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The Florida Scoundrels.
Oar dispatches received last night
disclose the fact that the two misera
ble wretches, to-wit: McLin, Secretary
of State, and Cowgill, Comptroller,
comprising a majority of the Florida
Re'.arcing Board, refuse to-cbey the
order of tho State Supreme Court and
decline to canvass the returns. Of
cnirse, tho instructions under which
t bey acted came directly from tho
bettd<iuartL*rs of Grant,Chandler & Cos., -
s t Washington, and assured them of
such protection as they might bo yjiU
log to accept from such rascals*.
Under the order of the Supreme
Court of Florida, we all know—every
body knows—that the Tildes electors
have a majority in the State, and if the
State Board of Canvassers, or a major
ity of them, were not d—d rascals
land we believe they a.’e) we should
have no trouble.
So far as Florida is concerned she
will he counted for Tildes and Hf.n
-hßieK 01 , and that is tho end of it.
FLORIDA.
The Secretary of State, McLin, Re
fuses to Obey the Order of Ibe Su
preme Court.
Tallahassee, December 27.—Tho
notice from the Secretary of State to
the other members of the Canvassing
Board to meet this morning tp ro
canvass the returns, was withdrawn to
day. McLin and Cowgill refuse to
bey the order of the court, and
will’ tile a motion to vacate the rule
and set aside the mandamus. Cooke
will obey the mandate of the court by
making a canvass himself, and filing
the same in the clerk’s office this after
noon, as directed by the court. Ex-
Attorney General Williams arrived this
morning, and it is understood Judge
Wood will be in Florida to-morrow.
LOUISIANA.
The Investigations—The State House
Barricaded by the Repnblicaus.
New Orleans, December 27.—A wit
ness before the House Committee, after
narrating Dr. Dinkgrave’s personal
difficulties, in which he was involved
in the killing at his hands of a man
who had brothers, testifies that Dink
gravo had apprehended assassination
for several days, and if ho had acted
with ordinary prudence it would not
have happened.
The Republicans have barricaded the
windows of tho State House and all the
doors except the two main entrances,
where they have a guard of Metropoli
tans. The Republicans says the Demo
cratic programme is for Wiltz, Demo
cratic Candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, to take possession of the Senate
Chamber, and tailing in that, to or
ganize the Senafo Ime ttilo,
they say, cannot be done, as six Demo
cratic Senators will not consent; and,
they add, Gen. Nichols will bo simply
inaugurated aud then go home.
Further Evidence Before the luyes
tigatiug Committee.
New Orleans, December 27.—The
Senatorial sub-Committee took up East
Mon Rouge. Alexander Stephens
Hilbert, colored, was the first witness,
who opened thus; Reside In East Baton
Rouge, about three miles from the city;
have seen armed bodies of men, styled
"Bulldozers” or “Regulators,” riding
on the public roads at night; they vis
ited tho cabins of colored people; am a
Republican; they were Democrats; vis
ited my house on the night of tho sth
f September, when I was absent; my
wife aud two colored men escaped into
the fields; they put a rope around my
wife’s uet-k: broke down my fences.
New Orleans, December 27.—The
House sub-Committee, of which Mr.
Morrison is Chairman, resumed its ses
sion to-day. Otie colored man testi
:ied: Was shot at because he voted the
Democratic ticket; knows colored men
who wete knocked and beaten for elec
tioneering for and voting tho Demo
cratic ticket; had club of two to three
hundred colored Democrats ; intimida
tion was all by Republican negroes ;
heard Republican candidates say Pack
ard would be counted in, even though
Xieholls got a majority of the votes ;
heard many negroes on election day
sav they would like to vote the Demo
cratic ticket, but would bo afraid to go
home to their wives if they did. Sev
eral other colored witnesses testified
to being intimidated because of having
Democratic proclivities.
Robt. T. Carr, of DeSoto parish, tes
tified: Was nominated for Sheriff by
the llepublicans; declined, but was
voted tor and understand was returned
elected; my opponent received 289
tnoie votes than I did, consequently I
I "rote a letter declining a commission;
I "os and am now a Tax Collector by ap-
I poiutment of Mr. Kellogg.
THE FIRE AT QUEBEC.
Eight Bodies Recovered.
Jolliette, Quebec, December 27.
‘ lle inmates of the convent were in
: '-L The nuns and children escaped
IQ , their night clothes. Fourteen are
biasing, ull of whom, it is feared, per
k'd. Eight bodies were taken out,
tjuroed to a crisp. Parents are en
coring to identify the bodies by
agments of linen adhering to the re
gains. .
The Dearest Sensation of Child
oods Happy Hours.”—Any human be
“g who has iiever sawed off a slice of
otQe-iuade bread, and spread that
ead with sweet country butter, and
:iac butter with soft white sugar, and
tbat sugar with a layer of rich yellow
sain from the top of a pan in the
air y, and has never opened and shut
his steth on a mouthful of this
6ame compound— that miserable hu
:' lan Wretch Mho has never done this,
. e B *y, has missed the dearest sensa
-11 nf childhood’s happy hours, and
'l go through the wilderness of life
j knowing what it is to taste of
a Dianna. — Chicago Journal.
Lumpkin Independent : The ttmper
ace cause is sadly on the decline in
1118 . section, and the bar-rooms are
gaining all of their old customers.
. Lainbridge Democrat : If the Legls-
Hre of Georgia is disposed to honor
\ w ho has spent the best years of
o “ e i Q the gratuitous service of his
ate , Hon. Thos. Hardeman would be
J?L e<l t 0 the United States Senate
• bout a dissenting voice.
®lje !Augnatfi Constitutionalist.
FROM WASHINGTON.
fr ° m the Nati °*al
Afr * Le Isthmus Canal- Still
After Mr. Orton.
