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Georgia Affairs.
Mr. William T. Ilevill has temporarily re-
- L d from the editorial management of the
Meriwether Vindicator, and his mother will
during his absence assume control of the
editor of the Greenville Vindicator
i« that the persimmon crop is abundant,
,'j f d t 'possum ought to be coming in. It
: U( j s the farmers that such animals
f U n legal tenders for all dues to that
Rabbits are so plentiful in Oglethorpe
•ounty this year that little negroes hunt
I them with elubs.
The Bainbridge Democrat says the Savan
nah Weekly News is the best paper in the
South, none other excepted.
A drove of wild turkeys alighted within
the
the
•rporate limits of the town of Baiu-
une day last week. They must have
en attracted by the fair. When they left,
re was one fine gobbler missing, a victim
the marksmanship of a Bainbridge sports-
in. They forgot that Thanksgiving Day
was so near at hand.
The Apjjcal states that hard times have
hail no effect in causing a decline in the
.trimonial market at Irwinton. In fact,
this market is reported as unusually active
1 over the State.
Pi,or General P. M. B. Young. lie has
irdly gotten home from Europe, and yet
i exchange already gives him warning that
soon as he gets a day or two of rest it
tends to subject him to the tender mercies
' an interviewer.
A little child at Tifton last week died
overdose of belladonna given by
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1878.
fron
il'ji.mrs having been set afloat that the
i rsville Express would soon suspend
ition, the editors of that journal deny
iv; ,rt, and say the Express was never
nor-j Nourishing, and that the indication!
ire it will be an institution of Cartersville
er.
u turd ay morning a double accident
•urred at the stock pens of the Macon
1 Western Railroad, which came nearly
ving fatal to two colored men of Atlanta,
n Boggs and Tom Dobbs. They were
raged in loading a car load of stock
ich was being shipped away from the
The two men were mounted on
and, as they were going up a steep
:form to enter the pen from which the
s were to be shipped, the animals fell
•n under their riders, throwing them to
ground. Dan, when picked up, was
nd to have one of his legs broken be
tween the knee and the ankle, and Tom
found to have one of his ankles badly
erushed. Physicians were summoned to
lend the two men, and they were made as
mfortable as possible.
The Conyers Examiner complains that
rowdies in that city are in the habit of
owling around after dark, taking off gates,
lling d<<wn fences and making night hide-
- generally. It thinks this thing a disgrace
Conyers, and that the police should be in-
•a-ed to a sufficient force to enable it to
xrre.'t and bring to justice all such offenders.
Tramps in Toccao have gone regularly
'o the business of stealing all the satchels
f drummers which they can find in the
spot of that place.
The Register is earnestly advocating the
tablishment of a good school at Carnes-
ville.
The house of Mr. Hancock, of Taliaferro
ounty. was completely destroyed by fire on
la?t Friday night, while he was absent on a
t to a neighbor. He lost nearly every
thing, and, as he Is an industrious, hard
rking man, it is quite a misfortune to
him. The fire was evidently of incendiary
1gin.
The ()glethorpe Echo advances the follow
ing rather startling theory : “The frequent
-terious burning of haystacks and farm-
> buildings has led to the discovery that
they are set on fire by wasps’nests, and that
nests are ignited by spontaneous com-
• u.-tion. This is produced by the chemical
v tion of the wax in contact with the paper
like substance of which the nest is com
posed, a comparatively small access of oxy
gen being sufficient to make it burst forth
ju a blaze.”
Cedartown Express. “We hear of several
good horses and mules having died recently
without any body being able to account for
It will be remembered that the
Udder this year had rue! badly. Yet it was
pulled aud saved, and in being fed to 6tock.
Mav this not be the causi of the mysterious
' athbert Appeal: “Luther Jones and his
'•'ife. colored, were arrested on Monday
glit and lodged in jail on a charge of mur-
* r. These negroes lived on Robert Gamble’s
i’ e. near town, and on Sunday night claim
t i have locked up their house and went to
church, locking up a little boy about six
years old, the sou of the woman before her
marriage to Luther. Upon their return
from church, or at a very late hour of the
night, the alarm was raised that the child
had fallen into the fire and burned to dea h.
-i-> report not being at all plausible, an in-
v-.'ligation was bad by the Coroner, when
it "a- apparent that the child had been
m r-d and placed in the fire to prevent
n. We hear of many strong points
ase, but forbear giving them, as the
"ill lx* thoroughly investigated by the
Florida Affairs.
On or about the 1st of December the
Jacksonville Evening Traveler will be en
larged ^pd its name will be changed to the
Daily Evening Union, and, says the editor:
“The papej* is already a permanent institu
tion. It not only expects to live, but its
life is assured. It will be found in the front
rank of the Democratic army in 1880.”
The ancient city of St. Augustine has a
regular mandamus case, growing out of the
late elections there, on its hands. It seems
that when the vote was counted the candi
dates for Mayor had each received two
hundred and nine undisputed votes, but
there was one ballot for J. S. Relf, the
present Mayor, thrown out on the ground
that the name of B. A. Masters appeared on
it twice for Alderman. The City Council,
not wishing to go behind the returns, or
dered a new election, but Mr. Relf refuses
to issue the order, claiming that he was re
gularly elected for a second term, and he
has applied for a mandamus to compel his
two hundred and tenth vote to be counted.
An alternative writ, returnable December
3d, was granted.
A monster deer, weighing one hundred
and five pounds, was killed by a gentleman
of Leon county last week.
The Jacksonville Breeze states that on
Thursday night last, while coming off the
St. John’s on her arrival from Orange Park,
Mrs. Dodge, mother of the Rev. W. H.
Dodge of the Newnan 8treet Presbyterian
Church, when just outside of the gate, fell
over the side of the bulk-head, a distance of
about six feet, and broke her arm between
the elbow and shoulder. She was doing
well at last accounts.
The Western Texas sailed from Jackson-
ville for New York on Friday last, with
several passengers and a good freight, con
sisting of about eight hundred barrels naval
stores, one hundred aud twenty-one bales
cotton, two hundred packages oranges, and
some two hundred miscellaneous packages.
Deputy United States Marshal Tibbitts ar
rested in Gadsden county, Wednesday, W.
H. Scott, T. M. Mitchell, Wm. Monroe and
E. M. Cook for alleged interference with the
inspectors of election on November 5 in
said county’. They were brought to Jack
sonville and appeared before United States
Commissioner Meek Thursday, but the hear
ing was postponed until Friday morning at
10 o’clock. Only one case has as yet been
tried, but owing to the sickness of the de
fendant the decision has not, up to this time,
been published. The other three cases w ill
be heard to-day (Tuesday).
The Tampa Tribune, to show the amount
of business done in the cattle trade by
Tampa with Cuban ports, publishes the fol
lowing summary: “Shipped from Tampa
during the year up to this time 5,024 head,
worth here $70,336. From Manatee 2,988,
worth here $41,832, making the aggregate
for both Tampa and Manatee, both places
being in Tampa bay, of $112,168.”
Tampa Tribune: “The woods for the last
two weeks have been on fire in various
places a few miles from town. Whether
these fires originated accidentally or were
put out purposely we do not know; but
there is one thing very certain, it is a great
detriment and occasions a good deal of
trouble and anxiety to those owning farms
in the country. Somebody ought to make
it his business to investigate the origin of
these frequent fire3.”
St. Augustine Press: “A Northern gen
tleman 6aid the other day that during his
short sojourn in Florida nothing had sur
prised him more than the low price of beef.
Accustomed to paying from twenty to thirty
cents a pouud in Northern cities, eight
cents, the average price here, seemed re
markable. We believe that in no part of
the country can persons of moderate income
live so well as here.”
The Gadsden County Agricultural Fair
Association holds its second annual exposi
tion at Quincy next week, commencing on
Wednesday aud continuing through Friday.
The fair authorities have selected Wednes
day evening, the 27th instant, for a musical
1 concert; Thursday evening, the 28th instant,
for a festival, aud Friday evening, 29th in
stant, for a grand fair ball, at which the
coronation of the Queen of Love and Beauty
and her maids of honor will occur. The
tournament is to take place on Friday, the
highest successful single knights, in their
order, to designate the queen aud her at
tendants, at the same time being in progress
a spirited contest between tbe married and
single knights for the premium of a fine
saddle.
