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X Li JLJ Li VI LwXl.L at four o’clock this afternoon,
Washington, December 19 — The
Philadslffu, D- c 'mber 19.—Piofei-
sors Houston and Thompson exhibited
last night, berore the Franklin Institute,
an invention of electrio light, whioh thej
claim solves the problem of cheap light-
log by electrioity. The light is pro-
duoed by the incandtgeence of cmbra
points, and not by burning, aa in electrio
lights hi h-rio exhibited.
London, December 19. —Mr. Gladstone a
willingness to contu Elinoorghshira for
th-Houa of Commons is conditioned on
assurance to oa given by tha Liberal
Committees that they can eecnre hu re-
turn. Th- obi-i t ri to wmthat import ant
seat, Lord Dalkeito, the present member,
being a conservative.
An Old ram dispatch says a number o?
mins principally those of limited com
panies. have o immenced running part of
their machinery at the redaction, bat the
"mindera” have, in very few cases, ap
peared to look after the mills. The
“piecers” engaged in miny instances for
"minders’ ’’ work have performed their
duties satisfactorily. It is part of the
eohemo of the employers to break down
the “Minders’ Union’ by employing
“piecers" to tend the milts and thus die
pense with the ‘'minders" altogether.
The following companies have started
work: Borongb, Broadway, Higginshaw,
Bell, Wernetb, Equitable, Boundary and
Honeywell. In the case of one or two
they have been obliged to commence in
consequence of large and profitable or
ders.
A scheme has been set on foot by which
the reduction of pry will remain in
abeyanoe until the settlement of ths dis
pute. Meantime the money will be in
vested at interest, ana if the employers
win, they will draw the money, and vice
versa. The employers geneially will not
agree to Bncb a thing, ana demand that
the five per eentago reduction bo nnoon-
ditioaally enforced.
It is -toted that so bad is trade that
they are even prepared, should the op
eratives go in npon a reduction, to ruu
but a short time. They are firm upon
the question of reduction.
Ths strike has now entered npon its
fourth week, and there have been lost in
wages .£60,009, besides loos of ospiul
There is great distrass among the labor
ing olassei>, and appeals are beiug mode
for their relief.
The Manchester Guardian Bay a, judging
from the tone of the district meeting,there
seems to be every reason to believe that
the strike will oantinne for some time.
The distriots whose headquarters are in
Centretowo, have unanimously resolved
to remain “out.” Tney did not regard
the soherro of ‘‘trusteeing” the redaction
provisionally as wor by of attention. All
the meetings, so far as heard from, voted
to continue the strike, and say they have
plenty of support from other dtsinois.
Wa-hinoton, December 19.—In the
Senate the Vice-President laid before the
Senate a communication from John I
Davenport. Clerk of the United States
Circuit Coart for the Southern District
of New Turk, enclosing a presentment
lately found by the Grand Jury tn that
Court in regard to the issue of fraudu
lent nat ural za ion papers, and suggest
ing various amendments in the natural
ization laws, which was referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.
When the Indian appropriation bill is
again ca'led up tor consideration in the
House, it is the intention of a prominent
member of the Committee on Indian Af
fairs totnbmit aa amendment abolition
the Board of Peace Commissioners. This
board receive no compensation for their
service, but are, according to existing
law, entitled to fifteen thousand dollars
to defray expenses.
In i he Senate, Mr. Christiunoy, of
Mich gap, from the Committee oa the
President transmitted to the Senate a
me8< ag® in reply to the resolution asking
information with regard to the commer
cial intercourse betwoen the United
States and South America After re
ferring to the importance of foreign com
merce, he save that our exports during
twenty years previous to 1877 were so
small and imports so large as to m-cesst-
tate the coasiant shipment of gold, and
so precluded the possibility of the re
sumption of specie payments in 1876
How. ver, owing to the vigorous efforts
to extend our foreign commerce, these
conditions were reversed and the outward
drain of gold has ceased. The agencies
by which this charge was effeced must,
he says, be maintained and strengthened
in older to make the future secure.
Many of the products of the United
States are now held in such favor abroad
that with equal commercial faciltios, we
need not fear competition.
In view of oar return to a basis of com
values, it is of the greatest importance
that our export trade should not suffer
for want of means of communication with
other countries. He closes with a state
ment that any measures in furtherance
of these important interests will have his
cordial approval. Accompanying the mes
sage is the report of the Secretary of
Slate, attributing tho commumcatior-,
and urging the promotion by all just and
appropriate means on the part of the gov
ernment, of this first and principal
agency for the desired expansion of our
foreign commerce. The gov/rcntonl* of
the foreign states, with which tuia com
merce ia to be opened, he d-y\ are ready
to share with us the expense of this
steam communication, and tho participa
tion or non-participation of the United
States is the turning point in the accept
ance or rejection of the reciprocal trade
offered ua.
New Yobs, December 19.—The James
Gordon Bennett medal for meritorious
services was thts morning presented to
fireman Thomas J. Dougherty of Hook
aod Ladder company No. 1, for heroic
conduct in rescuing two persons at a fire.
One hundred pdicemen are on duty
along the Tnird Avenue railroad, ai
though everything ie quiet. The strikers
this morning commenced receiving aid
subscriptions from drivers on the other
lines.
New York, December 19—Under a
strong guard of deputy sheriffs, armed
with revolvers, “Bed Leary,” the sus
pected Northampton bank robber, wa»
Drought into the Supreme Court this
morning cn habeas corpus proceedings.
The Court room was densely crowded;
the prisoner’s counsel demurred to the
ehenfi’d return, claiming a case of mis
taken identity, and asserting that Leary
war not in Massachusetts at tho time of
the bank robbery, and claiming that tue
wbole proceedings were fraud on the
Governors of Massachusetts and New
Yurk. Detective Pinkerton testified as
tj the i .entity of the prisoner, but on
cross-examination admitted that ho bad
no personal knowledge of his being in
Massachusetts at the timo of tho rob
bory. A formal motion was then mad-
for Leary’s discharge. Judge Davis held
that a prima facie case tad been trade,
and adjourned the case till Saturday, for
tne production of evidence aad defective
character papers on which the Governor
acted.
Nxw Haven, December 19.—A call
ba» been issued by the membeie of the
Executive Committee of tho National
patty of New England fir a mass confer-
enc of tho representatives of the party
»t Boston on January 21 for the purpose
of perfecting plans for a systematic or
ganization, etc. General Butler has sig
nified his intention of being present.
CohoE', N. Y, December 19.—Last
the consolidation aot. The opinion holds
that vouobers upon whioh the said consol
idated bonds and stocks were issued, as
speoified in the oonolnsions reaohed by
the court, amounting to about $1,600,000
of the bonds and stooks, were not issued
in aooordanoe with the law, and author-
'Z*d to be consolidated under the aot of
1873, and that the consolidated bonds and
-took exchanged for the said vouchers, so
far as the rest thereon for their validity,
are not binding obligations upon the State
of 8outh Carolina. This opinion is pro
nounced by Judges Thomson and Aldrich,
and a dissenting opinion was filed by Judge
Hudson. Th- matter will be carried to
the Supreme Court in the interest of the
bondholders.
Governor Hampton’s oondition remains
abont the same, although it is thought he
is slowly improving.
Mixphis, Deoember 19.—Judge Bax*
ter overruled the motion for a new trial
in the ease of B. H. Eddies, convicted of
ballot-box stuffing, and sentenced the de
fendant totwoveara in the penitentiary.
