Pike County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 December 1878 — Page 1

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HIE COCITTDEJfOCEAT. -*^i:=3=lr- ^ * Sffi PUKJUIW) EYSBT THI7BSDAT. _ KB OF SUBSCRIPTION, moMyear.....|i so For »W mnvithfl « For three mouth*..... .. SO UTT.iMABlTnr iSVANO. wrorngno bates ■ A liberal redaction made on advertiaemeB ■months. naming ttowt, six, and twelve mont paid-for [aTandjaunsieut advertisements mnst.be METER MORE. O sweetness that can never more retnmt Then art passed oat of life—and whither flown? The hard-pruned Doughmay heal, and gpront And some light hearts may all too quickly learn To spare the brave and live without the true. Bnt as same painter that yet seeks In vain The long-wooed color for his hhngry eye. And dreams It; woven on some foreignioom ’neathnis sky, 'TO wake to And it__ Bo have we lout a glory to tomb. Spring shall come round, and all her sounds be deair. And sweet her lips with all ambrosial dew, The wooing sen shall set earth's heart astir. And she rejoice, and we have rapture too, Bgt one hushed chord shall no more answer her. Out of life’s sunny woof one thread is drawn. Death’s face hath bleached for ns her falrOne flower t^t.t bloomed Is fallen—later flow m.7n5,“?Ter tbhie *a sweet against our sky. Fill this blank place, that fragrant scent restore. 8in*$2nt whi ehhfnotUu,,*^. Henceforth, ujjOn thy palette and my Hie One unfilled {dace lies bare. UNBULT NED. The teacher called unruly Nod school. Dp before nil the sch_ “There’s but one way,’’ Mm sternly said, " To deal with knave or fool. ** A child who’s; told a hundred times The rules he must obey. And breaks them Just as often, chimes With one oil these, I say. ‘I’m sony, Ned, to use harsh names To a dear boy like von, Same kindness fails in its best alms, We’ll see what scourges do.

hand." Then rosy Ns deadly pale, and stood, 1 flashing eyes and lilted head, ref schoolmates t the gazing of si ‘ mlaze on him tlkaa * , , Shall he who strongest, bravest rates, 8nbjnit to such a shame? No cried his heart. Bnt one qnick look Into his teacher’s face » Changed his hot mood; thq wrath forsook Bis soul. Then with good grace He heM out his brown hand. Each blow With sharp and stinging pain He took. as though but hakes of snow Across his palm had lain. Vo one firm thouhgt his mind was wed , _ Tin punishment was through. Teacher, there’s no one else," he said, “I’d let do that bnt yon." Oh! Love takes love! Love can not be Behind Its fiownunkhown; Reproach is sot indignity When lifted to Loves throne. £.. —The Independent.

Christmas in Wales. TheWelshpoor are really in clover at the Christmas-time. They are never neglected then, no matter what their lot at other seaso ns. The outdoor poor of every parish are visited with the baskets of benefaction in the hands of the io. A species of festivity, ark and treat,” at meats areieit'o7|^^^^^^fcnve eaten ^rho will, are gisHHHF to those who ask for them: There is no dfetinetion made in the matter of religion —enough that yon are hungry; it is the Christmas Day; eat and be filled. So, 700 people ate a Christmas-dinner—for such it was—at the Wesleyan chapel near my home in Cudiff last Christmas. In the mining town^bf Merthyr Tydfil they give a Christmas-dinner to the poor, which hi perhaps the best patronized in Wales. For 17 years past, the Sector of Merthyr tells me, they have never dined fewer than 2,000 people at their Christmas-table. Bnt nowhere are we more jolly than in the infirmaries and the workhouses. Ton should bu t see ns there! If Christmas is a merry day nowhere else in the wide world, be sure it will be merry in a Welsh workhonse. For then are onr bare walls hung thick with the holly and the hawthorn, with cedar and with ivy, wjth ferns and with flowers, nor is the mistletoe forgotten in its appropriate place, handy to he kissed under. Wherever else that old custom of himring under the mistletoe may have gone oat— and I hear it is going out everywhere among quality folk—it is not gone out among the Welsh poor, whether paupers or. indepe ndents. And at 1 o’clock, .v- ■ sit down to the the year—our rathe poor-house, luxurious feast jolly Christina soaps of asavori under the ribs of size and a frai the blood of ago, where there b< to pat an appetih h, and joints of i to stir a fever ii to speak of steam - „ ,-*-that would warn the cockles of a mommy’s heart, am good old ale that would soften th< bosom of a Bashi Bazouk. Then, aftei dinner, well—fun is no word for it The pauper who plays the harp is in stalled in stale, sod the pauper wh< plays the fiddle is established by hii side, and they ars allowed to display their gifts; ami the afternoon and even ing are passed, in dancing and in sing ing songs and choruses.—Wirt Byku in Jgpleton's Magazine.

intimate with the leading citizens. They thought a stranger should be invited to a day’s snooting, and proposed to him that be go out for partridges with two of the best shotts in town. He neglected to tell them that he was no sportsman, but accepted the invitation with apparent glee as if he anticipated a (toy’s sport, such as gennine sportsmen know Shew to enjoy. -A gun and a first-class dog were provided for the guest and «ae fine day he act out with the two friends who were to take him over the ground. They entered the brush and lad separated from each other but a abort distance, when the dog given to lie Rochester man “ made frame.” and laa moment was on a staunch point. The hunter know little about guns and leas about setter-dogs, but thought that ados that would stand still so early in the day must bn very lazy and deserved punishment. After waiting a short lap to Irt the dog start again, and see

