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£he fgtonmig gjnrjs J. H. ISSTLLiJU, Proprietor. .Vo. 3 WHITAKliK H l 'SliKT, (MOliNING NEWS BUILDING). \V. T. THOMPSON, Honor. MOXDAI, JUXE 11, 1877. FIRST SENATORIAL DISTRICT. Candidates for Delejf,tle. lo the Conslitu- tlonnl Convention. The voters of the First Senatorial Dis trict, comprising the counties of Chat ham, Effingham and Bryan, who are in favor of a State Convention to draft a new Constitution will support the fol lowing ticket at the polls on Tuesday next, June 12: ALEXANDER 11. LAWTON, JOHN SCREVEN, W. T. THOMPSON, JOHN M. GUEKAKD, J. L. WARREN, WAKING RUSSELL, A. G. SMITH, STEPHEN F. KELLER, FOR CONVENTION. TAPPING THE WIRES. F. A. Richardson, of the Baltimore Sun, charges that eleven hundred dollars were eubscribed by sympathising friends for the relief of the contemptuous members of the Louisiana returning board while under ar rest, and that one of the white members of the board got the money, while the negro members didn’t get a cent. It is stated by Ahenna correspondents that the battle of Krstaz, between the Montene grins and the Tnrlts, resulted in a victory for the latter, but the fact that the former hold the pass and the latter lost three thousand killed, does not go to confirm the truth of the report. A patent has been granted to one of the editors and proprietors of tho llidletin and Morning Call, of San Francisco, for a method of rapid telegraphing of fac similes of stereotyp'd paltcs, and now war maps will become quite common on patent out sides. The Russian merchants in Baltic ports are clearing the wharves and warehouses of goods as fast as possible, under the idea that a prohibitory exportation order will soon be issuod by tho Russian Government. Herr Simony intends to interpolate the government as to whether a convention ex ists between Austro-IIuugarv anu one ot the belligerents, and whether annexation and occupation is intended. The fight between the Turks and the Mon tenegrins, for the possession of the Doga Pass, resulted in a victory for the Montene grins, and Suleiman Pasha’s army is ex posed. The question how Patterson got into the United States Senate from south Carolina, is abont to be investigated by th6 South Carolina Legislature, and some astonishing disclosures may be looked for. During forty-eight hours, ending at six o’clock Saturday morning, thirteen and a half inches of rain fell in Memphis, causing a general and disastrous flood. The Florida Central Railroad, which for three years has been in the hands of a re ceiver, has been turned over to the com pany. OwiDg to the state of siege in Ronmania, telegrams concerning military operations will be stopped. This will increase the in consistencies of tho war notes. It is said that the Rnssians not only in tend to occupy Bulgaria, bat have made ar rangements to remain in Adrianoplo for three years. The loss of Ardahau has resulted in tho loss of several Turkish officers, who have been shot. The details of tho fight show that the Turks fought well. The Russian forces from Ardahan have reached Ardanduch and the Governor and four battalions of tho Turkish garrison of Ardahan have arrived at Erzoronm. MoukhtariPagha seems not to hava been either deposed or court martialed, as ho has sent a force to cut tho communications of the Russian right and center. The loss of property by the Galveston fire has been carefully estimated at about one and a half millions. Insurance one and a quarter millions. The Secretary of State at Washington has assured the Mexican Minister that the or der given to Gen. Ord does not contemplate the acquisition of Mexican territory. The German iron-clad squadron, now en route to the East, has been ordered to pro ceed with greator speed. Moukhtar Pasha telegraphs that the Rus sians have retreated from Alti and Penik without an engagement. It is stated that Hobart Pasha has left Varna with a Turkish squarlron to bombard Odessa. All the railways of Iionmania are now brought under the subjection and control of the military authorities. It is said that tho Governor of Ardahan will be court martialed. No persons liable to service in the German navy are now allowed to leave their districts. The Montenegrins are canonnading Spuz. The (Jrops. The season has arrived when there is a Very general desire for reliable infor mation in regard to tho crop prospect. Our friends throughout Georgia and Florida will confer a favor by communi cating to us promptly such information. We shall be pleased to receive letters ad vising us of the present condition and prospect of the cotton and provision crops. The Issue. The plain issue before the people of Georgia is simply this : Shall we remain under carpet-bag government, or shall we be forever freed from that government as we have been freed from the power of the carpet-bagger and scalawag? It is this question which the voters of Georgia will be called upon to decide to-morrow. There is no doubt how every man, what ever his past political prejudices, should decide it iu his own mind. We hope to see a full expression of opinion at the polls, and when the sun sets to-morrow, we trust an overwhelming majority for the convention throughout the State will declare that we are a free people, determined to maintain our free dom, and govern ourselves. We have, thanks to a merciful Providence, and our own determination, gotten rid of the vultures; shall we not also be rid of the legacy they left us ? The Cartersville Express is making a noble fight for the restoration of legiti mate constitutional home government in Georgia. We copy from its editorial columns an able article in favor of the Constitutional Convention on onr first page. The Express says : “The Radicals are working hard to prevent a Constitu tional Convention. We shall not join onr vote to theirs next Tuesday to perpetuate their bastard government in our grand old commonwealth. A Georgia consti tution for Georgia and Georgians for us.” A delegation of colored politicians from Louisiana is now in W ashington for the purpose of speaking their minds to Mr. Hayes. What they want Hayes to do is to give a share of the Federal offices in Louisiana to the colored men, who they say comprise more than nine-tenths of the Republican voters of the State; otherwise they prefer Democrats shall be appointed. Tlio Election To Morroav. To morrow the voters of Georgia will I determine at the bailot box whether they will, through the organism of a State convention, exercise toe highest and most important prerogative of a free sov ereign people in the enactment of an organic law for their own government, or will submit longer to be governed under a so-called constitution which was framed by alien enemies in the interest of a corrupt faction, which was enacted by the aid of ignorant mal- ignants, ratified by fraud, and enforced by Federal bayonets. The vital issue presented to-morrow, and which the voters must determine, is whether the people of Georgia wili assert their right to local self government—whether they will restore the State of Georgia to her