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Vienna telcurmns repeat the rumor 8
fanal'iaiice between Germany, Aus-
naai.l Ki tihiiai.
Wu-I.inr 1, " f’HV howl, exclaims a Chi-
. ao0 paiagrajjl er. lint, like Sheridan at
OrirtiriJ. Douglas is It"! a Fred.
riie ]iu..|nn Chbe has the following
r .jo'i i,f a vid'-rv: “The Russians
vo taken Themet Ive.-nff, and heat a Re-
putnviteh."
Central Crarit v, II t ecupy General
jam liadeau’s house while he is in
in( j,,n hut insists' upon paying liis
nwn expenses.
’anon Browulmv left a homestead
jd, ah ’it 54,000, a life insurance policy,
,| an interest in the Whig and Ghroni-
ne«.'pa|wr, which is prosperous.
Postmaster General Key, having ap-
[nted Daniel Gross postmaster at Na-
ierville, Ill., those other fellows who
lilted the place, now style this appoiut-
nient as being altogether a Gross one.
ml ili,- appointee himself rnn’t deny it.
])r. N. 11. Hull is announced in this
candidate for the Constitu
tional Convention. He is one of the
most reliable, sulutantial and best citi-
« „f die county. He is retiring and
lot, but a thoroughgoing gentleman,
1 does well whatever he undertakes.
This, the 42nd Senatorial District, is
entitled to eeven delegates in the State
Constitutional Convention who are to be
elected on a general ticket, and not by
counties. Each voter can vote for seven
candidates. The understanding is that
Barlow county shall be entitled to three
delegates, Floyd three and Chattooga
one; but each voter can vote for any
seven candidates, or leas number, he may
select, no matter what county iu the Dis
trict they may live in.,' - - -
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Apropos i f the political complications
in Europe, it may he of interest to know
the cost of the maintenance of soldiers in
each of the great countries on the other
side of the ocean. It is said that England
spends for each of her soldiers 8500 per
annum: Russia, S2I0; France, 8234 40;
Belgium, S20D 40; Germany, 8195; Tur
key, $1*4 40; Italy, 8183 4G; Denmark,
$17li : Spain, 8155, and Austria, $144.
B Red field, of Cincinnati Com. says:
“The^iuth is as solid as a granite
mountain, and if there was a general
election to-day, every Southern State
would go with tfie Northern Democarcy
if the route took them to the devil as
well. - ’
But, as the Northern Democracy al
ways goes a contrary route to that trav
eled by the Radical party; it follows,
a airrmtatr, they can never move to
ward the devil.
A comparative estimate of the num
ber of troops which Turkey has now in
the field, with the number which she had
in 1$53, shows that she is much better
prepared to withstand an atack than she
was when she last had a conflict with the
Russians. The force at her disposal
along the Danubian frontier is placed at
,0»0 ; | n Asia Minor, SO,000, and in
other parts of the Empire, making a
total of 305,000, without including the
levies which she may call upon. In
1853 she had barely half this number
available.
An old gentleman, coming into this
office the other day after his paper, quiet
ly observed that “the Weekly Courier
is the best paper in the South.”
The excellent judgment and good taste
of this gentleman is supported by the fact
that new subscribers, unsolicited, are en
tered upon our books almost daily.
In this connection, we would request
our subscribers that, after having read
their paper, they loan them to some one
sho doesn’t take a paper, and thus giTe
it a chance to speak for itself. Give it a
thane,■, and the old Courier ui/l talk
for itself.
A I, \ 11 \ »IA IRON’.
The Birmingham Iron Age says that
the Eureka Iron Company, of Oxmoor,
have sold the entire product of their fur
nace, for the next two months, to the
ambria Iron Works, of Johnston,
IVnnsylvania. This leeks like carrying
■'ooI- to Newcastle, but it is neverthe
less a fart, and one that speaks vol
umes for Alabama and Birmingham.
Here at our ilcors i- a furnace, running
lull time, making pig iron from the
native ores and ci ah, which lie in bound-
ess profusion all around our city, and
’hipping it to Pennsylvania, there to be
manufactured.
THE W AH.
I.a'est Interesting News.
Russian reports say that 800 Turks
"ere buried at Ardahan.
The Danube being very high, opera
tions on that river are not being hurried.
Roumania has proclaimed her inde
pendence of, and declared war against
Turkev.
h is estimated that that the Turks
have two hundred thousand troops be
tween the Balkan Mountains and the
Danube. Opposed to this army are two
hundred and fifty thousand Russians.
Keg’andjlias notified Turkey and Rus-
Sla that the will oppose everything
which might hamper the passage of mer
chant ships or men of war of the neu
tral powers through the Suez canal.
She has at the tame time informed the
other powers of her notification.
There hau been a hard-fought battle at
Ardahan, a short distance north of the
esieged city of Kars, iu the extreme
"urtheast of Turkey in Asia. The Rus-
•aiis were at first repulsed, but at last
succeeded iu capturing the town. Ac
cording to official report the Russians
°*t one officer and fifty soldiers killed,
“nil forty officers and one hundred and
eighty soldiers wounded. Eighty-two
8 u as and immense stores and a Turkish
fell into the bands of the captors-
A STRASGF. BANK
W litre Turkey Gets Her W ar Money.
It will be seen from the following
that, owing to a peculiar religious cus
tom among the Turks, they are well
“heeled” for the war:
The Paris Patric gives some particu
lars about the “treasures of Islam.” It
says that all the pilgrims who visit
Mecca cast an offering into the three
sepulchres for the defence of Islam.
