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tth Ig ©onstitrrfion.
Fulton Democratic Ticket.
Ton ORDINARY:
DANIEL PITTMAN.
A-'M. PERKERSON.
fob|cubx bctxbior oouii:
W. R. VENABLE.
a 3L PAYNE.
Ctura-H*. is.
AtO. GRIER.
FOB TAX collector:
8. R-IHOYLE.
FOB COUNTY eCBTZIOBl
B. P. WALKER.
WILLIAM ktt.v.
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ATLANTA, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 17.
ClIItT.
It «U1 be acen by cur Washington dis
patches that Mr. Mcrriman, of this Bute, has
introduced a bill in Congress, which proposes
to abolish the usury law with reference to
the national banks and allow these institu
tions to get tocb rate of interest as may be
agreed upon “in writing." In ycrbal or ord
inary contncU the banks are to be restrained
by the usury laws of the States where they
do business. Another proposition Just made
in Congress is to allow the national banks to
bane notes to the extent of the par value of
the government bonds deposited at Washing-
ton to secure their circulation.
It win never do in the world to allow the
national banks tire advantage over om State
banking institutions in the matter of interest
We therefore see no alternative bat for our
State Legislature to do what they should
have done long ago, repeal the State usury
laws, and allow money to bring wbat it it
worth.
How the Count was Slade In Loais-
Tbo following telegram waa received in
Washington from United States Marshal
Packard, which admita the fraud:
New O cleans, December 7.
7b the ACorncy-General, Washington :
The Returning Board provided for by the
law of 187D, under which the election was
held, and which the United States Court sus
tains, promulgated in the official journal this
morning the result of the election for the
legislature. The Bouse stands seventy-seven
J Ccpnblleans to thirty-two Democrats, and the
Senate twenty-eight Republicans to eight
Democrats. The Board counted the ballots
attached to the affidavits of the colored per
rons wrongfully prevented from voting, filed
with the chief Supervisor.
[Signed] 8. P. Packard,
United Slates Marshal.
Having lost the election, the Radicals act
to work to get the certificates of negroes that
they bid been prevented from voting. All
who would Urns certify were counted as vot
ing for the Radical ticket. By this process
any election can he carried at any time. The
mtribal confesses to the fraud! And tlio
great Hr. Grant orders out his soldiers
support it.
One Goo!TlFesiil(.
Such arbitrary interferences of Federal
power ns wo now sco being apparently suc
cessfully attempted in New Orleans arc very
bad indeed. They fill the patriotic mind
with anxious apprehension as to the recuper
ative power of the constitutional theory
government.
But the grain of good in the matter is seen
iutho indignant protest evoked from an in
dependent press. Perhaps an exhibition
the evils of the wrong is needed to demon
strate the value and benefits of the right
Only, maybe, by nctua] experience of the
injuries of Federal despotism can the people
fully appreciate die immeasurable utility and
necessity and light of preserving Intact the
scheme of conilitutlonalism in it- integrity.
Many minds have no concept inn of theo
ries taro as practically executed. And it
may be a vital step In educating our people
to thoroughly prizing our Democratic gov
ernment that the opposite shall bo felt, and
Its pernicious entollmenta sudored.
Tbo following from the New York Herald
is a curious anil significant admission, and
vindicates tardily yet triumphantly the cor
rectness of the Democratic opposition to cer
tain cherished Radical measures:
Nevertheless, the inference of the military
was to be deplored, and the events that have
transpired in New Orleans for the past week
are disgraceful to tho nation. We rum tee for
the fret time the dangerous and oppressive
e-to racier of tks Enforcement act practically il
lustrated. Under a blind clause of that act
the oaths of a few thousand negroes, uncon-
tradlcted, may at any time control tbo elec
tion iu a Stale aided by a partisan court and
hacked by Federal bayonets. It the people
of the United States could look on unmoved
and unconcerned while these events are trans
piring in the fairest city of the Sou ’i it
wonlil bo a bad sign for the permanency of
Republican Institutions.
Georgia Finances.
The New York Chronicle has seen the
statement of Georgia finances given by os
few days back, furnished by Treasurer An
gler, and it predicated thereon a very gratify
ing compliment to Georgia solvency and
very unnecessary homily on Georgia’s culpa
bility in iu refusal to pay Bullock’s illegal
bonds, because she is able to do so without
bankrupting the State.
The Bulletin states Ibis creditable fact.
“Thera arc few States which can make
a better exhibit of financial resources and
moderate taxation.”
It will bo very bard to remove the moral
effect of such a statement on tho financial
world. We apprehend that not even a dia
tribe against us for refusing to pay void
bonds negotiated on notice of their invalidity
can do this.
■It must not be forgotten that the Bulletin
very much damaged iu influence as n finan
rial adviser of our State by its culpable cham-
piooship of Clews, which, by Clew’s own ad
missions, was shown to have been obtained
reprehensibiy, if not corruptly, as we have
no disposition to charge.
it is a matter of immense bother to some of
llie New York capitalists and their organs
that they signally fail in forcing Georgia into
an acceptance ol illegal obligations by
threatened ostracism from the worlds mone
tary markets thatlhey seem disposed, but arc
yet unable to accomplish.
Georgia’s recognized securities stilt h>!*t
natcly stay up, and when offered for
bring higher prices than any other Southern
State securities. The holders of ,-nr y
Kinds will persist in sticking to tie m,
punctually drawing an interest always fnr.li
coming, and refusing to part with them U
nothing.
It is a terrible case of perverseness,
the Clews crowd are evidently large,
amazed that such a slate of things continu.
in spite of them.
Not to do the Bulletin any ii,justice, „
lay before our reader) its suggested plan i
settlement of the Brunswick and Albany
Raikoid muddle:
1. The State shall assume the indebtedness
on the $1,880,000 Gold Bonds issued to the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad in exebanee
for the Second Mortgage Bonds of that Com
pany, in consideration of the completion M
the rosd to its terminus at Eufanla.
2. The Fust Mortgage bondholders shill
SU! reader the State guarantee upon all their
bonds.
a In consideration of Ibis surrender of
tt renter, the State shall issue to the road,
8I,o 0,000 gold-bearing bonds, to be
fore.) tipping the line, the State paying i
cat on thg same for a moderate period—say
two to four yean—after which the road shall
assume the interest on said bonds; the Slate
to be secured by a mortgage on all equipments
ol the road purchased by State aid.
A It might facilitate negotiations with the
S'ate,were the holders of the $1,830,000 gold
bonds to surrender their coupons to the State
up to the time of the completion of the rosd.
The advantage to the holders of the gold
bonds would be that their bonds would be
come a valid State obligation. The holders of
tiic First Mortgage Bonds would be compen
sated for the surrender cf the State guaran
tee by an addition of $1,000,COO to the State
contributions to the road and by having the
line placed in a condition in which it could
earn regular interest on its obligations.
The advantage to the State would be that
by assuming the responsibility for $2,SS0,-
000 of gold brads, it would wipe out the
stigma of repudiation upon $->,100,000 of in-
deotedmm
The receipts this week arc 122,003 bales,
1,000 more than last year, and 33,000 less than
two years since. It is likely the receipts for
next week wPi be about 133,000 bales, com
pared with 130,000 I set year, and 130,000 the
year before.
The receipts at the interior towns 33JOOO
bales, as compared with 40,000 last year, and
48,C00 the year before. This week has been
the coldest of the season. The thermometer
has avenged 40 degrees at noon; but for five
days the avenge has been only 32 degrees at
noon. The weather baa been clear and pleas-
ant one day, clear and cold two days, and
cloudy and cold four days. No rain. One
inch of mow fell one night. The weather
baa been so cold that the snow, which fell
three days ago, is still lying unmeltcd in the
Tho market in New York this week has
been firm, with medium sales, and a rise of
of a cent in the price, caused by a
falling off In the receipts, and a firm Liver
pool market At the close the market was
dull, caused by a very tight money market,
dullness of exchange, and lower gold. We
do not expect to ace the price for middlings,
in New York, below 19$ again this cotton
year, but some of our friends expect lower
prices in January, or as soon as the rivers of
the West rise to steamboats can run up to the
bead of navigation.
Oar opinion is that We shall have dry
weather and but very little rain for a month
to come; and by the time the rivers of the
West do rise, the railroads will have taken
nearly all the cotton from the head waters
of these rivers; and, even if there is some
left, it will all come down in two weeks aft< r
the riven rise, and the cotton on the Atlantic
coast will bcao well drained by 11 time that
it will not materially affect the r ipts. The
receipts have been too small this week, and
must not be taken as proof that they will fail
off from tbit time forward.
Our estimate is that 43 per cent, of the
crop has been received—making total crop
3,500,000.
The receipts at the interior towns this
week are only 75 per cent of last year; except
Memphis, which is 50 per cent of the total;
and from this time forward the receipts at
Memphis may be the same as the other iix
towns together. If this should be true the
total crop will be smaller than our estimate.
