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ppp^fHP THR HHBALD--ATLANTA, FRBR JABT 4, 1876. Ana jrindi north at from 12 to 20 thejhlanj ie timed were bard, re than he th<Mght justify his tenants in a that we know of, this n amounted, within the ne thonsand dollars. , he is a just and correct worked his way up from the and he has done it by hard M a square business man, and .ess in a legitimate way. Sow, i offered its convicts lor lease— iionder leased a number of them, ays the State for them regularly f month. In order to do this is, of oonrse, compelled to ,«:p them at work. He has shown much liberality, in not putting them in the way of skilled mechanics, but in keeping them at cheap work. As to keeping them in idleness and paying the State ont of his own pocket, that, of course, no sane man at on th6 lettewalrtBdy 1 tenl Sly necessary to skgaWt to ; at e that every ofRcdV the | i* 1 with rubbers, adlthosA! ., , . , - ' . , uyi uie UDCiniiau uaeiie, i icil, any person Intend, j whoa# haod-writing thb.note is made, paid the Nlnth suuonhouK, be the veriest simpleton | and registered the coupons ot those bonds lrTMt , w m tt wom » u named E them. Ii yotf E* Capitol is Hrni entries bemg in inga'fraiflT’wodl not to have robbed one letter out before on the next semi-annual pay day thereat- in the two lines drown of the hots. Inis conclusion .rengthenad by the feet that slev, the then Treasurer, in BY THE WAY. rest winds, tjuif State* nas the following <1 Question. Similar / Friday ' con ' d expect him to do. Then, let the working men, if they want the thine abolished, strike at the root of it. Let them march in a procession to the capitol, and ask a hearing at the hands of the Legislature. But let them cease work- -dlusfons to one of (ieor- i D g U p cheap indignation against a man, and ablest sons, Gen. Jno. B w ho has lieen after all one of their very are of frequent occurrence in the j best friends, and one of their most just ^s. over the whole country: A Washington correspondent of the At lanta Hbraui states that the North ami Noithwestern Democrats are about equal ly divided between Hendricks and Thur man for Presidential candidates, and that unless the East and South combine on some other man, one of these two will he sure to receive the nomination. The cor respondent further asserts that Senator and constant employers. THE TEEASUE1. Statement In Regard to Coupons. To Hi* Excellency James M. Smith, Governor: Of the schedule of coupons examined at the Executive Department, amounting to $632,527.50, I perceive your Excellency , , . .. w ,. n , r ; exceDU to $6,645.00 of coupons of overdue Gordon is almost the unanimous choice for ; f : j Li., r the Vice Presidency, but that he firmly bon “ 8 > and y° u . r W 3 "? therefor^ find refuses to allow his name to be used in that connection. Either of the above gentlemen, or Pen dleton. or Black, with Gordon, would re ceive the hearty support of all true patriots in the Republic, ana would carry every Southern State, with the possible excep tion of South Carolina, by overwhelming majorities. To thi Herald : Is it true that Col. P. W. Alexander, the private secretary of the Executive, ap plied to Bullock fora judicial appointment, and promised Rufus, that, if he would grant the application, he would control a columnper day in a Columbus paper for him. We have heard such a rumor, but are loathe to believe that the presiding and guiding genius of so good a Governor as His Excellenc could have been guilty of such a thing as seeking office from Bullock. Anxious Inquirer. All that we know about the matter is this: When we first heard the statement (for it was not mere rnmor) we were so much pained that we went at once to Col. Alex ander and after telling him what we had beard and who we heard it from, we asked him to inform ns if it was true. He de nied the fact about the newspaper, but ■aid it was true that he had signified to Gov. Bnllock that he would accept the ap pointment of Judge, but that he had done this at the suggestion and request of Gov. Smith, who was then his law partner. Of coarse this reason was quite satisfactory, and here the matter ended. ■ORE B1SW ON ElOMlltV. By reference to a communication pub lished elsewhere, and from the numerous congratulations we have received on our late editorial on State Economy, it is plain that this chord has struck a responsive echo in the hearts of the people of Geor gia. We say to the people tha* we intend to keep up the fight to the day of the election, and whoever the Herald sup- Dorts for Governor must place himself on this platform or lose our support. If a Democratic adm>n’f‘r?,‘ -. , lf; , ., i:,bt*r •- attached to a schedule of them, dated the 22d, and handed to me on the 25th of Oc tober, ultimo. Official duties on the in coming of the taxes of the present season, which are very confining, have interfered so much with the examination of the books necessary to understand fully the excep tions raised, that I have been unable until to-day to reply to them. I will now en deavor to answer them seriatim. You say r “1. AU these coupons matured prior to January, 1873, dating back, in some in stances, to 1861-'2-’3-’4. Some of them pertain to bonds paid at dates tram sixteen to seven years past.” To this I answer, that those coupons were presented to me uncanceled; and though many of them belonged to bonds long since paid, the act of 1873 authorizing the issue of bonds to take up ALL past due bonds and coupons, without reservation or caution, expressed or implied, that there was a possibility of any of them having been previously paid, I considered that I had no alternative but to pay them. If they had been paid before and got out again, there was no mark of pavment on them to show it, and the law authorizing—nay, ordering—the redemp tion of all past due bonds and interest, set no limit in the remote past beyond which an uncanceled bond or couDon should be considered dead. “2. The State has been paying her in terest by funding, or in cash, since 1868, from w r hich a reasonable presumption arises that these coupons had been paid before the accession ot the present Treas urer to office in 1873.” With ail due def erence, I must take issue with your Ex cellency oc this point. The State has been proposing to pay her bonds and cou pons ever since the beginning of the war, and many holders have brought them for ward and had them funded, and paid even in war-bonds and Confederate notes: but many others preferred to let them lie until they could be paid in something nearer par. When the war closed, the seven per cent mortgage bonds were issued for the same purpose, and holders of past due donds and coupons were invited to bring them forward and receive those bonds or the national currency, then at a dis count of thirty to fifty per cent., for them. Under the Bill lock 1 regime, beginning in 1868, few or none of the holders of our ante-war bonds desired redemption in those issued by him: and all that were taken up and tm .ad < the tr»- teu-w <i-.rii>K hwauiaini . nvi • ii- • in' noiiesty, and .jiover preaching retrenchment and re form, if year by year our burdens increase. O.ir correspon ient, ‘Democrat,” is a gentleman of high social standing and great earnestness, and from onr know ledge of him, is governed by high, patriotic motives in his reference to the fact that the people are tired of “prom ises” about economy and retrenchment; so tired that they are already concentra ting their attention on an independent can didate, and if they can’t get relief in the party, they will seek it outside of party. We don’t know to whom he refers, but we sincerely hope that there will be no occa sion for dissension in the ranks of the De mocracy. We have enough honest, sincere men in the organization without seeking for candidates out of it. . We agree with our correspondent, however, in this, that the Convention which will meet to nomi nate a Governor must represent the people, and not a few