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CONGRESSIONAL.
proceedings of the. Senate and House
Yesterday.
Washington, December 20.—1n the
geiate, Mr. Hitchcock, of Nebraska,
introduced a bill supplementary to the
act for the apportionment or Repre
sentatives in Congress among the sev
eral States, according to the ninth cen
sus. Referred to the Committee of
Privileges and Elections, and provides
for an additional Representative in
Congress from the State of Nebraska.
The Senate reconsidered the vote by
which the bill to establish the Territory
of Pemberia was ordered to a third
reeling, and passed on the Bth of Au
gust last. The name of the new Ter
ritory, which is to be organized out of
a portion of the present Territory of
Dakota, was then changed from Pem
berla to Hurou, and the bin was passed.
In the House, the question of the
right of committees or the House to
compel the production or dispatches
by the telegraph companies, came up
in the form of a report made by Lynde,
from the Judiciary Committee, affirm
ing the right.
An amendment was offered by Hurd,
of Ohio, representing the majority of
the committee, which required a de
scription of the telegrams needed, to
be set forth specifically in the sub
poena.
A substitute was offered by Knott, of
Kentucky, Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee, asserting in more direct
terms tha right of the House to compel
the production of telegraphic dis
patches, and declaring that there is
nothing in the law that gives any more
privilege to telegraphic communications
than to oral or other communications.
After debate, in which Garfield, of
Ohio, took the ground that the privacy
of the telegraph should be held as sa
cred as that of the post office, aud in
which Hewitt, of New York, asserted
the sanctity of post office correspond
ence was more imaginary than real,
and that his letters passing through
the New York post office during the
last month had been uniformly tamper
ed with, Hard’s amendment was re
jected aud Knott’s substitute adopted.
The conference report on the bill to
defray the expenses of the investigat
ing committees was agreed to.
In the Senate, Wright gave notice
that he would, oa Friday, in the morn
ing, call up a resolution declaring the
true meaning of the Pacific Railroad
acts.
The bill organizing Pemberia into a
Territory passed. The new Territory
is named Huron.
The Pension bill passed.
Oregon was resumed. Daring the
debate Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, said he
was not informed that the Returning
Board had returned Mr. Dong as elect
ed to the Legislature from DeSoto
parish. Ho thought the gentleman
leaped before he come to the stile. He
then referred to the affidavits of intim
idation in DeSoto parish, and resum
ing, said that the will of the people of
Oregon had been faiily expressed in
favor of the Hayes electors, and that
he was entitled to the three votes from
that State.
Mr. B >gy, of Missouri—Apply the
same rule to Florida.
Mr. Sherman said he was perfectly
willing to apply the rule to Florida,
but these things were governed by the
laws of those States. Oregon had her
laws, and Florida her’s. If Governor
Hayes should become satisfied that he
had Hot a majority of t lie legal votes
of Florida and Louisiana, lie would not
accept the office of President. If it
should be clear that Governor Ha;, es
had not received that majority, he
(Mr. Sherman) would not have him ac
cept the office. Mr. Sherman then ar
gued that the Louisiana Returning
Board was a legally constituted body,
an i if it had not been shown that that
Board made a false return he did not
desire te see GTv. Hayes have the ben
efit of any wrong, and he was sat
isfied that he spoke the aeatim oats of
Gov. Hayes when he said if that
gentleman sh ill be convinced that the
Returning Bards of L misiana or
Florida acted wrong ho would make
no claim to the offi ;e of President of
the United States. There was an ab
sence of any proof that these b >ards
had acted wrong. As the returns from
those Statas now stood they were just
as much entitled to bs counted as the
returns from Now York or Ohio, and
he coul l show from evidence niw be
fore the Smite that the vote of the
State of L misiana, m fairness, should
be counted for Gov. Hiyes.
Adjourned.
Resolutions cf Sympathy for South
Carolina.
Richmond, December 20. —In the Sen
ate to-day, Senator Johnson’s resolu
tions condemning Federal interference
iu the affairs of South Carolina, and
expressing Virginia’* sympathy for the
people of that Stajte, were further dis
cussed and an amendment inserted
calling on South Carolinians to con
tinue iu their forbearance, etc., after
which they were adopted —yeas 31,
nays 4. The negative votes were cast
by Republicans.
Two Raids on the Sohuetaeuplatz.
Last Thursday night two interlopers
were found by the saloon keeper, Mr. Fer
guson, prowling about the grounds of the
Sehuetzenplatz. A shot from the gun of
Mr. Ferguson caused them to get over the
fence in a very rapid manner. Afterward
two geese, which the thieves had attempted
to steal, were found where they had thrown
them over the fence into the garden.
On Friday night, another raid was at
tempted by three parties on the Schuetzen
grounds, probably by the same men (rein
forced by a third one), who tried the game
game the night previous. Mr. I). Sancken,
the Scheutzenwirth, had however taken the
precaution of having his younger brother
out at [the Platz, to assist Mr. Ferguson
should the raiders come again. When they
made their appearance, the young men who
were on the watch out, immediately detect
ed them, and the loads from a doable-bar
relled shot-gun caused them to make a rap
id retreat over the fences. It is thought the
raiders were negroes. Mr. Sancken is rais
ing a large number of fowls at the Platz,
nnd this fact lteing known causes the sup
position that it was negroes, who attempted
to make a Christmas dinner out of the
flock of poultry.
The New York Herald baa blundered
In directing the pronunciation of Oua
chita. It says it should be called We
cheat-ah, when it should be Wash-it-ah.
The Herald has evidently mistaken
ichita for Ouachita. There are the
Big and Little Wichita rivers and a
Wichita chain of mountains, and the
Herald’s pronunciation is correct as ap
plied to the name of these rivers and
mountains.— N. 0. Times.
