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VOL. 111. T. K. WIMMK, W. S. DK WOLF. JOHN H. MARTIN, JOHN *. HTKWAHT. Wynne, DeWolf & Cos. PubllHber* and Proprlftom. DAILY, (In advance) per annum 9? 00 ** tlx months 4 oo " three months 2 00 '* one month ......... 75 WKKKLT, one year 2 00 (Shorter terms In proportion.) BATKM OP AIIVERTININU. Square, one week 9 3 M) One Square, one month 9 00 One Square, six months 28 00 Transient advertisements SI.OO for first inser* on, and 50 oents for each subsequent insertion. Fifty per oent. additional in Local column. Ltberal rates to larger advertisements. CONGRESSIONAL THE COUNT FINISHED. Hayes and Wheeler Declared Elected. ALL NORROWFIL OK ASHAMED. DUummenl on Appropriation Bill,. SEX ATE. Washington, March 2.—Mr. Mor rill, of Vermont, submitted a resolu tion authorizing the appointment of a committee of three Senators to make necessary arrangements for the inauguration for the President elect on sth of March. Agreed to. Gen. Alec Buford, of Kentucky, re lieved by resolution for removal of political disabilities. Morrill, Howe and McDonald ap pointed a committee to make ar rangements for tbe inauguration. The conference report on deficien cy appropriation was adopted. West reported the Conference Com mittee on postofflce appropriations unable to agree. Anew conference is ordered. , West stated the conference had agreed upon ail but the railroad, Brazil and China subsidies. The Senate Committee was willing to re duce Brazil subsidies to $300,000; the House unwilling. Disabilities of Gen. Quattlehauin removed, Mr. Gordon, of Georgia, called up Senate bill to authorize the Secreta ry of War to adjust and settle claims of the of State Georgia against the Government on account of the West ern Atlantic Railroad-passed. Mr. Ransom presented the creden tials of M. C. Butier as United States Senator from the State of South Car olina for six years from March 4th, 1877. They were signed by Wade Hampton as Governor, and had the seal of the State attached. Placed on file. The Monetary Commission submit ted majority and minority reports. Ordered printed. The conference committee on Na val Appropriations were unable to agree. A now conference ordered. Printing of three hundred thou sand copies of the Agricultural Re port ordered. Adjourned. BOUSE. Washington, March 2.—After the vote not to count Sallace’a vote. Speaker Randall announced that the chair had allowed every legitimate legislative motion. The duty to no tify the Senate of the decision is mandatory. Several propositions were over ruled. Mr. Cox said: There is no nse en deavoring to prevent the Speaker from counting in Hayes at once. The Speaker said: Gentlemen need not object. The Chair has no authority to receive any motion. At 11 the Senate entered, and Ver mont was counted for Hayes, Vir ginia and West Virginia for Tilden; and finally, after separation and two hours’ discussion, Wisconsin was counted for Hayes. At half past 4. Mr. Ferry said; This concludes the count of the 38 States. The tellers will now ascer tain and deliver the result. Senator Allison, one of the tellers, declared the vote: Rutherford B. Hayes 185, Samuel J. Tilden 184: Wherefore I announce Rutherford B. Hayes an Wm. A. Wheeler duly elected President and Vice President for four years, commencing March 4th 1877. There was a solitary hiss. The Senate retired, the House ad journed, and the flag was lowered for the first time since February Ist. Hayes arrived at 9 o’clock, while it rained torrents. Senator John Sher man carried Hayes to hia house. No one seems glad. There are no cheerful congratulations. Those who do not look sorrowful appear asham ed. A resolution with the extraordina ry preamble that the Louisiana re turning board be discharged, so as to assist the members of tbe Commis sion, who completed the work of the returning board, in the inauguration, is pending. It will not receive two thirds. The chanobs are that the returning board will be certified to the District Court for punishment. The resolution to release the Lou isiana returning board was defeated, RejbnbHcahs and many Democrats voting nay, a* the preamble contain ed matter insulting to Hayes. There were only 18 affirmative votes. The conference report on deficien cy appropriation passed. The Army Appropriation bill re ported. It contains a clause that no portion of the appropriation be used to support any State government by the army. It reserves distinction on account of color. A special cluuse provides that neither Government in South Carolinn or Louisiana shall be supported until recognized by