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The French Assembly.
Paris, December 30.—The Press bill
passed the Assembly. The clause to
raise the state of siege in Paris failed
oy a vote of two hundred and seventy
three to three hundred and eighty-one.
In the Assembly to-day debate on the
report of the Committee on Dissolution
continued. The committee had sub
mitted a motion that the Assembly
Anally separate to-morrow even if the
seven bills, which still await considera
tion, should not be disposed of.
M. Caiiiaux, Minister of Public Works,
urged the house not to adjourn until all
bills were passed. This was agreed to.
It is, therefore, probable the Assembly
will meet again in January. The Left
is greatly dissatisfied over the delay in
the final adjournment. The Assembly
adopted all other recommendations of
the Committee on Dissolution, viz: that
delegates to choose Senators be elected
January 9th; that they proceed to the
election of Senators January 23d; that
a general election for members of the
Chamber of Deputies be held February
20th, and both Houses meot March Bth.
The Assembly will appoint a perma
nent committee to-morrow.
The Cuban Intervention Question.
London, December 30. —Reuter’s Tel
egram Company publish a statement
that the American Minister here, in the j
name of his Government, has addressed
the British Government for the pur
pose of learning its views respecting a
collective intervention of European
powers, with the object of putting a
stop to bloodshed in Cuba. The Brit
ish Government has deferred answer
ing definitely for the present. This in
formation comes from a special aud
authentic source.
From Madrid—The Cuban Matter
Again.
Madrid, December 30—Gen. Jovellar
left for Cadiz, whence he embarks for
Cuba.
The Impartial asserts that Spain
will shortly address a communication
of importance to the various European
Cabinets on the subject of Cuba.
Cable Rates.
London, December 30.—0n and after
January Ist, 1870, the Anglo-American
telegraph tariff for political and gen
eral news-, other than commercial dis
patches, to the press, uuabreviated aud
not in cipher, will be one shilling—
twenty-five cents, gold, per word.
A Centennial Rilie Match.
London, December 30.—The National
Rifle Association of Great Britain ac
cept the challenge of the New York
Association, to take part in the match
for small bores in the United States
during the Centennial. Sir Henry
Hatford is appointed Captain of the
English team.
Philadelphia, December 30.—Major
General Shaler, commanding the New
York State Militia; General Woodward,
Adjutant General on Governor Tilden’s
staff; George W. Wingate, Secretary of
the American Rifle Team, and Geo. K.
Knox, Chief of Ordnance on Governor
Tilden’s staff, are in this city as aD
Executive Committee of the Rifle As
sociation of New York, trying to get
ground for a rifle match at the Exposi
tion. They require one thousand yards
for a match in which all foreign teams
are expected to join, aud prizes reach
ing twenty-live thousand dollars in
value to be offered.
CHEAP TRANSPORTATION.
Proceedings of the Cheap Transporta
tion Association —Meeting of Railroad
Representatives.
New York, December 30.—A special
meeting of the Cheap Transportation
Association was held to-day. The Com
mittee on Claims and Giievances re
ported against the extreme low rates
for freight on the New York railroads.
What they want is uniformity of rates.
They are not in favor of rates so low
that they will not pay a fair and liberal
return on the capital actually invested.
Nor are they in favor of rates so high
that eight per cent, dividends can be
paid upon a capital of twice the amount
ever paid in by stock and bondholders,
as is the case with the New York Cen
tral Railroad. The committee also
express their dissent to the practice of
giving special contracts, as being no
protection to commerce, and besides a
direct premium to other distributing
points, divert the traffic which would
naturally come to this market.. The
Committe say, in regard to rates now
ruling, it is probable they will not long
be maintained as the basis of 30, 25, 20
and 15 cents per 100 lbs to Chicago for
Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th and special classes re
spectively are too low. A fair basis at
this time would be 50, 40, 35, 30 and 25
on both east and west bound freight,
at which rates a road honestly capi
talized aud managed could pay a liberal
interest on the investment. This esti
mate is the result of careful study
during a tejan of years aided by several
of the mosjjeminent railroad engineers.
> like these would soon
build up a Wge anti steady traffic, which
would fill Any cars* that are now sent
back to empty, and thus, in
the end, paj| both carrier and merchant
better than Hie policy pursued in the
past, of making nominal rates of a ba
sis of seventy-five cents or one dollar
for first class freight to Chicago, and
then cutting under by making special
contracts with favorite shippers, at
perhaps one-third to one-quarter these
rates. The report was adopted.
A meeting of railroad representatives
in relation to the regulation of rates
on freight between the West and East,
to-day at tho Grand Central
Pennsylvania, New
Michigan Southern,
K J; -imi and Albany,
3L a -re represented.
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FROM WASHINGTON.
A Report that Causes Several Resig
nations.
Washington, December 30.—The
Committee consisting of Hon. D. D.
Pratt, Commissioner of Internal Re
venue; D. W. Mahon, First Auditor; J.
H. Robinson, Assistant Solicitor of the
Treasury and John W. Porter, Acting
Chief Clerk of the Treasury Depart
ment, submitted their report to the
Secretary of the Treasury yesterday in
the matter of the Witowski and Sugg
Fort claims. The Commiitee find both
claims fictitious and fraudulent, and
that they were passed through the
offices of the Third Auditor and Second
Controller without such examination
as the law requires. That the Third
Auditor and Messrs. Jas. F. Allen and
George Doolittle, Clerks in his office
and the Second Controller, his deputy
Mr. Curtis and Mr. Jno. C. Wilson a
clerk in his office, had failed to give
such claims proper examination, and
are therefore chargeable with culpable
negligence. The Secretary submitted
the report to the President this a. m.,
aud on his return to the Department
showed it to Messrs. Brodhead, Ruther
ford and Curtis, who promptly agreed
to tender their resignations. The re
port was also shown to the three clerks
above named, who will sever their re
lations with the Department in like
manner. Comptroller Broadhead has
been in office a long time. Third Au
ditor Allen S. Rutherford was appoint
ed from North Carolina about three
years ago.