The writer calculates that not less 83.-
000,000 a year are thus contributed,and
adds that trom one of the sepulchres,
which was opened in 1828, immense
sums were drawn. Another sepulchre
was opened during the Crimean war,
and now the Phoik-ul-Islam has gone
to Mecca to draw funds from the third,
which has not heen opened since 1415.
Taking the three sepulchres together, it
is computed that they must contain
about 8120,000,000. '
AN II.F, WIND FOR HAVEN THAT
RLllWETH GOOD FOR TIfiDEN.
The “eight to seven strategy” may
yet prove to be but an ignis fatuus poli
cy leading the Republican party into
some dismal swamp of disappointment.
It hardly seems possible that Fraud,
wearing the mask of honesty and
clothed in purple robes,can daily stride
about in high places before an indig
nant people for four long years in per
fect security. We should not be at all
surprised to see, at any moment, that
mask tom away, the insignia of power
stripped from off that same erstwhile
puffed up Fraud,as it crawls and creeps
and slinks away to hide itself from the
contemptuous gaze of a scornful and
disgusted nation.
J. Madison Wells, Anderson & Co.,
and all their abettors and accomplices
in different parts of the country—not
having succeeded in thoroughly cover
ing v up their dirty tracks—;may yet
learn that Scott jotted down as much
truth as poetry when he wrote:
“Oh, what a tangled w*b we weave,
When firit we practice to deceive.”
We have been lead to indulge in the
preceding reflections by the following
which the New Orleans correspondent
of the St. Louis Republican telegraphs
to his paper:
In “its examination of original Re
turning Board documents to-day, those
canvassed by 'Well-iCo., the State
Board of canvassers discovered that in
one parish: large additions in pencil
had been made to the consolidated
Supervisors’ returns by the Returning
Board. This was discovered, from a
duplicate statement just furnished by
the Supervisor of the parish; and if the
additions of Republican and subtrac
tions of Democratic votes on the
other parish returns pan out as well,
the actual returns canvassed by the
Returning Board, neariy all of which
are now in our possession, will show
that Tilden received a majority of
8,000 votes in the State. An effort
was made to destroy these r> turns,
but they have all Umied up but those
from one parish, and Mr. Tilden can
easily establish liis claim should he
desire them as proof before the United
States Supreme Court,”
DEV LISFII FOR coon REASONS.
Tlie following application, made in
writing, was yesterday received by us
from the White House:
Execttive Mansion, )
Washington, D.C., May 17,1S77. j
Dear Sir—This Department is fa
vored regularly with copies of the most
influential newspapers of the country,
and if you should desire to add yours
to the number, we shall take great
pleasure iu placing it upou the files of
the Executive Office.
Very truly, yours,
W. K. Rogers, ,
Private Secretary.
7o Proprietor, of Daily Sun Row York.
We decline to furnish the Sun gratui
tously to Mr. Hayes for a number of
reasons, as for instance:
I. This paper iB made to be sold, not
giyen away to deadheads. No element
that enters into its production is furn
ished to us grauitouBly. The paper,
the ink, the telegrams, the leading ar
ticles, the reports, and tho printing, all
have to be naid lor. A copy ofthe Sun
every day costs us cash; and for this
reason Mr. Hayes ought not us ask to
give It tohimfor'nothir’.g.'
II. With all its varied and surprising
excellence, which the application effect
ively prociatnes, the Sun is sold at so
cheap a rate— two cents a copy on
week days and three cents on Sunday
—that eyery man pursuing an honest
industry with success must be able to
payifor k, and - should bo above beg
ging for it.
III. Mr. Hayes is in the receipt of a
handsome salary. Under the existing
appropriation made by congres he is
netting 850,000 a year; and if it should
be cut down, he will still get 120,000
or 825,000 a year. This, certainly,
should enable him-to pay for newspa
pers, and not ask newspaper publishers
to make him a present of a few cents
daily each. . , ‘ 7 r
IV. In addition to his pay,- Mr. Hayes
is now getting other things which raise
him above want. He has house rent
for nothing, his coal for nothing, a
green-house supported by the Treasury
gives him flowers for nothing, a kitchen
garden, whose expense is likewise
borne by the nation, supplies him with
fresh vegetables and fruits for nothing;
while a number or servants, whose
wages he is not called upon to pay, wait
upon him and administer to his com
fori. This certainly ought to put him
above any need of writing begging let
ters around the country to get small
additions to these great national grab
uities.
We are ashamed of Mr. Hayes, and
if such an application had come from
President who was elected by the peo
ple. we should be disgusted. But we
will not be too hard upon the present
occupant of the White House. We
remember the means and the methods
by which he got there, and we refuse,
without anger, his present eleemosyna
ry application. As long as we have
Fraudulent President we must expect
from him things that no elected Preai
dent would ever think of.—Neio York
Sun.
Georgiacs.
The vote on the bond amendment
was; For ratification, 20,210; againts
it, 310.
Father Joseph Williams, of Carters-
ville, will soon be ninety-seven years
,old. He is still hale and hearty.
Mr. Hardaway, of Thomas county,
made last year one hundred and seven
teen bushels of corn on one acre.
The Dixie Oil Company propose to
establish a branch cotton seed oil manu
factory at Macon to cost 880,000.
Coweta ccouiity tin go head on rats.
The Herald says a man tetified in court
last week that one jumped from his gin
house into his buggy and broke the
springs.
Brother Skinner, of Hancock county.
