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Or Utormng JUirsL H* ESTill, Proprietor. NO. 3 WHITAKER STREET, (MORNING NEWS BUILDING). THOMPSON, Editor. FRIDAY, MARCH 22.1878. TAPPING the wires. The Londcr. Tin*?* is very severe on Mr. Blaine and Mr. Butler for their strictures on the unfairness of the award of $5,000,000 granted in favor of England and against the United States by the Fishery Commission. It regards their conduct in attempting to cast discredit upon the impartiality of the Commission as particularly unfortunate and calculated to reflect anything but credit on this country. It hopes and believes that Mr. Blaine will not be able to get a Congress of his countrymen to support him in a re fusal to pay the award, and stamp the American policy with the double discredit of meanness and trickiness. There is a family in Newport, Rhode .island, named Murray, who have four chil dren lying dead from diphtheria and three others not expected to live. The father is insane and has threatened to shoot the un dertaker. Nothing of any very special interest tran spired in Congress yesterday. A creat portion of the day was taken up in the Senate by a personal explanation from Mr. Dorsey, of Ar kansas, regarding certain action of his con cerning the Hot Springs property. The re mainder of the day was spent in discussing the bill authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporary clerks and making an appropriation for the same—also making an appropriation for detecting trespass on the public lands, and for bring ing such lands in certain States into market, and for other purposes. In this discussion Senators Jones of Florida and Morgan of Ala bama, against, and by Mr. Matthews, of Ohio, in defense of the policy of Secretary Schurz towards timber cutters and tres passers on the public lands. Eight hours work a day. with an hour's intermission—work to commence at seven o’clock—has been established for work on the public buildings and the navy yard at Washington. This is according to the law, as it is interpreted. In the British House of Lords, Lord Derby protested against the unfounded assertions relative to Cabinet dissensions. He said that England only asked representation in the Congress for Greece that her voice and claims might be heard, and all she de manded of Russia was that all the articles of the treaty be submitted to the Congress for discussion, that being the oniy way to decide which of them affected European interests. If this was not done there would be very little use for the Congress to meet. Captain Adams, commander of the United States corvette Hartford, has died in Monte video, of yellow fever. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue will soon Usue a circular materially modify ing his late order in regard to the divis ion line between cigar factories an<f retail stores. The differences between Russia and Eng land are still unsettled. Dr. John H. Newman is not to be made a Cardinal. The Russians have abandoned the idea of embarking at Bujukdere, because if the Turks permit it, the British fleet will come up the Bosphorus. Isaac Adams died at Sandwich, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, leaving a fortune of from four to six million dollars. He made it all from the Adams printing press, which he bought from the inventor for an old gun, and for the use of which he afterwards re ceived forty thousand dollars in gold from England. The London Time*, in its financial article, says the fear of the silver bill has died out, but the people of England are afraid of what may follow it. Rev. Mr. Gilbert, of Baltimore, charged with immoral practices, has been completely exonerated. There is talk of a dissolution of the Ger man Reichstag, and an attempt to earn' the new elections on the personal strength of Prince Bismarck. One of the oldest banks in Prague has suspended. Russia is about to issue an intimation that she recognizes the right of each power to demand discussion of every stipulation in the treaty, but she reserves the right of re fusing to submit such stipulations to the sanction of the pow'ers. England has decided to resist Russian an nexation in Asia Minor. According to the treaty of San Stefano, the evacuation of European Turkey, except Bul fr aria, must be completed within three The Louisiana Returning Board De cision. Now, as we get a fuller and more ex plicit statement of the late decision of the Supreme Court of Louisiana wtu: cby the notorious Thomas C. Anderson xas released, and the abandonment of the proceedings against his confederate^ in crime was brought about, we can discuss thaw decision much more intelligibly than heretofore. In brief, the decision of said court was simply that ^nderson should be re leased on a mere legal technicality. The document offered in evidence and upon which he was convicted was a “consoli dated statement” of the election returns, as compiled by the returning board, and based upon fraudulent and altered re turns from the different parishes, and because the original returns, as altered, were not offered, the court decides that the consolidated statement was not forgery per at, and that therefore the prisoner should be released. In the words of the court, “The record of fered in evidence did not conform to that mentioned in the information. The docu meat offered was a ‘consolidated state ment’ certified by the register of voters, and not the ‘original returns.’ and the statute of our State does not attach much value to this consolidated statement. *’ This decision may be literal law. but it certainly is not founded on equity, for it utterly ignores both equity and justice. Under it men who it is not denied did forge and alter returns, and thus did de feat the sovereign will of the people of a State, have been able to commit the gravest crime known to our sys tem of government with im punity. They have treated popular sovereignty with contempt, made the exercise of the elective franchise a farce, and deliberately told the people of Loui siana that they should have no rulers over them but such as they (the board) saw fit to select. Yet in face of all this, they are permitted to go unwhipt of justice simply because of a little legal technicality. What is there under this ruling to prevent any party from main taining itself in power indefinitely, no matter how bitterly the people may de nounce its course? What is there to prevent a returning board i future from preparing such consolidated statement” as it sees fit, and, giving this out as the result of an election, forever circumvent justice by simply destroying the “original re turns,” so that they may never be brought forward to testify against them or bring upon them righteous punishment. The liberties of the people of Louisiana are terribly imperiled by such a decision, and it clearly becomes the duty of the Legis lature of that State to pass a stringent act which will reach all such crimes hereafter. As a sequel to this decision of the Louisiana Supreme Court we read that Mr. Hayes and his Cabinet are delighted that the returning board prosecutions have fallen to the ground, We, how ever, cannot see the basis of their joy. True, John Sherman and the “visiting statesmen” may well rejoice that the danger which threatened them on account of the part tliej’ played in the infamous transaction has passed away. These men may well feel elated that they have personally escaped the penitentiary. But how, in their official capacities, they should rejoice and be glad, we cannot understand. The Supreme Court does not deny that frauds were committed; it does not deny that votes for one candi date were thrown out in sufficient num bers to enable another and defeated can didate to triumph falsely. It virtually admits these frauds, and since they were proven in the court below, it still stands as a matter of judicial record that Mr. Hayes has no legal title to the office he holds. This, ih?n. will be the verdict of the truthful histories oi the future, and Mr. Hayes must be known to posterity as a man who was rejected by his fellow- citizens, but who became President of the United States only by means of “trium phant fraud,” and who afterwards used his official patronage ?o protect and save harmless the manipulators of sueli fraud. If the sterling ideas of our fore.