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The Tux on Whisky.
A certain class of newspapers habitually |
President SadhCarnot,
The French orisis has ended in the ele-
speak of the tax on whiaky as the “Infer* t vailon of a comparatively unknown man to
nal” reverne, and exhaust thdr resonroos j the Presidency—M. S.v4i-Carnot. He has
MR. CARLISLE’S SPEECH.
Congress Open. To-day.
At yeaterday Boon the flnt session of the
Fiftieth Congress was begin. Mr. John
Carlisle of Kentucky, wag elected Speak
er, Gen. John B. Clark of Mlaioari, clerk,
Mr. John P. Lredom of Ohio, sergeant-at-
arm V Mr. Lycurgus DJton of Indiana,
postmaster, and Mr. A. 1). Hart of Mitala*
aippi, doorkeeper. These are the regular
nominees of the Democratic caucus which
was held last Saturday sight.
Of the 325 members of the House 1C9 are
Democrats, 152 are Republicans and 4 ara
Independents. This gives the Democrats
• clear maj irity over all of 13. It la a note
worthy foot that none of the Independents
went into the Rjpubiioinoaucite, and it is
■aid that at least two of them have decided
Demcoratic ten deem
The (senate will be tied If Mr. Biddle-
berger, of Virginia, vote, with the Demo
crats, as his recant expressionsindioate that
ho will. The soata of Senators Hearst, of
California, Torpie, of Indiana, and Fanlk-
ner, cf West Virginia, are contented. Thi y
•re all Democrats. Oar dispatches indi
cate that objeotion may be luado to their
admission on their certificates, bnt if the
Bepnblieans should try this game thoy will
lose, aa the Dcmoorats oonld retaliate by
objecting to the swearing in of all newly
elected Senators; and a mtprity of the
holding over Senators are Democrat!. It
is not at all probable that a good ease will
be made . against any of
the Demcoratio eonteatecs. The Senate will
therefore be about evenly balanced until
Afrroh 4th, 1889.
Our special Washington correspondent
gives this morning a very interesting fore
cast for the outlook for the tariff legisla
tion, whioh will bo the great queitlon ot
the session. Ho presents interviews with
several Georgia members. The prospeot
for.Demooratio harmony has brightened
very muehla the past two weeks. It is to
be hoped that the party can agree on some
just measure for the reduction of onr enor
mous surplus. The President's message will
badelivercd to Congress to-day. To-morrow
itull be presented in foil to the reader4of
ll.tr, iv.f.r',1. \ri[, . it )■ an open ss«.et fnet
tho President will make strong recommen
dations for tariff reform on the general Une
which Mr. Carlisle and the great majority
of the Democrats In Congress have favored
lor the past four years. There have been
few sessions of Congress which involved so
many Important issue, as that which be
gins to-day. Tbs people will watoh tho
, statesmen very oloaely.
of language and imagination in depicting
the woes of the mountain moonshiner,
bunted like a wild beast by the cruel min
ions of a rapacious government. It is con
tended by Borne of these papers that the
mountaineer is almost justified by the cir
cumstances by which be is snrronnded in
violating the law. They say that the corn
raised on his little farm 1b too bnlky to be
transported to market profitably, but must
be pat in the more compact form of whis
ky. The weight is reduced about half, as
the moonshiner, with his crude methods
obtains only about two and a half gallons
to the bushel of grain.
This talk Is el! very misleading. The
truth about the business is, that the moon-
abinrr's market is mado by the tax. If it
were abolished it is oertain that it would
not be profitable tooonvert corn into wblsky
on the small scale now praotloed by illioit
distillers. The great distilleries of the
West, with slaogbter houses attached, are
said to produce whiaky at a coat of leas than
ten cents per gallon. In the St. Louis
market reports it is quoted, with the tax of
ninety cents paid, at $1 05—that is, at fif
teen eents per gallon. It is hard to believe
that whisky cm be made in Georgia at a
cost near that. It oertainly cannot
by the means within reach of
a mountain farmer, (Toder the present
law whisky esn be made profitably by the
monntainer if be can cheat the government
of its does, which the Urge distillers are
obliged to pay. His whisky ooatshim more
than does theirs, bnt not 09 cents a gallon
more. Ho takes the ebancea of detection
and punishment for the sake of profit, end
is entitled to no sympathy when sent to
j»i».
