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Newspaper Page TextDAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 16, 1877. IPailg Unqttirtr. UILIJMDI. UA. I FRIDAY MARCH 1C, 1877. ■ 111 Jill ■BUSB" JH LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION! AlfD MORE THAR TWICE THE LARGEST AGGREGATE CIRCULATION! Ono now tana tbia country Zaoh OiUDua oalla Hayee “that d—d fool.” At hia firat reoeption, Hayee did not waar gloves. Hit of the acTen membera of Hsyes, Oabinat are lawyers. Tna Bionx Indiana ara atilt making life aery nnpleaaant and nnoartain in the Bleak Hilla. An Illinoia murderer waa tracked to Oregon, a diatanoe of 8,000 milea, arrest ed and brought baok. Tax ootton crop of tbs United Htatea laat year amounted to 92J>0,000,000, and the com crop $583,000,000. Donum a norther at Dennison, Texaa, the night of the 7th, the meroury fell 40 degreee in eight hours. Wm. Llotd GaaaiaoN writes a letter to Blaine approving bis apeeob, and backing up Packard and Gbamberlaio. Joe Bbadux expected that Waite would reaigo, and he be given the plaoe of Chief Justice by Hayes as a reward. Taa New York San intimates that Hayes will have use for other ex-Oonfederates in his Cabinet before hU term expires. It is oonoeded that Bandall will be put forward by the Democrats for the Speak ership, and that he will be eleoted. In the New York postoffloe are employed C85 clerks, 421) oarriers, 78 engineers, watchmen, Sco. Total, exclusive of ohiefs, 1,192. Tux oldest man in New York is 111 years, and yet he doesn’t look 70. His name is Captain Iiahbruaok. He is cow quite ill. In the twelve montba ending 31st of Maroh, 1876, there were 796 conviotiona for illicit distilling in Ireland to one in Hootland and eight in England. Thi Boston Herald would have Oeneral Butler resign hia seat in the House, tor the oruel war being over, he will not be needed to blackguard the ex-Genfeder- ates. It is thought the oontest for the United Htatea Henatorship in Louisiana lies be tween Messrs. Spofford and Gibson, with Mr. Jones or Gov. Wickliffe as the tied out horses. Uunons.come from Washington of the contemplated offer of the Mission to Eng. land to ex-Presldent Grant, and it is in timated that the offer, if made, would not be deolined. • Tax oaae for aalvage, amounting to $350,000, against the ateauiship Harvey Mills, is before the United States Court at Charleston, and will probably oonaume two weeks in trial. RiU.no*u TiHDFN.—The Legislatures have already oommeuoed making laws to preveut discriminations in freight. We give the purport of the bill iutroduoed in the Tennessee Legislature. Tax Blaine men don't like the situation a bit. Hays oue of them in the New York Su n : Give ms a man of nerve and pluck, UM.« 1.11. ..A VI*.i a.i_*_ ' It is of interest now to reoall that in 1874, in discussing Grant's Southern poli cy, Carl Hchurz said: “In the Booth the negroee ere influenced and controlled by the most villainous sooundrets that were ever allowed to disgraoe a great and noble eountry.” Tax “Thieves' Own Association" ia the name of a new sooiety in New Orleans, whioh ia oompoaed entirely of colored fe males. The object of the society is to hire out as aervanta and disappear sud denly with such “anconsidered trifles” as they conveniently can. Hx waa a oolored Methodist preaoher, named Warner, in Indiana. He bad wife and font small children. He fled from the domestic hearth with one of the oolored sisters in his flook. He earried off in hia flight not only all hia own money, but all the obnroh funds, and the oasb in the Sabbath sobool box. As early as the 16th of February, be fore the Louisiana case waa deoided, it is aaid that Mr. Key, of Tennessee, enter, tained propositions for a seat in Hayes' Cabinet. The Knoxville Tribune thinks the statement of lliis faot weakens the “emotional" feature of the case very per. ceptibly. Mb. • Mcbbison and other Democratic members of Congress say that there is not the slightest possibility of the Ueppb. lioans getting any control of the next House. It seems pretty oertain that a resolution will be passed as soon as Con gress does meet that no business other than the passage of the army bill shall be transacted daring the epeoiel session. It is stated by the New York Tribune, with an air of authority, that Mr. Hayes named Everts, Sherman, Bchurx, McCrary and Key as members of hie Cabinet to a confidential