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TUESDAY. MARCH 8. 18SU
TAPPING THE WIRES.
The Democratic and Republican Senators,
respectively, held caucuses yesterday in ref
erence to organiz’cg the committees. The
Democrats determined to organixe them at
once. The Republicans urge that as sev
eral seats are vacant, this is taking an unfair
advantage. The Democrats reply that the
needs of public business are such as to re
quire immediate organization, which they
purpose to effect.
All the members of the new Cabinet, with
the exception of Hon. Robert T. Lincoln,
Secretary of War, qualified yesterday.
Tips- President yesterday nominated ex-
Secretary Goff, of the navy, to bis old posi
tion—the West Virginia District Attorney
ship.
Yesterdsy’s session of the Senate was a
brief one. Senator Mahone, of Virginia, was
sworn In.
Watson, the colored member of the North
Carolina House of Representatives from
Edgecombe, has been found guilty of forg
ing a per diem warrant, drawn in favor of
another member.
Bir Evelyn Wood his concluded an armis
tice with the Boer.-.
Three hundred houses were demolished
in Casamacclola by the Ischlan earthquake.
Fiasures were opened in the streets flftv feet
wide.
Hon. Edward Stanhope gave notice in the
House of Commons yesterday that the
withdrawal of the British troops from
Afghanistan is not conducive to the Interests
of India. This amounts to a motion for a
vote of censure upon the Ministry. Arthur
Arnold, Liberal, gave notice of a motion
proposing a vote of confidence in the Min
istry. It is thought the withdrawal of the
troop3 will be the signal for the renewal of
the struggle between Avoob and the Ameer.
81r Garnet Wolseley is to be raised to the
Peerage, so as to be able to explain pro
posed military reforms in the Houee of
Lords.
The evidence in the trial of Mix, the
Derance murderer, closed yesterday at New
Orleans. The case will be argued to day.
The New York stock market opened Ir
regular, but rather strong, and prices ad
vanced with slight reactions till after the
second board. Towards the close specula
tion became weak, and the market closed
at a decline. Transactions aggregated
597,000 shares.
The railways in Scotland are blockaded
by snow, and many wrecks are reported
along the coast.
The programme for the withdrawal of the
British forces from Afghanistan contem
plates the utter abandonment of the “Sci
entific frontier.” The Indian Government
and press disapprove the step.
The National Guards Association con
vened In Philadelphia yesterday and dis
cussed a variety of topics of interest to the
citixen soldiery.
Very satisfactory experiments have re
cently been made in London in reference
to the use of compressed air as a motor
for railway propulsion. So completely
was it found to answer the purpose in
these tests that it is to be applied at an
early day to the underground railways of
that city. In this service it will be of
almost inestimable value, as the great
objection to travel upon these lines has
been the smoke and s’earn from the ordi
nary locomotives used in drawing the
trains, which at times became so thick
as to almost suffocate passengers. If
successful there the invention will doubt
less soon be introduced in this country.
It would be a great improvement upon
the present motive power used both on
the elevated railways in the larger cities
and on the ordinary street car lines. Its
great advantages are silence and cleanli
ness, and these alone are sufficient to
commend its use wherever it can be eco
nomically applied.
Under the double-headed eagle of Rus
sia no slavery is permitted, and the
hoisting of the Russian standard on the
ruined ramparts of the Turkoman for
tress was the signal for the emancipation
of seven hundred wretched Persian cap
tives. Half-naked, starving, and cov
ered with bruises, after beißg compelled
to work all day, they were chained at
night hand and foot to stakes and
guarded by dogs. No words could de
scribe the rapture of these unfortunate
men when the Russians told them they
were free to return to the Province of
Khorassan, from whence most of them
had been carried off by the Tekkes.
Within the fortress the Russians found
about 4,000 Turkoman families, or about
18,000 individuals, whore astonishment
knew no bounds when, instead of being
butchered or enslaved, they were treated
with scrupulous kindness, and confided
to the care of the Russian Red Cross
Society.
A Laudable Proposition. The
Pennsylvania Legislature is considering
an act to pension the surviving veterans
of the Mexican war from that State who
have resided there ten years before the
passage of this act, and who were honor
ably discharged, the pension to be sev
enty-five dollars a year, payable to the
veteran's widow in case of her husband s
death, and to continue until the govern
ment sees fit to grant an equal pension.
We agree with the Norfolk Virginian
that if the bill passes Pennsylvania will
deserve the thanks of all who recognize
the claims of the veterans to the grati
tude of the country, and who are anx
ious to see the survivors of that memor
able war rewarded. Her example should
be followed by the other States of the
Union. Such action would be a stinging
reproach to the government for so long
neglecting these brave men.
The example of the United States is
cited in France by the advocates of a
divorce law to sbow that the greatest
facility of divorce is compatible with the
highest regard for the purity of domes
tic life. “Iu no other part of the world,”
say they, “are women treated with such
respect and tenderness as in the United
States.” Upon which the Philadelphia
Record remarks: “The facility of divorce
in this country is a plant of late growth.
It is very doubtful whether its introduc
tion among us has contributed anything
to increase the estimation in which
women are held.”
The March number of St. Nicholas con
tains a capital paper by Mrs. Oliphant
ou Lady Jane Gray, with a portrait of
the unfortunate lady. There is an illus
trated paper giving a vivid account of a
desperate “Encounter with a Polar Bear”
by two Icelandic boys. Then there are
“The Magic Dance,” “Adventures in
Nature's Wonderful,” and other stories.
A good number of the beat of children’s
magazines. Scribner & Cos., New York.
Price *4-
WnAT the Democrats Say About
the Veto.— The Washington Star says:
‘•The Democrats in Congress all profess
to rejoice at the veto of the funding
bUL They say it crystallizes the issue
between the people and the national
banks, and putt the Republican party
before the country a* thg defender of
these banks." j
Senator Brown on Rlrer and Harbor
Improvements.
We devote a considerable portion of
our space this morning to the speech of
Senator Brown on the river and harbor
appropriation bill, which apecch,as i: re
lates mainly to the improvement of the
rivers and haibors of our own State, will
be read with interest.
In his argument Senator Brown has
set forth with great clearness and force
the importance of the improvements
which he advocates, and the justice of
the claims of our section to a share of
the government aid which has been
so lavishly bestowed on the rivers and
harbors of other sections of the Union.
During his brief term in the Senate
Senator Brown has devoted himself with
untiring energy to the advancement of
the material interests of Georgia, and if
he has no been successful in obtaining
all that he has asked for the improve
ment of our harbors and navigable rivers,
it has not been for lack of well directed
and persistent effort, but because the
bill had been already so heavily loaded
with appropriations for less important
works in various sections of the country,
that Congress hesitated to further swell
the aggregate.
Chickens that May Come Home to
Roost.
By their filibustering course in the
House, the Republicans have established
a very inconvenient precedent for them
selves. They will control the next
House, but by so slight a margin, that
they will be almost always dependent
upon the Democrats for a quorum. Be
sides, the Democratic side will be much
the superior in parliamentary skill, all
the Republican parliamentarians of more
than average skill having been promoted
to the Senate. It is very evident that
the Democrats, if they choose to do so,
will be able to prevent action upon any
measure.
But it is to be hoped that the Demo
crats will not follow the Republican fili
bustering example. The minority has
the right to so emphasize its opposition
to a pending measure, by both speech
and votes, that its position will be gen
erally and fully understood; but it has
not the right of dictating to the majority
what legislation shall not be acted upon.
Let the Democrats of the next House
subdue the natural inclination to send a
Republican chicken home to roost, and
show the people that the Democratic
policy is to confine Democratic endeavors
within the limits of the right!
The Proposed Commercial Telegraph
Company.
The New A’ork Produce, Cotton and
Petroleum exchanges have addressed to
kindred bodies in other cities a circular
advising the creation of anew telegraph
company so constituted that it cannot be
absorbed by aDy rival company. It is
proposed that the voting power ou one
half the stock of this company shall be
permanently vested in a board of trus
tees, of whom a majority shall be
selected from among the presidents of
commercial bodies to be designated here
after. The circular sets forth the
bs-lief of its authors that $10,000,000
judiciously invested will give ultimately
as perfect a system of telegraphy as the
system now represented by $80,000,000,
and it proposes that the investment shall
pay, and that after reasonable dividends,
a percentage of the surplus shall be di
vided pro rata among the patrons who
are stockholders. The circular suggests
the appointment of a committee of con
ference by each commercial body to
which it is addressed, in order that sub
scription books may be opened as soon as
possible at the various exchanges.