Another objection urged against tbs tax
on whisky is that it ta an incentive to
orlme. This can be said of any reve
nue lax. O ir coasts are patroled by
armed vessels to prevent crimes against tbo
tariff law, and hundreds, if not thousands,
of people every year defraud the govern
ment by smuggling in foreign
goods wuhont paying the dn'ies on
them. Even large mercantile houses are
said to resort to eystematio undervaluation
to swindle tbo government. Is it not also
tins that, to esospe hearing their proper
proportion of the State's burdens, many
men roturn their property for taxation
muoh below its true valut? It can ba safe
ly said that every law to raiso revenue is
violated by men wbolove money betterthan
tbey do right, sod are bold enongb to ran
the risk of punishment.
The tax on whiaky Is no more so inoen-
llve to crime than is the tax on land, and U
is more easily borne.
long been a ni6uiber of tho Chamber of
Depot its, and has served in more than one
of the eablnets which have anooeeded each
other so rapidly in the last ten
years. He is a man of high
oharacter, and a consistent Bepub-
Hear.. A descendant of that Carnot who or
ganized the armies of the first Itepnbiio so
that they became in Napoleon's hands the
instruments by which an unparalleled series
of victoriee were won, he has perhaps in
herited from that stern old soldier tho cour
age and executive ability so necessary to a
President of France.
However much the forced retirement of
M. Grevy may be regretted, it is a matter ot
congratulation that tbs excitement whioh it
caused has not resulted in serious disorder.
His successor was eleoted quietly and ac
cording to constitutional methods. Ths
revolution for whioh the enemies of the
Itepnbiio hoped is again postponed—let ns
hope, for all time.
For the purpose of eleoting a President
the sharp antagonisms iu the llepablican
ranks in the Chamber of Deputies were for
moment composed. It cannot be ex-
peoted that tbey will be forgotten, and as
long as the present condition of French
political affairs continues, no settled
national policy out be expeoted. It is a
distinct step forward, however, that a orisis
involving a deposition of one President and
the election of another has shown in the
Fienoh people a quiet deliberation under
exciting clroumstanoes whioh would have
been Impossible a few years ago.
HOW IT WAS TALKED ABOUT IN
WASHINGTON YESTERDAY.
Breckcnrlrlff.’s High Opinion of Mr.
Blount -The Report of the Comptrol
ler of Currency—Legislation
Agelnst Dynamiters,
The editor of the Quitman Free Press
has probably been there. Ha says: A oor-
zespondent wants us to tell bim “whioh is
the proper attitude for a fisherman, stand
ing or sitting.’' Neither, innooent one;
lying is the only position in whioh he ftels
entirely et home.
[Special telegram to Macon Tiliobath].
Washington, Dcoember 4.—Mr. Car
lisle’s speech last night accepting the nomi
nation is regarded as aonndiog the key-note
of the Democratio party. Everywhere to-
day it is praised for its handsome phrased-
ogy, Vs eatbolio tone and its DemouiaUo
orthodoxy. His ntterances as to tariff leg-
islation are warmly commended. Ths
speech, it will be remembered, was as fol
lows:
I need not speak on this occasion of (he
importance of the approaching session of
Congress. I think ws all appreciate it, and
perhaps there is not one among ns who
would not gladly escape, if he could, from
the responsibilities whioh the situation im
poses on bim, but we cannot
erespe from them. As representatives for
the poople we are sent here to do that which
the interests of the people require and
we must do it or at least make an effort to
do it. With a united harmonious Demo
oralio msj ority it is impossible for us to
fail, while without such unanmity it is im
possible for us to aucoeed, or at least suc
cess would be extremely doubtful. It Is
therefore of the highest importance that we
should reconcile, if possible, all differences
When the Mercury le Low.
It is a cold day when the Philadelphia
Record gets left. A more exact paper in Us
statements does pot ooms among onr mul
titudinous exchanges. Nor do we find one
whioh is fairer in dissuasion or more logi-
cal in its conclusions. The Record has
done noble service in exposing the inequali
ties end InjnaUco ot the present tariff. Not
long ago it published corns abls arUolss on
the recent corner in tin. The Philadelphia
frees rusher into the discussion evidently
without adequate preparation, and the Re
cord, in its Issue ot Saturday, thus disposes
of its able contemporary:
The corocr Id "tin." which has beta sc far see-
csactuUy engineered by a bevy of rich French
apacatatore, our Mteemed contemporary the Frees
confounds with "Un-plate," which la largely Im
ported Into this country. It ears:
"Tin le eo far undervalued ta our tariff that we
have practically free trade In tin, importing our
satire enpply from abroad, amounting In the bret
sloe months of this jear to 4S8.000.000 pounds,
veined at $14,138,(00. There is no domestic pro
duction, although then weald be If the article was
property protected. It then were, a f -reign comer
conUl not rales tho price on the dome*tic con
sumer; but an the Record Is fond ot telling lie
readers, traits end comblnettooa to sdrsneo price
, an the work of the wicked tariff."
