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^Savannah. Qa.
,,,, LITTLE QtAREBESS.
,, frear< ** faid a little Quakerees,
' ribbon of blue:
K ust ijce a glittering gem
I* woulu sober hue.”
_. ..... not of the world, my Ruth;
: : .. r»t take delight
Thf tf t i.... knows the Cord frowns on,
°TJ garh of colors bright. ”
, . h frown’" th« small thing said,
' Bu j the earth and sky;
. ,. *. .. h- makes of every tint —
*th is ignorance of him
< crow, my ituth;
l.k'- those senseless things,
mug and truth;
t have hearts aud heads and hands
taught us plainly, child,
toherness.
ied the fa-e of Ruth;
sl id the Quaker elf,
1 the shining flower because
:>troii in Holden Rule for March.
deduced from
M. Ha
Wh
iUrn
laid art
Nor,i*i
In the
the tri;
MeSet
want
*eed w
of the
eonria A flairs,
ambitious hen belonging to
Randall, of Palmyra, Lee
i aspires to be an eagle. She
ne.-t on the top of a tree about
Hah. But she will find out
>d is hatched, that unless 6hc
tanco, slie will be unable to
terra Jii'iiui without breaking
,nd that she is nothing but a
A wholesome moral may be
this story.
bia darkey bearing the aristo-
* of Charles Clifford Allen has
•i! in Augusta, for forging the
rentleinaii to an order for a pair
valued at $t» 50. He la also
h other ami similar forgeries.
Atlanta ceusation is the appear-
dty of Piincess Ediths Loz.tla,
f Ro-enthal and Countess of
She i* r« ported to be the daugh-
LuJv\ig I., of Bavaria, and Lola
lan from Carroll county informs
Post of Saturday of a sad and
tal accident which recently took
locality: “The daughter of Mr.
a was a few days ago walking
iri in which had been heaped
b, placed there by servants who
•ployed in cleaning up the yard,
move a few steps backward, she
n one of these heaps of burning
ra-s. Her dress caught fire from
She rushed into the presence of
nd mother, enveloped iu flames,
assistance could be rendered
were binned from her body,
sustained were so severe that her
ive little hope of her recovery,
•autiful and brilliant young lady
rummers, and her misfortune is
a host of hiving friends.”
; already had its effects upoD
Springs correspondent of the
ur.tal, and in his last he thus
crew loose just somewhere,
ten* i-* rath-r hard to tell,
fail to get their mail,
are plentiful, but hard to spell.”
d, the colored roan who way-
>oly shot down his 6on last
Columbia county, was tried
ing and convicted of murder
•rreo. “This termination of
narks the Augusta Sentinel,
st one, and the verdict of the
e law abiding and healthy
izene in Columbia. The jury
conclusion in live minutes,
11 undoubtedly, at the eon-
court, be sentenced to be
riday morning last a little colored
Augusta attempted to jump on a
traiu, when he missed Ills footing,
1 under the truck of the car. The
passed over his right leg, aud lite-
iashed it off, just below the knee,
mgled limb was promptly attended
lressed, but he lies in a critical con-
Another warning.
‘baby bonds” have begun to circu-
cieitement was produced in Macon
'•y the report that resurrectionist*
a at work there, and that the grave
:cn buried in the cemetery had been
•! with. The report was based on the
it a considerable amount of new
-•a' ered over the grave, indicating
al been di turbed. An iuva.diga-
vever, proved the ruraor groundless,
the trouoie was caused by cows
t aulmala getting within the ceme-
•uuJs and liAiupIicg upon tiie
ttomasville Tunes i* iu favor of the
on of provisions. It says: ‘‘We
•thing of farming, practically speak-
there are some general principles
write it which the veriest novice
n<K Let there be a full provision
1 • in Thomas this year, and whether
• hi^h or low, plenty will crown the
tl..* houeet tiller of tho soil. So
'(mbian is the name of a new,
?, 'd and very creditable paper just
Harlem, Columbia county, Messrs.
>'1 Shockley editors. Its entiro edi-
‘P’ are young men, scarcely out of
n -“' hut “imbued with a laudable
r > rise above the common stand-
; -urnalism.” We hope they may
It will be Democratic in its prin-
Jupublu'tin : “The freight train
Morning consisted of sixteen cars
Jir 1 with cotton belonging to
. • . ,r< ^ an * °* Dougherty county, con-
1 "'f ‘ bales, aggregating 191,217
jj, i: «* freight was f 1,1*7 30. On
ilil-. ! ’ Uiol ’ u ^ ,, K a ^®IlArtrain coutajolng
Toth J,n " a,a ° U,,tof cott on, and belonging
tL ‘ :e genticmac, t>assed up the road
fiavannab, it had been
eeuts per pound. This infe rma-
tr •• feived from the conductor of the
U " n . Mr. J. M. Bryan.”
R.
den
hr-
Djst
of Fr
sok
lion
■mrier: “La*»t Thursday, the fire
of the city was out to test a
/'f npw hose just received. The
•Mountain City was used for the
and
of It,
*ndo
down
hurt i,
with the extra pressure on, the
m caused to throw the dreroen at the
on their feet. Three men had hold
pi one was thrown off to each side.
|e was lifted high into the air and let
iun ■ -‘'V!!' •* kJr - Caleb Dempsey was badiy
w “ n ^ ^“iost a curb stone, but the
Dem ^”‘ ssrs * Claude Langston and Dick
, were not seriously hurt.”
7tma: “Mr. Bussey had some
® l he river one night last week,
inir i K n jsht a trout went for the allur-
ot . was hooked. Afterwards an
ih* , li 0D ^ a, id concluded to take in
tk. [ out - The first pass he made fastened
. J n H ,out h, and there he and
vout hung until morning. When Mr.
.“rf rais ed the pole the otter
hut fk t ^ lrou ffh fhe water at a Urrilic rate,
beM 5? 80(1 line were strong, and
out « , for 601116 time. At last he came
him J Und » and M ore Mr. B. could kill
hor,L j fan ar °UBd a tree, and broke tlie
iiot l ^ ade hls e8ca pe- The trout was
imaged much.”
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH. MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1879.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
i Weekly: “The swamp
lands below the city ve among the very
richest in Bibb county. The area under
cultivation this year far exceeds that of a
few years since. Four years ago only nine
teen plows were running, last season ninety-
four, and this season there will be two
hundred, according to the best calculation
Land that could have been purchased a
short time since for ten dollars is now held
at twenty-five dollars, so we are informed.
Much of the corn that comes to Macon is
raised on these swamp lands. If the county
would construct a good road from the city
through the swamp it would be a source of
great benefit And profit to the agricultural
interests of our own Immediate people.”
Says the Burlington Hawkeye: “The torna
do season for 1879 has already opened in
Georgia. The debutante played to a full
hou-e at MilledgevHle last Saturday, ond
carried away three shingle roofs, one tin
roof, two barns, a mile and a half of fences
and a railroad bridge. There was no en
core, but the management is highly pleased
with tnc success of the entertainment.”
Atlanta Constitution : “Our readers have
doubt less noticed the telegraphic accounts
of the terrible collision on the Elevated
Railway of New York, whi h occurred last
Tuesday. They will be pained to learu that
Mrs. Wm. Henry Peck, of this city, was in
one of the colliding trains and was most
painfully hurt. The Nashville Amadom and
the New York Evening Post state that her
collar bone was broken, but her dispatches
to her family do not. mention anv such casu
alty-saying simply that she ‘was not se
riously hurt.’ A dispatch received late
yesterday from Mr. Bonuer states that Mrs.
