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C O L IT M B IT S :
J. H. MARTIN, Editor.
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MARSHAL ISAZAINE.
The civilized world—at least outside of
France—will he startled by the announce
ment that this tried and gullant soldier
has been found guilty of treason or gross
neglect of duty and sentenced to death!
Such is the judgment of the court martial,
but it would still astonish us to hear that
the death penalty portion of the sentence
is to be carried into execution. The
French rulers know that it would horrify
humanity everywhere, and would for ages
be regarded as a foul blot upon the history
of their country. The finding of the court
martial was no doubt one of policy rather
than justice. It is ono of those instances
in which injustice to an individual is re
garded as a less evil than a failure to vin
dicate the honor or fame of a nation.
The hope is indulged that the making of
a scape goat of Bazaine will lessen the
humiliation of the overwhelming French
defeat by the superior prowess, discipline
and unity of Germany. To accomplish
this Bazaine must bo condemned and de
graded. But wo cannot believe that the
French malignity towards him is so great
sen to carry out tho death sentence. We
are rather of tho opinion that the same
motive of policy which insisted on con
demnation will have its influence in ar
resting tho sentence before it is carried to
an extremity that would shock the world.
Tin: TROY MESSENGER.
The last number of the Troy Messenger
announces a change in the editorial man
agement, caused by tho inability of Copt.
Bowles to devote sufficient portion of his
time to the constaut supervision of the ed
itorial columns, owing to the demands of
his increasing professional engagements.
Major Bar.coy, editorially known as Sid
ney Herbert, will resume the position of
editor-in-chief, with Onpt. Bowles as as
sociate editor.
Major Lancey is well and favorably
known to oar readers, by his many con
tributions to the columns of the Sun. He
is a very ready and agroeablo writer and
a most indefatigable worker in the edi
torial harness. The Messenger cannot be
otherwise but an interesting and readable
paper under his management.
Among other improvments, Major L.
has established a “Department of “Pat
rons of Husbandry” by tho appropriation
of several columns of the Messenger to the
news of that order. It is an attractive
and instructive feature of the paper.
Troy is fortunate in having so good a
paper as the Messenger.
HOWARD OF THE It UREA V.
Why was not Howard’s defalcation of
over a quarter of a million dollars sooner
found out officially? The Democrats
charged it as early as 1872, but every ef
fort of Radicalism, official and private,
seemed to be exerted to hido it. Now the
Secretary of War prefers regular charges,
uud the amount of defalcation is stated to
be larger than tho Democrats ever charged!
And so another Radical “Christian
statesman” goes the way of his predeces
sors in peculation and corruption. Will
he bo sent to keep’compauy with Tweed ?
or will his Radicalism save him from the
penitentiary ? Tweed's satire in record
ing himself a “statesman” in his peniten
tiary stripes will acquire point from How
ard's detection, w hether the latter is pun
ished according to bis deserts or not.
THE REST CHOP YET.
The papers are having a lively compe
tition in bringing forward examples of
lug cropping with a small force. We be
lieve that such t xhtbits are not ouly high
ly honorable to the working men and
boys mentioned, but help to encourage
and stimulate others. . This is our excuse
for publishing the following letter, name
and all, though we doubt whether our cor
respondent intended that we should make
such free use of his name. We believe
that his boys bear off the palm, and say
well done!
On lika, Ala., 16th Dtc. 1873.
Messrt. T/ios. Gilbert d' Cos.:
Enclosed please find one dollar and
($1 50) fifty cents to renew subscription
to Columbus St N (weekly), which I con
sider the best local paper we have.
I see an article in the Sun, headed
“Two .Mule Crop,” which states that a
planter in Harris county made with two
mules and four hands twelve bales cotton
and three hundred and twenty bushels of
corn. I think I can bent that. I have
two sons, nine and seventeen yea's, who
with one horse made niue bales cotton
averaging over 500 pounds, 00 bushels
corn, 125 bushels potatoes, and oats 1
don't know how many—they were not
measured Don’t yon think 1 beat ?
Respect fully.
Wm. A. Andrews.
The New York Sun says: One of the
latest innovations in Washington is to be
seen in the HouseJWf Representatives,
where a special part of the gallery has
jast been set aside for the families of
members of Congress exclusively, in imi
tation of and near that assigned to the
diplomatic body. If this separation from
the people means anything, it 4s an at
tempt to draw a line of distinction, to
set up a superior class, and to look down
upon the constituency. This is the soit
of Republicanism which tho so-called
Republican party practices at Washing
ton, and it is a very bad sort.
A Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Enquirer suggests that the
idea in the President’s Message of build
ing residences here for the Cabinet, Sen
ators, Ac., “has a decided squinting
towards monarchy;” that “the suggestion
of a constitutional amendment allowing
the President to veto any part of a bill he
pleases, and to approve others, strikes
every one as a monstrous step towards
despotism,” and that “following these
suggestions comes very 'appropriately an
endorsement of the corrupt Washington
city ring.”
The New York Sun asks this superflu
ous question : “If Horace Greeley were
president, is there any man living fool
enough to imagine he could make such a
nomination as that of George H. Williams
to tho great office of chief justice. Even
after he had become crazy he could not
have been induced to do so improper a
thiug.”
The Board of Trade of Cincinnati, on
Saturday last, adopted resolutions in favor
of free banking; also asking Congress to
forbid the payment of interest on current
deposits by national banks.
MORE TAXATION.
The reader’s attention will no doubt be
arrested by the recommendations of the
Secretary of the Treasury, elsewhere no
ticed. Though he does not propose the
immediate imposition of the taxes sug
gested, he foresees the probable necessity
for them. The want for next year of
thirty or forty millions of dollars more
from taxation contrasts rather strangely
with the surplus of about that amount
wLicli before the panic was yearly applied
to the reduction of the public debt. It
shows that the reduction effected during
Gen. Grant’s Administration np to this
time was not due to any superior financial
management, but simply to a state of
fictitious prosperity which has retroverted
and is now reacting. The present state
is the reaction that follows the artificial
stimulation. The stimulation was decept
ive, aud the reaction is now more pros
trating on that account.
Doubtless the selection of the articles
for additional taxation is a judicious one,
if increased taxation bus to be imposed.
But we believe that a proposition to re
duce tho expenses of the Government to
the limit of tho revenue would be more
acceptable to the people than the increase
of the revenue by any additional taxation.
A reduction of the salaries of Government
officials to tho extent of tho “shrinkage”
of values generally would help materially.
The payment of tho interest on two bil
lions of dollars of Government bonds in
currency instead of gold, would of itself
effect a saving of fifteen millions of dol
lars annually, and to that great extent re
lieve the people from additional taxes.
There it no positive agreement or promise
to pay the interest on these bonds in gold,
and some contend that the understanding
at the time of selling the bonds was that
the interest was to be paid in currency.
Be that as it may, if the Government can
make the people generally take the cur
rency at par in liquidation of debts due
to them, it can make tho bondholders take
them at the same valuation. Else we have
a privileged aud pampered class, which is
antagonistic to the spirit of ourinstitutions.
The favor bestowed upon the bondholders
is not only gratuituous, but it is mischiev
ous and pernicious to the business inter
ests of the country, because nearly all the
gold in use is yearly collected by the
Government in the payment of its tariff
duties, by it paid to tho bondholders, and
by them used in speculating in money to
the deterioration of the currency and the
Government securities. They are able to
extort heavy premiums from the import
ing merchants, who must have the gold to
pay duties, and thus an additional charge
is imposed upon the imported commodi
ties which tho consumers ail over the
country have to buy.
Until the useless expenses of the Gov
ernment are lopped off, the people will
and ought to complain of additional taxa
tion. Even the present taxes are only
justifiable on tho ground that they are
indispensable to the payment of tho ne
cessary expenses of the Government; and
when it is proposed to increase them for
expenses uot’necossary, tho Administra
tion must expect a)general protest.
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONTENTION.
A proposition that the Legislature, at
its coming session, shall call a Convention
to revise the Constitution of the State, is
under discussion by tho press of Georgia.
Most of the papers favor the proposition.