Key West Dispatch: “We actually re
ceived a letter this week by the Cedar Key
mail which contained a silver quarter dol
lar. It was not robbed on the route, but an
electrotype plate about three inches square
was broken open to see if it was a package
of money.”
The Key West Dispatch is a Southern Re
publican paper, which is evidently by no
means satisfied with Mr. Hayes’ Southern
policy. It says: “The mail this week
brought no less than twenty-nine bags of
mail matter—twenty-four lock pouches and
five canvas bags crammed full. Sixteen
days’ mail, and what a shame that
we should be treated worse than any other
city in the United States. We stand twelve
on the revenue list. Wish now that Tilden
had been elected.”
Mr. James H. Paine writes to the Bun and
Press in regard to the State Agricultural Col
lege of Florida, now situated at Eau Gallie,
Brevard county, as follows: “The trustees
of Ihe Agricultural College fund reached
this city yesterday, returning from their
official inspection of the Agricultural Col
lege building and site at Eau Gallie, Brevard
count}’. After careful investigation, they
have reached the wise and inevitable con
clusion that the interests of the fund en
trusted to their care, and the interests of
the people for whose benefit tbe fund was
appropriated, demand the immediate and
complete abandonment of the chimerical
location at Eau Gallie, and the se
lection of a new site in some part of
Florida more accessible aud appropri
ate. In furtherance of this decision,
they have named the following citizens of
the State as a commission to examine the
advantages of different localities suggested
and to report thereon with as little delay as
possible; Hon. James M. Baker, of Jack-
L'AnTTilIa Oait TAuuid fi Walter nf Tftllft—
niasville Times. “The negroes, it is
-re so much encouraged and elated by
ction of Speer, over the regular
ratte nominee, that they will attempt
a municipal ticket in Athens. All
gentlemen of Athens, and of the
it is nothing more than you had a
expect. A dose or two of that kind
icdieine may bring you to your senses.”
Telfair South Georgian says : “One
the most important industries of Geor-
- her fruit crop. Our Georgia orchards
*Ni enable us to put ripe fruit in New York
fullV two weeks ahead of the regular crop
that is seut in to supply the Eastern cities.
Gur growers will thus be enabled to com-
.'uand fancy prices for their products. The
lifflited shipments that have already been
from this State demonstrate that from
throe dollars aud a half to nine dollars per
bushel ggn be procured for choice early
■ -•>■ hc-s, instance. At these prices no
crop could be more lucrative than peaches
—none is certainly more safe or agreeable
J! cultivation.” The &ajn obstacle in the
"'ay of the fruit crop becoming a source of
■great wealth, thinks the South Georgian, is
the lack of transportation facilities which
*tU enable the grower fo ship sufficiently
cheaply to Insure a profit and be certain
that his produce will be delivered before it
is decayed.
Washington Gazette; “That many of our
farmers were caught in a snap this year none
MU deny. The defeated candidates are say
ing that the reason they were not elected
•va- [..-cause they didn’t get votes enough ;
and ujioT 1 this same line of simple reasoning
might be said that the farmers cannot pay
their debts bfiu ause they didn’t raise cotton
nuough. It seemJ to us this is a very proper
and very plain course of reasoning. These
debts have been contracted with the inten
tion of paying them with cotton raised,
and this, it is now found, caimojt be done.
What could be clearer than e*islti«ig cir-
'"uinstances prove, that upon the present
i’Uu the cost of production is greater than
;hu value of tbe product. Some say : 'Well,
'bis is an off year.’ We fear, from the pre-
filing state of affairs, of gome, that we have
•dud many off years of lata. Now is a fine
opportunity to inaugurate a u&v order of
^bmgs, and recuperate from the years c?is-
fortuues by sowing broad acres with smali
sp^in, and v/e hope the people will avail
themselves of it.
sonviile. Gov. David S. Walker, of Talla
hassee, and Dr. Franklin Branch, of Tampa.
In view of this action of the trustees the
citizens of Jacksonville should lose no time
in placing before the commissioners the
superior advantages and claims of this
locality, and also in ascertaining what in
ducements cau be offered by this county
for the erection of the college buildings
here. Would it not be advisable to have an
early conference on this subject by com
mittees selected by the Board of County
Commissioners, the Common Council, the
State Park Association, and by a meeting of
citizens interested in securing the location
here ?”
It is stated that the receivers of the Jack
sonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad
have been engaged during the past week in
making a personal examination of the road.
It was found to be in a satisfactory condi
tion. Extensive alterations and improve
ments have been made recently at the Chat
tahoochee, the western terminus of the
Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Rail
road. Machinery has been put up by which
one thousand bales of cotton can be handled
there daily. The new hotel is completed
aud opened.
The Chicago Lumberman, speaking of the
Florida ship canal, says: “The people of
Florida propose to build, or more probably
to get the general government to build, a
ship canal across their State from Matanza*
inlet ou the Atlantic to Fort Wool or Clay
Landing on the Suwannee river, in order to
shorten the passage from New York to New
Orleans. It would have, it is said, an ex
cellent harbor at each end of the canal, aud
no obstyiictions at either end. There would
not have; to he more than seventy-five miles
of canal cut ou this route, and then it
would reclaim at least l,00u,u00 acres of the
best lands in the State. This land, when
reclaimed, would be well supplied with
natural feeders. The distance from New
York to New Orleans by this route
would be much less than by any
route farther south. It would be from
1,000 to 1,200 miles less t,ban the
route now sailed, w’hich would make a diL
ference of from 2,000 to 2,400 miles saved
on the round trip, and would save yearly
$5,000,000 in the way of shipwrecks and
$3,000,000 annually in the way of extra in
surance, over $40,000,000 in freight and sev
eral millions every year in the way of grain
and meat, which go to waste every year in
th,e great Mississippi valley for the want of
a cheap transportation to the seaboard. The
canal, when built, would bring in a revenue
of at least $8*<KW,000 $r $10,000,000 annually
in the way of tolls, *.specify when the Da
rien canal is completed, as it would Sbrjvr a
vast amount of shippiug from California,
Janan and China through the Gulf of Mexico
anti through the Florida ship canal, to New
fork and Liverpool aud other ports.’ 7
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
AFFAIRS IX CENTRAL AND SOUTH
AMERICA.
Probulile Wintering Stations of the
British Indian Armies.
FRIGHTFUL COAL MINE EXPLO-
SION IN PERU.
EIGHTEEN LI VES LOST OFF THE
TOAST OF PORTUGAL.
A Delaware Mayor Dies of Hydro
phobia.
Interesting Foreign Notes.
CENTRA!. AND SOUTH AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
Panama, November 1G.—A change has
taken place in the Cabinet at Bagota. The
new Ministers are all intelligent, capable
men, and have had large experience in pub
lic life.
Peruvian advices state that a revolution
ary plot in the Pierola interest was discov
ered in Arequipa, according to the papers
of that locality, on the 27th ult., but its
leaders were promptly arrested, aud some
have since been sent forward to the capital
for trial. News of a similar character comes
from Cajamaren, where it is said that some
of the Pierola party are secretly preparing
an attempt against public order.
On the 4th instant documents were exam
ined purporting to contain the particulars
of the discovery of a new guano deposit
situated on the Island La Vuida, in latitude
9:23:30 and longitude 78:26, on the north
coast.
Chilian advices say that on the 9th in6t.
an explosion occurred in the coal mine of
Rosario, at Lebu, whereby sixteen miners
were killed, and a large number wounded,
only six escaping uninjured from the pit.
The pecuniary loss in damage to the mine
is a hundred thousand dollars.
REDUCTION OF WAGES IN ENGLAND.
London, November 25.—The strike of the
Oldham cotton spinners will probably begin
to-day. The opposition to the five per
centum reduction of wages does not extend
to all the mills in town. The proprietors of
some of the largest mills have not given
notice ot a reduction.
Notices were posted on Saturday at most
of the Carnarvonshire slate quarries an
nouncing a reduction of seveu per centum
in the wages of quarryineu. The men will
probably accept the reduction.
RELIEF MEASURES—REPORT CONTRADICTED.
