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Newspaper Page Text■I CONTRACT RATES OF jiJVJMTISlRG’ • 4 II One tqnsre one montlu—3 33 Ono iqaue three month*-**— —*••••—• .. 33 One eqnere six month* — —— ^ 33 One eqoftre tweWe month*....—— . 33 D«i*-fourth"oolnmn one month....—— .. One-lourth column three mwitn*— JJ JJ One-fcurth column lix month*—., One-fourth column twelve month*. JJ One-half column one month One-half column three month*.... One-half column* six months-.... One-half column twelve month*. One column cne month. One column three month*..... One column »ix month* **•••■ r *oo column IwelTO months. <vO~ The tore^oiug rate* are for dthor Vocklj er Tri-Weekly. When published In both peper*, SO por c*nh additionel npon Uble rate*. Convention .n - _ h 1U h. Wedncsday”!^^ 7 , , , h .. t the coat mining pro It is itate * ^ s (55^000 doa of AlabamaJor ^^ ^000 ^nd Us a rapid and c, ,,„.„|,ied by tlic Russians. t,.n- loiis i“ •ft,' Czar and Ids stafFcrossed the Dan- ,il,p on Sunday, and the Russian bead' oiiarters was removed from I’locisti to Alexandria. The bridge at Galatz lias been < point. ,i|)] f .|(and forty thousand Bus- ill defend the passage at that Torp* do balloons sre'proposed by : ndent of tlie Scinntific Amrri rail. The idea is to float the balloons over the enemy, and drop the torpedo |,y means of electricity' sent oxers \xiro. It i? calculated that a city could bo to tatlly destroyed in this way by dropp ing.! sufficient quantity of liitro-glyce rine. It co-t less than fifteen hundred dol lars to convey to the capital the votes that elected George Washington. Tliecxpcn- Jilurc for tin- same purpose ill the second election of Grant was eighteen hundred ■hilar*. We shall never know how much it Cost to get to Washington the stolen votes upon which Hayes was counted in. - /woofs (lily Times, Dm. A poet in the Columbus Times having written “The scenes of my past be fore me are stealing,” a policeman of Columbus is said to have gone to the author and told him that if lie d de scribe Scenes to him, he’d have him in tlie calaboose before dark—that such a baii-faced violation of law as stealing lijlit before a body shouldn’t be ailow- ,1 in that burg. Judge Hilton’s ri fusal to receive dclig- umn in his hotel because be was a Jew, i- hearing its fruit in the shape of sar castic advertisements that have appeared in the Gotham papers announcing that "certiflicates of baptism in the Stewart M. K. church, at Garden City, securing for the summer months admission to the (■rand Union Hotel, Saratoga, can be had for ?d. Liberal discounts allowed by the package of fifty or over. Call 011 or address II. II.” Why in the name of all that is com mon sensible don’t newspapers “on this side of the branch” xvritc English in speaking about the Russian-Turkev war? We see in one of our exchanges that the Mohammedans of India are rallying to the support of the Sultan ; and that in Madras 2,5GO rupees were collected in three days and remitted to Turkey. Now there are rupees and rupees: the gold rupee is equal to seven dollars ; the sil ver rupee, to fifty cents. The Nashville American has the fol lowing to say of Georgia’s dead poet, A. II. Watson, late local editor of the Mason 71 legruph and Messenger: “Of the brilliant galaxy, the light of whose genius shone through the South’s cloud of adversity during the civil Avar—Timrod, Lanier, Randal, Hequier, Ilaync, Hatcher, llarriek, Flash, Watson—none wrote the ‘songs of tlie people’ sweeter, more sympathet ic and tuneful verse than the last, not the least, of these favorites of the South ern home-circle and bivouac fire.” Hon. C. A. Nutting of Macon, non traveling in Colorado, in a letter to tlie TeleijraiJi ami Messenger thus speaks of the “Wagon Wheel Gap Hot Springs” in Colorado which are thus uniquely named from a supposed resemblance that the mountains, through which the road runs to the springs, bear to a wheel lying fiat—says Mr. Nutting: “’The spring is artificially walled,oval in form, tho basin being about 15 by G, rtu! 1 feet deep, tho water boiling like a cauldron at one end and passing out at the other in a current containing over twelve square inches. In putting our hand into tho spring, the heat was painful. Within ten feet of this pool : a cold sulphur spring, very strong of the substance supposed to he of greatest consumption in the Plutonic realms.” Have we a poet among us ? One who can think the thoughts of flowers and •ic-wy leaves and quickening sunlight and nodding ferns and grasses and fleecy summer clouds, after them all, and give ua no meager interpretation ? There was published in the Courier-Journal yester day a poem entitled “A June Carol/ 5 containing passages which answer the question. It was written by the driver ol a milk cart, whose thoughts are with the Dryads, the Hamadryads, the Fauns and Zephyrs, while he ministers to the lacteal needs of Louisvilliaus. Here is a frag ment: Tho June sun sift thro’ tho blossom'd trees As thejr faintly stir tho btithosomo breeze, And thoir full blown lo&voa shed an emerald hao That darkly gleams down tho woodland way*, ^’hile tho fragTant flowers and terns unfold * 7q the mossy billows their plumes of gold.” — Courier-Journal. The “trewly loyl” are martyrs to u* * , Tn their intense interest gssassg forgetfulness and a own improvement that a , i.