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AGENTS OF THE .HOR.mYc NEWS.
The following goL s arc authorize and to receive
•Utacriptlon* for the Mornino New* Id their
respective localities:
lißOntilA.
Kamikuhii.i.i-K A. Hullivau.
Mokven—K. M. Hitch.
Baktoh George 0. Brown.
Louisville Kobcrt* A Boyd.
Pesbt's Mill, Tattnall Co.—J. W. Jessup.
ticiT*AN-H. H. Ksyton.S. M. Uriffln.
Attapulocb—L. H. Peacock.
Bla< kshear— M. C. Wade.
Besoal—Wil lam Holloway.
K. Gray.
(,'lyattvillb—J. M. Clyatt.
Reiusvillb—W. N. Me Donald.
Taylor's Creek— Dr. M. I). Moody.
Htatenville—o. M. English, Jr.
Hr. Mart's —John Bcmchl
Mioolehround—P. A. Bryan. *
Ocklocknee—.John H. Htephena.
Hoboken—D. B. McKinnon.
Oi.esmore —J. M. Johns.
Monroe—W. H. Ooodwln.
hPRiNonELii —Amos F. JUhii.
Watckoss —J. W. Highsmith.
Brunswick—W. H. Barrie.
Tromasyille —W. C. Carson, Miss A. E. Mc-
CIsliSE.
Panmle—A. Crosby.
Garih —Robert J. Smith.
RuTLEtHil— “Rough” Klee.
Screven—C. C. Grsce.
Camilla—F. P. Bnrta
OoEKCHEE —J. K. Cooper.
Hainbuiobk—W. J. Bruton.
Boston—J. Kevins ('arson.
Darien—K. W. Grubb.
Valdosta.—A. 8. Pendleton.
Madisoh —H. C. BiIllu"S.
(JrebnbkoßO —W. M. Weaver.
M N HiU—Jrs. M. Minor.
Port (Jaines —J. I). Dudley.
DuPont —P. A. Herviant.
8 tils.a Bi.i rr —Thomas E. Scott.
Milltowr.—Ogden 11. Carroll.
FI.OKIDA.
Manatee—J. C. Vandsripe.
Wtl.HoEE—AwjM'. Mrlorsn.
Houston—J. r. Morgan,
Brookaviu.e— I T. S. Coogler.
Ki.LAViI.LE—B. T. I-eek.
I.akk Hihtac-s—James Hull.
Koht Marion - 8. M. Owens.
Hik'i - Boau—ll. J. Parmer.
Siialiv OROTB —T. B. H"ndry.
f'Kßlii —JaiiMM A. HoOgc.
Monkley Hall -A E. i'attcrsoii.
Oakwooo—Cliaa. Hutchinson.
Lawtet—T. J. Ban-In.
Vernon—J. K. Skipper.
W Ai.no-Samuel J. Kennard.
Wacasseb—A. J. Weeks.
White Hpkinob—K. W. Adams.
Battanvillb -K. L. Sparkman.
Monticello —Thos. Slmmona.
Madison—John Hart.
Jacksonville—Tbo. A. Britt, Phillip Walter.
Oaink-villk -M. K. Papy.
I.akk Benton—H. K. York.
Brick Yakij-.1. C. Brain.
Miuanopy.—J. C. Mathera.
Benton—D. N. Cone.
NkwnaNavili.e— J. I,'ive.
Ki.EEiNoroN.—ll. A. Stanford.
Kino’s Kerry.—Wm. W. M< Colley.
White Hi-kino.—K. W. Adams.
Norm cakoijha.
I.AWTONvn.LE— W. 11. I.awton, Jr.
Kahi v Branch—John D. Handera.
Allendale Harley A Cos.
ilf Any agent whose uamu is omitted will
pleasa notify us.
Notice.
Col. K. L. Gentry is the only author
ized Traveling Agent for the Daily, Tri-
Weekly and Weekly Morning News.
Another Radical Robbery.
Within the few years past there has
been formed in Washington City a ban
ditti known as the District Ring, with
one Bbepherd, commonly called Ross
Shepherd, the especial chum and boon
companion of President Grant, at its head.
This ring, of which Gen. Dabcock is a
conspicuous member, was sustained by
the negro rabble, whose votes it con
trolled in the most stupendous frauds,
until, to get rid of the ring government
and the negro voters, the tax payers of
Washington appealed to Congress to dis
solve their municipal government and
take from them the right of suffrage.
This accomplished, they vainly supposed
that they hud escaped the plundering
ravages of the ring banditti. The new
government was to be vested in a Board of
Commissioners to bo appointed by the
President, and, while the people had no
voico in the selection of their
rulers, the negroes were also deprived of
t'lo ’ allot, and could not fasten upon
a gang of thieves to plunder them
iitJUsU’ -tway— President
sioncis with nra friend, the repudiikrea
Rlu/pheru .t its head! Anew law was
passed by Congress for the government
of the District, and anew ring of
plunderers installed in power. The
result is boforo the country. An in
vestigation of District affairs reveals
the faot that Shepherd and his
clun have issued $15,(Mil),000 of bonds,
for which the Federal Government is
responsible. There being no funds in
the District treasury to meet the interest
which fell due on Tuesday last, it is now
claimed thut, through the bungling or
connivance of those who framed the law,
the United States Government is liable
for both the interest and the prin
cipal of these bonds, which have been
bought up by the ring and their accom
pliees and confederates, by whom they
are now held. The matter resolves itself
into a simple Radical steal of ft 15,000,000,
which must now be added to the public
debt, to le ultimately paid by the tax
payers of the country.
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General Toombs’* Opera House Speerli
The speech of Geueral Toombs, as re
ported by the Atlanta ( 'ohutUutwn, is ob-
Uiniug a wide circulation in the Radical
papers of the North. Thp Chicago Tri
bune, one of the most rabid of the bloody
shirt organs, rolls this speech under its
editorial tongue as a sweet moi'Rol, and
oureuterprisiug Atlanta cotemporary may
congratulate itself on the fnct that it Ims
made a valuable contribution to the cam
paign literature of the Radical malig
nants. General Toombs's “wild and ma
lignant bombast and howling denunci
ation of the people of the North” could
have done no harm North or South, had
it beeu permitted to die away in the
echoes of the Opera House; but when
given the dignity of type in a respectable
journal it is received in the North ns “re
dacting the feelings aud sentiments of tons
of thousands of Confederates who warmly
sympathise with all he says.” Thus South
ern sentiment is misrepresented, while
the people of the North are grossly de
ceived and imposed upon. Our ideas may
lie “silurian,” but to onr mind it is not
the office of Southern journalism to play
into the bauds of our Northern enemies
by furnishing them with false weapons for
the discomtiture of our Northern friends.
On our first page will be found the com
ments of the Tribun* on the Uormtitu
tion'n report of Gen. Toombs's speech.
Tho West l’oiuters and the Centcunial.
The Ceutenuial show in Philadelphia is,
.t seems, in danger of being knocked in
the head after all. A Washington special
to the New York Poet says Secretary
Belknap bos issued orders stopping all
work on the building at the Centennial
grouuds, Philadelphia, intended for the
use of the West Point cadets during the
Centennial celebration. He says that if
the military academy appropriation bill
passed by the House of llepresentativee
passes the Senate and becomes a law in
its present shape, it will be impossible to
scud the West Point cadets to the Cen
tennial at all, and they will remain at the
academy. Secretary Belknap says the
department intended to make its repre
sentation at the Centennial exhibition
an attractive feature, but that as the
House of llepresentatives has abolished
the band, he would not be willing to send
the cadets to the exhibition with “tin
horns in their hands to blow." The Sec
retary says the cadets will go in a manner
to reflect credit upon the academy and
the country, or not at all.
Now, here’s a go! What would the
Centennial show be without the cadets
of West Point and their brass band ?
Who would give a tin whistle for a cele
bration of the Centennial Fourth of July
at which the cadets were not present 9
Congress will hare to come down, or the
goes up after all
Thp A flan fa UonslHiiUoa and fhc (oil*
•tlfiiUonal Convention.
