death told a most horrible story of a
murder committed by himself about
three years ago. He called loudly for
the “blood to be caught m the pan,” and
solemnly averred that he would “never
do so again.” Then, in a clear and con
nected manner, he stated that about three
years ago a white man, whom he knew
to have a large sum of money, urauk at
his bar and got shaved by h'ni. He cut
the customer’s throat with the razor,
concealing his body, and at night, as
sisted by his brothers (names and num
ber purposely omitted by us), he sunk
the remains in the canal with a heavy
weight attached, appropriating the
stranger’s money. He continued that
the canal was subsequently dragged by
the authorities, which we remember to
have been dpne, but the body having
been covered by the mud was not dis
covered. His last cries were prayers that
the horrid scene of the murder should be
hidden from his eyes, and he died pray
ing forgiveness for the crime he commit
ted. Strange as this story may sound,
we believe every word of it to be true,
and hope the police will endeavor to
bring out all the facts in the case. A
representative of the AeiPS last night
went through the slums and perlieus of
Jefferson street, and the mysterious mur
der was on every tongue. The fact that
publicity of the circumstances would
“scandalize” the rest of the family
seemed to be the most {prominent argu
ment in favor of secrecy.—Lynchburg
( Va.) News.
A Caustic Extract From Ills Speech.
It is a rule of construction applicable to
the Constitution tbat where a power is given
and the exercise of that power is limited to
a particular manner, Congress has no right
tp exercise it in any other manner. If then
Congress is restricted to promoting the pro
gress of science and the arts, first to science
aad the useful arts; second, to securing to
authors and inventors the exclusive right to
their productions by copyright and by patent
right, and, third, to granting an exclusive
right for a limited time only, then Congress
has no right to patronize or promote science
and the arts, that is, all arts, in the
manner proposed by this bill. And what is
an appropriation of $1,500,000 to erect build
ings in which to exhibit the products of
science and all the arts, if it is not “to pro
mote science and the arts ?” The power to
make this appropriation of money already
collected by taxation includes the power to
tax for the same purpose. The power to
make this one appropriation includes the
power to levy an annual tax for this purpose.
Tho right to erect buildings to exhibit pro
ducts of art, carries with it the right to ap
propriate mone} from the public treasury
to keep the buildings open and maintain the
expense of an annual exhibition. And thus
we are dnftiug. Barrier after barrier is
broken down, and power upon power is
usurped.
But, Mr. President, it is said that this bill
is patriotic. We are just beginning to dis
cover it, at the end of five years. It is said
“the honor of the government is at stake.”
When the Centennial Commission, about
two years ago, asked Congress to pass au
act inviting foreign countries to come, we
did not think then the honor of the govern
ment was involved. Nothing then was said
about the honor of the government; but, on
the contrary, the honor of Congress at that
time seemed to bo somewhat involved, at
least we thought so, and we took the pre
caution to put upon record at that time - and
for the third time the declaration, not only
to the Centennial Commission but to the
world, that we did not intend the govern
ment should be responsible for a dollar of
this exhibition. It was declared again,
when, at the request of this commission.
Congress authorized the President to issue
his invitation to foreign citizens and sub
jects to be represented at this international
exposition.
Congress denied all liability of tho gov
ernment again when it authorized the strik
ing off of medale to be used at this exposi
tion, because CoDgiess then declared that
the medals themselves should be paid for
by the Centennial Board of Finance without
any expense to the government. Yet some
change seems to have come over the spirit
of the dreams of Senators. Senator after
Senator has rhea to stato that he has
chauged his mind on this subject.
Mr. Randolph—May I interrupt the Sena
tor from Georgia ?
Mr. Norwood—Crriainlv.
Mr. Randolph—By wliat authority does
Congress award medals and give them to
those who have performed a meritorious or
patriotic act ?
Mr. Norwood—I will answer the Senator
by saying that I will not follow tho Senator
or the Senate into the doubtful field of pre
cedent to find authority upon which to base
my action and my vote. I stand ^pon tho
Constitution and its plain letter, which is
the lamp that is to guide my feet ; and if I
do not find it there, 1 will not wander upon
the uncertain limits of the Constitution, into
tho twilight of truth and error, to grope in
seeking for a power that we may exercise
for an act which is, to say the least of it,
doubtful legislation. Precedent aiter pre
cedent, such as the Senator ou my left has
called my attention to, can be cited, for
which there is no grant of power in the
Federal Constitution. I do not seek for it;
I do not justify them ; 1 will not follow the
ignis fatuus of legislative precedent whL-h
ever hovers upon tho confines of tho Consti
tution and beyond its confines, and over the
bogs au 1 quicksands that lie beyond, and
where, when we venture, we must inevitably
sink. Had I been a member of Congress
when the appropriation was asked for to
defray the expenses of attending the expo
sition at London, at Pans, and at Vienna,
I should have refused my vote to
thoso bills. And the reason is, as
already stated, that the Constitution limits
the power of Congress to promote science
and the useful arts by the exercise of its
power in a particular manner, and in that
manner only.
■I have already shown that one of the three
propositions submitted by Mr. Madison, and
considered and rejected by the convention,
was to give Congress the power to bestow
[premiums, which, of course, includes!
medals. ^ I
Mr. Randolph—If tho Senator will allow
hue, by what authority does Congress grant,
or did Congress grant, pensions to the]
[widows of soldiers ? ■ I
Mr. Norwood—I have no objection to an
swering that question; but, as I said before,
all these questions are aside from the issue
that we are considering. I answer him by
asking what right Congress has to raise an
army ? By a power granted in the Con
stitution. Who constitute the army ? Sol-
disrs. Does it not necessarily follow that
if we have the right to raise an army, aud
soldiers make the army, we have the power
to provide f r our soldiers; and is not a pen
sion one of the provisions for soldiers?
There is no use to dally upon questions of
this character. The question is simply this;
it is nothing more aud it is nothing less;
“shall wo in construing the Constitution
grasp at and usurp a power to be exercised
in promoting the arts and sciences which
Ithe convention had under consideration and
expressly refused to incorporate into the
Constitution ? More than that; waiving the
question of the consideration by the
Convention, waiving the light that
| thrown upon the Constitution by
their deliberations, and taking the
Constitution in its plain letter as we read
the English language, as men of common
sense and men of liberal education enlight
ening that common sense, I say that lang
uage limits the power of Congress over the
arts and sciences to the exercise of it in a
particular way, and Congress cannot exer
cise that power in any other manner.
