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Ueorsria Affairs.
7hc Millcdeeville Recorder very conslder-
cucum
The
atelv informs tourists through the woods of
Baldwin county that they can always detect
rattlesnakes by their odor, which is, it
TSt a cross betw een the smell of a green
er and a red fox.
'.,bm and Recorder wants a bank es-
i in Milledgeville. It says that
-uch au institution is badly needed there,
ved would prove very remunerative.
M. C. Hull, who committed an outrage-
oo* assault on a little elri in Atlanta a few
weeks ago, was found guilty on Monday in
the Fulton Superior Court, and recom
mended to mercy. He was sentenced to
twenty years iu the penitentiary. But for
tie recommendation to mercy, he would
have been hang.
On the 4*h inst. the bank in Americus re
ceived $10,000 in gold at one installment.,
the first yet received by that institution.
The Rfoakr says it created a considerable
flutter in the market, and several amusing
incidents attended its distribution. One
man, evidently not posted on the financial
status of the day, hurried out of the bank
to a certain broker’s office and throwing
down the coin triumphantly, demanded
••what premium do you pay for that?”*
The W'tikly states that up to this dtite
Montezuma has received more cotton than
was received there during the whole of last
Mr. -I. X. F.nglish, of Macon county, has
picked and sold from one acre of land on
hi? farm two bales of cotton, one Weighing
414 and the other 475 pounds. That’s-the
best vieM we have heard of in the State this
seasoi
The needed twenty live subscribers have
been secured in Columbus, and the tele
phonic exchange there is now an assured
We learn from the Lumpkin Independent
that on Monday of last week, while Mrs.
Asa Shackleford, an aged lady of Stewart
conn:;., went into a lot to look after some
of her mules, one of the animals kicked at
her. In attempting to get out of the way
she fell and dislocated her hip. Every
effort to relieve her was made, but without
success, and she died in a few days.
Tin- races of the Thomasville Jockey Club
were inaugurated there Tuesday, according
to previous notice. Several fine horses were
on the ground, and about four hundred
visitors were present. The programme for
Tuesday was first a race for the three
minute class. For this there were four en
tries—Urey Duster, Orphan Boy, Minnie
Tiidrn and Victor. It was won by Gre\ r
Duster in 2:51, the horses coming in at the
finish iu the order named; Victor was dis
tanced. in the second race, a free for all,
there were five entries: Joe Rea, Ally
Wilks, Henry G., Restless and Ned M. It
was won by Ally Wilks in 2:43)^, the other
horses coming in in the order named. The
p.-ogramrne for yesterday was a race for
the 2:40 class, and the running races. The
purs* s won on Tuesday were all promptly
paid ou the ground.
And now the Rome Bulletin wants a blue
ribouu movement started in that city.
The bi-monthly meeting of the directors
of the Georgia Railroad was held in Au
gusta on Tuesday. The reports of the opera
tions of the road were very satisfactory,they
showing the net earnings in the eight
mouths ending November 30th, 1879, to be
$170,323 80—an increase over the net earn-
the same period last year of §4,
A semi annual dividend of three
t. was declared.
the issue of the Louisville Cornier,
ceived yeate'day, appears the valedictory of
its late editor, Mr. W. C. Davis. He is suc
ceeded by his former partner, Mr. W. C.
lnt>s
In
(ii
. Milledgeville Union and Recorder: “Tues
day in-xt. is the time fixed by the local trus
tees in elect a faculty for the Middle Geor
gia Military and Agricultural College. Wc
are pleased to learn that the prospects of
the college are bright aud cheering. The
City Council will come down handsomely
to support this institution, for the establish
ment of which they have labored so earnest
ly for the past two years. A corps of ex
cellent teachers will be provided, and
parents should perfect their arrangements
for enteriug their children at the opening
of the echool early next year. There is,
and must be, no doubt about the complete
success of this institution. This is the last
and only opportunity' to perpetuate the
dory of the old capitol. Milledgeville can’t
afford to fail in this matter, aud she will
not.
“A serious difficulty,” says the Athens
Iltnur, “occurred across the river, Satur
day evening last, at the house of Joe Bird,
k appears that Bird and one Dr. Clark
patent medicine vender of the tramp per-
suat-ion, met at a barroom and imbibed too
freely of ‘Billy Patterson,’ when they retired
to th*- house of said Bird. Bird requested
his wife to prepare diuner for himself and
Dr. Clark, which she did; and while they
w ere at the dinner table Clark became sick,
excused himself, aud, lying down across a
bed, fell asleep. While Clark was sleeping
B:nl became desperate from some cause and
said he was going to kill somebody, or
words to 1 hat effect. A young lady who was
st the house became frightened and awoke
Clark, who immediately tried to pacify
Bird, but to no avail. Bird tried to 'pulver-
k -ark with a butcher knife, and knocked
tjm d.nvu two or three times. Iutbe mean-
hue Ciark got hold of a guu, with which he
knocked Bird over the bead, the hammer of
the gun penetrating to the brain and inliict-
* most dangerous wound. The wound
v- drrs.sed, but Bird is not doing well, and
• very little hope of his recovery,
n that Clark has lied.”
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1 tin* Americus Recorder: “The citi-
f Macon, Brunswick and ad the coun-
ijaecut to the Macon and Brunswick
; ‘d, also the citizens of Jones, Jasper,
N-wioa and Fulton counties, are re-
* to meet in convention in Macon, on
'• i!->tant., to devise means looking to
"■a:ion of a lease company from
: i lie citizens of the sections above
to lease the Macon and
ek Railroad, on the 13th of
January, in accordance with
t of the Legislature requiring the
!e of this road. One of the con
,t:s of the act. is that an extension must
“^huiu to Atlanta within five years from
I 5 °f lease. The convention will doubt-
cs- .»e largely attended, as the subjects to
discussed are of great importance, not
hm totbe ! ,eo P le immediately interested,
Uc lu Hit* citizens of the whole State.”
Montezuma Weekly: 11 A burglar entered
ae t-iores 0 f yj r John W. McKenzie and
V: t Hrant last Thursday night. He was
^covered before he bad time to make
with anything of much value. He
staged to dodge a few pistol shots aud
lt-fr esca P c - Jt was a colored man. He
*k< u 8ho «, number elevens, behind,
. ,Be can have by calling at this office
ui identifying them. Haven’t time to no-
c * more extendedly.”
p C. W. s.,” writing from Atlanta to the
niQswick Seajxirt Appeal, says that he haa
? an iuter view with the Governor in re-
f 1 lo Macon and Brunswick Railroad
^ e ‘ He says; “After detailing the bis-
jjL or l Be first effort to lease the road, and
rf , IaliUr( -*—giving ample and satisfactory
W? D3 , 1118 action in declaring there had
C m“ Do lease, and readvertising, the Gov-
the e a&6Ureii me was in sympathy with
lot f? l at P°Hcy sought to be secured by the
authorize the lease, and that the sale
^ected on the 13th of January
shall’k an<i the E P irf t and letter of the law
ifi forced and faithfully carried out,
1* u o l' tbe power of the Executive,
convf P- a 11 law > aud in addition to a solemn
f 0 Q n « c , l ! u P of dutv to execute it, he is pro-
th* .Hu 1 “Pressed with the importance of
On the subject of the recent municipal
election in Atlanta, the Sunday Gazette says:
Last Wednesday’s municipal race must
have satisfied the people of Atlanta that
some reform is needed in our methods. It
was pre-eminently a negroes’ election day.
The white people took little or no interest
in the race. The polling places were sur
rounded by a crowd of negro strikers and
electioneerers, with only here and there one
of the candidates or his personal friends to
vary the prevailing color. The scenes of
year before the last-—the most digraceful
ever seen in Atlanta—had warned the rru? c s
of white voters that they would find the
polling places in charge of this impudent,
half drunken crowd of negroes, and they
kept away or slipped in, voted and retired.
The consequence is that the negroes were
the main power in the election of last week.
They felt that they had things In their own
hands. There were negro meetings held
every night and the candidates addressed
themselves to negro sovereigns. Not a
single speech was made by a single candi
date to a white audience. We do not blame
the candidates. They knew that the ne
groes had the whip^-haud and they ad
dressed themselves to the negroes. We
have no fault to find with the ticket elected.
