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J. H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
\f* will have a favorable place
i, bat no promise of continnous
particular place can be given, as
n*;’ have equal opportunities.
A fairs Hi ueoriria.
i the Columbus soldiers parade, the
form a procession, and, with the
(! m .rravity that chartcterizes them,
[olloW
Mr.
of H'
and i
ilward seems to have with-
Atlauta Courier. At least
uaw .. has disappeared.
Joe Brown had several lawyers engaged
, help him along with the State Road
a*,. Among others we notice the names
Fielder, Ben May, (since dead,)
limmons. It is passing strange
h e; l have overlooked the Hon.
reeu. However, at that time we
talents of the Hon. Potty were
i bushel.
maty had a small tornado the
rhich destroyed a panel or two of
Mr.
Potty Pei
H.
Hull was recently confirmed
judge of Scriven County Court.
Dr. J. G. Thomas estimates that the time
consumed by the Peagreen element in the
last two sessions of the Legislature, in op
posing hid State Board of Health bill, will
cost the tax-payers of the State Twelve
Thousand Dollars ! How do you like the
looks of your economy, Hon. Potty?
It is a singular as well as a suggestive
fact that a majority of the mutton-heads in
the last Legislature were opposed to the
dog law.
A little baby fell out of its carriage into a
ditch iu Columbus the other day and came
near drowning betore the attention of the
efiieu-ir. . ; ed nurse could be directed to
We leave it to an impartial public if we
Lavu’t often remarked that it was no use for
the other country editors to endeavor to
keep u;> with George Woods, of the Haw-
kinsvilio l)isp<Uch. In his last he describes
a pair of snakes no larger than a knitting-
needle found iu stagnant water, which, ho
more than hints, were once common horse
hairs. Wo shall not call the roll of counties
:i this matter, because we shudder to think
what in w monstrosity or curiosity our friend
Woods would dig out of his head.
i< d woman iu Lumpkin became too
• with a cook-stove the other day.
’oiint Johannes B Gormanne, who is
f the bridesmaids when John Trip-
s married, is still chasing the nimble
i iu his orange plantation on Lake
j remarked
;eadv drink
as a curious fact that all
ers are in favor of local cp-
This is because the various beverages,
and alcoholic, come cheaper by the
edi
farmers in Pulaski and adjoining
?fl are busily engaged in planting
ud some have even finished,
a man from Aiken, S. C., who came
Augusta to consult a physician, was
i by the hospitable inhabitants
and compelled to make a trip up the canal.
His health is not improved.
• Line Press says of
•vaat i Norwood’s recent speech in opposi-
;iut :he Centennial appropriation that
“h* is logical, classical, eloquent, as are all
the productions of our distinguished Sena
tor.”
Tney are getting so they havo buffalo
shad in Atlanta.
On the 20th, Bishop Beckwith consecrated
•St. Andrew’s Cemetery at Darien.
Ihe Brunswick Appeal says the new pat
ent process lor tanning leather, of which
mention was made a few days ago, has been
purchased by a stock company formed in
Rome by boat. He had seventy-five acres
in clover. He is the first man that shipped
clover seed from Georgia to Tennessee. Ho
makes a large quantity of corn, which ho
feeds to his stock, and has already sold
some $6,000 worth of pork this winter. Sells
from 1,500 to 2,500 bushels of wheat a year,
plants no cotton. Has a large orchard of
all kinds of fruit trees. His average force
is from eight to nine hands, all white. He
is now putting his farm uuder a plank lence,
at least the greater portion of it.
Rome Courier : On Tuesday last Charlev
Willingham, of the Cartersville Express,
invited some friends to dine with him at
the Ricks House in Cartersville, Col. J. O.
Waddell among the number. When they
were all seated and the soup handed around,
Col. Waddell dropped his head and said,
“Lord, make us honest and rich.” Willing
ham promptly replied, “Amen. Give tho
Colonel the former and Thy humble servant
tho latter, as Thou seest we need, and do it
quickly.”
Forest (Jackson countv) News: In the
southern part of this county, a few days
since, on the place of Bailey Griffith,* a
hawk flew down and caught up a small lice
dog that was in the yard and carried it to
the top of a tree, a short distance off.
Griffith, who was close by at the time, rau
in the house, got his gun and shot the
hawk. On being shot, tho hawk flew—still
retaining hold on the dog—gradually going
to the ground—where it fell, and, strange
to say, tho dog escaped with little or no in
jury. This comes to us from a trustworthy
and reliable source.
Atlanta Commonwealth : The Constitution
received five thousand dollars for the use of
its columns in advocacy of the State Road
lease. At ten cents per line—a better aver
age rate we dare say than they get for ad
vertising—it would have paid for two bun
dred and fifty columns of that paper. Wo
dare 6ay, again, that seventy-five columns
of the paper was not used for that purpose
therefore, the great bulk of the five thou
sand dollars must have been a liberal contri
bution from the generous lessees—a sum
not rrnid for advertising, because it would
much more than have paid the amount at
regular rates. It could not have been t
bribe, because Mr. Hemphill says it was not.
It certainly was a preseut from the lessees
—a present made upon the impulse of the
moment when they were impulsively liberal,
Atlanta Courier: “Now, right there,’
said Dr. Powell, of this city, halting a Con
rier reporter in front of Colonel Nat. Ham
mond’s handsome residence, “is the scene
of a pretty story. About twenty years ago,
be continued, “ Nat. Hammond and myself
M to than four thousand have joined the
funeral procession moving Westward
ulumbus since the 1st of Deeem-
the a
Her!
Led.,
tfaroq
ber.
Several failures have recently occurred in
Atlanta.
Thu Atlanta Courier says that Professor
Wm. Henry Peck, the famous author, now
residing in that city, is now addressing
probably the largest audience ever reached
by ouestory writer. He has a serial run-
n ‘ D G * n ,-ac h cf tbe greatest story papers of
f?e—the Li 'lger and the Weekly. The
■U claims a circulation of 350,000. The
x has surely as many—so that 700,000
people buy copies of the papers containing
bi- Ties. Ir is reasonable to say that four
People- read each paper; which gives Pro-
*‘-88or Peck an audience of two million eight
hundred thousand readers. A largo family
that, to provide literary pabulum for.
We take no great amount of stock, 1
the Macon Telegraph, “ in the com-
aiuinst the Legislature for doing so
" ho has made any such complaint,
"ur complaint against the members
n-neral Assembly is that they have
done entirely too much.
>l * Paul s Church, Macon, is to have a new
organ.
were sitting near that tree, talking about
marrying. It was all woods here then
Hammond said he would never marry.
Just then two young ladies came walking
through the grove, going out to tbe bill
yonder to seo the sun set. Hammond
said, at once, ‘ If I could win euch
woman as that one yonder, I would marry.
1 asked him who it was. Ho replied that he
didn’t know, but that she suited his ideas
exactly. I went off to Texas shortly after
wards, and when I came back years after
wards I met Hammond and asked him if be
was married. ‘I am,’ be replied. ‘ I mar
ried the very girl that we mot in the grove
that evening; and I have bought tbe grove
that we met her in, and wo are living there
now.’ And so they are, cor tinned tbe doc
tor, impressively, 'and tha.’s what I call
romance.’ ”
Referring to the denunciatory epithet
“Confederate Congress”— which, because of
the ex-Confederates in it, tbe Radical pa
pers are so fond of burling at tbe body now
assembled at Washington, the LaGrange
Reporter makes the following palpable bit
“They are not there by their own will ; not
at all. They erected a neat little govern
ment of their own, which was altogether
Confederate;’ it was a daring, noble, self-
sacrificing government—a government
which made as heroic a struggle for iude-
pendence as ever gloritiod tbe pages of |bi*
lory. Why, bless you, warlike brethren ol
the Northern pi ess, it was the fault
of your people entirely that that
government was demolished, and
that we ‘Confederates’ are forced back into
the Union. We wouldn’t have been in it
to-dav; and tbe fateful ‘Confederates’
would not be in your Congress but for your
physical superiority. We stayed out as long
as we could ; we managed to put several
hundred thousand, more or less, of your
best imported Europeans under the dai
sies—with here and there a few natives ; w
fought, and fought, and fought, until w
could fight no more. Then we had to go
back because you, who were our conquerors
forced us. If our presence is distasteful,
blame yourselves. If you did not want us
to mingle with you and have a share in the
goverpment, why did you not let us stay out
of your detestable old Union when we went
out? We’d have been happy enough if you
had let us alone."
steps
marks
pUint.
little.’
