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J. D. ESTILL, President.
II. II. Cabaniss, Rec. Sec’ty.
THE CENTENNIAL HYMN.
“Whittier’s Centennial Hymn,” the
music for which was written by J. K.
Payne, was rehearsed for the first time on
Wednesday evening by the Centennial
chorus, numbering now nearly nine hun
dred voices, to the firm, regular beats of
Theodore Thomas’s baton. The seats of
the musical fund had been placed length-
vise the hall, with the piano on the east
ern side, in order that the chorus, being
nearer to the leader, could catch the time
more quickly. The music of' the hymn,
like tho hymn itself, is so natural and sim
ple in the flow of its measures that but a
few repetitions were necessary before
the expression, as well as the music, was
fully acquired and rendered. The fol
lowing are the words of the hymn :
Our father’s God! from out whose hand
The centuries fall like grains of sand,
We meet to-day, united, free,
And loyal to our land and Thee,
To thank.Thee for the era done,
And trust Thee for the opening one.
Here where o r old, by Thy design,
The fathers spake that word of Tnine
Whose echo is the glad refrain
Ofrended holt and falling chain,
To grace our festal time from all
The zones of earth our guests we call.
be with us while the New World greets
The Old World, thronging all its streets,
Unveiling all the triumphs won
By art or toil beneath the sun;
And unto common good ordain
This rivaiship of hand and brain.
Thou who hast here in concord furled,
The war flags of a gathered world,
Beneath our western skies fulfill
The Orient s mission of good will,
And, freighieued with Love’s golden fleece.
Send back the Argonauts of peace.
For art and labor met in truce,
For beauty made the bride of u*e,
We thank Thee, while withal we crave
The austere \irtues strong to save,
'Hie honor proof to place or gold,
The manhood never bought or sold !
0! make Thou us, through centuries long,
in peace secure, in lustice strong;
Aronnd our gift of freedom draw
The safeguards of Thy righteous law,
And, cast in some diviner mould.
Let the new cycle shame the old!
Affairs in Georgia.
The editor of the Geneva Lamp is a poet.
And when an editor descends to the level of
t poet times are getting hard.
It is a remarkable fact that the Angnsta
cintl runs np stream. There are few manu
factured canals that have this disposition.
Tho saddest episode in the life of a trained
Atlanta policeman is the memory of Col.
Wiley Bedding.
The eleven able editors of the Atlanta
Constitution have reduced the margin of
their intellectuality by cutting a colnmn off
of each page of that widely circulated and
truly popular paper.
The Geneva Lamp says that “there is not
more small-pox in Savannah than in other
large cities.” This is eminently true. In
fact, we don’t know of a single case, and if
any other city can show less than that, we
trust that the affidavits will be promptly
forwarded.
Colonel Kimball’s Atlanta factory ought to
be nearly ripe by this time. We presume,
however, that the lack of small change
which has been brought about by influences
outside of the Gate City, will prevent tho
too sudden development of tho aforesaid.
Watson, of tho Macon Telegraph, prefers
beer to alcoholic liquors, because it does not
promulgate inebriation so rapidly in suc
cession.
We would like to know whether Macon
b»s adequately remunerated Billy Brown
for the editorial fodder consumed some
years ago. We have a vague recollection of
taking a drink of water in Macon without
settling for it, and wo would like to know
how the matter stands.
Greer’s Almanac does not state that the
Press Convention meets to-morrow, and in
that event he is grievously at fault. Any
astronomer, with an unpatched pair of cor
duroy pantaloons and a good telescope
“fight to be able to state that the meeting
will occur to-morrow.
Crawfordville had a jail delivery last
We have received two copies of the At
lanta Times during the past fortnight. It
ii a question whether this is due to the
energy of the mailing clerk or to the celerity
of tho mail service.
It really seems as if the average nigger
*as bom to put money in the pocket of the
carpet-bagger. For instance, the colored
members of the recent Radical Convention
w «re led by J. E. Bryant into crowding
loomer to the wall. This is what we call
going back on the voting population.
Ibe Atlanta Commontceallh calls him
Pompum Wampum Adumbrnm.” It is a
good name, too.
An Augusta negro attempted to commit
•nioide the other day, but was prevented.
Col. E. Y. Clarke, one of the eleven able
“diiors of the Atlanta Constitution, gathers
fimguob.as in the neighborhood of Colum-
bus. This is a much pleasanter pastime
•>au plucking immortelles at WeBt Point,
bs name of the lady has not transpired.
7 be net earnings of the Georgia Railroad
f or the
year ending the 31st were $552,-
616 14.
Pfteen hundred attended the annual pic-
9lc of the E'gle and Phcenix operatives in
Ambus the other day.
b b coat a sailor ten dollars and costs to
*1 6 m Public in Darien the other day.
tb 6 ^ ar * en Gazette has no reason to doubt
a another tremendous bn 11 will take place
m ‘b»t town shortly.
A special telegram says that Bishop
P ' Pierce will preside over the North
■j, *j“blb Georgia and Florida Conferences.
v 6 or * k Georgia Conference meets No-
■m t-r 29th, the South Georgia Conference
ember 30th, and the Florida Conference
•Wuary u,
g ®udrick is sti" in jail m Columbus,
ifiret ** ' JOei * tou< leri)d, with his father as
* kw day Ut * 116 Wili P ro * J& * ) * y ke released in
Tbe Liberty Independent Troop, of Hines-
Au An Dt the l8t ° r May at D»nen.
beean J, ? t& Ilogro was fl ued $15 and costs
b°»ever h- 7!? di6d ° f gtabs ’ Tha grubs >
ont ev ' a,d a 1 tb ® Pun, and got off with-
that wu tl8 l t \ P0UcemeD flatter themselves
It j,„ 8 J ® ddin R is in Pike connty.
Cob J P er8 “ 0d tbat blr. M. A. Nevin and
Abarles H R;^ i8BUted by Ma i or
be £ln the ‘ f “ Arp) 8mith . wi H shortly
^«ifitmr 0t ‘ he Sunda y Morn -
»d>eitwnh <la h t ’ ° l Jackson comity, I
cf eats from ^ thirty - fiTe I
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Atlanta Times: Mr. B. L. Mott, of Mus
cogee, is one of the delegates appointed by
the late Radical Republican Convention to
Cincinnati. He goes, of course, untram
melled. We are sure he does, for he now
holds an office in Georgia by appointment
of Governor Smith, and the Governor, eve
rybody knows, would not appoint to a re
sponsible office any man who is committed
to the support of Blaine, Morton, Oonkling
or Fred. Douglass.
From grand jury presentments of Mo-
Intosh county: “Placing as we do, the
proper estimate upon the very efficient
services of His Honor Judge Henry B.
Tompkins and Solicitor General Albert R.
Lamar, as evidenced by the improved
general condition of our connty in reference
to crime and morals, and learning that the
term of office of His Honor and Solicitor
General will soon expire, we recommend to
His Excellency, Gov. Jas. M. Smith, their
roappointment, feeling that their positions
could not be better Ailed, and that we but
echo in this requost the desire of our
esteemed fellow citizens, whom we Lave the
honor to represent as the grand inquest of
the county of McIntosh.”
The Angnsta Chronicle: The following
amounts, collected by the ladies of the
Memorial Associations represented, and
which were sent here to the General Treas
urer, were forwarded with a contribution
from the Augusta Association to Mrs. T. J.
