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Affairs in Georgia.
Xhe elev. u able editors of the Atlanta Con-
are of the opinion that the suspicion
'i freely expressed to the effect that certain
' eminent Democrats in this State are
r . elJ „p in the stealings of Bullock, Blod-
3- , t c g 0i) reflects on the party. That the
[civcty of a handful of rascals, ostensibly
within it* racks, can reflect upon the Demo-
trlti o party in Georgia is so ingeniously
absurd that we—well, we pause to think it
OTCT-
Eleven able, you aro entitled to tho
rate money lo this heat.
The alligator sent to Augusta by the Sa
vannah boysis pronounced quite dead. Too
muck canal water did the business.
There aro only two issues in the coming
legislative campaign : A Constitutional Con
ation and the removal of the capital away
from the corrupt- influences by which it has
i, e en surrounded during the past eight
tears.
’ Is the Hon. Potiphar Peagreen, of Tnga-
loo, a delegate to St. Louis ?
The Columbus Times wants Pompum
ITampom Adumdrum interviewed. It seems
jo ns this would be carrying things too
lar.
The Atlanta Commonwealth thus flatter-
jj.iv remarks: The Savannah News iE now
publishing liberally for the Colquitt cohorts,
and its free nse of leads indicate a free en-
dorsoment of the same. We welcome its
powerful aid, and gladly pair it with the
Constitutionalist. The two will carry the
whole of Eastern and Southern Georgia,
ta d secure a nomination without consider
ing the majority or two-thirds rule.
Pie Bussells—B. E. and A. M. C., both
clever and vigorous writers—are at daggers'
points. One wantB to see Hardeman Gov
ernor and the other is for Colquitt. No
words, gentlemen—no words. Either
of
the two distinguished Georgians would fill
ihe Executive chair with credit to himself
and honor to the State.
The bond ring begins to show signs of
reatlessuees. It is too late in the season
for the members thereof to wince now. We
have a bundle of rods in pickle that will
astonish the ring when we begin to use
them.
The Oglethorpe farmers think a shot-gun
is lie best dog-tax that can be levied,
An Oglethorpe county man has Bold this
season ninety dollars’ worth of strawberries
from au eighth of an acre,
A Houston county man caught one hun
dred and thirteen pounds of catfish at one
time in one basket the other day.
By tho by, how many of Bullock’s bogus
bonds are held in Atlanta ? Will some talent'
id interviewer satisfy our curiosity on this
joint?
Professor Robinson, who has been stop
ping in Lexington, has shown the editor of
the Oglethorpe Echo grants m his posses
iioa to 50,000 acres of iand, lying in 111
aunties of thiB State, including the entire
town of Thomasville and 900 acres in Ogle
tborpe county. The parties in possession
of this property think they have undiBpnted
titles, and with Mr. Hill for counsel, Prof. B,
iiys he intends to make a desperate strng-
;le for tho recovery of the same.
The oat crop in Houston oounty iB very
fine, and the yield promises to be extraor
dinarily large.
The papers are still talking about tho ap
pointment of B. L. Mott, Badical, as one of
the Trustees of the State Lunatic Asylum.
Hasn't Governor Smith explained that the
appointment was made for personal reasons
ind not political ones ? And oughtn’t that
explanation to satisfy anybody ?
The crop prospects in Houston county are
fair.
In Columbus, the blackberry is nbiqnitcus.
It Suds its way noiselessly into every board-
ing-honso pie offered to the public.
The band of thieves and desperadoes
known as the Georgia Tigers is still operat
ing in Twiggg county.
The May fair which took place in Tbomas-
iiUelaat Friday was a decided success, as we
knew it would be. We regret that other and
unforeseen engagements prevented us from
attending.
The Columbus Enquirer reports a horri
ble case of incest, in which a man and hiB
daughter were the actors. Tho man is
it jail at Opelika.
"ihie Giles, of Butts county, was thrown
from his horeo tho other day and fatally
injure d.
Oglethorpe county will harvest a fair crop
°f wheat.
k Clinch county correspondent of the
Taldoata Times says a son of Josiah G.
“■‘ton, who lives down on the Suwannee
hver, went out hunting, and while tying in
!! >e bushes yelping np a turkey, and just as
Was supposed to be in the act of shoot-
his finger being found on the trigger,
vaas shot aud killed by his cousin, a sou
Abram Mixon, who was aleo out hunting
hod mistook the yelping of young Mixon for
. 1 turkey, and dimly seeing some-
ikicgniove and shake the bushes, fired the
i*ial shot. His grief is said to have almost
Completely deranged him.
Hamton has had a domino ball.
The editor of the Oglethorpe Echo was
oded last week by Dr. Ben Willingham, of
kungton,
from
-Elbert
a specimen of plumbago taken
a mine ho haB recently purchased in
county, lying Dine miles from the
y° arl House aud one mile from Big Holly
"Wing. This mineral haB been thoroughly
Ca .'red in New York and elsewhere, and
j'onounced to be almost pure, and worth
that* ^ per ton. Et is estimated
the mine contains several hundred
. l8 Md tons.
form — Doctor proposes to
’ 01 - stock company for working the same,
vjj 0 ? his mine at $100,000. We earnestly
pe that Lis most sanguine expectations
b « realized.
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, MAY 29. 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
since September 1st is 35,812 baIes-9,782
from Mobile, 7,795 from Montgomery 11 382
from Selma, 5,491 from West Point, Opeli
ka, etc., 1,208 from Vicksburg, 264 from New
Orleans. 55 by North and South Itailroad.
The total movement last season was 36,473.
During same time the Mobile and Girard
Railroad has brought up 10,178 through
against 4,902 bales.
Darien Gazette: We understand that the
object of the Rice Planters’ Association that
was held at the Magnolia House last Tues
day, was to send delegates to Washington
to protest against the bill before Congress
to admit rice from the Sandwich Islands
°f duty. Our planters claim that the
bill will injure their interests in this section,
and have taken steps to prevent its passage.
Mr. James Couper, of Glynn county, was
selected to represent the planters of this
section. \V e understand that the colored
people have been urged upon to take some
steps in the matter and protect their inter
ests also, but we have been unable to hear
what they have done. Savannah, Charles
ton and other places interested in rico cul
ture have sent delegates to Washington
also, end it is to be hoped the bill will be
defeated.
^ nqUirer !a - YB ttiat to Friday night
■ess th bU8 Uaa receivnd 50,910 bales, 6,522
b ’ lBt season to the same date. The
5Tj ‘ *" stern Hoad has brought 3,451 bales,
Oitart°T, e - lbaU ia8t year; the Mobile and
'“Hoad 14,671—334 more; the Weet-
Jjjjr ‘ jad 1,203—623 less; the river 10,627—
N g ’ WaRtms 19,356—5,765 less; the North
fxctorv , - Kailr0&d x ,031—801 less. The
tel ali ' n H 8 sb °w 9,931 bales, against
year, an increase of 1,063.
Hyg.,1 6 tiffin News: The “organ”
kidht ” J '^p rowa returned to the city last
Gsv
The
*°^d crop.
