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VOL. XIX.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1877.
NO. 252
WASHINGTON.
BLAINE AND KEENAN PAIR.
PROPOSED RESOLUTIONS IN HOUSE TO EN
DORSE THE SOUTHERN POLICY—LOUISIANA
WRANGLE—CAUTIONARY SIGNALS—HOUSE
COMMITTEES TO BE ANNOUNCED WEDNES
DAY— 8P0FF0RD AND KELLOGG BEFORE
SENATE COMMITTEE-DEPUTY COLLECTOR
OF THE THIRD GEORGIA DISTRICT SHORT
FOUR THOU8AND DOLLARS—JUDGE CAMP
BELL FOR BPOFFORD—BLAINE SICK—PEN J
BIONING SOLDIERS OF MEXICAN WAR—TEXT
OF THE SILVER BILL.
referred to proper committees, and the
Senate, at 12:40, adjourned until to-mor
row.
HOUSE.
The Colorado question was resumed
after reading the journal.
Colorado occupied the entire day.
A seleot committee on civil service was
ordered.
Adjourned to Wednesday.
TRIENNIAL EPISCOPAL CONVENTION.
To Adjourn Wedueidny—I.cctiona-
ry or the Chatch or Englnmd
Adopted.
INDORSING HATES.
Special to Enquirer-8m.]
Washington, October 21.—It is report
ed to-night that a resolution is prepared
endorsing the President’s aotion in with
drawing the troops from South Carolina
and Louisiana, whioh will be introduced
in the House to-morrow, aud the previous
question oalled.
VERT SIOH.
Judge G. W. Paaohal, of TexaB, is very
siok.
L CAUTIONARY SIGNALS
continue on the Atlantia coast at 8mith-
ville and Gape Hatteras, north.
LOUISIANA POLITICAL WBANGLES.
The peaoe reported throughout Louis
iana does not extend to her politioal af
fairs. Their wrangles and tangles are
labyrinthian. «
BLAINE AND KERN AN PAIR.
Senators Blaine and Kernan are paired.
This indicates that Blniue intends voting
on the pending question with the ultra
ltepublicans.
COMMITTEES WEDNESDAY.
It is thought the committees will not be
announced until Wednesday.
SPOFFOBD AND KELLOGG BEFORE SENATE
COMMITTEE.
Poll Electiohs and Privileges Committee
of the Senate, except Morton. Spofford
was present also Kellogg with hie counsel,
Shellabarger and Wilson. Kellogg sub
mitted a written statement in support of
his claim.
Spofford argued his own case. The
hearing will be oontinned.
GEORGIA DEPUTY COLLECTOR SHORT $4,000.
A deputy oolleotor in three Georgia die.
triots reported four thousand dollars
short. Special agents have the matter ib
charge.
JUDGE CAMPBELL FOR SPOFFOBD.
Judge John A. Campbell, of New Or.
leans, will appear for Spofford before-the
Committee on Election and Privileges.
BLAINE SICK.
Blaine is too sick to travel to-day.
BILL PENSIONING BOLDIEBS OF MEXICAN
WAR.
Ingalls’ bill, pensioning oertain soldiers
of the Mexican war, gives eight dollars
per month to all survivors, inoluding those
who served sixty day, and their widows.
LODBY VS. J. WILEY WELLS.
There is a furious lobby against the
confirmation of J. Wiley WellB as Consul
General to China. The allegations against
him by affidavit and otherwise, especially
otherwise, are serious.
THE TEXT OF THE SILVER DOLLAR BILL
introdnoed to-day by Senator Jonos of
Nevada, is as follows :
A bill to authorize the coinage of a dol
lar of 412£ grains, standard silver, and
for other purposes
Be it euaoted Ac., That,as soon aB prac
ticable after the passage of this act, there
shall be from time to time, coined at the
mint of the United States, conformably
in all respeots to law, a silver dollar, the
standard weight of whioh shall be 412J
grains, Troy, and any owner of silver bul
lion may deposit the same at any
coinage mint, or at the Assay Office at
New York, to be ooined into dollars for
bis benefit upon the same terms and con
ditions as gold bullion iB deposited for
ooinage under existing law.
And be it further enacted, That said
coin shall be a legal tender at its nominal
value for all sums iu all payments of
debts, both public and private, excepting
suoh as under existing contracts, or ex
pressed therein to be otherwise payable.
And be it farther enaoted that no oharge
shall be made for ooining standard silver
bullion. The silver dollar authorized by
this aot.
Boston, Ootober 22.—Attendance light.
Many members have gone home.
It was decided to adjourn sins die on
Wednesday.
The resolution of Dr. DaKoven, of Wis
consin, for the nse of the Leotionary of
the Chnroh in England by the Chnroh ol
this oonntry until the next General Con
vention was disonBsed by Dr. DeKoven,
Dr. Goodwin of Pennsylvania, Mr. Bo-
tetes of North Carolina, and Mr. Bears of
California, who favored a referenoe of
the matter to the Committee on Prayer
Book.
