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DAILY KNQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA MONDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 8, 1876.
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MONDAY FEBRUARY 8,1875.,
Wc ere indebted to Senator Harris, of
Lee, for valuable public documents of
Alabama.
Ioa Caop.—The Herald reports the ice
harvest in the vioinitj of New York as
altogether unequalled in quantity and
quality.
Th* Detroit Free Free* wants to know
if this oountry is composed of Phil Sheri*
dan and his epnra, or is it made up of real
estate, lakes, rivers, and now and then
an unassuming citizen ?
Ex-Gov. Fas tom has deolined to run
for Congress in the Thirty-third District
of New York, to fill the vacancy occasion
ed by the death of Mr. Allen.
Tax reliable Washington correspondent
of the New York Journal of Commerce
says the reokteas portion of the adminis*-
tration supporters are plotting industri
ously to fores war with Spain after Con
gress adjourns.
A srzotaL from Washington to the At
lanta Constitution states that the Demo
cratic Senators will have one hundred
thousand oopios of Gen. Gordon's speech
on Louisiana and Southern outrages
printed for distribution at the North.
Gan. Frink Blair is reported ss seri
ously and hopelessly ill. The St. Louis
Timet says Le failed so rapidly within the
past few weeks as to be unable to distin
guish his most intimate friends, and can
not possibly snrTive the winter.
Wn find that the opinion is entertained
by some that the Senate will Insist on the
retention of the mixed sohool clause in
the Civil Rights bill, and that on account
of this disagreement the bill will fail be
tween the two Houses. But for those
frequent caucuses, and the deplorable
need of a common “policy” for the party,
wc might think this result more likely.
It is worthy of note that among the
signers of the call on Hon. W. P. Price
to announce himsolf as nn iudependout
candidate for Oongrosa in the Ninth Dis
trict, are A G. W/uipey and other Radi
cals. They pledge their support to Price,
and no doubt every Radical in the Dis
trict will support him in opposition to Mr.
Hill.
Tnn Washington Capital gives expres
sion to a suspicion which is too startling
and revolting to be well founded. It be
lieves the reosnt tires in ths Nsvy De
partment were started by interested par
ties for the destruction of books and
papers, so as to prevent a Congressional
investigation, which will be ordered by
the next session.
Tub Washington reports of the New
York Herald represent President Grant
as very importnnnte in urging Congress
men to do something to overthrow the
existing Conservative State Government
in Arkansas, lie is reported as holding
conferences with Radios! Senators,
whioli lie urges thou to interfere and re
mand Arkausas to ilia rale of oarpet.
baggers upheld by Federal bayoneta, aa
Kellogg ia upheld in Louisiana.
Tnn Atlanta JleraUl of Friday snye, in
reference to the railroad “pool" lately ar
ranged in that city : “In conversation
with aomo of the high raiiroadera yester
day, we were informed by them that the
whole matter bad been entirely misunder-
stood by tho papers and the public. The
'pool' does not rniso freight one copper,
but leaves them just as they are. The
public will not pay one cent more for
freight than they do now."
Knckr's comet was seen on the evening
of January 2(1 at a distance of 182.0110,(100
miles from the snn. As he is beading in
the direction wo shall soon be.sblo to see
him with tho naked eye.—Scientific lie-
port.
One hundred and eighty-two millions of
miles (exaetly) is an immense distance at
whioh to see a muss of attenuated neb
ula, even with a telescope. We don’t
doubt tbe identification of Euoke's comet,
but we do question whether its distance
wheu seen exceeded one hundred end
eighty-one millions of miles.
A bill has been introduced into the
Georgia Legislature by Mr. Walsh to in
corporate tbs Eastern and Western Trans
portation Company, which contemplates
the building of a railroad from Beanfort,
S. C., to the western line of Georgia, in
Troop or Heard oonnty. Should this
. road be built, wo oould secure a new and
entirely iddepondent line to the Atlantic,
by a continuation of oar North and Sontb
Railroad. The times are not auspicious
for the building of railroads in ths Sontb,
but we believe that the day is not distant
when the North aud South will make a
connection with a line running north of
ua to tbe Atlantic.
Turri is one littlo syntactical or typo
graphical question that we would like to
have settled, not only for the sake of
method and appearance in newspaper
literature, bnt for tbe gnidanoe of “intel
ligent compositors,” each one of whom
appears to have an independent idea of
hia own. It is how to writs and print
the ooujunotion nailing, ths double
names of many of our newspapers, for
instance, Telegraph it Messenger, Nous
it Courier, &o. Our owu idea is that
we ought to connect them by the abort
A, just as wo conuect the names of two
iadividuals associated in a firm, as Smith
A Brown, and for the same reason. Bnt
the compositors seldom allow ns to have
our way about it—at all events, their
several modes prevent any uniformity.
Tbe above suggestions are also appli
cable to tbe compound titles of railroads,
as the Western A Atlantic.
What aay onr exchanges ?
—Hou. W. 1\ Price has snnoanced
Marsel f sn independent candidate for
Congress in the 9th district. He is a
strong and able man, end if no other
“independent” Democrat is in the field,
be may make a lively contest with the
regular nominee, who will doubtless be
Mr. Hill.
THE CIVIL BIGHTS BILL.
