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ÜBORIIIA.
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Louisville- Kohort* A Boyd.
Pbry’* Mill, Tattnall Co.—J. W J.-atnn
Ui'itw AN-lf. 11. Kayton, H. M. Ciriflln. ‘
Attaivlou*—L. 11. Peacock.
Bi.auk*iiear— M. C. Wade.
Renoai—Wiliam Holloway.
Seward— 'Vm. F. Gray.
Clyattville—J. M. Clyatt.
Keidavii.i.k—W. N. McDonald.
Taylor * Creek— Dr. M D. Moody.
Btatbrvillk—O. M. English, Jr.
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Middi.bu round —P. A. Bryan.
Ockiuknrr—John 11. Stephen*.
Hohoksn—l). H. McKinnon.
Glesnore—J. M. Johns.
Monroe— W. H. Goodwin.
SPKiNorißt.i>— Amos K. Kahn.
Waycros* —J. W. Highsmith.
Ehcrswick—WJH. ISerrie.
TuoMAsviu.a—W. C. Caraon, Mine A. E. Me.
Clellsn.
Karrile— A. Crosby.
Oa not—Robert J. Smith.
Rutledoe—“Rough" Rice.
Morevbs—C. C. Grace.
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Verror—J. K. Hklpper.
Waldo -Samuel J. Kennard.
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Madison —. John Hart.
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JUioakoi’Y.—J. C. Mathers.
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Early Branch— . John D. Sanders.
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1876.
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The Question of Intervention in
Affairs.-A Washington dispatch
says kijore is no doubt of the correctness
of the report coming from Vienna ns a
special to tho Now York Herald, that a
circular letter has beon addressed by Sec
retary Fish to the European governments
for their opinion on the question of in
tervention in Spanish affairs in Cuba.
The publication of the dispatch excites
great comment in Washington, and vari
ous opinions are heard concerning the
results. Generally, there is no idea that
this government intends anything that
will lead to unpleasant relations with
Spain, but Cabinet officers who have been
interviewed on the matter have no assur
ances to give either one way or the other,
and, in fact, decline to admit that they
have knowledge of such a circular having
been dispatched from the State Depart
ment, notwithstanding the uudoubtable
evidences that such a paper has been sent
abroad. Of course all the facts will be
presented in the supplementary message
jjf the President, which is expected soon
after Congress reassembles.
Gossiping about the notabilities in
’ Washington a correspondent says Secre
tary Fish sustains the positiou of pre
mier, or head of the Cabinet, at an ex
penditure of at least $ 10,000 a year above
his salary. He is of orthodox Knicker -
booker stock, and the services of his
father, Col. Nicholas Fish, give him a
hereditary right to belong to the Society
of the Cincinnati,OTer the central organi
zation of which he presides as Captain
General. On the door of his carriage, on
his silver and on his dainty note paper
are his family crests —a dolphin and a
sca-griffiu—with the motto, Dew DabU.
He is a rather large, British looking man,
with leg-of-mutton side whiskers, a stout
nose and a pleasant expression of counte
nance, especially when he is chuckling
over his success in humbugging some
verdant newsgather on diplomatic mat
ters.
Bouthers Deports.— A Washington
dispatch says: “The Department of Jus
tice has a number of reports, made by its
special ageuts sent to Mississippi and
other States of the South. The Missis
sippi reports cover the period of the late
political c.uupaign in that State, and
while tinged with the partisanship which
was to be expected, do not conceal the
malpractices of the colleagued carpet-bag
and negro office-holders of that common
wealth. It is possible that the Attorney
General may send these reports to Con
grew.” Is it not about time that this
system of espionage and intermeddling
with the local Jtate governments should
be discontinued. It was oertainly never
contemplated by the founders of this Re
publican government, this Union of equal
-States, that Congress should exercise this
•wprt of impertinent, supervision over
h* ir internal affairs. /
Why Granl Wants to RomoTP Bristow
ud IMirst Not.
TbfejYew York tiun, of Friday, con
tains, n double-leaded leader, in which it
is asserted that Secretary Bristow has been
practically ostracised from a participa -
lion in the friendly feeling and good fel
lowship that has hitherto pretty gener
ally prevailed in administration circles.
tha£tie is now simply the official and not
a! nil the friend ; that this i* the case
not only with the President, but the
Cabinet as well ; that even Attorney
General Pierrepont, who was at one time
very warmly attached to Secretary Bris
tow, had found it expedient to limit his
intercourse with the head of the Treasury
to matters of a purely busi
ness nature, and that all this
has come to pass because in the
investigation of the whisky ring
the Secretary has been determined that
no guilty man should escape, whether he
might be found in or out of the charm
ed circle of White House influences.
Commenting on this, the Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial, who probably knows what be is
talking about, telegraphs as follows:
‘•There is undoubtedly ample justification
for.tbe principal charge that is made. The
President does not find it expedient to
observe the requirement- of friendship
toward Bristow now as he did some
months ago, and Bristow would be re
moved to-morrow if Grant dared to
face the storm of indignation that
the act would bring upon him. So
long as Bristow was content to prosecute
the cheaper, smaller rascals, the Presi -
dent had no word or act of disapproval,
but his stolid command to ‘let no guilty
jtnan escape’ was uttered with the Bifinfcal
that his personal friends *
and household would be protected at all
hazards. He was willing to make politi
cal capital by having the world know that
it was under his administration that the
whisky ring, composed as it was of Re
publicans and Republican officials, was
overthrown, but he desired that only the
small fellows should be crushed, and when
it comes to an attack upon the chief
scoundrels who are his personal friends,
he conceives that Bristow is rather over
doing the thing.”
A Constitutional Convention.
The Augusta Chronicle is pleased to
observe a growing desire on the part of
the people for a Constitutional Conven
tion. Some of the politicians are very
much afraid of the question. They would
ignore it. They cling to established in
stitutions, especially to the offices which
they hold. They love tho people, but
they are afraid of them. The Constitu
tion of Georgia is unsuited to the people.
It was framed by a body of men who had
no confidence in the people. The delibe
rations of the Convention were held
under the very shadow of the central
government. The clash of resound
ing arms had hardly ceased, and
the military influence was felt in ail
the land. Tho provisions of the con
stitution wore strongly against the
participation of the people in the
control of the government. The term of
office was extended; the power of ap
pointing Judges and of filling many
other places was conferred on the Gov
ernor. He was to serve for four years
with all this immense patronage in his
hands, and was made
tion. Th^ Attorney General
wu iv e e
chosen by the people,
their direct representatives, could not be
trusted with the election of Judges or
Sohcitois, but his Excellency was em
powered to name them. The whole sys
tem needs revision. For our own part
our confidence in the people is stronger
than it is in any of the men who may fill
the places of trust or power under the
government. “Put not your trust in
Princes,” is an admonition that comes
down to us through centuries, and the
teaching of all history is, that a popular
government is better than one where the
ruler, no matter by what name you may
call him, is entrusted with power for a
period long enough to estrange him from
the people. The people of Georgia may
well be trusted with the power of framing
a government for themselves. Let us
have a convention.
Ames.
The efforts of Ames, the Governor of
Mississippi, to enlist Federal interference
in his State, have rather recoiled upon this
ambitious carpet-bagger, and he seems
likely to get more than he bargained for.
