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.1. 11. ESTILL, Savannah, Ga.
IxMses by Fire Last Year.
The fire record of 1875 presents a
startling array of totals. The New York
/ nntranee (’hron.vc.lt of last week gives a
tabular summary of the fires of the year,
carefully compiled and grouped by
months and quarters, showing the total
loss ouch month: the loss to insurance
companies; the aggregate loss by the
burning of special hazards, and the loss
to insurance companies by the same.
From this record it is shown that we have
managed to burn up during the year that
is past property to the amount of $8G f
-328,035, of which loss $43,(181,700 was
dugp-ihutcd by means of insurance,
and the i owamder —a nearly equal
ipxe the
owners, 'file tax we have paid to the
“fire fiend” % mounts on the average to
about $lO per annum for each pro
ductive life in the country. And of
this tax 75 per cent., at"a moderate com
putation, was inflicted by causes entirely
preventible- chiefly by carelessness and
incendiarism. There were burned last
year 387 hotels —nearly one a day; 210
H-iw mills; 168 liquor stores; 133 drug
stores; 120 restaurants; 110 livery stables;
J<)7 furniture factories; 96 machine shops;
78 flouring mills; 83 planing mills; 78
carpenter shops; 73 blacksmith shops; 75
churches; 74 lumber yards; and 72 public
halls; tanneries, woolen mills, newspaper
and printing offices, each 51; cotton mills,
cooper shops, and carriage factories,
make about the sums contributions to
the total number of losses, and wood
working establishments of every kind do
their utmost to swell the aggregate.
The Uhroniole maintains that the value
of its table iH in its accuracy and com
pltitoness, and in the fact that it demon
ntrates to the owners of isolated special
hazards, impatient of the premium
churned them for insurance, and to local
agents whose observation and experience
are only local, that such hazards will burn,
are burning constantly, and that no fair
or adequate turill of rates can bo
made which is not made in
viow of the entire field throughout which
indemnity is sold, and theoperationjof the
law of averago whero it has ample verge
and scope.
Another of (Jen. Hen Hill’s Hrillianl
Exploits.
In making up General Hill’s record for
the Oo'/iffrcMional Directory, there is an
omission of one important item. A
Union soldier residing in Aurora, Illinois,
after reading Mr. Ildl's speech, made in
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cavalry changed his mind
(as he l..m^K ll K i d his speech), and,
within iivolaM 0H u^t,r t* lo llrst rifle
shot, lie iu.jH ■ || . (l " so •'
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H p lirfli the head of his com
luand. left on the field
everything that was not fastened to him,
such ns artillery (two pieces), pack-mules,
ovorcoats, blankets, his hat, etc. His
command did not again get together until
the day of 11. H.'selection to Congress.
It may be they have scattered again.”
This ought to be attended to by the
editor of the Directory, iu his preparation
of the next edition. It is quite too good
to bo lost to posterity.
Wo find the foregoing in that veracious
third-term organ, the Washington Chroni
cle. There is but ono defect in tho story
and that is that it is without a shadow
of foundation in truth. Mr. Hill was not
a soldier —never was a General of home
guards in Georgia and Alabama, or any
where else never undertook to drive
back eighty Michiganders troui Talla
dega never dug the soul out of a noble
Southern mule, and never left two pieces
of artillery, pack mules, his hat, etc., to
fall into the hands of the enemy. The
rest of the story is doubtless as true as
tho average of Radical slauders.
- ► -♦ ■ m ■—
The causes which have reduced tho
Republican par y to its present doubtful
condition are enumerated by Harper'
Weekly as follows: “ When Republicans
said the civil service ought to be reform
ed, Mr. Morton retorted that it was the
best upon tho planet. When Republicans
proposed to investigate the general order
business and the sale of arms to France,
Mr. Coukling replied that it was mud
throwing, and moved to inquire whether
auy officer of the government, meaning
the Republican Senators, Sumner and
Schurz, wore in collusion with foreign
agents. Such things as these, with the
leadership of men like General Butler
and that of Grant Senators as they were
called (.Messrs. Chandler, Camerou. Mor
ton, Conkling, Carpenter), and the inti
macy with tho President of ‘Boss’ Shep
herd and of McDonald and others—all
these things, and not the hard times,
have nlienated the sympathy of Republi
cans aßd shattered the party." It has
not been so very long since Harper's
Weekly was assailing the Tribune for
milder statements to the same effect. But
a great many Republican journals are
making discoveries in these days.
A Beautiful Radical Official. —Ex.
State Treasurer Lappin, ot Kansas,
charged with complicity in the recentlydis
covered school bond swindle, was arrested
again in Topeka on the 19th inst., just as
he was leaving for Chicago, it being
thought that he was going to flee the
country. In default of fifteen thousand
dollars bail he was committed to jail. A
letter was found on his person, when ar
rested, from his partner, telling him the
beat road to South America and advising
his wife to sell the homestead and join
him at Santiago. The detectives have
discovered that Lappin and Scafford got
the bell boys at the Pacific House, in St.
Joseph, Missouri, to sign the names of
Milner and other persons to the forged
bonds, and also discovered that they
were prepared to furnish any amount of
fraudulent school bonds. Lappin s bonds
men in the previous suit have surren
dered him. When he was arrested two
bottles of poison were found in his pos
[session, and several hundred packs of
marked playing cards. He is certainly a
** lovely plum,”
J. 11. ESTILL. PROPRIETOR.
The Demand for Cheaper Illumina
tion.
The question of cheap gas is one that
is agitating the people of nearly every
large city in the Union. Judging by the
unanimity of sentiment displayed by
the press the same causes for dissatisfac
tion must exist in all places where the
inhabitants have placed themselves at the
mercy of oorporations engaged in the
manufacture and supply of illuminating
gas. In Brooklyn, the property holders
have dared fo rebel against the tyrants,
who, while making enormous dividends,
found themselves unable to- furnish their
patrons gas of a respectable character,
much less to make any abatement -in the
price of the illuminator. Practically,
they have taken the bull by the horns,
and instead of conceding that gas is the
only illuminating agent worthy of use,
they have adopted coal oil as a substitute,
and are so far satisfied that the gas
companies will have to make serious
concessions before its use will be aban*
demed.
But it is net only with the private con
sumers that the Brooklyn gas i*s
ure at variance. The Board of Aldermen are
forced to economise, and are endeavoring
to obtain a reduction of the cost of light
ing the city. The present "'appropriation
for that purpose is ><500,000, but the
street lamps are to be increased from
14,258 to 14,800, to light which at the
present price of gas-—s 2 25 per 1,000
feet —would absorb the entire appropri
ation. The board are in negotiation with
the gas company, and the Aryus says :
“The committee of Aldermen inclined
to accept the proposition to light the
city at .*2 2a per 1,000 feet, and to sub
stitute three feet for four feet burners;
a difference in cost that would enable
them to keep within the appropriation.
Hut that is not the point. It is capable
of demonstration that kerosene can be
used at a cost of about one-fourth that
of gas, and the real question is between
gas at $2 25 per thousand feet and kero
sene at $9 50 a barrel, less the cost of
the barrel. As to the illuminating
power of a three-foot burner and of
kerosene in an ordinary lamp, there
can be no doubt. One of the propositions
submitted to the committee is to light
the street lamps for 50 each, which
is loss than half the present cost, and the
committee are considering the question
of reserving 1,000 street lamps for the
experiment with kerosene, and of ex
cepting the public buildings from the
contract with the gas companies. An
offer is made to light the City Hall with
gas for $11,500, the cost last year being
$0,472. The reservation of the street
lamps will probably be favorably re
ported, while the City *Hall matter will
receive further deliberation. In these
economical times, the question is of great
importance, and is of interest to every
one in the community. It is, besides, a
revolt against the extortions of a mo
nopoly which has little care for the rights
of those who are subjected to its claims.
In Chicago the evil of monopoly in
gas is also seriously felt, and many have
been forced to take to coal oil. In a long
article entitled “Oil vs. Gas,” recently
published in a Chicago paper, is men
tioned Vhv, f A';A tWc Abe Commercial Ho
tel of that city is saving uer week
by using petroleum, and no perceptible
diminution of the brillianoy of the il
lamination that has marked the establisl
inent is noted. New Orleans has also ag
itated the matter strongly and the people
are beginning to see the necessity of de
fending themselves by burning coal oil.
