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Workmen, Mechanics :fTn ‘ '■< Porters, Boys, Cooks, dec.; Board '^*J S wanted or offered; Apartments and [Loa ‘‘ |Lj or t0 let; Houses, Stores, dc., for ^ Itt or wanted; articles, lost or found, ,U> nffti-and wanted or to rent, and mis- ' wants of aii kinds, ten cents a line foi beuflecl, °* erU KEMiTTANCES , • t ; ons or advertising can be made i orrire order, Registered Letter, or Ex . , r r-k All letters should be ad 6t Our **-**• , it tpumiTT J. II. EST1LL, Savannah, Ga. No coal Affairs in Gronria. IraA ret arrived in Atlanta, al though the 8trit0 terminated several days I Columbus has warehoused G2.183 bales of je cotton crop since September 1,1876. J ibe Cuinmbus Times says : “Tho tide of ■migration has again turned Westward. Iiuitea number of white and colored emi. InutB lolt on the Western Railroad train Itstcrasy tor Texas and Mississippi. We -jupe they will all do weii by going, but be lieve they would do much hotter by staying r of the stockholders of liere. I The annual m lie National Rank of Columbus was held at ■ banking house on the 9tli inst. Tho owing gentlemen wero elected Directors lor the ensuing year: J. Rhodes Browne, N. I- c ar tis L. T. Downing, James Rankin, f harks Wise and George W. Dillingham. | It coat the State $75 for the House to de- |;Ue whether a Chaplain should bo paid $100 ■or the session. I Two colored brothers raised a row in Lurch, at Tort Valley, last Sunday night Lout a seat. They had their knives drawn, End were going into the carving business, then the Marshal was called in and quelled ■he disturbance. I Taylor county Sheriff’s sales are published lu tho Macon Telegraph. Tho people con- linue to do all they can to starve out tho local press. I The Carroll county Times says: “Tho newsboys’ yearly greeting sent out by tho ^Tjausnau News this year is an elegant Kj'ccimeu of typography, as well as literary Composition.” The Milledgeville Recorder says: “Tho Bead body of a man by the name of Reid (was found near Brown’s Crossing, on the M. k A. It. It., last Tuesday. There wero no Larks ot violence to be found on his body, Lnd it is supposed bo froze to death. He was about sixty-live years of age.” Onocf the last acts of Governor Smith’s kdmiuistratiou was the appointment of ben. 8. R Myrick, of Baldwij county, a bastes of the Lunatic Asylum. Colonel Isaac Wilkorson, an old citizen of It dire-, died at hia r-*idtf.ep in ifcpt city on Wednesday morning last. His health had been failing several years. Ia returning home last Tuesday night, BIr. William L>. Christy, of Athene, slipped loathe enow and ice, getting a violent fall, which fractured one of the boies of his leg. The Griffinites want a good theatre troupe Ko come that way. Perhaps when tfie keather becomes moro settled up that way, hud beautiful spring takes the place of plushy winter, this sire of Grifliu will be satisfied. J If the Griflin A eirs don’t get an open let- |ter from Ben in the shape of a postal card we I shall begin to think Ben was personal when ho wrote to the Morning News. The Griffin AVirs says: “Ben Hill is being bolstered |np with a batch of letters from leading Dem- r&tic magnates, certifying to his fealty to ;e Democratic party. Too late Benjamin. ^Senator's character should bo like the Mpuiation of Ca-sar’s wife, above sus- Certlticatea of character are the weakest evidence of tho thing they attempt to prove.” The following are t.ho county officers elect- din Biuka county : T. F. Hill, Ordinary; B. F. Suddetb, Sheriff; W. A. Holbrook, Tax |Receiver; I*. A. Waters, Tax Collector; Wm. Treasurer; R. J. Dyer, Clerk Supo |rior Court; N. L. Turk, Surveyor; Arf- Coroncr; T. A. Neal, W. J. Wilsv, M. Hamby, County Commissioners. The Atlanta Constitution, in a leading |editorial on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, say.; “The announcement that the Atlantic j and Gulf Railroad would be unable to meet the January interest on its bonded debt has been freely commented on by our exchanges the line of the road, and a general impression seems to prevail among the Stockholders and others more or less in terested that the best thing to do under the hirearustances would be to sell the road | under the mortgage, and thus remove the *mly obstacle in the way of placing it upon »n entirely new and prosperous looting.” w °nld like to^now how selling the road Jj adtr the mortgage would accomplish that |o<--sired result. The fact is, the embarrass- is only temporary, and was occasioned J .• the loss of earnings daring the epidemic, I—d the indications are that, with a healthy |season, the road will be able to meet its matured and maturing obligations. If sold j 11 mus * ho at a heavy sacrifice. ^* r . 1. Bowdre Phinizy, an active business man, of Augusta, died on Tuesday after an atBa & hout ten davs. He was twenty- 'cn years of ago and was the sen ol Mr. erdinacu Phinizy, of Athens, and a gradu- d the .State University of that place. ^ six-pound trout caught in a mill pond |^. lue vicinity of Augusta, tempts the jCure&n P^te of the Augusta reporter. . r ^“ Ort, tho State School Com- ^•i-.oner, visited over forty counties of i"*.' ,A Ute * aHt ytar> ma ^° Public addres.es ^ ' ic - one of them, spent eight months in ei l^- at an expense to the State of not *«eedmg forty dollars. Uit ^ azeile . states that on Monday Mr ltr.K . Sr act ^ Sin house combined, of Was , " a y ne . together with his mill, r.nt food. The mill fiad but recently been ■ Dot in . U11U I up* *^ nnin R or der and supplied with a I cn Sine. Several bales of cotton were Ibnmr several t ■ Kin f! * a t i e « in house. This is the third IcjumvttiV-HV lias ^ oeI1 burned iu this Ins snm ubl “ thc * P-^st six weeks. The gin t0 • llaVL ‘ been set on fire. Mr. ligQ- * oal a Riu house about two weeks lU’led n°’ anot ber party whose name wo | to secure. I L ! ut j ,,na ^ 1 says: “From the |0rrwfti rt °\ ^ tate School Commissioner I are i„.t$ earn , at in Richmond county there L-»n o r £« n !) ie a ^ ea six and eighteen ilte ma5ft children, 2,121 white 12,05s OA uiA rei l» colored males ami ; total white and col- <lre a There are 199 white chil- eightc-p.. W6en ^h° ages of ten and C| mjot _ years m this county who coiorefi enmfif • nor Write . and 3,012 White • l6 » Q0ran t. The number of an< i ovf-r llie co nntv unable to read the onniki? . en year . 8 is Altogether oyer people in Richmond county colored females; or a total white I their Ab q£®_-*..®jshteeu unablo to read 19 5,432. From Prof. Orr’s ro- I‘^iterate more ignorant and l 8t »te^thSrJ P i.° ^han any other county in the 1*011 liouatnn «\ n8 in Pulaski, Dougherty I tb<*n Q j n a ?^ c h °nly a fraction over four [hirni 5,273 ab e t0 read » whiI ° c h»tham re- T*™ 68 exposes the wealth coronr.ti lta T lea( Hng individuals Ififty^ PL r ^55? 8 .* says: “There are ftwbo p-_ . ln dividuals and corporations fee bi e u axe ? on 510,000 and upwards, fetapau'k 8 A 18 Ihe Eagle and Phenix ItJlaia assessment is $530,550; trustee, ney J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. The following shows the whole enumera tion : B. F. Coleman, $13,750; Columbus Iron Works, $13,300; Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing Company, $536 550- L. T. Downing, $34,701 ; R. L. Mott, $22,850 ; Chattahoochee National Bank, §10 000; T. J. Pearc \ $12,000; G. P. Swift, $13,500; Swift, Murphy & Co., §20,050; 51. J. Crawford, $15,700; H. H. Epping, $22,925; H. S. Estes, $25,275; J. Hanserd, $31,500; A. C. McGehec, $15,500; L. Spen cer, $10,800; F. Reich, $17,350; l. Joseph, $10,COO; W. It. Brown, $19,950; A. Illges, $CG,100; P. Gittinger, $11,750; James Lewis, $12,000; James Kivlin, $15,700; Mn&cogee Home, §11,000; Me-srs. Bass, $59,055; R. B. Murdock, $19,000; L. L. Oowdery, $9,250; Georgia Home Insurance Company, $68,- 500; C. P. Dempsey, $32,500; *C. A. Klink, $27,250; I. G. Strapper, $49,- 750; Girard estate, $40,500; J. Kyle, $41,- 500; P. Preer, $23,000; Wells & Co., $31,000; T. Nuckolls, $34,250; G. L. McGough, $11,- 250; D. L. Booher, $20,500; G. II. Thornton, $12,500; J. It. Brown, $42,570; James Rankin, $123,000; W. L. Salisbury, $40,900; Mrs. Ann Adbms, $17,000; J. E. Webster, $15,500; G. W. Woodruff, $26,500; W. L. Tillman, $18,- 000; A. J. Bethune, §44,750; Chas. Burrus, $35,000; Mnscogee Manufacturing Company, $50,750; F. J. Springer, §20,900; John Mc Carty, $12,550; Female College, $10,500; St. Joseph’s Academy, $10,000; John Quin, $12,- 150; J. H. Connor & Co., $14,950; Miss