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Savannah. Ga.
Affairs in Georgia.
'morrow will decide this question:
J J .” E r the constitution of the great State of
it gjjall be made by Georgians, or will
people, the source of organic law, be
iet.; to live under a constitution made by
' buggers and scalawags and enforced
wihe bayonet
Every
faesday
vote ‘cast for a convention on
iill be an honest effort made to re-
our taxes.
We cannot expect others
elp us
when we are unwilling to help
fjClVfiS.
' . ever e storm passed about a mile west
Qainfsvilie Tuesday afternoon, prostra-
timber and unroofin? houses. No
^niltiea are reported. In the city the
a d blew almost a hurricane, and the
iaD j er was terrific for several minutes. A
rain fell and the planters were made
I rejoice.
p jr the information of voters and mana-
of elections throughout the State on
foesJay. on tho Constitutional Convention
tion we state that the law requires
4it everv voter must have paid all taxes
br him, “which he has had an opportu-
jirtopajV’to entitle him to vote. In this
^he oinst have paid the taxes of 1876.
port Gaines has fifteen dry goods stores,
jxprecision houses, four groceries, four
fctt!?, four editors, one railroad, telegraph
express office, four shoe shops and three
liicksaiith shops, and all they need now is a
pod barber and a steam fire engine.
A Chattahoochee coun y constable “levied
,‘iho undivided haif of a gray mule. He
particular which end he took, and it
a thirteen days before he opened his eyes
id recognized his wife.”
Mr. A. B. Watson, the local editor of the
he n Telegraph and Messenger, has been
^for some time and unable to attend to
Hilaries of his offico. We are pleased to
jirn from a local in that paper that he is
iroviDg and will soon be able to resume
which adds so much to the reada-
jjty of our respected cotemporary.
O. Lovent, one of the parties charged
jib the murder of Mr. Rozier, of Sparta,
uheen found guilty and recommenced to
Krcy. Hons. B. H. Hill and C. S. Dubose
iere his counsel. Two of the murderers
ire thus been convicted aDd one remains
ibetried. We gave a full account of this
crril deed cf blood iD the Morning News.
AClirke county negro named Joe Harris
Marres‘ed on tho first of Ma} r foretoaiing
,p:e, popularly knowa as a “crab lantern.”
ie County Judge had him arrested and
ilged in jail, where he staid fourteen days
tin expense to the county of $12 35, and
t trial the County Judge dismissed the
te on the ground that he had no jurisdio-
|noverc r ab lanterns or slap jacks. So
Ires a Clarke county grand juror to the
yuata Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
Ihe division of the United States mail
rvice under charge of Colonel Frey em-
aces the two Carolinas, Georgia, Florida
nd Alabama. During the * month of May
Jaere have been a dozen mail robbers ar-
iated and convicted. Several others have
ten detected and lodged in jail, besides
ithers who are under bond waiting trial.
Mr. John F. Means assumes editorial
itrol of the Thom&ston Herald, a spright
ly .ud newsy weekly published in Thomas-
Ib, from whoso columns we frequently
|tac6. r or interesting items for the readers of
jfte Morning News. We welcome the coming,
cd speed the parting proprietors, Messrs.
jl.I. Dickey and S. W. D. Caraway.
Mr. James M. Lester, an old and highly
|tepec.ed citizen of Rockdale county, died
•denly at his residence on Sunday night
!•:. 11-3 went to church in usual health
adreturued home, when, after supper, he
iUdead.
.Nearly all the track on the State Road
lateen Atlanta and Cartersvilld'has been
with steel rail, which is very fine and
|*a;e B ecarce a jar to the trains which pass
w *rit. As fast as the old iron wears out it
•replaced with steel of fiae quality. The
j*tire road from Atlanta to Chattanooga is
I* die condition.
Ihe remains of a white Infant were grap
pa from a well in the outskirts of Augusta
|t Saturday. It had been deposited there
w old corn sack. Of course no clue as to
to author of this infanticide could be dis-
|®Tered.
Hadley is a thriving little town, and has
ttjres, a town oouacil, a steam grist and
* mill, a depot and a “critter” company,
the Sews and Farmer.
Telegraph and Messenger says: “If
county does her duty next Tuesday,
will give one thousand five hundred
ijority m favor of a convention.”
kani, if she does her duty, will give at
4,1 i^onty-five hundred majority.
^ ^ certamly remarkably healthy in
® eon i the interments for the week
a S Saturday were three whites and one
' 6 d, one of whom died elsewhere and
* brought to the city for interment.
^•M. Hdyaes, of Union Point, Greene
r tat 7, took sixty pounds of honey from
^ o'Qm one day last week, and forty
from another. To bee or not to bee?
the question!
*be Western and Atlantic Railroad, be-
r 1 having their steel rails placed in posi-
owls more than eighty locomotives.
^I’ata&uicouuty farmer, according to the
I ,lJ -ton Messenger, is experimenting upon
&3 a uanure for watermelons. His
-H. Cogburn, and having killed fifty
'•‘Rile ot r&ts in one day he manured his
iy/tai’iQQ patch w»th them, putting about
q * * Donnd of rats in each hill. We shall,
with all the lovers of tho rich
•i Watch the experiment with deep in-
down night passenger train on the
H'la liailroad did not reach Augusta
r 4 nearly tea o’clock Saturday morning.
0DllOn WaH ^^used by the breaking
TVx*e under a freight train near Buck-
l Co.umbag Times gays: “This year’s
* r e of diminutive size and have
£^ r aj UQ heaithy look. They hav6 been
r;^ of several deaths lately and should
Witli care -” On the contrary, in
Pd 0Qr ^ n > ltle y were never more luscious
l li, eat them with—impunity.
I - we take from the Augusta Chronicle
0n *tUutionalist:
Wr. j,, , “Augusta, June 7, 1877.
14U ^ McGhee, Fasior Bethel A.
1 :
u i thft II r^~" e . 8aw y° ur car( ^ morn-
an( l Constitutionalist,
K^aii^r 0 ^ rolec . tlon the city authori-
f Low vr a . a<ia8,jiual ion. Sir, we are sorry
fw * u * e «l to be in go much danger.
• think the parties to be some ex-
•e 8 ut L-rs of your church. Will you
P c bvon L tiiro cgh the same medium in
Lwie’d n a i your complaint who those
of tL« ett i ber8 are> According to the
w :., church no member can be ex-
5iOL c d \ a tna, » aa ^ he or she must be
i am( *° a meeting for a trial; aud we
^ the several against whom
UlLva atel - v bee n preferred, do hold
ch ® nev cr been summoned to trial
au( ^ therefore cannot be
'"•mSEIS! members '
“ Codjoe Bryant.
“ Robt. Bumpus.
“ Henry I ralberton.”
The Gainesville Eagle publishes the fol
lowing piece of mining news, irom which it
is to be seen that there is a bonanza in
Northern Georgia : “The Messrs. Jennings,
recently purchased the Glade gold
mine, near this city, are taking bold and
vigorous steps to test the value of their
property. We learn they have, this week,
commenced operations on a large scale, and
that it is their purpose to develop the mines
as rapidly as capital, science and labor can
do it. Thej will mine for diamonds as well
as gold, and nobody doubts the result. We
confidently look for the opening of the
richest gold veins on the continent, and the
establishment ot the fact that Northeast
Georgia is paved with diamonds and rubies.”