**etl nr/ 11 ' 9 a P er remarks : Bob Dorsey is
waiter at the Markhum. On
'“ether -. ab an CD H & Seuient to ride with
fired b,It backed ont, as it inter-
•stkereii, dis . P a8t ime of diving after.
The 1 ]- 1 lieai3B iu the 8wi Utnb.
Wia»P ri ^ lrCT 8a l 8 that during the week,
M Alabame^ the western railroads
?ot Savanna! rou , gtlt to Columbus, en route
“•raunah and New York, 97
in from 1’ —
Boston (Thomas county) correspondence
Thomasville Times: Nelson Wood, a worthy
colored man, who has been engaged in
farming near Boston for some years, has
invented a plow and tested the same by
four years’ trial, and claims that by its use
in the cultivation of cotton rust and scald
is entirely prevented. This fact is certainly
worth the attention of farmers. Nelson
gives his reason why so much cotton is
rusted and scalded. It is just be
cause the sweeps and gophers used
by nearly every planter does not
plow close enough to the plant nor
deep enough. By using the “Bough and
Beady Plow’’—his invention—cotton can be
plowed close and tho soil pnlverizod deep in
the first plowing, thus enabling the tender
roots to tend downward, and subsequent
blowings fail to ent the roots, as is not the
case when plowed by the sweops and go
phers. After the first plowing,' the afore
said sweeps and gophers can he used with
out detriment to the roots of the plant. Nel
son invites one and all to come and see his
plow, and says that a great deal of the cot
ton «6ed last year is diseased on account of
the rust.
Atlanta Commonwealth : The last word in
a local of yesterday beaded “Capt. Jack
Jones’s Bond,” should have been “persecu
tion,” and not “prosecution.” We wrote
the word “persecution,” and meant it.
Gapt. Jones was shamefully annoyed and
ill treated by somebody. He tendered sev
eral gentlemen as bondsmen, whese aggre
gate assets above their liabilities aud the
homestead amounted to many thousands
more than the sum named in the order
tor bail, but each one was required to
make oath that he was worth the
amount of the bond over and above his lia
bilities and the homestead. This new in
terpretation of the law prevented the exe
cution of the band yesterday; but it is
proper to say that late iu the afternoon Mr.
Solicitor Glenn corrected the monstrous
error of tho officers. This community would
like to be informed as to the source of such
instructions, and the object of such a harsh
exaction. Captain Jones has been prepared
to execute his bond ail day, but the officers
have been busy with other duties, and he
has not been able to find them.
Elberton Gazette: From the unanimity
with which complaint is made, we do not
suppose any will deny the existence of hard
times in Elbert. But wo have a few figures
to present which we think will convince our
citizens that times are not near so hard as
they are said to be. From the best infor
mation we can gather, after instituting the
closest inquiries, we find that there has
the present year been brought into the
county and sold 20,000 bushels of corn,
which we may safely estimate has cost
the farmers who purchased it, $1 25 per
bushel. Of flour there has been brought to
Elterton alone, 600 barrels, which will aver
age about $10 per barrel to the last pur
chaser. The cost of the guano brought to
the county and used will amount to $30,000,
as we stated a month ago. Now let us look
at the figures:
20,000 bushels of corn, at $1 25 $25,000
600 barrels of flour at $10 per bbl 6,000
Fertilizers 30,000
Amount of money expended by Elbert
farmers..... $61,000
We do not intend to say a word about the
propriety or impropriety of sending any
portion of this amount of money out ot the
county. We publish the figures for reflec
tion, and also to show what Elbert county
can do in hard times. It has taken a great
deal of time and patience to get np the fig
ures, and we hope our efforts will be appre
ciated.
WEDDING IN HIGH LIFE.
Marriage of I.ord Mandeville and Mi..
Con.uelo Yznaga Del Valle.
Lord Mandeville, eldest son of the pres
ent Duke of Manchester, was married in
New York on Monday afternoon to Miss
Consuelo Y’znaga del Valle, daughter of
Senor Don Antonio Yznaga del Valle.
The ceremony took place at Grace church,
the Kev. Dr. Dix officiating in the ab
sence of the Kev. Dr. Potter, rector, who
is now on board the Scythia, homeward
bound from his tour m the East. By 3
o’clock Broadway, in front of the church,
and the grounds aud corridors of the
building, were crowded. When the wed
ding party arrived there was hard
ly standing room in the aisles of
the church, and it was with difficulty
that the ushera succeeded in keeping a
passage clear to the chancel. In fact, so
dense was the crowd that the groom was
unable to make his way up to the chan
cel in time to appear there simultaneously
with his bride. As the procession en
tered, the organ pealed out the wedding
march from “Lohengrin,” a selection
made by the bride herself, who had given
special instructions that “nothing doleful
should be played.” The bride entered
with her father by the main door, dressed
in white satin, trimmed with point lace,
and a handsome point lace veil, which
has been an heirloom in the family for
three or four generations. She wore
orange blossoms in her hair and carried a
bouquet of white lilacs. Her jewelry
consisted of a diamond star and
crescent, diamond ear-rings and
pearl necklace. The bridesmaids,
Miss Minnie Stevens, the Misses
Yznaga del Valle, Miss Mary Bright and
Miss Kemochan, were dressed in white
tulle and satin bodices, trimmed with
point lace, aud point lace veils over
wreaths of orange blossoms. The grooms
men were Mr. F. Sherman, Mr. Isaac
BeU, Jr., Mr. Fernando Yznaga, brother
of the bride, and the Hon. Mr. Komilly,
of England, a son of Lord Komilly and a
grandson of the famous jurist Sir Samuel
Komilly. Lord Mandeville came in
through the vestry door and walked to
the chancel, accompanied by his “best
man,” Colonel Wm. Jay. The ceremony
was very brief and simple, entirely in the
Church of England form, and occupied
barely ten minutes. At its conclusion the
newly married couple received the con
gratulations of their friends, and leaving
the church while the organ played the
march from “Tannhauser, ” drove to the
residence of the bride’s father, at 252
Fifth avenue, whore a reception, to which
one hundred and fifty guests had been in
vited, was held. The newly married cou
ple drove off about 5:30 in Mr. John
Jay’s landau, appropriately equipped
with wedding favors, to pass a few days
in the country. Showers of old shoes
and of “rice” for luck were flung after
them, and they were loudly cheered by
the good natured and sympathizing
crowds on the sidewalks. Among those
people present at the wedding ceremony, to
which fifteen hundred friends had been
invited, were many distinguished for
eigners. with a large sprinkling of New
York shoddy, including the snob eoach-
ers and the Polo Club, of which the
bridegroom is a prominent member.
The presents received by Lady Mande
ville are extremely handsome and numer
ous. They include an ivory and silver
toilet set complete, a handsome gold
mounted dressing case, a band bracelet,
studded with large solitaire diamonds, a
BY TEIMAPI
THE
—TO-
MORNING
NEWS.
JEEMS BLAINE, OF MAINE.
HE
RISES AGAIN AND
PLAIN.
TRIES TO EX-
The New
York “San”
by the Hair.
Takes Him
Saturday’. Conffretsional Proceeding
The Political Situation in Europe.
PANIC IN
TUE LONDON
MARKET.