It is with one exception the ticket that
we voted. We have no complaint to
make against the negroes. They see their
chance and they improve it. But we do say
that the influences that controlled last Wed
nesday’s election are not the proper in
fluences to name the rulers of Atlanta.
How these Influences shall be sent to the
background we do not know. But Atlanta
incurs a tenribi* ri 8 k time that she
suffers the i6si.js of the pons to be decided
by a howling mob of negroes. If the con
servative white people do not take hold of
election affairs very soon, they will regret
when it is too late to remedy their neglect."
Lumpkin Independent: “ A negro woman
who lives in town, by the name of Amy
Kidd, is very uneasy about her nine-year-old
boy who she thinks is stolen. Several weeks
ago she let him go oa a visit to his father,
who lives near Richland, and while there
his father hired him to a peddler for two
weeks. The peddler left a heavy box as a
kind of collateral for the safe return of the
boy, but upon opening It a few days ago it
was found to contain nothing but empty
bottles, oyster cans and straw. The boy has
now been gone nearly two months, and his
mother is grieving herself to death about
him. The boy goes by the name of Eugene
Battle, and went off with a peddler driving
a one-horse wagon, and who called himself
J. J. Smith.”
“The cotton boom,” says the Gainesville
Southron, “has been a God-send to our peo
ple. If they had been compelled to sell the
present short crop at eight cents they would
have been very hard up this winter, and
many of them could not have paid their
taxes. But as it is, the price has advanced
to over eleven ceuts here, making a differ
ence to the producer of over thirteen dollars
per bale, all of which can go to the payment
of debts and for the comforts of life.”
The Louisville (Ky.) Democrat says : “The
l -,,r f N
Savannah Weekly News is one of the most
valuable as well as the purest newspapers
In tbe country, aud deserves an extensive
circulation. The News of November 29
contained the opening chapters of au in
tensely interesting serial 6tory, entitled
‘Sombre Monde,’ written expressly for that
paper by Miss May Rose Floyd, of Daly
Grove, Florida. The lovers of fiction will
find this story a rare literary treat.”
OUIt WASHINGTON LETTER.
Evarls Waking Up at la*t to the
Didhoscsty of Minister Seward—A
Ularins Evidence of Hayes’ Civil
Service Reform Hypocrisy— Hayes
aud Sherman Counting Unliatcb-
ed Chickens—Death or Congress
man Lay.
the TinU -f—wu n uu due iui(n*uauvi>
^policy Involved, and will give pressure
to his
hth.°T Wn .Y leW8 in administering the law
lQe Legislature intended It.”
Special Correspondence of the Momina News.
Washington, December 8.—Mr. Evarts,
Secretary of State, seems to have at last
awakened to the fact that a scandal Involv
ing the honor of the United States abroad
has been extant in China for years. George
Seward, our Minister to China, has been
convicted in all honest men’s opinions of
robbery and petty peculation from his
government. He has administered the
affairs of this high office so immorally
and fraudulently that our diplo
matic service in China has become
a scandal in the nose of all iforeign govern
ments. The investigation and attempted
impeachment in the last Congress brought
out all this. Seward’B able Lieutenant is,
or rather, was, Bailey, formerly Consul at
Hong Kong, and more recently
Consul General at Shanghai. Mosby suc
ceeded him at Hong Kong, when he was
promoted to Shanghai to cover Seward’s
tracks. The ex-guerilla, although it is
stated that he refused to wear the conven
tional swallow tail at receptions, has a keen
eye. He discovered new frauds. II e wrote
to Mr. Evarts and to Mr. Hayes about them.
No attention being paid to him, he wrote to
a friend in this country, who published the
letter. The talk that followed prodded Mr.
Evarts. The first thing to do was to get
rid of tbe man iu the department here
who was shielding Seward and Bailey and
throwing every obstacle in the way of
their being punished. This man
wa6 Fred. Seward, Assistant Secretary
of State. Fred. Seward is a good
enough man and honest, ten to one, but
the tie of near relationship and family honor
was stronger than the sense of duty. lie
was quietly requested to resign; or, rather,
it was intimated most delicately that a ten
der of his resignation would not meet with
a refusal to accept it. Nor was it. lie left
the department a short time ago. The next
in order was Bailey, the Consul General at
Shanghai. He has been recalled, and
a new man nominated in his stead.
The work of cleaning out the crowd
thus goes gradually on. The next step
will be the recall of Seward, Minister
at China, and the substitution of an
honest man. This, I am informed, has al
ready been determined upon by Mr. Evarts.
To Mosby belongs all the credit of remov
ing these criminals from the diplomatic
service. If his letter had never appeared in
print Mr. Evarts would not have moved in
the matter. There is nothing like letting in
“the bright sunlight of publicity.”
A SPECIMEN OF CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
It is an old story to abuse Mr. Haj-es for
the hollow mockery of his saintly civil
service reform. Everybody knows how
lalse are his pretenses; how hypocritical his
a-sertions on this subject. Mr. Hayes in
vited a renewal of the attack upon this
most brazen of all shams by a quarter
of a column of cant which he infused into
his message. I merely want to mention one
case that has developed right under his nose
since he wrote that message—there is no use
going into the numerous other appoint
ments that have been made in gross viola
tion almost of common decency. The par
ticular case is that of a woman, about fifty
years old. She has been given a place In
the Treasuiy. She was formerly In the de
partment, but was turned out under an ad
ministration that was not so much of a civil
service reform institution as this. She next
kept what might be called a bagnio, and
was upon one occasion “ pulled.” She did
not thrive, and a few da>'s ago gathered
together her influence and requested an
appointment. Her demand was some
thing in the nature of blackmail, it is true,
but she now feeds on government food to
the merry chink of one thousand dollars a
year.
HATES AND SHERMAN.
There is a rather interesting piece of gos
sip told in certain quarters about Hayes aud
Sherman. Hayes, you know, is giving Sher
man full swing to run things in his own in
terest for next President. The gossip goes
that it is all fixed what Hayes is to do in
case the Presidential lightning should strike
Sherman. He does not wish to become a
distinguished nonenity like all ex Presi
dents. So he is to take a place in Sher
man’s Cabinet, should Sherman ever have
the chance of choosing a Cabinet.
DEATH IN CONGRESSIONAL HALLS.
Hardly a session passes without chron
icling the death of some member of Con
gress. During the last session the grim
gatherer was very busy with his scj'the.
The firet to fall this session is Representative
A. M. Lav, of the Seventh District of Mis
souri, and a Democrat. He had long been
buuii, auu a jywiuuwi... “'“ft wvvu
ill. I recollect seeing him taken upon a
couch from his carriage in front of Willard’s
the day before the opening of the extra ses
sion. He was too ill to have come to Wash
ington. His vote was necessary, however,
to organize the newly elected House on a
Democratic basis. He went to the capitol
the next day, or rather was taken there.
He was supported in his seat and was taken
e was supported in uis seat ana was taiven
i his hotel immediately after he had voted
for the Democratic caucus nominees for
officers of the House. He left Washington
immediately and went to the Hot Springs
for his paralysis. He returned to Washing
ton at the opening of the present session.
Yester.tay morning a second stroke of para
lysis killed him. He was forty-three years
old.' His remains left to-day under a Con
gressional escort for the home of his family
n St. Louis. It Is to be hoped that the
principal item of expense for this escort
will not be as it has been on several similar
occasions—for whisky. Potomac.
BY TELEGRAPH.
SOON TELEOEAMS.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Action or the House Committees on
Banking and Currency and Canals.
THE RECENT EXCITING COUNCIL
WITH THE UTES.
CHIEF OURAY’S AMAZING IGNO
RANCE.
A Rich DigcoTery in the Sacramento
• District.
DESTRUCTIVE INUNDATIONS
FEARED IN HUNGARY.
Secretary ITTcCrary’. Succea.or.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Washington, December 10.—The Senate
adopted a resolution offered by Mr. Morrill
calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for
information as to the effect upon the reve
nue and upon consumers from the repeal of
the duty on tea and coffee in 18T2.
The Senate then took up the resolution
bErewfore offered by Mr. Davis, of West
^ irginia, calling on the Secretary of the
Treasury for a statement of private claims
growing out of the late war paid since 18&4.
