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$2 00 for the tri-weekly. ^ qo nno J ,<,sr - . J W Bix month' _ 1 00 rh , r , M „tt,aid' strictly in advance, the prico of If D 1 1 I n.„.,„ n tit ill K« SO a TAUT. H-Ild far. Carman will be $2 50 a year, and ,.Wk«ki.t $5 00. ■r < labiof fiTO ,‘t.ad ■ more, one copy will bo fnr- I .,i,orcr.= wanted for work on the Coo- -l river, See advertisement. The Mapnolia brought up a thousand of wheat yesterday. O w ins to sickness and the “Fourth” among the Courier printers yesterday, tl,is morning’s ..mount of reading matter. issue lacks its usual Mrs. Partington isn’t at all surprised to In ar that the Ottoman is the seat of dissatisfaction. Give her a good old- f.i-Iiioned sofa if you want to sit like Christian. It v.iil he more tolerable,” says the I •.:,. a Ob« rrrr, speaking of the retribu- ji,,n ,,j- ].SaO, “for Sodom and Gomorrah, ; .i,,,t day than for the promoters and ... Is of the conspiracy.” One hundred years ago to-day, if Grant laid l.ecn caught ill I,on<ion, lie would p..,.,. !„ i n hanged as a rebel.—Couricr- J ’ , | liir “ftmt/i.” What a v( ry, very great pity it isn’t "one linn ire ! years ago to-day.” p,,i i;’ii ok Jrr.v Fires.— It is said that New York had ninety-three fires last Fourth . f July, all from fireworks, -pp,. x,n- Vorl: Her ah! remarks that Fourth of July celebrations here cost more than the whole Revolutionary war. ].’if tv Jewish houses in Cincinnati, rep* rcsentim.' an airurciratc of over 810,000,- tiui) of capital, have published a card in the Cincinnati papers pledging them- .dvrs t" entertain in business relations whatever with the house of A. T. Stew art ,t Co. Among them are several lnavy clothing houses. Comptroller General Goldsmith, as wo- learn iiom the Gon.</.V»h'.m,estimates that the per diem of the members of the Convention will be. So, and that ige, stationery, clerical service,etc., will make the Convention cost about ?|._>t,ii k. .lay which would make the td,Ini»i last about twenty days. It mnst have been rough on Grant ye.-ter.iay to have to stand “at the foot of the throne.” What Ulysses always wanted was to get right on that high- toned oh j e rt.—('ouricr-JtoumaL We doubt if Grant ever had a desire t" ■■« fright cn anything, judging by his sued ps in getting wrong on everything. The ship “Governor Morton” took hr. and sunk in the southwest pass of die Mississippi river yesterday'.—Ex- M. DWINELL, PROPRIETOR “WISDOM, JUSTICE .AETR MODERATION.’ TWO DOLLAB&PER ANNUM. VOLUME XXXI. ROME, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 11, 1877. NEW SERIES-NO. 45 The man, Governor Morton, will some o' these days” reverse, this order: lie will first sink and then take fire in certain place unmentionable to polite Tito Few York Aim says it is beyond doubt that twenty of the best shots in ol. Berdan’s crops of sharpshooters under the leadership of Joe Ketch, the noted Texan rifleman, have joined the ilc.mian army, and are now on the Ikiaube. Berdan’s sharpshooters were brganized in June, 1S51, and disbanded after a service of four years and six (months. Boa l- ind that the officers in the hited States Army' arc mostly North- rn men. and that they will have to be asocial equality with Flipper, the ■■'i"r.d West Pointer just graduated, 1 ’! tin-“Statesmanship”of Blaine - -hewn in the following extract from • " //• will be understood : ' ■■''•nator Blaine, in the course of a '"t.vers.'ition last night, thought the ca- n r of Flipper would be to go South ■ad In come a leader of his race. He euld in that way become famous and t"tld accomplish much good for the toiletry." A correspondent of the Columbus writing from Marietta, relates, "nnng other reminiscences of the war, die following : 1 'n vomit r hill where the military in stitute stood, some gallant scenes took ?Iuce. Sixty cadets—Rebels, everyone )> tin in—left suddenly for “the front.” I iic oldest was 122, the youngest fifteen \ curious anomally occurred : We “ ■ r.■ all expelled, but old Prof. Mag i' t. who, as a professor, was forced to id vise our expulsion in accordance G‘h the “rules and regulations,” met 15 at the depot and said : “ Good-bye, boys, God bless you! If 1 bad a son here, I would tell him to get ' 7"' i ■ "I nan' and join you /” s uuc new process for finding the “yal heart will have to be adopted by le Radical party. .The influence of ■h’ Woody shirt is one of the things bat were, and, as will be seen from the aclov.in/, the magic effect of bull-doz- lets passed away: Two negro Postmasters of Feliciana pari.-b. Hula and Chapman, were pre- pilcd upon to leave the State, so that |t might bo asserted that they were Bmveil from their offices by force. The fegroes made themselves scarce, and a •st amount of sympathy was express- id for these much persecuted appoint- es of Mr. Hays by the Northern press. Itneral George A. Sheridan, special gent of the Post office Department, ind himself a former waver of the ploody' shirt, wag lately sent down jhere to investigate the matter. He re- orts that there is nothing in it, and j •' the poor bulldozed Africans can 1 turn in safety whenever they see fit 1° do so. Moreover, he himself turns iJMnst them now, and recommends j air dismissal from office for incompe- f 1 ' c y. So much for Hayes’ civil 8er- | lce ref °rm policy in Louisiana. JUDGE BLACK ON THE CONSPIRA TORS. .... In the North American Review for July Judge Jeremiah S. Black appears as the contributor of an article entitled “The Electoral Conspiracy,” which is by all odds the most complete, eloquent and scathing exposure that has yet