Peck is not seriously hurt and is doing well
—adding that there is ‘no danger.’ We
earnestly hope that she will very soon be
fully recovered. Her many friends in At
lanta send her sympathy.”
Bainbridge Democrat: “Tuesday evening,
during the play of ‘Cynthia,’ by the Merry
Makers, Miss Helen Marr, who was playing
the roll of the ‘Gypsy Queen,’ met with
a painful aeeideut. At the close of the last
act, when she pretends to stab herself, she
made a mis stroke, and the dagger, instead
of passing under her arm, entered her side,
inflicting a painful cut half an inch deep and
an inch long. Dr. Hurrall was immediately
summoned behind the scenes to attend her.
This accident, however, did not prevent her
from appearing last night in ‘East Lynne’
as Lady Isabel.”
Alluding to the statements so frequently
reiterated against the South that the negro
in this section is terribly abused, and has no
rights which the white man is bound to
respect, the Macon Georgia Weekly says: “In
emphatic refutation of all such falsehoods
we cite one illustration right here in our own
midst, and respectfully invite the serious
digestive powers of our Northern defamers
to the evidence. What are the particulars?
Mr. Jerry O’Connor, a policeman ©f the city
of Macon, some few mouths since arrested
a colored man bv the name of Sam Franklin
on suspicion of stealing a pair of shoes. On
the wuy to the barracks, the negro proving
unruly and endeavoring to escape, O’Con
nor tapped his prisoner over the head w1th
a baton. The blow, though not a very
severe one, fractured the 6kull, which, on
medical examination, was found to be so
thin that it almost amounted to a deform
ity. The negro died within a few hours after
his ariest. The skull, where the blow was
inflicted, was less than the onc-sixteenth
part of an inch iu thickness. Malice is not
supposed to have actuated Mr. O’Connor in
striking the lick, yet despite the evidence
Mr. O'Connor last week was declared guilty
of involuntary manslaughter, by a jury of
his own peers, and sentenced to two years
in the penitentiary. This verdict was found,
too, iu the very face of a mistrial iu the Gib
son care, where a white man shot down an
other on the public, streets and all the evi
dence w ent to prove an unprovoked murder.
If this is not giving justice to the ‘friend
and brother,’ then we are at a loss to define
the term. This slander of the negro being
deprived of justice and right in the South is
as base and groundless as many others that
have circulated against us, emanating from
vile Republican Fources.”
Thomasville Times: “We hope all our citi
zens an* bearing in rnind the approaching
spring fair, which will come off on the 30th
of April. The date is a little early for as
good a display of vegetables as our section
is capable of making, but it was important
to hold the fair thus early, aud we hope our
gardeners will put forili their best efforts to
make the display ail in their power. Al
ready mnny of the gardens are quite
promising, and if the many friends of
the fair will resolve to do their best
we shall have a really good display of
vegetables. The ladies we know will look
after the floral department and see that it is
complete. An effort is all that will be
necessary to make the coming fair fully
equal to any held in the past, and we
would, in all earnestness, urge upon each
and all the importance—vea, the duty—of
putting forth this effort. Remember the
date, und resolve to do what you can to
make the occasion a grand success.”
Washington Gazette: “Mr. Thomas Corbin,
an old and highly respected citizen, died at
his home in this place la.«t Sundav morning,
of paraly.Ms. lie had lived here perhaps all
his life, was well known and universally es
teemed by all who knew him. He went on
the road as express messenger twenty-one
year- ago last Thursday, and no man iu the
service of the company had greater confi
dence reposed in him. Mr. Corbin was a
member of the Methodist Church, aud lived
a consistent Christian. One of the old land
marks of Washington has been swept away
in tEe death of this gentleman, lie was
burled with Masonic honors last Monday.
Mr. Corbin was sixty-seven years old.”
A San Francisco savant prophesies
that a greater earthquake than has ever
taken place on the Pacific coast will
occur in the neighborhood of Los Ange
les about the first of October. San Fran
cisco, he says, will be severely shaken
up, but will be so far removed from the
centre of oscillation a9 to be safe from
great damage. Apropos of this cheerful
horoscope, it may he remarked that at
least fifty per cent, of the celebrated
earthquakes of California have occurred
in Octol>er, and that the greatest shock
in the memory of man occurred between
Los Angeles and Tejon Pass, where to
day a chasm of from twenty to three
hundred feet in width, one hundred to
five hundred feet in depth, and nearly
one hundred miles long may be seen.
Well, let the earthquake come, it will b£
an offset to the agitation of the Chinese
questiop.—Kew Orleans Times.
An Elopement Wiilcf Came Near
Ending in a Tragedy.—A dis
patch from St Louis, Mo., says: “On
Saturday night a runaway couple from
the South were to aiegt at Belmont, on
the Iron Mountain Hailro*u, pear St.
Louis. The lady, whose name is con
cealed, came up on the t/ain, and dis
covered her grandfather in pursuit of
her. He was on the same train, and the
lady rode past Belmont, and when two
or three miles from the place, aud the
train under full headway, suddenly ran
out on the platform and leaped off, mar
velously escaping serious injury. She
walked’back to Belmont, where she met
the man she woe to marry. The grand-
father hurried hack to Belmont on the
next train, but arrived too late to prevent
the marriage.”
Sewing in the Boston ScnooLS.—It
is reported that the teaching of sewing
in the Boston schools is very successful.
Although instruction is given to each
girl only two hours in every week, those
pupils who came into the school in bep-
tember not even knowing how to hold a
needle are able to hem nicely and *0 sew
over seams at the end of the first term.
The special teacher prepares the work at
home, so that it can be put promptly into
t)te hands of the pupils without wastmg
a moo, cut.
ft- ,,,
The Boston lloint Joam*! says: A
descendant of an honored Boston lamuy
recently faded in business, having been
embarrassed principally by trusting too
largely to several parlies in whom he
niacea implicit trust. Hu creditors took
Dowession of his house, furnlturs and
effects, leaving him and his family with-
out shelter, and then, not satisfied,
seized his family tomb at Mount Auburn,
which had been left him by his father,
and in which repose the remains of his
parents and several brothers and sisters,
Frank Miller, who until recently earned
his few dollars a week in the press room
of the Dallas (Texas) Herald, hasfaUen
beii^ through his wife, to 000,000.
Hc^narricd Azelia Dore, grand-daughter
of Jean Louis Champagne, a Texas mil
lionaire, whose death occurred not long
ag°-
A son of the late Henry B. Clark, of
Hoosick Falls, N. A., was found dead
on the Troy and Boston Railroad Hacs.,
Thursday nighL with a bullet hole in the
hack of ms head. It is supposed he was
murdered.
BY TELEGRAPH.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Interesting Debate on the Army Ap
propriation Bill.
RAMLOX-HAWDOX
RACE.
BOAT
Vote on the South African Censure
in Parliament.
THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT ACCU8ED
OF OPENING THE MAILS.
Destructive Fire in Newark, Ohio,
miscellaneous and minor matters.
DEBATE OK THE AKttT ATPBOPR1ATION BILL.
Washington, March 29.—In the House,
the question raised by Mr. Reag&n yester
day to the effect that there were no rules
governing the action of this House, none
having yet been formally adopted, was
brought up by the Speaker immediately
after the reading of the journal. The
Speaker said he was not present yesterday
at the time the point was made in commit
tee of the whole, and he stated that under
rule 147th rules of the preceding House
were declared to be the rules of every suc
ceeding House until otherwise ordered. He
quoted the ruling of Speaker Grow on that
subject, and said he was not aware of any
other ruling at variance with it. Its reason
aud object were to furnish the House
with a set of regular rules instead of com
mitting it to a wide sea of general par
liamentary law. The subject was discussed
at considerable length.