Mr. Davis accepted an amendment by Mr.
Edmunds, changing the date to March 4th,
1861.
Mr. Morrill offered an amendment to in
clude in the Information asked for all such
claims which have been presented to and
rejected by the Treasury: also those which
may now be pending thereiu. Rejected.
The resolution, as amended, was then
adopted.
The House concurrent resolution to ad
journ from December 19th to January 6th
was taken up. Mr. Davis, of Wisconsin,
moved Its passage. Mr. Maxey moved its
reference to the Committee on Appropria
tions. He was opposed to the resolution.
This motion was lost and the resolution was
adopted by 36 ayes to 21 nays.
At 1 p. m. the Senate went into executive
session, and when the doors were reopened
adjourned.
In the House, at 2:40 p. m., owing to the
number of bills introduced yesterday, the
reading of the journal is not yet completed.
After the reading of the journal, Mr. Bur
rows, of Michigan, introduced a joint reso
lution, which was referred, proposing the
following amendment to the Constitution
article xvii.:
Section 1. Polygamy shall not exist within
the limits of the United States nor any place
subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to
enforce this article by appropriate legisla
tion.
The regular order was then demanded;
whereupon the Speaker stated that the regu
lar ordei was the consideration of the bill
prohibiting political contributions by Fed
eral officers and government contractors.
After a short discussion it was agreed that
the bill be taken out of the morning hour
and made the special order for January 7th.
The Speaker then proceeded to call com
mittees for reports. Mr. Acklin, of Louisi
ana, from the Committee on Commerce, re
ported a bill authorizing the appointment of
a Deputy Collector at Lake Charles, Louisi-
Passed.
Mr. Wait, of Connecticut, from the same
committee, reported a bill amending section
2771 of the Revised Statutes, so as to allow
any vessel not of the United States to un
load at any port of delivery in a custom col
lection district, after the due entry of said
vessel and cargo at a port of entry in the
same district. Pending action on the bill,
the morning hour expired, and the House
went Into committee of the whole
on the bill relating to the publi
cation of the Supreme Court reports,
which was finally fixed at four thousand
dollars, after which the committee rose and
reported the bill and amendments to the
House. Tbe amendments were agreed to
and the bill passed.
The Speaker laid before the House a num
ber of executive and other communications*
which were appropriately referred. The
House then adjourned.
THE LATE EXCITING INTERVIEW WITH THE
UTES.
Los Pinos, December 10.—A dispatch
‘ ‘ ~ ■ - “ - - de *
dated December 7 says : “To-day’s devel
opments prove that the casting of his knife
upon the floor by Colorow expressed his
vote for war, but the fact of tb<*other In
dians retaining their knives overpowered his
vote. It was noticed, as soon as it was per
ceived, that no other Indians wished to
follow the example of Colorow. Two
Utes arose from their 6eats In
the council room and went out,
talking to the Indians outside, who imme
diately mounted their horses and rode away.
The}’ had evidently been waiting for a signal
which would call them to arms, and at. no
time were any of them distant a hundred
feet from the council room. Every Ute at
the ageucy carried with him more arms
than any two soldiers of the regular army.
Yesterday brought also the fact that
Ouray’s respect for Ilayes is due to
his thinking the Great Father is elected by
and ruled over the whole world. In one of
his speeches he made that assertion, and Mr.
Doronsend, the interpreter, not exactly un
derstanding what he meant by it, repeated
the question, his answer showing the fact
plainly that he considered Washington the
centre of the universe and Mr. Hayes the
ruler of all nations. He has not been un
deceived and will not be by this commission,
as now it is plain his friendship for the
whites is assumed for policy, and he thinks
if it were necessary the armies of the world
could be called to crush his tribe.
DESTRUCTIVE INUNDATIONS THREATENED IN
HUNGARY.
London, December 10.—A dispatch from
Pesth says the destruction of dams on nearly
all the principal rivers in Hungary and Tran
sylvania, and terrible Inundations, are again
filling the public mind with anxiety. But
for the intense cold, ranging from 15 to
20 degrees, Reaumur, Gross-Wardein,
and several villages around that city
would have, ere this, shared the
fate of Szegedan. Temesour, Arad and
several towns in Transylvania were partly
inundated Monday, and, as In Gross-War-
dein, a number of houses fell in. So sud
denly came the flood that hardly any per-
ventive measures had been taken, and great
damage to property is reported, but no loss
of life. The continuance of frost can alone
prevent most serious disasters. *
ACTION OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON
BANKING AND CURRENCY.
Washington, December 10.—The House
Banking and Currency Committee to-day
reopened their former action on the bill re
quiring reserves of the national banking
associations to be kept in gold and silver in
lieu of legal tender notes, and adopted the
amendment offered by Judge Buckner,
which strikes at the requirement for the
maintenance of a reserve of 25 per centum
on the amount of circulation, and makes
this provision applicable to deposits only.
The resolutions of Messrs. Fort and Price,
adverse to Mr. Hayes’ greenback recom
mendation, were not reached for considera
tion this morning.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON CANALS.
Washington, December 10.—The House
Committee on Canals met this morning and
informally reviewed the work before them.
The meeting of the sub-committee, of
which Representative Turner is Chairman,
will meet to-morrow morning to consider
the House bill 384 of last session, relative to
granting the right of way to the Georgia
and Florida Canal Company.
A RICH DISCOVERY. -
Denver, Col., December 10.—A dispatch
from Fair Play reports the discovery of
uranium iu the Sacramento mining district.
The mineral is found in Bohemia, out never
before in this country, as far as known.
The ore runs sixty per cent., and uranium
is worth one thousand dollars per ton.
THE BOSTON ELECTION.
Boston, December 10.—The Board of Al
dermen in this city will probably stand:
Democrats nine, Republicans fiye, while the
Republicans have ten majority in the Com
mon Council.
SECRETARY M‘CBABY’s SUCCESSOR.
Washington, December 10.—Hayes has
sent to the Senate the nomination of Alex
ander Ramsey, of Minnesota, to be Secre
tary of War.
It has always been thought that
ears of corn have an even number of
rows, and in slavery times the question
was discussed in Richmond, Ky. : , when
a negro claimed that he had seen ears
with an odd number of rows. His mas
ter promised him his freedom if he would
find such au car, and iu the fall, when
the corn was harvested, the darkey ap
peared with a sound ear of thirteen rows
and got his freedom papers. 'Recently
the negro confessed that in roasting-ear
time he cut one row of grains in an ear
with a sharp knife,-, bound the ear to
gether again, and in gathering time knew
just where to find it.
ORGANIZATION OP AMERICAN
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
Proceedings of the Virginia General
Assembly.
SHOCKING CASE OF NEGLECT IN
CANADA.
Report of the Western Union Tele
graph Company.
Foreign aud Domestic Items.
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
New York,December 10.—The agricultural
convention for the formation of a National
Agricultural Society met this morning at
Metropolitan Hotel. About one hundred
and fifty delegates were present, represent
ing the States of New York, Iowa, Penn
sylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Illi
nois, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas, New
Hampshire, Minnesotta, Vermont, Mary
land, Delaware, Ohio, New Jersey, Rhode
Island, Maine, Arkansas, District of Colum
bia and Virginia. A temporary organize
tion was effected by the election of Gen. N,
M. Curtis, of New York, as Chairman,
and M. J. Lawrence, of New York, ProL
E. A. Carmen, of Washington, and Professor
A. R. Ledouxe, of North Carolina, Secre
taries. Mr. J. H. Reall, Chairman of the
Committee on Organization, read an ad
dress setting forth the objects aimed at by
the convention. The Committee on Organ
ization then reported a constitution for the
proposed society, providing that its name
be the American Agricultural Association,
and its objects to protect, promote and de
velop agriculture in the whole country in
all its branches and the interests of those
engaged therein aud closely connected
therewith. The report will be acted on at
the afternoon session.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief -Signal observer>
Washington, D. C., December 10.—Indica
tions for Thursday:
In the South Atlantic States, falling ba
rometer, increasing southerly winds, warmer,
threatening and rainy weather, followed by
falling barometer, northerly winds and de
cidedly colder and generally clear weather.