Important Treasury Orde^j.
In view of the labor and hazard In
curred by the Treasurer of the United
States, and other independent Treasury
officers, by the receipt and collection of
drafts and checks received by them
from national banks, public officers,
and other parties having payments to
make into the Treasury, the Secretary
has ordered these officers that he
thinks it better they should receive in
all official transactions only the lawful
aud proper moneys of the United States,
as provided by law and the regulations
thereunder. This will prevent national
banks from paying their semi-annual du
ties, bauks and other parties from pay
ing for fractional currency, and Collect
ors of Internal Revenue from making
deposits in the offices mentioned by
means of drafts and checks, thus
doing away with a practice which
seems to have crept into Government
transactions without aty special au
thority of law or regulations and
which has become a burden to the offi
cers who voluntarily undertook to col
lect for parties their checks #nd drafts
transmitted for the purpose of making
the payments mentioned.
Cassius M. Clay for Vice-President.
Cassius M. Clay, of Kentucky, writes
to a gentleman of this city that his
State will present his name to the Na
tional Democratic Convention, in 1876,
as the nominee for Vice-President.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE,
A Sweeping Report on Spencer’s Case.
Montgomery, December 30.—The
Spencer Investigating Committee re
ported in the Senate, which was crowd
ed with spectators.. The reading of
the report occupied ninety minutes,
and was listened to with profound at
tention. In summing up, the commit
tee says;
“He (Spencer) during the election of
members of the Legislature, used
means to secure to himself their votes;
that he abused the army, the Post
Office and Internal Revenue Depart
ments of the Government. Ho brought
the evils of war upon the people, and
caused them to flee their homos and
abstain from voting. He prostituted
his office to the purpose of bargainings
and briberies to secure votes for his
re-election. He corrupted United States
officials, for whom he had procured
Federal appointments, and forced his
appointees, under threats of removal
from office to pay money, and some of
them to commit crime too black to
mention. To aid him in liis election,
he raised men to be appointed to sine
cure positions in the Custom House,
Post Offices and Reveuue Offices, with
the intent and understanding that
while in office they would uot bo re
quired to reuder service to the Gov
ernment, but would get their pay, aud
while so paid, they would employ their
time in securing pledges of votes aud
influence to re-elect him to the United
States Senate. He paid aud caused to
be paid money to members of the
Court House Assembly to secure their
votes. He paid aud caused to be paid
money to members of the Legislature
to defeat a quorum at the Capitol, and
thereby prevent the election of a Sen
ator by that body, and his most trusted
agent, J. J. Hinds, caused a member of
that body to be drugged and
almost killed to prevent his at
tendance. He dealt in United
States offices, as in merchandise,
to secure money and gain votes
for Senator. His managers, with his
concurrence, caused a State Senator for
e. money consideration, to break his
pledge of honor to another Senator,
having prearranged the scheme, thereby
to secure a seat in the United States
Senate. Through his said managers
he procured the presiding officer of the
Senate to connive at tnis fraud, and to
rule in violation of all parliamentary
law and usage, so as to unseat a Sena
tor elected by the people, and seat in
his place a partisan of Spencer, who
was not elected by the people, and who.
iieid no certificate of election. He
caused to be filled the lobby of the
Senate with armed retainers to overawe
Senators and to sustain, by force
and violence, what he had achiev
ed by fraud. He used his hours, influ
ence, and the money he controlled
through his position as Senator to de
banche men in office and out, so that
in his conduct lie Was working evil con
tinually.” /
The report war6®oived and ordered
printed with thdjp v idence, and the com
mittee given to prepare a memo-
United States Senate against
Afcfctfurther occupancy of a seat
The report was signed
on which both
l! iills lit teen
-V ■'■erttier of Decern-
AUGUSTA. GLA.., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1875.
FROM NEW YORK.
Mrs. Moulton’s Counsel—Supposed
Murder and Suicide—Conviction of
a Publisher of a Bad Sheet—Specie
Shipment—Tweed’s Sureties.
New York, December 30. —Judge Van
Colt succeeds Pryor as Mrs. Moulton’s
counsel.
The police found Myers and his wife
and child in bed. Myers and his wife
were insensible from pistol shots, and
the child dead from a pistol wound
through the right eye. The theory is
that Myers shot his wife and child, and
then himself.
John E. Grant, convicted of publish
ing and sending through the mails an
Obscene sheet, known as the Toledo
Sun, was sentenced to eighteen months’
imprisonment and SSOO fine.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars in double eagles were shipped to
Liverpool to-day.
Judge Donohue’s order declaring
Tweed’s sureties on seven criminal in
dictments recently found to have for
feited their recognizances, was settled
and signed to day. A writ of certiorari
was taken out on the spot, whicli has
the effect of a stay.
Canal Auditor Appointed.
Albany, December 30.—Hon. George
W. Schuyler lias been appointed Audi
tor of the Canal Department, vice
Thayer suspended.
Postponement Asked.
New York, December 30.—The con
ference of jobbers and receivers of
grain adopted a resolution requesting
thirty days’ postponement of the in
crease in elevating and weighing
charges.
