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THCBSUAY, SEPTEMBER la. 1878
FIRST DISTRICT.
Democratic Nominee tor Conurew,
UO>. .JOHN C. SICHOLLS,
OF PIERCE.
IVPI'iM. THE » I KE>.
The Massachusetts Republicans met yes
terday in convention to nominate State of
ficers. Thomas Talbot was nominated for
Governor. In the balloting Butler received
two votes, and when this was announced it
was received with laughter and hisses.
Isaac Cohen, a labor agitator of Wash
ington, has been arrested. He has been
lately making speeches on the east steps of
the capitol of a most incendiary character.
A disease resembling yellow fever has
been epidemic in the lumber camp of Wells
,S Co., near Elmore, Michigan. Thomas
Maguire was taken with the disease, and as
none of the citizens of Elmore would re
ceive him into their houses, he was left un
der a tree in a drenching rain and soon after
died. His remains were put in a box and
buried under the tree.
Our yellow fever reports show a decrease
in the death rate at Memphis yesterdav,
there being ninety-one reported. There is,
however, no diminution in the new cases.
The widow of Postmaster Thompson,
who recently died there of the fever,
will be appointed to fill the vacancy-
in his office. In Sew Orleans there were
sixiv-eight deaths and two hundred and
fifty-two new cases. The deaths include
twenty-three children under seven years of
age. In Biton Rouge there were reported
twenty-five new cases and three deaths. At
Canton ten cases and eleven deaths re
ported.
The Howard Association at Jackson,
Miss., have very properly decided to issue
no rations to the armies of idle negroes
that hang about the town to be fed, instead
of g .ing to the cotton fields to work. The
a--.* ----.on does not regard them as fever
sufferers.
S. Braden, an Indianapolis boy, lately
carr. i off a . the honors of the English
training ship Worcester,and won a Cadetship
in the British navy. He declined this latter
because te would not abjure his allegiance I
to the United States Government. He [
accepted and brought home with him a
g.-:l medal and several prizes presented
him by the Queen.
Subscription lists have been opened
at vari - us places in Paris for the benefit of
the fever sufferers.
As was to have been expected from the
first. Judge Bond in Baltimore has decided
the S. u*_h Carolina Railroad case In favor of
D. H. Chamberlain, on his motion for an ap
pointment of a receiver of the road. The
appointment will be made hereafter. The
hearing of the application for the appoint
ment of a receiver for the Greenville and
Columbia Road, a feeder of the South Caro
lina, Las t een postponed to the regular De
cember term of the court in South Carolina.
Sitting Ball is reported well supplied with
arms and ammunition in Canada. He in
tended to make a raid on the Black Hills
last spring, but changed his mind.
Efforts are being made by the Post Office
Department to get the mails to all the cities
In the South cut off by quarantine regu
lations.
The Massachusetts Radicals adopted reso
lutions in their platform yesterday denounc
ing Ben Butler as a repudiator, and also de
nouncing all efforts to pay the national debt
In any currency but coin. The remainder
of the resolutions referred entirely to mat
ters strictly of a local character.
Judge Baxter, of the United States Court,
in passiug upon an application to allow
railroads in the hands of a receiver to be
garnisheed, remarked that -the custom of
placing railroads in the hands of receivers
was altogether too common. He cited
among other things in support of his posi
tion the case of a railroad in Georgia which
cost fifteen million dollars. The re
ceiver in charge in three years issued
certificates of indebtedness amounting to
a million and a half dollars, anti when tbc
road was sold the proceeds were not suffi
cient to pay the certificates. He said that
receivers generally ran roads for the benefit
of themselves and friends, and he was de
termined on reform in this respect in his
circuit. Judge Baxter in this position evi
dently differs very decidedly from Judge
Bond.
The Austrians have captured the town of
Brczka on the river Save, after a desperate
resistance by the Bosnian insurgents.
Aid to the Stricken lilies.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, in com
menting on the donations given by the
different Southern cities to the fever suf
ferers, is very complimentary to Savan
nah, and says that this city, remember
ing tbc liberal aid extended her in her
hour ol affliction, lias been most munifi
cent in her contributions. It takes occa
sion at the same time, however, to berate
Mobile for “meanness,” although, it says,
that city is in better financial condition
that many other communities.
We think the Inquirer is unjust in its
strictures on Mobile. The Can’t-Get-
Away Club of that city has done noble
work in forwarding to the scenes of dis
tress money, physicians and nurses.
Indeed the whole South has shown the
greatest sympathy for the stricken
cities, and has proven its sympathy by
practical deeds. The disposition to find
fault with Southern cities in this regard
has cropped out several times in the
Northern press of late, and in every case
it has been very uncalled for and
very unjust. The Inquirer, however,
probably speaks more truly when it says:
“There are some cities in the North that
have not doDe their duty in this crisis—
notably .Minneapolis and St. Paul, Min
nesota—two places of great wealth,
wherein business has been active for
months, while in most others trade has
been much depressed, and at best quite
unprofitable, hut this condition of affairs
has not stayed the hand af charity or pa
ternal sympathy.”
In alluding to the demoralizing effects
of the yellow fever at .Memphis, the
Acalanvhe says—and the words deserve
to he written so as to stand for all time
iu letters of gold :
“Parents have deserted children and
children parents, husbands their wives,
but not one wife a husband.”
This simple sentence will outweigh all
the sneers that can be uttered about wo
man in a century.
Some of the boys of Carrollville, Wis
consin, made a midnight parade wrapped
in sheets and starting from the village
graveyard. Their idea was to scare who
ever saw them. They succeeded. Three
women went into convulsions at the
sight, one sick man was thrown into a
relapse, and a girl broke her arm by a
fall in climbing hastily over a fence.
The Swiss watchmakers have held a
meeting at Geneva to devise means for
the refutation of certain injurious state
ments concerning the Swiss watch trade
said to have been published in circulars
by *he American exhibitors at Paris.
Thiers was so small as a baby that he
could have been put into a wooden shoe,
lie was baptized in a cellar, for the
Keign of Terror liad only just come to a
close, and the priests were still afraid to
perform any ceremony in the churches.
The Massachusetts Butlerites.
