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JNvamwh Weekly Ururs
SATURDAY, PKRKI'ARV l, 187.
Notion.
Col. R. L. Gentry is the only authoi
ized Traveling Agent for the Daily, Tri-
Weekly and Weekly Morning News.
The Gubernatorial Canvass Preuta
. In rely Opened.
It looka very much a* if the Guberna
torial cRuvHHH had been already com
menced in the interior of the State. Cer
tain presses neem to have taken the mat
ter in their own hands, and, without
waiting for a convention of the party or
for any reliable indications of the wishes
Of the people, have pitted their respec
tive candidates against each other and
are waging a war a Coutrance against each
Other.
We regard this precipitancy and in
temperate zeal as unfortunate, if not tor
the Democratic party, at least for the
gentlemen in whose behalf it is mani
fested. It is to be hoped that the De
mocracy of Georgia is sufficiently intel
ligent and patriotic to withstand these
minor dissensions, and to preserve
its unity in spite of them. The friends
of honest government have too much
at stake to allow themselves to be
distracted and divided at this time by
such trivial causes. Hut it is not so cer
tain that the gentlemen who, with or
without their consent, are made to cham
pion the Montagues and Capulets in these
personal. feuds may not come to harm
through the indiscretion of their friends.
Unanimity and concord will be an es
sential, if not an indispensable element
of success in the coming Gubernatorial
election. The Democratic party con
tains many eminent and worthy citizens
from among whom to select a candidate.
In due time and in accordance with time
honored usage, the people will
designate the citizen who, in their
judgment, not only possesses the
qualifications for the office, but who will
command the unanimous ai.d cordial sup
port of the party. Iu the meantime,
prudence would suggest the impropriety
of engendering personal antagonisms
which may not be easily reconciled.
Bowen’s Indictment of Beecher.
On our first page will be found a tele
graphio abstract of Henry C. Bowen's
letter defending himself against the
charges of Brother 8. V. White, who has
arraigned Bowen before Plymouth Church
on a charge of having slandered its par
non. Considering tho relations which
have heretofore existed between Beecher
and Bowen, the opportunities Bowen Ims
bad for obtaining a thorough knowledge
of his pastor’s character, and the line of
reticence which he so studiously pre
served pending the trial of the slander
case, his present declarations will take
the public by surprise, if tiny do
not go fur to remove any doubts
that may have existed of Beecher's
guilt. Bowen does not hesitate
to express his conviction that Htury
Ward Beecher, without even the shadow
of u doubt, ‘‘is guilty of the awful crimes
of adultery, perjury and hypocrisy.” He
also plainly declares that he has had com
municited to him, confidentially, facts
regarding other assaults on the “sanctity
of homo” by Air. Beecher than that he
committed within the household of Mr.
Tilton, und announces his entire willing
ness to testify to them before any proper
tribunal.
All must ngreo with tho New York Sun,
that it will be impossible for Plymouth
Church to refuse to listen to u statement
like this and yet maintain its position as
a Christian organization. One member,
has on her oath declared
to be a confessed adulterer.
emn declaration by publishing the fact
that years before the present scandal
came to the light, he knew of cases where
Mr. Beecher had craftily betrayed the
aanotity of other homes than Mr. Tilton’s.
No eliurch, not oven that strange one
which still owns this adulterer and per
r|urer us pastor, can allow such charges as
these to remain uniuvestigaltd.
Tom Stott’s Monster Job.
It is now understood that tbo Paeilie
Railroad Gommittoe will approve the re
port of the Hub-couunitteo iu favor of
Tom Soott’s subsidy scheme; in fact, ac
cording to reports from Washington, the
only amendment to the bill likely to be
offered is one making tbe job a some
what bigger one than it was before. In
addition to tbe brauohes connecting the
main line with St. Louis, New Orleans,
Memphis and Vicksburg, it is now pro
posed to include auothor brnuch, afford
ing a connection with Galveston. This
aw ill probably call for a government guar-
to another live or ten millions of
but as an addition to a scheme in
volving a total liability of about four hun
dred millions, that iu neither here nor
there. The guarantee of fifty years’ in
terest on the gold bonds of tbo Texas
- Pacific and associated railroad com
panies would it is estimated cre
ate a liability of übout two hundred
and ninety millions, while the con
tiugeut liability of the goverr.merit for
the repayment of tbe principal of the
bonds would represent an additional in
debtedness, including the new fifth
branch, of at least one hundred and
tweuty millions.
The Democratic majority iu the House
of Representatives have a grave respon
sibility b< fore them in the disposition of
this monstrous subsidysschema re
sponsibility involving the fate of the
party in the coming Presidential elec
tion.
Keverdy Johnson.
Tl e Hon. Keverdy Johnson, whose
sudden dt nth was announced iu our tele
)trams Saturday, was born in Annapolis,
Md., ou the 21st of May, 1796, and was
• lu lit.-.i at St. John’s Gollogo in that
city U the age of seventeen he began
tbe study of law under his father in
I'rtuoe George's county. Ho was admit
ted to the bar iu 1815, and removed to
Haltimore iu 1817. Much of his practice
duriug liis long and useful life, was devo
ted to arguing cases before tbe Supremo
Oonrt of tbe United States. He was
elected State Senate? iu tbe years 1821
nnd 1825, respectively, aud in 1845 was
chosen United States Senator, a position
which he resigned iu 1849 to accept the
office of Vttorney General of the
United States offered him by President
Taylor. Upon the election of Fillmore,
Mr. Johnson resumed the practice of his
profession iu Haltimore. He was a mem
ber of the convention which met in Wash
ington in 1861, which bad for its object
the prevention of a civil war. In 1862 he
was again elected United States Senator,
and served until 1868. Iu June of that
year he was appointed minister to Eng
land, where he negotiated a treaty for the
eettlement of the Alabama claims, which
was rejected by the Senate.
How the Truly Loyal Swindled the
Blacks. —Mr. Alvord. tbe second Presi
dent of the Freedman's Bank, was again
before the committee of the Freedman’s
Bureau on Thursday. The examination
showed that there was a studied plan on
the part of individuals and corporations
to defraud the bank. The examination
. has so far proceeded that the committee
is of opinion that the grand jury of the
District will at its next session have an
opportunity of indicting some intimate
Tom Soott’s Subsidy Scheme.
A correspondent of the New York
keening Pont takes strong grounds
against Tom Scott’s stupendous subsidy
scheme, and shows that a large part of
the undertaking for which aid is asked is
not only unnecessary, but if carried out
will prove actually- injurious to the coun
ty. Alluding to the several branches to
the main trunk, all of which are to be in
cluded in the subsidy, the writer says
that these branches are not needed: that
there are already in existence roads
which furuinh ample facilities, and which
will suffer from the proposed new lines;
that if traffic which they have secured is
diverted from them, and the business
which they have built up is impaired,
with the assistance of the government,
they scarcely will be in a position to make
good the consideration for the aid which
the government has already given to
them.
The interests of the sections of country
to bo reached by the proposed branches,
does not enter into the scheme which
Col. Scott and his ring are now urging
upon Congress. The only interests to be
served are those of the Pennsylvania Rail
road monopoly, of which Colonel Scott
is the head, the Pennsylvania and St.
Louis Construction Company, and the
ring who may have the manipulating of
the hundreds of millions of bonds en
dorsed by the government. This
monstrous subsidy is asked in the name
of the South, but not for the benefit of
the South, whose people at large, except
a dew capitalists and stockholders, would
realize no advantage from the success of
the scheme, but would have to bear their
full share of the burthen of taxation which
it would entail. Let the Democratic House
of Representative pass Tom Scott’s mon
ster subsidy bill, and then let us hear no
more about Radical profligacy, extrava
gance and corruption.
“Sensible Southern Democrats.”
A Washingtrn dispatch to the New
York Herald, treating of Mr. Davis’s re
c nt letter to Judge Lyons, says :
“The letter, people say, is simply cal
culated to revive animosities which ought
to rest, and shows that Mr. Davis is still
a soured and impracticable person, who
has not even the tact to remain silent. It
is thought that the letter will arouse a
good deal of bitter feeling iu the North,
for men say Mr. Davis writes as though
the rebellion was right and the defenders
of the Uuion were in the wrong and
ought to humble themselves and ask par
don. Sensible Democrats, Southern men
a ; well as Northern men, say they regret
the letter, and think it was entirely un
called for.”