Onr dispatches have announced ths
passage, by ths Houss of Representatives,
on Friday, of a Civil Rights bill—not ths
Senate bill which has so long bean on tbs
table of ths House, bnt s new MU, whioh
has yet to go before tho Senate. The
near spproseh to unanimity in its support
by tbs Radicals (only eleven of them vot
ing agairst it) Indicates its passage by the
Senate also. It will unquestionably re
ceive the approval of the President when
it passes the Senate, for the only feature
to which he was understood to object baa
been stricken out, and it forms a part of
a polioy of continued agitation in the
South to which the President ia contrib
uting all he can, apparently for the pur
pose of seouring the support of tbs Radi
cals of this section for his sleotion to a
third term.
We may as wall make up our minds
that ths bill will bscome a law
—against ths verdict of tbs peo
ple, it is trus, and by the “snap judg-
met” of a party going oat of power; bnt
still it will be s law, and will bs rigidly
executed by tbe President and the Federal
Courts. It behoovaa tbe people of tbs
Sontb now to oonsidsr and determine upon
tbe eonrae whioh they will pursne. That
they will submit to the indiscriminate
socialism wbieh it seeks to enforce, is, of
course, out of tbe question. They will
do nothing of the kind. But what they
willbave to sacrifice or to change in order
to avoid it, is the question to be consid
ered. We suppose that all the partial
favors heretofore extended by the whites
of the South to the negroes will now bs
withheld, inasmuch as the latter have de
manded and obtained Federal legislation
so obnoxious to ths whites. As far as
possible, our people will employ white
labor. They will also, no doubt, abolish
a publlo school system, for whioh the
whites furnished four-fifths of the money
(o support it, and the negroes two-fifths
of the ohildren enjoying its advantages.
It is true that the provisions of the Civil
Rights bill relating to publio schools were
stricken out. But we osnnot be blinded
to the fact that they ware only abandoned
out of regard for the negroes—beoauseof
the apprehension that ths whites wonld
abolish the sohools if a commingling of
races in them was insisted on. Congress
takes cere only of the negroes—refrains
from no contemplated aggression on the
rights of tbe whites exoeptont of regard
for the negroes. Now let the whites at least
claim and exact for themselves, in their
Btato legislation, ths full benefit of their
own money raised for sohool purposes.
Let them leave to the counties, or to the
distriota, the raising of sohool funds, and
the striot apportionment to each raoe of
tho proportion which it pays. This is
one measure of resistance whioh appears
to us both practicable and jnst. Others
will no doubt he devised to meet other
provisions of tbe bill. It will subjeot tbe
whites to inconveniences and some vexa
tions to proteot themselves, but they
should and we believs will do it, even if
they have to exerciee a little of the hero
ism, privation and industry so oommon
during the war. We believe that a tem
porary return to that regimen will do ns
good anyhow; that it will add to our
streugth and prosperity and gain for us
more respect and consideration in tbe
future. Let us eo bear ourselves that we
will pass through this ordeal atronger and
more united than ever.
non-age—gives Chancery Coarts juris
diction.
Ths following wsrs referred: Green—
to pay tbe members of the General As
sembly a salary—makes the pay of mem
bers #400 per session, fees and salaries;
to rspetl ths act oresting the office of
Stats Geologist—Judioiary; Mr. Walton—
to provide for establishing a Board of
Health for Alabama—Local Legislation.
The Honse resolved to meet daily, Sun
day excepted, at 10 o'clock a. m., and
continue in session until 2 o'clock p. m.,
when it shall taka a recess until 4 p. m.,
reassemble at that hour and adjourn at
pleasure; Provided that it ahall not ap
ply to Saturday so far as the afternoon
session is conoerned.
Tbe following wsrs referred :
To repeal sn set in relation to appeals
from Jastiess Coarts, approved Dacem-
bor 24, 1868; To prohibit tbs working of
peuitsotisry convicts in the ooal mines of
the|Ststa attar ths year 1875; For the
protection of mechanics and other per.
sons therein named; [gives liens on
wagons to bisceamitbs for repairs, end also
farming and other implements repaired ;
allows them to be attached after ten days];
To amend sections 3 and 3 of an act to
exempt certain property from levy and
sale, approved April 23, 1873; [relating
to homestead exemption; allows guard!
an to select] ; By Lauderdale—To abol
ish the Criminal Court of tbe oity of Eu.
fails, and to provide for tbe transfer of
causes therein to tbe Circuit Court of Bar-
boor county. Judioiary.
Following bills wars passed:
To allow private corporations to wind
up their affairs; Allowing the Governor
to leae# the Mobile Marine Hospital.
Iapsrtsit Dictates by the Uaprease
Court of Alabama.
Parks, Brewer, el al., tt. John A. Qoffey,
el at. Appeal from ths Chancery Court
of Jaokeon oounty.
MANNING, J.
1. The oourts of Alabama, during the
late war, were a portion of the de jure
government of the State. Their judg
ments, decrees, and proceedings, not in
violation of tbe constitution and laws of
the United States, or of tbe constitution
and laws of Alabama, are valid and bind,
ing.
2. A sale, sines the war, under exnoa
tion regularly kept up on s judgment
rendered during the war is valid and will
pans ths title of tbe defendant in exsen
tion.
3. No act of ths Legislature or ordi
nance of a convention is necessary to gi v
validity to the jndgmenta, deereea and
proceedings of ths courts of Alabama
during ths war.