The Atlanta Constitution objects to our
ranking it among “the most determined
opposers” of a Constitutional Conven
tion, and declares that it “is simply op
posed to a convention this year.” We
confess that this denial on the part of our
ootomporary is a surprise to us. The
question of a convention to form a con
stitution has been discussed by the press
of the State from time to time during tLe
past three years. During that time we
have read numerous arguments in the
Constitution opposing the calling of a con
vention for that purpose, and if an article
has appeared in the editorial
columns of that paper in favor of a Con
stitutional Convention at any time, it
escaped our notice. We have not its
files to refer to, but our general recol
lection is that the Constitution opposed a
Constitutional Convention, at any time,
as unnecessary and inexpedient, arguing
that a convention was unnecessary
for the amendment of the de
fects in the existing constitution,
which might he effected by legisla
tion; that a convention would put the
State to unnecessary expense; that it
would disturb the harmony of the party
in the State, and that such an exercise of
sovereign right and duty on the part of
our people would be viewed with
distrust if it was not made a pretext by
the Radical party for a repetition of the
reconstruction intervention from which
our State had suffered so much.
Such were the general grounds of oppo
sition of the anli-conventionists, and we
did our Atlanta cotemporary the honor of
ranking it among the most prominent
as well as “the most determined oppos
ers" of the convention movement.
But our cotemporary assures us that he
is not now opposed to a convention;
that he only objects to a con
vention being held this year.
“We want,” says he, “no convention
this year to complicate our politics. We
are in favor of a convention next year,
but wo demand that the question of call
ing a convention shall be submitted to
the people for a decision.” ThisMeclara
tion does not read as if coming from a
“determined” opposer of the convention
movement, and yet there is a degree of
illogical inconsistency in it that con
strains us to doubt the sincerity of
our cotemporary’s professions. Ho wants
no convention this year, because
it would “complicate our poli
tics.” He is in favor of a
convention next year, but insists, nay,
“demands” that our politics shall be com
plicated by submitting the question of a
convention to the people. If we under
stand him, his only objection to a con
vention even this year, is that the can
vass would tend to “complicate our poli
tics,” and yet he is unwilling to have a
convention next year unless our politics
are complicated by a submission of the
question to the people. It wouldj seem
that one who is sincerely in favor of a
convention to frame a constitution,
would be willing to accept
it on the best and safest terms
he could get. On the contrary, our co
temporary, whose only objection to a
convention this year arises from his ap
prehension of “political complications,”
is unwilling that we shall have a conven
tion next year without inviting the very
“complications of our politics” which he
professes to dread. He knows the ele
ment from which the “complications of
our politics” are likely to come. He knows
the influences that would be brought
to bear omthat element for purely disor
!£auiziMg
yet he/musts 10
develop the complications which he so
much apprehends. He ought to know
that his present opposition, even though
the convention is deferred until next
year, and the election of delegates to it
will not be held until after the next
Legislature has been oleoted, is calcu
lated to bring about the very evil which
he professes to deprecate.
Our cotemporary must excuse us,
therefore, if we doubt his sincerity when
he assures us that he is in favor of a con
vention and that his only objection to its
being held this year is that it would com
plicate our politics. We apprehend that
he is still among the “most determined
opponents” of a convention, if not for
the reasons assigned by us, for othor rea
sons perhaps less disinterested and
patriotic. He tells us that we are
mistaken if we expect the com
promise of Gen. Lawton, by which the
convention bill was passed in the House,
has put the question for the time being
at rest,and warns us that agitation is still
to be kept up by the opponents of the
measure. The wish, we suspect, is
father to the thought, which certainly
does not spring from a desire to preserve
the harmony of the Democratic party in
the State and to prevent “complication
of our politics.”
We submit that it is not
the way to prevent such complications
to keep alive the agitation, thereby forc
ing the question of a Constitutional Con
vention, with all its incidental issues,
into the importaut political canvass that
is just opening upon us. There can be
no good result from a premature discus
sion of the subject, and since the con
vention has been disposed of in a spirit
of compromise, may we not hope that it
will be permitted to rest for tho present.
A year hence will be time enough to re
vive the discussion. In the meantime
our politicians and our people will have
enough to engage their attention in the
exoiting canvass that is to decide the
vital questions of State rule and tho con
trol of the Federal Government.
Our CorrespoiKleut Adrianas and Mr.
Moody.
Our Jacksonville correspondent did not
enthuse at all under the exhortations of
Mr. Moody, the revivalist, who has re
cently made such a stir in the religious
world. Perhaps “Adrianus” is preju
diced against sensational preaching and
emotional religion, so called, or may be
he bears in ungrateful remembrance Mr.
Moody’s bombast in London, when, ap
pealing to the prejudices of the English
abolitionists, he informed them that
“the blood of the negro’s heel cries to
heaven for vengeance against the South.”
Be that as it may, it is very evident that
our correspondent is not an admirer of
Mr. Moody nor a believer in his whole
sale method of converting souls. In this
he is not peculiar. There are many good
people in this country and in Europe who
question whether the cause of true
evangelical religion is likely to
be permanently benefited by such
paroxysmal,sensational demonstrations as
those of Messrs. Moody and Sankey.
There are others who thjnk Mr. Moody is
doing good and that he should not
be discouraged in his efforts by dis
paraging criticism. Among these latter
are the editor of the Jacksonville Press
and “Rev. H. Brown,” whose communi
cation is printed in another column.
It is stated authoritatively from Wash
ington that a majority of the Committee
on Banking and Currency favor a repeal
of the specie resumption act, but will
await a decision of the Democratic cau
cus before reporting on the subject.
L KITE It FROM JACKSONVILLE.
\\ nulril.H First-class Assassin—Vindictive
ness mt Cowards—Bombast and Brav
ado— Itnposlns foorentralion of Repub
lican Effluvia—The Koeky Hoad to Jut.-
lice Dancing and Dissection—Blue
.Monday—Remisiseenees of the Past—
lleiernl Things on a Small Beale.
[Special Correspondence of thc_ Morning New*.}
Jacksonville, February 3, 1876.
there were giants in former days.
The most decidedly original traits of
some men’s lives are their spontaneous
blunders, which the greatest circumspec
tion will not obviate, which the most
methodical calculation and care
will not prevent. Woe betide
the unfortunate who is a victim
to this bungling Nemesis. The nicest
consideration of his plans beforehand
will be brought to naught by the omission
of some unimportant detail, and every
thing undertaken by him will fail of suc
cess in consequent of an error for which
he cannot excuse himself and which he
imagines no other sane being would com
mit. He is the apothecary, who,with a per
fect knowledge of his business, narrowly
escapes administering a deadly poison for
a comparatively harmless medicine; he
is the accountant who accidentally allows
a mucilaginous hair to drop upon his
ledger, transform nothing into nine, and
effectually estop his balance sheet; he is
the writer who ruins an entire day’s labor
by mislaying one-half of his manuscript;
he is a man who never indulges in a con
versation without a tantalizing impression
that perhaps he said too much; and so on
through the whole category. An adept
in everything, this unlucky being is per
petually humiliating himself by a series
of unwarrantable, but at the same time,
to his destiny, inevitable oversights
where other people would be completely
successful. This class, however, never do
any injury to any one but themselves.
There is another variety of the bungling
genus, though, which unites with its mis
takes a hellish malignity and malice pre
pense —a pre-conceived intention to do
wrong, and a diabolical desire for blood.
It is this class of malevolent bipeds
which, if given rope enough, will hang
themselves, and while their willful distor
tion of facts iu the interim are vexatious
they always ultimately redound to the
benefit of the world in tl.e certain self -
immolation of its tormentors. That Ho
ratio Bisbee, Jr., is a representative of
this tribe of superfluities admits of no
possible doubt. In the matter of the
whipping of one Holden by a number of
Volusia county citizens it was clearly es
tablished that if the prosecutor
had been punished he got what
he richly merited for being a pes
tilential viper, stealing swine and
grossly outraging common decency. Yet
Bisbee, as associate counsel for the prose,
cution, labored so studiously to prove
the existence of an organization for ex
pelling Yankees that the Commissioner
bound the defendants over in sums rang
ing from ten to one thousand dollars re
spectively. One of the attorneys for
defense, replying to Bisbee’s specious
argument, asserted that there never had
been but one organization in this
country for the purpose of driving
out Yankees, and that that confederacy
had long ago abandoned its arms. It is a
noteworthy piece of history also that
while that organization was in vogue the
bloodthirsty Bisbee and his allies were
extremely cautious about keepiug at a
convenient distance. A lengthy nonde
script like Horatio would have been too
prominent a mark for sharp-shooters.
GREAT REPUBLICAN STRENGTH.
Dr. W. H. Babcock, the energetic and
gifted editor of the Jacksonville Press,
has incurred an almost unbearable ex
pense for deodorizors and disinfectants,
in consequence of a strong Republican
meeting at Polk’s Hall on Monday night.
