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MACON. DEC. *. 1878.
Germany and Russia are developing
their own coal mines, and are each year
buying less coal of England.
Tub Boston Journal says that several
of the wards of that city are going to
eh>ct ladies to the school committees.
The disappearance of Green Bay, "Wis
consin, of a youth with a shot-gun is
chronicled. He is supposed to bo hunting
for Spaniards.
The chief of police of Memphis has
taken a census of the “roughs,” and finds
that of one hundred and eighty-six all
but three survive the epidemic.
The Bank of England has reduced its
rate of interest to eight per cent. This
is the best indication we have yet seen
that the panic is wearing itself out.
Beast Butler has got to fork over
$13,000 to the creditors of the defunct
New York Standard. Ho is right enough
to be sarcastic about the newspapers.
Is despair a St. Paul reporter put it in
this way: "I wish I was an Indian, a
Modoc, or aUte; I’m tired of hunting
items with the mud above my boot.”
The deed transferring Ford’s Theatre
in Washington City to the United States
was filed last Thursday. It was in this
house that Lincoln was killed. The price
paid was $100,000.
Ah Ohio paper boasts of 1,482 kernels
of com taken from a single ear. Ohio
has always led the West in the matter of
ears, chirps the Detroit Free Press. But
Georgia is ahead on Colonels.
Daniel Andrews, a rich old resident
of Delaware, died the other day, and his
will cut his brother off with six cents be
cause the aforesaid brother once pulled
away a chair and caused Daniel to have
the fioor.
Miss Sarah Savage, of Portland, wants
$3,000 from her mistress, who injected
vitriol into the optic as Sarah was peep
ing through the key-hole of the parlot
door. Sarah has dropped that branch of
astronomy, whether she gets her money
or not.
East Tennessee Outlaws.—The at
tention of East Tennessee about Knox
ville is now being directed principally to
hunting outlaws. There is no Small
amount of that game to be found in East
Tennessee, and a good deal has been
bagged lately.
The New Orleans Picayune says that
recent sheriff sales of property for State
taxes were prevented by the entire ab
sence of bidders, but that a single buyer
from the North was finally found, who, ns
the Picayune has it, had “the money to
invest in the confiscated homesteads of
our people and speculate on our suffer
ings.”
Civil Service Examination.—It will
be seen by a notice published in this edi-
tioji by order of Hon. D. B. Eaton, Chair
man of the Civil Service Commission,
that an examination of applicants for ad
mission to the Civil Service of the United
States will be held in Savannah on the
17th day of December next. See adver
tisement.
The Nathan Murder.—Cale Turning,
a well knownjbnrglar, was on Friday last
taken from the penitentiary, where he
lias just completed a six months term,
and locked up at police headquarters on
the charge of complicity in the Nathan
murder, preferred by Jno. T. Irving, hav
ing implicated both Turning and Daniel
Kelly in the murder, by stating that the
former killed Nathan while Kelly and he
were waiting in the house. It is also
stated that Kelly is under arrest.
The Cincinnati Commercial says:
We are told the robust Robeson has not
had liis pantaloons off for a fortnight. He
is preparing for war, and it is expected
that the labors he endures will arouse
the everlasting astonishment and com
mand the ceaseless gratitude of mankind.
It the Commercial has not been misin
formed in this matter, we should judge
that the "robust Robeson” stood very
much in need of a bath by now. When
gentlemen of his build wear their trous
ers that long, the war they ought to be
preparing for is a war with—dirt.
There is nothing more melancholy
than the spectacle of a clergyman wor
ried by his congregation on account of his
opinions. The Rev. Mr. Smith, of East
Hampton, Conn., prefers moral suasion
to prohibition, and said so one Sunday in
a sermon. What does the reader think
happened ? Why, the whole choir, being
Good Templars, forthwith resigned. The
next Sunday there was no organist, and
no sweet singers appeared in the gallery.
Still, the Rev. Mr. Smith was not dis
heartened. He pulled a pitch pipe out of
his pocket, started the hymns himself,
and the congregation joining heartily,
the sanctuary songs were given with un
usual vigor and fervor.
The Memphis newspapers speak in the
most grateful terms of the Sisters of St.
Mary’s (Protestant Episcopal) who went
to them in the “ saddest period of their
history.” " When the roll shall be called,
when all mankind must face the inev
itable, the names of these Christian
women shall be found high up among
those who turned their backs on the
world and preferred their Master’s work.”
“ Sisters Constance, Amelia, Thekla and
Hughetta will never be forgotten by the
people of Memphis. They came to us
from New York, unacclimated, inexpe
rienced, without money and without
price, and they have won our lasting
gratitude.”
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The Pittsburg Printers’" Strike,
which has been a matter of wire intelli
gence, it seems, grew out of the proceed
ings of the typographical union in that
city, which passed a resolution providing
that if any one printing office in the city
were taken out of their control, a general
strike should be inaugurated in all the
remainder. On Thursday the proprietors
of the Pittsburg Leader took issue with
the union, and in pursuance of this reso
lution all the compositors in the four
other newspaper offices struck. The re
sult was a general rally of all outsiders
wfeo could handle a type, and au influx of
non-union print*rs from the surrounding
country, so that with some difficulty the
iblication of all the Pittsburg papers
is been continued independently of the
union printers. Meantime the parties
to this high-handed proceeding have been
arrested for conspiracy.
“More Pacific.”
The Washington dispatches of yester
day report the feeling in relation to Spain
* more pacific,” and Madrid telegrams of
Sunday hint at arbitration as the method
by which the controversy will bo settled.
The Emperor of Germany is named as
the probable arbitrator,and theEmperor,
no doubt, as his manner is, will take the
advice of the learned Berlin doctors of
international law and give judgment
accordingly.
It is a curious fact that the Washing
ton correspondent of the New York Sun
foreshadowed this event in a letter as old
as last Tuesday. Says he;
A proposition will be made by Castelar,
after the usual dilatory correspondence,
to refer the questions in dispute to the
arbitration of some disinterested power.
And as the President has been made to
believe that this mode of adjustment is
an invention which he and his Cabinet
are entitled to patent, there is every like
lihood that the offer will be accepted.