SSSs
at the°iif UrVe^8 whicb Dave been made
ascen a ln P r e h Beof l - e Uoited States to
ascertain the practicability of an inter
favo I ?'th^v 81 aCFf>BS the Isthmus b they
rtbf Nicaragua route and fix its
hfttt ll^ 0 ! 000 - 000 ' and estimate
afr. &78S3K!?* 111 conßame ten
prosDec/of believes that the
workonSif ear y. beginning of the
tt a 01 1 . 18 Cft nal is very favorable
; a bis direction, communications
of Enron 0 B f Ut t 0 Ule princi P al powers
i- r °P° m re Sard to the subject
resuhs D ef attentf ° n t 0 tbe satisfactory
results of surveys which have been
rSSr aQd f° th ? Viewa 3et ronh in the
report as to the best rule. Replies
have been received from several of the
governments thus addressed, in which
an L?fv P h eB3 ll J emßelveß favorable to
an early beginning of the work.
Washington, December 27.—A new
subpoena has been issued against Mr.
Orton to appear forthwith before Mr
Morrison s committee, at Now Orleans
with the required telegrams.
from t C S ° f - oregon ’ bad resigned
rrom the Committee or Privileges and
Elections. He was replaced yesterday
additional member.
The amount assessed on banks aud
bankers during the month, as a tax on
capital and <£posita is Vtbmit two mil
lion dollars.
Mr. Cronin depositetpwith Mr. Ferry
the electoral vote of Oregon. Ferrv
gave him no receipt.
W ashington, December 27.—Treasu
ry detectives have recently discovered a
new counterfeit one thousand dollar
greenback.
FROM NEW YORK.
Meetiug of North Carolina Bondhol
ders-A Memorial to Congress from
the Merchants and Bankers of New
Yorg.
New York, December 27.— At a meet
ng held here to-day of North Carolina
bondholders, at which'about $2,500,000
worth of bonds were represented it
was stated that of the $38,000,000 owed
by the State only $21,000,000 were re
cognized. Tho bondholders would be
willing to accept fifty per cent., and in
the opinion of the meeting bonds should
be issued for funding this recognized
debt, payable January and July, at
New York and Raleigh, and that these
coupons should be received for taxes
and State dues. A committee of five
was appointed, of which J. T. Bonuer
is Chairman, to represent the bondhol
ders and to adjust the debt on an equi
table basis.
The committee appointed at a meet
ing of the merchants, bankers, etc.,
held a week ago here, at the residence
of Hon. Wm. Eppes, have prepared the
following memorial, to be forwarded to
the parties indicated in the address ;
To the Honorable the Senate arid House
of Representatives in Congress Assem
* .
Your memorialists, representing a
large proportion of the financial and
commercial interest of the city of New
York, beg leave most respectfully to
express their great satisfaction at the
action of your honorable bodies in ap
pointing committees of conference to
consider the proper mode of counting
the ballots for President and Vice-Pres
ident of the United States. They hail
this action as an indication that
the two Houses of Congress
are desirous of settling this
complicated question in a spirit of
moderation aud conciliation, and they
beg leave to represent that in acting
thus your honorable bodies have the
cordial sympathy of the great mass of
the Americau people, irrespective of
party. Your memorialists most re
spectfully but most earnestly pray that
all mere party considerations may bo
thrown aside, and that in this crisis in
the history of the United States the
pure and unselfish patriotism which
inspired the founders or tho Republic
may guide your legislative action, and
that you may thus relieve the country
from present uncertainty and appre
hensions by a prompt determination of
the mode in which the pending mo
mentous issue shall be decided ; and
your memorialists wifi ever pray, etc.
The signatures embraces represen
tatives or nearly all the leading busi
ness firms in the city.
CONGKESSIOMAL.
Proceedings in the Two Houses Yes
terday.
Washington, Decembei 27.—At the
request of Senator Kelly, or Oregon,
the Democrats on the ticket with Cro
uin, and persons who voted with Cronin
in the electoral college, have been sum
moned as witnesses by the Committee
on Privileges and Elections.
Iu the House, Gen. Hunton, chairman
of the joint committee to form a gov
ernment for the District of Columbia,
reported a bill, to bo made the special
order for January 4tb, which provides
for three commissioners—one to be
appointed by the President, one to be
elected by the House, and one by the
Senate.
In the House, the Speaker laid be
fore the House a petition from certain
citizens of Cincinnati relative to count
ing the electoral votes. This gave rise
to a discussion on the general subject
of Southern affairs. Banning, of Ohio,
haviQg had read at the Clerk s desk
copies of correspondence in regard to
the ejection of Governor Wells from
the Governorship iu 18G7, in which
General Sheridan refers to him as a
trickster and a dishonest man, Gar
field of Ohio, defended Gov. Wells,
and Frye, of Maine, declared that, ac
cording to General Sheridan, nearly
three thousand political murders had
been committed in Louisiana. I his
was denounced by Spencer, of Louis
iana, as being utterly false, and he
charged the Republican party with
being responsible for all the difficulties
which occur in the South. Adjourned.
Unchanged to the Last.— The Greens
burg (Penn.) Tribune says: “Rev. Thos.
P Hunt, or, aS he was familiarly
called, ‘Father Hunt,’ died at Wilkes
barre a week or so ago. He was a
noted temperance lecturer, and was
also a red-hot and earnest Repnblican.
He had a perfect abhorrence for North
ern men who sympathized with the
Southern rebels during the war, and
always called them Copperheads. He
was a Chaplain during the war, al
though he was over seventy years old.
He made a will, and in it he bequeaths
his war cane to one of his grandsons,
with instructions that if he turns Cop
perhead, the cane shall be broken over
his (the grandson’s) head.
FOREIGN DISPATCHES.
Illness of the Grand Duke, Nicholas
—The Eastern Question-The War
Cloud Brightening.
