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Affairs in Georgia.
. M tho editor of the Lawrenceville
ir lias been bitten by the Atlanta bug ?
fZ applications will probably
“ I„ the meantime we trust
to instruct his constituents as to
relieve
he will
its.
ontinne 1
tcessby
for a Constitulional Conveu-
from Atlanta to the
H
ftecoti*
House > l
Chairman^
fielder,
per?.
, special telegram
visa v ews, dated the 7tb, which was
“"y jeatorday, says : The State Central
B " we Committee met at the Markham
11 a. m., with Col. Hardeman,
and Messrs. Akin, Christy,
Worrell, Boynton, Reese, Ettes,
Trammell and Freeman present,
j _ ri. Smith, Lester, Barnes and Wofford
tonfirmed as delegates to St. Lonis,
r -,i, jitssrs. Christy, Bacon, Allen and
Wellborn as alternates. Col. Hardeman re-
r ,i(rom tho committee room. The Col-
mi men favored holding the State Con-
,. 0B on July 12th and the opposition on
. t mher 1st. A compromise, however,
Jb effected by a vote of nine to two, fixing
j t _,n4 the 2J as the day. The meeting
s lurmonious. The committee adjourned
old August 2J.
Colored stabbing affrays are prevalent in
Hnrse county.
Hie Waynesboro Expositor is not a large
piper, but it contains all the local news of
„,cii: i in which it is published. The
. ..,!'i. n v is it gets terribly mutilated.
Keregrt t to learn of the death of Senator
Jtin W. Hudson, of Eatonton. He was a
jieltil and influential member of the State
Senate.
TLeXalbotton Standard is mysteriously
iiing about a Savannah man who is sop-
sel to hare imbrued his hands in the
Stood of a fir william goal on Pepper Hill.
Ls; the truth come out.
A Burke county mule caught a negro by
Ike kg with her teeth the other day, and
mtvo or three hundred yards before she
tuned him loose. A Middle Georgia mule
soil have amputated that limb.
The editor of the Lawronceviile Herald
■ficu to believe that in our remarks con
tenting Atlanta we have attacked her citi-
Bi,s. Considering that some of our warm
er ;s;?nal friends are citizens of Atlanta
l muds to reason that onr criticisms were
in*, it led to apply indiscriminately to every-
in that town.
Hr. James G. Whitaker, one of the best
izens of Baldwin county, is dead.
Air. Francis Orr, of Washington county,
is suffering trom dropsy, has had one
tendrod and thirteen gallons of water
lien from him in eight months. Some
sa ought to inform Mr. Orr that a diet of
li an Spring water aud lemons will cure
la in two months—and we don’t charge
citking for the information.
We are reliably informed that the Hon.
Petiphar Peagreen, of Tugaloo, is not in
tar of removing the capital from At
kina. We suspected as much.
Tie Macon Telegraph doesn’t think Mayor
luff is going to Colorado jnst yet. He has
tjaed a plantation and a mill,and the proba
bilities are that be will stay somewhere in
neighborhood. Well, we are glad of it
Hack men are.too rare in G eorgia to emi-
frate.
The crop prospects in Washington county
Bit never more promising.
It is stated that Mrs. Jennette Wheeler, of
Effingham county, is one hundred and
taentf years old, and still retains, to a re-
Suktble degree, her faculties of mind and
kid;.
Miss Jiliia Doughty, daughter of Dr. Wm.
^.Doughty, of Augusta, is dead.
The Mayor of Atlanta proposes to send a
#» to the Centennial. Onillium Moore, of
be Augusta Constitutionalist, alluding to
to, proposes, in a suspiciously ready man
at, that Aldermau Maddox take his bull*
“ifand the rest of the City Council to the
ihos.
Mr. Antony W. Bates, oi Lawrenceville, is
til.
Mr. Jjbn H. James was thrown from a
“ggy iu Gwinnett county the other day,
Hd slightly bruised about the face.
The S&udersville Herald says the yield of
bs wheat crop in that section will be the
digest tor many years.
Ike oat crop of Judge William S. Smith,
M McDuffie county, yielded seventy-fonr
“d ont-hali bushels—or six thousand four
hundred and forty pounds of shoaf oats—
p acre. Commenting on this, and the
tee labor necessary to make the crop, tho
Ibnnson Journal bitterly remarks : “It is
•esolutely nece sary to work hard at least
ettitea months in tho year to produce a
®'ton crop.”
Tie Waynesboro Expositor says that Mr.
i'S- Attaway planted ono grain of wheat,
is one grain produced two hundred and
heads, each head of which produced
hundred grains, making the sum total
■venty-ono thousand grains from the
toginal one grain. There is more money
„ ’ thhdc out of that one grain of wheat
tin
out of a The number of cotton seed.
e mill in S&ndersville is pro-
lie Grang,
Pegging,
Iilge Thomas H. Blonnt, an old and
foment citizen of Waynesboro, is dead.
eoiored man in Montezuma captured a
c fio burglar the other day by shooting
“b in the side.
lendrick’e case wag to have come up be-
* 'he Columbus Baptist Church last
*TO.
Moore, o! Blackshear, ancx-
^ -Med "ritor, has taken charge of the
■“i=ri.;ar department of the Waycross
Journal: We have been op-
Ijj remoT!I >g the capital back to Mil-
^ et a until the late “developments,” but
*« heartily endorse any move that will
^bplish that end. If we can’t get “roi-
Mesn' 8 ° Ut ca P*i a '> l et U9 by all
^ 8 8et l * Je capital out of “rottenness.”
Wj ' V ' 1 ‘ u I° rn t the editor of the
^enceville Herald that Milledgeville is
Elite . miles of the centre of the
Idjj’ a “ iiat the capital buildings areas
1 h e 11 c " • 'Me will be content, however,
Sot, t. aJvoc ate a constitutional conven-
*albtiot,^ 6 reet UB W H1 attend to the capi-
tight a r ' Fort ’ of Hamilton, had his
•iihe recent *° ' ) * eoea ' n a threshing ma-
fcij, “* Jjr i M. Hackney, of Newn&n, is
r* e fiertn' fjl:nera i Longstreet is running
|»Thet? UtH0161 ' n Gainesvilie.
S, . Jcr °88 Headlight says that W. T.
itilttijs i* 11 '’ Dear ^°*Atlantic and Gulf
is ha e .,i. a5 a larRe ® ocli of sheep in which
| 4iy last w ( e! i, Sreat painB 10 improve. One
lj ia 1 JV W ° dog8 got & mong his flock,
lt,r iUista„a b0Ur8 kiiled fif ‘y-ciRbtof them,
6 in I,,, 1<lg ' dr ' •lames and his bod
alay t h ‘ pursuit, and did all they conid
kent° bfi aad “ t0p tlie B 'anghter.
ont P li UBt f “ enou 8 h ahead to kill
u aight. Finally young James
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH. FRIDAY, JUNE 9. 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
came np with one of the dogs, killed it, and
put a stop to the further slaughter of his
sheep. During the last Legislature, and
while the dog law waB pending, Air. James
opposed it, but now, since he has seen the
practical operation of a regular built
sheep killing dog, it is' probable he has
changed his mind.
Mr. John W. Dozier, an old citizen of Tal
bot county, is dead.
Mr. Hiram McDaniel, of Talbot county, is
accused by the Standard of raising oats with
heads two feet in length.
Fort Talley people carry their babies to
church.
Conductors cn the Southwestern Road
wear striped hose.
