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FRIDAY, MAY 7, I860.
The Queen has declined to let the
Priuce and Princess of Wales occupy
Windsor Castle during the Ascot races,
unless they will allbw her to revise the
list of their guests.
—General Roger A. Pryor, whose po
litical disabilities are removed by Con
gress, expects to run for Congress on
the Democratic ticket in Brooklyn next
fall.
—Mr. Waring, a recent candidate at an
^English election, adopted a neat mode of
stigmatizing an opponent. He asked those
he addressed what they called a man who
made such and such charges, knowing
them to be false. The response came
back: “A liar.” “Well,” said the candi
date, “I will not contradict yon.”
—The millers are now looking forward
to their international exhibition, to be
held this year in Cincinnati. They have
permission to enter foreign goods for ex
hibition free of duty at seven points on
the seaboard* and seven on the northern
frontier—duties to be paid if the goods
are afterward retained In the country for
consumption. This exhibition will be a
■ novelty in world’s fairs, ai d should at
tract at least a trade interest.
—A convict escaped from an Alabama
prison with a ball and chain attached to
■ one leg. He carried the irons in his arms
until he came to a river, when he sat
down to file them ofT. His pursuers came
up, and he was compelled to choose be
tween surrender and the forlorn hope of
swimming the stream with the weight.
He decided upon the latter, and plunged
into the water. Although he was a pow
erful swimmer, and had a plank to buoy
him, he was drowned.
—Victoria, Crown Princess of Germany,
who is an active sightseer, has been hav-
ing a happy visit in Rome. The Pope
commanded that every courtesy should be
offered to her in the Vatican galleries.
She dressed plainly and excited little ob
servation, preserving as much as possible
her incognito. She visited the Pantheon
during her explorations, and cansed a gar
land with the Prussian colors to be placed
on Victor Emanuel’s tomb.
—The Sovereign Count of Erbach-Er-
bacb, who claims descent from Charle
magne’s daughter Emma and her mid
night lover, Eginhard, has offered his hand
to a gardener’s daughter, Fraulein Luck of
Bessungen, near Darmstadt. His High
ness’s imperial ancestress, whose stone
coffin, in which she and her lowly-born
consort were interred together nearly
eleven centuries ago, is preserved in the
venerable castle o£ Erbach to the present
day, set ner descendants an example, by
herself contracting a morganatic mar
riage, which they have not proved remiss
in following.
—It is stated that the Dukes of West
minster -^and Devonshire, the Earl cf
Rosebery, and Mr. Samuel Morley con
tributed between them a quarter of a mil
lion of jiounds toward the promotion of
the Liberal cause. By all accounts the
outlay on the winning side was prodig
ious, but it was also well applied, for not
only was the organization in most of the
Liberal constituencies perfect, but, what
was more to the purpose, it was successful.
The talk about petitions is mere sound
and fury. Only eleven notices hare been
served, and not more than three of these
_ will be prosecuted,
—A number of horses were being con
veyed on the Columbia river boat when,
during a commotion among them, one was
kicked and had its leg broken. It was de
cided to kill the poor brute and put it out
of its misery. He was dispatched by an
axe in the hands of one of the employes
of the boat. The celebrated stallion,
Delaware, was quietly watching the move
ment, and just as the blow was struck he
gave a loud scream and fell backward
with a shower of blood streaming from
his nostrils. For upwards of three hours
his agonies were fearful, and it was
thought he would die, but he finally ral
lied and may recover.
—Jasper James Cargill, a student in
the California college, at Mendocino,
made a heavy wager that he could walk
and run COO miles in six days. He be
lieved that the plan usually adopted by
pedestrians, that of doing their utmost
during the first twenty-four hours, was a
mistake, because it brought about ex
haustion at the begginning of the journey.
His time table was for an even hundred
miles a day. He proved a wonderful
walker, and apparently demonstrated the
soundness of his theory. On each of the
first four days he covered exactly 100
miles, in an average of twenty hours. On
the fifth day, however, he fell ill, and was
compelled to stop. He intends to repeat
the experiment.
The Stour at Macon, Mississippi.—
A telegram of Monday, says there were
three more interments, to-day, from the
cyclone—one white‘and two colored.
Three others of the injured cannot live.
The relief and contribution committee
have gone to work. They issued an ap
peal to-day, for help from Mississippians,
a copy of which was telegraphed to the
boards of trade of Memphis, Mobile.
New Orleans, Nashville, St. Louis, Cin
cinnati, Louisville, and New York, where
it is cxpeqted aid will be rendered. Jack-
son, Mississippi, sent $240 by telegraph
The committee have in charge 72 wound
ed, and 324 destitute persons to provide
for. One hundred and thirty-four houses
and contents were destroyed. Donations
should be sent to Robert C. Patty, chair
man.
—^Whittaker’s case, says the World, is
likely, we fear, to bring out more pitiful
meanness and more shallow humbug of
various kinds from politicians and party
newspapers than anything which has hap
pened since the brazen age of reconstruc
tion in South Carolina and Louisiana.
Republicans in private and public life
who would no more think of asking a ne
gro to dinner than of asking their French
cooks to their tables, men who would
view with apprehension and alarm the
behavior of their sons if their sons chose
to associate with negroes, and who would
look with absolute horror on the beha
vior of their daughters if their daughters
chose to dance with negroes, are not
ashamed to put on airs of astonishment
as well as of indignation when they learn
that at West Point young white cadets,
who may at any time become the friends
of their sons or the suitors of their daugh
ters, decline tq associate with colored ca
dets outside the lines of military and
academic duty. Senator Hoar shamed liis
education and liis name by simulating
hysterics on the subject when tbe Whitta
ker case was first reported. ° *" 1
The Presidential Situation.
