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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23. mT
TAPPING THB WIBES.
Ia the Senile yesterday Mr. Bayard re
parted,with a substitute therefor, the bill to
abolish taxes on bank capital, deposits and
checks. The substitute provides simply for
the abolition of taxes on deposits. The
substitute was agreed to and the bill
passed as amended. Oa motion of Mr.
Hill the Secretary of the Benate was order
ed to pay out of the contingent fund,
to the representatives of the late Henry M.
Spofford, the compensation to which he
was entitled as a claimant of a seat from
Louisiana. The joint resolution, amending
a previous Joint resolution, to provide for a
monument to mark the birthplace of
Washington, was passed. The Grant relief
bill came up on a motion by Mr. Logan to
make it the special order for to-day, which
was lost. The Congressional library bill
was taken up and laid aside, and the Sen
ate adjourned.
In the House, the conference report on the
pension appropriation bill was submitted by
Mr. Hubbell and agreed to. The sundry
civil bill was reported back and referred to
the committee of the whole. Bills were re
ported relative to the Venezuela and Halifax
awards and for the retirement of General
French. The agricultural bill was consid
ered, and amendments adopted appropri
ating 110,000 for experiments in beet sugar
making and beet culture. The bill was
finally reported and passed. The sundry
civil bill was considered, but, without com
pleting the reading of the bill, the House
adlourned.
Yesterday was celebrated with great eclat
generally throughout the country. The
moat notable displays were at New Orleans,
Richmond and Alexandria, where grand
military displays took place. At Alex
andria, Mr. Hayea waa present, and
made a brief address. In New
York and Brooklyn, the day was generally
observed. At Baltimore, the Society of the
Army and Navy of the Confederate States
held a banquet at the Eutaw House, at
which a number of distinguished ex Con
federates were present.
The citizens of Danville, Va., were taken
in recently by an Itinerant Spiritualist, and
one of them procured a warrant for his
arrest on the charge of obtaining money
under false pretenses. The medium took
the outbound train, and an eff jrt will be
made to overhaul him.
A dispatch from Rime says the Pope has
announced that a jubilee will shortly be
proclaimed for the purpose of invoking the
Almighty to send better times upon the
church, upon which insults are heaped well
nigh everywhere.
Archbishop McCabe, Primate of Ireland,
it is stated, will, on Sunday next, Issue a
Lenten pastoral, in which he will urge the
need of fervent prayer for the country,
and that God may forbid that Ireland
should give her confidence to those whose
alliance has been sought—men who have
plunged their own country in misery, and
are sworn to sap the foundations of all
religion.
The Georgia State Agricultural Society
met at Thomasvllle yesterday. About one
hundred members were present, and as
many more were expected to arrive last
night. The address of welcome was de
livered by Col. Mitchell, of ThomasviUe,
and was responded to by Col. Powell, of
Pike county. The proceedings are interest
ing.
Mr. Gladstone, ia reply to a question in
the House of Commons, said be would state
on Thursday whether the government pur
posed to postpone the arms bill till after
the passage of the land bill.
Count Enlenberg’s resignation has not
yet been accepted.
he Temps says M. Gambetta’s remarks in
the Chamber of Deputies Indicate that he
would take the Premiership if offered it.
Sir Evelyn Wood’s march towards the
camp of General Colley has thus far been
unopposed by the Boors.
President Hinckle, of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, states
that a controlling interest in that road has
been purchased by agents of the Baltimore
and Ohio and the Central Railroad of New
Jersey. This gives the Baltimore and Ohio
control of a through route to New York.
Mr. Parnell has retracted his advice to the
tenants of Kings eounty "to plough up the
land,” as he learns that such conduct would
be punishable with 6even years penal servi
tude.
Gladstone’s measure of affliction is not
yet filled. The Irish trouble, three wars
in South Africa, fresh disturbances in
Afghanistan, and increasing infelicities
in the Eastern question, not to mention
numerous miner matters of gravity,
might be supposed to furnish woes
enough for the British Ministry. But a
fresh disturbance looms up at this
juncture. The Highlanders of Scotland
are up and ready to spring to arms.
They have heard that tyranny is about
to strike them in the shape of a decree
that they must strip off their tartans,
and adopt the usual costume of the
British people. They have met in mass
conventions. They have resolved that
they will never surrender. The Prince
of Wales and the Duke of Edinburgh
have been appealed to for sympathy.
And Her Gracious Majesty has promised
to interpose her royal edict against the
outrage. Considered in conuection with
the solemn facts of the British situation,
this ferment in the Highlands is like the
low comedian in tragedy.
Bradlaugh, the English Radical, has
been closely examining the English pen
sion list and making some extraordinary
discoveries there. The latest carious
pension he has unearthed is that paid to
the heirs of one General Schomberg, who
was killed by an accidental shot from his
own side at the battle of the Boyne. Oa
account of this accident the British peo
ple have been paying annuities to the
Bchombergs ever since, and have paid
out in all to them $3,400,000; a pretty
expensive price for an accidental shot
fired nearly two centuries ago.
Senator Beck received a petition from
some Ohio people the other day with
the request that he should present it in
the Senate, praying for the passage of
Blair’s prohibitory liquor law. Mr.
Beck got up and said: "It seems to be
officially signed; but, as I do not believe
in meddling with what people eat or
drink, and do not think Congress has
anything to do with it, and, as I do not
propose to meddle with what the people
of Ohio want, 1 take the liberty of turn
ing the petition over to the senior Sen
ator from Ohio (Mr. Thurman).”
The Raleigh (N. C.) News Observer esti
mates that 200,000 petitioners for a pro
hibitory law have been represented be
fore the Legislature of that State. It
thinks one-half of the people who are
capable of writing have petitioned. If
this estimate be not excessive it shows
that the movement is wide-spread.
When the twelve million acres of the
Florida Everglades are drained and put
into sugar plantations, it is to be hoped,
says the Philadelphia Record, that glu
cose will take a back seat.