St. Petersburg, December 27 —An
official bulletin, signed by five physi
cians, announces that Grand Duke
Nicholas was taken with abdominal
complain*, caused by a bad cold, De
cember 19th. There was no improve
ment in his condition up to December
2lth.
London, December 27.—The Russian
telegraph agency reports the general
temper of the Mussulmen induces
doubt whether the Sultan’s reply to
day can be favorable.
A, Times' Berlin dispatch savs Aus
tria s military preparation has modified
Russian pretentions and emboldened
the Porto.
Belgrade, December 27.—The news
papers here publish the following:
ibe Russian General Nikitin arrived
r r< o OQ on day to take command of
the Servian army, vice TeheruaydT. At
a review of the Russian division, Gen.
N ickitin declared he had come to Servia
by order of the Emperor of Russia, to
resume command or the armv. Ho said
all foreigners serving in Russian corps
m Servia would be considered a part
of the Russian army. Orders have been
issued to corps commanders of tho
Servian army to proceed .immediately
to their posts. All volunteers are or
dered to proceed to the Drina armv.
London, December 27.—This after
noon’s Globe asserts that Russia has
ordered her whole fleet to rendezvous
at Otschakoff, as apprehensions are en
tertained of active measures bv tho
Turkish fleet.
A dispatch frQru Constantinople to
Reuter’s Telegram Company says the
decree of October 6th, 1875, reducing
the interest on the Turkish debt one
half during five years, has been official
ly annulled.
A special dispatch from Copenhagen
Hie Fall Mall Gazette says the Lower
Chamber of Parliament has been pro
rogued to January 9th, when a final
struggle between the co-ordinate pow
ers of the government begin.
Constantinople, December 27. —lt ap
pears certain the Porte will not reject
all the proposals of the Powers, but
only make objections to several points.
Although the Turkish war party is
strong, a peaceful solution is consider
ed possible. Midhat Pasha and Savhet
Pasha seem personally to favor the
maintenance of peace. Plenipotentia
ries, in order to meet the resistance of
the Porte, appear disposed to discuss
certain details, provided principles are
maintained. It is believed in diplo
matic circles that there is ground for
hope that no rupture wifi occur. The
interview between the Marquis of
Salisbury and the Sultan on Tuesday
appears to have produced a favorable
result.
London, December 27.—The Pall Mall
Gazette of this afternoon, in a leading
article, says the telegrams on the
Eastern question are eminently' mis
leading, and warns its readers not to
believe tho dispatches about the Brit
ish ambassador, Sir Henry Elliott’s re
turn of the Marquis of Salisbury’s ul
timatum, and the departure of the
ta , ry T, M‘ott "will “Tea vb
Constantinople when the conference is
ended for a period of rest. Besika
bay is no place for large and heavy
ships at this season, and the Marquis
of Salisbury’s business with the Sultan
yesterday was not to present
the proposals of the conference as an
ultimatum. Likely enough his lord
ship told the Sultan that the rejection
of the conference proposals would put
an end to all discussion, and should
war ensue ho must not expect a word
or act of support from the British
Government, but between a declara
tion of that kind and the presentation
of a threatening ultimatum there is a
wide difference. The talk of agree
ment between Russia and Eugland
goes a great deal too high. If it is
held to signify that England will im
pose Russia’s demands on the Porte
for the sake of peace we may wish to
see their proposals accepted. If they
are refused we shall not quarrel with
the Porte, but watch the outcome of its
refusal with a steady view to the pro
tection of our own position in the
world.”
French Affairs.
Versailles, December 27. —M. Gam
betta met with a defeat to-day in the
Budget Committee, which rejected, by
a vote of 12 to 11, his motion that the
Chamber of Deputies should declare
that the Senate had exceeded its pow
ers in restoring grants which were
stricken out of the Budget by the
Deputies. Although the Budget Com
mittee thus decided that the question
of the powers of the Senate ought not
to be raised, they nevertheless again
adopted various grants as originally
passed by the Deputies.
The Siecle, semi-official, states that
the Government Intends to adopt a
policy of non-interference in the con
troversy over the rights of the Senate.
Paris, December 27.—Count Shou
valoff, Ambassador to England, has
come to Paris for an interview with
the Count de Cazes.
Minor Telegrams.
New York, December 27.—The Brig
antine Lillian Cameron, from Charlotte -
town, P. E.X, went ashore on Squad
Beach, N. J., yesterday. She is not
much injured, and the prospects for
getting off is good. Leaking slightly.
Ocean Grove, N. J., December 27.
The ship Rjukan.from London for New
York, which came ashore yesterday off
here, went to pieces at 5 o’clock last ev
ening. The beach for two miles is cov
ered with stuff from the wreck. To
Drummond White belongs the creditor
saving the the crew.
Hudson, December 27.—The cotton
mill at Brainard, Reasseler county, be
longing to the Clinton Manufacturing
Company, of Providence, R. 1., was
burned this morning.
Portland, Me., December 27.—The
threatened stiike of Locomotive En
gineers on the Grand Trunk Railway is
reported arranged on a basis of all
three grades of engineers accepting
the proposition of the company to pay
two dollars and seventy-five cents per
day.
Suicide of General Bankson Cause
Unknown.
Philadelphia, December 27.—Major
General John P. Bankson, Secretary
and Treasurer of the Harrisville Dis
tilling Company, aud commanding offi
cer of the Ist Division, Ist Brigade,
National Guards of Pennsylvania, com
mitted suicide at his office on Front
street this afternoon. The only cause
assigned for the act is that he had
some slight personal financial embar
rassment. His accounts with the Dis
tiliiog Company, however, are said to
be correct. The suicide caused con
siderable excitement in business circles
here.
AUGUSTA, GA., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 28, 1876.
