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FRO I WASHINGTON.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Credentials of Marr, from Louisiana,
Presented iu the Senate—lndian Af
fairs—Ferry to Act as Vice-Presi
dent till January 7th—Business in
the House—Announcement of Com
mittees—House Adjourned.
Washington, December 20.—Senate.
—Bayard presented the credentials of
Robt. H. Marr as Senator from Louisi
ana. The credentials were read and
laid on the table, which is the usual
course.
Hitchcock introduced a bill transfer
ring Indian affairs to the War Depart
ment.
The following resolution was adopt
ed : “ That Mr. Thos. W. Ferry, of the
State of Michigan, be the President of
the Senate until January 7th, 1876, and
uutil a fresh appointment shall be
made.”
On motion to insert Thurman in the
place of Ferry, the vote was twenty-one
to twenty-four.
Morton’s resolution to investigate
the Mississippi election went over.
After executive session adjourned.
House. —Several excessive communi
cations were received when the commit
tees were announced.
Committees.
The following are the chairmen and
Southern members of committees:
Elections—Harris, Virginia; Black
burn, House, Debolt, Well*. Ways and
Means —Morrison, Hancock, Thomas,
Hill, Tucker. Appropriations—Ran
dall, Atkins, Blount, Siugieton. Bank- j
ing and Currency—Cox, Goode, Gibson.
Pacific Railroad—Lamar, Atkins, Walk
er, Thorn, Morton, Thomas, Phillips.
Judiciary—Knott, Hunter, Ash. Pub
lic Lands—Saylor, McFarland, Gause,
Morey. Foreign Affairs—Swann, Faulk
ner, Forney. Military Affairs—Ban
ning, Glover, Terry, Cook, Thornberg.
Commerce—Hereford, Reagau, Fulton.
Post Offices and Post Roads—Clark,
Waddell, Clemons, Stowell. Wallace.
Claims—Bright, Brown, Robbins. War
Claims Edens, Millekin, Cabell,
Ellis, Caldwell. Naval Affairs—White
house, Lewis, Mills, Hays. Re
vision of Lands—Durham, Douglas.
Education and Labor—Walker, La
mar, Faulkner, White, Nash. Dis
trict of Columbia—Buckner, Hartridge.
Public Buildings and Grounds—Hol
man, Wells, of Missouri, Cook, Walsh,
Young. Patents—Vance, Douglass,
Clarke, Smith, Hoge. Invalid Pen
sions —Jenks, Wilson, Hewitt, Yates,
Purman, Rainey. Revolutionary Pen
sions—Hunter, Bland, Clarke, Davis.
Indian affaiis—Seales, Boone, Hooker,
Morgan. Coinage, Weights and Mea
sures—Stephens, O’Brien, Parsons,
Levy. Territories—Southard, Cald
well, Harris, of Ga., Davis, Rea, Smalls.
Mines and Minery—Bland, Durham, ]
Gibson, Lynch. Private Land Claims— .
Gunter, Buckner, Parsons, Candler, ;
Levy. Public Expenditures—Milikin, |
Hotehen, Terry, Dibrell, Harroldson. ■
Railways and Canals—Jones of Ken
tucky, Schleischer, Hoge. Mississippi ;
Levees—Ellis, Hatcher, Morey, Roberts, j
Young, Stone. Reform in the Civil j
Service—Wliithouse, Brown, Throck- I
rnorton, Debolt. Manufacturers—Stone, ;
Dibrell, Williams, Moray, Hyman.
Militia—Cowon, Hereford, Scales, Can
dler, Walsh, Darrall. Committee on
Centennial—Hopkins, Hancock, O’Brien,
Rainey.
Immediately after the announcement
of committees the. House adjourned.
Full Committees.
The following is the full Pacific Rail
road Committee: Messrs. Lamar, of
Mississippi; Atkins, of Tennessee; Lut
trell, of California; Walker, of Virginia;
Lynde, of Wisconsin; Throckmorton, of
•Texas; Thomas, of Maryland; Phillips,
of Missouri; Garfield, of Ohio; Kasson,
of Iowa; Piatt, of New York; O’Neill, of
Pennsylvania; Blair, of New Hamp
shire.
Full Committee on Mississippi Levees
are as follows: Messrs. Ellis, of
Louisiana; Hatcher, of Missouri; !
Morey, of Mississippi; Roberts, *of
Maryland; Young, of Tennessee; Sheak
ley, of Pennsylvania; Dunnell, of Minne
sota; Whiting, of Illinois; Morey, of
Louisiana; Wallace, of Pennsylvania.
Harris, of Georgia, is Chairman of '
the Committee on Enrolled Bills. Wood,
of New York is second on the Com
mittee of Ways and Means; he declined
the chairmanship of any other com
mittee. Haucock, of Texas, is third.
It is understood that Gen. Gibson
who, as the mover of the resolution
creating the Mississippi Levee Com
mittee, was entitled to the chairman
ship, declined in favor of one of
his colleagues.
Opinions Regarding the Committees —
Dissatisfaction Expressed—The West
said to have the Preference.
After the House of Representatives
adjourned, and immediately upon the
announcement of the committees to-day.
There was quite a general interchange
of opinion among the members in re
gard to the selections. Those who had
been well provided for commended the
Speaker’s judgment or said nothing,
but the prevalent expression was one
of dissatisfaction. The Speaker’s
friends account for this by the fewness
of the prizes and the preponderatiug
number of the competitors for them.
On the other hand there are many
amoDgthe Democratic members who
severely criticize liis selections for a
considerable number of the promiueut
positions as unsuitable or as unfair to
Congressmen of extended service who
have been passed over in the distribu
tion of chairmanships and important
committee places to make room for new
men without legislative experience.
