Georgia Historic Newspapers

    £l)roiticle anS ggnffntl.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1877.
the fifteenth member.
A Washington correspondent makes
some damaging charges against Judge
Joseph P. Bradlky. the American Pres
ident maker. He says it is a grave mis
take to suppose that Judge Bradlet is
a free agent in the matter—that he is
the slave of a lawyer of New York,
named John A. C. Quay, of Tom Soott
and Cortland Pabkeb. He says:
When, at the private solicitation of Pxkkeb,
Mr. Justice Joe Bradlet assumed jurisdiction
at Newark, of the suite purporting to have
been brought in Texas, which suits, fraudulent
and corrupt and collusive as they were at
every step, aud founded mainly upon unverified
petitions, resulted in sweeping the vast prop
erty of the Memphis-El Paso Bailroad Com
pany into the hands of Gray as receiver, and
then into the bands of Scott as purchaser—
when Joe Bradley completed this infamy in
the secrecy of Barker’s back office, we say, be
ceased to bo his own man and became forever
the man of the men who owned and used him
then.
If Gbat were to open any one of sev
eral little bundles of papers which he
keeps in his possession Judge Bballky,
he thinks, could be impeached in five
hours, and before the fourth of March
“might be hurled from the highest place
to the lowest depth ever reached by an
American Judge.” The Courts often
held before the war that all the faculties
of the slave belonged to his master.
The correspondent says Judge Bradley
can exercise no faculty on the Electoral
Commission which is not “under the
supreme control of Gray. The animus
of Gray and Soott is also explained.
They are both deeply interested in the
Texas Pacific Railway scheme. They are
well aware that if Mr. Tilden is inau
gurated he will veto any bill granting a
subsidy to that corporation, as he is
fully committed in opposition to Gov
ernment aid to works of public improve
ment. They are confident that Governor
Hayes would give to their scheme the
assistance which his antagonist would
refuse. Therefore they are striving
desperately to have Tilden counted out
and Hayes counted in. If the corres
pondent tells the truth, if Bradley is in
the power of these men, they have an
easy task before them as long as eight
men can control seven.
THE PRICE OF C OTTON HOODS, GOLD
AND COTTON.
From figures furnished by the New
York Herald we have compiled a table
showing the camparative value of cotton
goods, gold and cotton before, during
and since the panic. In 1865 the prices
ranged as follows ;
Gold
Cotton
Sheeting
Merrimack prints
New York mills 65
In 1873, the year of the panic, these
figures showed a great falling off from
war prioes. That year the quotations
were as follows :
Gold H*
Cotton 2*
Sheeting 14
Merrimack prints 121
New York mills 19
In 1874 the prices were as follows :
Gold 112 J
Cos ton 16
Sheeting 12
Merrimack prints 11
New York mills 19
In 1875 theie was an advance in gold
but a greater decline in the price of cot
ton and cotton fabrics. The quotations
were :
Gold H4l
Cotton 154
Sheeting 11
Merrimack prints 10
New Jork mills 15
In 1876 prices continued to decline
and were a* follows :
Gobi !1 , 1
Cotton 1”,
Sheeting - "1
Merrimack prints
New York mills I*H
For the present year—lß77—quota
tions are given as follows :
Gold 105;
Cotton
Sheeting jj
yierri mack prints
NeW York mills 13
We a? ow give a table showing the de
cline from 1865 to 1873, and from 1873
*° 1877: 1865. 1873. 1877.
Gold 2<W H 4 105;
Cotton 85 21 13J
Sheeting 50 H
Merrimack p’ts. 30 12$
N. Y. mills <55 19 i3
THE CABINET OF EMiHT YEARB.
In allusiou to tbe uow oontradioted
ruraor i bat the President would give a
farewell a.'nner to the members of his
Cabinet before retiring from offloe, the
Leavenworth Times thinks if he could
assemble around bistable all the gentle
men who have held Cabinet positions
under bis Administration since he went
into office eight years ago, be would
have a large company. No President
ever had such an army of advisers. He
had two Secretaries of Ssfftte — Wash
burn k and Fish ; four Secretaries pf the
Treasury— Boutwell, Richardson, Bri*-
Tow and Morrill ; three Postmaster-
Generals— Creswkll, Jewell and Ty
■ner ; five Attorney - Generals— Hoar,
Akekmak, Williams, Pierrbpont and
Taft : four Secretaries of War—Raw
lins, Belknap, Taft and Cameron ;
two Secretaries of the Navy— Boris and
Robeson ; and three Secretaries of the
Interior—Cox, Delano and Chaiiwler.
In all twenty-three. Of these only one
•lied in office, General Rawlins ; two
were promoted to foreign missions,
Washburns and Pikrrepoinn ; one
went to the Senate, Boutwell ; one,
Richardson, was retired to the bench of
the Court Claims to get rid of him;
three resigned with more or lees dis
grace attaching to them in public esti
mation —Belknap, Williams and De
lano, Only one, Fish, has held office
through very nearly the whole period of
Grant’s two terms.
AN EXTRA SESSION OF CONtJRESS.
A Washington dispatch says that an 1
extra session of Congress may be con-1
sidered certain. The Senate will be
convened in order to pass upon the ap
pointments to be made by the new Pres
ident. The delay in legislation, caused
by the counting of the electoral vote,
will probably prevent the passage of the
appropriation bills at the present ses
sion. It is also represented that the
Democratic majority in the next House
is so small that the members of that par
ty prefer to secure the organization at
once, and decide enough of the contest
ed seats from Louisiana, Florida aud i
South Carolina to give the party a good
working majority. According to the roll
made by the Clerk of the present House
the Democrat* have only four majority,
and as Mr. Hill goes to the Senate on
the fourth of March, and his successor
■will not be elected until some time af
terwards, the vacancy thus created would I
reduce the majority to three. If Mr. <
Stephen* should be ill and unable to
Sake bis seat, another vote would betaken
off, reducing the majority to two. But
a certain majority ot two will give tbe
Democrats control of the organisation
and power to determine the contested
cases from South Carolina, Lonw.ia
and Florida. In Florida Furman will
oertuinly and Bisbkk probably be ousted.
In Louisiana the Democrat* will get two
Congressmen, and in South Carolina
one, which would make their majority
twelve instead of two. But if there is
no extra session, and the New Hamp
mhire election should go against ne in
April, Cue House when it meets in De
cember would have only one majority
lor tbe Democrats, and the defection,
illnee* or absence of one man would give
the Republicans control of the organiza
tion. I* seems highly pcobsble that
these ea*sone will cause an extra s*ion
tobe fceld. ’
'!ih Legislature adjourned last night.
It 'has weeoeplisbod as little. good as
any similar body that ever assembled.
The people are to be congratulated upon
the adjournment.
THE QUESTION SWTUD.
The Electoral Commission adopt**,! a
resolution yesterday afternoon declaring
that the ballo>' < ast by Odkll, Cart
wright and Watts were the lawful elec
toral votes of the State of Oregon, and
shonld be counted for Hayes and
Wheeler. The resolution was adopted
by the same vote which gave Louisiana
and Florida to the Republican candi
dates—a vote of eight to seven. We
confess that we expected a very differ
ent result. We had strong hopes that
one of the electoral votea of Oregon
wonld be counted for Tilden, or else re
jected altogether. In either event the
Democratic candidate would have been
inaugurated. But the judges of the
most important question ever submitted
to arbitration have sgain decided not
as Judges but as political partisans, and
have made a minority candidate President
of the United States. Governor Hayes
is to be oar next President, and the
fruits of the greatest victory ever won
by a political party have been swept
away by fraud. We do not believe that
any resistance will be made or can be
made to the peaceful inauguration of
the candidate who has been declared
elected. The votes of the Democratic
members of Cod gress created the Com
mission and gave it authority to pass
upon the Presidency, and the country
approved their act. As Congress and
the country would have expected a ready
acquiescence in the decision of the tri
bunal if it had been favorable to Til
de*, so will Congress and the country
abide the jadgment that makes Hayes
President. It is a bitter disappoint
ment, a grievous ending of a fair begin
ning, but we must bear it as best we
may and eschew impotent fury and un
availing repining.
A SPECIMEN DEMAGOGUE.
There is a member of the General As
sembly of Georgia named Richardson,
and he represents, or rather misrepre
sents, the county of Whitfield. Mr.
