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> Columbus mpircf. VOL. XIX. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1877. NO. 58 EXTRA SESSION OF THE SENATE. MOMAN AND GROVER SWORN IN ! RESOLUTION REGARDING LOUISIANA! Senate Debate on the Subject. Telegrams of Paok'ard and Corbin. WAtnucnoa, Meroh 8.—The Senate haa up the reeolation to swear in John T. Morgan, Senator from Alabama, to whieh Mr, Bpenoer anbmitted an amendment to refer the credentials to the Committee on PrTlleges and Elections, and spoke at length in favor of that motion. The motion to refer the oredentiala of General Morgan to the Committee on Privileges and Elections was rejeoted without dissent. He was presented by Senator Gordon and sworn in by the Vioe President. The following proceedings have direct bearing on the Kellogg oase : Mr. Wallaoe moved that the credentials of L. N. Grover, Senator from Oregon, be taken from the table, and that he be sworn. Mr. Sargent submitted the following as a substitute: Whereas, Under the constitution and the laws knd the praotiee of the Senate, LaFayette Grover, olaiming to be a Sena tor from the State of Oregon, his oreden tials being regular and in dua form, there being no contestant for the seat, is enti tled to admission to a seat in this body on the pritna Jade use, presented by such credentials, notwithstanding the objec tions contained in the petition of oitisena of the 8tate of Oregon against his admis sion; therefore, Kesolved, That the credentials of La fayette Grover be taken from the table and the oath of office be now administer ed to him. Besolved further, That the petitions of eitisens of Oregon containing charges against Lafayette Grover be laid on the table nntil tbe Committee on Privileges and Elections is organized, when they shall be referred to suoh oommittee, to gether with the credentials, with instruc tions to investigate suoh charges and re port as to their truth or falsity. Mr. Wallaoe aocepted the substitute. Mr. Conkling moved to amend by in serting in tbe preamble after the words “no contestant for tbe seat,” as follows: “And there being in said State bnt one body claiming to be the Legislature, and one person olaiming to be tbe Governor, and there being no doubt or dispute as to the existence of one rightful State Gov ernment.” The amendment was aocepted by Mr. Sargent. A general debate on Louisiana followed daring which, Mr. Sanlsbury said he be lieved the ladies of New Orleans could drive the whole Paokard Government out ot the oily, provided it was not aided by the Federal power of the United States. [Great laughter and applause in the gal leries.] The Vioe Presidsnt admonished ooou pants of the galleries that applause must not be repeated. Mr. Howe, of Wisoonain, referred to the oaae of Packard, and said he was not an outlaw,but he could not now show him self on the streets of New Orleans. If the people of New Orleans were law abiding, why should Mr. Paokard be afraid to show himself before them. It " had been aald he claimed an offioe to which he was not entitled. The same thing had been said about the President of the United States, and yet in this law abiding city that President was not afraid to show himself. Finally Grover wee seated. Mr. Thurman said at a former session of the Senate the credentials of J. B. Eus- tia, olaiming to be a Senator from tbe State of Louisiana, were referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. The oommittee reported against the right of Mr. Euatis to a seat on the ground Hut the vacancy had been filled by tbe eleotion of Pinohbaok. Subsequently the Senate decided that Pinohbaok was not elected. He therefore submitted a reso lution that the oredentiala of Mr. Eustis be taken from the table and referred to the Oommittee on Privileges and Elea tions. Laid ovdr nntil to-morrow. During tbe debate Blaine had read the following: Nett Orleane, March 8,1877.—To Hon. J. G. Blaine, U. S. Senate—Senator Bay ard is mistaken. In every pariah outside the city, except tbe five bulldozed parish es, in one of whioh our tax collector has just been murdered, my Government is recognised by all, save a few pretended Nioholls officiate. S. B. Paokabd. Washington, Maroh 8th. To Han. J. O. Blaine; Dxas Sin—Hon. William M. Everts begged me to say to you that he did not endorse the letter of Stanley Matthews to Gov. Chamberlain, to the extent implied by the telegram of Gov. Chamberlain to me; that the letter was presented to him by Mr. Haskell, of South Carolina, and he wrote upon it substantially as follows: That he had read the foregoing letter, that he desired to seethe trouble in South Car olina oomposed, and he deeired to hear from Chamberlain upon the subject. Very respectfully, D. T. Gobbin. Oealeamial A**lvere»ry. Boston, Maroh 8.—The one hundredth anniversary of the independence of the Meeooie Grand Lodge of Massachusetts was celebrated to-day. Many diatin guiabed Masons from other States were COMPROMISE COMMISSION TBOTTQB* Of. Washington, Maroh 8.