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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S, D, WIKLE & 00,, Proprietors,
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 187(5.
VOL. III. NO. 10.
TIMELY TOPICS.
I'mi.nnKN die in Now York a* sand
flies do on in miner evening*. The
wife of an undertaker told a reporter
last week that she had with her own
hand prepared nno hundred and thirty
infanta far burial in three days.
Tiik last words of Charlotte Cushman
are more authentic, but leas heroie than
last words usually are. Her nephew had
raised her, and offered a stimulating
drink with the words, “Come, auntie,
here is your milk punch.” She smiled,
ami quoted the first line of the eele-
hrnted street ear jungle, “Punch, broth
ers, punch with rare.” Then she fell in
to a deep sleep from which she never
awoke,
s. man Mt rap’s condition is pitable
indeed, if accounta fn»m Constantinople
arc true. A correspondent of the Men
Niger du Midi wmls to that |>a|ier a let
ter purporting to lm\o l*cen written by
the aulU’.n'a physician, which says that
" M Wad is dying from dcloriuni tremens,
bp,light on by lianl drinking, principally
'absinthe, reckless debauchery, remorse
for bis uncle’s death, ami dread of a Rus
sian invasion, or attacks on bis palrce by
Mussulman fanatics.”
Till? Houth Carolina planter whose
ImmI* was recently burned on an im
mense pile of green wood probably
caught the idea from a wealthy batchclor
near Charlestown, who had a cast-iron
coffin made, and directed liis overseer
to have the remains reduced to ashes on
a pyre of twenty cords. The key was
drop|>ed into the casket through a
small bole made for that purpose, ami
the isix was thiown into the Cooper
A TRAIN on the Pennsylvania railroad
leaving Pittsburg Thursday with military
for the centennial encampment at Phila
delphia, was added to on the main line,
ami Northern Central branch until it
numbered one hundred and ten cars in
eleven sections, car/ying over five thous
and passengers, being the largest passen
ger train ever run over the road. It
arrived without any detention oruccidcnt,
ami without any interference of the reg
ular trains.
It has now been proved boyond dis
pute that (Jen. Custer was not seal pod,
that hi* l*ody was not in any way niiiti*
kited and that his uniform was not
stripped off by the Sioux. Hut it is a
fact that, Buffalo Hill, white man and
killer of Indians, has just sent to bis
friends in Rochester the scalp which he
<•01 from the head of the Cheyenne brave,
Yellow Hand, after be had killed him,
and the blanket, head-dress ami girdle
which he took from the lardy of Yellow
Hand after death.
Tiik marquis of Halnmancn, a rich
banker of Madrid, ennobled by queen
Isahellivsbas sont to this country one
hundred and thirty-five pictures, mustly
old ones, which he desires Ur sell. His
gallery is said to contain fifteen hundred
paintings, mid these arc what ho wishes
to get rid of from among the nnmlier.
They fa*nr the names of celebrated mau
lers, such as Rubens, Murrillo, Raphael,
Vandyke,Tintoretto, Won vermans, Paul
Veronese, Teniers and Velasques. They
are to lx* sold at auction, and their gen
uineness is officially certified. What
they are really worth cannot ire told
until they are exhibited, but it nia
taken fur certain that they will sell
cheap. There is no market in thine
try for the old masters.
< ».\ the evening of July 10th the pre
sentation of the flitch of bacon took
place at Ihimm.iv. England. The flitch
i- at the dix|tosal of any couple who
sweat that they have lived together
unbroken fidelity anil affection. T
couples sent in claims, the Rev. Samuel
Marriott Smith, Vicar of Harwell, Berks,
and his wife, Caroline, and Mrs. James
Rooxey, clerk at Trinity church, Vent-
nor, ami his wife. The former couple
were unable to appear. Mr. and Mrs.
Boo-ey were escorted from the station
to the scene of trial by a band of music
The trial took place in the presence o
afamt .'I,(K)0 jieople. The jury, composed
of an equal numticr of bachelors an
maidens, considered the answers anti
factory, and awarded the flitch of baco
to the worthy couple, who were chaired
to a high platform, where, kneeling upon
sharp stones, they took the ancient oath,
and the flitch was handed to them amid
loud cheering and the firing of cannon
Some of the worthy people who go to
Saratoga are accompanied by their
imiUhle children, and the little
have dancing parties. Says a recent let
ter : “One sight was that of a little
three-year-old, who was dressed in a
colored silk, with a yard ol hrrmarnma’s
p dnt-Uice flounce for an over-skirt, and
who wore tiny white gloves, hearl fan
pendant, pink silk stockings ami with
kid boots the same color. Well, this
baby started off well pleaded to dance
with another baby of her own age, but
seeing a companion of the like tender
years dancing with a boy several years
her senior, she came down the lawn with
her mouth wide open ami her hands
spread in frantic fashion, screaming vig
orously, and, when she reached her anx
ious mother, yelled out with the passion
of an enraged child, ‘ I want to dance
with a boy ; won’t dance with a girl!’ ”
LATEST NEWS.
fVOVTH ANIt WMT.
Senator Sharon, in applying for the
reduction in the valuation of liin palace lin
tel, San Francisco, which was put at $2,000,-
', said tlml it was not paying, and was nut
likely to. It cost, lie said, $5,O0O,OOO, but
ahor and material were then high, and it
■ouhl not he sold for half that sum.
