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4klt*hr’i fndepcudrut. J. C. OiILAIIEB, Editor. SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1874. THE ELECTIONS "Why don't yon write something about election* (list it to oome off tl>i bill ? Why don’t we have a convention and nom inate candidates V Is the question that has been frequently propounded to ns. Wliy we have not is that the time has not ar rive.!. We want no agitßlicm while the planters are busy with their crops. Their niinda arts and ought to be absorbed with their business, and their minds ought not to be diverted from it. Lot them win the Little they are now fighting with the grass and when the victory ia won and they can ait down to rest let ns talk then about con ventions and candidates, and discuss the luerite oi parties, their qualifications and availibility. The too early agitation of party claims will fulminate discord; we do not know who or whether any one ei ther in tho Districts or in our county is aspiring to position or not If there are auy such wo would suggest that they wait pulieutly aud see if they ore really tho Choioo of the people, and we promise them that if they are, that they will be informed of the fuct iu due time. If your services are essential to tho public the demand will be made and you will be apprised of it. Concert of action is essential to success, and without it defeat is inevitable. There fore for the general good and for tho ac complishment of a great purpose let us forget self, avoid beokon’ngs, contentious aud confusion, and all together as one man work for the general good. Wo all have our preference and our preference is aud will bo whether he or they bo our per sonal friends or foes, the man or men chos en by the party opposed to Radical vil lainy. Wsf would suggest that we wait pa tiently until the planters work is done aud they have time and leisure to think and talk, and we will then have ample time to plan the campaign and fight the buttle. Six weeks is time sufficient for the Congressional race, and one month for Senators and Representatives in the Leg islature. Then tho fight will be short aud we cau fight to the end with vigor without Wearying. ASTI FIRE ORGANIZATION. Wc ms informed that there is an organ tion of ttoflpHVMJ in this place, headed, an we ostensibly by one anrgeant Tinker, a “yaller nigger" of immense hi iglit, and of ynukee army notoriety; V)ut really headed, eondneted and controlled, by the black-hearted, whitc-skincd, social cquolitists of the place. The object of this organization is to prevent the colored people, in case of fire, mi Tng a extinguishing it; but per mits them to carry out all the goods and chattels in the house, or houses. Not withstanding Fluker as the chief officer of this wicked organization is rigidly cnforce ing these rules against ull the colored men who dure to aid in fighting the distrnotivo element, wo do not believe that lio is mean enough at heart to originate) a shcemo no basely wicked, but it originated in the hearts and minds of base nud wicked white-skiued villinnn, who are Radicals bo cause they could not be regarded ns gen tlemen and worthy Democrats, and be cause in perfidy and villainy, in nrsou, burglurry and larceny, they could only find equals in the ranks of the uneducated, nnsnspectiug minded children of nature of African descent. It is hard that the poor deluded creatures should be punished while their leaders go unwliiped of justice. Horae weeks ago the property of Mr. James Y. Jones, at the west end of town, took fire, and every body in the village has tened to the scene, among others was Gus McAffuc, a oolored blacksmith, Gus or dered his journeyman workman, Monroe Stratten, oolored, to take hold of the ropes and assist in pulling the fire engine, this he did, and was, as soon as possible, ar raigned before the tremenduous Fluker, to receive his sentence, and was fined. Gus McAffoe requests ns to say that he does not belong to any such organization, that the white people of Quitman have patronized and supported him, that they have proved his friends when in need, and that ho will favor no organization that is opposod to their interest. He assures us that he has lost all confidence in the po litical integrity of carpet-baggers and scalawags. He has learned for himself that they ore Radicals for selfish motives, and selfish ends. He told a thin-skined, hell deserving Radical carpet-bagger, who was here on Wednesday lust, to influence the colored people in favor of Senator Clark,of Thomas county, -that his only true white friend* lived the South, uud that he lmd never hail any evidence of friendship from the Yankees. The pale faced thiev ing villiun told Gus that he had fought to free him. Qua told him if he was free lie would act and vote as - he pleased, and from the presence of the triumphant Gus, the representative of the Thomas county Radical Scuntor sneaked off like a “yaller dorge.” We think he found more oougo ncnl companions with meaner men with whiter skins. While wo are in favor of aiding and en couraging the black people, and rejoice at their prosperity, wo think it would be 1 unsafe and injudicious to employ any man thut would become a member of the or ganization above refered io. We think that caution would at enee dictate to every prudent man not to hire, hut even dis charge any man wke-sareg so little for his