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THE ATHENS 'GEORGIAN: DECEMBER 11, I87T.
BUTLER AND KELLOGG.
IKMISSION OK CAROLINA tX» LOUISIAN* SEN
ATORS.
Washington, December 1.—The
How They do in Congress.
We take the follow in" extract
from a letter written l»y Mr. W. T.
Revil, from Washington, to this pa*,
j.ei, tile Meriweather Vindicator:
first, vote last night hi the Senate «a- j One who hss’never seen the assem-
on Hill’s substitute to .-eat Spoffor.l j bl. .1 wisdom of his nation,’yclept
on hisprima facie ri eommendation —
rejected, -7 to 29—Patlerson and
Conover voting nav; Dtvis of
Illinois, v>tiii" aye. On a direct vote
Congress, in session has but a vngne
and indistinct idea how our national
solons conduct themselves during
business hours. Although I had
t<* sent Kellogg, Patterson and Corn- j heard much of the noise and confusion
voted ave; Davis, no. Oa the ! on the floor of the House while mcm-
vot.- to seat Butler, Conover and
P'llerson voted aye; Davis did not
v„t.... Kellogg and Butler were then
sworn in.
Tin- executive
bers were making speeches to read
at home, I must confess, like the nfi-
cient queen of Sheba, that the half
i has not been told. Stepping into the
session confirmed j House the other day while a New
Given, of Florida, Co‘Sill to Leg
horn; G. 0. Wharton. District At
torney fiir Kentucky; N lion, of New
Orleans. Inspector and Supervisor of
Steamboats
Wadleigh. of New Hampshire,
from ihe Committee on Privileges
and 12 ee.ti nis. rep:.rted a resolution
d 'cluing J. B Eustis ent tied to his
s at as Senator from Louisiana for
tlus term ending March 3, 1879. 'lhe
repoi t was sustained in the commit'
to.—6 to 3 Tiie minority report
was presented and the matter went
over. Butler and Kellogg are in
their seats The deficiency bill was
amended in several important rc-
j. i ‘c'i s and passed.
The Senate went into executive
?o *.. ;; •! too’.: a re •
M * tv.
Jersey man was reading with much
vehemenoe of voice an hour’s essay
t hat he called a speech, I was astons
ished to discover that not a single
soul on the floor or in the galleries,
was (laying the slightest attention to
the honorable gentleman’s remarks,
save the official reporter who, is cm
ployed to write down everything that
is uttered by a congressman. Mem*
bers sitting within three feet of the
ora 1 or were carelessly chatting as if
no one but themselves were occupants
of the hall. All over the house men
were chatting; writing and reading
just- as. though .no eloquence was
being .wasted «u the congressional
atmosphere. Even the speaker in
the t;hair was holding a pleasant con-
10 o’clock'j fab with .ft ,temple t.f inoui- ers - jV-jL,
j had approached hi* desk.
prater that is off red, n majority being j hi t many of them did not cure! They
engaged in reading, writing or talk* j wore what they hacfSter could get and
big.
In the Senate, being a much smaller
body, ; there is more deoftftfin. as its
members feel iu duty hound to nsnune
more dignity. In both branches of
. *.
congress there are many yeah mem
bers the gr« at wonder being how they
attained their present prominence. I
find that experience and gOOd business
tact leads the van. Thi* is mure
notably the case now’ than in former
days, since a large proportion of all
the legidatien is shaped by commit
tees. Speaking ability and^ eloquence
have htit little to do with influencing
votes in. congress, yet eloquent men do
good, for their utterances here reach
the masses and contffi election at
home. ■“
t ie eastern war. Ahead of All
were cbm ent A lady friend of the ^ mu kj th itwierr * ^raslm^nl
writer laughingly declares that never »etby speaks a. Mere— KnpUmt vrut Ant
B J Let Constantinople Kail Into the Hitts *
.■of the «i“*“ ** ™ ' 1
hut once in her life did she al way
have something t-> wear and Jha.*.#,:
n»nr ndie,, wl.ea r-Hocod ri .,,„Sk jl,al Waraaw lad
other parts of Poland arc about being
confirmed as
Fitzsiinous was
M <Vii tii r Geor-'i i.
