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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11
TAPPTNG THE WIRES.

The town of Camilla, in this State, was
visited yesterday by very destructive fire,
which, coupled with that OF January LIST
last, has left the trade OF the town almost
suspended.
The New York stock market opened weak
yesterday, and after advances, declines and
recoyeries, closed weak. Transactions sggre-
gated 965, 900 shares.
1t is reported that DR.. Lyon Playfair,
Deputy Speaker Of the House Of Com
mons, has resigned the Craftsmanship Of
the Ways and Means Committee in conse-
quence Of the unpleasantness growing out
Of Mr.. O'Donnell's suspension.
In the House Of Commons yesterday Sir
Henry Wolf inquired whether under the
Clsyton-Bulwer treaty Great Britain and
the United States had not agreed TO protect
any practical route Of transit Of the 18th
mus Of Panama.
The national banks, request, TO withdraw
the legal tenders deposited by them, is still
pending. Secretary Window states that
the question will be settled at the next
Cabinet meeting.
DR.. FELTON,, Of Georgia, is said to have
strong support for the Commisslonership OF
Agriculture.
In the Senate yesterday resolutions look
ing towards the selection Of the standing
and special Senate committees were intro
dueed By Mr.. Pendleton, but were laid over
The North Carolina House Of Representa-
lives has passed the Senate bill submitting
TO the popular vote the question Of pro
hibIting the sale or purchase Of intOx;cat-
ing liquors ia that State.
An amendment to the arms bill was
adopted yesterday allowing licenses to
be granted to carry arms to holders OF lands
when furnished with certificates Of fitness
70 do so by two Magistrates Of the county.
The extreme Liberals undertake to arouse
public feeling in the provinces, provided
the Parnellites viii make temperate opposi-
ton in the debate Ia committee OF supply.
The reports Of the peaceful disposition Of
the King OF the Ashantees were confirmed
iu Parliament yesterday, but the situation
on the Gold Coast IS not yet considered
satisfactory.
Angus Cameron was elected yesterday to
succeed Hon. Matt. II. Carpenter.
The Nashville american states that Gov
ernor Hawkins has received a proposal from
the bondhOlders OF the State to settle the
debt at par, and three per cent. interest.
The Cincinnati Southern Railroad has
increased its stock to the amount Of ten per
cent.
The National Cotton Exchange statement,
received yesterday, states the total amount
Of this years crop handled at all points for
the past six months to have been 4, $40, S3l
bales, an increase over last year of 81, 721
bales.
The Grand Council Of the Royal Arcanum,
IN session at Augusta, elected officers yes
terdaY for the coming year. There was a
banquet at night, rendered by Ford COun-
ell The next Grand Council will meet in
this city.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11
A Man Marries His Sister.

Some years ago a man and wife of
Somerset, KY, on account of family
troubles, separated, an only daughter
going with the father, while the son
stayed behind to share the lot of his
mother. The gentleman removed TO a
neighborlng State and engaged in an ag-
ricultural life, and accumulated consid-
cradle property. His wife in the mean
time had drfted away to San Francisco,
Cal. Years rolled by and the gentleman
died without ever revealing the blight of
his early life to his daughter, she being
too young at the time of the separation
to remember anything about it. Soon
after the mother died, and the son, having
no friends in California, and yearning
for the love and confidence of the friends
and relatives of his bOyhoOd, came back
and settled in Kentucky. Last summer
the young lady went to Kentucky on
pleasure trip, aud while spending the
season at one of the watering places met
this young man, and, attracted by his
polished manner and cultured mind, fell
in love with him. He, equally charmed
by her winsome face and feminine
graces, reciprocated the feeling, and
after short courtship they were married,
both totally ignorant of tie terrible
mistake they were making. A
few days ago the old family law
yer of the young wife's father,
who, by the way, knew all the past life
OF her father, came to see the young
married couple, and during his stay
learned the history of the young man.
Struck by the similarity of The young
husbands history and that of his wife's
father, and half believing the horrible
truth, he set himself to work and learned
enough to convince him that the
d lighter of his old friend had married
her brother. The few friends who have
learned the young couples sad predica
ment have concluded to keep the secret
and let them live as man and wife.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11
The South and President Garfield.