Stillborn railroadsare reviewed by tho
Chicago Railway Ace, August ltd. The rail
road mileage is given in 1800, 1805, 1870 and
1875:
ii i i i
Tutsi niilrsu'- y,l*'J if,M3 i M'.s'i |\'t|»
During the war the south huilt only four
hundred and fifty miles. The sixteen thou
sand miles in the south now represent prnh-
altly $000,000,000, and the system of rail
roads is in its infancy. The Railway Age
concludes the people of the south are fully
awake to the importance of increased facili
ties for transportation. The end of the next
ten years will see n vast addition to the pres
ent railway mileage and a corresponding in
crease in wealth mid prosperity throughout
the garden region of (lie south.
News has been received by way of tho
Red-Cloud agency of the arrival of an Indian
from the hostile camp, who says that Sitting
Hull is fully prepared and eager to meet
Generals Crook and Terry, or both combined,
and feels eonfldent of his ability to whip
them. He further stales Unit reinforcement*
are joining the hostile* daily from North
and Itrilish America, and a few from Miune-
Re|*orts received at the war depart
ment from Gen..Sheridan states that many
of the Indians now coming into the reserva-
eapt
ril froi
the
mth cavalry in die late Custer massacre.
The July report to the national cotton
exchange from eighteen counties in Middle
Tennessee and ten of Worth Alabama shown
more fnvnralde “lands comparatively to last
year. The plant iN forming and blooming
well. Nearly all reply that cotton is fruit
ing liettrr than last year, while a few com
plain of too much rain and a few complaints
of grasshoppers.
A despatch from the Big Horn expe
dition, on Goose creek, via Fort Fetterman,
says Gen. Merritt, with his forces, fins joined
Gen. Crook and they lire now ready for ag
gressive action. This united column ha*
over twenty-one hundred fighting men. Fu
ller the new orgttOlzntion, Merritt is the
ranking officer of cavalry, and Col. Cham
bers commander of infantry. The entire
column, with the paek-traiu, will move at
once toward Tongue river with its three hun
dred pack-mules, one hundred and fifty
thousand rounds of ammunition and twen
ty-five thousand rations, and forage. This
is the lightest marching condition. Men ami
horsesnro in the lines! possible trim. Scout-
ing parties have discovered large fresh trails
of Sioux leading toward the lower Tongue
and I’owder river. It In believed that the
savages are in need of victuals,as the picked
carcasses of dogs are found around their
camps. They have tired the prairies to ruin
pasturage nud render (lie cavalry useless.
Gen. Terry lias nut been heard from for a
month. He is believed to have nearly two
thousand men.
MAT.
The debt of the city of New York, ac
cording to controller Green’s monthly state
ment, published till instant, has risen to the
gigantic figures of f I>52,INK),000. Increase ill
six months $17,500,000.
Of the 15,000 unemployed New York
working men lo parade Thursday, and wait
upon the mayor and hoard of aldermen to
demand relief for their present necessities,
only about seventy-five formed in line, and
marched to the city hall, where about two
thousand others soon gathered. In reply to
an address of the workingmen, the mayor
said they had his hearty sympathy, hut he
had no power to give employment to any
roHKiux.
The ox-queen Isabella, who left Paris
last wreck for Santander, means to make her
self dear once more to Spain. Her son is
putting the splendid palace of the Alcazar
in Seville in order for her residence, and the
changes and repairs she has insisted upon
have already cost nearly $100,000.
The Times considering the capture of
Giirgnzovatz a severe, if not a fatal blow I
the Servians, say* the Turkish ininisle
must he solemnly warned Hint they will m
he allowed to make wanton use of their vi
lory. If they think that on the soil of Se
via their troops may commit one hundredth
part of the atrocities perpetrated in Bulgi
they are the victims of an Infatuation,
will Turkey he allowed to make much use of
her victory ns to cancel .Servian freedom,
Hervia is under the protection of the great
powers, and with them will he the duty of
imposing any needful restraint on the im
petuous spirit of her people.
Stanley, under date of Lake Victoria,
Uiaanzi, July 29tb, 1875, furnishes another
chapter of his experiences in Africa, and re
lates the story of his fight with a hand of
savages, in which foqgfeen of them were
killed and eight wounded.
The woman who attempted to kill
prince Gortaehakoff refuses to give any ex
planations of her motives for the act, hut it
i* understood that she had certain grievances
against Russia, and was unable to get jus-
It is reported that Disraeli fa about to
he raised to the house of lords, with the title
of the earl of Beaconsfield.
Speaker Kerr fa better, but not yet
able to sit up.
Ifallet Kilbourne baa entered suit
against the speaker of the house, sergeant-
at-arms and members of the real estate pool
committee, claiming $150,000 damages for
injuries sustained by reason of imprisonment
without cause.
CONGRESSIONAL.
NRNATH
In the senate, on tho 5th, Mr. Morton
noved to take up the resolution to print ten
thousand extra copies of the president's
message and accompanying document* in
reference to the recent trouble at Hamburg,
The motion to take up the reso.ution was
agreed to; yeas, .111,; nays, 15. A strict par
ty vote. The discussion became entirely
political, and was continued through the
morning hour, being participated in by
Messrs. I’attersoli, Thurman, Cameron, Gor
don and McMillan. The elvir then present
ed unfinished business, the hill lo establish
post routes. On motion of Mr. Edwards (lie
regular order, the p.»-t route hill, was laid on
Hie labia; yea* 32, nays 17, and (lie consid
eration of Mr. Morton’s resolution was re
ceived by a vote of 32 to 18. The report of
the conference committee on the hill to pro
vide for the sale of Osage ceded lands, etc.,
was here agreed to - yeas 27, nays 18, and
discussion of Mr. Morton’s resolution and for
the punishment of the perpetrators of the
Hamburg crimes. Adjourned.
