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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05
The Census AppOrtiOnment.
WASHINGTON Star.


The census returns are nearly COM
plete, and, it is said, the figures will be
submitted to Congress within few days
after the reassembling. This will de-
volve upon the present House the duty
of making the reappOrtionment of repre-
resentatiOn. and the indications are that
this work will be promptly taken up. In
fact, in anticipation Of the receipt of the
official census figures at this session, the
Census Committee have already given
some attention to the matter of reappor-
tionment. 1t seems to be the general
opinion that the ratio Of representation
should be increased rather than to en-
large the membership of the House, and
the indications are that this method
of apportionment will be adopted.
Upon the basis Of a total population of
81 900, 900, which the figures so far foot
ed up warrant, it is proposed by some of
the committee, that the membership of
the House be increased to 800 lit is now
293), for the reason that that number
900 is more readily apportioned than
the present membership. This appor-
tionment would give one Representative
TO every 10000 of population, under
which ratio, a majority of the States
would retain their present number of
Representatives. New York would lose 3
members, Maine would lose /, New Hamp-
shire 1, Vermont, Massachusetts /. OF
the Southern States Alabama, Tennessee
and Kentucky would each lose a mem
Der. Arkansas would gain one, proba-
bly,. Texas would gain 8 and the other
States of that section would retain their
present representation. The gains would
be mainly in the West and Northwest.
Kansas would gain 8, Iowa 1, Nebraska
3, West Virginia /. New Jersey would
lose member and Pennsylvania would
probably lose 2. Florida and Rhode
Island each have population in excess
of the quota for one member, but not
enough for two. Each State would,
however, get two members, in order that
the fractional part of the quota might
be represented.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

A plausible question is raised whether
women under the statutes of Texas have
not the right to vote in that State The
statutes provides that every male person
not subject to disqualification named
shall be deemed qualified elector. The
law which defines suffrage qualifications
as a statute of the State is to be inter
preted by the rules which govern in
the construction of all civil statutory
enactments. The same Legislature
which enacted the suffrage law provided
rules for constituting the statutes. One
of these rules provides that ''the mas
culine gender shall include the femi-
nine" 1t is contended, therefore, that
women have the right to vote in Texas.
OF course the Legislature did not mean
to give them this right, but it is argued
that they have it, nevertheless, and that
if they insist upon exercising it they can
not be prevented so long as the present
laws remain in the statute books.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05
No less than s687, $50, GOO of the obi

No less than $685., 35O,6O of the obi
cations of the government mature next
month, about one-third of which is in G
per cent and two thirds in 3 per cent.
bonds. Sherman proposes that these
shall be redeemed with bonds, half OF
them bearing 4 and the other halt s 65
per cent. interest. The Wood funding
bill proposes that two-thirds of the new
loan to redeem these maturing bonds
shall bear per cent. and ne-third 81
per cent. interest, redeemable at the end
of twenty and ten years, respectively.
The Buckner and Kelly substitutes chiefly
look to the keeping of the debt within
the power of the government to pay it,
and calls for Treasury notes, redeemable
at the pleasure of the government, instead
of for long term bonds. Such are the
various financial plans now before Con.
gress for consideration.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05
Imprisonment for Debt.

One of the theories Of this, our Repub-
lican Government, says the Washington
Star, is that there can be no imprison-
ment for debt, and though our legisla-
ton is intended to conform to this idea
of liberty, there is probably not State
in the Union in which there are not per-
sons confined in prison because of their
non-payment of liabilities incurred in
one shape or another In the Ludlow
street jail, of New York city, there is
one debtor who has been confined five
years, another three and a half years,
and another for fifteen months, upon the
complaint of their creditors. In the face
of the spirit of the laws, it seems to
be comparatively easy for creditor
to send his delinquent debtor to prison,
in cases where the latter cannot furnish
bail. All the former has to do in most
of the States is to make oath that the
party contracting the debt was guilty of
some sort of misrepresentation as to his
ability to pay. But it can be said with
truth and justice that, while the laws
may, and do in many cases, bear down
hard upon the debtor, it will not do, by
any means, to deprive the creditor class
of their due proportion of legal protec-
ton. Yet the fact that one man in this
free country has been five years in Jail
for debt, in the leading city of the Union,
is little startling.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

