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"Obc of tbe first duties of a com
man;ty,” uys Mayor Means, of Cincm
b*’i, in aa interview, “is to protect its
T vulk. Protect the boy first, and they
anil protect the rirla ”
The Treasury officials at Washington
refused last week to follow the old and
unlawful, though convenient, practice of
payiac tbe clerics their December salary
la advance, for Christmas money.
R- rmcfcroent, economy, careful re
vi- on of the executive estimates, can
have no place m Tbe programme which
llUbt wrought out by Keifer. Almas'
everyone of the committees seems to
have been made up with a distinct view
to extravagance, if not to corruption.
If the bill fixing the term of office for
revenue col at four years, and
W'Ja? ; "C out of office all those who
shall have been commissioned for four
yea’s or m >on June 30, 1882. should
he passed by the na’hoal house, four
fiftir* of the present f<wce of collectors
aruM Vw their officisl beds. No won
der tbe hreth-en are a trifl * agitated.
The creat danger that confronts Presi
dent Arthur i* the full Treasury. Then
ar, he ten th i-and plausible schemes
for retting at the public money. Be
•tvlea. there is the temptation to buy ap
pisbsirini by Staging the Treasury dol
lar* browlcas* t ver the country. This is
the usual way in which a first term is
■mde the goldew road to a second one.
Secret a tut H ant ha* granted an advance
of pay to a yotine naval officer who is
about to o t marneil, and in his letter to
tbe < ffi 'er the Secretary advises, in s
general way, that it is a good thing for
all yvunc m< n, even naval officers, to
■tarrv fkomeb-'dy. The ethics of matri
mony is an entirely new thing to tbe
nconl* of the Navy Department official
correspondence.
The effleial list of members of United
States legations abroad shows a vacancy
in tbe ministership to Austria, Chili.
China tiermany, Russia and Paraguay
and Uruguay. It is understood that
app- .atnx-nts wi . be made and the nam r g
■eat to the Senate early in January. So
maav imp rtaot positions in the d'plo
matte corps, it is said, were Dever before
vncaat at tbe same time.
Tbe Republicans in Congress are evi
dently ploiting to unite the factions of
the partv by rev ving the animosities
thi f,\r a t many years brought such dif
fer to the business interests of the
country Speaker K- i r er began the in
fan cm* work in the House committees,
nnd the coatoted lection cases are to
be used as a means for bringing a series
of charges again-! the Southern people.
Repre-*n attve Moore, anew member
from Tennessee, is evidently determined
to get nil be can out of his position.
There is a numher of people in the de
partments from Mr M sore's district. He
ha served notice upon them that he
wants their pi* ***- He tells them that
there are plenty of his people who would
like to pet places, and he is determined to
sec that taey are accommodated as far as
H H w:thia hi* power. Representative
Moore is specially making a raid upon
tbe Treasury Depirtment.
T.. - • i.-.y mtu'i in Nets
York that R ec-e Coukiing might be
aacccs-fu . v run for Governor at the next
election seems to have set the half
breeds to twittering. One of their chiefs
jsrepor'e) a* saying that Conklmg is
jut danng on ugu to try such an experi
meat, and that if he did he would stand
a good chance of success. He then adds:
"If be enter, and the fight he would be
backed by Arthur and Wall street as no
Gubernatorial candidate has been in
years." It is observable of laic years
tbat tbe parti of “great moral idea*,’’
while they spout about God being “on
our side," always rely on Wall street to
win tbe battle for them.
Senator Beck is preparing a speech on
tbe tariff commission bill, and expects
Id be able to present some startling facts
which be obtained during a recent visit
t3 Atlanta, showing tbat the cotb n man
ufactunng industry of tbe Soutu not
only needs no protection, but that New
sooner or later will need far
more to be protected against Georgia
than against f. reign competition. Mr.
Beck do*-* not re-card ihe Morrill bill as
tsntaia of passage, and stands nearly on
tbe war ground wii Mr. Sherman,that
a commissi >n wi 1 re-sub merely in need
lam de’ay.believing that Congress should
■t cace take bold of the matter, and not
Inlngiir it* p >wer to any outside body
of men. Judge Kelley thinks that are
might be a good thing as to some
few art etea. but decidedly opposes any
wholesale reduction.
Xbe Berlin correspondent of the Lon-
.'hn<la~d says: "The customs of
flrmlf have contrived to double and
Uih]( Use tax on many kinds of import
ed provisions by taxing the wrappers
I m d label* *s essential parts of the con
I Thu. American corned beef
Una it taxed as fiue iron wares.’”
W ruppoee. remarks the New York
Ommrrrt.il Bulletin, the next thing will
Is* the taxing of letier and newspaper
■ iTalnprir the ink that it used in writ
ing and printing them; also, the hoops
••d cordage that are used around har
lot and boxes of merchandise. There
i- wo ewd o thi' specie* of official extor-
U M v ben once berun. The tntth is,
;■ <l*vmsny a naan ia coming to be look
ed upon and more as simply a
thing to be taxed, from t* e hair of his
bend to tbe sole of his f**ot; and what
there ia left of him, after that, to be pul
iwto the armv
•then were seventeen calendar days
from the meeting of C ingress. on Decern
| |o adj mrnment, on the 21*4, for
the holiday recess. In the few hours
I jj- TCITrr t lo the busin**s§ of legislation
these were presented for the considera
tion of Congress 2.137 bills and 60 joint
■waolwttoas in the House and 685 bills
and 44> joint resolutions in the Senate,
an aggregate of 2 933 distinct propoei
ti-'ms tor Congtvrssiooal action, besides
[ m , thousand memorials and petitions
mrre-ted and referred to committee*,
fg which are entit’ed to re*pect
fl con‘iteration. Many of the bills have
been before previous Congresses, some
| of them for thirty year*. They have
Maned sometimes one house and some-
I (jus the other, and in a few cases both,
I w 4 been vetoed ay the President, but
[ p*: by ymr they eom hack. There are
, mw before Congress that came in
I h r the relief of nn individual,
■kglk Ha nimMetr”.next his widow,
Tbe Small Pox Exclt went.
The small pox, which has been pro
tailing in epidemic form in the North
and Wes: for some time past, seen a,
from the tone of our recent dispatches,
to be increasing in virulence. Especially
is this the case in the West, as the tele
graph informs us that in Dakota Terri
tory it has assumed a peculiarly violent
and fatal form. The victims frequently
die in twenty-four hours after being
attacked, and it is stated that, in many
cases, blood gushes from the eyes, ears
and noses of the sufferers, and the dis
ease partakes more of the nature of the
plague than of the smallpox. Thehealih
authorities in the cities of the regions
affected are exerting themselves to the
utmost to keep the disease in check, but
in spite of their efforts it still continues
its ravages.
