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MACON,TUESDATiEEBETJART 19,1878.
VOLUME LIII—NO. 7
BY TELEGRAPH.
Cleveland. O., Fab. 10.—Hall Bros.,
wholesale tobacconists, hava assigned.
Liabilities $40,000.
New Orleans, Feb. 10.—Tho report
that Gen. A. S. Badger was a defaulter
proves untrue.
Cafe Hen by, [Feb. 10.—Italian Barks
Gnisseppe, Mazone, Master, in Ballast, is
ashore. Tbo crew is still aboard and can
escape.
Cincinnati February - 10.—Captain
Mitchell, special agent of the Treasury
Department, yesterday seized Diefen-
dablo's distillery at Fosters, Ohio, and the
rectifying house of Pfeiffer & Co., of
this city, for alleged violation of the reve-
nuo law.
Asbuby Pabb, N. J., February 10.—
Schooner Thomas G. Smith, of George
town, Sonth Carolina, for New York, is
ashore, loaded with naval stores, cotton,
rice and spirits of turpentine. She lies
well np on beach.
Pabip, February 10.—Advices from
Riuusa state that the Porte objects to
Montenegro establishing a line of demar
cation for the armistice, on the basis of
tho uti possidetis. A. renewal of hostili
ties between Turkey and Montenegro is
imminent.
Sx. Petersburg, February 10.—The
official text of the armistice was drawn
up in November. Hence, the mention
of Odossa and Sebastopol; bat now, the
preliminaries having been signed at
Adrianople, tho remainder of the nego.
tiations will be conducted there.
Washing ton, Feb. 10.—It has trans
pired that Gen. MeMillin has withdrawn
nis claims for the cdlectorship of the
port of New Orleans, in favor of H. B.
Steele, who held a high judicial position
under tho Kellogg regime. Gen. McMil
lan left for home last night. It has also
transpired that the President has almost
yielded to the pressure in favor of Packard
for tho place. There seems to be no unani
mous Democratic opposition to Packard.
A new edition of W. E. Chandler’s let
ters" about the Southern polioyand the
alleged Louisiana bargain has jastbeen
published, together with‘William Lloyd
Garrison’s Utter and an introductory note
from Mr. Chandler, in whioh he says
(hat, notwithstanding the critioisms and
dennneiationa whioh the letters have
eiioitsd, none of the statements of facts
therein have been effectively denied or
disapproved; no person named has made
denial over h ! s own signature, and vAli
ens reported interviews have contained
only evasions or denials of facts not
charged. The substantial correctness of
all the foots stated in the lalters is hereby
reaffirmed. Persistent attempts have
been made by hostile newspapers to
create the impression that the letters as
sail the title of President Hayes and pro
pose to reopen the Preeidentis 1 election
controversy.
This misrepresentation was promoted
by the fact that the telegraphic reports of
the letters gave in full point numbered
four, relative to the fulfillment of the
Louisiana bargain, but only a briaf
summary of the remainder. An entire
peiU3.1 of the Ut:er will correct all mis
apprehension on this point. They con
tain exoressioc? like the following: “Un-
questionally he should have asserted, in
every possible way, tbe moral and legal
validity of his own title. Wisdom and
henor, therefore, it seems to me, clearly
requires that President Hayea
should maintain his own right-
foltmsa of title. Had he done
ao, in my b.li.f, the Democratic
cry of fraud would have been the merest
folly.” ‘ In fact, instead of assailing the
Presidential title, one complaint in the
letters is that President Hayes has laim-
sslf effected a taint upon his own title by
hie betrayal and destruction of the lawful
governments of Sonth Carolina and Lou
isiana, and his abandonment of the prin
ciples of tho Bepnblican party, and adop
tion of tho principles of .the Democratic
party, which it is inconceivable that he
would have don?.” “If he had believed
in his own rightfulness of title and dared
to stand by and vindicate it. Therefore
for whatever re-agitation or re-investiga
tion of the Presidential question may
tako place, tho President and his advisers
—tbe Louisiana Bargainers, who sold
their Bepnblican birthright for a mesa of
pottage—are responsible and not those
Republicans who denounce and repudiate
the trade and the treason. It may also
be added that it can’t be possible that
the true interests of the E’publican par
ty are to bo eubierved by denyinir or
concealing any fact connected with tbe
Presidential canvass in countings. If
any snch exist discreditable or dishonor
ing to the party or the President—to Sec
retary Sherman or Senator Matthews or
Mr. Chandler or any other members of
the paity the econer they are exposed,
reprobated and repudiated the better and
safer for the future of tho Bepnblican
principles and the Bepnblican organiza
tion.
The briefest possible summary of the
points of tbe letter is this:
1. That President Hayes was chosen
President by the Republican party, on a
Radical phtfoim pledging Federal power
to proteot||bnman rights and lawful gov
ernment at the South—Sonth Carolina
and Louisiana giving him their indispen
sable vote?, and also electing Republican
State governments.
2. That after his actual installation, se
cured by a prior secret bargain that he
should do bo, he aotively and personally
tors down tbo lawful State goverements
of Sonth Carolinia and Louisiana, and
established rebel mob governments
in their stead — violated the Re
publican pledges to proteot human
rights and maintain the supremacy of th9
law—released negro murderers whom he
was elected to prosecute and punish—
gave Federal power at the Sonth to rebel
Democrats—glorified the rebel soldiers at
the expense of Union soldiers—taunted
the black race with its helplessness and
shamefully boaited of his betrayal of it.
3. That this, his degradation of him
self, and his betrayal cf his party, lias
annihilated its organization at the Sontb,
mating republican ascendancy there im
possible and has almost destroyed the
party at the North, so that the only way
tJ prevent a democratic victory in 1880,
“J reason of a solid South and a divided
hortb, 13 to promptly repudiate an ad
ministration and a policy which is dis
honorable, paralyzing and destroying the
republican party. If to utter these facte
and conclusions bo treason let the moat
be made of it
i Febiuary 11.—Austria wilf
leave the duration of the Boasian occupa
tion of Bulgaria to the conference. Three
Austrian men-of-war are ordered t> the
Bosphorus.
London, Ftb.uiry 11.—Italian war
vessels are going to the Bosphorus..