Of the forty-seven chairmanships, ex
clusive of the Committee on the Rules,
of which the Speaker is ex-officio
chairman, twenty-four are given to
Western members, ten to Southern
and thirteen to the Middle and Eastern
States. Of the latter thirteen,
six are of third rate importance,
being Committees on Expenditures
in various Executive Departments,
etc., and of the chairinanskis
given to Western members four
are of the same description. Four or
five of the Southern chairmanships are
also unimportant. The West therefore
holds the first place in the number of
chairmanships of first and second class
committees. Out of the total, (forty
seven) Ohio and Miissouri have each
five chairmanships; Illinois, four; Ken
tucky, four; Indiana; two, and Tennes
see, two; Virginia and Pennsylvania
have three each, North Carolina has
two, and no other State has more than
one.
The composition of the Pacific Rail
road Committee, tested by the recent
vote on Holman’s anti-subsidy resolu
tion, is as follows: The Chairman,
Lamar, and Messrs. Throckmorton and
O’Neill voted against it. Messrs. Lat
trell, of California; Lynde, of Wiscon
sin; Thomas, of Maryland; Phillips, of
Missouri; Garfield, of Ohio; Kasson, of
Jowa, and Blair, of New Hampshire,
Established 1799.
voted for it; and Messrs. Atkins, of
Tennessee; Walker, of Virginia, and
Platt, of New York, were recorded as
“not voting.”
The friends of the Texas Pacific bill
claim that a majority of the committee
will be found in favor of their proposi
tion.
Proposed Substitute for Morton’s Cen
tralization Resolutions in the
Senate.
Washington, December 20. - The con
current resolutions which Senator Mc-
Donald of Indiana will offer in the
Senate after the holiday recess as a
substitute for those recently submitted
by Senator Morton and of which he
gave notice to-day have not yet been
perfected, and therefore could not be
presented to-day. The following is a
rough draft of them containing the
substance thereof, though the phraseo
logy may be changed somewhat before
their presentation to the Senate.
Resolved, By the Senate the House of
Representatives concurring, that the peo
ple of the United States constitute a nation
and are one people in the manner only, and
to the extent provided for in the Federal
Constitution and the amendments thereto.
Resolved, That the united colonies de
clared and achieved their independence and
the Federal Constitution was formed and
adopted by the several States formerly
comprising the Confederacy, and called
the United States of America, the chief pur
pose of which was to form a more perfect
union, establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility and provide for the common
defense and the powers not delegated by it
to the United States nor prohibited by it to
the States, were reserved to the States re
spectively and to the people.
Resolve l, T nat as the States were at the
time of the formation and adoption of the
Federal Constitution, each sovereign, free
and independent, except in so far only as
such sovereignty had been expressly dele
gated to the Congress by the articles of
confederation, the rights reserved to the
States and to the people in the formation
of the Federal Government, were sovereign
rignts which cannot be impaired without
usurpation, and the only safe rule by which
to administer the Federal Government with
respect to the rights of the State and peo
ple is a strict construction of tie Federal
Constitution and the amend neats thereto
and the assumption of no doubtful pow
ers.
Resolved. That in the formation of the
Fedeial Government, it was the clear de
sign to leave each State and the people
thereof sovereign as to all matters of local
or domestic concern and to confer upon
the Federal Government sovereign powers
as to such matters as might affect the gen
eral welfare of the States or as might be
necessary to secure domestic tranquility,
which powers are defined in the Federal
Constitution and its amendments. The
people of the United S ates, therefore, form
the nature and character of their govern
ments. State and national, and from their
relation to each are not a national unity in
the ordinary sense of that term.
Resolved, That it being designed to make
the government formed under the Federal
Constitution perpetual, the right of any
State or any number of States to secede
from the Union was not reserved, and so
lar as such right has been claimed to exist,
it should be deemed forever settled against
it by the results of the late civil war.
Capital Items.
Washington, December 20.—The re
ports of the Southern Claims Commis
sion reached the House a few minutes
after adjournment. The aggregate
amount allowed for the past five years
is over three millions, settling about
five thousand claims for property taken
from loyal citizens by the Federal army
duwbg the war in the Southern States.
The President has returned.
Nearly all the Congressmen have
gone home for the holidays.
The Attorney Geueral is expected
to return to-morrow.
Chief Justice Waite and Judge Bond
are hearing the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad case at Alexandria to-day.
No Southern confirmations to-day.
■! ■
THE COTTON MOVEMENT.
Quarterly Report of the National Cot
ton Exchange.
New, Orleans, December 19.—The
report of the overland cotton move
ment for the quarter ending November
30, made up by the Secretary of the
National Cotton Exchange, shows the
new movement by rail across the con
tinent, direct from producers, of 235,-
738 bales ; 81,835 have been shipped
overland direct to the mills, and 86,912
were in transit by various overland
routes to Eastern delivery ports. At
the close of November, the total sup
ply from this year’s crop during the
quarter, including receipts at ports,
overland direct to the mills and cotton
in transit overland to Eastern delivery
ports, was 1,699,673. The total takings
for Northern consumption during the
quarter was 315,975.
ARKANSAS.
Fires at Littie Rock and Camden-
Heavy Losses.
Little Rock, December 20.— Tiie
Gazette block was burned. It was
three story brick, fifty feet front by
one hundred feet deep. The fire caught
in the rear part of Fred Haas’ cigar
and liqor store, adjoining the Gazette
office. Haas’ Joss is estimated at
SII,OOO. The loss of E. Woodruff,
proprietor of the Gazette, is $42,-
000; insurance, SI,BOO. Most of the
presses and machinery were saved.
The Ashley block, adjoining the Gazette
building, was badly scorched, but not
seriously injured. The Gazette will re
appear to-morrow morning from the
office of the late Republican. During
the progress of the fire a heavy rain
fell.
The court house, ono of the finest in
the State, at Camden, was burned early
yesterday morning. The books, re
cords, and all the papers pertaining to
the Cierk’s office, were destroyed. The
loss is not stated.
SAN FRANCISCO.
The $30,000 Race Again Postponed.
San I’rancisco, December 20.—The
Pacific Jockey Club met to-day. All
owners of horses entered for the
$30,000 four mile race were present.
By a unanimous agreement the race
will come off on the 22d of February
next. The club guaranteed to give a
certified check for $30,000, drawn to
the order of the judges of the race, to
be paid to the winner. All tiie original
entries—nine in number—remain in.