There is no doubt but the epizootic has bad
some effect on the receipts, but not so lunch
as many suppose, as almost every planter has
oxen, and they have taken the place of the
horses and mules; also, mules have not suf
fered nearly so ruurti as horses, and as the
disease has come Sooth it has been much
lighter than it was North. We think the
principal cause of the falling off of the receipts
this week is because the cotton movement in
all respects—picking, ginning, and delivering
at market—is from ten days to two weeks
earlier than the last two years. Wc have no
ticed all the fail that tho movement
has compared with tho next week instead of
the present week. Wc notice that the ship-
mcnls coastwise have fallen off very much
the past week. This shows more confidence
among planters, and if continued, will cause
the stock at New York to be smaller than
usual; which will cause more confidence in
that market.
The Liverpool market has been firm with
larger sales this week, and a rise in tbo price
of 1-10 of a penny for spots. This appear-
anCQot the Liverpool market is deceptive to
the casual observer. The rise in three week's
has been but 1-8 of a penny, equal to 1-4 of
cent a pound in spot cotton; while the ac
tool riso in cotton to be delivered in Decem
ber bas been, in three weeks, 5 8 of a penny,
equal to 11 cent a pound. There is a rise in
Liverpool of fully 1 cent a pound, that few
persons know of. The cause of this bos been
that Manchester spinners were bsrc of stock,
there was a very small supply of
good cotton in Liverpool; so hold
ers would not sell spot cotton
except at full prices, bat speculators believ
ing from the excessively large receipts that
our crop would be a large one, were ready to
sell future shipments at from f to 1$ cent
pound below spot prices; expecting, as soon
as large exports were made (o Liverpool,
spot prices would decline very fast; but the
active demand from the Continent and our
own spinners have checkmated this very rea
sonable expectation; and as the exports to
Liverpool this week are only 30,000 bales,
compared with 71,000 of the same week last
year, it is likely they will lose money on the
bear side of the market this winter. Wc do
not expect Liverpool to decline below 10
pence for many months to come.
Tlic actual supply of cotton iu the world
is over 400,000hales less than last year at the
same time, as European spinners hold that
much less than last year this time; then being
well stocked up, now almost bare.
Tho Egyptian crop, which appeared vciy
flattering two months ago, has been injured
so much that it is likely the turn-out will be
less than last year, and the quality
of tho receipts of the new
crop is very poor. Egyptian cotton is next
in quality to American, and any injury to
that crop affects the price of our cotton. The
total increase of stocks in the United Sla cs
•ver last year is only 40,000 bales, ail of which
is in Galveston.
We think there is no danger of so large
snrplns of goods being manufactured for the
coming year as to depress the price, ns the
demand ia increasing fully 5 per cent, every
year, thus requiring 300.000 bales more cot
ton every year to supply the constantly in
creasing demand for cotton goods. When
cotton goods arc high, woolen and linen goods
are substituted in the place of cotton; but
now woolen goods arc so very high that the
poorer classes cannot afford to buy them at
all. This naturally increases the demand for
cotton goods, and likely will increase the de
mand for this year 2 per cent., thus re
quiring the product of 100,000 bales more
cotton than last year. Thus wc have
n demand for 400,000 bales more cot
ton than last year, at the same prices. If the
cotton is grown in the world, there may not
be any rise in the price; if it is not, wc expect
the price of cotton and goods to rise until the
consumption of goods is reduced; and then
there will be enough* to supply the demand.
Our spinners have taken from the ports the
post five weeks 110,000 bales—22.000 per
week, just what they need to keep the mills
running. They have probably taken in the
same time 3,0(4) hales per week overland, and
this goes to increase their stocks. Our cor
respondents at northern mills all agree that
the stocks of manufactured goods on hand
are smaller than at any time for several years
past, and all their goods arc in strong de
mand at full prices.
Many of onr friends have asked us, the past
week, "is it a good time to buy futures!'’ We
would advise all persons who arc not regu
larly in the cotton trade, to let it alone. As
in everything else, a man has to be educated
in it to make money, and ic requires several
years, and a large amount of money to com
plete a man’s education in the cotton trade so
that he wiil make more than he will lose in a
season. If a man has a good busi
ness or can find anythingelsc to do
our advice is to let cotton alone. We do not
expect any one to profit by this advice, for the
plan of operation of a 1 new beginners has
been, and will be again Ibis winter, to go
aronnd every few days and a«k if it is a good
time to buy, until ,the price has gone up'four
or five cents a pound, and all old dealers have
made their pile. Then they will go in and
bay and lore ail the money they c n raise.
Those of our friends who followed our advice
fortheput two weeks, will make money, and
it is not yet too late to bay some more.
A Specimen carpet-bagger-
It is coming to light that John Patterson,
the new South Carolina United States Sen
ator, is altogether a superb specimen of the
genus carpet-basger. He is a Pennsylvanian
and a protege of old Simon Cameron. He
editor of the Harrisburg Telegraph. In
1854 he ran for Congress in the 19th Pa
District, and was too tough a case to get
elected. During the war he was a party to
those corrupt mule war contracts of Cameron
that resulted in Cameron’s expulsion from
Lincoln's cabinet.
Having grazed the penitentiary at home, he
moved to Sooth Carolina, banting a new field
for his played om capacities of plunder. He
has been for yean prey ing on South Carolina,
and has feathered his nest well. If he has
failed to participate in any scheme of robbery
it is cot known.
Having gobbled large moneys, he became
ambitious. Uusually tire cupidity and am
bition of the carpet-bagger run together.
The one helpe the other. Lust of money
and place are correlative sentiments and co
operative co-adjntora. Patterson was in ex
ception. He stole money. Then bought
place. Sharp knave.
When he became ambitious be set cleverly
to work. He went to consult Cameron. Tbat
are demagogm|wantrd some fools in the Uni
ted States Senate. He and Lis kin raised—
so_gossip bath it—$30,000 to help Patterson
buy bis election. Patterson with his big pile
conspicuously blaring, entered the field. He
flourished his money, and to purpose. He
spent $50 0»j at from $500 to $1,<XX> a head
for votes, and Hosted in like an omnipotent
epizootic.
Eliioll, the black aspirant saw defeat for
himself in Patterson’s eloquent and persua
sive money bags, and laid a trap. He made
some of bia legislative friend- take Patterson’s
ducats, and as soon ns the election was over
they swore charges against the triumphant
Patterson for bribery.
Old Orr was for Patterson, and he has his
eward in his appointment as minister to Rus
sia. Thai the filthy and sickening drama of
Southern Radical corruption has ran on in
the fiery glorious old commonwealth of the
Calhouns and HcDofflles.
But Patterson has carried himself charac
teristically under the charge of bribery.
These lofty Radical scamps tine an arrest
for a black crime, like oysters on tho half
shell—with seeming gusto. The fellow con
verted the humiliation into a scene of tri-
umpli. Released by habeas corpus from ar
rest by a handy Radical magistrate, his
delighted supporter* carried him on their
shoulders to the first rum shop, and tlic ex
ultant senator elect yelled, “d—m the ex
pensr; open a hundred bottles of champagne.’
Some of the man’* sayings are apothegms
■n their sententious rascality and shrewdness.
Quoth this cute knave to some lugubrious
ticinator who remarked that Carolina waa
ruined, “give ua the State, and we’ll show
that it can stand n heap more squeezing.’’
Felicitous vagabond I
But the funniest of oil the linrlrquln-
ism of this whole phosphorescent farce, is the
innocent vcrdency with which that worthy
Democratic newspaper, the Charleston News,
eloquently appeals to the honor of the United
States Senate to preserve its dignity and re
quire Patterson’s innocence of the bribery
charge to be established before it admit him.
Audaciously green goose! That is very
good. A body tbat is disgraced by Cameron,
Morton, Nyc, Pomeroy, and that ilk, asked
to be squeamish.
The News will be the dentil of the Senile
yet _
HOBACE GBEELEPS WILL FBE.
SESIED FOR PROBATE BY HIS
S1EB11IEBS,
NiwYobx, Dec. To.—At White Plains
•caterday the daughters of the late Mr. Greo-
Jcy, with a few friends, accompanied by
counsel, appeared before tho surrogate to
offer for probate the will of their father.
This will was executed on November 29,
1812. It had been written by
Mr. Greeley some time ago, bat
was only presented to him for execution a
few hours before hia death. It gave all the
noperty equally to his two daughters. This
nstrument hid been placed- among his pri
vate papers by Mr. orecley, and was only
taken Dorn amfja* them it tne time of his
last attack, and at his first lucid Interval
thereafter offered to him for acknowledgment.
At the same time counsel appeared before the
surrogate to contest this will and offering in
its stead one dated in January, 1871. Tho
contestants arc Samuel Sinclair, Richard H.