iSterest as not to aid hiui in saving his property from fire. A room so recklessly indifferent to his employes*- interest is wicked enough to distroy his property. Let us all learn who they are, and have no dealings with them. We have no respect for any man who would give employment to a white man or negro who stands i pledged not to assist him or his neighbor in .avmg hi- property horn distinction A 810 SMELL. A unification, civil right's, social equality, Radical, Scalawag nominating Convention is to lie held this duy ut Outil don’s church, in this county. AVudu uud Griffin bus been preparing for weeks for this grand carnivul, where they hojie to meet n large number of their equals. Orifflu we learn has the plans all arranged for the Congressional fight this summer and full. Ham among negroes that can’t reud, wc are informed, is quite a speakest. Wade lias no speaking qualities but is very sly, and politically very mean; he is on terms of perfect friendship mid equality with the meanest negroes. The 1 sitter and more intelligent class have no resjiect for him. With nnificators and social equalitists he lias some pretty respectable ideas, and he uses poor, simple Hum us uu instrument, or speaker, to convey them to the negroes. This is the programme for to-day and they will probably succeed iu deluding the bluck people in tlmt neigh borhood into tho support of themselves or some other white man very little bot'wcr than they are. This to Wade im/i Gridin will be a day long remembered on account of delightful embrace* and the regaling of their refined alfactories. tHE BIGNB OF THE TIMES are tliut the Musical Entertainment to be given at Madison, Fla., on the 24th of this month, for the Lee Monumental Associa tion at Savannah, under the supervision of Miss belle Hnusmau, aided by the accom plished Mrs. Ship, of Tallahassee, and others of rare musical attainments, to the lovers of music will Vie grand and im posing. Madison We hope, ah, We doubt not, will b alive to the occasion, so pa triotic and benevolent iu its character, and fraught with trip; Southern pride. Madi son is now mid has been in advance of her sister towns both in Georgia and Florida in the commemoration of heroism, and we hope, ah, indeed, we know she will not peril the prestige so honorably won, so creditably maintained. Madison, yes, Florida has been robbed, her interests have boon crushed, but tho fires of her prido and honor burns upon her countries’ altar and will never bo quenched. We hope to be there and will be painfully dis appointed should anything occur to pre vent our attendance, and we hope to see as many noble Floridians as can possibly at tend. Savannah, the State of Georgia, will appreciate this noble effort on the part of onr sister State to perpctmitc in memory our great chieftain, aud we hope the press j of our State will tender to these estimable ladies an expression of appreciation as a reward of merit. YVe cannot eloso this article without n notice of the liberality of Mr. J. H. Es till, proprietor of the Morning Newt, that popular paper,both in this State and Flor ida, that needs no heralding from us to in crease its circulation or add to its enviable reputation. The ladies of Madison had but through n friend to a.k Mr. Estill to aid them in advertising their entertain ment. Considering (he benevolence of tho object there was no hesitancy on liis port, hut a largo number of immense and elegantly primed posters were printed at liis office mid forwarded to tho ludies for distribution through tlio country. All done gratuitously. We know the ladies and all the people wjll appreciate tliiw liberal net, aud we hope, we believe, and indeed, we kuow tlint neither Mr. Estill nor liis ex cellent paper will loso nny popularity by the act. His putronngo iu Florida lias been so extensive and so long aud unin terruptedly enjoyed that tho people feel that, they have some claims upon him, nnd when the ladies append the Col.’s gal lantry prompts n favorable response and always will as in this instance, nnd we hope that this public spirited act of his will be rewarded ten fold. LETTER FROM MADISON. Madison, Fla. , June 9, 1874. Editor Independent: The County Court has been in session yesterday aud to-day, after disposing of several petty lnroeny eases,court adjourned, subject to the call (I presume) of that rep rehensible man usually denominated as Judge Benj. Tid(well), a fox in a sheeps clothing, totally ignorant of the high po sition which he holds, nnd tho intricacies of which lie ia presumed to know, and of course his holdings and deeissions are at variance with the precedents of the higher courts of the State. He is a Judge with out judgment, a creature of instinct, nml that of a low order, and liis decisions are made without reason, and without the nnalisis of facts or tlio application of the rules of law. He is possessed of au instinet us all other animals are, and he culls that “equity," and to do that “equity” every precedent is ignored, every rule of law must bend, and facts stand abashed, and Tid's instinctive equity prevails. “The mills of the<smls grind slowly,” Tid is in the hopper and they are grinding him away, his snn has passed the neredian nnd is now on the decline, redemption is near ing, and it must come, or we are inevitably doomed to go "where the woodbine twin etk,” or at least “where the whangdoodlo monrnetli for its