Pray ?
of the
Augusta (
Philligtinog
four
agaut L
omicle: We are afraid that the
have us on the hip. The Co-
-a l rt ; jn-IJerald calls attention to the
1 iat the honest and economical Demo-
Crat ‘ c legislature of Georgia employs fifty-
r - . while the swindling and extrav-
-"flature of South Carolina employs
u ’ • afraid we shall have to go
l " • “the party” and score one for the
kouth Carolina Radicals.
A ’hit woman with eight children
• at-ht 1 Macon the other day, on their way
n 1 lor ^ a to join the husband and father,
without me
City H
c ans they were taken to the
"here one of tho children discov-
6t e<i im futher. The
»U th,
man had walked nearly
FitcL
from Cleveland, Ohio.
: lu’t let the Legislature adjourn
laving his fun. He went up the
and mounted the doorkeeper of
and a right lively tussle
the Sei
CDsae.l.
Auinta lady presented Mr. Booth with
11(1 riu K before be left that city.
’ "Jtk, whose finger it now adorns,
s a right pretty ring,
warehouse was burned in Atlanta
Loc’ Tmght *
had , L k aS into poetry. He
' nsttoutUm recently,
c 7 110 * laJ y- It was red-hot.
arcellug Eugene Thornton, poei,
*a. aU( * nove h8t, has entered into a
d&v s r if &l u < l ua ^ every day for thirty
‘ the Colonel’s appetite has not de-
it
A ra;
the oti
that he c
we are willing to risk a small sum
*00^^ ^ €t a ^ ay Witl1 a dozen Shanghai
* 9 during the £
Th * same thirty days,
read 6 8omo things it does one good to
• the Rome Courier says that Colonel
Tenne^ 0 Greeory ' in 1863 » refugeed from
where ^1 u Murray c °unty, Georgia,
iv , uu gkt a large settlement of land
li- 1 ° farmmg ’ makin g grain, grasses
gsthe,!VL? eciaiitle8 - The year 1875 he
he i ” 1 ^ ^ Ua hels of clover seed, which
see ■ t0 Chattanooga, Tennes-
severa/ he realiz ed $2,000; also,
*on o f bale8 of hay ’ * I** 1
he also shipped to qhat-
tUt.
rp. realized
the balance he
$2,000
speaks of shipping!
Florida Affairs.
Stearns and his friends are taking
to make thiugs uneasy for Conover.
They didn’t have good drinking water on
the Florida State Fair Grounds.
Joe Brown testified in Atlanta tbe other
day that he paid Parson Hicks a certain
sum tj publish articles favorable to the
lease of the Georgia Western and Atlantic
Road. The parson, however, is not singu
lar in this matter. Several Georgia editors
also got their palms scratched.
A young New Yorker, who was out hunt
ing near Jacksonville the other day, shot
himself in the heel.
Col. J. B. Oliver has presented the editors
of the Jacksonville Union with a mammoth
orange, grown by Mortimer Levering, of
Mellonville. It is smooth, clear skinned,
measures 14^ inches in circumference, and
weighs just 204 ounces, beating anything
we have heretofore seen by at least one-half
ounce. It was sent by tbe grower for exhi
bition at the State Fair, but arrived too late
to enter.
According to cards in tbe Union, Mr.
Codrington, of the Agriculturist,while under
the influence of liquor, made himself very
disagreeable to the Captain of the Spitfire,
and afterwards renewed the insult by pub
lishing a card in the Union. Whereupon,
the Captain subjected Mr. Codrington to a
horse-whipping, or something of that sort
Tho Lake City Reporter says that thero
will be more corn and other provision crops
planted in Columbia county tuis year than
in any former year.
Lake City is'sbipping fresh fish to Sa
vannah.
It is understood that Stearns is making
desperate efforts to get the Rev. John
Tyler, Jr., out of his way in the approach
ing gubernatorial canvass in Florida. In
tbe meantime, Tyler’s friends are laughing
in their sleeves.
Lake City is to hare a new court-house.
Watermelons and cucumbers will bo
shipped from Columbia county a mouth
sooner than last year. So says tho Lake
City Reporter.
The Jacksonville Union has been shown a
fully ripe and fragrant pino-apple which was
grown upon the place of Captain M. Haynes,
at Lake Harris, and cut by that gentleman
as a present to Mr. O. P. Rooks, of Indian
apolis, who is sojourning in Jacksonville.
This specimen is from a farm of six hun
dred plants, cultivated by Captain Haynes,
all of*which are ;uoing finely, as well as nu
merous others in the vicinity of Leesburg
and Lakes Griffin and Harris.
Caja. G. Johnson, Dr. J. S. Bruner and
Frank Furstnon, captured a “Jew fish” on
tbe 12th inst., in tbe Wekawatcheo river at
Bay Port, weighing 250 pounds. It was six
feet in length, and twenty-two inches in di
ameter through the body. Its mouth was
eighteen inches wide when stretched, and
its fins were ten inches wide.
The farmers of Columbia county are buy
ing largely of mules and horses this season.
To Dr. J. S. B., Bay Port—Send along the
sketch.
The Union says that the ;Geo rgia Dele
gation to the Florida State Fair was pre
sented by Colonel W. C. Maloney, of Key
West, with a number of the tropical pro
ducts of his section, now on exhibition at
the fair, which are to be placed in the Agri
cultural Museum of Georgia. Among the
articles is a cotton plant, fully matured,
planted m November last; specimen limbs
and fruit from a cotton tree seven years
old ; specimens of the sisal and samples of
the hemp produced therefrom ; and cocoa-
nut trees in different stages of bearing and
maturing.
A Colonel Topp wants to establish four
agricultural colleges in Florida. Merciful
heaven 11 where if Gleawn ?
Mr. C. N. Hawkins will shortly begin the
publication of the Sunland Tribune at
Tampa.
McLin is still abusing Purrnan. We shall
never find a parallel to this sort of thing
until a pair of brass-mounted tongs allude
to the candlestick as brazen.
There is an orange tree in Major John
Parson’s grove at Bay Port, which bloomed
at the usual time last spring, from which a
crop of fruit was gathered and sold last
fall. In June last, during a four days’ rain,
it took on another crop of blooms, tbe fruit
of which is now in different stages of
growth—some ripe, some jnat beginning to
turn, and some entirely green; and it is now
again covered with blooms.
The Lake City Reporter says that under
lying a great portion of Columbia eounty,
and very near the surface, is a soft, grey
sandstone, suitable for building purposes,
which will iu a few years surely attract
attention. It contains but a small quantity
of lime in its composition, as chimneys
built from it have stood fire for many years
without crumbling. It is quite soft when
first taken from the earth, and can be cut
very easily into such shape as the builder
may require. After being exposed to tbe
sun it becomes very fight and hardened.
There is a place about a mile and a half
north of Lake City, where a considerable
quantity has been quarried. Mr. Daughtery
has built a very comfortable dwelling of
tbe stone taken from tbe quarry. Several
wells in Lake City have reached to a vein of
this stone, showing that its extent would
render it inexhaustible for any purpose that
it might be applied to.
Tbe Gainesville Citizen says that on
Wednesday last Mr. Phillips and Mr. Bird
had some words which resulted rather un
pleasantly, and then they separated. They
again met at the tan yard of Messrs. Avera
& Phillips, and Bird made some unpleasant
remarks and another altercation took place,
Bird attempting to cut Phillips with a knife,
and Phillips drew a revolver and
fired at Bird, but with no effect.
Bird grasped his double-barreled shot gun to
shoot Phillips, but the interference of
friends of both parties prevented, until
Phillips succeeded in reaching a fence a
short distance away. Bat the determina
tion to shoot, and the interference of tbe
gentlemen who tried to arrest tbe gun from
Bird’s grasp, caused its accidental discharge,
tbe contents passing up through the lower
left cheek and blowing the entire top of his
head away, a portion of the skull being
found some distance from where ho stood.
