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dhc fgotnmg gjeirs NO. 3 WHITAKER STREET, (MORNING NEWS BUILDING). J. f I. ESTILL, Proprietor. W. T. THOMPSON, Editor. FRIDAY, m-CEMIfEK 31. 1880. TIPPING THE WIRES. Oar telegrams this morning give further accounts of the unprecedentedly cold weather, which has been general through out the United States, and is pronounced from all sections the coldest weather in many years. Fears are entertained for the orange crop of Florida, only one-third of which has been gathered. The court-martial in the case of Cadet Whittaker will convene at West Point on January 18th. Brigadier General N. A. Miles will be President of the court. The New York 6tock market was buoyant yesterday, and a general advance was recorded on the day’s transactions. All suits and differences between the Louisville an i Nashville Railroad and the Adams and Southern Express Companies have been amicably arranged upon a basis satisfactory to the railroad company. The first detachment of engineers aDd workmen to prepare*ft>r the commencement of the Panama canal, will leave Paris on the 5th of January. Twelve hundred Boers attempted on the 20th to capture a fort held by 800 soldiers, '•but were repulsed, with many killed and wounded. At a council of war held on the 22d It was decided to s'-arve the garrison out. The Irish State trials were continued yes terday. There was no excitement in the neighborhood of the court, and public in terest is said to have considerably abated. A letter Las been received threatening the lives or Mr. Gladstone and John Bright If they continue to oppose coercion. Two British steamers are reported lost with all hands—the Garnet, in the North Bea, and the Montgomeryshire, on the coast of Portugal. A German naraed John Bruens was coat ing the inside of a cask with brewery pitch, In Memphis, Tenn., yesterday, when the cask exploded, killing him and injuring two others. Immense damazo Is reported by flood. &ud Inundations In Holland. A train on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, which left Frede ricksburg, Va., early on Wednesday morn ing, had not been heard from up to last ulght. A negro named Wright, in resisting arrest in Sumter county, S. C., yesterday, was shot and killed by a Deputy Sheriff. Trouble Is brewing between the Albanian League and the Porte, and Greec" la nego tiating with the League tu order to obtain assistance in her struggle with Turkey. The Ohio and Mississippi rivers are blocked with ice opposite Cincinnati and 8t. Louis. Scarlet Scourge.—Much excitement prevails at Houlzdale, Clearfield county, Pa., over the ravages nt the scarlet fever among the children. Eighteen children died Friday from the disease, and Saturday many new cases were reported. It is but a few days since the first case was made known, and already thirty deaths have resulted from the fatal fever. Physicians have been summoned from all the neighboring towns, as the few doctors in Houlzdale were all overwr rk- ed. and could not possibly attend to all the demands made upon them. There is scarcely a family in the town that is not plunged into grief at the untimely death of their children. Jay Gould's railway consolidations, wherewith he proposes to lake a big hand in the battle of the giants, embrace the following roads: The three divisions of the Wabash, 3,487 miles: the Missouri Pacific and branches. l,07."i miles; the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, 825 miles; the Kansas Pacific, 1,011 miles; the Union Pacific, 2.115 mi'.es; the Denver and South Park, 801 miles; the Iron Mountain, 081: the International and Great Northern, OOi, and the Texas and Pacific, 587—a grand total of 9,649 miles. Germans Foil tiik So: th.—Twenty- Bix German immigrants arrived at New Orleans last week, and were immediately placed at work in the mills at Pascagoula and Stockton. Another installment is expected in a few days, and the agent who went over <o Germany writes that, owing to the number of applications, they were able to pick the best carpen ters and lumbermen in the country. The New Orleans papers express the opinion that the tide of German immigration is about to set towards the South. The possibility of an alliance of the Democrats and anti Sherman Republi cans in the Ohio Senatorial contest has suggested a combination of Democrats with one of the Republican factions in the New York Legislature. Generally such alliances resuit unsatisfactorily, but if in New York au effective blow can be thus given to the Oonkiing ring, the proposed combination will be more than excusable. A Confession.—Buruham Wardwell, who was warden of the \ irginia pent tentiary during the reconstruction period, writes to the New York Sun : ‘‘I mingled freely with the institution of slavery for twenty two years in Virginia. At no time did I see anything so de praved, wicked and brutal as has been practiced at the Massachusetts State prison, Tewksbury baby slaughter pen and Westboro Reform School, so called.” The Tennessee Sesatorship.—Ex- Governor John C. Browu, of Tennessee, who savs that he is not a candidate for Senator in aay sense of the term, ex- presses the opinion that there is not the least chance of the Republicans electing a Senator from that State, lie thinks a combination between the Republicans and either wing of the Democratic parly out of the question. Tile argument in the case of the Sa vannab, Florida and Western Railway vs. the State Railroad Commission has been closed. Judge Woods' decision is looked for with much interest, and will probably be rendered in a day or two. as he leaves for Washington to lake his seat on the Supreme Bench on the 1st or 2d proximo. Mr. Roscoc Cockling, it is said, has concluded to let Mr. Bayard alone. The Delaware statesman has had his say, and certainly if Mr. Conkling can afford to leave the matter where it now is Mr. Bayard can. As the .case stands Mr. Conkling is in pillory in full view of r discriminating public. If any super loyal citizen of the nation with a big “IT’ wants lo know way the South is solid, we respectfully refer him to the case of R. K. Scott, of Napoleon, Ohio, the murderer of young W. G. Drury. Scott was erstwhile carpetbsg Governor of South Carolina, and one of the prime pets of the Radical party. Draf^Tfor Ireland.