Con gress. A motion to suspond the rules and pass the bill was agreed to. It goes to the Senate. This action is regard ed equivalent, to the success of Hamp ton and Nicholls. River and Harbor bill reported but failed to receive two-thirds and must take t he regular courso. Hurd, of Ohio, reported a resolu tion reciting that as it has been de clared that a President of the United States may be Inaugurated iu the fraudulent action of the Louisiana Returning Board, its members should be discharged from custody—yeas 89, nays 97. The bill for the payment of claims passed upon by Southern Claims Commission, passed, and it appro priated $474,000. A night session is progressing. Washington news. DEMOCRATIC COURSE OF ACTION NOT YET DEVELOPED. Radical Senators Want to Know About Hayes' Southern Policy. THE INCOMING VISITS THE OUT GOING. Extra Scion of th Senate Called. AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONGREBS IMPROB ABLE. Washington, March 2.—No course of action has developed itself this morning. Fifteen Radical Senators had a meeting and resolved if Hayes’ Southern policy is against the Repub lican party of the South, they should know it. No Conference committees meet this morning. The House Is indis posed to take hold of business. It is occupied with questions of privileges involving pages and doorkeepers. Presidentelect Hayes, in comoany with Senator Sherman and Governor Denison, visited President Grant at the White House this morning, dur ing the Cabinet session, and bad a short conversation with the Presi dent and the Cabinet. Beuator Gordon has applied to the Chief Sigual officer of the United States for the establishment of a signal station in Atlanta, Ga., and has the promise of the Department to comply with his request as soon as the condition of the service will permit. Washington, March 2.—The Presi dent’s dispatch to Packard, and the adoption by the House by a two thirds vote of the hampering clause of the Army bill, have produced a very cheerful feeling in Southern conservative circles. "Let them have Hayes and Wheeler; but give us Louisiana and South Carolina,” seems to have been the successful war cry. Private advices from New Orleans to 4 o’clock represent everything quiet there. The President has issued a procla mation convening the Senate in ex tra session, March 4th. Wheeler has arrived. Lou Wier will be marshal of the District. R. P. Buckland, of Ohio, will be private secretary to Hayes. Tbe Electoral Comission paid its employees and dissolved. An extra session of Congress is im probable. Nominations—Silas B. Dutoher, Appraiser Merchandise, New York; Wm. Stone, District Attorney, South Carolina. Confirmations—Oeo. S. Lacy, Dis trict Attorney, Louisiana; C. S. Slade Collector Customs, Passo Del Norte District; Frank Morey, General Ap praiser Merchandise; John Tarnum. Receiver Public Money, Fia.; R. .T, Caldwell, Receiver Public Money, La.; M. J. Grady, Land Register, La. TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY• Constantinople Tbe treaty of peace with Servia is finally signed. London—lt is rumored that an other meeting of the Europeans of Russia, Prussia and Austria has been arranged at Descechar. Tone peaceful from all quarters. Cincinnati The Hasdiug paper mills, at Franklin, Ohio, burned; loss $200,000. London— A dispatch to Reuter’s Telegram Company from Athens says tbe object of tbe removal of the British squadron from Biereus is to refit the ships and give leave of ab sence to the ineD, preparatory to a cruise during the summer, political reasons no longer requiring the pres ence of a squadron necessary in Eastern waters. Florence— Joel. T. Hart, American sculptor, is dead. COLUMBUS,‘•GA.. SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 3. 1877. GRANT AND LOUISIANA, i an, , . ii...- ■ The I.lll* III* Foot from Her , Week ! Headquarters of the Army, i Washington, March 2,1877, 12.22 r. m. ) To Gen. C. C. Anger, Comm'd’g Dep't of New Orleans: The following dispatch has gone to Packard, and i-. hereby sent you for your information and government. [Signed] W. T. Sherman, General. (Telegram. ] Executive Mansion. I Washington, D. C., March 2,1877. j To Gov. S. B. Packard, N. 0., La. In answer to your dispatch of this date, the President directs me to say that he feels it his duty to state frankly that he does not believe pub lio opinion will longer support the maintainance of State government in Louisiana by the use of the military, and that he must concur in this nmu ifest feeling. The troops will here after, as in the past, protect life and property from mob violence when the State authorities fail; but under the remaining days of his official life, they will not be used to establish or to pull down either claimant for control of the State. It is not liis purpose to recognize either claimant. C. C. Sniffen, Secretary. HOWES’ REPOrToN LOUISIANA. A MNrrakile Tissue of Nprrlal I’lrndlnK. CLAIMS THE STATE FOR HAYES ON THE REGISTRATION MADE BY THE RADICALS. Washington, March 2.