In tbc senate, on the 7tl», a joint reso
lution in reference to the wreck of the ,’mon
itor Tcoumscll in Mobile hay, and lo provide
for the burial of persons carried down when
she sank, passed. On motion of Mr. Sher
man the amendment.* of tho house to tho
senate hill extending the time lor redemp
tion of lauds sold by the United States for
direct taxes were agreed to and the hill
passed. The house hill making an appro
priation for the payment of claims, reported
allowed hv the southern claims commission
er, passed w ith the amendments proposed by
the committee. The senate then resumed
consideration of unfinished business, the
resolution of Morton to print 10,000 extra co
pies of the message of the president and the
accompanying documents in togntd to the
recent trouble at Hamburg, Houth Carolina.
I'euding the discussion Allison, from the
conference committee on the river and har
bor appropriation hill submitted tho report
that llie committee had agreed upon the
Ingalls, Oglesby and McCreary a eonfere
committee on the hill to authorize the secre
tary of the interior to deposit certain funds
streasury i
senate resu
f the resolution of Morto
addressed hv senator Eaton. Before Eaton
concluded, the senate went Into executive
session and soon after adjourned.
In tin* somite, on tin* 8th, tho chair
laid before the senate a communication from
the secretary of war, enclosing a letter from
lhr chief of the engineer corps remonstra
ting ngaiiist the proposed amendment to the
river and harbor appropriation hill limiting
the availability of the appropriation for the
improvement of the southwest pass of the
Mississippi river. Ho expresses the opinion
Hint il die amendment should he liniilly
adopted, it will stop tho work of dredging
and interfere with the commerce of New Or
leans. Ordered to he printed and lie laid on
the table. Mr. Hitchcock called tip the sen
ate hill to establish the territory of Pembina,
ami i<» provide a temporary government
therefor. The proposed new territory con
sist* of tho northern portion of the territory
of Dakota. After a brief dismission, the bill
wns passed; yeas .11, nays 1!». The senate
then went into executive session and soon
adjourned.
In I hr senate, on the Dili, During the
morning hour a number of bills uu the cal
endar, not objected t<, were passed; among
them a house hill to allow homestead settle
to make proof of settlement before the courts
as well as before the receiver. The nmciid-
llients of Hie house to the senate hill lo
provide for the sale of the reservation ol
confederate Otolw** and Missouri Indians in
Kansas and Nebraska were agreed to,and the
hill passed. The senate then resumed con
sideration of unfinished business, the resolu
tion of Mr. Morton to print ten thousand ex
tra copies of the message of president and
necoiiipanyiiig documents in regard to Hie
recent trouble at Hamburg, mid Mr. Falter-
son resumed his remarks. Mr. Ilnmlin moved
that the senate at 5 p. hi. lake a recess until
7:30. Agreed lo. and Mr. Wallace look the
Door upon Mr. Morton's resolution lo print
extra copies of the president’s message, etc.,
hut before concluding hisargument the sen
ate took recess. Evening session Upon re
assembling, Mr. Edmunds, from the commit
tee on the judiciary, rcportcTl with amend
ment the house Joint resolution proposing
an amendment to (lie eonstilutioj of Hie
United Stale* prohibiting the appropriation
of money for tl.e support of schools of any
religious seel. Flared on the calendar. He
gave notice that lie would call it up for con
sideration to-morrow morning. Mr. Wallace
continued his remarks on the resolution of
Mr. Morton, and was replied to by Mr. Hlier-
man, but before the latter concluded the
senate adjourned.
Tim actinic on the I Dili resumed con
sideration of unfinished InisinessN, the reso
lution to print ten thousand extra copies of
the message of the presiedent nnJ accompa
nying document* in regard to tin* recent dif
ficulty at Hamburg, H. C. Mr. Hliermau re
sumed his argument at the point where he
suspended last bight. Mr. McDonald then
replied to the argument of Mr. Hliermau.
The senate went into executive session, and
soon adjourned,
In the. senate, on the 1 ]ill, tho bill to
eataldish post routes taken up. Mr. Bogy
submitted an amendment to continue (lie
fast mail service from Cliicngo to Ht. l/mis,
Agreed to. Mr. Withers submitted an
amendment as an additional section, author
izing the postmaster general to contract for
$100,000 for that purpose. Agre.^d
I’addoek submitted an amendment as addi
tional section to the hill to restore the frank
ing privilege reported by him from the com
mittee on postofliers and post roads, on (lie
25th of May Oast. It provides that it shall lie
lawful to transmit through (lie mail free of
postage, letters, packages, or other matter
relating exclusively to business of the gov
ernment of Hie United States; also, tha.sen
ators, representatives and delegates in con
gress, the secretary of the senate and clerk
in the house of representatives maysend and
receive through the mail, free of postage,
letters and document*. Mr. Howe, favored
the restoration of the franking privilege, and
moved an amendment so as to allow senators,
representatives and delegates in congress,
the secretary of the senate and clerk of the
house of representatives, to send and receive
letters and documents only, and not pack
ages and other matter relating exclusively t<
public business. Agreed to. The amend
rnent of Mr. Poddsck, restoring that privi
lege, was agreed to. Yeas, 30; navs, 15, ns
follows: Yens—Messrs. Allison, ilunflide,
(.'hristinnev, Cooper, Cragin, Davis, Dawes,
Dennis, Edmunds, Freiiiighuvsen, Gordon,
Harvey, Howe, Ingalls, Kelly, Key, Maxev,
Merriinon, Mitchell. Norwood, Paddock,
I’attersoli, Randolph, Ransom, Haulabury.