London, November 25.—The Mayor of
Barrow, in Furness, has called a public meet
ing to adopt measures to relieve the distress
prevailing in consequence of the depression
of trade.
The Times, which made the original state
ment, says: “We are a»ked to contradict
the report that the Great Western line of
steamers between Bristol and New York
will be discontinued during the winter.”
PROBABLE DISPOSITION OF THE BRITISH
ARMIES.
London, November 25.—The Calcutta
correspondent of the Times thinks that Gen.
Browne’s column will go to Jellalabad this
winter, Major General Roberts to Kurum
Firt, and Major General Biddulph’s Quettah
column to Candahar, and that these will
probably be the wintering stations of the
three armies.
THE PULLMAN DEFAULTER.
Lisbon, November 25.—Charles W. An-
gell, the fugitive Secretary of the Pullman
Palace Car Company, is confined iu the civil
prison. The eighty thousand dollars which
was recovered was found deposited in his
name in tbe Bank of Portugal.
THE RECEPTION PROGRESSING.
Halifax, November 25.—Tbe weather is
fine and clear, with westerly winds. Sa
lutes are being fired from the forts, aud the
Sarmatiau is moving up the harbor. The
official landing takes place at 1:30 o’clock.
MARINE DISASTER OFF THE COAST OF LISBON.
Lisbon, November 25.—This part of the
coast of Portugal was visited by a heavy
storm on Saturday. At the mouth of the
Tagus three vessels and eighteen lives were
lost.
A MAYOR DIES OF HYDROPHOBIA.
Wilmington, Del., November25.—Mayor
Win. H. Dobb, of Newcastle, who was bit
ten by a small dog a few weeks ago, died
here of hydrophobia this morning.
EVENING TELEGRAMS
SHERIDAN SUED BY A LOUISIANA
PLANTER.
European Recosnition of Roumanian
Independence.
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES PRE
PARING THEIR REPORTS.
Moody Calls for a Week of Prayer in
January.
MORE DEMONSTRATIONS OVER THE
MARQUIS AND PRINCESS.
Ten Tlionsand Oldham Cotton Spin
ners on a Strike,
Foreign aud Domestic .Yf alter**.
MORE REJOICING OVER THE MARQUIS AND
PRINCESS.
Halifax, November 25.—The Marquis of
Lome and the Princess Louise had a grand
reception to-day. They left the Sarmatian
at 1:40 p. m. and were conveyed to the
landing, the war vessels firing a ro^al
salute and the yards being mauned. The
vice regal party was received by the Duke
of Edinburgh, General MaeDougall, Vice
Admiral Inglefleld, Lieutenant Governor
Archibald, the principal members of the
Dominion Government and many naval,
military and civil officials.
The landing of the Marquis and Princess
was greeted with vociferous cheering. A
procession was at once formed and pro
ceeded through the principal streets to the
Province Building, where the Marquis was
sworn in as Governor. Tbe address of wel
come was then presented by the Mayor and
corporation, to which the Marquis replied.
The procession then reformed and went by
a circuitous roqte to tbe Admiralty House.
The streets the whole way were gaily
decorated, and were lined with people.
A CALL FOR A WEEK OF PRAYER.
Baltimore, November 25.—At a largely
attended meeting of the clergymen of this
city, held to-day, at the suggestion of D. L.
Moody, the evangelist, a committee was ap
pointed to issue a call to the^ evangelical
ministry and churches of the United States
to unite in the month of January follow
ing upon a week of prayer, in a
concentrated effort for the revival
of God’s work throughout the whole land,
smqt thaf, in ofder to do this, they urge upon
Christian people to lay aside all conflicting
engagements, social, ecclesiastical,^ literary
or other wise; that, with the United States at
heart, the church will call upon Qod to re
vive his work and stay the tide th^t threat
ens our institutions, political, social and re
ligious. The committee will issue a call
immediately.
CELEBRATION OF EVACUATION DAY'.
New York, November 25.—A merry peal
was rung out to day by the Trinity Church
chimes in commemoration of Evacuation
Day, and the event was celebrated by a pa-
rad.e of the Seventh Regiment of the New
York State National Guard, untj^r Colonel
Lark. The veterans of the Seventh itegi
ment, under Colonel Pond, also fel) into the
column, and the Union, State and city flags
were for the first time hoisted on the new
regimental armory, on Sixty-sixth and Sixty-
seventh streets and Park and Lexington
avenues. The veterans of the war of 1812,
under Colonel Dally, now dwindled to about
eighteen men, paraded in honor of the oc
casion.
SUIT AGAINST PHIL SHERIDAN.
New York, November 25.—The case of
James A. Whalen against General Sheridan
was called to-day in the United States Court
before Judge Wallace, but owing to the
absence of P. F. Butler, one of the counsel
for the plaintiff, the cgse v ent oyer until
Monday next. The suit is brought tq re
cover $416,Out) 75, for alleged losses incurred
by the plaintiff through the action of Gen.
Sheridau. Mr. Whalen claims that he was
dispossessed from his sugar plantation in
the parish ol St. Charles, near New Orleans,
by order ot Sheridan in 1887, while the lat-
ter was in command of New Orleans. Much
testimony has already been taken by the
commission in the South.
ALABAMA’S NEXT SENATOR.
Montgomery, November 25.—The Demo
cratic caucus has nominated Governor Geo.
S. Houston to succeed Spencer as United
States Senator,
WORK OF CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.
Washington, November 25.—The Honse
Appropriation Committee has distributed
to various sub-committees the estimates
which have been submitted by the several
departments. These will be informally
considered in the interval between now and
Friday, when a formal meeting of the Ap
propriation Committee will be held.
The joint committee to consider the ques
tion of transferring the Indian Bureau to
the War Department, meet to-morrow with
open doors.
The Ways and Means Committee meet on
Tuesday of next week. Fernando Wood,
Chairman, is expected to arrive next Fn
dav.
The sub-committee of the House Com
mittee on Appropriations, consisting of
Representatives Durham, Smith and
Clymer, have completed the Military
Academy bill, which will be reported at the
opening of Congress. Jt is the same sub
stantially as the bill passed at the former
session.
A sub-committee, Representatives Foster
and Durham, made considerable progress
to-day with the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill. The fortification
and pension bills will be ready for report
early.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief signal Observer.
Washington, D. C., November 25.—Indica
tions for Tuesday:
In the South Atlantic States, increasing
cloudiness and rain, winds mostly south
erly, stationary or lower temperature and
pressure.
In the Middle Atlantic States, partly
cloudy weather, with frequent rain, warm
southerly veering to colder northwest
winds, and falling followed by rising
barometer.
In the East Gulf States, cloudy, rainy
weather, warm southerly, shifting to colder
northerly winds, followed by rising barome
ter.
In the West Gulf States, cloudy and
rainy, followed by clearing weather, sta
tionary or lower temperature and generally
higher pressure.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, partly
cloudy weather, with occasional light rain
or snow, followed by clearing weather,
winds mostly northerly, falling followed by
rising temperature and generally higher
pressure.
report of the bank committee.
Baltimore, November 25.—The commit
tee representing tbe banks of Baltimore,
whose conference with Secretary Sherman
in Washington on Saturday last on the sub
ject of resumption has already been pub
lished, submitted to-day to the representa
tives of the associated banks a formal re
port of their interview with the Sec
retary, whieh was most cordial,
and expressing the hope that the frank
expression of views by Secretary Sherman,
as presented, will be considered as sufficient
to allay all apprehension here and elsew'here,
regarding the technical construction and
operation of the resumption act.
The committee also presented a resolu
tion that, “pending the early reas
sembling of Congress, and with
the hope that some modification
will be adopted by them in the existing
currency acts, we deem it premature, and
injudicious at this time to prescribe any
line of policy which the banking institu
tions of Baltimore may require hereafter.'
This was adopted.
RECOGNITION OF ROUMANIAN INDEPENDENCE
Washington, November 25.—The State
Department has information that the late
Austrian Minister at Washington, Count
Hoyos, has been appointed by liis govern
ment Envoy Extraordinary to Roum&nia.
Russia, Italy and Turkey have also sent
regular diplomatists to Bucharest, making,
together with Austria and Hungary, a total
of four European powers that have formally
recognized Roumania’s independence.
no reduction of passenger rates.