CURRENT EVENTS Lord Beaconsfijld made a speech in the House of Commons on the 5th, in which he defended the Government’s Eastern policy ai d challenged the Opposition to attaot directly the Justice and policy of the war. He added in conclusion, in reference to general business prospects: ‘ The recent words of the President ol the United States, coming from iraei a quarter on such a subject, can not be treated with too much consideration. Enterprise in America reacts on that of England. I look forward with much confidence to the influence of Americ an industry and enterprise shortly producing more favorable results than we can now eatiRepresentati.ves of the various tradesunions met at Philadelphia on the 6th, and agreed to eall a National Convention, for political purposes, to be held either in St. Louis or Chicago, some tame in January. Breathitt County, Kentucky, is again reported quiet, and Gov. McCreary has iriraed instruct; on.<< for a special term of court in Jackson »s soon as practicable to indict and p iniah all parties who participated in the late disturbance.

It is report'd in Chicago that Jim Keene, the fail out California stock operator, has begin s «*eor*w?l in whesA in that city, with the intoatiou of running up the price oy spring, or sooner if possible, to one dollar a bushel. Mr. Keene is said to hare brought about $2,500,000 in casli to that city, and has since been reinforced by Ruins Hatch, a well known New York operator, who : is supposed to be his partner in the transaction. The New Orleans Commercial Convention adopted re; solutions faro ring liberal appropriation!) by the Government for the improveme nt of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and also in favor of the Texas Pacific Railroad. The West of: England and South Wales District Rank suspended on the 8th, with liabilities to the amount of $17,500,000. The assets are claimed to be equal to tie liabilities. It is rumored t hat an advance on Jeilalahod has been ordered, and that the Ameer has fled to Turkistaa. . had informed I,orl Salisbury that the Russian envoy t ad left Afghanistan, and he learned from other sources that Savoy had returned to Russia. News from Constantinople, to the 9th, states that it if. the intention of the Porte to stand by the Treaty of Berlin. Mr. Maynard, United States Minister, would demand, on the 10th, to be informed of the eh trge upon which Andrew Romer, a naturalised citizen, had been arrested and! imprisoned on the 28th nit. The new Minister of War had prepared a plan for the radical organization of the aimy. k The Senate sub-committee appointed last session to visi s the Indian Territory, to ascertain w iat legislation is necessary, if any, for its organisation, have submitted their report to the full committee. They are satisfied that something should be d one to open np thin territory for settlement, and in order to give the railrosds an opportunity to secure rights of way through it. The principal objection to the organization of this Territory is that the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, which.runs through it from north to sooth, and the Atlantic and Pacific, from east to west, would get e nor no— land grants through the operations oi the present law, the monunt ( hat the Territory k organized. These roads, however, have expressed a willingness to waive their rights to such lanes, provided Congress will allow the organization of a Territorial Government. It is stated now by [ members ad the committee that, if any thing is done, it will be very gradual in its operation, sad especial care will be taken to protect the Indians, and secure them in all their stipulated rights. The French Cha mber of Deputies has ratified the Silver Convention with Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and Greece.

Cotton-crop reports to the 9th are as follows: Ten nest ee—20 percent, less yield than laid year, and abont twothirds of crop marketed. Alabama— 20 per cent, less than last year, and one-third in market. Louisiana—25 per cent, less iihait last year on the river and an increase of 18 per cent, elsewhere, with SO per emit, of the crop marketed. Mississippi--one-third less than last year, and -one-half marketed. Arkansan—about 20 per cent, less yield that Inst year, and one-half in market. Texas—the average yield is repotted 41 per cent, larger In fortyone counties, the same in four, and 25 per cent, lees th in last year in eleven counties. Sevin-eghths of the crop has been gathered! and 60 per cent, marketed. Count Eulenberg, in the Prussian Diet on the 9th, delivered a speech which caused much excitement, and was the eanseof ttniveisal msuneat. The Count, in advocating the declaring of Berlin in a state «! singe, said the Governfflflni Was 111 D03f 6881011 OI lttlormjinon of an importast Character, which could not, at present, stfelybe made public. All that could be mid was that the Gov - ernment believed In the existence of a seent revolution*xy organisation, bent

npon/the overthrow of ike Kingdom and of the Empire, using assassinatfon as its weapon, and working in the dark. The people of Berlin should make np their minds to trust the Government tally, to give it the extraordinary power for which it asked, and not to eihrinbfrom the temporary sacrifices which they are called on to make for the extirpation of the wicked and misgnided men who sought to bring on a relftn of ^narehy and ruin.