ff iend February 27tb, before leaving Columbus, and could not be shaken from his purpose by all the influ ence that waa brought to bear upon him after reaching Washington. Tax aspiring young writer, who has the article on which she has labored so hard, returned with a chillingly kind memoran dam from the editor, may find consola tion in the thoughts that she has many cooapaniona in her disappointment. Scribner't Monthly last year reoeived the frightful number of 3,209 manusoripte, of Perhaps, a hundred may have been THE CIVIL REBVICE. They have read and heard so muoh of this subject and its reforms, that without doubt, every reader has been acquainted with its necessity and also the hopeless ness of ever obtaining a remedy. There are too many “oats," who are forever en deavoring to beoome “ini,” and the “ins" are straining every exertion to keep their posts. We do not believe any system of reform will ever prevail, when it is under stood the office holder at any moment, no matter how fines record may be possessed, is subject to displacement at the option of superior authority. Every four years there must be an entire change of all from the highest to the lowoat in this land, and this is the cause of the oonntry be ing so illy served. Hardly has the rou tine of a business been learned, before he who desires to fulfill its duties honestly, must leave for the good of the oonntry, the dispoaseasors say, but really for the private gain of some other individual, Evarts and Boburs have been op- pointed by the Cabinet to devise oertain rules. They will do so. Few oan come up to them—cannot pass the exami nation. Uenoe the present incumbents will be discharged, and favoritism rule as before. This speoies of civil servioe is a humbug—the folly of the nineteenth oen- tury. Change is required, and the apos tles of roform say they intend having it— but bow can any good result from an or ganization founded on fraud, and whose inauguration was the consummation of a cheat aud falsehood ? How oan anything pure prooeed from suoh a corrupt source t The system in England is altogether different, and hence the highest efficiency is attained. Both in principle and prac tice there is the greatest possible diver gence between the plan of that grand Government and our own, and the dem onstration shows there is no comparison between the zeal and effectiveness of the two services. In England, with a few exceptions, of ficials entor public life at an early age with small salaries, and are promoted ac cording to their capacities and propor tioned to the length ^of servioe. Many reach advanoed life in office; many more retire after thirty years labor and are su perannuated on pensions averaging about two-thirds of their largest salary any year. The average English department employee is rarely e politician for he beoomes a public servant usually before he is twenty- one, and to prevent this benig biased in favor of any particular government, the law exoludes from suffrage at Parliamen tary eleotious. New appointments are not made except in oases of death, super annuation removal for malfeasanoe in du ty or when offices are created. In Amerioa on change of Presidents it is expeoted, and generally the effeot cor responds with the expectation, that nine ty thousand offices will be oooupied by different men, the favorites of Congress men aud politicians. Iu Great Britain, when a new minister oomes into power the alterations are lim ited to the highest rank of functionaries —some sixty or seventy persons in all. The thousands of rank and tile are whole ly unaffected by the removals of the ohief beads of the departments. From Buoh a system, the growth of centuries, good work oan always be an ticipated. From our American plan the very opposite oan bo confidently awaited, and the surprise is aroused when there is disappointment. It oannot be hoped that His Frandulency will snooeed better than his predecessors, for he himself iB the more creature of aooident and swin dle. THE NEW ELECTION SCHEME, Telegrams announce that the latest Rsdiaal device to have new elections in South Carolina and Louisiana has boon abandoned. Returning Board Hayes and his advisers have beoome convinced that they have not the power to order one. It is strange there should be a hesitation and such a long consultation oonoerning a matter in whioh the right is so clearly apparent, after