-The" officials of the Irish Emigrant Society in New York city state that daring the first three weeks of December it forwarded fully *100 000 by drafts to Ireland for Christ mas gifts, in which 5.000 givers partici- pated. What Carpcthaglsm Has Doue for the South. Col. A K. McCiurc has written another letter to hie paper, this lime from Louisi ana. In this letter he dwells at length and with force upon the condition to which that State has been reduced by carpetbag rule, and the picture which he portrays is truly hideous to look upon. He shows how terribly the State bad been desolated by the ravages of war— she having been, next to Virginia, the greatest sufferer of all the Confederate commonwealths — and in what a deplorable condition her carpet bag despoilers found her. Her people, he says, were impoverished by the loss of many millions of dollars in slave property, by the fearful wastes of protracted war within her borders, and by the possession of her chief centres by the Federal army. Her plantations were overrun or abandoned, and her marts of trade and wharves were guilt less of commerco. In addition to this, she owed a legitimate debt of about eight millions of dollars, and had always scrupulously maintained her credit This was the desolate condition in which the carpetbag de3poiler found the once rich and prosperous State of Lou isiana when he first turned his greedy eyes towards her with intent of swoop ing down upon her to strip her of what ever he could lay his hands on which had been left from the general wreck. Surely it would seem that nothing could be found by him to steal. But what carpet bagger, with hislceen scent for robbery, was ever yet wholly cheated of his game while he had the Federal Government and Federal bayonets to encourage him in his thieving operations. Here i3 what he managed to do in Louisiana, accord ing lo the personal observations and in vestigations of a Northern editor: “In a single decade the positive debt of the State was increased to twenty-five millions, and the contingent or guaran teed debt to many millions more,making an aggregate of forty millions. Nor did he (the carpetbagger) content himself with creating debt and wasting its pro ceeds. Reckless assessors were sent out among the people to value property for taxable purposes, and they were tempted to high valuations by being paid a per centage on the amount assessed; and upon these valuations the taxes for State purposes alone rose as high as twenty- one and a half mills. Trades, occupa tions, professions, and indeed every thing that earned money, wi re also op prersively taxed, and with all this revenue and all the millions of in creased debt, the interest, the schools and the ordinaty expenses of the government could not be met. of developing their vast resource* and making of politics a secondary considers tion. Mr. Garfield will have a magnifi cent opportunity to descctionalize the entire country if he will, but until there is a change in Radicalism itself it is not to be expected that there can be any change in the political sentiment of the Southern people. and the the The wealthy parishes were all dominated jv the black vote, under the desperate leadership of the carpetbaggers, and, oeiug without property themselyes and inflamed against the whites, they im posed as high as 2 per cent, of parish taxes in some instances, which, with Slate and town and other local taxe6, made from 5 to C per cent, the rate of taxation in many of the wealthiest per tions of the commonwealth. This terri ble oppression came upon a people that had nothing but debt and devastated property, and the inevitable result was widespread bankruptcy, the depreciation of values from 40 to 60 per c*. nt. and a Tpneral paralysis of every channel of industry.” As Colonel McClure well siys, such a tide of bewildering profligacy could but lead to one result, and that v/as the de struction of the State credit and bank ruptcy. Bonds so recklessly issued by the carpetbag rulers of Louisiana fiepre- ciated to nominal figures; the resources of the people had been drained dry by the insatiable thieves, and it looked as if the plunderers would be forced to cease their robberies from pure lack of further material upon which to prey. But even yet their wonderful capacity for stealing enabled the thieves to devise ways and means for still further filling their car petbags with ill-gotteu gains. As Col onel MClcure further says: ‘ State bonds had iKjen recklessly issued by millions with little more than the color of law, and they had ceased to be marketable. In this utter despair of creditors the Kellogg leaders in 1874 de cided to speculate on their own robberies, and they bought up at nominal prices the fraudulent bonds they had issued, and proposed to scale the whole debt, good, bad and doubtful., at 60 cents on the dollar in 7 percent, forty-year bonds. The old, bona fide creditors of the State who held the undisputed 6 per cent, bonds, were tempted to ac cept by the proffer of the re duced principal on increased interest, and the pools of fraudulent or doubtful bonds, held largely by the plunderers themselves at little or no cost, were promised protection against inquiry into their frauds and a fresh steal of many millions besides. They hastened to fund these bonds, and a constitutional am^ud ment. declared as ratified by the election machinery common in I,ouisiana in those days, fastened a double fraud upon the people, fii*t by a fraud upon the honest creditors, ana next by a fraud that made millions of dishonest claims a constitu tionally adjudicated debt of the State.*’ These extract* convey but a faint con ception of the terrible and true story related by Colonel McClure in his New Orleans letter. 