Manning and Charles Storrs, tbo two latter
being named as executors. The coun
sel for contestants then said that he
hoped the “propenents” of the will -would
acquiesce in the will of 1S7L He thooght the
will executed by Mr. Greeley before his death
did great injacucc, inasmuch a3 it gave all tho
property to Miss Ida, with tlio qualification
that one-half of it was to be used by her, at
her own discretion, for the support and edu
cation of her sister Gabriclle; that some rela
tives would be deprived of property intended
for them. The counsel for the daugh
ters thought these remarks uncalled for,
and announced that Miss Ida had offered to
assign to her sister one-half of the prop
erty; also to grant suitable annuities to
relatives. The Misses Greeley declined to
consider any proposals for compromise, and
regular proceedings for a contest will be
issued, on the ground of the incapacity of
the testator to execute the will of 1812. The
first witness was Hiss Simpson, who testified
that she became a witness to the will on the
day Mr. Greeley died. Mr. Greeley was then,
a few boors before his death, conscious and
rational. After some further examination of
this witness, adjonrnment followed. The
will of 1871 gives the property to his daugh
ters, but in addition gives bequests to ~'
tives and a legacy equal to the v
shatc of the Tribune to the Children’s Aid
8odety of New York.
Special Telegram to the Commercial.]
New York, December 10.—Opinion here
is conflicting ss to the probable result of the
lawsuit in regard to the two wills left by Mr.
Greeley. Some predict a long legal contest,
but this seems unlikely. The last will wa3
not witnessed until one hour previous to
Mr. Greeley’s death, at which moment he
was questioned, and is said to have an
swered rationally. That the last will was
written by Mr. Greeley when par
tially deranged, is not disputed by those best
able to judge. The first will, made nearly
two years ago, is a deliberate, carefully
drawn document. Under is provisions all
the property descends to his daughters,
except two thousand dollars to his indi
gent widowed sister, Mrs. Bush, liv
ing near Chappaqua; one thousand
dollars each to his two other sisters; one half
of a farm near Eric, Pennsylvania, to bis
brother, and the proceeds of the sale of
one share of the Tribune stock to the Chil
dren’s Aid Society of New York. Mr. Gree
ley's first will thus diverts about eighteen
thousand dollars cash value upon his daugh
ters, while the second will gives them all his
property. The latter say they will provide
for Mr. Greeley’s brother and sistars in any
event, and the point of contest seems to be
the bequest to the Children’s Aid Society,
the estimated value of which is ten thousand
dollars.
NEW YORK’S LAST HORROR.
Appalling Calamity ki the Fifth
Avenue H»tel.
Tlic Burning S f Flint A venue Hotel—
Twenty-two Dead >I«dlcs Found
Already—Frightful Results of
Criminal s tupldl ty-The Firo
Raging Five Hoars before
Alarm waa Given—
Gociii Assigned by
Office Clerk to
Booms alAfdr
Burning.
Shoddy Building C*6f Aristocratic
Pretensions.
School of nines.
Wc have the pleasure of giving ibis morn
ing the bill introduced in Congress by that
xccllent rcprescataliv *, Colonel W. P. Price,
establishing a school of mines at Dahlonegs.
It is a measure of large importance to the
State and will prove a most material benefit.
Georgia’s unexampled mineral resources con
stitute one of the chief among her many
▼•■tlliable resources of wealth, and we ap
prehend that no prej^t could be so potent
in dcvdcpicg them as this.
Tlic v ork is a noble one, and wc wish CoL
Price every success in carrying litre ugh to
consummation what he has had the practical
ability to conceive and inaugurate.
Important Georgia Measure.
In the House of Representatives Dei
cember 0, ISTZ-Hoa. Hr. Fries’s
Bill to Matabllsh a Naiiona
School of Hines In the north
Georgia Agricultural Col
lege. Bahlonega. Ga.;
to Provide for the 8c-
lectlonef u Focal-
ty} and to Appro
> prlate (urns
of Houmy
Therefor. ,
Whereas, the North Georgia Agricultural
College, formerly the United 8tatca branch
mint, located in'a region abounding in rich
and valuable mine* of gold, copper, iron and
other ores, will ge into operation in January,
1813, and will be controlled and managed as
t-equircd by act of Congress approved April
20,1871, and also under ike provisions of the
act of Congress approved July 2, 1862which
provides for colleges for the benefit of agri
culture and the mcchanicarts, and theliberal
and practical education of Hie industrial
classes in the several pursuits and professions
in life; and
5Vherett.it is the dnty of the Government,
while providing schemes for the promotion
and development of the interests of the agri
culture and the mechanic arts, to provide; at
the same time, the means for the ready devel
opment of the immense hidden wealth of
the United States, which can be done in no
other way to well as by imparting to the
yonths of the country a knowledge of those
sciences which tend directly to the proper
development of onr immense mineral re
sources, which hitherto have received but
meager aid from the government: therorore.
Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse ef
Beprcscntatises of the United Statu of America
in l ongress assembled, That a school of mines
be, and the tame is hereby, in the North Ag
ricultural College, at Dahlonega, Georgia,
in the building heretofore owned by the
United States, and recently donated to the
trustees of the said college by act of Congress,
the said trustees agreeing to the same; which
shall be presided over by a faculty
consisting of tbicc professors, who
shall be selected as hereinafter provided,
wherein rhall be taught the following
sciences, tc-wit: mineralogy, metallurgy
mining, engineering, analytical and applied
chemistry, geology, and such other branches
as arc mated to said sciences; the instruc
tion in these several branches to be divided
between said professors ss may be deemed
proper and most advantageous to said vchooL
Sec. 2. That the sum of dollars be,
and the same is, annually appropriated for
the payment of the safariea of said ‘fac
ulty, the amount to be paid each, and
the manner of paying the same, to he under
the direction of the regents of the Smith-
sonion Institution, by whom said professors
shall be elected and chosen, at such limes
and in such manner as they may deem bast -
and all vacancies and changes in the faculty
of said school shall he filled by the said
regents.
Sic. S. That pupils or propet ago shall be
entitled to admiaeion into saiil school of
rnmee from any State or Terrt.oiy or the
United States, free of nli tuition fees what-
cycr; but nothing herein contained shall pre
vent the regents of the Smithsonian Institu
tion from adopting rules and regulations for
the government of said sclioel, and deter
mining the age at which pupils may enter, as
well as other requirements for admission to
the same.
Soc. 4. Thar there is hereby appropriated,out
ef any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, the sum of tea thousand dol
lars, or so much thereof aa may he ncccssaay
to be expended by the said regents in the
erection of a iaboratorj jand the purchase of a
suitable chemical and philosophical apparatus
for the use of said school.
Sec-5. Thst it shsil be the duty of tho
President of Ihc faculty of said school to
make an annual report of the operations of
said school, or oftener if deemed necessary,
to the regents of the Smithsonian Institution,
who shall incorporate in their report to Con
gress the progress msde by ssid school of
mines, ss welt as sny other information of
a scientific or useful character iu relation to
said school.
Sxc- 6. That before said school shall go
into operation, the trustees of the North
Georgia Agricultural College shall convey to
ihc regenu of the Smithsonian Institution
the use of so much of said North Georgia
Agricultural College building as may be
needed for the school of mines, to ha kept
under the c inlrol of said regents as long aa
said school shall be maintained under the
provisions of this act.
Tiie Little People.
A school boy having helped a fellow-pupil
in his arithmetic, the teacher angrily asked,
"Why did you work hi. lesson l” “To lessen
his work,” replica the bey.
Eider of fourteen—“Where’s the body,
Madge?”
Madge—“In the ot ter room I think
Emily”
Eider of fourteen—"Go directly, and see
what ahe’s doing, and ted her she ausn’t.”
“You are the dullest hoy I ever saw,”
crossly exc'aimed a (arid headed old uncle to
his nephew. “Weil, uitcie,” replied the
youth, with a glance at the old gtntieman’a
bald head, “you can’t exjicci me to under
stand tilings as quickly aa y. u do, tecause
you don’t have the trouble of getting ’em
throonh your hair.” ’ 1
OUR REGULAR WASHINGTON LETTER
The Great Georgia Canal and Mnj,
Frobcl.
Robeson’s Little Water Craft navy—
Grant .Toward* Use South--
Orr’o Appointment a Sop to
the SontU—Credit Hobl-
Her—The Stolen
Treaty—Tho
Tribune.
A Celestial Phenomenon In Eon
tacky.
Last Thursday night there was a marked
reduction in the temperature here, and the
people who had been sweltering beneath the
intense heat breathed freer and offered up
involuntary expression of thanks for the
grateful relief. Day dawned on Friday
bright and clear; not a cloud dimmed the
sky, and, apparently, tlio cool spell promised
to be but of brief duration. But as the day
wore on the temperature did uot increase,
and, indeed, it was uncomfortably cool
many. .
Shortly after the sun had passed tho meri
dian, a dim, hazy halo gathered about the sun.
This is a natural phenomenon of frequent
occurrence, and attracted but little attention.
Soon, however, the mist or halo increased in
density and assumed a yellowish glare. The
outer edge of the mist separated from the
main body and formed a well-defined circle,
in which the tints of the rainbow were visible.
A second, and a third, and a fourth riag of
variegated colors formed in quick succession.
By this time the heavens were the contra
of attraction. All eyes were turned up
ward, and all over the city crowds of peo
ple collected in the streets and strained their
necks and eyes to get a good view of
the wondrous scene. Close observers soon
discovered a more wonderful phenomenon
than the parti-colored circles. From the in
ner circles small spheres of a brilliant white
color were being shot forth in countless num
bers. Some of them struggled slowly to the
surface of tho mist and then sailed slowly
and gracefully to the earth in a direct line.