It was natural that the agents sent by the
Administration should report intimida
tion in Mississippi, for thut was the main
purpose of their mission, but the fact
that the stato of things found there has
compelled them to extend their report in
a way which implicated the Radical offi
cials of that Commonwealth more than
anybody else, is where the recoil comes in
Had Ames expected matters would reach
that pass, he would never have
asked any intervention, and it is not the
fault of the President that through his
relations with the Governor of Missis
sippi we are iu a fair way to obtain a
deeper insight into the disreputable con
dition of things in that State than we
have enjoyed before. The full report of
the agents is now desirable, and that re
port should be made the basis of an in
vestigation that will go to the root of the
whole matter. If there has been intimi
dation let it be known, but let all the
other facts bearing upon the case be
known also, that fair judgment may be
had. This is just the kiud of an inves
tigation that neither Ames or Morton
want. They desire to wave the bloody
shirt at such a distance that no one can
tell whether the apparently “ensanguined
under-garment ’ is really embellished with
gore or dirt.
The message of the Mayor of New Or
leans recommends three things: A still
further curtailment in every item of ex
penditure which will admit of reduction:
the suspension of the tax for the pay
ment of the interest on the public debt,
and the withholding of the taxes for the
schools and police until these interests
shall have been recommitted to the con
trol of the city authorities proper. These
recommendations, remarks the Boston
Post, are deeply to be regretted, or
rather the state of things which brought
them forth is deplorable. The first sug
gestion is eminently proper for any city
that is heavily burdened with debt, but
only the most extreme exigency can
justify the others. Yet no one who fully
understands the hardships which have
been imposed on New Orleans, and the
rights of which she has been deprived,
can deny that a crisis has arrived. The
laws ojr ~he State, as they now stand,
certain things, it is true; but
these laws have be°nec made that an out
sider looks upon as little better
than rules of polimW piracy, and, as
strict conformity to would involve
the destruction c* what material
resources are left in City,
Mayor Leed’s official cannot be
judged very harshly, alfer p*iL What he
proposes is a desperate *4medy, but it is
intended for a desperate disease.
The Late Shaking Up in Virginia and
Maryland.
The earthquake in Virginia last week
was attended with not a few exciting
incidents. Richmond appears to have
experienced the greatest shaking up,
though the shock extended nearly through
the State. Thousands of people were
aroused by the rattling of window-panes
and the trembling of their houses, and
awoke in great fright. The sensation
lasted for about twenty or thirty seconds,
and began with a slight rocking, which
rapidly increased until houses swayed to
and fro, and the earth seemed slipping
from beneath the feet of those who
were on the street. There were three
shocks, the last two running into
each other, not sharp or sudden: but
coming on rather Blowly, swelling in force
and then quickly dying out. In lete than
five minutes after the shock at least one
fourth of the people of Richmond were
out in the streets or in their yards, many
in their night clothes. Mothers grasped
their babes from their cradles and went
out of their houses, seeking open spaces
to be away from the falling houses. So
unexpected, so unprecedented in the his
tory of Richmond was the occurrence,
that none were prepared for it, and those
who under ordinary dangers would have
shown boldness and courage lost all con
trol of themselves. Never before was there
such universal consternation. At one of
the newspaper offices the shocks were
painfully felt. The tall building trem
bled to its very foundation, and the com
positors on the fourth floor, apprehensive
that the structure was toppling, left their
stands with all the rapidity possible and
rushed into the street. At the hotels
hundreds of people were awakened, and
were not asleep felt the ifuake
and heard the rumbling noise most plain
ly. At these hotels bells were rung,
lights put out, people were almost jostled
from their beds, and panic and confusion
took possession of many. The great de
sire seemed to be to get owt of the build
ings. Baltimore also experienced a sim
ilar, though less violent, shaking up.
Appleton’s Journal.
Appleton'* Journal begins the new
year with improved typographical ap
pearance, and with strong literary attrac
tions. Julian Hawthorne, who is to write
exclusively for Appleton's during 187 C,
begins a characteristic series of papers
under the title of “A Journey to the Un
known.” No writer of the day has a
more acute, searching and graphic style,
than Mr. Hawthorne. Mrs. Macquoid,
author of “Patty,” begins anew story.
Mr. James E. Freeman, an American
artist, who has resided for thirty
years in Rome, and during that time
met many of the most distinguish
ed men and women of the period,
begins, under the title of “Gatherings
from an Artist’s Portfolio,” a record of
his reminiscences and experiences, which
are of the most entertaining character.
There are other interesting papers in the
opening number of the year. We notice
that James Pay n, whose novel of “Lost
Sir Massingberd” was so popular, begins
anew novel in the number for January
Bth. Among the regular contributors to
Appleton's we find the'names of Julian
Hawthorne, Christian Reid,
Rhodes, Albert F. WebsUyif'Junius Henri
M. E. W. S.,
Lucjfr-LTTTlooper. Constance F. Woolsod,
Horace E. Scudder.
Appleton's Journal is a weekly house
hold magazine, entirely free from sec
tional or partizan bias, and devoted to
popular literature and all matters of taste
and culture; it aims to be comprehensive,
including in its plan all branches of lit
erature, and treating all subjects of in
terest to intelligent readers; it designs to
be elevated in taste and pure in tone; it
gives in quantity fully twenty.five per
cent, more than the largest of the
monthly magazines, while in quality its
literature is of the highest class.
A Little International Postal Breeze.
It seems that some months ago Post
master General Jewell called the atten
tion of the postal authorities of Great
Britain to the inadequacy of the pay re
ceived for transporting the British mails
across our continent, intimating that the
compensation should be readjusted, as
ou. government received only six cents
per pound for this service, while the rail
road companies were paid at the rate of
thirty-three cents per pound. A letter
remonstrating against this increase was
received from the British office, and the
point was made that it would disarrange
the rates established by the British office.
Postmaster Jewell replied, insisting on
the proposed increase, but received no
answer to his dispatch until Monday last,
when he received a cable telegram from
the British office, asking for an immedi
ate remittance of the amount due
on account of international money
orders, amounting to about one
hundred thousand pounds ($484,000).
This request was considered extraor
dinary, and Postmaster Jewell answered,
informing the British authorities that on
and after the first of January this govern
ment will claim thirty-three cents per
pound on all British mails transported
across this continent. The amount here
tofore paid for this service by Great
Britain has been about twenty thousand
dollars, while the United States Govern
ment has paid railroad companies more
than sixty thousand dollars in excess of
this sum.
Georgia is poor; of course she is. How
could she be otherwise, when she spent
last year for mules and horses raised in
other States, $1,000,780 ? These animals
cost SIOO a head in the average, when
they could have been raised at home for
SBO a bead. And yet only 6,035 are annu
ally foaled in the State. — Atlanta Consti
tution.
Well, if our people spent last year a
million of dollars for Western mules,
they had the mules to show for their
money. It has been estimated by some
of our centennial gushers that fifty thou
sand Georgians will visit the great spread
eagle show at Philadelphia this summer.
Estimating the expense at one hundred
dollars a head—and that is a low average
of the cost of the round trip and a week's
sight seeing in the “City of Brotherly
Love,” and we have an expenditure of
$5,000,000. This is a considerably
larger sum of money to be drained from
the State in these pinching times. Be
sides, in this case there will be no addi
tion to our stock of mules, though there
will be many asses returning home with
empty pockets to meditate on their folly.
The reappearance at Washington of
General Butler as attorney for F. B. San
born, in prosecuting a claim against the
Treasury Department, is one of the curi
ous incidents of the current season. It
might be supposed, says the New York
limes, that this famous pair—or shall
we say firm ?—had been sufficiently ex
posed to general oontempt, on account of
their previous connection with the Treas
ury, to induce them to earn a living in
dependently of the government. It is
pleasant to know, however, that their
reception at the Treasury Department is
not quite so cordial as it once was, and
that their application is undergoing a
rigorous examination, which will secure
the government from paying any money
that is not strictly due.
The New York Religious Press.
