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CONGRESSIONAL.
Memorials Presented— McMillan With
draws His Credentials as Senator-
Elect —An Important Bill Introduced
—Nominations and Confirmations.
Washington, December 9.
Senate—Cooper presented a memo
rial of book agents of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, asking com
pensation for their loss at Richmond
and Louisville during the war.
West, of Louisiana, presented a let
ter from W. L. McMillan, of that State,
asking permission to withdraw his cre
dentials as Senator-elect from the
State of Louisiana by the McEnery
Legislature. West sent to the clerk’s
desk and had read a letter recently
published by McMillan, giving his rea
sons for withdrawing his credentials.
He submitted an order that the re
quest for the withdrawal of the papers
be granted, but objection was made by
several Senators on the Democratic
side, and it was laid over.
Bogy introduced a bill authorizing
the payment of duties on Imports in
legal tenders and national bank notes.
It provides that from and after July
4th, 1876, duties on imports may be
paid in legal tenders and national bank
notes or coin, at the option of the im
porter.
After Executive session, the Senate
adjourned to Monday.
There were a large number of nomi
nations, including Chandler, Secretary
of the Interior ; Pierrepont, Attorney
General; Merrier, Minister to Beiguim;
Gibbs, Minister to Peru ; New, Treasu
rer ; Burham, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury ; Maj. Robert McFeely,
Commissary General, with the rank of
Brigadier; Col. Wm. McKee Dunn.
Judge Advocate General, with the rank
o' Brigadier, and all revenue officers
aid postmasters who have been ap
pointed during the recess. There were
no new nominations. The confirma
tions are Chandler, Pierrepont, New,
a|d John C. Smith, Commissioner of
Indian Affairs.
I CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FUrgery- A Crooked Postmaster —Offi-
cial Rogues—Serious Conflagration—
The Amerique’s Accident.
San Francisco, December 9. —Lucius
W. Pond, formerly a wealthy citizen of
Worcester, Mass., has been arrested
here on a requisition from the Govern
-01 of Massachusetts, on the charge of
fc rgery.
sNoble, 111., December 9..—N. J. Ed
monson, Postmaster, was arrested for
robbing the mail. He was detected by
a decoy letter.
Saratoga, December 9. —Henry A.
Mann, County Treasurer of Saratoga
county, has been arrested. The com
mittee find §IIB,OOO worth of notes
signed by Mann without authority.
New York, December 9.—Buildings
1, 2, 3 and 4, on Mission Place, were
burned. Loss, §320,000. The heavy
losses are: N. A. Taylor, paper; Dar
row & Sons, book-binders: Donaldson
Bros., lithographers, §170,000. The
Mercantile Agency, House of Industry
and Mission House narrowly escaped.
Mail advices state that the main
shaft of the Amerique broke three
days and a half distance from France.
Passengers rushed from their berths,
but anxiety was soon allayed and they
ietumed to sleep. Five hours after
the China was signalled. Only thirteen
passengers, including two ladies, de
sired to leave the Amerique. The
English company owning the China
declined pay for their services.
Cincinnati, December 9. —Lewis B.
Brasher has been arrested for con
spiracy to defraud the Bevenue.
A Drunken Murderer—Fraud on the
Revenue.
Syracuse, N. Y., December 9.—Thos.
Rogers, when drunk, struck his wife
fatally with a hammer and badly beat
liis daughter.
St. Louis, December 9.—Robert C.
Watt, a well-known citizen, charges
Internal Revenue Supervisor Meyer
with guilty knowledge of frauds prac
ticed by the Gas Company on the Rev
enue.
Shoving the Queer.
Lebanon, Pa., December 9.—A num
ber of parties have been arrested for
passing live and ten dollar counterfeit
bills on the First National Bank of
Peru, Illinois.
Minor Telegrams.
Columbus, 0., December 9.—The
anti-tramp State Convention passed
resolutions urging stringent legislation
for their arrest, employment or banish
ment.
Chicago, December 9.—Lake naviga
tion is closed.
Little Rock, December 9.— A joint
committee to investigate Senator Dor
sey’s election reported they had ex
amined a large number of witnesses
without finding direct proof of bribery
or corruption.
Buffalo, December 9.—Lymburner
& Torrey, dealers in iron and linings,
have failed. Liabilities, $185,000 ; as
sets, 8100,000.
New York, December 9. — Jno. Dolan,
sentenced to be hanged to-morrow for
the murder of Noe, has been respited
for one week to give time to investi
gate new evidence. Motion for anew
trial will be made.
Washington, December 9. —Seventy-
five men of the Department of Equip
ment and Recruiting were discharged
from the Navy Yard to-day.
Richmond, Va., December 9.—The
Richmond Whig has been purchased
by Messrs. Wyatt M. Elliott & Cos., and
to-day made its appearance under the
new management.
FROM ATLANTA.
The West, 'Edwards & Cos. Failnre.
Judge Hopkins Asserting the
Majesty of the Bench.
Atlanta, December 9.—The failure of
West, Edwards & Cos. is still the ex
citing topic. A. J. West and B. W.
Briscoe, two of the firm, were committed
to jail this afternoon for contempt of
court in refusing to deliver books,
papers and evidence of indebtedness to
the receiver appointed yesterday by
Judge Hopkins. Edwards escaped from
failure to serve the order upon him.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Paying Interest on Bonds.
New Orleans, December 9.—The
State authorities give notice that inter
est on the new consolidated bonds will
be paid here and In New York without
rebate, on and after the 15th Inst.
There are nearly $600,000 in the Treas
ury to the credit of the interest fund.
At one of the colored A. M. E.
Churches, in Columbus, Ga., the other
night, a woman screamed: "Glory!
Ise jest like sody water! Ise biling
over! ”
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®}C CUnpisln Ccmshhiiionolisl.
Established 1799.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
THE BRITISH LION GROWLS AT
SPAIN.