Baltimore, November 25.—L. M. Cole.
Esq., General Ticket Agent of the Baltimore
ami Ohio Railroad, requests the Associated
Press to deny the telegram seut from New
York ou Saturday, stating that the Balti
more aud Ohio Road were cutting down
passenger rates from Cincinnati to New
York. Mr. Cole says there is no truth in
the assertion.
WRECK OF THE STEAMER JOHN BRAMHALL.
New London, Conn., November 25.—The
steamer John Bramhall, ashore on Little
Gall Island, has broken in twain abaft the
engines, aud her main and mizzen masts are
gone by the board. Her stern is completely
under water. Two thousand cases of shot
and shell and two boilers, all of the cargo
remaining in the vessel, will be taken out.
KING HUMBERT’S REPLY TO THE POPE.
Rome, November 25.—The Minister of the
Royal household has written to the Arch
bishop of Naples on behalf of King Hum
bert, acknowledging the Archbishop’s letter
conveying the Pope’s congratulations upon
the King's escape from assassination, and
also sending the Archbishop his exequatur.
ANOTHER STEAMSHIP FOR FLORIDA.
Wiiiting, Ala., November 25.—The
steamship Valley City reached Pensacola to
day on her first trip. She belongs to a
weekly line which is to ply between Pensa
cola and Tampa, calling at Cedar Keys.
THE VERMONT HOUSE FAVORS RESUMPTION.
Montpelier, November 25.—The House
to-day passed the joint resolution instruct
ing the Vermont Congressmen to use all
honorable means to prevent the repeal of
the resumption act.
TEN THOUSAND COTTON SPINNERS ON
STRIKE.
London, November 25.—Ten thousand
operatives, cotton spinners at Oldham,
struck to-day. Their number will be aug
mented from day to day.
An Eccentric Man’s Will. — The
will of Wm. McSorley, who died on
Staten Island, New York, last week, lias
been admitted to probate. McSorley’s
career was an eccentric one. He came
to tbe United Slates from Ireland when
a lad, penniless, and entered into tbe ser
vice of Governor Daniel I). Tompkins as
a laborer. When the works of the New
York Dyeing and printing establishment
were built on Staten Island he went to
work in them as a carman, and continued
to drive his horse and cart for fifty years,
and long after he had amassed a large
fortune. Out of his carman’s wages he
saved enough to buy a share iu the dye
works. This, after an interval, he re
peated, and bought land—all the result
of plodding. Up to the day of his death
he could not be induced to wear any but
workman’s clothing, although he had
built and comfortably furnished a cot
tage at West New Brighton for his fami
ly. The property he leaves aggregates
$300,000 in value. In his will McSorley
left to his two daughters, Mrs. McHugh
and Mrs. Reilly, only $2,000 each, the
balance of the property being divided
among the five sons. Mrs. Reilly began
a contest on the ground' of undue influ
ence exer ed by tbe testator’s wife over
him, owing to the antipathy of the
mother to Mrs. Reilly’s husband. The
case was compromised by the sons allow
ing the sisters $18,000 to $20,000 each.
A Twelve Year-Old’s Passion. —
Mrs. Wm. Hallisy, of New York, died
Tuesday of pneumonia, the result of a
stab-wound iu the breast, inflicted on
Friday by her step-son, John Hallisy,
twelve years old. It appears that on the
day she was injured she slapped the boy’s
face because he refused to go on an er
rand for her, and he snatched a table-
kni r e with a sharp point &nd th?p\y it at
her with such precision and force as to
bury the point three inches in her breast.
She"screamed murder, as she fell to the
floor bleeding profusely, and the neigh
bors found the boy kneeling beside her
weeping and accusing himself of having
mu rdered her. He was sent to the House
of iletenjion.
Death at a'Wedding.—At Elizabeth,
X J , Wednesday night, there was a
large gathering at the residence of Mies
Bernhard, 110 First street, to witness the
marriage of Aaron Weiss, a clothier, to
the laay named. After the ceremony
the guests amused themselves as usual
on such occasions, and while the enjoy
ment was at its height, it was terminated
at two o’clock Thursday morning by the
sudden death of a Mrs. Berla, who, with
a gasp, sank to the floor and died. A
physician was summoned, and he pro-
oynced the cause of her death heart
poynceo
disease.
Trying a Church Member.—In Chi :
cago the case of Mrs. J. Anderson, Who
has been on trial before a jury of the
Trinity Methodist Churph Tpr cqnducl
unbecoming a Christian and a Methodist,
and for renting ground to be used as a
beer garden, was concluded Thursday
evening, and a verdict was rendered of
guilty of both charges, with a recom
mendation of forbearance on the part of
the church.
THE PEOPLE’S CHIEP.
OVATION TO GENERAL GORDON.
The General's Speech—A .Ylagnljficent
Presentation ol Sound Democratic
Doctrine—The Folly of Indepen-
dentiftm Laid Bare—An Appeal to
Stand by the Party.
Atlanta Constituti>m.
On Wednesday evening in the State Capi
tol, Representative Hall, Senator Gordon sup
plemented his virtually unanimous re-elec
tion to the United States Senate by deliver
ing before a tremendous audience one of
those powerful and magnificent speeches for
which he is famed throughout the Union. It
was spoken to a packed audience, composed
of the members of the General Assembly
and possibly a thousand other entranced
and admiring listeners.
Below we present the speech in full, and
its perusal will be the justification of the
generous plaudits aud compliments heaped
upon it.
GENERAL GORDON SAID:
Fellow Citizens and Gentlemen of the General
Assembly:
The verdict just rendered upon my stew
ardship as a public servant is enough to
penetrate the innermost core of any man’s
sensibilities; and I should be a libel upon
myself, as well as upon our common hu
manity, if I did not leel it most profoundly.
Never before have my sensibilities been so
stirred by any event. Never before has nr.
sense of gratefulness to my countrymen
been so awakened as by this expression of
your renewed and continued confidence by
the almost unanimous vote of this great
people. [Applause.] Never before have I
felt so keenly the responsibility which your
partiality imposes, but which I trust I may
aeeept without undue presumption. My
life, like that of other men, has not been
without its responsibilities. There were
times during the recent war when the fate
of the battle, of the army and of your cause
seemed to rest on the courage, the fidelity
and endurance of the few men around me.
There were times since the war at Washing
ton when the defense of your
honor, good name and your liber
ties was committed to the few
men who shared with me there the conii
dence of the Southern people. These were
times of grave responsibility. They were
times when words were things, when silence
was ofttimes wisdom and forbearance was
courage [applause], when these Republican
leaders were seeking to provoke your repre
sentatives to rash words and recriminations
in order to arouse the North and precipitate
the horrors of another collision which would
have wrapped your homes in flames and left
them a charred and smoking ruin. No man
but those who served you then can ever
know the agony of that awful suspense, nor
fully appreciate the dangers that surrounded
your liberties; and when at last the cause of
these Southern States could be voiced in
that chamber and could find an audience in
every section of tbe country, the opportu
nity was not lost by your representatives.
[Applause.]
But perilous as were these times, never
before, as it seems to me,were the embarrass
ments which environ the country more
numerous than now nor required for their
solution a higher order of statesmanship.
Take any period of our history and weigh
the difficulties to be encountered. Before
the war, and for the first seventy-five years
of our existence, the questions which divided
parties were mainly those of policy or ex
pediency, and did not involve the great
questions of local government nor imperil
liberty.
And after tbe war there was but one ques
tion—the Southern question. It was a mo
mentous question, but it was not embar
rassed by other questions.
But now, with a great debt passing heavi
ly upon us, with our industries dead, with
the public mind straining after relief and
the great financial problem still unsolved,
there come to our ears the mutterings of a
wide spread social disorder which threatens
t.o bring additional ruin in its track, and
with these embarrassing questions requiring
dispassionate discussion, here are the lead
ers of one great party reorganizing its
broken ranks on the basis of avowed hos
tility to the people of one portion of the
Union, and in the face of that fact here is
our own party, in our own midst, threat
ened with disintegration. Our lines of de
fense seem to be wavering, ready to break,
while the bugles are sounding another
charge upon those lines.