In the Herald 1 * review of the Republi
can situation on Thursday, that paper
thinks Grant- is constantly increasing his
distance ahead of Blaine, and, of course,
ahead of all the subordinate competitors.
Up to the beginning of last week Grant
had 220 delegates, and to these he has
added considerably, while the bulk of the
delegates nominally for Sherman and Ed
munds will be really for Grant so soon
as they find he has a majority of the whole
convention. None of them are going over
to Blaine. The fact that not a solitary
Republican State convention has yet made
a single declaration against the third term,
although all were unanimous against it
four years ago, shows that they read the
handwriting on the wall. They anticipate
Grant’s success and dare not put them
selves outside the pale of mercy.
On the whole, it is very clear that
Grant and the third term are “a march
ing on,” like old John Brown, s® far as
the Chicago convention is concerned.
The chances of a dark horse in the case
are very small. We doubt not one of the
chief charms of the third term movement
to the men wh® have it in charge is its
very revolutionary character. It is so
averse in its spirit and essence to the old
traditions and usages—to a limited, con
stitutional and popular government—so
bold, imperial and defiant of all piece-
dent, and promises them such a sweep of
power, influence and emolument, that
they are fairly carried away with it, even
more than in the beginning, and with
their imperial chieftain they count upon
nothing but trampling all opposition un-
aer foot with perfect ease. It is dazzle
and glory against sober common sense
and popular self respect—against histori
cal reverence and patriotism—against all
the warnings of the past and the sober
hopes of the future.
As an example, too, of what a few
leaders can effect against the sober judg
ment ot the people, through mere party
machinery, it will be grand and glorious,
in the opinion ofthese engineers. No one
in his senses can doubt that of the mil
lions of American voters the majority
against the third term proposition is very
large. But these leaders expect to carry
it with case, largely through party dis
cipline—largely through sectional dislike,
and largely through the popular enthusi
asm for a military chieftain. The time
presents such a favorable conjunction of
events for revolutionizing the character of
the government as may never occur again.
Hence, as the decisive moment ap
proaches, all the hollow play of Ctesar
pushing aside the offered purple is dropped
Once in a while an attempt is made to
revive doubt about the earnestness of
Grant’s demand for a reinvestment of the
Presidency, but these shows are becomini
more and more sickly every day. It was
said in the outset that he would not con
test for the nomination—that it must be
a gushing and spontaneous tender by his
party. It is now one of the most thor
ough-going dragonnades by party ma
chinery that was ever seen or thought of.
Grant will be nominated practically by
small minority of his party, and against
the judgment, will and consent of a large
majority of it.
What is to follow? The. majority
threaten a third candidate; but that will
avail for nothing more than the display of
their own imbecility. Their third candi
date, if run, would not take an electoral
vote. The best chance of defeating the
third term lies in the nomination by the
Democracy of a candidate who can con
center the entire Democratic vote, and
yet stands so fair as a man that he will
receive the support of such sober and pru
dent Republicans as would take him as a
choice of evils against imperialism and
political revolution. This may defeat the
third term. But whoever looks for any
extensive demoralization of the Republi
can party on the third term proposition
will be disappointed.
CoL James H. Blount. | Don’t Like to be Taken at Their
Whether or not our able member in Word.— 1 The Philadelphia Times says:
Congress consents to allow the use of his Every night scores of tramps are lodged
name before the people for further service in Camden City Hall. They tell
in the national councils, the demonstration ( the old story of ceaseless but vain efforts
of his immediate friends and neighbors on to obtain employment. Yesterday morn-
Friday night must be peculiarly grateful ing the lodgers appeared surprised when
to him. It was the spontaneous outburst. the janitor told where they could find the
of the popular will, without dictation or much desired work. Messrs. Wood &
solicitation—the practical rendering of the
A Rake Sight.—It is not often over
ripe cucumbers, yellow and full grown,
are seen in this market on the first of May.
But such is the case. And that shows the
climatic advantage enjoyed by the South
over our Arctic fellow citizens north of
Mason and Dixon’s line. True, these cu
cumbers were not grown here, but an abun
dance of them maybe found in Brunswick,
Bainbridge, Thomasville and other places
south of this. Verily, if Georgia would
devote less of her energies to the raisin
of cotton, and display more attention in
the cultivation of sugar cane, rice, arrow-
root, the tea plant, wine growing, and the
production of early fruits, vegetables and
melons for the Northern market, her
people would be much more independent
and happy.
California fob Blaine.—Among
the surprises is the declaration of Califor
nia for Blaine; or, better stated, it would
be a complete surprise but for the lessons
taught in the pranks with public opinion
performed by the politicians in New York,
Pennsylvania and Georgia. In these
States the power of the machine to defy
public opinion has been amply illustrated,
Hence the result in California, where
pretty much all is for Grant and the third
term. California is made to declare for
Blaine.
—Archbishop Purcell said, in a recent
sermon at Cincinnati: “I now solemnly
declare before Almighty God and this
congregation that not one dollar of the
money that was intrusted to my care was
lavished in luxury by myself or agents, or
expended in any manner for our personal
benefit; and no matter how unworthily I
may appear in your eyes, I humbly ask
that you pray to Almighty God for me.”
His health has been very bad sincp the
'financial disaster in his diocese.
Rev. A. J. Battle, D. D., has been
appointed to deliver the annual baccalau
reate sermon at the next commencement
of tbe State University at Athens. He
will more than realize the expectations of
the Athenians, and the public may expect
a treat at the hands of this pious and elo
quent divine.
Storms in South Carolina.—Torna
does on the 29th ult. are chronicled in
Columbia and Summerton in South Caro
lina. Houses, cabins, chimneys, bridges
and fences were knocked abdbt in a pro
miscuous fashion, but no loss of life is re
ported in either place. The greatest
damage- was to . the crops, gardens and
fruit trees.