The House at 12:40 went into committee
of the whole on the army appropriation
bill, and the discussion wa3 resumed, Mr.
Stephens, of Georgia, opening it He
arcrued in favor of the relevancy of the
admissibility of the section, but iutimaied
his dissent from theory that the rules of one
house governed the succeeding house un
less readopted. There was no question in
his mind but that the pending section was
germane, and was in the direction of re
trenching expenditures. Retrenchment was
not only possible and probable, but certain.
He discussed the laws of 1795 and 1807, and
argued that they did cot apply to the use
of troops in civil cases, but only in cases
of invasion and insurrection. In civil eases
troop6 were furnished on the call of the
marshal as a posse <xnnitatus, but such provi
sion as authorized the presence of troops at
the polls was never enacted on the statute
book until 1865,and all the change of legisla
tion proposed by the section in question was
the repeal of that law. Public sentiment
North and South was against the employ
ment of troops at the polls. There was no
need for such a thing. The country had
got along without it for three-quarters of a
century. There would be no harm done,
therefore, by a repeal of the law - . Mr.
Stephens spoke for over twenty minutes in a
stroug clear voice, and attracted great at
tention.
After an argument by Mr. Reed, of Maine,
against the section, and in support of the
poiut of order, the Chairman made a
decision overruling the point of order,
holdiug that the section was germane and
would retrench expenditures. Au appeal
was taken, aud the decision sustained by
125 to 107. A general discussion was then
opened by Mr. Garfield, the agreement
being that uo vote would be taken to-da3\
Mr. Garfield made a very stroug speech
against the policy of the Democratic party
iu Congress, declaring it to be utterly
revolutionary aDd tending to the subversion
of the government. He showed how, by
the abstention of the majority iu either
house from the performance of their legisla
tive duties, the government could be broken
up, aud declared that this was the first time
in American history, and the first time in
two centuries in England, that it had been
proposed or insisted upon that those
voluntaty powers should be used for
the destruction of the government; and
yet that was the programme an
nounced to the American people to-day.
If the pending proposition was the simplest
and most inoffensive, still when it was de
manded as a matter of coercion, it had to be
resisted. It was not against the proposition
itself, but against Democratic methods, he
spoke: and what was the law on the reueal
of which the Democrats now insisted at the
very peril of the national life? It was a
law proposed by a Democratic Senator,
Mr. Powell of Kentucky, reported against
by a Republican committee, and passed in
both houses by a majority of Democratic
votes, a majority of Republican votes being
against it. He named as voting for it: Sen
ators Hendricks of Indiana, Davis of Ken
tucky, Johnson of Maryland, aud McDowell
of California, and among the Democrats,
Representatives Rand ill of Pennsylvania,
Wood of New York, and Pendleton of Ohio
In tbi6 House few Republicans voted agaiast
it. I was one of the lew.
Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, asked if In Mr.
Garfield’s opinion the country is likely to be
revolutionized and the government destroy
ed by repealing the la«v that gentleman was
against.
Mr. Garfield replied that was not the
question. The Democratic members of the
House hold that if they are not permitted to
force on the other house and on the Execu
tive, against their will, the repeal of the law
which the Democrats made, it is a sufficient
reason for starving the government. That
is a revolutionary element in this discussion.
The last act of the Democratic domination
Jn this House eighteen years ago was also
revolutionary, but it was heroic and high-
souled then. The Democratic party-
said : “If you elect your President
we will shoot your L’nion to death.
Your leaders withdrew from their
seats and flung down the gage of battle.
We all know what followed. Now, after
eighteen years the book of your domination
is opened where you turned down the leaf
in i860, and you signalize jo’jr return to
power by reading a second chapter, which
decrees that if we do not let you dash a
statute from the book you will starve the
Union to death by refusing the appropria
tions.
Mr. Garfield then referred to what he said
was settled Democratic doctrine; that a
law which could not be passed over a veto
had no right to become a law, and the only
redress was an appeal from the veto to the
people, and he said that we pick up the
gage of’ battle which you have thrown
down and appeal to our ooajmon sovereign
(the people) to settle whether you shall
break down the principle of a free
consent in legislation at the price of
mMjyipff the government to death. On this
grouncfwe p*act ourselves. You shall not
compel us, you shall not coerce u-, even
to save the government—until the question
has gone to the sovereign (the people) to de
termine whether It will couseut to break
dowu its voluntary powers.
Ma". Garfield was replied to by Mr. McMa
hon, of Ohio, who a&ked what was the mean
ing of the invitation to the tiouLh to return
to the Union, to return to Congress, and take
part in the government of the country, if,
when it did so, aud its members attempted
to 6Deak for liberty at the polls, they
were to be denounced as revolutionists
ami accused of tryiue to starve the gov
ernment to death. He said the charge,
that attaching the repeal of the objection
able law to the appropriation bili was revo
lutionary, came with 111 grace from the Re
publicans, since they had often passed a
measure in that very way, and that it was
protected by an arbitrary power. The
statute books were full of infamous
laws enacted by the Republicans. Some
of them his partr proposed to
repeal now, others at a future time, which
he thauked God was not far distant, when
all the departments of the government
would be in the hands of the Democrats.
Then the gentleman from Ohio would wit-
ncm s revolution, which was always going
on wbeu the Republican official was to be
put out of office. | Laughter, j
Mr. McMahon then proceeded to argge in
favor of prohibiting the use of troops at
the polls. “The civil power,” he said, : *was
and always should be supreme over the mili
tary power, although the gentleman on the
Other «!de seemed to think that the military
was the oDiv power in the country.”
Mr. McMahon was foLo^ed by Mr. Wood,
of New York, who gave the history pf the
bill of 1865 in que»*tiop, showing it w*s
passed by a Republican Congress to remedy
tee gr«.ve abuses of the authority conferred
on the Preside*;: by the law of 1861. The
? entiemaa from Ohio opnosed tlie
orrner bill because it limited the r J*re*iden;’p
power; he (Wood) had voted tor it be-
bau*e it was a great improvement upon
the law of 1SC1 previously in force.
It was in the same lino that
his side of the House was now acting to
get rid of all these unconstitutional, des
potic and outrageous laws. The Democratic
party was now in power and Intended to
maintain the civil authority of the govern
ment. They were willing to go before the
people on the great issue whether this is a
military despotism, or whe her members of
Congress are to be elected at the point of
the bayonet, or whether the people of the
United States North and South are to stand
on au equal platform of free suffrage, un
controlled 6ave by their own conscience and
juugrdenc.
Some further remarks ©y J£r. White, of
Pennsylvania, closed for the day a debate
which excited the deepest interest on the
floor and in the galleries, it being regarded
as the opening of the great parliamentary
contest.
The galleries were filled with an attentive
and occasionally excited audience, and
among the listeners were Secretaries Evarts
and Sherman and many Senators.
The House adjourned till Tuesdav, when
the debate will be resumed, Mr. Belionl, of
Colorado, having the floor.
GKBMANT ACCUSED OF VIOLATING TUB SE
CREST OF THE MAILS.