— The report of the Senate Louisiana Committee presented by Senator Howe to-day, is a voluminous document of about 100 manuscript pages, although they state it is only a report of a part of the Committee. After explaining what they were requested to do under the resolution, they say that there are two ways in which the right of suffrage may be abridged; One is to deny the legal voter the privilege of depositing his ballot, and the other is to refuse to count the ballot after it is deposited by different parties. It is claimed that both of these methods have been pursued withiu the State of Louisi ana. The allegation as to the last can’t be controverted. The laws of Louisiana authorize its tribunals,un der certain conditions, to reject from the count not only tho entire vote of a precinct, but the entire vote of a parish. In conclusion, the com mittee say that the testimony is not sufficiently complete to enable them to say positively what would have been the result of the election in this State if intimidation bad not been employed at all; but organized in timidation is charged against seven teen parishes of the State. Against forty no such charges are made; in those forty parishes the colored reg istration numbered 87,999; the white registration numbered 75,037 —leav- ing a majority of colored voters reg istered of 15,905. These 40 purishes returned 65,747 Republican voters, and 59,392 Democratic voters. So that in that part of the Slate where intimidation was not charged there was a Republican majority of 6,353 voters. It is not pretended that the same arguments were employed in the 40 parishes that were employed in the other 17, but the results are very different. In the 17 par ishes said to have been intim idated, tbe colored registration was 27,269, the white registration 20,- 320 -giving a majority of colored vo ters 6,949 - half us large as the col ored majority in all the rest of the State; but the vote in tbe seventeen parishes as returned showed but 10,- 910 Republicans and 21,123 Demo crats. In the seventeen parishes, where there was a majority of nearly 7,000 colored voters registered, there was a majority of 10,153 Democratic votes returned. The report is signed by all the Re publican Senators on the committee. SOUTH CAROLINA. THE HABEAS CORPUS CASE NOT YET lIEI IDED. A NEGRO JUSTICE ABSENTS HIMSELF TO AVOID IT. Columbia, March 2. —At 11a. m. the Supreme Court room was crowded to hear the decision in the Tilda Norris habeas corpus case, involving the in validity of Hampton’s pardon. As sociate Justice Williard appeared on the bench, but the colored Justice, Wright, was absent. The sheriff sent to look for Wright, returned with information that he had not been seen since yesterday morning. Owing to the lack of a full beneh, Justice Williard adjourned court till Monday. The absence of Wright at this junc ture creates istense excitement. Whip New*. New York. March 2 —Arrived out: Vineyard, Hawk. Hope, Monhegan, Col bort, Circassian, J. W. Parker. Prof. Henry of tbe Smithsonian Institution has reported against the importers’ doctored sugar. A UONrEMT FUIC H.TOO 000. RENEWAL OF THE LITIGATIONS OF DR. HKLMBOLD’S ESTATE. A suit to compel an accounting in the matter of the estate of Dr. Helm bold will come up for argument on Wednesday next, iu the Court of Coinmou Pleas, iu Philadelphia. The suit is brought by Henrietta B. Helmbold, as guardian of the chil dren of Dr. Helmbold, and herself, against Albert L. Helmbold, tho Commissioner in Lunacy, in ears of his brotner, Dr. Helmbold, Tbe complaint alleges that the business* of Dr. Helmbold is worth SGU,(H)O a year, aud that no accounting has been reudered for five years, making tile sum iu contest $300,000. In re ply, the defendant alleges that the business of Dr. Helmbold is now worthless; that the only portion of what his business formerly was, that is now of any value, i3 toe pro prietary interest iu "Helmbold’s Buchu,” aud that this proprietary interest is now vested iu the de fendant by virtue of three facts - first, that the defendant was the original discoverer of “Helmbold’s Bueliu;” second, that the title was vested in him [defendanti by virtue of a con tract with Dr. Helmbold, and