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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
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