Accounts on the 10th,of a storm at the Eas t give it as one of unprecedented serverity, excepting, perhaps the freshets of 1869. In Massachusetts the village of Westfield was submerged, and property destroyed to the value of $760,000,, bnt fortunately no lives were lost. At Huntingdon an iron bridge was eari and the city damaged considerably. The Barrett suspension bridge at Port Jervis, N. Y., was carried away, the Delaware Biver at that point h»ii»g higher than for years past. Up the Hudson River the damage was also great. In the vicinity of Rondoutand Esopus property was destroyed to the amount of 960,000. Twenty-five bridges that cross Millbrook, between Miticville and Port Henry, were swept away. Between Rhinebeck and Poughkeepsie 10 canal-boats lay againstthe railroad track. At Binghamton the waters of the Susquehanna and Chenango were higher than they were in 1865, and families had to be removed from their houses in boats. Among other places flooded were Harrisburg, Wilkesbarre, Northampton and. Scranton, iin Pennsylvania; Trenton andLambertville, in New Jersey; and Plymouth,in New Hampshire, and Brattleboro in Yerment. ' The Kansas City Price Ottrrcnt says that packing operations at that point continue very active. The receipts of hogs for the week ending last Saturday were the heaviest ever had in the market and of improved quality as compared with the week previous, though 9 pounds lighter than the corresponding week in 1877. The total number of hogs packed to December 7 shows an increase of 46,619 bogs, but a falliig tiff ! in weight of 16 to 20 pounds to the hog from November to December 7. 1878 - Numlwrof hogs, 67,119; grass average weight, 26,802 pounds. 1877—Number of hogs, 20,500; gross average weight, first mile in 2:16*. A running horse, went with him the second heat, which Rarus made in 2:14J. The track was 'fast trad in good order. A Deception was given on the 12th by the New York Press Club to Mr. J. M. Keating, editor of the Memphis Appeal, in recognition of his heroic conduct during the yellow fever scourge. The club room was crowded. Mr. Keating briefly responded to the welcome extended by the President, J. B. Wood, and speeches were madi^by Algernon S. Sullivan, Chauncey DepeV Peter Cooper, Rev. T. Dewitt TalmagA Thomas Kins alia, Father Lillie and otKra. In the House of Commons, on the 12th, Sir Stafford Northcote, replying to the inquiry in reference to his statement that the Russian Envoy had left Cabal, said he had since been given to understand that only the Russian Envoy, not the Russian Mission, had been withdrawal from Cabal. He declared that England had not acquiesced, and would not acquiesce, in Russian interference in Afglianistan in that or any other form. A special to the Advertiser from Bombay says Afghan officials have arrived in Glen. Browne's camp from Jell alabad and invite the British to advance to Cabal and estaWiah a new Government in consequence of a general rising against the Ameer. A dispatch from Dakka says it Is reported the Ameer has Mown the commandant of Ali-Musjid from a cannon’s month. railroads . connecting with

Ml BOR HOT—. Hon. t P. Dewees, of Pemjsy.,__„ been chosen Chairman of the National ecui ive Committee, in piece of Gen. B. P. Butter. * T wo Umatilla Indiana, convicted of murdeling settlers in the into Indian war, have b<Mit sentenced to he hanged at Walla Walla on the 3d of January. Beverly Stewart, a young negro, waa lynched in Breckenridge Connty, Ky., a tew ctnyii ago, for an attempted outrage upon a white lady. Tike West of England Bank, with headquarters at Bristol, has suspended. Cnw, losstM through the iron trade. At Hillside Station,'^on the Pvmgylvuna Bailroad, VbonVhO miles east of Plttslnunr, on the eight of the tth, Joseph Hodmm attempted to frighten hie lister Wary, aged 18, by disguising himself ae a this king it would he a capital Joke*. Hearing the deg berk, she __ the door, end seeing the supposed tramp approaching she ordered him to halt, which warning being disregarded the eeized e shot-gun and trad at the '"trader, the charge striking her brother full In the bieust, causing a mortal wound. Ho died before e doctor could he summoned to^ie At Hamilton, Ohio, on the aigfct of the litlti, John A. Weigel, a German grocer and naioon-heeper, shot his wife, killing her iniititi tly, and then tookhie own life. He first llrsd three balls into hit tihdsmsn. nun in bi» breast and two in kit mouth. HeMta letter stating that his was the cause of the 'TBn. pubHe school wns burned on dvrfasgAaee

on the night of the 6th. Loes, fSOO^CO, with insurance tor about $100/100. 171111010 Jefferson, colored, was hanged at Warren ton, N. C-, on the 6th, tor ravishing a young colored girl. According to his own confession he had bows guilty of a large number of crimes of a like nature in various parts of the country, where he had lived at various periods of hfe life. The Washington County (Iowa) Poorhouse was burned on the 8th, With all its contents and five of ite * inmates. Hr. Robertson, Superintendent, nearly lost his in hts efforts to rescue the unfortunates. Loss, about 58,000. Orpheus Everts, aged 18, son at the Superintendent of the Indiana State Lunatic Asylum, committed suicide the night of the 7th by means of morphia. He was supposed to be insane. At Germantown, Tenn., on the 9th, a young man named I). C. Rhodes, well known on the river, while walking along the street, was fired upon by some unknown parties, supposed to he negroes, and Instantly killed. A companion, named Hunt, was at the same moment dealt a murderous blow. An attempt was made at Vincennes, the night of the 8th, to assassinate Mr. J. H. Green, United States Mall Messenger, by shooting him as he gat reading In his mailear. Hon. Effingham Lawrence, of Louisiana, died on the 9th, at Magnolia plantation. He was a member of the Secession Convention In 1861, and a member of Congress in 1873. Oliphant A Co., an old established china house of New Tork, have made an assignment.