S. E. Warnock, $10,000; J. li. Strupper’s esta*e, $13,000; Messrs. Biggers, $15,200.” T he trial of tho Chief of the Macon pol ca, which has been iu progress for some time, was disposed of Tuesday night, as appears by the following from the Macon Telegraph and Messenger: “When the case was called Alderman Singleton moved that he be found guilty of malpractice in office, which was lost by a vote of three yeas and eight nays. Alderman Singleton moved that he bo found guilty of neglect of duty, which passed by the vote of seven yeas and four nays. The same Alderman then moved that he be found guilty of improper conduct in office, which passed by tho vote of the en tire board, except that of Alderman Knight, who declined to vote on any of tho motions. Alderman Johnston offered tho following as tho judgment of the Council : In tho matter of the Hayor and Council of the city of Macon vs. O. F. Adams, Chief of Police, upon charges preferred against him by Alderman Knight of malpractice iu office, neglect ot dnty and improper conduct as Chief of Police, we, the Mayor and Council, find that tho charge of malpractice is not sustained by the proof. And we further find that the charges of neglect of duty and improper conduct are sustained by the proof, and that O. F. Adams, Chief of Police, is guilty of neglect of duty and improper conduct as alleged in tho amended charges. Whereupon it is considered and adjudged by the Mayor and Council, that the said O. F. Adams be reprimanded in open Council by tho Mayor and that he pay a tine of fifty dollars. That the apology already read iu Council be considered ample to the Mayor and Council aud to Alderman Knight; and that the resolution of Council, suspending him from duty, be rescinded, when said Adams will assume tho functions aud duties of his office as Chief of Police. The judg ment was adopted by a vote of eight m favor and three against it. Tho Mayor called Mr. Adams forward and administered au appropriate reprimand. Mr. Adams paid to the clerk the fifty dollars fiuo imposed and resumed his office.” Affairs in Florida. The Presbytery of East Florida met in the Ocean Street Presbyterian Church in Jack sonville yesterday. The introductory ser mon wa3 preached by Rev. H. H. Carver. Sentence of death was pronounced in the Circuit Court Monday upon William Brad- dock, who was convicted during the present term ot tho murder of Mr. C. Ufer. It de volves upon the Governor to determine the time of execution. Pratt, of the Palatka Herald, notices that the shad caught there this winter are larger than usual and in greater abundance. So much for good, honest Democratic govern- Pakstka has a population of 1,200—and plenty room for dwellings. Captain W. Siokes Boyd, of Jacksonville, was injured at Kettle River Bridge Railroad disaster, and is at the Arlington Hotel, Lynchburg, under surgical treatment. Mrs. Boyd, his wife, who was on the train with him, escaped injury. Andrew Wright, a colored man employed iu the Tallahassee Sentinel office, was as saulted in the public road on the northern limits of the city on Saturday night by a party of six or seven robbers, and forcibly deprived of everything of value about his person. One of the party was recognized, and on Sunday wa3 arrested and lodged in jail. Samuel A. Swann,Esq.,agent and manager of th6 Florida Land and Emigration Society, has authorized an offer of forty acres ol land on the line of railroad from Fernandina to Cedar Keys, for the best display of Florida products exhibited by any one from the counties on that road. Tho Tallahassee Floridian has this item : “Two colored men, having a yoke of oxon in their possession, came across tho country from tho direction of Gadsdon county on Saturday last under very suspicious circum stances, aud being reported to tbo Sheriff of this county they were arrested and lodged in jail. They have since confessed to steal ing the oxen from a farmer of Gadsden. The Sheriff of that county has been no tified.” A white man named Reynolds was brought from Wakulla on Saturday and lodged in Leon county jail, charged with being con nected with a mail robbery at Crawfordville some three years ago, when a draft from the United States Treasury, in favor of Mr. Thomas, a mail contractor, wa3 stolen. J. M. Gaskins was Postmaster at tho time, and was tried and convicted, and sentenced to the Albany penitentiary for a term of years. The Rev. Dr. Fitzpatrick has been re turned by the annual Conference of the Methodist Church South as pastor of the church in Tallahassee, and tho Rev. Mr. Blake has been appointed to the church in Monti cello. On the east side of Lake George, in Put nam county, a party engaged as loggers had a difficulty last week, and iu the fuss a gun went off and killed one of the party. The man named Isaac Gunter, whose gun was discharged, came down to Palatka and wanted to give himself up. Bat as the killing seemed to be accidental, Judge Thompson did not proceed in the case. The following preamble aud resolution was adopted in tho General Assembly on the 15th : “ Whereas, It is published that Hon. R. B. Archibald, Circuit Judge of tho Fourth Judicial Circuit of this State, as a witness before a committee of United States Senate, testified as follows: The State Senate stood twelve Republicans and twelve Demo crats, and Johnson was selected because his district was a close one, and deliberately murdered lor the purpose of giving the Democrats the ascendancy in that branch known, but there he lies, and yesterday the buzzards had an advance guard of two or three of their number circling over him as if to examine aud learn when he would become fitted for their delicate appe tites. The body has been recognized as that of au old gray haired man who lived not far from the city, aud suspicions of foul play are entertained. Tho authorities have been notified, and probably a post mortem will be hold to-dav.” of the Legislature. The evidence against Richard, the assassin, was clear, connect ed and amounted to a certainty of mathematical demonstration, and yet the jury refused to convict him. The moment ne was arrested, the whole Demo cratic bar of Jacksonville, and nearly every Democra’ic lawyer in the State, volunteered their services in his defense, while every effort was made by tho best citizens to throw the officers of justice off the track and facilitate the escape of the murderer. 7 here fore, resolved, That the Committee on Judiciary be and they are hereby instructed t3 procure a sworn copy of the testimony given by said Archibald before said Com mittee of the Senate of the United States, and report to this Assembly on tho liability of said Archibald to impeachment on ac count of said testimony.” It is due to Judge Archibald that we pub lish, in tho above connection, the following denial, published in the Jacksonville Union, as follows: “I wish to say that my evidence, when published officially, will read entirely different. I was not asked my opinion in regard to the cause of the murder of Dr. Johnson, and I gave none. I was not asked my opinion as to the guilt or innocence or Richard, and I gave none. 1 was simply questioned in regard to the evidence offered for and against him, and I gave it to the best of my recollection. I stated in answer to questions that seven attorneys appeared for the defendant at the preliminary hear ing, and three at the trial in the Circuit Court. What I find reported may be some body’s conclusions from my evidence; it is certainly very difierent from the evidence itself. R. B. Abchibald. ’ The Jacksonville Union says: “By the side of the railroad, some five or six milrs from here, ba3 lain for a day or two the body of » colored mao. Ho<r and whendie J „hat canted Jut death, it not II ■■ I Walter P. Shemwell, who escaped from custody a few days since, after having bf-en convicted of larceny from the mails at Cedar Keys, has been recaptured and loJged iQ jail at Jacksonville. lie states, that to mkke his escape he jumped from the awning at Mrs. Howard’s boarding bouso into tho street, about 7 p. m., walked down to the wharf, then along the river through swamp and bog some eighteen miles, till near day light. He told all he met his name, and some of them the circumstances of his es cape, and he was finally overtaken and cap tured in Georgia a few miles beyond the State line, and has been returned to the jail to await his sentence. He says he was con victed, and although innocent, expects to E ay the penalty of the offense charged. He