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J. H. KS1TLL.
Savannah. Ga.
s in her sheaves,
avs skim the flume,
: homeward, leaves
v in the broom,
ineholy eves
- milk-white bloom.
jo and come
i he falling <’ew,
it wreath of foam
waters grew,
•v home
■ stars are few.
ns bridal tears
•<, to see withdraw
have gone the years
l p>>tv hills, and saw
ough the thaw.
t*n paths are dim,
int and low,
calling him.
phiin.
bling light
dusky red,
ie night
is overspread,
.Id delight
K.rrow harvested.
ivgin Affairs.
■<!'},>rn limner, on the sub-
liii's position on the South-
- i Miicd, thinks that “when
he is extremely right.”
id f
At
: h wonders why the
- of Atlanta do not form
,->$ club. It says there
■ members of the press
mates that they might
hie quill drivers’ asso
rt* of social converse,
ie promotion of the
nalism.
ieorgia’s prosperity
erman as pfieDome-
anta, about fifteeu
a miss of smouldering
i:i desolation by the far-
lerculaneum and Pompeii.
;• place again, a few days
tling, go-ahead city. The
r unexampled recuperation
: the entire section of the
Inch he passed then and
; if General Sherman’s na-
:iake such a showing after
uch an experience.
. of sensations. Another
Tuesday morning by the
corpse of a white woman
ix in the old soap factory,
Foster streets, in that city,
as excited as to who was
and how the body came
the mystery was cleared.
>f several professors of the
College who stated that
he soap factory for dissect-
that this body was a sub-
"ert sent to them from the
cited that the college was
ipt of such imported cada-
for the advancement of
the home supply is never
fresh laurels in
hundi
Ct-odij
Will
Bigelow, of Brooklyn,
iv State Shoe and Leather
euerously donated two
y dollars to St. John’s
Mr. Bigelow is senior
rm, which controls four
es employment to four
■ spent several weeks in
ing, and contemplates
is future home.
: writes from Marsballville
raj/’i that the warehouse
r A Baldwin, in that place,
tents, consisting of about
i, several tons of guano, a
meat, bagging and ties,
barrels of svrup, was con-
lie night of the 11th inst.
rered about 1 o’clock, and
ad way that it was impossi-
»g at ail, and it took hard
from spreading to the
he same having caught
loubt the work of an in-
Mtxic
five do]
as unfortunate iu Macon. He
>"k containing fifty dollars in
Spanish coins, an English
1 some other money, making
• *>f one hundred and thirty-
lhe police were notified, and
P the ease to try and recover
Sen treasure.
of the
ToU-e
season iu Augusta has reg-
*he trips consist of a visit
he canal locks and return.
“Ad ay or two since
h have been pending for
included, and a purchase
(til-gate, on iha Houston
wn as the Seven bridges
flVcted from its present
-*y, with all its rights
The county will convert it
\ and ail travelers on
- tl. rough without money
For iorty odd years past
u used as toll-gates under
-1 by the Legislature to
'id John Bailey. It was
ugtit by Hr. Wiley. The
her the causeway should
i new one located a short
the present one was dis-
■ -ty Commissioners. The
i i jpted. The arrangement
about the 1st of May, and
r then will be taken off.
a great convenience and
p'e of this and adjoining
lion of the County Com-
nlorsed by a meeting of a
»st prominent men of the
Plum
fleer
era!
' “Augusta, in common
u. hern city, is now largely in
i' modern nuisance (tramps),
and county authori-
houe right to begin a
Thy against them. There
i to believe that we are
■b- r more seriously unless we-
to amend and enforce our laws
>. Driven from more popu-
:ii ‘..s, these tramps will seek a
• greater numbers, and though
lu gging may be less, the
h*g' and unprotected stock of
afford a safer chance for
•• : ence The tramp will have
Mid he cannot be reached
1 >Tricieut measures for a gen-
' -rimiuate suppression of va-
bills *
««en an
f "■‘"yr.ijtfr. “Wednesday night a
• V| 'ti persons arrived in the city
P/ " !: their way bark to South
1 tiey had no money to pay hotel
' kindly eared for by officers
bn house. None of them bad
ing fora whole day, and they
vi'-ied h£ ar «v Gnashed. Major Cook pro-
°1<1 in . for the whole family. The
ttalto - 6 .“v iie hard in Texas to
ever; l ,1 l VlD &» ,,ut met with adversity on
^'hen the party arrived at
Westem°°^i money gave out, and the
°^er u, * Atlantic Railroad passed them
ptopl fcl f r ‘^ ne of road for half fare, the
tnoi ev °! f < “ ,ia ltanooga contributing the
ttiiv ; lu . vor Calhoun succeeded in get-
8 Po r tati°n for them over the Geor-
Iv it >» roa<1 * TUla story has a bit of a moral
-
.1. H. EST1LL, PROPRIETOR.
9eraifitft.
SAVANNAH, FRIDAY, FEBRUART' U, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
“In this section of
Ueorgia it is notorious that there are a few
people engaged in the business of illicit dis
tilling. We are not divulging anv secret in
saying this, because all the peopli know it,
and the l nited States Marshal has issued
warrants for each one of them, and his in
tention is that those warrants shall be served
—no matter how long their service may he
delayed, or what obstructions may he nlared
In the way. The Marshal, Hon. O. p'. Fitz-
simons, is a kind-hearted, high-toned
houorahle gentleman, and a true Geor
gian. The possession or these quali-
neations require the strictest discharge of
the duties of his position, or else he must
resign it into the hunds of Another whose
conscience might be warped by golden
arguments. Col. Fitzsimons has placed
these warrants in the hands of his deputies
with instructions to serve them, and to oln
tain sufficient force for that purpose. It
can therefore only be a question of time as
to the final arrest of t\ut parties named fn
the warrants, and it would be advisable for
them to make their arrangements accord
ingly. The proper way to make such ar
rangements, in our judgment, is to
cease living in violation of the law
eDgage the service of some lawyer expert in
the management of such cases, and by pur
suing an open, manly course, it is not im
probable that they may be discharged with
very light penalties. . All this we say in the
kindest spirit to all concerned, with the hon
est wish that each one will hereafter refrain
from any known violation of the law, in
this or any other respect, and that writs of
l. nited States officers will no longer be ne
cessary in this or any adjacent counties.”
Lincoln county department of the Jfc-
Duffle Journal: “We are informed ‘the citi
zens of the western portion of Lincoln are
getting up a petition asking the Ordinary to
order an election on the question of ‘fence’
or ‘no fence.’ This is a step in the right di
rection, and is w hat we have been exceed
ingly anxious to see for some years. The
present system of farm fencing is expensive,
and should be superseded by the ‘no fence’
law, a wiser and more economical system,
and every man should oe made to provide
for his own 6tock, and not allow' them to
run at large to the detriment of his neigh
bors. The cost of fences in the United
States is estimated to be greater than the
national debt, or more than two thousand
three hundred millions of dollars. The cost
of repairs and interest is more than four
hundred millions of dollars annually. Are
all the cattle they are built to fence out
w'orth that enormous sum ? Is there no
chance for reform and economy ?”
The following terrible accident is re
ported in tbe Hartwell Sun: “On Monday
afternoon John Tompkins and Ben Car
penter, two colored men, were down in
Willis Rowsey’s well preparing to blast tbe
rock out, when in some uukuown way the
powder ignited, bursting the rock and
throwing the two men violently against the
w’alls. Both of the men were terribly
burned in the face and otherwise cut and
bruised. Drs. Eberhart and Webb were
immediately summoned, and did their
utmost to alleviate the poor sufferers’
agony. They had to amputate Tompkins’
left hand at the wrist, and sewed up a
frightful gash on Carpenter’s arm. The
men can see a little now, but their eyes are
so seared and mangled that it is feared they
will both lose their sight.”