Jackson on last Monday, with the request
that, as the sum was far too inconsiderable
to carry out the original design of the ladies
to purchase a “Memorial Home,” it should
be accepted as an offering of love to and in
vested for the benefit of little Jnlia, the
orphan daughter of the revered chieftain.
A letter reoeived on Thursday by Mrs. F. A.
Timberlake, from Mrs. Jackson, acknowl
edges the receipt of tho money, and ex
presses her grateful appreciation of the ef
forts made by the Southern ladies in behalf
of herself and child.
Received from Mrs. Rutherford, President
L. M. A., Athens, Ga $ 40 00
Received from Mrs. E. N. King, Treasurer
L. M. A., Gainesville, Ala 50 00
Received from Mrs. L. B. Moreliead.
Treasurer L. M. A., Charlotte, N. 0 07 27
Received from Memorial Association of
Augusta, Ga 164 65
Total $321 92
Less paid for circulars and stamped envel
opes 19 92
Amount sent to Mrs. Jackson May 1st... .$302 09
Florida Affairs.
The Florida sponge trade amounts to
$240,000 a year.
No regular journeyman prophet has any
honor in his own horse-lot. Cheney suffered
defeat the other day in the election for dele
gates.
Judge R. B. Hilton, of Tallahassee, is a
Democrat from the ground up, and he
would make a good Governor.
Dennis Eagan will soon have an entire
railroad in his herculean grasp. We trust
Dennis will treat it gently.
8ome of our Democratic friends are pre
dicting considerable fan owing to the fact
that WallB has organized a bolting delega
tion in Alachua connty. This is all prema
ture. There has never been a day since eman
cipation that carpet-baggers and scalawags
couldn’t use the negroes j ust as they pleased.
Walls hasn’t got any more backbone than
others of his race, and he will be led by the
nose on the 31st with the same facility that
he has been led heretofore. A negro can’t
even vote without allowing a carpet-bagger
to inspect his ballot. Nobody, however,
blames the poor nigger.
Green corn is six feet high in Florida. It
is even higher in price.
St. Angnstine is cracking ice at three
cents a pound.
If the Soap Fat man knows his business,
he will give Tom Long a job.
Sponges are taken oat of Florida water,
bnt when first taken they don’t smell like
Florida water.
The Windsor Hotel at Jacksonville is to be
enlarged.
A two hundred pound war saw fish was
captured near Pensacola recently.
Corn is scarce in Jefferson connty.
The Monticello Constitution doesn’t seem
to bo oi the opinion that Col. Wilk Call
would make an available candidate for Gov
ernor. How would Judge B. B. Hilton do?
The same paper alludes to brother Mc-
Callum as a “reform editor.” Wo were jnst
about to suggest him as a candidate for
Governor.
The Madison Weirs suggests that the “re
form” Democrats ease their consciences and
oonciliate tho Radicals by voting for Walls
for Governor. This is a good idea.
There has been another escape of the
convicts employed on the Lake George and
Enstis Railroad.
Harney Riohard’s cream-colored mare has
become a mother. Mr. Richard will prob
ably name the foal McMurray.
Tom Thumb had a good time in Jackson
ville.
Mr. A. G. Chappell, of Jacksonville, has
just finished a clinker-built boat for William
Astor, of New York.
The anti-Soap-Fat party in Gadsden county
is said to be quite large.
Madison county has about two hundred
acres planted in watermelons.
The shipment of cattle from Live Oak to
Savannah seems to have begun in earnest.
Cheney remarks tbat Conover’s reputation
for honest conld be no worse if he wore a
penitentiary uniform.
The crop of Cuban tobacoo grown in Gads
den county, Florida, is increasing in quan
tity. In 1870 the census reported 1X8,729
pounds. Last spring a gentleman writing
to the Department of Agriculture, returned
200,000, and this spring 350,000 pounds for
the crop of 1875, grown on 450 acres, an en
largement of fifty per cent, in the area
planted. The price is not yet given ; 200
boxes of 350 pounds have been sent to New
York, but returns of salt's have not been re
ceived. The quality is the best of any crop
since 1865, attributed to the fact that expe
rienced planters have resumed its cultiva
tion. The correspondent claims that the
test of forty years experience proves that
deterioration is not producod in that soil
and tbat climate, and expresses the opinion
that Florida tobacco should supersede the
Caban in cigars.
Our report of the Richard trial has been
complete. The last letter of our corres
pondent, however, has been in some meas
ure anticipated by thej verdict of the jury,
already published. We append “Banquo’s”
closing remarks in regard to the charge of
Judge Archibald, and the closing scenes :
“It must be said in all candor and fairness
that the charge of the court to the jury was
distinguished by an impartiality for which
the Judge deserves cred't, and that it was
emphatically satisfactory to the defend
ant’s counsel. The jury was briefly
charged on the nature of circrmBtan-
tial evidence and the necessity of show
ing the prisoner the benefit of all rea
sonable doubts and the right of the jury to
be th6 sole judges of the credibility of wit
nesses, together with a few other points
which it is not necessary hero to recapitn-
late. It is very seldom that we have been
able to compliment tho Judge of the Fourth
Judical Circuit in the past, and we are grati
fied at this opportunity of doing so. The
jury retired at about six o’clock, and the
jpense was tremendous while they
remained out. At about eight o’clock they
sent word that they had agreed, and upon
reaching the court room .they brought
in their verdict of not guilty. The prisoner
was forthwith discharged, and the excite
ment Baffles desciiption. Congratulations
from all quarters poured in upon him, and
there was not one honest man that was not
certain of the justice of the verdict. The
conspirators were deeply crestfaUen, and
their signal f.'lnre in the attempt to com
mit a judicial mrrder and sacrifice an inno
cent man sh. old learn them that the business
as*aLssKw*? 3 -**-
of roses and congratulatory notes from
ladies of Fernandina. Jndge Baker, Judge
Long and Mr. Finley, the great defendant’s
counsel, were presented with a harvest of
beantifnl flowers in wreaths. A num
ber of ladies of the Island City
determined tbat the persecutor, Thaddens,
should not be forgotten, and sent him a
wreath of the poisoned npaa, relieved by
thorns and thistles, bearing the legend,
‘You wear the crown that a murderer
wears, nurtured and nursed by a human’s
tears.’ It is not known that this gift
reached its destination. Harney Richard
returned to his home in Alachua connty
this morning. From the many epis
tles placed in his hands before his
departure we present one as a speci
men: ‘Will Mr. Harney Richard please
do me the favor to accept this little scarf
for Mrs. Richard as at least one pleasant
memento of this dreary stay in Fernandina.
Aocept my most sincere congratulations
upon the conclusion of this trisl. Of coarse
your friends knew your entire innocence.
Very truly, Mrs. M. W. Downie.’ Ex uno
disce omnes. Thus endeth the third Icsbod,
and all is well.”
South Carolina Affairs.
A $1,200 fire occurred at Timmonsville on
Monday. This town was a sufferer by fire a
year ago.
The spring term of the Darlington conrt
will begin on the third Monday of the pres
ent month.
Treasurer 8toeber, of Marion connty, has
received $4,430 30 from the free Bchool fund
for distribution.
