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BUSINESS IN CONGRESS.
Memorial to Chancre the Steamboat
Laws—Spencer, of Alabama, Wants
His Election Investigated—Morton’s
Mississippi Bill Bitterly Discussed,
Etc., Etc.
Washington, December 16. — Senate.
—The usual number of memorials and
private bills were presented.
Cockling presented a memorial of
practical steamboat men and persons
engaged in navigation, designating
certain portions in steamboat laws
which should be changed. In present
ing the memorial, Conkling said he ;
took great pleasure in laying this
paper before the Senate, because it
indicated particularly what changes
should be made, and it also showed
that the men engaged in steamboating
had some regard for the safety of those
traveling on steamboats.
Spencer said that at the last session
of the Alabama Legislature, a commit
tee was appointed to inquire whether
corrupt practices had been used to se
cure his election to the Senate. As the
Legislature which appointed this com
mittee was not the one by which he
was elected to the Senate, he had not i
appeared before it to answer the |
charges. He denied the charges of j
fraud and corruption, and said the Le- |
gislature which appointed this com
mittee was elected by fraud, the same j
as the one recently elected in Missis- i
sippi. The Alabama election by which
this Legislature was put in was like
that in Mississippi. It was part of a
conspiracy to overthrow lawful gov- j
eminent in the South. He re- i
cognized the Senate of the United
States as the only body having
authority to inquire into his elec- !
tion and his right to a seat in this
chamber. He therefore offered a reso
lution instructing the Committee on
Privileges and Elections to inquire
whether George C. Spencer, a Senator
in Congress from the State of Alabama,
did use, or cause to be used, corrupt
practices to secure his election to a seat
in the Senate, and authorizing said
committee to send for persons and
papers, and sit during the holiday
recess.
Davis suggested that the resolution
lie on the table and be printed.
Conkiing said the Senator from Ala
bama had been assailed, and he asked
for an investigation by a Senate com
mittee. He hoped the Senator from
West Virginia would not ask a post
ponement.
Thurman said he knew nothing what
ever of the ease, but it seemed to him
that the resolution, as drawn, simply
directed an inquiry as to whether the
Senator himself had used corrupt prac
tices. The broader question, as to
whether the election was secured by
fraud, was not covered by the resolu
tion. Spencer said he would modify it
to meet the views of the Senator from
Ohio. The resolution was then modi
fied to read as follows :
Resolved, That the Committee on Privi
leges ami Elections are hereby instructed
to investigate into and inquire whether, in
the election of Geo. E. Spencer as a Senator
from the State of Alabama, there were
used, or caused to be used and employed,
corrupt means or corrupt practices, to se
cure his election to the seat he now holds,
nd that said committee be empowered to
administer oaths, to send for persons
and papers, io take testimony, to employ
fcten arrapheis and such clerical assistance
ui they may deem necessary, and to sit
during the recess of Congress if considered
advisable, and to report the resu tof their
investigation as soon as practicable.
The resolution as modified was
agreed to.
The resolution which passed the
House to adjourn on Monday next to
the 4th of January was amended by
inserting January sth, and passed. It
goes to the House for concurrence.
Morton’s resolution appointing a
committee to investigate the Missis
sippi elections was discussed with con
siderable bitterness, without action.
Morton, calling up his Mississippi
resolution, said he had a large number
of documents written by a number of
persons in Mississippi, detailing the
circumstances attending the recent
election. The statement he proposed
to lay before the Senate was not of his
own knowledge, but received from
others. He reviewed the elections in
Mississippi as far back as 1869. The
last election was thirty-four thousand
higher than any vote polled. The
Democratic vote in 1875 was ninety-six
thousand eight hundred and six
agaiust forty-four thousand two hun
dred and eighty-six in 1873. The Re
publican vote fell off somewhat, but
not in a corresponding ratio. He read
letters showing intimidation in several
counties.
Bayard said this resolution, so far as
he knew, was without a precedent in
the Senate, and he would like to in
quire of the Senator from Indiana
(Morton) under what clause of the
Constitution of the United States he
found authority to make inquiry iu a
case of this kind.
Morton said he did not propose now
to go into a constitutional argument
upon this question. He had only to
say that it had been decided hereto
fore as in the Louisiana case. Besides,
the Enforcement Act had been violated
in Mississippi, and the blow had fallen
upon the colored people, as it was in
tended to.
Bayard denied that the Louisiana
case was similar to this. That investi
gation was under a clause of the Con
stitution which made the Senate the
sole judge of the claims for seats in
that body. If law had been violated in
Mississippi, tho courts were open, and
this was a government of law. Those
courts were open for the indictment of
offenders and for damages against
those who wronged others. In those
courts the remedy was to be found. It
could not bo said that the political or
party friends of the Senator from In
diana in Mississippi had not a full and
equal chance before the law, either
in the United States or State Courts.
The officers all over the State, from the
Governor down to the constable, were
of the Senator’s party, and if they
could not punish violators of law, it
was - sad confession for the Senator to
make. When the new Senator from
Mississippi came here with his creden
tials, if there were grounds that he was
not qualified, then the Senate could sit
as judges, but until that time no action
could be taken. When before in the
history of this country did the Senate
of the United States propose to take
testimony in regard to the election of
members of the other House of Con
gress, as this resolution proposed to
do? The Constitution provides that
each House shall be the judge of the
qualifications of its own members.
The Governor of Mississippi asked
for Federal troops before the late elec
tion to keep the people of that State in
awe. The correspondence between him
aud the head of the Department of
Justice was known to all. Gov. Ames
failed to show that any cause existed
Established 1799.
for Federal interference. Mr. Bayard
then referred to the late message of the
President, and said there was not one
word in it about Southern affairs. The
Department of Justice had its agents
down there gathering information for
the guidance of that department; yet
from that department there was
not one word or suggestion as to
these alleged wrongs. If these things
existed there, it was remarkable that
the President of the United States
maintained dead silence on the subject.