third, that it is vested by virtue of a con tract with Dr. Helmbold’s asstgne iu bankruptcy, one Trask, who is now dead. The plaintiff’s reply sets forth that Albert L. Helmbold was not the original discoverer of the medicine, “as all the world knows ;” that if de fendant has any such contract with Dr. Helmbold as he claims to have it is a forgery, and therefore null and void, and that the assignee iu bank ruptcy had no power to make such a contract as the title to the trade-mark was not a portion of toe estate, aud, not being property, could ro more be alienated froiu Dr. Helmbold "than his name, or the hair on his head, or the toes on his feet.” For the plaintiff will appear ex- Attorney-General Benjamin Harris Brewster, of Pennsylvania, and ex- Judge Curtis, of New York; for the defendant, ex-Attorney-Generul Jere miah S. Black and Spencer Miller. The Elegant Martini* tie Main! George* Every one remembers the beautiful hair of the witty aud elegant Marquis of Saint-Gcorges, who died last win ter. M. EugeueCaput enlightens ua upon this subject iu an article iu the Sport. He thought that a society mau should never be aged, even when he reached old ago. It is well-known to what an art he arrived in the arrangement of his own wig. It was such a miracle of ingenuity that even his most inti mate friends-those who saw him ev ery day, made bets whether or not he wore a wig. How could it be otherwise? M. de Saint Georges had three wigs, which he wore during the course of each moth. The first from the Ist to the 10th, the second from the 10th to the 20th, and the third from the 20th to the 30th. That of the first decade had short hair, that of the second a little longer, and the third a little louger yet, so as to simulate as nearly as possible the natural growth of hair. At the eud of tho month ho would complain that his hair had grown too long, and he was thought to have hail it cut when the time came for him to don his wig No. 1. The government of Egypt is mainly run by foreigners. In the Naval De partment are an English Post Cap tain and many of his countrymen. At the Treasury is an ex-Secretary of the British Admiralty. In the Public Works Department the chief places are filled by Englishmen, and the railroads will presently be placed under an English officer of engineers. Education is under French and Eng lish supervision. The Postmaster- General is from the General Post office, London. In the Telegraph Department are two English super intendents. The Judges of the Court of Appeal are also English ; and the army Is chiefly officered by American Southerners. A week ago the Methodist preach ers of New York and vicinity, who hold clerical conferences in the large hall of the Book Concern Building, voted to extend an invitation to the Rev. Miss Anna M. Oliver, the well known female preacher, to preach a sermon before them on the first Mon day in March. The invitation was formally extended to the Rev. Miss Oliver, and she consented to preach. Yesterday the Methodist ministers were ungallant enough to rescind their invitation and ask her to stay away from their meeting. The mo tion to rescind was not adopted without stnmg opposition. Amid motions to lay on ttie table, amend ments, and so on, tbe contending factions struggled from 11 o’clock in the forenoon until late in the after noon. The decision not to have the Rev. Miss Oliver preach before them was carried only Dya small majority, and half of the preachers deeliud to vote at that, on the ground that they did not wish to commit themselves in the matter. After the meeting adjourned, the preachers consulted among themselves as who would be bold enough to carry the news to Anna. — N. Y. Sun, 27th. Liverpool Cotton circular*. Liverpool, March 2. —The circular of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers, for the week ending last night, says: Cotton was depressed on Friday and Saturday, with prices irregular and unsettled. The demand increased on Monday, and has since continued good, with more steadiness. Ameri can was in very limited demand the early part of the week, and declined 1-16, but has since been more active. The decline has been fully recovered, and quotations are somewhat higher than last Thursday. In Sea Island the sales were moderate and prices are unchanged. In futures there was a fair business throughout the week, without any great flunctuations. Tbe closing quotations show an im provement of 1-32 to 1-l Gd. WEATHER INDICATIONS. War Department, j Office of Chief Signal Officer, > Washington, March 3, 1377. ) For South Atlantic and Gulf States, rising