Columbus daily enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1874-1877, July 08, 1877, Image 2
rr>T,TTMTUiS SUNDAY ENQUIRER: SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 8, Jwntlag gnqmm. COLVKBVS. SUNDAY JULY 8, 1877. SALISBURY & CO., - Proprietors. The New York Sun says Mr. Tilden is not a candidate for United States Senator from New York. Gjoi.HAiai.TOM is authoriiatively stated to be 47 years of age, and one of the Re publican editors who lost his scalp her ‘ ‘Old-Gal'Not- Afraid-of".Her-Ink. ” An American, according to the London World, spe&kiDg of the state of France, said, “Hell itself, sir, could not be sue* oessfnlly conducted on each principles.'’ The New York Herald declares that the Republican party died for the want of something to do. It is incredible that it should have died for the want of some thing to do as long as there was any steal ing to be done. Fbom an old court record in Maine : “We present John Wadleigh for a com mon sleeper upon the Lord’s day at the public meetings. The offender is dis charged with an admonition, paying 28s 6d to ye Re: Cor. ” A bigger man than Grant was Com mander Harstene, of the United States Navy. In 1854 he entertained the British Queen on his vessel, escorted her over it, afterwards dined with her and her hus band, and slept all night in the palaee. They have a colored female preacher bolding forth in Wilmington, N. C. 8he is from Columbia, South Carolina,and has been regularly licensed to preach by Bish op Brown, of the A. M. E. Church. She has been preaching, says the Star, for about 27 years. The assistant superintendent of the Virginia penitentiary, who has just re turned from an extensive business trip West, has obtained orders from Ken* tucky, West Virginia, Illinois and Mis souri,for penitentiary-made shoes amount ing to over $30,000. Gen. Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, who is liable to give Senator Morton a close race for the United States Senate next year, says he has entire confidence in the President’s policy, and believes it will eventually be indorsed by everybody, without respect to party. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.—The Annual Convention of this fraternity will be held in Richmond, Va., the 9th instant. This order includes some of the best college students and graduates in the South, and the exercises of the Convention promise to be unusually interesting. Canady has a military organiza tion more loyal to the Pope than to the Queen. Recently they pulled down the Union Jack and hoisted the papal colors. For their trouble the Church has condemned and the govern ment put them in jail, which will proba bly cure their enthusiasm and disloyalty. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred by Amherst College, Massachu setts, at its late commencement, on Rev. Mr. Hewitt, a Roman Catholio priest. This is regarded as a notable event, inas much as it is the first instance of a Roman Catholio divine being thus honored by a Protestant college. Vice President Wheeler recently ex pressed his dissatisfaction with the civil Bervice circular of Mr. Hayes. Wheeler being a perfect nonentity, it makes no difference what he thinks. He has not been in Washington since the Senate ad journed, although Mr. Hayes announced last March that Wheeler was to remain in Washington and make himself useful at Cabinet meetings. I will give to any clergyman in San Francisco $1,000 in gold to substantiate that the death of Voltaire was not as peaceful as the coming of the dawn. They say Tom Payne died in fear, in agony, bearing devils rattle chains in the other room, and that the Infinite God went to work to frighten a dying man. I will give s reward of $l,000in gold to anybody who will substantiate the truth of that story.— (Bob Ingersoll. The Baltimore Gazette shows how the line is finely drawn in belligerent Repub lican circles thus: “When Colonel Wilkins, in the office qf General Tyler, said that a statement of the latter was ‘false,’ that stern warrior objected to such language in his office. Whereupon Mr. Wilkins went cut of his office, and stand ing at the door said : ‘Now, I am out of your office, I say it is a lie;’ whereupon the warrior arose and shut the door. Thus did he wash out in gore the asper sion upon his honor. EBDCA- A sketch of Murphy, the temperance Bgitator, by the Cincinnati Enquirer, in response to a request by a correspondent: “He is a son of Mrs. Murphy, and in early life was a small Murphy and few in a hill. Afterward he took to hard drinking, and this was the making of him, for if he had never drank be would never have re formed. However, it was not wholly his drinking that made him, but his present eminenoe is also partly owing to the fact that be afterward stopped as violently as he had before drank.” The Chicago Inter-Ocean publishes its financial experience. It was estimated in March, 1872, and during the rest of the year it lost $62,571 75. Iu 1873 it lost $34,847; in 1874 there was a balance of $60,849 on the wrong side. In October, 1875, it was sold to a new company, but not until it had lost in less than ten months the sum of $71,116, and in the rest of the year it added $14,005, making $85,122 for the whole year. In 1876 the loss was $59,313. This makes a total in less than five years of $302,705, in which is not included the loss by deterioration of machinery and fixtures. The first short talker was Gen. Spino- la at the New York July 4th. The Gene ral excused himself for not speaking ex tempore, and then drawing from his pock et a printed speech,he read aloud for half an hour. In a part of his speech the General told how King Richard HI. woo ed and won Lady Anne while she was at tending the funeral of her husband whom he had murdered. Then raising bis voice, he said: “By some suoh meth ods, I suppose it was, that Mr. Key was wooed and wedded to Hayes’s Cabinet while he was returning from the ballot box, where he had just deposited his vote for Tilden and Hendricks. If Secretary Key were a weak, sentimental woman, we might pity him, as we do Richard’s vic tim, for his miserable conduot. But he deserves no pity, he is one of those skele ton keys that fit into any politioal prinoi- pUs that unlock the door to ssslwy. PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND TffOM. Addison, in one