The London Times Warns the Dons —
Prussian Politics.
London, December 9.—The Times,
commenting on the message, says:
“If Spain cannot suppress the Cuban
rebels; if the island must be half
ruined, while she holds it; if she will
not put an end to that institution which
is the main source of the disturbance,
it would be hard to expect the United
States to let tha work of devastation
proceed unchecked merely out of regard
to the nominal sovereignty of Spain.
Spain is on trial. The limits of her
power to. restore order will be the
limits of her rights.”
Berlin, December 9.—The National
Liberals in the Reichstag consent to
political clauses in the bill amending
the penal code.
The Deutschland Tragedy—Statement
of the Captain—Grant’s Message
Commented on in Spain.
London, December 9.—The Captain’s
statement is this : “We left Bornhaven
Sunday morning. A strong northeast
wind prevailed. Threw the lead every
half hour. The last lead thrown showed
seventeen fathoms. Felt a moderate
shock at 5;30 on Mondav. The engine
backed immediately, but in a few mo
ments a screw was lost and the ma
chinery stopped. The ship commenced
to strike heavily. Signalled several
vessels which passed, including a
steamer. Ordered all boats ready, and
all were swung out but it was impos
sible to lower them. The sea was too
high. One lowered against orders,
swamped with six persons. Another,
with the boatswain was lowered,
but at the same time a tre
mendous sea swept many over
board. The ship tilled slowly. The
passengers behaved coolly. All were
provided with life preservers. Deaths
were caused by the high sea and cold,
many falling benumbed Jfrom the rig
ging. Passengers were ordered from
the rigging to the decks of the brig.
With the ebb tide the passengers de
scended. A tug boat arrived at half
past ten in the morning. One of the
men committed suicide by opening the
veins in nis arm. Many were rescued
frost bitten and past recovery. Forty
passengers and fltty of the crew are
unaccounted for.
Madrid, December 9.—The journals
of this oity comment variously on the
message of President Grant, but all
hope that Spain will vanquish the in
surrection ia Cuba by force, energy
and persevetance.
Detmold, December 9.—Paul Fred
erick Emil Leopold, Prince of Lippe-
Detmold, is dead.
FROM WASHINGTON.
A Special Counsel Warned—Off for
Japan.
Washington, December 9.—The At
torney General to-day sent a telegram
to Uuited States Attorney Dyer at St.
Louis, saying that advices had reached
him to the effect that special counsel
Henderson had, in the course of the
Avery trial, made an attack upon the
President, and assuring the United
States Attorney that the Department
will not continue to pay special counsel
for this kind of service.
Gen. Geo. B. Williams, formerly Dep
uty Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
is at the Arlington, en route for Europe,
in the capacity of Commissioner, of the
Imperial Government of Japan to Eu
rope. He is accompanied by two Ja
panese officers of rank, Mr. Tomitoand
Mr. Minami. We understand the mis
sion to have reference to financial and
commercial matters.
FROM CHICAGO.
The Babcock Trial.
Chicago, December 9.— Gens. Sheri
dan, Hancock and Terry, composing
the Court of Inquiry, appointed at the
request of Gen. Babcock to consider
the questions raised in the prosecution
of the whiskey cases at St. Louis af
fecting his reputation, met to-day.
They decided that the court should
hold an open session. Maj. Gardner
stated that, on account of the lack of
witnesses, nothing could be done to
day. Adjourned till noon to-morrow.
JAPANESE WOMEN.
Strange Customs Falling Into Disuse.
The Japanese women are usually
small and dumpy, but are often very
beautiful, with small hands and feet,
and are exceedingly neat in dress and
coiffure. Their hair is not, as Is gen
erally supposed, a true black, but is a
very dark brown; in some instances is
a pronounced red. Its blackness, and,
unfortunately, coarseness also, Is pro
moted by the custom of shaving the
heads of children from their very
birth. It is made to appear very black
and glossy by the use of unguents and
bandoline made from a mucilaginous
plant. Like the other sex (and this
custom is universal among people of
every age in Japan), they bathe daily
in hot water, a public bath costing only
half a cent. Since 1868 the Government
has prohibited the promiscuous bathing
of both sexes,formerly common. The wo
men above twenty years old, from time
immemorial, have blackened their teeth
with a mixture of galls and powdered
iron; but the Empress does not, and
many ladies are# now abandoning the
fashion. The former custom of married
women shaving off their eyebrows is
also falling into disnse. The peculiar
style of coiffure at once distinguishes a
Japanese matden, wife, widow, or pros
titute. All women are carefully educat
ed in household duties; but the lower
classes acquire very little book-learn
ing, though nearly all women can read
and write. The young ladies of the
higher classes devote much time to
fancy work, their bright-colored robes
being embroidered with gay silks
and gold. They are carefully taught
from various books devoted to the
duties of a wife, mother, house
keeper. The three principal duties,
as set forth iu a large volume
entitled, “ Woman’s Great Study,”
are ; 1. Obedience to parents when
a child. 2. Obedience to her bus
band when a wife. 3. Obedience to
her eldest son when a widow. Half
their education is in books of etiquette.
There is no distinction made between
politeness and morals. Lying, cheat
ing, deceiving, slandering, and like
vices are simply ” not polite,” and so
are not permissible. Girls thus scrupu
lously brought up make the best of
women and of wives. The now con
stantly enlarging intercourse between
Japau and the Western Powers leads
to the fiope that some of the refine
ments of Japanese civilization will
eventually reach other .countries.
-A.XTGrXJSTA. GA.. IPEIDAY, DECEMBER. 10,1875.
THE NEW CONGRESS.
A Congress of Young Men and Law
yers—Colleges Represented—The
Southern Members.