The contract between Brother Bowen,
of the Brooklyn Independent, and Jay
Cooke <fc Cos., the New York stock gam
blers, has been published. The follow
ing is the meaty sentence of the docu
ment:
On your part you give us all the sales
of bonds by the machinery of the papers
under your control. You give your servi
ces as editors or agents to go and work
for the interests of the bonds from time
to time as we may need your services out
of New York and Brooklyn. You discon
nect yourselves from all other enterprises,
and work this one with all yout accus
tomed energy and faithfulness. You give
the exclusive interest and influence of
your money columns and editorial col
umns to the enterprise and bonds of the
Union Pacific Railroad, and in all respects
in good faith, you and yours are to be
enlisted for the whole period of the loan,
or until we mutually agree to relinquish
this arrangement.
For these services Brother Bowen was
to receive “six per cent, cash and ten per
cent, stock commission.” The Independ
ent is a journal with avowed religious
proclivities. The readers of the paper
could do very well without the religion in
it if it is such as is practiced by Brother
Bowen and Brother Beecher.
Commenting on this disgraceful con
tract the New York Commercial Adver
tiser says: “It is notorious that several
journals in town are managed id pretty
much the same way, and live by extorting
blackmail from chartered institutions and
individuals. In one or two cases candi
dates for office have been obliged by
these pirates of the press to pay ‘blood
money. The late counsel to the corpo
ration, in order to obtain a fair hearing
of his case before the public, was com.
pelled by ‘respectable newspapers’ to pay
a larger price than the patent medicine
vender pays for his quackery. .All is not
gold that glitters, nor are all high-toned
journals as reputable and respectable as
they assume to be. The Independent
has for years lived on unclean drippings.”
Gen. Win. D. Barnes.
Editor Morning News:
As the News has an extended circula
tion in Florida, having among its citizens
probably as large a subscription as any
paper published within its borders, I
seek, through its columns, to recommend
to the Democratic and Conservative party
as the most suitable nomination for Gov
ernor that can be made the gentleman
whose name heads this communication.
In doing so I would state that I am not
influenced by friendship, nor prompted
by motives of policy, but seek to
promote the best interests of the State
by electing the right man to the right
place, recommending him to the respon
sible position not because he is available,
but because he is also eminently capable.
The virtue, intelligence and respectability
of Florida long to see once more in the
Gubernatorial chair a man of culture,
statesmanship and integrity—and I
cannot but add what a striking
contrast would be presented to the
observing mind between what would
then fill it, and what, alas! fills it now !
Florida to be redeemed from the oppres
sive rule of the party that has long fed
on its vitals must determine to redeem
herself, just as Georgia, Alabama Arkan
sas anj, .Mississippi have d,Vne. Those
"States have givCfi_2jW6us examples of
what may be achieved, politically, by the
determination to achieve. The latter
State, for instance, had greatly more to
contend against than Florida can possi
bly have. As soon as the bayonet
was removed from her breast she collect
ed her material, formed organizations,
executed with skill combinations em
bracing the merit of the whites and
blacks, nominated her best men for of
fice, and resolutely, courageously and un
compromisingly entered into the contest
to win—and she won. The good pre
vailed over the bad, the right over wrong,
decency over filth, intelligence over igno
rance, honesty over roguery, pluck over
cowardice, patriotism over treachery;
in short, that which makes States over
that which destroys them. Florida will
have much less to do to effect her re
demption than Mississippi had. Let her,
then, take courage and do it.
General Barnes is well known as a law
yer of ability, of scholarly culture, of
practical, discriminating judgment, of
broad, comprehensive views; without
malice ; just, without pretension, honest,
patriotic, firm. Politically, he has oppo
nents but no enemies; personally, he is
deservedly popular, and no man is more
so in the State. If elected —-and in order
to win there must be no “if” about it—he
wouldadminister the affairs of the State in
a manner alike judicious and wise, and as
no clique’s tool, but as an able, faithful
servant, he would contribute much to
ward redeeming Florida from its present
lamentable condition. Old Citizen.
Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 24, 1875.
Paganism and the Classics.— So much
of the President’s recommendations as
regards the sectarian side of the school
question has received quite ample dis
cussion by those parties and denomina
tions that are supposed to be directly
interested, but the Executive’s allusions
to “Paganism” have not elicited that con
sideration which their importance merits.
One man, however, has seen the drift of
the Presidential hobby, and in a letter to
the New York Tribune he has come to
the defense of those Pagan bulwarks of
knowledge which the President in his
message and in his speeches has assaulted.
If the elements of Paganism are to be
eliminated from our courses of instruc
tion, then indeed are we in a sorry plight.
The corrupting influence of Demosthenes
and Cicero, Homer, Horace and Virgil
must no longer be allowed to blast the
principles of the rising generation.
Socrates is to be rearraigned for cor
rupting the youth of America. The rich
glory of the heavens is a temptation to
be resisted; no longer may we regard the
brilliant beauty of the divine Venus, or
allow the bloody leer of Mars to mor
bidly fascinate us. None of these
heathenish influences must be tolerated,
for “Pagan tenets must not be taught in
our schools.” This settles the question
of the classics, and now what are college
Presidents going to do about it ?
What Business Men Demand. —The
New York Commercial Bulletin, an in
fluential business organ of the metropolis,
lays down these demands of the busi
ness men of the East on Congress: 1.
That there shall be no grant of sub
sidies in aid of any corporate under
taking. 2. That there shall be no ad
dition to the taxes, but a large reduc
tion of the expenditures. 3. That
there shall be a faithful execution of
the resumption act. 4. That there
shall be no modification of the tariff ex
cept so far as may be necessary to reduce
the revenues $50,000,000. 6. That the
payments into the sinking fnnd shall be
suspended till after resumption. 7. That
there shall be no war with Spain, nor any
disturbance of relations with that power,
The Bulletin is very positive that the
government can stand a very large reduc
tion of revenues. It says:
“Men of business think the country
would be as well governed as need be for
$50,000,000 less than the present ex
penditures; and considering that the ‘or
dinary expenses’ of the government
(exclusive of the interest on the debt)
are now $118,000,000 more than they
were in 1860 (of which increase only
some $28,000,000 is due to pensions)
they do not consider this measure of re
duction unreasonable.”
LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE.
Tall of a .Million Dollars— Buttering both
fa Slice—Taking a Wash—A Few
Diminutive Intimations —Name of Bad
Places— Remarkable Speed—Bandying
t omplimentarj Pleasantry Raisins
with the Stones—Marine.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Jacksonville, December 30, 1875.
the vicissitudes of a million.
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wafted into your correspondent’s posses
sion by a morning zephyr. It bears no
traces to betoken its origin, but its au
thenticity is unquestionable. It is
printed without alteration of style
or form of sentences, except
in so fax as it has been found necessary
for purposes of elucidation. It involves
a romance of one million dollars, an
amount which some inexperienced beings
imagine difficult to spend. I fail to re
cognize the handwriting of the original
paper, of which the following is an exact
copy, and it bears no date. Possibly it
is a fragmentary memorandum, and may
be succeeded by its beginning at some
future time. Without further introduc
tion the imagination of the reader is
hereby called into activity. Behold!
“M, E, Holland 300.00 Jno P. Deweese
§20,000,00 Balance on Jackll prop
erty (E M Randall) $4 590.00 Govr
Reed on acot §3,500,00 D, P, Holland
on acct 4630,00 M S Littlefield 1178.00
Engraving Ac 35,25 T B Codrington
on acct E Houstons claims on one mil
lion Bonds 57895.33 E Houston on acct,
#122000.00 M. D Papy 16,000,00. Travel
ling expenses to and from Fla. Hotel
fares Telegrams and other expenses
while there by S. W. Hopkins and TANARUS, B
Codrington and advances to R Stew
ard 6.216.38 T B Clarke expenses
to Fla 100.00 "G B Carse §60,00
Rollin Steward, Washington §1,00,00
advertising July coupons 36,00 Legal ex
penses suits Woodson & Bayne 17,850,00
Payments in London : M S Littlefield
T 4986, 18s 5d Draft from Florida, £4.433
19s 3d. Baring Bros &Cos for A Barnett
.£19.349 4, 1. Brokerage on iron mer
chand, order Littlefield £683. 7. 6 Com
missioners of Western Division North
Caro’ina Railroad £IO,OOO, Footed up in
the Bill as follows $233,020.20 Total
1,096,032.54.”