- fathers are ever to he restored; if honesty and integrity are ever again to be regarded as sacred things, while fraud and corruption are to be held in the vilest abhorrence, in a word, supervisors' consolidated statements, was one of the principal complaints urged against the action of the board. It was one of the facts which impressed on that canvass its illegal aad fraudulent charac ter. Whether or not the supervisors’ statements were the official records of the election contemplated by law. they were assumed by the returning officers to be official records. They were the only documents on which the canvass and compilation were based. If that canvass and compilation had stood: if they had not been nullified and vitiated, as to all officers except Presidential electors, by subsequent events, the tenure of every official in the State would have rested upon them. Hence to alter and to falsi fy them directly affected the rights of all candidates on whose claims the return ing officers assumed to decide. Taking these facts into consideration, it does not seem strange that the lower court re garded the supervisors’ statements for the purposes of the election of 1876 as official records, and, as such, having a direct bearing on the rights of candi dates. “It is inter«Png to note that although the Supreme Court decides the supervi sor’s returns to be in no sense records, and to be utterly without vitality as a l>asis for a legal canvass, yet, in point of fact, the eight electoral votes of Louis iana were cast for Mr. Haves in conse quence of a canvass thus illegally con ducted and consummated. The decision which relieves the returning officers from prosecution, stamps with conspicuous illegality the canvass which they made, and” notifies to the world that, by the solemn judgment of the highest tribunal of this State, there never was a legal can vass of the votes cast in Louisiana for Presidential electors at the election in November, 1876.” months after a definitive peace, andtheRus- j |f tliis Itepublig of ours is to stand on the sian troops may embark on the Black Sea I foundation upon which it can ever and Sea of Marmora. It is for this reason that the Russians are marching in the neigh borhood of Constantinople for shipment. Russia will keep a portion of her troop, near Constantinople until the final treaty is signed. Southern Republicans in Washington saV that the version of the shooting of one of Mr. Schurz's timber agents for an indecent assault on a lady is about what they would have expected from his character- Anothertimberageni. accord ing to letters received there from reliable persons, has been relieving his labors in making unlimited affidavit-;, by going around with a buggy and a fast woman. A third Southern agent is a murderer and an ex-Ku-Klux detective. They arc, altogether, a sweet set to be invested by the government with power to confiscate property at will, and reduce thousands to beggary- Proposed Monument to Thomas JeptuksoX. —In the House nf Repre sentatives on Monday. Mr. Cox, of Sew York, introduced a bill providing for the erection of a monument over the grave of 'Thomas Jefferson, at Moati- cello, near Charlottesville, Va. It is well that fie former home of Mr. wreck, and that the grave known Jefferson is a containing his remains Is now almost un marked. The erection of a .suitable monument to mark Mr. Jefferson s test firmly stand—the patriotism, virtue and honesty of its citizens—how th*u v*^ii the present administration be regarded by generations to come? Mr. Hayes and his Cabinet must, in very deed and truth, lie of exceeding hilarious tempera ments, and firm believers in the teach ings and doctrines of 3fark Taptey, if they can be jolly under such extraordi narily adverse circumstances. The New Orleans Time* eommentuig on the decision of the Supreme Court, the text of which will be found in an other column, says: “The great question of the guilt of the board in falsifying tije result of the election and defeating the will of the people stands unaffected by this decision. The opinion of the country on this point no technicality can neutralize and lio court, however august, modify. Per haps is best for the country and for the cause w the purity and freedom of the ballot that ttm offense should remain the unexpiated crirn* pf a great party rather than be condoned and ^ttied by a two years sentence ic the pemteatatty of one of the many w'ho participated in it. and profited by it. <o far as it can be considered a ques tion of public policy, undoubtedly a vast majority of the people will approve the decision of the court. The prosecution relieved the State of the stigma of acqui escing in the great fraud, but at the same time it was concentrating upon us a par tisan hostility unfortunate for us, and was rekindling animosities which patri otic citizens of all parties deplored, ft also had the appearance of drifting into The Macon (Ha.) Claim. In June. 1865, the city of Macon. Geor gia, issued its bonds to the amount of $25,000, in denominations ranging from twenty-five cents to twenty dollars. This amount was increased from time to time afterwards up to $50,000. The city was assessed by the Internal Revenue Assessor one-twelfth of one per cent each month on the aggregate amount of thee bonds used and paid. The city paid this tax regularly until June, 1873, when it refused to pay it any longer, and six months later it filed a claim with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for the refund of that paid, amounting to $6,141. Attorney General Stanbery, in a similar case from Alabama, decided that the statute under which the tax was levied did not apply to a public or politi cal corporation. Under the opinion of the Attorney General, the Secretary of f he Treasury held that the tax was improperly as sessed against the city of Macon. The Secretary, however, only refunded that portion of the tax paid within two years prior to the date of ttie claim for refund, holding that the remainder, $4,178, was barred by the statute of limitation. The city then applied to Congress, and the House passed a bill providing for the payment of the remainder. This bill has been considereS by the Senate Commit tee on Claims, which has just decided adversely upon it on the ground that the city has had the benefit of the circula tion of its bonds since May, 186-7, and that there are no equities in favor of the city which would justify the removal of the bar of limitation. The New Postal Law. The bill for the classification of mail matter, agreed upon by the House Com mittee on Post Offices, provides fora two and three cent discrimination in pound rates between newspapers and periodi cals printed at greater intervals than one week. The registration feature was adopted and so extended that registered matter maj* be scut from either the office of publication or from • news agency to the subscriber. The words of registra tion are to be printed on each issue. Advertising sheets are excluded from the privilege of registration. The annual fee for registration is one dollar. The committee retained the clause providing that newspapers may circu late free within the counties where pub lished, except in letter-carrier offices. All publications must be registered in order to l»e sent at pound rates, and those rates apply equally to sample copies, or those to regular subscribers. The committee added three sections to the bill, which, if adopted, will introduce a sweeping change in the present methods of distributing large dailies, weeklies and magazines. These sections give the government a monopoly of ear ning all newspapers and otheF periodi cals, and make it a criminal offense to send them by express or in any other way outside of the mails. National Quarantine Law. We are indebted to our immediate Representative, non. Julian Hart ridge. for a copy of the quarantine bill intro duced by him on the 9ih instant by unani mous consent and referred to the Commit tee on Commerce. The committee having agreed to report favorably, the bill will soon be put upon its passage. The necessity of an effective quaran tine law is universally acknowledged but there is a difficulty in the way of establishing a national system of quar antine that may not come in conflict with local sanitary regulations, and interfere with the rights and interests of State and municipal governments. The bill intro duced by Mr. Hartridge. while all that can be desired in its general provisions, does not quite solve the problem of national and municipal co-operation, since it seems to subordi natc the State regulations to those of the General Government, thus opening the way for conflicts of jurisdiction and au thority, to the prejudice of the public health. It is of the greatest importance that the General Government should in augurate a general system of quar antine. with a view to prevent the introduction of infectious diseases from foreign countries, but as the local governments are not only most immediately affected by quarantine regulations, but are better informed in re gard to the necessities and dangers of the local situation, they should lie left free to inaugurate and enforce such special sani tary and quarantine regulations as cir cumstances may demand. 