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THE CHILDREN.
j'au! Hague, in Harper's Magazine for De
cember.
The children! ah, the children!
Your innocent, joyous ones;
Your daughter.-*, with souls of sunshine;
Your buoyant and laughing sons.
Look long in their happy faces.
Drink love from their sparkling eyes
For the wonderful charm of childhood,
How soon it withers and dies!
A few fast-vanishing summers,
A season or twain of frost.
And you
suddenly ask, bewildered,
is it my heart hath lost?"
Perchance you see by the hearth stone
Some Juno, stately and proud,
Or a Hebe, wh< -se softly ambushed eyes
Flash out from the golden cloud
Of lavish and beautiful tresses
That, wantonly floating, stray
O’er the white of a throat and bosom
More fair than blossoms in May.
And perchance you mark their brothers—
Young heroes who spurn the sod
With the fervor of antique knighthood.
And the air of a Grecian god.
But where, ah, where are the children,
Your household fairies of yore? [fled
Alack: they are dead, and their grace has
For ever and evermore.
Georgia Affairs.
A correspondent at Sjrlvania, Scriven
county, sends us the following items: Cir
cuit Court, lion. H. V. Johnson presiding,
convenes next Monday. Timbers are being
bauled to build a substantial new jail. The
Baptists and Methodists of Sylvania are
erecting new churches, which are badly
needed.
An Atlanta clothier announces that he
will supply “patches for all our boys’ and
children’s clothing.” A good sign. Let
honesty, retrenchment and reform (of old
clothes) be the watchword. It is never too
late t > mend.
Four of cbe seven ex-Governors of Georgia
are at present in Atlanta.
The Atlanta Constitution, speaking of the
resolution introduced in the House to
adopt for the State “Mitchell’s Complete
System of Keeping Public Accounts,” says:
“ Those who have examined this system say
it is as perfect as it is possible to be made;
that it will be a saving of considerable time
to the grand juries in examining the various
accounts of county officers, and will save
more than the books are worth at one term
of the courts by economizing the time spent
in their examination.”
The Augusta Evening Kars takes time by
the forelock, and on the 2Jlh inst. wished
its readers “a happy New Year.”
Says the Richmond State: “Hon. Aleck
Stephens is soon o:i hand at Washington.
As he is so small he always takes an early
start.”
It is stated that Col. Billups is in Atlanta
investigating affairs, and rather thinks he
will contest Speer’s election.
The Coviagton Star notes that Mrs. Eliza
beth Hudson, one of the oldest ladies In
that place, died at the residence of her
brother, Mr. R. B. Livingston, on last Sun
day night, in the 82d year of her age.
The investigation now going on in At
lanta is alluded to by some of our exchanges
as a new phase of the Murphy movement.
The North Georgia Conference will con
vene in Marietta on next Wednesday.
Bishop McTyere will preside, and a large at
tendance is expected.
Thomas Rhodes, one of the best and most
respected colored men of Columbus, died
in that city on Tuesday last. He had been
suffering front erysipelas aud on Monday his
leg was amputated. He never recovered
from the shock. He was 52 years of age.
Hon. Matt O’Brien’s poem in defense of
mothers-in-law has called forth a response
from a sympathetic friend, who shakes
hands with Mr. O’Brien, and swears that
8ince wc love our wives we should love their
mothers, too. That’s a sentiment of true
nobility. No matter what baser minds may
say and do, let Georgians always love the
whole family.
The McDuffie Journal states that Mary
Walker, colored, died in that place several
weeks ago, at the remarkable age of one
hundred and eight years. She was formerly
the property of Rev. J. H. Walker, of
Lincoln county, who brought her to this
country from Virginia many years ago.
For a long while she has been in the family
of Judge James B. Neal, and was looked
upon more as a privileged character than as
a servant. The family, to the last, gave
her every care and attention which her ex
treme age required.
Mrs. Ann May, wife of Mr. John May,
of McDuffie county, complained at the
breakfast table on Monday morning last of
feeling badly. She soon after left the table
and retired to her room, but had hardly
thrown herself upon the bed before she
sent for her husbaud, who, on hastening to
her, found her in the agonies of death.
Congestion of the lungs was the cause of
her sudden demise. She had been married
twelve years, during which time, up to her
fatal attack, she had, says the Thomson
Journal, never missed a meal through sick
ness.
Atlanta Pbst: “The committee continues
to work with dispatch, and will probably
make a full report in a few days. Till that
lime we shall remain silent as previously
stated, nor give publication to the Idle
rumors alloat. Governor Colquitt really
needs no vindication, but there are ques
tions involved not yet discussed, which will
be. We do not believe that the testimony
will even indicate any guilt of the Gover
nor. We advise all good citizens to pay no
attention to rumors. All sensible, good
men will wait for evidence and facts before
forming conclusions.”
Augusta News: “No new facts have come
to light in reference to the loss of $25,000 to
the Express Company. Mr. Lynch is in
jail, and will wait his trial. Work is going
on in the case, aud the matter will be probed
to the bottom.”
Lumpkin Independent: “An attempt was
made on Thursday night last by the prisoners
in jail to effect their escape. By some
means they procured a chisel aud succeeded
in cutting a hole through the floor of the
cell in which they were confined. The Sher
iff discovered the shavings or bits of wood
on the floor beneath them, and took meas
ures to prevent further attempts in a like
manner. He will aliow no one to enter the
jail now unless he is fully satisfied that they
carry no concealed weapons.”
Covington Star: “A correspondent writes
that a great deal of cotton still remains in
the field lc the southern part of Newton
end the upper part of Jasper counties, and
that the low price at which it now sells will
cause much of it to remain in the field and
rot, as it will hardly pay to gather it. This
Is extremely unfortunate, aud ought to be a
lesson to those who still persist in raising
all cotton to the exclusion of grain.”
Columbus Times : “Last Monday night the
gin house of Mr. W. H. Thompson, living
near Cataula, Harris county, was burned by
an incendiary. The gin house and its con
tents, consisting of six bales of cotton, up
ward of 990 bushels of cotton seed, 30 bush
els of seed oats and a wheat thrasher were
totally consumed. As usual there was no
insurance on the property, thus entailing a
severe loss to a worthy citizen. The fire at
tracted the family, and leaving their resi
dence, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Ward-
law, who was there on a visit, they repaired
to the scene of the conflagration. On re
turning they encountered a negro with
a large Saratoga trunk, just stolen from the
residence. Mr. Wardlaw tried to arrest the
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1878.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
scoundrel, butthe negro, dropping the trunk,
attempted to kill him, ana at last made
good his escape. Mr. Thompson and Mr.
Wardlaw, however, had time to recognize
the negro, and he has 6ince been arrested.
He confesses to breaking in the house and
stealing the trunk, but denies being privy
to the burning of the gin house. He accuses
two other negroes of setting fire to the gin
house, who were also arrested on yesterday.
It is to be hoped that a condign punishment
awaits these fire-fiends.”
Buena Vista Angus: “ One day last week
Mrs. Sophronla La whom, who lives about
five miles south of town, narrowly escaped
a sudden and awful death. She was assist
ing in the grinding of sugar cane, and while
passing the end of the mill was caught be
tween the lever and the mill. Before she
could recover from her danger, her head
was caught between the lever and the fram
ing and received some severe and serious
injuries. From the rear portion of the
temple backward her head was badlv
mashed. It was thought for some time
that her skull was fractured. Though the
skull was not broken she has suffered great
ly from the severe bruising and enlargement
of the head.”
Cedartown Record: “The sale of the
Cherokee Railroad at Cartersville several
days since, we understand, was bogus on
the part of the receivers, with the view of
making our townsman, A. G. West, bid it
off at thirty thousand dollars. He saw the
trick and would not bid but twenty-five
thousand, and, although the road was after
wards offered him at thirty thousand, he
would not take It, and says he intends to fall
five thousand every time the sale takes
place, and does not intend that any such
trick shall be played on him. Mr. West can
do without the road, and so can Cedartown.
