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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY DECEMBER 15, 1835.--TWELVE PAGES.
PROCEEDINGS OE CONGRESS
Washington, Decembers.— In the Sen
ate, bills wero introduced for tho erection
of public buildingH lie follows: lly Mr.
Hansom, at Wilmington, N. 0., $100,000.
lly Mr. Vance, at Charlotte, N. O., $100,-
000. nt Asheville, N. C., $100,000. lly Jlr.
Gibson, at Opelousas, 1,0., $50,000. lly
Mr. Morgan, nt Huntsville, Ala., $100,000.
Hy Mr. Wilson, to prohibit the mailing
of newspapers cont lining lottery advertise
ments amt prescribing a peunlty of $200 for
a violation of the same.J
lly Mr. Walthall, to provide for the set
tlement of accounts with tho Mobile and
Obic ltailroad Company.
Mr. Hale offered the following resolution,
which was agreed to:
Wberese, It Is alleged that 8. 8. Brown, s citizen
ef the HUto of jftlue, lias been instrumental In
procuring the removal of ceitalu postmasters in
said State and the appointment of other persons to
' servo In their stead, and wbereaa tt Is further at*
kyoil that said Brown baa written to parties whose
appointment be has procure! as aforesaid letters In
form and substance like the following, to-wlt:
"IVasuinoton. D. O.. 1SS6.—Bear Sir: 1 have
eoeurod your appointment sa postmaster at your
placo. Your papers will be sent in a ilay or two.
If you fuel ltkr sending a small sum to help defray
the expenses of attending to our Maine matters,
you may do so. My mail cornea to tho above ad
dress. ItesiKs-tfoUy yours. 8. 8. Brows."
Therefore received. That the Postmaater-Ueneral
be and Is hereby directed to furnish to the Senate
a list of poet office* lu Maine and the names of pen
sons removed and those appointed postmasters at
the same where Mid 8. 8. Drown has favorably re
commended the same and indorsed applications
therefor.
A resolution, offered by Mr. Morrill, wiik
agreed to, requesting the President, if not
incompatible with tho public interest, to
transmit to the Senate any information or
documents received from our consul-gen
eral at Paris or our special agent sent to
the financial centres of Europe in respect
• to the establishment of an international
ratio of gold and silver coinage.
A joint resolution introduced by Mr.
Blair, proposing an amendment to the con
stitution of the United States extending the
right of suffrage to women, was referred to
the committee on women suffrage. Also,
proposing an amendment to the constitu
tion in relation to alcoholic liquors and other
poisonous beveragt 8. This, at Mr. Blair's
request, was laid on the table for tho
present.
By Mr. Gibson, giving notice to termi
nate the convention of June 3, 1875, with
tho Hnwniian Islands. Kefcrred to the
committee on foreign relations.
Mr. Brown presented a petition of Gen.
Alex. It. Lawton, of Georgia, praying to ho
relieved of political disabilities. “If," said
Mr. Brown, “there he any political disabil
ities in his case." It was referred to the
committor on judiciary.
At his own request Mr. Biddleberger was
relieved from service on the committee on
railroads.
Mr. Maxey, at his own request, was re
lieved from service on the committee on
militarv affairs, and Mr. Walthall was ap
pointed in his stead. Adjourned.
In the Senate to-day tho following reso
lution, offered by Mr. Vest, was agree to:
That the Prevalent be requested, if not incompat
ible with lb public Interact, to transmit to the
Senate the correspondence bed by the government
ef tho United Staten with the government# of Italy
end Auetrls-Unngary la relaUon to tbe appoint-
ment by tba government of A. M. Kelley aa euvoy-
extraordinary end minister plenipotentiary, ft ret to
the government of Italy then to that of Austria-
Hsnaary, and also any other correspondence or tn-
formaUun which may bo deemed by the President
ef Importance and pertinent to tbe enbject matter
•f Uih resolution.
Mr. Wilson'* bill to prohibit the mailing
of newspapers and other publications con
taining lottery advertisements provides
that it shall ba unlawful to convey by mall
or deposit in any recepticol for moil mattn
snv newspaper or any other pub-
publication containing any advertisement
of a lottery, and provides a penalty of $20
for each violation of the act.
1’rocecdlnge of tbe Itonse.
In the House, after tbe reading and ap
proval of tba journal, the Speaker asked
and received permission of the House to ap
point committees on rules, accounts and
enrolled bills.