The City Treasurer of Buffalo De
faults.
Buffalo, December 30. —Jos. Book,
City Treasurer, has decamped. He is
a defaulter for a quarter of a million.
His bonds, filed with the City Clerk,
amount to $350,000, and are signed by
some of the most prominent and
wealthy citizens. Before the departure
of Book he made a general assignment
of his property, amounting to $650,000.
He has been a very extensive real es
tate operator, and built up the eastern
part of the city.
Course of Cotton.
(New York Bulletin, Doc. 28.]
Business has not been very extensive
and the market developed no new or
exciting features. The crop prospects
appear to form the pivot upon which
operations at present are hinged, aud
the position nicely enough balanced to
prevent any great swing up or dowD.
The arrivals at the ports have been
pretty full, aud with the call for con
sumption, shipment and investment all
comparatively moderate, there has
been a fractional average in favor of
buyers. The opposing element, how
ever, appeared to have sufficient
strength to successfully resist and pre
vent all attempts to bring about a se
rious break ou values, aud thus, with a
few unimportant changes to be re
corded from day to day, mat
ters seemed to be held in abey
ance, awaiting some clearer indication
calculated to afford a solution of the pro
blem as to the extent of the product of
the present season and its disposal. On
the first, the disposition is more gene
ral now to raise the estimates, and four
million two hundred thousand bales is
frequently named as the probable crop
figure. On the last,opinions are all, more
or less variable, and few operators ha\ r e
come to auy decided conclusion, though
we think the feeling leans toward a be
lief that, with the turn of the year, the
wants of the looms will increase. The
European continent has already drawn
liberally for supplies, and though Eng
land is behind and our own spinners
move in a cautious manner, there is a
strong hope that deficiencies on these
outlets will gradually be made good.
On “spots” we have, for a week or
two past, found ft necessary to call at
tention to the difference of tone on
quality, the high styles of cotton ruling
strong while the poorer descriptions
•vere weak, unsettled, and, at times,
almost entirely nominal. The most
noticeable feature during the period
now trader review was a revision of
quotations, reducing the lower grades
l-16a5-16c per lb., thus widening out
the range, and giving figures approxi
mating more closely to the actual
values of the various styles. From
about low middling downward the sup
ply has been plenty, but the grades
above were scarce at ail times, and dif
ficult to reach except at full ruling
quotations with now and then abac
tion more paid for the sake of secur
ing some particularly desirable parcel.
The demand has not been very active,
but fair, and, in the main, from expor
ters, until toward the close, when they
withdrew and left the movement con
fined to the ordinary distribution on
domestic account. In “free on boards”
at the Southern ports, there has been a
fair business at somewhat irregular
rates. The opening was pretty firm at
12%and 15-32d freight, followed by a
drop to 12 5 / B c. At this figure the at
tention of sir ippers were diverted from
our market aud a number of parcels
secured, but afterward the rate was
again advanced to and firmly held,
causing a lull in the operations.
On contracts, with a few moderate
fluctuations, the market has worked
off a trifle and shown no great amount
of activity. The weakness was due,
as near as could be traced, to the
pretty full run of supplies at the ports
and a somewhat unexpected shading
on the Liverpool quotation, though
-neither influence was of sufficient pow
er to throw a decided influence into
the hands of the “bears.” The receipts,
indeed, had been partially discounted
the preceding week through the indi
cations received by the movement at
the interior towns, and private foreign
Advices, coupled with the atten
tive manner of shippers toward
all really desirable supplies, were
construed as sufficiently favor
able to check feelings of alarm.
The tendency of many of the smaller
operators to close up their engage
ments with the year was also again
found to act as a partial support, and
it was further intimated that the lead
ing “shorts,” who intend remaining
“in,” were adding their influence to
prevent a shrinkage until they were
more fully prepared for the break. At
the best, however, business has been
stup/d throughout, and frequently de
pendent entirely upon brokers’ manip
ulations for what little vitality it pos
one appeared to antici
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ENGLAND AND EGYPT.
PREMIER DISRAELI’S MASTER
STROKE.
The Purchase of the Suez Canal
Shares—The Public Amazed—Em
barrassments of the Khedive—Terms
of the Bargain—Mr. Disraeli Sus
tained by the People—Political Im
portance of the Purchase.
[From the Correspondent of the Tribune.]
London, November 27.— The public
announcement of the purchase of the
Khedive’s shares in the Suez Canal was
made yesterday. There is reason to
believe that it is not more than ten
days since the English Government has
had the scheme under consideration.
The secrecy and suddenness with which
the negotiations have been carried on
and the decision arrived at, are not
less surprising than the courage with
which a great opportunity has been
seized. It is probable that the higher
credit of perceiving the opportunity
and taking the initiative in a great
stroke must bo denied to tho Govern
ment. It was not, so far as we can
learn, England which proposed to tho
Khedive to sell, but tho Khedive who
asked England to buy. Aud it appears
that it was not England to which he
first applied. He was in urgent need
of money, as all the world knew.
Ho has a floating debt of some
$70,000,000, and lie was under the
necessity of providing immediately
for a large amount of Treasury
bonds—not less than three million
sterling. His Treasury was empty, his
borrowing powers exhausted, a catas
trophe seemed almost inevitable. In
these straits he bethought himself or
his Suez Canal shares, and an applica
tion was made to the French financiers
to purchase them, or to lend money on
them. But it happened that those par
ticular shares stood in an unfavorable
position. He was, it is true, the un
doubted owner of one hundred and
seventy-six thousand six hundred and
two shares, fully paid up, out of four
hundred thousand shares into which
the capital of the company was divided.