—The President may send a compromising eommimion, headed by Vioe President- Wheeler, to South Carolina and Louisiana. Oonater- nation pervades the Republican oourt. DEMOOBATS WILL HAVa SZIjr-OOVBBlOIZNT. The Democrats are solid and determined in their deman da for the restoration of self-government throughout the South, and in obtaining it do not propose to make any humiliating oonoeaaipn to the President or any one else. UAHINKT IISKTING AND HATBs' DETBBMIEA- 710*. The World's Washington dispatch says there was a conference at tbe White House last night, at whioh Mr. Everts, Stanley Matthews, Mr. Sohurz and other friends of the President, were present. The ex traordinary action of the Senate in defer ring the confirmation of the new Cabinet was variously dismissed. The President expressed great astonishment. He had not anticipated unanimous approval of the selection, but at the same time he thought they met the approval of the greater portion of tbe Senate. He added that he should adhere to the nominations as he had made them, and that tbe Senate oould pursue its own oourse in the matter, that he had laid down the polioy he intended to per- sue, and, he should carry it into elfeot. If the Cabinet was not confirmed this week, he said he should proceed in oo-op- peration with the old Cabinet, and issue orders for the withdrawal of troops from the Southern States. HA1 IUOV. aBOIOIA STATE ASIICCLTDIAL SOCIETY. Special to Oonatltdtlon.) Millbdozvills, Ga., Maroh 7.—The State Agricultural Sooiety met last even ing and had the usual experience meeting, discussing oorn, oats, sheep, ete. After a short session the Sooiety adjourned to an entertainment given by the ladies of the Presbyterian Ohuroh. This morning Mr. Berokmans read an essay upon peas and pea-hay, stating that peas were the best and cheapest hay in the WASHINGTON. A PAYMASTER FOUND DEAD! HAYES DETERMINED TO KKKP HIS CAB1NKT! STEADFAST IN HIS SOUTHERN POLICY SENATE CAUCUS AND COMMITTEES Sherman Confirmed—Meeting with Grant’s Old Cabinet I FOUND DEAD. Washington, Maroh 8.—Major J. 0. Cash, Paymaster of the Marine Corps, was found dead in bed—appoplexy. OONFIBM ATIOMS. John Sherman, Secretary of the Treas ury. Pending confirmation of Cabinet there is nothing worthy of note eonoern* iog military affairs or other mattere. BZPUBLIOAN BEN ATX COMMITTEES. Special to Enguirer-Sun.] Washington, Maroh 8.—The Republi can Senate oauane heard a report of the Committee on Regular Committees. It was agreed to inoreaae the Democratic re presentation in all non-political commit tees, making three, four and five. The minority will have but two of the nine oompoBing the Judioiary Committee. The Republicans olsas Judge Davia with themselves in forming the oommittees. Morrill, of Vermont, suaoeeds Sherman as ohairman of the Finanoe Oommittee. HAYZS FIRM. There is no intention at the White House of withdrawing any Cabinet nominee. The opposition to Sohurz is quite strong. Schurz is quoted that the idea of hia with drawal is preposterous. OONFZBZMOZ. The President, Everts, Sohurz and Devens had a oonferenoe at the White House to-day. Subsequently Everts, Sohurz and Stanley Matthews visited Secretary Fish. WILL ADHBBE TO THI SOUTHERN POLICY. The President is determined to adhere to his Southern polioy and oivil aervioe reform. THE OLD OABINZT will meet the President to-morrow,except Morrill, whose place will be filled by Sherman. WHY BHEBMAN WAS OONFIBMXD. The reason of Sherman's confirmation to-day, was to get him out of the way in forming oommittees. SOHUBZ had an interview with Hayes to-night. Hayes has no idea of abandoning Sohurz. -No resignations of Cabinet officers have been acoepted. All Grant’s old advisers are entitled to seats around Hayes' con sultation board exoept Morrill. It is un derstood that South Carolina and Louis iana will not be discussed, and that the meeting will be a mere formality. '. Jones, of Burke, claimed that by sowing peas with oattail millet on rioh land, broad east, a finer and larger yield and the oheapeet in the world oonld. be obtained. Adiaouasion upon the influ ence of the moon upon animal and vege table matter followed, in whioh opinions were strenuously argued. The Secretary read a report upon HOG AMD OHIOKXN CHOLBBA, which provoked considerable disoussioDt many desiring that it be published at once. He reached the following oonolu- sione. 1. That the proper name for what is oommonly called hog oholera is the intes tinal fever of swine. 2. That the deseasa is virulently conta gious, and that oontagion is its main source. 3. That salt, sulphur, copperas, wood ashes and obarooal in food, and tar, spirits of turpentine and kerosene are applied to their bodies, and the disinfection of their sleeping plaoes or plaoes of frequent are the best known protection from the desease. 4. That there are no absplnte preven tions exoept the prevention of oontagion, whioh, from its very nature, nndor many oireumatanoes, is impossible. 