Baltimore, Deoember 19.—The spar
ring match, with blackened gloves, be
tween Professor William Miller and Joe
Goss, whioh came off to-night at the Ma
ryland institute Hall in tha presence of
1 500 spectators, resulted in a viotory for
Miller by a sooro of 22 faoe hits to 19 for
G.iss.
London, December 19.—Commissioner
McCormick reports that neatly all goods
to be returned to the United States from
the Paris Exposition are already in Havre
and will be shipped thence in the Consti
tution and Supply before the 1st of Jan
uary.
Berlin, December 19.—The fatal symp
toms whioh preceded Minister Taylor’s
death came on suddenly. He had been
out of bed and was transacting business
with the officials of the American Lega
tion yesterday. His death was peaceful
and painless.
London, December 19.—A telegram
to Lloyds, dated Galata, to- day, reports
that the steamer Byzantine, from Mar
seilles, for Constantinople, has been sunk
in a collision, and one hundred and fiity
lives were lost. Only fourteon persons
were saved.
Revision of L*ws, reported a substitute
for ibe bill of Beck referred to that com
mittee yesterday, to repeal s/ctiuoe 820
and 821 of the revised statutes of tUo
United States. The enbstunte provide-
for the repeal of section 820, providing a
test oath for jorois, Oroered printed.
Mr. Beck gave couoe that he would
call It np for consideration to-morrow
morning.
Mr. Dor.oy, of Arkansas, from the
Committee on Appropriations, reported
favorably on the House bill to provide
for the deficiency in transportation of
mails bv railroads, and gave notice th»t
be w.mld oall it np for consideration later
in the day.
Mr. McDonald, of Indiana, introduced
a bill to re-imbur-o several Statoa for in
terest paid on the war loan, and for other
purposes, which was referred to the Com
mittee on tne Judiciary.
The House is ia Committee of the
Whole on the Indian appropriation bill.
At tho expiration of the morning hour
the Senate resumed consideration of the
bill to amend the 6tatus in relation to
patents and for other purposes.
The Senate Committee on appropria
tions to-day agreed to report favorably
and without amendment the House bill
appropriating $-150,000 to continue the
postal service through the current fiscal
year. _ ,
Second Assistant Postmaster-General
Brady and Mr. Thompson, Superintend
am of railrcad mail service, were pievi-
ouslv heard by the committee this morn
ing in advocacy of the bill.
The majority of the committee were
opposed to the House stipulali n that
there ohali be no increase ia the existing
car service during the remainder of the
ytar, but rather ti.au endanger the epeedy
enactment of the bill by returning it to
tho House, the committee decided to ad
vise its passage by th9 Senate without
admendment.
The Republican senatorial caucus foil
ed to reach a satisfactory conclusion a,
te determining the Republican member
ship of the committee of Investigation
under tho Blaine resolution, owing to
engagements made by Senators for the
holiday recess, ani to other considera
tions of personal convenience.
Messrs. Blaine, Allison and Obristianey
were appointed a committee to confer
individually with members of the caucas
and those not present and arrange mat
ters to report to a future caucus.
In the House—On motion of AckleD,
of Louisiana, J. S. Young was. sworn »n
to fill the vacancy in the fifth congree
sionai district of Louisiana caused by the
death of J. J. Leonard.
Washington, December 19.—The Sen
ate passed witbont amendment the House
bill appropriating $450,000 to provide for
the deficiency in the transportation of
the mails by railroad during the present
fiscal year, providing that there ehall be
no increase in the postal car service be
yond what existed on the fint of Decem
ber, 1878.
The Vice President announced as the
select committee to inquire whether the
constitutional rights of citizens were vio
lated at the recent elections, in accord
ance with Mr. Blaine’s resolntion adopted
on last Tuesday, Messrs. Teller of Colo
rado, Cameron of Wisoonsin, Kirkwood of
Iowa, Mitchell of Oregon, Plumb of Kan
sas, Bayard of Delaware, Wallace of
Pennsylvania, Bailey of Tennessee, and
Garland of Arkantas. Messrs. Mitchell
and Plumb were subsequently excused
from service on the committee and their
places respectively filled by the appoint
ment of Meesra. Hoar and McMillan.
Tne Senate has adopted the House bill
extending the time for the report of the
committee on the Indian transfer.
The House bos passed the Indian ap
propriation bill.
Among the confirmations in the Senate
to-day were Edward A. Sullivan to be
postmaster at Harrisonburg, Vo., and
French Strange at Opelika, Ala. Sev
eral other appointments of postmaster?,
Indian aeents and naval officers were
also confirmed.
The patent la v which had been under
discussion was postponed tq-diy until
January, 1879.
There will bo no acticn by the Senate
Finance Committee on the subject of the
proposed reduction of the tobacco tax
until after the holidays, nor will any fur
ther argument be heard on the subject
until Congress re-assembles.
The Secretary of State has a telegram
, from Mr. Sidney Everett, Secretary of the
nig hi a fire in Bowery street destroyed
me residence of Patrick Rourke. His
four and two daughters were in the
burning building. The girls were res
cued, the older so badly burned that she
cannot survive, wuile me younger was
comparatively uninjured. Mr. Rourke
died soon after being taken from the
building. Tha boys were all dead when
found. The house was burned to the
ground.
Washington, December 19. —- j. he
State Department was called on to-day
by the House Committee on Foreign Af
fairs for the papers in tho case of John
C. Landrum, who claims several million
dollars damage from the Peruvian gov
ernment for an alleged bread contract in
connection with the Guano Island.
Messrs. Ames and Pomeroy stated to
day before the House Committee on the
Pacflo BaiiroaJ, that tuers is tdanger
that the Central branch of Union Pacifio
will be sold under the first mortgage, and
the Bucond mortgage bonds held by the
government rendered valueless, unless
the Company’s claims for the subsidy
bonds and lands earned be acted oa fa
vorably by Congress. *
Tne House Committee on Private Lind
Claims agreed to-day to report favorably
a bill granting to Mrs. Myra Gaines the
title to fifty-font hundred and seventy
aroenf* of land in Louisiana. The bal
ance oi her claim Of eighty-two thousand
arpents was disallowed.
Hon. Casey Young, chairman of the
oommittee to examine into and report on
the cause of the yellow fever outbreak m
the Southern State- lost -.ntnaor, hai ap
pointed tho fellow.ug eub-oommutee to
visit the afflicted sections, viz: Gamelu
of Ohio, Cnittenden of New York, sod
Morse of Massachusetts, to visit Hear
Dhis, and G.bsoa of LanUiaua, Hooker of
Mississippi, sod Young of Tuonestee, to
visit New Orleans and vioinity. The
sab-committees of the House and Senate
will sit and aot jointly during their
Southern tonr. .
The Hou-e Committee on Claims to
day authorized Mr. Henderson, of 1Ui»
ois, to report with favorable reoommeud
ation the pending bill authorizing the
proper accounting officer of the Treasury
to pay the amount due the Stata of Tenn
essee for keeping and maintaining milita
ry forces from the 1st of Juty, 1863, uotil
Dtoamber 1st, 1871.
A pardon was issued from the Depart
ment of Justice to-day far Jasper John
son, former postmaster in Texas, ooovict
td of the embezz'ement of Government
fands, and imprisoned at Austin.