All this matter comes from the Sena
tor from Indiana, who always seemed
to have in his possession statements
hostile towards the peace of the South
ern States, some assertions without
character against the whole people of
that country. This was a revolutionary
proposition. It was but another
step in the march towards the
consolidation of power which the peo
ple or this country must see. This was
the first time that the Senate of the
United States sought to take testimony
concerning the election of members in
the other House of Congress. At the
time these Southern people were found
helpless and bleeding at the foot of
the Senator from Indiana and his
party, the Senators of hi3 (Bayard’s)
side asked when the time was to
come that the Southern States
could be rehabilitated? The Senator
from Inidana (Morton) was asked
then, what warrant he found in the
Constitution for his action, but he
could give no answer. When asked if
he would interfere with Louisiana or
Mississippi any more than he would
with New Jersey or New York, he an
swered : “We claim tiie right to deal
with these Southern States.” In the
Senator’s own State of Indiana, there
had been a great change in the popular
vote recently.
Morton said yes, and there might be
a change in the popular vote in the
Senator’s State. Delaware, soon.
Bayard—Yes sir; but if my people ex
press their ballot against me at the
ballot box, I will not come here to ask
the Senate to revolutionize my country.
[Applause in the galleries.] The Vice-
President announced that if it was re
peated, he would direct the Sergant-at-
Arms to clear the galleries.
Bayard, resuming, said the Senate
by giving assent to the propositon
of the Senator from Indiana, would
declare that elections in the States
were to be judged by the Senate of the
United States.
Thurman said the resolution of the
Senator from Indiana had not been re
ferred to any committee. It was brought
in by the Senator yesterday and con
tained a preamble that, whereas, it is
alleged that these disorders existed, he
(Thurman) asked by whom it was al
leged? Not by the President of the
United States or any department of the
Government, or by any paper before
the Senate. It was alleged by the
papers and the address which was in
the piivate pocket of the Senator from
Indiana. Did that Senator want to
forestal the judgment of the Senate
by going into an inquiry, which should
not come to the Senate before 1877 ?
When it came to decide upon the cre
dentials of any person whrrmtgtTt -eome
there claiming a seat from the State of
Mississippi other Senators would be in
the Chamber then to decide that ques
tion, and this Senate had no right to
forestall their judgment. He referred at
some length to the Louisiana case
and argued that it was no precedent
for the action now proposed. In
the Louisiana case the investigation
was not ordered until after the creden
tials of the persons claiming scats from
that State were presented. It would
not do for him ( Thurman)
to say that this w r as an at
tempt on the part of the Senator
from Indiana to get up an electioneer
ing document at the public expense,
but when the Senator (Morton) asked
himself what right the Senate had to
pass such a resolution he would find it
impossible to give himself a satisfac
tory answer. He (Thurman) agreed
with the Senator from Delaware that
the courts were open in Mississippi,
and if the Enforcement Act had been
violated the offenders could be pun
ished. •
Morton said, in his opinion, this de
bate on the part of his Democratic
friends was simply extraordinary. It
was in conflict with the wholo of their
course in tho Louisiana case. He ar
gued that the Louisiana investigation
was ordered by the Senate before the
credentials of the applicants for seats
were presented, and he believed that
the iuvestigation was ordered with the
approbation of his friends from Ohio
(Thurman) and Delaware (Bayard). Now
they had discovered that there was no
power to make an investigation, he
(Morton) argued that the power to
make this investigation was derived
from several clauses in the Con
stitution. That instrument said that
the United States must guarantee a
Republican form of government to
every State. If the ballot Boxes were
to be stuffed, as in Mississippi, the
whole Republic would be overthrown.
His friend from Delaware (Bayard) had
said this was a revolutionary measure.
It was not a revolutionary measure,
but to guard against a revolution. The
Senator (Bayard) said that if the Re
publicans should carry his State he
would not come here for relief. He
(Morton) was quite sure that if
the Republicans were to carry that
State by the means which the Demo
crats carried Mississippi, the last of it
would never be heard. Democrats
would let these outrages go on, and if
Republicans made a fuss about it, then
they were told that they were lighting
the'fires of discord.
Gordon, of Georgia, said he arose to
correct, to some exteut, some of the
impressions about Mississippi, which
the Senator from Indiana had received
from newspapers, but as he could not
catch all the Senator said, he would
like the debate to go over until he
could read his remarks.
The Senate meets to-morrow.
Confirmations—Dunn, Judge Advo
cate General; Burnham, Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury; Weils, Sur
veyor of Customs, New Orleans; Rus
sell, Collector of the Third Virginia;
Orrell, Postmaster at Fayetteville, N. C.;
Bragle, Salisbury, N. C.; Brooks, Cam
den, S. C.; Lee, Chester Court House,
S. C.; Gibson, Huutington, West Vir
ginia.
Report on the Sugar Drawback.
The report of the Treasury Agent on
the subject of the sugar drawback has
been completed, and is now in the
hands of Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury Burnham, who is giving it
close attention, with a view of framing
the conclusions of the Department.
Many telegrams have been received
by the Secretary, making inquiries on
the subject. The Department will, as
soon as practicable, issue regulations
for the guidance of collectors of cus
toms, aud all others interested.
The Milledgeviile Recorder comes to
band with a single local item,
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
A Fight Between Malays and Bri
tishers—Reported Resignation—The
Dynamite Explosion—Valmaseda Re
signs.