Hon. Robert L. Winthrop favored the
adoption of Dr. DeKoven’a resolution, as
there was nothing in the Leotionary of
the “good old mother Church" that ouuld
be considered objectionable.
Mr. Whipple of Minnesota, Dr. Hall of
Brooklyn, and Mr. MoCrady of South
Carolina alao favored the resolution. Mr.
MoCrady proposed that the resolution
should be so amended aa to the time the
proposed Leotionary Bhould be used. Any
amendment with this view was not enter
tained, and a yea and nay vote was or
dered, delegations being ealled in tbeir
regular order by request of Mr. MoCrady.
The result of the ballot waa the adoption
of the resolution by an almost unanimous
vote.
Boston, Ootober 22.—The result of the
vote was as follows: Clerical deputations,
dioceses represented, 42—ayes 42 ; lay»
deputation, dioceses represented, 32—ayes
30, noeB 2. South Carolina and Minne
sota voted in the negative.
On motion of Mr. Hnbbard, of New
Hampshire, it was voted that olergymen
have power to use the Table of Lessons
reported by the oommittee in connection
with tho Leotionary tor Lent. Tbia aotion
does not affeot the Table of Lessons here
tofore need.
AWFUL CALAMITY.
MINE EXPLOSION IN SCOTLAND.
TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-TWO MINERS
THOUGHT TO BE SUFFOCATED.
London, Ootober 22. — A apeoial dis
patch from Glasgow to the Pall Mall
Qazette says an explosion ooonrred in the
colliery at High Blant yesterday, near
this oity. Four hundred men were in the
mine at the time and a large number of
lives were lost.
ALL THOUGHT TO BE DEAD.
New Yobk, Ootober 22.—A Glasgow
dispatch says the exploring parties who
have been at work endeavoring to auooor
those in the mine, havo little hope of res
cuing any alive, and express the opinion
that every one in the pit is dead. One
survivor says the bottom of the pit is
full of dead bodies.
TWENTY DEAD BODIE8 RECOVERED.
Glasgow, Ootober 22,—It is feared the
entire four hundred men in the oolliery
at High Blsntryze have perished. A spe
cial train was sent to bring the injured to
the Glasgow Infirmary, bnt it has re
turned, no one having been gotten out
alive. Twenty deed bodies have been
recovered.
LATEST—233 THOUGHT LOST.
Special to Enquirer-Sun. j
Glasgow, Ootober 12.—The latest par.
tionlarB from High Blantyre, show that
two hundred and thirty-three men de
scended into the mines thia morning.
None of these except one, who was work
ing near the shaft at the time of the ex
plosion, had been rescued up to a late
hour this evening. Very little hope of
rescuing tho men is entertained, aa the
explosion ocourred at nine o’olook in the
morning, and the exploring parties had to
relinquish their efforts in one pit at four
o'olook in the evening, beoause of the
poisonous gases at the bottom of the
shaft of the other pit, the oolliery com
prising two pits with commnnioation be
tween them. A faint knooking has been
heard, but so far, it has been impossible
to reach the bottom of the shaft.
DESPERATE ENCOUNTER.
FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
The
House Debate*
Without End;
Colorado
BILLS TO REPEAL THE RESUMPTION ACT AND
ESTABLISH A SILVER DOLLAR INTRODUCED
IN THE SENATE, AND A RESOLUTION FOR A
PRESIDENTIAL OOMMITTEE.
Congregational Connell*
Special to the Enquirer-Sun.]
Detroit, Mioh., Ootober 21.—In the
Congregational Council, the oommittee
to wnom was referred the overture from
New Jersey, reported that this body was
not a oounoil in the eoolesiastioal sense of
the term; the members of the oommittee,
therefore, reported adversely to the peti
tion of the overture, and expressed a fear
that this Council would eventually, and
was already, assnming an authoritative
tone in regard to church matters, to whioh
the very spirit of Congregationalism was
opposed, and that the Oounoil would in
terfere with the prerogatives of the
chnroh. The Council decided to ohange
the name from Counoil to Conference,
and place the proper limit in the Consti
tution.
After a heated debate a vote was taken,
which sustained the report.
81T11NO HULL,
HE WILL ACCEPT NO TERMS, DISTRUSTS
AMERICANS AND 6MILE9 AT THE WORD
SURRENDER.
Chicago, Ootober 22.—The Times' spe
cial from the Sitting Ball Commission at
Fort Walsh, British Northwest Territory,
of the 17tb, says the commission has met
Sitting Bull and has utterly failed to ob
tain any satisfaction or terms of settle
ment from him.
LATER.
Special to Enquirer-Sun. 1
Chicago, Ootober 22.—The Times' ape
oial correspondent describes Sitting Ball
as a swarthy, black haired, beardless,
pure blooded savage, with an air of jndi>
oial gravity and intelligence. He oontin<
ually fears gravity on the part of Ameri»
cans, and distrusts his own tribe when
they are near. He refused to shake
hands with the Commissioners, and said
he wanted them to sit ont in fall view and
behind the tables.