Then is so duty on tin ore or plg-tln, for the
rtaeoa that the me tel ha' never been found In this
country la quantity enfflclent to pay tor mining
Ths duty on Un-plate, however, le one cost per
poand—oqnnl to about XI per cent oa tho home
valuation. Oa the tss.ceo.009 posndt of Un-plets
Imported In the first nine months of the year the
duty was 14,"00,000, which tu was collected oa aa
article of the fire! necessity that goes Into ovary
household la the country. The Frees aadadouely
calls this outrageous levy cf on ncneeeeury tu
"pnctlcel free trade;* ud .It adds with grim
humor, that It Un-plate should ho "prop
arty protected" the price could not ho further aa
haaead by a foreign corner. Thu Is equlvaleot to
•eying that coseamen Bright expect mom i
from French gamblers than from homa-hnd Infant
iBftaatrtaa-a point which the Escort dose not cam
tadlspata.
To an observer at this diets-ce it seems
that the Ileeotd has the I’rtes “in
corner.”
Inter-Oceanlc Communication.
M. da Leeseps has surprised his stock
holders again. He has always insisted that
his proposed canal across the Isthmus of
Panama would be at the sea level from end
to end. Only a few months ago he an
nonnoed in an official oommanioation that
ba would never consent to any modification
of that part of his original plan. Now,
alter having spent more money in doing
less than one-third of the neoesssry work
then was bis estimate for the whole of it,
he a*u the French government fne rv-'-
ateii to Veto* about *100,000,000 more by
mean* of lottery bonds, end in
asking this permission states that
the see level canal has been abandoned.
The new plan ta to cross the backbone of
the Isthmus, ths rocky Onlebre, by, means
ot looks. He etill says ships will pass
through tho canal In 1890. It will be won
deifnl if the French people stUI believe hta
statements, when so many of them have
proved folae. *
American engineers generally have no
faith in the Panama scheme, and believe
that to carry it oat would require a sum of
money so enormous thatlt cannot be raised.
The experience of M. de Leseepi'a compa
ny would seem to Justify tfata belief. The men
who are beck of the Nicaragua prej-.ct are
evidently confident that the Panama canal
will not be eonetruotod. They have sent
steamship, with a large force of engineers
and many laborers, to make a thorough
•urvey ot the route through Nicaragua, a
work which will oonsumo several months
and involve the outlay of many thousand
dollars. They wonid not inear this expense
anises they were not only sum that M. de
Lraaeps will fail, bnt that they will be able
to seenre the money necessary to their own
undertaking. Tbs earn neoesssry ta roughly
estimated et $55,000,000.
Nor ta this the only Amerioan company
whioh ta showing activity. Captain E idee’
ship railway project did net die with
him, and the men now Interested
in it am moving with energy. All the pre
liminary work possible was done by OspUin
Katies. A charter for the company baa
been obtained, and a meeting of the stock
holders will be held this week in New York
to perfect orgenfz ition. In this ease also
the prejeotors express confidence of obtain
ing all the money necessary. This may be
doubted, however. The p'eu of can} ing
Urge shipe over lend by tail it an nntriei
one, end capitalist* will be shy of investing
millions in it.
If of the two proposed canals one ta com
pleted, the needs of the commercial world
for a long lime will be satisfied. If both
am constructed, it ta probable that neither
will be remunerative. Considering its Im
mense cost, it ta doubtful U that at Panama
wonid ba so, even it without a rival.
Ynoisu is about to do what aha ought
to have done several years ago—diet John
8. Barbour to the Senate.
Jacxsontillb is on the verge of e probi
blUon election. We learn that Yellowstone
Kit b beading in that direction.
An ilontat Bimii#
A few days ego there died in Tbomsston,
Georgia, a man who had never mado muoh
nofae in the world, but wcose life has some
lessons whioh are well worth oons'dsrstioD.