Hr. Morrison, of Illinois, offered a reso
lution, for reference to the committee on
rules when appointed, continuing in force
tho rales of the Forty-eighth Congress,
with certain modifications, among them be
ing one for the distribution of
tho work of tho appropriations
eommitte* among other standing committees
This committee is still left
The Speaker appointed a committee on in Florida. It provides that when money
rales, ns follows: Tho Speaker, Messrs, i shall be puiil hy the United States to any
Randall, Morrison, Beed and Miscode. In State to reimburse it for organizing and
order to give the committee time to consider
tbe various propositions referred to it, on
motion of Mr. Morrison, the House, at
2:30, adjourned till Suturday.
Washington, December 10.—In the Sen
ate to-day, after the reading ef the journal,
the President pro (cm. laid before the
Senate several communications from heads
of departments. A resolution, hy Mr. Sian-
demon, to priut one thousand copies of the
President's message and accompanying doc
uments was agreed to.
|A resolution, offered by Sir. Slorrill, was
agreed to, directing tho payment from tbe
contingent fund of the Senate, upon pr.v-
sentation nud proper audit of tho voucher,
of tbe actual expenses of the Senate com
mittee appointed to attend the funeral ob
sequies of General Grant.
■ A communication was rend from tba
President, enclosing several hundred nomi-
uationa to offices in the foreign, civil, mili
tary anil naval service of the United States,
which have been made since the new ad
ministration came into office. The follow
ing are the principal ones:
To be envoy extraordinary and minister*
plenipotentiary of tho United States, George
V. N. Lathrop, of Slichigan, to Bussia; Ja-
bez L. Ourrv, of Virginia, to Spain; Charles
Denby, of Indiana, toChina; John 11. Stnllo,
of Ohio, to Italy; Charles I). Jacobs, of Ken
tucky, to the United States of Colombia;
John E. Bacon, of South Carolina, to be
tbnrg* d'affaires of the United States to
Paraguay and Uruguay; Lambert Tree, of
Illinois, to be minister resident of tho United
States to Belgium; to he ministers resident
and consuls-gencral of the United States,
Boyd Winchester, of Kentucky, to Switzer
land; Frederick H. Winston, of Illinois, to
Persia; J. E. W. Thompson, of New York
city, to Hayti; Wm. A. Seay, of Louisiana,
to Bolivia; Moses A. Hopkins, of North
Carolina, lo Liberia; Walker Fearn, of
Louisiana, to lloumnnia, Servia and Greece.
To be consul-generals of the United States,
Jacob Mueller, of Ohio, at Frankfort-on
the-Maiu; H. C. Armstrong, of Alabama,
at ltio de Janeiro; Michael II. Phelnn, of
Missouri, at Halifax; D. Lyman
Pringle, of South Carolina, to be
secretary of legation and consul-gen
eral of tho United States to Guatemala;
Joseph L. Morgan, of South Carolina, sec
retary of legation to Mexico; Henry L. Mul-
drow, of Mississippi, first-assistant secre
tary of the interior; Bobert B. Vance, of
North Carolina, assistant commissioner of
pensions; Frank Gordon, of Georgia, prin-
~|al clerk of surveys in the general land
lee; Wm. D. Bloxham, surveyor-general
of Florida, and the following postmasters:
Mrs. Mary H. S. Long, Charlottesville. Vo.;
Wm. H. ltitenonr, Harrisburg, Vn.; John A.
B. Varner, Lexington, Vn.; Chas. W. But
ton, Lynchburg, Vo.; William A. Burke,
Staunton, Vn.; L. W. Caldwell, Warren ton,
Vn.; Bruce Gibson, Winchester, Vn.; John
1. Young, Charlotte, N. 0.; Matthew Man
ly, Newberne, N. C.; Samuel A. Ashe,
Raleigh, N. C.; Archibald H. Boyden, Salis
bury, N. C.; Daniel C. Kirkley, Camden, S.
C. ; Benjamin F. Huger, Charleston, S. C.;
Fred A. Shifily, Orangeburg Court House,
S. C.; H. H. Whitfield, Hawkinsville, Ga.;
James B. Blackwell, Marietta, Ga.; J. K.
Boyce, Augusta, Go.; Harrison W. Clark,
Jacksonville, Fla.; Ben Harrison, Polatka,
Fla.; David W. Gwynn, Tallahassee, Fla.;
L. It. Davis, Athens, Ala.; Samuel 8.
Thompson, Birmingham; EugeneL. Brown,
Eutnula, Ala.; Leslie E. Brooks, Mobile;
Mary M. Force, Selma, Ala.; R. R. Hunt-
ley, Talladega, Ala.; John Slock, Bristol,
Tenn.; George W. Martin, Cbattanoogn,
Tenu.; Mary II. Edwards, Cleveland, Tenn.;
P. Folsom, Memphis, Tenn.
Bills were introduced by Mr. Morgan to
provide for tbe appointment of a United
States district jndgo for tbe Southern dis
trict of Alabama, and by Mr. Voorhees
to repeal the statnte of limitations on the
allowance of pension arrears.
Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill to pro
vide for tho establishment of a postal tele
graph. lief erred to the commit too on post-
offices nntl post-roads. Mr. Edmnnds said
it was the some bill that he had introduced
at tbe last session of Congress, which went
to tho committee on post-offices and post-
of the House,
with jurisdiction over the legislative, sun
dry civil, pensions, fortifications and Dis
trict of Columbia hills. The well-known
rale 21 is propo-cd to be amended by strik
ing out tha clause which provides thnt no
provision in any such bill (general appro
priation) or amendment thereto changim
existing law shall be in order, except sttcl
as being germane to the snbjsct
nutter of the bill shall retrench
expenditures by a reduction of
tho number and salary of the officers of the
United States, by a redaction of compensa
tion of any person paid ont of the treasury
of the United 8tates, or by a redaction of
the amounts of money covered by the hill.
The reference of the resolution was or
derod.
Mr. Springer, of Illinois, then presented
for immediate action a code of rale* pre
pared by him, and which has already keen
published.
Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, raised the
point of order against tho proposition, but
withdrew it for the present, to cnsblo Mr.
Springer to explain hta proposed code.
Mr. Hammond, of Georgia, offered a res
olution declaring that pending considera
tion of the proposed rubs and until the
rubs of the House shall be adopted, this
House bo governed by the rales of pro
cedure of the last Ilouao of Representa
tives, so far as applicable, and hy Jefferson's
man tub lie called attention to the abso
lute necessity of having some rale of pro
colure while the subject of amending rales
was under consideration. He had no in
tention by his resolution to obstruct action
u],on tho proposed rales. It was not his
impression that the House would
take any speedy action on tbe pro
posed modification and he thought
that until action was taken there would be
: no rule* under which the House could pro
ceed to business.
Ur. llarbert opposed Mr. Hammond's
proposition, taking the ground that the
House having once adotped tbe old rules
could not change them without a two-thirds
rote. There was no necessity existing for
the adoption of these rules, ss the general
parliamentary laws were adequately suf
ficient for the guidance of the House until
that body should decide under wbat rales it
would be governed.
A long debate followed on Ur. Ham
mond's rvuHuuon.
After a detailed explanation of the rales
formulated by him, Ur. Springer ex
pressed the hope that they would be
adopted, and the House allowed lo proceed
aa a legislative body and perform the high
functions committed to it by the people, in
stead of committing them, as heretofore, to
tbe control of one of its committees.
Then, on the motion of Ur. Springer,
the proposed miss wen referred to the com
mittee on rules, as wen also a number of
other propositions affecting the rales.
Mr. Hammond emended hie resolution by
providing that the House shall tie governed
by Jeffen *
FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
maintaining troops for defense against Iu
diaus attcli money shall ho paid an condi
tion that the State shall agree to apply such
money to tho payment of Bncn troops
Also, to provide for a survey and estimate
for a railroad from tho mainland to Key
West, Fla., and for a canal connecting the
stme with the St. ; John's ltiver.
At 207, p. m., tho Senate wont into ex
ecutive sewdon, having first resolved that
when it adjourns to-day it shall he to Mon
day next.
When tho doors wore re-opened nt 2:35
tbe Senate adjourned till Mouday next.
Agricultural Department Iteport.
The crop report of the Department of
Agriculture for December gives the farm
prices of the principal crops. The increase
of the production of corn lias reduced the
average value of the crop to 33 cents _ per
bushel. The average value of the previous
crop in December was 36 eants. The re
duction is largest in tho Ohio valley and in
the Southern States west of the
Mississippi. The increase of stock
feeding hat corrected the tendency to ex
tremely low prices. The averago in Mis
souri is 26 cents, the same us lust year; in
Kansas it is 21, instead of 22 last year; in
Iowa 24, instead of 23; in Nebraska 13, in
stead of 18. It is 2& in Dokota, two cents
lower than last yoar; 32 in Minnesota, 1
lower; Illinois 28, Indiuna 211, Ohio 32,
Michigan 34, Kentucky 35, Pennsylvania
49, New York 58. Compared with former
prices, corn values are very low. For the
preceding five years—nearly all under the
nverage in production—tho average farm
value wus 44.7 cents per bushel
and for tho preceding ten years 42.46
cenls.
The price of cotton overages 8.03 cents
per pound of lmt, farm value, which is nine
mills less than the December price last year.
The farm prices are: Virginia 8.05 cents,
North Carolina 8.05, South Carolina 8 05,
Georgia 8.05, Alabama 8.03, Mississippi
8.04, Louisiana 8.03, Texas 8, Arkansas 8.01,
T. nnesseo 8.
The prico of wheat, though still low, is
considerably above lastDccemher's average,
which was 65 cents. That of 1883 was 91
cents. The present is 78 cents, n gain
equal to half tho unprecented decline in
dicated Inst December. For five yenrs past
tho average farm value has been 90 cents
>er bushel, and for tho preceding ten $1.05.