Baptist divine of color, has been
compelled to suspend his pulpit per
formance for five months on account of
a little mistake in the ownership of five
chickens.
Douglasville Medium: MisB Susan
Holland has sent to our office a young
chicken with five wings and four legs.
In all other respects the fowl is perfect
We haxe this chicken preserved in al
cohol, and all who desire to see it can
do so by calling at our sanctum.
Palmetto bar rooms were opened Fri
day for the first time in two years.
On the same day a bar keeper, Morse,
was cut badly, probably fatally, by
drunken men to whom he had refused
credit, and a drunken old man had his
skull crushed by a rock thrown in the
melee. The Good Templars had a cel
ebration there the same day.
The fcllowipg is an extract from a
private letter of Hon. A. H. Stephens:
“I am decidedly in favor of proposed
State Convention. I have, it is true,
Heretofore looked npon a call for such
a convention as premature. But the
time has now come, I trust, for its call,
and I hope the ablest men of the State
will be sent lo it, irrespective of past
party distinctions. Let wisdom, justice
and moderation prevail in its councils,
and the result of its action will be ben
eficial to all classes of our people.”
Fences and the Fence Law-
Southern Planter and Farmer.]
The fences of the United States have
cost more thap all other improvements
besides—i. e., on tho farm. They have
cost far more than the farms themselves,
and their repairs, from year to year, is far
ihe heaviest burden the farmers of the
country have to bear.
******
We know a single sow which has cost
the making and laying up of not less
than ten thousand rails within the last
two years, and the annoyance and dread
of frequent visits, even after these prep
arations for keeping her out. Yet this
same ill-favored animal has never seen
the day she was worth five dollars. Her
owner, a strong, heidthy ard active son
of Ham, informed us t. at be had spent
fifteen days in less than a year looking
for her, and that too when he could easily
have made one dollar n day at work.
Had the law cdiipelhd b-ni to keep her
confined, not less ihan one hundred dol-
lais would bare been saved to the com
munity. This is a strung case, but not
by any means an unusual one. We are
conscious of the fact that many would
think it a great burden to be compelled
to keep all their stock within their own
enclosure, but we believe that in every
case—as it certainly is in our own—ex
perience would prove it the best policy.
What Evarts Did Say.
A Northern joumal tells us that Evarts.
overcome by suiprise when the Russian
Minister announced to him officially a
day or two ago that Russia had made
war on Turkey, remarked: “Good hea
vens, Shiskin, you’re jokin’, Eurely!”
What Mr. Evarts really did say was;
Excellent celestial firmament, everlas-
ing dwelling of the just, hung by the
Supreme Power, tho Infinite author of
the universe, beyond the ethereal blue,
which environs with its azure mantle
this mundane sphere, upon which we
inhabit, ShiskiD, that broad sweep of the
past, present and future, which my great
office enjoins upon me, imbues my in
tellectual faculties with a belief that
yon have heen commissioned by his Im
perial Highness, Czar of all the Russias.
to deal with me, and through me with my
august master, whom I created, in jocular
ambiguities.”
Shiskin said he thought it was, and
internally concluded that diplomacy in
this country would be a pretty rough job.
—Nashville American.
An Interview With the Lady in the t ase—
Her Statement Suitaiurd By ll dical
Testimony. -.
Russia’s Loau.
N. Y. Evening Post.]
The public debt of Russian is abou
81,750,000,000, a sum very much less
than the public debt of England, Fran
ce or .the United States. Yet, under
the most severe conditions in regard to
security, she is UDable to negotiate a
loan with the European bankers at a
less rate of interest than eleven and
and three-sevenths per centum. It is
not strange that such a circumstance as
this draws attention to the morbid fin
ancial condition to which the biggest
empire of the old world is reduced. If
this is the condition of Russia, what is
to be said of the financial prospects of
Turkey, which with a debt of $950,-
000,000,' is. able to obtain no loan at
all? And if this is the present situa
tion of both these empires at the open
ing of an expensive war, what will it
be when the war ends?
Jackson Sun.]
The statement in the fun some weeks
ago with regard to'the expulsion of a
veritable snake from the stomach of
Mrs. Dr. Alexander Jackson, of this
city, were received bv the public with
misgivings md di-uote. Our publica
tion was based on facts furnished by
Dr. Jackson himself, but the astonish
ing character of the story necessarily
aroused suspicion of a “sell” and a joke.
The view was strengthened by our re
porter’s failure to give names, a course
which he pursued out of deference to
the excellent lady, who yery naturally
shrank from the publicity which so ex
traordinary a circumstance would in
evitably cause. But after the publica
tion, and the evident suspicions of the
public, which was manifest, she con
sented to an interview and to having
all the facts published. She did this
in the interest of science and humanity,
believing, very properly, that a full and
fair history would be valuable to medi
cal science and to humarity.
We called at her residence and our
interview was had in the presence of
her husband, Dr. Jackson. We found
her still feeble, but bright and hopeful,
and utterly free from all the symtoma
which for months previous had made
her life a hell. Her statement of the
facts are about as follows :
Some two years ago she was attacked
with malarial fever. From that lime
her system seemed to give way. But
even before this attack she experienced
symptoms of derangement of the stom
ach. After the fever she grow worse,
suffered from swimming iu the head,
throbbing in the stomach, trembling
nausea and oppressiveness. For six or
eightmonths before the happy riddance
she experienced sensations in her stom
ach like the coiling and uncoiling of a
serpent, her stomach seemed to inflate
like a balloon, followed by intense nau
sea.
