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FROM WASHINGTON.
PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS.
Business in the Senate and House—
Morton Centralized—Resolutions Re
garding the Mississippi Election —
The Whiskey Frauds —General Am
nesty Proposed—Economy—Etc., Etc.
Washington, December 15.—Senate.
—West introduced a resolution direct
ing the Committee on Contingent Ex
penses to report what amount is due
McMillan and Ray as contestants.
Cooper gave notice that be would, on
Tuesday next, ask the consideration of
resolutions commemorative of the lire
and services of his late colleage, An
drew Johnson.
Morton introduced the following res
olution:
Whereas, It is alleged that the late elec
tion In Mississippi for members of Con
gress, State officers and members of the
Legislature was characterized by great
frauds, violenee and intimidation, whereby
the freedom of the ballot was in a great
measure destroyed, and a roign of terror
established, ballot boxes stuffed, and spu
rious tickets imposed upon voters, so that
a popular majority of more than 25,000 was
overcome, and in its place was given an ap
parent but fraudulent majority of more
than 25,000; and whereas, the Legislature
thus chosen will have the election of a Sen
ator to represent that State in this body;
and whereas, if these allegations are true,
a great number of the citizens of the Uni
ted States have had their rights under the
Constitution and laws of the United States
wickedly violated; therefore,
Resolv and, That a committee of five Sena
tors be appointed by the Chair to investi
gate the truth of the said allegations and
the circumstances attending said election,
with power to visit said State in their in- j
vestigations, to send for persons and pa- j
pers and to uae all necessary process in the j
performance of their duties, and to make a i
report to the Senate before the end of this
session of their investigation and And ngs ;
At the request of Mr, Bayard, of i
Delaware, the resolution was laid over i
until to-morrow.
Mr. Morton also submitted the fol
lowing :
Resolved by the Senate, The House of Rep- |
resentatives concurring. That the people of
the United States constitute a nation and
are one people in the sense of national writ
ing.
Resolve t, That the Government of the
United States is not a compact between the
States in Uieir municipal and corporate
characters, but was formed by the people
of the United States In their primary ca
pacity—that the rights of the States are
defined and guaranteed by the Constitution
and not by any outside theory of State
sovereignty, arid the rights of'the States
cannot be enlarged or diminished, except
by an amendment to the Constitution.
Resolved, That the rights of the States
have the same sanction and security in the I
Constitution as the rights and powers of ■
the National Government, and that local \
domestic government by the States with-|
in the iimits of the Constitution is an es- \
sential part of our free Republican system. ]
Resolve i. That the doctrine that a State |
has a right to secede from the Union is
inconsistent wiihthe idea of nationality; \
is in conflict with the spirit and structure i
of the Constitution, and should be regarded 1
as having been forever extinguished by the
suppression of the rebellion.
Stevenson, of Kentucky, submitted i
the following .
Resolved, That the Secretary of the I
Treasury be, and he is hereby requested; to !
transmit to the Senate copies of all letters,
telegrams, orders and instructions relat
ing to the organization and prosecution of
allege 1 infractions of the Internal Revenue
1 iws at St. Louis, Chic >go and Milwaukie,
if not deemed incompatible with the public
interest.
After a long argument and much ob
jection from the Republican side Steven
son withdrew it.
A large number of prominent bills
were introduced, when, after executive
session, the Senate adjourned.
House.—Several financial and postal
bills were introduced and referred.
Randall introduced a bill removing all
disabilities imposed by the third sec
tion of 14th article of the amendment
to the Constitution. The bill was set
for Tuesday of next week. Immediately
after the reading of the journal Rainey,
of South Carolina, introduced a bill to
abolish the committee on Freedman’s
Affairs of the House,
Holman, of Indiana, offered the fol
lowing resolution:
Resolved, That in the judgment of this
House, in the present condition of the
financial affairs of the Government, no sub
sidies in money, bonds, public lands, en
dorsements, or by pledge of the public
credit, should be granted by Congress to
associations or corporations engaged, or
proposing to engage, in public or private
enterprises, ami that all appropriations
from the pub ic Treasury ought to be lim
ite 1 at this time to such amounts only as
shall be imperatively demanded by the i
public service.
Adopted—Yeas, 223; nays, 30.
Springer, of Illinois, offered a reso
lution declaring that in the opinion of
the House, the precedent established by
Washington and other Presidents of
the United States in retiring from the
Presidential office after their second
term, has become by universal concur
rence a part of our republican system
of Government, and that any departure
from that time-honored custom would
be unwise, unpatriotic and fraught with
evil to our free institutions.
Adopted—yeas, 232; nays, 18. Among
the nays were Haralson of Alabama,
Hoge of South Carolina, Hyman of
North Carolina, Nash of Lousiana,
Smalls of South Carolina, Walls of
Florida, Walis of MUsissipi, and
White of Kentucky.
On motion of Blaine, Rainey’s reso
lution abolishing the House Committee
on Freedmen’s Affairs was agreed to.
By Mr. Robbins, of North Carolina—
A resolution reciting that the tobacco
trade is liable to derangement by rea
son of the uncertainty in regard to
legislation concerning the tax on to
bacco, anil that it is desirable to quiet
apprehensions on that subject, and de
claring it is tbe purpose of the House
to allow no modification of the present
tax on tobacco to go into effect before
the first of July, 1876. He moved the
previous question on its adoption.
Reagan, of Texas, remarked that
there was nothing in the resolution
that the House was called upon to deal
with. It might be a very appropriate
resolution for a town meeting, but not
for Congress.
Robbins remarked that the only pur
pose of the resolution was to assure
tobacco dealers and growers that the
tax would not be interfered with be
fore Dext July, so that they might
know what to calculate upon.
Cox said he would not tie his hands
by voting for such a resolution. It
should be referred to a committee.
The House refused to second the
previous question, and the resolution
was referred to the Committee on Ways
and Means.