| The Grand Duchess of Hesse, Princess Al- ! ice, is tejriously ill of diphtheria. It to reported that Jetty Little, famous to the Breathitt County (By.) vendetta, hag been hilled. Little, It I* said, was the worst of all the outlaws. He received during his life thirty-odd wounds. It is related ttag upon being wounded three times, and while : 'JinF apparently dead, an enemy approached, and holding a shot-gun ever him poured the contents into his face. Little then propped his left arm up on a log, and as the man who had shot him moved away, he fired a pistol at him. The ball passed through Its body, causing instant death. Six miles north of Memphis, on the 9th, John Harold, a desperado, was shot and killed V Joe Devianey, whose life, and that of his brother, Harold had threatened. f Ham, the notorious Texas land-title forger, has compromised with the State and been sentenced to five years' imprisonment. The contractor for raising the Grosser Murfuerst has signed a eon tract to raise tile Chief-Justice Monahan, Attorney-Gener-t during the Irish trebles of 1848, is dead. William Johnstone, formerly eierk in the iHne County Bank, at Marshall, Mo., arTreasury Department. C. £. Coon, of the Loan Division, succeeds Stretcher as Assistant Chief. Col. fi. HaUffitel tsmfi!eetedja**i4fiiJt7 and Dr.Ewelti Vice-President, of the Swiss, Confederation for 1879. Advices have been received from Mogador that a terrible famine prevails there; deaths, M daily. King Humbert to advising with Signor Depretis concerning a new ministry. The French Chamber of Deputies adjourned sine die on the 19th, after empowering G retry to summon them po meet In the event, of necessity. Gustav Bouiand, French statesman, is dead. A dispatch from Pesth, the 18th, says the British Consul at Sofia confirms the report that 20,000 Bulgarians have fled from the Valley of Strnmza, in Maeedoafla, to Bulgarian territory. This leaves no joubt that the Turks have mastered the Macedonian insurrection in that quarter. A correspondent at Berlin saya a Russian exploring expedition from Fort Vernoye, was fired on by Chinese troops and compelled to return. A Walla Walla, Washington Territory dispatch says the trial of Indians charged with the murder of Coggins, near Pendleton, Oregon, in the tote war, has been concluded at the totter place. One was found guilty, and sentenced to he hanged January K. The other two were discharged. A dispatch from Omaha says two men named Ketehum and Mitchell, accused of stealing stock, and who recently killed a herder named Stevens who wag trying to arrest them, were on Tuesday night, the 10th, token from the Sheriff of Custer County and his posse by a mob of armed men, who tied them to a tape and burned them both to death.

By the explosion of a holler fn the Taylor cotton-pres* in Galveston, a few dqys ago, a truck-man named John Parker was killed and the following were wounded: W. H. Brawn, assistant engineer*, keek, legs and 1; Kd. Brawn, his son, head, bade and k Henry Hammer, faee and head. A sown aa “ Harry,” the butcher, waa with a spike, and Andy Boyd was hurt in the back. It is reported low water in the boiler was the cause. Hear Brandon, Texas, on the 10th, two warm friends, Joseph Lore and Green Wood, got into a quarrel, in whieh Wood shot Jove, killing him instantly. A 9-year-old hoy named Joha Washburn, shot sad killed another bay named Bennie Ballon, for whom he had taken a dislike, near Tray, Texas. The young murderer Sad, pursued by the Sherig, and waa captured near Waxahatchie, 100 miles distant.* A few days ago, some Chiekasatt Indians met in Panola County, Texas, fer a dance. The constable of the county, name* Colbert, was present to preserve order, and disarmed allpnrtteipanta. This was accepted as an iasult by a young man named Kemp. A short time alter, when leaving thp house, Colbert waa shot in the breast, receiving a full load of budmhot fired by an unknewn aass ' supposed to be Kemp. Colbert Ml, immediately expired. «

the rBkm and pass the MU prohibiting thi fortbs coinage ot trade dollars, ant directing their exchange for and their reoolncjle into standard silver dollars was de ‘*“*^7-164 to 91, not the necessary twothirds Resolutions were adopted declaring 811 take part in the services to he ho'd h» honor of the memory of the late Prof, Jos. Henry on the 16th of January next, and appointment of a committee to Investigate the method of preventing the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases. In the Senate, on the 10th, Mr. Wallace introduced a bill providing that subsidiary coin shall be exchangable for trade dollars at the rate of 160 cents for each of said dollars, anil forthwith be recoined into snbeidi,ary eok, and the gain, if any, may be made I*8® wjtythe Secretary of the Treasury to pay i made a speech favoring the bill Presidential elections..... .In the Yellow Fever Epidemic Committee itmants to JU1 vacancies in other » were anw> nnced by the Speaker. Won Mil, substantially the same as that of being discussed in Committee 01 passed without a single amend™ena _ The request of she Senate for a copy 1st£^e3?I1,s testimony was complied with. calling on the Secretary of War for astutemeutas to the arms tor «4> by ofUceti o idor Department of , where such arms ly at: them have The resolution regard to the in- ...| v«v.| tvu. cv tala nil I MHip g| ||wk Imtey- particlpated in at great length by messes. Blaine, Thurman, Lamtn- and Ed “5“^ ‘he resolution being iinaUy laid asids and consideration resumed of the biU to amend the Patent laws.In the House, the only business of importance transacted was the passage of the bill reported last year Iromthe Committee on Commerce to regu-lajatater-sude commeijoe, and prevent dlscnnunation by common carriers, the vote s*n»ding 1S9 to 110. The hill makes 1* unlawful for any person or persons enB««cg in the transportation of property by a railroad from one state to another, or to or from any foreign country, to receive any greater or less amotittt of compensation from one person than another for Hke and eotemporaneous services. It also makes it unlawful for any person so engaged to allow any rebate or drawback tin shipments made by them, or enter a combination with another carrier to prevent the carriage of property from being continuous, and prohibits the pooling of