Cool Weather.—Saturday morning
Senator Alii- | the mercury in Macon showed 46. Frost
son made himself ridiculous yesterday by j j s reported in the lowlands of the vicin-
proposing to compel the President to ap-, j t y_ ^ reported cn the same day
dets-afr large*^wtK)m°bc °L authored To along the Hudson and.snow on the Cats-
send to West Point.
kills.
verdict, “Well done, thou good and faith
ful servant.”
It does not become public journalists
and news carriers to assume the role dic
tatorial, and pronounce who should be
the office bearers of-the country, for that
is the prerogative of the people in their
primary assemblages. But aside from all
political complications, and speaking from,
the present standpoint of Col. Blount’s
retirement,: we feel it to be not only a
duty but privilege, to bear testimony to
his eminent services and untiring indus
try in behalf not only of his constituents,
but of all the people of Georgia, during a
protracted stewardship of eight years.
In his deportment Colonel Blount is
modest and unassuming—so much so that
to the stranger he may be thought to be
wanting in personal magnetism. But
place him in the business arena where
great questions are involved and must be
passed upon, and the innate powers and
honesty and bull-dog resolution of the
man become grandly prominent. No rep
resentative in Congress was ever more
diligent and faithful in the discharge of his
duty.
Persistently and admirably has he
fought tne extravagances of a Radical
Congress, from his commanding position
as second, and for a portion of the time
chairman of the committee on appropria
tions, exposing their wicked inwardness,
and saving millions of dollsus to the tax
payers of the country. Cool, self-possessed
and sagacious, he has pursued the even
tenor of his way, rarely failing in any of
his well conceived plans, and steadily
winning the confidence and support of the
representatives of the whole Union. At
this time he is confessedly the peer in in-
fluerce and usefulness of any of his asso
ciates, and has greatly endeared himself
to the people of his own district by his.
unwearied efforts to promote their inter-
i. This much we have the right to af-
Co., proprietors of the Cooper’s Point dry
docks, being in need of about fifty labor
ers sent word to the City Hall that they
would hire the tramps. Growling and
grumbling were the only responses, and
mutterings to the effect that “this, is a
free country, and people could do as
they pleased,” were heard. Not a single
tramp availed himself of the opportunity.
Waycross- Connection.—The survey
ing corps of the new line between Way-
cross, on the Savannah, Florida and Wes
tern Railroad, ninety miles from Savan
nah, to Jacksonville, Florida, have located
the line as far as Calalian on the Transit
Railroad, and the surveyors are at
wOrk beyond that point, and Jacksonville
will soon be reached. The whole route
will be easily constructed, there being no
serious obstacles in the way. The high
price of materials will delay the work
somewhat.
—A candidate for the office of recorder
of Jasper county, Ohio, solicited votes on
the ground that, if elected, he would re
turn half his salary to the public treasury.
He was ^elected, but the Supreme Court
has declared the election void, because
the inducement that he offered to voters
was in the nature of a bribe. ■ *.
firm, and the most pronounced opponent
of Colonel Blount cannot gainsay the
truth of the above statements.
Now let the people of the sixth district
declare in convention who shall bear
their standard in the ensuing Congres
sional campaign, and whether it be Col
onel Blount, or any other of our patriotic
citizens, we pledge him an earnest and
enthusiastic support.
In this connection we reproduce the
following from our contemporary, the At-
tlanta Constitution:
Nearly one thousand of the best citizens
of Macon have signed their names to a
call for a meeting to be held in that city
last night, the purpose of which was to
protest against the refusal of Mr. Blount
to again become a candidate for Con
gress. This is a matter that may natur
ally be presumed to interest only the citi
zens of the sixth district, but so far as
Mr. Blount’s re-election is concerned it is
a question of interest to Georgia, to the
South, and to the whole country. Mr.
Blount is perhaps the most useful mem
ber of Congress that has been sent to
Washington since the war, and this fact is
recognized on all hands; so that the ques
tion of his re-election is not merely _ a lo
cal or sectional matter, nor a question of
personal preference, nor a question of pol
itics^ It is a matter of business'. We
have no idea that the people of the sixth
district will allow the country to be de
prived of Mr. Blount’s services.
—The Japan Gazette says: “A few
days ago some Japanese fishermen cap
tured an immense crab in a net at Cape
Idzu. They brought it to Yokohama,
and it was purchased from them by Mr.
Pagdon, whose premises have been con
stantly besieged by persons anxious to see
the sea monster. The front pair of legs
of this crab measure twelve feet from tip
to tip, and are double-jointed; the other
eight are much smaller. From the front
to the back of the carapax the animal
measures sixteen inches, and across the
carapax twelve inches. In 1871 a very
large crab was caught and brought to
Yokohama, but since that time until the
present we believe that none of extraor-
dinaiy size had been captured. The lar
gest specimen of a crab known is in the
British Museum, and measures eighteen
feet from the tip of one claw to the tip of
another.”
Germany on Bi-metalism.—.The
London Times of Wednesday in its finan
cial article says: “A statement to the ef
fect that leading German statesmen are
highly favorable to bi-metalism is publish
ed in the Paris Bourse. If it be well
founded, the German government appears
to have at length realized what was pre
dicted from the first, that in her existing
commercial position, Germany is incapa
ble of maintaining a single gold standard.
The Paris Bourse says the leading men of
Germany had been won over to the cause
of bi-metalism, not through conviction
but necessity, and that the advocates of
the new plan for an international agree
ment on a common basis include Yon
Kardoroff, Yon Merback and Schorle-
meralst. We (the Times) have no sympa
thy with their dreams of uniform ratio
between gold and sliver, which js about
as reliable as a uniform ratio between
cheese and com, but the fact of an agita
tion having arisen in any shape for the re
habilitation of silver in Germany is too
significant to bo overlooked.”
