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NO. 3 WHITAKER STREET,
(MORNING NEWS BUILDING).
J. H. KBTILL, Proprietor. ’
W. T. THOMPSON, Editor.
FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1881.
It is stated authoritatively that there
will, in the next month or two, be a
number of important changes in the
heads of bureaus in several of the execu
tive departments.
Star route frauds are showing up
worse and worse. Brady and Dorsey
write no more letters demanding an in
vestigation. The investigation is going
on with a vengeance.
Miss Murray, the young lady who
brought suit and gained a verdict f or
$5,000 against ex Postmaster Tyler, of
Baltimore, has been appointed to a posi
tion in the government printing office.
The new Kansas liquor law —supposed
to be triple proof—has worked like many
similar laws in other States—it is en
forced in the country, while in the larger
towns not the slightest attention is paid
to it
The late Mr. Hayes never thought of
disturbing Grant’s biographer or his
brother-in-law. He had some faults in
the eyes of the stalwarts; but he recog
nized the right of Grant to have his
friends kept in office.
The Cincinnati Gazette hits upon]an
ingenious device for condemning Grant’s
letter without sacrificing its loyalty to
Grant himself. It pronounces the let
ter “bogus;” and then proceeds to de
nounce it in set terms. Perhaps Grant
will take the hint.
Governor Colquitt has again appointed
Colonel H. H. Jones, of Macon, one of
the members of the visiting board of the
senior class of the University of Geor
gia. This will be eight years that Col
onel Jones has held the position under
three executive terms.
John A. Sutter, the man who discov
ered gold in California, died some years
ago near St. Louis, almost in extreme
poverty. A bronze statue of him is to
be set up in Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco, and General Sherman has
presented a lot of brass cannon out of
which the statue is to be moulded.
Biographer Badeau, according to one
of his enemies, “has been abroad so long
that he is nothing but an English snob,
who has forgotten how to speak the
American language, and despises an
American. He has also lost the sight of
one eye, and is compelled to cover the
defect with a round glass screwed into
his face.”
The Vice President of the United
States has for several days been in New
York engaged in a consultation with the
machine bosses, devising measures to
cripple the power of the President and
grease the machinery for a fresh whack
at the Treasury. This is a novel kind of
business for a Vice President to be en
gaged in. “A house divided against it
self,” etc.
The States of the Union which have
more women than men are Alabama,
Connecticut, Georgia, Louisiana, Mary
land, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, North Caroli
na, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The
greatest excess of females is in New
York, where it is 71,000, and the least in
Louisiana, where it is 3,000. The total
excess of women in these fifteen States
is 300,000.
Mahone’s convention to nominate a
State ticket meets at Richmond on Thurs
day of next week. It will be a signifi
cant gathering from the fact that,
whether a formal fusion is made with
the Republicans or the latter tacitly ac
cept and support its nominees, a sub
stantial alliance will be effected with the
administration party. A year ago the
Readjusters claimed to be better Demo
crats than the Debt payers. The claim
they will put forth now is likely to be
of a different sort The movement is
not such as promises to win much favor
with the Virginia masses.
There is a strong protection "boom”
in England, and it is not improbable
that Great Britain, the home of free
trade, may take some retaliatory meas
ures against the various countries that
are passing tariff laws inimical to her
interests. The new French tariff laws
will deal the English manufactures a
severe blow, and, in fact, will really
prohibit the importation of them into
France. With the whole world, even
its own colony, Canada, against it, it is
not to be wondered at that the English
people should feel inclined to take meas
urs to protect their own interests.
The position of Governor Cornell, of
New York, is peculiar. He is strongly
bound to Conkling by gratitude for past
favors, but notwithstanding his approval
of the Conkling-Arthur-James Piatt pro
test against the Robertson nomination,
seems inclined to side with Robertson
and the “half breeds.” This is interpre
ted to possibly mean the substitution of
a Robertson-Cornell "machine” in place
of the Conkling “machine” as the ruling
power in New York Republican politics.
It would be a strong combination, as it
would control both the Federal and State
patronage.
Jefferson Davis was in Chicago last
week for the first time since 1829. The
Tribune says: “Heappeared as a courtly
old gentleman of the old Southern
school, with faded blue trousers, neat,
small shoes, a silk alpaca coat and vest,
with a rumpled silk stock, wearing a
short wrinkled and faded overcoat He
walked about the streets without at
tracting much attention. His appear
ance is much the same as of yore, the
face and beard being the same, but he
has aged rapidly, and is visibly in his de
clining years, so that but few of the peo
ple he met on the streets recognized in
him the man whose name was once on
the lips of every one.”
A conflict between the Lords and
Commons on the Irish land bill is be
coming more and more imminent Mr.
Gladstone’s somewhat haughty notifica
tion the other evening that the policy of
the government would be maintained,
even if it were necessary to create new
peers for that purpose, has elicited what
may be considered a counter declaration
frotr T ord Salisbury, in which he plain
ly intimates that the House of Com
mons, after all, does not represent the
views of their constituents as accurately
as the Premier and his supporters have
supposed. With these mutual recrimi
nations, it will not be difficult to precipi
tate a serious issue between the two
houses; and when it comes to that, in the
present temper of the public mind, it
will probably result in pushing the
Lords to the wall.
A Chapter of Radical Blunders.
No party ever blundered more gross
ly than did the Republicans during the
late special session of the Senate, and it
is not at all to be wondered at that the
party at large was greatly relieved when,
on the retirement of the New York Sena
tors, the Democrats took charge, dis
patched the business and effected a tine
die adjournment. From the commence
ment of the session to the climax of the
secession of Conkling and Platt, the Re
publican policy was a succession of
blunders. First, the purchase of Mahone;
then, with his aid, the grab at the Senate
committees; then, as his reward the nomi
nations of Gorham and Riddleberger;then
at Conkling's instance, the maintenance
of a dead lock for nearly seven weeks ;
then, the grant of so much time to Conk
ling for work against the Robertson
nomination ; and finally, the abandon
ment of everything, caucus nominations,
caucus decisions as to the dead lock, cau
cus assertions of the “importance of ma
jority rule,” caucus outgivings as to the
“new South,” etc., etc. The party seems
to lack competent leaders, or rather, its
most competent managers are so en
grossed in their battles with each other
and in defending their individual rascal
ities, that the welfare of the party, as
well as that of the country, is entirely
forgotten.