Wo havo delayed taking part in the dis
cussion for the single reason that while
wo want such a Convention held as soon
as tho financial condition of the State
will admit—while wo think, indeed, that
it is necessary to have such a Convention
to give undisputed validity to some things
that have been effected by* doubtful au
thority, and to disolaim responsibility for
other thinga that have been accomplished
by fraud or usurpation—we are not satis
fied that the present state of the finances
of Georgia justifies the incurring of the
OXDenSGOf n finnmnlinn, -- < l -~* li —oa
are as propitious for it as they will be a
year or two hence. We are in doubt
whether it is better to bear the evils of
our present political condition a little
while longer, or to incur embarrassments
in seeking relief at once, and possibly be
more restricted in tho measure of such
relief than we would be by a little delay.
Tho Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel
has solicited and obtained tho opinions of
a number of prominent politicians of the
.State upon the proposition. Most of those
who have replied favor it. We copy be
low the reply of Hon. M. J. Crawford, of
this city, which, as we understand it, does
not materially differ from the views which
we have expressed above.
Columbus, Ga., Dec. 8, 1873.
To the Editors of the Chronicle and Sen
tinel :
Gentlemen—Yours of the 23th nit. was
duly received and would have been an
swered immediately, but for the pressing
duties which the session of our Superioi
Court then and now required of me.
I write this letter simply to acknowl
edge the receipt of your favor, and to say
that I am decidedly of the opinion that
the Legislature should call a Conven
tion in which the real people of Geor
gia should have the opportunity to
declare tho great organic laws for the
.State, and to return as far as may be
practicable to the old land marks in the
great past. Every 'people should make
their own Constitution, and under it en
act their own laws. Ours was made prin
cipally by aliens, strangers aud fools.
Therefore, just as soon as our impover
ished people can stand the burden of a
Convention, it should be called, that the
wickedness and folly unjustly fastened
upon ns may be changed into wise aud
judicious laws, and our people indulge
themselves iu the freedom and luxury of
a government of their own.
With great respect, I am yours, &c.,
Martin J. Crawford.
CONFERENCE A FPOINTMENTS.
The M. E. Conference of Alabama
closed its session at Selma on Wednesday.
We copy from the Times the appoint
ments for the two districts nearest to us:
Montgomery District —W A McCartv.
P. E.
Montgomery Station—E. Wadsworth.
Heron Street and Mt. Meigs Missions
J. T. Curry.
Tuskegee Station - „T. F. Mangurn.
Tuskegee Circuit -J. W. Solomon; J. A.
Wethers, supernumerary.
Tallopee Mission—M. C. Turrantine.
Elmore Circuit—Robt. F. Perdue.
Notasulga Circuit—Lewis F. Dowdell.
Opelika Station—W. M. Motley.
Salem Circuit—Wm. B. Neal; John H.
Lockhart, supernumerary.
Crawford Circuit —Wm. W. Graham.
Auburn Station—E- F. Loveless.
Hurtville and Silver Run—Jere S. Wil
liams.
Wetumpka Station—Phillip H. Light
foot.
Alabama Conference Female College—
-11. D. Moore, President.
Alabama Mechanical and Agricultural
College—B. B. Ross.
T. J. Rutledge, Superintendent Ameri
can Bible Society.
Ecfaula Distf.ict —W. H. Ellison.
P. E.
Eufaula Station—E. M. Bounds.
Glennviile—Thomas W. Dyer.
Villula Circuit—E. P. Birch.
Beulah Circuit—W. K. Norton.
Enon and Midway—W. H. Wild.
Perote Circuit —W. S. Turner.
Pea River Mission —To be supplied by
G. Y. Thomason.
Clayton and Louisville—S. A. Piliey.
Henry Circuit—T. C. M. Golland.
White Pond Circuit—James L. Mather
son.
Union Springs District— S. P. Rich
ardson. P. E.
Union Circuit—C. W. Calhoun.
Pine Level Circuit—W. P. H. Conner
ly.
Rocky Mountain Circuit—B. L. Selman.
Fort Deposit Circuit—Wilbur F. Nor
ton.
Greenville Station—O. R. Blew; W. H.
Morris, supernumerary.
Greenville Circuit—Phillip 11. Moss.
Rutledge Circuit —B. F. Blow.
Troy and Brundidge G. Waverly
Briggs.
Troy Circuit—A. S. Dickinson.
GEORGIA NEWS.
Dr. Middlebrooks, of Gwinnett county,
was horribly mangled by jumping from
tho Air-Line train, while in motion, on
Saturday night. The conductor could
not stop the train where the Doctor wished
to get off, and vainly endeavored to pre
vent his taking tho leap. He was dashed
against a post or tree, had his skull frac
tured and a jaw and arm broken, and was
in a critical and hopeless condition at the
last accounts.
Mr. James Murphy suddenly feil dead
on a sidewalk in Atlanta on Tuesday
morning. It is supposed that ho had an
attack of heart disease.
Sam. Lowe, a prisoner sentenced to the
penitentiary for ten years, was being re
turned from the court-house to the jail in
LaGrange, on Saturday, when he broke
away from the guard and ran. After a
race of some distance, one of the pursuers
shot and brought him down, it in supposed
mortally wounded.
The Macon Telegraph gi\*es the names
of all the small-pox patients in tho city,
from tho breaking out of the disease to
the present time. The first case was that
of a little child of Mr. Petty; tho second,
Mr. G. IV. Bates—both of whom died.—
There havo been 18 cases in all—7 whites
and 11 colored—but several of them had
only varioloid.
A colored boy of Augusta was, on Mon
day, fined by the Recorder SSO, with a
sentence to jail for sixty days in the event
of non-payment, for disturbing religious
worship in a colored church on the day
previous. Served him right.
A dispatch of the 9th from Macon to
the Atlanta Herald says that the small
pox has broken out at the Georgia Acade
my for the Blind, and that tho red flag
has been displayed near that building.
On Saturday last, at a place of bad
repute at Thunderbolt, near Savannah,
Thomas McDonald, a young man lately
from Baltimore, was killed by Charles
DeLorge and a woman named Lillie Rogers,
i'he attack was made on account of an
opprobious epithet which the woman
charged McDonald with applying to her.
DeLorge and the woman escaped to the
city in a buggy, but were there arrested.
Tho gin house of Messrs. Vickers and
Hughes, near Adams’ Station, in Lee
county, was burned on Thursday night
last, together with eleven bales of cotton.
It was the work of incendiaries.
Massey, who cut young Dupree so
severely a few months since, was tried
in Henry Superior Court last week, found
guilty of assault with intent to mnrdor,
and fined SSOO.
Tho Monroe Advertiser reports last
sale day in that county a lively one, and
much property sold by the Sheriff at much
better prices than the times warrant.
In an affray between Warren Mobley
and a young man named Hudson, in
Coweta county, on Wednesday morning,
Mobley shot Hudson in the neck and
shoulder, inflicting wounds which are con
sidered dangerous.
The Atlanta Constitution, correcting a
statement of tho Augusta Constitutional
ist, says that the bonded debt of Atlanta
is $1,418,000.
The North Georgia Conference of the
M. E. Church commenced its session in
Atlanta on Wednesday, in tho absence
of Biahop Paine, Bishop Pierce presided
temporarily. Rev. J. E. Evans was elected
to till the vacancy occasioned by the death
of Rev. W. J. Parks as chairman of the
Board of Special Relief. We copy from
the report of tho Atlanta Constitution:
A communication was ri ad from Dr.
T. O. Hummers. Also u <■ immunioation
from Rev. l)r. J. B. MoFerrin, Secretary
of the M. E. Church South. It showed
promising prospects among the Germans,
Indians and Mexicans : great encourage
ment from our mission in China; with
door opened in Mexico. All the territo
ries calf for help. We have the men—we
need the money. There is anew and
greater missionary zeal. The contribu
tions should be doubled. Two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars are needed.
Forty per cent, of missionary collections
are turned over to the Secretary for for
eign fields—sixty per cent, used for do
mestio missions. Report referred to the
Board of Missions.
A legacy from an estate in Newton
county was presented to the Conference—
one-half of the estate for anperanuated
preachers, the other half as the Confer
ence may direct.
Also a legacy from another estate to be
divided equally between the Foreign and
Domestic Missions.
A memorial from Rev. It. Abney to the
Congress of tho United States, petition
'**« 0 -a-*--
Publishing House at Nashville by tho
Federal army,was read to the Conference.
The Conference, by vote, requested tho
presiding Bishop aud Secretary to sign
the memorial. The paper is to be read
to all the Conferences.