3Iuch as tbs Southern people hare suffered from Radical rule in our section, we dare say that even they themselves have never fully real ized the extent to which they have been plundered. Yet what is related of Lou isiana is true, to greater or less degree, of every Southern State The adventu rers who were maintained in poorer under Grant's two administrations, were allowed to rob the entire South at >’111, while she was held down on the points of Federal bayonets,a helpless victim for political vultures to feed upon until they were gorged, but whose insatiable maws could never be filled. Can any fair minded man read (^olonel McClure’s letter, or even the extracts therefrom which we have given, and wonder any longer that tfie South has been and is "solid” against Radicalism ? Yet in the recent Presidential election there were thousands of men In the North calling themselves fair minded, and hundred of papers with claims to respectability, who pontmually prated about “a solid South," and the necessity for “a solid North’* with which to op pose her. The only excuse for such a sentiment is that those advancing it were ignorant of the horrors of Radical ism in the South, and thn tumble effects of carpetbag rule. We hope that ali such will read this letter and be edified, and then let them remem ber further how, when the people of Louisiana, justly outraged aud ren dered desperate, rose in their might against their despoilers, they were over whelmed by United States sol.iiera, by order of U. S. Grant, and their villain ous plunderers were again placed in power over them by force. If, under these circumstances, any man can won der longer at the solidity of the South, then he is lost to all reason, and is sim ply the creature of venomous malignity and blind prejudice. The recent treachery of certain Demo cratic leaders in the North who were willing, for the purpose of advancing their selfish ambitions, to turn the entire land once more over to the tender mer cies of Radical and carpetbag rulers, will tend, however, greatly to do away with the solidity forced on our section by Radicalism, provided a wise and gener ous policy is pursued towards the South by the incoming administration. Certainly this treason has opened the eyes of the Southern people to the'great importance The Basutos and the Boers Between the hardy Raff re tribes the colonial Dutch Republicans, Zulu?, the B&sutos and the Boers, British Government in South Africa has a rough time of it. A great deal of this is the fault of the colonial government itself. Sir Bartle Frere, with his im practicable ideas and his meddlesome ways, has made a dreadful muddle of it. This model Governor, of the rigidly humaniiarian type, has caused no litrie bloodshed since he was transferred from his Commissionership in Zanzibar to civil nnd military command at Cape Town. He began by rousing the Zulus and provoking them to war by the process of “recti fying their frontier,” giving to the Boers of the Transvaal a part of Zulu territory, to which they had no real claim beyond what Sir Bartle thought be could find in liberal quota tions from the Old Testament Scriptures. Then, when the Zulu war demanded the concentration of troops on the frontier, he angered the Boers by annexing the Transvaal Republic. Thirdly, he aggra vated the Basutos by permitting the Colonial Legislature to pass a sweeping vagrant law’, the object of which was simply to compel able-bodied Kaffres to work for colonists at low wages. The Basutos did work in the diamond fields, and thus secured arms and ammunition in plenty. Now, when it is proposed to open Basutoland to settlers, the tribe revolts. They number 127,000; their men arc all warriors, and their country, one hundred and fifty miles in length by eighty in breadth, of mountainous and easily defensible territory, offers the colonial troops a very hard nut to crack. Some of the other Kaffre tribes will probably join them, and in the mean time the outbreak is so formidable that the Boers seem to see in it their oppor tunity. They have taken up arms and again proclaimed the Republic. The Boers have 5,000 horsemen in the field, all brave, sturdy, good shots, aiepts in woodcraft, and formidable in many other ways. Their leaders are men of the stern Puritan type of Pretorius of Natal, and they hate the British rule most bitterly. The Cape Colony is in a panic, and troops have been telegraphed for in every direction. It is reported from Washington that a war has already been declared between Garfield and Conkling, aud the alleged fact that Garfield induced Hayes to nomi nate anti Conkling men for the Albany Postmastership and the Buffalo Collec- torship, is cited in proof of the report. The World's correspondent say a: “The possible developments of this early dis play cf Garfield'* 1 antagonism to Conk ling are ot great significance. At this time there can of course be but surmises as to just what it may i«ad, yet there can be little doubt that in assuming the offen sive two months before his inauguration Gai field counted well the cost. The infer- is natural, therefore, that General Gar field has prepared himself to withstand whatever opposition Mr. Conklin* may be able to gather against him after twe months of preparation. As to the new nominations, the etianues ^re that they will be confirmed, although Mr. Conk ling may fie fible to keep them in com mittee for awhile. But the taptips he will need to employ to keep them there will giv* Vis bittcruces a chance to deepen, an! by the time the Cabinet and other appointments begin to come in, when it must appear to the country that he has not only been overlooked but actually antagonized, be will proba bly be in condition for retaliation.” TnE New Rothschild^ aiitnersiiip. —The act of partnership between the members of the Rothsehild family ex pired on the 30tb of September last. A new partnership has recently been form ed between all but oue of the members of the family—Baron Adolphe Roths child, of Naples, retiriog with a fortune of one hundred and eighty millions of francs ($36,000,000). We have million aires in the United States whose indi vidual fortunes far exceed that of Baron Adolphe Rothschild, that of Mr. Wm. II. Vanderbilt being conspicuously one of them; but the united fortunes of the Rothschild family make the firm the richest in the world. B it the financial power of the Rothschilds is not de pendent alone upon the money which they have pm iui.Q Jheir banking busi ness. It is the vast sums they can draw from their co-religionists at any time when they ueed the poiqmanrt of more capital that, in conjunction with their own means, constitute* them the fore most financial power in the world. The term of the new partnership just entered into is for twenty-five years. It conse quently expires in 1905. Why Akermau Resigned. The late Amos T. Akcrman, who re signed the Attorney Generalship under Grant, after having served about three years, was forced out of the President’s official