A coroner’s jury was summoned, and the
facts revealed before that body were sub
stantially as stated.
The Jacksonville Press says that the so-
called Republican State Executive Commit
tee, E. M. Cheney, chairman, met in that
city recently, and by a vote of seven to two
ordered the State Convention for the nomi
nation of Governor and Lieutenant Gover
nor to be held at Madison on the 31st of
May. The two members in opposition were
opposed to the Executive Committee taking
any action until tbe State Central
Committee, of which W. H. Glea
son (who is now in Europe) is chair
man, could meet and consider the
protests recently adopted by the party in
Leon and Jefferson counties against the le
gality of the Executive Committee’s ap
pointment. This hasty action by the
Stearns and Cheney ring, utterly ignoring
the protests from a powerful faction of their
party iu two of the largest of the Middle
counties, will precipitate and force a for
midable split, and we may confidently look
for two conventions. The Conoverites are
not to be killed off in such a wholesale style.
Tho following call is issued by S. Pasco,
Chairman, and R. B. Hilton, Secretary:
The District Convention of the First Con-
grersional District will be held at the same
time and place as tbe State Convention, to
wit: At Quincy, iu Gadsden county, on
Wednesday, June 21st, the hour for the as
sembling of the same to be fixed hereafter,
for the purpose of nominating a candidate
for the Representative in Congress for said
district, to be voted for at the next gen
eral election, and to appoint district dele
gates to the Presidential Convention of
the Democratic partv. The counties will
be governed by the same rules in selecting
their delegates as have been laid down by
tbe State committee in their call, and they
will have the right to send the same set of
delegates to both conventions, or a separate
set to each, as they see fit. Arrangements
will be made to pass the members of tho
convention on the railroads and steamboats
at reduced rates, as far as practicable. Tbe
District committee extend the call of the
BY TELEGRAPH
THE MORNING NEWS.
LETTER FRO* NASSAU.
THE ROTTEN NAVY.
A Cool Spell — Annual Races — A<juatir j
Sports — FioanrieriBft of the Colonial
Parliument—Wreck of the British Brl*
Cairo.
Noon Telegrams.
DON CARLOS AND HIS CAUSE.
Political Affairs in France.
DETAILS
OF THE LOSS
MARY BELL.
OF THE
Morion Still Worrying Over l'inch.
CAPITAL AND CONGRESSIONAL NOTES.
Washington, February 28.—In the Sen
ate, Sharon, the new Senator from Nevada,
was sworn iu.
Matt Carpenter appeared before the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections for Spen
cer. The witnesses are summoued for Fri
day week, to which day the case is ad
journed. The defense decline to accept the
evidence taken by the Alabama legislative
committee.
The Supremo Court adjourns to the 15th
proximo, and till then there will be no
Grant Parish dechion.
The Elections Committee decides the case
of Finlay and Wall, from Florida, on Friday.
Mrs. Gaines expects a decision in her case
to-day.
Morton is undecided whether to bring
Pinch’s case up.
THE BURNED STEAMER.
Cincinnati, February 28.—It is estimated
[Specia. Correspondence of the Morning News
Nassau, N. P., Feb. 25, 1876.
A SMALL NORTHEASTER.
The good steamship Leo arrived last
night, bringing quite a number of pas
sengers, and a strong northeaster, which
has dropped the mercury down to 70 de
grees; still we can manage to keep warm
without the aid of fires or an overcoat.
Many of those who left us by the last
steamer to take a short trip to Florida
have sent back their regrets that th6y
had not remained in Nassau, aDd a num
ber of those who anticipated a run over
have changed their minds and concluded
to let well enough alone, and stay where
they are.
AMUSEMENTS.
Our annual races came off yesterday at
Hobby Horse Hall. They were hardly
up to the races of former years, both
horses in the principal race being lame.
The mule and donkey races were quite
amusing, and much enjoyed by strangers.
Our yacht race is next on the programme,
and is generally worth witnessing, as we
have a number of very fine yachts of the
smaller class.
THE COLONIAL PARLIAMENT,
upon reliable data that the loss by the
burning of the steamer Mary Bell will*reach
over half a million of dollars. She had a
large number of passengers with valuable
baggage. She wa3 believed to be
the largest steamer ever constructed •
for the navigation of the Mississippi
or any other river, |the extreme
length ot the hull being 325 feet and the
breadth 56 feet. In tho construction of the
boat over a million feet of water-seasoned
o?k were used. She had a battery of eight
steel boilers, which cost over $125,000. Tho
msura'ice on her cargo will fall heavily on
the Memphis and New Orleans underwri
ters. There was no insurance on the boat
in Cincinnati.
THE CARLIBTS.
London, February 28. Dispatches fiom San
Sebastian says that 8,000 Carlists submit
ted at Tolosa. Tho Times correspondent with
the Carlists telegraphs on Sunday that Les-
ca, with 12,000 troops, was between Vera and
Endarlaga, and that Don Carlos, with eight
battalions, was near Pampeluna.
Bayonne, February 28.—Don Carlos, with
about two thousand men, is now at Romes-
vanx, very near the French border. It is
believed be will enter France to-day. Tbe
chief members of tbe Carlist Provincial
Councils have taken leave of him and
sought refuge on Frenqfeterritory.
THE FRENCH CABINET.
Paris, February 28.—M. Casimir Perire,
at a meeting of the Left Centre, stated
that the reason he had not yet ac
cepted the Ministry of the Interior was
because be thought that all who had
associated themselves with the policy
of Buffet should leave the Cabinet, which
should be almost entirely remodeled. He
referred particularly to Messrs. Martaguac
and Walton. He said, however, that Du-
favre had not finally settled with President
MacMahon what course would be taken on
the meeting of the Chambers.
now in session, will probably close next
week. It is astonishing what a vast
amount of financial genius and talent has
been brought to light in the formation
of this new House. They commenced
their arduous labors burthened with
a heavy colonial debt, which
they have managed to rid the
colony of by borrowing the money to
pay it with. Secretary Bristow would
call this robbing Peter to pay Paul, but
we view it in an entirely different light,
and simply think it a new way to pay old
debts. It reminds me very much of one
Capt. McKinney, who died here a few
years ago. One of our merchants, to
whom he owed quite an amount, wished
to close his accounts and asked Capt.
Ben. to give him his note, which he
readily assented to. The note was drawn
up and signed, when Capt. Ben. carefully
laid dow'n the pen, rubbed his hands, and
coolly remarked: “Thank God ! that debt
is paid.”
THE CITY OF GALVESTON.
The schooner Amelia Ann arrived to
day from the steamship City of Galves
ton, reported in my last as ashore at Ma-
yaquana. The Captain thinks they will
succeed in getting her off. The passen
gers and part of the crew are here. The
weather has been unusually favorable for
the wreckers working at her.
State committee to the people of the First
Congressional District, and urge the neces
sity of an early and through organization of
the party.
Stearns has sent the following to the At
torney General: I herewith hand you a copy
of tho Comptroller’s report for the year
1875. I havo to call your attention to the
fact that tho report discloses a large defi
ciency in the account of warrants (green
back scrip) issued from the Comptroller’s
office in 1871, also frauds in the Treasurer’s
office, committed about the samo time. It
is of the highest public importance that
immediate steps should be taken to investi
gate these transactions, and the responsible
>arties held to tho strictest accountability.
Let no station in life, however high, socially
or politically, shield the defaulters or deter
you from your plain duty. Consider that
the interests of a State struggling for souud
financial credit, and the ri-hts of a people
already overburdened with taxes, are now
in your hands. I trust you will apply the
remedy which the law gives without fear,
favor or affection, and “allow no guilty man
to escape.”
Lake City Reporter : There were shipped
from this depot from the first day of Sep
tember last to the 20th inst., 1,141 bales sea
island cotton, 1,073 bales upland cotton,
260 pounds of bides, 400 tons cotton seed,
76 barrels of syrup, 10 barrels of sugar, be
sides quantities of fruits, vegetables, poul
try, live stock, etc. The Express Company
shipped from here from the 13th of August
last to the 20th inst., 138 coops of chickens,
averaging 40 fowls, 30 coops of turkeys aver
aging 15 turkeys, and 161 cases of’eggs at
30 dozen per case. That our people may
seo what they are doing, and may profit
thereby, we will give the net prices that the
jroducers are supposed to receive and wo
lave:
,141 bales long island cottoh at $100 $114,100
,073 bales upland at $50 53,650
260 lbs. liiaes at 10c. per lb 1,260
FROM SERVIA.