Opinion of Mr. Benjamin on State
Consols.
Knowing many of our readers to be
interested in Louisiana consols, tbe re
cent default in their interest being now in
process of adjustment by a partial pay
ment of interest, and the future payment
being dependent on the action of a con
stitutional convention to be held in April
next, we give annexed the opinion of
Mr. Judali P. Benjamin. This opinion
was in response to the inquiry of English
investors:
OPINION.
1. The State of Louisiana is without
power by T any future legislation to im
pair the security of the holders of bonds
issued under the funding act of 1874.
The Constitution of the United States
is supreme in every State, and that Con
stitution provides, act 1, section 10, that
“No State shall pass any law impairing
the obligation of contracts.” The courts
of the United States possess and exercise
the power of declaring null and void any
act of a State Legislature whiclrviolates
the above prohibition.
2. The security which the holders of
the consolidated bonds have is contained
in the following provisions:
1. That a separate and special tax of
five and a half mills on the dollar is
levied each year for the benefit of the
bondholders.
2. That this tax is irrepealable and
perpetual till final payment of ihe bonds.
3. That it requires no legislative act
to levy the tax, or to collect or to apply
it; but, on the contrary, that it is the
duty of executive officers to levy, collect
and pay over this special tax to the bond
holders, and especially,
4. That the judicial power, *. e., the
courts of justice, are bound, when neces
sary, to enforce the collection of this tax
and the pay r ment of the bondholders.
The clause limiting the public debt to
$15,000,000 has no effect on the holders
of these bonds, which are themselves
specially declared to be valid by tbe
first constitutional amendment.
The clause limiting taxation to 124
mills on the dollar has the effect of pre
venting the State from levying any tax
in excess of 7 mills in addition to tbe
special separate tax for the bonds It
does not affect the separate tax of 54
mills for tbe bonds, because that tax is
specially ratified, confirmed and made
perpetual by the first amendment to the
constitution.
3. Iu case of non-payment of the
coupons, the remedy of the bondholders
would be an application to the courts
against the executive officer in default to
enforce tbe performance of his duty,
against the officer w ho had failed to col
lect and pay over the tax, or against him
who, having received the tax, shouid rati
to pay the coupons.
If the tax levied and collected should
prove insufficient to pay the coupons,
and this should occur without any de
fault or breach of duty on the part of
any executive officer, the bondholders
would have no other legal remedy, be
cause iu the United States no court lias
power to entertain any suit by an indi
vidual or individuals against a btate. In
such ease of ^sufficiency of funds the
sole recourse of the bondholder would
be an anpeal bv petition to the sense ot
justice By the Legislature for relief.
I call attention to a provision of the
fundins act of 1874, which is available
to the bondholders so far as the conduct
'of executive officers is concerned, lor
bv the section 10, such officers, besides
being subject to tbe civil jurisdiction of
the courts as above explained, are iwhte
to criminal prosecution for failure "to
perform official duty” under the act. ^
4. Generally in reference to the act ot
1875 which creates uneasiness in the
mimi of the querist, it is to be observed
that tbe act of 1874 declares by section
11 that each provision of the act is a
contract between the State and every
holder of bonds “under this act; and
the act of 1875 is only directed against
those who have not yet become holders.
It may be that tbe Legislature dffi not
consider itself under contract with any
body under the act of 1874, till me ev
change of bonds b;ul been made; for it
must be observed that the act of lb <4 is
an offer bv the State, and does not
bind thoic who do not accept rt;
and tile State may have deemed itsel
justified in a modification of its proposal
before it had been accepted by certain
bondholders. I do not say whether this
view was right or wrong, but‘t u qmte
intelligible, .and ‘be Passage of the act of
lmeMigunu, uuu
1875, m referen.ee to bonds not yet ex
iSiO, in tv, ~ ,
changed, is no indication of any ideaon
the part ot the Legislature that ft pM-
sessed the least power over the bonds
“.Tadv Usucd which bad tbits become
a complete contract under the act of l. ; ' *•
I can think of nothing further likely
to guide the querist in the matter under
consideration! 1 J. P. Benjamin.
J’emjMf Oct. 23, 187V
Eloped with a Colored 'Woman.—
The Alexandria Gazette says. 1 t
Ifie Aiexauuua
neighborhood of Piscataway 15
ish state of excitement oyer a “
sel of scandal. It is said that Wdham
Hardy, a young m«i of excellent fam* 1 ,
and previous good character has run o
with a colored woman, the wffieo » •
Gamer, well known in that wimty,,
and their whereabouts have not been 1
covered. Much indignation is felt oy
the people. ”
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOUN TELEliKAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
The Florida Contested Election Case.
THE GALVESTON AND SAN ANTONIO
RAILROAD BILL.
Memorial Services In Honor of tfie
Late Julian Hart ridge.
OPENING OF THE BRITISH PAR
LI A.YI ENT.
Democratic Senators in Caucus.
.Tilnor Note*.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, February 13.—Iu the Sen
ate, Mr. Kellogg introduced a bill to secure
the completion of a line of railway from
Saa Antonio, Texas, to a point at or near
f ort Clark, and thence to a.point at or near
LI Paso, upon the Rio Grande, to be known
as the Mexican and Pacific extension of the
Galveston and San Antouio Railway. He
spoke brietly in favor of the construction of
this road, which asked but $10,000 a mile
from the government. The bill was referred
to the Committee on Railroads.
The Senate discussed without final action
the bill to restrict Chinese immigration.
In the House, Mr. Cobb, of Indiana,
moved to take up for consideration the con
tested electiou ease of Finley vs. Bisbee,
from the First district of Florida.
Mr. Atkins, of Tennessee, antagonized the
motion, desiring to proceed with the appro
priation bill. If the legislative bill is not
passed this week, he did not see how the
Appropriation Committee could get the civil
sundry bill ready in time to be passed.
The motion to proceed with the election
case was defeated. Previous to the an
nouncement, Mr. Cobb changed his vote to
the negative, and then moved to recon
sider.
Mr. Atkins moved to lay the motion on
the table. This motion was defeated.
The question recurred on reconsidering
the vote by which the House refused to
take up the contested electiou case and it
was agreed to. The Republicans then re
sorted to filibustering tactics.
The electiQu case was postponed until
Wednesday next,. The House then dis
cussed the legislative, judicial and execu
tive appropriation bill. After disposing of
sixty-three pages of the bill, the remainder
of the day’s session was devoted to memorial
services iu honor of the late Julian Ilart-
ridge. The usual resolutions were
offered by Mr. Cook, of Georgia,
and eulogies ou the life and character
ot the deceased were pronounced by Messrs.
Cook, Hendee of Vermont, Kuott of Ken
tucky, Cox of New York, Frye of Maine,
Harrison of Illinois, Davidson of Florida,
Goode of Virginia, Cutler of New Jersey,
and Bell and Felton of Georgia. The reso
lutions were adopted. The House theu
adjourned.
ACTION OF THE REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL
CAUCUS.
Washington, February 13.—The Repub
lican members of tbe Senate, in caucus
this morning, adopted the report presented
by the committee appointed to arrange the
order of business for the remainder of the
session. It was agreed that the post office
appropriation bill shall be taken up as soon
as the pending measure in regard to
Chinese immigration is disposed of, and that
preference be given to the other regular
appropriation bills, including the river and
harbor bill, over all other business there
after. The following measures are to be
given consideration, not to interfere
with the appropriation bills when ready,
in the order named: The proposed constitu
tional amendment on the subject of war
claims, the bill for the further distribution
of the Geneva award, Mr. Windom’s propo
sition authorizing an inquiry and report to
be made on the advisability of extending
government aid for the colonization of
colored people, and various measures con
cerning the District of Columbia, for which
one day is to be set apart. It was also
agreed that from and after next Monday
the sessions of the Senate shall begin at 11
a. m., and that a portion of each morning
hour shall be devoted to unobjeeted busi
ness on the calendar, under what is known
as the Anthony rule.
