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S^grrWQ NEWS BUILDING). »»° <X pRKS* 188 *’' l ‘ l ’,"ciM»IfnO*» TATAMM a ABISMOn. oC ”* TB l.r. by mail are stopped 4t 41,4 “P*"’ iii •* p ^ ne pajd fur without further notice. Mi rt ^ p|ew observe the date* on their jumerlw" ^ on all paper* to paid at er«W en ’ mdssah. t!l<) paper furntohed for any f,flWtI *th!m one year will have their ordere tH» e l8 f , tte nded to by remitting the amount •"“"JjJ J m e desired. „ subscription discontinued unless by Reorders left at the o»ce. To AdvertUem. SUDAKS >9 ten measured lines of Nonpareil .ftTMo«m» N,w9 - » me nt advertisements and special notices A ” square for each Insertion. advertising, first insertion, *1 00 per 01 . aach snbsejuent insertion (if Inserted '!“Tday>, re cents per square. ‘['cal or ’reading matter notices, 20 cents per fi r aach insertion. ^Advertisements inserted every other day, twice * or once a iwrit, charged *1 00 per square for .afh insertion. SO contract rates allowed eace.pt by special «twnt. Liberal discounts made to large ad- oerti^r 8 * Advenisements will have a favorable place ^ Jrst inserted, but no promise ot continnons * n ™-sti™ in a particular place can be given, as advertisers must have equal opportunities. Affairs in Georgia. Oh do, Eleven Able. The newspapers are not abusing Atlanta. It is a goodly city for commercial purposes—thrifty, progres- e ire and prosperous—but it is not altogether the proper place for the State capital. In eTOr y metropolis there is always more or less olilical corruption, aDd Atlanta is no excep tion. Therefore, Eloven Able, the people ol Georgia want their Government to he Administered and their laws enacted in a carter somewhat remote from the corrupt influences of large cities. Milledgeville was made the capital of Georgia by some of the purest men that ever lived—native and to tbo manner born—while Atlanta was made the capital by a villainous and ontragoous mnrpation, and without the consent of the people uf Georgia. Is not all this true, Elereu Able ? “L. II. W.” expends a postal oard to say: *‘I think your laudation of the country presB is rather thin, when it is remembered that »11 dailies consider the rural weeklies in (heir way." Our correspondent will per- ij.os open his eyes when we tell him that oar travelling agents have standing instruc tions, whenever they are canvassing in a section where a country weekly is published, to a-k people to tako their country paper first and then take the Mokninq News. Moreover, they are not allowed to solicit auv job work that can conveniently be done in a country office, nor are they Allowed to take any legal advertising that ought, of right, to he printed in the local weekly. There may be dailies who regard -he country press as rivals, hut there is no such daily published in Savannah. On the contrary we have found them powerful a niiliaries, and our largest lists of subscrib es c imP from communities and sections where th ’ best and most prosperous country in,-urn rtnblished. Oar correspondent ^ several tongue from land in his ideas shout newspapers, we trust he will look upon the foregoing jn/'dimation as a rope thrown to fetch him ashore. Governor making is quite an a T t ' n Geor gia at this time. It seems to be poetical justice that whe. n a negro tackles a lot of over-ripe cucumbers, the morbid vegetables should, in turn, ackle him. There are two sides to every question. The editor of the Griffin News can’t abide Latin quotations. This is the true Bpirit of patriotism. The good old Georgia vernacu lar is mighty expressive when one takes the troub le to warm the words over. Tho yield of the oat crop in Mitchell county is better than for ten years past, and tho area sown a third larger than ever be fore. Augusta enjoyed a moonlight excursion up the canal last night, and we have no doubt that those who participated had a pleasant time. We were complimented with sn invitation to attend, for which we re turn thanks to tho committee. From an intimation in the document referred to, we learn that tho canal has a basin. This, with the blackberry patches, renders it quite a work of art, Muscogee county has twelve thousand dollars in her treasury, and is out of debt, lu this respect, she is probably tho banner county. As wo havo said before, the Atlanta Con• silution is getting to he quite lively in its -raptiing. Recently tho Auguista ^* rSb • remarked; “Bullock has a friend i ! ’'rtfei)’ We wonder who the who is a ‘Co. Colonel is ?” Wh.^ th f * T _ n' 4 *We don t know un put m this neat one: ' ... * with Rule leas it was tho Colonel tha.. ; „ out at Ponce de Leon the othiT* It seems that Colonel Walsh was in about that time. If ho was, he no cL enjoyed the joke. A Giloier county tape-worm-*-a mere stripling, so the doctors say—measures eight feet in length. Varney Gaskill is a loading Tennessee Democrat. Mr. S. R. Freeman, an experienced news paper man. has purchasod the Ellijay Courier. The Forest News, published at Jefferson, Jackson county, has completed its first vol- ume. It is a neatly printed, well edited paper, and seom» to be prosperous. G* trgia is ahead on the early peach ques tion. Mr. J. H. Parnell, of West Point, had ripe peaches as early as the 20 th of May. He begun his shipments North yesterday. Mr. John Seay, an old citizen of Jackson county, died very suddenly on the 2Gth of May. We have received the first number of tho Conyers Courier, published by Messrs. Shaver & Scott, and edited by Wallace P. Heed, Esq. Mrs. Fannie C. Schlatter, wife of Colonel Charles L. Schlatter, of Brunswick, died re- oently at Suwannee Springs, in Florida. We fear that in the following extract from the Constitution, the Eleven Able are made to ei pre88 a sentiment which, in their more se rious moods, they will not endorse : “If the People of Georgia have grown so blind as to see that this city is the State’s proudest 8h)ry, and that it holds here the very heart 'J her trade and commercial influence, we are sorry for them.” is said that an Atlanta Frenchman has klleu heir to a very large estate in his dative land. The Atlanta Tinges says: “A rumor has been published in some of the papers of the that the Hon. Julian Hartridge has declined to be a candidate for re-election to tottgresg. We are able to state positively th*' TO ch is not the fact. Georgia can ill afford l ose the services of such a Repre- ^otative as 1 ^ r *Cartridge.especially in such thneB as these.” the Augusta Chronicle *tos: “The State of Georgia cannot afford lose the services of su^ * maa M Jalian bridge. He would adoF * an V P°* ition ^tthia the gift of the people.” It U said that Markham, of Atla.^ & » e the Radical candidate for GoveT^** ^hile old man Norcross will be a candidate tor Congress. A telegram to the Atlanta Constitution 6 totes that Bill Comer, Rome a machinist, p ot an H killed his step-father, a man named or d, on the 21 inst. Ford was endeavor- tog to force an entrance into Comer’s house. 1 to said that Hon. C. A. Nutting and *yor Huff, of Macon, are going to Colorado bve. Macon, as well as the State, will 08 e two valuable citizens, oung Paul Bleckley, of Atlanta, proposes * °pt the stage as his profession. °rty-five year old citizen of Early county ever bought a box of matches. By this dred^°ii Al ° De h<> 1148 Bave< * eev8r *I^ nn ' H* Tr&vig, for thirty years a citizL 1 r,ri ffin, died in Atlanta on Sunday. hL Jtosa motive of Morgan scanty. At the ° { ^ k* 8 death, he was seventy-two years fctiiuy* 16 * 0rty C0 ^ 0re ^ women in the peoi- Atlantic and Galt B. fi. J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, JUNE 6. 