Their par value is SIOO, and the market
valuo of ordinary shares was $l3B,
with every prospect of a steady rise ;
the company having paid a dividend of
five per cent, last year, and the canal
traffic rapidly increasing, while the ex
penses bore an unexpectedly small pro
portion to the gross receipts, which
last year were over $5,000,000, from
which less than $1,250,000 —that is, less
than twenty-five per cent. —had to be
deducted for expenses. But the diffi
culty with the Khedive’s shares was
that he had anticipated twenty-five
years’ interest on them. In other words,
having to pay the company $6,000,000
in 1869 for the repurchase of certain
concessions, he had done it by surren
dering to them twenty-five years’ cou
pons ou these shares. The shares were
therefore so much capital which could
earn nothing for seventeen years, and
when the Khedive tried to raise money
on them from French capitalists, the
terms offered were such as seemed even
to him too extortionate to be borne.
It this extremity he applied to the
English Government, which, after brief
negotiations—which must have been
carried on wholly by telegraph—bought
the shares outright for $20,000,000. On
this sum the Khedive agrees to pay in
terest „at five per cent, till the shares
once more become entitled to partici
pate in the dividends of the company.
He relinquishes, moreover, with re
spect to these shares—and to a pur
chaser in the position of England this
is no slight gain—the reversion which
belongs to him at the end of ninety
nine years. The bargain is subject to
the ratification of Pai liameut, but the
Khedive gets his money at once. He
is empowered to draw ou the Roths
childs for the whole rum ; they, it is
understood, holding the shares as se
curity pending the meeting of Parlia
ment ar.d the repayment of their ad
vance.
Such, in brief, is tho financial history
of a transaction destined to have a
political history incalculably more im
portant than its financial results.
Looked at on the mercantile side, it is
a good bargain for both patties. The
Khedive gets his money on easy terms,
and England gets what will prove a
controlling interest in the Suez Canal at a
reasonable price. Slie will even make
money on her stock before she snares
in the company’s dividends, for she
will buy at 3% per cent, the four mil
lions sterling she lends at 5. If she did
not make a penny—nay, if she got no
interest at all —the advantage of hav
ing a decisive voice in the management
of the canal would be worth to her
many times the cost of her investment.
It is settled that her commerce with
India must take this route. Of the
whole tonnage passing through the
canal seventy per cent, is English.
Nothing else is necessary to prove 'lie
financial prudence of tier undertaking.
What will be its political effect? Its
effect ou domestic politics is to lift tins
Government at one bound from a posi
tion o? discredit and almost despond
ency to a position in which it is once
more upheld by the oonfidehce of the
nation. It has done an act without
precedent, for which it lias no legal au
thority; which costs four millions of
money down, which may involve the
expenditure of ten millions more (to
complete the purchase of the canal,
should that be thought advisable);
which commits England to the mainte
nance of her right of ,vay through
Egypt, and which may be tho direct
cause of war. All this is seen at a
glance. The Ministry which does it
allows its act to become known from
other sources, accompanies it by no ex
planation, offers no apology, makes no
appeal to the natiori, stands absolutely
dumb while the momentous intelli
gence is given to the public, and be
comes instantly the solo topic of
thought and conversation among every
class. No hint is given that Parliament
is to be summoned. any sooner than
usual. The Queen* it is said, was only
told of the resolve at the last moment.
Mr. Disraeli went down to Windsor on
Thursday afternoon, spent the night
there, and returned early Fri
day morning—the morning when
the news was told. It is per
haps no groat matter what the Queen
thinks* oh such a question, hut on what
the people should think hung the life
or death of the Ministry and the politi
cal future of England, at home and
abroad. It seems to me that Mr.
Disraeli—for he is tho Ministry and his
the only will in the Government
showed almost as much boldness in
this way of letting the act publish itself
as in resolving on the act. He showed,
at any rate, that he understands the
English people. There has-not been a
moment’s hesitation |q their answer.
Liberals have vied with Conservatives
in applauding a decision which once
more asserts England’s claim to an im
perial position; which puts an end to
all doubt, if doubt there were, that she
uitxius to maintain her empire, peace
ably if she can, forcibly if she must.
The blunders which had brought the
administration so low that already a
leading Liberal had been heard to pre
dict that the Tories would be. out in
another year, are forgotten. They will
be recollected by and by, no doubt, but
for the moment the Government has
the whole country behind them; and
that is a fact which foreign powers
have to take into account, in making
up their judgment on the situation
newly presented to them.