of Ms exquisite allego ries, describes a conflict for dominion be tween Troth and Falsehood. As Troth, with her shining attendants entered the mythioal realms of Falsehood, the daz zling light which emanated from her presence shone upon Falsehood, and the goddess faded insensibly until she seemed more like a huge phantom than substance, and as Truth approached still nearer, Falsehood, with her retinue, vanished, and disappeared as the stars melt away in the brightness of the rising son. Thus it is with the opponents of the Boblic Schools, which form the grand army against ignorance and superstition. Private institutions are but guerrillas in the march of progress to benefit mankind. The only possible objection raised against the former are of a technical character. Some do, however, advocate their aban donment on the ground really that the lettered are rendered unfit for the daily toil and the severe labors of life. The fallacy is as transparent as glass. It re veals its own falsity. All such are asser tions ; they are nothing more, and are refuted by pointing to Germany, France, Old and New England, where there is ed ucated labor, and contrast them with Spain, Italy, Russia and Turkey, where gross darkness rules. The enlightenment of ages forms a test whioh is incontrover tible. Public Schools are the very best invest - ments in which a State or city can em bark. The idea of having a great nation oomposed of inhabitants all of whom have a good common school education is grand. Educated labor is far the best. This is simply proven right here" in Columbus. A knowledge of reading, writing and arithmetic adds to the value of the ser vant, a drayman and even those en gaged in what are termed menial , em ployments. We wish every negro in the land possessed the rudiments of educa tion. We would have a peasantry, a class of small farmers, and land bo tilled that our Sonth would be the garden spot in the world. Some must ever work while oth- others play, and the laborer is superior as his knowledge is thorough. We want farmers i£the South. They must possess some information. A planter necessarily need not. The country expects the farm er to thrive, the planter to break. How much better it would be were Georgia possessed of an intelligent, well informed tenantry—yes negroes—all of whom felt a pride in the work and to advancing his own interests and thus furnishing wealth to the'owner of the land and the employer. The prosperity and income of the commu nity is but the aggregate of the prosperity and income of the individuals composing it, and the body politic is interested in increasing them, because benefitted by everything that tends to increase the pro ductive power of the people. Public systems of education lessen the number of jails. Statistics show that a large proportion of crime is committed by the illiterate. There is no qil^tion of that in this oountry. Our jails tare filled with the ignorant. In France 95 per cent, in Switzerland 83 per cent, of the convicts cannot-read nor write, and in all the countries of Europe the percentage is from 93 to 85 per cent. Statistics also show that want of education increases pauperism. The educated man is too proud to beg. Illustrations are frequent in Columbus, and what is told here, is equally exact, in proportion, elsewhere. Public schools are the best plans for general education. There all can go. The city and the State furnish the means. Brain acts on brain, the poor excited by the sneers, perhaps, of the rioh, to deeds of greater mental emprise, and the rich in turn made emulous vie mind with mind. The Chinese florists, it is said, change the hues of flowers by drawing a silken thread of the desired hue through the seed or bulb of the infant plant, thus creating a bias in the life principle to elect and appropriate those elements requisite to produce the desired tinge. So by giving the young mind the requi site neetis, it will assume often god-like attributes and be an honor to the world, making it better for living in it, and whose members will cling to that which is noble and illustrious. Every child born into the world brings with it the right to be educated. This is his prime birth-right. He is not only endorsed with mental powers capable of development, but has in his bosom a horde of bandit appetites eager for their gratification and ready to barter earth and heaven to secure it. Reason and con science should be made regally dominant. For the safety of society he must be taught. He enters the community—he enters as an essential element, a curse or a blessing as he is properly trained. Ev ery member of the community shares the interest and its consequent duty. If a neighbor’s children are ignorant and de praved, the waves of their depravity will touch another’s hearth-stone. Hence by the love apparent bears his own children be is bound to envy other children in the community. Tbe one great question which underlies the future of this country is tbe prepara tion of each generation of its citizens for American citizenship. Hence, the State stands by the cradle of every child clothed with plenary power to secure and enforce its right education. Universal education is military strength, and the school house tbe strongest of fortresses. It was the German school master that won Sadowa and humbled France. At tbe World’s Expositions at London and Paris in 1851 and 1867 it was shown that educated labor was the basis of national industrial prosperity. The report of the Royal Commission appoint ed to inqnire into the oauae of England’i humiliation in the Paris Exposition Bhows that the result was due to the superior education of tbe German and American artisan. Hence comes the enactment of the great education lew of Great Britain henoe the compulsory system of Austria, and stronger still tbe Ottoman Empire issued an edict establishing a system of oompulsory education. The school tax is gnano to the farmer, giving fatness to the soil and industry and skill to the tiller. Educated labor is the alchemy which turns everything it touches into gold. The best investment Columbus ever made is her public schools, and the best for Georgia will be a per fected system. TO THE PUBLIC. An article in the Timet of yesterday, over the signature of “Columbus,” does great injustice. While apparently expressing the supposed