4. The rsoorda and papers of sueh
courts, during the war, are to be preserv
ed with the same care and certified in the
same manner as now required by law, and
the same punishments are to be inflicted
for their abstraction, mutilation or falsi
floation.
Reversed and rendered.
JOHN YOUNG BROWN.
HOUSE or BEFBEEBWTATITEb,
FEBRUARY 4TH.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
Friday, Mh. —The Senate re-conaidered
the vote by which it yesterday indefinite
ly postponed the bill for tbe relief of tbe
tax oollentors of the Stato. The bill was
then refened to a committee, with in
structions to report on Monday next.
Several new bills were iutrodneed on the
oall of the districts, and referred. Among
them was a bill to provide summary reme
dies against defaulters to pnblio school
funds; also, a bill to revise and amend
au set to keop in eaoh county of this State
a proportionate share of the publio sohool
money, approved April tilth, 1873. Tbe
bill to amend seolion 1 of the act to pro
vide for funding tbe domestio debt of the
State wee taken up sa a apeoial order.
Mr. Harria withdrew the amendment ex
cepting Russell county, and amendinonta
excepting ether counties were votsd
down. A motion to require pnblio offi
cers to be paid in State obligations was
also defeated. Tbe bill passed—yeas 19,
nays 8. The bill to regulate elections in
the State of Alabama occupied tbs bal
ance of the session.
Tbe House apont much time on tbe bill
to regulate elections, and finally referred
it to a special oommittee, of which the
Speaker waa to be obairman. A number
of Senate bills were referred to Honse
oommitteea, among them the bills To
prevent sale of liquor within two miles of
male Academy in town of Blnfftoo ; To
incorporate tbe town of Henderson, Fiks
oounty; To provide for the oolleotion of
taxes levied by courts of county commis
sioners. Tbe bill to induce and encour
age immigration to the State of ‘ Alabama
aud to provide for the appointment of a
Commissioner of Immigration and a
Board of Commissioners and Directors,
was passed after much debate. The
House took np Senate bills at its night
session, referred a number and passed
several others. Among those passed
were the following : To ionorporste the
Truck and Axe Company of Troy, Ala
bama ; To change the county lines be
tween Russell and Barbour; To amend
section 2354, [relative to prooeediags in
divoroo suits, requires tho chaocellor to
say in deerse whether divorced party can
marry again, and to allow petitions where
nothing is said on the subjeot in tbe
divorce.
Saturday, Feb. 6.—In the Senate the*
following bills were pawed : To regulate
the terms of Courts of ths First Judicial
Circuit; to allow the oity of Montgomery
to work persons oonvioted of violating its
ordinances. [Provides that eypreas pond
shall be drained by tbe street bands, in
stead of work on the pnblio streets] ; to
ropeal the sot providing for a sink
ing fund foo tbe redemption of
the State debt, approved February
6, 1872; to authorize fire inanraooe com
panies to < atabliab a fire petrol; to pro
vide for taking the oenana of 1875, with
Correspondence Savannah News.)
GRANT.
Hew He Takes Johneen’e Election.
The President is very fond of going to
tho theatre, end it ie very rarely that a
week passes that he does not spend an
evening at one or the other of tbe tbea-
tree of Washington. At the National The
atre a night or two since ho ocotipied his
aocnstogiod front seat in the private box,
where be can be easily seen by the entire
salience —During the coarse of the play
there was considerable gagging indulged
in by the actors, ‘ including allusions to
the third term, militay interferonce, Aa.,
whioh seemed to delight tbe audience
very much. Finally one of the players
brought in tho name of Grent when an.
other quickly replied, “Andy Johnson will
soon be in the Senate and will take care
of bim." At this the applause was perfeot.
ly uproarious, the men cheered, an 1 the
women waved their handkorckiofe, and il
was a minute or two before order was re-
stored. As straws show which way the
wind blows, this is a good indication of
the way the popular current is running
oven in this hot-bed of Radicalism. In
tbe midst of all the commotion, the
President retained bis attitude unmoved,
aud not a change of expression flitted
anross his stolid conntenauee
Ths New Orletfns Times, in its notico
of Father ltyan's reeent lecture in its
oity on “The Great Men of the South,”
Kays: “In notieing the difference be.
tw«en people be gave some of the oustoms
of tbe different people. Here, be said,
if one man calls another a liar, a duel is
the resalt. (He* did not approve of du
eling ; that his oburoh was against it, but
if the church was for it he watt, too.)
In tbe West if yon call a man a liar he
knoeks you down ; in New York he will
call you another, bnt away down East,
if the term is applied, tho rotort will be,
•I'll bet you five cents you oan't prove it.
This brought down the house, and it'
waa Borne moments before the lecturer
was able to proceed.
—It waa reported in tbe city yesterday
that on Thursday evening last a serious
diffioulty took place near Robinson
Springs, in Elmore connty, between Joe
Myriok and Henry Reaves, in whioh both
Myriok and Reaves and Gbamblia were
aeverely, if not fatally, wounded. Tbe
oatue of the difflonlty is snpposed to have
been some unsettled business matters be
tween Myrick and Reaves. Chamblis is
an innocent party, and no doubt received
a shot intended for Myriok, as be was in
the baggy with him at the time the diffi
culty occurred. Reaves was able to os.
espe, though badly wounded. Myrick and
Chamblis are both perhaps dead this
morning. Wa are not in possession of
the particulars of this nofortnnate affair,
hence make no comments.—Montgomery
Advertiser, Feb. 6.