The question of cheaper gas is also
being agitated in Baltimore and Wash
ington. Somewhat better terms have been
effected in Baltimore, but in Washington,
where the government is so large and ex
psQgl&j¥ill _hava
to continue to pay extortion prices or
resort to illuminating fluids. In an edi
torial on the subject the Washington
Chronicle says : “ The dissatisfaction is
so general throughout the entire country,
that it is not idle to expect that at no
distant day a determined strike for relief
from the exactions of the gas monopolists
will be made. Until such a time, they
will go on with their grinding, indifferent
to the opinion of the world, which is per
fectly aware that their stock is earning
dividends beyond all fairness or reason.’
The New York World, in a scathing
editorial headed “The Original Jeff.
Davis Man,” tells how when Thad.
Stevous, of Pennsylvania, drove his bru
tal reconstruction scheme through Con
gress, Mr. Blaine offered an amendment
providing for a complete amnesty, in
elufling, of course, Jefferson Davis. The
tyrant of the House was not, however, to
be thus trifled with. On the 13th of
February, 1837, Mr. Stevens forced the
House to action on Mr. Blaine’s amend
ment. He used, as his wont was, more
plainness than politeness of speech, and
unceremoniously kicked Mr. Blaine out
of the “sheepfold” of the Radical saints
into the “goatfold” of tho wicked. “The
amendment of the gentleman from
Maine,” said Mr. Stevens, “lets in a vast
number of rebels and shuts out nobody.
All I ask is that when the House comes
to vote upon the amendment it shall un
derstand that the adoption of it would be
an entire surrender of these States (the
South) into the hands of tho rebels. It
is a proposed step toward universal am
nesty and universal Andy-Johnsonville.”
The bill was, of course, lost, by a vote of
97 nays to 69 yeas, Mr. Blaine voting yea
with Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania. But
then Mr. Blaine was bidding for future
Southern sympathy and strength; now
he wants to be President by Radical
votes.
Resources of South Carolina. —The
present poverty of South Carolina is not
due to a lack of resources, but to the
manner in which these resources are em-
The industrial returns of the
year 1875 furnish the proofs on this
point. There were produced in that
twelvemonth 3,421,202 gallons of turpen
tine aud 343,146 barrels of resin, 139,-
939,458 pounds of short staple cottOD,
1,821,989 pounds of long staple cotton,
897,146 bushels of rice, 9,454,341 bushels
of corn, 662,912 bushels of wheat, 13.772
bushels of rye, 772,590 bushels of oats,
466,450 bushels of peas and beans, 1,568,-
533 bushels of potatoes, and 6,975 tons
of hay. The freedmen show a good in
dustrial record in these crop statistics,
exclusive of what they raised on shares.
They produced 1,177,732 pounds, or more
than half of all the long staple cotton
raised, aud over 27,000,000 pounds of the
short staple cotton, with corn, wheat,
oats, etc., to correspond. The products
of the State are grouped in no less than
twenty-six departments, and it is no
wonder that a notorious United States
Senator from that Commonwealth has de
clared to his political friends that there
are “five years of good stealing in the
State yet.” Only get it out of the
clutches of these political cormorants, and
prosperity will soon return with its train
of bleasings.
The Taxation Bordens.
The New York Daily Bulletin continues
its valuab’e contributions to the facts,
and their bearing, upon the subject of
taxation. The facts are thus stated in
the expressive compendium contained in
the Message of Governor Tilden, drawn
from official documents issued by the
government:
TAXES IH TUE UNITED STATES.
ISSO. 1 see. 18T0.
Gold. Gold. Currency.
Federal $4.1,000,000 $60,010,112 $450,000,000
State, countv,
City & town 43,000,000 94,'86,746 290,591,521
Total $83,000,000 $154,196,858 $730,591,521
Population. 23,191.876 31,443,321 38,558,371
TAXES FEB DEAL.
Federal $1 72 $1 91 sll 67
Local 1 95 2 99 7 24
Totals $3 57 $4 90 $lB 91
After allowing for the depreciation of
the currency in 1870, the taxes, per head
of population, in that year were three
and one-third times what they were in
.1800, and four and a half times the
amount in 1850. Since 1870 the local
taxes have increase, i materially upon the
figures be.a i?ive*); to wha* ax
tent, However, there Lino* available data
to show; but within the same period the
Federal taxes have been reduced. The
increase in the one case, however, may
be taken as setting off the decrease of
the other; so that on the whole the
figures for 1870 may be regarded as about
fairly representing the present relative
condition of the total taxation of the
country.
The Bulletin then proceeds to consider
what seven hundred and thirty millions
of taxes implies. Hon. David A. Welles,
in his report for 1869, as special com
missioner of revenue, says:
“The commissioner has been led to
the conclusion that the annual increase
of active capital in the United States,
arising from the excess of production
over expenditure, cannot at the present
time be considered as in excess of eight
per cent, of the gross annual product,
or $540,000,000 per annum.”
Conceding that there must necessarily
be a certain degree of vagueness in all es
timates of this kind, Mr. Welles’s figures
have not been successfully impugned,
and, in the opinion of the Bulletin, may
perhaps be safely taken as the nearest
approximation to the truth that a calcu
lation of such magnitude and complexity
admits of. Put, then, these facts side by
side:
Net earnings of United States
iu 1869 $546,000,000
Taxation of United States in 1870. 730,000,000
The taxes exceed the net annual savings
by over $180,000,000. It costs to govern
us $180,000,000 a year more than the net
result of all the capital and labor of the
nation. This is a startling exhibit. It
demonstrates that the American people
are beggaring themselves in order to
govern themselves ; that they are per
mitting the taxeaters to consume more
than the entire annual savings on which
they are dependent for the increase of
the national wealth. —.
The Centennial Appropriation.
It will be se< ij from our Washington
-W.Agp.im ''o bil’ w ap"rotjriating a
million and a hart of dollars to £he Phila
delphia Centennial passed the House
yesterday by a vote of 146 ayes to 130
nays. In our judgment no measure has
ever been passed by the House of Repre
sentatives in which the letter and spirit
of the Constitution was more flagrantly
violated, or in which the ten
dency of the Federal Government
-to was more
alarmingly demonstrated. Of course the
bill will pass the Radical Senate with lit
tle opposition, and the Centennial job,
by which a million and a half of the tax
burthened people’s money is virtually do
nated to the stockholders of a private
speculation, may be regarded as an affair
accomplished. For this violation of the
Constitution and of its recent pledges of
strict economy, Congress has not even a
plausible pretext that may not be offered
in support of every subsidy scheme
that may be brought forward;
and now that the constitutional barrier
is broken down by a Democratic House,
what guarantee has the people that mil
lions more will not be demanded by the
managers of the Philadelphia show to
“save the nation’# honor,” or that the
influential and liberal lobbies that are
now engineering appropriations and
subsidy schemes, which together call for
more than live hundred million dollars of
the public funds, will not be equally
successful.
While we deeply regret that a Demo
cratic House has in this matter proved
recreant to its anti-subsidy pledges, to
the Constitution and the cardinal princi
ples of Decmocracy, we are pleased to re
cord the fact that the names of a majority
of our State delegation, among them that
of our immediate Representative, the
Hon. Julian Hartridge, stand recorded
against the passage of the bill.
A New Financial Scheme. —Mr.Tucker,
of Virginia, introduced a bill in the
House on Thursday for the establishment
of an exchequer, which, it is claimed by
its author and supporters, will tend to
the gradual resumption of specie pay
ments. The bill provides for the organi
zation of a body corporate, to be styled
the Governor of and Managers of the
Exchequer of the United States of Amer
ica, being something similar in intent to
the Bank of England. The capital of the
exchequer is to be one hundred million
dollars, divided into shares of one thou
sand dollars each, and subscription books
therefore are to be opened in the leading
cities of the United States. National
banks may come into the organization by
subscribing the whole or any part of its
capital and consolidate into the exche
quer, the subscriptions to be payable
three-fourths in legal-tender and one
fourth in coin. Branches are provided
for.
Stop the Demagogues.— The New York
Cotton Exchange, composed of men rep
resenting all shades of politics, unani
mously adopted the other day the follow
i'.g resolution: •
jßesolved, That the fraternal feeling and
good will now existing throughout the
country, and the manly disposition of
those who battled against each other to
join hands as one people in the future, is
the most auspicious ushering in of the
centennial year, and that their Representa
tives in Congress should do no act
which, would necessarily disturb the
patriotic concord now existing and
increasing; but, responsive to and
in furtherance of the foregoing senti
ments. which have been substantially
embodied in resolutions and passed by
unanimous vote in the House of Repre
sentatives on the 6th inst., that Congress
be and is hereby respectfully requested
to remove, unconditionally, all political
disabilities resulting from the late civil
war.
