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J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH. MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1377
ESTABLISHED 1850.
—TO-
THE MORNING NEWS.
, -vp,, 85 cent.,
ottadfertte. rents continued
^•k or longer-
! * remittances
JL or adwriHtmr can •* made
• ~ ‘ ij lt rw ’ loiter, or Ex-
J. H. EST1LL,
!, s«*>*innah, Ga. j
~~~ ueorcld A®**'’’’-
rrtA io Rockdale, h.s a sweet
, loJit.»sricnltar»lclub has elected
f iMliosewor'.b, l'rcsident, L. L.
t Vice President; D. 0. White, Sec-
I L Orfetree, Treasurer.
I' , ,'of Comers is being repaired,
ino'hme like giving prisoners clean
* °d radios at 33 cents per diem,
“f-them humanity. In the far off
^bcomniooprisoners get food at S couta
'**1 facilities are thus described by
I ar,ia Some Journal: ‘The mu alto
, W L on the Athens branch has been
"f d all d a white man put in hi* placo.
■ t n-eseot incumbent’s political pro-
\ tnutr nothing; but, the history
administration at Washington, in
iOK government officials, would
ILly preclude our stakmg a great sum
T, being alildcn and Hendricks man.”
Linton Heprr county, has elected her
-TccnJil and on the face of this
LUmcnt i‘ i« »'A‘-cd b I the Uenr 'J
IT ^fgejdy that Mr. .T T. McNuely killed
“J „„ i a9 t Monday that measured two
L (mm up to tip.
,-ton Ilerold ; “The Atlanta Consti-
ioa is lost now engaged in giving the
e of the prominent young men of that
aston, Georgia, is ont of debt, and
tB throughout her streets. This is
•towoor city in Georgia that has
lie same record.
ro, non compos mentis, named Jerry
as found dead in Talbot county last
ittudaj*
the TUomaaton Ilerdd ii the only paper
(Ig oar exchanges that hasn’t the name
Ban Hill in it.
Thy, from the Columbus Times, may
rot gome light upon the Senatorial quea-
jn: “We learn lrom a special to tbe Au-
ut* Constitutionalist, that a large number
local delegations, petitions, etc., reached
inta on Wednesday—all favoring Hill.”
• course theso unusual demonstrations
re trillion! the knowledge or consent of
r. Hill.
“Probabilies” has not reported the fol’.ow-
ig cyclone that passed about two miles
’CoayorBonlast Saturday evening. Sev-
•al of the out houses, as well as the dwell-
gof Mr. John Bartlett of that county,
ire considerably injured by the storm.
ie top of his dwelling was blown off. His
b, lot fences, stable, etc., were blown
Dtm, and his place considerably injured
id fornnp. His son, a young m\n,wa3
(own against a tree and bruised and hurt,
iough not seriously.
C. W. NixoD, living in the Eleventh Dis-
rict of Carroll county, has been adjudged a
and sent to the Lunatic Asylum at
lilledgeviJle.
Through a private letter we learn of the
eath of Wm. E. Broadnax, Esq., on tho
d Inst., at the residence of his son-in-law,
hn A. Vincent, Esq., in Paulding county,
•revious to the war he was a large and in-
.uen’lal merchant in Augusta, and was
nerallv known and esteemed throughout
iddle Georgia.
For the benefit of our cotton planting
ricnis we give the following experience of
Carroll county farmer, extracted from the
larroll couaty Times. Try it: ‘‘The fol-
>wiog plan for putting guano under cotton
is furnished us by a gentleman who learned
he lick in the cettoa patch. He thinks the
:moii why guano ‘don’t pay’ is because it is
ot pat in right. Break your land deep,
aa t’ff rows three feet wide, with straght
wvel. Double furrow if the land is rough,
^tribute from oue to one hundred
ad fifty pounds of guano to the acre,
•flag to the quality of tho laud. List
)n it with snnsjil, after which throw
wa farrows together with turnplow. This
Hikes a nice flat bed. Open with a small
iJjw or coalter. Strew the seed. Cover
nth harrow. When your cotton begins to
c^ais up, plow out middles with subeoil
‘ow. This leaves the ground loose and
ean. By putting your guano in in the above
ethod, you have it directly under the cot-
comaion practice is to list
»»th .arge turn piow, and hence the guano
9 on oue aide of the bed and the cotton on
the other.”
How sad is the story thus related In the
tttier tkrald of the 26th : ‘•‘Oar whole
)mmaui;v were thrown into a stato of
kerning exci eoient on Sunday morning last,
P" me news of Mr*. Sarah Shephard’s death,
p i cn occurred at tho home of hor husband,
rwuiiam Shephard, in this county, last Sat-
praay night. The following are the facts
Funected with this sad e vent: Mr. Wm.
P epaaru, hnsband of th° deceased, said ho
retired to bed aboit eight o’clock. His
*ue, who was flnishmg the ironing, did not
me to bed until about nine o'clock. When
knU 0 ? 1116 s ^ e P ut her face against his, and
p aat posture he fell asleep, when he was
w«rd np by a Rreat noif , e _ It wasdirk in
he in. He felt about the bed
jcipccUng to Und big wife, jfot finding her
L ® eel!! a a light in another room, he went
a h(l tonad hia wife lying on the
:i ,‘* u & ri; k‘I*gun across her feet and a
rl t .5 wb “ er Goad—ball going in her
gttMd coming ont of left temple. She
Lm, P ^ 1 “ ss ' Ue savo the aiarm, when
-^ !8 tenauts came and rendered
iS Hn! 8 i ta « Ce could - The poor lady
Mro fi . ve oc’ock Sunday morniDg.
oil »ni ef ’ barJ was al)0llt twenty-four years
•a, ana was universally beloved by all who
abnr.t . ef ‘ no ^ been married but
f ar w i" lx moul hs. The Coroner was sent
& 2 ^moioned a jury, and they found
El ‘ted facts 1 ” accorc * anco witl1 abovo
the Columbus Enquirer
Bhowa ^ over ^ or Smith, aud it certainly
‘Ex-Cidrot dee tP iu k r r a titude of republics :
itfie Senl rD0 J Sm:lh ha8 been defeated for
nutn nl°r. r,lblp ’ a place ^ is friends desired
srviw. t C ? P ‘ a rowar tl for his eminent
W le l k ;V hl f Iianve state - G^* v - Smith has
I hruriS thi eCled i G ^ veruor - and waa tho
fie d ‘ v 1 ®[Popple for renomiuation, but
took tiiA r to ^ ecome a candidate. He
itg sffw;-/ ein9 °f. government when
tion and \£ ere j- ia a chaotic condi-
it was a i r ** credlt Buuk a( > low that
' v QrainmaV . lmpO83ibl0 to borrow at
Governor SL 1 -?? 1011 * From this condition
P««r of imnf^ B00n mad e the State the
Hnl°i ^ er 81, tors in credit, and sbe
her bondi , pr , 08 15 ri °K and to prosper, and
sod seeking 18tfe u^ of bein" hawked about
c ^nt. »rA i, n PUrclja8ers at fiftJ percent, die-
T °t< ineh 80U "bt for at a premium.
Governor fo?h? lt can H ot be given our ex-
Wdwp wm, _ ma guiflcont management,
II w&s diiA t^ mau - ot h er Georgians, thought
of Cnited Sf r ? W& c? bim witl1 the position
C0Q ^,inonr if 168 Senator. We did all we
ercepttu , A humbk ‘ way,and have no regrets
ti)e honor r r t ffort8 c °bld not secure him
retire from ^^Govemor Smith will now
c°me amo ni r pab i 1 ^ life * We trust he will
fiach nohi«L US ' °! d friends, and live,
ttanity anff 1 ^ are bri "ht stars in any com-
1101 seek n*i lt 18 be hoped that he will
*ili Welcomo^ 1 " t ? an , his old home. We
'h* PsodIg back amon e us, and with
l^andfli^ 1 , 8ay: ‘ Wel1 done . thou
l hli CSn t ,orvan, > for we know he
I at g rn« fu i k ? bld trust, and Georgians
I ^uritb to tpA ‘’Tjuro time, need another
I redeem their State.”