mortification of the writer, it is full of halCrConoealed maliciousness, and its tenor indicates its author to be a personal enemy of mine, wishing to do an injury and gain for me the ill-feeling of a large and respectable portion of our community, i. e. the Israel ites. Now,if this writer had put his name to his bastard communication, the people would have known who was so shocked and it might not have been neoessary for me to go before the people in a defenoe against a slanderous attack. By his not doing so, duty to myself and friends, render neoessary a full statement of the facts. Gentlemen who were present and witnesses to the affiir, will verify it. The City Light Guards, a military company that I have tbe honor to com mand, gave a festival. Myself and each member of the company exerted our selves to our utmost to make the affair as pleasant, to the visitors as possible. Among other amusements was a gymnastic entertainment given by the “Browneville Gymnasium Club.’* Their performances were very entertain ing, and all wished to witness them. On the evening of July 4th, this club gave their last performance. A great many people came to me, an9 other officers and members of the company, and asked if some arrangements could not be made by which the ladies conld be accommodated with a view, and at the suggestion of sev eral parties, we decided to place benches in front for seating ladies and request the gentlemen to stand in the rear. I secured the assistance of some gen tlemen to do this. I had placed all the benches necessary, but one, and all the gentlemen in the way cheerfully stepped to the rear and gave their places to the ladies. When the last was being located I notified the gentlemen occupying the space of what I desired and all stepped back excepting Rev. Mr. Bonheim. thought he did not hear my request: so I approached him, and touching him on the shoulder, said : “Sir, will you please step back and allow me to place this bench for seating ladies ?” He refused to do so. I then said: “Sir, I have made a request of you in a gentle manly manner; I must say that I must in sist on you doing as I ask. He still de clined to do so. At this stage the bench had arrived, and was placed, by my di rection, against him, and we endeavored to push him out of the way. Then Mr. B. became very much excited and said that he would go out his way, that I couldn’t put him out, or something to that effect. Being excited by his persistent refusal to aot as I had a right to demand, and as every other gentleman had done, I allow ed my temper to get tbe better of me and I reached out and seized him by the beard at the same time saying: “If you won’t go out as yon ought to I’ll make you.” I seized his beard; Mr. Sedbury, a police man, came up and said: “Stop! stop! I’ll attend to this.” I then let go, and here the matter ended. I regretted the occurrence and so ex pressed myself to a party of gentlemen a few minutes after it happened. Feeling that I had allowed myself car ried away by the excitement of the mo ment, so as to lay violent hands upon a person who was a representative man of a religious sect, I thought an amende was due him, so early the next morning, I wrote Mr. Bonheim a note, the copy of which I have lost, but tbe substance was that at the festival the previous evening, I bad allowed my temper to so far get the better of my judgment as to cause me to commit an indignity upon his person. My cooler moments told me that an amende was due him; that I regretted the occurrence very much and trusted this note would be satisfactory to him. I took this note to a friend, Mr. I. Jos eph, and requested that he deliver it to Mr. Bonheim and obtain a reply. Later in the day I learned by rumor that Mr. B. had instituted a suit against me about this matter. I then called on Mr. Joseph, repeated what I had heard, and desired to withdraw the note, for I supposed, if tbe rumor was true, Mr. B. would not give it that reception I felt was due. Mr. Joseph informed me that he had delivered my note to Mr. Bonheim while in the omnibus on his way out of the city, and that it would be replied to when Mr. B. reached his destination. These are the facts as far as I can now recall. Dr. J. M. Ford, Mr. John N. Barnett and Mr. Carlisle Terry were on the spot when the difficulty occurred, and I think will verify my statement. Other gentlemen were present, but I cannot re call them at present. Now for some of tbe charges of “Co lumbus : ” ally that anytMng should have transpired to mar the pleasures of the festival. I did what I knew I had a right to do'; but under the excitement of the moment allowed my temper to govern. No indig nity was offered or intended to the Israel ites and none know it better than the man who penned the anonymous article signed ‘Columbus,” and if he ever has the man hood to write bis own name, I doubt not but he will develop into a personal enemy of mine or one of his henchmen. I am too well known by Israelites and Gentiles for any of them to suspect for a moment that I would aot in an underhanded manner to wards them. Everybody who knows me is aware that I fight openly, and while I may sometimes be excitable and hasty, that no one is more willing to do justice by and to all than I am. I was born in this place, reared here and there has as yet arisen no man who has dared to charge one ignoble act upon me, except as this writer has done, by insinuation. As a merchant, journalist and oitizen, the whole people know my course. I am proud of being a self-made man, rendered so by living a life open to the inspection of all. Men whom I have checked in their inroads up on tbe people and the public purse are actuated by a feeling of revenge, envy and malice. They see themselves wallowing in the filth of their own mire, while I am respected an esteemed by every good citizen, for all know that my life has been devoted to my native town and her people. Nothing for their good is a burden to me. I am in the way of some and they make desperate efforts, even to catching at-straws, to injure and ruin me if they can. But I hope by my deeds to live in tbe hearts of my people, long, long after the carcasses of my revll- ers have rotted in tbe ground and their memories even forgotten. W. L. Salisbury. THE BELLIGERENTS. ITUNSTH AND POSITION OF THE PANTIES. GREAT BATTLES IMPENDING, BOTH ROPE AND ASIA. IN HU" WASHINGTON. AND ANDEHOON THBIK ONLY CHANCE. NO SMOKING PLACE IN NOBTH CAROLINA MISSING LOUISIANIAN POUND—LOOT UNION PACIFIC BONDS—POSTAL COOT DETAILED C iBINET—PERSONALS. IN RUSSIANS MOVING TO ATTACK TURKS FRONT AND REAR. London, July 7.