been made of the fraud by which Rutherford B, Hayes was foisted into, the Presidential chair. We regret that our space will not permit us to reprint it. The following concluding paragraphs of this article; hewever, will give our readers some idea of the “with-gloves-off” style in which Judge Black handles the conspirators whose names will ever be coupled with nfamy on the pages of American history. Says this distinguished jurist: “If the majority \»f that could but have realized their responsibil ity to God and man; if they could only have understood that in a' free country liberty and lawj’are" inseparable, they would have been enrolled among our greatest benefactors, for they would have added strength and grandeur to our in stitutions. But they could not come up to the height of the great subject. Party passion so benumbed their faculties that a fundamental right stems nothing to them when it came in conflict with some argument supported by artificial reason- ins, and drawn from the supposed analo gies of technical procedure. The Com stitution was, in tlieir judgment, out weighed by a void statute and the action of a corrupt Returning Board. “Let these things be remembered by our children’s children; and if the friends of free government shall ever again have such a contest, let them take care how they leave the decision of it to alrikunal like that wIiiHh betrayed the nation by enthroning the Great Fraud of 387(5, THE itEPUBLICAN HOUSE INI) HS OCCUPANT. Aristotle once said that the man who lives in a house knows its worth far better than the builder. He pereeives its defects and discomforts by inhabi tation alone. The House as an archi tectural design may have looked very well,but thejudge of the value oftiiestru- cturo is he who has resided in it. • He knows, by trial, where changes should be made. The Republicans built d house for Mr. Hayes and put him in it, And after living in it for awhile -Mr. Hayes has been telling the builders of some defects in the mansion : a smoky chimney, a defective lock and poor construction all around. The house was really built of rotten material. We are glad the occupant is complain ing. We hope he will go on and have it completely remodelled. Even its very foundations are shaky. Let Mr. Hayes have it reconstructed from cor ner-stone to turret. Let him have a new roof that will keep out the rain, and a foundation on rock so when the storms shall come, that house shall stand—shall stand for always, and shelter future occupants for years and years to come. WAR NEWS. The crisis which Europe has been awaiting, namely, the cressing of the Danube, has been passed without a struggle. The whole Russian left is in force near Hirsova, and all their troops between Kalanash and Ismail have crossed the Danube and driven the Turks to what they call their second line of defence, at Kustenlje and the Roman Walls. The Turkish successes in Asia Minor are attributed to the slowness of the Russian advance, which created confi dence in their enemy and gave oppor tunity for making preparations for the defence of the Araxes valley where the roads from Kars and Bayazid join. The Turks have succeded in unmask ing the Russian batteries at Oltenitza by means of eight boats loaded with dummy soldiers. When the fleet reached mid stream it drew the fire of a thousand rifles, and many canon from the Russian earth works. The English and French war critics are busy with notes on the present sit uation, and it appears evident from the tenor of their criticisms that they con sider the Turkish case hopeless, and the bird cooked. Prof. Baird, the United States Com missioner of Fish and Fisheries, has been investigating thesubject of the im portation of carp from Germany. These fish have been found suitable for Southern waters, and arrangements have been made to distribute them in the South. The carp is found exten sively in the fresh-water lakes and streams of Europe, and is very prolific. They prefer quiet waters, with soft or muddy bottoms, and spawn in May or June. Their size varies from half a foot to two and a half feet, and they weigh from one to eighteen pounds. A num ber of carp were recently brought from Germany and placed in the ponds;of the Maryland Fish Ccmtnison, and more are to arrive shortly. They are considered a most excellent food fish, and their introduction into Southern waters is most desirable. A Philadelphia dispatch says: It is understood that.preparations are mak- ing for a grand gubernatorial excursion, iff which all the executives of aU the States-will unite for an interchange of official courtesies and personal exami nation of the great commercial -alnd manufacturing centres. . The three leading points to be waited are Boston, New York and Philadelphia, the party remaining in each city three days. Pennsylvania Correspondence The New Parly Dodge—Its Objects and Probable Fate—Miscellaneous—Weather, Crops, Etc. Ligonier Valley, Pa., 1 June 28,1877. j 2b the Editor of the Courier: The “New Party” movement is the theme for political discussion up this way at present. The movement was rendered necessary by the demise of the Radical organization, which after the late Presi dential election, contained just about a sufficient number of survivers to inaugu rate such a movement. The “New Party,” if it is organized at all, will contain all the political soreheads, renegades, apos tates, blatherskites and scalawags gener ally, in the country, it will ne tea Dy GiuCclJ, Morton and Blaine, or men still worse, if they can be found. It is the dernier resort of a political party strug