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Telegraph J and Messenger.
MACON, MARCH 1, !870
The If oil.vo of Barkley A Co.
We have tlio subjoined melancholy report
And publish for the benefit of whom it may
concern:
Tbomasyille, Oi., February 18, 1870.
Messrs. Editors 2 degraph and Messenger :—
Dxas Sms:—The house of Barkley & Co., 5G
Liberty street, New York, are using your valua-
ble paper ns a medium through which they are
swindling people in the most shocking manner
I ever saw or heard of. They advertise under
the head of Holiday Presents. They offor to
sell musical boxes from $2 to $5—playing 25
tones—sent free of charges. I sent after ono,
to oost $5, laid down at my town. When it
camo the charges were run up to tho amount of
$7.25, and when tho box was opened it con
tained two lightwood knots and a Roman harp
about six inches long, such as could bo bought
in any town in tho South for 25 cents. Such is
the business that Barkley A Co., 56 Liberty
street, New York, are doing. T hold the box
and contents subject to inspection, and I hope
all honest publishing houses North and Sonth
will pass this around.
Let tho people take duo notice and govern
themselves accordingly.
Respectfully yours, Ac.,
Henry H. Sanpord.
It is proper to say that we have no means of
protecting our readers against advertisements
conceived in fraudulent design. Any order for
advertising coming to us with the money, or
through a responsible agent, is honored just the
same as an ordor for goods would be, under the
same circumstances. Tho advertisement in
question, wo think, came to us .through an ad
vertising agoncy. We are sorry that it has mis
led our correspondent into loss; bnt as tho
press is often unwittingly employed in the per*
petration of similar schemes upon the public
confidence, all shonld take warning not to put
themselves iu tho hands of such sharpers. It
may be assumed with certainty that all wonder
ful bargains advertised from tho centres of
trade in this country, aro sq many gull traps.
Yesterday being the birth day of George
Washington, ono of the greatest “rebels” that
over lived and worred upon the then “best
government tho world ever saw," was not cele
brated by his imitators in this section. Such
a demonstration might have been .offensive to
the “loyal” sensibilities at Washington and
Atlanta, and brought d?wn upon ns additional
pains and penalties. Wo hope onr motives aro
known and appreciated at both those places.
A Sliding Constitution.—Senator Morton in
his speech on tho Mississippi bill tho other day
said: ■
11 Tie denied the assumption upon which argu
ments on *he subject were generally based, that
in securing a Republican form of government
in the States it was essential that the means
should be uniform in every ease. Congress was
to bo the judge, not only of tho means, but of
their method of application. In a State where
the people could not read or write, what better
guarantee of a Republican government than the
general education of the people /”
Thus tho Radicals assert not only a power to
ran tho government ontsideof the Constitution,
and a power to amend the Constitution, by in
timidation and mastery over bogus State Leg
islatures, bnt a power of discretion in the inter
pretation and application of Us provisions to
tho different States*
Eight lawfully made cadets out of the twenty-
seven allotted the reconstructed States, and the
rest not only ultra carpet-bag but bought out
right, is tho first whiff from the committee now
investigating the little games of tho Southern
Congressmen from New England.
With this record it is a little hard that brother
Whittemore, of South Carolina, should bo the
only victim, when so many others of. the car
pet bag brotherhood in CoDgross have defiled
themselves in tho same way. Congress have,
in this occurrence, a golden opportunity to get
rid of most of that crowd and take tho chances
for men of character and respectability.
Finding their Level Again.—Tho Lynch
burg Republican says that among a lot of ne
groes who had been collected in the border
connties of Virginia and North Carolina, and
who passed through that city a fow days ago,
was one who had been ono of Holden’s magis
trates, another who had figured ss president of
a registration board, and a third who had served
the State as teacher in one of the pnblic
Schools. They had all lost their plaaes and got
ten out at the elbow, and professed to be will,
ing to earn an honest living by the labor of
their hands and the sweat of their brows.
The caso of the State Treasurer against tho
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company,
to be heard before tho Supremo Court of Errors
at Hartford, next week, is tho most important,
pecuniarily, ever tried in Connecticnt. It re
lates to tho taxibility of government bonds in
the hands of the mutual insurance companies,
and involves directly $103,000, and indirectly,
very much more. Tho main question raised
under tho section of the* tax law in which tho
suit is brought, is whether the tax is a tax upon
franchise or npon property, and there is an
incidental point, whether ascertainedlosses and
dividends, declared bnt not paid, constiluto a
part of the proceeds of insurance.
Tho following scone illustrates the progress
of temperance principles in Washington:
At a late reception the wife of a moneyed
committeeman, in a blissful state, enters the
punch-room on her husband's arm. A Radical
politician passing, sho greets him: “Say,
Charley, won’t you drink some champagne in
my shoo 7” Radical politician blushes danger
ously. Hushand, appealingly: “My dear, I
think the carriage must be ready by this time.”
Brigham and the Internal Revenues.—
Brigham Young, and his Church, of which he
is treasurer, havo been assessed an income of
about two miliious of dollars—say a round hun
dred thousand dollars tax, which brother Brig
ham refuses to pay. They say Gen. Sherman
is going to send some collectors after Brigham,
with bayonets, to persuade him to pay this tax.
Brigham tithes the saints, and tho government
wants to titho Brigham. '
Cotton yet to ee Picked.—The Memphis
Ledger,' of the 18th, says there are half a mil
lion’s worth of cotton now lying in the fields in
the region of country tributary to Memphis,
which cannot be picked for want of labor. We
suspect that cotton is a little stained by this
time, but still, if it is there," it offers a situation
to people out of employment.
A Piova Fraud.—It is said that tho counter
feit five cent nickles may be known by the fact
that the motto, “In God We Trust," is much
larger than in tho genuine. Look out for tho
five cent counterfeits, and never mind the fifty
cents or the twenty dollars. “Take care of the
pennies,” you know, “and the pounds will take
care of themselves.”
The Ice Cro£.—Reports from the Northern
loo crop are more encouraging. The New York
companies are seonring a snpply of low mid
dling short ataplo ice from tho Northern lakes,
from five to tight inches thick.
Dees is so plentiful in Mississippi this winter
that venison is a drug in the market.
Tit* Georgia Vat Hard for Coagrnp
to Crack.