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1876.
Affairs in Georgia.
A Macon man who refused to cut his
mother-in-law some dogwood snuff-brushes
is now on his way to Texas. Texas always
was a sort of refuge for criminals.
Mrs. Frar ces Cowart, of Dawson county,
aged thirty-three, arieadv the mother of
thirteen children, gave birth the other day
to triplets. The fate of the unhappy father
is unknown.
The -Atlanta Herald has a “Bureau” in
1 hiiadelphia. We were under the impres
sion that it was a restaurant.
The Hon. Potty Peagreen is still tamper
ing with the Code, although there is not a
section therein contained that he has not
TO, an n * w * ce during the past few years.
The Hon. Potty is also opposed to county
lines as they now stand. The only thiDg that
surprises ns is that the Hon. Pottv doesn’t
introduce a preamble and resolution to
change the lines between South Carolina
and the Savannah river. All this is fun for
the tax-payers.
No patriotic subscriber hag yet propounded
the inquiry why we haven’t a special cor
respondent statioued in Fairmount Park,
near Philadelphia. The truth is, the cor
respondenf refused to go.
The Atlanta Constitution will be in favor
of a Constitutional Convention the next
year or the year after—or as goon as Sam.
Small finds out how his Texas cousins feel
about the matter, it gives us pleasure to
.... i , of pro
fa* - . ■ - ’ tv
mines tit him like a glove. His constituents
ought to be satisfied with that.
A negro child near Perry was burned to
death the other day. Its affectionate and
pious parents had gone to church.
The Madison Home Journal is informed
that Mr. James F. Stovall, of Morgan
county, was aroused from his slumbers one
night last week bv the constant barking at
his door of a favorite Newfoundland dog,
and going to the door, set the dog on, when
he ran around the corner of the cook-room,
which adjoins the dwelling, aud recom
menced barking; again verv vigorously. Mr.
S., upon following him, was astonished to
find his house on fire, caused from placing
hot ashes in too close proximity to the
building. Had it not been for the timely
warning of this favorite Newfoundland dog,
his dwelling would, iu a very few minutes,
have been entirely destroyed."
A Thomaston young man who is in the
West, thus paints the picture : “ This is no
country for a poor man, and I assure you
not for an honest one, for the better a man
is, the poorer his chances are. Fraud, de
ceit and artifice are walking rampant
through this State. There are more fine
churches and less religion here than any
State in the United States. The air is taint
ed with curses and filled with black, murky
clouds, and the lambeut fires of hell are
kindling beneath. If you were here, you
would think that all the gibbering imps of
the infernal regions were here with a band
of Hands broke loose from hell. All the men,
women and children drink whislf}’, piay
cards and race horses and bet.”
An incendiary fire destroyed the gin-house
of Dr. W. VV. Davenport, of Morgan county,
recently, together with seven bales of cot
ton. This is the fortieth burned in Georgia
since the Ist of September.
A colored Beecher, the pastor of a Baptist
church in Macon, has been deposed for gross
immoralities. This is an example for Ply
mouth Church to follow.
The Dalton Enterprise says the usury law
is a dead letter. This is rather an old joke.
Mr. O. K. Maund, an uncle of Mayor Huff,
of Macon, is dead.
They have epicures in Columbus. One of
them threatened to shoot a man the other
day because he got a poor oyster stew.
We can’t blame the epicure. A man who
can’t make as simple a thing as an oyster
stew deserves to be killed.
Old aunt Peggy Cuthbert, of Eatonton,
died the other day. It is supposed she was
one hundred and twonty-five years old. She
was among the negroes emancipated by
General Alfred Cuthbert. of Jasper county.
A Jones county man killed a negro at a
candy-pulling the other day. Candy-pull
ings are very nearly US dangerous as church
meetings. " .
exciting debate the House passed on Friday
last, by the Speaker’s casting vote, a bill lo
exempt the wages of laborers and mechan
ics from garnishment fc- iebta of anyaatU
every description. Should the bill become
a law it cannot operate as to debts in exist
ence prior to the passage, the same legal
principle applying in such a case as that
upon which the Supreme Court of the
United States overruled the Supreme Court
of Georgia in the homestead law suits; but
in giving credit subsequent to the act there
can be no legal remedy so far as respects
the wages of the debtor. While ostensibly
favoring mechanics and laborers, we are not
Sure that the effect of the bill, if it be
comes a law, will not be to deprive them of
credit.
Thomaßton Herald: Mr. Hamilton, of
Floyd, proposes to have all the dogs in the
State registered in a hook provided by the
Ordinaries between the first of April and the
first of June, the owner paying one dollar
for registration, declaring the registered
number. The dog so registered shall wear
upon his neck a collar bearing on it the
name of his owner and the registered num
ber. A violation of this order subjects the
owner to a fine not exceeding SSO, or impris
onment not exceeding thirty days. The
money arising from tho registration of
dogs goes to tho public school fund of the
county. Aliy person killing a dog not regis
tered is entitled to receive one dollar. This
seems to cover the ground and if such a lav
was put strictly in force for five years there
would be as many fine sheep in Georgia as
there are worthless dogs now, and in a short
time profitable wool growing would take
tho place of growing cotton at a loss to a
great extent. Who, that has the good of
his country at heart, or the welfare of his
neighbor can object to such a regulation.
Madison Home Journal: One incubus,
however, and a gigantic incubus it is—must
be raised from us before we can rise to our
ante helium prosperity. We allude to the
infamous homestead and exemption provis
ion in the bogus constitution under which
we now live so hardly. This provision is
the very essence of dishonesty, and as such
is a disgrace to the statute books of Geor
gia. We are not attacking the character of
those of our people who have been so un
fortunate as to have been forced to seek
a fancied shelter beneath the carrion
wings of this law ; but the constitu
tion itself—the organic law of tho State—
which, instead of reflecting tho sentiments
of our people, bears upon its very face the
badge of fraud. We must get rid of the
homestead and exemption laws before we
can prosper. To do this, the constitution
must be amended or anew one made. To
amend it will require three years at least,
so that it is decidedly expedient that a sov
ereign convention of our people be held,
and anew constitution be made in which
there shall be no vestige of this iniquity,
nor of any other found in the old. This
done, the “Empire State” will “blossom as
the rose.”
Hon. Patrick Walsh, a legislator, thus
writes to his paper, the Augusta Chronicle :
The Legislature has been in session ten
days, and within that time several hundred
bills have been introduced. Out of these
several hundred, there are not more than a
dozen, if that number, of bills of general in
terest to the people of Georgia. The Code
comes in for its share of tinkering, in many
instances efforts being made to fit particular
cases and in many others to make changes
simply for the sake of doing something
that had better be left undone. The
number of local bills is enormous. In
glancing over the proceedings of the
Legislature the reader cannot tail to be
struck with the trifling insignificance of
some of the measures introduced. Here
is a bill to change a county line to accom
modate some man who wishes to have his
residence or his place changed from one
county into another ; here is another bill to
allow somebody to peddle without a license ;
another to prevent fish traps in the waters
tributary to Gum Swamp ; another to pre
vent hunting in Sleepy Hollow; another
for the relief of the sureties of Mr.
Smith, who has been unfortunate in
handling the funds of his county. And
s'ill another: To incorporate the Bee
Gum Refining Company. True, that local
legislation is sometimes necessary, but it is
equady true that the great mass of it is a
nuisance and, therefore, never ought to be
enacted. The President of the Senate, in
his opening address, urged Senators not to
introduce bills changing the Code, unless
there was some good to be accomplished.
The Speaker of the House urged members
to practice economy and give relief to the
people from the burdens of taxation. A short
session would be a relief, and there is really
no necess ; ,4~ the present General Assem
bly to rex <3Bn session for the constitu
tional ten, forty days. That vhich is
essential com.. be transacted in twenty or
thirty days at the outside. With the excep
tion of the tax act, appropriation act, and
perhaps a few others—notably the bills of
Senator McDaniel, in reference to the
homestead—there is no legislation that
could not be deferred until next year with
great profit to the State. But I have no
idea that this conviction will force itself
upon the Legislature. After an experience
of several years, I am convinced that the
annual sessions of the General Assembly
are unnecessary, and therefore an onerous
tax upon the people. One regular session
every two years would answer every pur
pose and save at least one hundred thou
sand dollars to the State. In the present
impoverished condition of our people this
would be a great saying.