- „ Their eyeB nave neen gether overlooked such_ we fin£ ♦Vie following which we find hidings as the following » the. Pbiladelohia Record. Georeiacs, Cave Spring hasfive doctors and not a single lawyer. Ono hundred and sixteen stores in Macon that sell groceries. Bartow county will aver^M bush els of wheat to tho ac.e best reports. - t Pierce in the 94th year of his at Macon. The LaGrange Reporter afar- ‘sS Krnxcnyihvntfotif* 1 lflflt WEek and murder in this State that come un der our menial view at this moment. To-morrow may show as many more. Some of the above crimes wore perpe trated in broad daylight, in utter con tempt and defiance of the law and its ministers. Robbers and murderers in this State seem to have concluded that they have nothing to fear from the law. No doubt they reason that if they should he arrested, tried and convicted, they would he set free by the Board of Par dons ; and with this hope in their minds they conclude to rob and kill at pleasure. In some of the counties vig ilance committees have been formed, and lynching is contemplated. And lynching will be necessary if proper authorities remain so lax and insuffi cient for the punishment and preven tion of crime. Tlie people will be com pelled to take the law into their own hands. It has become a question of- life and death, and self-preservation is the first law of nature. If tho courts and Board of Pardons will not protect the people, the people must protect themselves. And a few summary hangings by the outraged populace, in different parts of Pennsylvania, lawless though the proceedings would be, would have a wholesome effect A short hri ft and a long rope would be only just to such criminals as those who committed tho robberies, rape and murder above mentioned, and we could not blame the people if these scound rels should he strung up according to the code of Judge Lynch.” Now, wo ask the Republican organs, which—purely owing to their incapaci ty to sec themselves as others see them, inasmuch as their unselfish eyes are lovingly, and tenderly and anxiously watching over tlie South—which, we say, are constantly informing us that the “law is supreme” in Pennsylvania and all the Northern States, and that the erring, rebellious, lawless South should take those States as models by which to shape their course—we ask these organs xvhether their unselfish optics have ever fallen upon a single State in God-fosaken Dixie where such frequent and horrible crimes as those committed in Pennsylvania ever occur. We would remind the Northern patriots that life and property are not any more ecurc in their States than here in this benighted land”—and we would beg of them not to bo so utterly unselfish and such utter—excuse us—liars as to devote all their energies to plucking the beam out of their Southern brother’s eyes totally unmindful of the one that is is obstiring their sight—so far as regards ome matters—and causing a moral blindness that makes them prefer false hood to truth because it comes more natural. And now we will manifest a little unselfish love for Pennsylvania and ex press our regret that she has such a illainoua record. It is a disgraco to this government. It cannot bo remedied by hanging for that would depopulate the State; nor can it lie stopped by impris onment, for as the North is more thick- peopled than the South, then there would be a convict majoritj- in this country. We don’t know what to ad vise them to do. They have simply—in looking after the South—lost sight of themselves, lost sight of tho laws, lost sight of justice, lost sight of the right, and must continually grope through the darkness of this world until the light of the “fire that is never quenched’’ shall illuminate the way-they must travel in the world to come. The Savannah Neics says that “A telegram received in this city yesterday announced the death of Generyl Hugh W. Mercer formerly of Savannah at Baden Barden.Germany where he had resided the past years.” Echols county has been finallity heard from and shows a vote of 35 for convention and 3 against convention The returns are now complete and the, convention has been called by amajor- ity of 9,600 according to foun official figures. On ditthat there are forty appli cants for the United States Mamhal- ship of Georgia now waiting in Wasn- ingtan for that oppointmen), Lager and free suffer. A proposition to throw dice for the position if made was not accepted. The first white Indian peach scions ever imported to Georgia were brought to Oglethorpe county from Virginia by Mrs-JBrooks fifty-three yoars ago. Mrs B. made the journey on horseback and brought the twigs in her lap. They were planted at her home now known as the Littlc-Roane-Jones-Brawner place. The Chronicle and Constiuttioaalist makes an analysis of the vote on con vention from which it appears that 91 counties voted for and 4G against the measure. The largest vote cast was by Chatham county—2,3SG; the smallest by Echols—36 Chatham also gave the largest majority for tho Convention— 1,172: and. Decatur the largest 1,500 against it. Goble who was hung tho other day at Elija for the murder of Charles Brown stated that Brown made no resistance but begged for his life like a dog and that after belaboring him for a long time with his walking stick and being unable to kill him took an enor mous rock and turning him over on his face dropped it