Penang, December 14.—Eighty of the
Tenth Regiment and one hundred and
twenty auxiliaries attacked eight hun
dred Malays in a stockade. The Ma
lays were driven out, with fifty to sixty
killed. The British loss was eight
killed and twenty-five wounded. The
fight occurred within five miles of
of Perak.
Paris, December 16.—1 tis reported
that M. Leon Say has resigned.
Berlin, December 16. —The number
of dead from the dynamite explosion
reaches eighty. Others of the injured
are hopeless. Forty were buried Tues
day, with some chests filled with frag
ments of unidentified bodies. The
total killed and wounded was one hun
dred and eighty.
New York, December 16.—A letter
from Havana says it is deemed certain
that Captain-General Valmaseda has
sent his resignation to Spaiu, and Gen.
Ceballos will take his place.
Terrible Coal Mine Explosion.
Brussels, December 16. —The was a
terrible explosion to-day in a coal mine
at Framieres, near Moos Fall. A force
of men were at work at the time. The
loss of life is appalling. It is reported
that one hundred and ten miners were
killed. Eleven have been taken out
injured. The accident was caused by
fire damp.
The Man who Planned the Dynamite
Explosion—
Dresden, December 16.—William K.
Thomassen, since his attempt at sui
cide, has made a full confession at Bre
men. He was born in New York, mar
ried a New Orleans lady, lias four chil
dren, the youngest a baby, lived in
Virginia during the war and was en
gaged in blockade running, whereby he
grew rich. Since 1866 he has resided
here and at Leipsie.and last at Strehlen,
near Diesden. He appears to have
lost his money and oecome embar
rassed. He was twice in America dur
ing the past summer. The last time
he went without the knowledge of his
family, and when he returned wrote
his banker here that he had made ar
rangements enabling him to pay his
debts in December. He was highly es
teemed by the people about here.
Death of Thomassen —Additional Con
fessions.
Bremen, December 16.—Thomassen
died to-day from the effects of the in
juries inflicted by himself. He stated
that his true name was Win. King
Thompson, and that he was a native of
Brooklyn, N. Y. His age is believed to
be about thirty-five years. He confess
ed that he was once captain of the ves
sel Old Dominion, and that he changed
his name in order to avoid being prose
cuted for running the blockade during
the civil war in America; that he
bought the explosive material in the
United States, and had it forwarded to
his address, and that the clock-work
attachment was manufactured in Ger
many, and was set to explode the
charge in eight days.
Egypt and Abyssinia.
London, December 16.—A telegram
from Egypt says that on the demand
of the British Government the Egyp
tian men-of-vvar will be called from the
Zanzibar coast, and the expedition to
Abyssinia will confine itself to exacting
satisfaction and then return.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A Big Lumber Fire—Found Guilty
of Murder.
Williamsport, Pa., December 16.
This morning a fire broke out in Hotch
kiss & Barber’s plauing mill, at this
place, which spread to the lumber
yards of Hebard & Farsman and White,
Lentz & White. .The total loss is about
$60,000 ; insurance, $30,000.
Norristown, Pa., December 16.—The
jury in the Curley murder case came
into court this morning, and rendered
a verdict of murder iu the first degree.
Murderer Executed —No Whiskey
Trials Yesterday at Indianapolis.
Halifax, December 16.—David Rob
bins, convicted for the murder of his
wife, was executed.
Indianapolis, December 16.—There
was nothing done in tlfe crooked whis
key cases in tho United States Court
to-day.
MASSACHUSETTS.
Settlement with Creditors —Foreign
Population of Bostou.
Boston, December 16.—The creditors
of J. B. Palmer & Cos., wholesale deal
ers and manufacturers of clothing,
have accepted 80 cents.
The Medical Commission, appointed
by the City Council to investigate the
sanitary condition of the city-, report
that nearly two-thirds of the popula
tion of Boston are foreigners and their
offspring, and of this proportion two
thirds are Irish.
Minor Telegrams.
Nashville, December 16.—Returns
from the Fourth Congressional District
render the election of Riddle, Demo
crat, certain.
New Orleans, December 16. —Gov.
McEnery, of Louisiana, has appointed
R. H. Marr to the United States Sen
ate, vice McMillan, resigned.
Washington, December 16.—The reg
ular monthly cotton report of the Ag
ricultural Department will not be ready
until the latter part of the month.
Chicago, December 16.—The National
Transportation Conveutioa is in ses
sion. Sixteen States are represented.
The enlargement of the Welland and
St. Lawrence Canal to secure an outlet
for the largest vessels, was urged.
Boston, December 16. — The forty
third regiment, Tigers, Massachu
setts Volunteers, celebrated the anni
versary of the battle of White Hall,
N. C., to-day, by a re-union and dinner.
One hundred aud twenty-five members
were present.
Nashville, December 16. — The fail
ure of Ewen, Pendleton & Cos., whole
sale druggists is announced. Liabilities,
$75,000. Hard times and the impossi
bility of making collections is assigned
as the cause.
VIRGINIA.
Re-election of Senator Johnston to the
United States Senate.
Richmond, Va., December 16. —The
ihird ballot in tho General Assembly
for United States Senator was taken at
noon to-day, and resulted in the re
election of Senator Johnston by a strict
pirty vote, the Republicans casting a
full vote, twenty-two, iu the House and
six iu the Senate, for Gen. W. C. Wick
ham, late Vice-President of the Chesa
peake and Ohio Railroad.
-A.TJQUST-A. Gl.. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 17,1875.
FROM NEW FORK.
No Further Respite for Dolan—Four
Murderers to Hang To-Day in New
fork—Suicide of a Beautiful Young
Lady.
Rochester, Decembeii 16.—The pri
vate secretary of the Governor, to
whom the matter was referred, informs
the Governor that there is no good rea
son for a further respite of Dolan, the
Noe murderer.