Sitting Bull smiled broadly at the word
“surrender” in Gen. Terry’s speech, tell
ing him of the President’s desire that
hostilities should cease forever—for the
sake of all parties; that all hostiles who
had surrendered to the United States had
received no panishment; and that the
same terms wonld be offered to Sitting;
Bull. The speech produced no effect anc
the offer of peace was rejected.
The counsel broke up and the Commis
sioners tamed their faces homeward.
RACES.
NEAR BALTIMORE.
Washington, October 22.—Among the
bills introdnoed and referred in the Senate
dnring the morning hour were the follow
ing :
By Mr. Beok, of Kentucky, To repeal
seotion three of an act to provide for the
resumption of specie payments, approved
July 14 th, 1875.
By Mr. Hereford, of Virginia, To re
peal an aot to provide for the resnmption
of specie payments.
By Mr. Jones, of Nevada, To authorize
the coinage of dollar of 412£ grains of
standard silver, and for other purposes.
The resolution submitted by Mr. Ed-
znnnds, on Wednesday last, providing for
the appointment of a oommittee of seven
Senators, whose dnty it shall be to take
into consideration the State of law re
specting, ascertaining, and declaration of
the result of the elections of President
and Vice President of the United States,
and that said oommittee have power to
report by bill or otherwise, was taken up.
Mr. Edmonds moved to amend by add
ing the words, “and that said oommittee
have power to confer and aot with any
oommittee of the House of Representatives
that may be charged with the same sub
ject.” The amendment was agreed to,
and passed as amended.
Mr. Howe, of Wisconsin, introdnoed a
bill to amend certain provisions of the
revised statutes of the United States re
lating to transportation of animals.
Mr. Chaffee, of California, submitted
a resolution directing the Secretary of the
Interior to transmit to the Senate a copy
of the last annual report of the Govern
ment Directors of the Union Paoifio Rail
road Company. Agreed to.
A number of bills were introdnoed and
Pamlico Race Course, Ootober 22.—
The extra race between Ten Broeok,
Ochiltree and Parole is postponed until
Wednesday. The four mile race will
consequently be run on Friday. The
races to-morrow will be three qaarter
mile dash, Dixie stakes, Central stakes,
and two mile heat.
THE GREAT FOUR MILE CONTEST.
Special to Engutrer-iS'un.]
Baltimore, Oct. 22.—The great race
between Ten Broeck, Tom Oobiliree and
Parole was postponed until Wednesday
on account of the heavy traok. The own
ers of Ten Broeck and Ochiltree were
willing to run to-morrow, bnt as terms of
the race were that it should be ran on
fast dry track, the owners of Parole re
quested postponement whioh was agreed
The watering weather of the past
two days cleared off this evening with a
bright clear sky, and by to-morrow the
track will be in a fine condition. The
hotels to-night are crowded with visitors
to the races from evero part of the conn-
try, particularly from Kentucky and
New York, the former backing Ten
Broeck, and the latter Ochiltree and Pa
role.
Drnuiiner Wlilps and Mortally
Wounds Two Highwaymen,
aud Throws One In a
Chasm 140 Feet
in Depth.
Cincinnati, October 22.—A special
dispatoh states a desperate encounter took
place Saturday evening at Big Olifty,
Ky., near Louisville, between two hign-
waymen and Joseph Hanson, a traveling
salesman. Hanson started to walk from
West Olifty to Big Olifty to oatoh a train,
and was met upon the bridge whioh spans
the chasm, one hnndred and forty-six
feet in depth, by two desperate characters
who demanded his money. Hanson
drew a revolver and shot one, when the
other rushed upon him and attempted to
throw him overboard. Hanson drew a
butoher knife from a package of samples,
stabbed the robber and succeeded in
throwing him down the chasm, and then
escaped to Big Clifty. The robbers were
arrested, bnt not recognized by the peo
ple of the place. The one thrown over
the bridge was saved from instant death
by falling in the Noline river, but both
men will probably die.
NAN DOMINGO*
THE NEGRO REVOLUTION.
Special to Kuqnirer-Suo.]
Havana, Ootober 22.—The English
mail steamer arrived from St. Thomas
on the 17th, from San Domingo on the
12th. Puerto Plato is re-occupied by
Government troops. The rebels were en
camped in the suburbs of the oity, wait
ing for reinforcements in order to renew
the attack. The Government troops had
reoaptured Lave j a. All other provinces
were in a state of open rebellion. Re
ports from Hayti represent everything
quiet.
FIRES.
MADISON (N. J.) BURNED.
Madison, N. J. Ootober 22.—A fire last
evening destroyed the bnsiness portion of
this village. Four stores, one dwelling
and the railroad depot are utterly destroy
ed. An alarm was sent to Norristown.