The Spanish treasury exhibits a deficit
of $300,000,000, the government is over
whelmed with debt, and the revenue is
©n the decline.
Conkling's Tisit to Mentor.
The late visit of Senator Conkling to
Mentor, the home of President-elect
Garfield, is exciting considerable interest
in the political world, and, from all ac
counts, the result of that visit is unfa
vorable to the hopes of those who trusted
that the breach in the Republican ranks
between the Grantites, or stalwarts, and
the anti-stalwarts would be permanently
widened. It is stated that the New
York Senator visited the President
elect at the special invitation of the lat
ter, and that he returned to Washington
evidently greatly pleased and in good
humor. The probabilities are, therefore,
that he has received assurances that his
wing of the party will be fully recog
nized under the new administration, and
that Garfield’s aim will be to harmonize
all conflicting elements in bis party.
This, we think, is not at all unlikely.
One of the main characteristics of the
Republican party is to make all
principle and all feeling subordi
nate to private ends, and since
the breach which was so apparent
in the Chicago Convention was caused
solely by the desire of the two factions
to control the spoils of office, it is not to
be wondered at that, now that the Presi
dential question is settled, both sides
should be willing to unite so as to make
sure that each will receive its share of
government pap. This is the great co
hesive principle which always unites the
party eventually, no matter how
greatly it may be divided over the effort to
command the sway. Conkling would like
to be the ehief dispenser of efflees,
and will fight hard to gain that position,
when he thinks an opportunity for so
doing is possible. Once defeated in his
wishes, however, and he and the faction
of whichhe is the recognized head are
perfectly willing to pocket all pride
and mortification, and make the best
terms possible with the fortunate vic
tors. On the other hand, the triumphant
anti Conklingites, with Hayes’ misfor
tunes before their eyes, end seeing that
Cornell and Arthur, in whose persons
he sought to humiliate the New York
Senator, have each been rewarded by
their party—one being now Governor of
New York, and the other Vice President
elect of the United States—are anxious
to bury the hatchet and make peace. In
other words, each faction of the Republi
can party feels that the other is too strong
to be fought if the control of the public
patronage by the party is the main ques
tion to which all others must yield, and
so, making discretion the better part of
valor, they have probably agreed to let
the dead past bury its dead. The Demo
cratic party might learn 6ome worldly
wisdom from its enemies in this respect.
They differ among themselves, and, in
asmuch as their differences are usually
based on a higher principle than control
of the spoils, they refuse to harmonize,
but cany on the contest to the bitter end.
In consequence, they invariably expe
rience defeat, and witness the triumph
of their political foes.
This fusion between Garfield and the
stalwarts bodes no good to the South.
It may not result m a revival of carpet
baggery, but it is very conclusive evi
dence that the hopes which have been
indulged ia that Garfield would be lib
eral to this section, and seek to
desectionalize politics, are vain.
The South can expect nothing
from a coalition between Blaine and
Conkling, aud the old sectional cry of
a solid North against a solid South will
in all probability be kept up at least
until after the campaign of 1884. This
should be a still greater incentive to our
people to determine to labor zealously
for pecuniary independence, and to raise
themselves to a point of wealth from
which they can command the respect of
their money-worshipping enemies.
The Florida Central and the J., P.
and M. Railroads.
Both of these roads, under a decree of
the Hon. Joseph P. Bradley, were sold
at public outcry iu the city of Jackson
ville, on the 25th day of September,
1879, by special masters appointed for
that purpose. Both roads were knocked
down to Adolph Engler, the representa
tive of the complainants in the suit, who
are commonly known as the Dutch
bondholders.
The highest bid for the Florida Central
Railroad was $305,000, and for the Jack
sonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad
was $50,000. The first named railroad
runs from Jacksonville to Lake City, and
the other from Lake City to the Chatta
hoochee river.
About ten days since, the purchaser
gave notice that he would move the
court in Jacksonville for an order con
firming the sales. This motion, it ap
pears, has been delayed for the reason
that the case has been before the Supreme
Court of the United States. The opinion
of the court affirming the decree ren
dered by Justice Bradley has been made
public, but the formal mandate from the
Supreme Court to the Circuit Court in
Florida haa not yet been issued.
All the parties interested, with their
respective solicitors and counsel, were
present; but the case assumed an unex
pected shape, owing to a motion filed in
the court by W. S. Chisholm, the coun
sel and solicitor of Henry S. Haines and
associates, offering an advance of $95,-
000 on the former bid. and praying a re
sale of tbe Florida Central Railroad, for
the reason that on tbe 25th day of Sep
tember, 1879, there was of force an order
from Justice Bradley superseding his
decree of sale, which with certain state
ments from one of the masters to the
effect that in his opinion there would be
no sale, deterred the movant and others
from being present and bidding for the
property.
The motion for confirmation was
withdrawn yesterday, and, we under
stand, it will not be renewed until after
the mandate from the Supreme Court ia
filed in the Circuit Court. We have
heard that parties interested with Adolf
Engler have recently purchased the At
lantic and Gulf and Transit Railroad,
which runs from Fernandina to Cedar
Keys, and crosses the Florida Central
at Baldwin; and that if the sale of the
25th September, 1879, be confirmed, it
will be tbeir policy to runt he three
railroad in one interest
We fear that such an administration
would not be favorable to our sister
city of Jacksonville, which is now so
flourishing and whose future promises
to be so prosperous.
We would not wish to have Fernan
dina lose one dollar of her trade, bat we
would regret to see a check placed upon
the progress of Jacksonville, which is
rapidly becoming an important com
mercial city and the favorite winter
resort of the people of the United States.
Anew invention is reported from
Turin. It consists in the application of
light-giving materials to printing ink, by
which print becomes luminous in the
dark, so that in future it will be possible
to read at night, in bed or during a jour
ney, without the assistanee of candle or
lamp. Anew daily paper In which this
luminous material will be used is, it is
said, about to be published at Turin.