barometer, warmer, south west winds, and partly cloudy or clear weather will prevail. From the Atlanta Coastitution Ist. NKTHEKCHMKNT. Perhaps no body ever started out with braver resolutions for retrenoh rneut than the present general assem bly. We propose to give the body a fair and judicial judgment upon its performance of its economieal mis sion. The necessity for retrenchment was a public as well as a private mat ter. The widespread pecuniary dis tress every where inspired the great clamor for relief, and it was this pressing need that filled the state with the urgent demand for legisla tive interposition on this subject. Governor Colquitt led off iu it. He took hold of the delicate topic with gloves off ami went right to the bot tom of it. His message met with universal popular approval, and it presented a tangible, comprehensive, detailed, practical basis for legisla tive action, covering the whole ground of economical reform. He showed the assembly what could be done and manifested through all a full and hearty spirit of co-operation. The legislature backed the thing with a rush. It took off its coat and rolled up its sleeves and with a whoop aud a rush it went at retrenchment us if under contract to demolish the victim at one swoop. Perhaps there never was noisier display of zeal. And lo be just, it must bo confessed that the body was in earnest. There is no discount upon this fact. The general assembly meant business. The following are the details of re trenchment, namely: reduction in the expenses of the Legislature, inclu ding clerk hire, abolition of superflu ous officers, reduction of judiciary, re duction of expenses of collecting the taxes, arrangement for closer collec tion of taxes and higher and juster appraisement of property, making corporations give in property aud tax like individuals, putting perqui sites in the treasury, uud saving money on public buildings, etc. Two dollars a day reduction on the per diem of the Legislature would have made, in the forty days, SIB,OOO. The clerk hire could have beeu re duced from $26,000 to SIO,OOO, saving $16,000. This would have made $34,- 000 saved ou this item of the Legisla ture. The members refused to re duce their pay. The clerk of the House was eager to eoonimize, but the members farced on him num bers of clerks, until the expense of clerk hire ran clear beyond whatvras necessary. The result shows clearly that men caunot be trusted to re duce their own pay. Tne only pos sible method of securing legislative retrenchment is to retrench in spite of them, to let the convention fix the compensation unalterably. When ever men have the power to fix their own pay, they are going to disregard economy. They are insensible to ridicule or menance. A bill was introduced to reduce tbe judi cial circuits from 20 to 16 saving $15,000. It ignominiously lell through. The pres sure could not be withstood. No judge wanted to give up his tenure, and so the thing fuileil. An ini me use zeal was displayed in cut ting down the salaries of half a dozen clerks, which would have directed a sav ing of $1,500 all told, and the pressure brought to bear on this poor little insigni ficant matter was frightful. A half a day’s gassing on the subject by voluble members cost morr than tbe whole economizing on every clerk in every department. Tbe dis play of presevering retrenchment in this direction was heroic. In tbe public printing there was an ef fort at reform. The percent, of profit al lowed the prioter was reduced from 25 to 20 per cent., and the office of compiler with its salary of $750 was abolished and the work put on the public printer at a reduced conipeusaiion of S3OO, savings42u a year. The building fund was reduced from $20,000 to $12,000, a saving of $8;000, Some effort was made to improve the law in regard to getting more taxes out of corporations, and collecting taxes closer, and little fragmentary endeavors were tried to reduce the cost of collecting the taxes, but the members seemed to have given no study to the subject, and to have no well digested ideas of doing any thing. The governor refused to fill the office of superintendent of public works, and put the duties upon one of bis clerks without pay, thus saving $2,000 a year on this score. This ~dded to the SB,OOO saved on the building iund made SIO,OOO eeonomiz ed on this score. But as a sort of an off set the insurance on the public buildings was increased to help out the insurance agents, who vied gallantly for this lucky plum. The insurance perquisits were required to be paid into the treasury and a salary of $1,250 allowed