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lifl^ Savannah. Ga.
l>LOVIil> AM) ALONE.
by .ioaquis miller.
_*eadove eorac twin shadow his,
u r k hs* 1 • v, ' s iu FcaS P 1 ’’ 4 *' 9 '
-C n - ’d bt-- t tr umpets back his vow,
Jhlsi'rrref si ; L'hs a'ung his bough;
Rn* r / am ** ,ouo ’ •
i u hi c clouds pass !
aslontlvand unloved, alas!
- ~ c ^ u; nd drop and pass.
nf mmlen, siusing ever sweet
door, in field of corn—
- wine i>-r thy retreat—
h all thy ummer morn,
love is landing at thy feet,
{n that fair isle in .-eas of c*rn.
Bat I 1 ani uuloved aud lorn,
As Winter winds of Winter inora.
I, climb the sea;
",’.j. u :ucn bt-tk their loves on land,
la'love aud lover, hand iu ha<.d,
Go einein", "lad a* glad can be,
got nevermore shall love seek me
By blow tel or broken land.
£vbroken wild or wil:ow tree,
>'sv, neve; more shah love seek me.
J. H. ESTIJLL, PROPRIETY)
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Affairs in Georgia.
Pendleton, of the Valdosta Times, in the
jtissneof hij condensed sheet says : “We
icnoauced last week that the Times would
iic its weekly visits as usual, though
Dicoudensed form for awhile. This is our
cunJ, bat alter n. xt week we hope to re
nte oar former size, and print at home,
fchave succeeded in buying a press and
other materia!, and if no unforeseen delays
! occur the limes will be under full headway
in two weeks. The loss has been great to
ns, and our expense of starting again heavy,
mi hence we hope our friends throughout
the county will do all they can to sustain ns.’’
iheTiioraasviile Enterprise says : “The
fronton Saturday morning was almost equal
to a young snow.”
A “sample'’room is to be started under
lieoSiceo: ike Southern Enterprise, Sucb
ttterpriee should infuse more than ordinary
run and spirit into that lively sheet. There
ai samp.e room—aye, several—immediately
about onr office, but they have become old
fixtures, aud their influence is not exerted
delereriously.
The Gwinnett Ilrrald says the farmers of
that county have planted this year a larger
area m p-baceo than lor many years, and
the crop wi.l be a very large one. We see
os reason why Georgians can’t “chaw’*
ils of their own manufacture.
The vr.-. 3 aro drying up in Griffin, and
unless they have rain soon water will bo
scarcer than whirky.
IaGriffiu swe •; potatoes can bo bought at
thirty-three and one-third cents per bushel
on sere dir. nd yet there are people wno
talk of hard times.
passenger trains passing through
Tuesday, had the stars and stripes
fir.g in them witu the moUo, “Tilden aud
Bftiinck*, Peace and Reform.”
Griffinl)j.U'j News: “That do settle it.
Hewitt, Chairman of the National Demo
cratic Comnnt'e?, has telegraphed to Joe
Brawn, of Georgia, to go to Florida to see
tost there is a fair count of the electoral
Ihe A;'.at,ia Tunes regrets to learn that
| fcverdof cur worthy citizens contemplate
an eariy location iu the State of Texas.
laeA’lanta 1'unes ligures up that $34,000
I ^isbetin Atlanta on the result of the elec-
I thn.
Ihe Atlanta limes estimates that at least
I two-thuds of the Savannah refugees who
I sr: in that city and adjacent towns, will re-
I tom to to h unes this week, as the recent
| * :c -to have caused the physicians to declare
I u pir:‘ :tly safe for them to return.
Ihereddence of Mrs. Sabina Phelps, near
I lend 1<J, was destroyed by fire last week.
] Losa from id,000 to $4,000, and no insur-
| vice.
Ilo Her old says water packed cotton is
j 0CCM1,j aa,ly sold in Greensboro this Beason.
The pr-qont week will be observed in every
I county of the State as a season for special
I Ptoycr by the Young Men’s Christian Asso-
TY-re were but two interments in Mil-
dgeviile for the week ending November
j 43—both col >red.
Govingtou Star: “You can place us sq uare-
! • 051 tbe Senatorial record. Wo are in favor
tithe r c - lection of Hon. T. M. Norwood.
. • right man in the right place. Let
I - 111 gu luck luily endorsed by the Legisla-
I tore. Xhe country owes him that for his
able services.”
■ rder: “ Messrs. Jas. P.
I 4r r:sm A Co. are candidates for the office
S.ate Printer, with fiue prospects of suc-
I C ^- J - If they should be elected to do the
I P ri -tong for the State the work will be well
I 40 3 faithfully executed.”
1 duoibus Times: “There were four
I ^trtes of fire on Sunday and one Monday
I toght, but fortunately the only house burned
insured—lucky for the owner, a poor
'tommy’
<J 'er seven hundred colored men voted
to - Democratic ticket in Perry county.
I c °ti;bcTt Appt Ql: “Tom King, a colored
e tnocrat, was seriously stabbod ou Tues-
| I toight by Columbus Rarues, a negro of
Qe Whiteley stripe. Barues was arrested
^lodged iu jail and will probably have a*
^toDg the present term of court. The
tofierer,c. in political notions was the cause
I ^ the difficulty.
King is considered out of
ger.'
ir h ali her improvements and progress
ards complete civilization, Atlanta hasu’t
6°^a skating rint,
^^eSaiidersville and Tennile Railroad is
‘ s'stocked, and has received two new
*tb.
I aud nce ^ Q ^ L^tive 5outh Carolin’ans
I c. • l ^ CS ll£,viD ^ an iuterest in the Pal
I ‘ l0 Slate, was held at the City Hall. At-
I last night.
11.7^ tlie ^ ec:>a ^» I > i erce °I the
I Cj- 1 aD< ^ ^ ar ^^ aai of the Fifth Georgia
u ^rcs-ional Districts, are said to be taking
Bl€ Ps to
contest the election of their success
ful competitors,
-liiero are no-.v fifteen criminals in jail in
polumbuB. Two—Finnegan and Kilgore—
^re to b? tried for muV^r, and the others
for promiscuous charts.
_ Colambns Enquirer-Sun : “Mr. Byrd
T-yon, aged 65 years, was shot and instantly
killed at his residense near Crawford, Ala.,
aturaay night, whilo at his well drawing
^ ft tei. He was struck in the neck, which
was broken. The deed was committed by
cm j unknown person, but it is supposed to
ave been do “e by & negro. Three or four
agrees have been arrested upon suspicion,
nu one who had some mLunderatanding
rt,th Mr - L y° n about the gathering of the
™ proved an atibiE
Judge Crawford, at the Muscogee Supe
rior Court, charging the grand jury es
pecially in reference to the carrying of
concealed weapons, said : “If the veil could
sometimes be raised and the sorrows and
agonies of families be seen, when they are
weeping over a wayward son for murdering
some one, and then reflect such might have
been prevented if the grand juror had done
his duty, he surely would feel remorse.”