[ H'aiA. Dispatch, (16th^j to Cincinnati Gazette
The Georgia case proves to be a hard nut for
the Senate Judiciary Committee to crack. They
spent the whole of to-day's session at it, and
ended this evening just where they began. They
are almost unanimous in dislike at the way in
whioh things have been managed since the pas
sage of the Deoember reconstruction set The
chief cause of complaint being that General
Terry held a military inquiry as to the eligibili
ty of members of the Legislature. Some of the
committeemen say this action' was a dear and
palpable violation of the spirit of that act,
while others content themsflvea with saying it
was contrary to the genius of our Institutions.
It must be added, in behalf of General Ter
ry, that his proceedings were over and over
again sanctioned by the President and Cabinet,
as they doubtless will be by Congress. The
committee hold that if is best, however, to get
through with the reconstruction business as soon
as possible, and they will probably bring in &
bill for the restoration of the State, with the
Legislature as it now stands. Governor Bol
lock and other State officials set up a claim that
they are now entitled to hold their several posi
tions for the whole period for which they were
elected, beginning at the present time. The
committee will reject this claim quite decided
ly, and probably signify in the written report,
that a new and regular election must be held
next fall. The Senatorial question is by no
means the least difficult of the issues presented
iu this anomalous business. Hill and Miller
were elected before the colored members were
turned But of the Legislature, and many Sena
tors last year argued that the proceedings of
that body before this expulsion were all right.
The expurgated Legislature has -now elected
new men, who will be hero next week with their
credentials. Tho members of the committee
are not yet able to give an opinion as to what
action they will take on this issue. Bullock and
the Legislature of last winter undertook to pro
vide that the persons elected to the House two
years ago, should hold seats to the end of the
present Congress, bnt this assumption was set
aside by the House itself, two or three weeks
ago, and therefore the State will not bo repre
sented in that body this session, whatever re
sult is reached on the Senatorial question.
If Gov. Bullock don’t succeed in carrying his
point of counting the term of office of himself
and Agency from the so-called organization, his
victory will be barren, indeed. If an election
is ordered next fall, all his outrages, nsurpa
tions and slanders will tarn to ashes on his lips.
We can almost find it in onr heart to pity even
him, to such an ovent. Never will a desperate
conspirator who had staked his all onHhe suc
cess of a hazardous plot, have been more crush-
ingly defeated. He knows too well what an
swer the people would give to him if ho was
forced to appeal next fall to the ballot box. We
can folly realize with what a lively apprehen
sion ho most read such dispatches as the
above.
AH Ilail.
The Northern Radical papers of Saturday an-
ranco tho Nebraska ratification and final
trinmph of tho Fifteenth Amendment, with r.
general shout of “all hail !”• All hail, says the
New York Tribune, and all hail responds For
ney’s Press. All hail says the Chicago Tribune,
and all hail says tho Boston Traveller, and they
all keep hailing with the thermometer down to
thirty degrees below zero—too cold, in fact, for
naturo to sympathize in the general hail storm.
Tho Radicals hail it as the acquisition of a bal
ance of power negro vote in their favor in
tho moro closely divided Northern and Western
States. The Democrats deplore it as the most
important step yet made in the consolidation of
power into the hand3 of Congress, and another
and lamentable departure from the true theory
of American Republicanism os founded by the
Fathers. The proclamation'will doubtless be
issued to-day, 22d February. The Tribune
winds np its glorification thus:
We hope the proclamation which formal’y an
nounces that this article is henceforth n part of
the Federal Constitution, and must as such be
respected and obeyed, may boar date February
22, 1870, being tho 108th anniversary of George
Washington’s birth. It is fit that this benign
measure of peace and justice shonld be issued
on that joyous National holiday.
And now for universal amnesty! Our triumph
is not perfect so long, as one man shall remain
disfranchised and incapable of taking office be
cause of our late convulsion. We have fought
Secession; tho Ropnblio has conquered; her
triumph is perfect. Now, “Let ns have peaco.”
Latest Radical News from Wash'
inston. "
The Atlanta Era, of yesterday, says:
odr senators to be ADMITTED. .
The admission of Messrs. Farrow and Whitely,
is, wo have every reason to believe, only a ques
tion of time. Mr. Hill, who claimed a seat in
the United States Senate, in virtue of an elec
tion in 18G8, by an illegally organized body call
ing itself a Legislature, has returned to Geor
gia—tbns virtually abandoning his suit.
We learn by special advices from Washing
ton that everything is working favorably to the
early admission of the State to her proper re
lations to the Union, and that perhaps ere tho
close of the present week, Congress will com
plete the work of reconstruction by recognizing
tho present as the only legally organized Leg
islature in the State since tho war, and by rat
ifying its action as organized under the act of
December 22d last.
We give the above for what it is worth; pre
mising that tho Era, very probably, through the
author of these identical “special advices from
Washington,” gained, not long ago, great repu
tation for truth and accuracy by publishing an
utterly false statement, that the President had
openly and positively assured Gov. Bollock,
that Hill and Millor should not, and wonld not
be admitted to their seats in the Senate. Tho
legal maxim falsum in uno falsum in omnibus,
is suggested in this case with irresistible force.
Branded for Life.
Fallen indeed from the august place it once
held in the regard of the whole people, re
marks the New Orleans Picayune, “must be the
Supreme Court of the United States, when an
individual nominated to a seat in it can descend
so low, and so far violate all the proprieties of
judicial life, as to indicate even to a Senator in
Congrejs, his opinion on any given subject,
which may come before that tribunal for decis-
Yet so wretched a thing has been done
by William Strong, of Pennsylvania, who has
been nominated by the President as an Asso
ciate Justice to fill the vacancy made by the
retirement of the learned Grier. Yielding to
the fear that he might be rejected by the Senate
unless he distinctly made known that he was to
be as much a Radical partisan as an impartial
judge, this Mr. Strong has written a letter to
Senator Cameron, assuring him that he was
sound on that pet Radical measure, the legal
tender act, as he had ruled it to be constitution
al as one of the judges of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, and had actually prevented-it
being declared unconstitutional by that body."
If this pitiful abasement ought to brand and
disgrace Strong the remainder of his days,
what measnro should be meted out to the Pres
ident of tho United States who degrades his
high office, and insults the supreme judicial
tribunal of tho country, by declaring pnblidy
that no man shall bo a member of it who does
not promiso, beforehand, to decide the act in
question to be constitutional? Strong- haa
simply written himself down a poor, pitiful
creature whoso lust for office is much more pow
erful than shame, conscience, self-respect, or a
desire for the respect of honorable men. What
character, with honorable men, has Grant given
himself by his action in the matter ?