®)£ Stegwtft Constitutionalist.
LATEST FROM COLUMBIA.
The Senate and Rump House Ad
journ To-Morrow Tne Tax Levy of
the Senate, Etc.
D , e ® ember 29.—The Senate
to-day decided, by a strict party vote
to adjourn with the Republican House
Sllxe die on the 221 inst. Their tax and
• bUls paß9ed t 0 sec
ond reading in the Senate. The tax
ofi y ", g t gregate9 i 17 ““h* exclusive
or local taxes, and is equal to §2,010 000
Resolutions passed the Democratic
House to-day instructing Governor
Hampton to issue a proclamation call
ing upon the citizens to pay to such
persons as he may designate twenty
five per cent, of the State and county
tax for the last fiscal year, and persons
Paying such tax shall receive certifi
cates receivable for taxes hereafter.
the INVESTIGATING commit
tee.
How the Chamberlain Conspirators
Worked-The Result Arranged Be
h>re Hand Dunn Cornered and
Forced to Speak the Truth—Radical
Manipulations Exposed.
[Charleston Journal of Commerced
Columbia, December 19.— The morn
ing session of the Congressional Com
mittee was principally occupied in the
examination and cross-examination of
Hayne aud Duun. No new facts of im
portance were elicited. Dunn gave no
reason for the suspension of the com
parison between the managers’ returns
and canvassers’ statements but the
amount o’ time consumed. He stated
that the aggregate Electoral vote was
made up exclusively on the statements
of tho county canvassers ; 695 votes at
Blackville, where Hurley’s name was
omitted from the returns, were not
credited to that individual.
Cook’s defici°ncy in Richland countv
was 379. This was omitted in his ag
gregate vote. The deficiency of In
gram’s vote in the same county of 110
was also omitted. There was at one
precinct in Charleston county also an
omission of Nash’s name which was
not included iu aggregating the vote.
He gave it as his opinion that it would
have been difficult to completed com
parison in the requisite time, working
in the ordinary bouts, but declined,
saying that it could not have been
done.
In his cross-examination by Mr.
Ccchran, a short biography of himself
was elicited. It appears that he is
forty-seven years of age, and was born
in Massachusetts. Upon his residence
in Horry county he touched lightly,
stating that he was engaged in the tur
pentine business during his residence
in that county. He admitted that all
the members of the Board of State
Canvassers, who were candidates for
re election, were present at the meet
ings of the Board, and participated in
its action until their own individual
cases were decided upon, and that they
were present and joined in the consid
eration over the Robbins’ box.
In response to a question of Mr.
Cochran why the Board had refused to
count Edgefield and Laurens counties
for the Legislature and couuty officers
and had included them in the count
for electors and State officers, Dunn re
leased a large feline from his bag by
answering that the State officers and
electors were elected anyhow, but he
failed to give auy satisfactory explana
tion of the action regarding Killian’s
precinct, in Richland county, where
Hayes and Tildeu were voted for, and
the votes given each were allowed to
all of the electors except General Mc-
Gowan. Duun became confused and
verbose under the cross-examination
Knopp, of Barnwell, appeared to
correct a statement made by him yes
terday, in which he stated that Gene
ret had proposed an adjournment.
The remainder of the day was consum
ed in examining Hayne, but nothing of
importance was elicited from him, the
examination being confined to ascer
taining the discrepancies between the
Canvassers’ statement and precinct
managers’ returns. Only about one
third of tho counties were gone
through, aud it is impossible to ascer
tain, as yet, what the discrepancies
will amount to iu the aggregate.
Many witnesses from both sides were
in attendance waiting tQ testify, and
several slight tilts occurred between
opposing members of the committee.
The two committees to investigate
the Charleston county election leave
for Charleston to-night. Among other
attaches of the Senate committee is A.
Johns, an ex-bushwhacker and Ku-
Klux spy, and a notorious character in
Washington, where he is well known as
red nose John.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
News and Gossip from the Capital.
Washington, December 20. Tbe
Committee on Pacific Railroads, of the
House, is in session considering the
new bill proposed by tbe friends of the
Texas Pacino Road. It proposes to
allow the Southern Pacific Road of
California, to build seven hundred
miles of the Western, under the pro
visions of the original Atkins bill,
making the through line an open high
way for the Government and the peo
ple forever, giving the right to Con
gress to regulate rates for freights
and passengers. This is a concession
to the California interest, which it is
understood will be accepted. The
Committee adjourned to to-morrow
without action.
In the House Judiciary Committee
Lynde submitted the proposition, in
the shape of a resolution, that tele
graph companies be required to de
liver any messages demanded, and that
refusal be regarded as contempt.
Hurd submitted a substitute, providing
a certain construction, which was voted
down by 5 to 4, and Lynde’* resolution
was adopted.
The Star closes an article on the si
tuation thus: “There is a growing im
pression that the Senate wifi not insist
upon the right of the President pro
tempore of the Senate to declare the
result, if objection to the vote of any
State is made, and that the end will be
the election of Tiiden by the Hsuse,
and Wheeler as YTce-President by the
Senate.” • . _
Confirmations —McLaws, postmaster
at Savannah; Watts, Lebanon, Tenn.;
Kenney, Austin, Texas.
Nomination —John A. Whittemore,
postmaster at Sumter Court House,
s c
President Orton was yesterday sub
poenaed to appear in New Orleans on
the 26tb with dispatches. The action
of tbe House to-day empowers the
Sergeant- at- Arms to enforce compli
ance.
FOREIGN NEWS.
The Eastern Muddle—An Austrian
Monitor Fired On-The Louisville
Forger, Etc.