These sensations of inflation were
felt even when no food had been taken
for ten or twelye hours. After a long
fast she could feel the loathsome snake
moving up to her throat, and its worm-
ings back and forth. When she took
food after a fast the worst symptoms
were experienced. There were then in
her stomach violent lashing, throbbing,
clawing and a tumult of excruciating
agony. She says that the most fevered
imagination could hardly picture her
intense sufferings, and that Pollock’s
description of hell conveys but a faint
idea of her misery. In her stomach
seemed to he a “fire that is never
S uenched, a worm that never dies.”
>n these occasions she felt as if death
was at hand, she sank and became al
most nnconscious,and all the symptoms
of the last sleep were experienced.
When the serpent was lashing him
self and most furious, the victim’s
heart bounded and fluttered madly
and her pulse beat furiously. At such
times she felt as if dying, and among
her keenest pangs was that she would’
die of a thing which nobody would be-
lieye was in her stomach. All her
physicians ridiculed the idea that there
was a serpent in her stomach, and she,
the sufferer, was alone in the knowl
edge of the loathsome cause of her
peril. But such was her faith in the
dea of a serpent, that when she be
lieved death at hand she commanded
that when dead, n po:t mortem exami
nation shonld be made in behalf of
the science that had laughed at her,
and the world that would not believe
her story. When the serpent was kill
ed, and what killed it she does not
know, the pain she had so long expe
rienced had traveled with it down .‘into
the colon on the left side, where the
snake lay three days before it was dis
charged.
During the dead snake’s residence In
the colon Mrs. Jackson suffered intense
pain, so much so that morphine was
taken to prodree rest and sleep. When
the vile serpent was discharged it
measured 10 inches in length, 1 i..ch in
diameter, bad a long slim l.aci with
mouth fr.-in one side of the neck to
the other, and eyes largo and fully
developed. As to when and how it
was taken into the stomach the only
plausable theory is, that it was drank
in witli a cup of water some two years
ago, when very small, and that it grew
in the stomach and with ist growth
increased the suffering of its victim.
After its expulsion, the patient ceas
ed to feel any of Ibe symptoms de
scribed above, and is to-day, we are
hanpy to say, rapidly convalescing.
Dr. R. R. Dashiell, of this city, saw
the serpent and will testify to its char
acter. Dr. Alexander Jackson invites
inquiry from medical men, and will
verify our statements.
l Serpent .of Ulster) Makes His Ap
peal ance off the scutch Coast.
Standing Up for Richmond.
A dozen or more idlers around tbe
Central Market were yesterday taking a
deep interest in a war map published in a
New York daily paper, when Brother
Gardner, the old colored man, pushed his
way into the throng and closely studied
the map for a minute or two.
“Whar ’bouts on dis map is ole Vir-
ginny ?” he suddenly called out.
“It isn’t on there at all,” answered one
of the crowd.
“Whar ’bouts on dis map is Rich
mond ?” continued Gardner, running his
finger over the paper in a wild way.
“How do you expect to find Richmond
on this map «f Europe?” asked a by
stander.
“How do I ’spect? Why, sab, what
has do map of Europe to do wid Rich
mond ? Wasn’t dar more fightin’ around
Richmond dan you could scare up in
Europe in ten years ? Have dey gone
an’ ignored dat fact? Have dey got out
a map an’ left dat town out in de cold ?
Somebody find de town for me, an’ I’ll
show you de exact spot whar I was bit
in de chin by a cannon ball and wounded
all to pieces.”
“Go away—this is a war map of Tur
key and Russia.”
“Widoutany Richmond on it?”
‘‘No, air; Richmond isn’t here.” _
“Den I’m gwine right away—gwine to
get ont’n dis crowd in a hurry. After all
us folks fonght an’ bled an’ died down
dar, an’ left our bones to bleach in de
son, it’s a perfeck insult, sab, to come
aronn’ heah wid a new wah map showin’
de Black Sea as big as a meetin’ house,
an’ leavin’ Richmond dar off de fair
grounds entirely 1 Come away from dat
firand, yon cull’d folks!”—Detroit Free
Frees.
Fi hs ibe Glasgow New,.]
A most extraordinary event has occur
red at Oban, whieh I give in detail, hav
ing been eye witness to the whole affair.
I allude to tbe stranding and capture of
the veritable sea serpent in front of the
Caledonian Hotel, George street, Oban.
A 7 out four o’clock yesterday an ani
mal .or bsh, evidently of gigautic size,
was seen sporting iu the bay near Heather
Isl-8;!..
Id appearance evidently perplexed a
large number of spectators assembled on
the pier, and several tclescopee were di
rcctcd towards it.
A-careful.look satisfied us that it was
of the serpent species, it carrying its head
fully twenty-five feet above the water.
A number of boats were soon launched
and proceeded to the bay, the crews
armed with such weapons sis could be got
hancy. Under the direction of Malcolm
Nicholson, our boatman, they beaded for
the monster, and some of the boats were
within thirty yards of it when it suddenly
sprang half length out of the water and
made for the open. A random fire from -1
sevefal volunteers with rifles seemed to
have no effect upon it
Under Mr. Nicholson’s orders the
boats now ranged across the entrance of
the i»ay, and by the screams and shouts
turned the monster’s course, and it head
ed directly for tiie breast wall of the Great
Western Hotel.