Kuight was in the chair, and after re
peated endeavors to hire a boy secretly
to cork up his nostrils, he excused
himself in several gasps on a plea
of business and departed. Sev
eral niggers left yelling for the
“prebyous question,” and one fever-hued
wretch called Abram Grant,
whom the criir archives of Washing
ton oounty. Geot(- p robably fur _
m->li rottablaan inde
scribable the in
habitants of Washington county, Geor
gia, for the atrocities perpetrated on his
fellow citizens by those rebels. He
(Grant,) had a namesake in the Presiden
tial chair at Washington, and he (Grant)
would like to form a band and
“precede” to the unruly county in Geor
gia, where negroes were driven about like
mules, with bits in their mouths;
he (Grant) would like to annihilate the
oppressors. Then Abram Grant, the
avenger, perspiring like a lard keg and
smelling like burnt cheese, bumped into
his seat as quickly as if he had been hit
on the head by a bale of cotton. The
roll was called, and the homogeneous
Higgins made a motion that the roll be
carried around the city for cross marks,
and neglected to move for the appoint
ment of a committee to steal a suf
ficiency of paper. Then Bisbee let off a
few sentences, but even he found it
difficult to address the motley crowd as
“fellow-citizens,” and stammered himself
out of breath. Loud cries for Durkee
then sprang up, which brought Durkee
to his feet with the truthful statement
that on “general principles we fully agree
—it is only on minor details that we may
differ.” His stomach misgave him at
this point, and he made a motion for
adjournment, which elicited the assev
eration from jibe nigger Grant that he
did not want to part with such a
lively crowd, though it is impossible to
say whether he alluded to the odoriferous
auditors or their bugs. A tipsy darkey
arose and said that if his Republican
friends would remain until the bugs got
through, he, tbe speaker, would have a
broom on hand to sweep out their clothes.
This brought the meeting to a disorderly
conclusion instanter, but up to this writ
ing no arrests have been effected.
THE WEIGH OF THE TRANSGRESSOR.
After having had attention directed
through these columns frequently to sun
dry unlawful institutions, one of the
guardians woke up and captured a gam
bling den on Sunday night, together with
all of the paraphernalia pertaining there
to. The sports were brought before the
Mayor on Monday and discharged, but
were rearrested shortly afterwards and
carried before Justice Whitney, who has
been engaged in conducting their prelim
inary examination over since, and will
probably conclude it in a day
or two. It is alleged by the
attorney for the defense that
he can prove the charge of blackmailing
on the part of James Hoey, the Captain
of Police, and that the apprehension of
the gamblers was only the result of their
refusal to pay the officer five dollars
per day. I recollect that some six*
weeks ago the Captain of Police re
quested this correspondent to desist from
exposing the location of this identical den,
representing to me that the mention of
it only put the outlaws on their guard,
and augmented tbe difficulties of catching
them. If he has employed the time
allowed him in a systematic attempt to
compromise with the blacklegs, his sum
mary dismissal from the police force of
Jacksonville is an urgent necessity. Let
the investigation be full and searching.
It can injure no innocent party.
A STABBING AFFRAY.
Almost everything happens on Monday
night with, of course, the trifling excep
tion of such occurrences as are otherwise
disposed. There was a dance in the
suburbs in the beginning of the week,
and spirituous stimulants no doubt danced
through the joyous veins of some of the
participants. One of the revellers named
Conway uuthoughtedly danced a keen
edged piece of cutlery around the neck of
one Abner Johnson, inflicting a ghastly
but not very serious wound, and at last
accounts the wounded individual was
doing fairly. The assailant was held in
the sum of three hundred dollars for his
appearance,
A LITTLE BLAZE.
In the destruction of the “Marquis De
Talleyrand Villa,” which was set on fire
by a candle carelessly handled on Sunday
night, every vestige of the sojourn in
Florida of the unequalled political Proteus
of France disappeared. Viewed in this
light the conflagration was a public
blessing, for no place has reason to be
proud of the fact that a man who con
trived to be so consistently unfaithful as
Talleyrand ever resided in it.
EXPIRATION OF THIRTY DAYS.
It affords me especial gratification to
learn that the tax collector, for the fiscal
year ending April, 187$, has satisfactorily
arranged his indebtedness to the city for
settlement, and I take considerably more
pleasure in contemplating this agreeable
termination than I did in exposing the
delinquency, originally.
NO FATHER EXTENSION.
We are privately advised that the re
quest of the nigger Walls for additional
time in which to accumulate testimony
has been unanimously denied by the
proper committee of the House of Repre
sentatives. The many friends of General
Finley will rejoice to hear of the favora
ble prospects for an early determination
of the contest.
A GROSS MISREPRESENTATION.
I am authorized by the agent of the
Western Union Telegraph Company in
this city to give an emphatic contra
diction to the falsehood published regu
larly once a week in Stearns’s organ
to the effect that “all the telegraph lines
are down.” The agent of the Western
Union evidences how flagrant and un
calied-for a perversion of the truth the
statements complained of are by adducing
the fact that the lines of the W’estern
Union have been in uninterrupted opera
tion for upwards of a year.
SATAN REBUKING SIN.
It is understood that a somewhat noto
rious Radical pulpit orator made applica
tion some time since to his superior, Gil
Haven, for appointment to the pastorate
of the Trinity M. E. Church of this city,
and was promised the coveted position
upon the condition that he should relin
quish the editorial conduct of a scurrilous
sheet, in the publication of which he has
been engaged, and retire wholly from
politics. The alternative is thus present
ed to the sinuous oaf of abandoning poli
tics or religion. W r hat will he do with it ?
Adrianus.
ATLANTA GOSSIP.
.Mullers and Thiniis in General —Sociable
hi the Kimball House—Savannah Hand
somely Represented—Vlr. Warren’s
Kill.
[Special Correspondence < f the Morning News.]
Atlanta, February 3, 1876.
Col. Warren is bound to make him
self known during the present session,
as his bill to repeal section 798 of the
Code, which exempts from taxation
nearly $75,000,000 worth of church,
school aud other property, is already cre
ating great excitement among parties
most deeply interested. There is no
doubt but that his position is a correct
one, yet its adoption at this time is
doubtful.
Mr. Warren’s bill provides that section
798 of the Code declaring certain persons
and property in this State exempt from
taxation be and the same is hereby re
pealed, provided nothing-in this act shall
make subject to taxation :
1. Any church building or edifice, or the
land on which it is or may be erected with
the church yard proper, attached to the
church or any cemetery.
2. Any court house, jail or public build
ing owned and used by any county, or in
corporated city or town, for county or city
purposes.
3. Any building or edifice, and the land on
which it is or may bo erected, belonging to
any benevolent or charitable institution, and
used aud occupied exclusively by widows or
orphans, or both, with the furniture in the
same, and not rented or leased for monoy or
profit, or any building and lot used and oc
cupied as a public hospital.
All property herein provided to be exempt
from taxation shall noYsi theless be returned
by the owners thereof, with the value of the
same, at the same time that other property
is returned, with the ground of exemption
stated, and a separate list of such exempt
property shall be kept by the receiver of tax
returns and forwarded’to the Comptroller
General. A failure to return subjects the
property to taxation.
Among the sections stricken or re
pealed are the following:
Lands, mines and minerals belonging to
the State or United States.
Buildings of colleges,academies and other
seminaries of learning.
Buildings for public worship and for
school purposes.
Real and personal estate of any public
library or any other literary association.
Books, periodical apparatus, paintings or
statuary of a company or organization kept
in a public hall, not held as merchandize or
for sale.
Stocks owned by the State or by any liter
ary or charitable institution.
The exemption of S3OO of household goods
and mechanical tools.
All poultry and S2OO in value of' other
•property, —— — H
Annual cropland provisions, firearms'ftnd
munitions and wearing apparel.
All places and monuments of the dead anil
implements of burial.
Property of revolutionary soldiers and
their widows, to the value of SI,OOO.
Turnbull, of Banks, is seeking to
destroy the Geological Bureau of the
State, but failed to-day in his efforts.
To-morrow he proposes to call for a re
consideration of the vote of to-day. Ido
not think, however, that he can possibly
succeed in his efforts. Ido not believe
that even the rural members, when prop
erly instructed in the matter, can be
made to vote in fayor of abolishing either
the Agricultural, Geological or Health
Bureaus. The opposition grows weaker
the more the subject is discussed.