But, Mr. President, returning from this
diversion, I say the dignity aud honor of
Congresa are more involved in this ques
tion than the honor of the United States.
W'o have said four several times that the
United States would not be responsible to
the extent of a copper iD carrying on this
exhibition, and, after having denied to the
Centennial Commission a dollar until last
year, are we now to yield ? Are w e to say
to them that, notwithstanding we have in
corporated into this bill the very language
which we have used time and again before,
we do not mean what we say ?
For one, i am not willing to publish to the
world that wo have never intended what we
said, and that we do not mean what we say
now. Wo are now surrendering, aud in the
very moment of surrender declaring that we
will never surrender again. Our stout re
fusal and our surrender appropriately sug
gest a paraphrase of the lEDguage of Glos-
[ter—
Was ever Congress in this humor woo’d ?
Was ever Congress in this humor won ?
From $500,000 given last year we now
jump to three times that amount, aud I put
the prediction upon record, aud I think that
time will vindicate my judgment, that the
next session of this Congress will witness
au application to this body for as much or
uior. than we are now called upon to appro-
mate, to defray the expenses of this exhi
bition aud “to protect the honor of the
[United States.”
How has the honor of the United States
be< ome involved in this matter, I would like
to know V I listened in vain for the chair
man of the committee to explain. He said
the honor of the government is involved.
Do we expect the governments of other
countries to be hero? Do we expect
the heads of governments to be
here? Does any gentleman here flat
ter himself that he will look into the
faces of kings and emperors, of sultans, sul
tanas, and pashas? They have not been in
vited, in the first place; in the second place
they will certainly not come; and, in the
third place, those who are coming will come
to exhibit their property in the form of pro
ducts of art and manufactures; and those
who have not these things will not be here
except as idle spectators, and they will pav
their way. It is a matter of history that the
expenses of this government—and when I
say government I mean those who went to
represent the government at London, Paris
and Vienna—were not paid by those respec
tive cities and governments. Oar people
paid their own way like true independ
ent Americans.SThey Ipaid their money,
went where they ple'ased, exhibited their
wares and their handiwork, and returned
home with their premiums. So it will be
with those who come from foreign countries
here. They are coming here to exhibit their
manufactures and to compete for premiums,
and those who have none to exhibit will not
come. How, then, is the honor of the coun
try involved? Is it because we have not
made provision in the buildings for exhib
iting their arts aud their manufactures?
Before the invitation was extended, the
Governor of Pennsylvania notified the Pres
ident that ample provision was made for the
buildings, and if the buildings are not ample
the honor of the United States is in do sense
involved, and cannot be compromised.
But, Mr. President, I pass from this view
of the subject to say a lew words on the
effect of legislation like this. I believe it
will be for evil, and evil only. Its baleful
influence will reach far into the future. It
is, in my opinion, not consistent with the
republican; it is imperial; it is a fungus
growth, aud not a healthy product of the
constitution. I had always believed from
my early youth that there was something in
the mission of the American people among
the nations of the earth like that of the
Jews, who were the chosen people of God.
I believe our mission is to level the moun
tains, to raise the plains, and to make smooth
and straight the way; that we are the pio
neers, the advance guard of human freedom.
Already have our pickets, following the
sun in his course, reached the eastern shores
of China and Japan, and taken possession of
the islands of the seas. With the banner of
the cross in one hand and the flag of their
country in tho other, they are parting the
jungle and straining forward to reach the be
nighted and the oppressed. Behind us the
millions in the Old World are sleeping
Uuder the tyrant’s spell. But they are lying
in bivouac, and now aud then, as the dawn
draws nigh and sleep sits lighter on their
eyelids, bright dreams of perfect freedom
in a land of constitutional law comes to them
“in visions of the night” and beckon them
away; and, quickened by the joyful longing,
they start and wake and try to rise. If we
will be true to our faith, to constitutional
law, and hold up with steady hand our
noble ensign, at the reveille of freedom
they will rise in majestic order and follow
the standard which we, ia the New World,
have raised and advanced on high.
But, sir, why has our standard been thus
advanced ? Why do a hundred years their
radiant wings expand around it ? Why has
America, during one century, so far sur
passed the States of the Old World? Are
wo not Englishmen bV'Drigin? Are we not
composite people—English, Irish, Scotch
German, French? Why then have we done
more than all tho mother States, in the arts
and sciences, in subduing nature, destroy
ing space, reclaiming the wilderness and
desert, in missionary work, and, generally,
in the great labor appointed to men and
nations—the amelioration of tho condition
of mankind? Is it accidental ? No, sir; no.
It is the result of American civilization, and
this is due to the foi m and spirit of our
government, which is a government of law.
Complex in form, it is, nevertheless, easy
and Bteady in its movement. Rightly ad
ministered, it is invisible to the citi
zen, and, like the atmosphere at rest,
bears equally on all aud oppressesgnone.
It leaves the citizen free; free as the
casing air, to grow in independence, to ex
pand in manhood, aud to stand alone.
Were I to attempt to describe the character
of au American in one word I would sum it
up in self reliance. Self-reliance is the
spirit aud soul of self-government. It is
photographed in the Constitution. The
people in that covenant said but two things
“Protect us agaiust foreign foes and Stale
against Stato, and leave us free; let us
alone.” This spirit burns in the very words
which deny our right to pass this bill. For
the people said to Congress, “All we
quire you to do to promote the arts and
science is to protect the products of our
brains and our hands against piracy and in
fringement, by copyright an l patent-right
We ask no more and we intend you shall do
no more; for each and every power not
herein delegated to you we expressly rt
serve to ourselves.”
It was self-reliance that nerved the few
patriots at Mecklenburgh to issue the first
declaration of American Independence
heaved the tea into Bostou harbor. It was
this that made the undaunted Moultnc re
ply to his despairing commander, “Colonel,
M hold the fort.” It gave as a rich legacy
to American history the fame of Sergeant
Jasper, Daniel Boone, Louis, of Virginia,
and a thousand like intrepid spirits, aud It
equipped the soul of Marion, the swamp-fox
of the Revolution, and made him an army
in himself. Over the deserts, through the
wildernesses, under burning suns whose kiss
is contagion, and over Arctic fields of ice it
has sustained the missionary who, in bear
ing his message from the lather that there
is rest, a home for lhe weary soul, tells also
the oppressed of a refuge in a land where
no tyrant’s foot for a hundred years has
trod*. But for this characteristic of Ameri
cans the Declaration of Ind.-peudt«ce, whose
centennial marks the grandest epoch iL
time, save only the Saviour's incarnation
could never have been possible.