position of an equal in the American sisterhood of sovereign States, or will with craven servility perpetuate an in strument which was contrived by her enemies for her humiliation and op pression, and which brands her sons, the living and the heroic dead, as traitors ? We have in these columns from time to time set forth the necessity for the adeption of a now constitution adapted to our changed circumstances and the needs of our people. This necessity is too well understood by our people to re - quire a repetition of the arguments in favor of a convention for that purpose at this time. The minds of the people are made np on this subject, and we feel confident that a large majority of the intelligent voters of the State are in favor of the proposed convention. The fear is that in the gen eral confidence that the measure wili be carried by an overwhelming vote, many may neglect to go to the polls and thus prevent a full expression of the will of the people. Every good citizen should feel it his patriotic duty as well as his privilege to record his vote in fa vor of the restoration of legitimate con ■ stituiional government to-morrow; and it is our sincere hope that the voters of the First Senatorial District, and of Chatham county especially, will give a full vote, rolling up such a majority as will leave no room for doubt as to the unanimity of our people in favor of the convention to frame a constitution by the people for the people of Georgia. The Augusta Chronicle and Constitu tionalist, in an able editorial on the sub ject of the convention, says: “As early as 1872—two years after the government of the State passed into the hands of the people of the State—the question of holding a convention for the purpose of framing a new organic law was agitated. Cowardice—fear of Fed eral interference—Capital, Office and Bonds fought the measure vigorously, and succeeded during five years in keep ing the people from deciding for them selves whether or not they would have a couvention. But when the Legis lature assembled last winter, the desire of the people was so apparent that even the unholy combination of Cowardice, Office and Bonds was defeated—though not without a desperate fight—and a bill was passed submitting the question of convention or no convention to the deci sion ox the legal voters of the State. That decision must be rendered at the ballot box next Tuesday. It will be the most important election that has been held in Georgia since the contest of December, 1870, when the people rose in their might and drove Bullock and his band of robbers from pow er. The present constitution is not the handiwork of the representatives of the people of Georgia. At a time when military authority was the law of the land, when the legal Governor of Georgia had been supplanted by a Brigadier General in tho United States army, when the best men of Georgia had been deprived of all their political rights, when the recently emancipated negro population of the State had been en trusted with the ballot and placed under the control of carpet-baggers and rene gades, when bayonets guarded every bal lot box and fraudulent returns nullified the will of the voters, the conven tion of 1867-8 was held. -The organic law of the Empire State of the South was framed by such men as Bullock, Blodgett, Conley, Beard, Stone, Ashburn, Bryant, Bradley, Turner, Richardson and Stearns. Its adoption was opposed by the intelligence, the virtue and the property of the State. It was crammed down our throats by force, fraud and ignorance; by the power of the sword, by the votes of persons who were driven to the polls like sheep to the shambles, by the manipulations of an adroit and unscrupulous returning board, known as Commissjoners of Registration. Is it any wonder, then, that the people should desire to change a constitution made by such men and adopted by such MaeVeagh has come back at Butler, in a second letter, in which he gives the Beast his coup degrace. He Bays thatjhe put him upon the pillory because he (Butler) had written four deliberate falsehoods about him (MaeVeagh). Bat he declares that he did not do this from motives of resentment merely. “My chief pur pose,” says he, “was to exhibit you as a warning to younger men, by showing them that, in spite of great ability and energy, you had be come tho leper of our politics by reason of the general conviction that you habitually disregard the eighth and ninth command ments.” In other words, that Butler is not a good example for the youth of America to follow, inasmuch as he has contracted the bad habits of lying and stealing; l.ha worst of it is too, that the country at large agrees perfectly with MaeVeagh. Truly the way of the spoon- thief is hard, and it is really a matter to be placed to the credit of the American people, that Butler stands to-day with out influence, universally despised, and everywhere held iu supreme contempt— except in Massachusetts. The Point.—-Themost pithy and conclu sive reply which we have seen to the shal low pretense of partisan organs that the Soutn is seekin g by the success of the Dem ocratic party to recover for slave property or war debts is that of the Norfolk (Va ) Landmark, which says that the Southern people understand perfectly well that they cannot recover for slave property or war debts, or destruction incident to the struggle; and cecondly, that if they could it would add a prodigious burden to the taxes which they themselves would have to pay. New York begins to squeal against the law establishing internal ports of entry. Western merchants are finding it to their advantage to import foreign goods direct ly. Consequently, Now York importers are demanding the abolition of such ports of entry. This abolition party is not likely to threaten a dissolution of the Union, however. The tail is equal to the wagging capacity of the dog. It is estimated that in Massachusetts alone there afe now twenty-five thousand vagrants, a great proportion of them able-bodied. The hard times is th9 ex cuse for many of vagrant proclivities, who perhaps were once able and willing to support themsejvea by honest labor. Savannah and Her Future. For some years past, no matter in what direction one might travel, ho has been greeted, on all sides, with the unceasing cries “Hard Times, Business Depression, and Lick of employment.” The people have seemed to be in the depths of de spondency, and from the continued, ever-recurring complaints, a stranger suddenly coming in our midst, would be very apt to couolnle that the whole country was utterly and irretrievably ruined. The reason for this general depression and despondency is obvious. During the war, on both sides, money was plentiful and easily obtained. Iu the North “legal tenders” were printed by the million, to meet every possible demand. Fat gov ernment contracts were plentiful. Men, who had been utterly worthless—in a pe cuniary sense of course—all their lives, became suddenly rich; blatant and enthu siastic stay-at homo patriots, lived iu an elysium of their own creation, and nou- veaux richesses and