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\\ OLSliV TO CltOitlWELL.
> wei 1 1 did not think to shed a tear
; .'V'niseries: but this infernal
■•!'iijiti>m has forced me to play the womaL.
far hear me. Cromwell,
n lam f<»rg< uen as I shall be,
much as 1 leave no fortune behind
' M1 y memory green in the courts —
• n I am forgotten, 1 say.
J...-P in (lull, cold marble, where no men-
. must lx* heard for—see to it,
p. ii cnwnwell, that my body
,, snatched for base uses.
nwi l! I charge thee, fling away ambition,
f, j| the angels—how can man then,
un i »e "f his Maker, iiope to win by't,
1, |,.^ s a feilow of yonr stamp and style?
tlr> self I ist. and a rich man's
cliter tirst: cherish those hearts that hate
, ' t ,, s3 y, cherish a kindred hatred for
n, w r Ins.- nn opportunity to get even;
in thy right hand carry gentle peace,
in th\ hip pocket a seven shooter;
n if ih .u falTst,«> Cromwell,
u fall st a thoroughbred
—Oil City Derrick.
L*d to A
Had. TL
he is
ho we
Georgia Affairs.
ion was caused in Atlanta on
.? by the arrest of one William
1 Julia, his wife, on the charge
,iiig a young girl, about thirteen
c, named (>llie Gunnell. The girl
•rself from home Sunday morn-
sc.irch being made for her it was
that she was at Winant’s house.
- went there for her, but she was
.ml into spirited away. Monday
as found on the streets, and gave
unt of having been moved about
muses, and finally having been
i the Atianta and Charlotte Air-
iuih, from which place she re-
of her own accord. A
investigation of the matter will be
arrested parties have not yet been
vc bond.
i. through Mr. W. O. Tuggle her
Washington, is pushiug a claim
ie United Slates for from $250,030
k>, money advanced by her to the
Govern in mt for prosecuting the
12. A bill for the payment of such
now pending before Congress, and
iored that Mr. Evans, of South
Chairman of the committee to
■ matter has been referred, has a
full report on the subject which
it ready to present. We presume,
as this is ‘ a Southern war claim,”
will be afraid to act upon it
rah!
1’. 1
r Colquitt has decided a contes-
n from Whitfield county. Mr. A.
Roberts, the former Sheriff ol the county,
was do
Frederii
vide!
;d
id
the late election by Mr.
Mr. Roberts contested the
seutei the case with the
Governor. After hearing
the case fully, Governor Colquitt decided
that Mr. Cox was legally elected, and issued
au *rder to that effect.
Says the Talbot ton Higgler: “The sud-.
den rise in cotton last week induced an influx
of the staple into market. From tlie pas
sage through our streets, we thiuk the plan-
k for better prices a goodly
>n. all of which is good for
and for all classes of busi-
eld hi
the
llt’S:
Ill tl
learn t
three;
was th
Colonel Lee Jordan’s planta*
Invest Georgia, twelve barrels
e manufactured from one and
t space of four daj’S, as we
ie Watchman, Athens ha6 had
deaths within its limits. One
little white girl, Miss Susan C.
Carr, eleven years of age,who fell dead on the
streets, and who had left home only about
an hour before in good health to attend
school. Another,of a colored woman, Harriet
duelling, was found dead in her bed, and a
third, of AustinWilliams, a colored man, who
died suddenly while sitting in a chair. This
record is really remarkable in a place the
Columbus now enters complaint against
tramps who are visiting that city in con
siderable numbers, and have committed
many petty depredations.
A race on the Chattahoochee between the
Julia i*t. Clair and the G. Gunby Jordan, of
rival lines, resulted in the latter reaching
Columbus Tuesday with lier wheel dam
aged by a collision. Fortunately no other
harm va> done.
The Sunlersvllle Couru-.r requests the
press of tin* State to correct an error in re
gard to iu si/.e, subscription and circula
tion, which appears in the “American News
paper Directory for 1879.” The directory
placve its size at 22 by 32, subscription $2,
circulation 5oO. The paper says it is 24 by
3o, subscription $1 f>0, circulation 1,500.
The Amerieus liepublican learns that on
night last about ten o’clock the
'Use < -f Worth county was completely
d by fire, and the entire records of
fly burned up. It was the work of
diary.
olfe Gillespie died at the residence
u in-law in Amerieus on Saturday
• would have been ninety-one years
I'ril next, and has resided in Anieri-
- He was accounted one of
Hebrew scholars in the South, and
poke fluently the German, French,
and Italian languages, and had a
•d knowledge of English,
ugusta Chronicle says that par and
was icfused for Georgia Railroad 6
. bunds Wednesday, Sales of State
;Ia ;» per cent, bonds were made at
hardly gotten their much
longi* I for railroad running in
yd already railway accidents
t. The Gazette thus tells of
most a disaster;” “Last. Fri-
2:40 train arrived in Elberton,
irs, consisting of five boxes,
-- from the engine &ud pas-
d to run in on the freight
fcunda;
destro;
the coi
an inei
Mr.
of his
last,
old in
them
flat ci
sat a
appro;
to tat
by «it
most -
■*as tli
impetus that had been given
by the engine and the down
At this end of the track was a
loaded with cotton, oa which
■ouple of gentlemen watching the
L of the train. The brakeman failed
up in time, and the burnp occasioned
ash threw the gentlemen headfore-
• ha bale of cotton after them, and it
th • 11 impression of the bystanders that
e y had been severely hurt, but when sev
eral w en
the tvrecl
kleked t
«n<l with
fri 5W t ue
Of
verely
them to extricate them from
. it was found that the victims had
vtnselves from under the cotton,
the exception of being badly
• were all right. If all that train
v *• ‘d run ovea them they might have
bruised.”
■’ij" '‘Unibus Tines: “Yesterday morning
chant- U *' Iu ^ ord » one of our old time mer-
nle i a a man we il known to our peo-
on h U V vbo ^ as f or several years past lived
iu in i ace ' S0U1 ^ four miles from the city,
^Alabama, made a short visit to a neigh-
hoin» wben ^ le returned home found his
ash<* e au 'I contents reduced to a pile of
Muir’ Everything was lost. Mr.
iinm • , Was in the city in the after-
tbat was 6siVed on his per-
hf. u. consisted only of the clothes
0 f a ? bearing. That the fire was the work
fart ( cndiary seems conclusive, from the
the ^ r • Mulford had had no fire on
homa aC T the morning before he left
e * In addition to the loss of his house,
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
clothing and furniture, he had some five or
eight hundred pounds of cotton burned,
which he had not sold and which was stored
in one of his vacant rooms. We deeply
sympathize with Mr. Mulford in his misfor
tune, and regret that he had no insurance
on his premises.”
Elberton Gazette: “As Elberton grows
into the proportions of a city she begins to
attract the attention of the outside world,
and the eyes of all classes are turned this
way with the view of enhancing their pecu
niary interests in all manner of styles. Some
with axes to grind have no regard for the
morals of the community, and while their
business are not touched by the laws of
the State, or if they are the laws are not
prosecuted, we think our city fathers will
take such cases under consideration at an
early day and mould an ordinance that will
handle these adventurers with gloves off.
Money is too scarce to be taken out of the
country by ‘wheels of fortune.’ ’*
The Columbia (S. C.) TTuenix says: “The
Augusta Chronicle extends an invitation
to General Tecumseh Sherman to visit
that city during his Southern trip. Per
haps, if he had paid them a visit in
1*05 and allowed depredations, as he
did in this city and State, they
would not have been so cordial. Circum
stances alter cases. We don't care to see
him here, ilis unkept promise to Mayor
Goodwyn is still remembered : ‘Go to
sleep, Mr. Mayor; your city shall be as faith
fully cared for as though you we*-e in abso
lute control.’ ”
Jesup Sentinel: “On Friday last the
woods about one mile northwest of Jesup
caught on fire, probably from one of the
turpentine stills. The Haines spread rapidly,
and at one time came near reaching the
dwelling and store of Messrs. Morgan A:
Reddish. It was only by the strenuous
exertions of Mr. Morgan and some colored
men that the property was saved. The
destruction of Hamburg would have been a
serious inconvenience.”
