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Newspaper Page TextCohimlm mini ret VOL. XIX. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1877. NO. 64 WASHINGTON. Stum MIS NO LNISUT1VI BUSINESS. Frtd Douglas* Appointed Marshal of tho Dlatriot. LwiaiiH Dsrkies Cill oi HiytsuJ Give Their Vi«ws South Carolina and Louisiana to bo Forced to a Conclusion I THE CABINET DOBS NOTHINO. nop to Bristow—Joah Hill and Horscltel V. Johnson llrfeS tor the United States Bnpreme Court —Surprises Expected. President So Power to Order Elec tions. Washington, March IS.—The Balti more American says the plan for bolding near electiona for Governors and Legisla tors* in Louisiana and Booth Carolina ap pears to have nearly fallen through. The President has no aothority to order any thing of the kind, and there are very se- rioua obstacles to its being motoally agreed upon by both political parties. SHUTS CHAIRMANSHIP. Morton oonolnded to take the Chair maoship of Foreign Relations. Cameron, of Wisconsin, will probably snooeed Morton as Chairman of Privileges aod Elections. answering bx lithograph. Postmaster General Key is answering applications for office by lithograph. SCHEME ABANDONED. FAOEABD AND OBA1CBNBLAIN MUST TIED). The new eleotion scheme is abandoned by all parties this morning. The best opinion is hardening that Paekard and Chamberlain most yield to the pressure. There are signs of imps tienoe and irritation in administration circles at feeble attempts to thwart the Southern policy. There is no doubt of an extra session. TROOPS TO BE WITHDRAWN WHEN SENATE AD JOUBNS. A Washington special says it has been determined to withdraw the troops from the State houses in New OrlSans and Co Inmbia as soon as the Senate adjourns. The President has the most positive assn ranoes from the Conservatives in both States that no outbreaks of any kind shall ooour, and that the rights of all persons shall be respected and protected. LOUISIANA NEGRO POLITICIANS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Col. Lewis and Counsellor Chester, col ored, quite prominent in Louisiana poli tics, are at the White House, waiting for an interview with the Presideht. Their idea, gathered from their lobby conversa tion, seems to be that, under the adminis tration polioy, they are ssfe in their po litioal and personal rights. They would prefer that Packard and those on his ticket throughout the State abonld be sustained, bnt are willing to yield to a course of events whioh the pressure of public opinion demands. THE SENATE. The Senate diaonssed briefly a resolu tion submitted by Mitchell yesterday for the appointment of a aub-oommittee of the Committee on Privileges and Elections to investigate the charges against Senator Grover, of Oregon, and it was laid over until to-morrow. The Senate then went into exeontive session. NOMINATIONS. Fred Douglass, Marshal of the Distriot of Colombia; ex-Senator Bontwell, of Massachusetts, Commissioner to Revise the Statutes; George M. Duskin, Attorney for the Sontharn Distriot of Alabams. SOHUBZ'S CHOICE. Wm. M. Grosvenor, of Miasonri, will be appointed ohief clerk of the Interior Department. OONFIBMATIONS. Bontwell for revised statutes. BONDS CALLED IN. The Treasury has oalled in another ten million of live-twenty bonds. OBANT ON BLAOEBOABD EXAMINATIONS. Ex-President Grant, in conversation the other day,referring to oivil servioe reform, said he never contemplated the black board examination of applicants, which was instituted by George William Curtis' board. He thought it rather a singular fact that the man who passed the best ex amination under the rules should now be in the penitentiary. He failed to say to whom he referred. ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL Tyner aooepts the position as Assistant Postmaster General. DOUOLAs’ SAPPOINTMENT PLEASES NONE, Col. Phillips, who has been deputy mar ■hal twenty years, deolines to oontinue, The appointment of Donglas as marshal does not please many lawyers. NO LEGISLATION. No legislative business was done in the MUBDEB AND BOBBEBI. A steamer at Bnrney’s Station, on the Baltimore A Ohio Road, burs ted. Two men who slept in the store ware fonnd burned almost beyond recognition. Doubtless it was a ossa of murder and robbery. WHEN INTEREST CEASES. Interest on bonds oalled to-day oease June 15th. TO CONCILIATE BRISTOW. Special lo Enquirer*Sun.] Washington, March 15.—Green Olay Goodloe, appointed in the marine oorpa sinoe the war as lieutenant, anoceeds Maj. Cash as paymaster. Goodloe was ap pointed from Kentuoky, and this very desirable plaoe is supposed to be given in the interest df conciliation to Bristow. HEBSOHEL V. JOHNSON AND JOSHUA HILL are pressed for, the vaeant Supreme Judgeship. If the South gets the plaoe, one or the other will have it, with chanoes in favor of Hill. PUBLIC PBINTBB. An Iowa newspaper man named Hnt- ton, will beoonie publio printer. / SURPRISES. A series of surprises may be expeoted. The administration is certainly conceal ing. SOUTH CAROLINA. >V. HAMPTON BEGABDS THE ELECTION SCHEME AS AN INSULT. Washington, Maroh 15.