What are vou to *lo about it ? What is
your duty ? That is the great question. My
answer to it is short. Your first duty is to
stand by the party which maintains your
principles. [Applause.] Your sacred duty
is to stand by the party of your principles
[applause]; and your third and highest duty
as patriots is to stand by the party of your
principles. [Applause.]
The reasons why you ought to stand by it
and the manner in whieh you ought to stand
by it will appear as I proceed.
I wish to lay down two propositions, the
truth of which no fair-rnlndcd man will
deny.
1. There are but two great parties in this
country—the organized Democratic national
party and the organized Republican national
party. These two and no more.
My second proposition is that the issues
between these two parties are made up—the
lines are drawn and they are broad and deep
lines—as broad and deep as the gulf whieh
divides a confederated republic from a con
solidated empire. [Applause.]
Which side are you on ? You ought to be
on the side of the Democratic party, be
cause it stands on the old doctrines of the
fathers, that this is a government of limited
powers—that the powers not granted to the
General Government are reserved to the
States—that it is essential to liberty that the
States manage their Ideal affairs in their
own way free from Federal intervention—
that bayonets at the polls are the vanguard of
tyranny—that the control of votes at the
polls by Federal force is the consummation
of tyranny aud the death of liberty.
you ought to stand by the Demorratic
party, because it is the party of the Consti
tution, aud the Constitution is th» supreme
law and the right arm of your defense. The
Democratic party has never denounced the
Constitution, never proclaimed a higher
law in politics than the Constitution, never
stretched or warped and perverted the Con
stitution 60 as to justify the forcing upon
States those diabolisms called governments,
which so long cursed and crushed the South.
These are familiar truths, I know, but
they are great truths, and cannot be too
often repeated, nor too solemnly impressed
upon the young men of tfie country. Why,
look at the old Jews. They not only taught
their law in the schools, but wrote them on
the door posts, and on the palms of the
hands, and engraved them on the memory.
And what was the result ? I undertake to
say that no people, expatriated, dispersed
in all lands, derided in all longues, “ the
jest of folly and the scorn of pride,’’ ever
lived, who, like these Jews, maintained
their principles for two thousand years with
such unyielding constancy and unrivalled
devotion. Xow, I do not wi6n the young
men of the countryto become Jews in faith,
but do want them to learn a lesson of politi
cal wisdom from this chapter of the Jewish
pistory.
You ought to stand by the Democratic
party, because to place it in power is to re
form the abuses of the government. Now.
I am not going to say that a man is a better
mq.n in the sight of heaven beuuu a e he is a
Democrat. Nor do I intend to say that the
large body of Democrats are saints and the
large body of Republicans sinners. l»ut 1
do mean to say that the Republican party
came Into power under circumstances so pe
culiar, and maintains its power by means so
wrong, that practices have grown up^under
It utterly subversive of our institutions,
and in the last degree corrupting to
the people. I do mean to say that
the spirit of corruption has crept into
the one and that the spirit of re
form nerves '[pp oyher. 4 do {pean euy
that if Democrats gfit into power we shall
no longer witness the spectacle of Cabinet
officers hurrying in their resignations, and
a President hastening to accept them as a
shield against the penalty which the law in
flicts. [Loud applause.] No longer shall
the American citizens, at home and abroad,
have the blush of «=bac;e mantic uio eheeks
because of the coiumfents of the foreign
press upon the degrading practices of the
American Republic. [Loud applause.]
But you should stand by the pemouratic
party because it is t'he only party of your
defense, and because of t'he open threats of
the Republican leaders to renew the war
upon you? political rights. Have you read
the Republican press and the utterances of
Republican leaders daring the recent cam
paign. They have reopened a fire as con
centrated and persistent as that of the allies
on the fortress of Sebastopol. Look at the
declarations of the honorable Secretary of
the Treasury, charging that the spirit of re
bellion against the government is rife at the
South. Look at the utterances of the dis
tinguished Senator from New York, who is
certainly one of the most commanding me n
|n that party.
Look at the still more recent and more re
markable utterances of the Senator from
Maine, than whom no man in that party
speaks with greater authority.
If0t yead you ji few sentences from that
Senator. He'says:
“The Confederate soldiers to-day casting
two votes in control of our national policy,
when the Union soldier in Pennsylvania and
New England easts but one.”
Now, the mistake Mr. Blaine makes in
this connection is that he has both color and
the politics of the double voter wrong. It
is the colored Republican who votes twice
to organized Democrats once [laughter],
and that’s the reason the Democrats were
beaten up here in the Seventh district.
[Great laughter.]
But what else does this Senator say? “We
will be compelled in the end, frem self-in
terest and self-protection, to resort to that
which at the outset we should have resorted
to from principle. In all the great financial
and economic contests of the future the
North cannot and will not permit the hos
tile Democratic power of the South to be
doubled by trampling under foot the rights
of the colored citizens.”
My countrymen, what does that mean ?
What can it mean but an avowal of a pur
pose to march troops again to the polls, to
control elections by force, to compel the
colored man to vote, whether he would
or not, the Republican ticket, to call back
the black-winged Harpies again who so long
fed and fattened on your substance ? [Ap
plause.]
Now, whether the gi eat mass of Republi
can voters at the North can be induced to
follow these leaders in such a policy of op
pression it is impossible to say. I cannot
believe that these leaders will be sustained
by that wing of the party, small but respec
table, which supported the President In the
beginning of his administration, and who
sustained him in his patriotic recognition of
the fact that the war was ended, and in re
moving the troops and leaving to Louisiana
and to South Carolina the rights of self-gov
ernment. [Applause.] I wish you to know
also, my countrymen, that there are thou
sands and hundreds of thousands of patri
otic men in the Republican party at the
North who have been misled by these lead
ers, who, if they saw your danger and
the reactionary danger to their liber
ties (and God grant that some pow
er may enable them to see it before
it is too late) [loud applause], who, I
say, if they saw this common danger would
unite with you to avert it. [Applause.]
There are hundreds of thousands of Chris
tian men in that party who do not sympa
thize with these wrongs, whose hearts
bleed over tbe recent afflictions of Southern
cities, aud whose purses were emptied to
relieve Southern suffering. [Applause.]
That was a spectacle, my countrymen,
which presented the better side of those
men, and it was a spectacle which touched
and moved the great Southern heart and
caused it to beat once more in responsive
throbs to the great heart of tbe North, as
“Deep c&lleth unto deep.’’
[Loud applause.] And Southern prayers
ascended that Jehovah would not only re
ward them a thousand fold, but that these
waves of sympathy rolling across the con
tinent and breaking around these scathed
centres of heaven-inllicted sorrow might
melt down the icy barriers that divided the
sections, and that this great Southern woe,
made national by God-like sympathies,
might become the grave of all sectional
animosities. [Loud and prolonged ap
plause.]
But now what a revolting contrast! At
the very hour when Southern affliction and
Northern beneficence were bringing together
these estranged sections and binding them
iu the bonds of living sympathies these
leaders—grave Senators—seek to reopen the
wounds that were healing and to revive the
passions that were dying. What a specta
cle ! What a work for men upon whose
shoulders rest the responsibilities of a rep-
lesentative government! What an hour for
such a work ! At a moment when peace
prevailed all over the land, when the black
man and the white man were being given
by Democratic legislation the blessings of
education and good government; when the
South, bowed with sorrow and filled with
gratitude, is reaching out its arms to em
brace its countrymen, these leaders seize
again the faded bloody shirt, plunge it in
the chronic crimson vat, run it up the
party 6taff and fly it as the symbol of a new
civilization and a “restored union.” Why,
really, men who never saw us would imagine
that the South was one vast volcano—worse
than a volcano, for even .Etna, I believe,
has its periods of rest and Vesuvius its sea
sons of repose. The South—never ! But is
ever belching from its ever-open craters
volumes of smoke and brimstone and blood.
Well, we read somewhere that even the sun
may be turned to blood, aud it seems that
these leaders intend that the North shall
never see tne South,except through a murky
atmosphere of passion filled with phantoms
of horrid oppressions and phantasmagoria
of blood, that have no existence save iu the
maddened brain of these ministers of hate.
If for no other reason than to turn such men
out of power, you ought to stand by the
Democratic party.