1876. ESTABLISHED 1850. **«* T - Hargrove, of Rome, doesn’t plain “Mister.” ^ ^ ^ “ eatltlemeat ” bu ‘ Sever.iy.five thousand shad-seed have been placed in the Ocmulgee, near Macon. LaGrange Reporter: A fanner of this county giving in his crop returns to the tax receiver, said he had eighty-five acres in cotton „ a nd five in corn. “What do von mean ? asked the receiver, in astonishment. Ihe reply was, “I am in debt and am oDiiged to make cotton in order to get out ” Now it is a question how long it will take'a man to get out of debt if he raises cotton exclusively, or almost exclusively. Will it really get a man out of debt ? Is there any profit a. all in exclusive cotton raising? Ihese are questions which producers of cot ton oDly are invited to answer through these columns. The answers should be deduced from experience, and not consist of mere theorizing. OolumbuS inquirer :The grandest an J most wonderful electrical display that we have ever seen waB in the eaBt yesterday about dark. It darted in sparks between two horizontal clouds like that of a powerful electrical machine. It would often branch off into three prongs, and sometimes in a solid chain, break, and apparently go in opposite directions. Balls of it would rush and hurst like a rocket. There was a continuous muttering of thunder afar off, suggestive in sound of a furious tornado. Such a sight we hare never before witnessed. The gods of winds and heavens must have met in dreadful battle. Macon Telegraph : Mr. 0;-F. Adams, Chief of Police, has received a communication from the Chief Constable of Rockdale, Eng land, relative to one Michael Hennessey, who is reported to have been murdered in his own store, in Macon, in August last. No such murder was ever committed in Macon, hut from the facts stated in the letters ad dressed to the Chief of Police, we think it probable that it did occur s imewhere in Georgia. If any of our exchanges have any knowledge of such an occurrence we hope they will inform us. There are some peculiarities connected with the case which mak6 it more than a mere matter of curi osity. Atlanta Sunday Telegram,: The rendition of Casca, by Paul Bleckley, and Brutus by Mr. Ed. Hammond, were almost faultless pieces of acting. Mr. Bleckley’s Casca, a comparatively unimportant part in itself, was made conspicuous by the dainty and scholarly manner in which he presented it. There were few of the audience who did not carry away the picture of the haughty, scornful Casca, who stepped into the con spiracy without any persuasion or argument, and accepted the commission to lead the as sault as a matter of course, and who, when the whole stage was ablaze with the excite ment following Ciesar’s death, stood like a statue, smiling half contemptuously upon the shouting crowd. It was a wonderful piece of acting—wonderful in its unexpected absorption of self into the assumed charac ter, and in the marvellous knowledge of stage-play. Perry Home Journal: The most wonder ful snake story cornea to us from a minister of irreproachable reputation. Mrs. Sewell, of thiB county, was in her garden the other morning picking peas for dinner, when two large rattlesnakes came out from a hedge of raspberries. They at once began to strike at each other—ail the time hissing and rattling like mad. They appeared to be very expert in dodging; but the largest one finally seized the smaller one by the tail and with one or two gulps swallowed him bodily. Then the smaller one seized the larger one by the bead, and swelling his head like an adder, drew his adversary wrong side out ward like skinning a squirrel, and safely swallowed him—both of the snakes disap pearing—having mutually swallowed each other. Augusta Chronicle, of Sunday; On last Thu r sd a Ti June 1st, Mrs. Massey and Mrs. Messex, who resided together in a house about seven miles from Waynesboro, Burke county, gave some ginger cakes to two small colored boys about five or six years of age, who lived in a cabin on the premises. The bovs were soon afterwards seized with symp toms of poisoning, and one of them, named Osborn, died in a short time. The other re covered. An inquest was held over tlio body of Osborn, and the jury returned a verdict to the eflect that the evidence point ed to the guilt of the two women. The lat ter were arreBted yesterday and lodged in jail at Waynesboro. Hon. S. A. Corker, their counsel, came to Augusta to gee if they could give bond. It is probabie that they were admitted to bail during the day, the evidence against them being altogether circumstantial. The stomach of the de ceased boy was sent to Augusta for analysis, but as the operation could not he performed here, it was sent hack by the morning train yesterday. LaGrange Reporter: In advance, before any person has announced himself for office, we desire to take a position against inde pendent candidates, and we want the people of the country generally to take the same position. No person has a right to any office, and therefore no cne can be justified in running against a regularly nominated candidate, on tho ground of being entitled to the office. An independent candidate is a disorganizer—an enemy to the party to which he professes to belong. An in dependent Democrat (so-called) in Troup county, will necessarily rely large ly on the votes of the ne groes; therefore the names disorganizer and enemy are properly applicable to him. These things we say now, when we have no iue$ whether any one is going to ran inde pendently, in order that we may not bo sus pected of personal giotives if it becomes , necessary to oppose soma independent dur- l ia” the ensuing campaign. Now, if there ' iy*a iielibood of independent candidates— l ol which ye have BO knowledge, as said '*s?ye—the Lest plan of action is to 9 .. - tbpir guns to advance. We can f .,,:, by making tho nominations d0 “S iud satisfactory shat no ®° ina 'tiv “td fault with them. Let the nominees he select^ »y ttai people and truly represent the people. - ,et a !*° w man to be nominated for any office hy *ny ring or clique. Our opinion is that the be... way to do this is by primary elections. This, however, will be discussed at the meeting next Tuesday. What we want is for the people to have a full, fair fend free expres sion of their wishes in the nominations, and then to fight independent candidates as strenuously and unsparingly as Radicals. South Carolina Affairs. Mr. Havener, near Bivingsville, had his thigh broken by the kick of a male. Isaac Jones, colored, has been arrested in Sumter on five charges of burglary. Governor Hubbard, of Texas, is a native of South Carolina, Abbeville county. Judge Mackey delivered an address before the Lancaster Sons of Temperance on the 26th inst. Mr. J. L. Harrell’s gin house in the lower part of Darlington was consumed by light ning, on Sunday, 21st ult. A match game of chess between Union and Spartanburg was commenced Friday morning. The moveB will he reported by telegraph. Two thieves attempted to rob the barn of of Mr. J. H. Drennan, of Abbeville. As he rushed out they fired two pistol shots at him and escaped. Mr. J. C. Hayden, of Greenville, has ap plied for a patent for a milkman’s transpor tation can, which prevents the roughest jolting of a wagon from disturbing the milk. This is a chance for a fortune. We learn that John Shields, nephew of Captain J. W. Daniels, narrowly escaped drowning in a mill pond last Friday. He was rescued by Messrs. Wilson and Jackson, the latter being injured by a snag in his efforts to save the drowning youth. Laurensville Herald : A pall of gloom and sadness has been thrown over our com munity by the death of Mr. James M. Boyd, a highly esteemed and valued citizen of this village, which mournful event occurred on tho 22d ultimo, after an illness of eleven days. . Among the crooked whisky prisoners tried at the recent term of the United States Court in Charleston and sentenced to the Albany penitentiary we notice the names ot the following from Anderson: John Hill, three vears, knd Wm. S. Gentry, two years. Xhe prisoners left Charleston on the steam- shiD Champion last Saturday evening under ?he P obarge of the United States Marshal inh several special deputies. Hon Benjamin H. Wilson, of Georgetown, Hon, pe j col. Wilion was a died on ^^d gentleman of the old highly ac ^ m k™ tLreughont the State, school, wel1 k . Georgetown for many years Ha represented Georgeto - ^ & in the Gene "f influence. He was a iawyer strong personal flu® th0 Georgetown by profession,-pdert ^ wa9 a patriot Times for “ au y y d labwre4 earnestly' for ? h a e% a o g rolThe n Btate d durh/his whole life. Portions of last heavv stormsofj‘»«*.J« raaoC3t wblch did Sunday and Monday wljea t and oat crops. much mischief to the ^heat« d ^ ^ In gome P la0 ®* * b b ad jy that neither can be blown down e mun wheat was in tho cut with the Bcythe. The farm- bloom, and what is blown ao flat stolk, and it °yiS*ted that itdoesnotinjure BY TUKiPH —TO— THE MORNING NEWS. Moon Telegrams. THE EASTERN QUESTION. ENGLAND’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS TURKEY. On the Eye of a Momentous Change. THE GROSVENOR MISSION TO CHINA. The Character of Mr. Kerr’s Accnser. THE EASTERN CRISIS. London, Jane 5.—The Berlin telegraphic agency asserts that EDgl&nd has concluded aa alliance with Turkey, and guaranteed the latter’s integrity. The Russian tele graph agency declares that Murad will be recognized on all hands as soon as his acces sion is officially announced. Berlin, June 5.