And sir, shall we perpetuate this spirit or
shall we destroy it ? If you would strike it
down, pass this bill. Pass it, aud teach the
people that henceforth they must lean upon
the government, aud not the government
upon them. Teach them that individual
enterprise and self-reliance are no ioDger
profitable. Teach the Fultous, the Morses,
the Cyrus Fields that the highway of genius
to fame and fortune no longer lies through
want, privation and the throes of thought in
labor, but that it leads through the lobby to
the halls of Congress. Let the poor see
that the sweat of their brow, transformed
into gold, is- dealt out by the gov
ernment to the rich to make them
richer. Establish fete-dajs aud festivals
at the public expense, as did the Roman
consuls when moving for empire, and soon
the Lupercal will be followed by the Satur
nalia. No, let us rather iu this Centennial
reconsecrate ourselves to law—to constitu
tional law—which is our only hope. As
patiots—not as partizans—as sous who have
received from our fathers a rich inheritance,
as fathers whose offspring must suffer
by our departure from law, let us not
wander beyond the confines of the Con
stitution, or to its uncurtain limit, to search
for doubtful power to do a useless act. This
legislation has that “increase of appetite”
that grows by what it feeds on. If we yield
now, where is the resolution, the will that
can stay this pressure to reach the public
treasury? Schemes, devices many and
plausible, will meet you at every turn and
press this poisoned chalice of “the general
welfai#” to your lips. And who that takes
this ^ftp iu the dark can refuse to take an
other?
But, should any friend of this measure
a6k whether I favor a celebration of tho
Declaration of American Independence, I
tell him yes; but the celebration I desire to
see and for the world to witness is far differ
ent from the one he is seeking to provide
He would diligently search for what at best
is a doubtful power, and exercise it to get at
the public treasury. He would lay his hands
on the money of 40,000,000 people without
instructions as to how they wish the cele
bration conducted, and hand it over to a
private corporation to be used and spent as
a few privileged members may see fit. He
would deliver over $1,500,000 of the public
money to be spent for one reading of the
Declaration of Independence and one ora
tion at one spot. He woul l tax the people
of Georgia $45,000 to be spent in Philadel
phia alone, for the benefit of the few, when
not one in one hundred of the people of
that State will be able to visit the scene
where their money will be squandered. He
would suppress an exhibition of the general
joy by telling the people their money had
already beeu taken to provide a vicarious
demonstration in Philadelphia. He would
substitute a purchased ceremony for a
heart-felt, patriotic outburst. He would
set tho example of the government as
suming control of tho celebration of the
Fourth of July and discourage the accus
tomed annual celebration by the people.
Such is not my idea of what the scene
should be on that memorable day. I would
have it a simultaneous movement of forty
million people along the continent. It should
begin as tho gray dawn first lights up the
cliffs of Maine aud rise and roll with the sun
in deafening shout and tumult, until his
parting smile, as if in sorrow at leaving a
scene so happy, saddens and fades into the
gloom of night. As the lark watching for
the purpling east springs from its nest with
merry note ; as the mocking bird rises on
buoyant wing and joyously revels in the
melody of its own song; so would I hear the
children of this land, the future mothers
and statesmen of America, as they rise on
that morning, pour out their heaits in one
universal carol. The husbandman should
leave the field, the mechanic his
bench, tho lawyer his brief, the clergyman
his study, the furnace and spindle hush their
hum and clang, aud busy commerce furl her
sails. If American oratory has not lost its
spell; if its silver todgue has not been en
chanted into silence by the golden wand,
the inspiration of the day and theme should
kindle every habitable grove with burning
words. “Not iu Jerusalem, nor iu this
mountaim;” not in Philadelphia, nor alone
in Independence Hall, but wherever the flag
of our country is given to the breeze, should
Americans do honor to the day that ushered
into being the infant Messiah of nations.
Beneath our feet in the Celestial Empire, in
the islands of all the seas, before the face of
kings, the scattered sentinels and disciples
of freedom on that day should testify their
faith by fitting sacrifice.
Let this celebration be grander iD moral
sublimity than the celebration of the Greeks
on the banks of the classic Alpheus, where
those who were lately foes met as friends
and their wrongs were forgotton. Let it be
more joyous than the song and dance of the
Jewish hostR on the banks of the Red Sea.
Let it be freer than the jubilees of Israel
and prouder than the proudest triumphal
march ot Roman Emperor. Thus, and only
thus, can we give a fitting testimony to
mankind of our joy over the declaration of
our right to be free and of our admiration
and love for the heroes by whose sacrificial
blood our freedom was secured and consti
tutional government established and main
tained.
The Fall of the Old Elm.
A few nights ago the “old Elm.” the
glory of the Boston Common, fell to the
ground with a mighty crash. The aged
giant had for many years shown signs of
decay and ruin, and nothing hut the con
stant care of the guardians of the grounds
had kept it alive. It had been propped
up, hooped with iron, fenced in from
relic hunting mutilators, and all its
ancient scars and wounds swathed and
bandaged with the tenderest solicitude.
But at last the disaster came. The object
of New England’s pride and love, rich
with antique colonial traditions, and peo
pled with its grim, shadowy witches, lay
shattered on the ground, and the relic
hunters held high carnival around the
ruins.