The House passed a concurrent reso
lution to adjourn over from next Mon
day till Tuesday, the 4th of January.
Adjourned till Friday.
Babcock Writes to the President—The
Court of Inquiry Dissolved.
The President received the following
from Gen. Babcock:
Chicago, 111., December 12.
1o the President:
Sib: Since my lequest for a Court of In
quiry, as the orily apparent means open to
me at the time, of refuting the charges
ma e against me at St. Louis, a bill of in
dictment lias been found in the United
(Slates C >urt, and l shall consequently be
Established 1799.
afforded a means of vindication before that
tribunal. I, therefore, respectfully suggest
that the order convening the Court of In
: quiry be revoked, as I trust that my case
mav be reached at an early day in the Uni
ted States Court.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
O. E. Babcock,
Colonel of Engineers, U. S. A.
The President acceded to thq. re
quest and the following order was
issued from the War Department:
Washington, D. C., December 15.
The Court of Inquiry, appointed in
special orders No. 216, of December 4th,
1875, Irom this offlee, to assemble at Chi
cago, 111. is hereby dissolved, and the mem
| bers and Judge Advocate will return to
' their stations.
By order of the President of the United
States.
(Signed) E. D. Townsend,
Adjutant General.
Nominations, Confirmations and other
Items.
Nominations : J. B. Stickney, District
Attorney for the Nortnern District of
Florida; D. B. Corbin, from South
Carolina; H. B. Whitfield, Northern
Mississippi; R. W. Kealy, United States
Marshal for Sontbern Alabama; W. F.
j Prosser, Middle Tennessee.
Confirmations : Ringgold, Appraiser
of Merchandise, New Orleans; Clarke,
' Postmaster, Eufaula, Alabama.
No Louisiana Judge is among the
nominations. The President’s private
secretary said incidentally: “We have
not settled your Judge down there
yet,”
Appointments in the House of Repre
sentatives.
L. H. Fitzhugh, Door-keeper of the
House of Representatives, has com
pleted his appointments. J. W. Jen
nings, of Texas, is his assistant; H. W.
Fletcher, of Pennsylvania, Superintend
ent of the Folding Room; A. R. Reese,
of Georgia, Superintendent of the Doc
ument Room; C. C. Aleshire, of Ohio,
Assistant Superintendent of the Docu
ment Room; Lafayette Fitzhugh, of
Texas, Document File Clerk. The
assistant door-keepers are divided
among the different States as fol
lows : New York, three ; Arkansas,
two, and one each to Ohio, Missouri,
Virginia, West Virginia, Illinois, Indi
ana, Texas, North Carolina, Kentucky,
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi, and
one from the National Soldiers’ Home.
The clerks in the folding-room are di
vided as follows: Tennessee, two;
Texas, two; Georgia, two; Pennsylva
nia, two; and one each to Ohio,"Ala
bama, Louisiana, Indiana, Missouri,
Wisconsin, California, Connecticut,
West Virginia and Illinois.
Miscellaneous Items.
In the Supreme Court, Dudley M.
Dußose, of Georgia, was admitted to
practice.
A dispatch from Dyer to Pierrepont,
says there will be no more important
whiskey trials until January.
VIRGINIA.
End of the Senatorial Contest in
Caucus—Renomiuation of Senator
Johnston.
Richmond, December 15.—The morn
ing session of the caucus was spent in
discussing numerous propositions look
ing to the adoption of some new rule
regulating the manner of voting. A
resolution was finally adopted rescind
ing the rule previously governing nomi
nations, providing for the nomination
of all candidates before the next ballot,
dropping the person receiving the
lowest vote on each succeeding ballot
until a choice is made, and allowing no
renominations. Adjourned till one p. m.
The excitiug contest for United
States Senator, which has occupied the
time and attention of the Conservative
legislators of Virginia for four days,
was brought to a close this afternoon,
ia the renomination of Hon. John W.
Johnston, the present incumbent.
Under the new rule adopted at the
morning session of the caucus, seven
candidates were placed in nomination
and balloting was resumed. Four bal
lots resulted in the dropping of Judge
Christian, Hon. John T. Harris, Hon.
A. H. H. Stuart and ex-Gov. Smith,
successively, in the order named, leav
ing the field to Senator Johnston, Hon.
John Goode, Jr., Representative of the
Second Congressional District; and
State Senator John W. Daniel.
The roll was called for the next bal
lot, the forty-fourth, amid the most
profouud silence. This ballot resulted
as follows: Johnston, fifty-five ; Dan
iel, forty-five ; Goode, thirty-nine.—
Upon the announcement of this vote,
and that the name of Mr. Goode would
be dropped, the excitement became so
great that some minutes elapsed before
the roll for the forty-fifth ballot could
be called. Quiet being finally restored,
the roll was called with the following
result: Johnston, seveuty-five ; Daniel,
sixty-four—Johnston receiving only
three votes more than the number re
quired to make a nomination. The
Chairman announced the result of the
ballot amid great applause. Adjourned
sine die.
A second ballot was taken to-day in
both Houses for United States Senator,
resulting the same as yesterday, but
to-morrow’s ballot will result in the re
election of Senator Johnston.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Forgeries Discovered—The Wheeler
& Wilson Fire.
Cincinnati, December 15.—Forgeries
of the names of firms and individuals
doing business at the United Stock
Yards have just been discovered.
Several banks were victimized. The
imitation of the signatures was so
close that reference to the books was
required to detect how many of these
checks are out, and to what extent the
banks and brokers were swindled is
unknown.
Bridgeport, Conn., December 15.
The building of the Wheeler & Wilson
Sewing Machine Company occupied the
whole block, covering two acres. The
flames spread with great rapidity. At
eight o’clock the whole establishment
was a sheet of fire. About nine o’clock
the walls fell, knocking down a dozen
spectators, half of whom were taken
from the ruins dead and seriously hurt.
Two hundred skilled mechanics are
out of employment. The new building
of the company, erected seven years
ago, is uninjured.