NATIONAL CAPITAL. NOMINATIONS BY THE PRESIDENT. The President has sent to the Senate the following nominations: United States Consuls—Andrew Cohen, oi Pennsylvania, at Pernambuco; Henry Dlthinar, of New York, at llreslau; G. W. Fisk, of Michigan, at Tunis; John L. Frisbe, of Mich igan.at Rio Grande, Brazil; John S. Moo by, of Virginia, at Hong Kong; AsaC. Prendle, of New York.at Para; Henry Buggies, of Connecticut, a>Malta; Eugene Schuyler, of New York, at Birmingham; William Thompson, Jof the Distilct of Columbia, at Southampton; •John C. VHUl of Illinois, Secretary of Legation in Brasil; 3. Newton Pettis, of Pennsylvania, Minister Resident and Consul-Gen-eral in Boll Ida; G. Harrison Heath, of Pennsylvania, Consui Generai at Constantinople. Now York Custom-house—Edwin A. Merrill, of New York, Collector of Customs; Charles R. Graham, Surveyor of Customs; Silas W. Burk, Naval Officer; Thomas HiliNewOrleansMint—Henry S^Foote,MissisLouisiana. AssayerMarlin V^JDavlafiktmsylvan ia. Coiner. Department of Justice—Robt. M. Douglass, Marshal, Western District, North Carolina; Joshua B. Hall. Marshal, Eastern District, North Carolina; Green C. Chandler, Attorney, Northern District, Mississippi; G. C. Moody, Associate Justice Supreme Court, Dakota. Collectors of Internal Revenue—Fleming W. Robb, Nebraska, for the District of Nebraska; John L. Pennington, Arkansas, for the District of Dakota. Miscellaneous—Bussell B. Harrison, Pennsylvania, to be Assayeir-in-Charge at the Assay Office, in Helena; and a number of minor

THE PROPOSED TRANSFER OF THE INDIANS TO THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Gen. Sherman submitted to £he Joint Com- > the Transfer of the Indian reau to the Ware Department, a numl official documents verifying his pre' statements as regards the advisability of the transfer. Hie General described the suffering of the Indians, and said that the Army should be either transferred to the Interior I Department or the Indian Bureau to the War Department. Under the existing management, the Government was very heavily taxed,and the “poorIndian” was driven to the wall, notwithstanding it was his opinion tiiat SO years hence the American population would reach eighty millions, and, »S- the population increased, thelndiia reservation would be required -f«r-wrf5vatioB, and the Indian should be cared fbe-now, that he might be prepared for the emergency. The total number of Indians is nearly 222JHO, and under military management a greater number eould be placed under civilian agents, always,however, retaining military power over them. With reference to the proposition of the Indian Bureau, to arm young bucks as soldiers or policemen, Gen. Sherman said the idea was inadvisable, as it was simply arming bitter enemies. Should the transfer bo made, an Indian war would be unheard of. All trouble eould be foreseen, and outbreak prevented. . y Til* HXCXNT EMOTIONS. Blaine’s resolution for inquiry into the recent elections in toe Southern States was considered in Coupe is to-day (2d) by both Republican and Dfcmoeratie Senators. The Republicans decided to press the resolution for adoption after amendment that an investigation be made by a special committee instead of by the Judiciary Committee. They also decided to offer soon a resolution declaring the entire validity of the constitutional amendments,and asserting the pro • CVon.e“^atirs^o^Pffid to take the position that the Blaine resolution should he amended so as to refer to violations of election laws or abridgement of the right of suffrage in both Northern and Southern States, and thus for its adoption. amended, to vote ran quKsnoK or msumthok. Currency to-day (8d) determined to oppose the adoption of the Senate su bstitute tor the Bouse toll to repeal the 8peeie J act, both of which were left on . eris table at the dose of the lasts

ferred upon tt at the last session. It is likewise the intention of a majority of the committee to take additional testimony on the subject of inquiry, the Investigation of which was left unfinished last summer. THE TEXAS AND PACIFIC MIX. St. LoniaRepubliean special: The vote in the^fipnate to-day.(tth) on the proposition to take up the Texas and Pacific bill is considered very favorable to the measure. It was Senator Matt hews’sjnotion^nd was defeated by a vote of S3 to®, which, considering all circumstances, isThdicative that there is a majority in the Senate disposed to pass the bill this session. There was no rallying of friends of the bill, as it was hardly expected to get such an important measure under consideration in the beginning of the first week of the session, and no particular contest was had to bring it up to-day. The ayes and noes were not even called. With a full Senate there can hardly be any doubt that the bill will be taken up and a final vote reached after a few days’ discussion. . „ ESTIMATES FOR 1879-*80. The following is a statement of the estimates for the fiscal year 1879-’80, as eompareti with the appropriations for the earrent year: 1879.-80. Examination and surveys of South Pass of the Mississippi River...S94 000 Removing raft in Red River.. 50,000 Removing obstruction from Red River.. 73,000 Improving mouth ol Red River...... 150,000 Improving harbor and Mississippi River at Memphis, Tenn.126,00 Improwing MississippURiver and harbor at Vicksburg, Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana .. . Improving Tazoo River. Continuing observation of rise and fall ol Mississippi River and tributaries. Removing snags, wrecks and other obstructions, from Mississippi, Missouri and Arkansas River*. 385,000 Survey of Missouri River from mouth to Sioux City. la--.. 50,000 Improving Missouri River at , or near Fort Leavenworth.. 35,000 Improvement Missouri River at Sioux City, la... 33,800 Improvement Missouri River at Atchison, Kan.. 100,0 0 Improvement Missouri River opposite St. Joseph. 18,000 Improvement Missouri River 815,000 15,000 26,000 190,000 46,000 90,000 84.000 95.0(0 50,000 10,000 93,000 3,000 - 5,000 990,000 50,000 25,000 12A«0 90,000 50,000 at Eastport, la., and Nebraska City. Neb.I..