The New York Water Supply.
The New York Herald sent a reporter
some years ago to take a survey of the
lakes and rivers of the Croton country,
from which New York derives its water
supply. His report was very alarming
and unpleasant He found the Croton
lakes draining a section of country that
was thickly settled and full of slaughter
houses. The Herald published a map
of the region, showing the various
nuisances, the refuse and sewage cf
which poured into New York’s water
supply reservoir. The Herald's article
was quite alarming, but it was regarded
as a newspaper sensation, and not as
much attention was paid to the subject
as it deserved. Harper's Weekly now
follows in the footsteps of the Herald,
and makes a far more unfavorable show
ing. The latter paper, it seems, did not
mention half thp impurities of the Croton
region. In addition to the slaughter
houses and the nuisances that defiled
the water, the Weekly's correspondent
found that both banks of the Crotcn
were for nearly the entire length un
healthy fever and ague swamps. The
stream, therefore, that pours into the
lake and furnishes New York with
drinking water was at least half of it
the drainage from a marsh. Perhaps
there is something besides dirty streets
to make New York city unhealthy.
Garfield's Tactics.
There is a difference of opinion in re
gard to the policy of the President in re
nominating the Conkling men whose
names he had withdrawn pending the
contest over Robertson s confirmation.
But it is thought that by such re-nomi
nations the President only strengthened
and emboldened Conkling’s opposition.
The Richmond Dispatch regards the re
nomination of those men as a very shrewd
manoeuvre on the part of Mr. Gar
field. Says the Dispatch: “He who sup
poses that that act was calculated to in
jure the President and strengthen Mr.
Conkling is a sorry politician. Every
Conkling man thus nominated is a source
of weakness to Conkling. Look how
James, the Postmaster General, adheres
to the President. The office holders will
all do likewise; or, if they don’t, the
President 'will know the reason why.’
If Mr. Garfield had a thousand more
good offices to bestow upon Conklingites
he could have Conkling stranged upon a
barren shore. Not a friend would be
left to him.”
The policy adopted by the Democrats
in the New York Legislature is to insist
that the circumstances under which the
two Senatorial vacancies occurred de
mand that anew Legislature be elected
upon the distinct issue of the manner of
men to be sent to Washington. It is a
strong position, but arguments as to
right and wrong never influence Repub
lican legislators, and it may therefore be
difficult to secure an adjournment of the
Legislature before the election of Sena
tors. At first, the “half-breeds” favored
such adjournment, and with Demo
cratic aid could accomplish it, but they
are now intending to nominate candi
dates in the expectation of a dead lock,
with eventually some such compromise
as occurred in the Pennsylvania Senato
rial contest. The Democrats will, there
fore, endeavor to make the dead lock so
lengthy and obstinate as to prevent any
compromise, and thus, in the end, se
cure an adjournment. There is a very
reasonable belief that the next Legisla
ture will be Democratic.
Grant’s letter, taken in connection
with Conkling’s career in the Senate,
shows that the old Grant crowd, the im
mortal 306, descended on Garfield as
soon as he was elected with the obvious
purpose of “running” his administra
tion. They demanded rewards for their
friends, and made the demands as pay
ment for service rendered in the cam
paign. General Grant, in the closing
paragraph of his letter, says unblush
ingly that he not only expected his per
sonal friends to be kept in office, but he
thought one of them ought to be sup
ported at the government expense until
he could finish a life of General Grant
upon which he was engaged! The whole
tone of the letter is that General Grant
and his friends and supporters have a
mortgage on the government for sup
port and comfort so long as they live.
For years a story has been in circula
tion to the effect that during the Ameri
can civil war, when it was expected
France and England were about to recog
nize the independence of the Southern
Confederacy, the Czar had resolved to
give material support to the United
States, and had notified England of his
intention. The story came out very
prominently about the time of the Czar’s
death, and attracted considerable atten
tion. Mr. Gladstone has just gold of it,
and declares that England had no inten
tion of interfering in the contest between
the States, and that Russia never said
anything about her intention to take
part in It. The entire affair is probably
a romance, although Mr. Thurlow Weed
has vouched for its truth.
Grant’s remark in his letter to Jones
that “filling the most influential office in
their State without consulting the Sena
tors is a great slight, an insult that ought
to be resented to the bitter end,” he is
reminded that he made Simmons Collec
tor of Boston against the remonstrance
of Sumner, Boutwcll, the whole Massa
chusetts delegation and a deputation of
Boston merchants who visited Grant in
the hopes of getting him to withdraw
the nomination. Conkling was one of
the leaders in favor of it, worked, spoke
and voted for it. Grant also removed
Mr. Motley against Sumner’s remon
strance, and was sustained in the act by
the Grant “Senatorial Group.”
The Nation’s Prosperity.
The twenty third annual report of the
New York Chamber of Commerce has
just been issued. It presents a remarka
ble exhibit of the prosperity of the coun
try, and demonstrates that we have fully
recovered from the effects of the panic of
1873, and, in a measure, far beyond the
expectations of the most sanguine. The
report indicates that the present business
activity and prosperity is not confined to
any one section, but pervades the whole
country. It draws its deductions from
the statistics of our import and export
trade, with which it alone deals. In
reviewing the imports of the year prece
dence is given to the sugar trade, regard
ing, as it does, the course of that staple
commodity as a sure indication of the
general condition of the country. Dur
ing the year 1880 the total consumption
of sugar is estimated to have been 819,-
000 tons, as against 743,000 tons in 1879.
All of this was drawn from foreign
sources, with the exception of 89,000
tons furnished by Louisiana. If the do
mestic production of maple and beet
sugar be added the total consumption
for the past year will reach 900,-
000 tons. In regard to foreign
molasses, the consumption fell off
from 34,500,000 gallons in 1879, to 33,-
100,000 in 1880; but Louisiana and Texas
produced 12,000,000 gallons in addition,
making the total consumption of this
article for the year 45,000,000. There
was a falling off in the importation of
coffee from 184,000 ton in 1879,t0 176,000
tons in 1880. The importation of for
eign hides was very great, reaching 3,-
000,000 pieces exclusive of Calcutta hides,
an excess of 900,000 hides over the im
ports of 1879. The wine and liquor trade
is said to have been remarkable for its
prosperity.