Found Guilty on Three Counts.
Indianapolis, December 15.—The ju
ry in James K. Hill’s case returned a
verdict of guilty on the first, second,
and third counts, and not guilty on all
the others. A motion for anew trial
! will be heard to-morrow.
i Richmond, Va., complains that, not
j withstanding the General Assembly is
in session, not a theatre is open. The
inference is obvious. People find all
the comedy and farce they want up at
: the State House.
An eating house in New Jersey still
reads: “Coflee and eggs fresh laid by
Mary Jones.” The hungry man cares
but little for punctuatiou, and Mary
j is doing well.
AUGUSTA. GLA... THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1875.
THE WHISKEY BINGS.
About Illinois Crooked Whiskey—
Late Developments.
New York, December 15—To-days
Times has the following dispatch from
a special correspondent detailed to in
vestigate the whiskey frauds in Chicago.
To-day for the first time it has become
known with positiveness that there
was a gigantic whiskey ring with its
headquarters in Chicago, similar in all
material respects to the whiskey rings
of St. Louis, Milwaukee. Evansville,
and probably New Orleans. It has
been impossible heretofore to make
that statement with any degree of cer
tainty, owing to official complications
calculated to suppress developments.
There has been nothing but sur
face indications since the first seizure.
The grand jury found indictments
against only a few of the distillers,
rectifiers and gaugers. It went no
deeper and there was nothing but the
present disposition of every community
to suspect all persons that justified the
association of higher official person
ages with the revenue fraud. There
has also been a persistent effort on the
part of interested persons to spread
the impression that the levenue frauds
in this city were merely the result of
individual and independent efforts that
is that there was no combination out
side of each individual distiller with
his gauger and no central and syste
matic organization for plunder extend
ing to the higher revenue officials and
implying an official guarantee of pro
tection against exposure arid punish
ment.
This theory has been generally ac
cepted heretofore, and received con
firmation in the character of the in
dictments returned. It is now reason
ably certain that the theory is entirely
false, and that the revenue frauds have
been worked out by the same means
and through the same machinery, and
with tbe same systematic division of
spoils, as in St. Louis. The facts seem
to justify the assertion that had it not j
been for the recent change in the office
of United States District Attorney in
this city, this phase of the Chicago
whiskey frauds would never have been
publicly developed.
—
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Meeting of the State Tax Union.
Columbia, December 15. —The Tax
Payers’ Convention met last night.
Full delegations were present from.twen- 1
ty counties. Resolutions were adopted
to-day recounting the extravagance j
and corrupt administration of the State
and county government since 1868, re
cognizing some amelioration under
Gov. Chamberlain, and recommending
the continuance of tbe Tax Unions
throughout the State, to furnish
sources for the reformation and re- ,
demption of the State ; also, calling at
tention to the disregard of the provis- j
ions of the constitution as to registra
tion, and recommending the registra- I
tion of all qualified voters through the ;
Tax Union, to protect the purity of j
elections. The Convention adjourned I
this evening, to meet at the call of the
President and Executive Committee.
The Columbia Jockey Club Races.
Charleston, December 15. —At the first
meeting of the Columbia Jockey Club ;
to-day, the first race, colt stakes for j
three year olds, mile heats, resulted j
as follows : Jack Trigg 2 11. Spring
let 12 2. Second race, one and a half
mile dash. Lottie Moore first, Abdel
Kore second.
FROM CHICAGO.
Meeting of the American Board of
Transportation.
Chicago, December 15. — The Ameri
can Board of Transportation and Com
merce opened its third annual session
at the Grand Pacific Hotel this morn
ing. John F. Henry, of New York, the
Vice-President, called the convention
to order and read a letter from Mr.
Quinly, stating that he would be unable
to attend this convention. The Secre
tary read his report, which treats of
the great decrease in the rates for
transportation in late years, due to the
brisk competition between the great
lines and to the efforts of the friends of
cheap transportation. An invitation to
visit the Board of Trade was accepted,
and the convention adjourned until
two o’clock.
MARINE ITEMS.
Vessels in Various Quarters.
New York, December 15.—A cable
dispatch dated December 14th says a
vessel named the Terrier which arrived
off Scilly to-day, from Newfoundland
reports having passed the French
steamer L’Amerique, from New York for
Havre, before reported with her shaft
broken on the first of December in lati
tude 50; longitude 18.
London, December 15.—The brig Ne
ponset, from Wilmington, North Caro
lina, for Glasgow, which put into Fayal
November 20th lost her sails and had a
seaman washed overboard. She is now
repairing.
The steamer Indies from Alexandria
reports that on the 3d, off Cape St. Vin
cent, Portugal, she passed a bark—rig
ged steamer in tow of a schr. rigged
steamer, both of the same company,
funels painted red with black top, pro
bably the L’Amerique in tow of the
Volk de Brest.
MASSACHUSETTS.
A $30,000 Deficiency in the Dartmouth
College Library—Republican Ma
jority in the Boston Municipal Elec
tion.
Boston, December 15 — A deficiency
of thirty thousand dollars has been
discoovered in the accounts of Daniel
Blondsell, the deceased Treasurer of
Dartmouth College. His family have
placed their property at the disposal
of the College.
Mayor Cobb was re-elected by
two thousand and five hundred prurali
ty, The total vote yesterday was two
thousand aud twenty-seveu hundred,,
with one exception the largest ever cast
The Republicans elected eight Aider
men and forty-nine of the common
Council. The Democrats elected four
Aldermen and twenty-five of the com
mon Council. _
Minor Telegrams.
Poughkeepsie, December 15. — The
Upper Hudson is closed again.
Springfield, Mass., December 15.
The State Grange adopted a resolution
in favor of taxing church property and
Savings Bank deposits.