CAUCUS OF DEMOCRATIC SENATORS.
Washington, February 13.—The Demo
cratic Senators also held a caucus t his morn
ing. The subjects of discussion were the
same that occupied the attention of the
joint caucus Monday night. Diametrically
opposite views were . expressed as to the
advisability in a party point of view, in en
deavoring to repeal the Federal election
law, e^c., by means of an amendment to an
appropriation bill, and thus probably forc
ing an extra session of Congress. After
earnest discussion, in which Senators Thur
man and Bayard were the principal speakers
on the opposite sides, the caucus adjourned
without action, to meet again to-morrow
morning.
A TELLER SUB-COMMITTEE APPOINTED.
Washington, February 13.—The Chair
man of the Teller Committee, at a meeting
to-day, appointed as a_ sub-eommittee
Messrs. Hoar, McMillan, Kirkwood, Garland,
and Wallace to Inquire into the following
branch of the resolution of the Senate,
namely: “Whether in the year 1878
money was raised by assessment or other
wise upon Federal officeholders
or employes for election purposes,
and under what circumstances and by what
means, and if so,what amount was so raised
and how the same was expended, and
whether such assessments were or were not
in violation of law.” Tbe committee
then adjourned, subject to the call of the
Chairman.
LONDON NOTES.
London, February 13.-r-The Right lion.
Lieutenant General Jonathan Feet, a well-
known patron of the turf, is dangerously
ill.
Parliament will reassemble to day. The
House of Commons will meet at 4 o’clock
this afternoon and tbe House cf Lords at 5.
Lord Beaeonsfield in the House of Lords
and Sir Stafford Xortheote in the House of
Commons will make formal announcements
of legislation proposed and State and
foreign relations.
F. B. Chatterton, lessee of the Drury Lane
Theatre, 1ms filed a petition in bankruptcy;
liabilities £40,000.
THE STRIKE AT LIVERPOOL.
London, Februar}' 13.—Altogether five
hundred laborers were brought into Liver
pool yesterday. Fourteen hundred have ar
rived from Scotland alone since the strike
began. The National and Ley land steam
ship lines secured three hundred and twenty
yesterday.
ADVICES FROM SALONICA.
Salonica, February 13.—There is no sick
ness here or at Kavala. The number of
deaths from typhus at Xantlii has reached
two hundred and fifty. The mortality there
is decreasing.
THE LARGEST BREWERY IN AMERICA BURNED.
London, Oxt., February 13.—Carling's
brewery, the largest in America, was burn
ed this morning. The loss in excess of tbe
insurance is $lo0,000.
ARRIVAL OF GRANT AT BOMBAY - .
Bom bat, February 13.—General Grant
and party arrived here and landed to-day.
Beecher’s cuckolds applauded when,
last Sunday, he—
“Piiused a moment, stretched forth an
uncertain hand, trembling in mimicry of
the palsy and cbaraclei ized the elected
candidate for the Presidency—not by
name, but by plain implication—as the
symbol and representative to this na
lion of what it would become should it
arrive at a stage wffien all conscience of
national morality is at an end.”
The word morality in the mouth of
this arch rogue ana detiler of women
sounds strangely enough. It is fortu
nate for him that there is so much differ
ence between law and justice.— Courier-
Journal.
Youthful Criminals in Virginia.—
There are in the Virginia penitentiary
131 convicts under the age of twenty,
114 of whom are males and 17 females.
Eight of the former and three of the
latter are serving out sentences for mur
der. The youngest of the males con
victed for that crime was 11 years and
the oldest’ 18. The ages of the girls
serving out sentences for murder ranged,
at the time of conviction, from 15 to 16.
EVENING TELEGRAMS
RAILROAD.COMPANIES AND TEL
EGRAPH LINES.
Statement of President Green Before
the Senate Committee.
IMPORTANT DECISION RENDERED BY
Jl’DGE HUGHES, OF VIRGINIA.
A Ballot-Box Stuffier to he Sentenced.
FAILURE OF A NATION AL BANK.
The Cattle Trade—Action of the Bri-
ish Government Condemned.
Foreign and Domestic Note*.
THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON RAILROADS AND
THE W. U. TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
Washington. February 13.—The Senate
Committee on Railroads met to day to hear
the arguments with respect to Senator
Jones’ bill authorizing railroad companies
to construct and maintain telegraph lines
for commercial purposes.
President Norvin Green, of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, made a speech
opposing the bill, ou the ground that it
would not attain the object desired; that the
railroad companies already shared in the
profits of the business done over lines built
along their roads, and that the telegraph
business of the country was now done by
the Western Union Company more cheaply
than by any other company in the world.
The Chairmau asked Mr. Green for infor
mation with regard to the relations between
the Western Union Company and the Asso
ciated Press. The latter replied that there
was nothing in those relations to conceal;
that the Western Union Company had an
nounced repeatedly that it would transmit
the dispatches of any other similar as
sociation for a like price, without favor
of any kind. The Associated Press is a
private organization for the collection
and distribution of news, and the news
so gathered is as much its propert}' as a pri
vate telegram or letter. It does not mo
nopolize the news or prevent other associa
tions from getting it who are willing to go
to the necessary expense for its collection.
If the outside papers want a special report,
let them get up a combination, collect the
news and we will send it at the same rates
as charged the Associated Press for an
equal amount of service. We cannot af
ford, however, to supply anybody at a tenth
or fiftieth part of the price paid by our
best customers.
At the conclusion of Mr. Green’s remarks,
the committee adjourned until to-morrow.
VIRGINIA ITEMS.
Richmond, February 13.—The Commer
cial National Bank of Petersburg has gone
into liquidation, and is closing up its affairs
as rapidly as possible. Its condition is said
to be sound, and no losses will result to any
one. This is the last of the national banks
in Petersburg, the two others having suc
cumbed to the crisis of 1S73.
In the United States Circuit Court to-day,
the case of Alex Vaughan, Judge of the
election In Petersburg, charged with bol
lot-box stufling at the November election
was concluded, the jury rendering a verdict
of guilty. The sentence will be pronounced
to-morrow. The evidence showed that when
the ballots had been emptied out of the box
to be counted, Vaughan attempted to drop
a number of fraudulent ballots from his
sleeve into the pile of legitimate votes.
Judge Hughes has decided that the jud,
ment rendered in the United States Court
need not, in order to continue a valid lien
on the land even as against the subsequent
purchases for value and without notice,
be docketed in accordance with the statute
of Virginia, in the county or corporation
where the lands are situated. The case
came up ou the question of priority of the
lien of a judgment rendered in the
United States Circuit Court at Richmond,
in 1877, against J. M. Humphreys, late
Collector of Customs, of this city, and
sureties, or that of a deed conveying to
Thos. N. Page, trustee, certain lands of the
said Humphreys. This decision will affect
the title to many thousand dollars worth of
property throughout the State.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
OFriCB OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OBSKRV5R
Washington, D. C., February 13.—Indica
tions for Friday :
In the South Atlantic States, colder
northerly to westerly wiuds, rising barome
ter and partly cloudy weather.
In the Middle States, colder northwest to
southwest winds, rising barometer, partly
cloudy weather and areas of light snow.