5. That it is not desirable after tbe disease has been oontrsoted, to nndertake to preserve the hog, but if the effort ie made eaoh osse will require that patient and consistent medioal treatment whioh its oiroumstanoes may demand. Mr. Montgomery, an advanced political farmer, read an essay ON IMPBOVZD AGBIOULTUBAL IMPLEMENTS, in whioh he reoommended the use of most of the improved agricultural imple ments, provided the farmer can buy them without going in debt and will give per sonal attention to their nse. He condemn ed the sulky plow. In the discussion that followed it was agreed that steam power is generally oheaper and preferable to water power for farm purposes. Col Barnett then read an eBsay: “does fabming in ozobgia pay?” delivering one of tbe deepest and most tbrougbtful addresses ever submitted to this society. Suooess in farming, be demonstrated, depended npon tbe farmer and his good sense more than npon his tools or land, but tbe soil, means of fers tilizing and onr climate. Which latter is the most important ot all, are unsurpassed by any in [the world. Middle Georgia was claimed as the beet spot npon earth to snoceed; the farmer should make happy, oomforatable and beautiful homes whioh his descendants will never desert,forever making this farm preferable to any other spot. He should get oat and keep out of debt, not farm on too large a scale, and never let his land wear ont. Good farming in Georgia does pay in every part of the State. Dr. Jones, of Athens, then read an es say npon WHAT A FARMER SHOULD BE. General Horne then read a series of resolutions advooating the calling of State CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, whioh has not yet been aoted npon. The sooiety holds its next session in Newnsn, in August, next, THE STATE FAIR will be held in Atlanta next fall. M. J. IgnsUleff’e Declaration. Special to Enquirer-Sun.} London, Maroh 8.—A dispatoh from St. Petersburg to Reuter’s Telegram Com pany says it is authoritatively stated that Gen. Ignatieff in conversation with for eign statesmen will demonstrate that Rus sia aims at pursuing a separate Eastern polioy,bnt on obtaining declarations from the Powers that it is the Porte’s duty to execute the conference programme, and unless the Porte fulfills the doty, all the European Powers will be at liberty to alaim its fulfillment. The laaazeistlea. The inauguration has gone off with only a moderate amount of eclat aud en thusiasm. Tbe procession has disap pointed pnblio expectation. The negroes of the District have made up a large por tion of ttie throng, both by day and by night. The best show, perhaps, was that of the orowd to the east of the Capitol, numbering some ten thousand persons. IN THE SENATE CHAMBER the proceedings were muoh less impressive than usual. The oloud on Hayes' title fell like a dark abadow over the whole affair. Demooratio Senators were pres ent, of course, as doty compelled them to attend the called session of the Senate, but they expressly avoided going in the procession from the obamber, when Pres ident Hayes left there to deliver hie in augural. I noticed very few of the Dem- oorata of the Houee of Representatives present. MESSRS. FIELD AND CLIFFORD, the two Democrats of the Supreme Court, were oonspiououely absent when the jus tices entered the obamber. On the whole, it was apparent that the Democrats meant to signalize their displeasure at tbe meth ods by which Mr. Hayes has aoquired the Presidential offioe. HAYES LOOKED PBETTY WELL to-day, and his wife who eat in the gal lery with her ohild by her side,oonoiliated and won mnoh regard by a good motherly faoe, whioh spoke its own pure inaugural. It had about it nothing of the flavor of Returning Board. Grant looked well, oolleoted and easy, aud at one time, when his Senatorial es cort bungled, was visibly amused. Ban Hill, Beck, Lamar and Blaine were ob jects of special attention. Evarts and Carl Schurz, members of the new Cabi net, sat in the background. Sir Edward Thornton, the Britiab minister, with his bind, honest English face, and dignified bearing, appropriately led in the impress ive diplomatio procession. The faoes and beariug of the old Cabinet were a study. Fish looked like a gentleman, as he is, well-dressed and severely respeotable. Don Cameron sat next him, and looked stern and as mad as a wet hen. Tyner reminded me of the time when I fonnd him at a supper table, madly bent on ohampagne, und unwilling to budge an inob, even for a lady to be helped. Robe son had a perfunctory manner, as if bored to death. Father Taft seemed as if pen etrated with a profound and tender sym pathy with every stupid quirk and qnibble of the law, whioh ordinary intelligence would reject. As for Chandler, he seemed as if all his faculties were gathered np in one stern lesolve for the killing of Donn Piatt. There was now and then some vulgar and disorderly applause by the newly gathered Radicals, who, of course, did not know any batter how to behave, and oared less. There was no assassina tion, no disturbance. The Returning Board maohinery moved without ajar, and the new dynasty was fully if not fairly, launohed on its donbtfnl voyage of life.