Richardson is said to be also a minis
ter of the gospel. If he is, so much the
worse for the gospel; for while he is
doubtless an honest and respectable
man he seems to be as complete a dema
gogue as ever oecnpied a seat in the
Georgia Legislature—and this is saying
a great deal in this woful day of dema
gogues and demagogism. Mr. Rich
ardson has exhibited himself on several
occasions since the meeting of the Leg
islature, but on the last day but one of the
session ho appeared in all his glory. He
is of course the earnest advocate of “re
trenchment, economy and reform,” and
has done his full share towards making
theso words nauseous to the stomachs of
all intelligent men. He has earnestly
sought to save at the spigot while the
cask was permitted to leak at the bnDg ;
he has been the sworn upholder of the
penny wise and pound foolish policy
that has found so many champions
among the friends of “retrenchment,
eonomy and reform.” Last Wednes
day he gravely presented a resolution
reciting that as he had refused to take
more than $5 per diem or 12} cents per
mile mileage, it wonld leave a balance
in the Treasury of 8100 75 ; that the
State Behool Commissioner be authoriz
ed to draw the SIOO 75 and give it to the
educational fund of Whitfield cor.nty.
He is reported to have made an elabo
rate speech in advocaoy of this resolu
tion, whioh was really an insnlt to the
intelligence of the House. It met with
just snob a reception as it deserved.
His time was extended, and one member
proposed to give him two hours addi
tional when he had spoken for more
than an hour. When Mr. Richardson had
finished lhe speech whioh he desigued
to secure immortality for himself among
“the people,” Mr. Branch, a conscien
tious and able gentleman who repre
sents in part the county of Greene, re
plied in a few cutting sentences to the
demagogical harangue. Mr. Bsanch
skinned bis subject so speedily and so
neatly that we r produce his remarks in
full:
It can be truthfully said that the time oo
eupied by the gentleman in the introduction
and advocacy of his resolution is oertainly the
only part of the time or this House which has
been deliberately, knowingly and unlawfully
appropriated by a member for the purpose of
promoting his own private ends. Is the gen
tleman serious in asking this house to pass this
resolution ? Could he not have qnietly drawn
his per diem and mileage, and then paid over
such part of tho same as he might choose to the
school ffu\d of his county. Why was this not
done ? The snsjrer. though plain, is painful.
His on'y conceivable motive was to appropriate
the time of the country to advertise himself-
To gain a little cheap ret utation for advocating
retrenchment and reform, utterly forgetful of
tje fact that he atone wa interested in having
the resolution passed. It is * gjAbterwith which
we, as representatives of the people of Geor
gia. are not ooucerue il, *u<J I for one am un
willing that a resolution of this oh&rapter
should be forced on this House, when the
whole matter is a piece of buncomb''. If he
reglly deßiree the House to act on this resolu
tion, i would suggest that he remit the whole
question to w bat his Bervioes are worth
to the State. I thick ffij* course might be in
the interest of the eobool fwu} of Whitfield
c-unty. 'The gentleman thinks hta services
worth U> ppr day. and he desires to donate $2
per day to his county. This House might re
verse this order of things It the < l ueßtion was
fslity submitted. But as lb,e has
moowplieb*} his purpose and put hiffselj upon
the record, I mss> fft indefinitely postpone the
whole subject. ...
Of oourse the motion prevailed, but,
as Mr. Branch it marked, tbe object of
the mover of tbe resolution was accom
plished when he got it before the
House. doubt, however, whether
ach bold-faced demagoguery pays. The
people wd not so easily deceived as men
of the Bjohawpson type imagine. They
know what such speeabas glean, and they
fully appreciate the motives 0 f those
who mil's them. Small politician* mate
a great mistake in supposing that the
people era foois, and iu oflering direct
affronts to their reason. We venture to
say that the people of Whitfield under
stand Mr. Bwhardson much hotter than
Mr. Richardson ms dors tends the people
of Whitfield.
SELF-MURDER REDUCED TO A SCI.
ENCBi
The Baltimore American says that
suicide seem* almost now to have, reach
ed the height of a acienae, and each day
instances are recorded iu whvah the most
careful and elaborate preparations have
been made towards this end. But
amongst all of these, drowning still
seems the favorite method, and the num
ber of bodies which are annually picked
up in our rivers, basins and canals is
something appalling. “Found drown
ed” is a common heading, which daily
meets the eye of a newspaper reader.
Or some poor -“ unfortunate; wdarV of
breath,” leaps from a pier or a ferry
boat, aud is seen no more. In New
York alone, during the year 187 b! *73
bodies of unknown persons were found
at the foot of the city’s piers, wad ! nine
persons were recorded a* haying com
mitted suicide by drowning. In King’s,
Queen’s and Richmond counties in
quests were held during that time on 67
bodies of unknown drowned persons,
and 18 cases of suicide reeordM, so that
there is a total of 267 person* drowned
in the New York rivers during 1875, of
whom 240 were unidentified and buried
in £ pauper’s grave. Daring the
nine jmsmjhs of 1876 the remains
of 250 parson* have been discovered
is these rivers, of 228 were un
identified. Besides -.this, *jny bodies
are carried out to sea, while adqeJwv*
been brought to tb surface by dredging
machines, with weights attached to their
feet. Tbs Health Department estimates
that oae-feurtfe ot those who ace drowned
are not recovered, and on this basis, it
would be safe to assume that during the
year 1876 in New York alone nearly 400
people have met their death by drown
ing. How many of those came by their
death accidentally, and how many de
signedly, qx boW often this method was
adopted to cove* up a previous crime,
will never be. known. Mysterious dis
appearances in large cjtiee are besoming
more freqnent every day. A man leaves
hi family in the morning and does not
return. The aid o( the police is called
in, but nothing is heard of him until
some qniet night a boatman brings to
shore a body which is placed on the
cold slab of the morgue, and identified
by those who have been waiting so im
patiently for news of the missing one.
The subject is not in itself a pleasant
one, and yet it shows how, with busy
life around, men and women can slip
away quietly and yield themselves np to
the stagnant river, and how effectually,
even with all the machinery of justice,
criminals can succeed in disposing of
their victims.
WHITE AND COUGHED COUNTIES.
Some interesting revelations are made
by the figures of the Gomptroller-Gene
ral’s reports. We published in the
Chronicle and Sentinel a few days
since a compilation showing how the
valne of improved land varied in the
corn growing and cotton growing coun
ties of the State—how it had appreciated
daring five years in the former, and bow
it had depreciated, during the same pe
riod, in the latter. It is also a signifi
cant fact that in most of the counties
where the colored race predominates the
aggregate value of property has de
creased, and that in most of those
counties where the white race predomi
nates the aggregate value of pro
perty has increased. An exami
nation of the reports of the
Comptroller-General for the year 1872
and 1876 will show the correctness of
this statement. For the purpose of
illustration we have taken eight conn
ties of North Georgia, eight of Middle
Georgia, and eight of Southwestern
Georgia. The figures are curious and,
as well, instructive. We give first a
table embracing eight counties in the
Northern portion of the State showing,
first, the number of white and colored
polls returned daring the year 1876.
this only includes those who did not
escape the vigilance of the tax officers—
there were hundreds in every county not
enumerated, but the list gives a fair
average: second, the aggregate value of
the property of each county in 1872 and
in 1876, with the gains and losses in
each :
Counties. Polls— White. Colored.
Bartow 1,996 838
Cherokee 1,806 194
Clayton 797 397
Cobb 1 899 484
DeKalb 1,394 439
Fnlton 3.290 958
Gwinnett 2,184 401
Hall 1,649 196
The difference that four years made in
valnes is shown as follows :
Counties. Value, 1872. Value, 1876
Bartow 8 3,535,000 8 3,946.000
Cherokee.... 1,242 000 1,679.000
Clavton 1.042,000 1,333,000
Cobb 2 925,000 3,658,000
DeKalb 2 028,000 2 548.000
Fnlton 18 271,000 19,784.000
Gwinnett 1,866,000 2,456,000
Hall 1,498,000 2,070,000
Each county shows a gain ranging
from 8290,000 to 81.500,000—0 r an
average gain of fourteen per cent.
We give now eight counties in Middle
Georgia—in some of which the colored
polls predominat-*, and in some of
which the white. The following table
shows the difference in polls:
Countios. Polls —White. Colored.
Burke 924 2,252
Columbia 442 880
Glascock 412 137
Jefferson 891 1,113
Lincoln 398 532
McDuffie....... 569 638
Richmond 3,648 1,983
Screven 881 712
In Glascock, in Richmond and in
Screven the whites have a numerical ma
jority; in the other five counties the
colored raoe preponderates. The follow
ing table shows the fluctuation in the
value of property:
Counties. Value. 1872. 1876.
Burke 82,008,000 82,618,000
Columbia 963,000 980,000
Glascook 408,000 466.000
Jefferson 1,679,000 1,972.000
Lincoln 693,000 766,000
McDuffie 1,038,000 1,022,000
Riohmond 16,410,000 16,174,000
Screven 720,000 884,000
In these counties there are only
eighty-two more colored polls than
white, and in all but two property has
inoreased in value. The average in
crease, however, is only four per cent.
We come now to the Southwestern por
tion of the State.
Counties. Polls—White. Colored.
