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oil to
gold. He demand- llt:il silver,
remonitizcd, and whatever j*:i|• r
is usod by (lie government, be
made legal londors. and gix’cn all
the value in currency gold pus
nesses. Then there will lie enough
luoiiey for (lie needs ol tin- conn
try—properly "ill cease to do
predate and prosperity will bo re
8^0 rod.
Hut liedoos not want llii fore
ed bv legislation, and thinks, lor
the good of debtor-, the rosnmp
tion act fixes too early a diiy. lie
store silver and 'Jrreenbaeks as le-
currency- for all debts, and
the time is not far removed when
the laws of finance will restore' a
sound hard money currency with
out disaster totin' country.
You can't prevent tin* Western
fur Hie r, who, in 1>53,-old his lor
tv bushels ol corn, worth lorly
dollars in gold or silver, lor one
hundred dollars in greenbacks,
and bought a I’nited Stall's bond
for the one hundred dollars, troni
getting his one hundred dollars
with interest in sound currency;
but you can make him take, and
he ought to take, gold, silver <>r
legal tender notes at par value in
Aiavuiunt of the bond. Anything
more would he the " pound o!
tlesU" not nominated in the bond.
The Governor is thoroughly
right, thoroughly correct, and has
presented the host view ot our li
luuueiiil condition yet submitted.
The Ollier Side.
Mr. Hill demand- a sound cur
rency, based upon gold, lie has
Lo objection to paper or silver,
■invertible, dollar for dollar into
Rdd. He is opposed to the Blaine
lilL remonetizing -ilver.beeau-e,
Awing to the abundance id that
o iii reney ill tbe commercial w i rid.
it will lie of less value than gold,
and wherever produce i- paid for
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Mr. Hill -ay- truly, that the <• *t
ton planter' of t hr* South have
lost Tliill ion- 'iiu c the war in buy
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Hniation. it i' not -iirpri-in” that
r<-haul- tail and planters lose
PPn lands.
llaril-Money Meeting.
A law meeting'' of the hard
money men was held in Atlanta
last week, and let ters were read
Crow 1 .1 tidge Warner, Gov. IJrown
and olhers. The meeting, was ad
dressed In l>r. Miller, .ludge Me
and others, all in support ol
currency. Mr. Candler.
- the tilth ill Itti'l
Ell ('oilfiTOs*, ill a letter to the
Beetiny. says
There can lie no prosperity in
f|Rhi' conilllclcil with .1 depre
a-ialed paper currency- uncertain
B value and its <| 1111 ntity depen
Prt-i 1 upon the will <T the politi
cians and legislators.
•• The otlice of the mil ion a I gov
ernmenl is to coin money and reg
ulate the v;iltie thereof. Cnrreu
cy is the creature of commerce.
Its <| mi nil y ought to he equal to
wo more than the necessities of
trade, and its value ought to cou
form to the constitution.
V ■ ■
mcr to the
| Wa liing
| that flu*
icral sul is
“There is now in circulation
nearly seven hundred millions of
national paper currency, more
than half of which are the notes
of the government. This paper
is depreciated because it is irre
deemable. There is upon the sta
tute hooks a promise of the gov
eminent that it may be redeemed
on and alter the first of January,
187i>. Their notes are now nearly
equal in value to coin, and are
daily appreciating.
'•There is a clamor being gotten
up in some portions of the conn
try for the repeal of this ad. and
for a larger issue of government
notes. To repeal this act without
any declaration looking in lliedi
reel ion of resumption will Ik* fur
ther to depreciate them, so that
the clamor is for more money and
worse money. It may be a good
thing for stock gamblers, reckless
adventurers in trade, and develo
pers of hidden resources who only
grow rich at tlu* public expense,
not Ibr the mass of the people who
live by honest industry, prosper
by healthy trade, and become in
dependent by economy and in
creased production. Good and
hotted money is their need. Boor
money comes with broken laitli.
brings disorder and bankruptcy.
(,’ond money i- faith kept, brings
health to business, secures eonli
donee, and gives hope of prosper
11 y.
Mr. Gladstone, a HoveroT Wood.