gling in the throes of political death, to survive, if possible, four years longer. It will fail. History may repeat itself, but the Radical party never will. The whole animal kingdom, from man down, may reproduce itself, but a party that has died of its own corruption never can. An effort may be made to revive the old Whig party, but that is “too thin.” The circumstances which occasioned the ne cessity for the organization of that party have long since passed away; hence that party could be of no use. Some other name may he assumed, but what are names? The Radical party may as well set its political house in order and tamely submit to its fate, for die it must. That party is responsible for every calamity that has ever befallen us as a nation. Its corrupt, bloody, revolutionary and incen diary career, for the last sixteen years, will never be forgotten. The “New Party” movement has but one object in view that deserves the name, and that is, party success in the next race for the Presidency. There, may be other minor objects in view, but all of these resolve themselves into an effort to win the prize in.38SO. Had even three of four of the State governments of the South been in the hands of the Radical party, the “New Party” dodge would not have been so necessary; for, with two Southern States, Joe Bradley, and a certain amount of perjury and money, the last race for the Presidency was won. Now, however, the case is somewhat different. The State governments of the South are in the hands of the Democratic party, where they will be likely to. remain for some time to come. The Democratic party is nervr in a position to administer over whelming defeat to whatever may oppose it in 1880. The South will be as “solid” as a block of adamant, and the Demo cratic party here will be with her. No new party dodge will be likely to affect the people of the South. They are now rid of carpet-bag rule, and we believe they know their interests well enough to remain so. The fate, therefore, of the new party movement is already dead. We will not attempt to say that a new party will not be organized, for it may be done; but we will say that it will never win, a new party composed of the riff-raff of old ones can neyer succed in this country. MISCELLANEOUS. A real genuine sensation has been produced in this region of late by the announcement that Ben Hill, of Geor gia,.might be one of the candidates for ntIn-1880. Wenan see no rea son vfhy Mi. Hill would not be an available candidate.' He is unques tionably one of the great men of the nation._ He represents the best talent of the South, and in that respect is su perior perhaps to any man in this sec tion. Wej have been emphatically a Hill man ever since he so soundly flayed Jim Blaine for slandering the people of the South during the war. He is a patriot, a statesman, and a gen tleman. Hurrah for Hill! Long may ho wave, is our prayer. The Radical leaders here are begin- ing to show their teeth at Hayes in good old fashioned style. His South ern policy is too Btrong a dose for them to swallow. We are not at all disap pointed, inasmuch as we expected some thing of that kind—he has Andy John- soned the party. “Bully for Hayes. 1 ' We now believe in the doctrine that the Lerd sometimes chooses evil instru ments with which to accomplish good. Justice may be delayed for a season, but it is morally certain to overtake the wicked at last WEATHER, CROrS AC. The weather here is splendid. We are having an abundance of rain. The temperature ranges from 80° to 90°. The wheat crop is heavy; we will be gin to cut abont the 1st of July. The oats are very heavy.. The hay wili be a. good crop. The corn hardly average and the potatoes extra. Such seem to be our proapects here. More anon. Key-Stone. The Dethroned Sultan. Murad, dethroned Sultan lives, a tflofstoy man, in a place: on iSeragtio Point His mother is constantly by his side. She tastes his food before it touches his lips and she allows no one to approach him until she knows the object of their visit His beautiful daughter Blanche the Circassian whom he had reared up to an Enropean edu cation in the family of his private phy. sician is with him also. As soon as he was calldd to the throne he had a part of the harem fitted up for her ex clusive use in a style of the most lux urious splendor and expense- Her apartment, whose embellishments cost neatly 100,000 francs was just finished as Murad was forced to abdicate. Georgiacs. There will he 194 delegates in the Convention. _ Only two editors are in the Constitu tional Convention. Bishop Pierce will preach the com mencement sermon of the University of Georgia on the first Sunday in August. A gentleman planting near Savannah sold a short time since his crop of cucum bers on the vice, on three acres of land, for 81,250 cash. ■ Among other curiosities cf Oglethorpe county t he Echo reports a cream color ed crow, and a member of the Smith family who is so bashful that his sweet heart has to sit on his knoe when he visits her to keep him from running away. me wonder of the age has been uu covered in Thomas county. He is for ty years old and has never taken chew of tobacco,smoked a cigar,taken a drink of whisky, sworn an oath. What a happy man he will be when he first learns the real merits of cold water— say about 4 A. M-, after, a first-class drunk. The Chronicle & Constitutionalist says: The Atlanta Constitution is engaged in writing up the biographies of the delegates to the Constitutional Conven tion. How to praise each one of the immortal one hundred and ninety enough without exausting