A quarrel is brewing between the Dalton
papers.
Mr. Eugene Granberry announces that he
has taken charge of the Hamilton Visitor.
This gives Bouily an opportunity to start
another paper.
The un* rtunate Code is still suffering at
the hands of legislators.
Atlanta is about to get up a corner iu pea
nuts. In that case we may look for an earlv
adjournment of the Legislature.
The Hon. Potiphar Peagreen thinks it
would be economical to abolish the State
Board of Health, the Agricultural and the
Geological Bureaus. And yet the Hon. Pot
ty thinks nothing of devoting hundreds of
thousands of dollars to senseless changes
in the < le and changes of county lines.
The He . Potty is a patriot in full bloom.
Two regro burglars have been captured
in Augusta.
An “ attempted robbery ” has occurred in
Atlanta. It seems that such incidents occur
without any provocation whatever.
The Augusta Chronicle says that after an
The Hon. Potiphar Peagreen ro<e in his
seat the other day and a3ked a member the
meauing of geology. The member told him
it was a species of vaccination.
Judge Carlton B. Cole, one of the most
prominent citizens el Middle Georgia, is
dead. k.
One O: tu
.dlHLl the
o An
gQsta. He neglect “io mention it in four
paragraphs of a recent inane.
It is said that there v>r no chloroform in
General Toombs’s recent speech.
The editor of the Daijen Gazette has quit
Johnson county, and is now visiting Bruns
wick. He carries a neat and compact pho
tograph album in his coat-tail pocket.
Boston Grange will hereafter hold meet
ings in Thomasville.
Dr. C. B. Nottingham, a well-known citi
zen of Macon, is seriously ill.
The Columbus papers have been swindled
by quack advertisers. Why do our contem
poraries insert advertisements from un
known parties without the cash ? The rem
edy is exceedingly simple.
The Constitution says that two days ago a
negro woman near Atlanta gave birth to a
male child of healthy body and full propor
tions. It appears lively and able to become
a voter at some distant day, but a singular
mark upon its hands will always afford its
identification. The two middle fingers on
either hand are grown together, making one
double finger, but sufficiently separated at
the ends as to admit of two nails. The ne
groes In the neighborhood declare that the
child was conjured before born, and
prophecy that it will turn out to be a con
jurer itself.
A Columbus burglar was shot and cap
tured the other night.
Thus the Thomasville The
Savannah Mobning News, we see, is com
fortably settled in its new quarters. The
building is said to be the handsomest news
paper building in Georgia, if not in the
South. May it long tand as a monument
of the energy and enterprise of its indefati
gable proprietor, Mr. $. H. Estill, who has
richly deserved the success that has attend
ed his efforts.
The Columbus Sun says the Eagle and
Phoenix Manufacturing Company have de
clared a dividend of eiuht per cent.—s 4 per
share being paid afte - May Ist and $4 after
November Ist. This speaks well for the
management to be al •to declare a dividend
under the depressing ade influences of the
past year. It also and nonstrates the supe
riority of the Sout for manufacturing.
The Northern mills b< e barely lived. The
directory have bough, , large lot of new and
improved machinery ic add to the produc
tive capacity of the mi!,s, besides erecting a
large brick tvarehouse.
Hon. Patrick Walsh in Augusta Chronicle:
Mr. Turnbull, of Banks, has introduced
a resolution for tie appointment of a
committee to considtr and report as to the
advisability of selling the State road, subject
to the terms of the lease. There will be many
who will favor the sab ii the road can be sold
to advantage. The property now pays sper
cent, on a valuation i $6,060,000. If it could
bo sold for this amt mt and the proceeds
applied to paying of; the liabilities of the
State, the bonded 11 M- coulu be reduced
to a little over $.'000,000. As the ac
count now stands 1 state receives 5 per
cent for tha use ofjL. property, and pays
out in its bonds,
a difference in the 'State of S2O in the thou
sand, or, in other words, while the State re
ceives $300,000 a year for $6,000,000 of pro
perty, it pays out in interest to those who
hold $6,000,000 of her bonds—supposing the
average rate of interest seven per cent.—
$120,000 per year, which shows an annual
loss to the State of sl2o,ooo—that is, if the
road could be sold for $6,000,000; and there
are those who believe that it could be readily
sold for this amount, subject to the lease.
If this be true, it does not require much
argument to convince the people that it
would be to the interest of the State to sell
the road and pay off $6,000,000 of the public
debt with the proceeds.
Macon Telegraph: Mr. R. W. Grubb gets
up a newsy and well-conducted weekly in
his Timber Gazette, and no man was ever
more loyal and devoted to his own burgh.
We are partial to old Darien, with its broad
river and druidical oak groves, and rejoice
to learn that, despite the ravages of war,
incendiary fires and the domination for sev
eral years of that penitentiary convict and
nuisance, old Tunis Campbell, the town was
never more flourishing, and is now the out
let for an immense lumber business. To af
ford some conception of the extent of this
branch of commerce, it is necessary only to
say that fifty large vessels, outward and coast
wise bound, now rids at anchor in her port,
or road stead, waiting to receive cargoes of
the famous “Georgia yellow pine,” to be dis
tributed over a large portion of Christen
dom. Turpentine manufacture, and the
export of naval stores also begin to loom up
prominently, and are destined to add greatly
to the wealth and importance of this vener
able commercial entrepot, which, as “New
Inverness,” and settled by doughty Scotch
men, who came under the lead of their high
land chieftains, soon after the advent of
Oglethorpe, and more than one and a quar
ter centuries ago, still survives near the
mouth ot the Altamaha river, and in the
midst of fertile rice fields and a verdure al
most tropical.
Thomaston Herald : The veritable F. F.
Tumley, of Gravelly Springs, Laudadale
county, Ala., who grew two hundred and
twenty-one bushels and seven quarts of
corn upon one acre, was in our office on
Monday last. Mr. Trunley has more corn
sense than any man we have heard talk for
some time. This corn was planted three
feet apart each way, with three stalks in
the hill. One half acre made one hundred
and forty bushels, and seventeen hills
produced sixty-two pounds of corn. This
is a pretty big corn story, but it
is vouched for by twenty or thirty citi
zens of Laudadale county. Mr. Trun
ley’s theoiy is one ear to the stalk and
that a good one, containing from twenty
eight to forty-six rows of corn to the cob
and the largest grains we ever saw. He
says the many ears to the stalk is all hum
bug. That all such corn is not a distinct
variety, but will retrograde to its original
one-ear kind, butjjan ear that has a certain
number of rows to tue ear is a distinct vari
ety, and that an ear that has twenty-eight
rows will reproduce the same variety unless
crossed by some other variety. This corn
was grow-n upon land that had been thor
oughly enriched by fertilizing with spent
tan bark and tan yard scrapings, and the
place where he had fattened his hogs for a
number of years.
“Ichabod,” in the Rome Commercial: The
Atlan.a Constitution is very much opposed
to a convention, and very much in favor of
a dog law. That paper possesses all the
elements of statesmanship. Next to the ex
ploration of the “Okeefenokee Swamp,” a
dog law is necessary. If the “exploration”
is done with, we hope its attention will be
devoted exclusively to the exploration and
explosion of dogs. Dogs are a “bad egg.”
What right has any dog to live? What in
the devil was he made for ? Why was he
not something else than a dog ? *What an
anomalous appetite is his love of sheep.
We wonlu have had iorty-nine million
sheep in Georgia but for dogs. Nothing
goes for a sheep but a dog. If he’s a
pointer he goes for two or more. It is
strange everybody like the Constitniion
don’t see we are everlastingly ruined with
out a dog law. Talk about a convention to
put clamps on expenditures, and stop thiev
ing ! Nonsense! If the public debt is
$8,000,000, what's that? Can’t Georgia pay
$108,000,000 ? There is money enough in
wool to pay any public debt, and all private
debts. Wool grows on sheep, but how can
sheep live if dogs don’t “go up a spout?”
Oh dogs! Big dogs and little dogs ! bull
dogs, pointers and terriers! you can’t come
mutton chops on the nineteenth century.
You sheep-eating rascals! prepare to
die for the .good of your country.
