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MACON, MARCH 2. 1875.
A Habtfobd clergyman was in the
middle of a sentence in his morning' ser
mon on Sunday, when the dock struck for
soon- He immediately closed his manu
script, remarking, "That’s a good enough
ending,” and brought the serrico to a
speedy close.
Thz Texas Pacino Railroad.—The
indications are, that Mr. Scott with all
his lobbying will nek get his bill through
the House. When it comes to adopting
any measure that will help ex-rebels, the
purse strings are drawn at once. Such
men as Conkling, Pease et if omne genus
will persist that the war is not oyer and
it would bo treason to do so you know,
A wealthy and eccentric woman in
Springfield, HI., contributes $500 a year
to the support of one of the churches, but
cannot be induced to attend a single ser
vice. Nor will she allow its pastor to
enter her house. She says that "ho
means well,” and that is why she gives
tho money, but she doesn’t desire “to
hear any of his cant.”
Elsewhere we publish the full report
of tho Legislative Committee on the Ma
con A Brunswick Railway bonds. In a
note to the editors of this paper. Colonel
Kibbee states that the synopsis of the re
port printed in tho Atlanta Herald a few
days since, and republished by us, “ wa3
and is incorrect,” and that the reporter
of that paper had no right to attach his
and Capt. Bacon’s name to it.
Me. J. D. Campbell, a farmer and
breeder from Indianapolis, left Ipswich,
in England, on February 3, taking with
him eight Suffolk agricultural stallions,
including six, five, and three year olds,
which ho selected at a cost of between
.£1500 and £2000. He intends to return
to England, in June next, when he will
purchase other stallions and mares, his
object being to introduce the pure Suf
folk breed into the United States.
The Boston Post affirms “that corsets
have been the destruction of art. There
are no good models nowadays, say the
sculptors. When Powers made his Greek
Slave he worked it out of sixteen different
models, and then he had to go hock to
the antique for his bust.” They have
done wonders for the women, though,
which is much more important, fancy a
woman in full dress without a corset!
What a "guy” she would look, eh ?
The Charleston Hews and Courier, of
tho23dinstant, says: The following is
the agreement which has been entered
into by the principal cotton buyera of
Charleston, a copy of which has bean or
will be sent to the factors: “We, the un
dersigned, cotton merchants and buyers
of Charleston, do hereby bind ourselves
and our firms, and agreo that on and af
ter the 10th of March, 1875, we will pur
chase no cotton from any factor except
upon tho delivery weight, with the privi
lege to ourselves of having tho cotton re-
weighed before acceptance by U3, by
weighers of our own selection, who shall
use the beam scale.” Signed by thirty-
one firms and individuals.
The Now York World says Christian
K. Ross, father of Charley, while on a
visit to Red Bank, N. J., with a Phila
delphia detective last week, made an ex
tensive search along the coast to Key-
port, including a number of houses at
tho Highlands and Port Monmouth, but
without any result. While at Rad Bank
Mr. Ross said that the detectives search
ing for the lad had already expended
more than $20,000. Commissioners have
searched from ocean to ocean; 700,000
circulars have been issued; printing and
photographing have cost $8,000; a corps
of clerks havo been employed in the cor
respondence; 200 bands of gypsies have
been searched; 600 Charlie Rosses have
been reported, and fully 500,000 persons
have been engaged in the search.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Daily Hews writes: “I havo just been
shown a simple apparatus which will
probably sweep away ere long the match
trade. It is called the electrical tinder
box, and is small enough to be carried in
a cigar case. On opening this box you
seo a platinum wire stretched across.
Touching a spring tho wiro reddens suf
ficiently to light a cigar. At will you can
introduce into a tiny sconce a mesh of
cotton steeped in spirits of wine or pe
troleum, which, taking fire, does service
as a vcilleuse, or nurse’s lamp. Tho hid
den agency which heats tho wiro is a very
small electrical battery, setin action by
the touching of tbo spring. The trade
price of the electrical tinder-box will bo
half a franc, or five pence. Its inventor
promist-3 that it will bo on economical
substitute fo. the lucifcr match. This
apparatus may perhaps derango the
budget, which depends for a heavy sum
upon the match tax and monopoly."
Pardoning Outrages.
In the Administration of Governor
Bullock, ho not infrequently pardoned
criminals, if they were negroes, in ad
vance of their trial. Wo can recall ono
notable instance of this in Cuthbert.
Gen. Gordon, in his Into speech, also
shows that tho same cx-cxpress agent and
bogus executive, pardoned outright du
ring tho short period of his partial term
of office, forty-six persons condemned for
murder, and besides, commuted tho : - . ath
penalty of eighteen others to imprison
ment for life. Only two were executed.
Tho whole number of pardons granted
by Bullock foots up the enormous num
ber of four hundred and sixty-four. Per
contra, Governor Smith reports but
forty-seven pardons for offenses of all
kinds from January 1872, to the present
time, a majority of whom wero negroes.
Sixteen executions for crime havo taken
ploco under Democratic rule, against two
for tbo same time daring a Republican
administration. This shows who is on
tho side of law and order.
Personal;
Wo had tho pleasure, yesterday, of
meeting onr old friend and comrade,
Fierce Horne, with whom wo soldiered in
tho old First Georgia Regulars—the first
timo wo had seen him sinco the surren
der. Ho was on his way homo from the
Convention of tho State Agricultural
Society abTbomasville, which adjourned
yesterday. Ho represents tho meeting as
having been fully attended, somo two
hundred and fifty delegates being present,
and as quite interesting. The next con
vention will ho held at Dalton.
The Report or the Finance Commit
tee on the State or the Treasury,
This document will be read with con
suming interest by the people of Geor
gia, and one conclusion only can bo left
upon the public mind. There has been
glaring and inexcusable carelessness and
neglect, manifested by tho Treasurer of
the State.
That gentleman has always sustained
on umblemished reputation for integrity
hitherto, and wo do not charge that he is
now guilty of intentional fraud or de
ception ; but still, it is incumbent upon
him to prove tho fact by incontrovertible
and irrefragable testimony.
Fending tho production of this evidence,
ho ought to act under tho recommenda
tion of tho Finance Committee, and re-
sign his office. Surely, every motive of
delicacy enjoins him to do so, when it is
patent that a largo portion of the people
desire it, and no ono can deny that the
affairs of the Treasury are in a most de
plorable condition.
Tho committee seem to have bestowed
great labor and research upon their report,
which is amazingly full and satisfactory,
when it is considered how little data was
submitted to them. Most of their state
ments are tho result of patient investi
gation, and tho recommendation that the
Treasurer in future bo required to keep
a "cash book,” alone speak3 volumes in
the premises.