The following, addressed to the Swains-
boro Herald, from Wm. Hauser, M. D., of
Wadley, corrects a wrong impression con
veyed by telegraph to the Morning News
from Baltimore : “In 1828 some Methodists,
chiefly in Baltimore, Md., but with branches
all over this Dation, formed a new organiza
tion, which they called the Methodist Pro
testant Church. In 1858 this Methodist
Protestant Church divided on the slavery
question, the Northern branch calling them
selves simply Methodists, the Southern
wing retaining the original name, Methodist
Protestant. The war obliterated slavery;
and, as this was the sole question that had
divided them, they began to agitate for a re
alliance, having been all the while identical
in both doctrine and church polity. These
are the two Methodist bodies that have so
recently been holding a convention in Balti
more to bring about reunion.”
At last the much-abused mule has found
its match. The Swainsboro Herald says:
“A mule, belonging to Mr. John Kersey,
was bitten by a rattlesnake the other day,
and died from it. The people say there are
more of these hideous 'reptiles about this
year than they ever knew before.”
The samo paper says: “Mr. Sol. William
son, of this couuty, killed a mammoth eagle
a few days ago. The eagle had killed a large
(young) calf, which was discovered aud
poisoned. The eagle returned and partook
of the poisoned carcass and died. One of
the feet was sent to us, and measured eight
inches from point to point. Tho eagle
measured seven feet and eight inches from
tip to tip of the wings.”
The Franklin Netos. not to be outdone on
ornithological questions, offsets the above
eagle story with this about an owl: “Mr.
Green Foster, living jnst across the river,
caught a large owl one day last week in a
trap. It measured six feet from tip to tip.
It caught a hen the night before it was
caught aud carried it off in the field, aud
after eating what it wanted it Hew off and
left the hen. Mr. Foster found the hen
uext morning aud set a trap over her, and
before night the owl came back and was
caught in the trap.”
The Sandersville Herald pays the follow
ing compliment to the little railroad that
connects that town with the outer world
“The Sandersville and Tenuille Railroad
continues to do a thriving business. Ibis
road is of incalculable advantage to our
city. The convenience, to say nothing of
other advantages, is worth more in one
year than the entire cost of construction.”
The Atlanta Constitution says : “All the
bridges on the State road are in excellent
repair. The fourteen iron truss bridges
which span the sinuous Chickamauga are as
firm as masonry can make them.”
The Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist
says: “We are informed that a farmer near
Ellenton made from fifteen to twenty-five
bushels of wheat to the acre, on very poor
land at that. This shows to what advantage
inferior soils may be worked, in supplying
the farmer at this time of year with ready
money, of which he stands so much in
need.”
This pathetic story is related of an Upson
county darkey who, fondling a mule, said :
“I hab knowed dat mule for five yeah, and
I don’t tink de animile will hurt a lam,
caaae ” The blank space indicates
where the recommendation was interrupted
by the mule’s heel falling in love with Sambo
so much as to forward him to the other side
of the fence.
The Sunny South, in its last issue, gives
the following “special notice to Savannah
people:” “We would be pleased to have all
persons in Savannah, aud at points below
there, who hold A. Winter’s receipt for sub
scription to this paper to send us their
names, and let us know the amounts paid
him by each.”
The following is the flittering prospect of
the wheat crop of Gwmuett county : “The
grain will be much better than usual and
where there is a good stand the yield is ex
pected to be large. The continued diy
weather may injure the yield to some
extent.”
In Gwinnett county interest is being man
ifested in the development of her mineral
resources. A correspondent of the Gwin
nett Herald says : “Recent tests have estab
lished the existence of gold, iu paying quan
tities, in the neighborhood of Buford, Gwin
nett county. There are several mines in
this immediate neighborhood that have been
tested and worked profitably, but for the
want of capital and machinery they are now
idle. Tbe old citizens who have been living
here for many years are satisfied
that there are rich veins in sev
eral localities which would pay
well if worked. One citizen has found gold
in particles as large as grains of wheat
within a mile or so of this place. If capital
and experience could be brought to bear in
this section, visfc quantities of the precious
metal might be obtained.”
The Macon Telegraph and Messenger is
pleased to pay the following compliment to
our new Georgia novel: “We see it an
nounced that the proprietor of the Savan
nah Weekly News has purchased a new
novel, written by a lady of Georgia, and a
former fair resident of MacoD, Mrs. Ophelia
Nisbet Reid, of Eatonton. From our knowl
edge of tbe authoress we are willing to
guarantee that ‘Mv Mother’s Daughter’ will
prove spicy and brilliaut, and we hope it
will prove a good ‘fiud’ for cur enterprisin g
cotemporarv. The story will ‘ruu’ five or
six weeks in the Weekly News, the price
of which is two dollars. Tne story begins
in the News of the 2Qth.”
This freak of nature is recorded in the
Summerville Gazette'. “Mr. A. J. Lumpkin,
near Trion, has laid upon our table a curi
osity in the way of a hen’s egg. It is about
three inohes iu length, three-quarters of an
inch in diameter, aDd in a quarter circle.
Freaks of nature are frequently occurring
and we know not what strange thing will
happen to-morrow.”
Grubb, of the Darien Timber Gazelle, an
nounces himself as a candidate for the Se
cretaryship of the Constitutional Conven
tion thusly: “To all those friends who are
soliciting our humble support for the Secre-
tarvship of the Convention, we would beg
leave to state that we are a candidate for
that ‘posish* ourselves.”
Save the Atlanta Constitution : “A party of
gentlemen have been invited to Augusta to
go up the canal. We are informed quite a
nice party will leave here on next Wednes
day night.
The Augusta Chronicle and Constitutional
ist savs : “The Atlanta Independent indorses
Senator Hill for tho vacant place on the
bench of the Supreme Court of the United
States. We do not believe Mr. Hill desires
the place; besides, like Falstaff’s tailor,
when tendered Birdolph’s bond, we like not
tho indorsement.”
-TO-
THE MORNING NEWS.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Another Scandal ot the Louisiana
Returning Hoard.
A NEW METHOD IN RAPID TELE
GRAPHING.
FORMATION OF A NEW SYNDICATE.
Secretary Sherman and the Remonetiza
tion of Silver.
[By Telegraph to the Morning News.]
We are, sir,
Love and Flowers.—In a Maine breach
of promise suit the counsel for the plain
tiff seeks to introduce proof that the de
fendant sent flowers to her, using their
recognized significance to express his sen
timents. Thus, according to her theory,
he told her with one flower that he loved
her with another that be was jealous, and
with another that he desired to marry
her She says that they both understood
this floral correspondence, but the Judge
has not decided whether it is admissible
as evidence.
The late Edward Lee, of St. Paul,
Minnesota, led during the last two years
of ;his life an adventurous career. He
was arrested for a felony, convicted, sent
up for thirty years, obtained a new trial
and was acquitted; committed another
felony, got another sentence of thirty
years and hanged himself in his cell,
feaving a letter asserting ^innocence
and expres ing a wish that his body might
be thrown into Lake St. Croix, tnere to
serve out his thirty years.
The monotony of existence at the in
sane asylum of Pau, France, has been
relieved by a singular accident. A keeper
put an insane woman in a bath, her hands
tied, she being a violent patient. She
complained that the bath was eold and
the nurse turned on the hot water; then,
her attention being attracted by a noise
elsewhere, left the room. Result—a
boiled lunatic and an official investigation
not yet concluded.