The failure of the Southern Life In
surance Company, of Memphis, has been
severely felt in this city, where are located
the headquarters of the Southern Depart
ment, including in its jurisdiction the
States of Georgia, Florida and the Caro
liuas. General John B. Gordon is Presi
dent and General Alfred H. Colquitt
Vice President, and I saw the latter gen
tleman at the office about twelve o’clock
last night, deeply overcome by the sud
denness and sadness of the news. This
company has done a large business in
this city alone, and the department has
given it nearly three thousand policies,
all of which, if the telegrams are true,
will prove but worthless paper in the
hands of the holders.
The great “tempest in a teapot” about
the usurpations of the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee is subsiding,
and better counsels will probably prevail.
The committee feel that this is no time
to create divisions and strife in the party,
and they utterly disclaim any purpose to
“arrogate” authority or “usurp” the
rights of the people. This is to be a
most exciting political year, and they de
sire to so shape the canvass as to preserve
tho unity of the party and win success
both for the State and national ticket.
There is a growing feeling here that they
have acted in good faith and are not de
serving of the censure which has been so
hastily and universally bestowed upon
them.
Senator Hester has introduced a bill to
overhaul the Georgia State Lottery, and
I see that your county is interested in the
matter, as the name of Mrs. Phoebe Pem
ber, of Chatham, appears in the list of
trustees, and also among the “Benefi
ciaries” of the institution. The trustees
have a brick school building in this city
which, with the lot, cost in the neighbor
hood of $20,000, and the bill provides
that this shall be turned over to the city
of Atlanta, and transformed into a home
for indigent and infirm persons. *
SOCIABLE AT THE KIMBALL HOUSE.
- Last week Col. Geo. McGinly, of the
Kimball House, gave the members of the
Legislature one of the most delightful
“hops” ever enjoyed in the “Gate City,”
with a generous supply of refreshments.
Everybody had a good time, and a thou
sand thanks were bestowed upon the lib
eral proprietor of this grand hotel. Last
night I again looked in upon a brilliant
“sociable” in the elegant ball room,
as the committee of invitation
was headed by your distinguished
member, General A. R. Lawton, with
President T. J. Simmons and Colonel G.
R. Black, of the Senate, and Colonel J.
L. Warren, Hon. T. J. Grimes and A. G.
Barnwell as his associates. The company
was quite select, and Colenel McGinly
spared no efforts to make the occasion a
most delightful one to all present. Sev
eral very charming young ladies were
present, and of course handsome gentle
men prevailed. Senator Black, ex-Speak
er Bacon, Colonel Postell, Captain
Harry Jackson, General Lawton,
Wm. H. Woods, and Dr. Thomas
were among the number of the conspicu
ous persons present. Mrs. Gen. Lawton
and daughter, Mrs. Col. Hardeman and
daughter, Mrs. Howell Jackson, and the
beautiful daughters of Gen. Gartrell were
favorites among the ladies. The Italian
band furnished excellent music, and the
occasion was fully enjoyed until after the
midnight hour. Gen. Lawton and fam
ily, Col. Warren, Dr. Thomas, CoL Black,
President Simmons, and a host of members
are now boarding at the Kimball. McGinly
has turned over anew leaf, and under
his present liberal management the house
is constantly filled and growing in popu
larity. Senator Lester and family,
Speaker Hardeman and family, Hon.
Patrick Walsh and a score or two of other
members are at the Markham, which is
also full and growing in popularity. The
opening of the latter has proved a benefit
to the Kimball, and by the liberal action
of the proprietors, the guests of these
two splendid hotels have no lack of social
pleasures in the elegant ball rooms, which
almost nightly are thrown open to them.
Chatham.
REFORMS OF THE REBELLION
1 l.eller from ihe Secretary f VVnr to the
Southern Htstsrirni Society— No Dis
tlnrtlon to ke .Made Between Confede
rate anil Federal Archive*.
Washington, January 31. —The Secre
tary of War has written the following
letter to the Secretary of the Southern
Historical Society. The statement is
further authorized, that if any one who
has original official documents pertain
ing to the war, ei’her on the Union- or on
the Confederate side, will send them to
the Secretary of War, they will be copied
for use end returned to the owner if
accompanied with such a request. Origi -
nals must be sent, as copies cannot, for
obvious reasons, be t.ccepted:
War Department, )
Washington, D. C., Jan. 31, 1876.)
Dr. J. William Jom*. Secretary Southern
Historical Society, Richmond, Va.:
Dear Sib —My private secretary has
communicated to me the substance of a
conversation had with yourself and other
gentlemen, which discloses the fact that
there are in existence, in different sections
of the country, many records, such as
battle reports, correspondence, etc., re
lating to .he late war, and that intima
tions have been given that it would be
practicable for the War Department to
secure these, either permanently or tem
porarily, for use in connection with the
publication of the records of the war
now in band. The Confederate records,
now in th' l possession of the department,-
are necessarily much more incomplete
than those of the Federal Government,
owing to the fact that it has only those
of the former that were captured ; and it
is with gratification that I have learned
of the disposition of certain parties hold
ing Confederate archives to place them at
the disposal of the department for the
purpose above indicated. It has also been
intimated tc me that an impression pre
vails to a greater or less extent in some
localities of the country that a disposition
exists on the part of the administration to
make a di&fcweeion between the Confed- j
erate and Federal archives as regards the
thoroughness of their compilation. Were
I not assured that this impression is quite
widespread, I would not deem it worthy
of notice or denial ; but it may be proper
to state, for the information of those in
terested, that the department is not only
willing, but anxious to secure every offi
cial report, telegram, or order emanating
from either side during tie late war, and
has no thought whatever of discriminating
in favor of one section as against another
in their publication, the only object being
to place on record in an official form for
the use of historians and others interested,
all the date-twits possession on this sub
ject. It will be esteemed a favor if any
gentleman, either residing in the North
or South, will communicate with this
department that they have knowledge of
such records and will place at its disposal,
temporarily or permanently, any official
data relating to the war. In this way
the work could be made much more com
plete and satisfactory than it otherwise
will be. It may be interesting to you to
know that under the appropriation made
by Congress for the publication of the
records, considerable progress has been
made in the preparation o| data relating
to both the Northern 'and Southern
armies, which might be made much more
complete if access could be had to mat
ter not now in the custody of the gov
ernment.
Very respectfully your ob’t serv’t,
(Signed) William W. Belknap,
Secretary of War.
> —-+
An Irreconcilable.
[From the Chicago Tribune.]
Ex-Senator Robert Toombs, who has
not yet called the roll of his slaves in the
shadow of Bunker Hill, is still eating tire
and trying to stir up the embers of
Southern hate against the Union with
wild and malignant bombast and howling
denunciation of the people of the North
A few days ago he addressed the Georgia
Legislature and others at Atlanta on the
issues of the day. He let all the wild
animals loose again, got on the rampage,
and lashed and tore things to tatters in a
manner which outdid any of his maniacal
ravings prior to and during the slave
holders' rebellion. Elsewhere we print the
main points of his speech, which appears
to have been vociferously applauded by his
audience, which embraced the Georgia
Legislature. His first tilt was at the
constitution, of course. It was not the
law of ffi people of the Soutn. ~Lt^ - vio
lated the fundamental principles of so
ciety.” The people is “accursed” which
“accepts a fundamental law from another
people.” It was made “by ignorant sav
ages led by rogues to perpetuate the
power of rogues.” “It was made to
plunder the people and ought to be
changed.” “The Saxon race is ever more
dishonored by that instrument,” and so
on ad nauseam. From the constitution
he passed to the negroes—his late chat
tels whose roll he was going to call on
Bunker Hill. “The Yankees,” says he,
“are miserable wretches who have
injected 5,000,000 of savages into
the stomach of our body politic.”
He explains how some “honest fellows”
have secured election to the Legislature.
“We got them there by intimidation and
bribery, and I helped to do it. I would
have scorned the people if they had not
done it! And I will buy them as long as
they put beasts ttUgo to the ballot-box!”
“We carried them with us by bribery and
intimidation. I advised it, and paid
money for it. You all know it, but won’t
say it.” “If you have a convention, I
can make you a constitution by which
the people will rule and the nigger never
be heard of.” The raving madman closes
his speech with the personal declaration :
“I am, I believe, the only living seces
sionist to-day in the State of Georgia.”
“I am just as good as Jeff Davis, and he
is no better than I am. I demand to be
placed beside him.” These a?e a few
sample utterances from a long speech,
breathing the most malignant hate,
venom, and rancor towards the North.
They resemble nothing so much as the
incoherent ravings of a madman, which
must disgust even his Southern hearers.