.Silencer, .Stevenson, Wallace, West and
Wither*—30. Nays - Messrs. Anthonv, Bogy,
Booth, Cameron (Win ) Clayton, Cockrell,
Ferry, Hamlin, Korean, Logan, McCreerv,
McDonald, McMillan, Morrill and Oglesby—
15. The bill was reported to the senate, and
the amendment* made in committee of the
whole were agreed to. The bill was read
third time and passed— you. 25, nays I
Evening session.—Mr. Edmunds called |‘
udment of the judiciary committee it
was agreed to, yeas 27, nays 15, us follows;
Yeas—Allison, Anthony. Booth, Boutwell,
Burnsides, Cameron. (Win.), Christiauev,
’oukllng, Cragin, Edmunds, Ferry, Freliu’g-
htivsen, liiirvev, Mitehcoek, Howe, Ingalls,
Logn*, McMillan, Mitchell, Morrill, Oglesby.
Paddock, Futtcraon, Sargent, Wadlelgh and
West—27. Nays—Bogy, Cockrell, Cooper,
Davis, Eaton, Gordon, Kelly, Kcrnan, Key,
McCreerv. Maxey, Norwood, Randolph. Ran
som and Stevenson 15. Clayton, Wright,
Morton, Robertson, Cameron, (Pa.), Sherman
and Windom, who would have voted Inllic
affirmative, were paired with Merriinon,
Dennis, McDonald, Wallace. SauUbury,
Thurman and Ihiyurd, who would have voted
in the negative. The uucstiniiUicii being on
ordering the joint res .lnfinn n« amended to
the third reading, it was agreed to. Yens,
27; nays, 15. Tho senate, by a vote of yeas
27 to nays 12, ordered that the joint resolu-
.d the third time at t o'clock to
morrow. The senate receded from Hn disn*
lit to the amendments of the house
hill to punish counterfeiting of trademark
goods and to prohibit dealing in such goods.
'1 he amendment* of the house Were agreed
to and the hill passed. Then senate went
lo executive session and soon adjourned
IIOUNK.
Iii tho Iiouho, on thb 5th, Mr. Blitiul’a
silver bill was taken up on the regular or
der. The morning hour having expired, the
hill went over without action. Mr. Cox
chairman of the committee on hanking and
currency, reported a bill to repeal section 3
of the resumption net of January I t, 1875,
which directs the secretary of the treasury
the legal tender note
then outstanding, and proposed to allow an
hour ami a half for it* discussion and a like
time for the discussion ol a further hill
which ho was directed to report, providing
for a commission on the subject, lie would
decline, however, to allow amendment* to
lie offered, lie opened tho argument by
declaring his belief that the fixing of a day
for resumption wan a hopeless menace to
prosperity; that it effected no good, and that
It was utterly useless for all practical pur
poses. The best business men of tho coun
try had said so, and said so to his committee.
The hill which it wa* proposed to repeal in
part had passed congress as a party neces
sity; under the whip and spur of the previ
ous question. Mr. Goode, of the hanking
committee, advocated to repeal. Mr. Hew
itt asked Mr. Cox to let him offer as substi
tute a hill providing for a committee oil the
subject. After some time wasted in call of
house, (’ox allowed Hewitt’s proposition to
lie offered as substitute, nud the previous
question was seconded without objection.
The vote was then taken on Hewitt's sub
stitute, which provides for a commission of
three senators, three members of thu house,
and three experts to ho selected by and as-
sociated with senators and member* to con
sider what measures are necessary ami prac
ticable in order to bring about resumption
of specie payment, lit the earliest pnssihL,'
time consistent with due regard to the inter
ests of the country, and to report hill em
bodying result* ol its investigation on or.
before the 15th of December, 1870. Finally'
the vole was aiinoiineeJ, a* yens, 1)2; nays,
101; so the substitute wiih rejected. The
vote was then taken on llic hill reported by
Mr. Fox, from the committee on hanking
and currency, it was passed; yoga, 100;-
nays, 83; as follows: Yeas—Ainsworth,
Anderson, AIkins, Hanning, lllaiid, Boone,
Bradford, Bright, Brown,, New York;
Brown of Kansas; Coboll, Caldwell, of Ala
bama; Caldwell, of Tennessee; Campbell.
Cannon, Coson, Cute, ('alfleld, Clarke, of
Kentucky; Clarke, of Missouri; Clvmcr,
Cochrane, Collins, Cook, Cox. Dihrcll, Doug
ins, Durham, Eden, Evans. Faulkner, Fel
ton, Finley, Forney, Fort, Franklin; Giiuse,
Goode, Goodin, Gunter, Harrison, Hartwell,
lluymoud, llcnklc, Hereford, Holman,
Hooker, Hopkins, House, Hiihhcll, Hunter,
Hurd, Jones, of Kentucky! I.undcrs, of In
diana; lame. IxiwrOliee, Lewis, Lynde,
Mnekey, Marsli, MeFurhiud. MeMalmn, Mil-
liken, Mills, Morgan, Miitclilur. Neal. New,
Fay lie, (’helps, Fopplelon, Randall, Rea,
Reagan, John Reilly, Rice, Riddle, Robin
son, Havage, Hlienkley, .Singleton, Hleinons,
Hmith, (Ga.), .Southard, Springer, Stringer,
Htevcnson, Stone, Thomas, Throckmorton,
Tucker, Turner, Van Voorhes, Vince, (Ohio)
Waddell, Walker, (Va.), Walsh. (III.), Whit-
thorite, Williams, (Iml.), Williams (Ala.)