A Boston millionaire, who appeared
the other day in a public place, wearing a
preternaturally brilliant pair of boots,
was asked who blacked them, and proud
ly responded that he did it himself. A
wealthy acquaintance at once offered
twenty-five cents for the production of a
like result on his boots ; the offer was ac
cepted, the job was done, and the quarter
was paid.
Washington, Jane 3.-Frank A. Richardson,
of the Baltimore Sun, who has kept close
track of L misiana afiairs, telegraphs his pa
per: “Another scandal in relation to the Lou
isiana returning board has justcome to light.
When the members of the board were here
last winter in custody for contempt of the
House of Representatives,certain sympathis
ing Senators and members raised a parse
amounting to $1,100 for them. The money
was put iu the hauls of one of the white
members of the board, and it now appears
that neither of the colored members got any
part of it, although they were compelled to
sorrow money to get home.”
On dit, that Louis L Soner is being
pressed by Kellogg for Ringgold’s place.
A colored delegation here strongly insist
upon Ringgold’s retention. Cockrell’s po
sition, in which he is very strongly for
tified, is attacked by Charles H. Thompson,
whose endorsements are formidable. Whar
ton and Leonard are still on a very ragged
edge.
A patent has just been granted to Lor-
iug FickeriDg, one of the editors and
proprietors of the Ecening Bulletin and
Morning Cad newspaper, of San Fran
cisco, for a method of rapid tele
graphing of fac similes of stereotyped
plates. It is claimed that by this process
an entire page of a newspaper can be trans
mitted by telegraph in from filteen to thirty
minutes, delivering the copy directly from
tne instrument in such form that it
can be banded immediately to the
printers. In other words, the copy
will be a substantial reproduction of the
original, except that it may be given in a
large sized letter, if so desired. The stereo
type plate requires no preparation for the
purpose of telegraphic transmission other
than tbe filling of all items, depression ol
spaces between tbe faces of tbe letters with
a non-conducting substance which may be
quickly applied, tbe faces of tho type being
loft clean by means of an equally
suitable process. The plate thus prepared
is placed upou a cylinder arranged io re
volve rapidly, 60 as to present each succes
sive letter to tiugers attached to a traveling
frame. As tbe cylinder bearing tbe plates
revolves tbe frame gradually advances by
tho operation of a screw, and thus
each and every lioe is successively
presented to the fingers or magnetic
points already mentioned. Necessarily
that circuit is open when the points
are passing over the non-conducting
surface, but as often as tbe metal
type presents itself to said fingers tbe cir
cuit is closed, and* the corresponding mag
netic points or pins at the receiving station
make the record there iD the same letter as
the origiual delineated, in a series of tine
lines, either upon chemically prepared or or
dinary paper, fixed upon a corresponding
cylinder at said receiving station.
There was a special meeting of the Cabinet
to-day.
G. D. Potts has been appointed Postmaster
at Petersburg, Va.
Ga$. Jack Wharton has been appointed
Marshal of Louisiana, vice Pitken, sus
pended.
Benjamin Long has been appointed Secre
tary to the President, to sign laud warrants.
The Star says : “Secretary Sherman is iu
favor of the remonetization of silver for the
purposes for which the United States notes
are now used as legal tender. He does not
favor tbe use of silver in payment of cus
tom duties.”
Senator Ferry is not seriously sick.
The mints of the country will remain idle
from tbe first to the middie of July for re
pairs.
The protest presented by Minister Mar-
iacal against tbe execution of the or
ders given to General Ord was fol
lowed by a personal interview with
tbe Secretary of State. Mr. Mariscal was
assured that bis anxiety about the order
was not justified, so far as be entertained
any fears that it contemplated a demonstra
tion against Mexican territory, looking to
the acquisition of any part thereof.
Tbe Granger Home Insurance Company
loses $1,500 in tbe Gilveston fire. Plum’s
building was insured in Pans for 500,000
francs.
Cbas. O. Shepard, Consul at Leeds, has
been promoted to tbe consulship at Bradford.
Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, a friend of Secretary
McCrary, succeeds Shepard at Leeds.
Tbe Secretary of State has information
from Federal authorities at New Orleans
that there is do foundation for rumors of a
Cuban expedition from that port.
The Cabinet meeting to-day was to con
sider tbe propositions of tbe syndicate, aDd
resulted in accepting their proposition,
which was in effect tbe placing of twenty-
five millions four and a half and twenty-five
millions four per cent, bouds. This closes
out the four and & half per cent, bonds.
A contract has been entered i.ito and
signed between the Secretary of the Treas
ury and Messrs. Rothschild, J. S. Morgan &
Co., Seligman Bros., aud Morton Bros. &
Co., of LondoD, England, aDd Messrs.
Belmont & Co., Drexel, Morgan & Co., J. A
W. Seligman & Co., aud Morton B iss A Co.,
and the First National Bank, of the city ol
New York, for the sale of four per cent,
thirty year consols at par iu coin,
of which tweuty-five millions are
subscribed for now,*to h* paid for in July
&nd August; five millioi s t) te for the re-
oumption of six per cent, bonds, and the
sales are to be continued as rapidly as possi
ble. The contract is for six months aud is
similar in the general terms to the former
contract, but has this important provision:
That for thirty days after full
notice, the loan shall be open to
popular subscription in the principal cities
of the United States at par in coin, with the
right to pay for the bonds withiu ninety
days after subscription upou delivery. Upon
a notice given some days since, the Sec
retary of the Treasury has withdrawn from
the market one hundred millions of the four
and a half per cent, bonds, and the former
syndicate have subscribed under the
old contract for twenty-five millions of
four and a halt per cent, bonds, being the
balance of the two hundred millions. Tbe
amount of that loan (five millions) is to be
applied during June for resumption pur
poses, and five millions during' July for the
same purpose,and fifteen millions are to be
applied to the redemption of six per cent,
bonds. These agreements close out the four
aud a half per cent, loan, and place upon
the market the four per cent, loan with a
firm subscription of twenty-five millions. The
new loan, drawing four per cent, and
txtending for thirty years, with interest
payable quarterly or yearly, is not only far
more favorable for the government than
any ever before issued, but from its per-
mauency and security will become the
natural investment of the earnings of tbr
people, both in the United States and
Europe. Every bond sold will iesseD ono-
third of the burden of the public debt to
the amount of the bond. The bouds are
issued for fifty, one hundred, five hundred,
one thousand dollars, and larger amounts,
and will by the mode of their sale be
brought within the reach of all classes of
people.
It appears from this report, which certainly
does not unduly exaggerate the success of !
the Turks, that if General Yukovics’ poei- 1
tion was not actually stormed, he
is placed in such a position as to be
obliged to abandon them. Tho account
continues: “The Turkish loss in dead in
this engagement is abont three thousand.
Six hundred dead were counted in front of
an entrenchment of one Montenegrin batta
lion. The other Tnrkith column going to
Govansko was met by Gen. Socica and driven
back to Muratovitza, where it was encamp
ed at latest information. As a defeat of this
column would leave the rear of Suleiman
Pasha’s army exposed, it is probable he will
attack Gen. Socica before moving on Gen.
Yukovics again.”
From Vienna the news comes that Prince
Nikita has sent reinforcements to the Mon
tenegrins defeated at Krstaz, and they have
taken up a position at Preijeka towards the
end of the Duga Pass, in the direction of
Nicsic, where probably another attempt will
be made to stop Suleiman on his way to pro
vision that place. But for this purpose only
a portion of the force conld be spared, as
Turkish invasion threatens Montenegro from
a third seat, to which hitherto no attention
seems to have been paid, namely: from
Sienitza. The report of this third diversion
in favor of the Turks seems undoubtedly
true, being confirmed by Turkish official
bulletins and from other more reliable
sources.