Wo have heard something too much
of this sort of talk. The damnable iter
ation of “ policy,” “policy,” has become
as disgusting as it is stupid. We would
like to know the names of some of these
same “sensible Southern Democrats”
who “ regret ” Mr. Davis’s letter, and
think “it was entirely uncalled for.” We
venture the prediction that they will not
be in a hurry to reveal tlioir identity to
their constituents. The leader of the
Republican party rises in his place
in Congress and charges Mr. Davis
with outrageous cruelty and inhu
manity to defenseless prisoners of
war. If Mr. Davis were guilty of such
a crime he would be justly considered in
famous so long as his uumo could be re
membered. Yet because ho does not re
main quiet under this accusation and
allow his silence to be construed as admit
ting its truth, he is censured in the harsh
est terms. And when ho answers his ac
cuser and pronounces his statements false,
proves his statements false, Southern
Democrats say his letter is “entirely un
called for.” upon such “Southern
Democrats, ” too polititM^Bbe
E ntirely hoJ^K^jPf
Tho Texas Border Outrages.
General Ord was before the House
special committee on the Texas border
troubles on Friday, and described at
length the present condition of affairs
along the Rio Grande. He said that in
cursions are almost of daily occurrence,
and that it is impossible to stop them
with the present military force under his
command. Tho channel of tho Rio
Grande river is constantly changing, and
wherever the river recedes from the
American side leaving a strip of land where
the channel existed, the Mexicans settle
upon it, declaring they have exclusive
jurisdiction and refuse to cross to the
Mexican side. The marauders are assisted
by these squatters, and their presence
aggravates the existing evil. General
Ord represents further that the negro
troops of his command could not be re
lied on in case of trouble. He says they
are of the worst class of southern negroes,
and that the white officers do not dare to
leave their wives alone. These negro
troops also make trouble in the families
of Mexioaus living on the Mexican side,
and their officers are unable to control
them. The best class of negroes in Texas
will not enter the army, but prefer to
work on farms in the interior of the
State, aud this they are doing. With
two good regiments of troops General
Ord said that the incursions could be
stopped aud peace restored along the
border.
Hard Times in Boston.— The Boston
papers declare that the number of per
sons in that city dependent upon charity
for support is rapidly increasing, aud the
greater number of the increase are those
who never asked aid before. The long
shoremen aud fishermen in the last month
made their first appearance in the charity
offices, aud there are also many me
chanics aud clerks who are forced to ap
ply' for relief. At one office of charity
the applications are fully double what
they ever were before, and this notwith
standing the milduess of the winter.
This office has given out fifty-four pairs
of shoes a day since October. The asso
ciation provides wood sawing at fifty
cents a day for ten hours' work to those
who are willing to accept it, aud though
the pay is small many take it cheerfully,
since it enables them to live.
The Centennial Grab. — As we antici
pated, it now turns out that the million
and a half of dollars voted by Congress
to the Centennial is a clear donation of
that amount to the stockholders in that
speculation. It is stated that the House
amendment to the bill making the gov
ernment grant a sort of preference loan,
to be repaid out of the profits of the
undertaking before the loans of the other
stockholders, is practically inoperative.
The rights of the original subscribers to
Centennial stock are secured under the
provisions of the law which authorized
the exhibition, and no subsequent enact
ment can interfere with them.
The Judiciary Committee of the House
has begun the investigation recently
called for by Mr. Holman, of Indiana,
into the circumstances connected with
the passage of Gen. Fremont's Memphis
and Ei Paso bill several years ago. The
committee has a list of persons to whom
sums of money are alleged to have been
paid by Fremont for services in lobbying
the bill through. Members of the com
mittee are very reticent, but it is stated
on good authority that the list includes
the names of three or four men who are
now members of Congress, together with
about the same number of Washington
correspondents.
A Loyal Claim -One of the Legitimate
Results of the War.
We have looked in vain in the Chicago
Tribune and other Radical papers of the
North, whose editors have manifested so
much zeal of late in guarding the treasu
ry against all manner of claims from the
South, for a single word iu condemnation
of the most stupendous imposition that
has yet been attempted in the shape of a
war claim.
We have reference to the claim now
being prosecuted in the Court of Claims
by the officers and men of the North At
lantic squadron against the United States
Government for about two million dollars
as prize money for the capture of the
Confederate iron clads Texas and Beau
fort, which, being abandoned, fell into
the hands of the United States fleet at
the time of the evacuation of Richmond
just before the close of the war.
It will be remembered that, at the
evacuation of Richmond, orders were
issued by the Confederate authorities to
burn and sink all vessels of every kind
lying in the James river. In obedience
to these orders, the iron-clads Richmond.
Fredericksburg and Virginia were blown
up and sunk at the obstruction at Drury’s
Bluff, on Sunday, April 2, at midnight.
The remainder of the ships, includ
ing the gunboats Nansemond, Hampton,
Patrick Henry, Roanoke, Beaufort and
Texas, except the last two named, were
burned at Richmond the san night.
The Texas was the unfinished hull of a
large vessel intended to be entirely plated
with iron. She had no machinery nor
armament. On the eve of the evacuation
she had been prepared as a fire-ship by
placing on her decks a large quantity of
pine lumber and other combustible matter,
and towed to Drury’s Bluff, whence she
was to be let loose to drift into the Yankee
fleet; but the plan miscarried, the train
laid to fire her went out, and the helpless,
unmanned hull drifted down the stream
till it lodged on the mud flats, where it
lay for several days after the fall of Rich
mond. Her estimated cost was $75,000.
She was sold by the United States after
her pretended capture for $3,200
The other vessel, the Beaufort, was
‘■captured’’ on the marine railway,
opposite Rockets, where she was undergo
ing repairs. She was valued at $15,000,
and was sold after the capture by the
United States for $3,800. On these two
captures the officers and men of the
North Atlantic squadron base their claim
for prize money, the schedule of captured
property being as follows :
Value of the Texas $586,660 66
Value of iron plating, elc r. 5,455 uO
Value of lumber 150,£00 00
Value of the Iteauiort GO,OOO CO
Total $S92,m 66
Now when it is considered that ltich
mond was evacuated and the shipping
destroyed or abandoned during Sunday
night and Monday morning; that the
Confederates had retired, and that the
Federal troops occupied the city early on
Monday ; that no United States vessel
reached the city until the following day ;
that the North Atlantic squadron was at
least twelve miles distant from tho city at
the time of the destruction of the Con
federate iron-clads; that no battle
was fought, and that not a gun
from the Yankee squadron was fired—
when all these things are considered it
would seem that such a claim for prize
money is most preposterous—that it is
indeed akin to a disgraceful fraud.
But this is not the only claim of the gal
lant captors of the abandoned Confederate
vessels. It seems that by section 4085,
page 900, of the lievised Statutes, it is
provided that a bounty shall be paid by
the United States *
board ea 1 . _
belonging to an
ueginnn 0 of fln engage
ment, which is sunk or otherwise de
stroyed in any such engagement by any
ship or vessel belonging to the United
States, or which it may be necessary
to destroy in consequence of inju
ries, etc. This bounty amounts to $ 100
if the enemy’s vessel was of inferior
force, and to S2OO if of equal or superior
force, the money to be divided in the
same manner as prize money. The
libellants in the case have taken proof to
show that there was od board the ships
and shore batteries co-operating with the
ships a force of 5,000, while the forces on
the United States fleet was much smaller.
Applying this law to the facts as claimed
to have been proved, it is found that the
bounty money in store for the captors,
should their claim be allowed, is about
$1,000,000.
This is the character of the claim for
prize-money now being prosecuted be
fore the District Court at Washington,
and in support of which Lieutenant-Com
mander Goringe and Admiral Porter have
given their testimony. We doubt if the
annals of war can furnish a parallel case
of unmitigated pretense and deliberate
fraud. The only thing that can be said
in its favor is that it is “loyal,” and, like
rascality in general, may be considered
one of “the legitimate results of the
war.” As such we suppose it is approved
by the “bloody shirt organ, the Chicago
Tribune.