the stock of adjectives is what is worrying the “eleven able.” A young gentleman of Perry went up to Macon the other day to attend the ex ercises of the Wesleyan Female College, but report says he catered to the wants of one young lady almost exclusively. While thns enjoying himself he hired a horse and buggy to take the young lady to ride,hut unfortunately,she was engaged for the time. His disappointment knew no bounds, and in an unguarded moment he let it become known that the 82 use lessly spent was quite an item added to the missed pleasure. He returned home, and by next mail received a neat little note from Macon. The young lady ex pressed her sorrow at his recent disap pointment, and enclosed a two-dollar bill to replace the one he had paid for hire of the horse and buggy. A Newton county negro, fclictitously named Billy White, is reported by the Enterprise as having recently performed the following feats: “To begin with: he raised four sacks of guano, 300 lbs to each sack, at once; lifting one in each, hand, one in his teeth, and one on his back. The guano, about 900 lbs, was made a present to him for his succe s. He is also said to have lifted Judge Summers with his teeth by a belt around the waist The Judge, we sup pose, is one of the heaviest men in the: county. f “At another time this Hercules caught a steer by the foroffeg and horn, and broke his neck by throwing him over his head. He then butchered him, shoulder ed half of him, and out-ruu anybody on the ground to the fire where they were cooking. We clip the following from the Knox ville (Tenn.) Tribune. Who is tho un fortunate woman ? “We are informed of the sad death of an unfortunate woman, whose earthly career terminated Friday night, perhaps at her own hands. By request, and for prndential reasons, the name of the unfortunate girl is, for the present, withheld from the public. “About twenty months since, the young woman, with her father and mother, came here from Georgia, since which time the father has been employed at his trade. “But a few days since it became known that the daughter was cncicnte, and on Monday night at 9 o’clock she gave birth to a child. Three hours later and the young mother was a corpse. Her remains were buried yesterday in the County Cem etery. Rumor states that the unfortunate ;irl becoming tired of life and deserted )y the heartless author of her ruin, ad- ministed to herself poison, and now fills the grave of a suicide. “The sad occurrence carries with it its own moral lesson—a sad lesson from real life, from which the world would gladly turn away and leave veiled forever in obscurity.” sbn Davis i were recently destroyed by S The Federal troops were pressing Javis so hard during his retreat word that he was compelled to the archives witii Col. Young at l The latter had carefully pre served them, and was abont to send t to the Southern Historical Socie- Richmond when they were de li Personal Jottings. The Springfield Republican nominates Wade Hampton and Fred Douglass for President and Vice-President in 1880, A cable despatch from London an nounces the death of Lady Stirling Max- Well, better known as the Hon. Mrs. Nor ton. £ , S. S. Cox, of New York, was ■ 'W'Zr’q? Tennessee Press Associa- tnce, reA'a recent meeting at *5 tM r ^me^nffifrdThursdayin JOW- TbSo t he luckiest minister in New York is Reid Mr. Potter, of Grace Church. He goes to Europe every year, owns a New port residence, has a salary of 810,000, and rarely gets less than S100 for marry ing the bon ton. Lieutenant Governor Dosheimer, of New York, in a card to the New York Sun, states that it is within his personal knowledge that Mr. Tilden was not in favor of the electoral commission. Mr. Dorsheimer is an intimate peisonal and political friend of Mr. Tilden. Joseph Seligman is a German. He landed at New York without a penny, and earned his first money by carrying a valise up the wharf. He was a nowsboy and then a peddler. One step l«d to an other. He is now a member of the Syn dicate), Vice-President of the Union League Club, a particular friend of Grant, a millionaire, and “a bigger man than old Hilton.” Strange Freak of a Hen. Colombo* Times.] The Lincoln county correspondent of the Thomson Journal tells this vinegary story: Mr. H. P. Mercier, of this county, has a hen which, on last Friday laid an egg with the name of “E. Gresham” General News Items. Kansas City!cans ratsjand sliip'.them to China. Women can practice law in Minneso ta, Illinois and Wisconsin. The bee product of the United States is valued at 816,000,000 per annum. Mark Twain is 42 and has cleared 850,000 from his books and lectures. “John, what is tho chief branch of edu cation in your school?" “Willow branch, sir; Master’s used up nearly a whole tree.” ' “My son, remember that your char acter ought to shine brighter than your boots.” “Suppose I blacken it, then, father?” Gen. D. H. Hill, of North Carolina, has been elected President of the In dustrial University, located at Fayette ville, Arkansas. A Boston young woman whose prop erty amounts to 860,000 has maried a pretty whom she met in the dinner- room of the Russel House, MontreaL Carolina and Georgia gold mines have yield since their dicovery S19.069,- 226 28. “There's millions in them;” but hitherto their development has been neglected. At a sale of racing stock in England recently Beverol colts brought from 86,- 000 to 810,000 each and the sixteen years old stallion “Scottish Chief’ was sold for 842,000, in gold. Baron James Rothchild is quoted thus: “When we are poor and igno rant we are Jews; when we are well-to- do we become Israelites; when we ore rich and;inflnential we are called He brews.” “Rubin,” shouted Mrs. Tooidles to her husband, who was going out of the gate, “bring me fiye cents worth of Bnnff when you come.” “Snuff 1 Mrs. Toodles, snuff I” he ejaculated, as he paused with his hand on the latch. “No, no, Mrs. Toodles, the times are too harito admit of such extravagance; you must tickle your nose with a straw when you want to sneeze.” Twenty-seven boxes of Confederate archives left at Union S. C n by Jeffer- PoliticalJDots. rSanction for the Electoral Commis sion can be found in Holy Writ, as fol lows: “Give a portion to seven and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil Bhall be upon the earth.”