The action of the Massachusetts mob
claiming to lie Democratic delegates to
the State Nominating Convention held
in Worcester on Tuesday was entirely
characteristic of their impudent and au
dacious leader, B. F. Butler. Though
only at best representing a very small
faction of the Democratic party of the
State, they as early as 5 o'clock in the
morning took forcible and absolute pos
session of the hall engaged by the con
vention, despite the protests of the
Democratic Central Committee, and by
most disgraceful conduct, such as his
sing down all speakers opposed to them
or their views, kept out delegates enti
tled to seats in the convention. Then,
aflc-r a sceife of disorder which would
have done credit to Pandemonium, they
nominated that champion malignant and
leader of Radicals, Benjamin F. Butler,
for Governor.
This action of the Butler mob must
necessarily be detrimental to the interests
of the man whose friends are so ambiti
ous to see Governor of Massachusetts, for
it will, more than ever, tend to array
against him every decent man in the
State. Mob law and the suppression of
a free expression of opinion are two
things eminently Butlerish in their na
ture, hut they will hardly meet the ap
proval of any friend, no matter who he
may be, of freedom of speech and law
•and order. And apart from this, the so
ber second thought of the voters of the
State finally must convince them of the
following facts:
If this faction or mob calling them-
•adves Democrats nominated Butler as a
Democrat, then they have simply been
guilty of an insult to the intelligence of
every man in the country. From the
beginning ot the war to the present time,
Ben Butler’s name has been the synonym
of everything that was undemocratic.
As an insultcr of Southern women, as a
purloiner of private property in the
South, as a malignant and unscrupulous
hater of this section, as a prominent
leader of the ultra Radicals, as the special
champion of the supplemental civil rights
and force bills,he has been justly despised
and hated by not only every Democrat
m the land, hut even by every Radical
who—while willing to countenance him
for the eminent services rendered by him
to his party—possessed the slightest claim
to honesty, decency or self-respect. To
call Bob Ingersoll a devout Christian
gentleman, Belknap an honest man, or
General Grant's administration a bless
ing to the country, would hardly be so
absurd as to call Ben Butler a Democrat.
His nomination as such, therefore, is one
of the most absurd of all the absurdities
which American politics has ever pro
duced.
But absurd as is this, it is no less so
than nominating Butler as a friend of
financial, or indeed any kind of reform.
When Grant was, through his system of
favoritism and nepotism, disgracing the
country; when Radicalism was filling
the land with its corrupt rings and
rascalities; when the National Congress
was the friend and protector of sub
sidies and general schemes for robbing
the people of the United States, and
when the Radical party foryears and years
was steadily legislating for the rich and
for the oppression of the poor, Butler was
a leading and shining light in that party.
In days when he might have accom
plished some good and prevented the
sneaking demonetization of silver, and
the passage of the forced specie resump
tion act, with its fearful contraction of
the currency and incidental evils, no
word was heard from him, in opposi
tion to these obnoxious measures. He
was then eminently the friend of the
bondholder and the rich—in a word, a
Radical of the deepest dye. The idea of
his ljeing presented as a representative of
the workingman or of financial reform
is, therefore, not only absurd, but that
he, with his notorious record, could dare
call himself so, is hut another proof of
his unparalleled impudence.
It is really gratifying to see that But
ler and his recreant Democratic (?) mob
are utterly repudiated by the old liuc
Democracy of the Bay State. That any
number of men heretofore calling them
selves Democrats, or friends of reform,
could, for a moment, have thought of
affiliating with Ben Butler is enough to
make a thinking man lose respect for
the intelligence of his species; but had
the Massachusetts Democracy indorsed
him, it would have been a well nigh in
delible disgrace to the party throughout
the Union.
The Democracy, like law-abiding citi
zens as they are, refused to create a breach
of the peace by forcibly driving the But
ler mob from the hall of which they had
taken possession, and issued a call for a
State Convention to he held in Faneuil
Hall, Boston, on the 25th inst. .where they
will be protected from mob violence.They
will then put a ticket in the field which
they say will crush Butler. We hope
they may do so, but whether they do or
not, better for them an overwhelming de
feat than that they should win victory at
the tremendous cost of such a complete
sacrifice of principle and self-re3pcct as
an indorsement of a notorious Radical
who enjoys the unenviable reputation
throughout the land as being “the cham
pion thiet of America. ”
The Greenbackers of New York want
a daily paper. They have several week
lies, hut they complain that these are not
up with the times. Peter Cooper has
been spoken to on the subject, and he is
in favor of it, hut he does not want to
be obliged to advance anything more
than his fair proportion, whatever that
may he. The leaders of the organiza
tion, as a rule, are not possessed of ple
thoric purses, and it is a question there
fore whether they will he able to accom
plish their purpose. However, they are
going to try. The New York corres
pondent of the Philadelphia Ledger says
Mr. Gideon J. Tucker will probably he
its editor, if the paper is started. Mr.
Tucker is the present Greenback candi
date for Judge of the Supreme Court of
the State.
The friends of Hon. Henry R. Harris
in the Fourth district stick to him with
a tenacity rarely seen, while his oppo
nents seem equally determined. The
nominating convention, now in session
at Newnan, have taken seven hundred
ballots, in nearly all of which he received
231 votes, only lacking 3} to secure his
nomination. As will be seen by our
special from there, however, it is likely
that to-day’s session will decide his fate.
Whether nominated or no*, he has made
a good representati ve and a gallant fight
According to a Washington special, a
gentleman just returned from Europe,
who saw General Grant recently, reports
that he is becoming very homesick, and
that he would return at once were it not
for the fact that he determined to visit
certain places in the East. He is much
interested in politics, and expresses a de
sire to see Senators Conkling, Carnet on
and Howe re-elected. He said that Gen.
Cameron was the most satisfactory Cabi
net officer he ever had. That’s very hard
on Belknap.
♦
Evils of Class Legislation.
It has been one of the most fruitful
sources of trouble in this country foryears
past,ever since the Republican party came
into power, that we have had to suffer so
much in the way of class legislation. As
a result of this, the National Legislature
has become to be looked on naturally as
only a medium for advancing the ends
and aims of individuals, instead of the
interests of the people at large. When
a person like Tom Scott desires to build
a railroad his first idea in these days is to
rush to Congress to obtain a huge subsi
dy for his special benefit; the bondholder
looks to Congress to make the bonds
which he has purchased in depreciated
greenbacks, payable in gold alone, and
to tax the people heavily for that
purpose; the Eastern manufacturer and
the Western iron man expect Congress
to give them a high protective tariff so
they mat- grow rich at the expense of all
other classes of their fellow men, and so
the game goes on. Nearly every man,
or set of men in the country, having any
special object in view which could be ad-
vauced by legislative action, have of late
years been educated to regard Congress as
only a body organized for their special
benefit, regardless wholly of the rights of
others whose interests are entirely differ
ent from their own.