25th.
—Mr. William Huntley, a pupil of
George Stephenson, has just died in Eng
land, at the age of 82. He erected the
first locomotive engine that drew a pas
senger train, under Stephenson’s personal
superintendence, and had the honor of
working it with him on the memorable
27th of September, 1825, the first day that a
train passed over the Stockton and Dar
lington railway.
Ever since Eve’s.incautious experience
in the Garden of Eden, babies have been
the institution. Petted by men and loved
by women, their baby life would be an
absolutely happy existence, but for those
evidences of mortality exhibited in colic,
flatulency, etc.—all happily relieved at
once, however, by the prompt ^ use of Dr.
Bull’s Baby Syrup.
It is a sad ending to the history of the
lake Huron life-saving crew, that has
done such good service in the past, that
all should be drowned in another effort to
saTe the lives of imperilled seamen. They
have died in action, and their families
should be cared for by the government as
generously as the dependent relatives of
soldiers killed or wounded in the service.
A Self-Levelling Steamer Berth.
—The Hudson self-levelling berth, says
the New York World, was exhibited yes
terday on board of the steamer City of
Alexandria, which has just arrived from
Havana after having carried General
Grant and his party to Mexico. Mr.
John Bigelow, General E. A. Merritt,
General C. K. Graham, Mr. Clark Bell,
Mr. Gustav Schwab, Mr. JohnG. Dale,
Mr. R. J. Cortis, Mr. Austin Baldwin, Mr.
F. W. J. Hurst, Mr. Lester Wallack, Mr.
George Clark, Mr. Jordan L. Mott, Mr. J.
Nelson Tappan and others were present.
The bed used by Colonel Fred Grant was
exhibited. The bed is set at its centre on
a universal joint, and on the outside is
fastened to the deck by a rubber spring to
counteract the motion of the Tessel, so
that no matter how much she^ may roll or
pitch the bed remains level. Mr. De
Young, the agent, said that the beds had
been very successful so far. Messrs.
Alexandre * Son owned the exclusive
right to use them between this port and
Havana and Mexico. They have, how
ever, been fitted in many of' the transat
lantic lines, notably the Cunard and In
man. '■ ‘‘t»
From a telegram of Friday night it will
Congress.
Washington, D. C., April 29.—In the
Senate, Mr. Withers presented the peti
tion of the Moore Iron Company, of Vir
ginia, for the passage of the Eaton tariff
commission bill.
Mr. Jonas, of Louisiana, introduced a
bill extending the operations of the light
house board to the lower Red river in
Louisiana.
On motion of Mr. Harris, of Tennessee,
the joint resolution authorizing the Presi
dent to call an international sanitary con
ference at Washington, was taken up and
psssedt
The Senate then resumed the consider
ation of the bill establishing a retired list
for non-commissioned officers,but without
action thereon, passed, at the expiration
of the morning hour, to the consideration
of the Indian appropriation bill. The
amendment striking out the clause which
abolished the Indian commission, was
agreed to. After separate votes upon
some other unimportant amendments, the
bill was passed.
Adjourned.
In the House, the Speaker announced
the appointment of Mr. T. Humphrey, of
Mississippi, as a member of the commit
tee on the Mississippi levee3, vice Mr.
Carswell, of Wisconsin, resigned.
On motion of Mr. Money, of Mississip
pi, the Senate amendments to the post
route bill were concurred in, and the
House went into committee of the whole
on the bill amending the internal reve
nue laws. A number of amendments to
exempt from taxation small quantities of
spirits distilled from apples, peaches, etc.,
were rejected. In the course of the de
bate Mr. Voorliis, of New York, read an
extract from the Washington Republican,
relative to outrages committed by moon
shiners in Georgia.
Mr. Cook, of Georgia, emphatically de
nied that any such state of affairs existed
in Georgia as was represented by the ex
tract.
Several amendments to the bill were
agreed tt>, with the understanding that
they should be voted on in tbe House.
Without disposing of the bill the commit
tee rose, and the House took a recess till
7:30, the evening session to be for the
consideration of the bill establishing i
court of pensions. x
Washington, April 30.—In the Sen
ate, Mr. Butler moved that when, the Sen
ate adjourn to-day it be to meet on Mon
day next. Agreed to.
Speaker Randall was in the chair when
the House met.
Mr. Ballou, of Rhode Island, from the
committee on education and labor, report
ed back the bill to constitute a commission
to report on the amendment of the orthog
raphy of public documents. Referred to
committee of the whole.
Mr. King of Louisiana, gave notice that
he would on next Wednesday call up for
consideration the resolutions reaffirming
tbe Monroe doctrine.
Washington, April 30.—After the
transaction of some unimportant routine
business, the Senate resumed the consid
eration of the bill to establish a retired
list for non-commissioned officers. The
pending question was on Mr. Allison’s
amendment to direct the President to ap
point annually two colored cadets-at-large,
to West Point. After considerable dis
cussion, the morning hour expired with
out action on the bill or amendment, and
the Senate proceeded to consider the
naval appropriation bill, which, without
debate, was read the thud time and
passed.
The Senate then took up the regular or
der, which was the Kellogg-Spofford
resolution.
M. Vance, of North Carolina, spoke in
support of the resolutions, but at 3:15
suspended his remarks, and the Senate
adjourned oh account of the funeral of
D. W. Middleton, which was about to
take place from the Capitol.
In the House, Mr. Singleton, of Missis
sippi, from the committee on appropria
tions, reported back the consular and dip
lomacy bill, with Senate amendments.
