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The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-16

The U. s. Senate las restored
the franliog privilege.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-16

50 PER YEAR....$2 so
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-16

Mr.. Gibson, Of Louisiana, in
troduced in the house a bill pro-
yiding for the appointment Of a
commission Of Ave engineers to
prepare plans and estimates to Sc
cure a channel for sea-going YES
sells at all seasons Of The year from
Cairo to the mouth Of the Missis-
sippi river.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-16

Gen. Butler will make anothe,
attempt to be a Governor.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-16

He serves his party best who
serves his country most" That's
crushing to Wells and Anderson.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-16

= constitutional amendment to
submit the question Of removing
the Capitol to Baton Rouge, to a
vote of the people has passed the
Senate by a vote of3l to 2.
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-16


We give our washer-woman
notice that hereafter we want our
own clothes. Last Sunday we
put on another fellows shirt, but
couldn't wear it at all. 1t was
all rufIled around the top, AMI
looked real handsome, but there
was no place for a collar, and it
hadn't any bosom though there
was plenty Of room for one. Yes.
it was q handsome shirt; but we
don't have ours made that wav.
The act authorizing judges, in
certain cases. to sentence convicts
to work on the public works and
roads, or in warehouses, and del
egatlng the power to parochial
and municipal authorities neces-
sary to enforce the same, has been
signed by the Governor, and been
promulgated in the official journal.
The silver bill passed both
houses Of Congress, was vetoed
Hayes, and Immediately pass
ed over his veto above the necos-
sary two,thirds Of both houses of
Now give Us a rest,
and lots Of silver.
There are some people who be-
1eye Tom Anderson will not 90
Baton Rouge to serve the term
his sentence. He may not, but
t he don't, justice will once be !
,hWarted, and a great criminal :
viii escape punishment for a great
lhere are men in this world /,
Who will pay a dollar for the pur- ;
'ose Of seeing a play which hurts ,
heir feelings and yet refuse to f
ubscribc to their parish paper. 9
In contemplating the possibility |
! Governor Nichols Issuing ! h
.ardon to Returning Board An. /
erson, tits we'll to remember that t
a Louisiana the pardon Of thc
Governor becomes operative only
hen approved by the Senate. Is
q constitutional amendment to j
1bmIt the question Of removing ;,
nc Capitol to Baton Rouge, to a +,
ote OF the people has passed the Il
enate by a vote of3l TO 2. :,
Old Mad Wells ms got lis dan. II
er up again because somebody tt
no he was a defaulter and hal
Flndled somebody out Of some
LAY fr
The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1878-03-16

Widow E. GUEGNON, Proprietor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-23
YELLOW FEVER IN THE NORTH.

A certain class Of excitable people have been
reduced to abjcct terror this week by the pres
ence of one genuine case of yellow fever in
tins city, while like frantic alarm has been
kindled in Philadelphia by the approach of a
ship with the fever on board, which came no
nearer than the Delaware Breakwater.
If these alarmists and their victims would
look coolly at the natter they would see that
there Is really very little cause for fear that
the sc0urge will ravage any Northern city. The
climate is greatly in our favor, and still more
are the habits of the people. 1t is true that
New-Y0rk and Philadelphia have both once
been swept by yellow fever, in years long
past; but they were then undrain d, filthy
towns, with weight of helpless misery aud
want which was fit material for any plague TO
feed upon. Norfolk, at the time of its most
terrible visitation, was in a similar foul con-
dition. The cities of the North have made
great PROCESS in the art of cleanliness since
those early days. The majority of decent
houses here and in Philadelphia are drained
ard ventilated if not by the best method,
still much more effectually than they were
twenty or even ten years ago. The majority,
too of citizens who can read have learned the
0TsI VI uJSituoB anu dlo app W apply
at least some of them promptly in a time like
the present.
In many Southern towns and villages, how
ever there has been no such advance there is
in them an all-abounding luxury of filth, such
as Northeners who do not travel can hardly
imagine. There is usually no pretence at any
underground drainage; the houses, set on piles
above the ground, are surrounded by luxuriant
roses and magnOlias, with the scent of which
mingle odOrs of the aggregated denominations of
generations, Ieeking barn-yards, green stagnant
pools fostering in the tropical sunshine; pigs,
feas and black beetles are the only scaven
gers. There is too much In the habits of
many SOutherners to render them an easy
prey to this especial form of disease Even
delicate children are fed on fried meats, corn
bread and black coffee; and a sluggish, in
active life promotes the undue access of bile
into the system.
1t is stated, we have no means of knowing
with what truth, that the present epidemic
originated in Grenada, and was caused 10y an
attempt to stir up filthy sewer. The germs
of the disease were probably brought from
elsewhere, but such condition of affairs as
we have described would account for the
wholesale slaughter which has ensued. Scion
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MORE TELEGRANS.