Dougherty 340 1,500
Lee 362 1,192
Baker 278 698
Sumter 1,007 1,278
Stewart 812 1,234
Houston 984 2,351
Terrell 828 632
Randolph 882 880
In these eight counties the blacks out
number the whites almost two to one,
the aggregate being 9,765 blacks to
5,492 whites. The fluctuations in the
valne of property have been as follow* :
Counties. Yalne, 1872. Value. 1876.
Dougherty $2,741,000 $2,156,000
Lee 1,560.000 973 000
Baker 627,000 535,000
Sumter 8 752 500 3,164,000
Stewart 1 801,000 1,881.000
Houston 3.261,000 2,829 000
Terrell 1,579,000 1,146,000
Randolph 2,025,000 1,695,000
Every oountj in the list shows a heavy
decrease in the value of its property—a
decrease wfiiek averages twenty per
cent.
Unless the eight are amorous of eternal
infajpy one yote from Oregon will be
counted for Samper J. TjLpEN.
“Bmnatob Fpsky deplores the par
tisanship of the Democratic member* of
the Commission in invariably voting
solidly against the Republicans.” Sen
ator Ferry has cheek sufficient to split
a streak of lightning to smithereens.
The bill requjyjng the Georgia Land
and jLumber Company to a cor
porate# under -the laws of khis State
has passed both Houses of the (general
Assembly. That eminent evangelist,
Mr. William E. Dodge, and his asso
ciates will have to take Georgia justice
or get uone at all.
Thk Atlanta Constitution says
Mr, CopLEi, of jyiljien, an able
and eloquent argument in opposition to
the bill appropriating tpe p.et proceeds
of the oonvict labor of the State to the
Marietta and North Georgia Railroad.
“This was the first time he had addressed
the House at length on any subject du
ring tbe ef-fftio?) and the attention given
him was exceedingly / aomp? imentar y > ”
We regret that the House Baw proper
to defeat the bill reimbursing the coun
ties of Washington, Burke and Johnson
for expenses incurred in suppressing the
insurveetion of 1875. The citizens of
those counties were protecting the peo
ple pi. the whole State as well ft* them
selves, and the money which they were
compelled to expend shonld be repaid
from the public treasury.
A cobkbsnoxpbnt of the Brooklyn
Union-Argus, speculating upon the com
plexion of Hayes’ Cabinet, says one
member .will come from the Southern
Republicans, and hie name will be Set
tle, of North C&rolina. He says that
“ AjKXRMAN, of Georgia, sjtJf all the others
are overshadowed by him, or hgve beep
relegate*! to obscurity, either as a
punishment for party treachery or as a
reward for their imbeeility. ” Great
Cmsak l Will Timothy Titmouse stand
this?
Mr. Barksdale, of Mississippi, a Til
den elector in the recent contest, gives
gpod and substantial reasons why that
State, w£j.ch has a majority of colored
voters, wept qn heavily Democratic in
the recent election. The colored men
fouad that.the whites kept all the prom
ises made by in the previous cam
paign ; and were pro
taated and their interests ppyaAced by a
Democratic administration. Black hu
man nature is a good deal like white hp
mm nature. Black men and white men
both vote in accordance with their in
toccata. The colored man has been nt
school tor the last twelve years, and he
has learned good deal in that time.
LINKS IN LIFE.
TYPJKB OP VfvN WHO MOULD
THE PUBLIC MIND.
Ia (he Presence at (he Ureal—The Men Who
Uanaced the Late Campaign Shriveled
Forma and Giant Intellect*—The Single
Mis ake— Leaning On the Broken Reed
Fran the Paelßc Two Lines of Policy Con
trasted.
[Correspondence of the Atlanta Constitution .J
Washington, February 14.—1 parted
with the blue hireling at the gate and
hurrying over to the Arlington, entered
the Tilden parlors and revenged my out
raged feeliDgs by recklessly laying
down, boots and all, on a blue sofa. In
this condition of profligate luxuriance
my spirits soon began to rise, and I
soon began to feel that I was really “a
biger man than old Grant.” And when
Col. Pelton, Tilden’s nephew, came and
sat down in a respectful manner in front
of me, I reached that state that we read
of somewhere in Georgia history where
a gentleman received the appointment
of Governor’s private secretary, and
thereupon became so toploftical that for
a long time he even stopped speaking to
the Governor. The man who sat oppo
site me was the man who had managed
the Tilden campaign—the most marvel
lous fight known in American politics,
from beginning to end. Of course he re
ceived suggestions from his uncle and
many wise hints from the few men who
Mr. Tilden has clustered about him.
But he has done the burden of the work.
And well has it been for the party that a
good head graced Mr. Felton’s shoulders.
The Chairman of the National Commit
tee, Mr. Abram S. Hewitt, a queer little
shrub, is an ignominious failure. He is
narrow, and, as all narrow men are, is
dogmatic and conceited. Early in the
campaign he and Mr. Tilden parted
company, in a friendly but decisive way,
and since then there has been hardly a
piece of policy on which they have
agreed. Their differences culminated
in the conduct of the past November
campaign, Tilden being aggressive to
the last degree, taking a positive delight
in the rising tumult that for a while
promised to overwhelm the West, and
Mr. Hewitt beiug cantions to the edge
of cowardice, and deprecating anything
that looked like manly resistance. Til
den looked forward to a coup d'etat —
Hewitt to a compromise. Tilden would
have marched to the White House as
Napoleon marched from Elba, and have
held his own to the last. Hewitt would
have sneaked into the White House
through the cellar win ow, and upon
being discovered by the butler would
have submitted to being kicked out
through the coal hole. Tilden is a brave
statesman with a heart of gold.
Hewitt is a whiffler, with a white liver.
Hewitt has had his way. And the best
fought campaign of the century, really
a victory, ends in a fiasco, that wonld
be ridiculous, if it were not terrible.
Colonel Pelton is Tilden’s nephew. He
has a long, high head, flattened at the
side and bulged at the forehead. He is
loosely slung together, but moves easily
and quietly. He is a master of men,
speaking frankly and rapidly, and avoid
ing that habit, peculiar to picayune
politicians, of whispering common places
in your ear. He works with marvellous
rapidity, and decides everything as if
by intuition. When a matter is present
ed for settlement, he walks quickly up
and down the room and turns to you
with an answer.
Phenomenaily, he has a bunch of hair
growing on the top of his nose. A “hair
loom,” 1 expect ! Who nose ? 001.
Pelton has never had a doubt abont Til
den’s election. He says, “Two weeks
before the election we had victory organ
ized and inevitable. We were mistaken
in but one point of calculation. That
defection left us a safe margin. In our
Northern battle grounds, such as Now
York, Connecticut, Indiana and Now
Jersey, we had lists covering every voter
in these States, and knew what the vote
of every militia di.-trict would be. The
conversion of a single voter in a Con
necticut township would be promptly re
ported to our headquarters. We had a
certain triumph ahead of ns. We mis
calculated only on one thing in the
North and West. That miscalculation
would not have been fatal had not the
infamous and nnexdected Returning
Boards of the South deliberately stolen
three States from us.”
The "one miscalculation” that 001.
Pelton alluced to so delicately was this:
One of the first men, if not the first
man, who put Mr. Tilden upon the
Presidential ticket was ex Senator
Gwinn, of California—the famous duke
of Sonora. “Duke” Gwinn was high in
the confidence of Mr. Tilden and his
friends. He was recognized as the best
manager of ante helium, times. It was
him who had said, with a shake of his
leoninehaad : “When my enemies be
come troublesome I pnt them out of the
way, sir; I pnt them out of the wav.”
He made it his especial point in the
campaign to answer for California and
Oregon. He would brook no inter
ference in the management of these
States. He brought them both to the St.
Louis Convention, solid for Tilden, and
it was thought that he could handle
them in the general election. He was
consequently left absolutely free in
working the campaign of the Pacific
slope.
Up to the last moment he swore, in
the most positive and enthusiastic way,
that California and Oregon would come
up all right. He took no alarm at the
visit of Senator Morton to those States,
and calmed the fears of everybody else
by his tremendous boasts and his reas
suring Western oaths.
At last the crash oame! The duke’s
old fingers had stiffened with age, and
the two States slipped through them.
And then the old man’s heart-strings
snapped. The patched and doctored
frame—the frame of a giant, strung upon
the sinews of a child—oollapsed, become
shapeless and helpless. And the man
who for three decades had carried half a
continent in his pocket tottered towards
his grave, a maundering wreck. This
was a campaign made irresistible at
every other point, lost through the fa
taity with which a caucus of diplomats
put their faith in an old man with a loud
voice and a gorged liver, and in whom
imbecility had taken the form of an illu
sive delerium !
lIAYEB AND THE SOUTH.
The Speech of His Friend Foster in Tues
day’s Uebate.