[From the New York Tribune ]
The Forty-fourth Congress consists
of 292 Representatives and 74 Senators,
making a total of 3G6 members. To
this number must be added nine terri
torial delegates. In tlip Senate there
are 42 Republicans, 29 Democrats, two
Independents, and one vacancy. The
Republican majority is now 11. In the
Forty-third Congress it was 21. In the
House there are 101 Republicans, 177
Democrats, 5 Liberal Republicans, 4
Independent Republicans, 4 Indepen
dent Reformers, and one vacancy, the
Democratic majority being 63. The
Republican majority in the Forty-third
Congress was 105.
Of the 366 members 140 have served
in previous Congresses, while the re
mainder, 176, are with few exceptions
strangers in Washington.
It is a Congress of young rather than
old heads. Avery large proportion of
the new members are in the early stage
of middle life, one of them being only
29, and only one being over seventy.
All but seven of the new members are
natives of the United States. Twenty
one were born in New England, thirty
two in New York, thirty-one in Pennsyl
vania and New Jersey, twenty-six in
the West, and fifty-four in the South.
Three members were born in Ireland,
two in Canada, one is an Englishman,
and one a German.
Sixty-nine of tho one hundred and
seventy-six members received a college
education. There are six graduates of
Yale College, two of Washington and
Jefferson, three of the college of New
Jersey, two of the University of Ala
bama, three of the University of Vir
ginia, two of the University of Georgia,
five of Union College, two of Hamilton,
two of Bethany College, and one rep
resentative fron each of the following
institutions : Harvard, Madison, Wil
liam and Mary, University of Vermont,
University of Louisiana, Washington
and Lee, Amherst, Bethel, Williams,
Illinois, Wesleyan, University of
Indiana, Georgetown, Genesee, Uni
versity of Wisconsin, University
of South Carolina, St. Mary’s,
McKendree, Franklin and Marshall,
Kenyon, University of lowa, Rutgers,
University of Maryland, Waterville,
Columbia, Duquesne, Asbury, and a
few other colleges. There is one grad
uate of the University of Giessen, Ger
many, and one member (B. B. Doug
lass) studied medicine in the University
of Edinburgh. Avery large proportion
of those who did not go to college re
ceived a fair education in a common
school or seminary. Two or three of
the colored members from the South
could not read until after the outbreak
of the war. There are two graduates
from West Point.
Twenty-eight of the new members
were Secessionists, and twenty-six of
those served in the Confederate army.
Mr. Throckmorton, of Texas; Mr. Hill,
of Georgia, and others were members
of the Confederate Senate, and seve
ral Southern members took high rank
in the Southern army. Twenty-six
tnembeas were in the Union army, and
one was in the navy. Robert Smalls, a
colored member from South Caroliua,
had a varied experience, serving in
both arms of the service and on both
sides. By trade a rigger and sailor, he
was a pilot on a Southern steamboat,
and succeeded in seizing the vessel and
joining the Uuited States fleet off
Charleston. He was put on the navy
list of the United States, and was sub
sequently appointed Second Lieutenant
in a regiment of colored troops.
The bar will have an overwhelming
representation in the new Congress.
Of the one hundred and seventy-six
new members, one hundred and twenty
two are lawyers, thirty-one are en
gaged in mercantile pursuits, four are
physicians, three are bankers, two are
editors, six are farmers, and two are
college professors.
All but six of the seventeen new
Senators are lawyers, Senators Chris
tiancy, of Michigan, and McMillan, of
Minnesota, having had perhaps the
extended experience at the bar
and on the bench. There are four ex-
Governors—Mr. Both, of California,
General Burnside, of Rhode Island,
Mr. English, of Connecticut, and Mr.
Randolph, of New Jersey. Only two of
the new Senators have served an ap
prenticeship in the House of Repre
sentatives. These are Mr. English, of
Connecticut, who served two terms
during the war, and Mr. McDonald, of
Indiana, who was in the House for a
single term twenty-five years ago.
Three of tho Southern Senators were
In the Confederate army, and one was
a Senator.
Sam Lee, the Chinaman who is in
jail at Eureka, awaiting the action of
the Grand Jury upon a charge of house
breaking, is hugely disgusted with his
countrymen, who appear to have de
serted him in the dark hour of his mis
fortunes. He repeatedly sent for his
Celestial friends, but none of them re
sponded to his call, and a few days
ago, while brooding over the ingrati
tude of his Celestial brethren in a mo
ment of desperation he seized a butch
er-knife and severed his cue close to
the scalp, and, as he handed the dis
membered braid to Sheriff Gilmore, ex
claimed ; ‘‘Dam Chinaman. Me all
same now Melican man.” [Eureka (Nev.)
Herald.
‘‘Papa, I want anew Bunker Hill,”
said a West Side girl yesterday morn
ing. ‘‘A new Bunker Hill! What un
der the sun is that?” ‘‘Why, that’s the
name of the latest Fall style of bonnet.”
“It is, eh? Why do they call It that?”
“Oh, I don’t know, papa.” “Well, what
does it post?” “Only fifty dollars.”
“Oh, I see now why they call it‘Bunker
Hill.’” “Why, papa?” “Because it’s
so high.” “Oh, you horrid, dear papa |
Therel" —Chicago Tribune.
A gentleman drove a sorrowful-look
ing horse into town, and stopping in
front of an inn, he requested a small
boy to hold him a moment. “Hold him!”
exclaimed the boy; “just lean him up
against the post—that’ll hold him.”
A noble fellow that tramp was who
returned a five dollar bill he said he
had found in an old vest a Norwich
gentleman had given him. His honesty
was rewar4 e d. with a one dollar bill,
and the next dq.y tije ijve turned out to
be a counterfeit.
An editor illustrates the prevailing
extravagance of people now-a-days bj’
calling attention to the costly baby
carriages in use, while, when he was a
baby, they hauled him around by the
hair of his head,
Providence seems to watch over the
little man with a big wife, and teaches
him that one of the principal conditions
of domestic tranquility. is to always
keep hie dander at low'tide.
THE NEXT PRESIDENCY.
Inflation or Grant.