And he proceeds to express the opinion
that all the fuss and flummery at the
navy yards is simply in the way of a di
version of the public mind from home
troubles, and to give the politicians an
other chance at the national treasury.
The Sun, however, is a very ardent par
tisan of free Cuba—a filibuster.
The Washington letter writers who
have been interviewing arriving mem-
beis of Congress, predict that the temper
of that body will be rather cautious and
conservative, and some of them even un
dertake to say that President Grant’s
views run in that direction; but we are
afraid that is too good to be true. Let
us hope that two conn tries so little ready
for wqr—so heavily in debt—will have
the good sense to keep the peace. It
will be seen that the Spanish Govern
ment officially contradicts the story that
Sickles, the American minister, was
mobbed in Madrid.
Something that the Grangers
Can Do.
To-day, the farmers and their counsel
lors and friends of the cotton States meet
in convention at Atlanta, to compare
notes and devise some plan of action for
the relief of the agricultural masses of
the country.
Cheap transportation, direct commu
nication with producers, without the in
tervention and charges of middlemen,
and the cash system, are the grand ob
jects sought to be attained.
These are all of prime importance, and
will be opposed only by those whose gains
may be affected by the proposed changes.
The policy of direct shipments of. cot
ton to Europe, through the medium of
their own agents, will probably be con
sidered also. And here, again, even in
the face of the proverb of the shoemaker
sticking to his last, no one can possibly
object to the planter doing what he will
with his own. Experience alone must
determine whether this course will prove
remunerative or not.
But there is one grand consummation
which comes fully within the scope and
purview of the Granges, to which we ar
dently hope they will devote their undi
vided attention. It constitutes the key
stone to the arch of Southern thrift and
prosperity. "We mean the stem necessity
imposed on the farmer to plant less cot
ton, and direct every energy to £he rais
ing of provisions and fruits of all kinds,
and the proper diversity of his market
crops.
This affords subject matter for the
most earnest discussion among our
planting friends. "We suppose the
world could hardly contain the books
which might be filled with the lu
gubrious and painful experiences of the
husbandmen of the country, on this mo
mentous theme.
For lack of this system, our lands have
deteriorated in value or been alienated
from their owners—skeleton horses and
mules meet the eye on every side—mer
chant liens hang like the sword of Damo
cles over the entire planting community—
family homesteads are rotting down, and
every year gaunt famine threatens the
Land. But if this grand States General of
the country, composed essentially of those
who are the producers and consumers too,
of the material wealth and values of the
nation, will take the matter in hand, who
can estimate the amount of gobd which
maybe accomplished? Thoroughly or
ganized and linked together into ono
brotherhood as the grangers are, by the
strongest" ties, they can, and doubtless
will exercise a powerful influence npon
public sentiment in this particular.
We never can cease to be hewers of
wood and drawers of water for the West
and North until our people become really
independent, by raising their own food,
spinning their own clothing, and develops
ing their own vast mineral resources.
Why buy iron abroad when the ore crops
out in rich abundance from our hills ?
Why patronize Lowell and other manu
facturing establishments when we have
magnificent water-power at home, and
the raw material is the product of our
own soil? Why buy bread and meat from
the West when com, rice, wh“at. sugar,
and even the fruits of the tropics, can be
reared with so little labor in our fertile
valleys and sunny slopes?
Mrs. Lee's Last "Visit to Arling
ton.
The New York World well says there
are few modem incidents more full of
simple pathos than the quiet visit which
Mrs. Mary Custis Lee paid to her old
homestead of Arlington about three weeks
before her death. Mrs. Lee had not put
in words her lieart’s'longing for the place
endeared to her by so mqpy bright asso
ciations. During the General’s lifetime
she had said not a word ahont her confis
cated estate, and after his death she did
no more than consent that a modest peti
tion should be sent up to Congress asking
that the judgment that deprived her of
her ancient home for no fault of her own
should at any rate be examined into, even
if it could not be revised. It was thought
she took this step for the good of her
children, and not because she had any
personal feeling in the matter. But
when she felt the hand of death begin to
tighten upon her, she painfully left the
seclusion to which ten years of rheumatic
fever had confined her, slowly and with
sad interest revisited the old homestead
and the scenes of her youth and woman
hood, gazed upon that which she had
loved so well and longed for in silence
and resignation, and then went qnietly
back to Lexington to die. It will add a
pang to the sense of loss which her friends
have for this gracious lady, of such no
bility of character and patience in afflic
tion. to feel that to her other griefs was
joined this unavailing yearning for the
old homo she could not come back to—a
yearning not put in words nor suspected
until expressed i that mo3t pathetic
leave-tak : ‘ -4 eve of death.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Griffin News says the County
Court of that county has foreclosed at
least one hundred and fifty crop liens
during the last twenty days.
Judge Hall fined a gay young spark
who disturbed a religious meeting in
Newton county $25 and costs, last week.
A larger dose of this sort of medicine
■would have done no harm. The pill was
rather too small, in our judgment, to
reach the seat of the disease.
The Franklin News says the Horn M.
C. Summerlin, of Heard county, was shot
dangerously wounded a few days
since by a man named Hemy Young.
He is a curiosity, sure enough, and his
name is Wright Merritt, of Calhoun
county. The Cuthbert Appeal says he is
in his fifty-eighth year, and he “never
took a dose of medicine of any kind in bis
life, nor a drink of any kind of liquor, or
a chew of tobacco, nor ever had a pipe or
cigar in his mauth. He married in Cal
houn, about forty years since, and since
that time has never bought a pound of
meat nor a peck of com, and with the
exception of one coat, which he now wears,
has never worn any clotliing save that
manufactured entire by his wife.”
During the storm at Perry last Sunday
night last week, the Journal says, a freight
car loaded with shingles was blown from
the track near the depot.
The “ Thomas Henderson, from Geor
gia,” who was reported per telegraph as
having been robbed in a New York street
car one day last week, was from Savan
nah, as we learn from the Advertiser,
and the amount lost was $700 in money,
and $400 worth of endorsed drafts.
Not “Foaming.”—The Sun says the
darkeys of that city have changed their
names since the Cuba war talk commenc
ed and have no idea of voting.- Govern
ment, they fear, will conscript them if
they do. A wag bad rare fun Friday
summoning country negroes to leave on
the 14th to go to Cuba. All he summon
ed have now different names.