In the Court of General Sessions,
Charleston, on tbe 3d inst., Messrs. F. W.
Dawson and R. R. Riordan, of the News
and Courier, bad seven bills of indictmeut
found by the grand jury, fordefaming tbo
characters of C.C. Bo*en, B. H Hoyt, F.
C. Gregorie snd H. G. Worthington. Con
gressman E. W. Maokay was also indioted
for assault and battery on C.C. Bowen,
and pleaded guilty, and under like circum
stances wonld do it again. He give bond
to appear fer sentence.—Exc.
Al 1 the parties above mentioned are Rad
icals, exoept the editors of the A’etc* ana
Courier.
—It is relsted that Andy Johnson has
a list of victims prepared, and when ho
enters ths Senate Chamber he will sac
rifice them one by one. He proposes,
in the prief session following the 4th of
March, to make way with Anthony, Cam
eron, Freelingbuysen and the two Morrills,
Conkiing, Ferry, Morton, Vice-President
Wilson and Sherman — Cincinnati Com-
merciii.
—London baa a breach of promise case,
tbe parties of which had never seen eaob
. ...... ... other till they came into court. The en-
amendments; the bill, general in its ngement was contracted by oorreepon-
eharacter, relating to relieving minors of, deep*.
Tbe Civil Bights bill nnder considera
tion—
Mr. Brown, of Kentucky, opposed ths
bill, altbongb ha acknowledged that it
was a foregone conclusion that to-day's
son would set upon it as tbe law of the
land. Men on the Republican aide bad
been dragooned into its support. Its
success had been in a measure aecom-
plisbed by daring and revolutionary in
vasions on the time-honored tules of the
House. It bad been born in malignity
and wonld be parsed in defiance end vio-
lation of the Constitution, and wonld be
executed in violence and bloodshed, as be
feared.
Mr. Hale, of New York, objeoted to
the last sentence as unparliamentary, but
it having been rednoed to writing and
read from tbe Clark'a desk, the Speaker
ruled that it did not transcend the limits
of parliamentary debate.
Mr. Brown, continuing his remarks,
said be regarded tbe bill as a part of ths
machinery to be set in motion fur tbe
oampaign of 1876. He believed a delib
erate oouapiraay had been formed for the
overthrow of constitutional liberty. Yon
men, said he, who propose to pass this
bill, have been weighed in the balance
anil been found wanting.
The Speaker informed Mr. Brown that
be must address the ohair.
Mr. Brown—Mr. Speaker, yonr oondnot
in this and other matters [laughter at tbe
effect of Brown's obedience to the Speak
er], reminds me of a passage in Junius,
where he describes a bad tenant having
raofcived notice to quit breaking the furn
iture, patting the hones in disorder and do
ing all that hs could to vex the landlord.
Mr. Speaker, the South is broken; it lies
in helplessness and despair; with homes
dilapidated, villages wasted, its people
bankrupt; is there nothing in that sitin-
tion to touch your pity ? If yonr magna
nimity osnnot be reached, w.ll yon not
be moved by some sense of justice? By
the conspiracy between the Attorney Gen
eral and Kellogg and the drunken Federal
Judge, tho sovereignty of a State was
overthrown. That usurpation has been
perpetuated sinoe by bayonets. But re
cently one of our Generals entered tbs
legislative hall, as Cromwell entered the
English Parliament with Col. Pride, and
ruthlessly expelled the ooonpsnts. On
ward and outward yon go, in defiance of
the sentiment of tbe country, without
pity and withont justice, remorselessly
determined, it seems, to drive the routb-
eru people to destruction, to give their
roofs to the flames and their flesh to
the eagles. A Federal General steps
on the scene and sends a dispatch
to the world that the people of
that State ere banditti. We have
heard it echoed elsewhere that
they were thieves and murderers and
night riders. The clergy of that State,
Jew and Gentile, have denied it. The
business men and Northern residents have
denied it. A committee of your own
house, a majority being Republicans, has
given it a solemn aud emphatio contra
diction and nailed the Blander to the
counter. Now what shenld be said if
that accusation should come from one—
apeak not of men, but of language within
the rules of this Honse—if that accusa
tion against that people Bhould coma
from one who is outlawed in his own
homo from respectable sooiety, whose
name is synonomous with falsehood, who
is the champion, and has been suoh on all
oocasiunsjof frand, who is the apologist of
thieves, who is snob a prodigy of vioe and
meanness that to describe bim imagina
tion wonld sicken au invective exhanBt
itself ? In Scotland, many years ago,
there was a man whose trade was mnrder,
and he earned his livelihood by selling
the bodies of his victims for gold. He
linked his name to his orime, and to-day
throughout the world it is known as
“Burking.”
Tbe Speaker—Does the chair under
stand the gentleman to bo referring to a
member of this Honse?
Mr. Brown—No, sir. I am describing
a character who is in my mind's eye.
The Speaker—The Chair understood
the gentleman to refer to a member of
the House.
Mr. Brown—No, sir; I call no names.
This man's name was linked to his orimes,
and to-day throughout the world it is
known ns “Burking.” If I was to desire
to express all that waa pusiiamimons in
war, inhuman in peace, forbidding in
morals and infatnona in politics, I should
oall it Butleriziug. [Sensation.]