Wo have no desire to prejudge Captain
Jones, and for his sake, and the honor of
the State, trust his vindication may bo
complete and triumphant. But in the
meantime let him retire.
The Democracy of Georgia cannot af
ford to even tolerate carelessness and
neglect in any of her officials, and these
in the present instance are universally
conceded. After banishing Bullock, and
calling to rigid account all of hi3 associ
ates, to wink even at the “ want of sys
tem and arrangement” as charged by
tbo committee against tho Treasurer,
would at least prove a descent from that
elevated platform which the party in op
position to Radicalism, has ever claimed
to occupy.
Of all the plans proposed in this emer
gency, we prefer that of Capt. Bacon,
which provides for the suspension of the
Treasurer “ until proper arrangements
can be made for tho discharge of the du
ties of tho office."
It is to be hoped, however, CoL Jones
will consent to resign, and in that event
no paper will chronicle his vindication
with greater pleasure than the Tele
graph, when he has furnished the proper
proof. But the Democracy of Georgia
must preserve an unspotted record, if it
would maintain its high ground, and con
tinue to make headway against our
wicked oppressors.
Moreover, and last but not least, the
credit of tho State of Georgia demands
the removal or resignation of her present
Treasurer, as, when the case comes to be
bruited abroad, after sunb evidences of
incapacity as those submitted by the
Finance Committee, it would bo next to
impossible for him to negotiate loans, or
transact the financial duties of his office.
It would make the State a by-word in
business circles.
Tbe
Raid on tlie "Western
Union Telegraph.
Within four or five weeks we have Lad
no less than four bills in Congrers, reso
lutions for inquiries, and last, but by no
means least, there is now in progress an
investigation before a sub-committee of
the Judiciary Committee of the House—
all about alleged shortcomings of the
Western Union Telegraph Company.
When that exemplary young gentleman
Jonas Chuzzlewit made a proposal -of
business to Mr. Tigg Montague, he be
gan by saying, “The truth is”—when
forthwith ho was stopped by Mr. Mon
tague observing that “the truth” is
rather a hackneyed expression. Mr. Jo
nas at last compromised and substituted,
“The long and tho short of it is”—
Now, tho Western Union Company is
suffering from “the long and tho short of
it.” The truth is, says the World, that a
persistent raid is made on that corpora
tion by certain Wall street operators, who
sold the stock short, and have manipu
lated the whole power of Congress to aid
in their scheme. Gsneral Butler is Con
gressional engineer of the road. Mr.
Dawes made an attack on the company,
and got this investigation beforo a sub
committee of the Judiciary. Great com
plaints are mado against tho Western
Union by the friends of the Lonisiana
bayonet rulers that the company not only
would not suppress the truth, but actual
ly refused to carry lies gratuitously—
especially from Alabama. The sins of
omission and commission charged against
tho Western Union are something fear
ful, yet tho real solution is tho “long”
and tho “short” of it. Jay Gould is
'short” of the stock, and is determined
to have a squeeze. Tho time is very
short, too. After Congress adjourns we
shall not again hear of these fearful
charges, and it is a desperate game to be
played out in but a few days. It is sod
to contemplate tho Congress of tho
United States being made a party to tho
gamblers of the “longs” and tho "shorts.”
Sliarp-Sliootlng’.
The Courier-Journal referring recently
to the recent exposure by the New York
Sun of Fremont’s Memphis El Faso rail
way humbug or something worse re
marked:
We had previously illuminated the El
Faso humbug variously. Nobody ever
doubted its character who considered tho
character of tho people engaged in it.
The Sun’s publication was tho result of an
unsuccessful black-mailing [operation.
Wo understand and believe that tho let
ters it published wero offered to Tom
Scott for $5,000.
Whereupon the Sun hits back after tbi3
fashion;
"To this we append the following ex
tract from a letter written to Gen. Fro-
mont in 1869:
“ *1 have seen tho proprietors of the
Louisville Courier-Journal. They are
heartily in favor of your railroad enter-
prise, and will render it the most efficient
aid in their power. I offered them the
400 shares of stock set apart for them,
but they were not able to agreo among
themselves about accepting it. One of
them wanted to accept it, but the other
objected—on the ground that it might
embarrass him in his advocacy of tho en
terprise. This may be the true reason
of his objection, but it is my opinion that
the amount of stock was not sufficiently
largo.’ ”
We don’t believe either story, but we
do enjoy such scientific licks. They are
truly artistic.
The Detroit Free Press says Mr. Childs,
of the Philadelphia Ledger, 13 not Mr.
Childs at all. He is George Washington
Childs, A. M., A. B., D. D., F. M., S. S.,
and A. S. 8., and he never opens a letter
not properly directed.
UgH—Don’t It Make You Shud
der?
It is so intensely cold at the North,
that Gardiner’s Bay, on the coast of
Long Island, is frozen over hard to the
depth of six inches, and pedestrians croes
over from the main land to the island, a
distance of three miles.
The ocean also, at West Hampton, is
actually frozen for miles from the shore,
and people walk, not sail, down to the
bar, and no open water can be seen as
far as the eye can reach. At other points
where the ice has been broken up by
gales, it has piled up in immense hills or
ramparts on tho strand, for a long dis
tance, presenting in some instances
huge blocks, like transparent granite,
thirty feet in height.
Astonishing to relate the ice in the bay of
West Hampton is twenty inches thick,
and the heaviest wagons cross and re
cross upon it daily.
The Southern tourist who sees Gov
ernor’s, and the green heights of Staten
Island covered with luxuriant sward and
and blushing flowers in summer time,
and the crags of the palisades, and tow
ering heights of the lovely Hudson al
most hidden by vines and creepers, and
set in living green, will find it well nigh
impossible to realize the same scenes un
der the reign of the ice king.
We never do, or can, perceive and es'
teem aright what are known as every day
blessings, unless deprived of them. They
seem to come naturally, whereas health,
our daily food, the shelter we enjoy, and
onr genial climate and soil are among the
peculiar gifts of a benignant Providence.
Think, then, of our suffering country
men in the frigid North, where the poor
ore dying from cold and starvation, and
contrast their condition with ours, as you
pluck the luciouss strawberry or enjoy
your crisp lettuce at dinner.
Here, too, as we write, the fire has died
out in the grate, soft zephyrs whisper
gently amid the swelling buds of the
trees, English peas, turnips, cabbage,
radishes and other vegetables are up and
growing finely, and corn, the great staff
of life in this region, will soon clothe our
hill3 and valleys with its verdant garni
ture.