—The Bucharest Cor respondent of the Times, telegraphs: E. U. PALMER. he WAS LOST HIS CHARACTER AND WANTS THIS OFFICE TO PAY HIM $200,000 FOB IT. We, the Senior, had occasion to pass through Browneville, Ala. On our return we were stopped by a gentleman who handed us a legal looking document. It being too Ark to see what it was, we asked the gentleman and he kindly in formed ns that it was a copy of a writ. We hastened home with the precious doc ument, lit the gas, and assembled around us oar wife, ten children, two sons-in-law and our grand child, and unfolded the well-worn paper before the assembled family and read tbe same. It bore date of May 19, 1877, and had been quietly held for nearly two months awaiting our appearanoe upon the sacred soil of “Here we Rest.” With the assist ance of our wife, children, son-in-law and grand child we deciphered the long drawn out bundle to be a suit brought by Hooper Si Waddell and A. A. Dozier, at- tornies for one Robert U. Palmer, against W. L. Salisbury, G. A. Klink and Jesse Wright, claiming $200,000 damages for defamation of character. The document was a rich one, almost as entertaining to our young as the tales of the Arabian Nights, and they commented variously upon it. One ten year old sug gested that Mr. Palmer might compromise for an old shirt. Another of our progeny thought Mr. Palmer had lost somebody else’s character and was not entitled to even an old shirt. We did not comment much ourselves, but we did wonder what Palmer would do when he got $200,000 from us. How rich he would be! Then he woald have no occasion to put his watch up on a gambling table, and if he did, he would be so rich that he would not go to law to get it back after having gambled it away. We have not the space for Palmer’s document to-day, but will give it in full in a few days, and let our people see how Palmer lost his character. We desire to say to Palmer and his backers that we don’t compromise. They cant bleed us. We will stick till the law decides. An Associate Press telegram from New Orleans declares that Gov. Nicholls has opposed the inquiry reoently made by the grand jury to investigate the action of the Kellogg returning board, upon the ground that it would be “a violation of the term" by which the present Adminis tration oame into power.” We don’t be lieve it. If it is truth we are glad there are other tree men who disregard his adviee, .-A K9 endeavoring to punish the guilty. “They were there witnessing the per formances and behaving with the utmost propriety, when Mr. Bonheim was order ed to remove his wife from the seat which she was occupying. This mandate, rude ly given, was obeyed and another Beat taken, the Rev. Mr. Bonheim doubtless feeling “sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.” At this time, Mr. Bonheim, in presence of bis wife and an audience composed of the refinement of Columbus, comprising both sexes, was rudely taken by “the beard,” and “as yon spurn a stranger cur over your threshold,” was forcibly ejected from the enclosure.” This paragraph with the .exception of the words “taken by the beard” is entire ly false. Mr. Bonheim was not ordered to remove his. wife, nor was his wife by bis side. I learned afterwards that she was seated in front of him. My request was made as politely as possible, and no threat was made by me until be positively and persistently refused to comply with my request. Mr. Bonheim was not foroibly ejected from the en closure. I caused him to make room for the bench, upon which I seated the ladies who were waiting to be seated, and Mr. Bonheim left the enclosure of his own accord. Now this writer desires in his article to convey the impression that I have inten- tentionally committed an indignity upon a person because that person was an Israel ite and in great horror parades the matter, when he must know tbe company I com mand is largely composed of Israelites and is the only one in Columbus that is. My re lations with the Israelites of Columbus have always been of the pleasantest char acter and some of my warmest personal friends are among them. As for the audience being indignant it is well known that the occurrence was so quiet in its peformanoe that many people, not ten feet away, had not their attention oall- ed to it. So the “mandate rudely given” conld not have been such a terrible thing as “Columbus” wishes his readers to be- believe. To my friends, and especially my Israel- itiah friends, I desire to say that the oc- onrfencq is regre(t«d by me, and especi- CONTEZTION. OOL. WM A HARRIS FOB SECRETARY. Dear Enquirer : Please allow us spaoe in your valuable paper to endorse the name of Col. W. A. Harris for Secretary of the Convention. His name has been favorably men tioned in this connection by many lead ing newspapers throughout the State, and we know of no one more worthy or more competent to fill tbe position than Col Harris. We are informed upon good authority that, at the late session of the Legislature, he reduced the expenses of the Senate olerical department six thou sand dollars. Every State Senator will endorse Col. Harris’ ability and efficiency, several of whom have expressed a desire to see him elected Secretary of the Con vention. There are several candidates in the field, some of whom received good tuition under Bullock’s administration. It remains for the Convention to make its choice. But I shall take tbe liberty to say this much: If the Convention would honor one who has ever been found bat tling for Democratic principles, one who is every way worthy and competent, and one who will adhere strictly to the plat form of “economy,” let them elect Col. W. A. Harris Secretary of the Conven tion. Georgians. According to information received from Dabrudacha, I have no faith in any ef fectual resistance being made by the Turks qp the line of the Trajar’s Wall. The correspondent then summarizes tbe military situation, showing that the Turks are threatened in front by the Rus sian army at Sistova, and in rear by a corps advancing through the Dabrndsoha. Russian officers of rank at the front be lieve the oampaign will soon be decided. The Turks are concentrating about Shum- la, in order to take the Russian advance to the Balkans on the flank. The Rus sians will probably go forward until the Turks come out of Shumla, and then face about and give them battle in the open country. PRESS ORDERED FBOM RUSSIAN HEADQUAR TERS. It is stated all representatives of the press have been ordered to leave Russian headquarters. ABMI8TIOE IN MONTENEGRO. It is rumored that by the advice of Austria, a kind of informal armistice will be established in Montenegro, both sides maintaining the defensive. MORE MILITARY SPECULATIONS ACROSS THE DANUBE. London, July 7.