family, it seems, for reasons simi lar to those which occasioned the remov al of Charles Sumner from the Chair manship of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations—namely, because he declined to favor with his official approv. al a rascally scheme in which some of Grant’s personal friends were interested and which Grant desired to have pushed through. The amount was small (for Grant’s administration), being only $100,- 000, but the incident should not be lost sight of in making up the history of our times. A correspondent of that truly loyal and stalwart sheet, the Chicago Tribune, thus tells the story: ‘ 'Soon after Col. Akerman commenced the duties of his office he was called upon by numerous parties and sets of schem ing men who desired him to investigate and make favorable reports upon nu merous claims against the United States. Prominent among these claims was one from Honduras. This claim was for $104,000. and was brought to the atten tion of the Attorney General by several gentlemen who were warm personal friends of the President. The claim was well made out in such a strong and plausible manner as to convince almost any one that the charges were just Col. Akerman. however, subjected the mat ter to a most thorough and rigid exami nation, and Llie fruits of the investiga tion showed that the claim had not in the first place been authorized to be brought against the United States by the Government of Honduras, and in the second place that the claim was largely in excess of what would have been just in the event that the claim had been au thorized. During the progress of the examination of the Honduras claim, President Grant called upon the Attorney General frequently, and seemed by his manner and conversation to show a de sire for a favorable report. During one of these interviews with the Attorney General, President Grant stated that his friends, who were the agents of the Hon duras Government, had shown him the papers, and that from what he had seen he thought that a good case had been made out, and that the claims should be paid. When Colonel Akerman, as Attorney General of the United States, made the report, it was found that it wa3 unfavorable, and the grounds were eet forth in his usual clear and concise manner. His report created indignation, and the holders of the claim declared war upon the Attorney The New Mexican Mischief. Montgomery Advertiser. It is fair lo charge the merciless ras calities and robberies that have been per petrated upon the negroes of .he South upon the Republican party. For, while the party as such, may not have engaged in the notorious outrages on these igno rant and credulous people, it cannot be denied that the rascals are not only active agents and members of that party, but they have been sheltered, encouraged and lauded by its organs and leaders. T hat party is responsible for embroiling them in politics, distracting their peace, dis turbing their pursuits, and setting them j 54tB8&m*nt3. MOZART HALL. Commeacing Thursday Night. l)ec. 30 Every Aftern<ioa and Night until further - notice. Afternoons, 2 to 4:30: Nights. 7 to 10 o’clock. Most Wonderful Exhibition on Earth. Miss Millie Christine The marvelous TWO-HEADED WOMAN, Ar.d her Combination of Novelties. Sei7S wi it is^^Tor’Se i Blitz, the Great Wizard, Freedmen s Bank swindle by which they i And the M I BOHEMIAN GLASS BLOWERS, With their Gloss Steam Engines and an en- General. They combined with the hold ers of other claims of a similar character winch had also been unfavorably re ported upoD, and a political charge was made upon the bulwarks of integrity, officered and commanded by Colonel Akerman. Colonel Akermau, seeing that this refusal to make a favorable re port upon the Honduras claim had made the holders antagonistic to the President, handed in his resignation, aud the office was ipade vacaut for a successor. He preferred to give up his office rather than be an instrument to the fraud aud cor ruption that unprincipled men were making an effort to perpetrate upon the government of the country that he loved.” Hctt the Russian Exile Llres. London Standout. On his arrival the prisoner is driven straight to the police ward, where lie is inspected by the I-pravnik, a police offi cer, who is absolute lord and master of the district. This representative of the government requires of him to an swer the following questions: His name? How old? Married or single? Where from? Address of parents, or re lations or friends? Answers to all which ^re pnterefi in thp books. \ solemn written promise is then exacted of him that he will not give lessons of apy kinq or try lo Icppfi anyone, that every letter he writes will go through the Rpravnik’s hands, and that he will fol low no occupation except shoemaking, carpentering or field labor. Up is then told luai he is true, blit at'the same time is solemnly warned that should he at tempt to pass the limits of the town he were robbed of $6,000,000 of their hard earnings. It is responsible for the emi gration schemes concocted for despoiling the poor creatures, who have been in veigled into wretchedness and death by sweet words and pretty pictures, even as unsuspecting swine are tolled by a few grains and encouraging words into the slaughter pen. It is jcsponslble for the Kansas exodu3 and other devilment of the same sort. It was but the other day the Chicago Tribune, one of the leading organs of the party, sought to allay the indigna tion that has been aroused in some quar ters on account of the movement and the mischief it had done, by saying, in the fac« of well kuown facts to the con trary, that the thousands of these wretched people, who are shivering and starving on the bieak plains of Kansas, are thriving and happy. And it pre tended to give Governor St. John as authority for saying that such progress had they made already in providing homes and all the needful supplies, that only about five hundred were now de pendent on the public for support? The Tribune advocated further colored exodus from the South. The truth is, not one of their leading papers, or lead ing men, have had a word to say against these schemes that have entailed so much needless suffering and death upon these poor people. The last scheme to make money out of the ignorance of the negro, and the sim plicity of his Northern friends, is the