At the war with Spain meeting in Co-
lumbns on Friday night, there was a
scene not down on the bills. The “foam-
ers” caught a tartar. Everything was
going on swimmingly, and the meeting
was just about to adjourn and go home
for their knapsacks and guns preparatory
to leaving for Havana by the first train,
when somebody called for Reese Craw
ford, a sharp yonng lawyer of that city.
Whereupon, after an ineffectual effort to
choke him off, Crawford took the stand
and poured a whole bucket-full of cold
water on the fire as follows:
Fighting for Cuba would be cutting
the throat of the South. The island is
720 miles long by 120 broad. This im
mense sea coast, if annexed to the Uni
ted States, would require an army of cus
tom-house officers, men-nf-war, soldiers to
prevent smuggling, and to steal from the
people. We will have to be taxed to sup
port them. The flag over the Virginius
was a fraud. The men on hoard were fil-
libusters and the ship a fillibustering
vessel. It was but a repetition of the
Crittenden affair. Congress declared the
Cubans were right in shooting that
party, though the blood of a Senator
flowed in Crittenden’s veins. Congress
said that party expatiated themselves,
and deserved what they got. Is not the
Virginius case similar? Would not we
of the South have done the same if
a similar expedition had- come to our
shores during the war ? Spain has held
Cuba, with the exception of one year,
since 1492. The flag—honoring it is talk.
Carry your flag to Louisiana and South
Carolina, give the South equal rights
with the North, then your flag will be re
spected. The Republicans want Cu!>a,
for thereby they will get another Radical
State. The negroes outnumber the whites
in Cuba by 200,000. If it becomes a State
of this so-called Union, it will have a car-
pet-bag government, and the island, like
Jamaica, will hardly produce a revenue.
The idea of such an annexation and State
should be discarded. His remarks at
times were greeted with applause.
The Advertiser says thirty-four ne
groes sailed from Savannah on Friday on
their way to Liberia, via New York.
Most ef them were from the upper part
of the State.
Among the decisions pronounced last
week by the Supreme Court at Atlanta,
was one to the effect that when the keep
er of a billiard table is charged with per
mitting a minor, to play billiards at his
table, without the consent of the parent
or guardian of the minor, the burden of
proving that the parent or guardian did
not consent, rests upon the State.
Liberal Propositions. — For enter
taining the Patrons on next Tuesday and
Wednesday, several boarding houses of
this city have reported their willingness
to take from two to twenty persons at
$1 60 per day. The terms thus proposed
are far more favorable than at Macon on
the 28th, 29th and 30th October, which
were from $2 50 to $4 per day. This
speaks well for Atlanta liberality.—At
lanta Constitution.
This difference in prices is very easily
accounted for. Macon hash is a much
better article, and considerably more to
the plate.
If the editor of the Camilla Enterprise
is as good a judge of law as he is of news
papers, Grant couldn’t do better than ap
point him Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court. He says “the Telegraph and
Messenger is emphatically the best paper
published in Georgia.”
The latest gin-house illuminations are
reported in Newton and Clay counties.
In the former Mr. S. D. Hight lost ten,
and in the latter Mr. John Singletary lost
thirteen bales of cotton.
The Cuthbert Appeal reports the fol
lowing illustration of the doctrine of total
depravity.
Incendiarism.—Just "before day Sunday
morning last, the residence of Mrs.
Thomas, a widow lady living in Quitman
county, was fired and '■o tuple tely de
stroyed, together with all her "household
furniture, bedding, clothing, etc. The
flames spread to the kitchen and smoke
house, thence to a cotton-house, stable
and crib, destroying everything in its
track. Suspicion resting upon Mr. Elijah
Hammock, his two sons, John and Elijah,
and a young James Thomas, a nephew of
the widow, a warrant was issued for their
arrest. As they were being carried to
Georgetown for imprisonment, John Ham
mock succeeded in making his escape,
and is still at large.. Upon their arrival
at the prison young Thomas made a full
confession, giving all the facts connected
with this outrageous affair. It appears
that these parties cultivated Mrs. Thom
as’ land last year, and was removing the
crop without paying rents, or even for
the supplies furnished by Mrs. T., to ena
ble them to make a crop, when she had
about two bags of cotton still m the seed
levied on and retained. This prooedure
so enraged th6 tenants, they determined
to take revenge by burning up her prop
erty. They first mixed matches in the
seed cotton for the purpose, as stated by
young Thomas, of burning thejjin that
ginned the cotton, and then applied the
torch to the dwelling, which resultedfas
Above stated. 1 . :• j!j*a
Wx clip the following from the Colum
bus Sun of Saturday:
Through Cotton for Savannah and
New York.—Forth* week ending last
night, the Western railroad, of Alabama,
has brought to Columbus, tn route to
Savannah and New York, 1,187 bales of
cotton. Of this amount, 104 bales came
from Mobile; 356 from Montgomery; 181
from Selma; 24G from Opelika and West
Point, and 300 from Vicksburg.
From Florida.—A gentleman just
from that State reports that the Great
Eastern Circus and Menagerie had a hard
time in Middle Florida, having lost by
death an elephant and two or three other
animals, and had barely enough money
to get back to Savannah. The railroad
to Chattahoochee intends'oompeting with
all other lines for the through freight for
Middle and East Florida. The mails
Official from Spain.
Washington, November 23.—Admiral
Polo (the Spanish Minister) has commu
nicated the following from his Govern
ment to the State Department: The
Spanish Government contradicts the re
port of any hostile demonstration against
the American Minister, and says that
Gen. Sickles is treated with consideration
That some intemperance of
and respect.
language on the part of the monarchical
from the West will go via Eufaula boats press was prompUy silenced by thethreat
and Chattahoochee, and the throughof immediate punishment—and the Min-
freight from that quarter takes the same °* tlie Colonies reports from Havana
course.
Church Members Getting Acquaint
ed.—The Central Presbyterian Church
in Atlanta has decided upon a plan, which,
if rightly carried out, is worthy of adop
tion by the Columbus religious bodies.