A Chicopee (Mass.) company is filling a eon-
tract for making a peculiar adjustable horse
shoe (the invention of a Baltimorean,) which is
mado to bo taken off at night, or'when the
horse is Dot being used, and put on when want
ed, as readily as a pair of boots. The corks of
the shoe aro also adjustable, and new ones can
befitted when one set is worn out. Horsemen
say it is a “big thing.”
J Lsok Out Bayers.
From thellalnetviUe (A7a.) Rets Ere.. |
- Messrs. Wail street Speculators, Stock Gam
bian and Swindling Fraternity generally, what
a glorious time you are having as lobby mem
bers of the different Southern Legislatures 1—
What splendid schemes you are devising and
executing for the farther impoverishment of the
conquered provinces. Row easy it is, and how
cheap to purchase the votes of the Hon. 'Sambo
Bowlegs, Potnpey Hogthief, Jonathan Sharp and
Obadiah Quick, the Senators from the Cotton
fields of Florida and onion beds of Connecticut,
in the passage of certain bills to put millions in
your pocket, and a load of debt around our necks.
Tbo financial abilities that have distinguished
you as a class, have had ample opportunities for
glorious and profitable development, and your
gigantic plans entitle you to immortality. How
deep an interest do you manifest in our welfare,
ye noble philanthropists! How magnanimous
to build our railroads, charging us only five
times the actual cost, and taking onr bonds in
payment thereof 1 Kind and amiable benefac
tors we appreciate your unselfish motives, and
can scarcely find suitable language with which
to express onr gratitude and admiration! You
are Bailing now over a smooth and smiling sea,
oh swindlers, in company with venal Governors,
ignorant negroes and greedy Yankees!
But a change must come sooner or later, and
you will awake yet from yotur halcyon slumbers
to see the lightning in the eyes and hear the
the thunder in the voices of an aroused and in
dignant people. To be plain with you, they
will break the bonds with whioh you seek to
fetter them, and .enslave their children. We
choose not to work for you, Yankee taskmas
ters. Just as soon as we have the power, and
the day of onr deliverance is almost dawning,
we intend to repudiate all the fraudulent con
tracts you have made with our corrupt and ir
responsible Legislatures. Take due notice of
this declaration. Who is to pay this debt ?
Not the Legislatures who make it. They are
penniless adventurers. Not the party who
placed them in power. Not one-in ten of their
number is a tax-payer. But we, we, the former
owners of the soil, who are neither represented
in the State or National Councils, are expected
to be “hewers of wood and drawers of water"
for yon and your descendants. If the bonds
with which your coffers are filled turn, at some
future day, into worthless paper, you may gnash
your teeth with impotent rage, and we shall
smile at yonr futile threats. You are fore
warned, and if you persist in your thievish
machinations, you may take the consequences.
Our people will see no dishonor in refusing to
pay olaims based on corruption, obtained by
fraud, and purchased by opon and unblushing
bribery.
With some modifications, this’ is the exact
language that the people of Georgia address to
their plunderers, and all who are waiting to take
stock in the manifold schemes of jobbery and
robbery now pending the clearing up of the
Senatorial muddle at Washington. We have
sounded public sentiment pretty thoroughly,
and we know its purpose. The people of Geor
gia, the real owners of her property of every
description, the men who own lands, houses,
railroads, factories, bonk stock, and everything
else that is fax able, will never pay any unjust
debts saddled upon them by the greedy adven
turers, and mean ronegades, and ignorant ne
groes who, as matters now stand, control tho
Atlanta Agency. They will fight to the last over
every cent of such indebtedness, and those who
realize anything from them out of it, will have
a merry time, indeed. The credit of the State
is as much an object of solicitude and pride
with them now as formerly, when they. had it
in charge, but they will not pay any swindles
and jobs saddled upon the Stato under that
guise.
We have spoken of this thing before, and wo
speak of it again because we have more evidence
every day of the determination of the tax pay
ers not to be robbed after any such fashion.
We want all who are waiting t<v take stock in
Georgia’s plundering, to know what they must
risk, whether they came from Wall street, or
Washington City, or are lying in wait around
our own cities. We understand that quite a for
midable native lobby has been organized to
commence operations as sooh as tho Agency re
assembles, and we suppose quite a number of
Northern sharks and capitalists will bo on hand
when that time arrives. It has donbtiess been
given out in New York, Washington, Boston,
Philadelphia, and Chicago that the Georgia goose
is tho fattest of all, and that it is to b9 picked
clear. Well, let those raiders come. We are ready
for them, and we tell them now, most solemnly,
that unless they realize the cash on their little
transactions, they will be plucked instead of the
goose. Be tho reign of Radicalism long or short
in Georgia,.when it does come to an end, the
people will wipe out and utterly repudiate all
its financial policy and burdens, just as surely
os they will its political iniquities. Don’t let any
man in that day, then, be heard whining about
repudiation, or clamoring to have bis money
back. Ho will deserve no sympathy. All who join
hands with the “riDg” now do so at their peril,
and with a full knowledge of the risks ahead of
them. Wo declare, in the name of the real peo
ple of this State, that they will never, never, nev
er consider as binding, nor regard as sacred, any
obligations laid npon their shoulder, other than
for true and legitimate objects and the real
needs of the State. Honest ’debts will bo
squared, but jobs, swindles, and all sorts of
shady claims will join ante-bollum debts, Con
federate bonds, et id omne genus, “where ihe
woodbine twineth.”
Wo speak as unto men who are “sharp,” if
nothing else. Let them heed our warning, and
hunt other investments. This good old Com
monwealth can and always will pay the last
cent of her just debts. But she will not live in
poverty and shame, and bequeath to her chil
dren, to the latest generation, an intolerable
legacy of debt in order that tho carpet-baggers
may go back home with their pockets staffed to
live in marble palaces and -ride in gilded
coaches. Therefore; let speculators, capital
ists and all others who are mustering for the
grand raid, be not deceived by the false lights
of the wreckers of the lobby and the “ring.
Soathern Trade SJeet.