Turkish journals assert Hobart Pasha has
left Varna with a Turkish squadron to bom
bard Odessa.
Ajdispatch to the News from Vienna states
that a siege having been proclaimed
io Roumania, telegrams concerning military
movements henceforth will be stopped.
A Bucharest dispatch to the limes says one
of the great causes of the proclamation of a
state of siege was the delay and unsatisfacto
ry working of Roumania railways. All the
railways are now brought under subjection
to the military authorities.
The limes, in its leading article, con
firms its correspondent’s summary of Prince
GortscbakofFs Vienna dispatch.
The lelegraph says the Russians not only
intend to occupy Bulgaria, but have made
all arrangements for remaining at least
three years in the village of Adrianople.
The Post says the Russian merchants in
the Baltic ports are reported to be clearing
the wharves and warehouses by exporting
all their goods, as fast as possible, uuder
the apprehension of a general prohibition
of exportation.
A Reuter telegram from Constantinople,
dated yesterday, and Erzeroum, dated 6th
inst., contains the following : “The Monte
negrins are cannonading Spuz. The Rus
sian forces from Ardahan have reached Ar-
daudneh. The Governor and four battal
ions of the garrison of Ardahan have
reached Erzeroum. The Governor will be
conrtmartialed.”
There has been a skirmish with the ad
vance of the Russian right wing near Nari
man.
Monkhtar Pasha has sent a force to cat the
communications of the Russian right and
centre. There is no news from Kars.
A Berlin dispatch to the Pall Mall
Gazette says: “The German iron clad
squadron now on the way to the East,
has been ordered to proceed with greater
speed. A secoud practice squadron, consist
ing of seven vessels, is about to be formed.
The admiralty is preparing to enlist addi
tional seamen. No person liable to service
iu the navy are permitted to leave their dis
tricts.”
A R* uter telegram from Pesth says:
“Herr Simony announced that he would
interpolate the government regarding the
principles of its policy iD the East, namely:
whether a convention exists between Austro-
Hungary aud one of the belligerents, and
whether annexation or occupation is in
tended.”
Constantinople, June 9. — Moukhtar
Pasha telegraphs from Erzeroum, Jane 6,
as follows: “The Russians have retreated
from Alti and Penik. There had been no
engagement.”
REVIEW OF THE LONDON MARKETS
r I lie South Carolina Assembly Iurcsti-
gating Patterson’s Election.
THE FLORIDA CENTRAL. RAILROAD
TURN fell OYER TO ITS COMPANY.
HEAVY FALL OF RAIN IN MEMPHIS.
Kiscupe of a New York Forcer.
WAK NOTES.
Particulars of tbe Battle of Ardahan.
A TURKISH SQUADRON TO
BARD ODESSA.
BOM-
THK
MONTENEGRINS
ADING 8PCZ.
CANNON-
German Nnvftt Movement*.
[By Cab e to the Morning New».]
Loslon. Juno 9.—Several Turkish office 3
have been shot in consideration of the loss
of Ardahan. A ..
A Montenegrin account says the
Turks moved in two columns, one going
to the relief of Goraneko, and the main
force, under Suleiman Pasha, to Krstaz.
The latter column attacked the entrench
ments of Gen. Yukovics with great gallantry
but were repulsed, being twice driven back
on the reserves. The third attack was also
reoulsed, the Turks . taking up
a ^ nosition opposite Krstaz, where
they etid remained when the last courier
lefL In spite of this alleged third repulse
of the Turks, the account proceeds to state.
General Vokovics fell back on his second
line of the Duga at three o clock the next
morning, where he has not been molested.
THE LONDON MARKETS.
London, June 9.—The Mincing Lane mark
ets exhibit no new features. Prices have oc
casionally given way slightly when influ
enced by large supplies. During Monday
aud Tuesday coffee declined one shilling to
two shillings per hundred weight, but this
caused an increased demand for plantation
Ceylon, aud the fall is now nearly recovered.
Fine East India remains firm ; other kinds
are unimproved. Costa Rica and Jamaica
are lower. The sugar market has been
rather active. West India descriptions close
at 6@9d. per cwt. dearer than on Friday
last. There was also more doing in
ihe low brown sorts. Tea continues very
dull in anticipation of large arrivals of new
Conguo early next month. Cargoes of
rice |are offered on lower terms. Saltpetre
is neglected. The public sales of spice have
been unusually large, and prices generally
show some decline. In the Stock Exchange
during the week, money being easy, the
desire to invest impelled high class stocks
upwards, but it is not so much investment
as speculative stocks which have advanced.
The force immediately at work has
been the difficulties of the bear specu
lators. The failures last week showed
that many operators had been caught by
the rise, and the farther advance of prices
this week was largely due to their endeavors
to close speculative accounts. The rumors
of peace have been so much believed in,
that not only have purchases been made to
close bear accounts, but there has been
some speculative buying with a view to a
rise. Outside of the immediate excitement
of the market it is doubtless feared that
such views are too sanguine, and that a po
litical accident would be attended by an ag
gravated collapse ; but the war is distant
and political Europe appears hopeful.
Financial Europe,if the Btock markets here
and on the continent can be said to repre
sent it, has been chiefly alarmed lest the
British Government should interfere, and
are consequently more reassured when a
peace policy found expression in England.
Bat on Wednesday there was a shock to
that reassured feeling when Lord Derby’s
note tojM. DeLessups was published, and
prices fell on the party in possession of the
.Suez canal. The putting of Eugland in front
of any intentional dispute about it, is clear
ly felt to he an element cf danger, and
recovery soon set in, priuc p.iilv on pur
chases from Fans, where the Suez canal
shareholders’ meeting seemed to stimulate
the imaginative reports as to some new
conpling of Great Britain in the East on
Thursday. The city was full of rumors on
Friday and much of the excited character
of the rise disappeared, aud the foreign
bourses closed with less tone than on any
previous day of the week. Discount rates
were distinctly down this week. Three
months bank bills were quoted at per
cent. The easy tendency has neither been
broken nor precipitated by any special
event, but there are various immediate
causes at work in the direction of ease.
The first is the return of money from the
internal circulation, as is usual for May 2d ;
the accumulation here of foreign gold in
the abseuce of foreign demaud, and third,
the direct competition for the best bill by
Frencn discounters. To-day business was
duil at tbe opening, and so continued until
abont midday, when prices hardened, and at
the close most of the alterations were on
the favorable side, but the amount of bnsi-
nees was limited.
COTTON EXCHANGE CROP REPORTS.
New Orleans, June 9 —The National
Ootton Exchange has made its report for
May. In Louisiana the increase of area is
one per cent.; stand generally good but a
trifle later; no commercial fertilizers have
been used.
Arkansas shows one per cent, increase of
area; weather too cool ADd dry; stand small
aud ten days late; labor ample; no fertil
izers nsed.
Alabama reports considerable increase
of area; weather somewhat less favorable;
stand fair to good; crops about tea days
late; labor more satisfactory.
Mississippi reports a slight increase of
a*e ; weather less favorable; crop ten days
late; labor equal to last year; condition of
crop good; clear but small.
The Nashville Exchange reports an in
crease in area; weather generally less favor
able; crop average, and eleven days later;
no commercial fertilizers used.