Mr. Foster (Rep.} of Ohio, who rep
resents the district in which Governor
Hayes resides, spoke of the duty of both
parties to abidp by the decision of the
electoral Commission, ftnii said that this
is not tbe time fpr piere party exulta
tion. The exultation of the patriot oyer
the nation's escape from ‘foe dangers
that threatened its peace, prosperity and
happiness is fitting and proper, In tb@
triumph of peace over disorder BDd
possible civil war, both parties oan unite
in exultation. While Ido not rejoice
simply in a party sense, I do rejoice
that one of the purest and most patriotic
of our fellow-citizens is to guide the af
fairs of .tfiis Government for four years
to come! Representing as Ido the dis
trict in whioW Governor 'lJhyes resides,
and being ft ij'fpdong acquaintance of
his, I but speak the opinion of all per
sons who know him when I say that his
administration will be wise, patriotic
and just, notwithstanding whatever else
ma c be said to the contrary here or else
where, the peor la of all sections of the
counter may confidently - T ? ect
hid not opty fair fcqt arenerous consid
eration. Hislettef of is the
expression of a man of the broadest pa
triotism. I feel oertain that I shall be
sustained by his acts, when I say that
his highest ambition will be to adminis
ter the Government so patriotically and
wisely as to wipe away every necessity
or excuse for the formation of parties
on a sectional basis, and all traces of
party color lines; that thereafter and
forever we shall hear no more of a solid
South or a united North; tbe flag shall
float over States, not provinces; over
freemen, not subjects. When Governor
Hayes appealed *to the people of the
3onth in his letter of acceptance, he ad
dressed them as VMy countrymen.
And why not bis countrymen ? Are not
the Southern States the equal of those
in the North, East pr
the South an integral part of the nation?
It has been said, sneeringly and for the
purpose of stirring the wild passions of
the human heart to bad actions, that the
South, under President Hayes, must
submit to an unconditional surrender to
the Republican party. No, sir, no such
demAnd Wiii be made. All that will be
expected is the patriotic *l-,operation of
Southern patriots in the great work of
restoration through the Union, the Con
stitntion and the' enforcement of laws.
In tin# £?Oat work the representative
men o/ the fconJjii have already distin
guished themselves for patriotism and
statesmanship during the pending" or
this present crisis in our history.
The labor item in the coal mining
districts of England £** £ elemen
pot into it by tije ayow<# )
the mine owners to bring in tfhmeseja
bor to replace tfee preempt force, for
several years there h MfW
trouble both in England fthd Wales
from tbe strikes and lockouts, and it is
now announced that the mine owners
have been in consultation with the
Chinese Ambassador to England relative
to importing Chinese labor, and as soon
as the details caw Ason/fanged will put
this project into execufioa. Querns
Ambassador has'expressed lus willing
ness to undprtak® ‘be management ot
the immigration, providing the arriving
Chinamen axe protected/rosa uqury
insult. Patting such q jpian fisthfft£
force would be a serious business in
Great Britain—so serious that wo b*ve
no notion that it will be attempted.
THE PROSPKUT FOR COTTON
The Problem of the Conroe of Prices—Re
ceipt* to Be the Kuli Power.
Smith, Edwards & Cos., of Liverpool,
in their monthly cotton circular just re
ceived, say: *
The Manchester market in the early
part of the month was very strong in
sympathy with Liverpool. Prices Were
pushed up as fast as here, and the rise
in yarns was in many cases greater than
in the raw material. Avery sanguine
tone was manifested, and spinners
showed great boldness in purchasing
cotton. Since theu that market, like
onra, has relapsed into a doll state;
prices hive receded materially, and very
little bnsiDess has been done fort wo or
three weeks, but the trade hold such
long engagements that no great weak
ness is shown, and upon the whole the
character of Manchester is sound and
healthy.
The silver market and the rates of ex
change with the East have shown a little
weakness of late, still there is consider
able confidence in values being main
tained. Silver has become a scarce ar
ticle in the London market; the supplies
from America are intercepted by the
large requirements of that country
for coinage, and Germany apparent
ly has little more to spare.
Then we are threatened with a
severe famine in Southern India, and it
is believed that the Government will
hr.ve to issue considerable loaos in Lon
don to defray tbe extra cost; if that be
so, the sale of Goancil bills on the In
dian treasuries will be reduced by so
much, and more silver will be wanted
for remittance to the East. Besides, the
feeliDg in America tends strongly to
wards the re-establishment of the bi-me
tallic system, and should that great
country, in common with France,
make either metal full legal ten
der at the ration of 1 to 15}, with unre
stricted right of coinage, we shonld
hear no more of fluctuations in the
price of silver in the future. The chief
support of Manchester for a long time
past has been the demand from the
East; that again has been stimulated by
the great rise of exchange, and will in
the fnture be governed very much by it.
The home trade has not respound in an
equal degree, and there are sections of
the market where the margin is still
very poor. Asa rule those branches
which use low American and East India
cotton are suffering from the scarcity
and dearness of these descriptions,
whereas the spinners of medium yarns,
made oat of the Middling American cot
ton, are doing well. Egyptian spinners
are also doing fairly well, the rise iD
their yarns being much greater than in
the raw material.
Future Prospects.
The prospects of our market are, as
usual at this time of the year, but
another way of expressing what people
think about the American crop. Con
siderable changes have taken place in
public opinio on this subject. At the
end of December the favorite estimate
both here and in America was 4} mil
lions, but the remarkable break in re
ceipts, the first week of January,
brought into favor still lower estimates;
these again have been supplanted by
larger ones to correspond with the in
crease . receipts, and weshould describe
the change that has occurred by sayiug
that in place of 4 to 4} millions, which
prevailed the first week of January, 4}
to 4} millions is now the favorite idea.
We are bound to say, however, that
the Americans tenaciously cling to short
estimates, and we know of none from
good houses above 4,350,000 bales. The
present swelling of receipts they attri
bute entirely to a rising of the rivers,
which is letting out some cotton that
was previously inaccessible; when this is
exhausted, which they say will be in a
fortnight, they predict a “perpendicu
lar” drop ; they allege that the country
pierced by railways is almost entirely
drained, and more so than was ever
known at this season before. Taking
all this into account, we i 'dine to think
that the crop cannot reach four and a
half millions, though it will likely ex
ceed four and a quarter millions.—
Messrs. Ellison’s Annual Circular shows
that with a crop of 4,350,000 bales, and
about 150,000 bales less from India, the
year’s supply will be half a million
bales below the probable consupap
tion. We think this calculation
substantially oorrect, though we
lean to the opinion that India will
give more The crops of Dholleran,
Broach and Oomrawuttee are expected
to be about equal to last year. Dharwar
aud Western Madras report a complete
failure ; other parts of India, especially
Bengal, may supply a-little more, and
when we take into account the higher
prices that rule and the tendency to
draw out the old stocks, we shonld
doubt whether the receipts of the East
India cotton into Europe for this year
will fall materially beneath the low
figure reached last year ; at all events,
the deficit is likely to be shown in the
seoond half of the year, as the Bombay
crop will be shipped rapidly under the
stimulus of high prices. The Egyptian
crop is also promising a smaller deficit
than expected some time ago. We would
therefore say that a total deficit of 300,-
000 to 400,000 bales for the year is what
may be fairly counted on ; this is not
enough to cause great scarcity, but it
will give a healthy background to the
market, and makeootton at6}d. for mid
dling uplands appear a cheap article.
The immediate influences bearing on
the market are, however, not very favor
able. Avery heavy import is landing.
Spinners hold so much that their ap
petite is now easily satisfied. The long
spell of active business has pushed for
ward supplies to this country,and the de
ficit, whatever it may be, will not be felt
for a long time. All expectations of a
great immediate rise in cotton has passed
away, and it is only a gradual hardening
of values that is looked forward to,
which may be more or lless marked,
according as the “tail end” of the
American orop is more or less attenuated.
Shonld the receipts, as soipe think,
run down in a fortnight to a little more
than half what they were last year, a
fresh wave of speculation may be started,
bat if they keep on about the rate of the
year before last, and two-thirds of what
they were last year, no great rise can be
looked for.
One feature is rather in our favor; the
failure of the Conference at Constanti
nople has not been followed, as was once
expected, by the outbreak of war be
tween Russia and Turkey. Russia seems
more aud more indisposed to interfere
single handed, and there is an increas
ing probability that the peace of Europe
will be maintained tjps year. As this
feeling gains ground, we shall expect to
see an improvement of trade on the con
tinent of'Eufopp, wjjefo tfip fear of war
has for a lqng tipje weighed upon com
merce.
Our attention has lately bean drawn
to the weight of American cotton this
season as compared with last, and a
comparison which we have made shows,
to our surprise, an average deficiency
of twenty pounds per bale this year.
We have seen statements in America to
the effect that t'.ie bales were five per
cent, lighter, but were not prepared for
this result, and it may be that our cal
culation 1 may be subject to modification
afterwards. It seems dear, however,
that there is certain deficiency iu weight,
caused, we are told, by the dry, springy
character of the cotton, making it diffi
cult to compress it. On the other hand,
the crop is mnch cleaner than last year,
and will be much less waste in us
ing it, which may, perhaps, counterbal
ance the lighter weight.