A meeting of the Southern Senators
and Representatives was held at the Cap
itol to-night to express the public senti
ment in that region recently afflicted by
the yellow fever with regard to tho
charity and aEsia'ance rendered by the
people of the North. Senator Eustis pre
sided, and H. D. Money, of Mississippi;
was chosen secretary. A committee
composed cf Senators Lamar, Harris and
Garland, and Representatives Ellin,
Young, Cravens, Manning and Goode
reported resolutions expressing the most
grateful feeling toward the people for
their generous charity and kindness dur
ing the prevalence of the fever. Eloquent
speeches were made byJSenator Eustis,
Representatives Young, E lls, Manning
and others.
Richmond, December 19.—In the Hus
tings Court to-day a nolle prosequi was
entered in the case of Wm. T. Trodgtu,
of Greensboro, N. C., and the prisoner
liberated. Trogden was arrested in June
last for obtaining goods from a Richmond
merchant under false prefences, wa3 sub
sequently tried, convicted and sentenced
to tbres years in the penitentiary. Upon
an appeal to the Supreme Court tho de
cision of the lower court was reversed and
the prisoner released. Trogden haB been
in jail sinoe he was first arrested.
The adoption by the House of Dele
gates of the resolution from the Commit
tee on Finance, in relation to the confer
ence with creditors oa the 16th of Janu
ary next, with the proviso that no settle
ment can bs had except oa the princi
ples of ths Barbour bill, was incorrectly
stated yesterday. Th9 resolutions were
only reported by the committee, and will
not come up till after the holiday recess.
Columbia, 6. C., Deoember 19.—The
Court of Claim?, popularly known as the
Bond Court, consisting of three Circuit
Judges, Denounced its decision to-day
npon tho questions submitted to it m re
lation to a poition of the consolidated
bonds, coupons and certificates of .Mock
day was that not only New England, but
the South and other parts of the country
were in the same danger from the demon
whioh Blaine was trying to deliver. It
was nos New England he warned, but
New England people to watch the point
and help save the Constitution, rather
than follow Blaine in stirring up the de
mon.
8o, one by one, Blaino failed with bis
Southern Senators, beoanse they would,
not get mad. When Lamer took his seat
there were not a dozen Republican Sena
tors on Blaine’s side of the Chamber. Ho
sat by himself, and ventured forth no
no more. When it was seen that he gave
it up, Whyte, of Maryland, said, as he
believed other Senators would hays some
thing to say, whioh meant Borne of the
rest of us want some of this, he moved
that they adj turn, whioh was agreed to.
THE GEORGIA PRESS’
Tbe Blaine JbireDrand.
HOW HANDSOMELY SOUTHERN SENA
TORS THREW WATER ON BLAINE’S
KINDLING WOOD.
The following report by the special
telegraphic correspondent of the Courier*
Journal will please the reader:
Washington, December 16.—To-day
Blaiue was beaten in argument, and the
di&matio effect of the debate. He gen
erally manages to gain all the glory of
the battle, although he never has the
best of the argument. He called up bis
resolution at one o’clock, and although it
had been announced that he would in
the morning papers, the galleries were
not half filled ; and tbe Republican Sena
tors preferred the cloak room. The want
of sympathy in this tirade on the South
was still furchpr exemplified by the ac
tion of Wadleigb, who antagonized
Blaine by trying to get up tbe bill to
change the patent law. Matthews an
tagonized both with the Texas and Pa
cific. While there was no sharp contest,
yet it showed the disaffection. Blaine
finally got his resolution up, but no one
showed any inclination to go into a de
bate besides Blaine himself, who,
although he denied that he wanted a de
bate, was nervous for it.
Conklieg raised the point of having a
* pedal committee, instead of sending the
investigation to the Jndioiary Commit
tee, and carried his point, after a short
debate, in wmch Conkling prettily ab
stained from referring to Blaine, except
os he would refer to "some other Sena
tor,” or eay “it has been uttered in de
bate here to-day.*’ Then Conkling left
tbe ohamber, whioh looked unusually va
cant for snch a debase, with Thurman
and Edmnnds both absent.
The Thurman amendment was adopted
without talk, and tbe resolution was
about to pass, much to Blaine’s diBoomfit-
ure, and in spite of his several cunning
attempts to start a discussion, by bring
ing np trifling points. Senator Butler
revived his hopes by asking that the res
olution be ammded so as to provide that
the committee sit with open doors.
Blaine, all afire again, fought the prop-
sition on the ground that it wonld subject
witnesses to further bulldozing. He tried
to make Butler angry, bot to no purpose,
rhelitter, in a telling fifteen minute*’
-patch, showed the pnrpose of secret in
quiry to be euob as has before been con
ducted in the South. Bayard followed,
and made farther oapital of tbe point.
McMillan aod Howe, on the other side,
reiterated Blaine’s views, but in a weak
way. No one on hie side iB very enthuai
amic over bis personal ambition to win
some of Grant’s strength in tho Soutb.
He seemed to feel the desperatenese of
his case, and abont three o’clock took the
floor to make one Isst charge, in the hope
uf exoiting some Southern Senator. With
all his dramatic ability, he asserted that
there had not been a fair election in tbe
South for thirty yeais before th» war,
Tbe accusation did renew the debate, but
to bis sorrow.
SXNATC/B random's reply.
Ransom replied. He first, denied the
accusation, and then eloquently, but with
the kindest manner, told of the Soath’s
desire to be allowed peace and harmony,
that it might regain its fortunes. In tbe
same kind manner he told Blaine that he
would not be goa-led into recriminations,
He spoke of the conduct of Southern men
at tho time of the electoral count as an
illustration that they wore not bent on
ruining the country, else they could have
done it theD.
Blaine rushed by the chairs that inter
vened, and over to Ransom’s seat, to say-
in an aggravating manner that the latter
must not lay that flattering unction to
his soul, as the Southern men did nothing
but their duty, exacted of them by the
people of the country. "Then,’’ said
Ransom, arising and standing directly
against Blaine, "ycu acknowledge that
we did our duty—all any patriotic citiEen
can <lo.” This elicited applause. Blaine
lost his temper, and, like a bay who is
mad at a telling blow, “Well, what
did you make by that?” meaning tho
retort.
Rensam again, foroibly, but without
exoitemout, said that he (emphasizing
tho word) was not in the Senate of tho
United States to moke anything personal
in the way of applause. He was there
to do bis duty to his peop e and tbe eonn
try. Thir again b o tight applause
Blaine looked demoralized. Recovering
be worked np another aasanlt npon Ban
so in, by bis insinuating that tbe Sautb
had had a lesson in rebelling, and that to
do as they did in tbe elsotoral count.
This was done with more fierceness
than any previous dash, and with the
undoubted pnrpose, os shown by his
manner, of making Ransom or some other
Southern Senator take it as personal, and,
if possible, elicit something that could
be construed into a charge of the revival
of the code in the Sen&to. But it fell
far Bhort. Ransom said he hoped the
Senator meant nothing personal. Blaino
said of course he had not. Ran3om then
said he had been seven years in the Sen
ate bearing with the abn33 of the South,
and controlling hie feeling, and h<
would continue to baar with if. Ho had
told the Senator that he would not be
goaded into recrimination. They were
both getting to be old men, and he for
one would not allow hot blool to control
his actions. The manner, more than
word.-, gave the effect. No one in the
ohamber at that minute doubted the
naa’a personal bravery; and every one
admired his gentle conduct, the resnlt of
self-cantrol.
BLAINE AND LAMAB.