I kua nob^a’^ 68 * &way outside of politics,
I Section • ««n me , oca ^ ideas which need
I eT - r Pract’i^^ JDe of , tbe K re ateat outrages
I termini.,.,'* d 1Q a Christian land is tho
I ^tl in o 15**1*®* . , a crow d of negroes
|themgeive« 0 T 1,b l he whites, to jam
I Finger * lh ® platform at the
I '*1. ? 6 ‘P°* ln Griffin, in such
I bushed , ! ■ ladles aro liable to be
I *Oij / ” la the mud while going to
I Mother n’ftA 6 • coac h e »- There iB not
I °. ,lr SRe wnlSkV* 16 world where such an
I to u A i. bc " horue. They crowd there
l^therenn vL’ I ^ ot °H e Particle of business.
I Thai. * a 5i ° reduce this loafiog mass,
an, *.®tQall path can be opened for
; aQ t. Hfcal D 0D business to pass? No mat-
ast two v, People may be, they have no
pompaiiy A .bat which becomes a nuisance
wo mouthy«' think our aiUhoriUes have
least examine this matter.”
FROM ATLANTA.
THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
Various Amendments Adopted.
MILLEDGEVILLE OR ATLANTA.
THE Q,UESTIO.N SUBMITTED TO
THE PEOPLE*
No Final Action.
Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Atlanta, Ga., January 27.—The Senate
yesterday passed a bill prohibiting the sale
of liquors in Wileox county; also, a bill to
amend section 245 of the Code.
Senator Black’s bill in regard to tho
Publio Printer was taken np. On motion of
Senator Cabaniss the matter was laid on the
table.
Senator Hoppg introduced a resolution in
regard to wild lands in the southern portion
of the State, to have the same surveyed and
located.
The Senate is not in session to-day,
The House is in committee of the whole,
Black, of Richmond, in the chair. Messrs.
Candler, Walsh, Jordan of Hancock, Sikes,
Moses and Branch opposed Hillyer’s amend
ment to submit the convention question to
the people.
Messrs. Reese, Allred, Miller of Houston,
and Price favored the amendment. A vote
was commenced but before it was finished
Mr. Walsh renewed the discussion and
appealed to the members to vote down the
amendment.
Mr. Sheffield, of Miller, replied in an equal
ly earnest speech.
The vote was then takoD, aDd resulted—
yeas 74, nays 55—iu favor of submitting to
the people the question of the convention.
The vote on tho second clause of the
amendment submitting the constitution to
the people, if the convention is held, was
yeas 77 ; nays 30.
Mr. McDonald, of Ware, offered an amend
ment that the voters put Milledgeville or
Atlanta on their ballots to Bettle the capitol
question. Yeas, 76 ; nays, 25.
Section fourth was then adopted as
amended.
Mr. Stewart, of Spalding, offered a new
section authorizing the managers to report
the vote to the Governor for consolidation.
Mr. Moses added an amendment that all
ballots not endorsed convention or no con
vention, be counted fc-r convention. Adopt
ed; yeas 64, nays 52, Mr. James, of Fulton,
voting yea.
The House is still in the committee of the
whole, and no final result will be reached
to-day, as other new sections are offered.
FLORIDA LEGISLATURE.
Books for the Supren-e Court.
GRAND OR PETIT JURORS
BUKEiO OF III.MIGRATION.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Tallahassee, January 27.—The Senate
after passing some private bills, adjourned
till Monday.
The Assembly passed the bill appropri
ating three bnndred dollars for the years
1877 and 1878,-to purchase books for the Su
preme Court library; also the bill in relation
to drawing and regulating the number of
grand and petit jurors, and prescribing the
number of challenges; and also the bill to
create and organize a bureau of immigra
tion. Adjourned till Monday.
THE MPLOMACI OF TURKEY.
WHO WILL CONSTITUTE THE GRAND
COMMISSION.
lhe Eastern Question Discussed.
THE KOMISH CHURCH AND ITALY.
Judge Carpenter an a Jurist.
CONGRESSIONAL.
W’ashington, January 27.—In the Senate,
during the morning hour, the military
academy and fortification appropriation
bills were called up. The amendments re
ported by tho Committee on Appropriations
were agreed to and passed without discus
sion.
A message was received in tho Senate at
11:20 from the House of Representatives,
announcing tho passage of the bill in rela
tion to counting the electoral vote by that
body. At 11:25 a second message was re
ceived from the House of Representatives,
announcing that the Speaker of that body
had signed the enrolled bill in re
gard to counting the electoral vote for
President and Vice President. It was
then immediately signed by the Chairman
of the Committee on Enrolled Bills, to be
delivered to the President.
The Committee of Privileges and Powers
and tho full Louisiana commission meet in
joint session this afternoon, to examine a
witness w lose name is withheld. Cassanave
ai d Kenner were taken on
thtir arrival to a committee room
of the Honse, where they are under com
fortable restraint. The entire board were at
tbe bar ot the House, but owing to the ab
sence of the Republicans in cau
cus they were temporarily withdrawn.
The electoral bill was signed by tbe
presiding officers of both houses, and is on
its way to tbe President.
House.—The Houao passed the Indian ap-
propiiation bill.
The members of the Louisiana returning
board appeared at the bar of the House in
the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms aud
requested further time in order to frame
their answer. They were allowed half an
hour. At the eDd of that time they re
turned and submitted a lengthy answer in
writing, basing their refusal to Drodnce
certain papers before the committee on
the laws of Louisiana, and on the fact ol the
papers being in chargo of the Secretary of
State. Lynde offered a resr lution adjudg
ing tho members of the returning board in
contempt of the authority of the Honse.
Adopted—yeas 145, nays 86. Also, a resolu-
lion ordering the witnesses to appear before
a special cimmittee, of which William R.
Morrison is Chairman, and remanding them
to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms.
A< Holman, of Indiana, from the Appropria
tion Committee, reported a bill authorizing
the Secretary of the Treasury to pay James
B. Eads $500,000 for the jetties at the month
of the Mississippi riyer.
Buckner offered an amendment pKmaing
for the pavment to be made in UmtedStatea
bonds. Without action on the bill the
H Sfe d iDo?s e ei and Clayton presented a
joint resolution asking legislation to F«T®°
the removal of settlers from the Hot Springs
reservation. ..... * *\* a
Wright called np the bill to extend the
Southern Claims Commission two years.
The bill ratifying the Siom treaty for the
Black Hills passed. Adjourned.
Washington, January 27.—The Commit
tee on iho Reorganization of the Army re
port to the President that they are not at
this time prepared to submit a plan or mate
DroDer recommendations for the reform and
reorganization of the army. The report is
signed by the Secretary of War and mem-
hers of tho joint committee of Congress.
Several Oregon telegrams fuftuhed by
the company have been examined. Nothing
new was developed. u .
Senator Conover, Chairman of the Sonata
Committee cn Engrossed Bills, carried the
electoral bill to the White House this morn
ing, but finding the President gone to Balti-
moro, carried it back to the Senate. He
will bear it to the White Honse again on
Monday morning, when there are assurances
it will be signed without the usual refereuca
to the law department. The Attorney Gen
eral, however, will be in attendance at the
White House.
GLADSTONE AND ENGLAND’S POSITION ON THE
EASTKKN QUESTION.
London, January 27.—Gladstone made a
speech at Taunton to-day. Iu the course of
his remarks be said we ought to mind our
own business, and why we should mind the
Eastern question is beeause we have chosen
to make it our own question. It was made
our business under circumstances which
no true hearted Englishman will disown.