Bishop Robert Paine having arrived,
and being in the chair, the exhibit of the
Southern Methodist Publishing House was
read, showing:
Assets $520,100 13
Increase of value in 7 years.. 188,353 73
Subscriptions to rebuild 44,932 42
Married, in Atlanta, on Thursday eve
ning, Mr. John D. Wing, one of the most
enterprising young merchants of that city,
to Miss Sallie M. Peeples, daughter of
Hon. Cincinnatus Peeples. Also, on the
same evening, Mr. J. VV. Fears, one of
the largest merchants of Atlanta, 10 Mrs.
S. J. Grant, one of the most accomplished
ladies of the city.
A large assembly attended the dedica
tion of tile new Catholic Church in Atlanta
on Wednesday. Bishop Bm:v, attended
by Rev. Father Hamilton, conducted the
ceremonies. The Pontifical Mass was u
beautiful and imposing service. About
SSOO was realized from it, which w ill be
applied to the finishing of the church.
It is called the Church of the Immaculate
Conception. Its dimensions are—length
,140 feet, width 70 feet across nave and
aisles, 78 feet across transepts. It will
accommodate about one thousand persons
with seats.
Savannah Neies of Tuesday : Col. A.
R. Lamar, Solicitor General, assumed tne
duties of his office in person for the first
time yesterday, appearing for the State
iu the case of Bristow Brown, charged
with larceny.
The Directors of the Georgia Railroad,
at their meeting held in Augusta on
Tuesday, declared asemi-annual dividend
of four dollais per share, payable on the
first of April next. A resolution to re
duce the pay of employees 20 per cent,
was referred to Col. Cole, Superintendent.
The G.tillin News of Thursday reports
this deplorable affair : “On Tuesday John
Puckett and George Huff, two young men
from near Holiouville, in Pike county,
came to Griffin, got pretty full of whisky,
and started home. Reaching the “Rocky
Branch,” five miles from the city, they
got into a quarrel, and pistols were drawn,
and Huff shot Puckett twice m the bowels,
aud tlieu ruii. Pocket fired on him, hit
ting him in lire side. They are both now
iu the grocery at the branch, and the
wounds of I'ticket are considered mortal,
while that of Huff will probably terminate
fatally also.”
On Thursday, the second day of the
session of the North Georgia M. E. Con
ference at Newnan, the reports from the
Wesleyan Female College, LaGrange Fe
male College and Emory College were
read. All are reported to be in a satis
factory condition. The Conference re
solved to elect a permanent editor of the
annual Conference minutes, and Rev. 0.
A. Evans was chosen.
Wm. J. Reeves, former sheriff of Har
alson county, was badly stabbed iu the
region of the heart, last week, by Cicero
Goggan, whom he had once arrested.
Not Varioloid. —-We are authorized by
the attending physician to state that Mr.
A. S. Bates did not have varioloid nor
any 'symptom of it. When his brother
was taken siek he quit his business and
heroically remained with his brother to
the last. He was worn out by his long
watching, and was threatened with illness,
but had no indications of varioloid.—Ma
con Telegraph.
Stocks and Bonds. —The Atlantic and
Gulf Railroad Company have issued scrip,
payable in December* 1874, for the No
vember interest on the guaranteed stock.
There is a better feeling in regard to
the new city bonds, and prices are im
proving. Parties desiring to make per
manent investment seem to prefer these
bonds.
Central railroad stock is steady at G 5,
there being more buyers than sellers at
these figures.
Southwestern is quoted at 73, ex-divi
dend.—Savannah JSeies, llfA.
Atlanta had received."!,s26 bales of cot
ton to the 13th inst.; Albany 23,235 bales
to the 12th; LaGrange 6,987 bales to the
l.th.
The Hamilton Visitor says that more
wheat has been sown in Harris county
this season tLai for many years previous
ly That’s the wav to independence and
thrift.
Winchester, Pa., Dee. 13. —A new trial
for Uddersook refused. Sentence of death
pronounced.
ALABAMA NEWS.
The Radical mandamus case in Mobile
failed. Judge EiiiOtt, to whom the ap
plication was made, ordered the Sheriff
to issue a certificate of election to Mr.
Reid, the Democratic candidate for Mayor,
who had a,majority at the'eounting of the
votes. We erroneously stated, the other
day, that Mr. Democratic
candidate.
Speaker Parsons, in a speech ton the
Funding bill before the Legislature of
Alabama, on Tuesday, thus recapitulated
the immediate liabilities of the State (to
pay which there is hardly any money in
the Treasury): We have to provide $593,-
<X)O interest onl the debt; $224,-
122 70, interest ou the three per cent,
fund; $773,408 71 borrowed for the use
of the State and secured by a pledge of
bonds, the annual interest on which is
$ Cl, 848, making in all $878,990, to be paid
not in obligations with [red ink
but in coin. In addition to this there are
outstanding in State warrants, Ac., $612,-
530, the railroad debt) and the $970,000
due the school fund,Jon which there is no
interest.
The Selma Times is informed that more
small grain will be planted this winter
and spring than was ever before planted
in any one season in Dallas county. A
large quantity of wheat has already been
put in the ground.
We learn from the same paper that
within the last two weeks not less than
five hundred negroes have crossed the
western boundary of Alabama, en route
for Mississippi cotton plantations. Nearly
all these negroes have gone from what is
known as the Canebrake region of Central
Alabama.
Rev. F. L. B. Shaver, a member of the
Methodist Conference at Selma, was
stricken down with apoplexy on Tuesday
evening, and is now dangerously ill in that
city.
The bill to provide for the public schools
for this year, which passed the Senate of
Alabama on Tuesday, appropriates $187,-
000, being the interest on the 16th sec
tion fund, together with one-fifth of tho
revenue of the State.
The January term of the Supreme
Court of Alabama will commence on the
first Monday of that month. The docket
of the sth Division —which includes the
counties of Chambers, Lee, Macon, Rus
sell, Tallapoosa, &c. —will be taken up on
the 25th of January : and that of the 4th
Division (Barbour, Bullock, Pike, &c.,)
on the 2d of February.
We are requested to state, for public in
formation, that though all taxes of the
State of Alabama became delinquent on
the first of this month, all tax payers of
Russell county who come forward now
and pay up at the store of B. Jennings,
at Seale, may save the penalty of seven
ty-five cents/ But this extra sum must bo
paid if the Tax Collector is compelled
to send out deputies for collections.
The Russell Recorder, of the 11th inst.,
says that Dr. E. F. de Graffenried, since
his arrival in Seale, has devoted himself
closely, not only to small pox patients,
but to the interests of the entire com
munity in this regard.
Mr. Reuben Cooper, an old citizen of
Russell county, and residing near [Tehee,
died recently.
The Probate Judge of Russell county
has called a special meeting of the Com
missioners’ Court at Seale ou Monday
next. It is supposed that the taking of
further precautions against the small pox
is one object of the meeting.
The Troy Hook and Ladder Company,
on Tuesday night, re-elected its old offi
cers—Foreman, Capt. Mr. 11. Strieklan ;
Assistant Foreman, ex-Alderman E. li.
Park; Secretary, W. 11. Murphree, of the
firm of Henderson, Murphree & Hender
son; Treasurer, Jas. F. Hartsfieid, with
Higgins, Wood A Wilkerson.
A county convention of the Granges of
Pike is to b 9 held in Troy on Saturday
next, ou which ocoasiou there will be a
“basket dinner” and other attractive in
cidents.
Tho Troy -Messenger says that Walter
S. Gordon, Esq., of Russell county, who
was elected by the State Grange as the
Deputy for the Third District, is a broth
er of Gen. John B. Gordon, and a young
man of fine abilities and untiring energy.
Last week was a brisk one, in the way
of cotton receipts, in Troy, but the ship
ments have been slow, aud the “Alabama
Warehouse” there is fuller than ever
before.
Small Pox. —The two eases, one of
varioloid —Mrs. Kennedy, the elder, and
the negro boy, with small pox, are con
anß Going well.
No oases have extended beyond the family
and servants of the late R. A. Kennedy,
except a negro on the O’Neal place, in the
suburbs; and his ease is supposed may be
ohicken pox, which Dr. deGranrffeied and
our resident physicians say prevails often
with small pox.— Russell "Recorder.
The exodus of negroes froni)West Ala
bama to Mississppi continues. The Selma
Times says: “A gentleman who paid a
visit to Demopolis, on Saturday last, in
formed us yesterday, at Uniontovvn
about two hundred and fifty negroes
boarded the train bound for Mississippi.