Bussian sailors are going over land to
the Sea of Marmora toman the Turkish
vessels surrendered.
Pera, February 11.—In event of a
rupture of the armietice, the Turks could
n » 0t j rc ' occu Py the Constantinople lines
of defense. Preparations are making to
oefend the interior lines.
St. Patebsbuko, February 11.—The
popular opinion is that the English vote
of six million •*—'Uog violates neutrality
and justifies immediate war. -The Gov
ernment has sot yet adopted this view.
The moment, however, is critical, and a
war with England would bo popular.
London, February 11.—The News’spec
ial from Berlin says Prince Gortechokoff
has notified the powers that, since the
English Cabinet has resolved to send a
fleet to Constantinople ostensibly to pro
tect the Christians, Bussia also coutsm-
platcs occupying Constantinople from the
land with the same object.
London, February 11.—Little confi
dence, until officially confirmed, should
be placed in the Daily News' Berlin dis
patch, stating that Princs Gortschakoff
had notified the powers that, sinoe Eng
land has resolved to send a fleet to Con
stantinople ostensibly to protect the
Christians, Eassia alao contemplates oc
cupying the city from land, with the
same object. Other advices direct from
St. Petersburg are quite to thecon T
trary. w ’
The semi-official Journal de St. Peters
burg of yesterday published a very tem
perate article '.commenting on the dis
patch of the British fleet. The
article says: “As for as Bue-
sia is concerned, wa think this
measure ought not to make her
deviate from the polioy she has hitherto
followed. Long before thejast incidents
whioh cow brings the English fleets into
the waters of Constantinople, that even
tually was foreseen and was made the
subject of instrnotions to the Russian
oomm&nder-in-chief. If we are well in
formed these instructions directed that,
in case the Ottoman capital should be
oooupied by the imperial troops and a
British fleet should appear before tbe oity,
the fleet should be received with all the
consideration due to a friendly power,
and, if a necessity for protecting thelives
and property of British subjeots should
causa the troops to bs landed, these
should be regarded as weloome auxilia
ries for the maintenance of order, as long
as their activity was confined to that pnr-
pose.
Now that the English fleet is approach
ing Constantinople and has there given
rendezvous to the fleets of the ether great
powers, we may assume that the same
courtesy will be maintained between the
naval and land forces of the different
States, if they should meet on Turkish
soil. £ ixteen months ago this measure
was proposed by Bussia and refused by
the cabinet of London. How much
bloodshed and suffering might have been
avoided by the acceptance of that pro
posal. A Berlin despatch to the Tsmes
says Bussia ha3 declared her resolve to
reannex Bes3abaria despite Reumania’s
pi o test.
London, i?'cb. 11.—After the funetol
seivice for Victor Emanuel in Florence,
on Saturday,an Orsini Boolorsinsh bomb
was thrown among the retaining crowd.
Five persons were slightly wounded. The
police, with difficulty, prevented tho
lynching of the person who threw the
bomb, who is probably insane.
London, February 11.—The Daily Tel
egraph has issued a speoiai edition con
taining the following:
Constantinople, Sunday Night.—The
Forte has refused a firman permitting the
British fleet to come to Constantinople on
the ground that if tbe Sultan allows it,
the Bnssisn forces wi.l probably ooonpy
the city.
London, February 11.—A dispatch to
tho Renter’s Telegram Company, from
St. Petersburg, says the Agence Russe
issued an article repeating its declaration
of Saturday, that the entry of the fleets
of the powers into the Bosphorus, at the
moment when peace is being negotiated,
will imply foil liberty of action for Rus
sia. It says tbe presence of the fleets is
neoeBsary for the protection of the Chris
tians. This duly belongs equally to the
Russian troops.
London, February 11.—This aite:-
noon’s Pall MaU Gazette says it was known
in all the embassies in London this morn
ing that the Porte hod -a£nsed to allow
the British.fleet to Approach Constanti
nople. "A Cabinet council was hastily
summoned this morning.
The Central News* says negotiations
are still proceeding for-obtaining a fir
man. The whole British fleet remains in
Besika Bay pending the resnlt of these
negotiations.
Washington, February 11.—The Sen
ate Committee on Privileges and Elec
tions took np the case of Corbin vs. But-
ler, claiming to be Senators from South
Carolina. Tbe papers were referred to
Wadleigli as tut-committee, with orders
to report what action, if any, should be
taken.
The statement of Minister Foster,
from the City of Mexico, shows that Diaz
will give no substantial guarantees until
after his recognition. Meantime, Diaz’s
anthority on the Bio Grande is merely
nominal.
The obsequies of Pius Ninth will he
celebrated throughout Christendom on
the day of the funeral, and in Philadel
phia on Wednesday, 13tb, in the English
language, and on Monday, 18tb, in
Latin.
In the Sena13, Matthews, of Ohao,
presented a petition of the National and
State banks and private bankers compo
sing the Cincinnati Clearing House As
sociation, urging the repeal of that por
tion of the National Bank act which im
poses a tax of one-half of one per cent,
upon deposits. The petition was re
ferred to the Committe on Finance.
New Obleans, February 11.—Wells
has been enlarged on $10,000 bail.
Troy, N. Y., February 11.—The Times'
building is a complete wreck. The loss
to the limes is $80,000, all covered by in
surance. The rotary press of the Times,
which is nnderthe sidewalk, is uninjured.
The building is still burning.
Columbus, O., February 11.—The state
ment that I have withdrawn as a candi
date for tho New Orleans colleotorebip is
a mistake. Pleese correct.
[Signed] W. T. McMillan.
Washington, Feb. 11—The follawmg
may be regarded as authenticated:
Mr. Sherman was asked if it was true,
as stated in the morning papers, that he,
Matthews, Garfied, Hale and White had
sent a dispatch to Anderson. He said it
was true, and as that fact had been made
public, he would fam’sh. a copy of the
dispatch and they meant all that they
said. Mr. Sherman then stated that he
regarded the arrest, trial and conviction
of Anderson as a great outrage, under
color of the forms of law. Anderson was
not indicted. The grand jury had re
fused to indict him. The proceedings
against him is called an information, and
is expressly prohibited in cares of felony
by tho oonstitntioa of the United States
and most of the States, bat is provided
for by the laws of Louisiana. The
information was signed and filed by a
man who was an offioer of the white
league, identified with all the numerous
crimes of that organization. The Judge
who tried the case is a public defaulter
for over $600,000. When Anderson was
arrested, he was the acting collector of
the port of New Orleans, and the arrest
was made while he was t in the discharge
of his duty at the custom house, which
stands, as Mr. Sherman thinks, on
ground under the sola jurisdiction of the
United States by ceesion from Louisiana.