The Bayonet to Control the Ballot in
the South.
That miserable carpet-bagger, Patter
son, of Pennsylvania, who is charged
with haviug purchased Senatorship frem
the negroes iu the South Carolina Legis
lature, is represented as being very busy
in Washington, endeavoring to induce
the administration to renew its system of
military interference in the South. A
lispatcb says he reiterates his opinion
hat the use of troops is necessary to se
cure iair elections in the South. Hesays
there are troops enough in the South
now, if they are only properly used to pro
tect the voters. Gen. Grant, he says,
thoroughly understands the whole ques
tion, but just as soon as he lifts his hand
a hue and cry is raised, in which Repub
licans of the North join, against the use
o' troops. If this prejudice against pro
tecting the voters is allowed to prevail
during the coming canvass, he does not
look for Republican successes in any of
the States of the South except his own.
He says the poor white people of the
South, as well as the colored people,
would vote the Republican ticket gener
ally if they were not overawed. He says
Georgia, which gives such a large Demo
cratic majority, is fairly a Republican
State, and could be carried for that party
if the elections were conducted properly.
Senator Robertson, the colleague of Pat
terson, does not appear to concur in his
views. He says that he does not want
any troops to be used in the South.
9
Centennial Hospitality. —A bill has
been introduced in the New York Legis
lature intended to afford the Mayor of
New York an opportunity to extend mu
nicipal hospitalities to distinguished for
eign visitors during the centennial. The
present charter prohibits any expenditure
for a reception or entertainment except
upon the votes of four-fifths of the board
of aldermen. ■ As “the honor of the na
tion” will be involved in the proper en
tertainment of foreigners who may visit
the centennial show, the municipal gov
ernments of the large Northern cities
should apply to Congress for an appro
priation of a few millions of dollars to
enable them to do things up brown.
LETTER FROM JACKSONVILLE
A Regular Fount of Baudmlol—Swlnd
lin* a Widow— Another Radical “Thin*.
umßob - ’—Cariosities of a Show—An
furutii-il Italian—The Descent to Aver
n,,s Du*ubrion Pleasantry Angel*
*hall Weep at Thin—Pants to the Place
from Whence at First TheT Flew-A
Tipsy Otticer.
[Sped Correspondence of Ihe Morning News.]
•
Jacksonville, February 10, 1870.
WOE, 19 ME ALHAMA.
It is estimated roughly that there are
various methods of initiation into the
Republican party of Florida. One or
two of the dignitaries owe their present
prominent positions to a carious resigna
tion which enabled them to take a horse
whipping in the public streets. McLin’s
standing with the party is attributable
solely to the fact that he was once booted
down two flights of stairs for drunkenness.
Space forbids an enumeration of the
whole catalogue of bad works, but
the most approved mode among
the faithful is to produce
evidence of having stolen something in a
most unheard of manner. This entitles
the applicant to immediate admission,
and a proper share of the spoils, when
all other means might fail. No nice scru
pulosity about perpetrating robbery,
desecrating a grave or swindling the fa
therless must trouble the proselyte if he
would be installed mto full communion
with crime. The greater his de
velopment of wicked propensities, the
more cordially will he be welcomed. If
he has escaped from the penitentiary of
some other State he will compare the
more favorably with the balance of the
league of buccaneers in this —freebooters,
not like those of old, who simply robbed
for gold, but like the modern pirate, who
scuttles ships and cuts throats for
amusement. Scoundrelism is the sole
support of these scourges—beastliness is
their boast—inhumanity their most
striking chaiaeteristic, and idolatry
their deadly transgression. Nevertheless
as there is no exception without some
rule, of course no portion of the prece
ding will apply to the
Judge of Probate for Duval county. The
constitutional amendments in abolishing
the Count} Courts, graciously omitted to
abolish McLean, and left him still the
power to exist by shifts to himself best
known. This obnoxious proprietor of sev
eral petty offices would be to insignificant
an internuncius to demand notice if he
would coniine his operations to private
peculation, but when he commences to
oppress widows and orphans, it proves
that his cunning has heretofore been
greatly underrated. Over four years
since one Sanderson demised, and his
wife, it is understood, a short while ago,
applied to the unblemished McLean to be
put in possession of her late hus
band’s estate, offering to furnish
good and sufficient security in the
sum of $30,000. Her reasonable petition
was evaded by the Probate Judge, not
withstanding that she has never received
one dollar from the estate. It is stupen
dously courageous to harrass a helpless
woman, and even a hypochondriac would
enjoy- it. McLean has also been interest
ed in a slippery real estate transaction, a
history of which will be given later.
DIE, OU HAMMER.
How often genuine merit meets with
scoffs, how often influenza leads to
coughs, how often man mistaketh fraud
for truth, how oft Dejanira appears as
Ruth. There is an irrepressible whipster
who sticks to this commuuitv with the
tenacity of molasses to an urchin’s lips,
or bugs to a nigger’s wool, and w-ho has a
surprising talent for entertaining our
citizens. As he was hunting for me
with a repeater once, the law pre
scribes that I shall not indicate him
with particularity. I invariably re
spect the law, and especially when it is
Jbacked by a revolver. Well, the subject
matter of these remarks notified us of
a sparkling, dazzling ceremony, the title
of which I have forgotten, and must even
quote the programme from memory.
First. Series of cuts representing “Florida
after dark.” Any one who has never
seen Florida after dark can form no idea
of the magnificence of these views. Se
cond. Ditto “Floridaon a river.” Theim
of getting the whole State on
a iaverdoosm7T\ m P air the correctness of
this scene. ThhV.X I ',^ 6
a spoon.” This is exceedingly spoony.
Duplicates of the pictures displayed can
be obtained at 5 Spoon alley, Hue Too
loose. The exhibition on its first night
(Monday) terminated in a row, and in
the dark, as all tho gas went out, except
the manager.
ASK ME SOME QUESTIONS.
An Americanized Italian reached the city
last week with a post office money order
for fifty dollars, and evidently did not
relish the vexatious style of collecting it.
The following colloquy between himself
and the clerk ensued: “What is your
name?” “Lardella.” “Your other name?”
“Francis.” Middle name?” “Fabio.”
“Who does this come from ?” “My
wife.” “Where at?” “New York.”
“What is her name?” “Lardella.”
“Other name?” “Zerlina.” “White
or black ? “Oh, the devil, white.” The
money was paid, the Italian put it into
his pocket, rolled up his sleeves and
braced himself against the wall in a fight
ing attitude. An acquaintance, upon in
quiring into the cause of this strange de
meanor, evoked as an answer from Lar
della, “Ask me some questions. Does
anybody want to know now many child
ren I’ve got or how I fight?”
FURIOUS DRIVING.
It was remarked by Tom Fielding (me
thinks I see his spirit rising to regret the
truth) that if it had pleased fortune to
make him a pedagogue instead of a scrib
bler, his first care would have been to
supply a few people with intelligence
enough to keep them from making asses
of themselves. Now Fielding did not
realize the difficulties of carrying out his
intention. Some men are natural imbeciles
without brains, and while mankind are
to a certain extent creatures of culture
there is a small proportion of the human
race who are from the beginning abso
lutely brainless and, per consequence, ir
reclaimable. I can imagine no greater or
more reckless fools than those parties
who drive furiously through the streets
endangering the lives of pedestrians.
This evil has become a hideous nuisance,
and if there is no ordinance to remedy it
the Council should pass one at once.
MAGIC, MIRTH AND MYSTERY.
On and after to-morrow your corres
pondent will be accompanied by two
brass howitzers—one under each arm—
and a boy in readiness to pull the lan
yards at any moment. These instruments
have been employed at a tremendous ex
pense—and the expense of the Morning
News— not with any murderous design,
but simply for the purpose of frightening
off apparitions, in the shape of lunatics
who will have an insane desire to ex
press the opinion that I am a believer
in witchcraft for some of tho following
remarks. On Monday and Tuesday even
ing Philion’s novelty combination per
formed at Polk’s Hall lo very discouraging
audiences. The troupe is a meritorious
one, and while Mr. Philion will not com
pare with Maitland or Blitz, he has
brought the art of prestidigitation to a
high degree of excellence. He is ably
seconded by his wife and Mr. Robert
Darton. But the objectionable part of
Mr. Philion’s entertainment is his formula
“hocus pocus imperaim. ” Now, I believe
that he uses it unwittingly, but if some
of the Radical dolts who, in their im
penetrable stupidity, are always so cer
tain that this correspondent has no
knowledge of anything, will solicit in
formation from some college as to the
derivation of this phrase they may be
able to appreciate that the objection to
its use is not wholly finical. Mr. Philion
will have a benefit next Monday night
and deserves a large attendance.