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
ThOfte Cipher Ztadicala
tlie Only Ones Injured by the In-
veNcigation--'The Tyner-Chandler
Explanation—The Southern Claims
Agitation — Chrifttiancy Sent to
Pt*ru to Make a Place lor Zach
Chandler.
Special Correspondence of the Momino News.
Washington, January 29.—The cipher
hunt has begun. But it lias not in the first
two days of investigation proved the
palatable food that the Republicans expect
ed. “Now we will have Democratic vil
lainy shown up” thought the Republican
when the investigation was ordered. The
proceedings of the committee was a morsel
which he contemplated with a watery
mouth. He chuckled with a pros
pective joy that he could hardly con
tain. How great was the change after view
ing the first day’s work! Instead of seeing
Democrats ashamed to show their faces,
the sight that meets the eye is Bill Chandler
and Jim Tyner rushing wildly during the
night from newspaper office to newspaper
office with, oh, such a thin explanation of
those dispatches unearthed on the tirst call
which passed between Zachariah Chandler
and Jim Tyner. In very truth, this was a
sad change for the expectant Radical.
The investigation shows further that the
Western Union Telegraph Company was
partisan iu the matter of telegrams.
When it was knowm that they were
to be taken from them under
a siibpana duces tecum, Jim Tyner, then Fost-
| master General, was allowed to take from
the batch his little ciphers. Was any Demo
crat notified and allowed the same privilege
by the company V Not one. The investiga
tion goes far to authenticate the statement
telegraphed you as to how the ciphers pub
lished by that organ of hatred, the New'
York Tribune, were procured. They came,
with the exception of some three or four,
into the hands of the Senate Privileges and
Elections Committee, of which Morton was
Chairman. While in the hands of
that committee an assortment of Republican
and Democratic dispatches was made. There
were about as many ciphers sent by Repub
licans as by Democrats. The three hundred
which did not go to the Senate Privileges
and Elections Cdtamittee went to Mr. Mor
rison’s committee, a Democratic body. A
schedule of them was kept, and they were
returned intact to the telegraph company.
How about those sent to the Republican
Senate committee presided over by Morton V
That committee returned a trunk full of dis
patches to the company, but not all. That
trunk full was destroyed. What became of
the remainder?
After assorting the dispatches and
destroying the ones that it was evident
damned deeply the Radical managers, a
clerk of Morton’s committee kept large
packages of Democratic ciphers. In my
dispatch I stated that he sold them to the
Tribune. That is the only point in which
my telegram concerning the dispatches was
in error. The clerk, whose name was Bul
lock, handed the Democratic ciphers over
to William E. Chandler and Brady, Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster General. What
becomes of Bullock? It’s the same old
story of Radical rascality in the late Presi
dential election being rewarded by patron
age. He is not given a “Consulship in
some warm climate.” but goes as a Unittd
States Consul to Cologne. William E.
Chandler and Brady tried to translate the
dispatches. They failed. Copies of them
were made. A bundle containing the ori
ginal telegrams, or most of them, is left on
General B. F. Butler’s table in his private
office by Chandler, who sneaked in like a
cur to do his work. Well know
ing Ben. Butler’s scent for all that
would harm an} body else, Chandler thought
that the Essex statesman would bring all
his resources to bear to decipher the tele
grams, and then spring them on the Demo
cratic party. But he didn’t. The copies
made of the dispatches were sent to the
Tribune office here, and translated by Air.
Holden, of the Naval Observatory iu this
city. There is every ground for suspecting
that the copies w r ere garbled and the true
translations not published by the New York
Tribune. I would say, without a doubt as to
its accuracy, that when the original ciphers
left with Gen. Ben Butler, and by him turned
over to the committee, are translated,
it will be shown that the New York
Tribune deliberately marred what it pub
lished and lied about it. This is the history
of the cipher. What a beautiful mess it is !
IIow r pleased ipust be the Republican to
look at it. The manner in which the lead
ers of the Republican party acted with these
dispatches is far more damaging to the
party than the worst dispatch, even as
translated by the Tribune, is to the Demo-
Now, to go back a little. Let us not
lose sight of Jim Tyner and Zach Chand
ler’s lirtle half cipher transaction. Although
they were allowed to withdraw their dis
patches (were not other Republicans allowed
to do the same ? is a pertinent point), stall
there was a very distinct remembrance of
their contents among the employes of the
telegraph office. What do they testify,
That the telegrams taken out by Tyner re
lated to the appointment of two clerks in
the Interior Department, and the appro-
priaUou of the salaries of the same
, r i5 000) to the Kepubheau campaign fund.
That looks very ugly- Aud the Tyner-
Chandler explanation that the telegrams
had reference to entirely another matter,
is so thin that it only makes matters look
worse. Can any one read this array cl
facts and not pity the Kepublican-that i
the Republican who was outside the rascali
ty and not knowing what was going on—
who was looking for rare developments
the other side ? He is truly a pitiable ob
ject Jfe lias his rare developments, bu„
degraded Republicans rather than dis
graced Democrats are the accompaniments.
If things go on like this therei kon t beia
Republican ia the land who will dare say
cipher And where will the Tribune be
The debate in Congress over Southern
claims has been transferred to the Senate
wing of the capital. The Radicals are pre-
tecdinir to say that the family quarrel among
the Democrats is now in tlie Senate. There
is no family quarrel- Some Northern and
come Southern Democrats think that such
claims should be paid: and some Northern
and some Southern Democrats hold that
they 6hould not be entertained. The
men who hold that they should be
paid strengthen the Democraticpartym
the minds of the people whf> think tney
should be paid; and the Democrats who are
opposed to such claims strfinRthLen rfie p^tJ
among those who are hostile to the cLuiXu.
A fter a look over the horizon this seems to
b»Sout the sDeof the predicted split u
the Democracy. Senlt . 0 ;, ™!. s n^MHerly
no one any harm except himself. He bitterly
onoosed all Southern claims growing ont ol
theTatc war. This will do no harm to the
Democratic party, but will not am I’«£;
strengthen him in tue land where he most
^Senator "christiancy is going to Peru as
fe wJlsw m eU to fL e ay S i e f n anwks‘be-
ah wwrks weu. i > investigation
keeps at Zach with force as it begun
with, there will not be enougn of htaleft
to be sent to the Senate. Rigan, Irarpeut *
and Chandler! Surely this looks more and
mnrft as if Grant was with luo pals again.
And Hayes fends Ooristiancy to Peru to
make a place for Chandler. ?QT0 ^
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOON TELEGRAMS.
REPORT OF THE YELLOW FEVER
EXPERTS.
HaeKabon Resigns the French Presi
dency.
PROBABLE
OF M.
CONGRESSIONAL PROrEEDINGS.
Di«a*t4-r* at Sea.
REPORT OF THE YELLOW FEVER EXPERTS.
Washington, January 30.—The board of
experts authorized by Congress to investi
gate the yellow fever epidemic submitted
their report. The board are unanimous in
the opinion that the investigation should be
completed and that the study of the natural
history of yellow fever should be systemati
cally pursued, and especially that inquiries
should embrace perpetually infected
ports of the West Indies, whose fields give
the greatest promise of practical results.
They accordingly recommended that
two or three skilled experts be
charged with the completion of the
study of the late epidemic, and that at
leas t two proceed to the West Indies and
make a more thorough study of the fever
than has as yet been undertaken, and that
they be accompanied by an experienced mi
croscopist, and that Congress take steps to
secure the co-operation of the Spanish and
other foreign governments, through the In
ternational Commission or otherwise, to as
certain the causes which perpetuate yellow
fever from year to year in the West Indies,
and devise a way to remove the causes or
lessen the chances of transporting the poison
to the United States and other countries.
The board presents the outlines of a sys
tern of quarantine which they say may af
ford the greatest attainable degree of pro
tection against the introduction aud
spread of infectious epidemic diseases, and
at the same time iuilict only a minimum
of the injury and inconvenience upon
commerce. Two classes of medical
officers are suggested. First, medical
officers of health to serve
foreign ports from which we receive the
importations of yellow fever aud cholera;
secondly, medical officers of health to
have charge of the quarantine stations,
and to supervise iuter-state travel and
traffic from infected places in time of an
epidemic. These two classes are considered
indispensable t® any method of quarantine
which does not involve the complete suspen
sion of .intercourse with infected parts.