The amendments increasing the appropri
ation for consular clerks, cad the amend
ment to defray the expenses of the diplo
matic commission to China were con
curred in, but the other amendments were
not. «
Tbe House then went into committee of
the whole on the private calendar, and
when the committee rose, the House
passed a number of pension bills and
bill for the relief of Charles Chuton, of
New Orleans. The bill for the relief of
L. Madison Day, of Louisiana, was de
feated by 60 £o 02, but the point of no
quorum was raised, and the vote is not
final. Adjourned.
Washington, May 1.—In the nouse
a bill was passed for the relief of Notre
Dame College, Indiana.
Mr. Scales, of North Carolina, chairman
of the committee on Indian affairs, report
ed a bill to accept and ratify an agreement
submitted by the confederated Ute In
dians, for the sale-of their reservation
in Colorado, which was printed and r&
committed.
On motion of Mr. Price, of Iowa, a bill
passed providing that the oath or affirma
tion verifying the returns made by nation
al. banks, may be taken before notaries
public.
destitute by the cyclone of April
Adopted.
The Speaker proceeded to call the com
mittees for reports. Mr. Blackburn; from
the committee on appropriations, reported
the post-office appropriation bill, which
was ordered printed and recommitted.
The bill recommends the appropriation
o, $38,600,000. Mr. Blackburn gave notice
that he would call it up for consideration
on Tuesday next.
The House, then, at 1:55, went into
committee of the whole on the bill
amending the internal revenue laws, the
pending amendment being that offered by
McKenzie of Kentucky, providing that
producers of leaf tobacco shall be al
lowed, without the payment of a tax, to
sell leaf tobacco to other than licensed
dealers, manufactures or exporters—pro
vided they do not sell exceeding one
thousand dollars in any one year. Ruled
out on a point of order.
Mr. Knott of Ky., offered an amend
ment providing that suh-section 2, of sec
tion 3,244, of the revised statutes, which
requires a tax of fifty dollars on each still
manufactured, shall not apply to distill
ers who manufacture for their own use
wooden stills. Adopted.
Mr. Singleton, of Illinois, offered an
amendment providing that nothing con
tained in this act shall be construed to
authorize any interference by the revenue
officers with the exercise of the right of
every individual to manufacture and con
vert fruits grown on his own land into
such form for family use as he may desire
free from internal revenue tax. After
some discussion. the amendment was re
jected by 66 to 84.
The committee rose and reported the
bill and amendments to the House. Mr.
Butterworth spoke in favor of the bill.
Mr. Conger opposed it.
Mr. Carlisle, who had charge of the
bill, yielded the floor to Mr. Garfield,
who said he wished to call the attention
of the House and country to a matter
which related closely to the work of the
committee on ways and means, and es
pecially to himself, which was a specimen
ofthe way in which public opinion was
manufactured. “I hold in my hand,” he
said, “a paper, about forty copies of
which have come to me in the last five or
six days, and I will read the heading of
it:
“ ‘To the Editor: We are requested by
the publishers of several New York dai
lies, as well as by manufacturers of pa
per, to enclose to you the paragraphs
written below. Your own interests will
dictate what further use, if any, you will
make of the suggestion it contains. We
have no particular interest except to serve
our friends, publishers of newspapers in
this and other cities.
‘George P. Rowell,
‘New York, April 21,18S0.’
“Below is a card, the substance of which
is, that the committee on ways and means
are preventing the people from having
reading matter cheap, by preventing any
reduction in, or any action of the House
on the subject of reducing the cost of
printing paper; and which concludes
with the statement that Representative
Garfield is the powerful champion of
monopolies, and that, with his opposition
withdrawn the restitution of wood pulp
to the free list, would be accomplished in
a few days. I am told that 9,000 -copies
of this slip have been sent to editors of
various newspapers. The firm that sends
it professes to know nothing of the truth
of what it states. It does not give the
name of anybody who asks
to have it sent out, but says certain pub
lishers ofNew York dailies and certain
paper manufacturers have requested it to
do so.
‘Without vouching for its accuracy, or
without pretending to know' anything
about it, this firm has sent out to 9,000
newspapers this charge against the com
mittee on ways and means, joining it
with the charge that I hold, as it were,
the casting vote in the committee, and
that I by my single vote prevent action by
the committee and by this House. I give
that as a specimen of the way in which
opinions as to public men and measures
are manufactured in the United States.
Probably 5,000 newspapers have come to
me containing this editorial. Not for
inyself, but for the cause of general truth,
I ask the attention of this House to this
method of manufacturing public opinion,
and for the sake of saying that if the peo
ple ofthe United States can be led to be
lieve that a minority of five in a com
mittee of thirteen, and I, as one
of that minority of five, hold
the casting vote in that -committee, and
for six or eight weeks have prevented a
report on that subject, of course that is an
item of news that the country ought to
have. Every member of that committee
knows the statement in that circular is
absolutely false, without one touch
of foundation. E^ery member of the
committee knows it, and yet not a day
passes in which dozens and hundreds of
additional newspapers do not repeat the
charge with all the iteration of circum
stances. I say for myself, furthermore,
that it is perfectly well known that I have,
by several of ray votes shown myself en-
H0N. J. H. BLOUNT.
THE PEOPLE SAY HE MUST 00
BACH.
Grand Mass Meeting at the Court
House.
PASSING EMPHATIC RESOLUTIONS
Bon. Cllibrd Anderson Reviews the
Post and Prophesies the Future.
tirely willing for weeks that this subject
should be brought to the House by itself.
The only question was whether it should
be brought in as a separate bill or not.”
Mr. Frost, of Missouri—“Is the gentle
man in favor of or opposed to free paper?’