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND MORE.
A Temporary Loan Ordered to Meet the De
ficiency.
I Atlanta Constitution.]
A message from Governor Colquitt was
received through the hands - of his
Private Secretary, Colonel Isaac
Avery. Qb motion tli* message was
taken up and r® a( L The mossag# stated
that since th’e passage of the tax act it
was discovered that the sum of five
hundred and twenty-five thousand dol
lars would be necessary *o meet deficits.
This 'sum would be increased by a Con
stitutional Convention. A resort .to
temporary loan was tSOoessary, or an in
crease of taxation, Mr. parlton offered
a resolution authorizing the Governor
to effect daring the year temporary
loans, not exceeding $500,000, and to
pledge the taxes and rental of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad for its
payment, which was agreed to and was
transmitted to the Senate.
iHAKIXU UP TUB SLATE,
Hayes and the Tribune Selecting a Cabinet.
[By Telegraph to the Journal of Commerce.]
Ngw York, February 22.—A Tribune
special froffi Washington says Governor
Hayes has'been urged to come to Wash
ington before the dzy <Jf inauguration
to confer with the party leaders bn the
satne<“ of the Cabinet appointments. It
is believed ihai he Trill leave Columbus
about Thursday 1, nejd, reaching Wash
ington the next day. It ii generally
thought ih&t BO members of Grant’s
Qabißet fill remain. £t least gne Sqqth
n mo will have a pfape ini the Cabinet.
Mr. Evart* will probably be Secretary of
State. The Secretary of tbe Navy will be
a hard money Western man, and the
Secretary of War a Northern man.
Mrs. Jones, ho? is your health this
mortiing ? Thank jfou, madam, mnch
improved. 1 bought a Dottle of** Dr.
Bull’s Cough Syrtfp last night, and after
the first dose my eoagh was cheeked. "I
slept well, and have npt coughed Once
this morning.
STARTLING- REVELATION*) FROM
THE UNITED STATES TREASURY.
Currency and Ronds Ordered far Destruc
tion that Were Never Destroyed—'Whence
the Lavish Expenditure of Money lor
Bayes.
[JVeta York Atn.]
Washington, February 19. —Tt is
claimed that startling developments
have been made by the Real Estate
Pool Committee in regard to Treasury
irregularities. These developments, it
it said, will astound the country, and if
the testimony thus far taken is corrobo
rated, it oertaioty will eause a sensation.
The is as follows : Mr, Oiover,
Chairman of the Real Estate Pool Com
mittee, in the course of his inquiries in
to the connection of Jay Cooke & Cos.
with the Real Estate Pool, had facts
brought to his attention last session
tending to prove that that firm was in
debted to the Government in a very
large sum, and that some of its transac
tions with the Treasury Department
were of an anomalous character that
could hardly be called honest. Fro a
George Prender and George Sellers,
formerly of the Treasurer’s office, whom
the oommittee examined last session
with closed doors, it was ascertained
that the notorious William S. Hunting
ton, Cashier of Jay Cooke’s broken First
National Bank of Washington, who died
a defaulter to this bank in a large
amount, repeatedly borrowed the green
backs out of the Treasury vaults. The
testimony of Prender, taken with that
of Spinner, indicates that he thus had
millions at a time. Tho operations of
the house were then further inquired
into with most startling results. Despite
the care used to cover up all sorts of ne
farious transactions by the Treasury and
by the Cookes, Mr. Glover and his
oommittee have secured proof of the
improper connection referred to.
In 1865 a committee, called the Statis
tical Committee, was appointed by
Secretary McCulloch to oount for de
struction notes and bonds which had
been prepared for issue, and which, be
cause of the close of the war or other
reasons, it had been determined not to
use. The operations of this committee
were, and have been conducted with the
utmost secrecy, no acknowledgment even
of its existence being found in any regu
lar report from the Treasury. The
Presidential struggle has interfered with
and delayed the committee in its opera
tions, but they have at last succeeded in
obtaining the testimony of Matthew
Richardson, formerlv of the Treasurer’s
office, who, under McCullooh’s adminis
tration, acted as Chairman and Recorder
of this “Statistical Committee.” Mr.
Richardson resigned a comfortable posi
tion in the Treasuay, and went back to
work at his trade because he discovered
that the professed checks against fraud
and Over issues were not carried out in
practice; that false certificates of de
struction had been made; that over
$800,000,000 of notes and bonds had
been delivered for destruction without
being cancelled, though the Treasury
regulations required their cancellation;
that they had passed uncancelled into
the bonds of the committee, ostensibly
for destruction of which oommittee
Huntington Jay Cooke, Henry D.
Cooke, and H. C. Fahnestock were by
turns (and sometimes two together)
members, the other members being an
old citizen named Davis, too far ad
vanced in years to be useful, and
Treasury employees who would have
lost their places and their pay had they
dared to displease any one connected
with Jay Cooke & Cos., and because nil
his efforts to procure an investigation
by McCulloch (who left the Treasury to
go into partnership with Cooke) and
Spinner failed.
Richardson, who was examined to-
day, said it was impossible to tell how
much money ia notes and bonds had
been destroyed, and how much had
been put in circulation. Notes and
bonds were passed directly from the
printing bureau t® the division for de
stroying currency. This avoided cutting
tho notes in half as the regulations re
quire, once in the Secretary’s office and
once in the Register’s office. He pro
duced and incorporated in his testimony
a copy of a spurious certificate and also
a memoranda taken from the books of
the printing bureau at his request by
Prender, in 1868, showing that Jones
had receipted thereon up to that date
for about $500,000 of fractional currency
for delivery to his division without pass
ing these checks; that Jones and Wilson
(Jones’ confederate), in making the
false fractional currency certificate, had
jointly receipted for $120,000 more; that
Jones, with H. G. Root, Chief of the
Division of Issues, had also receipted
for over $96,000,000 more. Mr. Rich
ardson dryl.y observed that what busi
ness the Chief of Division of Issues ha 1
with matter that was not to be issued
he did not know. He added that the
committee had counted for destruction
the unissued five-twenties, and that he
then supposed that they had been de
stroyed; but the last three reports of the
Treasurer state that within the last
three fiscal years over $250,000,000 of
5 20’s of the earliest issue have been
destroyed, for which he is unable to ac
count. He also produced a table, made
at his request by Prender, showing that
the accounts of unissued fractional
currency by the Treasurer for destruo
lion disagreed with the destruction
books kept under Jones’ control, and
that unissued fractional currency for
destruction had been habitually entered
on the register of issues in the cash di
vision. He spoke very lightly of Sp.n
ner’s vaunted integrity as something
which experience had taught him to dis
trust, and stated that he had called on
Secretaries McCulloch, Boutwell and
Bristow, as well as on Spinner and
President Johnson, for an inquiry into
this subject, but without success.—
Boutwell referred the subject for inves
tigation to Wilson, one of the makers of
the false certificate, but Richardson de
manded the return of his letter and
dropped the subject for a time. He no
tified Spinner in 1875 of his intention to
press tfie matter, and that gentleman
soon after resigned, He then called
Boutwell’s attention to the subject. The
latter took the counting committee from
Jones’ control and placed it in his own
office, and when Spinner nominated
Jones for Cashier of the Treasurer’s
office on the resignation of S. E. Middle
ton, Boutwell refused to confirm him,
thus virtually confessing the truth of
Mr. Richardson’s statements. Spinner
again nominated Jones for Cashier in
1875 in place of A. U. Wyman, when the
latter was made Assistant Treasurer, but
Jones’ reputation had become such that
Bristow, too, refused to confirm him,
and he soon resjgqed ftnd went into
business witji Sjhepherd. ijr. Riohard
son says that q 'treasury detective told
hirq that tfih sepret seryipe fiad learned
that Jones had spent $156,090, while his
salary did not reach $20,000.
The testimony of those witnesses
alone may be doubted, but Mr. Glover
has procured a collation from thousands
of pages of official documents, and
minor evidence of a mass of official
admissions of mismanagement or fraud,
which those who have examined the
compilation say, when taken together,
confounds the Treasury officials by
their own utterly crashes the
pretense of a complete and effective sys
tem of checks and safeguards, and
makes the statements of Prender, Sav
age and Richardson impregnable.