-r-The Times' Bachs, rest dispatch says the military situation now appears to be as follows: The Turks have changed their front and faced to westward since the Russian entranoe into Bulgaria. The Russians are deploying with their left flank resting on the Dan ube to wait the Turkish line from Rust- chuk to Shumla. When this movement is completed, a general battle may be expected unless the Turks fall back to the Balkans or the Russians mask the whole quadilateral, and turn it by passing. The Russian forces coming through the Dab- rudscha are approaching the rear of the Turkish Rustchuk nnd Shumla line. This column is too strong to be opposed by any force detached from the Turkish main body, while the main body, itself, cannot turn upon it without exposing its rear to the Russian main force. [Note.—The Times' correspondent seems to entirely ignore the existence of Silistria, Varna and Kustindje. The latest information fixes the garrisons at these places respectively at 32,000, 20,000 and 10,000, which, operating on the flanks or rear of the Russian Dabrudscha force, would paralyze its efforts to co-operate with the army in Central Bulgaria. Be sides the garrisons of these fortified places, Suleiman Pasha’s army, which is now stated to be embarking at Autivari, could be landed at Varna, which would make the number of Turks on the Rus sian left flank alone over 50,000. The Russian Dabrudscha corps is stated to number only 30,000.] SITUATION IN ASIA. Ebzeboum, July 7.—The following is the actual position of the forces in Arme nia : The Turkish right wing confronts tbe Russian left at Utsch Killissa. Faiok Pasha has a fresh body of 12,000. The Russians opposed to him are near Baya- zid. Another Russian division of 29,000 is marching towards Ardahan. Muhktar Pasha’s advanced guard is within four teen miles of Kars. Battles are expected at Utsch Killissa and Bayazid. It is also believed that Muhktar Pasha will be en gaged soon. The provisioning of the belligerent armie» is now a matter of great difficulty. SEE VIA AND PRINCE GOBTSCHAKOFF. Vienna, July 7.—The Presse says Prince Gortschakoff, in an interview with a distinguished statesman, stated that only the Servian question inducedhim to accompany the Czar to the seat of war. He had prevented the Servian co-opera tion although urgently offered in order to avoid European complication. Russia had acted on two principles. First, to avoid all interference with the internal affairs of the same, and remain, and not encourage them to warfare against Turkey, and to deoline, as the war lasted, any intervention by the Pow ers, who at the conclusion of peace would have an opportunity of protecting all their interest. The Russians were pre pared for greater resistance by Turkey than has hitherto been experienced. He concluded as follows: If we suc ceed in a decisive battle in Bulgaria, our task will be completed in a short time. If the Turks retire in the Balkans, and I have reason to believe they will, we shall have annoying delays, because of their excellent position for defence. Then will commence our difficulty in provis ioning the army. CUBA. Troops Coptoro 1*000 Horzez Born • Camp. PZOK8NIFF HOWARD TOOLED BY THE RED- 8XINS, WHO NUMBER 100 WARBIOBS- MURDBBS BY SAVAGES—RANGERS BURN A CAMP—SAVAGES THREATENING. NOTHING STICKS IN NOBTH CAROLINA. Washington, July 7.—Some one who appears to have misunderstood or mis represented the wishes of the Secretary of the Treasury directed General Smith, the appointment clerk, to make out pa pers for General. Henderson as Collector of the Fifth North Carolina District. They were prepared, but a halt has been Nothing seems to stick in the Tar State. WELLS AND ANDERSON—THEIR ONLT CHANCE. The President does not see that it will become him to "interfere between the laws of Louisiana and the criminals whom tbe laws pursue. Frank Richardson, telegraphing the Baltimore Sun says the only sure salva tion for Wells and Anderson is for them to jump their bail and get the President to give them some position abroad. MIS8ING MAN TURNS UP. A postal card has been received from the Louisianian, J. F. Morgridge, the missing maD, saying he was in. Philadel phia. LOST BONDS OF UNION PACIFIC. A telegram says Secretary Sohurz has ordered an investigation to be made by one of the Government Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad concerning the celebrated lost bonds. MB. HAYES AND THE BEST. The President did not reach the White House until the afternoon, and no work was done. Schurz has gone to New Jersey for a few days. Dr. William M. Gooding succeeds Nich olls as Superintendent of the Insane Asylum. POSTAL COST DETAILED. Special to Enquirer-Sun. ] Washington, July 7.—The following carefully prepared statement is telegraph' ed as important in a political and section al sense. To make the sense complete the cents are not scratched ont: The amount of mail service under contract on the first of July was $15,751,639.23 per annum, distributed geographically as fol lows: New England, $1,113,331.89; in Middle States, including Virginia and West Virginia, $3,250,804.11; Southern States, $2,732,493.42; Western States, in eluding Missouri, $5,866,578.72; Pacific States and the Territories, $2,788,431.09. The classification of tbe service in the different sections is as follows : New Eng land railroads $770,950.63 ; star service, celerity, certainty and security, $240,576.- 62; steamboat, $22,293.38; mail messen ger, $79,510.76. Middle States’ railroads, $23,097.41; star, $673,228.18; steamboat, $48,015.85; mail messenger, $219,819.08. Southern States’ railroads, $1,183,063.64; star, $1,126,924.04; steamboat, $366,125.