town cliques; otherwise we shall see trouble. We know that this cry of “relieving the burthens qi the people” is usually the cry of the demagogues, but now abuses have reached a point where the purest patriot can take it up without suspicion. Let the next Legislature be elected with this view. Let them, when they meet, appoint a committee of their best men to take into consideration the matter of re trenchment. Don’t commence and end by reducing the salaries of a few officers, by the abolition of onebureau and the crea tion of two more. This, as we remarked before, would be like setting one fly trap to catch the flies of a great city, or like polling one barnacle off of a ship that was covered all over. What we want is thorongh reform, a clean sweep of all the flies that are swarming on the labor of the people, a complete overhauling of the ship. Place her ia dock and scrape her clean, is and shall be henceforth the motto of the Herald. in ceivin guiwrinji add col. ALEX4IDER. Considerable excitement was created on the streets yesterday by the publishing of the Herald reporter’s interview with Mr. Healy in regard to the employment of convicts on the Custom House work. It is not our purpose to re-declare onr views on the question of the right of free-labor over convict labor, or on tbe propriety of leasing out the State con victs. We nave written often and earn estly on that subject. We simply desire this morning to protest against the clamor that a few men are attempting to raise against Col. Alexander, one of tbe lessees of the convicts, beoaune ha prof- a l to put a few convicts at work in the Col. Alexander is one of the best citizens Atlanta ever had. He has exhibited more faith in her future, and has done more building within her limits than any other man that we know of. Daring the past twelve months he put i hundred thousand dollars into building, and this year will put much more. lie is a kind-hearted and liberal man. On the first of this month he went aronnd to ovary tenant that he had (and be rents 0«f about fifty bonaeaj, and voluntarily i. >■ •: r :.!■>! Ji_i And coupons; Li.it yi>u* Excellency, doubtless, remem bers that the $1,200,000 of eight per cents, were issued to raise $900,000, which the Finance Committee ot 1873 determined was required to pay onr overdue bonds and coupons, and some three hundreu thousand which were to mature in 1873, 1874 and 1875. Even the eight per cents, dragged heavily at the beginning. Sever al weeks elapsed before they began to go off with much speed, and yet, 1 believe, there are gome overdue bonds and cou pons that have not yet been brought for ward and paid at the treasury. Further: If, before adopting this “rea sonable presnmption,” vonr Excellency had reflected that for the fifteen years last gone by, during which, as I have just now shown, the State has not been paying her interest regularly, there have matured an nually aDout thirty thousand coupons of various sizes, averaging say fifteen dollars each, making the yearly interest about $470,000, amounting in the fifteen years to S450.000 00 coupons or $6,750,000 of inter est which matured during that time, I think you would have arrived at the more reasonable conclusion that it was not at all astonishing, that of those vast amounts, only four or five hundred coupons or $6,- 645 00—leas than one-tenth |of one per cent.—had been misplaced and forgotten, and failed to come forward nntil within the last two or three years. Under these facts I submit to your Ex cellency that I have paid these coupons in good faith and obedience to the law. If any of them have been previously pa ! d, and found their way out again, ana been again paid, perhaps, by me, it has happen ed by no fault ot mine, as they came to me as past due coupons, uncancelled, un marked, and without a word of caution from the law or any of its officers. “3. Many of these coupons have the dates of maturity carefully and ingenious ly clipped or punched out in a manner strongly suggestive of an improper or doubtful claim.” These coupons came to me as the others, uncanceled, and after being recorded, I suppose that the peison who punched them, seeing no farther use for dates, etc., in a thoughtless mood, clipping several together, has unfortunately excited suspi cion of fraud where none has been intend ed. “4. Many of those coupons bear cancel lation, and the coupon registry indicates that many of them were paid bv the late Treasurer. In other instances, the entries of payment on the registry are doable, in dicating changes of original entries, which original and primary entries appear, in most cases, to nave been made by the late Treasurer, N. L. Angier.” With regard to the double cancellation, that very often occurs where some coupons have been paid at one place; as New York, and others of the same class and series at the treasury. In arranging them for regis tration, the two batches faD sometimes to gether, and when the hundred coupons shall have been registered, a punch has been driven through the bundle, and those paid in New York have two holes, while those )>aid Mta. have bat one —many of those W in New York that are not onfV punched twice, but have the daiee and even the denomination punebod—trtlt As to the double entries of one letter over another, I will call your attention to the fact that many of the issues of oar old bonds are very similar in date, execution aud deno mination, and in several cases duplicates and tripreates so nearly identical that numerous mistakes have been made by those most conversant with the records. If the first entries were made by the late Treasurer, (admitting that no one else could have made them) the person regis tering the uncancelled coupons probaoly concluded that the Doctor had made a wrong entry of some other coupon at that place, or, perhaps, registering the coupons of an snore series at once, continued making bis letter of registry, not only on he wrote another in the place. The com plaint in the report of the committ# of last session, that these entries were in pencil, induced me to have them put in ink, and gave me authority, or excuse, if you please, to have rubbed out every pencil mark in the book; but I preferred to let all stand as it was, except to make the knark of payment permanent, as the committee seemed to desire should be done. The second batch of coupons excepted to by your Excellency, amounting to $46,- 360, are the first coupons of tbe 8 per cent' bonds which matured October 1, 1873. For this I am at a loss to di vine the reason, except upon the hypothesis that some one laving authority had ordered the first coupons to be cut from the bond before delivery, whether the purchaser bought it in April or October, or whether he paid ninety cents or a dollar for them, without reference to onr advertisements that we would sell them at par or exchange them for overdue bonds aud coupons, dollar for dollar. Such an order would have been not only absurd but would hav3 prevent ed the sale of a single bond. Your Excellency doubtless remembers that at a meeting of the Finance Commit tee of 1873, in the Kimball H iuse, to which ycu and I were invited, it was determined that we must have $900,000 to take np our overdue bonds and interest, and pay the interest accrning after maturity ; and that after many days of debate and nights of conference, the Nutting bill was perfected and passed, ordering the issue of $1,200,000 of 8 per cent, bonds; and when the Gen eral Assembly adjourned, alar-ge portion of the members left with the feeling that they had done the best they knew how, butex- pressed ereat fears that they would not.be able to sell the bonds at any reasonable rate, if at all. On the suggestion, I suppose, of the old saw, “A fool for luck,” the preparation and sale of the bonds were confided to me, and I was lucky enough to get them off (nominally) at par. In the beginning, I had understood from everybody con cerned—the Finance Committee, members of the