But 1 must pass to another branch of the
subject. To stand by the Democratic party
is to stand by its organization. Now, in
discussing this part of the subject, I trust I
will give no offense to any man. Nothing
is further from my purpose. I woilld not
wound you, my Independent friends. I
would rather call you back by appeals to
your reason by the arguments which fill
my heart to-night, and briug you back to
the embrace of that party which is the last
hope of this people. lApnlaqse.] (Jh, no,
ray IndepeDduut friends, t am not here to
wound you, but like old Paul at Corinth, I
am here agonized with apprehensions of the
untold and intelligible evils which I sol
emnly believe are to follow these needless
and causeless dissensions. [Applause.] And
like him I am here to plead for unity among
those of the same household of faith. I am
here to speak in the cause of
this organized band followed, and they fol
lowed to victory. [Loud applause.] I'com-
mend to my Independent friends that short
chapter in the history of the contest for in
dependence. [Applause. J
DANGER OF DISORGANIZATION.
What would have been the public estima
tion of that knightly soldier, Winfield Han
cock, if during General Grant s march on
Richmond he had said to General Grant :
“I don’t like organization. I am a Jeffer
sonian Democrat. I want to fight as a free
man—on my own hook !” and in the guise
of a Unionist had sought to break down the
organization of the Union army?
But let me give you a stronger illustration
nearer home. What would you have
thought of me, if when General Lee said :
“Drive the enemy from that portion of the
field.” “siience |that battery,” or “move on
those breastworks in front”—what would
you have thought of me if I had said : “I
am a Confederate, but you were nominated
at Richmond. I don’t like nominations. I
am an independent Confederate. I propose
to be leader myself.” [Applause.] And,
then, when the long lines that stretched off
to the right and left moved up with sullen
tread, and the battle w-as joined in, what
would you have said if, instead of moving
to the front and firing on the common
enemy, Gordon’s corps had been ordered
by him to turn their pins upon the
organized Confederates? Is that an unfair
illustration of the position of our Inde
pendent friends ? Let us see. Suppose you
should read a political speech in one of the
daily papers of the State, and after search
ing column after column, the only denunci
ations it contained were of “rings, tricksters
and traders.” Now, suppose some one
should inform you that this was a Democrat
ic speech. Would you not conclude that this
Democrat was hurling invectives at those
“rings” which were exposed in Washington
—the Credit Mobilier. the Sanborn contracts
and the dirty, filthy, greasy whisky ring,
which involved in its meshes high officials
of the government? You would not have
doubted that those were the rings he so ve
hemently denounced : or else that he was
holding up for public reprobation those
other “rings” formed to capture these
Southern States after the war, and which
bound Georgia, like old Prometheus, to the
rock while these carpet-bag “tricksters” and
“traders” fed upon her vitals ! [Great, ap
plause.] Wouldn’t you have 6aid those
were the only rings a Democrat could de
nounce ?
CROOKEDNESS OF IN DEPEN DENTISM.
But what would have been the measure of
your amazement when you found that ihe
men denounced as “ringsters,” “traders”
and “tricksters” were the Democrats and
patriots who drove those plunderers from
power? [Cheers.] “A good Democrat,”
but not one word of denunciation for Radi
cals. ‘‘A good Democrat,” but vials of
wrath for Democrats. “Good Democrats,”
but tongue-tied so that they cannot utter
one word of denunciation against “the
Radicals?” [Laughter and applause] but
tongues turned loose at both ends against
organized Democracy ! [Laughter and ap
plause.] That position won’t do; it won’t
hold water; it is full of holes from rim to
bottom.
It is a great wrong, my copntirinen; it is
a wrong to us; it is a wrong to Democratic
principles; it is a wrong to liberty, and it
almost breaks the back of confidence in a
republican government and dims all hope
of ultimate success to fiud at the moment
our feet are planted ou Piegah’s top and the
rich harvests of Canaan lie out before us,
self-constituted leaders are beckoning us
BACK INTO THE WILDEKNESS.
[Continued applause. ] They say the party
is controlled by rings. If that is true, what
is the best thing to be done ? Get the good
men of the party together and break down
the rings. There are good men enough iu
this organization to control the nominations.
Honesty has not entirely lied from the
Democratic party. There are some good
men still left iu it, aud unselfish patriotism
is not all dead. [Applause.] Get the good
men of the party together, Inside of the
organization, to break down the rings, if
anv exist. If there be wrong in the church
get the good men together and put down
the wrong, but don’t Quit the church and
undertake to run an independent gospel on
your own hook [laughter and applause],
and ioin the outsiders to break down
the church. [Applause.] That is not
good doctrine by any Scriptures that
ever read. Nominations con
trolled by cliques and county court
lawyers ! If that be true the common sense
course is to rally all classes of citizens and
correct the abuse ; but don’t go outside aud
denounce the lawyers, and by appeals to
prejudice array one class of citizeus against
another class of citizens aud thus destroy
the best interests of all classes of citizens.
That is Communism. And woe be to that
man or set of men who invoke for this
peaceful section that spirit of discord which
filled the North with apprehension and
France with fire aud bjoad and' terror!
[Loud applaqse.j
I must close this portion of the discussion,
for, if 1 haven’t said enough to convince
this people of the necessity for organization,
I have said enough to weary them. I could
talk all night upon this subject and draw-
arguments from all fields, but what is the
necessity ?
Before closing I wish to say one word
DEMOCRATIC UN ITT,
for the cause of Democratic unity is the
cause of local self-government by these
States, an«] the cause of local self-govern
ment is the cause of American liberty, and
tbe cause of %meriean liberty is the cause
of human freedom throughout the earth !
r Loud applause.] But my Independent
riends tell us that we are already one in
faith; but a higher authority than you
or I tells us “that faith without works is
dead!” [Laughter and cheers.] \\'e must
have not only unity of faith but unity of
action, if we would ever make available for
the purposes of liberty the great principles
of this party. [Applause.] Let no man tell
me he can accomplish as much for these
principles outside the organization as inside,
for he who advances that theory flees in the
teeth of reason, experience and nature.
Organization! It is the law of earth, of
hell and heaven. It was recognized by the
God-head in the creation of the world and
the redemption of man. It is written all
over His works from the dewdrops
that tremble on the mountaihs
which organize theiqselyps into rivu
lets and these into rivers, aqd these into
seas, to the worlds that roll in grandeur ou
high. [Applause.] And none of the great
purposes of roan, whether of material de
velopment, religion or government, can be
secured without it. Government itself is
organization. Law is organization, and
party is organization, and I assert that no
party ever did, nor ever will establish its
principles as the policy of this government
without organization. [Continued ap
plause.] Why, the old Whigs tried it in
1836. They said let us be indeper.dp^t, let
rerybody vote f "r \jUg4* ue pieces. What
did tuey do? They had four or five candi
dates for President and were overwhelmed
by the most disastrous defeat. But in 1840
they organized, called -a convention -nd
nominated a cacdid”tq. V* : hat was th$ re-
oultf They swept this coiihtry with a ma
jority rarely equaled in the history of politi
cal campaigns. [Applause. I
4EFPJEttoiiNXA4j DEMOCRACY'.
But we are told that Mr. Jefferson says
that we must not only obey the will of the
Democratic majority, hut guard sacredly
the freedom of elections. Yes, Mr. Jeffer
son says that: that we must guard
with jealous care the freedom of
elections. So I say; so every Democrat
says; so every old line Whig used to say;
so every man of every party that ever ex
isted in this country said unril the Republi
can party trampled down that right and
controlled elections by Federal force. r Loud
applause. 1 Why, fellcy*-citizens, Mr) Jef
ferson was, discussing that very freedom of
elections from military force whieh the
Democratic party intends to restore to this
government when it can control its policy.
Yet these words of Mr. Jefferson are her
alded as an evidence of opposition *q
ganization. Thoma« Jeffe ti »Ou a dxSorganlz-
er* Why, i*r. detfeFson himself was the
flr-t noinluee of the- first organized Demo
cratic party, and led it in its first triumph
over the party of centrali^gtiwu. [Great
apDlause.] But '’every man must be a free
man and vote like a freeman !” Yes, that
is also true; but there is a greater truth
still, and that is Qiat ey^ry freeman, every
lqver of liberty, mu6t so vote as to place in
possession of the government the party
whose principles will perpetuate liberty.