The balance of this curious exhibit may
serve to explain in a measure some mys
terious items of the foregoing:
“Cr, For 2,800 Florida Bonds as per
agreement at £IOO less commission £lO
less deposit to pay 3 coupons £24@£66
each bond £184,8000,0 §997,920. Bal
ance due S W Hopkins & Cos carried for
ward 98.112.54 Amount bro’t forward
Due SW H & Cos 98,112,54 S W Hop
kins & Cos are bound for following sums
—out of proceeds of bonds: R H Gamble
§15,000,00 F H Flagg [State Treasurer]
4,000,00 T. B Codrington 25,000,00 L F
Bayne & Cos 200,000,00 L H Porter 10,-
000,00 D, P Holland 17,365. Am. Bk
Note Cos 2,572,00. Western Division North
Carolina Rail road Company §350,000.00
Governor Harrison lieed 223,750,00, S,
W, Hopkins & Cos have also rec’d notice
of following claims: Bayne and Rogers
105,000,00 R R Swepson 21.216.”
Now, let it be observed that nobody
will comprehend the meaning of all these
figures; but, as Boswell would say, “they
must certainly mean something.” What
in the name of common sense did the
North Carolina Railroad interest them
selves in Florida bonds for ? If I have
TmW&'to'ma’ke'tfefeafefive.i it is
attributable to my own obfustiettion
over it.
AN ANNUAL ABLUTION.
Always in the event of a certain con
tingency, a thing which is one way
might be another way. This is in accor
dance with the eternal rules of nature,
and it requires no transcendent genius to
perceive its remarkable and attractive
symmetry. If it had only been cold or
dark on yesterday we might now have to
mourn the loss .of two sable citizens,
who were guiding a skiff-load of vege
tables and themselves down the river.
Both of the embryonic jjiariners attempted
foolishly to remain upon' tho same side
of the boat. The batteaux apparently
did not relish the burden, for it pro
ceeded to hoist the navigators, vegetables
and all,out into the river without so much
as a premonitory warning. About this
time the spectacle became peculiarly ex
hilarating to the half dozen people
who witnessed it. The vegeta
bles drifted with the tide, the
unlucky negroes descended like lead to
the bottom, but in rising again they
managed to clamber upon the bottom of
the craft—which was then on top—to the
no small disappointment of the specta
tors, who had magnanimously and with
one accord resigned themselves to a
funeral, ard the point I desire to illus
trate is that if the weather had been cold
the vegetables might have been in danger
of freezing to death.
THE PREVIOUS QUESTION.
Being informed on entirely reliable
testimony that the preposterous Aider
man who is indebted to this municipality
for above nine hundred dollars has been
seized by an almost incontrollable impulse
to “mash the nose” of your correspondent,
that Bisbee claims he was never put under
indictment for perjury, that Chief Justice
Randall still tries to make people believe
that my statement to the effect that he
was indicted for stealing is prompted
wholly by partisan animosity, that the
county ring are rejoicing over a treacher
ous security; it is deemed necessary to
state that while your correspondent may
fill full a good many promises he does not
make, he always fulfills those he does
hold forth. Be ou the alert for some rich
disclosures.
STILL HARPING.
Bay street is still disgraced by the pre
sence of tne gambling hell alluded to in
courteous terms a few issues back. Now
if the police do not proceed at once to
extinguish that nefarious institution I
greatly fear that the temper of the public
is such that an extreme course may be
aaopted. The establishment is located
between Hogan and Julia streets,
and the guardians can ill afford
to connive at its operations. An
innocent young man, whom I know
by sight, contributed seven hundred do'-
lars to the mw of this demon a few
nights ago, and it is a lasting, burning
shame to Jacksonville that such an affair
is allowed to set the law in these cases
made and provided at complete defiance.
Let us commence the new year, gentle
men, without this cut-throat den.
THE SCHOONER FLORIDA.
The hatches of this vessel have again
been closed with the intention of somth
ering out the flame, they having succeed
ed in reducing the temperature in the
hold and in locating the fire by means of
a stick, which was consumed in ten
minutes. There is a slight prospect that
the extreme of scuttling the Florida may
be avoided, but at any rate the hatches
will be kept firmly sealed for
three or four days at least. The cargo
has been ruined beyond redemption.
SUDDEN DEATH.
Ol •’ ;esday evening a young gentle
man, name Joseph Soales, was dis
covered in a lifeless condition at his
apartments on Bay street. Deceased was
a native of Dublin, Ireland, aged about
twenty-seven years, and is conjectured to
have died from an affection of the brain.
He is represented to have been well
known in North and South Carolina.
QUICK TIME.
The choc- A. K. Bentley, Captain
H. S. Williams, recently accomplished the
voyage from St. John’s bar to Egg Island,
Delaware breakwater, in three net days,
or seventy-two hours. Her master claims
that this is the fastest journey ever made
by a sailing vessel, and it, in all proba
bility, is entitled to be so recorded.
THE SCHOOL BOARD.
I have been privately notified that some
stormy scenes occurred at the convention
of this body to-day, but hive not time
to get particulars. One member of the
board is reported to have presented a dis
quisition concerning the misdemeanors of
his colleagues, wherein he bluntly and
without tergiversation characterizes Arch
ibald as a common thief —Which is no
news. I will endeavor to report full pro
ceedings in my next.
PERSONAL.
Colonel Avery, of the Atlanta Herald,
has returned home. His visit here was
in the interest of his orange grove near
St. Augustine, and to invite the citizens
of Florida to make Stone Mountain, Ga.,
their summer resort Colonel A. asserts
that the climate and scenery of that
favored locality excel those of auy other
spot on the American continent.
dalky.
The billiard exhibition by this celebrity
at Metropolitan Hall on Tuesday was well
attended. In a four-ball game of three
hundred points, the highest score made
by Daley was one hundred and thirty-five
points.
EXCURSION TO ST. AUGUSTINE.
Quite a number of our citizens wended
their way to the ancient city yesterdiy,
and at last accounts were enjoying them
selves to their heart’s content.
- Adrianus.
ANOTHER COLIMBUS EPISTLE.
The Central Hotel—Business Dull, and
Newspaper Changes—New Knutr to
Alontcomery—Columbus a Fruit Alar,
ket—Home of Governor Smith—Success
of tRe Columbus Factories.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Central Hotel, December 27, 1875.
I find this excellent hotel now under
the management of Mrs. S. E. Wor
bridge, formerly of Florida, who has
made it the hotel of the city. She is a
very excellent and experienced house
keeper, as well as a most agreeable and
popular lady, and with the accommoda
ting Harvey as business manager, she is
sure to succeed in keeping the Central in
the front rank of Southern hotels.
Business here is dull, although the
streets are lively, as the purchases are
unusually small in quantity. People are
feeling the hard times, and even Christ
mas fails to call forth the hard earned
money which has been “laid aside for a
rainy day.” A visit to the newspaper
offices disclosed the fact that they are
also feeling the effects of the general de
pression in trade. The Enquirer is now
under the editorial management of Mr.
Jewett De Votie, formerly its local, who
is ably filling his new position. Mr. T.