Wht we Shall Never Starve.—
According to a recent compilation and
comparison of the statistics of grain pro
duction of the country made by the Chi
cago Times the wheat yield of 1871 was
230,722,400 bushels; in 1875 it was 292,-
136,000, and in 1880 it was 480,840,723.
In the same period the yield of corn in
creased from 991,898,000 bushels in 1871
to 1,537,535,940 bushels in 1880, the
Western States producing the bulk of
corn as well as wheat. The grain area
of 1880 was 104,142,676 acres—a large
total, but yet 70,000,000 less than the
single State of Texas contains. The
average yield per acre of wheat in 1880
was 13.3 bushels; of corn, 28.9; of oats,
27.8; of barley, 25.1. The value of the
grain products of the United States since
1871 is put down at $10,006,000,000.
The value of last year’s crop is divided
as follows: Wheat, $453,558,371; corn,
$606,685,371; other grains, $177,389,269.
The growth of the export movement of
grain has been constant during the de
cade, except in 1875 and 1877. la the
former year there was a decrease of
18,000,000 bushels, and in the latter less
than 1,000,000. In 1871 the total ex
ports of grain from all parts of the
United States were 72,122,398; in 1880,
289,537.974 bushels.
Not Enough for the Work.—Com
plete returns compiled by the inter
nal revenue bureau show a net in
crease in the collections from distilled
spirits of $3,748,299 for the first six
months of the fiscal year over the tame
period of last year, which in turn showed
a large increase over the preceding year.
The absolute needs of the service ai re
ported by Commissioner R&um to con
tinue the collection of this large increase
in spirits are: For gaugers and store
keepers, $878,000; dies, paper and
stamps, $131,878. The deficiency the
committee have appropriated is: Gaugers
and storekeepers, $500,000; dies, paper
and stamps, $75,000. This is only suf
ficient to run about two months, and
at the end of that time it will be neces
sary to shut up distilleries unless the
amount is increased or the work done on
credit.
This, says the Nashville American,
promises to be a lively year for the news
papers. The war in Africa, the fighting
in Turkey, the land troubles in Ireland,
the South American wars, the railroad
building to Mexico, the isthmus canal
projects, the developing policy of anew
administration at Washington, and the
end of the world according to Mother
Bhiptoa, will furnish Iruitful themes for
the reporters and correspondents, and
make the newspapers unusually interest
ing-
The Kansas Relief Association reports
that sixty thousand colored people have
come into the State in the two years
since the exodus began, for whose relief
$68,000 has been received. The associa
tion now wants funds with which to buy
lands for the refugees, but proposes that
a national relief association be estab
lished at Cairo, 111., which shall send the
poverty-stricken into the older States
and sift out those able to buy lands for
Kansas.
New York and a number of other
Northern cities have lately been troubled
with small-pos scares. A man in the
1 worst stages of this horrible disease
recently appeared in the streets of New
York, rode in the horse-care and the
ferries and was in communication with
& number of persona He created a
panic wherever he went, but was finally
arrested and locked up by the police.
RIYER AND HARBOR IMPROVE
MENTS.
Speech of Hon. Joseph E. Brown,
of Georgia, In the Senate of the
United State*, Saturday, February
26,1881.
The Senate having under consideration, as in
committee of the whole, the bill (H. R. No.
7,104) making appropriations for the construc
tion, completion, repair and preservation of
certain works on rivers and harbors, and for
other purposes, Mr. Brown said:
Mr. Pkbsident: I have no doubt that there
are some appropriations in this bill that ought
not to be made. You will probably never pass
one without some such appropriations, but in
so far as the general objects of the bill are con
cerned I cordially approve of them. Senators
Bay we have reached a point where we propose
to appropriate say $10,010,000 for these objects,
and that appropriation is too large. Fifty
years ago, when f1.0f0,000 was appropriated it
was not regarded very large, and yet it was in
finitely larger than SIO,OOO/00 or even $20,000.-
000 are now. The old Democratic doctrine I
am aware was that we were to oppose internal
improvements by the General Government
and vet such appropriations were made, I be
lieve, at almost every session of Congress; and
it is not now worth while to discuss that doc
trine, whether it was right or wrong. A diff-r
--ent practice has obtained for half a century
and now prevails, and will continue to prevail.
The future welfare of the country requires it.
The fu*ure prosperity of the country demands
it; and the people will require it of thsir rep
resentatives.
Fifiyjears ago there was not $1.000,C00 a
year invested in the construction of railroads.
This year there will probably be more than
$50,000 000 invested in building railroads in the
United States. We will expend this year in
the repairs, in additions to the equipments,
and in tho operating expense of railroads
nearly S4OO OX),000. We have not quite ninety
thousand miles of railroads. We have in the
United States over thirty thousand miles of
navigable streams, one-third as great a dis
tance in length as the whole railroad system
of the United States. Yes, we have thirty
thousand miles of great natural highways al
ready built, that only need repairs to make
them of immense value to the whole people of
this great country.
The people pay annually nearly four hun
dred million dollars for the repair, improve
men*. and operation of railroads. In other
words, they pay this enormous sum for rail
road transportation, which carries their pro
ductions to the market, and brings back to
them in turn the productions or manufactures
of other countries or pl-ces which they require
for their use or comfort. This looks like an
immense sum, and so it is, to pay to the rail
road corporations of this country. But
we must recollect what they do in
return for it. Let it b borne in
mind that nearly all the merchandise
of this country, of every character, is moved
by railroad transportation.
In 1880 our exports to foreign countries
alone amounted to $835,638,658, and our im
ports from foreign countries amounted to
$657,954,746. Add the two together and you
have an aggregate of $1,503,593,404 worth of
exports aDd imports handled during the last
year almost entirely by the railroad companies
of this country. Let it be borne in mind that
these are foreign exports and imports. Then
the railroad companies have moved probably
a still larger amount of internal commerce
from one section of the country to another,
from one State to another, and from one city
or town to another, making probably three to
four thousand millions of dollars’ worth of
produce moved by them for the convenience
and profit of our people. This country has
reached enormous proportions in its business.
It has become a giant And while its people
pay very large sums for the transportation of
their produce and merchandise, they make in
return large profits in the aggregate which
they cou’d not make if it were not for tha fa
cilities of transportation afforded them by our
railroad companies.
When this vast amount is expen led annually
and profitably by our people for railroad
transportation, is it to be regarded as some
thing marvelous if the Congress of the United
States appropriates ten millions a year to the
improvement of the thirty thousand miles of
navigable streams within our borders, to say
notiiing of our harbors, which must be im
proved t' facilitate foreign commerce* The
amount expended for the improvement of our
natural highways and channels of transporta
tion is insignificant when compared with the
amounts that are profitably expended in the
construction and operation of artificial high
ways and thoroughfares of transportation
People complain very much of the monopoly of
railroads and of what they call the oppression
of railroad corporations. And that feeling
seems to exist to some extent in the Senate.
Bas it occurred tv Senators that the best way
to free ourselves from those monopolies is to
open everywhere our rivers and harbors and
make them free to the transportation of
the productions of every valley in the
country that la tapped by one
of them? As long as your rivers are sealed
up the railroads will continue to do the carry
ing business of this country, and they will cob
tinue to combine, but when you have opened
these rivers and harbors, and especially the
interior rivers, so that there is an open natural
highway from a port or a city wher* ther*
are a ha'f dozen railroads in combination, you
at once have an independent outlet for the
productions of that section. Therefore, in
fact you are making a very small and insig
nifleant appropriation for rivers and harbors
as compared with the expenditure that is an
nually made for railroad transportation.
What has been the result of all this immense
increase in facilities for transportation? There
has been an increase of the wealth and popu
lation of the country that has been absolutely
astounding—one that is unprecs dented in this
country or aoy other. Suppose you blot out
the railroad system and refuse to make appro
priations to rivers and harbors, what would be
the condition of this country ? Where is the
wealth of it then? Where is vour progress?