The fall of this old tree has a sort of
poetic and prophetic interest. The old
Boston that loved it is in many respects
typified in its overthrows, for the intel
lectual and moral grandeur of the old
Boston is decrepit also. It is only
propped up, bandaged and poulticed, and
is tottering, ready to fall. Where are the
young men of New England who are to
take the places of the generation that is
partly gone and rapidly going ? Where
are the young poets to take the
places of Longfellow, Holmes, Whit
tier? Where are the thinkers to take
the places of Emerson and Theodore Par
ker ? Where are the jurists to take the
places of Story, Parsons, Shaw, Rufus
Choate ? Where are the statesmen like
Webster, or, to come lower, like Sumner,
Fessenden and Wilson ? Where are the
men of letters to fill the places of
Lowell and Hawthorne ? Where are their
great men, their orators, statesmen,
poets, preachers, critics, judges, lawyers,
novelists, their leaders of thought ?—all
gone, or else, like the old Elm, bandaged
up and propped up, ready to fall. There
was a time when New England was a
theatre of a splendid int.llectual energy,
when there was a something there which
men believed in and were ready to
think for, work for, starve for, and, if
need be, to fight for; when it was a
nursery of great ideas that commanded
respect, if not sympathy and admiration;
when these ideas bred strong men, of a
provincial cast possibly and strongly
flavored with each other, but still genuine
and original and earnest; a time when
New England did the thinking for the
country, and when her ideas outweighed
the wealth of the Middle States aud the
oratory of the Southern. But that time
is as dead as the Boston Elm, and
New England of to-day is more truly
typified in its “frog-pond.” It is the
day of a dead level monotony of ideas
and money acquisition; its moral ideas
are on a low-water line. It has no longer
a demand for great men. The pictu
resque villages that were the home of
thrift and varied industries, and wonder
ful invention, are becoming factories of
“operative” servitude; the inventive brain
is silenced in the plunge of water power,
the thump of great machineries, and be
numbed by the dead weight of vast corpo
rations. The rural life is being swallowed
up in big manufacturing towns. The
rich grow richer and money-logged, the
poor grow poorer and more enslaved; the
old breed is dying out, aud New England,
that ought to-day to be in the bloom of
her youth, suffers from all the diseases of
the old centres of European civilization.
The old Elm saw all this, but being a
quiet and brooding tree, not given to
Wendell Phillips tirades or Edward Ever
ett eulogies, kept it all to himself. But
sometimes when a night breeze came
from the snowy mountains, or the pure,
incorruptible sea he used to whisper a
little of this to the ears of the thoughtful
old men that lay awake in Boston, and
they would toss about on their beds, and
wonder what would be the end of it
all: when they saw Sumner die exiled
from his State by a vote of cen
sure upon the noblest act of bis
career, and Oakes Ames received with
an “ovation” when he came home
steeped in disgrace; when they saw the
civilization of Boston breeding such pois
oned weeds as Jesse Pomeroy, the bell-
tower murderer, Rev. Winslow and the
countless crimes born of an ever-iucreas-
ing pauperage; when the glories of the
Websters, the Longfellows, the Storeys,
the Hawthornes, the Choates, the Emer
sons, the Sumners, all passing away, and
lhe representatives of New Eugland
tapered down into “old Ben Butler,”
and now to “little Jimmy Blaine”—
when these wakeful old men saw
all this they sorrowed over the
old New England so swiftly passing away.
The old Elm sorrowed over it too. His
bark was thick but he had his feeling!
When he had the old New England breed
around him he could stand proudly up in
the bleakest winter storm, though sheet
ed with sleet, loaded with snow and rock
ing in the blast. But every year he grew
more and more lonesome, and at last, like
old Lear in the tempest, shorn of his
children, his great heart broke. He
tossed up his withered arms, gave a rend
ing, shivering shriek, and cast himself
down and battered out his last flutter of
life on the floor of Boston Common.
Baltimore Gazette.
Mr. Bright-^ Compromise CurreLey
Plan.
[From the New York World.]
The compromise currency plan of Mr.
Bright is as follows:
“1. To repeal so much of the resump
tion act of. 1875 as fixes the 1st of Jan
uary, 1879, as the time for redeeming in
com the United States legal tender notes
then outstanding.
“2. It requires the Secretary of the
Treasury forthwith to begin the redemp
tion of fractional currency of denomina
tions of twenty-five cents and under, by
destroying such currency and issuing in
its place silver coinage, which shall be a
legal tender for all debts public and
private in sums not exceeding $5,000.
“3. The Secretary of the Treasury is
directed to issue on the credit of the
United States £150,000,000 of Treasury
notes bearing 2 per cent, interest per an
num, payable to bearer at the Treasury
of the United States, of such denomina
tions as he may*fix, not less than £20
each, with coupons attached for the in
terest, payable semi-annually in coin.
The notes themselves are also
to be payable in coin, one-
fifth July 1, 1881, and a like amount
annually thereafter until the whole sum is
paid. These notes are to be receivable
in payment of all taxes, excises, and
debts due the United States, except on
imports, and of all claims against the
United States except for interest upon
the bonds thereof, and they may be held
by the national banks as a part of their
reserve, with like effect as legal tender
notes are now held, and they shall be a
legal tender for all debts due by one na
tional bank to another; also for the re
demption of notes of national banks and
in payment of all deposits in any of said
national banks of this date. These notes,
however, are only to be issued in ex
change for a like amount of United States
legal tender notes, which, when received,
shall be canceled and never reissued.
“4. The Secretary of the Treasury is
directed to withhold and retain in the
Treasury vaults 50 per cent, of the semi
annual installments of interest in coin,
payable to the national banks as the same
matures upon the bonds deposited by said
banks as security for circulation for the
period of ten years from July 1,1870,
and the said gold shall be held as a part
of the reserve of the said national banks
respectively, and applied to the redemp
tion of the notes on and after July 1,
1881.”
A curious story is published by a Ger
man newspaper, according to which an
officer of the Imperial Prussian Foot
Guards has received a challenge, in which
thirty officers of his regiment are chal
lenged to fight an equal number of French
officers, the Germans having the choice
character of the American people; it is not of anna and place.
An Incident of the War.
The Woodstock (Ya.) Herald recently
announced that John Hoffman, of War
ren county, found during the latter part
of January, while hunting, on the top of
Massanutten Mountain, at the point or
knob overlooking Strasburg, near the
site of the signal station, a fine double
case gold watch and chain, which it is
supposed was lost at that place during
the war. In the year 18G4 a detachment
of Federal soldiers attacked a part of the
Confederate signal corps and drove them
from their posts. The Confederates in
turn attacked the Federals and drove
them down the mountain, killing some
and capturing others. The Hagerstown
Md.) Twice a Week notices the finding
of the watch, and adds :
“The writer of the following lines had
charge of that signal station on that
memorable day in the year 1864. There
were but four of us and when the boys
blue, seventy-five in number, made
heir appearance we deemed discretion to
be the better part of valor and retreated
in the style of General Banks about that
time, in ‘good order,’ but somewhat pre
cipitous. Down we sailed from the top
of old ‘Strasburg point’ in most beautiful
time, but at the foot we rallied, being re
inforced by about seventy-five sharp
shooters of old Jubal Early’s command,
when we retraced our steps, dislodged
the enemy and recaptured our signal
station. Now, shortly after taking
possession of the post we discov
ered the body of an officer, a Captain, of
the Federal force, a few yards down from
the point, among the rocks, with his
neck broken. He was not shot, but from
his position, he evidently fell in endeav
oring to get down the side, or rather end,
of the mountain. From the side coat
pocket of this officer the writer hereof
took an envelope in which was a photo
graph, the envelope being addressed
“Captain A. N. Pritchard, member Gen
eral Court Marshall, Cumberland, Md.”