so much prating about looal self-government. We are begin ning to think this ia a mere takiug phrase whioh Bradley’s man oaught up, and that all will eud in talk. The press ageut, however, reiterates the opinion that troops will be ordered from the two States when the Heuate adjourns. It will be time sufficient to rejoioe when it ia done. We must admit we expect very little of s man of Hayes' calibre,subjected as he is to the pressure of the extremists, without whose aid he could not have been ohosen even by fraud. Two prominent negro politicians of Louisiana oalled on Hayes yesterday. While they favored Fpokard and desired his recognition, they were willing to aooept any government whioh the administration deemed best adapted to restore pesos and harmony. They were submitting to the inevitable. CnAMiiERLAiN to (£utT.—A dispatoh of the llth to the Charleston Journal of Commerce, says information at Washing ton indicates that Mr. Chamberlain has about made up his mind to resign all pre tensions to gubernatorial honors in South Carolina. It is stated by bis friends that in taking this step, he is influenced solely by a desire to benefit the oonntry gener ally, and to remove, in so far as he oan, all obataolea in the way of a favorable in' augnration of President Hayes' Southern policy in Bouth Carolina. If he oan be induced to aooept, is is understood that Mr. Chamberlain will be properly provid' ed for elsewhere. Mr. Chamberlain will probably aooept. Faokabd's agents in Washington are trying to make a great deal of capital ont of the faot that Judge Matthews addressed to Packard a letter very like the one be sent to Chamberlain. United States Mar shal Pitkin, who has negleoted the duties of his office for the past month for the purpose of lobbying Paekard's interest in Washington, has to-night been trying to get press dispatches sent to the Northern papers misrepresenting Judge Matthews, in the hope that it will injure his candi dacy for the Senatorahip from Ohio. The Paekard party in Washington are very much demoralized*- They feel that their time ia very limited and that, they oannot sneeeed, but they hope in going down to ! carry some better people with them. POLITICAL EffiDALITY OP THE BLACKS PRACTICALLY ABAN- TOOMBSISMil The Republicans denied daring the whole war that their object was to free the slaves. The emancipation proclama tion was iaroed to weaken the Confede racy, not from love of the “peculiar col or." One of the main objeots was to put him as a freed-man in their army. Tbe revolution closed and they made him a voter, but never was plaoe given him ex cept subordinate positions. The white carpet-baggor and scalawag and the im portation received all tbe favors of tbe government. He was never offered high positions in Washington to which the large voting strength of his race was onti tied. In fact, though the Republicans made the colored man a voter, and passed various amendments to seoure this right, all this was done more for the purpose of humiliating and oppressing the ex-Con- federates and checking their advance ment in politioal power than any purpose of elevating the blaok people. Tbe gov- ernment, with the exception of a littlo while under Andrew Johnsoo, has been administered in the Bouth in harmony with tbe wishes of the emancipated race, but it has been very careful to exclude its representatives from offices of superior trust and profit. Mr. Hayes is no better than the rest. Without the negro vote tbe Returning Boards would not have been afforded tbe opportunity to count him in. He receiv ed one million less white votes than Mr. Tilden. He took particular pains to ehoose no representative of the 800,000 blacks that balloted for him, but selected instead an ex-Confederate, former slave owner and Demoorat, as the Houthern member of his Cabinet. He may Bend the best of them as minister to Hayti, or ap point one a marshal or another as a boot black, but none are admitted into his intimate oounoils. The New York Sun oonoludes an article on the subjeot as follows: Mr. Hayes, at the very beginning of hia administration, does three things which write the word White all over his policy, and indicate that he intends to erase the word Blaok, forever, as a potent influence in our national politics. I. He does not appoint any blaok man, or mulatto, to his Cabinet. He prefers Carl Sohurz, a foreigner, to Frederiok