on the back of bio head literally crushing his skull in. An old Georgia farmers says. “The experince of the past is that'good crops invariably succeed a drough in May- The roots go deep in the ground in search of moisture whereas if a wet season prevails during the early growth of the plants their roots come near the surface and succeeding droughts find them without adequate resources upon which to draw ior plant food.” In the course of the President and cabinet’s recent trip to Boston, each ■ one of the'cabinet having in every speech at the various stations complimented each other, Carl Scliurz, at the Harvard Al umni dinner, made the following speech: “Air. President and gentleman,” said Mr. Schnrz, “there is no more comfortable and pleasant institution among' men than a good, well regulated admiration society. (Laughter.) Let me assure you that the members of the present cabinet always peak pleasantly of one another, and in this respect we are the healthiest and happiest family that ever existed.” * * 9 Parson Newman lectured at Wash ington last Sunday' evening, and during the discourse introduced a prophecy of Daniel in the words, “But tidings|ofcl of the east and out of the north still trouble him,” &c, . It was thaapurpose of the lecturer to show that Daniel had reference to the Turks, hut fiatore ' Je, could make tiie appliruition-an excited personage in tho rear of tfcej atfdidbce exclaimed, “By jingo, he means Hayes!” Seven Brownlows hold Federal of- ce in Tennessee, PHILADELPHIA, June 19^ Ge^fw’^Childs, of this city, will be ° f8ene "So,Junel9.1S77 stormy HiUon Woke Uj^the Wrong Man. SeUjwan's belter. In reply to yrnhlisted com; meats of Mr. Hilton upon thetotlrtc ter written by Mr. Seligman to him, the “expelled J ew” returns to tho »ttacktm thus gives Hilton a severe % Judge Henry Hilton Core A. T. Stew- Inrl & Co., New York: Dear JuDon-The of the 19th insthasa statement ®ade_J»yjrou After an veor, and contra- the 28th of May. Jwse and IMP Neith i, com ** a fiSf|lt a moment’s uneasiness dv*-'s lac di absolutely in the hands of er of us few a * •-.‘ v T~^”““ Al * ? Vessr8.01»ir & Wilkinson, and that a formal reception and had accepted '■*— ’ *- —-- for me a few invitation of courtesy; bnt what was my surprise to find nearly all At the Union had been Political Dots. BlindjTom is doing the country towns of Kentucky. General Grant and his son were “pre sented at Court” by Minister Pierre- ppnt at the levee held by the Prince of Wales on behalf of the Queen on the 7th instant. The number of presenta tions at the levee was about 400. The Baltimore Gazelle in speaking of the degree of D. C. L. (Doctor of Canon Law), recently conferred on Grant in England, says that Grant knows no more about law than he did when he was soaking hides in a tanyard. The young King of Spain is in love with his cousin Donna Mercodes. A foreign fashion paper says “she is a lovely woman, with soft, sunny eyes and just that ploasant inclintion to m- honpoint which isjso fascinating infeom- bination with grace and youth.” Conkling is going abroad to thank England for its reception of Grant It is very kind of him, and England would probably be offended if he did not go and convey his thanks in person. It is doubtless chiefly on his account that so much attention has been given the ex-rresident.—Boston Globe, Ind. Rep. At the salo of autographs in New York last Monday, the signature of John S. C. Abbott sold for ten cents, and that of John Quincy . Adams for fiftteen cents- Professor Agassiz’s handwriting sold for 8125; Oakes Ames name brought two cents; Benedict Ar nold’s (traitor) 81 25, N. B. Bank five cents. No ono would buy Ben Butler’3 signature. The National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Repablic convened at Providence, R. I. on the 26th inst. The following cable dispatch was direct ed to be sent to ex-President Grant; General U. S. Grunt, care of Her Maj esty, Queen Victoria, Buckingham Pal ace, London : Your comrades in an nual encampment, assembled at Provi dence, R. I. send heartfelt greetings to their old conrade and desire, through you, to England’s Queen, to thank Eng land for Grant’s reception. [Signed,] Jobs F. Hartkasft. Commander-in-Chiof G. A. R. Fred Douglass’ Visit to His For mer Master. Frederick, Douglass United States Marshal of the District of Columbia, many yeaiB ; agp a slave on the eastern shore of Maryland visited his old home and his old master at St. Michael’s Tal bot connty,on Sunday week, with a large party of colored excursionists. The Baltimore Run says: Towards his old master, Captain Auldj he exhibited a degree of affection which is the crown ing honor of his life. In a speech, too, which he was called to make to the col ored people with him he spoke words ly creditable to his head and heart. He evidently felt like one re turning home and receiving a master’s blessing after many wanderings. Both the master, now ripe for the tomb, and the former slaye, now covered with honors, wept when they parted.” the shipping in port at Liverpool deco rated with flags of all nations, and from the mainmast of each the flag of the Union was most conspicuous. The docks were lined with as many of the population as could find standing room, and the streets to hotel where it was un derstood my party would stop were packed. The demonstration, to all ap pearance, was