One boat, containing Mr. Donald Camp
bell, the Fiscal, had a most narrow escape,
tbe animal actually rubbing agaiust it.
fur.'Campbell and bis broiht r jumped
overboard, and were picked up unhurt
by Mr. Johu D. Hardie, saddler, iu his
small yacht, the Flying Scud.
The animal seemed thoroughly fright
ened, aud as the boats closed in the vol
unteers were unable to fire more, owing
to the crowds assembled on the shore.
At a little past six the monster took
the ground on tbe beech in front of tbe
Caledonian Hotel, in George street, and
his proportions were now fully visible,
In his frantic exertions, with his tail
sweeping the beach, no one dared ap
proach. The stones were flying in all
directions, one seriously injuring a man
call-.d Baldy Barrow, and another break
ing a window of the Commercial Bank.
A party of volunteers under Lieuten
ant David Menzie now assembled and
fired volley after volley into the neck,
according to the directions of Dr. Camp
bell-;-who did not wish, for scientific rea
sons, that tbe configuration of tbe bead
should be damaged.
As there was a bright moon, this con
tinued till nearly ten o’clock, when Mr.
Stephens, of tbe Commercial Bank, waded
in ejbd fixed a strong rope to the animal’s
head, and by the exertions of some seventy
eL-qns^it was securely draggeo above
bigb water'mark. Its exact appearance
as it lies on tbe beach is as follows :
The extreme length is 101 feet and the
thickest part is about 25 feet from the
head, which is 11 feet in circumference.
At this part is fixed a pair of fins, which
are 4 feet long by nearly 7 feet across
tbe sides. Further back is a long dorsal
fin, extending for at least 12 or 13 feet,
and 5 feet in front, tapering to 1 foot.
The tail is more of a flattened termina
tion to the body proper than anything
else. The eyes are very small in propor
tion and elongated, and gills of the length
of 21 feet behind. There are no external
ears, and as Dr. Campbell did not wish
the animal bandied until he communi
cated with some eminent scientific gentle
men, we could not ascertain if there were
teeth or not. Great excitement is crea
ted, and the country people are.flecknig
in to view it.
This morning Mr. Duncan Clerk, wri
ter, took possession of the monster, in tbe
rights of Mr. M’Fee, of Appin, and Mr.
James Nichol, writer, in the name of the
Crown.
The New York Dog Show.
Morgan’s Raid.
Ibe Midnight Rider ofthe Confederate}
Troopers Around Cincinnati.
Philadelphia Timer.]
So long as I live I shall never forget
that night march around Cincinnati.
We bad now been almost constantly
in motion for eleven days and nights,
and gone nearly four miles. It bad
been a period of almost total depriva
tion of rest and sleep, for when not
marching we had been fighting, or bard
at work. The column was encum
bered with tbe men wounded in Indi
ana; and those still in tbe saddle, re
duced in number to less than two thou
sand- were worn with tbe enormous
fatigue, consequent ’upon such exer
tions, of which no one, who has not
had a similar experience, can form the
slightest conception. The Second brig
ade had comparatively little trouble,
for it was in front and General Mor
gan rode at its head with the guides.
But the First brigade was embarrassed
beyond measure. If the regiment in
the rear of the advance brigade had
been kept “closed up” and held com
pactly together the entire column
would have been directed by the
guides- But although composed of the
very best fighting material, this regi
ment had always been under lax dis
cipline, and the effect was now obser
vable. Its rear companies would strag
gle, and delay all behind them. When
forced to proceed, they would move at
a gallop. A great gap would thus be
opened between the two brigades, and
we, who were in the rear, were obliged
to grope our way without assistance,
At the frequent junctions ot roads,
which occur in the suburbs of so large
a city, we were compelled to consult
all sorts of indications to ascertain
the right path. The night was intense
ly dark, and it was necessary to light
torches at all such points. The horses’
tracks, on paved and dusty streets so
constantly traveled, afforded no clue to
the route our comrades had taken, but
we could trace it by noticing the man
ner in which thedust “settled” or float
ed. On a calm night the dust occa
sioned by the passage of a large body
of cavalry will remain in tbe air for
minutes aud moves slowly in the di
rection followed by those who have
disturbed it. We were also aided by
remarking the slaver which had drop
ped from the mouths of the horses.
At every halt men would fall asleep
and even drop from their saddles, and
the officers were compelled to exercise
constant vigilance to keep them in
ranks. Daylight returned just as we
reached the Little Miami railroad, the
last p«ir.t at which we anticipated
immediate darger, and after the trials
of the night its appearance was grate
fully huihd. Our progress was con
tinued, however, save an hour’s halt in
sightof Camp Dennison to feed the
horses, until we reached Williams
burg, where we rested, after ja march
of ninety-seven miles, and for tbe first
.time during the raid slept the sleep of
tbe righteous we know no fear.
A Distinguished North Carolini
an in the Wrong Room.
Among other ludicrous mistakes that
have happened to Congressmen in
Washington the correpondent of the
Boston Journal relates the following:
“The little suites of rooms at the Na
tional Hotel open upon little balls, uni
form in appearance, connected by long
corridors, and are all furnished alike.
One night Senator Mangum, of North
Carolina, then President pro tcm. of the
Senate, a dignified gentleman of the old
school, had just returned from a party,
when Governor Upham, a Senator from
Vermont, came in without any cere
mony and took a seat. The two chatt
ed away on politics, the weather, the
Bocial amusements, etc., until the clock
on the mantleshelf struck one. “Really
Gov. Upbam,” said Mangum. “I am al
ways pleased to see you, bul’I really be
lieve it is getting very late.” “I ha7e
thought so for some time,” replied
Upham, but he made no movement.
idintly the half hour sounded, and
Mangum remarked: “I thought Gov. j ’
Dark Days in California-
Hen Impoverished— rhousauds of
People Suffering lor the Very Necessities
of Lift.