So far the South has been fortunate
enough to escape the disease, and there
is not the slightest cause for alarm in our
section at present Nevertheless it be
hooves our people to guard against fu
ture contingencies, and take all steps
possible to prevent a visitation of the
loathsome and dreaded malady.
The first step to be taken in this direc
tion is to heed the admonitions of the
Sanitary Board of this city, and of the
physicians generally in other cities re
garding vaccination. There is among
many persons a decided, but for
the most part unreasonable, preju
dice against such a measure.
Nevertheless experience has con
clusively proven that vaccination is
the only sure preventive against the dis
ease, and that, with sufficient care to
inoculate the system with healthy virus,
no injurious results can follow its adop -
tion. There is no disease in the world
more disagreeable and loathsome in its
character and more to be dreaded in its
effects than is this plague, since even
should the victim of it be fortunate
enough to escape death, he or she is very
frequently left by it disfigured for life.
Far better is it then to risk the imagined
evil effects of vaccination than to permit
oneself to remain liable to an attack of
so dreaded a scourge, should it ever
make its appearance in our midst.
Proper sanitary precautions against
the disease are also absolutely necessary.
These are mainly ventilation of houses—
so that pure, fresh air may have con
stant ingress through windows and doors
into dwellings—and the judicious use of
disinfectants snd preventive agents.
These precautions are, of course, neces
sary to be mainly considered only after
the disease has appeared in a commu
aity. It is well, however, to be familiar
with their importance, for, in the opin
ion of physicians of experience, if such
measures and precautions are properly
carried out, the progress of the disease,
even after its appearance, can be mate
rially arrested.
There is still another matter which, at
this time especially, should receive the
attention of our civil authorities, and
'hat is the subject of a proper quarantine
against the introduction of tbe disease
from infected districts. At this season
of tbe year every train and steamer from
the North brings amongst us many visit
ors direct from the scenes of the scourge.
Not a great deal of daDeer is to be at
tributed to this source, perhaps, since
the parties traveling would not be able
to conceal an attack of the disease. Still
infectious diseases of all kinds are fre
quently spread in this way from one
place to another, and great care should
be taken, by strict and thorough exami
nations, to guard against all risks.
We are happy to repeat that, so far,
there is no indication whatever that we,
in this community, will be called
upon to suffer from this plague.
Still to be forewarned is to be forearmed,
and it is the part of wisdom to provide
against all possible contingencies. If the
necessary steps are taken in time there
is no doubt that the scourge can be suc
cessfully warded off, and it is the duty
not only of the authorities but of every
individual citizen to see to it that noth
ing be left undone to prevent a visitation
of so dread a disease.
Important Meeting To-night.
The interest that has been developed
in the community by the recent agita
tation of matters relating to public sani
tation, augurs unmistakably that our
people are becoming fully aroused to the
importance of an active co-operation of
all classes in measures tending to perfect
the system of drainage, sewerage and
hygiene generally.
The encouragement extended the
movement for the formation of an Aux
diary Sanitary Association has resulted
in achieving practical results. The com
mittee appointed at the preliminary
meeting held on the 14th ins'ant to pre
pare a plan of organization, have well
sustained their reputation as sagacious,
practical business men, thoroughly earn
est in tueir self fmposed labor for
the public weal, by the preparation
of a series of by laws for the government
of the organization, and an intelligent
resume of the objects to be accomplish
ed—which were published in our issue
of yesterday, and very generally rend.
This evening, as will be seen by an
nouncement in our local columns, an
adjourned meeting of the preliminary
organizttion will be held in the Council
Chamber, Exchange building, when the
report of this committee will be pre
rented for consideration and action, and
a permanent association will be effected.
In a matter of such vital importance
as the public health of our city, it would
reem superfluous for us to urge upon
every taipayer, every head of family,
and every good citizen interested in the
present and future welfare of the com
munity of which he is a member to lend
his cheerful aid to secure the success of
the aims and ends of this proposed
Auxiliary Association. Everyone is in
terested, and should feel it a duty to
take an active part in a work which.
though designed for the public good,
c*n but pr >ve beneficial in its results to
himself and his family.
We regard the meeting to-night as
important, and the formation of this as
sociation as marking an era in the his’ory
of this city which will be productive of
the grandest results and the greatest
blessings to our people.
Therefore, it is to be hoped that there
will be a large attendance at this meet
ing. and a cordial invitation is extended
all who can for the moment cast aside
the inclinations aud impulses of personal
ease, and are willing to devote a short
while to matters of general good, to be
present and to participate in the proceed
ings.
If Senator John Sherman, *&f Ohio, is
an innocent man he wiil insist that the
Senate committee which on his motion
is about to investigate Treasuary opera
tions during his term as Secretary shall
sit with open doors. A lock-and key
vindication will not be worth the paper
it is written on.
Philadelphia Press: “The fork in the
road is just ahead of the Arthur ad
ministration. There is some doubt which
way President Arthur will turn; there
isn’t a bit which way the vital majority
of his party want him to,”
The Sltfer question
Hon. Abram S. Hewitt ha* introduced
a silver bill in the House of Repreeente
tives, the ohtef features of which are: 1,
to equalize the intrinsic value of gold
and silver dollars, and make them inter
changeable by the government upon de
mand of the holder, a gold dollar for a
silver dollar or a silver dollar for a gold
dollar as he may elect; 2, to repeal the
provision of the act of February 28,1878,
which requires the coinage into standard
silver dollars of not less than two mil
lion dollars in value of silver bullion
each month, and leave the Secretary
of the Treasury free to coin or not
coin silver dollars according to
toe demands of business. It is
not likely that Mr. Hewitt’s bill, in that
shape, can pass. The advocates of con
stitutional coin and legal tender, void and
silver, might consent to a modification
of the present law that would require an
equality of intrinsic value between tbe
two dollars, if there should be added
provirion for equality of free coinage
and the issuance of certificates of deposit
by the government. This would place
the country upon a solid specie basis,
and give it a currency of the people,
gold, silver and paper, interchangeable
dollar for dollar.
The pretense of the enemies of silver
that the coinage is useless because $66,-
000.000 of the 100,000,000 silver dollars
coined are in the Treasury, is a false
one. The $66,000,000 are in the Treas
ury, it is true. Bit the owners of those
$66 000 000 have drawn and put in cir
culation certificates of deposit for them,
and they are used just as the business man
brings into use his deposit in bank by
issuing checks for it Secretary Folger
in his late report treats the certificates
for silver deposited in the Treasury as
“currency of the country”—as he holds,
“an inexpedient addition to the paper
currency.”