THE MOBILE AND OHIO RAILROAD.
Mobile, Jane 9.— In the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad Company litigation, Judges Brad-
lev and Woods have made an order that fhe
three suits for the foreclosure of the first
mortgage shall proceed as one cause. Thi3
decree consolidates tbe bills of Morris
Ketchum, W. B. Duncan and the suit
brought by the Swiss bondholders.
The argument on the question of
lien claimed by Alexander Duncan
on the coupons of 1871 was concluded yes
terday. The decision will be rendered on
Monday in reference to the Tennessee
branch of the litigation. In Memphis it
has been adjudged that the Earopean bond
holders, represented by Moran Bros., of
New York, are entitled to protect their in
terests as parties defendant in the suit
brought by the substitution bondholders,
and an order has been entered there amend
ing the record accordingly.
THE WESTERN FLOOD.
Omaha, June 9.—The Missouri river con
tinues to rise. It is now sixteen feet nine
inches, and is still rising, doing much dam
age along the banks. It is expected that the
St. Joe road has been compelled to abandon
to-day’s tram on account of high water.
The track is destroyed, and the weather is
cold.
Washington, June 9. — The floods
throughout the West are fearful. Wolf
river at Memphis is higher than ever
known. On the Memphis and Charleston
and the Mississippi and Tennessee and
Memphis and Little Rock roads travel is
suspended owing to the wash outs, but no
serious damage is reported.
THE TURF.
Jerome Park, June 9.—In the one and
one-eighth miles race Fugitive won, Mettle
second, and Romnev third; time, 2:01L In
the one aud one-half miles race for three
year olds Clover Bank won. Lantern second,
and Border Barker third; time, 2:46. In the
two miles race Athlone won, Virginias sec
ond, and Shylock third; time, 3:45. In the
one and one-eighth miles race Partnership
won, Sister of Mercy second, and Risk third;
time, 2:174. In the one and three-quarter
miles eelhug race Galway won, Piccolo sec
oud, aQd Red Coat third; time, 3:14.
a forger escapes.
New York, June 9.—Charles Becker and
Frederick Eiliott, indicted for the lorgery
of a $61,010 check and passing it on the
Union Trust Company, were taken to the
Supreme Court Chambers this morniDgon
habeas corpus. Roth were brought to court
handcuffed, and when inside the building
their manacles were removed. Almost in
stantly Elliott sprang to the door and disap
peared in the crowd, and up to the present
time has not been recaptured.
murderers’ confession.
Chicago, June 9.—A confession has just
been made by two criminals confined in the
Ohio penitentiary, which, if true, proves
ihe wrong man was hanged for the murder of
a youDg girl name Mary Murray, who <was
waylaid and outraged and murdered, near
Pontiac, Ill., in 1869. A young man named
Wyley L. Morris was arrested.tried and con
victed of the crime, but solemnly swore to
his innocence up to his last moments upon
the scaffold.
CHOLERA AT BROWNSVILLE.
Matamoras, June 9.—The Brownsville
Sentinel announces that a disease something
like the cholera has broken out among the
troops at Ringgold barracks. Abofit thirty
are in the hospital and six have died. The
attacks commence with diarrhoea and colic.
A similar disease has appeared in the city,
and several cases have proved fatal within
the past few days.
AFTER SENATOR PATTERSON.
Columbia, June 9.—The General Assembly
passed joint resolutions raising a joint com
mission, to sit during tbe recess. It is a
general inquest, and will include the inquiry
how J. J. Patterson got into the United
States Senate. The commission has power
to send for persons and papers. The Leg
islature adjourned sine die at midnight.
HEAVY RAIN FALL.
Memphis, June 9.—Daring forty-eight
hours ending six o’clock this morning thir
teen and a half inches of rain fell, and the
bayous, creeks and rivers are flooded. Trains
are delayed, and it is feared crops in the
uplands are badly damaged by the unpre
cedented rainfall. Wolf river is higher than
ever known.
hanged.
Richmond, Va., June 9.—Jack Pleasants,
colored, was hanged at Dinwiddie Court
House yesterday, for the murder of Anu
Lundy, colored.
New Orleans, Juno 9.—At Opelousa, St.
Harmony parish, Louisiana, yesterday,
Louis Ropeau was hanged for the murder of
Cyrus Bricrac.
EX-COMPTROLLER CONNOLLY.
New York, June 9.—The World says:
“What ex-Comptroller Conuolly’s son-in-law
did say about the latter’s alleged offer to
compromise was this: ‘Connolly told me
that he would see the city of New York
eternally damned before he gave it a cent,
and that he didn’t care if he never saw the
city again.’ ”
TURNED OVER.
Jacksonville. Fla., June 9.—The Florida
Central Railroad, from Jacksonville to Lake
City, which for three years has been in the
hands of a receiver, was to-night delivered
to its company by order of the court.
RECOGNIZED.
City of Mexico, June 2.—Ou May 13th
General Porfino Diaz was officially recog
nized by the German Empire as the consti
tutional President of Mexico.
SUICIDE.
v ew York, June 9.—C. D. Camp, cotton
broker, suicided by shooting. Business
embarrassments are supposed to be the
cause.
THE GALVESTON FIRE.
Galveston, June 9.—A carefully prepared
estimate makes the loss bv lire a trifle over
$1,500,000. Insurance a trifle over $1,250,000.
THE CONTENTION.
TRASSFCSION OF BLOOD.
Are Yea Reedy for the Qoe.tloe ?
John Southworth and Mrs. Carr eloped
from Pownal, Vt., and rode in a carriage
across the line into New York State. Mr.
Carr pursued them on horseback, and
overtook them in Kenseelaer county. He
drew a pistol, seated himself in the car
riage by the side of his wife, and returned
home with her, compelling Southworth
to walk ahead all of the way. Once back
in Vermont he had the offenders ar
rested.
His Majesty the King of Gaboon, in
Africa, is no more. His Bon and success
or, King Adaude, must have grown weary
of waiting for the throne, for the de
ceased monarch was one hundred years
old. The new ruler ages new brooms,
and has swept clean away one hundred
old women from his father's harem. He
has also liberated fifty slaves, and, better
than all, he has abolished hnman sacrifices
at religious rites. They will have a good
time in Gaboon so long' as it lasts.
HOY. WAYSE MAlVEAGH TO BEAST
BUTLER.
Short, Sharp and Incisive—A Warning to
Young .lien.
Philadelphia, June 6.—Gen. B. F.
Butler, Waihington, D. C.: I fear you
have overworked your inventive faculties,
for your long and labored letter of to-day
shows signs of failing power, and will go
far to destroy that reputation for effective
scurrility which you have so sedulously
fostered. The issue between you and
me was of your own se. king, and is so
plain that you cannot obscure it by any
amount of misrepresentation, however
irrelevant or vulgar. You deliberately
wrote and published concerning me some
sheer falsehoods, without a particle of
foundation for any one of them. There
upon I promptly put you on the national
pillory with a very legible statement of
your offences upon your forehead.
As you have endured your punishment
for an entire week, and now virtually
confess that every statement made by
you was untrue, I have no objection to
your getting down, but you must not sup
pose that I placed you there in resent
ment only. My chief purpose was to ex
hibit you as a warning to younger men,
by showing them that in spite of great
ability and energy you had become the
leper of our politics by reason of the
general conviction that you habitually dis
regard tbe eighth aud ninth command
ments. That purpose has been fully
answered by the comments of the coun
try upon your character, and I have no
further interest in the matter. I will not
even take the trouble to deny any new
falsehood you may think it to your ad
vantage to invent about me, for those
who know me will not believe anything
yon say against me, and those who know
yon, of coarse, will not believe anything
yon say ag linst anybody.