Berlin, March 29.—The complaint of
Herr Liebknecht, Socialist, in the Reichstag
yesterday, that the authorities violated the
secresy of the mails, was based upon the
order of Dr. Sthephen, Postmaster General,
against the spread of revolutionary litera
ture, by virtue of which consignments
of all kinds under wrapper might be exam-
ined.&nd if found objectionable, impounded.
Herr Liebknecht declared that the au
thor! Lies made such use of this restructed
power that the inviolability of letters guar
anteed by the constitution had become
worthless, and declared that he knew of
various cases in Dresden where most unex
ceptionable letters were opened and handed
to the police. An American newspaper had
lately declared that if Germany could-
be proved guilty of such couduct, she
should be excluded from the Postal Union.
Dr. Stephen pointed out that the authorities
were legally empowered to impound
consignments to accused persons. He
had previously investigated the complaint!
by Herr Liebknecht, wnich proved ground
less. No sealed inland packets have ever
bren opened. He refused to rescind the
order.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
Cincinnati, March 29.—Licking county,
Ohio, court house, a handsome structure,
with four fronts, standing in the centre of
the public square at Newark, and just
lluished, at a cost of two hundred thousand
dollars, caught fire to-day in the cupola
from the gas jet used to illuminate the
clock, and has burned down to the second
s'ory. It will probably be totally destroyed.
The* building is insured for twenty thousand
dollars only.
Lateh.—Two engines have been sent from
Columbus. Almost all the important county
records are in a safe. The militia on duty
are guaiding the county property. Great
excitement prevails among the citizens,
and a large number of country people who
are stopping in town now hope that the
most valuable portion of the building may
be saved.
Claremont, N. H., March 29.—A fire
broke out this moruing in the Tremont
House. Five persons perished, and the
building was entirely destroyed.
THE HANLON nAWDON BOAT RACE.
London, March 24. —The Sportsman save:
“The weather on the Tyne 6ide yesterday
was a great improvement upon tnat expe
rienced during the past week, and Hanlon
and Hawdon put in some strong work. The
latter was the first to show afloat in the
forenoon. After sculling steadily un to
Leamington point, he turned and came back
at a fair pace to the head of the Meadows.
On his way back he met Hanlon. The pair
having met on the river for the first time,
had a square look at each other, and Haw
don threw out a kind of challenge to his
opponent by quickening his pace to thirty-
eight strokes, which made his boat move in
beautiful 6tyle. Hanlon, quickening his
stroke considerably, moved away from the
Dclaval sculler iu a style which would net
give the latter a mean impression of his
powers. Hanlon continued his pull down
into the Meadows.”
TUB “TIMES” ON THE INDIAN LOAN.
London, March 29.—The Times' financial
article says: “The government proposal tor
a loan of* ten million pounds in this market
for the service iu India took its rise in a
memorial by the bankers aud others who
advocated the raising of money for the ex
press purpose of bu>iug silver, aud so
raising the level of Indian exchange. Prac
tically, therefore, the loan would go to
wards helping Germany to sell some of her
useless siiver at a good price. Beyond that
it will do nothing to redress real grievances
of Indian finance, which, without instant
and steady resort to the most vigorous
economy, will rapidly sink into hopeless
confusion.”
THE MIXED OCCUPATION OF ROUMELIA.
London, March 29.—The Berlin corre
spondent of the Daily Telegraph says: “The
precise state of affairs relative to tbe mixed
occupation of Roumelia is as follows: The
Porte maintains Its objections to the princi
ple of the measure, while Russia objects to
the participation of the Turkish contingent
in toe mixed occupation. It is suggested as
a compromise that the Russian and Turkish
contingent be stationed respectfully on the
northern and southern frontiers of Eastern
Roumelia without entering that province.”
THE VOTE ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN CENSURE.
Manchester, March 29.—The Guanlian's
London correspondent says: “The govern
ment’s majority on Sir Charles Dilkn’s mo
tion censuring the conduct of South African
affairs is likely to fall considerably below
one hundred, as the Irish members of the
House of Commons are freed from the re
straint of Dr. Butts. Those of a conserva
tive tendency will vote almost solidly against
the Ministry.”
GREAT TROTTING MATCH RACE.
Cincinnati, March 29.—The preliminaries
for the race between the famous trotters
Bonnesettcr and Proteins has beeu partially
arranged, to ir<»t for |ve thousand dollars a
side, but the place of tbe race has not yet
been decided on, the owners of tbe Chicago
horse favoring that place, while Cincinnati
is advocated by the owners of Proteine.
bounteous wheat crop predicted.
Cincinnati, March 29.—The Enquirer
publishes a careful estimate of the wheat
and fhiit crops from nearly every county in
Ohio, Indiana and Keutucky, from which
it is indicated that the wheat crop will be
bounteous, but gives a very poor prospect
for peaches and apples.
CONDITION OF DR. BUTT.
London, Marct 29.—The condbion of
Dr. Butt is again exceedingly critical. The
severe weather has developed unfavorable
symptoms, Including a very weak action of
the heart. He was a little better on Friday
morning, but still in danger.
wrestling match.
Baltimore, March 29.—A match was ar
ranged to-day between William Miller, of
this city, and John McMahon, of Vermont,
to wrestle Thursday night next. The agree
ment is to catch as catch you can. The
stakes to be $500 a side.
CAUSE OF PRINCE WALDEMAU’S DEATH.
London, March 29 —The court physicians
announce officially that Prince Walderaar
died of diphtheria. Measures have been
tukeu to prevent the spread of the disease.
URBENUACR NOMiSATJQNg.
Providence, R. I., March 29.—The Union
Greenback Labor Convention nominated
Samuel Hill for Governor and David A.
McKay Lieutenant Governor.
ANOTHER CALL FOR 5-20 BONDS.
Washington, March 29.—The Treasury
made another call of ten million dollars 5 20
bouds.
FAILED.
London, March 29.—Joseph France & Co.,
metal workers at 'tewegstie. have failed.
Liabilities £80,000. *
CRICKETERS COMING.
London, March 29 —Bell's Life says a team
of professional cricketers, under the leader
ship of Craft, will go to America in August.
A NEW STEAMSHIP.
London, March 29.—The new steamship
Gallia, of the Cunard line, will sail from
Liverpool for Nev York on Saturday next.
THE SUJ TAN’S PLATE.
Constantinople, March 29.—It is expec
ted that the Sultan’ajpiatc, which was sent
to the mint, will realize £100,000.
OUR ATLANTA LETTER.
Weather and Local Item«-Peraonal
and Othercriae — .tlinor Topics —
Funeral of ft. H. fla«on-l Plea
lor Betheada Orphans’ Home
military Hatters — Departure of
lulled States Troops at Hand-
Gate City Guard*-Filial Para
graphs.
A Lecherous Negro Lynched.—The
Nashville American's Union City special
sa>s late Saturday morning a negro man
working with ’Squire John Fields, eight
miles northeast of that place, committed
a rape on Mr. Fields’ youngest daughter,
about t£p years old. No one was at
home to prevent it but the little girl and
an older sister. The negro accomplished
his hellish intentions, and after making
an assault on the other daughter w th the
same intent, and failing from some cause,
made his escape to the woods. Sunday
looming a large crowd of friends of the
injured girl made hot pursuit, and finally'
captured the black devil, and, after shoot.
iDg him three or four 'rimes, kept him
until Sunday night, when he was taken
to the woods, o rope placed around his
neck, and he was swun^ off into eternity
to pay the penalty of Ins diabolical act.
’Squire Fields is a Magistrate.