In the Gulf States, colder northerly winds,
rising barometer and partly cloudy weather.
In Tennessee and the Onio valley, colder,
partly cloudy weather, areas of light snow,
winds from north to west, and during the
night rising barometer.
demands of the dock laborers.
Liverpool, February 13.—The dock la
borers, numbering over forty thousand, held
a meeting to-day, at which it was decided
that unless the masters agreed to the old
rates by three o’clock this afternoon, they
would demand an advance of the day rate
and of a penny per hour for ever time.
ACTION OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT-CON
DEMNED.
Toronto, February 13.—A dispatch from
London to the Globe says the Daily Xcirs
condemns the action which the government
has taken with re'spect to the cattle trade In
resolving to schedule the Uuited States a6
an infected country, as showing needless
haste and severity.
3IUKDERER HANGED.
Cleveland, February 13.—Chas. McGill
was hauged in this city to-day for the mur
der of Mary Kelly on the 2d of December,
1877. The only words the condemned man
said on the scaffold were, “Don’t make any
mistake about that rope.”
Killed iiis Fattier— A young man
named Hutchingon, residing in Inde
pendence township, Beaver county. Mo.,
ot into an altercation with his father on
Thursday last, about some work he was
doing, and picking up a large stone,
crashed in his skull, killing him instant
ly. The young man was arrested, and
claims to have committed the act in self-
defense.
Farmers' Meeting in Scriveu County.
8ylvania,Ga., February 10.—Editor Mom-
ivy Xews: At a large and enthusiastic meet
ing of the citizens of Scrlven county, held
this day, the Hon. Mathew Potter was called
to the chair and Mr. M. J. Humbert request
ed to act as Secretary, when the following
resolutions were passed:
Devolved, That we learn with surprise and
regret that the manufacturers of commercial
fertilizers have this year advanced the prices
of the same, while all other articles of com
merce have been steadily cheapened, the
purchasing value of money being greater to
day than it has been in the last fifteen or
twenty years past.
Resolved, That this advance iu the price
of commercial fertilizers is, in our judg
ment, unjust to the planter and uncalled
for under the circumstances.
Jiesoieedfurther, That we respectfully re
commend that our agricultural friends ab
stain from purchasiugatthe advanced prices
now demanded for fertilizers, and hope that
iu reference to the price some equitable
terms may be agreed upon between the
manufacturer and purchaser.
M. M. Potter, Chairman.
M. J. Humbert, Secretary.
An Ingenious Jersey Woman.—A
woman of Passaic City, N. J., has been
arrested under the following circum
stances: She had two fancy nursery
baskets which she wished to sell. She
look them to New York, where a dealer
offered to expose them for sale on her
accouut. She then, as it is charged,
went to Paterson to the store of Mrs.
Spicker, a dealer in fancy goods and
wicker work, and inquired for some
fancy nursery baskets. The stock on
hand did not suit, and the customer was
£bout to leave, apparently dissatisfied,
when Mrs. Spicker told her if she would
describe what she wanted the goods
would be obtained for her. She told
Mrs. Spicker where she had seen the
desired articles, and at once gave an
order for two baskets, at fifteen dollars
each, to be sent to ‘Mrs. Beaching,
Lake view, N. J.” The baskets were
bought for cash, their owner got her
money, and a postal card was sent, but
Mrs. Beaching did not appear. Mrs.
Spicker had her customer arrested, but
the case was compromised on a cash
basis.—Xeic York World. 10th.
OIK WASHINGTON LETTER.
What the luvcaliaatlou of the Ci
pher Dispatche* Ha* Developed—
Zach Chandler** Indian Ageucle*
—The Florida Hn*iue«s — South
Carolina I p to the Highest Bidder
—The Radical* the Buyer*— Florida
and Loni*iaiia Taken by the Same
Purehaflen.
Special Correspondence of the Morning News.
Washington, February 12.—The sub
committee of the Potter Committee that
went to New York to continue the investiga
tion of the cipher dispatches has returned.
It is generally understood that the conclu
sion of the New York end of the investiga
tion about winds up the principal work of
the committee.
The committee has not been at work very
long—only since the 27th of last month. Its
work has, however, been remarkable. There
hart* been many investigations which Radi
cal corruption and rascalffy made impera
tive. These investigations have brought to
light many damning facts. Some of them
literally removed the thin covering from
nests of corruption. Despite all this the
cipher investigation is probably the most
remarkable of any Congressional inquiry
ever conducted.
To begin with, it was somewhat different
from previous investigations. Most investi
gations have been ordered because the peo
ple demanded that frauds on the public,
under Republican rule, should be looked
into. The cipher Investigation grew, on the
other hand, out of charges made against the
Democratic party, originally by the organ of
the Radical party, but afterwards very gen
erally by that party itself. The organ re
ferred to, the New York Tribune, had pub
lished what purported to be translations of
very questionable Democratic attempts at in
fluencing the result of the late Presidential
election by the use of money. The Repub
licans should have stopped right there.
Elated, however, by what ihev thought had
already been proven by the* Tribune, they
cried for more; and by my faith, Horatio,
they have bad it. The Potter Committee
was directed to investigate the so-called
translations involved in the ciphers. Hav
ing completed the more important part of
its work, it is, perhaps, not out of order to
look over what has been testified before the
committee, and what evidence has been
deduced by it.
As stated, the hunt began January 27. I
have previously described to you how the
beginning made weak the Radical back
bone, and how surprised the Republicans
were that the inquiry should develop any
thing but crookedness by Democrats. The
investigation has shown that three hundred
cipher dispatches came into the hands, by
subpeena, of the Morrison (House) Commit
tee. That they were returned. The re
mainder of the ciphers, divided about equal
ly between tbe Democrats aud Republican
A Kentucky postmaster writes to the
Post Office Department that in forward
ing funds for the last quarter he sent all
that lie had received, and neglected to
withhold what was due him for compen
sation. The total amount forwarded
was ninety-one cents, of which fifty-eight
belongs to him as salary. The depart
ment will investigate the matter, and, if
the case is as represented, will not insist
that the postmaster shall suffer for his
carelessness.— Washington Star.
The Democrats and Nationals of Read
ing, Pa., have nominated the same can
didates for Mayor and Treasurer. In
the Tenth ward the Democrats have
nominated for constable a negro of the
appropriate name of Maulson.
«-ent to O. P. Morion’s committee.
From that committee was re
turned a trunk containing dispatches. This
trunk was taken to New York audits entire
contents destroyed. Not all that went to
Morton’s committee came back, however.
The Democratic ciphers were kept and as
sorted, aud the Republican ciphers were
kept and destroyed, or destroyed after being
returned iu the trunk. That showed how
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
which has been maintained in its grasping
monopoly through Republican influence, re
ciprocated.
Through the hauds of Bullock, Morton’s
clerk, the Democratic ciphers went to Brady
and Wm. E. Chandler and to the Tribune,
and Bullock goes abroad as United States
Consul at Cologne. The trunk full of dis
patches that were returned bv Morton were
burned by J. O. Green, an employe of the
Western Union. In testifying before the
committee Green was positive of the de
struction of everything the trunk contained.
Some telegraphic correspondence between
James H. Tyner and John W. Foster at
Iudianapolis had previously been kept back.
It referred to the sale of some political
office. So Tyner was allowed to withdraw
his dispatches about the sale of some politi
cal office, but Mr. Green happens to have
read them. On this point Mr. Floyd Grant,
who supervised the assortment of the tele
grams, testified that there were seven or
eight dispatches between Tyner and Chand
ler.
“INDIAN AGENTS.”