Wilshire, Wilson, (West Vn.). Yealcs and
Young—I Off. Nays—Abbott, Adams, Rugby,
Hitglcy. .1. H. Ilaglcy, Baker. Ballou, Hanks,
Ill'll, Blair, Burcliard fill.), Caswell, Cliillen-
den, Hanford, Davy, Durand, Eamns,* Ely,
Freeman, Frye, Gibson, Hale, Hnhcoek, liar-
ticuhurgh, Harris(Mass.), Ilcniicrson, Hew
itt, (N. Y.) Hour, I logn, Hymen, Joyce, Kns-
son, Kclir, Kimball, Lamar, Liphuui, Levy,
Lynch. MucDougiill, McCrary, Meade, Met
calfe, Miller, M< uroc, Morrison, Nash, Nor-
Ion, O’Brien, Odell, O’Neill, nicker, I’age,
Fierce, Fiper, Flail, Fottcr, Fmve.ll, Frail,
Rainey, lloss, Rusk, Hamiison, Schleicher,
■Sinnieksoii, Smalls, .Smitli, (Fa.), Htmvcll,
Thompson, Thornburg, Townsend, (Fa.),
Tufts, Walt, Walter (New Ifiimitolllro), While,
Whiling, A. *S. Williams, of Michigan, Wil
lis, Wilson, of Iowa,and Wnnifburn -83. Mr.
Cox then reported a hill for IIh: commission
of three senators, three repreienlaliveH and
three expert* to inquire, firstintothu change
tlml ha* taken place in relation to the value
of gold nml silver, the cause thereof, whether
permanent or otherwise, the effect thereof in
trade, commerce, finance and the productive
Interests of the country, anil on Ihestandard
of value in this nnd foreign countries.
Heeoud, into the. policy of the restoration of
a double standard in this country, and if rr-
stored, what the legal relation between the
two coins, silver and gold shall lie. Third,
into the question of the policy of con tinning
legal tender notes concurrently with the me
tallic standard, and the cfieri thereof in the
labor, industry and wealth of the country.
Fourth, Into the best manner of providing
for facilitating resumption QUpCcio payment,
the commission to report oi or before the
15th day of January, 1877.
An hour nnd a half delate took place,
turning ehielly on the question whether the
hill demonetizing silver wan or was not passed
through the house surreptitiously and with
out reading, the nfliriuntivi being held by
Bland, Holman and Fort, tnu the negative
by Ka.s“on, of Iowa. Finally the question
was taken and the bill pnised. The report
i>l the conference committee on the hill for
the sale of Osage lands in Kansas to actual
settlers was made by Mr. Ojodin and agreed
to, and the house adjournei.
In the house, on the Dili, the holme
discussed political subjects, and wa* ad
dressed by Mr. Hoar, wh« commented on
Mr. Lamar’* speech. Coitisel wa* author
ized to defend the speakei and officer* *f
the house in the Ha'lctt Ki'bournc suit, ad
journed.
In the houHe, on the 10th, Mr. I/ml
offered a resolution reciting that the right of
suffrage prescribed by the constitution* of
the several slntes is subject lo the fifteenth
amendment, and that the exercise of nv.'u\
right should he faithlull) maintained and
observed by the Uuited .Shies, and that iL is
asserted that the exercise <i said rights is, in
some stnteH, not withstand! ig the effort* of
good citizens, resisted aid controlled by
fraud, intimidation and vhjence, so that the
object of the fifteenth amendment is de
feated, nnd that all citizen*, without distinc
tion of race or color Tire eitltled to the right*
conferred by said arnendiwut,and declaring
that all attempts, by foice,-fraud, terror, in
timidation or otherwise k> prevent a free
, exercise of tiie right «f Mil rage, should meet
! with condign and effectual punishment, nud
iliac iq any case which hasfierctofore occur.
red, or may hereafter occur, in which vie*
leiice or murder Iiiin been or shall lie com
mitted by one class or race on another,
a d punishment ol the ciimiual* is im-
vely demanded, whether the crime he
one punishable by a tine and imprisonment
or ono demanding the punishment of death.
Mr. Lord asked unanimous consent to make
a statement Imt objection was made by Mr.
Hereford. Finally the resolution passed,
yeas 174, navs 2, those voting nay being
Messrs. Bland, of Missouri, and Rengi
pro-
31. hir. Beebe, chairman of the committee
on expi nditiircH in the navy department,
Kiihmittod the majority report of said com
mittee, together with their resolution. Mr.
Conger called for the reading of the report*,
pending which Mr. Hereford made a confer
ence report on the river and harbor hill. Af
ter some dilatory proceedings the conference
report was agreed to—yeas 101, nays 55. The
house then resumed consideration of Mr.
Reehe’s report. The reading of tho report
uas dispensed with ami without discussion
or division the resolutions were agreed to.
Mr. Townsend addressed tho house on the
uhicct of currency. Thu majority and mi-
lorlty ft ' r "
nia alia
journed.
In tho house, on tho 11th, on motion
of Mr. Running the senate hill repealing no
much of the army appropriation hill us lim
it* the number of Indian scouts to three hun
dred ami; continuing in force the statute
which nulhori/.cH the employment of one
housaiid scouts, wnH taken from the speak
ers table, mid lifter an explanation hv him,
passed. The speaker pro tern, laid before
the house a message from the president, with
communications from the secretory of war,
Gen. Sherman mid Geo. Sheridan, recom
mending an increase of the cavalry force of
the army byfivo thousand men, or authority
tin call out live regiments of volunteer caval
ry of one thousand men each. Referred. .1.