London, December 20.—Gen. Nikitine
tooa one million rubles, contributed by
the Russians, to reorganize the Servian
army.
ihe Times concludes an editorial as
k i the Marquis of Salisbury
should be instructed to tell tfifc Porte
tiiat it would forfeit the support of
England, but uncompromising resist
ance, the new Grand Vizier would, we
believe, see the necessity of submission
and the last danger of war would pass
away.”
A second editorial article in the
limes ridicules the idea of Belgium’s
occupation, and says if peace is to be
preserved by a union of the six Powers
they must be resolved to act for them
selves as well as to delibeiate.
A dispatch from Constantinople to
Reuter’s says ; “Great Britain’s reply
to the Russian proposal, regaiding the
occupation of Bulgaria by neutral
troops, has not yet been received here.
It is understood, however, that Switzer
land has declined, and it is believed
Belgium will also decline to act.
Vienna, December 20.—The Political
Correspondence says : “While the Aus
trian monitor Maros was passing the
fortress at Belgrade, yesterday, several
musket shots were fired from the fort
against the vessel. The Austrian Con
sul General, Prince Wiede, who was on
board, immediately ordered the Maros
to advance and take position, and as a
gun iu her turret was being loaded a
shell accidently exploded, seriously
wounding one ensign and four sailors,
and slightly wounding seven others.’
Sentries from the fort again tired their
muskets, supposing that the monitor
was firing on the fort. Prince Milan
sent Minister Riotes to the Austrian
Consul with apologies, informing him
that the commander of the fort had
been dismissed.
London, December 20.—Chas. Brent,
the Louisville forger, was delivered
into the custody of an English de
tective, designated by Minister Pierre
pont to receive him, and will leave to
night for Queenstown, to embark for
the United States.
The steamer City of Bristol, Capt.
Ellison, which left Liverpool, Decem
ber Gth, for Philadelphia, has put back
to Queenstown. She lost her foremast
aud bowsprit, and all attached, during
a northwest gale at noon of the 14th
inst. The second officer and four sea
men were washed overboard and
drowned.
The Lancashire Troubles.
Manchester, December 20.—The
Guardian to-day says the condition of
the settlement of the dispute submitted
by the operatives of the Lancashire
cotton trade are strongly opposed by
the masters. Another meeting of the
Joint Committee will be held at Black
burn, beginning in January, when the
masters wiil state their decision.
LOUISIANA.
General Nicholls’ Determination to be
Governor Tlie House Committee
Refuses the Statement of a Member
of the Board.
New Orleans, December 20.—Re
sponding to a serenade, Gen. Nicholls
concluded: “I was peaceably, fairly
and legally elected Governor by over
8,000 votes of both races in the State,
and I announce to you my firm deter
mination to assert and maintain my
right to that position, and I know that
you are equally determined that I
shall do so. I shall be prepared to do
my whole duty, and I shall expect the
same from every citizen of Louisiana.
Washington, Dec. 20.—The House
Committee refused to receive a state
ment from Gen. Anderson, of the Re
turning Board. He testified: Asked
whether Tiiden or Hayes received a
majority of the votes cast; replied he
did not know; never added the votes of
parishes until ready for promulgation;
never heard any member of the Board
say who had a majority of the votes.
Final decisions were made in executive
session. Sometimes affidavits were
read, but contestants not admitted.
The vote of East Feliciana was thrown
out because of general intimidation;
Grant parish because no legal returns
favored the counting of Grant parish,
but overruled. The committee ad
journed with the understanding that
all members of the Returning Board
be present to-morrow. The question
of contempt comes eqarely up.
Testimony Before the Congressional
Committee.
New Orleans, December 20.—Chas.
Cassanaus, member of the Returning
Board, testified before the Congres
sional Committee to-day at great
length.
J. Milton Turner, Minister Resident
of Liberia, left to-night for New York,
and leaves for Liberia at an early day.
Cassanaus testified that he had been
a member of the Returning Board
since 1872; the Board were all Repub
licans; there was a recommendation to
fill the vacancy, but the Board could
not agree: could not produce original
papers without the consent of the
Board; don’t know whether Tiiden or
Hayes electors had a majority of the
votes cast according to supervisor’s
statements; never heard any of the
members say who had a majority;
know they threw out two parishes and
several polls in other parishes; thinks
the vote thrown out will aggregate sev
eral thousand, couldn’t say how many;
thinks probably four or live thousand;
don’t recollect th 6 number of parishes
in which votes were thrown out, thinks
there were fourteen or fifteen.
The Senate committee’s statement of
the votes rejected in each parish was
received from the Returning Board.
Senator McDonald made a motion that
a subpeena duces tecum issue to the
Returning Board for all protests and
affidavits accompanying the consoli
dated statements of supervisors; also,
for the returns of the commissioners
of each poll in each parish.
Senator Howe, chairman, said he
could not understand what figure that
protests and affidavits, which formed
the basis of the action of the Return
ing Board, could cut in this investiga
tion, unless the committee proposed to
review the action of the Board in an
appellate capacity.
Senator McDonald said it was not
the province of the committee to de
termine anything. The committee
wanted only the facts for the informa
tion of the body, from which the com
mittee derives its authority. The
committee ought to know the facts
upon which the board rejected the
votes, which, by their statement, they
admit they did reject. The question
of calling for other Democrats of the
Returning Board is beiog discussed by
the committee.
Gen. Anderson was recalled and
handed a statement to the committee,
AUGUSTA, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1876.
saying it was the original statement of
the vote for Presidential electors,
signed by all members of the Board.
The statement contained the aggregate
vote, and not the vote by parishes; did
not know whether a list by par
ishes had been made out. The
Board could not make a complete
list by parishes in time for promul
gation, but ordered the clerk
to do it afterwards. The clerk made
an addition of votes, leaving out re
jected polls. The Board revised these
additions, explaining alterations. Mr.