The fire department of that city responded
and checked the fire. There is no fire
department here.
A Drunken Madman.
Special to the Enquirer-Sun.]
York, Pa., Oct. 22.—Last evening, a
youug man Frank Avry, while drank en
tered the laundry of the National Honse
at this place, and drawing a pistol shot
two female employes, the bullet striking
both in the breast. Upon leaving this
place, he fired at a man bnt the ball struck
a button on his suit and glanced off.
None of the victims were dangerously
hurt.
SHORT TELEGRAMS.
The railroad strike in Ireland has about
oollapsed.
Bradford, MoCoe & Co., lumber deal
ers, have failed for $ 150,000 at Quincy,
Illinois.
The Presbyterian Synod of New Jersey
has decided against women preachers by
a vote of 100 to 16.
Tho steamer George Appold, at Savan
nah, has been flooded, aud the fire was
pat oat Saturday.
—Heankale & Long, bankers, at Berlin,
Prnssia, with 750,000 marks capital, have
gone into liquidation.
Twenty persons have, in a few days,
died of sinallspox in Olintonville, New
York, and the plaoe has boon blockaded.
Ten Broeok, Oohiltree and Parole, will
run in the two aud a half mile race to-day
in Baltimore, for a parse of $1,000 and
$500 each entianoe fee.
Judge Kirkpatrick, of Pittsburg, has or
dered attachments issued against Gov.
Hartranft and others to appear as wit
nesses in riot oases carried to the Su
preme Court.
Three bous of Wm. Donnoy, at Pitts
field, Mass., loaded au old gun barrel
with powder Sunday and discharged it.
The weapon bnrst, killing two of the boys
and tearing off a hand of the other.
A southeasterly storm prevailed at New
York from Saturday morning until yes
terday morning, when the wind changed
to the northwest, and there are indica*
tions of clear weather.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Corley, of Port Jer
vis, N. Y., and three children, are sick
from poison, probably arsonio, put in a
well, as the water taken from it aud anal
yzed shows traces of arsenic. Part of
the family will die.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers, of Boston, have elected the follow
ing officers for the ensuing year : Grand
Chief Eugineer, P. M. Arthur; First
Grand Engineer, T. D. Ingraham; Sec
ond Grand Engineer, William Robinson ;
First Grand Assistant Engineer, L. B.
Green; Second Grand Assistant Engi
neer, William B. Thrall; Third Grand
Assistant Engineer, Daniel Bennett;
Grand Guide, Thomas Porter; Grand
Chaplain, George W. Tyner.
THI; TURkJrUSSIAN WAR.
MORE ABOUT THE BATTLE.
RIFLE-dANNON AND IRON-CLADN.
ROUMANIANS CAPTURE AN UN8PELLABLE RE
DOUBT BEFORE PLEVNA—THE TURKS LOST
18,000 MEN AND FORTY GUNS IN ARMENIA
—RUSSIANS HAD 1,446 KILLED IN ONE
CORPS.
A REDOUBT CAPTURED AND RETAKEN.
London, Ootober 22.—A Russian offi
cial dispatoh reports that in oue of their
assaults on Friday, the Roumanians en
tered and occupied the Sooond Grenitza
redoubt before Plevna, but during the
evening the redoabt was reoaptured by
the Turks. Thursday, says
the Roumanians captured the redoubt af
ter three efforts, but during the night the
Turks collecting all their forces re
captured it after a most sanguine contest.
It was expected tho fighting would be
continued Saturday.
ROUMANIANS RETAKE THE REDOUBT AND
TURKS RETIRE.
London, Ootober 22.—It is reported the
Roumanians, after having captured the
Grevalitza redoubt and were driven out,
whioh is official, they Recaptured Grova-
litza Saturday. The Turks havo retired
to Rasgad to secure their communication
with Ruohtak. The Russian cavalry have
advanced to Kavarana. It is evident the
Turks have commenced a retrogade
movement.
Accident to Senator Blaine’s Daugh
ter.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Augusta, Me., Ootober 21.—Alice, eld
est daughter of Senator Blaine, was se
verely injured Saturday by a premature
explosion of a toy pistol, bnt will proba
bly recover.
Two Women Suffocated.
Lebanon, Pa., October 22.—The house
of Mrs. Sarah Welburn, of Nigerstown,
near Lebanon, was destroyed by fire last
night. Mrs. Welbnrn and her daughter,
Lockout on the Uljde.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
London, Ootober 21.—The lookout of
the workmen in the Clyde ship yards, who
demand an increase of wages, began on
Saturday. The number affeoted as yet is
small, but the men will be dismissed as
the oontraots expire.
Collier* Notified of a Reduction,
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Pittbton, Pa., Ootober 22.—The em
ployes of the seven collieries that resum
ed in this place at an advance of 10 per
cent, have been notified of a redaction in
wages of this amount. Miners are at
work to-day, but under protest.