D. Huff, a talented “honor” man from
the Georgia University, is the present
city editor, and does quite well for anew
beginner. John H. Martin, Esq., the
veteran journalist of this section, has
become editor-in-chief of the Times , with
Col. T. K. Wynne, formerly of the En
quirer, associate proprietor. Although
Columbus can hardly support two papers,
we heartily wish full success to each of
these excellent publications.
A NEW ROUTE TO MONTGOMERY.
Competition between the railroad lines
from this city to Montgomery is quite
lively at this time, as the Montgomery
and Eufaula Railroad is now running a
special passenger train daily from Eufaula
to Montgomery. The Mobile and Girard
Railroad train leaves here at 1:50 o’clock
p. m.. and by making a close connection
at Union Springs with the train above re
ferred to, passengers can be lauded in
Montgomery at 9:42 the same night.
Western freight has for some months
past been brought over this route from
Montgomery to Columbus, in connection
with the South and North Alabama Rail
road. Recently Montgomery cotton has
taken this route,so that a verylarge freight
traffic is already done by this new combi
nation which these two roads have form-
ed. Of course this route takes a large
amount of business from the Western
Railroad of Alabama; but as the Central
has a lease of the Mobile and Girard
Railroad, it gains on that line what it
loses on the Opelika and Columbus
branch of the Western road.
COLUMBUS AS A FRUIT MARKET.
I find that this city is becoming a verv
important fruit market: Being situated
at the head of steamboat navigation from
Northern Florida, it affords a fine outlet
for the immense number of oranges
shipped from Liberty, Calhoun and other
counties on the Apalachicola river. Nor
are these oranges simply sold to neigh
boring cities. Mr. C. E. Hochstrasser,
the chief wholesale dealer here, informs
me that he sells large quantities to dis
tant cities in all parts of the South. Capt.
W. H. Hurlbert, the popular local agent
jf the Southern Express Company in this
city, tells me that they are daily shipping
from twenty five to a hundred boxes.
The steamer' St. Clair, on her last
trip, brought up oxer three hundred
boxes, nearly all of which were reshippeel
from here by the various ruJjoad lines to
other cities and towns. A* glance at
former orange statistics will show that
the wholesale fruit traffic has largely in
creased in this city during the past few
years, owing to the persistent and suc
cessful efforts of Mr. C. E. Hochstrasser
to make Columbus the headquarters for
the sale of fruit grown in Northern
Florida.
THE HOME OP GOVERNOR SMITH.
Columbus is the home of the present
able and efficient Chief Magistrate of
Georgia, Hon. James Milton Smith, and
the people here are justly proud of the
splendid record which he has made for
himself during the past few years. They
are gratified, also, that he does not forget
the dignity of his high office, and partici
pate in the scramble for the next term.
His official record, almost completed, is
before the honest and patriotic voters of
the State, and it is for them to decide
whether or not he shall be a candidate for
re-election. A short time ago Governor
Smith assured me that he should take no
steps to become a candidate, but should
faithfully and conscientiously attend to
the duties of his office, and leave the
whole matter in the hands of the people,
whose good sense and unswerving pa
triotism could rightly direct them in
making a suitable choice for the next
term. It is not true that Governor Smith
will decline a re-nomination for Governor;
he is in the hands of the people of the
State, and if they make him their stand
ard bearer in the next campaign, I can
assure you that his firm and unbribed
hand will take and bear that standard
forward to a glorious victory. I say this
in no disparagement to other eminent
gentlemen who are named for the office,
but as a justly deserved tribute to a most
laboriously and conscientiously faithful
public servant, among whose constituency
I now am, and whose position in regard
to a re-nomination is not clearly under
stood.
SUCCESS OF THE COLUMBUS FACTORIES.
This city is very properly called the
“Lowell of the South,” as her splendid
factories are daily running thirty-five
thousand spindles, and annually work up
about ten thousand bales of cotton. No
better goods are manufactured, and their
sale has been extended into every State,
from Maine to California. I visited the
Eagle and Phenix factory to-day, and was
surprised to see them shipping so many
goods. The popular President, Dr. N. J.
Bussey, and the efficient Secretary and
Treasurer, Alderman G. Gunby Jordan,
with Col. W. H. Young, of the Board of
Directors, have proved most valuable
officials, and through their wise and able
management the fabrics of the factory
are eagerly sought for even in the present
hard times. These gentlemen have
clearly proved that a factory properly
conducted in all its departments, as is the
case with the Eagle and Phenix, must
prove a profitable investment. During
the past year dividends have been paid,
many valuable improvements made about
the premises, and a model brick cotton
warehouse completed for storing the raw
material. This large brick structure is
one of the finest in the South, perfectly
fire proof, and by means of perforated
iron water pipes the entire contents can
be instantly sprinkled in case of an acci
dental fire. The front is quite handsome,
and has a tower which is surmounted
with a huge circular iron tank filled with
water. Your own city is interested in
this successful corporation, as Chas.
Green, Esq., President of Savannah Bank
and Trust Company, is one of the most
efficient Directors, and his excellent lady,
if I mistake not, makes the operatives a
yearly gift for their pic-nic festivities.
Chatham.
The Alleged Outbade in Virginia.—
A dispatch from Harrisonburg, Va., says:
“The report of a negro having violated a
young lady living near McGaheyville,
Rockingham county, on the 21st instant,
was exaggerated. He attempted to com
mit the outrage there, but his courage
seemed to fail him at the last moment,
and he released the young lady and ran.
He was caught on the morning of the
22d by some hot-blooded youßg men,
who immediateiy proceeded to hang the
rascal. Some more judicious gentlemen,
however, cut him down before he was
seriously injured and took him before a
magistrate, who gave the negro the choice
of standing a trial in the county court or
thirty-nine lashes well laid on. The
negro chose the latter and received se
vere castigation, some half dozen gentle -
men handling the cowhide. He was let
loose and told to leave the country, and
warned if he was caught after ten days
he would be mobbed.
HAVES’S LIES.
\\ bat 1 bnrles Nordlmi! says of the Pre
varicating Bishop.
In a letter to the New York Herald Mr.
Charles Nordhoff, himself a Methodist
layman, reviews in caustic terms the
recent sensational and absurd utterances
of Bishop Haven. In the course of his
letter Mr. Nordhoff has the following
truthful sentences which will be read with
appreciation by our citizens:
haven’s mission.
Bishop Haven lives in Atlanta. He
was sent to the South some years ago with
the object of reviving there the Northern
Methodist Church, and with the hope,
cherished by most Northern Methodists’
that the church South, which parted
from the Northern branch many vears
a ß°> by reason of differences on the sla
very question, oould, now that slavery
was extinguished, be persuaded to reunite
with the church North. To this end
many of the wisest members of the
Northern Church have labored, believing
that they could thus, by obliterating an
old division in a numerous sect, help to
strengthen the bond of brotherhood be
tween the sections, or at least remove
what seems to be a source of irritation.
Bishop Haven, to whom, if to any one.
was committed this task of reconciliation",
has, in fact, as I found when I was in the
South last summer, done a great deal to
widen the breach.
HE IS DETESTED
all over the South for public expressions
in favor of an amalgamation of the negro
and white races, and I became satisfied
he had done a great deal to keep up and
even embitter wherever he labored, not
only race prejudices, but the feelings na
turally remaining from the war. When
he comes to the North
HE INDUSTRIOUSLY
spreads tales of the “disloyalty” of the
Southern whites and of the wrongs suf
fered by the “poor negroes,” and of the
danger of their future. Iu fact, he talks
of the South precisely like the average
political carpet-bagger, and the final
clause of his argument, like that of the
political carpet-bagger, is always, “We
must re-elect General Grant to keep
down the rebels and protect the negroes.”