The board regards especially important that
the selections be made from men skilled in
medicine aud sanitary science. One of the
difficulties which confronted the board is
the lack of a definite knowledge respecting
the duration of life or the virulence of the
poison of yellow fever and cholera. It is
known that the poison of neither Is suscepti
ble of a long vitality when exposed to
the open air, but it is not yet determined
haw long its infectious properties may be
preserved iu closelv shut up chambers, or in
compartments of vessels, or when confined
in the folds of clothing or goods. Another
difficulty arises from the Imperfect state
of scientific knowledge respecting dis
infection as applied to the destruc
tion of the poison of yellow fever. It
is deemed of great importance that means
be provided by Congress for obtaining
trustworthy information by telegraph iu
respect to the outbreak and progress of
cholera, yellow fever aud other epidemic
diseases iu all parts of the world, and the
departure of vessels from infected
ports bound for ports in the United
States. A diffusion of* trustworthy in
formation among the people respect
ing the existence and progress of pre
ventable diseases at home and abroad
should be encouraged as tending to avert
the evils of a panic and to promote the
measures of prevention. The carrying into
effect of an efficient system of quarantine
contemplates a central authority or health
department. It is considered important that
such department be so organized as to gain
strength from and give strength tothe^tate
and municipal health organizations.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, January 30.—In 1116 Senate,
the Vice President appointed Messrs. Ed
munds, Ferry, Hoar, Thurman and Whyte a
committee to consider and report the rights
of the Senate in the matter of amendments
to the post route bill of the last session iu
regard to the mails, Brazilian steamship sub
sidy, etc.
Mr. Morgan addressed the Senate at con
siderable length iu favor of his substi
tute for the Edmunds resolutions, ex
plaining that the substitute rested upon
the ground that the amendments referred to
were part of tlie Constitution, and as valid
as any other part of it. Mr. Morgan did not
conclude his argument to-day.
The House passed the post office appro
priation bill after increasing many of the
appropriations to the amount asked for by
the estimates.
The struggle for the morning hour was
principally between the friends of the army
bill aud the members from Mississippi, the
latter desiring to reply to Mr. Bragg’s
speech on Southern war claims. Mr Hewitt,
however, consumed the time until 2 o’clock
by dilatory motions, when the regular order
was the District of Columbia affairs, the
same consuming the rest of the day.
DISASTERS AT SEA.
London, January 30.—The ship Cultiva
tor, Captain Russell, from Liverpool
January 11th, for Norfolk, Va., put into
Queenstown reported leaky.
The new British ship Cypress, Captain
Kelley, from Savannah November 29th, for
Liverpool, was run into while anchored off
Innishowen Head and considerably
damaged, and was subsequently towed to
Liverpool.
macmaiion’s resignation.
Paris, January 30.—Marshal MacMalion
has resigned the Presidency of the republic.
Congress has been convoked for 0 o’clock
this evening. The election of M. Grevy to
the Presidency appears to be certain, all the
groups of the Left being in accord on this
point.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
DETAILS OF MACMAIION’S RESIG
NATION.
An Entirely New Administration to
be Formed.
ADDITIONAL PROCEEDINGS OF
TIIE POTTER COMMITTEE.
Meet i m
of the Davenport Investiga
tion Committee.
MEETING OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY
FOR TIIE SUPPRESSION OF VICE.
DISASTROUS STORMS IN MISSIS
SIPPI.
Notea, Foreigu and Domestic.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office or tee Chief-signal Observes,
Washington, D. C., January 30.—Indica
tions for Friday:
In the South Atlantic States, northeast
to southeast winds, slight rise in tempera
ture, partly cloudy weather aud areas of
rain by Friday night.
Iu the Middle States, partly cloudy
weather, a slight ri3e in temperature during
Friday, northerly winds, 6biftiug to north
east or southeast, stationary, followed by
falling barometer, and by Friday evening
threatening weather, possibly rain in south
ern portions.
In the Gulf States, winds mostly from
northeast to southeast, with threatening
weather and rain, stationary or slowly fall
ing barometer, and no decided change in
temperature.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, north
to east winds, increasing cloudiness and
areas of rain, and during Friday slowly
falling barometer and a slight rise in tem
perature, with variable winds.
THE CIPHER DISPATCHES.
Washington, January 30. — Whitelaw
Reid was tbe only witness examined by the
Potter Committee to day. His testimony is
corroborative of that heretofore taken re
garding the “ciphers.” He left with
the committee two volumes contain
ing copies of the telegrams received
b\T him for publication from Wm. E.
Chandler and Representative Hiscock of
the Potter Committee. The telegrams were
translated by Messrs. Hassard and Grosve-
nor, of the Tribune staff. But one com
plaint was ever made of the publication
being erroneous, and that w’as by Manton
Marble, an error having been made in at
tributing a telegram to him which he did
not send.
FAILURE.
Liverpool, January 30.—H. N. Hughes
& Nephew, merchants and ship brokers,
f&je failed,
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1879.
1
ESTABLISHED 1850.
THE EFFECT OF PRESIDENT MACMAHON S
RESIGNATION.
Versailles, January 30.—Mac Mahon’s
letter of resignation says, being in disa
greement with the Ministry, being hopeless
of forming another Cabinet, and unwilling
to assent to measures which he regards con
trary to the good of the army organization,
he withdraws from power. At a meeting of
the bureau of the Left, Ganr.betta proposed
M. Grevy for President of the Republic,
which was unanimously approved. Marshal
Mac Mahon asked the Ministers to counter
sign his letter of resignation, but they re
fused, declaring the letter a merely personal
act.
Paris, January 30, 4 P. m.—The present
Ministers will resign and a new parliamen
tary Cabinet will be constituted. It Is re
ported that Gambetta will take the Premier
ship and foreign portfolio. Tbe concourse
of the general public at Versailles is not
very great. The excitement does not com
pare with that of May 24, 18721, when Thiers
resigned. There is no disturbance any
where.
Versailles, January 30, 4 p. m.—Some
groups of the Right, including the Bcna-
partists, will support M. Grevy, whose elec
tion will be nearly unanimous. The Legiti
mists will probably abstain. M. Martel,
President of the Senate, will preside over
the Congress. M. Gambetta and
M. Marcere have Jbeen to congratu
late M. Grevy. It is understood
that the Ministry will move that the Cham
bers, after the election, adjourn for a week
to allow time to settle the pending ques
tions. It is the general opinion of the
Deputies of the Left that the present Cabi
net should remain in office. Gambetta ex
pressed this opinion very decidedly to-day,
but it is reported that Dufoure had an
nounced his intention of retiring to private
life.
Versailles, January 30, 4:30 p. m.—On
the assembling of the Chamber of Deputies,
M. Grevy read a letter from President Mac-
Mahon, announcing his resignation, amidst
profound silence. He then read the articles
of the Constitution applicable to the situa
tion, and announced that the two Chambers
would meet in Congress at 4:30 p. m. The
sitting then suspended.
meeting of the society for THE SUP
PRESSION OF VICE.
New York. January 30.—The Society for
the Suppression of Vice held its fifth an
niversary last evening. It was alleged that
a widespread conspiracy exists against the
society by its enemies. Sister societies had
been established, however, during the year
iu Boston, Cleveland, Louisville, St. Louis
and Chicago. Over 300,000 names and
addresses of obscene circulars had been
captured and nearly twelve tons of obscene
printed matter destroyed. The greatest
t riumph of the year has been the closing of
Madame Restell’s establishment.
CONFIRMATIONS.
Washington, January 30.—The following
confirmations were made to-day: John
Murphy Harrison, Register of the Land
Office in Arkansas, and the following Post
masters : In Arkansas, John II. Clenden-
ing at Fort Smith; North Carolina, Mrs.
Mary C. Daniels at Wilson; Georgia, Henry
S. Glover at Macon, Daniel W. Jarvis at
Darien, Charles W. Arnold at Albany; Ala
bama, Thomas T. Allington at Florence,
James McLemore at Lafayette, Charles A.
Womble at Tuscumbia; Mississippi, Finish
Little at Aberdeen; Tennessee, John Clin
ton at Brownsville.
DISASTROUS STORM.