[Applause.] Do you think you will make
your ballots effective by breaking into frag
ments the friends of these principles while
its foes are compact and organized ? [Ap
plause.]
Is that the sort of “freedom of elections”
Mr. Jefferson advocated? Away with such
sophistry to break down the organization of
which he was the found..r.
My ^nueijCiident friends are fond of shout
ing ‘^independence now and independence
forever!” That is what Washington and
his comrades fought for, I believe, bqt my
reading is that thev we$o somewhat organ
ised. There were those then who did not
like Washington as a leader, who were con
vinced that they ought to have beep the
leaders, but the great bo4y of ^he men who
tyere w[tb him did not stop to Inquire who
was the leader, but said to the convention at
Philadelphia,called the Congress, “nominate
the leader, designate him, put the flag in
his hands and we will follow,” and when
ever his plume waved, or his banner floated,
To THE YOUNG MEN
of the country. You are the COfUfetg trus
tees of these Democratic institutions, and
these institutions rest upon the Democratic
principles which I have attempted to set
forth aud enforce, aud great parties are the
natural and necessary agencies fey the pro 1
motion of these principles. In this connec
tion I wish to repeat the remark with which
I set out, that in this country there are only-
two great parties, the Democratic and the
Republican parties; the one, conceived in
passion, born of fanaticism and baptized in
blood, has, from its accession to power,
marched with rapid and straight strides over
these principles, over State govern
ments and the Constitution to an
increase of power in the central
government. [Applause.] The pther,
beginning its existence witl^ Cue Constitu
tion, conforming its practices to the Consti
tution, proclaims and defends that instru
ment as the fundamental, inviolable, om
nipotent character of all human rights on
this continent. [Great applaqee.] One is
the party of passion, power and privilege;
the other is the party of peace, of law and
of liberty! [Cheers.] The one legislates
for classes, for grasping monopolies, for co
lossal corporations which despoil the people.
The other, confining itself within the limits
of the written Constitution, keeps 3teadily
in view the weal and safety of all classes,
all communities and all sections of this
great country. [Great applause.]
Where is the room for a third p^rty with
6ucb issues as these '“/^ainEr the people? It
would 0* necessity be ground to powder be
tween these upper and nether mill-ctones.
It would be but a bubble to flash a faint
aud false hoy,e for a time, only to burst and
vamsn and mingle in the waters of these
great streams. [Applause.]
My young friends, let me say to you with
greater emphasis than J covpd prior to the
Senatorial ele^ti^n ^for having been chosen
for years 5 service no man can charge me
with a selfish motive) let me -ay to
you that you are &0.1 only bring
ing damage to tftis country and destroying
kutf party which maintained your princi
ples, but you are sapping the foundations
of your own political character. [Great
applause.] You could not organize and
keep in position a third party if you were
to try, and you ought not to do to if you
could. It would be a damage to the
country and to your own manhood and
political future. Why do I say that ? Be
cause uo man ever yet sacrificed his ambi
tion upon the altar of principle without
coming from the sacrifice a purer, greater,
grander man! [Loud applause.] But my
Independent friends tell me that they sac
rifice no principle. But if to break down
the organization is not to break down the
par y, and if to break down the party is not
to destroy the possibility of enforcing its
principles in the administration of govern
ment, then reason U a madman and logical
se^uepces, have no existence.
'fake care, young men, lest when you
have broken this party in twain, the organ
ized Republican pa*ty rush through the
breach seize the governments, State
•ad Federal. Take care lest when you ac
complish independency you have a candidate
for Governor from every section iu the State
and a candidate for President from every
section in the Union. Pause, I beseech you,
and think before you scatter these seeds of
dissensions—oh think what “the harvests
may be.” [Prolonged applause.]
But do you tell me that if you gave up
your Independent movement it will lose you
your chances. Young men, if you are am
bitious and want office you can secure it in
side the Democratic organization by show
ing to the country that you are necessary to
its service. Let tlie country see that you
have not offiy ih$ ability to lead, but the de
votion to follow, and your sacrifice will not
go long unrewarded: [Great applause.] I
read somewhere of a distinguished English
clergyman who wai upbraided for throwing
away oppMrtunities of preferment, and was
asked by his friend, “Why are you always
impaling your cbaDces for suocess upon a
point of conscience? Do you know what
became of the man who was always stand-
infinite sacrifice made by the Son of Man,
but let me say that if you will crucify your
ambition on the cross of principle, though
it may prove your political grave for a
time, you shall rise again in the glory of
a renewed and exalted manhood, and with
the assurances of a nobler and grander suc
cess. [Continuous rounds of applause. ]
“come back, my friends, come back !”
These dissensions will not only destroy
your political future, but will bring palsy to
the arms of our allies at the North now
raised to strike for our liberties as well as
their own. Come back ! I saw men in this
district above us who wanted to come back,
but they had done 90 much aud said so
much, and some had bet so much, that they
could not get back. [Laughter.] They did
not know how to come back. They did not
like the idea of abandoning an enterprise
once begun. That Is natural. They did
not like the criticisms that would be made
upon their consistency. That is natural,
too. But the best rule is, when you find
you are wrong, to turn back. “Be sure you
are right and then go ahead.” [Applause.]
They applied some not very complimentary
epithets to me because I answered the call
of the party and obeyed the dictates of my
conscience and defended these principles.
But this did not hurt much, if it had
1 should have proven myself very un
worthy the high trust reposed in ine by
this people had I permitted this or any
other cause to seal my lips aud silence my
tongue when the party which supported
these great principles was assailed and sum
moned me to speak in its defense. [Re
peated applause.] Such principles are
worth defending, even if it cost some sacri
fice. Truth is the divinest thing on earth,
and yet how long would truth live if there
were no sacrifice for it? You remember
they burned old Latimer at the stake be
cause he would not give up truth. But who
would not rather be Latimer,with his untar
nished soul ascending to Heaven in flame,
than to be the man who piled up the fagots
about him ? Who would not rather be a
Southern Democrat though defeated, yet
standing shoulder to shoulder with our al
lies at the North battling for these great
principles of liberty and seeking to bring
repose to this distracted country, rather
than to be the men or triumph by the aid
of the men, who knew the tempest of pas
sion aud wave the incendiary touches of
hate at the doors of this law-abiding peo
ple. [Great applause.]
I do not wonder that the Republican
leaders encourge these movements. 1 do
not wonder that the party of passion should
aid a movement to break down the party of
peace. I do not wonder that the Republican
press iu our own midst encourages the
movement; for to break down our organiza
tion is to destroy the party which drove
them from power. Wren, by their help a
man may get an office, but that office,
with all its emoluments aud honors,
is not worth the sacrifice. What
have you been doing the past ten
years? There never has been a time since
the war when you could not have done
that—when a man, by turning his back upon
the party of his principles, could not re
ceive aid and comfort, and perhaps office,
by the aid qf fheue men. Did they no r fry
to bribe you with office, driv* y OU wit j]
threats, discourage you Uy saying your party
would never get * nto power—that there was
too gre» r a majority against it—and if you
wanted office you had better leave it ? They
told you that you were iu a sinking ship,
driven by adverse winds and beaten by ad
verse waves, and beckoned you to abandon
it for one controlled by the strong arm of
Federal power. But you said no,
“THIS IS OUR SHIP!”
It is the ship of our principles, the ship
of the Constitution ! It bears th " '
the ark of our
covenanted liberties, it plies the white flag
of peace and we will save it or go down
with it! [Loud applause.] You stood by
your principles then. You worked, labored,
hoped on. You organized and contested
every field. You captured first the out
posts aud then the picket lines, aud the
main works and at last Georgia was ours,
[cheers] Alabama was ours, aud Tennessee
and Arkansas, and Texas, and Louisiana,
[great cheering] and 8outh Carolina and
Florida! [Immense enthusiasm.] What do
you want to turn back for nqw ? Let me
repeat that the enemy [s organized and his
bugle is soundiqg, add shall it be said that
when the last great battle comes this old
Georgia brigade—the foremost and bravest
and most steadfast in the line—is the first
to break ? [Cheers and cries of “No, uo !”]