for the work. This will put as much as fifteen hundred dol lars in the treasury. The salary of the wild land clerks was raised instead of lowered, being changed from $1,200 to $1,500 Tbe funding of the railroad endorsed bonds from 7 per cent to 6 per cent saves the State about $25,000 a year in interest. This was the heaviest single saving made. But as an offset to this the bill devoting the proceeds of the penitentiary convicts to the Marietta and North Georgia rail road will take $15,000 a year out of the treasury, while the hill giving a third of the taxes of Chatham county to drainage the city of Savannah takes s3>,oou out of the public purse. Now let us see how the balance stands : Saving*—Funding railroad bonds $25 000 Printing and compiler.. 1,000 Sup. pub, work. 2,000 Legist* ire clerk hire... 3 000 Members'p*? lusur.nce perqulsito. 1601 Bu.ldingfuud 8.(00 $40,00 Inert ased expsns s M & N G It R $15,001 Drainage Savaunah, 36,000 $60,000—60 000 Balaneo against retrenchment $0,6 0 The change of tbe law about inspectors of fertilizers may or may not pay some thing into the treasury. Tbe experiment is lo be tried. In conclusion, let us say that a begin ning has been made that may grow into something good hereafter. Tbe conven tion must take hold of this subject in dead earnest. It can do so because it be unaffected bv the work. Let tbe num ber of public officers be reduced, not their pay. Men must be compensated well for good work, but let there be no sinecures. The beads of departments should work, and not sit idle. Make them work. Pay them well, hut make them work. This is the true rule. A controversy is threatened as to wheth er Joe Bradley understands the nature of an oath. An Illinois Justice of the Peace onced asked a witness a question of this sort, and the candid Hoosier answered tbai be didn’t understand the nature of an oath until the defendant called him “a dammed rascal,” and after that he thought he knew what it meant. From the Bunsell Register.l Alabama Exemption. The subject of exemptions ns legis lated and provided for by the laws of Alabama is at present involved in some apparent uncertainty aud varia bleness dependent upon tbe date of the contract or liability against which the exemption Is to be claimed. The Legislature at its recent session pass ed a law ou ttie subject, which, if it does not establish anew programme, gives a fair construction to he meas ured and made applicable to the rea sonable appropriation by the people of the protection guaranteed to them as residents of tho State. It makes the exemptions set out in the Code of 1867 good and of force against debts created before the Constitution of 1868 became operative, which was, we think, in February, 1808. By refer ence to the clauses and sections of that Code relative to exemptions, the character and items of exempted pro perty can be ascertained. Among them there is provided the exemption of $1,700 worth of land as a home stead, without regard to its location or limitation as to acres, and of per sonalty SI,OOO worth, in addition to other specific articles and species of property named in the laws provid ing for the exemptions. Such, then, is the regulation of the law ou the matter as to ail debts contracted prior to February, 1868. The exemptions allowed against debts whose contraction was on dates subsequently to the adoption of the Constitution of 1868 are regulated by tile provisions of that Constitution aud of the laws passed under that Constitution. The Constitution of 1868 contaius a clause exempting for each resident of the State one thou sand dollas worth of personalty and a homestead of eighty acres of land in the country or if in the towu of tho value of two thousand dollars. Such was the limitation of exemptions until April 23rd, 1873, when the Leg islature passed a law which exempts for every resident one thousand dol lars of personalty and a homestead, in the country not exceeding one hun dred and sixty acres of land and iu any town or village not the exceed in value two thousand dollars. The Supreme Court of the State in cases before it has decided that the act of the Legislature passed April 23d, 1873, was valid and Constitution al ; that the exemption clause of the Constitution of 1868 did not inhibit the Legislature from increasing the amount of value of the exemption which it provided for, but[that it did inhibit the reduction of the same. So by the construction of the highest judicial tribuual that act was lawful. Constitutional and valid. Bo as the law now stands construed the matter of exemptions is various ly fixed dependent