Whether any foreign power has been
consulted in advance, whether anybo
dy’s consent has been asked to the pur
chase, is a mooted question. The prob
ability is that none has been. The
transaction was too sudden—not to say
too delicate. To notify another power
would have been to bring another com
petitor into the market—and the trans
action was so far a mercantile transac
tion that this seems most unlikely to
have been done. Now that it is com
pleted, the most ample accounts of it,
the most friendly explanations will be
offered. How it will be regarded at
Constantinople, at Viennfc at Berlin, at
St. Petersburg, we shall soon hear. Wo
hear already that at Paris it produces
great irritation; the causes of which are
easily comprehended but the immediate
consequences of which are not among
those which most occupy the minds of
English statesmen. It is believed that
Austria and England are, so far, at one
on the most urgent phase of the East
ern question that no remonstrance
need be feared from Vienna. England
stands ready to sanction the occupa
tion of Bosnia and Herzegovina by an
Austrian army. Germany’s interest in
this, as in other Eastern questions, is
indirect. From Turkey and Russia, if
from anybody, protests may be ex
pected. The English foothold in Egypt
accelerates the dissolution of the Otto
man Empire, and nullities what slight
dependence on the Porte the Khedivo
still acknowledges. To Russia, also, it
is a notification that, whatever else
may happen, Egypt is not to pass into
the possession or under the influence of
anybody who has an interest in barring
the road of England to the East. On
the other hand, all the powers concern
ed in the Eastern question—Turkey
herself excepted—may accept this as
notice that England has secured the
thing essential to her, and that she may
not feel called on to interfere in the
disposition of the rest. What she has
acquired is, indeed, a mere interest in a
commercial undertaking, but it pledges
her to protect that interest, and to tight
anybody who threatens it, The Suez
Cinal can now never be closed to Eng
land so long as England remains a great
power. That her determination has
long been taken that it never should be,
Ido not doubt. But this is the an
nouncement of her determination to all
the world; the hoisting of a flag which
can never go down but in defeat and
irreparable disaster. As such, it is pro
bably the gravest political resolution
she has taken since 1815. G. W. S.
BLAINE.
His History and Religion.
[Rochester Union ]
Squire Blaine, as he was called, the
father of ex-Spealter James Gillespie
Blaine, was a resident of Fayette
county, Pennsylvania. He was not a
Catholic, but married a Miss Gillespie,
a member of an old Catholic family
who were once wealthy, but who, meet
ing with reverses, emigrated West,
some to Texas and others to Southern
Illinois. Squire Blaine became a
convert to the religious faith of his
wife, and lived and died a firm be
liever in it. He had five sons and two
daughters—James, Ephraim, Neil,
Robert and John, and Mary and Eliza,
anti all were brought up strict and
practical Catholics. Neil is dead;
Eplnaim was last heard from in South
west —in Texas or Mexico; Robert is a
clerk in one of the Departments at
Washington; John is or was an agent
of the Post Office Department; Mary is
dead, and Eliza is the wife of Robert C.
Walker, a paymaster in the army.
Paymaster Walker was not a Catholic
when he married Miss Blaine, but she
converted him, and the whole family
are Catholic. Two of the daughters be
came nuns. One is dead and the other
is somewhere in Western Pennsylvania,
near Pittsburgh. Rev. N. H. Gillespie,
a professor in Notre Dame University,
St. Josephs county, Indiana, is a cousin
of ex-Speaker Blame; so also is Mother
AiTgela, the authoress of the Metropli
tan Readers—a series of Catholic
school books. James Gillespie, or
“Jim” Blaine, as the ex-Speaker is
irreverently called, was born on the
last day of January, 1830. He emi
grated from the family home in West
ern Pennsylvania shortly after attain
ing his majority and graduating at
Washington College, Pennsylvania,and
took up his residence in Maine, where
his religion was not popular and he
changed it; entered politics; took an
editorial chair at Portland, and then at
Kennebec; was in the Legislature from
1859 to 1862—the hast two years
Speaker; and has since been in Con
gress.
CRIMES ANt> CASUALTIES.
Crooked Whiskey—Perjury and Em
bezzlement—Fires aud Loss of Life.
December 30.—Eight whis
key establishments were seized yester
day, mostly rectifiers.
New York, December 30.—Charges
have been made against Peter R. Carll,
United States Marshal for the District
of Connecticut, of perjury and embez
zlement.
Northampton, Mass., December 30. —
E. G. Southwick & Co.’s dry goods
store was burned. Loss, $50,000.
Rising Sun, Ind., December 30.—Mrs.
Rachael Gordon, with three of her chil
dren, aged twelve, ten and eight, were
burned with their dwelling, ten miles
above here.
i i
A Kentucky Tornado.
Nashville, Tenn., December 30.— A
terrific tornado pjissed twelve miles
cast of Hickman, Sunday evening,
sweeping down whole fores s in its
pathway. The force of the wind was
so great iliat persons can now walk
over trunks of trees where beforo there
were dense woods. Twelve dwelling
houses were blown down. Some were
shattered into fragments, the inmates
barely escaping with their lives. Worm
fences from the bottom rail were all
lifted and blown away. At Mayfield
two persons were crushed to death un
der the ruins of houses. A negro was
killed outright. At another place a
man named Chuck and a Miss Searcy
were killed. Her sister was badly
crippled. The hotel at Reelfoot lake
was blown down, the guests barely es
caping. Some were badly bruised by
by flying timber. Death and destruc
tion left their track along the entire
route of the tornado, which made a
noise that was heard for miles.
DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
Experience of a Man who is Not Cotton-
Mad —Some Wholesome Advice to the
Agricultural Community—Hints to
Grangers.
Col. R. H. Hardaway, in the Macon
Telegraph, prints a statement of ten
consecutive crops made on his fifteen
acre farm :
1866.
6 acres in corn, 214
bushels $214 00
9 acres in cotton, 7 bales.. 913 18—$ 1,127 18
1867.
6 acres corn, 169 bushels.. 838 00
10 acres cotton, 9 bales.., 847 80— 1.185 80
1868.
15 acres, all cotton, 14
bales 1,721 44
1869.
15 acres, all cotton, 15
bales 1,614 02
1870.
15 acre-, all cotton, 18
bales 1,316 41
1871.
2 acres oats, 168 bushels, 168 00
6 acres cotton, 5 bales . 367 75
4 acres corn, 168 bushels, 168 00
2 acres lice, 82 bushels... 123 00
lucre potatoes,for family
use 926 75
1872.