The Bainbridge Democrat has cut down
to & half-sheet, but the mutilation doesn’t
interfere with its liveliness.
Bainbridge has organized an immigration
society.
Quitman Reporter : We have been able to
find but two men in this section who are
not in favor of removing the capital from
Atlanta back to Milled reville, and those
men are E. C. Wade and Sam Griffin—both
Federal officeholders, and the only white
Radicals in Brooks county.
The Kimball House has been sold again.
To whom does the concern belong, anyhow?
Quitman Reporter : We were in Savannah
laBt week, and heard ono of the most level
headed, influential merchants of that city
say that he would never he satisfied until
the State capital was removed from Atlanta
back to Milledgeville. There are thousands
of just such high-toned patriotic old Geor
gians who hope to live to see our State Gov
ernment returned to its former seat, where,
relieved from its present influences, our
laws can be made and administered honest
ly, and for the general good and improve
ment of the entire community—not Atlanta
alone.
Bainbridge Democrat: Triplet says the
P. G. in G. was at the Thomasville ball.
Well, how is the old woman, anyhow ?
Fort Valley Mirror: A fly is a very inno
cent little piece of household furniture. At
this season of the year he will mount your
smeller with as much assurance and com
placency as a school boy on a rostrum,
staud on his fore legs and rub his hind ones
together like a butcher whettiDg his meat
knife.
Waynesboro Expositor: Air. E. J. Harri
son, who lives near Munnerlyu, informed a
gentleman of our town that a few days since
three of his cows came home, each with a
black snako wrapped arouud one of their
hind legs, and that the snakes were busily
engaged in filching the lacteal fluid from the
cows. That this is true we have not the
slightest doubt, as the gentleman is one of
veracity, and can prove the truth of the
statement by his wife. After mature delibe
ration we are of the opinion that every
black snake ought to be smitten on the head
till it dies.
Waynesboro Expositor : A young man of
our town has been visiting a young lady,
who lives about nine miles from this place.
A few days ago he made one of his usual
visits, carrying with him two pounds of
candy, one quart of plums, one dozen cigars,
three sticks of chewing gum, comb, brush
and looking-gla68, two extra collars, one
Colt’s repeater, an extra pair of suspenders,
one pocket dictionary, one copy of Chester
field on Etiquette, and numerous other
things. We can’t conceive why he should
have taken so much with him, as he only
intended remaining four or five hours.
Compliments of the Quitman Reporter to
the Atlanta Constitution: ls that the hist
you could do, bub ? The “ abused ” cer
tainly have a very poor mouth-piece if you
can’t blow a stronger blast than lltat, and
when the proposed removal of the State
capital comes to a square issue, Atlanta aud
her “ wealthy and respectable citizens ” of
bond-Btandiug, banquet-giving, bonus-tak
ing propensities will be very apt to come
out at the little end of the horn. Don’t
think that you are going to always bluff
the honest people of the State by such silly
squibs as the above whenever anything is
said about the removal of the capital. The
developments of the last three months in
Atlanta have convinced the people, outside
of that remarkable city, that in order to
bring our State Government back to its
former purity aud honest management, its
headquarters must be taken away from the
“wealthy” and “abused” of Atlanta. The
change must be made, and the people are
beginning to see it, and the Atlanta trumpet
may as well make up its mind to change its
tune and meet the issue squarely and fairly
upon its merits. These hard blown bluffs
have played.
Florida Affairs.
The next Governor of Florida : George F.
Drew.
Will Stearns surrender, or will Conover
cave ?
What has become of the Rev. John R.
Scott, colored, and his numerous wives and
childron ?
Can any one tell us where our Tommy’s
gone ?
It will soon be time for another Radical
State Convention in order to “heal” things.
There is some consolation in reflecting that,
whatever happens, tho Soap-Fat man won’t
be the next Governor of Florida.
The patriotic Cubans who are fighting for
their country in Key West, will probably be
led to the polls by Majah Purman, and if
there are any imported votes from the Ba
hamas this season, Conover will probably
get the benefit of them. This will be hard
on the Soap-Fat man.
Uncle Sawyer, of the Sun, has no word of
consolation for Conover. We have been la
boring under the impression all the time
that Uncle Sawyer was an out-and-out Con
over man. He is probably waiting for the
other convention.
Does McLin think there is any chance for
the Democrats to carry Florida this year ?
The scalawags and carpet-baggers would
do well to make the most of their oppor
tunities for plunder during the next few
months. They won’t have much of a show
ing after the election.
How many Radical organa will survive
the Democratic victory in Florida next fall?
If the Democrats and Conservatives con
duct the campaign with the ardor, enthu
siasm and harmony whioh has been mani
fested at the Quincy Convention, they will
sweep the State.
If either of the Radical candidates for
Governor come down, we predict it will be
Stearns. Tho poor old Soap-Fat man, though
he claims to be the regular nominee of the
party, doesn’t possess the moral stamina
nor the strength of will to make the can
vass against Conover. We have a certain
sort of pity for the old rascal. He has been
slain by those he thought were his friends.
They say Hicks fairly foamed at the
month during the Radical Convention at
Madison. By-the-by, what has become of
Hicks’s suit for libel against W. W. Keep,
of Live Oak? He ought, by all means,
to briDg the case to trial.
Jackson narrowly escaped a fire the other
night. A lamp was discovered ablaze in a
house the occupants of which had gone out.
Several firemen happened to be near, and
some of their number made their way
through a window and threw the lamp into
the street.
Liberty Billings was on hand at the Madi
son Convention. Talk about nice tea par
ties I Look at the list of statesmen that rep
resented Radicalism on that auspicious oc
casion : Liberty BiiUugs, Ned Cheney,. Ma
jah Turman, Bill Gleason, Simon Conover,
Soap-Fat Stearns, Harmon, LeCain, Eagan,
Dennis, Bisbee, Hicks, Montgomery, Pete
Jones, Butler, Yellow Bluff Jenkins, Wal
lace, et al., ad nauseam.
Conover says he’s going to stick, is This
because ho knows the Soap-Fat man—the
“regular nominee”—hasn’t the courage to
make the race. .
If another Radical Convention is held,
Dennis Eagan will be the nominee. In that
case, what will Simon B. do about it?
The shipments of cotton from Monticello
the present season are short 264 bales as
compared by weight with the shipments of
last season during the same period.
A blind fiddler adds to the monotony of
Monticello.
A negro boy was found dead near the
railroad track in Jefferson county the other
day.
The Monticello Constitution knows of sev
eral colored men in Jefferson county who say
they would cheerfully vote the Democratic
ticket in tho approaching election if they
were not afraid they would be brutally ban
died by their political leaders and the col
ored race generally. This may be only a
sham pretext for voting the Republican
ticket, however.
It is reported that it is so dry iu the
prairie sections of Brevard county that alli
gators are drying up and dying for want of
water. “Many,” says the Sanford Journal,
“have been found dead in sinks where they
had burrowed tor water, while other lo g,
guant fellowB have been seen stall., g
around like walking skeletons. ”
Florida has contributed two stuffed a’. i-
gators to the Centennial. A pickled scala
wag and an embalmed carpet-bagger would
have been a more characteristic contribu
tion.
A colony of Maine immigrants will arrive
in Ocala this week.
The Ocala Banner says that Mr. Benedict,
a wealthy Western gentlemaD, has pur
chased the Burns lauds in Marion county,
consisting of about fifteen hundred acres.
He has also purchased a tract oi wild or
ange grove laud on Orange Lake. He will
bring out a number of settlers with him
early iu the fall, probably before.