—Eccle siastes, xi chap., 2d v. Chief among the competitors for the nocratic n omination in New York United States Senator are Judge rch, Lieut-Goy. Hoffman. Amoug RepublicanSjConrse.Conkling stands foremost: but it is hinted by the know- oncs thatSecretary Evarts is anxiouB iy himself in the Senate, while it is Utmost positively known that ex-Gov. Morgan and ex-Senator Felton are strip ping for tho fight. would seem from the Washington dispatches of yesterday, that the grand jaijwin New Orleans have found iudict- against Wells and Anderson for forgery. Mr. Hayes is mad about it because he was assured the Foster-Mat thews agreement would put an end to all such matters, and they would rest where he thought they were buried. No doubt too, he feels somewhat inse cure to his own seat for Wells and An derson may make some very dirty re velations of rascality by which Mr. Hayes has profited. To save them selves they may produce the papers which have not yet come to light, and that is just what is desire.—Columbus Enquirer. Ready-Made Speeches. Prom tho London Punch.] Ex-President Grant a few days since in returning thanks for his health at a Manchester banquet, admitted that he liked his speeches like his drinks— short and strong, but that he hated the work of talking even under these con ditions; Mr. Punch, always anxious to serve an illustrious visitor begs to present his General with a few outline ortations that may be useful to him. He trusts he will appreciate the spice of local color he has tried to throw in to take off the air of preparation, and give an extempore and offhand style to the General’s utterances. Gentleman: It is - the custom to lasso royal personages aud other distinguish ed visitors with a string of platitudes and pomposities drawn up by the Town Clerk or Recorder, where there is one, and filing at the head of the ob ject of coporate civility. I can’t escape, and I don’t complain. When in Rome do as Rome does. I have. You have slicked me down. I have stood quiet to be slicked down. Thanks. Now you can get our your red gowns and big talk, and re-enter the region of ra tional remark, and the coat, vest and pants of private life. My Lord Mayor and Gentlemen: I know you like this big place of yours to be called “the first city of the world.” According to usage, I beg to declare TiOndon some pumpkins in the way of bigness, business and bunkum. You have given me a lot of rights which I don’t understand and which I guess you never expect me to exercise. You mean it civilly, and I thank you. And now, gentlemen (with my Lord Mayor’s permission), we will turn to for a big dinner and a big drink in genuine Mad ison Honse style, though I guess you can’t cut out DelmoDico’s. Mr. Chairman and Directors: Yon have shown me an almighty big green house, some considerable plaster casts aud an allfired handsome garden, and I don’t know which I conclude to like best, your water-works or fire-works fixings. On the other hand, I have shown myself on yonr account to a big crowd of shilling public I trust (as I un derstand on all hands that your estab lishment is deserving of more snpport than it gets) that the money taken at the doors on this interesting occasion will more than defray expenses, and that the result of this and similar na tional and patriotic ovation may be sensibly felt In your dividends. Ladies and gentleman: Yon have come to see me with the view of trot ting ont your various hobbies. I am used to that sort of a thing “at home. I guess you’d rather talk youselves than listen to me. I’m quite agreeable So fire away and I trust your orations will ba reported to yonr entire satis faction in to-morrow’s papers. A precocious youngster has found out that twins were made so that cannibals may eat philopenas. ay (Saturday) she laid another witii the name of “Mamie” on it The last is the name of one of Mr. Meitner's little dangh- ters, who is a scholar in Mr. Gresham’s school. A gentleman, who saw one of the eggs, says there is no fiction abont the statement; that it is true. We cannot account for this freak of nature; unless the hen had decided to vote for Mr. Gresham for conventional delegate.— Atlanta Constitution. Editors Times—The above extract re minds one of an incide_qk.lji8tnj | -tH, , to ® cca HP4i3 , hppreciated 1 it requires famil iarity with the partite; and, as you know, Mr. Editor, a story loses much of its point in being read instead of heard. The facts, however, can be vouched for, and are at your service, if you think they will either amuse your readers or enlight en the Constitution. At a camp meeting near Blunt’s Town, when the Millerite excitement was at its height, a wag who was entirely in the secret, produced an egg which his mother- in-law (whose especial duty was to look after the hens) bad herself taken from the nest. It had plainly written on it, “at the full of the next moon the millen nium will have come; Christ will reign on earth and appear with a flamiDg sord.’ This egg was scrupulously examined by the hundreds present, and such a revival and excitement as it produced had never before been witnessed in the county. There was wailing and gnashing of teeth, fiddles, which in those days lingered on the outskirts of the camp ground, with whiskey bottles innumerable, were con signed to the flowing waters of the Chat tahoochee, which at that point becomes the Apalachicola river. Moumerspressed upon the preacher, converts were as thick as “the leaves of valambrosa;” everybody was rushing for a front seat in the taber nacle, to the infinite amusement of the wag who had perpetrated the joke! About this time, an old woman, more cautious than the rest, knelt down and held the egg between her failing vision aud the noonday sun, and assisted by an overwrought and excited imagination, she thought die saw in the yolk of the egg, which was somewhat “addled,” the Lord on a golden horse with a flaming sword. She cried the news out aloud. Dozens of persons equally excited took the egg and, holding it in the same position, likewise saw the miracle. The writing the wag knew all about, but “the Lord on a gol den horse with a flaming sword,” was not in the programme ! He became alarmed lest a judgment was banging over him, to' punish his levity ou so sacred a subject He raised the egg excitedly, held it up between His vision and the sun, and by. degrees sank on his knees stammerin' •Lord I. Lord! pardon a poor sinner and begging to be prayed for, did in very truth that day become a member of the church. The excitement kept on increasing; the sinners were converted by hundreds, until a temporary check was put to the revival, by some fellow crying out: “Boys! boys take courage; there am’t nothin' in it. Sword is spelled s-o-r-d on that egg, in stead of s-w-o-r-d.” After this there seemed to be a cessation of converts, much to the discomfort of the several exhort- ers, when one of them came down with a sockdolloger, and exclaimed, “Brothers and sisters! shove this devil ont that comes among us to break up the good work. Satan entered Paradise in the shape of a sarpent, and he is here to-day the be person of - Suppose Web ster does spell sword with a w; do you reckon he begins to know as well how to spell as the Lord does ? I tell you that w is nothing but a human contraption, and the Devil is among us; heed him not 1 heed him not!” The argument was unanswerable; con versions were renewed, and the Calhoun county camp meeting did the work effi ciently. How was the writing done? Cover an egg with wax, then with acid, trace any letters you desire, the acid will eat into the shell, rub the wax off and put the egg in the nest, and you can have npon it just what you please, either the name of “E. Gresham,” or that “the Capital shall remain in Atlanta,” or anything else that suits your fancy. It is proper to make this explanation, or MUledgeville and Atlanta may both be “laying eggs” indi cative of the proper location for the Seat of Government of “the Empire State of the South.” “Truth-Teller.” The Horrors of War. A a Episode im the Husoo-Tarkiih Campain oflBU. m opposing Russian and lurkrah armies stood facing each other on opposite banks of the Danube. Daring the-night between the 8th and 9th of September the Turks succeeded by makings feint, and so attracting the Russians to a spot some three miles be low the Teal 1 - * - ing a force oi two thousand men and four guns across the river,a short dis tance above Ginrgeva The first at tempt of the Russians to drive them in to tho river was sucoeeafnlly withstood • reinforcements were rapidly broueht er^m theright to the left bSt tfal finally thirty thousand men and r no.iKeo\aiiU, farther and drive baick the Russian army, whioh had fallen back into an intrenched position, was, however, re-; pojwiifri'fli? Turks themselves, being obtigec^after a time to construct in- men ta, to withstand the counter attscks directed against them. Unable to drive back the invading farce, the Russians desisted from any further active measures against it, bid, bringing a strong flotilla of gunboats np the Danube to prevent supplies be ing carried across the river into the Turkish camp on the left bank, they quietly waited events. The provision of the Tnrltish force, thns completely isolated, unable to advance because of the Russian force in front of it, unable to retreat because of the flotilla which effectually prevented any bridi thrown across the river, soon began toi run .short. The weather became cold; butlhere was fuel with which to kin die a fire. Under these circumstances the suf ferings of the men were very great. Forborne time there was horseflesh, bat it had to be eaten raw, as even the tent-poles had been cut up and burned. Hundreds died daily, and their com rades had not the strength to bury them. Disease was consequently soon added to famine, so that when finally, on the 8th of December, peace was concluded, but 4,000 men, are described as being bat living skeletons with scarce suffi cient strength to stand upright, were left out of the 30,000 who three months before had crossed the river. A Woman Frays that the Orig inal Death Sentence be Car ried Ont. Dreams. An article in the Galaxy on dreams, by Mr. Lewis, presented some novel theories. The result of a great number ef experiments are held to sustain the following facts: Speaking in a low, monotonous tone dose to the ears of a sleeper will almost invariably cause him to dream of terrible adventures on water, such as shipwreck and drownn- ing. Singing or playing on musical in struments induces dream ofdead friends funerals, and the like. Worrisome dream are often caused by sleeping with the arms over the head. Mr. Lewis does, not believe that somnambulism is often caused by weight of trouble on the mind and he combats the idea that any great proportion of dreams are the result of waking trouble. He thus describes experiments showing that they are bnt flashes across the brain: “While one watched a sleeper and another the clock, a third londly slammed the blind of a window about ten feet away. The effect was almost instantaneous. The man Bprang up at the sound, looked around in alarm and then exclaimed: Thank God that it was only a dream.’ He had dreamed of being on acrowd- ed street in front of a building which the crowd declared unsafe, but still lin gered near it. The dreamer tried to elbow his way long but they jeered and laughed at him and held him there. He begged and entreated, coaxed and threatened bnt they held him there, and the building toppled over on him, the shock breaking his dream. It seemed certian to us that he had dream ed the entire dream in a second; while the time seemed a long half hour to ti- i; but to place the question beyond pule we Indulged in seven dr rtjifefifc :erent experiments. Sometimes we let a weight fall to the floor,or struck a chair with aBtudL'ah^^gmnhwu dfmk medtheblind. In every instance the Bleeper dream ofsome starting adventure and awoke with a start; and no dream asted overa minute.” Columbus, June 28.—One of the most singular cases, in the annals of criminal law was decided to-day by Judge Bing ham in the Common Fleas Coart. Some years ago Mrs. Sarah M. Victor was con victed in the .courts of Cuyahoga county of murder in the first degree, having poisoned her brother, and. was sentenced to be banged. The sentence was cemms- t> f ted by the Governor -to imprisonment for life. Since that time Mrs. Victor has been confined in the Ohio Penitentiary. The prisoner grew tired of life nnder such circumstances and spent many hours in solitary confinement in constant weeping. In January, 1876, she made application .in the courts of this city to have the orig- *inal sentence carried out, on the ground that she had not consented to the com mutation. The case wes without parallel in history, and presented itself to the court iu the shape of a very knotty prob lem. Judge Bingham, after having the matter under advisement for eighteen months, rendered an opinion, holding that Mrs. Victor is in law an escaped prisoner after conviction and issued an order to the Sheriff for her delivery to the county officers to await action by the courts of the county. Mrs. Victor will be taken to Cleveland soon. Attorney General Little, adviser of the {Warden of the penitentiary, subsequently made application to the Supreme Court for leave to file a petition in error, which was granted and a stay of execution of Judge Bingham’s decision ordered till the case can he finally heard. Mrs. Vic tor will accordingly remain in the peni tentiary. The opinion of high talent is to the effect that Judge Bingham’s order will not be sustained by the Supreme Court. The case excited great interest here. _ Motive of Hilton’s Discourtesy to Seligman. The New York correspondent of the Telegraph and Messenger has the follow ing to say in reference to the Hilton- Seligman affair; “In all this metropolis, in all this State, not one paper has been found willing to forego the chance for buncombe, ana to say that Hilton wanted to advertise his Grand Union Hotel os free of a class of patronage which had become obnoxious to the traveling public, and therefore se lected the biggest mark he could get, and publicly insulted him. Now, the fact L, that the Grand Union at Saratoga had become an unpleasant hotel; that rich coarse people had flocked there hr num bers, and drawn with them immense co teries of humbler and coarser followers; that some of these were Jews, and that many were net, bnt that in the popular mind the thing was classed Jewl and that the hotel occupied a most inferior posi tion in comparison with its stately rival, the United States Hotel. Under these circumstances Mr. Hilton could easily have abated the nnisance by refusing ad mission to the coarse or by giving them undesirable quarters, bnt that would not advertise him, so he fulminated his edict, and when the leading Jewish banker of the country came, the answer was that no Jew need apply.” The Cincinnati Brewers and Sa loon Keepers.' St Louis Republican.] The Cincinnati brewers and the Sa- loon-Keepers Bank have got at logger- heads because the brewers want to sell their beer for 82 a keg, and the saloon-keepers in sist on paying the old price of 82.50. That is a strange cause for difference, bht the point, is, the saloon-keepers they would retail- lassev for five cents, "the result they apprehend > to pass if the wholesale price . But in the meantime, the . brewers comtflaih that there is a large overstock of beer, which will never be worked off unless the people can he tempted to increase their consumption, and claim the right to sell as cheap as they pleasal CONTRACT RATES OF AJ?2tfTISINti One aquMO'ono monlh_.„ 2 4 00 One squaro litre* monthj»„„„. 8 09 One square six mnnth. u c3 toe square twelve months..^.. , JC m o°e month. 