The people of Englaud are bound to
resist the seductive language of those who
tell them, now that the conference has met
and failed there is no more to be done. It is
you, tbe peopled England, whose resources
and whose actions have maintained Turkey
in the position of the power she
has so abominably misused. Iu con
clusion, Mr. Gladstone said the
good name of England was never more com
pletely at stake. If the incessant din in onr
ears of tbe maintainanco of British interests,
if the infusion of every word of suspicion
against the policy of Russia; if the
abuse of thoso unhappv Turkish Chris
tians who, haviDg been an enslaved
people, are necessarily in Buch respects
open to the demoralizing influence of slave
ry; if the recent invention of the Turkish
Constitution, made to order and intended to
act as a bar to the propositions of the con
ference ; if by these or any other like de
vice—for I must say the imagination of the
Turkish press of this country is fertile be
yond anything iu manufacturing them—if by
these things you are going to be drawn
aside from the great purpose you have
iu view, then we shall leave to posterity the
melancholy lesson that the people of Eng
land, having long dwelt in apathy, which
was duo to tho ignorance that we ah*labored
under, and having been once awakened to a
gallant and noble effort in favor of the prin
ciples of humanity, ja&tice and freedom,
were content to be lulled to sleep again—they
found the task of duty too heavy tor them.
It was more convenient for every man
to go about his own pursuits, his
own money making, his own pleasures, and
dismiss from his mind these painful and
harrowing subjects. It may be so, but if
that bo true, these are marks of a degene
rated nation. This is conduct that em
phatically confutes the doctrine of human
progress. But, gentlemen, if you really
wieh to be worthy of the fore
fathers from whom you are descended,
of the civil and religious liberty you pot-
6Cbs, and of the religions which it is yonr
greatest privilege and blessing to possess,
for Heaven’s sake do not allow yourselves
to be corrupted—for corruption it is—by
these debasing insinuations, but grapple
with this great duty which is given von,
and leave to those who come alter
you a lesson and example which I will ven
ture to say will neither be less noble nor less
beneficial to mankind than the noblest of all
lessons which you have received from a long
line of ancestors. [Great cheering.]
THE G&AND COMMISSION.
Washington, January 26.—The Republi
can caucus of the Honse selected Garfield
aud Hoar as their representatives on the
grand commission. The Democratic caucus
will S’Ject the three to which they are enti
tled Monday night. The Senate represent
atives will consist of three Republicans and
two Democrats. The vote for the second
man was Hoar, 42; Hale, of Maine, 40; Gar
field, unanimous.
In the Republican caucus this morning
Mr. Frye insisted that no doubtful Republi
can should be put on this commission. Mr.
Hoar being one of those to whom this re
mark was apparently aimed repelled the in
sinuation with earnestness, and stated ho
neither sought nor wanted an appointment
ou the commission. The question of em
ploying counsel to present the case to tho
commission was postponed to Monday, wheu
another caucus will be held. It is stated
that a number of eminent constitutional
lawyers bavo already volunteered their ser
vices without fee.
Judge Campbell, of Louisiana, Trumbull,
of Illinois, and probably Matt Carpenter, of
Wisconsin, will be retained to prepare the
Louisiar a case for the grafid commission.
THE LOUISIANA INVESTIGATION.
Washington, January 27.—Kenner, of the
Louisiana returning board, testified before
the Committee on Privileges aud Elections
that three precincts of Vernon parish had
been rejected after the board had passed it.
Ho had been no party to the discussion
over the rejection, aud could not ex
plain how it occurred. Some questions
were asked in connection with the Stato
officers of the parish, to prove that
the candidates for District Judge and
District Attorney wore neighbors and
friends of Governor Wells, and that he
altered the returns to have them elected,
but in order to cover tho conspiracy it be
came also necessary to change the votes in
three precincts iu the parish of Vernon,
which in this case was the motive fur alter
ing the electoral count. Adjoarned.
Ex-Governor Wells and General Anderson
are with Cassanave and Kenner in tho com
mittee room.
THE MARKETS IN MINCING LANE.
London, January 27.—The business in
Mincing Lane has been dull, which cauuot
readily be explained, and quotations are
generally close under last Friday’s prices.
Some holders of low sugar have accepted a
further decline, making a fall of five shil
lings per hundred weight ou the rates paid
two months ago. This led to more injuirv.
causing a recovery of a shilling. Other
kinds at public sales gave way a shilling to
two shillings per hundred weight. The Glas
gow market closes with a steady tone aud a
fair business dung. Coffee is unsettled and
prices lower. New crop Ceylon is down 7
to 8 shillings per hundred weight, com
pared with the opening rates last month.
Foreign shows some depreciation at which
a cargo of Rio was sold for the American
markets. New Burmah rice was once rather
dearer, but afterwards sold at barely last
week’s rates.
AID FOR IGLEB1AS.
New York, January 27.—The papers hero
publish a statement that a number of of
ficers in the late war, a number of whom
served on oue side and some on the other,
have determined to offer Iglesias their ser
vices. At a conlereuce held in Washington
yesterday afternoon one of their number was
deputed to wait upon Iglesias and formally
tender him their services. This gentleman,
who graduated at West Point, and was
in the regular army wheu the war broke
out, and later one of the principal cavalry
officers of the Confederacy, will leave here
immediately for St. Louis, where ho hopes
to meet the ex-President and his Cabinet
and lay he scheme before them. They say
they can easily raise 10,000 or 15,000 men iu
Louisiana and Texas.
A HEAVY CONFIDENCE GAME.
Nhw York, January 27.—Oue of the
heaviest confidence games ever played in
this city lias just been successfully accom
plished. It appears that a mau named
Hern, finding himself in want of a large
sum of money, but having a valuable set of
diamonds estimated at $25,000. applied to a
man whom he met down town for a loan.
This person purported to be a broker, and
steered Mr. Hern to Belmont Hotel, in Ful
ton street, where, under pretence of taking
the diamonds to an expert stopping in the
hotel, placed the confiding Hern at the bar
and walked out the rear door.
turkey’s diplomacy.
London, January 27.—The Times' Bel
grade dispatch confirms the report that Tur
key had made peace propositions to Servia.
The Servian correspondent adds that Servia
will not dare refuse unless Russia openly
promises to support her. This is a fine
stroke of diplomacy to force Russia
to show her hand. Tho Turkish note
to Servia concludes: ‘‘Convinced that your
Highness shares my deairo to secure peace
and terminate a regretable and disastrous
strife, I frankly invite you personally to
conciliation with the Porte by direct nego
tiations.”
JUDGE CARPENTER ON SOUTH CAROLINA
AFFAIRS.
Washington, D. C.* January 27.—
It is stated and believed that Judge Car
penter, of South Carolina, will decide that
neither Legislature is regular; that neither
Governor was inaugurated under constitu
tional forms, and that Chamberlain holds
over under his old tenure until the Legisla
ture is organized under the rulings of the
court, convenes and canvasses the vote for
State officers.}
AN INSURANCE ITEM.
New York, January 27.—The announce
ment made hero yesterday that the Metro-
E olitan Insurance Company was in the
ands of a receiver referred to the Metro
politan Fire Insurance Company, and not
the Metropolitan Life, between which there
is no connection. The two should not he
confused to the detriment of the last named
institution.
BURNED AT SEA.
San Francisco, January 27.—The ship Ida
Iredale, from Audrossan hither, with coal,
was burned at sea. The crew, arter groat
privations, reached an island « f the Mar-
quessa group, losing the carpenter.
FROM HAVANA.
Havana, January 27.—The new theatre,
Pavret was opened last night, with Italian
ooera. ’ The acoustic qualities are excellent,
and the building handsome, bat smaller
than Tacon theatre.
THE HEALTH OF THE POPE.