flint- born.” We will hail with much joy the dawn of the morn of our redemption. There is considerable excitement concern ing the musical entertainment to be given under the supervision of Miss Belle Huus man, nnd the talented assistants, on the 24th, expectations are high, conjeeturings are at par, all for the distingue personages that will appear. The programme will be published next week. As far as I have been able to learn, the selections are very good, aompririitg operatic and sentimental music with a few eiiaTaoter songs, persona ted in costumes. On this occasion, Mr. 11. J. Hnnsman will deliver an address—subject, “English I and American Celibritics. ” On- the tilth the Masons here, raid from ■ neighboring towns, are to have a dinner and a Masonic oration by Rev. Mr. Truer ! v * i A gala time is expected for all who will come. By all means you must not fu.il to let us see tla; light of your oountenance on tliut day. Your presence will be a valuable ac quisition on that occasion, in fact, it is at any time and place. ./ Knntuk. To the Executive Committee of the Demo cratic Party. Macon, May 18, 1874. Desiring, above all things, unity of ac tion by tho Democrats of Georgia in our approaching elections, and knowing the great importance of harmony in our rants, I have determined, with a view to- these desirable ends, to cull together F, e Exeeu tive Committee of the party on the first Wednesday in July in Atlanta, for consul tation. Untill th'.ii it is desired that no action looking to nomination of candidates will lie taken by the party. Gentlemen of the Convention, the interest of the people r.emaiiu your attention. Taomak H ahiik wan, Jit,, Chairman Dem. Ex. Com. The Present Democratic Executive Com mittee in Georgia. The State Democratic Executive Com mittee of Georgia consists of the follow ing gentlemen: Hon. Thos. Hardeman, Chairman. Htate at large- Col. J. L. Harris,Bruns wick; Hob. Warren Aiken, of Bartow; Hon. Nelson Tift, of Dougherty; Hon. J. H. Christie, of Clarke. hirst District—Hon. J. C. Nicliolls, of Pierce; Hon. James H. Hunter, of Brooks. Second District—Hon. Herbert Fielder, of Randolph; lion. T. M. Furlow, of Sum ter. Third District—Hon. E. H. Worrell, of Talbot; Major J. C. Wooten, of Cow eta. Fourth District—Col. J. S. Boynton, of HpaUling: Hon. T. G. Lawson, of Put nam. Fifth District—Hon. Augustus Reese, of Morgan; Hon. James B. Jones, of Burke. Sixth District—Col. Tlios. Morris, of Franklin; Col. J. Estes, of Hall. Seventh District—C>l. I. W. Avery, of Fulton; lion. L. N. Trammell, of Whit field. The committee was appointed under resolutions of the last Convention of the party that assembled fu Georgia the 24th of July, 1872. Here is the resolution: "Resolved, That this committee recom mend that the President of the Convention appoint an Executive committee of the Democratic party of the State, to serve un til the meeting of the next State Conven tion, mid to consist of two members for each Congressional District ns now exist ing, and four for the State at large, which committee shall have power to elect a chairman outside of its own body.” [From tho X. Y. World.] A Great Excitement in the Republican Party. Washington, June 5. The Repubieans in Congress, especially the leading niombers of the party, profess to lie iu a state of great alarm over tho discovery within a day or so of the agres sive position of the President on the cur rency question, the new reciprocity treaty, and possibly the Civil Rights Bill. There liavo been intimations that he contempla ted sending to Congress a special message, appealing for the passage of a specie re sumption measure and indicating even more pointedly than he did in liis veto message liis opposition to any hill that proposed expansion iu tho slightest de gree. This course, however, lias doubtless struck the President ns not a very wise one pending tho consideration of a bill by Congress, and ho has adopted the easier channel of a correspondence with Mr. Joues, tho hard money Senator from Ne vada, which will be found below. This correspondence is merely tho compound of what tho President lias said aud read to tho Western Republicans who have been submitted for his approval the framework of a so-called compromise currency meas ure which lias been under discussion iu the Conference Committee. They were j astonished yesterday and tho day before at j the decided manner in which ho put his foot down on any project that did not. em body his particular views, and have sp ex pressed themselves in terms quite as earn est, if not quite us polite, ns those of the President. This evening, however, when the Presi dent’s views, as expressed to them, took shape in the letter to Senator Jones, their indignation was thoroughly aroused, nnd several leading inflation Republican Sena tors did not hesitate to denounce his in terference with pending legislation in that way as An warrantable as It was unprece dented. They ehargo upon him the re sponsibility of strangling the currency bill in the house of its friends, and with nd- i hering to a policy that will drive the Re- j publican party into thfe breakers iu the fall -elections. The Western Republicans who have commented in this strain" con cede that- tlie President's ootirse on this : aud other matters will insure beyond all doubt a Democratic House of Representa tives. While tlm Western men luivo been ex j hibiting