They are leaving almost daily.”
From the Tuskegee Hews of Thursday:
It is said that two negro men came to
Tuskegee last week frouij’Columbus, and
asked a negro woman, who had ihe money
here? Sb% told them she did not know.
They named several gentlemen, however,
whom they heard had money. They have
remained here, and since that time the
residences of those gentlemen, whom
they baid had money, have been visited
by burglars.”
The Radicals of Mobile, having been
refused the mandamus which they asked
from Judge Elliott (to restrain the Sheriff
from issuing a certificate of election to
Mr. Reid, tne Democratic candidate for
Mayor), applied to -Judge Moulton or the
City Court for the writ, and Moulton
granted it. He was himself the Radical
candidate for Mayor, and the principal
party for whose benefit the writ was in
tended! Comment is unnecessary.
The Union Springs Times mentions a
new article of trade in its market—one of
the small economies too long overlooked
at the South. Many of the freedmen
gather and carry in acorns froia the woods,
for which they get 25 to 30 cents per
bushel. They are used for fattening hogs,
and are considered a cheaper food at this
price than corn at 80 cents per bushel.
The ladies of the Cherokee Grange
have adopted a resolution that in view of
the great need of economy at the South,
“for the space of one year from the date
of this resolution, they will purchase for
dress material nothing dearer than calico
or homespun; that they will practice
economy iu all expenditures, and employ
both example and influence in opposing
all extravagances and absurdities in fash
ionable costumes.''
Mr. George Grice, of Barbour county,
was killed a few days since by a tenant
of his, Mr. Dan Marshall. They had a
dispute about some cotton seed, and had
come to blows before the final difficulty,
in which Marshall struck Grice over the
head with a stick, from the effects of
which blows he died. Mr. Grice was a
brother of Mr. J. G. Grice, the well
known cotton buyer of Eufaula.
On Wednesday last an application was
filed in the Probate Court of Montgomery
for,leave to sell a dog. being perhaps the
first instance of the kind in our history,
fho dog in question is a very valuable
one and will bring a sum that would be
quite an item to any person these hard
times. It is the Russian blood hound
formerly belonging to the late Revenue
Collector Francis Widmer. Montgomery
Advertiser , 13f/t.
FLORIDA. ITERS.
The Marianna Courier of the 4th says
that venison is abundant in its market at
fifty cents to one dollar a saddle. We
sometimes see venison in Columbus, but
it is deerer meat than that here.
Hon. James L. G. Baker, an old and one
of the most prominent citizens of West
Florida, died in Jackson county on the
30th nit.
Farmers' Granges are spreading over
Florida.
Fine bananas have been raised in Cal
houn county, and the probability is that
in a few years our market can be supplied
from that locality, which is not more than
half the distance from which they are now
brought. With a fiuit like the banana
this is an important coasideration.
The Palatka Herald says: “Never since
the early settlement of this country has
the fruit prospect been more flattering.
From all sections of the St. Johns, Indian
and Halifax rivers, and from the interior
portions of East Florida we have most
glowing accounts of the bountiful yield
of orange, lime, lemon, guava, and shad
dock; and the quality in size and flavor is
almost unanimously pronounced to be su
perior in a marked degree.
Berlin, Dec. 13.—Satisfaction from
Spain for the seizure of German vessels is
exciting the public.
ALARAM A LEGISLATURE.
, Wednesday, 10th. —The Senate passed
tne following bills:
Mr. Hamilton, to restrict the power of
taxation of incorporated cities and towns
in certain cases.
Mr. Parks, to establish anew Chancery
District of Covington county.
Mr. Carmichael, to fix the times of hold
ing terms of the Circuit Court iu the Bth
judicial circuit.
Mr. Ervin from tho Finance Commit
tee, reported favorably with amendment,
to bill to provide for the support of the
Freedmen's Hospital, located near the city
of Talladega. Passed; ayes 21, nays 6.
The bill for the appointment of com
missioners to liquidate claims against the
State, arising from bonds issued and en
dorsed in the name of the State of Ala
bama, came up at 11 o’clock, aud after
considerable discussion and amendment,
was passed by a vote of 23 to 5.
Tho Revenue bill was under considera
tion when the Senate adjourned.
In the House, Mr. Bruce from the Com
mittee of SVays and Means, reported fa
vorable to the bill to secure a more thor
ough assessment of the real property of
the State. Passed.
Also favorably to the appropriation bill
for the fiscal year ending September 30th,
1874. Report accepted, and bill passed.
Mr. Bruce, from said committee, also
reported favorably to the bill to induce
and encourage immigration. [This bill
embodies the plan of immigration pro
posed by Sir. C. F. Sievers.] Report ac
cepted.
Green, colored, of Hale, offered to
amend by provision that one of said offi
cers shall be established in Africa to pro
mote immigration from that country.
Bill not acted on.
Thursday, 1 1 th. —At 11 o’clock the
Senate resumed consideration of the Rev
enue bill, at section 8, and proceeded to
adopt the bill up to the 24th section,
when a long debate occurred, which was
participated iu by Senators Hamilton,
Cobb, Ervin, Little, Pennington, Terrell,
and Robinson upon the amendment of
Mr. Hamilton, which was as follows:
Provided, that the valuation of any of
said railroads, and its property on which
the tax is to be assessed, shall not exceed
a value which shall subject such railroads
to a tax of over three-fourths of one per
cent, upon its gross receipts. Amend
ment adopted—yeas 19, nays 13.
Pending the consideration of other sec
tions and proposed amendments, the
Senate laid aside the Revenue bill to allow
the introduction of new bills, and a num
ber were offered. The following were
among those referred:
Mr. Cooper, to extend the time for the
collection and returning of State aud
county taxes. Finance.
Mr. Black, for the relief of Justices of
the Peace and other county officers of
Barbour county. Finance.
The following was passed :
Mr. Robinson, to fix the time of hold
ing tho Chancery Courts of the 6th Dis
trict of the Eastern Chancery Division,
composed of the county of Macon.
In the House, the further consideration
of the Immigration bill was postponed
until to-morrow, 1 o’clock. The bill to
provide for the support of the penitentiary
was also postponed until to-morrow; also
the bill to regulate the feeding and custo
dy of prisoners in county jails. The bill
to prevent tax collectors and other officers
from holding or speculating iu Htate war
rants, State certificates, or other securities
of the State, was amended and passed.
The Agricultural and Civil Rights bills
were postponed until to-morrow. The
bill for funding the domestic debt of the
State was taken up and considered with
out final action, until the hour of ad journ
ment.
The Governor announced bis approval
of a number of bills, among them —
To repeal an p.et entitled an act to es
tablish a criminal court for the county of
Russell with criminal and civil jurisdic
tion, approved February 26th, 1872.
Authorizing and defining the compen
sation of the Board of Equalization of Pike
county.
To amend section 2 of an act entitled
an act to amend an act to authorize the
Commissioners Court of Pike county to
have collected a tax to pay bridge claims.
Friday, 12th. —At 11 o’clock the Sen
ate took up the Revenue bill, and sections
from 27 to 53 were adopted.
Mr. Hewitt, to amend section 53, by
striking out February and inserting April,
when section 53 was adopted.
Mr. Pennington, to adopt all down to
se'etion 63. Carried.
Haralson, to amend by allowing the tax
collector 25 cents for making the personal
demand, instead of 50 cents m section 59.
Adopted.
Mr. Carmichael, to amend section 78,
by striking out tho following words: “A
penalty of 25 per centum thereon if re
deemed within three months, if redeemed
within one year, a penalty of 50 per cen
tum, with interest thereon at the rate of
ten per centum per annum," and insert
the following: “With interest thereon at
the rate of twenty per centum per an
num.”
Mr. Robinson, adopt from section 63 to
133 inclusive.
Mr. Pennington, to amend Mr. Robin
son’s motion, and to adopt down to sec
tion 101.
Mr. Wilson moved to reconsider vote
adopting section 41. Carried, and then
moved to amend by allowing tax assessors
25 cents for making demands instead of
50 cents. Carried.
Mr. Cobb, to amend section 100; and
then the further consideration of the bill
was cut off by the hour for taking up the
Railroad Commissioners’ bill.
Mr. Hamilton offered an amendment to
empower the commissioners to sell all in
terests of the State in Raid railroads, and
upon consummation of the terms and con
ditions of such sale, to c*nvey am) trans
fer to the purchasers all right, title aud
interest of the State in any railroad am!
in a!! its property aud franchises. Adopt
ed.