In the matter of exports, the crop of
cotton for the year ended September 1
reached the enormous figure of 5,957,397
bales, of which 3,865,621 bales were ex
ported and 1,625,805 were taken by
American spinners. The excess of the
yield of raw cotton in 1880 over that of
1879 was 700,000 bales. The decrease in
the export of American cotton goods was
to be expected, for the exports of our
cotton fabrics between the years 1873 and
1879 were made under pressure and to
get rid of surplus stock, and returned lit
tle or no profit to the manufacturers.
The value of the gram exported in 1880
amounted to $80,000,000 in excess of 1879,
that of the latter year being $208,000,000,
while it rose last year to $288,000,000.
The total provision exports increased
from $58,0C0,000 in 1879 to $61,000,000
in 1880. The petroleum exports fell
off 2,000,000 barrels in 1880, but there
was an increase of $5,000,000 in the ex
port of lard, and of fresh beef shipments
from New York from 44,000,000 pounds
in 1879 to nearly 61,000,000 pounds in
1880. The report concludes with some
timely remarks on the prosperous condi
tion of the country, which “seems to be
but the harbinger of an advance yet
more’f&pid and startling.”
Dr. Paget Higgs, of New York, has
invented an electric lamp, before which,
according to the newspaper accounts, the
Edison burners will be compelled to
“pale their ineffectual fires.” He claims
that the machine of which he is the in
ventor will produce a light equal to 715
candles per horse-power < f the engine,
and there is a device for storing electrici
ty which renders his lamp far more ef
fective. He has also devised a plan for
lighting dwellings by electricity, the
generating power being furnished by the
ordinary Bunsen battery. No engine or
other mechanical power is required, and
the only cost is that of the lamp and the
cells and chemicals for charging the bat
tery, which are quite inexpensive. The
process of generating electricity goes on
all the time, and it is stored until the
current is needed for supplying the
lamps, so that there is no waste of gal
vanic action.
An English Paper on the Conk
ling Resignation.—The Pall Mall Ga
zette, commenting on the late dead lock
in the United States Senate and the res
ignation of Senators Conkling and Platt,
says that the incident is a highly disa
greeable symptom, as showing the im
portance which patronage and place
have attracted to themselves in the re
public. There seems to be no longer
any statesmanship in the American Sen
ate. The men in power in the republic
seek no longer great and lofty aims, but
give their talents to the ignoble work of
rewarding their friends and punishing
their enemies in order to prolong their
own official power. The Pall Mall Ga
zette draws from this the reflection that
healthy political life is impossible in the
United States, and that grave perils
await the country in the future.
It seems that the Post Office Depart
ment is not the only one that needed to
be investigated. Secretary Windom does
well to emulate Secretary James in prob
ing for crookedness under his own nose.
These two men, at least, are earning
their official salaries. How such abuses
as are revealed in the current exposures
made by Secretary Windom’s sharp
sighted and keen scented committee
could have gone on so long without dis
covery is somewhat surprising. By the
time the committee gets through with its
inquiries, at the rate of progress it is
now making, the country will be regaled
with a very bad but interesting story.
The administration does well to unmask
these frauds and peculations.
Fresh scandals are foreshadowed in the
resolution offered by Senator Beck
(Democrat, Kentucky), calling for an in
quiry into the irregular fees exacted by
our consular officers. Invoices must ac
company every importation of merchan
dise, and for making the prescribed de
claration before him, the statute says the
consul shall demand $2 50. But in Lon
don and Liverpool much more than $2 50
has been exacted and paid for these ser
vices to commerce. It is very far from
improbable that when these excessive
exactions are traced, a share of them
will be found, as in the case of the star
route increase of compensation, to have
gone into the Republican campaign fund
of last year.
The record of the persecution of the
Jews in the Russian frontier provinces
is a black stain upon an already dark
and forbidding history. Whatever cause
there has been for unkind feelings be
tween the peasantry and these people,
there surely has been nothing to justify
the extent to which the bloody work has
gone. And why the Russian Govern
ment has not checked it is at once a
comment upon the vindictive aggres
siveness of the natives and the miserable
weakness of the empire. The move
ment which has been started in England
in behalf of the persecuted race may yet
be productive of results beyond afford
ing merely temporary relief.
Secretary Blaine is informed that the
French delegation to the Yorktown Cen
tennial will consist of no more than ten
gentlemen, descendants of Lafayette,
De Rochambeau and other of our allies
in 1781.
Actaeon and His Dogs.
The Albany Argus has been sketching
some of the leading features of Conk
ling's career, and comes to the following
conclusions:
“Any theory that he will abandon
leadership to become a rover or a criti
ciser reverses the habit and contradicts
the evidence of a lifetime. It will be
well to reserve a decision on that subject.
Reflection on Mr. Conkling’s ability to
mask or mitigate his partisanship would
initially show that he never has done so;
that would argue that he never could do
so. No; that idea is of the imagination;
not of the reason. Nor do wU believe
Mr. Conkling can carry out any idea he
has to retire from politics and loom into
law. His temperament is for politics.
His habits are political. Men change
their skies, but not their minds. Events
will lure, and, if need be, will lash Mr.
Conkling into activity in politics.
The present events mean more
than the disestablishment of the machine.
That is a great feat and fact, but the
events mean the tearing of the Republi
can party by the malign forces it has
injected into politics. Actaeon’s dogs
have turned on him, and are rending
him. Sciolism and savagery and sec
tionalism have disintegrating properties
in them for those who use them. The
Republican party has been their user.
It is becoming their victim. The admin
istration embodies the better professions
and the meaner actions of Republican
ism. Stalwartism embodies the manlier
motives and the purely barbarian pur
suits of that party. The Pecksniffian and
the piratical forces of the organization
are in deadly grapple. So should it be.”
It looks so; but, in the event of such
an active and aggressive faction leader
as Conkling being retired from the Sen
ate, it is very probable that he will have
his revenge in accelerating the retire
ment of the Republican party from pub
lic life, if stalwartism goes down with it.