The Abbeville papers inform ns that a
rifle club of 120 members has been organ
ized at Hodges’ depot.
Jerry Hollinshead, State Senator from Ab-
bevi'le connty, died in the village on last
Saturday. He was an ex-Federal soldier,
and a native of Ohio.
Rev. Samuel B. Jones has resigned the
Presidency of the Methodist Female College
a Columbia, and will return to preaching,
from which he was compelled to retire some
years ago by a diseased throat.
The Abbeville Medium says: Joe Polhill,
Esq., who was once a stndent at Due West,
is taking a prominent part in Georgia poli
tics. He is on the right side—a Jeffersonian
Democrat, a real Georgia tiger.
A hail Btorm visited some sections of Lan
caster connty on the evening of the 1st
inet., which in point of severity is repre
sented as unparalleled.
There are lots of candidates for Senator
Hollinshead’s place.
The Abbeville Medium very properly asks
why two of its town marshals, under in
dictment for burglary, are retained in office.
It is proposed to open the State institution
for the blind, deaf and dumb.
A beantifnl model of the phosphate works
at Pacific Landing, Ball liver, Beaufort
connty, will be exhibited at the Centennial.
The wheat and oat crops of Greenville
connty are said to be fine.
The Elliott Hook and Ladder Company,
of Orangebrtg, has applied to Jndge Beod
for a mandamus to compel the County Com
missioners to pay rent for the company hall,
which they have used for a conrt house.
White perch and tront are being caught
in Bush river now, and Beveral of the old
time piscatorial sports, who have for some
time thrown away their tackle, have again
resumed operations. On the 2d one expert
canght thirty.
Florence is in luck. The Wilmington, Oo-
lumbia and Augnsta Railroad Company
commenced moving their machine shops to
that place last Monday, which will add quan
tities of money and about two hundred in
habitants to the town.
On Tuesday the hardest rain of the season
fell in Abbev’Ue county—swelling the water
courses, beating dowu the grain orop, and
patting a stop to field operations.
On Monday night the east bound train on
the Air Line Railroad ran off at Seneca City
and made a wreck of one car, in addition to
throwing the engine and tender from the
track.
Memorial Day is to be genera' 'y obseived
in the State.
The Young Men’s Christian Association of
Due West will celebrate its anniversary on
the 25tli inst. Rev. O. A. Darby, presiding
elder of the Greenville District, Sonth Caro
lina Methodist Conference, will deliver the
anniversary address.
Friday eTeDiDg, April 28, as eight colored
people were rowing a battean in Ball river,
the Doat was upset by the breakers and five
were drowned—Joe B'-d, Alex. Jackson,
Peter White, Bosum Bird and Sylvia Miner.
The parities belonged to Oak Point Mines,
and were on their way to Beanfort to spend
Sunday.
The Kingstree Star, of the 3d instant,
says: It is with regret that we chronicle the
death of Mr. Henry Varner, which occuired
at his home, near Got’-din's Station, on
Sunday night last, in the eighty-!..xth year
of his age. Mr. Varner was a native of this
State, where he resided since his birth,
living the greater part of his time in
Charleston. Warm-hearted, amiable and
generous, he possessed a". the chr-aoter-
istics of a pure Christian gentleman, and
his loss vi ill be deeply felt by his large c'-cle
of friends and acquaintances throughout
the State.
Dreadful Murder in France.
A Spanish gardener, named Segondo,
has confessed to having murdered M.
Blanque, the Provost of a religious col
lege at Prades, his object being to obtain
from the successor of the murdered man
the sum of five hundred francs, which he
says he had intrusted to M. Blanque,
and the payment of his wages, which he
also maintains have not been given to
him sinoe he entered the e irvice or the
college. He relates that he committed
the crime in the fol'owing manner: On
April 6, about seven o’clock in the morn
ing, he led M. Blpuque into the
garden, under the pretext of port
ing out some necessary repairs,
and on reaching the door of a
cellar seized a gun which he had con
cealed three days before end fired at the
old man. As M. Blanque fell P's head
struck against the corner of the wr 1 ', pnd
he cried out, looking intently at b's
murderer, “Ab, Segondo! poor Segondo!”
The victim was not dead, but the
Spaniard took out his pocket handker
chief, wound it around the neck of M.
Blanque, and drew it so tight that the
unfortunate man wrs unable ti ciy out
for assistence. He then dredged him
down the steps of the cellar and left b'm
there wh"e he went to fetch a spade
and pickaxe wherewith to dig the
grave. The Provost, wounded and
gagged, cor'd neither defend himse'f
nor cell for help, and was obliged to
look on in silence while the hole was
being made. Tear., ran down the poor
man’s cheeks, he crossed his hands over
his chest, and muttered a hoarse prayer.
When a sufficient depth had been reached,
Segondo seized the body of the priest in
his arms and cast him into the sandy
hollow. M. Blanque fell into the pit head
foremost and st ; I living. He struggled
hard to rise, and this gave the murderer
considerable trouble, so that in order
to effect his pr-pose he was obl'ged
to hit his viotim on the heed with
the spade. The blow was so vio
lent that the iron made a wound cat
ting through the eye and opening the
skull Segondo then threw a quantity
of earth over the feet and chest of the
Provost, whose arm made one last des
perate attempt to clear away the soil and
raise the body; but the gardener kicked
it down and phoveled about two feet of
sand into the grave. - He then stamped
upon it, and, after wat firing the spot for
about a quarter of an hour, went back
into the college kitchen, where he break
fasted heartily. Tne next day he turned
the water of a sewer ; nto the cellar, in
order to wa r h away the stains of blood.
The ruffian was taken into the college on
account of his being a Carlist refugee
destitute of a 1 ! means of earning h's live
lihood.
BY TELEGBAPU
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE MURDERER OF MABEL YOUNG
Piper Makes a Fall Confession.
TUB STRIKING OHIO MINERS.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Washington, May 8.—Goode addressed
the Elections Uommittee this morning. Mr.
Lyon speaks in behalf of Platt to-morrow.
Dom Pedro was sitting in the diplomatic
gallery with the Brazilian Minister and a
friend. He was in full habit, with heavy
gray beard, and looks like a Kentucky farm
er of fifty-five years of age. He has a very
quiet manner, except using bis hands glibly
in conversation.
Three Pnllman cars are here to take the
Presidential party to Philadelphia.
The Levee Committee completed the bill
this morning and will report it to-day and
endeavor to hare it made the special order
for an early day. Gen. Gibson was before
the committee for consultation. He urged
early action. Chairman El'is reports that
the friends of the bill are well drilled, and
he is hopefnl of good results. The bill in
its present shape gives Louisiana $1,800,000.
PIPEB CONFESSES.
Boston, May 8.—It is reported that Piper
haB confessed to the murder of Mabel
Young, and also the murder of the Landre-
gan girl, of which he was Buspected two
years ago.
Lateb—The report of Piper’s fu'l confes
sion of the murder of Mabel Yonng and
Bridget Landregan is published, and has
created much excitement, and any doubts
existing as to its truth were swept away by
the statement of E. P. Brown, Piper’s coun
sel, in the Supreme Judicial Conrt this
morning. Brown said he would not press
the motion for a new trial iu view of a con
versation he had had with Piper. Judges
Colt and Lord then overruled the motion.