Mr. Pendleton's Clfil Service Bill.
A select committee of the Senate has
reported back without amendment 3D.
Pendleton’s (Dem., of O.) civil service
bill. It has also received the endorse
ment of the United States Civil Service
Commission, of which Dorman B. Eaton
is Chairman. The bill provides for the
appointment of five persons who shall
constitute the "United States Civil Ser
vice Commission.” Not more than three
of the commissioners shall be adherents
of the same political party. The duties
of this commission are to devise suitable
civil service rules,which, when approved,
are to be binding upon all officers of the
United States. The rules are to provide
for open competitive examinations for
testing the capacity of applicants for the
public service now classified, or to be
classified hereunder; that all the offices,
places and employments so arranged in
classes, shall be filled by selections
from among those graded highest,
as the results of such competitive
examinations; that original entrance
to the public service aforesaid shall
be at the lowest grade; that there
shall be a period of probation before
any absolute appointment or employ
ment aforesaid; that promotions shall
be from the lower grades to the higher
on the basis of merit and competition;
that no person in the public service is
for that reason under any obligation to
contribute to any political fund, or to
render any political services, and that
he will not be removed or otherwise
prejudiced for refusing to do so; that
no person in said service has any right
to use his official authority or influence
to coerce the political action of any per
son or body; there shall be non-com
petitive examinations in all proper cases
before the commission, when competi
tion may not be found practicable; that
notice shall be given in writing to said
commission of the persons selected for
appointment or employment from among
those who have been examined, of the
rejection of any Buch after probation,
and of the date thereof, and a record of
the same shall be kept by said commis
sion.
Honest Indiana Republicans Dis
gusted.
The late Dorsey banquet in New York
city was the scene of much boasting of
the Republican victory in Indiana in Oc
tober last, and Vice President elect Ar
thur so far forgot himself, in his "after
dinner” speech, as to practically confess
that his party bought the State. Indi
ana, he said, "was really, I suppose, a
Democratic State," which was "carried
by close and perfect organization and a
great deal of—(laughter.)” Such close
hinting at facts has displeased some of
the Republican managers who, whatever
t’ney know of the methods of their party
workers, are always pointing to the or
ganization as one cf the purest ever
known. One of these men says: "I
was, of course, heartily glad that we
carried Indiana, for it was of great im
portance to the canvass; but it is not
dignified or fit that the Vice President
elect, a great officer of the govern
ment, and possibly an actual President,
should speak in this manner of
things which decent men deplore, if they
have to tolerate them, and then should
go on to ‘pledge lii3 warmest friendship
and support,’ as he did to a man (Dorsey)
to whose operations he ought carefully
to have shut his eyes.” Still another
prominent Indiana Republican says:
"Dorsey, whom none of us had ever
seen until he came to our State to man
age the campaign, will always be known
in my part of the State as the author of
an immense number of new two dollar
bills which got into circulation after he
came to Indianapolis, and of the over
abundance of which our banks now
complain. I understood at the time that
it was very difficult for Dorsey to get so
many new two dollar bills together, and
that in the end there was a subsidiary
shower of two dollar and a half gold
pieces, but that fell in some other part
of the State, for our voting population
saw none of them.”
Two French savans have for the last
twelve months been keeping nine pigs
in a state of habitual drunkenness, with
a view to testing the effects of different
kinds of alcohol, and the Prefect of the
Seine last year kindly put some styes
and a yard in the municipal slaughter
houses at the disposal of the savans, in
order that they might conduct their in
teresting experiment at the smallest cost
to themselves. The pig who takes
absinthe is first gay, then excitable, irrit
able, combative aud finally drowsy; the
pig who has brandy mixed with his food
is cheerful all through till he falls to
sleep; the rum swilling pig becomes sad
and somnolent almost at once, while the
pig who takes gin conducts himself in
eccentric ways, grunting, squealing, tilt
ing his head against the stye door, and
rising on his hind legs as if to sniff the
wind. Dr. Decaisne, writing on this
intoxicated swine in the France, remarks
that they are none of them the worse for
their year’s tippling.
To make the test complete the eavans
should have had one on " whisky
straight”
Mr. Conkling, it is now said, is to
name the next Secretary of the Treasury,
that having been the price of the support
of Mr. Garfield by the Grant faction last
year. If this is true, remarks the Bridge
port Farmer, it changes the entire situa
tion as regards the contest for the next
Republican Presidential nomination.
With Blaine in the State Department,
and Allison, a Blaine man, in tbe Trea
sury, the Federal "machine'’ would be
run in the Maine Senator's interest. But
with Mr. Conkling or one of his tools in
the Treasury Department, Mr. Blaine's
chances of manipulation will be confined
to the State Department, which is com
paratively weak in political power. In
brief, if Conkling controls the Treasury
Department, Blaine may be counted out
of the contest for the Presidential nomi
nation in 1884, and the Grant faction
thus early takes a commanding lead in
the race.
The assumption that Mr. Garfield will
indorse and support the Pendleton civil
service reform plan is rash. With Mr.
Blaine in the State Department, and a
representative of 31 r. Conkling in the
Treasury, to say nothing of other equal
ly bitter, though less prominent, anti
reform men in his Cabinet, Mr. Garfield
will be powerless in the matter, and,
despite his reform speeches of two or
three years since, it may reasonably be
doubted whether he will favor any
actual reform. His letter of accept
ance, last year, clearly announced his
adhesion to the plan of giving the sev
eral Congressmen the control of the
Federal patronage in their respective
States, a policy which has been de
nounced by ail civil service reformers as
the “spoils” system.
A special from Washington to the New
York Tribune says that it is not thought
at the capital that Hayes will veto the
funding bill, apd that Secretary Sherman
does not think disastrous results will
follow the measure becoming a law.
The Course of the War ia the Trans
vaal.