Anderson said some of the parishes
had been misplaced by tbe clerk, but
did not remember how the mistake oc
curred. The clerk had explained it at
the time; no one was present
In the room where the Board
was at work the night before
the promulgation but the Board,
except when counsel were brought in
for advice. Witness produced a mem
orandum of the polls thrown out —
fifty-four polls in twenty parishes, and
the parishes of Grant and East Fell
cianu. The supervisors made returns
with three or four polls left out; did .
uot count tbo-se left out; only counted j
those returned; considered no returns !
of commissioners; refused to receive l
evidence of certified copies of the re
turns of tho commissioners of elec- I
tion filed iu the District Courts.
The committee ordered the witness
to bring certain papers. He replied he
would submit the matter to the Board.
Anderson read a communication to
the committee saying the Board re
fused to surrender the original papers, ,
as they were for the inspection of the j
General Assembly only. |
FLORIDA.
The Mandamus Case—Municipal Vic
tory of the Democrats.
Tallahassee, December 20.—A de
cision in the mandamus case will be
reached Thursday.
Washington, Dec. 20.—The Herald' s
Tallahassee dispatch says, the Demo
crats carried the city election there
yesterday for the first time since the
war.
Fire Record.
Knoxville, December 20.—Allison &
MeClung’s warehouse was burned this
morning. Geo. H. Smith, a jeweller
aud a prominent citizen, was killed by
a falling wall.
Little Rock, December 20.—Miller &
Penzels’ block, corner of Markham and
Sherman streets, was burned. Loss
§150,000 to §200;000.
Last night’s fire was brought under
control between 11 and 12 o’clock. The
flames were confined to Miller & Pen
zle’s block. Loss estimated at §100,000;
insurance less than half.
The Masonic lodge rooms, in the
third story of the Penzel buildings,
could not be entered, and their contents
were destroyed. Losses by fires within
the week aggregate §350,000. Origin
shrowded iu mystery.
Minor Telegrams.
Galveston, December 20.—The sub
committee on Louisiana affairs, con
sisting of Congressmen Mead*, Dea~
ford and House, arrived here this
morning en route for the Upper Red
river parishes. They will be absent
about ten days.
New York, December 20.—The tug
Jacob L. Neafle exploded off the High
lands, killing three. The Staten Island
ferry boar Blackbird struck a rock and
sunk. All saved.
A meeting or the leading houses en
gaged in the manufacture of leather
belts adopted a price list langing from
14 to 15 per cent, advance.
Boston, December 20.—The woman
Lulu Martin, recently acquitted of the
murder of Dr. Baker, was arraigned
on the charge of the murder of Chas.
S. Ricker.
GRANGE NOTES.
Agricultural Department and Geolog
ical Survey.
Whereas, Georgia is pre-eminently
an agricultural State, and hei people
an agricultural people; and whereas,
Governor James M. Smith had the
wisdom and statesmanship to recom
mend, in accordance with the wishes of
the State Agricultural Society express
ed, the establishment of a Department
of Agriculture and a geological survey
of the State, and the Legislature the
sugaeity to enact the same; aud where
as, both the Department and the sur
vey have accomplished all that could
be reasonably expected since the time
of their inauguration, and promise still
greater good for the State in the fu
ture; aud whereas, certain persons,
under honest but mistaken ideas of
economy, desire the abolition of' the
one and the discontinuance of the
other;
Therefore Resolved, Ist, That as rep
resentatives of the farmers of Georgia,
who pay the great bulk of the State
taxes, we do most solemnly deprecate
and condemn such suicidal policy as,
under the plausible pretext of retrench
ment and economy, would strike at the
foundation of the most important
measures of reform ever inaugurated
In our State for the promotion of her
agricultural interest, and the develop
ment or her other material resources.
Resolved 2d, That we call upon all
true citizens Georgia who have her
real interests at heart, whether agri
culturists or not—whether officials or
private citizens—if the friends of true
progress and development, to frown
down such indidious efforts to strike,
under the specious cry of economy and
retrenchment, a fataf blow at the great
productive interests of the State.
Resolved 3d, That, as agriculturists,
we honor Governor James M. Smith
for his manly and statesmanlike advo
cacy and support of these instrumen
talities for the" advancement of our
people and the great fundamental in
terests of the State ; and call upon the
Governor elect, General A. H. Colquitt,
as the exponent of the great agricul
tural sentiment of the State, to speak
with no uncertain sound for progress
and development of all the great indus
tries and resources of Georgia.
Unanimously adopted.
Mass meetings of law-abiding jus
tice loviDg citizens without respect to
party are to be held forthwith in all
the principal towns of Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois to emphasize the demand
that the lawfully elected president, Mr.
Tiiden, shall be inaugurated. Day is
breaking sure enough. The Democrats
and honest Republicans of the North
west will not submit to usurpation at
the dictation of Grant or of aoy other
man.
Davenport and Grant seem to have
a perfect understanding. They proba
bly both drank out of the same bot
tle.
Paris artists say the best market for
their pictures is America.
“NOT FOR JOE.”
No COMPROMISE WITH RETURN
ING BOARD FRAUDS.
More Thander From the Press.
The Coiambus Enquirer-Sun says :
Ben Hill—His interview with the
New York Herald shows that he Is no
man for Georgia to trust as United
-States Senator. What Is he playing
for now ? A position under Hayes ?
What does he mean by giving up the
fight this early?
Ahem!
(Covington Star.)
If Governor Hayes is made Presi
dent, we don’t think It improbable that
Ben Hill will soon be one of nls strong
est adherents.
Taking the Back Track.
[Special to N. O. Democrat.]