their political demoralization over | the financial fiasco, the Pennsylvania Re : publicans have startled their friends with , the announcement that the President has j come out in favor of the new reciprocity j treaty, and Messrs. Kelly and Cameron j have grown white with wrath and words ' over tho fact. As if to supplement the day’s development one of the negro mem bers from South Carolina informed some of his white Radical brethren on the floor of the House this evening that ho had as surances he could not doubt that if Con ! gross passed tho pending civil rights bill ; the President vymld certainly veto it ! These facts are well calculated to alarm | the Republicans, and concealment of them is no longer wise, even if it wero possible. The Tbomasvillc Enterprise says: **o. B. Davis, the bigjunist whose capture we reported in out; last, will await in jail, his trial at the next term of Thomas Superior Court, in default ol a two thousand dollar bond. [FriAn the New York Herald. J The Scientific Outlook. Wendell Phillips said in a recent speech that the time was coming when we might communicate instantly with San Francisco without either wire or operator. Tho au dience laughed at him. Perhaps his state ment is not so extravagant us it scorned. Uud tho ordinary work now done by the magnetic telegraph been predicted forty yoars ago it would havolioen received with the same incredulity. The truth is that science, like policies and love, always de velops in unexpected directions. No sooner nio men fixed in their scientific opinions than some startling discovery re veals their ignorance and shows tlio world ; tlint all things are possible under the sun. Ever since the invention of the use of steam men have agreed that only hot va-1 por had the least power; but quite recently a Philadelphia machinist exhibited an iron i globe, no larger than a gallon jug, full of cold vapor, showing a pressure of twonty thousand pounds to the square inch, and neither time nor temperature diminished j its tremendous power. The discovery is ; said to have been accidental. The inven tor was experimenting with an engine run j by compressed air and a vacuum, when to ] his profound astonishment he* turn bled on the cold vapor secret; and it was some time before he could make a gauge strong 1 enough to test its power. Until then he had not imaged such a discovery possible. Nature seems to coquet with the inquir ing intellect of man until lie is sure of some great secret, when she confounds him with disappointment; but in his less inquisitive moments she reveals what ho never dreamed of. Modern science is a paradox. Water, which was always con sidered the most incombustible matter in nntiiro, produces the greatest heat known. Watch springs burn like pitch. The chemist prepares delicate muslin so that it can be cleansed with fire. Arsenic is pre scribed for dangerous diseases. Frozen feet, are saved by plunging them into snow. Children are told to keep away from iron during thunderstorms, yet hardware stores are never strnck by light ning. Persons suffering with hydropho bia go into convulsions at the sight of wa ter. A French physician, however, Ims cured fifty cases of this awful malady with hot baths. An editor of a New York news paper lost his sight until a surgeon put a *knife into his eyeballs, whereupon the man recovered and went about his work. The wildest imagination is unable to predict the discoveries of the future. For all we know families in the next century 1 may pump fuel from tho river and illumi ; nate their houses with ice and electricity, i Iron vessels, properly magnetized, may sail through the air like balloons, and a trip to tho Rocky Mountains may be made jiu an hour. Perhaps within fifty years : American grain will be shot into Liverpool | and. Calcutta through iron pipes laid under | the sea. By means of condensed air aud i cold vapor engines excursiou parties may | travel along the floor of the ocean, sailing 1 past ancient wrecks and mountains of ! coral. On land the intelligent farmer may i turn tho soil of a thousand acres in a day, ! while his son cuts wood with a platinum ! ! wire and shells coni by electricity. The 1 matter now contained in a New York daily I ' tnay bo produced teu thousand times a I minute, on little scraps of pasteboard, by 1 improved photography; and boys may sell tho nows of the world printed on visiting cards, which their customers will read, through artificial eyes. Five hundred years lienee n musician may play a piano iu New York connected with instruments in San Francisco, Chicago, Cincinnati, New Orleans and otb< r cities, which will be listened to by half a million of people. A speech delivered in New York will be heard instantly in tho halls of those cities, and when fashionable audiences iu San Francisco go to hear some renowned singer' she will be performing in Now York or ; Philadelphia. In the year 1900 a man may put on his j inflated overcoat, with a pair of lightsteer iug wings fastened to his anus, and go to j Newark and back in nn hour. All the ] great battles will be fonglit in tho air. Patent thunderbolts will bo used instead of cannon. A boy in Hoboken will go to Canada in the family air carriage to see his sweetheart, aud tlio next day liis fntlier will chasten him with a magnetic rebnker because be did not return before midnight. Tho time is coming when the Herald