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SPA, 695 paid tor the support Of the Charity

sl24, 695 paid tor the support Of the Charity
Hospital"
We demand in the name of an outraged
community the full particulars of all the acts
OF the Treasurer with regard to the funds OF
the hospital and propose to follow this
matter to conclusion
we have right to know why charitable
institution whose existence is Indispensable,
and which has been for SO many years a
monument to our city, is allowed to go to
ruin, aud we are determined to investigate it
fully and place the blame where it Justly
belongs.
The following letter from Mr.. Bonzano,
sent to US yesterday, will show how pitiful is
the state of its affairs, and we commend it to
the perusal of our readers:
CHARITY HOSPITAL,
New Orleans, Feb. %, 1879
Editor New Orleans Bulletin;
send you herewith full and complete re-
port Of the Hospital for 1874. Notwithstand-
ing our ceaseless opportunities (see my report,
page 49, we have only been able to get hold
Of $500 during the past year, nhHe tie .Stute
Treasurer act,ottiy pail chariy HospitoA ,rar-
rants 70 the amount Of Sl3G.}lJ
Our worthy treasurer, Mr. J. D. Liclten-
berger, mentions, with some degree of salts
faction. the economical management of the
Hospital, (see his report, page CD and shows
that the total cost per patient, including all
expenses, ,cas only hity-ni,,e cents per- dag.
have figured out something else: Deduct
ing from the grand total OF expenses (sce
table folio So the expenses for soap, lumber,
hardware, printing stationery, salary of off
GERS, wages Of employees, etc, 1.-The total
cost per patient for actual subsistence and
nutrment, being only a fraction over twenty
cents per day. a sum, making allowance for
local differences Of prices tor articles of diet,
and a Frustrated financial credit, about equal
to the support the Turk gives to the hospital
for dogs at Constantinople, or the Khedive of
Egypt to the hospital for: 'superannuated' cats
at Cairo?
The truth is, sick men and conyalescent
men require many delcacleS, such as pre-
serves, fine fruit, good wines, porter, ale,
etc : but we never have anything OF this kind,
not even barrel Of the nleancst pine-,op.
All the summer We were without ice, and soon
we viii be without bread AMI meat. The
druggist has long since cried quits. an Hed,Fy
er1y lau,s IRE had a0yhiHy To do ,rM IRE bnre
the butcher $50, 9G1 -, the druggist sl2,-
c93 -, etc; every man Kellogg, political
opponent. Yours, truly.
H. Bo>LANO,
Vice Prest. Board Administrators
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CONGRESSIONAL.
THE HOUSE,

WASHINGTON, Feb 23. - The Louisiana
Special Committee reported resolutions unan-
mously condemning the Returning Board.
and by a ma ority of four to three recon-
mending the Louisiana House of Represent
atiyes to take immediate steps to rene
dy the injustice and to place the
persons rightfully entitled to their seat; also
recommending the recognition of Kellogg till
the termination of his term of office. Ordered
printed.
The Committee on Alabama Affairs also
made report.
The House then proceeded with the Tariff
bill.
The House then, at II NJ, went into Com
mittee of the Whole on the Tariff bill. Mr..
Hale, of Maine, in the Chair. All debate on
the bill being limited to one hour.
The whole day was spent in Committee of
the Whole on the Tariff bill, and among other
amendments put in one for an income tax,
but as soon as it was reported back to the
House, Mr.. Dawes moved substitute for the
whole bill, which was passed by a vote of 1913
yeas to lib nays.
The bill, as passed, makes the tax on
whisky hereafter to be manufactured, not tax
ing the stock on hand at all, 90 cents gallon;
on tobacco a cents pound; on cigars S.
thousand; on cigarettes - 70 per thousand;
on molasses, melado and sugar imported
cent on the present duties; and restores the
~ per cent on manufactured goods, and pro-
Vldes that the increase of duties shall not ap-
ply to goods actually on shipboard for the
United States on or before the 10th Of Feb
ruary, 1879, or to goods III deposit IN ware
houses or public stores at the date Of the
passage Of the act.
THE SENATE.
Mr.. Spencer presented memorial from the
Republican members of the General Assem-
bly, of Alabama to the President and members
of Congress, setting forth First, that changes
have been made by the Alabama Legislature
in the penal code Of the State by which
system of involuntary servitude and peon-
age for African citizens is sought to be in
augurated.
2 That political legislation has been enact
ed by means of which ninety-three thousand
Republican voters are practically deprived of
representation; that the Republican constitu-
ton is restricted, and there is practical null
LITIGATION of the constitutional amendments
CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
THE OBNOXIOUS CAUCUS
BILL.
Speaker Blaine VIII Declare
Against 1t.
DissensiOn in the Cabinet-s5eWcli
and Brist0w About to Resign.
Butler to Supersede Lan,.auiet
Williams.
Especial to the Bulletin. !