The same paper gays that Mr. Thomas
Tilden, of New York, a near kinsman of the
Governor of that State, has recently bought
the DuPont plantation, about two miles
southeast from Ocala. Mr. Tilden has
divided it up into five and ten acre lots,
which he styles “villa sites,” intersected by
broad avenues.
Is it possible that Thomas Telfair is away,
down in the Oh Golly everglades?
The Soap-Fat man, when he made his
speech accepting the nomination, addressed
a select audience of fifteen persons.
The Jacksonville Press says that Gleason,
sharp as he is, was sold out completely by
Dennis, of the vulpine visage and Rey-
nardian qualifications. The story goes that
D. proposed a recess of ten minutes, just
before the vote was takeu by the Central
Committee on the contestants from Ala
chua, and that G. was won over to D.’s
way of thinking by the promise of the sec
ond place on the ticket. It is needless to
add that Gleason, the aspiring financial
agent of Dade county, was left out in the
cold when the ballot was taken.
A Cuban baby was found upon a door-step
in Key West the other night. A Chinaman
knew the wretched mother and the infant
was returned to her.
The Key West cigars bring in an annual
income of $2,500,000.
Jacksonville Union : The steamer Hatiie
Barker came in from Enterprise yesterday
with eleven passengers and a lot of beans,
cucumbers, etc., for New York. Her com
mander, Captain Barker, states that the
water at Lake Monroe has risen about six
inches, and that on his last trip the river
seemed swarming with alligators ; they were
thicker than he had ever seen them before.
This boat took s me forty or fifty passen
gers to the bar last Sunday, and will go
again next Saturday, returning Monday
morning. Captain Barker wishes some
high-toned philosopher to explain why the
water of Lake George has such a deep green
color, while it is clear elsewhere in the river.
Can any one tell?
Majah Purman : Among the busy ants
can plainly be seen ono fat, porpoisey one
which attracts some attention from the fact
,bat it has a few others which seems to ac
company this big fat one as a retinue in va
rious menial capacities. Two of this retinue
are dog-auts, which do the barking for the
fat one, aud are called Cheney and JIoLiu;
two are mule-ants upon which the fat one
rides, and are called Martin and Little Den
nis; and one is a jackass-ant which furnishes
the chin-mnsic by braying, and creates fun
for tbe multitudo by being the object of
laughter, jokes and contempt for the ant
boys. The name of this ornamental ant is
Hicks.
Jacksonville Union: Mr. N. B. Gruella,
who has recently become a citizen of Orange
county, has just returned from a visit to tbe
Northern States, and reports that a com
pany has been formed, consisting of Illinois
and New York capitalists, to build a new
railway, to be called tho Chicago, Florida
and West India line, starting from Dupont,
Georgia, and rnnning t > rough Columbia,
Alachua, Marion, Sumter, Polk aud Manatee
counties to Charlotte Harbor, with a branch
from the most available point in Polk
county to Tampa, to bo called the
Lake Monroe and Tampa road. Mr.
Gruella is a civil engineer with much
practical experience in railroad matters,
and represents the company as its Secre
tary. He states that the stockholders are
nearly all intending to settle in Polk county,
and that tho bnil ling of the road is a fixed
fact, although the actual route cannot bo
determined until a thorough survey is
made. He thinks this will be sufficiently
advanced for the grading to be commenced
this fall. The data on which this railroad
line has been predicated, is found in tbe
map of this State drawn from the coast sur
vey reports made when Jefferson Davis was
Secretary of War, and is by far the most
complete map of this State extant.
Pensacola Express: On Wednesday we
got on the train at Shade’s station, P. A: L.
R. B. In the front car was a lady with four
daughters, and one other passenger; in the
rear were four white men, Hester, Schell,
Kellv, aud one whose name we did not learn,
al! aimed with shot guns and pistols. They
stopped tho train just out of Molino, by
ordering a colored brakesmaD, with cocked
guns, to enforce the order, to tell the
engineer to stop and back down to
get some money they had lost, which
was just ten cents. When we got on
board, Mr. Mallory had the armed men
tolerably quiet. No further outbreak was
looked ’for, although they hallcoed at
every person the train passed, aud varied
this amusement with an occasional
Bhot from tbe car. When the tr.dn arrived
at Gonzalia, Hester shot a negro, who ran
from him. Hester and Schell followed the
man through an old store-house, firing an
other shot, the man falling just in front of
the engine. Hester drew a broad-bladed
knife, stabbing him several timeB in tbe
back and once in the neck, breaking the
blade off in tbe negro’s body. As Hester
left him be shouted : “I’m a white man, I
am!” No provocation was given for tbe
attack; the men, Hester and Schell, simply
cat and snot him because be was black.
Tbe four men got off the train at Oakfield,
as they said, to kill another colored man
near Ferry Pass. A warrant was issued for
the arrest of these three men, and the delay
of its execution, which gave them a chance
to escape, is yet to be accounted for.
A Radical Postmaster has his Own
Wife and Child Aeeested for Theft.—
Some time since we mentioned the fact
that A. J. Swinson, white Republican,
and magistrate in Northwest township,
Brunswick county, made an attack on his
wife which was at first thought to be seri
ous, that Mrs. Swinson and her son had
left his house, and that he had posted a
notice on his door preventing their re
turn to his roof. It seems that Swinson
is also a postmaster, and that he has since
added another chapter to his own degra
dation, if such a thing is possible, by
issuing out a warrant against his wife and
son, charging them with a theft of money,
postal cards and stamps from the office
under his control. The case was heard
yesterday afternoon before United States
Commissioner Cassidy, and tbe lad A. S.
Swinson was bound over for his appear
ance at the next term of the District
Court in the sum of $200.— Wilmington
Review.
A Burglar Swearing His Victim on
the Bible.—Martin Armstrong, a farmer,
who lives about two miles from the vil
lage of Coxsackie, had iu his employ a
farm hand named Wm. C. Martin, aged
about twenty years. On Wednesday
morning last Mr. Armstrong was aroused
from sleep by a noise in his bed-room,
and on opening his eyes beheld Martin
standing over him, and before he had a
chance to speak Martin seized his em
ployer by the throat. Upon releasing
his hold Martin took Mr. Armstrong’s
pistol, pulled one from his own pocket,
both of which he presented at the gen
tleman’s head, telling him he had only a
short time to live. Martin then picked
up a Bible and made his victim swear
that he would not lisp a word about his
entranoe into his room. This promise
secured, Martin robbed Mr. Armstrong
and fled.—Hudson (iV. 71) Republican.
It ikreported that the Prince Imperial
will shortly make a tour through this
iiJJUUiUi
—TO—
THE MORNING XEVV8-
Xoou Telegrams.
THE WAR-CLOUD IN EUROPE.
Turkey ami Her Kevolutiouary
i’rovinces.
affairs drawing to a crisis.
Notes and News from the Federal Capital.
THE EASTERN TROUBLES.
London, J one 8.—The limes's Berlin spe
cial reports that numeious Sclavonic jour
nals assert that a strong: ltussian force is
being concentrated at Bender, on the river
Dneister, near the Xluldavo, on the Turkish
frontier. The Prince of Montenegro has
forbidden transmission of telegrams or
letters giving information of mili
tary movements. The Herzegovinians,
under control of the Prince of
Montenegro have determined to accept no
communication from the Porte. The
Sclavonian committee at Moscow have sent
the insurgents one hundred thousand
roubles. The same dispatch says it appears
that on June 1st, rival propositions touch
ing a settlement of the EaHtciu -aai*..*-
tion .were received at Vienna from Bug-
land and Russia. Similar communications
were probably made by both powers to Ber
lin prior to the Emperor William’s postpon
ing his contemplated trip to Ems.