The bearing of all this on the Presi
dential question is startling. It is
proved tbat an over issue is practicable,
and Mr. Richardson, speaking as an ex
pert, declares that he desma the volume
of the pnblio'debt and chfrency Wholly
unknown, but eferlalnty' lhach larger
than the Treasury figures admit. This
being the case it is tolerably clear bow
purchasable presses and politicians
were won over to Hayes last Fall, where
the moDey has come frdm to buy Re
turning Boards and bthef ri&edful tools,
and why tradf revived jbat beferfi the
election, it }s Hjffieegbered that
in ISfifi, Just about the time that the
CongteSs was elected which’impeached
President Johnson, $40,000,000 of green
backs were reported’ as destroyed by
Jones’ division without ever being is
sued, and were actually deducted from
the amount said to be issued and
were so reported yearly until George
Prender showed the Retrenchment Com
mittee that |he was false, and
that its falsity was thereupon acknowl
edged; when it is remembered that the
charge has beenpublioly made that frac
tional currency and internal revenue
stamps were overissued to carry Grant’s
election in IP6B, and tbat even Treasury
witnesses admit that stamps at that time
were not cancelled before going to the
coanting and destruction committee ;
when it is remembered that Boutweil
made an over issue before the election
of 1872, which even John Sherman con
demned to stave off the gathering panic
until Grant should be re-elected ; that
Secretary Richardson, after the "panic
and near the elections of made a
secret over issue, and that after the elec
tion of 1872 the printing of currency
was mainly divided between the Treas
ury and Shepheidls Bank Note Company,
thus
conclusion is tliat in ah over
issue 'lies tlie secret of the lavish cam
paign expenditures, of the insane greed
of power shown by officials, and of some
large deposits jn banks.
Fire Department.
We understand that there will be a
lively contest for the position of First
Assistant of the Fire Department at the
next annual election of officers. Messrs.
Win. *L. Platt afid John Stulb are spoken
of for' the place, * and both gentteynen
have many friends. 1
- -THE NEXT PRESIDENT.
RUTHERFORD B HAYES IS THE
NAME OF THE MAN-
Tie Feeling Yesterday Mnrniu*—Both Sides
Uneasy—An Element Missing In Each Camp
The South Safe—A Rumor That Wan Found
True—The Last Ditch Reached—The Vote
of Oregon Coanted for Hayes—How the
Vote Stood—Eight to Heven Again—Unne
cessary Reasons.
Washington, February 23.—A dis
agreeable feeling pervades politics this
morning There is doubt as to the ac
tion of Justices Strong and Bradley.
The irreconcilables of the Democratic
party find they cannot secure the six
Democratic Senators necessary to read
objections sufficiently long to defeat a
result before the 4th of March, and Mr.
Randall’s rulings make the ordinary par
liamentary tactics of calling ayes and
nays ineffectual.
A Nice Little Game.
There is apprehension that should the
Commission decide to count Oregon two
for Hayes and one for Tilden the six
Senators and some to spare can be
fonnd among the Republicans to sign
necessary protests to consume the time.
Senator John Sherman is with Haye3 at
Oolnmbns. The resignation of Sher
man, to be followed by Hayes’ election
to the Senate and his subsequent eleva
tion to the Presidency of that body and
thence to the Chief Magistracy, in this
event, are discussed here, if not at Co
lumbus by Hayes and Sherman. It is
determined beyond a doubt to hamper
the army appropriation bill with provis
ions that oau only be removed by the
recognition of Hampton and Nicholls.
The day is big with events, but affairs
have so shaped themselves that the best
interests of the South can’t be seriously
affected.
A Rumor That Proved Correct.
It is reported very unreliably that
Cronin’s vote is rejected, and that the
rejection of Watts’ vote is under con
sideration.
Three O’Clook—Nothing to hang a
doubt or hope on.
A Verdict Rendered for Hayen.
Thß Commission have adopted a reso
lution that the ballots cast for Odell,
Cartwright and Watts were the lawful
electoral votes of the State of Oregon,
and should be counted for Hayes and
Wheeler. The vote stood 8 yeas to 7
nays.
IF HAYEN COMES IN.
Hi. Southern Policy—How Ho Propo.es to
Divide the Solid South—The Distribution
at Federal Patronage—Good Men Only for
OOlce—What a Correspondent Thinks.
( Washington Dispatch to Atlanta Constitution. J
Since the Democratic cancus decided
by an almost unanimous vote that it
would not filibuster against the count,
the belief that Hayes will be inaugurat
ed has settled into certainty, and the
leading topic now is the tendency of his
administration. As I have dispatched
you before, the signs point unmistakably
towards a conciliatory policy for the
South. I have just had a talk with
Judge Morton, of Virginia, a Republi
can, who stauds high in party circles
here, and who is nearer to Senator
Conkling than perhaps auy man who
cjuld be named. Judge Morton is iu
daily consultation with Conkling, Ed
munds, etc., and his views may be con
sidered very nearly authoritative. “I
say to you, ” said he, ‘‘l believe confi
dently that we will carry half the South
ern States iu the election four years
from now. The policy that Hayes is
going to adopt will command the sym
pathy and support of thousands of the
best people in the South. There are
two things that have prevented our
building up a party in the South here
tofore; first, the inefficiency, corrupt
ness and unpopularity of the Federal
appointees, and the general proscrip
tive polioy of the Federal Govern
ment; second, the fact that the negroes
voted solidly with Us, throning the
whites to the other side. Now the first
thing that Hayes will do will be to raise
the standard of officeholders in the
South, I state this as au absolutely as
certained fact. He will at once displace
every bummer, every incapable, and
every man of odious repute, and fill
their places with whoever the good peo
ple of the communities interested shall
desire. In order to confirm and com
plete his policy he will dispossess many
officeholders against whose official
record there is not whisper. Major
Smythe, at Atlantu, for instance, who is
one of the best Federal officeholders in
the South, can easily be taken care of
outside of his present office, and let that
be filled by some native Georgian, who
would give general satisfaction. Bo the
Atlanta postmaster, the revenue collec
tors, etc., might give way to some man
who would more generally satisfy the
people ; and- so of the postmasters
throughout the State. Nothing can be
more certain than that Mr. Hayes will,
shortly after his inauguration, take
steps to discover what men will most
generally satisfy the various Southern
communities in the various Federal
offices, and he will appoint those
men, no matter to what p irty they be
long. To make it plain: If the citizens
of Atlanta should unite earnestly and
solidly on any man, and present his
name for any Federal office in the city,
and yonr Congressman should endorse
that petition, he would get the appoint
ment. As to the negro appointees,
there are very few of them who will not
have to be retired. The most of them
are utterly iucompeteut; many of them
are actually dishonest. There is no
proper colored material with which to
supply their places. They will be sup
planted by white men, chosen without
regard to party. This will drive flocks
of them to the Democratic party. That
is what we want. We want to see tee
race-issue destroyed, and the color line
broken down.
Now, the two great parties are not di
vided on any great issue at present.
Both are for hard money—both are for
retrenchment. There is no party divi
sion on the tariff. The sole issues of
the past campaign were the low stand
ard of Southern officeholders, the race
issue at the South, aud the proscription
policy of the Government towards the
SoutU. Let Governor Hayes wipe these
three issues out, and by the course in
dicated above he will do it, and then
what will prevent great numbers of Dem
ocrats iu the South from flocking to bis
standard ceasing their v/$r upon the Ad
ministration. The earnestness of the
last campaign really rested upan a
question of patronage, and the patron
age will now be so adjusted as to
satisfy the Southern people almost as
well as if they had won the them-
selveg,
"Hayes must build up a party in the
South. As Senator Oonkling said,
‘With a proper support in the South
the Republican party would become the
grandest j that ever existed; with the
South solidly against it, action is ham
pered, its power put under frequent
paralysis, and its very existence jeop
ardized !’ ” After this conversation, the
Judgo suddenly asked h°W the
people would like to see the Hon. Her
schel V. Johnson in Hayes’ Cabinet.
There is little donbt that a most deter
mined effort will be made to disin
tegrate the Democratic party of the
South. Mr. Johnson’s name is used,
just as Hill’s and Lamar’s were— by rea
son of his prominence and his influence
—but none of these meg would think of
accepting a favor at the hands of a
usurper, as Bayes sdrely will be when
he takes his seat. In the meantime
those applicants for smaller and non
partisan offices, who gare np all hope
when they saw that Tiiden was defeated,
may now find it profitable to re-open the
question. I have little doubt that there
will be many a good opening ip official
circles in Georgia ip next sixty days
S. W. G.
THE NEW PRESIDENT’S CABINET.
Speculation Concerning the Composition of
Cabinet.