Simon Cameron's avowed nuwspaper
organ in Philadelphia says that the
Oliver breach of promise suit “seems to
be a b’ackmailing (Rse ; organized by two
lawyers and a drab.” As to part of this
there is little doubt, and the defendant
deserves credit for holding out But the
milk in the cocoanut is the evidence that
Simple Simon bled profusely befoie he
pave himself up. The receipts produced
in court show that he''was blackmailed
to a large amount He only resisted when
he couldn’t stand it any longer.—Odea
yo TrUnme.
Special Correspondence of the Mominq ,V«p».
Atlanta. March 29.—Weather rather
damp, with indications of rain, accompa
nied by high wind.
Augusta lawyers are plenty here, being
in attendance upon the 8upreme Court.
The Markham House i6 being newly
frescoed within and painted without, in ex
pectatlon of a rush of strangers this
season.
“After many days” the Central Railroad
has put on a first-class postal car and a
handsome express car, and its Macon train
is now both pleasing to the pye and satis
factory to all patrons.
Dr. V. H. Taliaferro, one of our most
prominent physicians, has purchased
attractive residence and orange grove at
Lake Maitland, Fla.,*where his family have
resided for the past year, Mrs. Taliaferro
being in feeble health. The doctor, how
ever, will continue his practice here.
SOME LOCAL ITEMS.
Atlanta will send a hamteuinc delegation
to the Pharmaceutical Association meeting
iu Savannah. Dr. Walter A. Taylor, one of
our most popular druggists, Is the Secretary,
and Dr. Theodore Schuman, a prominent
member, is a gentleman of large scientific
resources.
The somewhat celebrated daughter of
Lola Montez is stopping in Atlanta, at a pri
vate boarding house, aud the Constitution
reporter gives her a column interview. Her
“royal” lineage is of the “Cheap John
stamp, and don’t wear we'l in the better
circles of society, although she is traveling
as a religious reformer.
The sudden and accidental death of Prof.
Frank H. Bradley, who was well known as
the associate of Dr. George Little, State
Geologist, has created deep regret iu this
city, where he had many warm personal
friends. Much was expected of him in his
gold mining enterprise in view of his scien
tific attainments and energetic personal la
bors, but his sudden death has blasted all
those bright anticipations.
MINOR TOPICS.
The late Robert Means Mason, who died
at the Screven House, Savannah, March 14,
aged sixty-eight years, was buried from St.
John’s Memorial Church, at Cambridge,
Mass., on the 19th. As he was a distinguished
geutlemau aud a prominent official in the
Episcopal Church, the funeral was attended
by the Bishops of New Hampshire, New
York and Massachusetts, and by a large
number of eminent clergymen from abroad.
The deceased was a son of the Hon.
Jeremiah Mason, and left behind a blame
less reputation as a successful merchant,
having been a member of the firm of J. W.
Paige & Co. and A. A. Lawrence Jc Co., of
New York and Boston.
I notice an appeal in the Morning News
for new members in the Union Society.
Daring my recent stay in Savannah on Sun
day last, 1 visited tbe Bethesda Orphans’
Home, accompanied by Col. J. L. Warren,
one of the Board of Managers. Having
been interested in institutions of this kind
for a life time, I made a most searching sur
vey of the establishment, and with tbe moet
gratifying results. I doubt if ever an in
stitution, with such limited means at its
command, ever carried on a grander work.
With inadequate buildings, and those in an
unfinished condition, a small but efficient
corps of officials, and a system of economy
in the management that can hardly be im
proved, over forty boys are being housed,
clothed, fed, educated and trained for future
usefulness in life. I know of no place
where five dollars could be better invested,
and you may authorize President Estiil to
put me down for that amount. Of my visit
to Bethesda 1 shall have more to say through
another channel.
MILITARY MATTERS.
The Eighteenth United States Infantry
are packing up for their departure to Da
kota, where they are to be stationed. A
Montana editor, now visiting Atlanta, en
tertained the officers of the regimeot at a
supper last night. Gen. Thomas H. Huger,
the commander of tbe regimeut, has taken
his family home to Wisconsin, and will go
with the regiment to Dakota. As General
Huger has always held high positions on
detached service, it is more than probable
that he will be made commander of the
District of Moutana,” a position now filled
by Lieutenant Colonel Brooke, of the Third
Infantry.
The Gate City Guards, of Atlanta, under
Capt. J. F. Burke, have made more progress
thau any other command in the State. By
recent re-organization the company has
beea divided into a battalion, with Company
A and Company B, and on “Memorial Day”
will make the finest display ever made by
anyone command in ALlauta The vacancies
caused by the retirement of Lieutenants
Scrutchin and Biggerc have been filled, and
Capt. Burke now has Lieute. J. W. Butler,
W. C. Sparks and J. H. Lumpkin as his asso
ciates. On “Memorial Day” Lieut. Butler
will command Coinpauy A, and Lieut.
8parka commaud Couipunj C. Lieut. Lump
kin is Associate Reporter of the Supreme
Court of Georgia, and a young man of su
perior ability.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
Atlanta social circles have given Mis. C.
H. Thiot and her charming daughters, of
Savannah, a most cordial welcome. They
will reside here for the present.
A passenger in a Central Railroad sleep
ing car created quite a sensation the other
night by struggling with an imaginary rob
her anff crying Gut “Police !” It was a bad
case of nightmare, and ended in great fuu
for the other passengers.
The Gate City Guards have sent a certifi
cate of honorary membership to Mrs. II. F.
Knowles, the accomplished wife of Captain
Knowles, of the Boston Light Infantry. It
is elegantly printed in gold upon white
satin, and framed in an appropriate manner.
In the past the Centra! Railroad has given
a great deal of its time and attention to
freight trains and traffic, but a change has
come o’er the spirit of its dreams, and pas
senger trains and traffic are now receiving
deserved attention. With unsurpassed ocean
steamships, Savannah ought to have more
passenger travel over the Central.
A poor policeman has been made respon
sible for the death ol Col. Alston, which re
lieves ail other interested parties except
Capt. Cox. The discharge of Policeman
Smith is an outrage nearly as great as tbe
killing, and Is as generally condemned by
the public. But somebody had to suffer,
and the one leaet to blame was the easiest to
reach.
The people of Cartersville hold a public
meeting to-day for the purpose of arrang
ing to entertain the Georgia Press Associa
tion in May. Report says ample accommo
dations and a good time can be confidently
looked for. Mr. b. W. Wrenn, the irre
pressible Kennesaw Route man, is fixing up
an “R R. R.” programme—that Is, one that
will be rich, rare and racy.
People from the “lower country” will
find our “up country” summer resorts in
good trim about tbe first of May. Major
Wilcox, at Mount Airy, keeps his fine hotel
open “all the year round.” Mre. Cannon
and son and Dr. Reynolds are now puttiDg
Porter Springs In •‘sppie-pie order,” and
Mr. B. W. Wrenn is making extensive im
provement* at Catoosa, which will open the
middle of May. Chatham
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Prospect of a Protracted, Bitter Con<
test Over the Hepeal Pleasures—A
Deadlock Apparently luevttabl
The Democrats Remain Pirn
First .Skirmish In the House—Dcm
ocrats Achieve a Victory—The Ap
pointment of Clerks.