So all such penny efforts on the part of the
receivers are a failure. If the road was put
up and fairly sold at a reasonable figure Mr.
West would probably purchase and soon put
it in good running order, making it of some
value, while now it is almost worthless and
a running sore to Cherokee Georgia.”
Thomson (McDuffie county) Journal :
“Wednesday last a number of tramps ap
peared In Thomson, among them an old
man and woman, and a young man and wo
man. The women went around town and
begged enough change to buy a pint of al
cohol, to which they added branch water,
and then all hands got drunk. They then
marched up the railroad about a mile,
stopped at a negro’s house and soon got into
a general fight. The young man, who was
a Dutchman named O’Rieley from county
Cork, did most of the fighting. He bunged
up the old man’s face, eyes and nose, and
knocked the old woman’s countenance into
sausage meat. At first it was thought
that the man was killed, and a large crowd
of citizens collected at the house. The old
woman’s lip was split to the end of her
chin, and when they picked her up she was
cussing in two languages. Dr. Durham
sewed it up with a needle and thread, mak
ing a job which all agreed was neat, but uot
gaudy. Then they took O’Rielcv, bent him
across a log and fanned him with pine tops
and barrel staves till he promised to get re
ligion at the next station and never be seen
in Georgia again. When they let him up he
called to Mrs. O’Rieley, and together they
started to the Legislature. In a few hours
the ma^hed-up couple were started iu the
.ame direction.”
LETTER FROM OUR TRAVELING
CORRESPONDENT.
Decatur Counly Fair—Second Day—
Tlie Weather aid the Crowd-
Some Displays.
Bainbridge, November 20.—Eldar Morn
ing Sews: The Decatur Agricultural Society
is yet in its youth, and while not full grown
it has shown wonderful elements of charac
ter. It has taken hold of matters iu real
earnest, and deserves success, whether that
boon crowns its efforts at this exhibition or
not.
Colonel B. B. Bower is President of the
association, and is demonstrating the feasi
bility as well as the utility of a county fair.
He brings to bear both talent and tact in
conducting the exhibition, and notwith
standing the untoward circumstances sur
rounding the fair, and which greatly em
barrass, yet he is going to make a success
out of this their first effort. He, of course, is
cordially sustained by an intelligent board
of directors aud the untiring efforts of Sec
retary Kwilecki.
The sun came out bright and cheer
ful this morning, bringing gladness
and hope to everybody that we were
to have a splendid time. But by 10
o’clock the heavens were again overcast
with clouds, and although no rain has
fallen, yet the gloominess of the day has
had a depressing effect upon the people It
looks like it might rain any moment. Many
are hesitating about taking their articles out
to the grounds. However, there has been a
great improvement iu the appearance of the
halls since yesterday. More stock is going
in and the stalls are all filled.
In consequence of the ram there was no
races on yesterday. They are advertised
for to-day at 2 o’clock. On to-morrow we
have the boat race, the military contest and
the tournament.
Mr. G. R. Moore, of the Attapulgus
district, seems to lead all others in
the agricultural display. There are
others from the same section who have
brought articles, but they are not yet ar-
Rhnged. This department is not as ample
as it should be, nor as well patronized as
the people had a right to expect. I hope it
will improve, for Decatur county has
capacity for a better show than is here
made.
Iu the domestic department Mrs. W. H.
Crawford leads all others In the number of
entries. Her display of wines, pickles,
jellies and preserves is most excellent.
Mrs. M. E. SweariDgen exhibits forty-
nine articles in the domestic department*
and the display in this line, if articles for
exhibition continue to come in to-day as on
yesterday, will only be excelled by the
Thomasville Fair in this State.
In this department Mrs. T. J. Young, of
Thomasville, steps in with just half the
number of entries that 6he had at Thomas
ville, and makes one of the most attractive
displays in the entire building. She has
over one hundred and fifty different articles
on exhibition here. She is the only ex
hibitor from Thomasville that 1 have yet
discovered.
Mrs. Henry Herd, an old friend, and
quite an elderly lady, has made twelve
entries of crochet work, and some ot it is
exceedingly handsome.
There are two bedquilts, nicely made,
by two little girls, one ten and the other
twelve years of age. They hang to the
left of the front door, and elicit much com
mendation.
I was much pleased In passing through
the stock department to find so many
colts. There is a larger number of colt6
in proportion to the stock exhibited than
there was at the Thomasville fair, and there
are some very fine ones among the lot.
There is a chestnut sorrel colt from Mitch
ell count}' which for beauty of form aud
trimness of limb would be hard to excell
anywhere.
The Art Department is not as largely
patronized as it might be. The contest
seems to be between the juvenile artists,
Willie Wardell and Percy Campbell. There
are many points of excellence in their pen-
cilings.
There is a remarkable hen on exhibition
of the.common breed. She is owned by
Henry Siddens, a colored man. Since the
first of April she has hatched three broods
of chickens, the second coming off on the
15th of June and the third about the mid
dle of October. She is here with her three
broods, numbering in all about forty chick
ens. Henry certainly is entitled to the blue
ribbon as a chicken raiser.
There is but one merchant making any
display, aud that is Mr. J. Steininger, of
Bainbridge. The arrangement of the goods
is very artistic and handsome.
The Davis sewing machine makes a dis
play under the supervision of I. M. Rosen-
field.
The floral display is quite attractive and
full.
Mr. Beach has on exhibition two of
his celebrated buggies,manufactured in Bain
bridge. They are handsomely finished, and
this gentleman’s work has a reputation of
lasting longer and doing more service than
any imported buggies ever brought to this
country. They are as elegantly finished as
any I have seen during my round at the
fairs, save one, that of W. W. Collins,
manufactured at Macon.
SIDE NOTES.
Our friend Russell, of the Democrat, pub
lishes a neat Fair Bulletin every day. He is
all attention to the wants of the members
of the press in attendance upon the fair.
The irrepressible Blocker is here, with
note book and pencil. He struck tent near
the cemetery, aud eats his own hash. We
have been endeavoring to get an invitation
to dine with him, but he is not entertaining
any one now.
Major Stegall, of Thomasville, came over
on yesterday to superintend the races and to
instruct the boys in—in astronomy.
Col. S. F. Jenkins, of the Atlanta South
ern Enterpriie, is here looking after the in
terests of his paper. He also has on exhi
bition some specimens of his Southern Geor
gia raised apples.
Col. Gentry, of the Savannah News, and
W. W. McKown, of the Albany Advertiser,
are hsre. No other newspaper men are on
the ground that I know of.
Jack Plane.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
WAR VIRTUALLY DECLARED
AGAINST AFGHANISTAN.
The British Troops Cross the Afghan
Frontier.
CONGRESSIONAL OPPOSITION TO THE
PERUVIAN MINISTRY.
A Duel Between MM. Gambetta and
DeFonrton.
Foreign Notes.
WAR VIRTUALLY DECLARED BY GREAT
BRITAIN.
London, November 21.—The dispatch
from Lord Cranbrook, Secretary of State
for India, to Lord Lytton, Viceroy of India,
is a document of the highest importance.
It is a summary of the papers which Lord
Beaconsfield, in his letter to Lord Law
rence, proposed should be distributed
before the end of the month, and is at once
an indictment of the frontier policy of Mr.
Gladstone’s administration, a defense of the
policy of the present government, and a re
ply to the anti-war agitation of the Afghan
Committee. Its promulgation is equivalent
to a formal declaration of a state of war and
the causes thereof.
A QUIET STATE OF AFFAIRS.