The club and the owners of the horses
are in perfect harmony.
WINTRY WEATHER.
Extreme Cold at the North,
Boston, December 20.— Reports of
intense cold come from all parts of
New England, the thermometer rang
ing from ten to thirty-one degrees be
low zero.
Newburq, December 20.—The ex
treme cold weather for the past forty
eight hours has closed the Hudson
river as far South as Peekskill.
Glenn Falls, N. Y., December 20.
The mercury registered here, at four
o’clock this a. m., thirty-one degrees
below zero.
Philadelphia, December 20.—James
Albright, watchman, was found frozen
to death this morning.
AUCxUSTA. GA.. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31,1875.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
A Cuban Success—Another Steamer in
Place of the Mosel—Movements of
British Troops—Spanish War News.
Havana, December 18.—On the tenth
Instant the insurgents burned the town
of Jaquay Grande and the estate of
Rotario. On the twelfth they stopped
at Palmira, near Valmaseda’s camp, a
train of seventeen cars loaded with
provisions and ammmuuition, to which
they helped themselves, and then fired
the train.
Southampton, December 20.—The
North German Lloyd’s steamer Salier,
which replaced the Mosel, with sixty
passengers from the Deutschland,sailed
for New York. Every precaution was
taken to ensure safety. The cargo was
rigidly examined.
Penang. December 20.—The British
troops from Perak retired to Blarja,
where they will wait for provisions and
reinforcements before attacking Ivinta.
Santander, December 20.— General
Mariones has arrived and will go im
mediately to San Sebastian to assume
command of the army iu Guipuzeoa.
France Preparing for the Centennial.
Paris, December 20.—At a meeting of
the Centennial Commisson to-day, it j
was announced that tiie application of
France for an increase of space at
Philadelphia had been granted. Plans
for the French section are closed. The
exhibitors will number more than two
thousand.
Review of the European Grain Trade.
London, December 20, —The Mark j
Lane Express, iu its review of the grain '
trade, says that prices in several mar- |
kets have declined a shilling. In Paris |
flour has been dull. The markets in
Holland, Germany, Hungary, the Danu- i
bian Principalities, and Egypt gener
ally. show no change. At Dantzic fine
old wheat is a shilling higher, and the
best new is firm. At St. Petersburg,
quotations have fallen a shilling.
The Steamer Faraday.
The steamer Faraday having com
pleted her preparations for repairing
the direct cable, cleared to-day for New
Providence, Bahama Islands.
Autocratic Valmaseda Resigns.
Havana, December 20.—Captain-Gen
eral Valmaseda, eonsideriug the new
rules introduced into the administra
tion of the island by the Madrid Gov
ernment incompatible with the power
he ought to wield, iu view of his know
ledge of the country and people, and
his past and present services, has for
warded his resignation, which the King
has accepted. The Captain-General
returned from the interior yesterday.
He will transfer the Government to the
hands of General Carbo, nexr, in rank,
and will sail for Spain on the 25th.
An Alphonsist Movement Contem
plated.
San Sebastian, December 20.—The
Alphonsist General Moriones will begin
his campaign by a movement for the
relief of this place and Hernani, after
which he is expected to advance on the
Carlists’ position at Tolosa.
Minor Telegrams.
St. Louis, December 19.—1 tis sup
posed the loss by the recent Express
robbery is about $12,000.
Norfolk, Va., December 19.—An un
known schooner is ashore three miles
south of Hog Island. Baker’s
ing steamer Resolute went to her assist
ance this morning.
Queenstown, December 19. —The
Amerique’s passengers are all well and
leave here for Havre by the Yille de
Brest.
Providence, December 19. -The
famous trotting stallion “Rhode
Island,” formerly of the Sprague farm,
but purchased Friday by Lieut. Gov.
Sisson and taken to Seacoret, died yes
terday of inflammation of the bowels.
It is reported that the price paid by
Mr. Sisson was $6,000.
An examination of the affairs of the
Providence Tool Company is to be
made to-morrow by the creditors.
San Francisco, December 19.—Several
streaks of good ore have been passed
in the Sutro Tunnel during the past
few days. The rock having become of
a softer character the progress of cut
ting the tunnel is now more rapid.
Detroit, December 19.—D. A. Iloss
& Cos., lumber merchants, have failed.
Liabilities, $300,000; assets, $400,000.
London, December 19. —Lawton &
Head, merchants, shipping and insur
ance agents of this city, have failed.
Liabilities, $950,000.
Boston, December 19.—The janitor
fired the Rice Grammar School this
morning in attempting to throw a pipe
with a hot poker. Loss, $25,000.
New' York, December 19. —Edward
Eddie, the tragedian, died at Jamaica.
VIRGINIA.
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Case.
Alexandria, December 20.—The
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad injunc
tion case was called in the Circuit Court
to-day by Chief Justice Waite and Cir
cuit Judge Bond. Argument begun,
but owing to the large number of coun
sel in the case, it was not concluded.
The court adjourned to Wednesday,
when the case will be farther argued.
Mr. Evarts opened the case and was
followed by Mr. McFarland, of New
York, in favor of a motion to dismiss.
On the adverse proposition, Mr. Smoot,
of Alexandria, commenced, but gave
way to adjournment before concluding.
Port Royal.
The iron clad monitors Motauk and
Lehigh were both placed in commission
yesterday, and it is thought their des
tination will be in the neighborhood of
Port Royal. Both vessels are almost
ready for sea, and it is thought they
will sail finder sealed orders in a few
days.
The following is a list of the officers
of the respective vessels :
“The Montauk.”—-Commander, Ed
ward P. McCrea; rfkecutive officer,
Lieutenant Wm. A. Morgan; Navigator,
Lieutenant John C. Irvine; Master Jno.
A. H. Nickels; Chief Engineer, A. B.
Bates; Paymaster, Charles H. Bartlett;
Surgeon, F. Anderson; Assistant Engi
neer, A. B. Willetts.