News has jnst been received that the
Austrian Government lias again permit
ted 6,000 breech-loaders and several
millions of cartridges to be landed at
Cattaro for the Moutenegraus. The
Turks have consequently forbidden the Aus
trian steamers from touching at the Turkish
bank of the Danube.
A Vienna dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
mentions a report that Germany and
Austria declined a suggestion made by
Russia to postpone the recognition of
Murad until he wa3 willing to receive
advice from the powers. Tne Telegraph's
correspondent at Paris announces that the
Grand Duke Michel, of Russia, has arrived
there. The LeSoir says ‘‘great importance
is attached to the visit iu political circles.
We believe it indie ites the restoration of
French inlluence in the councils of Eu
rope.”
London, Jane 8.—A special dispatch from
Vienna to the Daily Telegraph says: “It is
stated that Count Andrassy has been asked
to meet Prince Gortschakoff aud Prince
Bismarck at Ems, bat has not yet definitely
accepted the invitation.”
Vienna, June 8.—A telegram from Bel
grade, received here, announces hat the
Servian Government has declared it wiii
follow the recommendation of Russia not to
enter into hostilities against Turkey.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Washington, June 8.—In the Senate,
West, from the Committee on Appropriation,
reported the pest office appropriation bill
with amendments, and gave notice that he
would call it up for consideration to-morrow.
In the sub-Judiciary Committee Green tes
tified that in a conversation between himself
and Stewart, in regard to bringing a suit,
Green alluded to some difficulty about
Biaine’s name appearing in it. Stew
art did not say that James G. Blaine
was or was not mixed up iu it. Witness
spoke of tbe person as Speaker Blaiue,
Stewart used the name Hon. Jas. G. Blaine,
or Jas. Blaine. This is in regard to the
quarter million bonds distributed by J. B.
btewart. This is the Stewart who was in
the custody of the House, under arrest for
contempt during the Credit Mobilier iuves-
t'.gation.
In tho Senate, during the morning hour,
Mr. Mituhell moved to take up the resolu
tion reported by tho Committee on Privi
leges aud Elections to pay P. B. S. Pinch-
back the compensation and mileage of a
Senator from the State of Louisiana, from
the beginning of the term for which ho was
a contestant to tho termination of the con
test. Several Senators of tho Democratic
side objected, and the yeas and nays being
called, the motion to take it up was reject
ed, 20 to 19, Mr. Christiancy voting with the
Democrats in the negative.
THE NEVADA KU-KLUX.
Cabson, Nevada, Juno 8.—The leaders of
the late anti-Cooli j demonstration are im
prisoned. Their followers threaten to tear
down the jail. The streets are crowded,
an 1 nothing but the expected troubles are
talked of.
SHOVERS OF THE QUEER.
St. Louis, June 8.—The counterfeiters’
headquarters at Mount Vernon, Illinois, is
broken up. There have been several
arrests, and moro are to follow. A large
amount of material was caught.
MEDICAL STORES FOR MALTA.
London, June 8.—Medical stores for five
thousand men, in addition to those already
on the Mediterranean fleet, are going to
Malta.
TERRY AND THE RED MEN.
Cheyenne, June 8.—It is reported that
General Terry attacked the main body of
Indians, aud the fight lasted all day. No
details.
SHERMAN.
Washington, June 8.—Sherman, who
succeeds Morey as a Representative from
Louisiana, is here. He will be seated to
day. _
Evening Telegrams.
FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.
Summarr of Congressional Proceed*
ings.
MORE BLARNEY FROM BLAINE.
THE MAINE “STATESMAN” STILL.
GASSING.
Investigating Lawrence Harney, Kerr’s
Accuser.
NEW YORK NOTES.
New York, June 8.—Two boys, rowing in
tbe harbor, were run down by a tag and
drowned.
Wm. Vellman was arrested for attempt
ing to get the Cashier of the Merchant’s
Exchange National Bauk to certify a forged
check for $12,000.
Cochrane, McLeon & Co., dry goods deal
ers, of 462 Broadway, have failed. Their
liabilities are $1,500,000 aud their assets
nearly $2,000,000.
Cochrane, McLeon & Co. state that they
have more properly gone into liquidation
than failed. They can pay all they owe and
have $500,000 to spare.
In the Superior Court to-day trial was
commenced in the suit by Drexel, Morgan
& Co , Jeaup & Co. and others against the
Davenport Railway Construction Company.
Amongst the defendants aro Thos. A. Scott,
President of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
Andrew Carnegie, Thos. L. Jewett, Oakes
Ames’s administrator, John Duff, Gordon
Dexter, of Boston, and others. The suit is
on the company’s notes for $251,000 worth
of railroad iron to build the road from Dav
enport, Iowa, to St. Paul, Minn. These
notes are now dne and unpaid, and the
question is whether the defendants, or the
corporation, or the partnership, are indi
vidually iiablo.
THE INDIAN TROUBLES.
Washington, June 8.—Indian Agent John
P. Clum, from the Cliericahua Agency, Jane
5th, says that Eskingo, the notorious ieader
of the* hostile Indians, has been killed by
bis son Cochise. Peaceful removal or war
will be the result of the negotiations this
week.
Omaha, Neb., June 8.—A dispatch re
ceived at department headquarters this
morning, dated Fort Laramie, June 7, says
an Indian courier from Red Cloud brings
this report: Just before he left, an In
dian arrived from the mouth of Tongue
river. Ho found there 1,275 lodges under
Sitting Bull, Crazy Horae and others.
They were on their way to Powder
river to fight Crook on his return. He saw
the same band that Egan saw May 17. They
told him they had met Custer’s troops and
had fought them all clay, many being killed
on both sides. No result is reported. This
occurred about eight days ago.
SPEAKER KERR’S ACCUSER.
Washington, June 8.—Hon.Morgan Jones,
a member of Congress in 1866, testified that
Lawrence Harney called upon him that year
and asked him to appoint Augustus P.
Greene a Lieutenant in the army.
Harney informed witness that he
(Harney) would get a nice present
if Greene was appointed. Witness told
Harney he had nothing to do with that, and
told him that he had known Greene longer
than Harney had. He had no application
from his own district, but appointed a young
man whom he had kuown from boyhood.
Otherwise he would probably have appoint
ed Greene.
Hon. Nelson Taylor, formerly a member
from New York, testified that he took an
interest in Greene from testimonials he had
received, but not on Harney’s account. He
appointed a young man from his own dis
trict.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, June 8.—In the House, the
post route bill passed. It throws additional
guards arouud bids.
The Judiciary Committee reported the
bill prescribing’oaths for grand and petit
United States jurors. It abolishes the iron
clad. Pending its discussion the morning
hoar expired.
The Senate, amendments to the bill
relative to custom house bonds were
adopted, and jt goes to the President.
Blaine said he had entered a motion to re
consider the vote bv which the Judiciary
Committee were allowed to print the evi
dence. He wanted to have the London dis
patch embodied.
Mr. Hunton had no sort of objection, but
Mr. Southaid objected.
Mr. Tarbox made a personal explanation.
The resolution introduced by him was not
aimed at Mr. Blaine. He then gave a his
tory of the resolution and a general review
of the matters developed under it. During
the discussion it was shown by Blaine’s
friends that Tarbox bad a copy of Blaine’s
financial speech before it was delivered.