Ssn Francisco correspondent of the New York
Graphic.]
I find things in a frightful condition
here. East of the Rocky mountains,
yon have no idea of the terrible depres
sion on this’ coast We are suffering
from a complication of disorders. The
great mining Hobble has bursted, and
has rninsd every one. I mean this
literally, for not only have the rich or
the middle class suffered, but the mania
for speculation has spread to the very
servants, and they are all to-day out of
pocket and in debt Men who but
three or four months >ince supposed
they were rich, are to-day begging for
employment; and probably three per
sons out of every four are now making
their first acquaintance with extreme
poverty. The whole community seems
to be^beggared, and to add to our|afflic-
tion we have just passed through a
great drought; our cattle are dying by
tiie hundreds of thousands. Their car
casses cannot be sold for any sum, how
ever small; and the rain of cattle deal
ers wilRinevitably bring a great deal of
the land now held in masses into the
market to be sold for a Bong.
People East, who have money, could
not do better than oome ont here in
order to take advantage of the reckless
way in which all kinds of property are
sold. Valuable farms and ranches can
now be had for one-twentieth of their
value, and city property is for sale at
prices which would have seemed ridic
ulous a few years back. The depression
is eo great that it cannot last one mnch
longer in this way. But the suffering
is intolerable, and bad as times have
been in the East, they are naught com
pared with the disaster which has over
taken the residents of the Pacific coast
Thousands ore going to Arizona, where
there is said to De goid for the digging;
and the agricultural population will be
increased, although at present agricul
ture is the most depressed industry
we have* Word has been sent to John
McCullough, in New York, that there
is no use in his returning to the Pacific
coast, and that his theatre will have to
be closed. This is the second year of
drought since the settlement of Cali
fornia.
Southern California is described as
an “ash heap” while the Sonora, Sacra-
menty and Sonora Valleys are burnt
to.'a crisp. On one ranch alone 25,000
Bheep were killed 'because they could
not be fed.
CONTRACT RATES OF AJi'cniiSIfiCI
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Ono DJUiq Six meutTn Mm
Ona square twelve months
>*e-fourih column ona month.........
On*-Ionrth column three months...,
One-fourth column fix monthly
One-fourth column twelve months...,
one-naif column ona month ....
One-half column three months
One-half column aix month*-
One-hall column twelve month*..!.’.]
One rclumn one month....... S6
On** column three month*..... 60 qq
One column aix month* jgj
ae column twelre month* 160 00
A** The -oregoinff rates are for cither Weekly
Tri” Weekly. When published in both papers,
5* per cent, additional npon table ratec.
The dog show, which w-is opened in
Gilmore’s Garden. New York, on Tues
day, is :»t» interesting affair. A large
number <1 hi.d V-vd ranine pet are ex
hibited. ai.d *i iiiimb.jr lmvo been im
ported from abroad for exhibition. | Uph:Tm, t hat you had decide d
1-1, Sir?’’ “So I bad, Mr. 1TwoTb“effi7pre^ t to
ariSWL-rcd the Vermonter, yet be did
Five mastiffs ar. valued at $5,1)00. They
are roagnifiLeut animals, tawu colored,
blackmuzzli-d and avers;’*’ iu weight
one hundred end twenty pounds. No
such a lot of these ar.imajs has ever
been seen ir America. A groat variety
of pet doe's will be shown. One Skye,
valued, at a fabulous price, is to be plac
ed in a glass case. The exhibition is not
gotten up by dog fighters, rat killers, or
fanciers, and more interest is taken in
it by Ffth Avenue than by Baxter street.
A person ignorant of dogs or their uses
will interest himself in the deerhounds
brtd from Her Majesty Victoria’s ken
nel, which are worth 850,000 each. So
with tbe highpriced mastiffs; one is
worth 82,500; so with Royer, tbe typical
Irish setter, the properity of the Rev. J.
Gumming Macdona, who fixed his price
at 850,000 in order to avoid a a purchase,
as his stock is rare. Sucb a dog as Ro
ver has a pedigree as long as lhat of a
Vere de Vere, and in him every excel
lence and trait of breed is centred.
Sleaford and Sensation, pointers; Pride
ol the Border, Lou, Leicester, Plnnket,
setters, among others, are similar types
and are equally valuable. Bog breed
ing is just getting out of its infancy in
this country, and it is not often, except
in tbe case of imported dogs, that more
that 81,000 are paid for an animal for
either sporting or breeding purposes,
but in England a fair price for a sport
ing dog is 8500 and the piice often runs
up to 81,200 even for dogs for sporting
purposes alone, as it costs from $100 to
8200to “break” a dog to snit a.first-
class English sportsman, while instances
are not rare in which as bigb as $5,000
have been paid for a dog, and in tbe
case of the greyhound Master McGrath,
a Waterloo cup winner, Lord Lurgan
refesed 812,000 for him.
The New Catechism.—A letter was
recently received at the White House
from some evidently disappointed and
misanthropic individual, enclosing
qnite a series of questions, which were
suggested as proper to be propounded
to applicants seeking appointments un
der the new civil service regulations.