Verily, not even war, and the iron heel of
despotism which presses so remorselessly
upon her neck, seem able to keep down
the recuperative, joyous South, which is
so greatly blessed in climate and variety
of productions. Let ns thank God then
for our soft weather and manifold mer
cies, and commiserate the hard lot of tho
less fortunate denizens of the icy North.
Flanking tbe Enemy.
That i3 good news we print this morn
ing about the success of the Democrats
in the House in staving off a vote on the
infamous Radical force bill. It inspires
the hope that the iniquity may be stran
gled yet. We cry bravo! and God speed
to our friends in the righteous work.
Let them stand “ like a stone wall,” and
meet the conspirators at every turn, and
they will win, as they deserve the thanks
of a grateful country.
Tlie Texas Pacific Subsidy.
Under this head the Baltimore Sun, of
Tuesday, prints tho following Wash
ington special:
Colonel Thomas A. Scott and the Tex
as Pacific railroad lobby met with a most
unexpected defeat in the Houso of Rep
resentatives to-day. Mr. Houghton, of
California, who as a member of the Pacfic
railroad committee has engineered the
bill all the time, offered it to-day, not
for passage, but in the shapo of a resolu
tion directing its consideration on Wed
nesday evening next. On ordering the
main question the vote stood by tellers
one hundred and fifty odd to sixty-two.
This made the lobby confident, and they
were sure of success. But another ques
tion had to be put, and that was, “Will
the House suspend the rules and pos3
tho resolution?” This called for a yea
and nay vote, and while the rules requir
ed that there shonld be two-thirds to car
ry it, the proposition did not receive even
a majority, the vote standing 117 yeas to
129 nays. Tho New England, New York
and Northwestern [delegations were al
most solidly against the proposition. Tho
Pennsylvania Republicans were generally
for it and the Democrats against it.
Maryland cast a solid vote for it. The
South was divided, and there is where
Mr. Scott made a wrong count, for he_ex
pected to get a full Southern delegation.
Another effort is to be made to pass tho
bill.
The Sun also prints tho yeas and nays
on tho proposition to suspend the rules
and pass Mr. Houghton’s resolution. Of
the Georgia members, Messrs. Bell, Free
man, Harris, Sloan and Yonng, voted
for, and Messrs. Blount and Cook against
tho resolution. Mcbsts. Stephens and
Whitely wero either absent or did not
vote. _.
FOUR BABIES AT A BIRTH.
About tbe Baltimore Sensation.
Baltimore San, 19th.J
The quartette sisters who mado their
first appearance on Tuesday night, at
No. 119 Low street, held a numerously
attended levee yesterday. All of them
were in apparently sound health, and as
good humored as circumstances would
permit. Tho proper name of the mother
and father of tho children i3 Hahn or
Hoen, as is pronounced by somo: The
babies were visited by hundreds of ladies
from all parts of tho city, and somo who
live out of it. A number of these came in
carriages. At least a score of physicians
called to see tbo phenomena of nature, and
ono physician came from Washington and
another from Philadelphia. Tho babies
wero christened on Wednesday, by Bov.
Father Malloy, of St. John’s parish, at
tho request of tho mother. They wero
named respectively Sarah, Mary, Kate
and Jennie, and each was being labeled
to prevent them from becoming mixed,
which would otherwise be likely to hap
pen, as they are as much alike as four
peas. When the announcement was mado
at 9 o’clock, last night, that the babies
refused to receive any moro visitors until
this morning, tho pavement in front of
the house was crowded with ladies, who
went regretfully away. The father of
the children says bis name is John Hahn;
he is thirty years old, was bom in Ger
many, but came to this country when one
year old. Mrs. Hahn, who is also thirty
years of age, wa3 bom in the United
States. She has for several years been
in delicate health, and for the past six
weeks has been ill. Mr. Hahn, as here
tofore stated, is a cigar maker, and has
been out of work for six weeks. He is
quite an intelligent man, evidently tem
perate, and undoubtedly means to do tho
best he can under this heavy visitation of
Providence.
The New Senate.—Tho election of
Judge McMillan, in Minnesota, on Friday
last, closed the programme of United
States senatorial elections which have
made the winter so interesting in a polit
ical point of view. The complexion of
the incoming Senate as now indicated
shows that the straight-out Radicals may
be figured down to thirty-six, the Demo
crats twenty-eight, the Independent or
coalition Republicans, nine, and one va
cancy from Louisiana. As most of. the
latter Republicans will probably go into
caucus with the regulars, the latter will,
of course, continue to hold a majority on
matters of routine and such political
questions as do not involve extreme
measurer.
THE GEORGIA. FRESS,
A letter for Green Michel, Macon, is
held for postage in the Savannah office.
The Savannah News says Mr. Thos. H.
Fisher, a well known carpenter of that
city, died very suddenly of heart disease,
Tuesday afternoon. His son was to have
been married that night, and some of the
invited guests reached the house only to
find it filled with mounting friends.
The Chroiiiele and Sentinel says for the
first time the present commercial year,
cotton sold for fifteen cents per pound at
Augusta, on Tuesday.
The same paper states that a “man
named Martin McGowan, while lying
drunk on the Georgia Railroad track near
Dearing, was run over by a freight train
and killed yesterday morning, at 3 o’clock.
No one was to blame hut himself. He
was about forty years of age and had no
family. The body was terribly mangled.”
What Treasurer Jones Says—The
Other Side or the Question.—Under
this head the Atlanta Constitution of
Wednesday prints the following:
Last evening a representative of the
Constitution called upon Treasurer
Jones, to obtain hi3 opinion of the re
port, and what he intended to do. He is
taking the situation with great calmness,
and was perfectly willing to give his
views. After announcing himself and
his mission, the reporter asked: " Is it
true, Col. Jone3, that you havo unwit
ting paid bonds that had been taken up
by Henry Clews & Co.? Jones—I do not
know that I have; neither does the com
mittee know that I have. I havo paid
off bonds that fell due prior to and dur
ing 1871, but tho treasury is not in pos
session to-day of one particle of official in
formation that Clews bad ever paid them.
Reporter—Had you not seen tho letters
of Clews and Gov. Bullock stating that
these bonds had been paid ? Jones —No,
sir. I never saw or knew anything of
Bullock’s letter to Conley until it
was produced last week by tho Fi
nance Committee. As to Clews’ let
ter to the New York Times, I
never heard of it until you read
it just now. Reporter—How came you
then to state in your reports for 1873 and
1874, that “it is highly probable that
many of these bonds had been paid ?”