The friends of silver do not agree with
the Secretary as to the inexpediency of
the issuance of silver certificates and
their use, in place of the coin itself, as
currency. They believe that the people
should have the right to deposit gold and
silver dollars alike with the Treasury and
receive therefor certificates of deposit
which they may use in lieu thereof as
currency. The enemies of this kind of
people’s currency are the national
bondholders, national bankers and
money lenders generally. Prior to
the passage of the act of
February 28. 1878, requiring the Treas
ury to issue silver certificates, gold cer
tificates had been issued to a very large
amount. They are now next to nothing
—about $o 000 000. And the reason
why they have been withdrawn and no
more issued, the Treasury having the
same option that Mr. Hewitt now pro
poses for it in relation to silver coinage,
is that the gold certificates to the extent
of their value supplanted National Bank
currency.
With the mountains and plains of the
great West teeming with the precious
ores of gold and silver, there is no good
reason why our paper currency, instead
of being used by the Treasury through
corporations upon deposit of evidences
of debt, should be issued directly to tbe
people in the form of gold and silver
certificates upon deposit of 'he veri
table constitutional coin of pold and sil
ver itself. The fact that the gold cer
tificates were withdrawn at the bidding
and in the interest of the national bank
ers, and that the silver certificates are
now being assailed from the same source,
shows that the Treasury certificates of
deposit of gold and silvei dollars are
superior and preferable to the national
bank currency and capable of filling its
place.
The cases against James and Walter E.
Malley and Blanche Douglass for the
alleged murder of Jennie E. Cramer will
be presented to the grand jury on Tues
day or Wednesday of next week. A
true bill wdl immediately be found. Tbe
State has secured testimony from a bar
tender, in whose saloon, on the shore,
the Malley party and Jennie were drink
ing until nearly midnight on August sth,
a few hours before her death. The proof
of this fact has until now been sealed to
the authorities. Detective Woods, who,
it was given out, bad gone to the South
west, has secured important revelations.
The defense also have new testimony,
and profess to believe their clients will
leave the county jail free men by March
Ist.
Guiteau’s case is stated in a nutshell
by a New York gentleman, who, in the
Tribune, commenting on the “inspira
tion” plea, says: “Let us hear what a
writer, acknowleged by the whole Chris
tian church to be inspired, has to say on
this point: ‘Let no man say when he is
tempted, I am tempted of God, for God
cannot be tempted with evil, neither
tempteth He aDy man. But every man
is tempted when he is drawn away by
hi* own lust and enticed. Then when
lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth
sin; and sin, when it is finished, bringeth
forth death.’ — St. James, i., 13, 14, 15.”
The Washington friends of the noto
rious Wm. E. Chandler continue to be
persistent in asserting that he is the
coming new Secretary of the Navy. Or
dinarily such an assertion would be in
credible, but it is said there are. many
sc ernes on foot, and though Chandler
has for years been one of Blaine’s stri
kers, and hence, in one sense, objection
able to the stalwarts, yet he has, at the
same time been one of a company whose
master spirit is Secor R tbeson, and of
which circle Subsidy John Roach is no
insignificant part.
A Washington correspondent writing
about the ai rival iu the capital of the
new Chinese Minister, says: “His name
is Chang, and his Christian name is Isac
ju.” The country wil} be pleased to learn
in this way that he had been converted t.o
Christianity, but his “Christian” name
does not indicate i. It sounds too much
like Isaac Jew. Whether Pagan or
Christian, Greek or Jew, however, he is
said to be the highest ranked celestial
who has ever visited this country of out
side barb.iriaus.
The Georgia Mahoneites, whoever they
are, arc, it is stated, still at sea regarding
a leader, and canuot find any one upon
whom to concentrate. If they fail to
rally under ihe banner of Marco lus E.
they will be guilty of base ingratitude.
He has claims above Hon. Speer or any
one else. N. B.—A suitable device on
the banner aforesaid would be a quail,
or, impaled upoa a fork argent on a
field Mane, all rampant and highly im
proper.
Hon. Henry G. Davis has declined to
enter the arena as a candidate for re
election to the United States Senate from
West Virginia. Hon. Charles James
Faulkner, United States Minister to
Fiance under the Buchanan administra
tion, Ex Governor Henry M. Matthews,
of Greenbrier county, Hon. Joha Blair
Hoge, of Martinsburg, have been spoken
Qf in connection with his succession.
CIVII. SERVICE REFORM
A Kflro.prt-Tb Rtll. ol Bureau
cracy. With m*at|ona for Their
Care.
JTJifait Morning Xtw*: The people of the
United States are alarmed by the Influence
wielded in their political affairs by the civil
service of the General Government. From
a small cloud in the horlxon of our early
national history it has grown with the de
velopment and Increasing population of the
country until It completely overshadows it,
and has become threatening, if not already
dangerous, to our Democratic Republican
system and to our liberties. The people
are Justly disturbed, and with singular
unanimity, without regard to party lines or
to geographical sections, demand reform.
Will the politicians who manipulate the
civil service yield to the people’s urgent
pa'l, or are they strong enough to postpone
action indefinitely and maintain the civil
service as it is, corrupting our elections and
demoralising generally the integrity of our
cltisens ?
Having had some years of experience
with the civil service of the country when
in charge of a bureau of the War Depart
ment, and studied it then and since, in mav
not be thought presumptuous In me to give
to the public the result of my observations
and conclusions, with the suggestions in
duced by them, as mv contribution to the
common stock of influences pressing for the
desired information.
When the colonies revolted against Great
Britain and united in forming a Confed
eracy styled The United States of Amer
ica, such colony or State retained, by the
Articles cf Confederation, its sovereignty,
freedom and Independence, and every power,
Jurisdiction and right not delegated express
ly to the Confederate Congress. Tbe Con
federacy was only a firm league of friend
ship en’ered into by sovereign States, for
their common defense, the securiy of their
liberties and their mutual and general wel
fare. Taxes, duties, Imposts, and tbe civil
service, were assessed, collected in, and con
trolled by each State for and by
its own citizens. Such was the con
duct of civil affairs with the
adoption by the S'ates in 1789 of
our present Constitution. By that instru
ment a common treasury for all the States
was established, and regulations of com
merce, of post offices and post roads, of
coinage, and of the other functions of com
mon intere-t, were transferred to the central
government, then created, whose laws were
also made supreme in all the powers grant
ed to it by the Sta’es. By these concessions
a national civil service was necessarily
created; in Us Infancy subordinate to the
political principle, that gave it birth, but
which now in manly vigor seeks to control
(no loDger to obey) the popular voice, and
if not checked in time to hold the destiny
of the United Btates at its will. We trust
tbat it is uot already too late to return to
first principles, and transmit to posterity in
matured excellence the Republic we in
herit from our ancestors.