31 r. Hartridge suggests that the bill we give below should )>e somewhat modified in this re spect: A Bill to prevent the introduction of c ontagious or infectious diseases into the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That no vessel or vehicle coming from any foreign port or country where any contagious or infectious disease may‘exist, 'and no vessel or vehicle conveying any ]**rson or persons, merchandise or animals, affected with any infectious or conta gious disease, shall enter any port of the United States or pass the boundary line between the United States and any foreign country, except in the manner and subject to the regulations to be pre scribed as hereinafter provided. Section 2. That whenever any infec tious or contagious disease shall appear in any foreign port or country, and when ever any vessel shall leave any infected foreign port, or, having on board goods or passengers coming from any place or district infected with cholera or yellow fever, shall leave any foreign port, bound for any port in the United States, the Consular officer or other representative of the United Suites at or nearest such foreign port shall immediately inform the Supervising Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital Service thereof, and shall report to him the name, the date of de parture and the port of destination of such vessel: and the Consular officers of the United States shall make weekly reports to him of the sanitary condition of the ports at which they are respectively sta tioned; and the said Surgeon General of the 3Iarine Hospital Service shall, under the direction of the Secretay of the Treasury, be charged with theexecution of the provisions of tliis act. and shall frame all needful rules and regulations for that purpose, which rules and regu lations, with the approval of the Presi dent, shall have the force and effect of law until modified in the same manner. Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the medical officer- of the 3Iarine Hospital Service and of Customs officers to aid in ihe enforcement of the national quaran tine niles and regulations established under the preceding section; but no ad ditional compensation shall be allowed said officers by reason of such services as they may be required to perform under this act, except actual and necessary traveling expenses. Sec. 4. That the Surgeon General of the 3Iarine Hospital Service shall, upon receipt of information of the departure of any vessel, goods, or passengers from in fected places to any port in the United States, immediately notify the proper officer or officers at the threatened port BY TELEGRAPH THE EUROPEAN COMPLICATIONS Russia's Views Regarding the Con grress and Treaty. ENGLAND TO RESIST RUSSIAN NEXATION IN ASIA MINOR. AN The Difference Between the two Na tions Still Unsettled. Russian Evacuation or Turkey lobe Completed in Three tionlh. Alter Peace. n , ace would be but a slight re- implications which threatened the ing . unity tei Jjie Conservative element in this resting „ . , cognition of the great services rendered to°his country by the author of the Declaration of Independence. - Fred. Douglass plants himself beside Senator Bruce and the leading IMsfcops of the African Methodist Church in the South on the Liberian craze among bis rftce ye tells them that the best place for the negroes is as near the white peo ple as they can possibly get. The old Colonization Seek!y and other white people who ought to know better, how ever, are cultivating the emigration fever, and it has probably got to go on till a few colonies have had time to send back word to the rest of their race to stay Where they are well off. The Judiciary Committee of the Sen ate has reported favorably on a bill re pealing the bankrupt act. This report insures the passage of the measure by ihe Senate, and may carry it through the House and make it a law. The act has •become such a ready shield for fraud that 3 ar „ e number* of the merchants of the court* cy have petitioned Congress to sweep R t' rom 1116 statnte book3 - ColoneUBonn - Piatt says: “We never __ ,,, our editorial duties, after a return . " rt absence, that we are not painfully f "Ucg^ed with the fact that the success- lufconuol of a journal is more in what j, kept out than what gets in." The Colonel is right. State in u which it is now. hap pily, unnecessary to discuss. Henceforth the irreat political crime of the century is no loiigct $ special £rie,>*2/*e of this State. If teJongs to the pe?nlc of the country U) redress in their own time and way. It tf our interest to ce^ to be the political cyno sure of the country. Our duty is done and we may now consider ourselves re lieved of the last remnant of the harass ing struggle imposed upon us and at lib erty to turn to the more agitable and remunerative task of building up our waste places, and profiting by the Iran quility and contentment legitimately be longing to peaceful and unquestioned self government. Practically, Louisiana suffered less than the country at large from the crime—whatever name may be given to the returning board, and 'we can now afford to leave the country to redress its wrongs m the mwu^r which it may deem most ^effectual The Picayune closes an editorial on the decision with the following, para graphs: “\Ue have no disposition to criticise this decision. We presume that it is good law; and certainly it must be ac cepted as law. But it is cisy to see how Judge Whitaker could take a different view of the case as it was presented to him. The fact that the law required that the returning officers should make their canvass from the commissioners’ statements was strenuously insisted on by the Democratic counsel at the time the canvassing process was going for ward. The fact that the board posi tively refused to canvass the com missioners’ returns, and as positively asserted, and carried out their inten tion to make their canvass from the Prospect cf u Protracted Session of Cttllg Congress has l>een in session five months. During that time, 4,775 bills have been introduced—3,847 in the Senate and 928 in the House. In addi tion to iliese, 133 joint resolutions have been referred in the House and 20 in the .Senate, making a total of nearly 5,000 Mils and joint resolutions presented since the loth of October. Of this large number, which exceeds that of any other five months of continuous session, twelve joint resolutions and some thirty public .in>j priy^fe acts have become laws. At the rate at which the ooi^n^ittees are turning out bills and the House is acting on them, it will be fully five months before the appropriation, tariff and internal reve nue bills are out of the way. The Ap propriation Committee intend to get their bills before the House by the last of A pud, and possibly before that, if the status ct thv ~rmv is determined so that the appropriations cw k? estimated for the next fiscal year for that service. The investigations which have been ordered are getting to work very slowly, aud promise Lq pid in prolonging the session far into midsummer Everything indi cates a very protracted session. of destination of the vessel, and shall prepare and transmit to the medical officers of the 3Iarine Hospital Service, to Collectors of Customs, and to the State aud municipal health authorities in the United States, weekly abstracts of the consular sanitary, reports and other pertinent information received by him. Sec. 5. That the provisions of this act shall not be so construed as to pre vent the establishment and main tenance by States or municipalities of port health regulations and quaran tine measures, in addition to or further ance of the rules and regulations estal>- lished under this act and such local systems and their appendages sliall re main under the control of the respective local authorities: but any local law or regulation interfering with or obstruct ing the due execution of the national rules and regulations, us approved bv the President under this act, shall Ik* null and void. Sec. 6. That wherever, at any port of the United States, any State or municipal quarantine system may now exist, the officers or agents of such system shall, upon the application of the respective State or municipal authorities, lie authorized and empowered to act as officers or agents of the national quarantine system, and shall be clothed with all the powers of United States ofii- cers for quarantine purposes, but shall receive no pay or emolument from the United States. At all other ports where, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, it sliall be deemed necessary to establish quarantine, the medical offi cers or other agents of the 3Iarine Hospi tal Service shall perform such duties in the enforcement of the quarantine rules and regulations as may be assigned them by the Surgeon General of that service under this act. Sec. 7- Thfit this act may be quoted as the national quarantine act of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. Sec. 8. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Bv Cable to the Morning Setcs. Loxd^», March 4 21.—The Daily Tele graph's Vienna dispatch states most posi tively that Gen. Tcherkasky, late Provi sional Governor of Bulgaria, committed suicide because he was threatened with re moval. Russia is about to issue an intimation that she recognizes the right of each power in dividually to demand discussion ff 11 stipulation in the treaty, but she reserv *s the right of refusing to submit »ucu stipu lations to the sanction of the powers, even if a majority desire it. A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph from Pera says: “The British Government has telegraphed to Gen. Sir Arnold Kemball to return home immediately. It is reported that England has decided to resist Russian annexation in Asia Minor.” • A special to the Tunes from Vienna says: “According to the treaty of San Stefano, the evacuation of European Turkey, except Bulgaria, must be completed within three months after a definitive peace, and a por tion of the Russian troops may embark on the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora. It is doubtless on the strength of these conditions that the Russians are now beginning to march their troops for shipment in the neighbor hood of Constantinople, as they may begin operations at once. Russia has insured herself the right, or at any rate the possi bility, of having a portion of her troops al ways around Constantinople until the final settlement is signed.’’ A Vienna dispatch to the Tunes says the Russian admission of the right of the Con gress to discuss what points of the treaty are of European interest does not seem to have been made directly to England, and the difference is still unsettled. The Pope’s intention to make Dr. Jno. H. Newman a Cardinal is denied. It is stated that Bismarck, tired of Nica ragua and Nicaragua's shuffling, has deter mined to order a blockade of the Nicaraguan ports. The Morning Ibxt prints a second edition containing the following: “Peka, March 21.—The Russians have in the Bosphorus two regularly fitted torjiedo ships, carrying six torpedo boats.’’ Pakis, March 21.—Lucy, a daughter of the late Prevost Paradol, has died in a con vent. A special to the Daily Xews from San Stefano reports that the Russians have abandoned the idea of embarking at Bujuk- dere, because 31inister Layanl informed the Porte that if the Turks granted them per mission to embark there, the British fleet would come up the Bosphorus. The Slits' Vienna dispatch says: “Russia has declared her readiness to make conces sions relative to the boundaries of Bulgaria, and all misunderstanding between the three empires is removed. ” difficulties. Finally the £ bill was passed organizing the commission, and the adjust ment of the difficult questions involved was now progressing to the satisfaction of every one, and exact justice was being doue to all. He must express the opinion that when the people of the Hot Springs had understood his amendment they wouTO not condemn it. This story, like others, was not worthy of his attention. The Pacific Railroad sinking fund bill was laid aside with the understanding that it should not lose its place as the un finished business, and the Senate re sumed consideration of the bill authoriz ing the Secretary of the Treasury to employ temporary clerks, and mak ing an appropriation for the same: also, making appropriation for detecting trespass on public lands, and for bringing into mar ket public lands in certain States, and for other purposes. The pending question be ing on the amendment of Mr. Beck to that of the Committee on Approprations. prohib iting the use of money to collect anv charge for wood or timber cut on the public lands in the territories of the United States for the use of actual set tiers in the territories and not for export, so as to provide that the timber shall not be eported from the territories where it grew; and. provided further, that in the event it shall be exported from the territories it shall be liable to seizure by the United State authorities whereverifound. Mr. Jones, of Florida, quoted the second section of the bill which appropriates $20,000 for diagrams, furniture and repairs in the General Land Office, actual expenses of clerks detailed to investigate fraudu ulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, etc., and said he would never vote that appropriatiomas the Secretary < the whole of it to annoy and harrass the people. What authority existed under the iaws of the United States, as they now stood, for the action of the Secretarv of*the Interior in regard to timber lands? The Senate had been told that there had been no change in the policy of the Interior Department: that the present Secretary was following in the steps of his predecessors. He i Mr. Jones U contra vened that position. He denied that it was true the present Secretarv had instigated a new policy and one not supported by law: a poliey which had a detrimental ’effect upon a large part of the people of this country. He argued that in all cases of tim ber prosecutions which had taken place in the South, the Secretary of the Interior had gone into the Federal courts under State statutes, which he had no right to do. and without anvthing behind him in the Statutes of the United States to sustain the proceedings. Up to the time when the present Secretary ot the Interior came into office such a thing was never heard of as a seizure of lumber in the hands of any man who had purchased logs in the open market. He quoted from sections of the Revised Statutes in regard to the timber lands, and argued that it never was the intention of the government to permit the Secretary of the Interior to harrass aud persecute a large number of the leople of the country by suits not authorized >y law. In reading over the correspondence between the Secretary ot the Interim and his agents he found charcoal must be seized. Every man knows that charcoal was manu factured by poor men aud not by rich cor porations. Where the Secretary of the nterior got his authority ’to -eize charcoal was beyond his < Mr. Jones') comprehension. Whatever au thority was conferred by the Revised Statues to punish timber depredations was not given to the Secretarv of the Interior, but the Secretary of the Savy. He was the only officer to carry out sections 2461. 24»>2 and 2463 of the Revised Statutes. The policy of the Secretary of the Interior was not STRIKE ENDED. London, March 21.—It is stated that the strike and lock out of the Fordham weavers terminated to-day. The Barnsley colliers struck work to-day against a reduction of their wages. The Oldham Mills were opened to-day. THE GERMAN CABINET CRISIS. London. March 21.—Regarding the ex isting Cabitfet crisis there Is some talk of dissolution of the Reichstagand an attempt to carry the new elections ou Prince Bis marck's personal strength. SUSPENSION OF ONE OF THE OLDEST BANKS IN PRAOl’E. London. March 21.