New York, December 16.—The ne
groes Ellis, Thompson aud Weston will
be hanged to-morrow with John Dolan.
Ellen Wallaway, a beautiful young
woman of nineteen, living with her
mother in Brooklyn, suicided b$ shoot
ing herself through the temple. Grief
for the absence of her father, who went
to Europe on account of financial trou
bles, is the supposed cause.
A Point of Law.
New York, December 16.— 1n the
United States Circuit Court, criminal
branch, to-day, counsel for Charles L.
Lawrence, indicted and extradicted for
complicity in the great silk smuggling"
frauds, moved that pleas of not guilty
to counts in iudictinent charging him
with passing false papers ordered to
be eutered by the couit, be expunged
from the records, on the grounds
that a person extradicted for one
offense could not be tried for
another; and further, that President'
Grant aud Attorney General Pierre
pont. had ordered that. Lawrence be
tried only for forgery. Judge Kene- \
diet denied tbe motion on the ground
that the court, in ordering the pleas to
be eutered, had complied with the pro
visions of the statutes, and no instrno
tions, no matter from what source, if
in violation of law, could be entertain
ed, and that the responsibility for the
counts in the indictment charging !
other offenses than forgery, rested
solely with the grand jury.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Election of Judges by the Black and
Tan Legislature—Two Negro Judges
lndignation Expressed.
Columbia, December 16.—A caucus of
the Radical members of the State Leg
islature was held last night, and the
first business to-day was to adopt re
solutions in joint session of both
houses, and proceed at once to the
election of an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court and eight. Circuit Judges
for the State. The election resulted as
follows : Associate Justice, Wright (ne
gro). Circuit First Circuit,
Whipper (negro); Second, Wiggin (car
pet-bagger); Third, F. il Moses, Jr., (ex-
Goveruor); Fourth, Townsend ; Fifth,
Mackey ; Sixth, Carpenter ; Seventh,
Northrop ; Eighth, Cook—all Republi
cans. The election of Whipper, Wig
gin and Moses—the first for the
Charleston Circuit, the most important
in the State—creates regret and indig
nation among the best class of Repub
licans and the people generally.
Excitement in Charleston Regarding]
the Election of Judges - A Nice Kettle ]
of Fish.
Charleston, December 16. —Great ex
citement prevails here, in c onsequence
of the election, by the Legislature, to
day, of eigiit Circuit. Judges and one
Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court. Wright (colored) was chosen to
the latter position in the Charleston
Circuit. Judge Reed, a moderate Re
publican, is replaced by the black poli
tician, Whipper, whom Gov. Chamber
lain publicly denounces as utterly in
capable and corrupt. Charleston is the
most important circuit in the State.
Ex-Gov. F. J. Moses, Jr., is elected in
the Third Circuit, and the other circuits
have been filled by the election of per
sons less notorious, but eiflially obnox
ious to the tax- payers.
SPORTING NEWS.
The New Orleans Races—The Favor
ites Beaten in All Races.
New Orleans, December 16. —Races
—third day—The first race, a handi
cap hurdle, two miles, was won by Ox
more, Port Leonard second, and Laura
third. Time, 4:01.
The second race, one mile and three
quarters, for all ages, was won by Cori
ander, Volcano second, and Verdigris
third. Time, 3:13)^.
The third race, mile heats, best three
in five, was won by George Graham,
Ella Harper second, Kdburu, Pompey’s
Pillar and Sweet Boy distanced. Time,
1:46, 1:46, 1;51, 1:23>4. Ella Harper
took the first heat. .The favorites were
beaten in every race.
PERILS OF THE OCEAN.
Distressing Shipwrecks—Loss of Life
aud Sufferings .jf Survivors.
New York, December 16. —Late New
foundland papers state that the sloop
Hopewell, with eight persons on board,
which left St. Johns on the morning of
November 29th for a harbor in Maine,
was wrecked. The early part of the
day was tine, but toward nightfall a
heavy storm arose. The Hopewell
proceeded as far as the vicinity of Cape
St. Francis, when she ran upon Biscau
rock about eight o’clock in the evening.
All hands, with one exception, were lost.
The survivor got on the rock and there
remained until next day toward even
ing, when he was rescued, after much
trouble, by the steamer Hercules, which
discovered th 9 poor fellow waving a
handkerchief. He had been on the
rock about twenty hours, at tho mercy
of every sea, and was almost ex
hausted.
The same day the schooner Water
Witch left St. Johns for Conception
Bay and went to pieces iu the vicinity
of Cape St. Francis at night. The shore
line is almost perpendicular to the
height of nearly six huff died feet. As
the vessel was drived against the cliff
those on board got on a ledge, where
they clung all night. Those whose
footing was the lefast secure were
swept off by the sea.'; Thirteen out of
the twenty-four persons on board were
saved, each one being made fast to
about one hundred Mthoms of line and
hauled up to the faot| of the cliff by the
settlers in the neighborhood, who dis
covered the ship-wrecked crew by their
cries. There were four females among
the lost. Several other marine disas
ters involving the logs of eleven more
lives are also reported.
Washington, December 16.—The sig
nal service observer at Barnegat
Beach, reports the following: The J.
C. Bowers, a two masted ship, loaded
with lumber and bouhd for Toms river,
went on the shoals jvhile entering the
inlet. She will probably get off in
jured.
To-day the gentle-iains patter op the
skylight, aud all is s<|ft aud balm}’. To
morrow the'strong D*ian may be seated
on tho icy sidewalk; and calling for a
war with Mexico.— fifee Press.
A MODEL SCHOOLMASTER.
ackford Squeers aril Do-the-Boys
Hall in Nevada.
[New York Times.]