The Boston Courier sends out what it styles s
“Southern Trade Sheet,” designed as an organ
of Trade communication with the Southern peo
ple from the Hub. One of the singular facts of
the times is this: That while Boston, New York
and Philadelphia are stretching out their Bria-
rean hands to compass Southern trade as the
only kind of trade now going of much value,
their whole force in Congress is spent in inflict
ing vindiotive and embarrassing legislation npon
the people with whom they are seeking to ex
tend business relations. They are asking for
more trade,-but doing their “level best” to de
range society, cripple industry, disorder govern
ment and impair the capacity of the people for
a large end safe trade.
These things, it is claimed, are done in the
interests of the African population of the Sonth
who, it is said, are the real Southern producers;
but we do not see that the Northern traders
make any effort to open commercial intercourse
with the Southern blacks.- Their dimness, it
seems, is with the whites altogether, and their
polities tot the blacks altogether. We would
submit to a oounoil of Congoes, whether this
is “ toting fair."
Whatever exportable value is produced annu
ally by Southern labor, white or black, is as
purely a trophy of capital, and intelligent, in
tellectual and physical white labor, as are the
products' of any other seotion. Without the
whites these values would no more be created
than the wonderfal internal and architectural
improvements of the North wonld be created
without the best financial and intellectual ener
gy of that seotion. It is true, that much of our
field labor is done by the Southern blacks; nnd
so it is also true, that moat of the coarser rail
road, and manufacturing and bnilding labor of
the North is done by foreigners. Bnt the actual
results in both cases are due to the capital, en
ergy and intelligence of the intelligent people,
and are created and controlled by that people.
Hence wfyen Congress, at ihe solicitation of
the Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania
politicians, labors so diligently to put the intel
ligent force of the Sonth at the mercy of the
Ignorant and unenlightened, and sodnlonsly en
deavors to deprive the owners of tho soil of all
control over thoir own affairs, even the taxation
which shall be imposed npon them, it strikes
the most deadly blow possible at tho productive
energy of the Sonth.
Let tho Northern merchants send ns just and
wise legislation and that will be better for them
and for ns than any trading sheets they can cir
culate. Bat not mnch is to be accomplished by
sending by one and the same mail trading sheets
and disqualifying and vindictive statutes, de
signed to put the Southern whites under foot—
to take away from them all control of their own
affairs and put it into the hands of adventurers
to be nsed in plunder and oppression.
- Tlie Uses oi Cotton Seed.
We have, in this edition, reprinted an article
from tne Cincinnati Gazette, whichj it seems to
ns, is well worthy the consideration of planters.
If the statements of this article are trne, • the
question of subsisting plantation stock without
the help of Western com is a very simple one.
It can be done with the oil cake meal, supple
mented with a few oats and long forage, leaving
the com, if needed, for bread.
By the force of these statements, an enor
mous waste is made to appear in nearly the
whole oil producing resources of the enormous
mass of Southern cotton seed. A few of these
oil mills exist, for example, at Mobile, Now^)r-
leans and Memphis; bnt there ought to be one
in every important planting centre, and it shonld
be combined with the manufacture of ferlili-
rs.
A bill was passed some time ago for tho in
corporation of two companies in Georgia for
the manufacture of acid3. These ought to be
manufactured in Georgia, because the freights
upon acids (being very dangerous) are very
high, and the acids constitute a largo expense
in tho manufacture of superphosphates, which
are certainly among the most efficacious ma
nures for cotton. It i3 high timo that wo
shonld begin to consider the economies of a
successful agriculture.
Bradley’s Biography.
We are indebted to the Gourier-Joumal for a
full, true and particular history of Grant’s last
appointee as Supreme Court Judge. For con
venience we divide it into five chapters:
chapter west.
He was bom at Berne, New Jersey.
CHAPTER SECOND.
In his boyhood he wore homespun and drove
a charcoal wagon.
CHAPTER THIRD.
Ho has a brother in Springfield, Massachu
setts, who is a shoemaker.
CHAPTER FOURTH,
He was ohieflly instrumental in getting up
the subscription to buy and present to Grant a
cottage at Long Branch.
CHAPTER FIFTH.
He has pledged himself to decide the legal
tender act constitutional.
"What reoord could give more satisfatory as
surance of his eminent fitness for the high po
sition he has been thrust into 7
Leaving Out Yieqinnt.— The Lynchburg
News, of Monday, says:
One hundred negroes, men, women and chil
dren, left hero Saturday for the South. The
most of "them were destined for Mississippi,
where they have been employed to work on the
farm of GoL Huff, of that State.
According to a recent estimate the popnla
tion of the globe is 1,228,000,000 souls. Of
this number 552,000,000 belong to the Mongo
lian race, 360,080,000 to the Gaueassiau 190,-
000,000 to the Ethiopian, 176,000,000 to the
Maylay, and 1,000,000 to the Indo-American
ce. The annual mortality is over 83,000,000,
The “gaieties of the season” are now toler
ably numerous in Washington. A belle of the
capital recently visited seven social entertain
ments in one night, and declared, as sho con
cluded her half hour at the seventh, that she
had “two more to go to” before daylight.
THE COTTON TRADE.
Interesting Statistics from the London
Times.
The following interesting statistics of the cot
ton trade in Europe are given by the London
Times:
The import of ootton into Great Britain in
18C9 amounted to only 3,882,620 bales, weighing
1,198,354,550 pounds, or 277,510 bales (93.603,-
380 pounds) less than in 1878. The decrease
has arisen chiefly from a deficiency in the crops
of the United States and of South America.
The imports from India exceed those of 1SGS
by 44,540 bales, and those from the Mediterra
nean and miscellaneous sources by 36,190 bales.
The total import into all Europe in 18G9
amounted to 4,565,000 bales, (averaging 353
ponnds each, of which 3,383,000 were received
into British and 1,182,000 into Continental ports.
Of the 3,383,000 bales into Great Britain, 792,-
000 bales were re-exported to the Continent—
making the total snpply to foreign Europe ],-
974,000 bales, and leaving 2,591,000 for British
consumption. The deliveries to English spin
ners in the year were 2,G28,000 bales, and 1;-
9G6,000 to Continental spinners. In bales of
400 ponnds each the deliveries to spinners were:
1869. 1867. 1860.
Great Britain 2,854.000 2,348,230 2,817,950
France 607.250 645,750 674.250
Germany A Holland.530,GOO 454.250 438 500
Best of Continent. .551,260
TIm Trade In Cadetsfefp*.
