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(Eolumlme muiftf. VOL. XIX. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1877. NO. 70 WASHINGTON. Iliya Apiatag Ita the Saaate Kejectd I WHEELER HEADS THE COMMISSION I SOUTH CAROLINA UNSETTLED! It is Not Believed a Commission will bo Sort There I Justioe Clifford Not to Roolgn! Rianr tbs T»»»« Hon ■»— iMosi unsu oabinnt mutino. W.bhimgtom, Uueh 30.—A Oobiaot meeting woe held to-day, end the Booth Caroline matter woo dieooased withoot an; oonoioaion being arrived ah APPOINTMENTS UB PERSONALS. It. J. Waldron waa oommiaaioned llar- ahal ot Weat Tenneaaaa. Waldron had been nominated to the Senate, bnt rejaoU ed. John O'Neal was appointed Supervising Inspector of Steamboats in the Fourth St. Lonis District. Minister Washburns returns to Paris next month. Justioe Clifford has no intention of re signing. south oanouMAHor mono. The Cabinet adjourned without eonaid- ering South Carolina. Members saj they are not yet at liberty to make the proceedings public. Another session will be held before the Government announces its decision The impression is general that troops will be withdrawn. Should a different oonrse be followed, however, the surprise wilt not be as great as in the Louisiana oase. thu suspension of Frank Burnett, steamboat inspector at 8t. Louis,is the first removal by the Pres ident. oabiuut nqutans about Tboofs. Special lo Csfstrrr-Am.] Washimoton, March S3.—During the session of the Cabinet, Secretary McCrary waa requested to have prepared a oom plete list of the troops on duty in South Carolina and Louisiana, showing the number of men and disposition of tones. This was prepared this afternoon mOOBBBOT nupoaT. It was rumored after the adjournment that the withdrawal of trdbps bad been ordered, but this proved unfounded, as no orders whatever have been issued from the War Department. . ■moan bioual service. The safety of life and property from the ship Winchester, from Liverpool for Norfolk, is attributable to the sea oeast work of the signal service. The vessel went ashore on Cape Henry on tile night of the 21st. The vessel and signal sta tion were both provided with the inter, national code by which the captain oom mnuioated his wants to ths signal service observer, who forwarded them over the signal telegraph line to Norfolk. It believed through the promptness with whioh assistance was furnished, saved the vessel, cargo and 270 lives. HAMPTON HOT 001X0 TO WASHIXOTOX. Special lo Uko Enquirer-Sun.) Washixotox, March 33.—In oontradio- tion of the impression that Governor Hamptbn intended coming to Washington, he telegraphs that be will only come if the President especially desires it mo aoMKisaioM roa south gaxolika It is positively stated by gentlemen here in Hampton’s interest, who have oanvaas ed matters closely, that the Cabinet are unanimous against sanding a commission to South Carolina, and that a aaajority of them already, in ths Cabinet, expressed themselves iu favor of withdrawing the troops from any direct support of the Chamberlain Govsmmsnt. This, it understood, is all that Gov. Hampton asks. There was a SECOND SESSION late this afternoon. What progress was made is not known, but that a conclusion was not reached is positive. Ths Oabinst seem to take unprecedented oars to mask their purposes. term in ad that the privileges belonging to oitixens of the United States as such were different from the privileges belonging to oltinena of the State as suoh, and that only the former were under Congressional protection; that this opinion had baen subsequently affirmed by the United States Supreme Court. Ssoond—That tbs rights to rids in a railway ear for the purpose of looal travel was not a privilege ot a eltissn of the United States as such, but was a privilege belonging to a person by virtue of his Stats oltisenshlp, and therefore for the denial of sueh privilege, the oitixens must look for redress to ths Stats tribu- tls. That it waa not within ths power of Congress to infUst a jiwllg fs« 1Dt f- uial of such a privilege. Ths set there fore was unconstitutional This opinion ac- oords with that of Judge Emmons, U. 8. Oirouit Judge, for the 6th eiroult, and Judge Sawyer, of California, and other Federal Judges. LOUISIANA. WtselnlsHeaS the Commission— Address on tho Way—Patek- ari and Kellogg Has assuring Bnch Other, PLAOn OH the ooimisaioN TO EX oov. BBOWH or TENNESSEE—THEY ABB TO BOBE THE SENATE WITH srXhOKES— PAOXABDITES CLAIM A qUORUM—PEOPLE DISOUBTID. CIVIL U«I(I HILL. I DECLABED UNCONSTITUTIONAL AS BBOARDS LOOAL TRAVEL. Baltimore, March 32.