■ast yair's farm value W'us 38 per cent,
lower than for tho ten years ended in 1879,
due mainly to fuller European production
and a smaller foreign demand for tbe sur
plus, nearly equal to one-third of tho en
tire crop. The range of Stato prices
is from 57 cents in Nebraska to S1.25 in
Massachusetts. It is above one dollar iu
the eastern and in the cotton States for
home grown wheat The prices in Texas,
80 cents, is 7 cents lower than last Decem
ber, front an increase in the home crop.
The value in New York is 06, an increase of
It cents; Pennsylvania 95, an increase of
11; Ohio 91, an increase of 16; Kentucky
85, an increaso of 19; Michigan 84, an in
crease of 10; Indiana 86, an increase of 19;
Illinois 81, an increase of 18; Wisconsin 76.
an increase of 1G; Minnesota 70, an increase
of 20; Iowa 67, an increaso of 12;
Missouri 77, un increaso of 15; Kansas 65,
and increase of 20; Nebraska 57, an in
crease 15; Dakota 63, an increase of 17.
The average of Calafornia is returned at 76,
and 67 for Oregon.
Tho average price of rye is 56 cents, or
4 cents moro than last year; barley 5G, an
increaso of 7; buckwheat 56, a decrease of
3; potatoes 44, an increaso of 5; hay $8.62
per ten, in placo nf $9.17 last year. Tho
average price of oata is 28 cents, the same
os last December.
THE BALANCE OF POLITICAL PAR
TIES IN ENGLAND.
Gladstone Kauri- to Overthrow ttio Tory
Government—Comment on the Presi
dent's Message—War Prepar
ations In the Hast.
London, Dcocmber 9.—The estimate of
the Unnl result of tho elections gives tho
coalition of the Tories and Parnellitcs n
majority of ten over the Liberals. Apart
from the Parnellites, the Liberals have a
ajority of s ‘venty-two.
London, December 9.—Seven Parlia
mentary seata remain to be declared. The
Liberals count upon obtaining three of
these seats, which would raise their total
334, against 336 Conservatives nud Na-
inalists. A report, which is believed iu
Liberal clubs, is current to tho effect that
Mr. Gladstone has decided to seize the first
chance to oust the Conserv-stires.
s said lo bo eager for office,
proposing to conclude his public life
with the production of a home rule measure
for Ireland, Brudlangh has entered into
negotiations with the Liberal leaders. He
proposes not to present himself at the bar
of the House of Commons to tike the oath
office nt ihe opening of Parliament, pro
vided the Liberals will introduce and
supmirt a bill nllowing members elect
to affirm instead of taking oath. Tbe
number of members of the new House of
Commons never before elected to Parlia
ment is 332. This has had no parallel since
the first Parliament under tho reform bill
1832. 51. Clmnning, Liberal, who has
keeu elected in Northamptonshire, was born
iu America, and is a great nephew of llev.
Dr. William Ellery Ckanning.
THE REVOLUTION IN NUEVO LEON.
roads, and was reported upon by tbnt com
mittee so late iu the session that the *«b-
ject could not be considered by the Senate.
A joint resolution, introduced by Mr.
irtuL
The Insurgents Seize Villa Damn—Federal
Action Anxloualy Awaited.
St. Louis, December 10.—Tho latest ro-
•rts from Mouterey, Mexico, say Acting-
ovornor Sepulveda, with 4,000 troops ami
accompanied by a majority of both houses
of tho State Congress, arrived there last
night. The arrival of General Trevino is
anxiously awaited, everyone being extreme
ly desirous to know wliul orders he bears
from the federal capital.
A private dispatch from the City of Mex
ico (says the federal Senate is in favor of
proclaiming martini law in Nuevo Leon.
Advices from Montemorelos are that the
revolutionists have ousted the municipal
authorities and appointed a city govern
ment of their own choosing.
Gai.ve.ston, December 10.—A dispatch
from Laredo to the News says: “Informa
tion has" reached here that the revolutionist,
Rodriguez, at the head of about 700 men,
entered Villa Dama, Nuevo Leon yesterdny,
and levied a forcod loan of $20,000 and a
quantity of corn. Tbe lost reports sa;
Rodriguez bas made Villa Damn hie head
quarters for the present. It is a city of
nearly 50.000 inhabitants, on the Mexican
railway, sixty miles this side of Honteroy."