As he eat down, there followed a elill-
nose for a moment. Blaino stood at hi3
desk, thinking what next to do. Sudd<
l*. rl »a T.imnr’n anoenh of V7
ly ho recurred to Lamar's speech of Wed
oesdiy, end with more stage business
pointed out that f-omo Southern States
like tbe New England States which La
mar had referred to, boro the tame rela
tions regarding representation. He
wanted to lead Lamar into a quarrel.
The latter, however, ae he said, was glad
to have the point raised again, merely.
The Constitution editors bava bad a
personal Interview with Captain W- D.
Grant, npon whose treatment of the Pen
itentiary convicts Col. Alston’s report
bore so heavily. That paper hss this to
say oonoerniag the matter:
While we are, of oonrse, unable tc-day,
as we were yesterday, to (form any posi
tive opinion as to the merits of this case,
we feel it but justice to say that there is
nothing in Captain Gram’s oharaoter that
would have justified the charges of the
oommittee. He is one of the first oapi-
talistB of tbe State, and has a oharaoter
for probity and integrity anrpUBed by no
man. He is a modest, unobtrusive gen*
tlemao, quietly attending to bia own busi
ness, and never seeking pnblio notoriety.
He is Bcrnpnlansly honest and ooneot.
His word is his bond; he has always paid
his debts, and dealt justly with everyone.
He has been for years in charge of the
oonviots, and there never has been any
serious complaint before. If there ia no
answer to his statement this morning—
and it seems to be positive and clear—
Captain Grant has been treated with great
iioju-tce. In any event it will take tbe
moat speciflo and positive proof to make
those who know him believe that ho haa
been guilty of anything inhuman or un
just.
Captain Grant has always been es
teemed an excellent and honorable citi
zen, and God forbid that he should be
adjudged guilty of the enormities depict
ed, without a hearing. Bat what tbe
committee of the Legitlitare eaw with
their own eyea ought to be brought home
to somebody. How could they be mista
ken as to the facts. The whole country
awaits with interest the result of tho in
vestigation, and, so far ns this paper is
concerned, Captain Giant shall have tha
fullest justice.
A Pleasant Afpair. — Constitution:
The night before the Legislature ad
journed Mr. Henry B. Goelcbius, of Co-
1 umbus, the popular and efficient Clerk
of the Honse of Representatives, invited
all his assistants to enjoy a sccial supper
with him in his room at ths Kimball
Hoase. The occasion was marked with
rare joviality and pleasore. The merry
je3t went round, and all the charms of so
ciality lent a peculiar zest to the enter
tainment. Next day the clerks turned
the tables on their ‘boss.* They unex
pectedly called him into a meeting and
announced that they baa business of grave
importanco to transact with him. Mr.
Eugene Speer stepping forward presented
the victim with a beautiful gold-headed
aae, on which was tho inscription, “To
Mr. Henry R. Goetchiu?, Clerk of the
House of Representatives, from the em
ployes of the olerical department, 1878.”
Mr. Speer made a very pretty speech,
to which Mr. Goetehms replied expres
sive of his sentiments of regard for tbe
employes, and of his gratitude for the
expression of him. The gold-headed
cane will bs a valuable present to Mr
Goetchiu?, for it will evidence the high
regard in which many friends hold'him.
Savannah’s New Bonds.—We see in
the Hominy News that the City Council
has adopted the following resolntion:
That the Mayor and Finance Commit
tee be authorized to havo engraved as
soon as possible, and on the best term?,
the new five per cent, bonds to bo used
m exchange for the old seven pot. cent
bonds, in accordance with the ordinance
relating thereto and in compliance with
the act of the State of Georgia authoriz
ing the same.
The same paper thus disposes oi the
late slanderous attack upon Governor
Colquitt:
The p-rsonal enemies of the Governor,
who hoped that the unblemished nam'
which he has made for himself through
out his entire life would be smirched and
tarnished, (if there are any such,) have
been completely baffled in their hopes,
while those who trusted that this invest!
gallon would throw a stigma upon the
Democratic party and enable them to
maintain successfully against it a charge
of rottenness and corruption which wonld
lead to its ultimate disruption and defeat,
Lave been overwhelmingly defeated iB
their plans. Tbe Governor, the admin'
istration of the State and the Democraoy
of Georgia emerge from this ordeal nn
scathed, and tbe result is one whioh calls
for the hearty congratulations of all good
citizens.
The Augusta Evaniog Newt learns that
Mr. J. F. Shecnt contemplates the start
ing of on eight page piper in Madison
very shortly. That will give Madison the
benefit of three newspapers. Can they
all thrive? Let them try it. We can only
hope that they may.
Thanh God.—A special t the Angnsia
News, dated Dec. 18, 3 p. m., states tbit
Governor Hampton now regards himself,
and is regarded by bis physicians, as de
cidedly past the crisis. He is rapidly im
proving, sleeps soundly, and partakes of
nourishment with relish. His digestion
is good and his pulse natural and temper
ature equal, and can retain heavy food.
Oaft. Quant Defends Himself.—
From a lengthy communication in the
Constitution by Capt, Grant in vindication
or himself against the oharges made by
the Legislative visiting oommittee, in jns-
tiee to that gentleman we oxtraot the fol-
owing.
AN EARNEST AND SPECIFIC DEFENSE.
“Of oonrse,” said Capt. Grant, growing
more earnest a3 he prooseded, “this con
versation will not be as oompaot snd me
thodical as a prepared statement might
be, bat I think I oan cover nil tbe points.
“In the first place, I want to sav that
there is not one word of tiuth in tbe re
port of tha committee, eo far as I am con
cerned, exoept os to th9 heavy mortality
in the Richmond county comp. That I
admit, but let me show ycu how that was.
Abont the first of June I moved two
camp3 of conviet3 from Bartow, and from
the Air-Line Railrotd down to Richmond
county. I was fearful that the change
would prove unhealthy, and I therefore
went down in person and selected the
best camp I could find. I employed a
good physician. I furnished the convicts
the best food I could get. I instructed
my overseer iu writing, and ho has the
letter ytt, I presume, to give tho men
three hours rest in the middle of every
day. I wrote him time and again cau
tioning him to be careful and prudent
with the convicts, writing him that I had
rather los9 the whole profit on the rail
road than to have one die from neglect or
cruelty. This man iB not in my employ
at present, but he donbtless has my let
ters, and will certainly testify to tha
above. I assert positively that so far
I know
EVERY POSSIBLE PRECAUTION
was taken with the convicts at this camp,
ani that tbe deaths were due to the loca
tion and from moving them from the
mountains to a malarial climate, and
could not be prevcnled by any hnman
power. Why, onc-fourth of my guards
died. Tho supeivisicn that tho convicts
had was the same that they had in nppsr
nominal. It was purely the location—the
work being between'the canal and tbe
river. Bat it may be asked why I took
the men there. In the first place, I did
not know how severe tne eickness wonld
be; and in the next place, I was bound
by my contract with the State to keep
the convicts ah hard labor This is tne
law; and this was the only place I had-
where I conlcl work them at that time.
The trial of. Carl Mitchell for, m-
might almsst say the accidental, killing
of yonng Lawshe last summer, is pre
gressing at Atlanta. We hope and be.
Iieve he will be acquitted.
Concert at Andrew Ffhale College
Cnthbert Appeal: The musical enter
tainment to oe given at Andrew College,
on the 23d instant, will be one of the
grandest ever presented in onr commnni-
Prof. Beardslee has no superior in
the South as a vocalist, and he has a
class in training at Andrew College that
will fatly illustrate his powers and effi
ciency in imparting to others the art of
singing, as will be cltarly demonstrated
on the evening above alluded to.