In the Gulf States, rising barometer,
northerly winds, decidedly colder and gen
erally clear weather, preceded from the Mis
sis6ippi eastward by rain, possibly followed
in Texas by warmer southeasterly winds.
Iu Tennessee and the Ohio valley, rising
barometer, north to west winds, decidedly
colder and generally clear weather, pre
ceded by rain.
In the Middle States, falling barometer
increasing southerly winds, warm, threat
ening and rainy weather, followed by rising
barometer, westerly wiuds and decidedly
colder, clearing weather.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE VIRGINIA GENERAL
ASSEMBLY.
Richmond, December 10.—In the General
Assembly to-day three additional State
officers were elected, viz: Corbin M. Re}
nolds, of Botetourt county, for Treasurer,
vice R. M. T. Hunter; R. F. Walker, of
Richmond city, for Superintendent of
Public Printing, vice K. E. Frayscr:
and Samuel C. Williams, Jr., ot
Rockingham county, for Superintend
ent of the Peuiteniary, vice Samuel
A. SwanD. Over three hours were consumed
in the election of the Superintendent of
Public Printing, the nominating speeches in
the Senate bringing on a partisan debate of
a strong and bitter nature, which delayed
the work of both houses. Three more offices
remain to be filled to-morrow, and then the
Readjusters will have full control of the
State government.
REPORT OF THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH
COMPANY.
New York, December 10.—The report of
the Executive Committee of the Western
Uniou Telegraph Company for the quarter
ending the 31st, states that the net profits
for the quarter ending December 31, based
upon official returns for October, nearly
complete returns for November and esti
mates for December, reserving ar
amount sufficient to meet the claims of the
Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company
under existing agreements, will be about
$1,475,841 21. The Executive Committee
has recommended that the Board of Direc
tors declare a dividend of 1% per cent, from
the net earnings for the quarter, payable
January 15, and an extra dividend of 1 per
cent, out of surplus monies in the treasury
ou that date.
THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT AND THE RAIL
WAYS.
Berlin, December 10.—The Lower House
of the Landtag has adopted, by a vote of
226 to 155, the bill empowering the govern
ment to purchase the Berlin and 8tettin,
Magdeburg and Halberstadt, Hanover and
Altenbrecker, and Cologne and Mindeu
Railways. The dissentients were the Cleri
cals, the Progressionists, the Poles and some
National Liberals. The government has
promised to introduce at the present or next
session of the Landtag, bills providing for
the gnarautees stipulated by the Railroad
Committee.
SHOCKING CASE OF NEGLECT.
New York, December 10.—An Ottawa,
Ontario, special says a shocking case of
neglect has just come to light iu Hull, near
that city. A boy, seventeen years of age,
was taken down with small-pox, and his
family deserted him. The neighbors, hearing
of it, went with food to the house where he
was stopping On entering the room they
found the youth covered with blood and at
the point of death. Food being placed to
his lips he ravenously swallowed it. An ex
amination showed that he had eaten the flesh
from one of his arms in his agony of hunger.
He died five minutes after the arrival of the
neighbors.
APPOINTMENTS OF STOREKEEPERS AND
GAUGERS.
Washington, December 10.—The follow
ing appointments of storekeepers and
gaugers in the internal revenue service have
seen made by the Treasury Department: L.
O. Laflin for the Sixth district of North
Carolina; Jas. Polk Peeples for the Eighth
district of Tennessee; J. M. Church for the
Second district of Georgia; and II. C. Bin-
ford for the Second district of Alabama.
BULGARIA THREATENED WITH ANARCHY.
London, December 10.—The Raxtern
Budget, tbe organ of the Austrian Embassy
here.says: “We learn from Sophia that Prince
Alexander, of Bulgaria, is daily growing
more unpopular, and that serious apprehen
sions are felt for the safety of his throne. It
is becoming evident that the constitution is
not workable, and the country is threatened
with anarchy.
burned to death,
Rochester, N. Y., December 10.—By the
burning of the toll gate house near this city
early this morning. Miles Tuttle, gate keeper,
and a child two years old, were burned to
death. Mrs. Tuttle and two children es
caped.
An Indian Tradition of the Groat
Flood.
From the Rig Vida.
One morning water for washing was
brought to Manu, and when he had wash
ed himself a fish remained iu his hands.
And it addressed these words to him:
Protect me and I will save thee. ” * ‘From
what wilt thou save me?” “A deluge
will sweep all creatures away; it is from
that I will save thee.” “How shall I
protect thee?” The fish replied; “While
we are small we run great dangers, for
fish swallow fish. Keep me at first in a
vase; when I become too large for it dig
a basin to put me into. When I shall
have grown still more, throw me into the
ocean; then I shall be preserved from de
struction.” Soon it grew a large fish.
It said to Manu: “The very year I shall
have reached my full growth the deluge
will happen. Then build a vessel and
worship me. When the waters rise, enter
the vessel and I will save thee.” After
keeping him thus, Manu carried the fish
to the sea. In the year indicated Manu
built a vessel and worshiped the fish.
And when the deluge came he entered
the vessel. Then the fish came swim
ming up to him, and Manu fastened the
cable of the ship to the horn of the fish,
by which means the latter made it pass
over the Mountain of the North. The
fish said, “I have saved thee; fasten the
vessel to a tree that the water may not
sweep it away while thou art on the
mountain; and in proportion as the waters
decrease thou shalt descend.” Manu de
scended with the waters, and this is what
is called tbe descent of Manu on the Moun
tain of the North. The deluge had car
ried away all creatures, and Manu
remained alone.
A larj
ter, am
at the _ ^
on Friday night, causing $10,000 damage
to the building and fatally injuring a
heater named James Wallace.
Something About Senator Hill’s
Queer Talk.
Editor Morning News: The following re
markable language is going the rounds of
the papers over the signature of Ben. H.
Hill:
“We are opposed to any more civil wars for
any purpose, even to maintain liberty. If sec
tional despotism maintained through sectional
malignity cannot be otherwise avoided, we
will respond to an honest proposal to change
our system from a free to a strong govern
ment. peaceably and regularly.
“It will be better—inexpressibly better for
the Southern people to be governed by a wise,
able and just man as Emperor and King, than
by an infuriated sectional mob, under the lead
of a narrow, sensational demagogue as Presi
dent.”
The utterance of such sentiments by such
a man, and at such a time, is enough to
make any one who retains a particle of love
and respect for our government and our
civil institutions stop and ask, where are
we drifting ? Terms and .sentiments which
would have consigned any public man to
everlasting infamy a few years ago, at least
within my recollection, have become as
common as household words, and people
high in position and authority are discussing
the changing of this republic into a king
dom or an empire, and of enthroning a Kinf;
or Emperor in the chair of Washington anc
Jefferson as flippantly as they would talk
about the change of venue in a common
court of law.
From the earliest times, when men first
banded together under rude contracts for
mutual protection against the incursions of
other barbarous tribes and of wild beasts^
every possible system of government has
been tried, with varying success, according
to the time, place and circumstances under
which it existed.
The great problem from the beginning
has been whether man was capable of self-
government. It was thought that the philo
sophy of government had reduced this sys
tem to a science consonant with human
ability—that the problem had been fully
solved and found its highest exponent, and
was clearly exemplified ib the Government
of the United States of America. It was
with pride that the advocates of the popu
lar system could point to the exalted tri
umphs of genius and art which have been
consummated under the fostering care of
American liberty. Arter one hundred years
of trial, the whole earth, without distinction
of caste or Baation, met at her shrines to
do homage to her greatness, her
wealth, and her power. None returned
to their native soil unimpressed with the
superior excellence and advantages of civil
liberty. Envoys extraordinary and pleni
potentiaries from every enlightened and
civilized government In the world, have,
time and again, visited our country and
thoroughly canvassed our entire system of
government, and in each case they have
been amazed at the magnitude of all our
institutions, of learning, of manufactories,
of railroads, and of all else which tend to
elevate a people intellectually and morally.