PENNSYLVANIA MIN BBS.
n i ung uai tne House tnau tie governs 1
I Jeffcnon’e manual, as modified by the
parliamentary practice of the House of
Bepraa*otativee, and, as thus amended, it
- as adopted.
Morrill, was read three times and passed,
reappointing ns members of the board of
regents of the Smithsonian Institute John
McLean of New Jersey, Asa Gray of Jlassa-
chnaetta and Henry Cop pee of Pennsyl
vania, and nlso appointing on the samo
board Gen. Meigs, of Washington, in place
of Gen. Kliurman, rendered ineligible by
removal of reaidrnce from Washington.
Mr. Dolph introduced a bill to repeal the
law of last session providing for the settle
ment of claim* of officers and enlisted men
of the army for the loss of privatn property
destroyed in tha military service of the
United State*. This is the law to which
tho President calls attention in his message
aa “indefinite in Its terms,"andns to which
he seys: “If it remains on the statnte book
it needs amendment."
After a good deal of discussion, in which
several Senators defended the existing law
as being os nearly perfect as one having its
object could be, Mr. Dolph’* bill was re
ferred to the committee on military affairs.
Among the other bills introduced and ap
propriately referred were the following:
By Mr. Platt, to relieve commercial trav
elers from license t-.xea. It makes it a mis
demeanor for any officer of n State or mu
nicipal corporation to interfere in any way
with a commercial traveler selling good* in
a State of which he or the merchant he rep
resents is not a citizen.
By Mr. Plumb, to open to homestead set
tlement certain port'ons of Indian Terri
tory. This ia the Oklahoma bill of the last
Congress. Mr. Plumb said this meas
ure was a literal copy of one introduced
in the last Congress and paused during the
closing hoars of the session. By that bill
the President was authoriz'd to open nego
tiations with the Indians for purpose of
securing a cession of the land. It had been
expected that that would be done daring
last summer and the result would be re
ported to Congress at this session. lie was
informed, however, that no steps had been
taken in that direction, and thoaght it im
portant that some settlement of this im
portant question should be re iched. If not
settled by Congre-h.-Ut mi.^hc settle itself in
• way not creditable to the country.
By Mr. Plcmb, to improve the efficiency
of the militia. It authorizes and directs
the Secretary of War, on tbe application of
any State or Territory, to recall unservice
able ordnance or ordnance storm issued to
militia, and replace them with the kind sup
plied to the regular army.
By Mr. Call, for the erection of a public
building at Jacksonville, Fla. It appropri
ates $215,(J00. Also, to repeal all laws and
parts of laws prohibiting | tension* to
wounded soldiers aud officers without proof
of loyalty. Also, to amend the articles of
war so that no person can lie tried by court-
martial for desertion who** offense was
committed two yean before l.is appre
hension, provided bs bus been
that length of time in the United States
silica his desertion. Also, to reimburse the
depoattote of tbe Feed man’s Havings and
Trust Company for losses incurred by the
failure of said company. Also, to provide
for the auditing ana payment of claims of
soldi*!* who served in several Indian wen
Serious mating Near Pttteliurg—Several
Men Badly Hurt.
Prrrsnnno, December 10.—Pine Bun
about n mile below Elizabeth, I’a, was the
scene of nnother riot to-day between strik
ing coal miners and men who have been
working for the poet two weeks at a reduc
tion. This morning at about 6:20, when 25
miners were on their way to work iu
Lynn's mines, a squad of masked men met
them and demanded that they return to
their homes. This was refused and the
mob then made an attack npon them with
clubs and atones. Tbe riot lasted two
hours. Tuu men were iujured. One named
Newton Campbell, a driver, won set on
by six strikers and benten
insensibility. His injuries aru
believed to be fatal. Richard Hall and
Hemuel Myford were also seriously injured,
The others got away with slight cuts and
bruises. After standing their ground nearly
two hoars, the nun-nnioniats were driven
off end fled to places of safety. The strik
ers then stayed in the vicinity of the mince
until after ilsybem.tr, waiting for moro
miners to come to work, hut none mails
their appearance. Tho mob then wedged
the switch of tho private railroad running
to the mine end disappeared over the kills.
A train coming along a abort time later was
thrown from the track and the engino up
turned, bnt no one was hurt. Word
immediately telegraphed to the city
assistance,* and at 11 o'clock Sheriff Gray,
with a poaae, left for tbe ecene. Tbe mob
is believed to be one organized to visit all
mines to-day where men ure working at
reduction, and more trouble is feared.
Prrntauso, December 10.—There w
farther trouble at Pine Ran to-day, but an-
other outbreak is looked for to-morrow
morning. Sheriff Gray returned to this
city this afternoon and reported everything
quiet. He is bolding himself in readiness,
however, end will start for the mines if
there aru etfy indications of another assault.