Others were propelled in different direc
tions with greater force and rapidity. As
they sailed earthward the glittering globules
grew less brilliant, and at the (apparently)
height of half a mile they disappeared en
tirely from view.
This wondcrous display of celestial pyro
technics continued for several hours, and
was witnessed by nearly eveiy man, woman
and child in the city. The emotions excited
by the magnificent spectacle, more graad
than any earthly pageant, were various.
Among the ignorant and superstitious the
wildest alarm was created; the day of judg
ment had arrived, and many were the hearty
attempts to atone for a lifetime of misdeeds
by an hour’s repentance. Various theories
were offered in explanation of the strange
spectacle, but none of them were satis
factory.— Lexington, Ky., Press.
Wilkinson County Democratic .tv mi
nation lor County Officers.
Icwinton, Ga., December 11,1872.
In compliance with a previous call of the
executive committee of the Democratic par
ty of thta county, the delegates from the dif
ferent districts met in the Court House at Ir-
winton, for the purpose of nominating a
ticket to he supported at the January election
for comity officers.
Colonel J. G. Ockington, chairman of the
executive committeeol the Democratic party
of the county, called the meeting to order,
when, on motion, Dr, R. J. Cochran was
elected Chairman, and A. J. Miller, Secre
tary.
The convention then proceeded to balio
for candidates with the following result:
The nominees aro: For Ordinary, F.
Chambers; for Treasurer, T. N. Beall; for
Sheriff, T. M. Freeman; for Tax Collector,
W. C. D. Carlisle; for Tar Receiver. John
Butts; for County Treasurer, J. T. Bran an
for Coroner, Samnel McCarty.
Resolved, That Tmt Atlanta Constitu
tion and the Macon Telegraph and Messen
ger be requested to publish tho proceedings
of the meeting.
R. J. Cochran, Chairman.
A. J. Miller, Secretary.
Hr. Grcoley’s mental Condition Du
ring lit* Hines*.
New York, December 5.—[Special to the
Cincinnati Commercial.)—Ex-Surgcan, Gen.
Hammond, who attended Mr. Greeley’s case,
gives his opinion that daring the last illness
all the intellectual part of the patient’s brain
was affected. There is no paralysis and his
articulation was very distinct. He seemed
to be in antagonism to ail around. Dr. Ham
mond says: “In order to test his conscious
ness he asked him if he knew Mr. Dickens;
I know that he did, for I was present at the
dinner to Mr. Dickens, at which Horace Gree
ley presided. He exclaimed: "I Dever heard
the name in my life; now mind, when I was
born I died, and when I died I was horn.*
I then told him that Thnrlow Weed had been
to my house and was inquiring for him; he
answered; ’Now mind, when X was born I
died, and when I died I was born.’
“It was evident that no gleam of con
sciousness remained. He very rarely an
swered questions I asked him, and whenever
he did the answers were w-ong. He seemed
to be troubled nearly all the time with a pain
in his head. He would continually place his
hand on his forehead, as though he was suf
fering in that region.”
Dr. Hammond greatly regrets that, owing
to the opposition of the family, Mr. Greeley’s
brain was not weighed.
N»w York, December 11.—The fire at the
Fifth Avenno Hotel buQwright, broke ont
shortly after seven o’clock, on the second
floor of the hotel. The stajr-cose upon which
the fire started, was the one at the back of
the house, leading to tho laundry, in the base*
ment, to the servant’s rooA, on the attic floor.
The flames ran rapidly njtthe stair-way. It
was 08 a chimney, tiicrc bcingfno openings
from it bat at the top and bottom. It ate up
the stair-case and charred) its surroundings.
Reaching the open space into which the rooms
of the servants opened,' it burst into its
fullest strength. The flames in their passage
did little orno damage, Until they reached a
corridor at the top, the draft driving through
the narrow passage way^jhrrying the flames
quicker, ana making these- more destructive
ss they went on. They spread over the en
tire extent of the west wing.
THE WOOD WORK
of the room where the sSraants slept imme
diately caught the flames, and soon the entire
wing was a mass of lnrid-ffamcs.
THE FLAMES
spread so rapidly thst the servants asleep _
the rooms at the top of the stair-cases, were
overtaken before assistance could reach them,
and were completely shut off from the main
building. The flremcn*Riio had meantime
arrived,were too late for assistance, as by fills
time the apartments of the poor creatures
were enveloped in flames.
TUB VtajUMS.
Shortly after 1 o’cloMyivlicii it was found
a number of persons were missing, a police
officer and a chief of th^firc department cf-
fectcd an entrance by mrons of an iron lad-
der to the room where the people were sup-
xnedtobe. They thereYound the charred,
turned bodies of thirteen persons. The bed
ding and furniture were strewn about the
room, confused with human remains.
TIIE BODIES
lay at different places, from which the poor
people had tried to fiflamcans of egress.
Some had endeavored to escape through win
dows, others in the endeavor to find air hail
fallen at tho head of the stair-casc. The
bodies of two womenwerg half,cencealcd un
der the bed ^ in the outer room, where they
evidently tried to shelter themselves from the
blinding, suffocating smoke and scathing
flame.
A terrible arxcTACLE.
When the firemen and police got into
wing, the floors of this room wore sound, but
the roof timbers were burned, and had fallen
upon tho floor in a confused mass upon the
bodies. Tho water thrown from the hoso was
several inches deep upon,the floor, and was
filtering through to the ground. The heavy
beams cf the roof had fal|pn upon the burned
bodies, seveirng limbs and mutilating the—
mains horribly. The bodies were speedily _
moved to Bellevue, from whence to-day they
will be sent to the Mof&uo. Owing to tlic
confusion and excitement, the names of the
victims could not be ascertained.
TWENTY-TWO DtiXD BODIES.
Up to twenty minutes past 2 o’clock twen-
ty-two dead bodies had Bfccn recovered, six
teen in one room and six in another, which
is probably all. .
The alarm was first given by one of the
female servants who shiigkcd “fire” through
the hall-ways, awakening the guests, of
whom there were abouPTSvo hundred in the
liotsl. Many of the guests went to the office
and inquired as to the cause of the excitement,
but were informed by the clerks that it was
only a little fire in the laundry. This attempt
to keep the fire quiet so as to avoid a panic,
helped to bring about the terrible result.
CONFUSION.
When the guests became cognizant of their
danger, scenes of confusion ensued, people
were moving about in apparent distraction;
baggage filled the ball-way; tbo smoke was
suffocating, and water drenched the floors.
It was nearly 12 o’clock before any one gave
the alarm, and passing policemen then learn
ing of the fire inside caused the firo engines
to come to the spot.
Tni FinnJ_ f
by this time had made considerable headway.
Ladies were in a wild state of excitement.
The qarpets were still covered with water.
A POOR SERVANT GIRL
was found on tiie third floor writhing in the
agonies of pain, her body being frightfully
burned. The shrieks of the servants in the
upper stories were heart-rending, as the fire
men were making their way to release them.
Large crowds had in tho meantime gathered
in the streets, and the excitement outside was
kept up till about 2 o’clock, when the fire was
about extinguished.
GROSS CARELESSNESS.
The ncrald editorially says it is stated that
gross carelessness was apparent in the condi
tion of the warming apparatus, and that there
was too little effort made- to save the unfor
tunate victims. Tho whole subject will
doubt be thoroughly investigated.
THE LOSSES
are estimated at from a hundred and thirty
to a hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
OUIGIH OF TRB FIRE.
There arc various statements as lo the ori
gin of the fire. One says it was caused by
the bursting of a steam pipe in the laundry.
Some seventy or eighty servants altogether,
were awakened from the top floor, and
hurried down stairs. Their clothing was
terly ruined. A fireman named DcaDy was
seriously injured by falling through a crevice
in the pavement The hotel furniture was
worth about four hundred thousand dollars
Fully one-fourth of this was utterly ruined.
The house is owned by A. R. Evo, bat leased
to Darling, Griswold &Co.
JUST BEFORE THE ALARM
Washington, December 9,1373.
Colonel B. W. Frobcl, your delegate to the
National Board of Commissioners, for the
improvement of the Ohio and ita tributaries,
which meets here this week, arrived in Wash-
ington a few days ago, and is as full of cncr-
gr and pluck as on his first visit in the
ntcrest of the Atlantic and Great Wes
tern Canal project, and more sanguine
than? ever. . I am sure Georgia could
not have selected a better representative. I
shall keep yon well posted with regard to
this great enterprise, in which Georgia ia so
deeply interested. As yet there are no new
developments to report Tho President is
understood to be friendly to the undertaking,
and it certainly has many friends in Con
gress, among practical and farsceing men.
The project has won this support on its mer
its alone, and is not to be confounded with
the lobby schemes, as some of the Washing
ton correspondents have ignorantly classed it
The New York Herald having referred to
the Atlantic and Great Western Canal as a
sectional enterprise, Col. Frobel has addressed
a letter to the editor of that paper in which
he clc rly shows, not only that the underta
king is essentially a national one, but that the
lienefits to arise from it will acctue to the
North, East and West, as well as to the South.