11. Ilogley, New York, lOlldo the conference
report on the hillto punish counterfeiting
trademark on goods. After argument the
conference report was rejected. Yeas IIH,
na.ys83. Till* is equivalent to defeat of the
Mr. Morrison offered a resolution fur
lliiithidiutirnmunl Monday next at 1 o’clock.
Agreed tow itliout discussion nr division.
Mr. Singleton, from the committee on print-
mtr, reported hack the senate hill for print
ing 100,(MSI copies of agricultural report* for
each year of 1871 nml 18/5, and appropriat
ing $1,180,000 for that purpose, Passed, Ad
journed.
Will* im It \\iih null im it In.
Tho following Is an extract .from imnd-
drcHH boforo tho Yalo law hcIiooI:
Homo two thousand yonraboforoOhrfat
wo read that a certain king, ono of tho
klnga of those times—tho head of a tribo
or city—Imnstod, “Three sooro and ten
kings, having their thumbs and great toea
cut oil’, gather their meat under my ta
ble.” When the men ol Judah made his
royal mutilator a c.iptlvo according to
the received lex talionis of the ago, they
eiitoff'hfa thumbs and -great toes, cast
him into a dungeon at Jerusalem and
left him to die of hunger. When No-
oiiehadue/./.ar took Jerusalem he slow
tho Rons of king Zedckiah before his face,
carried him to Babylon, put out faith his
eyes and left him to end hfa daya in
prison. At the close ol the long Jugtir-
tliino war, Marina brought Jiigurlhu lo
Rome, and, in accordance with theoHtah-
lfahod usage of tho Roman triumph,
chained to liis chariot wheels this deposed
king, this gallant soldier, dragged him
in triumph through tho atreetn, amid tho
insults of tho populace, and when he
turned Ida chariot from tho forum to iih-
cent! the oapitol, he unchained the royal
prisoner from Ilia chariot wheel, mat him
nearly naked into a dungeon, where he
was not strangled until lie had contended
six days against famine. Wliou Carthage
was taken it was blotted from the map
of nations, ita past destroyed, ita ships
hurtled and ita inhabitants sold as slaves.
Tho campaign against Corinth ended in
the extinction of that luxurious, mag-
nillcent city and the enslavement ol all
il* inhabitants. Tho oiiracwhioh Joshua
pronounced against the man who should
presume to rebuild Jericho, “Cursed la;
tho man who ahull lise up and rebuild
this city Jericho! llo shall lay the
foHiidnt ion I hereof in Ilia first horn, ami
in Ilia youngest sou he shall set tij» tho
gates of it,” was hut tho expression of
the common sentiment—the common
law of ancient timea; at the height of
Crock and Roman civilisation, alter a
lost battle, every man, woman and child
—every human lasing, not slain—became
an exile or a slave. A campaign UHtially
ended in the destruction of a city; a war
in an extinct nationality.
Ixit us skip over two thousand years
to our preaent civilization. Tho nine-
tcNUili century saw all Hiiro|>o under
arms, from Siberia to Archangel, from
the Atlantic to tho Vistula; ships bat
tered one another to pieces in every non.
When these wars closed, by a treaty of
fMMice, some fammlaries were altered,
some dynasties were changed, but is not
necessary to say that all priaonora wore
released and no property destroyed, for
such is the settled law of Christendom.
Ani^when l * l(5 nllica took Paris by siege
each Cossack paid for a cup of coffee
handed him by the French waiter, and
tho publicists and moralists of Euro|>e
got angry in discussing the refined ques
tion as to whether the allies had.a right,
under tho law of nations, to restore to
museums and galleries of Italy and Hol
land the pictures and statues that Napo
leon had taken from them as trophies of
war. When our late war closed, we held
ourselves responsible to tho world, to
history, that our only nrisoner, and ho
tho instigator and head of tho rebellion,
should he lodged and fed in accordance
with the most refined rules. When at
las', proceedings against him ceased, a
nortnern abolitionist became his bonds
man, ho took a trip to Europe as an
American citizen, protected by an Amer
ican passport.
Loiifahum Sugar Prospects.
New Orleans Price Current.
The prospects of the I/misinna sugar
planters arc much brighter than at this
period last year. On the subject the
editor of the New Orleans Bulletin says:
“Tho present crop is in a finer condition
than that of last year for tho same date.
Though, from all accounts, the acreage
in plant'canc is somewhat less, and tlm
stand thinner, still the superiority of the
stubble over that of last year apparently
equalizes this difference. Even if the
present crop should fall a little short of
the amount produced during the past
season, there are other circumstances
which indicate that the returns will fa-
fur larger.” Such facing the ease, it can
not fa:denied that tho outlook is very
favorable, as it fa generally conceded
that the Cuban crop is 30 per gent, short,
nnd, lit about tho time tho lamfahum
cron is ready for market, it is very
probable there will bo a short supply of
Dublin, which to a certain extent must
ho made up by the Louisiana product.
This will naturally crcato a hotter
demand, and more favorable prices than
last year, if tho t rade fa not affected the
other way by some causes at present
unforeseen. The Bulletin further re
marks that, “if tho present prices re
main firm or advance, which there is a
strong prospect of their doing, until the
present Chilian crop comes In: if tho
Louisiana crop averages ffjc, which, from
present appearances, si etna very probable,
our planters will r alizo such, amounts
as will enable them to cultivate again
all tho ahamlnnod sugar lands, bring in
lauds tliat never have been in cultiva
tion, and the success and (tcrnmucnl
prosperity of ono of our greatest indus
tries will fa' regained and reassured.”