Sunday night, about half past eight
o clock, at Columbus, a fire occurred in the
southeastern portion of the city, about the
termination of Few street. A two-room
frame dwelling, owned by Julia Alexander,
colored, caught fire while she was at
church, and was consumed before the com
panies could possibly reach there.
The Marietta Journal prints returns from
all the counties iu the Seventh district ex
cept Haralson. The majorities for Felton
foot up 3.967 and for Dabney 1,526, making
Felton’s majority in the district 2,441.
Mr. J. M. Stewart’s steam grist mill, near
Blakely, was consumed by fire on Monday
night last.
Hon. Robert Toombs is still unrecon
structed. He winds up a letter to Julius A.
Peak, published in the Rome Courier, as
follows: “I am not devoted to the Four
teenth and Fifteenth amendments. I am
not in favor of internal improvements by
the General Government. 1 am against all
national banks. 1 am against enlarging
the army to show my loyalty; against lavish
appropriations to the Fourth of July barbe
cues. I am utterly opposed to negro suf
frage, and shall be as long as I live.” Aud
yet, in the face of this distinct enunciation
of principles, some of the Georgia papers
insist that Robert has “jinedthe meeting.”
Work on the new cotton mill for Mr. A. K.
Clark, at Augusta, is progressing rapidly.
The mill will manufacture, for the present,
rope, yarn, and similar prodacts.
The next excitement in Augusta will be
the municipal election. Two candidates for
Mayor are in the field, and several tickets
for Councilmen have been proposed. The
indications are that it will be an interesting
contest.
An outbuilding belonging to the Mulberry
sireet Methodist parsonage, Macon, was
fired by a villainous incendiary on Tuesday
night about half-past eight o’clock, and en
tirely consumed. The alarm was rung from
all tho bells in the city, aud the department
was out speedily, but theie was little work
to be done.
A young man, hailing from Columbus, has
got himself into serious trouble in Macon
by rnnning off with a valise belonging to a
youDg Irishman just arrived in that city.
At a meeting of the Cavalry Survivors’
Association, of Augusta, ou Tuesday night,
ar.angements were made for a special train
for an excursion to Columbia, to witness the
inauguration of Wade Hampton.
The Synod of Georgia met in Augusta
yesterday.
Tho celebrated Pounds murder case was
settled Tuesday in Wilkes Superior Court,
by sending pounds to the penitentiary for
three years. It has been ou the docket for
seven or eight years, and to the Snprtme
Court twice. Pounds was sentouced to death
once, if not on two occasions.
Macon Telegraph : The third aunual elec
tion of officers of the Public Library was
held at the rooms of the society ou Monday
evening, and was well attended. There was
an unusual amount of interest manifested
and the election was conducted with the
u’moot decorum and good spirit. The re
sult was as follows: President—Robert E.
Park; First Vice President—C. E. Campbell;
Second Vice President—T. D. Tinsley; S *o
retary and Treasurer—T. O Chestney’; Di
rectors—W. B- Hill, A. L. Wood, A. E.
Boardman, R. W. Jemison, Jr., W. B.
Volger, Thomas B. Gresham, B. M. Zet-
tler, John G. Deitz aud B. O. Smith.
The Augusta Constitutionalist of Wednes
day says: “At half-past t»-n o’clock last
night a*committee from the Br therhood of
Locomotive Engineers formally notified
Mr. Henry Edmom ston, who repres nts
Superintendent Johnson of the Georgia
Railroad in his abduce, that at one o’clock
a. m. all trains w u d be stopped at that
hour at whatever place on the
road they might lie at that time, aud leave
them standi: g. This extraordinary action
on the part oi the Brotherhood was brought
about by the refusal of the road authorities
to increase the pay of some twenty odd of
what are known as young engineers
to that received by the older hands.
Some two months since these men were
reduced from three dollars and a half per
day to two dodars. with the verbal under
standing betwten the superintendent and
themselves that they were to work for that
until the times improved. This obligation
was broken last night without- any previous
notification of such inteut, and iu the ab
sence of Col. 8. K. JohnsoD, who is iu At
lanta. Some days since a demand was made
for an increase, but President King in
formed the committee that the road couid
not afford it at present. Nothing more
was heard of it until last night, when Sir.
Edmonston was n tided of the action of the
Brotherhood. Mr. Edmonston eays this ex
traordinary action of the engineers is insti
gated by the Worthy Chief Engineer of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engiueers, who
is located in Cleveland, Ohio, and who visit
ed this city last week. Mr. Edmonston fur
ther says the whole matter of tho adjust
ment of wages could have been amicably
settled between the offic rs aud the men but
for the interference of Mr. Arthur,who comt a
a thousand miles to breed trouble and strike
a blow at the commerce o Augus'a aud the
whole section dependent on the running of
the trains of this road. Of course the
engineers who are getting full uay are
forced to strike for the benefit of their
brethren who are ou shorter rations, and it
is possible some trouble and delay iu mails
aud freight, and especially the pisseng rs
who may bo out on the two night trams,
may occur. At that hour, one o’clock, the
up-night passenger train would be at
Greensboro and the down-train near
Covington, while the loug, heavily
laden freights will be scattered fr>m
Dan to Beersbeba, or rather from Saw
Dust to Conyers. With Colonel Job - son in
Atlanta, and his communication cut i ff, it
seems at present there is nothing to do but
caDitulate, however unjust, unfair aud an-
uoviug the strike may be. We h pe, for
the benefit of all concerned, that amicable
adjustment may be arrived at early this
rm>rniug as serious results wnl follow a
long detention of trains over this road. ’
The Berrien County Neics has this sensa
tion : “Judge Manm ^haw, living in ihe
southern portiou of this comnty, cimmitted
suicide last Monday morning bv cutting his
throat. The particulars so ftr as wo have
been able to learn them are as follows :
Judge Shaw rose between three and four
o’clock on the above morning, and after
dressing syt some time before the lire c *n-
versiog with some of his family, apparently
in his right mind. Just before daylight ho
walked out toward the gin house, aud
his two sons, living with him, went
to tho lot to feed the horses.
Returning to the house they found
tbeirfather had not returned, and they ln-u
went in search of him. Arriving under the
gin house, at coming light, they saw a pool
of blood, and on locking up, they Lund it
had come out of the gin house. Terror-
stricken they hastened above, a id to their
horror found their lather with his throat,
cut and in a dying condition. He was
removed to the house and all the
assistance known to medical science was
rendered but to no avail, and hi) died
the following night. Hs mi “ d at
times seemed to be deranged, .and it is
thoncht that under some depression of this
kind be committed tho act. When he went
ud in the gin house he remove i his coat
and Test and turned np one of the flooring
pUnk ’n order that the blood mtght fall to
ihe ground. Judge Shaw was a good citi
zen, and it was said he did not have an ene
my in tho county. He had been Judge of
TJe Inferior Court for several years, which
position he filled honorably. He was well
to do iu the world.”
Florida Affairs.
St Augustin© held an election yesterday
for Mayor, Counciimen, Marshal and Asseg-
sor.
The Jacksonville Union isn’t satisfied yet.