The Chicago Times prays people to
cease talking about Boston as though it
were the centre of Puritan aristocracy,
since, in fact, there are fewer descend
ants of the Pilgrims in Boston than in
New York, the only city which really
celebrates Forefathers' day. Boston, in
fact, is an Irish city-one of the largest
Irish cities in the world. Like the Puri-
tan, the Irishman came over, but he
didn't come over in the Mayfower. The
Plymouth stock IS scattered throughout
the Northern States Of the Union, and,
owing TO its loss of hardy virtue, is fast
disappearing. In Boston it may infu-
erce Beacon street, but it cannot carry
an election. The Irish and their pro-
geny, coming thick and fast, have taken
possession of the Massachusetts capital
Boston is no longer the modern Athens.
1t is the latter-day Tara.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

WHAT THE CENSUS SHows.--The ra-
ito OF increase in the population, as
shown by the census, is vastly greater in
the Western than in the Eastern States.
While the States of Maine, New Hamp-
shire and Vermont show but slight
increase, the States of Missouri, Texas,
Kansas, and Nebraska have shown a
wonderful gain over the figures of the
last census. New York has increased
fpm 1882, 750 in 1870, to 5,0s9, S44 in
the present year. Missouri has increased
from / ,721 ,2s5 ten years ago, to $780,
O91 at the present time; Nebraska from
1872, 993 in 1870, to 452, 439 in 1880 and
Wisconsin to 1916. $3.50 at the recent
census against 1854, $40 in 1870. These
citations show that population is travel
ling westward, and that prosperous COM
munities are being built up where but a
few years since were unbroken prairies
and trackIess forests. The European
immigration builds up in those localities
a new civilization, and becomes an i'm
portant element Of national wealth.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

A PRESENT FOR GEN. GRANT. The
Philadelphia Record states the subscrip-
tons to the fund of 800, 900 to be raised
by Philadelphians for Gen. Grant are
all in, and the transmission of the check
awaits the word from the exPresident
that he is ready to receive it, The
Record further says this is entirely pri-
vate affair, and has nothing TO do with
the raising of the fund started by the
New York Times. 1t also says that one
gentleman, a Philadelphia of large
means, who is warm friend of the Gen
eral, sent his name at once for $50, 900,
with letter stating that if it was neces
sary he would give his own check for
500, 900, or that he would be willing to
pay a life annuity to the ex-President of
$25, 900 year.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05
The Probable Congressional Pro-
gTamme,

To-day The 18th Congress reassembles
at the National Capital after the holiday
recess, and will now continue in session
without interruption until it expires by
limitation on the 4th of March. We see
it stated that a prominent member of the
House Appropriation Committee out
lines the probable work of the remainder
Of the session as follows:
The army appropriation bill has al
ready been reported to the House, and
as it appropriates as much this year as
last, and contains no new legislation,
viii probably be passed without any
material delay. Then, while the Sen
ate is considering the consular and diplo-
matte, the military academy and
the Notifications bills, which have
already passed the House, and while the
House Committee are preparing the
Indian appropriation bill, Mr.. Wood, of
New York, will call up his Tefunding
bill, the general debate upon which has
been limited to one day It is antici-
pated that after Kelley, Weaver, and other
prominent Greenback theorists have ex-
hausted themselves upon this bill, it will
be passed without difficulty.
After this is finished, the Indian APP
preparation bill will probably come up
for consideration, and then perhaps the
interstate commerce bill will be taken
up, with some chance of its passage by
the House There is also a decided
probability of long discussion over the
electoral joint rule which will be called
up.
This, the member of the Appropria-
ton Committee above alluded to, thinks
will consume the entire time of the
body until March 3d. 1t will be seen
that he is of the opinion that there will
be no time to pass reapportiOnment
bill, and that important matter will be
left to the next Congress. This is to be
regretted, because if by any possible
hook or crook the incoming Forty-eight
Congress can defraud any Southern State
Of single member, and at the same
time reduce the vote of such State in the
electoral college, it will assuredly do so.
In view of the very great importance
of this measure, and especially in view
Of the fact that unless it is promptly
agreed upon, the Legislatures of several
Of the States will not meet regularly to
spportiOn the Congressional districts of
their States before the next Congress.
sional election, and, in order to do SO, Twill
have TO go TO the expense of extra SEES
sions, it is to be hoped the present Demo
cratic House will determine to pass the
bill.
We see that good many opinions
differ with that of the gentleman herein
quoted on this subject, and ne may per-
haps be mistaken Should he be cor
rect, however, it is comforting to reflect
that, as the census returns from the
several States will be official and cannot
we'll be disputed. even Radical House
will hardly be able to accomplish any
possible design it may harbor against
a proper representation of our section.
This synopsis of the programme Of Con
gress will no doubt prove, in the main,
reliable, and it will not be at this time
uninteresting.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