Assembly, yourself, and all others who expressed an opinion—that the most that we could hope for was $900,000 from the $1,200,000 of bonds. I sincerely be lieved that if thev were put in the hands of brokers, ordering them to sell at ninety cents, and allowing them two and a half ier cent, commission, they would have lawked them, first in Wall street, where the holders of bond6 dis owned by Georgia would have beared them heavily, and defeated their sale. But suppose they had been sold at ninety cents ? The two and a half per cent, commission would have brought them to eighty-seven and a half cents, and the costs of express, freight, advertising, etc., would have been two and a half more, and eighty-five would have been our average sales. This would have brought us $1 020,000, if all had been sold, and in time for our purposes. A Bale at seventy-five cents, clear of all expenses, would have brought the $900,000 we were proposing to raise; and I here lake the liberty of asking if an offer from two or more reliable capit alists to take the whole loan of $1,200,000 at $1,000,000 would have been refused ? When we advertised to sell those bonds, several offers came in from brokers to sell them for ns at one and one-half commis sion on actual sales, expressing the belief that they might be sold at ninety cents; but believing that they would be, in a great measure, controlled by the opinions of their guild, and that the disgruntled holders of our disowned bonds would do all they could to keep them down and de stroy our credit, I essayed to “get blood out of a turi.ip,” as many taunted me, when I determined to sell them at home and Dot send them to Wall street until they were called for. Mv appeals to our own people brought ont a few applications at first, which gradually increased until early summer, when several of the Atlan ta banks were persuaded to take some two hundred thousand or more, ana from then co late in the fallthey went of gradually al par. The old bond, when presented for exchange had interest paid on it at six per cent, to 1st of April, -1876. the date of the hew bond, which was given to him without mutilation ; and even when I ad vertised (in May, I think), in order to hur ry in the old bonds, “that those who did not come before tne first of July should have the first coupon cut,” if a holder of our old bonds came forward with his bond, and excused himself that he had not seen the notice of exchange, I gave them to him as I had to those who came earlier; and when one came with the money to buy the bonds, and I feared to lose the trade if I cut. off the cou pon, I let him have the bond whole. I didn’t let- anybody go back with the money who came to bay. The State wanted it— had issued those bonds to raise it—had or dered them to be sold, and had fixed no price on them. Knowing that I was sell ing them much higher than tiad been an ticipated by the most sanguine, I thought that I was doing the best that could be done when I took a thousand dollars from a buyer and gave him a bond with all the coupons on, even in October or lat r. I considered that I was the State’s broker ; that the selling of the bonds was extra-offi cial, and not controlled by any rnle, but to sell when I could, and to the best advan tage , aud when the money was in sight, it was of course ray bounden duty to get it for the commodity that had been put into my hands for sale. “But,” say the cav ilera, “why did you say you were selling them at par 7 Leaving the coupon at a sale in October was a sale at ninety-six cents.” Well, I preferred to leave the cou pon, and call it a par sale, to cutting it off and selling at ninety cents, because the first fall would have been succeeded by another and a lower depression, and the last two or three hundred thousand would have remained on our hauds, or gone off at a much greater sacrifice. While par sales, though nominal, kept them up, snd enabled me to pay the claim of Russell Sage at par, which otherwise would have remained unpaid, and our bonds, render ed unsaleable by lowering the price, would have remained useless in the vaults of the treasury. Thus your Excellency will perceive that very few coupons were cut off before sale or exchange, hardly amounting to tbe difference between the actual half-yearly interest and the amountpaid and excepted to, $49,730. The Russell Sage claim had the interest counted to the 1st erf April, 1873, and new bonds were given for the entire claim without mutilation, except tbe $65,000 sent forward in January, 1874, which, having been obtained from one of the banks, the first coupon had been paid. I had, therefore, to send Mr. Sage a check for $2,600. in lieu of the first coupon, for winch 1 have his acKnowledgment. In the third item of coupons of eight per cent, bonds, dne 1st April, 1874, I can see no reason for the exoeptio.ns, and, there fore, can not meet it. All the bonds hav ing been sold before the meeting of the Legislature, of course, they could not have been cut off. They belonged to the buy ers, and have been paid on presentation. All which is respectfully submitted. (Signed) John Jones. ter, so long as he remained in office. This jfactpf itself is enough to show that it was not the bonds, but the two coupons indi cated by the asterisk mark which precedes tbe note in the margin, which were lost. Of the $149,250 of bonds which your Ex cellency savB there iB much reason to be lieve are part of the $174,000 of past due bonds redeemed by Clews & Co., and which were again put on the market by them, etc., the Treasurer respectfully sug gests that, having been furnished with no information of the description, dates aud numbers of tbe bonds now said to have been redeemed by Clews & Co. he did not even know that Clews & Co. had ever redeemed any until March, 1874, when he saw the account furnished by Clews, which merely charged- the State with bonds—without date, size, maturity, or any description whatever by which the paid bonds could be identified and payment refused. Under the law of 1873, creating bonds to pay ■ U past due bonds and interest, he paid those bonds which yonr Excellency, with the as sistance of Dr. Bozeman and the Attorney- General, ascertained—certainty not until last summer—nad been paid and put again on the market by Clews, so late as December, 1873, shortly after which time they were presented, either at the Fourth National Bank of New York or at the Treasury, having no cancellation or any other mark by which previous payment would be shown; and falling witnin the phrase of the act, “all past due bunds and interest,” they were paid with interest to the day of payment, as a matter of course, for which second payment neither the Treasurer nor any other officer, without information of previous payment, can be liable. With regard to the bonds alleged to have been paid by the Fourth National BaDk, and transmitted to the treasury by the hands of Alton Angier, who receipted for them to the bank, and who says he deliv ered them to Treasurer Angier, his father, about the 12th of January, 1873, the Treas urer can only say they were never deliv ered by the late Treasurer to him with the assests and books; and if they have been presented to the Treasurer and paid by him, he surely is not responsible for their getting outside of the vault, where the young man says he deposited them, prior to the accession of the present Treasurer to office, without a receipt to balance that he gave to the Fourth National Bank. The books did not show they were paid; the bonds were not canceled when presented to me, and, as in the pre ceding case, I had nothing to do but obey the law ordering me to pay all past due bonds and interest, I would further re mark, in this connection, that from the 12th day of January, when they are alleg ed to have been deposited, to the 16th, four days thereafter, when I came into the office, there was ample time to have can celed these bonds—if it had been desira ble—and recorded payment of them on the proper