I have just had the pleasure of perusing the
letter, and regard it as a very able one, and
calculated to do much good.
TRENAVT.
Secretary Robeson wonted Congress to
appropriate five millions toward tho con
struction of ten ships of war. This would
be about one-half their cost. Congress has
decided to authorize the construction of six
ehip3 of war, three to be built in Govern
ment and three in private yards, but wiil
make no appropriation until the plans, speci
fications ana bids are before it. This looks
very like a want o! confidence in the jolly
Robeson, but it is time a stop was put to the
waste of tho people’s money in the equip
ment of our navy. This is the way
that the business has been done hereto
fore. The Navy Department advertises
for the construction of one
or more ships. A favored contractor puts in
a bid at a rcdicuonsly low figure. Indeed, it
would beggar him to comply with tho terms
of tho contract. But his bid once accepted
he sets to work and soon secures an alteration
of the specifications. This invalidates the
contract, and he then gets ail the money he
wants. Nowalloroagrcedthatwcuscdmore
ships and better ships, than the navy contains
at present. But txifore building these ws
should like to know w’.it has become of tlig
old ones. At the close of the war the navy
mmnrtunl ntwrltr fnttr !itini?rrwl cKSna
Thb Other Side of tub Narrow
Gauge Question.—Thus far the advocates
of narrow gauge railroads have occupied the
field to the almost total exclusion of suppor
ters of the other side of the question. But
Colonel Kennedy, a Royal English Engineer,
has just submitted a report to the Home gov
ernment upon the working of narrow gauge
roads in India. In that report he shows that
the average balk of a ton of freight on the
leading roads is eighty cubic feet, wool and
cotton entering largely into the traffic. To
stow eight tons the car requires six hundred
and forty cubic feet, or a load on the broad
gauge not reaching over five fee: above the
platform, and whose centre of gravity was
only five feet above the rails. But the same
load could cot be piled on the narrow cir
without making the load preposterously high.
The conclusion is that while a narrow gauge
will do for a community that ships freight of
small bulk, like ores or minerals, it will not
suffice for an agricultural community ship
ping bulky freight. As many of Ihese nar
row gauge roads are contemplated in Ten
nessee and in the Southwestern States, such
facts a3 these stated by Colonel Kennedy
should be carefully considered.—Press dcjfen
aid.
Special to The Coustitation.1
Washington, December 12,1812.
Veiy quite at the Capital to-day.
The Senate took up and passed the bill for
reducing the offices and expenses of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau. It is estimated that
over two million dollars annually will bo
saved to the Government under this bill.
After some discussion tho House passed a
bill to authorize tho exchange of registered
for coupon bonds, which cannot be done un
der the existing law.
The military bounty land bill also passed.
It gives to the soldiers and sailors of the late
war, their widows and orphans one hundred
and aixty acres of land, and is characterized
by Democratic members as a.bill of Radical
demagogism. Tho House also passed a bill
for the relief of Sales & Manning, distillers
of Nashville, Tenn. Sam Bard’s nomination
postmaster Jit Chattanooga was transmitted
to the Senate to-day and at onco confirmed.
Vice-President Colfax is still undecided
whether to accept the editorship of the New
York Tribune, which, it is understood, has
been tendered him. It is proposed that he
shall resign the Vice-Presidency and enter
upon his duties January 1st.
All connected with the credit Mobilcr are
pledged to sccrcsy. The Committee meets
daily. Pilsbubt.
Washington, December 12.—The follow-
is a plan proposed by the Attorney General,
with the approval of tho President, for the
settlement of the Legislative difficulty in
Alabama. The two organizations at Mont-
THE BJAC0N SUICIDE.
Remarkable Attoaiftcd Self-De
struction of Mrs. Bone, a Re
spectable Macon Lilly, and
Her Most Extraordinary
Condition Since.
comprised nearly four hundred ships. Now
we have about one hundred and fifty. What
has become of the two hundred and
fifty dropped from the list? That is
what no fellow can find out. The informa
tion has been asked for time and again,
but it ia not forthcoming. The returns furn
ished from the Navy Department do not
specify but simply say ships sold—so much.
They do not state how many ships, the price
for each or to whom they were sold. The
reason for this will appear when a specimen
is given of how these ships were disposed of.
A ship was advertised for sale, but the sale
was postponed from time to time because
there were too many bidders. Finally, only
the right man was present and he got the
vessel for $20,000. He put a coat of paint
on her, and turned round and sold her for
$120,000—a clear profit of $100,000 by the
transaction. The vessel in ancstion, no
doubt, cost tho government in the first place
at least half a million. This shows how,
with all tho money expended, wc have how
only the merest apology for a navy, and are,
in this respect, behind even the third-rate
foreign powers.
chant’s policy towabd trb south
is tho subject ef much discussion and specu
lation just now. It is given out iu certain
quarters that the administration disapproves
tho arrests made in tho South, by United
States Marshals, of State Senators and As
semblymen for political purposes, and that
violent interference by United States officials,
in the interest of Senatorial candidates with
the Florida State board of canvassers will
not be tolerated. In the face of this decla
ration wc see United States troops at the
State Capitol of Alabama, and in possession
of tho State House in New Orleans. This
certainly looks like military interference, and
if the President is not responsible for it, who
is? That is a question I should like to have
answered by those who are extolling Grant
for his liberal policy toward the South. The
Sunday Herald of this city says:
“Whether the extraordicirj spectacle jast
presented In Louisian* Is to bo taken os an esidence
or the utter demoralization of oar politics, a* an 11-
lnstration ot the imperfection of our complicated
system of government, as anor her step in the centra -
1-1 ‘ * he several
Const! tu
gomery, Alabama, claiming to be the Gener
al Assembly of that State have appealed to
the President, and with his approval, I sub
mit as a plan of compromise of the difficulty
the following:
1. The officers of each organization shall
tender their resignations, to take effect on the
lermanent organization of the House of
Jepresentativcs, as hereinafter provided.
2. On the instant the hall of the Houso in
the capital shall be vacant, and at 12 o’clock
of that day all the persons holding certificates
of election as Representatives shall assem
ble therein, but persons holding
the certificate ot Secretary Ragland shall be
the only Representatives seated from Barbour
county, and shall make, in the usual manner,
temporary organization.
a Two tellera, one a Republican and one
Democrat, shall be appointed by tho Speaker
pro tern., who shall publicly and in presence
ot the House, count the votes cut for
Representatives for the county of Marengo,
and for that purpose they shall take the re
turns of the precinct inspectors of said coun
ty, or in cue they cannot be procured, the
evidence of said inspectors, so far os the
same may be necessary to ascertain the actual
vote cut for said persons, and the persons
found upon such count to have tho highest
number of votes for Representatives shall be
received as Jsuch from said county, but the
persons now holding certificates of election as
Representatives from Marengo county shall
not vote upon or in said temporary organi
zation, nor shall any business other than de
ciding tho contest as to said county be
transacted during such organization.
4. When such contest may have bcoa
determined, the House shall then make
a permanent organization in the usual way,
a guest was assigned a room, which, on reach
ing, he discovered to be on fire. He, on re
turning to the clerk, was informed that there
was no other room vacant The fire was not
known at this time in the office.
Among the most prominent guests were
General Burnside, General Horace Portcrand
G. M. Pullman, of Chicago. Several of the
lady guests were accommodated in the neigh
boring hotels and houses. Miss Ncilson, ac
tress, was a lady guest. The building was
so slightly constructed that the water went
through the floor as a sieve.
AT THE UOHGCE.
New York, December 11.—A large crowd
of rich ana poor gathered at thcMorgue this
msming to ascertain tho names of persons
taken there from the Fifth Avenue fire.
Eleven holies are already at the Morgue.
Only two so far are recognizable, the others
being burned almost to a crisp. These two
are Mary McCabe and Mary Taylor, both
servants.
TESTIMONY OF A SURVIVING SERVANT.
Mary Hcavcy, one of the servants, is at
Bellevue. She states when the alarm of fire
was given she knocked at nearly all the dooi
of the other servants. She then tried to get
down stairs, but the smoke and flames drove
her back,when with Mary Turncv and Bridget
Curtis, she broke open the sky light and got
on the roof, remaining there till the firemen
rescued them. She will recover. Tlic bodies
at the Morgue have the appearance of having
suffered great agonies. 1
THE DAMAGED HOTEL.
There was great confusion at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel to-day. One of the proprie
tors deny that there was any delay in giving
the alarm. The walls of the laundry are
completely burned. Icicles hang from the
ceiling. The damages cannot be estimated
yet; accounts of the nnmbci burned are con
flicting. It is learned at the hotel that only
eleven persons were burned. They were all
female servants.
Fox the Little People.