That watch, i o doubt, belonged to the
unfortunate officer. Where he was from
we have r.ever learned, but probably this
article may fall under the eye of some
one who knew the gallant Captain, for it
was a gallant act to lead seventy-five men
to the top of an almost perpendicular
mountain peak in the face of the enemy
and in the enemy’s country.
A “wolf-child,” the real thing, has
been interviewed by Editor Francis in
the orphanage that occupies the tomb of
Akbar’s begum at Secundra, India. He
is about 20 years old. and was captured
in a wolf's den at Bulandskahar, twelve
years ago. He was then fully eight years
old, was found in company with the wolf
and walking upon all-fours, and the ani
mal evidently recognized and protected
him as one of her own progeny. No
doubt the boy had been stolen and carried
off by the wolf when an infant, aud was
fed, cared for and Drought up in the
wolfish way by his adopted mother. The
boy is named “ Saturday,” that being
the day he was rescued from the wild an
imai’s den. At first raw meat was the
food he most relished : he was quite wild
and intractable. Gradually he was tamed,
taught to walk properly, and subjected
to other necessary usages of human civ
ilized life. But beyoni the expression of
a very few words, language could not be
imparted to him. He is evidently half
idiotic, though he understands commands
addressed to him, and makes known his
own wants by simple ejaculations and
signs. He makes his salaams to strang
ers, and enjoys attentions paid to him.
He has a by no means unpleasant face,
and there is not a mark of the beast about
him except in the scar-prints of his
mother wolf, which he points out upon
his cheek. The case is a curious one,
and attracted not a little attention at the
time throughout the world. It was then
supposed he possessed capacity for im
provement and education, but the efforts
of years to teach him have met with very
little success.
A Bombshell from Andorer.
Mr. Beecher encounters another and
formidable trouble in the attitude taken
by the very fountain and home of New
England Congregationalism, the Massa
chusetts church at Andover—the seat of
the theological seminary. The letter ad
dressed by Andover to Plymouth Church
“ talks right out in meeting.” It con
demns the policy of silence, and very
plainly intimates that there seems to be
something concealed, and that Mr.
Beecher and his flunkey followers of the
superserviceablo tribe of Shearmans have
sought to prevent, not promote, a really
full and fair investigation. This conduct,
says Andover, is working great harm to
the Congregational Church at large, and
to the Christian religion itself. Under
such circumstances Andover demands the
calling of an Ecclesiastical Council, of
from twelve to twenty churches, and six
to ten prominent individuals in addition,
one-half of the whole to be selected by
Plymouth Church and the other half by
Andover, and the Council to make a real
trial of the case, summoning everybody
who has testimony to give.
This shocking mess has so sickened us.
in common with the public, that the
thought of another going over yet
once more with the whole misera
ble gutter-full of scandal, is too bad
to be endured with patience. But it
may be impossible to stop it. If Mr.
Beecher had taken the advice of his near
est and best counseler at the outset, and
told the whole truth, it would have saved
him this prolonged torture of the rack.
He is a good man at heart, and we are
sorry for him. And it is too bad that
this abomiuable old cargo of rotten
fish is to be dumped into the midst of
the flowers and the feast of our national
centennial year. The old cry arises from
the depths of the inner consciousness,
i “Nothing is ever settled, till it is settled
* right.”—Hartford Times.
The police department of Omaha has
no respect whatever for the outward
forms of religion and worship. It pur
sues its duty rigidly, if it has to arrest a
whole church in the very act of divine
service. The chief of Omaha received offi
cial information that Dupre McElroy,alias
Carnes, was wanted in Lawrence, Kansas,
wheye he was charged with stealing
money and then stealing away. The
chief found McElroy—colored preacher—
holding forth powerfully upon the light
matters of foreordination, election and
free-agency in a negro Methodist meeting.
The stern figure -head of law and order
went right up to the pulpit, collared the
preacher and choked off the sermon. He
told the astonished congregation that
their evangelist was a thief. That set
tled the question of election and free-
agency, anyhow. McElroy acknowledged
he had taken the money inquired after,
but that he had spent it every cent in
missionary work, traveling and preach
ing. He was taken to Lawrence to an
swer indictment for grand larceny, and
his evangelical labors have been suspend
ed for the present.
Phil Sheridan is getting fat. Lincoln
once said to Well s that Sheridan was
brown, chunky little chap, with a long
body, short legs, not enough neck to
hang him, and such long arms that if his
ankles itch he can scratch them without
stooping. ”
An intelligent black boy was trudging
along a highway at night in the vicinity
of Palestine, Texas. There was a negro
woman riding a horse in the same direc
tion the boy wus going. The two, or
rather three—two negroes and the horse
—were in company. The intelligent
black boy reappeared in Palestine that
night out of breath and as pale as he
could %et. He said he saw a ball of fire
come out of the sky, and strike the wo
man and set her ablaze. The horse ran
one way with the woman afire on his back,
and he ran back to town to tell the people
what had happened. (The people went
to look after further particulars of this
curious incident. They found the wo
man lying on the ground with all her
clothing burned off, but with life enough
in her to tell that she had been struck in
the breast by a ball of fire. The horse
was found with his mane singed, and the
woman died next day. The people think
she was hit by a meteor.
Bruce and Spencer.—A Herald cor
respondent relates a little by-play of the
colored rebellion which may be of interest
down here. After Bruce had made his
speech in the secret session, Spencer, of
Alabama, came to his seat to mollify
him, and told him that he must not let
Senator Alcorn, who was a mischief
maker and disorganize^ persuade him
and carry him away from his true
friends.
“Stay by us; we are your true friends,”
urged Spencer.
Bruce, who listened in some excite
ment, replied:
“Governor Alcorn is a gentleman, sir.
I know him. He is a gentleman. As for
you, Senator Spencer, you are a carpet
bagger and a boot-licker for Grant. Go
and lick your master's boots, but don’t
call on me to do it.”
The conversation abruptly ended at
this point.
<1
There are now 1,154 McKay shoe-stitch-
ing machines in use in the United States,
and 846 in foreign countries. The num
ber of pairs of boots and shoes sewed by
the machine in this country during 1875
was 34,146,000 pairs.