During the administrations of the Presi
dents Washington, John Adams, Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe aud John Quincy Adams,
all of whom but tbe last, had been more or
less prominent In framing the Constitution,
and, therefore, may be assumed to have
understood its text and spirit The practice
bad been to regard public officers as the
servants of the people, and to a- point to
office only such men as were properly qualifi
ed for the duties to be discharged. They
recogniz-d the facts, too, that experience
in any special occupation gave additional
strength to qualification, and that fidelity
was encouraged by the assurance of tenure of
office so long as ability and good behavior
sustained the incumbent. The freedom of
political sentiment was recognized, and
party adhesion was not made the basis of
i übllc appointment, although unquestion
ably a favorable recommendation; and the
nominations to Federal offices within the
S a'es were cor fined to the clt'zsns of the
States In which they were exercised. The
Constitution of 1789 merely took up the
articles of confederation and gave them
vitality by modifying the method of their
application, with the addition of supreme'
control iu the regulations of commerce,
post office matters aDd a supreme national
judiciary. Such were the generally reeog
nlz-d principles of administration under
the first six Presidents In the ten terms of
their “ervice, from March 4, 1789, to March
4, 1829, a period of forty years.
F< r the eleventh term, beginning March 4,
1829, General Andrew Jackson had be n
eleced, and upon his installation into office
anew construction of the appointment to
Federal offices was Introduced and vigor
ously carried out. Geneial Jackson claimed
that the national offices belonged of rlgh'
'o the par’y controlling tbe National G -v
--“ri ment, t-ecause public policy required
harmoi y among those selected by the popu
lar voice to manage their common national
Interests; and, therefore, differences of po
lt'ical sentiment In those holding rffice un
der tbe Federal Government were Injurious
to the people’s Interest and not tolerable.
This was a purely military view of the ques
tion, which In the course of time resulted as
we now see In tbe maxim of military plun
dering. “Jo the victors belong the
spoils,” and established allegiance to
party as an essential qualification for
public office. In fact, G-n. Jackson sank
the statesmanship of the Presidency to tbe
rude level of armed capture by regard
ing the Federal offices under executive pa
tronage as “loot” for lavish distribution to
his followers. The civil obligations of the
National Executive were lost sight of by
him iu the contingent power of military
Commander iu-Cbief, ami he approximated
his administration as closely as he could to
the discipline of military obedience. Presi
dent Jackson had his merits, but had also
his fauhs, of which the greatest was his ar
bitrary will, excellent In a camp but out of
place In the Executive Cabinet.
The notion that the Federal offices were
“loot” for party success, once introduced,
was eagerly advocated; by the leaders In
politics, who recognized in it a profitable
element for pushing forward their individ
ual ambitions; and by the indolent, idle and
vicious, who saw in public office the means
of comfortable living without hard work,
and official consequence, gratifying to a
petty vanity. His Ideas grew In strength and
corruption, until they have vitia'ed the
political body to the degree that the evil
mutt be definitely checked, or our Demo
cratic Republican form of government
perish. This is now our peril, and our task
to avert.
My close observations of the civil service
began in Washington city in the year 1848,
nineteen years after the Jacksonian p >leou
had been injected Into our political system,
and its injurious effects were then manifest
in all of the civlldepartmentsof the govern
ment. The War and Navy Departments'
had resisted its encroachments, as the re
sults and responsibilities of their action
were direct aDd prompt in their reaction.
Experience and skill In the discharge of
their duties, therefore, were indispensable.
Nevertheless, incompetent clerks and
drones were sometimes forced upon them
by party dictation in spite of the re
monstrances of their Secretaries. I recall
one old six footer from one of the Western
States, who cou'd not write or spell better
than an ordinary school boy of eight
or nine years of age, and who,
after trial In every room of the
Quar’ermaster General’s department, was
tor the good of the service, given nothing to
do, and whose time was passed in reading
newspapers and loafing. But be had been
a leading politician in his State, and must be
provided for. Hence bis imposition upon us
in idleness at a goed salary. Year by year
during the period of my service. I saw the
evil growing, and markedly so In the Treas
ury, Post Office and Interior Departments ;
and that fraud and corruption followed
closely in its steps. Out of ten appointees,
there were three or four good ones, three or
four indifferent, end the rest worthless, if
not absolu ely vicious Corruption began
to taint all p >dMons, and with the destruc
tion of the National Democratic party at
Charleston in 1860, political licentiousness
shook off restraint. The civil war extended
the national demoralization In both sections,
until political hoDor.good faith and honesty
became generally only traditions of the dim
past, and the government fell into imminent
danger of death from its debasement. Can
this downward tendency be arrested, and
the country saved—and if so, by what
means ?
“Facilis deseetißU* Avernt;
Sed re* ooare, gradual, superasque, raedere ad
Auras.
Hoc opus, hie labor est.”
The first attempt at civil service reform
should be made at the central point, Wash
ington City, where all the operations of the
National Government are gathered for
aualysis and instruction; that is, in the de
partments. There are certain offices of
contr. 1 in those departments which are of
their nature confidential, and shoqld be in
accord with tbe President and bis Cabinet;
but all other J , from the chief clerks down
to the messengers and watchmen, should
be subjected for appointment aud promo
tion to a scru’iny, as to their qualifications
for the position sought, and moral charac
ter. The clerks should be divided into
three classes, graded as to ability, and at
salaries in accordance therewith. Entrance
Into the civil service of the departments
should begin with the third or lowest class,
from which the other classes should be
supplied by successive promotions through
the second to the first class, as vacancies
may occur. The chief clerks to be
selected from the first class.
The tenure of office to be for life,
or during good behavior. The examinations
for appointment to the third class to be
made by a board of three clerks of the first
Class detailed in roster—a clerk of the sec
ond class acting by detail In like manner as
its recorder —and examinations to be ordered
when deemed necessary by the head of the
department. And no one to be appointed
to a clerkship In any of the departments
who shall not have previously passed satis
factorily the prescribed tests as to qualifica
tions and moral character. In addition to
the departmental clerical force thus provi
ded for, such head for department to be
allowed one confidential secretary of hia
own selection and appointment, whose ten
ure of office shall be that of his patrons.