—A telagram from Gov. Hampton was laid before the President to-day, stating that he would regard the new eleotion projeotof Benator Patterson as an insult, and that he does not ask the President to recognise him. All that he wishes is that the troops be with drawn from the State in order that the will of the people may be carried out LOUISIANA. Tbe Matthews-Packard Correspond ence. MATTHEWS TO PACKARD. Washington, Maroh 15. — Stanley Matthews writes Paokard, Feb. 27: “As soon as tbe existing military orders are withdrawn, the Nioholls Government will beoome the only existing Government, and will have to be recognised. In the meantime, it will be the dnty of the ad ministration to take oare that the results shall not imperil the rights and equity of the colored people ql Louisiana, so far as it has lawful power to prevehf It, and also to take oare that atannoh Republicans like yonrself, against whom nothing dis reputable can be alleged, would not suf fer, and shonld reoeive consideration and position in some appropriate way." packabd's beplt. Paokard says, Maroh 14tb, in oonolud- ing : “Though the effort ooat my life,still that devotion would be a better heritage to my children, than the plandits of the White League of the State, were gained by a surrender of both lhanhood and du ty. I am the Governor, and no armed force or violenoe can give my competitor a lawful title." OHIO HEMATOBSHIP. STANLEY MATTHEWS NOMINATED ON THE THIRD BALLOT AND THEN UNANIMOUSLY. Special lo Enquirer Sun.] Columbus, Ohio, Maroh 15.—In the Republican joint oauous only one mem ber was absent, and there were neoessary to a choice forty-three votes. The oen« didates are Stanley Matthews snd Alphon- so Taft, of Hamilton; W. P. Howland, of Ashtabula; Samuel Shellabarger, of Clark, and Wm. Lawrenoe, of Logan. The first ballot was, Howland, 30; Mat thews, 23; Taft, 12; Shellabarger, 6; Lawrenoe, 6. No ohoioe. Second ballot, Matthews, 37, Howland, 29, Taft, 7, Shellabarger, 7, Lawrence, 3. No ohoioe. Third ballot, Matthews, 43, Howland, 29, Taft, 2, Shellabarger, 8, Lawrence, 1. A motion was then made to make nom ination unanimous. Howland seconded the motion, as did the friends of each candidate, and the motion was agreed to amidst immense obeering. HONTUOHEBV CITY BONDS. GRATIFYING SUCCESS IN REDUCING INTER EST. New York, Maroh 14.—Walter S. Bragg, now in this otty, and of the oom. mittee appointed by the Montgomery, Alabama, Common Counoil, to adjust the outstanding olaims against the city by holders of city bonds, issued in 1870, to the amount of $500,000, in aid of the South and North Alabama Railroad, has received the signatures of the holders of nearly $250,000 of bonds to the settle ment proposed. Most of them reside in New York, and he hopes jo adjust the whole matter amioablv. New bonds, re deemable in thirty years, are to be issued with past due ooupons iuoluded, with in terest to be paid at three per oent. for the first five years; four per oent. for the seoond five years, and five per oent. for the remaining twenty yeafs. THE EAST. Tsrkay and Montenegro. Constantinople, March 15.—The dead- look between the Porte and Montenegro continues. Nioiso is beginning to be pinched for rations, being still blooksded by the Montenegrins. GEN. IFMATIEPF GOES TO LONDON. Paris, Maroh 15.—Gen. Ignatieff leaves here this evening for London. This is re garded here as a peaceful sign. Herman Armj. Special lo Enquirer Sun.] London, March 15.—A dispatoh to the Pall MaU Oaeette from Berlin says the Minister of War, explaining the army estimate*before the Budget Cppimittee, justified the increased expftditure by pointing to ths growth of the Frenoh army, and the reoent movement of troops on the German frontier, also the growth and improvement of the Russian army. AMERICAN RAILWAYS. HOW THEY AXE BEING AEFEOTED IN ENG LAND. London, Maroh 15.—The Timet in its financial article says: Tbe IT. 8. railway securities are occupying publio attention more than ever before. Suspicion ex tends more or less to every railway in the Uoien, sound or unsound. Inquiry shows their finanoes to be a sealed book. Some thing beyond arrays of figures without any kind of gnarsntee of correctness is required to allay the anxiety awakened by reoent events. This feeliog is intensified by the presenoe in this and American marketB of a oousiderable olique of wreck ers, constantly watohing an opportunity to run down particular stoeks. At pres ent some of these are very busy with the Pennsylvania railway. Statements of the most sinister oharaoter are oirouluted and gain credenoe, because the bondholders have no means of knowing whether they are true or false. If the railway oompauies themselves do not oall tbeir managers and agents to put their affairs before their mortga gees and creditors in the clearest light, there will be an end to Amerioau railway oredit here. For many days hitherto it has been the fashion to keep silent when matters went wrong,'but that may beoome impossible, if disaster follows disaster as they have been doing. Failure. Special to Enquirer-Sun.]' Montreal, Maroh 15.