Upon this side issue Blaine said: “How it
came into his possession I do not
know, and I never have been able
to know, but have surmised. I assert that
it was there—that it was in his possession
for some weeks, and that his holding it wss
a violation of the primal laws of honesty as
much as it he held my watch—jnst the same.
I have never recognized the gentleman
since, and I only recognize him to-day to
make that statement. I will now take up
the motion for reconsidering the vote on the
resolution for printing certain evidence.
Tarbox here rose. The Speaker pro tern.
asked Blaine whether he yielded the floor to
Tarbox.
Blaine—I will hear wnat ne has ^ say.
Tarbox—I understood the gentleman
from Maine to indicate that I offered a
printed speech purporting to be his to some
uewspaper.
Blaine—I had heard it.
Tarbox—It is not true.
Blaiue—The gentleman stated a while ago
that it was not true that he had a copy.
Tarbox—I made no such statement.
Blaine—I now call up the motion to re
consider the vote ordering certain testi
mony to be printed.
Lord claimed the right of going on with
the Geneva award bill.
In the course of a parliamentary condict
over the point, Blaine stated that all he
wanted was to have the Caldwell dispatch
and the committee proceedings of yester
day printed at the same time.
Re8gan, of Texas, made tho objection
that the Caldwell dispatch was no kiud of
evidence.
Blaiue—And yet yon reported a vote of
ceusure on General Scbenck on the same
kind of evidence.
Spriuger, of Illinois—That is not the case.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs did re
ceive certain telegrams from London with
respect to his connection with the Emma
mine, but in every iostanco before use was
made of them they were submitted to Gen
eral Schenck for his statement in regard to
them.
Blaine—Why did you not submit this dis
patch to me ?
Springer—I presume it will be submitted
to the gentleman iu good time.
Blaiue persisted in holding the floor, not
withstanding the Speaker’s hammering and
demands for order.
Blaine—One momen 4 , Mr. Speaker.
Tbe Speaker pro fern.—No, sir. The gen
tleman will be seated. The chair must
come to the point of order in furtherance of
the public business. The decision of the
chair is that the gentleman from Maine can
not call up the motiou to reconsider while
the Geneva awaid bill is before the House.
Blaiue—Then I understand the chair to
rule that I have lost my' control over the
motion.
The Speaker pro tem—No, sir. Tho chair
has ruled no such thing. The chair wi 1
recognize the gentleman when there is
nothing properly pending before the House.
Blaine—I desire permission to say
The Speaker pro fern., interrupting—Does
the gentleman take an appeal?
Blaiue—I merely want to say that in sub
mitting to it as I do, gracefully, I do not at
all concur in it.
The Speaker—The chair did not suppose
anything of the kind.
The House thou resumed the considera
tion of the Geneva award bill.
Spencer, from Louisiana, was seated in
the Senate.
The bill relating to tbe jurisdiction of the
Circuit Courts in issuing injunctions was
passed.
Maxey’s resolution of inquiry about
bonds ’predicated upon conditional land
grant was adopted.
The silver bill was taken up, aud after a
long discussion was postponed to Tuesday,
the 20th.
Mr. Gordon presented the petition of S.
D. Lee, of Mississippi, for the removal of
his political disabilities.
Confirmations: W. W. Sykes, Consul to
Cardiff; J. L. Rutan, Consul to Florence ;
John Tyler, Jr., Postmaster at Jacksonville,
Fla.; Hedgeman Slack, Marshal of West
Virginia ; Virgil S. Lusk, Attorney of the
Western District of North Carolina.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer,
Washington, D. C., June 8.—Probabilities:
In the South Atlantic States, diminishing
southeast winds, stationary or higher tem
perature, lower pressures and partly cloudy
weather will prevail.
In the Gulf States, southerly winds, sta
tionary pressures and temperature, aud
partly cloudy weather, except possibly
cloudy or rainy weather followed by cooler
northerly winds in the interior of the South
west.
In Tennessee aud the Ohio valley ami the
lake region, southwest to northwest wind?,
stationary or lower temperature, partly
cloudy weather, and failing followed by
rising barometer.
In the Middle States, falling barometer,
warmer southwest winds aud partly cloudy
weather.
A BOW IN TUNIS.
Tunis, June 8.—A Jew passing through a
Bazar, trod on some leather belonging to a
cobbler, who threw a bench knife, cutting
the Jew’s throat. Five thousand Jews
gathered, but a riot was prevented by the
intervention of Consuls and other foreign
residents. The cobbler was tried, convicted
and executed within two days.
blaine’s bonds.
Washington, June 8.—In the Judiciary
Committee Greene testified that George
Francis Train aud wife got five hundred
thousand dollars worth of bonds for ser
vices rendered by him in lobbying. About
a million dollars’ worth went into the hands
of other persons for services of the same
kind.
THE WISCONSIN DEMOCRATS.
Milwaukee, June 8.—In the Democratic
Convention seventeen delegates are for
Tilden and three uncommitted. The com
mittee on resolutions were about to report
when a resolution to adjourn sine die pre
vailed.
drowned.
Cape May, N. J., June 8.—Two brothers
named Clarke were drowned while bathiog
at Sea Grove at ten o’clock this morning.
They were painters from Providence, R. L,
and were employed at the Sea Grove Hotel.
TO NORFOLK.
Portland, Me., June 8.—The United
States steamer Monongahela is ordered to
Norfolk, and sails hence on Saturday.
FROM HALIFAX.
Halifax, June 8.—It is reported that tho
Eighty-seventh Regiment is ordered to be in
readiness to embark.
BURNED.
New Castle, Pa., June 8.—The City Hall,
and engine house and some private prop
erty were burned. Loss, $400,000.
GRANT A GBAND-DADDY.
Washington, June 8.—Col. Fred. Grant
has a twelve-pound heiress.
Boston, June 8.—The Old South Church
material was sold for $1,300.
A Boy Over a Cataract.—There was a
picnic party of twenty-five or thirty per
sons at Clifty Falls on Saturday, and one
of them, Miles Harbin, a lad of thirteen,
slipped and fell over the falls. He first
fell a perpendicular distance of 12 feet,
then rolled 30 feet, then fell 48J feet, and
rolled to the bottom of the falls, 56 feet
further. The entire fall was 146 feet,
down precipices and over rocks and the
rough hillside. Harbin was unconscious
when he was picked up, but his senses
speedily returned to him. His skull and
collar bone were broken.—Madison (Ind.)
Courier, 24ihuU.
Probabilities.—Probably if Col. Thos.
A. Scott had been aware how sudden and
complete was to be the overthrow cf
James G. Blaine, he would not have been
so swift a witness to deliver such exceed
ingly thin testimony in Blaine’s behalf.
Probably if Col. Thomas A. Scott had
been aware how sudden and complete
would be the revelation of his invest
ments in Democratic newspapers, he
would have thought twice before he put
up the large sums of money that were
requisite for that purpose.—j\T. Y. Sun.
THE FLORIDA DEMOCRATS.
I)ny Before Ibe Convention—Arrivnl of
Delegatee—Enthusiasm and Harmony.
[Special Correspondence oi the Morning New. ]
Quincy, Fla., June 6, 1876.