improvement Missouri River at Council lilulfs, la., and Omaha, Neb.. 130,000 Improvement Missouri River above mouth Yellowstone.. 45,000 er between month otPI?Unol8 and Ohio Rivers. 500,000 Saagboat—Upper Mississippi filter..!... 30,000 Improvement Mississippi River trout St. Paul to Dea Moines Rapids...250,000 Improvement Mississippi River from Des Moines Rapids to mouth ot Illinois Rtver... 100,000 Improvement Wnite River at Buffalo Shoals, ark. 1,000 Improvement Rush Chute and harbor at Burlington, la. 15,200 Improvement Harbor Fort Madison, In.. 12,200 Removing bar in Mississippi opposite Dubuque, la_... 13,100 Des Moines Kapids aud operating canal--............ 1*2,000 Improving Galena River and Harter,!!!.... 30,000 30,000 30,000 210,0(0 41.300 260,000 100,000 10,000 10,000 05,000 80,000 The aggregate appropriated tor tho pres- ~ |8,68?io(jo7 and ike estimates ant, year was for the next foot up $6,000,000.

It was written in that letter that “If Yakoob Kbanl be released and sat at liberty our friendship with Afghanistan will be firmly cemented; otherwise it will not.” There are several other grounds of complaint of a similar nature, which contain no evidence of good-will, but which, on the contrary, were effective in increasing the aversion and apprehension already 'entertained by the subjects of this Qod-granted Government. With regard to my refusal to receive the British Mission, your Excellency has stated that it wooki appear from my conduct that I was actuated by feelings of direct hostility toward the British Government. I assure your Excellency, on the contrary, that the officials of this God-granted Government in repulsing the mission were not inifiuenced by any hostile or inimical feelings toward the British Government, nor do they intend that any insult or affront should be offered, but they were afraid that the Independence of this Government might he affected by the arrival of the mission, and that the friendship which has now existed between the two Governments for several years might be annihilated. A paragraph in your Excellency’s letter corroborated the statements which they have made to this Government. The by the mere announcement of the Intention of the British Government to send a Mission t- i Cabal before the Mission Itself had actually started or arrived at Pesbawur have subsequently been folly justified by the statements in your Excellency’s letter that I should be held responsible for any injury that might befall the tribes who acted as guides to the Mission,and that I should be called upon to pay compensation for any loss they might have suffered; and that it at any time those tribes should meet with ill-treatment at my hands the British Government would at once take steps to protect them. Had these apprehensions proved groundless, and had the object of the Mission men really friendly,-and no force or threats of violence used, the Mission would, as a matter of course, have been allowed free passage, an such missions are eu» tomary and of frequent occurrence between allied states. I am now sincerely stating ray own feelings when I say that this Government baa maintained and will always maintain the former

“Let Mother Ge.” “Let mother go, please,y said a tiny boy with a bright voice in the Fiftyseventh Street court yesterday. * “Tear mother, child, is a common drunkard.** “ Oh, no, sir, I can’t believe it. She’s too good to me to be that. Ton will let her go and she’ll not drink any What does mother do for you?” “Oh, ever so many kind things. She asnds me to sehool, always gives me good clothes, and never says cross words to me.” Oh, writ, if yon think so highly of ■hat n*n go ” her she The boy •Judge, hnt mother’s an was shoot ho he was i and the up in his ■New Tori

TERRORISM 15 SOUTH CAROLINA. [World Washington Special, j ' Southern Democrat# anticipate that the leading Radicals in the Sec ate wilt soon begin a now! tor campaign purposes on the subject of alleged terrorism and btilldozina ln the States of South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi as faring oh the late elections. These charges will be met bv Southerh Senators, and the utter falsity of the allegations shown by conclusive proofs. In reference to the alleged outrages in the Second Congressional district of South Carolina, from which M. P. O’Connor was elected Representati ve, a number of affidavits have been received which show that the elections in those poHing places where the Radicals charge terrorism were entirely free. C. Carroll White, a well known and highly respected citizen of Charleston, was a memMr of the Board of Elections, aad visited the various precincts in company with Chas. W. Montgomery, another member of the Board. Several polls in the city, Mr. White deposes, were surrounded by large crowds of black men, who, by filling the places of access to the palls, deprived many white me* «f the opportunity of voting. Several gangs of negroes went from one poll to another throughout the day, evidently for the purpose of repeating, and many of them were caught in the act of repeating. Mr. White further deposes as follows: E. W. M. Mackey, the Republican candidate for Congress, charged two os the members of the board in the early morning that he intended to have the managers of election arrested if they refused any colored man’s vote, while deponent knows that if any vote was refused Irrespective of party, it wa3dom; after challenge made, tried and decided by the managers. In going the rounds latent with tay associate to tlie Palmetto Engine house poll, Win d S, where every thing was proceeding quietly until a .German citizen, to whom the oath had been administered, offered to vote, when Republican Supervisor Freeman rudely fcasd violently objected to his vote, assigning that he had previously voted, whereupon an examination of the poll-list was made and hi3 name was not found entered thereon. Besides, a number of citizens present vouched that he was an lrouest voter. Supervisor Freeman, still persisting in his objection, dew into a passion, placed his handover the aperture of the ballot-box and vowed that he should not deposit his ballot, in spite of the ruling of and in deti anceof the managers. The friends of the voter withdrew him from the spot, whereupon Freeman rushed up to him. collared bin: and dragged him seme distance from the poll into the middle of the street. A melee ensued, in which one Thomas Miller, a Democrat, interposed and. prevented the Supervisor from being hurt. The Supervisor was seemingly intoxicated, aud he abandoned his post afterwards.