shoddyism reigned su preme. In the South, too, money, such as it was, was plentiful. Everybody had their pockets filled with it, and having become accustomed to pay “war prices,” the habit of spending freely became universal, and money soon became to be regarded as a thing of no consequence. Thus habits of extravagance were easi ly formed, and once formed, like all b ad habits, proved very hard to be gotten rid of. Nor was the condition of affairs which existed in all the business centres of the country for some years after the war favorable to a breaking off of this habit. Men from the North brought large amounts of capital to invest in the South, so that, despite the fact that she hod lost largely in her material wealth, money continued plentiful, business live ly, and large incomes made the rule rather than the exception. So matters contin ued; men livedon in an atmosphere of de ceptive prosperity, and even tkeshrewdest acted as if they thought there was to be no end to the lavish bestowal of the gifts of fortune. But men cannot live beyond their incomes nor on a false basis forever. So, when the panic came, in 1873, every one was astounded and frightened ; the bottom seemed to have fallen out, and capital, always sensitive, was either permitted to lie idie or was so invested as to be withdrawn from business. From which it followed, naturally, that money being diverted from the chan nels of trade, aud trade itself being car ried on only in the most restricted and prudent manner, (in striking contrast to the recklessness which had previously marked it), times became hard as it was called, and men, who couid only make a hundred dollars where they had been ac customed to make a thousand, became dissatisfied and despondent, and im mediately imagined themselves poverty stricken, if not indeed already at the poor house door. We dare say that, of ail the cities in the country, none was more subjected to the influences wo have herein portrayed, than the city of Savannah. She pos sessed a fine harbor, and was easily ac cessible to all parts of the world. Besides this, she enjoyed the advantages of a railroad system which, connecting with the network of roads traversing the country, gave her ready and cheap means of transportation io and from the cotton sections of Southwestern Georgia, Ala bama, Florida, portions of South Carolina and other localities. These advantages caused cotton, her main dependence for trade, to be poured into her lap ; prices were good, business brisk, and all her mer chants reaped rich harvests. So rapidly, indeed, did wealth seem to be accumula ted by our citizens, that in an incredibly short time the effects of the war disap peared, aud every one was prosperous, happy and well to do. But with the panic came dullness of business in Savannah as elsewhere ; her. merchants could no longer count their gains by the thousands per d-iy, and therefore could not give employment to so many persons nor pay such high wages as formerly. Then it was that every one began to take up the cry of hard times, and men no longer being able to freely indulge in luxurious habits, had to rest content with only the comforts of life, and soon imagined that existence was a burden, toil and labor most poorly requited; and, in short, business itself was altogether vanity and vexation of spirit. And finally when after an inter val of nearly twenty years the city was visited last summer with a pestilential epidemic, the croakers came out boldly to the front, declared it was the last straw to break the camel’s back, and in the most lachrymose manner pronounced that everything had “gone to pot.” Yet, strange to say, during all this time, the city kept on improving, both within her limits andin her suburbs, and no sign of destitution showed itself in the appearance of our people. Fine horses and handsome equipages adorned our streets, exceedingly comfortable and spacious dwellings were erected on every available spot of ground, and, notwith standing all drawback*, we defy any one to-day to go about through the city, or take a ride along any one of the beautiful drives in the neighborhood, and say that he sees any marks of decay; but that rather, on the contrary, there is every indication of improvement, and at least comfortable livelihood. From what we have written, then, it seems ttiat the “hard times” in the past and present have been more in the imagination than in the reality. What now is the outlook for the future ? We learn from well informed parties that there is fully as large au area of land planted in cotton now as there has been for years past; that labor is even better systematized, and can readily and reason ably be procured; that the indications are that equally as large a crop will he raised, and that such prices will rule as will probably make the crop even more profitable than usual. Besides this, the rice crop, another source of prosperity to the city, will be ample, and there is every rea son also to hope for fair profits from that. These are the indications. If they are realized, wo knots that we enjoy the same advantages we have always had, and we know that these advantages will ensure to the city^for the coming season, her lull proportion of trade, aud commercial prosperity. With this se- -cured, all branches of business must revive. There is, therefore, no necessity for long faces and further complaining. The future is full of hope. Let our people take a proper view cf the situation and keep their spirits up. They have every reason for so doing, and if a man is de termined to be despondent, or is suffering from a chronic attack of the blues, why pity him, but do not follow his example. Look always on the bright side of the picture, and it will surely be found out that times are not so very hard after all. Mr. Schleicher, of Texas, favors giving Mexico to understand by the most solemn pledges that we desire no annexation. He believes they will then re establish Lerdo and ordtr, co-operate with us in repressing border violence and maraud ing and give us most favorable commer cial guarantees. Fffect of the War on the South. ^>r. H. V. Redfield writes an interest ing letter to the Cincinnati Commercial on the effects of the European war in the South. He found a Georgia planter of the first magnitude disgusted beyond measure because corn and flour had gone up 30 per cent, and cotton had gone down 20 per oeDt. In Coulmbia, S. C., he en countered a philosophic and materialistic old negro who worked about on odd jobs, made from 50 lo 75 cents a day and hod to support himself and family out of that, with meal at 30 cents—it had been 40—a peck. Corn bread and cheap mo lasses, he said, was all the food of many colored families. He did not want his family back in slavery, but if he could get back to the paternal rule of his old master would prefer bond age to freedom, with corn meal at 30 cents a peck. Under the Institution, he said mournfully, he never heard' of wars nor the price of corn meal, but the master always had plenty. Himself he had the paunch of an Alderman, and the mules were so