Contrary to the expectations of the
community, about one hundred delegates
to the State Democratic and Conservative
Convention, which meets to-morrow, ar
rived to-day, it being supposed that the
delegates en masse would come by to
morrow’s train. As the cordial hand of
welcome was extended, the heart truly
fell that “there was life in the old land
yet,” and the glorious day might come
when the political administration of
Florida would be more satisfactory in the
present and more hopeful in the
future. Ou the morning’s train came
Polk, Orange, Sumter, Duval, Nassau,
Columbia, Suwanuee, Madison, Alachua
and Marion county delegates, as weil as
from other counties, and there was a
general rejoicing of such a prospect of
A FULLY ATTENDED CONVENTION.
But late in the afternoon when a special
train brought Escambia’s large delegation
and several other delegates from various
counties, a quiet enthusiasm was aroused
which made men loug for the contest
whose result is to speak the glad notes of
the State’s redemption in November next.
At night there was much
CONSULTATION AMONG THE DELEGATES
present, and the result of it was a general
conviction that George F. Drew, of Eila-
viile, would be the nominee for Governor,
notwithstanding that several counties
favored Colonel J. J. Daniel, of Jackson
ville, for that position. Iu the meantime
the Quincy string band serenaded the
delegates, and short and felicitous speech
es were made, upon being called on, by
Colonels Call, Cooper, Davidson, and Mr.
John Hartridge. Jacob.
The Gubernatorial Canvass.
[From the Columbus Times of Tuesday.]
We make extracts from several of our
State exchanges giving variant views of
the gubernatorial canvass in its present
stage. We expect this canvass to warm
up and become more active from this
time out, as the Democratic Executive
Committee, which meets in Atlanta to
morrow, will no doubt appoint a day for
the assembling of the State Convention;
and we will endeavor to keep our readers
promptly advised of its progress.
Notice is taken of a circular or letter,
addressed to Hon. Hersehel V. Johnson,
asking him to declare himself a candi
date, and of a rumor that he will shortly
announce himself in the field. While we
agree with the Augusta Chronicle that
there appears to be nothing in this move
ment to justify the denunciations of the
Atlanta Constitution’s correspondent, we
do not think that the friends of the ex-
Governor have prosecuted thtir canvass
iu his behalf in a manner consistent
with their declarations that he did
not desire the office but they want
ed to give him the nomination as a
means of reconciliating the divisions in
the party. Before Gov. Smith's refusal
to run—when there seemed to be a proba
bility that the delegates would be so
much divided in support of the avowed
candidates that neither one of them could
obtain a clear majority in the convention
—it was obviously the purpose of ex-
Governor Johnson’s friends not to make
any open contest in the county meetings,
but to bring him forward in the expected
contingency of a prolonged contest in the
convention, ss a compromise candi
date. He would thus have been
presented as the active opponent
of no one of the aspirants, but
as a non-contestant upon whom they
might all unite. But since Gov. Smith’s
declination, all the accounts have war
ranted the belief that Gen. Colquitt would
have a clear majority over all his com
petitors and would obtain the nomina
tion, unless some new candidate could be
brought out to divert from him some
counties which he could carry against any
of his old competitors. Therefore the
friends of ex-Governor Johnson wish now
to bring him out to make a contest
for the delegations in some of the
eastern counties, which no present
competitor can take from Genera! Col
quitt. This may not incur the impu
tation of trickery or j ustify the designa
tion of it os a “secret ring,” but it does
not appear to us to be consistent with
the claim at first set up for the ex-Gov-
ernor by his friends—that it was neces
sary to kill off all the eager aspirants for
the office and to impress into the service
a man of his ability and character, as a
means of reconciling the divisions in the
party. On the contrary, his open candi
dacy seems now to be sought as a means
of re opening a division which was nearly
healed, and further distracting the party
which was about to be united.
We are satisfied that no course which
Gov. Johnson’s friends can now take will
hs effective to prevent the nomination of
Gen. Colquitt. There is evidently a
strong popular feeling for Colquitt, not
in any particular section merely, but all j
over the State. It is too late for the
friends of Governor Johnson to turn
back the tide of popular sentiment. But
if ex-Governor Johnson is brought out,
the friends of General Colquitt should be
aroused to greater effort to give him a
clear majority over all others in the
convention. Johnson's candidacy will
add a new element to the opposition, and
make it more formidable in the event of
a combination against Colquitt. How
ever ex-Governor Johnson may answer
the letter sent him, let the friends of
General Colquitt stand firm and their
lines cannot be broken.
Some marvels of human ingenuity may
be seen at the London Scientific Exhibi
tion. Thus, a machine, loaned by Sir
W. Armstrong, the great gun-maker,
measures thickness up to the one-thou
sandth part of an inch, and another, on
the same principle, to the one-millionth
part. The delicate balance of Mr. Oert-
ling carries 3,000 grains, and turns dis
tinctly with the one-thousandth part of a
single grain. Among th6 historical- in
struments is the chronometer sent by the
Koyal United Service Institution, which
was twice carried out by Captain Cocke,
and again by Captain OslighJ in 1787.
When the crew of the Bounty mutinied,
this veteran timekeeper was carried to
Pitcairn’s Island by the mutineers, and
sold by Adams in 1808 to an American
Captain who touched there. He sold it
in Chili, and in 1840 it was bought at
Valparaiso by Sir Thomas Herbert, taken
to China by him, and finally brought
back to England in the Blenheim.
A pair of silver kettledrums has just
been presented to the Fifth Lancers
(British] regiment. These drums, the
labor of five months, are intended to re
place the silver drums of the regiment
destroyed in the fire at the Tower of Lon
don. They are hammered out of sheet
silver, and are 960 ounces in weight, with
mountings of the pure metal. Silver
drums are not destined merely for show,
for it is well known that the tone pro
duced is both sweet and sonorous. Four
other cavalry regiments possess silver
kettledrums, First and Second Life
Guards, the Royal Horse Guards (blue),
and the Third Hussars; the first three
regiments received them as a gift from
royalty, and one of them, belonging to
the Third Hussars, was won in fair fight
at the battle of Dettingen, where it was
captured by a trumpeter in face of the
enemy.
A hero among workingmen is M. A.
Karis, a slater, of Anthione, Belgium. He
had to ascend the summit of the church
steeple at Ville-sur-Ourthe to fix the
lightning conductor. His comrade
mounted on his shoulder to pour some
molten lead into the socket, when a
violent gust of wind caused part of the
liquid mass to fall on Karis’s shoulder
and arms. He dared not budge, for the
least movement would have precipitated
his comrade from the dizzy height into
the street far below, so he remained
firm, and allowed tbe molten lead to eat
into bis flesh rather than sacrifioe his
comrade.
Ihe Fall of a Sultan.
[From the Louisvil e Courier-Journal.]
The deposition of the Sultan of Turkey
has invested the situation in tbe East
with an interest which the lengthy and
conflicting accounts of the revictualicg
of Niksiki failed to inspire. Doubtless
tbe Sultan himself was more astonished
than his people or the world at large. A
human being educated to the sense of
superiority which this unworthy ruler
harbored, thus suddenly cast from his
pedestal, offers a theme for reflections
that suggest themselves to any one who
gives the far-off subject a moment’s
thought. The head of the church in the
East, “The Shadow of God,” was so lofty
in his tinseled glory that the murmurs of
the people, so far beneath him, failed
to reach him. A child in politics,
he seemed to feel that he was safe
in the hands of the powers who had
guaranteed the stability of his throne.
His visit to the continent failed to awaken
iu him any real sentiment for progress.