Albany Argus: “There is much loud
and loose talk from the minority papers
and politicians about Mr. Hayes stand
ing out to the end’ against the decree of
the people. He will not do so for seve
ral reasons. He is perfectly well aware
that he is let drag out his incumbency of
shame only by the contemptuous mercy
of Congress. lie knows very well
that the appropriation for his own sala
ry and that of the hundreds of offenders
who stole him Mr. Tilden’s office can be
made depend on his submission to
the decree of the people. He is in ever}’
conceivable respect a moral coward, and
his Cabinet are men in his likeness. The
sort of stuff that ‘stands out’ is not in
them. Their cowardice, tneir cupidity
and the knowledge that a refusal of
Congress to recognize them would re
quire them to leave the country between
sunsetting and 6unrising will make them
yield to public opinion. Of this there
need be no doubt.^
Gqlp ix Kansas.—The St. Louis
Globe-Democrats dispatch from Wichita,
Kansas, states that gold has been discov
ered thirty miles southeast of that place,
and that great excitement prevails among
farmers and others. It is said that a
New York company has bought a square
mile of the land and is trying to secure
more. Four companies have already
been organized. Ore from a shaft struck
some time ago is said to have assayed
over $2,000 to the ton. One farmer has
refused an offer of $30,000 for his farm.
Special Correspondence of the Mominq Netct.
Washington, March 28.—Instead of
clearing, the political horizon grows darker
daily. The conflict between the Democrats
and the people of the country on the one
side, and the Radicals and Hayes on the
other, which has been clearly defined for
some time past, has been precipitated. The
Radical caucus, in which Garfield and
Robeson, ex-Secretary of the Navy, figured
largely, has decided to fight with every ex
pedient, and with all the force that a minority
can summon, the adoption of the modified
legislation which the Democratic caucus
has decided must be incorporated in the
appropriation bills. The Radical minority
is one sufficiently large to protract debate
and lengthen the time before the final pas
sage of the bills. This means hard and long
fighting and bitter cross speeches. The end
canuot be seen. It is all cloudy and fall of
no end of prospective wordy speeches from
both sides. It it a question whether the
Radicals will abandon their false position
and allow liw government to go on, or
whether the Democrats will, to avoid the
stoppage of the govemmeut’s wheels, re
treat from the staud they have taken. If
there is auy true logic deducible from the ac
tions of men, and any confidence to be placed
in their solemn assurances, there will never
be an inch of >ieldlng on the part of the
Democrats; aud under the same “if,” the
Republicans will not withdraw from the
revolutionary stand they have takeu upon
themselves to assume. The only Republi
can of any prominence that your correspon
ded has heard take anything like a sensible
view of the case, is Mr. Evarts, Secre
tary of State. In speaking on this subject
he said : “ Is there going to be a dead
lock ? Deadlock! I can’t see how poll
tieians and the newspapers can talk serf
ou.-ly of a deadlock. The Government of
the United States of America must
be continued. There will have to be money
to continue it. To curtail any of the func
tions of the government would be revolu
tionary. The clerks in every department
must have their pay. If the two parties
will uot compromise, one or the other has
got to back down—that’s all. We should
uot allow a controversy like this to put our
country to shame before the world.” Mr.
Evarts did not openly advocate the signing
of the appropriation bills with the proposed
legislation attached thereto, but it was in
ferred from what he did say that he was In
favor of such a course to avoid the cessa
tion of the legislative, executive and judi
cial branches of the government. It Is un
fortunate that Hayes and the rest of his
Cabinet cannot look through the same
glasses as Mr. Evarts. They all, even to
Judge Key, Postmaster General, take ex
actly opposite views of the matter. To a
person who seriously considers what the ef
fects of closing the departments of the gov
ernment interested in the great conflict will
be, it would seem that it is an impossibility
that some means will not be resorted to in
order to avert such a contingency. It does
not look as if this were possible, though. It’s
a mixed thing all around as to prospects. The
first skirmish of the great battle was had
to-day. It was in the House of course, and
equally of course on the first appropriation
bill considered. This was the army bill.
Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, offered an amend
ment repealing the section of the law which
prohibits men who served in the Confede
rate service being appointed officers in the
United States army. He illustrated how
such men can be elected to Congress and
can serve In the army as privates but cannot
be made officers. Conger, of Michigan, im
mediately made the point of order that the
ameudment was not germane—it did not
propose aDy reduction in appropriations,
rrye, of Maine, privately whispered in bi6
ear to withdraw his point of order
and precipitate & bloody 6hirt de
bate. Conger did so. Mr. Sparks,
Democrat from Illinois, quickly saw tbe ob
ject of Conger’s withdrawal and made the
same point of order himself. Mr. Springer,
who was in the chair, sustained the point of
order and the little Radical scheme fell
through. When the clause to prohibit the
use of troops at the polls was reached,
Conger made the point that it was not ger
mane to the bill—not proposing any reduc
tion of expenses. Sparks held that it would
make a reduction, preventing the cost of
transporting troops for use at elections.
McLane, of Maryland, showed that Sparks
was correct. Haskell, Radical, got in the
stale cry of his party that the position of
the Democrats was of a revolutionary tenden
cy. It was unconstitutional, he said, to
prohibit the President using the troops
at the polls, for the Constitution con
ferred upon him the right, as Commander
in-Chlef of the army, to use troops to put
dowu riots and insurrections, Carlisle, of
Kentucky, held that t4«ls pu.-iuau was non
sensical. The President could use troops to
quell insurrection with the pending clause a
law, but be could not on the pretense of
quelling insurrection or riot order troops to
the polls. He could quell the insurrection
when it arose, but could not anticipate such
au occurrence by the movement of troops,
Conger and Robeson took prominent parts
in the debate, but could accomplish
nothing against 6uch good lawyers as
McLane and Carlisle. The first skirmish
was a decided victory for the
Democrats. It also showed that McLane, a
new member, is to take a prominent part in
the House; that Carlisle is to emerge from
his partial obscurity In the past to a Demo
cratic leader, and that Robeson, Grant’s
thieving Secretary of tbe Vavy, 1} to be au
important factor on tbe Radical side.
A law on the statute books apportions the
clerks in the Treasury to the different
States, so many to each State. Jq mage a
good showing JoLu Sherman puts down
Radical carpet-baggers, however brief their
stay, who may have been in the South, to
the oredit of the Statas where they tempo
rarily resided, and then he shows the figures
aud says: “See how many appointments there
are from the South.” The Democrats ob
ject to this, and are going to try and change
the record so as to show exactly where the
“Southern appointees” hall from.
Potomac.
ROSCOE'S RASCALITY
The 71 a rahand Supervisors Law
Passed for the Benefit ot the Eml*
nent Turkey Gobbler from >ew
York—A Bit of History.
The Fatal First Letter.
Cincinnati Commercial.
Recent mention of 2at-b Chandler as a
Republican candidate for the Presidency,
and the comparison with Zach Taylor,
both being old Zach as well as “Rough
and Ready,” suggests the old query,
What is in a name ? and this again sug
ge6t8 another, What is in an initial ? The
name of the old Michigander commences
with a C, and no man has yet attained
the Presidency whose Dam^. commences
with the third letter of the alphabet.
Lbok at the formidable array of defeated
candidates and disappointed aspirants:
Clay, Crawford, Cass, Chase, Calhoun,
Clinton, Clayton, Crittenden, Corwin,
Cooper, Curtin, aud even the horny-
handed Cary. Coukling entertains the
hope of reaching the goai, but he cAn
read his fate in the history of the illustri
ous C’s who have preceded him. Tho
people don’t seem to “C’’ it to the
advantage of the gentlemen whose
names begin with that letter.