The men and women dress so much
alike in Cochin China, that it is danger
ous to slap a man on the shoulder and re
mark: “Come, old fellow, let’s drop in
here and indulge in a smile.” It may be
the old fellow’s wife, you know.
Even out in San Francisco some poor
devils of distillers are on trial for running
“ crooked.” It is getting almost as dan
gerous to manufacture Western whisky
as to drink it.
JEsop, many cen turies since, in one of
his fables, represented the unalterable
condition of the black man. It seems
that there wa3 then a desire to get rid of
the complication of color. It was
deemed unfortunate that God should have
made white and black men, and a philan
thropist endeavored to wash a negro
white. The result was that the negro
died under the operation of washing. A
Professor Gunning, of Chicago, ir
lecture which he delivered on the 13th
instant, represents the hopeless nature of
this effort in the following language :
“For the black race could not have
been derived from the white, and the
white could not have been derived from
the black. Not diet, not climate, not
habits of life, outworking through a
million years, could bleach a black race
into a white; and neither habitation nor
habits could in a million times a million
years stain a white race black.”
A Well Poisoner.—One C. W. Keith
pleaded guilty in the Supreme Judicial
Court at Lewiston, Me., recently, to the
charge of poisoning the well of B. C.
Thomas, of Leeds. Mr. Thomas one day
in November last found a whitish powder
in his pump and well which experts pro
nounced arsenic. Suspicion fell upon
Keith, who lived opposite, and it was
found, on investigation, that the day
previous he had purchased of a druggist
in Auburn a quantity of the poison, giv
ing a false name. The bungling manner
in which the act was done led to its de
tection in time to frustrate the design of
the would-be-murderer of a family. Keith,
up to a few days, has protested his inno
cence.
Croup may be cured in a minute, and
the remedy is simply alum and sugar.
The way to accomplish the act is to take
a knife or grater and shave off in small
particles about a teaspoonful of alum,
then mix it with about twice its quantity
of sugar, io make palatable, and adminis
ter it as quicK as possible. Almost in
stantaneous relief wiil follow.
Mrs. Helm/eMd says that her husDand
is not so mzt lunatic as a confirmed
Postponed City Aarshal’s^alo
CITY MARSHAL’S OFFICE, I
Savannah, February Sd, 1876. (
I TNDER RESOLUTION ol the City CouncJJOl
J 6avanuah, and by virtue of City Tux Exe
cutions in my hanclfs I have levied on, aud wi;
sell, under direction ol a Special Comm;;tec cl
Council, on T11E FIRST TUESDAY IN
MARCH, 1876, between the legal hours d
•ale, before the Court House door in the city ol
Savanna. 1 !, county of Chatham and State of (Geor
gia, the following property, to-wit:
Improvements on Lot No 6 Calhoun ward,
levied ou as the property of the estate oi
Augustus Bonand.
Lot No 15 and improvementa Elliott ward,
levied ou as the property of Gugic Bourqu.n.
Improvement!* on Lot No 70 Lloyd ward , U viec
on as the property of John G. liutier.
Lots Nos 23 at»d 24 aud improvements Jaepet
ward; levied on as the property of Francis Cham
pion, trustee.
Improvements on we.-tern % ot Lot No 55 Gas
ton ward; levied on as the property of TI J ElkiLfe.
Lot No 6 and improvements Decker wa/d.
Tower tything; levied on as the property ot arfr*
M C Ferrill.
Lot No 26 and improvementa Currytowu ward;
levied ou as the property of John O Ferrill, exe
cutor.
Lot No 1 and improvementa, Percival ward,
Hack’s ty thing; levied on as the property ot the
estate of John C Ferrill.
Lot No 62 and improvements Brown ward:
levied on as the property of Wm O Godfrey
Improvementa on Lota Nos 40 and 41 Walton
ward; levied on as the property ol J F Gowen.
Improvementa on Lots Noe 21, 32 and 33,
Walton ward; levied on as the property of Mr#
M R Guerard.
Lot No 23 and improvementa, Gilmervilie;
levied on as the property of the estate ol A Hiu^
mon.
Eastern oue-half of Lot No 4 Cathbert ward,
filth section; levied on as the property ol HF
Uaimon.
Improvements on Lot No 5 Forsyth ward,
levied on as the property of William Hone.
Lot No 51 Garden Lot east; levied on a* the
property of James A LaRoche.
Improvementa on Lot No 6 Pulaski ward; lev
ied on as the property of Mrs G J LaRoche anc
children.
Lot No 17 and improvementa, Gilmervilie; lev
ied on as the property of F S Lalhrop.
Western one-halt of Lot No 31 and impiove
meets, Greene ward; levied on as the proj>ert>
of Michael Lavin.
Improvements on the western one-third ol Loi
No 3 Wesley ward; levied on as the property ol
A K Mallette.
Eastern one-half of Lot No 3 and improve
ments, Screven ward; levied on as the property
of Eli Mallette.
Improvementa on the eastern one-third of Lot
No 3 Wesley ward; levied on a*i the property ol
Mrs E M Mallette.
W’estem one-half ot Lot No 3 and improve
ments, Screven ward; levied on aa the property
of Mrs Catherine Mallette.
Improvementa on the middle one-third of Let
No 3 Wesley ward; levied on as the property ol
Miss Eoline Mallette.
Improvementa ou the eastern oue-half of Lo>
No 25 Calhoun ward; levied on as the proper!>
of C C Millar.
Improvements on Lot No 6S Brown ward; levied
on as the property of Ramon Molina, trustee.
Northern one-third of Lot No 5 and improve
ments Decker ward, Ueatbcote tithing; levied OB
as the property of the estate of GP Morin.
Lot No 10 and improvements, Franklin ward;
levied on as the property of M T Quin&n.
Lot No 75 White ward; levied on as the prop
erty ot Mrs Winefred i^uiuan.
Lot No 37 and improvements, Middle Ogle
thorpe ward; levied on as the property of Jame*
B Read and R J Nunn.
Lot No 40 and improvements. Middle Ogle
thorpe ward: levied on as the property of Mrt
James B Read.
Improvements on the eastern one-half of lot
No 41 Jackson ward ; levied on as the pro|»eriy
of Mrs L G Richards.