Disclosures to Come.
A prominent stalwart, who holds a
position high in the party, and is a
friend of Senator Conkling, said:
“There is a good deal more of the thing
than has yet appeared upon the surface.
Don’t you believe that Roscoe Conkling
has fired off all his ammunition yet. I
know that Mr. Conkling has regretted
ever since that he did not do as he was
all prepared to do at the time the electo
ral count was before Congress, and de
nounce that infamous steal and all con
nected with it. And he is not the only
one who regrets it. Hundreds of Re
publicans in this State, and 1 was one of
them, were prepared to act with him.”
“Well?”
“Mr. Conkling has now in his posses
sion such proof of the corruption of
Blaine and Garfield, and especially of
the former, that were he to make it pub
lic no decent man could longer consent
to stick to this administration or declare
himself its friend. Whether Mr. Conk
ling goes back to the Senate or not the
people will know just what a set of
plunderers we now have at the head
of the government. They have set
out to crush Roscoe Conkling, a man
against whose honesty no one has
ever dared to raise the least whispe/, anp
he will soon show up to the people of this
country, in their true light, the men who
are doing it. Of course, it will destroy
the Republican party, but every decent
mau in the party will be glad to see it
destroyed, rather than to be longer con
tinued in power to rob the people. Wait
until you hear further from Roscoe Conk
ling. He has not got done writing letters
yet. There’ll be more music in the air
when next he speaks than has been heard
in this country in a good many years. ”
Gen. Butler’s Finger in the Pie.
A Washington dispatch of Tuesday
says: “Among the items of gossip float
ing around in political circles to day is
one, which is accepted with much pleasure
among the stalwart element, to the effect
that Gen. Butler has put Mr. Conkling
in possession of facts tending to the
great damage of the administration, but
more particularly injurious to Mr.
Blaine. When Gen. Butler was here
last week he had an interview with Mr.
Blaine, during the course of which the
Secretary of State assured him seriously,
in the presence of others, that
he not only had nothing to do with
the nomination of Judge Robertson for
Collector of the port of New York, but
that he knew nothing of the President’s
intention until after the nomination was
sent in. What Mr. Blaine’s object was in
making such an extraordinary statement
was not known, except that the conjec
ture which i3 now thrown out may be
correct, that he knew Gen. Butler was
friendly to Mr. Conkling, and that the
General knew some things about him
which it would not be particularly
agreeable to have made public. Gen. But
ler did not make any reply to this asser
tion of Mr. Blaine,but there was a twinkle
in his one eye capable of such muscular
exertion which spoke of incredulity. He
afterwards told Senator Conkling of this,
and the latter remarked that it w-as
enough to make a horse laugh. The
story is now that Gen Butler has found
out a great deal about the star route
irregularities, and that he has commu
nicated all the facts to Mr. Conkling,
who will take good care that they be
fully known at Albany in good time to
have effect on the Senatorial election,
and that Mr. Blaine is in great tribulation
about it, as it is said it will not help the
administration cause.”
How fierce the controversy over the
Robertson matter has grown may be
conceived from the following extract
from a Conkling Republican paper, the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat-.
“The attacks upon Mr. Conkling
which such newspapers as the Cincinnati
Commercial are now making, would be
much stronger if something could be
truthfully said in them about the Credit
Mobilier and the De Golyer contracts,and
things of that sort. But, unfortunately
for the Commercial and its allies, Mr.
Conkling never stole anything, and his
intelligence always enabled him to dis
tinguish between a bribe and a loan.”
We may soon expect to see these
papers proving the De Golyer and Credit
Mobilier charges on Garfield. They may
even take up the Morey letter again, and
seek to show that it was written by the
President.
Young men need not feel discouraged
over the finances. According to a late
publication of the Anti-Monooply League
of New York, it does not take very
many years to accumulate a fortune, if
you only go about it in the right way.
Here are some of the great fortunes of
this country and the time it required to
accumulate them: Jay Gould & Cos.,
$75,000,000 in fifteen years; the Vander
bilts, $100,000,000 in twenty years;
Huntington, Hopkins & Cos. (the Central
Pacific syndicate), $186,000,000 in fifteen
years, on an investment of $12,500. It
was railroads that did it.
Damaged Corn.—The Chicago Tri
bune of Friday last says: “It is true that
much of the corn arriving here is in bad
condition. The cause of this is that a
large amount of the corn cribbed in the
country has been insufficiently protected
against that unusually severe weather
that prevailed during the writer. The
snow was driven into the cribs, keeping
the corn wet and damp all the time.
This causes it to heat very easily, and
the utmost care has to be used in hand
ling it to keep it from spoiling while in
transit.”
Shortening Time.—The construction
of a railroad from Pensacola, Fla., east
to Chattahoochee, connecting with the
Georgia and Florida system, has been
definitely decided upon, and work will
soon be commenced. This road will
shorten the time between Pensacola and
New Orleans at least twenty-four hours,
and between Pensacola and Eastern cit
ies quite as much.
MORE CORRUPTION.
Startling Heanlta of (be Investigation
in the Treaeurv Department.
The investigation of the accounts and
conduct of O. L. Pitney, custodian of
the Treasury Department, to which al
lusion has been made by our Washington
correspondent, is developing ugly facts
and involving persons who have held
high places. Pitney’s business is to buy
everything needed in the Treasury, in
cluding furniture, carpets, soap, etc. It
is ascertained that he has for six years
violated the law requiring him to pur
chase by contract from the lowest bid
ders. He has bought from friends and
favorites without making any contracts,
paying them whatever they charged. No
system of books or vouchers has been
kept. Everything has been run
loosely and without any sort of
business rules. Outrageously exor
bitant prices have been charged,
ranging from 30 to 50 per cent, higher
than the ruling market prices, and the
difference between the market prices
and those paid had been allowed Pitney
by the partnership purchased from him
in the way of goods for his own use.