It is still trudging aloDg with a three column
advertisement, telling a confiding public
that there’s going to be an election on No
vember 7, 1876.
A patent has been granted to a Florida
company for preserving fruit for shipping—
especially those that belong to the citrus
family.
A fcoree thief was shot at one night re
cently in Hillsborough county, but succeed
ed iu escaping. He was afterwards found
iyiDg in the woods severely wounded.
The oldest inhabitant says it has been
years since the Wekiva river has been so
high.
Four hundred pounds of cotton was stolen
from the stole of J. Levy, in Alachua county,
on Tuesday night.
During the recent hurricane the wind
shifted the sand about the light house at
Sand Key, near Key West, aBd had the blow
continued much longer the structure would
have fallen down.
The Presbyterian Church indicature,which
met in the Newnan Street Presbyterian
Church, Jacksonville, on last Thursday
morning, adjourned yesterday, to meet in
Madison on Wednesday before tho second
Sabbath in April Dext.
Jacksonville Press: “The heavy frosts
of Saturday aud Sunday killed potato
vines and nipped the leaves of exposed ba-
na a plants. We presume that the quaran
tine against Savannah will now soon be
raised by our authorities.”
The Marianna Courier, published in Jack-
sdu county, received since the election,
says: “A peaceful and orderly election—not
a boisterous word.” Aod yet days after this
the news comes to us, announced m large
head lines: “Democratic Inspectors destroy
the ballots at five precincts.”
The Jacksonville Press makes this state
ment: “We can procure an affidavit to the
fact that a negro, Henry Simpson, sent to
penitentiary for larceny, voted at tho Clerk’s
office precinct, in Lake City, ou the 7th. He
had in his possession a certificate of pardon
signed by M. Martin, Warden of the Peni
tentiary and Chairman of the Republican
Campaign Committee. This document lack-
i d tho signature of the Governor, and did
not have the great seal of the State at
tached.”
The people of Jacksonville aro stirring up
the water question, and the press complain
of the apathy manifested ou this important
subject. We think tbat good water is as
much conducive to the prosperity of a city
a-i good Baker whisky, and a judicious mix
ture indicates the right kind of spirit in the
people. Why don’t tho Jacksonville au
thorities dig artesian wells? The town
Auger, “that great bore,” surely could ac
complish much for the thrifty citizens of
cosmopolitan Jacksonville.
The Jacksonville Sun says : “A meeting
of railroad men will be held in Savannah to
morrow to consider a matter of somo im‘
portance to our city. The principal item of
business will be to arrange a schedule lor
the comiDg winter by which two trains will
arrive in Jacksonville daily from Savannah,
as was tho cate last winter, instead of one
as at present. It is thought that about the
same time of arrival and departure will bo
fixed upon as formerly. A schedule, etc.,
for the seaboard route via Fernandina and
Brunswick will also probably be made. A
train during tho winter is to run
from this city to Fernaudina direct, or con
nect with other trains at Baldwin, connect
ing at Fernandina with a steamer for Bruns
wick, aud at that place with tho Macon and
Brunswick Railroad. At tho meeting to
morrow there will be present representa
tives of the Florida Central, Jacksonville,
i’ensacola and Mobile, Atlantic, Gulf and
Wt at India Transit, Macon and Brunswick,
and au Alabama railroad.”
The steamer Dictator will be repaired and
resume her regular trips tP Jacksonville
about tho 25th inst.
The price of carpet-bags has advanced
fifty per cont, in the last week in Florida.
Jacksonville Eress : “ Information has
been received that forty-two women,dressed
in male attire, voted the Radical ticket at
the precinct known|as Barnes’s Store, in
Alachua county. Two are three of the par
ties were arrested and tbeir sex ascertained.
Not content with emptying tho jails, and
making men of hundreds of minors, the
Radicals violate law, justice and decency by
giving the right ol suffrage to the igno ant
and deluded women.”
The Republican Party.
Iu its filing struggles the party or
ganization that has had control of the
government for the past sixteen years
j rovokes a variety of reflections on its
rise, character and career. Its own
journals mauifest a striking inclination
to improve so good an opportunity to
magnify both its professions and per
formances. But, like all other parties, it
will have to stand the criticism of those
who write without aDy of the dbqualifi
cations of membership. A party of
sentiment aud passion from the first, and
composed of the irreconcilable ele
ments that drifted away frem the
1-ving organizations, it was suddenly
fused in the white heat of the
furnace of civil war into a com
pact mass, which subsequent circum
stances absolved from all discussion
of ordinary questions, and employed as
aa agent of the solid North to burn out
the cancer of slavery from American
politics. With the result of its work as
such an ageut it ought to have been sat
isfied. When, however, it schemed to
convert an Union triumph into a partisan
victory, it made a confession of weakness
for which even its most honorable ser
vices could not compensate. To traffic
for votes with such sacred sentiments a*
fired tho hearts of all Northern men alike
wken the flag of the Union was defied in
the field was a selfishness that a largo
part of the people of the North could
never forgive.
That it suddenly fell from the dizzy
heights of its glory was not more con
vincingly established by its folly than by
the fact that, having the fruits of the
terrible struggle for the national life in
its hands, it showed but too plainly that
it did not know what to do with them
It proceeded to apply the same fierce
methods lo the problem of peace and
restoration which it had learned in the
trials of war. At the critical moment,
when a happy stroke of genuine states
manship would have established it in.
the affectious of a reunited people,
it preferred to discard policy for
passion, and appeal for support to the
p >pular apprehensions which it had eveiy
facility to excite. Hence the work of
reunion drifted aod waited on the tides,
when tbe app ication of a candid courage
would have achieved remits over which
both sections would long ago have
been mingling their congratulations.
The return of peace was the crucial test
of the party, and it demonstrated its fatal
deficiency in those strong and reliable
elements which alone cou ! d qualify it for
the control of tbe nation. For nearly
twelve years of peace it haa lived by its
appeals to the popular fears; while its
ability to respond masterfully to the
p 'pular necessities has manifested itself
only as a signal failure.
But even with its involuntary relin
quishment of power which it has proved
its incapacity to use for the general pros
perity, it turns and talks through its dis
satisfied journals of the “great work” that
still lies before it, although during a four
months’ political canvass it refused either
to give a distiuot description of such a
work or to answer a syllable to the use it
had already made of its protracted trust
True, a few of its journals did refer o the
necessity for “reform within the parly,”
aud as a sample of their intentions i he
party has just given its full confidence to
Butlerism on the very spot of its origin.
For such a party to arrogate to itself
the spirit of progress as its peculiar
possession is too much of an insult to the
public sense to 1 e accepted as a travesty.
If in twelve years of peace it has not had
a chance to display its progressive and
forward-lookiDg qualities, even twelve
years more would not suffice for a de
monstration that no longer possesses an
interest for anybody. The truth is, it
has no autonomy as a party, and never
had. It is made up of expedients and
temporizations. The roots do not rea»ch
down into the fertile soil of the Constitu
tion, for it was the first to discredit the
value of its own amendments to that fun
damental law. It has served its fleeting
purpose, and must give way to such new
combinations of the political elements as
’ impending questions are certain to re
quire. Butasap<rty of moral ideas it
consents to the penalty that is richly-
earned by a party of corruption.— Boston
Post,
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
THE ISSUE IN FLORIDA AND
LOUISIANA.