4 acres corn, 208 bushels, 208 00
4 acres cotton, 4 bales— 393 60
7 acres oats, 356 bushels, 359 00 960 CO
1873.
3 acres corn, 304 bushels, 304 00
5 acres oats, 330 bushels, 330 00
1 acre potatoes, not ma
nured
6 acres rested 634 00
1874.
6 acres cotton, 5 bales— 345 05
4 acres corn, not manur’d
136 bushels 136 00
1% acres coin, manured,
134 bushels 134 00
2 acres volunteer oats, 70
bushels. 70 00
I Y, acres potatoes and
rice not counted CBS 05
1875.
7 acres oats, 525 bushels, 656 25
3 acres corn, 148 bushels, 148 90
5 acres cotton, 3 bales— 174 00 978 25
Product of 15 acres in 10 years $11,009 50
These figures are the results of ac
tual sales at true market values. They
do not include the value of the fodder,
potatoes, hay, peas, pumpkins, ca
shaws and oat straw which Mr. H.
used.
Col. Hardaway estimates that the
planters in lower Georgia will lose this
year sl7 a bale on the present crop,
making the total actual loss in Geor
gia fully $7,000,000. On this account
the planters will be unable to meet
their engagements with the merchants,
the merchants will be unable to aid
the planters with supplies the coming
year, and the planters will be unable
to give employment to the laborers
now dependent upon them. In its last
analysis the all-cotton plan falls the
heaviest on the laborer. Col. 11. gives
the planters much valuable advice.
He says:
Select your best land the coming
year, and reduce the number of acres
to the horse. Conoentrate your ma
nure on these reduced acres. This will
reduce the amount to pay for labor,
food, team and tools; and by strict
personal attention to business you will
make-aa much or more than you have
been making by the unwise plan of try
ing to make large crops on poor lands
with poor mules, worn out tools and
lazy laborers; and it will not ruin you
to feed them with corn and bacon
bought on credit. It is folly to plant
forty and fifty acres of poor land to
the horse, at such a great outlay of
money for labor, food, team and tools;
when, by a wise and judicious selection
of the land and proper manuring, the
same quantity of produce can be raised
on one-fourth of the land.
What is the remedy for relief, in the
embarrassed condition of the country?
Planters must raise everything they
eat, and to supply the non-producers.
To do this, they must increase the
grain crops; plaut heavily of corn, oats,
ry9, wheat, ground peas, chut'as, sweet
potatoes and sugar cane, aud largely
increase their stock of hogs. If this is
done, cotton will have a small showing.
Under no circumstances should more
than one-third of the crop bo of cotton.
Everything is in a state of dilapida
tion and ruin, and wo continue to in
volve ourselves by buying mules, pro
visions and tools to supply improvi
dent, ignorant managers. This crop
ping and renting system must be aban
doned. and we must take the manage
ment of our own plantations back into
our own hands, aud must come down
to bard work and rigid economy. The
negro must know that he has to work
out his own salvation and look to his
own efforts .'or food and raiment, and
the quicker he is thrown upon his own
resources to supply his wants the bet
ter it will be for him and the whites.
We have as much as we can do to keep
up the farms, stock and tools, and sup
ply our own families and educate our
children, without the of
taking care of the negr He must
learn to think, act and supply himself.
At the same time we must advise
him and give him employment and fair
wages. We are dependent one upon
the other. He has the labor and the
muscle, and we the laud aud capital;
and we must help each other; and in
such a manner as to have impartial
justice to each; so that fair compensa
tion will be had in labor and pay. We
occupy tho same land, and must live
together, and should, therefore, strive
to live in peace and harmony and labor
for each other’s good—socially, moral
ly, politically and temporally.
This is emphatically the white man’s
country, and it will not be surrendered
to the negro. Ignorance will submit to
intelligence. We must chango our
habits to conform to the times. We
must labor ourselves. Not one cent
ought to be expended for any labor
that can be performed by ourselves,
our sons, our daughters, or wives.
Our sous must put their hands
to the plow, and our wives and
daughters must come to our help.
These are the leakages that sink our
prosperity. It may seem a hardship
because wo were not raised to it; but
will eventually come to it, and it is the
best to begin now, and cheerfully. It
is far more honorable to toil now and
thereby save the old family homestead,
than to let the sheriff sell it at public
outcry. There is neither degradation
nor disgrace in honest labor; on the con
trary, it is honorable and ennobling.
Cincinnatus was called from the plow
to save Rome. Gen. Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay and
Daniel Webster, all labored on the
farm. Are we more illustrious or emi
nent than they? Mary, the mother of
our blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus
Christ, performed all the labor of the
household. Are our wives and daugh
ters her superiors ?
“ Pt.haw 1 ” exclaims the Poughkeep
sie Pms, " the pulbback is just the
thing fr'sit down upon. It affords am
ple rocW and verge enough.” Oh, very
well; yoVu try it, and see if you don’t
get your ears boxed !
New Series —Vol. 28, No.; 107
THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
The London Times’ View of the Situa
tion.