Dante, during his exile from Flor
ence, remarked, in effect, that if there
was one t hing which he hated more than
another, it was to go up other people’s
stairs. The remark not only indicated
a lack of confidence in his legs, but it
also hinted at an obstinate tendency on
the part of “other people” to be absent
from their offices when the lonely exile
called on them. Of course, if Dante
had lived at the present day, and been
exiled to an American city, he would
have patronized elevators, and had no
occasion to lament the steepness of
alien stairs. Still, even at RavenDa,
the remedy for the evil of which he
complained lay in bis own hands. He
could have refused to call on any one
who lived higher than the ground floor,
or he could have hired a cheap daugh
ter or an inexpensive wife to climb
stairs and make collections for him,
while he waited on the sidewalk below.
Such is the astute practice of the mod
ern Italian exile, and his simple but
efficient plan for avoiding the necessity
of climbing stairways with a heavy or
gan on his back,-shows the progress of
Italian thought since the days of Dante.
History repeats itself. The hardships
of Dante in exile have been experienced
by a small boy in Alameda county,
California. Master Stone has been com
pelled to climb the stairs of an Alameda
school house to an almost incredible
extent, and the task has so enfeebled
his legs and depressed his spirits that
he has taken to his bed, and his kind
lather has tried to comfort him by
bringing him a novel and interesting
injunction from a county court. The
story, which furnishes an illustration
of the educational methods pursued in
California, carries its own moral with it,
and is briefly as follows.
In Alameda county there is a school
presided over by a teacher named
Brodt. Master Stone, while attending
this school, left undone something that
he ought to have done —say in connec
tion with sums—or did something
which he ought not to have done—per
haps of the nature o§ “joggling.” At
all events Mr. Brodt ordered him up
for punishment. For some reason Mr.
Brodt did not follow Solomon’s advice
to spoil the child by sparing to rod, but
prepared to spoil him by compelling
him to ascend the school house stairs
one hundred times, and, as the result
proved, did spoil him, so far as his legs
were concerned, to a serious extent.
Master Stone obediently began his
task; but having unintentionally omit
ted three or four stairs ou one of his
ascensions, he was immediately or
dered to climb the stairs fifty times
more. In so doing he stumbled aud
fell. The teacher, justly irritated by
this lack of moral sense on the part of
Master Stone, gave him ten more jour
neys to perform. These one hundred
and sixty ascensions having finally
been made, the boy returned to bis
desk, aud Mr. Brodt dismissed the
school, feeling that ho had developed a
hitherto unsuspected genius for the
cultivation of juvenile legs and the iu
cultivation of moral principles in juve
nile spinal columns.
A short time afterward, while climb
ing the same stairs on his way to the
school room, the depraved Master
Stone committed the brutal and re
volting offense of “looking around.”
He was promptly sentenced to ascend
the stairs three hundred and twenty
times, and it is rather odd that the
teacher did not compel him at the
same time to read aloud without ceas
ing the scriptural account of the diffi
culty in which Lot’s wife involved her
self by a somewhat similar crime.
Having finished his task, Master Stone
resumed his seat, and not having the
fear of Mr. Brodt before his eyes, and
being instigated by the superfluous
demon, who in legal documents is re
presented as unnecessarily meddling
with Californians, deliberately shrugged
his shoulders. Twice three hundred
and twenty is six hundred and forty.
Eapidly making this calculation with
surreptitious chalk on the inner
surface of his desk, Mr. Brodt an
nounced that the stiff-legged and
rebellious Master Stone would instantly
proceed to climb those penitential stairs
six hundred and forty times. The
hours lagged slowly on. The sun slid
noiselessly down the snowy slopes of
the Sierras, and evinced a determina
tion to seek its couch in the broad Pa
cific. In the “ Alameda Saloon,” at the
mouth of School House Gulch, Sandy
Jake and Conkey Sam exchanged so
ciable shots with their revolvers. In
short, the usual routine business of a
Californian day was transacted ; and
the hour for closing the school had
nearly arrived when the exhausted
Master Stone linished his six hundred
and fortieth ascension, and returned to
his desk. Humanity will probably
shudder on being told that the wicked
boy again shrugged his shoulders. 'lhe
teacher made another hurried but ac
curate calculation, and sentenced the
offender to twelve hundred and eighty
stairs. Fearing that his next offense
would incur a sentence of twenty-five
hundred and sixty stairs. Master Stone
fled to his home, and invoked the in
tervention of his father.
It is creditable to Mr. Brodt’s mathe
matical powers that he foresaw that
the boy could not carry out his task in
the course of any one day, and he
therefore permitted him to climb only
thirty stairs a day for six consecutive
days. It is not quite clear what was to
be done with the odd twenty stairs,
but it is possible that Mr. Brodt made
a mistake in his manner of dividing
twelve hundred and eighty by thirty.
Few men can solve abstrue problems
in chalk with absolute certainty in the
presence of an indignant California
father who is notoriously “spry with
his weapons.” However this may be,
Master Stone was directed to make his
thirty daily ascensions. He broke down
the first day; went home a demoralized
and dilapidated boy, and his father ap
plied to the courts for an injunction
forbidding Mr. Brodt to make any fur
ther use of his newly-invented punish
ment.
The moral of this story is obvious.
It is that the Alameda district sohool
should be hereafter held on the ground
floor of a one story house. Mr. Brodt
would then be unable to compel boys
to spend their youthful existence in
going up and down stairs. The same
end might perhaps be attained with
equal certainty if Mr. Brodt were se
curely tied to a sequestered tree, and
his scholars permitted to devote an
afternoon to amusing him in some in
nocent and cheerful way. After which
anew teacher could be imported, and
a subscription taken up among the
members of the Alraeda County Board
of Education for arnipa salve and a free
railroad ticket to Chicago for the inge-;
uious Mr. Brodt.