London, February 28.—A Berlin dispatch
to tbe Times reports that a committee at
Belgrade, Leaded by the Archbishop, has
appealed to the population to bo ready to
receive the wounded iu case of war. All
able-bodied men are called out by order of
tho Minister of War, and will be mustered
in March 2d.
RELEASED.
MARINE DISASTER.
The British bri»? Cairo, of Liverpool.
Rogers, master, with a cargo of oil cake
from New Orleans, bound for Liverpool,
ran ashore on Sandy Cay bar, Bahama, on
the evening of the 14th inst. Vessel and
cargo total loss. The officers and crew
were picked up in a boat by a wrecking
schooner and brought to this port.
AN APOLOGY.
Purser Wild man’s modesty has got the
better of him for once. He thinks I owe
him an apology for the remarks about
him in my last. I herewith publicly make
it by withdrawing the words “ broad
grin,” and substituting the words “horse
laugh.’ S.
London, February 28.—The Times’s Mad
rid letter says Charles Marfori, ex-Qaeou
Isabella’s Minister for tbe Colonies, who has
been imprisoned for some time at Cadiz, has
been released.
E. C. WADE’S SLANDERS.
Letter from a Citizen of South Georgia.
THE HERZEGOVINIAN REFUGEES.
London, February 27.—A Berlin special to
tho Post says Austria has ordered tbe Her
zegovinian refugees borne within a mouth,
upon pain of expulsion.
FAILED.
New York, February 28.—A Providence
dispatch says that Iiufns Waterman, hereto
fore considered a man of great wealth, has
tailed.
400 tons of cotton seed at $12.
176 barrels syrup at $15.
10 barrels sugar at 25c.
520 fowls at 30c
450 turkeys at$l
830 dozen eggs at 20c.. .
4,800
2.G40
250
1,656
450
966
Total $179,772
When we consider that the dry weather
injured the cotton crop, and the little at-
Remarkable Murder Trial.
The French courts have lately been
occupied with a remarkable murder trial,
the details of which are of singular in
terest. Bernard Castay was a middle-
aged man, and by dint of bard work had
amassed a fortune, which he employed in
money-lending. Among his debtors was
a man named Duluo, of dissipated habits.
One day the money-lender was missing,
and, after a long search, his body was
found at the bottom of a gulf known in
tbe country as the Trou- aux-Fees, and
the absence of the money and valuable
papers be always bore in his pocket in
dicated that theft must have been the
object of tbe crime. The police set to
work, aud in a short time discovered that
M. Castay had oeen invited on the eve of
his disappearance to dine with Duluc,
and that on the following day one Lacaze
was seen to leave Duluo’s house. Duluc,
his wife, and LacaEe were arrested. At
first they all professed their innocence,
but finding that convincing proof of their
guilt was being gathered, they confessed,
each one, however, throwing the respon •
sibility of the crime on the shoulders of
the other two. The evidence brought
forward on the trial showed that Duluc
and Lacaze had resolved to murder and
rob M. Castay, and that Duluc’s wife
approved of the design. Duluc invited
M. Castay to come aud dine with him
and talk over money matters. The
money-lender accepted the invitation.
Before he arrived at Duluc’s house Lacaze
entered, and having drunk several glasses
of brandy, hid himself in the hay-loft
armed with a bar of iron. M. Castay
dined with Duluc and his wife, and either
drank too much or was drugged, for he
fell asleep at the table. Duluc then got
the pistol and fired it into the sleep
ing money-lender’s face, but a
it had been charged with small shot only
Castay was not killed on the spot. He
rushed to the door to raise an alarm,
when he was met by Lacaze, who smash
ed in his skull with the iron bar. The
murderers next stuffed up his mouth
with quicklime, and dragged him into a
cupboard, where he died in a few min
utes. They then ransacked his pockets
of about $100, which were divided. On
the night following Lacaze brought a
cart to Duluc’s house. The body of the
murdered man, hidden in a sack, was
placed in it, and the two men drove off
to the forest, pitched the body into the
woodland gulf and returned home. La
caze was condemned to death, but Duluc
and his wife got off with hard labor, the
men for life, and the woman for ten
years.
Thomasville, Ga., February 26.
Editor Morning Eeits :
The slanderous letter of E. C. Wade,
now going the rounds of the press, seems
to excite surprise on the part of some
editors in the country, who express doubt
as to his having written it, and allude to
high “personal” considerations for him,
«fcc. Can any true Southern man, unin
fluenced by Wade’s patronage, in view of
his past political record, entertain high
consideration for him “ personally ?”
Have his former letters to Northern
journals been forgotten ? Let the ghost
of Gallahers Independent rise up to re
buke him. He has ever since the
war been a venomous scalawag,
for the sake of office. During the
past few years, or rather since the uni
versal Radical defeat in 1874, he has been
growing conservative, aDd actually so well
advanced in better views and conduct
that he began to be able to look’white
men in the face again; but unfortunately
for Wcde, he has taken Blaine’s dead
speech to be the war cry in the approach
ing Presidential campaign, and small as
he is, he concludes that his voice must be
heard iu order that he may retain his
place. This is one view of the motives
which prompted his tissue of lies. But
there is another which he proha
bly will not like to see in print.
Many of the people he so vil
lainously slanders in Brooks
county have said and believe that Wade
instigated the difficulty which resulted in
the death of Captain Hunter, by counsel
ing the negroes to violence, and especially
by his encouragement to the negro mur
derer. This negro haying lost his life at
the hands of a jury of Wade’s political
enemies, for following Wades advice, the
latter seeks to quiet the pangs of a guilty
conscience by slandering and abusing the
avengers of crime. It is not possible for
him to injure any of the parties he alludes
to • among Southern men, and this
he knows very well; but he thinks ho can
raise himself among the “bloody shirt”
diatribe of the North and the White
House, and he blows his horn for Blaine
and Morton to carry the news to Grant.
He believes now that Grant will be elec
ted again, and speaks in time that another
may not enter upon his heritage.
Yours truly, Citizen.
Forty Million Dollars Unacroanted for
Since the War—How Four .Millions were
Expended to Elect Grant In 1872-
Peculiar Paymasters—Valuable Ma
chinery gold as Scrap Iron—.stealing All
Around.
PIERREPO.Yrs CURIOUS LETTER.
How Grant g<iuelclied the Testimony.
teution that has been given to poultry rais
ing, (notwithstanding the many advantages
and prices), and that we have’not included
the lumber and naval store shipments in
the above, we certainly feel like congratu
lating the people on their success, and we
are confident that while the cotton crop the
present year may not double that of the
past, yet the vegetables, poultry aud live
stock which will go forward from this point
the present year will be largely in excess of
the expectations of the most hopeful of our
people.
|Last Christmas Eve the family of a
[Berlin tradesman, who had formerly been
prosperous but was then a bankrupt, were
sitting sorrowfully around their open fire
place. The house had been nearly emp
tied of its furniture to meet the execu
tions of judgment creditors, and a pro
missory note for six hundred marks was
overdue. Suddenly the door bell rang,
and the gentleman who held the note en
tered, followed by a servant carrying a
basket. The servant placed the
large
basket on the table and quietly departed, property taxation, based thereon, is not
Mortgages Not Taxable.—The Su
preme Court of California has recently
made a decision of the utmost impor
tance. if it is to be taken as a precedent
in other States. It has decided, by an
almost unanimous bench, only one out of
five dissenting, aud he giving as yet no
reasons for his dissent, that the taxation
of mortgages or other evidences of debt,
as property, is illegal and unconstitu
tional. This decision is in the broadest
and clearest terms. It meets tbe whole
subject, rejecting all mere technicalities
and side issues. The particular case, that
of the people vs. the Hibernia Savings
and Loan Society, is not once referred to
in the course of the three elaborate opin
ions by which the decision of the court is
supported. The court means to assert
squarely and positively that the taxation
of mortgages is illegal, because, to use
the language of Chief Justice Wallace,
“Mere credits are a false quantity in
ascertaining the sum of wealth which is
subject to taxation as property, and in so
far as that sum is attempted to be in
creased by the addition of those credits,
The Bankrupt Act not to be Repeal
ed.—A memorial signed by several of the
largest business men of New York city
against the repeal of the bank
rupt act, was presented to-day
by Senator Conkiing. The me
morial suggests, however, that the law
should be amended by reducing the num
ber of creditors necessary to pul a dis
honest creditor into bankruptcy by en
larging the time within which preferen
tial judgments and executions, and sales,
transfers and mortgages of property may
be attached, and within which criminal
prosecutions for obtaining goods bought
on credit, on false representations, or
fraudulently disposing of goods bought
on credit, may be brought; and by sim
plifying the practice and diminishing the
expense in bankruptcy.