London, November 21.—There is no ex
citement in the city over this morning’s
news. The precincts of the Stock Exchange
and the Bank of England are quieter than
usual. Dealings iu the house are very re
stricted, and prices rather firmer than at
yesterday’s closing, which is the conse
quence of the bank rate of discount. There
seems to be still a lingering impression
among speculators that the Ameer may sub
mit wheu he knows that the British troops
are actually in motion.
The Paris bourse opened weak. Rentes
unchanged. Speculative stocks a trifle
easier than were indicated by last evening’s
boulevard prices.
MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN PERU ENDED.
Panama, November 12.—The United
States steamer Alaska arrived on the 11th.
All are well.
In Peru, the Ministerial crisis is at an end,
but the effect upon the business interests of
the country are not so cheering as was
anticipated. The newly appointed Ministers
are men of ability and some experience,
but their hands are tied while Congress Is in
session. That sapient body places every
possible obstacle iu the way of the govern
ments aud it is impossible for the Ministers
to act energetically and independent!}'.
A BLOODLESS DUEL.
London. November 21.—A dispatch from
Paris published here this afternoon says
that a duel with pistols between M. Gam
betta and M. DeFourton, arising out of a
passage in the Chamber of Deputies on the
18th instant, when the latter was unseated,
will be fought to-day at Hautes Bruyeres.
Paris, November 21.—The report of a
duel between Gambetta and DeFourton to
day is confirmed. It was fought at thirty-
five paces. Only one exchange of shots was
had. Neither was hurt.
THE INDIAN COUNCIL NOT CONSULTED.
London, November 21.—The Daily News
declares that the statement published yes
terday by the Ventral Sacs, to the effect that
the Indian Council had been summoned to
consider an important dispatch from Iudia,
which was received on the 19th inst., at the
Indian offices in London, was unfounded.
The Sews adds: “The Indian Council have
never been consulted or had an opportunity
for expressing any opinion in respect to the
Afghan question.”
THE FIRST STROKE OF THE AFGHAN WAR.
Bombay, November 21.—The Times of
India publishes a special from Thai, dated
to-day, which announces that the British
troops occupied Fort Kapion without resist
ance, the Afghans retiring hurriedly before
them. [Note.—Fort Kapion, or Kapyanga,
is a station beyond the frontier line opposite
Thai, or Thull. Its abandonment or sur
render was anticipated.]
A BOMB THROWN INTO A CROWD.
Pisa, November 21.—During ademonstra-
tion of students and citizens last evening in
celebration of Queen Margareta’s birthday,
a bomb thrown into the crowd exploded,
but without serious result. The persons
who are supposed to have thrown the
missile have been arrested.
PAYMENT OF THE FISHERY AWARD.
London, November 21.—Mr. Welsh, the
United States Minister, to-day paid over to
Her Majesty’s Government the amount of
the fishery award by a draft, upon Messrs.
Morton, Rose & Co., for $5,500,000.
EVENING TELEGRAMS,
THE BRITISH INVASION OF AF
GHANISTAN.
Camp Equipage Ordered for the Brit
ish Army in Africa.
PROTEST ACCOMPANYING THE PAY
MENT OF THE HALIFAX AWARD.
FURTHER NEWS FROM THE GA.V-
BETTA-DE FO URTON D UEL.
Death Warrants Read to the Potts-
villc Molly Maguires.
SUCCESSFUL REVENUE RAIDS IN
ALABAMA.
Foreign and Domestic in a tier*.
PROTEST ACCOMPANYING THE PAYMENT OF
THE HALIFAX AWARD.
Washington, November 21.—In pursu
ance of instructions from the Secretary of
State, the American Minister in London
tendered to the British Government, in the
person of Lord Salisbury, the sum of $5,500,-
000 gold, accompanying the payment with
the following communication. Receipt of
payment was acknowledged by Lord Salis
bury in due form :
Legation of the United States, Lon
don, November 21.— To My Lord: I have
been instructed by the President of the
United States to tender to Her Majesty’s
Government the sum of $5,500,000 iu gold
coin, this being the sum named by two con
curring members of the Fisheries Commis
sion, lately sitting at Halifax, under au
thority imparted thereto by the treaty of
Washington, to be paid by the Government
of the United States to the Government of
Her Britannic Majesty.
I am also instructed by the President to
say that such payment is made upon the
ground that the Government of the United
States desires to place the maintenance of
good faith in treaties and the security and
value of arbitration between nations above
all question iu its relation with Her Britannic
Maj sty’s Government as with all other
governments. Under this motive the gov
ernment of the United States desires to sep
arate the question of withholding payment
from the considerations touching the obli
gation of this payment, which has been pre
sented to Her Majesty’s Government in the
correspondence, and which it reserves and
insists upon.
I am besides instructed by the President
to say that the Government of the United
States deems it of the greatest importance
to the common and friendly interests of
the two governments in all future treat
ment of any question relating to the North
American fisheries, that Tier Britannic
Majesty’s Government should be distinctly
advised that the Government of the United
States cannot accept the result of the Halifax
Commission as furnishing any just measure
of value of a participation by our citizens
in the in-shore fisheries of the British prov
inces, and it protests against the actual pay
ment now made as being considered by Her
Majesty's Government as in any sense an
acquiescence in such a measure or as war
ranting any inference to that effect.
[Signed] John Welsh.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief -signal Observer,
Washington, D. C., November 2L—Indica
tions for Friday:
In the South Atlantic States, partly cloudy
weather, frequent rains, warm southwest,
veering to colder northwest winds, followed
by rising barometer.
In the Middle Atlantic States, cloudy
weather, frequent rains, warm southeast,
shifting to colder northwest winds and fall
ing, followed by rising barometer.
In the Gulf States, clear or partly cloudy
weather, winds mostly northwest, stationary
or lower temperature and generally higher
pressure. _ ,, ..
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, partly
cloudy weather, areas of light rain, followed
by clearing weather, winds mostly north
west, stationary or lower temperature and
generally higher pressure.
that french duel and its causes.
Paris, November 2L—M. De Fourton,
in his defense before the Chamber, referred
to Gambetta’e recent speeches as favoring
the ostracism of all who are not old Repub
licans. Gambetta said : “That .is a false
hood.” On the demand of the President,
M. Grevy, Gambetta said: “I withdraw
the words, in deference to the rules of the
House.”
The official account of the meetlngwhich
took place at Plessis Picquet, not Haates
Bruyeres, signed by the principals and sec
onds, says that M. de Fourton. consider
Ing that Gambetta’s withdrawal did not
modify the offensiveness of the epi
thet, requested Deputies Blin de Bourdon
and Robert Mitchell to demand satisfaction.
Gambetta named Deputies Allain, Farge
and Clemencean as his seconds, and refused
to make any further withdrawal than that
borne on the official minutes. Fourton won
the choice of weapons and named pistols.
Both parties fired at the word and missed.
No further particulars have been received.
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Washington, November21.—Commodore
Shufeldt was to-day ordered to hoist his flag
on the Ticonderoga, at Norfolk, Ya.
A telegram to the Internal Revenue Office
to-day from Collector Rapine, at Montgom
ery! says: “The raiding party operating in
Calhoun and Cleburne counties had seized,
up to the 19th instant, seven still houses,
five copper stills, and eight thousand gal
lons of beer and mash, and had made several
arrests.”
Prominent officers here think that General
Sheridan will make a reply to Schurz’s re
cent communication concerning the man
agement of Indian affairs and fully state
the facts upon which he, Sheridan, pre
dicated his allegations.
The forthcoming naval report will show
that our navy Is well adapted to a peace
establishment, and even in case of a foreign
war ninety vessels for hostile purposes couid
at once be supplied.
THE BRITISH INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN.