Editor Morning Nens: 1t was more
than forty years before the acerbity of
passions engendered by the great civil
war in England were quieted down in
external appearance, and we may not
expect the same return of fraternal cour-
tesy outwardly after our civil war in
less time. The world now is moved, it
is true, by steam aud electricity. but
human nature is the same as in the days
Of Adam-a distinct power generating its
own forces above and independent of
mere physical motors. To this day there
is lingering antagonism to England in
us, born of our two wars with her, that
will, like Vesuvius, pour out streams of
heated lava whenever Mechanically dis
turbed.
Bearing this trait of our mental physi-
ology in mind, we may steer our course
by it towards the Redistribution of the
national sentiment of a common country
which existed before the destruction of
our peace by the slavery question
Twenty years are held, popularity, to be
a generation, which embraces in our
history just passed the episodes of seces-
sion and armed reconstruction. This
period may be termed the bloody era of
war, ending with General Grants
failure to secure a third term, and
to prosecute his military administration
on Southern affairs. With the election
and Inauguration of General Garfield be-
gins, as he has led US to hope by his
inaugural address. the era of peaceful
solution of our differences. He. in that
document, extends to us the olive
branch, IN we'll written, statesmanly Ian
guage. The Southern press, in like
manner, with few exceptions, have &C
cepted the emblem of peace. So far, so
good; but now comes the test of the sin
cerity of both parties. If General Gar
field holds to his declarations, so must we
to our approval of them, and interp0se
no obstruction in the way of the COM
plete execution of them. This implies
no surrender of our political prin-
ciples. On the contrary, we shall
stand upon the highest plane
of chivalric maintenance of them.
To be an intelligent, honorable
party man is one thing. To be facti-
Gus, tricky partisan is another. As the
case now stands. we are in honor bound
to influence the temper of our people to
a healthy. constitutional reconciliation,
by fair criticism of General Garfields
moves in the same direction. He will
have hard time with his Radical ogres
in carrying out his good intentions as
expressed, but with our moral support of
whatever Democratic principles he may
adopt the return of his administration to
the first principles of the government
will be advanced if not assured; and we
shall have discharged our duty to the
country under the Constitution and the
Union. w.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11
The Irregularity Of the Mails.


The New Orleans Democrat complains
of the manner in which the mails come,
or, rather don't come, TO that city, and
expresses the hope that the new Post
master General will keep rather sharper
eye upon his subordinates than seems to
have been kept upon them Iatterly by
his predecessor; and that he will com
pei the carriers of the mails TO perform
their duty with at least decent show Of
fidelity.
The press of the country will heartily
unite with the Democrat in this hope.
for surely the mails have never been so
unreliable and irregular as within the
past two months. The new Postmaster
General has an opportunity to signalize
his entrance upon the discharge of the
duties of his Office by inaugurating a
thorough reform. The weather has
been.unfavorable, for which due allow
aace should be made, but there is mani
festly gross carelessness and neglect
ia some branch of the service, which
should be promptly investigated and
reformed.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11

Reporting the death of Joseph Howell,
a son of the late William b. Howell, of
New Orleans and eldest brother of Mrs.
Jefferson Davis, the Natchez Miss
Democrat says: Few Of the young men
of his day were more thoroughly trained
in the literature OF the schools. He was
a volunteer in the First Mississippi Regi-
ment, Colonel Davis commanding. in the
Mexican war, and did gallant and faith
full service. A heroic brother of his,
Captain JEFF Howell, one Of the gallant
men who made the little fleet of the
Confederacy a terror to the shipping of
The United States, made for himself a
national fame by his brave and unselfish
sacrifice of himself in his efforts to save
he lives of the passengers on a Califor-
aia steamer of which he was in COM
nand."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11
The Great Fraud a Special Mani
festatiOn of Divine Providence.
The PHILADELPHIA Bulletin saws;