The Herald summarise® the testimony before
the Military - Committee in the fallowing.—
Nothing illustrate* the character of the parties
more clearly than the cant In whioh they give
their testimony: - ^
The House Militaxy Committee had several
witnesses before it to-day, among them B. F.
Whittemore, of South Carolina ;A.; H. Sypher,
of Louisiana, and E. P. Brooks. Mr. Wbitte-
rnore "who, it Will be remembered, waa accused
of selling a cadetship, e£T“ he.??™ the oommit-
tee to explain and give his yersioii of
which is in substance as follows: He statea
E. P. Brooks offered him two thousand dollars
for his cadetship, but that ho refused to sell it
He subsequently gave,it to the son of a perso
nal friend from Massachusetts who had moved
iuto his district in South Carolina. He admit
ted that two thousand dollars had been sent into
his district to be used for educational purposes
and was put to bis credit This, he said, camo
from a friend bnt it is understood that he did
notexplaiu to the satisfaction of the committee
whether that friend was identical with the one
whose son he appointed to the cadetship. Mr.
Whittemore says the letter produced by Mr. P.
H. Kegler, proposing to'sell a cadetship for
$500, is a forgery. He never was offered less
than $2,000 for it. Mr. E. P. Brooks was .re
called, and substantiated Whittemoro’s testimo
ny, so' fAT as the offer , of the $2,000 is con
cerned.
J. H. Eypher, of Louisiana, also one of those
accused of selling cadetships, appeared, before
the committee to explain the evidence offered
against him. He said there wasn’t a word of
truth in it; that it was a sot-up job on tho part
of certain persons who wished to revenge -them
selves on his brother in Philadelphia and him
self. He intimated that it grew out of the pub
lication of the private correspondence which ap
peared in a New York paper last fall, and which
oreated considerable interest at the time. Ho
stated that E. P. Brooks, the witness who testi
fied against nim, came to him last winter at his
hotel and proposed to talk business to him.
Mr. Sypher, in reply to the question whether
Brooks oould talk business to him, replied that
it depended npon the character of tho business.
Mr. Brooks then said that he wanted to buy his
cadetship, to which Mr. Sypher replied,
“Brooks, you can’t talk business to me on that
subject.” Brooks then said he wonld see his
brother in Philadelphia abont it; to which Sy
pher says he replied, “You can do as yen chooso
about that.” When the conference ended Sy
pher, says Brooks wrote to his brother at Phila-
delplUh, but received no answer; whereupon'
he. Brooks, went over to Philadelphia, saw J.
R. Sypher, but received no satisfaction. - This
is J. H. Sypher’s version of the story. Upon
being asked what he did with his cadetship, he
replied that ho had appointed a boy from Lou
isiana, upon the recommendation of the Gov
ernor of that State.
628,750
681,750
4.611.-000
Total 4,043,000 3,887,000
There are now, by the latest official returns,
32,000,000 spindles in the British Kingdom,
against 30,000,000 in 1860.
The falling off in the home consumption of
cotton goods has been attributed by temperance
advocates to increased habits of intemperance,
leaving the working classes less money to
spend on clothing., By the advocates of reci
procity it was attributed to the French Treaty
having inundated our markets with French fab
rics, whioh undersold our own in the homemar-
ket The truth is that the war (in America)
completely changed the relative positions of
the textiles, and cotton, instead, of being the
cheapest, beeame the dearest article of clothing.
The production of wool and flax was stimulated
in an extraordinary degree by the advance which
immediately occurred in prices, and the con
sumption of woollen and linen fabrics was enor
mously inoreased, woollen cloth superseded f na
tion, and worsted dresses took the place of cot
ton prints, and calico shirtings gave way to
woolen and linen. And, although the price of
cotton has experienced a marked decline from
the highest point, it is still fifty per cent, above
the rates which gave to it complete supremacy
over the other textiles; and our people have
become so accustomed to the wear of the wool
len and linen substitutes, that they will only be
won back to the old style of clothing by a re
turn to something like the former range of
values.
The relative production of Cotton, woolen
and linen goods, during these last four years,
as compared with four years ending I860, has
been:
Exported.
1858-61. 1866-9.
Colton, percent. 774 82.7
Woo’en 5.9.3 67.4
LinenT 50.0 54.0
Homo
Consumption.
1858-61. 1866-9.
22.3
40.7
60.0
28.8
17.3
32.6
4G.0
25.3
Total 71.2 74.7
The woolen figures are exclusive of the shod
dy trade, and of tho wool derived from slaugh
tered animals of which we have no trustworthy
statistics.
The probable supply of Cotton this year will
be 1,275,000 bales from America, 1,600,000 from
India, 550,000 from Brazil, 230,000 from Egypt,
Ao., and 150,000 bales from the West Indies,
<to. This gives a probable import for 1870 of
3,760,000 bales. This, after deducting 850,000
bales for probable export, will give a total sup
ply to British mills of 55,000 bales per week,
against 50,000 last year, leaving a surplus stock
at the end of the year 60,000 bales in excess of
what it was at the end of 1869.
“Draw Poker,” with Bio Stakes.—A Wash
ington correspondent gives outsiders a lively
inside view of divers little gambling games that
are all the rage now at Washington. Among
them is draw poker, which loads all the rest.
Rumor says that a room at one of the leading
West-End hotels is devoted exclusively to poker
playing, ono of the proprietors taking a hand
himself. A night or two since, at one of these
gatherings, a visitor was mulcted to tho tune of
five thousand dollars.
Among the Congressional Representatives
present at this party were the “knight of the
white mustache,” -the would bo Tycoon of
New York city, (Fernando Wood,) the “knight
of tho big moustache," who sits with the ma
jority and represents tho Stato of Illinois, (Lo
gan—and by tho way is said to bo the acme , of
poker-players,) and the “knight of the stubby
moustacho,” from Ohio, (Schenck,) who holds
the cards more in his hand at the round table
than he did as a-General in the Federal army.
At this game, a straight flush is allowed to
beat four aceq. White moustache held one of
these marvels on Friday evening last, and
caught an opponent to tho tune of a cool thou
sand.
Tho “Picayune Game,” before alluded to,
takes place also at one of tho leading down
town hotels. A Western Senator and ex-Gov-
emor, a Western Representative and ex-Sen-
ator, and a big Representative from Kentucky,
being among tho nightly participants. Unlike
its rival at the West End, this gamo does not
assnme a sporting character. Strangers are not
allowed a hand, and the game is kept up purely
for amusement.