The concentration of selfishness, he was
coddled by designing and impotent min
isters. The critical press of Europe
could not discover in his face intellectual
qualities, or penetrate beyond the indo
lent look of his sensual eyes. Without
resources of mental amusement, as one
correspondent who recently was admitted
to an audience described him, “ the im
pression his imperial majesty made upon
me is that of a man consummately bored.”
The government under him was worse
than a farce, for it was a system of ex
tortion and oppression.
Without principles of government,
giving into ihe hands of a Viz.er all
political power for such a time as n
pleased him, and his exchequer was re
plenished, he becim ; 3 a mere man of
sordid, selfish and narrow views. He
wasted in luxuries; his fancies demanded
useless toys, horses and carriages, kiosks
and palaces, barracks and iron-clads, gilt
barges, slaves and eunuchs. Besides all
this, it was matter of common talk that
lie was a miser of ihe lowest type, with
fifteen million dollars of gold hid away
in his cellars, and forty millions of his
own bonds. But the dispatches an
uounce the diversion of a sum exceeding
this popular estimate of his private-
wealth, namely, one hundred millions.
No business enterprise, no corporation
organized was deemed safe unless the
Sultan was made a sharer, except a bonus
was paid him in one shape or another.
For instance, a steam navigation com
pany was formed. In reality the stock
in trade consisted of a miserable lot of
vessels, which would have otherwise lain
idle, but were employed by the admiralty
in shifting troops and war material from
point to point under simulated necessity.
It was simply a gigantic fraud for the
purpose of official robbery. No money
was honestly made, but the Sultan’s share
was always promptly paid. The late
Essad Pasba, when Vizier, looked into
the scheme and reported a loss by the
company of $1,500,000 within three
months. The consequence was that the
Vizier was shortly afterward discharged.
It was not mere gossip, it seems, which
found public expression in the contmen
tal papers suggesting the insanity of this
august and mighty raler.
Doubts were entertained as to his sani
ty, aud it was believed by the terror
stricken people that there was hardly any
•e-xcess to which a sudden outburst of his
wrath might not carry him. One ex,ires
siou of a letter from Pera is notable a-
events have gone. Said this correspond
ent: “There are people who are of opiu
ion that his storming and raging are ol1\
a device to conceal the Padisha’s inborn
timidity, and that were a man found brave
enough to beard the lion in his den, he
would, by the very flash of his steady eye
and resolute mien, readily tame the royil
brute.”
It is stated by those who have studied
the social and political state of Turkey,
that if there were no other than Tuiks in
Turkey, even the wretched government
that now exists could not be carried ou.
The real work is carried on by subordi
nates, Christians,. Greeks, or Europeans
The honors and emoluments are absorbed
by Musselmans. From the Sultau down
there is a lack of manliness in the ruling
race. The women and children are brought
up under the sway of eunuchs. The real
power was, aud is for that matter, in the
harem. Prejudice, and lust, and greed of
money are the prevailing passions. Tht
Turkish land owner is a mere extor
tionate voluptuary, an ignorant absentee
from his estates. Trade languishes. Eu
ropean civilization is discouraged. Com
petency is not a question in public offices
Above all this disorganization and thievery
in public and private life, is the horrible
incubus of a debt, with unpaid creditors
clamoring for the half of the promised in
terest, with fainting hopes for even that
Poverty has come to the royal household,
with the old miser clasping his money
bags, gazing in helpless idiocy at his toys;
iron-clads rusting at anchor; with more
than five hundred new Krupp guns,
and not a shot to load them with,
and war bristling on their border. And
now this pampered voluptuary must
give up the Dalbrech-batcheh, and even
his new palace, the gorgeous Cheragah, a
glistening pile of marble, in which so
many millions of his creditors’ money
have been hopelessly sunk. The end o!
it all is death with a pair of scissors, put
ting a quietus to himself with a woman’s
implement more despicable than a bare
bodkin. This is but a faint picture o!
the evil days and miserable ruler of tin-
once formidable empire. The Osmanh
have fallen indeed. There may be hope for
the land yet, but, with its mixed popula
tions, it demands a higher order of states
manship and eivilizition than has been
evinced among them these latter day s.
But its complete disruption is not a mat-
to be lightly wished for.
Dom Pedbo at Washington’s Tomb.—
In the cool of the evening the visitor^
disembarked and started up the hill to
the grounds. The old family Dearborn
attached to the mansion was in readiness
to convey the royal party, but the
Emperor preferred to walk. Tbe
Empress and several lady friends took
the vehicle. On arriving at the tomb
the party gathered around it, while the
Emperor Dom Pedro uncovered aud
stood for several moments silently gazing
at the sarcophagus containing the re
mains of Washington. The party then
made their way to the mansion, and
there they were received by Madame
Bergumann, President of the Board of
Regents, and escorted through tbe man
sion and grounds. After a lunch, served
in the library. Dom Pedro returned to the
Arlington.— Washington Chronicle.
Lawyers are sometimes very particular’
The other day one was waited upon by a
young man, who began by saying, “My
father died and made a will—” “Is it
possible ? 1 never heard of such a thing,”
answered the lawyer. “I thought it hap
poned every day,” said the young man,
“but if there is to be any difficulty about
it I had better give you a fee to attend to
the business.” The fee was given, and
then the lawyer observed, “Oh, I think
I know what you mean. You mean that
your father made a will and died—yes,
yes; that must be it.”
Ben Butler’s yacht has been placed on
the docks and is undergoing expensive re
pairs. The Detroit Free Press says if
Butler “were still a Republican member
of Congress his yacht would be repaired
at one of the government yards without
costing him a cent.” Yes, but it won't
cost him a cent even as it is. He has
enough of other people’s funds on hand
to pay for the repairing of a dozen yachts,
and while that money lasts he is not like
ly to draw very heavily upon his own—
if he can be said to have any of his own.
—Courier-Journal.
THE BUSINESS BEFORE CON-
GRESS.
A .Month’i) Work Vet to be Deoe—Impor
tant Bills Not Pao
Results of the Vicksbubg Cut off.—
The cut-off "at Vicksburg, Miss., has
greatly alarmed the citizens. The Vicks
burg Herald admits that the river is
gone, and that the only hope for a cur
rent past the city is in changing the
channel of the Yazoo river, so as to bring
it through Chickasaw bayou, and thence
by canal in front of the city to the Mis
sissippi. The Herald thinks this can he
at a coat of abontfaoo.000
Twelve general appropriation bills are
required to be passed every session of
Congress, to take effect on tbe 1st of
July. The present condition of the bills,
as shown by the statement of the Clerk
of the House Committee on Appropria
tions, is as follows: Tbe pension bill,
appropriating $29,533,500; the fortifica
tion and harbor defense bill, appropri
ating $315,000, and the deficiency bill,
appropriating $816,723, have l.coome
laws. The navy bill, appropriat'ng $12,-
432,855, though passed by the House,
has not been acted upon by the Sen
ate. Tbe consular and diplomatic bill
bas passed both Houses, but there is a
disagreement on Senate amendments.
The Joint Committee of Confer
ence have reported that they are
unable to agree, and the House
members of the committee have asked
to be discharged. The legislative, ex
ecutive and judicial bill, appropriating
$12,998,815. having passed the House, is
now in the Senate, which proposes to in
sert amendments to the extent of $3,-
608,042. The post office bill, as passed
by the House, appropriates $33,739,109,
and is now before the Senate committee
on that subject. The river and harbor
bill, appropriating $5,872,850, having
passed the House, is now in the Senate.
The joint conferences on the disagreeing
amendments to the military acidemy bill
have not made a report for a month past.