Washington, December 1.—'Die
-j
Judiciary Committee have made no
repo t on Baxter’s nomination as Cir
cuit Jydgo ai.d a single objection
defeats him this session, and Harlan
•for the Supreme Bench is still h*ld
under a motion to rec. nsider. Should
no action betaken Monday on the
motion to reconsider he stands eon-
JEnned.
The Judieiaay Committee reported
IaViir.ilii v on Colonel Jack Wharton
as Marshal for Louisiana. The pro
longed contest over Fitzsimmons jn
executive session today postponed
his confirmation II. T. Clayton, of
Georgia, confirmed as Consul to
Callao.
The House to-day passed a bill for
tln> relief of the survivors of the
wrecked steamship Huron and the
familits of the lost. It gives 81,000
in the case of officers, and $100 in
case of men. The bill also applies to
tlm crew of the swamped wrecking
boat. It was introduced bv Knott,
of Kentucky, and passed unanimously.
A motion to suspend the ru’es and
pass the bill to remove ail political
disabilities, made by Goode, of Vir
ginia, was defeated for want of the
necessary two-thirds majority.
Mills, of Texas, moved to suspend
tiie rules and adopt a resolution in-
strucling the Committee on Ways
ami Means to report a revenue tariff.
Rejected.
The House took a recess till 1», a.
jo., Monday. There have been 1,800
bills introduced in the House daring
the call'd session. Only two bills
have become laws—the army appro
priation bill ami the naval deficiency
bill. The bills to. remonetise silver
and to repeal the resumption act,
have not yet been acted ou in lhe
Senate.
The Paris Exposition bill and the
general deficiency bill were taken np
and amended in the Senate, but the
amendments to these bills have not
been acted on in the House. All the
unfinished business of this session,
however, holds its place in the next
session.
The House also adopted a resolu
tion instructing the Committee of
Patents to report a bill prohibiting
suits for damages for infringement of
patents against persons who may
purchase said patents without the
knowledge of such infringement.
Also, a resolution for final adjourn
ment at 3, p. m., to-day. This was
not acted on.
hood ENOUGH.
Col. Filz-siuions was confirm id by
six majority Three Republicans only,
* voted for him—Patterson, Conover
mid Matthews.
Kerosine oii ui J H. Huggins’ at
20 centsjper gallon.
Tiie ouiy seeming interested listen
ers were Generals Washington and
LaFayetto who front the suspended
canvass on the .walls gazed benignly
upon the earnest speaker from begin
ning to end. S itisfied ivjth the res
pectful hearing these two famous men
gave him the congressman read his
piece, sat down, when another mem
ber arose aud went through the same
programme.
Some time ago a new member arose
and began a very carefully prepared
speech, but scarcely had he finished
the second sentence, when he found
that no one was paying the slightest
attention to him or his arguments.
Turning to the man on his right who
was busily engaged indicting a letter
to the editor of his home organ, the
embarrassed speaker asked what he
should do, adding plaintively that no
one was listening to him. “Oh,”
said the busy friend without looking
up from his manuscript, “just ask
permission to have your speech
printed in the Record.” Turning to
the speaker, who was then deeply
engaged in perusing a three-column
editorial of the New York Herald,
the man who was mak ng his maiden
congressional effort, asked that the
balance of his speech might be printed,
flic speaker responded that “ the
chair hears no objection to the print
ing of the gentleman’s speech,” and
there the matter ended. A few weeks
later the eloquent gentleman’s con
stituents were delighted al receiving
copies of the fine effort, aud won
dered if Congress was not electrified
by the strong arguments and beauti
fully turned rhetorical sentences that
fell from the lips of their gifted repre
sentative. It is only when an extra
ordinary effort isj being made by
some distinguished speaker that a
listening House is obtained. A few
men always secure a heaving because
something witty is expected. Sunset
Cox commands a bearing whenever
he rises, as also, Ben Butler. They
are frequently on tha floor making
short speeches and do not tire their
audiences.
The order in the House is worse than
your readers ev«r saw in any tumultu
ous political assemblage in Greenville.