fat that when he tried to ride them he would roll off. He might not see the return of slavery, but his children would be forced back into it by hunger. A young mulatto dissented from the sad sage’s opinion, and held that the young colored people would die before they surrendered their freedom. Dr. Redfield inveighs on the costly error re peated this year, in spite of the advice and appeals of the press, of planting cotton and not food or fodder, and contrasts strik ingly the case of the Tennessee planter whom he met and fouud rejoicing iu the possession of a 500 acre field of corn, repre senting a crop of 30,000 bushels, that at the war price of 65 cents was a fortune. “Yes,” concludes the correspondent, “yes, East Tennessee will be largely benefited, for it is a corn-growing sec tion, and has the great Southern market immediately at hand. But the South, as a section, will be hurt. The benefit of spots here and there whore corn is grown is inadequate compensation tor the injury brought upon the planters aud laborers of the cotton States.” Mr. J. J. Pringle Smith, in his address before the Historical Society of Charles ton, May 25ih, last, congratulates the people of his State on their release from eirpet-bagisul ia the following eloquent words. Speaking of the past deeds of distinguished South Carolina statesmen, he saye: “Sons of the same mother, they ‘with triumphal chaplets crowned,’ you wilt not fail her now, but mindful of the noble things done for her by those of the old time before us, yon will make this, her day of trial and new effort, your op portunity, I will not say to raise her from dishonor, for the shame is not hers, hut her despoilers, but to dignify her with new honors reflected upon he? by the worthy services of filial love, services no longer to be profaned by the usurping hand of the stranger.” (Italics ours.) We quote these words for a special rea son. In Georgia we have, for some time, been rid of the actual presence of the carpet bag stranger, yet, to-day, we are as complelyas ever governed by him, in asmuch as we live under a constitution framed by him, and written by his “usurping hand.” Can it be the wish of any man calling himself a Georgian, who is in feeling, interest aud pride a Georgian, to permit a continuance of such a state of things George P. Rowell & Co. deserves the best thanks of the advertising commun ity for their efforts to prevent advertisers from being imposed on by unscrupulous publishers. Every honest publisher will also thank them for the aid they have afforded them in maintaining their com petition for business by fair means, against the fraudulent practices of dis honest rivals. Messrs. Rowell & Co., alone of Newspaper Directory publishers, have had the courage to undertake the task of discriminating among the state ments of newspapers, and to face the hostility which such a course was sure to excite among those who profited by mis representation. Notwithstanding the “crushing” articles that from time to time have been hurled at them, some times by parties who ought to have known better, they have persevered in their course, aud they have had their reward. Their publication has taken the first place as the standard authority among American Newspaper Directories and a reference book for every large ad vertiser and advertising agency in this country.—Jersey City Journal, May 22, 1877. _ Butler's Proposed Investigation.—A Washington special to the Baltimore Sun says: “Gen. Butler talks very big, even for him, when he announces that the House will appoint another Louisiana in vestigation committee, and that he will be a member of it. In the very improbable event of such a committee being author ized by the House, Gen. Butler would most assuredly not be a member of it, as no Democratic Speaker would appoint him ou a committee of such character. The House will appoiut no such commit tee, because there will be nothing to find out that is not already known, and no sensible people would think of going on a wild goose chase after the scaudals which may be set efloat by the disap pointed adventurers who were thrust out of power in Louisiana, or by that small class of persons who sympathize with them. The Senate Committee on Privi leges and Elections, which has charge of Kellogg’s case, or at least the Radical ma jority of that committee, will rake up everything nasty that can be got hold of concerning the Louisiana settlement, and Gen. Butler can dump his load of garbage into the lap of his friend and co-worker Senator Morton, the Chairman of that committee.” Last month a white member of the South Carolina Legislature introduced a bill to prevent mixed marriages. It pro vided that contracts of marriage between white persons and persons of African or Indian descent, “to the third generation inclusive,” should be void; it further made such a contract a misdemeanor, puDisbable by fine and imprisonment. Naturally, the colored members opposed the bill, those of mixed blood as natural ly taking tho lead. After discussion, the enacting clause was stricken out by the votes of white Democrats, and black and white can still intermarry. It is about time for the peopie of South Carolina to have a couveutiou to frame a uew consti- tion. The New Hampshire Legislature as sembled Thursday. If it is deemed ad visable to carry into immediate effect the provision of the amended State consti tution providing for biennial elections, a United States Senator wilt be chosen at this session to succeed Senator Wadleigb, whose term expires in 1870. Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, whilst appreciating president Hayes's liberality and fair dealing toward the South, scouts the idea that it will pro duce sufficient disaffection in the Demo cratic ranks in North Carolina or Tennes see to give the Republicans control of those States. Hid Mexican Question. Senator Harris, of Tennessee, who lias, spent several years in Mexico, and who possesses a thorough knowledge of tho country and its inhabitants, in a recent inteiview with the editor of the Nashville Ameiiciin, ixpressed himseif most de cidedly opposed to the schemes of an nexation which are reported to be in contemplation in certain quarters. Mr. Harris says there are in Mexico seven millions of worthless population to one million of intelligent good citizens, aud we cannot afford to deal with the problem of carrying more of them than we have. He thinks it the duty cf the government to pursue a firm and just course, repres sing all lawlessness and building up trade and supplying au orderly, law-abiding population. In the course of time he thinks Mexico will, if such a system is followed, fall into our arms whenever it is to her interest and tq oars, tuat is when the country shall be developed and built up populated by a sturdy, solid, indus trious population, Americanized. Then it will interest both to come together, and neither nor any class of either, will oppose it. He says the educated classes are men of sense aDd thorough educa tion, while the other classes are more than usually objectionable as