One cabinet maker named Frazer, who
is regularly employed under Pitney, tes
tifies that nearly all of his time, for sev
eral years, has been consumed in doing
work for outside parties, instead of
working for the government; that he
spent one month in working on anew
house owned by a high government offi
cial; that he frequently went from one
house to another of persons in govern
ment employ, some holding important
places, doing whatever they wanted, and
the money paid for his services was
charged round to the different govern
ment bureaus. He swears that he made
fifteen fac similes of the desk used by
Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration
of Independence, and which was pre
sented to the government a year or so
ago; that each of these imitation desks
cost S6O, the material for which was
paid for out of government money, and
charged among the materials needed for
government uses. These fifteen desks
were given out as presents by the
authorities in the Treasury to friends.
The furniture belonging to the Treasury
has been loaned out on occasions of re
ceptions at certain residences. The
facts go to show that a regular ring,
consisting of subordinate officials of the
Treasury, some of them holding respon
sible positions, existed and got benefits
from the loose and reckless manage
ment.
Beside Pitney and his bookkeeper,
and storekeeper and hostler, who has
charge of the cabinet-making depart
ment, one assistant secretary and others
have derived more or less advantage
from Pitney’s method of doing govern
ment business. In a few instances con
tracts have been made, but not in the
most important and expensive purchases.
Pitney has built him anew residence.
The result of the investigation will prob
ably be a number of removals. Ex-
Cabinet officers are mentioned in the
testimony as having received the benefit
of the government cabinet-makers in
work at their private residences.
The investigation will, it is stated,
make more important developments.
The ring has been in operation for years,
and now that the exposure has begun,
profits can be traced to many persons.
Two years ago Assistant Secretary Upton
was informed of wrong doing and mis
application of public money by Custo
dian Pitney, but no steps were taken to
ward its correction. It is asserted to
night that Upton will soon be removed,
and that the strong fight made to keep
him in his position was for the purpose
of preventing the exposure which ha3
now come. This investigation and that
of the star route service are not the only
ones to be made. The present adminis
tration intends to seaich through all the
departments of public service to learn
how the public business is being con
ducted, and whether any reckless, waste
ful or wrong practices exist anywhere.
Wherever any wrong exists, it is to be
exposed, and wherever any public money
is wasted, it is to be stopped.
Bishop Becker on the New Revision.
In an interview with a newspaper re
porter Sunday, on the new revision of
the New Testament, Bishop Thomas A.
Becker, of the Catholic diocese of Wil
mington, Del., who is preparing a
lengthy article for the July number of
the Catholic World, said:
“The revision of King James’ version
seems to approach in many points much
nearer the Vulgate than Protestantß, as a
rule, will like. The leaving out of a
doxology which was formerly attached
to the Lord’s Prayer, ‘For Thine is the
kingdom and the power and the glory
forever, Amen,’ will be found in accord
with the Catholic version, but may seem
strange to those who supposed it
part of the sacred volume. This and the
history of the adulterous woman left
in brackets as doubtful, and the lack of
the last chapter of St Mark, from the
7th verse onward, and the ‘three wit
nesses,’ 111. John, v. 7-8, may well be con
sidered as the largest omissions. As to
the critical value of the revisions, it will
just be found to be worth whatever of
scholarly effort the board possessed, but,
on the whole, we think Protestants will
say of it what is said of the new wine in
the Scripture, ‘The old is better.’ ”
The Rev. Dr. J. O. Peck, of the Han
son Place Methodist Episcopal Church,
Brooklyn, N. Y., and formerly pastor
of Mount Vernon M. E. Church, Balti
more, preached Sunday evening on the
“Greatest Event of the Great Century—
the Revised Version of the New Testa
ment.” The revision was the greatest
event of the century, he said, because it
demonstrated that there were no fatal
errors in the Testatment as we have had
it. Eighty men, learned and pious, had
spent ten years each in studying the
book, and this aggregate of eight hun
dred years of labor in looking for defects
had proved that there was no false doc
trine in the Testament—-no fatal error.
“I take these eight hundred years|of study
of the Bible,” said the preacher, “and
put them against Bob Ingersoll’s shallow
treatment of it. ”
What it Means. —The Bt. Louis
Globe Democrat (Rad.) having declared
that “it’s just a little family row in the
Republican party, and that when the
next election is at hand we’ll all kiss and
make up and shake the bloody shirt and
wallop the rebs again,” the St. Louis
Republican (Dem.) says.
“Which means that it makes no dif
ference how corrupt and infamous our
leaders are we are with them and for
them when the spoils are to be won. It
is not a high standard of political mor
ality, to be sure, but it leads to thrift.
Garfield may be the partner of De Gol
yer in robbing the government, and
Blaine may be the accomplice of Mulli
gan in schemes of plunder, and we to
day declare they were, but we will swear
in the face of the country, if it become
necessary in the next campaign, that
they are angels of light and spirits of
purity.”
The stalwart view of the Conkling
situation is thus depicted by the Albany
correspondent of Gorham’s paper:
“The stalwart leaders contend that the
‘half-breeds’ have reached the end of
their rope. Their iron-clad pledge not
to vote for Conkling or Platt, or any
other enemy of the administration, con
tains some fifty names. To secure a
majority in the caucus they must have
fifty-four. Next week the stalwarts will
have their forces here, and they expect
to include Conkling, Platt and Arthur.
In fact, it was intimated by a prominent
New York city official that Mr. Conk
ling is desirous of meeting the Republi
can members and personally explaining
his position. None are so enthusiastic
as to stake an opinion that two half-breed
Senators can be elected. Especially is
this the case since the stalwart nomina
tions of yesterday.”
Of the President it is said Senator
Conkling quite recently spoke as fol
lows: “That man in the White House
is not all one man. For instance, he
gets his religion from Bob Ingersoll, his
patriotism from Mahone, his honesty
from Dorsey, and his stupidity—well, it
may be natural, but it is more than like
ly that it is a legacy left by his predeces
sor in the office of President,”
Ctttirwa gmeflies.
(uticura
Blood and Skin Remedies,
I have suffered over thirteen years with skin
disease in my hands and limbs, causing con
stant irritation, depriving me of rest and atten
tion to Last May a physician called
my disease Eczema Rodent; spots appeared on
my hands, head and face, eyes became much
Inflamed and granulated, causing at length,
Impaired sight. Internal and external reme
dies were prescribed by a leading physician for
Six months; was then introduced to another,
and a consultation of several leading physicians
was had, when a definite plan was decided
upon, but all to no purpose. After following
advice for four months without any permanent
cure, I bought the Cuticura Resolvent, Cutt
cura and some CuncußA Soap, which speedily
and permanently cured me, so that I have re
mained well to this day, as my friends in De
troit can testify. F. H. DRAKE.