LETTER FROM ATLANTA.
Hard Times In Atlanta—A Good Show
ing by Gov. Smith—The Ship of State
in Perfect Trim— I The Incoming Chief
Magistrate.
Atlanta, December 23.
Our retail merchants are doing a fair
business, on holiday goods, but whole
salers are in the dumps, and don’t care
much what happens. Collections are
nearly impossible, and bankers signi
ficantly Shake their heads at almost all
paper presented for accommodation.
The scarcity of money is felt more
seriously by stock dealers. Horses
and mules are daily thrown upon the
market and knocked down at about
one-fourth, of their value—the prices
ranging frpti twenty to fifty dollars.
A gentleman yesterday bought two
good mules and two good horses for
sl47—the soniest one was worth half
tho moubyj and‘the best one all of it.
Does all ibis come of “Returning
Boards,” or is it the logic of bad gov
ernment, wasteful expenditures and
official stealing? Certes, a system that
draws $7,500,000,000 in a decade from
the substance of the people, must bring
poverty aud disaster upon the country.
But I turn to a brighter picture, and
tender your readers a more cheerful
outlook. However much individuals
are suffering, our State affairs have
been so wisely managed that all is safe
and serene at the Capitol. Whether
gifted with superior financial ability,
or whether common sense, close atten
tion, hard work aud unswerving integ
iity be the secret of his success, it cau
not be denied that Governor Smith has
literally wrought miracles in the State’s
finances.
A CLEAR BALANCE SHEET AND A FULL
TREASURY
are the legacies he will leave to his
successor. The public debt has been
accurately ascertained, and thh inter
est account is squared up to the end
of the fiscal year. The current ex
ponses of the government are provided
ror, and will all be paid before the
Legislature meets.
A LARGE FLOATING DEBT
that drifted over from former adminis
trations, and which has never been
computed in the public debt, has also
been paid—amounting to nearly or
quite, three million dollars.
THE PENITENTIARY QUESTION
is disposed of, contracts having been
perfected under tho act of the last
Legislature, and the convicts provided
for for twenty years. Joseph E. Brown
A Cos. constitute Penitentiary No. 1-
Grant, Alexander & Cos., No. 2, and B.’
G. Lockett & Cos., No. 3. The contracts
are all signed, sealed and delivered,
and executive orders have passed for
the distribution of the convicts.
THE LUNATIC ASYLUM
shows superior management and a
great reduction in expenses. Former
ly, with four hundred inmates, the ex
penses of the institution ran up to an
average of about $130,000 annually
Now, with over six hundred, the ex
penses reach only about SBI,OOO. Then
it cost seventy to eighty cents a day
npqr QOW
thirty-seven and a half cents feeds
them bountifully. This is a clear sav
ing of $50,000 annually.
The Macon and Brunswick Railroad
is rapidly developing the river lands,
and from this source the State is de
riving largely increased and increasing
taxable income. The road is paying
exenses now, and iu a few years wifi
yield as much as the State is now re
ceiving from the Western and Atlantic
Road.
Gov. Smith has given much attention
to tho development, prosperity and
wealth of the yellow pine belt in South
ern Georgia, and the coal and mining
region of upper Georgia, and it is said
that he will commend both sections to
the fostering care of tho State in the
strongest terms.
GOVERNOR COLQUITT
now has comfortable apartments at the
Kimball House, where he spends the
day in necessary preparations for his
inauguration aud the first duties of his
administration. Callers are frequent
and numerous, and, as may well be
imagined, a large majority of them are
applicants for office, or the friends of
applicants.
GEN. BUTLER’S ELECTION.
Was it a Blunder?
[Nashville American.]
The Republican papers in the North
are making an outcry about the elec
tion of Gen. M. C. Butler to the United
States Senate by the Legislature of
South Carolina. The people of South
Carolina have been commended for
their liberality and their calm, cool
prudenoe. Under the most trying cir
cumstances they have avoided any act
that could harm the cause of free gov
ernment. They have made passion
subservient to reason. They have
shown a manhood and fortitude which
present them as one of the noblest ex
amples of moral grandeur.
In the election of Gen. Butler they
have shown an unselfish adherence to
right aud justice, a noble sympathy, as
honorable, and more admirable than
their brave prudence and lofty endur
ance. They might have selected any
other man. With local self-adminis
tration as the only point of present in
terest with them, merely to have filled
the seat in the Senate with a Democrat,
would have been sufficient.
They found in Gen. Butler a man
slandered, denounced, his character
foully aspersed, a liberal and moder
ate man cnarged unjustly with the
most cowardly and atrocious crimes.
They knew him to be a man of moder
ate views, a man who possessed a calm
judgment and an even temper, a man
learned in the fundamental principles
of our Government, and one who was
able to present the cause of the South
aud the great questions involved in the
political contests of the present. They
found him a man fit to represent
South Carolina and to reflect honor
upon her, and they found him, more
over, slandered and his character foul
ly aspersed and resting under unjust
accusations, and they said, this man
like ourselves, is wrongly accused and
we present him as our representative.
The ignorant may wrongly accuse and
the partisan basely misrepresent, but
the people of South Carolina present
him because they know he is innocent
and because be is representative and
capable. A mean prudence might have
dictated another course. The people
of South Carolina, calm and prudent
as they are where honor and prudence
go together, have scorned to make of
him a scape goat to bear off their sins,
or condemn a true man because others
have condemned. They have in a most
manly manner escaped affording the
world such an example of meanness,
littleness and cowardice.
It might have occurred to Republi-
cans, if they were at a i <1 s o .ed to
wards fairness, that any mau may be
accused. It is easy to accuse and it is
the part of the mean partisan to con
demn afi without a hearing. The peo
ple of South Carolina wisely determined
to stand or fall with their beet men. It
was a wise and noble choice, and no
people ever suffered for repelling the
dictation of a short-sighted prudence
and doing that which is just and right.