Improvements on Lot No 24 Walton ward;
levied ou as the property of Miss Kate Roberta
Lot No 3 and improvements Jones ward; lcv:to
on as the property of Dwight L Roberts, trustee
Lots Nos 2 and 3, Garden Lot west, front let.
lanyard tract; levied on as the property of Jamet
U Roberta.
Improvements on Lot No 16 Troup ward; lemt
on as the property of the estate of Mrs Vi .
Roberts and children.
Improvement on Lot No 7 Walton ward; :ev:e-
on as the property of the estate ol Mrs M J
Roberts and children.
Improvements ou Lot No 2, wharf lot, trus
tee’s garden; levied on as the property of Jamet
Ryan.
Lot No 9 and improvements, Bartow ward; lev
ied on as the property of M T Ryan.
Improvements and machinery on Lot No 25
Garden lot east; levied on as .he property oi
Sullivan & Unil.
Lot No 14 and improvements, Cuthbert ward,
seventh section; levied on as the property of Jnc
A Smlivan, trustee.
Lot No 7 and improvements. Cathbert wan,
seventh section; levied on as the property ot VS
D Sullivan.
Improvements on Lot No 40 Lloyd ward; levied
on as the property of W B Stnrtevant, trustee.
Improvements on Lots Nos 6, 7 and 8 Elbert
ward; levied on as the property of the estate cl
Mrs Margaret Tell air.
Lot No 20, Gallie ward, and improvements;
levied on as the property of Henry G Ward,
trustee.
Improvements on Lot No 44 Stephens ward,
levied on as the property of Mrs A F Wayne.
Purchasers paying for titles and stamps.
GEORGE W. STILES,
feb4-lm City Marshal
City Marshal’s Sale.
OFFICE CITY MARSHAL, >
Savannah, February 3, 1876.1
I TNDRR RESOLUTION of the City Council of
J Savannah, and by virtue of city tax execu
tions in my hands, I have levied on and will seL',
under direction of a special committee of Coun
cil, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH, 1S76,
between the legal hoars of sale, before the Court
House door in the city of Savannah, county ol
Chatham, and State of Georgia, the following
property, to wit:
Improvements on Lot No. 23 Currytowu ward;
levied on as the property of J. V. Connerat.
Lot No. 8 and improvements, South Oglethorpe
ward; levied on as the property of Mrs. Mary M
Marshall.
Improvements on Lot No. 48, Jackson watnf
levied on as the property of the Savannah Poor
Boose and Hospital.
Lot No. 10 and improvements, Reynolds ward,
third ty thing; levied on as the property ol Jamet
J. Waring.
Purchaser* paying for titles and stami
GEORGE W. S^
gfflal £aUg.
City Marshal’s Sale
.9p? a£'K
if ™^ q £o K5|
_ _ BROWN WARD
Mrl W“PrOYment*,
LS^f q ^,e““ nd -Pro~, Mias
P h^T^°,£: , 7 d rx o r: ,jme " t '’ a ™ to p^ *»■
tec, 6 im P™ v ™enL S R. Melina, Trna-
CALHOUN WARD.
EAatpn^talf of Lot No. 1 nod Improvementa.
Geo. VV. Anderson, Jr.. Trustee, 7 quarter- ^
one-half of Lot No. 2 and improvements,
Anderson, Jr., Trustee, 7 quarter* ^
nand *> im P r °vemeuts, estate of A. Bo-
naud, .*r., 7 quarters.
qnattere 0 ' 9 “° d ™P ro ' rem “ I «e. Thos. P. Jones, 8
qnartenL 10 M<1 iraproveraeuLJ . J. U. Orayb'U, I
Lot No. 20 and Improvementa, estate of Mrs
j "‘•■onett, 6 quarters.
?°* improvements, estate of Julius
Rousseau, 7 quarters each.
CHARLTON WARD.
41111 improvements, Frances
Me I nine. 4 quarters.
South one-half of Lot No. 14and improvements,
ansan h. George and children, 5 quarters.
onth one-half of Lot No. 23 and improvements,
ausan t. George and children, 5 quarters.
v *r 8 Jk°? e “ ha £ of Lot No ’ 25 ^ improvements,
M, 1. Quinan, 7 quarters.
CHATHAM WARD.
Lot No. 3 aud improvements, Christopher
White,- a quarters,
x,. E ?f t ,?- nt ;; lh i rd ol 1x11 No. 12 and improvements,
\\. B. Wylly and G. B. Clark 6quarters.
hist two-thirds of Lot No. 16 and improve-
ments, Mary A. Bradley, 5 quarters.
W estone-th.nl of Lot No. 25 and impt ovementa,
rjniiv s>. Bourne, 6 quarters.
Kast one-third of Lot No. 27 and improvements,
estate r L Gee, 6 quarters.
Two-thirds of Lot No. 37 and improvements, N,
B. Brown, 4 quarters.
COLUMBIA W ARD.
Lot No. 1 aud improvements, H. F. Willink, Jr.
6 quarters.
Lot No. 6 and improvements A. B. Luce.
Trustee, 8 quarters.
South oue-half of Lot No. 24 and improve
ments, L. J. B. Fairchild, 7 quartei*.
CRAWFORD WARD.
W est one-half of Lot No. 3 and improvements,
Henry E. Snider, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 38 and imorovements, Mary A. Jack-
son, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 43 and improvements, James T. Buck
ner, 5 quarters.
South one-half of Lot No. 52 and improvements.
Gerald Beytagh, 6 quarters.
CRAWFORD WARD EAST.
Lot No. 17 and improvements, John Nicolson.
Trustee, 5 quarters.
ELBERT WARD.
Lot No. 3 and improvements, estate of J, T.
Lawrence, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 6 aud improvements, estate of Marga
ret Telfair, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 7 and improvements, estate of Marga
ret Telfair, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 8 and improvements, estate of Marga
ret Telfair, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 9 und improvements, estate of J. T.
Lawrence, a quarters.
Centre one-third and East one-third of Lot No.
34 and improvements, R. C. Hardwick. 6 quarters.
South one-half ot Lot 39 aud improvements,
Virginia She:tall, 6 quarters.
South one-half of Lot No. 40 and improve
ments , Virginia Sheftall, 6 quarters.
FORSYTH WARD.
Lot No. 2 and improvements, Herbert A. Pal
me* , 8 quarters.
Lot No. 3 and improvement**, Geo. T. Nichols,
Trustee, i quaiters.
North one-half of Lot No. 17 and improve
ments, Mrs. Julia a. Miller and children, 4 quar
ters.