—Henry Tiffen has failed for $125,000. The Docostro syrup faotory in whioh Tiffen was inter ested is not affected. New Hampshire. Concord, N. H., Maroh 15.—Unofficial returns defeat Jones in the first distriot by 25 plurality. Compulsory Education. Columbus, O., Maroh 15.—The oom- pulsory education bill is a law. BROOKLYN TABKRJiACI.K. Murdered and Mobbed. St. Johns, N. B., Maroh 15.—Indica tions are that Kengan, tho fugitive mem ber of tbe New York Produce Exohange, was robbad and murdered. WeaUaer. Washington, March 15.—Indications— For the South Atlantic States, dimin ishing north and west winds, rising ba rometer and oooler, partly oloudy or dear weather will prevail. HAYES DECLARING THAT BE DOES NOT BE LIEVE IN ROTATION IN OFFIOE. Washington, March 11.—Hayes has not met his supporters in a kindly spirit so far. His nomination at Cincinnati was assured by the Michigan delegation, which btoke from Blain at the oritioal mo ment. Senator Ghristianoy called on him yesterday to see about an office or two, and mentioned the little oircumstance. Hayes referred to his inaugural. Chris- tiancy suggested that inaugurals were no: always followed. Hayes read the oivil ser vice paragraph in his inaugural, and Baid he proposed to follow that at all events. He went further; be explained to Senator Obristiancy that when he was going to make a new appointment, and when he wanted a Senator's or a Representative’s opinion,he should ask it and be guidod by it. When he didn't ask it and it ehould be given he would hear it patiently and treat it as|he would the opinion of any other citizen, and as of no more importance, Shortly afterward the Michigan delegation oalled with a list of officers whose terms were eoon to expire. “Any oharges against these persons?" asked Hayes, briskly. “No,” said the spokesmen, “but these men have been in eight years, and we be lieve iu rotation in office." “Bnt I do not, ” replied Hayes, “and shall reappoint every good man. Good morning, gentle men.” Men from nearly every State in tbe Union have bad the same answer, among other* Mias Sweet, of Chicago, for whose removal there has been a very strong pressure, but who goes back assured of her continuance in offioe. EXTRA SESSION OF CABINET. The Cabinet was in special session to day to oonsider the bureau appointments I and commissions expired or about to ex pire. None of diplomatic and general oharaoter were considered, nor were Southern effeirs considered thoroughly. SOUTHERN SOLUTION TO BE FORCED. It is Rnderatood thatto-aaorrow will be devoted to Louieiena and South Carolina, and it la believed that nnleaa the parties compromise on their own motion, that by Tuesday at la teat a solution will be for oed. Mexican RecORnlSIwa. Special lo £nquirer-Sun.] New Yobk, March 15.—The dispatoh from Mexico, Maroh 3d, was inoorreot in stating that Minister Foster had recog nized Diaz as President dejure. He rec ognizes him as President de facts), but will not formally reoognize him a* Presi dent de jure until the meeting of Con gress and his ineuguration. Death of a Centenarian. Schenectady, N. Y., Maroh 15.—Mrs, Mary Dunham, of Glenville, died lest night at the age of 106 years. The Connecticut Democracy have is ued a pungent address.wbich looks neith er like division nor weakness. They oall upon Democrats to stand firm, maintain their organization, and rebuke and com root th'e means by which this election was oarried. They say: The disgrace of suoh an election must never be repeated. Until that is render ed impossible, all other issues should be held secondary. We oall upon you to en list for the war for scouring this end: First—By tbe destruction of the Re publican party organization. It has proved incapable of reformation. It must be destroyed. Delenda eel Cartha- go. Seoond—By au amendment to the Con stitution relative to tbe election of Presi dent. Third—By a severe enforcement of the demand for integrity and personal inde pendence in all public officers. MERCHANTS, THEIR TRIALS AND TEMPTA TIONS—SERMON BY THE REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGB. New York Heralil, 12th.] Mr. Talmage yesterday announced as the subject of his sermon, “Merchants, their Trials and Temptations.” His text was taken from Isaiah, xxiii, 8 :—“Tyre, the crowning oity, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honora ble of the earth." It is wealth and splendor and power, said Mr, Talmage, made Tyre the crown ing oity of that land. What Tyre waB to that land, New York, with its surround ings, is to this oountry—the orowning oity. Philadelphia has a more genial cli mate and less superficiality of society,and