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-Speaker Blaine has
prepared speech against the obnoxious
caucus bill, having read it to some of his
friends. 1t is pronounced remarkably con-
elusive.
If the bill comes before the House Mr..
Blaine will cert inly take the floor i'll decided
opposition.
A member of the Cabinet asserts that
if the President persists in the course
foreshadowed by his Arkansas message that
Iessrs. Jewell and BEistow will certainly re-
sign There is a rumor that Attorney General
Williams is to be sent abroad. and Ben Butler
given his place i. S. Il.
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TIE REPORT OF THE ALA
E,a.H.s GDMMsI'nEl'.
The MINORITY an'i N;!iority Unite
in Declaring that Inter
ference is Unnecessary.

WAsHINGToN, d. G., Feb. 49, 7. M-Both
the majority and minority reports OF the Com
mittee on Alabama in regard to Louisiana
were submitted this morning to the House.
They have been ordered to be printed
The majority report, signed by Coburn, Al
bright and Cannon minority, Luttreli and
Buckner, declare no interference with your
affairs necessary. \ :. H.
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During the executive session, which lasted
several hours, a very animated debate took
place upon the question Of acceptance or re-
lection of the Wheeler proposition, but it is
understood that no definite determination
was arrived at.
The caucus adjourned until 10 o'clock to-
dow
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Henry Ward Beecher don't think much Of
REVEALS scandal revivals in particular. -AH-
ford Journal.
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The total receipts of the Transatlantic
steamship companies plying between New
York and Europe were only $50, l53, SS5 in
1874, against 1851, $50 in 1873, decrease
of 81, 1923, 365.
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n.san,s GREATEST Ranrsr

The worst feature of the loss of the
Schiller is that it resulted from a eau Sc
VIII ch is ever existent, and for which
there is no remedy. Fog cannot be
seen through with human eyes, aud IL
cannot be uplifted or removed by hu-
man means. Every steamship that
crosses the ocean is liable to ron for
hours, and for days, in fog so dense
that an approaching vessel could not
be seen in time to avoid collision {; and
when nearing the shore a like risk is
run in regard to rocks and breakers.
This is a danger attendant upon the
great increase in the rapidity of transit,
which science and art have not, as yet,
found any means to avert.
To run slower In fog might diminish
the danger somewhat; but 10 be effect
i've, in any considerable degree, it wOuld
have 10 be adopted by all the line s,
going both ways. And even then the
travelling public would not tolerate it.
People viii incur any amount # rick of
going TO destruction rather than not to
go fast.
There seems to be nothing 10 be done
toward diminishing the chances of be-
irR sunk a. sea in a fog except the pro
vision Of more ample means Of escape.
These do not appear to have been what
they should have been on board the
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What The Times has to SAY.

The London Times thus concludes a
leader on the centennial celebration Of
the skirmishes at Lexington and Con-
cord:
We have yet to read the speeches
made on the occasion, and the COM
meDts of American journalism upon
them, b,at we hope both will be per
vaded by q more just and more friendly
tone towards this country than would
have been possible half century or
even a quarter Of a century ago. II the
iuvectives of the living eau effect the
dead, poor old George Ill, Lord North,
and Ii the subordinate instruments Of
British Tyranny, must have eXpatiated
their guilt under the pitiiess fire Of
American Oratory on everv successive
fourth Of July during the century.
Moreover, the spirit which this kind Of
eloqueBee kept alive has, as all the
world knows, not been without its effect
on politics. Let us hope these cente-
nary years will reveal fuller knowledge
Of events and a more kindly interpreta-
tiOn Of motives, and thai by the time
the Americans come To celebrate the
convention at Yorktown the pre- Iudices
Of a hundred years viii have vanished. >
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The End of the Universe.