The right honorable Mr. (Had
stone having, for a long t imo, been
the leader of his party, the
queen's prime minister, the an
(agonist of the Catholic church,
the champion of Protestantism,
and the leader of the anti war,
anti-Turkish parly in Kngland,
now turns up a plain wood chop
per, in his retirement; and so eon
spieuous has lie recently' made
himself in the last character that
the champion wood cutter of Per
hyshire. a Mr. llopketisnn. who
says he is now titty four year- old,
has challenged the ex minister to
a contest with the axe, on a wa
ger of twenty five dollars. And
a Sheffield hard ware dealer ha
made Mr. Gladstone a present of
tin .1 tiwvtciftt ‘t i< *. with a tit'Oobvfl
handle (!)
Mr. fox. when asked in the
House by a member ol the He
publican side, who was interested
in u river appropriation Mr. Cox
TII E F Ii: LI) AND FIHES I I ) E.
was opposing, it he did not vote
for the Moll Date appropriation,
wittily replied : ••! believe in hell
and I never look on that side of
the House without having my
views confirmed."
Sleet and Snow.
ien
t I • ■ ■ 1 : IV
cal' in ihe city and
are not running.
X l: vv Pour, R. 1.. Feh., I. Fn
rions snow lias raged since yes
terday noon. The sound lioia
remained at Fall river all nigln
in port.
I’m (iHKCKi’sn:. Feh.. I.—The
storm cont inues ; snow a foot and
a half deep. 'The St . Louis ex
press i- seven hours behind
time; other trains also behind.
Cairo, 1 1,1,.. Feh.. I. M is snow
inii lianl here.
( i.m ik.v mi. Feh., I. The trains
are delayed by heavy snow.
Nkvv Vohk, Feb.. I. — A snow
storm still |#evai!s here. Com
munieation by telegraph with
the south is interrupted.
The storm accompanied by a
gale, turned into sleet, and the
later to rain. Much damage to
shipping is feared.
COl.l .nut s, Feb.. I. About ton
inches of snow has fallen, lmt i>
fast disappearing.
Dktkoit, Feb., I. A snow
storm prevails generally through
out the low er peninsula ol - Mich
igan. About *i\ inches luive
fallen, and no indication of ecs
sal ion or abatement.
Clkvi:i.avd, Feb., I.—One of
the heaviest snowstorms known
in this vicinity for years has be
gun here. 'The trains on all the
railroads running into this city
are somewhat detained; general
business in the city was almost
entirely suspended.
Toiiovro, Feb., I. —There was a
furious snow storm in the west
ern province all day. 'The snow
is afoot deep and drifting bad
ly. Travel w ill lie seriously im
peded. Trains are all late.
W ashington. Feb., 2. —The sig
nal service reportin' stationed at
the wreck of the steamer Metrop
(dis reports at live o'clock this
morning that the steamer Me
tnpolis sailed Irotn Philadelphia
on tin* morning of the 28th of
January bound lov Madeira, lira
zil. South .America, Captain An
kers in charge; total number of
passengers, 2t!0; about l(0
drowned; about 100 saved. 'The
steamer is it t otal wreck awl noth
ing is left above water. There
are no bodies aboard.
The signal service reports that
the steamer .Metropolis, Capt. J.
11. Ankers, loft I‘hiladelphia at
at!) a. m. on the 20th of January
and changed her pilot at 1 I p. m.
at break water. At s p, m. on
the iiOth th“ vessel started a
heavv leak in the rudder ease.
Finding they’ could not gain on
the leaks with pumps they con
eluded to lighten the steamer by
throwing over coal and bearing
away for Hampton Roads. At
midnight the circulating pump
gave out. At 3a. m. the heavy’
sea boarded the vessel, carry ing
aw ay the smoke stack and boats.
The engine room doors fell for
ward, letting in large quantities
of water. Relow the -hip was
completely unmanageable. Find
ing nothing could be done for
the vessel, an attempt to reach
the beach to save what lives
could be saved was decided on. —
At six o'clock they made the
beach. At that time the tires
were out, the engine stopped,
and a full set of sale was put on
to drive her up the beach. The
surf was very violent. At four
o'clock she passed word for all
hands to prepare themselves
with life preservers. At ti;4s a.
hi. the ship struck the beach.—
When the vessel struck a panic
ensued, creating a consternation
on hom’d of the wildest character.