“The Lehigh.”—Commander, Geo. H.
Stevens; Executive Officer, Lieutenant
George C. Reiter; Master, C. McDonald;
Chief Engineer, David M. Fulmer;
Paymaster, Joseph T. Addick; Surgeon,
L. Baldwin; Assistant Engineer, H. T.
Cleaver. —Norfolk Virginian, Dec. 17.
Tit for tat. “How long have you
been in England?” was the question
put by a young Englishman to a young
American at a public dinner in Loudon
recently. “About two weeks,” was the
reply. “Really,” was the rejoinder of
young John Bull, “and I notice you
talk our language as well as we do!”
“Yes,” was the reply of Brother Jona
than; “I have not been here quite long
enough to forget how to speak it.”
PROM NEW YORK.
Catholic Pilgrimage A Newspaper
Office Burned at Buffalo—Ex-Mayor
Hall’s Debut on the Stage—Duncan
Sherman & Cos. Adjudged Bankrupts.
Buffalo, N. Y., December 19.—The
pilgrims of St. Joseph’s Cathedral, to
the number of over ten thousand,
: paraded to-day, headed by the Right
Rev. Bishop Ryan and Rev. Father P.
i Cronyn, editor of the Catholic Union. —
This was the last day of the pilgrimage.
The weather is the coldest of the sea
son, ranging 10 degrees below zero.
At 2:30 a. m. a fire broke out in the
composing room of the Morning Ex
press. The contents of the news room
were destroyed, and the floors under
neath were drenched. The damage was
SIO,OOO.
New York, December 19. — Ex-Mayor
A. Oakey Hall, made his dehut at the
Park Theatre last night, in a drama
called “Crucible.” He received an en
thusiastic ovation from a crowded
house.
Duncan, Sherman & Cos., were ad
judged involuntary bankrupts on Sa
turday on a petition filed by Carter &
Eaton Attorneys and signed by over
two hundred creditors, whose claims
aggregate $2,168,000. The acts of
bankruptcy were forty days suspension
of commercial papei and failure to pay
a depositor.
Inquest on the Body of the Murdered
Jewess.
New York, December 20.—The In
quest in the case of Sarah Alexander,
the murdered Jewess; was commenced
this afternoon in the (Brooklyn morgue
before a large crowd e>f interested spec
tators. After the examination of the
father of the prisoner, his brother, a
car conductor, and passengers with
whom the prisoner and murdered girl
rode—all of whose testimony fastened
a strong chain of guilt on Rubinstein,
the inquest was postponed until Wed
nesday next.
BISHOP HAVEiTEXPLAINS.
What He Did Say-He Only “Prays
For” the Renomine tion of Grant. •
[From a Letter to the N. Y. Tribune.]
It is the custom of our preachers’
meetings to invite their visitors to
make some remarks on the subjects
with which those visitors are familiar.
I was thus requested to speak upon the
South. Not fifty persons iD the house
knew that I had been invited, and hard
ly one of these expected me to speak.
I came to the church near the close of
the address, with no intention of speak
ing. After the president was through
the audience began to disperse. The
preacher called me but. The preach
ers, some fifty or so (no two hundred
or half that number were present at
any time) and a hundred or two of the
people sat down, i stepped to the
front, did not ascend the pulpit plat
form, and not taking off my overcoat,
spoke a few words. It was two or three
minutes past twelve when I began, and
twenty minutes past when I sat down,
I noticed the clock both times. The
“two hours” thus dwindles down to
eighteen minutes. So dwindles th*
whole affair. I spoke of the loyalty of
the men of color to our nation ; of the
large membership of our Church in
the South ; of our duty as a Church
to be true to these, our brethren, as
they would be to us. I quoted Mr
Wilson’s dying remark, that the next
political battle would: be fought, not on
the issues of finance or schools, but on
the same questions tis before—liberty
and Union. I then added: “If we throw
over our present ruler, who has saved
us once, we shall rue'i t.” I never said
or dreamed of Baying, that stilted
speech, with stretehed-up form and
rolling eyes—“l herewith,” etc. I did
add, however, what was the only pecu
liar word that I uttered—“ Pray, breth
ren, for the renomination of President
Grant.” That was all I said. I neve?
renominated him, as the papers had it
I asked the brethren to pray for the re
nomination. This I had a perfect riglu
to do; a right as a citizen, as a Chris
tian, as a minister, as a man. The
brethren made no such stilted responst
as is represented. Some responded,
Methodist fashion, by arnens; some by
jthe less Methodist fashion of stamping
and clapping. How many responded,l
know not. Afterward they approved,
by a rising vote, my words. Hov
much that vote included I don’t know,
This is the head and front and flant
and rear of my offending. Nor is this
an offense. Prayer carried our country
into and through th© great struggle i
century ago. Prayer carried us into
and through the greater struggle a di
cade ago. Prayer must carry m
through the struggles yet before ui.
Prayer is the Christian’s especial privi
lege, the minister’s especial duty. I
have prayed many a time in my pulpit
for previous Presidents, even for thei?
election, and attended prayer meetings
for that purpose. Sb have thousands of
ministers. If any body of Christiais
chooses to pray for the renomination
and re-election of thb President, I dor t
see what business tile rest of the wor'.l
has to meddle with it. We withdraw to
a place and a comniunion; the outside
world does not care or dare to enter,
and where reporters-are excluded,
if present.
COMMENT OF THE TRIBUNE.
That he had the right and the pri
vilege of making suoh'a request of bis
brethren in the and in tie
church will not be e|enied. It is aqua
tion whether it is expedient always ;o
do what one has arj undeniable rigit
to do, especially when the thing dole
is of a public nature and liable to aflat
others, either individuals or associatd
bodies. Bishop Haven’s personal peti
tions or devotions aro one thing; Le
may pray for whatever Divine inter
ference or ordering of affairs personal,
political, or social, 1 is consciousness *f
individual or national peril may impel
him to, and no one can reasonably ob
ject. But when ho goes bpyond tlis
and urges Christian people fcib unte
with him in praying' for the accomplisi
ment of a political purpose and for tie
success of an individual candidate, le
invites discussion a-jd criticism.