The Sayaunah News endeavors to
prove that Boss Tweed has been re
cently in that city. “Too thin.”
AMERICAN COTTON GOODS.
THE RECENT HEAVY SHIPMENTS
TO ENGLAND.
Our Manufactures Getting a Share of
the Immense Foreign Trade.
[New York Sun ]
In a circular letter to several of the
leading dry goods houses in this city,
Edward and John Jackson, of Man
chester, England, write encouragingly
of the importation into that market of
cotton goods manufactured in the
United States, an enterprise that is at
tracting considerable attention, espe
cially among English firms. In this
letter attention is called to the supe
rior quality of American goods as com
pared with the English, and to the fact
that they are made of genuine cotton,
are not weighted with stiffening and
filling, and that they will wash and
wear in a satisfactory manner.
This communication, which is an ad
vertisement of American goods by an
English firm, is significant of the im
portance which is attached to the at
tempted revival of the exportation of
American cotton cloth.
Yesterday a Sun reporter called upon
several agents for the cotton mills,
“We are shipping largely,” said one.
“It should be generally understood
that Manchester, England, is the great
headquarters of the world for cotton
goods. Orders for China, India, Africa,
South America and the West Indies
are received here by way of Manches
ter. So that it does not follow that
because American fabrics are sent to
Eugland they are to be sold in English
markets. But they compete with Eng
lish goods none the less. Before the
war exportations to China, India and
Africa were considerable. The cloths
sent were the medium and coarser
grades, from fourteen to thirty yarns.
Three causes combined to almost de
stroy the trade. First, our commerce
was destroyed; then, during the war,
our home mills were making such
enormous profits at home that they
would not look at the four or five per
cent, they could make by exporting.
But the chief cause of the decline in
our exports, especially to China, India,
and Africa, was the lact that England
threw into those markets for a less
price than we could adulterated goods.
COTTON, CHALK AND STARCH.
Here is a circular issued some time
ago by a leading New York firm, show
ing that in order to control these mar
kets, the Manchester manufacturers in
creased the quantity of size in drills
and shirtings, until one-third of the
weight of the goods was chalk or
starch. Of course, such goods were
worth almost nothing after being
washed. This same circular shows
that American goods contain only the
size needed for their manufacture, and
and are otherwise better than the Eng
lish'. and proves that, taking the actual
quantity of cotton in each, our cloths
are fifteen per cent, cheaper than the
English. Well, the merchants in China
and India are finding out the frauds
practiced on them by the Manchester
manufacturers, and the demand for
American fabrics is increasing. We can
produce the grades of goods sent
there—the medium aud coarser grades
—cheaper than any other market in
the world, aud there is good reason to
think that we snail get our share of the
845,000,000 heretofore annually paid to
England by China for cotton cloths.
“Within four months there have
been sent to England from the United
States from eight thousand to ten
thousand pieces of brown shirtings,
made of from twenty-two to thirty
yarns, and sold there, with cost and
charges, to net shippers as high as
they could have been sold here, some
thing that was never done before.
There was no loss, but the profit was
small. Such is the depression.of the
market here, that we are willing to
make from two and a half to five per
cent, if we can.”
SUPERIOR GOODS.
“We send,” said another agent, “the
better classes of brown sheeting and
shirtings and the best grades of
bleached goods to England, and are
competing successfully with English
goods. There is no doubt but that our
goods are superior in every respect to
those of British make; and our prices
to-day are at a point where wo can
compete with the world. There are
those who say that unless gold is at a
high premium we could not afford to
send goods to England, but in my
opinion we could do it if gold
was at par—that is if labor and
all the commodities that go to make
up the expenses of manufacturing the
cloths came down equally with the
gold. In fact, I think that then wo’d
be more on an equality than wo are to
day. Of course if wages and prices re
mained as they are, and gold went
down to par, we could not afford to ex
port cotton to England. The exoite
meut that the English manufacturers
seem to be in, and the prominence they
have given to the fact that we are send
ing cottons to them, has had the good
effect of bringing American goods
prominently before the world, and as a
result we are receiving orders from
other than English markets. \a an
example, the other day an American
merchant reoeived an order from Ham
burg for goods to go to South America.
Thus the American manufacturers are
bestirring themselves, A Fall River
house sent an agent to Manchester last
week.”
“Mr. B. Claflin hits said that if his
house had to pay commissions on their
exports, they could not afford to make
them,” said the reporter; “but, that,
having a house in Manchester, his firm
were able to make a profit. Does youy
house find that to be the case ?”
AMERICAN COTTON IN MANCHESTER.
“Mr. Claflin buys of us and other
houses, and so we, in faot, pay him the
commission for selling the goods. Mr.
Fairchild, the member of the firm in
Manchester, has done much toward in
troducing American cotton there; and
the fact that he is there is of great ad
vantage to the firm, of course.”
Mr. Claflin said to the reporter
there were no new features connected
with the exportations. The conditions
necessary to success were a dull mark
et here and a high premium on gold.
“When gold drops to 7>£,” said he,
“we can’t make a cent by exporting
cotton fabrics to England. X was talk
ing with several of the leading Boston
men yesterday, and they all said the
same.'’
Experience as to Costly Highways.—
The mammoth $10,000,000 structure
than spans the Mississippi at St. Louis
instead of increasing the business of
that city, as anticipated, according to
statements wifi not pay interest on
cost during this generation. It has
worked no change in local trade as yet,
and grave complaints are continually
making as to its mismangement,
New Series—Vol. 28, No. 115
HAVEN’S CRUSADE.
Opinions of Southern Methodists.