Indeed, there ts no order at all
have heard visitors complain of the
disorder that characterized the Geor
gia Legislature, but in its wildes mo
ments I never saw any approach on
the part of our General Assembly to
the everyday disregard of cider on the
part of our national House of Repre
sentatives. An approach : to a five
minutes prayer from the Chaplain is
deemed a grievance and a prayer to
the length of some I have heard in
Meriwether would certainly lead to the
expulsion of the offender. Scarcely
A Country Without Neigli-
, bors.
INCIDENTS OF THE SOUTHERN BLOCK
ADE—STRAITS TO WHICH THE CON
FEDERATES WERE REDUCED.
•‘I
M. P. Handy, in Philadelphia Weekly
, Timer.]
The Southern Confederacy was a
country withopt neighbor, a pugilist
without backers. History furnishes
no instance *of a more efft-etive block*
adf. Laudwttid, except where Mexi
can robl>ers and Indians held the
frontier,, lay the cotMitry-ofithe foe;
eafit >v.n,rd,| ,y. it*iiu Jinil of ifesiith
oilier, .front., Vii^uiia ; to; Texas the
Vv*.-n.-!s of the United -tjg^t-.-s Is.ivv
shut in the Ill-sieged Slates from the
world, iui'l shut the woijd mi* from
them. The men who ran the block-r
ade risked life :pul liberty; for this
risk, they demanded large profits off
the goods which they brought The
Avar produced its natural crop of ex
tortioners. After the repudiation in
1863, of one-third of the Confederate
debt, few people had ftrith in the
currency. Those who held it, spent
it freely, anxious to exchange for
something of more tangible value.
No one who could nftbr^l to let capi
tal remain idle was aiuripus to sell
merchandise, ifhich" evjPJf' day in
creased in market value: ,Thus infla
tion bore its legitimate fruits, and the
rare spectacle was presented of pur
chasers anxious to buy, while mer
chants were loth to" sell.
For four years the Southern States
Avere shut up to their owu resources.
These resources, though immense,
were undeveloped, and the means to
develop them ivero, for the most part,
lacking. Manufactories sprang up
all over the country; but where
dress - a black cashmere made of two
ohl ones ; she had no choice, hut must
always wear that or note. Calicoes
in 1864 were worth thirty and f >rty
dollars a yard, and ft new calico was
regarded as a handsome dress. Gar
ments already on hand were turned
and returned, dyed 1 and made over,
as long as a piece of them remained.
The “ costume” of the present day,
in so far us it means a dress made of
two materials, was perforce fashiona
ble in the confederacy—a convenient
mode of making two old friends cover
each others deficiencies.
“All Hands.Below.*'*
A story is told of a parrot who fiad
always-lived on board aship, hut wlio
escaped at one of the Southern ports
and took refuge in a church. Soon
afterwards, when the congregation
assembled and the minister began
preaching to them in his eftrpgst fash-
decl ireil in a state of siege. The
Telegraph has informa* ion that Kars
fell through the treachery of a Pasha,
who admitted the Russians to the
commanding furl, and was puid for it.
, R is reasserted, that Kars fell by
treachery. A Pasha and two hundred
men admitted tlip Russians into a
commanding for:... Ri*s» ;, n officials
deny the rumors of an armistice after
the fall of Plevna:
Lord Derby, replying to a depnta-
t ou which waited , on him yesterday
to inform him that Constantinople
Avas i.i danger, and that he really
ought to do something, especially it
he could get Austria to help him,
said the Foreigp Secretary Avns able
to point out that the policy the pres
ent Government-, to-wit: The aban
donment of Turkey except so far as
our o'vu ’ interests required t)iat
avc should resist, jpor jepeqiies, .jf’as
resolved upon an|| declared even be-
(i. 0. ROBINSON
H as jost returned from a visit
among the Principal PIANO and ORGAN
factories in New York, Beaton and other citics-
liaving arranged for the Largest and most com
pletc assortment ever offered South, at prices
ABSOLUTELY
BEYOND COMPETITION I
ion, saying there Was no virtue in them
- that every one of them would gti to 1 “ " r “" T ." fl ■ 4~k
„ ■ fbrp the agitation - concerning ihe
nnrilnsQ ruimiiti.in tlftbfiQ tllPV aiVtPflllv ° ^ *lf
outrages in Bulgaria. Haviitg *
endless perdition unless they speedily
repented. Just as he [Spojte the sen
tence, up spoke the pajrrot from his
hiding-placei “ All hands below !”
reassured his ahdi^tice that the policy
of the Government wap not dictated
by St. James Hall, and; would nob be
To say that “ all hands” were startled, , .. „ „ . ,.