as hearty and enthusias tic as in Philadelphia on our departure. The Mayor was present, with his state carriage, to convey us to the hotel, and after that, to his beautiful countiy resi dence, some six miles out, where we were entertained at dinner with a small party of gentlemen, and remained over night The following day a large party was given at the official residence of the Mayor in the city, at which there were some 150 of the distinguished citizens and officials of the corporation ; jresent Pressing invitations were sent : rom mast of the cities in the kingdom to have me visit them. I accepted for a day at Alanchester, and stopped a few moments at Leicester and at one other place. Tho same hearty welcome was shown at each place, as you have no doubt seen. The press of the coun try has been exceedingly kind and courteous. So far I haye not been per mitted to travel in a regular train, much less in a common car. The Mid land Road which penetrates a gTeat por tion of the island, including Wales and Scotland have extended to me the courtesy of their road and a Pullman car to take me wherever I wish to go during the whole of my stay in Eng land. We arrived in London Monday evening, the 30th of May, when I found our Minister had accepted engagements for me up to the 27th of June, leaving but a few spare days interval. On Staurday last we dined with the Duke of Wellington, and last night the formal reception at JudeA Pierrepont’o was held. It was a great success—most brilliant in the numbers, rank and atti re of the audience, and was graced by the presence of every American in the city who had called on the Minister, or left a card for me. I doubt whether London has ever seen a private house so elaborately or tastefully decorated 'as was our American Minister’s last night I am deeply indebted to him for the pains he has taken to make my stay pleasant, and the attentions extended our country. I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally. I love to see our country honored and re spected abroad, and I am proud to be lieve that it is by most all patrons, and by some even lo7ed. It has always been my desire to see all jealousy be tween England and the United States abated and every sore healed. Togeth er they are more powerful for the spread of commerce and civilization than all others combined, and can do more to remove causes of wars by creat ing mutual interests that would be so much endangered by war. I have written very hastily and a good deal at length, but I trust this will not bore you. Had I written for pub lication I should have taken more pains. U.S. Grant. were instructed to discriminate, ad Mr. Seligman fell under that dis- cimination. Mr. Wilkinson is a gen- tlman, and expressed to me before rctnesses his regret at being ordered from headquarters to make no excep- ticn whatever. Next you say, “If Air. Sdigman had come to Judge Hilton pirsonally he would perhaps have seen o his accomodation.” You are too and; but I prefer not I am very omfortable at the Clarendon, You say Mr. Seligman is “spoiling lora fight” with you because A.T. Stew- irt& Co. formerly bought nearly all of tuir foreign exchange from him, and live now discontinued to do so. How ndiculous! If I had to fight all the peiple who do not buy my exchange I siould have to fight forty-four and th.'ce-quarter millions out of fortyrfive Millions in the United States. You say Mr. Stadler and other Jews impor- tuied Mrs. Stewart to direct some share of file estate funds to Hebrew charities. H»w foolish to make that request when they knew that the bulk of that estate waj directed in another direction to the evdusion of nearly every other charity 1 And now comes the most ridiculous part of your defence. You don’t object to Hebrews or Isrcalites, but you don’t want Jews, and especially no “Trade Jtifs.” You oujht to know that a cer- tait people four thousand years ago in- troluced Monotheism among the hea then of Asia, your ancestors, for aught I blow, and there never was any dis tinction made in the above names ex cept by bigots like Ferdinand and Isa- bjila, some of the Popes of the fif teenth century, and a sapient ex-judge in the nineteenth century. Had you lived three hMidred years ago you might have succeeded in erecting ghettos for those persecuted people. What do you mean by a “Trade Jew ?” If trade is not respectable why haye you changed the ermine for the yardstick ? I con- U-'r-d that trade may be conducted hon orably and respectaoiy. ur course it is not always so conducted, and more is the pity. You say you are only the trustee, the' custodian, of the Grand Union Hotel in honor bound to so man age that it should not deteriorate during your office. Is that all the security Airs. Stewart has ? Ifso.it may be high time to change managers. The Daily Saralogian of the 19th pub lishes the arrivals on that day, 107 at the United States and only 29 at the Grand Union Hotel. That will never do tor a S2,000,000 hotel, and the’United Slates Hotel did not cost one-fourth that sum. I would advise you to join Professor Adler’s Society for Ethical Culture, where everybody irrespective of faith or creed, is welcome to listen to a lecture which indicates tolerance, hu manity, modesty and gentlemanly bearing, and which will, I feel sure, render you a wiser and better man and a more popular merchant ;but I confess that as a hotel keeper, in this enlight ened, tolerant and prpgressive Repub lic, you will never do. Y'onrs, very truly, JosErn Seligman. An Albany Scandal. The Son of a OflicUl Commits Bigamy With Courtesan,. Albany, June 10.