Npeculntions Regarding the Nun.
Newark Afiverllhpr.
Our knowledge of the orb of day fa yet
but superficial. Spots have been dis
covered upon its surface, but no ono
knows whether they are rifts in its gas
eous atmosphere, showing tho main body
beneath, or the products of awful storms
and whirlwinds. The spectroscope has
detected traces of some known minerals
in the rays of tho sun, hut that is only
of indirect value. Powerful Instruments
and acute observation have given to tho
world nothing but what lies upon the
surface, nml everything that science has
really demonstrated can he put in a
paragraph.
The sun is 85(5,000 miles in diameter,
and it would takeufaml 1,100,000 worlds
like our own to make up its hulk. It
has, so far as wo can learn, a surround
ing envelope of fiery gases 50,000 miles
in thickness, hut there is no definite in
formation of what lies beneath, t’er-
tninly if there Ik a fiery otivt lope of that
size nothing solid, of a material charac
ter, can maintain itself within, and no
life could he predicated as existing.
And, according to some astromers, there
art! appearances which in other spheres
would iudicato volcanic action, tongues
of flame darting upward 60,000 miles,
and ltiminouH matter often ejected 1(50,-
000 miles. A sublime and magnificent
glolx*, truly, hut whence came it and
what supports It? II tho sun is a ball
of lire requiring a constant supply of
fuel, where does that supply come from?
Hir John 11 erscholl states that it would
require the enmhustion of 130,0(H) jHimufa
ol coal per hour on ouch square loot of
the sun’s surface to produce the amount
of heat constantly radiated, a total for
the whole which no figures could
definitely present to the mind. Profes
sor Mitchell acknowledges that scionco
has given no satisfactory account of tho
origin of solar light and heat. Home
astronomers think that the Him fa con
stantly attracting to itself millions of
wandering stars and floating nobulru.
stray musses of solid substance which fall
into its fiery omhracc and die that stahlo
worlds like ours may live. Hitch theories
are, however, little better than wild con
jectures. This Luminous orb, tho parent,
as science has almost proven, of all the
other orbs that come within its influence
and belong to its system, luuf existed an
unknown and certainly a very long
peroid, and to make it depend upon a
daily Httpply of material would not only
rendor its light and heat variable, hut
would expose it to tho possible catastro
phe of a sudden extinction. The mind
that created tho sun, wc may he sure,
left nothing to chance,and wo know well
that tho sun that shone last week was
quite up to tho mark of tho luminary
that first rose upon a created world.
A philosopher who lived more than a
century ago ftttomntfd to solve the mys
tery of the sun, out he did it alter a
fitsliiou so metaphysical that he obtained
hut few adherents, and even his namo is
but rarely mentioned among tho scien
tists. He asserted that the sun is pure
fire, by which he meant that it is in
itself self-sustaining, and needs no ex
traneous help for combustion. It is, ac
cording to him, tho nearset visible repre
sentative of wluit lies beyond in tho
Httiritual world, and corresponds to that
“divino love which warms the heart
and that divine wisdom which illumi
nates the understanding.” From this
he extracted many ingenious and fanci
ful theories, which we have not room to
dwell upoii, and which are not pertinent
to our subject. Tho question is still an
open ono, tho sun is st ill an unrovcnled
mystery. Perhaiw it fa well that wo
should grope in the dark. Tho world is
getting materialistic quite fast enough,
and faith fa of value as well oh knowl
edge.
Law for the People.
Money paid under a misapprehension
of facts, may he recovered hack.
Money voluntarily paid with it full
knowledge of the fads and eircitinstiinccs
of the case, though in ignorance of legal
rights, cannot Iks recovered hack.
The assignment of a note, tho payment
of which is secured by mortgage, carries
the mortgage with it.
Payment to one partner is a payment
lo faith, unless strictly forbidden.
A debtor has the right, at the time ol
making a payment, to direct as to wluit
debt it shall ho applied.
II a debtor fails to make such appli
cation, tho creditor may apply tho money
paid upon any demand against the debtor
which ne may choose.
Where there is no place of payment
agreed upon, the debtor must seek Hie
creditor at his domicil or place of busi-
Upon the sale of an nrticlc, payment
is to ho made on delivery, unless t
other time he specified.
Allowing time for payment will not,
however, vitiate the contract.
In ease of two Hales of personal prop
erty, both eoually valid, his is tho better
right who first gets possession of
property.
No man can, by his sale, transfer to
another the right of ownership in a tiling
wherein ho himself has not the right of
property.
Tit Kit K is little doubt that RaHtoul and
the sixteen communfats-who escaped with
him last year 1 rum New Caledonia on a
rude raft were drowned. The frag
ments of tho raft have been found, and
Mine. Rostoul, who lor many months
lias Iwcn waiting for tier husband at
Kidney, has at last abandoned hope of
hfa safety,
FACTS AND FANCIES.
Ba yard Taylor is the author of tho
following dangerous parody:
Where the MomMnckmnuHntlr
Four* It* witters In tlu-Skiinltc,
Met along tlm tore*! side
RIrani Hoover, Ilutdnli Hytlo.
Mlie a maiden fair and ilnpiter,
He, a red-liaired, stalwart trapper,
It it n t i lift I leaver, mink and skunk,
In tlm woodlands ot tfepiedimk.