—Ths osss of Harriet A. Cully, oolored, against the Baltimore A Ohio Railroad Company, whioh has been on trial tor daya in the United Staten DWriot Court, Judge Giles, waa oonsludsd this morning, tad under instructions from tho court, the jury rendered a verdiot for the defend ant. Thisaotioo, with seventeen others, was brought against the company under the oivil rights nst of Congress, of Maroh 1st, 1875, whioh imposes a penalty of $500 on any person who should deny equal aooommodetions to any citizen, re gardless ot previous oondiUon, in hotels, theatres and pnblie oonveyanoes. The plaintiff, n oolored oitinan of Maryland, claimed to have been denial oooommods- tion on the oompany'e train in June, 1876, and waa compelled, as aha alleged, to ooonpy a oompartment oar whioh waa in ferior, limply booaoeo of her raoe or col or. The oomptny denied this end proved that oolored persona have the same rights on all thair trains si ths whites. The oonrt, however, heard argument on the constitutionality of ths set under ths Fourteenth amendment to ths Constitu tion, and held, list, that tho Slaughter- House oases, sUtssuth Wallses, had ds» Washington, Maroh 22.—Tha ttatui quo will be maintained for the present. Wheeler left for home to arrange for heeding the Louisiana commission. The commission may atop at tha principal oities going and ooming. They will if this pirn is adopted, address pnblio meet ings and aoquaint ths people with the poliey of the administration. Paekard has telegraphed Kellogg: "De mas bis returned to the Senate. We have now n quorum in both Houses.” Kellogg telegraphs Packard: ‘‘The President determined to send a commis sion to Louisiana. Go on with tha Leg islate and transact regular legislative bus iness.” PLACE ON COMMISSION TENDERED EX-GOV. BBOWH, OE TENNESSEE. A Nashville dispatch cays: Ex-Gov. John 0. Brown consulted Gov. Porter whether he should nooept a plane on ths Louisiana commission ? Porter replied: “Aooept by nil meins for ths good of tha people.” Gov. Brown has not yet determined. SITUATION MOBE THREATENING. A New Orleans dispatoh of tha 21st to ths Herald says: The politioal situation has to-day grown more eomplioated, and possibly more threatening. The people have had snob implioit oonfidenoe in Mr. Hayes’. reoent promises to immediately withdraw tha troops, that ths news of ths Cabinat’s adverse decision to-day ia re ceived with consternation. PEOPLB DISGUSTED. The Timet says editorially: Tha oon- olosion yesterday naohed by the Presi dent end his advisers in regard to the Southern question will oall forth load expressions of disappointment and dis gust. Ths projected Commission implies s delay of which both parties are impa tient. It keeps open qnestions of equity end foots whioh both oousider settled. PAOKABDITEI TAXING IN SEMAXOBS. Special lo Enquirer-Sun.) New Oblxams, March 22.—The Paokerd Senate seated Moratte and Gen. Thoe. 0. Anderson, in the plsoes of Daorass and Garland, who were deolared eleoted by the Returning Board, but are in Nieholls' Senate. _____ Acquitted. Special lo Enquirer-Sun.) New York, Maroh 22.—In the caae of Boyd A Hill, tried before United States District Coart, for conspiracy with mem ben of the Chicago Whiskey Bing to de fraud the Internal Revenue, Judge Blatohford directed tha jury to And a ver dict for tha defendants, holding that the evidenoe entirely failed to prove any of the oonnta in the indiotmant. Tha jury promptly fonnd suoh n verdiot. WIRED BRIEF*. The Typographical Union, at Chicago, has reduced prices to 40 cents on morn ing, and 85 cents ou evening papers. Skow, Peterson A Co., bankers, at Gbi- oago, have failed. No tidings of Oakey Hall have baen raoeived at New York. Prinee Charles, of Hesse Darmatadt, ia dead. Prince Lewis, tbs husband of Prineaas Alioe, of Great Britain, baa be come ths next heir to the Grand Dncbee. THE CAST. Tho General Ul(nation Threatened. Washington, Maroh 22.—Tho gauoral tone of foreign dlapetebea la threatening. It ia annouuoed the English Cabinet has not aooeptad the Russian modification of the protoool, and requiree, before consid ering them, n distinct pledge of demobi lisation. Montenegro and Herzegovina aw pre paring for n renewal of hostilities. Turkey is arming tha troops on the frontier. Tha English steamer with arms from New Haven, for Constantinople, has beau wrecked. OoNSTAium!cmvef ~Maroh 22.—Tha ar mistice between Montenegro and the Porte ie officially prolonged until 1st of April. TURKISH INSURRECTION, Baouasa, March 22.—Tha Turk! are preparing to attaok Grehowltx. Peko Pauloviteh, the Insurgent leader ie en camped at the mouth of tha Dugs Paaa. Nuoalovitoh ia at Saalai, and another body of Insurgents are marohing toward the Albian frontier. IGNATIEFF RETURNS TO RUSSIA. London, Maroh 22.—Gen. Ignatieff left this oity by the early morning train for Paris. It is stated .that ha will go imme diately to Vienna, and thanoo, after short stay, to St. Peterabnrg. It is not believed the present suspense will ba terminated until hia arrival at St. Peters burg. the ABMianoa of Turkey and Montenegro is prolonged to the 13th of April. SECURITIES INSECURE. Special lo CngulnrSim.] London, Meroh 22.—The International securities ere slightly steadier. The downward movement does not make head- way. ENGLISH OPINION. Specie! lo Enquirer-Sun.) London, March 22.