If we turn, then, as the people of then
United States are now turning, to sur
vey the possible candidates, we are
struck, as we are afraid Americans are
not struck, with the limited number of
eligible persons, and the poverty of
quality upon the average that they
show. Of the possible Republican can
didates, the most conspicuous at pres
ent is Gen. Grant. Some, both of his
friends and his enemies, would deny
that he is a possible candidate at all—
his friends, because they apprehend
difficulties from a premature revelation
of his ambition; his enemies, because
they hope to nip the project of a re
nomination thus early in the bud. But
there are reasons, nevertheless, for be
lieving that Gen. Grant’s pretensions to
a third term have again come within
the scope of practical polities. That
there are grave objections is piuir.
enough, and the chances of the third
term depend upon tho opinion that
the Republican politicians may form as
to the hold those objections have got
upon the mass of the electorate in the
United States. Are the electors afraid
of “ Csesarism,” of the prolonged power
or a military chief, of a breach of the
“Constitutional tradition” bequeathed
to his country by Washington and con
firmed by his example? Have the ad
ministrative errors, tbo scandalous
misuse of patronage, and the associa
tion with disreputable intriguers which
have been justly charged upon Presi
dent Grant’s Government impressed
themselves beyond forgiveness or ob
livion on the popular mind ? If not,
are there any other reasons why the
Republican party should resolve todis-*
connect itself with the unquestionable
advantages of General Grant’s popu
larity amoDg . certain classes ? One
such reason has been suggested which
is worth consideration. It is said that,
though General Grant may on the
whole be the most popular man
the Republicans could put forward, ho
will never be pardoned by the “ Lib
eral” wing of the party for his resist
ance to Oivil Service reform, his alliance
with tho “rings,” and his violent policy
towards th^.South ; and that though
the Liberals cannot hope to carry their
own candidate, they will ba encouraged
to organize anew schism. Such malcon
tent Republicans might either set up a
platform of their own or attempt to
draw close to the “Reform” wing of the
Democrats, with whom they are in
agreement upon the currency question,
the free trade question, the govern
ment of the South, and most other
controversies of the day. This, in it
self, would be a valuable coalition if
wisely organized, aud not patched up
inconsiderately.
But the main body of the Democrat
ic party is as flushed with success now
as it was disciplined by defeat in 1872.
The inflationists, beaten as they have
been in Ohio aud Pennsylvania, are not
by any means crushed; and if they
saw the Republican party broken up
by a Liberal secession, they would be en
couraged to take the field with a ticket
of their own. There would thus be a
“quadrangular" struggle,” and in such
a struggle it is quite possible that no
Presidential candidate might obtain a
legal majority, and the election be
thrown into the hands of the House of
Representatives. This actually hap
pened on the election of Jefferson aud
of John Quincy Adams, in the latter
case through the scattering of votes
among four candidates. It was near
happening in 1860, when four candi
dates were also in the field, and when
probably the House, if it had the
choice, would have chosen neither Mr.
Lincoln nor Mr. Breckenridge, but one
of the candidates of “the Centers,” as
we may call them, Mr. Douglas or Mr.
Bell. The present House of Represen
tatives is by a large majority Demo
cratic, and, as it was elected before the
recent check to inflation in Ohio and
Pennsylvania, it is feq>red that many of
its members ;are uusound on,the cur
rency question.
Should thfi Republicans determine
to avoid at any cost a division in their
party, they will probably shrink from
renominating Gen. Grant; but they will
not easily find a candidate who is tol
erated by the men “ inside politics,”
and at the same time popular with re
formers and liked by the non-politieat
masses. Mr. Bristow has proved him
self a very sound financier, and an
implacable enemy of corruption, but
these very public services have engen
dered a resolution among the wire
pullers and “log-rollers” to turn him
out of the Treasury Department, aud
though they may not succeed in doing
this, they will only accept him in the
last resort as a possible President. Mr.
Jewell, another of the remaining Min
isters brought into the Cabinet by
General Grant under pressure from the
outside, has been as active in the work
of cleansing the Post Office Department,
previously the reserve fund of pat
ronage in the hands of the Adminis
tration, that he is almost as much de
tested as the Secretary of the Treasury
in Washington lobbies. Mr. Fish’s
name has also been mentioned, but as
yet has not been warmly taken up in
any quarter. Outside of the Cabinet,
Mr. Hartrauft, who led the attack on
the Inflationists in Pennsylvania ; aud
Mr. Hayes, who did the same work
even more effectively in Ohio, are lo
cally favored; and it is well to remem
ber that among the States whioh at
present have declared themselves Re
publican, Pennsylvania and Ohio cast
the heaviest Presidential votes. On the
Democratic side, no name at present
stands so high as that of Gov. Tilden,
of New York, but his position may be
lowered during the coming year,
in part by the check his party
has received in the State, and in
part by the hostility of the disap
pointed inflationists. If it were possible
to nominate a man of the highest char
acter and ability, who nevertheless is
not popular, and who belongs to a sec
tion of American society of whicn the
political power is declining, Mr. Charles
Francis Adams would be supported
without distinction of party. But this
is beyond hope. Among the other
Democrats Senator Thurman, Mr. Hen
dricks, Mr. Pendleton, Mr. Allen, and
many more have fallen into disrepute
by their patronage of Inflation during
the late campaign, or by their discred
itable evasion of that momentous issue.
Besides these, however, there are good
men in the party, even if it should be
found impossible to nominate Gov.
Tilden, Seaatoy Bayard may be named
for one, but it is to be regretted that
the recent elections have shown a de
gradation instead of an improvement
in the quality of Democratic politi
cians.
A piece of wood'cut from a tree is a
good oonductor. Let it be heated and
dried, it becomes an insulator. Let it
be baked to charcoal, it becomes a good
conductor again. Burn it to ashes, and
it becomes an insulator once more,
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GEORGIA GENERAL NEWS.
Capt. J. W. Anderson has been elect
ed City Sheriff of Savannah.