STOCK
Record of Crimen and CasualCieti.
JIM BLAINE’S CROOKEDNESS.
Washington, May 27.—The New York
Sun publishes a letter dated Augusta, Me.,
November 25,1870, from James G. Blaiue to
Warren Fisher, of Boston, offering for $25,-
000 to procure Fisher the one hundred and
ninety-second part of the entire franchise of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, including
land and company’s stock. After describing
the prospective profits of tho transaction,
Blaine says he cannot avail himself of tho
opportunity, and, following the first and best
impulses offers, it to Fisher. In tho conclud
ing paragraph Biaine says: “Keep my name
quiet. Mention it to no one unless to Mr.
Caldwell.” Tho Sun also publishes Blaine’s
receipt to Fisher for $25,000, aud an agree
ment to deliver as abovo. Failing to deliver
after more than a year Aquila Adams, one
of the pool for which Fisher acted, reclaimed
from Blaine $5,000, his interess, and obtain
ed it. The correspondence seems to have
been furnished the Sun by Adams, a letter
from whom is also published.
Later.—Mr. Blaine explains the Sun's
statement. Some of his Boston friends
wished to invest, and the opportunity pre
sented itself. He held the $25,000 in trust,
but tho negotiation failed after dragging
along for a year, when the money was re
turned with interest. His property, ho goes
on to state, which amounts only to a fair
competency, comes mainly from a fortunate
investment in oil lauds in Pennsylvania,
made before he became a member of Con
gress.
TUBF NOTES.
Philadelphia, May 27.—Yesterday, ia
the 2:28 class, Siogo was first; Billy Lam-
berton second; Priuce third, fourth and
fifth. Time, 2:27; 2:28; 2:27$; 2:29; 2:28. In
the free to ail race, Lady Monde was first;
Nettie second; Adelaide third. Time, 2:21$;
2:24$; 2:26$.
Cincinnati, May 27.—In the mile heats,
three in five, Bob Wooley won; time, 1:47;
1:474; 1:484. In the two and a half miles for
all ages, "War Jig won, Novelty second,
Emma Cobb third; time, 4:374. For beaten
horses, mile heats, Larry Hart won; Gold
Mine won the second heat; time 1:47$; 1:49;
1:51.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Washington, May 27.—The President has
gone to Baltimore.
The evidence in the investigation of Clerk
Adams as to selling offices has developed
nothing.
The Committee on Expenditures examined
A. D. Green, who obtained a fortune in the
army through Mr. K,err’s influence. Green
testifies that he paid Lawrence Hainey, who
was doorkeeper, $600. Hainey will be exam
ined. The occurrence was in 1865. Kerr
does not seem disturbed about it.
MOVEMENTS OF WAR VESSELS.
Gibraltar, May 27.—The German
squadron of four meu-of-war pi ssed hero
Thursday night going eastward.
London, May 27.—Her Majesty’s iron
plated steamship Sultan of 12 guns, 9,286
tons, and 8,629 horse power, lately attached
to the channel squadron, sailed to-day from
Spithead, under command of the Duke of
Edinburg, to join the Mediterranean
squadron.
- THE BERLIN CONFERENCE.
Vienna, May 27.—Identical instructi >ns
were sent the representatives of the Impe
rial Powers at London, authorizing them to
offer Lord Derby no modifications of the
Berlin proposal.
Paris, May 27.—It is rumored that the
Berlin memorandum will be withheld for
the present, in hopes of a settlement by a
European conference; meantime the three
Chancellors meet at Ems.
FROM PARIS.
Paris, May 27.—The Figaro has been
fined one hundred dollars for publishing
two letters from Henri Rochefort.
Rochefort’s journal, Droits de VHomme,
has reappeared.
The government has taken fresh proceed
ings against Les Droits de VHomme, Roche
fort’s journal.
Marquis De la ltochegafuelain, the Legiti
mist, has been elected to the Chamber of
Deputies from Bressnire.
THE PRINCE OF WALES.
London, May 27.—The Court Circular an
nounces that the Prince of Wales is suffer
ing from inflammation of the veins of his
legs, and will be comoelled to keep in the
house for some days. One of the rumors
circulating on the Stock Exchange says this
attack is more serious than the announce
ment indicated.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, May 27.—In the Senate, the
entire day was occupied in the discussion
of the impeachment jurisdiction. It meets
on Monday at 10 a. m. •
In the House, Singleton, from the Com
mittee on Conference on the consular and
diplomatic appropriation bill, reported that
the committee were unable to agree. The
report was adopted.
The Committee on Printing reported „
bill to reduce the expenses of advertising
in the District of Columbia. Passed.
The consideration of the bill to promote
efficiency aud provide for the gradual re
duction of the army, was read. It reduces
the cavalry to eight and the infantry to
twenty regiments, and abolishes the colored
regiments. It merges the Quartermaster
and Subsistence Departments into one or
ganization, to be known as the Department
of Supplies. There was no quorum on tho
preliminary vote, the Republicans abstain
ing from the various propositions to secure
debate. Much filibustering followed till the
adjournment.
The Senate Appropriations Committee
have made over one thousand amendments
in the legislative, judicial and executive ap
propriations bill.
The committee to investigate the news
paper statement that Adams, Clerk of the
House, sold offices, were discharged.
The Senate resolved, by a vote of 28 to
21, to vote on the question cf jurisdiction on
Monday.
THE PRESBYTERIANS.
New York, May 27.—la the Presbyterian
Assembly, Rev. Dr. Morris read a report
from the delegation to the London Con
ference of 1875, composed ef*Hfrom
nearly every part of the world.
A resolution was introduced for the ap
pointment of a special committee, to be
composed of the Moderator, Rev. Dr. Cros
by, Rev. Dr. Prime, aud Rev. Dr. McCosh
who should choose the delegates to repre
sent this General Assembly in the alliance.
The question regarding Catholic bap
tism, after debate, was referred to a com
mittee of five, to report at the next Con
ference.
A SUIT.
London, May 27.—The suit against Albert
Grant and others to recover money obtained
by fraudulent representations of the Lisbon
Steam Tram Railway Company, resulted iu
the statement that the money had been paid
for the insertion of items in tho money
articles of the Times, Standard, News and
Telegraph. There are eighty suits of this
kind, of which this, for $5,000, is the test
The prospectus was issued for three hun
dred and nine thousand ponnds.
PANIC IN THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE.
London, May 27.—This afternoon’s Globe,
in its financial article, says the condition of
affairs on the Stock Exchange is little better
than a state of panic.
To-day has been the worst Saturday on
’Change known for years. Everything was
sold indiscriminately. There is hardly any
stock on the entire list that is not lower.
The continental bourses havo not partici
pated in the panic.
COWLES VS. DON PIATT.
Washington, May 27.—The committee on
expenditures or the War Department has
thrown out Cowles’s attack on Don Piatt, as
not evidence. Cowles has been summoned
to appear with his books.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.
New York, May 27.—James Dodwood was
found with his throat cut and his wife’s
head split with a hatchet. It is supposed
to be attempted murder aud suicide. Both
will prove fatal.
TURKISH AFFAIRS.