—One of the oldest banks in Prague—that of Gruud—has suspended. XOO.N TELEGfL-Ul.S. DEATH OF A MILLIONAIRE. Who Made an Immense Eortnne from an Old Gnn. TIIE LOXDOX TIMES OX AMERI CAS F1XAXCES. UOMIRESSIONAL eUOIEOIMiS, Lively DiM-ushioQ Over ^lr. Sclinrz*ft Poliey Toward the Tim ber Cutter*. T«e Tariff Information from Washington is to the effect that the Com mittee of Ways and 3Iea&s of the House of Representatives will be able to report the tariff bill during the present week. It is farther stated that the free-traders on the coitiaitte' 1 have very largely abated their demands, enabling the pre sentation of & report, which, it is claimed, will prove satisfactory to all with the ex ception of the extreme protectionists. In this connection, says the Baltimore Sun, it is worthy of remark that the indiffer ence pf the South and West, where free trade v> as once supposed to be popular, is very remarkably. The papers which were formerly clamorous iox it are now silent. One of the most significant moi cations of the changed fed ing at the West is the action of the Ohio Senate, which, after adopting a free trade resolu- tipn, reconsidered it and decided not to interfere with \L<. tariff question either way. The St Louis Republican says: “The bill introduced in the House by the Com mittee on Public Lands to forfeit the lands granted to States and railroads on conditions which have not been complied with, causes some excitement among the railroad companies concerned. The to tal amount of lands proposed to be for feited a* 1*5.000,000 acres, including 47.000.000 acres to the Ztcrthern Pacific; 18,000,000 acres to the Texas Pacific; 42>ju,000 !o the Atlantic and Pacific; 640,000,060 to the fet, Louis and Iron Mountain—and similar grants to other railroads and Slate* Jn many cases the lands are of little or no value, and their forfeiture will not be seriously resisted; but in others they are good lands.” Senator Edmunds has given the woman’s bill (providing that any woman who shall have been a member of the bar of the higher court of any State or Ter ritory oi District of Columbia for a pe riod of three years may be admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States) that was re cently passed by the House a black eye. Mr. Edmunds takes the sensible position that courts are authorized to make their own rules touching the admission of at torneys. Tennessee Finances.— A mass meet ing was iiplfl on Saturday last at Clarks ville, Tenn., the principal fobacco mart of the State, at which resolutions were adopted that Tennessee is neither a pau per nor bankrupt, and that the Legisla ture should have promptly settloa the detyt at fifty cents on the dollar. The oiscuzh^c of the State finances is waxing warm in Tenkers^e, :tnd the prospect is that it wiH be the prominent issue in the canvass Just opening- Fifty cents on the dollar, however, is not what the bondholders propose to accept. Some irresponsible part}' offered that. The genuine bonohoidcic have declared their willingness to accept sixty cents- not less. The New York Times says of Secretarv' Evarts’ circular, relative to the interna tional coinage conference, that the circu lar itself is full of delphic utterances, and tacks on a most remarkable bit of pure stump speech. It also says that in point of political economy Evartk circu lar is not creditable either to himself or to the country CONGRESSIONAL. Washington, March 21.—In the Senate Mr. Conklin^ presented a petition of the citizens of New York city asking an appro priation to complete the catalogue of the National 3Iedical Library. Referred to the Committee on Printing. Mr. Sargent, of California, read a com munication from F. W. Houghton. Secretary of the New York 31aritime Association, re ferring to the memorial of that association in regard to the change of the control of life saving stations, recently presented in the Senate, and said it had been erroneously stated that the memorial favored a transfer of the control of that service from the Treasury to the Navy Department, whereas it protested against the change. He (Sar gent) supposed the mistake occurred in stating the purport of the memorial in the Senate. The Railroad Committee of the Senate to day referred Senator Hill’s bill for govern ment aid from Milanga to Key West to a sub-committee consisting of Messrs. Ran som, Matthews and Saunders. The Post Office Committee have ordered an adverse report on the nomination of Alex. Reed as Postmaster at Toledo by a vote of 6 to 3. In the House, Mr. Chalmers, of Missis sippi, introduced a bill providing for the or ganization of the Mississippi Improvement Commission. Referred to the Committee on Navy Appropriations. The bill appropriates nearly fifteen million dollars. An effort to take up the Mexican pension bill was defeated by a vote of 97 to 118. The motion was made by Mr. Hewitt, of Alabama, and was to «et aside the regular order. The vote is no indication of the strength of the measure. Mr. Waddell, of North Carolina, Chair man of the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported a bill to establish Postal Savings Depository as a branch of the Post Office Department, and to aid in refunding the interest bearing indebtedness of the United States. Ordered printed and recommitted. The bill authorizes he establishment at Washington of a chief office to be called the Central Depository, and the opening at suitable money order post offices of sub-depositaries for the receipt and withdrawal of deposit*, inter est to be allowed at 3 per cent. The deposits are to be paid into the treasury and interest credited to the Postal Savings Depository account at the rate of four per cent. Depositors to the amount of over fifty dollars may have four per cent, bonds issued to them, redeemable after fifty years, and only transferable by authorization of the Secretary of ihe Treasury. The bill also provides for certificates of deposit of the denominations of ten. twenty, fifty and one hundred dollars, bearing interest at 3.65 per cent, for one year only, and to be con vertible into four’oer cent, bonds. In the Senate, Mr. Hereford, of West Vir ginia, offered a preamble and resolution di recting the Finance Committee to report the House bill repealing resumption within one week, aud asked immediate action. Ob jection was made by Mr. Morrill, and the matter went over under the rales. The timber question was resumed, and Mr. Jones, of Florida, spoke in opposition to th*‘ course ot the Secretary of the Interior. Mr. Dorsey, of Arkansas, arose to a per sonal explanation and called attention to a publication which appeared in a New York paper of yesterday in regard to his amend ment to the bill passed last week to extend the time of the Hoi Springs Commission. He said he had long since determined not to respond to news paper publications instigated by persons engaged in defaming the character of those UDon this floor, but in regard to this matter he desired to say that the amendment sub mitted by him simply authorized the Super intendent of ihe Hot Springs reseivati »n to lease tfie ground for the erection of suitable bath houses h*r th.e accommodation of the public, and to distribute water to the peo ple of the place. It granted no other privi lege There were two or three individuals ” ’ who had the Hut Springs so __ immediately tele graphed there that a great fraud had been perpetrated by him i Mr. Dorsey): that the watei company was to have possession of all lire spriiifcs. The amendment he proposed was air • absolute necessity to enable those visiting the springs to enjoy the advantages ot the wa ters. All the bath hoa*eu but two were destroyed by the recent fire. He bad received many letters ureing the passage of -och an amendment as that submitted, and Le because h§ thought it was the right thing to oe The only thing this water company askea, d the bill granted, was the right t\> build a reservoir on the mountain for cold water, to supply the city there with and erect bath houses. It did not f ive the company a right to the Hot Springs, f it did, he (Mr. Dorsey.) would be as cuick to protest against it as any one. He fiad letters now from ex-Senator Crogin and others, providing Jcr the emynd- ment. For more than a vear he (Mr. Dorsey) has spent much time and money in sifting these Hot Springs rmht, not wise, not generous. The States ol Mississippi, Florida. Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas had large tracts of public lands which were of no use whatever for agricultural purposes, but by a mistaken policy they had been reserved from sale, aud the citizens were not allowed to buy a single acre, no matter how much they might heed the lands for their con venience. 