Several months ago a little boy named
Soger became interested in the children of
the Howard mission, and determined to do
what he could for them. It is not much, ap
parently, a boy of seven years can accom
plish in this direction, but he went to work
with a will, saved the pennies given him, ran
errands, and picked up bits of iron and sold
them. On Saturday he opened ht3 treasure
box and found therein $3 83, with which he
bought a broken lock pistol, and has 28 cents
left- So much for perseverance.
b ryA horse drover now *t Selma, Alabama,
writes from tbat place under date of the 5 th
insr. to the Nashville Union as follows;
‘I am here with sixty head of mules and
horses, all sick. 1 could not sell the horse
in Alabama for $25 now. My first stock has
been here seventeen days, aDd np to this
time there is no improvement in the malady.
I have some that I fear may die, but the
deaths so far are comparatively few. The
disease has created a great panic throughout
the country, and there will be no market
here before February or March, and un£tken
unless the country is relieved of the cpizo-
»t?fe
From tho Vacod Enterprise.]
Since the dealhof herbrotitcr, which occur
red some eight months ago, Mrs. Bone’s mind
has been disturbed, and in fact she is deranged
at times, and while in this state she has en
deavored to kill herself. One night about four
weeks ago, while the fainily were sleeping,
she quietly arose and placing the Iwlster
under the heads of her three children, forced
their heads to hang down and their throats to
be thrown forward. After, doing this she
proceeded to the bed where her husband lay
sleeping and commenced to unbutton his
Before this, however, she had
tceping as
shirt collar. .
turned up the lamp, making the room very
light. In unbuttoning the collar she awoke
her husband, and he asked her what she .?***
doing, to which she answered “nothing.
His suspicions being aroused, he got up
and discovered his razoi case on the mantel
empty. He asked where his razor was, but
she replied that she did not know. He found
the razor in hand and hid it from her. It is
supposed that she intended cutting the
throats of her children, her husband s and
then her own. , .
After this occurrence the razor was kept
hidden, but it seems as if she found it again
as tho particulars of her last and probable,
successful attempt will show. Last Sunday
morning while dressing her children
she drew the back of tho nwt
across her throat, and her oldest child,
a girl about eight years old, beg
ged her not to do so, as she wa9 “playing
clown.” Her husband remonstrated with
her for acting so very foolishly before her
children, and took the razor away from her.
She declared she was not jilaying clown but
was really in earnest, and in a few moments
after succeeded, without being seen by him,
in dipping the razor out of his pocket, and
throwing herself across the bed, told her hus-
5. In said cont-st the instant the Senate
chandler shail be vacant and at 12 o’clock the
persons holding certificates of election _
Senators shall assemble therein and organize
with tho Lieu tenant Governor presiding,
with the person holding tho certificate
of Secretary Kagiand Ju his seat
as only Senator from Barbour county, and
the votes for Senator in Marengo county
shall be counted iu tlio same way, and on the
same kind of evidence as is herein
before provided for tho House contest
a9 to said county, and, upon such
count, the person found to have
the highest number of votes from
said county shall be seated as such, but
tho person now holding tho certificate of
election to the Senate from said connty shall
not vote upon ar\y question while the contest
about bis scat is pending, and then the con*
test as o the district comprising the counties
of Batlcr «nd Conecuh eh ill bo deci
ded in tho same way, and upon
the 8amo kind of evidence and the
person holding the certificate of election as
Senator from said District shall not voto on
any questi-m before ho is declared elected
upon a count of tho votes of said
District, as above said, nor shall the
Senate do any other business before
these contests are settled. No person not
holding a certificate of election shall take a
scat in either body until his rights thereto is
affirmed as above provided. All those claim
ing to be members, and seated in either or
ganization, be allowed mileage and per diem
compensation prior to the temporary organ
ization, as hereinbefore provided for, after
which persons holding certificates from Sec
retary Parker for Barbour county shall cease
to draw pay, and those contesting
the scats for Marengo and tho District, o
Butler and Conacub, who are finally ex
cluded, shall be allowed the per diem pa r
until said contests are respectively enued,
and the officers and employees of each organ
ization shall be paid the usual compensation.
[Signed] George H. Williams,
Attorney General.
events, as the Tribune ears, “a very miserable piece of
bns ness.” Even if the United States court and mar
shal, with the army as its potu comitotiu. is acting
within its powers, as defined by late Congressional
legislation, we do not see how any lover of republican
institutions can view the spectacle without alarm. If
the United States* court is the proper tribunal for the
adjudication of ench a quarrel, what, wo may ask, is
the function of the Snprcm* Coart ot a Stale t It *
popularly supposed that the judiciary of a State _
organized for the express purpose of taking cogni
zance of questions arising out of ita constitution
of government. But it eeems to be assumed in
this case that such questions may be settled bv the
intervention of United States judges and officers.
The formation of a returning board is equivalent to
tho suppression of State government, and, carrying
the doctr'ne practiced br Judge Dor ell and Marshal
Packard ont to its logical results, it looks as if our
theory of separate States was practically extinguish
ed. and the whole work of centralization at last ac
complished.”
HOT A COMPLIMENT.
In appointing James L. Orr, of South
Carolina, minister to Russia tho Administra
tion papers declare that the President holds
out the olive branch to the South. These
organ grinding scribes must be very simple
fellows, or else they rely upon the credulity
of their readers. A Southern man who de
serts his people and goes over to a party bit
terly hostile to the South is no longer a rep
resentative of his section, and his appoint
ment to office is an insult rather than a com
pliment to the Southern people. Mr. Orr was
honored and exceptionally trusted by his
State; he followed her fortunes when she
made her rash rebellious sentence, and, finally,
when he saw the chances running against
her, he turned and struck hands with the
very men who were villifying her, and who
arc now fattening ou her financial • ruin and
degradation. To claim that the elevation <
such a man is complimentary to the South is
a transparent insult.
TOE CREDIT MOB1LXKR SCANDAL.
This is about how the credit mobilicr in
vestigation will result. The implicated Con
gressmen Will come forward and testify that
Oakes Ames offered them certain shores of
stock in, as they understood, in a purely bu3
ineFS way, and without reference to any
legislative action. Ssme accepted it, others
did not, but it was not until after the publi
cation of the letters of Mr. Ames that they
learned his object was bribing. In other
words Mr. Ames is to be made the scapegoat
of the whole affair and will certainly be er-
cxpcllcd. This is very fine for the innocent
holders of credit mobilier stock. But can
they show from the records that their votes
on questions affectiag the interests of
the credit mobilicr concern were unbiased hy
the possession of this stock ? It is to say that
they cannot, and further, that they, one and
all, merit the fate which it appears is to be
fall Mr. Ames.
THE STOLEN TREATY.
Everybody will readily recall the incidents
which hinged upon the premature publication
of the Washington Treaty last winter—the
arrest and imprisonment of two Tribune cor
respondents, the 8ul)sequent investigation, and
the failure to ascertain the real culprit. It is
well known now in newspaper circles that a
United Stales Senator was privy to the publi
cation of the treaty, and that but for perjury
of the most unmistakable kind, the offense
would have been brought home, and the Sen
ate have had an opportunity for expelling
him. Under the rules it mast have done this,
but his standing at the White House would
probably have saved him. This Senator has
been re-elected, I am sorry to say, and for
more reasons than one. He is a bad man.
TUB NEW YORK TRIBUNE.
I have the best authority for saying that
the icports to the effect that bchuyler Colfax
is to be tendered the editorship of the N. Y.
Tribune are utterly groundless. In the first
place Mr. Colfax is not competent. This is
well known to all who have been brought in
contact wi h him. He i3 entirely superficial,
without depth or breadth, and has climbed
higher on a smaller amount of brains than any
man in public life at the present day. He
managed to get himself puffed into notoriety
and tlic same power that made him—the
preis—has now delegated him to his legitim
ate position, that of obscurity. He will be
heard of no more than ls a cheap-jack for
some manufacturing concern, after the 3d of
March next.
Tommy Hauck.
GOD.
thoo Eternal One! whore prefence bright
uMr^^sss&tzk,.
Thou only (led! Uiere ls no God bcililp. W
D.H*e *bore *U being*, tvlrfity oael
Whom none con comprehend and none cxdtotet
Who au'tt extrtcnce with Ui Jfelf riooc, 1
Kobracin-all, eopportin-, nllngo’cTI
IMoz whom wo can God, and know no more!
In It* rabtlme research, philosophy
May ne**nrc ont the ocean deep—may «o«*t
The eanda, or the ran’* ray*—battled! tor then
There 1*nosretshlnormewate. Nenetanmount
And thought la loot e'er thought can row eo hl-h.
Even like past momenta in eternity.
Eternity htd its ronndstkm; _
" ' fr0m « , ^iy l0 ,tcJ?r 0 ” r ’
band that if bo thought she was playing, to
look at her. He told her that if she persisted
in playing so before the children that he
would leave. He turned and left, and no sooner
had he touched to bottom step than he heard
a noise, and looking back discovered her
rushing to and fro, with the blood flowing in
copious streams from her neck. He rushed
to her and with assistance succeeded in car
rying her to her room, and medical aid was
summoned as soon os possible. She bad cut
her throat with the razor 1
She now lays in a critical condition. She
has not tasted a mouthful of food since Sat
urday dinner, but the physicians aro using
every endeavor within their power to adopt
some means by which the gnawings of hun
ger may be allayed. 1 esterday a aumber of
physicians went to perform an operation by
means of a gloss tube and pump. Although
she was fairly held, she managed to free one
of her hands and jerk the tube out of her
throat.