Jones—That remark was intended simply
as information to the treneral Assembly
and the public. It wo3 not intended to
indicate what I should or should not do
if these bonds were presented for pay
msnt. I used the same language in my
report way back in 1866. You will no
tice that I say farther that “from the
disagreements between the late Governor
and Treasurer, they (these bonds) wero
not returned to the Treasury, and hence
the record of the bonds in this depart
ment do not show their payment. It is
to be hoped that the holders of outstand
ing over due bonds will send them into
the Treasury as soon as possible, and
have them paid.” Reporter—Why did
you stop paying them ? Jones—Because
my suspicions were aroused, and in this
way, at my suggestion, Mr. t.nead was
employed to make Clews render an ac
count of his doings as agent of Georgia.
That account, by special agreement be
tween Clews and "Snead, was not opened
until after the adjournment of the Legis
lature in 1873. In it Clews did not return
any list of bonds taken up by him, but
had the state charged with large amounts
paid by him on bonds. This fact indue
ed me to stop further payment myself
until I could get more information. Short
ly afterwards I received a letter from a
banker in Philadelphia, saying that $20,-
000 of these bonds had been offered foreale
to him, and asking information thereon,
I wrote him to send me the name of tbe
party, who presented them and he turned
out to be an attorney of Henry Clews &
Co. This confirmed my suspicion,'that
Clews had taken up theso bonds with tbe
States money, and was putting them
again on the market; hence, after consul
tation with the governor, I have never
refused to pay them, although large num
bers have been presented to me. Report
er—Do you intend to follow tho recom
mendation of the committee? Jones—
When I leave the treasury of Georgia it
will be in a bex, feet foremost. I am in
nocent of wrong, and shall stay in my
office through my term. If tho legisla
ture wants me out they must impeach
me. That is the only way they can do it.
I deny the constitutionality of the ap
pointment of any financial agent. It
would bo to deprive me of my office with
out giving mo a trial, which can’t bo
done.
'! he Atlanta Herald of the same date
(Wednesday) "demands tho Treasurer’s
impeachment at the hands of tho Leg
islature ” and adds:
If the report made by tho committee
on yesterday is true—truo in all the
facts it states, and all tho suggestions
it carries—Col. Jonrs should not bo al
lowed to resign. Ha should bo tried,
and if guilty of any deliberate wrong,
or any crimihal carelessness, ho should
bo punished to tho full extent of tho
law, and his bondsmen mado responsi
ble for his error. If ho has done wrong
ho should bo punished and not allowed
to escapo one jot or tittle of the law’s
penalty, On tho other hand, if the re
port of tho committee is ex parte—if it
is a strained construction of the facts—
if it is filled with inferences that the
facts do not justify—if it is capable of
a construction that would clear Colonel
Jones, we demand that he be impeached,
and the true state of things brought to
light. After the report of that commit
tee, that was read yesterday, and is
published in to-day’s Herald, thero can
be no half-way measures. It is either n
triumph, or a disgrace, to Col. Jones; it
is to him victory or death. He does not
dread the issue, but as is reported in an
other column of the Herald, is anxiously
awaiting the full and deep probing of the
whole matter. Let tho Legislature pro
long, if necessary, and carefully sift the
whole question. No matter who it hurts,
let the truth be told. The people will not
quarrel at tho prolongation. They will be
much more apt to quarrel if an officer
against whom so much has oeen officially
charged, os has been charged against
Jones, should be allowed to quietly re
sign. Lot U3 have tho impeachment, by
nil means.
“Specks,” the Washington correspon
dent of tho Atlanta Herald, says Sam
Gove has been confirmed as postmaster
of Millodgeville, and that thoP. M. G.
stated to him (Specks), lost Saturday,
positively, that “he would not remove
Belcher from tho Macon post-office; that
he regarded him as a better man than
any of tho applicants for the place.” So
Belcher can score “one” and sleep
quietly onco more. Freeman pressed
McBumey, but, as usual, failed to make
his point.
He also learns that Dr. Wills has been
tendered the pastorate of tho H and
Twentieth street Presbyterian church,
of Washington City, at a salary of $6,000.
Several Roman property owners have
petitioned tho Legislature to grant them
“the privilege to surrender tho charter
of the city of Romo aforesaid, os a cor
poration, and allow ns to return to the
position of a county town, as wo cannot
by any means support a corporation.”
We noted, a day or two since, the steal
ing from the lecture room of St. Paul’s
(Methodist) church at Columbus, of a
sewing machine and other articles of value,
last Friday night, and now we learn from
the Times that another sewing machine
was stolen from the same place Saturday
night.
The Times reports an attempt to bum
Burma & Hoffman’s store in Columbus
last Tuesday morning. A fire wa9
kindled under ti^e house, and dry fuel
placed all around it.
Sseaker Hardeman.—The Herald has
this complimentary reference to our
townsman:
Ab Speaker of the present House of
Representatives, CoL Tom Hardeman has
simply added another to his brilliant cat
alogue of publio duties well performed.
He is one of tne brightest parliamentari
ans that ever occupied a presiding office
in the General Assembly. Add to this
his dignity, decision, ability, tact, readi
ness and courtesy, and we see in him the
distinguished position resplendently il
lustrated. The only drawback upon his
filling the high office has been that he
has been necessarily withdrawn from a
sphere in which he is pre-eminently cal
culated to serve and to shine, viz: on the
floor of tho House, in the flashing conflict
of debato and legislative work. He is
one of the most eloquent speakers and
ablest debaters in Georgia. He came out
of the Speaker’s seat the other day and
made a speech which is thu3 referred to
by tho clever correspondent of the Sa
vannah Advertiser, J. Q. M.: “I wish I
had time and space to tell you of CoL
Hardeman’s splendid speech, in the af
ternoon, in behalf of the educational bill
for the perfecting of the public school
system. It is, by far, the most brilliant
and able of all the speeches I have heard
this session—and he looked every inch a
Governor when he made it!”
Robbery in Crawford.—Information
readies us that Mr. L. H. Hicks, one of
the most prominent citizens and tax col
lector of Crawford county, was robbed at
his residence one night last week of sev
eral thousand dollars belonging to the
State and county. The amount stolen is
said to be as high as $7,000.
Pass them around. Their names are
Adams—claiming to represent R. H. Mil
ler, dealer in safes, Baltimore—and John
Dewils, ditto as to the house of S. H.