Cinc innati, January 30.—A special dis
patch reports a disastrous storm at luka,
Mississippi. Six persons are reported to
have been killed, and great damage has
been done to property. The telegraph wires
are all down.
THE DAVENPORT INVESTIGATION COMMITTEE.
New York, January 30.—The Davenport
Investigation Committee to-day examined
the witnesses who had beeu arrested on
election day for attempting to vote on the
strength of the 1869 naturalization papers.
4. MADISON WELLS INDICTED.
New' Orleans, January 30.—It is rumor
ed that J. Madison Wells, Surveyor of the
Port, has been indicted by the United States
grand jury for malfeasance in office.
THE FIRST DISTRICT VACANCY.
Action of flie Democracy of Camden
County.
Jeffersonton, Ga., January 27.—At a
meeting of the Democratic citizens of Cam
den county, held at Jeffersonton January
27th, instant, to elect a delegate to the con
vention to be held at Savannah on the 4th
proximo, to nominate a Representative to
Congress to fill the vacancy occasioned by
the death of the late Hon. Julian Ilartridge,
Capt. J. S. Bailey was unanimously elected
Chairman aud Major A. S. Alden Secretary.
The following resolution, offered by Dr.
T. D. Hawkins, Jr., was adopted :
Jiesoh<ed, That Capt. James S. Bailey be
appointed a delegate to the Congressional
Convention to be held in Savannah on the
4th proximo, with the privilege of appoint
ing a proxy ; and that he be instructed to
vote for Col. W. T. Thompson for Congress.
It was also resolved that these proceedings
be published in the Savannah Morning
News.
Upon motion the meeting then adjourned.
J. S. Bailey, Chairman.
A. S. Alden, Secretary.
Grant in Favor of One Term.
Hart for a Times.
“The Grant movement is booming!”
joyfully exclaims the Globe-Democrat,
the St. Louis organ of whisky-ring
memory. But how can General Grant
himself be in favor of a third term! He
cannot. He was opposed even to a
second. For, when Andrew Johnson
was President, General Grant said this,
and allowed it to be published in his
favorite newspaper:
“The liberties of this country cannot
be maintained without a one-term amend
ment to the Constitution, and such a
civil service bill as will enable the Presi
dent to retain good men in office.”
It w’as a disastrous day for the country
when General Grant became President,
and surrounded himself with such “good
men in office” as constituted his corrupt
“rings.” It was still worse, when at the
close of his first term he “went back on”
bis declaration above quoted, signed the
salary grab, aud w T ent in for the huge
San Domingo job, and a second and still
more corrupt official term. Then, from
Florida to Georgia on the one hand, and
New York and the West on the other,
the whole control of the organization of
his followers seemed to fall into the
hands of jobbers, thieves and rob
bers. It was the very carnival
of corruption and plunder. And in
all—from the Lcet and Stocking “cart
ing” operation of the New York custom
house, tbe Brooklyn “moiety” cor
ruption, the Hallett Ivilbourn and Boss
Shepherd stealings at Washington; the
w’holesale rascalities under the Cameron
dispensation in Pennsylvania, the rob
beries by Farrow, the Chairman of the
Grant party in Georgia, the New Or
leans saturnalia, and the Chicago and St.
Louis whisky ring frauds—all—first,
last, and all the time, had their
patron and protector in the White
House. For Grant to want a third
term—after all this—savors of
something gotten in Denmark. It cannot
be. No, no. He will sternly check his
too zealous ctaquer9. He must have been
honest in declaring that without a con
stitutional amendment restricting any
man’s tenure of the Presidency to one
term, “the liberties of this country can
not be maintained.” That utterance—
made to Mr. Wilkes, and published,with
Grant’s approval, in the Spirit of the
Time*—(we revive it now as a curiosity)
—was the truest utterance ever made by
U. S. Grant; especially if the additional
terms should be his!
The consumption of beer in the whole
German Empire last year was S41,058,-
'68 gallons, or nearly twenty gallons per
head of population. The*importations
amounted to 3,333,814 gallons, and the
exports to 19,098,266 gallons. Bavaria
leads, for though the rate of consumption
is not givea, so great is the production—
53f gallons per head—that after making
due deductions for the exportation a
greater than average quantity is left for
home consumption.
A few weeks ago the French Govern
ment bought seven small railways. One
management now takes the place of
seven, the force is better organized, sine
cures have been abolisheq, and the gene
ral expenses have been reduced by $200.-
000 a year.
OUR FASHION LITTER.
r
Panlers Again Comtiig in Vogue-
Bridal Coalumes-Rlfl Dresses at
a Keeent “Dlallngim" Weddltig-
Traveling; and Street 49uttit«.
The Wamsutta Mills, of New Bedford,
have located an agent in one of the cot
ton distributing centres of England, and
are furnishing an article of fine bleached
cottons of superior quality.
Special Correspondence of the Morning Xews.
New York, January 28.—On all sides it is
asked, “Are paniers worn?” In discussing
this all important titeme with .one of the ar
biters of fashion, we were told that their
house (which stands second to none in fur
nishing elegant toilettes for the leaders of
the ton) bad not made half a dozen dresses
with paniers; that it would be fully a year
before the style spread here to any consid
erable extent. Yet it is safe to affirm that
these premonitory symptoms mean a revo
lution in fashion: that at a future season our
graceful clingiDg drapery will have entirely
disappeared, and the panier usurped its
place. Dresses have been stretched upon
the figure for so long a time, that of course
we must approach such a colossal innova
tion little by iittle, before we arrive at the
extensive proportions of the Marie Antoi
nette pouf which is an expansive bulg
ing on the hips; the puffing being
supported underneath by a founda
tion of 6tiff muslin or crinoline,
the back of the dress being perfectly flat.
A few of our fashionable belles, who aspire
to introduce a novelty, have appeared in
soft panier poufs, the tulle overdress a good
deal bunched on the hips, or modestly puffed
paniers made of brocade silk in small flow
ers, with vest and other accessories to har
monize with the plain faille dress. The
panier dress of the time of Louis XVI. i6
always in two or more colors or tints and in
two or more rich fabrics. They are espec
ially designed for full dress toilette, with
decollete corsage and short sleeves.
The bride who plays a most important part
iu the life of the bean monde must not be
overlooked, and as this is an especially fruit
ful season in brides, so are the bridal cos
tumes and accessories unusually elegant.
The heavy, rich, creamy satin, with won
derful sheen, the • traditional fabric
for the wedding dress, has many vo
taries, who believe it to be the ex
clusive fabric for the bridal robe. The
ultra fashionable incline to satin and silk
brocade as something newer, while plain
corded and gros grain silks have their ad
mirers. These fabrics come in several
distinct shades and tints of white, some
with just a suspicion of rose in tint, 6ome
with a hint *of lilac, while Jothers are quiet
gray in tint. The cream white also varies
from deep to medium shades, and is decid
edly the most becoming to the complexion
and the highest in favor. It may seem al
most absurd in selecting a white dress to
be worn in the evening to look at it by gas
light before purchasing, yet it is quite
necessary, as the difference is almost as
striking as the effect of different lights on
more decided colors. Some whites lock
dead aud lifeless seen by artificial light,
which had seemed perfect by day
light ; while another that you would
pass by as dull and characterless
while on the counter will be fairly brilliant
when seen by gaslight. The pnneesse,
gracefully draped and garnished, is the
favorite model for the bridal dress. The
corsage laces in the back, the neck is cut
Pampadour, and garnitured with soft, rich
lace, in valencieunes, duchesse or point
d’Alencon. The transparent Marie Stuart
sleeves of tulle, have slashings of satin or
brocade going from the armhole to the
elbow, where the sleeves finish in a fall of
lace to match the trimming at the neck.