UoBton has the reputation-of higher cul ture; hut, taking it all in all, New York is tbe crowning oity of the United States. The question in Boston is, “How muoh does he know ?” The question delphia is, “Who was his fathi question in New York is “Hoy .wfueh is he worth?" It is to the royal family of ineroliants that I speak to-day. I oall them royal family because they are higharau author ity and power than Congresses and Parliaments. How often has it been the osse that tbe Parliaments of Bnrdpe bake adjourned the consideration df important questions in order that they might flhd oat what some Jewish banker had to sey in the matter. Within this last week men of this country tried to thwart the Man that their own party had put iut* "pbWer and break the force of his administration, but oue clap of thunder from Wall street seut all tho croakers baok to their places. I speak to merchants iu all circumstan ces of tbeir trials, their annoyances and their afflictions. In the first plaoe, I know that many of our merchants are very much tried by a limited oapital in business. It takes three or four times ns much capital for business now as it once did. Some imme diately succumb. Others trudge on. The craft of tbeir business is pushed beyond the lighthouse into the great sea of spec ulation. A man borrows a few thousand dollars from friends who don't like to re fuse him. He ssys, “If I snoceed with this borrowed money, I will give $10,000 to the Bible Society and $10,000 to the Traot society. If I fail, why, I will be no worse off thau I am now, for $100,000 subtracted from nothing, nothing re mains." The creditors rush in and the law clutches, but finds nothing in its grasp. I would not want to chain lawful enterprise. I believe there's suoh a thing as lawful speculation, but when I see so many inon, with their limited capital, tempted into reckless speculation, I think it is time for ministers to raise a protest. It is through these processes that there are so many merchants who go down into perdition. UAriTNESS NOT DEPENDING ON SUCCESS. Again, I am afraid a great many of our merchants are tempted to overoare and anxiety. With the love of quiok gsin men rush into the oities resolved to get rich at all hazards; Ibe money must come; they don't oare how it comes. Our honest merohauts are thrown into competition with mouof larger means and less conscience. This strife pushes many of our bust merchants into the grave. They find that Wall street doesn't end in the Rest river; it oDdir in Green wood. If any olass of men has my sym pathy it is these men. Is it not time, my brother, for you to take things a little easier ? I will tell you, my brother, what gives yon too mnoh worriment—you have an idea that yonr happiness depends on your commercial success. It don't. You are building on a very poor foundation if you build yonr happiness on that. Only two succeed ont of every hundred. Then, it you did sneoeed, you wouldn't be able to take these fortunes with you even if yon could keep them up to the last moment of life. Suppose in that moment you had all your estate round about you, would that comfort yon ? When Astor anil A. T. Stewart and Vunderbilt died all the people were discussing tbe question of how muoh they left. I ean tell you— every dollar. Again, I notice that oar merchants are tempted sometimes to neglect their home duties. There are merchants in this oity who are merely the cashiers of their families. They are tho agents to provide dry goodR and groceries for them. They have nothing to do with the discipline or education of their children. God have mercy on the man who hasn't any home ! Again, I remark that a good many of oar merchants are tempted to make finan cial gain of more importance than their souls. It is a grand thing to have plenty of money. The more you get the better, if it ooinos honestly. Bnt there are men who aot as though they thought that packages of bonds and 'mortgages would pay their ferry passage to the next world, where they have so muoh gold that they make paving stones of it. I suppose you all have oiphered in arithmetio as far ns loss and gain. Then I will give you a sum, What Hbull it profit a man if he gain tho whole world and lose his soul ? THE SHIPWRECK OF THE WOULD. Some day yon go through a street and find a store with LUo windows closed and a card pasted upon the door, saying, “Closed on account of tho death of one of the firm-That day, all through bnisness circles, they say that a good man bus gone. Boards of trade meet and pass reso lutions of sympathy. The good man has sustained his last loss aud gathered his last gain. Some of you may remember tbe shipwreck of tho steamship Central America. She had about 501) passengers, I think. She had a prosperous voyage at first, but a storm struck her, and there went up a five hundred voioed death ahriek. There was the foam on the top of tho wave, tho pitching of the steamer as tbougli it