upon tbe dates of the contracts against which it is to be claimed. Up to February 1868 the provisions of the Code regulate the claim. From that time to April 23d, 1873, the Constitutiou declares ttie character and limitations of the exemptions, and since then the pro visions of that act are the allowances which are to be made against debts. The Constitution of 1875 i3 the same as that of 1868 as to the matter of exemptions except thut it has an additional clause providing for a waiver of tbeexemptions.to be claim ed. But the schedule which the Convention passed providing for the observance and validity of the then existing laws makes tbe exemptions of the act of April 23rd, 1873, legal and valid even as to debts contracted sub sequent to the adoption of the new and present Constitution in Novem ber 1875. Such is our understanding of the situation in the matter of exemptions. The Supreme Court at its present term, which has beeu in session since the first Monday in last December, has adjudicated three or four cases involving the laws of exemptions. We have not seen the full data of these cases, only the dicta and gener al summary in them. We will refer to the matter again should additional imformation be given from such ad judication or other sources. Ret. Henry Ward Bkeciieu, in u recent lecture on "Hard Times,” discoures ed upon the railroad building of the past few years as follows: “At such a period the Pacific Railroad had spread out like snakes in spring. There were 20 000 miles of road built in ten yeurs, and even Illinois was a perfect gridiron ol a Blate in this respect. Hope oecame so insane that the entile community was puffed up —like the Dutchman who called himself fat when he was merely bloated by drink ing beer. So it was with the community and individuals. Tue banks went down, one after another, like trees falling in a forest and bearing down others with them Mines, foundries, iron works, all went— unable lo pay their paper. People tried, as soon as they could, to pick themselves up. and ihen began that enormous shrink age of values. It was easy enough to in flate, but to shrink back again to an active gold basis was not so easy. There has been a good deal ot human nature in the building of railroads. What was ihe stock? Why, it was the piles that the Directors drove down to gtt a good, solid founda tion, on which to put a first-mortgage bond, and upon this Was a nice debt ou which to put a second, and, on top of that, bank ruptcy. usually there were twenty Directors—five of them wise and fifteen respectable. Finally, after a course of collusion with the contractors, and swind ling of every conceivable nature, the crash came. But who supposed the Directors lost any thing? Oh, no. It was the poor school-teacher, the farmer, lawyers and doctors who had been led by the religious newspapers to lake advantage of the ad rniiable opportunity to sell Government bonds and invest in Northern Pacific stock. Even the ministers took some. Some of them put iu a thousand or two. He knew it. Never had he appreciated go fully the words of Paul: “I would thou wert altogether as I am, save these bonds.” A Child Choakkd to Death by a Bean. —. Henry, the bright foury-ear-old child of James Nortbcote an artest at 297 Baltic street, Brooklyn, saw a spider on the wall on Wednesday morning. He called eagerly to his mother to look at it. She had barely entered the room be fore her child fell to the floor gasping for breath. She snatched him up in her arms, but in a minute he was lifeless. Dr. Simms and other physicians were mystified yesterday as to the cause of death, until, on opening the babe’s wind pipe, they found it obstructed by a large kidney Y. Bun Two girls who stole a dollar from an Italian in New York have been sent to the State prison for one year each. At that rate the man who steals a hundred thousand dollars ought to go into seclusion for at least a year and a half, but he doesn’t usually. ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT. PROSPECTUS FOR 1877. The Favorite and Leading Newspaper of the West. Daily, Tri-Weekly, Semi-Weekly and Weekly. THE •lii-com of the QLOBE-DEMOCBAT. elnrn the consolidation of which it ia in fact and iu name tho product, lias been such as to exdts universal comment. Its circulation has steadi ly increased since its first issue, and its general business prosperity has kept pace with ita circu lation. Thus encouraged, its proprietors are de termined that in the future no effort will be spared to koep It in the front rank of journal ism. 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