Douglass, an able and more eloquent man, and native born—the only advantage of Bohnrx eonsiating in hie oomplexion. II. He refuses to appoint any Repobli. oan from the old slaveholdiog Htatea; and for this there ean be no other sufficient reason than that the Republicans in those States are all at one with the negroes. III. He not only coldly turns his baok on the negroes and their white allies in the former slaveholding States, but he goes into one of those States and takes to his embraoe a man well known for his opposition to the colored party. * . * * From the inauguration of Mr. Hayes as President will date the decline and fall of all practical equality, political or sooial, in this oonntry, for the oolored raca. It is an epoch in oar politioal history, the significance of whioh ia plain to all who will open their eyes. Giobcma Convxntion.—The election occurs on the second Tuesday in J une, the 12th, and if the question be carried the delegates will assemble in tho Capitol in Atlanta on the second Wednesday in July, tbe Uth. None but the ablest and most experienced men should be ohosen. It is no plaoe for vapid elooution. This Beaatorial Distriot is entitled to five rep resentatives in the body. The ratio of population and property gives three deles gates to Muscogee, and one eaoh to Chat- tahooohee and Marion. Farmers need not be afraid of tbe homestead, for that iB one of the subjects whioh will receive the least attention and will probably be let alone as nearly as possible. Wo are for a convention, but our columns are open to a discussion of the subject, nnd we invite short oommuniostions both for against. Gov. Hampton’s Position.—He has so defined it that Frandulency Hayes, obtuse as he seems, oan understand clearly, be yond tbe shadow of a doubt. He regards Patterson’s bill for a new election as a downright insult. He does not ask the offspring of Returning Boarders for reos ognition. He simply requests that United States troops may be removed from the State, that the will of the people may be carried out peaceably. That position is defined so that even It. Bradley Hayes oan comprehend. It is reasonable and fair. Will it be granted ? Time will only show Hayes like Baradas in Bnlwer’s Riohelieu will perhaps want to “reflect.” It is now said a solution to the South Carolina and Louisiana oases will be forced by Tuesday by the Cabinet, if they are not previously settled. Tnx National Republican, of March 3, says that in aeleoting a Southern man for the Cabinet, “Ben Hill, of Georgia, who leads the beat element of Southern poli tics, was conferred with.” General J. E. Johnston was first oboioe; according to tbs Republican he was to be tendered the Post Offloe Department. The names pro sented to ohoose from were Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia; David M. Key, of Teunessee, and General Johuston. It was objeoted to Governor Walker that he was not a native born Southerner, and it ia presumable from what the Republican says that General Johnston deolined the nomination. Thx New York Herald, of Monday, tbe 12th, Editorially urges upon the President and Cabinet a speedy settlement of the Southern question. It protests against any compromises being made, and hopes that all intrigues, bargains or schemes for e compromise will be defeated, because they would defeat the important results of an honorable settlement. It advocates the recognition of Nioholls and Hampton, and says that with Packard and Chamber- lain will disappear the whole crew of Northern bloody-shirt demagogues, who have so long kept the oonntry in turmoil. An Interview With GenerM Toombs. Hit Views on a Variety of Topics) Tax St. Louis . Weetliehe Poet h is dropped the name of Carl Sohurz, red teur, and publishes the following : “The entranoe of Mr. Sohurz into the Cabinet naturally makes necessary the severance of his editorial oonneotion with tbe Weet liche Poet, although bis proprietary inter- set in the Poet remains the same. Mr. Bohnrx, while he oeeupias his offloial post lion, will not be responsible for our edi torial utteranoas any more than we shall be responsible for his official acts." Atlanta Constitution.] VOBAQINO ON THX znxmt. “General, what do you think of Demo' orats taking office under Hayes ?” “Let them do it if they want to. I was very glad of the nomination of Key, and I am glad be took the office. But as to these little