The strikers are camped in the woods some
distance from the mine*, and will not
allow ' any one to approach them.
The people living in the vicinity
are greatly alarmed aud anticipate a general
raid along the river. Superintendent Neil,
of Pino Bun mines, says he believes the
mob will attack the mines again to-night,
and that an effort will bo made to burn tho
tipples and engine house. The movement
seems to have been a thor
oughly organized one, as secret
meetings of the strikers have been
held daily for over a week. It is believed
the Alleqnippa mines will be the next point
attacked, as auspicious looking men have
been banging around all day. This even
ing fifty repeating rifles were shipped to the
AUrquippa mines, to l>e distribut'd among
the non-union men. They will also
be supplied with fifty rounds of ammuni
tion each, and bloodshd is unite probable if
the strikers attempt to disturb them
their way to aud from the mines. It was
learned to-night that the rioters paid a visit
toWslton's mines, near Elizabeth, __
morning, dnring the absence of the work-
men, end destroyed their tool*. They also
broke off the end gates of the cool wagons,
which were standing on the tipple, loaded,
and damped the coal ont
Hongs are becoming plentiful and cheap,
bnt the lay of the ben still brings forty
cents a dozen.—St Paul Herald.
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CABLE'S SILENT SOUTH.
English Comment on Cleveland's Message.
London, December 9.—The Daily News
says: President Cleveland's message seems
to place him in the line of succession to the
greater meu who have occupied the Presi
dential chair rather than to the late Demo
cratic lino.
The Post says: Some of tlio old world's
statesmen might ponder with benefit over
some of Mr. Cleveland's reasons touching
the Nicaragua treaty.
The Standard says: The message ia tem
perate and dignified, and goes far to justify
Mr. Cleveland's election.
Tho Times questions whether the Presi-
Irtl'iaHaM «ill occupy so large a space
in the thoughts of the world ne the death
of Vanderbilt It says: “Thousands will
speculate on tho results of Vanderbilt's
death with an eagerness which events of
larger place in history fail to excite. The
President's messago reflects in tranquil and
unexciting paragraphs the happy detach
ment front international jculousir* and quar
rels which it is the peculiar good fortune of
America to enjoy.”
Some of the Errors Pointed Out—The Sever
ity of Sentences.
Editors of tho “Century”: In justice to
the tribunals of Georgia I askspnee in your
maguzine in order to notice some of the
errors in Jlr. George W. Cnblo's last article.
I refer to the charges which seem to bo di
rected against the severity of sentences
passed npon negroes by our courts.
Tho glaring incorrectness of the indirect
statements is remarkable and cuuaut be ac
counted for even by reference to a number
of blunders in tho last biennial report of
the principal keeper of the Oeorgiu pent
teutiary—a report which Mr. Cable has
perhaps u.-ed. Even this report, faulty and
blundering though it unfortunately is,
does not justify or tvnrrant Mr. Cable's in
sinuations. He asks tbe question, “What
shall we Bay to such sentences inflicted for
larceny alone as twolve, fourteen, fifteen,
twenty and in one case forty years of a
penal service tfliose brutal tasks and whip
pings kill in an average of five years?” lie
locates the forty years sentonce in this Stale.
(Georgia) and the context suggestB that he
means to charge that all the larceny sen
tences referred to are the merciless products
of Georgia courts.
Tbe fact is that no person has ever been
sentenced by a Georgia court (certainly not
for many years) for larceny—horso stealing
alone excepted.—longer titan ten years, be-
caase this is nud has been for many years,
perhaps always, the extremo limit ullowud
by our law. For horso-stculing the punish
ment may be from four to t wenty years im
prisonment. This is an offense, however,
rarely committed by negroes, nud there are
very fow of them incarcerated under its
sentence.
Assuming thnt Mr. Cable's question is
based upon tho report atre-udy mentioned,
we find that, among the 2,007 convicts re-
S orted, there aro 20 larceny sentences put
own ns being in excess of ten years, 2 of
these (for horse-stealing) exceeding twenty
years, 3 for twenty years, 8 for fifteen
years, and the remainder of tho twenty for
twelve years. I do not think this report,
giving os it does u very large number of lar
ceny sentences, justifies tbe charge implied
by the question. The implication would be
that such sentences, the forty yean case
excepted, were not uncommon. Besides, tho
report is incorrect There was not nnd
could not have been any convict under sen
tence for larceny longer thnn teu years, un
less for horse stealing, and then not longer
than twenty years. The error is either in
tho statement of tho offense or in the
omission to state thnt the offender was con
fined for more than one conviction of the
same crime. The report, for example,
mentions the cases of two negroes sentenced
in this county thirty years for burglary (a
single sentence not possiblo under our law),
and an examination of our records shows
that this was the aggregate of two sentences
for night burglary under convictions for
two distinct perpetrations of this offense by
•oth defendants, each of whom received
penalties of thirteen und seventeen yesrs.