This matter of prjiyer is not so emfty
and meaningless a tjhing to the devout
miud that it may btj taken to bear ip
frivolous petitions Jr anything but tie
weightiest of humaa affairs, man’s pjo
foundest needs, andhighest aspiratiojs.
That must be a emergent-yin
politics which should unite all Chris
tian people in an invocation of Provi
dence for a specific interference ii a
specific manner, such as for the stc
cess of a particular candidate for Presi
dent.
A young miss i$ soon to marr," a
young minister, being of the hoise
of Rothschilds. she banks at Peris
and he at Vienna; accordingly .he
money will remain in the house, end
whatever else may be lacking at he
wedding, there will:be no lack of funds.
There are millions in it.
COMING OUT WITH TRUTH
A REPUBLICAN ORGAN’S FIERCE
PHILIPPIC AGAINST THE AD
MINISTRATION.
I Harper’s Weekly.]
Assuming that the Republican party
does not mean to destroy itself by the
renomiuation of Gen. Grant, who could
not even carry Massachusetts, and
would certainly lose New York, Penn
sylvania and Ohio, it is time to look at
the considerations which should deter
mine the selection of a candidate. Not
withstanding the Republican successes
of last Autumn, it is plain that the Re
publicans cannot elect a candidate
merely by the party momentum. The
situation can best be studied in Massa
chusetts. This is the typical Republi
can State. In 1872 the Republican ma
jority was nearly seventy-five thou
sand. Last year the Democrats elect
ed the Governor and several members
of Congress. During the year there
was a party revival—so to speak—a
vigorous Republican protest through
out the country against certain Re
publican tendencies; aud at the late
election, although the Republican candi
cate for Governor was entirely unex
ceptionable, he was returned by a ma
jority of barely five thousand. This
result in a State like Massachusetts is
conclusive proof that the sense of party
obligation is so weakened that its force
is not alone enough to elect a Presi
dent. The kind of dissatisfaction that
•vas felt in 1872, and which leu to the
Cincinnati movement, has immeasur
ably deepened and broadened. It was
without result then, because of its can
didate and the alternative it presented,
which forced many thousands of Re
publican voters to support Gen. Grant
under protest, and which kept many
thousands of Democratic voters from
the polls. But next year the Demo
crats will nominate a candidate who
will be sustained by the entire party
vote, and an immense number of dis
satisfied Republicans will also support
him unless the Republican candidate
should be wholly satisfactory to those
who desire a total change in the tone
of administration.
If w T e look for the causes which have
reduced the Republican party to its
present doubtful condition, we can
easily find them. One, of limited scope,
is the hard times; the other, and the
efficient cause, is impatience with what
may best be described as a low, per
sonal, selfish, intensely partisan char
acter of administration, which fosters
such iniquities as the Credit Mobilier,
the moiety system, the salary grab, the
enormous whiskey and Indian frauds,
questionable transactions of all kinds
involving high offices and an apparent
disregard of them, a despotic party
control by the office-holding interest,
and a contemptuous violation of solemn
party pledges. These things, and such
as these, are not, indeed, peculiar to
the Republican party, but the Re
publican party is largely composed
of men who will not tolerate
them. When Republicans said the civil
service ought to be reformed, Mr. Mor
ton retorted that it was the best upon
the planet. When Republicans pro
posed to investigate the general order
business aud the sale of arms to France,
Mr. Conkling replied that it was mud
throwing, and moved to inquire whether
any officers of the Government, mean
ing the Republican Senators Sumner
and Schurz, were in collusion with
foreign agents. Such things as these,
with the leadership of men like Gen.
Butler aud that of the Grant Senators,
as they were called (Messrs. Chandler,
Cameron, Morton, Conkling, Carpenter),
and the intimacy with the President of
“Boss” Shepherd aud of McDonald and
others—all these things, and not the
hard times, have alienated the sympa
thy of Republicans, and shattered the
party.
This is a matter of general conscious
ness, but the evidence also is conclu
sive. The election of 1874 occurred
when this spirit seemed to be hope
lessly paramount, and the Republicans
were so universally routed that had
there been a Presidential election, they
would have lost the Administration,
only two years after the great victory
of 1872. In 1872 the Republicans car
ried New York by fifty thousand ma
jority. In 1874, with one of the best
candidates for Governor they ever had,
they lost the State by fifty thousand.
The secret was Republican disgust. For
in the meantime the third term had
been suggested, or a practically indefi
nite continuance of the intolerable ten
dencies which had dissatisfied the
party. In the New York Convention—
controlled by Mr. Conkling, the im
mediate, especial, and enthusiastic
friend of the President—a resolution
disapproving the third term was
smothered. The result of the election
showed that defiance of the intelli
gence of the party was not the
way of success. The result, how
ever, was attributed by the managers
to the hard times. But this explana
tion was discredited this year, when,
although the times had not changed,
the Grant leadership in the convention
was passive, the third term was de
nounced, certain tendencies of the ad
ministration were indirectly censured,
the proceedings showed that the party
was independent of the administration;
and notwithstanding the prestige of
Governor Tilden’s canal reform, which
the Republican Convention cordially
approved, aud his skill as a partisan
leader, the actual Democratic majority
of last year was reduced from fifty
thousand to less than four thousand.
The secret was not that the times were
better, but that the Republicans—the
Independent Republicans who give the
party its majority—saw that it was
possible to reform the evil tendencies
with which they were disgusted without
directly or indirectly supporting the
Democratic party. The favorable Re
publican result everywhere was due to
the same causes as in New York—the
feeling that the incubus was loosened
from the party.
The indispensable condition of suc
cess in 1876 is, therefore, evident. It
is that the candidate shall be in him
self the proof that there will be no
continuation of those things which
have so radically alienated immeuse
numbers who would prefer to vote the
Hepublican ticket, but who will not
vote it merely because it is the Repub
lican ticket. Republicans ought to see
clearly that as Grant himself could not
possibly be re-elected, so none of the
Grant group can be elected. It is the
Administration which has endangered
and defeated the party, and any candi
date who would represent substantially
a continuance of the Administration in
general character and spirit that we
have mentioned would be surely de
feated. The signs of the times upon
this point are absolutely unmistakable.