— /Special to Courier-Journal. CHURCH PANIC. SEVEN KILLED AND MANY WOUNDED. Special to the Enquirer-Sun. New Yobk, Maroh, 8.—A panio in the ohuroh of St. Francis Xavier to-night oaused a rush of women from one of the galleries. In the tumult whioh ensned six women and one boy wars tramped un der foot and killed. The audienoe was oomposed entirely of women and obildren, it being womens' week in Lent. The num ber of persons injured oould not be as certained. Indians at War Again. New Yobk, Maroh 8.—A Bozeman, Montana Territory, telegram of the Cth says: Couriers arriving here to-day re port the appearance of Bitting Bull, Cra zy Horse and Dull Knife, with 1,000 to 2,000 lodges of hostiles, 45 miles from the Crow Agenoy, threatening it. The Crows are stated to have stampeded on learning of the approaoh of their foee. Foreign Items. London, Maroh 8.—The Standard't Paris speoial is assured that Turkey has forwarded a circular declaring that Rus sia has been indirectly waging war against Turkey, and is now instigating insurnc tion in Bosnia. Gen. Ignatieff,while at Berlin, received no enoouragement from Prlnoe Bismarok to go to war. The ship Alexanderana, New Orleans for Liverpool, was badly damaged from a oollision in the Mersey. Colliery Explosion. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] London, Maroh 8. —Sixteen bodies were taken from the Woroester colliery explo sion. It is thought bix more are in the pit. Hr. Conklls Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Evansville, Ind., Maroh 8.—The Posey blook is burned. Loss 920,000. Cincinnati, Maroh 8.—The tobaooo warehouse, at Bradford, Ky., was burned, with $15,000 pounds of tobaooo. Aelress Dead. New York, Maroh 8.—Matilda Heron is dead. Wealker. Washington, Maroh 8.—Indications— For the South Atlantic States, falling ba rometer, increasing barometer, southerly winds, cloudy and rain will prevail, fol lowed by oolder northwest winds and cloudy weather with rising barometer. The orowd of people at Washington is said to be immense. A large part of them are from the State of Ohio. Their purpose is generally understood to be to sustain Mr. Hayes in his views of oivil servioe reform—at least to tbe extent that after they once get into offioe they are entitled to remain in for life.—Nan York Sun. r and She Fraudulent President. From the Cincinnati commercial.] Washington, February 27.—The Re publicans watch Conkling with a oritio's eye, and allow none of bis interviews with Democrats to pass unheeded by. He can not take tbe arm of a Democrat, or two Democrats, and go into a secret place and look the door and draw the ourtains, and remain five hours, without oreating consternation in the Republican oamp. The Republicans are as suspioious of him as ever a deteotive was of some poor devil whom he had shadowed. At the bottom of all this smoke there must be some fire. Conkling is aooosed of wavering as to the Louisiana business. He stood the Florida ease first-rate,swallowing the Com mission's verdiet like a little man, but there are points in the Louisiana matter whioh seem to set heavily on his legal stomach. I don't pretend to say what they are or what the trouble is, but trouble there is of some sort. He wss oonspioiously ab sent when the Senate voted to ratify tbe Tribunal's Louisiana verdiot. It is said that he was almost on tbe point, almost persuaded to make a thundering speech against the Tribunal's finding, and per haps oarry enough Senators—six only were required—with him to defeat the ratification, and thus defeat Hayes. The Demoorats thought at one time that he wonld do this, and they cheerfully spoke of it as the great opportunity of his life. It would have been a fine opportunity to have lost his standing in one party with out gaining it in the other. The suspicions of the Repnblioans are in part owing to the faot which they so well understand, that Conkling has not been treated right. As the most oonspio nous leader of tbe party in the Middle States be deserved better treatment than he had last June in Cinoinnati. Starting with but ninety-nine votes, the represen tatives of his party allowed him to grad ually peter out with each successive bal lot. It is plain that Conkling feels sore, and no lens plain than natural. The faot that he made a great campaign speech last summer aod did not once mention Hayes’s name is foil of suggestiveness. There are numerous hints afloat that President Hayes should do something substantial for Conkling, as he has labor ed so long in the party and received so little for it. H. V. It. The Party Hiatus. Hays the Baltimore Sun : Of the thirty- eight States composing the Union, twen ty-one have at this time Demooratio State governments, and although three of these—California, Nevada and Oregon— oast their electoral rotes for Hayes, the majorities in several of tbe recognized Republican States are so small that they may be said to bo almost equally divided between the two great parties. Even in Ohio, Mr. Hayes’ own State, a change of 3,500 votes would have given tbe eleotion to tbe Democrats, while 1,500 votes in New Hampshire, 500 in California, 100 in Oregon, 2,500 in Rhode Island and 500 in Nevada, would have effeotod alike result in those States. Indeed, so narrow at the last election was tbe margin between the Republioans and Democrats in States olaimed, and held by the former, that a ohange of 8,070 votes in a poll of 1,154,071 votes would have given forty nine additional electoral votes to Tilden. Even in the New Eog- land States the Republican majority in a vote of nearly 700,000 was less than 87,- 000; in the Western States in a vote of 2.000. 