No details of the oonfession are yet pub
lished. The statement was a verbal one,
and has not yet been written out.
FI10M TBOY.
Tboy, N. Y., May 8.—Fred Gale died from
over-exertion in the match.
The police were attacked by the monlderB,
who fired ou the mob, fatally wonnding one.
The police station was surrounded nearly all
night by a riotous mob, threatening lynch
law.
abbested.
Hamilton, Ont., May 8.—Schooley, the
absconding money clerk of Adams’ Express,
at Nashville, w&b arrested. He confessed,
and promises to go back without extradi
tion, and refund the money.
THE STBIEINQ MINEBS.
Cleveland, May 8.—Six or eight shots
were fired at the pickets at Warmington
mine. The pickets retained the fir6 and
pursued, but the attacking party escaped.
a ghastly scene.
Washington, May 8.—Over 400,000 visited
the scone of the explosion. It is supposed
to have been a case of spontaneous combus
tion.
EYening Telegrams.
GRANT’S SWEET APPOINTMENT.
How Babcock Rewarded His Daddj'
in-Law.
THE METHODISTS IN COUNCIL.
SOMETH' n t G ABOUT THE WESTERN
BOOK CONCERN.
Dr. Lanrbp*! Brandishes
Skeleton.
an Old
Sum in ary of Congressional Proceedings.
A German has so far deciphered the
hieroglyphic records sufficiently to prove
that one of the pyramids was built 3,010
years before Christ, whieh is 1,000 years
earlier than any chronological date previ
ously established. This fixes the build
ing of the pyramids at a period consid
erably before the biblical data of the
THE METHODISTS.
Baltimope, May 8.—BiBhop Foster pre
sided. Immed'atelv afterre'igious services,
Dr. Hitchcock, Senior Agent of the Book
Concern at Cincinnati, rose to a question of
privilege, and iuqn”ea of tho Secretaiy why
and through whom tho paper presented to
the conference by Dr. Lanahan, on S&tnr-
day last, in reference to the Western Book
Concern, had been furnished the As
sociated Press. The Secretary, Rev. Mr.
Woodruff, disclaimed any knowledge aB to
its being riven out. He had not fr wished
it. Dr. hitchcock proceeded, with earnes*
ness and wai nth, to comment on the me
morial presented by Dr. Lane ban on Satur
day last charging insolvency : n the Western
Book Concern and contending that the alle
gations of tho memorial were ntrue.
Dr. Hitchcock contended that the report
of the Book Committee showing that the as
sets of the Western Book Concern exceeded
its liabilities over ha' r a million of dollars
was strictly correct. He said the reports of
the two different examiners of the Western
Book Concern agreed in every particular in
establishing the correctness of the exb'bit
of the Book Company. The or'y disagree
ment, which was a small matter, was as to
the value of real estate held by a concern
which Dr. Hitchcock said was nodervalned,
instead of overvalued. Amos Shinkle and
Dr. Walden, Jr., agents of the Western
Book Concern, rose successively to a question
of privileges and earnestly protested against
the statement made in the memorial. Dr.
Waldon said the attack on the Wes'irn Book
Conceiawasa blow at its credit, and the
statement charging its insolvency, given to
the press, we know not how, was fall of
misrepresentation. He read a statement of
the profits of the several agencies of the
Western Concerr, ^’lowing its sound condi
tion. At the conclusion of his remarks,
Dr. Waldon offered the following :
Wheeeas, The memorial in regard to onr
publishing the interests presented on Satur
day through Dr. LanahaD, and signed by
C. Herbert Richardson, John Miller, John
Baer and J. C. Warfield, contained damag
ing statements touching the financial con
dition of the Western Book Concern at Cin
cinnati; and, whereas, these damaging
statements, in some way coir-nnnicatcd to
• he press hare been made public to tho
detrimen. of said concern; therefore,
Resolved, That the Committee on the
Book Concern is hereby instructed to con
sider the subject of said memorial and re
port at the earliest moment practicable noon
the financial condition of the Western
Methodist Book Concern.
Dr. Walden Baid: “We want this for the
protection of onr interests in the West. The
time has come when this conference shr”
protect our interests.”
Dr. LanahaD rose t J a question of privi
lege. The scenes he hau witnessed here
this morning reminded him of a scene wit
nessed in New York whin he was
in a room locked np with fi.teen men,
and he felt as if he wor'd be torn-
in pieces becanse he had charged
that the New York Book Concern had been
robbed. He had heard the same cry then
as to misrepresentation. Dr. Hitchcock
was not tho Methodist Episcopal Church,
nor was Dr. Walden. They were the ser
vants of the church. He (Lanahan) had
entire confidence in Dr. Shinkle, and that
he (ShiDkle) folly believed in what he had
asserted; but examining books was a very
nice question.
Jno. Jacob Astor and Marshall O. Roberts
had endorsed the hooks of Wm. M. Tweed
as all right, bnt did not every one rercllect
what occurred afterwards? Dr. LaDa-
han was proceeding to read a statement
showing the annual Iobsos of the Book Con
cern for several years back, when Mr. Qneal
submitted a point of order tbat this state
ment being read by Dr. Lanahan was not
germain to the question before the confer
ence, viz: the resolution offered by Dr.
Waldon.
The |chvir (Bishop (Poster) ruled the
point of order well taken.
Mr. Hendricks, of New Jersey, moved
tbat Dr. Lanahan be penr’tted to nroceed.
Dr. Hnnter and others spoke on tne latter
motion, and, afeer an understanding that
permission to proceed shonld not be re
garded as ovei.-nliDg the decision of the
chair, the motion oi Mr. Hendricks pre-
vai'ed. Dr. Lanahan resumed and said that
to get at the facts it was only
necessary to pass a resolution to
require a certain ledger to be bronght
here irom New York—a ledger that
had been thrown aside for fifteen years.
The Methodise Cbnrch had been cheated
and swindled by false exhibits. He had
here checks to the amount of $152,000 stolen
from the Methodist Book Concern. [Dr.
Lanahan here held np in foil view what
seemed a package of checks.] No snob
array of indignation as was attempted
here this morning w"l smother
the truth. He was not to be shut np here
in a room as in New York, snd wh-'e the in
vestigation was going on there was another
matter that might be investigated. There
was a document, two-thirds of which had
been left ont of the journal of proceedings
of the last conference, whieh should have
been inserted, and this might be inveetiga-
|g(| a Dr, VaUaet'a —wlmU »■. n-■ al
CjLPITAX votes.
Washington, May 8.—Jas. E. Marsh,
Gnawer of the Western Missouri District,
convicted of making false returns, has been
pardoned.
The Supreme Conrt adjonrned to October.
The Granger cases, involving the right of
the States to regulate the railroads passing
through them, are postponed.
Speaker Kerr has asked an extension of
leave of ten days.
Seminations: A. F. Baird, naval officer at
New Orleans; J. M. Cross, Register of the
Land Office at Huntsville, Ala.; A. M.
Wheeler, Postmaster at Danville, Va.