3D. Morgan, of Alabama, also opposed the second section of the bill and said the Secretary of the Interior had relied upon men not worthy of trust, and refused to hear men who were worthy of trust in regard to these timber depredations. The conduct of the Secretary of the Interior as to the public timber lands had been evasive and not candid. lie started out for the purpose of exercising a jurisdiction which the law never conferred upon him, and when he was advised that his agents exceeded their authority, be shut his eyes to all review of their conduct. No one doubted that the public lands of the South ami West had been raided to some extent, but there had been the greatest exaggeration about the matter. The Secretary of the Interior had been informed by those who knew that leas than eight per cent, of the land within wagon haul of the place where seizures in the South had been made was public land: the balance was private land. An issue had beeu made here in the Senate between the Secretary of the Interior on the one part and the people on the other part, the Secretary being characterized as an eminent patriot and the people as a pack of thieves. A man in his (Mr. 31orgau’s) State, whose name was a synonym for infamy, one Hestor, was now preparing an addi tional raid upou the people of Florida. He (Mr. Morgan) knew of instances in the South where men owning saw mills had been rained by timber seizures and hun dreds of thousands of dollars lost. The Senate could not vote upon this question now without seeing plainly the issue pre sented. Mr. Morgan then read an order of the Secretary of, the Treasury to 3lr. newitt, Collector of Customs at Vicksburg. 31i?sissippi. directing him to refuse clearances to vessels having on board turpentine suspected of having been taken from trees on the public lands: and, resuming his remarks, said: “These industries in the South were to be broken up by Messrs. Bartley A Carter, the agents of the Interior Depart ment sent there. The Secretary of the Treasury had laid an embargo upon a port in the instance of these men. The govern ment could rely upon the support of the people in the various localities to enforce the law better than it could upon hired pimps aud spies sent from this city. Thousands of cattle were now pasturing on public lands: pass this bill and then pass one to seize all cattle found pasturing on the’public lands.” He gave notice that at the proper time he would move to strikeout the second section of the bili. 31r. Mathews, of Ohio, said that whatever else might result from this debate one good would follow. It would demonstrate the necessity for some wise and svstematic legislation covering this entire subject. He would endeavor to express his views on this matter divested of any personal feeling. He had no feeling other than that of protecting the public interests. He had looked with apprehension upon the wastefulness and destruction of our forests, ami there was a growing public sentiment for their preservation. “He argued that the gov ernment owned the land, together with the timber thereon, and if any person engaged in cutting the timber became a trespasser, as owner of the property, the United States had the right to follow it and take it wherever found, if it could be done without a breach of the peace. The real gist of the accusations against the Secretary of the In terior was not that usually beanl about the neligence of a public officer, but that, ac cording to his sense of duty, he was enforc ing the Inr. Became <.f that he wae ar raigned as oppressive to individuals, and as being un-American. He (Mr. Matthews) thought it was one of our cherished maxims aud principles that the best way to secure the repeal of obnoxious laws was to rigidly enforce them. An executive officer of the government had no discretion; he must enforce the law. A recent President had been justly eulogized for the sentiment ihat it was the duty of the executive officer to enforce the law; that by its strict enforcement its odious features would be brought out and in that way public opinion aroused to its cor rection. The Senate adjourned without action. LON DO?; TIMES ON AMERICAN SECURITIES. London, March 21.—The Tunes' financial article says: “United States bonds continue to be bought lor American account, and their price is maintained: but sales by Eng lish holders, corporate and individual, con tinue, and are sometimes of very large amounts. The fear of the silver bill has died away, but the people now begin to dread what may follow it, and there is a strong and widespread feeling that if Americans are to try experiments on their credit they had much better do so with a debt held’af home than in English hamls. People sell, therefore, and are likely to con tinue to do so while so much that is danger ous seems to surround the United States national finances.” BISMARCK’S RAILROAD BILL. London, March 21.—Special dispatches from Berlin to the London morning journals say that Prince Bismarck's bill separating fhe railway department from the Prussian Board of Trade, and appointing a special Imperial Minister for Railways, will proba bly be introduced in the Reichstag to-day. It is not believed the bill will pass at pres ent, but some members intend to take the opportunity of debate on its first reading to question the Ministers. DEATH OF A FOUR OR SIX MILLIONAIRE. Plymouth, March 21.—Isaac Adams died at Sandwich. New Hampshire, yesterday, leaving a fortune of from four to six mil lions. He bought what is known as the Adams printing press from the inventor for an old gnu. aiterwa. a receiving $40,000 in gold for the use of it in England. FIRE ON STATEN ISLAND. Stapleton. Staten Island, March 21.— Rubsom A Aousmous' brewery has been burned. Joseph Robsom’s private dwelling va r '-?o burned. Loss on the brewery buiJdiDKs stcck $200 000 : insurance $150,000. Loss on the : d^eius.L furni ture $15,000: insurance $11,500. A SUCCESSFUL WaLKIST—EXONERATED. Cincinnati, March 21.—Vonllillern has made her one hundred miles in twenty-eight koRfS- . . « , . Rev. Mr. Gilbert, formerly of Baltimore, accused of immoral practices, has, after a full Investigation oy his church, been fully exonerated. EVENING TELEGRAMS I’ROTEUTION OF SAVINGS BANK DEPOSITORS, EXGLANDS DEMANDS REGARD ISO THE CONGRESS. The London Times on Award. the Fishery GOVERNMENT HOURS OF LABOR IN WASHINGTON. Circular to be I.Muetl Kcgardlnic Ci^ar Factories and Ketall Dealer*. THE TIMES ON THE FISHERIES AWARD. London, March 21.—The Times' editorial on the fisheries' award says: “It is unfor tunate for the good fame of the United States that at the moment when the finan cial policy of Congress has awakened grave suspicious and anxieties in Europe some American politicians of considerable importance and notoriety display another phase of the repudiating spirit in opposiug the payment of the award. The reckless language of Mr. Blaine and Mr. Butler is not oniy throwing discredit on the country, but is damaging to the system of settling international disputes by’arbitration. No country henceforward will be willing to refer claims to arbitration if the decision of the arbitrators is liable to be chal lenged by the unsuccessful party." The article continues: “The attempts at evasion and the attacks on the impartiality of Mr. Delfosse, are of a piece with the spirit of chicanery which has attempted to force an interpretation of the unanimous award. We hope and believe that Mr. Blaine will not be able to get a Congress of his countrymen to support him in a refusal to pay the award and stamp the American policy with the double discredit of meanness and tricki ness.” WHAT ENGLAND DEMANDS AT THE CONGRESS. London, March 21.—In the House of Lords to-night the Earl of Derby, replving to a long and discursive speech of Lord Stratheden on Eastern affairs, said that for obvious reasons the fleet should not be sent into the Black 8ea at the present moment. He protested against the repeti tion of unfounded statements relative to dissensions in the Cabinet. The govern ment had not asked that Greece should enter the Congress on the same footing as the great powers, but simply that she should be represented as a means of making her voice and claims heard. The government had never proposed that Rnssia should sub mit the peace conditions to decision by the majority of the Congress. They asked’ that all the articles should be submitted for discussion and discussion oulv, that being the only possible manner of deciding which of them affected European interests. This w as the sole question now at issue. He was not prepared to say what answer Russia would give, but he thought the demand of the government was reasonable and moderate and unless it was complied with there would be very little use for the Congress to meet at all. WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET. Office of the Chief Signal Observer, Washington, D. C., March 21.