A writer in the Fortnightly Review
makes an effort to show that, although
we can in no way time the beginning OF
the universe. we have much evidence to
show that the world began to solidity
between one and two hundred Of mil
lions Of years ago, and that, though We
can say nothing as 20 the end Of the
universe, the end of this earth, and with
il Of consciousness upon the earth, Is as
probable as science can rn~ke anything.
The reader will certainly not be tempted
to patient reading by the gloomy con-
clusi0h that study Of the origin and
Is'obable destiny of the universe IS use
less. because we have from a scientific
point OF view no data whatever 20 go
upon " In any case all We know 10 that
the sun is going ont. If We fall INTO
the sun then we shall be fried II we go
away from the san, or the sun goes out,
then we shall be frozen. So that, so
fax as the earth is concerned, We have no
means of determining what viii be the
character of the end, but we know that
one Of these two things must take place
in time. Bat in regard to the whole
universe, IL We were 20 travel forward
as We have travelled backward in time,
consider things as falling together, We
should come finally TO q great central
mass, all in one piece, which would send
out waves of heat through q perfectly
empty ether. and gradually cool itself
down. As this mass got cool Il would
be deprived of all liie or motion; It
would be Just mere enormous frozen
block in the middle Of the ether. Bus
that conclusion, which IS like the one
that We discussed about the beginning
Of the world, is one which We have no
right whatever 70 rest upon. IL depends
upon the same assumption that the
lsgs Of geometry and mechanics arc ex-
actly and absolutely trDe, and that they
have continued exactly and absolutely
true for ever and ever.
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Schiller. Her captain acted the part of
brave and gallant seaman, and per-
ished in an eff1rt to rescue some of his
passengers. But Why were not better
appliances for such an emergency sup
piled by the owner S of the snip? It is
of no use to argue that they were suf-
hcient if they had been no such loss
of life could have occurred. When we
say that the steamer was commanded by
competent captain and that three
hundred and forty-tWo lives were lost,
we settle the point that the lie saving
apparatus was Lot what should have
been fOund on board such a vessel.
When a few steamship owners shall
have ben sent TO the State prison for
manslauR uRhter, ocean travel may become
safer.-N Y SIM
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MY IsLANDl
BY HELEN RARnox posrwTcK.

My feet have never trOd thy fowery Ways
my fair island = situate in the sea-
whose green, curled tongues stiu hap thee back
from me,
Strive how msy. Yes oft in winter days
1 stretch my hards toward thee as toward a blaze
Ihat warns and cheers. know what sweetness
nils
THOSE groves of thine what clash Of tiny bills
Adrip with music what sweet wind delays
Among the bashful lilies cloistered there.
In sumner heats 1 watch, through dust and
glare,
The grav mists wrap thee, and across thy Gre st
The rainy grass blown slautWise toward thu west
While sleeping fountains rise and shake their
bair.
Sometimes seek amiss- D deaf and blind -
And cannot find thee, lOveliest anywhere -Fsa--
Het-whether it be some vague, stirred pulse Of
air,
Or fugitive sweet cdor underlined
Ev'n then know thee, o my rare and falr
That thou dost lie between me aud the wind
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LOOK

The pencil marks You see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
scriptior is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We wonld take great pleasure in extend.
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone will pay expenses, and
we are forced TO adhere to q strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such a
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor
- We enter no new names on our
books without the money in adv9'ce-
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Nothing in a Name

A writer says: All names were origi-
nally significant, and were always be-
slowed by the ancients with regard to
their we'll understood meaning. Some
times they were commemorative of
some incident or circumstance connected
with the birth of the individual bearing
them as, Thomas, a twin Maius, May
(applied to one born in that month"; ;
Septimus, the seventh. etc. In other
cases they were expressive of the aspi-
rations, desires, or hopes of the parents;
as, Victor, one who conqUers (; Felix,
happy Benedict, blessed. Not unfre-
quently they were descriptive of per
sonaI qualities, as Macras, tall Pyr-
rhus, ruddy; Rufus, red haired. Names
are as significant now as they were in
the days of Plato, and as important, but
are frequently ignorautly or carelessly
applied, thus making our personal II ;
menclature worse than meaningless.
GA man with the name of George or
Thomas, Leigh Hunt observes, 'might
as we'll, to all understood purposes, be
called spoon or hatband Blanche is
now anything but the haxen-haired
blonde which her name indicates. Isa-
bel Is no longer brown, Cecilia (grav-
eyed) bellies her name, and "lets fly
the arrows of love" from eyes of
heavenly blue.
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Granger Cotton Mills IN the South