From this example of class legislation
so generally established throughout the
land by the Radical party, is. to be attri
buted all the agitations and troubles
which to day afflict and threaten the
country. With the exception of the few
laboring men so fortunate as to be em
ployed in protected industries, that class
has had to hear a large share of the pub
lic burdens imposed on the whole com
munity for the benefit of a few, without
any compensation whatever. Hence,
though they do not seem to realize this—
inasmuch as in all their resolutions and
platforms they declare in favor of pro
tection—they are beginning to feel its ef
fects, and are inclined to demand relief
of some sort, and in some way, and
to think that it is time for Con
gress to be doing something for
their individual advantage. Hence,
also, has naturally sprung up Kearney -
ism and a revolutionary spirit, which
seeks to disturb the existing order of
things, and, if relief can come in no other
way, to bring it about through a general
upheaval of society. The cause of this
evil, heretofore unknown in Republican
America, is therefore directly- traceable
to the policy of class legislation initiated
in the land, ttnd steadily and constantly
followed by the Radical party while it
was in almost absolute power.
It is needless to say- that this whole
system of class legislation is directly at
variance with our republican plan of
government, and being a prolific source
of evil should be hereafter most emphati
cally discountenanced. A contemporary
writing on this subject very truthfully
and tersely- says as follows: “What suc
cess we have had in the past century has
been ever on the opposite theory of con
fining the sphere of government to those
things which neither individual nor as
sociated effort could relieve, and of
leaving all others to private manage
ment. Nay, more, those nations in
Western Europe which have prospered
most have been those which have stuck
most to general, not to special laws. At
this crisis it is important to have it under
stood that class legislation, besides being
unjust to the whole, does harm to the
community at large. The commerce and
transportation of the United States have
been, of all things, the most successfully
expanded and conducted under this
policy- of ‘letting alone.’ Now, instead
of meddling with the relations of traders,
or with the transporting railroads and
their customers, the Congress can do a
better thing by confining its attention to
needed general laws affecting all classes
of persons alike. ”
The Washington Sunday Herald is of
an inquiring mind, and says: “It is a
deiicate subject to touch upon, but our
curiosity is aroused, and we would really
like to know just what recompense the
Radical journals expect for the alms the
North with lavish hand is showering on
the South. They talk vaguely about
the gratitude the Southerners ought to
entertain in return, as if they expected
to buy so much gratitude for so much
money—a spirit that takes all the merit
out of free giving. Let them he more
explicit. We strongly suspect that the
only recompense that they will appreciate
for these charitable donations, which
are shared iu, to say the least, equally by-
Democrats and all parties in the North,
would be some Republican majorities.
.Most of the Radical politicians have got
so used to exchanging barrels of flour
and dollars for ballots in the North that
they cannot get over the habit of looking
for some quid pro quo for similar benefits
nobly and disinterestedly bestowed by-
others now. This is unreasonable. If
the South had been properly governed
and left free since the war, she would
have been able to deal with her yellow
fever trouble herself.”
In an editorial which appeared in the
News on the lfitfi inst. in regard to the
women of Virginia and the Virginia debt,
the name of the wife of Bishop Whip
ple was mentioned as Vice President of
an association to aid in paying off such
debt. We have been specially requested
to shite that it should have been stated that
the wife of Rt. Rev. Francis N. Whittle,
Bishop of Virginia, is the lady Vice
President of said association, Bishop
Whipple being a Western Bishop. We
make this correction cheerfully, espe
cially as Bishop Whittle has several near
relatives residing in Georgia.
A telegram announces that the steamer
Wyoming has sailed from Liverpool
with six huudred Mormon recruits on
board. The death of Brigham Young
has not given the slightest check to Mor-
monism. Agents are kept in Europe who
gather up a ship load of vicious and ig
norant persons every few months and
ship them to Utah. The Baltimore Ga
zette thinks that if the country was not
so thoroughly absorbed in the contcmpla
lion of the financial questions some man
like Blaine might create a stir by an
nouncing himself as a candidate for
President on an anti Mormon platform.
A correspondent writing from Maine
says the result of the late election in
that State was not so much the result of
Greenbackism as it was the general dis
gust with Radicalism. Democrats and
others opposed to the Radical party got
together and determined simply to “bust
things,” careless of the consequenoes.
They did it, and in the general melee
Jim Blaine and little Eugene Hale were
the worst “busted” of anything else.
Patterson says he will not go to South
Carolina for the present, but that after
the fourth of March next he will return
to that State. Considering that he knows
he will not be able then to shield himself
frc/m arrest behind his privileges as
United States Senator, we are inclined to
believe Patterson only says this for bun
combe.
THE NEW GEOMETRY.
Designed for Practical I'ac In School*
and Collettes.
ifeic York Sun.
Question.—What is a point?
Answer.—The smallest possible con
ception of a purely imaginary thing.
Q.—Give an example of a point.
A.—Hayes' conscience.
Q.—What is a line?
A.—Something that has length without
breadth or cousisteney.
Q.—Give an example of a line.
A.—William M. Evarts, or one of Wil
liam M. Evarts' speeches.
Q.—What is a plane?
A.—A flat.
Q.—Illustrate what you mean?
A.—Carl Schurz is a plane.
Q.—What is a solid?
A.—The evidence of the fraudulent
bargain with Nieliolls and Hampton.
Q.—What is a square?
A.—Something you can’t get round.
Q.—For instance?
A —Tiie fact that Samuel J. Tilden
was legally elected President in 1876 by
a majority of the electoral vote. That's
a square.
Q.—What is a right angle?
A.—Fishing for facts to prove the
Fraud.
Q.—What is an obtuse angle?
A.—Fishing in the wrong pond.
Q.—What is an acute angle?
A.—One of General Butler’s cross-ex
aminations.
Q.—Define an axiom.
A.—A truth that is disputed only by-
knaves and fools.
Q.—Recite some of the leading axioms.