Mr. Garfield—>‘I .cannot tell what has
taken place in the committee. Protected
articles on the tariff list average about
forty-five per cent, ad valorem. The duty
on paper pulp and printing paper is
twenty per cent, less than half the average
duty on all protected articlcsjbut, because
this’brings but small revenue, I am, for
one, willing to reduce the tax just as low
as it can be reduced without absolutely
dcstroving and crippling American indus
tries. 'Below that 1 am not willing to go
for any amount of clamor from any part
ofthe world.”
The discussion here closed, and a vote
being taken in Conger’s amendment, pro
viding that in case of non-payment of tax
on any distilled spirits within one year
from date of the original warehousing
bond, interest shall accrue on such tax at
the rate of five per. cent, it was rejected—
yeas 58,‘nays 101. The bill then went
over without filial action, and at 4:45 p.
in. the house adjourned.
Washington, May 1.—A caucus of
Republican Senators was held this after
noon for the purpose of interchanging
views on the adjournment question. No
caucus action was proposed or taken, but
an entire unanimity of sentiment was de
veloped in favor of co-operating with
what is understood to be the purpose of
the Democratic leaders to bring about a
final adjournment of the present session
of Congress by the first of June. The
general impression seemed to be that in
case the session he not ended before the
Republican national convention on the
second of June, there will be a strong
probability of its being prolonged for
sometime beyond the adjournment ofthe
Democratic convention in Cincinnati.
Washington, May 1.—The House
committee on coinage, weights and meas
ures had under further consideration to
day, the question of the location of branch
mints somewhere in the valley of the
Mississippi.
Representative Willis, of Kentucky, a
member ofthe committee, was heard at
some length in behalf of the claims of
Louisville, during which some general ex
pressions ofthe committee were given, in
which it was apparent that a majority of
those present were in favor of the estab
lishment of at least two additional new
mints. After the conclusion of Mr. Wil
lis’ remarks the committee adjourned un-
til Monday.
The bill introduced in the House by
Representative Casey Young, of Tennes
see, providing for a marine hospital at
Memphis, and which came from the Senate
with slight amendments, finally passed the
House to-day. It appropriate $30,000 to
purchase a site and erect buildings.
Representative Tucker, of Virginia,
chairman of the subcommittee of
seven of the ways and means committee,
will on Tuesday present to the full com
mittee a tariff bill for their action.
Among the articles which it is proposed
to place on the free list are wood pulp,
chrome iron or®, rags, salt, halter chains,
and various manufacture* of iron which
enter into the composition of agricultural
I implements, books and magazines,
Yesterday on the streets the mass meet
ing was the topic of general conversation.
The long list of names attached to the.
call represented the most prominent and
inflrential citizens, and many regrets
were expressed by those who had no op-
opportunity to sign or previous knowledge
of the movement, that their names did
not appear. By an accident one entire
list, containing more than two hundred
signatures, failed to be handed in at this
office and no record of the signers was ob
tained.
About half past seven o’clock the bras s
band began to play in front of the court
house, and soon were assembled in the
superior court room, a dense throng of
voters, met together, in the language of
the paper of yesterday, “to take such ac
tion regarding the re-election of J. H.
Blount as should to them seem proper.”
The meeting was opened hy Mr. J. F.
Hanson, who proposed that Colonel L. N.
Whittle should 'be called to the chair.
The motion met with a second, and was
carried amidst applause. Mr. R. A Nisbet
was then made secretary. Colonel Whit
tle in assuming control of the meeting,
stated that he felt honored in being cho
sen to preside over a meeting called for
so important a puipose. He stated that
the object ofthe meeting was to make Col
onel J. H. Blount, the Congressional rep
resentative from the Sixth district, recon
sider his published intention of retiring.
Colonel Whittle stated that he himself
was in thorough sympathy with the meet
ing.
Mr. M. R. Rogers moved that a commit
tee of five be appointed to prepare business
for the meeting. On motion of Mr. A. W.
Gibson, Mr. Rogers’ motion was amended
so as to read fifteen. The motion to amend
was seconded and carried. The chair then
appointed the following gentlemen to act
upon the committee:
M. R. Rogers, chairman; W. H. Ross,
J. F. Hanson, George S. Jones, N. M.
Solomon, Alex. Reynolds, C. D. Findlay,
T. B. Gresham, D.M. Gugel, J. H. Hertz,
John Dempsey, F. A. Schodeman, T. L.
Massenburg, B. L. Willingham, R. H.
Plant.
While the committee was in consultation
in the office ofthe Judge of the Superior
Court, loud cries of Anderson! Anderson!!
Anderson!!! were heard throughout the
hall, and Hon. Clifford Anderson respond
ed by coming to the front. Judge An
derson said that it had been a long time
since he had been called upon to speak
on any other than a legal question, and
that he felt out of place when called upon
to address a political meeting; that
though, it was true he was speaking in
the court house, yet, still there was no
case being tried; that the wish of the peo
ple was undoubtedly that Honorable
J. H. Blount, the present representative
in Congress, should be relumed to his
seat. He declared himself entirely in
sympathy with the movement, saying that
when a good man had been placed in
office, tried, true and experienced, there
should be no change. All this Mr. Blount
had been. That when Blount first was
elected he had been his supporter. Though
comparatively unknown he had soon
made for himself a name in the county,
State, and throughout the country, as
a faithful and useful man. No constitu
ents have ever had a better leader than
him who now represents the 6th district,
That he knew him as a soldier in the days
that tried men’s souls—a soldier faithful
and true, and conscientious in the dis
charge of his duty.
In every position he has preserved the
interests of the people and executed ev-
eiy trust placed in his keeping. He has,
perhaps, his reasons for withdrawal, but
unless they are of a providential charac
ter, he should be, must be summoned to
represent us again.
In the first place, he has the long ex
perience so necessary to his position; he
is industrious and thoroughly cognizant
with politics and the questions of the day.