Where is your boasted prosperity? Where is
the immense balance of traoe that is now in
your favor? You would be set back half a
century. You would then be literally treading
in the footsteps of the fathers. You would be
conforming to the old Democratic usages,
about which we sometimes hear eloquent
periods, here and elsewhere, by those who f jr
get that the world moves, and that we live in a
and fferent era from that which existed fifty
years ago.
Senators should not bs alarmed at a ten
millioa-dollar appropriation to improve our
great natural highways, and Democrats need
not be alarmed at it. I have been told in this
body frequently that this is a Democratic Con
gress, and we must not enlarge these appro
priations; thit we cannot afford to do it; that
it may injure the Democratic party if we do it.
if I controlled the Democratic party and de
sired to popularize it, instead of $10,000,000 a
year for the improvement of these great natu
ral highways, I would appropriate $25,000,000 a
sear. I would see that it was judiciously ex-
f tended where it was needed, and I would popu
arize the Democratic party or any other party
that sustained me by doing it. The increase
in th 9 business of the country which would re
sult from it would pay it back from year to
vear with accumulated interest, and our people
would rejoice in the new impetus given to their
growing prosperity.
lam not afraid, then, of the size of the ap
propriations. The only question is, are they
wisely made, and for a proper object ? If so,
then I am prepared to vote for the bill
Whether you call it Democratic doctrine or
Republican doctrine or the doctrine of the In
dependent party, I care not. The question is
not how it affects party creeds, but how it af
fects the general welfare of the people of the
United States.
But it is said that great injustice has been
done by the committee in this case. I presume
it is something like the same that every com
mittee does, a member of the committee has
better knowledge of the immediate wants
of his own State and his own section,
and it is probaby not strange that
he gets more for his own State and sec
tion because he believes it needs it more. The
action in the House of Representatives is an
illustration. I believe North Carolina was not
represented on the committee of the House
She got, as the bill that came from the House
shows, not a very large share, an inade
quate appropriation for the actual wants
there; but when the bill came to
this body, where the Honorable Chairman of
the committee is from North Carolina, he knew
the needs of that State, and he doubtless laid
th< m before the committee, and the committee
favorably considered them, and they increased
the appropriation for the State of North Caro
lina by the sum of $329,000, while the State of
Georgia only gets $165,0J0 all told, oounting
one-half of the appropriation for the Coosa
river, which is nearly all in Alabama. It runs
fifteen or twenty miles below Rome, the head
of it, where the junction of the other two rivers
forms it, into Alabama; but counting half of
that to Georgia, we have $165,000 in all for that
State.
North Carolina got an increase in the Senate
of $229,000. But I have no doubt North Caro
lina ought to have every dollar of it. Ido not
presume the honorable Chairman has put any
thing in the bill that ought not to be
there. Mu h has been left out, how
ever, that ought to be in it. I think
it is not quite liberal in the committee,
after reporting the bill in that condition, to
come before the Senate and propose to lay it
upon the table and prevent discussion every
time we offer a necessary amendment. They
must remember that a good number of the
States were not represented on that committee;
that there was nobody who knew the interests
of those States as well as ths committee-men
knew the interests of their own States. There
fore, I think they ought to look with a little
toleration on our motions here to amend the
hill where the amendments are obviously
proper; and I protest against the iUiberality of
motions to lay proper amendments on the
table and thus cutting off debste, as has be-ro
attempted in two or three coses when a meri
torious amendment is offered.
Some of the Senators, however, have said
that these amendments ought to be made with
reference to the commerce and business of
each State. If you adopt that rule my State
compares very favorably with North Carolina,
and it would have been entitled under that
rule to a larger appropriation even than North
Carolina, and she does not get probably what
she ought to have in this casAnd I make
this remark to show that if I should happen to
ask for a little more for Georgia than some of
the other Senators are asking for their Btates,
I ought to be heard, and the Chairman of
the committee —the Senator from North
Carolina—ought not to cut me off when I make
the motion. Let ns compare notes a little; Sa
vannah, Georgia, is the second cotton port in
the Union, and the seventh in the Union in ex-
Sjrts and imports I speak from the record.
er foreign exports and imports are $24,476.-
166. Then, as the Cotton Exchange reports of
the city of Savannah show, the actual exports,
taking foreign and coastwise, for the last year
amounted to over forty-nine million dollars
that went out of the harbor of Savannah alone.
Last year the whole cotton receipts shipped out
through the port, foreign and coastwise,
amounted to about seven hundred thousand
bales. Estimating by tbp pjontiis that have
already run in this year, we may Safely say
that the cotton exports of the port of Savan
nah for this year will be 800,060 bales, and upon
the same ratio of increase in the other exports,
such as rice, tobacco, naval stores, lumber,
timber, etc., the whole exporta from Savan
nah foreign and coastwise, for the present
year will be between fifty four and fifty-five
million dollars. „
Now, how does it stand in North Carolina?
As you will see I have about doubled the for
eign trade of Savannah with the coastwise
trade. The city of Wilmington. N 0., is the
nineteenth port in the Union in exports and
imports Her exports and imports amounted
last year in the whole to $4,043,822, not quite
one sixth of the foreign exports and imports
Of the city of Savannah. But there are two
other ports in North Carolina that bare for*
sign exports and imports. N.G., has
an export and import trade of $27,-88, and
Beaufort, N. C.. has an export and import
businew of $1,943. Take it altogether, there
are less than four and a half million dollars of
exports and Imports from the State of North
Carolina through all three of her ports. The
city of Savannah alone exports and imports
over six times as much as the whole State of
North Carolina; and yet the increase in the
House appropriations made for that State in
this bill by the committee are larger than the
whole amount appropriated by the bill to Geor-
Therefore, I say that all these items are not
quite just, and, while I am unwilling to embar
rass the committee, for I see the situation, and
I am aware of the lateness of the hour, I think
It is unreasonable, with these figures before us.
for the committee to say that they will allow
no amendments.
Mr. Ransom—What paper is the Senator
from Georgia reading from?
Mr. Brown—l am reading from the annual
report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics
of the United States of America.
Mr. Butler—May I ask the Senator from
Georgia a question?
Mr. Brown—Yes. sir.
Mr. Butler—What are the estimates, if the
Senator knows, for the improvement of the
harbor of Savannah?
Mr. Brown—Yes, sir: I know exactly. I
thank the Senator for asking me the question.
Mr. Butler—l mean the estimate upon which
the appropriation in the bill for that harbor is
made.
Mr. Brown—l understand the Senator per
fectly, and lam very much obliged to my
friend from South Carolina for asking me that
question, because it calls to my mind another
fact that I wanted to state here especially
The city of Savannah has done that which I
apprehend the chief city of the Senator’s own
State probably has not done. She has ex
pended over a quarter of a million dollars out
of her own purse, her own treasury, for the
improvement of her own harbor. She has
gone on the idea that those who want help
must do all they can first to help themselves.
She has acted on that rule, and I can get the
data and show every Item. Over a quarter of
a million of dollars has she expended for the
improvement of her own harbor. Ido not
think many other cities have done as much
But to the Senator’s question There was an
estimate made to deepen the channel to nine
teen feet, for you will bear in mind that the
bar at the mouth of the river at high tide is
twenty-six feet. The object was first to deepen
the channel of the river between the city and
the bar to nineteen feet. If they undertook to
make it as deep as it ought to te at once with
the meagre appropriations it would be too long
before we could do a reasonable business at
the harbor Hence an estimate was made for
only a partial completion of the work first, so
as to give the benefit of nineteen feet of water
all the way down the channel.
The appropriations have been made from
vear to year until it lacks a little of $65,000 to
finish that particular work of deepening the
channel to nineteen feet; but we look to the
deepening of it finally to twenty-three or
twenty-feur feet. The Senate has already
passed to day my amendment to this bill in
structing tho Secretary of War to have the
survey muds with reference to deepening the
channel three feet more, so as to make it
twenty two feet from the bar up to the city of
Savannah.
Mr. Ransom—Will the Senator from Georgia
allow me to interrupt him for one second?
Mr. Brown—l certainly will.
Mr. Ransom—l ask the Senator if the Com
mittee on Commerce did not increase the ap
propriation for the city of Savannah to the
very last cent of the estimates and to the last
ent of the demands of the Senators from that
State.