A.—1. Ten thousand lies don’t make
one truth. 2. Fraud vitiates everything
it touches. 3. There are only two sides
to every- question—the right side and the
wrong side. 4. Eight to seven don’t
make a title. 5. there's a judgment
day for thieves and forgers. 0. The re
ceiver is as bad as the thief.
Q.—Very good. Now take one of
those axioms. Can you prove it?
A.—Not mathematically. You can’t
prove an axiom. You must keep ham
mering it in.
Q.—What is a lemma?
A.—A put up job to help out a had
case.
Q.—Can you name any lemmas ?
A.—Yes.* Eliza Pinkston and Agnes
Jenks.
Q—What is a postulate?
A.—Senator Thurman's financial atti
tude.
Q.—Not so fast! Why do you call
Senator Thurman’s financial attitude a
postulate?
A.—A postulate is something assumed
for an occasion.
Q.—Define a proposition.
A—A truth not quite as fundamental
or obvious as an axiom, but amply- de
monstrated by the sequel.
Q.—State a specimen proposition.
A.—The shortest distance from Con
gress to private life is by way of a vote
for a resolution declaring Fraud sacred.
Q.—What is a sphere?
A.—It’s what Mr. Hewitt is out of.
Q —What is a scalene triangle?
A.—An irregular, disreputable figure,
that there’s nothing square about.
Q.—Well?
A.—Stanley Matthews is a scalene tri
angle.
Q.—What is your idea of the pons
asinoruni f
A.—The platform that the third termers
stand on.
Q.—What is the reductio ad absur-
dum?
A.—Hayes’ civil service reform.
THE SONG OF A SHIRT.
A Needlewoman Jlaklng Shirts at
Eighty Cents a Dozen.
Xew York Star.
The facts of a case full of sympathy
were unintentionally brought to light be
fore Justice Duffy at the New- York
Tombs Court on Saturday.
Eliza Cannon, a respectable needlewo
man of Brooklyn, the mother of five
children, came before the court.
About two weeKs ago Simon >1. Cohen,
of 345 Broadway, advertised for shirt-
makers. Mrs. Cannon went to 345 Broad
way, and asked how much he would give
for making shirts. Cohen replied that he
wt uld give 80 cents per dozen, and she
would have to leave $ 1 deposit. She left
the dollar, and took the work home.
There, after working hard, she found
she could not make more than 40 cents a
day. .
She took the made shirts to the store.
Cohen found fault with a number of
them, saying they were not properly
made, and asked her to pay for them.
She refused to do so, and asked her dol
lar deposit back, hut, it is alleged, she
was rudely- ejected from the place, and
a charge of disorderly conduct was pre
ferred against her. Cohen alleges that
she took an ink-bottle and destroyed
every shirt in his store. He proceeded
to unroll a bundle of 'flirts, and pointed
out where a stitch was too long or where
one was missed.
“You provide the bosom, and the
woman has to sew all the rest,” said His
Honor.
“Yes, sir, and she can make eighty
cents a day.”
“What is that fora woman and family,
and the work so hard ?”
“But she destroyed my shirts with
ink.”
“Well, what of it? She said it was an
accident. I do not wonder—it was
enough to drive any woman crazy,
living as she had done on starva
tion wages. You do not give
any one a living chance, while you get
rich. You live at the rate of ten dollars
a day, while these poor, miserable crea
lures are striving night and day for a
few cents. The dollar deposit you kept
is enough to cover the damage. Eliza
Cannon is discharged. ”
Solid New England.
Nashville American.
While the North, from Boston to the
far West, is lecturing the South on solid
ity, it seems to he forgotten that there is
a "solid New England widch requires res
olution. We have no doubt of the growth
of differences of opinion in the South,
but we have no more doubt of the divis
ion of that solid New England, which
has stood as solid as its own granite since
the early- days of the republic. New
England has been just as solid as the
South. It was solid in all the embargo
contest, in all that preceded the war of
1812 and during the war. Two or
three States exhibited a gleam of
good sense about the beginning of
the tariff agitation and then relapsed,
to he politically and economically
and socially solid ever since. While
they point out to us signs of division in
the South as signs of promise, we are
able to point to signs of division id the
solid New England. One good turn de
serves another. If we dissolve New
England should melt. Nay, if we dis
solve New England must melt. The
same cause which made the South a
unit has made New England solid. As
the last question of a sectional nature is
settled, the rigid unification of the two
sections will in time disappear, and large
differences of opinion will appear, the
growth at least in each of a larger oppo
sition and a healthier state of opinion.
Captain J. Conway, the agent of the
Australian cricketers, arrived in New
York from England on Saturday. He
comes in advance of his team to arrange
the details of the contest to take place in
the United States and Canada, prior to
their return to Australia by way of San
Francisco. The cricketers will leave
England on the 19th instant. On Octo
ber 1st and 2d they will play eighteen of
New York and vicinity at Hoboken, and
on the 3d, 4th and 5th an eleven of
Philadelphia at Nicetown.
Genera] Beauregard has given some in
dications of views which,coinciding with
his necessities, may- incline him to accept
the nomination of the Nationals in
Louisiana. With no great ability, Gen.
Beauregard is, however, a man of honor,
and he will not consciously do what he
believes to be contrary to the interest of
Louisiana and the South for a personal
end; but it is extremely easy to make a
mistake in such cases.—Nashville Ameri-
Last year in Massachusetts 12,737
couples were joined in the bonds of wed
lock. Of these there were 8,915 bache
lors who chose maidens to be their wives,
and 008 who chose widows; while 1,396
widowers married maidens and 818 mar
ried widows. From this it appears that
788 more widowers than widows were
married again, and that 1,396 maidens
married widowers, when only 608 bache
lors married widows.
BY TELEGRAPH.
THE FOURTH lH.VTRlCT COX YEN-
TION.
t eTeu Hundred Ballots and No Re
sult.
Special Tele or am to the Morning Netcs.
Nswjfiy, Ga.. September IS.—The con
vention met according to adjournment this
morning, and after taking the seven hun
dredth ballot adjourned at 4:30 o’clock this
afternoon until to-morrow morning at eight
o’clock.
There was no change in the vote for Mr.
Harris, he invariably receiving during the
day his twenty-one and two-thirds at every
ballot.