will i send a reporter to see a mail reduce one j of the Rocky Mountains to powder in half a day. Skilful miners will extract gold j from quartz easily as cider is squeezed j from apples. A compound telescope will be invented on entirely new principles, so that one may see the planets as dis tinctly as we now see Staten Island. Mi croscopes will bo made so powerful that a particle of dust on a gnat a back will ap pear larger than Pike’s Paak. And mar vellous progress will be made in pscholog ical and mental sciences. Two men will sit in baths filled with chemical liquids. One of them may be in Denver and the other in Montreal. A pipo filled with the same liquid will connect the two vessels, and the fluid will be so sensitive that each man will kuow tho other’s thoughts. Iu these coming days our present mode of telegraphing will bo classed with the wooden ploughs of Egypt, aud the people will look back to steamships and locomo tives as we look back to sailboats and stage coaches. The highest grade of marriage union is tho religious, which may be expressed as pilgrimage toward a common shrine. This includes • ’.l the others; home sympa thies and household wisdom, for these pilgrims must know how to assist each other along the dusty way; intellectual communion, for how sad it would be on such a journey to have a companion to whom you could not communicate your thoughts and aspirations as they sprang to life; who would have no feeling for the prospects that open, more and more glorious as we advance; who would never see the flowers that may be gathered by the most industrious traveler! It must include all these. Mirgurct Fuller. [From the ltsltiniure Handily Telegram.] Exit Riohardson. Adiue 1 We bid thee adieu, great mas ter of finance ! When shall we see you again ? We begun with Alexander Humil ton_we have just parted with Richardson. The financial edifice was balnnced on its little end. Its broad base was lifted up to the heavens, and it was made to stand on the little end of nothing. It was an aw fully abrupt attempt at tapering off, for Richardson was to Alexander Hamilton what the point of tho steeple is to the base of a pyramid. Ha was sharp aud ornamen tal, but utterly useless. He was not even armed with an alarm bell. He was ap pointed to direct tho finances of the gov ernment, but permitted them to direct aud run away with him. He was appointed to guard the public money, and admitted the tlieives by contract—in fact, had a law passed to legalize their operations. It was his duty to devise measures for the betterment of the financial condition of the country, but ho never moved save to mar, nor suggested but to confuse. In a place requiring the highest education, the tontest atatesmanshij), the widest experi ence and the sturdiest morals, he devel oped a marked aliscence of the one and laxity of the other that was startlingly ap parent to the public and ruinously demor alizing to the service. It was imagined that when Bontwvll was reached the Treasury had.touched bottom. Financial vagaries, it appeared, had found their great expounder and patron diety in him. But it was reserved for Richardson to eclipse his preceptor and astound the world. He stood at the President’s back in New Y'ork, during the panic, a champi on of law and defender of the “reserve.” Ho returned to Washington aud opened the valves, flooding the country with ille gtiWirrency enough to aid the gamblers and to puralize legitimate business. The praises he had earned by his New York firmness were not dry from the lips that uttered them before he had given the lie to himself and branded the national faith. Then came his grand scheme for resuming spieie payments. Silver was to be put iu circulation by the pint to prevent the dis turbance of trade, and several pints were uttered which, white they did not achieve specie payments, vindicated liis prudence bv failing to effect any perceptible change. Rut the conspicuous achievement of his term wits the farming of the revnue. With wonderful skill nml adroit manage ment he succeeded in enlisting the effi cient Sanborn to take such burdensome work from the paid officers of the govern ment for one-lialf of the money collected. This was a triumph of financial and moral genius. And when Congress came to in quire of this private arrangement for the collection of government dues, he prevari cated with an insolence and awkwardness which would have excited the suspicion of a dunce. When Ananiy the particulars j of this master stroko were dragged to light |he laid the blame on Sawyer, aud Sawyer , blamed Banfield, and Banfield bluined Richardson, and tho count-}' was treated to an exhibition which would have been I ridiculous had it not been infamous. | The committee dared not stand before the country and take the rosponsibity of i palliating the incompetency and confessed j dishonesty of such au officer. We say confessed dishonest}', for if he had that he had only complied with tlie law and pursued an honest construction of duty, be would liavo given to the Com mittee of Ways and Means every paper, book and document relating in any manner to Sanborn’s contracts which were in his possession. He acknowedged guilt by striving to conceal the evidences of it. The murderer will wash aw ay tho most in nocent stain, because a sense of guilt causes him to fear suspicion in every dark spot upon his clothing. An