He was hurried to prison,required to give
excessive bail, and failing to do so was
kept in custody, denied eU postponement,
forced to trial, convioted, and is now held
for sentence without benefit of bail.
The jury was packed to convict; the
panel had been cirerully selected almost
exclusively of one political party, and one
race. Their examination, as called,
showed the deepest and strong
est prejudice against the de
fendant, and in any tribunal he
(Mr. Sherman) knew nearly every one
would have been rejeoted on his oath,
and yet, though challenged they were
sworn in. With each a jury I am prepar
ed to believe tbe story telegrsped this
morning that the two colored jurors were
trioked into agreeing to this verdict by
au empty appeal to the meroy of the oonrt.
The cause of this excitement against An-
derson and his associates is that in the
performance of a public duty, in plain
pnrsuanoe of law, and upon ample testi
mony, they eliminated from the eleotion
retains in Louisiana the results of vlo-i
lenee and intimidation. Though this was
not alleged in the information, yet every
body knew that was the gravamen of
their offense, and without it no man
on this jury would hava convicted Ander
son. It is this that exoited this populace,
heated with passion, to the highest state
of resentment. The pretenoe set
np for the prosecution was that
Anderson had. participated in a forg
ery or alteration of the Vernon Parish,
but there was nob one particle of evi
dence to connect him with this act. The
whole had been thoroughly examined
here by the committees of Congress, and
all the records and returns had been
spread before them, and even Littlefield,
who made the alteration, had exculpated
Anderson from knowledge of it. The
truth is, the Vernon returns were opened
by the retaming board before hosts of
witnesses, on the ninth day of the exam-
inatior, were printed precisely as they
wero in the daily papers, and in both
houses of congress, and the subsequent
alteration by Littlefield of one copy of
the retnrns was dene cither as a put up
job by him or in the interest of local
candidates, having no. effect upon the
general resuB, and there does net appear
to be a single scrap of teetime-
ny showing that Andersen participated
in it in the slightest degree. There wa3
no metive for such an alteration by An-
deison, the true return being' printed in
ao many forms, it was absurd to think he
would alter.it, and yet upon this false
pretext he was convicted. I still hope
that this conviction will not bo carried
inte execution, tut if it is, as a matter of
course', the deepest feeling of resentment
and host'd.ty will exist in the minds of
the great mass of oar people who believe
that these returning officers did bat their
simple duty. Nothing has been done
here pending the trial to interfere in any
way with tho course of judicial proceed
ings, but if Anderson is imprisoned un
der this sentence it will te a mcckery of
public justice, and will bring into con
tempt all efforts at peace ard conciliation.
It is an unlookod for and terrible com
mentary upon the efforts of the Presi
dent to quiet the turbulence and violence
of the Louisiana politics, and seems to me
an act of felly and madness.
The dispatoh to General Anderson is os
follows:
“ Washington. February II. — To
Colonel Thomas C. Anderson, New
Orleans, La.:—I'M undersigned fell It
due to yon, nnder present oircamstacoes,
to assure you of our unhesitating btlief
that in tha matter wherein yen stand
charged, yon are altogether guiltless of
any offence against law; that yon are false
ly accused and malicioml? persecuted;
that tbe proceeding againit yon, though
in the form of law,is without tbe substance
of justice; that we hereby tender our
earnest sympathies, and express onr hope
that tbo sense of j astice and love of peace
of the people of Louisiana will protect
yon, and not permit the best interests cf
the whole country to be disturbed by a
revival of seotiocal animosities. In any
event we are confident that the American
people will redress any inj cut oe of which
yon may be made tho victim.
[Signed] John Shebhan,
Stanley Matthews,
J. A. Garfield,
Eugene Hale,
Haeby White.
Washington, February 11.—In the
House the bill for the relief of L. A. Von
Hoffman and W. H. Newnan, known as
the Alexandria Mill bill, was finally de
feated and laid on the table.
The Honse haying spent some time in
committee of the whole on the military
academy, adjourned without action.
The eilver bill occnpied the Senate.
There was no Executive session or South
ern nominations.
Constantinople, February 11.—The
Soltin invites the Grand Duke Nicholas
to spend a few days in the city.
Safvet and Sadyk Pashas will go to
Adrianople on Tnesday to negotiate a
treaty of peace with Generals Ignatieff
and M. Nelldoff, formerly ambassador
acd first secretary of the Bneeian em
bassy at Constantinople, respectively.
London, February 11.—In the Com
mon?, Sir Stafford Northcote, chancellor
ot the exchequer, in reply to an inqniry
o£Mr. Forster, said: “There is some delay
in the fleets .going up to Constantinople.
The government cannot enter into details.
Negotiations are going on, bnt the gov
ernment have not changed their inten
tion.”
In eoneequenco of an urgent order re
ceived at Chatham dockyard from the
admiralty to-day, the whole force, num
bering 4.000 men, will begin working ex
tra hours to complete the vessels in
hand.
Londoiv, February 11.—la the Lords
this afternoon, Lord Derby, foreign min
ister, in responso to a question put by
Lord Granville, eaid the difficulty regard
ing the entry of the fleet would, he be*
lieved, soon be overeome, and that three
other powers had asked for fiimana per
mitting their vessels to enter Turkish
waters.
Washington, February 11.—Sergeant
Stockman, of the signal servioe, stationed
at Augusta, Ga., reports be has followed
i he track of the tornado, which visited
Angneta on tho 8th instant, 8.J- miles
sonth of Augusts. * He was there Inform
ed that the tornado separated into two
parts. He has been instructed to farther
investigate the &nbject.
Jefferson, 0., February 11.—The re
covery of B. F. Wade is donbtrul.
Tboy, N. Y., February 11.—A fire in
tbe Times building originated in a cigar
store. Lcs3 $100,000, folly covered by
insurance.