as suffered much mentally and phisic&lly, particularly on account of his mother, who is crippled by an accident, and also his young brother. James Island, which is attracting atten tion as a place of resort on the Gulf coast of Florida, is described as follows: “The island lies in a southerly direction about forty miles from Tallahassee, and is sepa rated from the main land by tho Ocklockneo sn 1 Crooked rivers. It is & tract of land about twenty-one miles long by an average of four wide, well timbered, aud having a number of fresh water lakes well stocked with fish. There are several fine mineral springs upon the island, and most excellent wa*er is obtained by sinking wells ten to twenty feet.” Tho new C )mp‘.roller of Florida, Hon. Columbus Drew, has issued the following notice, which will interest Florida tax payers: “As doubts have been expressed as to the validity ot the seven mills tax levied lor 187G, and tho advertisement of tax sales suspended thereby, a bill has passed tbo present Assembly, and was to-day approved by tho Governor, which provides that tho levy and entry of said tax upon tho tax books for 1870 ‘is hereby ratified and made valid, and the said tax, together with the school tax and tho taxes for interest aud sinking fund meutiouod iu section 32 of ‘an act for the assessment aud collection of revenue,’ approved February 17.1874, shall be collect ed in the manner provided by law for tho collection of taxes.” The time for the col lection of State taxes levied for 1S70, not al ready paid, is hereby extended by tho said law to the first day of March, 1877, and it is made the duty of Collectors to collect by levy aud salo of either real or personal prop erty all taxes that remain unpaid on the said first day of March, 1877. Tho Jacksonville Press speaks in those complimentary terms of the new Comptroll er, which, all who know that gentleman, will heartily endorse: “Mr. Columbus Drew, of this city, has been confirmed as Compt roller. This honorable and responsible position is a handsome recognition ot the moral worth, high character and good citi zenship of our fellow townsman. Mr. Drew’s long residence in, aud general knowledge of the affairs of our State, will doubtless enable him to discharge satisfac torily tho duties of his office. Few possess greater general intelligence aud a purer reputation than Mr. Drew, and few can claim to a greater extent the confidence and respect of their fellows. As the two Drews drew well heretofore iu double harness, so we believe they will continue to servo tho people acceptably aud faithfully.” The following executive appointments and removals have been made in addition to those al eady published in the Morning News : Alachua.—M. M. Lewey to bo Jus tice of the Peace. Baker.—Elias Wes tor, W. C. Cobb, Stephen D. Roberts, Jr., Elias Williams and Alfred Sweat to be County Commissioners, vice W. C. Cobb, Ed. R »we, J. W. Howell and J. J. Harvey, removed ; G. S. Taylor. J. M. Burnside, J. M. Mclver and A. J. McKinney to bo Justices of tho Peace ; J. F. B. McKinney to bo County Surveyor. Clay.—M. A. Knight, L. W. Kickliter, Lewis Wilson, Jas. W. M&in&rd and Frank Walker to be County Commissioners,vice Lewis Wil son, James W. Main&rd, Henry Bram, James Andrew and G. V. Sullivan, removed; C. L. Peek to be Justice of tho Psace; Samuel M. Hendricks to be County Treasurer, vice G. W. Applegate, removed. Dade.—Wm. B. BrickeU, John Earner, Andrew Barr, Chas. Mooro and John Addison to bo County Com missioners ; Charles Moore and Wm. H. Benest to be Justices of the Peace; Geo. W. Potter to be County Surveyor; E. T. Sturte- vanfc and Ed. W. Barnett, removed as County Commissioners. Ducal.—M. C. Jordan to be Justice of the Peace; P. T. Wright to be Justice of the Peace. Escambia.—C. C. Yonge, Jr., to be Notary Public for tho State at large. Gadsden.— W. II. Eckles and W. R. lWudora removed as County Commissioners; D. H. Woodley, A. J. Millt-r, E. L. Smart, D. H. McDougald, David Clark, Henry H. Spear, Joshua Drake, Hamilton McPhaul, H. F. Sharon and Ed ward Owens to bo Justice of the Peace; F. J. Scarborough to be County Treasurer ; Wm. H. Goe to be County Surveyor; Dawd W. Hollamon, A. J. Smith, M. Bates, Wm. II. Scott and Charles Williams to be County Commissioners; D. H. Wilson and Samuel II. Ray to ba Auctioneers; Jesse Wood to bo Superintendent or County Schools, vice S. Hamblen removed. Hamilton.— Jas. H. Aucrum, Jr., Nehomiah Hall, John E. Tuteu, Wm. L. Peeples aud James Everett to be County Commissioner?, vice Thomas Altman, D. F. Lee, Robert Peaden, R. J. Bavill and W. H. Brown, re moved ; Joshua II. Roberts to bo Superin tendent of Coautj- Schools, vice R. J. Bevili, removed ; Wm. Roberts and John O. L)*g to be Justices of tho Peace, vice 8. L. Taylor aud J. W. Mullis, removed. Hei'nando.— Anderson Mayo, E. R. King and James R. Oberry to bo County Commissioners, vice James Rhodes, A. Sinclair and Joe Mills, removed; John J. Hale to be County Treasurer; 8. E. Hope to be County Surveyor; George Geiger removed as Justice of the Peace. Hillsboro —J. A. McKay, Matthew Hooper, J. P. Brownlow, Adam Hollcmon and Joseph Hawley, removed as Couuty Commissioners. Holmes—Seaborn Findal, W. M. Scott, Wm. Tu-kor, J. E. Price and Charles R. Kelley to bo County Commissioners, vice Bethel Mat tox, Mark Wilcox, David Noel aud Charles Kelley, removed ; Whitmill Curry to be Su perintendent of Common Schools; Wm. Harris and Isaac West to be Justices of the Peace. Jefferson—Wm. U. Arendell to bo Justice ok the Peace ; W. W. Wynne re moved as Justice of the Peace. Menacing Preparations The White House and all the depart ments at Washington are connected by telegraph with the Senate and the House of Representatives separately, with a view to facilitate the transaction of public business. \Ve now learn that, within the last few days, a new line of military tele graph has been laid, connecting the War Department specially with the capitol. This line may be regarded as the extension of another, recently established between the war office and the arsenal, where the troops and munitions of war lately order ed there are stationed. Congress is legislating peaceably. Com mittees of the two houses are striving to reach a satisfactory mode of counting the votes for President. There is no excite ment in Washington, and no probability of any disturbance in that community of officeholders, claim agents, contractors, lobbyists and professional jobbers. Only two or three inflammatory speeches have been made by either house, and they have been condemned by both Demo- rats and Republicans. While this is the condition of facts, a large force of artillery has been concen trated at Washington during the past month, and it is known positively that other troops are to be ordered there within the next few weeks. When reso lutions of inquiry are offered in the House to ascertain the reason for tho unusual presence of part of the army and for these military preparations in the midst of quiet, Mr. Garfield or some other agent of Grant jumps to his feet with au ob jection, aud as two-thirds then become necessary to carry the resolution, it is laid over. Now, it is useless to disguise the mean ing of these various movements, which have been chiefly directed by Don Cam eron. They form a part of the con spiracy to make Haj’es President, by force sustaining fraud. The pacific assurances and the promises of agree ment by those who are acting under the orders of Chandler, Morton, Sher man, and their confederates, are only devices contrived to withdraw atten tion from the plot, and to enable the conspirators to perfect their plans, while the deceived people are trustfully looking forward to an honorable solution of the present problems. Let the country not be deceived by the conspirators, or it may wake up some morning, as Paris did in 1851, and find the revolution in full success at the capital.— New York 8un. -TO- THE MORNING NEWS. THE GEORKIi LEGISLATURE. REDUCTION OF SALARIES TABLED. Eulogy ou a Deceased Senator. BILLS NUMEROUS. TUe Seeurity of the Capitol Building. THE 1SAUGURATIO.V BALI. [Special Telegram to the MornlDg News.] Atlanta, January 17.—Senale.