It is to hold a series of sociables this
winter, in order that the members of the
church and congregation may become
better acquainted. We are afraid, how
ever, that fashions, hard times and scan
dal, would be more discussed at such
meetings than religious or intellectual
subjects. The" world would rule more
than the church.
Hudson Raiford, negro, was hung at
Cussota. Chattahoochee county, hut Fri
day, for killing Mr. Frank Galloway some
time since. He shot at another negro
but killed Mr. Galloway instead.
The Savannah News says the steamer
Worcester sailed for Boston from that
port on Friday, with 2,508 bales of cot
ton—the largest cargo of cotton ever
cleared in a coastwise steamer from that
port. '*
Effects of “War Rumors”" on Freghts
The News has the - following under the
above head:
The ominous rumora of impending "war
have had the effect of increasing the de
mand for freight by English vessels. We
understand there is no demand for Amer
ican vessels, and freights J>y Spanish ves
sels rate at a very low figure. It may be
inferred from this that, should war be de
clared, American merchantmen will be
run off the ocean for the time being.
There are not many "American mer
chantmen to be "run-off the ocean”—
thanks to Radical rule.
The Bainbridge Democrat says the
late cold snap is bringing absentees back
to their homes. It also says “ all danger
is over.”
We publish the following with pleas
ure. Such illustrations of the brighter
side of human nature are deserving the
widest publicity:
To the Voters of Hancock County.
I sometime since announced myself a
candidate for the offico of clerk of Supe'
chat the restoration of embargoed prop
erty to American citizens is being dili
gently proceeded with.
The Sickles Hob Spain Talks of Ar
bitration.
Madrid, Saturday, November 22—
Evenino.—The reports that violence had
been offered by the Madrid populace to
Gen. Sickles, the American Minister, are
pronounced false. President Castelar
had along conference to-day with Layard,
the British Minister. The result of the
interview is favorable to the continuance
of good relations. The idea of submitting
the case‘of the Virginius to arbitration is
much talked of. Should this course bo
agreed to, the German Emperor is indi
cated as the probable arbitrator.
Speech of Disraelli.
London, November 23.—Disraelli made
a political speech at Glasgow last eve
ning. Ho severely criticised the Gov
ernment and predicted a great struggle
in Europe between the spiritual and tem
poral powers. He feared tne conflict
might result in anarchy, and declared
that the partisans of home rule in Ireland
would imaiask and show Great Britain
their real designs.
Irish Politics.
Dublin, November 23.—Sixty thou
sand took part in the meeting here yes
terday in favor of home rule. Speeches
and processions followed.
Tweed’s Case.
• New York, November 23.—All efforts
to obtain a stay of judgment for Wm. M.
Tweed proved ineffectual. Judges Pratt
and Ingraham both refused to grant it,
and at ton minutes past one Tweed was
removed from the sheriff’s office to the
Tombs.
Naval Movement.
The monitor Dictator has arrived from
New London, towed by two powerful
tugs.
From Mexico.
A Herald special, dated Mexico, 21st
instant, says the President has presented
to Congress a contract with a Mexican
company for an inter-oceanic railroad.
Wrecked Schooner.
Norfolk, November 23. —The wreck
ing steamer Resolute returned last night
from the wreck of the schooner before,
reported sunk ten miles south of Cape
Henry. The divers report the schooner
rior Court, at the approaching election in ) on hel . en ds. She had her anchor
December next, and were it not for the| outwith thirty fethoma of chain. The
misfortune which has befallen my oppo- sc hooner is loaded with oil. Her name
nent. W. H. Bass, Esq., whose residence, I ^14 not be ascertained.
household furniture and other property
was last night destroyed by fire, I should
feel gratified for your promised support;
but owing to the above fact, I feel that I
am but adopting the “ Golden Rule” in
withdrawing from the candidacy in his
favor."
With many thanks to one and all for
kind assurances, I am,
Very respectfully,
W. A. Buckner.
Sparta, Ga., Nov. 20th, 1873.
By a recent decision in the Federal
District Court at Atlanta it appears that
express companies are only liable for
fifty dollars when the value of the pack
age committed to their care is not stated.
An Atlanta man shipped diamonds worth
$700 to New York and refused to place
any value upon them when asked to do
so by the express.agent. They were lost
and the sender brought suit with the
above result.
Tlie Aslinntee War.
As a large number of cautious English
men anticipated, the task assigned Sir
Garnet Wolseley of subduing the Ashan
tees proves to be no small undertaking,
even for John Bull. The latest tidings
from the seat of war are to the effect
that Sir Garnet’s offer of peace on cer
tain conditions was indignantly spurned
by King Koffee, who announced his in
tention to vanquish the Englishmen or
die in the attempt. Reinforcements to
the number of ten thousand men have
come to the assistance of the Ashantees,
and they appear to be highly elated at
the prospect They thoroughly under
stand the art of war, and are as brave as
they are bloodthirsty. Meanwhile Sir
Garnet has been having a big talk with
the Fantee chiefs, whom he endeavored
to persuade to work hard and fight hard.
He told them the war was for tnem. and
they must do the work. King Koffee is
said to have about 18,000 warriors, in
three separate corps. General Wolseley’s
plan is to get all the road-building and
heavy work out of the natives possible,
in order to save the health of his British
troops in that enervating climate, and
finally, when everything is ready, to
throw the latter forward and do up the
business with as little exposure to them
as possible. Meantime the Ashantees
have agents at Birmingham buying mus
kets at $1 87 apiece, and the Englishmen
will at least have the consolation that if
they get killed it will be with British
bullets shot out of British markets.
Voorhees on the Situation.
Hon. D. W. Voorhees, of Indiana, ha
announced his intention to retire from
politics, saying that on the new questions
to arise new men will be needed. In a
conversation recently fie made the fol
lowing statement: “I have made my last
political speech before the people, and I
am glad of it. The pleasure of pursuing
my private concerns as a citizen is ex
ceedingly grateful to my feelings, more
so than you can conceive. I went early
into politics. I might have been elected
to Congress at twenty-four; had my age
allowed I should have been. I have been
nine years at Washington, and know all
about it. I have fought my battles as I
conceived to be right But all the old
issues have passed away, and henceforth
new ones will arise. And upon the new
questions a new set of men will be de
manded by the people. Some old politi
cians try to force themselves into notice
after their day has gone by, bnt it is veiy
unwise. Parties will be changed "n ef
fect, but not in name, perhaps. The
Democratic party will liberalize its or
ganizations ; and if it is done wisely, so
as to unite the elements of distinction
against present order, they may be able
to elect a President. The name need not
necessarily be changed, but the party
must be essentially a new one.”