—It has been whis pered in the best circles hero for sever al days that a bitter domestic grievance has visited the family of one of the most prominent officials of the State. Investigation shows that about three years ago, owing to his wild career, a son of this official was sent out West. It came out that he had married a wo man of the town during one of his sprees, and no divorce has since been obtained from her. The young man remained away under the suspension of his father until a few months ago, Jwhen he returned. He immediately renew ed his wild career, and one day last week capped it by another marriage, this time with one of the most infa mous women of the town, keeper of a vile den, in pereonaI|appearance unusu ally repulsive, and his senior by about ten years. The ceremony was perform- at a city church one evening. They de parted for Alontreal as soon as the cere mony was performed and rumor now says that a check for 8400, upon which the young man raised the money neces sary for bis outfit, was a forgery upon his father’s name. The motive of the woman in marrying the young man is found in the fact that he becomes pos sessed of about 820,000 when he reaches his majority in a few months,the money being left mm by his graudfether, who was one of the former wealthy citizens of Albany. Bald on tbe Mormons Apparent* ly Last to Begin. Washington, June 24.—Secretary McCrary has written a letter to the Governor of Utah, imforming him of his purpose to forward additional troops to that Territory. The Government officials in Utah chum to have testimo ny implicating Mormons and there are fears of tronble. It looks as if the long impending raid on the Mormons was at last about to begin. The opportuni ties for speculation will be magnificent whether the Mormons decide to fight or to emigrate; and the virtuos officials who uphold the Republican banner in that country haye a good time coming. Ulysses Grant, The Gifted Let ter Writer. We have had occasion before to notice the eminent qualities of U. S. Grant at a writer of English.. We find, howev er that we have never done him full justice. Tlie recent letter of Mr. Grant to Mr. Childs, describing the workings of his noble heart and powerful brain, under the pressure of English snobbery is simply sublime. He says: “I love to see our country honored and respected abroad, and I am proud to believe it is by most all nations, and by some even loved. It has always been my desire to see all jealousies be tween England and the United States abated, and every sore healed. They are more powerful for the spread of commerce and civilization than all oth ers combined, and can do more to re move causes of wars by creating mutu al interests that would be so much de stroyed by war.” Now, the touching patriotism which glows throughout this eloquent expres sion of condescending interest in “our country,” in ono who has given so much talent, self-denying labor and unrequit ed energy to its service, is beautiful. It even suggests and in crease of salary, a gift from the bankers, or 9ome paid-up stock, you know. But when we are given in the closing paragraph the sweet picture of “jealousies between England and the United States abated and every sore healed”—as being “more powerful for the spread of commerce and civilization than all others combin ed”—we feel how great a thing is the English language—when well used!— New Orleans Democrat. An Ex-Slave’s Eulogy of Ex- Master. Fred Douglass, Marshal District of Columbia, thus spoke of his old mas ter in the speech he made when recent ly visiting his old home: “I come first of all,” he said, “to see my old master from whom I have been separated for forty-one yean; to shake his hand, to look into his kind old face and see it beaming with light from the other world. I have had great joy in shak ing that hand, in lookinginto that face stricken with age and disease, but ag low with the light that comes from an honest heart, and reflecting the glory from the spirit-world npon whose bor der he is, and where we shall soon meet again. Forty .one yeare ago I left him. I left him hot because I loved Caesar less but because I loved Rome more.” moval of a car load of sea lions, which had arrived from Uie Pactfic coast ^ Messrs Coup & Reiches New ioix Aquarium. The peculiar and unm* •tfamaLsarw situation made th§H>^ymnastics they , exfent.vcfiy still in their cages ana 'looked lazily back at their spectator*. At noon they were the sensation of that section of the city. Car No 2,186, which transported uiem was for the time a free museum as it afforded all who passed an opportunity of seeing what bnt few had seen in their life time. An aggregation of sixteen sea lions cannot be seen evey day. . In deed there has been no such amphibi an arrived in New York before. The expedition which captured these monsters was commanded by CapL James Mullet nnder the direction of the proprietors of the New York Aqua rium. On the 31st of March the ex. pedition was dispatched. It proceed ed to lower California and the Mexi. can coast. On board were fifteen trained lariat throwers all from Mexi co where this method