citizens. To take charge of them as their guardian He would re gard as unfortunate, a dear responsibility with its corresponding benefit. He thinks we have territory enough to oc cupy us for the next few years, without getting on our hands such au elephant as Mexico would be with her present popu lation and almost total want of develop ment. The imports of foreign dry goods at New York daring May were about §300,- 000 more than during the corresponding month of 1S76. This would probably be taken as anindication of reviving foreign trade were it not that, for the portion of 1877 that has passed, the dry goods im portations had fallen off nearly four mil lions, as compared with the correspond ing period of last ye2r. Then there is less being thrown on the market, and more going into warehouse. In fact the country, (notwithstanding the weak ness of some folks for the “imported ar ticle”), is learning more and more to nse domestic goods, and this, with other causes, is interfering with foreign im portations. A comparison of the eleven months of the fiscal years 1876-77 that have passed with the corresponding pe riod of previous ones, show an extraor dinary decline of the dry goods importa tion at New Y'ork. In 1871-72 in eleven months it exceeded one hundred anil thirty.four millions; now it does not reach seventy’-three millions, and the do- clino year by year has been a steady one. The New York canal tolls for the first month of navigation show a loss of more than fifty per cent, upon the tolls for the same month last year. This is only par tially due to the reduction cf tolls, as of ficial figures show a heavy falling off in tonnage. Hayes, as usual, is playing a double game. He talks well about “civil service reform,” declaring that he is opposed to elianges in thecivil service forany reasou except that of incompetency. Yet, with these declarations on his lips, he ap points men to office of opposite views, and permits them to carry out the old practice of removing whom they please, on any pretext what ever. His new Baltimore Postmaster had hardly been installed before he officially decapitated two of the old attaches of the office—men who, as far as is known, were thoroughly efficient and capable. Of course Hay es may say that he is not responsible for what his subordinates do, but if he appoints men of those who carry out the old ideas which pre vailed under Grant, it will be hard to discover the point at which tho much vaunted reform comes in. Indeed it looks very rnuoh to an outsider as if Mr. Hayes’ manifestoes ou the subject were largely tainted with tho same element to which he owes his occupation of the Presidential chair—fraud. There is just a suspicion of sectional poltroonery in the Cincinnati Times' how] for a solid North. It anticipates a politi cal cor ti'ct “in which the South will be stronger in the halls of legislation than she was before.” And then, with a plaint ive terror, it adds: “She ha* now full representation on her colored inhabitants, and she contemplates an increase of Sena torial votes by the division of Texas, by the admission of New Mexico, and, we fear, by the acquisition of Sonora, and another new State over the Rio Graude. There are stormy political times ahead. The demand for a solid Republican party is as pressing as in the past.” Thi*, says the St. Loais Ilepublican, would seem to be hardly iu harmony with the so called Hay es policy in the South. A recent writer from (he East gives some interesting points concerning the Roumanians or Roumans, which are rather flittering to th t hitherto little thought of people. The Roumans are descendants of the ancient Dacians, who were Latinized. Tl ey claim Trajan, however, as their father and founder. Their language is Latin oorrupled and mingled with foreign words. They are intelligent, handsome and graceful, the Frenchmen of the E»st, and their women surprisingly beautiful and graceful. They are not Sclavs, and their colonies of pure Dacian blood extend all over the East, in Bessarabia, Rounmnia, Thessaly and Epi rus, Transylvania, and even in part of the Bannat. Senator Beck (Dein., Ky.,) has been interviewed by the Cincinnati Enquirer on political issues. He opposes a reopen- ingof the Presidential question, and inli- mates that the South is loo well pleased with liayes’ policy to favor quo warranto proceedings. He says he doesn’t believe iu getting off the Democratic platform because Hayes has got on it, but favors making the fight upon the liviDg issues of money, tariff reform and popular justioe, as expressed in the St. Louis platform. It nmy be well to add that Senator Beck is an old Whig. Minister Pierrepont must possess an immense fortune, thinks the London World, and it adds: “Mr. Pierrepout really should moderate his transports of gratitude for hospitality' received. He has already caused a serious rise in the prices of poultry and American beef, and his cook must be half dead with work. There is no sleeping within a mile of Cavendish square for the rattle of carriages and the sounds of riotous liv Protests Against Contraction. — A 'Washington special to the Cincinnati Ga zette says: “Many very earnest protests against the contraction of legal teudtr currency are reaching tho administration. A protest is in the course of preparation by anti-resumptionists against what they believe to be Secretary Sherman’s policy. The protest is based upon the proposition that he has no right to cancel any por tion of the legal tenders that ho obtains with the proceeds of tho sale of bonds.” The Girard estate in Schuylkill and Columbia counties, Pa., embraces 20,000 aeresof land, of which 6,592 acres are ceal lands. It is estimated that the produc tive capacity of these lauds in merchant able coal, after deducting all usual waste in the process of mining, makes the enormous aggregate of 174,000,000 tons. The present production is about 1,000,. 000 tons per annum, THE MORNING KEWS. WAK NOTES. SITUATION OF THE ARMIES IS ASIA MINOR. Operations Alons the Danube. MOUKHTAR P.VSHA ON THE OF FENSIVE. The Egyptian Contingent. [By Cable to the Morning News.] London, jane 10.