Mr. Doster offered the following as a
substitute tor sections 11, 12 aud 13, as
follows:
Sec. 11. That the Auditor of State is
hereby prohibited from drawing his war
rant upon the Treasurer of State for the
payment of interest upon any liability
whether by bond or endorsement of
bonds, by this State on account or pre
tense of aid to any railroad compauy.
Sec. 12. That the Governor is hereby
prohibited from paying the inteiest upon
any liability whether by bond or endorse
ment, on account or pretense of aid to
any railroad company, except as provided
for in this act.
j Sec. 13. Repealing clause: Mr. Duster’s
! substitute was adopted.
| The bill was passed by a vote of 20 to 9.
The House passed the following Senate
! bills:
| To authorize executors, administrators,
! guardians and trustees to make invest
ments in bonds, obligations or securities
of the United States aud of tho State of
Alabama.
To provide for the support of the com
mon schools of this State for the current
J year. (Amended.)
The House, after a scene of confusion
and wrangling, took up the Senate bill
proposing amendments to the Constitu
tion, which was read once, and a motion
to order it to a second reading to-morrow
was ruled out of order by the Speaker.
The Funding bill was then taken np
and considered until hour of adjourn
ment.
RANKING AND CURRENCY
SCHEMES.
Special to the iNew York Times.
Washington, Dec. 7. —-It has been re
presented that the majority of the House
Committee on Banking and Currency
were in favor of free banking, or a fur
ther issue of national bank notes, but the
committee appears to be quite evenly di
vided. It is thought that Messrs. May
nard, Hawley, Phelps, Randall and Mitch
ell, hold conservative views on finance.
Messrs. Farwell and Merriman have each
a plan for free banking and an elastic cur
rency, Mr. Merriman uniting practical re
demption. The opinions of the remain
ing members are not publicly known. It
is presumed from their locality that they
favor an increase in the volume of the
currency. The opinions of the members
favoring inflation are so diverse as to the
methods for effecting it, that if in a ma
jority their agreement on any one scheme
is quite improbable. The proposition to
repeal the sixth section of the National
Banking act, which authorizes a withdraw
al of $25,000,000 from the Eastern States
for the distribution in the West and
South, and the passage of a law in con
nection with this repeal, providing for an
issue of $25,000,000 additional seems to
meet with considerable favor in Congress.
The Controller of the Currency states
that, according to the experience of his
office, $25,000,000 would supply all ap
plications for currency for new bank or
ganizations in the West and South for
three years.
PROF. AGASSIZ.
Boston, Dec. 11.—Agassiz's disease is
taking an alarming turn. The base of
the brain is seriously weakened.
CONGRESSIONAL,
Speech of Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens
on the Salary Bill—He Justiiies the In- 1
crease—His Bast Speech in the Ohl Con
gress Favored It—Repeal of the Frank- i
lng Privilege was Unwise.
Washington, Dee. 11. —The House is on |
salary.
House.—The survey’“of a ship canal
between Lake Michigan [and. the Wabash
river isjordered.
The Elections \Committee* have .been j
instructed to examine and report the best
and most practicable method of. electing
the President and Tice President, and :
provide a tribunal to adjust and decide ;
all contested questions therewith.
A resolution was passed askingjthe Post
master General the number of men re
quired for the postal savings and tele
graph when * s in full operation.
Salary bill resumed. No definite action.
Stephens, of Georgia, was the next
speaker. He got on his feet with some
difficulty and not without assistance.
There he supported himself’vrith ajcrutch
under his left arm. He spoke with a clear,
ringing voice,“which was distinctly “audi
ble in every portion“of the Chamber, ex
cept when he dropped his tones, as he did
very frequently at the close of sentences.
His manner was nervous, rapid, and his
remarks very digressive, many of his sen
tences being left uncompleted. He was
listenedTo.withjthej closest, interest and
attention by members, officers and audi
ence. He commenced by saying, he
would examine the question before the
House, first in itaj'.moral, and then in its
political aspect. He spoke of the com
ments’of the public press the subject.
lle .would say nothing derogatory of the
power or usefulness of| the press. The
position of a journalist in this country was
one of the highest—“the fourth estate”
did in this ago control public sentiment—
but he would in ad earnestness say to the
press and its conductors, that nothing was
more important than that in treating of
subjects with the masses of the people
they should look well to the truth and cor
rectness and principle of what they ad
dressed to the people. The press had de
nounced as thieves aud'robbers the mem
bers of the last Congress, and he had seen
one paper that represented the raid
on the Treasury as very much like the
charge of the COO at Balaklava. He
had thought the wit of that representa
tion more appropriate than the wisdom
the gentleman from New York (Tremaine)
had spoken yesterday of demagogism;
he, (Stephens) maintained that there
could be no statesmanship without it.
There never had been a statesman who
was not a demagogue. The word origi
nally meant a leader oi' the people.
Pericles was a demagogue. There were
two kinds of demagogues—the sham and
the genuine. The genuine demagogue
was the man who led the people, who
guided the people; the sham demagogue
pandered to the errors and prejudices of
the people.
The real statesman was the physician of
humanity. The sham demagogue simply
courted favors in order to get office and
the spoils of office. He considered Lord
Chatham as the true, the genuine dema
gogue, and related un anecdote to tho ef
fect that when Chatham was proposing to
the English. Cabinet anew measure of
taxation, including the taxingof windows,
he missed one member of tho Cabinet,
and asked for him by name; the answer
was, that “it made no difference whether
that member was present or not, because
he was a fool." “That is the very rea
son,” said Chatham, “that I want him
here; because the way he thinks about
this thing may be the way that the majority
of the people of England may think about
it, and I want to know the sentiment of
the public.” He wanted to know it not
to pander to it, but that he might go be
fore the people and raise them to a senti
ment of the necessity and propriety of the
measure.
Recurring to the consideration of the
j increased salary bill, Stephens said that
he was very glad to say that that was a
measure for which neither political party
was responsible. His opinion was that
the Democracy, in the proportion of its
votes in Congress, was quito as responsi
ble as the Republican party. The gentle
man from New York (Tremain) had admit
ted yesterday, that under the Constitution
every Congress had the right to fix its
own compensation; it had done so from
the beginning of the Government; it had
frequently increased that compensation,
and the increase was always and necessa
rily retroactive. Worthy men had done
this in the last century, and in the early
part of the present century the brighest
ornaments in American history had sub
jootcd ineuiavlves to be denounced as
salary grabbers and thieves. The first
groat thing to ba learned in this life, that
which had been taught in the schools of
ancient .Greece, was to discriminate be
tween that which the multitude thought
was right, and that which was right in
itself. If there was anything wrong, any
thing immoral, anything dishonest, which
would reflect disgrace on a man’s mem
ory for taking that legai appropriation,
he wanted to know where it was. If it
was wrong for members to take what the
law allowed, where will men find a rule of
right aud wrong ’( His remarks on this
subject did not apply to himself, but he
was a citizeu of the country and he felt
a deep interest in the dignity and charac
ter ot Congress. He claimed that when
Ceugress passed the retroactive law of
the last session it had a constitutional
right to do so. He was not saying
whether it was expedient or not, but no
blush should rest on the cheek of auv
man, whether be voted for the bill or not,
who took the money. If he’d been here he
should have taken it, whether he voted
for it or not, and should have felt that he
was as justly entitled to it as he was to
receive a dollar a day. It was a constitu
tional law, constitutionally passed, and
those who were entitled to pay under it
were as much entitled to the whole of it
as they were to any dime received under
it. If any thought it was too much and
returned it, he (Stephens) would not east
a slur upon him for doing so.
He had now' discussed the moral view
of the question, and he would now pro
ceed to discuss it in its political aspect.
He was not going to place a value on his
own services as a Representative, but if
he were to state what he thought the
services of a Representative ought to be
worth he would go far above the figures
of any law that has ever been passed. A
representative of the people ought to be
a man of that mental calibre, that, infor
mation, that education, that virtue, that
trustworthiness, and all those qualities
which command the highest remunera
tion. He had given it as his opinion in
the last speech he made in the House,
fourteen years ago, that if the salary of
members of Congress were ten thousand
dollars, of Senators fifteen thousand, of
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
fifty thousand, of the Associate Judges
twenty-five thousand, and of the Presi
dent one hundred thousand, it would be
better for the country at large; he held
the same opinion still. He certainly
should not vote for the bill reported by
the Committee, but he believed that the
most unwise action of the last Congress
was theabolition of tbe franking privilege.