TURRET PREPARING VIGOROUSLY
FOR WAR.
The Loudon Financial Pulse Excited.
THE CABINET DISCUSSES SOUTHERN
AFFAIRS.
Loss of the British Steamer City of
Manchester.
THE CABINET IN COUNCIL.
Washington, November 15.—The Cabinet
ye?terday discussed the Vermont and Oregon
Postmasters, chosen electors. Southern
matturs were also discussed. The Cibinet, it
appears, agrees with the President that the
duty of the army South is to preserve peace
and to report, through the regular army
channels, election frauds, and to prevent
lawless interference, and not to interfere
themselves with the machinery for counting
the votes.
A Repnblicau elector in Ore on has re
signed his postmastership. The depart
ment ha3 placed tho office .n charge ot an
agent.
It is stated th t several Contenuial Cona-
mi-ipion'*-s, who bod their c >mmi»sionH un
der th- broad teal of the Uuit.d S ate*, have
been chosen elect rs.
THE ISSUE IN FLORIDA.
Washington, November 15 —The Herald
has an eUb irate failalmssee special which
says official returns from nine counties jus
tify tho unofficial return* made a few days
ago. D is s ©tried rhat full returns of county
canvassing b -ards will give the State to
Drew by ever nine hundred majority, and to
Tilden by o or five hundred majority. These
returns will b ; attacked by the Republicans
before the State canvassing board. The
Democrats are confident that they can defend
f-very return. The contest before the State
board wili probably be long and bitter. A
dozen counties will be a* talked by one party
or the other, and the testimony in each case
will be voluminous.
THE ISSUE IN NEW ORLEANS.
New York, November 15.—Tho Tribune's
New Orb ans specials siy the Democrats
claim that a count of the votes actually cast
will show Tilden has carried the State by
about 8,000 majority and Nicaolls by about
9,000. The Republicans do not deny that a
mnjoritv of tho vote« actually polled are
against th®m, but they claim and assert
that under tho law they will be able to
prove that s veral parishes were carried by
the Democrats by intimidation and violence,
aud that when the votes from the?e par
ishes are rejected, as they will bo legally,
Hayes and Packard will be found to have
carried tbe State.
TURKEY PREPARING FOE WAR.
London,November 15—The Standard's Con
stantinople special says : “Turkey is prepar
ing vigorously for war. Torpedoes are being
placed at tne eastern eud of the Bosphorus,
and tho forts have boon strengthened.”
The New Free Press of Y’ienna says:
“Eugisud possesses the clearest proofs of
Russia’s ulterior design-*. She has commu
nicated these to Count Von Bnist, tho Aus-
• riau Ambassador in London. A complete
agroem«nt is established between England
and Austria.”
THE CONFERENCE OF THE POWERS.
London, November 15.—A Reuter tele
gram from Constantinople says ail the pow
ers are stated to be iu accord respecting tbe
conference which is oxpected to commence
i*B sittings at the end of November. Tho
P rte has made some objections, but its ad -
he ion appears certain, England having
made argent representations to that end.
CARGO AFIRE.
Liverpool. November 15.—Tho cargo in
the main hold of the American line steamer
L>r»i C.ive, which was to have sailed irom
here to-day for Philadelphia, was found to
be ou fire this morning. Tho fire was ex
tinguished by the shin's hose before any
damage was done to tho steamer. The
damaged cargo is being rclanded.
WISCONSIN.
Milwaukee, November 15. — S-veral
weeks before the election one Republican
caudidate was discovered to bo ineligible.
The change made in tho tickets did not
reach ali points, but the faulty ballot were
not sufficient to raise doubts of the election
of the eligiblo candidates.
ANSWER TO THE DEMOCRATIC COMMUNICATION.
New Orleans, November 15.—Yesterday
Garfield, of Ohio, reached here and Kelly,
of Pennsylvania, will arrive to-m rr w,
when the Republicans will answer tbe com
munication of tho Democrats. The city is
very quiet.
WAR RISKS.
London, November 15.—The Post to-day,
in its financial colnmn, says London under
writers are taking five shilling* per hundred
pounds for ri-*k of capture of steamers
now loading in Russian ports.
LO*S OF THE CITY OF MANCHESTER.
Akayab, November 15.—The British
steamer Pity of Manchester, from Liver
pool for Calcutta, was sunk off here, and all
hands, except the Captain and steward, are
•uppoaod to be lost.
EXPORT OF HORSES FORBIDDEN.
St. Petersburg, November 15.—An impe
rial order was pr-unulg t- d to-day prohibit 4
ing th*-export of horses from Western and
Southern. Russia.
STARTED FOR FLORIDA.
New York, November 15.—Wm. H. Rob
ertson, Gen. Francis C. Barlow, and Assist
ant District Attorney It illina have started for
Tallahassee.
AUSTRIA REPLIES FAVORABLY.
Vienna, November 15.—The favorable re
ply of Aubtria to England’s conference pro
posal has been dispatched to Loodon.
DEAD.
New York, November 15.—John S. Wil
liams, of the firm of Williams & Gaion, is
dead.
declines.
New York, November 15.—Wm. M. Evarts
declines to go South.
Night on the NrLE.—There was a wild
gorge in the Arabian hills where the chain
drew near the shore. As we approached
it I saw that it was flooded with mellow
liffht. Soft breezes bore us slowly against
the river current, and we noiselessly ap
proached the mouth of the gorge. Oh,
vaie of enchantment! Fantastic crags
leaped into the air and hung suspended
by some mighty magic. Between the
golden walls, in the bed of the valley, a
grove of palms rustled their plumes in the
delicious air, and just above these palms
rose the splendid moon. Every leaf was
lustrous in its light; every rock sparkled
faiutly aud out of the mouth of the valley
poured a deluge of light, in which we
were all crowned with glory and trans
figured. Our barge was silver, our sails
of softest silk, and bright fltines played
upon the waters under us. It was one of
the gates of Paradise! There was a great
bend in the river beyond the valley, and
when wo had rounded it those gates
were closed on us for ever and
ever. The moon climbed up into
heaven and did what she could to smother
the star?; they are not easily outshone in
these crystal skies. The cabin went to
sleep in a body. I hung about tbe ship
and burned my weed with the spirit of
one who offers a sacrifice to some adora
ble but invisible object. I scented the
incense of the uargileh aud heard . he water
bubbling in the shell of the cocoanut. I
knew that the hasheesh eaters were
sleeping their fatal bleep (we have six of
them in our crew). And very shortly one
of these slaves of sleep began muttering
a story of the moon in a kind of sing-song
that attracted about him an audienoe of
intent listeners. Thai story-teller re
clined on his bed of rugs between decks ;
the hatch was drawn back and a great
square of moonlight brought him into
strong relief. Dark Nubians lay at full
length on tbe deck and listened as
stealthily a? spies. Two or three of the
hasheesh eaters sat near and applauded
the narration with foolish delight,
chuckling to themselves continually.—
Charles Warren Stoddard in the San
Francisco Chronicle.