Any other policy is sure to bring evil
upon the people who adopt it.
The people of South Carolina have
determined to enter the Senate repre
sented by fitness, ability, calm, states
manlike capacity, of a moderate but
progressive man, who will reflect credit
upon her people or not to enter It at
all. There is no short-sighted pru
dence, but there is honor and right in
the choice, and the result will fully
justify their action, and clear both the
people and their leaders from the un
just accusations and foul slanders of
the Republinan party.
RKDFIELD’B LAST LETTER.
■ ■■
How “The Solid South’’ Game was
Played—Some Remarks upon“ Double
Government’’ in the South, and Es
pecially South Carolina,
[Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial.)
Chattanooga, Tenn., December 21.
Lately I met a Northern Democrat who
was as mad as a dog with a tin kettle
tied .to his tail, and not without a rea
son, from his point of view, equally
substantial. “Why,” said he, in an out
burst or indignation, “if it hadn’t been
for the yelp of Solid South, Solid South,
we would have carried Ohio and Penn
sylvania. The Radicals played upon
the fears of tho people by pointing to
the fact that the South was solid for
Tilden. That very thing defeated us
in those two States, to say
nothing of Wisconsin and the Pa
cific slope. And now, after de
feating us in the North by the Solid
South bugaboo, they say the South
wasn’t solid after all, and proceed to
take from us South Carolina, Louisiana
aud Florida 1 Did you ever hear of
such impudence? But they have play
ed this Solid South card the last time.
Hereafter they will have to have some
other stock in trade.” And the Demo
crat consoled himself with this affec
tion.
So, Republican orators, you must
spring anew issue for 1880 aud inter
mediate elections. You startle*! the
country by the cry of a solid South,
when, in fact, the South wasn’t solid
after all.
What will be the result of the present
complication in South Carolina ? Those
who expect to find any permanent so
lution of the difficulty other than
turning the State over to the Demo
crats—that is, the white people—can
undeceive themselves. So-called Re
publican government's at an end there,
and if, perchance, Chamberlain con
tinues to act as Governor, he will be
powei les-L
Wbat is such a government as his in
South Carolina and Kellogg’s in Louis
iana good for anyway ? They cannot
stand alone an hour if Federal protec
tion is aniijwi*lx.
respect or enforce law. I fail to see
what good is to come from a continua
tion of an attempt to uphold so-called
Republican governments in these
States.
The double government at present in
South Carolina is the fourth of the
sort wo have had in the Southern
States since the war. You remember
the two-headed government iu Alabama
that was for so long a time a nuisance
and a shame. You remember the ap
peals to Washington, the fights aud
turmoil. It Is all over, and Alabama is
at peace. Then there was the double
government in Arkansas. Brooks at the
head of one and Baxter at the other. It
is over; the white people, that is to say
the Democracy, are in power. Old Joe
Brooks has a postoffice, and there is
peace In Arkansas. Louisiana had a
long experience with a double Govern
ment, and, indeed, has it now, for Mc-
Enery has never entirely subsided.
After January she will have more of it,
for Nichols and Packard will both be
inaugurated.
The reason that the Republican par
ty is a failure in the Cotton States is
because there is no white element in it
except the officeholders. Tne blacks
cannot conduct good government, and
if they could I don’t believe the whites
would long submit to it. These agita
tors in the Cotton States are rebellious
against negro rule where the negroes
are in the majority. That is the truth
of the matter.
And you need not look for peace un
der so-called Republican government
in the Cotton States, unless some white
material can be got into the Republi
can party. It is the talk here that
Hayes, if inaugurated, may attempt to
build up the shattered Republican
party iu the Southern States. It can
be done, but the effort will require
skill and courage, aud the cutting
loose from numerous carpet-baggers
who have brought shame and disgrace
upon the very name of Republican.
There is a good opportunity for
statesmen to come to the front about
this time if there are auy in the coun
try. h. y. r.
—
American. Cotton Goods for China.
[New York Tribune.]
The steamer John Nicholson left
this port yesterday morning for
Shanghai, China, with a mixed cargo,
consisting principally of manufactured
cotton goods. Before the late war the
American manufacturers of cotton
goods had secured for themselves
almost the entire market for cotton
goods in China, but the war and the
high prices of labor, of which it was
the immediate cause, threw this trade
into the hands of the English manufac
turers. The English manufacturers,
however, were not able to compete
with the Americau market in a direct
manner, so they made cheap goods,
which they over-weighted with starch,
and put upon them well known Amer
ican brands. In this way their
goods were sold as American, and the
American manufacturers lost their
trade. There was no question, how
ever, but that the genuine American
goods were the best, but the cheaper
over-weightier goods of England took
their places. Finally the Chinese dis
covered the difference between the
genuine goods and the fraudulent trade
marks, and began again to order their
goods direct from the United States.
The cargo that left yesterday is only
one of many, for the trade is now com
kg back, and though at present it has
a great volume, it is said not to be par
ticularly profitable. It is thought, how
ever, that in the future everything will
be arranged as before the war. These
goods go to China by every possible
route, and it is found that, being bet
ter than the English goods and of
about the same price, they are readily
disposed of,
THE EASTERN CAPITALISTS.
llow They Look at the Presidential
Squabble—Waiting to Side with the
Winner.
(Don Piatt’s New York Letter to the Cin
cinnati Enquirer.)
The country is full of anxiety as to
our political future, and in no place is
it more intense than at this great com
mercial center. The New Yorker
claims that he has less to gain and
more to lose in case of a disturbance
than any other locality in the United
States. I was seated next a bloated
bondholder at a dinner party last night.
Strange to say—at least it will sound'
strange—but the B. B. was a Democrat
and had voted for Tilden. Knowing I
was from Washington, he was anxious
to hear what ho could from me of the
situation.