Cumberland Route—New Sleepers—
Brunswick Advertisers The above route
is gaining ground daily and will do a heavy
business this winter. Mr. Luoae, the
sleeping oar proprietor of this line, ap
preciating this fact, has pnt on two of bis
newest ooaofaes—the Fashion and Ksooit.
They are snperb in their “gefrnp” and
under the genial. Capt,. Dagger, speoial
agent for the route, will be a great sonree
aomfoitto the traveling pnblio, over
this route. The fare too has been rednoed
$1.60
Cuthbert True Southron Items.—Sol
MoHaa killed a bine crane lest Monday
morning that measured six feet loDg.
There has been more pork kilted this
year in Randolph oounty then any year
sinoe the war.
Cuthbert Appeal: “Richard Lewie,
colored, was brataily murdered near Ar
lington, in Calbonn oonnty, 1 -st Friday
night. Ho was carried into n swamp by
masked men, and horribly mangled. We
hope ths perpetrators of this outrage win
be brought to jnstioa and made to feel
tbe penalty of an outraged law and a eivil
community. We know not tbe offense
oharged against this negio, bat protest
Egaist mob law under any form or pre
text. It tbe laws of the land are inade
quate to pnnish tbe guilty and protect tbe
innocent, then, indeed, is our oondition
deplorable, and needs a speedy adjust
ment. A reBort to mob law, however,
greatly widens tbe breach, and show* a
degree of barbarism depliLible in any
civil or Christian community.”
J rave Sentinel: “The atora of Dr.
Little waa entered Monday night, and a
lot of clothing, bats and shoes eariitd eff
to tbe value of $100. Suspicion, points
to two tramps who have been lurking in
town several days.”
Ths Athens Banner thus puts it: If
Governor Colquitt is responsible for the
conduct of Mr, Murphy a mere clerk in
the Treasury Department of Georgia,
then who is responsible for the recent
conduct of Mr. Hill, our United States
Senator ?
Not all Dead.—Thomrsville Enter
prise: Thu poisoned waters in the Gulf
are said to have passed away and a good
ly namber of fish are yet alive. VV» hive
seen no explanation of this remarkable
phenomenon.
Sugar sane and syrup are so chfap and
plentiful in rhonsasville that the Enter/*
prise calls for a sugar refinery.
The same paper touches up bachelor
Triplett in this wise:
Encouraging Sion.—Wo notice that
our neigabor of tbe Times has j txt se
cured a Tesy handsome birdcage. We
suppose he has arranged for the Shird,”
but in the event that this should not b9
the case, application/, seated or open,
will be in order.
Tee Parson- 0 us to Qbief
Bus (not on a bust) —Enterprise :
Yesterday muruiug as N-jrna’ one was
going to the depot with a full load of
presohers tbe driver went round the cor
ner by the Presbyterian church at too
nigh a rale of speed, aod tbe bus tnrnad
over. There was a very bad soatt/iiag
of preachers and delegates, bnt wo ar,-
glad to know that none or them wore se
riously hart They all managed to reaco
the depot in time, we believe, hot tbe
bu3 leliid np for repairs.
Bachelors and Old ttald» fia Iiir<
eratnre.
Miss Kate Sanborn is delivering i
course of lectures on literatnre in BoBtOD.
Her latest is on “Bachelor Authors.”
We had not thought there was snch
procession of them as Kate musters into
her lectnre. Tasso, Petrarch and Bo-
■ caocio—all victims of enrequieted lovi
.Ben JohnsoD, Thompson, Qoilins and
Crowley, tbe iatter, although very ataia-
U<*, otherwise, net being sbh- (-o&rc- ly);
to endure the sight cf a woman;: Pope,
Limb, Cowper, Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay.
Giy, Horace, Walpol-, Rogers, Crabbu,
Robinson, Keats, Cnoiley, S-r Isaac
Newton and Dr. Watts, who ma<ie
the longest visit on record, a forty y< ars’
visit; Frederick Grimm, Beranger, Ynps-
lais, Boileau, Sr-. Beave, Erasmus, Bur
ton, Geoige Buchanan (tutor to Jam.s
the Sixth), were all baehlhrs. In out
;own country we have Irving, Whi t’*i*
Thodoru Winthrop and the poet Whit
man. If the subject should mclnde
sculptors, piinteiB and musioians, many
moro wonld be brought in; Raphael, Mi
chael, Angelo and Leonardo da Yinoi,
Chopin and Bfethoven, Congreve, Kuats,
Hans Andersen and > urner came
under the head of “lady-killer/.”
(Hans wae “awful ugly,” and that
seems net to have raterferred with his
attractiveness.) Whittier was styled “the
ideal bachelor,” Thoroau “the hermit,”
ThomaB Hollis, who wonld not mirry lest
itshould interrupt his studies*, “the liter
ary bachelor,” and Mark Akenside “the
irritable, cross-grainud bachelor.” The
“corpulent bachelors” make a long, long
list, with Hume and Gibbon- at the top.
Maiaulayasa bachelor, wa3 a. mystery,
because he liked women and was liked by
them;, and whun he loved, it was with
entire and exclusive devotion. The old
maids in literature described in.a recent
Let ore were Queen Bess, Miss Carter,
Catherine Talbot, Hannah Moore, Anne
Seward, Jane Aub en, Jane Porter, Jo
anna B lilie, Maria- Edgeworth, Jane
Tayler, Miss Milford, Harriet Martinean,
Matilda Berham, Mary Berry, Caroline
Herscholi, Elizabeth Smith, and Helen
Maria Williame.
By its innumerable cures, made under
all possible conditions, Dr. Ball’s Congh
Syrup bail secured for itself a most
viable reputation for great usefulness,
Prioe 25 centp.
The Southern Senators who participa
ted in tbe debate on Monday completely
foiled Blaine by maintaining the utmos<
composure and good tamper. The Maine
Senator tried bis best to tannt them into
angry retort, but they were too muoh for
him. They were fatally quiet and good
temprred; whereupon Blaine, finding
chat he could not make them angry,
reared and pitched abont like the genu
ine intimidator he strives to be in the
Stata of Maine.
'A clear brain and a right aim” is
manifested by all noises who keep Dr.
Bull’s Baby Syrup handy. It is always
rel able and contains nothing injurious.
The Man on Hodseback.—A Washington
special to the Griphlo, wnioh that paper, in
a leader, aays is undoubtedly curreot, states
that the friends of Senator Conkling have
recently been in confeiesos there and is
Now Xork on the subject of his noatinatioi:
for the ETcsidoncy, and that ha wishes i i
understood that he is not a candidate and
wilt not again entur into the contest. Ihia
attitude is supposed to be dne, aooordiog to
the Grapbio, to a movement on foot to con
centrate on Grant.