—The North German Ga zette intimates that the antagonism of Eng land and Russia plunges all Europe into a most critical situation. The National Zei- tung regards Andrassy’s recent pacific views as entirely erroneous, and foresees that momentous decisions will have to be imme diately adopted by the various powers. London, June 5.—The Times's Berlin cor respondent, commenting on the tone of the German press, remarks : “There, is but too much reason for these apprehensions. The King of Greece has ordered his army tc be put on a war footing, and the Greek com missioners arrived in Germany to negotiate a war loan. This serious movement,” the correspondent adds, “is accompanied by others of like import. The Russian General Tchenayoff, who assumed command of the Servian forces on his arrival at Belgrade, handed the Servian Government a quarter of a million of dollars, as a donation from the Slavonic societies of Russia. Bretgarin is also set a-fire by hosts of well armed volunteers from Russia. Servia, Rou- mania and Montenegro have estab lished fortified camps, amply supplied with c&DDon. A crisis is unavoidable unless Russia retracts. Russia is unprepared for the present contingency, and is slow to decide. The feeling in Berlin is that we are on the eve of a momentous change. The declara tion of the Montenegran Official Gazette that insurgents are determined immediately to fall upon the Turks with the whole Servian race, must be considered authentic. The Servian troops are ranged on the frontier ready to act at a moment's notice.” WASHINGTON NOTES. Washington, June 5.—The Judiciary Committee is not m session. In the Kerr Committee, Captain Greene testifies that ho never went with Harney to Kerr’s room. The testimony shows that Harney lived dis reputably in Washington in 1866. The House is calling the ayes and nays on the motion to refer the resolution that present legislation on tho tariff is inexpedi ent to the Ways and Means Committee. The Senate in the morning hour discussed the resolution of Mr. Sherman proposing a common ut it of money and accounts be tween the United States and Great ft*itain, but took no action thereon. THE GROSVENOR MISSION. London, June 5.—A special dispatch from Calcutta to the Times says Mr. Grosvenor’s mission arrived at Rangoon on Friday last. Messrs. Grosvenor aud Babler remained at Maudalay. The evidence shows clearly that Mr, Margary was murdered by Chinese Im perial troops. It is expected that Lesseeta- hre, the Chinese General, will be exonerated from complicity in the affair. The Chinese authorities await Mr. Grosvenor’s report be fore carrying out the executions of those implicated in the murder. DEAD. Chattanooga, Tenn., June 5—Jacob Graft’, well and favorably known as a tele graph operator, died here yesterday. The body will be taken to Baltimore for inter ment. THE DEAD SULTAN. Constantinople, June 5.—The physicians of the British and other embassies testify that the Sultan died of suicide by catting the veins of his arms with scissors. FAILED. Moscow, June 5.—Fenkouskoff Brothers, of the Siberian and Asiatic trade, have failed fop a million of roubles. $eorge sand. Paris, Juno 5.—It is believed that Georges Sand is out of danger. Evening Telegrams. JAW” FROM JIM BLAISE, Who Rises Once More to Explain THE MYSTERIOUS PACKAGE OF LETTERS. HB REAPS THE EPISTI.BS TO THE Anil Falls Into the Clutches of Proctor Knott. How a Kentuckian Skins a Down-Banter. MORE “ JAW ” FROM RLAiNjs. Washington, Jane 5.—In tho House to- daT Blaine rose to a personal explanation. He road the resolution offered by Tarbox. The author of the resolution at the time disclaimed any parfemlar allusion to Blaine, but it soon became entirely ofiyous that the resolution was solely and only aimed At him. The Union Pacific matter, or any other in cident to the investigation, was secondary, insignificant and unimportant. He did not care for that. He was ready to meet it. He had expected an early ^report, but it had been prolonged, They had no sooner cot through with the last charge than with out the slightest notice, another committee had entered on an investigation specially aimed at him, so that there were three in. vesligations going on at the same time and none completed. He understood that Mr. Hunton proposed still another inquiry about the KanSaa Pacific, a transaction tjhlch was fifteen years old, efen if it exiSaea, which was also aimed at him. i^oy, he wquld say it boldly, that under general powers to investigate specific rail road companies, the whole engineering of the committees w^s aimed personally at him. Why did they not .organize a. com mittee to investigate James G. Blame / He wanted to meet the thing squarely. Re did not wish to Btir up any blood on this ques tion but he would say that ever since a per. tain’debate took place in the House in Jan. nary last, it had been known that there were gentlemen here whose feelings had been exasperated against him, and it was to be remarked tjjat while there were seven Democratic meffibeys of the Judiciary Committee, the chairman o* ^bjt committee (Mr. Knott) selected on the sub-committee to which these matters had been referred two members from the South who had been in the rebel -,C)y. _ Knott—The matter of that railroad inves tigation was referred to the sub-committee before I ever heard your name mentioned m connection with it. I had no act nor part in inciting any investigation implicating y °Blaine^And finally the witness Mulligan came here loaded with information in re gard to the Fort Smith Railroad. The gen tleman (Hunton) drew out what he knew had no reference whatever to the question under investigation, and then and tbere in- aisted on all my private memoranda being allowed to be exhibited by this man (Mnlli- gaD) whioh had no more connection or rela tion with this investigation thau with the North pole. The gentleman tried his best also, until I believe that the idea has been abando»ed,U) capture and use and control my private 'oorrespcndpnpe. This man had selected out of a correspondence running over a great many years letters which he thought would be peculiarly damaging to me. Ho came here loaded with them. He came here for a sensation. He came here primed. He came here on that particular errand. I was advised of it and I obtained these letters under circumstances which have been notoriously scattered throughout the United States and known everywhere. I liavej them (holding up the packag)e. I claim that I have the entire right to these letters, not only by natural right hut on all the precedent^ and principles of law. The man who held them in hie possession bad them wrongfully, and the committee which attempted to take these letters from this man for nee against me proceeqefi wrongfully. It proceeded in the boldest anfi most defiant yiolation qf the ordinary personal and private rights that belong to every American citizen. I am willing to meet the Jndioiary Committee on that point. I wanted that committee to introduce it. I wanted the gentleman from L —-w—and the gentleman frop Virginia (Hunton), to introduce that ques tion on the floor, and they did not do it. Knott, in his seat—Oh ! no; you want to be made a martyr of. Blaine—Yes, and you did not want it. There’s the difference. I will go a little further, and say that yon did not dare to do it. Knott—We will not talk abont “daring”— Hamilton, of New Jersey—I rise to a ques tion of order. Is the gentleman’s language parliamentary ? Blaine—Yes, entirely so. The Speaker pro tern., Cox, of New York, in the chair—It is for the chair to decide. Blaine—I understood the Judiciary Com mittee to have 1 abandoned that issue against me, but there has gone forth the idea or impression that becans6 I would not permit that man or any man, when I could prevent it, from holding as a menace over my head my private correspondence, there must be something in it most deadly and destructive to my reputation. I would like any gentle man on this floor—and all of them are pre sumed to be men of affairs whose business has been varied, and whose intercourse has been large—to stand up here and say that he is willing and ready to have his private correspondence for the last ten or twelve years banded over and made pnblic. When Mr. Blaine said be proposed to read those letters to the House to 6ilence slander and check su mise, there was a de cided sensation and applause. He then held up a package of letters,reading them rapidly, and occasionally stopping to make some ex planation, and, as he concluded, handed them to his private secretary, who stood near him. Blame charged Knott, chairman of the committee, with suppressing a tele gram from Josiah Caldwell in Europe, en tirely exonerating him. Mr. Blaine