London, November 21.—A special dis
patch to the Times from Calcutta says: “All
the columns have been ordered to cross the
frontier to-day. All telegrams detailiug the
movements or disposition of troops have
been stopped by the military authorities.”
The Globe's Lahore correspondent says:
“The British troops crossed the frontier
this morning.”
A special from Thull to the Standard says:
“The Tenth Hussars crossed the frontier at
3 o’clock this morning. They found Fort
Kapiyanga abandoned. General Roberts’
force at once moved forward on Fort Ali-
medyishams, five miles further up the val
ley.”
AFFAIRS IN THE BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
Halifax, November 21.—The officers and
men of the Black Prince have received or
ders to sail for Portsmouth, England, as
soon as the festivities attending the arrival
of the Vice Regal party In Halifax are end
ed. It was thought here that the Duke of
Edinburgh would proceed to Ottawa, while
the rest of the party would remain, but it is
now improbable that he will go at all, or if
he should go, his stay will be very short.
It is expected that His Royal Highness will
be promoted from the rank of Captain to
that of Admiral immediately after his ar
rival in the old country.
SUIT AGAINST EX-COLLECTOR WORTHINGTON.
Washington, November 21.—Suit was
entered to-day by District Attorney Wells,
for the United States, againstfll. G. Worth
ington, late Collector of the port of Charles
ton, S. C., as principal, and Hardy Solomon,
S. C. Dunn, T. B. Johnston, W. J. McKin
ley, Wm. Gurney, Casper Bart, Angelo
Conale, Robert Howard, John Hanlon and
Alexander R. Shepherd, as sureties on the
bond of Worthington in $20,000. The
amount of the alleged defalcation on which
the suit is brought is $1,815.
ROBBERY AND BURGLARY.
Cincinnati, November 21.—A special
dispatch says that A. W. Terrell, who was
returning from the country, was waylaid at
Anna station, Ohio, by highwaymen, and
robbed of three thousand dollars.
Another special says that burglars entered
the residence of Wm. Fanning, a farmer, at
Dearborn, Mich., Tuesday night, chloro
formed the entire household ana robbed the
premises. The following day the inmates
were discovered still asleep and were with
difficulty restored.
WAR SUPPLIES FOR TIIE AFRICAN ARMY OR
DERED.
London, November 21.—An order has
been unexpectedly received at the Royal
Arsenal at Woolwich for nearly one hun
dred tons of camp equipage for the army in
South Africa. The stores are now being
embarked for immediate dispatch.
A MEETING CALLED WITHOUT AUTHORITY.
New Haven, November 21.—Alexander
Troup, Secretary of the National Executive
Committee of the National party, says that
the call for a meeting of the National
Executive Committee in Washington on the
30th inst. is unauthorized by the officers of
the committee.
DEATH WARRANTS READ TO MOLLY MA
GUIRES.
Pottsville, Pa., November 21. —The
Sheriff this morning read to the notorious
Molly Maguire Chief, Jno. Kehoe, and to
Martin Bergine, the warrants for their
execution on the 18th prox. They displayed
no emotioQ.
MISS PARKER DEAD.
Lowell, Mass., November 21.—Hildreth
Parker, a, fourteen-year-old daughter of
Colonel Parker, late Postmaster at New
Orleans, died to-day.
HORSES ROASTED ALIVE.
Peoria, III., November 21.—The stables
of the Central City Horse Railroad Com
pany were burned last night. Thirty horses
were roasted alive.
THE GEORGIA lEGISLATURE.
THE ATTACK ON THE SILVER
DOLLAR.
What the Chairman of the House
Committee on Currency Says.
Judge Buckner, Chairman of the House
Committee on Banking and Currency,
told a reporter of the Washington Star
on Tuesday that no attack on the silver
dollar at the next session would be suc
cessful in his committee:
Star—Would any measure to limit the
coinage of silver pass?
Buckner—Never; no, never.
Star—Would a proposition to increase
the weight of the dollar be approved?
Buckner—No, sir. We will light for
the silver dollar and will not entertain
favorablv any measure hostile to it.
Star—Do you think then that free
coinage will "be secured by the silver ad
vocates?
Buckner—Yes, we will very likely
secure free coinage at the coming ses
sion.
Star—What do you think of the action
of the banks in demonetizing silver?
Buchner—They are simply inviting a
war against themselves and a defeat.
They cannot maintain the stand they have
taken as regards the silver dollar.
Star—Will there be war on the banks
at the next session?
Buckner—They have invited war and
will no doubt be hit at pretty hard. I
do not, however, expect that much will
be accomplished against them. We will
get through the House the bill to retire
their circulation and substitute green
backs therefor, but it will not pass the
Senate. The next Congress will, how
ever, have the national banks in their
power, and they may have to go.
Star—What do you think of the suc
cess of the bi-metallic standard?
Buckner—In view of the fact that
most foreign countries have taken a
stand against a standard of both silver
and gold and, in consideration of the
unsettled ratio between the two, it may
be doubtful whether the double standard
will be judicious. In case a singiestaDd-
ard must be adopted, I am in favor, de
cidedly in favor, of a single standard of
silver in preference to a gold one.
The Sultan of Turkey lately sent for a
Christian doctor of note at Constantino
ple, and when the latter arrived he found
the Sultan with a Bible in his hand.
“You are a Christian,” said the Sultan;
“swear to me upon this Bible that you
will tell 'the truth. I wish to know if
my luDgs are affected, or if I have any
other organic trouble.” The doctor took
the oath, and then sounding the Sultan’s
lungs, found them healthy, as also his
general system, except a tendency to
nervousness,for which horseback exercise
was prescribed.
The influx of immigrants is extraor
dinary for this period of the year, and
the indications are that immignition on a
large scale is beginning. Five steam
ships which arrived at New York Sun
day and Monday brought eight hundred
and eighty immigrants to Castle Garden.
Thirteenth Day's Proceedings—Ani
mated Discussion on the Bill to
Reduce Judicial Circuits—Great
Speeches by Adams and Turner on
the Election of Judges—Gordon
Elected Senator.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Nets*.
Atlanta, November 20.—After reading
of the journal by the Clerk, Mr. Wright, of
Richmond, moved that the rules be sus
pended and the bill for the reduction of
judicial circuits be taken up for considera
tion.
Mr. Matthews, of Talbot, opposed action
so early in the morning, as many members
were absent; but the motion was carried,
and Mr. Mynatt, of Fulton, opened the de
bate in opposition to reduction.
Mr. Yancey, of Clarke, replied to the
last speaker, and favored the passage of
the bill without further discussion or
amendment.
Mr. Hollis, of Marion, moved to amend
so as to change Marion county from one
circuit to another iu the bill; but his motion
was promptly voted down.
Mr. Colley, of Wilkes, opposed the bill
In a few terse and forcible arguments, and
was followed on the same line by Mr.
Strother, of Lincoln, and Mr. Hulsey, of
Fulton.
Mr. Fort, of Samter, for the member
from Lee, offered an ’amendment changing
Lee county to the proposed Fifth Circuit.
Lost—yeas 55, nays 70.
Mr. Anderson^ of Pulaski, called the
previous question, and Mr. King, of Floyd,
from the committee, claimed the right to
close the debate. Mr. Miller, of Houston,
denied the right, but the Speaker ruled
tbat the claim of Mr. King was well
founded.
Mr. King then made an earnest appeal
for the passage of the bill on the score of
economy, and the report of the committee
favoring the passage of the bill was adopted
—yeas 5), nays 74. On call of roll the bill
was lost, the yeas being 86 and the nays 73.
The new constitution requires 88 yeas for
the passage of any bill, and in future cases
the same difficulty will occur.
On motion the communication of the
Governor, covering the report of the State
Military Board, was read and referred to the
Military Committee.
Mr. Wright, of Richmond, called up the
report in regard to the Senate resolution as
to what officers are to be elected by the
General Assembly.