book, or at least to have taken a re ceipt for them from the Treasurer, to whom they are said to have been delivered. The reason why this was not done must be stated by those whose duty it was, both to themselves and to the State, to have done YESTERDiY iHf fcONtfRESS. In the matter of interest charged, and the deductions therefrom, the errors in computation, and sometimes in entry of one date and amount for another, the Treasurer readily admits as clerical and not intentional. The rejection of his en tries of interest, because they were not ac companied by receipts, he ciemurs to, as receiving daily the bonds on which inter est was Btamjied as paid by the bank, without receipt, he felt that he had as much right to credit on his mere entry of payment as the bank, and as it saved him considerable labor, and the payee as much time, he had no idea such entries would ever be excepted to or considered as improper vouchers. The Treasurer re spectfully asks the privilege of employing an experienced accountant and attorney to go over the examination with the auditor, tnat he may be made to understand thor oughly these exceptions, which, as yet, he has never been«able to comprehend. With regard to the advertisements and notices published by the Tresurer during the year he had the bonds on sale, he re spectfully represents that he issued them more for the purpose of keeping the mat ter before the public than to be bound to follow their conditions, unless tbe appli cants insisted on it, which they never did, and the Treasurer never allowed them to stand in the way of a sale upon fair terms whenever the applicant presented bonds, or money to get new bonds. The Treas urer is at this moment unaware of any re cord showing $104,000of past dne bonds as having been redeemed on or about July 1, 1873, or as of that date, and will better un derstand it npon examination by attorney, as suggested above. The bonds mention ed in the last paragraph, amounting to $1,- 000, are in the same condition, lie supposes as all others that may have been once paid and afterwards presented to the Treasurer without cancellation and paid again. All of which is respectfully submitted. (Signed) John Jones, Treasurer. Statement In Reward to Bonds. In tbe matter of exceptions to the past due bonds presented by the Treasurer, amounting to seven hundred and fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars ($758,500.00) which matared prior to 1st May, 1874; The Treasurer respectfully suggests, in regard to the bond* of $506.00 each, due July 1, 1871, which your Excellency says the register shows to have been paid in 1851 to I. K. Tefft, cashier of the State Bank at Savannah, upon proven copies being presented to the Governor, the ori ginal having been lost in transmission from Savannah to Milledgeville, that u|>on close examination oithe record, he finds asterisks (**) in two of the squares, to show the payment of coupons, and a corresponding asterisk is placed at the beginning of the note in the margin, on which your Excellency bases the payment of these bonds, indicating clearly that those two coupons were refer red to t» the marginal note, and not the To tile Editor or the Herald: Please allow a subscriber to congratulate you, your readers, and our over-taxed countrymen, on an article which appeared in your paper of Saturday last, on the sub ject of a reduction of our State expendi tures. In that editorial you probed the wound from which our afflicted country is suffer ing most. A few office-holders may, and doubtless will, find fault, and possibly some may growl and grin at you ; but the masses—those who pay the taxes and sus tain the newspaper press, as well as every other great interest of our State, will cor dially approve and cheerfully sustain you in advocating retrenchment and reform. Aud while on this subject, it may be well to warn a certain class of gentlemen that there are others in Georgia, of not less ability, moral worth, or popularity than themselves, who have resolved to submit no longer than necessary to the system of public plunder, which was legal ized by Bullock and his associates in sin, and which has not been changed, for the better, since he and they were driven from place and power. There are manyjwho will not commit themselves, in advance, to the action of any party Convention, and who will support no man for Governor who does not stand publicly pledged to a *(>eedy undoing of that which was so badly done by that motley horde of al ven turers, scalawags, and free negroes. They have a man upon whom they can rely—one who is not tui aspirant for office and will not be, unless called from his re tirement to the rescue oi bis country, in such emergency, but one who is a Demo crat, a Georgian, to the manor born, and one who is the peer of any man who can be brought into the field. A candidate of that sort, supported by men like himself, will have to be defeated, at the ballot-box, before the nominee of any Convention can become Governor of Georgia on wishy-washy, omnium gatherum, sort of platform. Democrat. f |A fellow in Kentucky ran away with a farmer’s daughter aud horse, and was hotly pursued. The fanner got within close range and flourished a revolver. “Don’t shoot, for heaven’s sake I ’’ shouted the lover. “I won’t,” was the reply, “’cause I’m aleard I’ll hit ther hoss. Just leave titer boss and take ther gal.” The com promise was accepted by the young folks, who walked on to the preacher’s house, the father riding home on his horse. About eight o’clock Saturday evening ■ays Ih* Cincinnati Qasetts, Lieutenant Mean, of wan called upon to named Bose Holden, who ia the wile of a colored man named David Holden, a cook at Hsidlog A Spraul’s Sixth street restaurant. Tht 111 assorted pair have been married about three rears, and rooms at No- IS Hiller alley. About two weeks ago on account of Incompatibility of tem per and alleged misconduct on the part of Rose, David packed up his duds aud left the bouse. The story goes that David promised to support Bose and her baby, and If she would come to him every Sat urday evening she would reoelre a portion of his wages for that purpose. On Saturday night she called on David, found him at work In the kltcheo aud made the object of her visit known. He handed her 60 ceuta She told him "that was no money for a woman and child who had been starring all all the week,” and that she must have more. Ac cording to her statement, David took offense at her extravagant notionvof living, and struck her, where, upon she seised a table knife and made a ] him, the blade Inflicting a wound three Inches In length in his right cheek, from which the blood flowed freely. The cut is a severe one, .and David will carry tbe record of It as long as he lives A correspon dent of tbe 8t. Louis Repub lican tells how ALrs. Beacher confronted Mrs. Tilton at the Brooklyn ferry the other day: Sitting bolt upright, as If she had fed on starch the past forty yearn, stern an implacable, there sat Emma, thenbof Henry Ward Beecher; and who should come In just as the boat started but Mrs. Tilton. Mnt T. has a deprecating fashion of sidling along, looking askance at every body with her little bead eyes That she saw the white freed grenadier was evident lit an instant, as she flitshed up and dropped in an embarrassed way into a vacant seat. Mrs. Beecher turned her rabbit face to ward her with a freezing expresalon, but gave no sign ol recognition. An Indiana man fell into a well the other day, and when they pulled him out iu a half drowned condition he sputtered forth; ‘‘It serve* me gosh denied right for foolin' round somethin' what I Jou’t unow nothing about.” A fellow somewhat “boozy” had seated hhn-elf by the stove in a church and on becoming somewnat off oc ted by the heat and making a dis turbance was being shown to the ddor by the usher, when he turned around and taking a good look at (the minister, said in a slow loud voice: Such preach in's that s’nough to make a dog sick. ‘Bless you,’ .said John Henry, w T ith tears in his eyes, ‘she takes her own hair off so easy that perhaps -he doesn't know how it hurts to have mine pulled out.