The only man whom the Republicans
can elect is some man whom the Ad
ministration coterie would strongly op
pose, because his career and character
would be the guarantee of a total
change in the tone of administration.
THE CAMEL’S BACK BROKEN.
GOV. CHAMBERLAIN’S VIEWS ON
THE WHIPPER MOSES INFAMY.
He Declares Thursday’s Work to be
the Greatest Calamity that has yet
Fallen Upon any Portion of the
South—How the Conspiracy was
Hatched—He Washes his Hands of
all Responsibility for the Result and
Recognizes the Fact that it Necessi
tates the Immediate Reorganization
of the Democratic Party in South
Carolina.
[Special Dispatch to the News and Courier.]
Columbia, December 19. —Upon my
arrival here to-day I sought an inter
view with Governor Chamberlain, and
now give you an exact report of what
passed.
Question—Of coarse you are aware,
Governor, of the result of the judicial
election. Did you expect that election i
to take place on Thursday last?
Answer—l did not, and I had the best
reasons for not expecting it. On Tues
day, when the Senate passed the con
current resolution to hold the election
on Thursday, I spoke to both my Re
publican and Conservative friends, tell
ing them that I had a very important
engagement in Greenville on the even
ing of Thursday, which I was the more
anxious to keep because it involved the
convenience and interest of so maDy
others. I stated that, if the election
was to take place on Thursday, I
must and should remain here; but I
earnestly appealed to them not to al
low the election then to occur and thus
disappoint my friends in Greenville. I
also addressed a personal note to Mr.
Speaker Elliott, in which I requested
him, on personal as well as public
grounds, to use his influence to stay
the election, not only from occurring on
Thursday, but to stay it until next j
week or after the holidays. In answer |
to this note, Speaker Elliott came to
my office on Wednesday morning and
said he regretted that he had not
thought of my engagement in Green
ville before he was asked to favor
concurrence in the Senate resolution.
However, he said, while he might
vote for concurrence, owing to his pre
vious committal, yet he would speak to
his friends, and he thought there would
be no difficulty in postponing the elec
tion until after my return from Green
ville at the earliest. I accepted this
assurance of the Speaker and the vote
of the House, which was seventy-two
to thirty-one on the motion to lay the
Senate resolution on the table, as a suf
ficient guarantee, and left for Green
ville on the morning of Thursday, with
out the slightest suspicion that the
election would be brought on. It is
true that I was told just before the
train left that there was a bare pos
sibility that the election might como off
that day; but it was deemed certain
that the resolution could at least be
fought off until Friday, and I contented
myself with making arrangements for
a special train to bring me back to
Columbia by Friday morning if neces
sary. If I had really suspected the
conspiracy which was developed on
Thursday, nothing in the world*could
have induced me to leave Columbia.
Question—Had you been present
when the election took place, could you
have changed the result?
Answer —I see no reason to think I
could. The conspiracy appears to have
been carefully concocted. The color
line, the party line, and the line of an
tagonism to my administration,all were
sharply drawn; aud the tone of the
speeches made by the leadiug support
ers of Whipper aud Moses and Wiggins
shows that it required a degree of
boldness not possessed by many of our
legislators to vote in opposition to the
combination. Still it would have been
a great satisfaction to me to have been
on the spot and gone down fighting, if
I must go down.
Question—Was it not as a combina
tion of the supporters of different can
didates that the conspiracy of which
you have spoken was so powerful?
Answer —Yes. The peculiar strength
of the combination lay in uniting the
interests of a large number of the can
didates. This alone, I thiuk, caused
the defeat of Judge Maher. The op
ponents of this judge had a certain
number of votes which they would cast
for other candidates in other circuits
only on condition that the friends of
those candidates should pay them by
voting against Maher. Mr. Wiggins,
the successful candidate, had no
strength, and was a mere leaf on the
current; but the combination that took
him up was welded together by the
force of a common purpose to rout an
incorruptible judge, who had been an
insurmountable barrier in the way of
those who have at last overthrown
him.
Question —How do you look upon the
election of Wiggins, Whipper and
Moses?
Answer —I look upon the election as
a horrible disaster—a disaster equally
great to the State, to the Republican
party, and, greatest of all, to those
communities which shall be doomed to
feel the full effects of tho presence of
Moses and Whipper upon the bench. I
did, a year ago, speak publicly of Whip
per, who was then a candidate for the
very position to which he has now
been elected. Then I denounced him
as incapable and utterly unfit for the
office of judge. Of Moses, no honest
men can have different opinions.
Neither Whipper nor Moses has any
qualities which approach to a qualifi
cation for judicial position. The
reputation of Moses is covered deep
with charges which are believed by all
who are familiar with the facts of cor
ruption, bribery and the utter prostitu
tion of all his official powers to tho
worst possible purposes. This calami
ty is infinitely greater, in iny judgment,
than any which has yet fallen on this
State, or, I might add, upon any part
of the South. Moses as Governor is
endurable compared with Moses as
J udge.
Question—What do you thiuk of
Wiggins?
Answer—He is not to be classed
morally with Moses and Whipper; but,
in order to defeat Judge Maher, he
has consented to be the tool of the
same combinotion which elected Moses
and Whipper, and, as such tool, he will
be expected to, and doubtless will, do
do their work.
Question —What, in your judgment,
will be the effect of the election of these
three men?