It is somewhat curious that this
blatant and blustering fire-eater does
uot leave the country which he hates
so intensely, and take up his abode in
some other land where the constitution
and negro will no longer provoke tlieso
displays of lunacy. If he insists upon
remaining here, his own friends ought to
put him in a strait-jacket or send him to
some private asylum, in the interests of
peace, order and decency. This would
undoubtedly be done were it not a fact
that he reflects the feelings and senti
ments of tens of thousands of Confeder
ates, who warmly sympathize with all he
says, but do not deem it politic or advisa
ble to give expression to their real views
until after the next Presidential election.
Reduction op the Militaby Ex
penses.—The House Committee on Mili
tary Affairs amused itself on Tuesday in
discussing the reduction of the pay of the
officers of the army. Ten thousand dol
lars was thought enough for Sherman,
eight thousand for Sheridan, six thou
sand for major generals, five thousand
for brigadier generals; colonels, thirty
five hundred; lieutenant colonels, three
thousand; majors, twenty-five hundred;
captains, two thousand, and a correspond
ing reduction down to second lieutenants,
who are thought worth $1,200 per an
num. The office of chaplain was not
thought worthy of continuance. The
chairman of the committee, General Ban
ning, has in preparation a bill looking to
the consolidation of the quartermaster,
commissary and paymaster generals’ de
partments ; the ordnance and artillery
departments, and some other combina
tions in the staff departments of the army.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Gazette is authority for the
statement that the support and approba
tion of the best officers of the army has
been given to the measures introduced
and proposed by the military committee.
A Contrast Worthy Public Attention.
What is the effect of a drastic purgative upon
the constipated bowels and a dyspeptic stomach ?
The intestine is emptied so violently as to weaken
and render it still more inactive, and the gastric
juices vitiated by contact with an indigestible
medicine, lose the chemical qualities which con
stitute them the only true solvents of the food.
Results—aggravated constipation and chronic
indigestion. What, on the other hand, are the
effects of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters on the same
organs. The bowels are moved, but without vio
lence, and at the same time acquire healthy tone;
the gastric secretions are stimulated and im
proved, and duly perform their part in the pro
cesses which eventuate in the nutrition of _every
g*rt of the human structure. Results—a regular
abit of body, sound digestion of vigor. Let the
public draw its own conclusions from this con
trast. feW-ga,Tu,Thftwl
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
.Mutter* anri Thing* in Uenrrnl—Hrltef
for the North and Mouth Hailroad— Other
ltailroud Kiiterpriwea—Prevention of
Cruelty to Aniuials—The Political I'ntn
paign Opened—Legislative Matters—
Federal Troop* Sent to Cnrtrrsvllle.
[Special*'orrtsponilence of the Morning News.]
Atlanta, February 5, 1870.
Binyou, the defaulting teller of the
Atlanta National Bank, is still in charge
of an officer at the Markham House, har
ing failed to make the desired bond. His
health is failing, but he has not commit
ted suicide as reported.
John D. Carter, Esq., of your city, is
now at the Kimball House, having applied
for admission to practice in the Supreme
Court of the State. His application will
no doubt be granted.
Senator Lester has returned, and on
yesterday presided over the Senate as
President pro tern. He is an efficient legis
lator and an excellent presiding officer,
and never occupies the time of the Sen -
ate with useless remarks.
Colonel W. H. Wylly, of Sandersville,
has been about the Capitol for tne past
three days, and has, no doubt, convinced
the members of the Legislature of the
justness of the claim of Washington and
other counties to be relieved of a portion
of the expense of the late insurrection
troubles. Solicitor General John W.
Robison, of Sandersville, has also been
here, and the relief sought for will, no
doubt, be secured.
RELIEF FOR NORTH AND SOUTH RAILROAD.
Columbus has a very strong delegation
here in the interest of the North and
South Railroad, which that city desires
to save from bankrupt sale, and have
extended A. . direction X ot'
La Grange or Atlanta. A
joint finance committee of the
Senate and House met in the Senate
chamber yesterday and heard the argu
ments of the friends of the road in Co
lumbus. Mayor Cleghorn, Col. Salisbury,
Dr. Hood, Solicitor General Little, Al
derman Prior, Col. Mott, Capt. Chipley
and others aro making every effort to
secure the road from sale, as Columbus
has a large financial investment in it
which they think can be partially saved
by an extension of the road during the
present year.
OTHER RAILROAD ENTERPRISES.
The Board of Directors of the Western
ami Atlantic Railroad have just held a
meeting here, and I noticed among the
arrivals several prominent railroad men,
including the Hon. John P. King and
Col. S. K. Johnson, of Augusta; General
W. S. Holt and W. B. Johnston, Esq., of
Macon; Gen. E. P. Alexander, of Mont
gomery; and Col. E. W. Cole, of Nash
ville. I tried to interview some of them
in regard to the recent agitation of the
subject of attempting to complete at this
time unfinished railroad enterprises. They
simply shook their heads and remarked
that they had nothing to say about the
matter. Still, much is just now being
said in the papers and on the streets in
regard to the Macon and Brudswick,
North and South, Brunswick and Albany,
Northeastern and other roads. Despite
the financial pressure it is claimed that
these lines can be relieved of their heavy
embarrassments and extended during the
present j ear. This is the view taken by
the friends of tlwse enterprises, but more
experienced railroad men seem to doubt
the soundness of the view taken.
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Miss Louisa W. King, of Augusta, has
been spending a few days in the city, and
I am glad to be able to state that she has
been successful in her efforts to enlist the
ladies of Atlanta in the noble work of
protecting the brute creation from un
necessary hardships and malicious cru
elty. A branch society for the protec
tion of cruelty to animals will soon be
organized here, under the direction of
the parent society at Augusta, which has
jurisdiction over the entire State. Miss
King has made a liberal expenditure of
her means and given a large portion of
her time to the promotion of this phi
lanthropic movement, and she is anxious
to have branch societies organized in Sa-
Macon, 'GofiiuiouS’7nrd-u
ies and towns throughout the State, and
I am sure the Morning News will not
hesitate to aid her in the accomplish
ment of this worthy object.
THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OPENED.
The Radicals opened the campaign last
night at James’s Hall, in response to a
call from Wm. Markham, owner of Mark
ham House, Ben Conley, Postmaster,
and H. Potash Farrow, United States
District Attorney. On arriving at the
hall I found a large crowd of negroes and
about two hundred white men present.
Potash Farrow called the meeting to
order, and nominated Hon. Jonathan
Norcross for chairman. This gentleman
came forward and spoke his little speech,
into which he made an effort to inject a
vein of satire, as he alluded to “carpet
baggers, negroes and thieves.” The meet
ing was called to oppose the Constitu
tional Convention, which the official
notice sets forth to be an “outrageous
measure.”
Ex-United States Attorney General
Akerman was introduced as tlie speaker
of the occasion, and proceeded to make a
speech of over two hours in length. He
confined himself wholly to the conveu
tion question, basing his remarks upon a
set of resolutions which he offered to the
meeting, and which will reach you in
print before the publication of this let
ter. Mr. A. reviewed the history of con
stitutional conventions in this State, the
character of the men who composed
them, and the results of their labors. He
endeavored to show that the changes
now demanded were not called for by the
people, and would not be beneficial to
the State.
It is evident from his resolutions and
remarks that the Radicals will make this
question one of prime importance in the
earning political congest. Both he and
the chairman of the meeting declared
that a large portion of the Democrats of
Georgia were in sympathy with them on
this question, and they proposed to
enlist them under their banner of op
position to the “outrageous measure.”
The Radical machinery in all parts of the
State is to be oiled up immediately and
repaired and set in motion. The negroes
are to be rallied on the ground that un
less they defeat this measure they will
be disfranchised by the new constitution,
and the poor whites will have their
pockets, their homesteads and their
prejudices appealed to in order to rally
them against the Democracy.
LEGISLATIVE MATTEBS.
There is no prospect of an early ad
journment of the Legislature. Both
branches are over-crowded with bills,
many of a useless or unimportant char
acter, and slow progress is being made in
the disposal of them.
As to economy, the policy seems to
strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.
For instance, the first two speeches
against the Board of Health, on Thurs
day morning last, cost the State just two
hundred and sixteen dollars, and yet one
of the speakers objected to the Board be
cause the printing of its voluminous and
valuable annual report costs about two
hundred dollars. This is a fair specimen
of the economy that is being practiced.
The illicit distillery troubles about Car
tersville are becoming quite serious, and
resolutions have already been introduced
into the Legislature protesting against
the reported outrages by Deputy United
States Marshals and their assistants. Two
companies of soldiers from the barracks
here have gone up to Cartersville, which
shows that the Federal authorities are
bound to sustain their officials in that
section. There seems to be a determina
tion-on the part of the Radicals to stir up
the people of those invaded counties and
thereby bring about a bloody conflict be
tween them and the Federal troops.