Wayne MacYeaoh.
[From the Ca:tersville Express ]
On Tuesday next the great and im
portant question as to whether we shall
have a Constitutional Convention or not
will be placed before the people of Geor
gia at the ballot-box. The weal or woe
of the people of the State will depend
upon the vote of that day. It is a sub
ject of regret that the prople have taken
so little interest in the matter. They
have exhibited a painful and mortifying
□difference to their own welfare. Tnev
have exhibited an apathy that is truly
alarming when we remember that ‘‘eter
nal vigilance is the price of liberty,” and
that no people can long remain free that
do not take an active interest in public
affairs.
Having seen and experienced year after
year the heavy burdens of a tax-ridden
people becoming poorer and poorer every
year, and with no hope of relief under
the workings of oar present constitution,
we have become aroused bs to the best
means of remedying the evils in the gov
ernment of the State. We see the treas
ury of the State—the sweat and toil of
the laboring people of Georgia—squan
dered in useless profligacy by irresponsi
ble Legislatures that seem to have no
higher ambition in statesmanship than
to spend the public revenue in useless
legislation and to give a favorite few fat
offices and exorbitant salaries. We see
these offices created year after year until
the expenses of the government amount to
more than five times as much as they did
prior to the war. Three hundred and
fifty thousand dollars used to run the
State Government yearly, and that, too,
when the people were rich and prosper
ous; but now that they are poor and
needy they are called upon to pay largely
over a million of dollars to meet the de
mands of the government. Can we ex
pect prosperity while we are thus op
pressed by taxation growing out of a con
stitution that fixes no limit to the ex
travagance of the State Government ?
As iheie is a God in heaven, so sure is
it that the people of Georgia can never
prosper or be happy under such profligate
government as that with which the State is
now afflicted. Our soil is rich and teems
with an abundance at each returning
harvest. The toiling people fiQd them
selves no better off at the end of the year
robs them in order that a profligate and
than when they began it. The tax-gatheier
expensive government may be main
tained. The executive, judicial and leg
islative departments of the government
have become fat places, many of the
offices connected with them mere sine
cures, for adroit men and politicians, who
combine to fill them and dole out to the
people “ring” government and poor jus -
tice. Is it not time the people should
have something better ? Are they always
to remain slaves ?
We now believe the convention will be
certainly called, and we believe also it
will be one of the ablest bodies assembled
in the State since the war. We see the
old statesmen of ante bellurn times, who
made Georgia prosperous and glorious,
but who have been on the shelf for many
years, coming to the front to participate
once more in the councils of State,to lend
their wisdom in the formation of a con
stitution that may go down to posterity
as the work of patriots and true friends
to good government. We have watched
the people over the State in making
their selection of delegates to the con
vention with great interest. When we
see the names of hoary-headed men of
wisdom presented as delegates the heart
is inspired with the hope of a more
glorious future for our grand old com
monwealth. And shall BDy great portion
of the people of Georgia fail to rally in
this great work of regeneration and dis
enthrallment ? If there bs such we tell
them now they will regret that they took
no part or lot in the political redemption
of Georgia. Such is our honest belief,
though we believe many of onr friends
are mistaken in their judgment.
We repeat to the people of Georgia, in
view of the election next Tuesday, are
you ready for the question ? Are you
ready to concede that the free and un
trammeled people of the State are not
more capable of making a constitution
for themselves than were thoke who pro
duced the present constitution ? Are you
willing to live longer under a constitution
that brands you as a “rebel” in an offen
sive sense ? Are you wil'ing to live
longer under a constitution made for you
under which you have not nor never will
prosper ? Are you willing to ratify and
oonfirm that constitution by voting
against a convention ?
People of Georgia, the free people of
a great State, are you ready for the ques
tion of acting for yourselves or to longer
submit to a bastard constitution with
which you had nothing to do in its con
struction ? Are you ready for the ques
tion ?
There was a curious accident at Phila
delphia on {Sunday. A Mr. Shoemaker,
about to leave the city for the summer,
got a watering pot full of benzine with
which to dampen the carpets and furni
ture and presorve them from moths. In
less than an hour the gas generated by
the benzine exploded with a fearful con
cussion and the room burst into flames.
Tbe servant girl was fatally in j ured, her
clothes being burned away and body
baked to a crisp, and Mrs. Shoemaker
was very dangerously hurt An examin
ation ot the parlor after the fire had been
extinguished showed something of the
force of the explosion and the intense
heat of the flames. The window shut
ters were blown open, glass smashed into
atoms, walls cracked and tbe register
knocked to pieces. The heat was so
great that a small bronze figure was
actually melted by it.
The Chicago Times has been guilty of a
wanton, unprovoked attack upon General
Butler, of South Carolina, recently
elected Senator. It charges him with
being tbe chief instigator of the Hamburg
massacre. It says he lived on a hill op
posite Augusta; that he was an overseer,
owner of slave hounds, a slave hunter,
who by such means acquired the owner
ship of an estate. Gen. Butler replies
briefly and modestly, that he had nothing
to do with instigating or perpetrating the
Hamburg riot; that he never was an over
seer, owned a hound, lived opposite Au
gusta, or had a slave. He says he has
lived all his life at Edgefield court house,
twenty-three miles from Hamburg, in a
very unpretending, unobtrusive manner,
attending to his own business.
The Times might have been misled; but
it crowns the Infamy of its blander by its
failure to say as much as a word concern
ing the statements which must appear
from G j n. Butler’s latter absolutely false.
It prints the letter without comment.—
Nashville American.
An Operation In which n Man Lnt hi.
Life to Save ihnt nf Another.
[Special Correspondence New York World-1
Liyeepool, May 24.—The Coroner’s
jnry has just completed the investigation
of a case which has not only created a
painful impression on the public mind,
bat will be remembered poignantly by all
the parties immediately c neerned. The
case is one in which death resulted from
the transfusion of blood, and although
tbe jury have exonerated the doctors from
criminal responsibility, no one can give
back tbe life of the man who died
through his willingness to contribute to
another’s restoration to health. The
benefit which Walter Robert Williams
intended to confer on another came to
nothing, and his own life has been sacri
ficed Jin performing an act of light
hearted kindness. The tragical conse
quences of an act of humanity
so feelingly and benevolently per
formed, riveted the attention
of the public and evoked luniversal
sympathy for one who fell a martyr to a
misapplication of medical science or
gross inattention on thd part of those
who subjected him to the operation.
The victim of this fatal experiment of
blood-transfnsion was a man thirty-two
years of age, and engaged as a shipping
clerk in this city. Dr. Rushton Parker,
the chief operator in this case, is a Fel
low of the Royal College of Surgeons
and Lecturer in Microscopic Anatomy at
the Medical Institute. He has been a
regular practitioner in Liverpool for a
number of years past. On the 10th in
stant be had a patient who suffered from
the want of blood, and, although without
previous experience, determined to per
form the operation of transfusion. For
the benefit of the general reader it may
be well to explain that in an operation of
this character, the blood-giver and the
patient having been lanced, the ex
tremities of an elastic tnbe are placed
in either wound m open vein, and with a
syr nge or ball the blood is taken from
one and injected into tbe other. The in
vention nsed in this case was that of Dr.