10 00 “onUt* SO 00 a|£S=::" ss toeXS'^^ -onth. IM 0, to.eotunm ZZZ lit H nU * mt0T eitiw Week], ortM-Weekly. Wken publMndfa belli wwom t’* r additional upon an, tsAst ‘ The Oriental Business. Be trait Free pnu.] A good citizen of Crohan street was’ Kntl^m^ 60 ^ 61 ^ 7 of a S°°d Persian gentleman who always walked about with a smile on his face- When the Peman was asked why he always look- ed so happy when other men looked sad, he replied: sunshine surrounded by shad- It was very nice in the Persian, and the Crohan street man said he’d be han ged if he couldn’t out smile a Persian ? r eke walking around on two le £?- He at once began to smile at his wife.- She stood if for a few minutes, and then observed: “Whatiirthe matter, William got the shine to your darkened soulj’ he repli ed. . n She wanted him to understand that fifteen minutes at the woodpile would help her more than all the grins.he could grin in a straight week, and when he went into the kitchen to smile some sunshine'at the.hired girl thd wife fol lowed him and rinsed a row that put dinner three-qnarterB of an hour behind hand. However, one can’t get the hang of Oriental business in a day, and thin man tried it again on the street car as he came down town yesterday. Oppo site him sat on old woman with a bas ket, and he undertook to smile the shadows from her heart. She watched him for two or three minutes growing mad all the time, and presently she asked: “Do you think you know me, that yon are grinning across the aisle like circus baboon?” “I smile, madam, because be cause” he stammered, forgetting what the Persian said “I smile becase” “You are grinning becanse I’ve got sore eyes!” she shouted. “No* madam. I smile that I that I”. “1,11 not stand it,” she exclaimed and she hammered him with the basket until he escaped off the platform. ‘ Now grin over there, will yon,” she called after him as she shook the bas ket in the air. “The Persian who went around smil ing was a fool, and I’m his first cousin,” growled the man, and he quit smiling and picked a fight with a haroess-mak- Tobacco And Tar Currency In a work lately published by Rev Dr. Slaughter, of Virginia, about men and customs in the old days of the com mon-wealth, it is stated that in coloni al times many acts of Assembly were passed regulating the cnltureof tobacco and one office of the early church vest ries was to appoint respectable free holders to connt tobacco plants in each, parish. The salaries of ministers and civil officers were paid in tobacco, and it or notes representing it in the ware houses were the currency of the country. Dr. Slaughter states that parishes were known as “Orinoco” and “Sweet-scented parishes, according to the kind of tobac co grown in them. A “sweet-scented” S ansh was worth much more than an rinoco parish. It is quaintly remoked that a minister’s tobacco was worth much less than other like bulk of tobac co because it was so mixed. Thus it seems that the clergy have not always had the first fruits of their parishion ers in modem times. Whenever the flock could fleece the shepherd they hove rarely failed in that performance. Another fact stated by Dr. Slaughter may not be generarly known: that to- wards the North Carolina line where little or no tobacco was then grown, the minister was paid in tar, pitch and pork. The pine tree and its fruits were then subject of legislation. Tar was once in great demand for tarring the roofs of public and private buildings.—Baltimoe Sun. The Suez Canal. The Suez Canal cost about 894,000, 000 gold. It is 92 miles long, and too narrow to let two large vessels pass without switchings and sidings. You it has passed vessels of nearly 26 feet draft and 430 feet long. The first year it was opened to general trade, 1870, only 491 vessel went through, represen ting a tonnage of about 437,000. But in 1875 it passed 1,496 vessels, 76 per cent of which were British and the ton nage had risen to nearly 3,000,000. The canal’s receipts amounted, in the last year named, to 8,777,160 gold and for 1876 were nearer 86,000,000 at the rate of increase. John Bull, regardless of small consistency, no sooner saw the “ditch” a snccess than he bought in a lump the Khedive’s own share nearly one-half. Of the whole, or 176,702- Thus the Suez Canaal earn above six percent gross, but its earnings in an- others sense are incalculable. The Brit ish Empire—that disconnected series of conquests extending through two centuries—is, by this “ditch,” consoli dated and made intelligible, and Asia is reduced to be aBritish;Province,Bom- bay being little more than two weeks by the fastest steamer from London. The Suez Canal possesses, besides a huge grant ef land and is building tip cities on its banks and at its termini, and leasing water frontB. Poet Wade. The lines written by Ben Wade when he was young, on Napoleon Bonaparte, have reappeared. Here are some of them: Maria she »«ep* for her Saiband departed— And she dream* when abe ileepe,and «be wakc B broken-hearted; And whenorer.be looks on thepalamoon Plana Sha eight as aba think* on tb* isle of St. Helena Poor Maria 'ha ha* hot one consolation. That's the 701m* King of Rome what's tho hope of the notion, A rorr eniieea child, fnU of manly beamy; Religion and wit, intelligence sad duty. Hard wae hia fsto to bo thna separated From his fond loving wH* and tho child h*fore lUted; Imprisoned on a rook by tho wioked English nation. Who never g-v# a thought of hit married situa tion _ The Cincinnati Jews take the exclu sion of Seligman from the Grand Union hotel at Saratoga very much to heart. Forty-six Jewish firms there hove plcdg- tl.emselves henceforto to entertain no business relations with the house of A. T. Stewart & Co. The Canadians get their lager for three cents a glass.