, ’ , .4, df H il. V.altered bf»i«, fiord Derby was able
would be a nnld~ Way . of, putting it. ] • - * ■ •'
The peculiar 'A*i»iris »iand . upKnqwn J , ,
1 rr . strong terms as diplomatic itsftge
p. rmits of the necessity of not allGw-
source had imicii more egect on them
than the parJm’s Voice ever had. He
ivaited a moment, and ^heu. a shade
or two paler, he repeated the warning.
“All hands below!” rang out from
somewhere. The preacher started
from his pulpit and looked anxiously
around, inquiring if anybody had
spoken, “ All hfmds belowT’ was the
only reply, at ivhich the entire panic-
stritken congregation got up, and a
moment afterward they all bolted for
the doors, the preacher trying his best
Jo he first, and during the time the
fnischievous bird kept up his yelling,
“ All hands 1> low L” There Avas fine
old woman present who was lame and
could not get out as fast as the rest,
and in a short time she Avas left en
tirely alone. Just as she was about to
hobble out, the parrot flew doivn, and
alightiug on her shoulder, yelled in her
ear, “ All hands below 1” “ No, no,
Mister Devil 1” shrieked the old woman,
“ you can’t mean me. I don’t belong
here. I go to the other church across
the way.”
“ How ?*’
chemical agents ivero necessary to the
perfection of their ivork, that work
was left unperfectcd. Confederate
cotton i'l"th, as already stated, was
sent forth from the factory in its nat
ural unbleached tint. Confederate
paper was inferior iu color and text
ure to the brown wrapping paper
used in dry good stores to-day. Tiie
Georgia wool mills produced a*'iny
clothes and blankets of good quality,
but wool Avas wofully scarce, and the
doth sold for two to thice hundred
dollars a yard. Cow hair was care
fully saved from the tanneries and,
mixed with cotton, was spun ami
ivoven into garments which, it ca’se,
were at least thick and ivarm Tim
highest ladies in the land did not
disdain to ivear homespun. The
was 1 * poplins of to-day, sold in all
dry good stores at from ten to
fiiftoen eents a yard, closely n
sembles the homespun dresses of
which Southern women were then
so proud. The prettiest home
made cloth of the Confederates
was a mixture of silk and cotton
For this, black silk, too much worn
to be of use any other way, was cut
into bits and picked into lint, mixed
with more or less cotton and spun and
woven for the dress. The process was
painfully tedious, as from a pound and
a half to two pounds of picked silk
was requited; and not a few girls who
Eetout to accomplish a dress stopped
short at enough silk to knit a pair of
gloves. The statement made in a
former article upon confederate make
shifts, published in Harper’s Maga
zine, to the effect that tHe confederate
women did not know the fashion, was
the occasion of some iacreduloas corn-
regard is had to the three minutes | ments, Not only did they not know,
The other day a farmer’s son, about
fifteen years old, sold a number of live
poultry to a butcher on Woodward
avenue, and most of the money re
ceived Avas comprised in a five-dollar
greenback. Yesterday the hoy re
turned Avith the bill, saying that it was
counterfeit.
“ Who says this is a had bill ?” re
manded the butcher ns he scanned it
“ Dad does,” was the reply.
“ Well, we’ll go to the bank and
see, ’ continued the butcher, and the
pair proceeded to the nearest bank
and'handed the hill to the teller.
“Perfectly good,” he remarked as he
handed it back.
But dad says its bad,’’ protested
the youth
IIow does he knotv it is ? Where
is his authority for saying so ? How
docs he tell a had greenback from a
good o'e?’’ rapidly questioned the
hank official.
“ Well, he spiead ’er down on the
table,” slowly replied the bey, “ and
he gits his nose clo a o to it, and he
looks at the picture, and he turns it
over and looks at the printing, and he
holds ’er up afore the lamp and squints
at the figgers. and ne measures
around with a. broom-straw and holds
the bill off a leetle, and then he takes
a last sqHint and yells at me: “ Here,
you brickbat of a know-nothing,
you’ve Avent and let one ’o them city
fellers knock all your front teeth
through the back o’ your head!’