These appeals he makes in the face of
the fact, as well known to him as it is to
me, that in Georgia, in which State he
lives, and which has been, since 1871, in
the hands of the Democrats,
THE NEGROES OWN AND PAX TAXES
to-day on more farming real estate, more
city and town property, and more perso
nal property, than in any other of the
cotton States, all of which have been un
der Republican rule, so-called. They paid
taxes this year on over $7,000,000 of
property, and their own Republican or
gan at Atlanta has repeatedly accused
them of being most wasteful and thrift
less, andfof drinking and smoking away
more of their earnings than would edu
cate all of their children. Ido not mean
to say that Georgia is an Eden —there are
some fools and some violent men in that
State—but I have the word of United
States officers, strong Republicans, that
there is no political crime in that State ;
I have the word of Northern missionaries
laboring entirely among the colored peo
ple, that
THE PERIOD OF VIOLENCE IS PAST,
and that public opinion, even in the back
woods counties, is now against it, and
where in any talks with colored people I
found discontent it was almost always
because they do not in Georgia, as in
Mississippi under the Ames rule, and in
Louisiana under Kellogg, hold the offices
and live on the taxes. Finally not only
have the negroes prospered more in
Democratic Georgia than in Republican
Mississippi, Arkansas or Louisiana, but
they understand perfectly and have
asserted for years the right of removal to
other States.
The Swell-Head Democrat of llie
Northwest.
[“Gath” in New York Graphic.]
Alexander T. Mitchell, of Milwaukee,
is said to be the wealthiest man in the
Northwest, worth about $10,000,000. He
is the individual owner of the Western
Union Railroad, which runs from Racine,
on Lake Michigan, to Rock Island, on the
Mississippi, one hundred and ninety-seven
miles, and the controlling spirit in the
Milwaukee and.Ht. Ufj.nl Railroad. He is
a native Scotchman, who married a sister
of Harrison Reed, ex-Governor of Florida.
He came to Milwaukee when it was a
muddy village on the bluffs of Lake
Michigan as the agent of a Chicago
banker, and took large contracts in tho
railway which reached the Territory of
Wisconsin about 1849-50. He established
a bank of issue on the basis of a Marino
and Fire Insurance Company, and almost
monopolized tho currency of Wiscon
sin and' the Northwest, until the
formation of the national banks.
Refusing to change the State character
of his bank, Mr. Mitchell found himself,
as a Democrat, in a consistent position
towards his party, which was unfriendly
toward the national banking system. He
did not take that position of unfriend
liness, but he happened, by his business
attitude, to have anticipated the pre
judices of his party and squared with
them. Living in a handsome villa on
the high grounds of Milwaukee, half a
mile back from the river which divides
the city, he spends his leisure in society
and reading, having sturdy Scotch con
victions, and he has repeatedly enjoyed
the confidence of his party by repre
senting Milwaukee in Congress, and he
would have been the Senator from the
State had a Democrat prevailed as
successor to Senator Carpenter. His
friends are troubled because he refused
the nomination for Congress last year, as
he would have been made Chairman of
the Banking and Currency Committee,
the stepping-stone to Secretary of the
Treasury if the Democrats carry the
country in 187 G. By his determined at
titude and reasoning influence on the
subject of specie-bottomed currency
Mitchell has kept the Democracy of Wis
consin steady all through the era of agi
tation for inflation.
I found him at his bank, a yellowish
dun brick edifice on a corner, full of
clerks, and above stairs was the railway
office, with a long table down the Direc
tors’ parlor and office and conversation
rooms.
Mitchell bore out the report Judge
Hoar, of Massachusetts, once gave of
him: “The most sensible Democrat he
had ever known.” A short, fattish Scotch
man, with a large head crowned with
thick, gray hair. He had the head of
Sir Walter Scott, a regular oat-meal head,
out of which the beard of the oats
seemed to stick for hair. Having been
up late the previous night or nights, fol
lowing the great career perhaps outlined
by General Sedgwick, is the only conge
nial way of discharging one’s superabun
dant public spirit, Mitchell was not very
brisk. He was good-natured, however,
and said discursively very nearly the
words I put down in a single sentence :
“There is no delusion more current
than that America is a poor country at
present. It is in the most satisfactory
condition, probably, of any country on
the globe, and has merely suspended the
almost superhuman exertions of com
pleting its material unity by railway ad
ditions and extensions, bridging its rivers,
and fixing up its towns. For the comfort
and communications of the people it is
now very nearly a perfect thing, and what
is called decline is merely rest —the con
clusion of our task.”
There is a man in Cincinnati named
Dr. Schilling, who was arrested, some
time ago, for making pretensions about
witches and witchcraft. Of course the
court could not make a case of it, for it
was ridiculous. But this doctor, who, as
he asserts, has the power to conquer the
devil when the latter sits in any human
being, was arrested just about twelve
o’clock on Christmas night for fast driv
ing and locked up in a cell at the station
house. The witchcraft doctor and his
two companions (two of them) knelt
down in the cell and began praying.
They said that they would crawl out of
the key-hole of the cell by witchcraft,
but Lieutenant Cody said : “If this con
querer of the devil will crawl through
this iron mosquito bar, then I will give it
up.” That Lieutenant locked the doctor
up. The doctor and his associates did
not get out until they were released on
bail, and so Lieutenant Cody conquered
the doctor, the celebrated man who,
some months ago, conquered the devil in
that part of Cincinnati called “Bethle
hem.”
Threatened Indian Depredations,—
San Franciseo, December 30.—The Nez
perces Indians threaten to drive the set
tlers from Wallowa valley, Oregon. They
have about eighty warriors. Gen. Howard
has ordered two companies of cavalry
from WalloweJto protect the settlers.
NEWS.
Nummary of '.he \Ve c ß’ Dispatches
SPENCER.
• Montgomery, December -fi.— The Spencer
Investigating Committee Reported in tho
Senate, which was crowdedTwith spectators.
The reading of the report'occupied ninety
minutes, and was list£oed to with profound
attention. In summing up the oomtnßee \
says : “He (Spencer) during the election oL
members of the Legislature used means to
secure to himself their votes, and that lie
abused the army, the Post Office and Inter
nal Revenue Departments of the govern
ment. He brought evils of war on the peo
ple, and caused them to flee their homes and
abstain from voting. He prostituted
his office to the purpose of
bargainings and briberies to #ecuro
votes for re-election. He corrupted United
States officials, for whom he procured
Federal appointments and forced appointees,
under threats of removal from office, to pay
money, and some of them to commit crimes
too black to aid him iu his election. He
raised men to be appointed to sinecure posi
tions in the Custom House, Post Office and
revenue offices with the intent and under
standing that while in office they would not
be required to render service to the govern
ment, but would get their pay, and while so
paid they would employ their timo in secur
ing pledges of votes and iufluonco to
re-elect him to the United States Senate.
He paid and caused to be paid money to mem -
bers of the Court Houso Assembly to secure
their votes. He paid aud caused' to bo paid
money to members of the Legislature to de
feat a quorum at the Capitol, aud thereby
prevented the election of a Senator by that
body; and his most trusted agent, J. J.
Hinds, caused a member of that body
to be drugged aud almost killed to prevent
his attendance, and dealt iu United States
offices as iu merchandise to secure money
aud gain votes for Senator. His managers,
with his concurrence, caused a State
Senator for a money consideration to break
his pledge of honor to another Senator,
having prearranged the scheme, thereby to
secure a seat in the United States Senate.