Miss Ada Sweet, Pension Agent at Chi
cago, testified that Mr. Blakely, her prede
cessor, resigned his office on condition that
she would pay a sum of moDey to United
States Marshal Campbell, the father-in-law
of Gen. Babcock, which Blakely said he
owed Campbell. She agreed to give Blakely
over $1,500 a year. When this money
was paid Campbell said Blakely owed
him $5,000, and she would have to
pay the rest. She objected and steps were
taken by Campbell for her removal. She
hastened to Washington and saw the Presi
dent and demanded a bearing before re
moval. The President told her if she paid
any more money to Campbell he would re
move her. Blakely became a defanlter to
the amonnt of $3,000, half of which she
had to . pay through the connivance
of General Baker, then the Commissioner
of Pensions. Baker is now Surveyor General
-of Minnesota. Before comtnff here Camp
bell wanted her to sign a card exonerating
him, which she refused. He asked her then
to tell the committee he would refund the
money if the oommittee thought it was
wrong for him to take it. Miss Sweet
exonerated General Logan from complicity
in the affair.
Secretary Fish has written a letter to the
Charge d’Affaires in London, which he de
sires that officer to read to Onley, in which
he says the President regrets that a condi
tion which, in his judgment, is without jus
tification nnder Its treaty, shonld hare
been asked. He regards the question
thns presented as of a grave and serious
character, on the final solution of which
must probably depend tho continuance of
the extradition article of the treaty of 1842.
He cannot recognize the right of any other
power to change at its pleasure and without
the assent of the United States the terms
and conditions of an oxecutory agree
ment in a treaty solemnly ratified
bftween the United States and that
power. He does not see bow ho can avoid
regarding the exaction by Great Britain of
a condition heretofore unknown, as the in
fraction and termination of that article of
the treaty. The Charge d’Affaires is in
structed not to enter into any stipulation or
understanding as to the trial of Winslow.
CONOBESSIONAL.
Washington, May 8.—In the Senate the
impeachment trial was immediately re
sumed. Knott, on behalf of the managers,
concluded. Black, of counsel for defense,
spoke, and the Senate then closed doors for
conference. At five o’clock the doors were
reopened and the chair announced that the
Senate had agreed upon two orders; which
were read, as follows :
Ordered, That, until farther notice, the
attendance before the Senate of the man
agers and the respondent w'" not be re
quired.
Ordered, That when the Senate sitting for
trial of impeachment adjourn it be to Mon
day next at 12:30 o'clock p. m.
The Senate then adjourned till to-morrow.
In the House Hale offered a resolution
d'recting the several committees charged
with mvettigations to take testi
mony with oDen doors—rejected, by 69 to
91—not two-thirds. Hale then moved upon
resolutions to Judiciary Committee with
resolutions to report. Rejected—yeas 95,
nave 111.
The Committee of Ways and Means was
ordered to make thorough investigation
of the New York Custom House, and the
changes and reforms necessary, and the
most effectual enforcement laws.
Wells, of Mississippi, offered a resolution
directing the Secretary of Wer to issue a
half of’ 1 lion rations to the sufferers from
the overflow in the Mississippi, bnt objec
tion was made.
The bill to carry the Hawaaian treaty into
effect, passed by a vote of 116 to 101.
Klhs, of Louisiana, from the Committee
on Mississippi Levee- reported a bi'l on
that subject, which was made the special
erder for the 17th of May.
Conger, of Michigan, was appointed on
the Sernct Committee on Federal Offices in
Louisiana in place of Crops, of Massachu
setts, excused.
WASHINGTON WEATHEB PBOPHET.
Opfice op the Chief Signal Offices,
Washington, May 8.—Probabilities :
In the Sonth Atlantic and East Gulf
States, rising barometer, north to west
winds, and cooler, clear or clearing weather,
following rain in the firBt district, w 11 pre
vail.
In the Western Gu'f States, high, followed
by falling barometer, cooler northerly v. ods,
shifting to warmer southeasterly and clear
weather in the lower lake region.
In the Middle States, “ght rains to-r : ght,
followed on Tuesday oy riB'ug barometer,
northwest to sonthwest winds, and generr''y
cooler, clear or pai tiy cloudy weather.
The lower M'ssouri river, the Mississippi
at St. Lou'S and Cairo, the Ohio at Padnca,
and the Tennessee will continue to rise.
Monticello, Fla., May 2, 1876.
Editor Morning News:
The big Radical war dance, or grand
tickle- ail-Eoodleum, held at Monticello on
the 24th, came near terminating as usual,
in a general gathering of nigger wool.
Fortunately, however, for the dusky
knaves, not one of their faces was good for
a drink, consequently their precious wool
was saved for another harvest. His Ex
cellency Mere-sell-ass, was prominent
among the learned Demosthenes and
Ciceros of the occasion, and poured out
with relentless fury his vial of indignant
wrath upon the lofty and highly intellec
tual cranium of the Rev. Gen. George
Washington Witherspoon, dis-honorable
mis roprewntatrm -of Jeffereon cou&fy
and Grand Worshipful Mogul of the
Purman-Conover wring of the mongrel
or Radical party. At the conclusion
of HU Excellency’s gushing overflow of
eloquence (which, by the way, was a
most excellent display of mental imbe
cility), the sweet scented, political Divine
(Witherspoon) was extremely anxious to
reply. Followed by bis friend, he made
a rush for the speaker’s stand, bat was
met by a horde of the Stearns faction,
flourishing their cudgels and indulging in
a profusion of opprobrious epithets;
swearing “dat Wedderspoon got unffin to
do wid dia here meetin’, and we no hear
him speak ceptin’ he git dar over onr ded
AFFAIBS IN FBANCE.
Pabis, May 8.—The Minister of the In-
* irior has sent a circular 10 the prefects in
forming them that the time has arrived to
put f n ejd to doubts which destroy party
hopjs. They must distinctly decir-e
that they are ca"ed upon to co-oper
ate in the work of the > mediation
of representatives In the Republic. In the
circmar he urges the prefects to act with
deference and consideration * ward elec* ; ve
councils. Gen. Clnseret v, rites to the Oau-
lois denying the statement, which he re-
S ards as en insr't, th'at he so ,: cited a par-
on. He says he expected to be shot, if
captnred, and wor'd have shot ex-I.epldent
Th'crs or President MacMabon.
thboogh bodte.
New York, May 8.—A new arrangement
for carrying through passengers between
all po-'nts on the Pernsylvania Rail
road and New England without chrnge
of cars went into effect this morn
ing. Upon the arrive', of the Southern
train at Jersey City it was i-in on board the
steamer Maryland, which carried it thence
across the ha-bor and via East liver to Har
lem river, where it took the rail again and
proceeded East. A lp-ge pai.y of united
guests made an excursion to inaugurate the
novelty.
pipfb.
Boston, May 8.—It is now quite certain
that Piper was the assailant -f Mary Tynon,
who was mysteriously beaten on Ju'y 1st,
1874, bnt a., ji wards recovered sad is now
an inmate of a lunatic asylum. He con
fesses that he attempted to k"' her. He
says the mnrder of Mabel Yonng and Brid
get Landregan were both prompted by the
uae of stimulants, nnder the influence of
which he had an insane desire to shed
blood.
NEW YOBK NOTES.
New Yobk, May 8.—The case of Monlton
against Beecher was, by consent, pat down
for Thursday next.
At the regular weekly meeting of the New
York Methodist Ministers' Association a
committee was appointed to report at the
next meeting on the des'-ability of ns'ng
unfermentad wine* : n communion ; n placo
of the fermented now in use.