scheme to locate an immense colored colo ny from the South upon the deserts of New Mexico. The head man of the move ment seems to be the notorious Parson Conway, whose reputation for honesty and truth in Louisiana, achieved during the carpetbag rule in that State, is on a level with the other scamps that depredated on the people and debauched the public service to their own selfish purposes. He was the superintendent of the public school system, and his conduct ought to have satisfied his profligacy and kept him “hid out” the balauce of his days. He was one of the chief engineers of the Kansas business, and having made all ho can out of it, he has now turned his attention to this Mexican scheme. Last November he informed George W. Williams, the noted member of the Ohio Legislature, that certain New York capitalists had purchased an immense tract of territory in New Mexico, amounting to 700,000 acres. lie men tioned as the President J. M. Wood ward, aud as Secretary A. D. Mellick, and informed Williams that all this territory was to be settled up by colored people of the South. The name of the company was the “New York Land League.” Williams shortly %f\\# set about to investigate the matter, but not getting from Secretary Mellick such information as tended to satisfy his curiosity, he determined to go to New Mexico and see for himself. Sec retary Mellick bearing of this impru dent venture of Williams made haste to telegraph him not to go: that the “Land League” was not prepared to exhibit their lands. But Williams went When he got to Santa Fe he called on Gen. Lew Wallace, who, to his surprise, informed him thath* had never heard of the “New York Land League I” Nevertheless,some body, being no doubt ordered to he on the lookout for the “Land League” in vestigator from Ohio, introduced himself as the surveyor of the institution. He exhibited to Williams a drawing of “the Sebastiau Martin grant” containing, as he said, 100,00b ftCIW. The records, how ever, in the Land Office, which Williams examined, showed that the “grant’ con tained 51,000 acres. Since hi9 return, he has received a let ter from Judge Prince, Chief Justice tire Lady's Costume made of glass. M’Donough’s Royal Marionettes amine English PUNCH AND JUDY, And a n description of Exhibition, see small billa and posters. SPKCIIL ISOTICK.—Ladies with chip dren are requested to attend the afternoon entertainments and thus avoid the crowd at night. Admission 50 cents: Children 23 cents, dec^-tf SAVANNAH THEATRE. FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. DEC. SI AND JAN. 1. GRAND MATINEE SATURDAY. THE CBOW.NI.NO CLIHIX! HARRY MINER PAT ROONEY’S CONSOLIDATED COMBINATIONS! Including the Great and Only PAT ROONEY! O ■OBSERVE the array of talent: E C. Dunbar, Lamont and Ducrow, Tommy Dayton, Bi'Iy Carter, Larry Tooley. Jeppe Delano, Tsd- bot and Owens, Tfie Carroll Bros . Miss Georgia Kaine. Miss Fannie Delano, Miss Katie Rooney, Miss Annie Dayton, Miss Josie Granger, to gether with a full Bras j Band and Orchestra. Popular prices. Reserved seats for sale at Bren’s. dec2Mt NINTH ANNUAL HOP -or THE— Young America Social Club, METROPOLITAN HALL, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 31. 3rj! ©oofls. ETERNAL VIGILANCE FOR THE GREATEST BARGAINS IN THE NORTHERN MARKETS IS THE PRICE OF On WHETHER IT BE STORMY OI. THE SKY CLOUDLESS. ADR STORE IS THRONGED WITH Thousands of oar patrons could not be waited on during the past Jew weeks. A ithough we were prepared to moet such an emergency, we found our preparations Inadequate, crowds as have beleaguered our counters can only be met with and equaled In some j e ing New York store*. Our success was complete and beyond our moat sanguiae .pectaUons. WE HAVE BUYEKS The whole year round in the Northern markets to do nothing else bat to hunt up bargains, and therefore we are in a better position than any other house to sell goods at Marvelous Prices THIS WEEK WE CALL ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING GOODS: r TMCKETS fl. admitting gentleman and two ladies, refreshments iocluded, to be had from the following committee: HUGH LOGAN. Chairman. ROBT. McCALLA. THOS. KENNY. J. KEARNEY. ROBT. BARBOUR. dec9.S!&T«>19 Sthj &avmtgrnmtts. COKE. Great Reduction in Price 100 bushed and upwards 3c. per busheL Under 10U bushels . .6c. per bushel. remove same Purchasers are required promptly. Apply at GAS OFFICE. dec31-6t Exchange Building. Bay s'reet. FOR LIVERPOOL. r piIE first class Spanish steam ship JUANA, Ga-staxaoa, Master, Will sail about loth January. 1881. For freight apply to | do< * dec3l-5t CHARLES GREEN A CO. City Marhbal’s Office, I Savannah. December 31. 1880. \ B Y virtue of authority conferred by Coun cil, and under the direction of the Com mittee on Public Sales and City Lots. I will sell, according to the provisions of existing ordinance of the city of Savannah, lot No. 82 Lloyd ward, on the premises, at 11 o’clock, on TUESDAY, January 4th, 1981. Terms and conditions made known at time of sale. L. L. GOODWIN. dec31-td City Manual. 1W Fine MARSEILLES SPREADS, 12-4. worth $3 CO, at $2 00. M0 do/en 3-BUTTON KID GLOVES, the latest shades, at 38c. - 200 dozen BOULEVARD SKIRTS, Red, Purple, Blue and Brown, at 37tfc.. usually sold at 81 00 and 81 25. 250 dozen Pure LINEN TOWELS at 5c. each, no more than 6 to each customer. 300 dozen GENTS’ KNITTED UNDERSHIRTS at 20c. each. 6,000 dozen DRESS BUTTONS, the latest s f yles and designs, sold elsewhere at 35c., at 10c. per dozen. 1.0C0 BOYS’ PURE LINEN SHIRT FRONTS at 3c. l,0CO BOYS’ CAMBRIC 8HIRT FRONTS at 5c. ■V) Children and Misses’ CLOAKS (sizes six to fourteen years) at four and five dollars. f0 pieces BLACK ALPACA at 12£$c. 75 pieces Double-Width ENGLISH CASlIXERE at 15c. 1,000 pieces FAST COLORED CALICO at 5c. per yard. 603 dozen -GENUINE’’ 3-BUTTON KID GLOVES, worth 81 73, at 50c. and Tic 240 dozen “GENUINE’’ 4-BUTTON KID GLOVES, worth 82 00. at 75c. 175 dozen White and Opera shades 6-BUTTON KID GLOVES, the same sold elsewhere at 81 50, at 60c. 5C0 LADIES’ CLOAKS, to close out “at and below cost.’’ 600 pairs BLANKETS and CALICO 8PREADS at almost half value. PLEASE CALL EARLY TO AVOID THE GREAT RUSH, AT DAVID ¥E ISBEIN’S. dec29-N*Teltf GltElT (LEIUnit SALE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, AT .furniture. &c. Special Jndacements. shall be shot down like a dog rather than ~ v « be allowed to escape, and should be be nhi.rf Immense Immigration.