Rome January 27.—The Pope, who has
been indisposed since SundayJasfc, leit his
bed to-day for an hour. His Holiness will
endeavor to give audiences on Sunday.
death of a boy actor.
New York, January 27.—Master Paul
Smith, well known ss the boy actor, died
suddenly of heart disease to-day. He was
BRUSH THE TELEGRAHER.
Washington, January 27.—Brush, the
Tallahassee telegrapher, desires it stated
that he refused to auswer with regard to
divulging the contents of messages because
tbe committee would not allow him to ex
plain. He had only delivered messages ad
dressed to one or to any member of the same
political committee, and had spoken of the
contents of messages to other operators
equally bound with himself to secrecy.
THE LIBERTY OF THE ROMISH CLERGY.
Rome, January 27.—The congregation of
Cardinal-, ordered by the Pope to examine
the clerical abases bill, unanimously de
clared that it violates the liberty of the
clergy. It is stated that the Pope will pub
licly protest. Audiences at the Vatican were
suspended yesterday because of the Pope’s
indisposition.
THE PRESIDENT’S VIEW OF THE STAU QUO.
Washington, January 27.—The Presi
dent’s orders regarding country parishes in
Lonisiaua are, that when persons hold
credentials from both parties claiming to
be Governor, they may take possession,
but where there are conflicting claims the
old functionaries may hold ovor.
VIOLENT GALES.
New York, January 27.—The steamship
Othello, of the Hall line, which arrived at
this port yesterday after an unusually pro
longed mid-winter passage, reports having
me6 terrific westerly gales of hurricane vio
lence on the 13th Inst. Her steering gear
gave way, but was repaired.
disposing of forgers.
New York, Jauuary 27.—Geo. W. Chad
wick, for complicity in the forgery of a
check for $64,225 on’ the Union Trust Com
pany, was held for trial iu $50,000 bail.
Julius Keller, also implicated, was sent to
the bouse of detention as a witness, in de
fault of $3,000 bail.
THE HEPTABOPHS.
Norfolk, Va., January 27 W. E. Foster,
Supreme Archer of the Heptasophs, has
to-day issued tbe order postponing the
meeting of the Supreme Lodge of that Order
ln New Orleans from February 14th to
April 11th. •
AN EXPLOSION.
Boston, January 27 The loss by the ex
plosion of the oil work-* of JenDey A Cc., of
South Boston, is $40,000. The body of one
of the employees was taken from the ruins
FAILED.
Middletown, N. Y., Jauuary 27.—W. W.
Oox, a merchant of Deckertown, N. J.,
made an assignment. Liabilities $50,000;
assets $25,000.
RESTORING THE STATU QUO.
New Orleans, January 27.—Cameron di
rects that Augar restore the stata quo in
Natchitoches, but let Ouachita alone.
BELKNAP.
Washington, January 27.—The case of
ox-Secretary Belknap, for taking bribes, will
be called iu the Criminal Court on Monday.
TO BE PARDONED.
Washington, January 27.—McDonald,
convicted of whisky frauds, will be pardoned
shortly. There is no prospect for Joyce.
A RUSSIAN CORVETTE.
Fortress Monroe, Jauuary 27.—The Rus
sian corvette Bargaty, from Gibraltar,
passed in for Norfolk.
nomination.
Washington, January 27.—Henry R.
Smith was nominated as Postmaster at
Canton, Miss.
APPOINTED.
New York, January 27.—Wm. H. Lyon, of
Brooklyn, has been appointed one of the In
dian Commissioners.
DEAD.
Louisville, January 27.—J. W. Stockton
died this morning.
OUR ATLANTA LETIER.
FLORIDA.
Curtailment of Expenses—Cost of Execu
tive Department Under Radical Rule—
Demits a Kara Avis—\ Model Reformer
—The Immigration Bill—Hands Full-
Speaker McWhorter—Thanks.
Tallahassee, January 25.—The joint
conference committee on the Senate ap
propriation bill to supply deficiencies of
1875 and defraying the expenses for 187G,
after a thorough examination of every
item and its corresponding voucher; were
only able to report a curtailment of about
$4,388 38. This saving is quite an item,
although the aggregate sum is fearfully
heavy for our people to pay; but it has
got to come, they say.
Iu the Assembly to day the res^’ution
calling upon the Comptroller fo° L cost
of the Executive Department of th*. ov
ert! ment for the years I860, 186G -d
1875, called forth quite an extended dis
cussion. Mr. Dennis was satisfied there
was no politics in the resolution, yet he
could see that a tombstone might be
made for the Republicans and a monu
ment raised for the Democrats; and whilst
his side of the Assembly intended to al
low the passage of the resolution, yet he
would like to hear from the mover his ob
ject in introducing it, aud also as to how
much politics there was in it—that this
last information he wanted for the satis
faction of his side, but not for himself,
as'lie was satisfied it was an innocent
measure and uo politics in it.
Dennis is certainly a rara axis. Nothing
seems to abash him or put him out of
humor, and pending the discussion on
the buncombe reform resolution of Lee,
of Duval, in reference to au adjournment
sine die ou the 7th of February, Mr.
Hocker asked L;e if he voted to pay
members eight dollars per diem at the
last session, to which Lee promptly re
sponded: “I moved a resolution fixing
the per diem at two dollars, but was
voted down, aud out of indignation I
voted for eight dollars.” Then Dennis
very quietly arose and said:
“Mr. Speaker, the indignation of
the gentleman from Duval is commend
able iu the extreme, and his explanation
quite satisfactory to stamp him as a re
former.”
The bill authorizing the appointment
of an immigration agent to reside iu New
York was under discussion for a consider
able length of time, but when, as an
nounced in the telegrapLic column of the
News, Bishop, of Putnam, made his ex
planation of the purposes to be accom
plished, such au opposition was raised
against it as to cause the bill to be inde
finitely postponed.
The members of the Legislature are
willing to authorize the appointment of
an agent and to grant the appropriation,
but they want no favored jobs, and they
want it done by a bill in which the ex
penditure of this money will have the
necessary and proper safeguards thrown
around it. Mr. Bishop was a strong sup
porter of the bill, but his explanation of
it certainly killed it.
Owing to the immense amount of work
in the hands of the different committees
the Assembly holds but one session
daily. There are over sixty different
bills now pending in the Assembly and
over twenty in the Senate, besides reso
lutions, committees of investigation,
etc., etc. Many of these bills are of
paramount importance, and it is getting
time for definite action to be taken on
some of them, and not leave everything
to be rushed through at the heel of the
session, and without regard to that care
and consideration its nature might re
quire#
The Assembly is certainly to be con
gratulated on its Speaker, the Hon. G. G.
McWhorter. He is of commanding per
sonal appearance, in the prime of man
hood, and his bearing as a presiding offi
cer is so courteous and affable that it
gives an indescribable dignity to all pro
ceedings, and the few speeches he has
made during the session stamp him as
having a well balanced, analytical mind,
and as being a ready and fluent debater.
My thanks are due Mr. R. L. Dicken
son, the efficient Sergeant-at-arms of the
Assembly, for favors, and in a previous
letter I made mention that he was strong
ly urged for the appointment of Sheriff
of Gadsden county. The office was ten
dered him, which he declined.
I notice that Columbia county is about
tbe only county in the State that did not
split up in their nominations for county
officc-rs. They made a good selection.
Columbia.
In Nevada a man was boasting of the
wonderful scent of his dog, and how he
could track his master. He concluded
his yarn with the query, “What d’ye
think about that?’ “Do you want to
know what I think about it ?” said one
of the bystanders. “Well, I think you’d
better go and take a bath.”
Minor Topic*—Brief .Mention—Joint bnt
Separate Bodies—The Convention Bill—
A Word of Explanation.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Kimball House, January 27.—The
sudden death of Miss Corinne Lawton,
who spent the summer with her family at
this hotel, has cast a deep gloom upon
the social circle in which she was a gen
eral favorite, and the most heartfelt sym
pathy is expressed by the ladies especially
for the stricken family.