THE CANVASS IX FLORIDA.
The Radicals Still Incubating Treason*
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.;
Tallahassee, Fla , November 14.—
Your correspondent arrived here at
three o’clock yesterday afternoon, and
went immediately to work to get at the
“bottom facts’* of Florida’s present
troubles. To-day the eyes of the entire
republic are anxiously fixed upon this
unhaf-py State, the leaders of the two
great contending parties telegraphing
their most trusted followers here that all
depends upon Florida for the election of
their respective standard-bearers. What
the final result will be no human eye can
see nor tongue can tell.
BOTH PARTIES STILL CLAIM THE ELECTION,
and the present condition of affairs by no
means indicate an early adjustment of the
wide difference between the two. To the
uninformed and unsuspecting observer, the
average politician ou either side can
prove that his party has won the contest;
but your correspondent Las endeavored
to injeatigate matters closely and weigh
the evidence impartially; stiil he finds
himself at sea. That
THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FAIRLY WON THE
VICTORY
we have not the slightest doub', after
interviewing the shinmg lights of each
party and carefully weighing the matter
in all the different lights that could be
brought to our mind, but whether they
can and will demonstrate it, and firmly
and persistently demand tbeir rights or
not, is a qu3stio i which we are unable to
pass an opinion upon with the present
indications before us.
FLOEIBA HAS BEEN REDEEMED
from Radical rule aud oppression if her
Jionest people will only take courage and
Show the filthy horde of carpot-bag plun
derers that they will submit to their
frauis no longer. A majority of the peo
ple of the State have cast their votes for
the reform candidates, and whilst they
seem to be satisfied of this fact, beyond a
doubt, they are all the time saying, “The
Radicals will count us out.” Wtll, of
course they will, dear Floridians, if you
sit quietly down aud let them doit. Tney
h done it heretofore, aud wili do it
agiiu, if you do not adopt proper and
effective means to prevent it.
At the instance of Abram S. Hewitt,
Esq., Chairman of the National Demo
cratic Executive Commi tee, the Hons.
Julian Hartridge, Phil. Cook, W. E.
Smith, aDd other honored sous of the
“Empire State,” are here for the purpose
of seeing that the vote of the State is
legally and fairly counted. As yet these
gentlemen have accomplished nothing,
aud have made no report to the
honored leader of the great reform
party. They have been in close consul
tation with Governor-elect Drew and
the leading Democrats of the State ever
since their arrival here yesterday. The
Republicans, also, have some of their
ablest men here, but ihe two parties have
utterly failed, so far, to have any under
standing, or to arrange even for an au
thorized consultation.
Yesterday was the last day allowed by
law for the counties to consolidate their
returns, still there are a number of
counties yet to hear him. The^e coun
ties, therefore, in which the official re
turns from tie election were not made
up and mailed yesterday, will be thrown
out, and the Radicals have been seeking
to occasion this delay in several Demo
cratic counties, for the purpose of having
them thrown out. Iu how many in
stances th9v have succeeded cannot be
ascertained until the mail arrives from
the East this afternoon, and probably not
then.
THE STATUTE
provides that the final count shall bo
had, and the votes of the electors of each
and every State cast, and forwarded by
messengers on the first Wedneday in De
cember. It therefore appears that whilst
the boards of canvassers in the several
counties have only six days in which to
cousolidate the returns from the different
precincts, they have at leasfc thirty day.-,
iu which to deliver them to the board of
State canvassers. Thus it will be seen
that au official count of the votes of this
State may not be ha 1 before the first
Wednesday in December ; that is to say,
if the Radicals find they are beaten (of
which fact they must certainly be already
satisfied), they will de’ay returns and
stave off the official ancouncementsof tho
result of tho election as long as possible.
Hence the excitement and uneasiness in
Florida may not be at an end before
na trly the middle of December, aod there
can be no doubt that the Radicals wiii
try to keep the electoral vote of the State
from being represented in the electoral
college at all. Of course, if they cannot
control her electoral vote, they will exert
every means in their power to keep her
out of the count entirely.
THE FIGURES.
Year correspondent has been endeavor
ing to get at the facts iu the matter of the
wide difference that exists between the
two contending parties in this so-called
“Land of Flowers,” and has diligently
interviewed leaders of both parties for the
purpose of obtaining their respective es
timates or figures. “Figures,” you know,
we are told, “won’t lie.” Well, wo have
been to considerable trouble to get the
following, and if they do deceive us, then
we cau say that that old adage has played
out.
THE DEMOCRATS
claim twenty-eight out of the thirty-nine
counties of the State by the annexed ma
jorities:
Jack-on 96
Levy 286
Liberty 65
Taylor 175
Washington 320
Walton 420
Baker 98
B ad rord 499
Clay 1C8
Columbia 185
Hamilton 291
Putnam 45
Suwannee 175
St. John’s 180
Monroe CO
Polk 433
Santa Rosa 353
Dade 5
Hernando 500
Hillsboro 614
Holmes 195
Manatee 400
Monroe 67
Orange 800
Sumpter 395
Wauknlla 183
Vonsia 331
LaF/iyette 245
Thus it will be seen Drew's majority is
914. The nine counties claimed by
Stearns footing up only 6,954.
The dispatch pent you last night by
this correspondent was correct, aud the
figures therein given remain unchanged.
There are about four hundred troops
here, Gen. J. M. Brauan immediately
commanding. Gen. Ruger, Georgia’s
Military Governor just after the war, is
also here to oversee matters.
Brooks.
NORTHERN ELECTION TACTICS. | ELECTION FRAUDS IN FLORIDA.
One of the remarkable discoveries made
by the gallant Arctic explorers is that the |
iength of a polar night is one hundred
and forty-two days. 1
The Democra ic 'triumph in Burke.
Waynesboro, Ga , Nov. 13.—Editor
Morning News; After the close of
the Presidential and Congressional elec
tion in Burke, faces brightened up
and the people found they were
a unit against radicalism, albeit the
divisions and spirited contest between
Democrats in the October election created
the gravest apprehensions. Bur, notwith
standing these misgivings—that the di
visions existing then would result disas
trously to the Democrats in November—
Tilden and Hendricks carried the county
by 753 majority, and Hartridge 752. We
feel now that all is well with ns.
A. M. Rogers, elector for the first dis
trict, who lives here, ran 160 votes behind
his tieket in Burke. With that excep
tion, everything was just as desired.
Alexander.
[From an Occasional Correspondent.]