000 but 182,000, and in the moun tain and Paciflo States but 5,785. The aotual Demooratio majority on the popu lar vote, and aooepting tbe Louisiana Re turning Board count for that State, was 250.000, and tbe aotual net Demooratio gain in nineteen States was 902,450. It is well to remember these things. THE PULPIT ON THE PRESIDENCY. Talmage on the Decition of the Electoral Comminlon. !• ARTIS ANSI111‘ DOMINANT Gratitude for Dangers Passed and Brill- lnut Prospects For the Vuture. At tho Brooklyn Taberaole yesterday morning Mr. Talmage broke through his series of discourses on the different occu pations and professions, and omitted his expected sermon on the trials and tempta tions of merobanta in order to speak ot tbe Presidential election and the pros pects of the country. Without giving any signs of his own politioal feelings he strongly blamed the members of tbe Elec toral Commission for their partisanship, oonsoled the Demoorats for their defeat and urged the Republioans to use their suooest for the good of the whole country. Almost at every sentence he was interrupt ed by long and loud bursts of applause from the congregation, whom his sermon appeared to put in particularly good hu mor. HiB text was taken from the twen ty-first ohapter of Isaiah, part of the eleventh verse—“Watchman, what of the night ?" “Nine o'olook aud all is well,” sings the watohman from the tower of St. Miohael's ohuroh in Charleston every night, said Mr. Talmage, to hinder arson and rob bery and to report tho breaking out of fires and the breaking in of foes. Every oity has had armed men on guard from dusk to dawn. Meeting suoh persons in the darkness we are very apt to say, “What's the news? What o'olook is it ? Watchman, what of the night ?'' This cry has been the ory of the nation in all the night of our politioal distressed I think I may answer this morning in reply to that ory. It seems like daybreaks; it seems to be like the six o'olook in the day of na tional prosperity. The morning oomethl The nation, after a season of terror, takes a long breath. It seems significant that the 4th of Maroh, 1877, comes on Sunday, that the ohurobes of Christ may give the first expression of Christian sen timent. THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION. There are two great foots whioh con front us to-day—tbe one very depressing, the other very exhilarating. The depress ing faot is that the Electoral Commission of fifteen men drew themselves into striot party lines and in every caBe obeyed tbe spirit of partisanship. Without a single exception those men saw their duty through the spectaolee of their party. One would have supposed that some of the Demoorats would have been opposed to going behind the retains, or that some of the Republioans wonld have been in favor of so doing; bnt no, the seven Demo crats voted one way and the eight Republi cans the other. In other words, if you bad gathered seven Republioans out of any politioal olnb in the oountry there would have been no dif ferent result. It is amusing how Judges of the Supreme Court are just like other meo, even when you put on them the ren sponsibility of deciding an eleotion. Ruth erford B. Hayes is proclaimed President to-day just beoause in tbe Eleotoral Com mission there was one Republican more, and Samuel J. Tilden is defeated just be cause there was one Democrat less. Was there ever suoh proof in this oountry that partisanship is dominant everywhere ? Is it not wonderful that we have come through in peace ? The voioe of the Lord is heard above all. We are coming through the crisis not by any human patronage but by the help of tbe Lord God. For, was it not for Him, tbe 4th of Msrob, 1877, would have oelebrated the dismemberment of this Republic. He hath dealt so to no nation, and as for His judgments, we have not known them. I shall, without treading on any man’s politioal affinities, for the ooossion is too solemn for that, call upon this ohuroh and nation to show gratitude to God for tbs faot that we have esoaped from the uni versal monarohioal jeer. This political excitement has not been confined between Sandy Hook and the Golden Gate. All the despotisms of the earth have been laughing at us. They said : “Ah, ha ! her time is come. Tho oountry for whioh Washington lived and Abraham Lincoln died is going to pieces. Demooratio in' stitutions never oould live. O king, live forever I” But ere this the submarine telegraphs have announced to all the na tions of the earth that our trials