“ Well,” I responded, “I thiuk it is
Old Sammy J. or a fight.”
“Good God!” ho exclaimed; I hope
not. There’s nothing to fight about.
Why should we fight?”
“Why fight? ’ What a question!
I hose fellows have destroyed, or are
trying to destroy, the very'foundation
or our political fabric—the ballot-box.
Not a fight for that?”
“Pooh, pooh! is that all? Well, let it
go. There has not been a city in the
Unite*] States for the last fifteen years
that nominations have not been bought,
votes sold, and ballot boxes stuffed or
repeated on until the ballot has come
to boa farce. Fight Tor that! Excuse
me, but it sounds like damned non
sense.”
“Well I suppose there has been, and
is, a good deal of corruption at the
polls, but this wholesome business at
Washington is no small matter. It is
an abandonment of the whole Govern
ment.
“Not at all, not at all. We have the
House. In less than a year we shall
have the Senate, and the swindle will
so mark these men that they wifi go
under forever, and the Republican party
with them. No, no, no fighting. I’d
rather they put in Hayes.”
“Do you think a row at Washington
would affect business much ?”
“Ruin us—ruin us, sir. What has
been done is bad enough, but fighting
would knock the bottom out; and here,
just as we are going to have an Euro
pean warjthat would set us on our feet
again. An ! it is too bad, too bad.”
“I think you exaggerate the conse
quences. The fight wouldn’t last over
ninety days—”
“My God; ninety days ! Ninety days!
Why, do jou know that we are holding
matured Government paper amounting
to millions, afraid to put in on the
market for fear of a panic ? And you
talk of ninety days’ fighting at Wash
ington ! Don’t; it makes ran sick—lt
destroys my appetite.”
This tells the whole story. If the
Democrats tamely submit capital goes
over to the victor, let him be pure or
corrupt. If the Democracy make a
fight capital will go hack on the Re j
publicans. Now let us take our choice.
A “shrinage of value” is the thing that
will break them. Lot us have a shrink
aze. - t
WELD RED’S PREDICAMENT. j
He Had Rather Hard Luck in Betting
on “The Result”—Nothing to Wear.
[Danbury News.)
Perhaps no one took more interest
in the late election than Mr. Weldred,
of Danbury. He is a yoimg married
man with a lovely wife and a bright,
handsome child. For weeks before the
election he scarcely remained in his at
tractive home long enough to get bis
meals. Every hour he spared from
his work and necessary sleep was de
voted to his club-room, street discus
sions and newspapers. Iu fact, so well
posted was ho determined to be that
he availed himself of every scrap of in
formation bearing on the campaign.
Mr. Weldred not only desired to inform
himself on political principles, that
he might vast his ballot in a con
scientious manner, but he wanted
also to post himself thoroughly on
the state of the canvass, that he
might better himself in a peeu
niary way. Mr. Weldred is not a
moneyed man. but he had a good ward
robe, and he felt safe in taking certaiu
bets. He had $lO, all bis ready cash,
on tho result in Danbury. He bet it
woull go Republican, aud was so sure
j of winning that he did not give the re
| suit a thought, only as it referred to
his disposition of the man’s money.
The result at night came upon him like
j a thunderclap from a clear sky. In ad
! dition to the loss of the money, irritat
ing enough ia itself* came the jibes of
friends. Mr. Weldred, who anticipated
so much and realized so little, lost the
| balance of his judgment, and talked
and acted in what has ultimately
proved a very extravagant manner.
With the $lO gone he waited for the
result from the State. The next morn
ing as he prepared to go down town,
he said to his wife:
“Maria, I must take my overcoat
with me.”
“How’s that?” she asked.
“Oh, the State wont Democratic, and
I bet the coat that it would go Repub
lican. I never saw such cussed luck.”
His wife sighed.
At noon he came in and said :
“Where’s them white cassimcres,
Maria: lowa has gone Republican,
gosh dum it.” *
And he marched off in a sombre man- j
ner with the white cassimeres.
The next day at noon he found a boy
sitting by the kitchen fire. His wife
said : “John, this is Mr. Marshall’s
boy. He is waiting to see you.” The
boy spoke up :
“Pa says Mr. Hawley was defeated
for Congress, and would you please let
me have your black pants?”
Mr. Weld red groaned as ho caught
the inquiring look in Mrs. Weldred’s
eye.
“Too true, Maria, too true,” he sigh
ed. “I must take off these breeches.
But I could not help it, I could a sworn
that General Hawley would a got it.”
And ho retired to change the gar
ment.
About 2 o’clock in the afternoon he
again made his appearance; he seemed
to be quite depressed.
“I’ll have to have that dress coat,
Maria,”he explainedjwith a dreamy sigh.
“Both Republican Representatives are
elected in Ridgefield, and Bangs will
wear that ooat after this.”
Mr. Bangs, who was waiting outside
in a wagon, got the coat and departed,
and Mr. Weldred returned down town
with a sickening pain in his heart.
There was nothing new at night. But
the next day, when he came home at
noon, he electrified his wife by gloom
ily observing:
“It is perfectly devilish! My best
pair of boots and that plush vest swept
away by ludiana’s majority,’'
“My goodness I” ejaculated the un
happy woman in despair.
“I help it,” he protested, “I
could ’a sworn on my dying bed that
Tilden wouldn’t’a got 1,000 majority io
Indiana. I believe the world is bottom
side up, and every man is either a liar
or a lunatic/’
“Oh, John!” she said, “how could
you be so rash ? You won’t have a rag
on your back by the time this dreadful
election is over.”
“Nor much to speak of on my legs,”
he gloomily rejoined. “By George!