explained the Spencer contract to which allusion was made in one of the letters by saying that in the summer of 1861, two years before he first came to Con gress, he had been asked if be could not get an opportunity for the inventor of the Spencer repeating rifle to bring that now arm to the attention of the Secretary of War. He said he thought ho could, and had come on to Washington and had an inter view with Secretary Cameron. Mr. Came ron had given orders to have it tested by the Ordnance Bureau, and it had been thor oughly tested and the experiments were so satisfactory that a preliminary order for twenty thonsand rifles was made, and the company had immediately proceeded to erect an armory in Boston. He had been paid not an extravagant but a moderate fee for his services, which he had jnst as much liberty to take as any other lawyer or agent had to take a fee. Snsequently he had taken and paid for ten tnousand dollars worth of stock in the company, which bad since been merged into the Winchester Rifle Company. That was the whole story. Knott, of Kentucky, Cbairmau of the Ju diciary Committee, said he had listened to imputations upon himself within the last two hours, which, ooming from a different source, he might perhaps answer very dif ferently from the manner in whioh he should now attempt to answer them. Those who were intimately acquainted with him knew that he was the last man in the world to seek a personal controversy, and he assured the House that of all men in the world the gentleman from Maine (Blaine) was the last man with whom he would seek such a controversy. That gen tleman was entirely too immense in his pro portions. “Why, man, he doth bestride the world like a colossus and we petty men walk between his huge legs aud peep about to find ourselves dishonored graves.” Personal controversy seemed to be that gentleman’s forte. He reminded him of Homer’s description of Diomede : “Dire was the clang and dreadful from ifar, ’! he armed Tydides rushing to war.” As a friend of his would say, the gentleman was entirely too “bumptious” and too “usurptious” for him. (Laughter on the Democratic side.) Two-thirds ol the time the gentleman was in the House be did net seem to realize whether he was Speaker or simply a member, aud to a stranger it would be an inauluable enigma to know which be was. The gentleman had quite unnecessarily lugged him (Knott) into ibis personal mat ter of bis own. In the first place he had in sinuated that from some unworthy motive be, as Chairman of the Judiciary Commit tee, had appointed on the sub-com mittee which bad charge of tbese investi- gationBthe gentleman from Virginia (Hun- ton) and the gentleman from North Caro lina (Ashe). In answer to that he had to say, first, that either ot theBe gentlemen was his (Blaine’s) peer in any sense of the word, and that in point of honor it was no dispar agement to the gentleman from Maine to say they were his superiors. (Hisses and other marks of disapprobation from the Republi can side of the House.) Knott—Tbat is all right. There are threq kinds of animals in the world that hiss— vipers, geese and fools. (Laughter.) Iu the second place, this sub-committee was selected long before there was any insinua tion, in pnblic or private, that the gentle man from Maine was in any manner impli cated in any of the alleged fraudulent trans actions on the part of any of these corpora tions, and ft did seem to me when the gentlemau flung his imputation at me as a little strange that he conld ascribe such motives to me under the cir cumstances. Even granting that tbo gen tleman from Virginia, and tho gentlemau from North Carolina, wero hiB personal ene mies, it does seem a little remarkable tbat yon cannot touch one of tbeso railroads bnt tho gentleman from Maine will squeal. As to the cable dispatch from Josiah Caldwell, it is true that on last Thursday morning I did receive a dispatch. The gentleman from Maine (Blaine) seems to know precisely the hour at which I re ceived it, and its contents. He seems thor oughly posted on the subject, but permit me to say with regard to the insinuation tbat the telegram has been suppressed, that any man, high or low, whoever he may be, who will elsewhere make such an insinua tion will have to take the, consequences. I hurl the falsehood back into the teeth of any man who makes a suggestion as to the suppression of that dispatch. (Ap plause on tbe Democratic side.) I received it and I did not suppress it at ail. In less than thirty minutes after I received it, I read It to several gentlemen, but there was no particular address in London from which it purported to come, and I did believe, and am not altogether certain yet that I do not believe, it was a fixed-up job. (Murmurs of dissent from the Republican side.) CONGRESSIONAL. Washington, June 5.—The House tariff resolution was referred—114 to 99, equiva lent to killing it. Neal offered a bill repealing tbe resump tion act, and called the previous question. Hasson raised the point that no notice had been given of the bill, therefore It wijs not in order. The 8peaker, Mr. Cox, sustained the point. Holman appealed, and Morrison moved to table the appeal, whioh motion was carried—134 to 35. In the Renate, the Committee on Military Affairs reported adversely on the House bill authorizing the Secretary of War to loan camp equipage to the Mexican veterans during their Centennial visit, also adverse ly og *he bill for the relief of the officers and privates of the Arkansas Fourth Volun teer Cavalry, and fivorabiy on the House bill retiring’General W. H. Emery. A new conference committee was appoint ed cn the diplomatic appropriation bill. The §nnale the:; resumed tbe legislative appropriation bill. Tjie appropriation for the Jndian Commissioner tfaS restore*!. THE ATLAHT10, SHSStSSim AND OHIO RAIL ROAD. Richmond, June 5.—In the United 8tates Circuit Court to-day Judges Bond and Hughes, presiding, argument in the case of t_(;e Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad was oonclud-d and the court decided to ap point a receiver.' Tne Ccugt was in private consultation two hours this evening’with ihe counsel representing the various inter ests in the road, listening to suggestions and recommendations regarding the appoint ment. After the conference the Jndges returned to the court room, and, without announcing the conclusion arrived at, adjourned court until to-morrow mornigg. Among the names mentioned as being recommended to the ponrt are those of Gen. G. B. McClellan, Gen, William Mahone, Gen. Joseph E. John ston, and Charles H. Perkins, of New York. THE FRENCH TURF. Paris, June 5.—At the summer meeting at Auteuil to-day the most notable event was the grand steeple chase de Paris for 30,000 francs. The attendance was very large and included President MacMabon and wife. Sixteen horses started. The winner was Ventriloquist, Chimney Sweep second, and Congress third. WHIT-KONDAf. Philadelphia, June 5.—To-day being Whit-Monday, it was generally observod as a holiday by the Germans of this city, a large number of whom visited the Centen nial grounds, while many others are at Schuetzen and Saengerw Parks. The Ger man Cath flics this morning made a very in teresting street parade. ABORTION. Boston, June 5.—The death of Mary J. Fuller from abortion, in this city on last Thursday, has led to the arrest of Miss Fan nie Drake, practitioner, and Lesander Den ham, tbe latter having,' as is alleged, burned the body of the child in a stove to prevent discovery. CHICAGO’S MUNICIPAL MUDDLE. Chicago, June 5.