have oome to a settlement, and the owls and the bats of despotic night are going to sleep, wheu our eagle, that is abused so much by Fourth of July orators,is spread ing its wings to the day. I think that European monarchies will find out after awhile that this Repnblio is going to live. Trouble and misfortune are founderies whioh forge thunderbolts. I would give nothing for that nation whioh has never had trials. Our Government is making her trial trip. In 18(11 the nation met sea of blood and outrode the waves. I 1877, we met another political storm and outrode it. The political barometer says that we shall have fair political weather. VIVE LA IlEPUBLIqUE I As soon as a ship carpenter haa observed a particular craft whioh has passed through many severe storms and makes fast time be begins to make other vessels just like it. In tho same way soon you will boar all the governmental dry docks of the earth ringing with hammers and all the workmen engaged in oonstruting republios. They say a government that can stand a shock like that of 1861 or 1877 must have the elements of moral power. At any rate the guns of foreign derision are for some time spiked, and in Marseilles and Hamburg and Liverpool our flag will be respeoted more than ever. Sing ye to tbe L>rd, for ye hath triumph ed gloriouajy; tbe horse aud his rider will be thrown into the sea. This is the time to propose a national exchange. There are many horo who do not believe in republican institutions, and there are many on the other side who do not believe in monarchies. Let all those here who do not like the Republic leave. We oan afford to pay their expensos to foreign dimes, especially if they take a third class passage or go as freight. Let all those in foreign countries who are dis satisfied come here. Come ye Russians, come ye Danes, come ye Germans, oome ye Italians, come ye Hpauiards, come ye Frenchmen, come ye Irishman, come 'to our shore. Rock your children in tbe aradle of our valleys, plant your seed on our hills. Why be slaves when you and your obildren, and your children's obildren may live here in freedoom ? May God make the depotisma of the earth to fall flat on their faces. Again I oall this ohuroh and the nation, so far as my voioe may reaob, for grati tude to God that we have esoaped blood shed. - There has been none. The be havior of the insane man in New Orleans of oourse is not worth being called into consideration. One drop of blood flow ing down the cheek of any of the contest ants would have oaused an exoitement like that when the first gun wsb fired at Fort Bumter. There's no poetry in war, but only grinding, blasting'prose. No one very prominent has plroposed it. What has kept the peace ? Who has oom posed 40,000,000 of people?. The keeper of the Lord's hosts, or the armies of Joshua, has been in command. Confess it praotioally that the Lord God has kept the peaoe. But now that we have oome through so far without bloodshed there's one thing to regret. PBESIDENT HAVES' OPPORTUNITY. I know not what will be the polioy of the humming President, bnt no man ever had suoh an opportunity to settle the dif ficulties between North and Bouth. Let him hear the demand that comes from Republioans and Democrats, from North and Booth, from East and West, that oomei like the voioe of a mighty thundering, that the attempt to hold and control the State Govern ments of tbe Bouth by military foroe from the North shall onoe and forever vanish. [Loud applause, continued for some mo menta], If the newly inaugurated Presi dent would by one stroke win the heart of the entire nation he will oall home the troops and Bwing out tho gunboats from their harbors. He should say to the South, “if you can’t keep any form of government unless it be propped np by the bayonets of the military then you will have to go under. ” Tbe faot that the Booth is now submitting peaoefully to the inauguration of a man against whom the vast majority of their States voted, is roof positive that they mean peace, and 'orthern bayonets at the South after this will be an insult to God and to the digni ty of the nation. Again, we owe gratitude to God beoause we have escaped national inoendiarism and revolution. It seemed at one time as if we were to fall into the bauds of those politicians who have brought all the trouble on this country; those who have brought on the war, and would like to have another war, like buzzards, who appear whenover a oaroass drops. They would like to sink the ship of State in mid-ocean, with all on board, if they thought they oould only swim to shore with one sea bisonit. They would like to have unravel led this oountry a way back to 1776. How easy it would have been for some of the Senators to have withdrawn and oalled on tbe States to support theml Then we should have bad another war; but it would not have been a war like that between tbe North and South. It would buvo been a oonteat on Fulton street, on Broadway, on Wall street, on Gheatnut street, and the whole land wonld have witnessed soeoes like the 8t. Barthlomew’s