Philadelphia, November 13. — Ooe
who has not witnessed a political cam
paign as it is now conducted iu these
parts, can hardly imagine the scenes at
tending such a contest. We know some
thing of how the carpet-bag element
manages with the poor negro in our own
locality, but when it comes to
the “ intelligent” voter, the free
born citizen of this great State, one
looks for something different: and yet the
masses here are just as readily maaipula
ted by their bell-weathers and their par
tisan press, as are our negroes. With a
red shirt, a sky-blue cap aud a kerosene
torch, these men are led round as sheep,
and voted absolutely at the will of their
leaders. With education and intelligence,
and generally well informed, they can re
ceive no political information only as it
comes through the columns of the
particular paper they swear by;
but in that id story is
too absurd for credence, and tho grea'
staple of these tale? relates to the South.
If it were to be asserted that we fed on
“uig-zer” steak and then tanned the “nig
gcrV* hide for boots,it (the story, not tbe
boots) all would be swallowed greedily,
and it is piled on heavily without doubt.
“Good Lord, how this world is given to
lying,” but Shakespeare’screations in this
way ars insignificant. “I said in my wrath
all men are liars,” wrote tho Psalmist,
but if they had any champion liars in
his day they have left no record. Dick
ens, in his “Blue and Buff” contest, prob
ably thought be was drawing a highly
colored picture, but against any aud all
the creations of romance or history ycu
may safely back the pariisau press of
Philadelphia for good, square lying. They
lie by char-: and compass, by rule aud
plumb line; they lie up one side and down
the other, then they begin in the
middle aud lie both ways, and
it is not only simple lying, mind you,
but they actually swear toil; go before
an Alderman and make affidavit in due
and solemn form. You may have hea*d
of men who could swear “through a
stone wall,’ but these should then be able
to swear a very tunnel through the Alps.
Rebel outrages, rebel war debts, rebel
claims and murders and hates and ends
and aims of most absurd and improba
ble proportions are circulated and
are current everywhere as the coin
of the realm. Nor does it in
the least avail to deny or even to dis
prove these shallow lies. The hardest
task of those who oppose the Radical
party here has been to clear themselves
of the odium of Southern affiliation, and
I verily believe it had been better for
Mr. Tilden here had we of the South
“planted” on Hayes, as in the last can
vass we did on poor Greeley, for you
may hear men by hundreds and
thousands declaring that they
would like to see a change in
national affairs, but are afraid
to entrust the government to the hands ol
men who are friends to the South, and to
men, intelligent, well meaning men, al
though they are upon the very verge of
starvation, although they see distress and
ruiu all around th^m and worse in the
near future, and although they know that
all this was brought upon them by the
rascally and corrupt men whom they have
placed in power—they will, and they do,
continue to support these men, because
of these bloody shirt stories and at the
command of their political leaders.
_ R.
Party Feeling No Excn-e for Fraud.
[From the New Y'ork Journal of Commerce.]
Party feeling, it is said, runs high.
Doubtless it does. The events of the
past three days bavo been enough to
quicken the blood in the veins of the
most apathetic. But we put great trust
in the good sense, justice and moderation
of the people. We do not believe that
the men of either party, except their
“scurvy politicians,” wili tolerate or
extenuate any semblance of fraud in
counting or declaring the returns of the
late election. If any party hopes to win
the campaign not by h- nest voting, but
by tricks in canvassing the votes, it has
entered upon a road which will quickly
lead it to ruin. A parly might gain
a passing aud seeming advantage
by fraudulently counting in a Presi
dent, but such a deception would be
sure to be found out and recoil upon
its inventors and practisers to their utter
destruction. No party can command the
confidence aud adherence of any great
pro ortion of the American voters that
would tamper with the results of the
election in the fashion of which w»: have
heard so many hints and misgivings in
the past few days. The political leaders
know perfectly well that the moderate
men who form the great majority of the
two parties will sternly condemn any at
tempt to change by fraud the lawful fig
ures of the election, and will hold its per
petrators to a strict reckoning. Therefore
we trust that the base designs which have
been credited by public rumor to certain
desperate partisans touching the votes of
tho doubtful Southern States will > e
abandoned. If the Republican party-
managers are wise they will not give
these schemes another moment’s hearing.
It would be much better for the Repub
lican party itself—and assuredly for the
entire country—that it should lose the
election of Hayes lawfully than to place
him in power (if it could) by any means
of trickery. Iu the one case the party
would be honorably defeated, but would
maintain its party organization strong
and compact for future engagements.
In the other case it might be successful
in its one object through dishonor, but it
would wholly forfeit the good opinion
and support of those who now form it3
strength and pride.
Let the politicians but thoroughly un
derstand that the people will not
put up with the election of a
President by fraud — that the
choice between Hayes and Tilden is of
far less importance in their minds than
the parity and honesty of our elections^-
and these wild aud infamous projects, en
tertained by only a few daring aDd reck
less spirits, will be abandoned to the
darkness whence they came.
The Attempt of the Radical* to Carry Ont
the Chandler Proiramme.
No “Let Up” fob Him.—Mrs. Julia
Johnson was not a vindictive looking
woman, bui her heart must have been
made of vulcanized India rubber to resist
her husband’s touching appeals, as she
stood before His Honor at the Washing
ton Place Police Court and remorselessly
gave him over to the clutches cf the
law.
“He’s my husband, Yer Honor,” said
she, “worse luck for me, au’he s a w* rth-
less good-for-DOthin’. He was drunk
last night an’ he abused me so he did.
an’ I wish you would send him up for it.”
“Judge, Yer Honor, I’m a hard workin'
man, I am, an’ exceptin’ the fact that I
sometimes drink. I’m exemp’ary, I am.
An*, Judge, she don’t know what she’s a
doin,’ ” wailed tb e prisoner.
The officers all said “hush,” and one
went so far as to say “shut up,” but the
prisoner’s anguish was too deep to be
thus checked, aud he appealed to his
wife, “Oh, don’t, Julia, now don’t doit,
you don’t know what your a doin’; now
please don’t dfe it; for God’s sake, Julia,
don’t do it. On, pshaw now, Julia,
please let up on me.”
“There’s no let up for you,” said
Julia.
“What’s your business?” asked the
court.
“I’m a sort of a general clerk like,”
said ihe prisoner vaguely.
“Thiee dollars fine,” said His Honor.
“Now, Julia, see what you’ve done,”
said the victim as he stepped down, but
J ulia only smiled and thanked the court.
Few persons are aware that veritable
Egyptian mummies are ground np into
paint. Bat in this country and in Europe
mummies are used for this purpose—the
asphaltum with which they are impreg
nated being of a quality superior to that
which can elsewnere be obtained, and
producing a peculiar brownish tint when
made into paint, which is priaed by dis
tinguished artists both of this and of other
•ountries.-- Washington Gazette.
[From the Jacksonville Press of Taesday.j
The plot thickens. The nefarious
| schemes ©f the Radical leaders slowly
develop themselves and reveal a set de
termination on their part to carry the
I election by fraudulent counting. They
, did what they could on the day of elec-
: tion, but failing to poll a sufficient num
ber of votes to overcome the honest
Democratic majority of the State, they
have determined to carry their point
I through fraud. Two counties have
been selected in which a large
part of the infamous work is to be ac
complished, viz: Jackson and Alachua.