My statement in regard to Mr. J. £.
Bryant hardly does him injustice, as no
investigation was had, his accusers de
clining to appear at that time, and under
certain rules which they claimed would
do them injustice. They are now pre
pared, and in a few days will publish a
full vindication of their course, aud the
testimony to sustain their charges.
Another resolution was adopted to-day
to improve the hearing qualities of the
hall of Representatives. Already this
week fifteen dollars worth of acoustic
wires have been strung overhead, and
now more are to be added and paid for at
& reasonable price. Yet the result will
be anything but satisfactory. It is al
most impossible to make the hall fit for
legislative proceedings.
The warfare on the Georgia State Lot
tery promises to become quite lively.
The city authorities are determined to
push the matter, so far as they
are concerned, and spare no effort to
stop the sale of tickets in Atlauta. A
bill is now before the House to bring all
past actioD looking to its suppression to
a successful result. There is here a gen
eral aud strong desire to have the lottery
abolished, and its'ticket offices every
where closed up forever-
BRIEF MENTION.
There is no such member as “Robert?,”
of Appling; it is J. J. Roberson.
Senator Bryan, of the Thirty-fourth
district, is also made to figure in your
types as “Bryant.”
The men who promised to take stock
in the Atlanta Cotton Factory as soon as
H. I. Kimball resigned, have not kept
their promises, and a meeting of stock
holders will be held to-night to take
some action to inaugurate new measures
for success.
JOINT BUT SEPARATE BODIES.
Before fhe joint session of yesterday
was held, it was generally thought that a
rule would be adopted by which no separ
ate action could be taken by the House
or Senate on the matter of dissolving the
session. But the joint committee, after
consulting authorities cited by Hon. Arthur
Hood and others, became satisfied that
such a rule would be in conflict with the
action of similar bodies in other States,
and the rule was not adopted. At the
time I wrote, however, it was fully be
lieved that such a rule* would be agreed
upon. The decisive vote on the first
ballot of yesterday rendered no rules
necessary on the subject of dissolving the
joint session, as the election of a Senator
was the only question of real difference
in the discussion.
THE CONVENTION BILL.
The liveliest and most exciting debate
yet had ou the constitutional convention
bill occurred in the House to-day on the
amendment of Hon. Henry Hillyer, of
Faiton, which ended in a manner that
will no doubt defeat the fin d passage of
the bill, as it secured the adoption of
several amendments creative of antagon
isms.
Many friends of the convention bill,
including Price, Allred and Reese, fa
vored the submitting of the question to
the people, while Candler, \Valsh, Jor
dan’ of Hancock, Sikes, Moses and
Braucb, opposed it, and all made ringing
speeches for and against the amendment.
Mr. Hillyer, who is an able young lawyer,
proved himself a fine debater, and one of
the shrewedest managers that ever en
gineered a bill through the House. After
a lengthy discussion and a heap of sharp
practice, this amendment was adopted.
But the opposition were not to be
outwitted, and they tacked on
two very important amendments. One
provides that all votes not endorsed
“Convention” or “No Convention” shall
be counted for a convention. This was
offered by Hon. Ii. J. Moses,of Columbus.
I think it was Hon. \V. A. McDonald, of
Ware, who offered another amendment,
that the voters endorse “Milledgeville” or
“Atlanta” on their ballots, to give the
convention an expression of the people’s
will on the question of removing the
capital.
These amendments were carried by a
small majority, but Hillyer’s amendment,
as amend id, was adopted by a vote of
74, nays 55. The vote on amendment
to submit the new constitution to the
people stood yeas 77, nays 30. Hon.
John H. James, of Fulton, displayed
great fairness aud honesty in voting to
allow the people to express their views
on the cipital question. The new sec
tion offered by Hon. J. D. Stewart, of
Spdding, was adopted, and provides for
a return by the managers of the vote to
lhe Governor for consolidation. But it
is now feared that the amendments
adopted in committee of the whole will
result in defeating the bill on its final
passage, through a strong combination
that will be formed during the next few
days.
A WORD OF EXPLANATION.
In your “Tappings of the Wires,” in
yesterday’s issue, you intimate that I may
have put the matter of the contest of
Thursday, in joint session, in “too strong
alight,” a suggestion which I must al
lude to here, as a member of the House
to-day threatened my expulsion on the
ground that my statement of the affair
was false.
I did not overdraw th8 scene, for I left
out entirely the central and striking fig
ure. In the midst of the exciting discus
sion, Mr. Fry, of Fulton, who is a man of
commanding presence and sonorous
voice, rose to his feet and appealed to
the members of the House to withdraw
from the session, and by that action de
feat the ruling of President Lester.
I simply asserted that Messrs. Carlton,
of Clarke, and Turnbull, of Banks, led an
attack upon the decision of the presiding
officer. This is a fact that cannot be de
nied. Their motives I did not question,
beyond the statement that the Smith-
Hill combination were determined to
prevent a second ballot. This, also, is
a fact.
The words “disgraceful scene'* and
“shameful wrangle,” which the other side
object to, were used from my standpoint,
which was this: I was satisfied that a
fair and correct ballot had been taken
against dissolving the joint session, al
though the majority was very small in
deed. The Hill men immediately secured
changes, and one member came to the
Clerks desk to see how many more
changes were needed to defeat a second
ballot.
All this I saw and heard with my own
eyes and ears, and I know that if
any mistake was made by the
Clerks, it was an leanest mistake,
one for which they were in way responsi
ble, and the result of the excitement
attendant upon the issue at stake. I be
lieved then, as I do now, that President
Lester was right in his decision, and that
he deserved better treatment than he
received in the critical crisis which came
upon him. As all the gentlemen who
objected to his ruling disclaimed
any intention to call in question his
integrity as a presiding officer, noth
ing need be said upon the matter.
I am not alone in my position on this
point. Some of the ablest and clearest-
headed men in the Senate and House, as
well as outside these bodies, fully sustain
President Lester, and endorse every word
that I have written in regard to the
scene which transpired on Thursday.
Partisans, however, as severely denounce
and condemn his decision and the un
flinching manner in which he bared his
head to the storm and safely weathered the
i gale. President Lester aud Senator Nor- !
i Wood are from Savannah, it is true, but
' your correspondent, in this instance, wts
: not influenced, and is not now, by this
fact. My conclusions were drawn from
what I saw and heerd. If any gentleman
has been unfairly represented, or any re- j
proacb. not deserved, cast upon the
House of Representatives, let that fact
be made known to me in a respectful and
proper manner, and it shall be rectified, j
After an experience of twenty years in
legislative and Congressional bodies as a
reporter, it is rather late in the day to be
threatened, for the first time in my life,
with expulsion from the body in which I
now represent the Morning News. The
ability, energy and political soundness of
your paper have combined to make it a
power that certain men dread. It is one
of the papers in the South that no man
or set of men can “bulldoze” to their
purposes. But if, m representing it, I
shall ever do an injustice to any one, a
respectful request will always secur e a
correction and an apology. But no de
mand, couched in disrespectful language,
will “bulldoze” me into any kind of are-
traction or correction. Chatham.
Sikes, J F :....N
Simms, J P N
Ut 9d 3d 4fA Ch’ges
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THE SENATORIAL CONTEST.
Tabular Statement of tbe Ballot*.
As a matter of important reference in the
future, and to explain whatever may here
after be written in regard to the conduct
and result of this Senatorial contest, we give
below a carefully and accurately prepared
tabular statement of all ballots cast and
chauges made, which our readers will do
well to keep for that purpose. It was
prepared by “Chatham,” our Atlanta cor
respondent, who recorded every vote as it
was cast, and whose record is therefore re-
ilable in its figures :
BALLOTS OF THE SENATE.