Condict & Co., dealers in saddlery, New
Fork. What they did, is told in the
Athens Watchman, as follows:
We learn that on_the out-going train
from this place on Thursday night last,
a mulatto woman of questionable char
acter took a scat among the white folks
—which, being discovered by the watch
man, she was requested to take a seat in
the car appropriated to tho colored peo
ple. Two whito men on board told her
not to do it—that the civil rights hill
had passed and that she had as good a
right thero as anybody. The conductor,
however, was of a different opinion, and
seated her among the colored people.
Tbe same paper states that sixty
miles of the Savannah and Memphis
railway have been finished, and trains are
now running to within twenty-six miles
of Childersburg, on the Selma, Rome and
Dalton railroad.
Mudlanta is what a correspondent of
the Fort Valley Minor calls it.
Wb clip the following from tho samo
paper:
For the Chain-gang.—Jack Rollins,
the horse thief, and two negroes, one for
stealing a mule and the-other for burg
larizing Dr. Richardson’s store at Byron,
all sentenced for ten years in the penl
tentiary, were carried through this place
to the chain gang iu Washington county
last Thursday evening.
We quote these additional items from
the same paper:
Dropped Dead.—Mr. Thomas Shack
elford, a highly respected citizen, resid
ing a few miles from town, dropped dead
in hi3 field one day last week, while plow,
ing in oats.
An Ancient Document.—Wo were
shown a few days ago, by J. J. Flournoy,
Esq., of Jackson county, a copy of The
Harrisonian, a campaign paper issued by
him in 1840. It bears date “ Athens,
Sep. 9,1840.” He then resided in this
town. It is about one-third tbe size of
the Watchman, and was evidently a “live”
little paper. The Harrison electors were
Gov. Geo. Gilmer, Gen. D. L Clinch, Col.
J. W. Campbell, Maj. Joel Crawford.
Chas. Dougherty, Seaton Grantlond, Gen.
Andrew Miller, Gen. W. W. Ezzard, C.
B. Strong, John Whitehead, Gen. E.
Wimberly. The Whig Congressional
ticket was as follows: R. W. Habersham,
W. C. Dawson, Julius C. Alford, Eugcnius
A. Nisbet, Lott Warren, Thomas Butler
King, Roger L. Gamble, James A. Merri-
wether and Thomas F. Porter.
Mrs. Jane Appleby died last week at
Ganesville, aged 95 years. She had been
a member of the- Presbyterian church for
sixty-five years and had lived on the
same farm in Jackson county, for sixty-
five years.
The Commercial says Mr. Sheets from
Boonton, Now Jersey, has leased the nail
factory at tho Rome rolling mills and ex
pects to have the machines running the
first of next week. They will .turn out
two hundred begs of nails per day.
Tlie Lord's Chastisement.
The New York Sun says last Friday
evening at tho prayer meeting in Ply
mouth Church, Mr. Beecher made the
following personal petition: •
' O, Lord, teach us to fly heavenward,
too high from the world to be reached—
too high to bo harmed. 0, for the soul-
rest—that resting in the bosom of God.
In every[ago Thou hast had Thy servants
in trouble, in the dungeons, in the wil
derness, and yet Thou hast heard them,
and they are with Thee. The world
could not hurt them, the prison could not
hurt them, and they are with Thee even
7. How near wo are to the pleasure
ground of the universe. Why shonld wo
demean ourselves, or grovel or walk as
dishonored paupers, when we are our Fa
ther’s ? Give us the peace that the
world cannot take away. Glorify Thy
self in us—in our faith and trust, in hon
or or dishonor. Grant peace to all those
who are laboring with vulgar care3 and
sordid burdens.
Gin Drinking Extraordinary.
An old resident of this city, about
seventy years of age, who has long been
known 03 a frequenter of bar-rooms and
an excellent story-teller, is said to have
been a steady gin-drinker for over sixty
years. Tho account of tho quantity of
gin he has drank i3 drawn from his own
statements. What is quite remarkable
is that ho has never been seen intoxicated
during all the timo ho has been addicted
to alcoholic drink. Ho says, however,
that he believes gin will some day prove
to be tbe cause of hi3 death. At three
years of age, he first tasted the liquor.
Gin and sugar, ho says, were in those
days given the children, and wore con
sidered beneficial to them. Ho estimates
that after he had formed a habit for the
drink, ho drank up to the present timo
an average of two quarts of gin a week.
For the information of those who have no
idea of tho quantity of gin a man can
drink and yet continue to live, we have
made an estimate of the cost and quan
tity of the liquor imbibed by this old
resident. Doubting, somewhat, the
length of time he states ho has been ad
dicted to gin, and calling tho period
only fifty years, it is found that at tho
rate of two quarts a week ho has drank
a very little less than forty-eight and a
half barrels of the liquor. The money
expended for this, tho gin being reckoned
at sixty cents a quart, with simple inter
est for half tho time, amounts to $7800;
and this doe3 not begin to reach tho sum
which the old man’s estimate would
make. The only indications of thic life
long habit to be seen about tho man is
his very rubicund face. Undoubtedly
men in this city would bo greatly sur
prised should they mako an estimate of
the liquor they have drank.—New Haven
Journal and Courier.
The Boston women are still agitating
the dress question; but the discussion is
getting too deep for tho ordinary male
comprehension. One lady, for instance,
thinks the abolition of the chemise would
'result in anarchy and revolution,” and
an “estimable middle aged matron” is
positive that “no woman of delicacy will
ever abandon that garment.”
Official Honor.
The New York Herald of Monday, un
der this head has a capital and most
apropos article. It says that to make
money out of publio office was once
thought horrible, but they all—meaning
Radical politicians—doit now and adds:
We have seen a letter from James K.
Polk (“whose seat another fills”) to a
banker in Washington, who stood high in
his confidence—a man of many virtues—
with the soft heart and the unbounded
charity. Mr. Polk had ordered the pur
chase of some United States stock. Af
terward he thought that the President
ought not to deal in the public securities.
He ordered the stock sold and the money
he had paid for it replaced to his credit.
The stock had risen and there wa3 profit
on the transaction. The President would
not take it. the banker would not keep it,
and it was sent to the Orphan Asylum of
the District of Columbia. We remember
in this connection a famous political case
that came into the courts. Cobbett—ex
cept the Rev. Dr. Swift “the most efficient
libeller that ever exercised the trade”—
charged William Pitt with making monoy
on the Stock Exchange. Pitt brought an
action for libel. British statesmen have
been always very sensitive on this point
of character. Cobbett said it was not
libel; that the Prime Minister had the
common right to deal in stocks, only it
was indecorous andjfit subject of]censure.