Iu the first many colored people voted
with the Democrais, fairly carrying the
county by 103 major.ty. The Republi-
| cans have cooked up the most absurd
stories of violence, of ballot-burning, etc.
Col. Gibbes, au honorable and truthful
gentleman, direct from Quincy, was in
our office yesterday afternoon, and he
said that he had heard nothing about the
alleged acts of violence in Jackson until
he came to this city. We have no ques
tion that the reports put in circulation are
manufactured out of whole cloth in this
city and Tallahassee.
To show the unscrupulous and fraudu
lent means resorted to by our Radical
opponents, we give a few facts: In
Bronson, Levy county, a Deputy United
States Marshal, a violent partisan, de
manded possession of the ballot boxes,
after the voting and previous to the can
vass of the votes; in Palatka, a negro
Deputy United States Marshal, named
Bram, interfered, arrested and dragged
from the polls a citizen, who, being chal
lenged, had made the necessary oath aud
was about to deposit his ballot; this same
ignorant and passionate representative of
a great government forced a boy under
age to swear that ho was twenty-one and
to vote, and the poor boy came crying
from the polls, giving as a reason for his
tears that Bram had made him do
what he knew to be wrong. Iu Jeffer
son county negro women, backed
by the men, forced the Democratic chal
lengers from the room where the voting
was being done, and would not permit
them to remain even near the windows.
This outrage was submitted to because
resistance would have created a riot. At
Eu erprise J. W. Price, Judge of tha:
judicial circuit, headed a column of ovei
fifty negroes and marched them to th*
polls, voting them solid for the party.
(What can the people expect when sucL
partisans wear the judicial ermine?). A<
Barnes’s store, iu Alachua county, it i:.
alleged that over forty negro women, iu
male attire, voted for the party. This, if
true, cap3 the climax of their frauds. As
to cases of individual intimidation anc:
illegal voting, “their name is legion,’
aud many of them will be developed ir
due time.
Iu Jefferson county one of the desig
uated precincts (Beasley’s) was not voteu-
at, but the polls were opened at Lick
spittle, nearly a mile from Beasley’s. A
Aloniic-'llo letter says: “The grosses?
frauds were perpetrated. Our challen
gers were excluded from the poll rooms,
notwithstanding their written agreement
to admit them, and they ran in their
boys, non-residents, etc., at pleasure.
There are also gross irregularities. There
are about six hundred more votes re
turned than there are voters in the county
by the official census.”
In Alachua county the grossest fraud
have been perpetrated. The honest vote
of that county, as shown by the precinc*
returns, gave the Republicans a little ove r
four hundred majority, but the vote, a 1
canvassed yesterday, gave them over
seven hundred. One of the boxes wh-
opened and the ballots tampered with t*.
secure this result. The following tele
grams to Colonel Daniel further explai:.
the fraud :
S. Y. Finley telegraphs: “Whole num
her of votes canvassed, 3,237—Stearns.
1.977; Drew, 1,260; Republican majority.
717. Could not get an honest count. A
clean forgery of 219 votes proven. Hu..
and Finley ran with Drew.”
Hon. J. B. Dawkins telegraphs : “Re
turns sent up from Archer precinct (No
2) claiming 535 votes polled—399 Repub
lican and 136 Democratic. Two inspec
tors and three by-slanders make affidavit „
that tin true vote cast was 316. o
which 180 were Republican and 136 Dem
ocratic. No tally-sheet was found in th«
ballot-box, and ouiy ballots. Returns
forged and false aad proofs at hand t
o-jnvie lite fraud.
Th* - imagine the.
such MO as this wiil wir
tliiii l i of canvas cr? wii
acknowledge it as they Ld the frauds o:
1872 and 1874, when Httlaek nd Blox
ham, and Finley were lounu l
them; but we tell them the da,
is passed. The people of the wLu
nation have their eyes upon F.orida, am!
the honest sentiment of the country, both
Democrats and Republicans, demands a
fair count, aud this they aud the people
of Florida will have.
The Radical leaders, who countenanc •
and abet such outrages upon the most
sacred rights of the people, cannot there
by win success, and will cover them
selves with an eternal weight of infamy.
They had better pause in their mad and
vile scheme before retreat becomes im -
possible, and defeat and disgrace an 1
ruin i3 to them inevitable.
Samuel J. Tilden.
[Boston Post]
The name of the next President of the
United States most naturally excites the
encomiums of those who have long been
placed in full view of his character, and
provokes the closer inquiries of those
who have to a degree consented to ac
cept it on trust. Let it not be forgotten
at the outset that the Republican mana
gers and leaders, prior to tbe St. Louis
Convention, freely declared their belief
that the Democrats did not dare to make
so thoroughly good a nomination. If he
had chanced to be overborne at St. Louis,
as Bristow was at Cincinnati, they had
the taunt already on their tongues for the
canvass, that the Democratic party did not
mean reform, because it rejected the can
didate who was irrevocably identified with
reform and in the truest sees© its embodi
ment. But, as matters resulted, in the
two nominating conventions, the Demo
crats presented Samuei J. Tilden, while
the critical Republicans refused Bristow.
The canvass thus opened with adminis
trative reform distinctly presented on one
side, and a guilty evasion of it on the
other, with calumny to supply the va
cancy. Of course, therefore, the tri
umph of the reform party implies that
the character of its successful candidate
is precisely what it was when the Repub
licans themselves challenged his nomina
tion. Their own testimony shall do ser
vice for the man whom the Democrats
nominated and have elected.
We fully believe that Providence has
raised up this man for the special work
to which the country has now called him.
We firmly hold to the idea that his past
training, his remarkable natural gifts, his
profound political convictions and his
great strength of will, have been reserved
by the favor of Heaven, for the unusual
service which is waiting for so rare a man
to perform. The ordinary politician
wnolly misses it when he thinks he has
measured him. For Governor Tilden,
besides being an astute and able politician
himself, understands the desirable secret
of making tbe politician do good work for
the statesman. With his quick and clear
knowledge of men. he is sure to select his
agents with unusual sagacity and station
them with the greatest effect. A master
of the science of political economy, in
both its principles and details, his head
is the one of ail others that is needed in
the Executive place in the goA eminent.
Although he has not passed any portion
of his life in the routine of Congressional
work, his conception of the proper char
acter of that work so far transcends that
of the average legislator that the latter
would naturally look up to him as an in
structor rather than treat him as a dis
ciple. His well known experience with
the twin serpents of corruption in New
York qualifies him as the very Hercules
who is wanted to strangle the hydra of
corruption in the administration of the
General Government.
As President of the United States, we
believe Gov. Tilden is going to surprise
ail parties alike with his rare combination
of strong and high qualities. His natural
ambition is sure also to be enlisted in the
work for which his gifts and character so
admirably adapt him. During his wel
come administration the country will see
peace everywhere restored on the basis of
law aud justice. The sentiment of union
will be made to yield practical results.