—In the Circuit Coart of five Jndges, three decided in favor of Mayor Calvin, the votes in favor of Hayne being nugatory because Council failed to give pro per aoticaof election. The Hawaiian Treaty and the Duty on Bice. Dahlonega, Ga., Jnne 2,1876. Editor Mommq News : Recently I have been much interested in the pernsal of several articles which have appeared in your valuable journal in refer ence to the ratification of the Hawaiian treaty by the Senate of the United States. They have revived some interesting facts connected with the legislation of Congress in the spring and summer of 1872, and which resulted in the tariff acts of May and Jane of that year—leaving the duty on rice just where it had been for abont six years, to wit: two and a half cents per pound on clean rice. I had the honor at that time of represent ing the Ninth District of this State in the House of Representatives, and although my immediate constitnents were, perhaps, less interested in the coltnre of rice than any other in the State—being principally in the mountains—I nevertheless felt a deep inter est in the questions looking to a reduction or a repeal of the tariff upon that article. And notwithstanding my persistent opposi tion to any change whatever of the duty on rice placed me in the seeming attitude of a protectionist, I was yet willing to brave it all, if by so doiog I might confer a blessing npon a large class of onr fellow citizens, and thereby bnild np a struggling industry in the South—an industry which at one timo yielded a larger revenue to onr people than any other Southern production, save that of cotton. It formed one of the chief exportB of the country. . At the time I speak of (1872) memorials were pouring in npon Congress, asking that coffee, tea, sngar, salt and rice should be placed on the free list. After much debate, coffee and tea were added to the free list. The opposition to free salt came principally from tbe salt districts of New York. I was somewhat surprised that the Virginia dele gation did not more strenuously oppose tho measure, as tbat State is largely interested in the salt business. They would, doubtless, gladly have done so but from the fear of seeing themselves placed in the category of protectionists. The trouble with Southern members of Congress seemed to be: bow best to protect tbeirown interests, and still be free traders; or, in other words, how to build np Southern in terests by protecting rice, sngar and to bacco, and at the same time escape the charge of protecting Northern manufac tures. This may not be the proper way of puiting it, bnt tbe question oiten presented itself to tbe minds of Southern members of Congress very much in tbat light. How ever, I had but little trouble in solving the whole question satisfac torily to my own miud. I resolved to vote to protect every worthy straggling indus try in the whole country, North or South, which needed encouragement and protec- tection, and to withhold my vote from those over-grown interests whioh no longer re quired protection. I had long been satis fied that an exclusive free trade policy would result in the utter prostration and ruin of the South, and jnst so long as Southern Congressmen continue to refuse to meet the North and East npon a fair and proper basis in reference to free trade and protection, just so long will the South remain in pover ty, and jnst so long will her varied indus tries remain undeveloped. Those who petitioned Congress in 1872 to repeal the diuv op rice resided of coarse in tbe Eastern and Pacific States. They na turally wanted to get cheap rice from Japan, China and the Sandwich Islands. New York and Philadelphia were to be greatly bene fited by tbe trade in rice if imported free. As those cities in a great measure control tbe Eastern trade which enters tbe United States at San Francisco, and thence over tbe Central and Union Pacific Railroads to tbe Atlantio seaboard. Pennsylvania aud New York wanted free rice bnt did not want free iron or free ualt. The tariff act of ’43 imposed a duty of 20 per cent, ad valorum on rioe; the act of '57 a duty of 15 per cent, ad valorum. In March '61 (after several Southern States had seceded) the duty was increased to 1 cent per pound; in ’63 it was again raised to 1^ cents per pound, and the close of the war found the duty two and a bait oents per pound on cloan rice, or about 100 per cent, ad valorem on tbe cost of tbe article where shipped to the United States. The close of the war found the rice fields of tbe South fearfully devastated. Iu thou sands of instances they bad fallen into the hands of former slaves; many thousands of productive acres had relapsed into their normal condition of weeds and worthless marsh; drains and ditches filled up, and these once fertile swamps had become a barren waste. Worse than tho true owners, in many instances, were in poverty and exile. To have withdrawn the protection which the tariff afforded the culture of rice when the owners were abont to repossess their lands, wonld have doomed them forever. Without money to hire the necessary labor to restore the fields to their proper condition; to bnild houses ; to procure implements, and trained labor totally disorganized and gone, how would the Southern rice planter be able for a day to withstand the pressure of “Chinese cheap labor 7” To prevent a disaster, snch as the repeal of the duty on rice wonld entail upon many of onr people, I labored constantly in and out of the House—especially with members of the Committee of WayB and Means, which committee finally made no recom mendation as to rice, bnt allowed the former duty to remain. At that time, under Speaker Blaine’s ruling, but fe?v members from the South ever obtained tbe floor for any pur pose). I remember enlisting many North ern members in opposition to the proposed redaction. In conversation one day with tho Hon. S. C. Forker, of New Jersey, whose seat was then next to mine, 1 alluded to the subject, and enlisted his warmest sympathies iu bebajf of the rioe planters of' the South. In re turn for his manly resolve to stand by them I thought it bnt jnst to do something for tho straggling poor of New Jersey and elsewhere. This I did by consenting to retain the dnty on earthenware, porcelain, terra cotta work, etc., the manufacture ol which was not only a straggling industry in New Jer sey but in many sections of the Sonth, until ihe workmen were able to compete success fully with the same kind of work made abroad. I saw nothing wrong in all this. While helping the working people in New J.rsey it would be helping the same class of workmen in different sections of the coun try. Onr public men must not be afraid to look this question gqnarely in the face. Protec tion has increased the wealth of tbe North, whilst an almost exclusive free trade policy has impoverished the Sonth. There is certainly, somewhere, a safe and proper coarse for the Sonth to adopt aud pursue on this subject. Under tbe influences of protection let ns see how the article of rice has increased in growth and production in the first five years after the war. As an example we will take the quantity as milled in Savannah, Charleston and Georgetown in those five years f 1866 ^ 12,500 casks' 1867 ..24,337 “ 1868 30,795 “ 1869 60,146 *• 1870 67,735 “ These figures I have no doubt are correct. If true, your readers, Mr. Editor, can read ily imagine what the increase has been in the last five yeq,rs. Should no redaction take place, tbe production will soon arrive at what it was before the war: The ratification of the Hawaiian treaty by the Senate will be a fraud and an outrage upon the Sonth. |t will be accomplishing indirectly wliat has failed heretofore to be directly done, to wit: the repeal of the dnty on rice, by allowing the kingdom of Kala- kua to export her ripe to this country free of dnty. And it will be, not only the introduction of free rice from tbe Sandwioh Islands, which of itself is no very great matter, bnt, as that country is directly in tho track of steamers from Japan and Chins, the rice from both those conntries will be smuggled into San Francisco and other Pa cific ports free of duty. I am glad your people on tbe coast, as well as in Louisiana, are awakening to the importance of this subject. I have no doubt bnt tbat Savannah’s distinguished Senator (Mr. Norwood) is doing'all ih hij power to prevent the ratification of so much of the treaty aB relates to free rice. Gen. Gordon will oortainly aid him. Tbe rice districts of tbe South had no oommittees before Con gress in 1872, but nevertheless the evil was averted. With able committees before tbe 8enate now, I believe the wrong will be again prevented. In all this I do not wish to be understood as saying that I agree to the full measure of protection advocated by the iron and woolen manafaotnrers of the North. Not at all. But what I wonld be understood as saying isjthis : It is hjgh time that the Sonth was beginning to settle npon a policy which Wonld aid her fn getting once more npon per fpet. Tiiqes t)»ve ypry much' changed gipce Southern statesmen in Congress op posed every measure of protection. In onr present weak and impoverished condition, we had better take tome of it whether we like it or not. I remain, your obed’t servant, W. P. Pam THE RADICAL MUSS AT MADISON. The End or Stearns's Csnventloo—rloslnf Scenes—telanEhterlaw Bisbee Acaln— Tbe Adreltoess or Sehemera—Republi can Antics—Conover and iiee—Stearns and Montgomery. [Special Correspondence of the Morning News) Madison, Jane 4, 1876. FRIDAY'8 OCCURRENCES. Friday was characterized here in the Radical stockade by the re-enactment of scenes similar to those which had disgraced the