Mr. P. F. Smith was withdrawn by his
friends at his own request ou the opening
of the convention this morning, and during
the day the minority balloted for the follow
lowing named gentlemen, who respectively
received sixteen and one-third votes, to-wit:
Colonel Hudson of Harris, Judge O. Warner
of Meriwether, J. W. Parks of Meriwether,
Captain Willis of Muscogee, Colonel Fan
ning of Troup, R. H. Jackson of Heard,
Colonel Latham of Campbell, Judge Feath-
erstone of Coweta, and Colonel Peabody of
Muscogee.
.411 the parties seem determined not to
yield, though some express the opinion that
the Harris men are weakening and that a
nomination will be reached early to-morrow.
Mr. Harris wants just three and two-thirds
to give him the required two-thirds ma
jority, which his opponents say he cannot
get. But it is believed to-morrow's pro
ceedings will decide the fate of brave Hal.
MORE WRECKS BY THE RECENT
STORM.
The Crews of Two Vessels Brought
to Jacksonville.
Special Telegram to the Morning News.
Jacksonville, September 18. — The
steamer Volusia arrived here to-night
bringing the crew6 of the French brig
Sevres, from Tampico to Havre, laden with
honey and hides, and of the American
schooner Hattie Ross, from Jamaica to New
York, laden with sugar and logwood.
The vessels and cargoes are total looses.
They were wrecked south of Cape Canaveral
on the 9th inst. The owner and one seaman
of the Sevres are missing. The cook of the
Hattie Ross was drowned.
MIDNIGHT TELEGRAMS
PLATFORM OF THE MASSACHU
SETTS REPUBLICANS.
Decision Against Placing Railroads
in the Hands of Receivers.
CAPTURE OF BRCZKA BY THE
AUSTRIANS.
1EEI.IEF FOB THE FEVER SUF
FERERS.
Election of United States Senator
front Oregon.
Coiigreawlonal Nomination*.
PLATFORM OF THE MASSACHUSETTS REPUB
LICANS.
WorcesteKj September 18.—The resolu
tions of the Republican Convention renew
allegiance to the principles of the party,
rejoice that resumption is nearly accom
plished, and insist that all lawful means be
taken to insure it within the time fixed by
law. The resolutions further saj* that the
refunding of the national debt at a lower
rate of interest should be carried forward
as rapidly as possible; declare in favor
of raising the civil service to the plan of
honesty and efficiency demanded by the
Cincinnati Convention and the President’s
letter of acceptance; call for the strictest
economy in the administration of State af
fairs ; denounce as false the charges of mis
management made against the State
administration; assert that those who
would foment discord by falsely
teaching that our community is
composed of hostile classes, with
antagonistic interests, are public enemies
whose defeat is essential to the public wel
fare; and that the success of the bold at
tempt to place an open repudiator in the
executive chair of this renowned
commonwealth would be an an
nouncement to the world that for
the first time in history Massachusetts
wavers in her devotion to honest finance
and is indifferent to the sacredness of pub
lic faith. The resolutions commend the
President for his firmness in resisting the
attempts to depreciate the currency, and for
liis endeavors to promote the restoration of
good will and social and commercial inter
course throughout the country.
JUDGE BAXTER ON RAILROAD RECEIVER
SHIPS.
Cincinnati, September 18.—Judge Bax
ter, of the United States Court, in passing
upon an application to allow railroads iu the
hands of a receiver to be garnisheed, remark
ed that the practice of placing railroads in
the hands of receivers was altogether too
common, and has become a great evil.
■The Judge cited the case of a railroad in
Georgia which cost fifteen million dollars.
The receiver in charge in three years issued
certificates of indebtedness amounting to
a million and a half dollars, and when the
road was sold the proceeds were
not sufficient to pay the certifi
cates. There was another case in
a Detroit road which co6t over eight million
dollars. When the road came to be sold the
eminent counsel requested the Judges to
fix a minimum price for the sale, suggesting
that such a price should be sufficient to
cover the charges of the receiver and his
lawyer.
Judge Baxter had observed that when a
receiver got possession he generally ran the
road for the benefit of himself and em
ployes, including attorneys, and he (the
Judgej would hereafter sec that there should
be reform in his circuit for the benefit
of both creditors and stockholders. If the
proceedings to sell and realize were not
pushed to a conclusion he would vacate the
receivership and give the road back to the
company.
Great interest is manifested by railroad
people in this deliverance.
AN AUSTRIAN VICTORY.
Vienna, September 18.—The following is
official: “The burning and bombardment
of Brczka from the river Save not having
sufficed to silence the insurgent guns
there, the Austrians on Tuesday at
tacked the town by land on two
sides and captured it, after a
desperate resistance, which lasted till 8
o’clock in the evening. The losses are not
yet known. In the movements prior to the
capture of Brczka the Austrians captured
Krespic ami Dubrava to the westward of
Brczka after prolonged and stubborn fight
ing.”
RELIEF FOR THE YELLOW FEVER SUFFERERS.
New York, September 18.—The various
relief committees here are progressing with
collections and distributions of monies and
supplies to the yellow fever sufferers. Re
ports are constantly received of the con
tinuation of the good work throughout the
country.
Philadelphia, September 18.—The sub
scriptions for the yellow fever sufferers to
day amounted to three thousand dollars,
making a total of ninety-five thousand dol
lars.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.
Milwaukee, September 18.—P. V. Den-
ster was nominated for Congress to-day by
the Democrats of the First district.
Baltimore, September 18.—The Demo
crats of the Sixth district to-day nominated
George Peters for Congress.
BOLD ROBBERY.
Pittsfield, Mass., September 18.—Mrs.
Samuel Hooper’s summer residence in
Lenox was robbed on Monday night of plate
valued at $2,000. The next night Mrs. Chas.
Astor Bristed’s residence was broken into,
but the thieves were frightened off.
ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATOR IN
OREGON.
Salem, Oregon, September 18.—The two
bouses met in joint session to day, and
elected J. II. Slater to the United States
8enate for the term of six years, from
March 4, 1879.
THE YELLOW FEVER RECORD.
Canton, September 18.—Ten new cases
and eleven deaths are reported to-day. Dr.
A. H. Cage is dead.
The village of Kollmar, in Holstein, is
fan ous for the longevity of its inhabi
tants. It has a population of 1,400 souls.
A diamond wedding—the seventy-fifth
anniversary—has just been celebrated
there, the tenth in fourteen years, and
two others are impending.