Two of these questions, with answers
appended, were:
Q. Where is the.United States?
A. In Ohiou
Q. Who is the father of his country?
A. J. Madison Well^
Why is a lovely yotrng lady like a
hinge? Because she is something to
a-dore.
The Eastern War.
New York, May 18.—A epecialto the
Sun from London says:
The absorbing interest in Russian
opperations is for the moment transfer
red to the diplomatic world. Embol
dened by his triumph in Parliament and
certain of support from the nation,
Disraeli is believed to be preparing to
precipitate England, joined by Austria
: n to a conflict with Russia. Diplomatic
circles confess that England’s participa
tion is a foregone concluaiou. Extra
ordinary preparations in the armament
of both the land and naval forces are
reported in all parts of the kingdom.
All home transports from distant colo
nies are nnder orders for troops. Great
fleets of transport ships are preparing
for services at all the naval rendezvous.
prodigious accumulation of naval
and military stores are en route to Me
diterranean stations. An order has
heen sent to India to mobilize the Mus-
selman contingents. Under these signs
the markets have become unsettled,
and corn, anticipating cavalry demands
has reached extreme prices. War meas
ures are welcomed with enthusiasm
amoDg the great body of merchants
whose business is crippled by the block
ade of the Black Sea and the cessation
of traffic with that region in English
houses. Even among the lower ranks
feeling of intense hostility against
Russia is marked. They charge upon
the Czar’s covetous ambition the h;»:d-
ships arising from the rise in the price
if ‘Trad, the stagnation in business
ami the miseries that accompany war
without its advantages. England’s in-
not budge. Mangum stared at him in
amazement, and at last plainly said:
“But why don’t you go to your room.
Gov. Upham? It will soon be 1
o’clock?” “My room, Mr. President!
why, this is my room, and I have been
waiting for two hours past.” Mangum
sprang to bis feet, looked into the sleep
ing-room adjacent, and found that he
was in Upham’s room instead of his
own. Mr. Webster used to enjoy jok
ing him about bis visit to Vermont.
Fen and Ink Sketch of Fred
Douglass.
Donn Piatt thus describes tbe Wash
ington Marshal: “Fred Douglass is a
handsome man, and no one knows it
bettar than the old saddle-tainted rep
robate himself. He stands six feet two
in his boots, is well formed, with nar
row flanks and broad shoulders, while
his head is actually noble. Its heavy
mass of snow-white hail suggest a lion’s
mane to one, while his features, African
in no respect, are regular, of the best
type, and rather gain than lose from
the bronze complexion. I am told
Fred recognizing all that nature and a
Maryland planter bad done&r him, or
dered a swallow-tail, kid gloves and
French boots, and was engaged in tak
ing lessons from a dancing master in
the art of presenting Mnggins, Juggins,
Huggins and Scruggins to the high priv
ilege of vibrating the right arm of the
Administration, when the cruel order
was promulgated assigning those social
duties to another man of pure Caucas
ian blood.” i.
Presentation to Miss Lee.
New Or la oai Picayune.]
One of those touching scenes which
forever remain recorded ih the hearts
of those who witness them, occurred
last night at the residence of Miss Mil
dred Lee, the danghter of the gallant
commander of the Southern army,
whose memory will ever be cherished
by our people. A committee, com
posed of Mr. J. B. Richardson, Gen.
Eugene Weggaman, Judge W. B.
Klein peter, Capt D. M. Kilpatrick,
Messrs. J. H. Murray and Albert M.
Levy, visited Miss Mildred I«e at her
residence and presented ber, on behalf
of the army of Northern Vuginia, a
magnificent pyramid of-flowers and a
gold badge.
Russian success of magnitude the occa
sion for intervention- That this will
be the end—the best informed men in
Parliament express aDd in public life
concur in declaring. Disraeli and offi
cials of the Gvoernmentjhaye been in
cessantly in Cabinet Council since the
defeat of the Gladstone peace resolu
tions. To make this defeat so signal
their management contributed greatly.
The war party press clan or for instant
protection of England’s interests. The
Russian ambassador has gone home to
warn tbe Czar of tbe impending danger.
Conners follow him in rapid succession
with reports of tbe situation
which are too compromising to be en
trusted to the post or to telegraph.
No Righhts For Confederates.
A Most Abominable law.
During the late civil war the Legisla-
ture of West Virginia passed a most re
markable law, authorizing any loyal
citixen who bad lost stock of any kind
to sue and obtain judgment against any
responsible citizen who was enlisted on
the rebel side, no matter whether be
bad any hand in taking tbe property
or not The result was that judgments
to the amount of forty or fifty thousand
dollars have been obtained against Mr.
John T. Pierce, of Hampshire county,
West Va., well known as the largest and
most successful stock-raiser ir. the coun
ty, and who served in tbe Confederate
army. On Friday last Mr. Pierce was
driving sixty-two head of choice stock
cattle over the Northwestern pike! en
rente from Chicago to Hampshire
connty, and at the point where the pike
runs into Garrett connty, Sheriff Dun
ham, with a posse, intercepted them
and levied an attachment on the cattle,
under the Maryland laws, sued ont by
Ebenezer Kitzmiller, of Garrett connty,
on one of the the above judgments.
Pierce gave a bond for the appraised
value of the cattle, and replevied them
until the matter can be decided in
court The case will be tried at the
March term, 1878.—Garrett County
Herald.
Chisholm, who was killed in Kemper
county, Mississippi, in a bloody affray,
which resulted in the subeequent death
ofhis daughter, was a Georgian and ex-
Confederate. He was a (desperate man
and turned over to Radicalism soon af
ter the war.