FROM SPAIN.
London, May 8.—A special dispatch to
the Standard, from Madrid, states that an
order hai been issned permitting officers
who (oined Don Carlos to resume their ser
vice in the royal army with the rark they
held previous to deserting. Twelve hun
dred officers have been thns readmitted to
the army.
cum GEORGIA NOTES.
Augusta, May 8.—Jas. McEvoy, who
killed Major Jas. J. Gregg at Grp niter !"e,
hangs June 30th at Aiken, S. C.
The crop prospect for sma" grain in
Georgia is cheering. A larger area is
planted in wheat, oats, rye and barley.
There will be more corn snd less cotton
planted.
BUBENSTEIN.
Poughkeepsie, May 8.—In the general
term of the Supreme Conrt, counsel for
Pesach N. Rubenstein moved to strike that
case from the calendar, which notice the
conrt denied. The case was put down ior
Friday next.
FBOX JAMAICA.
Jamaica, May 1.—Great excitement pre
vails here over the disturbances in Barba-
does. The Datives are jubilant over the
demonstrations, and troops have gone, har
ried off from here in the £ -gas.
STOKES.
Poughkeepsie, May 8.—'The general term
to-day dismissed the wiit of certiorari and
remanded Stokes to prison. The rase now
goes to the Conrt of Appep's.
MALPRACTICE.
Portland, Me., Msy 8.—Dr. Rafas A.
Cobb, of Minot, has been arrested, charged
with mnrder by malpractice on Mrs. Eliza
Caldwell, of Oxford.
THE PRINCE OF WAIXS.
Lisbon, Hit 8.—The Prince of Wales has
departed for England.
Fever is making sad havoc among the
Americans in Rome. Daring the last
week nine dead bodies of onr citizens
were sent to Leghorn to await transpor
tation to the United States. The exes
LETTER FROM MONTICELLO.
Dlinitlsi Scene in the Radical Caati
Stearns Participates—The Iatelllcent
Voters et Florida jost Waking np to a
Sense ef their Dnty—Gesne F. Drew
and the Candidacy—Captain Henry Ter
Lieutenant Governor—Local Items.
w., ug iu.os.imo- nations now being carried on at the Oam-
Walden’s resolution was then I P 08 816 Mud to be the cause of the sick-
bodies.
“At once there rose so loud a yell
Within that closely crowded cell,
As if all the fiends from heaven that fell
Had pealed the banner cry of hell."
Such a scene of indescribable confusion
as was never before witnessed in a civi
lized country. The dismal howls of Pan-
demcDium and the fiendish yells of
Pluto’s dark domains are the only fit
comparisons for the unearthly bowls and
shouts of that motly squad of poor
deluded, ignorant, half civilized fanatics.
To think that such a horde of semi
brute heathens are to rule the destinies
of a once proud and sovereign State, is
enough to convulse the beautiful Land of
Flowers to its very foundation, and
arouse the patriotism of every white man
in the land. Past experience has taught
us too well the folly of trying to adopt
platforms on which to drag the ignorant
negro, only to result in defeat. His
station is too low in the scale of human
nature to stand on a platform with
honest, intelligent white men. Let us
have no more of this squirming after
negro votes. We lose white votes and
get nary nigger every time. We have
white voters enough if they would only
come to the polls to free our State from
carpet-bag and niggerism, and place the
administration in the hands of honest,
competent men—not to oppress the
already down-trodden negro, as he is ltd
to suppose, but to free him from carpet
bag bondage'and extend liberties suited
to his sphere such as he never before
dreamed of.
We have become too familiar with the
modus eperandi oi “kiss and make up”
to expect any material advantage from a
split in the Radical ranks. We will, there
fore, prepare to meet them at the polls,
as heretofore, marching in solid phalanx,
casting their votes like so many auto
mations, without knowing or caring whose
name their tickets bear so it is labeled
“Republican.” This yoke of Radical
oppression is beginning to wear heavily
on Floridians. They look forward with
exultant hope to the coming election for
relief.
“Who will make the bestrun for
Governor” is the theme of conversation
wherever you go. The names most uni
versally mentioned in this connection now
are General Finley’s and Geo. F.
Drew’s. All others seem for the present
rather neglected, for some cause or
other. Both the above gentle
men possess sterling qualities and would
be an honor to the position. But as
many prominent men have suggested,
Gen. Ftoley is the right man in the right
place jnst where he is, and it would be a
losing game to Florida to call him away
unless the emergency absolutely required
it. Geo. F. Drew, though better known
in the commercial than in the political
world, is prominently spoken of in nearly
every section of the State as a man equal
to the emergency, and the best calcu
lated to carry the entire Democratic vote
of any man yet mentioned (Finley
hardly excepted). Some doubt had
been expressed as to whether or
not Mr. Drew would accept the nomi
nation if tendered him. To remove this
doubt, we quote the following extract
from a private letter touching that sub
ject. Mr. Drew says: “I have no ambi
tion for the position, and will only accept
if my friends think I would make the best
run before the people, all things consid
ered. If so. then I think it would be my
duty to accept, and do my best to secure
the election. * * * * * Yon under
stand my position. My only object is to
be of service in carrying our next elec
tion, and :f that can best be promoted by
using my ns me, all right; and if best by
using the name of some one else I would
be better pleased and do all in my power
to help elect the ticket.”
Mr. Drew is a man of well balanced
temperament, of sound and unwavering
judgment and a most excellent financier,
of true Democratic principles, yet mode
rate in his views(but not of that “liberal”
kind that have been a curse upon the
State Legislature.) We are glad to hear
b'm so prominently spoken of. A better
selection could not be made, and should
he receive the nomination, he has the
means the will and -determination to let
himself be heard and known in every
nook end corner of the State no matter
how remote.
We are sorry, however, to see the en
tire interest absorbed in selecting a can
didate for Governor, and such little man
ifested in the lookout for a proper
cand'dnte for Lieutenant Governor in
the County Convention. It is a matter
of vital importance that we have a name
for Lieutenant Governor that will add new
strength to the ticket. Have heard the
name of Captain Henry, of Fort Myers,
favorably spoken of as a good man and
of considerable influence about Key West
and South Florida generally. Have no
personr' acquaintance with him, but
judge from hearsay, that there could be
no objection to him. It is very im
portant tbat each candidate should pos
sess some peculiar pergonal strength out
side of his ability to fill the position.
The coming campaign promises to be the
most vigorous snd thorough canvass ever
made by the Florida Democracy sinoe re
construction. No wonder it shonld be,
when we glance back at the record of the
dominant pf’ty since 1868. Another
lease of power to th3 same band of
thieves, and Florida would be lost beyond
redemption. Taxes would amonnt to con
fiscation, every branch of industry com
pletely paralyzed, and every honest toiler
forced to qnit the State in disgust. In
view of these facts, the Democracy, sup
ported by all the intelligence and indne-
try of the State, phoold enter the contest
with a determination to win, feeling that
all we have in Florida is at stake.
MONTICELLO AND ITS SUBBOUNDING8.