I have no personal interest in this matter
which you have not A b*t my heart is bow^d
down. I remember, as do manv &f those
mpn aere to-night, what effect it used to
produce in the army when it was said •
“The brigade on the right is broken,” or
“the corps on the left has giyen away,” and
I know what will be the consternation of
the men of the North w hen told that the
whole Houvhern line has broken. It will not
do. iurn hack, fall into line and forward !
[Cheers. | 1 know the difficulties are very
great, but the necessities are very urgent
and the encouragements are abundant.
I have already shown you what we
have accomplished. You have reasons
for groat hope—hope in the good men of
the North, and when by the help of the God
of liberty they shall be able to see the truth
they w’ill flock to your standard* There is
hope here and hope tl\ere--hope in you, in
your good sens'; and your unselfish patriot
ism- nape m the grand principles upon
which you stand; but above all there is hope
iu that great truth for which the very throne
of Jehovah is pledged—tfca; justice shall
triumph and liberty »nali live! [Tremen
dous '
in conclusion we may say that no publie
address made here in years has received so
unstinted applause from this appreciative
people.
1 ™ 1 ' ■ ■■ 11 ■"
'yV'OULD call the attention of itrtendingpor
chasers to the following extraoi
low prices in BLACK CaSHMERKS :
25 pieces full faced ENGLISH CASHMERES at
45c. a yard. Th'ese gxxxis are 20 per cent,
under present value.
20 pieces full faced ENGLISH CASHMERE, 48
inches wide, at 65c. per yard, would be
really cheap at 80c. a yard.
10 pieces Lupin's 42 inch BLACK CASHMERE
at $1 U0 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 inches
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, JH yards wide, at
$1 00 per yard, value for $1 25.
100 pieces plain, striped and fancy DRESS
GOODS at «Hc. a yard, would be cheap for
WHc.
TAPISSIER’S. TFLLARD'S and BELLON’S
BLACK SILKS for $1 to a vard to $3 50.
300 pairs WHITE and GRAY* BLANKETS, from
$1 50 a pair to $20.
100 dozen Gents' completely finished SHIRTS
cn«
at 90c., wou’d be cheap for §1 25.
$1 50 a dozen, sold elsewhere for $2 00.
An examination of the stock, which will be
found replete in all the leading makes of Goods
and at lower prices than they ever touched be
fore, is respectfully solicited.
DANIEL HOCAN.
.4 RARE OPPORTUNITY
Real Bargains.
& O’
HAVING PURCHASED OF A FRENCH IM
PORTING HOUSE ITS WHOLE STOCK OF
•AgO (li
NOVELTIES!
—CONSISTING OF-
28,000 PIECES!
Will offer the same at prices 75 per cent, less
than tbe like class of goods have ever before
been offered to the people of these United
States.
20 pieces 6A DRAP TACODORA at SI 25,
former price $2 50; never offered in this market
before.
7 pieces CACH3IIRE De L INDE, blacks and
colors, all wool, at 50c., worth $1.
Saddle, giantess, &t.
W. B.
iULiii
(SUCCES20BS TO N. li. KNAPP),
*»
DEALERS IN
Saddles, Harness, Belting, Etc.,
HARNESS £ND SOLE LEATHER,
Gait Skins, Shoe Uppers,
Trunks. Valises A- Saddlery IVare.
West end Gibbons' Building, Market Square,
SAVANNAH, GA.
sepl7-d«S:w3m
BERG * CO.,
15 pieces DRAP MOULTAN, DRAP MORAH,
Pap nante
DRAP LAHORE, superb
signs.
, beautiful de-
39 pieces 4-4 CACHMIRE D' ECOFSE. black
and_colored, in new choice shades, 75c., worth
£0 pieces all wool SHOVELASS. beautiful
shades, at 50c., worth 85c.
2,000 pieces of WASH POPLIN at prices not
to be mentioned.
BOYS' SUITS, one thousand, at $2 50 and 83,
cheap at $5.
Tie Biest Drirs of All!
300 dozen DAMASK TOWELS at 25c.
117 dozen NEW KID GLOVES, 2 to 6 buttons,
from Harris,
GENTS* DOG SKIN, LADIES' CASTOR
GLOVES, MISSES' KIDS.
A new line of LADIES’ CLOAKS open to
day.
GRAY & O BRIEN.
BFJcKENNA&CO.
137 KKO14,HTO.\' STREET,
BETWEEN BUU. AND WHITAKER ST&
]ng an matters of conscience?’ f “Yes,
replied the clergyman, “He was crucified
on Calvary. He not only gave up riches
and honors, but even His life; but on the
third day He rose again with omnipotence in
His arm and salvation for mankind !” [Ap
plause.] God forbid that I should compare
the sacrifice I Invite you to make to that
157 BROUGHTON STREET,
Saddles, Harness.
SADDLERY HARDWARE,
Shoe Findings,
LEATHER,
Tranks,Satchels,&c.
WORK MADE TO ORDER, AND REPAIR-
IMG NEATI.Y DONE. sep'-SAm
§tationcru.
STATION TRY !
(jl’AJTOd & POIRSELIE,
132 BROUGHTON STREET,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A FINE ASSORT
MENT OF
Papateries. Pocket Books
Fancy
novl8-tf
Goods.
gamaqgjS, Suggtfs. &r.
THE SAVANNAH
CARRIAGE FORKS,
AM atonH nf «• U A* ’
Old stand of McKee & Bennett,
Corner Bay and West Broad Streets.
^^extensive stock of (
_ , _ Carriages, Phaetons.
Buggies, Wagons, Harness, Whips, Um
brellas and material of all kinds for the build
ing and repairing of vehicles. In addition to
the above a general workshop with competent
hanus to build and repair all kinds of vehicles
prices to suit the times. All work guaran-
A. K. WILSON,
Proprietor.
TJ-^PBILLS. POSTERS, DODGERS, PRO-
JLA GRAMMES, etc., printed at the Morning
News Steam Printing House, 3 Whitaker street.
A Great Fall in Prices!
DOMESTIC DRESS GOODS, now at 5c and
fijdc., formerly sold at 10c. and l2V0c
AHESTIC DRESS GOODS, now S' 10c.
. and
l'2Hc.. formerly sold at 15c. and 20c”
IMPORTED DRESS OCX )!)?. wool fillings, now
, J ’i'-'. wool fillings, now
from 15c. to 20c.. formerly sold at 20c to 30c
CAMEL S HAIR SUITINGS and CLOAJQNG8,
tolly a yard and half wide, now 75c., formerly
NAVY BLUE BOURETTE, 6-1 wide, now 5Cc.,
I rmeny 25.
FANC\ CASSIMEREN, for mm's wear at
prices much below value, to close the stoca
business”’ r *' 1 ““i ui ~ shin K this branch of our
LADIES’ CLOAKS.
‘."“JnHish Beaver Cloa^
to arrive to-day, all new styles Will
30 per cent. less than early fall prices.
b. f. mckenna & co.,
1ST RDfll-f'.Ur, vw- , "
137 BROUGHTON STREET,
Are offering at lower prices, full lines of the
following goods:
G l ? NDERVE.‘^ 1,e8 and ChiWre “'s MERINO
Gentlemen's RED LAMB'S Wfiftt * j
SHIRTS and DRAWEES. 'dedicated)
LJNhN towels. TOWEUSGS SAPmo ....
SHn£ ™ piuct 5S cS;
B. F. McKENNA & CO.
HOSIERY, GLOVES, NECKWEAR
now
IP *E, French tSe. il V BLI ^CIIED
Ladies' UNBLEAfWtor.’ ,ormert y "oldatSOc.
J?OSE,it !r, -^ulariy mad e)
Children s FANCY COTTON Hoar
vaneues, from 5c. a_pair up. m gnM
fYill lines of elegant FRENCH hosfvdv
pidies; WHITE LACE NEHK SCARFN^*
Ladies BLACK SILK L \cF
Children's FANCY NECK
Ladies' FANCY BOWS
Ladies' LINEN COLLARS and CUFFS
Gentlemen s LINEN rr>LL \^ f
Gentlemen's SILK NECKWEAR 0 ** C^FFS.
KID GLOVES.
IJidies 3-button KID OLOVES ar w.
2 - bu “°»KH> « :
Ladies button KID GLOYes , t w ,
Real Alexandre Kid (doles,
novlb-tf buttona ’ and Colored.