SATE ME FROM MY FRIENDS.
In the report by Stearns’s organ of the
recent execution of the negro murderer
this- suggestive sentence, “ And
the judicial murder was over and the
spirit of Lloyd Brown gone to its final
judgment at the supreme bar.” We have
never doubted that Archibald Stearns et
als. could descend to the lowest depth of
iniquity, but we have never said anything
half so severe as this extract from their
organ.
THE GAMBLING IMBROGLIO.
The trio of gamblers who have been
occupying the public mind for several
days, came up on a writ of habeas carpus
on Tuesday, before E. M. Randall, acting
as Chief Justice, and were released from
custody on account of the informality of
the papers. They were subsequently re
arrested and arraigned before Ohappel, a
negro Justice, who is now conducting
their preliminary investigation.
MAINTAINING HIS DIGNITt*
It is one of Hr- ? clearest of all proposi
tions, that vb. an ofScer so over esti
mates his dignity that ne is compelled to
resort to stimulating flotations to main
tain it, he is just seventeen times too
smart to remain a policeman, and
should be relegated to the retired
list for his own convenience. There
is one such on the police force
of this city. On Friday night he was
in such a state of intoxication that a
brother guardian carted him to his home
instead of dumping him into jail. Mon
day night the same individual got drunk
again, invaded the precincts of Rotten
Row, and made things as lively as skip
pers in a cheese for a little while. There
certainly should be some way of dispens
ing with the labors of this Hercules.
Adrianos.
SENATOR BRUCE'S REVOLT.
A Terrible Arrnignnieit of IJrnnt—Tbe
Colored Senator from Mississippi De
nounces the Republican Party—Presi
dent Cirant a “Liar,” and the Repub
licans “ Hypocrites.”
Washington, February 10. —When the
Senate went into executive session this
afternoon it was for the purpose of get
ting rid of Billings’s nomination for the
United States Judgeship in Louisiana.
Senator West led off in a speech to the
effect that Billings was essential to the
prosperity of the Republican party in
Louisiana. Bruce, the colored Senator
from Mississippi, arose and said he was
sick of hearing such claims asserted on
behalf of the prosperity of the Republi
can party in the South. It was a lie.
The interests of the party were not re
garded in making Federal appointments,
and he would no longer remain silent
without entering his protest. The car
pet-bag element of the party was at the
foundation of the troubles in the six
teen States, and he should resist
such preposterous claims as had
been put forth -by the Senator from
Louisiana. Negroes were being slaugh
tered and killed in cold blood because it
helped to maintain the Republican party
in power in the North. He appealed to
the sympathy of those Senators who were
fond of parading their record as old time
abolitionists, but when a serious matter
was being discussed under the cover of
executive session they refused to acknow
ledge statements, substantiated as they
were by evidence, which they were only
too willing to quote in speeches for cam
paign purposes. The negro had ceased
to be a slave but he was still a political
slave. He was good enough to elect white
men to office but he was not good enough
to hold office with white men. The Sen
ator from Mississippi then said, like the
case of Pinchback, he is to be made a
mountebank wlien the National Republi
can Convention meets or till aspirants for
the Presidency are satisfied that whoever
is the Republican nominee will be elect
ed ; then, I am told, poor Pinchback can
be admitted, but that it would be hazard
ous to take a vote now ; it was cunning
and hypocrisy, and if the Senator from
Louisiana (West) was disposed to play a
double game he was ready to accept
issues and throw down the gauntlet, de
claring that the administration was un
scrupulous and even relentless in its pre
tended support of the colored people of
the South. His seat in the Senate,
which he was told would be vacated with
the assistance of Republicans and the
solid vote of the Democrats, was
pecuniariy of no importance to him. He
could make fifteen thousand dollars a
year by personal attention to his planta
tion, and the paltry sum of five thousand
dollars was no inducement to remain
among old-time abolitionists. He could
not conscientiously hold his seat as a re
presentative of a Republican consti
tuency except upon terms of justice and
right, with full political equality before
his brother Senators. Recognizing this
fact while negroes were being killed all
over the South, and the bloody shirt born
for political effeot to promote the para
mount influence of the Republican party
in the North, he should assert his right
as a Senator without regard to the social
standing of Senators who attempted to
control this body. His people are treated
only as aliens, sojourners in a country
where the constitution declared they
should be citizens. If they were such in
fact it was (yne for them to make terms
with interest
ms experience was that blood was
thicker than water. If the negro is to
have no political rights he is in duty
bound to regard his personal advantages.
The white men owned the land ; the ne
gro performed the labor. At this point
Bruce took occasion to say that President
Grant was not only a hypocrite but a liar,
who had made promises in words to break
them in his acts. If his assertions were
not agreeable while an important nomi
nation was pending in executive session,
he could state them more plainly in open
session. He had beep led to look upon
the Republican leaders as the true friends
of the South, but he could freely say that
in his judgment they were hypocrites. If
Pinchback was not admitted and at the
same time the Kellogg government was
upheld the Senate would be acting incon
sistently. He did not want to be a mem
ber of a body that would stultify itself in
this manner and must resign his seat
when this spectacle of asinine conduct
was presented to the world. Sena
tor Alcorn said his colleague on
reflection would modify his views.
He claimed that the negroes had been
misled by the carpet-bag element, and
vindicated his independent course by
saying that it was the conduct cf North
ern intruders that had made him go inde
pendent in the canvasses in his State dur
ing the past three years. He was glad that
the truth had at last come out of the
mouth of one despised, but who repre
sented a free race, very useful to the
North in building up reconstruction. He
knew negro character well, bore testimony
to their fidelity in war, as well as to their
childlike simplicity in accepting citizen
ship under the reconstruction acts. He
believed the day was at hand when the
negroes of the South woulcl, in their own
interest, with their vote, favor the
nomination of men without regard to
party. Senators Morton and Cameron
said this proceeding was extraordinary,
aud they could not understand what had
caused a lack of faith in the principles
and purposes of the great Republican
party, and trusted in cooler moments
that the Senator from Mississippi would
perceive that he was acting upon false
grounds, as the vote in the Pinchback
case hereafter would indicate. The Dem
ocrats applauded Bruce’s arraignment of
the administration, and Senator Gordon
said, like Simon of old, “Lord, let now
thy servant depart in peace, for this day
have I beheld my salvation.” Senator
Thurman said that the remarks of the
Senator from Mississippi were a com
plete vindication of his (Mr. Thurman’s)
position ou this question since the war,
and the day was at hand when the ne
groes of the South would find that their
true interests required them to recognize
that the decent white men of the South
were their true friends. The vote on the
confirmation of Billings resulted in three
majority, and the Senate adjourned in
great confusion. —Baltimore Gazette.
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ful effects of Yellow Fever take Simmons’
Liver Regulator. Let it be given in large
doses, that it may have an immediate effect
upon the liver, and remove the accumulat
ing bile. It so acts upon the liver, stomach
and blood as to prevent the attack of this
terrible disease. febll-F,M,W&wI
Amelioration and Cure.
Amelioration of the symptoms of a disease is,
of conrje, one desirable object of medication, and
there are, no doubt, palliatives which possess
considerable remedial efficacy. The temporary
disappearance of the indicia of a disease, in too
many instances, however, delude the sick into a
belief that they are cured. Many of those who
have borne grateful testimony to the permanent
remedial effects of Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters,
in cases of liver disorder, chronic constipation,
intermittent and remittent fevers, urinary and
rheumatic ailments, have also recorded the fact
that the temporary relief occasionally afforded
by the medicines which they tried before using
the great restorative inspired hopes which were
speedily dissipated by a return of the malady.