-The House resolutions asking the Governor to defer the appointments until after th3 redactions in the salaries were made, was tabled, as the Governor has already commenced making his appointments. Senator F. C. Farman, of the Twentieth District, Chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings, has been granted the power to call in witnesses, under oath, and employ a skilled architect to examine into the safety of the capitol building. The matter will be thoroughly investigated. Senator H. D. McDaniel, of the Twenty- seventh District, introduced an important bill making interested parties to tho record incompetent witnesses, except as provided by laws previous to 180G and in cases now pending. Senator G. R. Black, of tho Seventeenth District, delivered a deeply affecting and eloquent eulogy on the late Senator W. J. Hudson, of Putnam county, in a feeling and graceful manner. It was a deserved aud beautiful tribute, tenderly and appropriately rendered. In respect to the deceased mem ber the Senate adjourned. House.—The House appointed a com mittee to see what repairs were needed on the executive mansion, and what new furniture is required. The Judiciary Committee reported favor ably on the bill consolidating the offices of Tax Collector and Receiver in Appling county. Bills were introduced by J. J. Roberts, of Appling, for an appropriation of fifteen hundred dollars of the State tax ot that county to rebuild tho court house and sup ply books that were burned; also to prevent the salo of liquor within three miles of Con solation Church. The House discussed the question of tho Constitutional Convention, and appointed a sub-committee to prepare a bill for the LOUISIANA. | 1HE FLORIDA CONFERENCE. The Statue quo to be Preseived. , “ ,t u * , ‘ ^.ceding.-App.i-.me.t., THE REPUBLICAN SERGEANTS-AT- ARMS RELEASED. PACKARD IN A WHINING WAY. [By Telegsaph to the Morning Neva.] New Orleans, January 17.—The iix Ser- geants-at-Arms of the Republican Senate have been released on bail. Gov. Packard, answering Gen. Augur’s request to allow matters to remain in statu quo, says: “I felt that the request would have been more appropriate if made immediately after my installation as Governor and before many of the main branches of the government had been forcibly taken possession of by the opposition,” but concludes, “I will give the pledge requested that no effort will be made on the part of the lawful State Government to forcibly disturb the existing state of affairs without further commnnicatico \.ith you.” Noon Telegrams. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. John O’.Mahoncy, the Fenian Leader, Djiuff. TUB TURKISH GRAND COUNCIL A HEAVY NEW YORK FAILURE. Fatal Threshing Jfnehiae Explosion. Geo. T. Fry, of Fulton, introduced a voluminous bill to amend the constitution without resorting to a convention. H. P. Brewer, of Effingham, introduced a hill to provide for the criminal courts in that county. G. A. Malette, of Camden, introduced a bill to regulate tho roads and revenues of that county ; also, to allow certain indigont persons to peddle without licenses. Felder Lang, of Charlton, introduced a bill to consolidate certain offices in said connty. The House is sti. l on the call of counties, and bills are numerous. Frobel received two and not twenty-seven votes jesterday for Comptroller. The Governor is still overrun with office seekers. Great preparations are being made by McGinley for a grand inauguration ball at the Kimball House to-night. Despite the rain it will be worthy of the occasion it honors. The nouse and Senate committees are getting to work and will soon be able to ex pedite legislation and make the session short. THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE. THE! SUBJECT OF I MM I Gil A TION Appropriations lor Witnesses. DENNIS AND CESSNA. The Electoral Vote Dill PaN(*e«l. [Spsciil Telegram to the Morning News.] Tallahassee, January 17.—The Board of Trustees asks the Legislature to authorize the Governor to appoint an agent, subject to tbo board’s approval, to reside in New York, to solicit immigration, aud for fifteen hundred dollars to bo appropriated to defray expenses. A bill making appropriations of one thou sand dollars to pay witnesses summoned by the Committees of the Legislature, was referred t:> the Committee on Legislative Expenses. Mr. McKinnie, from the special committeo on Dennis and Cessna, says his ommittee is at a standstill for tho want of this appro priation. This committee was ordered to report at four o’clock this evening. Tho Sonate has passed the electoral vote bill with a minor amendment concurred in by the Assembly. It is ordered enrolled, and goes to the Governor. FROM WASHINGTON. THE PRESIDENTIAL COUNT. Meeting of the National Democratic Executive Committee. The* Scope of President pro tern. Ferry’s Dalles. [By Telegraph to the Morning News.] Washington, January 17.—The indica tions are that the meeting of the National Democratic Committee to-morrow night will not favor any unusual steps on the part of the Democracy in Washington pending the counting of the electoral vote by Congress. The proposition that the functions of the President pro tern, of the Senate have no scope beyond opening the returns, of which he is the custodian, and handing them to the official tollers, may be regarded as aban doned. Special correspondents to Northern papers adhere to the assertion that the participa tion of the Supreme Court ia the count is an inevitable element of any possible compro mise between the House and the Senate. W. E. CHANDLER IN CONTEMPT. Washington, January 17.—William E. Chandler will bo reported as in contempt by the Committee on Privileges and Duties of the House, because he refuses to answer whether the dispatches received at Talla hassee had reference to troops and money, until permitted by Gov ernor Stearns, who was his client. He claims to have acted as a legal adviser aud that his knowledge is privileged. Tho same committeo have subpicnaed the Exe cutive Committee of tke Western Union Telegraph Company. This committee is now summoned by both branches of Congress. Barnes, the New Orleans telegraph man ager, is allowed to repair to New Orleans in the custody of a Sergeant-at-arms to secure the papers called for. Should it prove that the papers are beyond his reach, he will be discharged aftor his report to that effect within ten days. THE GRAND COUNCIL OF TURKEY. London, January 17.—The Vienna corres pondent of the Hews reports that Mi ihat Pasha had taken the unusual step of invit ing the Catholic, Armenian, Greek aud Bul garian Patriarchs to participate in the Grand Council which decides on the Porte’s au- swer. The Council will meet on Thursday aud the conference on Saturday. Monticf.i.lo, January 15, 1877.—The closing proceedings of the Florida Con ference took place to-day. Resolutions of thanks to the families in Monticello, the churches, county officers, railroads and steamboats were adopted by a rising vote. A tribute of respect to the memory of the late Rev. E. H. Myers, D. D., was adopted; also, an expression of thanksgiv ing to Almighty God for the preservation of the lives of all the ministers daring the past year. The Bishop announced the following as the Joint Board of Finance—E. L. T. Blake, S. E. Phillips, H. B. Frazee, H. E. Partridge, R. H. Barrett, G. W. Taylor, H. W. Long, G. H. Hunter, W. A. McLean, F. A. Hendry. Visiting Committee to Emory College— *E. L. T. Blake, S. Woodbery, Jas. P. DePass. Henry B. Someillan was admitted on trial, ocing duly recommended and elec ted and ordained deacon, he being em ployed on tho Cuban mission at Key West and the discipline providing for such cases. Nine ministers were ordained on Sunday and five elders. G. W. Mitch ell was continued on trial, and D. \V. Core was located at his own request. Conference secretaries were made edi tors of the minutes. Tampa was selected as the next place for holding the Conference. Statistical report was read, showing an increase m nearly all the departments of the church. The membership has increased by four hundred members, and the work is pros pering in every direction. Young men of talent and education have joined the itineracy this year and the outlook is encouraging. The business being all completed, after singing and prayer, and a brief address by the Bishop, the following appoint ments were read and the conference ad journed sine die: GERMANY AND FRANCE. Loni on, January 17.—A special dispatch to the Daily News from Berliu states that uegotiatious have been reopened between Germany aud France, and there is now a probability that Germany will reconsider her original decision and agree to partici pate in the Paris exhibition of 1878. CONGRESSIONAL. Washington, January 17.—Senate.