Another Bunk Falls.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
Indianapolis, October 22.—The bank
of Bunker's Hill at Bunker’s Hill suspend
ed. Liabilities $60,000. Officers say the
depositors will be paid in full.
Failure In Boats.
Special to Enquirer-Sun.]
New Orleans, October 22.—Keyset’s
o position tow boat has failed and the
bo its are in tho hands of the sheriff.
Weather.
Washington, October 22.—Indications:
For the South Atlantic and East Gnlf
States, clear or partly cloudy weather,
the wife of Dr. W. B. Driver, were snffo* northwesterly winds and stationary or
cated. I higher pressure and temperature.
SULEIMAN PASHA RETIRES.
A telegram from Sbumla received in
Constantinople says that Suleiman offered
battle on several occasions. The Rus
sians, however, declined to accept tho
ohallenge. Suleiman, however, prudent
ly avoided the snare, and in consequence
of a want of water and the bad condition
of the roftds, which hinders transporta
tion, on Friday retired upon Rasgada.
RUSSIANS CAPTURED EIGHTEEN THOUSAND
MEN, AND FORTY CANNON IN ASIA.
London, Ootober 22.—The Daily News
states eighteen thousand men and forty
cannon were eaptured by the Russians in
the recent victory over Ghuzi Moukbtar.
The Turkish reports of a part of their
army holding ou in fortified positions in
Aladja Dagb are unfounded.
THE RUSSIAN LOSS.
The Russian loss on carrying Aladja
Dagh on the 15th inst., is officially report
ed at 1,441 killed and wounded. The
losses on other parts of the battle field are
not stated.
PARTICULARS OF ROUMANIAN ATTACK
London, Ootober 22.—A Russian offi
cial dispatch, detailing Friday’s attack
upon the second Grivioa redoubt, says :
At the first attack the Roumanians were
repulsed before they gained tho redoubt.
At the seoond attack the three foremost
battalions leaped into tho trenches aud
vainly endeavored to carry the redoubt.
They remained one hour in tho trenches,
whioh gave rifle to a premature report of
its capture. The Roumanians then with
drew with the loss of two officers and two
hnndred men killed, and twenty officers
and seven hundred and seven men
wounded.
A Cotton Estimate.—Mr. Charles Eas
ton of New York, who is favorably known
as a eotton statistician, arrives at the con
clusion that the crop of 1877-’78 will
amount to about 4,007,000 bales. The
crop of last year, which was 467,000 bales
larger than this, leaves a deficit of about
550,000 bales in the visible supply, and in
the meanwhile spinners’ stocks are esti
mated to be considor&bly smaller than a
year ago. These premises indicate that,
with supplies from other quarters of the
world equal to those of last year, the gen
eral supply will fall short of current con
sumption by more than a million bales.
This result is not to be looked for, how
ever, as a verification of tho premises will
advance prices and check consumption.
—The London Truth ssys : “There is
no ouUand dry receipt for a gentleman;
bnt he is as unmistakable to those who
know one as the color of a flower or the
soent of a leaf. ”
—A veteran shopkeeper says “though
his clerks aro very talkative during the
day they are always ready to uhut up at
night.
HOW A GREAT REVOLUTION IN NAVAL WAR
FARE AND ARCHITECTURE WAS BEGUN.
QeD, G. T. BeauroKiirri in the Philadelphia
Weokly Tfincu.]
I shall now refer briefly to the nso in
Charleston Harbor of rifle cannon and
ironolad floating and land batteries. In
theattaok on Fort Sumter, in 1861, these
war appliances were first used in the
United States. When I arrived at Charles
ton, in March of that year, to assume
command of the foroes there assembling
aud direct the attack on Fort Sumter, I
found under construction a rough floating
battery made of palmetto logs, under the
direction of Captain Hamilton, an ex-
United Statos naval officer, lie intended
to plate it with several sheets of rolled
iron, each about threo-qunrteis of an
inoh thick, and to arm it with four 82-
pounder carronades.
He and his battery were so much ridi
culed, however, that he could with difli-*
culty obtain any further assistance from
the State government. He came to mo
in groat disoouragoment, and expressed
in vivid terms his certainty of success,
aud of revolutionizing future naval war
fare as well as the construction of war
vessels. I approved of Capt. Hamilton’s
design, and huving secured the necessary
means, instructed him to finish his batte
ry at the earliest moment practicable.
This being accomplished before the ut-
tack on Fort Sumter opened, early in
April, I placed the floating battory in
position at the western extremity of Snli-
van’s Island to enfilade certain barbette
guns of the fort which could not be
reached effectively by our land batteries
It therefore played an important part in
that brief drama of thirty-throe hours,
receiving many shots without any serious
injury.
About one year later, in Hampton
Iioads, the Merrimao, plated and. roofed
with two layers of railroad iron, met tho
Monitor in a momentous encounter which
first attracted the attention of tho civil
ized world to the important ohange that
iron-plating or “armors” would thence
forth create in naval architecture and ar
maments. The one aud a half to two-
inoh-iron plating used on Capt. Hamil
ton’s floating battery has already grown to
abont twelve inches thickness of steel
plates of the best quality, put togethor
with the utmost oare, in the effort to re
sist the heaviest rifle shots now used.