[Carl Schurz, in the Westiiche Post, Dec. 2.J
We asserted, some time ago, that no
sensible Democrat could hope to win in
the next Presidential race with an in
flation platform ; and that no sensible
Republican could expect to win with
Grant as a candidate. Some of our
colleagues thought that we were a
little too sanguine in this assertion.
They tried to show that the inflation
movement was by no means dead, and
that efforts in the same direction would
not be wanting, in spite of the defeats
in Ohio and Pennsylvania. We are of
the same opinion ; but we believe, nev
ertheless, that those Democratic lead
ers who, by their zeal for inflation,
caused the defeat of their party, under
which it still smarts, will have too little
influence in the next Democratic Na
tional Convention to force through
again the programme which was de
feated in Ohio and Pennsylvania. They
will have to descend from their high
horse and
TRY A COMPROMISE POLICY,
in which effort, as we are afraid, too
many Hard Money Democrats will lend
a helping hand. But, if they are not
entirely struck with blindness, the
Democratic party will be careful not to
go before the people with au open in
flation programme.
The fact is likewise pointed out, that
the Grant papers, by openly and boldly
advocating a third term, forcibly de
monstrate that President Grant himself
and his intimate friends are far from
giving up the idea of a re-election.
This, also, we have never denied; we
not only think it possible, but even
probable, that strong efforts will be
made on this side to force the re
nomination of Grant upon the next
Republican National Convention. But
we believe, nevertheless, that these
efforts will be abortive, as the class of
politicians who support such a move
ment belong to the scheming and mer
cenary elements of the party, who will
at the last moment hesitate to risk a
certain defeat, as they cannot be igno
rant about the current of popular
sentiment in regard to this movement.
We are, therefore, still of the opinion
that such things belong to those im
probabilities,
WHICH BORDER ON THE IMPOSSIBLE.
But if, after all, it should come to
pass? If, indeed, the blindness of party
leaders should go so far as to put the
patience and pliability of the people to
the utmost tension? Or if, on the one
side, the Grant politicians, and, on the
other, the daring inflationists, should
succeed in capturing the respective
conventions by wire-pulling? If, in
deed, it should occur that the parties
present to us the choice between an in
flationist on the one side and the third
term of Grant on the other, then the
state of our parties would have reach
ed the
LOWEST DEGREE OF HUMILIATION,
which the most timid patriotism could
not endure. A choice between two
evils is, under all circumstances, some
thing humiliating. But just in the
year of the Centennial celebration of
the birth of our Union, which doubly
revives tho memories of the better
days of the Republic, and which, in
the breast of every citizen, should
awaken the noblest impulses, then just
then, to be forced by the wire-pullers
of the parties to choose between two
evils, would be a disgrace to the Ameri
can people, which will not be borne as
long as there is a single way of escape
from it.
We still hear sometimes, from the
lips of men to whom the well-being
and the honor of the country are dear,
the cry: Rather Grant than inflation!
or rather inflation than Grant! But if,
next year, the attempt should really be
made to dictate such a choice to these
men, they will ponder well the ques
tion, whether such pernicious party
doings would not create the greatest
daugersfor the Republic, and whether
it would not be the duty of every good
citizen to shake off, at all hazards, the
fetters of a leadership which is unscru
pulous enough to place the alternative
between two such evils before the peo
ple. The indications that
THIS SPIRIT OF DISSATISFACTION IS GROW-
multiply from day to day. We find a
striking example of this in the last
number of Harper's Weekly. In an
article, undoubtedly from the pen of
Mr. George W. Curtis, we read:
“It is sometimes said that the Dem
ocrats may, after all, adopt an inflation
platform next year ; and that then the
army of Republican office holders
would compel the rc-nomination of
Grant on a Hard Money platform, and
would coerce the friends of a sound
currency, Democrats as well as Repub
licans, to choose between Grent and
inflation. But the Republican party
cannot nominate President Grant on
any platform, without; causing a bolt
which would make success impossible.
And, even if an open bolt could be pre
vented, the moral indignation and the
secession of Republicans in untold
numbers would be in the way of the
success of the party. Besides, there is
no doubt that an immense number of
Hard Money men in both parties would
feel tha#the project for a third term,
brought about by the patronage of the
Executive, would be more dangerous
than even the prolongation of the un
certain and pernicious state of the
finances under which we live at pres
ent.”
If an Opposition journal should ex
press itself in such language, it would
be of comparatively little importance.
But Harper's Weekly has been known
for a number of years as a journal
which has not only been steadfast, but
even zealous, in its defense and sup
port of the Republican party. No pa
per in this country did more for the re
election of Grant in 1872. And if such
a journal, tfil now the very paragon of
party-fidelity, talkq of divisions and a
bolt in case of the denomination of
Grant, in a rnanner which amounts to
justification in advance of a step which
is so much abhorred by the spirit of
party, it proves that the re
nomination of Grant and the suicide
of the Republican party would be
ABOUT ONE AND THE SAME THING.
Aud it is equally certaiu thut Harper's
Weekly does not stand aloue in the Re
publican press in proclaiming these
views. The party-engineers kuow this
just as well as we know it; and we be
lieve we can repeat with confidence
we did before : that the alterna
tive between Qraqt ancj inflation is not
a necessity; and that, if; forced upon
us, the indignation of the people will
find a way to break through this dis
graceful alternative. p .
Gmnibusses originated in Paris, in
1827. The other kind of busses, which
are specially desired by young men
and maidens, were discovered some
years previously. —Bostor News.
BURCH-DUNN.
A High-Toned Colored Wedding in
New Orleans.
[New Orleans Republican.]
The social event of the season in
Creole colored circles was the marriage
of Mrs. Ellen B. Dunn and Hon. J.
Henri Burch, which occurred in this
city on Thursday evening. The wed
ding was at the St. James Church, on
Roman street, and the church was
crowded with friends long before the
arrival of the bridal party, which came
in carriages promptly at five o’clock.