Now, it there “B” anything in this
initial business, let us see what kind of
company we find Mr. Bayard in. We
tried a B. once for president in the per
son of Bachelor Buchanan, and the
country has never ceased to regret its
choice of him. Breckinridge failed as a
candidate; Benton was left out in the
cold by his parly, and Blackburn is not
likely to be elected Speaker. Brigadier
ijelknap graduated from the Democratic
party, ana with Babcock and Borie.made
the Busy Bees of Grant’s Cabinet. The let
ter is the initial for “ Beast ” Ben Butler,
Braxton Bragg, Billy Bowlegs, the Semi
nole; Blathering Beatty, Brother Beecher
of Brogklyn. the Bounding Banning, the
surname of the slayer of Hamilton, the
Christian name of "the traitor Arnold,
the wicked King Belshazzar of Babylon,
the last of the Chaldean dynasty, who
was sent “to grass” for his Badness; the
arch fiend Beelzebub, Bloated Bondbold
ere. Boston leaked Beans, blubbering
Blokes, Bores, Blockheads. Bally Boys,
Blatherskites, Blackguards and Black
legs. Mr. Bayard had better take warn<
ln$.
In view of all this, how can you be so
wicked as to suggest old Zach Chandler
for certain political immolation?
Defeat of the Bell Punch.—The
Connecticut Senate Tuesday unanimously
voted to indetinitely postpone the bill
jroviding for the establishment of the
)ell punch register system in the collec
tion of the liquor tax in that State. This
seals the fate of the measure.
Baltimore Sun.
There is a rather curious history at
taching to the sections of the l nited
States election law relating to the ap
pointment of supervisors ana the employ
ment of United States deputy marshals
at the polls. As this history concerns
the pending controversy between Con
gress and the President in regard to the
repeal of those sections it may be briefly
stated. The first “enforcement act,” so
called, was passed in May, 1870, its nomi
nal object being to embody such ‘ 'appro
priate legislation” as was deemed neces
sary by the Republican party to accom
plish the objects of the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments. This act, how
ever, contained no suggestions of either
supervisors or deputy marshals. At the
very time when it was pending and being
acted upon in Senate and House there
was slumbering in the Judiciary Com
mittee of the Senate a bill which did
contain the obnoxious clauses, but
they were not intended to be applied
at all to the purposes which
they now supply. The House
in .February of that year had passed and
sent up to the $enato a bill amending the
naturalization laws. This bill, which
was in four sections, and. according to
Mr. Conkling, contained no provisions
not already in the statutes, was referred
to the Judiciary Committee, and was
taken charge of by Mr. Conkling. The
committee aid nothing with it for a long
time. In the latter part of May, how
ever, about the time of the passage of
the first enforcement bill, Mr. Conkling
submitted a bill of his own in relation to
naturalization, which was also referred
to the Judiciary Committee. In the last
week of June, and just before the ad
journment of Congress, Mr. Conkling
reported the House naturalization bill to
the Senate, with a long amendment in
the nature of a substitute, which em
bodied, in fact, the bill offered by that
Senator. This substitute, which con
tained the supervisor and deputy
marshal clauses, was assigned a day
for discussion, and when it came
up it was immediately attacked, by
Republicans and Democrats alike,
as being practically destructive of every
principle of naturalization acted upon
by the government from its inception
down to that moment. It was openly
said by men of both parties that the
bill (and especially the supervisor and
deputy marshal clauses) was meant to
benefit Mr. Conkling in New York city
at the expense of the country at large.
Tbe bill did indeed, in effect, attempt to
legalize the very acts which John L. Dav
enport has since done without warrant
of law, and particularly in requiring all
naturalization papers granted after July
1, 1868, to be renewed. Senator Morton
declared he would not vote for the bill;
the present Secretary of the Interior de
nounced it; many other Republican
Senators ami all the Democrats declared
that it ought not to be acted upon be
cause there was not time to discuss it
Finally July 2d was set to take a vote on
it; and, after a hot discussien, in which
Senators Bayard, Thurman and Viol;
ers were active assailants of the
bill, as being subsersive of the
rights of naturalized citizens, the
vote was taken, and the Senate
substitute (Mr. Conkling’s) rejected. The
Senate then passed the original House
bill, but. at Mr. Conkliug’s urgent sclici-
tation, added to it llie two last sections
of his amendment, covering the provis
ions for supervisors and deputy marshals
in cities of over twenty thousand inhabi
tants. The bill in this shape was about
to pass the Senate when Mr. Sumner in
sisted upon having his amendment, that
neither color nor race should act as a bar
to naturalization, appended to the bill,
in order, as he said, to carry out the Dec
laration of Independent Tho Pacific
coast Senators ui once amended the
amendment by proposing to except the
Chinese from naturalization A hot dis
cussion sprang up and was adjourned to
the 4th of July, on which day one of the
most memorable debates in the history
of Congress oceoueed. Such was the
hitter ieeling involved during this dis
cussion, which covered a very wide
range, that streral times during the
course of the day the bill, supervisors,
marshals and all, came within an ace of
being defeated, Mr. Oonkliug's personal
interest in the matter was, however, so
strong that flnallv he procured the recon
sideration and defeat of Mr, Sumner’s
amendment and saved his bill, which
thus became a law, being approved by
the President July 14, 1870. The two
obnoxious clauses which have caused so
much trouble and confusion were scarce
ly under discusaiou during all the debate,
and were apparently not understood in
their entirety by any member of the Sen
ate. It was in this way that this legisla
tion was first procured, and the case
Bliows how carelessly and recklessly
measures so vitally important to the in
stitutions of the country have now and
then been adopted. The supervisor and
qeputy marshal clauses were not left long
in their unnatural posit ion on the natu
ralization law. Ou February 28, 1871,
An amended form of the enforcement act
of May 81, 1870, was approved by the
President, and in the body of this meas
ure was incorporated, in an enlarged and
concentrated form, all the substance of
the two clauses which were then repeal
ed so far as they stood as sections 5 and
6 of the act of July 11, 1870. In all the
votes taken upon the passage of this out
rageous bill, with its seventeen sections
and its violent pains and penalties, all
the Republicans voted for its adoption,
and all the Democrats against its adop
tion. It W33, there lore, ui no sense of
the word an act of Congress to prevent
frauds in elections, but to all intents and
secure the political supremacy of a party,
in spite of the changes in popular senti
ment then threatening or antiepated in
the remoter future. As such, the Re
publican minority still .Uugglc to retain
it upon tbs statute book.
A Deputy United States Marshal
Kiilkd.—A telegram was received in this
city Sunday announcing that Deputy
United States Marshal Dave Hicb was
shot in Grainger county uaturiiay. His
mother Jives iu Uiia city, and two broth
er ate teamsters for Gaines Uarrill. Ac
cording to instructions in the telegram
the family all went up on Sunday night
to attend the funeral.
Up to last night no information could
be obtained from any source as to the
cause of the killing, nor any particulars
whatever. A letter was received last
Thursday by the revenue authorities here
from Rich, stating that he and deputies
Tom Barnett and Ike Wright were going
out on a raid after illicit distillers in
Grainger county. Nothing further has
been heard from that expedition, and it
is a matter of mystery among all parties
as to whether Rich was killed m that raid,
or whether it was In some personal diffi
culty, or otherwiae.—KtmxtUU Chronicle
A flash of lightning struck the tele
phone wire near Sutler Creek, Amador
county, Cal., Thursday afternoon, and
came darting into tbs otbee, where it
made a report similar to a small clap of
thunder, and commenced ringing the
call bells. No damage was done, how
ever, aside from frightening the operator
nearly out of his wits.