The Atlanta Constitution saws that
several RraDGers in South Carolina are
combining to build a cotton mill on the
SIluda river. Upon this suggestion 1t
proceeds to urge the establishment of,
first, cotton yarn factories, '' at every
cross road IN the state, for the working
up of It's cotton productions, which can
be much more economically shipped as
yarn than as raw cotton and, second,
of regular cotton factories, as the yarn
mills shall prosper and accumulate
capital as well as attract both it and
labor, and thus stimulate the produc-
ton of cotton aud all other agricultural
products, by thus making a home mar
ket for them. These mills, It says, viii
cost but ten Thousand dollars, and that
amount of money can be raised in any
cotton-growing neighborbood. As these
| experiments prove successful and the
opportunity offers, the entire water
power of the state is to be used for the
propelling of cotton mills to take the
place of these yarn mills, until Georgia
shall become the New England Of the
south. There IS much good sense in
these suggestions, and it is to be hoped
the experiment viii be tried.
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aster to the steamship Schiller state
that ninety-one bodies have been recov-
cred, and an inquest has been held on
twenty of them. There must have been
about three hundred persons ios'. It
Is the opinion of the officers that had
there been a line of telegraph, from the
lighthouse to Penzanoe or Plymouth, a
steamer might have been sent in time
to have saved many lives.
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A ST.. LOUIS FAMILY EXTINCT BY THE
Loss OF THE SCHILLER. The loss OF
the steamer Schiller of the Scilly Isles,
in the English channel, has brought
mourning into many families of two
continents. Among the two hundred
passengers reported drowned were
seven or eight from St Lous. Mrs.
Ridgeway and her two little gra' oohil-
dren and her sOn-in- law, Mr.. a.. w.
Walter, were on board, and are %. ieved
to be among the lost. Mrs. Ridgeway
WAS well known in thus city, where her
husband was engaged in bus less many
years he died about five years ago.
Within period of eight months Mrs.
Ridgeway saw her husband and two
daughters pass away, and now she and
her two grandchildren have found 8
watery grave. They We're the only
survivors of the family, and no rela-
tions are left.
IfuNa tho Loot rr.yr, -ts-.. -. Al. 80,
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ENGLAND sticks to muzzle- loading ar.
tillery, and is manufacturing it sn ex-
Pense of $1,000. 900 annually, while the
rest Of the world won't use anything
but breech- o lders.
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however, very sensitive to Jars, and a
slight tap on the bottom of one of the
tanks made every fish dart off like a
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nimal and Vegetable Contrasts.
AZ ANIMAL A vEGETl

Mayor Wickham, ct New York, has
had engraved upon his writing desk
Talley Tand's cad motto g For every
appointment 1 have made, have gained
ninety. nIne enemies and one migrate. ="
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A NEW Pacific Mail steamship WIS
launched at Chester, Pa, last week,
being number $50 of the company's
fleet. She has tonnage of $500 tons,-
is 352 feet long, with breadth of beam
of 40 feet. The hull is of iron, divided
into water-tight compartments. She
is built for a speed of sixteen knots an
hour, and has accommodations for I53
cabin and 1900 steerage passengers.
The joiner work of the vessel alone cost
S65 900.
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GEO. H. PRICE, the Adams express
messenger who killed a robber in his
car recently, has been voted 81 900 in
gold by the directors.
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Chufa, OF Ground Almonds.