About the same time Oapt. Hamilton was
constructing his floating battery, Mr. 0.
H. Stevens, of Charleston, (who after
ward died a brigadier-geuoral at the battle
of Chiokamanga,) commenced building
an iron-olad land battery at Onmming’s
Point, the northern extremity of Morris
Island and the nearest point to Fort
Samter—that is, abont thirteen hun
dred yards distant. This battory
wns to be built of heavy timbers cov
ered with one layer of railroad iron, the
rails well fitted into each other, present*
ing an inolined, smooth surface of abont
35 degrees to the fire of Sumter; the sur
face was to be well greased and the guns
were to fire through small embrasures
supplied with strong iron shutters. I ap
proved also the plan, making such sug
gestions as my experieone as an engineer
warranted. This battery took an active
part in the attack and was struck several
times; but excepting the jamming and
disabling of one of the shutters, tho bat
tery remained uninjured to the end of tl.e
fight.
From Cumming’s Point also, and in the
same attack, was used the first rilled can
non fired in America. The day bofore I
received orders from the Confederate
Government, at Montgomery, to demand
the evacuation or surrender of Fort Sum
ter, a vchhoI from England arriving in tho
outer harbor, signalled that she had some
thing important for the Governor of the
State. I sent ont a harbor boat, which
returned with a small Blakely ritled-gun,
of two and a half inches diameter, with
only fifty rounds of ammunition. I
placed it at once behind a sand bag para
pet next to the Stephen’s battery, where
it did opportune service with its ten*
pound shell while the ammunition lasted.
The penetration of tho projeotilcs into
the brick masonry of the fort wan not
great at that distance, but the piece had
great aocuraoy, and several of the shells
ontored the embrasures facing Morris
Island.
LOCAL BRIEFS.
—Weather has turned mnoh cooler.
—Is a colored postmaster a blackmailer?
—Poverty is nimblo aud soon overtakes
laziness.
—’Possum hunting is raging now with
the oolored. The jolly ’simmon is ripe.
-The star Alcyone, in the Pleiades, is
the oentre of gravity in onr solar system.
—A vast deal of work has been done
ou the streetH of Columbns the past year.
—The prospects of rain aro now good.
It is needed, as the streets are very dusty.
—A woman fascinates us quite as often
by what she overlooks as by what she
booh.
—A man must change his mind occa
sionally^ he woulQ reoeive credit for
having a mind.
—The Rentz minstrels did not give the
onn-can, as advertised, either in Savan
nah or Augusta.
River Reive.
The river rose twenty inches yesterday
and is still rising.
The steamer Jordan from Chattahoo
chee arrived Sunday with 150 bales of
cotton consigned hb follows: Alabama, 6;
Alston, 59; Planters, 33; Fontaine, 39; O.
A. Redd & Co., 1; A. M. Allen, 12.
PASSENGERS,
Mifls Terrell Speights, Miss C. Holland,
Miss V. SimpHon. Mrs. E. F. Speights, T.
M. lion f roe, M. H. Holmes, J. H. Helton,
Fort Gainefl; A. F. Scarbrough, Florence;
Col. Quatlebaum, Louis Gyusingor, Wool-
folk’s; J. 8. Kennedy, Geo. O. Gary, E.
Montgomery, J. G. Estes, L. O. Brown,
Eufauln; Oapt. J. O. Blaine and W. D.
Sauls, Woolfolk’s, four on deck.
The J ordan struck a snag below Fort
Gaines and oraoked tho timbers a few feet
under tho boiler. She is now on the box
being repaired, aud will be ready to go
out Thursday.
The steamer Big Foot will leave this
morning at 10 o’clock, but for what point
has not boon decided.
ABUSES IN TIIIO HALE OF PONT
AUI-: NT A HI'S,
SENATOR EDMUNDS BILL FOR TIIEIU PREVEN
TION.
The bill introduced by Senator Ed
munds to prevent abuses in the sale of
postage stamps and stamped envelope)
provides that no postmaster or deputy
postmaster or other person entrusted by
the United States, the Post Offlon Depart
ment or the Postmaster General with
postage stamps or stamped envelopes
shall sell or dispose of the same other
wise than in the regular oonrso of official
business at their face value and for cash
on delivery. It also provides that any
postmaster or other person who shall vio
late tho provisions of the preceding sec
tion shall bo deemed guilty of embezzle
ment, and shall, ou conviction thereof,
be punished by a fine not exceeding one
thousand dollars, or by im
prisonment not excoediDg one
year, or both said punishments, in tho dis
cretion of the Court. Iu conclusion, the
bill requires the following affidavit, to be
HUbHcnbed and attached by postmasters
and deputy postmusters to each of their
regular quarterly returns : —
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm; that I
have not, since making my last quarterly
return, disposed of auy of the postage
stamps or stamped envelopes in my
oharge for sale or otherwise than in pur
suance of law.”