At last tbe story of the cause of the
war in the Transvaal is told by the
Boers. The Transvaal Triumvirate, ap
pointed last December, to carry on a
provisional government, have issued a
proclamation. They begin by reciting
the Sand River Convention of 1852,
whose first provision is this:
"The Assistant Commissioners guar
antee in the fullest manner, on the part
of tbe British Government, to the emi
grant farmers beyond the \ aal river, the
right to manage their own affairs, and to
govern themselves according to their
own laws, without any interference on
the part of the British Government; and
that no encroachment shall be made by
the said government on the territory be
yond.”
No provision of that convention was
violated by the Boers, though article 5
has been violated by British shopkeepers
in providing the natives with guns and
ammunition. Nevertheless, cn the 12th
day of April, 1877, Sir Theophilus Shep
stone, “abusing a special power granted
him under entirely different circum
stances,” proclaimed that the Transvaal
Republic was annexed to the possessions
of the British crown. The people might
then, says the proclamation, have law
fully resisted by force; but they feared
that, between British and colonial troops
on the one hand and hostile African
tribes on the other, they would be ruin
ed, and so waited, "being convinced
that Her Majesty’s Government, better
informed, would disapprove of
the action of her official.” Then
follow two remarkable and decisive
documents. One of them is an extract
from the minutes of the Executive
Council dated April 11, 1877; the other a
proclamation by President Burgers, April
12, 1877. Both solemnly protest against
Sir T. Shepstone’s act, and declare that a
deputation shall be sent to England “to
try and obtain a peaceful solution of the
case.” This deputation, and another in
1878, went to England in vain. The
Zulu war followed; the Boers, in good
faith, refrained from taking part with
the Zulus. During that war, Sir Bartle
Frere visited the Transvaal and tried in
vain to reconcile the people to an
nexation. A camp of more
than four thousand burghers
asked him to plead their cause with
Queen Victoria, and he wrote a public
letter which satisfied them that they had
"at last found a good defender.” But
m a private letter he wrote that he "re
gretted not having cannon enough to
disperse these rebels.” After the Zulu
war was over, Sir Garnet Wolseley went
to the Transvaal, and, taking a different
tone from Sir Bartle Frere, shocked
its people by declaring that "as long
as the sun shines the Transvaal will
remain British territory.” The Volks
raad was at once summoned "to pro
claim what has now been proclaimed,”
the continuing independence of the
Transvaal republic. Sir Garnet Wolseley
was notified; he responded by declaring
the President aud Secretary to bo guilty
of high treason. 3leanwhile, the colo
nial authorities misrepresented the pay
ment of taxes under protest, by this 1
peace loving people, as a surrender of
their cause. Then they stopped paying
taxes even under protest, and then the
explosion came. This proclamation
shows by incontestible evidence that at
no time did the Boers voluntarily sur
render their independence, and this is
its language:
“We declare before God, who knows
the hearts, and before the world: Any
one speaking of us as rebels is a slanderer!
The people of the South African repub
lic have never been subjects of Her
Majesty, and never will be. ”
Such is the reason why the Boers fight.
"Rarely,” says the New York Sun, "has
a community risen against tyranny with
more justification. Rarely has British
power been set to work more culpably
than in this attempt of a gigantic empire
to crush the freedom of a little far-off
settlement of peace loving farmers.”
A Fearful Situation.
The Cincinnati Commercial has this
from St. Paul: 3lajor B. A. Brackett,
Deputy U. S 3larshal, and Colonel J. D.
Gurney, who have returned to this city
after being snowbound fourteen days at
Appleton, and in the vicinity of Bigstone
county, report the situation in that sec
tion as fearful. They visited as many
farmers as they could reach, and de
scribed their condition as almost de
plorable. Many of the houses were
shanties erected to fill the requirements
of the homestead laws. These were com
pletely covered with snow, and egress
and entrance were made by tunnels.
3lost of the families were entirely out of
wood; they had consumed all their hay
for fuel, and were now burning wheat
for cooking purposes. Owing to the
fact of their houses being partially or
completely buried in the snow,
there was in those he visited no
real suffering from cold, but should
another real cold spell visit them
before the opportunity is given them to
replenish their fuel supply, there must
be terrible suffering and great loss of
life. So far as is known when Major
Brackett left Appleton, there had been
only one death from freezing, a 3lrs.
Chapman, living some thirty miles be
yond, in Lac qui Parle county. Apple
ton has a population of between 400 and
500, and it was estimated that there was
not more than half a cord of wood and
two or three tons of coal in the whole
town. The hotel had but three sticks of
wood. All, however, are economizing
on fuel, and arrangements have been
made to secure a fresh supply from a
poplar grove a few miles distant, and, if
the worst comes, there are the railroad
buildings, warehouses, etc., the destruc
tion of which for fuel is already beilig
canvassed. But the scattered settlers ou
the prairies have no such modes of re
lict as this, and tbteir possible fate is fear
ful to contemplate.
The Washington Star says there is a
good deal of importance attached in
Democratic circles in that city to the
speech delivered in the Senate by Sena
tor 3lcDonald last Thursday. It is whis
pei cd that the Senator laid the corner
stone of anew or rather reconstructed
Democracy, which is to be organized for
the political battle fields of 1882 and
1884; not that the Democracy contem
plate abandoning either their name or
their doctrines, but that the policy of
wavering is to be done away with, and
the dootrine of free trade or tariff reform
is to become the ehibboleth. The Sena
tor’s speech was devoted to showing the
benefits of free trade and the evils of
protection, and those who assume to
Know assert that the West and South are
to join hands m making free trade the
national policy.
Mexico Anxious fob American Co
lonists. —A special dispatch to the New
York World, from the City of Mexico,
February 15, says: "President Gonzales
has made a grant of fifteen hundred
square leagues of land in Sonora to
Samuel Brannan, formerly of California,
on which to colonize one thousand fami
lies, many of which are ready to move
into the country from Eastern and West
ern States and Territories. Gen. Manuel
Castro, who commanded the native Cali
fornia forces in the battles fought with
Commodore Stockton and Generals
Kearney and Fremont in 1846 in Califor
nia, has been recently reappointed
to the Mexican army, and will probably
command the department comprising
Sonora. He is known to be interested
in the scheme of colonization. ”
LESSEPS AND THE GOVERNMENT.