Order and discipline ended. —
Many were drowned by the sea
washing them overboard. The
signal operators have been up
all night, doing yeoman service
in the cause of information. The
vessel is entirely broken up. No
piece of the wreck is visible, ex
eept what lies along the beach.
Xkw York. February I.—The
schooner Ella Haynes, supposed
to be from Provide nee, with a
cargo of salt, went ashore on
Plum Island in the sound early
yesterday morning, and before
assistance eon ill reach ’her sank
with all on hoard.
Captain McPherson of the
schooner Chester, reports sight
ing the Havtie • signalling for as-
sistanee, but being unable to
reach her, owing to heavy -eu'
and da Hire roil' localities, he bore
away. Suddenly a high sea
swept over the poop deck of tin*
Haynes, which threw her on her
beam end. and in a few moments-,
went to pieces anil sank out of!
sight.
The storm has been fearful, and
dispatches report damage and dis
aster all along the Atlantic coast.
At Coney Eland there has been
great dest ruction of property, and
eight lives were lost. The scene
of the great calamity was at the
Manhattan beach, on the east side
of the island, where the storm
struck with the greatest violence,
fairly sweeping everything before
it. About half a mile eastward
from the hotel were two shanties
where two men named Wynne
and Brennan, lived with their
families. Shortly after I<> o'clock
the men. who were employed as
watchmen by the hotel company
left their homes for the purpose
of reporting the alarming state of
affairs to Mr. Wead. head watch
man. and during 1 heir absence the
shanties in which they left their
families were swept away, and the
unfortunate occupants, number
ing three women and live chil
dren 1 perished. When Wynne and
Brennan returned there was noth
ing left of their domiciles, and no
trace of their loved ones. The
victims were Mrs. Wynne and her
three children, aged 5 and 3 years
and an infant but one day old;
Mrs. Brennan and her two chil
dren, aged 2 and 4years respect
ively. The third woman who per
ished was a nurse, whom Mister
Wynne had brought down only a
few days ago from Brooklyn to at
tend his wife during her coniine
inent. There were three tidal
waves which followed in quick
succession, and not a vestige of
the shanties was left. 'The bodies
of the unfortunates were carried
to sea, except that of Mrs. Wynne
which was picked up at -Sheep
Head hay this morning. The tide
rose nearly live feel higher than
at any recorded llood. On other
parts of the island the damage
done has been excessive.
Asian uv I ’ark, N. J., Feb. 2.
The most terrilie storm known in
years has been raging along the
coast. The brig Etta M. Tucker,
vvhiekcame ashore on yesterday
morning, is a total loss. Her
cargo of coffee, said to be worth
-fSO.OOO, is in the undertow, flu*
heavy sea reached far over the
sand, and has almost completely
destroyed the country bridge con
neeling Ashbury park with Deal.
Bai.timork, Feb. 2.—The brig
Ohattanooga went ashore yester
day at Little (Jove point, and tin*
captain,second mate and a sea
man were drowned.
The Wat* News.
London, Feb'y. I.—Earl Derby
said in the house of lords that the
government's first care would he
to secure a settlement of peace
wit 1 1 the concurrence of all Euro
pean pow ers, and when the terms
of peace are known they would
receive the deepest and most ear
nest consideration of the govern
ment, one of whose obvious du
ties it would be to secure, as far
as possible, equal justice to Mu
hommedans and Christians.
The Vienna morning papers
eontirm the statement in Reuters
from Brussels yesterday that the
Russian answer to Austria's note
recognizes that present-or future
stipulations between Russia and
Turkey’ are subject to modifica
tion until sanctioned by the pow
ers.
The Vienna Politische corres
pondence and the Berlin Provis
ional correspondence (the latter
semi-official) concur in the state
meat that the principal cause of
the delay of the armistice is the
difficulty about the military ren
ditions imposed. Hie Vienna pa
pers say that these include the oc
cupation of Constantinople.
CoNsT VNTINOI'I.I.. Jail. 31, lIOOU.
—The sultan has telegraphed to
the e/.ar demanding an armistice.
London. Feb. E—The Pall Mall
Gazette of this afternoon, has a
special from Rome of undoubted
authority, which say- the Rus
sians are w itliin twenty four hours
march of Constantinople.