With such a force of clerks, competent and
experienced In the detail and routine busi
ness of thelt respective bureau*, the pres
ent number of clerks In the public depart
ments at Washington may be materially re
duced with benefit to the country at large,
to the facility of public business, and save
money to the Treasury. In the appoint
ments the Btates to be represented in pro
portion to their respective population deter
mined by tbe last census enumeration.
Having purified the reservoir of national
administration at the headquarters, the
capital, the streams flowing from it through
the various channels of the civil service will
he cleaner and more beat.hful, provided they
too be kept In good order.
To this end much of efficiency and purity
will be gained bv a return to the original
custom of confining the appointments to
Federal offices in the B’ates to the B’ates and
communities, respectively, in which their
du’ies are to be performed. Buch a course
will be a salutary influence in preventing a
concentration of power, dangerous to lib
erty in the hands of ambitious men, who
may aim to construct an empire on the
ruins of public liberty. Histoty furnishes
many instances of these attempts—the suc
cessful bane of republics—and such must
inevitably be our record in the near fu'ure
If the antidote be not promp’ly adminis
tered. Another advantage flowing from the
limitation to the S ates of selections for
official trust In them will be a better class
of appointees put forward for nomination,
as their characters are fully known to their
fellow dozens among whom they have been
trro, grown up or lived familiarly; they
being, moreover, representatives of their
political affiliations at their own homes.
All Federal offices in the States should be
held for life or during good behavior; good
behavior Implying competency as well as
good conduct. Against this proposition it
may be urged that mv views would create a
privileged class. To which I answer not at all,
as privileged classes mean certain persons
who hold special civil or political privileges,
not open universally to all tbe citizens of a
country. Pothouse demagogues will un
doubted'y howl for “rotation In office,”
which Interpreted means comfortable pro
vision for party services, on the basis of an
unscrupulous, tainted system of profession
al political chicanery, by which men
too lszv to work or utterly worthless may
have a living and official consequence at the
cost of the people —the evil that civil service
reform is seeking to eradicate. The tenure
of office in the army, navy, marine corps,
revenue marine, coast survey (by usage),
creates no privileged classes, and have
proved the value of official qualification,
experience and good behavior. This is an
indisputable fact. Then why not on pre
cisely the same principles organize our civil
service? Why should we not have compe
tent. honorable and honest Collectors, Post -
masters, Marshals and civil officers gen
erally, as the officers are tn our military and
naval services? Tbe reform admits of no
half way measures. We must destroy the
root or we shall continue to have poisonous
trees springing up as deadly to our political
system as the Upas to animal life. CunniDg
politicians will oppose such fundamental
changes as I have proposed by blowing up
a cloud of plausible difficulties, of no real
opposition however, to obscure the question,
and under which they may evade the thor
ough purifications needed to effect reforma
tion. But unless we carrv them out the
reins of government. National and State,
must inevitably fall in time Into the hands
of unskilled or unprincipled leaders (as we
have already largely witnessed) whose end
Is their own selfish promotion by the prac
tical destruction of the distinctive principles
of liberty, civil and political i quality, and
freedom, on which our form of government
Is constructed. Thirty-five years’ of expe
rience Id, and observation of our political
system, warrants my assertion that, civil ser
vice reform can only be achieved by making
the subordinate civil public servants independent
of political partisanship. Of the diplomatic
and consular services I have said nothing,as
the advantages of steam and of electricity
must soon work important alterations in
their present construction, but whether
altered or continued as now, they ehou'd be
subjected to rules of examination for ad
mittance, and should pa-s by promotion to
the ruccersive grades of representation, as
tnternat'onal usage may establi-h.
Ac first view these suggestions may
appear to be restrictive of the pow
ers and privileges that should a'-
tach to the political party administering
'he N-Monal Government, and lmpractlca
ble. Bpt impartial consideration of them
will demonstrate, 1 think, that emaDatiDg
as tb*y do from the fundamen’sl law of our
political existence—“that the Federal offices
are creations for the benefit of tbe people,
and that Federal officers are the servants of
ihe whole people, and not of political fac
tions”—they will be found to give stabili'y,
and, in course, perpetui y to the Democratic
Republican form of government we have
adopted
If has been urged against our Constitu
tion that “i- was made for angels and not
for men.” How far this charge Is mistaken
is shown by the record of the Unit'd States
since the Constitution went in o operation
ninety-three years ago, on the 4'h of March,
1789 It has successfully withstood every
trial to which government can be subjected,
whether of internal distensions or of foreign
ware; and has triumphantly survived a civ 1
War of unexampled magnitude and rancor,
from which she came forth “bearing the
marks of cruel wound 6, but with the
principle of life still strong within her.”
It has, with unexampled energy and rapidi
ty, developed a nation vast in extent and
resources. It has placed the United States
of America in the lead with her mother Great,
Britain In agriculture, manufac'ures, min
ing,commerceand trade. And It made them
the co-equals of all nations in civilization,
cultivation, science, art and literature. Tbe
history of the United States since March 4,
1789, is unexampled in the annals of the
world. There Is no other country of ancient
or modern record that holds even a second
or a third place in growth or development
to our Republic. Aud all of this we owe,
to that wonderful Instrument, our Constitu
tion, the bulwark of freedom, of civil and
political equality, and of eternal hostility to
tyranny, whether throned in "purple and fine
linen,” or disguised by the Infamous mask
of Communism. Our Constitution was to the
world anew magea charta of individual
rights and liberties,but m suederstoodby the
contracted prejudices of feudal and manori
al restraints; and thence deemed imprac 1-
cab'e for men. But the small seed sown on
the 4 h of July, 1776, has flourished and be
come a great tree. In whose branches we
rest securely and offer a welcome asylum to
the politically oppressed of all nations;
proving conclusively tbat the Constitution is
not above tbe capacities of human nature,
but elevates them to the equal enjoyment of
the inalienable rights with which God and
society has endowed mankind. Is it uot,
then, of the greatest consequence to our
selves, and to the world at large, to preserve
in its justice, purity and vigor the Constitu
tion and the form of government organized
by it, tbat have already achieved 60 much of
what is great and good, and which will ag
grandize and ennoble us still more in the
future ? Surely it is 1 and therefore we are
authorized to resort to sound remedies, even
though severe, which tend to accomplish a
thorough cure, and which are universally
approvrd and practiced by the wisdom of
mankind In the management of affairs, in
divldu"l and corporate.
Having presented our suggestions, there
rernafi s only for us to point out the means
by which they may be carried out effect
ively. This can be done only by Congress.