A Seeret Negotiation Between the
State Department and a Colombian
Barer.
A Washington special to the New
York World says: Mr. W. H. Treecott,
once Assistant Secretary of State under
President Buchanan, and recently one
of our Commissioners to China, from
which country he returned three weeks
ago, came back to Washington on the
morning of the 18th from New York,
whither he was dispatched by tbe State
Department on Wednesday to settle with
General Santo Domingo Vila, Special
Envoy of Colombia, the basis of a pro
tocol modifying tbe treaty of 1846 with
New Grenada. 3lr. Tre6cott is said to
have accomplished the purposes of the
Secretary of State, but letters received
in Washington Friday from the Colom
bian envoy and from Lieutenant
Commander Napoleon Bonaparte-Wyse,
of the French navy, are of a different
tenor. General Santo Domingo Vila,
of Bogota, and his secretary, 3lr. Julio
E. Perez, who came to the United
States on a special mission, returned to
Colombia to day on the steamer Athos,
of the Atlas line, for Cartagena. They
will be followed to Panama to-morrow
by Lieutenant-Commander Bonaparte
Wyse, of the French navy, who has
been loudly asserting for* some time
past to all who would listen to him that
the Lesseps enterprise will be carried
through whether the United States like
it or not. Lieutenant-Commander Bona
parte Wyse has been taken up in New
York by tbe operators in Pacific Mail,
and it is understood that the materials
are now in the possession of a leading
member of the Senate on which a thor
ough investigation of the whole story of
the relations ©f the State Department
with the Government of Colombia,
touching the Lesseps scheme and the
operations in Panama stock, will be un
dertaken at a very early day.
WHAT BQNAPARTE-WYSE SAYS OF IT ALL,
Lieutenant Commander Bonaparte-
Wyse was interviewed at the Brunswick
Hotel last evening by a World reporter,
and expressed himself in a very exultant
manner. He said that he believed the
protocol negotiated between Mr. Trescott
and General Vila to be the practical
thing needed to carry out the provisions
of the treaty of 1846, which were so ad
vantageous to the United States. It
m :de him feel glad when he heard from
General Vila that the protocol was made,
its terms being so favorable to Colombia
and the canal. He is satisfied with it
because it will not affect the national
pride of the people of Colombia, and
at the same time shows a legiti
mate deference to the principal
among the American nations, and guar
antees the protection of the United States
to her weaker sister in case of foreigu
aggression. He claims that Colombia, in
spite of the treaty, is a foreign State, and
the United States have no right to inter
fere in her constructing any public
works. He said he liked the protocol
because, while it provides that no for
eign power must have any control over
or connection with any interoceanic
canal, the treaty of 1846 is to be adhered
to, and the United States pledge them
selves even to protect Colombia in her
sovereignty and independence if threat
ened by any foreign power, which will
really make the United States the guar
antors of the Lesseps scheme anu give
the advantage of the United States credit
to that scheme in the markets of London
and Paris.
WHAT SENATOR EATON SAYS.
Mr. Eaton, Chairman of tbe Senate
Committee ou Foreign Relations, says
that the committee has received no com
munication in any form from the State
Department relative to a protocol or ne
gotiation with Colombia. He under
stands that negotiations have been under
taken, but he is slow to think they have
gone to the extent of making a protocol;
for whether necessary or not, the pres
ent Secretary of State, like his predeces
sor, has not often shown the courage to
conclude a definite arrangement binding
the country with any foreign power
without the intervention of Congress.
Senator Eaton thinks that, if he chose,
Secretary Evarts might perfect the treaty
without asking the concurrence or assist
ance of Congress.
Okeechobee and the Everglades.
The Hartford Times, commenting on
the project now on foot to dram Lake
Okeechobee, says: "By thoroughly
emptying the lake it is believed that the
entire region of the Everglades can be
drained with it, and thus leave for su
gar cane, indigo, coffee, juts, etc., an
area of very rich land as large as Rhode
Island and Connecticut. It is practi
cally below the frost line, and has for
many years produced bananas, pine
apples, cocoanuts, and other tropical
fruits, in places not swampy. ALoui
siana sugar planter is credited with the
declaration, made on seeing some sugar
canc from the Everglades, that it was
far ahead of the possibilities of Loui
siana, and that the land which could
produce it is worth $l5O an acre. It is
not impossible that the large region now
known as the Everglades may yet be
come the garden spot of Florida and the
favorite resort of winter tourists from
the Northern States. ”
Highwaymen have so often rifled the
bullion and coin-bearing Treasury boxes
of Wells, Fargo & Cos., while in course
of conveyance through the counties of
Placer and Eldorado, in California, that
the company has determined to discon
tinue its service in those counties, al
though it has been maintained uninter
ruptedly since 1852. The worst infested
routes in the whole State are respectively
only sixteen and thirty miles long, and
branch out from the same place, the
small town of Auburn; yet, notwith
standing every precaution, robberies ou
those roads have been of annual occur
rence since 1860, and, it is thought, must
have cost the company fully SIOO,OOO,
and perhaps double that amount. But
the company has never allowed these
losses to interfere with the prompt pay
ment of every dollar due to those for
whom it was transacting business.
The Western Republicans are on the
alert and intend that the President-elect
shall not suffer for want of advice or
suggestions as to how he shall make up
his Cabinet. The Chicago Tribune says
the manner in which the Treasury was
used under Boutwell and Richardson to
promote speculation and stock-jobbing,
should be sufficient warning against the
delusive notion that Eastern financiers
have a monopoly of all the wisdom and
virtue pertaining to the subject. This
is tantamount to a notice that the Trea
sury must be placed under the control of
a Western man if the cordial approval
of the Western Republicans is to be re
tained by the administration.
funding nd Stowg stables.