Already one citizen has been killed while
defending himself from the soldiers who
were assisting the Deputy Marshals in
their efforts to hunt up illicit distilleries.
I fear the end is not yet, as the “bloody
shirt” must wave.
Chatham.
Hardly to be credited, but it is neverthe
less true, that a sick horse or a bad-condi
tioned cow can be brought up in a few days
by the use of Simmons’ Liver Regulator. The
powders should be mixed with the food, and
they will eat it readily; and it is surprising
to see what improvement immediately takes
place. It opens the bowels, strengthening
them, and does all and even more than the
best Condition Powders. A small quantity
in the food for chickens will cure cholera,
and keep the poultry healthy.
febi-FjM.W&wI
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Nummary of lhr Weelt’s Dispatches
FROM THE STATE CAPITAL.
Proceedings of the General Assembly.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Atlanta, February 1.
, IN THE SENATE.
Bills ou third reading:
The House bill to exempt from garnishr
ment the wages of laborers and mechanics
passed, with au amendment that the bill
should not affect executed contracts.
To incorporate the Atlantic Cotton Spin
ning Company. Passed.
To amend section 894 of the Code relative
to the dispossession of the tenant of land
sold under tax fi. fas. Passed.
To require the collection of statistics of
imports and exports. Lost.
To provide for the better collection of
taxes. Lost.
IN THE HOUSE—NEW BILLS.
Mr. Camp—To require cost in civil cases
in Justice Courts to be advanced by plaintiffs
residing out of the county.
Mr. Lawton—To authorize the'Superior
Court to grant or amend charters to certain
private corporations.
• Mr. McQill—To amend section 3972 of the
Code, so as to change the time of advertis
ing mortgaged personal property from
eight to four weeks.
Mr. Wilcher—To regulate the valuation
of property set aside; also to protect pur
chasers of homestead property.
Mr. Peeples—To amend section 2537 of the
Code, in reference to tho return of admin
istrators.
Mr. Williams—To fix the compensation of
Treasurer of Muscogee couuty, to bo
pjM a salary fixed by tho County Comm if.
/60ft.:,. also to encourage immigration, and
,f°>> tin! appointment of a Commissioner of
Emigration.
Mr. Hammond—To amend section 4687 of
the Code, relating to the change of venue,
and to prescribe how venue may be changed.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
To make penal hunting or fishing on the
premises of another. Passed, with an
amendment which excluded most of the
counties.
The following bills were lost: To make
capiat tho offense of horse-stealing.
To give written obligations tho force of
judgment liens, and to provide for the col
lection of debts due thereon.
To make it lawful for Judges of tho Supe
rior Courts to hear and determine motions
for new trials at chambers.
A RESOLUTION
was adopted that on and after Thursday
next no new matter shall bo introduced ex
cept by consont of three-fourths of the
members present.
An afternoon session was held for tho
reading of bills a second time.
Atlanta, February 5,1876.
In the Senate, Mr. Gilmore moved
a reconsideration of the bill to exempt
from garnishment tho wages of mechanics
and day laborers. Mr. Crawford spoke in
favor of the bill, and moved to lay the
motion to reconsider on the table. The
latter motion prevailed.
New bills: Mr. Blanco—To amend section
4687 of tho Code.
Mr. Hudson, of tho 25tli —To requiro tho*
Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum to
exercise some discretion in admitting lu
natics.
The special order: To protect agri
cultural interests, and to define and pun
ish larceny from tho field, for which a
substitute was passed, making it penal
to purchase corn or seed cotton from a
tenant or laborer having no right to
sell, after notice to such buyer from the
land owner that the laborer or ten
ant has no right to sell.
In tho House, the Finance Committee re
ported the general appropriation bill, which
was made tho special ordor of Wednesday
next.
Bills on third reading—To regulate
practice in divorce cases. This bill was
reported by the Judiciary Committee,
and provided for tho payment of costs
verdicts should be rendered at different
terms of the court. The bill was strongly
supported by Messrs. Lawton, Warner and
Bacon, and opposed by Messrs. Peeples and
Davis, and was, on motion, indefinitely post
poned.
To regulate the sale of opium in this
State. Passed.
To regulate the sale of poisons. Passed.
To amend section 4127 of the Code so as
to require S3OO cost to be taxed for each ver
dict and SIOO for confession of judgment, to
be paid over to the County Treasurer and
to go with the fund for the payment of ju
rors. Passed.
To authorize the Governor to purchase
standard weights and measures for counties
not already provided. Passed.
To exempt railroad conductors and station
agents from jury duty. Passed.
To regulate the manner of granting li
censes to sell intoxicating liquors in the
county of Muscogee. The favorable report
of the committee was disagreed to and tho
bdl was lost.
To amend the laws in regard to the issuing
of municipal bonds as far as relates to Au
gusta. Passed.
To amend tho jury laws so far as relates
to Richmond county.
To amend the law governing tho registra
tion ol voters in Chatham county. Passed.
To requiro Ordinaries to make returns to
grand juries. Withdrawn.
The Senate amendment to the llouso bill
in reference to the garnishment of wages,
that it should not apply to executed con
tracts, was concurred in. It now only re
quires tho Governor’s signature to become a
law.
Atlanta, February 7.
SENATE—BILLS INTRODUCED.
Mr. Reese—To regulate the mode of trial
in cases in which the State is a party.
Mr. Gilmore—To amend section 39G1 of
the Code.
Mr. Kibbec—To require railroad corpora
tions to begin and complete construction of
said roads within the time specified in the
bill.
BILLS PASSED.
To amend section 437 G of the Code, so as
to make the same apply to persons burning
or attempting to burn their own houses.
To prohibit driving stock into the State
from adjoining States, between the first of
April and last of December.
To define when trust estates may be cre
ated.
To amend section 327 of the Code in refer
ence to eligibility and disability of Ordi
naries.
To empower Judges of the Superior Court
to appoint a stenographer or reporter.
To require mortgages of personal property
to be recorded in this State.
BILLS BECONSIDEBED.
In the House, the following bills, passed
on Saturday, were reconsidered :
To regulate the sale of opium.
To amend the act to regulate the issuing
of bonds by county or municipal authorities,
except Augusta.
A bill to regulate the manner of granting
licenses to sell intoxicating liquors in Mus
cogee county being lost on Saturday, was
reconsidered and passed.
NEW BILLS.
Mr. Clements, of Whitfield—To authorize
the Solicitor General to enter nol pros,
in certain cases.
Mr. Black—To prescribe time and mode
of granting new trials in criminal cases in
county courts ; also, to require courts to
render judgments at first term in certain
cases.
Mr. Wofford—To compel municipal offi
cers to discharge their duty impartially.
Mr. Wilcher—To regulate receiving tax
returns in this State.
Mr. Nelms—To amend section 3850 of the
Code so as to allow witnesses for defense
sworn before grand juries in certain cases.
Mr. Clements, of Whitfield—To allow
Judges of the Superior Courts to strike cer
tain criminal cases from their docket.
Mr. Rankin—To declare forfeited the fees
of Solicitor-Generals in the Snpreme Court
when their duties are not faithfully dis
charged.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bills passed: To amend.seetion 2040 of
the Code so as to include one sewing ma
chine among the exemptions.
Hills lost: To provido for a State our
reucy.
To define tho liability of owners of pas
tures and inclosures.
To exempt from taxation by county and
municipal authorities professions taxed by
the State.
lo revive an act to authorize maimed,
indigent and blind persons to peddle without
license.
To amond the fonco laws of this State.
THE STATE ROAD.
Mr. Baker offered a resolution asking in
formation ot the Govornor concerning a
share of tho State Road lcaso given to tho
State by A. 11. Stephens.
During the afternoon session a number of
bills wore read a second timo.
WERE THEY BRIBED ?
Mr. Bacon, of Bibb, called attention to an
editorial in tho Ilcroiti of yesterday charging
that Joe Brown had expended ten thousand
dollars in the Legislature of 1871 to obtain
the lease of the State road. Asa membor
Legislature who voted for the lease,
Mr. Bacon desired
AN INVESTIGATION
as to tho truth of tho charges, and offered
a resolution for the appointment of a com
mittee for that purpose. Agreed to.
RESIGNED.
Mr. Grimes, of Muscogee, this afternoon
tendered his resignation, which waa
accepted by tho Governor.
THE GALLOWS.