New Obleans, February 11.—Hon.
Charles M. Conrad, successively a mem
ber of the Congress of the United States,
8enator and Secretary of War nr dir
President Fillmore, is dead. Aged 73.
La Belle Shreveport for New Oilmans,
sank near Norman’s Landing, on the
Bed river. The boat is reported a total
loss. Thero was no loss of life. The
cargo eonaifctsd of 2,600 bales of cotton,
oil and oil cake. The cotton will proba
bly be saved, bat in a damaged condi
tion. Tbe cargo was insured in New Or
leans local companies.
Washington, February 11.—Messrs.
I Ewing, Buckner and Phillips, a snb oom
mittee of the oommittee on banking and
currency, have agreed to a substitute for
Mr. Bnoknet’s bill. -It 'proposes to retire
tbe national bank notes as they may be
received by the treasury through the le
gitimate business ohannth and substitute
therefore treasury notes to be receivable
for all does to the government or funda
ble in four per oent. bonds at par. The
banka may. voluntarily retire their oiron-
lating notes and reoeive for them four per
oent. bonds and treasury and legal tender
notes may,be received in payment of snob
notes. Bonds heretofore authorised to
be issned may be disposed of at not less
than par whenever ooin may be. needed
for any pnrpoees. The bill has yet to be
submitted to the fall committee and is
framed in contemplation of the passage
of the silver bill, with whioh it is intended
to be in aooord.
Washington, February 11.—The .com
mittee of ways and means to-day, passed
upon schedule “C” of the tariff bill,
which includes manufactured articles of
hemp, jute, etc., but not of cotton, wool,
silks and linens. No alterations were
made in the rates, the modification being
merely or a taohnical character.
The committee on coinage, weights and
measures have directed the preparation
of a bill to punish persons for passing
notes circulating as currency, which may
be defaced by printing or writing upon
them advertisements or otherwise, and
also providing against the defacement
of coin?. The penalty on conviction is a
fine of $1,000, or cue year's imprison
ment, or both at the discretion of the
Court.
Washington, February 11.—Mr. Bell,
of'Georgia, who on Saturday made an
earnest argument m favor of the Mexican
pensions, to-day, as chairman of the sub
committee, reported a bill to devote the
proceeds of tbo sale of publio lands to the
public school fund ot tfie States. The re
port was adopted, and diubtlees will be
come a law.
New Yobk, February 11.—The Soa-
tanket Rubber Co. failed for $70,000.
The schconer Speedwell, from Cadiz,
arrived with the Captain and the crew
of tho schooner Sallie M. Stsedman from
Charleston for Baltimore, which waa
abandoned in a sinking condition January
31st, in latitude 32:36, longitude 62:53.
Captain Higbee of the Steedman mikes
the following staremert:
January 20th twenty miles southeast
from Hatteras wo encountered a terrific
gale from tho northwest, lasting seventy
hoars, daring which we lost gaffs, split
sails, stove beat and washed everything
movable from the decks. We used our
last provisions on the morning of Janua
ry 231; on the night of the 21th, during
tho heavy gale she sprung a leak; on the
27th three of the crew gave out, leaving
only fonr ot us to manage the vessel and
pimps and we wero'fast becoming ex
hausted; on tbe 30th George Seamon,
colored, who had become crazy, attempt
ed to tako the life of Walter Sampson,
but was instantly killed by the latter;
during the afternoon eat a portion of bis
dead bod;; on the 31st wo were rescued
by the schooner Speedwell.
Retrenchment.
In the House cn the 1st instant, Mr.
Blount, from the Committee on Appropri
ations, took cccss’on to coment on cer
tain attacks upon tho Committeo and to
vindicate its policy in tbo following:
Mr Clymer. I yield five minutes now
to the gentleman from Georgia.
Mr. Blount. Mr. Chairman, 1 have
not risen for the pnrposs of discuss
ing the moriti of this bill. My
opinion is it will be much more intelli
gently discussed when we reach the five
minutes debate. I have risen simply for
tho purpose of replying to certain sug
gestions made from time to time in the
way of attack noon the Committeo on
Appropriations. So far as I am concern
ed individually and so far as tbe members
of tho Committee on th9 appropriations
are concerned, we are net jeahus of the
subject} which may be considered by
other committees. If gentlemen were
correct in this, then we would bs only
belittling ourselves and be deservering of
tho contempt of the House and of tho
country.
We are told, too, that wo are absorbing
the business of other committees. How
has this been accomplished? Under what
rale aro we proceeding and what is the
purpose of the committee? Why, sir, it
was simply because we found for many
years in every Department of this Gov
ernment there had been waste, extrava
gance, dishonesty, and that we could not,
unless we attached reform to the appro
priation bills, compel their considera
tion at the other end of the Capitol. Why,
sir, for many, many years sinoo tho war
this extravagance continued, and con-
tinned until seeing the handwriting on
the wall during the Forty-third Con
gress certain redactions were made
amounting to $29,000,000.
And great credit was claimed for that.
They had waited until the elections
had indicated tho popular alarm before
this was done. The Forty-fourth Con-
gree assembled and adopted this rule,
and nnder it, and under it alone, by tak
ing matters connected with the Army,
by taking matters connected with the
Committee on Indian Affairs and various
other committees, where reforms were
needed, and ingraftng them upon ap
propriation bills, they were enabled to
come into this House and propose redac
tions amounting to $40,000,000. When
yon come, sir, to consider the bankiupt-
cies m this land; when yon come to con
sider the hundreds of thousands of tramp3
treading from cne s'de of onr territory
to the other; when yon come to consider
the paralysis of business; when ycu come
to consider the popular discontent, in
voking the Army of the United States to
preseiva the peace and the honcr of the
conntry, can these gentlemen not see in
this Honse and m this committee some
thing broader, Eomething grander, some
thing more attractive than mere talk
aboat the Committee on Appropriations
attempting to absorb the business of
this Hons ?