Mr. Brown—l thank my friend, the Senator
from North Carolina, for calling my attention
to that, for I want to do the committee full
justice. On that point they did give the
amount with this exception, that they appro
priated $5,000 of the sum for the payment for
lands on the opposite side from Savannah.
Mr. Ransom—That was by the request of the
Senator from Georgia.
Mr. Brown—No: my honorable friend is
wrong. My amendment that I laid before you
and that I urged before you, and I was unfor
tunate if I was not understood, was to appro
priate $85,00.) to complete the work and $5,000
for extinguishing the title to a certain neck of
land necessary to be cut off from Hutchinson’s
Island. The situation there is just this
Mr. Ransom—There is no dispute About the
Savannah amendment; it has been adopted.
Mr. Brown—Let me answer the question. I
want to make myself understood on that mat
ter, now that the Senator hes called my atten
tion to it. The river right opposite the city of
Savannah is not as wide as is necessary for the
shipping purposes there. There is an island
immediately opposite the city called Hutchin
son’s island. The larger part of the river ran
around on the South Carolina siie of the
Island, and the estimates for improving the
harbor include Jettying across that back river,
so as to turn the sti-eam as much as possible
around by the city. The river is too narrow
next to the city, and the engineers say it ought
to be widened to six hundred feet rihgtopposi’e
■he city, where there is so much shipping.
When I say so much shipping, I want to say
in that connection that during the whole
business season there is, to say nothing of sail
ing vessels, more than one steamer on an
average every day clearing from the harbor of
Savannah. With all this shipping in operation
there is not room enough for it immediately
opposite the city. It is proposed therefore to
deepen the shallow portion next to Hutchin
son's Island, and cut off a neck of that island;
and there we will have to pay for a little land
when we invace private rights. That is what
we ask $5,000 for. and it is important to have it
for that purpose. But deduct that and we
lack $5,000 of having the appropriation neces
sary for Savannah. And it will be borne in
mind that the present estimates were made
for the improvements of the harbor of Savan
nah, so as to give us but nineteen feet of
water.
Mr. Butler—l was not making any compari
son between Charleston and Savannah. I really
wanted to give Savannah all she is entitled to,
and she shall have all that she is entitled to so
far as my vote is concerned. The point to
which I wanted to invite the attention of the
Senator was whether or not the estimates to
which he referred had already b’en made; in
other words, hat not the appropriation in this
bill been very nearly up to the estimate? sub
mitted by the engineers, or a very large per
centage?
Mr. Brown—Yes, as I have already stated, it
has been within a little less than $5,000 of the
estimate for the completion of the work as
proposed by the first survey of the port which
only proposed to deepen the harbor to nioeteen
feet. But I will add that when the final survey
is made to complete the work on the harbor,
it may need a million there. The Senator has
the estimates for South Carolina for the com
pletion of Charleston harbor, and they are
large, but 1 am going to vote every dollar he
needs for that purpose. lam a friend of his
people and of his State, and I am not finding
fault with what he asks. I only wanted
to show him what we need, but I was
taken up by the Senator from North
Carolina on Savannah. That was not
the point I was complaining about; my com
plaint was this: We have three large rivers in
Georgia; we have rivers and a coast there that
need improvement to the extent of nearly one
thousand miles in length. The river on each
side running nearly the length of the State be
longs to the State. On the west, the west bank
of the Chattahoochee is the line of Alabama.
On the east, the east bank of the Savannah is
the line between Georgia and Souih Carolina.
Then the great river, the Altamaha, which is
one of the large rivers of the South, runs
nearly through the centre of the State. It is
formed by the junction of the Ocmulgee and
the Oconee, and here I want to say a word
about our exports again.
Igo a letter the other day from the Mayor
of Darien, though I have not the official sta
tistics, informing me that during the last year
there has been snipped out from the mouth of
the Altamaha river 70,060,000 feet of lumber,
to say nothing about naval stores and other
products. I want to show you that lam not
asking for appropriations here for trout
streams, or for places where there is no com
merce. lam asking for appropriations where
there a--e highways of commerce; I am asking
appropriations where there is large commerce
and where there is growing commerce. Ido
complain, therefore, that the committee, after
my colleague and I had gone before them and
asked an increase, cut us off and gave us n->t a
single dollar of increase on any of our rivers
and harbors as the bill came in its original
shape from the House, except for the harbor
of Savannah alone
There is one other channel or river I 'must
not forget, and it is one of the most important.
It is Important to tha whole country; itisim
portant to the North and South; it is impor
tant to the East and to the West. There is an
inland channel along and around the coast of
South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, by which
you can go from Charleston to Savannah and
from Savannah to Brunswick, and around into
the St. John’s.and up into Florida, and never go
out to sea at ail. We have a class of good
boats that are beginning to do a large business
there. We run two boats a day now usually
both ways, and sometimes more in that inland
channel. In case of war, as you have no ade
quate navy, let me tell you that it would b* as
the engineers have said in their estimates, of
immense value to you. You can conduct a
commerce with it open between Charleston and
any portion of Florida and never go to sea.
Mr. Eaton—My friend means “us,” not
“you ”
Mr Brown-I speak of the Senate; I mean
everybody. I mean you and us; I mean the
fifty million people of ihe United States all
united as they are now, and as I am glad to be
lieve they always will be in the future. That is
what I mean, and I thank my frieud from Con
necticut for directing my attention to it if I
have used expressions that do not convey that
idea. But this inland salt river is of national
consequence.
. There is a place called Romney Marsh, be
yond Savannah some twenty to thirty miles, in
the direction of Florida The boats have to go
through the marsh W hat is the marsh? It is
a marsh between the islands and the main
land, grown over with high grass that at high
tide is entirely covered; at low tide it is about
five feet above the water. There are rivers and
creeks through it. The navigable chanßel goes
through it in a very winding and meandering
sort of way. In passing Romney Marsh, if you
get thre at low tide, you have to lie over al
ways for the tide to rise, and it is a very great
hindrance and inconvenience. If the people who
come from New England, New York, Pennsyl
vania, and ether States, and land at Savan
nah, going to Florida, that tropical garden we
have down there, stop over a day or two at
Savannah, they are very apt to take those in
land boats, because they are very pleasant. It
is as pleasant as river navigation and as safe;
but they go around and hang in Romney Marsh
and wait there for the tide to rise. The engi
neers have made a survey of the marsh, and
they sav that $31,680 will cut a canal through
the part of the marsh where we always stick,
and open the whole navigation and
make It free and easy. The Georgia
and Florida Inland Steamboat Company,
owning the boats on that line, whose head
quarters are in New York, have made a propo
sition which I now have before me, that I will
not stop to read, which is that if Congress will
appropriate S2O/00 of that $31,680 they will
take the conttact, because they are running
boats there, and complete the job according to
the estimates made by the engineers for $20,-
000. In other words, this steamboat company
itself will contribute eleven thousand six hun
dred and eighty dollars of the amount neces
sary to cut the canal through Romney Marsh,
to have the inland navigation improved as it
ought to be. , ,
Now. I did think when I went before the
committee that I made a good case there upon
which I was entitled to consideration. It is
true it sounds fi little strange to ask to improve
the navigation of a marsh, but it is to improve
the navigation of the salt river that runs and
winds through the marsh by cutting a little
canal across where it is impassable at low
tides, so that boats can go along without lying
there six or twelve hours waiting for the tides.