Boston, December 15. — The Mer •
chants’ Savings Bank to-day reduced
the rate of interest to five per cent, to
take effect after January first. This
action is substantially the same as has
been previously adopted by nearly all
the Savings Banks in the city.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
The Man Who Planned the Mosel
Explosion—Tle Archbishop of
Cologne. 1
I Bremen, December 15.—1 tis ascer
| tained that the passenger who owned
I the case of dynamir,q is named Thomas
i sin. He confessed |ie constructed the
1 chest which explod a (I,and had arranged
| the clock work to explode it after the
lapse of a certain tir*ie. The police have
examined his workshop and found
some of the packit£<; material, but no
explosives. s
Cologne, December 15. —The Arch
bishop of Cologne !qft this city yester
day and is not expected to return. It
is understood that ho delegated his
powers to a subordinate Catholic eccle
siastical.
Paris, December 15.—The Geographi
cal Society elected Gen. Andrew A.
Humphreys a corresponding member.
Clamoring for Work— A Commune
Formed in Montreal.
Montreal, December 15.—Over eight
hundred starving men surrounded the
City Hall to-day, and called loudly for
the Mayor, who appeared and delivered
a brief address, dining which he as
sured them he would ask Council to do
all it could to provide them with work.
The men seemed discontented, and
said they could not wait long. A com
mune has been formed and trouble is
apprehended.
FROM NEW; YORK.
Tweed's Six Million Suit—Grant Ac
cepts an Invitation —Consecration of
a Bisbop.
New York, December 15. — The six
million Tweed suit is set for the first
Monday in January.
Grant has accepted the invitation of ,
the New England Society to be present
on Forefathers’ Day, December 22.
Rev. Jno. Henry Hobart Broun, S. T.
D., of Cohoes, was consecrated Bishop
of Fond-du-Lac, Wisconsin, in St. j
John’s Church this morning, Bishop
Potter presiding.
m— —•
Gentlemen’s Fashions.
[From Harper’s Bazar. 1
The business suits worn for morning
and general use by gentlemen are of
English and Scotch cloths in dark
sombre brown and gray shades. Many
plaids, vague and indistinct, but of
larger size thau those-of the summer,
are chosen for such suits and for travel
ling. The prevailing style for these
plain suits is a double-breasted reefing
sack for the coat, with a single-breast
ed vest buttoned very high and close,
and pantaloons of the same material
cut larger in the leg than formerly.
Indeed, with each season we have to
record that coats are made longer and
trowers are larger. Instead of sack
coats, the Newmarket walking coat is
sometimes used. Lines of red or of
orange are occasionally introduced in
the sombre plaid cloths worn by gen
tlemen.
The semi-dress suit worn at day re
ceptions, visiting, driving, at church,
concerts and theatre, as a coat and
vest of dark blue, brown or black i
cloth, with pantaloons of the same or !
else of light gray cloth, or stripes of
black and white. The double-breasted
frock coat is made very long, and may
be bound with silk galloon or merely j
corded in neat aud tasteful fashion, I
The single - breasted vest has a j
notched collar, and buttons medium
low; there is a special shape for the
vest of frock coats different from all I
others. This suit is considered most
dressy when the pantaloons are of the
cloth used for the vest and coat, but
there is so little variety in gentlemen’s
attire that many prefer the gray or
striped pantaloons. Very fine diago
nals are preferred to ah other figured
cloths for semi-dress suits.
There is nothing now to record in
gentlemen’s lingerie. Shirt fronts are in
shield shape, without pleats, but made
of the linen doubled with an inner layer
or third ply of very coarse linen. A row
of stitching or of fine cord finishes the
edge of the plain fronts of shirts for
ordinary wear. For full dress occa
sions, a slight vine of needle-work or a
row of hem-stitching B added. The
standing English collar; is the prevail
ing style, aud this is \vc*rn higher than
ever; the band at the back is exceed
ingly broad, and the fronts are rolled
over in a way that is m|ie pronounced
than becoming. Shirt cuffs are square
cornered, and not as broad as those of
last Summer.
Broad flatly folded scarfs are worn
with high-cut single-breasted vests,
and the shirt front is almost entirely
concealed. These are most liked when
made of plain black gross grain, but
there are many striped, figured and
brocaded scarfs; the latter have super
seded the polka-spotted scarfs lately
worn. Made-up scarfs iu sailor shape
are again revived, and are by many
preferred to the wider scarfs. Bias
Windsor neckties like those worn by
ladies are chosen by gentlemen who
know how to tie their cravats; for those
who do not know there aro made bows
of large size tied in easy fashion, so
that they do not look stiff and set, as
every thing ready made is apt to do.
Few gentlemen in tiie city wear
boots, as they are too little exposed to
snow and mud to need them, and the
fashion of wearing shoes in the sensi
ble English shapes prevails. For the
street and ordinary day wear are dou
ble-souled buttoned gaiters of calf skin,
with broad soles, low square heels, and
wide, squarish toes. For the evening
and for dress occasions generally, are
calf skin gaiters with kid tops, made
with lighter soles, and toee not so
square as the day shoes that are meaut
for walking.
Gentlemen’s dress silk hats have
yeomen bell, crown six and three-fourth
inches high, with brims sharply curved
in D’Orsay style, and one and seven
eight inches wide. The undress hat to
wear with business suits is of black
felt, with round Derby <jrown five in
ches high, and brim with D’Orsay
curve. 1 ?. ®
The newest seal-skin caps have very
high crowns, with a rolled band that
may be turned down over the ears.
The most stylish of these is the Cos
sack, with high, square-top crown,
crushed in or indented like those of
Alpine hats.
When a man expires wffhout making
any provision for the payment of his
doctor’s bill, it is uncommonly hard for
the doctor to go to church and listen
to a prayer for the release of that man’s
soul from purgatory.
A revival is raging at Amandaville,
Ky., under the management of a local
Talmage, who says : “Iknow lam a
fool, and I glory in it; just such as I
am, God sent to knock the socks from
under the sinners’ heels V*
Hah, see here ! Will y:>u treat your
New Year’s caliers to wines, or merely
to coffee and cold water?