When Mr.. Manton Marble was correspond
ing with unsophisticated persons like Senator
Gordon, of Georgia, he dropped his cipheIs
waxed virtuous and warm and mounted his
editorial high horse in the following manner !:
ITALIA. Fla, Nov. n.
Gelsral ]. D. GORDON, Columbia s. O.:
Thanks; yes, viii II eIpcdent stearDs conteni-
plates usurng eanyassing under old superseded stat
ute and winning by cooked certificates 1 expose him
North to-day and that is not all Good and sufficient
force here now well organized Tell Randolph that Job
he should have let Fox has been too engrOssng
night and day for to telegraph. VIII exchange
hereafter. We shall pull Uncle sammy through, and
end the reign OF thieves. MASToS MARBLE.
So Mr.. Marble in his thrilling performance
as the Goliath Of American Politics, "expOs.
"ingn Governor Stearns, pulling Uncle
"Sammy through" and ending the reign of
"thieves;" now Mr.. Marble-we suspect
anxious apparently not to expose himself. and
doing something that hardly looks like Tend
ling" a reign of thieves;
(No date)
TO WILLIAM T. PKLToS. IS Gramsrey Park, NsV York.
Calibre fetd geOdesy lnist kettledrum neat cattle
(So signature)
True, this dispatch is not signed or dated,
but all of these kilograms seem to have been
sent or received in Florida, and Mr. Marble
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-23

to find themselves running on all sorts OF
trails that invariably lead away from the
White House and not toward it. 1ester-
day they had their usual luck. MAYOR
Burke described negotiation which was
attempted whereby the Louisiana Dem
ocrats were to secure the recognition
of their State Government by seeing that
two Republicans were elected from their State
to the United States Senate. This was an
arrangement which good many politicians
would not consider immoral but Governor
Hayes refused, when Columbus Delano laid
the proposition before him, to have any
thing to do with it. The investigation has
never succeeded in touching the President,
and it cannot fail to crafty even his severest
critics that he has never been shown to have
done anything, through all this time of in
trigue, that was not straightforward and
clean handed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-23

credit. "Why," says be- to reporter Of TIE Afants
Contribution, " one shot-bag of pewter quarters
would convince a country full Of nigger that thu
Democrats were their best friends. 1t was not what
the radicals call the argument of the shotgun that
used in my district. but The argument OF the shot
bag. 1t was unanswerable. An old negro named
Isaac helped me cut wonderfully when first used
the ahOtbag. Isaac had belonged TO me. aud he
was willing 10 do whatever told bin. The style
in which he dispensed largesse from the shot-baQ
astOnisbed the Federal officials who were watching
the election. and brought about a wholesome and
decided change in the politics of the colored voter
never yet saw a negro that wasn't in favor of
sound currency and hard money. Bat it's too early
TO be talking about who saved the State. The Re-
publican party was defeated by the men who stood
at the polls early and late and brought order out of
chaos with bribery. Yes, sir-bribery pure and
simple. say 1t was right 1t doesn't make auv
difference who saved the State. The biggest OF M
Won't weigh more than ounce when Time bOs us
down" You won't weigh much as that. General
il you continue to talk with such freedom.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-23

tife men for many years have attributed the
prevalence of this disease in New-0Tleans to
the peculiar mode of dispOsing of the dead,
as well as tn the malariOus swamp ON which
much Of the city is built.
Now our readers will see that Northern
cities are, compared with the peril of this con-
dition of neglect, in little danger. The only
settlements among us in which similar disre-
gard of sanitary precautions can be found
are in the transient Summer cities by the sea
where the garbage and offal above ground
drains through tie porous sand into the water
courses below. Such places should be on
guard now. 1t will not do for us in New
York, however, to mug ourselves in com
placent safety. The city has certain purieus
which vie with the worst of New-Orleans.
There Is no appropriation for removing
garbage from these places, and hence it is
nobodys business. The Health Board is
taking prompt measures, but it is individuals
who are, after all, responsible. Even the
most ignorant are beginning to suspect that
Disease is Dirt, and to govern themselves ae-
cordingly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-23
THE INTERVIEWING BRAVE.