At the next executive session the Sen
ate Committee on Judiciary will make a
favorable report on the nomination of
Judge H. Williams to be Chief Justice.
It appears from the report of the South
ern Claims Commission, that the gross
amount of claims filed is sixty millions,
and aggregate amount passed on ten mil
lions, there remaining seventeen thousand
claims amounting to fifty millions, to he
adjudicated. The amount claimed in !he
whole number of cases now reported is
$4,718,801, and the amount allowed in
settlement of the 1,(195 approved claims is
0044,3(15, an average allowance of $590 to
each claimant.
The indications are that the Hon m of
Representatives will pass a bill fixing the
salary of members of Congress at about
six thousand dollars a year with an allow
ance of actual traveling expenses.
Alfred T. Aterbert was confirmed to-day
as Consul General at Paris.
Representatives from the Mississippi
Valley are making arrangements to seem e
favorable legislation on the transporta
tion question as affecting that section.
Senate —The vote for President pro
tan. was, Carpenter 32, Thurman 16,
Blank 2.
Gordon, of Georgia, introduced a bill
to repeal a section of a bill of March 3d,
1873, forbidding the free transmission
of periodicals, magazines and newspapers
through the O'. 8. mails, and restoring
that privilege. Referred to Post Office
and Post Roads Committee.
The Committee on Transportation to
seaboard have authority to hold sessions
during recess when they please, with
power to send for persons and papers,
The bill removing the political disabil.
ities of Thomas S. Bocock of Virginia,
Jno. H. Reagan of Texas, and others, was
passed. [This is not the general amnesty
bill which passed the House.]
Adjourned.
Washington, Dee. 12.—House.—The
Speaker laid before the House a commu
nication from the Secretary of War,
charging Gen. O. O. Howard, of the late
Freedmen’s Bureau, with defalcations
amounting to $273,573. Referred to
Committee on Military Affairs.
Senate.—No session.
Argument before the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, on the Louisiana
case, is progressing.
House.—The Senate bill relieving Bo
eock, Harvey and Triggs, of Virginia,
and Reagan, of Texas, passed.
A resolution directing the Secretary of
War to report what certain roads, to which
lands had been granted, had .been paid
for transportation of troops and supplies
since ’(iG, was referred to Committee on
Military Affairs.
A large number of business men of all
parts of the country petitioned for the re
peal of tho bankrupt law.
Wood offered a resolution that tho letter
of the Secretary of War, with the accom
panying reports relating to the defalca
tions, Ac., of Gen. O. O. Howard, be re
ferred to the Committee on Military Af
fairs, with instructions to report a resolu
tion providing for the trial by military
court martial of any officers of the army
implicated thereby.
Dawes, of Massachusetts, moved to
amend the resolution by striking out the
clause relative to instructions. He wished
to have the subject simply referred to the
Committee on Military Affairs, leaving
that committee to take such actions in the
matter as it should judge best.
The Speaker remarked that he had been
about to refer the communication to the
Committee on Military Affairs.
Wood said that he preferred, in view of
the antecedent history of the Freedmen’s
Bureau and of Gen. Howard’s connection
with it, that there should be some instruc
tions given to tlie committee.
Hall, of New York, objected to debate.
The vote was taken on Dawes’ amend
ment, and it was agreed to. Yeas 174,
nays 88.
Dawes said that he did not desire to
shield Gen. Howard, but he objected to
the resolution making statements as facts
before a hearing. It stated as a fact the
defalcation of Gen. Howard. He did not
understand that there was any such thing
in the paper.
Wood—The resolution states as a fact
what has been authenticated in two of
ficial documents sent here by the Secre
tary of War. I think we can well afford
to stand on facts which tiie Administra
tion declares to be facts. If that gentle
man desires to go back of the Administra
tion, I will not.
Dawes—No matter how strong the proof
may appear, it is sufficient for us to use
the words alleged defalcations.
Wood—The Secretary of War submitted
these documents to the Attorney General,
and the Attorney General gave his official
opinion that Gen. Howard was liable to
be tried by court martial and should be so
tried, but that there was some technical
difficulty, owing to the lapse of time.
• Dawes —All that may be so, but the
proper thing is for the Committee on
Military Affairs to report these facts. I
move to insert the word alleged before
the word defalcations.
Wood—lt is a very small matter; and I
will not detain the House with grumbling
about it. Be it ro. But I desire to say
that if that side of the House takes the
responsibility of shielding this man, it
may do so.
Dawes—This side of the House will
take the responsibility of shielding no
man.
Wood—lt has done so to-day.
Dawes—But it will take the responsi
bility of passing judgment after convic
tion—not before.
The resolution was amended by insett
ing the word “aiieged,” and striking out
the instruction, and was adapted.
The Salary bill was recommitted.
The appropriation of four millions asked
by the Secretary of the Navy, passed.
Adjourned.
Tho Foreign Committee of the House
organized and paid a complimentary visit
to Fish.
The Sal ary bill was recommitted to a
special committee, with instructions to
report a bill repealing all increase except
where the Constitution forbids a reduc
tion of salary.
The Senate confirmed Scruggs, of
Georgia, as Minister Resident to the Uni
ted States of Colombia.
CIVIL RIGHTS CONVENTION.
Washington', Dec. 12. —The principal
business in the Civil Rights Convention
1 to-day was the discussion of tho report of
IheCommitteeon Address to Congress and
tho People of the United States.
The National “Civil Rights” Conven
tion which adjourned sine die at a late
j hour last night, say in the address adopted,
I that their grievances are many. They
take it for granted that action will be had
by Congress to protect them from indi
vtdual distinctions in the enjoyment of
; common carriers, hotels and other public
; places of convenience aud refreshments,
m places of amusement, and in enjoying
! other civil rights, including entrance to
public schools without reference to race,
j They want the denial of these rights pun
i ished with a penalty.
HI VAX A.
Disorderly Demonstrations.
Havana, Dee. 13. — Last night a party
j of men, numbering several hundred, as
sembled in Campo de Morte Square, and
proceeded in a body to the Plaza de Ar
-1 mos, giving vent during their progress to
their dissatisfaction at the departure of
the Virginius by loud shouts and other
: disorderly conduct. On reaching the*
i Plaza de Armos they gathered in front of
the Palace of the Captain-General, where
: they renewed their shouting, at the same
I time expressing their disapprobation of
the course of a number of promineut per
-1 sons who have favored the delivery of the
: Virginius.
During these demonstrations, several
harmless shots were fired ; it is believed
! they were accidental. Two Spaniards,
who endeavored to pacify the mob, were
severely hurt. The crowd lingered in
front of the Palace until midnight, when
Captain General Joveilar appeared and
addressed them, aud succeeded in pre
j vailing on them to disperse.
IVA Slf IXG TO XNR It'S.
Washington, December 13. — Persons
who have polled the Senate are satisfied
Judge Williams will be continued Chief:
J ust ice.
Gen. Spinner, United States Treasurer, [
goes to Fiorida m a few days for his
health.
Commodore Wm. Reynolds will succeed i
Rear Admiral Jenkins who has retired.
A meeting of the Western aud South- :
era members is considering cheap trans
portation to-night.
The President told a Republican mem
ber of Congress from Virginia, to-day,
that he would on Monday, Horn nate Col. 1
Hughes as Underwood s successor as Dis
trict Judge of the Eastern District of Vir
ginia.
XEIV VOICE ITEMS.
New YoitK, Dec. 13.—A petition to have
the Union Trust Company adjudicated !
bankrupts was called in the United .States
Court to-day, and dismissed.
Win, Doogan to-day was sentenced to
twenty years imprisonment for boarding
and rubbing a bug in harbor while mask-
Xll !' St'. XOUJ S MCTUA L .
St Boi is, Dec. ]:t —The Mutual Life
Insurance Company, against which so
lulled litigation bus been directed for
; some months pasi, lias arranged to re
sume its policies in tbe Mound City
Mutual Insurance Company of this city.
THE REXBERS FOUXB.
Columbia, S. C., Dec. 13.—The Bender
family, accused of murder in Kansas,have
been arrested at Bivinsville. The father
and mother are in custody, the son and
daughter are living in North Carolina.