Aveling. In the course of the investiga
tion, Dr. Higginson, an expert, con-
demned Aveling’s process, because of the
introduction of a pipe into the vein. He
further said that the whole subject of
transfusion was sub judice; it was uuder
the consideration of tbe medical profes
sion, and though by tbe results obtained
it was proved to be a most favorable rem
edy, and had saved hundreds of lives,
without doubt the mode of performing
the operation was open to any man to de
cide. He would not say that Dr. Avel
ing’s method was a dangerous one, but
he frankly avowed that he did not like it.
With this digression for explanation I
return to the narrative. Dr. Parker hav
ing determined to treat his patient by
transfusion, commenced casting about
for some one willing to lose the quantity
of blood required. Through a profes
sioual friend, Dr. Thomas, the now de
ceased called upon Dr. Parker and was
engaged for the purpose. It does not
appear that Mr. Williams was moved by
any purpose of gain in offering his ser
vices to Dr. Parker, although he received
a guinea after the operation was over. On
the contrary, it was shown in the course
of the investigation that the guinea was
not an inducement for him to undergo
tbe operation, but he felt that he had too
much blood, and he would be the better
to have some drawn off. Even Dr. Par
ker testified that he himself made a slight
allusion to a pecuniary arrangement when
arranging with Mr. Williams, but the
latter treated the suggestiou lightly, say
ing, “I think I shall be ail the better for
the loss of some blood.” It does not ap
pear that Dr. Parker, although asking
questions of Williams as to his health
aud habits, made any examination of tbe
poor fellow for the purpose of satisfying
himself that he was a proper subject for
the purpose, nor is it shown I hat he or
his associates followed the man up, after
the operation, to see that he suffered no
ill consequences. On the day of the
operation Mr. Williams suffered the re
quisite amount of blood to be taken from
his arm, and then went his way. He felt
no ill consequences from giving away his
blood; be anticipated no danger from
the operation, and thought it needless to
further trouble the doctors. Dr. Parker
told him that he did not believe the ope
ration would do him any harm, aud this,
coupled with other medical assurances,
seems to have lulled the deceased into a
false security. He was soon after mken
ill, but attributed tbe physical disturb
ance to a hearty meal of pork, of which
he had partaken. He declined a resort
to medical aid tilt disease had made
deadly progress. His death speedily fol
lowed, superinduced, as it now appears,
by erysipelas, the result of the operation
performed by Dr. Parker and his as
sistants. Since his sadden demise it has
been urged that his habits were in
temperate; but Dr. Commins testified
that the postmortem examination showed
no indications of intemperance by the
liver and kidneys. Dr. CarsoD, also
present at the pest mortem, declared
that the swelling of the arm and vomiting
by the deceased made it apparent that
erysipelas was the canse of death.
The Coroner’s jury, after a retirement
for about ten minutes, returned into court
with a verdict—“Death by misadventure.”
Iu making tbe return the foreman said:
“We are of opinion that sufficient in
quiry was not made by the medical men
as to deceased’s habits and physical con
dition, and that the man did not receive
sufficient caution as to the risk he was
running.”
It is not to be supposed that transfu -
siou of blood will hence'orth lose its place
in the beneficent economy of surgery,
bat this sad case will doubtless teach doc
tors to more rigidly scrutinize their sub
jects in the future, and have them under
careful surveillance till all danger of ill
consequence be past.
Last Saturday night, about twenty
miles from MarshalltowD, Iowa, a man
named John Reklar was taken from an
officer holding him under arrest, by a gang
of Iowa “white-liners,” tied hand and
foot, gagged and hung to a tree. They
left him hanging, but the man managed
to disengage nis hands and pull himself
up by t he rope, and got his head out of
the noose. No arrests of these bloody
Ku-Klux have been made. Theaffair will
□ot obtain anything like the free circula
tion of a Mississippi assassination. Hadn’t
our Northern contemporaries better let
up on the Kemper county affair awhile
and ventilate the Iowa frolic to relieve
the monotony ? Hayes’ pacification poli
cy includes Iowa.—Nashville American.
Previous to the departure of Queen
Victoria for Scotland, a few days ago, a
gentleman of middle Btature, rather
inclined to stoutness, and of fresh com
plexion, arrived at Windsor Castle, and,
announcing that he was King of England,
desired to be shown to his apartments in
the Palace. He w-is informed that as he
had not sent notice of nis coming, they
were not ready, and he was requested to
take a seat A doctor was sent for, who
pronounced him to be insane, and he was
consigned to the Windsor Union.
Blinded bx Blue Glass.—A gentleman
of Brooklyn suffering from weakness of
sight was recently led by the advice of
well-meaning friends to nse spectacles of
blue glass, such as certain opticians are
selling just now. The result was that
his eyes, already too weak to be used
much in ordinary circumstances, were ex
posed to a terrible glare arid heat, which
in less than a week entirely destroyed the
eyesight of the sufferer. He is now to
tally blind.—N. T. Post.
A man out in California was on the
point of shooting a burglar when the lat
ter, falling on his knees, cried out: “As
God is my judge, Robert, I did not know
you lived here.” They were brothers
who had emigrated to California from
Illinois, hut hud not seen each other for
ten years. The younger brother, the
burglar, turned over a new leaf and went
to work in the elder’s store.
Military Conspiracy
loffton.
[From the Sew York Buo.l
The Ordinance Bureau at Washington
annonnees that work will be suspended at
the national armories, after tbe close of
the current fiscal year on the 30th inst.,
in consequence of the failnre of appro
priations for them. Of course this is
done by the direction of Mr. McCrary,
de faclo Secretary of War. The ex*ra-
ordinary spectacle is thus presented of
the same department assuming to sup
port the army for six months, in defiance
of a positive statute, and by illegal issues
of paper credits called “certified vouch
ers,” and closing the armories, which em
ploy five hundred workmen, for alleged
want of money, the appropriation for
both being regularly contained in the
3ame bill.
Tbe administration did not hesitate to
trample the law under foot in order to
maintain the army up to the highest
figure, with a view to use it iu developing
Hayes’ Southern policy. Tho military
oabal at Washington, headed by General
Sherman, have persuaded the fraudulent
President that an invasion of Mexico,
and the acquisition of more territory,
will withdraw attention from his fatso
title, crush out opposition in his own
party, and popularize the administration.
Behind this, is a design to f»,rce Mexico
into war, and to make General Sherman
a candidate for Presides’.
This conspiracy is thoroughly organ
ized, and goes back to the beginning of
tbe successful aud monstrous fraud in
which H3yes was counted in. John
Sherman claims to have invented Hayes.
He was among the mo=t active iu urging
his nomination at Cincinnati, and, subse
quently, was efficient in the management
of the canvass. Gen. Sherman, even
more than Gen. Grant, is responsible for
the employment of the army and its dis
tribution during the Presidential cam
paign
After Hayes was defeated, John Sher
man was trainly instrumental in getting
up the partisan committees which were
sent to Louisiana, Florida and South
Carolina, derisively known as “Grant’s
visiting statesmen.” That scheme was
intended to lay the foundation for a
forcible seizure of the Presidency, if cor
ruption aud fraud failed to do the work.
The parts which John Sherman played in
New Orleans, as the chief prop and ad
viser of the returning board, aud as the
inventor of the Eliza Pinkston drama,
are yet imperfectly known to the public.
But the whole truth cannot long remain
hidden.
His false report to the President, and
his canting speech at the opening of the
Senate in December, are not forgotten.