Visitors at the church were received by
Messrs. Felix Antoine, Allain, Stamps,
Dunbar, Roxborough, Corbin, McCarty,
Ladd, Cauonge and R. R. Ray. These
gentlemen were in full evening dress
and performed their duties gracefully.
As the bride and bridegroom were
entering the church, atten led by J. T.
Newman and Mrs. Georgtana Kennedy,
the organ-keys, under the skilful
fingers of Mr. Auguste Davis, of the
Jesuit’s Chufch, breathed forth a grand
wedding march, which had been com
posed expressly for the occasion by
him.
The services at the altar were per
formed by tbe Right Rev. Bishop John
M. Brown, of Washington, District of
Columbia, assisted by Rev. Chas.
Burch, the venerable father of the
bridegroom. Bishop Brown had come
from Washington especially to attend
the wedding. He is a distinguished
preacher of the African Methodist
Church, aud his presence added eclat
to the wedding occasion.
The bride i3 a stately looking lady,
with a clear, nearly white complexion,
and regular features. She is an ac
complished musician and teacher, and
has been a resident of New Orleans
since many years before the war. She
was the widow of the late Lieutenant-
Governor Oscar J. Dunn, and is a wo
man of more than ordinary intelligence
and refinement.
An account of the wedding without
notice of the dresses worn would be to
ladies the play of ‘‘Hamlet” with the
prince left out. The bride wore an
evening dress of gray gros grain silk,
with court train, cuirass-cut basque
and elaborately trimmed skirts. The
back breadths were ornamented with
knife-plaiting and crosswise flounces
point d’Augleterre; the side showed
very small gathered ruffles, while the
front hurt had two rows of knife
plaiting at the bottom, with flounces
above bordered with three folds of
silk, set slightly apart and confined by
a lengthwise puff of silk and forming a
long tablier. This costume was de
signed and prepared by the most fash
ionable modiste of the city, and it must
be said that it wa3 gracefully worn by
the bride. The coiffure consisted of
puffs and curls, trimmed with natural
flowers. To this was added diamond
jewelry. Mrs. Keunedy wore an elobo
rately trimmed gray silk, with coral
jewelry and coiffure of puffs trimmed
gray silk, with coral jewelry and coif
fure of puffs trimmed with plumes.
Mrs. Annie M. Swoils, of Washington,
in pink costume. Miss Fanny Dunn,
and many other Creole belles were
present becomingly attired.
Senator Burch, in other days, went to
Baton Rouge as a teacher. He was
sqpcessful as an instructor of the
youth of his race. He was sent to the
General Assembly from East Baton
Rouge in 1870, and in 1872 was elected
to the Senate in place of Reagan for
the unexpired term. In 1874 he was
re-elected to his present office of State
Senator. In 1870 he established the
Grand Era newspaper in Baton Rouge,
which he still conducts with ability.
He is a black man, dresses faultlessly,
wears the Euglish style of whiskers,
and makes a fine appearance.
In the evening the parlors were bril
liantly lighted from dark until mid
night and crowded with visitors. Many
valuable presents of silver and line
glassware, ornaments, etc., were dis
played. The confectionery, fancy and
eatable, were furnished by Lapez. The
music by Wulf’s band. During tho
evening Senator W. J. Kelly, of New
Orleans, Hon. S. B. Packard, Gov. Kel
logg, Postmaster J. M. G. Parker, C.
W. Boothy, and other well known
gentlemen called to congratulate the
bride and bridegroom. The lady took a
position of honor at the head of her par
lors, and Senator Burch was near at
hand bearing his distinction meekly.
The couple had received letters of con
gratulation and regrets for not being
able tp attend the wedding from Hon.
Frederick Douglass and Geo. T. Down
ing, of Washington; Lieut. Gov. R. H.
Gleaves, of South Carolina; Bishop
Way man, of Maryland; Col. Robert
Harlan, of Cincinnati; Hon. James Hill,
of Mississippi, and other persons, less
known, of various States in the Union.
In the church, at the receptions, and
in all things pertaining to the wedding,
there was nothing to mar propriety or
curtail the pleasures of the newly mar
ried and the visitors attending. It was
a wedding of hearts aud hands, a bind
ing together of elevated representatives
of the colored race, a union of a man
and woman who are good examples, by
their attainments and manners, of what
it is possible for others of the same
blood to become. All who may wish
well to worthy people will wish long
life and happiness to Senator Burch
and his excellent wife.
The death, in Paris, of Eugene
Schneider, the French statesman, re
calls a funny incident of the Shah’s
visit to the French capital. When his
Majesty had been duly installed in bis
apartments, his entertainers approach
ed him with the inquiry: "Is there
anybody in Paris whom your Majesty
would be pleased to have presented ?”
“Yes !” roared the lascivious potentate;
“Schneider, bring Schneider.” Forth
with M. Schneider, who was then Presi
dent of the Corps Legislatif, was
called, and, as he entered his Majesty’s
presence, the Shah exclaimed: “Not
that Schneider. The beautiful Schnei
der, I mean ; Mademoiselle Schneider,
La Grande Duchesse
—i • 19m
William B. Astor died worth some
where from fifty to two hundred mil
lions of dollars. He was probably never
very happy, never having known even
the pleasure of walking down Broad
way and looking at the beautiful things
in the shop-wiudows, and wishing he
oould spare the money to buy them.
Pardon us the egotism, but the proba
bility is that, with perhaps scarcely
more than two-thirds of his wealth, we
have lived just as happy a life as he
did, aud have never worked half as
hard. %We can’t deny, though, that im
mense wealth is a greqt bqrden to all
qi us.—f Courier-Journal.
m
If children were well paid for all the
work they do from the instant they be
gin going alone, they might accumu
late large wealth before the age of ten.
One of Sankey’s songs is “Where are
the Nine?” Out on the first base, we
guess.
THE NATIONAL BANKS.