of capturing monsters of the land and sea has be come a science, When the sea-lions were sighted at a distance- by a glass the vessel was anchored. A small boat was then filled with the lariat throwers who rowed in the direction of their game. Days were consumed in waiting for a favorable opportunity for the capture. The Alexicans slept upon the rocks in the habitat of the sea monsters. At daylight they went about their work. It is then that the amphibians began to show themselves. The method of capture was as follows: First the lasso was thrown over the head of the sea-lion, as it was basking on the rocks; then the flipper was seized by a second rope and the mon ster became helpless under a third fling which held his tail in confinement, While thus helpless cage was placed over the lion, and after being released from the ropes the cage and captfve were pushed overboard and towed to the vessel. Fifteen men were required to capture each sea lion. Lives have been lust in the attempt to make these monsters of the deep captives in this ex pedit’nn everything was safe ond successful. Several weeks were con sumed in gathering this collection, C.ipt Mullet is probably the only man in the world who lias made a specialty of their capture. When these natives of the IMcioflc coast were captured they were transprted to San Francisco and thence here. Among them is a female and a cub the latter {being the first of its kind ever seen in captivity. During transporation they were fed on fresh fish, and wtster was poured over them at frequent intervals. Two of the crea. tores are for the Brighton Aquarium Eng two for the Paris Acdmatization Society two for Amsterdam. Holland and the remainder wili remain in New York at the Aqnarinm or be sent to the Seaside Aquarium at Coney Island. Seligman to Hilton. We make the following 'extract from a rather severe letter, written by Mr. Joseph Seligman to Judge Hilton while the former was freshly stung by the latter’s refusing to admit Seligman and family to accomodations at the Sarato ga Union Hotel: Clarendon Hotel, Saratoga—To Judge Henry Hilton, care of A. T. Stewart & Co., New York—Dear Judge: My family have for many years patronized the Union Hotel at Saratoga, but were informed yesterday by your managers that orders from headquarters are to exclude all Jewish families from the list of guests this season, alleging as a reason there existed prejudices among Americans against people of that per suasion, which had injured the Union to that extent, last season, that the head quarters proposed to “roast” them viz: Tell them all without exception that all the rooms were occupied except the garret chambers. I regret you are running the Union at a loss, I regret you arc making no headway in your wholesale department in New York and in Chicagu, and that even the ‘Ninth street retail store, so popular and prosperous under the man agement of the late Mr. Stewart, has lost its best patrons. A little reflection must show to you that the serious fall ing off in your business is not dae to the patronage of any one nationality, but to the want of patronage of all, and you, dear Judge are not big enough to keep a hotel, nor broad enough in your business views to run a dry goods store. Yon have tried competion with exper ienced and popular houses in theman- ufacturo of carpets, of woolens, of silks, and of scores of articles of minor im portance, and you have succeeded in none, and you never will; and I would respectfully volunteer an advice for which I charge yon nothing,although, yon once charged me 10,000 for an ad vice which was worth nothing—that if you want to save the rest of a once val uable estate of Mr. Stewart that you ad vertise a huge auction and sell your merchandise and yonr hotels to the highest bidder, and, no matter at what sacrifice you get rid of them. You will come off better than' by holding on to things which you cannot intelligently manage. Trusting that you will avail yrurself of this friendly and disinteres ted advice, I remain dear Jndge yours very truly, Joseph Seligman. Fith Avenue Belle vi• Shop Girii One of the New York dubs appointed a committee of five recently to ascertain whether the highest type of physical beauty was to be found among the fash ionable belles of Fifth' Avenue aild.fbe streets and squares immediately con tiguous thereto or among the shop girls and laundry maids. Thecommittee, after an exhaustive examination, which In-i volred a vast amount of visiting con siderable shopping and the procuring of unusual washing, have reported the highest type of physical beauty is found among the women and girls who engaged in daily labor. And the Fifth Avenue belle: “Pshaw!”j Mexico’s Revolutions and Chan ges of Government. 1821. The independence of Mexico de i82lf First Congress assembled 1823. Guerero being President, Busta- mento, commanding the army, induces his soldiers to declare him President and compels Guerero to abdicate, Santo Anna plays the same game on Busto- mentOjOnd ia himself declared President by the army. Three Presidents govern ed, with little fighting, untiL • Anna ishAd hr,eaident Same year Bnsto- f^Tat W San r T II - e<J ( > Santa ; Amu*dt hTmof^wer JaCmt ° ***** ***"* 1823. Mexico revolutionized; had an nnpleassantness with the French, who blockaded Vera Crnz;Santa Anna'drives off the French. 