—Indications for Friday : In the South Atlantic States, partly cloudy j and cloudy weather with rain areas, north east to southeast winds, stationary or lower pressure and temperature. In the Middle Atlantic States,partly cloudy w eather and light rain, southeasterly winds, stationary or falling barometer and tem perature.’ In the East Gulf States, cloudy weather and rain areas, easterly backing to north westerly winds, falling barometer and sta tionary-temperature. In the West Gulf States, clear or partly cloudy weather, cold northerly shifting to warmer southerly winds, failing or station ary- barometer. In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, clear weather, followed by increasing cloudiness and rain areas, warmer southerly shifting to colder northerly winds, falling followed by rising barometer. Cautionary signals continue at New Or leans, 3Iobile, St. .Mark’s and Key West. AN ACT FOR THE PROTECTION OF SAVINGS BANK DEPOSITORS. Uncle Remus as an Emigrant Atlanta Constitution. A colored man stopped Uncle Remus in the street the other day for the pur pose of getting some information. “What’s all dis talk I hear ’bout Li- berier?” be asked. “What’s all dis talk you heerd bout de Freedman's bank?*' responded Uncle Remus, somewhat savagely. “Dey tells me," continued the negro, “dat you don't hav’ ter wuk out dere, less vou wants ter.” “Dey duz, duz dey?” said Uncle Re mus. “Dey sed dat you wuz gwine fer git forty acres an' a mule; an' dey tole you fer'ter put yo’ money in de’bank. an’ dat you’d git interest. Well, I speck vou got*it; but ef vou did, you sorter banged me out. fer 1 ain’t got needer one ncr de udder. ” “ But dis ain’t no mule ner bank biz- ness. Uncle Remus.” “ Dat’s w at trubbles me, honey. I know dere’s plenty er loafers w’atoughter go. but I dunno who terinwite. Dey say coffee grows in de frunt yard, an’ de sun parches it, an' de rain wets it, an’ it falls in a hole in de groun’, an' dar’s yo’ coffee.” ' You talk like you gwine. ” ‘Oh. I duz, duz I? Well, I got ter git over de Georgy fever fus\ I don’t mine missin’ my mule an’ lan’, an’ de intrust on my money in de Freedman’s Bank, but I spizes fer ter miss a meal. I’ll drap you a note w’en I starts. ” Wantffl. TXT ANTED, a young mare or home, fir, Vt old. Kentle. well broke to hfir:.—. . ar T suitable for a (teuerai family hors* w, this office WANTED, furnished rooms for : V* dress J. H. FREIL. (i Drayton sti.:. Ad ^yASTEll. . two first class Coat Mat-.*. KENNEDY, corner Buli and mhii-tf W ^57 P ubUc *o know 1 aril WOODS > ' COAL at market prices. 'oua* Iktfl-tf F. M. MTRELr. T C A C -, Th “ choicest in the s r 1 Importers’ prtees_I*rSZ I Company in America—staple article • , J everybody — Trade continually mer- ,, Apents wanted everywhere—best indue.■ ..V" don t waste time—send for Cirrularto V si ! WELLS. Pres, of the Oriffinai Amcrican'iN. Co.. 48 Vesey St, N. Y. P. O. Box 1*7 T * felts VdJtwifm H eirs wanted—teaas landsTu persons who lost relatives in the revolution of lSXwill bear of somethin?! * advantage by communicatintr with ( RODRIGUES, care of this office, Savar.-.^.. hoarding. I >LEASAXT rooms, with pennanerr , ent and table board: charge* reasons TT cation central, at 154 South Broad stm-t j feba-tf for Salt. Reliable help for weak and nervous sufferers. Chronic, painful and pros trating diseases cured without medicine. Puivermacher's Electric Belts the m desideratum. Avoid imitations. 1 and Journal, with particulars, mailed free. Address Pulvennacher Galvanic Co., Cincinnati, Ohio. myrJfi-difcw.eaw.lv lieu- Adi-frtisnnrnts. Flour anil Hums $8 for a barrel of best FAMILY FLOUR. $4 for a sack, 9S lbs., best FAMILY FLOUR. $2 for half sk . 49 lbs.. b**st FAMILY FLOUR $1 for qr. sk., lbs . I**st FAMILY FLOUR magnolia at 10 cents per pound. mh£l-S&Teltt M RS. DUNN wishes to announce to the ladies of Savannah and vicinity that she is now repared to do FASHIONABLE DRESS AND i'LOAK MAKING. She guarantees perfect satisfaction, having had twelve years expe rience in the city of New York. Also, all styles of PLAITING by the yard on the Centennial Machine, which will do from 25 to 3fi j-ards per hour. Mrs. Dunn is sole a^ent in Gwrgia for them. She also wishes the ladies to see the Inoveltv of the season in the VAN ARDEN CORSET, the newest and l>est improved in the I market. J Don't foreet to call at 118 BROUGHTON STREET, near Bull. Savannah, Ga. nmh22-lt KEROSENE OIL. > BBLS. KEROSENE OIE. Just received by C. L. GILBERT & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS, mhiirf S. E. cor. Bay and Barnard sta. BUTTERICK & CO.'S SPRING STYLES • of Fashions and Patterns for Indies and Children received. Boys’ patterns of all styles up to 15 years. Buttenck’s Delineator ” for April, Buttenck’s Spring Quarterly Review. Buttenck’s Ladies'Spring Fashion Plate. But- terick’s Metropolitan Catalogue for dressma kers* use. At corner State and Whitaker streets. Mas. D. B. CAMP. Agent. Catalogues mailed to any address on recept of three-cent stamp. mh22-lt BUM YOU HITS! <ILK HATS PRESSED AND FELT HATS O CLEANED AND DYED at most reasonable rates. Call and see. CHaS. RaTZ. Dyer and Scourer, mh22-2t No. yr Broughton street. H AY- Prime Western. For sale by mhiMt A. MINIS A SON. FOR BREMEN. f J , HE first-class Norwegian brig REGNBUEN. Olskn. Master. having a portion of her cargo engaged, will have quick dispatch. For freight engagements apply to HOLST, FULLARTON A mh&i tf : CO. Boston, March 21.—Governor Rice to-day signed the bill entitled “An act for the better protection of depositors in savings banks. ’’ The law is to continue three years. The Brighton Five Cent Savings Bank was the first to avail itself of the benefit of this law. The Bank Commissioners have directed that during a period from March 21 to September 21, not over ten per cent, shall be paid to each depositor out of the total amount due him: ten per cent, additional to be paid during the period between September21 and March 21, 187M No further additional amount shall be paid after the latter date, except by order of the Commissioners. HOI KS OF LABOR ON GOVERNMENT WORKS LIFE-SAVING STATIONS. Washington, March 21.—Eight hours, aud commencing at seven, with an hour's in termission, commenced to-day at the navy yard, on tht* public buildings and at the ag ricultural grounds. The workmen are dis satisfied with the arrangements, but the authorities see no other interpretation of the law. The Committee of Commerce have or dered a bill reported ordering the establish ment of many new- life-saving stations. The report strongly protests against a transfer from the Treasury to the Navy Department. CORRESPONDENCE OVER THE PISHEKY TREATY Washington, March 21.—The President communicated to the Senate to-day the cor respondence regarding the fishery treaty, whereby the U nited States was mulcted of five million dollars. The correspondence is bulky, but contains nothing startling or new, and develops no sharp practice on the part of England or palpable stupidity on the part of the United States. CIGAR FACTORIES AND RETAIL STORES. Washington, March 21.—The Commis sioner of Internal Revenue will to-morrow issue a circular materially modifying and ex plaining the recent order with regard to the division line between cigar factories and re tail stores, which has called out innumerable protests from all over the country. AN ENTIRE FAMILT DOWN WITH DIPHTHERIA. Providence, R. L, March 21.—A family named Murray, in Newport, have four chil dren lying dead from diphtheria, with three others not expected to live through the day. The father is almost insane, and has threat ened to shoot the undertaker. A police officer is compelled to be in attendance. HELD FOR TRIAL FOR MURDER. Boston, March 21.—Charles Tbos. Pea body, commander of the bark C. O. Whit more, is held for trial, in default of ten thou sand dollars bail, for the murder of his mate, James II. El wood. DIED OF YELLOW FEVER. Washington. 3Iarch 21.