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Mr. Penlleton in the Gate City—His
Ovatioi There —The Great Failure—
A Local Squabble—Notes—Cheap
Living hat Beats Chicago.
[FromOur Regular Correspondent.]
Atlanta, December 14th.
The visit of the Hon. George H. Pen
dleton, o Ohio, to Atlanta has seduced
from thelairs of patriotism spontane
ous ebulltions of glorious gush, which
bubbled from the busy bosoms atween
bursts ofcloquence and shouts of ap
plause. We took him to see the Gov
ernor, acd clothed that visit with the
stillest formality and erected dignity.
When we had lathered him well with
Executive soap, we chaperoned him
around hie busy boulevards and point
ed our enterprising finger at the gurg
ling water works, the cussed Custom
House, trie marvelous Markham House,
the stupendous State House, and
capped tbe climax by pulling tbe port
ly politic.au to the purling precious
ness of the potent Ponce de Leon
Springs. At night we tuned up our
harps, troubled our troubadours and
surreptitiously serenaded in the still
ness of tie star-gemmed night. When
we had lamboozled him into the belief
that we jould get up a Boston Peace
i Jubilee on the shortest notice so far as
| music wifi concerned, we puckered our
| progress.ve mouths, as boys do in the
j gallery, and whistled for him to come
out and enlighten us. He came out
blushingty' on the arms of Ben Hill and
other w>rthy and gallant escorts, and
made a speech that was as neat as a
1 new chaubermaid and as full of sensey
pith as an elder bush. He seemed to
have shaken that speech of all nonsense
and sent is to us hot. It skimmed over
the limpid waters of balderdash, flew
out of tbe humid air of gaseous gush,
1 and took a bee-line for honesty and
well meaDingness. He paid a passing
tribute to Georgia’s greatness, hit
Grant a sockdologer anent his sectarian
and religious movement, and finally
wound up gracefully and burly, without
the usual aud ever-expected allusion
to the hazy fact that Atlanta was the
Chicago of the South ! A thin veil of
disappointment was drawn by this
omission over the eager expectations
of the serenaGers, but they evidently
concluded that he certainly forgot it,
as they ambled off to their progressive
couches without vouchsafing that Pen
dleton was an old fool.
Mr. P. was well treated during his
stay here. I can’t admire this jumping
head-over-heels into ecstasies at the
approach of a notable, but candor com
pels me to record the fact that the
Atlantattidinariaus did the neat thing
with the Ohio statesman. His speech
was a model one for future comers,
and shows how nicely one can make a
few remarks fittingly without going
into* a minute analysis of political
doctrines, Constitutional liberty and
fundamental principles and all that
sort of stuff.
Geu. Gartrell and Judge Lochrane
overflowed at the close of Pendleton’s
remarks. The General offered three
cheers for “Pendleton, the next Presi
dent!” Oh, git out!
THE FAILURE.
At lat the creditors have effected an
arrangement with West, Edwards &
Cos., the sorrowful suspenders, whereby
they will receive 50 cents on the dollar,
which is a little better than nothing.
The thing having come down to system,
the exact status of the firm’s affairs is
put down at: Liabilities, $318,776;
assets, $271,800. Long time and much
litigation prevent the realization of
much on some of the assets. We are
now ready for another failure. Next!
WHY THIS THUSNESS.
The anonymous growler—that mys
terious individual who usually thrusts
his knowing head through the city
papers aud demands justice or blood,
is now having a tussle with a sort of
Ginx’s baby case. You see when a fel
low wants to expose for sale his peanuts
aud apples on our street corners, per
mission has to be obtained from the
City Council, merely as a matter of
form perhaps. The other day two
Italian noblemen, catching a whiff of
the enterprising inspiration that floats
around loosely in Atlanta and with that
desire to become famous—a charac
teristic of the maccaroni mashers—pe
tioned the council for privilege to erect
stands, one upon the corner of Lloyd
and Wall streets and the other on De
catur street. The Decatur street man
was allowed the happy freedom and
the other refused. Whereat the anony
mous contributor is exercised. No
earthly reason for the distinction could
be made, unless in favor of the man on
Wall street as his stand would have
been on a street less frequented than
the other and consequently less in the
way oi pedestrians. The A. C. now
swears that the Mayor and Aldermen
are incompetent to discharge their
several aud laborious duties.
The papers themselves are somewhat
silent on the subject, although it is
rather a serious matter, when you come
to look at it.
NOTES.
Charlie Herbst left last night to take
charge of the Macon Library. He will
bring it out of the kinks.
Col. Thad. C. Jowitt, the handsome
and stylish foreman of Pughe’s print
ing office of your city, gracefully swept
into Atlanta Sunday. He seemed to be
well pleased at the improved appear
ance of the city and took quite a fancy
to the Markham House, especially room
39.
The weather is fine, cold, crisp and
curious. Coal at 35 cents per bushel.
CHEAP LIVING.
In a recent number of the Constitu
tionalist (it takes the sweat out of me
when I get through writing that name)
I notice a long account of how a man
named Ned supported his family in
Chicago on an income of $lO a week.
Thero are large families here who live
on much less, and they live better than
Ned. Economy is the pivot on which
turns the happy domestic world. It is
the key stone to fortune, but it’s thun
der to practice. The families I speak
of do not live so well by the exercise of
economy as good management. Their
larder is at all times well supplied, they
wear good olothes and work very little.
Their moneyed income is leas, in some
instances, than one dollar a week, and
yet they live sumptuausly. They are
colored families, however, and they
manage their burglarious visits splen
didly ! Martha.
A little variation in the form of a let
ter made a venerable preacher, who
said that “clergymen should work and
play, too,” utter in print the remarka
ble doctrine that “clergymen should
work and play ’loo,”
Adam was thrown into a deep sleep
when Eve was made, and many years
afterward Cain went into the land of
Nod, where he was married. Sleepiness
washereditary in the first families.
THE AMERICAN CROMWELL.