What, sir, was the opinion of the lest
House ? Attacks were made. They came
from the other side da 5 ly and hourly. The
attempt was made to effect this side of
the House with a feeling of jealousy, and
thereby to thwart the lofty purposes we
had of meeting the demands of a dis
tressed people for relief. But thanks to
the public spirit of the Forty-fourth Con
gress, true to the instincts of reform
which brought them here, trne to the
people whom they represented, they
hurled back the efforts to excite their
jealonsy, and man to man they stood be
side that committee nnder these assaults
—assaults amounting even to insults ;
and by so doing they made the redac
tions which have been made. I do not
wonder, sir, that gentlemen on the ether
side of tbe House are continually attemp
ting to excite that feeling now which they
attempted to excite before. The ma
jority on this side of the House
is small. The hope of gentlemen cn
the other side is by strategy to
accomplish what they could not ac
complish at the polls: the defeat of the
popular will. And it remains for this
side of the House to make its record
whether or not they are to be diverted
bom their purposes and bom the rec
ord made by the) Forty-fourth Congress.
This is all, sir.
I regret very much that the gentleman
bom Wisconsin [Mr. Bragg] Bhonld have
seen fit to join in the cqr against the
Committee on Appropriations. The
time will coined if we cannot rise above
conceptions of pretty jealonsy, when not
a single committee ot this Honse will be
supported in what it proposes todo.
[Here the hammer fell.]}; _
' Mr. Clymer. How much time have I
left? '
The Chairman. The gentleman has
eighteen minutes of his hour remain
ing. . ; j .
Mr. Clymer. I-extend the time of the
gentleman from Georgia.
Mr. Blount. The gentleman will un
derstand that debate Is not limited.
Mr. Qlymer. fc do not .wish to limit
the gentleman.
Mr. Blount. It may be by the help of
the gentleman bom Wisconsin, in mak
ing altttls fight OS tOTThat committee
shall oonsider this or that subject, acd
by gaining some followers, for it does
net take many, to turn us over to the
enemy now; and-geixtlemen on tho other
side of the House may by this means
bring us to the point where not a single
committee can rally around it this side
of the House for the purpose of enacting
any measure in the interest of economy
and of benefiting the (public service.
Sir, there is no need of concealing it.
Gentlemen underttend on both sides of
the House why this lule was adopted;
and it is a question now whether we pro
pose to abandon ikor whether we propose
by a technicality to prevent th9 success
of reforms by ingrafting it on appropri
ation bill?. Sir, the gentleman will find
before he gets through that the Com
mittee on Appropriations in dealing with
these question have invariably availed
themselves of the advantage of the opin
ions of ether committee?. In regard to
the Army bill and the various other im
portant bill?, the gentleman will find him
self and other members of the Commit
tee on Military Affairs deferred to and
in all probability their recommendations
adopted. It is no worthey effoit, to get
possession of this or that Subject, but it
is a high effort te reduce the expendi
tures of this Government.
The gentleman from Wisconsin refers
to the professors and asks why it was we
did not attempt to cut down tbe profess
ors, why we left theta alone with their
high salaries and made an effort in re-
latiation to the cadet?. -. ~
Mr. Chairman, you can well remem
ber, having been a member of the last
House how this whole matter was fought
over in this committee, how the reduc
tions took place, and how wo fails'll by
obstructions at the other end of the Cap
itcL The committee have n;t seen fit
in every Instance to renew this fight.
They can well understand there is seme
discontent like that of thd gentleman of
Wisconsin, and existence of that feeling
disarms them of their powder to do this
and many other things. Wo cannot hops
for that measure ot success which we had
when we had a foil working majority.
Now, sir, I do trust, when the gentle
man is to enraged at the Appropriations
Committee, that he will at least have
consideration enough for this side of the
House to come and whisper to them
what his discontent is and thereby give
them an opportunity to consider his sag.
geitionH, rather than wait and spring up
upon us upon this floor like an enemy.
This, sir, is the character of these at
tacks. we are open to them. In refer
ence to every matter reform wo have
trenched perhaps cn the duties cf some
other committee, but I; undertake to say
thero are more bills repotted buck from
any committee on Appropriations with
tho request they may be relieved from
their further consideration than from
any other committee in this House. Be
ing the money committee there are ef
forts to send it claims and all manner of
things which we have avoided.
During the list Congress we were
neatly overceme here because we refused
to entertain certain appropriations from
the Treasury Department amounting to
$500,000. We brought it back into the
House and it was fought bitterly by
members on this side as well as upon the
other side of the House. Gentlemen say
that these redactions by the Committee
of Appropriations are without proper,
knowledge of such matters, but informa
tion that has come to the Committee of
Appropriations at this.session proves that
claim tu have bcenwithont foundation.
And so, whenever there is an attempt on
ourpait to gtt rid of lu3tneES that does
net come legitimately before u?, we are
tannted on the other side. I do hope
and tiu3b that these attacks made npon
the committee will rest npon some better
ground than has been presented so far.
OUR EXHIBIT AT PARIS.
What Sort of a Display (he Ag*
rlenllnral Department min
Hake.
Washington Correspondence ot the Now York
World.]
The Agricultural Department has been
allotted a ground space at the Paris Ex
position of seventy-five feet square, in
the center of which will stand an orna
mental 8tmiture fifty-two feet in diame
ter. The base in the shape of a five-
pointed star, thus giving a five-sided
building of seventeen feet in diameter,
The star faces are seven feet high and
fifteen feet long, and ore made of glass,
behind which various exhibits will be
shown, and in panels will be inscribed
the words of Washington commendatory
of agriculture. At the points of each
star are gloss cases, nine feet high, sur
mounted by vases cf different kinds of
Americas stone, in whioh will be shown
growing plants of the principal prodaots
of this country—corn, cotton, sugar, to
bacco and rice.
The roof from the Bt&r faces to the base
of a onpola of glass will be filled with
growing plants, with the exesption of
triangular spaoes in whioh will be em
blazoned the names of the thirteen ori
ginal States, of other States as they en
tered tbe Union, and of tbe Territories.
The pillars whioh support the onpola will
be composed of corn from whioh half of
the hnsk has been removed, and the
onpola Itself will contain the poultry ex
hibit. The onpola is surrounded by a
spire, at the faoe of whioh will be a stand
of American flags, and on tbe top
an Amerioan eagle perched npon a
gilded ball. The eagle will be a staffed
bird, sud tbe finest epeoimen obtainable.