[Special Telegrm to tho Morning News.]
Jacksonville, Fobruary 4.
Lloyd Brown, tho murderer, was hanged
at fifteen minutes past ten. He said, with a
slight quaver in his voice :
“I hope my colored friends will take
by my condition. I trust in God
to meet white and colored iu heaven. lam
willing to go.”
He expired within five minutes, apparent
ly without pain. waffprosent.
ACQUITTED. \
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Lake City, Fla., February 5.
Paxton, charged with the murder of
Bothoa, has been acquitted. J.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, February 4.—lu tho Senate
there were twenty-one petitions from work
ing men and others for subsidy to tho
Texas Pacific Road.
Clayton called up the bill to repeal tho
restrictions ou laud sales, but Frelinghuysen
said Bruco, who was sick, wished to* ex
amine the bill. It went over.
A personal explanation by Sargeant
showed that counsel for membors of the
Board of Public Works, to defend their
transactions, were paid iu District bonds.
The Commitoe ou Patents reported fa
vorably ou the bill to extend the patent for
shaping tho heels of boots and shoes.
Hamilton introduced a bill giving tho
Court of Claims jurisdiction to hear and de
termine claims of lawful owners, or their lo
gal representatives, of cotton seized after
the 30th of June, 1865, by agents or officers
of tho government, where it shall appear to
the satisfaction of the court that the soizuro
was made by a military officer or a United
States Treasury agent, and that the pro
ceeds of such seizure were duly accounted
for to the government, when tho court shall
render judgment iu favor of tho claimant
for net proceeds of bis cotton ; and if it
shall appear to tho court that the military
officers and agents of the government failed
to report accurately the names of persons
from whom the seizure was made according
to laws and their instructions, or the locality
from which the cotton so seized
was taken, then the court shall render
judgment in favor of claimants for such a
proportion of the number of bales seized
from him a@ bears to the whole number of
bales of cotton seized after the 30th of
June, 1865, and which arrived at a port in
the Stato in which the claimant alloges his
cotton was taken after seizure, and the pro
ceeds of which still remain in tho Treasury;
the bill not to apply to any claim now pond-*
ing in the Court of Claims for cotton seized
prior to June 30, 1865, nor any claim not
filed in the Court of Claims six months after
the passage of tho act.
Pinchhack was resumed, the question being
on Edmunds’ amendment that ho introduced
March last, that Pinch back be not admitted.
Morton gave a history, of Pinchhack’s per
sonal, military and political course, and reacf
an affidavit that Pinchhack had been iu a,
work house for assault and battery. He res
iterated his former argument. At the con*
elusion of Morton’s speech, on motion of
Cameron, tho Senate went into executive
and n.diinirne-1 tojffinidav. . I
lu me House, ou motion of DougSiss, t*
number of gentlemen from the Connecticut
Bureau of Immigration were admitted to
the floor.
The House then went into Committee
of tho Wholo on tho private calendar, Hol
man in the chair.
The following bills were passed :
For the relief of Robert Erwin of Savan
nah, and John T. Burchett, of Knoxville,
Tenn. Adjourned to Monday.
The order suspending G. W. B. Block, at
torney, from practising before tho War De
partment, was revoked by the Secretary.
The bill reducing the pay of army officers,
cuts down the appropriations $700,000.
The Secretary of War has given orders to
the Special Committeo on the Texas border
troubles, and will send additional troops to
the Rio Grande.
The sub Naval Committee of the House
has gone to Norfolk to examine witnesses in
regard to alleged political uses of the yard.
Confirmations : Chas. B. Gill, Commis
sioner of Pensions.
Washington, February 7.—Gen. Or<l left
San Antonio February 4th to testify before
the Committee on Texas Border Raids. Geu.
Steele, Adjutant General of Texas, who had
been sent by Gov. Coke to the Rio Grande
to investigate affairs there, has also been
summoned, and will be hero this week.
This will close the evidence upon which the
committee will base their recommendation,
upon which, however, they have had no
formal consultation.
Pinchback gives way to the centennial
appropriations to-day. It is stated -that no
vote will be allowed until Senators Rurnside
and Sharon are in their seats. Their votes
are required to make assurance doubly
sure.
There is no positive assertion on either
side as to Billings’s fate.
General Fremont was before the Judiciary
Committee, which is investigating the ir
regularities regarding the charter of the
old Transcontinental Road. The session
was secret.
A. J. Banks requosts editors to send their
papers to Democratic headquarters here
during the campaign.
General Humphreys, Chief Euginecr of
the United States army, was before the
House Levee Committee this morning, and
argued strongly in favor of levees, and fur
nished facts and figures in support of the
proposed bill for government aid.
Washington, February 7.—Nomination :
A. E. Adams, of Kentucky, Consul at Port
Said.
Charles Morton was before the House Ju
diciary Committee, and furnished a list of
witnesses to prove the alleged use of money
in securing the charter of the Memphis and
El Paso Railroad. It is alleged that one
hundred and seventy thousand dollars in
money were paid out, aDd a million prom
ised. Fremont was present, but as a wit
ness. The object of this investigation is
against the present Pacific Railroad Com
pany, which, it is said, has come honestly
into possession of some of the tainted fran
chises.
Continuation : Charles E. Brown, Pension
Agent at Cincinnati.
In the executive session of the
Senate there was a discussion which
lasted nearly an hour and a half, re
specting the nomination of E. C. Billings to
be United States District Judge for Louisi
ana, vice Durell, resigned. The report of
the Judiciary Committee recommended bis
confirmation. This was opposed by several
Democratic Senators, on the ground that
Billings took part in the preparation and
issuance of the so-called “midnight order”!
of Judge Durell, and that he was improp
erly connected with the transactions of
Norton, the Register in Bankruptcy. These
allegations were denied by Senator West and
several members of the Judiciary Commit
tee, who claimed to show that they were en
tirely unfounded. The indications are that
when the matter is decided, Billings will be
confirmed by nearly a solid Republican vote,
and his Iriends assert that some of the
Democratic Senators also will vote for his
confirmation.
In the House the following bills were in
troduced : -
Hewett—To establish a Bureau of Archi
tecture.
Hunton—To aid the Washington and
Ohio Railroad Comwany in the construction
of its road to the Ohio river.
Candler—To establish Atlanta a port of
delivery.
Morey—The resolution of the Louisiana
Legislature for an appropriation to con
struct the levees of the Mississippi river.
Bland—To substitute legal tender notes
for national bank notes; to make duties on
imports receivable one-half in legal tender
notes, and the repeal of the resumption act
of the 14th of January, 1875.
Kasson moved to suspend the rules so
that the House may proceed to vote sepa
rately on the following two resolutions :
Resolved, That the constitutional author
ity of Congress to coin money and to regu
late the value thereof, and of foreign coin
does not include the authority to issue the
paper of the government as money, and, in
the judgment of the House, the Constitu
tion nowhere confers on Congress the power
to issue in time of peace the promises or ob
ligations of the government as a legal ten
der in payment of debts.
Resolved, That any legislation touching
the legal tender currency of the government
should keep steadily in view the resumption
of specie payment, and should tend to
Wifi an co tfie value of tfiat ourreacy for the
redemption of which the faith or the United
States haw boeu pledged to its citizen**.
iuii 18 a very im P°rtant
We ought to have a word to say about it,
divided an ~-Tt* e proposition ought* to be
Tho Speaker-! he gentleman from lowa
proposes that it he divided.
Cox—l hope it will bo referred to the
Committee on Banking and Currencv
Tage, of California*— Oh, no!
Fort—The House ought t 0 have the
opinion of tho Judiciary Committeo on it
Kasson—l ninst object to the debate
Cox-If I understand the proposition, it is
not a vote on tho merits of tho question
hut only a vote on motion to suspend rule ’
Kasson—lf the vote bo in the negative it
will be a rejection of tho resolution 1
Randall—Not a bit of it.
The rules were not suspended by veas nr,
nays 140 and tho resolutions were not bel
fore tho House.
The hill to pay tho interest on tho Dis
trict bonds was referred to a committeo of
conference. 1
The Committee on Foreign Affairs was di
rectedl to inquire as to Schenk’s connection
with the Emma Mine. Referred to Com
mittee of the Whole. om *
Ou diplomatic appropriations thoro was
no action. Adjourned.
In the Senate, the Chair submitted the
memorial of the Now York Board of Trade
demonstrating the inexpediency of attempt
ing the resumption of specie payment be
fore the requisite conditions were ripe.