During the discussion of this subject, Mr.
Wright, from the Committee on Joint Rules
for the government of the two branches of
the General Assembly when in joint session,
made a report, which, on motion, \
adopted.
Mr. Alston, Chairman of the Penitentiary
Committee, asked that several new names
be added to that committee, as there were
fifteen convict camps to be visited.
The hour of twelve o’clock having ar
rived, the Senate came in and the joint ses
sion provided for by act of Congress was
held. President Lester presided, and in
due form the vote of the Senate and that
of the House was announced, and Hon.
John B. Gordon declared elected United
States Senator from Georgia for the term of
six years. The announcement was greeted
with applause from the House and the
galleries, after which the Senate retired.
Mr. B. M. Davis, of Houston, then re
sumed tne debate iu regard to what offi
cers are to be elected, favoring the minority
report.
Mr. King, of Floyd, replied in favor of
the majority report, which recommends the
election of Judges to fill vacancies in the
Atlanta, Macon and Southwestern circuits.
Mr. Adams, of Chatham, made one of his
most eloquent and forcible speeches in op
position to Mr. King, aud claiming that va
cancies are to be filled only in the Pataula
and Flint circuits. Some parts of his able
argument were remarkably beautiful and
chaste, aud delivered with great impressive
ness. A splendid basket of flowers placed
upon his desk no doubt made his speech
more flowery than it would have been in the
absence of this source of inspiration. Mr.
Adams replied with promptness and vigor
to all interruptions, and defended the
wrong side of the question with unabated
zeal.
Mr. Livingston, of Newton, called the
previous question, which call was sustained,
and Mr. Turner, of Brooks, Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, closed the debate in a
very able manner, defending the majority
report as in strict accord with the new con
stitution.
The majority joint report was then adopt
ed, which, as amended by the House, brings
on the election of J udges at 12 o’clock to
morrow. Senator Howell and Representa
tive Adams made a gallant fight for the mi
nority report, but failed of success.
SENATE PROCEEDINGS.
The Senate refused to concur in the House
amendment to the local legislation bill al
lowing notices to be posted on court house
doors in counties where no paper is pub
lished.
The Senate adopted the House resolution
to destroy old election returns, but amend
ed it 60 as to burn them quadrenially.
The bill regulatiug the striking of juries
in civil cases of misdemeanor, and a bill in
regard to trespassers, etc., were passed.
A bill to make effective paragraph 9, sec
tion 4, article 6, of the new constitution, in
regard to trials where Judges are disquali
fied, was amended, discussed and laid on
the table for the present, In the absence of
Senator Harrison.
A bill to pompensate members of county
boards ot education was amended, discuss
ed and finally lost for want of a constitu
tional majority.
The following bills were read the third
time and passed, after which the Senate ad
journed to the House for joint session:
A bill to fill vacancy in the office of Gov-
ornor as amended. A bill to foreclose land
lord’s liens, amendment to section 1978 of
Code. A bill providing for county elec
tions for school taxation, after amending to
resident freeholders. A bill prescribing
the manner of allowing insolvent lists of tax
collectors as amended.
The Senate finds the same difficulty that
the House has encountered in getting a con
stitutional majority on a call of yeas and
nays, as required, to pass a bill. It can
only be done in a full house, unless the mea
sure be a popular one. Chatham.
The Widow Meservey was found mur
dered in St. George, Maine. Her lonely
house had been closed for five weeks, and
the neighbors bad supposed tbat she was
away on a visit; but at last the neighbors
broke in and found her remains. She
had been choked to death by a robber,
after a bard struggle. Nathan F. Hart
was soon arrested as the murderer. The
evidence against him was, in bnef, that
he told of dreaming of the murder before
the crime was known; that he saW the
woman’s hood had been used to strangle
her before tbat fact had been made
public, and that a long letter sent to the
District Attorney from Philadelphia,
purporting to come from the murderer
and to give a circumstantial account of
the crime, was in his handwriting. The
latter point was the strongest of all
against the prisoner, and was established
by the testimony of experts, who com
pared the chirography with that of a log
book ^represented as written by him.
Hart was convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment. That was about a year
ago. Now A. R. Dunton, a Boston
chirographic expert of wide celebrity,
who was the chief witness for the prose
cution, publishes a statement calculated
to clear Hart and to fix the crime on
Captain Meservey, a brother-in law of
the murdered woman. Dunton claims
to have discovered that the part of the
log book in the same handwriting as that
of the letter was the work of Captain
Meservey, who palmed it off as Hart’s.
Grave Robbers in Ciiicago — A
special dispatch to the New York Times,
from Chicago, November 17, says: “The
first case of grave robbery this year, in
this immediate vicinity, came to light
late yesterday. A negro named Samuel
Johnson anti a white man, Frank R.
Brown, son of Dr. S. P. Brown, of
Elgin, Ill., were arrested and ac
knowledged that they had brought with
them to this city from Elgin the body of
a man who had committed suicide. They
had robbed the grave during the night.
A body found at the Chicago Homeo
pathic College by the police was taken
to the morgue, and upon examination it
was found to be that of a woman. The'
resurrectionists confessed that it was the
body they brought in, but said they had
made a mistake and opened the wrong
S ave. The corpse was that of a Mrs.
ina R. Schraeder, of Hanover, Cook
county. Ill., who died from injuries re
ceived in consequence of a fall from a
buggy. Young Brown is a graduate of
Rush Medical College, Chicago, and a
practising physician in Elgin. He say9
lie had arranged with Prof. Pratt, of the
Chicago Homeopathic College, to bring
in bodies and was‘to receive twenty-five
dollars a piece for them.”
MR. HAYES’ POLICY.
What .Hr. Evarts Thinks About the
Political Condition or the South.
Washington special to the Baltimore Sun, 19th.
Secretary Evarts has had an important
interview with the editor of the National
Republican in exposition of the Presi
dent’s policy. The editor said the peo
ple are beginning to think that the much-
derided bayonet rule is, after all, the best
Southern policy. 31**. Evarts answered:
“They are now assured that the Presi
dent is doing everything in his power to
vindicate the laws and maintain the in
tegrity of the government. That should
satisfy them, and I believe it does.”
The Editor—“Yes, there is a general
feeling of relief at the recent change in
the President’s policy.”
Mr. Evarts—“There you fall into a
popular error, and use a popular phrase
illustrative of the methods of political
managers, but not applicable to the pres
ent administration in the conduct of its
official affairs. President Hayes has
never surrendered, abandoned or changed
any policy, because he has never had any
to change. The equality or parity of
the States, all the States, was reinstated
when he came into office. The same ad
ministrative functions were to be per
formed in all of them tinder the rehabili
tated condition of things. The results
of the war had been embodied in the
constitutions of the Southern States and
that of the General Government, as well
as in their laws, ana reconstruction was
an accomplished fact. The troops had
been, or were very soon thereafter, with
drawn from the South, and there was no
occasion for especial or particularizing
methods differing iu one section from
those employed in another. The Con
stitution of the General Government was
and is yet his only guide, and
you will admit that being con
trolled by that document could not be
properly described as being controlled
by a policy. Nor were his endeavors
in the nature of an experiment, unless
it is an experiment to adhere closely to
constitutional requirements. It is true
that he treated the Southern leaders in a
friendly spirit, believing tbat they were
in earnest in their profession of a deter
mination to preserve the integrity of
American citizenship in their respective
States. But the first election has passed
and the discovers that his tru9t has been
betrayed; that is to say, that the South
ern leaders will not or have not been
able to keep their pledges. They were
the natural and legal representatives of
the Southern people here at the capital,
and the proper persons officially and
otherwise with wnom he should have
consulted legarding Southern affairs. So
you see even his consultations with them
were not in the nature of an experiment.”