The municipality of Paris has decided
to undertake very important literary
and historical work-the publication OF
the city records, which have been pre-
served from the last year of the fifteenth
century, and which contain vast mass
of information of interest, not only to
France but to the entire civilized world
1t is estimated that over 100 folio vol
umes of 300 pages each will be filed by
them, as not only are there abstracts of
all the acts of the municipality, but also
entire debates, most of which have never
met the eye of the historian.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

If Senator Thurman had declared il
December, 1875, in his place in the SEN
ate, that Tilden and Hendricks had been
fairly elected and would be so declared,
whether the President of the Senate was
present OF absent, there would have been
a rumbling through the country and per-
haps civil war precipitated. Senator
Edmunds now prOclaims his party will
declare Garfield and Arthur elected
whether the forms Of the Constitution
be complied with or not He says dis
tinctly, that he does not care for its OBJ
legations.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

1t is now announced that Judge
Woods, the newly appointed Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, was not
born in Ohio, but in Kentucky. This
fact, if it be a fact. will leave Ohio
without a representative on that bench,
(since Chief Justice Waite was born in
Connecticut, and Associate Justice
Swayne first saw the light in Virginia.
and seems to open the door almost pro-
videntially for Mr. Stanley Matthews.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

There is an old Bible in the Congress
sional Library, in the capitol, which is
we'll worth an examination. tits of Italian
origin, and is supposed to have been
written in the thirteenth or fourteenth
century, but the actual date is unknown.
1t is written in Latin. upon vellum, in
clear, bold characters, and extremely
uniform. The writing is in two columns,
about three inches wide, with margin
of two inches. 1t is embellished with
146 miniature paintings, and upwards of
200 smaller Examinations, which are
beautifully executed, and are as brilliant
to-day as the day they were done. The
initials of books and prologues are two
and half inches in height, and those Of
the chapters are one inch in height 1t is
contained in two large volumes, and
cost the government s., 300 in gold when
gold was at high premium, and was
purchased at q sale of the library Of
Henry Perkins, Harworth Park, near
London, in June, 1873. The skins in
the first volume have ali been repaired,
and, except five in the second volume,
they are nearly all perfect.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

Mr.. William II. Vanderbilt received
from the Assistant Treasurer for quarter
" interest on his four per cent bonds
the snug little sum of S470.5O0. which
would make the yearly interest 81 1872.
600 on bonds to the amount of more than
SA7 600 600. He is also aided in keeping
the wolf from the door by other immense
financial resources, and is probably the
wealthiest man in America.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

A little English work, "Sleep and
How 10 Obtain 1t, says that insomnia
is not so dangerous as IS commonly sup
posed. for the author knows an eminent
man OF letters who has suffered from it
for many years without injury. When
a man begins to dream of his work he
may know that lie is under too great a
mental strain. The authors plan Of in
ducing sleep is to reckon up friends and
acquaintance whose name begins with q
certain letter.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