West presented a joint resolution of tho
General Assembly of Louisiana asking an
appropriation for constructing the levees of
the Mississippi river in Louisiana, that thr
General Government assume exclusive con
trol of such leveees.
Tho bill allowing 4 per cent, interest on
Alabama claims after judgment passed.
, Morrill gave notice that he would, at one
o clock to-morrow, call up the centennial aD
propriatiou bill. 1
Pinchhack was resumed. Thurman and
Chnstiaucy spoko against, and Howe in
favor of, bis admission. No action.
Morrison, Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, iu eight or teu days will
ask tho committeo to consider his tarilfbill
lie is in no hurry, but desires first to . licit
public discussion. Ho has every reason to
believe tho committeo will endorse the bill
substantially and tho Houso pass it.
TERRIBLE CASUALTY AT THE CINCINNATI
HOUSE, jt
Cincinnati, February s—During tho per-1
toiTuauoe of the allegory of the Great
public in Robinson s Opera House thin
noon a stampede was caused by an alarm of
lire, causelessly raised by a mischievous bov
in the gallery The allegory has been upon
™£* ago of B°biusmi’s Opera House for the
past two nights under tne auspices of the
amdied to th? liof Ul ' lon ’ PrSoceds to ho
applied to th) suflormg poor or this city.
■W®*fe rnIL N, numbering nearly six kun
uiod children, Wy- 0 taken f rom tlm public
schools of the i-Kv As tho objoot
worthy one, and children who took
part wore thoso of oH
of the city, vast audiomL were present it
each presentation of t®, allegory The
weather this afternoon L„ monition*
thero being no sessions of the Sjhlic schools’
there was a matinee. scuoois,
A later dispatch says thero aro h. ulv „ nn
dieting stories as to tho origin of tffv,
The butldiug was filled from tlio pari...‘u ’
to the gallery with a douse mass, which-,,.;
only filled tho seats and aisles, hut orowdoi
the stairway, and hundreds were out -j i 0
seeking to gain admission. Behind tho
seeues wero 500 school children, who
wore to take part in tlm performance. \s
tho timo approached ior tho commencement
of tho exorcises a calcium light in tho gal
lery flashed its glare upon tho stage, an,l
immediately the cry of lire was raised. The
audieuco became panic stricken, and
rush was made for tho atairwai -
Somo are sit’d to have leaped from a baleen
upon tho crowd below. Tho lower
circle of tho houso is hut a few steps
above tho level of tlm street, but the steps
aie narrow, and soon becamo blocked by tlm
surging crowd. Inside tho house multi
tudes wore pressing for tho doorway, and
in tho panic women and children wore ovoi
thrown and trampled upon by tho panic
strickon crowd. Tho alarm rapidly spread
throughout tho city, and those who hail
wives and children there hurried forward to
their rescue. A few heroic men placed
themselvos near the doorway' and endeavored
to assure the people there was no danger,
and an effort was mado from tho stage to
cheek tho mad career of tho affrightened
audience, but quiet was not restored
until a numbor wero trampled to death
and many wero seriously injured. Those
able to walk at once made their way home
ward; thoso more soriously injured woro
taken to tho 9th street Station House and
Commercial Hospital, and tho dead wero
gathered iu one of tho offices of tho Opera
House. Teu were killed and a largo num
ber seriously injured.
THE BABCOCK TRIAL.
St. Louis, February 7.—Babcock appeared
in court to answer an indictment charging
him with complicity iu the whisky frauds, at
tended by Judge J. K. Porter, of Now York,
Emory A. Storrs, of Chicago, ox-Unitod
States Attorney General Williams, and
Judge John M. ami Chester H. Krurn, of
St. Louis, as counsel. His father-in-law,
Judgo S. Marshall Campbell, of tho North
ern bistnot ot 1 aiM"ins"
C. VV. Babcock, ot Kansas, sat in the court
room near him. District Attorney D. P.
Dyer, and special counsel Jas. O. Broadliead
and Major Lucien Eaton appeared for tho
government. It was Gen. Babcock’s first
appearance in court sinco his indictment.
Tho formality of pleading not guilty was*
gone through with. Tho jurors remaining
on tho old panel, and those especially sum
moned for this case, wero called over, and
but half of them responded, they having
beon selected from outsido of St. Louis
couuty, and soino of them not having had
time to arrive.
Mr. Storrs stated that tlio couusol for de
fense very much needed another day for
consultation, and also awaited tho arrival of
very important documentary evidence. Tho
counsel for the government made no objec
tion to tho delay, ami after brief considera
tion Judge Dillon announced that the case
would go over until to-morrow morning, hut
that at 2 p. in. jurors would he called again
that it might be seen who were present.
DESTBUCTIVE FIRE.
New York, February 7. —At a late hour
last night a lire broke out in Frank Rboner’s
furniture establishment, Nos. 82 and 84
Bowery, and in a shorttimo the entire build-,
ing was in flames. A portion of tlie wall of
No. 84 fell on the roof of Nos. 8G and BGA,
crushing it in and setting lire to the build
ing, which with Nos. 82 and 84 were de
stroyed. The store and basement of No. 82
was occupied by W. J. Graham, manu
facturer of picture and looking-glass
frames. His loss is $14,000; in
surance unknown. Frank Rhoner, oc
cupying the store and basement
of No. 84, and four upper floors of that aud
No. 82 loses $45,000; insured for about $33,-
000. The building belonging to the estate
of ex-Judge Whiting is destroyed ; loss $31,-
000. The store of No. 4iG was occupied by
Wm. Weed, shoo dealer; loss SIO,OOO. No.
BGA was occupied by M. Bohn, dealer in fancy
goods ; less SIO,OOO. This building belonged
to O. 11. Mildenburger, whose loss is $5,000.
Dunn A Bros., clothing dealers, 80 Bowery,
lose $5,000 by water ; insured. The tiro was
caused by spontaneous combustion of rags
on the top floor in the roar of 82 Bowery.
THE PORTE RELENTS.
London, February G.—The Porte, in an
swer o Audrassy’s noto, announces his res
olution to apply in the insurgent districts
the live leading points of Andrassy’s scheme,
namely: The establishment of religious lib
erty, the modification of the system of col
lecting tithes, the granting of facilities to
agriculturists, the application of a portion
of the revenues of the insurgent provinces
to local improvements, and the appointment
of a mixed commission of Mussulmans and
Christiana to watch the execution of these
reforms.
CARDINAL MANNINO. M
London, February 7.—Cardinal Manning!
writes to tho Times stating that the tele®
grams from Rome that lie intends to pro®
ceed thither to promote tho union of a porM
tion of the English Ritualislic clergy witH
the Roman Catholic Church, aud that
had made proposals to the Vatican lookiuH
to that end, are both, from first to lasH
wholly devoid of truth. Ho says: “Ijfl
scheme whatever on the subject of RituiH
ism has ever, been conceived by me, afl
none has ever been to my knowledge
posed, or opposed, or defended at Romo.’^B
FHOM CINCINNATI. A
Cincinnati, February C.—lnformation
night from those injured at Robinson's Gffiera
House yesterday is favorable. )
Proceedings * were commenced : r& the
Court of Common Pleas yesterday, by Hon.
H. B. Banning and wife, Don Piatt and wife
and Clinton Kerby, to set aside the will of
the late Timothy Kerby, which it will be re
membered made provision for a number of
illegitimate children.
THE WHISKY SWINDLERS.
New Orleans, February 6.—lt is authori
tatively reported that certain crooked
whisky men here have sent an emissary to
Mobile to either destroy certain records or
advise dealers here of the best tactics to
pursue in case of an investigation.
THE MEXICAN BANDITS.
Washington, February C.—lnformation
has been received by Representative Han
cock to the effect that Mexican raids into
Texas continue, but which might, in part,
be prevented if there were more efficient
troops on the border.
The Dyspeptics.
Acidity of the stomach will destroy the strongest
teeth unless its effects be counteracted with Sozo
dont. This pure vegetable antacid and disin
fectant protects the dental surfaces by removiA
every impurity that adheres to them, and dB
venting the formation of tartar.
A wretched mistake! Not to buy SpalAjk’i
Glue. febs-Sa,Tu,ThSA|
Burnett’s C'oeoaine
Allays irritation, removes all tendency to dtt
ruff, and invigorates the action of the capillM I
in the highest degree. The Cocoaine has eajf /
a deserved reputation for promoting the grot jA
and preserving the beauty of the human hairj
Ladies dressing their hair elaborately lor th
evening will find that it imparts a healthy natural
gloss to the hair, and will cause It to retain it J
shape for hours, febs-Sa,WiMfcwJ j