—Dur ing the morning hoar there wero passed a large number of bills of a private nature. The joint committee on counting tho elec toral vote had a meeting aud meets again this afternoon. Tho prospect of an agree ment Is not so good. ASHORE. Washington, January 17.—Tho Signal Service Observer at Cape Henry reports the Italian bark Sella, Capt. Picasso To- masso, came ashore last night near station one. She has a cargo of sand aud is bound to Baltimore, None of the crew speak English. BARN BURNING. Wilmington, Del., January 17.—Last n-ght three barns, owned by Thomas Ly- uam, two miles from this city, were de stroyed by fire, together with a quantity of grain, twentv heal of cattle, and six horses. The loss is $i0,000. A DYING FENIAN. Nf.w York, January 17.—Colonel John O'Mahoney, formerly at the head of the Fe nian organization iu this conntry, is in a dying condition. HEAVY FAILURE. New York, January 17.—Tho failure of Benedict & Co., hat manufacturers, 540 Broadway, is reported, and their liabilities aro placed at $150,000. FATAL EFFECTS OF A THRESHING MACHINE EXPLOSION. St. Paul, January 17.—An exploding threshing machine killed throe persons. Head Notes of Decisious Delivered by Supreme Court of Florida, at Janu ary Term 1877, Dollner, Potter & Co. vs. Francis Snow, et al. Appeal from Fourth Judicial Circuit, Duval county. Westcott, J. 1. The wife’s operate estate is an equi table estate where the legal title is vested in some other person for her benefit, and the trustee is a necessary party to a suit seeking to charge such estate. 2. Iu such case the complaint must set up the nature of the trust, and show that such a charge is consistent with and con formable to the law of the trust as dis closed by the deed of settlement which created it. 3. Neither the Constitution nor the laws of this State restrict the power of the wife to become the beneficial object of such a grant. Her power to acquire such separate estate is in no way re stricted. 4. At common law the promlssary note of a married woman is void. The Con stitution and statute of this State make no change in this respect. Neither at law nor in equity can she bind herself so as to authorize a personal judgment against her. 5. There are material differences be tween the equitable “separate estate” of the wife, and the “statutory separate pro perty” of the wife. A complaint or bill seeking to charge either should disclose which class of property is sought to be affected. Judgment reversed in so far as it dis misses the complaint, and case remanded, with directions to permit such amend ments as are proper, upon payment of all costs. Antonio von Appenig came to this country from Germany, accompanied by her brother, to whom she was greatly at tached The brother fell overboard from the steamer, and was rescued by Christo pher Joaephson. During the rest of the voyage, and on their way across the con tinent to California, Josephson became a suitor of Antonia’s. She did not desire to marry him, but she was very grateful, and her brother urged her to consent. She said that she would be miserable as his wife, because she did not love him, but that she would marry him, if he in sisted on it, as a recompense for saving her brother’s life. He took her on those terms, and they were married in San Francisco. Her show of repugnance was noticed by the clergyman, and he asked her if the ceremony was against her will. She said that she had of her own acoord consented. On the following morning Josephson was found dead in his bed, having been shot, and Antonio’s body was 'taken out of a dock, where she had drowned herself. The supposition is that, frenzied by the hateful union, she killed him, and then harried to the water to kill herself. J. Samuel Dupuis, plaintiff in error, vs. John J. Thompson, defendant in error —error from Aiachua county. Westcott, J. 1. Pleading over after judgment upon demurrer, and taking issue upon or re plying to the pleading, is a waiver of the demurrer. 2. The entry of the grounds of a mo tion for new trial upon the motion docket, is a filing of the reasons for such motion with the Clerk as required by the statute. 3. The rules of practice of the Circuit Court require notice of a motion for new trial, and where the party fails to give 6uch notice the court may properly re fuse to consider the motion. 4. A motion for a new trial is not a waiver of exceptions, and if, for any reason such motion cannot be considered in this court, and the exceptions during the trial are properly embodied in the record, we can review the rulings of the Circuit Court in this respect. As to this matter, the case then stands substantially in the same attitude that it would have been before the statute authorizing are- view by this court of the rulings of the Circuit Court upon a motion for a new trial. 5. After a deed has been offered and read in evidence to the jury without ob jection, and the party offering it ia evi dence has closed, it is too late to insist upon the formal proof of its execution. G. Where a change embraces several distinct propositions, a general exception to the charge is not available if any one of th6 propositions is correct. 7. The legal presumption is, that an officer does his duty when acting under a general power, such as a sale under a Ji. fa. A party claiming under a Sheriff’s deed of this character, need not prove the advertisement where he puis in evi dence the judgment, the execution, the levy, the return of the Sheriff and his deed reciting dne and legal advertisement and sale. Judgment affirmed. Ealy, APPOINTMENTS. Tallahassee District—Chas. A. Ful- wood, Presiding Elder. Tallahassee—J. B. Fitzpatrick. Leon Circuit—Wm. C. Collins. Crawfordville Circuit—R. B. Gentry. Ocklocknee Mission—To be supplied. Gadsden Circuit—W. F. Norton. Liberty Circuit—To be supplied. Quincy—C. E. Dowman. Little River Circuit—W. G. Booth. Monticello—E. L. T. Blake. Waukeenah Circuit—R. H. Howsen. Union Circuit—R. J. Phillips. Apilachicola Mission—William R. John son. Live Oak District.—James P. DePass. Live Oak Circuit—John F. Neel. Wei born Circuit—Samuel E. Phillips. Jasper Circuit—John H. Johnson. Lake City—S. Woodbery. Columbia Circuit—Wm. M. Watts. Newnansville Circuit—A. Peeler. Madison Circuit—John M. Hendry, H. H. Ellzey. Mosely Hall Circuit—Wm. Williams. Lafayette Circuit—Supplied by J. A. Mosely. Benton Mission—Thos. R. Barnett. Luke Butler Circuit—E. J. Knight. Baldwin Mission—To be supplied by W. O. Hampton. Gainesville District.—O. Presiding Eider. Gainesville—S. B. Smitteel. Waldo—J. D. Rogers. Mi canopy—R. H. Barnett. Orange Lake—E. B. Duncan. Fort Mason—C. E. Pelot. Ocala—A. A. P. Neal. Ocklawaha—T. W. Tomkios. Bronson—R. M. Ellzey. Sumter—M M. Michau, W. G. Roys ter. Brooksville—J. S. Collier. Crystal River—To be supplied. Jacksonville District—E. Pasco, Presiding Elder. Jacksonville—H. B. Frazee. La Villa—E. W. Woodbery. Jacksonville Mission—H. F. Phillips. Fernandina—U. S. Bird. Nassau Mission—William Davies. Mandarin Mission—S. L. Smith. Green Cove—T. W. Moore. St. Augustine Mission—To be supplied by J. A. Towers. Palatka Mission—McK. T. McCook. Fruitland Mission—T. Bishop. Enterprise Mission—J. B. Ley. Mellonville—To be supplied. Lake Jessup Circuit—O. W. Ransom. Orange Circuit—S. A. Barnett. Indian River Mission—To be supplied. Tampa District—A. A. Robinson, Pre siding Elder. Tampa—J. J. Seally. Key West, first charge—J. C. Ley. Key West, Sparks’ Chapel—II. E. Part ridge. Key West, Cuban Mission—Superinten dent J. C. Ley, H. B. SoineilJan. Alafia Circuit—W. C. Jordan. Manatee—J. A. Castel. Manatee Mission—To be supplied. Bartow Circuit—E. H. Giles. Pease Creek Circuit—Geo. W. Mitchell. Fort Myers Circuit—Robt. Martin. Clear Water Circuit—W. H. T. Roberts. Lion Hunting in Algiers.—The fa vorite plan adopted by lion hunters in Algiers for luring their prey is to select a favorable plot of level ground below a commanding eminence, where the hunt ers, armed with rifles, conceal them selves. A stake is driven into the centre of the plot, to which a kid is tethered. It is about two in the morning, and the moon full aud bright. About twenty minutes’ delay, and the heavy silence of the place is brokeu by an ominous sound in the distance. It is not quite a howl, but a greatly magnified imitation of that long wailing cry of a lonesome cat in the dead of night. Then the moon reveals a dark object among the heavy grasses and shrubbery, and then the form of tie king of beasts, whipping his haunches with his tufty tail, and leisurely following the scent. The piteous bleating of the doomed kid accelerates his pace, and when within a few feet of his victim he crouches down to gloat over the prospec - tive meal. He advances, and with a stroke of his paw nearly dispatches the kid. Almost dead, it attempts to crawl away. Then the lion’s feline instincts are apparent. He plays with the dying kid as a cat does with a half-dead mouse. While he is thus engaged the hunters take steady aim at a point near one of the fore shoulders or behind his ear. He sends up a terrific yell, and rolls over dead. They Fall Back on Whisky.