A drunken man in Paterson, New
Jersey, lay down by the roadside on
Sunday and went to sleep. While in
this position a Jersey mosquito alighted
upon him, and a Jersey policeman
coming along, arrested the mosquito for
opening a bar on Sunday.
A Lordly Gift.—Among the contri
butions for relief of sufferers received
September 9 was one which deserves
more than mere record. It is the gift of
one thousand dollars from Baron Emile
d’Erlanger, the eminent and wealthy
banker of Paris, prompted no doubt by
his very worthy and generous wife, who
was the eldest daughter of the late Sena
tor John Slidell. This, if we remember
rightly, is the largest individual contri
bution yet received into the fund of the
Howards this season. It may be but a
trifie in comparison with the means of
the donor, but it will give relief to many
Mifferers. We are informed that Baron
d’Erlanger’s generous gift was sent by
telegraphic cable transfer at his own
cost He felt that help was needed at
once, and be would not wait for the slow
process of transmission by mail. It is a
process now familiar to bankers, yet it is
none the less one of the wonders of
modern science that a Parisian gentle
man can practically transfer a magnifi
cent present of a thousand dollars to the
suffering victims of a plague in a city
four thousand miles off in a single hour.
—New Orleans Picayune, 12(7/.
Unv AtU’crttscrornts;.
IMM’K HOPKINS,
NO. 16 BROUGHTON STREET.
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,
has on hand a large assortment
OF
PARLOR, OFFICE
HARDWARE, CUTLERY, file.
MANUFACTURER OF
T I > WARE!
Parties in want of anything in nay line will
find it to their interest to examine my stock
before purchasing.
sepI9-tf
IIIGGIN
GERMAN
Laundry Soap
THE BES T,
-AND THEREFORE—
TIIE CHEAPEST!
TRY IT. FOR SALE BY
JOS. B. REEDY,
21 BARNARD STREET,
SAVANNAH, ----- GEORGIA
sep!9-tf
Savannah Weekly Mews
ml
A MW SERIAL STORY.
V Z A I. I V !
A SOUTHERN KLOSSOJI.
BY MRS. M. E. M.
In the Weekly News of Saturday, Septem
ber 21st, will be commenced a new serial
story of absorbing interest, with the above
title, written by a lady of Savannah.
The Weekly News
—IS THE—
Largest and Best Weekly Paper
PUBLISHED IN THE SOUTH.
Each number of eight large imperial pages,
comprising
SIXTY-FOUR COLUMNS
of closely printed matter. Containing, besides
its LITERARY, AGRICULTURAL and MILI
TARY DEPARTMENTS, a weekly compen
dium of the TELEGRAPHIC, LOCAL and
STATE NEWS, together with choice MISCEL
LANEOUS READING, POLITICAL, COM-
3IERCIAL and GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
Subscription, one year $2; six months $1.
Specimen copies sent free.
Address J. H. ESTILL,
sepll-tf Savannah. Ga.
STEEL PENS
of superior English make : famous for durability
and < lMticltv ; great variety of styles suited to
every kind of writing. Foreale by dealersgenerally.
'I' IV y\ I’Y-FlV£ assorted sample* or trials
celebrated “U” AND** FALCON”’
Pens, by mail, on receipt of Twentyfive Coats
IViSON. BLAKEMAN, TAYLOR & CO.
So lx Agents fob the U. 8.,
138 and 140 Grand. St., New York.
sepJ9-Th3m
LEMONS!
XA BOXES choice LEMONS.
• JO 150 barrels choice POTATOES.
75 barrels choice APPLES.
50 barrels choice CABBAGES.
10 )x>xes choice PEARS.
5 boxes choice GRAPES.
5 kegs Malaga GRAPES.
Landing per steamers City of Savannah and
Wyoming, on consignment and for sale very
low by
JOHN LYONS,
Corner Broughton and Whitaker streets.
gepl9-lt
Groceries and Prorisiotta.
Another Car Load of Flour
.JUST RECEIVED.
IN BARRELS. PACKS. HALF SACKS AND
QUARTER SACKS.
Lower than Ever Offered Before.
TEX BUtltl LS APPLES.
A FRESH LOT OF TEA,
Unsurpassed in price or quality.
Ferris’ Fine Hams and Shoulders
By to-day's steamer.
CHEAPEST SOAP AND STARCH.
—ALSO THE—
Popular Town Talk Bak ing Powder
Always on hand.
M. F. FOLEY & CO.,
& W. COR. BROUGHTON Si BARNARD STS
aug*2>-Tu.Th£S.tf
NEW GOODS!
A. DOYLE’S.
YEW FULTON MARKET BEEF, barrels and
a' half barrels.
NEW GILT BUTTER, at two shillings a pound.
CABBAGES. APPLES, POTATOES and
ONIONS.
CHOW-CHOW PICKLES: also, MIXED, in
quarts and pints.
PIG HAMS and SHOULDERS, and very nice
STRIP BACON.
That V. I). HAM. a very choice article, some
thing new here.
SPICED SPLIT PIG'S FEET, for the family.
That OLD GOVERNMENT JAVA COFFEE,
roasted and ground.
A variety of other FANCY GOODS.
30 barrels of that FANCY BELL FLOUR
A. DOYLE’S,
L ST JULIAN ~mxzr SZJJZ HAKKET
RESERVOIR MILLS
tonzrt-M and Mre^U.
MAN FACTUKZ DAILY
CHOICE GRITS AND MEAL,
THE BEST IN THE CITY
ORDER* FOR
(iraiu. Hay. Feed, Floor, Baton
Pilled with dispatch at lowest market rates, oy
K. Lu MEKCEIL
sepl*v-ly
3?rr$onal.
M R ALEXANDER KOYZINOWSKI. of Tus-
culum, will receive- interesting information
by apnlymg to WILDER A CO , Bav street.