The estimatfs in the sundry civil ex
penses bill have been assigned to different
sub committees, with a request to report
to the full Committee on Appropriations
at the earliest practicable time. The
Indian bill, appropriating $3,905,771,
is pending in the House. The army bill,
appropriating $23,647,977, exclusive cf
the unexpended balance made available, is
ready to be reported to the House.
There are over one hundred and fifty
bills on tbe calendar of the Senate, more
than fifty of which are of a private na
ture, granting pensions, etc. Among
those of an important character, which
will be pressed to a vote this session, are
the silver bill, the two bills recently re
ported from tho Committee ou Railroads,
to provide a sinking fund for the settle
ment of the debt due from the Union
and Central Pacific Railroads; Mr. Mor
rill’s educational bill, and the bill, re
ported from the Judiciary Committee on
the 16th of May, to amend the act of
May 31, 1870, to enforce the tights of
citizens to vole so as to meet the objec
tions recently expressed in the decision of
the Supreme Court. In addition to these
bills there are several resolutions to be
considered, and some of them, if taken
up, will cause lengthy discussions, espe
cially the State rights resolution of Mr.
Morton, submitted early in the session,
for which Mr. Whyte, of Maryland, has
submitted a substitute.
Mr. Morton has an elaborate speech
prepared in reference to his resolution,
but as it will be impossible to pass it
without a long debate it will probably ba
allowed to go over to the next session.
Mr. Sargent will make every effort to
have some action taken to prevent tbe
influx of Chinese to this country. There
are two resolutions on that subject now
before the Senate—one submitted by Mr.
Sargent requesting the President to have
the treaty with China modified so ss to
restrict immigration, aud the other sub
mitted by Mr. Edmunds instructing the
Committee on Commerce to inquire what
legislation, if any, is necessary on the
subject.
There is also a resolution before the
Senate, that reported from the Committee
on Privileges and Elections, to pay P. B.
S. Pinchb.K k the compensation and mile
age of a Senator from March 3, 1873,
until the time his case was settled by the
Senate. Iu regard to the bill to provide
for and regulate the counting of votes for
President and Vice President, which
passed the Senate on ihe 24th of March,
a motion to reconsider, entered by Mr.
Thurman, is pending, and that will be
called up at an early day. The numerous
bills of less importance now on the cal
endar and yet to be received from the
House of Representatives, will occupy
two or three weeks at least, to say noth
ing of the appropriation bills yet to be
acted on.
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GBHBRAL bUFKBINTSNJiKNT’8 VTJlCMy
Atlantic and Gulf Ra jl:
Savannah, April i
O N AND AFT3R SUNDAY, APRIL 23d,
Passenger Trains on this Road will run as
follows:
NIGHT EXPRESS.
Leave Savannas dafiy at 3:40 P. M
Arrive at Jesnp “ 6.50 P. M,
Arrive at Bamorid^e “ 7;46 A. M.
Arrive at Albany “ 10:00 A. M.
Arrive at Live Oak “ 3:10 A* M,
Arrive at Jacksonville '* 9 65A.M,
Arrive at Tallahassee “ 8:35 A.M.
Leave Tallahassee “ 3:90 P.M.
Leave Jacksonville “ 2,03 P.M.
Leave Live Oak “ 9:iSP.M,
Leave Albany “ 3 2)P. M.
Leave Bainbridge ” 4:30 P.M.
Leave Jesup “ 5:35 A. M.
Arrive at Savannah •« S:45 A. M.
Pullman Sleeping Cars run throagh to Jackson
ville.
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 p. m;
leave Brunswick at 2;5u a. a ; arrive at Savannah
at 8M5 a. m.
Passengers from Macon by Macon and Bruns
wick 9.15 a. M. train at J»fsup with
this train for Florida (Sundays excepted).
Passengers from Florida by this train connect
at Jesap with train arriving in Macon at 2:55 p. m.
Connect at Albany daily with Passenger trains
both ways on Southwestern Railroad to and from
Eufaala, 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. M.
For Brunswick Tuesday. Thursday aad Satur
day at 4:26 p. m.
ACCOMMODATION TRAINS—EASTERN
DIVISION.
Leave Savannah, Sundays excepte«Lat. 7:25 A. M.
Arrive at McIntosh “ “10:15 A.M.
Arrive at Jesup “ “ 12:36 P.M.
Arrive at Blackshear “ “ 3:45 P.M.
Arrive at DuPont “ “ 7:20 P. M.
Leave DuPont '* “ 5:20 A.M.
Leave Blackshear “ ** 9 2 * A. M.
Leave Jesup “ “ 12:35 P. M.
Leave McIntosh “ “ 2:65 P. M
Arrive at Savannah “ “ 5:35 P. M.
WESTERN DIVISION.
Leave Dupont (Sundays excepted), at 5:30 A. Jf.
Arrive at Valdosta “ “ 7:‘J5A. M.
Arrive at Quitman •• “ 9:15 A. M.
Arrive at ThomaMvijle “ “11:10 A.*.
Leave Thomasvilifc “ “ 1:15 P. M.-
Leave Quitman “ “ 3:10 P.M.
Leave Valdosta “ “ 4 35P.M.
Arrive at Dupont “ •* 6:30 P. M.
ALBANY DIVISION.
Leave Albany Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday, at 7:00 A. St.
Leave Camilla.Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturdiy, Htl 9:35 A. M
Arrive at Thomasville, Tuesday. Thurs
day and Saturday, at 12:10 P. M
Leave ThomasviLe, Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday, at 2:30 P. M.
Arrive at Camilla, T uciday, Thursday
and Saturday, at 5:’5 P. M.
Arrive at Albany. Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday, at 7:40 P. M.
Jno. Evans, GenT Ticket Ag’t.
H. S. HAINES,
je5-tf General Superintendent.
Savannah and Charleston K.K.
Op tick Savannah A Charleston R. R. Co.,1
Savannah. Ga., April 28, 1876. f
O N AND AFTER MONDAY, MAY lsi
inst., the Passenze*’ Trains on this Road
will run fofows, FROM ATLANTIC AND
GULF RAILROAD PASSENGER DEPOT:
DAY TRAINS DAILY,
Leave Savannah at .9/o0 A. M.
Leave Charleston at 8:30 A. At.
Leave Augusta at '.....^.8:30 A. M.
Leave Port Royal at .10:25 A. M.
Arrive a: 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 marie at Charleston with the North
eastern and South Carolina Railroads; at Augusta
with the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta,
aud Georgia Railroads.
Tickets ior Bale at R. R. Bren’s and L. J. Ga
zan's Special Ticbi 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,)
Savannah, April 16,1876. /
O N and after SUNDAY, April 16th, Passenger
Trains will depart from and arrive at Sa
vannah twice daily:
Depart 9:15 a. m. ) Arrive 5:25
Depart 7:30 p. m. | Arrive 7:15 a. X.
For Augusta, Macon, Columbus aud 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, H. L. SCHREINER,
Special Agent, Monument square, corner Con
gress street. WM. ROGERS,
febl9(ap2d)-12m General Superintendent.
tailoring.
SAMUEL POLFU8L
TAILOR AND DRAPER,
R EMOVED to the new store ob Dr»yton,
second door from Broughton, has a well as
sorted stock of FOREIGN WOOLENb in French
and English Cloths, Casshneres, Diagonal Vest-
etc.. embracing all novelties pertaining t.
i TAILORING TRADE, and wUT ba
to atom in the moat approved styles.
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