The Bitters not only relieve, hut if persistently
aid regularly taken, care the maladies to which
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It Would be Ridiculous
For those who use Sozodont to decry it, for the
moment they opened their mouths the state of
their teeth would contradict the slander of their
tongues. It removes discolorations, imparts a
glittering whiteness to the enamel and renders
the decomposition of the teeth Impossible.
An article of prime necessity—Spalding’s
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TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Mammary of the IVcok’a Dl>pa(chr
THE STATE CAPITAL.
Proceedings of the General Assembly.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Atlanta, February 11.
IS THE SENATE.
Iu the -Senate, ou motion of Mr. Gilmore,
the action of the Senate on the bill to
amend section 3960 of the Code was recon
sidered.
NEW BILLS.
By Mr. Carter—To amend section 4166 of
the Code.
Mr. Kibbee—To authorize purchasers of
railroads to form themselves into corpora
tions.
Mr. Howell—To incorporate the Atlanta
Glass Plate Insurance Company.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
To require emigrant agents to procure
license in each county.
To fix the pay of jurors in Chattahoochee
county.
The special order was
THE CONVENTION BILL.
The Bill to provide for the calling of a
Constitutional Convention was taken up and
the rest of the morning session consumed
in its discussion. There was no afternoon
session.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the House the following bills passed:
To prohibit the sale of certain farm pro
ducts between sunset and sunrise in the
county of Muscogee.
To prohibit the firing of the woods in
counties in which turpentine farms are
worked.
To incorporate the Jfcddle Georgia Co
operative Association of the Patrons of
Husbandry.
To provide a department for the admis
sion of colored deaf mutes to the privileges
of the Deat and Dumb Asylum, and appro
priating two thousand dollars for the pur
pose.
To reorganize the government of the
University of Georgia.
To repeal an act authorizing justices of
the peace to award costs against accused or
prosecution.
To regulate the compensation of the tax
collector, tax receiver and treasurer of Tal
bot county.
To consolidate the Savannah, Seaboard
and Skidaway and the Coast Line Railroad
Companies.
To incorporate the Provident Savings and
Loan Association of Savannah.
To incorporate the Northwestern Railroad
Compauy.
To amend the charter of the Commercial
Bank of Augusta.
The Senate bill to prescribe the mode of
taxing shares and stock in banks and bank
ing associations, requiring same to be re
turned in the county in which the bank is
located, was lost.
To appropriate money fqr the purchase of
arms for volunteor military companies.
NEW MATTEK.
Under a suspension of the rules the fol
lowing bills were introduced:
Mr. Williams—To amend the charter of
Columbus so as to abolish the office of Dep
uty Marshal.
Mr. Wilcox —To authorize married women
to act as guardians of minor children by a
former husband.
[Second Dispatch.]
In the Senato to-day, in discussing tho
convention question, Senator Lester favored
April and May next, but opposed Senator
Gilmore’s amendment to submit the ques
tion to the people in the ablest speech yet
mado on the subject.
Senator Howell, of this city, made an able
speech for submitting the matter to the
people without voting for delegates at the
same time. The galleries were crowded and
great interest prevailed.
Slaughter’s substitute will probably
slaughter the bill. It is probable that the
differences of views can be harmonized.
Atlanta, February 12.
IN THE SENATE,
the entire session was devoted to the con
sideration of to the sub
stitute for House convention.bill, tho
TubstitutcTproviding that at the next Janiz
ary elections electors shall vote for or
against the convention, and the result of
the vote to be submitted by the Governor
to the General Assembly of 1877.
The amendments that the questions of
homestead and removal of the capital be
also submitted to a vote of the people at
the same time, were offered and lost.
Mr. Dußose offered an amendment, chang
ing tho time of the election to the first Wed
nesday in April next, and adding a section
to provide for holding a convention on the
first Wednesday in July next, if the vote of
the people should favor a convention. The
amendment was lost—yeas 18 ; nays 22. The
substitute then passed.
IN THE HOUSE.
The House reconsidered the bill passed
yesterday to make penal the firing of woods;
also, the bill lost yesterday to appropriate
money to purchase arms for volunteer mili
tary companies. Recommitted to Commit
tee on Military Affairs.
The special order, a bill to organize anew
the public school system, was postponed to
Wednesday next.
BILLS PASSED.
To fix the compensation of officers of Mon
roe county.
To authorize the Ordinary of Fulton coun
ty to issue bonds to build a court house.
To amend the County Court act as far as
relates to Troup county.
To amend the County Court act as far as
relates to Bibb county.
To amend section 3699 and 3700 ol the
Code, so as to increase certain fees of Jus
tices and Constables, and add new items.
To repeal an act for the payment of insol
vent costs in the Oconee Circuit.
To fix the fees of Jailor of Decatur
county.
To fix the compensation of Treasurer of
Merriwelher county.
To incorporate the town of Crawford, in
Oglethorpe county.
A bill to promote fair dealing by making
it penal to dispose of personal property sold
for cash, without paying purchase money,
was lost.
BILLS APPBOVED.
A message from the Governor announced
his approval of the following acts :
To require Tax Receivers to enter the full
Christian name of the tax payer in the
digest.
To declare of full force the tax ordinance
of Augusta for 1874.
To change the time of holding the Supe
rior Court of Burke county.
To create the office of Commissioner of
Roads of Jones county.
To provide for obtaining private ways "to
timber lauds in Emanuel countj’.
To protect the owners of stock in Wayne i
county.
To repeal an act for the payment of insol
vent costs in Spaulding county.
To reduce the Sheriffs’ bonds in Baker and
Macon counties.
To prohibit the sale of farm products be
tween sunset and sunrise in Heard county ;
also several acts fixing the pay of jurors in
the counties of Burke, Dodge, Dooly, Mont
gomery, Telfair and Dougherty.
Changing the lines between the countieß
of Calhoun and Randolph, Ware and Pierce,
Irwin and Worth. This bill prohibits the
sale of liquor in certain neighborhoods of
Floyd and Pierce counties.
Atlanta, February 13.
GOBDON.
General Gordon speaks by invitation of
members of the Legislature in the capitol
to-morrow night on national politics.
THE CONVENTION.
An effort will be made in the Senate to
morrow to reconsider the vote on the con
vention question.
BANKBUPT.
A. K. Seago, the great grocery merchant,
filed a petition in bankruptcy yesterday.
His assets are $195,000 and his liabilities
$230,000.
BAILROAD COMPETITION,
The railroad freight war is getting lively.
The rival lines yesterday reduced rates od
first-class freight from Boston to Atlanta to
thirty-five cents.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
Mr. Carleton’s bill to reorganize the State
University passed the House without op
position, and will be adopted by the Senate.
Atlanta, February 14.
IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate, Mr. Wilson introduced a
bill to fix the time within which motions
tor new trials must be made.
The tax act was taken up and passed with
amendments and transmitted back to the
House.
ON THIRD READING.
To abolish the Georgia State Lottery.
Passed with amendment.
To incorporate the Atlanta College of
Dental Surgery. Passed.
To amend paragraph 5 of section 267 of
the Code. Passed.
To protect sheep raising. Laid on the
table.
To amend section 3961 of the Code-
Passed.
HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
To authorize Sheriffs to levy tax fi. fas. to
any amount. Passed.
To amend section 4083 of the Code. Lost.
To establish a board of commissioners for
Talbot county. Passed.
IN THE HOUSE.
In the House, Mr. Simpson offered a
resolution limiting speeches to five minutes.
Lost.
Bills on third reading : To make penal
the firing of woods in counties on which tur
pentine farms are worked. Indefinitely
postponed.
To appropriate SB,OOO to facilitate Georgia
exhibitions at the Centennial. Tabled on
motion of Mr. Black, who introduced the
bill. The Finance Committee recommended
it to pass.
To reduce the salaries of the Governor
and other State officers. Lost.
To authorize the Judge of Richmond
County Court to pay certain schooAdebts of
1871 and 1872. Passed.
To prescribe the duty of Tax Collectors
and to require them tc- attend at the court
houses of their counties five days before
closing books. Passed.
To reduce the bond of Sheriff of Chatta
hoochee county. Past ed.
To abolish the office of Treasurer in Bibb
county. Passod.
To pay the claim of Ragland & Wynne
for advertising. Passed.
THE NORTH AND SOUTH RAILROAD.