It is very evident from the tone of
feeling in the country as evidenced by
numerous letters, petitions and memori
als from very prominent sources to every
member of the Senate, and from expres
sions of numerous prominent Senators,
that the bankrupt act repeal cannot pass
the Senate. It will be remembered that
the House passed a bill for total repeal.
The Senate will probably agree to amend.
— Washington Cor. N. Y. Bulletin.
The creditor pressed his debtor's hand, only merely fanciful, but necessarily the
slipping into it at the same time a sealed : unconstitutional imposition of an addi
envelope, and begging him to hope for
better times left the house. The basket
was hurriedly opened, and a large assort
ment of delicacies besides coffee, sugar,
etc., was disclosed. The envelope con
tained the promissory note torn in half,
and a bank note for one hundred marks.
And joy reigned the late disconsolate
house.
tional tax upon a portion of the property
already once taxed.”—Neir York Tribune.
Salem, Massachusetts, deals as severely
with criminals, now-a-days, as it did
formerly with witches, a man having
been sentenced there last week to ten ,
years’ imprisonment for robbing a hen- I wife will be as fatal as
roost.
August Lange had plenty of money
when he began to live in Chicago, about
two years ago, and spent it freely. That
was all that was known there about him.
He said his father was a German Count,
but probably he lied about that. Lavish
expenditure of money, however, made
many believe him. Bertha Lafaski, whom
he soon wanted to marry, was one of the
few not dazzled by him, and after a de
cided rejection of his suit he swallowed
poison and sought her presence, intend
ing to die romantically at her feet. A
stomach pump saved his life, and Miss
L&faski, convinced of the sincerity of his
passion, married him. Lately he became
convinced that she did not love him,
which was true enough, and he has shot
himself in the head. The wound is not
fatAl, and whether its effect upon the
the poisoning
on the maid remains to be seen.
[Washington Special to Chicago Times.]
Mr. Whitthorne got leave to-day (23d)
for the Naval Affairs Committee to sit
during the sessions of the House, for the
purpose of making a thorough investiga
tion of the management of the Navy De
partment. Among the abuses which the
committee are informed that proper in
quiry will reveal are the following: That
paymasters at the navy yards draw in
gross the amounts they are entitled to
disburse during a quarter, which amounts
often largely exceed the sums in which
they have given security. This practice
both violates the law and imperils the
public funds; that the money thus drawn
is deposited in a bank, and that tbe pay
master so depositing receives and appro
priates the interest thereon: that fleet
paymasters draw gold drafts on govern
ment credit as currency, and pocket the
difference; that the detailed accounts,
long withheld, are so arranged as to make
it impossible for any one but an expert to
find out what really becomes of the
money; that the cash deposited with Jay
Cooke, McCulloch <fc Co., before the panic
of 1873, was deposited with Henry D.
Cooke, of the Washington branch, and
by him remitted to the London house,
most of it being in the meantime used in
connection with the real estate pool and
other Washington ring operations; that
the Republican party in Florida, the Re
publican delegation in Congress from
that State, and the Federal appointments
therein are controlled by a ring engaged
in stealing timber from the naval reserve
timber lands in that State. The Ameri
can Crucible Company is alleged to have
stolen much cedar, and it is estimated
that
TEN MILLION DOLLARS’ WORTH
of cedar and live oak have been stolen
from these naval reserve lands in Florida
and other Southern States within a few
years. Much of the live oak so stolen is
alleged to have been sold to the govern
ment at one dollar and ninety cents to
two dollars and sixty cents per cubic
foot. It is further charged that much
live oak belonging to the favored con
tractors is stored in navy yards from year
to year: that this enables such contractors
to underbid all others, and explains why
S. P. Brown, Frank Swift, and two or
three others, are always the lowest bid
ders. Also, that large amounts of live
oak belonging to the government have
lain for years rotting for lack of use,
while fresh contracts are given to
favorites. Suits against the timber
ring were brought by the assistant
timber agent at Pensacola some
time since at the direction of
the assistant naval constructor of that
port in consequence of the agent’s re
port, but the Navy Department ordered
the suits discontinued, and transferred
the agent who reported the need for
them to another post, his life being twice
attempted before he left. A report by
Capt. Felinger, exposing the thefts and
making strong recommendations for the
preservation of the timber, is said to
have been suppressed and ignored. It is
said that John Roach made the first of
the ten men who made up a fund of
$100,000 for the Presidential campaign
of 1872, and was in consideration thereof
promised a contract for building four
iron-clads, which he received under cover
of the Virginius excitement, a year
or more afterward. This goes to con
firm the opinion expressed by well in
formed men that the $4,000,000 obtained
in 1873, ostensibly for the preparations
for war with Spam, had been spent on
the election of 1872 and had to be made
up. It is said that Roach estimated and
received pay for skilled workmen at about
$2. per day, and that he employed un
skilled men, pocketing the difference,
more than enough to return him the
$10,000. It is also charged that ex-Sen-
ator Cattell and John O. Evans got the
department in 1874 to purchase at Phila
delphia several hundred thousand dollars’
worth of dredging machines from the
American Dredging Machine Company,
and that after the survey had rejected
them, Evans received $90,000 for the first
machine ; that Attorney General Wil
liams’s opinion that no cause of war with
Spain was given by the capture of the
Virginius, was prepared some time before
its delivery and withheld in order that
the $4,000,000 appropriation might be
secured beforehand; that more coal has
been receipted and paid for at the navy
yard that the vessel, whose cargo the re
ceipt covered, could possibly carry; that
contractors for bituminous coal had often
put in yearly bids for supplj’ing at prices
below those charged by the Consolidation
Mining Company and other Maryland
corporations which mine and control the
article; that they have afterward bought
coal from these companies at a higher
price than that whereat they contracted
to deliver it, and made their accounts
good by overcharging the deliveries; that
a favorite of Cattel’s furnished poor beef
to the Port Royal, South Carolina, squad
ron at a much larger price than better
beef was offered at tbe markets, he get
ting the contract without advertisement
and having done somewhat the same
with the same squadron at Key West
that large amounts of property adjudica
ted to be prizes of war by the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia, in
cluding 17,000 tons of coal and several
vessels, under the Farragut prize claim
seized at or near New Orleans, General
Butler being attorney for the captors be
fore tbe court, were before judgment paid
for to the original owner as erroneously
seized, and a second time paid for by the
treasury in prize money; that large
amounts of cotton seized od the banks of
the Mississippi and its tributaries have
been treated as prizes of war, though the
Supreme Court of the United States has
decided that cotton seized on land or on
inland waters cannot be so treated; that tbe
Secretary of the Navy discriminates
against officers on the retired list, whose
political views are distasteful to the
department ring, by putting them on
half pay instead of the usual three-fourths
that 550 ships have been sold since 1865,
together with equipment enough to make
appropriations needless up to the present
time; that no proper account of about
$40,000,000 received from such sales has
ever been rendered: that Nathaniel Mc
Kay was to have a contract for removing
the Philadelphia navy yard to League
Island for $35,000, but that a Mr.