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THE INTERESTING FIGURES OF THE VOTES
OF THE FIVE PARTIES.
Cincinnatti, Oct. 19.—The Commercial
prints official returns from all hut three
counties in Ohio, showing the following
result of tho vote for Governor:
W«*Ht (Republican) 212.676
l»litliuj> (Democrat) 2*1.101
llnml (HoHiilivt Workingman) 12,18»
JohiiHon (Orei-uback Workiugmuu) 15,73'i
Thompeon (Prohibition) 4,030
Hie hop's majority over West 38,125
BIhIiuji'h majority over all 6,270
In tho three omitted counties tho ma
jorities last year were were: Ashtabula,
4,477 for Hayes; llardin, 128 for Hayes;
aud Stark, 362 for Tilden.
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Consumption enu bo Cared.
Sohenck’s Pulmonic Syrup,
Sohenck’s Sea Weed Tonic,
Schunck’h Mandrake Pills,
Aro the only medicines that will cure
Pulmonary Consumption.
Frequently a medicine that will stop a
cough will ocoasiou the death of the pa
tient; they look up tho liver, stop the cir
culation of the blood, hemorrhage fol
lows, and in fact they clog the aotiou of
tho very organs that caused the cough.
Liver complaint aud Dyspepsia are the
causes of two-thirds of the oases of Con
sumption. Many persons complain of a
dull pain in the Hide, constipation, coated
tongue, pain in the shoulder blade, feel
ing of drowsiness and restlessness, the
food lying heavily on tho stomach, ac
compacted with acidity and belching up
of wind.
These symptoms usually originate from
n disordered condition of the stomach or
a torpid liver.
Persons so affected, if thoy take one or
two heavy oolds, and if the cough in
these cases he suddonly cheeked, will
find the stomach aud liver clogged, ro
lling torpid and inactive, and almost
before they are aware the lungs are a
mass of sores, and nlcorated, the result of
whioh is death.
Sohonck’s Pulmonic Syrup is an expec
torant whioh does not contain opium or
auything calculated to chock a cough sud
donly.
Scbenok’s Sea Weed Tonic dissolves
the food, mixes with the gastric juices of
the stomach, aids digestion and creutos a
ravenous appetite.
When tho bowels aro costive, skin sal
low, or tho symptoms otherwise of a bili
ous tendency, Schenok’s Mandrake Pills
are required.
These medicines aro prepared only by
J. H. Sohengk tfc Son,
N. E. corner Sixth and Arch Sts.,
Philadelphia,
And for sale by all druggists aud dealers.
oot3 oodl in
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that the perfect-fitting Shirts made to
order of No. 1 material by Thorton &
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Her golden tresses of luxuriant hair,
Eutwiued a form ro beautiful and fair,
That all who gazed by day or night,
Were charmed with the new ungelio sight.
Her hair in graceful ringlets draped tho
floor,
And the man who saw her was only to
adore;
Tho ladies from afar desired to know,
The wonderful tonic making tho hair
grow.
She unveiled her face and Rmiliugly said;
“Smith’s Hair Restorative beautified my
head;
It contains no poison and it is no dye,
And once a week you need only upply.
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THE SILVER QUESTION.
VIEWS OF HORATIO SEYMOUR ON THE SUBJECT
The New York Sun's Utioa special gives
an interview with Horatio Seymour: “I
think,” he said, “that the demonetiza
tion of silver was an unfortunate thing.
It is of nopartionlar consequence whether
it was right or wrong in itself, it was
untimely. It involved a question with
whioh the people had not been made fa
miliar. We were going along in the right
direction before that. The country had
been made to see the necessity and prac
ticability of returning to a speoie basis.
Now that the new question is forced upon
ns, what constitutes a specie basis ? and
on that question a great diversity of opin
ion is developed. Half the number who
have contributed their efforts toward dis
seminating sound financial doctrines are
at v&rianoe with the other half, and the
demonetization of silver had oansed trou
ble. The bill itself was smuggled through
Congress. I do not Dean by that to oast
reflection on those who introduced or
voted for it, but what I mean is that the
people were wholly ignorant of the scope
of the law at the time of its adoption.”