She seems to be in her right mind now and
repents of the act She is a lady of refine
ment, liberally educated and accomplished.
Wbile she cannot articulate a word, she writes
to everybody who will converse with her by
this means. She gives no definite cause for
the rash act, but it is plain that reason occa
sionally deserted its throne, and it was during
these occasional derangements that the terri
ble deed was committed.
It is thought that if she can livs for a few
weeks, nature will form a passage for swal
lowing and she may live for years. The
physicians cite an instance which happened
in the practice of an cuiincnt.Gcnnsn physi
cian, or a man who cut his throat, a passage
formed by nature, lived ycare afterward but
finally, while on a drunken spree vomited
great deal, and died by strangulation.
The family have the sincere sympathy of
the entire community in tlicir sad affliction.
HEYFSPAPElt SENATORS.
What’s in a Name? ’—An exchange
says: “They have a man in Lock Haven
whose name is Gaudam. His would be a
nice name for a church deacon. Foi’instance,
the preacher would say, ‘ Gaudam yon pass
the plate.” Sounds like cussin’, don’t it? If
wc were that fellow wc would have onr
Gaudam name changed to something more
reverential.”
Terrible Tragedy in Brussels,
A Captain of Dragoons wlao misled
Young Lady Tlzlrly Years Ago,
Kills bis own Son In a Dnel
Without Knowing Him, and
tn Ills Turn ls Killed by
the mother of tho mur
dered man, tho Vic
tim of 80 Years
Ago who Last
ly Kills Her
self.
PIndependence PcI^c of the 20th ult , gives
the following account of an awful tragedy
which lately happened in Brussels:
M. Edmond F. wasn half-pay captain of
cavalry, who left his native town of Chateau
Chinon about four years ago in order to ac
cept a position as managerof an iron foundry
in the vicinity of Brussels.
In the year 1842, at the age of twenty-four
he was sous-lieutenant of a regiment of dra
goons garrisoned at Lisle. There he seduced
the daughter of a respectable merchant and
abandoned her to her shame. The poor Rirl
soon found herself in a condition which ren
dered exposure unavoidable. In order
conceal her fault she fled from her father’s
house and wsa seen no more.
Last week Captain F. visited, in the com
pany of a few friends, one of the most fre
quented beer gardens in Brussels. While
there, engaged in a game of cards, a quarrel
arose between one of his friends and a young
officer of the rifle corox Captain F. took
the part of hisf.icnd. High words followed
and insulis. Tlic upshot was that Captain F.
challenged the young officer to fight a duel
with pistols. They met on the following dav
and Captain F. killed his adversary by send-
ing.a bullet into his heart. This was on Fri
day momiag. Captain F. now hurried home
in order to prepare for escape to France. Lost
Sunday after having settled nil hia affairs he
packed his valise and was about to leave when
a woman in black presented herself abruptly
at the door. Her face was covered with a
thick veil and she appeared greatly agitated,
her body trembling all over. Captain F.,
highly surprised and something like troubled
with a gloomy foreboding, asked her into the
reception room. Scarcely had be pronounced
the first word when the unknown lady in
black drew up her veil in a sudden, convul
sive manner and showed him a face pale os
death and eyes full of anger and tears. At
the sight of that face the Captain retreated a
step and uttered a cry < f horror and astonish
ment.
In that woman in tears and dressed in
black,with faded features and hair all gray, he
recognized bis victim of thirty years ago—
the daughter of the Lisle merchant.
“ Wretch 1” she exclaimed, advancing upon
him all pale and threatening, “ accursed be
ing 1 villain! murderer I It was not enough
to have dishonored a woman—to have basely
abandoned her! You bod to kill her child—
to assassinate your own son! And such
crimes should go unpunished! The most
inonstruous of misdeeds should leave you ii
possession of the name of an honest man !
No, miserable destroyer of so many innocent
beings,^on shall perish by the hands of your
Scarcely bad she spoken these words when
she drew forth a revolver from under her
cloak, fired twice and blew the Captain’s
brains out. She then fired a third and fatal
shot at herself.
Hearing the sound of three shots the ser
vants and neighbors came running in, very
much frightened. A fearful sight presented
itself to them—two bodies lying side by side
on the floor and weltering in blood. The
body of Captain E. gave no sign of life; that
of bis former victim wsa breathing yet, and
by dint of exertions revived, foi^afew hours
only. She was taken to the nearest hospital,
where she expired in the middle of the fol
lowing night, after having answered an in
terrogatory and told the facta as we have re
lated.
Connabialitea.
A brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife.
A Danbury girl has married a poet, and
carries her own coal.
A gentleman in a Boston horse car was
heard to remark that he knew upwards of
fifty native Americans who had tartan for
wive*.
An old lady hearing that theshockingcon-
dition of the fireman's hose bod resulted in
the destruction of a large amount of proper*
ty, sat up nearly all night to put htr ho*
band’s socks in complete repair.
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.]
Washington, December 7,1812.
CARL ECHURZ.
Senator Sclturz is a newspaper man. That
is to say, when not in politics be is in a news
paper, and it might be added that he is in
newspapers a good many times when
he is in politics. The Senator is only
forty-three years of age, and, as is often en
couragingly said of young men, has scarcer
before him. A mind as active, energetic and
powerful as his cannot lie kept as a
light under a bushel. Striking him from
committees does not strike him from the
sphere of usefulness and action. The now
famous Senator never saw this country until
1852, twenty years ago. Perhaps he never
would have conic to our peaceful shores, but
for the fact that he was engaged in the revo
lution of 1848, and had to flee from his native
Germany or part with his head. Ho first
went to Switzerland, tkenco to London,
where he acted os a newspaper correspond
ent; thence to America. In 18C5 and 18G6 he
waa Washington correspondent of the Trib
une, but his letters read more litre leaders
than epistles. They were heavy, solid, la
bored, searching, deep, learned, thoughtful.
newspaper men in the senate.
Leaving onr subject attbe beginning, witli
the hope of picking it up again, wo will
f iance at the newspaper men in the Senate,
t is not generally known how large a pro
portion of the distinguished men in this body
have gone np from the newspaper office,
down, as you may choose to have it.
The President of tho Senate himself, our
old friend Colfax, was once a printer boy.
lie is now interested in one or two papers,
and writes for half a dozen more. Hia style
is easy, graceful and sin-pie, and it is in Sun
day school literature that he shines with the
greatest radiance.
Casscrly, of California, has been dabbling
in newspapers all bis life. As a writer, how
ever, he is less successful than ns a lawyer,
without being particulariy brilliant at
cither. Hill, of Georgia, while not being a
newspaper man proper, writes a good deal
for tho papers, llis productions are solemn,
J. Rodman West, of Louisiana, used to puli
list tho San Francisco Price Current, which
did not require any great amount of literary
ability. It is well that it did not The
other Louisiana Senator, W. Pitt Kellogg,
has never been a newspaper man. His
greatest literary efforts consists in signing his
name. Harlan, of Iowa, writes for the Chron
icle of this city. Tho life and spice which
has made that journal a household word, is
attributable to his flashing and humorous pen
Charles Sumner has written a gobd deal for
the papers, and once edited the American
Jurist Hamlin, of Maine, was sprinter boy,
and afterward worked as compositor. Zsck
Chandler was never a newspaper man. There
is no telling what a sensation he would have
made in the press if he had not gone into the
dry goods business.
Simon Cameron served a regular appren
ticeship to a printer when a bov. There arc
many who wish he had stuck to the trade.
It is reported that he was a rapid compositor,
and could havo made a good living at it.
Horace Greeley is credited with having said
that every printer boy develops into a gentle
man or a fraud. As to which department
Cameron belongs is best understood by these
who have known him longest. He has been
the editor of several papers, most of which
arc now dead. Anthony, of Rhode Island,
was for years the editor of (lie Providence
Journal, and is still connrcteil.witli the press.
Brownlow has been an editor most of bis
life, hut never a printer. His trade is that
of house-carpentcr.
O - South Carolina’s new ruler, Governor
Moses, in his inaugural, draws this mourn
ful picture of the desolation in that State:
YctUic face of the emigrant is turned away
from onr State, and capital, which ecu labor
in motion and creates the manufactures which
contribute to the comfort and elevation of
man, shrinks back from U3 as if the seals of
pestilence were broken and vials emptied out
on this beautiful land of ours. Hence nearly
three-fourths of our vast territorial area, em
bracing not less than 35,000 square miles, lie
fallow to-d*y.
No change is likely to occur until the blocks,
who are largely in the majority in that State,
learn by years more of peenniuy misfortune
that such men as Moses and his gang of pub
lic plunderers should be consigned to obscu
rity instead of positions of power and influ
ence.
SonIti Carolina New*.
The Air-Lino Railroad will be completed
from Greenville to Charlotte in a few weeks,
and from Greenville to Atlanta in a few
month*.
Dyson’s Mills Post Office has been discon
tinued.
