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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. A CABO. Toed who an saftetag front tte errors aa4 _ 4feawttoasol joutk, narrow w*. tone, tarty 4* nr. Inooof aiaahsod. ete.. I wffl ar'4 e rwSpe tan will rare raw, rwss or cosmos, This*™** remedy nsdteareeredfirsreiasloearyta host* » re art re ■red a ■ellifla.il envelop* to Us Her. ftm I- Inus. rtrtfcre D. Saw fort C'.ij. 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! Itliiui, Bleeding aud Itching:Pos itively Cured by Cuticnra. A warm hath with Cutlcura Soap, on exqul*lt* •kill heAUtiflcr.an'lAHlnt’In application otCuUcura, tho great aMa cure, will inftantly allay tho iotemw itching of the nioat aagmvatorf caso of itching l*ilea. Tlila treatment, combined with email doaea of Cn- Ucara Resolvent, the now blood puriaer.thrve Ilmen per day, to regulate and •trengtliea th« boaolii. overrem© conatipatU vo the c remedied and even physician*’fail. itching" piles. I wao taken for the flr*t t.mo In mr life with 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 itching and I wm *o«.n cured. 1 wl»h to tell tna world that in canes ot itching plica the price of Cu> tlcura ia of no account. From an unuolicltud ijuar- r. o. C. KiiusY. Concord, N. H. itching" piles. 1 began tho u*e of your Cutlcura Remedies when you first put them ou the market, and know of two- cases of itching pi" on that havo been cured by tb* use, at my lUMgeatien, of these re mod in*. F. N. MARTIN. Virus, Ill* ALL YOU CLAIM. I have tried your Cuticnra Remedies and find them alt you claim, and the demand for them in this section U great. AUGUSTUS W. COLLINS. lllftgston, Cta. SPLENDID SATISFACTION. Cuticnra Remedies have piren splendid N$tl»fae- Uott to those of nty ctMtonieni who bare had ocia- alon to nae them* HEaN'BT GKUMANN. Drnggiat. Quincy, 111, — Cmicurw Remedies are a positive cure for every form of »kin and blood diseases, from pimples to scrofula. Hold everywhere. Price: Cutlcura, fco cents; Resolvent* $ 1.00; Hoap, 36 cents. Prepared by the Potter Drug and Chemical Co.. Doston, Mur*. Send for “How to Cure Skin DiscoM-s." T7T V Mom Mir*. Pimples, Blackhead* and Paby IV I Humor*, n- C iM< nr* >- <tp TIIlKb Mf.-CI.IN STUKNGTltKD. pain annihilated. lnllAinmatlon subdued sod malarial and epidemic dlMMO pre vented by tha* infallible antidote to pain Georgia Chill Remed/y ChlUa and fever* have for year* affected Uioo> •and*, and will continue to do so until the merit* of UaU'a Georgia Chill Remedy become known. This 1- no j i»t. nt t uinbu,: ipmtruin, but i!i>• r. -nit of the experience of a quarter of a century in compound ing and manufacturing drug* lu our Southern cli mate. I have cured myedfand thouMiidx of oth ers of chronic chill* after they bed for a longtime reeiatad tbe effort* of able physician* and quinine ‘cessed to have any effect. One bottle in all • I. •.* th.m -i* up-nth* *tuiflif\: will t-ib-Tt a permanent enre. In that time a sufferer would ■pend double the amount for quinine and yet not be i uri 1. I ;i|.| .-ml h lew I'« rti:i-Al.-n flmwihg wliat it ha* a'-compliMhed—thousand* could bo obtained if desired. Judge Thomas J. Blmmotia, Judge of tbe Huperler Court of the Macon circuit, waa cured of chill* and fever by the use of UaU'a Georgia Chill li< incdy. Macon, Os.. October *15, 1RS4.—I consider HaH’s Georgia Chill Remedy the beat chill remedy I ever C. L. <>‘( •MUMA*, of the firm of J. W. Rico K Go. Mr. Henry 8. 1 Vagin, auotber prominent fit: of the same county, mdorkc* it above every ot preparation in the world. LAMAR. RANKIN k LAMAR. Bold by all drnpgUU. Macon, Ui aagyTannAwiy Never Known to Fail. Tho popular Blood Purifier of th* day Is O. I. C. It Uthehon' st "triodar.d true" old Indian Care that has stood tin- tost of time. It will cure any Blood Discos* or Skin Disease arising from impure blood. . An excellent toniesudspprtizar. Nothing equals it for female compliiint--. A purely vegetable preparation, containing no nn r- cury or other mineral poison. Hold by leading druggists. THE O. L C. CO„ 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 The Mirror is no flatterer. Would you make it tell a sweeter tale? Magnolia Balm is the charm er that almost cheats the looking-glass.