It would be a misfortune not alone to his
State, but a national misfortune for him
to retire. This movement of his constitu
ents here, demands that he shall run
again, the people want him. [Applause.]
I have not been at all surprised at this
meeting, knowing him as well as I do,
believe all the people in the other coun
ties will come together, as you have done
to-night, and demand that he shall repre-
resent them again. He can
not decline—must not decline.
Though tox populi vox Dei be not strictly
true, the voice of the people is one thaj
cannot be disregarded or resisted. The
people should rise up en masse and send
him back, willing or unwilling. The
movement of to-day must have its effect;
he cannot turn a deaf ear to your call.
Other counties will respond to this, and
co-operate with you in sending him back.
No one, in any part of this district, can
say that he has not discharged his whole
duty; [applause], discharged it conscien
tiously and faithfully. Localfeelingsand
and political influences have been brought
to bear upon him in all parts of the dis
trict, but his course has been universally
approved. [Applause.] He is always in
his place working for the* people, looking
after their interests, and studying their
wants—truths which can be spoken of but
few. We have now in Congress an emi
nently useful man, and cannot afford to
see him retire. Let such a call go to him
that cannot be disregarded; let it come
from the hills and valleys of Georgia in
such a shout, as shall break forth and
reach him at Washington—a call that
tells him he shall be our standard bearer.
[Applause.] He will hear, and feel that
it is no time to falter, and his patriotism
will rise above all difficulties, and he will
again take his seat. [Applause.]
true, courageous, his object is to do right
and resist wrong. This'meeting*to-night is
the no bleact of noble men, and cannot but
fill his heart with surprise and pleasure,
encouraging him to go on in the earnest
discharge of his duty. Send out your
call; the people are not' tired. He must
be sent back.” [Applause.]
Judge Anderson’s impromptu speech
was received with the utmost enthusiasm,
and seemed to meet the views of the en
tire assembly. As he finished, the chair
man of the committee entered and read
the following resolutions, which were
passed unanimously and ordered printed
in the Telegraph and Messenger,
and a copy forwarded to Mr. Blount:
Besolved, That we have read with sur
prise and regret the communication re
cently published by the Hon. James H.
Blount, announcing his purpose not to be
a candidate for re-election to Congress.'
Besolved, That, we earnestly protest
against his withdrawal from.# a position
which he has filled for nearly eight years
with marked ability, and to the entire sat
isfaction of his constituents.
Resolved, That in our judgment Colo
nel Blouut should be re-elected to Con
gress whether it be in accordance with
Ins wishes or not; that his conduct as a
member of that body has been eminently
wise, conservative and useful, and com
mands our unqualified approval and en
dorsement; and that the people of the
State and of the South cannot, especially
at a time when so many important inter
ests are at stake, afford to lose the sen-i
ces of a man of his. experience and practi
cal wisdom from the public councils of
the country.
Besolved, That we unitedly and unani
mously pledge ourselves to urge the re-
nemination of Colonel Blount as the
Democratic candidate to represent this
district in the next Congress,and we earn
estly and cordially inTite the co-operation
of the people ofthe other counties of the
district in bringing about this result; be
lieving that, however strong may be his
desire to withdraw from public life, he
will not withhold his services if demand
ed by the people. -
After the passage of these resolutions,
the meeting adjourned.
. . Mr. Money, of Mississippi, offered a res-1 Among those on which it is proposed to
be seen that the Georgia Railroad Com- j 0 ] u t; 0n authorizing the Secretary of War j reduce the tariff are paper, printing ma-
mission is to inn the gauntlet of the Fed- to send four thousand rations to Macon | terials, bichromate or potash, woolen and
eral courts. Whatr do you bet ? Mississippi, for tbe use of sufferers made worsted goods, hats and straw goods.
These are not my sentiments alone;
they come from every portion of the State
The Atlanta Constitution says, to lose
him would be a public misfortune; men
in Washington who know him say so. No
man ,has been there in eight years who
has become so powerful. Universally re
spected North and South, he guards the
I treasury of the United States, as he would
his own pocket, from the assaults of those
who have no right to enter there; faithful,
Versosons livirg in unhealthy localities m»y
avoid all bilions stt*k. by occasionally tsk’m: a
dose ot Simmons’ Liver Rexu'ator to keep the
Lirer in healthy action.
Should not he regarded as a frilling illnxnt. n
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els. lheraore assist na'.ur e t>y taking Simmo
Lirer Regulator. It la to mild and cffocUal.
Rolier is at hand for these who suffer day alter
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The duty off quinine oid not save much,
as that drug is not as extensively used as
before the invention of Tabler’s Portaline,
to regulate the liver, and core diseases
organ. Fortallne will cure torpid liver.
Price 50c.
Hie, lads and lassies, hie away,
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White teeth, and odors of the South.
Haste, haste, and buy a single font
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Very respectfully, W. D.-Ruffin.
Bow Bistory Recalls tbe Past.
Some twenty-five years ago all Eng
land was convulsed by the discovery
made that Sii James Grahame, the then
postmaster general, had taken the liberty
of opening mails addressed to private citi
zens. It resulted in his removal in dis
grace. This recalls the wise decision re
cently made by Hon. D. M. Key,-.the
postmaster general, who has ordered that
letters to M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans,
La., or No. 319 Broadway, New York
city, relative to the Louisiana State Lot
tery Company, be forwarded without in
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—The city of St. Augustine is entirely
free from debt. The last of the outstand
ing script has been cancelled, and there is
$2,000 in the treasury.
—At the first sitting of the new Parlia
ment to-day, as is customary, the four
city members will attend in court suits or
in uqiform and take their seats on the
front treasury bench, which seats they
will afterward vacate iu favor of tho
the ministry. This honorary ceremony is
accorded to them in consequence of tho
city of London having saved the privileges
of Parliament in the year 1640, when
Charles I. attempted to arrest Hampden,.