Tho only forty yenrs sentence for larceny to
be found in this report is a esse of hone
stealing, where the sentence is put down
08 one for forty years, although the dates
given as tbe commencement amt expiration
of tho term make it one for thirty yean.
Tba fact is, however, thnt nndor our law, as
it now is and has been for many yenrs, it is
not and has not been in the power of any
court to sentence on offender for a
single offenso for a period intermediate
between twenty yean and imprisonment
for life. A thirty or forty years' sentence,
or any between twenty yean and life-im
prisonment is not known to our law nnd
has not been for many years, if ever. Ex
cept in cases of horse-stealing, larceny after
a trust, or from a vessel, hog aud cattle-
stealing, larceny is not felonious with ns
(that is not a penitentiary crime), unless it
be of poods or of money exceeding fifty
dollars in vain*.
Burglary may he punished from one to
twenty years; robbery (by open force or
violence], from fonr to twenty.
Mr. C
. msoappears under a
sentence for two aud onc-hulf years but it
must be a mistake for assault with intent
to murder, as “assault and bnttcrv" is imt
a felony. One caso of “voluntary man-
alaughter is put down os under a fife sen
tenco, when the punishment for this offen «
cannot exceed twenty years. Quite a num
ber of murder sentences appear to he far r
short term, when tlio punishment for this
crime cannot be less than life imprisonment
I hoy must bo cither for voluntary man.
slaughter or involuntiry mans] tughter in
the commission of nn unlawful act My ob
ject is not to show errors in this report
except in so far aa they may seem to give
some semblance of justice to Mr. Cable's
strict area. Tills report, however, does not
_I t ) ie
justify or excuse the insinuations in tbit
portion of his article noticed, particularly
when it is recollected that Mr. CaUo once
lived in tho South and is possessed of some
information concerning Southern tribunals
and their record.
Tho lonso system is, I think, very objec
tionable, but it is no respecter of races
Neither the report of tlio Principal Keeper
nor any other that I hnvo ever seen indi
cates anything like tho frightful mortality
mentioned by Mr. Cable. As ho doeB not
chnrge thnt the mortality is greater among
tho uepro convicts than among the white,
its notice is not germane to my purpose.
L ltespoctfully, Samuel B. Adams,
Savannah, Ga.
A Great Canal l-roject.
Uxr.niN, December 10.—BundrztatL has
unanimously approved the bill for the con
struction of tne long-spoken of ship canal
between the Baltic, Elbe nnd North oca. It
to will cost Germany abont 156,009,000 marks.
It is to be strongly fortified and will have
great military as well as commercial value.
In the year 1873 Count Von Moltke opposed
the project, on the ground that it wonld be
better to invest tbe money required for the
construction of the canal in increasing tho
imperial fleet, bnt now that tbe plan
for founding a nrvy hat been carried ont,
the Field Marshal approves of tbe canal.
The defense of the coasts of Germany must
always reniniu a difficult task ao long as a
anal does not nnito the Baltie sea with the
German ocean and enable German war
vessels to pass from ono sea to the other by
a route which does not expose them to the
danger of falling iuto foreign hands. The
project has been under consideration of
the Prussian government more especial!
since 1865, and now at hut, as it wouli
seem, it is going to be realised.
AN ENGINEER KILLED.
A Tialn nr Care llresk I.ooie from a I-oco-
motlve.
[•racial, tsleosam.)
JVkst Point, December 10.—A fatal acci
dent occurred nn tho Atlanta nnd West
Point railroad this morning abont 1 o’clock,
The through freight train for Montgomery
was going down a grade six miles distant
from Long Cane and the tender and train
broke apart and the engineer ran some dis
tance before becoming aware of the fact.
He reversed his engine and started back for
the missing can, when, to hia dismay, he
beheld them fast approaching, as if driven
by an nnseen power. Before he could mas
ter the situation the wild train was upon
him, and he and his fireman were buried
tinder the debris. John Knott, the engi
neer, was killed instantly, while the fire
man, Charles Morris, received fatal injuries.
Mr. Knott's remain* were token to Atlanta
to-day. Mr. Morris, in the charge of a phy
sician, was taken to Montgomery.
Death from Trichinosis.
Wabash, bn, December 9.—The ten
ytar-olddaugbterof Janus Daun, i f Xenia,
•tied to-day from trichinori*. A week or
more ago she complained of severe pains
iu her arms and lozs, and later became un
able to walk. The muscular portion of her
limbs swelled rapidly and she suffered
great agony till her death. Tito physicians
failing to comprehend the nature of her
ailment, an examination of a portion of the
muscles fn.m tbe upper arm was made.