This article, introduced INTO tb1S
country by the United States agricul-
tural bureau III 1857, was cultivated to
some extent in the southwestern portion
of this state, Alabama, and Mississippi
before the war, is now receiving con-
siderable attention in upper Georgia,
and there is a growing demand for the
same l have planted it In Florida,
and my experience is, that there is no
article that is planted in Georgia that
is so valuable for hogs or poultry.
Land that will bring five bushels of
corn to the acre, will bring fifty bushels
of chufas, and for feeding purposes it
is worth twice as much. The flavor of
poultry fattened upon it is very supe-
rior. It makes a hay which horses pre-
fer to the best timothy. 1 think 1t can
be cut once without detriment to the
growth of the tubers. l have inquired
at the seed stores in Atlanta, and can
find none for sale. would advise
every farmer to give them trial, and
parties having them for sale would do
we'll to send some TO this market.
Sandy loan is best suited to them, and,
if on intend to gather them, the land
should be free from pebbles. On good
land they will produce two hundred
bushels to the acre. The best mode of
gathering them, after you have saved
seed. is to turn your hCgs in the field.
They are easier gathered than ground
nuts, as they stick to the vlnes.-COT.
Georgia Grange.
The growth OF Catholics in this
country Is something astonishing. The
Catholic church in the United States
probably numbers 1000 600 cOmmuni-
cants The Catholics occupy G, ,920 sta
Il. l.. ! Il I.
the service of 4, ,S73 priests, apostolic
Wears, 40 bishops, 9 archbishops and l
cardinal Thev have Is theological
seminaries, with 1,5O0 students over
600 schools of all grades, and more
than 800 asylums and hospitals. There
are among them different orders of
monks and fIiars, y of nuns, 8 different
institutions, such as Jesuits and Re-
demptorists, u congregations of priests
and brothers and 30 sisterhOOds.
THE GEORGIA GOLD MrNEs.-GoId
mining in north Georgia presents Just
now a very hopeful appearance. The
completed mills are running with salts
factory results, and the building of
several large works is rapidly progress
ing. The costly aqueduct of the Hand
company will be finished next month,
and a shafs will soon be sunk IN the
Lawrence mine to a depth never before
reached in a Geo. giA mine. There is
plenty of gold bearing quartz in the
hills about DahloneRa, and the men
who are delving for it now viii not be
foiled by ordinary obstacles. They
have means and plenty of perseverance,.
'' SIS soou Gs life was extinct / cut
him down, explained q Kansas woman
to the corODeT's jury who sat un her
dead husband.
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TIMELY TOPICS.

CAPT. EADs hopes to have his ietties
built and deep water at the mouth of
the Mississippi in eighteen months,
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THE following table shows the growth
of the public debt of the leading nations
of the globe in the last two wears
al............sIs 4e5. .OO0, 0,OOO SO 1873, &C. .Ooc

ONE of the dangers to which Eu-
ropean tourists are exposed, is the pres
ence, this season, of ar unusual guam
tiy of enormous icebergs and ice-felds
in the Atlantic. Many vessels have
latterly taken the extreme southern
route to Liverpool, Hamburg and other
points, on this account. The steamer
LEIPZIG, which arrived at Baltimore on
Saturday, although she came by the
southern steamer track, ran alongside
OF an iceberg two hundred feet high
and five hundred feet long.
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A SINGULAR STORY story is told #
an engineer on the Union Pacific rail.
road who ran race with death at the
rate of forty miles an hour, and won by
five seconds. He was driving the Tas-
senger train west, and WAS taken sud
denly and seriously i'll. He seemed to
be aware that death was near, vet of
train must reach Cheyenne before the
could be relieved. That was the endhe
his route. He increased the speed of
his engine and ran for life. Forty miles
an hour saved his distance. He reached
Cheyenne ahead of time, and when the
engineer who was to relieve him stepped
aboard the engine he family gasped:
Take the engine, I'm ready to die
now" In five seconds he was corpse.
If death had stepped aboard before the
other engineer, what would nave been
the consequence TO the passengers a.?
But they did not S, e the grim spectre
running the engine ike a phantom
tram.
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1t seems that the patient silence o
the imperturbable angler has been Just
so much stiffness wasted. The old no
ton that you can't catch q fish unless
you keep quiet must now go down TO
oblivion along with that other time
worn delusion, the belief that splitting
on the bait makes fish bite better. Seth
Green, who knows a great deal about
fishes, and has spent much time ip
studying their habits, thinks they can
not hear. He once asked II baad If
music t. range themselves around a
tauk of fish and at given sigual to
blow their loudest blast. This they
did, Int not a fish stirred. They are,