I’ll have to cover myseir with shellac if
this infernal luck follows me to the end
—that is, if there’ll oe enough of me
left to put shellac on. But I won’t be
bluffed down,” he impetuosly added,
“if I have to commence on my limbs,
and eventually bet my liver, I’ll win
yet.”
“lon ain’t got anything more bet, I
hope?” she asked in a voice of appre
hension.
“Yes,” ho sighed, "there’s this coat
and vest,” indicating the articles he
wore, “on Louisiana, and the pants on
Florida.” He sighed drearily and sank
into a chair. Then he said, in a voice
whose quiveriDg he vainly strove to
conceal: "If Tilden loses the election
I’ve got to wheel McGlellaud, tho bar
ber, the whole length of Main street,
and if Hayes win South Carolina I’ll
have to do it barefooted and barehead
ed. If South Carolina is all right,
however,” he added, more cheerfully,
“I can have my underclothes on when
I wheel him.”
Mr. Weldred’s live interest in the
general result is not assumed.
THE WEATHEM.
Speech or Mark Twain.
S. L Clemens (Mutk Twain) respond
ed to the following toast :
The Oldest Inhabitant—The Weather.
Who hath lost anti doth forget it ?
Wh > h ith it still and do'Ji regret it ?
‘ Interpose b twi<t us 1 train ”
—[Merchant of Venice.
I reverently believo that the Maker
who made us all makes every thing in
New England but the weather. I don’t
know who makes that, but I think It
must be raw apprentices In the weather
clerk’s factory who experiment and
how, in New England for board
and clothes, and then are promoted to :
make weather for countries that re- i
quire a good article, and will take their
custom elsewhere if they don’t get it. i
[Laughter.] There is a sumptuous
variety about the New England weather
that com pel's the stranger’s admiration
—and regret. [Laughter.J Tne weather
is always doing something there ; !
always attending strictly to busi- \
ness ; always getting up new
designs, and trying them on the
people to see how they will go.
| Laughter.] But it gets through more
business in spring than in any other
season. In the spring I have counted
one hundred and thirty-six different
kinds of weather inside of four-and
twenty hours. [Laughter.] It was I
that made the fame and fortune of that j
man that had that marvellous collec
tion of weather on exhibition at the
Centennial, that so astounded the for
eigners. He was going to travel all
world .and get specimens from
it, yon cotoe W -■j, jOon’t you do
favorable spring day. 1 torn mm
what we could do, in the way of style,
variety and quality. [laughter.| Well,
he came, and ho made his collection in
four days. As to variety! Why, he
confessed that he got hundreds of
kinds of weather that he had never
heard of before. And as to quantity !
Well, after he had picked out and dis- j
carded all that was blemished in any
way, he not only had weather enough, i
but weather to spare ; weather to hire
out; weather to sell ; weather to de
posit ; weather to invest; weather to
give to the poor. [Laughter and ap
plause.] Tne people of New Eng
land are by nature patient
and forbearing ; but there are*
some tilings which they will not>
stand. Every year they kill a lot of
poets for writing about “Beautiful
Spring.” | Laughter.] These are gen
erally casual visitors, who bring their !
notions of spring from somewhere else, ■
and caunot, of course, know how the '
f natives feel about spring. And so, the !
first thing they know the opportunity :
1 to inquire how they feel has perma-
I hently gone by. [Laughter.] Old Prob- i
1 abilities has a mighty reputation for
accurate prophecy, and thoroughly
well deserves it. You take up the pa
per and observe how crispy and confi
dently he checks off what to-day’s
weather is going to be on the Pacific,
1 down South, in the Middle States, jn
j the Wisconsin region—see him sail
j along in the joy and pride of his power
| till he gets to New England—and then
! see his tail drop. He doesn’t know
what the weather is going to be in New
Eugland. He can’t any more tell than
he can tell how many Presidents of the
United States there’s going to be next
year. [Applause.] Well, he mulls over
it and by and by he gets out something
like this: Probable nor east to sou
west winds, varying to the south’ard
and west’ard and east’ard and points
between; high and low barometer swap
ping around from place to place; prob
able areas of rain, snow, hail and
drought, succeeded or preceded by
earthquakes, with thunder and light
ning. [Loud laughter and applause.]
Then he jots down this postscrip from
his wandering mind, to cover accidents:
"But it is possible that the programme
may be wholly changed in the mean
j time.” [Loud laughter.]
! Yes, one of the brightest gems in the
Now England weather is the dazzling
' uncertainty of it. Tnero is only one
thing certain about it; you are certain
there is going io be plenty of weather
[laughter]—a perfect grand review—
out you can never tell which end of
the procession is going to move first.
You fix up for the drought; you leave
your umbrella in the house and sally
out with your sprinkling-pot, and ten
to one you get drowned [applause];
you make up your mind that the earth
quake is done; you stand from under
and take hold of something to steady
yourself, and the first thing you know
you are struck by lightning. [Laugh
ter.] These are great disappointments,
but they can’t be helped. [Laughter.]
The lightning there is peculiar; it i3 so
convincing. When it strikes a thing it
doesn’t leave enough of that thing be
hind to tell whether—well, you’d think
it was something valuable and a Con
gressman had been there. [Loud
laughter and applause.] And the
thunder 1 When the thunder com
mences merely to tune up, and scrape,
and saw, aad key up the instruments
for the performance, strangers say,
“Why, what awful thunder you have
here.” But when the baton is raised
and the real concert begins, you’ll find
that stranger down in the cellar with
his head in the ash-barrel. [Daughter, j
Now as to the siso of the weather in
New England—lengthways, I mean.
It is utterly diaproportioned to the
siaeof that little country.
Half the time, when it is packed as fuh
as it can stick, you will aee that New
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR
England weather sticking out beyond
the edges, and projecting arouDd hun
dreds and hundreds of miles over the
neighboring States. [Laughter.J She
can t hold a tenth pare of her weather,
lou cau see tracks all about where she
has strained herself trying to do it.