When placed under a microscope the por
tion removed was found to Ira alive with
trichina-. It is said that two week* ajo
tL» girl ste m-v pork, und her d-ath resulted
from this. It is fasted cither inctalrais of
the family aid suffer similar attacks.
fieri,lea’s Amies Salve.
IheUrtestre lu thewetM (or Oats Bestow
•we*, risen. Malt kkeere, tarot asms Truer.
AappW Hecate, Oil I Matas. Cents, sa4 afi Mia
Will Mr. Cable state the facta npon
which he bases the serioui charge, appar
ently made by the question: "Which mows
the greater maliciousness, for one man to
be guilty of hog-stealing, or for twelve
'urors to send him to the coal mines for do
ng it?" The intimation isthatonr court* in
flict such sentences for bog-stealing, if not
frequently, at least often enough to justify
their being taken to task for this “malic
iousness." The highest punishment men
tioned in the report for this offense is one
to fonr yean, anil this is the highest possi
ble under the low. I do not
suppose that even Mr. Cable, ready
and willing though he seems
to be to criticize ns harshly and unjustly
from his New England home, is prepare! 1
to charge that onr courts exceed the limits
of tho statute when they sentence persons
of color.
Jlr. Cable finds a reflection on Georgia
in the fact that although "larceny haa been
called the favorite crimo of tha negro crim
inal," yet “in the Georgia penitentiary and
convict camps there were in 1882 twice aa
many-colored convict* for burglary a* for
larceny." He see* in this fact the disposi
tion of the “dominant race” to get tho
poor negroes into these camps without
much concern as to their guilt or inno
cence. And yet a little investigation would
have suggested an ample cause, ono con
sistent with the fairness of onr tribunals,
for this condition of affair*. If he be cor
rect, tbe wonder i* that the disproportioi
is not greater. The explanation Is that the
ioids!
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Tlila treatment, combined with email doaea of Cn-
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blind plica, ao severe that I could hn lj
my feet. Iu ed various rein*die* f..r threereeV
when tbe disease to >k the form of itching pib
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Virus, Ill*
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lllftgston, Cta.
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Perry Ga.
cttwly
*?in*. Ills*«*raato»<to*lv*tartamsrttofiifiua.
rt tooaar nSanAaA. Pries » e*atopa, k*s. tat
sin S* Csmtr. Kaaus k bail.
is nut greater, me explanation is that th<
largo majority of the larcenies committed,
nerhupa nine ont ten, are not felonious.
They arc gem-rally larcenies from the house
or from the person of goods or money not
exceeding $50 in amount or value and are,
therefore, not punishablo by confinement
in the penitentiary, while burglary is neces
sarily so punished.
I do not think there is any considerable
disparity between the length of the sen
tences of the two races for tbe same offense.
I have not had tinio to make any extended
calculation, bnt eliminating the sentences
stated n tho report to Ira more than ten
years for larcc-ny other than horse stealing,
ami those stated to ho more than twenty
years in any caso, (they nei-esaarily repre
senting a conjunction of sentences or being
muta'z a, l and I do not think that any
mnterial difference can Ira shown. The fact
of there being a comparatively small nn
ber of white people iu the penitentiary
entirely explicable without Uie slightest
flection npon onr coarts, as Mr. Cable
ought to know. I refer with pride to the . - . . ___
bet, that among the 2,007convicts reported gBiil'IiL'Aggangttgaiillliiig
only Mventy-fonr white people are tnen- ■* mo Wan mi oa, it cuts, m. n....
Jf* 11 * “Oder convtctions of all o.'h. ffrry a co.,’Detroit, Michigan,
forms of larceny, burglary and robbery ,, ,
combineDid I suppose that tbe differ- — ~ ; —
•nee in th* nca representation in the** con
vict l umps was due to either injustice, op
pression or “mslidonsnesui" of the “dont-
msnt race,” I would find it only • cause for
shame and humiliation.
Before closing, 1 notice some other Won
ders in this report which may atari some
other question* "in then*meofhum»nliy.”
Thtre u« some irentons mentioned •• bang
turner hf$» M-uGie-t-* for riot, vbf-itM riot I
I* uot * felony, cannot he and ha* not Ireen
E rad by confinement in tha traniter.-
lor any ti i-e. The |rartie* are front!
county ami were convicted of mur
der, committed during a well-remembered
riot occurring in that connty. Tbe *sn-
tences are for murder, which is punishable I
by d*ath or confinement for life. A CtnC Of t
rO’A 1G.1 C. 4$
utaMiwrup.i
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Magnolia Balm is the charm
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looking-glass.