Vienna, May 27.—The insurgents and
Turkish camps, considering the new armis
tice, authorizes Makkhtar Pasha to suspend
hostilities whenever possible.
FATAL MINE EXPLOSION.
Pottsville, May 27.—An explosion oc
curred to-day, caused by an uncovered
lamp, in the Phoenix coal mine, injuring
thirteen, of whom three are dead*
AUDACIOUS ROBBERY.
Cincinnati, May 27.—The residence of
Col. J. W. Branch wa9 robbed of. $3,000 in
bonds by a man who called the Colonel’s
daughter to the door and threw snuff in her
eyes.
FROM COPENHAGEN.
Copenhagen, May 27.—The Crown Prince
of Denmark is sick, and it is feared he and
the King of Greece have contracted fever at
Rome.
LONDON STOCK MARKET.
London, May 27.—The stock market
closed quiet and very flat. There is a large
decrease in the coal, iron and steel produc
tion.
THE INDEPENDENT REFORMERS.
New York, May 27.—The Independent
Reform party met at the Masonic Hall to
day, aud endorsed the nomination of Cooper
and Booth.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, May 27.—Kellogg ap
pointed Judge Campbell as Judge of the
Superior Court, who, with a squad of Metro
politan police, took possession of the court
room. Judge Lynch arriving, ordered the
Sheriff to put him in possession. The
Sheriff obeyed. Campbell will appeal to the
courts.
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,! °' ri1 8moar P&ris green on his
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ffiroutfh ninuom^*- by this route
other articles,including valuable gifts from
her father and from relatives in Cuba.
All the jewelry worn by the bride at the
wedding, excepting the pearl necklace,
are family treasures of great age and
VS The happy bridegroom of this brilliant
wedding, Viscount Mandeville, is a youth
of twenty-three, and an officer in the Brit
ish army. His father, the Duke of Man
chester, who is but fifty-three yearsi of
age, visited this country two or thxee years
ago and his mother, a German lady, nee
Yon Alien, from Hanover, has ongbeen
celebrated for her beauty, and u oonspi-
l’OLITICAL SITUATION IN ECEOPE.
London, May 27.—A rumor is circulating
to the effect that the Rothschilds are sellers
of consols to the amount of nearly a million
pounds sterling, which transaction is sup
posed to be based on the knowledge that
the political situation in Europe is likely to
grow worse.
THE METHODISTS.
Baltimore, May 27 Bishop Scott pre
sided to-day. It was agreed to hold three
sessions daily and adjourn on Wednesday.
The majority report on the mode cf elec
ting ruling elders was adopted. It leaves
the matter unchanged.
THE 8ALONICA OUTRAGE.
Constantinople, May 27.—Official inquiry
into the origin of the Salouica outrage
shows that the American Consul was absent
when the Bulgarian girl arrived, and his
brother sheltered her one night. The in
vestigation is still progressing.
ATTACKED BY INDIANS.
Lincoln, Neb., May 27.—A company here
a month ago, known as Col. Ferris’s squad,
was attacked by the Indians. Eleven of the
twenty-two composing the party woro killed.
A number of wealthy Cincinnatians were
among them.
another massacre reported.
London, May 27.—Fighting has occurred
in Belgravia. The Turks have hanged
several chiels and priests at Parovich,.
where a general massacre of Christians is
reported, the insurgents retiring to the
mountains.
BURNET.
Cincinnati, May 27.—Melodian Hall, with
Dubuf.’s “ Prodigal Son,” is burned. The
painting is valued at one hundred thousand
dollars, and was insured for twenty-five
thousand dollars. The other losses on the
building is about ten thousand dollars.
FROM MEXICO.
Brownsville, May 27.—Escobedo re
mains in Matamoras. He has the report of
a battle near Monterey. The revolutionists
defeated two vessels, with reinforcements
and provisions for Escobedo, off Brazos.
All is quiet along the border.
arrested for smuggling.
New York, May 27.—Hermann Hirsoh, of
the defunct firm of Hermann Htrsch & Co.,
was arrested for smuggling a large amount
of laces as corsets in 1874. He was bailed
in $15,000.
A ROYAL ALLIANCE.
London, May 27.—The correspondent of
the Manchester Guardian says Prince Ar
thur, Duke of Connaught, will shortly marry
ono of the daughters of the ex-King of
Hanover.
THE WAR TO BE CONTINUED.
Berlin,May 27.—The Herzegovinian lead
ers met on the 23d to consider the Berlin
memorandum. It was decided to continue
the war until the independence of Herze
govina and Bosnia is conceded.
FROM EGYPT.
Alexandria, May 27.—The Abyssinian
army has succeeded in culting its way
through the Egyptian lines.
MARTIAL LAW.
San Sebastain, May 27.—General Qnesada
has declared martial law in the Basque pro
vinces.
ELECTED ARCHBISHOP.
Salzbubo, Mav 27.—The Cathedral Chap
ter elected Abbot Eden Archbishop of this
Diocese..
ERCHANTS’ SHlPPLriO BILL.
27.—The House of Commons
FOB THE ARCTIC REGIONS.
Loxdon, May 27.—The steamer Pandora
sailed from Ewes to-day on a voyage to the
mouth of Smith’s Sound, in the Arctic re
gions.
BURNED TREASURY NOTES.
Washington, May 27.—A World special
sayB testimony is about being taken show
ing conclusively that redeemed treasury
notes ordered burned are circulating.
THE WHISKY SUETS.
St. Louis. May 27.—Tbo verdicts yester
day in the civil suits with tho liquor dis
tillers included an aggregate of half a mil
lion dollars.
DEAD.
London, May 27.—The Dowager Duchess
ot Carnaroon is dead.
Pesth, May 27.—Francis Palocky, the
historian, is dead.
mediterranean war risks.
London, May 27.—War risks in the Med
iterranean are quoted at a quarter of one
per cent.
HUNG.
Nashville, May 27.—Burrell Spinx (col
ored) was hung at Lebanon to-day. Ho
murdered Robert Hamilton a year ago.
It happened that Swift, having been
dining at some little distance from Lara-
cor, his residence, was returning home
on horseback in the evening, which was
very dark. Just before he reached a
neighboring village his horse lost a shoe-
Unwilling to run the risk of laming the
animal by continuing his ride in that di
rection, be stopped at one Kelly’s, the
blacksmith of the village, where having
called the man, he asked him if he could
shoe a horse with a candle. “ No,” re
plied the son of Vulcan; “ but I can with
a hammer.”
“Your visits remind me of the growth
of a successful newspaper,” said Uncle
Jabez, leaning his chin on his cane and
glancing at William Henry, who was sweet
on Angelica.
“Why so ?” inquired William Henry.
“Well, they commenced on a weekly,
grew to a tri-weekly, and have now be
come a daily, with a Snuday supplement.”
“Yes,” said William Henry, bracing up,
“and after we are married we will issue
an extra—”
“Sh—h,” said Angelica, and then they
went out for a stroll.—N. O. Times.
A Troy tailor advertised in the New
York Sun for six workmen, and the Troy
Times says that on the night of the pub
lication more than fifty took passage on
the steamer Thomas Powell. They had
no money with which to pay fares, and
the Captain did not think it worth while
to make a landing and put them off the
boat.