These private “sports” seriously affect the
faro banks, and lessen the number of thoir
visitors and tho amount of their receipts.
They tell a good story of a certain well
known Professor of Natural Science. It was
tho custom of the Doctor to encourage his ge
ology class to collect specimens and bring them
into tho class for analysis and classification
So one day a number of specimens were laid
upon the table, and amoDg them one broken
bit, which, although streaked and stained to
impose on the Doctor, was really nothing but
a piece of jomcaon brick. In due time the
Professor came to the specimens. Taking up
one, he says at a glance: “This is a piece of
baryta from the Cheshire mines;” holding up
another, * This is a piece of feldspar from the
Portland quanies; the next is a piece of quartz
from Haddam ; and this,” coining to the
brick, “is a piece of impudence from some
member of this ola&s.”
Philadelphia Southern Trade.—Tho Phila
delphia Press of Saturday says:
Onr city’s Southern trade is daily increasing,
bnt the lack of means of transportation Sonth
is a serious drawback. Yesterday morning a
line of drays four squares long was left stand
ing unloaded because the Savannah and New
Orleans steamships were already overcrowded.
Messrs. Sonder & Co.’s Charleston lines were
also unable to accommodate shippers, and at
noon were compelled to refnse freight. Is not
this sufficient proof that more steamships for
the Southern trade are needed? Is there not
enough enterprise among Philadelphia mer
chants to provide this necessity?
The Transit of Venus, in 1874, has engaged
the attention of the North German Confedera
tion, and a scientifio commission has reported
upon the best means of taking the observations.
The report recommends that four parties of
scientifio observers be sect out, two. to differ
ent points in the Northern hemisphere, and two
to the Southern hemisphere. By this plan the
North German Confederation will collect the
necessary elements to determine the sun’s par*
allax without depending upon observations taken
by other nations.
The Cold Snap in Charleston.—The News of
Monday says:
The sodden cold change of Friday night has
proved very disastrous to vegetation on the
farms in the neighborhood of the city. Ioe of
considerable thickness was formed, and the sur
face of the ground frozen hard. Green peas,
tomatoes, and the earlier vegetables were nipped
in the bnd; peach blooms were destroyed, and
all growing crops injured. There was a cold
rain yesterday morning, but the weather subse
quently cleared, and by night it was quite mild.
Black Specks in the Face.—These specks,
usually supposed to be small worms, may be
squeezed out by a gentle pressure, but will
come again in a few days. A permanent cure
can be effected by tho use of the following pre
paration : White brandy, two ounces ; cologne,
one ounce; liquor potash, one-half ounce.
Wash tho face with warm water, use a rough
towel, then apply a little of the preparation.
This receipt has sold as high as a hundred dol
lars, and is certainly worth trying.
Bound to go Back to her 9a.
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin Feb. 7.
A curious scene was recently enacted at the
Union Depot. A young, newly married eoople
from a neighboring city came in on the train
from Chicago, their destination being Minne
apolis. From the young man’s strry it was
learned that They were married in Chicago and
went up in the vicinity of Minneapolis, where
he worked in a mill. A few weeks ago the two
went to Chicago to visit the girl’s parents, and
having paid their visit, were now going back to
their home. While sitting in the ladies’ room
in the depot, the wife went to the ticket offioe,
and asked if there was another train for Chica
go night. Being told that there was, she
turned to her il^band, and said: “Jim, yon
can go on to that wooden CCWtrv if you want
to, I'm going back (o Chicago to-night.'
The poor husband was thunderstruck at this
intelligence, and asked his wife what she meant,
bnt she vouchsafed no reply, save this : “You
go your way to the North, Jim, and I’ll go back
to Ohioago.” Poor Jim’s eyes began to fill
with tears, and, taking his better half one side,
he talked to her in' a very- low tone, and evi
dently pleaded his casq^very earnestly; bnt the
Bhake of the hood, and occasional sniffle of the
wife, showed that she had made np her mind
and would act accordingly. After Jim had
tearfully pleaded some time, she turned to him
and said, just to spite him: “It ain’t no nee,
Jim; I’ve gotsick of this thing, and it might
jnat as well be wow as any time; I’m going
home, and yon may go where yon please.”
“But, Susan, only see how it looks-”.
“I don’t care how it looks—I’m sick of it, and
I’m sick of yon too, Jim; I’m going back to my
mother, and yon’d better go on. Good-bye.
Jim.”
Jim was not .going off in any such way as
that. Never mind what had become of the
hpggago- He had before only shed tears, bnt
now he sobbed in downright earnest, and really
seemed to take he matter much to heart. The
wife called him a booby and fool, but in spite of
all that Jim kept on crying, and clung to his
wife nntil the night train was ready to move off,
and then went on board, the last heard from
him being a sob and a- pleading entreaty that
Susan would give up tho foolish notion in her
head and go to Minnesota with him. Some of
the looYers-on pitied him very mnoh, while
others laughed at his misfortfines, and really
felt'that he was a booby, a3 his Susan pro
nonneed him. .
Scarcity of Labor in Southwestern
Tennessee.
Owing to tho want of labor,.much of .the cot
ton in tho region adjacent to Memphis has not
been picked, and will ba'a loss. In the region
tributary to Momphis, it is estimated that
$500,000 worth of last year’s crop has gone to
waste in the fields. A plan has been suggested,
though too late for this season, which appears
both novel and feasible, to secure cotton-pick
ers for two months in the year from East Ten
nessee. It is proposed to send responsible
agents into that end of the State to gather np
men and boys, who in the fall season have little
work to do, and bring them to West Tennessee
on good pay, and when they are done to take
them back. The railroads have signified their
willingness to transport such parties at a mere
nominal price.—Memphis Ledger, 18th.