The bridge of the Congarec at Columbia
bos been completed.
Tennessee New*.
Knoxville bas a keg factory.
Murfreesboro wants a public library.
Miss Blanche, daughter of Major G. T.
Lewis, has charge of the Signal Service at
McMianvUIe.
On Tuesday there were 150 cases of email
pox in Memphis.
jgtliflious.
Thy word created all and doth cre.te:
* *endor f Us all epacc with day dUinc;
art, and watt, and shall be plorion\{•naL
Life-giving, Ufe-rasUininc potentate.
Thy chains the nnmensared nnlvtrro wnmnd.
Upheld by thee, by thee inspired with brez'h,
Thoa tiie beginning with tbe end was bound.
Awl beautifully minted life and death!
As sparks mount npwsrd from the fiery blast*,
' r0m ' hCC:
Shine around the silver snow, the entrantry
A million torches lighted by tby hand.
Wander nuwearied throoch the bine nby««;
They own thy power, accomplish thy comn n id.
AU gay with lire, all eloquent with bli«.«.
What shall we call them? Piles of crystal If *h •
A glorious company of golden streams?
Lamps of celestial ether baraing blight l
- r - “-*-** • ibcaa
to the night.
And what am I, then ? Heaven's annum two! hi%i
Though multiplied by myriads, and array'd
In nil the glory of aubumest thought,
Is but an atom in the balance weighed
Against thy greatness as n cypher brought
Againtt infinity. What ami? Nnnghi.
. hath reached boson to»
Yw; la m; spirit doth thr sptrit tklno.
A* chine* the eanheem in a drop ot dr-.r.
E'en to the threne of thj ctTlnlijr.
I tm, O Qod, sod nreqr thoo Duct be!
Ttoaartt directing, guiding *lt ttum *rt!
Direct my urdcreianrtinjr, then, to thee.
Control my spirit, tnlde my maderln-r taart.
Theoxh ont ea atom midst imraen’ity.
811111 am eoxnethlnc. fa.binned by thy hud!
I bold a middle rank, ’tirtxt heaven and earth,
in the tart verso of mortal b.lnp suad.
Close to the realm* where aeaelebare their btrli
Just off the boundaries cf the spirit laud.
|W The Catholic church edifices in the
dtp and provinces of Posen, which belong to
the government, have been closed because a
special service was celebrated therein placing
the church of Posen in her present trial un
der the cspedal protection of the Most Sweet
Heart of Jesus. The pastors of churches and
the teachers of Catholic schools have been
summoned to appear before the magistrates
for examination on the charge of publicly
reading on exciting pastoral letter ilined by
tho Archbishop ofPoseB.
Religion. Information.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The census of 1S70 report* 12.459 churcla.
in tho United Stales, capable of scaling 21.-
005,062 persons, valued at $354,4*3,581. This
includes all religions—Jews, Goutile and
Mormon, Protestant and Papal, Orthodox
and Heterodox.
The pastor of a church in Columbus, O.,
has notified li'u communicants Hint no mem
bers of secret societies can enmo to the altar
of hia church. The rrauH has been a large
secession and a new church.
FOREIGN CHURCH ITEMS
There are, according lo a late census of
Paris, 1,732,537 Catholics m that city.
In the city of London there arc 117 Catho
lic churches and chapels and 2!4 priests.
Iiev. 1L D. Riley, D. D. t of the City of
Mexico, has administer! d the Lord’s Supper
in an cx-Popai CktlrcU to four huudred com
municants, converts from ltomnnrsm.
The number of native Christian communi
cants in North India has more than doubled
since 1861. The total number of communi
cants reported is 13,908, wilh a Christian
community of no less than48,591 touts.
Within the last twelve years the Gospclhas
been preached in seventeen out of the
eighteen provinces of China, and thna tensof
thousands in each of these provinces have
heard in their own tongue the wonderful
works of God.
HEBREW CHURCH ITEMS.
In 1100, the first Jcni h congregation in
tiiis country was organized in tire city of
New York, and Ihu first synagogue was
built in 172L Now there are at least forty
synagogues in New York, and the whole
number of bourns of prayer in the United
States is about two hundred and seventy.
The finest synagogue in the United States is
Emanuel Temple in New York.
adventist's items.
The adventists are very strict in the observ
ance of family worahip. As a general role,
the head of the family reads a portion of
scripture, then leads in prayer. When ho
closes, then the wife prays, and the children,
one after the other in an audible and impres
sive manner, closing with the voungeat child.
EFIECOI’AL cnuncH items.
There arc nineteen Episcopal Churehta in
Louisville, Kentucky, and 1,670 communi
cants. In addition. Dr. Norton has nearly
completed the Church of our Merciful Savior
(for colored people,) at a cost of about ten
thousand doliara.
The Journal of the Episcopal Convention
of Pednsylvania for 1312,reports 19,318 com
municants, 75 churches. 41,805 sittings, 15
chapels, 113 parishes,and 170 rcaident clergy.
LUTHERAN CITUltCU IT MM3.
It is slated that ten thousand dollar* will
finish tho Lutheran Memorial church, in
Traskington city. It is hoped to dedicate tho
church en the 4(h of March next, the inaugu
ration day.
A Danish Luthcni congregation has been
organized in Chicago, auit tho members aro
now exerting themselves to secure the means
necessary for the erection of a church edifice.
One new Lutheran Synod was admitted into
tho General Council at its reernt meeting in
Akron, Ohio, the Synod of Indiana. It em
braces nine ministers, eighteen pastorates,
forty congregations.
rnasnTTEniAN council items.
Tbo Philadelphia Presbyterians took up
nearly a million ot dollars in collections last
year.
Tlic Presbyterian Churches in this country
owned property amounting to $09,399,720 in
1870.
The Siutkcm Presbyterian Church now
numbers U Syn< ils, 58 Presbyteries, 913
ministers and licentiates, 1,513 churches, 95,-
000 communicants. During the yast year
5,501 were added on examination.
Tho First Presbyterian Church, in Chicago,
costing $125,000, and seating 1,000 people
will ba ready for occupancy January 1st.
In Philadelphia the Presbyterians arc in
advance of all other churches, haring 87 or
ganizations.
In Philadelphia there are three brandies of
the Presbyterian Church; the Reunited, the
United and the Reformed, having in all 115
ministers, 92 congregations and 25,563 com
municants.
The Presbytery of Eastern Texas had four
ministers in 1SG7, and now it has 12 preach
ing to 28 churches.
quAKKR council item.
A rupture is impending in the Quaker
Church, on the subject of singing,conference
and prayer meetings, and various methods
of church worship peculiar to other denomi
nations. The progressive party are insisting
on these changes, while others are tenacious
of former ussges.
BAPTIST CHUItCU ITEMS.
A Baptist deacon in Scranton, I’a., has
given to his church a parsonage valued at
$12,000.
Governor Leslie, of Kentucky, has had a
class of twenty-two young men in a Baptist
Sunday School, for six years, during which
time all teen have been conceded, and become
active members of Uic church.
Tbe Baptist Church bas 9,009 Sabbath
Schools in the United States, which have
642,504 schoiais and 84,763 officers and teach
ers. Of this number, Kentucky has 4'.0
schools and 2,590 pupils.
The Baptist Church of Marion, Alabama,
on Sunday last, raised $*J0. for Howard Col
lege in that place.
MKmoDIST CHURCH ITEMS.
The grand total of Methodists is officially
pul at 1,965,067 persons. Mclboditui witbiu
a century has attained in England 1,300,16G;
in the United States, 2,020,531; total 3,921,-
2»7 members.
The Methodist Church in the United States
owns property to tbe amount of $G9,954,
The Rock River Methodist Conference,
Illinois, has voted to forbid any more Mason
ic ceremonies in laying church comer stones
The Methodists of Die Chicago District aro
erecting churches to the value of $340,000,
for which $100,000 of aid have been raised
from abroad.
Five Conferences in Texas, of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church South, show an aggre
gate of 780 conversions for the month of
September, and 245 accessions to the church.
The Methodists or Bay View, Cecil county
Md.. have determined to build a new church,
but being scrupulous as to the manner the
money is to be raised for tbe purpose, tbe
building committee baa adopted Ihc follow
ing;
Resolved, That in building this church we
make use of no means which have the least
semblance of gambling, or chance work of
any kind whatever.
CATHOLIC CHURCH ITEMS.
Archbishop Pcrehe is establishing new
Catholic schools in ..ew Orleans.
The Boman Catholic Church in the United
States owns $09,985,606 worth of property.
St. Marlin’* Catholic Church, in Washing
ton City, colored, ia well attended.
Ia 1827. a small room held all the Catholics
of Lonisviilc, Ky., now fourteen churches
are not sufficient for their needs.
The Temperance Societies attached to the
different Catholic Churches in the city cf
Jiew York, give lectures every Sunday cvcn-
^fbc diocese of Philadelphia contains up
wards of 145 Catholic churches and chapels,
1S8 priests, 108 students, two ecclesiastical
schools, 13 convents, 30 academies, 21 paro
chial Schools, one widows asylum, twd hoapti
tala and a home for tbo aged poor.