would leap from the water, tho long cough of the smoke pipes, _ the hiss of the extinguished furnaces, ibe wulking of God through tho storm. That vessel didn't go down without s great struggle. They put out a boat and a few got off. Bat suddenly the woumlod steamer gave a great lurch and went down. So there sre some men whu are sailing on in life prosperously; but after s while a financial storm strikes them—a cyclone oomes and they perish. Oh, my brothers! don't lose your souls becsu.se you lose your proper ty. This great ship of tbe world, which God launched more than 11,000 years ago, bearing a freight of mountuius and mor tals, goes sailiug on; but some day it will be startled with the cry of “Fire 1” Tho mountains will fiamo aud the clouds be like sails in tbe hurriaan. But God will take His children from that wreok and from tbeir berths those who are asleep in Jesus. How many will go down never will he known till st last in heaven it will be anounoed—the sliipwreokof tbe world; so many millions saved, so many millions drowned. Though your house go, though your Government securities go, may God, through tho blood of the everlasting cov enant, save yonr souls. Wliat Is the thing or greatest price The wliute creation round? That which was lost In Paradise, Thet whioh In Christ was found PHESIDERITAI. UHUHUH-UOINU. Uortespondenoe of the New York Herald.] Washington, March 11,1877.—To-day, the first Sunday of President Hayes' ad ministration, was entirely devoted by him to religious duties and to rest and recreation. It was late last night when the dooreat the Exeontive Mansion olosed upon the last of the hundreds ana hundreds of visitors who thronged the building daring the day. The President and Mrs. Hayea were completely worn out with her first reoeption, and congratulated themselves that the morrow would be one of peeoe and rest and repoBe. The Chief Magistrate is an early riser,and after breakfast, without visiting his office or even looking at tbe vast pile of letters ” td ooeamnnicAtions whioh the morning . ail brought him, left tbe White House, attended by bis private secretary, Mr. Bogers, shortly after nine o'olook and took a brisk walk through the exeontive grounds, thenoe around by Lafayette square, making a circuit to Pennsylvania avenue, and home np Fifteenth street, past the Treasury Department. During last week a good deal of curios- ity had been exoited among the members of the Methodist denominations in tbe oity as to tbe particular ohurch the Presi dent and his family would attend. A member of that religious organization himself, and a trustee of one of the churches at bis own home, it was gener ally expeoted aud hoped by the members of the Metropolitan Methodist Oheroh that President Hayes would follow the example of President Grant and oooupy what is known as ths President’s or na tional pew in that edifice. The hialory of ths pew in question is as follows: When the ohnrob was bnilt, about eight years ago, Mr. Kelso, a wealthy gentle man, of Baltimore, gave $5,000 on the oondition that the principal pew ehould he set apart forever for the President of the United States. A gentleman in Wash ington gave a similar sum on the oondi tion that another pew shonld be reserved for the Vioe President. President Grant naed this pew daring his two administra tions, and the other one was occupied by Mr. Colfax while he was in offioe. Vioe President Wilson was a Gongregationalist, so that the Vioe President's pew has not been used by the offioial for whom it was set apart Binoe 1873, and will not be dur • ing the present administration, as Mr. Wheeler also belongs to a different de nomination. Dr. Newman, tbe pastor of the Metro, politan Church, of eourse has been anx ious that President Hayes and family should belong to the flock of whose spir itual welfare he has charge. This anxiety oh hi* part has been shared by the whole oburch membership end by the axoellent gentleman who eontribnted to its ereotion and who now support it. Dr. Newman has been absent from the oity daring the past week, and he aaya he bee not taken much interest in the matter. It oonvor- sation on the subject early this morning he said he did not know whether Presi dent Hsyes would attend the ohuroh to day or not, but tbe President had been informed that there was a pew reserved for him. Early in tho week Mr. Kelso, tbe gentleman above alluded to, tele graphed Dr. Newman, requesting him to offer tbe national pew to the President and the offer was uceordingly made. It was feared that President Hayes might have some delicacy in using the pew while ex-Piesideut Grant was in the oity, and to obviate soy embarrassment whioh might arise in that respeet, the arrange ment was made that tbe ex President should sit in the Vioe President's pew to day and he and President Hayes were so notified. Other influences were quietly brought to bear upon the President's family to seeure their attendanoe. Bnt, as