—The Tall Mall Oaeette, in n leading article, says that Lord Derby waa thoroughly justified— more than justified—in hia determination that a clear understanding on Rnaaia’a part to recall her armies from the fron tier is an indispensable oondition of so- ospting any sueh engagements aa ths protocol implies. It will be the untoer sal opinion in England, and it may ba taken by those it may oonqern, that the Government will abide by the deoiaion. protocol not biomxd. London, Maroh 22.—In tho Lords to night, Derby, answerihg n question, said the proetoool was not signed, and he did not know that it wonld ba. RUSSIA SUPPLIES MONTENEGRO. Reuter’s telegram from Raguaa reports that the Russian Government has sent Montenegro provisions sufficient for year. Nine Bteamers laden with provis ions liavs already arrived at Cattaro. GERMANY. Prints at Auction. Specie! to Enquirer-Sun.] New Yobe, Maroh 22.—A largely at tended auotion sales of Dennisl prints took plaoe this morning. Tha bidding waa vary spirited and sale qnick. The first esse brought 6Jo; several brought 6}o; after whioh cues were sold on esob lavel, bringing 6 jo. Prioes fell to 6 near the olose of the sals, end finally to 6jo. The last lot of thirteen oaass ware sold at fijo. The avtrage prioe waa 6^o. Salsa wars made at four months’ erodlt on ap proved endorsed notes, satisfactory to the sellers. Weather. < Washington, Maroh 22.—Indications— For the Sooth Atlantia States, daring Friday partly olondy, warmer weather, rising followed by falling barometer and northerly winds shifting to went and south. FAMINE THBEATENED. Special lo Enquirer-Sun. London, Maroh 22.—A apeoial dispatoh from Berlin to the Newe, says the indns trial crisis in Germany grows worse, and the destitution is spreading with signifi cant rapidity. It ru reoently stated in Beiohstag that an aotnal famine vu impending in the Grant Mountains, in Silesia. In Berlin a committee has been formed to provide measures of relief, and other oities and towns have asked permission to begin important publio works to give em ployment to the people. Altogether the destitution is distressing, and future threatening. Englleh Cat bo lies. Special to the Enquirer-Sun.) London, Maroh 22.—The Manchester Guardian says at the meeting of Roman Oatholio members of Parliament yester day, they resolved to present an address to tbe Pope on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his Episoopato. MeCravr’e Circular. Secretary McCrary has issued tbe lowing oireular in regard to removals, promotions, etc., in the Wer Department Wathinglon, D. 0., March 20.—All employees now iu ths servioeof the Unit ed States under tha War Department are hereby informed that hereafter removals will be made in this department for oanse only, and promortions will be ordered npon the sole ground of merit. Ever; official must understand that retention and advancement in aervioe will depend upon bis record of good behavior and pfificienoy and not upon external influence. No political test is required beyond an earnest support of ths Constitution and ita amendments and proper respect for the rights of oitizens guaranteed thereby. Industry and faithfulness in the discharge of duty, a good' moral oharaoter and striotly temperate babitg will be required and enforoed, and beads,of bureaus will report promptly suy osss of idleness, nag* lect of duty, incapacity, drunkenness or any immoral or dishonest oonduct. In case of a vaoancy, report thereof will be mode, accompanied by a list of all tha moat reliable and efficient olerka in tha same office, division or bnrssn, from whioh list the vaoaney shell be filled. nOOKIiTI TABERNACLE. BERMAN TO TELEGRAPH OPERATORS BT THS RET. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. New York Herald, 19th. Mr. Talmage preached yesterday to telegraph operators. His text was.laken from Job, xxxviii, 35—“Const thou send lightnings, that they may go, andaay onto thee, Hare we are? 1 ” Yet, we oau, said Mr. Talmagt; . it’s done thousands of times aver; day. Franklin, at Boston, lassoed tha lightnings and Morse put on them n wire bit, turniug them round from oity to oity, and Cyras W. Field plunged them into tho eon, and whenever the telegraphio instrument elioke at Valeneia or Heart’s Content, or London or New York, tho lightnings ot Heaven an exclaiming, in the words of my text, “Here we ar^ wa watt yosw bid ding; we linen to yofir command.” I wish to reoogniza the feat that telegraph operators have their hand on momentous interest to all, and that they have trials and annoyanoes whioh prove that thair narvaa are mot, like the telegraph, made oat of wire, sad iu the name of oar nil sympathetic Christianity I address them: “Const than Bend lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?” Yes, that's your regular business. PRAISES DUE TO THE TELEGRAPH. In the first plaoe, I charge you to give gratitude to God for the foot that Ha has made yon the means of go much advan tage and blessing to the world. Oh, what a stride from the time when the Roman generals were depending upon signals by the bonfires kindled on the mountain top; from the time of the rotating beam upon wniou the world wea depending in