Washington, December 18.—The
week opens with full promise of excit
ing events. Ben Hill has been forced
to take the back track on his recent at
titude, and has concluded to defer bis
proposed delivery of the Southern
Democrats to Hayes.
The Southern Democrats held a cau
cus at Hewitt’s house and resolved to
stand by Gov. Tiiden to the bitter end.
Indications multiply that the masses
of the Northern Democracy will resist
the inauguration of Hayes to any ex
tent that may be necessary to protect
their rights.
Encouraging Hayes.
[Washington Special to Boston Herald.]
Great efforts are making by tho
friends of Gov. Hayes to placate the
Southern Democrats and to induce
them to acquiesce in his election.
There is good ground for believing
that Hayes himself has been persuaded
that he can build up a party in the
South to sustain his administration,
and that he is nearly if not quite ready
to make a pledge to take a prominent
Southern Democrat into his Cabinet.
It is thought that, if this can be done,
enough of the Southern Democrats can
be detached from the support of Tiiden
before February to prevent united
action by the Democracy in support of
Tilden’s claims. The pacific utterances
of Ben Hill and others have encour
aged the friends of Hayes to advocate
such a trade, and as Hayes is known to
be sincerely anxious to improve the
condition of the South, and to build
up a decent wing of the Republican
party there, it only depends upon the
Southerners to say whether they will
accept his terms.
A Rattling Volley.
[Atlanta Telegram.]
If Tiiden is In accord with Ben Hill,
he is not in accord with Hewitt, Ran
dall, Gordon, or the National Demo
cratic Committee.
If Tiiden and Ben Hill are In accord,
tbe Democracy of the South has been
deceived, bartered, sold and delivered
to their enemies. We do not believe
tbt Ben Hill and Tiiden are in accord.
Mr. Frank H. Alfriend, of the Hill
household, tells us that if we are Til
den’s friends we must endorse what
Ben Hill says about Hayes. In that
case wo beg to inform Mr. Alfriend that
we are notlilden’s friends.
Fortune does not smile serenely
upon Mr. Ben. Hill’s recent efforts to
apply a little bit of sarcasm to the
Northern Democracy. Having in his
most strange and unaccountable cau
cus speech at Washington (which will
compare favorably witn his Constitution
and New York Herald interviews) de
clared that the Northern fire-eating
Democrats are “invincibles in peace
and invisibles in war,” the New York
World, which severely condemns his
course (in common with series of other
prominent Democratic journals) gives
a “Roland for an Oliver” in this thrust:
“Mr. Ben Hill, of Georgia, appears to
have a fatal facility for bluster when
perfect repose is needed, and timidity
when calm courage is essential.*
Two special dispatches to tho Con
stitution. of this morning, are remark- ;
able documents. The public read them
with surprise and indignation. Mr.
Frank H. Alfriend, be it known to him,
cannot “bulldoze” the people of Geor :
gia in the interests of Ben Hill. The
interviewers of recent date, we may
plainly state, have effectually de
stroyed all public approbation of Mr.
Hill’s latter day Democracy, and rele
gated him again to that critical and
delicate position upon the political
whirl-a-gig which may land him any
where iu the circle. Mr. Alfriend is a
zealous friend but a very indiscreet
chaperon for the statesman. We re
spect, our advice to “cheese” the inter
view, and we add the advice to Mr.
Alfriend to “cut the wires” of his par
tisanism and give up his attempts at
intimidating the people of Georgia.
When Ben Hill says that he is afraid
that Democratic leaders “are only too
willing to secure a mere party triumph
by any means, foul or fair,” whom does
he mean ? Is this a stab at Tiiden, who
led us to victory ? Is it a thrust at
Hendricks, who carried his Western
stronghold with: our party? Is it a
blow aimed at Hewitt, who lias been the
Warwick of our house? Is it a sabre
cut at the gallant Gordon, who has
stood by the Carolinians in their days
or doubt and trial ? Is it a bludgeon
for the head of Joe Brown, the wise
mau of Georgia, who controlled the
vigils in the Capitol of Florida and con
victed fraud as fast as it showed its
misshapen head ? Is it a lash for the
back of Lyman Trumbull, who stood
sentinel over the Returning Board in
famies of Louisiana, and testifies to
the country of the damnable acts of
that cabal of scoundrels ?
If Mr. Hill does not mean to stigma
tize these leaders, who have been the
head and front of the Democratic col
umn, pushing forward our victory to
Its consummation, whom does he mean?
The people of Georgia, if no others,
are entitled to know, and Mr. Hill must
tell them, whether lie means these
leaders. We do not so regaid them;
we rely upon their honesty and integ
rity, aud their undoubted patriotism is
the shield of our hopes. Then, let us
know, Mr. Hill, whom it is that you
would thus hold up to our enemies and
tho world as the engineers of foul
means in order to secure Tiiden in his
seat.
Hayes Said to be still Seeking a Com
promise with the South.
A Chicago dispatch to the New York
Herald, of Saturday, is as follows :
“It is positively stated here to-day,
by a gentleman of unquestionably
trustworthy character, that a Republi
can leader of great prominence in the
Western States, and who is known to
maintain strictly confidential relations
with Governor Hayes, is now on his
way to Washington, with the sanction
of the Republican Presidential candi
date, to propose, and if found practica
ble, conclude an arrangement, in the
nature of a compromise, between the
most influential members of the Re
publican party and such prominent
Conservative Southern Democrats as
Congressman Lamar, of Mississippi,
aod Ben Hill, of Georgia, on the basis
of the assent of the latter to the un
challenged declaration of Hayes’ elec
tion and the inauguration of Hayes as
President, with the assurance of a sat
isfactory division of Cubinet officers
and other positions of honor and prof
it under the Federal administratian.”