The people have suffered your manners
long enough. We can pay the public debt,
we can pay private debts, pay stealage, pay
twenty-five per cent, interest to the money
sharks, with one pin on their backs—the
sticking pin—but the cussed dogs eating up
our mutton chops exhaust the nation. Oh,
Constitution ! oh, Okefenokee ! unfurl your
banners to the breeze, and with your great
heart and strong arm strike—shall I say it!
strike for a dog law. The patriotic multi
tude will go with you. Great statesmen see
the point. They will chronicle your fame.
Poets will sing it, orators will utter thoughts
that heat and words that burn. History’s
pages will be illustrated with the master
exploits of the age—Okefenokee and the
death of dogs.
Florida Affairs.
The Monticelio Constitution says that
Conover is to drive Purman’s band-wagon.
This is enough to knock Purman out of
time.
Judge A. O. Wright has been giving some
highly successful school exhibitions in Mon
ticeilo. . Judge Wright is one of the most
successful educators in the State.
“Paradise Point Poultry Yard” is the
romantic name of a Jacksonville hennery.
The State Executive Committee of the
Conservative party nset at Live Oak last
Wednesday ana ordered a State convention
to be held at Quincy on the third Wednes
day iu June. A sub-committee of three was
appointed to prepare and issue an address
to the people of the Sta’te.
A powder flask broke in a Jefferson coun
ty man’s face the other day. He was se
verely hurt.
A shark measuring eleven feet six inches
was recently harpooned in Key West harbor.
His liver filled a wheelbarrow.
The Madison Recorder of Saturday gives
the particulars of another case of killing in
that county near Station 5, *on the night of
the 6th, the parties being colored. They
had a quarrel about a hog—Fielder and Ma
sou were their names—when Mason went
behind the door of the house they were in
at the time of the quarreling to get a stick,
which bad a bayonet on it. Fielder told
daaou if that was the game he would pro-
tO a—bouse near by
and shortly returned noth an axe. He told
Mason to come out and square himself, and
he “would pull him square through.” Ma
son replied: “Never mind, you can come
on;” and, standing in the door, he leveled
his gun upon Fielder aud shot him through
the heart and shoulder, killing him instant
ly. Mason escaped.
The local editor of the Fernandina Ob
server probably knows more about Radical
ism than he does about grammar.
They have regular rows in the colored
churches in Tallahassee. After awhile the
time of these riots will be announced by the
pastor in charge.
Dr. R. N. Gardner, of Tallahassee, is
dead.
Cheney’s organ in Jacksonville is endeav
oring to throw cold water on Sawyer’s Sun.
The Sun, however, can easily evaporate all
water of that kind.
Jacksonville is in a fair way to have a
horse railway. This will be quite an im
provement.
The Floridian says that anew gin-house
erected last summer by Col. Cotten on his
Shepard place, in Leon county, was
destroyed by fire about noon vesterdav,
with twelve bales of cotton. There had
been no fire about the place for several days,
and it is believed the gin-house was de
liberately set on tire by jomo villain. This
makes the second loss of this character Col.
Cotten has suffered the present winter.
The Jacksonville Press has begun its
second year under the most favorable
auspices. It is one of the staunchest Demo
cratic papers in the country.
F. A. Dockray is now in London. He was
captured in Cuba, but nothing can hold
Dockray.
The Press says that Captain E. W. Jones,
of the steamer Rockaway, yesterday brought
up from Mayport a beautiful silver gar,
about fifteen inches in length, and presented
it to Dr. Griffin. This rare specimen of the
finny tribe was caught in a seine near May
port,wharf.
The dwelling house of C. D. Brigham, at
Black Point, near Jacksonville, was destroy
ed by fire the other day.
Mr. Sawyer’s new paper, The Florida Sun,
has made its appearance, but not in this di
rection.
Newton and Mrs. Keech have been grant
ed anew trial at St. Augustine.
Captain A. J. Ross, of Jacksonville, is
dead.
Cheney doesn’t think Babcock is guilty.
Why should he ? *
Florida Slate Journal: It is ono of the
most significant features of the degeneracy
of the times that one who outrages every
proprietry of life should have supporters,
not only in a political party that controls a
State, but in a great religious association in
which ('Veil the appearance of evil should be
avoided. Hardly a single line that Hicks has
published in his paper can be produced that
is not an offense, not only against correct
literary taste, but against common decency.
The veni, vial , vici of Cscsar can no longer
be quoted as the sublimity of arrogance.
Hicks came, saw and conquered the Observer
office. The evacuation of the premises when
the Boernerges made his appearance by
those who usurped his throne must have
been a flight that has no parallel in history.
And then the sequel to this terrific assault.
Hicks enthroned upon tlio tripod in all the
majesty of Olympian Jove, and Gen. Tyler
stationed at the door, armed with a double
barreled gun, as special sentinel and body
guard. Let all the world be silent and listen
to that which is to come.
Last Sunday evening, the 16th instant, in
Pensacola, at about 7 o’clock, a dastardly
attempt was made to assassinate Major li.
A. Stearns, Clerk of the Circuit Court. He
and his wife were together in their sitting
room reading, when some person approach
ed close to the fence on the west side of the
house, and fired a shot through the window,
the ball passing between the heads of the
Major and his wife and lodging in the wall
beyond. This assault was, no doubt, in
duced by the intense hatred of the Major
ou account of the late political struggle in
that county, as he is a quiet, inoffensive
man, and one not at all likely to have per
sonal enemies.
Tallahassee Floridian: Mr. B. F. Walker,
who lives in the northern part of Leon
county, near the Georgia line, gave us on
Saturday the results of a one-mule farm
last season, which are so astonishing that
we would not be inclined to credit the state
ment did we not know him well. On fifteen
acres of land,well manured with home-made
fertilizers, he made nine bales of cotton,
averaging 480 pounds, which brought him
at 10$ cents, $648. Besides this, on other
land, he made 325 bushels of corn, worth
$325; 6 barrels of syrup, worth S9O; 2
barrels of sugar, worth at least S3O; 300
bushels potatoes, worth $120; 8 stacks of
fodder, about 3,000 pounds, worth S3O;
and pindars and chufas enough to fatten
100 hogs, equal to at least SIOO. Here we
have a total of about fourteen hundred dol
lars made with one mule, and but for dry
weather Mr. Walker says he would have
made five more bales of cotton and another
hundred bushels of corn. Two hands were
employed regularly to work the crop at ten
and five dollars a month, and some extra
help hired to assist in harvesting. This
shows what can be done in Leon county
with one mule by close and intelligent
management and hard work. Others can
do the same thing, and any industrious man
can here make as comfortable a living out
of the soil as he wants. It is only needed
to go at it right and stick to it.
Jacksonville Press: The huge marine
monster, to which we alluded in our last, is
now in the hands of taxidermists for preser
vation. It is to be carefully stuffed tor ex
hibition during the week of the State Fair,
and will then be sent to the Smithsonian
Institute, or to the Centennial Exposition,
as a Florida curiosity. The extreme width
of the creature from the tip of the dorsal to
the extremity of the ventral fin measured
thirteen feet. Its length was nine feet,
and its greatest thickness two and a half
feet. The ventral and dorsal fins were
thirty inches long. The bony sockets for
the eyes were six inches in diameter. The
pectoral fins were ten inches in length.
The gills were provided with thirty or
forty slender teeth. Its mouth was exceed
ingly small in proportion to its bulk, was
unprovided with teeth, and about sufficient
ly large to admit the fist. The tail was
tapering and scolloped along the edge. The
weight of the animal was somewhere in the
vicinity of a thousand pounds. The fish
was a cartilaginous texture and of milky
whiteness. General opinion appears to be
settled as to its being a variety of the sun
fish. It must have crossed the bar during
a very high tide, as it would require a depth
of fifteen or more feet for comfortable navi
gation. The contents of the maw appeared
to consist of small Crustacea and animalculse.
Altogether, it was a rare curiosity.
Palatka Herald: We learn that the Indian
mound on Murphy’s Island was opened, or
rather entered by a party on Wednesday
last. This mound is one of the largest on
the river, and has excited more than ordi
nary interest among our scientific visitors.