Rice bid $10,000, and after an effort
by McKay to get this bid disregarded,
which was frastrated by the superin
tendent of the yard, the department
gave McKay the contract at Rice's price,
though not the lowest bidder. He man
aged to get allowed scrap iron as a part
of his compensation, and is said to have
carted off whole engines as scrap iron and
otherwise profiting largely : that the sale
of two vessels, one at New York and one
at New London, whose names are not yet
ascertained, has failed of confirmation
by the department. It is stated that Mc
Kay offered $70,000 for the two, but that
the machinery of one was not appraised,
and that a pool was formed among the
bidders to refrain from high bids, so that
the two sold for $40,000. The price de
manded for getting the sale confirmed is
said to have been $10,000 ; that the four
fires in the department within one week
at the last session were designed to fore
stall the coming investigation by destroy
ing the records which bear out these and
other charges.
Mrs. Thomas, the wife of the “dyna
mite fiend,” known asThomassen, has re
mained in New York since her arrival
there, on the steamer Wieland, a* short
time ago. She has with her four children,
from whom she has concealed their
father's crime and death. Thomas left
his family in destitute circumstances,
and had it not been for the kindness and
consideration of the Americans in Ger
many the widow s lot would have been
harder still. As it ia, she is in New York
penniless and friendless, and without the
menus of '
Washington, February 23.
To the Editor of the New York Herald:
I do not mean to return to the Attor
ney General's letter to the Herald unless
he should oblige me to by a further com
munication: but since my rejoinder was
written last Thursday some circumstances
have come fully to my knowledge which
I believe ought to be known to you and
to the public.
Mr. Pierrepont asserted, with some
heat, in his letter to yon, that his letters
to the district attorneys threatening, or
to use the more precise ‘ language of one
of Mr. Pierrepont’s ablest predecessors in
office, “ discouraging witnesses ” was
purely official letter, confidential, as all
official letters ate, and exposed by gross
impropriety.” I showed you, in reply,
that it was “exposed” first from Wash
ington, and sent from here to Chicago, to
be there published in the Times of the 1st
of February. The letter is dated “ De
partment of Justice, January 26.” It
appears iu the Times in a tele
graphic dispatch from Washington,
dated January 31. It had, therefore,
barely time to get to the hands of the
district attorneys in St. Louis, Chicago
and Milwaukee, by mail, the 30th
of January being Sunday, when, by what
Mr. Pierrepont calls an “act of gross im
propriety,” it was sent to tho Western
press from Washington, that is to say
the district attorneys having received
their remarkable instructions, it seems
to have been feared by somebody in
Washington that, in their honest zeal for
justice, they would really consider the
letter, as Mr. Pierrepont forcibly puts it
“purely official and confidential,” and
would carefully conceal it from the pub
lic and the witnesses, as, indeed, Mr.
Dyer honestly did, as I have ascertained
by inquiry at St. Louis. Accordingly, to
trace the matter along, somebody in
Washington, who may be presumed to
have had an interest in “discouraging
witnesses,” undertook to make it public.
Now it concerns Attorney General
Pierrepont to discover who this was. For
the person who did this not only commit
ted the “gross impropriety” of which he
speaks, but he must previously have
known or been told that such a letter was
ordered by the President, he must have
known or been told further that it was
written and sent by the Attorney Gen
eral; and, finally, he must have had such
peculiar relations with those who alone
knew these “purely official and confiden
tial” matters that he was able to procure
a copy of tbe actual letter—a correct copy,
as the event proved—and put it on its
way to the press.
I do not pretend to know who did this.
But it is a fact that the person who gave
this letter to the correspondent of the
Chicago Times for publication was Mr.
Emory Storrs, then and since one of Gen.
Babcock’s counsel. Now, how did Mr.
Storrs, being the counsel or advocate of
a person under indictment, get a copy of
this “purely official and confidential let
ter,” written by the Attorney General to
the District Attorney who was to try Mr.
Storrs’s client ? How did he or how
could he even know of its existence ?
Who enabled him to commit what Mr.
Mr. Pierrepont justly, but, in my judg
ment, too mildly, calls “a gross impro
priety ?”
Two persons knew of this letter—the
President, at whose desire it was written,
and Mr. Pierrepont, who wrote it. Of
course, no one—least of all. Air. Pierre-
pont—will for a moment allow the sup
position that the President could be
guilty of such an act of “gross impro
priety.” But who, then, was it? I ac
cuse no one; but I repeat that Mr. Emory
Storrs, one of General Babcock's counsel,
did somehow know that the letter was
written, that he did somewhere obtain a
copy of it, and did give that copy to the
excellent correspondent of the Chicago
Times. And further, that Mr. Storrs not
only gave him the letter, but also the
information on which the correspondent
wrote the very remarkable preface, which
introduced it in these words :
“Washington, January 31, 1876.
“Chicago ring folks have been counting
on government lenity in the pending
cases. Counting too much on this the^ have
boasted that by bearing testimony against
each other they would-«scape the penalty
of their wrong doings. Washington au
thorities have been chaffing uuder this
condition of things. The President par
ticularly has given expression to his dis
gust. He declares that when he directed
that no guilty man should escape he
meant all guilty men, and not one out of
ten. He has regarded with great dis
pleasure anything like toleration of the in
formers. There is evidence enough against
all men without the aid of informers,aud he
is resolved that no farther parleying with
indicted distillers will be allowed. He
has given free expression to his indigna
tion lately, and believing, as he does,
that his secretary is the victim of guilty
men who are conspiring to ruin an inno
cent man, he has resolved to push the in
dicted men to the wall. It teas in obe
dience to this desire of the President's that
Attorney General Pierrepont on last Fri
day issued the following dediive order. ”
I will add here that I am satisfied the
correspondent of the Times did not in the
least suspect at the time that he was aid
ing in the “gross impropriety” or in
“discouraging witnesses,” for he is an
honorable man.
Of course the matters I have here sta
ted closely concern Mr. Pierrepont’s
honor and credit as a lawyer and as the
chief law officer of the government. He
chose to assume the responsibility of his
letter to the district attorneys, and there
by did himself, as I conceive, a serious
injury among his brethren at the
bar; for a lawyer is sworn to help and
not to hinder justice. He will hardly as
sume the responsibility of having allowed
his letter and the curious account of its
origin to be conveyed to the public so
quickly after it was written, and by such
hands as those of the counsel of a per
son under indictment and just then about
to be tried on a charge of being concerned
in whisky frauds. If, as I believe, he has
been the victim of an unscrupulous in
trigue, it will be well for him to lose no
time in searching out and exposing those
who have used him and blackened him.
But I advise him, if he moves at all (as
he must do), to go to the bottom of the
matter. He can as well afford to shoulder
the publication of the letter as the writ
ing of it. Charles Nobdhoff.
A Plucky Woman, who Found her
Truant Husband after Twenty Years’
Search.—When Patrick Cahill was ar
raigned before Justice Del mar, in Brook
lyn, yesterday, his wife, Mary, said that
he abandoned her and her two children
in Ireland twenty years ago. After their
marriage there he lived with her four cr
five years, and then he took a little trip
to England. She received a letter from
him saying that he was going to America,
and that she would see him no more.
She did not believe his story, and went to
England to search for him. She ascer
tained that he had sailed for America,
and, taking her two children, followed
him, going to and from the principal
cities. Year after year she worked her
way inquiring, until last week she heard
that her husband was living at Hamilton
avenue and Henry street, Brooklyn. She
called on him. and he greeted her with
considerable affection, kissing her and
the child that remained to her, one hav
ing died last summer. Patrick was liv
ing with another woman, to whom he
says he is not married. He has amassed a
considerable foitune. He pleaded guilty
to abandonment, but is to be tried for
bigamy.—N. Y. i«/t, 22d.
The Fall of Don Carlos.
The Carlist war is virtually at an end,
and any future efforts by the adherents
of the pretender will be but little more
than the feverish struggles of a dying
patient vainly contending against inex
orable fate. It is a law of war, founded
upon reason, aftd permitted by almost
universal practice, that the attempted
defense of an nttcrly indefensible city or
fortress subjects it to the penalty of sack
and pillage. Thus to punish the brave,
but misguided, mountaineers of Navarre
and the Basque Provinces would be im
possible, and even if practicable a crime
of the utmost magnitude. But where
blood is shed there must be responsibility
for blood, and if to gratify his own per
sonal ambition Don Carlos seeks
to protract the war, being thus, as he is
without a shadow of a chance of success,
he ought to be branded as Napoleon I
was branded us a public enemy, and com
pelled to atone with his own life for (be
death and ruin he will cause. There is
more than one precedent in history to
justify such a proceeding. This is the
second attempt to disturb the abrogation
of the Salic law by Fdrdinand II. and a
return to tbe older and better laws of
Spain which had never excluded females
from the throne. It was in 1832 that this
was done by Royal decree, with the
consent of the Cortez. In the Septem
ber of the same year the King died.