—Electricity has been added to the duck
ing tnb as a mode of punishment in the
Columbus (Ohio) penitentiary. The prisoner
ie tirat stripped of his clothing, then blind
folded and tak n into the room where the
tub ia kept. Taoro he ie ordered to ait down
in water threo inohoe deep, and one pole of
the battery having baen plioad in the water,
a sponge iB attached to the other. With this
sponge the body of the prisoner ia touched
rapidly in several places. Not knowing
where ho ie to bs touched, as hi* eyes are
still kept blindfolded, Ills stff-ring become
the greater. The pain sometimes produced
is said to bs great, and caneeathe prisoner
to ehont in loud and pierooig tones
—While the English steamer Warrior wa*
eff an island In the West Indies, bnt ontef
sight of land, a human cry was hea-.d, and
the carpenter said he had sten a man strug
gling ia the wator. The engines were at
once stopped and a boat pnt off. After a
long pull ii the direction noted the cry was
again hoard, and half an hoar later a man
was di covered and pioked np. Se proved to
bs a native of Jamaica named Alexander
Hashes, and sail he bad been three days ia
the ws’er clinging to a clothes chest. He
was one of the crow and passengers of the
schooner The Little Minnie, whioh capsized
at sea a:d sink while enher passage to
Oolon. Tho accident occurred sixty mi'ea
from where the man was picked up. Ho was
tho only smvivor.
The Devices or the Wickeo —The New
York Sun eaye Newark is watching tbe bat
tle between her Reform Association and her
liquor sellers over closing saloons on Sun
day. Tho Bamo question has agitated the
town at intervale lor tho lost five years, and
it most bo said that ths barroom keepers
have more than hold their own. Ia the
present fight the reformers have compelled
tho c’.OBiDg of doors and drawing cf shades;
bnt look at the canning of the min on the
inside. On Saturday hs gave to each of
his Sunday customers a latch key, end on
the day of rest the thirsty sinner walked into
tho saloon, and the door looked itself be
hind tim. 8 pies who tried the doors were
nnable to enter, and were obliged to report
the place os closed. This device approaches
in ingenuity that of the New York llqaor seller
who on reading over the law saying that
every inn must contains at least three beds,
discovered that the statute did not mention
tbe size of the beds, and so pnt np beds for
dolls.
—The Benner cotton bale from Memphis
Petit. Frauds and SAindles.—Be
ware of Biking Powders which are put
ud short weights. A manufacturer who
swindles, knowingly, in weight will not
hesitate to sell adulterated baking pow
der. Dooley's Yeast Powder has a world
wide reputation fsr perfect purity and
lwajs being full weight. It bears every
test for superior excellence.
FARSOVS ELOPEMENT.
The Plucky Blamnex by Which
he won a Willing Wllr«
John Oliver, a young preacher of Bed
ford, Ky., eloped with a Mies Emma Ab
bott, a school mistress of that pla:e>
Friday, and thereby hangs a tale more
thrilling than those found m romances.
MisB Abbott comts of a firBt-clsss family.
Her father objected to preacher Oliver’s
suit, and the two lovers arranged to
elope.. He engaged horses and rode to
tbe Kohool-hou-e wnere she was teaching
She dismissed school till Monday,mounted
a horse and rode off with him. They hadn’t
gone far till they discovered the old man
and two big brothers w<-r- pursuing.
They sparred op, but “papa” pressed so
hard that the lovers fin&Ly took to tbe
fields and rode aix r een miles through
hogmire snd-woeds,knooking down fences
and swimming streams till they reaohed
the railroad station. Arriving at Louis
ville, Miss Abbott stumbled against her
uncle, Jndge Abbott, of that city, wh oa
seared the runaways so badly that they
took the next train for Cincinnati, arriv
ing there Saturday morning. A new
difficulty was tow in the way. Oliver
found he could not get a marriage li
cense without 8 wearing tt-at the lady
was a resident of Ohio—just as all Ken
tucky runaway bridegrooms do, but being
a preacher bis oonscienca tripped him np.
The unhippy osuple wandered down Vine
s-reet when they noticed the Emma Ab
bott opera posters; noaeqaainted with
thestriosl iff lira they thougnt the poBtere
were offers of reward for the capture ot
Miss Abbot, the runaway. AnDlher panic
ensued, and they took a hack to the de
pot, and thence tho first train to L»w-
renoeburg, Indiana, where they were
married They left that evening for
home—Oliver resolved to be in Bedford
Sunday in time to fill bis pnlpit, and she
to open her sohool jeiterday morning.
Which iB the riobest child in the world ?
Rothschild. Whst is the best remedy
for the baby ? Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup,
for it contains no opiates, and is innocent
but effective. For sale by all druggists.
Blame on tbe Bampage.
The self-posseBBioa of Sontbern Sena
tors in the debate cn Mr Blaine’s intim
idation resolntion so irritated’that Senator
that he lust tamper, and made a Lpeotaele
of himself. But he has got a resolntion
whioh provides for ssoret sessions of his
oommittee, and will gather a moss of in
oriminating testimony os huge as it will
be worthless in the estimation of all fair-
minded men.
The Senate Republicans caucused yes
terday to make up their part of tho com
mittee, but failed to do it end must meet
.again. Members are wisely relno'.ant to
identify themselves too olosely with this
last effort to revive the ontrsge mill, and
see that it is foredoomed to failure. We
believe the time has passed for a sucoses-
fal intonation of tho North against ns to
my valuable party purpose.
Meanwhile, no better leEson can be
studied in either Honse than the course
of the Senate minority on this question.
Let Southern Democratic Congressmen
resolutely refuso to be made parties to
another sectional quarrel. Let them act
npon the manifest disposition of the peo
cl-- for peace, and, contenting themselve
with thw most temperate vindicationjof the
truth, leave the fomenters of sectional
disturbance to the vexations discovery
that they mnst do all the quarelling.
Slanders on (be aontb-
AND THEIR EVIL EFFECT ON HER MA
TERIAL PROSPERITY.
A Washington dispiion to tne-Chicago
Tribune tells of an interview with the
ageut of a German steamship line—name
not given—who says that his company
oonld not think of investing in ship-
timber lends in Alabama beoanse of the
prejadioe in Europe against tbe Sontb.
This interesting and anonymous gentle
man continues:
"In reply to the assurances that-Ala
bama was freo from all political disturb
ances, he said that while he snpposed it
to be true, nevertheless the belief had be
come so general in Europe that the South
ern States were in an unsettled condition,
and the rights of person and property,
especially of those who were not natives,
were so constantly disregarded as to ren
der it impossible to induce capitalists to
trust either their money or the repre
sentatives of their interests in any part
of the South. He /aid of Dte this feel
ing had rapidly inoreased among Europe
an capitalist, owing to .the know! dge of
tbe lenien, and, in European eyes, ex
tremely wise coarse pnrsned by President
Ht>jes towards the South. Where previ
ously there had been sympathy abroad for
the Sonth on account of tbe interference
of the general government, the opinion
now is tbar no exonse for suoh continued
diBordeta as have been reported exists,
and enoh companies as his own were mak
ing np their minds that societv there was
in little better than a semi-civilized oon
dition, and capital oonld notsfford to take
risk investments ”
Upon this the World asks, whose fault
is it that z-dch erroneous ideas have gone
abroad through Euiopt? Ia it tits fault
of the Democrats of the South, under
whose administration order has every
where been restored and economy has
rep'aced i x'ravaganct? Or is ib the fault
of Repnblicun papers like the Chicago
Tribune, which have persistently circula
ted silly inventions about, the Southern
Statei? Tt hardly btcomes Republicans
who remember that their Secretary of
the Trca-ury in a political campaign did
wbat be could to ir jure the national
credit in the ho^e of helping tbe party, to
express much irdignation on such sub
jects.
lUe Oldham Strike.