But Colonel Hart, proprietor of the island
upon which the mound stands, heretofore
persisted in his refusal to have this relic of
past ages disturbed. On Wednesday, how
ever, it was resolved to inspect thoroughly
this monument of prehistoric age. A party
from the Putnam, with others, took
steamer for the island, where they arrived
in good time. It was agreed to open the
mound at its base. After making a breach
of thirty-five feet, they discovered a hard
wall made of Coquina or shell rock. This
wall was cemented, and was ornamented
with various figures of warriors with bows
and arrows, and various reptiles. After
much difficulty a breach was made in the
wall, and by the light of a torch, several of
the party entered; much surprised, they
found themselves within a vault eight feet
high with room twelve by fifteen feet long
with armed warriors encased in niches, all
in a state of putrifaction. This is certainly
a most wonderful discovery, and has pro
duced a profound sensation. In view of
this important discovery, Col. Hart has
stationed a guard to prevent parties making
way with these wonderful objects. Mur-
Shy’s Island will, no doubt, become the
[ecca of the St. John’s river,
Furman is once more rising to the sur
face.
McLin, the deserter, thinks the railroad
decision a pretty just one. What other
opiuiou could Cocke’s victim pronounce ?
The Gazette says the fleet now in the har
bor of Pensacola is worthy of more extended
reference thau it has space to afford it. It
comprises not less than 216 vessels, a list of
which we have before us. Of these vessels
114 are foreign, to-wit: Norwegian, 45;
British, 40; Swedish, 12; Russian, 9; Ger
man, 5; Dutch, 1; French, 1; Danish, 1.
American vessels from foreign ports, 23;
American vessels from other districts, 9;
vessels of this district, 70. Total, 216. Our
figures are official.
The Jacksonville Press says that those
constitutional amendments adopted last
summer seem to have the faculty of slash
ing in all directions. They were so con
strued as to prevent a session of the Legis
lature, much to the gratification of the
Radicals, who, thereat, sent up a shout of
exultation. Now the boot is on the other
leg. By the same amendments it is de
clared that the State can neither purchase
or control the J., P. & M. R. R., very much
to the delight and comfort of the'Demo
crats, and very much to the disgust and
disgruntlement of the Radical conspirators,
who don’t laugh so gleefully as they did.
It is their ox which is gored now.
The Tallahassee iloridian says that en
Friday night the corn-crib of Mr. Joshua
Sana dor#, containing two hundred bushels
of corn, was destroyed* by the incenduiry’s
torch. These fires are becoming alarmingly
frequent, and the scoundrels who engage in
such work may be called on by a vigilance
committee the first thing they know.
The same paper says that Mr. J. W. Brit
ton, a young Englishman who had been em
ployed at the railroad shops in Tallahassee
for several years, died last Monday of con
sumption. He paid a visit to England last
summer and returned in October, looking
unusually hale and hearty, and provided
with funds to purchase Mr. Cardy’s machine
and foundry shops and embark in business
for himself. But the cold hand of Death
was soon upon him, and ho gradually wasted
away. He was a fine young man, a splendid
workman, and much respected by nis ac
quaintance. He was buried from the Epis
copal Church on Tuesday by the Masonic
fraternity.
Parties about Gainesville have disposed of
one thousand four hundred acres of land
during the past four months, in tracts vary
ing from ten to a hundred acres each.
Eight States are represented by the pur
chasers.
Jacksonville Press: The Sentinel is in
formed that an attempt was made at Pensa
colo, on the 16th inst., to assassinate Major
B. A. Steam j, Clerk of the Circuit Court.
As he happened to be a Radical, of course
the cowardly attempt is attributed to po
litical feeling. A week or two since a negro
Democrat and bis son were shot in the same
city. Of course this was not political,
although the act occurred the day following
the municipal election, and the sufferer’s
life had been threatened. Both of the above
cases show a bad state of affairs, and the
perpetrators, we hope, will be arrested and
most severely punished.
A correspondent of the Cedar Keys Jour
nal, who writes from Tine Level, states that
Colonel Bullock, of Ocala, is the choice of
that section for Governor.
The Floridian says that Furman is not
so quiet as he might be. He works some
times in a v.ery quiet way, and is just now
engaged in distributing “blanket sheets’
among the faithful in this section, with the
“watchman’s letters” (by himself) spread
out at great length. They go for Stearns
and the ring and Cheney’s executive com
mittee iu a way those schemers must de
spise. Purman is doing all this very quietly
at Washington, and there is no knowing
what else he is up to. But we don’t care
how hot he makes it for the ring.
Our correspondent who wrote us in re
gard to the criticisms of “Adrianus” upon
the State Fair Committee will observe that
the whole matter has been settled—conse
quently his letter is uncalled for.
Jacksonville Press: Messrs. Barrs, How
ard, Reeves, Causey, Jordan, Jos. Braddock,
Green and Cone, ot Lake George, Volusia
county, nave beau arrestod at the iustanco
of Mr. Liudloy, on a charge of haying
whipped F. A. Holden, a man in his
on the 24th of last November. The prisoner
are now in this city for appearance, beforli
Mr. C. L. Robinson, United States Oour-uis-l
sjoner. Judge A. A. Knight and Mr. V P.
Dotiuby Lae Ifbjn selected as
They declare their innoconce ol' the charge,
and express no fears of the result. This is
a caso which comes clearly under the
cognizance of the State authorities, aud we
cannot see any necessity for the jurisdic
tion of the United States. It appears to us
that it is the piain duty of the Commis
sioner to dismiss the case immediately, as
it is not a matter that requires his inter
ference.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Scribblers on a Scout —Moody on a Pil
grimage—Tlic Church of Stnlc —Vlemo-
rial Jliisic—Foreign Notes—Diplomatic
Dullness—Odds and Ends—A North Caro
lina Couple, Etc.
[Special Correspondence of the Morning News.]
Washington, D. C., January 22.
THE INDIANA EDITORS.
These Hoosier quill drivers come east
ward every year as regularly as tho grass
hoppers, and, like them, are all-devouring.
They break up hotels, rain railroad lunch
houses, and send peanut vendors into bank
ruptcy. A visitation of Indiana editors
beats all the plagues of Egypt, with small
pox, cholera and yellow jack thrown in.
There is no suppressing, no resisting them.
They advance in phalanx ten deep on a
cheese box, and woe betide the unlucky sa
loonist who receives their patronage. He
had better steal $47,000, close his saloon,
and go to jail like Ottman, or hire a cheap
nigger to gently blow his brains out with a
flint-lock pistol. They are here, and there
is no getting rid of them until they get
ready. They were in Philadelpnia, and
almost caused a famine. The Centennial
grub shops were almost cleaned out, and
the council in special session concluded it
was cheaper to bury than to board them.
They dosed them with strychnine, but it
only improved their appetites, while the
arsenic increased their already unnatural
desire to libate. They have all had the
“milk sick;” in fact no one can be admitted
to an Indiana editorial chair unless
he has had the “milk sick.” Instances,
however, have oecurred in which the
aspirant for the tripod, having pleaded his
intention to take the “milk sick” on the
first opportunity, and urging his experience
of jim jams, small-pox, itch and whisky in
the hoof, has been received into the brother
hood on probation. They came here 250
strong, and on Friday night were received
and feted at Willard’s Hall by the resident
Indianians. All the Cabinet and Executive
were present, and all the Indiana Senators
and members. Indiana being considered a
doubtful State, both sides talked to them
sweetly, and Grant sat the evening through
for their benefit. They leave to-night, with
ten car loads of souvenirs, including about
100 pounds of the Washington monument,
parts of tombstones from the Congessionai
cemetery, pebbles from Mount Vernbn,
views of Washington, iron from the Navy
Yards, centennial almanacs, public docu
ments, quires of autographs, and canes from
Arlington.
THE CHURCH OF STATE.
The Methodist Episcopal Church North
has been chosen by the great Sam as his
Church of State, and in Brother Newman’s
tabernacle the Presidential pew is located.
It is edifying to see the Administration bolt
upright in his pew yawping the doxology in
chorus with a thousand clerks and clerk
esses, the organ humped by a Treasury
clerk, the choir composed of the elite of
McCartee's Bureau and the government
printing office, and the chimes rung by old
Widdows, an imported Britisher, who was
given a clerkship in the Treasury on condi
tion that he manipulate the belli gratis.
The influence that attaches to the Metropol
itan Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church
is enormous, and old Judge Edmonds, who
runs the Republican Congressional Commit
tee, is jealous of it. But to blend the classic
names of Newman and Edmonds on one
application is sure to rush the lucky indi
vidual into place at once. The Metropolitan
Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church em
braces more widows, (I don’t say the broth
ers embrace them), exclusive of the
chimeist, than any tabernacle in the
country. It is a regular missionary
headquarters for forlorn sisters in
bombazine. They run a class meeting
every night, with chime music Thursdays
and Saturdays, and get up a revival every
quarter. They haven’t caught Zach yet.