Tbo Speaker, interrupting Mr. Brown
The gentleman did not. deal in good faith
with the chair. He did not answer in
good faith tbe question addressed to him.
Mr. Hall, of New York, insisted that
Mr. -Brown's language be rednoed to writ
ing, and read from the clerk's desk.
While the reporter was writing it down
excitement in the House was at red-best.
The Speaker took occasion to remark
further that he had not been payiog close
attention to what the gentleman from
Kontncky had said, and had addressed an
inquiry to him whioh had been anawerad
either denyingly or evasively, the ohair
could not toll which. It wonld have been
inexcusable in the ohair to have permitted
■nob language to be used, and his excul
pation rested on tbe evasive reply of tho
gentleman from Kontucky.
The report of Brown's objeotionsble re
marks having been read from the Clerk's
desk, Mr. Hale, of New York, offered s
resolution that in that language, as well
as with the prevarioation by whioh the
gentleman was enabled to oontinne the
utterauco of the language, tbe gentleman
from Kentucky was guilty of a violation
of the privileges of the Hones, and mer
ited the severest censure of the Honse,
and that he be now brought to the bar of
the House, in the custody of the Sergeant-
at-Arms, and thare be publicly censured
by the Speaker in the name of the House.
Mr. Dawes offered the following as s
substitute for Mr. Halo's resolution :
Resolved, That John Young Brown, a
member of the House from ths Stats of
Kentucky, tie expelled from the Honse
for a gross violation of ths rales and priv
ileges of the Honse, in the nae on this
floor of the language just read by tha
olerk, aud for falsely stating to the Speak
er of the House that he aid not refer to
any member of the House.
Mr. Hale declined to yield fer Dawes'
substitute snd moved the previous ques
tion.
Mr. Cox to Mr. Hale—You osnnot foroe
this thiug on the Honse. There has been
provocation for what tbe gentleman from
Kentucky said.
Tbe House refused to second tbe pre
vious question.
Mr. Dawes said ha regretted the neces
sity of offering ths resolution, as his con
nections with the gentleman from Ken
tucky hud been always kind. He had
been shocked and pained by what bad oo-
cirrcd to day, and nothing but the belief
that it was imperatively neoesaary that
the House should vindicate itself and its
rules, would bavo ioduoed bim to offer
the resolution. '
After an exciting debate, Mr. Dawes
asked whether the gentleman from Ken
tucky dosired to speak now.
Mr. Brown, rising and spraking with
great deliberation, said that this was the
first time that evasion or prevarication
had evar been attributed to him. Ha
had * always spoken in plain terms, ana.
oeptible of no misnnderstanding, and he
waa willing to atand by tbe reoord.
Mr. Dawee—I wonld enquire of tbs
gentleman from Kentnoky whether he
baa any remark to make in regard to
ths charaetar of the language whioh he
need.
Mr. Brown—I stand ojr the reoord.
[Sensation.]
Mr. E. R. Hoar said, whetbe* the Com
monwealth of Keolucky would leal indig
nant at a vote of censure upon one other
representatives, he did not feel certain,
but he kuew the Kentucky character for
truthfulness to be sueh that the Common
wealth wonld spurn a man from its bor
ders, who, for tbe sake of getting suo-
oeasfnliy through a personal attack upon
a member, wonld falsify when he was
called upon by the ohair.
Mr. Lamar—I have only one reply to
make to the gentleman from Masaachn-
aetts, (Mr. Hoar) and I make it with great
reapeot , [After a pause.] On con
sideration, I will not mMce it, I will jnst
say, however, that he need, with reference
the tbo gentleman now on trial, language
which I think required neither courage
nor aonrtesey for a man to use. [Sensa
tion and increasing excitement.]
Mr. Hoar asked Mr. Lamar whether he
meaut to impugn his oourage or oonrtesy.
Mr. Lamar—I do not. But 1 say that
the remark whioh ths gentleman used did
uot require an exhibition of either, end
in my opinion did not oomport with the
high character which that gentleman
bears.
Mr. Hoar—What remark do yon allude
to?
Mr. Lamar—To the expression of the
word “falsification.”
Mr. Hoar—I said that tbe question be
fore the House was whether the gentle
man from Kentucky had falsified. I have
made no statement that he did.
Mr. Lamar (courteously)—Then I with
draw the remark and beg your pardon.
[Applause.]
Mr. Dawes said be not only desired (o
see whether membere on both sides
would not stand up for the deoorum of
the House, but had also desired to give
the gentleman from Kentuoky (Mr. Blown)
an opportunity to express regret. That
gentleman, he was sorry to say, hid not
availed himself of that opportunity. On
the other hand, in tho presenoe of the
Honse, he had reitarated and reaffirmed
the poeition whioh he had taken. He
found, however, that hia (Dawes’) resola-
tion would gain no support from the
Democratic side of the Home, and now
said : Rather than have my resolution fail
for want of aid from that side, I withdraw
it, and call fur the previous question on
the resolution offered by (he gentleman
from New York (Mr. Hale).
Tbe previous question was seconded.
Mr. Elridge asked to have the word
“prevarioation” strnok ont of the resolu
tion, and the word “evasion,” as used by
tbe Speaker, substituted for it, bnt there
was objections made to it by many Re-
publicau members.