Mr. Montgomery makes affidavit to the truth of Mr. White's deposition. John Barry wad Robert Stewart, managers of election at the Fifth .Ward polling place, about whieh so much hue and cry has been made, swear that the election there was orderly and peaceable, and that no violence nor force of any kind was exercised hy either party. J. D. Aiken, a brother of Congressman Aiken, also makes affidavit to the peaceful character of the election. G. IX Bryan, a son of J «dge Bryan, of Sout h Carolina, deposes on oath that he was during the election lust held President of the Democratic organization in Ward 1, ,in the City of Charleston: that on the day of eleetlon ht was present at the polling precinct in said ward from the time the poll was opened until it was closed, with the exception of an hour for breakfast and dinner; that Uhl. election, as held at said polls was perfectly fair and untrammeled, and that no one, lo the knowledge of thtsaffisnt, was interfered with, and that averr thing was orderly and qoiet; that the,pad vsps crowded with ne-~ groes from the country, so much so that a large number of the residents of the ward “to vote, asid wore sent polling precinct us the Fifth WajM was surrounded by the hlaek people, to the exclusion of white men. Large numbers of white m n living ia this ward were compel! go to other polls to east iheSr ballots. • Is was evident that the purpose of the colored Republicans was to take possession of the poll, and by surrounding it admit up to the ballot-box only Republicans, men of their own eolor. No person, upon taking the oath, was denied the privilege of voting ir his presence, ami the whole election was \ conducted in a perfectly fair and unob- ( lectionable manner, To check repeating on the part of the colored Republicans, who had crowded into the city from adjacent county precincts, the managers were obliged to hear and decide certain challenges that were made of certain voters, hut no vote was refused except after testimony, proving thaMt was an attempt to repeat. Many colored Democrats, the affiant knows,, were intimidated from voting the Democratic ticket by threats and abuse from their colored Republican fellows. They were threatened with expulsion from their churches and exclusion from the company of their old associates, and put in dread of being beaten, if not kilted, if they dared to vote with the Democratic ticket. No election since 1868 has passed off so peaceably and quietly as the election of 1878. There was no collision, not a shot was 8 red and *>• body was hurt. Bejamin F. Huger, a weil known citizen of Charleston, Chairman of the Second Ward Democratic Cctamittee, deposes that E. W. Mackey, the candidate for Congress and Assitant District Attorney a# the United States for South Carolina, was present at the election, acting as challenger for the Republican party. From the opening of the polls to its close it was crowded with Republican voters, largely from the islands opposite the city, each supplied with a Republican ticket by the Republican managers. The access to the box was so completely in the possession of Mr. Mackey's party that many Democrat- j ie voters who could not wait for their turn ! went up to the Third Ward precincts and voted there. The vote of the Second Ward was short of the vote at the general election of 1876 hy —— votes. Owing to the number of residents from outside the city limits offering to vote at this poll, many were challenged and questioned, which took much time, but in no instance that the affiant recalls was any vote refused, except in those cases when it was proved to the satisfaction of the managers that the parties were under age or had previously voted elsewhere. The affiant had never witnessed a- more quiet and orderly election. There was not a ease of disorder or evert loud talking, and so such thing as intimidation of a voter the entire day. Although it was known to him that colored men were voting the Demperatks ticket in the midst of a large preponderance of Republican voters of the same date who stayed around the polls the eitlre day, as far as the affiant's observation goes, the election at the Second Ward poll was impartially conducted. Walter Webb, Jr., Deputy State”Constahle, was present at the polling place at Dill's Bluff, on James Island, Charleston County. Perfect peace and good order prevailed throughout the election. Webb deposes that the negroes attempted, by sur rounding the polls, to exclude from voting all except Republicans of their own eolor. In hie affidavit Mr. Webb says:

To check repeating on the part of colored Republicans who It *3 collected around the polls, the managers were obliged to hear and decide certain challenges that were made «' certain yotere, bat no vote was refused ex cept after testimony proving that It was an attempt to repeat. Many colored Democrats I know, were iutteidatod from voting the Democratic ticket by threats amt abuse from their colored Republican fellows. They were threatened with expulsion from their churches, exclusion from the company of their old associates, sad put in dread of being beaten, if not killed, if they dared vote the Democrat io ticket. So election since 1SS8 has passed off so peaceably as the election of 1878. There was no collisiont not a shot was fired, and nobody was hurt. John E. Hot Hies, Hotted States Supervisor of Ejections at the potting precinct held at Moultrievllie, S, G., snafeas altniavii as follows: The number of votes cast at the said polli was an excess of 36 oyer the names on the poll-list. The ballots were returned to, the box and the excess withdrawn, via.; St, of which 3S were cast for M. P. O’Connor ami If tor B. W. M. Staefcey. The legal number of votes cast at tht; precinct was Si*, of whie s M. F. Q’Conao ? obtained 1st and S. W. M Mackey J1 mairng the mitSorltv of tbe former m. DuringfitehotaJURMsaldpoll noaetef latimldaMen cert** wart of cither party occurred, and the dr etion was conducted legal, Sjr aBdlmpastialiv in wary respect. W, W. Sale, Mayor Of C'o*r!eston; deposes ; • the various polling precincts in *ka Kr K #vf MAuw...