The Finance Committee reported, as a
substitute for the bill to sell the North and
South Railroad, a. resolution recommending
the Governor to sell the same at public or
private sale by the first of June. Ou mo
tion of Mr. Fannin, the whole matter was
referred to the Committee on Internal Im
provements.
THE MACON AND BRUNSWICK BONDS.
The special order was the bill to author
ize the issue of uew bonds to exchange for
Macon and Brunswick bonds in the
hands of Branch & Herring, of
Augusta. Mr. Black, the champion of
the bill, stated that these parties’ claims to
relief was passed on in a resolution of 1872,
declaring the bonds binding. On tho faith
of this the bonds wero purchased, but have
since been declared void. Messrs. Black,
Harrison, Turner, Livingston and Walsh
strenuously advocated tho passage of the
bill. Messrs. Adams, Hamilton and Turn
bull opposed tho bill on the ground that tho
bonds wero
UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
and the resolution of 1872 could not make
them valid. Theparties bought thorn on spec
ulation for fifty cents on tho dollar, and the
Stateiisnot responsible if they lost in the
speculation. To pass thi3 bill would bo lo
pay all the fradulent bonds of tho Bullock
administration.
Op i a division the vote stood 38 for, to 105
agai ust tho bill.
By leave of the Houso tho bill was with
drawn.
GEN. JOHN 15. GOItDON.
[Special Telegram to the Morning Xtws.l
Atlanta, February 14, 187 C.
General Gordon spoke to an immense
crowd of ladies and gentlemen to-night. Ho
was introduced by General Lawton, of
■your city. There was great applause when
he appeared. He made an eloquent speech,
which is heartily endorsed. He spoke of the
FEARFUL DANGERS IMPENDING
am account of the corruption and usurpation
<f' the Radical party, and pointed out tho
test means of removing it from power in
Tib hmiTitr“cancircicre-Tirf ’Awn-
Heat yet, hut should support tho
imost available man. Toombs’s remarks
sibout a constitution in which tbo negro
should not be heard of had filled the North
ern mind with apprehension as to the pur
poses of the Democratic party, and if
A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
as to be held—and he would not commit
himself on the subject—it should be held at
once, in order to remove this apprehension
about injustice to the negro race. Toombs’s
declaration—whoso speech Morton read
in the Senate as delivered to and approved
by the Georgia Legislature—Gordon says is
THE GREATEST MISFORTUNE
that has fallen upon the South since the
surrender. These two statements were
heartily applauded, as was l.is approval of
Hill’s speech to Blaiue. If the South quiets
tho spprehensions at the North, which
are more to be feared than the passions
of the people, he predicts a Democratic
victory in November, and this alone can
save the country from anarchy and ruin.
The Atlanta “ Herald ” Suspended.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Atlanta, February 14, 1876.
The Sheriff closed the Herald office to-day
sre the printers were about to attach for
’their wages, although the office was in his
-charge and being run by his kind permis
sion.
SUSPENDED.
The paper has suspended. Colonel Al
ston, however, proposes to start the Morning
Telegram as soon as he can get an office.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN MACON.
[Special Telegram to the Morning News.]
Macon, February 13.
Saulsbury, Respess & Co.’s warehouse,
cot. 'taining about five hundred bales of cot
ton, was discovered to be on fire about six
o’clo ck this morning. A portion of the cot
ton v ’ill be saved iu a damaged condition.
The building and cotton are partly cov
ered b y insurance. The origin of the fire is
unkno' An.
BEVEBDY JOHNSON.
Baltiniobe, February 11.—Reverdy John
son had argued a case in court, and was
usually brilliant at dinner with Gov. Carroll,
whose guei't bo was. He took one glass of
Madeira during dinner. After dinner he
went to the parlor, while Governor
Carroll and the other guests went to
another rooto to smoke, and it was
supposed tka t Mr. Johnson was taking
his habitual slfc op after dinner. Presently
a servant beckoi ied the Governor out. Mr.
Johnson had fa Hen to the carriage way
which passes line sr the porch of the man
sion. He was deal l, bleeding profusely from
a wound on tho rig ht side of his head and
face. His skull was fractured, a finger dis
located and there wt re bruises and cuts on
his arms and legs. fl. e was born in 1796.
Annapolis, Md., Feb ruary 11.—So sudden
and unexpected was t'ie death of Reverdy
Johnson, after his appearance in the State
Library and about the S/ate House yester
day, while the Legislature was in session,
apparently in full health, tL’at the commu
nity has not recovered from shock.
Doctor Lewis H. Steiner, b tate Senator
from Frederick county, a distinguished phy
sician and chief inspector of th e Sanitary
Commission in the army of the Potomac
during the late war, who examined the body
shortly after it was found, gives the follow
ing as his theory of the cause of death.
Mr. Johnson either stumbled over a
piece of coal, or being seized with
vertigo, or incipient symptoms of apoplexy,
and striving to save himself, moved towards
the west, staggering along by the northerly
side of the executive mansion, at each step
his body gaining additional momentum, so
that having reached the door leading
into the basement he swayed around
to the south and fell, striking his head
against the sharp corner of the
granite base of the house, which gave the
first wound on the head. Reaching the
pavement, made of rough cobble-stones, a
second wound was received in front. At
this instant probably the bones of the nose
were fractured, and one joint of the second
finger of the right hand was dislo
cated. Whether after struggles
account for the abrasions on the knees
and the fiDgers of the left hand cannot be
positivefy ascertained, although it is prob
able the wounds in the scalp were accom
panied with fractures of external bones of
the cranium, accompanied with the proba
ble rupture of some of the arteries at the
base. Death must have resulted almost
instantly. Mr. Gwinn, Attorney General
of the State, and son-in-law of Mr. Johnson,
is of the opinion that he was seized with
vertigo ana fell, as he had a similar attack,
lasting three hours, while attending the
trials in South Carolina several years since,
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, February 10. The Texas
Steele AdjiJtCtaSSS
atteie, or lexas, and Lieut. Budd of the
The n ttsti. r n D Snv C oni n9 ' ndiug on the borders,
firm the l W.?T , U ‘ He Rentlem( ‘n fully Oon
alreadv h f r f? atur ° 8 V f tbe information
already befoie the committee. Genoral Ord
will be heard to-morrow. uru
„ f E \ ect,o “ B Committee will decide the
and t ,k, n, M rS VB ‘ Haralaot > on Monday,
ami take up the case or Finley vh Wall
from Florida. va. wan,
i committeo have adopted the rule of
last Congress to hear contests from tho
States as they came alphabetically This
places Platte vs. Good, from Virginia last
ou the docket; but there are a*Stances that
tbo case shall be reached this session. This
fX R ment Kr f tue dockot supported
by the Republicans on the committee and
the assertion that Judge Harris, chairman,
is holding back Platte vs. Good, is un
founded m fact.
The Territorial Committee of the Senate
will report unanimously to admit New Mex
ico as a State.
The Appropriation Committee of tho
House heard Bristow this morning.
The House Committeo on Foreign Affairs
have called on the Secretary of State for the
correspondence regarding Schenck’s con
nections with the Emma Mine and Machado
claim.
The Committee on Public Buildings are
about investigating architect Mullet’s con
nection with tho alleged Chicago Custom
House frauds.
The Alabama Republican delegation, bead
ed by ex-Governor Smith, represent their
object to be simply to endeavor to raise the
morale of their p'arty in Alabama, and not
to contest Spencer’s seat. They say the
party there is broken up into fragments for
personal ends.
Secretary Bristow explained the deficiency
of $416,000 in appropriations for engraving
and printing. The first estimates were too
low, and the second Congress cut the same
down,and then Congress imposed additional
work. Ho said the deficiency should be
made good, but if not, he had money
enough to run the bureau until next March,
after which, if no provision be made for its
support, he would close it up and discharge
every person connected with it.
Confirmed: Billings, District Judge for
Louisiana.
In the Senate, the Committee -on Pen
sions reported in favor of a pension for tne
widow of General L. H. Rousseau.
The Library Committee was discharged
from the further consideration of the me
morial of Admiral Charles Wilkes.
The bill extending the time for tho com
pletion of the Northern Pacific Road was
passed.
The Centennial appropriation bill was re
sumed, and Norwood spoke in opposition.