Ur. Cox moved to lay the resolution on
tho table. Negatived—yeas 82, nays 167.
The resolution offered by Mr. Hale was
then adopted—yeas 161, nays 79.
Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, who had
sat quietly throughout the whole pro
ceedings, now rose and asked leave to
make u personal explanation. Unanimons
consent was given, and he proceeded.
The courtesies and proprieties of the
occasion seemed to oall npon me to
make no observation, although the gentle
men of the minority were engaged in
hnnting up aud bringing to tbe at
tention of the country the various sup
posed shortcoming: and wrong doings
of mine, under oircnma'ancea which
prevented me replying to them. In the
language of a gentleman of tho minority,
whom I very much respect, it did not take
very much courage to do that. I have
been here now eight years, and have en
gaged in debate perhaps a good deal more
than I should have done, and now I call
npon all gentlemen who have served with
me daring the present Congress, and any
who have served with me daring any of
the eight years I have been here, to say
whether in all that time I bave ever com
menced a personal attack on any man in
tbe House, or whether I have ever step
ped ont of my war to say an unkind word
of a single gentleman unless first attack
ed. Let him speak whom I have offended.
Lat thia thing bo settled once for all. I
have endeavored with studied courtesy
never to attack, and I have ulso endeav
ored, when I was attacked, never to leave
a man until he was sorry he did it.
[Laughter and applause.] Mr. Speaker,
(Bowen jn the chair,) I have no more to
say. ’
The Speaker then directed the reading
of the resolution, and, it havjng been
read, the Se geaut-ut-Ariiis escorted Mr.
Brown to tbe area in front of the Speaker,
all tho Demucratio members being on
their feet und exhibiting great feeling on
tbe occusion, while many Republican
membeis were also standing, and the
crowue ia the galleries were straining
their eyes and ears to witness the nnusal
incident. Air. Brown remained standing
with one hand in his breast aud the other
behind his beck, while the Speaker, in a
dignified and severe tone, administered
the censnro of tbe House in the following
terms:
Mr. John Young Brown : You are ar
raigned at the bar of the House, under
its formal resolution, for having traits,
gressed its rules, by disorderly remarks,
and for having resorted to prevarications
when yonr attention was osiled to the
rales of decorum by the Speaker. For
this duplicate offense, the Honse has di
rected that you be publioly censured at
its bar. No words from tbe chair in the
performance of this most painful duty
oonld possibly add to the gravity of the
oocasion or the severity of the punish
ment. It remains only to prouaonce in
the name of the House, its censnre for
the two offenses charged in the resolu
tion.
Mr. Brown—I wish now to state that I
intended do evasion or prevarioation to
the Speaker, and no disrespect to the
House.
With these remarks, Mr. Brown re
turned to his seat, and this exciting inci
dent came to a close.
I. L. POLLARD,
Formerly of Vlrttata Store.
E. T. HARRIS,
of Harris oounty, q,.
. NEW GROCERY STORE.
POLLARD A HARRIS,
Old Stand or J. K. Redd fc Oo. (aext door to Chattahoochee National Bank.)
1 TOLL LINE OF FRESH GROCERIES AND STAPLE DRY GOODS JUST UK.
A oslved. Having bouqhtour good* for CASH, Wo ihalt sell them upon a CASH BASIS
Guaranteeing oar price* to be Mli« as any house In the city. Goods delivered to aay osm 7,1
the elty Jt'ree of Charge. Give us a eall, and we will do our best to please. F “ °>
Terms Strlotly OmIiI
POLLARD A HARRIS,
-doodfcwlj Celamhas, Uce rtl ^
VVXEHAL XOTlCXy
The friend* and acquaintances of Mr. and
Mrs L. W. Isbell, are Invited to attend the
funeral of tho former from the Episcopal
Oharch^hlMVtonday^lternoon^t^4o|olock.
Musical Gifts
For the Holiday".
Fine Gilt Editions (Price 84 00) of these Ele
gant Collections or Bound Moslo, entitled:
Gems of Strauss. Instrumental.
(toms ot S' ottlsh Song. Yoeal.
Gems or Stored Song, “
Gems of German Song. 11
Wreath of Gems. “
Pianoforte Gems. “
Operatlo Pearls “
Shower of Pearls. " Dost*.
Musical Treasure. Yoeal A Instrumental.
Plano at Home. Four Head Pleoes.
Organ as Home. Reed Organ Muio.
Pianist’s Album. Instrumental.
Plano Forte Gems. “
Price car volume. In boatdi ,|LM; eloth, 80;
full gilt, «t.
Also handsomely bound “Lives" ef the Grent
Musio Ma-tera, Mendelssohn, Mosert, Chopin,
Ac., costing SI TS to 88.00 pe book.
Sold everywhere. Sent promptly by mall
post Dree, for retail price. Order toon.
Oliver BItsoa k Co., Chu. H. Dittos k Co.
Boston. Til Broadway, I. Y.
mr'23 dStewfwedeeatlewly
FOR SALE AND RENT.
For Sale.
M Y FARM known as the Thompson am
place, lU miles east of Box Springs WF
on Musoogee Railroad, eonststing of SOT ■*»
acres—900 oleared, and balance welt timbered
end nearest the depot, Mr. Tom Persons now
resides on the place. Good framed end painted
and celled honse; healthy and excellent neigh
borhood. Prloe |1S0) oash. Terms made
known at my law office.