—Up to Mon day morning the number of immigrants arriving at j^'ew Yqrjf siace January 1, 1880, was 318,037. In the fire days that remain before the year closes, it is ex peeled that the aggregate will exceed 320,000. By comparison with the totals of previous ye$rs, these figures are in teresting to contemplate. Take the sta tistics for J854 as an instance—the year that is noted for being the one in which emigration was enormous, and whose record has not heretofore been beaten. Then immigrants came by sailing vessels onty, and stwe days srnall armies of them were i^ndpd. t<a the qth oi June thirty five ships brought in 12,500 steer age passengers. At that date the Bureau Emigration was not established at o? Castle Garden, and vessels put passengers ashore at tbgir various docks. The sta tistics for the year t&ijt the num ber of fojeigntfs landed in me port of New York was but tb»3 number included steerage and first gud second cabin passengers. Of steerage passen gers alone 1880 falls but 280 behind, and several steamships are now due with their quotas. Memphis >» 8$. Lquis.—St. Louis seems to be on the decline as a cotton market, the receipts so far this year foot- j ing up but 139,058 bales, a considerable falling off compared with the same months last year, while 1-ke receipts for the same time at Memphis amount to 201,300 bales, a handsome increase. Alluding to these figures, the Memphis Aralanche cruelly observes that “with the completion of the Memphis and Jef ferson Railroad St. Louis will hand in its few remaining enUcaph^cks to Mem phis.” taken alive shall be sent offto Eastern 8i beria without further formality than that of the Ispravoik's persc-Dal order. The poor fellow takes up his little bundle, and, fully realizing that he has now bidden farewell to the culture and material comfort of his past fife, be ^alks out ffitfl the cheerless stree t. A group of exiles, all pale and emaciated, are there to greet him, take him to some of their miserable lodgiugs, and fever ishly demand news from home. The new comer gazes on them as oue in a dream; some are melancholy mad. others nervously irritably t y, P remainder have evidently trietj to find solace in drink. They live m communities of twos and threes, have food, a scanty provision qf clpthiJ*, money and books In common, and consider it their sacred duty to help each other in every emergency, without vlistinetion of sex, rank or age. The noble by birtn get sixteen shillings a month from the government for their maintenance, and commoners only ten, although many of them are married, and sent into exile with yoqng families?. Ijaiiya gendarme visits their lodgings, inspects the prenii ees when and how he pleases, aud now and then umkos 9ome mysterious entry in hid note book, should any of their number carry a warm dinner, a pair of nowly mended boots, or a change of linen to some passing exile, lodged for the moment in the police watd, it is just a3 likely as not marked against him a9 a crime. 11 is a crime to come and see a friend off, or accompanying him a little on the way. In fact, should the Ispraynik feel out of sorts—the effect of cards or drink—he vents his bad temper u which the Chief Justice says that *!’ the arable land in the pretended “grant” lies in little narrow strips along the Rio Grande, and these strips have long been settled and are now occupied by people who have an absolute title under the St^tutp of limitations As for the bal ance of the lands, he says a colony of agriculturists, so far as any present bene fit or development is concerned, had as well locate on an iceberg. Williams further informs the publicin his exposure of this New Mexican infa my, that Lowery, colored, has been appointed agent of this “Land League” swindle for this State. We are not informed of any movement of the agent or Ips “subs.” Nor do we know of any disposition on the pari of any of the colored people to listen to the tales of these Mexican trappers. But cer tainly it Is the duty of every intelligent colored man in the State to be prepared to warn his people against this satauic enterprise. Another Handsome Gift.—The trus tees of Union College, at Schenectady, N. Y-, have received $50,000 from Levi Parsons, to be held in trust for the bene fit of worthy students. The interest of the fund is to be used to support two scholarships of $300 each, three of $200 each, and eight of $150 each, and for the support of deserving students in need of assistance. Union College will select the beneficiaries, Judge Parsons gave $30J)OQ to Union College last winter for the Parsons Library. A scheme is under consideration for a — ~~ *4.o w..v4 u.uij’U! - canal across the Malayan Peninsula, by on the exiles; and as cards and drink are which it is believed that English mails ** J may be delivered in Hong Kong in twenty nine days and a half, a saving of the fayorite amusements Ixj tneec dreary regions, crimes are marked down against regions, the esiie3 in astonishing numbers, ^nd a report of them seffi regularly to the Gov ernor of the proviuce. Winter lasts eight months, a period during which the surrounding couutry presents tfie appearance of a noiseless, lifeless, frozen marsh—no roads, no communication with the outer world, no means of escape. In course of time almost every individual is attacked by nervous convulsions, lollowed by pro longed apathy and prostrariefi. They begin to ^uartcj, and even to bate each other. Some of them contrive to forge false passports and by a miracle, as it were, make their escape, but the great majority of these victims of the Third section either go mad, com mit suicide or die of delirium tremens. Their history, when the time comes for it tp bp studied and published, will dis close a terrible t^ie oi human suffering and aduiinis’erial evils and shortcom ings not likely to find their equivalent in the contemporary history of any other European Slate. A watchmaker al Copenhagen is re ported to have made a watch which re quires no winding up. inasmuch as it perfoiws that work iupll by m^ao* of au electric current. An electric magnet fixed inside the watch keeps the spring perpetually in a state of tension. All that is required to keep the watch going is to preserve the battery in proper work ing order, for