For decollete corsages, the round and
square necks are both worn, finished by the
becoming Grecian drapery, composed of
tulle folds, ornamented with sprays of
orange flowers. The sleeves are very short,
formed by the Grecian folds. For young
brides (and all brides are supposed to be
young) the corsage pointed both front
and back has reappeared, aud is quite
popular: also the cuirasse basque is still
in favor; this is slashed at the lower
edge, and turned up iu loops two inches
broad. The skirt has the three breadths
of the front and sides very narrow and
closely gored. If the fabric is satin the front
breadths may be trimmed with plisses of
tulle, passing diagonally from the left side
to the foot, or the front may be laid in
broad double box pleat edged with plisses
of tulle. The immensely long flowing train,
eighty inches long, may be trimmed with
three narrow knife pleatings, and the top
finished in soft paniers, pouf in satin or bro
cade, though scarf draperies looped on the
train are more universally adopted. Satin
and silk brocade do not require much trim
ming, the floriated designs making them
dressy and effective. They are frequently
combined with satin, opening over a petti
coat and vest of the latter. A very elegant
bridal gown of satin brocade is in a design
of graceful delicate ferns. The
front breadths are laid in a
large double box pleat, with sprays
of orange flow’ers, buds aud foliage trailing
down both sides of the middle pleat. The
long square train is edged ail around with a
broad, heavy ruching of brocade, fringed on
both sides. A scarf drapery passes round
the figure high on the hips, aud is festooned
on the train with scattering clusters of or
ange blossoms, which look as if they had
accidentally fallen there. Mingled with the
soft Valenciennes lace which garnishes the
square neck is a spray of orange flowers at
the left corner. The elbow sleeves are also
trimmed with similar sprays.
At a recent distingue wedding the brune
bride looked lovely in a dress of cream white
satin, heavy and rich. The long square train
aud tablier were exquisitely embroidered
with pearls. At cither side, going away
like wings, in the panier style, were
draperies of satin arranged in billowy
puffs. The low neck and short
sleeves were enriched with Grecian folds of
satin embroidered with pearls, with a spray
of orange blossoms a little to the left side.
The long flowing tulle veil which entirely
covered the train and fell over the face,
down to the waist in front, was arranged on
the head with clusters of orange flowers.
The bridal pair stood under the conven
tional marriage bell composed of white car
nations and camellias, aud back of these in
exquisite tea roses and hyacinths was an im
mense horae shoe, with a horn of plenty de
pending from the centre, which is the latest
charmingly suggestive device for weddings.
The bridesmaids were dressed in white
damask gauze, over white silk, each wear
ing a different colored parure. One toilette
was elaborately garnitured in brilliant jac
queminot roses; another trimmed with starry
forget-me-nots; a third with pale Marshal
Neil roses, and over the last
were scattered dusky-peatted violets. Each
carried bouquets composed of flowers to
correspond with those which garnished their
toilette. The bridal handkerchief is of lace
matching the lace which trims the neck and
sleeves of the dress. Slippers are of brocade
or satin like the dre6s, ornamented with
orange blossoms. The silk stockings are
fancifully embroidered in white silk, or em
bellished with an oblong design in exquisite
hand wrought lace covering the instep.
Beautiful bridal fans have sticks of plain
white ivory, set with marabout feathers,
studded with orange blossoms; others are of
white silk with artistically painted designs,
edged with rich lace, mounted on opalescent
pearl sticks. There are superb bridal fans
entirely of point de Venice, point applique,
or round point lace as light as gossamer, and
as delicate as “woven wind,” with jeweled
sticks. And there are also costly and
rare bridal veils and parure in this
same exquisite web; but to possess
these is the fortune only of the favored
few. And to all, save the “exceptional
few,” who anticipate wearing the bridal
robe and orange blossoms, we would ex
tend the comforting assurance that they
will look just as charming and lovely en
veloped in an airy _cloud-like tulle veil, as
the “fortunate few” crowned and covered
with their regal laces.
The traveling dress for all brides’ travel
(if they stay at home forever after) is of
plaiu heavy cloth—in ducks’ breast blue, gar
net, myrtle green—including the haudsome
livery color, now so fashionable for the
street. These are made after the severest
designs, and trimmed with what is called
upholstery garniture, which is passementerie
with heavy tassels and pendants, almost
as substantial looking as upholstery orna
ments: or, the (revers, cuffs and vest may
be of velvet or plain corded silk,
and many very handsome suits are
merely finished on the edges with
several rows of stitching. The color
which gives tone to the toilette is seen in
the bonnet; a dash of pale blue, rose or
yellow in an ostrich tip placed on some
E art of the same. I will describe a plain,
at elegant bridal traveling drees, worn by
one of our exclusive set, a creamy brunette.
It was of plain cloth of the popular livery
CQlor. The short skirt was trimmed with
kilt pleating, which extended nearly to the
waist. Five rows of stitching finished the
bottom of the overskirt, the front of which
was brought high around the hips in heavy
folds, and fastened in the back with two
large inlaid T'earl buttons, tlie back of the
overskirt faffing in idose daapery. The
short basque opened over a corded garnet
silk vest, closed wiih medium smed inlaid
buttons. The tight coat 6leeve is finished
with cuffs of the cloth and Bilk mingled,
ornamented with buttons. A small fan of
the garnet silk is inserted in the back of the
basque. A garnet silk belt,laid in fine pleats
seams and tapers towards the front, where
it is fastened with a square bow made of
the silk. The street sacque is long and per
fectly plain, merely stitched on the edge
the large, handsome inlaid buttons being
the only trimming. The hat, a la Gains
borough, was of shirred garnet silk, with
nodding ostrich tips falling over the front
of the brim and drooping in the back.
Nothing could be plainer or more stylish
than this simple but rich suit. This blus
tering weather make veils almost a neces
sity of the toilette; for a protection to the
complexion, grenadine aud tissue, the color
of the suit, is much worn; also the sewing
silk, which is newer and softer. It comes in
square meshes, does not easily crumple, and
is very serviceable. It is shown in all tints,
even to deep maroon aud red, but seai
brown is most universally worn to match
the seal paletots which make the majority of
ladies look warm aud comfortable at this
season. Light crape veils are much in favor,
and are especially becoming to blondes,
heightening both the pink and white to a
wonderful degree. Crape lisse in light tints
is-also in favor; the one objection to this is
the very high finish or gloss, which makes it
almost dazzling when the sun strikes it, and
unpleasant both to the wearer and the be
holder. Though washing rarely improves
novelties in toilette accessories, it cer
tainly makes crape lisse much softer
and more becoming when used
for veils; It must not be ironed,
but stretched smoothly and pinned on some
fiat surface. Light crape veils, whpn
soiled, can be washed in a similar manner.
In novelties auu beautifiers there are varie
ties to suit all fancies and shades of complex
ion. The black illusion net is the principal
basis,which is embellished with dots in every
imaginable color and hue; in chenille, straw
and silk, jet beads and steel, gold and
silver beads, and spangles in gold and
silver, each and all have their votaries, and
the illusion is just sufficient to conceal any
slight cracks which might perhaps appear
in the broad glare of day. Straw dots, or
gold and silver are the choice of blondes
who understand what makes them look
best. The black lace veil, plain or spotted!
Is always becoming to brunettes, and they
may don them with the fullest assurance of
this fact. Many ladies who do not like to
wear veils over the face bind them across
the forehead to keep the frizzes in place,
with which our winter .winds are apt to
make terrible havoc. Hair nets the color
of one’s hair are also very much used to
confine the frizzes in place and are scarcely
noticeable. Lady Bug.
“BOOK MAKING.”
Fortune* Tliat Hava Been .llade on
the English Turf.
The English people have long been
looked upon as a betting people, and yet
they appear to be proud of the fact that
Lord Falmouth, who won more money
on the turf in 1878 than any other living
sportsman, never betted a dollar in his
life. There lias been a growth and de
cline of betting in England which has
been almost equally rapid, and the Derby
may be taken to illustrate our point, which
is that the evil is fast dying out on the
other side of the water. When Sir John
Shelly carried off his “blue ribbon'
with Phantom, in 1811, the fact of his
having netted forty-five thousand dollars
by backing his horse was quite the talk
of the town. Book-making soon after
this sprang into vogue, and, besides the
London division, an extensive portion of
the ring hailed from the cotton district
and was known as the “Man
Chester School.” The Blands, Gul
lys, Hills, Crockfords, Swindells,
liidsdales, Barbers and Worsleys
stood at the top, and in time
gave place to the Pedleys, Hargreaves,
Davises, Jacksons, Stephensons, and
others, who in turn have been succeeded,
so to speak, by men of the present day.
Davis took the highest place of them all,
and is credited with having once made a
$500,000 book on the Derby; hence the
title he acquired of “the leviathan.”