Savannah. sepl7-6c *
W
ANTED.—A gentleman desires good board
and pleasant room near St. James square
either now or October 1. If suited will be per
manent. Address at once, with fuD imrticu
^ ars - SAVANNAH, care Morning News.
seplB-lt
\\
w
Harness Apply at 157
Brought, jn street. sjpl'j-tf
\\ a reliable man to work a fane
TV and orange grove in Florida. For n«r
address, WKh sta3 , p DORSET!^*
KLNN-DV- sepir-tf
'ANTED. SHRIMP AND < »YSTI ,;s
’ ties who understand the catch • ■ „„,
boding ot Shrimp: also that of picking OfaeSf
can meet with a ready sale of same V, jTsr'S’
REEDY’S. Barnard street, near Mar". ’ B -
seplt-iit
L'ROM October 1st. wanted, a few hoar.v~
-l Large, nearly new brick h - j’
street, near Whitaker; modern unproremen'.
supenor rooms; i nns m. derate. W Box
t o _ aug 1 i-Sun.TmtThtf
W ANTED—TEXAS LANi.sT-tVi
persons who lost relatives m the Teia.
revolution of ISOi wll hear of something to the,
mmw'STi-rl co ™“™% with CARLOe
I** Car * °* °*° e ’ Savannah, Ga.
£ost auti ground.
I OST OR STOLEN, a Bui] Dog. .hlte~Wt
Aj yeliow spots: ears cropped short. He is i
small dog. with a large head, and answers u
the name of Fido. A reward wil! be paid
his return to JOHN Ti LER. at BarnardStree
Railroad depot. sepl»-2t
I OST. one solid liver colored Setter Dog ar.
U one liver and white Setter Dog. A re war
^dl.he paid for them if delivered to M. k
TUNNO. 55 Gaston street. ?<*-plVMLvTei:: *
iJoai’tluifl.
HOARDING.—Persons wishing to get large o
1 > small comfortable rooms, with good board
on reasonable terms, can do so by applying £
1 * South Broad street, second door from Drav
sepl7TuATh2t
\ EW YORK Boarding. iS Fifth Avenue. E] e
^ gant residence: 52 per day. $W per week
I with deatoable rooms. m .
.for ?alf.
COFFEES & TEAS
I CAN SELL
t!
-TO THE—
Family & Jobbing Trade.
4 ND I roast my COFFEES EVERY DAY BY
^Y Till: LATEST IMPROVED 3IACHINERY.
Call and see, at
139 BROUGHTON STREET.
vT l.tf A. J. TIOLOM’Y.
FRESH ROODS!
L 1 'H ’’ALE. fine prepared earth and iiguid
J -manure, for pot plan:*, at WAGS EK S teed
Store, corner BaU and St. Julian streets.
iepUMt
U‘ 'R SALE CHEAP. Shelving for a sm^p
X/ store, at ABBoTt S Drug Store, corner
w est Broad and Bryan streets. «eplS-lt
\ PPLES, Lemons. Figs. Dates, Cocoanuta
and Nuts of ail descriptions for sale by
t^pl^-lt P H. WaRD A CO.
( * VhPETS. Window Shades. Oil Cloth*. Mat-
v tings, in great variety. New styles in Par
lor and Chamber Furniture. Prices very low
Rt A. J. MILLER A CO. ’S Furniture and Carpet
Stores. I5*> and 152 Broughton St. seplS-lm
f |Y)R SA LE. a fine harness and saddle HORSE
Sound and gentle. Can be seen at Can- .n's
s iable. H. M. DEM ERE. sepl-it
C _, REA3I PUFF'S every day by eleven o'clock
/ at DERST*S Variety Bakery. sepl^it
U'OR SALE two nine fee: Cases a
A one Regulator, cheap. SAMUEL P. Ha
ILTON. sepl4 tl
Vv>R SALE, a Horse, perfectly gentle a
1 sound, seven years old. Appiy to JNO. ’
TANANS Machine Shop, Canal street, ne
West Broad street. sepl-3-tt
U'OR SALE Oak. Pine an<> idghtwood. saw
A or in stick. All orders left at office corn
Taylor and East Broad streets, cr dropped
boxes through town, will receive prompuatt.
tiou. R B. CASsELS. sep2-6ni
F erric hams, strips and shouldep.s.
50 bbls. choice NEW FLOUR
20 bbls NEW NORTHERN POTATOES.
FRESH YEAST CAKES.
NEW TEAS, very choice.
FRESH BUTTER by every steamer.
FRESH CHOCOLATE BROMA, etc.
BRANCH k COOPER’S.
jy26-N£T«ltf
SraeiDg New aiifl Nice!
CHOW-CHOW SHRIMP.
FOR SALE BY
A. C. HARMON & CO.,
31 WHITAKER STREET.
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NEW GOODS!
—AT—
THE BLUE STORE,
No 156 Congress and 73 St. Julian street.
C HOW-CHOW, by the quart.
NEW PICKLES, in wood and glass.
FRE^H BONELESS CODFISH.
FERHIS’ MEAT, by every steamer.
MIXED TEA. at 60c. per lb., very fine.
NEW PRUNES and CURRANTS.
FULTON MARKET BEEF.
FRESH BOLOGNA SAUSAGE.
sepl4-tf
J. H. VON NEWTON.
RED GROCERY STOKE.
GOOD NEWS!
Kerosene Oil atjbc. per Gallon.
O ARDINES 15c. per box.
TOMATOES Sc. and 10c. per can.
GOOD BUTTER 20c. ; VERY BEST 25c. per lb.
FRESH COCOANUTS.
APPLES by the barrel.
SAUSAGES and SMOKED BEEF.
FINE COFFEES and TEAS.
RUSSAK & CO.’S,
Rear of A. A. Solomons & Co.’s Drug Store,
sepll-tf
SUNDRIES.
O ~ BARRELS APPLES.
LO 50 Boxes CHEESE.
25 Tubs BUTTER
10 Firkins BUTTER.
ONIONS, BEEF.BEANS, SALT. SARDINES,etc.
Now landing and for sale by
C. L.. GiLBEKT «£ CO.
sepl8-tf
SALT.
1 000 : jSALT, on wharf, in fine or
20 sacks fine TABLE SALT.
2^ tons ROCK SALT, in large lumps for
cattle. For sale by
CUNXIN
sep9-tf
UNXINGHAM & HEWES.
JOHN LYONS,
Agent for the follcwing:
B ALTIMORE PEARL HOMINY COMPANY.
Cantrell & Cochran's Imported BELFAST
GINGER ALE.
SJAVE YOUR Water RENT.—For I wi
O furnish a 25 foot Driven Well with tin lint-
pipe and improved filter poinr guaranteed nt
to rust. Water pure and free from taste c
iron. w. D. R. MILLAR.
aug7-3m 24 Bull street.