It has not yet been determined how to
utilize the oorner spaces outside the
bniliing, bat oare will be taken not to
obstruot the view of this ornamental
atrnotnre. Speoiai pxominenoe wilt be
given to the leading prodaots of the conn
try, and it is proposed to exhibit in one
mass at least one hundred bales of ootton.
Manufacturers and producers throughout
the conntry are oheerfnlly co-operating
with the Commissioner of Agriculture,
and the department will no donbt be
enabled to make a very creditable dis
play.
editorial correspondence.
[lxttbb no. 13.]
San Cablos Hotel,
Havana, January 23d, 1878.
A FETE DAT.
The writei’a brief sojourn in the peer
less Queen of the “Great Antilles” is
drawing to a close, as the good ship San
Jacinto having returned from a trip
down the coast to sncoor a vessel of the
United States coast survey which had
struck npon a coral reef, but without
avail, as jhe was hard agroond and full
of water, sails on her return voyage to
Savannahin the evening.
But there are a few items of our visit
which still remain to be written.
The morn was ushered in by a salvo
of twenty-one guns from the
HOBO CASTLE,
which were quickly responded to by an
equalnumber from the Spanish fleet in
the harbor. The first discharge, which
echoed and re-echoed fromhouse to honse
in this stone-built city, brought the depo
nent up all standing from his iron conch,
hard a3 the best tempered steel, and he
quickly donned his clothes, while dreamy
visions of tbe famous Spanish Armada,,
which was fitted out* in this port, prac
tising at their guns, or the thunder of
lobd albebhable’s artillery,
flitted athwart his halt awakened senses.
A moment, however, served to dispel the
illation, bat left him not a whit the wiser
thanks to the Spanish language and the
censorship of the preB?, which made
the newspapers of Havana as unintelli
gible to Mm as Hebrew or Sanscrit.
Bnt resolved to know the reason of all
thiB “pother,” in a few seconds behold
the writer straggling through the crowd
in the direotioa of the firing, answered
by only a “caramba,” or stare, from any
to whom he ventured to address a word of
inquiry. Whether this treatment was
the result of our verdancy or grotesque
Spanish could not be ascertained. Bnt
nothing daunted, we pushed on, follow
ing the multitude, and soon came to the
quay, where a
MAGNIFICENT SPECTACLE
presented itself. The “Conception”, a
first dies man of war, was literally cov
ered with banting and gay flags from
deck to top g&'lint mast, as were the
ether ships of the fleet, all the Spanish
vessels in port and many others belong
ing .to foreign nations also. Even the
rigging was strung with decorations like
beads and the sailors arrayed in holiday
attire. Gun after gun belched forth its
thunder to add to the onthusiasm of the
scene, andfor the first time we realized
wfcat
LOYALTY TO ONE’ SOVEREIGN
really means, acd the strong ncld that
“Gods Anointed” possesses upon the
hearts of his subjects. A single note of
discord at that particular crisis, and the
disaffected individual would have been
just as likely aB not, torn to pieces by tho
shouting mob.
Making his way into tbe office of a cus
tom house official, who fortunately had
some knowledge of our mother tongue,
we inquired the cause o! this unwonted
demonstration.
With a look of commiseration ho re
plied, “Don’t you know that this is the
21st birthday of our King Alphomo, and
that his marriage also will be solemnized
with his cousin Mercedes Montpensier
tc-day ?” This faiilyjtcok onr American
breath away, and the deponent bad no
more questions to &sk.
Later in tbe day
CAPTAIN GENERAL JCVELLAB
gave a grand reception at the plaza de
Armas in front of his palace, an which
there were present the representatives
of every foreign country, including our,
own Consul General, Henry C. Hall Esq.
in neat citizens clothe?, all the Spanish
grandees on the Island, the Generals
aud principal officers of the Army, the
leaders of the aristocracy, etc., etc,
Tho display of gorgeous uniforms,
crosses of honor, stars, and the insignia
of other orders was very brilliant and
novel to Bepnblican eye?.
The Captain General demeaned him
self with grace and dignity, and it is
doubtful if Cuba has had a more popu
lar and acceptable ruler for many years.
The Spaniards love pageants, ard what
with the nnmeroas Saints days and
grand processions and pomp of tbe
Church, the constant glitter of uniforms
and movement of troops to and fro, the
bullfights, cack mains and theatrical
shows of everyday occurrence, the propen
sity is abundantly gratified.
YOUNG SING ALPHONSO
seems te be a universal favorite, and we
saw in the Casino Espanol de la Habana a
full length portrait of his Majesty, which
was evidently the work of a master. He
is a handsome beardless youth, with fine
features and noble expression of counte
nance, and every inch a king, so far as an
imposing physique can fill the bill.
It is doubtful if the badly mixed hetero
geneous people of Cabs, where Spanish,
Mulattos?,- Indian, and Chinese half
breeds, aboriginal and native African?,
and a considerable sprinkling of Yankees,
Jews and other foreigners form to a great
extent the coastitnents of popalation, can
ever exercise intelligently the functions
of self government. They need a master,
and the strong arm of despotic anthority
to control them and keep down the con
flicting elements of the community.
Hence, much of the compassion displayed
for
STRUGGLING, OPPBE£8XD CUBE,
is eo much wasted sympathy. The worst
fate that could befall the Island wonld
be to hand over the reins of goverment to
the people themselves.
Does not the oareer of St. Domingo
snffioiently establish this faot ? Still, tbe
history of the past demonstrates that no
people have ever been ruled with greater
rigor, and the tyranny of the home gov
ernment has greatly retarded the material
prosperity of the island, and proved an
almost nnmit'gated curse to its inhabi
tants.
Witness, for example, the oh tins wMoh
fetter oommeroe, ecclesiastical intoler
ance, the suppression of the freedom of
speech and the liberty of the press, and
the many ornelties whioh have been per
petrated by tbe arbitrary representatives
of the orown of Spain for several oeutn-
rics. Bnt even these wonld probably fall
into insignifioanoe before tbe greater
horrors of mob acd negro rale, and, there
fore, it is better for the interests of hu
manity that things should remain as they
are, espeelslly as the Spanish Govern
ment seems disposed somewhat to relax
the stern grasp whioh has hitherto throt
tled the energies and cramped the enter
prise of their oolonial subjects.