February 21.—A sharp
fight is going on in the Republican ranks
for Cabinet positions. The idea of se
curing prominent Southern Democrats
has been abandoned. Any use of La
mar’s name in such a connection is im
pudent and unauthorized. Ex-Senator
Key and Representative Hancock, of
Texas, are mentioned, but I have no idea
that Hancock would accept. The more
probable selections are Pool and Settle,
of North Carolina; Alcorn, of Mississip
pi and Josh Hill, of Georgia. It is
conceded that Evarts can be Secretary
of State if he pleases, and that Stanley
Matthews can also go in. If Matthews
refuses, then there will be a show for
ex-Governor Noyes, or Shellabarger, of
Ohio Edmunds and Hoar are strongly
pressing General Bristow for Secretary
of the Treasury. The Grant inflnence
is bitter at the Very suggestion of such
a selection as Bristow. Logan is spoken
of for Secretary of War, and Hale for
Secretary of the Navy. Gov. Lowe, of
California, a banker and basinets naan,
is being pushed fa? a Cabinet place. The
idea is gfowipg ft* ncme of the present
Cabinet will he retained by Hayes. Pon
Cameron has the best show to hold on if
he desires to do so, Hayes, however, is
giving out that be is not committed to
anybody, and has sent a dispatch here
to that effect. Morton’s friends expect
him to be the ruling spirit m the new
dynasty; bat John Sherman and Ed
inlands are apt to rank him in com* Ur
vor The common talk is that Mayes,
like Falstaff, is going to purge and live
cleanly by discarding the carpet-bag
gers,
THE DEMOCRATS IN CAUCUS.
WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO
ABOUT IT?
A Recess Taken by a Small Majority—Nine
teen Democrats Voting With the Republi
cans—A Lively Time ia the Cancus—lllll
and the southern Men Opposing Delay—
The Count Will Not Continue Saturday—
But Will Be Suspended Uutli Monday.
Washington, February 23.—-This af
ternoon, when information reached the
House that the Electoral Commission
had decided upon counting the vote of
Oregon for Hayes and Wheeler, a mo
tion was made and carried to take a re
cess till to-morrow morning, at 10
o’clook, the purpose of the majority be
ing to hold a caucus before the official
announcement of snch decision should
be received. The motion was agreed to,
the vote being 130 yeas to 109 nays. All
who voted in the affirmative were Demo
crats, and those who voted in the nega
tive were Republicans, with the addi
tion of nineteen Democrats, name
ly : Messrs. Beebe, of New
York ; Bell, of New Hampshire ;
Campbell, of Illinois; Cutler, of New
Jersey; Goodin, of Kansas; Hardenberg,
of New Jersey; Haymond and Holman,
of Indiana; Kehr, of Missouri; Landers,
of Connecticut; LeMoyne, of Illinois;
Morgan, of Missouri; New, of Indiana;
Powell and Robbins, of Pennsylvania;
Stevenson, of Illinois; Wawen, of Con
necticut; Wells, of Missouri; and White
house, of New York.
Directly after the recess a notice was
read from the desk, inviting the Demo
crats to remain for the purpose of hold
ing a caucus. When the hall had been
cleared of all others, Representative
Lamar called the meeting to order. He
said that he had beeu requested to sug
gest that the caucus adjourn until half
past seven to-night, whereupon a mem
ber proposed Saturday night, but the
voice of the majority being in favor of
continuing the oauens this afternoon
without an adjournment, Representative
McMahon, of Ohio, moved that on to
morrow a motion be made in the Bouse,
inviting the Senate to meet the House
in joint conveutiou at one o’clock on
Monday.
Representative Kehr, of Missouri, of
fered a substitute, namely, that a mo
tion be made in the House inviting the
Senate to meet the House in joint ses
sion to-morrow, at one o’clock, for the
purpose of proceeding with the count of
the electoral vote.
To this Representative Neal, of Ohio,
offered an amendment, which Mr Kehr
accepted, to the effect that after the two
Houses shall have met in joint session
to receive the deoision of the Electoral
Commission on the Oregon question,
and shall have separated thereon, the
House will then proceed to disc iss the
decision, i.
An earnest aud excited discussiou en
sued, in which Representatives Yance,
of Ohio; Knott, of Kentucky; Sparks, of
Illinois; and Lane, of Oregon, partici
pated, favoring delay till Monday.
Representatives Hill, of Georgia; Brown,
of Kentucky; Metshire, of Arkansas;
HarrisoD, of Illinois, and House, of
Teuuessec, were in favor of inviting the
Senate to meet with the House to-mor
row for the purpose of continuing the
counting of the electoral vote. Speaker
Randall made a few remarks counseling
calm deliberation in view of the import
ance of toe questions presented.
Mr. Field, of New York, also spoke
briefly, stating he had prepared two
bills, one providing for the election of a
President and Vice-President on the
first Tuesday in May, tho presiding offi
cer of the Senate to act as President iu
the interim between the fourth of March
and that time; the other bill providing
for quo warranto proceedings, so that
the contestants for tho Presidency aud
Vice-Presidency could go before the
Supreme Court and there present their
olaims to the office.
Under the operations of the previous
question the substitute and amendment
to McMahon’s motion were rejected
yeas, 44; nays, 66, The resolution of
Mr. McMahon, inviting the Senate to
meet the House at 1 o’clock Monday, was
then adopted by about twenty majority.
The reasons given by several gentle
men, who w.?re present at the oaucus,
for this delay were that the House want
ed time for reflection, and to prepare
objections to the South Carolina and
other cases. A number of Democrats
who did not sanction delay left the hall
from time to time before the close of the
proceedings, and others privately said,
after the adjournment, that they would
not be bound by the caucus, as many
Democrats had purposely absented
themselves. Representative Willis, of
New York, will, under all the circum
stances, oppose the postponement con
templated by Mr. McMahon’s resolu
tion. No action was taken on Mr. Field’s
two bills, which Mr. Willis regard
ed as unconstitutional, and, besides,
a qua warranto before the Su
preme Oonrt, some of whose members
have decided against Tilden, wonld be
ineffectual. The Democrats of the cau
cus who favored the immediate resump
tion of the counting of the electoral vote
express their suprise that those who ad
vocate delay mustered iu strong force,
and say that many Democrats who will
act differently were net aware that there
would be a caucus to-night. Besides, the
sixty-six who voted for delay scarcely
number more than one-third of the
Democrats of the House.
THINGS THAT ARE SETTLED.
More About Hayes’ Southern Policy—What
He Will Certainly l)o, Perlinps-An Inde
pendent Paper’d Opinion.
[Philadelphia Times. |
1. Rutherford B. Hayes will be de
clared the next President, of the United
States, will be peaceably inaugurated
with the practical assent of the whole
country, and will be sustained as the
lawful President by the whole people,
while two-thirds of them believe that,
although legally commissioned, he was
not honestly elected.
2. He will signalize his assumption of
the national authority by discarding the
men aud rejecting the agencies which
gave him his questionable title to the
highest trust of the Republic. He will
make au entirely new Cabinet, and the
names of Morton and Cameron will not
be found iu its list of the honored ad
visers of the Executive.
3. He will aim at anew Republican
departure, that will disrupt parties both
North aud SoutU. He will leoognise
Governor Nicholla in Louisiana and
Governor Hampton iu South Caroliua,
recall the bayonets from tho Southern
States, and invite carpet-baggers and
plunderers to play by themselyea here
after. He will teaoh that his
tainted victory fyom th,e Udells Return
ing Bqard of'that State in the very last,
that the eonntry can stand, and that
Packard must retire, Kellogg must van
ish and Weils be branded as an outcast.
The safety of the Hayes administration
imperatively demands it, and tho coun
try will suffer no convulsion by the final
overthrow of the adventurers who have
shamed the nation and left ftami.
one field of desolation..
4 He will cast ft&th him the dregs of
the Grant Administration by the dis
missal from his trust of the Camerons,
the Chandlers, the Mortons and the
Shermans of the party. He will not
hurl them over the battlements o( the
Admiuistiation by any aggressive aots,
but he will end tlysif revolutionary
policy, discard their depend ;nts, and
offeud them’ io his eat neat effort to
teach forgetfulness of the stains upon
his own skirts, by disowning those who
waded through usurpation and corrup
tion tolbjar him hlsorown.
5. He will aim to harmonize both
branches of Congress with, the Ad
ministration. He well understands that
he has the lawful hut not the moral sup
port of tho nation in his great office,
and he cannot confront an adverse
Souse or Senate. Be will dissever the
South by giving the Conservatives the
control of every #htb go/eminent, and
ending all military interference with
their local affairs. With that done,
what will they have to wa? against?
Their great battle will be won, and how
easily may they inaugurate a Conser
vative Administration organization in
the House by the election of some snob
man as Banks to th Speakership? The
South wants government, law and peace,
and Htyes has those commodities to
give them in exchange for tolerance of
nis blotted title to the Presidency.
6. The North will share the infection
of political disruption, and uncertainty
will be stamped on every Northern State
from New Hampshire to the Mississippi,
with the single exception of Vermont.
The worst elements of Republicanism,
those which have been fostered by Grant
and have been the prolific authors of re
proach upon the Republican name, will
desert Hayes, for they are true only to
the instincts of the jobber. They will
be the loudest and fiercest to denomnoe
Hayes as a pretender and a fraud tbat
was spawned of fraud; bnt inst to the
extent that such elements condemn him,
will the better elements ef both parties
(retain him. The nation will never love
Hayes, nor eaa it ever esteem him as
having justly won the chief authority of
a great people, bnt it will honor his jost
acts and sustain him in so far as he shall
be right.