Why the Littlefield Bonds Were De
clared Unconstitutional.
THE POSITION OP PARTIES.
Live Oak, May 22, 1876.
Editor Morning News:
Let us take a look into the action of
that celebrated body of intellectual gen
tlemen, known as the Supreme Court of
Florida, upon the great railroad bond case,
in which the 84,000,000 of Littlefield
bonds were decreed unconstitutional and
void. To understand this case one must
know something of the circumstances,
and that the State, just about now, is in
need of a railroad to enable it to get
around and see the people. The election
is coming on and such conveniences are
indispensable in the successful manage
ment of ths canvass. The reader must
understand that this railroad had been sold
and bought by first one and then another,
until it came into the possession of Little
field, facetiously termed “Prince John,”
from his generous bestowal upon his f avor-
itesof other people'smoney. The Legisla
ture had authorized the issue of 84,000,-
000 of bonds to the Jacksonville, Pensa
cola and Mobile Railroad Company, and
that the Governor should, for these, ac-
uept Sio “d ciDonnt of the
company’s bonds as collateral security.
This had all been accomplished, and more
too. The company’s bonds were safely
in the hands of the State, and could not
be made available. The State needed the
road, but it could not legally have the
security and the road also, and it was
under the immense pressure of the ap
proaching election that the Supreme
Court was called upon to destroy
the security, to euable the State to
control the road. It was a simple,
plain, straightforward business trans
action, covered up, it may have
been with many words, but then lan
guage, it is said, was made to conceal
men s thoughts and purposes, and why
not so apply it in all cases when the State
is in a tight place ? There are those who
think the Supreme Court of Florida has
covered itself all over with a thick coat
ing of glory in decreeing the Littlefield
bonds unconstitutional and void. There
were many who proposed to run the
whole concern for Governor, but in spite
of all the hullabaloo that was kicked up
on that occasion, the writer was unable
to discover much of anything in the
sum. The figures looked to him, all tho
time, like taking nothing from nothing—
little remained after the deduction as
well as before.
If the State had not regained the road,
it is barely possible that it would have
given itself any trouble about the Little
field bonds; it is presumable, at all events,
that it was necessity which started the
thing going, and necessity regards no
law, knows no law, and is the mother, it
is said, of invention. The bonds were
decreed worthless, and the security also
valueless per consequence, aDd the State
must take the road and sell it in ninety
days. Well, now, reader, count from
the 1st day of June, 1876, ninety days,
and see how far it will reach; does it not
go a good long way into the canvass?
Does it not look as though, under the
management of them hard working Re
publicans, that the party can be put in
first-class trim with the aid of the rail
road ?
The Sentinel would have us believe
that the road has been run down, aud
literally frayed out, uuder the manage
ment of Major Walker; but then you
must take what the Sentinel says
upon this subject, as well as every
thing else, with many grains of allow
ance, as it is thought the Sentinel
wishes to buy the road; there are tricks
in selling and buying railroads as well as
every other kind of goods.
But, to return to the judiciary. There
is no telling the loss future generations
have sustained by reason of the inability
of one of the learned Judges to lay h-.s
magisterial flipper upon some book on
railways. The opinion of this learned
public func. was as clear as mud, aDd it is
certain, judging from outward appear-
A Prominent Mas.nrliu.etls Republican
Who Want, to Give the Democracy n
Trial—Independent Movement. Hope
less, and Republican Reform a Delu
sion—Why the Democratic Pnrty t'nn
be Trusted.
In an open letter to Ethan Allen, the
Liberal Republican leader, which is at
trading very general attention among
men of all parties in New England, Hon.
Frank Bird, an influential Massachusetts
Republican, says:
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AS IT WAS.
I have schooled myself to silence : and
now how shall I begin ? For years I
loved and trusted the Republican party.
“I stood by its cradle’’ in Massachusetts,
when Samuel Hoar, Stephen C. Phillips,
Horace Mann, Charles AUeD, Burlin
game, Andrew, Sumner, Wilson, Howe,
Robinson—all now gone to their re
ward—were its leaders. Of the living,
Palfrey, Adams, Whittier, co-operated
with this noble array of martyrs, bearing
the Republican banner without fear aud
without reproach. On a broader field,
Lincoln, Chase. Seward, Trumbull,
Schurz, led the Republican forces from
one triumph to another in the battle for
human rights. Under such leaders it
was au honor to serve. One by one most
of these great men fell by the way, and
all who survive have been excluded from
the councils of the party which they
formed, and to which they gave the in
spiration of ideas. And now, who for
years have been recognized leaders of the
Republican party ? Grant, Cameron.
Morton, Conkling, Logan, Blaine. “Look
first upon that picture aud theu on this, ”
aud tell me how, for years past, I could
fail to pray, “Draw me out of this
crowd ?’’
ances, that he could have made it still
clearer, if he could have got hold of t hat
book. He would have proven that the
State was entitled to all it needed under
the circumstances, and more too, if neces
sary. It is deplorable to think of what
has been lost for the want of that book.
He would not only have proven that the
State was compelled to have the road
when the security was out of the way,
but he would have proven to the entire
satisfaction of the enquiring student of
future generations, that he was not un
like Collins’s famous ram—“he had a
head of his own.”
It has not yet transpired the disposi
tion the Florida “ Syndics ” intend making
of this property. It is believed by many
cool-headed men, that they have gotten
hold of a thing which will prove trouble
some, and, likely enough, a Governor-
killer, politically speaking. I don’t wish
to be understood as meaning that the
road would be the cause, directly or
otherwise, of the death of the Governor;
by no manner of means; but that it might
result in his political annihilation. There
are maDy who would not shed tears of
sorrow, either, at such an occurrence.
Yours, Figures.
Kilpatrick was once making a speech.
He said : “I’ve got a bullet iu my leg. I
know the Southerners. I’ve licked ’em
for four years, and I can lick ’em again.
If there’s one here let him say so.” A big
fellow immediately stepped upon the
stage. “Don’t interrupt my speech,”
said Kil.
A lady objects to Edwards Pierrepont
as Minister to England because, she says,
“ America should be represented at such
a Court as that of St. James, not only by
a man of brains, but by a man of elegant
and imposing personal appearance.” This
is bad for Pierrepont, as he is a little man
and cannot hit a fly six feet from the
floor.—Brooklyn Argus.
Government Settlements with South
ern Railroad Companies.
It will be remembered that ever since
the war began, there have been difficul
ties with some of the Southern railroad
companies in relation to their settlements
with the government for rolling stock
and railway material that was left over,
belonging to the United States Govern
ment. By payment or otherwise, the most
of these have been settled. Hon. Julian
Hartridge proposes a settlement as pro
vided in the aot of March 3, 1871, but
proposes—
That in making said readjustment,
such abatement shall he allowed, respec
tively, as shall be deemed just in respect
of an over-valuation, if any, of the prop
erty sold to said railroad companies, not
exceeding twenty-five per centum of the
valuatiou of the properly in each case,
as made under the authority of the War
Department on the occasion of such
sales: Provided, That such settlement
shall be made withir. one year next after
the passage of this act.