LATEST PHASE OF HAYENISM.
Are We to Have a New Protectorate?
—Firebrands in Politics—What the
Issues of the Next Canvass May In
volve.
[New York Herald.]
Bishop Haven has made a sensation.
We have had no declaration from any
prominent man for a long time that
has made the impression of his fervid
declarations on the question of the
Presidency. The telegraph did not do
the Bishop justice. This cold, peremp
tory electric wire is a sore destroyer oJ
all kinds of rhetoric and “zeal.” The
meeting which was signalized by the
extraordinary performance of his re
verence, and which may become his
torical, was held in the old historic
town of Boston. It was a preachers’
meeting. An address had been made
on “ Bismarck and the Pope,” a favor
ite topic for Protestant declamation.
In this address the speaker, whose
name was Wells, said that Grant
was the “saviour of his country,”
and the people could not “ dispense
with his services.” The declaration
was heard amid loud cheering, and
Bishop Haven arose. He saw in Grant,
who was pro-slavery enough before the
war, “the great hero of human free
dom.” Then, according to the repor
ter, he exclaimed, in stentorian tones,
“I believe that President Grant is the
only man who could conquer the ene
mies of human freedom. I herewith,
in the name of the American people
and true Christianity, nominate Ulys
ses S. Grant, our present worthy Presi
dent and defender, to a third term in
the office of the President of the Uni- j
ted States.” Then the Rev. Dr. Bates I
put the motion in regular form, and j
the proposition of Bishop Haven was
unanimously adopted, not a dissenting
vote being given.
The impression that this nomination
was the movement of a rather talkative
and not altogether discreet Methodist
Bishop, and that he spoke for himself
alone and not for his audience, is dis
pelled by the formal action taken by
the meetiugin “unanimously” adopting
the nomination. We must, therefore,
consider this Boston demonstration as
the formal nomination of Gen. Grant
for the Presidency for a third term” by
a convention composed of “two hun
dred and thirteen ministers and about
one hundred laymen;” and, according
to the Tribune, “an unusually large
number of the most intelligent and in
fluential members of this denomina
tion.” The Methodist Church, it must
be remembered, is one of the most im
portant, as it is undoubtedly the lar
gest, of our Protestant bodies. It is
peculiarly indentified with the nation’s
progress, with the settlement of our
Western world, with the develop
ment of a true and pure Christian
spirit and a conscientious patriotism.
The history of Methodism in this
country is a history of effort and
achievement, in spite of toil and mis
ery, the hardships of a frontier life, of
struggles with a rude civilization and
of struggles far more terrible with the
merciless Indian savage. There is no
religious influence in this country so
powerful as that of the Methodist ;
enureb; for, while the believers In the j
Roman Catholic creed may be more
numerous, they are alone. The Meth- ;
odists have the natural sympathy of i
the other Protestant churches, with j
whom the Catholics are in antagonism. j
Consequently it would be folly for us j
to ignore as an unexpected, evanescent
sporadic movement a nomination from
a convention composed of more than j
three hundred members, clerical and j
lay, of a church so powerful and nu- I
merous, acting under the inspiration of
a trusted Bishop.
Looking at this movement from its
largest sense, we see more and more
reason for viewing it with gravity.
First, we have the speech of the Presi
dent at Des Moines. This speech would
have been extraordinary from any
Chief Magistrate, but from a President
who “never speaks,” who is celebrated 1
for his silence, it becomes more remark- j
able. In this address the President !
virtually says that an agitation of reli- j
gion will take the place of that agita- ,
tion of slavery which only ended in a
fierce and bloody war. Then came the
letter of Mr. Blaine, the accepted lead
er of the Republican party, and him
self not without hopes for the Presi
dency, throwing the same firebrand into
the canvass. This was followed by the
Message, with its proposed amend
ments in the same vein. Now we
have the nomination of the Presi
dent for a third term by a “most
intelligent and influential” convention
of the largest Protestant denomination
in the United States —a denomination
of which the President is an ostenta
tious if not a particularly devout mem
ber. When we see these suggestive
and unusual circumstances following
one so hard upon the other what can
we think? This is the only practical
movement that thus far has been made
toward a canvass, the nominations for
which must be determined in a few
months. The Democrats have been
waiting for the Republicans to begin
and make as many mistakes as possi
ble. The Republicans have been wait
ing expectant for the Sphinx to speak
and explain the riddle of the succes
sion. The two parties have stood an
tagonistic, like Laertes and Hamlet in
the fencing scene, waiting for the ad
vantage, when suddenly the President
comes upon the stage, a candidate for
the third term, nominated by a
respectable convention—much more
so, we fear, than any political
convention will be—and* upon a
platform which has the published sup
port of the leader of his party —the
platform of “No Popery.” This is the
real meaning of the movement in Bos
ton. It is the formal opening of the
campaign for the Presidency. It puts
Gen. Grant first in the field, and be
hind him the power of a great church,
and the undoubted sympathy of a large
part of the Protestant churches of the
United States. For this is a question
that in no way appeals to the reason
of our people. Once strike the chord of
religion in the breasts of any people,
no matter how sensible and practical,
and the reason no longer responds. It
becomes a matter of deep emotion, of
passion, of fervent belief. All other
thoughts merge into this one thought,
which rests, after all, upon the holiest
feelings of our nature—our trust in a
divinity, our hopes for a life of ever
lasting peace,
ft is well, then, that Bishop Haven
should ask the question, “Shall tho
Puritan or the Cavafier be tho ruler!”
It is well that .the professor who pre
ceded him should exalt the President
as “the saviour of the country.” Since
we are to have a campaign of religious
agitation, let it be upon tho basis of the
only campaign of similar character
which wo have in our Anglo-Saxon his
tory—namely, that which began and
ended with the career of Oliver Crom-
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 114
well. It is well that the super-loyal
Bishop should summon up the memo
ries of the Calalier and Puritan. Grant
foiled in his various flanking move
ments for a third term; foiled in St.