They must have the force of law to give
them vitality, and Congress alone can legis
late on the subj-ct. Nocivil service reform
can be durably effected by mere regulations
which may be changed, or dispensed with
altogether, by those havlDg authority for
the time over the matters they apply to.
Here we strike the rock that blocks the de
sired improvement. The trade in Federal
offices, to members of Congress of both
hou-es, has become too powerful an ele
ment in political calculation to be readily
given up by them: as they are aspirants for
the Presidency, with scarcely an exception,
and need this Important factor of political
influence to further their personal aspira
tions for office and power. Therefore,
blinded by their ambition to rise above the
common herd, they foster t national
evil by which they may elevate themselves.
They may not be, perhaps, Intentionally
wanting in patriotism, but the game is a
great one end in the eagerness of it* pur
suit. they, lore sight of the general welfare.
At this time there are no grave questions
of politics time distinctly separate the Dem
ocrat c policy from the Republican. The
division is one of “ins and outs,” rather
than of anything else, and, therefore, civil
service ref< rm by act of Congress can be
now readily carried through if the two lead
ing parties will agree upon a healthful na
tional organization. We say “will” becau-e
there Is no other impediment to this needed
recovery from corrupting practices than
their common consent. There Is no valid
reasou for Congress refusing to give to the
people a civil service bill, guaranteeing se
curity in our liberty and tbe perpetuity of
our constitutional form of government be
fore th's session shall close. And if it does
not, reform must be won by making it
a test question in the elections for the
next Congress The people must exert their
lawful authority to obtain and secure re
form in our civil service if they would be
free men, or at no distant day an autocratic
plutocracy will have full control of every
department of the government, as a logi
cal sequence of the neglect to be ever
vigilant in guarding our democratic prin
ciples. Already Ingenious Senators and
Representatives are weaving a net work of
complications to perplex the convictions of
the confiding people tbat the civil service
Is not altogether sound and needs reforms,
bv attempting to prove that the machinery
of government has become too intricate to
admit of many and fundamental alterations.
But their arguments are specious and will
not bear the test of honest investigation.
Tbe case as it stands is between the people
of the first part and the politicians of the
second part, and the people must attend
vigorously to their Interests or the politi
cians will inevitably triumph unless the
Divine economy checks their designs and
reinstates the faith and hopes of mankind
in the justice of Democratic Republican In
stitutions. Hesbt (J. Wayne.
If you desire a true medicinal tonic that
will positively rid you of all your ailmenta
aud general 111 health, Brown’s Iron Bitters
is the boat.
Election Contests in the House.
Washington Special to Baltimore Sun.
It is understood that the first case to
be considered by the House Committee
on Elections will be the case of Lynch
ys. Chalmers, from the Sixth Mississippi
district. This district is what is called
the shoestring district of Mississippi, a
long, narrow strip of land extending
from one end of the State to the other,
and including within its borders the bulk
of the colored voters of the State. The
colored voters exceed the white voters
by thousands, and the natural presump
tion is that they all voted the Republi
can ticket. Lynch, the contestant, is a
colored man who has already served sev
eral terms in the House, and is a man of
natural force and ability. He is pressing
his own case with much persistence, and
there is no doubt, that the Elections Com
mittee wili report in his favor, and that
the House will accept the report.
He will most probably be in his seat
before the end of January. The next
case on the docket of the committee is
that of Laws, the Alabama Green backer,
vs. Wheeler, of the Eighth district of
that State. Mr. Jones, the Texas Green
backer, who has been made by Speaker
Keifer a prominent member of the Com
mittee on Elections, is a warm personal
frieod of Mr. Laws, and on the day that
the House met made the most strenuous
efforts to prevent the swearing in of
General Wheeler. It is through his in
fluence that this has been made the sec
ond case on the docket, and, as his vote
is of some importance to the Republi
cans, it is not unreasonable to expect
that General Wheeler may speedily fol
low General Chalmers into obscurity.
Two of the South Carolina contested
cases will next be taken up and reports
made against the sitting Democratic
members, which the House will adopt as
soon as possible. So that it is quite
probable the straight-out Republican
majority, which is now but one, and this
in consequence of Hyatt Smith, of
Brooklyn, going into the Republican
caucus, will be increased to six or eight
within thirty days after the reassembling
of Congress.
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MSM
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Gout, Quinsy, Sore Throat, Swell
ings and Sprains, Burns and
Scalds, Genera! Bodily
Pains,
Tooth, Ear and Headache, Frosted
Feet and Ears, and all other
Pains and Aches.
No Preparation on earth equals St. Jacobs Oil
as a safe, sure, simple and cheap External
Remedy. A trial entails but the comparatively
trifling outlay of 50 Cents, and every one suffer
ing with pain can have cheap and positive proof
of its claims.
Directions in Eleven Languages.
BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS AND DEALERS
IN MEDICINE.
A. VOGELER & CO.,
Baltimore, 3U<L, U. S. A.
Iron gittrro.
gROWHu
IRON
BITTERS
BROWN’S IRON BUTTERS aw
a certain cure for all disease*
requiring: a complete tonic; espe
cially In digest tou, Dyspepsia, Inter
mittent Fevers, Want of Appetite,
Loss of Strength, Lack of Energy,
etc. Enriches the blood, strength'
ens the muscles, and gives new
Ilfs to the nerves. Acts like a
Charm on the digestive organs,
removing all dyspeptic symptoms,
such as tasting the food, Belching,
Heat in the Stomach, Heartburn,
etc. The only Iron Preparation
that will not blacken the teeth or
give headache. Sold by all Drug
gists at SI.OO a bottle.
BROWN CHEMICAL CO.
Baltimore, Md.
See that all Iron Bittern are made by Brown Chkmicaj
Og. and have crossed red lines and trade mark on wrapper
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
For sale by Lippruan Bros, and Solomons & 00.
2HapnUa salw.
A SURE
RECIPE
For Fine Complexions.
Positive relief and immnnity
from complexional blemishes
may be found in Hagan’s Mag*
nolia Halm. A delicate and
harmless article. Sold by drug
gists everywhere.
It imparts the most brilliant
and life-like tints, and the clo
sest scrutiny cannot detect its
use. All unsightly discolora
tions, eruptions, ring marks
nnderthe eyes,sallowness,red
ness, roughness, and the flush
of fatigue and excitement are
at once dispelled by the Mag
nolia Balm.
It is the one incomparable
Cosmetic,
fr-
Roofing.
Asbestos Roofing.