There was no vote.
In the House, the Speaker presented a
memorial of the citizens of Louisiana pray
ing relief against certain political evils ex
isting iu that State.
Blaine made his speech on finance from
pi iuted notes. Every seat was filled. With
out concluding the bill the committee rose
and the House adjourned.
Washington, February 11.—In the Sen
ate, Johnston, of Virginia, introduced a bill
to reopen aud settle claims of the several
States against the United States for ad
vances made in tho war of 1812. Referred
to the Committee ou Claims.
Thurman, Holman, Morrison aud others
addressed the caucus last night. The re
sult, though not definite, was satisfactory.
The question was referred to the Committee
of Consultation without any instruction be
yond that intimated by tbo speakers to the
effect that if a negative policy will uot
answer the resumption bill must bu' tre
pealed, aud iu its stead measures adopted
looking to future resumption to bo brought
about by tangible aud reasonable prelim
inary processes. The consultation com
rnitteo will report on Thursday, to which
day tho caucus at midnight adjouruod.
Ju go Billings opens the Un ted States
District Court in New Orleans on tho third
Monday in February.
It is stated that Bruce declines tho Presi
dential invitation for a consultation with
the President. There is much exeitomeut
here over those matters. It is likely tho
invitation to an interview and its rejection
are among tho embellishments of the event,
but Bruee undoubtedly denounced Giant
and the carpet-baggers bitterly in yester
day’s executive session.
iu the House tho Diplomatic Bureau was
continued. Many amendments were re
jected aud somo unimportant ones adopted
and the bid passed. It appropriates $314,-
000, a reduction of $470,000 from last year.
Adjourned to Monday.
In the Senate there wore numerous peti
tions for the repeal of the bankrupt law,
and petitions for pensions for the Mexican
veterans.
Bayard called up tho joint rule for count
ing the votes for President and Vico Presi
dent. Edmunds wished tho matter referred
to the Committeo on Privilegos and Elec
tions. After a desultory discussion, Ed
munds moved to amend the concurrent reso
lution so that it should boa simple resolu
tion instead of a concurrent one, and that
the Committee ou Privileges and Elections
consider the matter instead of the Commit
tee of Rules, so that it should read,
“ Resolved , That the Committee ou Privi
leges and Elections be and they are hereby
Ins-ta'-Acted to-uxaEAUfiV-Awd rsmst. 'xteVoer
any, and if any, what legislation is expe
dient in regard to tho matter considered in
the twenty-second joint rule of the last ses
sion.” Adopted.
The Centennial appropriation bill
was resumed. The bill passed—4l.
to 15. Republicans voting nay—Alcorn,
Hamilton, Wadleigh and llowe. Demo
crats voting aye—Bayard, Coperton, Dennis,
Jones, of Florida, Kelly, Maxey, McDonald,
Randolph and Ransom. Ajourned to Mon
day.
Washington, February 14. —The Elections
Committee will report unanimously that
Haralson is entitled to his seat. The report
will narrate aud condemn the great frauds,
but they are uot sufficient to overcome 2,000
majority by which Haralson was returned.
The Grant parish decision is not expected
to-day.
The Judiciary Committee met to continue
the investigation of the trans-continental
charter, but neither General Fremont nor
Colonel Morton appearing, they adjourned
to Wednesday.
In the Senate, Conkling introduced a bill
to facilitate tho transit of merchandise from
the Dominion of Canada through the terri
tory of the United States. Referred to Com
mittee on Finance.
Commissioner Pratt was before the Com
mittee on Appropriations. At his sugges
tion a sub-committee was appointed to en
quire of the various heads of bureaus how
a reduction of their force may moßt conveni
ently he made.
THE CASE OF PINCHBACK.
Washington, February 10.—There is an
evideut disposition on the part of the Re
publicans to stave off the Pinchback issue,
and the machinery is provided. Boutwell’s
bill to repeal the pre-emption law as a sub
stitute for Clayton’s to remove restrictions
on tho sales of public lands may be made to
occupy a week, and much other matter may
be crowded in to make postponement plausi
ble. The most reasonable theory is that
the rejection of Pinchback, now that all per
sonal objection to him has been abandoned,
will be regarded as an expression on the
part of the Senate unfavorable to
the loyalty, and would be dangerous to
the stability of the present government
of Louisiana. Mr. Morton’s present
figures give the seat to Pinchback by two
votes, and the delay angers the former al
most to sickness.
The Senate remained in executive session
from about half-past 4 until 6:30 this even
ing, engaged in tho continued discussion of
the nomination of E. G. Billings to be United
States District Judge for Louisiana, vice
Durell, resigned. After an animate! de
bate the nomination was confirmed by a
majority of four iu a very slim Senate.
SOUTH CABOLINA NOTES.
Chakleston, February 13.— Owing to un
foreseen delays in the collection of taxes—
the result of the tardiness of the Legisla
ture in passing the tax bill—the payment of
interest on the State bonds and stocks is
postponed till April Ist, with a probability
that the payment will be made in the mid
dle of March. The tax for interest has been
duly levied, hut it will come in slowly till the
end of this month, when the time for collec
tion expires.
Tho House Committee on Privileges and
Elections have reported on charges against
J. D. Robertson, white, Republican. They
find he is a member of the State Text Book
Commission. He made discreditable and
corrupt proposals to Northern publishing
houses. They recommend that he be dis
placed from his seat as a member of the
House of Representatives. Robertson’s
proposals covered the payment to him of
liberal commissions on all books adopted for
use in the public schools in .South Carolina,
and were made to leading publishing houses
in New York.
GOOD NEWS FEOM CUBA.
Washington, February 10 Letters from
Havana up to the loth of December state
that the receipts of the Treasury are not
equal to the demands made upon it. In
consequence of this the troops in the field
had not received their pay for October.
The troops in garrison and the civil
service are only partially paid to July,
and the contractors for military sup
plies had received nothing, and had rep
resented to Condo de Valmaseda that they
should cease to furnish provisions unless
they were soon paid. It is also represented
that the crowded hospitals were in a state of
penury and almost of abandonment,and that
the condition of the Treasury wa. such by
reason of the want of method and order,
and of the dishonesty of the public service,
that extreme discouragement prevailed at
Havana.
OBSEQUIES OF EEVERDY JOHNSON.
Baltimore, February 13.— The funeral of
Reverdy Johnson took place this afternoon,
from the family residence on Park street.
Ten thousand people wore present. Attorney
General Pierrepont, Chief Justice Waite, and
the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court,
President of the Senate pro lem. Ferry and a
large number of the members of both
Houses of Congress were in attendance.
The State officers, including Gov. Carroll,
were present in large numbers, and nearly
all the prominent members of the bar in the
State were also present.
AHA 1
Washington, February 11.—The Presi
dent has requested Senator Bruce to call on
hjm to-day in regard to the rupture between
himself and Senator Bruce, which culmi
nated in the speech in sooret session of the
Senate yesterday,
BABCOCK’S TRIAL.
St. Louis, February 10 —After a lomr
argument, the evidence was admitted Mr
Evart was then recalled to tho stand and
testified:
Cfff. Joyce handed me two envelopes and
directed me to put them in the letter box
which I did; Joyce was watching me from
the wriudow of his office; 1 was facing him-
I could see him watching me; I saw the di ’
rectious on the envelopes; one was directed
to W. O. Avory, Washington, D. O ” and
the other to “General O. E. Babcock Wash
ington, D. C;” each of them had “per
sonal” iu the left-hand corner; they were
ordinary envelopes, and had no printed
matter on them or other directions, except
what I have stated; they had postage stamps
on them; I never saw General Babcock be
fore this trial begun.
Cross-examined by Mr. Storrs : I havo
been in this city since January 20tlr I
cannot tell the month iu which I mailed the
was either February or March
1870, but I am not positive; I think it was’
the latter part of February or earlv in
March; I got the money first from the" Sn
porvisor’s office; Col. Joyce stood in front
of bis desk when he put the money iu the
em elopes; the envelopes were on a table
when I handed him the two five hundred
dollar bills; I then sat down to his left- I
was watching him attentively; he first
took the two envelopes up, took the paper
out of one of them and put a bill in; I dul
not Beo him put the other SSOO hill in the
other envelope; I am not positive that he
did put it in, or whether it was the letter di
bififnlca?t say? k ” ATMy that *> ut tho
St Loms, February 10.—There are no
new developments. The evidence is con
fined to proof of tho ring and its local work
ings.