Mlie. Pawtucket’* pensive diuiolitcr.
Walked In-side IlieMkiuiUi- water
(lallierlnir, In her nprnti wet, ’
Hiinkcioot, mint and liomii'liia Imt.
" Why," lie murmured, loth to teavo her,
"»Ini her yartis for i hllls and fever,
When a Invverhnld and Iran
only walla (nanlhei you?"
I fear Clod, nnd nwxl to (lod 1 chiefly
fear him who fears Him not.—Saadi.
How far that little candle throws its
benum! ho shines a good deed in a naugh
ty world.—fihahjmrc.
Tiik grave is, I suspect, tho sole com
monwealth which attains that dead fiat
of social equality that overy pri nciple sw
heartily ftbllOfa.—JUtlwcr Lytlon,
A young lady on being asked what
business her lover was in, and not liking
to say the failticd soda, answered, “ He’s
a practicing fizzieinn.”
Bukt IIahtk’h play, “Two Men of
mdy Bar,” was withdrawn in Chicago
at tho ond of a week, and is to ho exten
sively altered Iwforo it is again acted.
Tin; hugs that are dating carpets in
the northern states lire thought to come
from the nests of sparrows, which are
said to swarm with them.
Olkrqyman to Tommy—“ What shall
I give you for a present ?” Tommy,
who respects the cloth, also truth, hesi
tatingly—" I—I think I should like a
testament, and 1 know I should like a
popgun I”
Cynical citizen to waiter, after sur-
oylng tho glass of milk ho had ordered :
I say walutwl Would you bo so kind
iow, inn boy, as to put h* lit lo mor milk
in this wattah? Jus a trifle please.”
Tho waiter retires to consider whether
tho man is drunk or crazy.
“ Ai.phonbo, dear, what is tho difler-
ico between our Thanksgiving and those
. volting Turkish provinces?” “ Really
Clementina, I cannot say. What is it'/ 4 ’
“ Why, you see, hero wo have turkey in
ohrfatians; thorn they have Christians in
Turkoy.”
A HUNDRED years ago when you called
on a girl sho kissed you good by. Now
if you suggest anything of tho sort her
father calls you into the library and asks
you wluit you ware worth. Are we a na
tion? Ami is tills progress?—Norwich
Bulletin,
Hir teeth fa'gau to chatter over tho
ice cream. Mo buttoned up his jacket
and swallowed another mouthful. That
settled it. Ho jumped up from tho table
and started to whore the sun could shine
him, exclaiming, “ Wlioopo I Plenty
cold grub I No cooko nufT! Flcczo
Chinaman all same like ico wagon.”
Onk hardly over sees a Yankco with
out a whin. Not one-tenth of them can
read writing, and still fewer can write.
This art belongs, asido from literary men,
exclusively to tho female sex. The wo
men are well educated, and therefore
know hotter than any oilier matrons in
tho world how to govern tho men. Tho
men all want to bo politicians, and love,
therefore, tho taverns and tlio grog-bowl;
behind tho latter of which they transact
business, drinking from morning till
night.—Baron llicdemt, in 1770.
A Pennsylvania philosopher fa of
tho opinion tlml petroleum is tho result
of codfish. Ych. codfish. These fish
were once plenty in tho ocean which cov
ered tho place where Pennsylvania now
in. They wore caught by a certain ava
lanche of land, and tiie millions of decay
ing codfish caused tho potrolouin oil.
This accounts for thu saltwater found in
oil wells, being tlm result of salt codfish.
It also accounts for tho resemblance of
petroleum to cod liver oil, and tho num
ber of fish stories told of immense for
tunes which wore never realized.
A RATEWAY TO THE SEA.
Memphis AvhIpiicIio.
The Barutaria canal—projected by
Ciipl. John Cowdon—fa attracting tho
attention of business men not only in
Mississippi valley, Imt in England. Capt.
Cowden recently declared it will “ bo
morp useful to the people of tills valley
than mere politicians and their rotten,
meaningless, two-faced platforms,.” The
commercial results of tho building of tho
Bandurin canal will he the reclamation
of tho lowlands; the Florida and Tohu-
antepee ship canals; and tiie trade of
China, East Indies and Houth America.
It will save twenty millions annually to
the earnings of tiie south, nnd to tiie
west one mind red millions. On every
too of grain shinned to foreign (Kiris
there will lie six (follars saved over trails-
portion via rail. It will make the
Mississippi valley tho manufacturing
contor of tiie continent. It will open the
gates of free trade, and constrain tho
mills and simps ol New England to locate
near the. cotton gin houses. Build this
canal, and New Orleans will l>o made tiie
first commercial nnd maritime |>ort of
Am«ricn, and Memphis will be one of tho
great distributing cities of the valley,
and a inanuracturing mart of the interior.
When all tho vast productions from the
foot of tho Alleghenies on the cast, or
tho Rocky mountains on the west, are
transported down the Mississippi river
to the markets of the world for less
than half tiie expense it now costs via
rail, tiie commercial nnd political map ol
this continent will he changed.
PnrNT Clotiih.—Tlio death of Mr.
Garner is likely to have a very impor
tant effect on the dry goods trade, especi
ally in tho lino of.print cloths. He was
one of tlio largest manufacturers of' these
goods in the country and also an exten
sive buyer and speculator. As is well
known the market is burdened with cot
ton prints, and if it should ho necessary
to settle up Mr. Garner’s estate at once,
it is probable that a very large stock
would have to lie sold at a sacrifice, pro
ducing a material effect on the general
tradg.