otter oeuturiea, down ou from those days till this time, when one telegraphio oooipany sends 20,000,000 despatches in one year, aud, if I am rightly informed, 20,000 last Saturday week. Oh, whet peineteking eiuce the day when Thales, 600 years be- fore Christ, discovered friotionel electric ity by tbe rubbing of amber to tbie time, when Faraday and Morse and Presoott and Orton—some in one way, some in an other—have helped tbe lightnings of Heaven to oome bounding along, orying, 'Here we are 1” What mean all these storm signals at Barnegat and Hatteras and St. Jonns and Key West? Why, they mean that tbe tele graph has gathered the weather reports all over the land, crying, “A tempest is ooming!” There are thousands of sailors asleep amid tbe ooraU and seaweed who this morning would have been olive had the signal aervioe been invented sooner. Wbat mean all these trains going along tbe Hudson River and tha Erie and Penn sylvania lines, with less comparative loss of life than in the time of tbe old stage ooaches? The telegraph wires are harry ing around these ehariots of lire and mil lions of people travelling both ways in comparative safety. What has this art done for literature ? One of the great enrses of literature ia verbosity—great long sentences and n whole paok of hounding adjectives after one poor nonn. The economies of tele graphy say:—“Fat whet you have to say iu ten words or pay extra." Under this mighty pressure the laud is learning tne beauty of brevity. Why be so spendthrift of words? With four words God ordered the illiimiuaiion of two hemispheres— “Let there be light.” With five worda the arohaugel shall preaoh tbe funeral sermon of the world—“Time shall be no longer.” The world is being talked to death and the Amerioau telegraph is help ing to abate the nuisraoe. sent to n long distance may seem to arrive at an hoar earlier than when it was sent; but hare is something that beats all tele graphy, the promise of God :—“Before they osll I will answer, end while they ere yet speaking I will hear.” God ia ever ready; go to Him. Do you not already feel the shook of tha Lord’s battery ? No people in all the world have euoh an op portunity. God is not in the storm or the earthquake so muoh as in tha tele graph. Yon every day have yonr fingers on the pnlaee of the omnipotent arm. Yon ought to have better appreciation than most people, that tha Lord ia not far from any ona ot yon. Working as yon do,with snob tremendous egenoies,you ought to be tbe most dsvont o? all Christian people. Are yon ? I lift the storm aignal to-day. There’s a day ooming whioh wiU try every men’s Work, no matter of what sort it ia. In Christ nil are safe; away from him all are in peril. If I had tbs telegraphio wires of tbe world and I oonld sand only one message, I think it wonld be this:—“Oome onto me all ye who ue weary and heavy laden and I will give yon rest.” I am glad to know that God ia ooming to taka pos session of the world's telegraphio instrn- meats. The thought stirs my soul. After a while, when all the telegraphio lines are completed and instead of fonr or five wires through the ooean to Europe there will be twenty, and the wire of the telgraph shall insinuate itself into the moat hidden dwellings of the hu man family, then, methinks, there should be some great oentral office, and the op erator should put his hand on that instru ment and give the final oall to all nations. Yes, perhaps Christ Himself may pnt Hia hand on that instrument and give tha of ficial and tha sneoeaafnl oall to all people, thrilling to nil lands the message: “Look nnto me, all ya anda of tha earth, for I am God, and there ia none elseand all tbe nations, instantly oatohing tha invi tation, shall respond; and China shall say, “I oome,” and India shall say, “I oome,” and Siberia shall aa;, “I oome,” and Rus sia shall say, “I oome,” and Europe and Asia and Afrioa, and North and South Amerioa shall say, “We oome." Nations born in a day, empires saved, the world’s work done, God glorified, heaven fall 1 The dumb ihall ling, the lame his crutch fore THE NEW COTTON PLANT. In adamantine chaine ihall Death be bound. And hell’i grim tyrant feel th' eternal wound ; The iteer and lion Rt one erlb ihall meat. And harmleii nrpenti lick the pllgrlm'i feet. God hasten the day! And then the galvanometers may melt, and then the Atlantic cables ms; snap, and tbe light nings of heaven shall kneel nt tbe foot of the throne, crying, “Here we are!” NEW SPRING CLOTHING. We are now receiving one of the largest,' prettiest and cheapest Blocks of SPRING CLOTHING ever brought to tbe eity. Osll, examine and be convinced. mhl8 lw Thornton A Acta. NEW ARRIVALS. Oval Velvet and other styles of Ftnoy Cases for Photographs, Ivorytypes, Albo- types and Ferreotypes, at WILLIAMS’ ART GALLERY, where every style of Piotnrss is token and satisfaction given or no obarge, at lowar prioes than any plaoe. r f#b4 tf In sodden exigencies how quiok it bringB tbe physician! A fire is put out iu five minutes! You afe in a distant hotel and