Fish goes to a high-toned church, with a
plastered front, on Sixteenth street. The
Sunday school scholars have broken holes
all over the plaster throwing stones, giving
the church an appearance of having a very
bad case of small-pox. But it is so exclu
sive; the Thorntons, Watsons and Schlozerg
all go there, and of course the Fishes
couldn’t be shut out. Bishop Havens will
have to come on next term and make old
Fish march to the musio of the chimes.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Newman has worked on the State Depart
ment without success; Methodism is not
fashionable enough for our foreigu rela
tions, and as long as Captain William Gore
Jones, of the British legation, wears one
eye glass, Sevillon \. Brown, of the State
Department, will keep his bull’s eye mount
ed, unless someone knocks it out. I have
often wondered whether it falls iii liis
soup, like young Barnacle’s, at times.
MOODY,
the evangelist, has gone to Florida, leaving
Saukey behind to attend to the sale of the
hvmu'books. It is said that Sankey’s place
on the team will be filled by Brother Hicks,
aud the hammocks will resound for a whilo
with sweet duetts. If Purman would only
lend them the band wagon, and H. Beecher
Stowe and Littlefield could be taken along,
Florida might be made the stronghold of
faith; Pratt and the “Ingins” at St. Augus
tine be converted, Stearns taught to warble
"Hold the Fort,” aud tracts become as plen
tiful as blue scrip, “Oh Golly” College
could bo transformed into a theological insti
tute, and Drew could be given a tabernacle
like that of the lively divine he believes him
self to resemble.
TUB AMERICAN NOTE,
or letter from Secretary Fish to Caleb Cush
ing, our minister to Spain, has been submit
ted to Congress by the Prosident with all
accompanying papers, about seventy pages
of manuscript. It embracos a summary of
correspondence between our countrv and
Spain since 1873, covering the Virginius af
fair. It seems ’fiat Fish is very auxious now
for the trial of Bun Id, and that a promise
has been made of his being bro*ght before
a court. He should have been tried aud exe
cuted long ago, but our State Department
lossil did not have the nerve to urge it un
til the sentiments of the English people
were shown, by ono of Great Britain’s rep
resentatives in Spain refusing to receive
that butcher.
Fish claims that Spain has delayed com
pliance with the Virginius protocol, and
wants something done at once. Whether
the nations of Europe feel friendly towards
us or not is hard to say, but judging from
the manner in which we have been thrust
ing oursolves, Yankee like, into their
affairs, it seems that they should hardly
feel warm towards us. Wo have
the everlasting nigger on tlio brain, and
push it upon our neighbors. Vidal, the
Consul at Tripoli, reports to the State De
partment that he has been on a six mouths
trip along the Mediterranean to Alexandria,
running after Turkish Pashas and Maltese
police liuntiug up slave cases, aud giving
the English aud Ottoman trouble. Cushing
is writing up statistics of Caba and Porto
Rico on the slave question, and amongst
them all American qpnsulates are broken
into, aud our citizens fail to receive proper
protection abroad, and evon Vidal was in
sulted for his ofticiousness. Bassett, at
that happy hunting ground of the colored
race, Hayti, has been mixed up in complica
tions with that government, and consider
able correspondence has been submitted to
Congress about the happy island, while
Turner, in his report from Liberia, describes
an interesting set-to botween the Grebo
tribe and the Liberians, and both at Port
au Prince, Tripoli and Cape Palmas the
services of our war vessels have been called
into requisition.
TWO GOOD BOYS.
Allen Rutherford, who was resigned out of
the Third Auditor’s seat, and Clinton L.
Cobb, both of North Carolina, tho first
imported and the last a native,
have been comparing notos for tho
future. They both conclude that no
Congressional honors await them in
the old North State, and they have concluded
at tho proper time to go West. Cobb’s
brother odits au administration sheet (week
ly) in Nashville, but they cannot count on
prospects there, so itisprobablo that Ari
zona may receive them, where they can
electioneer amongst the Apaches, and make
the Mimbros ranges re-echo with Radical
thunder.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Brandrcth, the pill man, is here trying to
get Congress to repeal the tax on patent
medicines made for exportation. It is said
that if he gets a chanco ho will work the
Committee of Ways and Means so that they
will pass something for the pill interest.
Mr. House, of Tennessee, has introduced
a bill, which, it is hoped, will pass, restor-
pension mils all tho pensioners
mm*
at YortUown, Virginia, a marble monument
commemorativo of the last battlo of the
revolution, as directed by a resolution of
Congress of October 29, 1871.
Senator Gordon presented a communica
tion in the Senate a few days ago, from
General P. T. Beauregard, asking tho re
moval of his political disabilities. Gen. B.
says he makes the request at the instance of
friends, in order that no may accept au ap-
E ointment under tho State Government of
louisiana.
The Pennsylvania Republican Association,
composed of patriotic (!) clerks, in underta
king to resolute against Mr. Hill at a meet
ing a few nights ago, became enthused with
Blaine, and undertook to nominate him for
the Presidency. This led to the Qrantites of
the crowd taking issue, and after a lively
rumpus the resolutions were tabled.
Irvine’s poem on “Mr. Washington’s
Monument” is prefacod by a cut of the
monument hung all over with contribution
boxes from which crows are drawing the
shinplasters.
Tho fight about tho Centennial appropria
tion has waxed warm in the House. The
Philadelphia parties who are here looking
after it are agitated. Matters don’t look
very bright for them. The blow up at Holl
Gate of a few acres of rock gives New York
an advantage in Centehuial fire-works.
John Peter Clever Shanks, lately M. C.,
and still later, by the favor of Morton,
Special Indian Agent at ten dollars per day,
has, as I wrote months ago, been playing
his cards for the Indian legal business, and
now Ingalls accuses him in the Senate of
stirring up strife amongst the tribes in tho
Indian Territory for the purpose of appear
ing before the authorities at Washington to
settle tho difficulties which he inaugurated.
The Senate will investigate him.
Sutro, the Nevada tunnel man, is on deck
again, assailing Congress.
The “Real Estate Pool,” in which Grant
and the Cookes are said to have had some
interest," is about to be investigated. Con
gress claims jurisdiction in the premises,
because the government is a creditor of the
estate of Jay Cooke & Cos., through an as
signment of Jay Cooke, McCulloch & Cos.,
of London, to the Secretary of the Navy as
collateral security for a debt of over a mil
lion dollars, growing out of deposits by
Secretary Robeson with that firm.
New York is making efforts to have the
government expend a few millions to en
large the Erie Canal to the dimensions of a
ship canal. New York is worried about her
grain trade and does not relish the Southern
canal schemes.
The West Point boys are protesting
against a reduction of their pay, as contem
plated by the Appropriation Committee.
They claim that fifty dollars per month is
little enough out of which to pay for cloth
ing, rations, etc., and that a cutting down
will drive the poorer cadets from tho acade
my. Cyclops.
Pulmonary Consumption. —Professor
Mosler, of Germany, is now successfully
treating phthisis, or pulmonary consump
tion, by making an incision through the
wall of the chest; and drawing off the pus
with a syringe, and afterwards washing
out the ulcers with weak carbolic acid.
No difficulty appears to have been experi
enced in the operation, and the condition
of the patient was improved, the cough
becoming less troublesome, and the
febrile symptoms apparently moderated.
One point, at least, is regarded as settled
—and it is certainly one of great impor
tance —so far as could be by a few ex
periments of this character, namely, that
the local treatment of pulmonary cavities
is undoubtedly practicable, and that the
lung is really more tolerant of external
interference than has been generally be
lieved. The uses of carbolic acid are rap
idly extending, and it bids fair to become
one of the most valuable articles of the
materia medica. It appears to be speedy
death to diseased germs and fungus
growths.