JAMES M. BUSSELL,
oetta dfcwtf Qotumbns, Ga.
Toys, Toys, Toys I
FROFUHO A HOFFMANN
are now displaying tfialr
Magnificent Stock of Toys
Remember the plane,
Ie. M Bread ttreet
rleeU enrifcw
MILLINERY.
f XT E offs
ofLad iss’f
days, onr large and well assorted etoeL
Jet'. Misses' snd Children's Hats and
Bonnets, trimmed and untrimmed, at oost for
cash, and all other artiolea In our line at great
ly reduced prices.
MRS. COLVIN A DONNELLY,
dec20 tf At Kyle’e Old Stand.
Blue Drug Store.
MEANS BRANNON, AT
i b. e hit old stand. Is Increasing
Is stock of DRUGS dally, and la
now prepared to fhrntsh Columbus
and vlelnlty with anything In hit line at
WHOLESALE AMD RETAIL.
> proposes to pay speolal attention to the
JOBBING TRADE, and offers greet lnduoe-
monts to Country Merchants. He keeps only
PURE AND RELIABLE DRUGS.
Call and see htra at 13b Broad Street.
From thle date eash ie required for all goods.
oo» tf
THE BEST
HOME MUSIC BOOKS.
. Masonic Notice.
T HE CALL MEETING OF
COLUMBIAN LODGE No. T, F.
and A. M., will bo held this (Monday)
afternoon at 1 o'clock, to attend the fu
neral of Brother L. tv. IsbeU.
lnv”.d “ndr'" 1 '" 8 br * thre “ *” oord “ 11 *
By order of the W. M.
H, F. EVERETT,
Seo’y.
A
fe« it
RESCUE HOOK and LADDER COMPANY.
Members of Rescue Hook and Ladder
Company will meet at their rooms this
(Monday) afternoon at 1 o’oloek, to attend tha
funeral of L. W. Isbell.
By order of Foreman
_Jl J. D. ESTES. See'y.
A Card.
T HE UNDERSIGNED has this day been
appointed temporary administrator of tha
estate ol J. Ennis, dcoased. Thl. Is to gin
notice that the Hardware business will be con
tinued, A well assortod stock of goods will be
kept on band and sold at as low prices as can
be afforded ror oash. Persons Indebted to the
Estate must come forward and lento
J. A. FRAZER,
Columbus, (la., Feb. 6, 187:
feb«dlwAwTt
Large collection of popular plecee. Most
excellent praotioe, and moat an.artalntng to
play.
R ITTER’S HISTORY OF MUBIC. 3
Vois. Each $160. Condensed from 600
pLARKE'S NEW METHOD. For Reed
V, O gane is still the leading Method In
point of sals, la enlarged, improved, and In
82 60* »»y keeps up Its high reputation. Price
O RGAN AT HOME. 81-60. The largest
and the best collection of popular Reed
Organ musio. 200 pieces; targe pages, well
R IVER OF LIFE. New Edition. Mots.
bull of the sweetest or Sabbath Bshool
songs.
AU books lent post-paid, for rotail pries.
OUTER DITSOI * CO., Bouton.
GRAY’S
Ferry PRINTING INK Works
PHILADELPHIA.
ROBINSON it PRATT, Tie Sansom St., PlUad'a
PRATT A ROBINSON, I Spruce St., N. Y.
F R VrSii5 e cf , !' ll r?* lph,a Nor,k Aewriean an
united States Gazette;—
“We publish in another place, the recom
mendations of tho Printing inks manufactured
at the GRAY'S FERRY INK WORKS. We
are using Ink from Messrs. Robinson A Pratt's
Works, and are pleased to add our approval of
it to the many endorsements they have already
received The Ink Is ‘of excellent quality-
clear, and works Iroely." *'
The Northern Tier Gazette, Trot/. (Pa.) save of
WORKS**’ 8 FEEK * PRINTING IN"
“Wo cal'l the attention ofour editorial Mends
S.n'™M n W lliy ' 8 FERRY PRINT-
ING INK WORKS, of whom we have been
buying Ink lor some years past. We o in com-
mend the gentlemen who run these Works as
wortify of patronage, as anxious to satisfy the
wautB of their customers, and as satisfactory
men to deal with as we ever met. They, like
the firm ot MaoKoller, Smiths A Jordan, type
founders, of the same city, are men that it will
do to l Ifc TO, certain of receiving honorable
treatment and prompt attention."
GREER’S ALMANACS
37*or 1873, «t
J. W. Pease & Norman's
Book*8tore.
Wanted,
^SITUATION AS AGENT ON A PLAN
TATION. A RIVER PLANTATION PRE
FERRED.
Address
janMXw
J. M. DANIEL.
Columbus, Ga.
CIFT CONCERT.
ANOTII ER = ^
OPPORTUNITY
the postponement of Pnblio Librarv nrv. f
tuoky, to the 27th of February next «t Pv, ?'
Filth and last Conc ert and 7 W< 'ft 1 !
Management are pledged to the return ofT5!
money If the drawing should not oome off at ml
day now appointed. *
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT —- -
ONE GRAND OASH GIFT..... ^SS!