One was a telegram from Tyner about
making two appointments iu the Interior
Department at salaries of two thousand five
hundred dollars each, and asking Mr.
Chandler to do this and have money de
posited in some national bank, so that it
might be drawn in Iudianapolis by the Re
publican committee. This testimony was
corroborated by other witnesses, employes
of the telegraph company. So on the first
day of the investigation we find an ugly
look, that two imaginary Indian agents
were appointed by Zach Chandler, then
Secretary of the Interior, upon the recom
mendation of Jim Tyner, then Postmaster
General, and the salaries which they were
supposed to draw (two thousand five
hundred dollars each ) given to aid the Radical
party in Indiana. Further on in the
investigation it was developed that
this money was to be used
to buy over the leaders of the Greenback
party to the Republican fold and to buy out
a Greenback newspaper of great influence
in Indiana. Tyner “explained” that the
$2,500 was a “cipher” and that the telegrams
related to legitimate election expenses, which
was all very evident of course to those who
were blind and had to hear and not see.
Two Cabinet officers stealing government
funds to aid iu “legitimate election
penses” is a very delectable sight Indeed.
THE FLORIDA BUSINESS.
Next comes the Florida business. Assis
tant Postmaster General Brady went down
there to “see a fair count.” He and his col
leagues seemed to have had any amount of
money. Brady admitted that he received
$2,000 from Z. Chandler when he left for
Tallahassee, which amount he turned over
to Wm. E. Chandler upon arrival. It was un
derstood by Mr. Brady that Mr. Chandler
(Wm. E.) paid the expenses of some of the
witnesses from his owu knowledge. He
(Brady) advanced $1,000 of his own money
to defray the hotel expense:- of the party,
and that amount was refunded by Z. Chand
ler upon his return to Washington.
William E. Chandler iu his testimony is
more glib than even Brady in rolling oil the
big 6ums used by him in Florida for wit
nesses, board aud “legitimate” expenses.
He admitted that there were Republican
ciphers among the Democratic ones that
came to him, bqt had no knowledge of the
existence of any of them now. The Florida
Radical workers had a cipher. Some few of
these dispatches have been procured and
translated by the committee. The follow
ing were the translations of them:
him that for sixty thousand or eighty
thousand dollars the South Carolina return
ing board would make things all right
for the Democrats. He said that the
board w'as up for sale, and knew
that the highest bidder would get It.
As a politician he thought he would secure
it for his own side. He telegraphed to Pel
ton to bring the money on to New York,
but the scheme fell through and the other
side bought the returning board.
Mayor Cooper, of New Fork, Secretary of
the National Democratic Committee, testi
fied that Pelton went to Baltimore and tele
graphed him for $60,000 or $80,000. He
was astonished, and notified Governor Til-
den, who said that Pelton must be recalled
at once, and he was. It is seen that as soon
as the proposition to buy the board came to
responsible Democrats it was not entertain
ed for a moment.
Mr. Pelton, Governor Tilden’s nephew,
testified that he did intend to buy the South
Carolina canvassing board, but was checked
as soon as his intentions became known.
The board was for sale. For his efforts he
was severely reprimanded by Tilden.
Manton Marble, as regards Florida, testi
fied that he used the cipher, and that the
Tribune marred his dispatches and garbled
them. “I indicated my belief,” he said,
“that we should lose both States by fraud.
I only, as the agent of Mr. Tilden in Flori
da, telegraphed the statements in regard to
the sale of the electoral votes because they
were news. What I did not do was to buy
the Florida votes, and they were for
sale; I would like to submit these let
ters if the committee has no objection.’
There was objection by Reed, Republican
because the letters tended to show that tbe
Radicals did what Marble did not—buy the
returning board. All of these gentlemen
testified that Governor Tilden knew noth
ing of the ciphers that were passing, and
knew nothing of any attempt at buying re
turning boards. Governor Tilden, when
put on the stand, did the same, and com
pletely exculpated himself from any
suspicion. lie also took occasion to
remark that Florida and Louisiana
were bought by Republicans. All the
tesfcimonj’ in chapter two shows that
the only attempt at anything like a purchase
by the Democrats was through Pelton, an
imaginary and not very moral young man
wholly without any responsibility whatever,
and that the returning boards of South
Carolina and Florida were up for sale. The
Democrats did not buy them. Who did ?
Let any reader compare chapters one and
two, and although neither may be very
pleasant reading when the purity of our
politics is taken into consideration, the only
inference he can draw is that the Republi
cans came out very much worsted in their
own game. This has become a habit of
theirs of late, by the way. Potomac
Tallahassee, Fla., December 1.
John Winy, Washington:
Florida will go for Hayes. Brady.
IL
Washington.
General Brady, Tallahassee :
Florida in trouble. I speak advisedly.
Have no other bears. John W ing.
UL
Washington.
General Brady, Tallahassee :
Reliable information here says Demo
crats claim trio of Florida returning board.
Do you believe it ? Wing.
IV-
Tallahassee, Fla.
John IFIn/}, Washington:
We have no information of treachery ex
cept on the part of one of our own number.
If we come to grief it is through him, the
New Yorker. We are advised he recom
mends contrary to our interest. His many
and mysterious interviews arouse suspicion.
Brady.
Brady said John Wing was Tyner, and
swore that the above were all the t&legrams
that passed between him and Tyner, in ci
pher, as regards Florida. If they were, why
was Tyner so anxious to get hold of his
ciphers? These four are themselves, not to
put too strong a point on it, very sugges
tive—highly so.
THE INDIANA STEAL AGAIN.
In connection with showing how Brady
and Chandler (W. E.) destroyed, or have
held back—more likely the former—the Re
publican ciphers that came into their hands
from Bullock, Morton’s employe, the use of
government funds as “Indian agents” for
campaign bribery in Indiana was shown,
despite Tyner’s—I beg pardon—John Wing’s
explanations. This ended the first chapter
of the ciphers. Which side, Republican or
Democratic, was shown by it to have been
bargainers ? Let every one answer for him
self.
Electrical Cats.
Neto Orleans Times.
Up to the present time there has been
nothing which could have been so easily
spared from the sphere of usefulness as
the average cat. Ever since man has
been a reasoning creature, cats have
been a problem, and philosophers for
ages have unsuccessfully wrestled with
the question as to what led up to the
creation of cats, what they accomplish in
their brief l»ut*vigorous existence, and
what becomes of them when they pass
from us forever. Orators have bombas.-
tically alluded to cats in the wildest
flights of their metaphor; violin makers
have vainly sought to twine the mid
night music of cats into tangible chords
—and pensive poets have burned lus
trous oil in many an ancient lamp in
the mad endeavor to instil into their
rapt pages a semblance even of the
sweetness rising from cats on barn, bar
rel, fence and hou3c-top. For the para
graphed it is true, cats have been a fruit
f ul theme, but as a paragrapher and a cat
are both mysteries wisely hidden from
investigation, it makes no matter. To
the eye of youth, cats have ever been fer
tile with unholy amusement. Their com
plicated evolutions under the subtle but
active influence of turpentine—their un
paralleled gymnastics when thrown out
of a second story window and clawing
around just in time to get their feet un
dermost when the thump comes—their
vocal and combative ability when tied to
gether by the tail and hung over a clothes
line at a shivaree—these have endeared
cats to the rising generation, and proba
bly led to the wearing out of more
shingles and slippers than anything the
world has ever produced. Then again,
there have been countless superstitions
about cats. One of the most harrowing
aud penetrating of these is the popular
and delusive one that they catch rats.