A Strange Meeting of Two Couple.—The
New Orleans Pioayune says:
—Some years since, a respectable merchant of
this city, then living in another State, was di
vorced from his wife. He left the place of his
domestic misfortunes and came hero. Time
cured the sting of his lacerated affections, and
he married again. His divorced wife married^
too. This was known to both, bnt no comma-
Dication, by letter or otherwise, was kept up .
and so the years went by, and each was almost
forgotten by tho qiher in tho new ties they had
formed. Bat accident has some queer meet
ings, and fate plays curious tricks. It so hap
pened that the divorced wife and her present
husband came to New Orleans some weeks
since, and on Sunday attended church. Being
strangers, they were shown to a vacant pew,and
prepared to engage in the service. But just
then the owner of the pew and his wife came
in. It was large enough for all, and the strang
ers were requested to remain seated. There
was something, however, in the gentleman’s ap
pearance that attracted tho attention of the lady
visitor, and watching him closely, their eyes
met in mutual recognition. It was the divorced
wife and husband. After the lapse of many
years they met in this strange way. They kept
their counsel, however, and when the service
was over parted as strangers.
It is current newspaper gossip that more than
70 per cent, of Ihe children bom in Romo are
illegitimate. By tho “old saw,” it is to be taken
for granted, therefore, that ho is a wise son in
Rome who knows his own father, even if he has
a Roman nose. The inference is rather dam
aging, however, to the popularity of another
“old saw," that “when you’re in Rome yon are
to do as Rome does.”
God be, the seoeding Mormon elder, is the
husband of fonr wives and the father of seven
teen children. Upon being excommunicated he
told his plural wives they could have divorces if
they chose, and he wonld divide his proporty
pro rata between them.- They preferred to re
main.
A negro in South Carolina will occupy the
woolsack of the supreme bench, whereby we
shall have the phenomenon of a nigger with
wool at both ends of him.
“Antt-Rcbder Stick.”—A New York editor
has been shown a wonderful invention, termed
an “anti-robber stick,” in the handle of which
is located a small galvanic battery. A slight
pressure causes the instant throwing ont of a
strong steel needle at the othtr end, and pene
trating tho highwayman who comes in contact
with it. The galvanism of the machine at once
paralyzes him, and it becomes an easy matter
to capture or get away from him. The editor
aforesaid saw the inventor experiment on a dog.
He touched the animal with tho Be' din, and
instantly the dog became B3 stiff and ..till as a
poker, being unable to wag even bis tail. The
only objection to this invention seems to be
that tho robber conld use it wilh just tho same
effect as tho honest man. Its utility, therefore,
is questionable.
Very questionable, indeed. -But tho honest
men must patent it, and then demand a certifi
cate of honesty from all buyers. -
Anyhow, though, we should like to “try it
on” the horde of unclean birds who are whet
ting their beaks and talons to rend is :d devour
the substance of the people of this State. If
we could paralyze them, the inventor wonld
deserve and receivo all tho honors and rewards
a grateful people conld bestow.
A Veritable Mermaid;—A correspondent of
The Delhi Gazette, writing from Benares, on
Dec. 19th, says: “Some Mahomedans of Ben
gal have recently brought here a mermaid pre
served in a case. It exactly resembles a fi-Ji
covered with scales in the lower half, and a
monkey having a head and two arms with fin
gers and nails in tho upper. Of course it is a
curious thing to look at. I was quite astonished
to learn from some of my friends that a real
mermaid, exposed in the chouk of this cityj
could be seen on paying a single prioe. So, as
this filled my mind with great curiosity, I went
there yesterday, and saw that it was all true,
and that a man Bitting at the door with a bell in
his hand was inviting the passers-by to that
spectacle. I, with two friends, went in, saw
the animal, and felt it with my own hands. I
couldn’t make out anything fictitious in it On
inquiring of the man who was present there, 1
was informed that it was a real mermaid, found
in the sea near Japan, and that the man bought
it for 500 rupees at a public auction in Calcutta.
He farther told me that another of the same
sort, but as big as a man, was sold there for-
1,400 rupees. The length of tho one I saw here
was almost a foot and a half. Now I am at a
loss to find out whether I shonld rely on his ve
racity and believe the matter. So I ask those
who can inquire into the subjeot minutely, in
order that the truth may be elicited.”
Suffering on the Plains.—A letter from
Fort Abercrombie says that Friday, the I lth in
stant, was the most tempestaons one that has
been experienced on the Plains ibis winter.
On that day Charles Warner, in company with
six solders and an Indian scout, left Fort Rous
seau for Fort Abercrombie. The soldiers and
the scout were soon left behind, and Mr. War
ner heard no more of them until Saturday even
ing. While he was stopping at a station on the
route the scout cams in, badly frozen and
hardly able to talk, reporting that the soldiers,
the day previous, had got lost in a driving
storm, and unhitching their mules had camped
out on the prairie, all being more or less
frozen.
The Indian covered four of them in the snow,
the other two preferring to remain in the open
sleigh, and he started for assistance. He trav
eled most of the night and next day and finally
arrived at the Btation, but he was so badly
frozen and exhausted as to havo no clear idea
where the soldiers were left buried. His tracks
having been covered by drift, it was impossible
to follow them back, and no scorch had been
made for the missing men. They are probably
dead.— Wcrtcni Press Dispatch.
A chap in tho interior of New York is making
money by committing suicide. He goes to a
hotel, tells a pitiful story of loss of funds, and
that he has no one to love or caress him, and
finally goes to his room and takes “pisen.”
The crowd rush, to his room, give him an emetic,
he throws up the “magnesia,” a purse is raised
for him, and he goes to the next town and per
forms again. This is the sharpest practice yet,
and if his Btomaoh holds out he i* good for a
fortune.
Woman suffrage has been defeated in the
Colorado Legislature.
Important Fart* with Relation i
Cette* Market.
A writer in the Southern Review, in ln .
article, glances at the efforts which havai*U
made to encourage the production of cotto^I
India, Egypt, Brazil and other countries,
after tracing hurriedly the causes 0 f the
ent failure of these attempts, says:
We have thus reviewed the whole
zone of the earth; we have examined the 1
tent of each possible source of supply ,
seen to what extreme degree of stimuli Li
ton culture has been subjected by the hu!
prices resulting from the great sectional »
in this country; we have seen, too, ho»i ki
considerable and transient the result, and tCi
Southern cotton has not really lost its emiiH
OVCr the marts of the world.. If this has Cl
achieved, however, to cite the language ofS|
Revue des deux Mondea, ‘ it was not for SI
want of the utmost exertions. EverywherlJ
that the climate and soil permitted the trig!
it was made with the feverish ardor to t~I
duce as much as has been supplied by |bi
United States.’ ’ Before the war the per cent |
age of Southern cotton used in Great Brittiil
was seventy five; all that the EconoaSl
claims since the war is a reduction of tea VZj
cent., leaving us still sixty-five per cent. |
It has been asserted, and is currently U i
lieved in England and the North, that ind^ j
trial necessities led to improved machinery!* j
which the short fibres of India may be p/ 0 c, j
ably spun. We have sought for evidence of
this, but found none; we have found stron.
circumstantial evidence, however, to the os>».
trary.