His daughter Isabella, then a minor, was
proclaimed, aud the Basque Provinces
rose in a revolt, which was not quelled
until 1839, when Moroto, for the Carlists,
and Espartero, for the young Queen,
brought about the Convention of Verzara
—the very spot which Don Alfonso
reached on Saturday. Every dispatch
now reminds us of this old warfare. It
was at Estella where the Don Carlos of
forty-four years ago was crowned, and
even after Quinalacaregui died, as Concha
died year ago at Bilbao, Estella held
out to ihe last, and in memory of her
resolution has ever since called herself
the Ever-Ft.itbful City, and had it not
beeu well inown among the Carlists that
their situation was desperate,she certainly
would not have surrendered so easily jh
she did, at eight o’clock on Saturday
morning. Ii was at Durango, where the
first Don Carlos issued his sanguinary
order commanding that all foreigners
taken in arms against him should be put
to instant death, and it is at Durango
where the Alfonsist Generals have just
now won important advantages. Hen-
daye, which is constantly appearing in
the telegrams, was in 1839 a Carlist ren
dezvous, and across the borders
France, St. Jean de Lux, where the
Basque dialect is still spoken, was the
scene of the most energetic Carlist intri
gues. This war has scarcely been so
bitter as ihe first. Count Cabrera has
persistently held aloof from it. Flio,
the ablest General in the insurgent
ranks died some months ago. Lizar-
raga, the second in command, has
been alternately petted and disgraced.
Saballs and the Cure of Santa Cruz have
been the most conspicuous in all the deeds
of cruelty, and, to the eternal disgrace of
their master, the butcheries of prisoners
in cold blood by Saballs has never been
disavowed. At one time during the war
the issue to a superficial observer ap-
preared doubtful. The Carlists held
nearly the whole country north of the
Ebro. Cartagena, under the guidance ol
irreconcilable Communists, for a long
time defied all the efforts of the central
authority. With alibis influence, Figue-
ras with difficulty kept Barcelona quint,
and at last a third of Andalusia was iu
arms. Madrid was in confusion, and Al
fonso, the younger brother of Don
Carlos, made a dash upon Cuenca, and
for three days maintained himself at a
distance of not more than sixty miles
from Madrid. The Carlists lost their op
portunity never to retrieve it, and now at
any moment we may hear that the con
test which has been raging with more or
less vigor almost ever since Isabella’s
flight in September, 1868, is nominally as
well as virtually closed. Moriones. Loma,
Martinez Campos and Primo de Rivera
will then be masters of the situation,
and if their rivalry leads to no military*
pronundamento Spain will have a breath
ing space for that rest and repose which
she needs more imperatively than any
other nation on earth. If, then, affairs
in Cuba are not promptly settled, it will
be self-evident that the colony must be
abandoned, and it will be our duty jeal
ously to watch over the transfer of the
succession.—Cincin nati Enrjuirer.
£*<tai #aus.
YS .!U. rE " MAUSHA L'S SALE.
1
U^^Ta&^S » -J M f«l«.
cuit Court of the UniSd StS?*!? the Cir-
Distrlct of Georgia in tlie y oatt»Jrn
vej W. Uthro^”'„ PlXm.ff. U»r-
Haroy W.UtfirOD v™: to «lt :
E. Wliberl“ I 'JT 1 Jor,1 “ •
l. Wimberly, i haTe U^f^I ,,oroan “A H.
dred and neventv-fiv.* y n-*? ’ 0116 ^ an *
and ecYenty-nix n; 6) , hundred
Kxty-one J' j 0 ®, 8 hundred and
(1M) odc hundred and fony-^o TujwJS"'*
tot No. one hundred aaitifiS? ot
hundred one and one fourth am i on ®
So. on,- hundred “d ,crf * Lot
all twelve hundred aud fifty-fiveud tKS# ing in
u
favor
CHATHAM. SHERIFF S SALE.
TNDEK and hy virtue ot a mortRaec t fa
: 1 ?? e * 0 ?. 1 ot Chatham hum-rior Cou t in
virion K” f \ t ? ct or p* rcel of hind upon
*MJonrn or, and adjoining to Betlnsda. known
as the Beaulieu tract. whicTi eaid lot is described
and dcstpiated as lot number one (1) iu a plan
° r I lat . oE . 8 ? rvt 'i’ °f said Beaulieu tract, loads
and executed hy John K. Tebeuu, the county
of Lhatham county, on -lie itth da, of
June, legs. Which said lot trouts upon Front
hu !“fred and Ill y feet, and extends
back live hundred leet to Avenue street; bounded
on the southwest by Depot street, on the south
east hj Front street, on the northwest by Ave
nue street, and on the northeast by lot number
two, said lot having such lines, shape, form
course and boundaries as ate si-ecilled in said
plst or pian °f snrve, alaive stated-thc property
of \t Pham Schley, as administrator of the estate
ot John bchley, deceased, described and con-
veymi m a certain indenture of mortgage bearing
date on the Mb day of April, IsTd, aSd made™!!
executed by the t*aid John 8chley in his life time
to Francis Muir and Joseph B. Duckworth co
partners, under the iirrn name ot Muir & Dm
worth, and by them assigned to the saW^ohu
W. Anderson.
And 1 will offer the taid 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, 187C,
during the legal hours of sale, to satisfy said
mortgage fl. fa.
Terms cash; purchasers paving for titles
. . „ . _ JOllN T. KONAN,*
feb\15.22,29Amch7 Sheriff C. C., Ga.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL’S SALE.
TTNDKR and by virtue of a writ of fferi faciaa,
^ issued out of the Honorable the i-ifih Cir
cuit Court of the United States for the Southern
District of Georgia in favor of the plaintiff, the
W ilson dewing Machine Company versus Reuben
W. B. Merritt, principal, aud George Wood, mre-
ty, 1 have levied upon, as the property of George
Wood, the following described property,
to^wit: Ail that parcel of land, situate
lying and being in Godfrey’s District, bouth Ma-
i con. Bibb county, Georgia, bounded on the south
by land owned by K. A. Christian; on the east by
astreet separating the same from the Mission
Chapel property; on the north by the New Hous
ton Road, Iron ting the same; west by property of
George Wood; the whole being divided iu two
lots aud containing one acre, more or less, to
gether with all the improvements thereon, con
sisting of one three-room dwelling aud on•; four-
room dwelling and all necessary outbuildings,
and will 1 tin- same at public auction iu
front of the United Stabs Custom House, in
the city of Savannah, county of Chatham, aud
State of Georgia, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN
MARCH next, between the lawful hours of sale.
Tenants in possession notifl»*d in wrr.in *. Prop
erty pointed out by plaintiffs attorney. Terms
cash, purchaser paying for title.
Dated Savannah, Georgia. February 5. 1816.
WILLIAM H. SMYTH.
United States Marshal.
feb&,15,22,‘29&Mh7
UNITED STATES MARSHAL’S SALE.
T TNDEK and by virtue of a writ of flora facias
U issued out of the Honorable, the District
Court of the United States, for the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia, iu favor of the plaintiff, William
Law, Jr., assignee ot W. M. Poole & ( o., bank
nipts, versus George M. Wiiitdt, I have levied
upon, as the property of the defendant, nine
and three-fourths (9* 4 ) acres of land, together
with all the improvements thereon, situate, lying
and being in the village ol Montgomery, county
of Chatham, sad State of Georgia, comprising
six and three-fourths (6)*) acres ot U gh land, ..mi
three (3) acres of salt marsh, bounded ou the
north by the Montgomery road, on the south by
Vernon river, ou the east and west by lands of
G. M. Willett, and will sell the same at public auc
tion, in front of the U. S. Custom House, in me
city of Savannah, county of Chatham, auu State
of Ge*orgia, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN
MARCH NEXT, between the lawful hours of
sale. Tenants in possession notified >n writing.