Witness Everest said Joyce ouce seut him
to the Sub-Treasury with a package of one
thousand dollars in small bills to get two
five hundred dollar bills. He brought them
pack and Joyce put them iu an envelope and
told him to take tnem across tbo street and
put them in the letter box. Witness said
he did so. He was then asked if he had
observed the directions on tho letters. Be
fore he could answer the defense interposed
an objection, olaimiug that the prosecution
wore now trying to show that Babcock’s
name was on ono of the letters, and that ,
evidence was not competent. A long argil- 1
ment ensued.
St. Louis, February 11—J. W. Douglass,
ex-Commissioner of Internal Revenue, testi
fied : I had a conversation with Mr. Ro<*e>-s
m regard to investigations in the West i
romember showing him a copy of a letter
received between the 10th and" loth of De
cember, written by Brooks, saying delay
would prove equally profitable to tlie gov
ernment and gratifying to ourselves and
something of that kmd. The copy of tho
letter was shown me at tho White House by
General Babcock. He said a gentleman had
shown it to him aud he was afraid
I was being deceived by thesu men.
lie said he would hold mo ro
sponsibe for their conduct, aud told
him that ho had great confidence iu
mo. Ho said what might a sensitive man
like Logau say if ho saw that letter V Dab
cock told mo the letter had been given to
him confidentially and requested me not to
say where I received it iron). After tho
visit of McDonald to Washington 1 remem
ber of coming out of my house one day when
I met Babcock, and wo talked about St.
Louis matters. I can’t say exactly what
was said. We talked about revenue
agents coming here. Once in 1874 Babcock
caino to my office, and wo talked about tlm
supposed charges against Ford, who was
dead at tho time. 1 told him there wore no
charges against Ford. The charges 1 was
getting were against the living. Ho asked
what examination hud boon made and said
something about blackening tbo luemorv
ot lord. Tho only way a man’s memory
could bo blackened, who was dead, was bv
an examination. Afterwards Babcock came
to see me about sending a bird—a thrush
1 think, out West. He only came to my
office once or twice altogether that 1 remem
ber.
Some two or three months Lefore Rich
ardson went out of office I had a talk with
tho President and told iiiui things wero
crooked iu St. Louis; I thought if a proper
investigation was mado it would result
largely to tho benefit of the Treasury, lie
concurred with me aud asked when‘i pro
posed to begin. [Here witness was shown
the letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
in regard to tho change of Supervisors.]
The rumors of frauds, beginning iu 1872,
caused mo to writo the letter;
afterwards Secretary Bristow came iu
the office and we talked tho mat
ter over, concluding to wait tilt tho
fall elections were over. We waited, and
then there were a number of Senatorial
elections, aud wo had to wait till they wero
ovor. Then we found we were in tho midst
of a Presidential election, and that was an
other obstacle. After that w'o arranged to
mako transfers. [Letters produced iu re
gard to tho chaugo of officers of Internal
Revenue, including Gen. McDonald to Phil
adelphia and Mr. Tritton to St. Louis, j Wit
ness proceeded : After I addressed the let
ters to the Secretary, and tho transfers of
the Supervisors wero made, I had a conver
sation with defendant. The conversation
was coi uueuced bv him eallmg my at
tention to ffie subject. He told mo
Tt' was an unwise measure, am!
result iu bringing such a
pressure on the President that il cB:
would have to bu recalled, which
unpleasant for mo. This
held at Babcock’s room in the White
Tho President was not present. Idon’trtß
member to have had any other conversa
tion with defendant about tho matter. This
transfer was to take place ou tho 15th of
February. I notith and the parties by tulo
graph ou tho 4tli, that the order would bo
revoked. Col. Dyer thon read the Presi
dent’s revocation ot the order, as follows:
Executive Mansion, Washington, Feb
ruary 4, 1875.— Sir: Tho President directs
mo to say that he desires that tho circular
order transferring Supervisors of Internal
Revenues bo suspended by telegraph until
further order.
(Signed) Levi P. Luckev.
A number of telegrams wero shown to
witness for identification, but were not road,
being reserved for introduction at another
time. Col. Dyer wished to read a dispatch
signed by General Babcock, but tho defense
objected aud it went over. Several other
dispatches either to or signed by Babcock
were identified, but withheld.
St. Louis, February 12.— The District At
torney presented Douglass au affidavit pur-
Eorting to be charges preferred in 1873 by
tindsay Murdock, a Collector of Internal
Revenue iu Southeast Missouri. Tho charges
were against John A. Joyce and John Mc-
Donald, respectively, Revenue Agent and
Supervisor. The envelope was endorsed by
C. C. Snifton, tho President’s Privato Secre
tary, showing that it had been received at
tho Executive Mansion and referred to the
Treasury Department. Anothor endorse
ment showed its reference to the Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue. Mr. DouglaßS
could not testify that he had seen the affi
davit in his office. Tho District Attor
ney said he proposed to read the affidavit
showing that iu 1873 charges against Joyce
and McDonald had been sent to tho Execu
tive Mansion, and had gone through tho
departments. The‘court only allowed tho
witness to testify that the endorsements
showed that such charges had been received
and filed. They were not read. Nearly the
entire morning session was taken up in try
ing to trace through tho telegraph clerks of
this city and Washington, and also by the
doorkeeper and messengers of the Execu
tive Mansion, certain telegrams not
yet admitted, to prove that they
wero received and sent back and
forth between Joyce and McDonald
here and General Babcock iu Washington.
Finally tho defense admitted this proof as
to one dispatch and allowed the following,
admitted to he in General Babcock’s hand
writing, to be read :
“Washington, D. C., Decembe* 13, 1871.
Gen. John McDonald, tit. Ijouis, Mo.: 1
succeeded. Thev will not go. I will write
you.
(Signed) “Sylph.”
Before this was read, Judge Porter an
nounced that they proposed to make a
lengthy argument against tho admission of
the other telegrams, aud perhaps they might
wish to include this “Sylph” dlHpatch iu
those to which they objected. The defense
wished to reserve that point.
ALABAMA AFFAIRS.
Washington, February 11.—Gen. Burke,
Colonel J. J. McLemore, Judge .1. V. Me-
L>uffie and Wm. Smith, colored, of the oppo
sition Republican Committee of Alabama,
are here. Borne of the committeemen bad
an interview to-day with Senators Morton
and Conkling concerning Alabama affairs,
the result of which is not known.
General John T. Morgan, appointed by
Governor Houston under a joint resolution
of the Alabama Legislature to prosecute the
case against Spencer, arrived to-day and
presented his credentials to the Senate. The
Committee on Privileges and Elections will
decide Tuesday on their couisoof action.
The committee failed to secure an in ter vi v
with the President yesterday.
MISSISSIPPI POLITICS.
Memphis, February 10.—A special r
Jackson, Miss., says the committee appoin.
ed to investigate tho case of L' ntem.:.--
Governor Davis have reported he is gmi:
of high crimes and misdemeanors, and, f
specification, charge that he ae i>>■ and
bribe of S6OO for the pardon oi'
Banontine, charged with the -dr
of Ann Thomas, in Lowndes coun i
committee offered a resolution th
be impeached lor high crimes an
meanors, which waß made the spec
for Monday.
The river is now within two incht
danger line, and the bottoms oppo
beginning to flood.
DEATH OF BEVEBDY JOHNSON.
Baltimore, February 10.*— Iteverd bo
son, tbe distinguished statesman am ur
was found dead this evening at 81£ u the
grounds surrounding the Executive man
sion at Annapolis. Mr. Johnson was the
guest of Governor Carroll, and dined this
afternoon, with other gentlemen, at the Ex
ecutive mansion. He was found dead in
the yard by a servant.
TOM SCOTT’S JOB.
Washington, February 13.—1 tis under
stood there will be no minority report from
the Committee on the Texas Pacific ltail
road. It is unusual for members of a com
mittee to speak against its report, but in
this case the custom will bo waived, and
members of the committee will spealt
against it in tho House,