His nurne was B. B. White. He lived as
troll np to his obligations as any man pos
sibly could. He had “an Arcadian” Benee
of honor. When he died he did not owe a
dollar. H!s word was his bond throughout
all the seventy years of his life. Ones a
negro employed by him ran sway to escape
the penalty of somo misfeasance.
Mr. Whits owed him $150. Ho wrote a
dozen letters for tho purpose of ascertain
ing the whereabouts of his oolored creditor.
He failed to do so. His debt of $1.50
teemed to rest on hta mind as a Special bur
den. Whenever an appeal was made !o
bim for aid to any individual or goneral
charity it was hta favorite fashion to give
$1 50. Aeocrdiog to hta minus that was a
liberal contribution. It ta told that bo gave
away as much as $100 in sums of $1 50 each
to give his mind every pest bio relief from
tho oppretsion he felt beoause ha owed one
man that amonat.
Mr. White led a quiet, unpretentious life.
When he oame to die it could be said that
he never intentionally wronged any man,
while there were many who reoeived bene
fits at bis bands.
How many better epitaphs are there than
I tile slmrt- .!-■ -« - fell >
Do Hotter Next Time.*
Friday was Arbor Day in Georgia,
was inadequately appreciated and pooriy
observed. Util! it woe Arbor Day. Governor
Gordon proclaimed it and hereafter every
year we will have this opportunity to dem
onatrete onr oommon sense end onr appro
oiation ot the potent ressent whioh urge a
system of annual tree planting. It ;would
have coat very little to have planted s thon
■end trees in Uaoon yesterday. The publio
sohools planted a hundred. They did their
duty end from thiir little labor will result
a permanent benefit to the beauty end
beelthot tbs eity.
Inevitably, Arbor Day will become a grand
festival in the South. Our people ara pro
gressive. They know a good thing when
they see It, bnt they do not yet apprehend
the importance of tree planting. Oovernor
Gordon, or whoever may be Governor,
next year, will proclaim Arbor Day
again. It will ba more fully observed
than it was yesterday. Its beautiful
ouatom will become eontagioue and
finally Georgia will rise to a fall apprecia
tion of the tree problem. Itta e greet deal
more important than some of the things on
which we ere now expending our energies,
onr antbnaiaam, and our monoy. Fortun
ately, Maeon ta already the shadiest olty iu
the South, but we went more trees. We
cannot have too many. Let os pay mors
rtapect to Arbor Day next year.
of opioion among ourselves before en- Was!
gaging iu a contest with a common cube Con,r
A courxoMiau tariff bill which will re
duce taxation about $55,000,000 now set mi
very probable. The greater p,rt of the re
duction will be on the neceesariee of life.
Coxr rrmox for the National Democratic
Convention has already begun. Several
big eittaa want to entertain the body which
will name the next rieaident of the United
States.
Tnx Republican caucus nominated Tom
Reed, of Maine, for Speaker. This i
deserved tribute. Lied ta the brightest
man on the RtpubUcon side of the House,
and ta no worae than the rest.
Edwin Sroxie ta said to have made
$1,000,000 last you. Jim Fisk ta deal.
It
Let it Stand.
The Auguita Gazette keeps standing at
the head of its editorial coinmns the follow
ing very graphio statement ot the situation
From which column shall the $100,000,
000 tax surplus be taken—the right or the
left? Let the people who pay the uxee
answer:
Tax oa whisky,
Tax on tobacco,
t»TSx on bear.
for tho continuance of tho present or of
some modified system of national bank cir
culation based on United States bonds.
3. To allow banks to issue circulation
upon their general credit, without requir
ing speciflo security to be deposited.
With regard to the first proposition the
comptroller does not think that there wonid
be an increased bank circulation, and states
hta reasons for that conclusion at some
length. He rules out the next proposition,
bcciuse it contravenes the settled polioy of
Corgreis. He regards the final proposition
aa likely to be both generally aceeptable
and praotioatly ifffotlve. The comptroller
considers the plans under this proposition
which vary, first, according to vclume of
circulation proposed; seoond, according to
security proposed; third, ncicrding to plans
ot redemption. He sums up finally thus:
It would appear that no substitute yat pro
posed for the present basis of national
bank circulation ta sufficiently freo from ob
jection to be adopted. The 4 percent, bonds
will not mature for twenty years, and,
apart from other considerations, there ta
enough In this fast to justify caution and
delay in malting any radical chr.nge in the
basis of circulation. In that time no doubt
something acceptable will be devised, but
at present all that seems practicable is to
modify the existing law eo as to obviate its
inconveniences, and oa a first step toward
this end it appears both safe and wise to
rednee the minimum amount of bonds to
be kept on dejioflb C. W. H.