Savannah will abolish the offices of
Recorder, Assistant City Treasurer and
Second Lieutenant of Police.
The Common Council of Savannah is
about to inaugurate a retrenchment
movement, by reducing the salaries of
the city officials.
The Columbus City Light Guards de
sired to have a masked ball. They
wrote to a costumer in New York,
who replied he would send them
out 100 and charge $6 each for their
use on one night.
The colored population and the
police had a row on Christmas day in
Rome. A negro boy was arrested for
throwing rocks at some white boys,
and the negro’s mother was also arres
ted for using threatening language.
Several negroes rescued the woman
from tho clutches of the officers.
Columbus is becoming a very large
distributing point for the varied pro
ductions of Middle and West Florida.*
The orange business has grown to very
large proportions. Some 1,700 boxes,
containing three hundred each, were
brought thero last season by the boats,
and more are expected this year.
Macon Telegraph: The Jones Coun
ty Dragoons held a meeting on t heir
parade ground yesterday, and re-elect
ed J. J. Clay, Captain, and also re
elected all the old officers, A largo
crowd of persons assembled there, and
a grand egg-nogg was served upon tho
ground. Our informant—an enthusi
astic individual—avers that there was
enough egg-nogg on the ground to
make everybody in Macon drunk.
Columbus Times: Tbo citizens in
the eastern part of the city complain
that they are not protected by tho
police, though they pay taxes to sup
port them. They would like to see or
hear of one walking on tho back
streets, instead of setting on dry goods
boxes on Broad street. We agree with
them that the police should go through
his beat once or twice a night and try
and stop the chicken stealing. That
wo understand to be their duty, and
not to confine themselves to street
corners and bar rooms. The proper
way to remedy this imposition is for
the people in the different beats to
prefer charges against those officers
who do not ieave one or two corners
and ask a discharge, and men compe
tent and trustworthy to be placed ia
their stead.
Waynesboro Expositor: The town
authorities have determined to leave
nothing undone that will in the least
add to the beauty of the town, or la
any manner subserve its interests. We
notice that the chimneys to the Acade
my are being torn down when stoves
will be substituted, adding greatly to
the comfort of the school rooms. Brick
pillars are being set underneath the
building. The Presbyterian Church
will be turned so as to face Liberty
street, the two old houses near by will
be removed, and the whofc area in the
neighboorhood of the churclies will bo
inclosed by a substantial plank fence.
Atlanta Ilei'ald: It is understood
that Judge Hopkins, for reasons per
sonal to himself, will not resign Ina
present position until the City Judge
has been appointed, but will do so
promptly thereafter; certainly during
the next month.
Cel. Cincinnatus Peeples, Solicitor-
General Glenn, and Major Geo. Hillyer,
are most frequently mentioned in con
nection with the successorship of
Judge Hopkins.
There is no definite basis for this
prophecy in regard to this succession,
but tho opinion has [prevailed exten
sively that Solicitor-General Glenn
would receive tho appointment. So
thoroughly did this conviction take
hold of the public mind, that several
candidates appeared for the Solicitor-
Generalship which Mr. Glenn’s appoint
ment would have made vacant.
Among these are, Messrs. B. H. Hill,
Jr., Mr. W. T. Newman, and Mr. H. Yan
Epps; each of whom will bo recognized
as among our brightest and best young
lawyers, and men perfectly competent
to till the office.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
Matthews complains of a heavy
night tritfj^incottou.
Mud ! is the plaint o“
the Greenville
Incendiary fires in
Sumter,
During a thunder storm in
on Wednesday, a little negro giri was
struck by lightning and was paralyzed
for a time.
Several of the crew of the steamer
“ Bermettsville,” running on tho
Cooper and Santee rivers, have been
arrested in Charleston for mutiny,
Abbeville Banner : The equanimity
of the town was disturbed cm Friday
last by a runaway match between a
Mr. Higgins and Miss Rutherford, of
Newberry, who took the train and wore
married at Greenwood.
Columbia Register: Next Saturday
will bo celebrated by the colored popu
lation as tlie anniversary of emancipa
tion day. These celebrations hava
dwindled into insignificance these latter
years, time being more profitably em
ployed than in holiday parades.
The return of deaths withiu the city
of Charleston, for the week ending De
cemb-'" 25th, 1875, was thirty-four, in
cluding four still-boras, one'male and
three females, colored, of which seven
teen were whites and seventeen blacks.
The contractors on the Spartanburg
and Asheville Railroad are at work
west of tho Ridge, in Henderson
county, and ah additional force of con
viots is engaged on tho Polk county
section.
The letter of resignation of Dr. J. L.
Girardeau, as pastor of the Glebe Street
Church, in Charleston, has been ac
cented by the communicants of that
cburclo. Dr. Girardeau has been elected
to fill the professional chair of the late
Dr. Thornwell in the Theological Semi
nary at Columbia, which position he
expects to occupy in April next. Until
that time he will continue to occupy
his pulpit.
Among the preparations which are
being made for the celebration of New
Year’s Dtiy in Charleston, by the col
ored military, an order has been issued
by Col. W. H. W. Gray, summoning the
Eighteenth regiment, First Brigade,
Second Division of the National Guards
of South Carolina to assemble at the
corner of Broad and Meeting streets,
at nine o’clock on the morning of the
Ist, for parade and drill.
There ia something peculiarly chiv
alrous iu a boy’s disposition. If he
sees a strange boy opposite, he ’Will
cross the street to ask him if he wanta
to fi^ht,