innocent man j would not fear a drop of blood, if his con- j science is clear. *Yet Richardson claimed j to be honest with the fact before the world tlmt the Committee of Ways aud Means had to extort peace-meal from him tlie | papers and vouchers bearing upon San born’s transactions. Then, like a guilty wretch that he was, he crept beliiud Saw yer, atid held him up as a scapegoat, and j both then combined to blame Pa .field. To the charge of dishonesty and incompe tence, these men added the crime of per jury, and before their monstrous degrada tion tho humiliations of former incapaci ties paled to venial faults. Ho has left the Treasury, but not with out his reward. With a perseverance that j would be sublime in the better canse, the j President persists in walking counter to I the popular will and moral sense, and the I man who leaves the Treasury under a moral brand is transferred to a place upon ! the bcuce of the Coart of Claims which . snould be occupied by a man of nnim- ! peachable integrity. We have no right to presume that au injudicious or dishonest i Cabinet officer would make a model judge 1 of claims, but in anew position he will be far more harmless than in the place he has left, and for even such a diminution of evil we may afford to be thankful. His successor, General Bristow, is a man of a mild order of eminence, is represented to possess considerable ability, and to have preserved a character so fur above ap proach. He is not so entirely unknown as the majority of the obscurities with which the President has habitually surrounded his person, but, ns any change in the Treasury must be an improvement, we re joice at our escape from the worst whilst we persevere in hoping for the best. Somebody having mentioned to La vender that there are eight basial diversi ties of kisses spoken of in the Bible (the kiss of salutation, Samuel xx. 41; valedic tion, Ruth ii. 9; reconciliation, 2 Samuel xiv. 33; snbjection, Psalms ii. 12; approba : tion, Proverbs, ii. 4; adoration, 1 Kings 1 xix. 18; treachery. Matthew xxvi. 49; affec tion, Genesis xiv. 15) he remarked that there is another kind of kiss which young ■ ladies receive on the sofa in the front parlor after the gas is turned low which the Scriptures don't mention -nor tho young ladies either. REDUCING THE CURRENCY. F atur< of (hr Wrw Cnm-nry Act Hrforr i oiig >-■. Washington, June 9.—The currency act shall hereafter lie known us the Na tional Umk net Among the provisions are the following: That the entire amount of United States notes outstanding and ill circulation at any one time shall not exceed the sum of three hundred v>n 1 eighty-two millions of dollars which shall be retired and reduced iu the following maimer only, to wit: Within thirty days after tho pnssa e of this act circulating notes to the amount of one million dollars shall from time to time lie issued to national banking associations under this act in excess of the highest outstanding volume thereof ut nny time prior to such issue, it shall lie tho duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to retire rui amount of United States notes equal to til tee-eights of the circulating notes so issued which shall tie iu reduction of the maximum amount of three hundred and eighty-two million dollars fixed by this section, and such reduction shall continue until ttie maximum amount of United States notes outstanding shall be cancelled and carried to the account of the sinking fund. It also provides that on and after tlie Ist day of January, 1878, any holder of United States notes to the amount of fifty dollars or any multiple thereof may present them for payment at the office of the Treasurer of the United States or at the office of the Assistant Trearuri rat the City of New Y'ork and thereupon shall be entitled to receive at liis option from tlio Secretary of tlio Treasury, who is author ized and required to isHiie in exchange for said notes nn equal amount of either class of coupon or registered bonds of the Uni- Pul States approved, provided, however, that the Secretary of the Treasury, in lieu of such bonds mav redeem said notes in gold coin of the United States. Flanking a Salary Grabber. Col Ozro J. Dodds, late member of Con gress from the first district of Ohio, tells a good story about a call he recently re ceived at bis office from a mail who claimed to be an editor from Arkansas. He was a very seedy looking chap, and appeared as though he had but recently come off from about n six weeks’ spree. Bowing pro foundly, then striking uu attitude, with one hand on his heart, and the other ex tending a hadly used plug hat, he ex claimed with a dramatic air, “Have I the honor of addressing the Honorable Orzo J. Dodds ?” “Said the colonel, “My name is Dodds, but I am no longer an honorable.” “Not an honorable? Dodds not an honorable ? Now, by St. Paul, when I scan that honest face, on which all the gods at once do seem to set their seal (‘green seal,’ murmured Dodds to him self,) I read nothing dishonorable. ” “That’s right,” said Dodds, “never read anything dishonorable. But to business. ” “Yes, as you say, to business. I am a printer—l might say, with no unbecoming blush, an editor. lam from the noble Htate of Arkausaw, the only State, by the way, able and willing to support two gov ernors at the same time. But I have been unfortunate. Much have I been tossed through the ire of cruel