Pym and the rest of the “five members,”
who fled to the city for protection and
were sheltered there by the corporation.
Pretty and YonAfe
in every feature but the hair, which had
grown white from fever. This lady at 35
writes us: “I have used Parker’s Hair
Balsam six months and am more than
pleased with it. It has restored the nat
ural brown color of my hair and given it a
silky softness, nicer than ever before.
There is no dandruff, no falling hair, and
it leaves the scalp so clean and nice and
cool that I am ever so much pleased, and
I feel and look like myself again.” The
beautiful, fresh and vigorous hair it pro
duces, together with its property of restor
ing gray or xaded hair to the natural
youthful color, and entirely freeing the
head from dandruff and itching, surprises
no less than it pleases. Sold, in large
bottles at only 50 cents and $1.00 by all
first-class druggists. For sale by Roland
B. Hall.
Timely Caution.
Genuine Hep Bitters are put up in
square paneled, amber-colored bottles,
with white label on one side printed in
black letters, and green hop cluster, and
on the other side yellow paper with red
letters; revenue stamp over the cork. This
is the only form in which the genuine
Hop Bitters are put up, and the sole right
to make, sell and use them, is granted to
the Hop Bitters Manufacturing Company,
of Rochester, New York, and Toronto,
Ontario, by patents, copyright and trade
mark. All others put up in any other
way or by any one else, claiming to be
like it or pretending to contain hops, by
whatever names they may he called, are
bogus and unfit for use, and only pat up
to sell and cheat the people on the credit
and popularity of Hop Bitters.
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Notice.
Congress Water. None genuine sold
on draught. IU superiority as a cathar
tic and alterative consists-in its entire
freedom from everything bitter, acid or
crude that produces headache, internal
soreness and tends to destroy the mucous
membrane. All mineral waters that are
dangerous irritants may be known by an
acid after-taste. ' apr 1 2m pd
la beif the agonies end ones of a suffering
child and beooming convinced that Mis.
Wms ow’s Soothing Sfrnp w»s Just the arti
cle needed, prootred a supply fur the child
Oa reaching home and scqos. Jtrag his wife
with what he had done, she refused to have
it administered to the child, as she was
strongly in favor cf box ospstby. That night
the child passed in suffering and the parents
without sleep Returning heme the day fol
lowing, the father foned tho baby was still
worse; snd while contemplating another
sleepless night, the mother stepped from
the room to attend to some domestic datiea
and left the father with the child. During
her abienm be administered a portion of the
tJooihinar Byinp to the baby, and said , noth
ing. That night all bands sit pt well, and
tbe little fellow awoke in the morning bright
and happy. Tbe mother was delighted w«b
theaudoen andwcxderfal ohtnge, and al
though at first offended at the deception
practiced npoo her. has contained to nae the
syrup ard eefferieg or feg babies snd rest
le*t» n ; cht«* diauppsafed. A eis* e tnw
of the - yrup never yet failed to relieve the
baby and overo me tbe prejudices of tho
mother, Bold by al druggU'.e. 25ca bcttle.
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A Uorrn Town Mvrekent
•sed several sleepless nights, dis-
The Whittaker Case.
In the Whittaker case on Thursday tho
cadets and teachers gave testimony upon
the character and standing of Whittaker,
recorder Sears said:
“I will now call myself as a witness as
one of Whittaker’s instructors.” He was
sworn hy the president of the court, and
then made a statement with reference to
the cadet’s present standing and chances.
Lieutenant Sears is the assistant profess
or of natural and experimental philoso
phy, and instructed Whittaker in these
branches from September, 1878, to Janu
ary, 1879, and then from March, 1880,
until the present. He related the circum
stances of Whittaker’s failure to pass his
examination in mathematics in January,
1879, and his subsequent set hack for a
year. The reason of Whittaker’s failure
to pass, said the recorder, was not from
want of study, but from want of intellect
ual power to crasp the subjects. ‘Whitta
ker was one o? the most attentive and in
dustrious ofthe cadets, and his conduct
in the section-room, was most excellent.
His average standing was 2.25 on a
scale of 3, but during the last few weeks
he had not been so good. His standing
from January 15 to last Saturday was 2.16,
or 72 per cent. Below an average of 2 a
cadet is reported deficient. In Whitta
ker’s case there is the general review to
come, which, said the witness, would he
very greatly to Whittaker’s advantage, as
it will give him a chance to save liis
mark.
The question was asked by Captain
Raymond whether a cadet could be in
the last section of his class anil not know
he was in danger of dismissal ?
The recorder thought not.
Major-General Schofield took the stand,
and, alluding to the matter of Whittaker’s
set back for a class, read a copy of his re
port to the secretary of war reconsidering
his former recommendation that Whitta
ker be discharged, and recommending that
he be set back. He said he thought at
the time he was inventing a method never.
before allowed to a cadet to save himself,
but he had afterwards learned that the
same thing had been done in at least one
other case- His hopes, however, had been
fully realized, for Whittaker had passed,
bis January examination. A failure in
liis examinations next June would be al
most certainly followed by his discharge.
General Schofield said, “Whittaker’s in
dustry and spirit have won the sympathy
not only of myself but of all who have ta
ken an interest in the case.”
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Dr TDTT —-Dear Sir: For ten roars I hare boon
a martyr to Dyspepsia, Conatipation and Piles. Ia«t
SorinsyourPille were recommended; I used them.
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They.Tnc*«a»?t5e3EpponSe,fr!nil esnse the
body to Take ea Flesh, tbps tho-system is
learlshed, and by theirTonic Action on the
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