tho result shows, they were all of no avail. Tbe President and Mrs. Hsyes settled tho question this morning by quietly and without notioe to any one going to a less prominent and more un obtrusive house of worship, tho Foundry Methodist Episeopsl Chureh whioh is about five minutes walk from the Execu tive Mansion. Mrs. Hayes, it seems, has oonsoientious soruples about ridiug or driving on Sun day, and accordingly, when tbe hired carriage which the President is compelled to use until his own is brought here from Ohio next week, reported at tbe White House this morning tho coachman was told that it would not be needed for the day. Tbe morning was deliciously bright aud beautiful, and a few minntes before 11 o’olock the President and Mrs. Hsyes walked through the White House grounds to Pennsylvania avenue, whore they join ed the procession of clmroh-goerB. They were followed a few minutes later by Miss Foote, who was esoorted by Colonel Cor bin and Mr. Webb Hayes, son of the President. Not one in a hnndred of those on the sidewalk who saw them recognized the party, and the President received but two or three salutations. His arrival at the oburch, which was unexpected, oreated a little flutter of exoitumeut among the ushers, who, however, retained proBonce of mind enough toesoort the party to one of the central or body pews two or three rows hack from the first tier of seats. The fuct that the Presidential party was present spread through tho congregation in a few minutes, and during the fivo or ton minutes that elapsed before tbo servic es began every oye was turned toward where they sat. Tho servioes were conducted by the Rev. Dr. Duncan, President of Randolph College, Macon, Gs. [Randolph, Macon College, Va.—Eu. Enquirer Sun. J When the first hymn, beginning with the line Ob, Thou, whom all thj wtlnu adore, hnd been read the President devoutly opened tho hymn book, and Mrs. Hayes joined in the singing which followed. The first lesson was taken from Fsalin OXXII, and the seoond from John I.: In ths beginning was the word. The 142d hymn was then sung, and Mr. Dnncau preached from that portion of the Gospel according to Saint Luke where the first sermon of the Saviour is describ ed. Tho sermon was exceedingly able and eloquent, and did notooutaiu a single political allusion. When the basket was banded arouud, the President made his contribution, and when tbo last prayer had been finished and the blessings pro- nonnoed, made his way out through tho throng as quickly as he could. The doRtre to see him was very great, and a largo crowd collected in front of the ehnroh as he passed out. The rest of tbe day was spent at the White House. In the afternoon Vioe President Wheeler, Secretary Sherman and “Bob" Iogersoll dined with the Presi- dint and Mrs. Hayes, and remained at the Exeoutive Mansion nntil nearly eight o'olook. There were uo other visitors during the day. SORE TESTIMOYl.tLH. TAKEN AT RANDOM FROM OEN. PLEASANTON'* MAIL RAG. Nsw York San.) My Hear GeneralIt has worked lik a charm 1 Subject from early youth to periodic coupe de eoleil, which have frequently impaired uiy public ustifillness at inconvenient seasons, I was iinpolled to write yon for sdvioo. Since receiving your kind letter I have had all my hats roofed with blue glass, and havo replaced with the same material tho silk on my umbrella. I am now able to inform you that I have got through the month of February without a sunstroke. Your en terprise will be a wonderful sueoess. I believe there is money in it. Yonrs ever, J -s G. Bl——NR. P. 8.—Can’t you admit me to a Bhare in the ventnre ? 1 do not feel that I abonld prove a deadhead. 1 see various ohannels in which I know I can be use- ful. AN UNUSUAL EVENT, General—Since I put blue-gloss lights in my bed room wiudow I have astonished myself and my desoendauta by milling a new set of teeth, which promise to be a great comfort to me in my old age. Yours, ancestrally, J—n A. D—r. A OHUONIG WEAKNESS OUIIED. Gen. Plkasonton—Sta : For years I have been subject to sttacks of the “wid ows” in tho most aonte and painful form of that distressing malady. These at tacks were rapidly underminiug my con stitution snd amendments: Tbe Inst oue left me a truly pitiable spectacle to behold. Soma one told Don about tbo virtues of blue glass. I have taken seven dozen panes in the past three weeks, and can now drive by the Treasury Department without a spasm. Memaiu, sir, Yonr altered servant, 8—n O—w. P. S.