which purpqsfi ouj) or two inspections in a twelvemonth are said to be sufficient, The substance of the electoral count resolution, gainst which the Republi can Congressmen are exerting ibemsclyes so fiercely, is as follows: I. If but one list of votes of electors from auy State be submitted to each House for its decision, and the two houses do not concur in rejecting it, that list shall be received, II. If more than one list of votes of electors from an> State,or paper purport ing to to be such list, has been submitted to each House for its decision upon ob jections made thereto, and it shall appear that the two houses have not concurred in receiving either of said lists, they shall be declared a9 being rejected. Although the tax on beer is but $1 a barrel, it gives a revenue of $11,000,000 & year. For Christmas decorations this year the citizens of Philadelphia used 15 000 trees, 500,000 yards of laurel and other wreaths, and 1,000 barrels of moss, cost ing in the aggregate about $54,000, to say nothing of vast stores of holly and flowers. The trees came principally from Maine, and the laurel and moss from the swamps of New Jersey. A Galveston man named Joseph.is C. Morgan, who is also a great nuisance, 4 everlastingly abusing the female sex. The other day he said to John W. Smith: “There would be fewer evils in the world if it were not for women.*’ “Yes,” responded Smith, “you, yourself, wouldn’t be in it;” and now they hardly speak.—Galveston Nete*. Wonders will never cease is again illustrated by the fact that fireproof houses can now be built out of cotton and straw*. In the first instance, the cotton used i* the refuse of plantations *nd factories. Jt is converted into a paste, which gets to be as hard a* stone, and is called architectural cotton. It is made in large slab*. In order to make room for a larjre lot of Holiday Goods, I am offering my entire stock of Fine PARLOR and BED- ROOM8UITS, SIDEBOARDS etc., at cost. A full assortment of all grades and styles of FUR NITURE on liand. A Iso a large stock of SH W CASES. Prices ower than the lowest. GUSTAVE ECKSTEIN & CO’S. 4Tattt«£5. ATT ANTED, nurse to accompany I T» fant tj Nas aa. Pf-wikc: I ibcr&l wages. Apply by 1^ o c’ou 1 KENNEDY, BarnarJ street, 3 do. Gaston. W street. ANTr-D, a white woman &* family. Ap-^ly ]«y AATANTED, throe inesnenF^r YV to W. U. TEL. CO. ANTED TO PURCHASE, a pi ao:ai within two hour* railway rid- of Sarai Prefer part clear and timber Er-^ t risit Georgia this winter, I will exam.c' places as I think will answer mj reply to all communications add res.. - \ A. C . New York City, P. O. Bor No '«* decdO-6tJtw:t \WTANTED, two or three furnished H light housekeeping. R. g. office. C OOK WANTED —A good restaurant wanted, white or colored. situation guaranteed to a good 99 Bay street -del YITANTED. Pianos and Orjri YY repair. Rates reaso a'_ for second-hand instruments. 134 State street, between E. streets. A |_|EIRa WANTED — TRXAtf LANDtT7 persons who lost relative : in th. tJ revolution of 1836 wiU hear of sc-i ethic* ■ advantage by comm unicat mr with C BODREOUES, care of this Sav^i. Vtf octlJ-tf .for Seal. pOR RENT, two large unfurnisn-d , on second floor, Whitaker. 1133 Hull *tr<i ^or £al?. G. P. PREDjiope Mai f *OR SALE—Everybody, ti^and littl and old. pay attention. Horaesh.» rets only 35 cents apiece VAUGHAN'S Photographic 1 Broughton street. decSOtf WILSON & a''gh_i F 'OB SALE—Six Lot? fo. Kiie la ward, corner East Kroad and Hat„ M streets. For terms apply to K. B. REpfq No. 70 Bay street. d< 17'ORSALE, a Grocery Store r der. complete stock, gcoa ti _ der, complete stock, gcodtrad^, flr>: chance, central location, terms lib-m drees CONFIDENTIAL, this off._e. dt, [THDR SALE—D. C. BACON .5 CO., YEL PINE LUMBER, PITCH PINE TTMR^H, PRESS, OAK and ASH LUX3ER, by th and in lots to suit purchasers. ’’HE »argest stock SEASONED FLCK in the city. aug28-tf 3 our etc :k Call and exam!’.; BACON £ br; baffle. R AFFLE—All parties interested Shawl and Fruit Cake are notrf News Depot on FRIDAY EVENING, z at 8 o’clock. Tunrfe. XTEW YORK OYSTERS >ND G4M x> COTTON EXCHANGE IcESTACR No. 6, Dravton strec*, rear Pc* and Gents'prirate dining roo dec6,M. wdts-i m rf trot ^ HFDILI; FOR EKC>3I . t: SCFXRIJTTEXDCT’S OFFICE 8., S £ MONDAYS, TUESDAYS. TH . RSDAYS FRIDAY-'. OUTW’D. | LXAVX : ARRIVE LEAVE SAVaXSAH. 'savannah. ISL^ OF HOPE 6:40 p. *.| 3:38 a. m S:10 a. «. 7:C BARGAINS BLACK SILKS! BARGAINS IN COLORED SILKS. M. HOLEY, 186 AND 188 BROUGHTON. AND 17, 19 AND 21 JEFFERSON 8TRKKTS. nov3-tf SELLING OUT. BARGAINS. B ALANCE of my CHRISTMAS GOODS, in cluding BEDROOM SUITS, CARPETS, and STOV ES and 8TOVE FURNITURE, will be sold VERY LOW on EASY TERMS. M Corner Jefferson &Ad President streets. dec»-tf jOfuttstrif. DENTAL NOTICE. D R >, S. M. ROACH, successor to Dr. E. Henry, ha* moved to 13^ BROUGHTON STREET, where he will be pleased to zee hie patients. dec2l-lm DR. nearly seven days by the present route. The line would lie from Bombay to Madras by rail, thence across the Bay of Bengal, and by the canal over the penin- * Gr - “ ~ M sula (uto the Gulf of Siam, and thence direct to Hong Kong. A Teacher Kills a School Boy.— A school boy in Eliot, Me., aged fourteen years, was struck on the head with a book by LL teacher on Monday, 13th instant, and died on the 22d, after being out of his senses for some time. It is alleged that tfee blow with the book rup tured u blood vessel in his head. A. O. BEST, DENTIST, Corner Con^rrss A Whitaker Streets, KA' ANNAH. CJA. fflotaiug. Clothing at Reduced Prices. HEIDT’S stock of Clothing id largt*. and E • to reduce it will offer at very low'prices. $4C Fatally Squeezed by an Elephant. —Tom Sullivan, of John Robinson’s circus, got drunk on Christmas day, and undertook to “prod” an elephant. Tfie latter turned *p.cn him, and seizing him with his trunk, cave him a powerful squeeze. Sullivan was sent to the hos pital. and it is feared is fatally injured. All the census statistics for Illinois are in. They show the population of the State to be 3,080.824, an increase of only 23 per cent, in the past decade. Omitting Chicago, the rural' population of the Slate has increased only 15 per cent. OVERCOATS fur Men and Buys from 84 00 up to fine Reversible ».nd English diagonal or Beaver Goods equally reduced. BUSINESS SUITS for Men or Boys from 85 00 up to fine goods at proportionately reduced priced. Our stock of IlATS is replete with all the late styles, including special styles for the holidays, at popular prices. KING OF 8HIRT3 at Si 00 and 31 25. The “ACME.” a splendid ahirt, in White and Fancy Colored Laundrted, for 8l 00. Gents’ SILK and CAMBRIC HANDKER CHIEFS, SCARFS. TIES, BINGS. PINS, etc., wuliable for presents, in endless variety. Gents' and Boys’ UNDERWEAR, etc. Headquarters for Good Clothing. 