7. The organs of tha party which
have been proclaiming Hampton and
Nicholls from day to day as conspira
tors, assassins and usurpers, and which
have been flaming with hate and .ven
geance against the So nth, will, within
thirty days, declare Hampton and
Nicholls to be estimable gentlemen and
lawful Governors, and they will pay
tribute to peace and universal brother
hood as the shrines at wnioh every pa
triot should haw,
—The world moves 1
NEARING THE END.
OREGON COUNT*it KOI? HOTHER
FORD HKaDIKY HAYES.
Delatoiy Motion* Voted Down-/The Moused
In Joint Session—Penney lvh nia Objected To
—The House Takes n Recess Until Monday
—South Carolina to Cos to the Commission—
And Also Vermont—Perry Suspected of a
Utile Bulldozing CSame of His Own.
Washington, February 24 —ln the
House, McMahon offered a resolution to
meet the Senate at one o’clock. Wilson
offered a substitute to meet the Senate
immediately, which was adopted by a
vote of 145 to 85. Then Vance moved a
recess to Monday, which was ruled out.
Under a motion to reconsider Wilson’s
motion and lay on the table the ayes
and nays were taken, the object being
to filibuster past 12 o’clock, when the
Friday legislative day ends, when a mo
tion for a recess may be entertained.
Lane, of Oregon, moved a recess to
9j*Monday. Speaker Randall ruled the
motiou out of order, aud the debate was
opened by Mr. Lawrence, of Ohio, in
favor of sustaining the decision of the
Commission. Upon the return of the
Senate to its Chamber at 12:10, Mr.
Sargent, of California, submitted a
resolution that the deoision of the
Commission upon the electoral vote of
Oregon stand as the judgment of the
Senate—the objection made thereto to
theeoutrary notwithstanding. The debate
was opened by Mr. Kelly, of Oregon,
who denied that Watts was eligible as a
Presidential eleotor.
Iu the House, a motion of Mr. Cly
mer that the House take a recess io 10
Monday was defeated—ayes, 107 ; nays,
132. This was by a standing vote. The
ayes aud nays are progressing, Tho re
sult will be nearly the same, and the two
hours debate on Oregon will uocur. The
second joiul session and the progress of
the count to Mouth Carolina is possible
to day.
The vote resulted 115 for to 156
against recess, and the debate aud count
progresses.
11:55 O’ClocL—Dilatory motions have
failed. The Senators have entered.
They will make a report on Oregon,
when a recess will be tuken to Monday.
The result of this morning's proceedings
is regarded as favorable to Hayes' inau
guration.
At the eud of two hours the houses
reassembled iu joint session, and the
vote of Oregon was counted for Hayes
and Wheeler. Pennsylvania was next
opened. Springer aud Tucker present
ed objections. They were signed by a
sufficient unmber of members and Sena
tors, and allege a vacancy illegally filled
by the college. The houses separated
and a motion for a recess to 10 o’clock
Monday was carried by a vote of 132 to
121. In the Senate, Mr. CoDkling who
was absent heretofore when the ques
tions of sustaining the decisions of the
Commission came up, said in regard to
©regon: The State of Oregon intended
to appoint a Republican elector, and the
the people of Oregon intended to elect a
Republican eleotor, and voted for Mr.
Watts. The Commission had given its
deoision and he disclaimed any intention
of alluding to auy of the reasons which
prompted the decisiou of the Commis
sion, and believing that the State of
Oregon intended to appoint Republican
electors, he should vote to sustain and
affirm that intention and the decision of
the Commission. He was also opposed
to impeding in the slightest degree the
operation of the deoision of the Com
mission, and on the contrary was iu fa
vor of aiding it and consummating it at
the curliest practicable moment. The
decision was sustained by a party vote.
The Senate, after two hours debate,
agreed to count the vote of Pennsylva
nia without division.
An effo t has been made to-day to se
cure au immediate expression from
Southern Legislatures ou the duties of
tho Honso. It is claimed that the Demo
crats are losing important advantages
by the ultra conservative course of
Southern leaders.
In the caucus some seventy-five mem
bers were present. The Oommittee on
Powers and Privileges was directed to
report a bill amendatory of the law of
1792 to provide for an cleotion in oase of
failure before the 4th of Maroh, the
President of the Senate to become the
President in the meantime. The skele
ton of the bill provides for an election
in April. The oommittee was directed
to report another bill by which an ille
gal President can be ousted. There was
some bitter talk, but no action looking
to dilatory measures. They will not be
interposed effectually unless representa-
tive meu are instructed by State Legis
latures.
It seems to have been forgotten that
there are two returns from Vermont.
The highest Democratic candidate of
that State cast his vote in the place of a
postmaster. The feeling among the
D moerats is beoomign more bitter.
Ferry is reported as denying having
duplicated returns from Vermont. They
will, however, be called for when Ver
mont is reached. It is suspected that
Ferry “fobbed” the extra return.
Julian, of Indiana, is here to argue
the South Carolina case onbehalf of the
Democrats.
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.
The t* real cut Outlaw ot All—Stubborn Facia.
Washington, February 24.—J. B.
Williams, Jr., of Mobile, Ala., testified
before the Senate Committee on Priv
ileges and Eleotions in regard to the
Chapel Hill Chwrch fight in Mississippi.
He said the negroes did tho first firing,
and that Bogan was four miles from the
fight. (He is the muu that Outlaw said
killed the negro Charley Curry), and
that Henry Outlaw was one of the ring
leaders of all the disturbances that bad
occurred during tho canvass in Okteb
beha county. It has been found that
Honore has not fully-oomplied with the
subpoena duces tecum, and additional
papers have beeD ordered and the com
mittee will wait their arrival. No com
mittees are in session.
THE WICKED PARTNER.
Who Strunk Billy Patterson linye* aud
Packard—A Steady Flow of Oiiuirowalfi.
Washington, February[24.—Disavowals
that Hiiyesin any way inspired.'tbe article
in the Oaio State Journal, regarding the
recognition of Paokatd’s government in
Louisiana, continue to come in. The
associate proprietor of that paper and
the Speaker of the Ohio House of Rep
resentatives both telegraphed that Gov.
Hayes was not responsible for it. Gen
eral Cfomly, the editor, is seriously ill.
Speaker Grosvenor’s dispatch, says tho
article iu question was originally a com
munication lying in the office, aud was
used by the young men in charge of the
office in the absenoe of General Croraly,
occasioned by severe illness.
An Awkwark fix.
A crazy California farmer w d s con
ducted.tutbe insane asylum at btockton,
op February 2, by his brother and Con
stable Feck, of Tulare Township, and
commitment papers we?e made out. The
lunatic stepped outside the door and
suddenly broke away, running at full
speed, with Ris brother close behind
him. Afcauwhile the papers were signed
in the office and Constable Peck turned
.to look for the patient, bnt could not
find him. An attendant, bearing that a
lunatic had escaped, and meeting the
constable in the hall, mistook him for
the patient. “Where is he,” asked the
constable. "Up stairs,” said the at
tendant; “I’ll show yon.” They went
up stairs together, one hoping to find
the lunatic and the other bent on Ioek
; ing up the patient whom he was entrap
ping. When they reached tbe ward
which had bean selected far tbe new pa
tient, the attendant adroitly closed the
door and turned the key, locking up
Cons able Peck as a madman. In vain
tbe prisoner shouted that be was sane,
that the real fanatic bad ran away, that
it was a, mistake, and that he was a con
stable. The attendant marched down
stairs with the consciousness of being
very clever, and it was not until th
lunatic’s brother returned totheasylnm,
after a long and nnancoessfol chase, that
the constable was released.
EKUMrdnn ShowiDg Fern.
The London papers record an extra
ordinary shooting feat performed by
Cholmondely Pennell. He laid long
odds that he oonld shoot consecutively
one hundred pennies tossed in the air.
He seclected some of the cld Georgian
coins, as being heavier than the modern
bronze pieces, and less likely therefore
to be caught by the wind. An old sol
dier threw each penny up three feet
above his head, and as he threw Mr.
Pennell fired with small shot, and hit
every one of the one hundred coins. He
had about a half a doaen over, and of
fered to bet any of the spectators that
he wonld hit those as well, bnt they
were more than satisfied, Mr. Pennell
had won* 4250 of them, making the
money in a little more than an hoar.
The DeMruction of Ike Kitpreme Emil
{From (fie Chicago, Times.\
If Congress bad set ont deliberately
to devise a scheme to render the charac
ter of our Supreme Judgescontemptible
in the estimation of all Americans, Con
gress could not have invented a more
effective plan for the purpose than this
compromise farce has proved to be. It
has already done more to bring that high
tribunal into popular contempt than all
that has ever before occurred. If, at
the conclusion, there should be left any
vestige of a decent pnblio respect for a
Court, the majority of whose Judges
have shown themselves to be contempti
ble partisan demagogues, the world may
well marvel thereat.