previous conduct of Stearns’s degraded minions. In the evening the eulogistic Billy Watkin lavished an inflammatory ora tion npon abont fifty niggers all in a row. His listeners were seized with snch an un governable disgust for the speaker and his detestable mouthing after the expiration of abont twenty minntes, that they sneaked away, causing Billy to collapse on the shortest oration he ever was coerced into. In the convention on day be fore yesterday tbe Mobnino News became the object of enlivening discussion, and W. U. Saunders claimed that he never had read the paper, and immediately bumped down muttering “that dam Demo cratic Georgia paper seems to have too much influence over this Florida Republi can Convention.” Now we have all the while contemplated sayiug a good word for Saunders, and, in order to demonstrate how unutterably free from unchristian animosity wo are, his impolite bombast will not be allowed to act as a deterrent. It has been alleged by numerous individuals making ex traordinary pretensions to responsibility that W. U. Saunders has been repoatodly suspected of stealing, and, having traced his conspicuous career from the swaddling clothes of infancy to ebullient virility, it is incumbent npon us to denounce the author of tbe slander as an infamous inventor, and we do this the more oheerful- ly for the reason that tho impntation of prejudice in his favor is impossible. The usual nnmber of speakers appeared upon the floor, and the balance of Friday’s proceedings of interest has been antioipated by telegraph. SATURDAY'S WORK. For faithful pictures of their accomplices commend us to the lectures upon the quali fications of different candidates on Satur day. All the palling and hauling around of this disorderly oollection of animals failed to divert the Stearns officials from their stern purpose. Horatio Bisbee, Jr., was proposed as a compromise candidate, and Conover magnanimously pledged himself to withdraw if the Soap-fat man would emulate tbe exam ple. Then came the persons supporting Bis bee, and talked of Marcellus as never Demo crat has done, denouncing the doughty aspi rant for everything that is vile and contemp tible. The fabricators of extemporaneous pbillipics against Simon emptied tbe reser voirs of tbeir bitterness upon his diminishing head, and their turgid rhetoric possessed tbe merit of beiog lamentably true. These ca dets ought to be well acquainted with each other, and a description hv one of the ring of another is entitled to deep consideration on an urgent occasion like tins, because of its fidelity to the original of tbe delineation. On tbe exterior of the building mat ters stood upon the verge of a bloody renconter, brought about by the idle disputes of two bellicose delegates. One ot tbe contestants bad a pistol ball to graze bis cheek, but unfortunately escaped Berions injury, and the coming of rain es topped the arrangements for a sanguinary conflict. BILLY HICKS arose in commendation of the nomination of the second-handed Governor. Billy grew scarlet, and in fine assumed the garb of a transcendant beet. His florid periods reached their culmination when he, in one grand, glorious and over powering effort, stigmatized a certain jour nal as “that mother of lies, the Savannah Morning Nbws.” Was it not awfully nufair and outrageous to unsex mortals iu that way, Billy ? bnt you rectified things by remarking: “I mean nothing personal, but hare reference solely to tbe paper, aud I am ready to apologize in an impartial, Christian-like manner." The apology fixes it, Billy. Nothing personal intended, yon know. Your apologetic inu- enfo, Billy, good boy, bnt erratic, sir, re sembles the irresistible annealing process of your especial everlasting conflagration below, Billy. Your unsolicited proffer of atonement is inexpressibly and ravisbingly balmy, Billy, bnt yon meant no personality, you see, aud one does not kick into a moun tain of garbage merely because it is offen sive, B'lly—d’ye see ? Don’t unsex us again, however so unexpectedly, agato, Billy, or suspicions of evil intent will im pede your path to a glorious but effer vescing cremation of luuatlcal excitement. Idiots are irresponsible, Billy, so fare tliee well, boy baby. Bye-bye, beauty. Repub lic m blood coursing through your veins in duces vagaries. THE PACKED CONVENTION. After a vast amount of unnecessary clamor, tbe officials of tbe State proceeded io bailor for the Domination of a Governor. Tbe election resulted, as everybody knew it would, in the choice of Stearns by a vote of seventy-one, BiBbee receiving fifty-one. Da vid Montgomery—a Radical defaulter, of whom more anon—having been named for the nomination, enoonntered scarcely any opposition, as the selection of Stcarn s had completely disorganized the convention, and was declared the nominee for Lientonaut Governor. After the appoints ment of a Blaine delegation to Cincinnati, and other arrangements, the institution prepared by Stearns succumbed aud be came a thing of the past. THE DELEOATES from twenty-nine counties drew up and signed a protest setting forth tbat having presented Horatio Bisbee, Jr., as a com- remise candidate they solemnly repudiated ho nomination of M. L. Stearns. The Conover band, and Stearns’s band began to play before tho court house, and each candidate held a ratification meeting with their respective followers, and in dulged in more gasconade. Consider able enthusiasm was manifested at each meeting, bnt the Conover faction seems to be in the majority. The two tickets, therefore, remain in the field, and bid fair so to be for some time to come. ACKNOWLEDGMENT. The representative of the Morning News dnriDg the convention i9 indebted to Beveral citizens of Madison for courtesies extended, and hereby tenders his acknowledgments for the same. Adrianus. Counterfeit Coin.—The statement that counterfeits of the new 25 cent and 20 cent pieces of 1876 had been put in circulation in Boston is doubted by the officers of the United States mint at Philadelphia. The New York Journal of Utnnmerce, however, says a well dressed young man visited several stores in th'at oity and requested at each a $5 bill in exchange for silver half dollars, as he wished to send that amount away in a letter. A number of merchants accom modated him, and have since found that the fifty-cent piece is a well executed counterfeit. One good test of the genuineness of metallic currency, and a test any one may apply, is its sonority; the ring of the bogus silver will almost invariably detect its baseness. In this respect metal as a currency has a marked advantage over paper as a currency. A Princely Income.—The San Fran cisco News Letter says it has been calcu lated in regard to the total income of Mr. Maokay, the youngest of the quartette of “bonanza princes,” that each minute of the day and night twenty-five golden dollars drop into his pockets with me chanical and monotonous regularity. Mr. Mackay owns three-eights of the famous Bonanza mines, from which his income is estimated to be over <1800,000 per month. The California mine adds an other $150,000 per month to his income. The Saltan in fils hareia sat, And things went Uanim scarum; The Saltan got insaltan looks, And had to sit and bear ’em. The Softas gave him hard, hard words, His viziers looked irate; They c ime to ask that Abd nl Az Should np and Abd-i-cate. They bronght with them a iong bow string. Beneath them rolled tbe Bosphorus— Then let’s slug, long live the King, Efiendi is the Bo-s for os. A country Republican Journal is “proud of the United States Senate—a noble body that stands like a breakwater before the waves of Democratic penurionsness and mischief.” A New Orleans custom house officer expressed the idea more honestly the other day, when he remarked: “The d—d Democrats at Washington are play ing the ‘mischief with onr chances of making any more money out of politics. ” FROM COLUMRIA COUNTY. Political Notes and News—The Sort of Men the People Want — Influence of Good Newspaper*— A Complete Chance Demanded—Miscellaneous Local Items. [From an Occasional Correspondent,] Mikb8ville, Columbia Co., Fla., Jane 2. In a few days more onr standard-bearers for Governor and Congress will be before tbe people, aud it needs that we buckle our armor for a determined fight, for it cannot be disguised that Columbia county is de batable ground, aDd the Radicals will leave no stone unturned to secure the success of their ticket, aud we need to arouse our peo ple to the urgent, pressing necessity of com plete organization ; to impress upon each white resident of the age of twenty-one years that his