The abolitiou of betting houses and lists
throughout the country dealt the first
great blow at the roots of future-event
betting, and the continued interference
of Parliament has reduced it almost to a
minimum. Now, the only places where
betting is permitted i3 on the race course
and at Tatters&lls. Limited speculation
can, therefore, hardly be wondered at.
And yet as recently as 1867, Mr.
Chaplin, the owner of Hermit, is
credited w’ith having won $600,
000 in bets alone. Blue Gown’s
year, too, which followed, was a big
betting event, and Sir .Joseph Haw
ley won a sum of money which would
have been much larger had he not
•' hedged out. ” Baron Rothschild’s
Favonius cantered home heavily backed
in 1871, and then came Cremorne’s vic
tory over Pell Mell, w r ho was supported
at Tattersalls to w r in over $.500,000,
and was beaten by a head only. Com
paratively little has been done on subse
quent Derbys, or, for that matter, on
most other fixed events of late years.
Last year the book makers were greatly
crippled and they have not yet made
known their intentions for the coraiDg
season. Besides the decline in betting,
there has been a great falling off in the
number of starters. The number of
horses that ran last year fell short by
over four hundred of the season of 1868.
So far as this is concerned, the real
trouble is that England has too much
racing, and only the Newmarket, Good-
wood and Doncaster meetings are plen
tifully supplied with horses.
Kleptomania in Brooklyn.
Son Francisco Chronicle Letter.
Virulent kleptomania has shown itself
epidemical among the young ladies of
Brooklyn, apparently devoured by an in
satiable thirst for fine jewelry and other
choice knickknacks. Some time ago a
dealer in valuables in the City of Churches
lost a package of diamond jewelry, and
offered a reward of five hundred dollars
for its recovery. Upon restoration of the
gems payment of the recompense was re
fused upon the ground that a ring of that
value had been abstracted by the finder,
a reputable working girl, who. however,
recovered the amount with costs in an
action of law. This week a Miss Nelson,
a handsomely dressed young lady, pre
sented herself at this same jeweler’s store
and tendered a $50 bill in payment for
some purchase. A bank cashier being
casually present, examined the note, and
upon his opinion as to its genuineness, it
was cashed, although subsequently
proven to be counterfeit. Upon arrest.
Miss Nelson confessed stealing the bill
from her brother’s private drawer for the
purpose of purchasing finery, aud as the
note deceived an expert, she was dis
charged for the want of guilty knowl
edge7 The next day Miss Maria Gard
ner, a very beautiful belie of Brooklyn,
was caught in the act of purloining
trinkets in the self-same jewelry estab
lishment, and in extenuation of her of
fense her parents introduced testimony
as to their daughter’s being a chronic
kleptomaniac. The magistrate, how
e/er. committed her for the action of the
grand jury, unwilling to assume the re
sponsibility of determining upon the
legal complexion of a disease seemingly
prevalent among the fashionable beauties
of the season, but which probably origi
nates in disappointment of the non-re
ceipt of the usual Christmas gifts of gems
thoughtless young men have heretofore
showered upon objects of their admira
tion.
• A terrible explosion took place the
other day in a Pittsburg candy factory.
The kettle containing gum drops went
up through the roof, and then the by
standers could see the gum drop all over
the adjoining neighborhood. This should
be an awful warning to those who are
addicted to gum drops. It would be
rather unhandy to have a mouthful of
gum drops suddenly er.plode. This
newly-discovered property of gum drops
may burst up the manufacture thereof,
if the gum droDS themselves do not un
dertake the bursting of the manufacto
ries.—Detroit Free rrew.
THE GARRARD BONDS
Georgia's Credit as Felt Abroad —
The High Place her Securities
Have Attained In the .Money Cen
tres of the World -How the New
Four Per Cents are Received
Great Demand lor Them.
Atlanta Constitution.
One of the Constitution reporters
dropped into the office of the State
Treasurer yesterday afternoon and found
that official immersed in business just as
though he had noi been off to New York
for two weeks and was in duty bound to
tell us all about it. After au exchange
of the compliments of tlie day the re
porter asked.
“How about those baby bonds?”
“Oh. they all right. The American
Bank Note Company is hard at work upon
them and they will l>e ready in a short
while, and will be beauties.”
“When do you expect to have them
here and placed on sale?”
“If no unforseen mishap occurs they
will be here and ready for delivery about
the 15th of February. I cannot promise
you any before that date.”
“How do you expect them to go off
Is the prospect good?”
“Just as good as could be wished,
have every reason to expect full demands
for them * They will be popular beyond
a doubt.”
“Has there been any change in the de
signs of the bonds?”
“None except to put the coupons
upon the end of the bond, so that they
may be clipped without disfiguring the
bond ?”
“They will run the full width of the
bond ?”
“Yes; making a much neater affair of
them and doing away with one of the
main objections made to the circulating
feature of the bonds.”
“It was specialed here to us that you
had made sales of the bonds in 2s ew
York ? How about that V*
“Yes, I did make two sales there for
delivery when the bonds are ready. One
of them was to one of the. strongest
banks in the city. The President of
entered into writings to take $25,000 of
them.”
“Why did he want them?”
“I do not know, unless as an invest
ment or for a reserve fund. It is a good
investment for them, as their money can
hardly command good securities at
higher annual rate.”
“What was the other transaction?”
“That w’as a broker who told me he
wanted ten thousand dollars of them
when ready.”
“Did you have other inquiries for
them ?”
“Y"es. When I got to New York
I was called upon by a number of the
bankers and brokers, who desired to
make inquiries concerning these four per
cent, bonds. They asked fully as to their
nature and the act authorizing them,
and as to the financial condition of the
State. All these inquiries were answered
truly and to their satisfaction.”
“What was the result?”
“Why, they went off and began to
take up all the Georgia sixes they could
find in the market. The premium went
up at once, and w’hen a gentleman asked
me to see if he could get five of them, I
left the matter with a friend, aud here is
his telegram just received.”
The reporter found that the telegram
offered as the best terms for sixes—
1054 with accrued interest.”
“Then you found Georgia securities
standing in good repute?”
“Why, they arc among the best on the
market. For instance, Georgia gold 7’s,
due in 1890, are selling at 1114. The 7’s
due in 1896 are at 112±; tlie 6’s due in
1889 are at 105L and these new 4’s are at
par. If that is not a splendid showing
for a State that was left more than bank
rupt by the tide of war thirteen years
ago, I do not know what would be satis
fying.”
“How does that showing compare with
the state of the securities of our sister
Southern commonwealths ?”
“Compared with them, Georgia is the
gilt-edge State of the South. Among all
the best financiers of the North, the re
gret is expressed that other Southern
States have not followed the example of
Georgia and attempted a square settle
ment of their debts. Georgia is the
model State, in their view, and the Presi
dent of one of the largest moneyed in
stitutions of New York told me his bank
would cheerfully let Georgia have all the
money she wanted at 5 per cent.”
“Your general idea, then, is that our
State is healthy in her pocketbook?”
“Solvent as a legal tender dollar! The
people can wipe out their debt at any
time, and if they don’t want to sell their
State possessions and do that, they can
get the lowest rale on their bonds that
will be given any State in the Union.’
Treasurer Iieufroe related several inte
resting conversations with moneyed men
of the North iu relation to Georgia
finances, but the above gives the spirit
of them all.
Hamilton Fish, the venerable swell
who once occupied the office of Secre
tary of State while his son-in-law picked
up fat fees on the outside, has been pour
ing out the gathered wisdom of }’ears
through the sluice-like columns of the
New York Tribune. Speaking of Grant
Mr. Fish says :
“Grant was innately a gentleman. If
you were to place him in a certain circle
of society people, such as exists in some
of the exclusive parts of this city, it
might be said there that he had too little
manner and did not dance nor flatter,
nor play the elegant creature as well as he
might. That is the view soxe hold of a
gentleman. But when you come to the
natural graces of the heart, kindness and
thoughtfulness, an ingenious and open
spirit, respect for good women and truth
ful men, there was about him all of that
which makes the man. Many of his
critics, more fastidious, might have
learned from him th*t imputation is no
part of a gentleman. I repeat that he is
underestimated. 1 have in my mind a
range of nearly half a century of public
men whom I knew; he has as much of
my respect as any of them.”