But Mansfield, Pitt’s old hereditary foe,
asserted for him tho true doctrine in
publio morals. He ruled that the Min
ister wa3 right; that ho could not hon
estly deal in stocks; that it would be
using his official knowledge for private
gain; that it would be exposing a public
trust to bo brought in opposition to
private interests; that it would be of
misobievons and immoral tendency, and
that the action for libel was well taken.
Such is the high doctrine of true states
men, of men of cultivated minds and
high and sensitive principles. We give
tho letter of President Polk—never be
fore in print. In 1847 three thousand
dollars woa a large sum for Presidents to
handle; now it is hardly change to carry
in one’s pocket:—.
Washington City, May 7,1847.
Dear Sir—When I requested you, early
in March lost, to purchase for me three
thousand dollars of public stock, I in
formed yon that I desired yon to invest
that sum, held by me as a trust fund.
On the day following onr conversation
yoi transferred certificates of United
States stock to me in my own name, and
not as trustee for my ward, for which I
paid you a premium of one per cent., or
the sum of three thousand and thirty
dollars. I do not donbt my lawful right
to make such investment; but in view of
my official position, I deem it proper to
relinquish the stock by retransferring it
to you and invest the fund in some other
mode. I desire, therefore, to transfer the
stock to you, without premium or inter
est, and request that you will place to my
credit the precise sum whioh I paid you
for the stock. I am, very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
James K. Polk.
Fancy Grant, or any of that brood of
“statesmen” from BeaBt Butler up, being
troubled with such nice scruples. How
they must sneer at, and laugh to scorn
this old-fashioned regard for the propri
eties of official life and conduct! Thank
Heaven there is one fact os proud as it is
incontestible, and which all the lying
tongues and pens of Radicalism cannot
efface from the record: No President of
the United States during all the years
that Democrats and Whigs ruled the
country, ever soiled his hands or degraded
his station by gift taking. It wa3 re
served for the party of great moral ideas
to inaugurate and popularize this base
greed. •
An Extra Session or Congress Not
Desired by Either Party—Status
of Business} etc.
Wo find the following special in the
New York Herald, of Monday:
The Senate caucus, which met on Sat
urday, considered tho order of business,
bat came to no definite conclusion. The
order of business becomes an important
matter just now; for if the Republican
caucus should decide to pay no attention
to the appropriation bills until tho civil
rights bill, the Pinchback question, the
Louisiana and the Arkansas matters are
settled, they will at once decide the
question of a call of the new Congress.
As matters stand now it is not improba
ble that the new Congress may be
called. The wise and moderate men in
both parties do not desire it, and it may
be discerned that tho Democratic lead
ers dread it. They are not sure of their
own men and fear some blunders which
wonld injure tho party. Tho Republican
politicians would like, on some accounts,
to seo tbo new Congre33 called to
gether. They say the Democrats will
mako extensive and probably damaging
investigations whenever they do meet,
and that it is better to have theso fin
ished this year than carried over into the
next. They have also a strong belief
that tho Democrats will blunder and thus
help tho Republicans before tbo country.
On the othe.- hand, there is some reason
to believe that tho President does not
desiro to sco the new Congress meet. If
it is called together soon after the 4th of
March, it will quietly piss the necessary
appropriation bills and adjourn, or it may
continue its session. In tho latter case,
it would probably prove a thorn in tho
President’s side. It is not, therefore, a
clear advantage to the Republicans to
call the new Congress together,
and it is not at all probable
that they can he united in a course
which would mako the call necessary 5
but only ten days more remain of the
Session, and if the Senate goes on in leis
urely discussion of even the appropria
tion bills it will not complete iw work.
It is pretty certain, no we v or, that efforts
will bo mado to call up tho civil rights
bill, to renew tho struggle over Pinch
back, and even to procure tome action on
the Arkansas message. Judge Poland’s
Arkansas non-interfereneo resolution,
which comes up in the Houso on Tuesday,
find will probably pass, will occupy tho
Senate. Mr. Coburn means to bring up
tho habeas corpus bill if ho can, and that
will take up at least two days in tho
House. Senator Morton threatens, if ho
can get up the Pinchback mat:er again, to
debate it till the 4th of March rather than
lot it be lost. In short unless Republicans
hurry np business, tho new Congress must
meet, and it is in their power to decido
the question. Tho Democrats gave no
tice some timo ago that they would at
any moment givo way and suspend de
bate to take up and pass necessary busi
ness. If a sufficient number of Republi
cans in the Sonato unite with them in ex
pediting business it can easily ho finished
by the 4th of March; but if they dwell
on bills too long or if they bring up two
or three obnoxious political bills, they
cannot hope to get through. Personally,
those members of tho present Congress
who aro to servo in the next are almost
without exception opposed to the meeting
of the now holy, cither now or beforo
December. It would expose all of them
to great inconvenience and d’seomfort.
Thoso who aro not re-elected aro indif
ferent.
Paris, February 23.—Tho amendment
to the Senate bill that sovon f y-fivo Sen
ators shall bo chosen from tho double
list nominations by MacMahon, was
defeated. Having disposed of tbo Sen
ate, the Assembly took np tho organiza
tion of the publio powers, which passed
on the second reading. The amendments
moved by tbe right and tho Bonapartists
were all rejected. Tho clauso implying
recognition of tho Republic, which, on
January 13, had one majority, was finally
adopted—433 to 262.
'What do you live on here ?” asked a
visitor to Florida, of a native, as he gazed
on the bareness of the country. “Live
on,” replied tho native, “why, we livo on
fish ana strangers.”
How Anday Johnson Saved a Yota—
A Wild Bide for the Stateheose*
From the Nashville Banner.]
Daring the late balloting for the elec
tion of United States Senator, which re
sulted in the choice of Mr. Johnson, a
little incident occurred, ludicious enough
in its nature to admit of its reproduction.
One of the members of the House had,
on the Monday pending the day on which
Mr. Johnson was elected, changed his
vote in favor of Mr. Johnson, and, on the
same evening, had gone home to rest
secure for the night in the bosom of his
dear family, and- take on more hog and
hominy and Johnson backbone. His
mind was made up to stick to Mr. John
son as long as the everlasting cedars of
Lebanon themselves shonld stand, and it
so happened that no one was better ad
vised of this fact than a certain shrewd
railroad conductor, who had charge of the
train which was to bring the honorable
Solon back to the. capitol in time to vote
on the opening ballot on Tuesday. This
same railroad man was opposed to Mr.
Johnson, and since the change had taken
place in the mind of our representative,
our railroader’s mind began to wonder
whether it would not be necessary for
his train to leave for Nashville a little
earlier than usual. Well, morning came.