in a paroxysm of pain. No railroad train oould carry yonr massage swift enough. Yon telegraph home, “Come,” and very soon npon yonr dying vision there appears the familiar and sym pathetic face of her who has been to yon os a sweat song aver ainoe the day when yon pat the ring on her hand. There is not n horns in Christendom that is not benefltted by tbe telegraph. Chnrohea are benefltted b; tbe reports of their con ventions brought by telegraph. Every morning tbe secular and religious news of the world iB put on our breakfast table by the telegraph through the newspaper, the newspaper press of this oountry iu one year giving $521,000 for telegraphio in telligence and continental Europe $1,000, • 000 for telegraphio intelligence. The Amerioan villain lauds in the arms of the Liverpool polioe. To arrest orime, to soatter good and strike the common note of universal acoord God baa ordained the telegraph. I am vary glad to know that woman, shut out from so many plaoes of employment, has been admitted here, People are better behaved and more ele vated in conversation where women are. Isn’t that so ? If it isn’t why do we nil love to get into tbe ladies' oabin of the Fulton ferry boat. (Great laughter.) TRIALS or TELEGRAPH OPERATORS. Don’t let yonr art be a mere matter ot work. I preaoh this sermon to magnify yonr office and to stir up in yonr soul ap preciation for the grandeur of that work to whioh God bits celled you. Again, I obarge you that you maiutain inviolate all tha confidences intrusted to you. Through no other hands do there go so many things never intended for the public ear. At this point let me say that I think alt judges of courts and the national Govern ment ought to be very slow to briug in private telegramB as evidence. Wbat n scene it was when Mr. Orton was brought before Congress to bring forward private telegrams. It is a simple faot that tbe men who did that were soorohed with their own lightning, when tbe lightnings came and said, “Here we are.” “Yes,” they said, “and I wish I had never seen yon.” [Laughter. ] The letters of the poatoffice ere no more sacred than a telegraph, and public officials ought to be very oereful lest they cripple this great influence. There are a great many people tempted to tail all they know, especially when they don’t know muob. Men talk too much, and women too. To others your work seems as easy as playing on a piano, bnt since you began to learn tha art yon have not been free from annoyanoes. The story of the telegraph baa been tbe story of trial aud tronbla. It has been straggle, straggle, all tbe way np and all tbe way down. Sebastopol and Ansterlilz and Gettysburg were not less straggles than this. Wellington won no better viotory at Wsterloo than Cyras W, Field when be lauded the osble at Heart’i Content. Tbe pioneers in telegraphy were tbe target for tbe jeera of two hem ispheres. The United States Government, time and time again, has attempted to ■teal the telegraph lines of this oountry, and make them a mere ayatem of politioal jobbery. OOMfOBTS DEBIVKD PROM THX TELEGRAPH. Bat is there no comfort in eny depart ment of this wonderful art ? I have to tell yon to-day that God’a word ia charged with comfort, and if yon bnt touoh it yon will fael tbe eternal thrill. Yonr message SHOOTING EXTRAORDINARY. CAPTAIN BOGANDUS BBEAKS ONH THOUSAND SLABS BALLS IN THX BRMABKABLB TIMS OT 1H. 42m. 50s. NSW York Herald, March lTth.l Captain A. H. Bogardns.of Elkhart, IU., ohampion wing shot of the world, treated the oitixens of New York last evening nt Gilmore's Garden to s novel exhibition of bis skill. For the first time be essayed the feat of breaking 1,000 glass balls in two hoursond forty minntes, the balls to be sprang from traps eighteen yards dis tant. He did not oommanee the job with out certain misgivings, os to suoeeed hs knew that uioety balls out of every hun dred must be broken, and that 1,100 or more shots were required to be fired. Hie inetioe, however, led him to believe that ie oould win the $500 that he had bet with a prominent New Yorker on the re sult, and ao stood at the saore with ooufi- denoe. “I never failed in any undertak ing yet,” said Bogardus, "and I think that I will do this." How wall he knows him self the seqnel pleasantly proves. In jnst lh. 43m. 50s. ha had broken the 1,000 bells, having shot at 1,136, whioh soored him the victory and 57m. 10s. to spare. Nothing like it baa ever before bean at tempted, much less performed. The anow storm kept away a great many, yat there were nearly 1,500 persons present, many of them being representa tive “crack shots.” At the Fourth Ave nue side of the enclosure a wooden plank ing, oovered with white muslin, was bniit np, whioh reoeived the shot. Fonr traps were plaoed and only two used at a time, these being pulled so that the balls were sent into the air in rapid succession. Mr. S. H. Burrill, of Chiaago, served as refe ree; Miles L. Johnson, of Robbinsville, N. J., received and attended the heated gun barrels; Dr. Talbot, of New York, palled the