1840. Federalists, l§d by Urrea, revo lutionize. . - - | 1841. Revolution by Santa Anna, who is made Dictator, and banishes Bustamento. 1842. Jnnta of Nobles revolution against Santo Anna and from the Re public. 1843. New Constitution adopted. Catholic religion and apostolic oreed to exclusion of all other religion. 1844. Revolvtion by Peredes, Santo Anna deposed and Herrera mode Pres- dent by Congress. 1845. Santo Anna banished and Herrera elected President Same year Peredes revolts, and ordering an elec tion, is elected President 1846. Santo Anna is recalled. Pe redes deposed and Solos elected Presi dent Solos sells out and Santo Anna is made Provisional President Wax with the United States is in progress. 1847. Americans victorious; Santo Anna flies and Penas is made President pro tern. 1848. Peace made with the United States. 1751, Arista elected President 1851-52. General revolution. 1853. Arista resigns and Santa Anna made Dictator. - 1854. Revolution led) by ; Alvarez; Santo Anna abdicates. 1855. Career made President; resigns and Alvarez is made Dictator. 1856. Commonfort heads a move ment against the church, is elected President and sequesters property of the clergy, 1857. Commonfort is deposed. 1858. Zuloaga is made President bnt is obliged to abdicate. 1859. Miramon mokes himself Pres- identlbutlis speedily deposed, 1860. Znloaga again made Presi dent 1860. Revolution headed by Mira mon. 1861. Juarez elected President and declares himself Dictator. The French invasion and Juarez, Lerdo and Diaz have kept things lively since 1861. A Colored Army Officer. iz Lieutenant Flipper is his name. He is a living result of the policy of Radicalism, which has declared from the first its determination that under any circumstances the American citi zen of African descent shall enjoy all the privileges of his white brethren Carding out his determination and. not dismayed at the fate of colored Cadet Smith who figured so largely in West Point annals a few years ago Cadet Flipper was sent to that institu tion to try his hand. He has gradua ted and now holds a commission of Se cond Lieutenant of cavalry in the Uni ted Statet army the first of his race who has ever attained such a position. It will be curious to watch young Flipper’s career as an officer. Time was when army officers were a very aristocratic and exclusive set of gentle men. Whether they still hold to their old ideas or not we know not There seems to ba enough of the old feeling left however to jostify the belief that until some other descendants of Afri can parents graduate at the institution Flipper will have a lonely time. Du ring his cadetship we learn from no less an authority than the New York Tribune the paper founded ' by Horace Greeley that he was let severely alone by his fellow students. Accotding to that paper one of the cadets said “We have no feeling against kim bnt we could not associate with him! It may have been peprejudice bnt still we couldn't do it This shows very clears ly the animus which will exist in the ormy agaitst the colyred officer, If a- West Point where he had to drill re cite eat aDd perhapssleep with his white brothers they couldn’t aseociate with him notwithitanding the fact that the majority of these whites were Northern men and ardent advocates of Radical ism with its civil rights and social eqnality record how can it be expected that they will overcome their prejudi ces any more-readily after they become officers.—Savannah News. Fred Douglas On Statns of the Negro. We dip the following from an ex, change’s synopsis of a portion of Fred Douglass, speech on his recent visit to his old home in Maryland: Mr. Dou glass then passed into a eulogy of the white race and its achievements and said to the colored people that they were in contact with the meet indom itable, the most enlightened race in the world and that he would be false to his own race if he did not jtell them just where they stood, what an im mense distance they were behind the white people. He did not believe the colored people were fundamentally inferior to the whites bnt they are nev ertheless, practically inferior. We must not talk about equality until we can do what the whites can da As long as the can build vessels and we cannot we are their inferiors; as, long as they can build railroads and we can not we are their inferiors; as long as can found governments and we cannot we are.the& inferiors, If in twenty yeari from now the celored race, as a has not advanced beyond the r t where it was, when, emancipated it ia a doomed race. The question now is trill the black man do as much now for his mnafinr himself, as he used to do for his old master? Do you my colored friend get np as early now to workfor yourselves as you used to do to work for that stem old Roman Sam uel Hembleton? SI M 60 M im oe It u (10 M 101 M 100 00 How a. Loyl Theft was Detect ed. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, ex-Gov. Thomas and Mr. J. M. Foib*s,a wealthy gentle man of Warrenton, Ya., have just visit ed Mount Vernon as members of a com mittee appointed every year for the pur pose by the Virginia Legislature. Mr. Forbes was accompanied by his dugliti r whose young eyes fell upon divers gar ments labeled thus: “Worn by Gen. Washington, Rescued from oblivion and presented to the Ladies* Associa tion of Mount Vernon by William D. McGregor, of Hudson City, New York.’ The young lady at once recognized them as being at one time in the poesession of her father, who had received them in ., ... ,, immediately inform ed her father of her discovery. Before examining them, she described certain patches in the breeches and dames in the stockings which she had pat upon them when she was a small child. Mr. Forbes imraediatelv identified the ar ticles, and,when examined, the pacthee and dames were found to be exactly as described by his daughter. Mr, Forbes explained that during the e&ly part of the war, hearing that the Fed eral forces were advancing on Warren ton, he gathered up his children and what little furniture he could, and mov ed off toward the Bine Ridge Mountains. Some time after he returned to his home and found that these garments had been carried away by a Federal of ficer. Mr. Forbes surrendered his title to them, and they will remain in the cases in the New York room. There will be appended to the label, however, the following: “And again presented by J. M. Forbes, Esq-of Virginia, May 23, 1877.”—Macon Tclegrph & Messen ger. A False Prophet. Mr. Stephens’ death has become the subject of prophecy. A fortune-teller has predicted the very day of his pass ing away. A man living in Lamar, Missouri, recently wrote the following to the Chicago Inler-Oeean: Whi do yon condem ever man that pretends to be a Fortune teller I know a man that has been raving Destracted For 13 years what he ees comes to con vince you such is the Case he says Al exander Stevens will die June 25 1877 if it so Hapens he wishes to advertise with so state his predictions Address Jno L Williams lamar mo. Mr. Stephens is one of the most court eous and obliging of men. Bnt in the matter of death he displays a contrari ness and obstinacy altogether foreign to his nature. He has been seyeral times at the very point of dissolution daring the past few years, and last Win ter a report of his death caused a num ber of newspapers to print obituary ar ticles, and some of the Georgia towns to go in mourning for the Great Com moner. But he lived to read the obit uaries and to turn tears into rejoicing. So, the Missouri fortune-teller turns out to be no seer at all, and will not get a chance to advertise in the Inter-Ocean. The fatal day has passed, and Mr. Ste phens is not only alive bnt bis health has improved so much that he seems to haye years of usefulness yet before him. Chronicle and Const. The Bbabdoskidopheros * This somewhat cumbrous word is the name of an umbrella, described in the Hatters' Gazette, an English periodical. Its peculiarity is that the canopy is Backed in a hollow stick, and on touch ing a spring it shootsout at the end and spreads itself. The chief objection which occurs to us is, that if a man had to ask for the umberella under its pa tent title thebegining of a shower, the rain might be over before he could get through with the name. The Hatlcis’ Gazette states that in the last hundred years about two hundred and seventy patents for umbrellas and parts of um brellas have been issued in England, and about a quarter of a hundred for improved canes and walking sticks. Among the curiosities in umbrellas are mentioned the MacGregor, fitted with a spear or bayonet, and a sportsman’s umbrella, embracing fishing rod, gun cane and pipe stem. Another umbrella is a walking tent, the sides depending from the circular roof, and furnish ed with a glass window, through which the sheltered pedestrian may see his way. Another patent has in its hollow staff a pistol and ammunition, a telesco pe, pcn,r ink and paper, and a mall knife. StartlingBumor—Deported Plot to Blow out the Suez Canal. New York, June 22.—A calble from Cairo says there is considerable excite ment, and the Egytian Government is seriously alarmed over the discovery of a conspiracy to destroy the passage of the Suez Canal by blowing in the bank with nitro glycerine at appoint be tween Ismaila and Port Said. Most stringent measures of precaution liav« been adopted to foil the conspirators. The Khedive has appoint-d a commis sion for the canal with General Stone Pasha as president. Admiral McKellop Paul s, Admin’. Frederigo Pasha, and Captain Moric are the other members of the commis sion. Troops will patrol the hank and every posible effort madetoprevent tlie carrying out of the plot. The English Government is also alarmed, and has requested the Khedive to watch the canal with renewed vigilance. It 13 probable the English government will be called upon ton dispatch troops for the protection of the canaL Thus Eng land will have a pretext for occupying Egypt- t _ r Flipper As An Officer In The Army. It will be so delightful for the white soldier to be commanded to pace the green sward before the tent of Lieuten ant Flipper the negro graduate of West Point and the white soldier will pro bably indulge in a strange bain of thought while doing it. And when promotion comes and the negro be comes Majah Flipper or CoL Flipper the prospect of the white Captains and Lieutenant will be so cheerful partic ularly if they have families and are stationed at some post in the Far West where any neglect in the social cour tesies toward their superior officer would probably go hard with them and their families.—Cincinnati Edejui- rcr.,

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, July 04, 1877, Image 1