fellows who are hunting around for office, if they oan get them let them have them. They don't stand muoh on principle, anyhow, and it makes little difference one way or the other. I don’t think Hayes is going to give them many of the offioos, anyway; but if he does,why let the boys have them. I believe in for aging on tbe enemy as much as I oan,and if he is willing that Southern Democrats should have offloe, I don’t see why they shouldn’t take them.” MB. STXPIIXHS. “About Mr. Stephens. Do you think his illness, which be appears to oonsider more Berious than his friends are willing to admit, will at all embarrass the Demo- cratio majority in the House ?” “Not in tbe least. On the contrary, I am convinced that should he be unable to be in his place and vote, he will, in the event of a oalled session, give his constit uents ample time to fill bis place. There need not be the slightest fear on that soore. Mr. Stephens has never yet, in tbe course of his long pnblio career, failed to perform his duty. No, sir. You may depend on Mr. Stephens.” Who do you think would be called to fill his plaoe in the event of his resigna tion ?” ‘I have not the slightest idea. There are plenty of good men.” TOOMBS AS A OONOBXSSMAN. “But suppose yonr people should ask you to serve?” “It is ont of the question, sir,—out of the question. I am out of politios. I haw had my day. I am getting old, and age should be respeoted, even in politics.” “But suppose—” “Why suppoae ? A gentleman must be a gentleman. I am getting old.” “At least, General Toombs, you will admit that you can serve your people in Congress ?” “Sir,do you expeot me to fight skunks?’ “You have engaged in suoh battles.” “Ob! that was in the old times. Give me a liberty pole, and I'l stir up the entire nest-full for you; but I am growing old. I am harrassed with clients. I have to run away from business.” A OONVKNTION. “Well, General, what about a conven tion ?” “It must be held, sir—it must be held. I have been fighting for a convention for seven long years, and I'm not going to let up now.” “That Beems to be settled. You are in favor of sending our best men as dele gates, of course ?” “Undoubtedly. But I want a conven tion. I bold that even bad men oould not afford to make a bad constitution. It is bringing men face to fuoo with the future. They cannot afford to be scoundrels. Humanity is given over to decrepti- tbde and decay, but the fundamental law lasts forever.” “I bear, General, that you have been SBkeil to attend the convention as a dele- gate ?’’ “I have been approached on the sub- jeot. I can’t refuse. I am a Georgian. I have the good of my people and poster: ty to look after—I have grand children coming on. No, sir—I can’t refnse.” THE DUTIES OF A CONVENTION. “Whatchanges do you think should be made?” “.Sweep the deck, sir—sweep the deak. The people of Georgia want a Constitu tion of their own, out and out—a funds' mental law that will represent at once the intelligence and the necessities of the people. ” “There is talk in some quarters of op position to a convention owing to a fear that the homestead olause will be repeal ed. ” “It is praetioally repealed now, if tbe decisions of the Supreme Court are worth anything. I am for a homestead in fee simple. I stand by my reoord. I intro duced in the Georgia Legislature, when I was twenty-six years of age, the first homestead law ever plaoed upon our stat ute books. I am in favor of it yet—not for twenty-one years, but forever. I am in favor of prohibiting State aid; I am in favor of restricting munioipal corpora tions in the matter of oontraoting debts. There is no safety where there is no re sponsibility. It is not capital we want in Georgia—it is Bafety for eapital. Big bo nanzas, as you newspaper men oall them, are unmitigated humbugs. Finanoiers despise sensationalism. They are not going to invest until they see their way dear. Confidence is tbe thing. Strip enterprises of the humbuggery of what you call progress, but what I oall villaiuy, and you have no need to invite capitalists to invest. They will be eager enough.” TOE CAPITAL. “How about the removal of the capital, General ?" “Oh, that is all stuff and nonsense. You people are fools on this subjeot. Atlanta is the oapitol of Georgia naturally, commercially and politically. The people are satisfied of that. You are too sensi tive. Burn down the’ opera house and build us