After four weeks of idleness, a small
portion of tho Lancashire cotton mill
strikers havo resumed work; but the
bulk of them are inexorable, and it is in
timated are likely to remain so a good
while. The wages lost by tho strike, so
far, foot np threo hundred thousand dol-
'g,:a, and the workmen and their families
are reported to be in a oondition of great
destitution and suffering, while tho mill
owners themselves prefer to encounter
the losses on capital invested in idle
looms and spindles, than the grtater loss
they would sustain by setting them in
motion, nuder the existing prioes of
goods,
Notwithstanding this unfortunate con
dition cf affairs, it will be seen that cot
ton rallied a little yesterday in the Liv
erpool market, and sales were made at
two o’dook at an advance of a sixtoenth
of a penny. We shall be glad to sea the
Britons through with their strikes and
the milk again in the fall lid? of opera
tion.
CkreltMnett About Securities
Philadelphia Ledger.)
Speaking of carelessness in regard to
money and bonds, & Washington tele
gram says that recently a man presented
to the Treasury Department for redemp
tion bonds that wonld amount to a num
ber of thousands of dollars. He hid
them in the earth at the bottom of his
smoke-house for safe keeping, and forgot
where he had plaoed them. Fa>l came,
and he commenced to smoke ham?. A
fire had been burning a number of days
beforo he remembered that he had
placed his bonds thero. He extinguished
the fire, and found the bonds had been
baked. They conld, however, be identi
fied, and new ones were issued for
them. Instances have been reported
where bonds and notes have been stored
for safe keeping in old bf oves in the sum
mer and forgotten until the fires had been
kindled in the fall. Recently there waa
presented fot payment at the Treasury an
old obligation of the Distriot of Columbia
for $100, tbe accumulated interest on
which amounted to $112. It had been
found in an old trank. The Treasury
officials remember a groat namber of in
stances whioh have come under their ob
servation, and estimate that the actual
Ices of greenbacks by fire and careless'
ness amounts to $20,000,000.
Wnon we reflect that so many human
beings dio of Consumption we must come
to the conclusion that everybody should
be provided with Dr. Bali’s Cough Syrup,
whioh never fails to cure a cough, the
foreiunner of this dreadful disease.
Price 25 centa.
Tbe Famous Natural ICrmvdy—
Vegaune.
When in Boston a few months since,
the writer paid a very pleasant visit to
the htalquarters of the proprietor of this
widely circnlated and popular remedy,
Mr. H. R. Stevens, 446 Broadway. We
found him to be a perfect gentlemen and
' quite communicative. In the course of
onr conversation the fc flowing facts were
elicited:
Ten years ago Mr. Stevens, after ex-
pstimenting long, and noting the effect
singly of a variety of roots and herbs,
succeeded in forming such a compound of
them as he thought wonld prove salutary
as a remedial agent in bleod diseases, de
bility, dyspepsia, etc.
He used it first with such striking ef
fects npon his family and acquaintances
that many urged him to give the benefit
of tho di-covery to the pnblio at large.
This he finally consented to do, and began
by giving away thousands of bottles for
many months before offering to sell any.
Tho result waa highly flattering, and
tt stimonia’s to ita worth,and applications
for moro came pouring in froip every
side.
This at once decided him, and forth
with the enterprising proprietor began
the manufacture of the medicine upon a
very extended spate. The demand toon
became enormous and has steadily in
creased ever since. At present it almost
exceeds heliyf. All over the United
States and in the Cmaias, wherever the
sign of an apothecary or drag store is to
be seen, tho Vegetine is almost certain to
be found on sale.
Mr, Stevens has no less than two thou
sand written certificates, many of them
from th9 best and most respectable sources
in theoonntry, aa to tbe great valoeof his
speoiflo. These unite in saying that for
scrofulous affections, eruptive diseases of
the skin, general debility and disordered
blood, and as a sedative to the nervous
system, costmnesa and other stomach
complaint?, tbe Vegetine nets like a eharm
seldom'failing to afford permanent relief.
It is also perfectly hanal.esfl and not un
pleasant to take.
Mr. Stevens deolarea that (he Vegetine
bsB the unqualified ecdjrsement likewise
of many skilful and distinguished regu
lar physicians and medical practitioners.
As an evidence of the immense bnsicets
be has built up, and the popularity of this
favorite remedy, tho outstanding con
tracts for newspaper advertising amount,
for the past year, to one hundred and
sixty-eight thousand dollars.
Onr readers will find one of these in
the columns of the T«l*obai>h and Mis-
siKQBB, and the vegetine oan be fonnd
at the several drag establishments of
Messrs Hunt, Rankin & Lamar.
Donas, coupons ana cerumwes m - -.. t.
issued under ths act of 1873, known na J tnnt what he meant to say tho oth r
camps where tho deaths were merely
ded to Galveston.
—Tho Millinery Trade Review Bays: Tt
is oatimstea that one-fifth of the territory
tributary to Chioago has suffered sn almost
total loss of crops whioh detracts from onr
gales this fall. * * * To eay tbit the trade
U in good oenditien te to repeat an untruth.’
uold We&tber.
We bad s alight touch of that com
modity in Hsoon yesterday and forty-
eight boars previous. Thursday mornirg
tbe merouiy indicated 25 to 28—the morn
ing previona 30—and Tuesday morning
it moved ronnd tho fretz’ng point—In all
constituting a frosty andioy time for this
latitude; and wa hope a potent yellow
fever germ-destroyer in ths parts of the
Sontb which havs suffered from tho dis-
6&86*
Still, ths season, so far, has been
strangely mild, and, in thia^part of Geor
gia, strangely dry. Large areas of ra n
are due ita, and when nature brings up
lb* averags, jw« shall bava a wet time.
Sectionalism In tbe North.
Nashville American.!
There te no fanatical fnry in the Northern
mind, no freteied sectional feeling, no
hostility to the Scnth The Blaine issue
has fallen npon dull ears. Tbe press in
perfonotory way commend Blaine’s speech
and defend its justice, and donounce ths
Bontb, but it is not in tbe old vein. We are
entirely willing to see this issue go to the
country and to rest the future upon the
oslm judgment of the people, no matter
how much they may beimprsseed by Mr.
Birina’s shrewd speech. In foot we do not
think th«y are impressed stall, or will per
mit this to beooms an Issue; but ths partis in
press insist, la order to aooount for the
absenoe cf paction, that there te a calm,
deep feeling of determination.
We barb no fear of a solid North created
whsre the Republican party te in a minority
unless it occurs through blind seotionri
passion. Mr. Blaine* issue musthsat ths
North red hot or it will not work at all. Ths
oUm judgment of ihe No:them people will
treat tbe questions yet lingering unsettled
at the South aa questions to be settled by
tbe people there ae rapidly as possible, just
as they settle their own local qoe.tiou*
When they concern the United btatee the
law and tbe courts will attend to indiv.duri
cases Political interference will only re
tard and cannot promote their settlement.
So far the effort to discuss the sectional
issue baa proved abortive. It is evidently
not a popular issue •
OBAlifiES BY SHH^LOAOS,
Fifty Millions tn be Mold In New
York Before Srm. Btark Bay.
New York World.
With the holidays come the oranges,
and-since the season promisee to be aa
exceptional one, it is estimated that be
tween now and New Year’s 50,000,000
oranges will be sold in this city. Al*
ready the fruit departments of Fulton
and Washington Markets are glutted,
and by one steamer due in port uvday
300.000 oranges, by anctner 3,000 bar
rel/. or 1,000,000 orangep, and by anoth*
350 000 in bulk, are expected. Tib
barret ato k. marly all of whioh comes
from tha West ladies, and' tbo case and
box stock, mainly from Mediterranean
ports, are consigned to shipping and
commission Longer, by whom they will
be dirtnbu ed among the trade, ihe
stock in bulk, however, partly from tbe
W- st Indira and partly from Florida, Is
seldin quantities from one- barrel to 1»-
0U0 barrels at the dooks, as potatoes and
other products are sold at tha foot of
Vetsy and Weai Thirty-four’h streets.
