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'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.