The steam! eit company now says “Give us
$20,0T0 of the $31,680, the estimated cost, and
we will cut the canal, as estimated by your
engineers, worth thirty-one thousand six hun
dred and eighty dollars.” As this private com
pany proposes to give over one-third of the
amount, I thought I made a good caw before
the committee, but it” seems they
did not think s. I appeal from
the|r decision, and J say now that l
intend at the proper time to offer an amend
ment to appropriate the $90,000 for Romney
Marsh; anal beg Senators on both sides, Re
publican and Democratic, to consider it favor
ably, North, East and Weet; you are all Inter
ested in it. There is probably no appropriation
inthisbillof like amount that would do more
real good to the commerce of the country than
the $83,000 which you would put in Romney
Marsh to make that navigation free and assy
all the time. I propose the route by Warsaw
Island. The island baa a beautiful beach, and
it would afford the people of Savannah an
opportunity to bal'd hotels and summer resi
dences on the island, which would then have
speedy and easy communication with the city,
which would be a great convenience to a large
class of our best people, who could spend
their summers near nome, on a beauti
ful island, in the midst of a floe, healthy
sea breeze. This would increase the
health, comfort, and prosperity of the
people of our beautiful city. I thought
the committee ought to have given us this
appropriation, and it is about that, and the
Altamaha river, and the Chattahoochee river,
andtfaeSavannahriver.au of which are put
off with mere nominal appropriations, that I
complain— not about the (Sty of Savannah I
referred to the commerce of the city of Savan
nah to show that it was not, as some of the
rivers have been called, trout streams that we
were improving there. Here is one of the
largest commercial ports of the Union, doing a
vast business, constantly improving, with a
railroad system going back and penetrating
the whole country, west and south and sou<h
west This railroad system has been put into
operation at a great deal of expense It is
being improved every year, and, as it now
stands, it is going to pour an immense com
merce into Savannah.
Why wUI we not improve the river and har
bor, then, as it should be. and encourage these
great cotton and timber and naval store and
rice interests as they deserve? The committee
gave us for the great river Altamaha $5,000;
and for the two branches that rise up in that
immense timber region, none like it anywhere
scarcely, where they are bringing out such
large quantities of rimber, they give us $2,500
for one and $5,000 for the other. All I asked
was 810,000 each for the branches and SIO,GOO
for the Altamaha. I thought we ought to have
had it; it is certainly much more reasonable
than a great deal that is in the bill, and why
should we not have it? Why cut us off by the
gag law, and not even permit us to be heard in
these amendments?
Mr. Ransom—Certainly the Senator from
Georgia does not pretend that I have cut him
off by a gag law He has certainly illustrated
ths fact that I have not done that.
Mr. Brown—The illustration is very good, it
is true; but I am not quite sure how much I
am indebted to my hono< ab'e friend for the
opportunity of making this speech. I think be
tried the gag Jaw by moving to lay on the table
the very amendment which I got up to discuss
here; but we voted him down, and he could not
put on the gag, could not put the bits in my
mouth: and hence by the courtesy of the Sen
ate, and not of my friend from North Carolina,
lam allowed to make my remarks.
Mr. Ransom—When the Beuate gets an op
portunity I think they will agree to my mo
tion
Mr. Vance-I simply want to made an in
quiry. I wish to inquire what is the question
before the Senate?
The Presiding Officer—The question is on the
motion of the senator from Kansas (Mr.Plumb)
to recommit the till with instructions.
Mr. Brown—l have the floor on that question.
The Presiding Officer—The Senator from
Georgia has the floor.
Mr. Brown—l am also discussing kindred
subjects that are very germane to it. Ido not
expect to occupy the floor again on this ques
tion, only to make some motions to amend, and
while I am up I want to state the reasons why
this gag should not be put upon us and to show
that there are good reasons why the commit
tee ought not to cut us off by motions to lay
our amendments on the table, which motions
are not debatable.
Allow me to remark here another coincidence
which is a little peculiar. In every Instance
where my friend, the Chairman, makes a mo
tion to lay an amendment on the table, the
Senators from the States that get the largest
Dart of the appropriation vote to cut us off. They
cannot afford to injure the bill. Some of the
States represented on the committee fare rather
luxuriantly in the bill, and it is natural enough.
I suppose, that they want to hold on to what
they have. But they sliould let us put a little
more on; and if we happen to add by merito
rious amendments another million, I think it
is infinitely small compared with what our
fathers appropriated for like objects when we
take into accouut their numbers, their wealth,
and their situation, and compare them with
their numbers, our wealth, and our situation.
I do not want to be gagged on this question,
and I do not think other Senators who have
meritorious amendments do, nor do I think it
ought to be done I know 1 have not confined
myself to the question of the improvement of
the mouth of the Columbia river, which is the
pending amendment which the Senate refused
to lay on the table lam ready to vote for the
appropriation because the Senators from that
State say it is really necessary and important.
The Columbia river is cne of the great water
ways of the Union, and I shall vote with the
Senators from Oregon on that question, and
then I have no doubt when they come to con
sider other amendments that are equally
meritorious they will vote for them.
I do not think the honorable Chairman need
be alarmed about the fate of his bill. Ido not
believe we will hazard its passage. We ought
to add a little more to it. We should be wiling
to take the risk. Asa Democrat I shall
take it; and I am not afraid of what
the people wid say. I would rather
suppose they would call us to account
for not having made reasonable appropriations
than that they would be likely to call us to ac
couut for voting more than ought to oe given
by this bill. If the whole amount appropri
ated does not exceed fifteen million dollars
and the money is appropriated as it ought
to be for necessary improvements and each
State get3 its just proportion, I am will
ing that this Democratic Congress shall take
that much responsibility. However much of
popular confidence the party may have lost
on previous occasions by a timid and vacillat
ing policy, if it will appropriate such sums as
are necessary to make proper improvements
of the great highways of commerce which a
bountiful Providence has so richly bestowed
upon us, and thus give easy and cheap trans
portation to the productions and importations
of the country, we shall for one time at least
hear the plaudit of well done come rolling back
to the capitol from a vast majority of the
fifty millions of people whose interests will be
promoted by such an exhibition of practical
statesmanship and wise policy.
Radicals Preparing for a Crusade
Against the South. —The general com
mittee of the National League of America
met Thursday night at the Ebbitt House
to appoint a committee to ascertain and
devise means by which the Republicans
of the South can be “protected in their
rights as American citizens.” General
James G. Negley, of Pennsylvania, pre
sided, and Mr. Thomas G. Baker, of
New York, was Secretary. Speeches
were made by ex-Senators Powell Clay
ton, of Arkansas; Conover, of Florida,
and Lewis, of Virginia; W. E. Chandler,
of New Hampshire, and a number of
prominent Southern Republicans. The
following were appointed the committee:
General James G. Negley, Pennsylvania;
T. G. Baker, New York; J. E. Bryant,
Georgia; C. H. Grosvenor, Ohio; J. 11,
Harris, North Carolina; J. T. Beach,
Missouri; W. E. Chandler, New Hamp
shire: R. J. Hinton, New York, and
Thomas W. Hunt, Mississippi.
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UNITED STATES MARSHAL'S SALE.
UNDER and by virtue of a writ of fieri facias.
issued out of the Honorable the Fifth Cir
cuit Court of the United States for the South
ern District of Georgia, in favor of the plain
tiff, WILJLI AM H. BEaN, in the following case
to-wit: WILLIAM H. BEAN vs. J. L. K.
ENDORF, I have levied upon the following de
scribed property, as property of J. L. K. Holz
eadorf:
AU that certain tract of land in Centre
Village, Charlton county,;on which defendant's
dwlling now stands, bounded ou north by
landor James and Soloman Wainwright on
east by lands James Conner, south by lands of
J. R. Backlott, and west by lands of A. 8. Law
ton.
Also, all those two other lots of lands in the
village of Trader’s Hill, in Charlton county,
Ga , bounded on north by lands of Dr. Bmith,
east by a line between Georgia and Florida,
south by lands tf J. J. Jones, and west by lands
of A. J. Gowan; said last two lots lying to
gether, with improvements.
And I will sell the same at public auction,
before the Custom House in the city of Savan
nah, county of Chatham and State of Georgia,
on the FIRST TUESDAY IN APRIL NEXT,
between the lawful hours of sale. Tenants in
possession notified in writing. Terms cash;
purchasers to pay for papers.
Dated at Savannah, Ga., March Ist, 1881.
O. P. FITZSIMONB,
mhß-Tu4t United States Marshal, Georgia.
ADMINISTRATRIX SALE.
UNDER and by virtue of an order duly
granted by the Court of Ordinary for
Chatham county, I will sell before the Court
House door in said county, between the legal
hours of sale, ON THE FIRST TUESDAY, be
iug the sth day of April next.