Editor—“But he appointed Democrats
to office on their recommendation.”
Mr. Evarts—“Dd he? Well I do
wish some one would take the trouble to
make up a list of his Southern Demo
cratic appointments, and then the public
would understand exactly how much
truth there is in that charge. ”
Editor—“There was Fitzsimons. ’
Mr. Evarts—“Yes; there was Fitzsi-
mons, as y®u say. Now, let me tell you,
I appointed one Democrat from Georgia,
Hilliard, to be Minister to Brazil; that
was the end of it, of such appointments
I mean, so far as I was concerned, as I
intended it should be; and then the
President appointed Fitzsimons to be
United States Marshal in Georgia. But
Hilliard and Fitzsimons are like Fall-
staff’s men in buckram—they have been
exaggerated into an unlimited number.”
Editor—“How will the Southern
leaders feel now towards the President
in view of his expressed intention to
vigorously prosecute some of their fol
lowers?”
Mr. Evarts—“That is not a question
which can have any weight with the
President. You may rest assured, how
ever, that the exertions now being made
to execute the laws will be controlled
by men who are in sympathy with those
laws.”
Editor—“That means that the laws
will be enforced by Republicans?”
Mr. Evarts—Precisely. No man who
is reluctant to obey the instructions of
the administration regarding the punish
ment or prosecution of the perpetrators
of these outrages in the South will be
trusted in the performance of that duty.
To be vigorous in the performance of
such an important duty the official must
be in close and earnest sympathy with
the underlying motives which inspire its
direction and disclose its necessity.”
Editor—“And after all, Mr. Secretary,
those prejudiced juries will settle these
matters. ”
Mr. Evarts—“But how are you going
to avoid that? The law interferes to
prevent its own complete execution, and
the Constitution, which guarantees pro
tection to its subjects, also contains pro
visions which enable the States in their
sovereign capacities to take supreme con
trol of those subjects or citizens under
certain contingencies. Of course it will
be the duty of the administration to
avoid those contingencies as far as possi
ble, and it may succeed, as the govern
ment did in many of the Ku-Klux cases
tried in 1872-73. I expect, however,
that the most earnest endeavor will be
made to the punishment of the perpe
trators of those atrocities. No words
that I can command are strong enough
to depict those atrocities in their true
light. They are horrible beyond de
scription, depraved and noxious.”
Editor—“And from what causes do
these atrocities proceed?”
Mr. Evarts—“There is no use denying
the fact that the Southern people have
suffered greatly, the Southern whites I
mean, from the sudden bouleversement
of their social system or fabric, the sud
den interjection into their voting aggre
gate of an element of ignorance and the
consequent domination of uneducated
and inexperienced power in their politi
cal affairs. It was perhaps a mistake
that this was done by the Republican
party of the North. But all this does
not justify murder and wholesale disre
gard of existing law.”
Editor—“Mr. Secretary, first came the
Abolition party, then the war, then
emancipation and then enfranchisement
for the blacks. It has been supposed
that the act of enfranchisement was ac
companied by a promise or guarantee of
protection.”
Mr. Evarts—“Very true, but we now
find it very difficult to keep that promise
of protection. It is because of this dif
ficulty that I have said it was perhaps a
mistake to enfranchise these ignorant or
inexperienced people in the way we did.
Nevertheless, the law is the law, and the
execution of it must follow as a matter
of duty, of patriotism and of stern ne
cessity.”
Editor—“You don’t expect, then, that
peace will be re-established in the South
in this day and generation?”
Mr. Evarts—“I confess I have had
my doubts on that point, but I think we
have made much progress, and that we
have reason to hope. In Virginia, North
Carolina and Tennessee and some other
Southern States this violence which dis
graces South Carolina and Louisiana has
spent its force, and we have comparative
ly fair elections, as fair, for example, as
they have in New York city, which I
have always considered a very nursery
of corruption. Now, what you call the
South, meaning all the lately rebellious
States wherein outrages occur habitually
in election campaigns, I call a compara
tively small strip here and there along
the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. In the
two States I have mentioned the great
trouble lies. In the others, as I have
said, matters have settled down into
comparative quiet.”
Editor—“And this partial success you
maintain would not or could not have
been accomplished under what was
known as bayonet rule of the previous
administration ?”
Mr. Evarts—“I have not described it
as bayonet rule or anything of the kind,
for I know that the bayonet was perhaps
necessary so long as reconstruction was
in progress. We had conquered the re
bellion, and were replacing it with civil
government. It could have been done
in no other way, especially as regards
the establishment of black suffrage. But
the idea of force, however empty it may
have been, was repugnant to our people
in the North and all over the country. It
was natural that the copperhead sympa
thies of the Southern Confederates in the
North should make headway in that
section for the Democracy by their con
stant use of such an idea in our cam
paigns; it was also natural that any
party having been in existence for
nearly twenty years, as the Republican
party has, should begin to lose its hold
upon the people. This was the situation
at the beginning of the present adminis
tration, and i consider it providential
that matters have since then shaped
themselves so as to take this obnoxious
question of force out of politics. When
it was taken out the idea of sectional ad
ministration was also eliminated, and
what is the result? Here we have the
South consolidated against us, it is true,
but Southern influences are losing ground
m the North where they were gaining
ground before. The Republican party
has most assuredly been the gainer, and
its gains now are certain. They are as
sured for all time to come. Confederate
encroachment, as you call it, has been
circumscribed, and there are reasons, cer-
tainiies I might say, for the belief that
the Republican party will maintain its
supremacy in the government for a long
time to come.”
A Yale of Tragedies.
London Globe.
Only two or three miles from Mentone,
in a valley traversed by the famous Cor-
nici road, there is a spot which the
Debate describes in eloquent and pathetic
terms. It is “isolated, wild, far removed
from any animated centre. Only a few
stunted pines grow up from the clefts in
the slaty rock. The aridity of the place
is complete. A horrible silence reigns
in it which is hardly interrupted by the
cries of ill-omened birds or by the cracks
of the muleteer’s whips as they pass
along the road. Here nature is dead and
the abrupt gorges around justify the
lugubrious purposes for which the spot
has been chosen.” For this is the valley
called Mortola, and here it is thar. the
affairs of honor of the nigliboring
French heroes are decided with the aid
of sword or pistol. “Can any reader,”
asks the Debuts, “guess what dramatic
scene has lately been enacted in this
valley?” Evidently not; and then fol
lows a touching description of the terri
ble tragedy. Two young men, inhabi
tants of Nice, and once intimate
friends, but “separated by the ardent
passion which each of them had for a
lady,” had agreed to have a hostile meet
ing with pistols in the lugubrious valley
already described. They met, and had
for some time been discharging their
firearms at one another without any in
convenient result, when they were
startled by the tolling of the neighboring
chapel bell. They interrupted their
terrible work and began to meditate
upon the wickedness of angry passions.
“Then appeared upon the scene an un
expected witness. It was the clergyman
of the aforesaid chapel,” whose counsels
promptly reconciled the two quondam
friends, and who, as it appears, has re
conciled many pairs of duelists in the
same way. As soon as the report of fire
arms rings through the valley of death
the good man always sets his bell tolling
aud hurries to the scene. One is tempted
to think that this humane practice is
pretty well known at Nice and some
other places, and that the pugnacious
young blades who repair to the Mortola
Valley are not always so mightily sur
prised to hear the sound of the chapel
bell and to see the “unexpected witness”
appear on the scene. There must, how
ever, very often be an anxious period of
suspense while the first few shots are
being exchanged, lest a too clumsy cham
pion should chance to hold his pistol
straight and shoot his adversary incon
tinently before the “benefit of clergy” is
obtained.