Unlawful Teaffic n Postage Stamps,
The following letter, addressed to a
country postmaster by a wholesale com
mission house in Chicago, will illustrate
the manner in which some postmasters
are induced to increase their compensa
tion. The compensation of postmasters
is adjusted on the .basis of stamps sold,
the commissions ranging from CO per
cent, downwards, according to the
amount sold. Postmasters are prohibited
by law from selling stamps at less than
the face value:
“Will you please say by return mail, or
as soon as you can, what is the most dis
count you will give on SI,OOO worth of
postage stamps? Many country P. M.’s
are selling large orders of stamps to this
city and dividing the commissions, and
in many instances allowing purchasers
more than their commissions. This will
be confidential; if you feel like making
the sale, we w r ill send you a list of the
kinds we want. We refer to , par
vicularly to
Jefferson Davids Humanity Vindicated
—The Injustice Done Him.
(From the Baltimore Ban.]
We have before stated that the Rich
mond Examiner, the leading newspaper
opponent of Jefferson Davis during the
war in the South, as well as the most ex
treme in its denunciation of the Northern
invaders, constantly attacked Mr. Davis
for his merciful disposition towards
Northern prisoners. We called the at
tention of Mr. Blaine to this fact, which
is so irreconcilable with his attempt to
identify Mr. Davlß with alleged cruelties
aud atrocities to Northern prisoner" in
the South. As Mr. Blaine may not have
access to the files of the Examine we ask
his attention to the following extracts
from that journal. They are collected
from a volume entitled “The Richmond
Examiner During the War; or, The Writ
ings of John M. Daniel (the editor), with
a Memoir of his Life, by bis brother.
Frederick S. Daniel: New York, 1868.'
Said the Examiner on one occasion :
“Retaliation is the principle at the
foundation of criminal law. The United
States are conducting this war in a style
which can only be characterized as dia
bolieaL The Senate of the Confederate
States seems to have fully recognized this
truth. But, while it has promised,
preached, denounced and vapored, we are
yet t < hear of one single practical act of
that nature on the part of the Confederate
authorities, military or civil. What will
the civilized world think of us? These
aud the like puerile conoeits constitute
the key to much of our conduct m this
war.”— Richmond Examiner , September‘2,
1862.
"The South wants no more ministers
or agents smuggled into Washington (to
treat on the manner of conducting the
war) to be insulted there and dismissed.
The proposition to mitigate the horrors
aud severities of the war is curiously in
troduced into the Confederate Congress
at the very moment our armies are passing
into the enemy's territory. It proposes a
sentimental appeal to the people of the
North, calls them ■‘our brethern,’ and de -
clares that we would still make them our
friends. The time for this stuff about
brotherly love is past ."—Examiner, Sepi.
11, 1862*
“But a short time siuoe Mr. eam<_
out with a solemn publication of his in
teutioo- to punish the violation of the
rules of civilized war by Pope and his
officers. Our brave troops haviug taken
a number of these officers prisoners, they
were brought here to liichmond and
placed in confinement. Only last week
the resolution of the President melted
down. Pope's officers were all sent home,
on the cartel.” — Examiner, Sept. 2!), 1862.
“Human experience has yet discovered
but one means of preventing violent
crime. It is by violent punishment.”
“The Confederate Government knows the
right and still the wrong pursues. Mr.
President Davis’s proclamations and pro
nunciamentos, his horrible threatenings
and gloomy appeals have been so often
repeated that they are the sneer of the
world. But never have they resulted in
one solitary performance. He is very
obstinate, very bitter, when he gets in a
quarrel with sorno Southern officer, over
whom the law gives him temporary con
trol. But when his duty brings him in
contact with the enemy he is as yentle as
the sucking dove.
“Lately the question of retaliation has
come up in a form singularly direct. Two
Confederate recruiting officers in Ken
tucky were captured and hung, on the
ground that Kentucky was one of the
United States, a precedent which, as all
the other States are claimed by the
Union, would, if unpunished, hang every
recruiting officer in every State of the
Confederacy. The point was too plain
to be evaded, and tho government ordered
two Yankee officers to execution. But
instead of hanging them, it commissioned
no less considerable a personage than Mr.
Stephens, the Vice P resident of tho republic,
to arrange a back door of mercy to tho ene
my, and of cruelty to its own people. Mr.
Stephens was sent to Washington with a
letter of credence to Mr. Lincoln, and
anothor of instruction to himself from
President Davis, in which it was indioa
cated ‘that if tho Federal Government
would mitigate the horrors of war the
Confederate Government would bo happy
to indulge in boundless compassion to the
two Yankees aforesaid.’ The Vice Presi
dent was not permitted to proceed furthor
than Hampton ltoads.” -Examiner, July
16, 1867.
k Commenting on President Davis’s mes-
Ktge of December, 1863, the Examiner
Kys:
■f‘The story of tho 1 nkee (V.rtel is
clearly .wnd, but no rensonaDiQMlk^^^M
nindo for the u nproHknted
which pe ■‘its the- enemy to send
Jivlle Isle, while our soldiers
captivity on Johnson's Island. An elo
quent recapitulation of the barbarities of
the enemy concludes the message, which
induced Mr. Davis to threaten retaliation
and not to fulfill his threats.” — Examiner,
December 10, 1803.
“If the Confederate capital has been in
the closest danger of massacre and con
flagration; if the President and Cabinet
have run a serious risk of beiDg hanged at
their own doors, do we not owe it chiefly
to the milk-and-water spirit in which the wa,
has been hitherto conducted ? It is time to
ask in what light are the people of tho
Confederate States regarded by their own
government. It is time that our kind
and religious rulers shall begin to show
mercy to us and put robbers and fire
raiders to death. The government is
nerveless aud vacillating as usual.”—
The Examiner, March 5 and March 1 1,
on tlw Daldgren raid.
“It is sad when your leader Ims t
dragged and goaded to make him so mu l
as follow. A government ought to be the
head and heart of a national movement
not the tail, nor the posterior.”—E."lim
ner, March 20, 1804.
“The President’s stern self-will is im
us, his confederates; his gracious gentb
ness for our foes.” —April 8, 1804.
“With regard to the brutalities com
mitted by the enemy upon our defense
less old men, women nd children tho
President (in his message) thinks there is
a mode of redress and eventual repßra
tion. ‘Sooner or later,’ he 3ays, ‘ Christ
endom must meet out to them the cor
demnation which such brutality deserves.
Upon which the editor remarks, “W
doubt this ; we should like to have a bet
ter security.”— May 4, 1804.
In the Examiner ol July 22, 1864, ap
peared an amusing burlesque purporting
to be a letter from a Japanese comm is
sioner visiting the South, to his govern
ment, in which the following a.*meal
allusions are made to Mr. Davis :
“My interview with the Tycoon (Davis)
was highly satisfactory, and before I left
his presence I was convinced that of all
barbarians he is the greatest. He is
mild and gentle toward Ids enemies but
governs his people sternly and firmly.
Should your Imperial Majesty desire, in
times of war, to increase the effici'iiey of
your troops, you have only to allow'
band of your enemies to ravage and deh
troy their homes, murder their fathers,
and outrage their wives, mother , sisters
and daughters. Occasionally some of
those who commit such deeds here are
taken prisoners. Instantly a few igno
rant persons demand tfiat the captives
shall be put to death. At once the Ty
coon takes them under his protection,
treats them with the greatest kindness,
and, as soon as possible, sends thorn back
to their own country. There are mau\
persons among the barbarians who vio
lently oppose the conduct of the i j coon,
but they are bad and unpatriotic men,
who are unwilling to lose their all that *
the Tycoon may have an opportunity
of exhibiting his woihilerful l t maitUy,
which is, indeed, the most remarkable
ever exhibited by any earthly ruler.”
From the beginning to the end of tin ,
war ridicule of the moderation of Mr. I
Davis to Northern prisoners was the con
stant burden of the Examiner. Who can
believe that such a man was privy to cru
elty at Andersonville or anywhere else ?
Yet if the editor of the Examiner, who
constantly sneered at his humanity, were
living, he would have been amnestied
years ago, while Mr. Davis contiia to
be excluded from its privileges !
Flame from the Flanks 01 Etna.—
“If Vesuvius is menacing,” says a com
munication from Sicily to the Omr
liomano, “Etna is not perfectlv trau juilTl
About 7 o’clock on the evening of the l!*th
ult. people remarked that on the eastern
part of Mount Gibel, a dens* ;moke,
mixed with reddish vapors, wa ->uing
from a secondary crater. At Arcicale the
fact was further observed that flu ties as
well issued at various times. The next
evening, at a quarter-past 6 o olock, a
slight undulatory shock of an earthquake
was felt. And what is very remarkable
in the aspect of the mountain at this sea
son of the year is, that while the giant is
emitting flames from his flanks his head
is covered with snow,”