As a rat catcher, the average cat is an
unmitigated fraud. lie will catch one a
month, perhaps, in clear, good weather,
but will steal beef steaks and make things
red-hot iu the back yard for the neigh
borhood the rest of the time. A healthy
trap, seductive with cheese and fried
bacon, is worth a legion of cats
any day of the week. W hen we see a
gray old rat whisk out of a hole and
scurry right by a cat’s nose to his haven
under the kitchen, and then hear him
snicker in the interval of chewing up the
floor, our faith in the efficacy of cats in
the rat line topples and becomes a mag
nificent ruin. When we pensively lean
out the lifted window at 2 U- m., to hear
the third act of Romeo and Juliet in the
back yard, see the air thickened with
bootjacks, pale with china utensils, mur
ky with profanity and lurid with flying
auathemas and bedslats. and know that
cats are the sole and inexplicable cause,
the intricacies of the Copernican theory
dwindle to insignificance before the pon
derous thoughts which arise.
But at last the problem of cats lias
been triumphantly solved, to the lasting
glory of William Gurney II. Ckelkins"
of Calaveras, Cala. William Gurney, be
ing a great electrician, and knowing the
electrical properties of the fur of cuts,
has been experimenting for years in
hopes of being able to utilize the cur
rents they generate, At last he has suc
ceeded, and has given the invention a
trial. A bftttery of fifty-two eats,coupled
for intensity, was found sufficient to
work tbe line fiom Calaveras to Stock-
ton—a distance of eighty-four miles,
while with one hundred and forty
couples he so excited the wire that every
relay was polarized, the lightning ar
rester bunged up, ninety-four insulators
knocked right off and the operator at the
end kicked clean across the room. Ex
actly how the battery of pats is arranged
is not as yet known, but as the Western
Union Telegraph Company has offered
the inventor a royalty of $500,000 a year
for the use of the invention, it is certain
that it must be simple and lasting. IIow
ever that be, as the supply' of cats is in
exhaustible, and the invention a success,
we may now confidently look forwai d to
great reduction in the price of telegrams,
electric lights and street-corner shocks,
and to tbe revealing of one of the greatest
blessings the age has known
—
A Deserted Husband’s Crime.—A
week ago Mrs. George F. Simmons, of
West Troy', N. Y., thirty-five years old,
and the mother of three children, eloped
with William Challon. Monda\ r morn
ing at two o'clock Simmons awoke the
children, forced them to drink a mixture
of tea and laudanum and drank some
himself. Half au hour afterward the
children were taken iff. The eldest, on
going to another room to notiry his
father, found him lying on the bed cov
ered with blood and with his throat cut.
The little fellow went back to his
brothers and nursed tl^em. At 8 Sim
mons' employer, a barber named Rogers,
called to learn why he had not appeared
at work, and was told by the eldest boy
that his papa was all bloody- Simmons
was still alive and the prospects were fa
vorable to his recovery, but he tore the
bandages from his wound and bled to
death. The two youngest children are
in a critical condition. The eldest boy
has fully recovered.
THE NEXT CHAI-TER.
Chapter two opened at the Fifth Avenue
Yo
Hotel in New York, February 5th. The
first witness was Smith Weed, of New York.
He said he was in South Carolina and used
cipher dispatches. He learned at Columbia
that the State had gone Democratic, but
that the canvassing board would not give a
certificate to that effect unless paid for it.
Finally a definite proposition was handed to
A Duel in a Ball Room.—Two young
men, Samuel Tomlinson and George Mc
Gregor, were present at a hall at Cedar
Hill, Texas. In the ball room were col
lected young ladies and gentlemen of the
best society. Among the dancers was
Miss Burdett, who was engaged to marry
Tomlinson. Both Tomlinson and Mc
Gregor claimed Miss Burdett for the next
dance, and a quarrel arose, but McGregor
triumphantly led the lady out on the
floor. Tomliuson drew a pocket knife
and attacked his rival as he and the girl
were swinging corners. McGregor also
drew his knife, and a terrible fighrensued.
Both contestants were badly stabbed.
Miss Burdett fainted. McGregor is fatal- J
>Yindom Refuted by a Man of Color.
U'il/niuoton (.V. C.) Sun
We see that Senator Windom is still
hammering away in Congress on bis reso
lution to provide for the migration of the
colored people of the South to the North
ern States and Territories. In his re
marks delivered from his place in the
Senate on lost Friday he argued that
there were two conditions existing in the
South: First, in certain districts the
colored people were in the majority, and
entitled to elect to office men of their
choice. Second, there existed in the
hearts of Southern white men a
prejudice, a principle, a sentiment,
an instinct, or whatever you may
please to call it, which has inspired a de
termination as fixed as fate and as relent
less as death, that the colored man shall
not make nor execute the laws which
S evern them. So long as those two con-
itions exist a mortal antagonism will
also exist. He contended that we had di
rected all our efforts to overcoming the
second condition without success. We
had made every effort, and yet this con
dition existed to day as defiant and fla
grant as ever before, while our so-
called political equality is rapidly
becoming a byword and a scorn
among the nations. The fact was patent
that these difficulties occurred where the
negro was in the majority and not where
he was in the minority. The prejudice
against his vote was not in the act itself,
but in tbe vote which might defeat the
white man for office. It was in the in
tense determination to resist “negro rule”
at all hazards. It was in the interest of
the negro himself that he urged this plan
of migration.
Thus Mr. Windom, who hails from
way up in the land of snow and ice,
windy Minnesota, beyond the lakes, at
the head waters of the Mississippi, on
the British border. In opposition to this
Northern protector of negro rights, per
mit us to introduce into what Tennyson
calls “the Parliament of Man,” a colored
person, a resident if not a native, a man
of culture and ability, highly respected
by his race, and who has the co-opera
tion in his great moral and spiritual work
among the colored race so many
white people in this city and
section. Rev. D. J. Saunders
says editorially in his paper, the Africo-
Amcrican Presbyterian, “that this pro
posal is an insult to the intelligence,
manhood and self-respect of the colon il
people of the South. ’ Aud his words do
not seem to us to be too strong for the
occasion. “It implies,” he continues,
that the colored “people are utterly un
able to meet add cope with those diffi
culties which must be overcome in the
natural line of human development,”
that they “must be nursed around the
republic from State to State,” etc. “It
implies that he is not a citizen of the
country.”
Editor Saunders sees that this is a “po
litical scheme,” and although his plan as
conductor of a religious journal leads
him as far as possible to eschew politics,
he feels.constrained to combat the sophis
tries of Mr. Windom and expose the
methods by which he and certain colored
persons who “all hold by the horn of the
altar, and feed more or less on govern
ment pap” purpose firing the heart
of the nation once more on the
negro question. He joins with the
editor of a colored Methodist paper, the
Christian Record, in saying “to these
gentlemen, it is time to * stop fooling.’
He refers to the Liberian exodus as hav
ing been originated by “ these same po
litical jugglers,” and affirms that “ many
thousands of our people were thrown
back ten years in material prosperity and
in llieir general welfare by the move
ment.”
The purpose of Windom A Co., the
Afriw-American Presbyterian explains,
is two fold. They mean to * narrow the
basis of representation in certain Con
gressional districts, and establish a
black Stat#’ in the West.” With this it
says it has no concern, but ventures to
remark with much shrewdaess, in pass
ing, “that beyond the limits of a certain
charmed circle’ in Washington, people
are not accustomed to saw' off the limb
on which they are sitting.”
The “emissaries” of these agitators,
says Editor Saunders, “have already ap
peared in several places at the South.
Ten days ago,when at one of our preach
ing stations iu the country, the surpris
and almost invariable answer to the
question; ‘IIow are you getting ou; are
you preparing your farms, etc. was.