Clifford st. and Woodward ave., Detroit,
Mich., April 3,1880.
Itching Humor.
John W. F. Hobbs, Esq., North Hampton, N.
H , w ell known as the originator of the Citt-
Kens' Line Coaches, Boston, writes that he has
been cured by the CuncußA Remedies of an
Itching Humor from which he has been a great
sufferer, as all his friends know. He considers
them the greatest remedies of the age.
Cuticura Resolvent
Purifies the blood, through the bowels, liver,
kidneys and skin. Cuticura, a Medicinal Jelly,
removes dead flesh and skin, renders healthy
Ulcers and old sores, allays inflammation, itch
ing and irritation of the skin and scalp. Cuti
cura Medicinal Toilet Soap restores, whitens
and beautifies the skin. Cuticura Shaving
Soap is the only medicinal soap expressly pre
pared for shaving.
Cuticura Remedies are prepared by Weeks
& Potter, Chemists and Druggists, 860 Wash
ington street, Boston, and are for sale by all
Druggists.
For sale wholesale and retail by OSCEOLA
BUTLER, Savannah, Ga.
MALT
UN FERMENTED
Irnlmms
TRADE MARK
MALT AND HOPS^i
&ITTEHS
CHILDREN.— Mental and physical weakness
of youth has Its origin, in the majority of
cases, in defective nutrition. Food in sufficient
quantities is taken, but it is not assimilated.
The blood is pale, thin and weak. There is no
life in the little one who pines in solitude, to
the astonishment of friends and relatives.
Now, what this young patient wants is some
thing to nourish and strengthen tne blood, in
crease the flesh, and build up the system.
Nothing in medicine or foods can possibly equal
MALT BITTERS, which are rich in bone and
fat-producing materials. They assist digestion,
cleanse and enrich the blood, and prepare the
system to resist disease and debility. MALT
BITTERS are prepared without fermentation
from Canadian BARLEY MaLT and HOPS,
and warranted superior to all other forms of
malt or medicine, while free from the objec
tion urged against malt liquors.
Ask for Malt Bitters prepared by the Malt
Bitter* Company, and see that every bottle
bears the Trade Mark Label, duly Signed and
enclosed in Wave Lines as seen in cut.
MALT BITTERS are for sale by all Druggists.
For sale wholesale and retail by OSOaOLA
BUTLER. Savannah. Ga.
Tie Largest Jewelry Boise
SOUTH .OF NEW YORK IS
MUMS,
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,
FreflcMJapfiselMtiGs
OPERA GLASSES, ETC.
Strangers in the city should visit this well
known and extensive Jewelry Establishment,
COR. OF BULL AND BROUGHTON BTS.
S.P. HAMILTON.
mystf
ffflapoUa §alm.
LOVELY
COMPLEXIONS
POSSIBLE TO ALL.
What Natnre denies to many
Art secures to all. Hagan’s
Magnolia Balm dispels every
blemish, overcomes Redness,
Freckles, Sallowness, Rough
ness, Tan, Eruptions and
Blotches, and removes all evi
dences of heat and excitement.
The Magnolia Balm imparts
the most delicate and natural
complexional tints —no detec
tion being possible to the clos
est observation.
Under these circnmstances a
faulty complexion is little short
of a crime. Magnolia Balm
sold everywhere. Costs only
75 cents, with full directions.
Putts.
FOR SALE,"
rj - HEAD of Extra Fine MULES,
suitable for Timber and Turpentine J
men. Long time, with approved city accept
ances. aP. GOODWIN. apIB-dAwtf
gry <£am.
A REVOLUTION US PRICES!
NOT HAVING SUFFICIENT ROOM ON OUR GROUND FLOOR FOR OUR INCREASING
TRADE. WH> OFFER THE FOLLOWING BARGAINS. WHICH ARE DISPLAYED
ON OUR SECOND FLOOR 1
We are determined to offer such Inducements to the public that they will find it worth their
while not to mind the one flight of stairs. Young ladies will be in charge of that department.
NOTE WHAT WE OFFER ON OUR SECOND FLOOR AND THE PRICES:
ONE CENT
Will buy each of the following articles: A paper Between Needles, a Thimble, two dozen of the
best quality silvered or black Hooks and Eyes, a 2-yard long Corset Lace, a cake of Fancy Soap,
a paper of Hair Pins, a cambric-lined Shirt Front, a Spool of Cotton and many other articles.
TWO CENTS
Will buy half dozeu yard long Linen Shoe Laces.a cake of real nice Boap, Linen Torchon Edg
ings. Imitation Torchon Lace, Real Everlasting Trimmings, Valenciennes and other Lace Edgings
and Insertions, a rubber tipped polished Lead Pencil, a roll of medium width twilled Tape a card
containingone dozen Napkin Pins, fancy bordered Handkerchiefs, an Ivory Fine Tooth Comb, a
Japanese Fan, etc.
THREE CENTS
Will buy a package of 25 good Envelopes, 12 sheets of good Commercial Note Paper, a variety
of excellent Laces and Embroideries, a Linen Shirt Front, lined, a half pound Cake Castile Soap a
card (12 dozen) Shirt Buttons, a paper Pins, a pair Rubber Bracelets, a gents’ bordered Cambric
Handkerchief, a black polished Fan, a Fan Holder, Doylies, etc.
FOUR CENTS.
1,000 yards Calico at 4c., a real nice Gents’ Cambric Handkerchief, a Pocket Book a Leather
Wallet, Embroideries, Laces, Ladies’ Linen Collars, a 3-yard long Lines Corset Lace, a Turkey
Red Handkerchief, a yard of Garter Elastic, Ribbons, a paper of 25 steel pointed English Hair
Pins, a bunch of Alpaca Braid and a multitude of other articles.