—Captain Adams, commander of the United States corvette Hartford, died at Montevideo of yellow fe ver. The Baltimore Bulletin, commenting upon the acquittal of General Pecksniff Howard, which has been called a vindica tion of the General's character by some Republican sheets, says he was acquitted upon a technicality. He was not re sponsible to anybody, he claims. He merely held an honorary position. As to the money, that was looked after by General Balloch. However, Howard does not deny that the money has disap peared. He does not explain how it went, nor does he deny that General Balloch was his partner in all the thous- sand and one little schemes and enter prises for using up the twenty-five mil lions of dollars which the Freedman’s Bureau cost the government. FOR BREMEN. r J'HE first class German bark TU1SKA, Von Thclen. Master, having a large portion of her cargo engaged, will have dispatch. For freight engagements apply to mh£i tf KN’OOP. HAXEMAXN & CO. ORDINANCE. ORDINANCE READ IN COUNCIL FOR THE FIRST TIME MARCH 20, 1878, AND PUBLISHED FOR INFOR MATION. An Ordinance to make the weighing of hay by a sworn weigher optional with the owner or consignee, unless such weighing l>e de manded by the purchaser. Section L Be it ordained by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in Council assembled, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Ordinance, no hay received or offered for sale in this city need be weighed by the sworn Weighers of Hay. except at the option of the owner or consignee thereof, un less the person or persons purchasing such hay sliall demand that it be so weighed, in which case such hay shall be at once weighed by a sworn Weigher of Hay. under the rule* and regulations, and for the fees, now required by Ordinance; and any seller of hay refusing or failing to have such hay weighed by a sworn Weigher of Hay. upon the demand or the pur chaser, shall be subject to the pains and penal ties now prescribed by Ordinance for refusing or objecting to the weighing of hay landing from a vessel. Section II. And it is further ordained by the authority of the same. That all Ordinances and parts of Ordinances conflicting with this Ordinance, so far as they so conflict, be and the same are hereby repealed. Ordinance on its first reading in Council. March 20th, 187K JOHN' F. WHEATON, Attest: Mayor. Frank E. Rzbarer, Acting Clerk of Council. mh22-3t r EE S AUSTRALIAN LINIMENT, th ^ Lmi cure for man and bea-r is put up Tso. cents and one do»lar bottles. Sole a*r Savannah are SOLOMONS <£ CO.. Dm ~ mh22-lt 'T’HE people have found out that th-; A get better Photographs or Ferret NT- less money at WILSON’S, 21 Ball sfr—- any other place in town. fifty c*n for I EE’S AUSTRALIAN LINIMENT i -J * good remedy for horses, but will man. woman or child, rheumatism, n- swellings, burns, boils, bites of animal- ness of joints, etc. m h F *R SALE, 250,000 to 300,000 Har-1 . F ~ ’ Brown Bricks, at greatly reduced ra-. the yards ot the Savannah Brick Man if Company. E. C. SWaIN. tf Supermini- in * . „ mh21 R ichmond rattlesnake and FORD’S HYBRID WATERMELON Svn “ ■ ‘ ‘ G. M. HEIDT a; CO Druggists. For sale by feb28tf I X)R SALE, a twenty-four inch GRIT> Mrrj with Bolter, Fan. Shafting, PuIIeyMuJ} Belting. All in order for use. Apply 4 i lUv street, to E HAGAR. jani.* tf tYoCQUETS. CUT FLOWERS, etc., fmt - ^ to order. GK< > WAGNER. 5 Bara a- ., • and Thunderbolt road. mhl-F.\L£\Y .-j T\RIVEN WELLS—DRIYEN WELL- . ^ 1 * plete in every respect: guarar.t :: ? r . ] nish pure, dear water; free from surface . -, ; , n . * Wells and Pumps repair- i «r ! W. D. R. MlLLAR age. Only $25. small cost. feb27d£wlm 1 X>R SALE, two LITHOGRAPHIC TREssra ! 1 and lot of LITHOGRAPHIC STONES An plj^tO-X H. EST1LL, 3 Whitaker street. Sent. / VFFICES. Alley aud Wharf Stores f«.r rent in Stoddard's Upper and Low .- Itung- 1 Apply to JOHN L HARDEE febas- FAWlni f T'0 RENT, store No. 153 Broughton > 1 now occupied by Brunner & Son: ai- v ' ** Mon street, lately occupi Apply at CRAWFORD W. Corn wel L ELLS. treet, store & LOV- mhK-tf TO RENT OR LEASE, from 1st Sent.-mber 1 a store and dwelling, corner West it uadarr and Jones streets. Apply on the premises. aug27-tf yurniturr. PARLOR SETS. CHAMBER SETS. SIDE BOARDS. BOOKCASES. Tables, Chairs, Bedsteads. FOLDING CHAIRS. PATENT RECLINING CHAIRS, PATENT ROCKERS. WARDROBES, HAT RACKS, SECRETARIES, CHIFFON EKES. marble tables, PARLOR DESKS, LOUNGES, CRIBS. And every article m the FURNITURE line, li the LOWEST PRICES, at D. G. ALB’S,! Cor. Bron^faton and Barnard Sta. TOOK XL L NEW, —AXD— Prices Guaranteed as Low as I the Lowest. I respectfully invite those in need of anything to give me a call before purchasing »nd be con vinced of the fact. PACKING AND SHIPPING FREE OF CHARGE feb5-tf FURNITURE! | ?; i — n ’J- — S ri 3 = — S f> Z 3. I • f 2 32- sg x ZZ S (No. 1,516.] NOTICE IN BANKRUPTCY. against BIGNON. of Brunswick, county of Glynn, and State of Georgia, who has been adjudged a bankrupt on his own petition, and that the payment of any debts and the delivery of any property belonging to such bankrupt, to him, or for his use, and the transfer of any property by Iiim. are forbidden by law: that a meeting of the creditors of the said bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of Bankr uptcy, to be bolden at Savannah. Ga. before Isaac Beckett, Esquire. Register, on the SECOND DAY OF APRIL. A. D. 1K3. at 10 o'clock a. M. O. P. FITZSIMMONS, mh22-2t U. S. Marshal for said District. NOTICE TO DEBTORS AND CREDITORS! CTATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham Cocxty.- O N< ’ ' * Notice is hereby given to all demands against ersons hav iv given to all pei W3L C. BEALE, late of sail county, deceased, to present them to me. pro perly made out. within the time prescribed by law. so as to show their character and amount. And all persons indebted to said deceased are hereby required to make payment to me. March h, 1878. R. C. BEALE. Adm'r of the estate of Wm. C. Beale, dee d. mh£2-FHt - HH - I It* ? 1 M ltd l & Q o Z.7^. C.‘*— x— — —^ ■ iv S e- __ I C* = rs A o t “ c o U : i a; §20 f ■5 3 = V ?5> : 3 ® ** «* 3 - Y I 35.. ri J. •-*! : :i m i livhujI LOOK AT THIS'I I GIVE THE HIGHEST CASH PRICE FOR Second-Hand Furniture, Stoves, Carpets and other Household '--•■da J. B REMION, 210 Broughton street. mh8 4m One door from West Br-jod ^.vnirsitms. The Chicago Times is of the opinion that “so long as Anderson, of the New Orleans jail, continues to run thj custom house at New Orleans, it isn't worth while for the administration to mention civil service reform.’’ Excursion to Tyke. THE FINE STEAMER CE3STTE KHVIAIj, Captain WIGGINS, TYTILL leave wharf foot of Drayton street, ▼ ▼ on SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 24th. AT 9 O’CLOCK, FOR TYBEE. at 4^4 o’clock p. m. • FIFTY CENTS. Returning wiJ] leave Trbee at Tickets for the round trip cJlilit .- The proceeds of the excursion are to be used I in building a dancing pavilion at the hotel. Cars on the Tybee Tramway will run during ♦he day. mh21-4t&Tellt A gentleman whose proboscis had suf fered amputation, was invited out to tea. “3Iy dear,” said the good woman of the house to her little daughter, “I want you to be ¥«jnr particular and to make no remark about 3Ir. Jenkins nose. ’ Gath ered about the table, everything was go ing well; the little child peeped about, looked rather puzzled, and at last startled the table. * ‘31a, why did you tell me to say nothing about Air. Jenkins’ nose ? He hasn't got aayf Steamboat and ^ill Supplies. STEAM BOAT ILL SUPPLIES N ew tore bei.ttxo ax» packd'G| COMPANY'S BELTING. ROUND and SQUARE TUXT PACKING. SHEET. RUBBER and SOAP STONE PAC KI><«| LEATHER BELTING and LACE LEATHER- AXLE GREASE. COPPER RIVETS and BURS. FILES, BELT HOOKS and BABBIT METAL I For sale n. I LOWEST PRICES' 1 tUm, BROTUIKl SAVANNAH, GA. Orders taken for ENDLESS BELTS, s® 1 1 furnished in TEN DAYS. rih«( dumber. &t. ^lotiffs. PUBLIC NOTICE. 4 LL persons are hereby notified that I will .1 not be responsible for any debts contracted In my name without my written order. I dis claim having any agent or manager for any part of my business or property. ~ J< mh2l-2t JOHN RYAN. NOTICE. I M I>0 hereby consent that my wife, JETTE ALEXAN DER, may become a public or free trader, under the provisions of Section 1760 of Irwin, Lester and Hill ’s Code of Georgia, of 1873, and such other laws of the State of Geor gia now of force. „ LOUIS ALEXANDER. w£s£^' Febru “ T ^ 1K * R. B. REPPAR&, WHOLESALE NO. BAY STREET SAVANNAH, ----- GEOBGlLj STODDARD’S LOWER RANGE. mMS-tf . SAVANNAH WURSE^V WHITE BLUFF ROAD. TJ LASTS, Cat Flowers and I 1 Stock All orders left at R HuM* I BoUgeet,promptlyKIKSUhU