As we have said, for tho forty years imm,
diately preceding the war, the United St»tes
exported domestic produces to the amount
$5,311,000,000, of which $3,067,087,127 were I
for three Southern produets, cotton, rice yvi
tobacco, leaving only $2,243,912,873 for th» j
other exports of the country. Of this U,
suna the- Southern States, we may add
entitled to claim a very large portion, also.
In 1864 the exportations ofEng- ‘
land to the United States were es
timated at about $31,000 OOf,
Her importations therefrom 21,500^000-
Balance in favor England $9,500 0(0
But no sooner had the war ended, and’tl* I
productions of the Southern States bw a
thrown once more into the commercial scales,
as in 1866, than the case stood thus:
Importations from the U. S. $154,000,0(0
Exportations to the U. S. 76,000,0(0 j
Balance in favor of the U. S. $78,000,000
The cotton of the South consumed in Great
Britain in 1866 was estimated at $126,250,-
000, while that of India stood only $oi '
500,000. - *
In 157, $250,000,000 were invested in m- j
chinery and mills for the manufacture of cot
ton in Great Britain, and two million tons of I
British shipping were employed in the con
veyance of the raw material, (three-fourths of I
which came from our shores,) and in the sub-
sequent distribution of the fabrics throughont
the globe—fabrics estimated to be worth it
least $500,000,000. Even now, under every
possible industrial and political disadvantage,
upon which we have no occasion here to
dwell, the Southern States are contributing
more to the exportation of the country than!
all the rest of the United States.
_ In conclusion, we repeat that no other por
tion of the globe has ever had a staple with
a hold so firm and vital on the commerce, tho
indastry and thc^ necessities of man, as the
cotton of the United States. Every section 1
of the country is equally interested in the pro
motion of its culture and its permanent su
premacy in the markets of the world. Stricken
down by the iron hand of war, the industrial
resources of our potton region have been fear
fully crippled, so that on all sides broad fields
which Once teemed with the richest products
that ever rewarded human labor, are new
overran with weeds, thorns and brush-wood
Railroad Sleeting in Americas.
In_response to a call in the city papers, a
meeting of the citizen of Sumter was held in tka
Court House in Americas, to-day, to take some
action in relation to the-bnilding a branch road
from some point on the Brunswick and Albany
Railroad, through Americas to Columbus.
Col. Wm. J. Patterson was called to the Chair,
and AY. B Guerry requested to act as Secretary.
The Chair being called on, in a brief, bat
clear and forcible address explained the objects
of the meeting. He also read a Charter pre
pared by himself to be presented to the General
Assembly, After considerable discussion of the
matter—
On motion of Allen Fort, Esq., a committeo
of five were appointed by the Chairman to cor
respond with the President and Directors of
Brunswick and Albany Railroad, the authorities
of Columbus and others interested in the enter-
prise—also to prepare and publish an address
to the people urging the importance of the
■work. ,
The committeo appointed were: W. J. Pat
terson, Chairman, (on motion) A. A. Adams, J.
J. Grcnberry, S. H. Hawkins and W.-C. Dodd.
(Mr. Fort being excused by his request.)
The Committee was required to report.at a
meeting to be held on the 3d Saturday in March
next.
On motion it was Resolved, That the citizers
of the adjoining counties, interested, are invit
ed to meet with ns and participate in our delib
erations at the next meeting.
The proceedings requested to be published in
the city papers, and other papers favorable to
the objects of the meeting.
The meeting then adjourned to the 3d Satur-
day in March next
Wm. J. Patterson, Chairman.
W. B.-Guebby, Sect’y.
February 19, 1870.
[Republican, 22d.
• —«n
Tire Sonihern emigrants to Brazil.
A correspondent of the Tribune, writing at
Rio de Janeiro, January 7th, says 5.
I have said that the emigrants who have coma
to Brazil daring the past few years are now
seeking to return, home again. This is general-
ly the case with emigrants from the United
Kingdom, and is especially the case with those
included in the recant emigration from the
Southern States of the United States—and emi
gration that at one time cortainly looked as
though it were destined to be considerable, and
even formidable. This latter element is now al
most to a man striving to get back.
Already the Home Government has, by time
ly orders to the navy, furnished free transporta
tion for a number, and the American Benevo
lent Society of Rio de Janeiro has freely ex
pended its funds for the samo purpose. The
number of Americans, however, still remaining
in the country and who want to return is very
large. The “Emigrant Home” is to-day crowd-
ed with them. They declare that the Brazilian
Government has not fulfilled its engagements
with them, and that they have been grossly de
ceive A I am glad to state, however, that they
do not want for the proper official protection.
The American Minister and the Consul are no-
bly exerting themselves on their behalf, and
Will soon, it is believed, effect some arrange
ment with the Brazilian Government by which
the claims of the emigrants will be satisfied,
and a passage home furnished them.
The Cincinnati Southern Road.
The Kentuckians appear to be much divided
in respect to giving the right of way to the Cin
cinnati Southern road. The Lonisville interest
strongly opposes it; but at a late meeting in
Lexington, whioh was addressedby Gen. Breck-
enridgo, among others, the following re-sola-
tions were passed unanimously:
Resolved, That the proposition of the city of
Cincinnati to bnild, construe; and equip a grand
trank line of railway through the State of Ken
tucky free of all expense, taxes or costa to the
citizens thereof, is liberal and generous, and
should be met by the people of this State with
great favor and moral support.
Resolved, That the bill now pending before
the Legislature of Kentucky to grant a charter
to the trustees of Cincinnati Southern railroad;
to construct a railroad through the State cf
Kentucky, shorn as it i.. of every objectionable
feature, such as empowering counties to vote
bounties, subsidies, Ac., and making ample pro
visions that the jurisdiction of tho state Courts
over said road and the employee* thereof, shaU
not be questioned^ fufiyand cordially endorsed
by ns, and we hereby instruct our Representative
to give it his earnest and undivided support
Equal rights *re said to have assumed tv
alarming feature in Washington. Boughs in
vade reception* and devou the dainties pro
vided for invited 1