But the greatest wonder has been the com
parative happiness aud prosperity of the
common people. Shall we now lell them that
all these achievements, all this wealth, and
power, and happiness, are but deceptive
baubles, and just at the time when the
whole world declares free government
triumphant fact, shall w r e relapse Into the
condition from which we sprung. I cannot
doubt Senator Hill’s devotion to the Consti
tution and the laws; I cannot doubt his pi
triotism; but it is a matter of doubt whether
the publication of such sentiments as tend
to teach the people to accept the change
from republic to kingdom, is required of a
h ader or justiGed by the circumstances. It
makes but little difference whether these
teachings come from one in power or out of
power; whether they are qualified with con
tingencies or not; they would subvert the
government; they 60W violence to Its every
principle. Such sentiments should be met
and denounced in the beginning.
From my earliest conception of facts, I
have been taught to look upon the unmuz
zled press as the great bulwark of American
liberty, and have always felt secure under
its protecting power. But the press itself
is demoralized in a great measure, and dis
plays its weakness and corruption in the
very incipiency of the danger. Gentlemen
of the press, you have sought an opportu
nlty to show the superiority of the pen to
the sword, of reason to force. The time
has come. Go right to the people. Edu
cate them. Talk plain and squarely to
them. Show them the "excellencies and
advantages of the one government, and the
injustice, oppression or demoralization of
the other. Your power lies with the people
and in the ballot box. But the ballot box
will be unavailing if men who teach revolu
tion and despotism cannot be ousted from
their high places of honor and trust and
true ones put in their stead. Let them go—
the farther the better.
We are opposed to any more civil wars
for any purpose, even to maintain liberty.”
The last word in this sentence is dearer to
the hearts of the American people than
any other; when liberty is lost, all is lost.
It is true that civil war is the worst calamity
that, can befall any people or country, but
does the ft>ss of liberty avert war of any
character ? Is it good policy or sound
statesmanship to beg the question in the
beginning, aud surrender our greatest boon
by acquiescing in tbe follies of our enemies ?
Better would it be to meet the threatened
danger calmly and boldly and thereby re
tain the blessing and avert the calamity.
“ If sectional despotism, maintained
through sectiofial malignity, cannot be
otherwise avoided, we will respond to au
honest proposal to change our system from
a free to a strong government, peaceably
and regularly.” Though qualified, this is
another very remarkable expression. Quali
fied as it is, a very ingenious and plausible
argument could be made in its support.
But in it I see, or I think I see, a quak
ing and a giving away in Senator Hill’s
political knees. What will constitute
honest proposal to change from
free to a strong government,” or what
is precisely meant by a “ strong govern
ment,” is left to conjecture. How 6ball this
honest proposal ” come, or who shall set
the boundary to this “ strong government,
jeaceably and regulaHy ?” At what period
n a popular government shall the change to
a monarchy begin regularly? What must
be the condition of political affaire, aud
who shall decide? Is Senator Hill, as
leader and a teacher, educating
be people to accept the change peacea
bly? ‘fit Jwill be better, inexpressi
bly better, for the Southern people to
be governed by a wise, able and just man
as Emperor and King, than by an Infuriated
sectional mob under the lead of a narrow,
sensational demagogue as President.” This
falls as if it came from the lips of a teacher
—at least it is didactic. Have the political
parties of this country reached tjiat point in
their history In which their available men
for President are imbued with the charac
teristic qualifications ascribed to them in
the last part of that sentence ? If so, then
there is some little reason for its publication.
Or is it held up as tfie ultimatum of
Democratic defeat? I hope not. All this
seems to me as entirely sensational and un
called for, and it presents Itself to me as it
does to the common people, of whom I am
one.
The fact is Senator Hill possesses ex
cessive vanity; he is never satisfied unless
he Is creating a flutter of excitement. He
likes to be talked about, wrote about, and
flittered. The love of praise is truly an
ennobling virtue. It incites men to noble
deeds. We are all led on by it. He who is
dead to praise, is dead to shame, and being
dead to shame, is dead to houor. I had
thought that the renowned Senator re
sembled in type Cicero of old, hut there is
more courage, more patriotism, in Cicero’s
isle tuus when he boldly met and denounced
Cataline, the conspirator, iu the Senate
chamber than there is in the whole of Mr.
Hill’s long letter.
It is true that the order of creation is
revolution; the end of life is death; the end
of government Is confusion; the end of
civilization is barbarism; the end of liberty
is slavery, and all things retrograde after
they have reached perfection. The right of
. whole people to change their form of
;overnment cannot be denied, but the time
or the government of tbe United States of
America to relapse into a monarchy is not
yet. Tbe idea that such a transition could
take place peaceably is simply absurd. This
government cannot pass away as a meteor
across the sky, or as snow melts from the
rocks. The liberties of this country are too
solidly entrenched iu tbe hearts of her citi
zens. The press is too free, too intelligent,
and too patriotic to stand quietly by and see
sensational leaders gull the people into this
treasonable measure.
When this government passes away, If
pass away it must, there will be war, civil
war, bloodshed, havoc and night. In the
matter of liberty, every man, woman and
child is equally Interested, and when that
cord Is struck, it finds a ready response in
every patriotic heart in the South, In the
North, in the East, and in the West. Let us
have no more of this advocacy of a King. Let
no position shield him who will advocate
a thing, either directly or indireetly,
from the contumely ot the whole country.
Let no man in suggesting such a change
presume to use the comprehensive pronoun
we^but let him rather confine himself to the
Individual I. . L. H. 8.
Colquitt, Ga., December 8/1879.
In a boyish quarrel in the First ward,
New York, on Friday night, a lad of
twelve was stabbed with a penknife, it
is feared fatally, by a lad of too.
Reminiscences of an 014-tlme Ham-
slayer—His Trouble with Gen.
Jackson.
J. Gillespie in the St. Louis Republican.
I see from the papers that a discussion
is going on touching the life and character
of the celebrated John Smith, T., or,
as he was generally known, Jack Smith,T.
He was a very conspicuous personage in
early days and had the reputation of beinj
blood-thirsty and dangerous. I deriv<
most of my information concerning him
from Missouri miners who had gone to
the Galena mines in early times. I had
beard so much about him that I availed
myself of the first opportunity to make
his personal acquaintance. This hap
pened in the fall of 1834. I was return
ing home from Kentucky, where I had
spent the spring and summer of that
year. The boat on which I was travel
ing touched at Cairo, and Smith and his
negro servant came on board, going to
Selma. They were both armed to the
teeth, in fact, loaded down with rifles*
pistols and bowie-knives, and Smith
carried a gun which resembled a huge
walking cane. The cabin, in those days,
on steamers, was on th^-awer deck, and
as soon as it was known that Smith was
on board a hurried consultation took
place among the cabin passengers in
which they determined to make common
cause, if any difficulty occurred between
any of them and Smith. I did not enter
into the arrangement, as I had ' t de
sire to converse with him. He' jmed
to discover at a glance that they looked
at him askance. As Boon as the boat
started he pushed through to the guard
behind the wheel-house, which was sur
rounded by a railing and was a pleasant
place to stand or sit and view the scenery.
I followed him in a few moments and
tried to engage him in conversation. He
at first seemed to regard me with suspic
ion, but finally became quite cordial and
communicative, and soon remarked upon
the manner of the passengers. I told
him they regarded him as a dangerous
man and as having killed a great many
persons. He replied that he had; that
circumstances had thrown him into the
society of the most desperate and law
less men in the world and that he was
obliged to fight his way through, and in
doing so he had endeavored never to al
low anyone to get the advantage of him
but, said he, very emphatic illy, “I assure
you, sir, that I never killed a man with
out being able to lay my band upon my
heart and declare most sincerely before
God that I was fully justified.”
I wished to engage him in conversation
in reference to his difficulty with Gen.
Jackson. He said that affair grew out
of the circumstance of his contemplated
entry of some lands in Arkansas, upon
which, I think, he said there were medi
cinal springs, lie applied to the Commis
sioner of the General Land Office toenter
them, and was informed by him that tbe
lands were withdrawn from sale. He
further inquired at whose instance this
was done, and was advised that it was at
the suggestion of Gen. Jackson. Smith
said that Jackson, knew of his intention
to enter the land; that it had been com
municated to him in confidence; where
upon he sent a challenge to the General,
who paid no attention to it, but preparec
himself for a street encounter. Smith
having gone to Naslivilin in the mean
time. One Sunday morning, when Jack-
son was dismounting from his horse at
the church door, in the midst of a crowd
one of his pistols went off, to the great
consternation of the assemblage. Jack
son was greatly enraged, and mounted
his horse and swore by the Eternal that
he would kill Smith, who hearing of the
threat left town. I asked him why, if
he had gone lo Nashville to have a light
with Jackson he left when he heard that
he was seeking him. Smith said;
wanted a fair tight with Jackson, but I
knew, after what ha(khappened, that he
would be upon me with his myrmidons."