OLIVER’S
tfv-
PAINT AND OIL STOBE
PROVISIONS
-AND
FANCY GROCERIES
-AT-
A. HIRSCHMAN’S,
The Boss Grocer,
21— BARNARD STREET—2I
HEADQUARTERS FOR THE 4-YEAR OLD
Hirschman’s Bonanza Whiskey,
I AT ONLY $2 25 A GALLON.
Coffee
Tea
Sugar
Flour
Meats
Butter
Cheese
Crackers
Can Goods
FRESH UNI GOODS!
Corned Beef, English Brawn, Lunch
Tongue, Boneless Pig Feet, Baked Beans,
Baked Macaroni, Ham Sausage, Codfish
Balls, Fresh Crabs.
FOB SALK BY
Tilton cSz: Stanton,
81 weeitak.br street.
THE RED GROCERY
OF
HUSSAK dh GO.
ARE NOW CLOSING OUT THEIR FINE ASSORTMENT
OF
5 Lb. Buckets of Jellies and Preserves
AT
REDUCED PRICES FOR THE NEW YEAR.
ALSO, A FINE LOT OF FANCY GROCERIES. GIVE US A CALL.
RIJSKAK & CO., 22 and 22 1-2 BARNARD ST.
BARBOUR BROS.
GROCERIES, LIQUORS,
FRUITS, CICARS.
TEAS AND COFFEES.
COR. NEW HOUBTON & BARNARD STS.
Our stock is first class in every particular,
and at prices to suit the times.
T. Jr*.
153 AND 155 BAY STREET.
1,200 Bus Rust Proof Oats.
QUA BARRELB IRISH POTATOES.
OWU 200 barrels APPLES.
100 barrels ONIONS.
25 barrels SWEET POTATOEB.
50 sacks VIRGINIA PEANUTS.
50 sacks TENNESSEE PEANUTS.
50 sacks BLACK EYE PEAS.
50 sacks CLAY PEAB.
1,000 bales HAY.
CORN. OATS, BRAN, GRITS, MEAL. etc.
grtj (Soods.
There is no such DOLL mth city as can be seen in WEISBEIN’S window. The
public is invited to inspect thi9 beautiful doll; it is a work of art. Every
customer of $2 50 worth of goods in our Bazaar (on the
second floor) is entitled to a chance.
Our Bazaar is Crovded vitb Goods
Especially adapted for the Holiday trade at our well-known popular bargain prices.
Although we pay considerable attention to our Bazaar, yet by no means do we
neglect our Dry Goods Departments, for we have at all times
The Latest, Best and Most Reasonable.
To speak of Gioaks, we can safely say without fear of successful contradiction
that we have to'd more of these goods than all other houses in this city. The rea
son is very plain and comprehensible. We have a buyer in New York constantly,
and he devotes his entire time to the buying for our house only. This it is which
gives us such superiority. We have just received anew addition of Cloaks, Dol
mans, Ulsters, Walking Jackets for Ladies, Misses and Children. They are posi
tively the handsomest line we have ever had} In this lot will be found some All
Plush Cloaks for Ladies and Children.
WE WILL ALSO SAY A WORD POR ODRBLAEIETS.
We have a very complete line, some cheap ones, some medium grades and some
fine. We offer a large ten quarter White Blanket as low as $2 per pair; would be
considered cheap at $3. Our $5 Blankets are real beauties. They aie made of
superior wool, are very large and very heavy. In fact, they are as good as many
Blankets sold in this market at $7 50.
MW FOR OUR mm.
We have every quality, from the finest Embroidered Flannel to the lowest grade.
We offer this week a special drive in a very heavy Red Twill Wool Flannel at only
25c. per yard. It is positively equal to any in the city at 40c.
Black and Colored Cashmeres.
These goods we have never before been enabled to offer at such low prices. We
have been fortunate in securing a lot of these fine and desirable goods at a bank
rupt sale, and we are now selling them at less than actual cost of importation. This
is an unheard of chance, and we especially invite our old customers to avail them
selves of it, as we may never Ue able again to have such good goods at such low
prices.
Our Perfumed Kid Gloves
Have turned out just as we predicted. They have made the hit of the season.
Every pair is warranted, and the best fitting Gloves we have ever seen. Gentle
men will find that they cannot make a more - acceptable Holiday Present to their lady
friends than a dozen or even a half dozen of these Gloves. Our Foster Kid at
$1 25. Our 50c., 75c. and $1 Kids are the best in the city.
DAVID WEISBEIN & CO.
goats ana
BOOTS AID shoes!
LARGEST AND MOST ATTRACTIVE STOCK OF GOODS IN THE CITY AT
JOSEPH ROSENHEIM & CO’S.
Owing to the unprecedented demand for our SPECIAL BARGAINS, we have decided to con
tinue the sale of our CENTRE TABLE GOODS during the holidays, consisting of
Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Shoes,
And have added to the assortment many new styles, which all would do well to call and ex
amine, and they will be surprised at the ENORMOUS reductions from REGULAR PRICEB.
SLIPPERS, SLIPPERS, SLIPPERS.
An elegant assortment of Ladies’ and Gents’ EMBROIDERED SLIPPERS just being opened.
Also, a fine line of Gents’, Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Philadelphia work, at
JOS. BOSENHEIM Ac CO.’S,
No. 141 Congress street. Next Door to O* Bckstoia & Co’s.
timeties.
WOOD.
OAK.
BLACKJACK, PINE.
LIGHTWOOD.
WEST BOUNDARY. BET. NEW AND RAIL
ROAD STREETS.
TELEPHONE NO- 26
T. P. BOND. W. D. BIMKINS.
BOND & SIMKINS,
151 H BAY STREET.
JUST ARRIVED,
50,000
Florida Oranges.
25 BOXES LEMONS.
HlJtcl
c- W„ Box 191. p,
tV drive Ujlt-’routi *
sg
TV Chatham 0 !"
B. REPPARP, No. TO Hay street to|
-s
TT southwest corner Wmtaker st r 7 e
W A m TE P‘ a KOO<I NurSe - at iß9plZ~~~~^
-V Ml t come well recomm IZ *.
TUANTED, a copy of any of ~VrTi —"•
” * Evans novels printed dnHr.1 3 ' A u riist
ence of the late Confederate
Johnston, Ri-hrno and. Va bv w *t*
YU"ANTED, a sociable partner eirh^
”v or active, with capita? fn tber R,, vot
gamzed vegetable farm near th , c,te w f si
new and very productive
Savannah Morning News office FAH >ttß,
*°° J bo ”
w ssraxSi
moved from 14’< 8.-cughton JgJJ*
TI7'ANTFD, boarii and
_7 V, son (ele r en years old)
M, R., News office., Addl *eßßC.
night from Bto 10. 0 *’ Saturday
YyANTED. consumers of wood to
PINE and LIOHTWOOD, cut or?n °o K '
ders sent me by telephone, through boT M °£
left at office, Tay’or and East p Pfto i or
will be promptly filled, r B
for fail*,
P OR SALE.-R'CH
streets" 0 " 1^681 COn>er Abw ™ a£d Hull
G°for 21 p^;; e h t
Easels, Views. Copying afflS, A ‘ burag
J - N. WILSQx
FOR SALE.—Fasy terms, Double
House, north side of Bolton.