One-whose inferences with- referenoe to
the local otange trade are drawn from as
inspection cf tho business exhibits which
dealers put forth to tempt the small buy
er baa but a superficial and erroneous nc-
tisa ofthe risks whioh enoumber ir» To
say that the frntt ia perishable, as the
teim is usually, understood, is an inade
quate erprtssion of tb& extent of that
risk. There is no product ao perishable.
Of about 200,000,000' oranges reoeived
here last season—from September until
March—nearly 83,000.000- perished, or
4Q.per cent, of those reoeived trom the
Mediterranean ports and CO per cent, of
those received from the West Indies.
The loss on » cargo of £00.000 oranges
from Dominica was 169.600, or 73 per
cent;-on eleven cargoes from May agues,
comprising 2,654,5S0 oranges, 1,495,120,
.or 66 per cent, and on a cargo ot 230,000
from Ocho Rios, 210,009-or 91 p-r cent.
In many cases the amounts received from
the sales of cargoes were inefficient to
pay tho charters of the vessel/. Until
.within three or four yf ars the trade was
conducted mainly by importeis, hut they
soon learned the lesson which the figures
/just given convey, and many of them
ere ruined in the learning. Of about
fifty of them engaged in the business in
ibe city only three remain,, nearly all the
others having become commission mer
chants only. No better opportunity to
.appreciate the trade, stripped et its
glamor, could be had than by boarding
to-day or to-morrow the sailing vessel
which will be moored at some ot the
d’cks near Burlingrfip^ with stock in
bulk, the vessel having, on the way from
the West Indies, encountered two torna
does, whioh ere csp/cially disastrous to
the preseiva.tion.of tne fruit. The stock,
wh/n sold, wilt be carried to atore-rcoma
or cellars, out of sight, and there sorted
attzr the approved fashion best known to
the trade, by a process so highly aoientific
that the bes: that is saved and the worst,
after tho usual polishing and dying,
would never be recognized aa having
originally bf longed to the same let. Stock
reoeived in bulk is generally considered
inferior in quality to that received in
tarrels, boxes or caaes, although it is more
perishable. At present there is a furor
over Florida fruit, which is rarely receiv
ed in bulk. Etsz ready to accommodate
the public ttk>:e, ama'l dealers haxe pro
vided themselves abundantly with paper
labels, «nd it is almost impossible for a
refail buyer io find nny other kiud of
froit. John Marsh, who sella for Darrell
Co., importers of tho Mandeville
(Jamaica) s’./am cut Granges—a large,
Olid, brignt-color/d fruit—and who has
t large trade among thq Fulton and
Washington market dealers, says that
the best imported fruit is labeled as com
ing from Florida to meet the popular de
mand. The rec?ip:a this season bava
thus far been much larger tbau they wreri
at this time last year, although the WeBl
India trade has suffered from violent
storms, and ia likely to fall snort of the
average yea:Iv importation. The Medit
erranean and Florida trade is so much is.
/xct.81 ot what it usually is, however,
that the deficit wi’l be more than cov
ered.
I was i ffercd a few days ago,’ 1 said a
large ocaler yesterday, “the ore of two of
the btst estates in Jamsioa, where the
frnit may be had in any quantities for
the gathering, but I wouldn’t hear of ths
offer. By accepting it I could “< live; ths
best oranges in the world in. Nbw York
for less than $5 a barrel. The host sell
tor $10 a barrel—from 820, to 243 in a
barrel Wnen I waa younger in the
business I thought I oonld- make money
in thwt way. I stood on tbe wharf for
three months aod loU$20,000 on account
of the watte by rat. That is why I didn’t
accept li=t week’s offer,”.
{Senator Etptlor, or sontb t’aro-
Uaa.
Ths TTgdd aays the Congressional Re
cord brings ua the full report of dens tor
Batl/Fa maiden speech iu tbe Senate on
Monday- As au instrument for tbe con-
fnbioQ o* Mr. Rjaine the speech was ed-
nfirahly prepared, but it waa some hirg
more than thst It was not only a man
ly and clear defame of Mr. Ba ler’s own
State, bnt a oocl and courteous one also;
and a Senator from Sonin Carolina ia en
titled to ucuoutl credit who oonld retain
his ooolness and his conrtesy in defend
ing his S:ate from charges as monstrous
aa have been brought agtinit her for the
purposes of subjecting her agi is to the
odious and scandalous despotism to whioh
she was for ten year’s subjected. Gover
nor Hampton will have a worthy col
league, and Sooth Carolina a real repre
sentative, in Mr. Boiler,
Ever since Eve’s incautious experience
in tbe Garden of Eden, Babies have been
the institution. Potted by men aad loved
by women, their baby life would be ao ab
solutely happy cxiateno 1 , bat fer those
evidence! of mcr atity exhibited in Colic,
Flatulency, etc—all happily relieved at
once.howeTer by the prompt his of Dr.
Bull’s Baby Syrup.
—Judge John H. Frye fa in Jackronvifle'
Florida, on an inmpartant mission. Thero
te talk of cutting Florida in two with an inter
national ship canal.
—Mr. W. W- Corcoran, the banter and
philanthropist of Washington, will be 80
yeore of age on the 27th instant. Hia health
oontinnee excellent.
—-Ioe te running freely at St. Louis, and
the underwriters there annouce that they
will take no more riik on Boutbern-bond
boats At present.
—Yankton on Tuesday indu’grd in a heavy
snowstorm, with the thermometer down to
12 degrees, and a northwest wind blowing
twenty-five mile* an hour.
—The English Church Missionary Society,
acting on the advios and with the active
oooperaion of OoL Gordon Fashs, Governor-
General of the Houdan, have definitely de
cided to despatch an expedition to the south
western end of the Albert Nyacz i
—An American egg preserving company
h'-a been established at fihanghai for some
time. The ohjeotia to preserve eggs in euoh
a manner that they will be useful for cook
ing at any time and in any o'imate. Tho
tusiaeae is enfrely export, chufly to Eng
land.
—Let John Sherman’s tonr per oent. bond
hides ita unfinanori head eaye the Ocnriet-
Jsumri. The Georgia bond, described in
onr Atlanta special, beats John’s ' out or
eight Every man iu Georgia may now
become a bondholder, irrespective of race or
previous condition.
Good Measurc is ths Watchword of
Honest Tease.—When you buy Dooley’s
Yeast Powder, for sale by all grocers, you
get perfectly full weight, just as marked
on the cans, and beside that an article
nadeof the very best and paroet mat/rul,
so that the strength can always be trust
ed.
Sisni cv PaosraatTT Kuuamsa,—
Tha increased prosperity or businere
affairs in New Orleans is ihown by the
ooostan.ly growing demand for tickets
in the grand monthly drawings at tha
Louisiana State Lottery Company, whioh
take place invariably in Kaw Orleans, at
noon tt the second Tuesday of every
month, Tho fairness ot these drawings
has at faagtfc become a certainty.ja.
public mind. Tickets only i
Address M. A. Dauphin, P. ”
New Orleans, Lv