The aforesaid railroader had spent a
restless night, as his mind had been har
dened with the weight of a temporary
change of schedule.
On the other hand, the honorable So
lon bad risen early and stood about the
depot ere yet the fires in the depot stoves
had been kindled; he stood on one foot
and shivered like a Democratic rooster in
a henless barnyard. Looking at his
watch he discovered that there was [a
half hour still before the time for the
train to start. Suddenly the railroader
busted in, and was just about to cry out
“all aboard,” when his anti-Johnson op
tic fell on the unlooked-for and altogether
unhoped-for presence of the Johnson
member, and thereupon it was deter
mined that the contemplated temporary
change of schedule should not occur on
that morning. On the contrary, some
thing else shonld be done and done
quickly. Not long was a new plan in
being perfected.
A second party was initiated, who was
known to be an ardent advocate of a law
for the protection of such birds as quails,
pheasants, etc., and who was also known,
by the way, to be opposed to Mr. John
son. This worthy constituent invited the
Solon to step to one side with him, that
he might warm the blood in his honora
ble veins with a kindling charity for the
defenceless birds of the land. Already
bad the Solon’s heart been touched so far
that he had promised to have the pro
tecting arm of tbe State of Tennessee
lifted high and far over his county, in
order that the ruthless huntsman might
not invade the haunts of the gregarious
quail and pheasant in the love making
season of the year. Having enlisted his
energies in behalf of the quail and pheas
ant, he was proceeding to amend the Sol
on’s heart in behalf of woodpeckers,
grouse, and other, game, when lo 1 a brief
rumbling was heard, and stepping from
behind the depot, they beheld the train
for Nashville moving out promptly on its
way. The Solon yelled and attracted the
attention of the railroader, who seemed
to think that Solon was only wishing to
say good-bye, and so he made a courteous
and profound bow, gave the signal to the
engineer to quicken np. Wide open went
the throttle valve, on whirled the train,
and Solon—where, oh, where was he?
There he stood, somo thirty miles from
the halls where he was so anxions to hear
his voice send out the name of the Com
moner. The train had fled with never so
much as a note of warning. Oar anti-
Johnson manager had approached the
engineer at an unguarded moment in the
life of the engineer, and this was about
the language which was used to the en
gineer :
“Look here! don’t yon see Mrs. Tiller’s
mare yonder ? She is awful scary—mon
strous ’fraid of an engine, and I am
afraid she’ll throw that poor old creature
and hurt her when we go to start.” (Mrs.
Tiller wa3 sitting on the mare that she
had ridden for twenty-five years.) “Now,”
continued the conductor to the-engineer,
“I want you to steal out for the first fifty
yard3 without making any noiso, and
then I want you to lot her go like h—U,
so that fiery animal won’t know where
the noiso comes from. 1 won’t call out
'all aboard’ this morning.”
We have seen how the plan worked, so
far as leaving the legislator. He tore his
honorable hair for a moment, and then
tore away from tho depot for a livery
stable to see if he could make it by a
horse. The livery stable man took in the
situation very speedily, and told him he
might have his best horse and kill him,
if necessary. On he went on the fast
flying Bucephalus. Every time he rose
in his saddle he gave him the spur, and
when he lowered his mount he gave the
steed the lash. Tbe ride of John Gilpin
was an absolute failure compared to this.
Women and children flocked to the doors
along the route, as the heels of the horse
man’s gallant gray rattled over the stony
piko. Swifter than the cast wind, and
wilder than a tempest, on and on he
dashed.
In vain did an aged matron, with tears
in her eyes, (from tho wind which he
raised in his flight,) plead with him to
know if there wa3 any troublo in his
family. He spoke not a word. No “ban
ner with tho strange device” moved above
his stream of legislative locks, but “Ex
celsior” was written on that xigid and
turbid brow. He wa3 bent os making
the best time ever made. On and on he
sped. His palfrey had gone somo ten
mile3 when, os though he had outrun the
very wind, there was none of it left in
his body. Our gallant knight would know
no word outside of the bright lexicon of
youth and chivalry; so “failure” was
speedily put away to his back again. Ho
took forciblo possession of the first horse
he met, and mounting vi et armis, on he
dashed, laughing in hi3 success at the
shouts of “robber” and “horse-thief,”
which fell on his departing ears. He
telegraphed, before mounting, at first
tho following words:
“I am coming, Uncle Andy; send re
lays by pike.” Getting within eight
miles of town he was met by a swift
footed trotting nag. already in harness
and champing the bit. Into the buggy
he jumped from his foaming steed, and
reached Nashville in timo for the first,
roll.
Tho railroad man was up in the gallery.
He had gono there to hear, with his own
good ears, the roll-call. A mild smile lit
up his features as the call proceeded
through the Senate. The smile broad
ened into a benignant grin os Neil Brown
began the roll of the House. Presently
tho name of the left legislator wa3
readied. “Johnson,” he sang out in re
markable clear notes, and they say tho
railroad man never did tell the gentleman
who was setting next to him what he wa3
laughing at the moment before.
Ylalt of the King of the Sandwich
Islands to Oriental Lodge, Chicago*
Under the abovo heading a very inter
esting articlo appears in the February
number of the Voice of Masonry and
Family Magazine, an excellent monthly,
published in Chicago, under the editorial
management of John TV. Brown and Al
bert G. Mackey, M. D. In this article the
Masonic record of thoso of tho royal
patty who are members of the ancient
and honorable fraternity i3 given as giv
en as follows:
The King is a man of splendid phys
ique and shrewd intelligence,of dignified,
yet easy and affable demeanor, and a
fluent English speaker; has attained the
thirty-second and Templar degrees in
Masonry, and is a member of Progress of
Oceanica Lodge, in Honolulu. Hia broth
er-in-low, John O. Dominis, governor of
Oahn Island, is op American, and Past
Master of the same lodge. Kapena, gov
ernor of Mani Island, hails from “ Mani”
Lodge. They both impressed their ac
quaintances very pleasantly, and mani
fested a keenness of observation which
augun well for their ability to govern.
Lieut Totten deserves, also, something
more than a mere petting notice. A flt-
ting representative of one of the noblest
professions, both from his family antece
dents and his own characteristics, his
bright face, genial manners and ready
wit, made him a popular favorite at
Bight. He was “raised” in Victoria.