- 40; mail messenger, $56,280.33 West ern States’ railroads, $4,313,596.59; star, $1,234,863.49; steamboat, $59,465.00; mail messenger, $258,653.64. Paoifio States and Territories’ railroads, $425, 131.36; star, $2,182,399.46; steamboat, $143,750.37; mail messenger, $37,149.90. California and Texas have much the largest amount of Star service, that in the former State amounting to $387,616.74, and in the latter to $338,896.93. Tbe whole service in California cost $784,041.73, and in Texas $587,544.01. On the first of September there will be added to the cost of the service $234,736, 92, for the reoent contracts under the last advertisement for proposals, for tempo' rary service and a further inorease during tbe year will be brought about by the completion of new railroads and the ex tension of old ones. LOUISIANA. 8EN8ATI0N CAUSED BY BEQUEST OF RETURN ING BOARD. New Yobk, July 7.—The Times' New Orleans special says tbe indictment of the late Returning Board has been set on foot by the Anti-Nicholls party, and proceeds on the assumption that Nicholls is in some way bound to protect Wells, Anderson & Co. Tbe idea is, therefore, to push the prosecution vigorously, make accused as odious as possible, aod then in case of an Executive pardon to impeach the Gover nor. The Tribune's Washington dispatch says the indictment of the members of the Returning Board is looked upon here as an affair of a great deal of political im portance. Friends of the Administration are highly indignant. SOUTH: CAROLINA. [ Communicated. ] IMPORTANT NOTICE. Members elect to the Constitutional Convention who have not handed in their pedigrees for publication to .the Atlanta Constitution are requested to do so at once, as only a short time will intervene before the meeting of tbe Convention. And county editors who l ave not re ceived complimentary notices, as to their ability and resemblance to Horace Greely and other great writers, are also requested to band in their names without delay. The newspapers generally throughout the State, are requested to give this notice a free circulation, for they know how it is themselves. P. S. If any member of tbe Legislature who failed to receive a flittering notice, just before the late e echou for State Printer, will hand in his name, perhaps he will get a notice. * Mothers will grow weary and sigh over the responsibility that Baby places upon them, but they have the high privilege of ahaping a character for usefulnes. Tbe exercise of patienoe and the preservation of Baby’s health by the proper use of Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup will give them great present oomfort and prospective happiness. 25 oents per bottle. How singular that on the very day Har vard gave Hayes LL. D., the great State of Iowa said he might be D. D.—with a dash between ’em.—^Wchmond Enquirer- SPANIARDS SHOOTING PRISONERS. Havana, via Key West, July 7.—The insurgent chief Morejon, who was wounded and taken prisoner, has been shot in Remedios. More than 180 insur gents are said to have been shot after being taken prisoners in various actions. Nothing has been heard of Gen. Martinez Campas. His operations are apparently paralyzed. The correspondents of Havana newspapers at his headquarters are quite silent. ENGLAND. FAILURE IN LONDON. London, July 7.—John Oldrayd, Car pet Manufacturer, of Hudersfield and Newbnrg, trading under the style of Old rayd Bros. & Co., has failed. Liabilities reported to be $1,350,000. National Bank Robbed. Whitehall, N. Y., July 7.—The First National Bank of Keeseville was robbed last night by burglars who took the entire contents of the safe. DETAILS—BANK LO«ES $15.000—DEPOSIT ORS, $60,000. Whitehall, N. Y., July 7.—Keeseville National Bank was robbed last night by seven or eight masked burglars. The watchman was bound and gagged, the vault and Marviue’s spherical safe blown open, and contents carried away. The bank loses $15,000. Parties left packages in the bank for safe keeping and have lost to the amount of from $50,000 to $60,- 000. Kmason Sailed—Death from Opinm. New York, July 7.—Minister Kasson has sailed for Europe. Charles L. Richards, a wealthy retired manufacturer, died on Thursday from an overdose of Moan’s Elixir of Opium. HAMPTON AND CONNOR ARRANGE MATTERS. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Washington, July 7.—A New York pa per says Gov. Hampton and Attorney General Connor leave New York for Sonth Carolina to-day, tbe object of their visit here being very satisfactorily accomplish ed. Their mission was, among other things, to arrange for a temporary loan of $1,700,000 to pay the present expenses of the State government and some floating claims demanding immediate attention, The two gentlemen presented the facts in the case to several capitalists of the oity and met with an immediate and favorable response, but subsequent advices from South Carolina make it probable that tbe loan will not be caFed for. Already su considerable a portion of the Jnly installment of the tax levy has been paid that by the end of the month a suffi cient amonnt may be collected to provide for all present needs. In this event no call will be made for the New York loan The November levy will be mainly upon the planters. Cincinnati on Resumption. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Cincinnati, Jnly 7.—Delegates to the National Board of Trade were instructed to snbmit the following resolution to the consideration of that body : Resolved, That the National Board of Trade respectfully recommends to Con gress snoh a modification of the resump tion act as shall postpone the time of its enforcement. Ban Francisco Dock Breaks Down San Francisco, Jnly 7.—The sectional dock, at Marie Island Navy Yard, brdke down while raising the French corvette Linnie. The ship was nninjnred, but the repairs will involve a large outlay, Saw Hill Burned. Jeffersonville, Ind., Jnly 7.—The saw mill of D. S. Barmore was burned last night. Loss $30,000. TO BETUBN $4,000 TO THE UNITE!) ar^ treasury. a Washington special to the Baltic Gazette says: A case of considerable terest, relating to the administrate San Francisco, July 7.-A Press dis patch dated Portland, Oregon, gives the following special: . Lewiston, Idaho, July 4th, via Walla Walla, July 6th.