All that tract of land in the city of Savannah,
containing thirteen seventy-seven hundredtns
(13 77 100) acres, fronting on the south side of
St. Julian street, beginning at a point two hun
dred and sixty-five feet (265 feet) from the in
tersection of St. Julian and Randolph streets,
and running along St. Julian street east one
thousand feet (1,000 feet),thence at right angles
south six hundred feet (600 feet), thence at
right angles west one thousand feet (I.OOJ feet),
toapcint two hundred and forty feet (240 feet)
from the east side ct Randolph street, thence
north six hundred feet (600 feet) to the point of
beginning, the same being a parallelogram in
shape.
Also, all that tract of land in the city of Sa
vannah, containing from three and one-half to
four acres, bounded north by the Windmill
tract, east by lands of the estate of C. A. L.
Lamar, south by St. Julian street, and west by
lands of the estate of .Marshall.
Terms cash, purchasers paying for titles.
Said lands being property of the estate of C.
A. L. Lamar, and sold for the purpose of distri
bution. CAROLINE A. LAMAR,
Administratrix estate C. A. L. Lamar.
inhß-Tust
CITY SHERIFF’S SALE.
UNDER and by virtue of a fl. fa. issued out
of the City Court of Savannah, in favor
of the RAILROAD MUTUAL LOAN ASSOCI
ATION vs. FRANCIS M. GREEN, I have levied
on all that western half part of all that lot of
land situate, lying and being in the city of Sa
vannah, county of Chatham, and Btate of Geor
gia. and in that part of said city known as
OGLETHORPE TOWN, and designated as
LOT NUMBER SIX (6), bounded on the north
by New Houston street, on the east by lot num
ber eight (8), on the south by a lane, and on the
west by lot number four, the said western half
of said lot being thirty (30) feet front on New
Houston street and one hundred and five (165)
feet deep; togeth-r with the buildings and im
provements thereon. Levied on as the proper
ty of the defendant, and being now in the pos
session of the said defendant, Francis M.
Green, and will sell the said property in front
of the Court House in the city of Savannah,
ON THE FIRST TUESDAY IN APRIL NEXT,
between the legal hours of sale, to satisfy said
fl. fa.
Property pointed out by plaintiff's attorney.
Tenant in possession and owner notified.
Terms cash; purchaser to pay for titles
DAVID BAILEY,
inhßTust Sheriff City Court of Savannah.
STATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham County.—
Notice is hereby given to all persons
having demands against HENRY A. STULTS,
deceased, to present them to me, properly
made out, within the time prescribed by law,
so as to show their character and amount;
and ail persons indebted to said deceased are
hereby required to make immediate payment
to me.
Mach 7.1881. C. E. STULTS,
Qualified executor of the will of Henry A.
Stuits,'deceased. mhß-Tu7t
£cpl
GEORGIA, Chatham County.— Whereas,
ISAAC BECKETT will apply at the Court
of Ordinary for Letters of Administration on
the estate of ROBERT G. BUSTARD, minor,
deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all whom it may concern to be and appear
before said court to make objection fir any
they have) on or before the FIRST MONDAY
IN APRIL NEXT, otherwise said letters will
be granted.
Witness the Honorable John O. Ferrill,
Ordinary for Chatham county, this 28th day of
February, XBBI.
HAMPTON L. FERRILL,
mhl-Tult Clerk C. O. C. C.
GEORGIA, Chatham County. Whereas
JAMES W. BANDY will apply at the Court
of Ordinary for Letters of Administration on
the estate of ANN E. BANDY, deceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all whom it may concern to be and appear be
fore said Court to make objection (if any they
have) on or before the FIRST MONDAY IN
APRIL NEXT, otherwise said letters will be
granted.
Witness the Honorable John 0. Ferrill.
Ordinary for Chatham county, this 28th day of
February, 1881.
HAMPTON L. FERRILL,
mhl Tu4t Clerk C. O. C. C.
GEORGIA, Chatham County. Whereas,
HENRY J. THOMASSON will apply at
the Court of Ordinary for Letters Disinissory
as Guardian of the property of FREDERICK
W. DONALDSON.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all whom it may concern to be and appear be
fore said court to make objection (if any they
have) on or before the FIRST MONDAY IN
APRIL NEXT, otherwise said letters will be
granted.
Witness the Honorable John O. Ferrill,
Ordinary for Chatham county, this 23th day of
February, 1881.
HAMPTON L. FERRILL,
mhl-Tu4t Clerk C.O.C.C.
GEORGIA, Chatham County. Notice is
hereby given to all persons concerned that
I have made application to the Honorable the
Court of Ordinary of Chatham county for
leave to sell all the real estate and personal
property belonging to the estate of JAMES
PROCTOR SCREVEN, deceased, for the pur
pose of distribution among the heirs, and that
said order will be granted at the April Term
(1861) of said court unless objections are filed
thereto.
February 28, 1681. JOHN SCREVEN,
Administrator estate James Proctor Screven,
deceased. mh!-Tu4t
/''i EORGIA, Chatham County. Notice is
VJ hereby given to all persons having de
mands against JOSEPH V. CONNER AT, de
ceased, to present thetn to me, properly made
out, within the time prescribed by law, so as to
show their character and amount; and all per
sons indebted to said deceased are hereby re
quired to make immediate payment to me.
February 7,1881.
W. H. CONNERAT,
Administrator of the estate of Joseph V. Con
nerat, deceased. rebß-Tu6t
G 1 EORGIA. Chatham County.— Notice is
J hereby given to all persons having de
mands against CATHARINE A. BLAIR, de
ceased, to present them to me. properly made
out, within the time prescribed by law, so as to
show their character and amount; and all
persons indebted to said deceased are hereby
required to make immediate payment to me.
February 7,1881, F. BLAIR,
Administrator cum testamento annexe estate
Catharine A, Blaiu deceased. febß-Tu6t
EORGIA, Chatham County.—Notice Is
vT hereby given to all persona h&v ing de
mands against ESTHER STEWART, deceased,
to present them to me. properly made out, with
in the time prescribed by law, so as to show
their character and amount; and all persons
indebted to said deceased are hereby required
to make immediate payment to me.
February 7, 1681. ANN W. TURNER,
Administratrix cum testamonto annexo of the
estate of Esther Stewart, dec’d. febß-Tu6t
STATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham County.
Notice is hereby given to all persons con
cerned that I have made application to the
Honorable the Court of Ordinary of Chatham
county, Ga., for an order to sell all the real
estate belonging to ROBERT G. GUERARD,
minor, situated in the city of Bavannah, coun
ty and State aforesaid, for the education and
maintenance of said minor, and that said order
will be granted at the April Term (1881) of said
court, unless objections are filed thereto.
February 28, 1881.
M. R. BURROUGHS,
Guardian for Robert G. Guerard, minor.
mhl-Tu4t
fattillzm.
Fertilizing Compound.
PERFECT CHEMICALS PREPARED BY
SOUTHERN CHEMICAL COMPANY OF
BALTIMORE. Three bags make one ton of a
PURE AND RELIABLE FERTILIZER FOB
COTTON, CORN OR OATS.
I have been appointed agent for above, and
am now prepared to fill orders.
M. J. SOLOMONS.
SEND FOB CIRCULARS. feblAlm
ARTIST'S Manual of Oil and Water Celor
Painting, Crayon Drawing, etc. , 60c. Guide
to Authorship, 50c. Of booksellers or by mail.
JXBBE HANEY * CO., 11# Nassau street. New
Tot*. Jal-tf
jgaitttg, fa.
CELEBRATED
M\i Flit I
J HAVE by the application of this Paint to
TIN ROOFS during the past twelve years fully
proven that it is SUPERIOR to anything yet
used in this city for preservation of tin roofs.
It is most DURABLE, as proven by ACTUAL
USAGE, and has in every instance given per
fect satisfaction.
I am prepared to paint tin roofs on reasona
ble terms, and solicit the patronage of those
who wish to preserve their roofs.
COKIMX Boms,
NO. 167 BROUGHTON STREET.
Jan29-tf
(Established 1840.)
Steamboat and Hill Supplies
TUCK’S PISTON PACKING.
ASBESTOS PISTON PACKING.
ABBESTOS BOARD PACKING.
GUM PACKING.
ITALIAN HEMP PACKING.
eagle packing.
SOAP STONE PACKING.