Lodge, No. 1026, Hong Kong. This
completes the list of Masons in the party
They had visited the leading Lodsres
in New York, Bos on and Washington
and on their arrivat in Chicago the King
expressed a desire to visit Oriental Lodge
to some of its members. “Fortunately
the reguhr communication was close at
hand, and works on the third degree, for
which the Lodge has a special celebrity,
was on the programme, so they were en
abled to tender the party an invitation,
and also to make the occasion interesting
to them. Invitations were also sent out
to the fraternity, but to a limited num
ber only, to prevent over-crowding the
hall. The news, however, spread quick
ly, and . the result was an unexpected
rush which rendered it imperatively nec
essary to close the doors at an early hour.
Those in the hall numbered 400, and
nearly as many more filled np the ample
staircases and corridors, unable to gaia
admittance, but did not desert their
poets until long after they had witnessed
the arrival of tho royal party.”
They were welcomed by Dr. Edwin
Powel, W. M., on behalf of the Lodge,
and by M. W. D. C. Cregier, P. G. M., on
behalf of the Masons of Illinois. The
ceremony of conferring the degree i3
spoken of as follows:
“The visitors were then seated in the
east, and the officers of the Lodge .pro
ceeded to confer the third degree on Bro.
John. A. Lyndon, a fellow craft, with
their usual impressive ceremonies, which
are distinguished by the introduction of
appropriate scenery, picturesque cos
tumes, calcium lights, and an abundance
of music. The last solemn scene of all
is indescribably beautiful, the room being
darkened np to a certain point, with only-
faint specks 'or stars of light visible in
the long rows of pendant burners, when
suddenly a flood of calcium light is
thrown upon the scene, changing in color,
until it ends in a rich crimson. The
music by the quartette choir, accompa
nied by the organ, is spoken of as good.
The chanting of the exquisite passages
from Ecclesiastes, and the very impres
sive delivery of the prayer, may be men
tioned as among tbe finest features of the
ceremony.
“At the close the King arose and made
a few highly, complimentary remarks,
followed in a similar strain by Governor
Dominis, and Lieutenant Totten, the
latter bringing down the honse with a
general invitation to meet him in his
lodge at Hong Kong.
“The King and his party then re
turned to the Grand Pacific Hotel, where
they afterwards entertained the officers
of the lodge in a moat hospitable man
ner, and thos ended one of the most
memorable events in the annals of Ma
sonry in Illinois.”
A well exeouted engraving of the King
accompanies the article from which tbo
foregoing extracts are made.
A Forecast of Bis Future Pol.
icy.
Senator Johnson arrived in Chatta
nooga from Nashville Wednesday last,
en route for Washington, and remained in.
the city during the day and night. From
parties who talked with him during his
stay there, we glean that he conversed
fully and freely as to his future policy,
more freely perhaps than he would have
done had he supposed there was any
“chiel around taking notes.” Ho was
called upon by leading men of nil shades
of political opinion, and conversed freely
upon topics of personal interest to him
self ana of general interest to the coun
try.
He distinctly disclaimed any intention
to make use of his place in the Senate to
resent any of the many wrongs done
him, and tho slights and persecutions ho
suffered while President.
“Why,” said Mr. Johnson, “I have no
reason to feel resentful. The wisdom of
my plan for the restoration of the South
ern States has been passed upon and ap
proved by the Southern States and they
have, with equal emphasis, repudiated
the policy adopted by Congress, and the
details of which have been carried oat by
Grant. Tho rebuke of the people, spoken
through tho ballot-box of October and
September, should satisfy mo; it doe3
satisfy me. Even if I were to antagonize
sharply with those parties who sought to
drive me from the Presidential office in
disgrace, such antagonism would not be
inspired by motives merely personal, nor
for revenge, bnt to enlighten publio sen
timent, and so induce the fere men of the
United States to condemn the policy of
these men, in reference to the South and
the country at large. Bnt happily I am
now spared this trouble. My end of the
see-saw is np now, and Grant’s and his-
party’s is down, and they are fiat in the.
mad. It only means that I, and those
who thought as I did from 1SC6 to 1869,
shonld see that tho Radicals remain
where they. are. Wo cannot afford to
give them importance by battling with
them as equals. I shall certainly not be
so short-sighted as to enter upon any
such a campaign.”
In answer to a question of a leading
Dusiness man, calculated to draw out Mr.
Johnson’s financial views, he replied in
substance: I am a bard money man. I
believe in the speediest possible return
to hard money that shall not too greatly
shock or disarrange the business of the
country. A departure from specie as tho
currency basis may be, at times expedi
ent; it is always, however, abstractly
wrong—an abandonment of correct prin
ciples. It is always easier to get abroad
from the right path than to return to it.
We went the down-hill road when we
made greenbacks a legal tender. Getting
back to gold and silver is to travel a
sharp, up-hill grade. The late financial
measure of Congress, it seems to me, em
bodies some steps in the right direction,
but much more will have to be done for
the people, and mnch less for the bond
holders and money changers, in future
legislation, before we shall enjoy a sound
and safe financial condition. He posi
tively denied that he was a repudiation-
ist, and remarked that he should take an
early opportunity to lay his views upon
tho rights and relations of the bondhold
ers and the people before the country.—
Nashville Banner, 23d.
A Sensible Man.
If there is a more sensible man in Con
gress on' revenue questions than Mr.
Storm (Dem.) of Pennsylvania, we have
not heard of him. He goes to the very
bottom of the matter, os was shown a few
days since in the debate in the House on
tho tariff bill. Being interrupted by
somebody who wanted to know if he was
in favor of “free trade,” Mr. Storm re
plied:
I am, sir, unqualifiedly. I always have
been, and am now. I believe that tho
curse of Pennsylvania is that wo members
of Congress ore here in the character of
beggars, begging for favors from the Na
tional Government, and the ruin which
now stares the interests of Pennsylvania
in tho face is owing to the fact that tho
high tariff which has prevailed since I860
has over-stimulated production, until pig
iron and rolled iron are piled up moun
tain high, and there is no market for it.
I endorse tho doctrine of Mr. David A.
Wells, that a high tariff is “liko vaulting
ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls
oh tho other side.”
Mr. Albright. Does not the gentle
man know that iron rose after the re
duction of ten per cent, on the duty ?
Mr. Storm. I know that you can go to
all the iron manufacturers in Pennsylva
nia and you will find that they were
caught with an immmense amount of
iron on hand, and now, with all their
protection, they have got no market for
it, and are asking Congress to giro them
an additional bonus. I believe that ft
high tariff is robbery, end nothing else
but robbery.
Coming from a State where both par
ties are more or less poisoned by this
tariff rims, Mr. Storm’s bold words show
krm « man of m much metal as seoee.