THE PlijvTH CONGRESS
INSANITY AMONG I
*«4ell
Florida, has gone loJJL. 8 ***®* Jois.1
prise at Wuhlogto, -&*.'*? n °X
whored by fill Mlow^««6ri J
Jong ego, and one of hu br 0 te U " neB tl
fold me as muoh during ti.
closed last Alaroh. ".A”* -"ton » L g
dinary character. Self i **
my.
If
Percent.
Tax on rater SO
Ixx on rice Ill
Tex on sell
Tax on com atereh
Tax on plain silk goods. So
Tax on woolen drees
roods costlLs ti eta. a
yard Tt
'ax on common cloth.. Si
Txxon woolen hoolery. TO
. Txxon Dsaneta 71
) Tax on woolen steels.. 17
Tex on cotton hosiery.. 15
Tax on cotton Sasgtnr. Si
Tax oa pi,m eannan-
M
Tax on window steal...
Tax on plate (teas 1ST
Taxon atari rails IM
Tax oa crockery es
Tax oa cotton lira.
The Tzlzobapb printed this striking par
allel oolumn soma weeks ago and it ta
pleased to see it Uve end thrive. The peo
ple understand the situation and they mean
to amend it. The Gizitte canid keep no
better banner afloat.
It has been demonstrated that railroad
cus can be heated by steam. Now let ns
kick out the car etove and tat it cremate it
self.
Tnx Wexteri, H-pabiieani sre very angry
of Don
over lie prospective appointment
Dickinson as Poetma,ter General. This is
because they are well ecquilnted with Don
ald and hare felt hta (tout Democratic
blows.
ourselves on essential points we oan well
afford, in view of the critical condition of
the country, to poetpono the diaoussion ot
minor matters until a more appropriate
time. This course, it seems to me, ta
demanded l>y the highest considerations of
party expediency and publio welfare. Bnt,
Mr. Chairman, I did not intend to indulge
lu this line of remark and will not pnrsno it
farther. We all well know what is expeoted
of us and I hope you are all prepared to
mike such eonoessiong and compromises
os will si cure concert of aotion and satis
factory setthmont cf great public questions
which will be presented for onr considera
tion.”
Senator Biniom said that the country
was tc be congratulated on the spectacle of
the party uniting itself here by the pur
suit of abroad national policy in accord
ance with its traditions and principles. The
spirit of generous concession in details
ta the spirit of all rational politics. He is
hopeful of a successful issue.
THE IXTIBHAL TAXES
Senator Vanoe has fears that the revenue
question will not be settled this session. It ta
significant that ot perhaps fifty luterriewi,
I have had the past. few days, the only
doubts of the passage of the bill reducing
the surplus are expressed by gentlemen in-
tnciitd tu in a repeal ot internal taxes.
But meat of these ere sanguine,
Dr. Carlton favors the liberal reduotion
cf cuitome duties and internal rev-
(.quo at far os consistent therewith. He
says any bill truly relieving the people from
melees inquisition and perteoutlon wl:l
command hta support. He does not under
stand the polioy ot the Democrats to be to
make perpetual such txetae laws, and
thinks tbs policy should be one of gradual
abolition of the Internal taxes. He men
tions many ouss of hardship end some ot
extortion in Madison oounty.
MB. BLOUNT.
Mr. Bteunt’a spirited and able de
fense of Col. Donelson ta the
subject of very forcible remark to-day.
Hta oouree, both in resenting the imagined
insult and la gensrons apology when he
had discovered hta mlsoenctplion of Mr.
Clifton Breokenridge’sspeeob, is considered
equally creditably to bis heart, “A great
big heart has Jim Blouat,” sail a promi
nent Benator; “he always stands np to bis
friends, and ha baa multitudes of friends. 1
Ureckenrldge speaks in most exalted terms
ot Blount’s maul sad physios! courage and
generosity.
It the balloting had eantinued in the
door-keeper fight, General Field wcnld
probably have been a formidable eandidata,
although not deaironi of;the position.
Lie 18LATINO AGAINST DYNAMITEBS.
Mr. Adams, of Illinois, Republican, will
introdneo a bill giving discretionary power
to the President to euppreae dynamiters.