How Many Were Shot.
The Secretary of State at Washington,
has received the following from Consul
General Hall:
Havana, November 18.—The Consul
at Santiago reports, under date of the
13th, that the total number of executions
of persons from the Virginius was fifty-
three, and that there had been no execu
tions since the 8th instant. The state
ment published heieon the 14th, respect
ing fifty-one additional executions, prove
nntrne.” 7. : -
Dispatches from Havana show that
only fifty-three of. the passengers and
crew of the Virginius were shot, and that
none have been executed since the 8th
instant. The reported execution of fifty-
seven since that tim* is nntrne.
Senator Boutwell on War.
Chicago, November 23.—Ex-Secretary
Boutwell, lecturing on Finances and the
Pani:—referring to Caban matters,- dep
recated the idea of war—counselled mod
eration, and argued that our sympathy
and moral aid ought to be given to Spain
in her effort to establish a republic.
National Press Convention.
Savannah, November 23.—A commit
tee of the Georgia Press Association have
decided to postpone the National Press
Convention, called to meet at St. Louis
1 on the 26th instant, to some future time.
Earthquake In California.
■San Francisco, November 23 —Asevere
earthquake shock occurred yesterday at
Yreka, lasting fifteen seconds. The shock
was felt in other places.
Light Ship Gone.
Lewes, Del., November 23.—Pilots re
port that the five-fathom light ship has
disapp ared. A sunken vessel at Fen
wick’s Island shoals is supposed to be her
Resumption in Memphis.
Memphis, November 23.—The De Soto
Bank resumes to-morrow. It is thought
the First National will resume in a few
I days.
Ship Missing.
Halifax, November 23.—Her Majesty’s
ship Cyrus, hence October 18th, lias not
been heard from.
Marine News.
Nfw York, November 23.—Arrived,
schooner Metropolis, Livingston and Mer-
cetila.
Charleston, November 23:—Arrived,
Georgia, Alice, Borda, and Mary Collins.
Sailed, Jane Lamb.
Key West, ^November 23.—The flag
ship" Worcester has arrived.
Grent^Bridge Burned.
New York, November 24.—A special
to the World reports the burning of the
Three Mile bridge of the Central Pacific
railroad at Oakland, involving a loss of a
million dollars and the detention of
travel.
Bain and Fog.
There was a heavy rain last night and
this morning a dense fog.
Less Warlike.
The morning journals treat the latest
news from Madrid and Washington as
decidedly more pacific.
Tweed.
Tweed’s friends express the belief and
hope that he will not "be removed to
Blackwell’s Island until all the means
for obtaining a stay of proceedings have
been exhausted.
From Memphis.
Memphis, November 24.—Twenty-two
deaths occurred last week, three of yel
low fever.
Steamboat Alaska, from Cincinnati for
New Orleans with an ass.rtcd cargo, and
a large barge in tow, sunk ten miles be
low here. No lives lost.
Wreck of the Ariel.
San Francisco, November 24. The
Pacific Mail steamer Ariel, from Yoko-
homa for Stokodadi, was wrecked. The
crew and passengers were saved.
The Light Ship There.
Lewes, Del., November 24.—The re
port of the disappearance of the five-
fathom lightship i3 contradicted by pilots
who saw her in position yesterday.
Charlestown Navy Yard.
Boston, November 24.—Two-hundred
and ten men are employed in the Charles
town navy yard.
Franklin will be ready in two weeks.
The California Earthquake.
San Francisco, November 24.—The
earthquake wa3 quite severe throughout
Oregon, and was felt here. No damage
is reported.
A Pot for Cuba. ,
Fort Monroe, November 24.—The Os-
sippee, conveying the Maiiopac from Nor
folk. anchored off the fort to-day.
Wreck of the Robert Lowe.
Toronto, November 24.—The follow
ing are the details of the wreck of the
cable steamer Robert Lowe: After mend-
jng the cable the vessel put out for St.
Johns and encountered heavy winds.
The ship filled so rapidly that she was
prevented from getting her life-boats,
afloat. Three otner boats, with twenty-
three persons, succeeded in getting clear
of the wreck. Captain Tidmarsn directed
the embarkation, and lost his life by re
maining with the vessel- Two men were
drowned in the cabin and the rest swept
from the deck. Five bodies were picked
up. The lost include the captain, chief,
third and fourth engineers, and McKee-
lan, the electrician..
The Times en the Spanish Question.
London, November 24.—The Times
says the demand for a surrender of the
"Virginius could not with justioe be main
tained; but. there ase other demands
made by the United States wherein Eng
land might join.
From Spain
The plot for the surrender of Carta
gena proved a complete failure. Contre
ras was arrested by the intransigents for
connivance in the intrigue.
German Pots.
Berlin, November 24.—No additional
German iron-clads have departed for
Spanish waters.
English Railway Accident.
London, November 24.—A serious rail
road accident occurred near Birmingham,
in which many were injured.
The Supreme Court.
"Washington, November 24.—In the
case of the United States against Lapin
and others, the Supreme Court to-day
decided that when a party advanced
funds to a firm in New Orleans, to be
used by their agent in the interior in the
purchase of cotton, prior to the capture
of the city in 1862, all the parties being
then in New Orleans, and the city was
captured by the Federal forces before the
cotton was purchased with the funds so
advanced, the agent having gone into the
interior prior to the capture, his agency
to purchase the cotton was terminated by
the hostile position of his principals to
ward the cotton owners, consequent upon
the capture, and that a purchase of cot
ton afterwards was an effectual aid to the
enenfr, it was forbidden by the soundest
principles of public law. The purchaser
therefore obtained no title to the cotton,
and had no claim against the Govern
ment for its capture. Mr. Justice Hunt
delivered the opinion, Justices Miller and
Field dissenting.