A Vienna correspondent tele
graphs that it i- rumored in Con
stantinople that Rus-ia inis de
manded. as one of the conditions
of the armistice, the right to oc
cupy some point on the Asiatic
side of the Straits.
Yiknx v, Feb. I.—The Political
Correspondence has the follow ing
special from Belgrade : The ill
feeling excited by the Russian
peace conditions is so intense that
it appears to be decided tLat Ser
via shall disregard them and con-
Lin tie war until she holds the
whole of old Sen ia.
I’vitis. February I The Temps
states that the sultan sent sever
al dispatches to the czar during
the past few days begging him to
stop tlic advance upon Constant!
nople. The foreign ambassadors
have requested the portu to com
pel the Circassians to quit Con
stantinople. and the porte prom
ised to take measure' to secure
the public safety.
Loniion. Feb. 2. —The Reuters
agency here have received the
followingdispateh dated Constan
tinople. January Ml, 4:30 p. in. :
The czar lias telegraphed the sul
tan promising to grant an armis
tice. Server I’asha, foreign min
ister, and one of the plenipoten
tiaries. telegraphed on yesterday
that the Ku-sian grand duke Nic
olas was ready to sign the proto
col.
Not a Dollar of government
RONDS.
The Union and Central Pacific
railroads have received from the
(iovernment #55,0!)2.H*2 in bonds
and 24,000.000 acres of land, anil
the (iovernment is further sub
sidizing them by paying interest
on the bonds at tin* rate of over
#5,000,000 a year. The owners
of these roads are now seeking to
defeat the Texas l’acifie railroad
bill, because it provides for a
competing transcontinental line,
which will knock the monopoly
high. while asking of the
Government not one dot tor in
bonds. All the hill asks is that
the Government will guarantee
the pa.v'ment of the interest on
the company's bonds, at 5 per
cent., at the rate of #20,000 a mile
[except for a small portion of the
; road through the mountains,
| vvhi*n the cost will he #35.000 a
mill*. For this <j\ki rfhdce of the
poi/nwnt of the mtenest the Gov
ernment is secured by the com
pany by the. proceeds of the sale
[of their lands donated by Texas :
Iby a first lien on all. their prop
erty and franchises ; by the net
j earnings of t lie completed road ;
by the transportation of troops,
stores, mails and telegraphic ser
vice; by a deposit of #5,000 per
mile m bonds to be sold by the
Government to meet any possi
ble delay or deficiency in paying
interest.
A. T. Stewart's Classmate.
a i.ksson ri;o.vf i.m:.
Alontrkan, January 2-I.—A par
agraph of barely live lines in a
local paper records the death of
an old man called John Ander
son, with the following curt ap
pendix, newspaper fashion :
Deceased was found in a misera
ble hovel on Beaudry’ street by
the police, who had to gain ad
mittanee by breaking into the
lonely’ tenement. The body
when found was surrounded by
rags and tilth.
That i- all the notice that has
been taken, so far as 1 know, of
the death of an old citizen of
Montreal, whose life has ended
in the most abject misery. At
the Coroner’s inquest nothing
further was elicited of his history.
Yet he had a history, such as it
is which, if only’ by way of a con
trast to the history of a former
schoolfellow and classmate of his,
the late Alexander T. Stewart, of
New York, may not be without
interest to your readers. ! learn
ed it by accident from an intimate
friend of the late Mr. Stewart ,
Air. Thomas Workman, member
of Parliament for this city, who
first came to know Anderson
many years ago. being made Air.
Stew art's almoner to his less for
tunate fellow countryman.