* Webster City, says a Burlington paper, rejoices iu a local novelist, who is publishing her earliest efforts in the local papers. “E fida, behold the mane.” “The mune, me lord?”. ‘‘Ay, mune ; wherefore doest thou echoest me?” ‘‘Good me lord, I echoest uobody.” “Then, thank Heaven, we are s*>ved.” It is a bad year for editors. Mr. McKee of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, is being tried ior implication in the whisky frauds; Mr. Winslow of the Boston Post, has gone to Holland to avoid the penitentiary; and now another editor, who is charged with receiving 92 >,000 of the Pacific Mail subsidy, is returning from Europe just as the House of Representatives is beginning to display a purpose to inquire into the matter —{Philadelphia Bulletin Now that General Hazen has proven that we have a vast desert in the heart of North America, and that Jay Cooke’s wheat belt is the 8iberia of this continent,, we should give some attention to the nreservatiou of the good land that we have, and encourage, especially in the far West, forest culture. It is possible that vast tracts of tbe southern part of the American desert may be grad ually redeemed by the growth of trees, and that the increasing streams may be made useful iu irrigation aud stocked witn fish.—[Cincinnati Commeidal The Boston Post philosophically says: Baltimore's growth imparts the whole secret Her trunk life to the heart of the West, her capacious elevator.- , her model terminal facilities for a heavy and incr: sring freight business, with the consequent activity of trade and rapid growth Of industrial interest, the increase of her population and their general satisfaction and contentment, are standrug testimonies before the country to the wonderful power tout lie* in a city’s husbanding its resources for their intelligent local concentration.*' The Courier-Journal moralizes on the Mackenzie elopement by saying: “bhe is gone, this Canadian beauty, and Brydgcs with her; aod where's the good of recalling her, and what use is she now to anybol) ? Tn- world Is no wiser aud no better than before. The vicious follow their desires. Those that hav<‘ the pretext of .domestic infelicity affect to do the b st they can, and some go up aud some go down, while the productive cause, Mich as it is goes on forever. Wives and daughters never fall for nothing. The fault is always with the man not the woman.” It would appear from the manner in which the Republican papers comment on that memorable order of Jeff Davis’ concerning Ben. Butler’s disposition in case he couldn’t run faster than thoee who chased him, that the ex-President of the Southern Confederacy is to be ceusured, not because he wanted to haua Mr. Butler, nut because he didn’t succeed in hanging Mr. Butler.—[World. The Columbia, South Carolina, Register relates this: He caught a chair, after a short race, aud sat down. “Where have ycu beeu?” that’s the first question before they say they are going home to their father, but he had au answer that would have stuuued any woman living : “B n Piesbyteriau supper.” ‘ W h a-t ? Who did you go with ? ’* “Wizze boys.” “Boys 1 What boys ? ” “Alla boys. Presbytery Morrerators an all.'* He’e Mrs. W. bowed the fnll of ner nightcap aud wept, aud he explained between convulsive jerks at his boots: “8ho use crying. Good company. Bet Morrera- tor’s couldn’t say Ten Commandments Losh my money. Took ’nothing back. Whent my head, bix-a dog. Ladies all helmahead.” “Oh, Charles! Another woman held your head ?*’ Sobs. “Now. Maria, don’t be a fool. Who said nuzzer woman helm head ? ** “Why, you said so yourself.” More sobs “Never. I’m a furnal liar. Tell you truth this time. So’lmpe B>b,” and doubtless he would if he hadn’t gone dead to sleep while be was talking. Francis Deak, the Hungarian statesman, who has long been sick, and whose death was pre maturely announced seveial weeks ago, has at last really died. He was born in the district of Zola Hungary, in ISOl, and early became prominent in Liberal political circles. He led the opposition against the tyrannical policy of the Austrian Gov ernment between 1837 and 1840, and brought the administration to a more reasonable course of pro cedure. In 1848-49. less radical than Kossuth, be made an attempt to reconcile Hungary and Austria after the failure of the Magyar revolution. He only succeeded iu getting into prison, and aftor Lis re ease retired to his estate, continuing in private life until I860, when he again became a leader of the people. To his influence the enlargement of the rights of the Hungarians, and the establishment of a separate Ministry ior the Kingdom, is largely to be ascribed. A pure and patriotic man, he will be tin cerely mourned by the country for which he aooom plished so much. Here is a curiosity. It is a paragraph from the World about the Centennial without a sin gle insinuation or reflection against the manage ment. Another British Centennial Commissioner, Prof. Archer, sailed from Liverpool yesterday in the steamship Ohio for Philadelphia, with twelve members of the commissioner's staff Great Britain promises to be first in the field, if not first iu the race Her national buildings in the Exposition grounds are already completed, aud very imertst- iug aud characteristic they are—bits of Saxon, Lan cashire transferred bodily to the New World. The city judge of Montgomery, Ala bama, late federal district attorney, and as decided a Republican as any man in the United States, sert« over his signature, and as a fact within his knowledge, that iu no law now iu force in Ala bama is there any discrimination made between white au4 black as to mode of trial or pnniah ment. He says Mr. Morton’s charge that negro con victs are sold to the highest bidder, is true in the sense that such offenders are hired out, yet Mr. Morton forgot to state that the same measure is meted out to white con victs. J udge Minnis, s- tting in one of the large negro counties of the State says if there has been any discrimination it haa beeu in favor of the weaker and more ignorant race. It has long been customary in England to publish birth notices, but Ban Francisco has set tbe example of adding a delicate oompllment to the medical attendant, thus: SPARRTXG Ilf THE HOUME. ■ale, «r Halae, Makes a Ripple, bat MbsidM Without Finding Use Rep resentative Man of the Mouth. ACROSS THE WATERS. TKLKORAP If SF2BK1.1I BT THK XA.P CABLE. U paon county, Ga., claims the chair pi- on centonnialist. He is a negro named Charles Dubignon, is 125 years old, frisky aud vigorous. He was captured In Afri ca by Spanish slave traders about a centu ry ago, aud was taken to Spain, where he lived in slavery lor many years, and didn’t know General Washington. He joined the Baptist church last week, and washed away a century and a quarter • load of sins in the Flint riyer. “Croubie.