The matter ended here, but Smith said
that he afterwards expected to he en
gaged in au affair in which Jackson
would be concerned. He said he had
some important business to transact
which required him to travel through a
section of country in which Jackson’s
army was encamped (whether it was for
the Creek or Seminole war I don’t re
member), but he said he was giving the
encampment as wide a berth as possible.
While riding along a bridle path in the
] >iney woods some t\yo or three miles
rom where the army lay, he observed a
man ahead of him with his shirt sleeves
rolled up, and a pistol in his hand. He
instantly imagined that Gen. Jackson had
got wind of hh being on the road, and
that the man he saw was one of his
emissaries sent out to kill him. He
prepared himself accordingly, and upon
getting a little nearer he discovered that
it was his friend Carroll, who he knew
was unfriendly to Jackson. He imme
diately rode up aud was warmly greeted
‘•y Carroll, who informed him that he
was then practicing pistol shooting.
Carroll said that he and Coffee were rival
candidates for the office of Colonel of one
of the regiments at the encampment, and
that Gen. Jackson was taking an under
hand advantage of him in favor of Coffee,
and that if he was beaten it would be
through Jackson’s influence, and he had
arranged to challenge Coffee, and a man
named Douglass was to challenge Jack
son, and he desired Smith to challenge
some other man (I don’t remember his
name). Smith said he entered heartily into
the arrangement and got down, and Car-
roll shot with his pistols, which were
manufactured by his Degro man^ and he
made splendid shots with theii). He cut
the string wljicii was the maik. It was
agreed that he (Carroll) was to have one
of the pistols to use, if the duel3 came off;
but the whole thiug fell to the ground, as
Carroll was elected]
I asked Smith about the man Douglass,
of whom I had never before heard. He
said he belonged to the Douglass family
of Scotland, and was a descendant of the
celebrated Black Douglass, l^e also
stated that lie thought he was the bravest
man he ever knew, and tfiat he did nqt
believe that Douglass ever saw the time
when he woqld turn on his heel to save
his life, if duty or honor prompted him.
' asked him what he thought of Jackson’s
courage. He said if Jackson was not
excited he was not destitute of prudence,
but, said he, if you excite him, and this
earth was a magazine of gunpowder, he
would hurl a firebrand into it and blow
it to atoms to obtain satisfaction.
Not That Kind of a Gun.—In a cor
ner grocery in the western part of the
city, the other day, a boy was buying
shot and getting ready to go hunting.
His old gun was lying around rather
loose, and the grocer nervously remarked:
“Boy, I wish you’d take care of that
gun—I’m afraid of an accident.”
The boy stood it up against a barrel
and went on telling how many rabbits he
meant to pepper, and pretty soon it came
very near falling to the floor.
“I tell you that infernal thing will hurt
some of us yet!” exclaimed the grocer
as he jumped aside, and the boy leaned
it against the counter aud said he’d never
take a back seat for a bear—never. As
he reached over lo look at some buck
shot down tumbled the guu and off went
the charge, sending about forty duck-shot
into a ten-gallon oil can in range.
“There she goes—there she goes!”
yelled the grocer as he danced around.
“Didn’t I tell you that infernal gun
would go off?”
* ‘And did I deny it?” promptly retorted
the boy. “Do you s’pose I’m fool ’nuff
to go out to hunt rabbits with brass
knuckles or a bean-shooter?”—Detroit
Free Press.
Another one of the Los Angeles (Cal.)
gang of counterfeiters has been captured.
On his person was found a shipping re
ceipt for a package, which was mtercep-
ted and found to contain a complete kit
of counterfeiter’s tools, dies and monlds
for making spuriour five-dollar gold
pieces.
The Empress Eugenie, a widowed,
childless and broken woman, has little
comfort in her wealth, which grows as
if in mockery. Her late mother’s will
*ves to her the largest share of-the
ountesa’ fortune, the rest going to Eu
genie’s brother-in-law, the Duke of Alba.
The Hawaiian Treaty.
New Orleans Democrat.
No angle act of legislation more hos
tile to the sugar interests of this State
was ever passed by Congress than tbe
reciprocity treaty with the Sandwich
Islands. It was a scheme gotten up
the interest of foreign sugar land owners,
both American and English, and six or
seven Boston merchants, proprietors of
sugar estates, or interested therein, were
the originators and agents through whom
this huge speculation was successfully
engineered in Washington. Every one
remembers the visit of King Kalikua to
this country in 1875, and the demonstra
tion made at the North over His Majesty
of the Sandwich Islands, but few sus
pected that this was tbe calcium light
which was to dazzle the eye and bewilder
the brain of an enchanted public while
the scene shifters were busily arranging
the grand finale. It is a well known fact
that his expenses were paid by the ring
of speculators, and himself and suite in
troduced to give personal weight to the
efforts of those who were working, under
the guise of a reciprocal benefit, for their
own selfish ends. To what extent the
reciprocity works to the benefit of this
country may be readily inferred from
the *act that statistics in the hands of
the Treasury Department show that the
actual value of all goods imported from
the United States into Hawaii during the
past fiscal year was no less than the
amount of duty remitted upon sugar
alone. This has been the working of
the treaty since it went into operation
four years ago. The business way to ex
press it is, that it would be cheaper for
the government to buy and give to the
Sandwich Islands the goods imported
from the United States than to remit the
duties upon the sugar sent to the United
States from Honolulu.
Besides the stimulus given to the cul
tivation of cane in these islands by the
operation of this one-sided treaty, the
door opened to the fraudulent introduc
tion of sugars from the East Indies via
Honolulu is one of the most glaring in
juries to the sugar-groweis of the Uni
ted States, and especially to the planters
of Louisiana. Within the past four
years the product of these islands has
quadrupled, the soil and climate being
especially adapted to cane culture—the
yield reaching as high as six tons of su
gar to the acre and occasionally more,
iuvitiog the capital of the world in an
investment producing such large re
turns, and afforded a free market under
the treaty now in force. To such an ex
tent has this culture become profitable,
that the greatest engineering skill
has been brought into use and mil
lions expended to reclaim lands,
which, without the certainty
of the result at stake, would deter the
boldest. Recently a capitalist of San
Francisco, owning large possessions in
the Island of 3Iaui, one of the group,
impressed with the value of sugar cul
ture, has caused to be dug and construc
ted, at an expense of somewhat over a
million of dollars, a canal, with the view
of bringing the waters of a number of
mountain streams to his land for iyri
gating and milling purposes, employing
some 350 men, mostly Chinamen, and
occupying nine months in the work.
Such great undertakings as these, in or
der to provide only water facilities for a
few thousand acres of land to be planted
in cane, contain volumes of thought and
reflection for the Louisiana sugar planter
who, with every such facility at his door,
can hardly make the return on his
investment pay a profit. With cheap
labor from China and the islands them
selves, a growth of cane and a yield far
in excess of our best cultivated fields, a
ready market at hand aud au exemption
from duty, it is only a question of time
how long our own struggling industry
can withstand such influences. That
under cover of this treaty much sugar
not made in the Sandwich Islands
been introduced into this country has
been fully established by the excessive
importations through San Francisco
during the past year or two, the oppor
tunity for an evasion of the strict intent
of the law being apparent. The dark
brown sugars of the East Indies and of
China and Japan have only to be mani-
1 )ulated in Honolulu and reshipped to a
Tree market for ready sale, if, indeed,
they are not passed through in the origi
nal package.
It is gratifying to know that the atten
tion of the Secretary of the Treasury has
been drawn to the unequal operation of
the treaty, and that the government is
alive to the error into which a former
Congress has been led, and it is not un
likely that Mr. Sherman will, during tbe
present Congress, draw attention to
tbe disparity in tbe working of this so
called reciprocity treaty. In the interest
of the Louisiana sugar planters espe
cially, and also the sugar-growers of the
diffeienl sections of the country, this
treaty should bo abrogated, and it be
hooves Senators and Representatives
from this State to bestir themselves at
once to accomplish this object.