Benator Palmer expects to introduce a
bill to restrict immigration. It will require
a tsx and certiflcat* from tha consul of the
port whence the emigrant embarked that
be ta ot sonnd mind, not e panper, rip a ta
ble in charaoter and not a dynamiter,
learn that several such bills will be intro
duced.
Jehu Baker favors tha proposition for
commercial treaty or zollvareiu with South
and Central America as the solution of tha
tariff question. He would have the world
acoeptthtaae Jehu’s upright in plsoeof
Bill's boriz mtal
A half dez n Republican politicians of
Indianapolis an ben to-night to influence
Hoar and other Republic m Senators to
throw out Turpie to-morrow, but it ta un
derstood that many of the Utter ere opposed
to neb tactics.
Riddleberger's position bee been hereto
fore outlined. Ths Democrats are ready for
all emtrgendee.
NATIONAL BANK CISCUXJtTION.
Tha report of tha Comptroller of Curren-
cy is so voluminous that it will not be
printed before Congress is convened,
is learned that it tool odes a summary 4 cf
suggestions received by bim from all parte
of the country. Oat of more than forty
plans proposed, five are considered, and
these reduced to three, as follows:
1. To increase Inducements for banks to
deposit United States bonds ss e basis of
national bank circulation.
1 To provide (or the new issue of bonds
agree among .oMobk to-morrow. The Ounrse ot events
border at Noon To Day—
|r of llu.lnraa.
toN, December 4.—Tho Fiftieth
r«ill be called to order at 12
when he found that tee P rich
did not think thesame w.” SeSE, ,f
is the seoond easaof iu, at ,itv am»' !1
insanity amours,.
men Within a very short
in tbeSenate during tee week Beems to de
pend entiteiy upon the ability o: the two
parties to r aeh a conclusion with respect
to the admission of membora elect. It ta
eaid to be probable that objeotion will be
made by the R-publieans to the admission
of Senators Turpie, of Indiana, and Faulk
ner, of West Yirglaia, some leading Re-
pnolioans holding that there are good prims
facie grounds for investigation of their
titles, snoh as oxist against no other Bene-
tors-elect; the Democrats, on the otbpr
hand, holding that the only flaws in the
titles of Senators nemod are merely tech
nical, propose in csso the objection is made,
to make similar obj otiona to the admission
of oertain Republicans in whose credentials
technical lapses have been found.
This is likely to prrcipiiate a oor-fliot
over the organiz ition of the body which
may delay all other matters indefinitely.
Should the objeotion not be made, or shonld
compromise, or an undersUnditg be
reaebed, the Senate will to-morrow appoint
the customary committees, to give notice
to tho House and to the President
of the organiz i iou of the Benate audita
reedlrn ss to proceed to bnsiness.
If both houses complete tbsir organiza
tion to-morrow, the Freeident’e message
will be laid before them Tuesday. Tha re
mainder of the week in the Benate 1* likely
to witness nothing in the way of general
legislation, exoept the introduction of bills.
Toe House will bo aallrd to order at noon by
Mr. Clarke, elerk of the preceding House,
and after a quorum of members have res
ponded to their names on the oall of the
roil, the work of organization will be pro
ceeded with, the Speaks* having been duly
•ale ted end the oath administered to him
by Mr. Kelley, of PenneylvAnia, the mem
ben elect will take their stand In front of
the Speaker's desk and qualify. No hiteh
will occur iu this proceeding as there is no
member whose prime fade right to n seat ta
questioned.
The next business will he the drawing for
■eats, which will consume the remainder of
tha day.
On Tuesday the President'* meseege will
ba received, read and refeirad to the com
mittee of the wholo.
Iu the organiz ition, end in tha last two
Congresses, it was not perfected before the
holiday recess, owing to the oloee
division of the new House on petty lines,
end the Urge number of new aud untried
members whole personal preferences iu the
assignments it ta onstomsry to consider, it
seems probable that the work o selecting
— *•* " * n-.aliaUfo
benator Nesmith, of Oregou, died r»~l
in an insane asylum, and Nesmith a]
greater man than Jonis. He
the big men of Congress during ti,
and was afterward appointed micUte
Austria, but was nnt confirmed il»l
a great faurritu of P/esidjnt UoeeltI
bo partook somewhat of LiLcolo tsl
ma-mers. Ho was the author o! a *
whioh has been oft quoted ot otter
It was in relation to tbo charaeter (
gress and Congressmen. H, -aid:
1 first camo to Washington and te,
eoitiu tho Senate chamber I looted t.
on that magnificent body of cue atd l
dered how in the world I evir not l
And,” he oontiuued, "otter I hat
there about three week* I again !>
around upon that body of meu°aod~L
dered how in the world they mil
there.” 1
Nesmith died of softening of the l
He drank oocelderabldnrmg the liter]
Of his days in Oregon, and when he h|
little eld bonrbon in him be did i.oi f
for appearances. He was plaiicg citlJ
night wben the oauoua of 1 is 'party til
ranged to mail - him their candidate to!