individual vote is absolutely essential to our success. To accomplish these very desirable ends, which are the sine qua non of success, we depeud, to a large degree, upon the aid of the Mobnino News. Although the signal ability displayed by the News, and the great interest it eviuces in our real interests, is correspondingly re ciprocated io its large circulation among us, yet it should bo in every houi-e and cabin, nook and corner, as a silent, though all-powerful mentor ol our duty; and tke friends of good, honest government—those who believe iu the good old faith and practice of booe-ty aud integrity in the administration of gov ernment, and who seek and earnestly wish the overthrow of the reeking corruption that infest and permeate the body politic— should make it their special business to in crease tho circulation of the News, and have its influence for good scattered broadcast. Tho Jacksonville Press is doiDg a gook work for us, and with ihe assistance of ihe News and the Press we have every hope of suc cess. The apathy of our people is to be de plored, and I do not think tho course of our Executive Committee is at all calculated to arouse the people. If my information be correct, this body consists of twelve mem bers, aad so fearful were they of drawing the people away from home for a single day tiiey themselves selected the delegates, and I am informed appointed out of their own body a considerable portion of the dele gates and alternates to the two conven tions. This action of their’s of course gave rise to considerable dissatisfaction, and justly so. This course of conduci iustead of arousing onr people from their lethargy only the more confirms them in it. I do not thus criticise tbeir conduct through any captious motives, but our all is depend ent on our carrying this county. Should the complexion and standing ot the State- Senate not bo changed at this election, and we succeed in electing our man to fill the vacancy from this county (Fourteenth Dis trict), we wonld have a majority in the Senate, and we mast not lessen our chances of success by driving from us a single vote by tbe doiDg of any act of doubtfnl pro priety. The first step looking toward the arousing of our people to a sense of their duty is the selection of proper, available nominees. I cannot doubt but that the Quincy Conven tion will see to it that our strongest man is put forward, and that they will give us a man in whom will be combined all the ele ments of success I have the most abiding faith. Onr party is rich in material men whose names are synonymous with that of sterling integrity, who would grace any position, and it is to be regrette i that our present Congressman from this district ia said to be in favor of the payment by the United States Government of the moneys stolen from the depositors of the Freed man’s Bank by Radical manipulators, for, it this be a fact, it will bo impossible for him to sustain himself before the people. Many of us were astonished at soeiug thi? charge made against General Finley, which appears in a communication from Jackson ville, Fla., over the signature of “Phi j Kappa,” and published in the Morning News J of the 20th of last moDth. We want a complete changing of officers. | The political body must bo renewed. We \ want men as Judges, who, being rnarrie wdl no , w’hen the necessity arises of having them examined by a judicial officer, separate and apart from tbeir husbands (tbe said Judges) in the matter of the relinquish ment of the wife’s dow«r, do the judicial examination themselves, and j certify under their official baud and seal i that they have examined their own wives separate and apart from themselves and that their said wiveB did acknowledge that they signed the said relinquishment of dower and did so freely and voluntarily and without compulsion of their husbands, the said Judges, and then wind up with the matter by certifying that they (the said Judges) as private citizons are well known unto themselves and that they as private citizens acknowledged before themselves as Judges that tht*y as private citizens did sign and seal and deliver the said deed for the purposes expressed therein and praying record lor tho deed. We need Jastices oi the Peace who, in takiDg an affidavit for as sault and battery, will not u ^on said affid i- vit issue a warrant for tho arrest of a poi son for the chargo of “attempted rape, ’ and then commit tho party to j ail for no of fense at all, nor one that will commit n prisoner to jail upon evidence taken ex. parte and before the arrest of the prisoner, with out allowing the prisoner to give evidence of his innocence. The foregoing are but a few instances ol the acts and doings of onr magisterial mag nates. An attempt to capture the lambs, who escaped from our jail on the night of tht 24th ultimo, did not succeed. They were hedged in & swamp pond a few nights after wards, but they succeeded iu makiDg their escape under cover of the darkness. Crops are in splendid order. Have bad since my last good seasons. It is to be hoped the farmers will this year have pleun of corn, for the sad care of short corn crops have and is now being practically brought to bear upon them. A small-sized tragedy came near being enacted in Lake City a few days ago. A youDg man aud his wife having separated, he tried to put an end to his existence, but fortunately the ball glanced from his rib, aud a slight wound was the only result. He tried for his heart, however, and bad not tho ball glanced thp rib, he would never have known what hurt him. Small thefts are continually reported, and thus it will ever be until there is a change of rulers and we obtain a competent set of officers, for the law as presently adminis tered is & farce. Tho marriage tie appears to set rather heavily upon the wards of the nation. I am informed by an attorney that be had no lets than eight applications in less than two weeks to institute proceedings for divorce. Business among the merchants is dull, purchasers having no money to bay, though, in spite of the scarcity of greenbacks, large quantities of corn are being sold. This corn is all raised West. When will the planter^ learn wisdom? Observer. Atlajttxo ud euLV 8a v amApril ] H AND AFTER SUNDAY* APRIL Mo, fono l^«n«- Train, on tU. ft»d wilt r«a M NIGHT m*H— Laavaamuaan dailrat KMP.H. Arrir.atJerap “ 8:00P.M, Arrive at Bainorldge “ 7:46 A. H. Arrive at AJbenj •• 10:00 A.M. 3:10 A* Mt 9ftSA.lL ...... 8:35A.M. 3:30 P.M. 9:00P.M. 9:1ft P. M. 3 30 P. M. 4:30 P.M. 0:30 A.M. 8:40 A.M. Arrive at Live Oak Arrive at Jacksonville Arrive at Tallahassee Leave Tallahassee Leave Jacksonville Leave Live Oak Leave Albany Leave Bainbrldge Leave Jesnp Arrive at Savannah Pullman Sleeping Cars run through to Jackson* vUle. No change of cars between Savannah and Jack sonville or Albany. Passengers for Brunswick take this train, (Sun days excepted) arriving at Brunswick at 9 40 r. *; leave Brunswick at 2:00 a. h ; arrive at Savannah at 8:40 a. x. Passengers from Macon by Macon and Bruns wick 9:15 a. x. train cornet at Jesnp with this train for Florida (Sundays excepted). Passengers from Florida by this train connect at Jesup with train arriving in Macon at 2:56 r. x. Connect at Albany daily with Passenger trains both ways on Southwestern Railroad to and from Eufaula, Montgomery, New Orleans, etc. Close connection at Jacksonville with St. John’s river steamers. Trains on B. and A. R. R. leave junction, going west, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11:14 A. X. For Brunswick Tuesday, Thursday and Satur day at 4:26 r. x. ACCOMMODATION TRAINS—EASTERN DIVISION. Leave Savannah, Sundays excepted.at. 7:25 A. M. Arrive at McIntosh Arrive at Jesup 44 44 Arrive at Blackshear ** 44 Arrive at DuPont 44 4 * Leave DuPont 44 44 Leave Blackshear 44 44 Leave Jesup 44 44 Leave McIntosh 44 44 Arrive at Savannah 44 44 WESTERN DIVISION. Leave Dupont (Sundays excepted), at Arrive at Valdosta •* 44 Arrive at Quitman *• 44 Arrive at Thomasville •' 44 Leave Thomasville 44 44 Leave Quitman 44 44 Leave Valdosta •• 44 Arrive at Dupont •• 44 ALBANY DIVISION. Leave Albany Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 7:00 A.M. Leave Camilla Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdty, ut 9:35 A. M. Arrive at Thomasville, Tuesday, Thurs day and Satu*day, at 12:10 P. M. Leave Thomasvii.e, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 2:30 P. M. Arrive at Camilla, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, a* 6:’5 P. M. Arrive at Albany, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at 7:40 P. M. Jno. Evans, Gen’l Ticket Ag’t. H. 8. HAINES, je5-tf General Superintendent. 