Through his said managers he procured
the presiding officer of the Senate to con
nive at this fraud, and to rule in viola
tion of all parliamentary law and usage,
so as to unseat a Senator elected by tho
people, and seat iu his place a partisan of
Spencer, who was not elected by the people,
aud who held no certificate of election. He
caused the lobby of the Senate to bo filled
with armed retainers to overawe Senators
aud sustain by force and violence, wliat he
had achieved by fraud. He contrived
through his position as Senator, to
debauch men in office aud out, so
that iu his conduct he was working evil
continually.” The repor was received aud
ordered to be printed with evidence, and
the committee were given time* to preparo
a memorial to the United States Senate
against Spencer’s further occupancy of a
seat in that body. The report was signed
by the whole committee, on which both
partios are represented. It fills fifteen
columns of the Adeertiser of December 31st.
THE IJjIEMERHAVEN HORROR.
New York, January 3.— The Salier, of the
North German Lloyd Steamship Company,
arrived here yesterday with the surviving
passengers of the Deutschland, and tho un
harmed passengers of the Mosel—l9 cabin
and 45 steerage passengors of the Deutsch
land, and 21 cabin and 68 steerage of the
Mosel. The Deutschland’s passengers were
made happy by the subscription raised in
England, which reached such an
amount that the steerage passengers
received fifty dollars oaeli, and after
the principal division two hundred
and eighty dollars remained, which
was also divided upon the arrival of the
Salier., No person was allowed on board
until the representative of the German Con
sulate General had boarded the vessel and
seen the Captain. This was in consequence
of orders to the Captain who had sealed the
package for the Consul General. The object
was to give German officials here an oppor
tunity to co-operate with the home govern
ment, by making an investigation before
anything on the vessel was dis
turbed. The letter in question
had been written during the in
tense excitement following the dynamite
explosion by the German authorities at
Bremerhaven under the impression that
possibly some trace that would lead to addi
tional facts in regard to the explosion might
be obtained on the Salier, aud the German
Consul bore was delegated to prevent any
one from boarding or leaving her until ho
obtained the information desired. Nothing.,
however, had been discovered, and the pas
sengers were permitted to land. A great
crowd of tho passengers’ friends were at
the pier to meet them. Thus far nothing
has been discovered in freight or baggage
on the steamer Salier to indicate that thero
is any infernal machine on board. The
freight, however, is being rapidly removed,
and it is expected that if there is anything
of that kind concealed it will be discovered
to-day.
CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES.
Havana, January 3. —The Diario tie la
Marina.' in. a leading edj.tor/a'i, says : “Wo
repeat that tho’Spanish Government Should
proceed with dignity, preserving its inde
pendence, and giving Secretary Fish tho
check he merits if he pretends to meddle
with our internal affairs. But what we con
sider most singular, strange and even re
pugnant in the field of fair dealing,
is the issuing by Secretary Fish of
his circular note to the foreign
powers on the same day that President
Grant told Congress he would recur to
friendly mediation or collective intervention
in case Spain could not soon suppress the
rebellion in Cuba. The qualification which
this conduct merits is so severe that we do
not care to express it. Persons exist who
need severe lessons in order to make them
act sensibly, President Grant occupying
a prominent place among them. We expect
all tho European governments to follow
England’s example and make him under
stand at once that the principles of inter
national rights are not a dead letter
Secretary Fish has offered European
governments a magnificent opportunity to
defend in America with their permanent
interests the high rules of justice.
The Voz de Cuba is silent with regard to
the attitude of the United States. The
course of the American Government is
widely and variously commented on by tho
other journals and the people generally.
THE BREMEKHAVEN HORROR.
New York, January 2.—A special from
Berlin on the Ist says : A German, under
the signature of “Herr K.,” in the Dresden
Nachnchten, states that Thomas was born
in 1838 or 1840, in the town of Bochalt,
Westphalia. When two years old, his father
went to America and became a carriage
builder in Brooklyn. “Herr K.” became ac
quainted with Thomas iu 1872 at Noelles’s,
who was in the Commercial School at
Osnabruck. In the summer of 1875,
“Herr K.” met accidentally a gentle
man at Kneistes’s Bierlialle, Dresden, who
spoke a broken German, who proved to be
Thomas and who it was fully shown had
been bom and educated in Germany.
Thomas had spent from 18G7 to 1875, tho
last eight years, in Germany. The Berlin
police have tho name of the accomplice who
has fled. Captain Bruckenstein states that
Thomas shipped last year on the steamer
Rhein from Bremen to New York a box that he
said contained greenbacks and which he ask
ed to insure. The officers of the steamer sai I
insurance was unnecessary, and that they
would place it in the mail-room. Thomas fol
lowed in the Celtic. The inference is that
a similar plot was contemplated for the
steamer Rhein. The German press dis
cusses the American indignation meeting
which was recently held iu Berlin in rela
tion to the press comments on the Bremen
haven explosion approviugly.
MISSISSIPPI RIOTS.
Memphis, December 31.—A special from
Vicksburg says : Two Caldwell Brothers,
black, went on tho streets of Clinton intoxi
cated, and challenged the whole town to
fight. They finally retired unmolested.
About sundown, Charles Caldwell, an ex-
State Senator, appeared on the streets in
toxicated and declared himself afraid of no
man. A pistol was accidentally fired in the
rear of a store into which Caldwell entered.
He ran into the cellar, and as the citizens
rushed into the store, Caldwell commenced
firing. At the second fire, Dr. E. G. Banks
fell seriously wounded. The citizens re
turned the fire, mortally wounding Cald
well. Fearing more trouble, the Mayor
telegraphed to Vicksburg for assistance,
and at nine o’clock last night one hundred
men left that city on a special train. No
further trouble is apprehended.
MURDER, ARSON AND ROBBERY.
Columbia, S. C., January I.—A few
nights since tho store of Holloway & Reid,
at Pomaria, thirty miles from this city, was
burned to the ground, with a stock of the
value of SIO,OOO. The safe was robbed of
$3,000, and the body of Mr. Reid was
found in the ruins* burned to a cin
der. The Coroner’s jury rendered a
verdict that he was murdered before arson
and robbery were committed. Gov. Cham
berlain has offered a reward of one thousand
dollars for the apprehension of the guilty
parties. Three negroes were arrested last
night at Newberry for the crime.
STARVATION.
Montreal, December 31.—A. man died
at Lachine yesterday from starvation. The
neighbors hearing pitiful cries coming from
the room which he and his family occupied,
repaired there to learn the cause. They
found that the unfortunate family had not
tasted food of any kind for three days.
Nourishment was at once procured for the
sufferers, but the father was beyond re
covery, and expired from sheer starvation.
MURDEBERB AND INCENDIARIES.
Cincinnati, December 31.—Investigation
concerning Mrs. Gordon and children at
Enterprise, Ind., indicates that the victims
were murdered and thrown into the burning
building by unknown persona.
had in the hoase the proceeds of tpßale of
a cow and some farming The
house and barn were quite a digßus-e apart,
and both were burned,
CUBA AND THE UNITED BTATga,
Paris, January 2 .—La IffJMsrte ‘states that
the American Ambassador-has coi amnnica
ted to M. DeCases, the Minister or Foreign
Affairs, the note of his goverSfueat in rela
tion to Cuba. He declared lie United
States by no means desired to annex the
Antilles, or to require Spain to grant an
autonomy to C *ba, although they desired to
see the latter reform effected.
LOUISIANA POLITICS.