THOMAS F. GLEASON,
Livery and Boarding Stable.
OPEN and CLOBE CARRIAGES, HORSES
and BUGGIES to hire. Orders for Wed
dings, Balls, Parties, Theatre, Railroads,
Steamers and Funerals promptly attended to.
97 and 99 York street, between Drayton and
Abereorn.
Orders filled at all hours. novSS-F.M&Wtf
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LADIES’ AND MIBBEB’, GENTS’ AND
YOUTHS’
SHOULDER BRACES
FOR SALE AT
It. c. STRONG’S Drug Store,
feb!9-tf Cor. Bull and Perry street lane.
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IN EVERY DEPARTMENT.
MILLINERY AND VARIETY GOODS!
Plat M’s lew Mi Store,
138 Brougliton Street.
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MASONIC TEMPLE.
THE CHILDREN'S
MARDI GRAS CARNIVAL!
The ladiev church aid focibty win
bold a Fair and Children’s Mardi Gras
Carnival at the Masonic Hall on MONDAY, the
28th February, and TUESDAY, the Ist of
March next, in behalf of bt Matthew's Epis
copal Free Church Mission. Fancy articles of
taste and excellence will be offered for sale,
and choice refreshments served at moderate
rates. The Fair will be opened in the after
noons of these days at 4 o’clock
On Monday Evening there will be a Concert
from 8 until 9 o’clock, given by well-known
ladies and gentlemen of the highest order of
musical cultivation in the city. After the con
cert the floor will be cleared for dancing.
On Tuesday Afternoon the children are re
quested to come at 5 o’clock in mask and cos
tume to take part in the Mardi Gras Carnival.
Prof. Sherwood will form the procession at 6
o’clock and after the Grand March, the
‘■Revel,” there will be music by the band.
At all times during the Fair and Carnival
tempting viands, Ices, Coffee. Tea, etc., will be
served to those who desire them at unusually
reasonable charges. All persons interested in
free cburch work aud home missions, or who
delight in giving pleasure to children, are
oordially invited to attend and join in the Fes
tival.
Prices for admi-sion only for children or
nurses, and 25c. for adults. Tickets can be had
at the stores of Dr. O. Butler, Mr. 8. P. Hamil
ton ard Dr. L. C. Strong, oa Bull street.
feb23-td _
VERY IMPORTANT;
Await our grand display of
Spring Goods, which we shall
open in a lew days. Our MR.
JACOB COHEN is at present
iu the Northern market mak
ing his purchases, and is deter
mined to outrival anything yet
produced in this city in the
line of Dry Goods, Parasols,
Novelties, etc., which will be
offered at surprisingly low
prices.
Look out for our next adver
tisement.
JACOB COHEN
152 BROUGHTON STREET.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Sea Island Route.
Georgia and Florida Inland
STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
NEW SCHEDULE.
FIVE TRIPS PER WEEK to and from FLORI
DA via the populir strictly Inland Route. The
new and elegantly appointed
STEAMER FLORIDA
Leaves Sav-mnah every TUESDAY, THURS
DAY and SATURDAY AFTERNOON. The
Palaoe Steamer
CITY OF BRIDGETON
Leaves Savannah every MONDAY and FRI
DAY AFTERNOON, calling at Darien and
Brunswick and intermediate landings on her
way to and from Florida, o mnecting with tbe
Brunswick and Albany Railroad for all
poin's on line of road. Connections made
at Fernasdlna with the Transit Railroad
for Jacksonville and all points on St.
John's river, and for Waldo, Orange Lake,
Gainesville, Cedar Keys. Tampa, Key west,Ha
vana. New Orleans, aud Pensacola, Fla. For
Bta*erooms and tickets to all poin s apply to
General Office of LEVE & ALDEN, corner
Bull and Bryan streets.
J. N. HA REIMAN, Manager.
WM F. BARRY, Gen. Agent.
G, LEVS, G. P. A. feb23tf
WM. READ A SONS,
No. 13 Fancull Hall Square, Boston,
Agents for W. & C. Scott & Bon’s Breech-
Loaders. Just out, our List of Second-Hand
Breech-Loading Guns. Some of highest cost.
Grant bargains. Send stamp for Circulars. Cut
this out. feb23-W,F&M6t,w2t<fcTellt
PLANTING POTATOES.
Early rose, Goodrich, peerless,
CHILI RED, and a few barrels PINK
EYES, just received and for sale by
SOLOMON BROTHERS,
Wholesale Grocers, Bay street.
feb23-lt&wlt
COFFEJE.
r Ci 1 BAGS of OOFFEE. direct from Rio
J,£)‘r i r de Janeiro, per Swedish bark
“Hilda,” landing and for sale by
WEED & CORNWELL.
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DENTISTRY.
DR. THOMAS G. COWARDIN,
FIRMERLY of Richmond, Va , has located at
NO 135 CONGRESS ST., SAVANNAH. GA ,
where he will practice tbe profession of den
tistry in all its branches. Reference: Hon. Wm.
D. Harden, M. A. Cohen and other well-known
citizens of Savannah. feb2l-6t
atulcs.
FOR SALE,
KA HEAD first-class MULES, suita-j^
DU ble for Planters and Timber
men. Having purchased the above rW
stock from first hands, we are pre
pared to seU on to
janfi-tf New street.
TIDAL WAVE SOAP.
THE best 10c. cake of TOILET 80AP, and In
boxes for family use. Also, a full line of
Colgate and other reliable makers’ SOAPS, at
G. M Jeidt & Co.'s Drug Store.
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SPECIAL MICE!