So much has justly been said in praise
of this beantifnl inland town that more
would -.be superfluous; we only wonder
that Northern health-seekers w"l con
gregate to the St. JoL i’s river to spend
their winters and subject themselves to
that damp atmosphere and high rales of
board, when Monticelio presents a mnch
more wholesome and health-restoring at
mosphere, especially to consumptives,
and Mrs. Madden, the model hotelkeeper
of Florida, furnishes the best accommo
dations in the State at a mere nominal
sum. Tom Thumb’s agent knew this
when he engaged board with her for the
little General and his staff, who visits ns
AX ASSAY or STtTTED BIRDS.
Mr. Bradley, oi this plaoe, has some
of the purest specimens oi stuffed birds
we have ever seen. Among them are
many rare specimens of Florida, including
the large ivory billed wood-cook, black
cormorant, black hawk, sea eagle, green
herron, wild goose, ospray, barn owl, Ac.
Ac. The flesh is extracted by a chemical
process, and the bones replaced by Mr.
B. in their position, giving the bird
perfect life-like appearance. You can
almost see them wink their glass eyes.
Jndge Bell, Professor of snakeology, pro
poses taking them to the Centennial, to
gether with a large colleotion of thunder
ing big moccasins and rattle-snakes that
he keeps in his office. The Judge's fond
ness for these precious reptiles accounts
for his intimacy with Stearns, Purman,
and the higher grade of slimy reptiles.
Occasionally yonrs, Kit.
May Day at Stockton.
Stockton, May 5, 1876.
Editor Morning News :
On the morning of the 2d of May, as
sembled at the picnic grounds, near the
town of Stockton, Clinch oonnty, a com
pany of persons composed of the elite of
the place, for the purpose of witnessing
a coronation scene. A young girl from
the village school was selected as Qneen
(May being the birth month of the flow
ers).
Miss Helen Van Giesen, a yonng girl
of fourteen, was chosen, not so mnch
for beauty of person as for the
talent which beamed from her eye.
And right regally did ahe bear her honors,
ascending with graceful mien and majes
tic air, the rural throne erected for that
purpose. Previous tothis the school had
formed a procession and marched around
the grounds, making the forest ring with
melody of their youthful voices, whose
refrain was a “Welcome to Spring.” The
Queen's address was appropria^ and of
the proper length and pathos—commenc
ing with an address to both Maids
Honor and audience, and finally concluded
with a most eloquent appeal to the audi
ence.
I neglected to add that the Growner's
was the first speech. Miss Pearlie Stotes-
bnry, a young girl with golden locks, de
livered a speech whioh an orator could not
have excelled ; then next in rotation was
the first Maid of Honor (Miss Lauia Rob.
erts), tall and graceful, whose dark carls
were wreathed with lovely flowers. Her
speech was neat and appropriate. Then
“Gentle Annie” Van Giesen, whose eyes,
gazelle-like in softness, yet beamed with
nature’s brilliancy. Her address to her rural
sovereign was pore and modest, as well as
distinctly recited. Last, though not
least, was Miss Eva Van Giesen, a tall,
graceful young girl, just on the verge of
womanhood, whose address was singularly
tonching, penetrating even to the hardest
heart. Her gestures were exquisite, her
bearing graceful and her voice tonebing.
Then, in the midst of all this array of
beauty and flowers, was the Flag of May,
with its insignia, wrought by the graceful
hands of Mrs. Hawkins, whose grandson
bore it aloft, “not trailing in the dust.
At the close of the exercises Rev. J. G.
Norton, in a happy and well-timed speech,
addressed the audience—an address
which I have never heard exoelled for ap
propriateness. He first addressed the
instructress with a neat and well-timed
compliment, and then the school, lastly
bearing upon the importance of educa
tion. ’Twas owing to the generosity of
Mr. Norton that the villagers reached the
grounds. They return their thanks
through the medium of this paper.
After the coronation scene was over,
the faint sound of dinner was heard in
the distance and we all repaired to the
tables, which was loaded not with costly
viands, but the substantiate of life—not
a roya'l feast, but enough and to spare.
May, the birth-month of flowers,
Wiih iis bright golden hours,
Its lovely genial showers,
And its rosy, fragrant bowers.
When May returns again may the citi
zens of Stockton remember this day as
an oasis in the desert of village life.
Amicus.
Letter from a Massachusetts Democrat.
Mattapoisett, Plymouth Co., Mass.,)
April 29, 1876. |
Editor Mominq Eews :
Dear Sib—I am highly gratified, in
reading your paper, to find you the ad
vocate of fearless honesty and unswerv
ing integrity in the administration of
governmental affairs, whether State or
national. I am a Democrat in the best
and truest sense, of the term, and am
strongly opposed to theft and extrava
ganoe in the servants of the people. This
is called the people’s government, bnt
think, as things have been working, it is
as much a personal government as many
of the monarchies of the old world. The
tendency is toward centralization, and
say, for one, down with the Grant mon
archy; remove, as soon as may be, all
the scoundrels from office, and put honest
men in charge of State and national af
fairs, and then a better state of things
will ensue. For one, I am disgusted
with the management of matters in our
country, and have been, more or less, for
a generation past. Had all parties done
right, there never would have been any
“unpleasantness” between the North and
the South, and to-day would have wit
nessed the noblest, grandest, most united,
and the most prosperous nation on the
face of the earth.
But the past should teach us to be wise
in the present, and work unitedly for a
glorious future. I have always severely
deprecated the headstrong course of fhe
Radicals at the North, and think that
they are answerable for mneb, if not all,
of the ruin and misery brought upon our
country. I do ardently hope that there
will be a change for the better, and the
good time come when the bitter North
will have the spirit of good will toward
the Sonth, and the South forgive the
great wickedness that the North has com
mitted against them.
We have, moreover, evils in our na
tional and State affairs, at the present
time, that portend dangers more serious
than any that threatened our dismember
ment fifteen years ago. Patriots may
well pray to God, and tremble at the
present state of morals in onr country.
Unless there is a great and radical change
in the right direction, and the people
wake up to their duties, the fate of our
republic will be sealed. All sorts of rings
exist all through the North, pervading
churches, schools, and social life, as well
as politics. Corruption rules with a high
hand in the North, and unprincipled
men, with money at their command, rule
the masses, so that slavery, worse than
ever African slavery was in the South,
binds the souls of the masses, while only
a few honest and fearless, comparatively,
stand np for truth and duty, regardless
of popularity and offiee.
I am yours,
Rev. D. 8. C. M. P.
Prof. Marsh is as good a judge of idols
as he is of army blankets. Mr. Barnum
recently left a lot of Central American
idols that he had used in one of his
shows with a New Haven merchant to
sell, and Prof. Marsh bought them for
$150. Mr. Barnum, not knowing what
had happened, met the Professor one
day, and said he had a lot of old idols for
sale that cost him $1,600; but “the fact
is,” said Barnum, “that the first day after
their arrival in New Haven some fellow
came in and offered the man in whose
oharge they were left $150 for the whole
collection, and got them.” “ I am the
fellow,” said Prof. Marsh; and he thinks
the idols are worth more thna they oost
the showman.
A CaUlarala firaiur’i Eatlnate af Him—
The Preeeat and Preepeetlve Krlla mt
Iiamlcratlea—Native Labor Drtrea la
the Wall—Deaa of Tice and Tlaleaee.
On Monday the Senate took np for
consideration the resolution recently sub
mitted by Mr. Sargent, of California, re -
oommending to the President to oanse
negotiations to be entered into with the
Chinese Government to effect a change
In the existing treaty so as to prevent the
great influx of Chinese immigration to
this country.