—To the movements on tho Asiatic side recorded last night, which showed that the Russian centre and right wing had joined hands and advanced, the former on the passes of the Soghantie Mountains and the latter on Olti and along the Choruk valley, there must now bo added tho fact that tho Russian centre has ob tained communication with tho left wing, so that the eastern heads of the passes between Soghontie and the Kieretch ranges, near Midsbiver, are already iu their hands, Moukfi- tar 1’asha having withdrawn from his position between Olti and Bardesa, and taken up a fresh line between Koprukoi aud Ilassau iialeb. Moukhtar has thereby improved his position if he has sulliciont force north of Erzeroutn to check the ad vance of the Russian right wing. This, however, is very doubtful, especially as his position a: Kylly, south of the Araxeg, is threatened by the extreme left of the Rus sian left wiDg. A portion of the Russian left was detached at Dejoraueoua, probably with the desire to turn MouLbtars strong position at Koprukoi ou the Arexes, for the descent from Soghantie through tho passes leading down to the valley of the Araxes is steep and difficult, &g in deed is also the desceut from the Kosher rango to Kylly, which is about half au hour’s march from the Araxes. If the Turks stand their ground, which they cauonly do if they have sufficient men guarding tho northern approaches to Erzeroum,the plain of Araxes wiil be the scene of a suigniuaty battle. The great length of the Russian lines of communication, with the two fairly garri soned fortresses of Kars and Batoum in their rear.necessitates great caution on their part, because, if the Turks had sufficient enterprise or available forces, they would long since bare sent large reinforcements by sea to Batoum, and endeavored to break the circle which tho Russian iron corps have been forming ou the heights around the land side of that town. A vigorous ef fort in this direction might save Erzeronm. The Turks appear to be becoming hastily, aware of this fact, and some reinforcements have been ordered to Batoum, but the ef forts iu this direction do not appear very serious. The secret of the plan of Russian oper ations on the Danube has been well kept. The few special correspondents who are allowed to accompany the Russian army are forbid under pain of instant expulsion from camp to send any details which might give a clue to Russian designs, and there has been little news from the Russian side, wheio tfie.r operations have been confined to reconnoisancfs by which the Russians are being kept fully posted on the disposi tion of the Turkish commanders. The same cannot bo said for tho Turk*, who see a regiment in every cossack and shut their eyes ia terror. They have not, like the Russians, any friendly population to assist them with information. The disposition and state of preparation of the opposing forces lead to the belief that there will be boavy cannonading along the Danube, coupled with raids aud feints in various directions, under cjver of which there will be simultaneous attacks by the Kns-uaus in force at UlteuitZA,Rufltchuk,Sis- tova and Tarim Magureli, with diversions at Kalafat and Ibrail. It i i not probable that anything of importance in the way of cross ing iu force will take place for the next week, whatever may be the other points at which a crossing will finally be attempted. A Reuter dispatch from tiilistria says it is reported that the Turks, by an agreement with the railroad company, have cut the dykes and flooded the Kustinje and Ther- mavoda railroad, and converted the hills skirting tho road into a line of defense, ex tending from the eea to the Danhbe. Large numbers of Circassian horsemen assembled at Rustcliuk, and are being equipped with arms and pat under command of competent officers. Reuters latest dispatch from Erzeronm, dated June 8th, says the Turkish headquar ters, with eighteen battalions of infantry, two batteaica aud five buudred Kurdish cavalry, are established near Zewin. The Turks hold sirong positions, commanding the Zewia road, and their prospects appear to be improved. It is believed that Moukh tar Pasha contemplates attacking the Rus sian right wiug in three separate columns, operating from Z±win, Eizeroum and an other point. , A Renter Bucharest telegram aud several other accounts agree that the Danube is visibly falling. The Roumanian militia have been dis banded. Alexandria, June 10.—The Turkish men- of-war to escort tho Egyptian contingent have arrived, aud the contingent is expected to sail immediately. COTTON CROP REPORTS. Galveston, June 10.—The Cotton Ex change reports an incrcised acreage of eight Slaves of Debt. CD&nge reports an incrcweuacrt>» K e oi bjrmv 0 m re^hm-Hono th*!* 0 * 1 * 8 ? ecal,l i°H to i n per cent.; weather more favorable than Let , 0W , tf°P‘e of Europe i n rear in thirty-five counties ami less favora- be likely to endure tho enormous iV)* ble in twenty-four counties. The stands are debt under which they are now r ■ had of good in fifty-one amt poor in eight. Crops No ons believes that the prioci[H°"t'°®' are four weeks earlier than last year in six . European debts can eve- ",;, 01 fiis counties and three weeks later iu forty-j wa r.svstem goes on year !,v 1’ an,i th <> seven, and the same as last year in six. - J Vrtnr Labor is the same as last year and working well. No fertilizers have been used. Tho present condition la g«o 1 in forty-two, poor iu fifteen, aud very poor in nineteen coun ties. Planting was delayed or replauting rendered necessary by grasshoppers ; cool nights have retarded the growth, but receut warmer weather has brought it out rapidly. UhablesTos, June 19.—The Exchange report covering tweuty-seveu connths m South Carolina says the area in cotton planted has decreased three per cent.. Midnight Telegrams CROP REPORTS IN SOUTH CARO LINA AND TEXAS. BANDITS ATTACK A RAILROAD TRAIN. Disastrous J fleets of the Western Flood. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. The Creedmoor Rifle Team. WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET. Office of the Chief Sio.val Oumerver, Washington, D. C., Juno 10.—Indications for Monday: In the South Atlantic States, rising ba rometer, stationary or lower temperature, winds mostly from southwest to northwest, and rain areas followed by clearing weather. la tho Gulf Btates, stationary or higher pressure aud temperature, clear or partly cloudy weather, northerly wind*, shifting iu Texas to southeast with falling barometer. In New England and the Middle Atlantic States, rising barometer, stationary or lower temperature, northwest to southwest wiada, partly cloudy or cioudy weather, with areas of light rain. Iu Tennessee and the Ohio valley, sta tionary or higher pressure, nearly stationary temperature, northwest to southwest winds, clear or partly cloudy weather aud possibJy occasional light showers. The Mississippi will rise from St. Loais to Helena. Cautionary signals continue at Wilming ton, Smithville, Cape Lookout, Cape Hat- teras, Kitty Hawk, Cape Henry, Norfolk, Cape May, Atlantic City, Barnegat, Sandy Hook, New York, New Haven, New Londou, Newport, Wood’s Hole, Boston, Thatcher’s Island, Portland aud Eastport. BANDITS BOARD A RAILWAY TRAIN. New York, June 10.—Tho outward train on tho Pennsylvania Railroad, due in Jersey City at four o’clock this morning, was boarded by a band of b&udits, who robbed ami nearly beat to death Thomas Downiug, of No. 156 Sixteenth street, New York. The conductor and brakemen who attempted to rescue Downing were driven away with revolvers. They then locked the car with the ruffians inside and telegraphed to the police at Jersey City to be ready at the depot. While tho tram wa- running at the rate of thirty miles an hour, three of the ruffians escaped by jumping out of the windows, the fonrtn man, who describes himself as John Wil liams, a sailor, of 45 Washington street, New York, was arrested by the Jersey City police. Downing says that he is a N«w Yorker, but has been living in Philadelphia for over a year, and was coming home on a visit. • FLOOD IN KANSAS. 