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ESTABLISHED 1799.195™%™ 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the Secretary of State to the other members of the Canvassing Board to meet this morning tp ro canvass the returns, was withdrawn to day.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 - iOMt Kul; aotne Democrat, was destroyed by 1 SMP* "w*