In view of the fact that Mr. Fish was
able to purchase a high position from
Grant, by patronizing him in an aristo
cratic, Fifth avenue way, it is proper
that he should furnish him with a cer
tificate of good character when he needs
it so badly. Mr. Fish may consider him
self booked for something sweet under
the IienaUsance.—Baltimore Gazette.
Oranges as a Regimen .—A vast num
ber of oranges are eaten by the Span
iards, it being, ia faci, no uncommon
thing for the children of a family to con
sume some tea or a dozen oranges each
before breakfast, gathering them fresh
for this purpose from the trees. Such
wholesale consumption of what i s com
monly looked upon as a luxury appears
to nave no unhealthy effect upon the
system. On the contrary, the testimony
of a late eminent physician authorizes
the use of fruit as most wholesome im
mediately upon waking in the morning;
he, indeed, prescribed such a regimen to
a friend as the only invigoratingand per
manent cure for indigestion, facetiously
remarking at the time that he gave her
a piece of advice which, if it were
known to his dyspeptic patient 3 , would
cost him his practice, as they might ^re
fer so simple a remedy to his professional
visits.
DON PIATT ON MR. BRAGG.
A ( au*tir Overhauling of the Wis
consin Brigadier.
Washinaton Capital.
The few feeble remarks of the lion.
General Edward S. Bragg, of Wisconsin,
last Wednesday in the House are treated,
it seems to me. with more attention than
they deserve by the press of both parties
the Republican newspapers magnifying
them, and the Democratic journals de
precating them for reasons that are alike
obvious. While General Bragg’s re
marks were still fresh upon the badly
ventilated atmosphere of the House, sev
eral of the gentlemen to whom he ro
ferred either personally or re present a
tivelv, appeared to be in an excited frame
of mind and manifested a disposition to
reply categorically. But the next day,
after sleeping on the matter,our Southern
friends recovered their composure, and,
notwithstanding the strenuous efforts
of the Radicals to postpone legislation
in the hope of seeiDg a Democratic row,
Bragg and his breeze disappeared to
gether incontinently, in the regular order
of business under the rules. This w’as
eminently correct. There was no good
reason why the remarks of General Bragg
should provoke personal debate. His
trouble is of the head rather than of the
heart, and he should, therefore, receive
the gentle sympathy of his wiser col
leagues, rather than be made the object
of their wrath. The apprehension that
the country r will forget the fact that he
was a Brigadier in the Federal army is
an idiosyncrasy with Mr. Bragg, and it
is usually counted unjust to hold a man
responsible for his infirmities.. It would
not, therefore, be the proper thing to
reply categorically to any remarks
which General Bragg may make at any
time when he is under the influence of
his idiosyncracy. On the other hand, tbe
sen-ible * members of the House should
listen silently, and if they desire to make
any demonstration at all they should look
at each other with solemnity while Bragg
is talking, tap the frontal scructure of
the cerebrum with tbe forefinger of the
right hand, and shake the head with
gravity. Such a course of procedure
would conclusively inform the audience
in the gallery as to the nature of the dif
Acuity, and there would be no further
trouble. And if to this treatment were
added a badge, to be affixed to any conve
nient part of General Bragg’s person,and
bearing the inscription, “This gentleman
was a Federal Brigadier—and don't you
forget it,” the remedy w’ould be complete
and infallible.
An effort has been made in various
quarters, and among them, by my usually
well informed and sagacious friend
Nordhoff. to ascribe to Bragg’s remarks
a status of representative importance, to
set Bragg up as the exponent of what is
very vaguely and indefinitely termed
“the Northern Democracy,” or at least
that portion of the Democratic party
North whose members, by reason of
their active military services, have been
termed “War Democrats.” This effort
will undoubtedly fail. It may be a part
of the programme of Mr. Randall’s can
didacy for the Speakership, seeing that
his fortunes are growing desperate, to
coerce, by party bulldozing, that support
from Southern meu which promises
aud pledges that past experience
has discounted have failed to
win. This is the view taken
of the matter by a number of Southern
men. In either case, however, the in
stru’ment selected is not equal to the
task. General Bragg has been a candi
date for office on the Republican ticket
in Wisconsin too often and too recently
to represent the sentiments of “Northern
Democrats* of any school, war or peace.
If General Rice, of Ohio, Banning, Tom
Ewing, Bill Morrison, or any other fight
ing Union Democrat with a reputation
for sense as well as a real battle record
of service and scars, were to take
such a position as Bragg took, it
might mean something. But the
notion that Bragg represents anything
but his own weak bombast and
ridiculous vanity is absurd. I do not
even credit the assumption that Randall
has employed him as a bulldozer; be
cause, with all his shortcomings, Ran
dall has hitherto displayed better judg
ment than that in his selection of men
to serve his convenience. I am aston
ished than an observer and critic usually
so acute as Nordhoff should have gone
off on so slight a provocation into such
absurdity as that of saying that though
“it is the fashion to speak of General
Bragg as a crochety man, w-ith an infirm
temper, he expressed the sense and will
of the Northern Democrats yesterday.”
I venture to say that if Mr. Nordhoff
will consult the “Northern Democrats”
whom I have just named he will dis
cover that neither the manner nor the
matter of Bragg’s eruption “expresses
their sense and will’' in the slightest de
gree. On the contrary, the best w-ay to
get along with Bragg is, as I suggested,
to label him a Federal Brigadier at all
hazards, and then let him tumble around
to suit himself. The idea that the Demo
cratic party, which has survived revolu
tion and made head against the political
storms of a century, is finally to be dis
rupted by Bragg, is too ridiculous to—
why it is too absurd to even laugh at.
You might as well apprehend that the
foundations of the capitol building are
in danger from the mining operations of
some industrious pismire.
An Irish agent having been instructed
to raise rents, called a meeting of the
tenants and apprised them of the inten
tion. ' Vou can afford it,’ - said he, “see
how prices have risen.” Silence was
broken by an old farmer, who said:
“Yes; there is no denying on that. It
used to cost a pound to get an a^ent
shot, and now, be jabers, it can’t be done
under two.” The rents have not jet
a finger broad, comes from the underarm been raised.
General Grant has started tram Paris
for India by way of Marseilles. He will
proceed to Bombay on his own account,
w r here he will be picked up by the Rich
mond. His party consists of himself,
Mrs. Grant, Colonel Freddie Grant, ex-
Secretarv Borie, Dr. Keating and John
Russell Young, the Herald correspondent
Mr. Young will keep the hearts of the
American people warm with his graphic
and thrilling accounts of the General’s
travels. He has a splendid opportunity
to overshadow the memory of Boswell,
and he will doubtless do it.
An Indian Thermopylae.
Nave York Herald.
Are there twenty-five white men any
where in the world who can do what was
done by the handful of Cheyennes re
cently hunted down and killed by four
companies of United Slates troops ’? Prob
ably there are not; but it is certain that
it white men bad done this, if any squad
of heroic pale faces had called upon their
oppressors in this style to ‘ make way
for liberty,” ar>d burdened with their
wives and children, had burst from pris
on, gone through the fire of the guards
and, pursued 'by a whole battalion of
rained, disciplined and well armed cav
alry, had maintained their flight and re
sistance for twelve .lays and only been
subdued when the last man was shot
down, the world would have been dam
orous with wonder and applause over
such gallantry, such courage, such
adroitness in the ruses of war,
such devotion to freedom and
such an unconquerable spirit. But tlie
world will probably say less of these
things done’ by the red man than it
would have said if they had been done
by the white man. And yet is not such
heroic conduct more rather than less re
markable in the savage ? Practically we
regard it as commonplace for the men of
race reputed inferior th do acts that
would have conferred immortal glory on
their paler brothers. How the ages
have chanted in the sweeping lines of
“Chevy Chase’’ the achievements of
“the Percy out of Northumberland;”
and yet if either Percy or Doug
las had encountered what the Chey
ennes were compelled to face it
would have been so prosaic a
butchery as to have left no stuff for a
ballad. Even the comparison with
the three hundred Spartans—the most
famous of all battles against odds—
leaves plenty of honor fur these Western
savages, fu: the Spartans were the most
warlike people of their time, and the
best trained and the best armed soldiers
of the people, while the Asiatic levies
of the great kingdom were a rabble by
comparison But the Cheyennes, poorly
armed, owed all their success to their
personal qualities, and made a severer
right, not against sheep like levies that
had to lie driven up with whips, but
against first class troops. In whatever
way it may be contemplated this fight
has no parallel save in other episodes of
Indian history, and the annals of war
may be searched in vain for a more bril
liant display of all the qualities that en
noble the ever grand struggle for free
dom.