Mr. Sargent said:
The difficulties surrounding this prob
lem of Chinese population are continually
present to the people of the Pacific States.
Experience has shown that Chinese popu
lation expels all other as inferior currency
expels all better kinds. The process has
been going on for years in San Francisco
as well as in other Pacific communities.
A landlord will rent a single house in a
street to a Chinaman, who at once crowds
it to repletion. They take ordinary rooms,
say of ten feet in height, put in a false
floor half way to the ceiling, and orowd
both floors thus made with bunks, and as
many human beings as may be pressed
into the place to sleep therein. The
atmosphere becomes fetid, and a sickly
smell pervades the neighborhood, which
causes the tenants of the houses to the
right and left to vacate. These houses
cannot again be rented to white persons,
the rents fall, and finally the Chinese get
possession. This process goes on to
each direction until the whole street is
abandoned to Chinese. The property has
fa'ien in vs'ue, becomes dilapidated and
offensive, and the street is as much ded
icated to Chinese uses and lost to other
residents as if it were a street in Hong
Kong. Hotels and churches share the
same fate as ordinary dwellings and
stores. He said in his excursions through
the Chinese quarter in San Francisco,
under the protection of the polioe, he had
penetrated two stones under ground into
the opium and gambling dens, where the
stench was almost unendurable, reached
by passages where a man cannot walk
erect, between walls dripping with ex
halations of the neighboring sewers,
and where the filthy water at the bot
tom was only avoided by carefully
stepping on narrow, broken planks
laid down. Here were swarms of
Chinamen, thick as maggots in a
cheese, smoking opium, etc. No class of
population known to the United States
can endure contact with these squalid
denizens. The white and the negro, the
American, Frenchman and Spaniard ail
seek residences and places of business
elsewhere. Even the lowest classes fleo
away. The whole street is absorbed and
doomed. This process has already gone
on until six large blocks in the business
heart of San Francisco have been eaten
out, end still the work goes on, and the
future witi see San Francisco a purely
Asiatio city unless some means are de-
v'sed to avert this calamity. The num
ber of Chinese on the Pacific coast is
150,000. Of this number 60,000 are in
California, 30,000 being in San Franciso
alone. He said in all this great number
there are not one hundred families.
But the flood is not confined to the Pa
cific States and Territories. The Chinese
follow lines of travel everywhere, and
have reached the Atlantic States in small
number, but yet numerous enough to
excite local comment and alarm.
Another evil of Chinese emigration is
its injury to white labor. By it white
labor is entirely supplanted, and the grow
ing young men and women in San Fran
cisco find scant employment, and in few
avocations, because cheap Chinese labor
is taken in preference by employers. If
the community is built up by such indus
try, it is not as a Now England or West
ern village is built up. It is Foo Chow,
and not Cedar Rapids; it is Dunnovan’s
alley, and not Broadway; it is the hovel
and not the home; the Joss house, and
not the church; it is not republican, it is
not civilization In San Francisco a labor
er cannot support his family for less than
$2 or $2 50 per day. The Chinaman will
work for $1, and monopolize the market.
The white laborer must emigrate or starve.
The Chinaman is a constant threat
to labor, skilled and unsl lied.
He is very imitative, and soon acquires
sufficient art to compete with the best
workmen, and to supplant them. The
operation of. these principles has been
seen on a limited scale in Massachusetts
on the occasion of a “strike,” where an
employer at North Adams imported suffi
cient Chinamen to carry on his establish
ment, and since that time has refused to
employ white men. He has grow j rich
by the operation, but labor has been so
overawed, because it learned what could
be done if it was not submissive. That
whieh has been seen at North Adams on
a small scale, and under the least impul
sive conditions, goes on in California
upon a large and increasing scale, with
surroundings of squalor and misery.
Mr. Sargent then quoted from the testi
mony before the Legislative Commission
in San Francisco, to show how the
manufacturers in California had employed
Chinamen because they would work for
half price, letting their white laborers
go, and, as soon as they were taught, the
Chinese set up for themselves, and un
dersold and bankrupted their employers,
and were getting large branches of busi
ness into their own hands. The emigra
tion of Chinese is not like those of Euro
peans, who seek our shores voluntarily to
become citizens. They are quasi slaves.
He quoted from the dispatch of Mr. Bai
ley, Consul at Hong Kong, dated April
25, 1871, to the State Department, to
show the slavery of the emigrants, the
manner in which they are decoyed on
board ship by all sorts of tricks, opiates
and illusory promises. Nine-tenthB of
the Chinamen who come to San Francisco
are brought as slaves.
Mr. Sargent then called attention to
the peculiarities of the traffic in Chinese
females, and said young girls are bought
of their parents or owners in China and
sent from thence to san Francisco under
contracts for continuous prostitution,
made nominally with themselves; really
they are the passive victims. The girls
are virgins when purchased, and first
prostituted in San Francisco. He read
the translation of a contract for prostitu
tion given in evidence before the legisla
tive committee, in whieh Ab Ho binds
herself for the sum of $630, paid to her
mistress, to give her services in prostitu
tion for the term of four years, and re
suming his argument, said the Chinese
females when landed by the hundreds
from the ships are put in barracoons, as
in the old slave days, and there kept until
distribution by their masters.
Professional spiritualists who give “se
ances" are being required bj the city
authorities of New You to pay a iteanaa
of $500. .This win, it is hoped, aback
thia foolb tnaas.
A mnrder case awaiting trial at the
Cuddapah Sessions in India last month
was, according to the India papers, ex
pected to give rise to much legal discus-
ion as to whether the circumstances
justified the charge. A juggler who al
leged that he possessed some power
which rendered him “bullet proof,” in
vited the prisoner in the caso to aim at
him with a loaded muBket, assuring him
that he might do so without the slightest
fear of producing any painful results.
The prisoner accepted the kind invita
tion, and with a loaded musket presented
to him by the juggler immediately sent a
bullet throngh bis head. It is urged that
as there was no intention on the part of
the prisoner to kill the deceased, the
charge of murder cannot be maintained.
The juggler was thoroughly confident of
his own invulnerability, and several of
his relations who were to be called as
witnesses for the defence were prepared
to prove that, although several times shot
at before, he was never hurt Some few
years ago in England a “wizard” at one
the theatres begged one of the au
dience as a favor to fire a gun at him.
The spectator thus invited loaded the
gun with a charge of shot he had bronght
with him for the express purpose of test
ing crucially the alleged invulnerability
of the wizard. The result was painful in
the extreme—the wizard’s face was pep
pered with the shot, and the spectator
who fired the gun was given into tho
custody of the police. Both narrowly
escaped death—one by the gnn, the other
by the gallows.
A Progressive Town.—The population
of Danville, Va., increased from 1,000 in
1860 to 5,464 in 1870, and is estimated at
7,000 at this time. There are five tobac
co warehouses in Danville, and their sales
of leaf tobacco daring the season of 1874-5
aggregated 14,697,421 ponnds, with a
value of $3,002,218. From the reoeipts
thns far in the present season, the aggre
gated sales, it is thought, cannot be less
(ban twenty million pounds, and in all
probability will greatly exceed tbat
amount The increase of the tobacoo
trade and the industrial outlook faMMty
to the future of I