[Laughter.] I could speak volumes
aoout the inhuman perversity of the
Aew England weather, but I will give
but a single specimen. I like to hear
rain on a tin roof. So I covered part
or my roof with tin, with an eye to
that luxury. Well, sir, do you think it
ever rains on that tin ? No, sir, skips
it every time. [Laughter.] Friends,
in this speech I have been trying mere
ly to do honor to the New England
weather. No language could do it jus
tice. [Laughter.] J
But after ail, tnere is at least one or
two things about that weather (or if
you please, effect produced by it), which
we residents would not like to part
with. [Applause.] if we hadn’t our
bewitching autumn foliage we should
"till have to credit the weather with
one feature which compensates lor all
its bullying vagories—the ice-storm—
when a leafless tree is clothed with ice
from the bottom to tho top—ice that is
as bright and clear as crystal; every
bough and twig is strung with ice
twigs, frozen dew-drops, and the whole
treesparkles cold and white like the
bhah of Persia’s diamond plume, f Ap
plause.] Then tho wind waves 1 tho
branchee, and the suu comes out ami
turns ail those myriads of heads and
drops to prisms, that glow and hum
i and II ish with all manuer of colored
fires, which change aud change a<;,ifn
with inconceivable rapidity—from Ciue
to red, from red to grecu and green to
gold—the tree becomes a sprayiug
fountain, a very explosion or dazzling
jewels; and it stands there the acme
the climax, tho supremest possibility’
In art or nuture, of bewildering, intoxi
cating, intolerable magnificence! One
cannot make the words too strong
I Long continued applause.] Month
arter month I lay up hate and grudge
aginnst the New England weather - but
when the ice-storm comes at last, I say,
Iheie— I forgive you now—the books
are square between us; you don’t owe
me a cent; go and sin no more; your
little faults and foibles count for noth
,n &—you are the most enchanting
weather in the world 1” [Applause and
laughter.]
GEORGIA NEWS.
The residence of W. W. Wrye of
Irwinton, with most of his furniture
was destroyed by fire a few nights ago!
Athens Georgian : A large and com
modious warehouse, and a superin
tendent’s office, are in progress of erec
tion at the Northwestern depot.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Con
stitution, writing Horn Cobb county
suggests ex-Governor Brown for Unit
ea States Senator.
Irwinton Southerner anif Appeal:
The colored people of Toomhsboro
were much frightened by a notice
posted on the depot building, that
in the event of the election or Tilden
the negroes would be forced to leave
the couutry.
.-aouatu, wnen jur. lie Vo tie arose to
dismiss his cofigregation, he remarked,
with deep feeling: “We will have no
service in our church to-night, but will
attend the farewell sermon of our dear
Brother Davies, at tho Methodist
Church. For two years our associa
tions have been pleasant. His prayers
and attentions in my afflictions will
never be forgotten. Our labors or love
together will now be severed. It is sad.
I request all my congregation to attend
the Methodist Church to-night.” This
is the spirit of Christ.
We get this item from the Constitu
tion : Governor Colquitt has received a
large number of applications for office.
He has only a few appointmens to make,
and ha3 not been inaugurated. The
run on him for office will b 6 as unpre
cedented as his majority was in the
late election. We find on file up to date
the following : For places in executive
department, 21; for State House guard,
1U; for superintendent public works, i(>;
for messenger executive department, 3;
for State libraiian, 39; for places’in
State asylum, 3; for inspectors of fer
tilizers, 12; for keeper of penitentiary,
2ti; f*r physician of penitentiary, 4; for
compiler of laws, 7; for attorney gen
eral, G; for solicitor general vaiious cir
cuits, 98; for Judge Supreme Court
various circuits, 24; for J udges Count y
Court, 12.
THE 11ADICAL SANTA CLAUS.
The Cherubic Kimpton Bounces Down
Chamberlain’s Chimney —. Nobody
Knows What he Brings in his Mys
terious Bag—Judge Carpenter u De
cide on Tuesday who is Governor -
The \S ork of the Congressional Com
mittee.
[Special to the News and Courier J
Columbia, Sunday Night, December
21-Diligent inquiry in official circles
fails to develop any change in tho
situation. The memorial to Congress
adopted by the Constitutional House
I of Representatives, has been forwarded
to Washington. There are no signs
yet of Chamberlain’s threatened pro
! clamation. Gen. Ruger is reported as
having romarkod that the Democrats
| had acted wisely in adjourning and in
| levying a voluntary tax. The proposi
tion for a compromise has assumed no
tangible chape.
A flutter of excitement was caused
j among t ie impecunious Radicals to
day by the arrival of Kimpton the ev
financial agent of the State. He spent
the day in consultation with several
prominent moneyed men, aud to-nicht
is closeted with Chamberlain at his
residence. He is to leave to-ni'ht for
, He is very reticent as to
the object or bis visit. The general
surmise is that he comes to furnish the
sinews of war to the Chamberlain gov
i ernment H he can see the way therein*
j to gening South Carolina cash for tho
■ mass of claims of various kinds which
i he holds.
Jude Carpenter yesterday appointed
Tuesday next for the hearing of the
argument in the Penitentiary case
brought about by Col. Parmele’s rX
sal to recognize a pardon issued by
Chamberlain Judge Carpenter savl
that he intends to decide who is G?v
ernor of South Carolina, so far as tkL
easels concerned. The ground taken
by the Superintendent of the Peniten
ttary is that Chamberlain is not the le
gal Governor of South Carolina, and
oannot, thereforo pardon a convict
The Congressional Committee' are
doinjj good work. Several additional
missing prec not returns have bm!
° tlier inaccuracies reported
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aotne Democrat, was destroyed by
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