OLIVER’S PAINT AND OIL STORE
NO. 5 WHITAKER STREET.
novl7-tf
CHRIS. MURPHY,
(ESTABLISHED 1886.)
House, Sign, Fresco t Banner
PAINTING.
—DBALXB IN—
RAILROAD, MILL and STEAMBOAT SUP
PLIES, PAINTS, OILB. GLASS, PUTTY, VAR
NISHES, BRUSHES, MIXED PAINTS, BURN
ING and ENGINE OILS, NEATBFOOT OIL,
AXLE GREASE, LADDERS, all kinda and sisee
142 St. Julian and If 1 Bryan streets.
mhSB-tf
JOHN ft. BUTLER,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer la
White Lead, Oils, Colors, Glass, Etc
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING.
SOLE Agent for the GEORGIA LIME, CAL
CINED PLASTER, CEMENTS, HAIR, LAND
PLASTER, etc. Sole Agent for F. O. PIERCE
& CO.’S PURE PREPARED PAINTS. One
hundred dollars guarantee that this Paint con
tains neither water or benzine, and Is the only
guaranteed Faint in the market.
telS-tf No. 29 Drayton iitmwt Savannah. Qa
jggffqftgl
NOW READY.
SOUTHERN
Farmer’s Monthly
FOR MARCH, 1881.
CONTENTS:
AGRICULTURAL—
Work for the Month; Does Farming Pay?
And If Not, Why Not? Onion Culture; The
New South; Clover Hay and How to Make It;
Philosophy of Loose, Deep Soils Retaining
Moisture; Farming up North; Wheat Bran a
Cheap Manure; Interesting Experiments;
Starting Bermuda Grass.
HORTICULTURAL—
Grafting Grapes; The Caywood System of
Training the Grape Vine.
STOCK, POULTRY, Etc
The Guinea Fowl; The Best Sheep; The
Value of Grades; Growth and Size of Carp;
Grinding Grain for Stock; Should Horses be
Shod? Cure for the Epizooty; Bots in Horses;
A New Antiseptic; Wild Animals in Bengal
POETRY—
Hans in a Fix.
HOUSEHOLD-
Choice Recipes by a Southern Housekeeper;
A Cheap Preserve; Curious Facts About
Tools; Pickled Pork; Trapping Rabbits; Eng
lish Plum Pudding; Cream Dainties; A But
ter Worker; Chicken Chowder; Apple Jelly;
Wine Jelly; Everton Taffee; Treatment of
Sprains; Saw Filing and Setting.
CORRESPONDENCE—
The Orange Tree, Its Culture, Its Capacity,
Its Bearing Age, Profitableness, Durability
and Ornainentality; Turnips, etc.; The
Freeze in Florida; The Apiary; Minor Topics;
The Advantage of Thorough Preparation
and Careful Sowing; Bouth Florida, Work
for the Month; Delicious Cherries, Familiar
Scenes and Descriptions of Varieties; The
Best Apples, New and Old Varieties; Zellner’s
Improved Cluster Cotton.
EDITORIAL—
A Thrilling Story; Pay in Advance; “In the
Sweat of Thy Face;” Ornamental Touches;
Industry Endangered; Why Keep Up the
Price of Fine Stock? Where Shall we Raise
Sheep? Thinning Corn; Clement Attach
ment; The New Bible, Quick Work; Caro;
New Biographical Dictionary; J. J. H.
Gregory’s Seed Catalogue; Starch; Worm-
Proof Cotton; Good Words; Pulpit Morality.
ARCHITECTURAL—
Octagon House and Plan (see Frontispiece);
A Curious Fact; Giant Powder; A Five-Room
Cottage.
FASHIONS—
Gilberte Basque: Bprirg Brown and Spring
Green; Capuchin Ulster; Reinette Costume;
Children’s Fashions; Pauline Walking Skirt;
“Tea Gowns;” Ophelia Polonaise; Costume
Hats and Bonnets; Cordelia Overskirt; Fer
nando Costume; Lenten Dresses; Directorie
Collars; Humbetta Jacket; Capuchin Ulster;
Spring Materials and Decorative Embroidery;
Gilberte Basque.
MISCELLANEOUS—
The Grizzly Bear.
Price 82 00 a year. Single copies 25 cents.
For sale at the News Depots and at the office
of publication, 3 Whitaker street.
mh2-d,w&Tel2w J. H. ESTILL,
THE TIMBER GAZETTE,
DARIEN, GEORGIA,
RICHARD W. GRUBB,
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
AN INDEPENDENT
Democratic Newspaper.
Published EVERY FRIDAY MORNING at
Darien, Mclntosh county, Ga. The TIMBER
GAZETTE circulates on the Altamaha, Ocmul
gee, Oconee and their branches. Besides, it has
a good circulation in Mclntosh, Glynn, Liberty
and Chatham counties on the seaboard. It iB
the only paper published in Darien, the great
timber and lumber port of the Southern coast.
It is edited with a full appreciation of the situa
tion. It contains timber news from all im
portant points; social gossip from the same
source; movement of vessels taking timber
cargoes; the quotations of the timber market;
discussion on all topics pertaining to the tim
ber interest, and a fair showing of general
State and National affairs. It is a good paper
and an excellent advertising medium for reach
ing the people of its region by advertisement.
The GAZETTE is an Independent Democratic
paper, with conservative ideas and liberal In
tone. Its columns are always open to all par
ties for discussing public matters. On the 7th
•f January last the GAZETTE commenced the
publication of a series of sketches of the promi
nent newspaper men of the Btate, anew fea
ture in Georgia journalism, and one that will
awaken anew interest in successful newspaper
men. Subscription $2 50 per annum, in
advance. Address RICHARD W. GRUBB,
Bfebl4-6t&w4t Mclßtoah COUDty ’ Ga
jgarflinfl and %ivtxs jStahUg.
THOMAS F. GLEASON,
Livery and Boarding Stable.
OPEN and CLOSE CARRIAGES, HORSES
and BUGGIES to hire. Orders tor Wed
dings, Bails, Parties, Theatre, Railroads,
Steamers and Funerals promptly attended to.
97 and 99 York street, between Drayton and I
Abe room. J
Orders filled at Ml hours. novD6-F,MAWtf {
jArausmentis.
SAVANNAH THEATRE.
The distinguished Actress, MISS
Ada Grray
Supported by
CKAS. A. WATKINS’ STH AVE.
COMBINATION.
THIS (TUESDAY) AFTERNOON, March 8, at
2:30 o'clock, FAMILY MATINEE.
EAST ZiTXXB.
Admission, adults 50c , children 2Sc.
TUESDAY EVENING, March 8, Grand Tragedy.
LUCRETIA BORGIA.
Usual prices of admission during the night
performance. Reserved seats without extra
charge at Bren’s Ticket Office. mhß-lt
SAVANNAH THEATRE.
TWO NIGHTS ONLY, WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY, March 9th and 10th, the
distinguished Actress.
MARY ANDERSON,
Supported by
MR. MILNES LEVICK,
And her own Company.
WEDNESDAY— * V A I>N E.
THU RS DAY-IN GOMAR.
Reserved seats $l5O. Sale will open at
Bren’s Ticket Office Monday, March 7th.
mh4-6t&Tellt
jDw (SootfS.
SEW GOODS!
-AT
I F. McKern’s,
137 BROUGHTON STREET.
MR. McKENNA, who is at present in New York
selecting his Spring ana Summer Goods,
has forwarded by the latest steam
ers the following goods;
MM Table Damasks.
15 pieces BLEACHED TABLE DAMABK. in all
the latest designs, from 50c. to 12 25 per yard.
Half Bleached Table Damask
10 pieces LOOM DICE and CREAM DAMASK
from 22c. to SI 25 per yard.
A JOB LOT
150 pieces VICTORIA LAWNS, 38 inches wide,
at 12)$o. and 15c. The regular price of
these goods hare been 30c. and 25c.
To be Opened on Monday,
Several cases of LINON Dx INDEB FRENCH
NAINBOOKB, FRENCH ORGANDIEB, -
INDIA MULLS. PERSIAN LACONS,
PLAIN and DOTTED SWISSES.
WHITE PIQUES.
3 cases WHITE PIQUES, ranging in price
from B}sc. to 50c. per yard.