FOOLISH TKVSCANS.
The Exchanges and Their Five
Thousand Desperate Gamblers.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Though rich and populous, yet San
Francisco is a city without solid indus
try. She has palaces and she has hovels.
She has churches, asylums and prisons,
but she has comparatively none of those
other complements o: prosperity—work
shops and manufactories. Her church
spires and her palutial domes glancing in
the light lift everywl ere into the atmos
phere, but from none of her hills does
the eye catch a glimpse of those mighty
symlrols of common prosperity and gran
deur—the black smoke-stacks of thun
dering forges and whirring wheels. In
stead of these eloquent witnesses of in
dustry, or (iecuniary and intellectual
progress, we have only the evidences of
a false and overstrained life. As the
grand basis of this civilization we
have three well established Ex
changes, in and around which are
hourly congregated five thousand of the
most desperate gamblers of modern
times, of both sexes, who have no other
business but that of stock gambling.
Here are fathers and sons, mothers and
daughters, to be seen each day as con
stant attendants upon the games of the
Stock Boards, and all under an excite
ment that gives to the nerves a tension
but a few degrees from that of delirium.
And here in this we see the proofs of our
conclusions as it regards the social and
nn>ral future of San Francisco Ian any
other deduction be drawn than that we
are gravitating witli swift impulse up the
arc of abnormal life toward the very
zenith of the ‘ scatlet?” Three hundred
boys from ten to eighteen years of age
are being thoroughly drilled in the great
school of slock gambling on Pine and
California streets. Three hundred women
are constant attendants as gam
blers in the galleries of the Exchange,
passing through all the excitements of
the rise and fall of values. And what
are tbe moral and physiological resuits of
all this? Why, three hundred boys who
in a few years are to become more skilled
and more abandoned in the sphere which
they have chosen than arc even their ac
complished teachers. And, too, a greater
or lesser number of offspring yet to ap
pear upon whom shall be impressed the
very genius of stock gambling—that
spirit whose thirst for speculation and
chance shall in tbe end consume itself.
Surely a life is now being generated which
shall, when fully birthed, complete the
circle of human extravagance and dissi
pation—a life in tlie glow and eccentrici
ties of which not only that of Paris but
even that of Corintli—vea, even that of
Babylon—shall rest in deep and perpetual
sleep.
The Necessity for Eating Luncheons.
New York Times.
A large list might be made out of emi
nent men who have died from not eating
luncheon. Pitt ruined himself by long
fasts, while immersed in affairs and
oblivious of all else, and, to come nearer
home, it was in the same manner that
1’resident Orton, of the’Western Union,
did himself incalculable harm. If the
machine is not well oiled it will inevit
ably rust down. When we see men long
past middle life able to scope with those
ia their prime, we may rest assured that
they have not been negligent of their
physical needs. Pitt died at 47; Byron,
who played trieks with his health, at :i(i.
Palmerston who began official life nearly
as young as Pitt, but played a noble knife
and fork, died in harness at 80, and rode
twenty miles tlie year of his death. And
as for Bismarck’s appetite, his biogra
pher has given us ample information as
to its marvelous excellence, and the ex
traordinary care which, whether in peace
or war. the Prince takes to cater for it.
No luncheons are omitted there. Some
of the hardest worked business men in
London add largely to their days by
keeping hunters at a point a few miles
distant; and taking a “ride to hounds”
once or twice a week; and now that we
iiave rapid transit, New York business
men might easily do something of the
kind by keeping ;. saddle horse in some
neighboring village, and getting a ride
in the surrounding country every other
day. This is far better than pounding
perpetually around the Park, and, by
keeping a" horse a week or two in One
place and a week or two in another, they
would command variety and get
acquainted with a large range of the de
lightful country which surrounds us.
Nature is sternly revengeful, and those
who wifi not take trouble to please her
may rest assured that they will always
have to pay the pqpulty. That this fact
should not, even in the nineteenth cen
tury, have been thoroughly realized by
man is a strong proof of bis being still
deeply impregnated with that foolish
ness which Solomon so constantly harps
upon and bewails.
Bad Vkntilatioh in Coxobess.—
Congressmen are dying so fast that there
must be some special cause for it, and
by many it is attributed to the defective
ventilation of the House. Natural light
aud air are carefully excluded, and tbe
effect of the deprivation rapidly tells
upon the constitution of ail but the
strongest, and compels many to imbibe
more alcholic beverage than is good for
them.—Net.n llaren Palladium.
There is, without a doubt, something
connected with the conditions of the two
halls of Congress detrimental to health.
They are metallic coffins, in practical
effect, all the natural sun-rays and air
being rigidly excluded aud tbe latter
lumped in and withdrawn by machinery,
t is a fearful architectural blunder, and
certainly detrimental to health. In the
Senate, have been Senators Nye, Ferry,
Cattell, Wilson, Colfax, Morrill of
Maine, and others, stricken with attacks
of cerebro spinal paralysis, while in tbe
House, Blaine aud .May, and others have
been similarly affected. The death of
nine members of the present Congress,
of four within a month, ought to lead to
an examination of this vital subject.—
Noncalk Gazette.
What the Navigation Laws Have
Done.—Mr. Blaine states in hi®, speech
that we pay $85,000,000 per annum to
foreign vessels for freights. How is it
possible that a man of his bright intellect
should not perceive that this astounding
fact is an utter condemnation of our
navigation laws? In consequence of
these laws, or at least in spite of them,
tlie greater part of the enormous sums
we pay,’for freights goes to swell the pro
fits of foreign shipowners. What good
is done by our restrictive navigation laws
when the transfer of our carrying trade
to foreign bottoms is their practical re
sult? They have not given to American
shipyards the building of the vessels
which actually carry our commerce, but
they do effectually deprive our country
men of their share in the large and lu
crative business of conveying goods and
passengers between the United States and
Europe.—-V. Y. Herald.
Poughkeepsie, New Yor’jt, has solved
liie tramp question. W uen one of that
genus applies at tlie city almshouse for a
meal or a night's lodging, bis special at
tention is directed to a block of granite
about three feet square, and he is inform
ed that his reqnest cannot be granted un
less he breaks it into small pieces with a
sledge hammer. Seven times out of ten
the vagaliond refuses and moves on. The
result is that applications for temporary’
relief have recently fallen off seventy per
cent.
Tiie “Old Ckowd” Coming Back
Again.—The proof accumulates with
crushing torce that, under the corrupt
ing icgis of Hepubiican supremacy, any
early return to caucus rule, ring dicta
tion, ofiicial dishonesty, bad government,
and all the other numberless evils which
Grantism breeds, if imminent. The
signs which portend the repetition of so
dread an era are unmistakable in their
significance.—Ionia Standard.
Kii.i.eo in a Virginia Gold Mine.—
W. W. Johnson, superintendent of the
Ellis gold mine, in Culpeper county, Va.,-
in ascending the shaft on Saturday night,
by some mishap, as he was* stepping
from the bucket, fell and was precipi
tated to the bottom, about 100 feet. He
was frightfully mangled, but lived about
two hours afterward, and died in great
agony.
Jesse Pomeroy, having pwceeded so
far as to translate the Lora's Prayer into
Latin, has begun French. He is nine
teen and stout.
Alabama has $1,000,000 outstanding
obligations bearing 8 per cent, and non-
taxable. The Legislature is considering
a bill to substitute 6 per cent, bonds, and
thus save $20,000 in interest annually.
A GOOD ACCOUNT.
“To sum it up, six long years of bed-rid
den sickness and suffering, costing .$200 per
year, total, $1,200—all of which was stopped
by three bottles of Uop Bitters, taken by my
wife, who has done her own bonsowork for
a year since without tbe Iobb of a day, and 1
want everybody to know it for their benefit.
“John Weeks, Butler, H, Y.”
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