Officers are in pursuit. The famiiv name
is Webb
X IHE IX BALTIMORE.
Baltimobe, Dee. 12.—The old Museum
building was partially burned. Barn urn’s
Theatre hotel threatened, but saved.
Theatre Comique lost wardrobe. Ac.
THE FRESHET.
Pittsburg, Dec. 13.—The Mononguala
is twenty-one feet, and rising eight inches
per hour, ihe Alleghany is rising rapid
iy; flats are flooded. Great damage.
Marks at Fort Burg indicate 36 j feet shove
low water mark.
BAZIXE’S EXILE.
London, Dec. 13 —The Island St. Ma,
off Cames.is the place of Bazine’s confine
ment. He will be sent there this week.
The Marshal received the news -of bis
commutation without emotion.
.4 BURXIXO SIIIF.
Havre, Dec. 13. —The ship Preston,
which arrived here on the Bth inst., from
New Orleans, is burning. She has 1,430
bales of cotton on board.
marshal ua/aixp. condemned
TO DEATH.
Versailles, Dec. 11. —Saehand, counsel
for Bazaine, in his peroration, said: “I
deeply sympathize with the valiant soldier
overwhelmed with terrible accusation. 1
fear not death for him. He is brave, aud
fears nothing, but the loss of his honor
for the sake of his wife and children. I
feel most for Prance, which will deplore
the loss of the valorous soldier. Your
honors, patriotism forbids that you con
demn him. Yon know what political trials
are on the spot on which posterity has
raised a statue to those executed after
such trials.”
M. Pouriet replied, demanding that a
terrible example be made as a lesson to
the rising generation.
Before the Judges withdrew Bazaine
said: “I have two words in my breast —
honor aud country. I have never been
wanting towards this proud motto during
forty-two years of service. I swear be
fore Christ that 1 have not betrayed
France.”
After a long deliberation (be judges de
clared Bazaine guilty of the charges of
the capitulation of Metz and the army in
open field, without doing all that was pre
scribed by honor end duty to avoid sur
render, aud unanimously condemned him
to death aud to be degraded from his rank
previous to his execution.
After judgment had been rendered all
the members of the court signed an ap
peal for mercy, which the Duke d’Anmale
immediately conveyed in person to Presi
dent MacMahon. Bazaine was greatly
agitated when he heard the decision of
the court.
London, Dec. 11. —The Times says Ba
zaine is justly convicted. The Teledraph
considers him a sacrifice, to National van
ity. The News hopes, as the evidence
was so conflicting, sentence will be com
muted to perpetual exile or imprisonment.
Paris, Dec. 11. —The crowd at the Tri
anon to-day warmly cheered the verdict.
The sentence includes payment of costs
and expulsion from Legion of Honor.
Pakis, Dec. 11.—Soon after the judg
ment of the court was pronounced against
Marshal Bazaine last evening, he request
ed that his son might be allowed to visit
him in prison. lie also refused to avail
himself of the right of appeal. President
MacMahon will to-day decide whether he
will listen to an appeal of the court for
mercy and commute tho sentence of the
condemned.
Sentence Commuted to Seclusion.
London, Dec. 12.—The News reports
that McMahon intends to commute the
sentence of Bazaine to 20 years seclusion.
Later —Accounts from Paris agree that
McMahon received the sentence with the
greatest calmness.
Berlin, Dec. 12. —The press regards
the verdict as a political intrigue, aud
censures the conduct of Duke D’Aumale.
Paris, Dec. 12. —The decision of Presi
dent MacMahon in the case of Bazaine
was announced this morning. The sen
tence of death against Marshal Bazaine is
I commuted to twenty years’ seclusion. He
! is to bear the effects of degradation from
rank, but will be spared the humiliating
ceremony.
London, December 12. —Marshal Ba
zaine addressed a letter to his counsel
yesterday, thanking them for their efforts
j in hia behalf, and concluded as follows:
! “I shall not appeal against the sentence,
j not wishing to prolong, in the eyes of the
; world, the spectacle of such a painful
| struggle. I request you to taka no fnr
| ther steps. I look no longer to men for
| judgment. Strong in my conscience,
which reproaches me with nothing, I con
fidently await the justification which will
come with the lapse of time and subsi
dence of party passion.”
The Conservative press generally ap
prove of the commutation of the sentence.
The Sieele says it will create painful sur
prise in the country.
! Paris, Dec. 13.—Marshal Bazaine, sinco
| receiving notice of the commutation of
his sentence, has written a letter to Presi
dent McMahon, in which he says: “You
I remember the days in which we served
I the country together. I feared that
| the impulse of your heart would be over
j mastered by State considerations. I
j should have died without regret, since
| the recommendation of the court for mer
! oy vindicates my honor.”
Bazaine’s counsel, in a letter to ex-Pres
ident Thiers, thanks him for having ex
pressed his opinion that the Marshal was
innocent of the charges upon which he
was tried.
SXT R RENDER OF THE VIRGIN IVS
—HOW IT IS TO DE DONE.
Washingson, Dec. 11. —The naval de
tails for receiving the Virginius at Hava
na, and the survivors of the Burriel butch
ery at Santiago de Cuba, are as follows :
According to the diplomatic agreement,
the Canandaigua, under the command of
Capt. Lowry, will sail from New York to
morrow to receive the Virginius; aud
the prisoners at Santiago will be deliver
ed up to Capt. Braine, of the Juniata.
Capt. Lowry had a two hours’ consulta
tion with Secretary Robeson and the
| bureau offioers of the navy department
j to-day, during which the details and eti-
I quette of saluting the flag were arranged
j as far as possible.
Rear Admiral Scott, Rt Key West, will
j have the strongest naval force under his
j command that has ever been collected by
j this Government at any port since the
! war.
The Virginius will be given up on Tues
day of next week.
Havana, Dec. 12 —The steamship Vir
ginius was towed out of the harbor ot
Havana at half past four o’clock this
j morning by the* Spanish man-of-war
j Isabella la Catolica. The tug boat re
| turned to the city at seven o’clock. The
; destination of the Virginius is supposed
to be Key West.
Havana, Dec. 13 —The Virginius his gone j
to Bahaia Honda, sixty miles west of Jla- 1
vana, where she will lie delivered.
AFFAIRS AT SANTIAGO.
New York, Dec 12.—A Key West dis
patch says seven war ships are now there, i
and sufficient naval stores have been re
ceived there to supply 10,000 men for
three months.
The officers of the Wyoming report
that the estate of Brooks, acting Butish j
Consul at Santiago, w as burned, pr obably
by the Volunteers.
A Swiss jeweler was warned to leave
that city or decline to trade with Ameri
can naval officers.
Consul Young says the fife of Schmidt,
the American Vice Consul, would not be '
worth a cent if there were not American
war vessels in harbor.
THE CHIEF JUS TICE.S 111 /•.
Washington, Dee. 12. -The Liberal
Republican General Committee,after stat
ing the qualifications for the chief Justice
ship, resolved that, in the judgment of
this General Committee, the gentleman
who has been nominated by the President
and Senate tor this high and important
office, does not possess the requisite qual
ifications and the nomination should nut
be confirmed.
TllE EI.ECTIOX COMM /'/ TEE.
Washington, Dec. 12.—The Senate
Committee on Privileges and inactions
met to-uay at 11 o'clock, at the Capitol.
Senator Morton presided, and all the
members were present except Senator
Sumner. The argument ocoupied]nearly
five hours.
Mr. Billings opened and was followed
by Messrs. Ogden and Marr and Judge
Dibble, colored. The committee went
into secret session and then adjourned to
Monday at 10 o clock. It is thought that
they will ihe. a agree upon a report.
SOUTH CAROEIXA SEX A TOR SHI F.
Columbia, Dec. 12.—Another attempt
was made before a Trial Justice to inves
rigate a charge of attempt at bribery by
Jno. J. Patterson during tbe Senatorial
election last winter. W. B. Jones, a mem
ber of the Home from Aiken, made affi
davit, but it was not deemed reliable, arid
as he diil not appear in tbe court, it is
thought the whole thing was an attempt
at blackmailing the Senator. Other wit
nesses did not prove anything and the
case was dismissed and Patterson dis
charged. It is understood a warrant has
been issued for the arrest of Jones on r
charge of perjury.
aitAXT AND CIVIL RIGHTS.