WHITE SPREADS
100 WHITE SPREADS at 75c., a job lot.
200 WHITE HONEYCOMB SPREADS, fuU
size and extra heavy, at 1100. These goods are
good value at $1 25.
JUST RECEIVED,
A large invoice of BLEACHED BHIRTINGS,
SHEETINGS and PILLOW CASE COT
TONS in all the popular brands
at the lowest prices.
B. F. McKENNA.
P. S.—New goods received by every steamer.
mhT-N&Teltf
HEADQUARTERS
-FOR-
Embroideries!
JACOB COHEN
152 BROUGHTON STREET.
AS WE PURCHASE AND IMPORT OUR EX
TENSIVE BTOCK OF
Embroideries
T'|IRECT from the manufacturers at Ham-
J -J burg, we are therefore enabled to sell the
same at jobbers prices.
No other house in this city dale compete
with us in regard to prices and quality, as will
be convinclble by a mere call. mh3-tf
jnwlry, fa.
MariestJeielryHiifi
SOUTH OF NEW YORK IS
HiMILTn
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, Wattles,
DIAMONDS,
SILVERWARE
BRONZES, CLOCKS,
H&JapeseNorels
OPERA GLASSES, ETC.
Strangers in the city should visit this well
known and extensive Jewelry Establishment,
COB. OF BULL AND BROUGHTON STS.
S.P. HAMILTON.
I febl9-tf
W D
a set of double eDtry books eWl**■
general office work. Addr/sa^L* o *
sgting salary expected,
WANTED a"smaii~house~of~B
News office bustne3a 4*^
WANTED.
-11 ? rn Pnton Tel egraph to
WANTED, a practloi^ZZ''^-^
a small farm and nnfc to^>
toSih c oi r “ a ‘"’“' 91 e '4w'Ss
stnjctlon book. C. E. JONES°i
—— A
ANTED, W harfß^erTtob^^’-
dred feet of wharf at Savannah ,
cnce to
WANTED, consumers of
I have placed in my ! ,
and all orders received "br the
promptly filled. R. B. CaSsF.i s 84It i e .*ill £
— —2: feblT-tf
WANTED, every stranger visitwl
to know that the finest
in the South are for sale at 21 ever tty*
posite the Screven House, “He^,
Views of Southern Scenery - “'-toners &
WANTED. Pianos
repair. Rates reasonable k! sc;
instruments. T. B. TURNER
between Bull and Whitaker sts
Sot srm.
F°NaH?* Congress
Mein ha rd u Bros. TIPS®
Tj'Oß RENT.—A comodious andfWuTi
I 1 wharf and warehouse in BrS
for rent. Well suited for naval G ,
or merchandise. Address stores, l Umber
mhßTu&S4t _JLW^EXTER.
TO RENT, a desirable suite of room.'lTT
4h“r corner Bua and iu - D^ *:s•
TO RENT, rooms, furnish,* i
corner Hull and West Broad street 4 ' 4
mho It s -
TO RENT, Store 183 Congress street i
mediate possession given. Appk ft
Congress street, or of N. C. MILLS iVi
Btreet - mi,^
Sot MU.
INOR SALE,
fresh lot just received and for sale in
quantity at DM J
M. T. QUIN AVs
mhß-lt 116 and US Bryan air?'.
T?° K ! 1? A J jE ' ~^! 8 Month in insulin
P will buy a choice of these five
Anderson street, between Drayton and 1C 1
corn streets JOHN RYAN,
Broughton street. mhr^ U
F)R SALE, SEED RICE.—I 000 Lushsi.
WHITE SEED RICE, free from wj£g
for sale by '■
J. H. JOHNS!OX,
mhl tf t*2 Bay street
IJ'OR SALE, 30 Lots at a bargain on East
Broad and Anderson streets. For t™
apply to R. B. REPPAKD, No. 70 Bav strew
mhs-3t
Tj'Oß SALK, Gents’ Suits only fn. Call..
A? once and select from JACOB REvos
SONS’ samples, before soid out and withdnm
from sale. A perfect fit guaranteed
DAVIS BROS. & CO.,
mhl-tf Bull and York streets.
Tj'Oß SALE. 20 lots adjoining the Arktrrhl
J? Cotton Factory. Also 1U) acres land, first
rate stand for a grocery store, at 13 mile Wt
Augusta road, by ISAAC D. LaROCHE it SON'
feb36-tf
TT'OIt SALE, the following stereotype apt*.
X 1 ratus: 1 Steam Drying Press (Hoe’sNo.it
Platen 18x24; 1 Iron Beating Table, 33x39;!
Iron Casting Mould (Hoe’s No. 6), to cast M,
They are almost new and in good coi.ditiun
Address J. H. ES TILL, Savannah, febd-if I
TJ'OR SALE.—Go to 21 Bull street, opposite
I? the Bcreven House, for Feirutvpes,
Photographs, Copying and Frames. Head
quarters for Views ot Southern Scenery.
J. N, WILSON, Photographer.
Jan24-N&Teltf
f J'HE largest stock SEASONED FLbORI.V)
in the city. Call and examine our stock.
sug26-tf BACON 4 8P.00K9,
s£ost.
LOST, a Russian Leather Pocketbook, con
taining about SBJ. The finder will b
liberally rewarded by leaving the same at tbii
office. mhS-U
stmt
SCHEDULE FOR FEBRIUII.
MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNBSDAYS,
THURSDAYS AND FRIDAY;-.
OUTW’D, | ~IN\VARD.
LKAVK ARRIVE LEAVE | UUVI
BAVAVNAH. SAVANNAH. ISLE OF HOPE | MOSTB BT,
6:40 p. M. 8:38 A. m. 8:10 a. m.| 7:Bsah,
Monday morning train for Montgomery onJf
at 6:25 a. m.
Wednesdays additional train will leave city
10:23 a.m. Returning leave Montgomery 4:8
p. m.. Isle of Hope 5:20. .
SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS!
LEAVE ARRIVE I LEAVE j
SAVANNAH. SAVANNAH ISLE OF HOPE' MOSTd'H
10:25 A. M. 8:38 A. M 8:10 A. M.| 7:351.1
*3:25 r. M. 1:20 p. u 12:50 P. M. 12:15 f, t
7:00 P. M. 5:50 p, M. 5:20 P. ,! 4:45 p. k
•guudays this is the last outward train,
EDW. J. THOJIAB.
febl2-tf Superintencepl
COAST LINE RAILROAD OFUCI,|
Bavannah, October 1880. f
ON and after MONDAY, November lit,
the fallow iii% suburban schedule will *
observed: -
LEAVE LEAVE
SAVANNAH. THUNDERBOLT. BOKAVfiwv*
7:00 A. m. F:00 a. m.
10:35 A. M. 12:50 f. m. h® p - *
3:85 p.m. 4:30 p.m S:6O p. a
6:35 p.m. I 7:05 p.m. <:ISpJL
BUNBAY SCHEDULE.
Care leave Bolton street at 7:00. ljW*
12:00 o’clock in the morning, and in tnee
Ing every half hour from 2:35 until (w ’■
Last car leaves Thunderbolt at 7:W
FRANK lamab,
oct3o-tf Superinterrileri
fluting aroag.
MlaFbinelg SjSPF
fluting mom
FLUTING SCISSORS,
Clothes Wringers, Bti
CROCKERY Bots
—OF
JAS. S. SILVA,
140 BROUGHTON STREET
febSS-N&Teltf
yumturc.
Immense Stock—Loiv Pri (t!
—AT —
E. A. SCHWAB# 8
MAMMOTH
Fnrnitnre anfiCarpetSW
125 AND 127 BROUGHTON ■
SIGN of the Big Red Chair. - ■
Christmas goods cheap. tQ { CH A J ■
On hand, a complete ;“SSSTts
et TheSjfow e FLAKF., EMPRESS ■
RA, something needed I *' o ' ■
The NOVELTY FOLDING tU 1 ■
BLE, neat and useful TS mATUrbiB
A choice stock of
OILCLOTHS, WINDOW SHADES
QUINS, CORNICES, etc., always
remarkably low prices. ||
E. A. SCHWAB^I
WHITE BLUFF m
PLANTS, ROBEB and CUT FLO
orders left at
ner BuU and York
fahl7-tt 9UBTAVE