The manufacture of sugar from sor
ghum, from corn and from beets, now be-
ng gradually developed in the North and
West, ought certainly to furnish them
with allies from those States in which
such industries have been established,
and the planters, whose interests are
affected by the continuance of this
unjust discrimination to foreigners*
and those who aye largely depend
ent upon the maintenance of
our sugar cultuye for a support,
will look for active mid energetic co ope
ration hv afl of ouf members in Wash
ington during tbe present session, with a
view of shutting this door against the
grievous inroad already made.
We are glad to see that the Louisiana
Sugar Planters’ Association is moving in
the matter, and hope it will give that
support to our members in Congress
which the gravity of the situation de
mands.
The following letter from Messrs. Dan
Talmage's Sons & Co., large rice mer
chants of this city, will be read with
great interest by all those interested in
the culture of rice m Louisiana and in
South Carolina. We commend it speci
ally to the attention of our Representa
tives in Congress, who will no doubt use
their best endeavors to have this one
sided and absurd Hawaiian treaty abro
gated. The sugar and rice interests of
the country'should unite on this subject
and insist on justice being done:
New Orleans, Deo. 5, 1879.
To the Editor of the Democrat:
Dear Sin—We note your interesting
article on “The Hawaiian Treaty,” ana
would say the same remarks will apply
to the rice interests as to sugar, differing
only in degree.
Before the promulgation of this treaty
large and profitable trade was being
built up between tfiis city and the Cali
fornia coast. The effect of the treaty
on rice was immediate, and Hawaiian
rice not only supplied the wants of the
Pacific ooast, but entered into successful
competition with us for the trade of the
Rocky Mountains, reaching one season
the markets of St. Louis and Chicago,
and at one time their product could have
been brought to this city and sold at a
>rofit in competition with our own.
! ?*rom the time the treaty went into effect
they have held the trade at principal
points west of the Missouri river.
We hope to see the treaty abrogated,
and are glad to note the attention you are
giving^to the subject Yours truly,
Dan Talmage’s Sons & Co.
A Disappearance Explained.—The
explanation of a mysterious disappear
ance twenty-nine years ago is now
offered. At Point Rock, near Lampasas,
Texas, the skeleton of a m$n namiyi
John Roan was found in a cavern late in
November. Near the skeleton was the
rosty blade of a howie knife, with the
handle rotten with age. On a smooth
limestone rock was carved in capital let
ters the following: “I fell in here four
days ago when the Indians were running
me. I am starving. If Bill don’t find
me to morrow, I will run this knife
through my heart I can’t stand to starve
to death. John Roan.” The date of
the inscription was November 1, 1850.
Tbe man had fallen twenty-five feet into
the cavern.
The Swine Plague and How to Extir
pate It
Baltimore Sun.
The Commissioner of Agriculture has
made diligent efforts to cany out the act
of Congress appropriating $10,000 to
defray the expenses of a commission
investigate ana determine the causes of the
contagious diseases incident to domesti
cated animals, and, if possible, find
remedies for them. These diseases are
chiefly the pleuro-pneumonia of conta
gious lung fever to which cattle are sub
iect, and the “heg cholera” or swine
plague, which annually carries off about
20 per cent, of the hogs raised in the
country. In 1877 the people of the United
States lost $16,650;TOO from these dis
eases, of which two-thirds was by hog
cholera. The Commissioner accordingly
directed the experts employed by him to
give their chief attention to this
>y him
aisordi
ler.
and especially to determine the question,
still in dispute, as_to whether it be con-
‘ ier^ ii
tagious or not Two examiner' in par
ticular occupied their time in experiments
with living swine, with this object directly
in view. Some of the results obtained
are very conclusive, and all of them are
interesting. It was found that the dis
ease prevails more extensively during the
late summer and early fall month^-than
at any other seasons of the year; the Re
duced temperature later in the year tend
ing to cause an abatement in the number
of cases. Tbe fatality of tbe disease was
not, however, diminished by a lower
4emperatnre. The spread of infection
from one herd to another was checked,
bat not its spread from one animal to
another in the same herd. A Chicago
veterinary surgeon, investigating in Jan
uary, in a section where the thermometer
was 28 degrees below zero, says that the
disease seemed to be just as fatal as in
August, “and its coarse, on the whole, is
probably more acute, as severe affections
of the lungs and of the heart are more
frequent” Dr. Law, of Ithaca, N. Y.
established the fact that the freezing ol
the virulent matter does not destroy its
activity, “and the virus loses nothing in
potency by preservation for one or two
months closely packed in dry bran.”
The name of “swine plague” has been
generally adopted by the veterinary
surgeons as most accurately describing
the character of the disease. It is found
to be a general disorder, affecting seri
ously several of the most vital organs,
always attended with an increase in tern
perature and with severe lesions and mor
bid processes. The animal droops, looks
dull, loses flesh and appetite, staggers,
coughs, seeks dark corners and has an
offensive smell The period of the in
cubation of tbe disease is from twelve to
twenty days; in its progress, according to
the severity of the attack, it terminates
fatally in periods varying from twenty-
four hours to ten or twelve days. Dr.
Detmers, the Chicago expert, has dis
covered that the probable cause of the
disease is a new order of bacteria or bacil
lus, which he calls bacillus suis, and he
has also found that in every case in which
healthy animals were inoculated with
these microphytes they had the swine
lile in
plague, while in every case where thev
were inoculated with the virus of diseased
animals from which the bacillus had been
eliminated they failed to have the disease.
The experiments both of Dr. Law and
Dr. Detmers prove conclusively that
healthy animals penned with diseased
ones, or fed upon or inoculated with the
virus of diseased ones, contracted tha
disease themselves. Not only this, but
rabbits and other animals so inoculated
were seized with and died of unmistaka
ble swiqe plague. The conclusion from
these experiments is irresistible. The
swine plague is a disease of extremely
contagious nature, propagated from one
animal to another and from one herd to
another by the disseminatiem of a morbific
germ, the vitality of which is very diffi
cult to destroy. Practically the disease
is incurable when once planted in the
system of the animals. 'There is & great
variety of quack nostrums in vogue, the
curative powers of some of whmh has
been highly vaunted, but the experts
have found all of them worthless. "The
only way to deal with it at all successful!}*,
the experts concur in saying, *t is by ota.
vention and by tho t{ staWDi5g out’’ pro
cess. ft is strongly urged that all dis
eased auifnuls should at once be killed
and their bodies buried; that all animals
exposed to infection should be isolated,
and all places and pens which they have
used should be disinfected and cleaned
up, all their offal being scrupulously
destroyed. _ In this way any outbreak of
the contagion may be arrested at once,
confined to the district in which it origi
uated, and prevented from spreading
further. In a few years these processes,
vigorously followed up, will have the
effect of practically protecting our swine
from this deadly infection.
Fishing on Sunday.
Indianapolis News.
It was a delightful Sunday afternoon.
Sabbath school was out, and the Super
intendent took a stroll up the canal. The
grasshoppers were turning somersaults in
the high grass, their last performance for
the season, and the emerald-vested katy
dids warbled from their velvety covers
under the mullen leaves. When he got
to the aqueduct over Fall creek, where
the water, escaping through! the time-
riyen timber, joins the flood below, most
musical in their meeting, he found a
wicked acquaintance, with a line dang
ling in the water. He was about to frame
a reproof for the Sabbath breaker when,
goodness gracious, what a bite! Another,
and a bass, a perfect beauty, was flounc
ing over the green grass. “What sort cf
bait are you using* Jim?” (The reproof
was postponed.) “Hoppers” was the re
ply, as the line, rebaited, slid into tbe
stream. He fumbled nervously in his
vest pocket and found he had hook and
line, but Jim had another bite, and
another three-quarter pound bass wns
thrown upon tbe bank. “Where do you
it your bait?” he asked. “Ob, these
>ys ’ll ketch ’em for you.” “You
don’t say sof’ The line came out of his
pookef, tbe hook was baited, and a tfcrtt-
quarter-pounder was gasping on li:u
shore. Another, and then another! NeTt:
tv as such luck. The Superintendent was
excited. “Hurry up with the 'grasshop-
pera."" “Please, Mr. C., here’s a hop
per,” piped a small boy. The Buperih
tendent looked down. The eves of the
angler aud his helper met. 'It was a
crowning mercy he didn't tumble into
the water. The grasshopper purveyor
was the boss hoy of his Sunday school.