[Richmond Enquirer.)
Rev. Dr. John E. Edwards, who is
one of the most fearless and able
divines in the Methodist Church South,
was found in his study. In closing a
preliminary conversation, explanatory
of our wishes, the doctor was asked
what he thought of Bishop Haven’s
position, and made the following state
ment, which not only embodies his
views on the latter point, but upon the
school question and taxation of church
property, also :
“I am no politician. My relations to
society, as a minister of the Gospel,
scarcely allow me to do anything more
than drop my ballot into the box at an
election. I am disinclined, therefore,
to express through the press any views
I may entertain upon the political
issues of the day. I do not hesitate,
however, to say that I regard Bishop
Haven as a nuisance. His views, I
charitably hope, represent but a small
portion of the great church with which
he is officially connected. If I believed
that his views, as expressed “in the
joint meeting of the Methodist preach
ers and the Methodist Sunday School
Union,’ and as reported in the Boston
papers, really represented the senti
ment of the Methodist Episcopal
Church North, so far from favoring any
approximation to an organic union be
tween the Southern and the Northern
churches, I should deprecate fraternity
itself as a calamity, and as involving a
shameful compromise of Southern
Methodism.
“ The line of policy recommended by
President Grant in relation to the tax
ation of church property would prove
as disastrous to religion and good
morals as the thing is unjust and in
iquitous in itself. There are two sides
to the question, but one of which seems
to have been considered by the Presi
dent. Church property does not re
ceive “the protection of the govern
ment,’ but church property pays that
to the Government which is infinitely
more valuable than the dollars and
cents it would pay in taxes. Taxation
of church property would cripple the
church in its benevolent enterprises to
an extent that would be felt as a fear
ful recoil on the Government itself. In
my own jungmeuc, the President is as
greatly wanting in sagacity in his
recommendations as to the educational
measures urged by him, and the tax
ation of church property, as Gilbert
Haven is wanting ordinary veracity
where his prejudices are involved, or
in his respect for common decency in
good society.”
Rev. S. A. Steele, the new pastor of
Broad street Methodist Church gave an
opinion concerning Bishop Haven only.
Mr. Steele said :
“The conduct of Bishop Haven in
nominating President Grant for a third
term will doubtless receive, as it cer
tainly deserves, the universal con
demnation of the Southern Methodist
Church. It ought to bring the blush to
the cheek of every Northern Methodist.
What business has Bishop Haven, or
any other Bishop, intermeddling with
the political issues of the day? If this
precedent is to bo followed, where will
be the constitutional rights and liber
ties of our people? Bishop Haven’s
conduct would be less offensive, did he
not represent a church which controls
nearly a million of voters. Perhaps it
will work good. It will open the eyes
of the American people. It will evoke
a resolve, that unquestionably slum
bers in the bosoms of millions of our
countrymen, to preserve the liberties
of this country from ecclesiastical do
mination. With all our hearts we con
demn the unwarrantable, the abomina
ble behavior of the Boston Bishop.”
TAXING CHURCH PROPERTY.
Tlie Amount of Property Held by the
Different Denominations.
[From the New York Herald.]
In connection with that portion of the
President’s message recommending the
taxation of all church property
throughout the country without excep
tion, the public will be interested in
knowing the amount of property held
by each of the different religious de
nominations in the year 1870, when the
last national census was taken. It will
be seen that the blow the President
aims at sectarianism would fall most
heavily on his own denomination—the
Methodist—and that he has greatly
exaggerated the amount of church
property held by the different sects,
unless, as is quite improbable, the
total of $354,483,581, w'hich, according
to the census, they owned in 1870, has
trebled in the interval of the past five
years. This total was divided up its
follows:
Methodists $09,854,121
Homan Gath lies 00,985,556
Presbyterians 53,265,256
baptists 41,608,198
Episcopalians 36,514,549
Congregationalists 25,069,698
Reformed Church 16,134,470
Lutherans 14,917,748
The remaining $35,000,000 being dis
tributed between seventeen other de
nominations. That these figures are
correct is vouched for in a note at the
foot of the table in the printed com
pendium of the census, reading as fol
lows ;
The statistics of churches are be
lieved to be substantially exact and to
present a just view of the organization
of the several religious denominations
found within the United States.
It is a coincidence that the Roman
Catholics, who number just about one
seventh of the population of the coun
try, are credited iu the oeusus with
possessing just one-seventh of the
church property iu the United States.
HAVEN^CRUSAUE.
An Impending ltow in the Northern
Methodist Church.
[Wishinffton Special vDeo. 13) to the Cincin
nati Euquii er.
The religious war inaugurated by
Grant, and abetted by Bishops Haven
and Simpson, has already begun to
react on his author. To-day the Wash
ington Association of Methodist preach
ers held a meeting, fourteen out of
nineteen members being present, and
unanimously condemned the policy
of introducing polities into the pulpit
on the part of their Bishops, and the
scheme of turning religious enthusiasm
into political uses on the part of Grant.
Brother Newman was among the five
absentees. This action, taken in con
nection with the fierce attack on Grant
and Bishop Haven made yesterday by
Rev.l)r. Cleveland from the pulpit of the
Foundry Methodist Chu r ob creates a
profound sensation in religious circles
here. Well informed people predict a
serious row in the Methodist Church
on the third term business.
Church sociables are entertainments
where everybody sits quiet, waiting for
somebody else to say something.
To Advertisers and Subscribers.
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letters, or articles written on both sides.
GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
A little girl four years old, named
Thomas, residing in Cartersville, was
burned to death on Sunday last.
Some desperadoes attempted to bur
glarize the mill of Long & Pollard, at
Hartvllle, recently, but were put to
rout by a watchman. It supposed one
of the negro burglars was wounded, as
blood was found on the ground after
they iiad escaped.