I HEREWITH BEG TO INFORM THE LADIES THAT I HAVE IMPORTED
OVER 5,000 PIECES OF
IMS EKBSOIDEEIES AND FINE lEIMOffI
Comprising CAMBRIC, NAINSOOK. SWISS and ORGANDIE EDGINGS and
INSERTIONS from
The Cheapest to the Most Costly!
In addition thereto, my agents in the Northern markets have carefully ex
amined the stocks of the importers there of such goods, and have sent me every
thing they found rare and handsome without regard to costliness. I have, further
more, made strenuous efforts to secure an
EXCEEDINGLY HANDSOME STOCK OF LACES!
And have in stock no less than 25,000 pieces, or about 1,000,000 yards, the largest
and best selected stock ever gathered together under the roof of & single retail
establishment anywhere. It has been my bobby for the last six months to show
the public what energy and brains can do, and I therefore have determined to ex
hibit these goods in such a manner that they all can be seen to advantage, and I
hereby announce that I will have
A GEAND OPENING
ON
Thursday and Friday, the 24th and 25th of This Month.
I am confident that the ladies will be delighted with the rare and novel treat I
am offering, and I assure them that I have not overdrawn the sight in store for them.
Ladies, you are herewith cordially invited to inspect these goods on the days
appointed.
DAVID WEISBEIN,
feb!B-N&Teltf 153 BROUGHTON STREET.
jutttitur* ana
ALLEN Sc LINDSAY,
169 AND 171 BROUGHTON bTKEET,
Net Mali, Nil Finite, Etc.
OUR MR. ALLEN has just returned from the North, where he has purchased a large line of
MATTINGS, INDIA, CHINA, INDIA PRINTED, the best quality in the market. AH new
goods. Also a large line of OIL CLOTHS for both floor and table. The well-known LINOLEUM,
which surpasses any other OU Cloth made.
New styles of FURNITURE. PARLOR SUITS, covered with figured India Silk. Broca telle, Raw
Silk, Hair Cloth, etc. BEDROOM SETS, BIDEBOARDB, WARDROBEB. Also the latest styles
of PATENT ROCKERS. Any one wishing to purchase should call and inspect these new goods,
which are elegant and cannot fail to please.
feb2i-tf ALLB3NT eb LIND SAY.
THE FAMOUS TREVERE RID GLOVES!
i F. McKenna,
137 BROUGHTON STREET.
New Spring Silks
NEW PARASOLS!
A large lot of very rich Silk, Satin and Bro
caded PARASOLS. All new styles. Lined
and trimmed in the fashionable colors.
New Embroideries!
A large consignment of new HAMBURG EM
BROIDERIES, in Nainsook and Cambric
Muslins. Elegant designs and
very fine work.
NEW LACES I
A splendid line of new LACEB—Vermicelli,
Bucharest, Coraline. Languedoc, Beatrice,
Murillo and other handsome Laces.
New Linens!
A large assortment of new Satin Damask
TABLE LINEN. Satin Damask TABLE
NAPKINS and DOYLIES.
NEW PRINTS!
Several cases of STANDARD PRINTS—new
spring styles and colors.
B. F. McKENNA.
feb!4-N&Teltf
fftationmj,
FINE STATIONERY
PIRIE’B CREAM LAID, WOVE. IRISH
LINEN, OVERLAND MAIL, SILVER
GRAY, ROSE TINT and COURT MOURNING
NOTE PAPERS and ENVELOPES.
LaROCHE’S ANTIQUE and QUADRILLE
PAPERS and ENVELOPES.
Latest styles of PAPETERIES and CARDS
nx CORRESPONDENCE.
Printing of VIBITING CARDS a specialty.
Five hundred pieces of NEW MUSIC at
HALF PRICK.
—AT—
SCHB.EHEB/S.
feb!9-B,W&wtf
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Tie Larpst Jewelry Sense
80UTH OF NEW YORK IS
HAMILTON’S,
Where can be found the MOST VARIED
STOCK in this line on sale in any city
North, South, East or West.
A MOST MAGNIFICENT AND UNSURPASSED
ASSORTMENT
Jewelry, Watches,
DIAMONDS,
SILVERWARE
BRONZES, CLOCKS,
FrencliJapeselyelties
OPERA GLASSES, ETC.
Strangers in the city should visit this well
known and extensive Jewelry Establishment,
COR. Or BULL AND BROUGHTON STS.
S.P. HAMILTON.
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Fertilizing Compound.
TJERFECT CHEMICALS PREPARED BY
A SOUTHERN CHEMICAL COMPANY OF
BALTIMORE. Three bags make one ton of a
PURE AND RELIABLE FERTILIZER FOR
COTTON, CORN OR OATB.
I have been appointed agent for above, and
am now prepared to fill orders.
M. J. SOLOMONS.
SEND FOR CIRCULARS. febls-lm
Newspaper Material For Sale
THE REGISTER AND BTANDARD has the
material, in good shape and condition,
used in the publication of the TALBOTTON
STANDARD, which will be sold at a bargain.
The press is a No. 8 Washington hand, com
paratively new. The office contains enough
material to publish a handsome eight column
paper. Also a good Rotary Job Press and
office. Apply to
O. D. GORMAN,
Register and Standard office, Talbotton.
feblPt
feb23-2t M4NUf ACtu
” aT apiiah p ’„
WANTED, a situation as clertr
man who can give goodr£fi2 l You,,
dress W , car? Morning NJws effeft,n <*.
TV ANTED, a
▼ ▼ dressmaking. Must (. nri i„ a *ort
Whitaker street. * f “W* one/*'*
ft-bai* 1
WANTED, immediately
cook, with best
dren. Apply at 61 Elbert so "a” d f ■
WANTED, consumers of worri7~i ''--L
I have placed in my office
ana all orders received bv tl>n ..**■*!*•£
promptly flfled. R. B. OaSSFiS m T wilTi.