Tho DAYS Of the nominating conventions
have come, TO many ambitious aspirants TO
seats in Congress altogether the saddest of
the year. The Rcythe of the delegate
scythe, do we say nay, mOwing-macbine,
reaper and harvester, rather-gOes through
the tall grass and leaves great swaths
behind it, where but lately bloOmed and bios
somcd some of our brightest and best-COn-
gressmen in esse and COngressmen IN posse,
who stood ready at q moments warning to
answer their country's call. We have viewed
this devastation with a feeling Of sadness. So
many members Of the present Congress have
been cut down in the flower Of
their official youth and the very hey
day of their usefulness as warnings to
the country--struck down Tuthlessly by
the devouring delegate in his wrath-that the
reports of the conventions seem almost like
the track of the pestilence that stalketh at
MONDAY. This Congress is fading away under
the whitening breath of what is known as the
convention fresh from the people" And we
see il with sorrow. For this Congress is such
a ridiculous collection of persons that we have
become more than interested in it; its very
Righteousness, its large possibilities for enter
tanning the public with a constant succession
Of fresh absurdities, endeared it to us. No
Congress was ever so invariably amusing /;
none ever kept the country from the opening
TO the close in such roars of ineXtinguishable
laughter. IL is very melancholy TO think that
we shall have only one more and that a little
short session Of it, before it breaks up forever.
We are not unaware that in many districts per-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-23


FoREIav.-The Austrians are overjoyed at the
capture of SerajovO; the Emperor has promoted
General Philpovieh. -- The AusJrians
have gained victory at Stolatz. -
The ex-Queen Maria Christina, of Spain.
is dead. - Spain has declined foreign loan.
- In London, the publishing firms Of Virtue u
CO. and Daddy. Isbister & Co. have failed; Iinsley
Brothers are also embarrassed.
DoMEsnC-The yellow fever is spreading in
Mississippi and Memphis. Liberal donations have
been made in several cities. - The Demo
cratic State Committee called a State Con-
vention, to meet at Syracuse, September %. =
Secretary Sherman will speak IN nearly all the
doubtful Ohio districts. == The Tennessee Repub-
licans nominated Emerson Etheridge for Gov
ernor, and adopted an antI-repadiation platform.
- The Vermont Greenback men nominated
State ticket - Professor NewcOmb deliy-
cred his farewell address before the Science
Association. - The American Bar Association
completed its organization; James o. Broadhead of
ST. Louis was elected president; Clarkson n. Pot
ter is the vice-president for New-York. =
The Saratoga races were won by La Belle Helene.
Clemmie g.. Mamie II. and Disturbance. ==
The Oregon grain crop is better than that of last
year - The Railroad Conference at Saratoga
held short session yesterday it placed lumber in
the fourth-cass, and decided to maintain
full passenger rates from st. Louis. -
General Hooker has expressed his opinion of Cen
eral Grants remarks about the lookout Mountain
engagement.
CnY AND SUBURBAN.-Major Burke continued his
testimony before the Potter Committee yesterday;
William Z. Horne refused to testify. = The
Committee on Labor and Business Depression heard
Professor W. G. Sumner and others. - j. II. Hus-
ted was identified as concerned in the Wabash bond
forgeries. == The inquest continued in the
Smith case in Jersey City. -- Gold 1909, 1902,
1OO12 Gold value of the legaltender dollar at the
close 0961o cents Stocks dull and generally lower,
closing steady.
THE Manufactures local observations in
dictate clear or partly cloudy weather. Thermom-
eter yesterday, To. 73o, So.
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Business Nonres.