A revolt in South Africa and an i'm
pending revolt in Ireland set the British
troops astir once more. In the former
country the troops are already besieged,
while In Ireland the troops are kept in
barracks and the sentries doubled, and
intrenching tools served out very much
as if the soldiers were getting ready to
be besieged.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

A trial was made in Berlin the other
dsv in presence Of Count Moltke Of q
neWly-invented traction engine for mill
tary purposes. This engine drew five
heavy guns of fifteen centimeter bore
through the streets for over two hours at
the cost Of two marks an hour. The
trial was considered by Count MOltke
and the staff very satisfactory. Probably
the traction engine viii become an insti-
tuition in the German army.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05
MEN WITH COATS OF HAIR.
What One OF Ghe Living CuriOsitles
says of the Atmosphere of n Sibe-
rian Mines
Ne,e York Sun.

A short time ago man little over
forty years old went into BunnelPs Mu-
scum and asked for an engagement. He
said that he was native of Warsaw, in
Russian Poland and had been condemned
to the mines of Siberia for being Mill
ist. A popularity of the atmosphere in the
Redan gold mines near Tobolsk, where
he was confined for fifteen years, he said,
was that it in time caused a thick growth
of hair on the bodies of the exiles, who,
in the warm temperature, fifteen hundred
feet below the surface, worked nearly
nude.
Nihilists being now somewhat in
vogue, especially when hairy, he was
engaged at small salary, decked in a
fanciful medieval costume, and seated
on a platform with Barnum's veteran
what Is 1t, and the Spotted Boy. He
gives his name as G. Ivanovicz, and says
that while medical student in Warsaw
ia 1862 he was sent to Siberia for disaf-
lection toward the Russian Government.
After weary march of several months
he and his companions reached their
destination, and were required to labor
eleven hours a day, with black bread and
salt for their. food and water for their
drink. To avoid scuTvY, onions and
other vegetables were sometimes given
them, but meat was allowed only once a
year, on the birthday of the En-
peror. Rude Cossack soldiers
were their guards, who spoke
with invariable roughness, and freely
used the lash if offended Silence was
enjoined during working hours, but not
strictly enforced. When at leisure they
were not allowed to collect in groups for
conversation, lest they should hatch
schemes for escape, and when not eating
they generally found refuge from their
WEAKNESS in sleep. IvanovicZ found
over two hundred medical men in the
NINE, together with number of Rus
SLAMS with titled families.
The hair On his body reached its pres
ent thickness, he said, in four years, but
others did not acquire growth so speed
lily. He and eight others escaped in 1877,
on the birthday of the Emperor. The
guards on that day were supplied with
liquor, and they became intoxicated.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05
AN AFRICAN VICAR OF BRAY
The Negro KIag of Central Africa.
Who Has Changed His Religion a
Dozen Times 10 Get More Powder.


Much interest was aroused year or
two ago about King M'tesa, who rules a
country on the northern shores of the
Victoria Nyanza, and of whom Stanley
gave some glowing accounts. These &C
counts led to the organization and dis
patch of a mission which cost something
like SIT 900 whereof Baroness Burdett-
Coutts contributed several thousands),
and which converted King M'tesa to the
Protestant form OF Christianity. 1t was
felt then, and has been believed since,
that the conversion of so distinguished q
potentate was cheap at the price. But
this was neither the first nor the last of
M'tesa's conversions. Like all his fel.
low-countrymen, he had started in
life as devout pagan, worship
ing Lubabi. the goddess of
the Lake. He then conceived a
respect for the faith, and especially
for the guns and ammunition of his
neighbors, the Egyptians; so he became
Mussulman, and was duly rewarded
by little present of obsolete muzzle-
leaders. Then came the Eruption of
Stanley and rumors of England and the
English religion and breach-loaders.
Mtesa thereupon conceived the desire to
become Protestant, and was happily
and successfully converted to that faith
by the mission above mentioned, which
brought him, in addition to an improved
faith, a supply of improved Sniders.
Subsequent 10 this, however, the Jesuits
sent from Algiers mission OF their Own,
with gorgeous vestments, which
brought with it echoes of Martini
Henrys and Remingtons. Again M'tesa
showed himself open to convic-
ton, and became Roman Catholic,
which he has remained up to three
months ago. But at the latter period his
people came to him and demonstrated.
They said, king Mtesa, you have been
a Mussulman, Protestant and Roman
Catholic. We must represent to you
that we do not hold these continual
changes to be for the good of the State.
We point out to you, moreover, that you
have already got all the guns and all the
powder that can reasonably be expected
to flow from changes in religion, and we
invite you therefore to return to the faith
of your fathers and the established
church of your country" King M'tesa
has proved accessible to the remon-
strances of his subjects. and has solemn
ly abjured all his heresies and returned
to the worship of the goddess Lubabi.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