—Sunday, January 9, to Hattie and John C. Crosbie, a eon. Mother aud child doing well; thanks to Dr. Langdon.” How would it do, whenever there is a death notice, to add the name of the doctor? We should like to have the opinion on that subject of the emi neut legal authority, Charles O’Conor, who Is said to have boon given over by the doctors to die, but, refusing to take their prescriptions, has got well. Telegram to the Herald. Washington, February 8. — The Appropriation Committee reduced the estimates for fortifications from 83,000,000 to 83X),OO0. D. W r Flanagan, of Ohio, has been appointed as sistant journal clerk of the House, and John A. Kudd appointed reading clerk. No Southern nominations. There was a short Executive session. No confirm ations reported. HOUS& The following bills were introduced: By Young, for a custom house at Memphis. Re ferred. By Committee on Accounts, to pay fourteen Union soldiers on the rolls of the House. Mr. Fort, of Hll- nots denied that there were so many. Merer*. Hol man and Williams maintained that there were. Adopted. By Appropriation Committee,requesting the Presi dent to appoint au experienced army officer to in vestigate the causes of the deficiency in the appro prialions for the Sioux Indians, and partially lake charge of the Red Cloud agency. Adopted. The Judiciary Committee reported adversely | the bill allowing tbe heads of the departments beau- on the floor. Also, a bill for the relief of the owners and pur chasers of lauds sold for direct taxes. Referred to the Committee on the Whole. Also, to authorise the United State* Courts to ap point commissioners to take depositions, affidavits and verifications of pleading. Passed. The House went into a committee of the. whole diplomatic appropriations binglcton. of Mississippi, who hod charge of the bill, in the course of his speech accused politicians iu the House w th the effort to create discord, aud thereby moke-political capital, but he knew that the people raw through that d.sguiae. The fcouth, he said, had three sche'mes to accomplish in Con gress. One was to improve and protect the levees pf the Mississippi, and to reclaim the alluvial soil of the Delta, which would be of more value than all the Black Hills in the country, as seven million bales of cotton could be raised ou this reclaimed land. Hale ashed him to state what the other schemes were. Siufcieton replied that another was the Southern Pacific railroad. Hale—is not the refunding of the cotton tax another. Singleton—I do not propose to discuss that ques tion now. Willis, of New York—The Democratic party does not propose to help the South by building a South ern Pacific railroad We vill leave it to our Repub lican friends to do so. Douglas of Virginia, ask *1 Hale by what authori ty he spoke of the gentlemuu from Mississippi (Sin gleton) as the representative oi the Southern Dem ocracy. Hale replied that his authority was the position which that gentleman occupied as a Southern man: because he spoke distinctly for the Southern Dem ocracy, and also because he (Singleton) had been se lected as one of the Southern representatives on the money committee of the Huuse—the Appropriation Committee. Holman of Indiana, declared that the Democratic party in the House was neither for the Southern Pacific Rairoad nor for the reluudiug of the cotton tax. .Douglas of Virginia, denied the right Hale or any other Republican member to designate the member from Mississippi a member from any other State >• the rep resentative man of the Southern Democracy. He. Douglas, represented a part of the Southern < stituency. but he was not prepared to inform the gentleman from Mississippi what might or might not be the ultimate action of the Southern Demo crats on this floor ou the measures. He was not a member of the Southern .Democracy, but he was a member of the National Democracy, which bad eorne here to reform some of the abuses of the gov ernment. Hale—My friend from Mississippi is more frank thau the gentleman from Virginia, and has given us the notion of what we :uay expect from that section. I did not expect by a simple question to stir up so much of a hornets' nesi as I >*3em to have done. My friend from Indiana Hnluiau, who op poses the Southern Pacific xtaiiroad, wants this dis cussion to stop, aud I have uo wonder at it. but he must not hold me respotidbie for it; he must settle with his colleague from Mississippi. Holman—1 understood the gentleman from Mis 8issippi merely to express his opinion in favor of the Southern Pacific Baihoad Several Democratic members, ind tl At is all, are in favor of tne reimbursement of iho cotton tax Now, is that not all? Hale—No. sir. Holman—Excuse me : and also that the govern ment spends money in the rebuilding of the Missis sippi Levees. Does not the gentleman from Maine km w that the gentleman from M ississippi was sim* ply expressing his own individual opinion on the subject, and that time and again the Democratic party in this House has opposed all those measures, aud will continue to do so. Hale —If the gentleman wants me to answer that question, I will say that 1 expect that he will be out voted by his own party. Biouut, of Georgia, a member of the Appropria tion Committee, said himself aud his associates did not propose to state what their actions would be on the measures until they had an opportunity of con sideriug aud discussing them. The gentleman from Maine would find when tne time came that the South would do whatever was right and proper, aud that the country would approve of its course. Randall, of Pennsylvania, Chairman of the Com mittee on Appropriations, remarked that it would be time enough ior tbe Democratic party in the House to be held responsible for its acts when it had taken actlou on the measures. Singleton disclaimed being considered a repre sentative of the party. He had simply expressed his own views and nobody else was to be held re sponsible for them. The President vetoed the bill transferring certain Indian funds from the Interior to the Treasury De partment. Referred to Committee on Appropria tions. Adjourned. Washington, February 3.—The bill with the title to provide tor means of cheaper transportation upon the interior waters, to restore the oceau-carrying tiade of the Uuited States, aud which contemplates, with government aid, th- establishment of a mam moth ship yard with branches, was presented by Representative Khjan Ward, of New York, some days ago by request, without any responsibility for or against the measure. The Judiciary Committee, in the executive session of the Senate to-day, reported favorably on the nomination oi Billings to be United Stales District Judge for Louisiana vice Durreii, resigned 'J he ttenaie remained iu executive session only ten min utes aftor the report aud adjourned without a vote. The vote of the committee cannot be ascertained. Washington, February 3.—The bill reported from the House Committee on Judicary for the relief of owners aud purchasers of lauds sold for direct taxes iu insurrectionary Btatea, gives the owner the right to draw from the Treasury tha purchase money, b taxes, costs, and the expenses of sale, if he shall elect to abide the sale and make good the title of the purchase, by giving a quit-c aim deed for the same to the purchazer, aud release him from all claim* for rents and profits, if the foimer owners or lienots ora under disabilities and can not comply with the anove conditions or shall refuse to avail themselves of the provisions of the bill, the purchaser may claim the money in the Treasury, less taxes, etc., upon satisfactory proof that the cose comes within the decisions of the Supreme Court, and upon the execution and delivery to the former owner by the purchaser of a good maim conveyance of the laud, The Republican Congressional Committee met to night and elected Cameron, of Pennsylvania, chairman; Edmunds-, secretary, and Torre treasur er. The following to the Executive Committee— Senator* Camerou, Cragiu, Weak, Logon, and Dor sey. Representatives -Rust, Hubbell. Sinnecken, and Platt. Ths Mtoriu Centre. Telegram to the Herald. Washington, February 8.—The storm centre yes terday afternoon over the Eastern British Provinces hss disappeared to the northeastward. Barometric dspresrious now exist over Michigui and lxmiaiana. Threatening and rainy weather is prevailing in the Gulf States, turning into snow, thence northeast ward to the tower and Lake Huron. Generally cloudy weather in the Atlantic States, with north- east to southeast winds. Rising barometer, north westerly winds, cold and generally cloudy weather in tha Northwest. The Ohio and Cumberland riven have oo&Unued failing. The Miwdmippi has risen about three inches from Cairo to Vicksburg. Taking Ura Uw ia Their Owm Hoads, Telegram to the Herald. Nnw Qolsans, February 4.—R ia reported that tbs aegto asMSSin, Augusta, who killed Col. OffUtt in St Landry parish on the 5Nd of January, was forcibly taken from jail shortly after his arrest and hung in tha presence of a large crowd of whites and MVEDMB WXI. Telegrams to Tbe Herald. Baltimore February 8.