REPORT OF COMPTROLLER
KNOX.
An Elaborate Defense of the National
Banking System—Why it Should be
Sustained—The Lessons of Experi
ence.
Washington, November 30. —The fol- .
lowing are extracts from the forthcom- '
ing report of the Comptroller of the |
Currency: m
“One of the principal objections
urged against the national banking
system is that it is a monopoly. More
over, that it is a monopoly authorized
and continued at the expense of the
Government. The reverse of this is
true, for the national system, so far
from being a monopoly, has, in fact,
uprooted the real banking monopoly,
which has existed in this country from ,
the foundation of tho Government j
down to a late day. Should the nation
al system be unfortunately overthrown s
that monopoly would be again and at j
once revived by the repeal of the pro
visions imposing a tax of ten per cent,
upon the issues of Stats banks, which I
provision is admitted to be one of the
compensations of the war. Avery er
roneous idea prevails as to the amount
of profit derived by the national banks
from their circulation, but to show that
the profit from this source is not near
ly so great as is supposed by many
persons it is only necessary to take
into consideration the amount of capi
tal the banks necessarily invest in the
United States bonds required to secure
their circulation, with the.legal re
strictions that govern their busi
ness, and then to compare the
combined income received by them
on their bonds and circulation with
that which would be received on the i
same capital loaned on bond aud mort- i
gage security, but free from the re
strictions governing National banks.
On November Ist, 1875, there was on |
deposit with the Treasurer as security ;
for the circulation of the National ■
banks, $367,549,412 in the various j
classes of bonds of the United States. !
If from this be deducted the amount
held as security for the notes of the
National gold bank*, aud also the
amount deposited in excess of that re
quired by law to secure the circulation
issued upon them, there will remain
$361,498,112 of bonds, worth in curren
cy, on the day named, $425,840,533. It
is urged as a further objection to the
National banking system, that the div
idends paid to stockholders are greater
than the earnings of other corpora
tions. It is true that some National
banks which have accumulated a large
surplus or are organized in localities
where the proportion of the deposits
to the capital is large, or the rate of
interest high, as in the Western and
Southern States, do declare large divi
dends, but it is well known that, as a
rule, the rates of interest charged on
commercial paper by the National
banks, in their respective localities, are
less than those charged by State banks,
private bankers and individuals. But
the dividends and earnings of the Na
tional banks do not, as a rule, exceed
by more than two per cent, the current
rates of interest authorized by law
in the respective States, and
this additional amount of profit
is surely not too great a com- 1
pensation for the risks and expenses
incident to the business of banking,
and to which capital loaned direotly on
mortgage security is not subject. It
has been proposed to withdraw the
national bank notes from circulation,
and to authorize an additional issue of
$400,000,000 of greenbacks, the latter to
be interchangeable in sums of SSO for
Treasury notes bearing interest at the
rate of 3.65 per cent, per annum, or one ;
cent per day on each one hundred dol- j
lars, and to repeal all acts tending to a ;
resumption of payments in specie. The i
greenbacks received by the Treasury ;
in exchange for 3.65 notes are to be j
used for the purchase of six per cent.
5-20 bonds, for the purpose of saving
interest to the Government. The act
of February 24,1815, as has been seen,
authorized the issue of Treasury notes
of the denomination of SIOO, bearing
interest “to be computed at the rate of |
one cent and one-half a oent per day,”
and it also authorized tho issue of
small Treasury notes, which were ex
changeable in sums of SIOO for certifi
cates of funded stock, bearing interest
at seven ner cent. But Secretary Dal- i
las says /l it was soon ascertained that
the small Treasury notes fundable at
an interest of seven per cent., though
of a convenient denomination for com
mon use, would be converted iuto stock
almost as soon as issued.” The expe
rience of 1815 will be repeated
with the issue of additional green
backs interchangeable for the 3.Q5
notes. These interest bearing notes
are not at present of a standard
sufficiently high for fundiug purposes,
the law now being in force authorizing
the issue of four and one half and also
four per cent, bonds, and are, there
fore, in this respect, unlike the notes
which were issued in 1815, but the prin
ciple of interchangeability will change
the non-iuterest-bearing notes to be ex
changed for them “almost as soon as
issued.” The non-interest-bearing cer
tificates of deposit now held by the
banks, and amounting to $50,880,000,
will at onoe be converted into green
backs, and these, together with $150,-
000,000 of cash reserve, also held by
the different banks and bankers of the
country, will be speedily exchanged for
3-65 notes. These latter notes will be
used by every clearing house in the
country for the payment of balances,
and a large proportion of the circula
tion will then consist of the new inter
convertible interest-bearing notes, so
that the whole authorized issue of
these bonds will soon be in demand.
