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X- m 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. 1,0w Pei Quick Salk. lusieal instruments OF EVERY VAUIETY. Sheet Music and Music Bib, THE LATEST PUBLICATIONS. . r VV f..\ 1 . Musical Merchandise, A -? evervthini jwrt iuiug to a First Class Music House, TUNING AND- REPAIRING, PIANOS, Church, Pipe aud Reed Organs, and all kinds of Musical Instruments Tuned nnd Repaired by Mr, C. H. 'Taylor, the beat skilled and oue cf the moat thorough workmen South. Mr. Taylor devoted nearly fifteen years in the eoualru&io;; of instruments in some of tiie best factories in tills country, and is the onlv authorized Timer for the AUGUSTA MUSIC HOUSE. G. O. ROBINSON & CO., 2t!5 Broad Street, Auguala, (la. o2-tf C. IV. LONG. E. C. LONG. 0. W. long Ifio., . DIVCTCCTSTS, ATHENS, GEOEGIA. AVe offer a targe and well selected stock of Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Varnishes, Oils, Anilines, Dyes, Patent Medicines, Hair and Tooth Brushes, Perfumery, Lily white Rouges, Colognes, Extracts, etc., For Sal© Very Clieap for cash, Either at Wholesale or Retail. We caii your atttention to our COLOGNES, BAY RUM, HAIR OIL, ETC aepll-ly Medical College of Georgia Tub Midicai. Dkfartmbnt or tub I'sirtunr Or Georgia. The Forty-sixth Session will eonuneueo at Augusta on the HliSl a* DAY IN NOVEMBER. Apply tor Circular w DESAUSSUKE FORD. Deun. For Catalogues of Academic DepsrtnuJ . apply to Wit. Hurt IVaudell, Secretary Faculty, Athens, Ga. ucl -' ;_ 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