TRIBUNE EXTRA No. 40, now ready, con-
tans among other things Professor A1ods illustrated Lee
address posi- paid on receipt of lOoents THR TRIBUNE New
Xor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-23


We hope that the enterprising gentlemen who
wish to establish hotel for Southern and South
western people in Washington will succeed in their
ambition to place it under the management of ex-
Doorkeeper Fitzhugh 1t is only in lofty position
like that that n Texan who has been, even for few
brief delicious months, "a bigger man than Old
Grant, can find fit sphere for the display of his
talents The world will never forget the ingenious
epIstle in which Colonel Fitzhugh DESERVED to
friend in the Southwest the sensations which made
tumut in his bosom when he found himself in office,
with places to give away "clamerOus" members
and other persons pulling aud lurking" him.
ushers and clerks at his beck and call boy TO take
his coat and hat. fine turnout and spanking par
of horses for his special use more invitations to
frOlicks with the members aud Senators than any
man m Washington" tea-paTtes with "the Coxs,"
etc, "a glorious time" generally and AL tight
UP on the first of the month" What hotel his Will
be, 10 be sure for travellers from the South and
Southwest. What festive goings-on will wake its
echoes, and how chivarOusly the genial host VIII
treat any unfortunate guest from the South or
Southwest who may happen to be tight up on the
first Of the month" as gentlemen from that region,
we have been informed, sometimes are. 1t IS
great pity Colonel Fitzhugb could not have had hls
hotel while the Potter Committee was in session ut
Washington with the custom OF MIS- JehkSJ NI8ut-
Editor Anderson. Webber's brother, Leet the lu-
matte. and few other witnesses from the South
and Southwest, there would indeed have been "a
glorious time.'
The members of the Saratoga Conference are APP
parently convinced that it is much safer to manage
politics by means of the office-seekers than the
oilice-holders. Perhaps they are rght-though we
do not quite follow their argument. There need be
no dispute about IT. however. They command the
hearty assent Of oil patriotic and sepsible ReDubli-
cans m declaring that harmony is essential to the
success of the party this FALL and that the party
cannot be expected to prevail if honest differences
Of opinion are made the occasion Of dscord.D That
is sound doctrine. Let carry on the ark and
shechinah Of our seif-goyemment in harmony.
whatever we do, and leave to the enemy the plots
complots and coparcenies which befit the party Of
spoils and stratagcms.
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THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FRIDAY, AUGUST %. 1873.
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called, made such an attractive feature
in his recent work, takes up new
line of thought in his address at ST. Louis,
as the retiring President of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
The address treats of the conflict between
what are called the theological and the
mechanical methods of explaining natural
phenomena, and is a plea for consistency in
meeting all such problems.
The Hewitt Committee listened yesterday,
after brief and unexpected attack from one
of its numerous lunatics, to two representative
men-Professor Sumner, of Yale, and William
T.. Dodge, of this city. Professor Summer
gave a clear account of his views concerning
the causes of depression, and the remedies.
Chief among the latter he seemed to place
the Governments letting things severely
alone. Mr.. Dodge appeared as temperance
man, and put upon record his belief that
much of the prevailing suffering might have
been avoided by abstinence from intOxicat-
ing drinks.
If the action of the Democratic State Com
mittee in calling the State Convention at
Syracuse has any significance whatever, it is
simply that Mr.. Tilden's opponents hold
as much ground in the Committee as
they held befOre-which is something more
than half. It is evident that Mr.. Til
den has not undermined his enemies
in the Committee. What he can do in the
Convention viii be seen later on. 1t may be
that the sanguine person who predicts that
New-York will not give its former Governor
single vote in the Convention of 1880,
will have occasion TO retire permanently from
the business of prophecy.
A Boston letter on another page affords what
the election viii no doubt prove to be a
faithful picture of General Buffers blunders
He has committed himself to making the race
for Governor before he has made sure
what the size Of his following is likely to be.
his importation Of KearDeY is declared TO be
what many had suspected-a terrible blow to
his prospects, such as they we're. This cor
respondent, whose long familiarity with Mas
saehusetts politics qualities him to speak with
some authority, states, in effect, that there is
no possibility of the defeat of the Republicans
on the State ticket SO Butler having given
up his seat in Congress for the Governors
chair, will miss that too. When he once falls
between the two stools, it is to be hoped he
viii never rise again.
Nothing has ever been revealed by the Pot
ter investigation 70 the discredit Of President
Hayes Indeed, it must exasperate his enemies
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Nem'2lork Daily Grlbn1gR

FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
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Nothing has ever been revealed by the Pot
ter investigation 10 the discredit of President
Hayes. Indeed, it must exasperate his enemies
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MASToS MARBLE:

II definitely they Justify opinion
teleRraphed certain Board action a
atcly telegram OF state that when &
Is conceding will here received.
This is a dispatch in which
allusion TO "Charles "
"ThOmas":
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Austrians are overOyed at the
pture of Serajovo; the Emperor has promoted
,varal pb1IiDovieb - The AusTriaDs