8t. Louis, June 9.—Latest accounts from the West say tue Missouri river at and below Kansas City is still rising and doing great damage. Tho water is higher thau at any time since the flood of 1844. The Missouri Press Association is water bound at Hot ttprings, Arkansas, there being an impassable break on the narrow gauge road, between the spring and Mal vern. on the St. Loais, Iron MounUin &nd Southern Railed, weather unfavorable, the stand iu moat cases bad and tun to twenty days later than last year. The fields are clean, nut the plant is small and backward, anti from want of rain aDd cool nights making slow growth. Libor is abundant and efficient, aud the use of fertilizers Las decreased fifteen and a half per cent. TUE CREEDMOOR TEAM. New Y'ork, June 10.—The Board of Direc tors of the National Rifle Association met this evening io receive the report ftf the committee previously appointed to draw up a scheme for the selection of a team for 1877 to compete at Creed mo »r with the British team. It wa* decided that the rifle associa tions throughout the country ho re quested to compete at their respec tive ranges to fix tho eligibility of competitors to shoot at Creedmoor for places in the American team. Tho ulti mate selection of the team is to bo made in four competitions of two days each, at eight hundred, nine buudred and one thousand yards, fifteen shots at each rango, the com petitions to lake placo on the 17th and IStb cf July. Tho s x hig'uont aggregates in any three of these competitions are to form the first six of the team. These will eeicct the next two, and tho two uext highest scored will determine the reserve. TURF NOTES. Bosion, June 10.—At the third day of the June meetiug at M\s:ic Park there was a largo attendance. Tho following is a sum mary in the 2:29 c’ass, purse for $800: Lady Kiider, 4, 4, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1; Martha Washington, 2, •'>, 2, 1,3, 2, 3; Barquo, 1, 1, 7, 7. 4, 3, 2 ; Driver, 5, 2, 3, 8, 2 ; Bud- Dean, 3, 5, 4, 5, 7 ; Geo. 11. Ayer, 8, 7, 6, 4, 6; McAbeUe, 6, 6, 5, C, 5 ; Joe, 7, 8. Time —2:27, 2:264, 2:26, 2:20, 2:284, 2:30 j. 2:33d. Paris, June 10.—Tho race for me gr .:id prize of Paris took placo to-day. The weather was unusually fine aud an immense aud brilliant crowd attended. Tho race was won by St. Christopher by tw.* it-:-,. :u»; Jongleur was second and Bhrachim third. Seven horses ran. The betting at the start was fifty to one against Sr. Chris’v*p!u r, seven to* four against Jongleur and eight to one against Strachins. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Auburn, N. Y., June 10.—This morning a fire broke out in the dry goods house of the Auburn woolen mi!!, aud in a s *ort time did au immense damage. The lorsbyfire and smoke and water will not fall short of one hundred thousand dollars, nearly three hundred thousand pounds of wool being de stroyed. Work wiil have to be suspended for a month, throwing three hundred ope ratives ont of employment. The stock was fully insured and uto main building un injured. THE SYNDICATE. Washington, June 10.—Iq negotiating with tho syndicate. Secretary Sherman in sisted that for a reasonable time the four tier cents should be offered citizens of the United States at par iu gold, and after thirty days the syndicate may exact what premium the market allows, and during these tuii tv days the syndicate will make no foreign sales of these bouds. EFFECTS OF THE HEAVY BAIN. Memphis, Tens., June 10.—A special from Holly Springs reports the Mississippi Cen tral as badly washed out, aud that a freight train ran into a culvert near Hickory valley yesterday, killing engineer O’Hara, * brake- man Hodge and another train hand. SHOT AND MORTALLY WOUNDED. Cincinnati, June 10.—Cha*. Thompson, a private watchman at Wood’s theatre, wa.i shot aDd mortally wounded to-night, b> Johnnie Wilson, bareback rider, formerly with Robinson’s circus. Wilson escaped. indicted for forgery. St. Louis, Juno 10.—William Matthews and L. »V. Patterson, two promineut mer chants, have been indicted and given bail for forgery. RETURNED HOME. New Y'ork, June 10 —Wm. II. V .n 7 erbilt, President of tun New York Central Railroad, arrived here yesterday on the steamer Bri tannic from Liverpool. FELL DEAD. Fredericksburg, Va., June 10.—Mnsker Perry, a youth aged sixteen, f*dl (D id in the Episcopal Church to-day, during prayer, of heart disease. EXTENSION OF PATENT REFUSED. Washington, June 10.—Tho Commissioner of Patents has refused to extend tho patent ou llarpter’s corn planter. y. m. c. A. Louisville, Juno 10.—The Young Men’s Christian Association meets in Baltimore in 18 79. Small Notts olid ilie Silv; urrencj’. TOe Washington corrss; i). Jo.it of the Baltimore Sun says: “Much complaint is made by backers, merchants and others that they are refused small biils at ihe Treasury iu exchango for bills of larger denominations. On inquiry being made at the Treasury to-day it was stated that no orders had been issued to refuse small notes, yet when the official who gave this information was asked to give iu ex change for a ten dollar bill twos aud ones he declined to do so, and to all such re ejuests a similar declination is made. This indicates that although no formal order has been issued on the subject, the Secretary of the Treasury has iutlo- duced a line of policy intended to force into circulation large amounts of silver for change in the place of one and two dollar greenbacks. It is believed in finan cial circles that the Secretary is endeavor ing to work up to the English and French systems of doing away with all notes of a small denomination, aud that he means to hold on to all the one and two dollar greenbacks that como. into the Treasury. The Bunk of England issues no notes less than the denomination of £5, and the Bank of France none less thau 50 frarcs. The Secretary is said to desire to retire and cancel all legal tenders uuder five dollars, and to increase the legal-tender of silver to tenor twenty dollars, although heretofore he has always opposed making silver a legal tender beyond five dollars.” Cheap Ice in New Y'obk.—With nearly two million tons of ice in tfciir ware houses, the New York ice companies feel abundantly prepared to assist in solving the problem “How to keep cool.” The price of ico is unusually low, and the prospects favor cheap rates throughout the season. At the opening of summer last year ice sold for eight dollars a tou wholesale, or to extensive consumers, and at sixty <Rnts a hundred pounds at retail. The present prices are four dollars a ton for large quantities and thirty cents a hundred weight for family consumption. Mrs. Chamberlain is reported as de claring herself in a state of ecstacy because she “had brought three voters into the world to be trained iu the goed oul-fashioned principles of justice, probity and honor.” That is pretty hard on the Governor, to think that -his own wife should train his own children to be, as voters, always arrayed against their own father. Considering ChamberlainV late humiliation and defeat, that blow ought to be crushing to one of his sensi tive nature. Governor McCreary, of Kentucky, writes: “Brave men can afford to shake hands when the b attle is ended, and good citizens can with propriety decorate the graves of all brave and true soldiers, no matter on which tide they fell. I have on my staff officers who served in the Confederate army and officers whoserved in the Federal arm •, aud in our personal association and c oinl duties we exemp lify the practical mingling of the blue and the gray.” Falling Off in Immigkation.