uC uudu6ipIlld DuGt6ttt says.
"Some of the Democratic newspapers
are renewing, just now, their chattering
about Hayes having never been elected
to the Presidency. 1t is not worth while
to go over the old familiar ground to
show that Hayes title was as good as
that of any of his predecessors, or that
he was actually elected in accordance
with law, and without respect to the
action of the electoral commission But it
may be worth while to repeat that the
decent people of the country have always
regarded the movement which put Hayes
into office, and excluded the old rascal
who tried to bride himself into it, as
special manifestation of Diyine Provi-
dence in favor of an imperled nation"
No, it would really not be worth
while to go over the old familiar
ground, for you would get up to your
ears in mire. We observe that Repub-
licans very carefully avoid that "old
familiar ground" and give it very
wide berth-something like murderers
avoiding the locality where they have
committed a murder. AS for the
especial manifestation of Divine Provi-
dence," that is the old talk of profes.
sional buccaneers and savages who carry
their fetiches about their PERSONS
Courier Journal.
1t won't do to lay it on Providence.
There is no reason to suppose that Provi
dence had anything to do with the origi
nal fraud by which the Presidency was
stolen. Besides, even if we acquit Hayes
of the crime on the ground that it was
matter beyond his control, having been
manipulated by his party, that does not
exonerate him from guilt in the matter,
for by rewarding every mothers son of
the horde of knaves who bore promi
nent part in that most stupendous fraud
he not only Endorsed and upheld the con
spiracy against the rights of the people
but made himself pGrticepS crimj11ts in
that conspiracy. Mr.. Hayes may have
entered the Presidential canvass an aver
age honest Radical, but his virtue was
not proof against temptation, and he re
tires from the position obtained for him
by villainY and fraud, covered with lasting
infamy He may we'll pray for forgive
ness, but neither he nor his friends have
any right to call on Divine Providence"
to share the responsibility of his great
crime.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11
A Tragedy With a Romance.

Last summer when Thomas De Jar
nette killed his sister in house of ILL.,
fame in Danville, Va, he was engaged
to Miss Mary Allen Murray, of Milton,
N. c., who visited him very frequently
for several months after his incarcera-
ton. De Jarnette was sentenced to be
hanged, but the Supreme Court granted
him a new trial, which will be begun in
a short time Recently Miss Murray has
not been so constant in her visits to the
prisoner. 1t seems that at the time of
her engagement to De Jarnette, Charles
Gordon and Alexander Bonhum, two
young men of Milton, were also rival
suitors for her hand About week ago,
says o Danville dispatch to the New
York Sun, the announcement was
made by the young lady and her
friends that she was to be married to
Mr.. BOnhum, and that the marriage
was fixed for next Thursday night. Fri
day evening Mr.. Gordon went to see the
young lady, and she told him that she
had come to the conclusion that he was
the only one she had ever loved, and she
was willing to marry him. Gordon,
although he knew that her marriage
with Bonhum was fixed for next Thurs
day night, proposed an immediate
solemnization of the nuptials. Saturday
morning he obtained the marriage
license, and that evening magistrate,
with witnesses, met the couple by APP
pointment on a bridge which crosses the
stream near the suburbs of Milton, and
there Miss Murray and Gordon were
quietly married. De Jarnette is quite i'll
in his cell, whether because of this mar
riage or long confinement is not known.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11
The Increase of the Negro POpn-
latiOn,

The discovery that the negro popula-
ton had increased more rapidly than
The whites in the South in the past de-
cade gave some of the papers an oppor-
tunitY of predicting that certain sections
of the country might become African
lied. The New Orleans Democrat con-
ours with us in the opinion
that there is scarcely any reason
to fear this. A glance at the
census figures of 1850 shows the two
races TO have increased in the past
twenty years as follows; whites 81 per
cent, negroes IS per cent. This fact
justiies the belief that the apparent in
crease of the negroes nthepast decade is
due to the incompleteness of the Radi-
cal census Of 1870.
If the percentage of deaths
has any reference TO the COM
parative increase it is only
necessary to examine the mortuary re-
ports of the Southern cities to be con-
Yinced that such a proportionate in
crease of the blacks over that of the
whites. as given by the census, cannot
be relied on. If the mortuary statistics
of the country districts could be OBJ
tanned, they would probably show a
similar excess in the pro rata of deaths
among the blacks.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11
Notice of Seizure.
CUsToM HoUsE. SAVANNAH, GA,

COLLECTORS OFFICz, March 10, 1881.
THE following described articles were seized
l. at this port for violation of the Customs
Revenue Laws:
Article. Panama Hats; vessel. Elvie Allen;
date. January, 1873; section Revised Statutes
violated, $685.
Article box Cigars; vessel, -; date,
February, 1873; section Revised Statutes vio-
lated, 2797.
Articles. bottles Ale, { bottles Lemonade,
bottles Ginger Ale, l Basket, Linen Table
cloth: vessel, Lady Dufferin; date, March, 1873;
section Revised Statutes violated, 2797.
Articles. boxes Cigars, boxes Cigars; yes
sci. Psquete del Vendrell; date, July, 1878; sec
ton Revised Statutes violated 27g.
Article, box Cigars; vessel, -; date, De-
cembsr, 1880; section Revised Statutes violated,
$685.
Articles, large Feather Flowers (bouquets),
4 medium size Feather Flowers (oouquets),
Feather Flowers (haf bridal wreaths), is
small Feather Flowers (bouquets): vessel VIII
helm l.; date, January 81, 1891; section Re-
vised Statutes violated. 2S09
Articles. chests, containing Sailors Outfit,
etc vessel, Hugh Cam; date, September 81,
1880; sections Revised Statutes violated, 2S72
and 2S73
Persons claiming the above articles are re-
quired to appear and file their claim at my
Office in the Custom House within twenty days
from the date of the first publication OF this
notice T. f. JOHNSON
mh11-FSt Collector
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11
A WONDERFUL LAND.
a Travellers Tale About His Dis
cOVeries In New Guinea.

Captain Lawson has written a book
about his journey in New Guinea. He
discovered a large river flowing north,
aud on its shores he counted in one hour
no less than 314 crocodiles. He tells US
that New Guinea abounds with mon
KEYS, tigers, deer and buffaloes (of the
latter he passed herd numbering over
10, 900 head within a quarter of mile)
while it is well known fact that Aus
tralia and the whole OF the Poly
nesian Islands are almost solely in
habited by quadrupeds of the
marsupial tribe. He is fortunate enough
to kill serpent measuring forty feet in
length, and he startles naturaliSts by the
description of butterfly measuring one
foot with spread wings, and of an elm
like tree which reached the respectable
height of three hundred and thirty seven
feet, having a circumference of eighty
FIVE feet On big tree the traveller
counted over one thousand birds nests,
the whole group of trees containing not
less than twenty thousand; and to per-
petuate his name he discovers and de-
scribes a new species of ducks, although
we should consider it rather precdrious
undertaking, even for ornithologists, to
classify on the spot any new species Of
birds without having the means of refer
ring to cognate forms. But the most
marvellous feat performed by Captain
Lawson is still in store for us. Leaving
his camping place at the foot of Mount
Hercules 1000 feet above the level of
the sea- at four o'clock in the morning,
he assembled the giant mountain to the
height of %. 314 feet, and reached home
again at 7:20 o'clock the same evening
This is smart work, indeed. considering
that for 10000 feet the traveller had to
pass over snow fields
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11
Democratic Progress In Russia.

Democratic Progress In Russia.
1t is announced from ST. Petersburg
that the Russian mobiles are moving to
secure the organization of an assembly
where representatives of the people can
participate in the consideration of State
questions. This means that change is
impending in Russian institutions which
will in time convert Russian absolutism
into q constitutional government with a
Parliament. Ever since Alexander eman-
cipated the serfs the Russian tendency
has been in this direction. Nihilism,
the blind striking at an oppressive
despotism, has gradually been re-
solving itself into action based on rea-
son and reflection, and under General
Melikoff's dictatorship there has been
a marked modification of govern
ment seventies 1t is probable that if
the Car Alexander should die, his son,
the Czarevitch, would take immediate
steps to secure parliament monarchy
There are great difficulties in the way,
owing 10 the absence of strong middle
class, Russia's population being pretty
much divided between the office holders
and the lower orders. A commission is
now talked of to consider the subject of
popular representation. The people now
possess their rural communal and dis
trict assemblies, but these do not touch
subjects outside the local interest; State
affairs and reforms do not and can not
be mentioned. There will be a change
in this respect, or Russia will undergo a
revolution in few years.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11

TAAEdANY DENOUNCEs AYEs.--The
,ammanY General Committee met Fri
az evening and unanimously passed a
ong series of resolutions on the course of
resident Hayes in vetoing the funding
ID. John Kelly was present. The
solutions declare the passage of the
unding bill by a Democratic Congress
7as a wise. conservative act, and that
he opposition Of the Republicans, in
bedience to the behests of banking in
6tutions, should receive the severest cen
dre Of the people
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11

General Walker declares that the cen
tire of population of this country. &C.
cording to the late census, will fall some
where near Cincinnati, haying moved
southwes .vlty eight miles in the past
decade, travelling at the rate of FIVE
miles year. AT this rate, it will be
quite time before it reaches the Missis-
sippi, which river it will strike some
where near Csiro. Ill 1t is predicted
that the centre of population of the
United States viii never move west of
the Mississippi. but that this river will
be the grand ''divide" of the United
States for all time to come-the centre
of its population, wealth and civiliza-
ton.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11

The island of Ischia, where the recent
destructive earthquake occurred, is in the
Mediterranean, eight miles southeast Of
Cape Miseno. The island, seven miles
long and four broad. belongs to Italy,
and contains a population of $4,000.
Near its centre is Mount San Nicola, an
extinct volcano, rising about I. 600 feet,
from which the surface gradually slopes
in all directions towards the sea. The
soil is very fertile, The town of Casa
maccia, where the greatest loss of life
resulted, has valuable mineral springs in
the neighborhood, and is somewhat cele-
brated as summer resort.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11

Nearly all the New York lodges of the
IRISH Land League have appointed COM
Iittees TO solicit aid for the Transvaal
oers. If the money cannot be sent
lem directly it viii be committed to
ie Red Gross Society in Africa for the
d Of the sick and wounded.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11
= rnr RAT REsPoNsrBLE FOR TRIcHI-

Is THE RAT RESPONSIBLE FOR TRICHI-
"a ED EAc1s" ~ London Daily Nelcs
ID Fcbru.rE ~ 8: IN. Clement has
lad4bl week -nting after trichinos-
q bao.l jnpol from America. He
made greet seizure in the house of a
wholesale taalcr. Many tons of bacon
yese c0n5t uaed The police sanitary
As-ers aga wa he public 10 care
pl.r escheV bacon nut is not very well
{ .ed because HAs1 once the trichina
e into tle muscular tissues science is
n ent 90 prevent death. American
le s saoald be careful, if they would
lo 10 european market. to reject
ogs fattened in close, dirty sIYes, or on
orn which rats infest. The rat is proba-
dy the originator of the malady."
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-03-11

The Republican organs are quoting,
with great flourish of trumpets, the fol
lowing passage from Garfeld's inaugu-
raj
The supremacy of the nation and its
laws should be no longer a subject of
debate That discussion, which for
halfa century threatened the existence of
the Union, was closed at last in the b gh
court of war by a decree from which
there is no appeal, that the Constitution
and laos made IN pursuance thereof dle,
and shall continue TO be, tie supreme lao
Of the land, binding alike upon tie STATES
and tie people This decree does not dis
turb the autonomy of the States nor in
terfeTe with any OF their necessary rights
of local government, but 1t does fla
and establish tie permanent supremacy of
the Union"
And that is just where the Democrats
stand, and where the Republicans have
heretofore failed 10 stand. Mr.. Gar
fields doctrine is thoroughly Demo
cratic. 1t is for himself to determine
whether he will stick to it despite the
centralizing and revolutionary tendency
OF his party. If he stands his ground
like man on the principles he has an
nounced, we shall certainly have no
quarrel with him on that score. If he
goes back on himself he will have no
favor to expect from US.