FIVE CENTS
Will buy a 10c. cake of Sweet Soap, a pair of 10c. Fancy or Bleached Children’s Hose a pair of
Men a Fancy Half Hose, worth 15c.; Bleached and Unbleached Ladies’ Hose, a Round Fine or
Dressing Comb, any quantity of Laces and Embroideries, 24 sheets of good Note Paper Ladies’
Embroidered Collars, an all linen Handkerchief, 6 dozen Dress Buttons, Ribbons, a Cloth Fan
Tidies, Earrings, etc. ’
SIX CENTS
Will buy an all Linen, 34-inch long Towel, an all Silk Windsor Ladies’Tie, a beautiful Round
Comb, a heavy Dressing Comb, a good Pocket Book, usually sold at 25c.; a yard of best quality
Garter Web, a paper English Pins, Ribbons, 20 styles of Dress Buttons, worth 20c. to 25c. per
dozen, a bottle good Cologne, and many other articles.
SEVEN CENTS
Will buy some very beautiful Laces and Embroideries, a fluted Lawn Apron, a pair of Misses’
F!i nc &S ose ’ Bize 7 *’ 8 and BJ4; Ribbous, a Gents’ large size Turkey Red Handkerchief, a box
Lily White, and other articles.
EIGHT CENTS
Will buy an embroidered Gents’ Shirt Front, a pair of nice Bracelets, a linen Hemstitched
Handkerchief, Embroideries, Laces, Combs, Hair Brush, and so forth, worth two, three and
four times their price.
NINE CENTS
Will buy a Ladies’ fine Linen Handkerchief, a Linen Torchon Collar, Lace Bibs, Earrings, Brace
lets, Breastpins, Silk Handkerchiefs, each and every article a bargain.
TEN CENTS
Will buy an excellent pair of plain or embroidered Cuffs, worth 25c. and 35c.; fine embroidered
Mull Ties, never sold before for less than 25c ; a 42-inch ail Linen Towel, worth 20c.: a large size,
all Lmen Napkin, a pair of Ladies’ Thread Gloves, a Too’h Brush worth 25c, a bottle of German
Cologne worth 25c , Misses’ Silk Embroidered Solid Color Hose, Embroideries. Laces Ribbons
etc., every article a special bargain.
REMEM B E R !
All we ask is an examination of these goods, and if we find that Ladies will not mind the i
trouble of a flight of stairs, we promise them to make it an institution, and we will add daily
some of the MOST MARVELOUS BARGAINS to this department. In fact, we intend to make it j
A_ IsTOA-H’S ARK!
As usual, our store is brimful of live bargains. We have new attractions dally. We will men
tion a few -
5,000 pieces CALICO, in short length, running from 10 to 20 yards each, at s?£c. per yard. We
warrant these Calicoes to be of the very best make. In fact, the same as sold at BJsc.
We will not cut them. We sell them only by the piece.
100 all Linen Ladies’ ULSTERS, slightly soiled by machine oil, at 75c. each. These goods are
worth from $3 to $3 50.
500 all Linen Ladies’ ULSTERS, perfect in every way, from $1 up.. These goods must be seen to
be appreciated. They are the nicest goods ever brought to this market.
500 yards BLACK SILK, at 39c. This Silk is worth 75c., and nothing less.
2,000 yards WORSTED DRESS GOODS, former price 2 s c. reduced to lt#<e
1,000 yards BLACK ALL WOOL BUNTINGS, down to lf<c.
50 dozen HEMSTITCHED MOURNING HANDKERCHIEFS, splendid bargains.
250 dozen TURKEY RED DOYLIES, at 42c., 50c. and 80c. per dozen.
500 dozen DAMASK TOWELS, the best and cheapest ever offered.
BARGAINS IN EATERY LINE AT
DAVID WEISBEIN’S.
ap2s-N&Teltf
ptlUorrij ©seas.
SWEEPING REDUCTIONS!
18. II.TITO Sc „
13S Brougfliton Street.
STUPENDOUS BARGAINS THROUGHOUT OUR ENTIRE BTOCK OF
MILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS !
HATS, HATS, HATS, HATS, HATS!
"WJE3 Q I* B HI K-K ;
Trimmed Sailors, Boys* and Girls’, at 25c., worth 50c.
Variegated Fayal Picnic Hats at 35c., worth 75c.
Shade Hats, in every variety, at 25c , worth 35c.
Tape Flats and Bonnets at 25., worth 50c.
Leghorn Hats, Ladies’ and Misses’, at 50c., worth $1 00.
Lace Straw Hats and Bonnets in endless variety.
AT NEW YORK PRICES:
All the LATEST EFFECTS in HAT TRIMMINGS.
Elegant Ombre shaded SURAH SATINS.
Exquisite Ombre shaded EUKAH BROCADES.
Novelties in Persian and Turkish BROCADES.
New Tints in Plain SURAH SILKS and SATINS.
PLAIN BATINS and DRESS TRIMMING SILKS.
New FRENCH and DOMESTIC ELOWERS
OSTRICH TIPS and PLUMES. FANCY RIBBONS. ORNAMENTS.
PARASOLS AND FANS, PARASOLS AND FANS.
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AT
Platt’s lei Metj Store,
138 Brougliton Street,
THE LARGEST AND CHEAPEST SELECTION OF
HATS! HATS! HATS! HATS!
FOR LADIES, MISSES AND CHILDREN. THE LATEBT IN
ROUGH AND READY HATS!
THE NEWEST IN
FLOffERSimWEHHSiMSiIWmTi
EXAMINE OUR STOCK AND BE CONVINCED. my^-tf
£prluktcr ami fountain.
BEST THING- OUT!
SOMETHING NEW, EFFECTIVE AND CHEAP!
•PERFECTION"
ILA/WniT AND GARDEN M ,
SPRINKLER Hi
Directions : Screw on to hose so that the Sprink- '.iJNh
ler will stand upright when tho pm is placed in the §MA JSB T' a-
Bod. and Turn on the water according to the circle and( - , ,
Guaranteed to do as much as any Sprinkler made.
This valuable little machine is for sale and can be seen in operation at my store. RUB
BER HOSE also for sale at the lowest prices.
JOHN NICOXjSON,
Plumber, Gas and Steam Fitter, Nos. 30 and 32 Drayton St.