traps; T. C. Banks and W. B. Grover, of New York, kept the official aooro, and Dr. Sanborn, of Boston, the time. Two sotive youug men, one of them Daniel Pakenham, of New York, filled the traps. The Captain used one gun, Scott of Loudon, two sets of barrels, aud cartridge of three ane a half grains of Dittmar's powder and one quarter ounoe ■hot. He missed the first two, and then 'getting well on” the balls, began to smash them right and left with suoh ra- « tbat the audienoe was astonished. i first hundred, ooonpying 10 min utes, he broke 71; in the second hundred, oODSuming 0 minutes, 91; in the fourth hundred, 0 minutes, 92; aud in the fifth hundred, requiring 8in., 50s., 91. Thus he had shot at 500 balls and broken 429 in 45m. 60s. An announcement of tbe pro gress mode was reoeived with vociferous obeering. The Captain was asked at thia juncture if his arm would hold out, and be assured all inquiries that it was in the best possible shape. “1 don’t went anything but solid flesh and a shirt,” said be. Daring a portion of his shooting op to this time he bad been timed in order to note hie “best points." In 1 minute hs broke 14 balls; in two minutes, 24 balls, and iu 2m. 15s., 20 fell smashed into pieces. A rest of eighteen minutes was then taken, during which the broken glass was removed. In the sixth hundred Bogardns missed 12, then, rapidly improving, be broke 94 out of the seventh. In the eighth hun dred he broke 62, in the ninth 95, and in the tenth hundred 94. This gave the shooter 889 broken out of the thousand. He bad been lb. 28m. 60s. at work, and ample margin was left to break the addi tional lit, happen wbat may. This res quDed 130 balls to perform, tbe number of tbe missed being increased, owing to tbe neoesaity of using poor powder at this stage of the shoot. His 1,130th and final shot being Bnnouuced before made, thero was great cheering, the plaudits being re newed when tbe result as given above was known. The Captain changed tbe bar rels of hia gun twenty-one times, and when asked if he had suy arm left he re- F lied, laughing, “Yes; it's all here, and oould break another thousand without feeling it." lf~TOC 'WANT INTERESTING PARTICULARS OF THE NEW DISCOVERT. Tho London Timet has reoeived a latter from its Alexandria correspondent on the disoovery ot n new ootton plant, whioh supplies soma additional foots. The correspondent says: The ootton world of Alexandria is jnst now immensely interested in the alleged dieoovery of a new speeiea of the ootton plant, whioh promises to effeot a revolution in the proapeota of Egyptian ootton. Every one knows the atory of M. Jamal, who, fifty yean ago, walking in the garden of a Turk at Cairo, noticed bow well a oertain ootton tree flourished, and how he took away the seeds there from, and planted and replanted them until he founded the present ootton cul ture of Egypt. Well, it appears a Copt has now made a new departure of a sim ilar kind. The results already obtained from the new plant are most extraordi nary. It compares with ths old aa fol lows: An ardeb (270 pounds) of ordinary oot ton seeds sows, on an avenge, eight fed- dans (sores,) and produces four oantara (100 pounds) of ootton in seed—that is to say, the ootton with tho seed inside it as it comes out of the ootton pod. Taking this yield as the average, every ardeb planted produoes 32 oantars of ginned ootton and about 24 ardeba ot seed. An ardeb of seed of tbe new species sows, like the other, eight feddans; but ita yield ia more than treble, and has even been stated at five-fold. But my most trust worthy informant only gives ten oantara per feddsu, whioh I may add is the amount taken by one of the leading firms aa tha basis ot their oalonlationa as to the effeot of the new plant. They add that it is difflonlt to say exaotly what would ba the ordinary yield, aa all retnrns hitherto are the result of excep tional culture on a small scale. On this calculation of ten oantara each ardeb of seed would produoe eight oantara of cot ton in seed—that is to say, over double the amount produoed by ordinary seed. At present prices eaoh ardeb wonld re- tarn about 41240 in seed aud cotton to gether, instead of 496 os it dues now. The new ootton I am assured on the best authority, is of good appearance eommer- cielly speaking,and quite equal in quality to ordinary Egyptian ootton. Tbo plant grows in a different manner from tbe or dinary ootton piaut. It grows to abont the height of ten feet, has a straight ver tical stem, without branches, with very few leaves, and ia thickly studded with pads. Seventy are said to have been gathered from tbe first pleat discovered. Tbe ordinary eotton is found on a shrub, some four or five feet high, with Bpread ing branches. Nearly a yard must be left for air, light and grow ing room between tha shrubs, wheraaa the new plant, from the absenoe of branohea, requires only half the spaoe. Thia faot ia of material importanoo with a view to its oapaoitiea of production in a given apace. It ia oalled here Bamia ootton, from the resomblanoe