—Seekers for office who come to the capital have generally money enough to live royally for a few weeks, and they spend their money as becomes a candidate. The un certainty of the present crisis, however, makes them cautious, and instead of giving dinners at Welcker’s, as formerlly, they eat stewed oysters at Harvey’s, and swear like the army in Flanders because their party didn’t work harder before the election. They still, however, frequent the best bars, for I am told that drinks are as cheap at Willard’s as at Usher’s or at Tim. Sulli van’s. Their proceedings at this time is something like this: Two or three friends step up to the bar at Willard's, and one of them says, “Weaver, have you a cold bottle of champagne ?” “Yes, sir.” “Is it on ice?” “Ye?, sir.” “Well, just keep it there, and give ua some plain whisky with a little sugar.”— “FT. J. H.” in Cin. Commercial. .llasterlv Addre** from a Dlnaustrd Founder of the Republican Party. One of the most striking and one of the most consummate speeches that have been made in this country in a long time, was that of the Hon. George W. Julian before the Indiana Democracy of Indian apolis, on Jackson’s Day, January 8, 1877* The speech, which would fill many columns of the News, is able, eloquent and impressive, and as a thorough and crushing exposure of Radical corrup tion and usurpation, showing up in£ all its rottenness the outrage of the Louisiana returning board, is an admirable document for the times. We give below the concluding remarks of the speaker upon the counting of the vote, regretting that we oannot copy also his capital discussion of “Republican Intimidation.” Mr. Julian has been a Republican since that party. originated, and was one of its sponsors. He says: “Gentlemen, I have thus dwelt with this Louisiana question somewhat fully and thoroughly, because of its fearful magnitude and the grave consequences which wait upon its decision. If I am right in the views I have expressed aud the conclusions I have reached, Louisiana has cast her vote for Tilden and Hen dricks and they are fairly and certainly elected. But in contemplation of law, no election has taken place until ‘the President of the Senate shall in tho presence of tho Senate and House of Representative.’, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted?’ Wto is to count these votes? Upon the answer to this question depends the issue of the most fearful struggle for the Pre sidency that has ever stirred the passions of the American people. It was a strug gle altogether unexampled in the efforts put forth by powerful political or ganizations for victory, where defeat meant political death; and when, at last, the protracted and angry conflict was hushed by the ballots of the people, a feeling of relief was universal throughout the Union. Shall these bal lots be smirched and dishonored by a conclave of political scoundrels m Louisi ana ? The presiding officer of the Senate, we are told, is to decide this question. He is to be the grand returning board of the nation, from whose decision there i3 no appeal. Mr. Chairman, he has no more right to count the votes and declare the result than you have. On this sub ject we are fortunately not left to grope in the dark. According to an unbroken chain of precedents, beginning with the election of Washington and reaching down to the present time, the counting of the electoral vote is to be done by Congress, or under its authority and di rection. Universal acquiescence in this uninterrupted usage has made it our com mon law. * * “But now, after the meaning of the Constitution has thus been settled aud stereotyped by the uniform usage of more than eighty years, and a conformity to this usage will no longer serve the behests of the party in power, its leaders sudden ly face upon the record they have made in the Senate within the past nine or ten months, and propose to save their politi cal fortunes by the revolutionary exploit I have mentioned. While Grantism, stretched on its bed of death, is gasping out its prayer for deliverance from the judgment to come, the political mercena ries who have served at its altar for the past eight years now assume the office of In Scotland it has for a long time been usual to blazon ou a man’s tombstone the symbols of his trade. Especially has this been so at Dumblane, where, in the bury ing ground of the abbey, of those tomb stones which are from one hundred to two hundred yeara old about one-fourth are thus marked, the t>ymbols being in low relief. A sugar cone indicates the grave of a grocer; an axe and a saw, with hammer and nails, occurs on the grave of a carpenter; an awl and hammer on that of a shoemaker. physician, and are anxipus to save the life of their, patient by nostrums of deadly poison to the Constitution. Shall we al low this to be done? Aro we to sit quietly by while the republic is Mexicau- lzed by the Senatorial juntaof medignants who have so long kept themselves in the front by makiDg the late war the harlot of their ambition? Shall we patiently submit to an act of open lawlessness, and seek our relief in its moral effect upon the people in sweeping the Republican party out of power four years hence ? If we can cravenly tolerate this rape of American liberty to-day, shall we have the manhood in 1880 to confront the kindred outrages it would certainly pro voke ? Why wait four years for a remedy, when we hold it in our own hands now, through the Congress of the United States ? Why talk about an appeal to the ballot for the re dress of our wrongs hereafter, if we allow it to become a cheat and a lie to-day? Shall the people’s will, constitutionally expressed, be defeated and defiled by an organized crusade against the very prin ciple of republican government? The^e questions can neither be postponed nor evaded. The crisis compels us to ponder them, in seeking an honorable way out of the dreadful diiemtnain which the cour- try is placed. Not in submission to fla grant acts of tyranny, but in resistance, must we expect our deliverance. Senator Morton and his fellow conspirators tell us that the President of the Senate will count the electoral vote and declare the result, and that, if need be, it will be enforced by the army and navy. This i3 simply a threat of revolution. Are we ready to avow our willingness to acquiesce in it for the sake of peace, and thus invite the very mischief we implore by offering it impunity? No friend of Tilden and Hendricks dreams of physical resistance to the inauguration of Governor Hayes, should he be declared duly elected by the Senate and House of Representatives. The vital question before the country is not which of the two men shall be Presi dent, but whether the man who has been elected shall be deprived of his office by fraud or force. It is because we advocate peace, and recoil from the thought of civil strife, that we demand obedience to the Constitution and American fair play in the settlement of the momentous issue which now so fearfully divides the coun try. We plead for peace, and the calami ties of war can only overtake us through the madness which shall set the Constitu tion and laws at defiance. It is for the sake of peace that we would warn these plotters of treason that their enterprise will be resisted if they undertake it, and that the solemn duty of the people to maintain the constitutional rights of the government will make resistance in evitable, unless they are ready to put on the livery of slaves. “Let the people speak, for they hold in their hands the might of the republic, and their sovereignty cannot be invaded with out their consent. A century ago our fathers took up arms in defence of their right to a voice in the government which dealt with their liberty, their property and their lives. We assert the same right now when we ask that the will of the people be registered as the supreme law, and whoever may defy it by overt acts shall receive the same treatment which the nation awarded to the men who appealed from the ballot to the bayo net in 1861. Let them be warned in season by every lover of regulated liberty that millions of men will be found ready to offer their lives as hostages to the sacredness of the ballot, a3 the palladium of our liberty. ‘Whosoever hath the gift of tongues, let him use it; whosoever can wield the pen of the ready writer, let him dip it in the ink horn; whosoever hath a sword, let him gird it on, for the crisis demands our highest exertions, physical and moral.’ ” The Situation. [From the Washington Capital.] The extraordinary condition of affairs at the national capital is brought into a singularly clear view by the effect of one sentence of Henry Watterson’s brilliant speech has had upon the administration press of the country. Mr. Watterson said that a hundred thousand unarmed Democrats would be here on the four teenth of February next, to witness the counting of the electoral vote. Time was when such announcement would have been received, if not with indifference, at least as the ordinary utterances of an en thusiastic orator rejoicing over the suc cess of his party. Now, however, the one little sentence is repeated in alarm, and the orator rebuked for its expression. The unarmed Democrats are advised to remain at home. The ceremonies of the caunt, we are told, can be as well cared for by the present administration, assist ed by perhaps two or three thousand troops and a few ironolads in the river. And yet why should citizens of any party be warned away ? What is there ex ceptional in this business that would make it, like a hanging in most of the States, a private affair? Why are these gentlemen so nervously sensitive that resolutions at mass meetings, heretofore regarded as the most harmless of public entertain ments, are regarded with alarm, and Senators, with a manner that is a cross between Dick Turpin and Pecksniff, plead with the people for quiet while they pro ceed with their novel counting ? The answer is on the surface. The wrong contemplated can be accomplished only through the indifference of the peo ple. A protest looking to resistance, armed or otherwise, is fatal to these con spirators. The Republican party is the representative of capital. It has no plat form of principles that is not based on bonds and other paper securities. It has no existence outside its money, and if driven from its monopolies, would not live a day. The people, like the blind Samson, have their hands upon the foundations of this moneyed structure, and but little of their mighty strength is necessary to pull down aii into irretrievable ruin. And how quickly the Philistines would have com promised with the tortured athlete, re storing to him his liberty at least, had they known the fate in store for them. These conspirators, more enlightened than that ancient mob, recognize their weakness and dread the danger. Mr. Frye, in pointing triumphantly to the price of gold, betrayed his fear. Hence these rebukes of Mr. Watterson’s hundred thousand, and hence these tear ful appeals to the startled country to keep quiet and for God’s sake express no opinion likely to embarrass these pious gentlemen in their private counting in of a defeated candidate. The New York Nation, that strives to be as just as it is decent and able, says that the Republicans have the vantage ground *in tho possession of the govern ment and the habitual obedience of our people to the forms of law. The Nation gravely mistakes. The conspiracy that began with the use of troops at the polls, in open violation of law, is forced to follow its groove to be a success, and end, as it began, in violence. For the first time in our history troops are to line Pennsylvania avenue, artillery command Capitol Hill, and vessels kept in commis sion, that they may threaten our national capital from the river. While we write the clerks of the government here capa ble of bearing arms are being organized into companies and regiments. We call the attention of the Nation to the fact that these are not regarded by the people as forms of law. On the con trary, the people regard the administra tion leaders as the aggressors—the men who drive over and trample under spurred heels the time-honored customs and laws of our heretofore elective system. Tho people of the United States compare favorably in intelligence with any other civilized nation, and it is not necessary to knock them on the head to get a fact so palpable as the above into their brain. “In time of peace prepare for war,” said Washington. In this emergency we can truthfully say that to prevent war we must be prepared for war. Therefore it will be wise for Mr. Watterson’s hundred thousand to be present at the counting, and to come armed. The right to bear arms is guaranteed the American citizen, and this right is not marred by a count of an electoral vote. Whether the hun dred thousand will be called upon to use them depends altogether upon the con duct of these Republicans in power, who purpose inaugurating a minority candi date upon the count of a returning board that, having in itself no iegaljexistencd, is about as barefaced a swindle as any desperate rogues over sought to better their fortunes with, without risk to their persons. If these gentlemen are startled by so innocent and inoffensive an expression as that of Mr. Watterson, it will be well for them to brace their nervous systems for the thunder that will be heard when their evil designs come to be fairly appreciated by an outraged people. A thieving postmaster was convicted in Fredericksburg, Mo. The woman who was matrimonially engaged to him went to St. Louis, believing that she could there do something to effect his libera tion, but her hope seems to have had no sound foundation. She stayed at a hotel until all her money was gone. Then she pawned olothing until she had not enough left to keep her warm. Still refusing to leave the city, and nearly crazed by her failure to help her lover, she crept into a lumber yard one cold night to sleep. In the morning her feet were so badly frozen that she could not walk, and she re mained in the yard two days without food. A policeman found her at last, but she will not probably reooyer. Woods’ Reports. We copy from the Central Lava Jour nal, of St. Louis, a critical notice of the second volume of Judge Woods’ Reports, from the pen of the Hon. John F. Dil lon, the learned author of many legal works, and United States Judge for the Eighth Judicial Circuit: The Fifth Circuit Court embraoes the States of Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, an empire in extent and population. In no other circuit is there either more litigation or litigation more varied and important. This is manifest from the most cursory examina tion of the present volume. It would perhaps be difficult to find a volume of re ports covering a wider range of jurispru dence than the one before us. It is unu sually rich in new or important questions m admiralty, bankruptcy, municipal and railway bonds and railway mortgages, and cases relating to constitutional law, State and Federal, commercial securities, taxa tion, etc. The time covered by this volume ex tends from 1873 to 1876 inclusive and as this ie the second volume in the seven years, that have elapsed since the learned reporter was commissioned as Circuit Judge, it is evident that sufficient time has elapsed to enable the reporter to make, as he has done, a judicious selec tion of the cases to be reported. The most of the opinions contained in this volume are those of Mr. Justice Bradley and of the Circuit Judge. The vciume is a substantial and valuable addition to the law and is full of cases likely to be daily useful to the active practitioner in any part of the Union. The case of Greely vs. Scott, p. 657, construing the home stead exemption law of Florida on a diffi cult point, by so able a Judge as Mr. Justice Bradley, will be especially accept able to the profession. The case of Wil- mer vs. The Atlanta, etc., Railway Com pany, p. 447, decides the important point that if two railroad corporations, created by different States, join in a trust deed of all the property to secure bonds, and suit is brought to enforce the trust in the dis trict where one of the corporations resides, and the other enters its appearance, the de cree finds both, and the court may order the sale of the entire line and pass title thereto, although part of the road lies beyond the