That in such a readjustment and set
tlement, no allowance shall be made in
respect of any matter occurring prior to
such sales and transfers, nor otherwise,
except such payments as may have been
made in cash, and such credits for trans
portation as the general course of busi -
ness regulations of the department au
thorize ; that when any abatement is
made in pursuance of this act, the Secre
tary of War be, and is hereby authorized
to issue his warrant on the Treasury of
the United States to the President, or
other lawful agent, or his order, of each
company entitled for the amount of
money found to be due.”
“Philadelphia is swelling like a toad,”
says an envious'"New Yorker. “Our lit
tle neighbor reminds me of the story
Charlie Backus tells in the minstrels.
‘Mr. Backus,’ a lady said to him, ‘is that
your natural mouth, or do you use glove-
stretchers ?’ Does Philadelphia use Cen
tennial glove-stretchers, or is that her
natural mouth ?”
When Sam Bowles first saw the dispatch
relating to investigating charges against
Adams, he fainted and fell over into the
exchange basket. He would not have re
covered if somebody had not promptly
remarked that it was Adams, Clerk of the
A marble slab has been unearthed in
the Militaiy Park in Newark, N. J., con
taining the following inscription: “The
citizens of Newark, in grateful commem
oration of the 50th anniversary of Ameri
can Independence, have on this 4th day
of July, A. D. 1826, deposited this stone
as a foundation of a monumental memo
rial here to be erected; and when the
dilapidation of time shall discover this
inscription to future generations, may
the light of the Gospel illuminate the
whole world.”
NO SHOW FOR AN INDEPENDENT MOVEMENT.
Since tbo melancholy failure of 1872
any attempt to renew the effort seems
well-nigh hopeless. The fatal defeat iu
that movement was, that it was started
and carried out as au attempt to create a
new Republican party. Its purpose was
mainly to prevent the renomination of
Grant, and it would have fallen to pieces,
as its leaders designed it should, had the
National Republican Convention nomi
nated a candidate who represented the
traditions and idea3 of the Republican
party. But it failed to provide for tho
contingency of Grant’s renomination.
Iu assuming the name of Liberal Repub
lican it could expect no large accession of
numbers other than Republicans, espec
iaily when it placed at the head of its ticket
one, than whom hardly a Republican m the
country was more obnoxious to the Dem
ocratic masses. I saw then the mistake
involved in the name of the party adopt
ed by the convention, and I labored
earnestly with the men who had the ear
of the convention to secure the adoption
of a name which should truly represent
the real purpose of the honest masses of
the country; and that was, the party of
national reform. That would have been a
name to conjure with, aud one which
would not have repelled the Democratic
masses, without whose alliance success
was hopeless. Other counsels prevailed.
NO SHOW FOB REFORM WITHIN THE PARTY.
Admit that the Republican candidate
who to-day represents specially purity
aud reform shall be nominated at Cincin
nati and elected. He goes into office
under the necessity of takmg counsel of
the men who have elected him. Among
these undoubtedly would be many of the
purest men of the Republican party of
the olden, time; but among them, too,
must he the meu who have degraded the
Republican party and dishonored the
country. The men who banished Sumner
and Greeley, Trumbull and Schurz from
ths councils of the party must still be
recognized as supporters of the adminis
tration, and as entitled to a voice in its
policy.
They are in the Senate, and control its
action. They till all the important officos
of the country. Will a Republican Ad
ministration turn them out? Eighty
thousand Republican office holders are
eating out the substance of the people.
Here and there one has been detected in
his nefarious practice—hardly au infinite
simal fraction of the whole. Will a Re
publican Administration call its devotees
to account for practices learned from
their superiors ? The Republican press
of the country, with a few honorable ex
ceptions, is controlled by rogues or their
apologists.
THE ONLY CHANCE.
No! no! There is but one way of
salvation for the Republican party, and
that is through the purgation of defeat.
The spoils once out of their grasp, the
corrupt men who “ratted” from the Dem
ocratic party into the Republican would
instinctively follow the scent of public
plunder and rat back into the Democratic
party; and the Republican party, released
of its incubus, with its men of ideas at
the front, would again deserve the confi
dence of the country. This is a consum
mation devoutly to be wished. Most of
my dearest friends are still in the Repub
lican party, endeared through many years
of association, by bonds of common faith
and mutual trust. I mean to keep the
right to love them still. “Hand in haud
we stood around the administration of
Andrew, and felt his own great arm lean
on us for support.” I live in the ua-
uoubtiug assurance that they will soon
learn that patriotism and virtue did not
die when the Republican party committed
suicide, aud that we shall yet come to
gether in the trials and triumphs of the
future, and wonder we ever separted.
LET US BE PRACTICAL !
What then remains ? The Democratic
party. “Do you belong to the Demo
cratic party ?” No! I shall never again
“belong” to any party, but I am ready
to co-operate with any party or with any
men who, in my judgment, best promise
to destroy the power which now curses
the country. I know full well how great
is the popular distrust of the Democratic
party. I have taken some small share in
creating that distrust when it was well
founded:
“ I loved my country and I hated it.”
But now old things have passed away.
When we are able to vote in the millen
nium, we will welcome the ideal party.
Till then, we must aim at practical meth
ods and practical results. I do not like
to be forced to a choice of evils, but I
see clearly that, until one party or the
other nominates an ideal candidate, we
must choose between those who are pre
sented or “take to the woods.”
of slow growth. Distrust of the Demo
cratic party is, I doubt not, honestly en
tertained by the best portion of the Re
publican party, and dishonestly proclaim
ed as their most effective partisan cry by
the worst. I do not partake of the views
of the one class: I utterly despise the
hypocrisy of the other. I have a prevail
ing confidence that sixteen years of pur
gation and punishment have had their
effect in purifying the Democratic party
in perhaps as great degree as sixteen years
of power have corrupted and disgraced
the Republican party.
GRANT’S COUP D’ETAT.
THE CENTENNIAL SHOW.
Will the Receipt. Pay Eve* its Rmlas
Expenses t
[From the New York Son.]
The number of paying visitors to the
Centennisl exhibition has fallen short of
the anticipation of the managers. The
daily official reports of the oaah admis
sions during the first week of the show
afford the following figures:
Wednesday - re, sit
Thursday 14,711
£><;»>• 10.WS
MonSay 11,811
Tuesday 7,064
What Is Thought of It nt Washington nnd
Elsewhere—A Dead Thrn.t at Blnine, of
.Maine.
[Washington Special to the New York Herald.]
The plan of campaign developed or un
masked to-day is an undoubtedly strong
one. It evidently means to secure to Mr.
Conkling, at the opening of the Cincin
nati convention, the votes of New York
Pennsylvania, and all, or nearly ull, of
the Southern States. The expectation
probably, is to secure all except Ken
tucky, which will go to Mr. Bristow, an
Delaware, which has hut six votes. If
this plan is successful, Mr. Conklin,
would thus have 334 votes to begin with
besides the scattering votes from other
States, and there would be little doubt
of his nomination. Of course, these
votes would not appear on the first bal
lot, as probably a considerable part of the
South will want to give Mr. Morton aud
Mr. Blaine a complimentary vote.