Horrible Details of the Killing of
Judge Elliott.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ei 1-
ouirtr writing on the day of the murder
from Frankfort says:
"The murder of Judge J. M. Elliott,
of tbe Court of Appeals, by Thomas Bu
ford, of nenry county, is one of the most
startling tragedies on record. Tbe de
tails of the shocking affair have already
been given. Nothing could exceed the
ferocity and wild vengefulness of the
deed. Buford bad been engaged in a
lawsuit about some land. Hehadprtvi
ously owned a heavy factory, and when
he found he was about to fail, he acid
out all his stock for cash, and snapped
his fingers at his creditors. With the
money thus procured he bought a fai m
in Henry county in the name of his s ; s
ter; bu.it appeared afterward that the
title was impeifcct, and their iufant heirs
to the land have been pursuing Bu
ford to this day, and with success Wkl
the case went against him in Henry
county, and the Sheriff sought to dispos
sess him, Buford converted bis farmhouse
into a fort, aud defied the power of the
county. The suit was afterward trans
ferred to Fayette county, and tried i ■€
fore Judge Hunt, Bufoid having for his
counsel, among others, Colonel W. C. P.
Breckinridge. The decision was against
Buford, who could hardly be restrained
from shooting Colonel Breckinridge and
Judge Hunt. Through various vicissi
tude* the suit w:is brought before the
Court of Appeals for a second time, and
a second decision was rendered last Sat
urday adverse to Buford. It was this
that drove him to the perpetration of
the murder of Judge Elliott, lie ap
peared to think that the Judges
were opposed to him ou personal
grounds, especially Judge Pryor,
who is from Henry county, and whom
Buford would have killed, but for Piy-
or’s children, with whom he is ac
quainted. The decision rendered on
balu’day was delivered by Judge Cufer,
and Buford came to Frankfort with the
determination to kill him, but meeting
Mrs. Cofer, and finding her so courteous
to him, his heart softened, and he spared
her husband. Judge .Elliott was [>er-
haps the most rugged and bluff of the
Appellate Judges. He did what he
thought was his duty, and had uo
apology to make or conciliation to offer.
1 pon him Buford made up his mind to
take his revenge Approaching the
Capitol Hotel, where Judge Elliott
boarded, Buford awaited his coming
with a double barreled shot-gun, loaded
with buckshot, twelvo in each
barrel. Judge E'.liott and Iliues came
to the hotel together to dinner.
When Buford saw them he approached
Judge Elliott with asmile, andretnaiked
that he was going snipe hunting, as in
deed his dress indicated, and invited the
Judge to accompany him. He declined,
whereupon Buford asked him to go and
take a drink with him, at the same time
lowering his gun. Before Judge Elliott
rould reply Buford discharged a l ad of
buckshot into his body, killing him in
stantly. A scene of the wildest conster
nation ensued, in which everyone cogni
zant of the awful circumstance was con
cerned but Buford. He alone remained
calm, and apparently satisfied with what
he had done, fjo handed ta the deputy
sheriff, who came up. a letter, which
■yvas in fact his will, disposing of what
remains of his property in law or
equity, leaving it all to a niece
in f ayette. He was quite conscious
of the magnitude of the crime he
had committed, atid had prepared him
self for tjie emergencies; for he said,
after his arrest, that he expected he
would lie mobbed, and in that event, did
not expect to escape with his life, whether
from Judge Lynch or any other judge.
In fact, the people are so enraged at
what they consider a murder so cold
and premeditated that they are in a
frame of mind to appeal to Judge Lynch
rather than to any other. At this
moment the jail is guarded by forty of
the McCreary Guards, the same militia
that were sent to quell the troubles in
Breathitt county. They are anxious,
for they know that there is trouble brew
ing, and that there tuay be hot work for
them before morning. The prisoner re
gards his possible fate with composure.'.
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Bey, Henry Ward Beecher on
Adam’e Fall.
PYoei Sunday's Plymouth Church Sermon.
“I did not lose anything in Adam’s
fall,” said Mr. Beecher on Sunday mom
ing. “I was not there; I did not fall;
my will was not in him. It is the very
extravagance of insanity, the metaphysics
of the lunatic asylum, to say that I hail
anything to do with Adam. Let Adam
take care of himself But it is said: 'Do
we not inherit the sins of our fathers'''
Vea—(hesitatingly)—but if you put a
drop of poison into Boston Bay and let
it flow out through the North aud South
Atlantics and around the Cape of Good
Hope and qp to the Bay of Bengal, I
think by that time the poison would be
washed out pretty thoroughly, and any
ain that I committed four thousand years
ago has by this time grown pretty thin.
That mankind, without exception, are
low born and low bred, that all need
to be quickened, and that too by
a supernal power, is true; that
they need deveolpment and education is
true: that without such development and
education man is but an animal is true.
The whole human family arc horn at
zero, and they have got to go up by suc
cessive stages socially, intellectually,
morally ana finally spiritually, that is
the problem of life, the method of crea
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between the egg and the dove there is
only the thickness of the dove's wings,
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Details of the sinking of the Haytien
war steamer St. Michel by the English
steamer Bolivar, on the 14th insL, show
that of one hundred and fifty persons on
board, seventy-two were saved by the
boatB of tbe English ateamer. The Boli
var has been seized at Port au Prince
pending an investigation.
The benefit tendered to the Warde-
Barrymore troupe at Dallas, Texj^ Mon
day, realized five hundred dollars. Mias
Ellen Cummins was presented with a
gold necklace and chain by CoL G. B.
Simpson, who made a touching &Uuai<m
to the recent tragedy at Marshall
state men are Cfiqny of holiness, but I was
not hGfu any more empty of holiness than
I was empty of arithmetic; 1
was empty of everything except my moth
er's milk. My business was to fill up,
and that is everybody’s business. To
say that man fell with Adam is fumbling
with a great fact; thev had mittens ou
when they dissected that. Suppose I
send my father to the bank with $100,
QGu to deposit for me—a very unlikely
fact—and he loses the money, and as a
consequence I cannot fulfill my obliga
tions and am in poverty, it is not my
fault; I did not lose the money; and if
Adam was carrying my property in his
loins and lost it, it is not iny fault and 1
am not responsible. Hut men are horn
with intelligence and can choose what is
right, and can do it, and everybody is
elected or non elected; the man that will
is elected and the man that will not is
non-elected. The whole human family
has the power to see what is right and
what is wrong and to choose between
then., and they are respcuuibie for the
abuse of thif power."
Thousands or Coal Mixers on a
Strike ix Pennsyi.vaxla.—^The striking
miners in camp at Elizabeth, Pa, were
augmented Monday, and they now sum
her one thousand. Thqy iiave several
brass hands to keep up the enthusiasm
Proviaious are furnished them and they
declare that they will keep np the siege
until all the diggers join in the strike
for three cents per bushel. Tho strike
among the miners qf (he Monongahela
Valley, P%, Las become general and has
extended to the coke region. Between
three and four thousand are thus thrown
out of employment.
There is a current report that Prince
Louis Napoleon wants to marry the
Princess Beatrice of England, and hopes
by his services in Zuzuland to gain the
Queen's consent to their union. As, how
ever, the Prince is a R mian Catholic,
he cannot marry an English print ess.
MCTJ COM
* uiioihy J. Lynch, a Boston broker,
it Is alleged, went to three prominent
brokerage firms in that city and bought
government bonds, giving checks which
wevp dishonored. The amount thus ob
tained ao far known amounts to $7,000.
Detectives hmd pursuit of him.
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