Washington, Dec. 13.—The President,
replying to the civil rights convention,
said, “I am glad ta receive the convention
and listen to your remarks. I have always
believed that enfranchisement and equal
rights should accompany emancipation
These rights should have followed w ithout
legislation. It is unfortunate that any
enactment is necessary to secure such
rights, but existing prejudices seem to
have rendered it necessary. I hope tbe
present Congress will gi ve " the relief you
seek. J
Louisville, December 13.—TL e warm
weather has soured much green meats.
Hogs are dying on the incoming trains! I
MOR E TA V.f ftO A PB OPOsED.
Washington. Dee, *2.—The See ret ay
of the Treasury, ir. “his annual upon
while urging economy upon Congress’
said, should there not boa revival of hunt
ness at an oarlv day, and an increase m
the receipts over those of tho pust two
and a half months, additional uieani
would be required to meet expeu se .
Should sneli be the case, he would recom
mend nd litional taxation judiciously laid,
so as to be rlie least burdensome upon the
people and business of ihe country, rather
than a resort to borrowing money and
increasing the public debt. The Secre
tary said this morning, the public debt
this month would be largely increased,
although it was now too early to approxi
mate the amount. He has written a letter
to the Chairman of Ihe Ways and Means
Committee, recommending and enclosing
a bill for that, purpose, embracing the
restoration of (be duty on tea and coffee
which will yield about $20,000,000 per
annum. He also enclosed a letter to him
from Commissioner Douglass, making the
following recommendations: Increased
tax of ten cents (per gallon on distilled
spirits, which would yield $7,000,000 an
nil ally; four .cents additional per pound
on tobacco, which would yield $4,000,000:
on illuminating gas, $2,500,000; un
receipts of railroads from passengers and
freight, $0,000,000; steamboats, gross re
caipts on passengers and freights, SOOO.
000; express companies, $500,000; insur
ance companies, $1,300,000; telegraph re
ceipts, $250,000 —making in the aggie
gate $22,150,000. This, with the tax°on
tea aud coffee, would make over $42,000,-
000. The Commissioners says if more
revenue is wanted it could be obtained
to the amount of $10,000,000 by restoring
taxes as formerly iii schedule R, which
includes stamps on all legal instruments,
deeds, mortgages, <src.—thus making ad
ditional receipts of over $32,000,(K>0 from
internal revenue sources.
PARSONS rs. BUSTEED.
The Alabama U. S. Senatorship Case
Montgomery, Dec. 12. The jury ia
the case of Lewis E. Parsons against
Richard Busteed, Judge of the U. 8. Dis
trict Court, for false imprisonment,
gavo the plaintiff SIO,OOO damages. Par
sons is Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives.
Hunter, of Lowndes, made a motion
last session looking to bringing about a
new election for U. S. Senator in place ot
Sikes and Spencer. Parsons ruled Hunter
out of order. Hunter refused to be
silenced and Parsons had the Sergeant-at
arms bring him before the bar of the
House. Hunter sued out a writ before
Busteed on complaint that Parsons was
conspiring with certain other parties
to the right of Representatives
to elect a United States Senator. On hear
ing of the case, Busteed discharged Par
sons and co-defendant, and thereupon Par
sons sued Busteed for false imprisonment
Hunter is a Republican, and his idea was
that neither Spencer nor Sikes were legal
ly elected, because Attorney General Mil-
Hums had not decided either Court-room
or Capitol Legislature to he legal, hence
as a compromise had then been effected,
he desired to elect a compromise United
States Senator, about whose election no
doubt could exist.
NOR ThTaROL IN A.
i Episcopal Bishop Consecrated, Ac.
Raleigh, Dec. 11. —Rev. Dr. Theodore
B. Liman, Assistant Bishop elect of the
I Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, was
consecrated to-day at Christ (Episcopal
j Church in this city, Bishop Whittingham,
| of Maryland, presiding. The Bishop was
j assisted by Bishop .Atkinson, of North
Carolina. Bishop Law preached the con
! secration sermon. Over thirty members
j of this and other States were present and
participating. The largest audience ever
known in tho church was present. Bishop
Liman preached to-night and confirmed
sis persons.
A bill for the adjustment of the Slate
debt will be discussed in the Senate to
morrow by' special order.
Hon. V. N. Edwards, a member of
Congress in 1810, is very ill at his resi
donee in Warren county.
CHICAGO AND CHARLESTON
RAILROAD.
Charleston, Dee. 11.—The convention
in the interest of the Air Line I£. R. from
Chicago to Charleston, assembled at tho
rooms of the Chamber of Commerce this
morning. A large crowd of merchants
i ud bankers were present, including one
hundred delegates from points along the
line. After speeches of welcome, the
whole party, with several hundred citi
zens, took an excursion down the harbor,
which was thickly studded with outward
and inward bound vessels. At night the
formal business of the convention begun,
and is still in session.
“CHRISTIAN SOLDIER” HOWARD.
New York, Dee. 1 1.— A special dispatch
from Washington to the Tribune says:
The Secretary of War has sent a letter to
the House making direct charges of fraud
and malfeasance in office against Briga
dier General O. O. Howard, in connec
tion with his management of the Freed
men’s Bureau. The letter is accompanied
by evidence from the records and ac
counts of the late Bureau, which fully
sustains the Secretary’s charge.
GRANGE CONVENTION
Chicago, Dec. 10.—The third general
meeting of the Granges is in session.
Eight hundred State Granges are repre
sented.
Desmoises, lowa, Dec. 10.—The State
Grange report shows 1,833 Granges and.
1 00 OtK) membership.
civil , RIGHTS CONVENTION.
Still in an Uproar,
Washington. Dec. 11, —jtemiibaei.
having a headache, called Dowai’i : to llm.
chair. Mr. Hu inner declining: in address
the Convention, said he ccs»J#tserve them,
better in the Senate. The committee,
which invited Sumner disagree whether
Sumner did or did not kindly chide them.
An uproar characterizing the Convention,
no progress was made m business beyond:
a permanent organization.
sr i in,
Bayonne, Dee. 11.— It ia rumored Chad
Lizarrago.has captured, %u,d, shot the Cure
of Santa Crnze.
Bayonne, Dec. 11. —The Carliffis claim
another victory. No Republican officers
killed.
INDIAN RAID ON TEXAS
j Galveston, Dec. 11. — Indians, iu a
j raid on tlio Nonce river, killed 24 persons,
mostly sheep herders. The raiders are
supposed to bo Comanches. Americans
. and Mexicans fare alike at their hand;-;.
THE 1.0 XBOX FOG.
London, Deo. 11.—The fog continues
| to-day and severely affects business, N
vessels have arrived in two days. The
tog covers an area of fifty miles, with its
centre in London. Elsewhere there has
been heavy frosts.
London, Dec. 13. —Many have been
found in the docks since tlie tog. Other
fatal accidents reported.
THE FROTOCOL TO BE EXECUTE It
Havana, Dec. I!.—The tone of th
press and expression of the authorities
and prominent Spaniards indicate a quiet
compliance with the protocol.
MURBER AXB SUICIBE
Charlestown, Mass., Dec. 11.—Kim
ball, a blacksmith, killed his wife, step
daughter and himself. Cause—insanity
in the family.
MARKETS BY TELEGRA I'll.
Cotton Markets.
Liverpool. Dec. 13—Evening.—Cotton
Uplands, not below goo 1 ordinary, ship
ped November ditto, shipped January
and February 8 7-16; ditto, not below low
middlings, shipped December and Janu
ary Ks.
New York, Dec. 12—Evening.—Cot tor
quiet and firm; sales 532 at 104(6:2; net re
ceipts 586.
Futures closed firm; sales 9,400; Decern
her 15 9-16(5 15|; January 15 29-32@l"i:
February 10 13-32@10 7-16; March” 16;
April 17 1-16® 17$.
Savannah, Dec. 13.—Cotton firm and
strong; middlings net receipts 4,693,
exports to Great Britain 4,387; sales 2,333-
stock 109,626.
Provision Markets.
Louisville, Dec. 13. —Flour quiet, un -
changed. Corn steady; shelled 50@53c.
Provisions in fair demand and steady
Pork held 015@15 50. Bacon nominal
Whisky 91(6)92.
Cincinnati, Dec. 13. Flour steady
Com firm, old ear 58(5)60; new ear 53(5-54.
Pork 015 50; held at -016. Lard quiet
and steady; light offerings, steam Bj(a.
kettle SUg-Sj; hams B|<S9. Whisky
strong at 92c.