Juno, and—” “Junohow it is yourself,” broke in the colonel. “Buffeted by the world’s rude storms, j you see mo here a stranded wreck. Scarce three moons past I left my office in charge fomy, worthy foreman, and sought the peaceful vales and calm retreats of the Muskingum Valley, where my childhood sported. Returning 1 stopped at Cincin nati. I fell into evil company, and -but why dwell cn details ? Enough that I am, that that I am, disheartened, mined, broke! A mark for scorn to point her slow, unerring finger at. An xvas about to give up iu despair, having given tip every thing else I had, I thought of you Sir, i am here. You have riot sent for me. but 1 have come ! Your name, sir, is known • and honored from one end of this great republic to tho other. It “Glows in the stars. Refreshes in the breeze, Warms in the suu And blossoms yn tlie fees. W lieu the national treasury was threatened by a horde of greedy Congressmen, you stood like'a wall of adamant between the peopleand those infamous salary-grabbers. lewd me a dollar /” “My dear sir,” the colonel hostered to explain, “You mistake the case entirely. I was one of the grabbers. ” “Y'ou were ?” (grasping the colonels hand warmlv) “so much the hotter ■ Let lfio congratulate you that a parsimonious public could not frighten you out of what was a fair remuneration for your invalua bly services. lam glad that your pecuni ary circumstance are so much be’ter tliun I supposed. Md eil two dollars And the colonel did. It was tlie only elean th.ng left for him to do.— Haiti more Sunday Telegram. Hidden Heroism. There is not a finer story of heroic life nml death in modern times than tlmt afforded by the short and obscure career of George Gordon,Sixth Earl of Aberdeen, who was lost at sea four years ago while serving as mate on au American sailing vessel in the West Indies. He was one of those young nobleman, of great wealth nnd greater heart, who believe that hu manity has some claim upon him, and he proposed to prepare himself for the duties of his exalted station iu life by practical experience of the struggles and privations of the poor. Ho came to this country, and, under an assumed name, worked for a living with his hands, gain ing the regard and cot.fiileece <*f hi fellow laborers, who never suspected liis real rank and position. He became, an able seaman at last, and was lost in a storm in 1870. His mother, the Coun tess of Aberdeen, has just sent a contri tion of 81,600 to tlie Amrrican Seaman’s Friend Society of Boston, for the purchase of books for the use of sailors. If a proper history of his romantic life could be writ ten, from materials now in the hands of his family, it would be extensively read among the fashionable society of England and might induce some young gentlemen, now at the crossing of tlie ways, to devote tbier lives to something better than horses and ballet-dancers. Punctuation. Any editor of the literary paper or mag aziue, with a single year’s experience, is a competent witness to prove that not more than four out of every forty who scribble fur bread or notoriety have any more correct ideas of punctuation than a Patigonian has of Paradise. One profound thinker—leaving out the h—drives on over three pages of foolscap without a single dot of punctuation. Another perpetuates odfe line periods, bringing us to “down brakes” at the end of every line, as ab ruptly as if we had checked up against a dead wall at “thirty-miles an hour’ speed. Number three keeps up acontinuous string of exclamation poults—eternally screaming at something that needs no screaming at, whatever. Many affect the dashing style of punctuation, slipping in one,two, throe, ami half line dashes, indiscriminately— dashing paragraphs into spasmodic non-1 sense. GRANGERS VS. DEMOUUACY. THE CHEAP TRANSP OR TA TIO .V QUESTION. THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS AND STATE RIGHTS. Tho Washington correspondent of tlio New Y'ork Herald writes: “For the last two days the Senate has been discussing a resolution from the joint Committee on Transportation, embracing uu appropriation of two hundred thou sand dollars for surveys, in view of u ship canal from the upper Mississippi river to New Y’ork. ria Lake Champlain, and thence ria the Hudson driver to onr great commercial metropolis; and of the pro posed trans-Allegheny routes, each for a freightrarroad ordinal connection — from the Ohio river across West Virginia to the Atlantic seaboard; and, second, from the Tennessee river to the Georgia seaboard; and also for a survey in view of the improvement of the navigation of tho Mississippi, particularity at the mouths of the river; and in the discussion of this res olution several of the Democratic Senators have flatly committed themselves to tho policy of resisting these improvements on the part of the general government us un constitutional and dangerous to the re served rights of the States. In tho dis cussion of this resolution, we say, provid ing for these surveys, while the Republi cans have fully committed themselves to the policy of pushing to completion tho improvements suggested, under appropri ations of money or bonds from the na tional treasury, the Deou cratic Senators, Saulsbury and Bayard, of Delaware, and Hamilton, of Maryland, opposed these in ternal improvements on the purt of tho general government as broadly in conflict with the great underlying corner stone of onr federal system of State rights nnd as dangerously tending to centralization. Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, says that this proposed system of internal improve ments on the part of Congress is/vholly ut war with all the Democratic doctrines on tho subject, as expounded and defended by all our great apostles of Democracy from Jefferson to Jackson and from Jack sou down to this day. This is true, ami there is much truth in this warning of danger as to the reserved rights of tlio States, hut nevertheless tlio party oppos ing this proposed system of internal im provements is facing a resistless tide. For throughout the West and South a re sistless popular tide lias set in for cheap transportation, embracing these suggested improvements, as the first and most im portant question of the day. In the ap proaching elections for the next Congress cheap transportation will he the cun troll ing issue in the West and South, and if in these elections the Democrat* of the West ern and Southern States shall follow in the wake of Messrs. Saulsbury, Bayard and Hamilton, of the Senate, they will bo routed in perhaps every Congressional district from Minnesota to Louisiana and thence along the seaboard to Virginia. The overwhelming argument in favor of those projected improvements by the na tional government, us presented hv Sena tor iYiadorn, is simply this—that llieso improvements, when completed, will en hance the value of the lauds of the North western States thousands of millions of dollars, while reviving to an unpnndlcd degree of prosperity the cotton producing States, and giving cheap food to the Eas tern States and profitable employment, meantime, in the prosecution of the works, to hnndied of thousands of men who otherwise would betalf starved, in haring nothing to do. Against this argument lui party or politician in the YVest or South can stand m opposition to this programme of cheap transportation. Senator Bogy (Democrat), from Missouri, understands it, uud goes enthusiastically for these sur veys and these improvements. Bo far, however, the Republicans are leading tip; way in these grand projects, and it is ap parent that they are drifting ton policy of internal improvements which within tlio next ten years w ill add three or four hun dred millions to the national taxations, or so much to the national debt, whatever else may follow But the grangers are in the field, and they hold the balance c f ]>ower. TURNED TO STONE. *fi£u]ur Slrtainorphlijof u Woman 1 * Hotly -Vulurr’n .Mclliiml of( or|Mc Considerable excitement exists in the usually quit t little city of Morristown, N. J.. over the discovery of the body of a woman in a state of petrifaction. A Mrr ! ■ urv reporter learned yesterday that the , body was that of Mrs. Hannah Johnson, wife of all old resident of Morris county also deceased, and lmd been buried for a decade of years. The graveyard is private i situated on a farm a few miles distant from Morristown. It is located on a knoll or hillock of gravel and saud, and at its ! base a little brook ripples over tlie pcobly soil. A few days ago it became necessary to remove the body of Mr. .Johnson and ! others from this yard to a cemetery. The j remnants of poor mortality were caru.'ully ' gatho ed up and placed in boxes and t - uallv the resting place of Mr. Johnson wi s | reached. The removal of three or four loot of sandy and gravelly soil disclosed her | grave. The outer box and the coffin were ! entirely rotted away, but the lid of the ! latter, though somewhat decayed was still | intact. The undertaker raised the lid, when a strange sight was presented. I There lay the 1 odv and its cerement# ap parently as unchanged as though only a day instead of ten years has flitted by . since burial the shroud nnd other clothing in a perfect state of preservation, and as white as when first interred; but the greater portion of the body bad undergone petrifaction. The flesh from the head, arms, hands, and from the knees down wards fulfilled the words of sacred writ, “earth to earth,” though the skull and remnants of the bones of the parts men tioned, still remained and were carefully gathered together. The body when struck with the spade it returned a dull nmfßed sound, like the noise caused by hammer ing upon a block of brown stone, and it bore the weight of a heavy man on the chest, without yielding an inch. - At first it was thought that the hotly had been entirely converted into stone, but a more thorough examinatiou showed the work of petrifaction still incomplete, i The flesh on the lower portion of the re maining extremities was of a soft nature, of the consistency of cheese or clay in the bed. It was white nnd life-like, and did not seem to have shrunk a particle. When the head and legs were covered the body looked like that or a person in life, tlm skin presenting a natural tinge. More j earth was taken out, preparatory to re- I moving the.remains, when it was found that the body had as it were grown to the I soil, and the efforts of four men were re quired to detach it and place it in the undertaker’s wagon. The soft portion referred to when exposed to the air cram bled and broke away under the touch like drying clay. Beneath the body was found a spring of clear, pure water which ran through the gravel to the brook at a base of the knoll or hillock. -A. * • day Mcrcun/.