Growth of Southern Manufac
tures.—The South is destined to be a
great manufacturing centre, and noth
ing contributes more to make this ap
parent than the progress already made
and the growing anxiety of New Eng
land cotton manufacturers lest the South
should overshadow that section in cotton
manufactures. The Philadelphia North
American has referred to this subject
solely for the purpose of reading a lec
ture on the necessity for maintaining a
prohibitory tariff and the South’s alleged
interest m that process. The Southern
manufacturers do not demand a continu
ance of the protective tariff. Judging
by the condition of the iron industry in
Pennsylvania, which has been subsidized
by the government and “protected” to the
absolute exclusion of foreign iron, there
is positive reason to war against the pro
tection policy which has accomplished
such melancholy results. “Few of our
large manufacturing houses are as strong
as they were eight years ago,” says the
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, and then
it deplores the closing of many manu
facturing establishments. When the
Southern States manufacture cotton
goods very largely, as they will some
day, they will supply Mexico, Central
America, Brazil and the West Indies,
and the only way they will get that trade
will be to invite these countries to ex
change products, a process now obstruct
ed by the peculiar tariff legislation since
1802.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
A singular Nihilist tragedy, in which
a peasant girl plays a prominent part,
has recently startled Odessa. Two broth
ers belonging to a family of small landed
proprietors, Enkouvatoff by name, were
so much attached to each other that they
could not live apart. For this reason,
perhaps, when the elder, Pimen, joined
a Nihilist society, the younger, Dometi,
did the same. The Enkouvatoffs be
longed to the nobility, but that did not
prevent Pimen from marrying a peasant
girl. Unhappily, Dometi sympathized
so entirely with timen that he conceived
a violent passion for the latter’s wife,
and showed pertinacity in his attentions
to his sister-in-law. The involuntary
cause of all this trouble was devoted to
her husband, who naturally should have
turned his brother out of the house. Pi
men, however, still allowed Dometi to
live with him; and, to assuage his jeal
ousy, censented even to live apart from
his wife, and to “treat her,” as the re
port of the tria} puts it, “like a sister.”
One night Pimen was awakened by his
wife running into his room and crying
out that Dometi, armed with a razor, was
about to attack him. She was followed
by the infuriated Dometi, brandishing a
razor; and Pimen, in self-defense, took
up the revolver which every Nihilist
seems to have at hand, and shot his
brother through the heart.
A Remarkable Career.—John
O’Conor, late member of the Ohio Leg
islature, who was arrested in Dayton,
Ohio, Saturday, on the charge of forging
a pension certificate, has, according to a
dispatch to the New York Herald, had a
most remarkable career. He entered the
army at fourteen, and became notorious
as a bounty jumper. At the close of the
war he became associated with a gang of
thieves, and in blowing open a safe re
ceived wounds that marked him for life,
and wgu for him the soubriquet of
“Three Fingered Jack.” Within the past
ten years he has served three years in the
State penitentiary for highway robber}-;
has obtained admittance to the National
Soldiers’ Home by alleged forged papers;
received a pension from the government
for injuries contracted while connected
with a gang of thieves, and by means of
alleged forged certificates; has represen
ted Ohio in the Legislature, with atten
dant honors, for part of a term, and has
now a fair prospect of returning to the
penitentiary for a still longer period.
Announcing His Master* Death.—
A telegram from Springfield, O.. Novem
ber 15, says: “Robert5litchell, a wealthy
farmer, who lives north of this city, was
to-day riding a favorite black horse.
While crossing a bridge the horse became
frightened at some loose planks, reared
ana threw his rider on his head, breaking
his neck. The horse returned to his
master’s home and by his conduct alarm
ed the family, who followed him to where
Mr. Mitchell lay dead.”
The Plot.
Wilmington Star.
The fact that such bitter, uncompro
mising partisans and unscrupulous bull
dozers as Zach Chandler and Cameron
have the ear of the President is a very
suspicious circumstance, and bodes no
good to the country. We have already
published some interesting letters from
the careful correspondent of the Balti
more Sun. It is quite apparent from
what he says that mischief is brewing in
the White House, and the fraudulent
President is listening with a charmed
ear to the evil whisperings of very de
praved and designing men. The letters
from Washington to the Philadelphia
Press, Radical and to the Times, Inde
pendent, and indeed to other papers, all
show that the President is yielding to
the persuasions of the enemies of the
country, and is “ stiffening up ” in his
purposes to aid the waning fortunes of
the corruptest party known to civilization.
We have already briefly stated what
the chief aim of the conspirators was—
to capture the House of Representatives.
It is not to be believed for a moment
that Hayes and his crew would go to
bulldozing the South after the election
if there were no satanic plot to carry
out. The entire movement is made in
the interest of Radicalism; the sole end
in view is to steal the House as they
stole the Presidency. Old Zach Chan
dler was the chief agent in the former
theft, and now he is cheek-by-jowl with
him for whom he aided greatly in filch
ing the high office.
The Washington Post gives the plan
of the conspirators so far as it has been
discovered. According to that paper
the following is the plot by which the
corrupt fellows hope to accomplish their
wicked and devilish purposes:
“The modus operands is to be about as
follows: It is to be assumed that twelve
of fifteen districts in the South were car
ried by the Democrats through ‘intimida
tion’and ‘violence.’ Wholesale prosecu
tions against Democrats in these districts
are to be instituted in the Federal courts
under the operation of the bayonet act,
technically termed the Federal election
law; avalanches of negro affidavits are to
be gathered and poured all over the
North, through the columns of the Radi
cal press, to tire the Northern heart and
produce a popular feeling in that section
sufficiently bitter to tolerate and sustain
the revolutionary measure contemplated.
Then, the first Monday in December,
1879, the Republican members elect, sup
ported, if necessary, by the military
forces of the General Government, are to
take possession of the Hall of Represen
tatives, seat enough defeated South
ern Republicans to make up a legal
quorum, and proceed to organize the
House.
“We give this rumor as it comes to us
reiterating our expression of hope that it
may prove to be without foundation.”
The Post says that old Zach said the
other day that ‘ ‘the Democrats gave up
the Presidency rather than fight for it;
and, for his part, he didn’t believe they
would fight for the House of Repre
sentatives, if a dead set were made
against them!”
It would not be altogether safe to pre
sume upon either the cowardice or long
suffering of the Democrats. They might
take a notion in their heads to resist, and
then what? The Post says a failure to
seize the House might result in a resort
to hemp. Mr. Hayes might not be in
duced to go that far—to resort to armed
force in order to capture Congress. Then
again the Radicals are largely in the
minority in the Lnion. They have not a
majority in over Jive States. According to
the Post, “so far as can be gathered from
the incomplete returns at hand, not over
eighty out of the one hundred and thirty-
three Republican members elect repre
sent majorities of their constituents, the
other fifty-three standing upon the inse
cure footing of pluralities, in many cases
slender and in all cases falling far short
of majorities. The returns "show not
only that the one hundred and forty-eight
Democrats were chosen by a popular
majority of over half a million in the
aggregate, but also that the one hundred
and thirty-three Republicans were chosen
mainly by pluralities in triangular eon
tests, and represent on the whole a mi
nority of their constituents."
So stealing ihe House may become a
dangerous undertaking.
137 Broughton Street
(BETWEEN BULL AND WHITAKER.)
Low Rent, Light Expenses,
Cheap Roods.
Bargains in Every Department.
SPECIAL BARGAINS IN PRESS 8JKK5*
SPECIAL BARGAINS IN DUES*
SPECIAL BARGAINS IN DRESS GOODS.
Reduced pn
Life Insurance Decision,
The Supreme Court Commission of
Ohio, on November 13, rendered the
following decision:
No. 245. The Union Central Life In
surance Compary v*. Bernard and Catha
rine Pottker. Error to the Superior
Court of Cincinnati.