—Own posed to be the man who mur at Hyattsvi le, Md , in the o and also accused of rape in i arrested near Woodstock, the general description of tbe i the scar on his face. WITH THE JURY. Telegram to the Herald. Bridgeport, N. J., February 8.—The Landis Jury have retired. HEAD. Telegram to the Herald. Philadelphia. February 8.—Robert Cobeen, Vice President of the Reading aud Philadelphia Railroad and a prominent iron merchant, is dead. GREAT BRITAIN. Telegram to the Herald. London, February 8.—The Hour says that Baring Bros, having recommended the bonds of the chusett* Eastern Railroad, they will pay the interest daefor January and provide for that due March and Bepiember, 1876. London, February 3.—The Cambridge University Club decline to participate in the American College Regatta to visit the United States, but on their own responsibility, not as representatives of tie Uni versity. GERMANY. Telegram to the Herald. Obtrowa. February 8.—Cardinal Ledowchowski was released from prison to-day. The town was filled with sympathisers, iucluding many high Po- tish nobility, among them the Emperor's nephew, Lhe Princess Kmnund, and Ferdinand of Kadseivilie. Special thanksgiving service and grand Illumina tion to-night. The statement that the Cardinal would be immur- j vail ou the general government to undertake and ed at Fortress Torgsu is disbelieved. ■ complete improving the navigation of the Harlem Later.—lhe Cardinal proceeded by rail in the di- , river and 8puyten Duyv -1 creek. All claim* of the reel ion of Bresdau. He ws* mformed ^that if he city for aroney advanced by New York to equip, etc., -titered the Provinces of Silesia, Posen, or the Dis troops daring the late war, amounting to fl.00u,(AD, rict of Frankfort, or the Oder or Mtuenwerden, he 1 is to be canceled ou completion o! this work, whtf^ , Starving Hlnuelf.t*JDrath. Telegram to the Herald. New York, February 8.—Rnbenatein, the derer of the Jewess, Bara Alexander, is endeavor!: to starve himseli to death. He has not eaten than two ounces of food in sixty hours. A Want nf Hee Yerau Telegram to the Herald. New York, February 3.—The board of aldermen this afternoon adopted a resolution requesting the I representation in Congress to take measures to pre- •vould be immui.ed at Torg ui Berlin, February Tbe Minister of Commerce will send several officer* fro a the mining depart cent to the Centennial, to study Amarican indus tries. is estimated not to cost more than 81,600,000. In Bsnkrnptcy. Telegram to the Herald. Boston, February 8.—A petition has been filed be - , . . , ; , , _ fore the register of bankruptcy, for placing Win Onmnai Iaflogoodcy hwjurived here, and will 8low alMuon<led forger , bankruptcy. couliuue his jourcey to morrow. SPAIN. Telegram to the Herald. Washinoton, Fabruaiy 3.—The Spanish legation received au official dispatch from SpAiu staling as the result oi the latest operation iu the north that the Alfonsists have almost entirely gained posses sion of Biscay and AIva. Gen. Martinez Campos occupies the whole valley of Bast in, interrupting the communications of the Carlists with France. The army of King Alfonso is now on the hills of Santa Barbara, which command th2 Car list strong hold Estella. Madrid, February 3.—Official returns represent that the Senatorial elections have resulted very favorably to the government. Among the success ful candidates are two Bishops, the Marquis of Mslinsand eleven Generals, iucluding Espartero, Quesada Letona aud Primo DeRivera. FRANCE. Telegram to the Herald. Paris, February 3.—1200candidates for’the Cham ber of Deputies are already in the field, aud 500 more are e ejed. ROME. Telegram to the Herald. Rome, February 3.—It is asserted that Cardinal Manning will come to Rome to defend before the sacred congregation a scheme which has been sub mitted to him, and on which he has been engaged for two year*, for the union of a portion of the En glish ritualistic clergy with the Roman Catholic Church. The Pope is believed to be in favor of the scheme, but the sacred congregation are opposed to it THE PRISON HORRORS. President Anderson, of the Rochester University, hss ueen offered the President cy of tbe Cincinnati University by the trustees of tbe fetter institution. Am UaparalMsS fclsrsi. Telegram to the Herald. Ox AM a, February 8— 1 The Union Pacific train due from the Weet to-day. Is twelve hours late. Reports from the West show tbe Union Pacific pret ty dear now. Tbe late storm L unparalleled In se verity end extent Tbe Genual Pacific is still blocked. It stormed so that the thoveler* aud.plow* had to abandon work yeetorday. Mad Scenes Among tlie Convicts In the Whisky Coses-’ 4 My Uod ! to Think I am Ilere P*— The Nnfferlng<t of Me- CirffT, and IIIn Former Position and Relations. Telegram to The Herald. Louisville, February 8.—The Indiana whisky convicts from Indianapolis have been placed in the penitentiary here to-day. The prisoners, previous to their present trouble, occupied high positions, aud were numbered among the best citizens of Evansville. The sentences read, for hard labor for the term* specified, for violation of the Revenue laws. A Courier-Jouma reporter succeeded in having a talk with the prisoners after they arrived at the prison. Albert McGriff was sitting on a smoking- lounge, with his face burieo in his hands, looking like a picture of grief and despair. The reporter touched him lightly on the shoulder when he started and raised his head. His face looked care worn and haggard, and his eyes were suffused with team. He ia sixty years old. He said: “My God ! To think that I^woulc^eveT come to a place Jike this. It will kill me—my hearl is crush- ow.” He spoke iu a voice fdeep with emotion, and was greatly agitated. “If it were not for my poor wife and son 1 believe Ijcould stand it. But to think ' the disgrace brought upon them is more than can Liar. It will kill my wife, she is sick now a^d this will kill her. But there is one conso- u. She knows I am innocent af the charge, swear to you that I am an innocent man.” He said that his was fifty-eight years old, and that he had been married thirty years. McG riff was well known and highly respected at Evansville befog for seven years the City clerk of that place, and a leading member of the Presbyterian church. He has the heart disease and it is the general onfo on among his friends that he will not long eui vive his impris onment. Jeffersonville, Ind., February 3.- BtripedJcon victs suits were giren to the whisky convicts which they put ou, and which altered them so much that they were scarcely recognizable whex fully rigged out They were taken to the house and assigned their quarters and cots. They will not at present have any work to do as the convicts are all idle. SPENCER SCOTCHED. Defeated In bin Plana, Sanbbed by kin Party Leaders, to be Exposed to Con- grew*. Telegram to the Herald. Montgomery, February 3.—A movement begun two months ago by Ex Gov. Smith, and other anti- Spencer Republicans, to free the party from Spen cer’s domination, has culminated in a complete overthrow of the latter’s power in Ala Dam a The 8tate Executive Committee, which he trols, and of which Mayer was once c hairman, but never a member originally, consisted of twelve. On the 29th of December it was increased to twenty-four, incompliance with a demand of the party, and then a new chairman, Mc Afee, was elected. Mayer aud McAfee each claimed to be chairman, and issued a call for the committee to meet in this city ou the 2nd instant. Mayer and his brother, Sneets, late Sixth Auditor, Heymau, late Deputy Revenue Collector Clark, postmaster Devery, and postmaste; L Turner, not enough to make a quorum, met at one place in this city yesterday. They called a State Convention for May V4th to select a State ticket and delegates to the Cincinnati Convention. McAfee had more than two-thirds of the number selected as a State Committee iu December, and had the most prominent Republicans in the State, such as ex-Gov. Smith, ex-Congressman Buckley, Gen Burke, and several State Senators and Represcnta tivea. This committee called a Convention for May lfith, and treat Spencer and his followers as dls- organlsers, and will officially expose them at Wash ington by a committee appointed for that purpose. SAVANNAH RACES. Telegram to the Herald. Savannah. February 8.