—On the second inst., Col. Whipple’s oommand with volunteers under N. B. Randall, came across Look ing Glasses' band at Clear ereek at seven o’clock in the morning. The Indians told OoL Whipple they were prepared to fight; and it is said, opened the affray by firing the first shot, when the order was given to the soldiers to fire. The Indians soon broke for the hills and places of shelter. It is not known how many were killed or wounded, as they scampered off in all directions. The command captured the Indian camp, burned all their provis ions and plunder, and took about 1,000 head of Indian horses, which they brought here. No Indians or soldiers were killed wounded. The command returned last night. Captain Elliott, of the Idaho Rangers, oaptnred 75 of Chief Joseph’s camp and 40 horses. They had a skirmish on the Nim- naha. The Captain says he does not know how many were killed, as they had to retreat. The Indians are mostly be tween the Snake and Salmon rivers, and are now reported 900 strong and welj armed. Captain Booth will go to Walla Walla with 70 men from the cave. There are 21 men from Union county, Oregon, now in the Walla Walla Valley. News has been received at the depart ment headquarters here from General Alfred Sully, commanding at Lewiston, Idaho, that Colonel Perry, with thirty men on his way to the Cottonwood, was attacked by the hostiles. Lieutenant Rftina, ten soldiers and two citizens were killed. Col. Whipple joined 'Col. Perry and drove the Indians off. This fight is still going on. Major Jackson’s company of first cav alry, which left Fort Vancouver yester day morning will arrive at Lewiston to morrow at noon. The following dispatch comes from Walla Walla. It probably reached there by the steamer Fenins, which arrived at 9:15 on Thursday night: It is said that Chief Joseph decoyed Gen. Howard across the Salmon river,and that then Joseph re-crossed the river and got in the Cottonwood between Gen. How ard and Lapwai, within thirty miles of Lewiston. A speoial received from John A. Farrell, of San Francisco, who has jost returned from Collville, dated Palonse Landing, Jnly 3d, via Walla Walla 6tb, says Joseph Appenheimer acd myself arrived here this evening. While we crossed the shaken bridge yes terday we noticed between 300 and 400 buck Indians who were said to be in conn- oil. They were all well armed and equipped. They consisted of Yanktomas under Moses Palonse, Sampperilles, Spo- kones, Calleshalls and Rentgode and young men from other tribes whose names are not known. The ontlook for this country is bad. The settlers on Pine ereek and Palonse plains, except five men, have left. The country is in the bands of the savages. MORE TROOPS FOB GEN. HOWARD. A dispatch from Gen. McDowell en closes some dispatches from the vicinity of Gen. Howard’s command. Tbe situa tion is represented as most threatening. It seems there is ample ground for Gen. Howard’s application for more troops. Gen. McDowell will send the second in fantry to Gen. Howard direct by rail to San Francisco, thence by vessel to the scene of war. McDowell has sent troops from Fort Ynma to the scene, and has broken up eamp Independence, sending the Company to the same destination. circles the pension agency has been discovered ■ the Interior Department, and it is beli ev ^ the details will be furnished the before long. It seems that under the a? ministration of Commissioner T' * lady well known in Baltimore whose husband was an officer of the presented a claim for about $8,000 claim being made that the officer had diJ of wounds he received in the service g death occurred in 1854, or thereat*™ Several times an attempt had been J, to collect the claim with interest from tb a t date, but without success. The reason f 0 disallowing the claim was that comp ett f surgeons had declared the officer hai not died of wounds received in t ij service. The matter was revived n B der Commissioner Baker, and was gj? e ' into the bands of a certain claim agent understood to be Samuel Pugh of Wash’ ington. It would seem that P U gb lected the money ($8,000). and was TMl 8t o’i 9 A 12 « 9 A. 12 M T1 Fo> Shi No Ph Bl< Pit col. jon. by the widow one-naif that sum for Wi ting it through, under the pretence that dies.' Wi he had to water the principal men in th f .flC Dn/-» ttt <2a An han/1 of 11,. • i ' StOCI Pn Grasshoppers in Michigan. Detroit, July 7.—A dispatch says swarms of grasshoppers recently made their appearance in portions of Oakland and Iowa counties, and are ravaging crops. About four thonsand acres of growing grain are rained. RAGES. AT LONG BRANCH. Special to Enquirer-Sun.] Long Branch, Jnly 7.—Mile heats— seven starters. Danntless won 1st, Rom ney 2d, Fellowcraft 3d, in 1:46^. Dannt less won the second heat, Romney 2d, Chesapeake 3d, in l:46f. Mile and a half—Soosoo won, Annt Betsy 2d, Miss Bassett 3d, in 2:14£. Three quarter mile—Kenny won, Brow ner 2d, Lord Seetland 3d, in 1:17*. Hurdle race—Dead Heat won, Derby 2d, Risk 3d. , office. Pugh was on hand at the widow house in Baltimore awaiting the comin» tirto of the letter containing a check payable to her order, and received his share be fore telegraphic orders came from the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury t,, stop the payment of the check. Whec the matter was brought to the attention of the widow she and her Fon -in-law, a well- known attorney in Baltimore, refunded their share of the money, and the T< Loai Tl Rail ation was then given that the claim agent sign had insisted upon this large and illeg a ; percentage cn the ground that he wii compelled to offer a large proportion ot the money to officers in the department*^ in order to obtain a certificate to the claim his Mr. sign HAYES' REFORM TALK and T and Ken and witl line O I wi expressing his determination to n, FOBOF. THE ORDER TO OFFICEHOLDERS, Washington^ July 1.