The south Will Not Trade Worth a
Cent.
(Washington Special to the Cincinnati
Enquirer.)
Rutherford’s Southern scheme has
come to naught. There has been a
canvass made of the Southern mem
bers, and, no matter how Lamar, Ben
Hill and other self-assumed Southern
leaders may go, they caunot deliver
the goods Hayes wants. The old
Bourbons are lndlgnaut at any com
promise, and say that the will cf the
people must be the law of the land,
aud that Tildeu must be inaugurated.
Indeed, since the suhject has been agi
tated, those who nibbled at the bait
Hayes set for them have had the op
portunity to discover that auy oom-
Eromiso which did uot recognize a
•emocratic success would be repudia
ted. Even the men nayes, thought his
ageuts, has been strivlag to deal with
are becoming alarmed, and are ready
to deny that they were ever in treaty
with him. It is said that Lamar will
in a day or two como out in a letter
written by him during tho canvass, in
which he advised certain Southern
men who sought his views, that the
Republican party under Hayes would
regard the South as the property of
conquest, and that no assurances need
be indulged in that his policy toward
the South would differ materially from
that of Grant. In this connection may
be added the fact that Ben Hill, whom
the Republican organs now quote as
the paragou of virtue and excellence
for his presumed willingness to ac
cept Hayes even fraudently, has re
ceived a letter from prominent men in
his State to the effect that if the views
imputed to him in an interview which
recently appeared in the New York
Herald, aud now being copiously
copied by the organs, are genuine, that
he need not expect further political
preferment from the State of Georgia.
An Unsafe Leader.
[Savannah News]
While we would not venture to im
pugn the proverbial reliability of the
New York Herald and its correspond
ents, we must be permitted to doubt
the statement that Mr. Hill has been
congratulated “by most of the South
ern members of the House.” It is very
natural that he should receive the cor
dial congratulations of the conserva
tive or auy other class of Republicans
on bis recently expressed opinions, and
that the Radical press should, like the
Herald, forgiving him for his annihila
tion of Jim Blaine, “assume to patron
ize him from a Republican standpoint.”
But, until we have assurance of the
fact from some other source than the
correspondent of the New York Herald,
we shall refuse to believe that Southern
Democrats iu Congress, iu view of the
momentous crisis through which tbe
country is fated to pass between now
aud the fourth of March, and impress
ed as every friend of constitutional
government must be with the vital
necessity for Democratic union and
concord, have thus signalized their ap
proval of Mr. Hill’s wanton and unjus
tifiable denunciation of the Democracy
of the North aud West.
But what does Mr. Hill mean by his
response to the flatteries of his Repub
lican admirers ? We are told that his
attention being called to the praises of
the “Chicago journal” (the Tribune), he
reinai ked, “ They must uot go too fast
uor be too sure.” His new admirers
may not understand this sort of co
quetry. But when they know Mr. Ben
Hill as well as we do down here in
Georgia, they will appreciate the “sig
nificance,” whether intended or not, of
this remark. There is a great deal in
Mr. Ben Hill, at times. But those who
would profit by his alliance “must not
go too fast, nor to bo tco sure.” Mr.
Hill must lead, and the great trouble is
that those who attempted to follow
Mr. Hill can never be sure, certainly
not too sure, into which political camp
he will lead them. He has a chronic
affection for “new departures,” and,
though always a Hill man, he is ever
in advance of the period, and his
statesmanship is always beyond the
comprehension of his compatriots. He
is brilliant, but his brilliancy is like the
the deceptive aud unstable light of the
ignis fatuus that lures to leave. He
was right to admonish his new admi
rers not to go too fast nor be too
sure.” The Democracy of Georgia
need no such warning.
[communicated.]
Another “Pause.”
Mr. Hayes will accept the Presidency
at the bauds of tho Returning Boards
of Louisiana, South Carolina and Flor
ida, backed by the bayonets of Sheri
dan and Tviiger, and yet Mr. Hill be
lieves Mr. Ilayes to bo “an honest and
fair man, with respect for the Constitu
tion.”
Mr. Stephens says the conferring of
tho Presidency on Mr. Hayes would be
a “gross fraud and most palpable usur
pation, and would never advise a
friendly acceptance of an admisistra
tion so inaugurated.”
Mr. Hill would advise the people of
the South to give Mr. Hayes’ adminis
tration a friendly acceptance.
Does the Chronicle and Sentinel
“still think” Mr. Hill “a patriot” and
statesman —and a “Representative
Man ?” “We pause for a reply.”
Pause Number 2.
A Tragical Affair.— The condctor
on the Charlotte,Columbia and Augusta
Railroad tells us a very tragical affair
which occurred on the railroad a fow
days ago near Lexington, S. C. The
train stopped to get wood, and while
standing, a negro man entered tho
passenger car where several gentle
men and a lady were sitting, and
grossly insulted the lady. One of the
gentlemen ordered him out of the car.
He refused to go, and rushed at the
gentleman with a knife. The latter at
tempted to defend himself, but re
ceived a cut in tho face. At this
juncture, the conductor (Roberts) en
tered and went to the aid of the white
man. In the melee, the negro man was
stabbed in the breast, from which he
aftewards died. The white man was
not seriously hurt.— Charlotte Observer.
Eleven states have delivered their
electoral returns by messengers tQ Ysr.
Ferry, the presiding officer of the Sen
ate. Georgia is one of the eleven.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
—
There were seven deaths in Colum
bia for the week ending the 15th—
whites 4; colored 8.
There will be no season passes issued
by the Port Royal Railroad this year.
The members of the Legislature will
receive a pass at the beginning aod
close of the session, for all extra travel
they will be compelled tb pay just like
other people.