—There was a very fine attendance at the third day’s races. There was splendid sport and flue races. In the Lamar stoke there was eight entries and da rev starters; Qnt, Athlene, Vifieland; mile heats. Grit won in two straight heats. Athlehe second, Vineland third Time, 151, 161^. In the second race, two mile heats, five entries, Osark won in two straight heats Prussian second, Tom O'Neill third, and others dis tanced. Time, 843^, 343%. In the third race, mile dash, five entiles, the favorite, Vanderbilt, was beaten. Survivor won, Vanderbilt second, Payne third, Starke fourth, Century fifth. Time, 147. HAMMER AND PISTOL. A Mmm % m Skull Crashed, and the Explo sion af Mia l*latal Weands Min As sailant* Telegram to the Herald. FobtBcott, Kansas, February S—A desperado named Davis drew a pistol on Samuel Harvey, whose brother, going stealthily behind Davis, crushed his skull with a hammer. He fell into a blacksmith fire, and his face was burned into a crisp. Davis pistol exploded Mmultaneously with the blow, and wounded Harvey’s arm,, the ball posting entirely through and lodging in the hip. Fayette llarvey esoaped. ACCIDENTS AND DISASTERS, What tka Wind and Flame* ^Have |Bren Doing’ Telegrams to the Herald. Boston, February 8.—The New Hampshire rail roads are ;>betructed by fallen trees It is the se rvant weatbor ever known. WnsmELD, Mass., February 8.—Thayer, Clarkson A Bull Ivan's cigar factory burned; loss 885,000. Nrwvort, R. I., February 8.—The steamer Block ■tone, from Providence to Baltimore, is in Dutch Isle harbor with her machinery disabled. The Sar agossa from Savannah towed her in. A tow-boat will bring her thence to Providence for repairs. Lebanon, Pa., February t —A tramp who took refuse in a stone .quarry in a storm woe killed by AmhrrstCollegrand Physical Training, Tele ram to the Herald. Boston, Feb 8.—Amherst College cannot afford the expense of a boat club, sad will give their en tire support to base ball. New I York and the tiald Unit. Telegram to tbe Herald. New York, February 3.—At a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce this afternoon a committee was appointed to consider the proposition peuding iu the senate iu regard to the gold unit and affect ing the gold coinage of the Uuited States. The Committee on Cuban Affairs made a lengthy report which contained no recommendations. Resolutions were adopted declaring that it would be unwise to transfer the control over the administration of the -hipping law from a Circuit Court to the United States Treasury Department. IM® &dcei[tis$in*nts. By Joyner & Ellis. Ob SatnrAay, 5th Int., at 104 O’Clock, We will sell in front of Store, (Maysou A Norman’s late stand), a desirable lot of sew and second HAND FURNITURE, GROCERIES, k-t of DRV GOODS, etc., etc., two new fine top buggies for, and in ac count of, shipper; also, leu new matire8S£r feb4-2t. 12ht SIGHT MYSTIC BBOTHERHOOD, Atlanta, Ga., February 4,1876. Attend regular meeting this evening, at tbe usual place, at vk o,clock. This is our most im port* ut meeting, being the annual election lor officers. Every member mud be present- feb4-lt HU1M. By Joyner & Ellis. T H* AUCTION SALE OF FINE GOLD WATCHFS. GOLD CHAINS. DIAMONDS, COLLAR AND SHIRT BUTTONS, OPERA GLASSES, etc., etc., will continue at our Auction Room Marietta Street, on Thursday. Friday and Saturday evenings, 3d, 4th and oth ilists., '•% o'clock. Goods on exhibition every day this week. f i3xJ18 PUBLIC MEETING It James’ Hall, To-night! A bill calling a Convention to frame a new Con stitution for Georgia, having pawed one branch of tae Legislature, and likely to pass the other, there will be a Public Meeting at James Hall, in Atlanta, to-night, at 7*4 o dock, and by special request of many leading Republicans, HOX. AMOS T. AKERMAN will address the meeting. Tbe citizens are invited to attend After the address of Mr. Aktrm&n.tbe Republicans of Fulton couutF. and those from other p*rts of the State who may be present, will proceed to commence the organization called for by this outrageous measure, and to take other proper steps relative thereto. WM MARKHaM, Ch*in&n County Ex Com. BKNJ. CgNLEY, Ch’man «'on Dis. rx Com, H. P. FARROW, Cb man State Cen. Com febi-lt. “CALLAWAY HOUSE,” Granite Block,Betweea Marietta St. A Iron Bridge, Nos. 15 and 17 Brood St., Atlanta, Ga. R OOMS all carpeted and well furnished. Tran sient Board $1.50 per day. Liberal terms made for a longer lime. Porters at all trains. C. J. MaCLELLAK, Late of the Macon Hotels, Proprietor. DISSOIi UTIOX. _ Estate Acents hss b*en dissolved by mutua consent Noah K. Fowler will continue the rent* business at the same place. WALLACE <fc FOWLER. fl-law-f22*207 LIFE X3Sr8TTXl.^CTC:E2 NOTICE. T he office of the widow and orphan hUND LIFE TNUURANCE COMPANY of Nash ville, Team, hss been removed from Alabama St, to No. 63 Whitehall St., Room No. I, over Schumann's drug store, where Policyholders srd persons seeking Insurance, or having Business with the t ompany, will find me r»ady to import any information desired. J. H. NURLAND. General agent ftzl90 For State of Georgia. BA N KRU PTCYl JOYNER & ELLIS, D. P. ELLIS, Auotionoar. T HE stock of a New York Wholesale Importing House at auction. Important to the trad* and public. Over $t <3,000 worth of Foreign and Do mestic DKY GOODS AT AUCTION! Great Bankrupt sale ot Dry Goods at No. 5* White hall street, Atlauta, commencing on Monday. Jan. 24, IbTA A large consignment of Foreign and Domestic DRY GOODS Consisting of English. French and German broad sad narrow Woolen Cloths of all ooades and colon. French, English and Scotch fancy Tweeds and Cam- simorvs. Furback. Moscow and Esquimaux Beavers. Chinchillas, Vestings, l ioakfopt, Ac. Also Scotch, French and German Paisley Cash- mores. Queensland and Ottoman Lace, and other laahionsble and desirable Shawls DRBSS GOODS. In great variety, such as heavy Black and Colored Silks. Satins, Irish and Lyous Poplins ail wool; Me rinos. Delaines, Satin Cloths, beryes elegant im ported Plaids Alpacas, Empress Cloths. Cashmeres. ac. A very rich and rare assortment of Lyons Silk Velvets. Velveteens, and flue Silk Flush Suitings. Prints, bleached and unbleached; Muaiins, from one to tim e vards wide; a large tine of Engllsn aud American Blankets. Ladies’, Gents’ and tibiidreu’s Uoisery. Glove*, Ac., together with a very choice and well selected stock of VelveL Brussels, Kid ier- misrister Tapestry and ingrain Carpeting. House Rugs. Dan ask, Swiss Nottingham Lace Curtains, Table aud other 1 Inena, from medium to the Quest imported, and a variety of other golds too numer ous to mention. Sale to continue from day to day until the entire Stock is disposed of. The whole to be sold without reserve, in lots to suit all. for cash. Saks trill com mence at 10 a. m., 2 and 7 r. u. feb’23iis9daw OOTHUALOOGA VALLEY LANDS For Sale. [ AM offering to sell my form, lying 2H miles south of Aaoirsville, Bartow county—10* i to fine state of cultivation, 10U in am excellent boay of bottom to clear, looga and Nancy’s creeks run through it, No better len.l. a. better watered or limbered place, and none In the Talley la bettor condition. It product* com. cotton, all the email train, and nnt at (Ice meadow land! aa can be found lo tola toctien. , , _ I will five any one a bargain In tola farm. lanSOttelM The Centennial H.OABRIhU Xbtxtv BCBNill, as Wautur Sraan. PHimuumn. * COOMMODATION8 for 7S.W01 — A. aooommodaUons now lor any tpecifled tone luring tbe Exposition, circulars forwarded to say riha UtCOKMAOO., Nana