If the amount of interest-bearing notes
be limited to $400,000,000, and a re
serve of twenty-five per cent, in legal
tender notes be held in the Treasury,
the amount of the latter which may be
invested in United States six per cent,
bonds will be $300,000,000. This sum
will purchase $250,000,000 of six per
cent, bonds, assuming that the average
premium is no greater than at present,
20 per cent. The amount of interest
saved upon the $220,000,000 of 5-20
bonds retired will be $15,000,000, while
the interest paid by the Government
on the $400,000,000 of 3.65 notes out
standing will be $14,600,000, the net
saving to the Government being $400,-
000. But through this process the
present tax on bank circulation,
amounting to $3,250,000, will be lost, so
that instead of saving $400,000 the
Government will by this experiment bq
actually the loser of $2,850,000. If,
however, the issue of 3.65 notes shall bo
increased to an amount equal to that of
the legal tender and national bank
notes combined, the loss in interest to
the Government would be somewhat
less than before stated, but equal to at
least $2,500,000. It therefore seems
evident that the substitution of the
proposed expedient, in place of a sys
tem which has been in successful opera
New Series —Vol. 28, No. 108
tion for the last thirteen years will re
sult in a loss to the Government instead
of a gain. The national banks, as has
been seen, are disposed to retire their
circulation, and it is probable that
during the next year a very large pro
portion of it will be voluntarily surren
dered. But if the proposition now
under consideration should be adopted
many of the banks would go into liqui
dation and their loans to a very great
extent be called in for the purpose of
distributing their present capital and
surpluses among theirs tockholders,who
would without doubt generally organize
under the State systems and as private
bsnkers. By this course a large pro
portion of the State taxes, now
amounting to an average of about two
per cent, on the capital, would be saved
to the banks as a result of the conver
sion of their capital or deposits into in
terest-bearing notes, which, like other
issues of the Government, would be
subject to taxation neither by the na
tional nor State authorities. Since the
organization of the national banking
system, in 1863, and down to October 1,
1875, Thirty-eight national banks has
failed, with a total capital of $9,011,100,
and with circulation amounting to
$5,874,893. The experience of this
country previous to the organization of
the national banking system have
shown that in twenty years an amount
equal to its whole banking circulation
was lost in the hands of the people,
the loss by bills of broken banks alone
being computed to have been at the
rate of five per cent, per annum. There
has been no loss whatever upon the
circulation of the national banks, and
no loss to the bill-holder can arise so
long as the present laws shall remain
in force. The national bankiug sys
tem should not be repealed, but should
be so moulded as to become and con
tinue both profitable to to the people
and advantageous to the Government.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Haverley’s Minstrels are drawing full
houses in Charleston.
There is to be a reunion of Kershaw’s
old brigade at Camden shortly.
Rev. E. R. Carswell has been called
to the Baptist Church at Greenwood.
Yesterday was observed as a mu
nicipal thanksgiving day in Charleston.
Companies H and K, of the First U.
S. Artillery, embarked from Charleston
for Newport, R. 1., on the South Caro
lina, Wednesday.
The motion for anew tiial in the
case of Louis Dent (murder) has been
denied by the Supreme Court at Co
lumbia.
A movement has started at Abbeville
to have a 3how at the Centennial of a
body of troops composed of the most
distinguished officers and some private
soldiers on both sides of the late war.
The Governor has pardoned Thomas
Wright, convicted of manslaughter at
the February term, 1875, of the Court
of Sessions for Beaufort county, and
sentenced to four years’ imprisonment.
Evidence has been presented favorable
to the prisoner, which was not brought
out on the trial.
Abbeville Medium: The Bible agents
in Columbia have been furnishing the
editors with Bibles. This is “carrying
the war into Africa.” An appropria
tion of this kind for the benefit of the
editors iu this county might very pro
perly be made by our home agents.
A bold attempt was made on Mon
day morning last to burn the wheat
house of Captain A. J. Clinkscales, at
Abbeville. The house was fired In
three different places, and had it not
been for timely discovery would have
beeu completely given to the flames.
Green vide News: If Charleston and
Savannah haven’t enterprise enough to
draw their share of Pacific trade, then
the interests of the more enterprising
Middle and Southern cities ought not
to be jeoparded by the balderdash of
the Iyews and Courier.
Edgefield Advertiser ; “ The crowd
of citizens from the country on sale
day was greater than we have seen for
a year or more. Apart from the land
sales, however, and the Tax Union
meeting, there is but little of interest
to chronicle. Everybody seems to boas
poor as Lazarus when the dogs oame
and licked his sores—literally—and,
unfortunately, without Lazarus’ pros
pect of eternal rest. The situation is a
bad one. When shall we ever emerge
from these low-grounds of sorrow ? ”
Its in a nutshell, “ who would be free
himself must strike the blow,”
John Terry, of the Duntonsville sec
tion, recently shot and killed a negro
man named Jim Martin. This man
had been renting land of Terry, and
had not paid his rent. Terry went with
a wagon, and the requisite authority,
to levy upon certain corn and fodder
belonging to Martin, for the purpose
of securing hi@ rent, Martin not only
resisted, but assaulted him fiercely,
seriously hurting one of his wrists.
Hereupon Terry rushed to his wagon,
seized his shot gun, and shot Martin
dead.
J. K. Bachman, a correspondent of
the News and Courier, has been ex
pelled from his desk in the Legislature
by a vote of 51 to 20, for telling some
wholesome truths about the Committee
of Ways and Means. Mr. Hamilton
told the whole story when he said,
“ Should the resolution be adopted, it
would be equivalent to saying to the
public that the House dreaded an ex
position of its action. If the reporter
be excluded, fear of the press will be
the publio understanding therefor.”—
That is just the trouble among the
scalawags who have poor Carolina by
the throat just now. They fear and
hate independent newspapers.
Wild Ducks.
It is said that the three finest ducks
for table use are the canvas-back, the
red-head, and the butter-ball, probably
beoause they feed on wild celery, while
others generally feed on fish. The
canvas-back is an innocent-looking
fowl, industrious, and depends alone on
his own labor for all the sweets of life,
and would enjoy it hugely but for the
intruders who haunt his presence, thus;
The canvas-back dives under the water,
and toils about the bottom till he makes
choice of a bunch of oelery, which he
takes in his bill an inch or two from
the root, and hastens to the surface to
enjoy the fruits of his labor, while the
other two lie in watohful idleness ready
for the plunder. The red-head, seizing
the portion of the oelery close to the
bill of the oanvas-baok, makes away
with it, while the butter-ball gobbles
down the other end, leaving nothing
for the laborer except that small por
tion which he held onto like grim death.
In this wise the poor canvas-baok toils
all the day long, from early dawn till
dark. He could enioy part of the day
in rest and perfeot happiness, but for
those who seek every opportunity to
eat up his very life substanoe.
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GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
The Germans of Savannah will have
a carnival on the 16th inst.
Giles Driver Jr., of Pike county had
a dispute with an uncle Clay Driver,
in which the latter was badly cut in the
neck.