Anderson was born in INO2 at
Red Hill, near Lisburn, Ireland,
so that he was near seventy six
when he died, lie was the son
of a small landed proprietor in
good circumstances whose estate
joined that of Mr. Stewart’s tin
ele. The two boys were about
the same ago. attended the same
school and had Latin syntax
thrashed into them by the same
master. They emigrated to the
I’nited Jhlates about tin* same
time, each taking his own course,
and did not meet for many years
after. Ihe.v began the battle of
life with about the- -nme cash
capital, but Anderson was a man
of easy habits and without ambi
tion. a religion- enthusiast who
read his Bible daily, --aw vi-nois,*
dreamed dreams and hated wo
men. lie wa -strictly temperate,
very economical and hard work
iwg. Instead of increasing his
money lie soon lost what little he
had lirougilt with him. lie re
mained many years in the Ini
ted States, principally in the
South, where he followed there
as well as here subsequently the
trade ol elockmaker- Mr. Stew
art always responded generously
to any of his appeals for assist
anee. sending Mr. Workman #2OO
at a time with no other injunc
tion than "that he would person
ally superintend its expenditure
as he well knew poor Anderson’s
weakness in money matters,hav
ing on many occasions given him
money that he spent foolishly.’'—
Since Mr. Stewart’s death Antler
son has often called on Mr. Work
man. 11a appeared poorly clad
and hungry-looking, yet contenl
ed. full of religious enthusiasm
and in constant communion with
spirits and angels. Air. Work
man usually gave him a half ilol
lar. whereupon lie would liiteh
mi his worn untanned calfskin
knapsack, begin humming some
old Methodist hymn, and leave
the office as happy as a prince.—
|On several occasions Air. Work
man offered to get him into the
Protest ant House for
Old People in this enyPn which
Mr. brother is I'resid
i ing the old man
invariably declined, saying that
he preferred living as lie was, a
lone. He would not live in a
house where there were women,
j fearing, as he said, that some owe
would marry him against his
will. Probably he owed his mis
\ fortunes and miserable end in a
large, if not a very large, degree
to this hallucination. Mr. Work
man was horn and educated in
the same country with Air. Stew
! art. and came to this country ut
; about the same time.
Russia pays a tremendous price
for her success. Few nalious
have ever gone to war under
greater disadvantages, it seem
ed madness lor the Czar’s armies
to hazard a campaign so far from
the base of supplies. Nothing
since th days when Trajan push
ed through the same region and
bridged the Danube on his way
North lias occurred resembling
Hie determination, courage and
persistency of the Russians. The
w hole war has been unnecessarily
| hard cm the men because of the
poor officers they have had over
| them. Thousands of lives have
! have been sacrificed through the
blunders of the Grand Duke Nich
olas and hi- staff, and had it not
been for the superior quality’ of
i endurance possessed by the Rus
sian soldiers there is little doubt
that the Balkans would never
have been reached. Russia has
sutiered terribly. Her commerce
has been seriously’ affected; agri
cultural pursuits have been al
most abandoned; and public debt,
by the issue of enormous quanti
ties of paper money, has run up to
about $3,000,000,000, while fully
100,000 men, chiefly from the
peasants, (lie producing, class,
have been slain in battle. That
the Czar will demand some ap
proximation to an equivalent for
this year of fearful losses to the
Empire is certain. Ttikev can
not pay a large cash w ar indemit v
for she has but little coin and lias
1 avalanches of worthless paper.
| Nhe will have to accede to severe
i terms—probably tlie loss of Ar
i menia ; the tribute of Koumania
stopped; the independence of
Bulgaria; the opening of the Dar
dandles io Russian ships, and
some other trifles, such as the
relinquishment of Northern A!
bania to the Montenegrins ; Bos
nia and Herzegovina to Austria ;
Thessaly and Epirus Greece.
Alter this process of stripping it
would be bettor for the Turks to
retrace their steps to Asia.
Ihe New Orleans cotton re
eeipts are growing more promis
ing every week. Although the
receipt at all the cotton points
are less than lasi year, New Oi
lcans is ahead of 1877 by 152,770
bales. Our receipts from the Alis
sissippi are greater than last year;
from Mobile we are 27,087 bales
ahead: from Red river 00,200
bales ahead; while the receipts
from the Arkansas river are three
times as great as last year, and
those from the Ouachita are nine
time- as great. —l >enuuiiit.
ink South secs every Stale with
in her borders free, and knows
that tin- dangers io her own sell
government, which nearly de
stroved her under the preceding
Administration, are buried with
other evil outcome of the civil
war. never to rise out of the
graves in which they mow lie. It
i- enough for her to know this,
and neither Air. Blair nor the
combined cohort- of Northern
politicians can swerve her from
the determination to cast no look
j backward— Mobile Gulf City.