10:16 A. M. 12:36 P.M. 3:45 P. M. 7:20 P. M. 5:20 A. M. 92> A.M. 12:35 P. M. 2:65 P. M 5:35 P. M. 5:30 A. If. 7:25 A.M. 9:15 A. k. 11:10 A. k . 1:15 P. M- 3:10 P.M. 4-35 P. M. 6:30 P.M. Savannah and Charleston R.K. Ofticx Savannah A Charlxston R. R. Co.,1 Savannah, Ga., April 23, 1876. f O N AND AFTER MONDAY, MAY 1st inst., the Passenger Trains on this Road vri»l mi i* follows, FROM ATLANTIC AND GULF RAILROAD PASSENGER DEPOT: DAY TRAINS DAILY. Leave Savannan at 9:00 A. M. Leave Cnarieston at. — >c30 A. M. Leave Augusta at 8:30 A. M. Leave Port RoyaJ at 10:25 A. M. Arrive at Savannah at 3:30 P. M, Arrive at Charleston at 4:20 P. M. Arrive at Augusta at 5:00 P. M. Arrive at Port Royal at . 2:20 P. M, Connection made at Charleston with the North eastern and South Carolina Railroads; at Augusts with the Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta, and Georgia Railroads. 'rickets lor sale at K. R. Bren’s and L. J. Ga- zan’s Special Tic*, t Agencies, No. 21 Bull street and Pulaski House, also at Depot Ticket Office. C. C. OLNEY, Rec. C. 8. GADSDEN, apr29-tf Engineer and Superintendent. Central Railroad. OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT,P Savannah, April 16, 1876. f O N and after SUNDAY, April 16th, Passenger Trains will depart from and arrive at Sa vannah twice daily: Depart 9:15 a. m. I Arrive 6:25 p. x. Depart 7:30 p. m. | Arrive 7:15 a. X. For Augusta, Macon, Coiumbus and Atlanta, making close through connections to all points North and West. Travelers can obtain through tickets, time tables and all desired information, by calling at the Company’s Ticket Office, II. L. SCHREINER, Special Agent, Monument square, corner Con gress street. WM. ROGERS, icbl9(ap20)-l2m General Superintendent. pi hotels aofl &rstauraat$. PLANTERS’ HOTEL, Cor. of Barnard & Bryan Sts., A. E. CARR, Proprietor. ROOMS LARGE AND AIRY! CONVEYANCE; AT STEAMERS AND RAILROADS I R EGULAR BOARD for the summer, without room, $20: and with room, $25 per mouth. Twenty-ftse desirable ROOMS at $6 00 to $10 00 per month. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO GET TING UP SUPPERS FOR PRIVA'i F PARTIES, BALLS, PICNICS, EXCURSIONS, ETC. my81-tf (fDopartBWSltip gotifts. NOTICE. T HE Copartnership heretofore existing be tween JAMES F. BROWN and CHAS. A. DAVIS, under th? fiiaU name Of JAMES F. BROWN & CO., is this day dissolved. The busi ness will be continued by James f. brown, who is alone authorized to sign the firm name is liquidation. JAMES F. BROWN. CUAS. A. DAVIS. Savannah, Ga,, May 6th, 1876. my8-1 m furniture. FURNITURE HOUSE. G. H. MILLEB, (Successor to 8.8. Miller), 169 AND 171 BROUGHTON STREET. F ULL and carefully selected stock on hand. Cssb Custom solicited, with corresponding prices. The U. 8. Spring defies competition. No Credit except to responsible parties. janfiO-tl £aarg ©oods. ELEGANT GOODS WORTH FROM $1 80 TO ** OO. FOR ONLY 99 CENTS. AT CLAPP’S 99-CENT STORE! 157 BroEffhlM Street, Ssnd for Circular. UTUUI, 8L Postponed City Marshal’sftalv. CITY MARSHAL'S OFF1CK.1 Savannah. May 1st, 1876. | U NDER RESOLUTION of the City Connell Oi Savannah, and by virtue of City Tax Exe cutions in my hands, I have levied on, and wh sell, under direction of a Special Committee cf Couucii, on THE FIRST TUESDAY IN JUNE, 1876, between the legal boon* of •ale, before the Court Houac door in tbe city ci Savannah, county of Chatham und State of Geor gia, the following property, to-wit: improvements un Lot No 6 Calhoun warn, levied on as the property of the entate oi Augustus Bonaud. Lot No 15 and improvement* Elliott ward, beried on as the property of Gugie Bourquin. Improvements on Lot No 70 IJoyd ward; loviMi on as the property of John G Antler. Lots Nos 23 and 24 and im».' rnm enta Jas]>er ward; levied qn aa the property / *'ancifl Cham pion, trustee. Improvements on western X of Lot No 55 Gaa- ton ward; levied on aa the properly of T F ElhJm . Lot No 6 aud improvemci'Mi* Decker wa Tower tything; levied on a- \>v i.-njoerty ol mt% M C Ferrill. Lot No 26 an 1 improvements Currytown ward, levied on as the property of *obu O Ferrill, exo- cutor. Lot No 62 and Improvements i;rown ward; levied on aa the property of Wm o Improvements on Lots Nos 40 and 41 W9H0& ward; levied on as the property of J F Go wen. Improvements on Lota Nos 3t, 32 and Walton ward ; levied on aa the property of Mr* M R Gueraid. Lot No 23 and improvements, Gilinervllic; levied on as the property ol the estate oi A Har mon. Eastern one-hall of Lot No 4 Cutbbert ward, fifth section; levied ou aa the property ot K F Haim on. Improvements on Lot No 5 f oisyui ward; levied on aa the property of Wirium /k*ue. Lot No 51 Garden Lot east; IC7.^ on aa tne property of James A LaRoche. Improvements on Lot No 6 Pulaski ward; lev ied ou as the property of Mrs G J LaRoche and children. Lot No 17 and improvements, Gilmervilie; lev ied on aa the property of F S Lathrop. Improvements on the western > v e-third ot Lot No 3 Wesley ward; levied ou aa the property of A K Maliette. Eastern one-half of Lot No 3 and improve ments, Screven ward; levied on as the property of Eli Maliette. Western onc-half of Lot No 3 and improve ments, Screven ward; levied on aa the property of Mrs Catherine Maliette. Improvements ou tbe middle one-third of Let No 3 Wesley ward; levied on aa the propeity ci Mias Eoline Maliette. Improvemeuts on the eastern one-half of Lot No 25 Calhoun ward; levied ou as the property of C C Millar. Lot No 37 aud improvements, Middle Ogle thorpe ward; levied ou aa the property ot Jame# B Read and R J Nunn. Lot No 40 and improvements. Middle Ogle thorpe ward; levied ou as the property ot lire James B Read. Improvements on the eastern one-half of Lot No 41 JacksuD ward; levied on aa the property of Mrs L G Richards. Improvemeuts on Lot No 24 Walton ward; levied ou aa the property of Miss Kate Roberta. Lot No 3 and improvements Jones ward; levied on aa the property of Dwight L Roberta, trustee. Lots Nos 2 and 3, Gardeu Lot west, front »ot tanyard tract; levied on as the property of Jamea H Roberta. Improvements on Lot No 16 Troop ward; Icvieo on aa the property of the estate of Mrs M J Roberts and children. Improvement on Lot No 7 Walton ward; levied on aa the property of the estate ot Mrs M J Roberta and children. Improvements on Lot No 2, wharf lot, rrna- tee’s garden; levied on as the property of Jaiuea Ryan. Lot No 14 and improvements, Cuthbert ward, seventh section; levied on aa the property of Jno A Sullivan, trustee. Lot No 7 and improvements. Cuthbert ware, seventh section; levied on aa the property oi W D Sullivan. Improvements on Lot No 40 Lloyd ward; levied on as the property of W B Stnrtevant, trustee. Improvements on Lota Nos 6, 7 and S Elbert ward; levied on as the property of the estate ot Mrs Margaret Telfair. Lot No 20, Gallie ward, and improvements; levied on as the property of Henry G Ward, trustee. Improvements on Lot No 44 Stephens wardc . r ... * /\r levied on as the property of Mrs A F W’ayne* Purchasers paying for titles and stamp**. y. STlLEsf, mayl-tf GEORGE W. Ciiy Marshal. City Marshal’s Sale. OFFICE CITY MARSHAL, \ Savannah, May 1st, 187$.f U NDER RESOLUTION of the City Couhch ct Savannah, and by virtue of city.tax execu tions in my bands, I have levied on and will seif v under direction of a special committee of Coun cil, on the: FIRST TUESDAY IN JUNE. 187^ between the legal hour? oi sale, before the Coavt House door in the iiiy of Savannah, county oft Chatham, and State of Georgia, the following property, to wit: Improvements on Lot No. 23 Currytown wards levied on as the property of J. Y. Connerat. Lot No. 8 and Improvemeuts, South Oglethorpe ward; levied on as the property of Mr*. Mary M. Marshall. Lot No. 10 and improvements, Reynolds wauii, third tything; levied on as the property ol Jams* J. Waring. Purchasers paying for titles and stamps. GEORGE W. STILES, mayl-tf City Marshak proposals. Proposals for Furnishing Ration* anr. Ship Chandlery for Revenue Vessels. Collector's O-.ice, > Savannah, Ga., May 2Sd, 187«.> S EALED PROPOSALS will be received at lAis office nntil 12 o’c'oek noon of THURSDAY, Jane 15, 18i<, lor sapplying Rations and Ship Chandlery for the use ot the crews and vessels of tbe United States Revenue Marine Service In this Collection District for the fiscal year ending Jnne 30. 1877, Schedules of articles of Ship Chandlery to be bid for will be fnrnished on appUcarioa to this offca No award ot contract will bo made nntil Con gress shall have made the appropriation for the next fiscal year: and tbe right ia reaervad to r— ject aay er all Uda. J. K. P