massacre. “O," you say, “that is impassible.” Look at the record, look at the war riots of New York in 1863, and tell me it anything is impos sible for the ruffianism of onr Northorn and Montbern cities. It was a critical time in tbe oountry when the Presidential eleo tion of 1860 occurred; but wc never got through a more fearful pass than that through which we are now msrohing. Again, I oall on you for gratitude to God for the faot that we have esoaped oommeroial destruotion. Wo oonld have endured the strain no longer. For tbe last ten years the commerce of this ooun try has been paying tbe penalty of the war. The ooutliot was ohangod from the South to Wail street. If tho market didu’t seem flat enough then a panic would oome and strike them flatter. But last autumn, by all the laws of trade, it seems the de liverance would oome. Everything brightened up. Borne of the streets were almost blooked up with oases of goods for transportation. But the uncertainty of the eleotion smote everything. Since then the shadow of death has been over warehouse and steamer aud railroad train. I rode a long distance last week with but one other person than myself on the train. Why ? Beoause everybody had been saying, “Wait till tbe 4th of Maroh.” Two months more of such uncertainty as we have had would have annihilated American oommeroe. SPECIE PAYMENES. Practically we have come down to specie payments. Commerce will begin to rise on tbe solid stairs of silver aud gold. When a man has paid you any thing you won’t be in doubt whether it’s ten cents or twenty-five cents or fifty oenta or a pieoe of rotten old brown paper. [Laughter.] No more Presidential oon- fliot for four years! Bouthern merchants will orowd our Btreets as they did before tbe war. We will be as oordially wel- oomed in the parlors of Charleston as we ever were. Bhake put the cauvas of your ship! Run up to the top of the mast the old flag whioh our fathers wove out of tbe blue of the sky! May the God of our fathers and the God of tbe seas prosper American commeroe. But I should think to-day there may go up to God an anthem of gratitude. Many of you have been disappointed; but would it have been bet ter if the land had perished ? It seems to me that this is the time for ecclesiasti cal fraternization. I belong to a denom ination which with awful violeuce broke into two parts during the war. Binoe then there has been no communication between tbe two parts. They know we are Christians, aud wo know they are. It will bo awful if we get to heaven before tbe quarrol is settled. Tbe ecclesiastical politicians at the North and Bouth are afraid, Ob, pshaw I Why stand on our dignity 7 I’d rush aoross the line and with one hand I’d take them by the beard and with the other by the girdle, and in that wol- oome grip of Christian broiherhood I’d have this thing settled in three minutes. May God, the God of peace, bless our Northern and Bouthern churches. It is a great shame that when the military have made up, and the politicians have made up, the ohurchea of Jesus Christ oaunot settle their difficulties. It was a great scene in this church one day last year when many churches sat down here to the Lord's Supper. It made a scene never to be for- gotton. Ob I may God hasten on the brighter day when all the churches of God in this land shall send in their ebal- ioes together for the Lord's Bupper and tbe Methodist ohurchea of the North and South shall sit down together, and tbe Presbyterian Church North and tbe Pres byterian Church Bouth shall sit down at Tilde* **d Mr. Mwrrlaww. The 8t. Louis Timet prints a brief cor respondence whieh lately passed between a few Illinois Democrats and Congress man W. R. Morrison. On the 24th ult, the former telegraphed Mr. Morrison : “American institutions and constitutional liberty demand that the conspiracy shall notsnooead. Onr party can prevent it without resorting to revolutionary meas ures, for the partisan deoisions of the Eleotoral Commission command no re spect. Give ns a new eleotion.” He thus replied: Messrs. L. II. Hite and Others ; Dear Bibs: Your dispatch has been reoeived. I fear it is too late to accom plish what you suggest, and what tbe right and justioe of tbe case demand. Many of our friends, and some of the moat influential, think, or pretend to think, that we are bound by obligations of good faith to go on under the Elector al Commission bill to see Hayes fraudu lently counted in. There are so many of this way of thinking that this result seems to me to be inevitable. The truth is that our great man, Tilden, able sa he un doubtedly is, did not have tbe plnok to meet the requirements of tLe oocasion at tbe right time, though I suppose it must be sstd to his credit that when this Commission was gotten up it was expected that Davis would be the eighth man. I look npon this thing aa lost, though our folks oould keep Hsyes out if they were united, aud possibly oould seonre a new eleotion ; bnt Lamar, Hill, Watson, Wood, Wells, and many others say they intend to let Hayes go through, and believe themselves bound to do so. I never had any faith in the eleotoral projeot, but everybody in the oountry seemed to favor it, and when I returned from New Orleans it wsa already settled upon a»the way out. Respectfully, yours, W. R. Morrison. Wheat Tilde* Prejaaaes te 4s A beat New Yobk, March 4.