The influence of the President’s wishes,
wherever he makes them positively
known among the Southern Republicans,
is very strong—enough in most cases to
overcome their preferences for any other
candidate. There is no doubt that
General Grant himself is the first choice
of all or nearly all of the colored Repub
lican leaders in the South, and of many
of the whites as well. Naturally these
defer to his wishes, if he chooses to make
them known. Moreover, he knows how
to use his Southern patronage to securo
the predominance of his wishes, as in the
appointment just made of Mayer to bi
Marshal in Alabama, which insures Sena
tor Spencer's zealous support to Mr
Conkling in the convention, while i!
gives the cold shoulder to the honest
part of the Republican party in Alabama,
and treats them as rebels against the re
gular party organization.
[FtaiiadelpUia Times.]
Blaine is the Ciesar of the conspiracy,
and the keen political death thrust was
aimed at him with pitiless purpose. For
several weeks past Blaine hits been mak
ing rapid strides toward the Cincinnati
nomination, and Grant would crucify him
for the plaudits which the nation accords
him. Delaware, Maryland, aud New Jer
sey have just wheeled into the Blaine
column in the utter contempt of the
power at the capital. Pennsylvania was
trembling in the balance between Blaino
and the next prominent candidate, and J.
Don Cameron was the ass fcetween the
bundles of hay who did not know
which way to nibble. Grant met him
in his vexed mood and brought gifts,
not in the blossom of hope, hut in the
ripened fruit and the heir of the Cameron
dynasty, took the war portfolio with
Conkling orders, and will harangue the
multitude in the Cincinnati market place
over the body of the betrayed and mur
dered Blaine by the reaction against the
Presidential trade. But Blaine will fail
with the pillars that have supported tic
high contracting parties, while parting
the raiment of Republicanism. Cameron
will fail to nominate Conkling, but ho
will have his Cabinet chair st cure for a
year; will go into history as a Minister of
State, and he will not pause to weep over
the piles of slain behind him. Thai
there will be disappointments bitter,
deep and lasting, in the attempted exo
cution of the programme, will be but
h'story repeating itseif. But the chief
jockeys will attain their foremost bent,
and Conkling will be ground to powder.
[Fiom tile Philadelphia American.]
There seems to be almost universal be
lief in the opinion expressed by us yes
terday that President Grant looked upon
the appointment of Mr. Don Cameron as
a long stride in the direction of Mr.
Conkling’s success at Cincinnati. On all
sides the personal fitness of Mr. Cameron
seems to be conceded, except, perhaps
in one or two such papers as the New
York TrRmne, whose vile abuse of the
Senator from Pennsylvania includes all of
his name in the denunciation. With some
knowledge of the temper of this State we
can assert pretty positively that ne .iher the
President, Mr. Cameron nor any one else
can carry the vote cf Pennsylvania in
such direct contradiction of the wishes cf
the people as would be the case were it
to be east for Mr. Conkling. That Mr.
Cameron himself has any such idea we
know of no warrant for asserting, and it
is injustice to him, as it is to the delrgt
tion, wrongly supposed to be subject to
his will, that he should be accused of
having made a bargain he knows he could
not fulfill. If the Senator from New York
counts upon the support of Pennsylvania
he relies upon a broken reed. We don’t
want him, and he can’t get us.
What a Cincinnati editor doesn’t know
about musical similes could be passed
through the eye of a needle and never
touch the steeL One of those editors,
after bathing and anointing himself for
the effort, sat down and wrote of Wag
ner’s Centennial march that “ through
the crash of the fanfare runs .a little deli
cate thread of the original theme like the
voice of the nightingale above the mar
of the ratareut
mmatm
BETTER THE WORST DEMOCRAT THAN THE
BEST REPUBLICAN.
Can we trust the Democratic party ? In
1848 our Southern Whig friends, in justi
fying themselves for supporting the Whig
ticket with Gen. Taylor at the head, used
to say, “The Southern man who is farth
est from us is nearer to us than any
Northern man can be.” It is my pro
found conviction that the worst Demo
crat whose nomination at St. Louis is
possible is safer for the country that the
best Republican whose nomination is
possible at Cincinnati. The imperative,
the solemn need of the country is a
change of the national administration. A
new set of books must be opened at
Washington. Every department of gov
ernment, from the White House to
the custom house, must be purified;
the accounts of eighty thousand
office ^holders must be examined. I have
no fear that while this process of scrutiny
is going on any new set of office holders
can organize a system of peculation and
corruption like that which is now in full
blast. Even if the incoming administra
tion should follow in the footsteps of its
predecessor, I know that in four entire
years it could not entrench itself in office
as the Republican party has done in
almost sixteen years of undisputed power;
and that in 1880 the country would re
pudiate the servants who 6hould prove
false to their trusts, and would reinstate
a Republican party redeemed, regenera
ted and disenthralled.
BUT ONE STAB OF HOPE.
In the dark and troubled night that is
upon ns, I see but one star of hope—the
united Democratic party of the United
The Way Tildcn’s Money is Going,
[From the St. Louis Dispatch.]
Mr. Tilden is distributing his wealth
with a lavish hand among the hard money
Democrats throughout the country. Til-
den has a corps of wire workers at Wash
ington, pulling every string favorable to
his nomination, in that city. The lobby
ing is carried on with surprising audacity
on the floor of the House, in hotel lob
bies, bar rooms, and every place is in
vaded where a possible friend can be
made or an enemy influenced. Lieuten -
ant Governor Dorsheimer, of New York,
Tiiden’s man Friday, is the most as
siduous worker the Governor has. Dors
heimer went to Washington excellently
equipped with rolls of greenbacks, and
an immense amount of cheek, which he
works in combination with great effect,
but sometimes overleaps himself in his
zeal. A few evenings since the Tilden
party, with the active Lieutenant Gov
ernor at the head, were chatting
at the Arlington Hotel about Tiiden’s
chances. Dorsheimer referred to Tiiden’s
nomination as a foregone conclusion, and
in such an event he would bet that Til
den would carry the State of New York
against the Republican nominee by 30,000
majority. This bluff was intended, a
Washington correspondent' adds, “to in
fluence some Ohio Democrats in the par.
ty of listeners.” Whatever the motive
was the sanguine gentleman was imme
diately taken up by a Republican present,
who pithily asked, “for how much ?”
“A thousand dollars” quickly responded
Dorsheimer, whereupon both gentlemen
drew their checks for $1,000 payable to
the order of Senator Kernan, of New
York, and deposited them in the Arling
ton safe, to be paid to the winner in No
vember. AU this has little effect upon
the Democrats of the Middle, Western
and Southern States. Mr. Tilden is not
the choice of the representative men of
the party in these sections. He may be
forced upon the convention, but it will
be after a bitter struggle, that wifi seri
ously affect the harmony of the party.
Mr. Tilden is recognized by Western
Democrats as the representative of the
money power of the East—the aristo
cratic bondholders—an out an out hard-
money advocate, whose friends succeeded
in defeating Governor AUen last fall on a
soft-money platform. Should Mr. Tilden
succeed in the nomination at St. Louis,
it wiU be difficult to appease the hostility
to him in the party ranks—not alone in
Ohio, but in other States, where his
financial principles are heartily detested.