Horrors of the War.
Horrib’e M.micreof tbecbr.tlans ct,Taim
tukal.
The little Bulgarian towu <,f Tur-
lu tai, situated across the Danuta- fum
Oltenitza, possessed many ( Inirtisn
inhabitants, in number far fewer then
the Turks. On the night of the 1C,in
the Turkish citizens of the town j.,ii < il
with the troops in the foi tress, from
which the village takes it* name, and
began an onslaught upon the Christians.
The carnage began in all parts of tbe
town at once. The doors of those who.
attempted to defend their homes wi re
broken in, and the massacres and out
rages _ were perpetrated within, the
dwellings. In many instances, how
ever, the attacking parties encountered
the families seated together in front of
their houses. The method in such
cases generally was to either saber or
shoot the father and elder son, to break
the skull of the old woman, tand then
to seize and outrage the yonnger wo
men. In very many cases the outrages
were perpetrated by neighbors and
citizens of the town well known to the
poor miserable victims. Nobody was
spared who was captured. Scenes of
frightful atrocity occurred. The cries
of the fleeing women and children
were heard at the outposts of tiie
Roumanian troops encamped below
Oltenitza, and a small party nnder
cover ofthe darkness ventured across,
the river. They brought two Bulga
rian men back with them. One of the
fugitives was quite on old man. and
was for a long time unable to speak,
from grief and wild terror. When, or.
Thursday, he was composed sufficient
ly to talk with the Roumanian officers,
he described the killing of his wife
and eldest son in bis sight, aDd the
carrying off of his daughter. The only
pretext seems to have been the ineffec
tual bombardment of Oltenitza from
the old fortress of Turtukai and from
the new water batteries which have
been erected along tbe river bank. No
damage was done by Turkish batter
ies.
Plymonth’s Mimic.
The Comical Pastor Almost Dancing a Jig
Before His Congregation.
Mr. Beecher, last night, in instruct
ing his flock what their religion shonld
be in tbe summer, told an amnsing
story of his stepmother, whom he de
scribed as a lady, high in the courtesies
of life, calm, dignified, graceful and
queenly in carriage, and an extremely
pious person. She rarely smiled, bnt
when she did it was like the shining of
the morning star. She prayed almost
unceasingly, and the weight of others’
woes seemed to impress her deeply.
One day he was at home, fresh from
his studies in the Theological Seminary,
and his brother Charles was -playing
the violin. His stepmother, who in
her younger days had been a belle in
her neighborhood and full of gayety,
stepped suddenly into the room,
stopped and smiled, ob, so sweetly.
Then tacking her arms akimbo on her
hips, she began to dance. Mr. Beecher
in his graphic description tucked his
hands on his hips, and raised his feet,
while his congregation craned their
necks, expecting to see him slide into
a gentle waltz. He described his sur-
prise at seeing his pious mother do snch
a thing, and pnekered up his lips in an
indescribably funny way, throwing bis
andience into laughter. “If an agel
had dropped from heaven, and had be
gun to dance, I could not have been
more surprised,” he added. My mother
went through tbe measures of tiie dance
artistically, I presume, and then glided
ont, smiling and bowing. I wished
all of her children had been there to
see her. If she had danced more and
prayed less, I think it would have been
as good for us. The vacation moods of
a Christian person all work in some
where for the happiness of those about
him. 1 ’ I
How Two Darkies Stumbled on
a Fortune.
A Black Hills correspondent ot tiro
New York Sun gives a graphic ac-efunt
of this famed gold region, the yield of
which it is thought by competent per
sons will reach twenty-five millions
this year. This correspondent _ in
speaking of the Wheeler claim which
yielded 897,000 last season says:
The largest nugget found in this dis
trict weighed seven ounces. It was dis
covered by tbe purest nccilent- Two
penniless prospectors, colored men, who
had heen crowded out of Dead wood,
were working their way across the coun
try. Overtaken by a storm, they took
refuge beneath the roots of an over
turned tree, where, while gazing listless
ly around, one of them discovered the
nugget sticking to a lump of clay to a
root hanging over his head. A pros
pect hole was dug there and then, and a
pocket found that netted the negroes
820,000 for the season’s work. But the
Sun discourages immigration v i! e
Black Hills country of poor m iidphe*
people, and again quotes itf « ell-posted
correspondent, who repo sent* that
thousands of men and boys - re wander
ing up and down the guh b*-s, vainly
seeking work, and in imminint danger
of starvation.
An Amnsing Scone.
The Norfolk county (Massachusetts)
Gazette vouches for the truth of the' fol
lowing:
Two drummers, agents respectively
for rival blacking and mucilage, were
in Hyde Park on Thursday last, dram
ming ap trade. They encountered each
other in Mr. Miles’ grocerv store in the
Town Hall bnildiog, and while advo
cating the merits of their wares one
man hinted that the other’s article con
tained an acid injurious to leather.
The insinuation was indignantly repell
ed, and the agent offered a bet of $5 to
82 that it was not so, and to prove his
sincerity he would eat the contents of
one box and wash it down with a bottle
of mucilage. The bet was taken.
Calling for two pilot bisenit,’ he sand
wiched the blacking between them, and
without flinching he ate the whq 1 "^
as astimnlant drank the conti
bottle of mucilage. The
looked to see startling deq
bnt the man coolly took
dollara, and with a bland j
grocer’s order for several I
fng and walked hurriedly I
his astonished competita
on the lass of a customer |
laxs.