ONE GRAND OASH GIFT... S2’22
ONE GRAND OASH GIFT... IrS
ONE GRAND OASH GIFT.”“
6 OASH GIFTS 820,000 each.. “* iK
10 CASH GIFTS 14,000 each ISSS
14 CASH GIFTS 10,000 each }S’£!
10 OASH GIFTS 6,000 each "
8.000 eaoh..."
2.000 eaoh....
SO,000
i;ooo each':::;:; loo’s*
M0 each loo doe
M eaoh 040,000
• 4 60 oo
.. 26 00
.. 6 00
600 00
Dr. J. A. Urquhart
Cotton Receipt Lost. j TT AS an olfioe and seeping apartment on
A w E uFc IPT 1 f0r0n ®'’n 1 * 0 (.. ,!0tt<,n marked Bosfcman^X^tVe'^'er^orlicliteih end
Jx® Ifi , il uni !' r * r *l£ r ' No - *• stored In Randolph Streets. Entrance to the offieeon
Planter!' Warehouse. The publio i t can-. McIntosh Street, where profeeilunaloalls made
It on ad against trading for It, ns duplicate hae either at day orlight may be left end will be
been applied for. W. B. CLINK. . promptly attendedta a*soon at reielved.
fete It* junta sod if
80 CASH GIFTS
40 CASH GIFTS
100 OASH GIFTS
240 CASH GIFTS
600 CASH GIFTS
1«,000 OASH GIFTS
Wholt Tickets
Halves
Tenth, or each Cunpon
II Whole 'tickets tor
For tickets or Information, address
C. AT. BRIGGS,
igeat and Eaaager,
Public Library Building, Louisville g.
HOLSTEAD * CO., Agents,
U0 Broad street, Columbus, Georgia
janl 2ta w-aufcth-1 feb20
PUBLIC LIBRARY OF KENTUCKY
Death of Governor Bremlotte-Action
of the Trustees—ASuooeuor Ap
pointed No More Postpone-
mente—Drawing Certain
February 27th, 1875.
A T a meeting of the Trustees of tbe Publls
Library ol Kentucky, January 10,1870 U
wns resolved that O. ML. Brlwgs Km., who un*
der the late Hon. Tho*. E. Bramlette war the
real business mansgcr ot the gift concert* al.
ready given In aid of tho Publio Library of
Kentuoky. be and he la hereby authorUed to
take the place made vacant by tbe denth of
said Bramlette, In the manauement of the af
fair* of the fifth and last gl t concert, and that
the drawing announced for February *J7,187#,
shall po*llively and unequivocally take place
on that day without any further postponement
or delay oa any recount whatever.
R. T. BURKETT, Pm.
John S. Oaiw, Serretary.
Hereafter all communication* relating to th*
Dth Concert should br addressed to the under*
signed, and 1 pie *ge myself that the drawing
shall come off February 27th or that every dol
lar paid for tickets shall be returned.
1). M BRIGGS,
Agent and Manager.
Room 4 Publlo Library Building, Louisville,
Kentuoky. jan22 t;eb;0
RESTAURANTS.
SANS SOUCI
Bar, Restaurant S Ten Pia Alley.
B est of wines, liquors a cigars.
OYSTERS, FISH, GAME, an! Choioe
Meals served at all huurs. at reasonable priest,
"Vltrlvate room, when desired.
THE TEN PIN ALLEY is tho best ever
construoted In Columbus Mr. JAS. I'OHA.V
has charge.
0Ct24 tf A. J. BOLAND, Proprietor.
DRUCCISTS.
Eagle Drug store.
Home Made Fertilizers!
MONEY SAVED!
MONEY MADE 2
urlatePot >sh, Bone !)• st, Land Floater,
South Carolina Phosphates, Ac.,
All of which we will sell at the lowest price*
for oash.
DR. E. O. HOOD will be with us, who has
had praotioal exi arienoe In these articles, anu
who ean give valuable information with regard
!¥l. D. HOODfcOO.
DIARIES
JpOB 1874, IN OREAT VARIETY ANU
VERY LOW PRICES, AT
J. W. Pease & Norman’s.
dec2V u
~ J. J. & W. R. WOOD
ii
Egge a specialty.”
Canned Goods, all kinds ;
Preserves and J.llles,
Fruits, Foreign and Domestio,
Pickles, assorted; .
Crackers, a select assortment.
Seedless Raisins, Oandlos In
great varloty.
, Buckets, Tubs, Tin Ware, Brooms and Bas
kets. We keep everything In the Housekesp
Ing line. We respeotlully invite the P“ blt 'JJ
give us a call and examine out goirfs ana
price*, second door below Well* A OurtD.
AU good* delivered. deoOSm
REAL E8TATE AGENTS.
JOHN BLACKMAB,
St. Clair Street, Ounby’e Building, next to
Freer, Illges fc Co.
Real Estate & Insurance Agt-
xsrin,i
To Merchant*' and
J«*g8 tf
PERMISSION,
ihauicB’ Bank, this nty
IDES.
OVAL.
HIRSCH
HAS RBMotvsD TO III* OLD STAND ON
CRAWFORD STREET,
Near Alabama Warehouse,
W HERE (he will oontlnue to pay hlg^ 1
prloe* £, r
Rags, Hides, Furs and Wax.
f and will sell
Lowe*t Rates.
anted,
r n, Hld-t (iry »ni « ,e t!‘| ] d
ted*. Bee*wa», Tall w.
ichi will pay THE Hitt*
INOISTtMCT PRINT*