—Beoretary of Btste Bigelow passed most of to-day with Governor Tilden at his residence. Gov. Tilden refused to be interviewed on the resolution of Congress daclaring him elec ted President. His nephew, Colonel Felton, thiuka the Governor will do nothing in the matter, as the previous aotion of the House in allowing tbe votes to be oounted by tbe Electoral Commission make thtir resolu tion of not muoh aooount. It is thought that Mr. Tilden will form ally protest against the inauguration of Hayes. t The United States ■■prelaw Caul Deelelo* I* the hrasisr Ustsas. Tbe points may thus be briefly stated : First—That the State haa a right to fix by law the maximum of charges for tbe storage of grain in warehouses, “in whioh grain of different owners is mixed to gether, or in Whieh grain ia'atorad in suoh manner that the indientity of the different lota or parcels oaunot be accurately pre sumed. Second—That tbe State has the right to regulate the oarrying of freights and passengers on all railroads within its lim its. Third—That the Btste has the right to provide by lew a maximum rate of oharges to be made by railroads for the transpor tation of persons and property oarried within tbe State, or taken up outside and brought within it, or taken up inside and carried out. The decision is that until Congress acts in reference to the relations of inter State oommeroe, it is competent for tbe State to regulate tbe fares of rail roads, so far as they are of domestio con cern ; and this the State may do, even though its legislation may indirectly affeot railroads, outside of it. Fourth—Inasmuch as a uniform rate of oharges for all the railroads in tbe State might operate unjustly upon some, it is oompetent for the Legislature, in its dis cretion, to moke adaptation of ohargea by a system of railroad classification, mak ing uniform oharges for eaoh olass. Fifth—That as between the railroad oompany and the shipper, tbe maximum rate ot charges, as fixed by law, is the limit of recovery for transportation actu ally performed, and tbe same oannot be extended by showing that any ohsrge ex ceeding the established rate, was no more than reasonable compensation for the ser vice rendered. lumber districts of Maine Htinll sit down beside the conseorated men of Savannah and of tbe lagoons of the Bouth.' The 10,000 chalices shall be filled with the new wine of tbe kingdom and Christ will say, “My peace I give unto you.” Roll on tbe day! God of our fathers, God of our mothers, God of our children, roll on tbe day I I believe in'the oommunion of saints, and in the life everlasting. Amen and amen and amen I Rev. JOSEPH T. INMAN, Station D, Bible House, New York Oity. febls-eodAwSm “These Bouthern Whigs were opposed to secession, and they never believed in any of the State sovereignty doctrines whioh were made a pretext to justify it. They were foroed into secession, and al though they fought through tbe war with bravery and determination, yet they are consoious that all the calamities whioh re bellion brought upon their section were brought by the Demooratio party, against their protest. They hold it responsible for all the destruotion of Southern wealth, and for putting its progress baok a quar ter of a oentury. And they did not acquire any love for it by being foroed to assist in the work of their own ruin.”—Cincin nati C/aiette. Will the Deaoon explain why these maltreated Southern Whigs did not hasten into the Republican ranks, and make that potent “Southern Republican element” the Republicans are sighing for when they bad a ohance,during the period when the benefloent (?) rule of Radicalism ex tended over all the Southern States after the war ? They oertainly did not go in. • [Courier-Journal. Bitti.er on the Situation.—New York Sun; Ben Butler is here. He has not been consulted ee to the make np ot the Cabinet. The negleot of the Lowell statesmen is probably owing to ths remark he made when he first heard that Hayes intended to reoognize the Nioholls Gov ernment. Borne one asked him what he thought of it, and he replied: “If a client of mine bed been acquitted on the testi mony of two or three witnesses, and, after he was discharged from ouetody, should have tho witnesses indicted for false swearing in his oase, I would be inolined think he was a damned fool. ” A CARD! lnrilsoretlons of youth, Nervous Weakness, Early Decay, Loss or Manhood, Ae — I will send a roolpe that will can you, Frew of Charge. This great remedy was discovered by a mls- the same communion, aud the conneora- sionary in South Amarioa. Send a self- ted men of the Oregon forests and the addressed envelope to the MEMO ANT DOOMS WON HMNT. Suitable for offioes, sleeping apart ments, do., reocntly fitted op over Enqui- bibSun offioe. fet>27 tf This Offioe.