Richardson issues the following depart
ment instructions of the 27th ulfc.: In
reference to the limited disbursements
of silver coin in lieu of currency, they
are hereby so modified that hereafter,
in making disbursements, silver coin
be paid only in the fractional parts'of a
dollar.
A P. M.’s Convention “Busted.”
The Postmaster General, having re
ceived a number of inquiries from post
masters as to whether a circular issued
by a Rhode Island postmaster, calling for
a convention of postmasters at Washing
ton on the 9th of January is in accord
and with his wishes, states that his name
was used in the circular without authori
ty, and he has directed the project to be
abandoned and the circular to be with
drawn as far as possible.
About Free Banking.
Washington, November 24.—The
Comptroller of the Currency is of the opin
ion that any general system of free bank
ing, accompanied with redemption, must
be postponed until the resumption of
specie payment.
Resumed. ,
New York, November 24.—Edward D.
Randolph & Co., bankers, who suspended
during the panic, have resumed.
The Spanish Iron-Clad
Arapiles, has so far progressed in her
repairs as to be almost ready to leave the
navy yard. Coal will be put <?n board
to-day. She will go to an anchorage on
the North river to-morrow to take in coal,
stores and powder, and her commander is
determined to have her a*ay at sea be
fore December 1st.
Tweed,
■The counsel in the Tweed case will
present a bill comprising more objections,
on which to base arguments for a stay of
proceedings. Theprosecutingofficers may
ask time to consider the bill of excep
tions, and Judge Davis may possibly
take some time to consider the points
presented. It is reported, in the mean
time, that Tweed will not be placed on
Blackwell’s Island. _ , j
Don’t Want io Mess with Coffee.
Recruiting tor the navy is not vary
brisk among able seamen, many of whom
object to being compelled to mess with
negroes, who are becoming quite numer
ous on our men-of-war.
Returning Home.
Over 1,000 skilled English and French
silk operatives have returned home since
the cessation of work at the factories in
Paterson, N. J. * •
The Spanish War Yessel.
The Spanish sloop of war Arapiles, left
the navy yard this morning and dropped
down to the battery, preparatory to sail
ing for Cuba. Her repairs are incomplete.
Getting the Monitors Ready.
Philadelphia, November 24.—Thir
teen hundred men are now employed at
the navy yard. The monitor Ajax was
taken off the dry dock yesterday, and the-
Terror takes her place to-day. The mon
itors Nantasket and Jason have been sent
to private yards for repairs. It is re
ports i that all the monitors at League
Island will be put in order at once.
Kansas Senator Appointed.
Lawrence, Kan., November 21.—Rob
ert Crozier has been appointed Senator,
vice Caldwell, resigned. Crozier is the
attorney and confidential friend of Cald
well, and the announcement of- his" ap
pointment is received with great sur
prise. It is regarded as an attempt to
revive Caldwell’s influence in ihe politics
of the State.
The Mexican Railroad Ring.
Matamoras, November 24.—The grant
for a road from the Rio Grande to the
Pacific was given to a Mexican company,
defeating both Plumb and Ro3encran3.
Gotham News.
New York, November 24.—A full jury
was drawn in the Ingersoll case to-day,
and the trial will proceed. It is expected
it will be short, as the proof of hiB forgeries
is said to be quite plain.
The Charity Commissioners of Brook
lyn state that they cannot meet a quarter
of the demands for assistance made on
them by the poor of that city.
A. L. Roberts and Valentine Gr^n
were to-day arraigned at Oyer and Ter
miner on 49 indictments for bond forg
eries. There are 68 indictments against
thorn, also, at the Court of General Ses
sions.
The meeting of the Union Trust Com
pany to-day reached no final decision on
resumption of business, hut a director
states the company expects to resume
Monday.
Late this evening Tweed was removed
to the parlor in the Toombs recently oc
cupied by Stokes as a sitting room.
Several hundred men were at the Navy
Yard to-day, who were promised by poli
ticians that they wonld be put to work,
but they were all disappointed, as no men
were taken in to-day.
Harry Genet, Assemblyman from the
Twenty-first District, was arrested this
afternoon, on the reported charge of
grand larceny, in connection with the
Harlem Court-house fraud.
Mr. Stephens in Washington.
Washington, November 24.—Hon. A.
H. Stephens arrived here to-night, to
take his seat in the House of Represent *-
tives Monday.
Intimations have been received at the
State Department that Serrano will prob
ably be made dictator of Spain and the
Castelar government overthrown, but the
advices are not pronounced trustworthy.
Resumptions.
Newburgh, N. Y., November 24.
Work was partly resumed this morning
after a suspension of several weeks in the
Newburgh steam mills in the city - em
ploying 400ianda.
Troy, November 24,- Harmony ™ni.
at Cohoes, employing 3,000 persons, re
sumed work on full time to-day.
Gilbert, Bush & Co., car manufacturers,
on Green Island, employing 500 persons,
also resumed work on three-quarters time.'
False New*. ? j "IS f lr,
London, November 24.—The Spanish
is inevitable. The agent is authorized
to state there is no foundation whatever
for the dispatch; that the official and per
sonal relations between Minister Sickles
and the Spanish officials are unchanged,
and that Sickles has not expressed any
opinion as to the result of the pending
question. • r\
Movements of Naval Officers.
Havana, November 24.—The British
gunboat Woodlark arrived at Santiago de
Cuba on the 18th, and on the following
day the ship of war Danae, with Commo
dore Dehorsey, senior officer at Jamaica
on board, arrived from Fort Royal. Gen
eral Burriel embarked on a steamer for
Havana before. Commodore. Dehorsey
came ashore.
Ship Burned.
Antwerp, November 24.—Ship "West
moreland, Capt. Heron, which arrived
here October 29th from Philadelphia, was
destroyed by fire to-day.
Rejected.
Versailles, November 24.—The As
sembly this afternoon rejected Leon Say’s
interpolation in regard to illegal delay of
elections by a vote of 364 to 314.
Mr. Stephens on the Cuban
Question.
The following report of a conversation
held by a representative of the Chronicle
and Sentinel with Mr. Stephens, is printed
in that paper:
Reporter—What do you think about
this Cuban affair, Mr. Stephens ?