—Whatever weaknesses I may have been guilty of, no one, I trust, will ohsrge me with being a d—d fool. S. C. ITS EFFECT ON LITERARY STYLE. Sib—Whether from oongonital constitu tion, or from tbe accumulative of the forge of habit, whieb, as tho poet justly observes, is bred by use in man, or from some indeterminate cause which it would be nseless to enquire into on this oenssiou, it bos been my misfortuno, in uo wise mitigated by the requirements of the pro- fession to which I uuvote my energies, to lsok that conciseness of diotiou and com pactness of expression which lend a oharm to style aud facilitate the transmis sion of thonght from mind creativo to mind reeeptive; and this misfortune, 1 will say, has brought about so much occa sion for unneossary intellectual effort, both to my olients when I have been oall- ed upon to explain matters primarily of an Rbatrnse nature, and to the JflMerul publio, who have endeavored tnfollow my line of argument on grave ooustitu more's Garden has been engsgad for Fri day evening, lfith iust., when the shoot ing will take place. This is tbe first time tbe Captain has aver attempted the feat, and he it of the opinion that to win he ninst average ninety, broken balla In one hundred,and firefully 1,lOOshots. Though not oonfident, he has hopes of sneosss, yet if he fails be is willing to bet $1,000 against $500 that there is no man in the world who eon break them qnioker than he will. WAT FBBItlHTE. A PROPOSED LAW TO RROULATR DISSEMINA TIONS BY RAILROAD COUPANRIa IK TENN ESSEE. Speaker H. M. McAdoo, of the Senate, yesterday introduced the following bill, whioh passed its first reading in the Sen ate, aud together with a House bill on the same subject, referred to the Committee on Roods ana Railways: An act to present nnjnet ducrimtnntltne againet and cztofione for way freight* by railway 'companiee. Be it enaoted by the General Assembly of tbe State of Tennessee that it shall be unlawful, in thia State, for any railroad oompsuy, or person operating a railroad in this State to do any of tbe following (hinge to-wit: 1. To oharge more for the transporta tion of freights over a railroad than the maximum amonnt allowed by the charter under whioh the road may be operated. 2. To nnjustly oh'arge more for the transportation of freight of any class, qnality aud quantity shipped in whatso ever manner, over any distanoa of a rails road, than is charged for shipping the same olass, qnality and quantity of freight, shipped in the same manner, over a great er distance of the same road. 3. To nnjoatly discriminate against the freights of any person or looality In favor of the freights of otbar persons or looali- ties. 4. To unjustly discriminate againet the different classes of freight transported over the same road. 5. To unjustly classify freights whereby unjust discriminations against certain freights, aud the freights of certain lo calities, are mode, m the transportation thereof over the same road. fl. To unjustly and extortionately ohsrge more for the transportation of any freights than is reasonably and fairly re munerative for the transportation thereof, to be determined from the general rail road practice and ohargea in relation to such and all other kinds of freights, aod from all tbe cirottmstanoes of the case. Sec. 2. Be it further enaoted, That a consolidation of railroads osed and ope rated as s mein line shall be deemed oae road in the sense of this aot. Sec. 3. Be it further enaoted, That eaoh company or person operating a fail- road shall keep a plain, intelligible aohed- tional questions, that when I heard of «>« of freight rates and freight oUssiflo*- jour admirable discovery applicable iu many oases of oorrelaiive infirmities, res olution oamo to my aid, aud, like Breu- nus, throwing its aword into the scale, impelled me to purchase a pair of bines glass HpootacleH, by tho aid of whioh I now indite all my speeches and oones- pondenoe, with what excellent result, rudia indigeatof/ue mole*, you may judge from this brief note, whioh 1 will add with pardonable pride, iH conveyed in the shortest sentence which 1 have penned since I used to writo the torso apothegms of the copybook iu my juvenile days. YV—-m M. E—T8. TRUK BLUE THEOLOGY. Sir—Having exhausted all tho resour- ces of theological knowledge uud poreon al enthuHiaRui in the missionary ohubo upon Col. ltobt. G. Iogersoll, now tar rying in this city, I finally went him a copy of my sermons bouud in blue uius- lin and printed iu blue ink. Ho rend them, at first with scoru, then with in difference, and, finally, with deep inter est. The effect has been wonderful. Af ter peruHing one normon be waH beard to apeak respectfully of Morph; after tbe third he burned his oopy of the 4<, Age of Reason,” and after the ninth ho came to me very humbly and voluntarily requost- ed me to hear him recito “Now I lay me down to Bleep. ” Yourw, very truly, J. P. N n, D. J.). Met. M. E. Church, Washington. NEVER FELT HO WELL IN UI8 LIFE. Dear General—1 take mine in a blue tumbler now, and never folt ho well in my interior department in my life. 'A— H Ch B. P. tt.