In regard to the present fluctuation of
silver, Mr. 8eymour said: “Yon lessen
the valne of everything when yon lessen
its use. The chief nse of silver all over
the world is for ooin. A general move
ment looking toward the demonetization
of silver in Europe and the United States
necessarily diminished its valne some
what, but not mnoh. I doubt if any other
commodity, not excepting gold, could
stand as firm against Buoh an attaok. If
silver was restored to its old plaoe in onr
monetary system, I am inclined to think
it wonld be as valuable now as it ever
The effect of a doable standard is that
eaoh regulates the other. In making val
uable clocks they have what they call a
compensation pendulum. One kind of
metal extracts and the other expands
with variations in the weather, and thus a
perfeot balaoe is preserved. An idea like
that, I. think, was in the minds of those
who made gold and silver the basis of onr
ooinage. It has not operated badly. If
those who have studied the subject found
that a ohange was desirable, it was clearly
their duty to f ally inform and educate the
public mind before they secured the en
actment of the law. As it is, many
people think that this is a move*
rnont of the oreditor class against
tho debtor olass to make more enormous
the hardens of debt; bat the bondholders
and creditors must be oareful lest they go
too far. They can not afford to provoke
tho antagonism of the debtor olass. They
are entitled to all that law and equity
give them, but if their oontraotis for pay
ment in ooin, it is not for them to dictate
the kind of ooin. The restoration of sil
ver to its old plaoe in onr system will not
oure the evils whioh its demonetization
produced. Demonetization may even
have the effect of impairing our credit.
But for the law of 1873 no “suoh danger
would now threaten us.”
I asked: “Would you hava the silver dol
lar of the same valne as the gold dollar, or
would yon have two standards as well as
two ooinfl?”
“I would have them of an equal value,
if possible, but the determination of that
value is part of the problem. As I have
tried to explain, the value whioh silver
wonld have if it wore restored to
old plaoe oan not be ascer
tained by the price it brings now that it
is demonetized. 1 desire the restoration
of silver not as a means of avoiding the
payment of any part of onr just debts,
but because silver is getting to be one of
tho great products of onr country, and it
is not desirable that the nse any of our
great products should be lessened.”
NEW SAMPLES
FALL AND WINTER
1077 and 1070,
Thomas & Prescott, having received a
largo variety of Fall and Winter Samples,
are now propared to take measures and
have Special Order Suits inado up at
short notice, in tho most elegant styles.
Perfect satisfaction gauranteed.
Tho latest Fashion Plate on exhibi
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HANOI BANOU BANG III
Down went the price of Oysters!
Fries 50 cents;
Stews 40 cents;
Raws 25 cents;
Other Meals 50 cents.
A. F. Clements,
Proprietor linby Restaurant,
oot3 lm At ltankan House,
Life-size Portraits in Oil on Canvass by
an eminent German Artist, at the lowest
prices, at Williams’ Gallery.
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Baker’s Cod Liver Oil, Lime and
Wild Cherry quickly relieves Throat and
Lung Diseases, ond imparts vigor and
now life to debilitated constitutions.
Pleasant in taste. J. 0. Baker Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa. oc2U eat&w4t
AN OPEN LETTER
TO THE PUBLIC.
New York, Ootober 1st, 1877.
I have devoted twenty years of patient
study to the Liver and its relations to the
human body, in search of a remedy whioh
would restore it, when diseased, to its
normal oondition. The result of that la**
bor has been the production of
TUTT’N LIVER PILLS.
Their popularity has become so extended
and the demand so great as to induce un
scrupulous parties to counterfeit them,
thereby robbing me of the reward, and
the nfllicted of their virtues.
TO CAUTION THE PUBLIC,
and protect them from vile impositions, I
havo adopted a new label, which bears
my trade-mark and notice of its ontry in
the Office of the Librarian of Congress,
also my signature, thus :
yfre^/ie.ft
tc —
■frlTTo COUNTERFEIT THIS 18 FORGERY.
Before purchasing, examine the label
closely.
THE GENUINE TUTT’S PILLS
exert a peculiar influence on the system.
Their aotion is prompt, and their good
effects aro felt in a few hours. A quar
ter of a century of study of the Liver has
demonstrated that it exerts a greater in
fluence over the system than any other or
gan of the body, and when diseased the
entire organism iB deranged. It is speci
ally for the healing of thia vital organ
that I have spent so many years of toil,
aud haviug found the remedy, whioh has
proved the greatest boon ever furnished
the afflicted, shall they be deprived of its
benefits, and a vile imitation imposed up
on them ?
Let THE HONEST PEOPLE OF AMERICA BEE
TO IT THAT THEY ARE NOT DEFRAUDED:
Scrutinize the label closely, see that it
bears all the marks above mentioned, and
buy the medicine only from respectable
dealers. It oan be found everywhere.
Very respectfully,
» w. H. TUTT._
How It Is Done.
The first object in life with tho Ameri
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how to regain good health. The first can
bo obtained by energy, honesty and sav
ing; tho second, (good health) by using
Green’s August Flower. Should you be
a despondent sufferer from any of the ef
fects of Dyspepsia, Liver Complaint, In
digestion, Ac., such as Sick. Headache,
Palpitntion of the Heart, Sour Stomach,
Habitual Costiveuess, Dizziness of the
Head, Norvous Prostration, Low Spirits,
Ac , you need not suffer another day.
Two doses of August Floweb will relieve
you at once. Sample bottles 10 oeuts ;
regular size 75 cents. Positively Bold by
all first-olass Druggists in the U. S.
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