— febr.ff
WANTED, every stranger
to know that the finest
in tne South are for sale at at m,Ti , r nS
■liisJ'
WANTED, Pianos and Organs 7"''
repair. Rates reasonable s„°., tu . nf ‘ tc
instruments. T. B. TURNER
between Bull and Whitaker sts * btat *
— —l
SPAIN, Kelly’s Building. Bay stw* 41 ?. J*
TTEHtS WANTED _ TEXasl^r^
IX persons who lost relatives hT-iCA!
revolution cf 1836 will hear of s, m Jhi, Ue I ''U,
advantage by communicating wSt'S®**
Mot lent.'
rpO RENT. room, wth or
X Three elegant large south-r- r^m b lrl
balcony facing Orlean-. square
other desirable rooms, at No. 56 Barn. J” er i
feb23-lt carn ard S ir Wl
f|X> RENT, a store and dwe]H ll 7
1 ingdon and Mercer sCte?°t-
BOUHAK fP,y "““ Plate “> wHlft
reha.^
TX) RENT, offices 114 Bryan
1 COLUER, CHARLTON
corner Bull and Bay streets,
RENT, a nicely furnished so^r7~''
York W siree U t Se ° f for
Mov ff aU.
IJ'OR SALE, 30 LoU at a
L Broad and Anderson streets F,
B.B.REPPARD.NO. "Sfe
JpOR SALE, YELLOW PINE and CYPiIE^
LUMBER, by the cargo.
Janl2-tf DC. BACON Am
r J , HE largest stock SEASONED
in the city. Call and examine our stock.
aug2B-tf BACON & brooks
LX)R SALE.—Go to 21 Bull
r the Screven House, for FrrroS
Photographs, Copying and Frames,
quarters for Views ot Southern Scenerr
J. N. WILSON, Photograuhw
Jan24-N&Teltf
LK)R BALE or rent on long lease, 5 to. w
I Anderson street, 60x105 each fronting
south, between Drayton and Aberenrn str.wf
Apply 110 Broughton street. JOHN RyV<
Trustee. j^'
LOST, yesterday afternoon (21st). on the inn.
of the Barnard Street Railroad, between
South Broad street and Battery Park, or in ■ V
latter place, a Gold Bracelet, with the ititiali
F. N. S. engraved in the inner side. \ fU jo
ble reward will be paid for its recovery v,
ply at tills office. febaj
Board in a refined family, -a ta
select boarders can be accommodated at
No. 71 Jefferson street. febtij-Vv'isst
jfttgrrttottfonis.
JOSEPH JENKS, Jk , WolverhaniDton, En?-
land, manufacturer of COTTON TIES (<*
the American market. Correspondence solicit
ed. Highest references given. Address until
10th February, No. 49 Chambers st-eet, Km
York city. jauM-lm
BCHEDIILG FOK FEKKI ARyT
MONDAYS. TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS,
THURSDAYS AND FRIDAYS.
OUTW’D. I INWARD. ~~
LKAVK ARRIVE I LXAVS I LEA VI
SAVANNAH. SAVANNAH, j ISLE OF HOPE i MO.NTa’SE!,
6:40 P. M. 8:38 a. m. j a. m. [ 7:35 a. ,
Monday morning train fer Montgomery on I)
at 6:25 A. m.
Wednesdays additional train will leave city
10:25 a. m. Returning leave Montgomery 4:45
p. m , Isle of Hope 5:30.
SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS.
LEAVE I ARRIVE I LEAVE I UAV£
SAVANNAH. SAVANNAH : ISLE OF HOPE! BO.VTO'EI,
10;2Y a. u. 8:38 a. m. I 8:10 a. h. : 7:85 A.ft
*3:25 p. m. 1:20 p. m I 12:50 p. id. 12:15 p. .
7:00 p si. 5:50 p. m. I 5:20 p, 11.1 4:45 p. t
♦Sundays this is the last outward train.
EDW. J. THOMAS.
feb!2-tf Superintendent.
jintif, 01.
IT I 111
TOO LATE TO MEND, REFORM OR SAfl|
MONEY, and you can’t acccmplisk any ■
of these objects better than un
der the auspices of 1
HEADQUARTERS!
RED BANANAS. 1
YELLOW BANANAS. I
RIPE BANANAS. I
GREEN BANANAS. I
And BANANAS any way you want them ■
COCO AN UTS, PEANUTS.
COCOANUTS, PEANUTS. f
POTATOES. PEANUTS. f
ONIONS. PEANUTS. |
CABBAGES, PEA N’U TS. ■
GREEN and DRIED FRUITS in fine ran*- ■
CANNED SAUSAGE whole).
CANNED HAM SAUSAGE ■
PIGS’ F EET. I
MACKEREL.
HERRING.
CODtISH. H
And a full line of FANCY GKO' E' , ■
Fine WINES, LIQUORS and CHAMf AG>■
J. ■ 11. REEDI'I
GROCER AND IMPOBTBB, I
CORNER BAY AND WHITAKER STREAM
feb22-tf ■
CAB BAG
Fresh from the country every <) T I
Florida Oranges end SpP i! j
CORN, COW PEAR, OATS,
PEAS, HAY, Virginia and
NUTS. BRAN, COCOANUTS, GBIT* ■
RUBT PROOF OATS RYE, 500 barrels ■
and Peerless POTATOES, OMONS.etc, |
T. P. BOND’ 8 !
151J4, 153 AND 155 BAY STREE 7 -
1 j
' s I
5
1 j
Opposite FulosU Hoo®*
nov2s-tf ■j|
Rattlesnake Watermelon km
—AND—
GOLDEN DENT COH ■
-at- .m
Osceola Butler’s Drug Empor jm
feb!9 tf —-
Fresh Flower and Gardenia
DRAKE’S and HOP BITTERS, in st°
sale br
G. M - HE IDT & CO., l )rligp M
feb!4-tf
THEY CRY FOR
MEr.LIN’S INFANT FOOD. '.'-'Jlk'i
Food, Imperial ® n d Uß Hamb fl
KSJ ~1
G. M. HEIDT & CO.’S Drug M
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