Answer—The gravest consequences
of all kinds will follow. One immediate
effect will obviously be the reorganiza
tion of the Democratic party within the
State, as the only means left, in the
judgment of its members, for oppos
ing a solid and reliable frout to this
terrible orevasse of misgovernment and
public debauchery. I could have
wished, as a Republican, to have kept
off such an issue; but I have a pro
found belief in the logic of events and
a Providence, too, that shapes events;
and I do not allow myself to
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think that the good and honest men
of South Carolina will find it im
possible, because they are organized
as Democrats, to give their help
to whomsoever shall be best able to
undo the terrible wrongs of last Thurs
day. lam free to say that my highest
ambition as Governor has been to
make the ascendancy of the Republican
party in South Carolina compatible
with the attainment and maintenance
of as high and pure a tone in the ad
ministration of public affairs as can be
exhibited in the proudest Democratic
State of the South; and it was also my
fondest hope, by peaceful agencies,
here in South Carolina alone of all the
Southern States, to have worked out,
through the Republican party, the so
lution of the most difficult and one of
the most interesting political and social
problems which this century has pre
sented. If these results shall not be
reached, the responsibility for the fail
ure will not rest upon me, nor upon the
Conservative citizens of South Caro
lina, who have hitherto, with unvary
ing fidelity and generosity, stood by me
in my work, but upon those, and all
like them, who dealt the cause of good
government so deadly a blow on Thurs
day.
Question—Has your attention been
called to the question of the right of
the present Legislature to elect judges,
where the incumbents had been elected
to serve for unexpired terms ?
Answer—Yes. I have read the dis
cussions of this question in the news
papers, and have listened to the views
of several members of the bar of the
State; but I cannot say that I have
maturely studied the question. It is
evidently a fair and open question, and
involves most important consequences.
If the judges who have, previous to
the present session, been elected nom
inally to fill uuexpired terms, are enti
tled under ihe Constitution to hold for
a full term of four years, then it follows
that this General Assembly had no
right to elect th6ir successors. This
question covers the cases of Whipper,
Moses, Judge Carpenter and Judge
Cooke; but you will remember that
both Judges Carpenter and Cooke are
their own successors.
This ended the interview.
F. W. D.
The Chorus of Corruption—How the
Republican Friends of Judge Maher
were Betrayed—The Visit of Mr.
Pendleton—Legislative Work on Fri
day.
Columbia, S. C., December 17.—The
indignation excited by the action of
the joint Assembly, yesterday, is on the
increase. Among the white and a num
ber of the colored Republicans a strong
reaction has already set in. Among
this class there are a number who al
ready feel
THE FATAL MISTAKE
they have made, especially as regards
the Second Circuit. Little sympathy
is expressed by them for the Charles
ton and Orangeburg Circuit, but many
of them admit that they have made a
terrible blunder in not re-electing
Judge Maher. But the result is the
fitting fruit of the infamous bargain
these same men made to support Whip
per and Moses, if that precious pair
would throw their vote in favor of
Judge Maher. When the ballot was
taken for the First Circuit nearly every
white Republican voted for Whipper.
The Republican supporters of Maher
were silly enough to trust to Whipper’s
promises. What was the result? lustead
of supporting Judge Maher, Whipper
was the first to put forward Wiggins,
aud in the most partisan and malig
nant terms denounced Judge Maher as
a Democrat, and consequently not fitted
for the bench. What did he care ? He
was elected, and the blacker he could
make the whole judiciary the more
harmonious would be the “party.”
Whipper successfully played his double
game; he secured the votes of both the
Republican supporters of Judge Maher
and of Wiggins by pledging his sup
port to each separately, and as soon as
his own election was secured betrayed
the frieuds of Judge Maher. The Re
publican delegations from Barnwell and
Blackville, and a portion of those from
Colleton and Beaufort, who allied them
selves with Whipper’s crew to degrade
and crush the bar and people of the
first circuit, in order to elect Judge
Maher, when no such sacrifice was
needed to secure his election, deserve
their fate. Leslie and his understrap
per, Robertson, of school book noto
riety, are maiuly accountable for Judge
Maher’s defeat. It was through their
exertions that Wiggins was put for
ward, and by dint of their infernal ma
chinations that he was elected. It was
a sad commentary upon the progress
of the negro in South Carolina towards
civilization to witness the
WILD SAVAGE EXULTATION
of the black Radicals over their shame
ful work. They abandon all pretence
of decency aud dignity, and gave them
selves up to the excitement of the mo
ment. The halls and lobbies of the
Capitol fairly rang with their shouts of
“Victory,” “We have beat Chamber
lain,” “No Democrats need apply,”
etc. They have even gone so far as to
celebrate their infamy in doggerel, aud
in squads of twenty and thirty peal
forth their party choruses and wild
ribaldry. These are the verses in
which the judicial “Nine” have been
immortalized, and which the rabble
have eagerly caught up as a street
song:
THE CENTENNIAL JUDICIARY OF SOUTH
CABOLINA.
1. Chamberlain he ran away,
Got so scared he couldn’t stay.
Chorus—“ Old Aunt Jemima, let's go
home,” &c.
2. J. J. Wright, a negro true.
Steored the judiciary through.
Cho.—“Old Aunt Jemima,” <fce.
3. Whipper, whom tho whites suspected,
On tho 16tlj was elected.
Cho —“Old Aunt Jemima,” <tc.
4. Wiggins, he did run away,
We made him judge on yesterday.
Cho —“Old Aunt Jemima,” Ac.
5. F. J. Moses was about,
With the boys he whipped Shaw out.
Cho.— Old Aunt Jemima,” Ac.
6. C. P. Townsend, he was free,
And everybody let him be.
Cho.—“Old Aunt Jemima,” Ac.
7. Carpenter, the “bully boy,”
Was voted for with greatest joy.
Cho.—“Old Aunt Jemima,” Ac.
8. Mackey and Knowlton they were pitted.
The boys thought Mackey the best fitted
Cho.—“Old Aunt Jemima,” Ac.
9. Montgomery Moses, who was sure,
Saw Northrop rise and close the door.
Cho.—“Old Aunt Jemima,” Ac.
10. Orangeburg retains her fame,
For Cooke the boys stood by again.
Cho.—“Old Aunt Jemima,” Ac.
Sympathy for Tweed. —A letter from
Richmond, Ya., says ; “Great sympathy
is felt here for floss Tweed, and fer
vent prayers are hourly donated for
his esoape from this blasted country.