A BoUNTIFUL STOCKING. The Christ
mas stocking, into which gold eagles
had been dropped from time to time
during the year by the friends of Major
N. H. Hotchkiss, of Staunton, Va, was
opened Christmas eve, and found to
contain $1,000 in gold C20 eagles),
which had been contributed by friends
in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Ohio, Kentucky and other States. Major
Hotchkiss at once invested the money in
his home at Staunton.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

On October 9th Mrs. Symonds, mother
of a London stockholders clerk, received
the following note: "My Dear Mother
Ienclose you p. 0. order for G., which
borrowed for you last night. ! have
got into great mess in the city, and
have thrown my body over the Clifton
Suspension Bridge, and cannot bear
the agony any longer. God bless my
dear sisters and also your dear self.
From your most wretched son." He
was charged with having dealt improp-
erly with 81 ,065, 900 of securities. He
was traced to Clifton, but nothing more
could be heard of him. Three weeks
ago his body was found in the Avon.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

The Utica IN. W Observer recalls the
fact that Grant received somewhere in
his Asiatic wanderings. decoration OF
the Order of the White Elephant, and
thinks the American people are coming
to the conclusion that this decoration
sized him up, so to speak. very perfectly.
Exactly so, for "the elephant now goes
round"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

General Steedman, Of Ohio, recently
visited General Hancock and Mr.. Tilden.
The former wouldn't talk about politics
at all, and the latter declared he had
retired from the field of political thought
and activity forever-not, he said, as
Horatio Seymour retired in 1868, but
permanently.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

The population of the United States Is
four times as large as it was in 1880
fifty years ago. If it shall be four times
as large fifty years hence as now, it will
be over 200. 600. 600.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

Quebec is scared by something
Drobably the Land Lesgue-and what
with mounting new guards on the wall,
..rviue fifty rounds of ball cartridge to
each man. taking IN the drawbridges,
and revoking passes and furloughs. the
citadel is in high state Of excitement.
Possibly the infection of alarm may
snread all through Canada, as in Fenian
days.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

1t is rumored in Washington that in
case Marshal Fitzsimons is dismissed,
which seems very likely, he will be suc-
ceeded by H. /. Kimball, Of Atlanta.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

Cincinnati has a Sunday school class
of thirty-three Cinnamon, all of whom
are apparently sincere converts to Chris
tianity.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

The Treasury receipts from customs
during the month of December were
$18, 200, 900, and from internal revenue
during the same period $12, 100000.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05

Other ports present not very dissimi-
lar statistics, indicating disproportion
between the American and the foreign
ships to our marine fleets, which it is ex-
tremely fiattering to American pride to
contemplate.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-01-05
Our Handicapped Commercial Ma

The New Orleans Price Current, of
last date, says there are eighteen steam
ship of over 1900 tons in that port,
which embraces thirteen British with an
aggregate of 24,223 tonnage, two of
Spanish with an aggregate of 1896 ton
mage, one French of 2,1S9 tonnage, and
only two American with an aggregate OF
1850 tonnage, both of which are en-
gagged in the coastwise trade; that is IL
foreign ships against American. Turn
ing to the sailing vessels We find eighty
three foreign bottoms against eighteen
American. The total consequently stands
thus: