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MEMPHIS, TEISnST.. TTJESrA.Y, MABCH 26, 1878.
VOL XXXVII --TIMBER 70
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W. M'LLUOY. Sergeant.
Mclkt IIassax, sultan of Morocco,
dead, and Mulcy Abaa will succeed him.
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Telbobams from all source last night
indicate little probability that the European
congress will moet at all.
Secbetabt ScnuKZ was taken sudden!?
i 11 yesterday, but his condition was reported
better in later di&patches received last n'ght.
Owixo to the death of Register Allison, of
the treasury, there wi!l le some delay in the
issue of the silver certificates.
The funeral of the late lion. John Alli
son, register of the treasury, took place at
Tittsburg, yesterday, with lmpOBtpg cere
monies. The controversy between England and
Russia is approaching that dangerous stage
where the poiot of honor mere end more en
B ."s agitation.
It is now believed in Rome that the new
cabinet will soon find it necessary to dissolve
the chamber of deputies and appeal to the
country.
Another one of the President's nomina
tion was thrown overboard by the senate
yesterday that of Louis E. rarsons, for at
torney of the northern and middle districts of
Alabama.
It is charged that Mr. Layard, the British
minister at Constantinople, is at the head oi
a party who would rather have England go
to war with Russia on any grounds, however
trivial, than not at all.
Servia is dissatisfied with the Turko
Rusjian peace terms, and has ordered a re
occupation of all positions conquered from
Turkey, which will be held until the peace
congrens decides lrt justice of Smvia's claims.
The sultan of Turkey has publicly com
plimected Oam an Tasba, expressing his
warmest admiration and gratitude for hie
heroic defense of Plevna. A public, demon
stration is arranged for Osman's return to
Constantinople.
Representative Hewitt introduced in
the house yesterday a resolution authorizing
inquiry into the title of the Texas and Ta
siSc railway company (Morrison's) to sixhun
dred miles of its projected load between Fort
"Vforth and El Taso.
What is said to be the most disastrous
fire ever experienced in that city, broke out
in Philadelphia at a late hour last night,
causing a loss estimated at ono million dol
lars. The crowded ktate of our columns pre
vents the publication cf details.
A special dispatch from Lake Charles,
Louisiana, received at New Orleans yester
day, speaking of the log suits pending before
the United States courts, says that viola
tions of the Federal and State laws by the
government agent and Lis associates can be
proven that will startle the American people.
A Vienna correspondent says tho full text
of the treaty of San Stefar.o has renewed a
strong anti-Russian feeling there. There is
0 difference of opinion about the real mean
ing of the treaty. It is not Russian preponder
ance, but Russian rule in European Turkey,
and it is just because such alteration as
would remc-ve this feature, would entirely de
stroy the treaty, that less confidence is felt in
the efficacy of the congress since its publica
tion. While Count Ar.dra.y will demand a
revision of the entire treaty, he will decline
to do so in combination with England, be
cause their interest is not identical.
SenatouT Howe's spee-'h, made in tho
United States senate yesterday, though
based npon the proposition to have the Pres
ident tell all be knew about the charge
against Judge Whitaker, of New Orleans,
wai devoted almofct wholly to the proclaim
ing of his own intensely Republican senti
lrnts, which are clearly exemplified in his
bitter opposition to th3 removal of the bay
onet rule from the southern States,
and his bi'.tor opposition to Presi
dent Hayes and his so-cJIed south
ern policy. In drawing a comparison be
tween Grant's administration and that of
Hayes, be said: "Even in theo times of un
bridled mendacity, I would like to see the
.man bold enough to assert that any senator
or combination of senators ever dictated the
course of President Grant. Should a man
ever be called to the Presidency so pusillani
mous that he cannot discriminate between
advice and dictation, the sooner he q lits the
White House and lets himself for a coach
man, the sooner he will let himself for that
calling for which his temper best fits him."
The weather problem, from a frost or a
Know standpoint, is of great importance to
the people residing in this section of country.
The dispat:hes of Sunday indicated cold
weather and snow at more northern points.
At New York the thermometer indicated
IS. deg. on Sunday afternoon, with high
wind and snow; at Syracuse a snow-storm
was prevailing; at Montreal, Canada, a
snow-storm raged fiercely, and it was freez
ing hard; at Watertown, New York, eight
inches of scow fell, and it was still snowing
Sunday night; at Buffalo, New York, it was
snowing heavily. Desiring to keep the
readers of the Appeal posted on the weather
probabilities, especially the movements of the
Arctic wave, which has just passed over the
localities above mentioned, we append the
opinion of Sergeant Wm. M'Elroy, of the
signal service, who kindly furnishes the fol
lowing information :
"The Btorm which prevailed on Sunday
ever the lower lakes and extended southward
to the Ohio valley, has passed to the north
eastward, and is now, in all probability.
rat inn over Mi 9 St. Lawrence river. Tester
Jay the fall of temperature in the npper Mis-
sifaippl valley, lower lake region and Ohio
valley, was remarkable. At Davenport the
fail was 29 deg.; Dubuque, 29 deg.; Keokuk,
25 deg.; Cincinnati, 30 deg., ana Tittsburg,
38 deg. At the two latter snow was reported
falling at four o'clock in the after
noon. In fact, the decrease was very
large all through the northwest,
but greatest at the places mentioned.
This morning's (Monday) reports show that
the polar wave reached Louisville and Nash
vdle, with a slight touch here, the tempera
ture this morning showing a decrease of 16
deg. from that ot yesterday. At Louis
ville it was 5 deg. below freezing, so that
if fruit was as far advanced as in this lati
tude it has suffered a mortal hurt. Nash
ville was 37 deg., which gave them a
heavy frost. This evening's reports show
that the storm has passed to northeast, as
above stated, and that, in consequence, the
birometer is falling, with increasing tem
perature. An area of quite low pres
sure, with high temperature, is now
advancing from northwest We are safe, I
think, from the storm of yesterday, but as to
what may follow in the wake of the ap
proaching storm, nothing can be said lor
forty-eight hours at least. In looking over
reports of March, 1374-75-76 and "77, I find
as follows: March 24 and 25, 1874, heavy
frosts. March 22 and 23, 1875 heavy frost,
with last heavy frost on April 2d, and last of
all on the 18th. 1876 On March 23d and
24th we had cold, heavy rains, and frosts on
26th and 29th. 1877 March 24th, rain ; 25th,
rain and snow; 22d and 26th, light frosts,
which were the last. Judging from the data
of March and April, during the past six
years, the chances are that we will have a
frost, and perhaps a number, between this and
the tenth of April, and in all likelihood they
will be preceded by cold rains. The mean
temperature for the present month thus tar
is greatly in excess, being 60 deg., while
March, 1875. was 50 deg., 1876. 47 deg.; 1877,
r0 deg. The rain-fall is deficient, being only
2 83 inches to date, while that of tbe cor-re-
pendingjmonth in 1875 was 8.60 inches;
1876, 11.03 inches, and in 1877, 4.24 inches.
1'houph ye only have six days yet the rain
fall may ual 1?77, but the temperature is
another thing. To reach the mean of any of
the periods quoted, will give such a decree
of temperature as will bring the heaviest
kind of clothing and hot fires into requisi
tion, and then good-bye fruit. I have stated
the facts, but make no predictions, not pos
sessing Frof. Tice's mirror."
HOBBOBS OF T1TK SEA.
A Hcliosner Capslned u the Coast of
California Alt en Board Bapposed
Lost Mlsullar Accident to a
British Vessel The Lost
Ksunber Fear er
F1t Hun
dred. San Francisco. March 24. The schooner
General Miller, in command of Captain
May, belODCirjfir to the Alaska commer
cial company, sailed from this port Feb
ruary loth, for Alaska, having on board
Colonel E. T. Woods, United States collector
of customs for the Territory of Alaska. A
day or two ago the schooner was discovered
bottom up a few miles up the coast, and is
new being towed into port. All on board
were undoubtedly lost. The vessel and
cargo were valued at about fifty thousand
dollars.
THREE OR FOUR HUNDRED LIVES L08T ON A
BRITISH VESSEL.
London, March 24. The admiral com
manding at Portsmouth telegraphs the fol
lowing particulars received from the coast
guard at Ventnor. "The Eurydice capsized
oif Dunnose Head at half-past four o'clock
this atternoon in a sudden squall. One boy
and a seaman were saved. Other advices in
dicate that between three and four hundred
lives were lost." The admiral, on receiving
the news cf the disaster, immediately dis
patched a steamer to the scene ot the wreck.
The Eurydice was a training ship for ordinary
seamen, under the command of Captain
Marcus A. S. Hare. She was a sixth-rate
vessel of nine hundred and twenty-one tons
burden, and carried four guns. A survivor
of the Eurydice disaster gives the number on
board as over three hundred. Five were
picked up by a passing schooner, after being
in the water over an hour, but all have died
except two. It is not probable that any others
were saved, as a strong ebb-tide was run
ning. The Eurydice was under full sail
when she was overtaken by a snow-storm,
accompanied by heavy squalls. The sun
shone again brilliantly shortly afterward,
but nothing was then visible, except a few
boxes that were floating down the channel.
The survivors say they they saw the ship
suck down many as she sank.
LATER PARTICULARS.
London, March 25. At four o'clock in
the aiternoon, when off Dunnose, and pro
ceeding under full sail, a squall struck the
Eurydice, and she capsized, and sank imme
diately. The schooner Emma, passing the
Eurydice at the time, rescued five persons,
including Lieutenant Francis H. Tabor, after
they had been an hour in the water. Three
of these died, so that the only survivors of the
disaster are Benjamin Cuddeford, an able
seaman, and Sydney Fletcher, a first-class
boy. The following is
cuddevord's statement:
"The ship capsized in a squall and snow
storm, about four o'clock in the afternoon,
when five miles from Dunnose. There were
over three hurfdred persons on board, all of
whom, except myself and b letcher. were. 1
believe, lost. I was one of the last on the
chip. Captain Hare was near me when she
went down, after capsizing, and she carried
rith her a large number of men clinging to
her, or were drawn down in the vortex. A
man near me said: 'A vessel was close by
when the squall came on, and, therefore, we
will be sure to be picked up.' I was more
than an hour in the water, being a first-rate
swimmer, and very many of my comrades
cried to r.ia. tor help. I tned to assist two or
three, but at lait there were four clinging to
me. and I was obliged to tack them on. Our
chip left Bermuda three weeks ago. We
pp.sr.ed the Lezard, county of Cornwall, and
tnost southern point ot ureat Britain
yesterday, and expected to anchor at spit
head about five o'clock in the afternoon."
SFRrSG A LEAK AT SEA.
New York. March 25. The returned Uni
ted States sloop-of-war Wyoming, J. C.
Watson commander, hence for Havre, with
goods for the Paris exposition, on the six
teenth instant, when five hundred miles out,
found the vessel leaking, and feariug the ap
proach of heavy head-winds and an increase
of the leaking, concluded to return to this
port. She will probably go on the dry-dock
for repairs, which can be completed in two
days. The captain has gone to Washington
for instructions.
A long-felt want to the community has
been a paper which, while giving the latest
fashion notes from abroad, should, at the
same time, contain interesting and instruct
ing reading matter, social notes, household
hints, and, in fact, should be a thoroughly
equipped family paper. x Andrews' Bazar
fully supplies this need," as the voice of the
press proclaims. Published by W. R. An
drews, Cincinnati.
So far as known up to Saturday night, the
North of England iron workers had rejected
the compromise jointly urged by the masters
and their own delegates. The original de
mand was for a ten to seventeen per cent, re
duction. The question will now be submitted
to arbitration.
New Orleans, February 18, 1878.
The undersigned certifies that he held for
collection for account of persons in New
York city ticket No. 60,598, class B, in the
Louisiana State lottery, which drew the fourth
capital prize of itcenty-jire hundred dollars,
on Tuesday, February 12, 1878, said ticket
having cost the sum of two dollars, at the
office of the company in New York city, and
that the amount was promptly paid by a
check on the Louisiana national bank on pre
sentation of the ticket at the office of the
company. a. jcmonville,
Kunner Louisiana National Bank.
All correspondence is confidential, and
names are never published without special
permission .
A dispatch from Volo says that the Turks
are blockading the insurgents in the village
of Mount Pelton by land and sea. Greece
threatens to send ships to the rescue of the
starving inhabitants if the powers do not in
terfere. Oreek interference would certainly
cause war.
DOORKEEPER FOLK.
Strong Probability that his Office will
be Declared Vacant, his Duties to be
Devolred upon the 8ergeantat
Arms until his Sucessor is
Appointed.
A Tlctlm or Old-Tlme Abases, he Is
Neither Galltjr of Corruption nor
Malfeasance In Office Majority
and Minority Reports to be
Submitted to the House
To-Day.
Fall Text of Both Reports Mr. Polk's
Defense His Dismissal will be under
Circumstances that will neither
Taint his Same with Dis
grace nor Dishonor.
Special Correspondence of the Appeal.
Washington, March 24. The case of
Doorkeeper John W. Polk will come up in
the house on Tuesday for final disposition,
and the chances now are that his office will
be declared vacant, and the duties of it be
devolved upon the sergeant-at-arms until a
successor can be elected, in accordance with
the resolution of the majority of the commit
tee. Colonel Polk has been more unfortunate
than any of his predecessors. Elected to of
fice at a time when Washington was besieged
by an army of needy applicants, in numbers
at least double that of any former period
pressed by these and by the members of con
gress upon whom they were supposed to have
claims, naturally a man of good heart, good
impulses, and sympathetic to a degree, he
could not resist their appeals, and, through
ignorance of his duties, and before knowing
anything of the rules governing his office, he
fell into old-time ruts, became the victim of
old-time abuses, and committed grave errors,
but he was neither guilty of corruption
nor malfeasance in office. Had he been
less charitable and more resolute to save
himself, at any cost to the feelings and
sorrows tef others; had he steeled his
heart and refused to listen to the plaint of
the widow and orphan; had he surrendered
himself to the hard matter-of-fact, Gr ad
grind management of his office, he would
not stand to-day jeopardized in reputation as
well as position. Locking carefully through
the three hundred and ninety-six pages of
testimony adduced before the committee on
reform in the civil service, it is difficult to re
alize, accord in e to the strictest construction
of the rules of evidence, where the majority
of the committee find support for their report
and recommendations. ISO where do we hnd
it asserted by any of the witnesses that he
offered or accepted bribes, or that he at
tempted the corruption of any of the mem
bers orjemployes of the house, neither do we
find it anywhere, or by any one maintained,
that he stole any money, made away with any,
or misapplied any funds. And yet these are the
principal charges against him, as will be seen
from the following resolution of the house
under which the committee undertook the in
vestigation of the case:
On motion or Mr. John 11. Baker, the fol
lowing was agreed to:
Whereas. It is alleeed that John W.
Polk, the doorkeeper of the house, has em
ployed sixty-three persons in the service ot
the house in excess of the number authorized 1
by law; and whereas it is alleged that men
have been employed by said doorkeeper who
were not borne on the roll of employes, and
others have been continued in service after
they had been dismissed and dropped from
said roll; and whereas it is alleged that said
doorkeeper has been guilty of corruption and
malfeasance in omce. required employes un
der him to pay to other employes a part of
the ' salary to which they were entitled by
law, as a condition of their appointment or
retention in office; and whereas it is alleged
that he is interested in claims and bills now
pending or about to be brought before the
house for action; therefore,
Resolved, That the committee on reform in
the civil-service be, and it is hereby, directed
to inquire into the several matters and things
so as aforesaid alleged against said door
keeper, and to report at any time to this
house whether said doorkeeper is guilty of
any of said alleged acts. And the committee
is authorized to send for persons and papers.
The two first "whereases" are correct. The
Bixty-three persons employed as alleged in
the first were paid by order of the house, and
the offense was thus condoned, if not parti
cipated in by the house. As to the second,
it is true, and Colonel Polk deserves censure
because it is true. But the third and fourth
"whereases" are not true, and have not been
sustained, the majority of the committee in
their report nowhere assuming that they were;
on the contrary, admitting the fourth to be
untrue, and leaving their decision as to the
third to be inferred. The following is the
full text of
the majority report:
Your committee on reform in the civil
stivice, to which was referred the resolutions
adopted January 31, 1878, directing it to in
quire into the matters and things alleged
against John W. Polk, the doorkeeper of the
house, having had the same under careful
and patient consideration, most respectfully
reports:
Tl- at it has caused to bo brought before it
all persons whose testimony it has reason to
believe would bear materially upon tho sub
ject (see Mis. Doc. No. 36), and has come to
the following conclusions:
First That during the extra session of
this con press the said doorkeeper did employ
or permit to act as messengers, pages, ana
laborers in and about the house or represent
atives, in excess of the number authorized by
law, and over and above the so-called cloak
room men who clean this hall, sixty-odd per
sons. (Mis. Doc. 36, page 392.) This was
done with the full knowledge that such ex
ceBs was without warrant of law (pages 77
and 78), and was not discontinued even after
he had learned that the committee of ac
counts would not justify his acts in the prem
ises, and would not make provisions for the
payment of such illegal force. (Pages 361-
39o.) His manner or maKing appointments
was such that he did not know the number
employed or who had claims for services; the
result whereot was, that the sum ot money
voted by the house December 16th. to pay
this extra force, and which was based upon
data furnished the committee of accounts by
him, proved insufficient to pay all who had
claims under him for services rendered, and
they were forced to submit to a reduction of
twenty per cent, from the pay they supposed
themselves entitled to. (rages ys, yo, dM,
365.)
In extenuation. Mr. Polk pleaded the ne
cessity of an increased force, the practice
under tormer congresses, and specifically un
der the forty-fourth congress, and the pressure
brought to bear upon him by members of con'
cress. (Para 77.) In his testimonv.however.
he finally admits his mistake as to the neces
sity, admits that he was aware that the extra
force under the forty-tourth congress was au
thorized by resolution (page 315). and cor
recta his statements as to pressure from mem'
bers. (Page 106.)
Second That up to a late day in this ses
sion he has authorized or permitted persons
to perform services whe at the time were
borne on no roll, and continued others in ser
vice after striking them from the rolls;
promising or suggesting that they
would be paid under resolution, or
that they should be placed on a roll when
his force should be increased. (Pages 59,
210.212.354.)
Third That he employed on the floor of
the bouse during the session in December
fifty-six pages, just double as many as the
law warrants; and although he had made up
his page-roll on the third of the month (pa
ges 87, 88), the boys thereon being notified
of the fact (pases 88, 277), yet when the
house took its recess he made a fiVHr-intm nav-
roll (page 9fl), placing thereon twenty-eight
pages as serving irom me nrst to the hi teen th,
and the other twenty-eight as serving from
the sixteenth to the thirty-flrst (nam 67. 87.
S3): the first twenty-eight being paid 37 50
eacii, and the last twenty-eight being paid
$40 each. To justify this anomalous roll to
the committee of accounts, he represented
that the boys on the roll for the last half of
the month were to be his regular pages
(page 372); yet on the January roll are found
eleven ot the pages who bad been dropped
on the fifteenth of December. (Pace 71.) In
extenuation, Mr. Polk pleads the poverty of
tho boys, the urgent appeals ot parents and
friends, the consent of the pages to their be
ing so paid, and that it was "a work of char
ity." (Pages 303. 308, 312 )
Fourth That he has continuously em
ployed one mail and two riding pages over
and above the n amber authorized by law,
stating that they were indispensable (pages
88, 371), and that 'the gentleman who
framed the law" (the one fixing pages)
probably knew nothing about the manage
ment of the pages of the house or the neces
sities of the case" (page 127).
Fifth That the doorkeeper placed upon
the soldiers' roll men who had never been
in the army (pages 98, 43, 180). One of them,
"a boy," put on the roll for January
"in order to give him his pay." and be
cause there was "a vacancy on. that roll for
that month" (pages 44, 101, 316); and yet one
soldier, serving continuously from December
1st. trot no pay for the first half of January:
another was dropped on tho fifteenth, and a
third was dropped on the tenth,and his
name was replaced on the pay-roll the last of
the month, to enable him to draw the pay,
which he did, and, on the request of Mr.
Polk, paid it over to the man who had taken
hii place, but who was not qualified for the
roll (pages 34, 50. 51, 35. 183).
Sixth That the doorkeeper did receive
money from two of his employes to be paid
over to a third, who had been promised one
or the other of their places, for the purpose
of making bis salary equal to the one prom
ised. The testimony is that this was a vol
untary contribution, and was afterward re
paid. But the fact that Mr. Polk had let
these parties know of his intention to make
up this salary out of his own pocket taints
the transaction (pages 107, 17o, 18).
Eleventh 1 hat while complaining ot tne
insufficiency of hi3 labor force, he detailed
some of his laborers to do other than labor
er's services; and permitted several of them
to hire substitutes to perform their entire
work, they drawing the full salaries and pay
ing their substitutes about one-fifth thereof
(pages 190, 193, 135, 236, 249, and 325).
.hishth Ihat he "created an office at a
high salary, without precedent, on the door
keeper's rolls, for the purpose of making a
place for a srentleman who could not accept a
twelve hundred dollar place, for "it would
not support him."
ISinth that his manner ot making up nis
rolls was such that employes would find . out
only at the end of the month that their names
were not on any pay-roll. One man appoint
ed December 1st, for the soldiers' roll, found
at the end of the month that his name was
left off the pay-roll for the first seven days;
and. at the last of January, that he
could .not get his pay for the first half of the
month, although his service was continuous
(page 84). The doorkeeper gave divers per
sons notice ot appointments, who, alter per
forming services, as they supposed, nnderthe
law, would find at the end of the month that
thev could not be nut on any ray-roll. One
colored man was employed by Mr. Polk, and
set to work by his assistant in October, was
shown his name on a roll by the janitor, yet
he was never put on a pay-roll (pages I4c,
144). These irrecularities erew. to a great
extent, out- of the habit of making up the
regular rolls at the end of the month, and
worked great injustice.
lenth lb at the testimony does not show
that Mr. Polk is positively interested in any
claims now pending in congress. The Neuf
chatel paving company owes him an unset
tled balance, and has a bill tor its reliet oe
fore the house (pages 116 to 118), but he
claims to have no interest in it. In connec
tion with " this company, prior to the second
session of the forty-fourth congress, Mr. Polk
seems to have employed, or continued in em
ploy, a man because ot his pretended claim
toiinf uence with- a congressman. (Pages 118
to 120.)
Mr. Polk does not deny the maior part of
the things herein set forth, but in ex
tenuation pleads the necessities of his
department, his rawness in position,
the clamors ot neeay applicants,
and past custom. Your committee be
lieve that, with proper handling, the lawful
force under the doorkeeper has been quite
sufficient, and that it was his duty to find out
as early as practicable whether or not it was
sufficient, and in no event to add to it until
authorized so to do by resolution of the
house; but that no rawness in office and bo
custom can be set up in defense of a palpable
violation of known law. The utter disregard
of legal restraint shown by Mr. Polk, his
open violation of known law, to say nothing
of his inefficiency as shown throughout the
testimony (only the more glaring instances
being herein cited ), render him, in the opin
ion of your committee, unfit for the responsi
ble and delicate position of doorkeeper. Your
committee, therefore, recommend the adop
tion of the following resolutions :
Resolved, That the position of doorkeeper
of the house of representatives be, and here
by is, declared vacant; and
Further resolved. That until the appoint
ment of a new doorkeeper, the duties of the
office be, and hereby, are, devolved upon the
sergeant-at-arms.
CARTEK H. HARBISON.
Chairman of the Committee on Reform in the Civil
Service.
This is very severe, but, as I have said, it
is unjust. Ihere is apparent, all through if.
a straining for a verdict that, under all the
circumstances, is peculiarly unjust. (Jolonel
Polk, admitting that he did wrong as alleged
in the first two "whereases ot the indict
ment, plead, in extenuation, old-time custom
havincr almost the torce ot law, and prece
dents the existence of which are a reflection
upon the house more severe than any that
his failings can rightfully draw down upon
him. 1 he weight ot the evidence and ad
missions before the committee was to this ef
fect, and had I the space I could convince
your readers that an inquiry based npon per
sonal rancour was conducted by some of the
committee in a spirit of almost hostility, and
ended in a verdict, as the minority report
shows, having no relation to the charges the
committee was empowered to investigate
The following is
the siiyoitiTV keport:
The undersigned, a minority of the com
mittee on reform in tho civil service, teel cou
strained to differ from the majority in the re
pert made upon the resolution offered by
Hon. John H. Baker, and referred to said
committee on the first of I ooruary. 187o
After long and tedious investigation and due
consideration given the testimony, we find, as
to the first allegation that J. W. Polk, door
keeper, did employ many persons in excess of
the number authorized by law, who, together
with others serving without employment or
appointment by him, amounted to the num
ber of sixty-three, and all of these were paid
by resolution of the house, adopted Decem
ber 15. 1877. under the supervision of the
committee on accouts; that this employment
was notorious and public, yolk, on the ninth
of November, 1877, having communicated
the fact to the chairman of the committee on
appropriations.
As to the second, that men had been em
ployed bv said John W. Polk, doorkeeper.
who were not borne on the roll cf employes,
as appears from the hnding as to the hrst al
legation; and that William H. Holt, and
perhaps some others were continued in
service after being dropped from the roll, in
expectancy of pay by the action of the house,
or in lieu ot others.
As to the third, that said John W. Polk
has not been guilty of corruption in omce.
or guilty of other malfeasance than the em
ployment of persons in excess of the number
required by law; and he is expressly exoner
ated from the charge of requiring employes
under him to pay other employes a part of
the salary to which they are entitled by law
as a condition ot their appointment or reten
tion in office.
And as to the fourth and last, that they are
nnable to find from the evidence that John
W. Polk, doorkeeper, is interested in claims
and bills pending or about to be brought be
fore the house for action.
The evidence is voluminous and discloses
numerous mistakes by the doorkeeper, es
pecially in the earlier part of his service,
arising from inexperience; a desire to comply
with the demands and supposed necessities
of the house and its committees, and the be
lief on his part that his paramount duty was
to perform and cause to be performed ench
services as were to his mind apparently noces'
mit. trnntina to suDDOsed Drecadnnta for m
propriations to pay such force as he might
employ for such purpose. Many of thnsr? are
! attempted to ue magnu a ny me m"jTry,
and declared of the grossest class and charac
ter, but we feel confident in the assertion that
the closest scrutiny of the testimony will fail
to disclose a sordid motive underlying any of
them, but, on the contrary, disclose the fact
that they arose from a generous disposition to
accommodate others. Moreover, the testimony
shows that, instead of any act being done by
said doorkeeper to unlawfully deprive the
treasury of a dollar, or to fill his own pockets,
he has undertaken in one case at least, to pay
from his own pocket for services rendered the
house. The doorkeeper's department we find
at "present in very good practical operation,
being run on about as economical a scale as
is usual.
We, without any sort of fear of the correct
ness of our opinion, unqualifiedly dissent from
the resolution of the majority, because the
committee was not authorized to so report by
resolution, and for the manifest inconsist
ency of trying an officer upon a charge of
corruption, and finding him guilty of, and
recommending a removal for, incompetency.
It would be far more consistent to charge a
party with larceny, and find him guilty of
an assault and battery; and a bench especi
ally created for reform in the law would not
be likely to do this, although in that case
the offense charged and of which the party is
found guilty are both criminal offenses de
fined by statute.
Incompetency i we are free to admit, is
good ground; for removal from office by the
appropriate power, and the power of the
house to remove any of its selections for such
cause is not denied; but, regarding each and
every man a character entitled to as much
protection by the law and law-makers as his
person or property, we cannot, with the light
we have upon the great subject ot civil-
service reform, agree with the majority that
corruption and incompetency are equally
criminal, so that a conviction may be had for
the latter upon a charge of the former. The
gravamen of the resolution of Mr. Baker is
corruption and malfeasance in office, from
which it would be inferred, bv almost every
one, if the doorkeeper is found guilty, that an
offense defined by law, common or statutory,
had been committed, and at least by all that he
had been guilty of illegal action from corrupt
motives. No corruptioa being shown nor even
charged in the report of the majority, directly,
it would be a grievous wrong against Polk
to adopt the rm-jority report. Respectfully
submitted.
PHILIP COOK.
JOHDAN S. CBAVENS.
WM. W. GARTH,
DAN. M. HENRY.
The above-named are four out of a com
mittee of eleven, and are representatives
from southern States and Democrats
Cook, of Georgia; Cravens, of Arkansas;
Garth, of Alabama, and Henry, of Ala
bama, lbe other members are Carter
Harrison, of Illinois; Hewitt, of New York,
and Morgan, of Missouri, Democrats: and
Price, of Iowa; James, of New York; Pugh,
of New Jersey, and Sexton, of Indiana, Re
publicans. Of the three Democrats on the
majority side, Harrison is said to owe Polk a
grudge for not appointing a friend of his;
Hewitt seems to be, judging from his course,
opposed to southern men generally; and
Morgan, ot Missouri, is said to be a personal
enemy of Polk's. As to the Republicans,
they, of course, rejoice in being able to assist
in the .development of division? and dissen
sions in the Democratic ranks. Against this
array Mr. Polk has strong friends on the
floor of the house, who will make a .gallant
fight for him; representatives who, in able
speeches, will give additional force to the
minority report, and sustain him in the po
sition which he took in the following remarks
before the committee in defense ot his action
as doorkeeper:
pole's remarks.
I respectfully ask your honorable commit
tee for a fair and impartial consideration of
the facts brought forth during this trial. I
claim from you no justification of any illegal
act ot mine it you cannot hnd it in my inex
perience, my motives and the embarrass
ments that beset me. trusting, as I do. to
your discrimination between evil motives and
errors of the head, bearing in mind the in-.
ceHsant importunities that harrasse'd me day
and night. 1 will turther ask you not to
overlook two important reasons for this never
ceasing pressure upon me for appointments
to the few places under my control:
First The number and distress of the ap
plicants. Second The small amount of Federal pa
tronage in the gift of the Democratic party,
there being but about two hundred positions,
one half of which are in the doorkeeper's
department of the house.
The general depression of business through
out the country for the past two years has
thrown out of employment many business
men, young and old alike,' who, in their ig
norance, flock to Washington City to take
their chances for employment; another class,
and the moat persistent, are those who have
been discharged from positions in the sev
eral departments of the government. Each
one of these place-hunters, and their name
is legion, have a representative in the
house, whose duty they consider it is
to importune me for relief, making the press
ure tenfold greater than it was with my pre
decessors in former congresses. The expenses
of the doorkeeper's department of the house,
including the folding of public documents,
as shown by the letter of Mr. M'Pherson,
the clerk of the house of representatives for
the forty-third congress, miscellaneous docu
ment No. 10, for the fiscal year eod:ng June
30, 1873. was $162,680 44. The appropria
tion made for the same service, for the cur
rent fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, is, in
all, f 105,210, showing a reduction of $57,
470 44 in favor of the present congress over
the forty-third. The amounts paid by spe
cial resolutions out of the contingent fund of
the house are not estimated for either con
gress. The forty-fourth congress appropria
ted for the current fiscal year, for the door
keeper's department of the house, $105,210,
which includes $12,250 for folding public
documents. The appropriation for the same
employes and uses in the senate is $100,389,
making the cost to each representative
$304 80, and to each senator $1320 09
over one thousand dollars more to each sena
tor than to each representative. From the
letter of the secretary of the treasury, trans
mitting estimates of the legislative expenses
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1878, it
will be seen that ihe expenses of the govern
ment for each senator is $5830 87, and for
each representative, $1523 77, making the
legislative expenses of the house $4302 10
less to each member than to each senator.
Erhibit on page 129 of the printed testimony
shows that there v ere at the second session
of the forty-fourth congress, employed and
paid by the house of representatives, an extra
force of forty-seven persons, at a cost of
$8952 21, or $97 33 per diem while employed.
The extra force employed by me for the called
session of the present congress were paid un
der resolution of the house, appropriating the
sum of $3840 for that purpose, at a cost of
$80 per day for the time employed, showing
a saving of $17 33 per diem to the govern
ment for the same period of employment,
notwithstanding the large number employed
by me and some twelve others, paid under
that resolution, who, it was found, had been
doing work for the government without le
gal authority from me, but who, if not paid,
would continue to harrass the house and com
mittee on accounts. If the house of repre
sentatives had a force under the doorkeeper
according to members, equal to the force em
ployed and used for same purpose in the sen
ate, it would have 90 messengers, 75 pages,
and 145 laborers. These statistics are not
presented as an argument in favor of an in
crease of the messenger force in the house,
for I now believe, since the hall has been
transferred to the sergeant-at-arms, the
force is quite sufficient. I am free
to acknowledge I was mistaken about the
number of messengers necessary. In connec
tion with the foregoing facts, which I offer
only to show the causes influencing my ac
tion at the time I made these extra appoint
ments, on the first of November, 1877. 1 also
beg your consideration of the practices which,
from long use and loose legislation, have
grown almost into law, which, to say the
least, are vexatious and a source of great em
barrassment to the officer at the head of my
department. I now most respectfully ask
this honorable committee to consider what
motive I could have had for making these
illegal appointments other than a desire to
suit the convenience of the house. There
was certainly no promise of either political or
pecuniary gain. It was done in the con
fusion of a new organization, under
what to me was a new condition of
affairs, in which I honestly believed I was
doing right. I believed it was the intention
of the house that each leading committee
should have a special messenger, who could
act lu the dual capacity of messenger and
deputy cItV, for I knew th'-n, p.nd know now,
that the best clerical talent can be secured
for the salaries paid the messengers. I have
several messengers and laborers on my roll
who are capable of filling the position of cleik
to any committee of the house. In the labor
force there was at that time a necessity for
more than the law authorized, and will be
again when the rush of public documents
from the government printing office is re
peated. You have all the facts about the
page-roll for December before you in the tes
timony. I have but little to say-on that sub
ject. When I discharged all the boys on the
fifteenth of December, one-half of them
finally, the other twenty-eight with the
promise of reappointment on the first of Jan
uary, it would have been just
as easy for me to have made
up my roll with the twenty-eight pages for
the full month, and appealed to them to di
vide their salaries with their lit
tle comrades (who had no hope of reap
pointment) as it was to arrange the roll in
the manner ldid; there would have been
no objection or murmuring on the part of the
boys, as there has been none; but I preferred
to have my public acts on record. I believed
it was right and just, and 1 still believe so.
I am persuaded that there is not one gentle
man on this committee who, if he had wit
nessed, as I did, the tears of these sad-hearted
little representatives of widowed mothers
and orphan sisters and brothers would not
have taken some responsibilrtTto--oouafort
them when he was doing no harm to the
government, costing it no more, and doing
them great good. I rely upon your honora
ble committee to do rue simple justice. I
submit these views without the advice of
any one, legal or otherwise, which I mention
as an excuse for any wrong conclusions of
law I may have advanced, for I am no lawyer.
I never before held a political office, and if
this one is to bring disgrace on my family
and on my name which I have through life
endeavored to protect from taint I shall de
plore the weakness that led me from the
pursuits of private life.
no hope.
I have said above that Mr. Polk has strong
friends on the floor of the house, and he has,
bet they will not count in such numbers as to
make a majority over the Republicans and
such Democrats as have declared against him
or as may be influenced by the report and
persuaiiions of the majority to sustain this re-
fort and help carry their recommendation,
think, therefore, there is no hope for Mr.
Polk. He will be voted out of office, and
very unjustly. Bui in votijg him out of office,,
the house cannot injure him to the extent
he dreaded of bringing disgrace upon his
family and his name, though he may, as
many another a man has had to, deplore the
weakness that led him from the pursuits of
private life to the acceptance of office, he will
go buck to his home and his people just as he
came, the worst that can be said of him being
that he failed because he followed examples
and precedences at variance with law, but
which the house has indorsed from time to
time to the present day without so much as a
murmur. j. m. k.
STATE MJSmCAL, SOCIETY.
The Approaching xleettns; In this City,
and the Excursion to II et BprtoffS.
Arkaasao.
The Memphis and Litt'e Rock, Iron Moun
tain, and Hot Spring railroads have kindly
tendered the State medical society, that holds
its annual session in this city April 22d, an
excursion to Hot Springs, Arkansas. The
doctors, no doubt, will gladly avail them
selves of this generous offer to take a little re
creation by visiting this wonderful and famed
watering place. They will then see for them
selves how much nature there promises to
ward the relief of a number of "ills that flesh
is heir to." This will be not only highly in
teresting to them, bat will be of great ad
vantage in knowing how much to promise
their patients by a sojourn at this laboratory
of nature. As we are informed, the society
will hold its session on Tuesday and Wednes
day. After its business is concluded, on
Wednesday night the members will be enter
tained by a grand banquet at the Peabody
hotel. The excursion to Hot Springs will
start on Thursday. Tickets on railroads in
Tennessee have been extended until the tenth
of April to enable those attending the meet
ing of the society to make the excursion.
TELEGRAPHIC BKETITIES.
At Derby Line, Vermont, fifteen inches of
snow fell yesterday.
The foreclosure sale of the Erie railway
has been postponed thirty days.
No more goods will be received at Brook
lyn navy-yard for the Paris Exposition.
Sixty-three bodies, victims of the late
Huron disaster, were received at Norfolk,
Virginia, yesterday, en route for Anapolis.
George P. Bamler, of Cincinnati, one of
the principal officers of the Kentucky Central
railroad, died yesterday at Paris, France, of
gout of the heart.
At Wheeling, West Virginia, yesterday,
John Milan was burned to death in the hay
loft of John Butterfield's stable, whither he
had gone to sleep.
Jerry Wells, of Riverhead, Long Island,
who failed for over five thousand dollars, has
offered to compound with his creditors at
twenty cents on the dollar.
At Chicago, on Sunday, a wind-storm pre
vailed, doing great damage to lake shipping.
A Scotchman named Duncan was blown from
the scow Minnie Carlett, and was drowned.
The creditors of John T. Henry, Curran &
Co., of New York, agreed to accept thirty
seven and a half cents on the dollar. Ten
per cent, cash or thirty days, and remainder
in six and twenty-four months.
Yesterday afternoon, in Thirtieth street,
New York, J. T. Moore was robbed of thirty
five thouaand dollars in Missouri Pacific rail
road bonds, by a thief who was subsequently
captured and sent to the Tombs in default of
eight thousand dollars bail.
A New York dispatch says the Western
Union telegraph company refuses to pay the
balance due as settlement with the Atlantic
and Paeifis telegraph company under the pool
ing agreement, because of the suit brought
against the company by Mr. Benedict to can
cel the compact between the companies.
Last night G2?. M. Weiman, of Columbus,
Ohio, patentee of W eiman's pump and pro
prietor of the steam-pump works, was shot
and killed by his father, who immediately
committed suicide. Business complications,
a dissolution of partnership and a law-suit
were the causes. Both men had large fam
ilies. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
silver bars were received from Europe on
Saturday, and one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars additional have been forwarded to
the Philadelphia mint for subsidiary coinage,
The steamer City of Berlin brought over two
hundred and buy tnousand dellars m silver
bars.
At Bloomsburv. Pennsylvania, vesterdav.
the Molly Maguires, M'Hugh, Hester and
luliy, were hung. M Hugh said on the
scaffold that if he had taken good advice he
would not be on the scaffold. He and Tullv
had their necks broken Hester died from
strangulation. The bodies were taken charge
oi by mends for interment.
Burnett's Cocoa ike allays irritation, re
moves all tendency to dandruff, and mvigor
atej the action of the capillaries in the high
est degree, me cocoaine has earned a de
served reputation for promoting the growth
and preserving the beauty of the human
hair. Ladies dressing their hair elaborately
for the evening will find that it imparts a
healthy natural gloss to the hair, and will
cause it to retain its shape for hours.
PHTT.APKi.raiA, April id, 1877.
Gektlemen One year ago my hair com
menced tailing out until 1 was almost bald.
After using your cocoaine for a few months I
have a thick growth of new hair.
ALEXANDER HENRY,
H 14 East U Irani avenue
ADDITIONAL. BIVjEK NEWS.
Louis vtlle, March 25. Weather cloudy
and warm.- River falling, with 9 feet 1 inch
in the canal.
Cincinnati, March 25 Night River 19
feet and tailing. Weather clear and cold,
Arrived: Mary Houston, New Orleans.
St. Louis, March 25 River falling, with
15 feet 9 inches above low-water mark,
Weather clear and pleasant. Arrived : City
of Vicksburg, Vicksburg, Departed : Gold
Bust, Memphis; Port Eads, New Orleans.
WASHINGTON.
The Senate Kegaled with Howe's Decla
ration of Extreme Republicanism and
Opposition to President Hayes,
his Cabinet, his Policy To
ward the South and his
ClTil-Serrlce Re
form. If Hayes is Entitled to his Seat in the
Presidential Chair, then Mcholls, of
Louisiana, is a Usurper; but if
Mcholls be 'ot a Usurper J
then Hayes Is.
A LIgrht Day In the House-Ex-Sheriff
A. P. Curry Testifies In Relation to
"Arkansas Hail Contracts An
Important Decision by the
Supreme Conrt.
IN THE SENATE.
Washington, March 25. Senator Wal
lace submitted an amendment to the house
bill to repeal the specie resumption act, which
provides that on and after July 1, 1878, Uni
ted States legal-tender notes shall be receiva
ble for all debt3 and dues, both public and
private, and that any national banking
association hereafter organized, or any
national banking association now in
existence, which may desire to in
crease its circulation, shall deliver
to the secretary of the treasury for cancella
tion any of the bonds of the United States
payable within ten years and bearing six per
cent interest, and shall receive in exchange
therefor legal-tender notes of the United
States to the amount of the nominal value of
such bonds, which said bonds shall be treat
ed as a part of the sinking fund, and re
corded and destroyed under the existing laws;
but the whole amount of legal-tender notes
issued for this purpose and otherwise
outstanding shall never exceed three hundred
and eighty-two million dollars. No tax upon
circulation shall be imposed upon legal-tender
note issues under the provisions hereof,
and no reserve shall be required to be kept
for their redemption by any such national
banking association. All laws or parts of
laws inconsistent with the provisions hereof,
be and they are hereby repealed. Referred.
At the expiration of the morning hour,
Senator Howe called up his resolution asking
the President for information in regard to the
alleged defalcation of Judge Whitaker, of
Louisiana, and made his promised speech.
In regard to that portion of Senator Howe's
speech where he referred to the indictment
against Whitaker having been noZfe prossed.
Senator Hoar said he desired to inquire of
Senator Howe whether he had any informa
tion that Whitaker was indicted for the de
falcation charged eight years, tried and ac
quitted on the merits of the case, and the in
dictment none prossea a year ago was ior
the same offense.
Senator Howe said it was due to truth to
say that he had received such information;
but he had also been told that defalcation
actually existed, and he Howe hoped
that the answer to his resolution would show
how Judge Whitaker was acquitted on that
trial.
Senator Hoar said that when the present
administration came into power, the
attorney-general received from the district-attorney
in New Orleans a list
of the old cases pending, and one against
Whitaker was wiped off the ticket with a
number of others of no importance. The ac
tion was taken by the attorney-general in the
general course of business, without any un
derstanding with the President. Th re
marks of Senator Howe would imply that
the nolle vros of Whitaker's case had some
thing to do with the political events in Louis
iana. Senator Howe said he would not be sur
prised if that should turn out to be a fact;
that it would not overwhelm him with aston
ishment. Referring to the recognition of the Nich
olls government, Senator jHo we said: "If
Packard was not elected governor of Louisi
ano, nothing can be more certain than that
Mr. Hayes was nbt elected President of the
United States. Without the electoral vote
of Louisiana, the whole world knows that
Mr. Hayes had not the votes in the
electoral college necessary to consti
tute an election. If Louisiana did
not vote for Packard, the whole world
knows that Louisiana did not vote for Hayes.
Packard received nearly two thousand votes
more than some of the Haves electors. Un
der the constitution, the President had but
one plain duty to discharge, and that was to
ascertain whether tho constituted tribunals of
Louisiana had declared Packard to be gover
nor; if so, then to defend his authority
to the extent of his ability when
legally required so to do. If they
had not bo declared, then it was
equally his duty, not merely to have with
held all support of Packard's pretence, but
to have given all required support to the
claim of Packard's rival. 'It was his duty to
have done that, not merely on the twentieth
of April, but to have done it on the fourth of
March, immediately on his assuming" the
office of President, and if he found it his con
stitutior al duty to require Packard to sur
render his office, he should have also recog
nized the duty of surrendering his own. I do
not mean, to intimate a doubt that President
Hayes was entitled to the voteof
Louisiana. It is my settled belief
that the State of Louisiana declared for
him. but I certainly know that if Packard
was not elected, President Hayes was not. If
the latter is not a usurper, JNichobs is. 1 can
see no possible escape from the conclusion,
either that tne President has usurped his own
office, or that he has aided Governor Nicholls
to usurp his."
During his speech Senator Howe reflected
severely npon the President for appointing a
Democrat to a place in his cabinet (referring
to Postmaster-General Key), handled Secre
tary Schurz without gloves, and ridiculed
the President's civil-service reform.
At the conclti8icn of Senator Howe's
speech, the senate went into executive ses
sion, and soon after adjourned.
in the house,
A communication from Consul-General
Clarke, of Havana, detailing the circum
stances of the illness and death from yellow
fever of Representative Leonard, of Louisi
ana, was read. The speaker appointed
Messrs. Ellis, Muller, Turner, Stewart, Calk
ins and Ward a committee to receive the body
at New York, and to escort it to West Ches
ter, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Springer's motion of Monday last, to
suspend the rules and pass the bill to author
ize the coinage of gold and silver on the same
terms, and to permit a deposit thereof for
the same purpose, was rejected yeas, 140;
nays, 102 not two-thirds in the affirmative.
Mr. Schleicher introduced a bill to regulate
the value of subsidiary silver coin. It pro
vides that such coin shall be a legal-tender
for any amount not exceeding ten dollars,
and that whenever presented in amounts of
one hundred dollars the secretary of the
treasury shall issue therefor legal-tender
money.
Mr. Gause introduced a bill for the more
economic and accurate 6urvey of the public
lands. Referred.
Adjourned.
EX-8HEKIFF A. P. CCRRV BEFORE THE
HOUSE POSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT INVES
TIGATIONS. The house postoffice committee examined
but one witness this ror?ning Amos P. Cur
ry, of Little Rock wj had the contract lor
carrying the mail tw,ce a week, on horse
back, between Little Rock and Pine Bluff,
his compensation being nine hundred dollars
a year. At the request of John D. Adams,
a steamboat mail contractor, and also at the
suggestion of Senator Dorsey, he applied for
a discontinuance cf the contract, and there
upon a new contract between the same ter
minal points, but by the river route, was
given to Adaru Tor fwo thonard dollars,
Adams paying to Curry fifty dollars a quarter
as a consideration for his giving it up.
IMPORTANT DECISION OF THE SCPREM
COURT.
No. 122, Conrad r. Wapplea et al.t error
to the circuit court for Louisiana. In this case
it is held that the confiscation act of 1862 ap
plies only to the property' of persons who
thereafter might be guilty of an act of dis
loyalty and treason, and excludes from
its operation the property of per
sons who, previous to its pas
sage, may have committed such acts, leav
ing the door open to them to return to their
allegiance without molestation for past of
fenses, and that the joint resolution passed
in explanation and limitation of that
law, as proved at the same time,
and which is to be construed in
connection with it, as part of it removes all
doubt on this point, declaring, as it does,
that the law shall be so construed as to not
apply to any act or acts done prior
to its passage: hence, when Ex-Sec-retary-of-War
Conrad, being, in May,
1862, prior to the passage of the act,
engaged in rebellion, a member of the Con
federate congress, giving constant aid and
comfort to the insurrectionary government,
at that date conveyed the property to his
sons. The title thereto could not be affected
by the subsequent act of confiscation, and
the subsequent proceedings of confisca
tion under it were absolutely void.
The character of the parties as rebels did not
deprive them of the right to contract with
and to sell to each other, except where ex
pressly forbidden by the United States, or
where the act would have been inconsistent
with or have tended to weaken their authori
ty. Reversed.
Base Jtliisica
To be aroused from sweet and delicious
slumber by a "cat serenade," is on a par
with being annoyed in church by the steady
hacking and coughing of individuals who
neglect to take Dr. Bull's cough syrop.
31 ARB 1 ED.
WHEELEB JONES In the Linden Street Chris
tian Church, Monday, March 25, 1878, by Bev. Da
vid Walk, Mr. Charles a. WntKLXH and Miss Jutja
A. Jones, daughter of Jasper N. Jones, both of
t&ls city.
r inn. uiCUJLia VI Ofc. aiurv wiuiu"uvi j ,
I No. 16, K. T., are berebr ordered to at-,
tend, at their asylum, la full dress, this
Tiiicn tv AMnlno et 71 rt'olAnlr tnr thm
purpose of conferring the Order of Knight Templar.
Ail iraucacvuiwvuaij ii'w,
By order A. J. WHEELER, E- C.
John D. Hum. Recorder.
N:
Iff CONSTITUTION AND REPORTS. USUAL
time ana place.
APOLLINARIS
NATUKAL
Mineral Water !
The Queen of Table Waters. '
HIGHLY EFFEBYESCEXT.
Dr. Haatn MrBnlrr. Richmond (Surgeon
to late Stonewall Jackson). " Healthful and de
lightful to drink. Valuable In Drspepsla and
Go"1-"
Prof. J. A. WawUIjn. C Georee Hmd.,
london. " Highly effervescent, wholesome,
and absolutely pure; superior to all others."
Dr. B. OgdeB Uoremas. "Absolutely pure
and wholesome; superior to all for dally use;
free from all the objections urged against Croton
and artincl ally-aerated waters."
Dr. Prter Hood. President of the Mertu,
JHediral Society, etc " Superior to Vichy
anil Vain"
Peter Mqnlre. V.Tj H Chenlat to the
Qaeen. 10th Edition of Companion to the
British Pharmacopoeia. " Exhilarating; Good
for Sickness, Dyspepsia and Loss of Appetite."
JlarVtmira, K.K.C. C'.I.H.. torariom
to Wmtmianter Hotp.LalM. "More
Wholesome and Refreshing than Soda or Seltzer
Water."
Herman Weber. M.I., F.RC.P. Physi
cian to the lirnnai iIOMp lioodon.
"Of great value In lithlc acid diathesis. In ca
tarrh of the bladder, and of the respiratory or
gans; agreeable and useful."
I'RED'K DE BABY Sc. CO
41 and 4S Warren ML. New York,
Sole Agents for United States and Canada.
TOR BALK BT
DEALERS, GROCERS AND DRUGGISTS.
Every genuine bottle bears tne eiiow laiei
Dissolution of Partnership.
WE here notify, that Mr. OSCAR BEJACH. a
member of the firm of A. Belach, Less it Co.,
Atkins, Ark., and A Belach t Co., Russellvllle, has
this day, by mutual consent, sold his entire interest
to Mr. A. Belach, senior partner of the firms.
A. BEJACH.
SAMUEL LESS.
OSCAR BEJACH.
Chickasaw Building & Loan Association.
THE regular monthly meeting occurs on THURS
DAY, March 28th, over Union and Planters
Bank, when the money will be loaned out. Dues
must be paid by that time, or lines will be enforced.
Stock for sale. R. CRAIG, President.
A. Hatchett, Secretory
LKAV1XU THE CITY.
FOR SALE Stock and fixtures of two Family Gro
ceries, Butcher Counter, two Blocks, two Ice
boxes and Tools, Household 1'urnlture. one Ward
robe and Couch, handsome English set China, two
new Sewing-Machines; also, a single set Cricketing
apparatus. If not sold before 22d April, will if nold
on that date by public auction. J. AIN3WOHTH A
SON, corner Hernando road and Clay street and
Vance and Avery-
NOTICE.
MISSISSIPPI AND TKMKKSSKB RAILROAD COMPANY, I
Hwretar" and Treasurer's Ofn. f
COUPONS, du 1st April, 1878, from mjolldated
bonds, serlas A. of ths company, will be paid
at the Union aid Planters Bank, Mntirhls. or at the
Importers and Traders Notional Bank. New York,
aa holders may elect. S. H. LAMB,
Secretaiy and Treasurer.
Memphis. March 22. 1878.
Nottco.
THE Floral Department of the Nurseries of R. G.
Craig 4 Co. have been this dsy sold to Messrs.
J. H. Nale A Co., who will continue the same as here
tofore, at the Seed dtore or R G. Craig A Co., UTK
Main street. Memi-hls. Thanking a iust liberal
public for past patronage, we bespeak a eootlnuftn-e
of the same to the above firm.
March 22, 1878. R. G. CRAIG A CO.
J.H.N-ATiT,&00
FLOWERS,
Bedding Plants,
Ornamental Shrubbery,
ami General Nursery Stock.
We Oder for sa'e at lowest RETAIL and WHOLE
SALE rates, what we believe to be the larget and
beat assorted stock of the above articles In the
Southwest. Vine Rosea a speelalty.
379 Main street, Memphis, Tenn.
MASONIC TEMPLE
OF MEMPHIS.
THE Directors of the Masonic Temple ef Mem
phis request that the stockholders thereof shall
aajenble at the Masonic Lodge-room (Odd-Fellows
Hall), on
Friday, March 29, 1878, at 7 o'clock p jn.,
for the purpose of considering the propriety and
necessity of Issuing bonds for the further construc
tion of the Temple, etc .
A full report will be made of the condition of the
Temple, showing recepts, expenditures, etc
By order of the Director?. , ,
DAVID P. HIDDEN, President.
A. J. WHwm.FB. Secretary.
LOAM ASSOCIATIONS.
'ew Series! New Series! - Jiew Series!
WORKINGMEN'S
Building and Loan Association.
ISSUES a new series of stock every qow ter; com
menced business In 1873, and has ber and Is
a SUCC Stated meetings held on FIRST TUES
DAY EVENING ot each month, at their office. 2WI
Main street, up-stalrs. to make loans. Seventh Be
lles commences April 1, 1878. Subscribe new.
MoneytoLoan! Stock for Sale! o Back Dues!
L. LaG RILL. PresMent.
Cttas. T, Patsrson. Secretary.