Ut 2d 3d 4th Ch'ges
Asbury, R R II H H H
Black, Geo R N N N N
Browster, P H H
Bryan, Geo VV H
Bush, I J A H
Bullock, R H N
Cabauiss, Thos B 8
Chastain, J P 8
Clifton, J H N
Cody, DC....' 3
Cure ton, J W H
Deadwiler, G E H
DuBose, CS N
Eucland, J S H
Felton, L M N
Freeman, J W N
Forman, F C N
Graham, W A 8 N
Godfrey, J E H H
Gamble, J R N *^
Harrison, Wm N N
Harkue?s, TM 8
Hopps, DG N
Howell, E P H
Hudson, W J S
Mattox, J M N
McVfee, E C S
McDaniel, HD N
McDonald, Jus N
McLeod, NeiJ U H
Newborn, GW N
O’Daniel, Wm H
Perry, T J N N
lieese, VV M N
Ragsdale, W A H
Reid, D W S
Rutherford, Wm H
Staten, J W N
Shewmake, J T 8
Slaughter, J T H
Wilcox, TD N
Wilson, RE N
VVessalowski, O N
Mr. President N
BALLOTS OF THE HOUSE.
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Smrh, J D, of Echols N N
Smith, W R, of Walton. H H
Stanford, L L H H
Stewart, 13, of Taylor. N N
Stewart. TM,of Milton.H H
Stewart,J D.Soaulding.H H
Stokeley, 1) V Jk H
Strickland, L N N
Taylor, James H H
Thomas, W VV N N
Tnmiin, Thomas S S
Adams, A P, of Cbat’m.N
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Awtry, J. F
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Benson, J. IS
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Brown, J. H., of Upson..8
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Brown, W. 8., of iaj’tte.N
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Burcb, R. 8., of Thomas.N
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Bnrch, J. J., of Eibert
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Caudler, A. D
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Cloud, A. E
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Cochran, A. E
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Colbert, 8. W
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Collins, C. W
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Cox, A. H., of Troup..
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Fletcher, J 13
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Fort, Allen
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Fortner, S W
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Frederick, J D
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Fry, G T
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Grant, J H
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Gray, W J
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Green, J A
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Gresham, V D
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Glover. J T, of Twiggs.N
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Glover, N S, of Jones.
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Hammond, W M
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Kirby, J II
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Knox, James
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Loach, Thomas
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Mallette, G A
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Miller, A L
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Moore, B F
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Moses, R J
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THE COLUMBUS INTERVIEW.
[Explanatory Note.—N. is for T. M.
Norwood; H. is for B. H. Hill; S. is for J. M.
Smith; J. is for H. Y. Jffinson; W. is tor
D. A. Walktr; Jk. is for C. J. Jenkins*; C. is
for M. J. Crawford; B. is for A. O. Bacon;
* is for absent members; H., in the fifth
column, shows tho changes mvlo before the
fiaai vote was announced.]
A REVIEW OF THE BALLOTS.
On the first separate ballot in
the House Messrs. Cochran, of Pierce,
and Hawes, of Baker, changed from
Smith to Hill; Messrp. Brown,
of Fayette. Rouse an i McRae, changed from
Smith to Ncrwood; Mr. Hogan, of Monroe,
ehinged from Smilh to Hill; and Mr. Mot
ley changed from Smith to Norwood. All
these changes took placo before the final
announcement was made:
First Ballot in Senate.
Norwood 21
Hill 1*
Smith 9
First Ballot in House.
Norwood 79
Hill 68
Smith 21
Walker *
Jenkins I
BALLOTS IN JOINT SESSION.
Second Ballot of Senate.
Norwood 23
Hill 13
Smith 7
Second Ballot of House.
Norwood . 73
Hill 65
Smith 20
Johnson H
Walker I
Ihird Ballot of Senate.
Norwood 23
Hill 16
Smith 5
Ihird Ballot of House.
Norwood - 72
Hill SL
Smith 24
Johnson 16
Walker *
Fourth Ballot of Senate.
Norwood 20
Hill 17
Smith ^
Jenkins 1
Fourth Ballot of House.
Norwood..... 68
Hill 66
Smith 22
Johnson 6
Walker 4
tfnawford 1
Bacon 1
HOW THE TINAL RESULT CAME.
The first change in the fourth (final) bal
lot was made by Senator D. C. Cody, of
Chattahoochee, who weut from Smith to
Hill. He was followed by Representative
Thomas Tnmiin, of Bartow, winch carried
Hill’s vote to 85. Then followed Represen
tative Wooldridge, Senators Cabauis* an l
Chastain, Representatives Ragsdale, Dozier
of Harris, Stanford, Oattis, Anderson, Wil
son, Whittle, Pope, Davis of Stewart,
Kennon, Harden, Phillips, Jordan of
Hancock, Bowen, and Haralson,
which brought Hill’s vote up to
103. At this critical moment Blue, of
Glynn, led the colored vote from Walker to
Hill, and as soon as Mr. Hollis changed
from Crawford to Hill, Blue’s colleague,
B-icon. of Liberty, changed from Walker to
Hill, which gave the 106 votes necessary to
an election. Blue’s action was ioudly
cheered by the Hill party, and his other col
leagues, Adams and Buotz, cast the two
ballots that carried the vote up to 109.
Haralson, of Union, was the first to go from
Norwood to Hill, be casting vote 103. All
changes from 83 to 100 were from
Smith to Hill, at which time Jordan, of
Hancock, changed from^ Johnson to
Hill. Tho chauges from Norwood to Hill
were Guyton, of Laurens, Haralson, of
Union, and Senator Wilson, of Murray. The
last changes made were Messrs. Guyton
(115), Walton (116) and Peacock (117), from
Lanrens. Burke and VVashington counties
The verified ballot, however, only shows 114
VLt?p, and in the excitement and confusion
of the occasion it was so announced—Hi J
114. Norwood 85, Smith 4, Johnson 6, Jen
kins 1, A careful examination of the tabu
lar statement of the ballots will show the
reader just how every Legislator voted each
time, and the actual result of suoh ballot.
llou. A. H. Stephens.
[New York Sun’s Washington Dispatch, IStli.]
Alexander H. Stephens is lying seri
ously ill here from the effects of a bleed
ing at the lungs ten days ago, and his re
covery is considered doubtful. He went
to the capital much weakened and
wasted from a long sickness that had de
tained him at home all of the last session,
and rather against the advice of his
friends. Tbe hope of contributing some
thing by his counsel and experience to
the adjustment of the present complica
tions was the only reason that induced
him to appear in his seat
Ho has, however, not been able to take
any prominent or active part in the pro
ceedings, but has endeavored privately to
exert a calming influence on extreme
opinions, and to bring together opposing
elements in a patriotic desire to avoid
even the appearance of strife or passion
in settling the Presidential problem. He
regards the political situation as critical
in the extreme, just as he did the immi
nence of an explosion in 18G0, when he
labored so earnestly for peace, and pre
dicted the consequences that followed
secession.
Mr. Stephens will be sixty-five years
of age next month. For forty years he
has been in public life, twenty of which
he served in Congress, and was re-elected
to the House in November last. Origin
ally a Whig of the old and best school,
he now classes himself as “a straight-
out Jeffersonian Democrat.” Ia practice
and in thought he is an independent,
bold and conscientious man, who regards
country as above party, and who will not
be bound by the platforms and devices of
politicians. During this long, remarka
ble and eminent career no opponent,
even in the times of highest political ex
citement, has ever questioned the purity,
honor and fidelity of his public or private
life.