of tha plant to a vegetable of that name, and the Arabs maintain that it is tbe result of oross between tbe two shrubs. But others say it has been brought from the Soudon or Equatorial Afrioa. Nothing, however, is positively known. The history of its disoovery is ourions. A Copt, living in the upper part of the delta, at a plaoe oalied Uerket-el-8ab,(“ Well of the Lion,” n atation on tha Cairo Railway,) in the provmcejof Menouf,noticed in the autumn of 1873, a plant in a ootton field wholly different from the rest. He oolleoted tbe pods, separated the seed,and planted it in secret in an isolated plot of ground. For three years he has oarried on the cultiva tion,and now there are said to be from 300 to 400 ardeba in tbe oountry, and tho seed ia sold in pnblio market. I am told that aa high aa 425 and even 430 per ardeb is paid instead of 41. All baa been bought up, and the supply is exhausted. Suppos ing that all these wonderful foots are true— and I have them from good authority—a ■mall revolution in our proapeota is at hand. . If, as is stated, there are 400 ar deba of seed ready for sowing this March, aud it multiplies itself by sixty, as above stated, we shall have for tbe following orop about 24,000 ardebs, and for March, 1879, there will be enough to sow tbe ootton oountry ten miles over, as there are only 700,000 feddans in tbe whole of Egypt wbiab are fit for ootton culture. Going one step further, and supposing that the new plant supplants the old, we should have a orop of 7,000,009 oantara of ootton and 5,000,000 of seed, while the largest orop ever known hitherto was pro dacod last year, and only reached 3,000,- 000 of cotton and 2,500,000 of seed. To put tbe comparison in tbe money form wo should have 421,000,000 instead of 49,000,000, Tbe prospeot ia really intox ioating. I understand Mr. Calvert, our Vioa Consul, has sent a speoimen of the plant home to Kew Gardens, with some of the seod, and many plants have gone to England from the various ootton firms of Alexandria. enaad not being allowed to testify nor to produce witnesses against Mrs. Bell’s oharaoter. Ex-Gov. Davie Hummed up tbe eaae for Reno, end wee answered by Barr, after whioh the ease was taken un der advisement. The verdiot will be for warded to the army headquarters. The general opinion is that Reno will be fonnd gnilty and dismissed from the aervioe. Romantic. —Miss Cora Dickson, ayoang girl of 22, arrived in Perie from Sooth Amerioe. Her life hee thoe far been • oheokered one. At the ege of 15, tired of the monotony of home, ehe ran away from her father's house with a large sum of money. She ont her heir short and donned a boy'a garb. After becoming in auoosssion n oabin boy, a clerk, a horse dealer, she turned up in Bnenos Ayres, where she entered the army, still dis- Ruised. She distinguished herself in the aervioe, and became a colonel. Some months ago, at a meeting of offioers, she quarreled with one of those present. A duel followed, nod she killed her adver sary. Ou examining the dead man's pa pers, aba found that she had killed her oldest brother, who had left home when ■he was two years of age. Horror-strioken, abe thew herself at the bishop's feet, who promised lo intercede with her father. Muscogee Sheriff Sale By AC EE A YONGE, Auctioneer!. •rgla, between the legal hours of .— ty, to wit: 4,96 and 20, situated on the iMtern bank of the Chattahoochee rlv er, In the eity ol Columbus, Musoogee oounty. State of Georgia, sold aa the property of J J Grant, to satisfy a fl fa In my bauds in tower of J J Whittle vs J J Grant. Also, at the same time aud plaeo, lots of land .umbers 68, 60 and 6(>, lying and being In the 8th district (formerly the lvth) of Muscogee State of Georgia, hounded on tho north Nanoes' lands, east by Hamilton road, J H Mealing vs Elkana Pace, principal, and Clement Paoe, security. Also, at tho same time and plaoe, water lots numbers 28, 24,26 and 28, situated on the east ern bank oi the Ohattahooobee river, city of Columbus, Musoogee oounty, State of Georgia, cold as the property of John J Grant, to satis fy a 11 fa In my hands in lavor of Wells A Cur tis vs J J Grant. Also, at the same time and plaoe, water lots numbers 23, 24.26 and 28. situated on the east! era bank ol the Chattahoochee rivor, oity o, Columbus, Musoogee oounty, Stato of Georgia- sold us the property of John J Grant, to satis fy a 11 ia in my hands in favor o! John Mo- Gough A C<> vs J J Grant. Also, at the same time and plaoe, lot of land amber 266 ~ * *-*«-» *“* and being 1 Douglass, to satisfy a fl fa in my bands lu fa vor of Wm B Marshall. Levy made and re- turned by lawrul constable J. G. BURHUS, mhO-lawAw Sheri ll. MORTGAGE SALE. By AUEE A YONGE, Auctioneers. I WILL SELL. ON THE FIRST TUES DAY IN APRIL NEXT, within the legal hours of sale, In front of Abbott A Newsom’s Store, on Broad street, In the oity of Colombus, the following property, to wit: North halrol oity lot, In the eity of Colurn- bus,'and known as No. 001, sold ns the property of Mary M Lewis, and by virtue of n