Acercom apd Lincoln streets, p c. BACOS
KINDLINGS.
LIGHTWOOD. For -ale by
BACON & BDOQgfj
POR SALE. 1 KC d MATCHER^
Richardson Merriman * Cos. make pi.„~
26 wide 5 thick, and matches thick a
splendid machine at a great bargain 'n*ct
new *1,600 and Is precticijly as good as
FuU description, price and anv
ticulars given upon application. Address
Lock Box 1,016,
Fitchburg, Maw;
Delicacies
lm ortedWines
Liquors
Tobacco
_Cigars
Sauerkraut
Prune?
Pickled L4UB’S
TAINGUEB
Oat Meal
ifor Meat.
FOR RENT a House, No. lm Gwirmrit
A street, between Drayton and Abercora
streets Apply next door to TANARUS, ENNIS.
FOR RENT OR LEASE, on and after Thurs
day, December Ist, the Buckingham
House. Isle of Hope. Bar and Store Fixtures.
Bnhard Table. Furniture. Bede. Bedding Cook
ing Range, Kitchen Utensils. Crockery and
Glass. Apply to THOS. HENDERSON 133
York street.
Cottfrti.
THE Thirty-ninth Popular Drawing of the
Commonwealth Distribution Company of
Kentucky wili take place to M 1 RRoW, saT
UHDAY, December 31, 1881. Whole Tickett
*2, Halves sl.
Jfttett fyailm&g,
SUBURBAN SCHEDULE.
Bcpkrintkndent's Office 8., S. &S. R. R,, i
Savannah. ('ct( her 29, ISBI. I
ON aDd after NOVEMBER Ist the following
Schedule will be observed:
MONDAYS, TUESDAYS. THURSDAYS AND ,
FRIDAYS.
OUTWARD. I INWARD.
LEAVE I ARRIVE ) LEAVE I LEAVE
SAVANNAH | SAVANNAH | IBLE HOPE. | MONTOOM’Y
6:25 p. M. I 8:38 * m | S:in a. m. i a. h.
Monday morning early tram tor Momgom
ery only at 6:25 a. m.
WEDNESDAYS, SATURDAYS AND BUN-
DAYS,
LEAVE ARRIVE I LEAVE ISLE LEAVE
SAVANNAH. SAVANNAh ' OF HOPE. HOSTO'RV.
10:25 A. M. S:3B A. u , 8:10 A. M A. H.
*3:00 p. M. 1:20 p. M 12:50 p. m. 12:15 r. H.
6:25 p. m. 5:3S p, m I 5:10 p. m. i 43* p. M.
*Bundays this is the last outward train.
Saturday nights last train 6:50, instead of 6:25.
EDW, J. TKOMAb.
Superintendent.
COAST LINK RAILROAD.
SUBURBAN SCHEDULE.
outwabdT] inward.
LEAVE LEAVE LEAVE
SAVANNAH. THUNDERBOLT. SONAVENTTEE,
7:00 A. H. 7:15 a. m. 7-55 A. u.
10:35 A. H. 12:50 p. M. 1:00 p. H.
8:35 p. m. 5:30 P. M. 5:40 p. u.
6:35 p. it. | 7:05 p. M. 7:15 p. M.
Saturday night last car leaves ci' , at f r. ,
SUNDAY BCHEDULE.
In the morning leave Savannah at 7:00,10:00
ana 12:00 o’clock, in the evening every half
hour from 2:35 until 5:00 o’clock. Last car
leaves Thunderbolt at 7:00 o’clock p. k
FRANK LAMAR,
Superintendent.
4for #aU.
FOB SAl^r
Genesis Point, Bryan Go.
CONTAINING 1,170 acres. Over 100 acres
black rush land in cultivation; good banks
and back water; about 130 acres upland
cleared, good dwelling, kitchen, barn, etc. A
superior stock range. Apply to J. A. KEL
RER, IJ4 S., F. & W. tt’y. If not sold pre
viously, will be sold before th Court House in
Savannah, FIRST TUEBDAY IN JANUARY
NEXT.
ROB. HABERSHAM’S SON & CO,.
Savannah, November 2. 1831, A gents. _
Two Valuable Half Lots
FOR SALE,
BOTH adjoining, and containing a front of
65 feet on Hall street and ST A, feet on
Howard street, and known as half lots 27 ana
28 Foray th wa-d. These half lots were origi
nally selected for the purpose of erecting a
Hall for the Republuan Blues, which I am d|-
rected by resolution of the Company to oner
for sale. Titles warranted. For further par
ticulars, apply to r
PHILIP M RUSt'ELL.
Chairman Committee R. !>•_
FOR WAI aE,
THE wreck of the STE A JIER CENTENNIAL,
as she now lies in Satilla river, near
Clark’s Bluff, In Camden county, Georgia, con
sisting of hull, engines, boiler, chains, anchors,
pumps, pipes aud other appurtenances.
Terms cash. Bids must be addressed >n
writing to the undersigned, who reserve u*e
right to reject any or all bids. rnIU
GARRARD & MELDRIM,
Attorneys for R. J. Cochran & Cos., of Nev
York.
scG j romsu>s.
Hi file, irii
CHAMPAGNE. CART BLANCHE, BHERBY,
(j PORT and CLARET. All recenUy u
ported. ...
RAISINB, CITRON, ALMONDS, and a run
assortment of NUTS, crop 1881.
PRUNEB, FIGS. etc.
For eaie by
NICHOLAS LANG & BRO..
J W. SCHLEY, W sw C Yor£ Y ’
Savannah, Ga. eW Yo^~
JAS. W. SCHLEY & CO.,
WHOLMIALB DEALERS IN
Hay, Gralu and Provisions,
172 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH,
GEORGIA
W *S". "
(X)RN, HAY OATS,
W. M. STBAT®
GENERAL
MOVER AND REPAIREtL
34 HI'**ROUGHS atß .
Respectfully ihe bu 4
Savannah that he will L °“j a ,her, J. s*.
ness lately carried °n by he, o£ [ho^
BTRATE, and solicits the J
who havo any work in his •