The problem of taxation, in which is of
course included the carrying of the pub
lic debt, will be solved for the relief of
burdened labor and idle capital. The
commodities cf life will be brought with
in the easy reach of honest industry, by
tbe readjustment of the tariff and the
amendment of the sysiem of iuternai taxa
tion. Ho will see that tbe govern
ment lives within its income, after
having, with the co-operation of Con
gress, reduced that income to the lowest
standard compatible with current neces
sities. The dangerous tendency to cen
tralization which tho military spirit has
60 long fostered in our republican system
will be corrected by remitting local inter
ests and duties to local sovereignty. In
this way the healthy balance of power
wili be preserved and responsibility wiil
be safely distributed. Aud financial
quackery is so to end. So, too, will
those swollen pretensions to statesman
ship that ate the hedge in which empty
dullness hides. President TildoD, in our
sincere belief, is about to introduce a new
era in politic*, of which his own character
and accomplishments furnish the outline
equally with the promise.
The Centennial t-xposition a Financial
Success.
[From tbe New York Joarnal of Commerce.]
The exposition has earned for the
United States Government first, and the
stockholders efterward, a much larger
amount cf profits than had been expected
from it under the best auspices. There
is no lamentation to be raised over funds
completely wasted or stolen. According
to the turnstile accounts and the publish
ed bills of expenses, the Commissioners
must have made a neat profit of betwe< n
$1,500,000 and $2,000,000 out of the
show. If this estimate is correct, the
United States Treasury should receive
back at an early day the $1,500,000 loaned
by Congress to the exposition. This loan
was made at a time when subscriptions
from all other sources had come to a dead
halt. The Commissioners were at their
wits’ ends and in despair. Th* y prophesied
, the failure of the enteiprise unless Con-
; gresa came to their help. They were
j anxious to accept any terms of repayment
: hut Congress might set. Many rr^m-
toersof • >th parties in Congress resisted
: ihe entreat:* s of the Commissioners—
! first, became those gentlemen distinctly
ted the pledge which had beer von ’
It is the practice in Austria for tbs
post office to receive remittances in cask,
transmit them as received, and deliver
them at their destination. These re
mittances are distributed by a special
carrier, who, of course, usually has a
good deal of money on hi person. A
needy tcoundrel, speculating ou this
practice, recently took furnished lodg -
ings in Vienna at the house of a reduce !
Baroness living in the well known stret t
of the Graheu, the Regent street of tbe
Austrian capital, and caused a remittance
to be sent to him there through the
mails. When tho unfortunate messenger
in due time made his appearance this in
genious villain fell upon him, slew and
robbed him. The deed was done so
quickly and quietly, and the plans of the
assassin bad been so well laid, that he
escaped before his crime wai discovered.
Ou searchin^Jhis rooms, however, the
police discovered the stamped address,
on a hat lining, of a hatter at Klagenfurl,
in Transylvania, which had been over
looked by him in his flight, and he wbs
shortly afterwards “sniped” at that place.
The crime is the sensation of the moment
at Vienna, hut not so much because of
its atrocity, nor yet because of the light
it throws on the perils of the cash re
mittance system, as because of the rank
of the assassin’s landlady !
Was it a “ Square Deal ?”—A curious
story comes from Paris. It is not so very
long since a young man, well dressed atid
apparently rich, entered a clandestine
gaming house. He was playing at trente-
et quarante, and had already won a liitie
pile of gold. “Red wins,” presently said
the banker, and proceeded to hand over a
hundred Napoleons to the unknown one,
for the stakes were high. But the stran
ger made no attempt to take the gold,
and returned no answer to the three or
four questions put to him in reference to
♦ he game. His eyes remained fixed on
the red, while his features assumed a
ghastly paleness. A player touched his
arm—he was dead. Tnen the banker
coldly withdrew the one hundred Napole
ons, observing that play was in the nature
of a reciprocal contract, which could only
bt? entered into between parties both of
whom were capable of contracting, and
therefore never between a live man and a
dead one. The cause of death was heart
disease, and the official report was soon
drawn up in proper form. It contained,
as may be imagined, no sort of reference
to a gaming house.—Pall Mall Gazette.
Hereafter it will not be unusual to hear
the following commands given by United
States officers to their commands on dress
parade : “ Attention, battalion—dress
upon the centre—steady—front—fix bay
onets— load — prepare to count — now
promptly, men, count.” When the army
will be well drilled after this new fashioD,
but not till then, the country wili be
safe.—New Orleans Democrat. .
A j •x
i tne
unde
! not
vr be
that an
governraeni
to the Fair, and ait»o
believe that the money .
reimbursed. Finally, however,
missioners overcame all scruples in Con
gress, and the appropriation of
$1,500,000 was made on the express con
dition that out of the profits of the Fair
the sum above mentioned “shall be paid
in full into the Treasury of the United
States before any dividend or percentage
of the profits shall be paid to the holders
of said stock.” This is clear enough for
any honest interpretation we should think.
The language is plain and the intention
obvious. The Commissioners and the
stockholders were only toe glad to receive
the Federal aid then on any conditions.
But now that the Fair has proved remun
erative, and the Commissioners are glut
ted with money, they are not so quick to
recognize and pay the debt due the United
States. We hear of legal processes and
quibbles by which it is hoped to keep the
government out of its own and distribute
it among stockholders who never stipu
lated or expected to receive back any defi
nite sum. The stock contributions were
made from various motives, personal, pa
triotic and otherwise. But the National
Government loaned its for ds expressly to
be fttumed, and so provided in the most
careful phrasing of the appropriation act.
This is noi solely a question of refund
ing money to the United States. It is a
question also of keeping good faith with
the government. The American people
are interested that this should be done as
a matter of principle, which every citizen
ought to maintain for the general good.
At a time when there is too much laxity
among public men in fulfilling their obli
gation to tbe government, we hope to see
a good example set by the Centennial
Commissioners, and a return of the
$1,500,000 to the Treasury, which
needs it.
Hearts in Switzerland.—As I drive
over the mountain passes of Switzerland,
over the Furka and down toward the
eternal glaciers of the Rhone, I wonder
how the inhabitants of the many little
cottages I pass support themselves in
such sterile placfs. So I said to the
driver, “How do the people get a living
here ?” He looks at me surprised a
moment, and then replies, “Why, they
all work.” And surely, just over there
between a patch cf snow and those heavy
boulders, there is a green spot, and tha
Switzer has found he can raise a bit of
•jrain or flax or some potatoes there. And
beyond still is another oasis he has found,
and the mother and children are mowing
on it. So the wolf is kept from the door,
and the little miserable cottage is their
kingdom, and it is clean and respectable,
and all their own. By a*-d by the boy is
going to Lucerne, with the bright pros
pect ahead of becoming waiter in good
time, in a grand hotel. Thus the family
will have a lift; then tbe girl will go
away to better her condition, and help
the parents and the younger ones. And
so many ju3t such brave hearts and
honest lives have made even the hardest
parts of fair Switzerland to blossom like a
rose.—Letter to Boston Advertiser.
Two ladies were discussing a third, who
is, of course, absent. “She is really
charming,” says one, “ and, above all,
she has such an air of intelligence.”
“Yes,” answers the other; “but there
are no words toj