Domingo, in the Alabama business, in
Cuba and in Mexico, now moves upon
the religious pine. He shows by this
very movement that he thinks he can
win by no other. He sees that there is
no war spirit that will respond to any
; cry against Mexico or Spain.
He takes up the banner which Crom
well laid down centuries ago, and
makes an appeal to that fierce senti
ment of religious apprehension and
belief which has always a strong hold
on the Anglo-Saxon heart. Ho appeals
to a sentiment which modern states
men have always disdained to invoke,
a sentiment that has never been men
tioned in connection with politics, ex
cept by political demagogues who cared
nothing for the means by which power
was gained so they enjoyed power.
Nor do we underrate the force of
this new position. Once bring religion
into our politics and our people
will divide as they never did on
Mason and Dixon’s line. The dividing
line will be in every State, in every
town; nay, perhaps, in every home. It
will be with us as it was in the days of
Cromwell. We shall have fierce, un
reasoning fanaticism in our politics,
and a Protector over us, beginning to
“protect us as a third term President,
and ending only when it pleases his
military and religious followers to dis
miss him from power. The argument
which makes Gen. Grant a “necessary
President” now will make him so for a
fourth or a fifth term as well. It
would then be no more a departure
from custom to make him a perpetual
President or Lord Protector, as the
Puritan Cromwell was called, than it is
now to talk of a third term.
mi 9
DEMOCRATIC OUTLOOK.
Serious Perplexity—A Powerful Body
without Great Leaders —The Repub
lican Advantage—Conservatism of
Southern Members.
[Special to Baltimore Sun.l
The Democrats, both in the Senate
and the House, appear to cleverly re
cognize the fact that the present is a
critical epoch in the history of their
party, and that the Presidential con
test of 1876 will in reality be fought
and won upon the floors of Congress in
the next six months. This feeling has
had the effect to make the Democrats
unusually cautious and conservative,
both in speech and act, the large body
of new members pursuing as commend
able a course in this respect as their
older colleagues. Yet the indications
crop out constantly that this is only
the calm before the storm. Many of
the new members are of a class of men
who are anxious to distinguish them
selves. Not a few of them are men of
an inferior calibre, to whom the nomi
nations were given simply because at
the time no one had any idea that they
would be elected. It is not to be dis
guised that the Democratic majority is
a heterogeneous mass, and when the
work of the session fairly sets in the
leader who will be able to hold that
majority in hand will be a Napoleon in
deed. The minority is able and vigi
lant. Lod by such an artleut and skill
ful parliamentarian as Blaine, it hopes
to play with great success the part of
“ stirring up the animals.” The inex
perienced new members, impatient of
leadership or restraint, will be very
apt, uuder provocation, to retort in
language and sentiments which the
cooler heads would avoid, ami which
will at onoe be seized hold of, distorted
and magnified by the unscrupulous
minority.
Thus it is doubtful whether even the
flat of the caucus will be powerful
enough to bridle the tongues of the im
prudent, aud unfortunately the jeal
ousies which always prevail more or
less among men in public life are very
rife among the Democrats at this time.
After the announcement of the caucus
was made on Friday, a member said
openly that he was capable of judging
what was right for himself, and he did
not intend to be bound by any caucus
decisions which did not meet his indi
vidual approval. It does not lessen
the difficulties which environ the Dem
ocrats that there are several Presiden
tial and Yice-Presidential candidates
among them, the former, however, it is
belived, being confined to the Senate
side. Each of these has his own friends
and adherents, who naturally think
that the views of their favorite should
be adopted as the policy of the party.
But, so far, there has been but the
faintest outline of policy to be pursued
further than that sundry investigations
are considered as settled on. Later,
probably not before the holidays, it is
hoped that after formal conferences of
both the Senate and House Democrats,
whether in joint or separate caucus, is
yet to be determined, some plan of leg
islation and of the general conduct of
the party in the two Houses may be
agreed upon which will meet so much
of sanction as to constitute the pofioy
of the party, and be so regarded by the
country at large, irrespective of the
vagaries of individual members. Aud
here it may be repeated that the dis
position to oonoede individual opinions
are muoh stronger among Southern
members than among those of the
North and the West. The Southern
members have no candidates for Pres
ident or Yice President among them
selves, and it would be a blessing to the
party if the same could be said of their
colleagues from the other sections.
An Indignant Subscriber'.
Maysville, December 9,1875.
Mb. Epitor; My paper still comes
around by Atlanta and up the Air Line
Railroad seventy-five miles, instead of
coming by way of Athens, am i I get it
on Saturday instead of Tuesday. This
has been the case for the past two
years occasionally I would yet a paper
at the proper time through by Athens.
I wrote you on the subject some two
weeks ago. Hope you got it and will
notice it, if not you may expeot to hear
from me often or until I discontinue
my paper, which I don’t want to do if I
can get it at the proper time. I like the
paper.
Respectfully,
Madison Strickland.
P. S.— You editors of the Constitu
tionalist had better employ me to
come down and cuss out old Grant’s
postmasters. I am sixty-four years
old, weigh two hundred and three
pounds, and oan cuss out a whole camp
meeting in the woods, and am a true
Democrat, and am strictly opposed to
Radicalism or any of their other issues.
I have done some of the tallest cussing
for the past two years on acoount of
not getting my paper at the right time,
and lam in good practice, and now
propose to cuss out a host of postmas
ters.
Hoping to hear from you, I am res
pectfully, M. S.
To Advertisers and Subscribers.
On AND after this date (April 21. 1875.) all
editions of the Constitutionalist wil* be sent
free of postage.
Advertisements must be paid for when han
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Announcing or suggesting Candidates foil
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Money may be remitted atour risk by Express
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Correspondence invited from all sources,
and valuable special news paid for if used.
Rejected Communications will not be re
turned, and no notice taken of anonymous
letters, or articles written on both sides.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
Voting at the Catholic Fair in Atlan
ta is becoming exciting.