Scott, J., field;
1. \\ here by the terms of a policy of
life insurance, the non-payment of the
required annual premium at the designs
ted time is declared to be a ground of
forfeiture; but the uniform custom of
the insurance company has been to give
notice of the time when the premiums
fall due, and to collect the same at the
residence of the policy holder, through
a local agent residing in his neighbor
hood, good faith requires that this mode
of collection should not bo discontinued,
and payment required at the company’s
office, witfiout notice to the insured.
2. Where the insurance company, un
der such circumstances, with a view \o
avoid the policy, gives private instruc
tions to the local agent nut to give such
customary notices to the insured, and
not to tall on him, as usual, for the pay
ment of the premium, no right to declare
the policy forfeited arises from a default
in payment caused by such strategy and
bad faith.
3. Forfeitures are odious, and there
must be no cast of management or
trickery to entrap a party into a for
feiture.
4. If, in such case, the company
wrongfully declares the policy forfeited,
and refuses to accept tfie premium when
duly tendered, and to give the insured
the customary renewal receipt,evidencing
the continued life of the policy, the as
sured is, in equity, entitled to demand a
rescission of the contract, and a return
of the premiums paid thereon, with in
terest Irom the times of payment.
5. Where the judgment of an inferior *
coQrt is predicated upon a correct basis,
but is erroneously entered for too large
an amount, by reason of an arithmetical
miscalculation, such error may be cor
rected by a reviewing court by a proper
modification, and the judgment below be
in all other respects affirmed.
Judgment below modified by reducing
its amount to $268 89, tq which extent it
is affirmed.
Exciting Scene at a Fair.—At the
great Catholic fair in New York, Mon*
day evening, officer Ferris attempted to
arrest “Wes” Allen, a notorious pick
pocket, who wgs suspected of several
robberies during the fair, when the latter
ran hurriedly around a table toward a
bench, upon which sat Mrs. Allen, with
a baby in her arms, ana her sister. He
took 'the baby from his wife’s lap and
ran toward the aisle, pursued by Ferris.
Seeing that he could not escape, he
rushed up to officer Kennedy, who was
at the door, uniformed, and claimed his
protection. The officer, recognizing the
detective, seized Allen and dragged him
toward the entrance. The thief struggled
desperately, and attempted to draw a
pistol with one hand, while with the
other he retained fiis grip on the child as
a barrier against the. assault of Ferris.
The frightened cries of the two women—
Allen’s wife and a female companion—
when they saw the child between the
policemen and the struggling man,
created a momentary confusion, and a
clergyman entreated the officers to desist,
thinking it merely a personal difficultv.
Bythe united efforts of the policemen
“We9” was at length dragged outside the
building and made to submit.
A Singular Reservation.—W. V.
Tyler, a Whitehall (Michigan) confec
tioner, has fallen hair to $100,000 by the
death of an uncle in England; but ac
cording to the provisions of the will if
he does not many before becoming of
age the money is to go to the English
Church. Mr. Tyler is not quite twenty
years old.
Polite Attention ! No Importuning!
LADIES' ENGLISH BEAVER CLOAKS.
LADIES’ ENGLISH DIAGONAL CLOAKS.
Bargains in Every Department.
MATTALASSE FLANNELS, co’ors.
Black and Colored WATERPROOF CLOTHS.
CAMEL'S HAIR CLOTHS.
Cloaking*.
Sample*Chccrfallv Given; Compari
son with Ollier*’ Good* De*lred.
BLACK SILK WARP HENRIETTA CLOTHS.®
Lupin's All Wool FRENCH CASHMERES.
BLACK BARITZ CLOTHS.
BLACK SERGES.
BLACK AUSTRALIAN CREPE.
BLACK ALPACAS. ^ J
Other Mourning Goods.
Bargains in Every Department.
LADIES' MERINO UNDERVESTS.
GENTLEMEN S MERINO UN DER VESTS.
CHILDREN'S MERINO UNDER v ESTS.
CHILDREN 'S MERINO UNION SUITS.
Good articles tor low prices.
Blankets, Flannels, Sheetings*
Ladies' BALBRIGGAN HOSE, plain and fancy.
Children's French and English FANCY HOSE.
Gentlemen's plain and far cy HALF HOSE.
A splendid assortment.
Bargains in Every Department.
LADIES’ SILK BOWS and TIES.
FANCY NECK RIBBONS.
PLAIN and TWO-TONED RIBBONS.
All new style*.
B. F. HcKENKA & CO.
B. F. HeKEKNA & CO.
B. F. McKENNA & CO.
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Black Cashmeres!
Black Cashmeres!
YX70ULD call the attention ot intending pur
» i chasers to the following extraordinary
low prices in BLACK CASHMERES :
25 pieces full faced ENGLISH CASHMERES at
45c. a yard. These goods are 20 per cent,
under present value.
20 pieces full faced ENGLISH CASHMERE, 48
inches wide, at 65c. per yard, would bo
really cheap at 8(b. a yard.
10 pieces Lupin's 42 inch BLACK CASHMERE
at $1 00 per yard, regularly sold at $1 15.
All other grades up to $2 00 a yard, equally
cheap.
35 pieces CAMEL'S HAIR SUITINGS, 30 inche*
wide, at 30c. a yard, worth 40c.
40 pieces BELGRAVE SUITINGS at 30c. a yard,
cost 50c. to import.
10 pieces BELGRAVE SUITINGS. 48 inches
wide, at 60c. a yard, worth nearly double.
15 pieces SHOODA CLOTH. 1}4 yards wide, at
$1 00 per yard, value for $1 25.
100 pieces plain, striped and fancy DRESS
GOODS at 8J^c. a yard, would be cheap for
12j*c.
TAPISSIER’S, TELLARD'S and BELLON’9
BLACK SILKS for $1 I/O a y ard to $3 50.
300 pairs WHITE and GRAY' BLANKETS, from
$1 50 a pair to $20.
100 dozen Gents’ completely finished SHIRTS
at 90c., wou’d be cheap for $1 25.
150 dozen Gents’ 4-ply LINEN COLLARS at
SI 50 a dozen, sold elsewhere for ££ 00.
An examination of the stock, which will be
found replete in ail the leading makes of Goods
and at lower pric-s than they ever touched be
fore, is respectfully solicited.
DANIEL HOGAN.
hotels.
SCREVEA HOUSE,
SAVANNAH, GA.
CEO. W. SERGE NT.
This long ami favorably known House ia the
Leading First Class Hotel in Savannah
demonstrated by its receiving a majority of
the first class travel arriving in the city), is
pleasantly and centrally located on Mans
square, and has by its new prt prittor been
Thoroncbly Repaired. Repainted
*ud L ptiolntcred.
The table will be supplied with the best of
the home and Northern markets.
The races have been reduced to suit the time*.
Savannah, November 24, 1878. novlTlm
PLANTERS HOTEL,
SAVANNAH. GA.
S L tTSom H * ccomm <'dations aad polite at-
si OT arzmv oorr-
aflo h rds. menU COntAina “*« best the market
W'kll Furnished, Comfortable Rooms
KATES: $2 PEK BAY.
lo4£i Tb'.botel Is conveniently
SS^ Dtams *“ modem conveniences ^
sep23-tf JOHy EBMNAN.
Manager.
lookers.
JAMES BITER.
BROKER AND DEALER ]
Exchange, Bonds, Stocks,
—AND—
COIN,
(P. O. BOX 81). KO. 110 BRYAN STREET
r __ SAVANNAH, GA.
I made with nartlea
I a purchasing on margins 5S-cf
ESTABLISHED 1860.
RANDAL H. FOOTE, Ranker,
__ ,0 Broadw ay- New York,
HISS"Yo^T5£. r t t ? el 'n e * member of
dent of Sold B<S£?“ ' ice Presl-
experience is c,,nraii an 'l
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