The rump statesmen dispatched a
messenger to the Greenville Railroad
Saturday, to see if passes could be od
tained to return home. A reply went
back that any number of tickets oould
be obtained, if the money planked
down for the same. This wiil necessi
tate the pulling down of some of tho
Corbin greenbacks. No more free rid
ing for that kind of cattle in South
Carolina, except they are sent to the
stone house presided over by Colonel
Parmele.
Edgar Jackson, colored, was shot
and killed about 12 o'clock last Friday
night, upon the premises of Wm, Fred
erick, colored, living near Carmel
church,three miles west of Timmonsvllle
whither he had gone fur tho purpose of
robbing the poultry house and which
would have been carried out but for a
little noise which aroused Frederick,
who, rushed out with his musket in
time to see the thief making off, but
not out of range of the well aimed ball
that Frederick sent to arrest him. The
poor fellow died instantly, the ball
strikiug him in the back aud passing
through the right lung. Moral let
other peoples property alone,
Neivs and Courier: JubbeiAhulders
of fraudulent claims, gen
erally, hurry to the Mackey House in
search of the public builder, while the
superintendent of the destitute Lunatic
Asylum, rebuffed everywhere else,
turns to the Constitutional House for
succor. The Bayonet Body, which can
vote gratuities to tho Speaker aod pay
without stint, to members, “suatchees”
and professional bullies, has no thought
or care for the starving lunatics. And
as much can be said of Chamberlain
and the Senate. Probablr, with an eye
to the future, they will be careful to
keep the Penitentiary well supplied
with funds.
A Sinful Girl to Moody, the Evan
gelist.
The following letter—mentioned iu
our dispatches at the time—was read
by Mr. Moody at one of his meetings in
Chicago, last week;
“Dear Bir—l am a prostitute, aud in
perusing the daily papeis I am often
anxious to hear you say something for
us and for our class. You admit into
your presence and Invite experiences
from men who have been the vilest
rascals, whoremongers, v illians, on the
face of the earth. You warn them to
come to Christ in time to be saved.
You have not since your stay in Chica
go, to ray knowledge, said one word of
comfort to us. Several days ago I
noticed you advised young men who
were living with harlots to leave them
at once, and to have nothing more to
do with them. Would it not have been
well to say, not only come yburseir,
young man, but try and induce those
victims of man’s lust to come with
you? I have asked myself, Am 1 too
low to be asked by man to come to
Christ, when God Himself has said,
“There is none righteous, no, not one,”
etc.? There are young girls in this
city who are leading lives of shame be
cause of the lustful passions of men
who have joined your meetings, and
whom you have taken into the fold
lately; what do you or they now care
for the waifs and stray ones thus
ruined? Is it right that such things
should be? Have you uo word of com
fort for us?
“Mr. Moody, do you believe that
Jesus Christ, who died to save sin
ners, is, at the last grand day, to dis
criminate between your reformed pro
fligates and us who have suffered a
thousand times more than they the
pangs of disgrace und the scorn of so
ciety on their account?
“Remember, Mr. Moody, that God Is
a just God, and the rules and regula
tions of society will not cut much figure
in the end.
“I think you are a one-sided evan
gelist, and pander more to the tastes
of society than to your entire duty.
You give yourself up to your work
(or Christ, but don’t half do it. Re
member that Chicago has nearly as
many abandoned women as men. We
ueed the comfort of Jesus Christ as
much as they, and are just as capable
to remain steadfast in our information
as they. Nonwithstauding, we are
j ostracised from society, while they ad
mitted into the best. Hoping when
you next speak you will say something
about our present lives, we (t. e , some
cf usj will be there to hear what you
say.
Yours, Sinful Girl.”
Movements of the President Elect.
Governor Tiiden is expected from
Albany on Saturday, to stay over
Christmas, returning thither on tho fol
lowing Wednesday to take part in the
inauguration of his successor. After
that ceremony is performed he will re
turn home, according to the statement
of his personal friends, and “calmly
await the progress of events.” At his
law office down town, It may be added
there are no appearances to indicate
an early resumption of his professional
labors there, apart from the prepara
tion of some additional papers connect
ed with the pending Western Railway
suit, iu which be is joined as a defend
ant, and of the details of which the
public by this time must be familiar.—
New York Correspondent of the Phila
delphia Ledger.
—mw m.
Thomas Guthrie once related an in
cident which gives a striking idea of
the overcrowded condition of the cleri
cal profession in England some years
ago. He visited Mr. Nisbet, the well
known London publisher, and saw a
private carriage leaving the door from
whioh a large bundle was given out.
On passing this bundle, which lay in
the lobby, Mr. Nisbet touched it with
bis foot, saying, “You’ll not guess what
that is ? That contains cast-off clothes
lor tho families of poor clergjmen of
the Church of England. I receive aud
distribute a large quantity of them
every year, and they are most thank
fully received.”
The wife of a telegraph operator in
Sedalia, Mo., arrayed hereeir In bridal
attire, adorned herself with jewels and
ornaments, took chloroform, read her
husband’s last letter, answered U, foJd
ed her hands across her breast and
died. “He denies iqe *o mau,’' she
wrote, “bu* cannot deny me to God”
Then she forgave him for deserting
her, and hoped that when he looked
upon a certain seal-ring ha woukl r®.
member her, *
SIX DOLLARS A YEAH
GEORGIA NEWS.
Temperauos is oa the Increase in
Eastman.
There are 250 students attending the
Dahlonega Aricultural College.
The gin house of J. S. Bush, of Mil
ler, has been destroyed by fire.
The Griffla police foree, consisting of
-wo men, will hereafter be uniformed.
The debris of the Kelly Block iu Sa
vannah has been burning four months.