There are sermons in running brooks to
that Sunday school Superintendent, and
yet he can't be got within a mile of a
stream, and can’t even look at an ice
wagon withont a shudder.
A Bridal Bohr.—The following is a
description of a bridal robe worn by
Philadel-" -- ’ ’ ■ • — -
Iphia bride last week: The robe
was of cream-tinted white satin of thi-
richest texture, with a silvery sheen.
The front of the skirt was embroideitd
in pearls and white bugles, forming a
large pyramid of Sowers and leaves or.
either side of the lace, made to order in
Brussels, which was arranged in jabois,
each having in the centre a bouquet of
waxen orange blossoms. Bordering i ue
lace was a vine embroidered in pearls
and white bugles, running perpendicu
larly from the bottom to the top. The
train was very long and cut square; luce
arranged in jabots trimmed its entire
length at the back. The waist, which
had sharp points back and front, was low
neck, square, and trimmed with the same
lace as the skirt, to represent a bertha.
The deep border of tbe handkerchief
was of exquisite lace. The fan had rain-
bow-hued fine pearl sticks. The veil of
tulle was unusually long, and was fas
tened to the head with waxen orange
blossoms similar to those on the waist
and skirt.
Chief Sam, of the Piutes, is renowned
in Nevada for extraordinary marksman
ship with the rifle in off-hand shooting,
particularly when, in the wilds and rockv
canyons, he is suddenly confronted wiib
a grizziy bear or a California lion, llt-
don’t see the fun in shooting glass bails,
and he declines such childish tests of
manly skill, needing.no courage and no
presence of mind. “That would do fur
•wu’si £«« v";
SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOP
TOTTS HUB arc especially adapted to
•nch caaea, oae done ctTrctj* aarh o rkaase
eaieeltns n_a to cetoaish the i..iflercr__
CONSTIPATION.
Only with rc”nlarity ol the bowels can perfect
health be enjoyed. I: tbe conatipatfon la
“f'VCen’. date, a a.aA dnae ot TDTT’3 PITTS
will anmcc. bet If it has become habiinel, ono
Dr - f-«nr Learia, Fulton, Ark., enyss
After a titaftke of £3 years, I proaonaco
TtTTTS PILLS the best anti-bilious -
ever made."
Rev. F. at. Oarrood, Near York, saye:
“I hnYf trail ihreruwwle W *_•.
v —- - Weak Sioaiach and
NerT0U5acsa. I never nart anr medicine to do
me fo much pxxl as TI TT';4 VlLLS.
as good as renreacnlc-X”
OfUcc 35 JIi
lurrny Srrerr,
They are
New York.
TUTT’S HAIR DYE,
WnTCKrns charyrod to a Gloshy
£ app'ttJon of th 13 Drs. It im-
parta xNatarrjto.i.r.act’* Xu*t srf*.-reotrt:r. and i*
"" BvrinK S->!d h/ Dmccuu. or
sent by exprc«« on rv-ccirt « r £ t. ^
Office 35 ffiurr^v St., Kow York-
£©bI7-Tu.ThJ3. w&TeU r
gry ©cods, &r.
GRAY &0’BRIEN.
NEW GOODS!
D£ PIECES FRENCH CACHMERES. in all
the newest shades, at 50c., sold in the
early part of the season at §1.
0D pieces FRENCH NOVELTIES, 'beautiful
combination?, at 50 per cent, off early season’s
prices.
BLACK CACHMERES
We will offer the greatest bargains ever-
shown in these goods, 50c.. bOc., 75c.. f 1. Bring
your New York samples along and match them
if you can in quality and price.
Black Dress Silks.
New lots opened. Every yard warranted.
We challenge comparison with an}- New York
samples. $i 33, §1 50. $2 00, S3 25, and the best
in the world at S3 50.
Black Biilliiintines.
30 pieces just opened at 25c., 20c. and 35c.,
worth 50c., 6Ce., 75c.
BLACK HENRIETTA.
10 pieces Silk and Wool, §1 00. §1 25, very fine
$1 50, worth $2 25.
I£II> GLOVES.
WHITE KIDS, 4 and 6
100 dozen Ladies’
button 75c.
100 dozen Ladies* EVENING SHADES, 4 and
0 button, at 75c.. worth just double.
75 dozen Misses’KID GLOVES, in dark and
medium shades.
33 dozen Indies’ Black and Colored Seamless
KID GLOVES, with improved fastenings.
LADIES’. MISSES’ AND BOYS’
FANCY HOSIERY.
300 diffeicnt stylos to select from.
75 dozen Ladies’ i-w-m*- v.,
w ve| Y richly Embroidered
LONDON LENGTHS at 50c., 75c. and Si 00,
worth from $1 CO to $2 50 per pair.
Roys’ Suits, Harum Scarum.
CAN’TWEARTHEMOUT,
at $3 00.
A full line of Boys’ Finer Goods in stock. No
slop-shop goods kept in stock.
AUCTION, AUCTION.
6C0 dozen LINEN HUCK TOWELS, such as is
not seen in this market only once in a century,
27 pieces 8-1, 9-1 and 10 4 Bleached TABLE
DAMASK, some of the finest made.
200 dozen % LINEN NAPKINS, 75c. to S4.
A^beautiful line of Square and Oval DOYLIES,
from ?1 to 54 per dozen.
A new line of Ladies' UNDERWEAR.
50 dozen Gents' SCARLET WRAPPERS and
DRAWERS, medicated
100 dozen Ladies’ MERINO VESTS, 50c..beau
tiful fur goods at 75c.
200 dozen Ladies’ French Tii. HANDKER
CHIEFS. H. S. and Tucked, at 25c., cheap
at 50c.
GRAY & G’BRIEl
Kron gittrrs.
HEALTH ■ STRENGTH’
-.•HAPPINESS-
BITTERS
RON BITTERS,
A Great Tonic.
RON BITTERS,
A Sure Appetizer.
RON BITTERS,
▲ Complete Streagthener.
RON BITTERS,
A Valuable Medicine.
RON BITTERS,
Kot Sold a* a Beverage.
RON BITTERS,
For Delicate Female*.
Highly recommended
to the public for all dla-
-eases requiringacertain
and efficient TOXIC;
especially in Indipem-
tion. Ou»pcpmim 9
Intermittent Fe
wer*, Want of Ap
petite. I.o»m •/
Strength, ter/; •/
JKneroVf e/f. It en
riches tbe blood,
strengthens the mas-
aged. ladles, and chil
dren requiring recuper
ation, this valuable
remedy can not be too
highly recommended.
It aetm like a charm
on the digestive organs.
A teuspoonful before
meals will remove all
dyspeptic symptoms.
TRY IT.
Sold by all Druggists,
TEE BROWS CHEECALCO.
BALTIMORE, Md.
dec4-Tb,SATu&wly
gfrtels.
The Marshall Rouse
-WITH ITS
SPACIOUS VESTIBULE.
-EXTENSIVE AND
Elegant Verandah,
Affording ladies a fine view of the promenade.
Airy and Well Ventilated Rooms,
UNRIVALED TABLE,
IS PAR EXCELLENCE THE
Leading Hotel of Savannah.
JOHN BKESNAN,
.fertiliseris.
D. H. BALDWnr. JOSEPH HULL. GEO. J. miJiwrv
BALDWIN & CO.,
—DEALERS 135—
FERTILIZERS.
WORKS, PASSAIC RIVER, NEW JERSEY
—AND—
Commission Merchants,
34 PINE STREET, N. Y.
Branch Office 104 Bay Street,
SAVANNAH, GA.
P. O. Box 238.oct?-tf
ffnpr gang.
SUGAR PANS
FOR SALE BY
WEED & CORNWELL.
R ailroad and steamboat work
executed in the best style and lowestp
~g*r liHirtafif&iiifr