—The records of the New Y'ork Emigration Commission show that in May, 1876, 13,116 immigrants artived, while only it,877 have arrived during May of this year. This falling off may be'accounted for by the fact that last year the number of iinmigrauts to this country was con siderably increased by the arrival of sev eral thousand Meunonites, all of whom were agricultural laborers. Now is the time for Georgians to rise in the majesty of their sovereign capaoity and demand a constitution of their own fntUng' to both principal and interest^ ' ffn "” frequently reenrring wars cn . tbes ® come to an end it will be impWbL? 1 pay even the interest of these' l hen the great powers of the world | ' be reduced to the condition of T, v'* 1 and be compelled to repudiate tfinv to war n* nil / A a onij any US ft* they go to war at all, carry it crippled and inefficient wny. The use of their intolerable debts that one can see ij to «omptl t finally to keep the p«-*ce. At present, however, the people n f p rope are slaves of debt. All the f ruj . their toil go to pay iha interest on t'i ,7‘ enormous national obligations. \ co3 ' tionof debt like this is oppressive to »'i true freedom and manliness. There' no form of slavery more oppre- i v , nations or individuals than that r f i Without it the swor.i alone would Eo .\ ' able to keep in subordination to archicai rule the vast populations r Europe. '* 01 The American people sbenhi t timely warning from European , iu ,', 1 The national deb: which now exists!- should be paid off as soon as j ' We should see to it, also, that no ( of debt shall ever again be a l,.,v e T press upon our people. For this p ;lri , let us avoid, as we would slav.r- i ruin, the perpetuation of sectio:..,! j,.,. mosities by the fanatics and ., .. ^ politicians, whose evil counsels, if f’j. lowed up, would i.jvoito us . . sectional and perhaps civil war. Jj’jlr more Sun. A1I nervous, exhausting, aud painf eases speedily yield to the curative eaces of Tulvermrctier’s Electric Be] Bauds. They are safe, simple aud til', ami can heeasiiy applied by the patim seif. Book, with iud ptrticii'ar-, - frees Address Pulvi. mat r t. f !iucinnati, Ohio. Hiv2G-d.’;w said dire, hini- uiaihd ic Co. »,lv ’ AtlfcvttsrmnUi;. ill-. YEUV HI! ci 3. Iv I WILL offer tlio bilauce of trie s -j ( , n mv tire fMcclco; Millinery <•0011* vi-rv riie-1», The a** rtra *nt CANNOT BS ISXUEI ! i\- tIU - LIf Y NOR RKICE. Also, a coa»i>leie m-unout ot cossets, LINEN and SILK IT A N DK F, -'CHI h! : LatTit s’ ami Children’* HOSIERY. J aches’ TUCS, JARoT*. NE'Jli KUCHINtfd ia great variety. u amot Freach and Engli- h Jewelry. SLEEVELESS JACKFI Ladies’ I ACE and CuJots W «!o;wn UNDUEiSED KID GLOVES, j, sizes, at 5i» c-ii.ts per r a‘r. *25 f ieccs best BLACK ALPACA, ramri price from 22 cents to $ on per \ aru. Ladies, call azul sec* tke bargain*. k-I. c, jell-tf 1?9 CONOR E-IS MSI « WANTE i. >. VTTE will pay KlGiD'ST CA^H PKI ''K /or ' I Wheat. Early d» !ivcry adviced and ti sired. 8. G. HAYNES & KUO., jell-d.Tv&tw,! w Proprietors Forest City Mill; Nnvannah, < Direct Iiiiporfalioi! W E to announce to the ladles th.it we have jiist received from Europe, 1 Co ream.-* QUADUtLLtC (cro-.s-hurren) FUBNCH NOTE PAPERS aLd TEN MILLE ENVELOPE*. Also, 5.) reams FINEST ENGLISH UNRULED NuTE PAPE RS, with •ENVELOPE". The latest novelties In plain, fancy and mourn ing PAbSETKRIEi of American manutactuio at SC iI RE irvER’S. jell -it 100,060 Cypress hhinglci FOR PALE LOW FOR CASH. jell-Sfc J. 8. LAWRENCE*, Lawrence Wham NOTICE. npiTEcopa r tner?-hij! h- ret< fare existing JL Hie uudeisignt d. unde;* the firm n:i;i Iiamillou & Co., txpires this day by hitiiriiti n 31. HAMILTON. JOS. HULL. Savannah, June 11, 1S77. jel 1-lt .M. NOTICE. T HE under.-igned will close their respeetio places of brsiness at 7 o’clock p. m. fro a ttia date until the lir.it day of iM pteinber, Satur days excepted. LOIIN LYONS, BRANCH & COOPER, a. c. Harmon & co. jas. m.-gkatu * cu. jelt-U jfcstiral. FJEST1VAL! —AT— MARLOW, NO. 2\ CENTRAL K. K., ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1S77, Continuing during Afternoon and Niaiit. the ob ject being to ootam means to eiect a Church Building* r r'HOSE friectis who m.-ty ! it dlv visit v- m"j JL ted assured that 1 otbiug vw 1 spareii n oar t fforts to make, theoccas o » a m -t cup)’- able one. The Centr-il hat I road ha* ■ "• assist ns hy issuing ret-irn Hcfceis t*< vis.tors nt ni alt pointh to Mai low on that day. which W J make it qiflte economic-.! to thus*- coming ’ >' 1 ; road. A11 extra car wiil be put on ttru 1 the benefit of excursionists. j j-d Wanted. ANTED, two large FURNISHED ROOMS, . Ml W ANTED—1) rtUGb stands the bn-iues dr tingle gentlemen. Jvnquw MAYKRV. new? utora, 1E5 lironghlon tt. UST.—One who uadcr- s. to take Inlt ii.Ure.-t in small ttore in Florida, doing good bu»in« s*; 1 l f * ia! required, erne thousand t igbt hundred <lu! ai-. For 1 anfcula.s address DRUGS, thisoflire. [18S& Aiso! M 1 School for Fancy VV ork on W M‘v* *• Juue titli, at No. 184 Brough-Oh str«er. Plane Je je'J-3: sons given at very moderate rah ^ \\; AN IKl1, a while g ri. to w>ke he - * ’ D entity nseful m housework. Api-i/* ,J '- cast corner Habersham and York strettr*. jeS-tf ' JiiRo VVANTRD — Ti> J Ad LAN persons who iost relatives in tr.«- revolution of will hear of $ imethiug "L . j y idvBPLige by communicating with ( &ODR£DUifc>, care ot this ohlcc, Savannah, J** octlo-tf fSoanUmi, -as Fifth A*<- \'EW YOKK BOAKLUNG.- IN nue. N. Y. Elegant family Ixwirf.it.- !-' ner day; $loi>cr week; cool and myzfr-r.v.'H mer residence. D elightful *uom& iu one ot tne r -. ,; j<? cations in this city, with beard. A '■ bo*fdcre, and meals turriished to famme? ^ ^ sonahJe rates, South Broad street* door west ot Drayton, by Mrs^IL-^ INCTON. WEST 17TII aug26-S /‘I west urn street, new D l Room-i with board in a farmy. 1 .' ji4 ment; gei erons tn»-l *, with evtrv ‘'• ,:clir - > .' fr »i, reason. Terms, $2 5»* per day. Locate ft j ( , ty . iivfeasible by cars wi ll every part ot 1 m and aJJ places of — 4or ^ |X»H SAL- AT A BAKHAIN.—Two"*"}* V aud well improved Cotton Pianta-t > ; de of producing tr< m eleven to thirteen •* ^ tales of cotton; situ de-I on the MLsis^tiy- ^ 1 fhortdi.-ttTC.: below Natchez. r<»r , , x detail.- adorer JOHN' K. WARD, t-w*. V f , L T fij New York; for visiting, apply w i,v LAKER, tsq , Nat'iiez, Mississippi, je® S,3t Jet* a i**» ... fj'uK tJALK, two LITHOGRAPH]' r and lot of S.1THOGK-.PU1C sW .5 ply to .1. 11. ENT ILL,: Wlotaaer rtrer * 1?0 isRof. aufiUV’AH *