N UN AN STRAWBERRY PLANTS for s&J<
Apply to JAMES PRICE. 11 Pitt stree
C harleston, S. C. aug* ThA M1 m
P jX>R SALE, two LITHOGRAPHIC PItESSE
and iot of LITHOGRAPHIC STONES. Ai
^je23-tf ^ mtaker street.
Ho Sent.
pOTTOx warehouse for rent onEa
street, south side, between .M->ntgomer
and West Broad. vaxUO. Possession given It
October. Apply to
sep!9-lt PETER REILLY.
RENT a desirable House in Myers'
A Range. Gaston street, between Whitaker
and Barnard streets.
Store on Congress street, next to Butler's
shoe store.
Store 140 Congress street, at present occupied
by Chas. Gassman. Apply to
„ C. G. FALLJGANT,
General Insurance and Real Estate Agent,
sep!4 6t 101 Bay street.
l^OR RENT, from the 1st of October, large
A and pleasant rooms, either single or in
suites. Location. Charlton street, between Bull
and Y> hitaker. Apply to J. E. D., C. R R of-
sepl8-2t
f jX)R RENT, three-story Brick Dwelling
basement, on Drayton street. opp<«ite 1
Confederate Monument, formerly occupied
Mr. F. Muir; three-story Brick Dwelling
basement, on Columbia square, trust lot !
IS. between State and President streets, fro
ing on Columbia square. For particulars, i
ply to B. B. MINOR Jk.. 95 Bay street, or J>
SL LL1\ AN A CO. augl*I-t
Y17HARF AND STORES.-The wharf a
* * stores. .00 feet from, being the first w<
of and adjoining the Central Press wharf. £
offered for rent, together or separately A
ply to
scpP-tf DUNCAN A JOHNSTON
I X) RENT, Brick Dwelling, two stories
basement, on South Bro&>i street, bet we
J.^ff^fson and Barnard. Possession given ;
November. Also. Store and Dwelling corn
Whitaker and Broughton street lane. Posh
sion given 1st October. For particulars apt
E- L. NEIDLINGER 156 St. Julian street.
augl5-tf
r |X) RENT, Offices and Stores in Stoddar'
A upper and Lower Range and Harden
Building (Whitaker street . Applv to X.
HARDEE S SON A CO., 12S Bay'Vtreet.
my27-Tu.Th.SATel tf
T O RENT, a desirable Office in Stodda
Lower Range. Possession given immediai
Apply to N. A. HARDEE'S SON A CO.
aug27-Tu.ThAS.iw
T O RENT, from October 1st. hou*e Nr
President street. All modern impn
ments. Apply JAMES FOLEY'. Broughton
East Boundary streets. sepl7 Tu.ThAS
r rv > RENT, from 1st of November, b:
A house No. 2 Macon street. Apply JA>
FOLEY. Broughton and East Boundary stre
Soots and Shots.
FOR THE NEIT TEN DAIS
WE WILL. SELL Ol’R
EYTIRE STOCK
Headquartere for PIPER HEIDSIECX CHAM
PAGNE. and the celebrated BAKER WHIKKT.
oct*-lv
Railroad £rhcdulrs.
Coast Line Railroad.
SCHEDULE FOR SEPTEMBER.
TT7EEK DAYS—Cars leave city daily at 7:15
▼ T and 10:35 a. m., 3:35, 4:35 and 6:45 p.m.
Leave Thunderbolt 6:00 and 8:00 a. m., 12:50
5:30 and 6 p. m.
Passengers for Schuetzen Park take the 10:35
a. u.. 3:25 or 4:35 p. m. cars.
Saturday nights last car leaves city at 8:13
o'clock.
SUNDAY’S—Cars leave city 8:00 a. m., 10:35
a. m.. 12 m. and every HALF HOUR in after
noon from 3 until 6 o'clock. Leave Thunder
bolt 7:00 a. m. and 9:00 a. m. Leave Thunder
bolt and Schuetzen Park 11:10 a. m., 12:50 p.m.
and every HALF HOUR in afternoon from
3:30 until 6:30 o'clock. EDW. J. THOMAS,
BepU-tf General Agent.
Notices.
NOTH JJE.
\ LL persons are strictly prohibited from
huntinK on my place. Permissions here
tofore granted are hereby revoked.
GEO. \V. ANDERSON.
September 17. 1878, sep!8-3t
>OTICJE.
PA HIS HILL ACADEMY
J ) REPARES youngs men for college or busi-
A ness. Address B. 8. CRANE,
Central Railroad, Ga.
ncipal, 5U
]sepl9-3ttp
S TATE OF GEORGL\, Chatham Cor.vrv.—
Notice is hereby given to all persons liaving
demands against Mrs.^VIRGINIA ANN SADLER
late of said county, deceased, to present them
to me. properly made out, within the time pre
scribed 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.
September 5, 1878.
PHILIP M. RUSSELL.
Executor will of Virginia Ann Sadler, dec’d.
sep6-F6t
T HE GEORGLA WOOD COMPANY, located
■■ on West Boundary, between New and
Railroad streets, is prepared to furnish WOOD
for family use, sawed and split by machinery
Quality and measure guaranteed. Orders by
postal card will leceive prompt attention.
sep5-Th. SATu2w
.NOTICE.
TN consequence of extensive repairs in my
i2?° re ’ remore “>y stock of Drugs.
Medicines, Perfumery, etc., to the store next
to serve my friends
augti-tf OSCEOLA BUTLER.
I HEREBYconsent thalTmy wife, LIZZETTA
“ANITNA “ay become a public or free
trader after the publication of this notice for
one month. JOSEPH A. SANTINA.
Savannah, September 3, 1878. sep3-lm
-OF—
—AT— «
Grcatlv Redocd Prices
TO MAKE ROOM FOR
OUR NEW STOCK.
SPANIEB
140 Congress Street.
sepi8-tf
^iuUUcs. Jtanifss. ivr.
W. II. HELL & CO.,
(SUCCESSORS TO N. b. KNAPP),
DEALERS IN
T
Saddles, Harness, Belting, Etc.,
HARNESS AND SOLE LEATHER,
Calf Skins, Shoe Uppers,
Tranks, Valises & Saddlery Ware.
West end Gibbons' Building, Market Square,
SAVANNAH, GA.
sepl7-d&w3m