New Orleans, January 3._lu the Legis
lature to-day the House, aiter receiving tha J
Governor s message, adjourned out of re-'
spect to the memory of L. H . Southard and
Esel Pierson, deceased members. Kelloge’s
message is exceedingly elaborate He con
gratulates the people on hopeful prospects
of the State which ha ascribes mainly to
tho fact that they aro now on the threshold
of the full fruition of those financial rc
gAins urged by himseir, which, at the last
Potion, by an unquestioned vote of
iritv of the people, were engrafted in
tho constitution of the State. He expresses
tho belief that these amendments are not
even yet fully understood. The debt of the
State is reduced to a poiut within the power
of the State to meet the principal and biter
est at maturity. The appalling load of con"
tingeut debt over $21,000,000, an amount
never actually incurred, but standing on the
statuto books a constant source of danger
and uncertainty, has been buried beyond
resurrection. Tho intorest and appropri
ation on tho new debt wero made perpetual
until tho extinguishment of tho debt itseir
shall havo beou accomplished. Both prin
cipal and interest are guaranteed by the
constitution. Tho bonded and floating debt
of the State, when ho took charge were
$24,000,347. Tho present bonded aud floating
debt, January 1, 1876, is $19,001,045 25.
While this reduction of the debt has been
effected, tho general expenditures of the
government havo been largely reduced, and
taxation has been diminished from twenty
on.® , a millions to fourteen aud a half
millions. The message says : “Accurate sta
tistics indicate that theorops of cotton,sugar
rice and fruits raised in the State of Louisi
ana during the past year largely exceed
$50,000,000 in value, while for the first timo
iu the history of tho State the crop of corn
has been equal to home demands, leaving a
surplus for exportation. With capital in
sured against excessive taxation by funding
laws and constitutional amendments, it now
only rests with the citizons themselves
to give to emigrants assurances that their
lives aud property will be protected by the
laws, aud that no social ostracism will be
visited upon them on account of political
opinions, aud the State will receive an influx
of labor aud capital which will increase its
prosperity a thousand fold.”
WASHINGTON NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, January 3. Ex-Governor
Carpenter, of lowa, has accepted the First
Comptrollership.
Pending negotiations with Spaiu, our gov
ernment declines to give any information
beyond the fact that a circular has been ad
dressed to all tho European powers, includ
ing Spain, on the subject of Cuban affairs,
thus leaving the facts in the case a matter
of speculation until they shall be officially
made known. In the meantime, there is a
confusion of statements, both iu this country
and in Europe, but though our government
conceals at present from our citizens what
it communicates to European governments,
it can be stated that tho American circular
doos not proposo as a solution of tho Cuban
question, according to the London corres
pondence of tho Manchester Guardian, that
Cuba and I uerto ltioo form a confederation
with a Governor General appointed by
TWO LITTLE SPECKS.
A New Version of the Babes in the Woods.
[From the San Francisco Chronicle.!
Yesterday morning at one o’clock,
while Officer Courneen was patrolling
Montgomery street, he stumbled upon
two mites of humanity who were aim
lessly toddling along with their little
hands imbedded in their pockets and
their little faces blue with the cold. The
officer was considerably surprised at the
unusual sight, and revelled in a roar of
laughter. “I say, you specks, does your
mother know you’re out?” One of the
specks affected dismay at the glitter of
the police star, and would liavo scamp
ered oil had not his wee companion
restrained him with tho consolatory an
nouncement: “Hold on, Harry, he won’t
hurt us.” The little man then straight
ened up and almost dislocated a miniature
neck in attempting to gaze tho officer in
tho eye unflinchingly. “We hain’t got no
mother.” “Where’s your father, your
home? What’re you doing out this time
o’ night, anyhow?” questioned tho officer.
The little fellow replied readily but
quiveringly: “Hain’t got no father
neither, nor no home, and we’re looking
for a box to sleep in.” The officer made
a mental note on the innocence of child
hood, and tucking a speck under either
arm, sped with extravagant steps into
the presence of Captain Douglass, at the
police office. With the single ejaculation
“lost,” the officer took a mite from each
arm, wiped a tear from each eye and re
treated in confusion.. The little spokes
man gave his natpie as Ames. Axton, and
f.'icL of kir> uTother as Harry Axton,
and related that their mother died at
Santa Cruz three months ago. Their
uncle, Wm. Kirby, brought them to
this city, and on Thursday afternoon left
them at the corner of Eddy and Powell
streets, promising to return in a few min
utes, and bidding them wait his reappear
ance. They lingered there until night
fall, but the uncle failed to return, and
the youngsters wandered about the city
until a late hour, when they found an
empty dry goods box, and in it made a
bed for the night. For the past two
nights and days they have lived in an ad
venturous manner, subsisting on crackers.
They were dressed in excellent clothes
aud presented a neat appearance, albeit
that their shirts were somewhat crumpled
from service as nightgowns, and their
little faces streaked slightly with dirt; it
was manifest that they had been accus
tomed to careful and kind guardianship.
One of the little fellows from time to
time exhibited a mourning handkerchief,
with which he effaced an obstinate tear.
The Captain directed an officer to convey
the children into the prison where they
might be fed. They had declared that
they had eaten nothing all day.
The Man-Eating Tiger.
Dr. Fayrer caused some by
showing that during one year—lß69
6,219 deaths from snake bite occurred in
the Bengal Presidency alone, among a
population of something more than 48,-
000,000 of souls. He now horrifies us
with accounts of the devastation caused
by man-eating tigers, which occasionally
cause villages and even whole districts to
be depopulated. In ono instance, in the
central provinces, a single tigress caused
the desertion of thirteen villages, while
250 square miles of country were thrown
out of cultivation before the creature was
shot. Another tigress, in 1869, killed
127 people, and stopped a public road for
many weeks before it too succumbed to
an English sportsman.
In 1868 the Magistrate of Godavery
reported that that part of the country
was overrun with tigers, no road safe,
and that a tiger had recently charged a
large body of villagers within a few hun
dred yards of the civil station. It is
impossible to give accurate statistics for
the whole of so vast a country as Hin
dostan, but Jerdon corroborates these
statements by asserting that, in the dis ■
trict east of Jubbulpore, in 1856 and
previous years, on an average, betwoeu
two hundred and three hundred villagers
were killed annually. Tigers apparently
develop into man-eaters when they are
old and sluggish, and the teeth are some
what decayed. Preferring human flesh,
they find, when once the awe natural to
wild animals at the presence of man is
shaken off, that he offers an easy and
tempting prey. In some districts they
abound ; while in others, as in Oude and
liohilcund, one is only heard of about
every six years. i
The natives are extremely superstitious J
respecting tigers, and in many parts
the wrath of the slain tiger’s spirit almost®
more than they feared the creature wheil
alive. The small clavicles or shoulder B
bones, which are deeply imbedded
muscles, are esteemed valuable charms;
while every sportsman, or, indeed, every
one who is familiar with tiger skins,
knows how difficult it is to save the tiger’s
claws. The whiskers are immediately
plucked out by the sportman’s servants,
on the tiger being shot, before their
master can come up, as they are deemed
a valuable love-philter. Those who are
most rigorously honest in all other re
spects cannot refrain from thus mutilating
a skin.
On the spot where a tiger has slain a
human being, in the district round Mir
zapore, they ereot a curious comeal
mound of earth, which is ornamented
with some colored wash for a coating, a
few flowers, and one or more singularly
shaped pieces of pottery. It is considered
sacrilege to touch these, and once a x year
the inhabitants of the neighboring vil
lages visit the memorials and worship
JmmaL
Dr. S®]inon Skinner, of Brooklyn, hay
ing sued liev. Henry Ward Beecher for
SSOO, for the value of a set of false
fer Mrs. Beecher that he says were furfl
nished six years ago and were not
for, the case has been noticed for trial in |
the January term of the Supreme Court I
Circuit. Mr. Beecher, in his answer, first 1
denies that he employed the plaintiff to 1
do Ihe work named; second, if he did I
employ him he has forgotten it, andj
third, he sets up the statute of
as a bai to recovery of the amount dfl
maadeA