Funny Stories Boiled Down.—The
story going the rounds of the press to
the effect that Senator Christiancy, of
Michigan, was robbed on the cars while
recently en route to Washington, of
several hundred dollars and his trunk,
and that on the following night he was
again robbed while at his boarding house
iu this city, the sums taken in the two
cases aggregating about $1,000, was
greatly exaggerated. Judge Christiancy
was not robbed on the cars, nor was his
trunk stolen. His room was entered on
the night of his arrival here, and his
pants and vest stolen, in which was the
sum of $303. This is all the I033 he sus
tained. In regard to the widely circu
lated on dit to the effect that his family
has lately been increased by an infantile
integer, neither the Senator nor Mrs.
Christiancy, who ought to be posted in
the matter, believe the report.— Washing
ton Star.
The visitor at the national capital some
times observing a tall figare in a short
cloak and peaked hat moving mysteri
ously about in the dim twilight of the
oorridora, is tempted to think it may be
Mephistopheles, until the figure steps up
to the restaurant bar, pours out four fin
gers of brandy, absorbs it with as little
emotion as if it had disappeared down a
rat hole, and then the visitor knows that
it is not Mephistopheles, but the hero of
the “March to the Sea.”
Haves and Wheeler Have a Chat Over
Uncle Birchard** Wine.
[New York Sun.]
The cloth having been removed, the
Governor of Ohio pushed the decanter
toward the gentleman from Malone. “It
is curious wine,” he said, “made by my
Uncle Birchard in 1S5G. Don’t spare it,
I beg of you.”
•Thanks,” said Mr. Wheeler, making a
wry face.
“It is perfectly harmless, I assure you,”
continued the Governor. “As my uncle
neglecU d to cork the bottles, the alco
holic principle has been entirely destroy,
ed by the process of fermentation. Per
haps you notice the acetous flavor.”
“I think I do,” said Mr. Wheeler.
*As for myself,” said Mr. Hayes, reach
ing for the milk pitcher, “I prefer milk
and water—half milk and half w iter. It
is a pleasant and innocent beverage, and
it stimulates the operations of the mind.”
The two statesmen then settled back
qamfortably in their chairs, and the fol-
fbwing conversation ensued:
Gov. Hayes—The present situation is
one which calls for stem integiity of pur
pose and high patriotic endeavors on our
part, Mr. Wheeler. Do you follow me ?
Mr. Wheeler- -I catch the idea.
Mr. Hayes—It is a great responsibility,
an awful responsibility, which has been
thrust upon us by a majority of our coun
trymen.
Mr. Wheeler—I beg your pardon, Gov
ernor. A majority?
Gov. Hayes—Yes, a majority—a grand
popular majority. Murat Halstead ha>
shown that the fraudulent votes cast for
Tilden, and the Republican citizens pre
vented from voting by intimidation and
force, number in all just 2G3,815—which
leaves us a grand popu ! ar majority.
Mr. Wheeler—Do you swallow ail
that ?
Governor Hayes—My dear Mr.
Wheeler, I told you that I prefer this to
any other beveiag*. It stimulates my
mental fpculties. I swallow it not only
with ease but also with enjoyment.
Mr. Wheeler—I meant—
Governor Hayes—Precisely. As I was
saying, having baen elected by an over
whelming majority of our fellow-citizens,
it is our duty to stand fiiin, not for our
selves, but on the poor negro’s account.
You follow me—tho poor, oppressed
negro ?
Mr. Wheeler—I apprehend. It is on
the poor negro’s account. But about
this infernal counting business. Zach
Chandler says:
Governor Haye3—Zich Chandler?
Will you permit me to inquire who Zach
Chandler may be ?
Mr. Wheeier—Why, Zach; old Zach !
He’s engineering our—
Governor Hayes—Pardon me. You arj
wandjriDg from the subject. I have no
acquaintance with Mr. Jack Chandler,
the engineer. Why do you wink ?
Mr. Wheeler—Oh, merely a chronic
affection of my upper eyelid. Don’t
mind me.
Gov. Hayes—For the poor negro’s Bake
it is important that the country should
sustain the verdict of the patriotic re
turning board of Louisiana, whose deci
sion, as you truly said in 1875, i3 enti
tied to great respect.
Mr. Wheeler—But unfortunately 1
said—
Gov. Hayes—Precisely. And it
equally important that the people should
be brought to see how pure, loyal, and
patriotic a man is J. Madison Wells, who
was hunted through swamps by rebel
bounds, and fcf whom Gen. Sheridan said
that he is the peer of any man in tho
United States Senate. Why, if I may
ask, do you wink ?
Mr. Wheeler—That troublesome eye
lid again. But Governor, now com j
down to common sense. We-are alone,
and cannot be overheard. Now, things
in Louisiana look dusty. If Don Came-
rou could only manage to persuade tho
old man
Governor Hayes—Don Cameron ? I
have never heard of him. Is he tho
Spanish Ambassador r
Mr. Wheeler—I tell you, Governor, wo
are alone. We must look matters in the
face. It seems as if the bottom were
dropping out at New Orleans. Pinchbaek
aud Warmoth aud Casey have gone back
on us, aud you know Casey means a good
deal. Now, there’s got to be a compro
mise. We must drop some more money
there. Jay Gould has promised—
Governor Hayes—My dear Mr. Wheel
er, I am sorry for you. Drop money
compromise, Jay Gould 1 My Uncle Bird
ard’s wine has gone to your head.
Mr. Wheeler—Well, I see it’s no use. If
you won’t understand you won’t. But I
have profited by your conversation, and
appreciate your lofty patriotism and de
votion to the poor, oppressed colored
man. If I should be elected and you not,
I will remember this point.
Gov. Hayes—You elected; me not!
What do you mean ?
Mr. Wheeler—If there should prove to
have been no choice by the people, and
your name should go to the House aud
mine to the Senate—
Governor Hayes—My dear Wheeler, I
have done you injustice. You are per
fectly sober. Please forget my hasty ex
pression. Why, my inaugural is a l
written and in type in the State Journal
office. I am sure if there is any need of
money my uncle’s will has put me in a
position—act as you think best, my dear
Mr. Wheeler, for the interest of the poor
negro. You follow me ?
Mr. Wheeler—I think I do.
Governor Hayes—And as you are going
Eist, perhaps you might say that you
found me firmly resolved to do my duty
as a patriot, aud that my heart beats
warmly for the poor African. What,
winking again ? What a merry dog you
are, Wheeler.
The Romance of Figures.
If one cent was set out at compound
interest in the year 1 at four per cent., the
first of January, 186(1, it would amount
to 1 quintillion 201,458 quadrillions 332,-
000 trillions of dollars. If we were to
take this sum as a capital, and would use
its yearly interest (four per cent.) then
the income tax we would have to pay at
the rate of one per cent, would be 480
quadrillions 583,320 trillions of dollars.
If we paid the tax collector this sum in
silver, he would need 3,004,345,000,000,-
000,000,000 wagoDS for its transportation.
Provided the whole earth’s surface, both
land and water, were peopled as closely as
possible, we should have but the two-mil
lionth part of the drivers required, and
the line of wagons would have
the length of 8 trillions 442,-
000 billions of miles. The speed of
light is 192,000 miles per second, and it
would take 743,600 years to reach the
collector, beginning at the furthest
wagon, if he, to have better control over
the wagons on both sides, stationed him
self in the centre of the liDe. Again, a
robbery could be committed on the hind-
ermost wagon, which would not be dis
covered till the 24,780 h generation of
tax collectors. If, on the contrary, in
stead of using the interest of the capital
(the bulk of which, by the by. would be
equal in gold to forty-four globesY this
capital were distributed among the people
of the earth, each one of its 1,000,000,000
of inhabitants would receive about 1,200
trillions of dollars to live od, and could
every second use $2,000,000 for 38,096,000
years without reaching the bottom cf his
purse.—San Francisco Real Estate Ad
vance.
Chancellor Kent was one of the greatest
legal luminaries of tbe nineteenth cen
tury, but when he said, “I presume the
President of the Senate would have the
power to count the vote,” he talked like tbe
man who picked up an object in the dark
hallway, and handed it to his wife with
the remark, “I presume this is your muff,
my dear;” whereas it was only the family
cat.—Brooklyn Argus.
Mr. Moody never “brothers” and “sis
ters” people much. He calls people Mr.
or Mrs. or Miss, as the case may be, and
doesn’t go into eentimental seasickness
and eye-drooping and faraway ness any
more than ho can help.
dieted.
[Washington .p^taTof the Onego Time,,
Now that the compromise has taken
tbe contingency of eiril war oat oFThe
contest, there is a renewed dlsciisik^
the industrial and financial f
There are large delegations of manaftc
turers here from New Ennlae.i i , ,
by Edward Atkinson who are 1 ’ ‘J
statesmanlike effort., on the part of°Con
gross to readjust things, ifis the testt
mony of these men that with the Pre ■ .
deutial muddle out of the way there is
ample promise of a brilliant' busing
future at baud with a sound financial
policy at once outlined and declared
Among the plans suggested is that
proposed by Secretary Morrill to off.. r
redeem the greenback, at the option of
the holder in a four per cent bond
those tnus redeemed to bo can-eil d’
The other, adTOcated by Mr. Schleicher'
of Texas is to retain a certain proper’,
tion of the greenbacks paid in ai tan s
and deposit them as part of the sinking
fuud. The first of these pleas, they
argue, would probably get the faror of
those who are opposed to any forcible
contraction, as it would operate only as
far as the money market would m»ke re
d mption profitable.
lhe position of the countrv, they say
is now in evjry way favorable to a gen
eral revival of industry, if only confidence
in the futura is restored. The crops cl
the year are all either ample or very
luge. The corn crop ia within two per
cent, as great as the immense crops of
1875, and in form of pork is bringing
good prices with a good foreign demand.
The wheat crop is good and sold at paying
prices. The cotton crop was large and
profitable, and was combined with a
larger production thau ever before of
food supplies by the Southern States.
Wool has passed the extreme point of
depression, and is bringing fair prices
The sugar crop of Louisiana was enor
mous, and is selling at fair prices.
Leather has passed the point of depres
sion. Exports are large at full prices,
and the price has advanced from four to
six cents per pound, with home demaud
brisk. All the New England cotton mills
which are up to the times are now able to
earn dividends, and the aggregate export
of cotton goods is larger now than before
the war, and is steadily though slowly
increasing.
The most important sign of all in this
view ia the sense of stability and hope -
fulness for the future in case the Presi
dential difficulty is peaceably settled—a
feeling such as has not obtained since the
panic of 1873, and which touches every
important branch of industry. This feel
ing only needs the settlement of the Pres
idential question, and then of the cur
rency question to take effect iu construct
ive enterprises of all kinds to make up
for the complete stoppage of all such u
dertakings during the last two or three
years. This labor now unemployed would
immediately find employment in building
new mills, warehouses, railroads aud
other large works.
Court Plaster.
Nothing has ever quite equaled the ab
surdity of patches. It is true that noth
ing could better set off the color of a
lovely cheek or the ivory of a Rnowy brow
than these same patches; and in their
day, wherever there was a lovely cheek
or an ivory forehead to set off, the patch
was used, and sometimes where there
was not. Was there a beautiful line of
the eye-lid, a beautiful curve of the nos
tril, the patch was applied just near
enough to draw the on-lookers eye; was
there a sweet corner to the mouth, the
patch pointed it out; a nestling dimple
near, a patch lay just beside it. It was
a curious fashion. Perhaps some high
and mighty dame with an eruptive skin
or an unsightly mole or mark first
brought it into use; but there were
none of the splendid beauties of
the reigns of the Charleses in England,
and of Louis XtV r . and XV. in France,
who did not kuow how to use it to ad
vantage in gilding refined gold. Nor
was it by an> means original with these
beauties; they had borrowed it from the
use of the dandies of a yet earlier reign,
the fops of Queen Elizabeth’s day, who
honored it equally with their love-locks.
It was considered then a part of the
accoutrement of a lover, and not for a
hundred years later do we hoar of its use
by the opposite party. Nor was this
patch a little thing calculated to escape
observation. A bit of black tall eta
gummed, or of gold b&ater’a skin suitably
prepared, it was singularly fantastic and
prominent. Sometimes it was a square,
sometimes a lozenge; again, it would l»3
a star: a crescent marking the blue
vein on the temple or the soft shadows
beneath the eye ; and a very favorite and
striking patch ind-*t d was a tiny coach
and four, whip, driver, courier, and pc
tilion, over the eyebrow. One would
hardly imagine that the charm of beauty
could be enhanced by such an obvious
absurdity. But what everybody does
ceases to be absurd ; and as people were
in that day not at all acquainted with the
habits of the Feejeeans and their neigh
bors, it could not, of course, have oc
curred to them that a fine lady’s face
presented but a counterpart to the full-
dress tattoo of a Polynesian—so near, in
such respect at least, was the greatest
height of civilization reached two hun
dred years ago to the lowest depth of bar
barism now. Belle and beau of that day,
with all their elegant minuet dancing and
their frequently fine culture, were, in the
matter of this part of their toilet, superior
to the forecastle hand, whose breast aud
arms are tc-day pricked all over with hearts
and darts and flags and blaok-eyed Susans,
in so far as their decorations were mova
ble and the forecastle hand’s are fixed.
The patpb, however, was allowed no more
quiet existence than in our own genera
tion the steel-spring hoop has enjoyed.
The wits of the day spent their epigrams
upon it, the satirists loaded it with sneers,
the exhort ers inveighed against black-
spotted faces, and abhorred the patch as
one of the devices of the scarlet lady; and
there was so many representatives of the
scarlet lady at the courts who indulged io
it that the reproach was hardly to be
wondered at.
Good Templars and lhe Color Line.
The Primal Grand Lodge of Good Temp
lars of the State of Maryland, as dis
tinguished from the new or dual Grand
Lodge recently formed, met yesterday at
Temperance Temple and continued in
session for six consecutive hours. Dele
gates were present from fifteen white |
lodges and ten colored lodges. A majority
of the white delegates were from points J
outside of the oity. The Grand Lodge j
approved the action of the Executive \
Committee electing Rev. H. P. Jordan
Chief Templar, and Joseph Cowman ^
Counsellor, in placo of Thomas G. De
Ford and Rev. William M. Os- |
borne, who held corresponding po- 1
sitions in the new Grand Lodge, i
The principal topic of discussion was 1
the formation of the new Grand Lodge, I
December 19,1876. It is claimed by tho3e 1
who still hold their membership to the I
old lodge that at the last meeting of the
Right Worthy Grand Lodge in Blooming
ton, I1L, in 1875, permission was granted |
for the formation of two Grand Lodges I
in Maryland, as had been done in several j|
Southern States. Tho division was to bo
made on the color line, the
Lodge was to be formed by *
subordinate lodges, and the w
dinate lodges to retain the ori^
Lodge charter. In this cas£,
it is claimed that at the annual
the Grand Lodge held in Baltir.
vember 21 and 22, 1876, afterq
discussion on the subject, no de
ion was taken for a division, m&
colored delegates expressing the
ence for unity.
The annual elect:o i of officers i
Thomas G. DeFord being declare
Templar by a close vote, it havn
previously announced that Rev-
Jorda v was duly elected. SLor.
the adjournment of .h a body steps were
taken for the formation
Lodce Thia lodge was duly instituted
December 19 by subordinate white todgefi,
auTof Th^TheWa^ ,
about the same number of ictus v.ewhid
lodeee The new Orand Lodge has a
charter wh.eh it is cla.med by .he mem :
SSaJfaMSwj-JSyjl
tion of the right of a separation ot th*
“ ^tiwBiaht^Worthy Grand Lodge,
SS WMaine, in May