Mr. Stephens—Well, I am frank to say
that I am for Cuba immediately, if not
sooner. I consider the Virginius. affair
the greatest outrage of modern times;
there is nothing at all analagous to it ex
cept perhaps that npon a vessel, the El
Dorado, I think it was, during Fierce’s
administration, in 1854. I wanted the
A1 ministration then to take possession of
Cuba.
Reporter—Do you think there will be
any war with Spain arising out the com
plications ?
Mr. Stephens—I do not. I think Spain
will offer every apology, and place herself
in the position qf the. lame man who is
unable to leave his house, and whose dogs
jump over his fence and rend his neigh
bor^ sheep. She will simply say I am
unable to restrain the volunteers; yon
must do with them as yon please. I am
in favor of suspending the neutrality
laws. If this were done so huge a force
of Americans would land upon the island
of Cuba in a few days that all opposition
would be overawed and a peaceful acqui
sition of it secured. These Spanish vol
unteers in Cuba show by their recent acts
that they are nothing more than pirates,
and they should be punished accordingly.
Reporter—Won’t the United States
lose considerably by the stoppage of im
port duties on Cuban products in case of
the acquisition of the island ?
Mr. Stephens—Of comae the import
duties will cease npon this country’s
taking possession of Cuba," but" the rev
enue from the "island .will be -fair greater
then than now, especially if anything
like the tariff in force by the Spanish
Government is kept np. The revenue to
the latter from this island was twenty'
five millions, of dollars annually before
the war.
Reporter—If the United States ac
quires Cuba, the products of- the latter
will, of course, be cheaper in this coun
try?
Mr. Stephens—Yes. And I am in fa
vor of cheap cigars and cheap sugar. If
Cuba was once oars its resources would
be developed an immense extent and
its production largely increased.
Mr. Stenhens went “n to say that the
movement *nr taking possession of Cuba
at this time, an: in view of the recent
unparalelled outrages, was desirable for
more reasons than one.. One of the most
important was, that it would furnish a
common ground for all the people of the
Union to meet upon, reconcile party dif
ferences, and level down sectional ani
mosities. The fact of the business is, he
said, the United Spates heretofore has
been holding Cuba down while Spain
skinned her.
Reporter—Is it probable that Congress
will take the matter in hand immediately
upon assembling ?
Mr Stephens—Yes. Perhaps no less
than fifty resolutions will he offered upon
that and the currency question the first
day.
Reporter—Will not the Louisiana mat
ter also excite much attention ?
Mr. Stephens—I have no idea that it
will.
- Mr. Stephens then made some general
remarks on the Virginius outrage, which
he condemned in- the most unmeasured
terms. He was unqualified in his senti
ments in favor of this Government taking
possession of Cuba, whatever might be
the course adopted for so doing.
Tim same paper says ex-Goveraor
Johnson expressed himself “in full accord
with Mr. Stephens,*’ and endorses what
he says “to the fullest extent.”
We have only one comment to make
npon the above extract, and it takes the
shape of this question: Is Mr. Stephens’
opinion as to the Louisiana matte .- based
npon the desire that that damnable out
rage upon his fellow citizens of Louisiana
may bo overslaughed and buried out of
sight by this miserable war clamor?
The old proverb about the wish being
father to the thought forces itself irre
sistibly upon our mind right here.
How to Have a Fish Pond.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: The
object of this communication is not to
call attention to my fish "pond, further
than to show to my fellows who reside in
the country and remote from fishmonger
stalls, that most of them, with small
outlay of money, and the exercise of a
little energy aiid patience, can have a
never-ending source of pleasure and an
abundant supply of fresh fish.
In April of this year I built a dam of
dirt across a spring branch about one
hundred yards below the spring, the dan*
being sixty or seventy yards long, and of
an average height of about eight feet.
This gave me a pond of pure, clear water
of the area of an acre or less.
The land adjacent to the pond being
somewhat hilly. I made a hillside ditch
about the side and upper end of the pond,
to convey away the rain water falling on
the hill-sides. On one side of the pond
where the dam joined the hill side. I
laid in a wooden trough or box 3 by 10
inches and ten feet long, through which ,
the waste water from the pond flows, i
over the end of this box which lies in the
pond. I fixed a piece of wire netting, the
interstices of which were about one-six
teenth of an inch square. This was to
prevent the young fish passing out of the
pond.
About the 15th of April, I placed in
this pond, all -told, 135 fish of various
kinds—ma : nly p r h, cats, lior eyh ids
an l roaches. The largest not more than
six inches long and the most of them less
than three inches in length.
In the month of May following, I make
no ‘doubt that these fish had increased to
more than one hundred thousand, and to
day (18th November) I can take almost
any number of such as have been raised
in the pond; measuring 4 to 5 inches long,
and by April of next year I see no" cause
why I should not have fish enough for a
small family. They live off of what is
in the water—what that is I cannot say.
.Yours respectfully, B.
7 Four wfce men of Delhi, Ind., believ
ing marriage was a lottery, threw dice
for the hand of a widow who could not
A German
carried off the
Keokuk Cure foTT^"
ruption. Lor '
A Radical paper in Iowa, which w,
ed by Federal office-holder
that hereafter, whenever the miT 1 ***
nates a man for a position of pul/oXX**
it shall become “pecuniarily resoon
for any steals, losses, defalcations^ b 8
Keokuk^Gate tfftW th8
several obstacles in the way of t88re *•
it out and bringing about a 22“*
SWsfsasrSi!
ropes AadXKfcla gh
appear at conventions with
checks and bonds better than
In the first place, the Republic
is a party of great moral
tian statesmen, v ' uri 3-
do not steal, lose, default or PmL 7"
And even if they did. "the party
able to punfy itself within its.-lf
Secondly, if there is to he no
in the party what will hern™.
quote the ballad conL™
mg the “Three Carrion Crow- I?"