territorial jurisdiction of the court which decrees the sale. But wo cannot specify further. The reporter is known to the country as one of the ablest, most pains taking and careful of its Judges, and his name is a sufficient guarantee for the accuracy of the reporter’s work. The book is published in first-class style. was soothing and com ortabie, lnd when su&eiently satisfied with tne S Congressional rooster started to niitl L i damp boot.. The movement 0 progressed finely as far as the legs were conS but the rapid transit was wholly stonce j when he struck the instep and Sera stuck. Stamps, oaths, jerks and inZ lmg with the leg-straps were ot no ava l' He heard the rustle of (he lady adre,. and crowding hnoff-foot into the remain’ ing boot stood, with perspiration onto brow and cold chills down his back to receive her. When she entered he sink into a chair with relief, and, with the cx ceptionof some agitated absent minded ness, all progressed well until her father dropped in when, rising to greet the paternal bird our H. 0. lurched dread- fully, so markedly that he was keenly watched in his conversation, and his en barrassed language resulting from tho situation subjected to scrutinous sus- picion. The general idea prevalent was not favorable to the Congressional servant of the people, and worse still he forgot him self, and asking the young lady to sing, offered to escort her to the piano, which under the circumstances, he could not very actively accomplish. As it was he lurched to leeward and starboard, roiling on the uppers of his treacherous boots, while the lady recoiled from an abrupt fall on his part, and the old man seized him violently by the shoulder. You are a little off,” he said as politely as possible with the occasion. “I will call my mau; he will see you home." “I ain’t drunk,” expostulated the mem ber, “it's my boots only; my boots.” “Why you must be iu a bad way! Snakes in your boots ? No, no. my good fellow, don t be alarmed, a good night’s rest and all will be well. Thomas”— “You infernal old fool,” howled tho booted man; exasperated beyond the limit of decency by his wretched condi tion and the placid misunderstanding of the old gentleman; “you infernal old fool, I ain’t drunk ! I can lick the head off'n you in two minutes—I ain’t drunk !” “I never saw a man in a more rampan and beastly state of intoxication in m life.” (This in an undertone.) “If 1 were not that I am restrained by th presence of my servauts I would put yo out myself. Thomas, show this gentle man into the nearest street car. Overcome by the coolness of the ok. man and the muscular development of the darkey boy, the unhappy member wat led out jogging and jerking on his rickety boots and spraining au ankle at every lurch. The darkey boy returned in a few minutes, saying: “Goddlemity! I never see such a drunken man in my life. He wanted to fight me fust and then gimme ten dollah bill fo’ my shoes, and sot down cn de cu’bstone and put ’em on. Dey waz too tight fo’ him though, fo* he was a Repub lican gen'leman!” (As he was a Republican member, wo deem it necessary to state that the ten dollar bill in thi3 instance was no counterfeit.) From the same paper we clip the fol lowing: A supple form, a pretty face, With a stylish outfit blended; A pull-back of infinite grace, A seal-skin sacque most splendid, She tripped along ibe Avenue ; The men stare as she skims en, Anil envious women torn to view Iler skirts of cardinal crimson. She glide* with pride along the street, Her mien replete with hauteur, Her head so high, unseen, her leet Strike a patch of congealed water; A vivid flash of gartered hose, In can-can style extended, A shriek, a fall, and that is all. And here the romance ended. Demoralization of the Great Moralists. Of the way in which the count is de stroying all self-respect among our public men a striking illustration has just oc curred in the case of Mr. Wright in the Senate, who last week “supported Hayes” in a speech by which he ate his words of ten months ago on the Morton bill in the most unblushing manner, and another is the way in which a number of his colleagues who supported the twenty- seoond joint rule for several years now denounce the principles of it as wild and wicked. Another still, and another very disagreeable one, presents itself in the case of the Frye, Hoar and Wheeler minority of the committee which two years ago inquired into the doings of the Wells returning board in 1874. They reported that “the so-called can vass” made by these worthies in the interest of Kellogg seemed to them to have no validity, and to be enti tled to no respect whatever.” In fact, they reported that Wells and his com panions had made up a majority for Kel logg without any authority of law, though they refuse to call it cheating because they say it was done with good (philan thropic) motives, and with a. mistaken view of their own powers, and they warned the oountry of the danger of hav ing the Presidential election turn on the decisions of such a body. Messrs. Frye and Wheeler are, however, now “sup porting Hayes” by declaring that they discovered nothing in 1875 to shake their confidence in tho board, or make peo ple distrust it even when it decides a Presidential contest, and they are giving Wells a certificate of character, though they know that General Shqjidan dis covered him to be a rascal, and that he (Wells) swore in 1874 to intimidation in a parish from which he was absent on election day. The reason Mr. Wheeler now gives for expecting the American people to aooept a President calmly from Wells’ manipulation of returns is “that he (Wells; was a faithful Union man who was hunted with dogs through tho swamps by the rebels.” Bat Mr. Wheeler knows in his heart that this will not do. He is nearly sixty years old, and knows that many a “faithful Union man” was a great scoundrel—Scott and Parker, of South Carolina, for instance. We warn Messrs. Frye, Wheeler & Co. to beware of tergiversaton and equivocation, and all forms of double-dealing. People wero never less patient with it than at this mo ment. Neither they nor anybody elso can whitewash Wells and his confeder - ates now. It is too late.—New York Nation, Jan. 11. D. A case of protracted vitality kept in ice was evidenced in Dave Hagerty's last week. A barrel of frozen terrapins— they had been congealed in a solid lump for several days—were turned out in a heated room, and in a few minutes the amphibious birds came to life and exe- ton Capital, Protecting Scoundrels at Washington. Only a few days ago, both houses of Congress, by a unanimous vote and with out a single word of dissent, abolished the Board of Police Commissioners at Washington. The exposures showing the oompheity of that board with gamblers and other criminals made any defense im possible, especially the atrocious conspi racy of W. J. Murlagh, the President of the board, and proprietor of the adminis tration organ, to blast the good name of the Hon. W. C. Whitthorne, while in vestigating the corruption of the Navy- Department. _ No man on either side dared to stand up and extenuate those infamies. had requested the resignation of the beard, but he had two reasons for that step. First, revenge because they had allowed testimony to bo taken reflecting upon his own conduct in betting at a race course; and secondly, because a wanted a vacancy in the office of cnie of Police, in order that he might appoint Guerrilla Mosby to the place. , The board resigned, but Grant retained Murtagh, against whom the public indig nation was most excited, and name our others as associates. Before they were commissioned, Congress interposed m the way stated, and that unanimous act was immediately sent to the President. Bight in the face of these proceedings, and without having approved or vetoed the bill, he has issued commissions, (o the new board, with Murtagh at their head, and that, too, while the House of Kep- resentatives is investigating the conspi racy with which he stands publicly oharged by his former friends and con- f °IfThis outrage on decency was excep tional, it might pass with the excuse that Grant was suffering perhaps f60m his frequent attacks of “nenralgm ofthe brain.” But it is in keeping wito his general conduct.-New Torkbun. Mr. Bennett is said to be only technr ttUi|HUUJUUO UilUB UttlllD IU UiC BUU 0X0* Bit. yyouuoea — —. That ifl. cutedawaltz over the floor.— Waiting, -cally absent from hew 10 ', » ’ “ L anv one oalls. I am not iu home. any one oaUSj I 1 u ,u