139 CONGRESS ST. decl3-t/ (Tarpntters. The tax on matches amounts to more than $3,000,000 a year, but it is an op pressive tai;, and ou^ht to be removed. The amount of revenue produced by matches should lie raised from some thing that is not used by every poor fam ily. The valuation for 1880 of property as sessed for taxation in Kentucky is : White men’s, $347,440,026; negroes’, $3,123,942. This u s,n increase over the assessment in 1879 of $5,490,705 for the white, and $35,388 for the colored resi dents. JAS. IVIcGINLEY CARPENTER, YORK ST., SECOND DOOR EAST OF BULL. given on all clawu* a/ work. 4dl4-M.W£Ftf fterman Sainit. me (Mu Ksisrr. structions from their London agency to make preparations for tfie reception of sixteen Irian families, to be sent out, with a good farming outfit, by the Duchess of Marlborough in the spring. The Sweet Singer of Michigan has been heard from at Mentor in the fol lowing terms : O mighty Garfield, thou dost flllest The seat which for thee people wiliest. Thy fame resounds through all the land, In palace great and peanut stand. Lieut Schwatka, who commanded the late Franklin search party in the Arctic regions, slipped upon the snow-covered pavement near the Sturtevant House, New York, on Tuesday evening, and fractured his right ankle.- (SALTS OF POTASH.) DIRECT IMPORTATION. FOB SALE BY 33. B. Minor, Jr., as 'AAY STREET oct14-3t» MASQUERADE COSTUMES ! TOU BALLS AND PARTIES, To rent at MRS. M. HETTERICH’S, No. 152 State street. dec97-*ufcTellt At Butler’s Drug Emporium C AN be found a full line of WHITMAN’S and MAILLARD’S BON BONS and CARA- BULL AND CONGRESS STREETS. decStf KIESLINC’S NURSERY WHITS BU7FT BOAD. T3LAHTB, B08K8 and *OT FLOWHBS. AU A order, left »t BerumAh New, Decor, raw. ner Boll end York etreett, promptly flLed fablT-tf GUSTAV* firaOlfo. Prop,. BELOW COST! THE ENTIRE STOCK TO BE SOLD AT TREMENDOUS REDUCTIONS! Balance of Holiday Goods Regardless of Cost! G. ECKSTEIN d«S21-Tu,W4Ftf & oo. Monday morning L-siu f .r at 6nS a. m. WEDNESDAYS. SATURDAYS A 8UKpj |C 2> a. ** r. 6 ;0 p | 8:3S A. M ! 1:30 p. m 5:50 p x. 8:10 a. M. T U:C0 p. x. 13:15 5:20 p. *j 4-45 'Sundays this i* the last outwar Saturday ni°;bt last train . .Jj w « of 6:40. EDV7. J. 1 novi-tf £~ T pe COAST LINE RAILROAD OFFI Cl Savajojah, October 30, 1850. O N and after MONDAY, :»orsmLer ftt the following suburban schedule vr observed: SUNDAY SCHED . LE. Cars leave Bolton street at 6:3ft 16r<$ 12:00 o'clock in the mornin.r. A ix T ing every half hour from 2 i5 until t Last car leaves Thunderbolt : 7.05 f-. FRANK LAMAT. oct30-tf Superintend JruH, £tr. C ABBA TJ T 3VH A IV 141 Broughton Street. HOLIDAY PRESENTS, HOLIDAY PRESENTS! In Addition to our Sne display of JAPANESE WAKE, FANCY SATIN COVERED PIN tu8nION8, WORK BOXES. WRITING DESKS. WHISK BROOMS and HOLDERS and other fancy rood* WE WILL EXHIBIT THIS WEEK BLACK RILKt, BLACK SATINS. BLACK CASHMERES BROCHET SHAWLS. HAND MADE WORSTED SHAWr q LACE HANDKERCHIEFS. I.ACE TIES, SILK HANDKKR -htvki A NEW LOT OF CORDS AND TASSELS RECEIVED, INALLOOI ilRB - Country orders solicited. ^ ftcSIll ittrelrg, A. L. DESBOIJILLONS, JEWELER AND DEALER IN Waltham and Elgin Watches, FINE GOLiIJ JEWELRY, DIAMONDS, AGENT FOR THE PIONEER WATCH. STKBLING SILVERWARE. FRENCH AND AMERICAN CLOCKS. SPECTACLES. GLASSES. triple-plated ware. gold-headed canes. Fresh from the countxy Florida Oranges C ORN. COW PEAS. OAT PE * S, HAV, Virginia and Trnnr NUTS. BRAN. COCOA NUTS, GRITS. RU8T PROOF OATS If ye, 500 Larr an 1 Peerless POTATOES, OMONS.ei^. a T- I 3 . BOND’ 151J4 153 AND 155 DAY SnC dec29 tf Bananas, Coeoana ORANGES, APPLES. LEMONS GRAPES NUTS. RAISINS DATES. FIGS, etc P. H. WARD & C( IMPORTERS OF FRUITS, SA7 decl6-tf RED BANANA! MALAGA GRAPES. FLORIDA ORXNGES. CANDIES, '‘UTS. RAISINS, C ITRON. dates, etc. ’SHfc.LLS. CORAL and GRASSES. manufacturer of JEWELRY. FLORIDA nora-W.F&Mff 1 BtJILI ‘ * TBEEr > OPPOSITE SCREVEN HOUSE. OTT Haa been most itratlfjln*. SUCCESS! “SMALL PROFITS AND QUICK SALES’ _ It X inb ® , *« “MP^Ple 0 mistraJftoS 1 'Jri^^wL” a*. *? tncreeae on We hare more than doubled the volume of our proved to us that the old adage: business. this prejudice, but ne are pleaded to say that sur 1 n,.,1..^%." “O » battle against Jobbing _ promptly, attendad to. .Estimate. do"*55u£? understood that our *ood. are equal U, ur,y\SZ hJl.\Mh^ it to £ the same as all other Waltham^ Watches. si»ordin» n. thS 6 . ur .Waltham Watches are ViSSZ“Sf; i7* arr determined lo sell only such^^lf^3T I “ , J?®J' a ^ t ’ au< ' »•> with all w ,® Kuarautee to be aa reprientedf ** i ” arlabr * »atiafaction.an<l of roodA, such aa are*to*be found’cndT"!*TnRST^LAS JFW.r D o lT fl “* ® tock of *" hinds rnlTy inrite the public to examine ou?^ HOUSE, and 24 BARNARD STREET. <5ag gurntrs. 1008 GAS BILLS! BY U8ING THE Celebrated Empire Burner! SISCUIOI IT girea MORE LIGHT with the same amount of Gas than any other burner in general use. It snita the poor man and th, rich man. a. th. amount of w CM be regu- Uted by the lltti, check shown in the cut to auit th. con- sumer. Thousand, are add every 7e*r, and the d a Mill Increase,. Call end see It on exhibition at t my JOHN NICOLSON, PMMBER.8TRAMAND GAS .FITTER, a DRAYTON decictf —AT— ta-AHDKriim’ decU-lm 3JJ4 BZZSTRf, CRANBERRIES. 15 Barrel* Choice Crauberr Just receivec and for u e by €. lu. GILBERT & C d« *c29-tf Subs. BREECH LOABEif WE HAVE IN STOCK A GOOD KENT OIT ENGLEH BREECH IaO A DEES i*0 AiiiflfillMHMMLLJ ERA W- 4 c. aSCOTT’S BREECH LCAl 8150. BOY ft ’ SINGLE BREECH LOADED BOYS’ SINGLE MLZZLE LOALIIliS GUN9 a<rSOrte<i iJiGLlSIi DOUBLE B We wfit take order* for eiCrer 1 St*! \ Tw F mu r * daj mu tie* qn colts ok mum c:i And furnish at manufactcre~i’ pr!:« Valaw s full assortment c' HI N COATS and SHOES. LEQGINS and B. .G: "ale at lowest prices. PALMER BROS 148 AND 150 CONGRESS ST?EET. GEOBCl HOLLAND <31* A pure article, for ?aie al tf c. STRONG’S JPrug SCO % *A 4, A Uj