United States Senate. 4 A delegation 1
sent to find him. They wanted hM
oome to the otuous. He n>pii«d taJ
oonld not leave hta game. Theycjuld 3
bim Senator if they wanted to, and if]
didn't they oonld go to tho devil
committees will oeonpy Speaker Carlisle's
time nearly or qnite np to Christmas;
mean while no legislative huiinrsa of im
portance oau be transacted, and the House
wi'l probably eonaume abort eeeiions, inter
vening between frequent edjonrnme..te in
the debates of u pointoal charaoter.
TRIED TO WED A MASKED NEGRESS.
Pastor's NurprlelnE Dleccvary While
Marrying a Conpte.
New Fork World.
Philaueli-uia, November 30.—A well-
dressed couple crossed the Delaware by the
Market etreet ferry this evening, end, en
gaging a buck on the Camden side, drove to
the residence of the Rev. J. W. Bagiy, pea.
tor of the Taberaaeic Jchnrch on Broadway,
lly invitation, tha hackman accompanied
them Into tho paster’s honaeto witness the
marriage. The clergyman bad noticed that
both the couple wete nioily hut not ex
pensively dressed, end that they seemed f®. 0 A'rot uairj, ot
y et!r p.,wnn. and anxious f„, the c.ramonv* JgJgfrie“£ f«o ail *
suit was that the delegation went off t
and another man was obosea.
Perhaps the queerest oan of
■talesmen was that of John Budolpl
Roanoke. He was si ways deteg i
things, and ha was during spirt of 1
as mad as a March hare. He drank I
osas and eta opium at Timer, aid
left such a reoord that half the h .i
think ha wai mad and the o.her
they do not know.
A Library Tor tha Aaylnm With-
E iltore TzLEOBAra: I. is with
tion that I see your MUIedgi'
respondent on the 30th ult
made fovorsblo m> ntion of the libruyi
endeavoring to seenra for the tmf
inmates of the uylnm.
As the Legislators has sesmed
to the foot that there sre msav Is
as}lam to whom a library would be
e blessing, tbey have made no
tlon for books. About three moatts
conoeiving the Idee of building np
individual and voluntary conuibn
published over my nom de plane et
Sharp” appeals in saveral pepm ~
wrrs extoustvsly oopled—for snob
band books and magaxinea as ths birsi
the iostitution could spare.
Contributions come in so promp'lr
liberally I was encouraged to wnte
ally to various publishing boons,
many of them responded far more lite
than I ever dared to hope. Bwidts
■oust lettere of thanks I pabllsb is
Milledgevtlle papers names of sll
and their emlribatianaae they omtii
week, donating, good solid volants
interesting magazines wo have oa hud
about 400 in all and others areBovier
to us, even from Ohio, The fftnoi
widely popular firm of J. W. baits a
of your city, has kindly promised u»
era! donation which they will ship ecr“
Your correspondent mentioned tbe
odist Publishing House and the Hu]
contributing liberally, but they m**J
only publishers who have does m
you pli
tuai b» btrih," and °» h * M »•'
want to Florida be he
trade by day and etudtad taw'b? , ¥
b gun praoiising juii nbnni*.^ ,
amui eutored the White f?n n lho tlu ‘*
good speaker and ha soon Z' 4 , H# "
uce. Uo sexved two tarm?°4* 1 pi
Htaiea Senate, and badh^n*? U *
ha might aim hold im B0 "* «
well in the Senate chalk ' n » si
one of those Henatota ^ho'kcZ h “
always upon the gnlLriee. uZS °“ e
love tor law was tee love' fn7tv. 0<1 u* uh
in woman, and it was thi* iLZ k# - n '_
him. He is a tali fl A° Te nuBpi
blue eye whioh sparkles°whenh 1 * D '*l
cited. Dunng hi, tatter d«." &
he evidently ooneidered himself^ 1
match for any woman, aud he ha, sdf
few women wonid refuse such a 1
teat ot having a United State. tjZ
marriage. The sooial poeitioTi. JSl
thought, that any woman would ha
to rijept it, and he was d.S*
very peraona and anxiona for tha ceremonv
to be performed aa quiokly ax possible. Tbe
groom was a fine looking man, bnt the
Bride's features were oonceeltd by a heavy
veil, whioh the seemed in no hurry to re
move.