In nothing is the need of reform more
argent then the treatment of
THE WOHEN OF CUBA.
Here the wife is literally the slave of
her tyrannical husband,and may be beaten
and chastised at will, while every cent of
her property is subject to his rapacious
grasp, and even her hard-earned personal
earnings most be surrendered at bis bid
ding.
Did it not violate personal confidence,
tbe writer conld relate one harrowing
instance of this nature received from the
lipa of a noble woman, the hem of whose
garment her unnatural and brutal leige
lord was unworthy to touch.
Thus again do we find the postulate
verified, that accordingly as the marital
rights, property and social status of the
gentle sex are acknowledged and pro
tected in any country, in the same ratio
will intelligence, good morals and tine
liberality obtain.
CHILD WIVES.
. In Onba little girls, hardly entering
their “ teens” (so rapid is the maturity
of the human form in that tropical dime,)
are given away in marriage, and it is no
nnoommon thing to see a grandmttlufr no-
over thirty years of age. As a natural re
sult the youth and oharms of the married
women soon pass away, thongh there are
notable instances, two of whioh we wit
nessed, to the oontrary. The most re
pulsive object in creation is an elderly
Spanish woman of the lower olasses, who,
if qneationed, will be found to be usually
by no means stricken in years.
At tMs point we
CLOSE OUB NOTES UPON CUBA,
conscious that owing to the brevity of
his visit and his ignorance of the Spanish
language, the writer has been able with
all his industry to give bnt a meagre and
imperfect sketch of the geography, pro
ductions, manners and ouatoms, pursuits,
amusements, climate, government, tbe
status of the rebellion, commerce, inttu-
tions, social life and future prospects of
tMs magnificent Bland, which under
good government and peopled by Anglo-
Americans wonld be the mest prosperous,
as it is
BY FAB THE BIGHEBT
in natural advantage?, of any realm on
earth.
We have no suggestions te make con
cerning its future, other than to repeat,
let the Dons alone in the possession of
the domain whioh has been hell by them
at such a prodigal outlay of blood acd
treasure.
The island would be “an elephant” in
the hands of any other civilised power,
and it is only by ameliorating the bur
dens of the people, the introduction of
missionaries and an open Bible, the prop
er instruction of the masses acd the gen-;
eral assimilation of the numerous peoples
and classes of every grade and color, that
the philanthropist can reasonably hope
for. any decided change for the better.
Let the pressure of pnblic sentiment, and
new treaties with the nations of tbe
outside world whioh will teed to liberal
ize existing affairs, acd pave the way for
ultimate reforms and closer intercourse
with other countries, be inaugurated, if
possible.
What more can be dono at present we
carnot sec. H. H. J.
GEORGIA PRESS.
The Constitution gives an account cf a
conflagration on Friday night which, had
it not been prompily • extinguished, must
have proved a very disastrous affair. It
occurred in the store of Sharp & Taylor,
on Whitehall street. That ionreal say?:
The fire seems to have result ad from a
crreleesBess all too common among onr
business men. In order to keep the store
lighted daring the night the firm use a
coal oil lamp. This was left burning and
sitting upon a pile of corn sacks. Evi-
oectly a rat upset the lamp and caused the
ignition of the goods. Bnt for the timely
presence of Offioers Fioket and Buzbee
the store and entire row of tinder-box
honse?, of which it is a part, would have
been oonsnmed. Merchants cannot be
too careful of'how they leave lights in
their stores.
The trial of Mr. F. E. Block, a deacon
in the Central Presbyterian church of At
lanta, is now progressing before the
church se’sion on the following charges:
1st, The said F. JS. Block did, on or
about the 27th of December last pact,
give an entertainment at his residence on
McDonough street, in this city, at which
dancing was permitted and encouraged;
2d, That the said F. E. Block, by his
own act. in thu3 encouraging a violation
of the laws of tha church, has tempted
otherand younger members of the church
to sin.
Mr. Block responds in a very able, and
to ue, satisfactory defence, wMch has
been pnblished in pamphlet form and ap
pears in ext ms o in Sunday's Constitution.
He denies that the General Assembly in
its utterances adverse to dancing made it
a disciplinary offence, and claims that it
is not a law-making body.
The accused ia a most liberal and ex.
cellent member and offioer of his church,
and we regret exceedingly that this con
troversy has arisen. If every member
was expelled from the Presbyterian
Church for the simple aot of dancing on
social occasions in the parlors of a friend,
or allowing the use of Ms own rooms for
that porpese where all who participate
are well known neighbors and acquain-
ancee, and the party is not a ball or pro
miscuous gathering, the ranks of nearly
every organization in the conntry would
be more than decimated.
Sack issues ue unfortunate, and may
do more hum than good. Mr. Block
conciQdes as follows:
Now, I have done, TMs matter in
volves, perhaps, my connection with this
churcb. Before yonder altar I have con
secrated three of my infant children to
Christ. Around that table I have gath
ered with yon to partake of His broken
body. I love its wall?, weather-stained
though they he. There is not a crack
defacing them which dees not reoall
some consecrated memory of the past.
I lore its ball; I lore its organ. I have
walked hand in hand with, and loved, as
still I do, its officers and member?. I
feel they ue my brethren in Christ. I
had hoped that no rude hand would sever
our connection until tbe king of terrors
should come; but, if it be otherwise, I
humbly submit to the will Of God. And
while it may be in your power to depcaa
and expose me to censure and expulsion,
for mere opinion’s sake—for I see no end
but that—I take comfort in that hope ef
wMoh yon cannot deprive me. I thank God
for the interest I claim in the blood of
Christ. Before him, my oentinuing In
tercessor, I declue the sinoerity of my
opinions and the purity of my motives.
Fbank E. Block.
The Kimball Honse, one thizd of whioh
is now offered for rale, oeat the builder in
1870, aiz hundred and eeTenty.fire thou
sand dollars. The sale takes place on
the 13th instant.
Cohhbhtcks on Senator Hill’s late
Ipeeob, the Constitution rays:
Senator Hill’s speech, on the silver bill
re-kindlM tbeborathathewiU vote for the
Bland silver bill seodified in the Senate
Finance Committee. Betas specifically
accepted tbe two important amendments
which re j sot a free sad so
coinage of sUvu. We prefer an unquali
fied reetoratioo of the dollar e< the fathers, injured his opine.
bnt are willing to start the ooureeof leg
islation in favor of the people with a
measure as moderate as the Allison
amendment.
