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'«*Ideat. !ce.p re| a Trea*. Jce-frct A ^eiit ident. s *Proi. n truth sreat, •thljj t! TV ileptructi'in i irscritxd a: TS or i 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.,' - - - papei 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 Ona «quare on» month —...4 l *0 S C» U 00 II 00 10 00 00 00 St 00 00 00 jo oo JJ 00 oo eo 104 00 Ona aqaara Urea months...... 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.