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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily—one year $lO oo " six months 5 00 " three months 2 50 Tri-Weekly—one year — , 5 oo '* six months 2 60 Weekly— one year 2 oo “ six months 100 Single copies. 5 cts. To news dealers, 2% cts. Subscriptions must in ail cases be paid In aavanee. The paper will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. JAS. G. BAILIE, ) FRANCIS COGIN, Proj.rietors GEO. T. JACKSON J Address all Letters to the Constitu tionalist office. AUGUSTA, GA. 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 New Series—Vol. 28, No. 119 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,” To Advertisers and Subscribers. •Cn AND after this date (April 21. 1875.) all editions of the Constitutionalist will be Bent free o! postage. Advertisements must be paid for when han ded in, unless otherwise stipulated. 25 Bu *#K°sting Candidates foi office, 20 cents per line eaoh insertion. W orPoa I ud > 0 > rder mitted at ° Ur risk by Express Correspondence invited from all sources, and valuable special news paid for if used. Dejected Communications will, not be re iot5 ae< *' ao , n °hoe taken of anonymous letters, or articles written on both sides. 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 *