a deoent oapitol. Let it be un derstood that you will furnish buildings worthy of the State, and you will never hear of this capital business again. Ad vocate a convention in your paper.” Oh, well, if you read the Vonetitution, General, *you know how it stands on that question.” “I give you credit for that. You have made a good fight. Stick to it. You edi tors know I don’t ask newspapers any odds. I have seven barrels of type and a press of my own, and when the worst comes to the worst, I am going to come out and kill you. I can do it in ten lines.” “Well, General, we shall be glad to hear from you.” “I don’t write anonymously. I sign ‘R. Toombs’to everything I write.” With this, the reporter made his esospe. THE SUPREME BENCH. OIOBOIA IN THE FIELD FOB THX VAOANOT. The National Republican, at Washing ton, publishes the following communica tion, whioh is evidently from the Hon. A. H. Stephens: Sib : There is evidently a very strong and united effort being made by leading Southern men remaining in the oity, to secure a Southern Representative upon the United States Supreme Court benob, to fill the vaoancy caused by tbe resignation of Judge Davis, now United States Senator from Illinoia. The South is, perhaps, justly entitled to this vaoancy. Conceding this, the ques tion is, whom of the number of distin guished names already mentioned in this connection will President Hayes select the fittest man for the plaoe ? This is neither a partisan nor a politioal position. It should be above and beyond mere party, and if President Hayes acts wisely in his selection he will not ask what the politioal antecedents of tbe man he selects sre, or have been, but will select him Mono for would be, from bis very name, personally popular, and who would give almost uni versal satisfaction to tha entire eountry by his appointment. That man is Hon. Hersohell V. Johnson, of Georgia. We understand that Mr. Johnson is being strongly pressed for this position by Senators Gordon and Hill, and Repre sentatives Alexander H. Stephens, James H. Blount and others of tbe Georgia dele gation remaining in the city. We hope they will leave no stone unturned to con summate this desired objeot. Apart from Mr. Johnson’s great ability as a man of erudition, lawyer and jurist, he is a man who would bring dignity and an unspotted character to the supreme bench. He is now and has been for some years presiding over one of the judioial oirouits of the State of Georgia. Hie decis ions in the esses of the negro insurrec tionists, so-called, some two years since, will long be remembered as decisions where justioe to the negro triumphed over the passions and prejudices of a large number of the white people of that section who were ready and willing to believe the negroes were organising for the purpose of a general massacre of the whites in that region of the State. Judge Johnson sifted' th* 'evidence thoroughly, but when thefaeta were fully disclosed, showing the plot a mere oon- cootion of a few white men to get rid of one or two leading negro politicians, he promptly gave a verdict for the defend ants, discharging them from prison amid the jeers of an edited and disappointed multitude. His determination was to do justioe to the innooent, and to protect the weak against tho strong. For this he re ceived the rich plaudits of all right mind ed men everywhere. Judge Johnson was reared in the old Jeffersonian sahool of Demooreoy, but for the past twelve years has taken but little or no part in party politios. He will be remembered by his old Democratic friends of the North and West as the candidate for Yioe President on the ticket with Stephen A. Douglas, in 1860, and bis ap pointment to the vaeanoy would give uni versal satisfaction to the thousands of his old political friends throughout the Un ion, while the oonntry would secure a pure man, and the oourt an able jurist. A. H. S. Nobody should go to ohuroh, or publio meeting, haoking away and disturbing tbe preacher or orator with their cough. Use Dr. Bull’s Gough Sprup at once. It only costs 25 cents a bottle. One of the four negroes who are to be hung iu Aiken next Friday has made a re quest that ten dollars be given towards rebuilding the ohuroh whioh he helped destroy last year. In regard to the Haus- mann murder, the same darkey says he only held the horses while the others went in and committed the deed. They gave him seventy-five oents for his services, and he thinks it pretty hard to be hung for that amount. A Result of Obstructed Digestion. Among the hurtful consequences of obstruct ed digestion, Is the Impoverishment of the blood, and since a deterlatlve condition of of the vital fluid not only produces dangerous organic weakness, but, according to the best medical authorities, sometimes causos asphyx ia, It is apparent that to improve the quality of the blood by promoting digestion end as similation, is a wlso precaution. 