No; not doing much. News come out
from town the olhei day that the govern
ment is going to take us all ou: from
among the~white people, and you know
it won’t do to woi k aud have to go away
and lose it. So I’m sort o’waiting round
to see.’ Now, bear in mind, these peo
ple arc industrious, are at peace with
their neighbors, have made some head
way in life, have 4 school house
with school several months in the year,
a flourishing young church with sixty-six
members, and a beautiful house of wor
ship, at an advanced state, in c rarse of
erection. Any one can sec U;at what
such people as these need most of all is
to be ‘le’. alone.* Iudecd, as w T as well
said by Marshal Douglass ‘the colored
man’s great need is to be let alone.' L ei
the negro alone and allow him to work out
his destiny. Our people have to contend
with great difficulties. But they are such
as industry, sobriety, economy, morality,
education, religion and time will over
coem. ‘Better, then, bear the ills we
have than fly to others we know not of.’ ”
The reader has now heard betfi nides
of this argument, which cause is intrin
sicalty the stronger? A Northern Sena
tor who knows nothing practically
of his subject presents one view of
the matter. An intelligent Southern
editor and preacher, belonging to the
colored rac<\ presents another. You
have choice: Whose argument is better,
Windom’s or Saunders’?
As the Sun has virtually said before iu
a brief article on the Minnesota Senator’s
buncombe resolution, let the colored peo
pie go if thev wish to go, but there is no
occasion under heaven why they should
leave the places which know them well^
and the people with whom other than in* 1
politics they have ever had pleasant
relations. It is a question for them and
not for the white people to decide,
though it is a question ;a whiui phiian
thropic pcapK qf all races have an in
terest.
Congress Cannot Insure Life.
.Yetr I ork Sun.
If a physician should advertise in the
newspapers that he was prepared to pre
vent the introduction of contagious or
infectious diseases into the United States
in return for a moderate fee, he would
immediately be set down as a charlatan
of the most impudent stripe. If five or
ten physicians should ask from Congress
an allowance of fifty thousand dollars a
year, in return for their services in sup
pressing or regulating the ravages of the
yellow' fever or Asiatic cholera, when
ever these dreaded plagues should make
their appearance, they would be hooted
out of the lobby as lunatics and ostra
cized as quacks by the entire medical
faculty
The epidemic of last summer, aud the
impatient folly of that class of persons
who look to government for relief from
ills which heaven indicts, have inspired
two bills that are now before the Senate.
One is Mr. Lamar's bill to establish a De
partment of Health. The other is Mr.
Stanley Matthews’ bill to prevent the in
troduction of contagious or infectious
diseases into the United States and to es
tablish a Bureau of Public Health. The
two measures are very much alike, and
equally deserve the attention of the Sen
ate, the press, and the public.
A Department or Bureau of Health,
with all that the name implies, might be
a very desirable thing. If it were in the
power of Congress, or of a constitutional
convention, or of any gathering of put>
lie spirited citizens, to confer upon a
body of medical men full authority to
arrest at the frontier any epidemic that
might threaten to invade our households,
together with ample jurisdiction iu all
cases of pulmonary tuberculosis, diph
theria, or typhoid fever, and discre
tionary powers wfiertver the measles,
the cerebrospinal meningitis, or the
several varieties of infant colic are
prevalent, nobody would object to
the Senate’s legislating on the sub
ject from now to the first of
April. If a simple majority vote of the
Senate wore all that was necessary to
prevent the introduction into the United
States of contagious or infectious dis
eases, we should l»e among the first to
urge the passage of a law to that effect.
But, unfortunately, the science of gov
ernment has not yet reached that per
fection. Congress is powerless to con
trol the progress of the Angel of Death
by legislative enactment, and the legis
lator w T ho proclaims the contrary is
either a simpleton or a knave.
The fallacy which underlies proposi
tions of the character of Mr. Lamar’s
and Mr. Matthews’ is the old fallacy
that a man with an official title aud
drawing a monthly salary from the
Treasury can do that which the same
man in private life cannot do. It is a
slight modification of the ancient super
stition that the King's tom b was a
specific for certain maladies. As fast as
medical knowledge is extended and en
lightened we shall have new safeguards
against pestilence. All the hills which
Mr. Lamar and Mr. Matthews can
draught, and all the votes which the
Secretary of the Senate can record will
not hasten the process.
Mr. Lamar’s measure will probably be
tbe first t<i be disposed of by the Senate.
This bill seeks to create a so-called De
partment of Health, to rank with the
other executive denartmeuts of govern
ment. There is to be a “ Director Gen
eral of Health," appointed by tbe Presi
dent and confirmed by the Senate, who
shall receive an annual salary of $7,500
for superintending the health of the coun
try. He may be suspended by the Presi
dent, or removed from office “upon
hearing before the Chief Justice of the
United States”—in case, we suppose, the
death rate surpasses a given percentage
in any section of the territory under
his control, or if other evidence
of his incompetency is logically present
ed. The Director General of Health is
to be assisted by a full staff of “ clerks,
I that authorized for similar omcers ini
other departments.” Beside^ his regular
staff, Mr. Lamar’s Director General of
Health is empowered to employ “persons
of proper scientific knowledge and skill’’
to make special investigations on sub
jects connected with the sanitary con
ilition of the country, and to “award
to them such compensation as he deems
reasonable and just.” There is no
limit affixed to the Director General s au
thority to employ and pay special inves
tigators. At any period of universal in
disposition, as for example just before a
Presidential election, the entire medical
fraternity of the United States, or that
part of the medical profession in politi
cal sympathy w T ith the party in power,
might be put upon the pay roll of the
government. The salutary effects of a
special investigation at certain political
crises may easily be conceived
Stanley Matthews’ trill makes the
Health. Department a bureau of the
Treasury, with a Director General and a
hoard of seven members, the amounts or
whose salaries are modestly left in blank,
to be determined by the collective # wis
dom of Congress. Otherwise the two
measures are nearly identical.
The possibility of another pestilence
[like that which visited the Southwest
last summer is bad enough, without en
tailing upon the country the evils of red
Itape, official old fogylsm and political
jobbery for which either of these absurd
[bills opens tbe door.
THE GENUINE
DR. C. McLANE’S
Celebrated American
WORM SPECIFIC
VERMIFUGE,
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
T HE countenance is pale and lead-
<
en-colored, with occasional flushes,
or a circumscribed spot on one or botii
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the
pupils dilate: an azure semicircle
runs along the lower eye-lid; the
nose is irritated, swells, and sometimes
bleeds; a swelling of the upper lip ;
occasional headache, with humming
or throbbing of the ears; an unusual
secretion of salia-a ; slimy or furred
tongue ; breath very foul, particularly
in the morning; appetite variable,
sometimes voracious, with a gnawing
sensation of the stomach, at others,
entirely gone; fleeting pains in the
stomach ; occasional nausea and vom
iting ; violent pains throughout the
abdomen ; bowels irregular, at times
costive; stools slimy, not unfrequent
ly tinged with blood; belly swollen
and hard ; urine turbid ; respiration
occasionally difficult, and accompa
nied by hiccough; cough sometimes
dry and convulsive; uneasy and dis
turbed sleep, with grinding of the
teeth ; temper variable, but generally
irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR. C. McLANE’S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect a cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; it is an innocent prepa
ration, not capabli of doing the slightest
injury to the most tender infant.
The genuine Dr. McLane’s Ver
mifuge bears the . signatures of C.
McLane and Fleming Bros, on the
wrapper. —:o:—
DR. C. McLANE’S
LIVER PILLS
are not recommended as a remedy “for
all the ills that flesh is heir to,” but in
affections of the liver, and in all Bilious
Complaints, Dyspepsia and Sick Head
ache, or diseases of that character, they
stand without a rival.
