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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TROOPS TO BE WITHDRAWN WHEN SENATE AD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.
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