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Owens' 4V The tale of Seats'will commence Satur day at Ohaffln's Book Store. mhl* wcd.frl.safctu COFFINS, CASKETS -AND- Metallic Burial Cases. W- F. TICNER. Dentist. hi. legal .tiainmenKpenMal worth and/ KaHoiSh stmt* «5S!£KI%J high integrity of character—x man who I SELF-SEALING, AIR-TIGHT BURIAL CASES, For Beauty of Design, Lightness and Dura bility, are acknowledged by the trade every* where to be the very rest. The Cincinnati Coffin Companies' Superb Immltatlon Inlaid Work WOOD OOPPZN0. The Most Beautifully Finished Coffins now manufactured. I also keep the Air-Tight, ScltzSkalirg Wood Coffins regularly on hand, and my friends may rely on finding any really meri torioua new article In this line in my stock, as I — *•*"” •*— ,M * times,and amtheleadr* T. T.EDMUNDS. SOMETHING NEW! Wooden Cases & Caskets. SELF-SEALING, (AIR-TIGHT, At tho Same ;Fricea aa OrXtnerj i'afflus anil One-Fourth Goat of Metalie Cnees. them to the luspeotlon of the oommunltv gen erally.; Former styles of Osier eud Oatketa at Reduced Prloon, xa* Night and Sunday ball at front door. L. ROONEY, 83 and 85 Broad St., Up Stairs, fob! eodlw3m DRY GOODS. NEW SPRING GOODS NEW YORK STORE. :o: 2.000 yds London Cords, 5.000 yds Standard Prints, choice styles, 3,500 yds Hamburg Trimmings. THE LARCE8T 8TOCK EVER IN COLUMBUS- LADIES’ SCARFS and HANDKERCHIEFS, Including all the Noveltiee in the Spring Shad**. Third Shipment of Curtain I-.ace. A Lxrg* Stook of Spring and Summer CASSIMERES, inoluding PANTS, . COAT and VEST and SUIT PATTERNS. SUITS M AD E TO ORDER, AND SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. ' FIRST SHIPMENT OF SPRING DRESS GOODS JUST RECEIVED. The above Good, were bought before the recent advance, and IELECTKD IK KB1!• ■ON MY OGM MM. OOMDON, and we GUARANTEE SATISFACTION, both ae to quality and prleee. CORDON & CARGILL. ONOE IN THE FIELD! I HAVE JUST RECEIVED: BOO pieces BEST STANDARD PRINTS at 6 l-2c.; LINEN COLLARS and CUFFS In great variety; TABLE DAMASK cheaper than elsewhere;’ LATE8T NOVELTY—CARDINAL VEILING; BLEACHINCS of all the popular brands In large quantities; All FACTORY COOD8 at Factory prices; SHOES, HATS, NOTIONS, Ac., at prices that will en sure sales; I buy and sell for CA8H, and am prepared to aclva bot tom prices in everythine:. Cive me a call. ^ M. JOSEPH. ■ep24-BB,wodAfrly . W. J.-WATT. J. A. WALKER. CHAS. H. WATT- FINE COTTON SEED. 1000 Bushels of Dixon Cluster Seed, A t 60 cent, per bushel, as good ae Mr. Dlx- on, of Oxford, Ills., at *4 per bushel, by ine quantity—only second crop from hla sosd. „ . E* T. NHEPHEBD, March 14,1817. mhlltw WATT & WALKER, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL BROGERS k COMMISSION IEMS CORNER UNDER RANKIN HOUSE, Have the Largest and Best-Selected Stock of Groceries in this City CONSISTING OX BACON SIDES, BULK SIDES, BACON SHOULDERS, BULK SHOULDERS BULK HAHS, BACON HAMS. LARD in tierces, Lard iu buokets and kegs. FLOUR of all grades, ineluding tbe oelebrated SILVER LAKE brand, thx best in the world. BAGGING, TIES, SALT, SUGAR, MACKEREL, SOAP, flHRFRR. COFFEE, OYSTERS, SARDINES, CRACKERS, POTASH, SODA. STARCH, SHOES, BOOTS, eud STAPLE DRY GOODS, such es OSNABURG8, SHEETING, SHIRTINGS, CHECKS, STRIPES, YARNS PANTS GOODS. Also, e well selected stook of WHI8KEY, from $1 per gallon to $G, and of any brand or per eeat proof that may be desired Our stook of Sugar includes every grade and price, end our lot of Syntp oannot be equalled iu this eity. It includes ell grades of New Orleans in barrels also, several hundred barrels oboioe Florida Syrnp> whioh is superior - anything in the market, end muoh cheaper in prioe. It has a delightful flavor and rioh, dear color, and selected expressly for our trade. W Cash cuatomefi can always save inonoy by giving ns a trial before pnrobaaln eslewbere. xug22 dAwtf WATT A WALKER.