At Van Wert, a son of Mr. Thomas
Thompson,was practicing with a pistol,
when, in returning the weapon to his
pocket, it was accidentally discharged,
the ball passing through his bowels
and lodging, it is supposed, against his
left hip. He lived but a day after the
accident.
Darien Gazette: Waen Gov. James M.
Smith comes out over his own signature
and declines to let the people of Geor
gia use his name in connection with the
uoxt Governorship, then we will think
about believing it. Not till then.
Griffin News: We are pleased to hear
thfft a largo area of land has been sown
in wheat this season, and we trust that
other small grain will be put iu the
earth iu proportiou. Such crops save
a vast amount of corn and credit.
At an election held by Oostanaula
Lodge, No. 113, of Rome, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: E. G. Hough, W. M.; H. 0. Nor
ton, S. W.; Halstead Smith, J. W.; J. W.
Meakin, Treasurer; H. Harpold, Sec
retary.
The Rome Commercial relates a hor
rible affair which occurred three miles
east of Tilton, iu Murray eouuty, a
week ago. Three disguised men visit
ed the house of a one-legged man
named Grossen, and one of them held
the man up in bed and pointed out thy
spot for the other to shoot him. His
mother and sisters witnessed the whole
scene. He was shot through the heart,
and died instantaneously.
Macon Telegraph : “The Augusta
Constitutionalist has not reached this
office iu several days.” That’s a fre
quent complaint, friend Reese, from
some of our subscribers up your way.
But then you can’t expect post office
men to be careful iu delivering news
papers that oppose Boss Grant, when
their time is monopolized in flooding
the country with Radical literature.
Ancient Landmark Lodge, No. 231,
F. A. M., of Savannah, has elected the
following officers : W. S. Rockweli, W.
M.; T. S. Wayne, Jr., S. W.; L. W. Lan
dershine, J. W.; Rev. G. D. E. Morti
mer, Ghapiain ; J. R. Polak, Treasurer;
H. T. Botts, Secretary ; A. P. Adams, S.
D.; S. Gazan, J. D.; W. G. Morrell, S.
S.; J. S. Haines, J. S.
The Atlanta Constitution, speaking of
rumors regarding failures in Maoon,
says the report that Col. Lawton,
Treasurer of the Georgia Agricultural
Society had absconded with $5,000 of
the funds of the society, is untrue. The
Executive Committee of the Society
upon examination found Col. Lawton
had $4,681.20 of the society funds. This
is secured by his bond. The Constitu
tion further says : “While under the
excitement naturally produced by the
failure of the Planter’s Bank and the
house of Lawton & Willingham, many
rumors have sprung up charging
crime, yet, the high character of Coi.
Lawton causes many to doubt the truth
of these rumors. We have conversed
with several gentlemen, and while they
admit that there might have been mis
management yet they do not believe
him to be guilty of crime. The amount
of Lawton & Willingham’s indebted
ness is not stated, for they have not
made any statement. The Planter’s
Bank, it is said, holds $80,006 of their
paper. Col. Lawton, it is said, had
$25,000 invested in the bank. We learn
that the claim of the Exchauge Bank
for $47,000 upon the Planter’s Bank is
disputed. The directors claim that
they know nothing about it. Among
those who loss by the failure of the
Planter’s Bank is Rev. J. Mcßrydo,
pastor of the Baptist Church, about
SSOO, and a worthy shoe maker named
Gray, a large amount. There is two
sides to every case, and the publio
should not make up a judgment until
the other side can be heard from. In
regard to the rumor relative to Mayor
Huff, a prominent citizen of Macon in
formed us yesterday that it was not
true, and that with his unconquerable
energy Huff would ‘pull through.’ ”
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken will assume
charge of the Rural Carolinian with the
Jauuary number.
The Rev. Richard Furman, D. D., lec
tured at Sumter, lust night, on Beauty.
Mis. Elizabeth Abernathy, of Sumter
county, celebrated her centennial birth
day on the eleventh instant.
The expense of running the govern
ment. of Sumter county for the last
fisoal year was $11,111.27. The three
commissioners olaim to have traveled
in the aggregate 4,829 miles.
The Riohland Rifle Club of Columbia
has tendered an escort to the Palmetto
Guard of Charleston during their cele
bration of the Fort Moultrie Centen
nial.
The Silver Cornet Band of Abbeville
is making rapid progress under .the
tutorship of Professor Lyßrand and
will soon be ready to make a public
appearance. The instruments are beau
tiful and clear.
The Ladies’ Benevolent Society, of
Due West, recently presented the Rev.
W. L. Pressly, pastor of the church in
that place, with a line overeat.
An Irishmau named Euros shot him
self at Easley Station, recently, with a
double-barrel guu, from the effects of
which he died. He was conscious up
to the hour of his death, but he re
fused to give any information concern
ing .himself, or the cause of his rash
act. •
Abbeville Medium: There has been
great irregularity ir\ tha delivery of
our country mail for several weeks
past, especially along the hue of rail
road. Now this must be corrected by
tho post office officials or we shall know
the reason why. If a man is not able
to attend to his business he should give
way to some else.
Abbeville Advertiser: The murdered
peddler, found in the neighborhood of
Johc,ston’s, turns out not to be the ped
dler. On the contrary, it would seem
from, certain facts that it was a yellow
man who had been working on the Air-
Line Railroad, and was returning to
his home in Aiken. As regards the
perpetrators of the foul deed, how
ever, no clue has been discovered.
They have a spring in Tsxas which
yields water resembling lemonade in
taste, which is very pleasant and
healthful. It does seem as if Nature is
doing all she can to discourage whiskey
dtinitfng in that State,