mortgage fi fain favor of T S Tuggle vs said Mary M oity and nluoty two (202), containing quarter of an aore, more or less, with improvements thereon, sold as the property ol Sallle Ann Battles, to satisfy n mortgage fl fa in m y hands in favor of J awes A Bradford, administrator- property pointed ont in raid fi fn. JGBURRUS. feb6 oaw8w 8herlif. Administrator’s Sale. A GREEABLY to an order from the Honor able the Court of Ordinary of Muscogee County, will be sold, on the FIRST TUES- DA t IN APRIL, 1877, nt the usual placo ot holding Sheriff snles for said oounty, withiu tbe legal hours el sale, part ot lot number Vtf, In the oity of Columbus, Gn., together with im provements on the same. Terms cash. F. A. SMITH, Adm’r, Ao. Maroh 7th, 1877 mhQ oaw4w G eorgia - muscogee county.— Whereas, James A. Bradford, Adminis trator oi Mrs. E. A. Kennedy, deceased, repre sents to the Court In his petition, duly filed and entered on reoord, that he has fully ad ministered said estate. This is,therefore, to olte all persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause (If any they can) why said Administrator should not be discharged from his administration and re- cel v» letters of dismission on the first Monday In May, 1877. F M BROOKS, Ordinary. February 416, 1077—oaw!2w A REAL BAKGIAN IN 10 4 SHEETING See Kirven’e etock before buying, ootl-eod&wly MAJOR RENO. CONCLUSION OF TUB AKGUMBNT 0EFOBK TUB OOUitT-MARTI AL—THK GUAUOBH ON WHICH UB 14 ARRAIGNED —STRONG PROOF OF Hid GUILT. Chicago, Maroh 20.—Tho Tribunes St. Louis special say«: “In the military tribunal to-day, Judgo Advocate Barr Mummed np the evidence ageiimt Major Reno. The Hpooilioationa are : First, that Keno, being oommander of Fort Aber crombie, oalled at the quarters of Colonel Bell while her husband waa absent in Now York at the bedside of hie sick father, and took improper liberties, at tempting to draw her to hie person; and, being repelled, he stepped outside, but remained in side the storm door, aud when Mrs. Bell wsh passing out sometime afterward, caught her hand aud renewed his at tempts, whioh outrage nhe reported to his wife ; third, Keno afterwards threatened to make it hot for her because who did not invite him to a social gathering at her quarters, and to drive her out of the reg- iweut; fourth, that he cast reflections on her character in speaking to the chaplain of tho garrison, and had insisted on his not stopping at her place or holding reli gious services there ; the fifth and sixth specifications cover substantially the same ground ; seventh, Keno said to Lieuten ant Wallace that Mrs. Bell had bet ter cease fighting him, her ohar aoter was vulnerable, and he could easily blast it; eighth, afterward he pub licly humiliated Mrs. Bell by giving or ders that she shoald not play the organ at divine aervioe and threatening to slop the aervioe if she were allowed to play. The proseoution oalled Mrs. Bell, Chaplain Wainwright, Gapt. Benton, Lieut. Wal- f cause. It any they can, why said administrator should not be discharged from his administration, and re ceive letters dlsmlaslonry on tho first Monday lu April, 1877. F. M. BROOKS, Ordinary. 4 January 0/6, 1877. jud-oawSni /1 EORGIA — MUSOOGEE OOUNTY — Whereas Henry P. Moffett makes appli cation for Letters of Administration de lonit non cum teetamentu annexo of Mrs. Anna Davie, late of said co mty deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish al an* singular, the kindred and creditors ot sal l de ased to show cause {I I any they have), wli tin the time prescribed by law, why said letters St ould not be granted to said applicant. - — ' v afn ol the estato of John D stripling, deceased, represents to the Uourt In his petition, duly tiled an<l entered on record, that he has fully ad ministered said estate: This isthereloretoolie all persons concerned, kindred and creditors,to show oause, ii any they can, why said administrator should hot be dis charged from his admlni*tratlon, and receive letters of dismission on the first Monday lu May, 1877. F. M. BROOKS, Ordinary. February ith, 1877—oawl2w* NOTICE. rpUE undersigned, having horetolore held X stock in tho Georgia Home Insurance Com pany, in the oity of Columbus, Georgia, here by gives notice that he has sold his stock in said Company and had the same translerred, and claim-, in conformity with section 1602 ot tho Code of Georgia, that he is exempt lrom any liabilities of said Insurance Company. ROKY HONtilLL, Administrator of the Estate of Jno. A. Mc Neill, deceased. . feb!6 oam0m NOTICE. T HE undersigned having heretofore held •took in tho Merchants nnd Mechanics’ Bank, lu the oity of Columbus, Georgia, here by gives notice that ha haa sold his stock in said Bank and had tho same transferred, and IrtnAanfl nt'hHM Htwl niaari'v flatahliuhfid olalms, la conformity with section 14M, new laoeana others nnd clearly estamiHUeu 00d# G f Georgia, that he Is evoempt from any eaoh apeoifioation. I liabilities of said Bank. , B „ Bo The defense had little evidenoe, ao- 1 mhUoamOm A. ILLGES.