Mr. Bagiy took tbe marriage certificate
book and^began asking tha usual questions.
The groom gave bis name aa Joa-..ph 8. El-
lem, thirty-two year* of age, Englishmen
by birth, now living at Overbrook, Mont
gomery oounty, Pa, and bit occupation
that ota groom. Turning to the bride-
elect the preacher began to question her.
In a mnmbllng end. smothered kind of
votes she said her name was Emma Fye, 000
twenty-nine yean old, that aha also llvsd at
Ovtrbrook and was employed at the same
place aa EUem. The answers were sa'.ta-
fectory, but Ur. Bagiy bed his auepieioii
Mooted by the woman keeping her veil
down. Ho requested them to stand np be
fore hjm in order to pronounce them man
and wife, bnt before he began thocorimony
ho asked the bride to remove her veii.
This she refused, aud Mr. Bagiy said he
would not proceed nntil the did ao.
She still oljicted, when the rev
erend gentleman pulled the veil over her
head and, to hta astonishment, discovered
that her face was covered by a gsuzj mask.
T-u i-icaso mention also ths ffrasj^J
Lupton and the American Btpust
lion Bcciety, of Philadelphia, flj
lingbam. Geo. Munro, Mona A C»i *
Scientific American, Frank L. ta»l
and WaRDnlls, tho proprietors of
Amerioan Baview, Carter A Brea,
perthwsit Jt Co., of New York, S“ “■
ton, M.ffliu A Co., ot Bostoo, me.v
uting liberally, betides Prang 4 ta.,
great chromo publisher* of
sent eleven of their finest ta**. ,
and Prof Baird, of the Bmithsoolts
A mm o ^ — am a • -1 -mam sealnaKlA ^
Good Heanlta In Every Cato.
JP'sdfort. wkelssale paper Canter c-f CLatte-
Tmn . writes tt. at he waa aartonaly ifflktid
COM that Battled on hiatal
HBP^wrtte^xUheu^SrtL^BSne In-
duert totry I>r. Itta*-. N.w Discovery tor Coo
mpttoa. did ao aad va* aattralj eond bj tu*o(
9 (*w bottlaa hinc* which lima b« lu ujxtd It In
Alt Oomiha and Colds with bet re-
™te •» the cipartenen of thouundx whose
Hty*.** 1 '*-*— sated by this Wond.rful DUranry.
Laiau, lUiakin Jt Lamar'* drug
^ , r qo'w
good though second hand hooka
we thunk them. ... . . _g.
There ta hardly »n intelligent tmW
the Btate who hare not from #*“ * .
to fifty second-hand books
conld easily spare whioh, « •*“
would prove ■ boon to those who ere
eerily separated from their *<>'•“ “ ,|
Mil j- ctid to the restraints ofJh» “l
If a paper with the infloeneeof tee
a Barn will duke occasional mee«*® .
1 (eel assured that the good psoP» »
con will do e noble part by os. » .
bow old or soiled • book, .call"}*
matter ta in It, it will be acceptable “
one at a time by mail , r. [ s
The library, though *“*“ {‘L id
eration, with six of tbe P. r0 ,
on file, among which I findth» T *£“,
very popular and eegtriy loo*, m-jcj
the mail arrives. Ill* Te *J
least to me-to seei how much
reel hsppineae the library ^""jRrted,
on rosny WHO, nn 1 l! *e bad I r{ .
nothing to Interest them and ^
dered aimlessly • bo JJ* J* .v f ir o«»
grounds, only to dwell upon ^ (l)t
dition end brood over tbetr , w c
Believing that you wffiI»«. ", b
other papers have, yoor o - ,1 -*
encoin this good work, I*®'
very kindiy ycurs, n kibrxri* 1
W. 6. BELLANT,
P. 8 —Contributions may “* „
or exprecs to “Asyln® folnry,
villa,*Ol _ _v. r jit, 157"
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