They could hardly be excell, d for hypoc
risy and mendacity. All through the
protracted struggle over the count and
before the Electoral Commission, the
Shermans were in constant communica
tion with Hayes. Garfield kept them
minutely informed of the secrets of the
commission, and their plans were formed
with reference to that knowledge.
The batteries of artillery and other
troops that were called to Washington
from the Iudian frontier aud various re
mote points, pending these important
proceedings, were directed by Gen. Sher
man, who gratuitously gave out that they
had no connection vim the Presidential
question, and were only transferred in
the regular routine of the service. It is not
now known that tuis force was equipped
and held in hand fur the extremest needs
of war; that a special telegraph was con
structed, connecting the Arsenal, Capitol
and War Department; and that in a cer
tain contingency only a signal wan needed
to hurl the troops into tho House of
Representatives, aud to re-enact tho
scenes in which Cromwell and Napoleon
had figured in England and Frauce.
While Grant aud his peculiar friends
had a motive in hiding Ihe iniquities and
plunder which had disgraced his admin
istration and brought tbe country into
disrepute, the Shermans were impelled
by ambition to control the new oder of
things, to make themselves masters of
the situation, and to prepare the way for
the succession. Hence theso two inter
ests, though not entirely friendly, co
operated throughout, aud were ready and
desperate enough for a emp d’etat, after
tbe fashion of Louis Napoleon.
Thus for they have won, and nothing
succeeds like success It is a Sherman
administration in every substantial sense.
John Sherman holda ibe purse strings,
and Tecumseh Sheruian holds the sword.
These are two great powers in tbe State,
as the latter took care to let the country
know at the anniversary dinner of the
Chamber of Commerce that this govern
ment would be but a mob if there was
no army to protect it. Between the
sherry and the champagne tho truth
leaked out, and the people who pay
tighteeu thousand dollars a year to keep
up the state of Tecumseh Sherman, were
brusquely told they needed curbing; and
the bayonet in the hands of a military
chief was the best sort of discipline for
a republic only a ir ndred years old.
A Poos Rule that Don’t Wobk Both
Ways —Secretary Sherman is pursuing
vigorously the policy of making dis
charges where there are more than one
of a family employed in the Treasury
Department. He is inflexible in his pur
pose, and makes no exceptions. Said a
pert little girl to-day, who will have to
go, or her big brother, “If Mr. Hayes
should adopt Secretary Sherman’s policy
in administering the affairs of the gov
ernment in general the country would
soon lose the services of a financier or a
General of the army.” Idhe might have
added that it would also have necessitated
the resignation of John E. Sherman, a
nephew of the Secretary, who now holds
the lucrative office of Marshal of New
Mexico.— Washington Star.
Mabxland Dog and Sheep Law.—The
first decision under the new law of Mary
land for dogs that kill sheep was made in
the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel
county a few weeks ago in the appeal
case of Owens vs. Kelly. The action
arose ont of the alleged killing of Kelly’s
eight sheep by Owens’ dogs, and was
tried under the act of 1876, chapter 31a,
which makes the owner of the dogs
chargeable for tbe sheep killed. The
court below awarded damages to the
amount claimed (under $50) to Kelly,
and Owens appealed. Tne verdict the
second time was for Kelly, $32. The
■>ew law is general except for four
•ion ties.
Haves Du it Himself.—The fact
comes out now that it was President
Hayes himself who appointed George H.
Butler to the special post office agency in
the Black Hills—in ignorance, of course,
of his real character, and with the motive
only of placating Uncle Ben. The worst
of jt, from the civil service reform stand
ard, was that a new and unnecessary office
was created for the purpose.—Springfield
Republican. ,
Public opinion in Germany is thus're-
flected in a conversation between two
good burghers of Berlin, taken from a
Berlin paper; First Burgher—“So we are
likely to have another war with France ?”
Second Burgher—“Let ns pray they may
thrash us, so that they may be as poor as
we are.”
Joanna Farnham, for many years house
keeper of the American Hotel, Boston;
died not long ego at the age of eighty.
It was not kuown that she had left any
property till they came to make search at
her old home, when there were found
notes for five thousand dollars loaned to
the proprietor of the hotel, a bank book
for one thousand seven hundred dollars
and twenty-three large trunks and pack
ing cases full of expensive article ■ of
wearing apparel and house furnishing.
Among all these valuables were eighty-
nine dresses, new aud perfect, made of
silk velvet, satin and all kinds of plaid
silks, black and colored tbibets, poplins,
alpacas, brilliantines, cashmeres, etc.;
three silk velvet cloaks, nineteen shawls,
from common to the richest Paisley and
wrought crape; one hundred and dix
skirts of all colors, one hundred and
fourteen pairs of hose, undergarments too
numerous to mention, table linen, towels,
handkerchiefs, counterpanes, blankets,
coverlets, sheets, live geese feathers, sets
of elegant chmaware, a large lot of table
and teaspeohs of best com silver, silver
knives and forks, a fine gold watch and
chain, and a large lot of fine jewelry, etc.
All of these goods are perfec.ly new and
in the best order, never having been
nsed at all.
The Dollab. op Ouk Fathebs.—There
seems to be a race out West as to which of
the two parties will first get on the silver
platform. It is clear now that the Dem
ocrats will be first in the field, and are
determined to present tho silver issue as
the controlling one in the fall elections.
It is notable, however, that the leading
Republican organs of the West—the Cin
cinnati Commercial and the Chicago Tri
bune—are strongly committed to the old
silver dollar, and it is an open secret that
President Hayes is profoundly convinced
of the nnwisdom of paying the public
debt in a dearer currency than that in
which it was contracted. Senator Thur
man, of Ohio, one of the most high-
minded and conservative Democrats in
the country, has come out in a strong ar
gument in favor of this “old silver dol
lar.” It is as certain as any event cf the
future, that when Congress meet3, there
will be scarcely any effective opposition
to silver as well as gold, being recognized
as a legal tender for all debts, public as
well as private.—N. Y. Graphic.
Among the social peculiarities of Raj-
pootana, iu India, leper burial is entitled
to notice. When a leper is past all hope
of living more than a few days, his near
est relations arrange, with bis approval,
for his immediate interment. Self-de-
strnction by burial is called samadh, and
is regarded as so highly meritorious that
the disease is sure to die out in the family
of the victim. So lately as 1875 a leper
named Oomab, living and lingering at
Serohi, entreated his wife to pat an end
to his misery. A tradesman was accord
ingly engaged to make the necessary ar
rangements, which simply consisted in
hiring a couple of laborers to dig a hole,
into which they thrust Oomah, consent
ing to his own death. The durbar, ooerced
by the British Government, at length took
cognizance of it and fined the widow one
hundred rapees. The tradesman was
sentenced to three years’ imprisonment,
and the grave diggers each to two yearp.
Suicide or a Physician.—CoroDer
Alexander was summoned on Sunday to
hold an inquest over the body of Dr.
Thomas C. Caldwell, found dead on the
plantation of ex-Sheriff Grier, in Provi
dence township, near the honse in which
he lived. It lay iu a dense thicket, and
was found on Saturday night about 8
o’clock by Samuel Baker and Samuel
R. Grier. An examination showed
that the throat had been cut
from ear to ear. The deceased had
bean in low spirits for over a year, caused
by uneasiness cone ruing the salvation of
his souL His conduct led the family to
fear that he had several times contempla
ted suicide.—Charlotte (AT. C.) Obsercer.