—We put my Hou-in-biw, little Mr. Hale, in a blue glass bottle and aloud it in the sun, but be grew so rapidly un der thin treatment that we had to break tbe bottle to get him out. RATHER THIN. Hbhpeoted Kir—1 gratefully tako my pen to assure you of tho fluttering im provement whioh lias resulted from my adoption of your counsel. A fortnight ago I Went to my tailor aud hud the worthy man measure mo for a pair of trowserH, aud ordered them to be eon- structod of thin, blue gauzo. Although my appearance on the Htreot, and iu the Gazette office, thus attired, provoked tho thoughtless to levity, I have adhered to my original intention with most encour aging results. My knees, I am happy to say, are now from a half to three quarters of an inch nearer together thau ever be fore, and 1 havo reason to hopo that tho sad infirmity which has so long been a thorn iu the flesh, will in the course cf time be entirely eradicated. Truly “tho orooked shall be rnado straight." I re main yours, rofipeoted sir, Dea. It—i) Sm-th. P. S.—You are at liborty to make what use you like of this. A NOVEL EX IIIltITIO.V WHAT CAPTAIN H0GARDUS WILL NEXT AT TEMPT— UREAKING ONE TIMU8AND GLASS BALLS IN TWO HOURS AM* FORTY MIN'* UTEH. New York Herald, March 11th.J Capt. A. H. liogardus, of Elkhart, III., champion wing shot, has made a match of novel character with a prominent citi zen of New York. Ho has bet $500 even that ho will break one thousand glass balls in two hours and forty minutes, (he balls to be sprung from threo or more traps, though only one ball to be sent into the air at a time. The shooter will stand eighteen yards from the traps and no ball to be counted unless broken before striking tho ground. It is also stipulated that Iiogardus shall use one gnn throughout the match, unless the gun beoomes disabled, when other gnns esn be chosen. Two sets of barrels sre allowed, and he will confine himself to 1| ounce dhot. Iu order to give the people of this city und vicinity en opportunity of witnessing this trisl against time, skill snd eudurauce, Gil lums, from all points on the road, printed and posted np in a oonspiouoas plaoe, ac cessible to the publio, at every depot on the line of the railroad operated by suoh company or person. • Sec. 4. Ho it farther eusoted, That any person or company operating a rail road in this State, that shall be guilty of violating any of tho provisions of this sot Hhall be liable to the party thereby in* jurod in the sum of $250 for the first vio lation convicted of and in the sum of $500 for the seooud violation oonvioted t( in the same county, whether a party injured be the same or different persons; aud the penalties herein given may be sued for and reoovered in any of tbs oourts of this Htate having jurisdiction of the subject matter. Hec 5. He it further enacted, That the acts of all officers, agents aud employes, whose business may be to receive and ship freights over any railroad, shall be deemed the aots of the company or per son operating said road. See. 6. fie it further enaoted. That this act take effect from and after its pas sage, the publio welfare requiring it.— Naahville American. As It Is and As It Was. Hrooklyn Eagle.J Tho Tribune, would have us believe that Mr. Evarts sent it the following dis patch : Washington, February 28, 1877. Nothing can postpone tbe regular de claration of Hay68 beyond to-morrow. 1 think appropriation bills will also pass. Wm. M. Evarts. Mr. Evarts could have written only the signature. The rest is too brief for him. Doubtless the Tribune boiled it down from this: Washington, February 28, 1877.—In the exhaustion of contending and divided forces, whose vicissitudes have affected not less their temper than their wisdom, and of whioh the controlling minds are penetrated by a desire to substitute for factious opposition an appeal, within lim itations, to the people, at the regnlar constitutional period, the unnecessary character of further ltepublioan solici tudes is appareut. A prolongation of tho controversy waged with varying hopes but progressive success is not to be predicated beyond the conclusion of the hours of the day succeeding ths one, of which the looation in time is fixed and indicated by the initial declaration of this communication. It is also to be inferred, apd not without a warrantable probability of hopefulness, that before the organic law determines the duration of the Congress upon whose labors millions have been attentively hanging with all the ardor whioh approval can give to vindicated prognostications, and with all the not illegitimate and quite pardonable animosity . which unfulfilled expectations engender, the tueaaures es- soutial to tbe support of the Government iu its new departure upon untried seas will receive the agreement of the legisla tive branch of onr system and the assent of the executive who passes from misin terpretation and difficulty to tbe judioial tribunal und unspaiing classification of history. William M. Evarts. Tribune, N. Y. G. O. D. The Tribune’s condensation of the dis patch is very good journalism, but it is not Evarts. IF YOU WANT HARUAIN BIjANGHAHD & HILL'S, A HE DETERMINED TO HELL, OR GIVE AWAY FOB A SMALL COMPENSATION, THEIR ENTIRE STOCK OP WINTIR ROOD8. Lfeb4 tf ]