— Hayes talk? nearly as many platitudes as he write, about civil service reform. In a convet P° iB sation to-day he expressed himself vermeil decidedly in regard to his civil service o der. It had not been issued, ho said, without a full knowledge of the fact that it wonld cause trouble, and cost t! e Republican party a few votes at startirg, which he felt would in time return. Ot the enforcement of the order Hayes spok: with great determination,and said that tk®* 1 first officeholder who took part in tt- Pho management of the party would be toii. _ ro< marily removed. After the candidate- were nominated Hayes said there wouk be no ojection msde to an officeholder: voting for them or working, so far as it did not interfere with the- discharge o! * official duties. He did not propose t disfranchise officeholders, but he did no: intend to permit them to take part in tbnoti management of the party. Iu regard to the action of the Iowa convention. Haye? said tbat the Sonthern question was bf A tied. What had been done could not UHot undone, and expressions of opinion o:|, a i] the subject were useless. mai is woe Che a fe Cease Racking: the System With drastic cathartics and hurtful salivanu and use that rational and genial reenpem: Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, the success which in the eradication of disease and tk building up of feeble constitutions has utter; conuted the preposterous medical tlieori:: who insisted on the rationality of depleting;:! to t frame in order to restore it to health. App- the tite, easy digestion, regular evacuations.i e jg| N citi: terc afte was reft natural flow of bile, are ss sure a result of tk use of the finest of America’s iovigorant? n Increased loss of power and irritation of tk system were of the old exhausting medio: 1 he new era of medical treatment inaugurate tied by the Bitters is indeed a happy one fort::, sick and feeble, for it has not only place » nn ' health within their reach, but saved the: j OB from the hurtful consequences ol an a’su: fallacy. AMUSEMENTS. NOTICE. nan for fine wh< Th< leas A. P., ff. A. aod A. M. GOLDEN TUB CELEBRATED CHAMPION SINGERS OF THE SOUTPcal! WILL SING AT f re( Springer’s Opera Honsegho Thursday Even’s, July 12,18' K fine T BLE MUSIO will be sacred, the most which is original by the Golden Brother: • This grand entertainment of Sacred Sori will be Interesting to all classes, old at young, and especially charming to children Any one can purchase a cony of the Sari. Songs for the small sum of 16 cent3. This !::• > tie volume contains thirty pieces of S»cre. Songs, most of which are original by tb .Golden Brothers. , MS" Ladles and gentlemen are invite. There will be the best of order preserved. A ADMISSION : All over ten years, 20 cei'.: jjjj between five and ten, 10 cents; under five, ft* Doors open at 8 o’clock. suAth-^ mg I lerj SPRINGER’S OPERA HOUSE daj SECOND GRAND CONCERT —OF THE— Failure In Plilladel|:liia.. Special to the Enquirer-Sun.] Philadelphia, Pa., July 7.—Detwiller A Welsh, owners of the Market street floor mills, suspended payment to-day. Their indebtedness is unknown, but the failure causes quite a commotion on the Exohabge. Weather. Washington, July 7.—Indications— For the South Atlantic and Gnlf States, stationary or higher pressure and temperatnre, variable winds, mostly from the sonth, and clear or partly cloudy weather. Charles Reads in his last novel, “A Woman Hater, ” advocates the admission of women to the practice of medicine. Several students of the Women’s Medical College thanked him in a letter, and he replies: “It is very generous of you; for in your own persons you owe me nothing; your battle is won without my help. The female students of America have encountered opposition in every form, but have conquered, thanks to their own fortitude and the character of their nation, whioh is too brave, chivalrous, and just to persist in siding with the strong against the weak, and with cliques against a sex. Here it is not so. Yonr English sisters are far fewer in number, and inferior in ability and conrage, and their foes are pig-head ed beyond belief. Our medical women need a champion. Were I twenty years younger I think I could fight tbe battle out for them. But my age, and an inter mittent but chronic and most exhausting oougb, have made me less able to sustain long strife than I nsed to be.” Many novelties and bargains this week to be displayed at J. 8. Jones’. eodtf Columbus Choral Union in l lesi gat anc gre 1 ten but Tuesday, July lOth, 1877 ins O N THIS OCCASION will be prosen" ser f C ” - for the first time in Columbus, ttie char ing little Operetta for Soprano anti Te- en titled Diamond cut Diamond ALSO, A CHOICE SELECTION OK BEAUTIFUL BALLADS and other SOh DUETTS, CHORUSES and OR CHESTRAL riECES. wh ad< Ha be ta. La All ADMISSION SOc Reserved Seats without extra PEASE & NORMAN S. jyl,3 8M0^ Gi! a i tui PIANO PLAYING LEARNED IN A Ml £ an ini jyj-ASON’S CHARTS, which recently £ ated such a sensation in Boston ami • where, wil enable any person, of any aK e > 1 MASTER THE PIANO OR ORGAN knowle# He th< lai so In a day, even though they have no of notes, &c. The Boston Globe say? : “You can learn to play on tbe - , aD i\ ie ' ~ gan in a day, even if you never plajen «■; and have not the slightest knowledge 01 “ ( ' fr by the use of Mason’s Charts. A < - years old can learn easily- endorsed by the best musical people ‘P “ jnTi ; and are the grand culmination ot tne tive genius of the nineteenth century. Circulars giving full particulars an* testimonials will be sent free on aPP 1 ,..., One set of Mason’s Charts mailed, P j,’ to any address for only $2. “ Worth nm |100 spent on music lessons ” Address A. C. General Agent, Atlant , ^ Agents wanted at once everywhere-^,.- chance ever offered. Secure territo too late. Terms free. Muscogee Sheriff By ACEE & YONGE, Auctioneer^ .NTHE FIRST TUESDAY ar n O N THE mSTXUMua* gf 1 * NEXT, I will sell, at the corner w ^ - ct ni.i. hpt.wi>en the usu ^' fcnO* 5 and St. Clair streets, between the of public sale, the following propen.- inJ . e as water lots in the city of Columbus 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 26. 27, 28, 29, 30. ^ he ,. ; : Bi 34, 36,*36 and 3l’ all lying and being«“ . 0l . of Colnmbus. each lot containing -J , rC r feet north and south on Bay street- ning back to the high water mark on )ntr ^ ern bank of the Chattahoochee n^er, . tween Randolph street on the nortn g[ . : ; ford street on the south, being a U‘ survey made by John Bethune on t - 1 n| [t ed out‘ A IV/pvi r 1/1 tO -ftl* plaintiff’s attorney. The whole sola t fl *. a fi fa in favor of Van Leonard, tru- ard Manufacturing Company, vs. w? £ Hot Company of the City of Columbu ^ ertion proceeding for the use of • laJ , ford, trustee appointed by the Court of Van Leonard, trustee, Sherlt Juno 8,1877.