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©to## AU and *ofla.
TH© Great Summer DrlnK-s l
REFRESHING AND INVIGORATING.
CANTRELL * COCHRANE’S
DUBLIN AND BELFAST
GINGER ALE AND CLUB SODA.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
See that the Cork is branded “Cantrell A Coohrane, Dublin and Belfast,” aps-Tu&FJ6t
tinted,
consumption. Any J° cot]
— f Kr *t. jyß
commission w S lo h w ‘th Vom S
gu.io,. a i„ tbSsy.S"!?’* iKS
J?' 3 ,, Parent:.*, Apply a ,Y, reSu^
HlpSall
WANTED, a reliable nuKTT^
W a aS?-
—s '
WANTED, a white or coiorM~~''^s.
street. the country 1 ,
WANTED, a first-class \ v
.7'. and orna -center; s . ‘
highestwages paid. Address BoiJ
‘Srll
\v' ANr>:: ' I
STAVES, delivered at any sh, PP ; J
Georgia, South Carolina, or At]4n ,." 1
Florida. ' °
W ANTED, every
to li ; at the finest v'K "'‘
in the South are for sale at -i
posite the Screven House -h!” 1
Views of Southern Scenery.”
_janJo tf U J
WANTED, Piancs
TJ repair. Kates reason - ii\ ti:; “ J
Instruments. T. It Tr! ij ~ . S * v
between Bull and Whitaker",
—— - -M
4;cr n\>. -i
JT OR SaLK ' and '^EltNEYHii^J
years old, on point of calving. Apply J
street. 1
FOS SALE, one No. 8 IVheKTTV'fI
-T Sewing Machine, with the i at g, 4 ; " II J
ments; entirely new; never l-ee f u l m|!ra *
has no use for it; price 4u c JI *■
, News office. cass - AMnjM
POK SALE.-3'J
F Repparn streets, near Dra\ ton v 9 4
ar ;^K K - B - REPPARD ’ * Wl
but “Havens’ *’ TwvrZTT —
OPIOVIEWS tO^
tOMMs'the thle S - *°
_mh3l-NATeltf mßroaghSfiJ
SHINGLES and BuAi 11
For sale by *
-^ >gßtf BATON tBBoJ
K°m?h L ? , sV‘ S ' f n° ff " ll; 'rv
A ratus. 1 Steam Drying Pres* (Hi .
Platen 18x24; 1 Iron Beating T-K fl
Iron Casting Mould (Hoe’s No 6)
They are almost new- and in ran-i
Address J. H. ESI'ILL, Savannah.
BOARD —The rates of board at
HOUSE will be reduced from .T^^9
iNovember Ist. U. W. bEhGEvB
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CORCimii!! Pill
SUPKUNTESDEKT'S OFFICE 8.8. *
Jiuy ith.
IN future, EVERY AFTERNOON'from!®
o’clock until 7 the cars on
LINK will run thr ugh to CuNc
first through car leaving Bav 3:30 p s
every 10 minutes thereafter'until
leaving Concordia Dark 3.-5 B p m. and
minutes thereafter until 8:06 p. it. ' ■
All SUBURBAN TRAINS arriving and- K
ing city between 3:3) o'clock and EW
will stop and start from Relay House. |
No freight received after 3 o’clock p, s, I
*No admission fee to the Park and oclvll^B
CENTS from Bay to the Park.
EDW. J. THOMAS, ■
my9-tf Superinteßda^H
COAST LINE RAILHOAD OFFiaoH
Savaksah, October 30,1555.
ON and after MONDAY, NovemberLß,
the following suburban schedule
observed;
LEAVE LEAVE
SAVANNAH. THUNDERBOLT. BONAVUTt^H
7:00 a. m. 8:00 a. m. wK®
10:35 a.m. 12:50 p.m. POOi.H
3:35 p. u. 4:50 p. m. 5:00p.^8
6:35 p.m. | 7:05 p.m. 7:15 p.^B
SUNDAY SCHEDULE. 1
Cars leave Bolton street at 7:00,
12:00 o’clock in the morning, and in
ing every half hour from 2:35 until 0:00
Last car leaves Thunderbolt at 7:05 r. s- ■
FRANK LA MAR, ■
oct3o-tf Superintend^
S'tlifc Mfdulr.
ftfifi Ferrylfril
THE NEW IRON SALOON STEaMBH
H. B. FLAM
WILL run the following schedule, a
mencing SUNDAY, May Ist from”
foot of Abercorn street: .
Sundays—From Tybee, T a. m., 1*
Sundays—From city. 10 a. m ano t;* f
Mondays, Wednesdays and Frida}*—•
Tybee, 7 a#.; from city, 6p.m. ,
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturcaj*-
Tybee, 7 a. u. and 4 p.m.; from citj.i"
Family excursions Tuesdays, Thursday
Saturdays. , j
The cars will tr eet every boat a. ■*“
bridge and wharf having been repa-rw
put in perfectly safe condition.
Tramway tickets must be bought
office. All freight prepaid on whait .
N. B.—No freight, received after w
to time of steamer’s departure. ...
JNO. F. ROBEBW";
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Partiugnj,
J. W. TYNAI
Engineer and Machitf
savannah,
Machine, Boiler and Siuilh
COR. WEST BROAD AND INDIAN
All kinds of Machinery,
and repaired. St*am
lectors, and Steam an J ater
Rind** for sale
Proposals.
Timber for U. • F,er
Lewefj Del.
U. 8. Ekgikkeh Office.
Phi la dm Lee ia. Pa.- May „ji
SEALED proposal m tnpncw
ceived at this office until , oe )Bj
THURSDAY, the 9th day
furnishing 63.603 feel b. in. p £.
Sine timber, to be delivered
♦ laware Breakwater Harbor, .
For blank forms and all in / u ma' O#
this office. .„ ' ,a U. M!
my 23 6t Colonel of Engmee-j —
OyyicxorLmHTHOCs^
OEALED H propoM S
O office until U m., tight
Building a Dwelling tor Lm ffl ri
Tybee Island. Ga., -T c T t h all ° tb J #
and specifications, which, ,
ful information, can be o>b mete
The right to reject any^oraU^
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