AGUE AND FEVER.
No better cathartic can he used prepar
atory to, or after taking Quinine.
As a simple purgative they are un
equaled.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar coated.
Each box has a red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression Dr. McLane’s
Liver Pills.
Each wrapper bears the signatures of
C. McLane and Fleming Bros.
Insist upon having the genuine Dr.
C. McLane’s Liver Pills, prepared by
Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the
market being full of imitations of the
name Me Latte 9 spelled differently but
same pronunciation.
nov6 W.F&M&Telly
fainting.
JOHN OLIVEH’S
Paint and Oil Store.
STEAMBOAT,
RAILROAD AND MILL SUPPLIES
SASHES, BLINDS,
Doors, Mouldings, &c.
NO. 5 WWTAKEB STREET,
ap25-tf
Savannah, Ga.
ANDREW HANLEY,
No. 6 Whitaker Street,
Paint and Oil Store.
RAILROAD, STEAMBOAT AND MILL SUP
PLIES.
chemists, engineers, experts, and so forth
whose compensation shall mrt exceed Qoo rS( BljntjS, EtC.
A most brutal and shocking double
murder w r as committed at Shabonier,
FayetU-county. IU., at 8 o’clock last
Friday night, the particulars of which
are about as follows: Fred Muischow, a
good-looking Genr*au about twenty-five
years old, who owns a fine tarm and
handsome residence at Shabonier, being
unhappy and dissatisfied in hi* domestic
affairs, went to. tbe house of August Ru-
binc, who Is the uncle of Malschow’s
wife, and proposed that Anna Rubine
should elope with him TLJ* proposition
was promptly rejected, which enraged
Malscaow* to such an extent that be
went to Kimmundy, got terribly drunk,
and returned to rtubine’s house, and
again insisted that Anna should elope with
him. Mr. Rubine tried to reason with
the drunker, Malschow, to induce him
to abandon his infamous design; to go
home to hi3 family and act like a man,
and not disturb the friendship which
has been so lasting and, wt»rm.' He re
plied that he would be friendly, and
then he drew his revolver and shot Mr.
Rubine through tffe heart, hilling him
instantly. He then pursued the fright
ened family up stairs; dragged a young
er daughter down stairs, and then shot
Anna three times iu the abdomen. She
lived about ten hours, and died in in
tense agony. Malschow then mounted
his large gray horse and fled. He is
still at large, but is hotly pursued.
If cut,
REMEDY FOR H\Bii TLHES.
Stop spending so •much on fine clothes,
rich food and style. Buy good, healthy
food, cheaper and better clothing; get more
real and substantial things of life every way,
and especially stop the foolish habit of run
ning after expensive and quack doctors or
using so much of the vile humbug medicine
that does you only harm, and makes the
proprietors rich, but put your trust in the
greatest of all simple, pure remedies, Hop
Bitters, that cures always at a trifling cost,
and vou will see better times and good
health. Try it once. Read of it In another
column, janJJO-MjW&F&wXni
3tr. Tilden’s Testimony.
The New York World, in commenting
on Hon. Samuel J. Tilden’s testimony,
on Saturday last, before tbe cipher inves
tigating committee, says: “It was
hardly necessary for Mr’ Tilden to dis
avow any complicity with the schemes
of Smith Weed and Mr. Woolley, and
which both of these enterprising politi
wians found Mr. Pelton as ready to adopt
as Mr. Micawber could have been to draw
bills in Austnjiu on the Bank of Eng
land in London. He has never been
charged with imbecility in the matter of
politics, and his worst enemy can never
really have suspected him for a moment
of a willingness tq take the Presidency
out of the pockets of a gang of peif-hunt-
iug Republican politicians by the help of
a couple of place-huming Democratic
politicians.”
The Wvrld farther urges that Mr. Til
den m».de it perfectly clear that these
attempted bargainings for the purchase
of certain salable Southern States went
on not only without his knowledge, but
were conducted by people who had no
shadow of a right to either represent him
or to act for the Democratic party. The
World is induced to think that if Mr.
Tilden failed to make it quite so clear
why he tolerated about him the chief
mover in the whole affair, decent people
will not be over-exacting on that point
when they remember that this person is
the son of his widowed sister, who has
lived with him for many years.
The New York lltnsUl says: “It is
just to say that Mr. Tilden’s evidence—
clear, decisive and unequivocal—leaves
him in a better position than he was in be
fore it was given. His denial of any
knowledge whatsoever of the cipher dis
patches, or of any offers, proposals or
negotiations to use any money to pur
chase any returning boards or votes until
the occurrence of the Baltimore affair,
which he rebuked aud stamped out, is as
strong as language can make it. His
testimony is in entire harmony with his
card published in the Hi raid of October
18 last. Right minded people will, with
gratification and relief, accept in good
faith Mr. Tilden’s solemn asseveration
that there was never one single moment
when he entertained the idea of obtain
ing the electoral vote by any venal
means, but that he determined that if
there was to be an auction of the chief
magistracy of his country he would not
be among the bidders.”
Plain and Decoratire Wall Paper,
LI.TIE PLASTER AND CE.HENT.
the celebrated “ HOME
Sole Agent for
LIGHT” OIL.
Ail orders will receive prompt attention.
dec21-tf
PAINTING
CHRIS. MURPHY,
House, Sign and Ornamental
PAINTING.
Orders for Work of Every De
scription in the above
line Solicited.
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Paints, Oils, Glass, Brashes,
YARN ISHKS, ETC.
W M. P. McKENNA, 133 Congress street,
dealers in PATNTH. OILS, etc., HOUSE
JSE,
onaJ
SION and DECORATIVE PAINTER Person
superintendence given to all work. Ordets for
any goods in my line will receive prompt atten
tion. dec4-tf
JOHN G. BUTLER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
Faints, Oils, Glass, Varnishes, Etc.
A LSO, a full line of WALL PAPERS. House,
Sign and Ornamental Painting done with
neatness and dispatch, at prices to suit tbe
times.
NO. 22 DRAYTON STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
Alio, have on hand and for sale thsbest qual
ity of GEORGIA LIME in any quantity.
mh25-ly
dumber. &c.
BACON & BIIOOKS,
PLANING MILL,
Lumber and Wood Yard.
O
RDER BOXES can be found at D. C. Bacon
A. M. A C. w. West’?, J. Weicbselbaum’s and
H. Burford <£ Co.’s. janl7-tf
D. C. BACON A CO.,
TIMBER,
Lumber, Shingles,
LATHS, PICKETS, Etc.
Ed. Piuaud’s Perfumery,
FINE TOILET SOAPS,
AND RRIUJANTINE FOR THE HAIR.
For sale at
L. C. STRONG’S Drug Store,
feb? tf Cor Bull and Perry st. lane.
RULING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION DONE
at the Morning News Steam Printing House,
Whitaker street.
Wholesale and Retail
j*25-tf
iron and 5rass f iundtrs.
MOMGfl cfc BALIAYM
IR9N AND BRASS
Founders and Machinists,
East Broad St., near A. & G. R. R. Depot,
SAVANNAH,
Iron Fronts
Stores.
GEORGIA.
for
BRACKETS,
IKON HAILING,
CASTINGS
Of all kinds, and
ARCHITECTURAL
IRON WORK,
For Churches, Stores and Dwellings made to
order.
SUGAR MILLS & PANS
A SPECIALTY.
r pHE LARGEST STOCK OF PAPER FOR
X FLANK BOOKS AND PRINTING in tbe
1
city, can be found at the Morning Ne*a Steam
Fruiting House, 3 Whitaker street.
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