Judge Hall is holding Calhoun Supe
rior Court this week for Judge Wright.
The latter presides in Upson,
Griffin wants her city charter abol
ished, and a less expensive form of
municipal government substituted.
The Southwestern Railrfiad Company
has declared a dividend of $3.50 per
share. The total will amount to SIBO,-
000.
Two little children of Mr. H. W.
Price, of No. 16, Central Railroad, were
poisoned Saturday night from eating
cheese. They recovered.
Rev. A. G. Haygood, D. D., has en
tered upon his duties as President of
Emory College, at Oxford.
The prayer meetings in Athens are
still well attended, and no abatement of
interest in them is manifested.
A letter for Miss Lucie P. Harris,
Augusta, is held iu Atlanta for postage.
Also, one in Maoon for Miss J. W. Bess
man, Augusta, for the same cause.
A telegram was sent by the New
York police to the police of Savannah
on Monday to look out for Win. M.
Tweed as it was supposed he was iu
that city.
The Savannah and Charleston Rail
road Company are building a fine
freight depot on East Broad street,
near Charlton, in Savannah.
The Macon and Brunswick Railroad
is again advertised to be sold. Sealed
bids are invited by the Directors up to
twelve o’clock m., of January 25th.
The South Georgia Annual Confer
ence of the M. E. Church convenes at
Americus to-day. Bishop Doggett will
preside.
The Macon Telegraph denies the sus
pension of W. A. Huff. This news gives
pleasure to Mr. Huff’s many friends
throughout the State.
Mr. Conley, of Jasper county, made
3,150 bushels of corn thi3 year on thirty
acres of land, which is au average of
105 bushels, or twenty-one barrels, to
the acre.
Mr. John L. Conley has been com
missioned Collector of Internal Reve
nue for the Fourth Georgia District,
ince’ Jacob Brown, removed, and will
enter upon his duties to-day.
Atlanta enjoyed a hot air balloon as
cension on Monday. A performer con
nected with a circus—now, by tho force
of adverse circumstances, wintering in
that burg—took a short aerial voyage.
Rev. Geo. G. Smith, of the North
Georgia Conference, has about com
pleted his “ History of Methodism.”
It is to be revised and annotated by
Bishop George F. Pierce before publi
cation.
The proposition of Messrs. West, Ed
wards & Cos., of Atlanta is for a com
promise, at 35 cents on the dollar, ten
oents within ten days, and the balance
in equal payments of one, two and three
months.
On the night of the 10th inst. the gin
house of Mr. Joel M. Dean, of Walton
county, was burned, together with a
considerable lot of cotton and cotton
seed, belonging to himself and Mr. J.
E. Biggers and W. F. Hood. Incen
diary.
A few days ago, a fatal affray occur
red in Butts county. Samuel Mays
and Seal Hall quarrelled and Hall shot
at Mays twice with a shot gum without
effect, whereupon Mays drew a pistol
and blew out his opponent’s brains.
Hall is said to have killed several men.
The attendance in the public schools
of Columbus during the past year was
1,153—620 whites and 533 colored—an
increase over the preceding year of
61. The cost of the schools was $9,684
—for the white schools $8,029, and for
the colored $1,655. Average cost per
scholar, $8.39.
In the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
the other day it was admitted that
none of the grocery or provision mer
chants had made iuoney the past year*,
on account of tho low prices they were
compelled to charge. The Atlanta
merchants say there must be a reform
or they cannot exist.
James Holbrook, of De Soto, while
trimming a post for a fence with an
adze on Thursday last, made a mis
stroke and cut his leg just below the
knee, making a severe and painful
wound.
For the information of the surviving
veterans of the Mexican war, we would
say that Major John O. Ferrill, the Or
dinary of Savannah, will, in compli
ance with the request of General W. S.
Walker, President of the Association
of Mexican Volunteers, open a list at
his office. The list is formed for the
purpose of beiug presented to Congress
with the view of obtaining a pension.
Athens Watchman: The Hon. Win. D.
Anderson, the able and efficient Repre
sentative of Cobb county, haviug
joined the North Georgia Conference,
and been sent to Eatonton station as a
preacher, has resigned his seat in tho
Legislature. The Governor has order
ed an election to fill the vacancy, aud
several distinguished gentlemen have
been named for the position—Gen.
Hansell, Col. Waddell, Gen. Philips,
and others.
R. E. Burt, Sheriff of Dawson county,
recently arrested Lewellen Beck, for
the murder of a Mr. Chambliss, of
Chattooga county, about two months
ago. Beck is a terrible desperado, who
has been robbing and stealing for years
past. He has served a term or two In
the penitentiary. When arrested he
had two revolvers on his person, and
was at that moment making threats to
“ put out the light ” of the individual
who dared attempt to arrest him.
Miss Alice Reid, in a compositon on
“Newspapers,” read before the Craw
fordville Female Academy, thus speaks
of the Augusta press: Augusta Con
stitutionalist, a paper edited by the gif
ted Randall, author of “Maryland, my
Maryland,” and his corps of able as
sistants, which is probably the ablest
and most elevated weekly published in
the South. Its weekly edition is a per
fect Cyclopedia of information, which
no well informed family can afford to be
without, for its every number is worth
the years subscription price. Or you
can take its neighbor, the Chronicle &
Sentinel, a real live paper, though vene
rable for age and grey hairs, with its
corps of able editors and contributors.
Asa daily it stands peerless in the
Stat 9, and, perhaps, gathers up a lar
ger amount of news than any other
daily, which is not to be wondered at
when you take Into consideration the
peregrinations of one of its able and
accomplished editors and proprietors,
whose genial, intellectual face and
ohubby figure may remind you of a
large yam potatoe as he rolls, seeming
ly, in walking, and whose pathos and
fervid expression betray bis Celtic
origin. (Miss Alice seems to think
the Constitutionalist is not a daily,
well as a weekly paper. |