Property pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney.
Dated at Savannah, Georgia, February 6, 1876.
Terms cash; purcha.ser paying for titles.
WILLIAM H. SMYTH,
United States Marshal.
f ebs,15,22,29 A marl
CHATHAM SHERIFF’S SALE.
TTNDERandby virtue of a mortgage fl. fa.
Lj iasut
i Super
favor of William Batteraby vs. Het
Presidential Figuring.
[From the St. Louis Times.]
The problem of electing the next Presi
dent is exceedingly simple, provided one
hundred and eighty-five electoral votei
can be secured. Speculation as to the
probabilities and possibilities of the com
ing contest may now be in order, and we
will venture to present our views and
figures, with no desire to exaggerate
Democratic hopes, but*rather in a spirit
of cautious impartiality. It is never wise
to overestimate one’s own strength, or
underestimate that of the enemy. Many
a battle has been lost by over-confidence.
In surveying the situation we will give
our political enemies what every criminal
is entitled to—the benefit of the doubt.
Assuming simply fair nominations oh
both 8idt;s the Republicans are reasonably
certain of the following States:
Colorado 5 | Illinois yi
Iowa....
Maine 7
Michigan 11
Nebraska 3
Pennsylvania -9
South Carolina 7
Vermont 5
Kansas...
Massachusetts 13
Minnesota 0
Nevada 3
Oregon 3
Rhode Island 4
Total..
.130
The Democrats are almost absolutely
certain to carry every Southern State ex
cept South Carolina, in all 131, as follows
Alabama 10 | Arkansas
•attersDy vs. Henry J. 1 nom-
assuu, Trustet of Mrs. baran M. McAlpin and
Sarah M. McAlpin, 1 have levied upon the follow
ing described property, to-wit:
LOT NUMBER EIGHT (No s) Sloper Tythlng,
Percival Ward, and improvements thereon, the
property ol Henry J. Thoroasson, bb Trustee of
Sarah M. McAlpin, and of the tail! Sarah M.
McAlpin, described and conveyed iu a certain in
denture of morgtage, bearing date on the twen
tieth day of March, 1S74.
And I will offer the above described property
at public outcry, before the Court II cute door
of Chatham county, in the city of Savannah, ou
he FIRST TUESDAY IN MARCH, 1n76, during
the legal hours of sale, to satisfy said mortgage
fi. fa.
Terms Cash. Purchasers paying for titles.
JOHN T. HUNAN,
feb?,15,22,29,Mh7 Sheriff (. C\, Ga.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.
B Y virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary
of Fulton county, Georgia, will be sold be
fore the Court House eocr, iu the town of Spring-
~ FIRST
Held, Effingham county, Georgia, on the !
TUESDAY OF MARCH NEXT, within the egal
hours of sale, three tov;n lots in Guyton, lor-
merly Whitesville, Effingham county, Georgia,
known as the Pooler lots. Sold as the projierty
of the estate of Carrie 31. Lawrence.
P. B. LAWRENCE,
feba, 15,22,29 Administrator.
£rpl rfloturs.
Notice in Admiralty.
■JJNITBD STATES OF t AMERICA, Southern
Delaware..........
Georgia
Kentucky
Maryland
Missouri
Texas
North Carolina...
Total
. 3 |
. Hi
. 12
■ a
13
Florida
Louisiana
M ississippi
Tennessee 12
Virginia 11
8 | West Virginia 5
10 |
Leaving the following States in doubt:
California
. 6
Connecticut...
.... 6
New Hampshire.
5
Indiana
.... 15
New Jersey.
. y
Ohio
.... !ii
Wisconsin
..iu
New Yor*
.... 36
Total
....106
The electoral votes of these eight
States will decide the contest, and the
October elections in Ohio and Indiana
may practically decide the political com
plexion of the other six. The fight will
be in Ohio and Indiana. If the Demo
crats carry these two States in October
with anything like a decisive majority,
they arc absolutely certain of every
doubtful State, or of 239 out of .'t69 elec
toral votes. If, on the other hand, both
Ohio and Indiana should go Republican
the Repu blicans would very probably se
cure a sufficient number of the doubtful
States to have a majority of the college.
If the result of the October elections
should not be decisive; if, for instance,
Indiana should go Democratic and Ohio
Republican, the fight would go on with
increased bitterness till November, the
contest becoming very close, with a slight
advantage on the Republican eide. With
the 131 Southern votes aud tbe 15 votes
of Indiana, there would be 49 more re
quired to secure tbe necessary 185. New
York with 35, New Jersey with 9 and
Connecticut with 6 votes would ifurnieh
ing used th..- various oils ^ h rocom-
these. Currying Ohio in addition would lttmipaUn « oar ?? f Sf^i P security” tie isf<«t
anrall tha i-artoin Tlatnnn.nli/* nnln In ire mending yilUr ' . ..Fw M
Mr. Stiles's successful solution of qui
nine in cod-liver oil, for medical pur
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of attention in the European scientific
press—as indicating a valuable and con
venient method of administering other
alkaloids. The invention consists simply
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swell the certain Democratic vote to 168,
or within 17 of the necessary majority.
In that case we could even afford to lose
New York if California, Connecticut and
New Jersey could be carried, or we could
spare Connecticut and New Jersey if we
carry Wisconsin. But, practically, the
contest will be settled by the result of
the October elections. The Presidential
battle will be decided in Ohio and In
diana.
as, a liDel in rem has been filed on the 18th day of
February, instant, in tbe District Court ot tte
United btates, for the Southern District of Geor
gia, by Thomas Miller and .Michael Kelly, copart
ners as M iller & Kelly, against the steam tug E. A.
Bonder, her boilers, engines, machinery, boata,
tackle, apparel, furniture, Ac., no a lying at Dari
en, intbc said Districted against all persons law
fully intervening for their interests therein, in a
cause of contract, civil and maritime, for reasons
and causes iu the said Iir>e! mentioned, and pray
ing the usual process and monition in that behalf
to t>e trade, mid that ail persons claim.eg any in
terest therein may be cited to appeir and an-Fen
tbe i remises; and that the said steanf
tug E. A. bonder, ber boilers, Ac., may
be condemned and sold to pay the demands of
the libellants. At d whereas, a warrant of arrest
has been issued on the said eighteenth day of Feb-
* •’ -aid Court*
D. Walker, wrstby lauds of \V H Z.* w * **.•
uS^V 1 ™ 101 at La£i No
illPsMUSsI
of D. A. Mears, east by lands of ti vv i, *
weft hy lands of Joe Walker (c) Wra/itr
Jordan one of the defendant,,, holding
aid liiniU u-irh V. .
tate in said lands, with the remainder in H F
Wimheriy, the other ^defendant,to1 »S,Si ,£
K^L'“^ l>ul>,ic «‘ c <ion, in f/u’nt of the VniteVi
States Custom House, iu thecitvof w avin-n»h
“It?* L 1 "”? U1 fttle. Tenant, ia [2LLwn
iStifU atmrSf I ' r ° 1, ' n - V »y
lebAUgtachT W ‘l-„iM Sta.»
administrator on estate of John Schley, I have
levted on the following described pro^rt^to
ruary, 1876, uuder the seal of the sail
commanding me to attach the si:id steam-
tng E. A. fcouder, her boilers, Ac., an J to give
due notice to ail persons cl-iiming ti e same, to
appear aud answer, and make claim thereto.
Now, therefore I do hereby give public notice
to all perrons claiming the said steam tug K. A.
Bonder, ier boilers. &c., or in aiy man.er
Interested therein, that t icy t*e »nd appear
at the Clerk’s office of tbe District Court ot the
United States for the Southern District or
Georgia, in the city of Savannah, m TUES
DAY. tbe seventh day ot M«rch next. A. D -
at Id o’clock iu the forenoon ot that day,
then acd there to interpose their claims, aud to
make their allegations in that behalf.
Dated at Savannah, Georgia, this <agl teents uay
of F'ebrojwy, A. D. 1376. w n . SMVTH .
United States Marshal. District of Georgia.
GEoa.it: A M kip ek. Proctor for LiueiJanU.
fob23,29 A n ichT -
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All person? m :• bted to th; estate of Simon
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to me; and those having claims
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