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT. —.-■ '-.-.1.4. ■ pi 11 - ALL KINDS OP f JOB WORE Neatly Executed at ReutsiUe Rates T^OTTXIFC! Persons receiving a copy of the paper with this notice crossed in lead jx-itsil are notified that the time of their subscription has ex pired. ' day. I reside in Ward 8, and at an early hour on the morning of the election I visited this poll. The access to it was blocked up by a large number of negroes, evidently nonresidents who had come in frotu the country and this crowd kept up throughout the greater portion of the day , and many white^i men, residents of the ward, were compelled 1 to atteud the polling places lo other pre- \ clnctstocast their ballots. Great precautions had to be taken against negreeerepeating, iua-much as the most of them were new faces, and conld not easily be identified. As * far as Ward 8 is concerned, and as far as > y observation over the whole city extended, the election was conducted in a lair and impartial inanney. N PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS^ „ .AOnk heedless word can oit destroy The hope to which a soul is clinging. — Ycmkrrs (lazette. That word is “Out 1” breathed to a boy When he a base-ball hat Is swinging. —VISca Observer. This price of pork has so serionsly declined that, according to. an Iowa paper, no respectable pis' can afford to ' take on fat. Wires a yomw boy gets so he's ashamed to sit on his mother's lap, took oat for something. He’s probably m business for himself—holding some be dy else.

“It is the duty of every man work,'* says the philosopher; but it Is duty that can be neglected by the average man with less gripes of conscience than any other.—Pittston Press. ' To all persons the door of opportunity oper.s once at least; but that amounts to nothing uhless-young men are standing round on the steps-waiting for the opening.—New Orleans J%cagicne. “Truly good people anpays keep near good associations.” Afi! we now see why so many young men linger at the vestibule of a church just before the close of the services.—Owaruta Enterprise. The far-seeing housewife is now deep in cogitation as to whether*^ dressinggown or smoking-eap for her husband at Christmas is most likely to produce a sealskin sack or a silk dress in return. ' Some of the smallest insects, naturalists say, can make louder noises with their throats than men can. They can’t imitate that peculiar giuteral noise that a man makes at regular intervals, when he is standing just in front of the forvrark end of a bottle.—Burlington Hawkeye. A CHRISTMAS ELEGY. The Holidays advance with measured tread. The snow-clouds dtilt athwart the somber shies, The average youngster early «oes to bed To dreamol Santa lUitus nhd pumpkin tees, ^ The baker kneads his dough with switvr Sase, And molds his wares in fijrtvwjs. rare autf quaint. ’(UttUlt, The kind eoateetioneir, in 1 tope to ttlq&tc ■»— Tips off his canilit)3 -r. ioafs ol vukttkt. . - " t eolte-eramp aad mortal throe .uniat hornet* dep paint. 1 ili HI T ^xhe dark, uniat hoiiietf depths oi miueeutcat--- , bear . Full many a soul the candy, white as saow, * 1 Has hastened heav'H»;^pl up the gold-uj wasau and, besides being we1 _ __j-i. _was a man of unusual executive ability. When be started the first Freedman’s Bank it was Jc the cellar of an old house in the central part of the eity. The idea being a novel one, the colored people began immediately to place their little savings ju his charge. It was not long before he became satisfied that tbe bank would be a success, and he moved into more pretentions quarters. He would have got along all right had it not been that he accepted the suggestion of his white Mends, who urged him to apply to Congress for a charter for the bank and power to start branch institutions. From the first tho bank grew until there were at least one..hundrqyi branches in the different Southern cities. It never took root in the North. The subsequent history of the bank is well known. Tbe District ring managed to get its clutches en the finances, and soon the bank had loaned out every dollar of its deposits on the most worthless securities. The result was that the bank was forced to suspend, and the deposits whie* had grown from cents to miltiol of dollars could not be found,' The securities are still held by tbe Commissskmers who were appointed by Congress to wind up the affairs of the bank. But they have not been able to re aline any thing. At the time of tbe suspension Wilson was, as he was from the first, the cashier of the concern. What property he became possessed of bv saving his own earnings went with thq. wreck, and he found himself an old man with nothing to show for the labors of his life. His daughter, who led colored fashionable societyv and who had led receptions, kettle drums and Germans as regularly as any other fashionable woman, took her fall sensibly, secured a position as teacher in the colored public schools, and has worked since. A couple of years ago the’ deceased was given a position as clerk in the Post-of-fice, which he held at the time of his death. He was the blackest man in the city, so black that he was remarkable even in this city, where there*are so many coal-black 'colored people. The deeeajS&A was fifty-nine years of ago. He hild fbr a long time in t)hio before the waf-the position as a professor in an educational institution there, which afterward added an I,L. IX to his name.— Bartfimt Times' Washington Letter.

The Stocking Bank. Many of the German farmers have long had a saw: stocking is better than the bank. They still continue to makeutaposits in the rormer rather than in the latter, for which they certainly have good' reaso# .of late, since, while a stocking may be carried off, it never steals the money intrusted to its keeping. An old Lehigh County farmer, who died recently, had faith in stockings^ After his death, his children mourned the fact that nothing had been left them, and began rummaging about to find a will. In their setayh they discovered sundry stockings full of fold and silver coin, amounting to over 2,000, which had been put away, mainly in half dollars, from $oon after the beginning of the century to the fanner's death, showing by the dates they bear that he had begun hoarding in childhood. It was evident that toe had secreted only hew coins, fearing, no doubt, that those that had been any time in circulation might have lost something in weight. _ i - William Makstjm WnmAiuE*, an English artist, was recently tried at Warwick for sending threatening letters . to his mother,and although he declared l in his defense that he hue .0 idea «ya- v ; jd^sr'rar-vi tit ten years’ penal