Mr. Hill has, we regret to ray, brought
in a new proposition that is wholly nn-
aooeptable. He wonld make silver a le
gal tender in all payments not exoeeding
one hundred dollar?. This wonld give
the bondholder and the rich generally e
right to demand gold, while the laboring
man and all other poor people wonld be
compelled to aooept silver. Mr. Hill u«
gnes at some length to show that remone
tization wonld not increase the veins
of the silver dollar, and yet be favors a
proposition he .would permit a mill
owner to pay bis employes in aUyer, bnt
wonld not permit the government td
the bondholder in simolar ooin although
It is so nominated in the bond. TMs
proposition of Mr. Hill is, of coarse, un
acceptable, Snoh a discrimination trill
doubtien increase the admiration of
Ms newfound friends at the north, bnt
it will not decrease the disfavor that
Mr. Hill's onrrenoy views have heretofore
encountered at home.
A Thrifty Fbbxdhan.—The Thomas
ville limes says:
As an incentive to the colored people,
and some whites also, we take pleasure
in noticing the fact that Thomas Bosh,
an industrious and frugal colored man,
living in Duncanville District, made last
yeu an ample provision crop betide a
l 'ood cotton crop. Among his hogs kille d
j r or this yeu’a meat, one weighed 2*7
pounds and another 342 pounds. Let the
colored people, and everybody else, fol
low Ms example and the country will be
batter eff in the future.
Fboh the same:
Sportsmen report birds vary plentiful.
So much for the enforeement of the game
law. Let it ba rigidly enforced in the
future. . - .
The private business of Captain E. T
Davis making it necessary for Mm to re
sign the presidency of the ThcmasvUIa
Fair Association, Dr. S. J. Jones has
been unanimously elected to that posi
tion, and Col. A. P. Wright vice president.
Good selection?, bnt it is had to have to
give up Captain Davisi v
The turpentine business is extending
rapidly in Brooks oonnty, and is destined
to be a great and paying business in
Southern Georgia.
Tkb Quitman Press says Mr. J. M. Mc
Lean has just flnishhd ten now crops of
boxes.
The Atlanta Tribune speaks thus pleas
antly of our editorial assooiate’s Washing
ton correspondence:
Colonel Anderson W. Reese, the edito
rial correspondent of the Maeon Txls-
gbaph and Mesbengxb, at Washington,
is one of the best In the country. Often
we get from his letters the intide work
ings of things at tbe capital, that we
oonld not from any other source.
The Atlanta correspondent of the Au
gusta News writee:
Governor Colquitt resurrected an old
law requiring banks in the State to make
annual returns to the executive, and, out -
of seventy-seven in the State, has failed
to hear from seventeen. A further dire-
lection of this duty will subject the sev
enteen banks to severe penalties. Of
Danks Savannah has more than any other
city in the State. Augusta comes next,
end then Atlanta. This is on account of
those cities being old and large ootton
markets.
The News says in relation to the de
struction of the Augusta market by the
Lte cyclone:
Some of the City Council are in favor
of putting up a close market on the o^d
site at once. It is said no other site in
the city can be used for a market honse
without a special act of the Legislature,
as the present sits was granted for the
specific purpose by that bony.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun:
Analysis of Columbus Cotton Receipts
—To dale, since September 1st, the total
receipts foot up 63,972 bales, 3,884 less
than last year. ThoM. & G. Railroad
has brought 11,893 bales to Columbus—
4,408less than than the last season;
Southwestern Railroad, 5,286—2,904 less;
Western Railroad, 1,467—296 more; the
N. & 8. Railroad, 2,970—607 more; river,
17,212—3,423 more; wagons, 15,148—798
less. • • v .
. Since September 1st,' onr mills have
taken 4,021 bales, against 6,209 last year
—decrease of 2,188.
The Eagle & Phenix Manufacturing
Company have held their annual meet
ing of stockholders. Dr. Bnssey makes
the following flattering statements in Ms
report, which we clip from the Timet:
Daring the year the milh did not loee
an hoar by accident, high water or ottar
oanse. .: . o
The net earnings for 1877 exceeded
those of any year sinoe 1872, and amount
ed to a net gain of $150,198.28. Oi tMs
amount $100,000 were declared as divi
dends payatie in June and De comber
next. The remainder was passed to the
credit of a “sinking fond” to provide for
the construction ot mill No. 3.
The assets of the oompeay for the year
1877, amount in total to the£som of $2,-
404,229.15. These are folly sufficient to
meet all liabilities, and leave on hand .to
tbs profit and loss aooonnt tbe before
mentioned sum of net earning?.
Last year the mills produced 10,132
more pieces of goods than any previous
year. The increase in mcney value, at
the lowest ptise of the season, was $32,-
565.36.
' The difference in the number of piece?
manufactured in 1872 and 1877 is 40,635,
which shows how the productions of thj-
company alone has increased daring five
year?. At the date of the report the
company had sold its main styles of sea
sonable goods almost to a point of ex
haustion and are now working on orders
for future delivery—a pressure invaria
bly repeated open its producing capacity
at this season of the year.
Dr. J. N. Bussey was re-elected Pree-
dent, Mr. G. Gunby Jordan, Secretary
and Treasurer for the present year. The
Board ot Directors consist of Dr. N. J.
W. H. Young, T. W. Battle, Charles
Green and Alfred L Young.
Columbus Enquirer:
Thirty-six marriage licenses were is
sued for January.
A Confederate silver five cent piece has
been found. It is in the possession of P.
Ad Jones, ot Memphis, Tennessee. He'
obtained it in October, 1862.
Mb. George J. Banks, of Stewart ooun-
ty, was seriously hurt last Friday by a
falling tree.
The Atlanta Constvtion:
Tbs Atlanta Amateur Minstrels played
before a large and appreciative audience.
Col. W. S. Gresham, brother otXrs.
Ex-Governor Joseph E. Brawn, is dead,
Captain Flynn, of tho Atlanta
force, fall in a hole os the atreete and