That’s the way he tells.
“ Ms,” said a thoughtful boy, “ I
don’t think Salomon was «.» rich as
they say he was.” “ Why, my dear,
Avhat couhl have' put that into your
head?” “Why, the Bible says lie
slept with his fit tiers, and I think if
he had been so very rich, lie wotild
have had a bed of his own.”
itig Constantinople to pass into Other
hand* than those that now hold 1 it
Upon that point, I can only .refer you
to the language ive held at the be
ginning of the waK* from which, Are
do not intend to ptTrt in the slightest
degree.” Lord Dcp-by’s second point
was that “ although ive need not yet
talk of intervention, still, should it
come to that, ive must not rely upon
Austria.” One of the deputation had
said that Austria was ready to do
something, provided England en
couraged her. The reply was explicit:
* ! I tlixfSk I caSi lay claim-for myrelf
that I have missed no opportunity of
knoiving what are the ideas mul .lcel-
ings of the Austrian Government, and
I content myself with expressing my
dissent from this opinion.”
London, November 30.—A letter
from Erzeroum, dated November
28th, states that reinforcements con
tinue to arrive, and that Muhkt-ar
Pasha is quite confident of his ability
j.to hold Erzeroum.
Constantinople, November 30.—
Rcouf Pasha lu.sarrived at Adi ianople,
ivliere he is organizing a camp of fifty
thousand men.
Vienna, November 30.—A cor
respondent to the Times states that
the rumors of negotiations for the
surrender of Plevna are contradicted
from the Russian camp itself. Tur
kish prisoners, moreover, assert that
Osman Pasha has supplies for many
weeks, and has addressed his officers,
announcing his intention to hold out
to the last man.
Paris, November 30.—The Moni'
tear says if MacMahon holds out, the
Chamber can, by voting the budget,
easily prove that it did not intend
that Saturday’s vote should be con
sidered as a declaration of war against
him. If the Chamber thus shows a
conciliatory disposition the President
will frankly fulfill his promise to ap-
po : nt a thoroughly parliamentary
ministry. If the Chamber does not
shoiv such a disposition the President
must ask the Senate to choose be-
tivcen his resignation or a fresh dissc
Intion.
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A lady in general conversation, ty
ingeniously cooking her dates, w: a
reducing her age to an astonishing
limit. Her daughter, whose partly
French blood had brought her a keen
ivit, interposed with the remon
strance : “ At least, leave nine months
between our ages, mamma.”
Mr. Pumpkin has sued the Cleve
land Leader, and expectB to knock
that paper into pi.
Icelanders are fond of rancid but
ter, .which looks as though nature hud
designed one race on purpose to live
in boarding housep.
To the Tax Payers of Clarke Co.
My books nre now open for the collection of
State and County Tax lor the year lfh7- ' .
No. 1, Broad Street, over Mathews & •'«ri‘ ! ' on
Store. F. B. LUCAS,
octSS.fit Tia Collector C larke
WOOL CARDINS.
The nndersigued, having newly fit,ed “P ,,a I
Carder, near Harmony Grove, is now pre 4
to card AVool in a very superior K-aimcr-
will furnish oil, etc., and card at 10 «*"“
pound. Wool left anywhere at H»rn ^
Grove will be taken to the carder and ret. j
free of charge. Country produce tokciungJ
ment for carding. B. C. AVILHlTr-
octlftlm.
MEDICAL NOTICE.
At the solicitation of many -f my former p * !
rous, I resume the
[Practice of Medicine)
from this date. I will pny especial aUeiition^j
the disease of Infants aud Children, an J
Chronio Diseases ot Females.
WM. KING, M. R
tune 18 1375—83-ly
Notice to Tax Payers!
I wilt be found at the following place 8 * U P° j
d *^{pENS, nntil November 9th.
BRADBURY SHOP November l«n.
SAVE’S MILL.. November }«n.
WINTERV1LLE. November
GEORGIA FACTORY...November I5ti»-
F. B. LUCAS,
Tax Collector Clarke County