Lot No. 25 and improvements, Palmer Jb Dep
pish, S quarters.
Lot No. 51 aud improvementa, William Hone,
4 quarters.
Lot No. 54 and improvements, Kvtcunm &
Hurtridge, 6 quarters.
Lot No. 55 and improvements, W. H. Baker, 8
quarters.
Lot No. 58 and improvements, Mary Cabaniss f
Tquarters,
Lot No. 62 and improvements, James S. Law
rence, 7 quarters.
FRANKLIN WARD.
Lot No. 3 and improvements, Joseph Finegan,
6 quarters.
East one-half of Lot No. 7 and Improvements,
M. A. Cohen, Trustee, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 16 and improvements, ettate of Anton
Borchert, 6 quarters.
Lot No. 25 and improvements, estate of James
Mclntire, 6 quarters
Lot No. 38 and improvement*, estate of S,
Sawyer, 5 quarters. ’
NEW FRANKLIN WARD.
Lot No. 9 and improvements, J. W. Lathrop, 6
quarters.
Lot No. 17 aud improvements, Mrs. Mary Brad
ley, 5 quarters.
GREENE WARD.
Lot No. 7 and improvements, Christopher Mur
phy, 7 quarters.
Lot No. S and improvement! 1 , Ck*istopher Mnr-
phy, 7 quarters.
South one-half of Lot No. 22 and improve
ments, Mrs. Mary J. Walton, 4 quarters.
South one-half of Lot No. 25 and improve
ments, Patrick Kavanaugh, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 36 and improvements, estate Margaret
Shaffer, 6 quarters.
Lot No. 37 and improvements, Miss A. M. Pin-
der, 8 quarters.
JACKSON WARD.
Lot No. 36 and improvements, estate John
Schley, 5 quarters.
JASPER WARD.
Lot No. 8 and improvements, Eugenia M. Ker,
5 Quarters.
£ot No. 48 and improvements, L. J. and E. M
Ker, 5 quarters.
LLOYD WARD
Lot No. 6 and improvements; Thos. L. Wylly,
7 quarters.
Lot No. 28 and improvements, Mrs. Louisa
Spencer Connerat, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 33 and improvements, Mrs. Nora Y banes,
i quarters.
Lot No. 39 and improvements, J. L. KuumilJat,
7 quarters.
Lot No. 70 and improvements, John G. Butler,
6 quarters.
West one-third of Lot No. 41 and improve
ments, Mrs. Jane Ferrill, 4 quarters.
South one-third of Lot No. 67 and improve
ments, Ellen M. Hodgsoa, 8 quarters.
LAFAYETTE WARD.
Lot No. 42 ana improvements, Jas. H. John-
bton, 5 quarters.
LIBERTY WARD.
Lot No. 4 and improvements, estate John Wa
ters, 5 quarters.
West fraction of Lot No. 24 and Improvementa,
estate Z. N. Winkler, 4 quarters.
Southeast fraction of Lot No. 24 and improve
ments, Henry Haym, 8 quarters.
East oue-half ol Lot No. 30 aud improvements,
estate John Snider, 6 quarters.
MONTEREY WARD.
West two-thirds of Lot No. 7 and improve
ments, Joseph Finegan, Trustee, 4 quarters.
East one-half of Lot No. 29 and improvements,
Martha Grosclaude, 6 quarters.
West one-balf of Lot No. 29 and Improvements,
Thomas Arkwright, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 36 and improvementa, Charles B. King,
6 quarters. , _ . .
Lot No. 41 and improvements, James H. John
son, 4 quarters. „ _
Lot No. 42 and improvements, James H. Jonn-
son, 5 quarters.
Lot No. 43 and improvements, Andrew M. Rosa,
6 quarters. „
PULASKI WARD.
Lot No. 15 and improvements, eetate Caroline
L. Palmes, 6 quarters.
STEPHENS WARD.
Lot No. 14 and improvement*, Mrs. C. A.
Goodwin, 4 quarters. , w „
J,ot No. 15 and improvement*, estate W. H.
Wiltberger, 7 quarters.
Lot No. 18 and improvements, Herbert A. rai
nier, 5 quarters.
Lot No. 20 and improvements, Mrs. A. M. Brag-
don, 6 quarters. _,
Northern portion ot Lot No. 19 and lmproro-
menta, Mrs. Jennie A. Thompson. 6 qnnrtere.
TROUP WARD.
East one-half of Lot No. 13 and improrements,
Mrs. Reltecca J. McLeod, 4 quarters.
Western onc-half of Lot No. and improve
ments, John Cooper, Trnstee, 4 quarters.
Lot No. 29 and improvements, Mortimer a.
Williams, 4 quarters.
WARREN WA RD.
Lot No. 8 and improvements, Ann Cullen, 6
^'lo^No. 22 and improvements, James McGrath, ^
6 qoarters.
WASHINGTON WARD.
East one-half of Lot No. I and improvements,
Jacob Weinhetmer. 5 quarters.
East one-half of Lot No. 31) and improvements,
Mrs. Thomas Cooney, S quarters.
WESLEY WARD.
L ots Nos. 1 and 2 and improvements, James H.
J< Lcf No’ 3 and ^improvements, estate E. M. Msi-
1Ct vyts’t q onSf of Lot No. 10 and toprove-
mer s, F. It EtonTrnstee, 7 quarters.
West one-half oi Lot No. It and improvements, +
estate M.Lufburn.w, 4 quarters. ,.
Let No. 12and improvements, eetate -»• *—
bl ‘^^“improvement* A. Bonand. .
< * I LctNo. 21 and improvement!*, Christopher Mol* ^
phy, 10 quarters. ^
springyi :ld p; a.- - 1 1J - ; *
Lot S". . aa.annai'’
ten*.
Lot
ters.
Lot 9
ters.
Lot No. •», otivamiau x.
ters.
5it No. 5, Savannah Brick Company, 6 qear- ,
“St No. 6, Savannah Brick Company, «7™- *
No. It, John -V. Lems,
West one-half of Lot No. 12, John N. new-s.
’B&tSHSsa*®’
{21 No. K, SSSSh’BriS
“St No. 33, Savannah Brick Company, - qcjf
^Lot No. W, Savannah Brick Company, 6 JtlsJ
“fe & s- sis ssisffia
kZ a Sate C. P. Craft, 4 quarters. . „
febT-td city MaishaL—
Copartnership gotirrs.
31U. H. T. INMAN
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