Mr. TUden is well aware of this fact, and
it is to influence Western and Southern
Congressmen that Dorsheimer and Tom
Creamer are working like beavers at
Washington.
Total for the week 1SJ,7*0
Average daily attendance *1,951
Total cash receipts $65,SCO
. Average daily receipts 10,977
Now, even the least sanguine of Phila
delphians had expected and predicted a
much larger attendance than this. Yet
the average for the first week gains much
by the extraordinary attractions of the
opening day, and doubtless exceeds the
figures of the weeks to come.
Leaving out of the calculation the open
ing day, and adding Wednesday of the
second week, when the number of cash
admissions was 12,113, we find that the
average daily attendance for the six days
was 11,269, and the average daily receipts
$5,635.
Will the daUy averages for the one hun
dred and fifty-nine days of the show
exceed these figures ? There undoubtedly
will be a period of several weeks during
the summer when the attendance will be
much larger; but there will also be weeks
and weeks toward the close of the exhi
bition when the show will no longer be a
novelty ; when exhibitors will have begun
to remove their goods, and when most
patriots will have wearied of the Centen
nial and even of Philadelphia. We think
it fair to take the opening week as a basis
for estimating the attendance throughout,
balancing the attraction of novelty, the
quite general desire to take advantage of
endurable weather, and the local rush,
agaiust the present incompleteness of the
exhibition, aud any other adversely op -
erating circumstances.
Philadelphia people will be likely to
visit the exhibition while it is new, in
order to give undivided attention during
the remainder of the season to the enter
tainment of strangers and their protec
tion from discomfort or extortion.
We have already shown that in order
to clear $8,000,000, the amount in round
figures which the country has invested
in this show, the exhibition must net on
an average $50,000 daily. The indica
tions are now that the gross receipts will
not average more than one-tenth of this
sum. It is even doubtful whether the
receipts will suffice to pay the running
expenses.
The Freedman’s Bank, which served
the colored people of the country for sev
eral years as a rat hole wherein they
could deposit their saviugs with the as
surance that they would not have the
opportunity to invest them in unwise
speculations, has at last been turned
inside out, and presents a spectacle decid
edly disheartening to the depositors.
The names of the persons who fattened on
the credulity of the ignorant freedmen
are given to the world, and are mostly
included in the pestiferous body known
as the District ring. Gen. O. O. Howard,
the Christian soldier, figured in the trans
actions ns “honorary trustee” of the
institution. The remuneration received
for his invaluable service is not stated,
but the General’s career in Washington is
a guarantee that he has a liberal estimate
of his worth as a financial manager. If
the parties to whose doors these shame
less frauds have been tfaced escape pun
ishment under the law, it will only prove
another instance to illustrate the fact that
the corrupt ring wields a greater power in
the District than ‘.he courts of justice.—
Chicago Tribune.
A Methodist “Swamp Angel.”—In the
Methodist General Conference in Balti
more last week, during the debate on the
report of the Committee on the Book
Concern, appropriating $2,000 a year to
the New Orleans Christian Advocate, and
making it a conference paper, Rev.
Dr. Moody said : “Old Zack Taylor, the
Joshua of modern times, and by trans
figuration the ‘rough and ready’ of anti
quity, had once planted the American flag
beyond our borders, aud Tom Corwin
moved to cut off the supplies. But Tom
Corwiu afterwaids confessed that on ac
count of that speech he had been cruci
fied—dead, buried and descended into
hell, [laughter,] and that there was no
resurrection for him. [Laughter.] The
same be said of the man who would cut
off the supplies from the South. He
wanted this paper at New Orleans to play
the part the ‘swamp angel’ did at Fort
Sumter, which at a six mile range would
daily belch forth the cry of ‘where are
you Beauregard ?’ [Laughter.] He want
ed to entrench the paper at the Crescent
City where it could thunder for the
church.” [Applause.]
All the Pope’s robes are made either of
white cloth or red cloth. Pius IX, uses
five white eassocks in the course of the
year, os owing to his beiDg an inveterate
snuff taker he soon discolors his outer
garment. Each cassock costs $50. The
red mantier which he renews once a year
costs $100. The silk stockings are fur
nished by a Belgian house for $16 a pair,
but his slippers, which are changed every
month, are furnished by a Roman firm.
An ordinary pair embroidered with the
cross is worth $25, but some of the papal
slippers cost as much as $200, the cross
being inlaid with diamonds. The old,
cast-off clothing of the Pope is highly
prized by the faithful, who eagerly buy
it at a great price.
Singular Coincidence.—One A. F.
Boyle is engaged at Washington City in
working up the rural press all over the
country for Tilden by furnishing gratuit
ous letters as a Washington corres
pondent. In the preceding campaigns
Boyle has been engaged in the same
business, only then he was writing for
the Radical press.
We would like to see the bottom of
this little arrangement. As the Courier-
Journal and the Constitutionalist are
engaged in the same or similar business,
we have no doubt the editors of those
journals could throw some light on the
manner in which these little matters are
fixed up.—Elberton Cazette.
The funny man of the Argus says the
Brooklyn girls are tho most amiable and
lovely creatures in the world, and yet
when one of them seta up in a churoh
choir and
The Philadelphia Extortionists.—
Four dollars appears to be the regular
charge for a dinner that would be dear at
one dollar, soda water is retailed at fifteen
cents, eggs at twenty-five cents each,
fifty cents for a sandwich, and the same
for a cup of coffee, and all other prices
in the same outrageous proportion. If
the directors permit such a thing within
the grounds, the enterprise ought to fail
in the most signal manner, and we be
lieve it will. Robbery in the name of
exhibiting the nation’s progress ought not
to be permitted, and if it is longer per
mitted to continue the American people
ought to put a stop to it by staying away
from Philadelphia.—Pittsburg Post.
The Sens* of Smell.—The gag explo
sion in the basement of the Capitol at
Washington should serve as a warning
against striking a light or carrying one
into a room where the odor of gas is very
strong. The late calamity at the Midlo
thian mines of Virginia was the result of
a similar cause. In both cases the explo
sion took place the moment a match was
Btruck or a lamp introduced. The sense
of smelling was given to man as much
for his protection as any of his other
senses, and when he fails to be guided or
warned by it the consequences are of his
own seeking or his own ignorance.—Bal
timore Sun.
The other day a Detroiter who had a
good record of army service took down
his revolver to shoot a cat which had
been hanging about the house. After
looking at him while he fired six shots,
the eat walked away. While he was load
ing up for more destruction, the shooter’s
small boy inquired, “Father, did you
ever kill any one while you were in the
army ?’’ “I suppose so, my son.” After
a long pause the boy continued, “Then
you must have got near enough to have
hit ’em with an axe, didn’t you?” It
was then discovered to be about school
time.
Curly Conkling wants the President to
obtain the release of Edward O’Meagher
Condon from an English prison. Isn’t
this a somewhat tardy appeal to the “rieh
Irish brogue?” New York’s favorite
sonny must hold the New York Irish vote
very cheap.—Nashville American.