We have not forgotten that he sent his
check here for §I,OOO to defray the ex
penses of the Walker campaign,”
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GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
An unknown woman was killed on
Saturday, on the Southwestern Rail
road, between Fort Valley and Macon.
James Powell, an old gentleman and
long a citizen of Americus, who has
been totally blind for the past six
years, now rejoices in having his sight
restored.
The attachment case for contempt
against Shelton Edwards, of the bank
rupt firm of West, Edwards & Cos., of
Atlanta, has been reopened. Present
appearances indicate that considerable
of the assets, will be consumed in law
expenses.
A hog drover from East Tennessee,
named P. S. Hall, sold his hogs on Fri
day in Atlanta for §1,700, and was
robbed of the whole of it on Saturday
while spreeing around.
Fifteen emigrants who left Lumpkin
county five years ago and went to Up
shur county, Texas, passed through At
lanta recently en route back to old
Lumpkin. Not that they liked Texas
Less but Georgia more.
The LaGrange Reporter announces
the death of Dr. W. B. Ferrell. Ho
died at hts plantation, in Troup county,
on Thursday morning, of meningitis.
He was an old resident of LaGrange.
The Macon Gas Light Company pro
pose to light that city for the ensuing
year, aud is to light one hundred or
more lamps, at §33 a year each, and if
iess than one hundred is used, §35
each. For lighting aud cleaning the
lamps, §I,OOO per annum.
Rev. Atticus G. Haygood has been
elected President of Emory College and
Professor of Moral and Mental Science;
Dr. O. S. Smith, Professor of Latin Lit -
erature, and Dr. Morgan Callaway, Pro
fessor of English Literature.
Darien Timber Gazette: The steam
grist mill which is located near this
office, was sold at Sheriff’s sale tho
first of this month, and purchased by
Messrs. Daniel, who have been taking
it down this week, and are preparing to
move it to Taylor Creek, Liberty
county, where they propose running it,
and in addition to the grist mill will
run a saw.
Gov. Smith has dismissed the charges
against Lieut. Sorutehius, of the Fulton
Blues, of Atlanta, and disapproved the
petition of the Blues to be allowed
to withdraw from the battalion. The
Atlanta Constitution says: “Now, gen
tlemen, let us have pence and the
pleasant days of the old battalion’s
glory back again.”
Rome Commercial, 18th: Yesterday,
when the eleven o’clock train came on
theOostanaula bridge just above Plain
vilie, the bridge was burning and a
considerable amount of pine was plied
against tho wood work. The engineer
saw it in time and extinguished it. If
the train had arrived at that point half
an hour later it would not have arrived
at Rome at all yesterday. This was no
doubt the work of some mean scamp.
Finnegan was found guilty of mur
der on Saturday in Columbus. A re
porter of the Times was sent to inter
view Finnegan aud find out how he felt
after tho verdict. Nothing special
could be gotten out of him, though in
reply to an interrogatory as to how he
felt and what he thought of the ver
dict, he replied, “lie felt first rate, and
that he did not think that justice had
been done him.” In what particular
he declined to say.
Atlanta Herald: About twelve o’clock,
on Friday, E. M. Monday, Esq., for
merly a j ustice of the Peace in this
city of the 1234th District G. M., died
very suddenly of heart disease. De
ceased leaves a wife aud several inter
esting daughters to mourn his loss, aud
we offer them our sincere condolments.
It will be remembered that Mr. Mun
day was stricken with paralysis not
many weeks ago, and fell almost dead
in the street. He was then conveyed
to his residence, and barely recovered.
He was an old aud highly respected
citizen of Atlanta. His death will be
deeply regretted by a large number of
friends.
Atlanta Constitution , 18th: At a meet
ing of the directors or trie Cotton Fac
tory Company, held yesterday, Mr.
Cogin and Mr. Davis presented full
specifications and estimates for the
machinery; also, estimates of product,
number of hands that would be em
ployed, etc., which were very gratifying
to the directors. We learned that a
committee of President Kimball and
Directors Murphy, Peck and Hunnicutt
were appointed to visit the factories of
Augusta, Graniteville and Langley, to
examine the different systems of ma
chinery in use at these mills. Tho di
rectors all seem perfeotly confident of
the entire success of the enterprise.
Five Negro Thieves Killed.— The
Norfolk Virginian has learned of a re
markable occurrence on Roanoke
Island, in which Mr. Clarence Meekins
acted the principal part, and by which
five negro thieves lost their lives. It
appears that a few evenings since Mr.
Meekins was awakened from his sleep
by hearing a noise on his premises, and
on getting up and going to his door
found that some parties were attempt
ing to rob his smoke-house. He imme
diately secured his gun, and advanced
cautiously towards the smoke-house,
when he discovered a man seated on a
pry on which rested one end of the
building. Taking aim, he fired, and
"he party fell to the ground mortally
wounded. On examination Mr. Meek
ins discovered him to be a negro, and,
further, that by the building falling
back it had crushed to death four other
negroes who had crept under the raised
part, and were engaged in abstracting
the contents. Mr. Meekins at once re
ported the circumstanoe to the au
thorities, and was by them honorably
acquitted.
Princely Outlay of Stolen Money.—
Percival B. Spear, who is accused of
stealing more than SIO,OOO from R. H.
McDonald & Cos., druggists, of New
York, for whom he was confidential
clerk, bought a house at Hackensack,
N. J.. with fine grounds, and furnished*
it with elegance. He gave extravagant
suppers, and spent money lavishly at
church fairs and festivals. He was a
warden in the Episcopal Church at
Hackensack, and it has been his cus -
tom for a long time to send the rector
his Sunday dinner every week. He had
lately laid a branch sewer from his
house for the distance of nearly a block
at his own expense.
■ 9
Said a New York dry goods dealer :
“Of course, we lose money on every
piece of those goods ; but, my dear
madam, we sell such enormous quanti
ties of them.” Will the political econo
mists explain ?
It is intimated that the reason whv*
Gen. Schenck does nqt come back is
to “call” hira aDt ** not Stn>lig enou S l *