President, two Tice Presidents
chairmen of committees," Senators!,*
Representatives not a few, and gX y '
Babcocks, Shepherds, Leets "HW? 83 ’
Rankins and Kembles like to theX^ N i
the sea for multitude, “do for S £
tho^ariv 6 ^ 7 * * * 11 ^: 01 ***»fi£
the party when he does take the 77
that doth sustain the party The
*>nd of cohesion between its leader h
.he hope of .acquiring spoil, and if th„
Thirdly, by whom fo the detu*
caused by theft, loss, defalcation,^
bezzlement to be made good?. Ifby fte
cnlpnts themselves, may they not prove
penniless even if they are cawrht rof
HodRe? If by their bondsmSayt
the bondsmen plead, “no effects,” iu
the case of Haiper? Shall the
the people who vote the Republican ticket
be assessed to make good the thefts,
lMses, defalcations, and embezzlements
of their rulers? That is done alreadv bv
the protective tariff, which performs the
general robbery with completeness and
despatch, "Me m special cases-when
there are petty thefts in the Sab-TW
ury at New York, for instance-congress
steps in and levies a speoial assessment
on the nation at large*
Lastly, presuming that, after approved
Republican custom, this practice will be
made retroactive, how will the party ever
pay off the accumulated debt, of a*dozen
years, the thefts of lands perpetrated bv
the railroad rings, the hundreds of mil
lions wrung from the underpaid former
and mechanic by the tariff robbers, the
millions, upon millions wasted by an ei-
travagant administration ot affairs, the
millions plundered from the oppresed
"Southern States, the millions filched
from the National Treasury. The Keokuk
Gate City has no adequate idea of the
task it would set its party—a task
which could only have been accomplished
had Adam, with admirable forethought,
put Gilt a copper cent in the year 1 at 10
per cent, compound interest. The school
books say that the amount at the present
day would be a 1 with a night-marish lot
of ciphers after it, and that might cover
the demnition total of theft.
Perhaps the Keokuk Gate" City will
agree with us that the Republican party
had better go into bankruptcy.—World.
How Pastors are Paid.
From the Jfew Tort Sun.]
Ministers are probably no better quali
fied than other men to live without the
wherewithal to procure subsistence,
though it is a sad truth that many of
them receive hardly enough for their ser
vices to keep body and soul together, the
salaries of pastors in some pkce3 being
scarcely equal to the earnings of day-
laborers. In New York, however, there
is not much occasion to complain on thi3
score, for, with a few exceptions, minis
ters are paid as liberally as any other
class of intellectual workers, and more
liberally than many. The highest sal
aries are paid in the Episcopal Church,
though in at least one of the small de
nominations the average is higher; then
comes the Presbyterian, Unitarian, Bap
tist, Dutch Reformed, Methodist, and fi
nally the Roman Catholic. The follow
ing table shows the average, highest and
lowest of each denomination. It may be
premised that several churches furnish
their pastors with residences, in addition
to their salaries, and this is true of all
the Roman Catholic churches:
Average.
Episcopal..—
Hebrew
tisoo
$6,000
.... 4,000
6.000
4,000
12,000
I.SOO
6,(XX)
1,?0rt
8,000
. ... 2,000
5,000
.... S.000
10,000
,... 700
soo
..... &500
6,000
.... 5,000
10,000
8,000
5^K>0
Highest. Zovxst.
tljBOO
WOO
wx#
a»
wo
UNO
U»
600
WOO
WX#
1.000
The agent of the Associated Press here J
is authorized by Minister Sickles to say I The burning of the Grand Opera-house
that there is no foundation for the report in Paris gives occasion for the remark
published in New York on the 21st to the [ that opera in that gay city receives a
effect that Sickles had broken off social State subsidy of $160,000 a year, and the
relations with the foreign minister, and managers are bound to bring out at least
that he expressed the opinion that war ene new opera every winter.
In order that a wrong impression may
not be conveyed by the foregoing table,
it is proper to explain that only a
ministers receive salaries represented by
the higher figures. Of the whole num
ber in the city, only sixty receive $5,000
or upward, while the number receiving
over that sum is only thirty, and only
ten of the thirty are paid $10,000 or over.
Six of these fortunate ten are pastors o.
Epis ppal Churches. Twenty Baptist
ministers get from $1,000 to $3,000; ten
ministers of the Lutheran Church are
paid from $1,000 to $2,500; forty in the
Methodist Chtiifch at the same rates;
thirty in the Presbyterian from $1,000 .o
$3,000; thirty-five in the Episcopal fro®
$1,000 to $2,500; and ten in the Reform
ed Dutch from $1,000 to $3,000. It#
safe to say that more than half the min
isters in New York receive salaries of
$2,500, whi e a very large number do not
get more than half this sum. On the
whole, however, the pastors of our city
churches are pretty well rewarded in a pe
cuniary sense for their services.
A Bishop Between Two Fires.
Louisville, November 20.—A member
o” the standing committee of the Diocese
of Kentucky has received a letter from a
prominent clergyman of the East rela
tive to Bishop ’ Cummins’ withdraw®
from his work in Kentucky, and from tne
Episcopal Church, which is of the hign-
est authority. The letter says: in
Bishop acted by himself and agjunst tti
protest' of Evangelical men. ..i
most radical oppose his course ana wi
give his movement no support l*
tended a meeting of the leading Evan_ •
ical clergy in Philadelphia to-day, an
found them a unit against the Bishop-
So I suppose we are to have no ncwmoTO-
ment of any importance. It is tboutfr
that the Bishop stands alone, for wWC
we have reason to be thankful. A co ■
vention is talked of here to elect an as
sistant bishop in Cummins’ place.
New York, November 19. -
the statement contained in a letter fro
Havana that on the nightof the 7th ins >
when the news of the Yirginius reach
{Havana from] Santiago, the Spa® 5
volunteers, in fiendish exultation o
their triumph, visited the widows of
Masons shot in 1868, and brutally o ^
raged the helpless women; that in t
struggles four were killed, seven h®
since died, and several are in such aw*
gerous condition that they can not
bly recover, a petition circulated in
city is signed generally by the Master .
the Masonic lodges in New York,
fie Pa3t Masters of Lodges residing h ’
calling for an emergent session ot
.Grand Lodge of the State to taka »^
action as may be necessary. Simuh 1
tion on the the part of the Masonic
ternity is taken in New Jersey and hi
chusetts. ‘'" : i; ::. ■
One of the most popular ^
Wisconsin preaches in a pair of sc
navi an bass-wood shoes, on accoun
the hard times. He sings “How n 1
foundation” with resistless unction,
saves more soles than ever.