The affairs of the Harmonic Society
in Mucon are being warmly discussed
in correspondence through the columns
of the Telegraph.
Elijah Angling, a former engineer on
the Macon and Brunswick Road, fell
dead in his residence in East Macon, ou
Wednesday. He had been in his usual
good health up to the moment of his
attack.
Weightman Kennard, a youth seven
teen years of age, hung himself at
Savannah, it is supposed in a fit of
despondency, caused by a failure to
flbtain employment.
A young man in Savannah called an
elderly man a liar, about seven o’clock,
on Wednesday night, and was severely
stabbed in the shoulder by the person
he insulted.
The failure of West, Edwards & Cos.
has created a genuine “sensation”
among the Atlantess. Ugly statements
have been made, and A. H. Thompson,
the purchaser of the business, has been
dispossessed,and Humphrey Castleman
has been appointed receiver.
About two o’clock on Wednesday
morning a posse of officers arrested iu
Savannah a man by the name of James
Johnson, who is charged with the
murder of James Williams in Jackson,
Mississippi, and for whose arrest a
reward or SI,BOO had been offered by
the authorities of that State. He will
be held subject to order.
Hon. Wm. Anderson has presented
his resignation to the Governor as Rep
resentative in the Legislature from the
county of Cobb, which was accepted.
Mr. Anderson was made a minister of
the gospel and assigned to duty in the
North Georgia Methodist Episcopal
Conference at its recent session in Grif
fin is his reasod for resigning.
Waynesboro Expositor: Our devil
has been greatly exercised since Hijim
made no mention of him in his procla
mation. And Bro. Hubbard thinks,
too, he’s been slighted, since the first
three letters of his name, to-wit: H-u-b.
spells the very centre of things.’
Exactly. The devil is never satisfied.
Our devil was offered a treat to oysters
but he would not accept any, except on
the half shell.
Several days since a Mr. Hobbs,
while out hunting in Warren county,
became enraged at his dogs, and com
menced beating them with the breech
of his gun,, holding the barrels in his
hands. During the rnolee the hammer,
either being down on the cap or else
falling, discharged the load of one of
the barrels into his abdomen, and he
died immediately.
Some railroad engineers talk of hav
ing a demand made on Gov. Smith to
require the return of James Fetner,
the arrested engineer of the Charlotte,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, on the
ground that he was kidmapped out of
the State of Georgia. If the original
reports about Fetner are true, it is to
be hoped the law will be allowed to
take its course, wiihout interference
from our authorities.
Gov. Smith has appointed the follow
ing gentlemen delegates to the Chicago
Railroad Convention to represent the
State at large : Charles Green, Savan
nah; A. J. Smith, Brunswick; Robert
Gignilliatt, Darien; R. H. Anderson,
Hawkinsvilie; Joseph Clisby, Macon ;
Thomas J. Perry, Rome; Henry An
drews, Washington; B. W. Frobell, At
lanta.
A cow burglarized a fruit store in
Atlanta a few nights since and as she
was in a capital state of mind for
eating, and as soon as the doors were
locked she went to work. She swal
lowed apples, ground peas, vegetables
and oanned fruit with equal enjoyment.
Parties who passed the store during
the night heard a remarkable noise in
it, as if some unknown arrival was
doing considerable chawing, but they
thought it was none of their business.
E. M. Fitzgibbon’ a tailor and about
sixty-Dine years of age’ was found at
Buford dead, it is supposed from the
effects of intemperance. It is said that
he had been married twice and his last
wife’s father lived in North Carolina,
He claimed to have been a major in the
Confederate army under Gen. Cleburne.
His appearance and conversation
showed that he had been a man of cul
ture and refinement, but had given him
self up to hard drink.
At the session of the State Grangers
in Atlanta, on Wednesday, the follow
lowing resolutions were adopted:
Resolved, That the true object of this or
ganization is, as taught in the ritual, the
improvement of the farm, the increase of
home products; that the farm be made
self-sustaining; that the farm be made
perfect in all its parts; a Grange in the
true acceptation of them, presided over by
a husbandman aided by a matron devoted
to their calling, and educating the youth of
the State; that labor is not only honorable,
but necessary to the happiness and pros
perity or the individual and welfare of the
State.
Resolved, That the objects of the Order of
Patrons of Husbandry are not to trammel
r derange commerce, or to hamper or in
terfere in any way with the mechanic arts,
but in every way possible to protect and
aid the sa ue, nevertheless wo assert that it
is altogether legitimate to so arrange, if
possible, to lessen the burden of taxation
in the way of commissions, etc., on com
modities while in transitu between pro
ducers and consumers.
Resolved, That the Legislature be re
quested to ena r> t a dog law for the protec
tion of sheep husbandry in Georgia.
Resolved, That the Secretary be instruct
ed to lay the above resolution before both
houses of the Legislature at its next ses
sion.
Darkey Grandiloquence —Here is a
sample of actual occurrence in Wash
ington Market, having been overheard
by a friend, whom it pleased ao much
that he took it down at the time:
My colored friend, Georgo-Edward
Fitz-Augustus, walked up to the wagon
of a fat countryman, and, after peering
for some time at his stock, inquired:
“Are dose good taters?”
“Yes, sir," responded the country
man,
“A tater,” resumed George-Edward
Fitz-Augustus, “is inevitably bad un
less it is unwariably good. Dere is no
medeocraty in de combination ob a ta
ter. De exterion may appear remark
ably exemplary and beautisome, while
de interion is totally negative. But.
sir; if you wends de article on your own
recommendation, knowing you to be a
man ob probability in your transac
tions, I, widout any furder circumlocu
tion, takes a bushel ob dat superior
wegetable.”
When Eve brought wo to ail mankind,
Old Adam oailed her wo-man;
But when she wooed with love so kind.
He then pronounced it woo-man:
But now with folly and with pride,
Their husbands’ pockets trimming
The ladies are so full of whims,
The people call them whim-mm*