. Mrs. Oates did not succeed in draw
ing a full house in Atlanta Monday
night.
Rev. O. L. Smith has been appointed
pastor of the Methodist church at Cov
ington.
Illicit distilling in Henry county is
being seriously Interfered with by U. 8
offioers.
house of Mrs.
M. H. Beacham, of Laurens countv.
was burned. '
001. A. S. Catts has been re-elected
Mayor of Americas. He “Cutts and
comes again.
There is not a shoemaker in Miller
county anti it is supposed tho people
all go barefooted.
Mr. Hayslip, on the Ogeeche river.
up ° Q tl£ e u ty ' fi?o acros of ,<ind ha*
made 700 bushels of corn.
Those who havesecn John Robinson’s
circus this season, say it is poor. Old
John ain c what he ones w„s.
Tne R lung Xli'd* of Rome are and lag
a splrnll i tinb,.s. Last week they
turned out 1,031 kegs or u.riL.
The iitily daughter of Capt, V. ]).
Sanvk, fpcmprly ot (JonytM-s, was burned
to death at L uvieucevilie one night
last wick
Th<* schedule of tbe Slate lt);id
cluingod Sunday. The train leaves
Atlanta at 7 a. in., instead of 5:40 a m
and arrive* at Atlanta at 9:25 a. m.. in’
stead of 12 m.
The Macon and Brunswick Railroad
will be sold or laased on the 27th of
next month. Capt. John A. Grant, the
able Superintendent, has got the road
in splendid condition.
a \f arrested in Savaimah
l . r blowing the toy tin horns on the
streets. Fhey wanted to make the
seme raid on the Atlanta youth, but
Mayor Hammock vetoed the idea.
Fiom the Thomasville Enterprise we
earn that new syrup from the country
is plentiful at 50 cents per gallon. Rust
proof oats are slow sale at 50 cents a
bushel and oats In the sheaf aro sell
mg &3 low as 55 cents per bundled.
Mr. T J. Jacobs, a dentist of Lew
ronceyiHe committed suicide at the
Air-Hue House in Atlanta Tuesday
morning, by blowing his brains out.
financial embarrassment is the sup
posed cause. The Evening Telegram
gives a very intelligent account of the
tragic occurrence.
Mr. Arkwright, the proprietor of the
Savannah Theatre, has offered the use
or his theatre for any company who
will give a performance for the benefit
of the surviving families of those who
perished in the Brooklyn Theatre. The
Mornmj News eff-rs to advertise tho
performance free of charge.
Mr. M C. Eason, this year, made
from thirty aorss, with one mule, one
man and one woman, 2i bales of cot
ton, 500 bushels of oats. 4 barrels or
syrup, 1,500 seed cane, and one and a
half acres of sweet potatoes, without
commercial manure. Mr. Eason’s plan
tation is four miles south of Boston.
Telegraph : A Twiggs county man
was out gunning last week when he
came upon a covey of seventeen part
ridges. At the first shot he killed four
teen of the birds, and winged another.
He subsequently got the entire covey,
making In all seventeen birds at three
shots, It was profitable shootiDg. but
didn t give the birds hair a showing.
See card of Augusta Constitutional
tjif an exceilent and highly respectable
daily, in our advertising columns. The
Constitutionalist is not only ably edited
hut maintains a dignified bearing and
eschews abortionate attempts at wit
which so often mar the usefulness and
detract from the value of otherwise
respectablo journals.— Athens Watch
-1 man.
The State Grange has concluded its
labors and adjourned. It recommends
to Governor Colquitt to uso his influ
ence to have the Legislature appropri
ate one hundred thousand dollars to
the cause of direct trade between Sa
vannah and Liverpool. They also re
solved that the use of commercial fer
tilizers as now used by farmers is not
profitable. They recommend the com
post heap, with liberal use of phos
phates, as a substitute to the various
so-called “joannas.”
Saturday night last Gainesville had
another destructive fire, which de-
IVfw™ thirteen houses, and a loss of
§lo,ooo was sustained. The fire broke
out about ten o’clock In an unfinished
frame building belonging to A. M
Lochran, on Bradford street Tho fire
spread rapidly, ana the stores of S
Lesser, Dr. Long, A. Whelchel, D. E.'
Evans, Oliver and Webb, J. L. Chap
man and H. T. Murtiu, were destroyed.
Most of the goods were saijed.
Messrs O hver & Webb, A. Whelchel,
H. T. Martin and J. Law were partially
insured. Loss, about 815,000. The
fire was evidently the work of an in
, cendisry. as the building where the
; “ re originated was saturated with ker-
I osene, and the air was redolent with
the burning of kerosene.
Desperate Working-Men nT p K x>.
stlvania. A Scranton (Pa.) leuer
says: The miners and laborer* of the
coal regions are now passing through
the severest winter they have ever ex
perienced. Thousands of them are
without money, food or substantial
olothlng, with no work and no credit
nothing but starvation staring them in
the face. Many of the mines have
been closed for the winter, and those
of the Delaware and Hudson company
iue working only half time, affordiu
the workmen scarcely enough to keep
them m the necessaries of life. The
trackmen and other laborers of tha
same company have been reduced in
wages to 85 cents per day, and a'so on
half time, which yields them than
§2 50 per week, on which rqaryTf them
whin tv, Bupport lar £ Q families. And
when there are thousands of others
who are anxiouq to work for this pit
tance but oannot get even this, their
sufferings can easily be imagined. The
foros of mechanics at Delaware
Lackawanna and Western Companies
shops in this olty was agak reduced
last Saturday, thus swelling the already
i lar ß.° l rm Y pf the unemployed.
ble ts feared in this eity if something is
not doue to give them employment; as
tho men whoso families are feeling the
tuB ** r set ring des-